Category: 2012

Lonny Paul of Adler

Lonny Paul of Adler

One of the surprise rock albums of 2012 would have to undoubtedbly be Back From The Dead from Adler, featuring of course drummer Steven Adler, of Guns N Roses and Adlers Appetite fame. Enlisting frontman Jacob Bunton (LYNAM, MARS ELECTRIC), guitarist Lonny Paul (ADLER’S APPETITE), and bassist Johnny Martin (CHELSEA SMILES), from start to finish the album is chock full […]

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Hampus Klang of Bullet

Hampus Klang of Bullet

“We mix all the influences like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo and Judas Priest and Saxon and we make the music we like and all the influences should be in there.  It’s not that difficult, we never talked about how we should sound like, it’s just obvious.  It has to be that kind of style.” Doing the rounds of the Swedish […]

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Mark Warner of After The Fall

Mark Warner of After The Fall

“So in a sense we’ve just gone full circle and I guess we’re just doing it in a different way around, we’re re now at the point where most bands start.  It’s kind of weird but it’s cool, it’s like a learning curve, you learn something new.” Official Bio: NSW Central Coast’s favourite sons After The Fall return triumphant in […]

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Ali Tabatabee of Zebrahead

Ali Tabatabee of Zebrahead

Well it may have taken them around 15 years to hit Australia, but pop punksters Zebrahead are sure making up for lost time, with their second visit to Australia in 2012 due in a matter of weeks, along with their good buddies, Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger. Having released their most recent album Get Nice late last year, the year […]

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Dave Chavarri of Ill Nino

Dave Chavarri of Ill Nino

“We started with fifteen songs, got rid of four and then got rid of five and kept ten songs, we have the ten strongest tracks on the album, we didn’t want any B-sides so to speak for the record, just the best ten songs you know?” For nearly fifteen years now, Ill Nino has gained a loyal and dedicated fan […]

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Wade MacNeil of Gallows

Wade MacNeil of Gallows

“You know I think bands just have a tendency to get a little stagnate when they’ve been going for a little while and obviously the massive shake up for all of us about a year ago, so I think it just pushed everybody together and made us focus on how much we love music and how big a part of […]

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Alex Grossi of Hotel Diablo

Alex Grossi of Hotel Diablo

Well f$%k me swinging, if you will pardon my French, where the friggin’ hell did these guys come from?  Ok, matter of factly Hotel Diablo are from Hollywood, but hitting you smack between the eyes with a blazing red album cover, these guys have delivered one hell of a killer hard rock record from seemingly out of nowhere.  But if […]

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Paul Allender of Cradle Of Filth

Paul Allender of Cradle Of Filth

“We’re a lot more focused metal band now (laughs) well, we’ve always been a metal band despite what people say, if they want to tag us then fair enough, but we’ve always been a metal band and always will be.” From album press release: Cradle of Filth formed in Suffolk in 1991 and after a string of demo recordings released […]

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Joey Kramer of Aerosmith

Joey Kramer of Aerosmith

“I think that we’re at a point in our lives now that we’re old enough to realise that by virtue of the five of us staying together and continuing to do what we do, there’s something really special there and we’ve finally gotten that and decided that there really isn’t too much that we should let get in the way […]

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Rich Ward of Fozzy

Rich Ward of Fozzy

“If you don’t treat it like it’s a corporation, you don’t treat it like a business it just becomes fun and people do it because they want to do it and then when things become fun you have a tendency to want to prioritize it, and then as we started to prioritize on the band focus on putting more and […]

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Lord Ahriman of Dark Funeral

Lord Ahriman of Dark Funeral

“So far the response to the touring with this new lineup is much better than I could have even hoped for.  Of course there’s some fans that miss the old lineup, such as someone like Caligula, but I think so long as people give us a chance and check out the show, they will have second thoughts and see the […]

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George Lynch – T&N

George Lynch – T&N

A release that’s already much talked about amongst hard rock fans worldwide and specifically fans of Dokken, is the new project T&N, which reunites George Lynch, Jeff Pilson and “Wild” Mick Brown, along with featuring drummer Brian Tichy.  With an album in the bag and due for release on October 31st, Slave To The Empire sees T&N re-recording five Dokken […]

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Colin MacDonald of The Trews

Colin MacDonald of The Trews

“It’s funny, you can’t fly further away from Canada than coming here, but it just doesn’t feel like we’re far away, there is a certain kinship between Canadians and Australians I find.” From Tour Press Release: Since October 2011 The Trews have managed to build a solid fan base with 150 shows across the U.S, the U.K and Australia. They […]

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Ben Gillies of Bento

Ben Gillies of Bento

“To me, Silverchair did its thing and to me Bento is my baby, I’ll see Bento through until I’m an old man.  As an artist it’s my creative outlet and that’s what most people want, like I would’ve loved to have done my music in the more recent years with Silverchair but our priorities changed and I was happy to […]

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Ace Finchum of Tigertailz

Ace Finchum of Tigertailz

“I think wether we like it or not, we will always be “That band that did Love Bomb Baby” but we have all aged since then, we don’t wear all the makeup like back in the day, but we don’t look like a bag of shit either, we still make the effort to look cool and not look like we […]

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Rian Dawson of All Time Low

Rian Dawson of All Time Low

“So how would you describe ‘Don’t Panic’ using just 5 words? – Best Record We’ve Made…ever.” Where I liken to where All Time Low are at here in 2012 is very similar to where a couple of my all time favourite three word pop punk bands have recently been at…those being New Found Glory and Bowling For Soup.  You see sometimes […]

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Sam Lister of Sharks

Sam Lister of Sharks

“I guess we’re quite different from a lot of other acts on Soundwave and I think we’ll definitely stand out and I’m really excited to be given a platform to play with bands that don’t sound like us but there should be some common interest there at least.” From Official Bio: Without gods, idols, or laws, there’s absolute freedom. Individuality […]

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Emilio Mercuri of Redcoats

Emilio Mercuri of Redcoats

“I guess we really just want to achieve a strong bond with our crowd; we’re going with the kind of means of slowly blowing air into a balloon and not having it pop too quickly and just letting it float up in the air for a while.” Having already played countless shows over the last few years building a now […]

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Dan Briggs of Between The Buried And Me

Dan Briggs of Between The Buried And Me

“We’re just going to keep writing the music that makes us most excited and hopefully people will be into it. If not, at least we’re excited about it.” With their new album The Parallax II: Future Sequence debuting this week at #22 on the Billboard Charts, it’s no surprise to also learn that shows are already selling out for the […]

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Joe Copcutt of Axewound

Joe Copcutt of Axewound

“I think it kind of sounds like everything that’s been going on in the rock, metal, hardcore whatever you want to call it, scene in the past twenty years, it’s kind of just a massive roll up of all of that basically crammed in to one record.” Supergroup is a term that has been thrown around a little too often, […]

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Wednesday 13

Wednesday 13

“I don’t have to play by the rules, I don’t have to follow record company rules, having this freedom is amazing, the fans that I have that are in to what I do gives me an open book, I can do what I want and I’m in a really, really good place right now, so I like being Wednesday 13 […]

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Nick Diener of The Swellers

Nick Diener of The Swellers

“It was simple. We wrote 5 songs, with no pressures, no deadlines, no goals, no nonsense, and then recorded them mostly at my home studio. It was such a return to form, like we were making a record 10 years ago.” From Press Release: Over the last decade, The Swellers have taken their hard-edged, yet accessible style of punk to […]

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Alex Canion of Voyager

Alex Canion of Voyager

For over 10 years now, Perth progressive metal exponents Voyager have been slowly, but surely, building a legion of followers worldwide – appearances at ProgPower in the USA, a North America tour supporting Rhapsody of Fire, sold out shows in Canada, all backed by a blistering third album released last year – The Meaning Of I.  Now it’s time for […]

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Art Alexakis of Everclear

Art Alexakis of Everclear

“It’s a perfect time to come back now, I’ve got a killer band, most of us have been together for nine years, this is the right time, this is the right record and we’re coming back to a pretty much sold out tour, it’s gonna be great, it’s gonna be awesome.” Everclear are back, even though they never went away. […]

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Frank Turner

Frank Turner

“It’s supposed to have a communal atmosphere, I’m not going to turn up and play music to a bunch of heads staring at me and then just have a disconnect, I just want everyone to be involved you know?  It’s a party I want everyone to be a part of.” If you’ve never heard of Frank Turner, now’s a perfect […]

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Jon Stevens – Long Way To The Top

Jon Stevens – Long Way To The Top

“We’re old school and keepin’ it real and every act on Long Way To The Top has come from those beginnings, where you had to actually be able to perform and play.” In what promises to be a series of truly memorable performances, some of Australia’s greatest ever rock legends are set to soon take to the stage for the […]

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Ian Moss – Long Way To The Top

Ian Moss – Long Way To The Top

“There are so many great artists and that’s what’s so great about this show and why it’s so important, it will possibly be the last time a lot of us will get to perform together.” In what promises to be a series of truly memorable performances, some of Australia’s greatest ever rock legends are set to soon take to the […]

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Glenn Shorrock – Long Way To The Top

Glenn Shorrock – Long Way To The Top

“It’s going to be great to get out in front of a few thousand people and perform, which is always nice.  The main thing about the whole thing is getting together again with colleagues and compadres that I’ve known and loved for a number of years.” In what promises to be a series of truly memorable performances, some of Australia’s […]

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Steve Vai – The Story Of Light (Video Interview)

Steve Vai – The Story Of Light (Video Interview)

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Entertainment Australia, in promotion of his new album The Story Of Light, we  recently had the opportunity to submit a bunch of interview questions to Steve Vai, who answered them via the video answers which now appear in the exclusive interview below. The Story Of Light continues on from where Vai’s most recent studio release, 2005’s […]

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Phil Jamieson and Pat Davern of Grinspoon

Phil Jamieson and Pat Davern of Grinspoon

“We’re trying to make our weak points stronger, so we worked harder on becoming a melodic rock band and not only a melodic rock band but a good one, even a great one as well, we wanted to make the songs really, really great as I think we’ve got the songs in us.” Seventeen years as a band and with […]

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