“…you torture yourself because you don’t want to let anything go through to the wicket keeper, like every note is scrutinized and there’s no choice to not do it like that. For a band like Twelve Foot Ninja it’s sort of part and parcel with the sound, you know everything is really laboured over to try and create a feeling […]

“You know Atreyu exists right now basically to kick ass and take names, so we’re gonna kick ass and take names when we come down there, like every show we play I feel like we’ve got something to prove or I’ve got something to prove to re-establish ourselves to be a force to be reckoned with.” From Release: No strangers […]

“This time with The Dead Daisies record was all five of us in a room from start to finish, we wrote it together, we recorded it together live and really it was a lot of fun because everyone was invested in it, everyone was excited with what we agreed that we’d record.” From release: The Dead Daisies’ superlative new studio […]

“Good Charlotte in 2016 is a truly, completely independent band which is for us we’re really proud of because we didn’t have the confidence in our twenties to think we could do it on our own and we are now at this stage in our career where we’re not afraid of being smaller to be free.” From release: Good Charlotte […]

“At the end of the day we’re not reinventing the wheel, people know what they’re gonna get with Airbourne because it’s rock and roll and we don’t go too far out of the boundaries of that, we’re not gonna go bring a keyboard in or something like that, we know the boundaries…” From Summernats release: Fun-loving, rip-roaring, hard-partying rock’n’roll band, Airbourne is […]

“…we used to tour with Lemmy and Motorhead  in Scandinavia and Lemmy said we were the loudest fucking band he’d ever heard, so I think that apart from ‘Walking on Sunshine’ we could rock with the best of them, and a lot of Katrina and The Waves was very much a rock aspect…” From Release: KATRINA (UK) ex KATRINA & […]

“A lot of times now a singer gets a record deal and they build a band around them but with us all four of us got the record deal, it’s always been the four of us or nothing at all, we’ve always kept that mentality, we’re equal members of everything. It works, man, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, […]

“…as the band we just grew and evolved and not to say that we all evolved or moved in the same direction artistically but we did certainly grow as artists and I think we started to find out different parts of ourselves creatively that were going in different directions and because of that we were able to put it together […]

“…as a matter of fact it looks like there’s going to be a reunion of the original three, John Crawford, David Diamond and I are writing together right now. David Diamond came and guested on some shows last year, and then John came in really kind of out of nowhere and I wasn’t expecting this but it’s happening and it’s […]

“I always thought it was cool like after the record came out I went into an LA rock club and some of the big hair rocker dudes were like ‘hey Martika that ‘Toy Soldiers’ is pretty cool man’ and I was like yeah, the rockers think I’m cool *laughs*.” From Release: Whether it was her synth-dance songs or power ballads, […]

“You know, for us it’s a very fun thing and we’re other people up there and because of what it is we get to live this other thing up there, this other animal that we can’t get anywhere else. Probably that’s what keeps us semi-sane I think.” From Release: It is well-known that Karnivool records take a long time to […]

When a song starts instantly with vocals, I always get intrigued, and the opener ‘Riot’ from Rival Fire’s debut EP is surely one that intrigues me, I’ve had this track for a while now and I’ll be fucked if I can get the damn chorus out of my head! This track is a perfect introduction for a band, its groove […]

“If you are interested in something new, energetic and from the heart i would say there is a song on this Ep for you. The Riot Ep is very diverse and we wanted it to be so you have light shades and dark shades. The full album has all that and more.” With plenty of excitement and energy throughout their […]

“It’s all about education and people need to be educated about the reality of being an artist in today’s world. It’s hard, hard working musicians like Fear Factory we have to tour non-stop just so we can continue surviving in a way we want to survive by doing music.” From Release: The FEAR FACTORY machine is at its most confident […]

“I just don’t feel any different to when I was a kid, I think it’s truly all in your head, my parents at fifty six, my Dad especially and my grandparents they thought they were way over the hill at fifty, and to me I’m still like a teenager I’m out there carving and still like I was in my […]

“…when we started we were just kids hanging out in the basement and just playing music for fun. Of course it’s still for fun, that hasn’t changed but I guess I’m 31 now, was 21 when we started and a lot of things have happened. I think we just became better song writers and better at playing music, we were […]

“…a lot of bands with that amount of time keep making the same record over and over and over, but we don’t, we want people to think, we want people to move forward with us, and we definitely want to evolve because that’s what art is all about. You don’t paint the same picture twice. Ever.” From release: Dark clouds […]

It’s been a few years since Coheed and Cambria graced our shores but tonight off the back of their newest album ‘The Color Before The Sun’ they’re back. I’m actually a little ashamed to admit that this will be my first Coheed headline show, so to say I’m looking forward to it is an understatement… Closure In Moscow opened the […]

“I just give our fan base a lot of credit, they’re always willing to take the journey with us. What can you say? I can’t name another fan base that would do that, here we are, what, eight records in and a lot of really different records… They’re always willing to go for the ride with us…” Coheed and Cambria […]

“We signed our first record deal in 1990 and that was for seven albums and we thought we’d have seven albums out by the end of the decade but twenty six years on we’re just doing our seventh one *laughs* but we did spend a couple of years re-establishing ourselves live, and it just felt the right time now to […]

“This time we had all four of us in there at the same time when we were practising putting the songs together so there was no guess work on how it was going to sound when the bass guitar was added. Then we spent just a whole lot more time in pre-production just putting as many ideas as possible together…” […]

“It’s cool because we look at ourselves as a new band so to speak and we know we’re gonna have to roll up our sleeves and work our way back up to the top again and that’s exciting for us. So yeah we couldn’t be more pumped about it.” From Release: It’s a universal truth that true artists will always […]

“…the new foundation of the band is really solid, it’s such a situation that it’s a collaborative effort and it’s exciting, everybody’s throwing together ideas it’s not like one person running the ship, everybody’s pushing and pulling and it’s kind of odd for some people to be together so long and still respect each other as friends and then to […]

“…when I’m on stage I get to be something else, there’s this strange transformation that happens that kind of brings out a part of my personality that doesn’t get exercised all that often in everyday life. So that’s what I love about it, I get to meet another side of me.” From Release: After traversing the outer limits of science […]

“I could have hung up my shoes when I returned for an amazing sold out show at the Olympia Paris a few years back. I felt like I’d come full circle. But as a performer, it’s hard to walk away from the applause and the love of an audience.  So I didn’t. Retirement is not a word in my vocabulary […]

“…it’s not like I’ve been sitting around writing these songs for twenty years, because Black Label’s been working for the last twenty years basically, so I’m always making records and I’m always recording. You give me a month, you manage me and say ‘Zakk, the fellas are gonna be coming out to The Vatican in about a month’ and I’m […]

“We’ve never wanted to be a band that just is what it is, we’ve always thrived to be the biggest band in the world, and that’s a very big statement to have *laughs* and a big goal to try and achieve that and I think we’ve done incredibly well in having that ambition that served us so well…” From Release: […]

“It’s not as if the band lost Dave, the world lost Dave and Drowning Pool fans lost Dave and I think through that tragedy people were brought together and that created a lasting relationship and I think it’s all testament and all due to the fans continuing loyalty and support that Drowning Pool continues to be able do anything…” From […]

“…there’s no formula, so what works for us is just putting us together in a room and just building a bunch of songs which kind of just come from where we are at the moment, at the time and this record is no different.” From release: Since Deftones’ inception, the multiplatinum, Grammy-Winning alternative rock band from Sacramento, CA have quietly […]

“This record was the I don’t give a fuck I’m doing what I want record, it was the I truly, literally don’t give a fuck about what anyone else thinks, I’m doing what I want to do and if you can get down with that, great. If you don’t then it’s going to suck for you.” From Release: Reconstruction requires […]