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BLIND GUARDIAN Leader HANSI KÜRSCH Talks “Legacy Of The Dark Lands” Album: “I Feel Relieved And Proud It, And It Was a Natural Step for BLIND GUARDIAN to Record an Album Like That”
Canadian Singer LEAH On The Metal Lifestyle: “It’s Bigger Than The Music. The Music Is Just Part Of The Culture.”
FRANKIE BANALI Reflects On QUIET RIOT’s New Album and the Support for His Fight Against Cancer: “I Had No Idea That the Response Worldwide Would Be So Positive and Touching”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Dissecting Opeth’s “In Cauda Venenum” / Satan And Rainbows Podcast / Summer Concerts Retrospective (Episode No. 29)
LEPROUS Front-man EINAR SOLBERG Talks “Pitfalls” Album Direction: “We Still Have a Lot Of Guitars On It, We’re Just Using Them In a Different Way”
World Class Keyboardist DEREK SHERINIAN Reflects On His 30 Years Career: “It’s Pretty Wild to Think I’m Still Making Relevant Music After 3 Decades, and I Hope for 30 More Years”
DAVE LARUE Talks New FLYING COLORS Album: “I Think This Is the Best Album We’ve Done and I’m Happy to See the Band Continues to Grow”
From TRANSATLANTIC to THE FLOWER KINGS: A Day In the Life of ROINE STOLT
Legendary Megaforce Records Founder JON ZAZULA Reflects On His Upcoming Book and The Birth Of Thrash Metal: “CLIFF BURTON Used To Read Bedtimes Stories to My Daughter for Her to Sleep”
ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN On Touring With AMORPHIS and DELAIN: “I Really Enjoy The Personal and Intimate Gigs, And They’re A Great Buildup To The Heavier Shows”
VINNIE MOORE Reflects On New Album: “I Don’t Want to Be Pigeonholed As One Type of Player Stylistically, I Get Bored Of Doing The Same Type Of Music Over and Over Again”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: PROGPOWER USA XX Retrospective – Days III and IV (Episode No. 28)
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: PROGPOWER USA XX Retrospective – Days I and II (Episode No. 27)
BRIAN TICHY Elaborates On His New Band SILVERTHORNE: “We Have Powerful Guitars, Kickass Vocals and a Raw, Organic Production, Just Like the Biggest Bands in Rock N’ Roll”
ELVENKING Members AYDAN and DAMNA Reflect About New Album: “It Will Take Us Probably Two More Records to Conclude the Story of ‘Reader Of The Runes'””
THE DARKNESS’ Bassist FRANKIE POULLAIN Expands On New Concept Album: “We Are Throwing the Gauntlet to Other Bands, And Questioning What Rock N’ Roll Is In 2019”
INSOMNIUM’s Drummer MARKUS HIRVONEN On Latin America’s Love For Metal: “If You Go Further South, It Just Gets More Intense and I Don’t Know If I’m Ready for That”
DOUG ALDRICH Talks Upcoming THE DEAD DAISIES Plans: “GLENN HUGHES Involvement Will be a Mix Between BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, THE DEAD DAISIES and His Solo Records”
PIETER VAN HOORN, Drummer for KNIGHT AREA: “This Album Is Also a Warning: We Must Protect Our Freedom, and That Takes Work”
EIRIKUR HAUKSSON, Singer/Lyricist for MAGIC PIE: “You Make Some Decisions in Your Life, and You Think You’re So Right. Then You Realize It Wasn’t Paradise”
DEMONS AND WIZARDS Singer HANSI KÜRSCH: “The Main Reason To Make Music, Other Than Expressing Oneself, Is To Make People Happy. And We’ve Made Very Many People Happy On This Tour”
GRIM REAPER Front-man STEVE GRIMMETT Talks New Album: “We Wanted to Keep The New Album Sounding Old-School Heavy Metal”
SACRED REICH’s Front-man PHIL RIND Talks New Album: “We Wanted Fast And Heavy Songs And A Nice Mix with New Stuff, and The Songs Came Out In a Natural Way”
Legendary Axeman MICHAEL SCHENKER: “When Writing I Like to Keep Music Snappy and Energetic, I’m The Architect and The Blueprint”
BORKNAGAR Boss ØYSTEIN BRUN: “I Hope I Find My Sound, But I Also Hope I Don’t, Because Then My Journey Will Be Over”
SONDRE SKOLLEVOLL, Sheriff of The MORON POLICE: “It Was Time To Grow Up To Make Some Changes, If We Were to Get the Band In front Of People”
Concert Review / Interview with JON ANDERSON: “Doing YES Songs a Little Bit Differently Than The Norm Is Part of My Adventure of Life!”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: A Conversation with PROGPOWER USA Mastermind GLENN HARVESTON (Episode No. 26)
Renowned Keyboardist ANDREW COLYER Discusses the New AWAKEN Album, Touring with 3.2 Featuring ROBERT BERRY and Why You Shouldn’t Miss PROGSTOCK 2019
DEAD BY WEDNESDAY Members CHRISTIAN “OPUS” LAWRENCE and DAVE SHARPE Talk Band’s Evolution: “Every Band Goes Through Different Changes and Morphs In Their Sound, That Is The Roller-Coaster Of Rock N’ Roll”
THE 69 EYES Singer JYRKI 69: “I Think the World Is Ready Now for Our New Album”
FREEDOM CALL’s Singer CHRIS BAY: “We Are Doing Music to Make People Happy. I’m a Musician, Not a Metal Machine. I Am Honest to Myself”
KXM and KORN’s Drummer RAY LUZIER: “The Most Bizarre Day of My Life Was When JIMMY PAGE And JEFF BECK Watched Us Rehearse With The DEF LEPPARD Guys”
BUCKCHERRY And JOYOUS WOLF at The Phoenix Theatre, Toronto (August 06th, 2019)
BARONESS Drummer SEBASTIAN THOMSON Weighs In On Claims of Excessive Distortion in New Album: “We Didn’t Want ‘Gold and Grey’ to Sound Like A Slick Metal-Sounding Record”
JOHN 5 Talks ‘Invasion’ Solo Album: “Everything On This Album Is Who I Really Am”
HAKEN’s Guitarist RICHARD HENSHALL Reflects On His Solo Album: “The Cocoon Is About Those Watershed Moments That Make You Perceive Things In An Entirely Different Way”
DESTRUCTION Leader Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer: “DESTRUCTION Is My Band, My Life and My Destination”
MEGADETH’s Bassist DAVE ELLEFSON Talks Band Future: “We Have Plans Well Into 2020, We Just Need to Clear The Deck For 2019”
NANOWAR OF STEEL Bassist: “We No Longer Want to Just Write Silly Songs. We Put Out Some Serious Good Music and It’s Hard For People to Take Us Seriously”
OCEANS OF SLUMBER On the Diversity of Their Lineup: “There’s A Big Difference In the Acceptance You Get With a Black Frontwoman Versus a Non-Black Frontwoman.”
HAMMERFALL Singer JOACIM CANS: “Our Motto For the New Album Was ‘Good is NOT Enough. It Has To Be Great!”
DAMN YOUR EYES’ Guitarist ARTIE ALEXANDER: “We Don’t Write About Dragons Or Fantasy, But About Stuff People Can Identify with As Happening In Their Lives”
Legendary Drummer SIMON PHILLIPS Discusses His Lengthy Musical Career: “I Didn’t Become JUDAS PRIEST’s Drummer Because I Was Already Committed to JACK BRUCE Band”
YES Bassist BILLY SHERWOOD: I Was Always Being Told in My Earlier Bands, “Can’t the Bass Just Stay on the G Chord?” And I’d Say, “No CHRIS SQUIRE Wouldn’t Do That!”
BRYAN BELLER and MARCO MINNEMANN Talk THE ARISTOCRATS New Album: “We’re Always Thinking about What Each Other Can Do with the Songs When We Bring Them to the Table”
NOCTURNUS AD’s Leader MIKE BROWNING Reflects About New Album: “I Write Music Based on the Drums Rhythms and the Lyrics Instead of the Melody”
GEOFF TATE Talks Recent Project SWEET OBLIVION: “I’m Genuinely Surprised and Very Pleased About the Fans and Press Reaction to this Record”
THE GIFT Leader MIKE MORTON Talks New Album: “We Wanted to Go In A Different Direction, Make the Music a Little More Raw—And We Did it.”
D-A-D Frontman Jesper Binzer Talks New Album: “We Experimented a Lot in the Past, But on This Record We Wanted to Sound Instantly Recognizable as D-A-D”
STRYPER’s Leader MICHAEL SWEET Talks Tour and Upcoming Solo Album: “The Record Will be Called TEN and it’s a Metal Album, with a Different Guitar Player on Each Song”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: A Tribute to ANDRE MATOS (Episode No. 25)
Legendary YES Drummer ALAN WHITE: “YES is All About Looking Over The Horizon, Not At It”
JIMMY WALDO Remembers ALCATRAZZ Early Days: “Our Record Company Wanted Us to be FOREIGNER or SURVIVOR, and We Were a Hard Rock Band”
Former FATES WARNING Singer JOHN ARCH Talks Lyrical Themes And Musical Influences: “Most of My Friends Have Met BRUCE DICKINSON. I Hate Them All”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: “Favorite 2019 Albums Thus Far / Upcoming Summer Concerts / Most Exciting Anticipated 2019 Albums (Episode No. 24)
Drummer CARL CANEDY Talks THE RODS New Album: “It’s Balls-to-the-Wall Heavy Metal, Song After Song. No Ballads and Nothing Your Mom Will Be Humming”
JOLLY Drummer LOUIS ABRAMSON On New Album ‘Family’: “We’ve Been Dying to Give it to Our Fans For So Long”
LUCA TURILLI Talks Upcoming TURILLI/LIONE RHAPSODY Album: “We Wanted to Modernize Our Approach to Symphonic Metal”
Report From the Road: RIVERSIDE’s Mariusz Duda Talks Experiencing Wasteland in North America
Thank You Scientist – Terraformer (Album Review)
NEAL MORSE Talks Prog-Rock Opera “Jesus Christ: The Exorcist”: “I Never Wanted to Make a Double Album, Like Ever! But You Got to Follow The Music Where It Wants to Go”
Solo Artist EVAN CARSON Talks Theme of Debut Album: “To Win that Sort of War, You Have to Become Almost as Violent and Self-justified as the People You’re Fighting Against…”
Behind The Scenes of Building a New Band: John Boegehold Introduces You to PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS
DIAMOND HEAD’s Guitarist Brian Tatler: “Our New Album ‘The Coffin Train’ is Very Guitar Orientated and It’s Sonically a Better Sounding Album Than Its Predecessor”
JEFF SCOTT SOTO Talks New Album: “With SOTO I Decided to Establish My Heavier Side, This Band is a Collective Effort and Much Different From My Solo Output”
OVERKILL’s Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth: “We Have Always Felt Proud of Ourselves About Sounding as OVERKILL at the End of the Day, But Each Song in the New Record has its Individual Personality”
JOHN ARCH Reveals the Secrets Behind his Ageless Voice: “I Don’t Smoke, I Rarely Drink, I Don’t Do Drugs, and I Mountain Bike”
POSSESSED’s Leader JEFF BECERRA Talks New Album ‘Revelations of Oblivion’: “Death Metal is About Doing Whatever the F*ck You Want and Having Artistic Freedom”
ULI JON ROTH Recalls His Exit From SCORPIONS: “Nothing Would Have Made Me Stay When I Decided to Leave”
BIG BIG TRAIN’s Greg Spawton Talks New Album: “In Europe, GRAND TOUR goes back to the 17th century as a concept of getting out into the world and finding yourself and discovering things about history, so we liked that concept for the album.”
LORD DYING’s ERIK OLSON Reflects on New Album Creative Process: “We Wanted to Challenge Ourselves and Think Outside the Box”
STEEL PROPHET’s Mastermind STEVE KACHINSKY On New Singer R.D. LIAPAKIS: “He’s A Great Singer and I Don’t Think Our Fans Can Be Dissatisfied with His Performance”
UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY’s Mark Trueack: “If You Can Get the Message Across Quickly, and Complex Music to Support It, That’s the Best of Both Worlds”
WHITESNAKE’s JOEL HOEKSTRA: “The Choruses of Many Songs On The New Album Beg to be Sung by the Crowd”
IAN HILL of JUDAS PRIEST on the Follow Up to Firepower: “We Have a Lot of Unused Material that Was Very Solid and Could End up on Our Next Album”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: “Unknown Band Deserving A Bigger Audience / LANCE KING – ReProgram / DEVIN TOWNSEND – Empath” (Episode No. 23)
STEVE HACKETT Reflects on His Recent Album: “I Wanted to Include Friends From All Over the World and Celebrate What’s Best on All Corners of the Earth”
ARENA / LONELY ROBOT’s Mastermind John Mitchell: “I Like Making Music, I Think It’s What I’m Good At”
JANE GETTER And ADAM HOLZMAN Talk Upcoming Album: “My Upcoming Record Will Be a Natural Progression From “ON”, with a Better Balance Between Instrumental Passages And Sung Tunes”
IRON SAVIOR’s Piet Sielck: “Patrick Is a 100% Power Metal Drummer and That’s What We Need in IRON SAVIOR”
THANK YOU SCIENTIST’s Tom Monda and Ben Karas: “We Weren’t Specifically Looking for a Nude Senior Citizen BUT…”
EXUMER’s Mem Von Stein: “It Doesn’t Matter How Much of a Extreme Metal Fan You Are, You Will Always Like DIO or Early AC/DC”
QUEENSRŸCHE and FATES WARNING @ The Aztec Theater – San Antonio, TX (March 22nd, 2019)
L.A. GUNS’s Phil Lewis Talks New Album ‘The Devil You Know’: “I Wanted Get Away from the Typical Musical Vocabulary and Make an Angry, Pissed-Off Record”
RPWL’s Yogi Lang Talks New Album: “This Album Was a Liberation; We Look at It as an “Intermission” Between Our Other Concept Albums”
DOUG ALDRICH Talks New BURNING RAIN Album, DEAD DAISIES, Working with DIO and WHITESNAKE
NICK BEGGS Talks THE MUTE GODS Album: “In Concert I’d Love to Have Giant Tardigrades Come Down Over the Stage, It Would Rival Roger Waters!”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Bands That Constantly Revamp Their Identity / Queensrÿche – The Verdict / Randy McStine’s Career Highlights (Episode No. 22)
Metal Queen DORO PESCH Talks New EP and MOTÖRHEAD’s Cover: “I Love The Aggressiveness of “Ace Of Spades”, But I Also Love The Soulful Side of Lemmy”
MIKE PORTNOY Talks THE NEAL MORSE BAND Musical Approach: “This Is a Band that Doesn’t Follow Any Commercial Trends, We Make Music that We Feel is Going to Move People and Their Emotions”
HAKEN Keyboardist DIEGO TEJEIDA: “I’d Love to Put Together a Band with ERIC GILLETTE on Guitars and BAARD KOLSTAD on Drums”
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Genre Mixing in Metal and Prog-Rock / Most Anticipated Albums of 2019 / Dream Theater New Album (Episode No. 21)
CHRIS CAFFERY Talks New Band SPIRITS OF FIRE: “Working with Roy Z was Entertaining, Creative and Very Metal”
ROTTING CHRIST’s Main-man SAKIS TOLIS Talks New Album: “Metal Has No Borders”
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s Drummer KEN MARY: “Metal is Where the Envelope is Being Pushed Drumming-Wise More Than in Any Other Genre”