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JOEL HOEKSTRA Reflects on Upcoming JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13 Album: “It’s a More Focused Album This Time Around”
ACCEPT’s WOLF HOFFMANN Reflects on The Importance Of Releasing New Material: “We Never Want To Be A Nostalgia Band And Live Off Of Our Past”
VOIVOD’s Singer SNAKE Talks Recent Live Album and Memories of Opening for RUSH: “We Returned Backstage to Find a Bottle of Champagne and a Sweet Note Signed by NEIL, ALEX and GEDDY”
Armageddon in Retrospect: SONIC PERSPECTIVES Looks Back at 2020
SILENT SKIES / REDEMPTION Keyboardist VIKRAM SHANKAR Talks Recent Album: “The Best Thing A Songwriter Can Do Is Honor The Song’s Soul”
IRON MAIDEN’s Guitarist ADRIAN SMITH Discusses Recent Book and Life Lessons: “I Don’t Think I Was Grateful for My First Tenure In The Band, And I’m Glad I Got a Chance For a Second Wind”
KREATOR’s Bassist FRÉDÉRIC LECLERCQ Talks His New Project AMAHIRU: “I Like to Work with People I Connect with On A Human Level”
KING CRIMSON Guitarist JAKKO JAKSZYK Talks “Secrets and Lies” Album and More: “FRIPP Would Say: ‘I Love This! This Is an Ideal Track for Your Solo Album”
RUSH and DREAM THEATER Engineer RICHARD CHYCKI on The Surround Remixes Of RUSH’s Back Catalogue: “The Intention Was NOT To Reinvent The Wheel”
Singer NEIL STARR of PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS Reflects On The Band’s Writing Process: “We Don’t Feel Restricted to Writing a Certain Style of Music. There’s A Lot of Variation on This Album.”
MATTHEW PARMENTER of DISCIPLINE. Talks About Band’s Progressive Rock Epic Album ‘Unfolded Like Staircase’: “We Did Feel We Were Doing Something Unique”
Iconic Singer JEFF SCOTT SOTO Dives Deep Reflecting On His New Solo Album: “This Is The Best Record In My Solo Career In Which I Wasn’t Hands On, And It Came Out So Great Because I Got This Connection And Chemistry With ALESSANDRO DEL VECCHIO Like If We Were Separated At Birth”
FATES WARNING Singer RAY ALDER Talks New Album: “The Demos Were So Exact That We All Knew Exactly What We Needed to Do”
German Proggers RUBBER TEA Talk About Their Excellent Debut Album “Infusion”
DEVIN TOWNSEND on Upcoming “Empath” Live Album and Quarantine Releases: “What I Bring to the Table is Music, That’s What I Can Do”
JOHN BUSH Reflects on ARMORED SAINT’s New Album and Work Ethic: “We Work at A Slow Pace; For Us It’s Always About Quality And Not Quantity”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: PROGSTOCK 2020 Goes Virtual – Hear What’s in Store from Festival’s Mastermind THOMAS PALMIERI
IHSAHN Speaks To Style Contrast Between EPs “Telemark” and “Pharos”: “I Felt I Could Go Further In Each Musical Direction Than I Would Have In A Full-Length Album”
ARJEN LUCASSEN Talks Concept Behind AYREON’s New Album “Transitus” and Picking Illustrator FELIX VEGA: “Every Panel is a Little Painting”
AMARANTHE’s Frontwoman ELIZE RYD Talks New Album: “I Don’t Get Why Some Metal Fans Won’t Accept Our Music Because They Can’t Deal with Us Sounding Different”
DREAM THEATER’s guitarist JOHN PETRUCCI talks working with MIKE PORTNOY on his recent solo Album: “We knew it was going to happen, it was really a great thing and there was a lot of positivity behind that decision”
STEVE MORSE Talks DEEP PURPLE Recent Album and Band’s Longevity / Willingness to Carry On: “The British Guys in the Band Seem to Have a Life Span of 300 Years!”
SNOWY SHAW Reflects on “The Book of Heavy Metal” Autobiography: “In Order To Get It Right, I Needed To Relive The Whole Thing: Dark Periods, Joyous Moments – It Was A Cathartic Experience”
SIMON COLLINS Talks New Album “Becoming Human” and Inspiration Behind it: “I’m Writing Songs About Who I’m Striving to Be, Not Just Writing Songs About Who I Am”
ROBIN STAPS of THE OCEAN discusses new album “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic”: ‘Everybody Has to Find Relevance In Music, Art, Lyrics, Find Relevance To Their Own Lives.’
Legendary Guitarist GREG HOWE Reflects About His Career and Inspiration: “The Compositions Mean a Lot More to Me Than the Solos When I Write an Album”
FINNTROLL Vocalist VRETH On Upcoming Album “Vredesvavd”: “FINNTROLL Has Always Been About Doing Exactly What We Want… To Go Beyond What Is Accepted By The Genre”
KATAKLYSM Vocalist MAURIZIO IACONO Talks Creation of “Unconquered” Upcoming Album: ‘It’s More About Challenging Ourselves Now and Doing Better and Better”
HEATHEN Guitarist KRAGEN LUM Talks Writing For Upcoming “Empire of the Blind”Album: “That Bay Area Thrash Sound is Part of My DNA at This Point”
OCEANS OF SLUMBER Front-woman CAMMIE GILBERT: “I’d Rather Leave a World to No One Than Let These Oppressors Win and Leave a World That’s Corroding.”
DEREK SHERINIAN Reflects on His New Solo Album “The Phoenix” and The Philosophy Behind it: “We Kept Things Very Vintage Throughout the Recording Process”
ANDY TILLISON of THE TANGENT Discusses “Auto Reconnaissance” Upcoming Album: “I Am Really Writing Musical Questions and Hoping They Will Reach People Who Might Begin to Have Some of the Answers.”
ONSLAUGHT Guitarist NIGE ROCKETT Speaks About Upcoming “Generation Antichrist” Album: “It’s Got A Modern, Very Brutal Production – It’s 1986 Onslaught Meets 2020”
THE FALLAWAYS Vocalist JASON KOSTER Reflects About Their Second EP: “It Shows the Work We’re Putting In Is Going Somewhere and It’s Worth It”
DESTRUCTION Main-man SCHMIER Reflects on Live Album and Band 4-Piece Line-up: “There’s Much More Power In Our Sound Now, And We Have a More Dynamic Stage Presence”
ARDEK of CARACH ANGREN Chats About New Album “Franckensteina Strataemontanus”: “Hopefully This Will Appeal to More People Outside Our Normal Fanbase”
BPMD / METAL ALLEGIANCE Bassist Mark Menghi Talks Debut Album: “It Was Done In the Studio. That’s Why It Has That Live Feel To It, We Were Together”
RANDY MCSTINE and MARCO MINNEMANN Talk New Duo Project: “This Feels Like a True Collaboration, It’s Great to Have a Partner In Crime, to Send Ideas Out and Then It’s Like Waiting For Christmas that Something Comes Back”
WITHIN TEMPTATION Singer SHARON DEN ADEL Reflects On Band’s Latest Single and Musical Direction: “Part of Our Fan-base Was Surprised with It, But It Was Logical for Us That We Needed to Change and Evolve”
MARK MORTON of LAMB OF GOD Discusses Self-Titled Album: “We Feel Like We Are Still Making Relevant and Inspired Music”
SEVENDUST’s Guitarist CLINT LOWERY Discusses Surprise New EP and Future Solo Career: “I Would Love to Produce Records, to Collaborate with Other Musicians – That’s Where I See Myself Going.”
MAGNUS KARLSSON Reflects About Upcoming Solo Project Album “We Are the Night”: “I Chose Singers That I Truly Love to Sing On This Record”
GRAVE DIGGER Guitarist ALEX RITT Talks New Album “Fields Of Blood” and Band 40th Anniversary: “It Makes More Sense for Us to Release New Material Than to Warm Up the Old Stuff”
NICK D’VIRGILIO Talks Upcoming Solo Album “Invisible” and Future Plans: “You’re Going to See and Hear a Lot More of My Own Music in The Next 5 to 10 Years”
MIKE ORLANDO Reflects On the Collaboration with AILYN in New Band HER CHARIOT AWAITS: “It Was Great to Work with a Singer with a Different Background in Symphonic Metal
WE CAME FROM SPACE’s Members BILL HUBAUER and DAVE BUZARD Reflect on Band’s History and Recent Release: “This Is Something We’ve Wanted to Do For Years”
Ex-WHITESNAKE Guitarist ADRIAN VANDENBERG Talks “2020” Album: “I Wanted The Music to Sound Crisp, Fresh and In-Your-Face”
JIM GREY of CALIGULA’S HORSE Discusses New Album “Rise Radiant”: “It Feels Like the Album We’ve Been Trying to Make for Nine Years”
Beasts On Lockdown: An Interview with All Members of PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS
HAKEN Frontman ROSS JENNINGS Talks New Album “Virus” In Detail: “It’s Fun For Us to Create a Experience that Goes Beyond Just Listening to the Music”
RITUAL DICTATES Singer JUSTIN HAGBERG Reflects On the Diversity of Their Debut Album: “There Shouldn’t Be Any Rules About What We Add to Our Music”
KRISTIAN NIEMANN Discusses New Album and SORCERER’s Future: “We Still Feel We Have More Musical Avenues to Explore”
GREEN CARNATION Front-man KJETIL NORDHUS Talks Upcoming Comeback Album: “We Knew Exactly The Record We Wanted to Make”
STEWART COPELAND Chimes in On Why THE POLICE Didn’t Record an Album After the 2007 Reunion: “Writing New Material Would Take Us Back to What We Don’t Have in Common”
NIGHTWELL’s Drummer TERRANCE PETTIT Offers Insight On Debut Album: “The Whole Record Is a Journey in Reverse, from Now Into Birth”
THE WHITE BUFFALO’s Driving Force JAKE SMITH Discuss New Album: “On Some Songs, It’s Almost Like I’m Talking Exactly About What’s Happening with Humanity Right Now”
TRIVIUM Bassist PAOLO GREGOLETTO Talks New Album: “We Found A Style That Works For Us, and We’re Trying to Make That Better”
HOLLYWOOD MONSTERS’ Bassist RONNIE ROBSON Shares Details About “Thriving On Chaos” Album: “We Didn’t Aim For a Perfect Song Take, We Wanted to Keep The Raw Energy Of The Band In the Album”
INTO THE OPEN’S Vocalist JAN WILLEM KETELAERS Talks About the Debut Album “Destination Eternity:” “We Wanted to Explore the Next Life”
FIREWIND Leader GUS G On Upcoming Self-titled Album: “This Record Is a Collection of All the Styles and Sounds That Have Defined FIREWIND Until Now”
CIRITH UNGOL’s Bassist JAVIS LEATHERBY Reflects On Band’s Comeback Album: “It’s Dark and Doomy, and Now It’s the Perfect Time For An Album Like This”
VADER’s Front-man PIOTR WIWCZAREK Talks Writing “Solitude In Madness” Album: “All the Songs I Created for This Record Are a Little Piece of My Life”
Former Music Executive MICHAEL ALAGO Talks Signing METALLICA, Working with NINA SIMONE and Much More: “I Knew METALLICA Were Going to Be Huge Since The Very Beginning”
TREVOR STRNAD of THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Talks Upcoming Album and Band’s Evolution: “The Real Focus in the Last Years Has Been Making Better, More Lasting Music.”
TESTAMENT’s Guitarist ERIC PETERSON Discuss New Album And Band’s Current Dynamics: “I Believe We Have Gotten Better with Age”
MIKE LEPOND Talks New Band DEADRISEN and Debut Album: “We Wanted the Band to Sound Live, with a Modern Production and to Go Anywhere We Wanted Stylistically”
CLUTCH Frontman NEIL FALLON Reflects On Their “Weathermaker Vault Series”: ‘Revisiting Those Old Songs Was Like Reading an Old Diary”
WOLFHEART Leader TUOMAS SAUKKONEN Talks Upcoming Album: “I Have A Very Personal Connection With This Record, Which I Don’t Have With The Previous Ones”
Prog-Rock Veteran FRANK WYATT On His New Album “Zeitgeist”: “As The Title Says, I Wanted to Present Something That Represents the Feelings and Emotions of Today”
HYBORIAN Members Talk New Album “Volume II” and Songwriting Process: “When We Write, We Try To Go Beyond Our Ability To Play It – That Pushes Us To Become Better Musicians”
Heavy Metal Founding Father ROSS THE BOSS Reflects On New Album and His Playing Style: “You Won’t See Any Kind of Ego-trip Guitar Playing from Me. I’ve Been a Team Player All My Life”
World Renowned Drummer VIRGIL DONATI Reflects on the Writing of New Effort “Ruination”: “Writing from Your Soul and Your Heart is Something You Can’t Manufacture – You Either Have It or You Don’t”
THE NIGHT WATCH Guitarist NATHANAEL LAROCHETTE On Latest Album: “It Feels Like We Found Our Voice”
PENDRAGON’s Guitarist NICK BARRETT Reflects On New Album: “I’m Still In a Bit of a State of Shock About It. It’s Kind Of Nothing Like I’ve Ever Done Before.”
JORN LANDE on Cover Album HEAVY ROCK RADIO II: “It’s Great to Bring These Songs Into the New Millennium”
THE DARK ELEMENT Front-woman ANETTE OLZON Reflects on ALLEN/OLZON Upcoming Album: “It Can Be Difficult To Make a Male and a Female Voice Work Together, But With RUSSELL ALLEN It Was Easy”
RAIDING THE ROCK VAULT / MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST Singer ROBIN MCAULEY Reflects on New Band BLACK SWAN: ‘It Feels like We’ve Been Playing Together for a Long Time'”
FLAMING ROW’S MARTIN SCHNELLA And MELANIE MAU On Their New Concept Album “The Pure Shine”: “We Wanted To Do Something Special In A Prog-Rock Format”
PSYCHOTIC WALTZ’s Front-man DEVON GRAVES Talks New Album: “I Wouldn’t Have Done The PSYCHOTIC WALTZ Reunion If The Guy Who I Had the Hardest Feelings For Wasn’t Involved”
SINGLE REVIEW and INTERVIEW: Watch and hear PROJECT AEGIS’ New Single Featuring LEAH, NEAL MORSE, and Members of THEOCRACY and LOST HORIZON
ADRIENNE COWAN and JACK KOSTO of SEVEN SPIRES On Upcoming Album and Tours: “We Like Pushing Ourselves to Our Limits”
ANNIHILATOR Leader JEFF WATERS Talks New Album and RUSH Influence: “They Are Our National Heroes, Part of the Fabric of Canada and Its Culture”
QUEENSRYCHE Guitarist MICHAEL WILTON Talks Current Tour And Band’s Philosophy: “There’s No Denying Our Past, But We Want to Keep Evolving QUEENSRYCHE”
SEPULTURA’s Front-man DERRICK GREEN Talks “Quadra” Album: “There’s True Power When We Are All Together In the Studio As A Unit”
MIKE PORTNOY Talks New SONS OF APOLLO Album: “MMXX Is Us Taking the Band Into The Present and The Future”
RAGE Mastermind PEAVEY WAGNER Talks New Album Sound: “The Idea Was to Bring All RAGE Styles Together in A Homogeneous Way”
World Renowned Graphic Designer / Art Director HUGH SYME Talks Working with RUSH, DREAM THEATER and Many Other Bands
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: A 90 Minutes Chat About Our Favorite Progressive Rock Albums of 2019 (Episode No. 32)
MARCUS JIDELL Discusses New AVATARIUM album: “We Wanted a Heavy, and Big Fat Production, a Little Bit Darker Than Our Previous One”
BOBBY INGRAM of MOLLY HATCHET Reflects On Band’s New Live Album: There’s A Unity You Can Hear On This Record: Between The Fans and The Band, And Musically”
Renowned Producer SASCHA PAETH Talks Recent “Signs of Wings” Album: “Heavy Metal Music Should be Raw and In-Your-Face, Not Overproduced like Most Music Today”
PINEAPPLE THIEF Mastermind BRUCE SOORD Reflects On the Band’s Evolution: “Early PINEAPPLE THIEF Was Really Just Me, and Now It’s Turned Into a Truly Collaborative Outfit.”
PRONG Mastermind TOMMY VICTOR Reflects on Upcoming EP Release: “The Record Business is Strange Right Now. Maybe Releasing EPs Is a Good Formula Moving Forward”
VOYAGER’s Guitarist SCOTT KAY Reflects On “Colours In The Sun” Album: “Having a Consistent Lineup Has Really Helped Us Build Momentum”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Dissecting PROGPOWER USA XXI Lineup for Day 2 (Episode No. 31)
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: A Recap of PROGSTOCK Festival 2019 (Episode No. 30)
DAVE KERZNER and NICK D’VIRGILIO Remember KEVIN GILBERT and GIRAFFE on the Anniversary of Their Performance of THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY: “This Show Changed Our Lives and Careers.”
IRON KINGDOM Members Talk New Album and Their Love for Heavy Metal: “This Is The Music We Always Wanted to Play, That’s Why We Sound Real”
Concert Review / Interview with RON BUMBLEFOOT THAL: “I Had to Learn a New Way to Sing for the Recent Tour with ASIA”
ECLIPSE Singer ERIK MARTENSSON Reflects on New Album and the Formula for Writing Catchy Songs: “Writing Complex Songs Is Easy, the Most Difficult Thing Is to Write a Simple Song with Hooks”