“…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 ALL FEEL THE TIME IS RIGHT TO FINISH WHILE WE ARE ALL AT THE TOP OF OUR GAME. TONY’S CANCER DIAGNOSIS MADE US REALISE WE WON’T BE AROUND FOREVER, AND WE’VE HAD MORE THAN A GOOD RUN. AFTER ALL, WE THOUGHT WE’D LAST FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS WHEN WE FIRST STARTED. WE NEVER DREAMED WE’D BE AROUND NEARLY […]

“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 […]

“I think it’ll just get a little more ugly this time, we’ll get a little more dirty, a little louder and heavier this time. So yeah, it’s gonna be fun, it’s been two years since we’ve been there and we’re super stoked to be coming back.” From Release: WEDNESDAY 13 has firmly cemented himself as the undisputed leader in Horrorpunk. With […]

“I guess we just know each other’s strengths and weaknesses, we’re one of those bands that hasn’t gone through too many member changes and the guys that we’ve got are really trustworthy and we know our parts in the band and we rely on each other a lot, which is great that you have that sort of backup and support […]

“Isn’t it bazaar that all we are is a band, two guitars, drums, bass and a vocalist and we just write about our experiences and our lives around us and what we did and we’re like this thing, and I don’t know one other band that’s making new, traditional rock and roll records and this has been going on since […]

“We’ve had a lot of ups and downs and I think we’ve grown as musicians, but not only as musicians we’ve grown as people and I think that now after all these years everyone in this band is finally in a spot where we can finally look up and look around and finally take a breather you get what I’m […]

“…the first time we were together there was a certain type of magic that was there that I felt just something that I couldn’t put my finger on at the time but I knew that we had something special and we still have that when we get together on stage. I don’t know, we just get up there and throw […]

“I mean when we started the band it was to have something to do and have fun with friends and I think in a lot of ways it’s the same thing, as we do have fun together and that’s an important thing because if we put out an album every year or every second year it wouldn’t be that fun, […]

”You know I just think we’re a much, much more focused in what we want to do and we’ve got a really great way of making things sound better now, I think we’ve advanced as players, singers and all that stuff, musicians in general and we’ve just gotten better , we’ve naturally picked up the pace and that’s a good […]

“I think probably the only thing that we try and do is not copy ourselves to make sure that we set the scales for our own self critiquing to high, not to unobtainable heights because obviously that would kill any project but just to make sure we don’t take the easy way out and that we don’t copy ourselves.” From […]

“I think that our love for music has just substantially grown, exponentially it’s grown and at this point it’s really, really special that people are still allowing us the opportunity to make records and giving us the chance to see where it goes and I think that’s something that we certainly don’t take for granted.” From Release: THE MAINE, Arizona’s […]

“Really we just play a rock and roll show, there’s no tracks or trickery, we don’t even use a click track, we just kind of plug in play and what you see is what you get. We like it, we get to ride the wave of the audience…” From Release: Pennsylvania-natives Halestorm have left an indelible impression on the hard […]

“So I think what you really need to do is come with an open mind if you’ve never seen the band and participate and I think participation is really the key to having that combustion between that audience and the band.” From Release: From hell they came… in April 1977 at the dawn of the punk movement, THE MISFITS were […]

“It’ll be great family entertainment, I wrestle a great white shark and then after that we have dancing bears, grizzly bears and then we introduce everyone to the Black Label fall fashion line of men’s lingerie, so it’s a very exciting evening *laughs* there’s also a lot of choreography going on, it’s just a delight to the senses. *laughs*” From […]

“…we’re pretty much there just to have a good time, it’s not really about metal and it’s not about being serious, it’s just about having fun. So we appeal to pretty much everybody really which I think is pretty unique in the metal genre, so yeah, fun.” From Bio: Avast, ye landlubbers! From the deepest darkest depths of the Caribbean […]

“I think we used the new album to escape from the upheaval we went through, the upheaval with management. Obviously we did the comeback and when you do a comeback for us it wasn’t really a comeback, we just wanted to get together again and do an album…” From Release: THE DARKNESS, multi award winning, multi-million selling megaband formed in 2000 […]

“The idea mainly spawned from when we were away a lot over the last couple of years.  We always have to introduce ourselves and say here have a listen prior to going in and giving them sampler things and all that stuff. I don’t know, it kind of dawned on us that when you’re doing that sort of stuff how […]

“So after the first record I think we were like we’re not going to go through that experience again, I mean not that it was a terrible thing it wasn’t at all, this album sounds a lot truer to who we are, the each of us, and the people that have heard it so far have all said that, like […]

“…I mean it’s basically if you think about  rock concert that you’ve been to and you multiply it by ten, it’s kind of more, it’s louder and faster and more jumping *laughs* cooler clothes, better guitar playing, you know, the usual… it’s the same thing, just more and better *laughs*” From Release: Australian audiences require no introduction to The Hives. The five-piece […]

“…it’s mainly about performing and the atmosphere when you do perform and one of the most important things for us is to have this sense of well almost community, we want everyone to be involved and we don’t want anyone to feel left out and it’s more about everyone in the room than it is us…” From Bio: Pulled Apart […]

“…as long as we all enjoy playing together and coming up with new songs we’ve just got to keep doing it and enjoy it while we can because the realisation of Steve’s passing, were only here for one shot in life so we’ve got to do it while we’re here and enjoy it, so that’s kind of the path we […]

“I think it’s through and through a Coheed album in the sense that it explores different territories of the band. And in different way than we ever have before. And that is something Coheed had done with every record.” From Release: The Color Before The Sun is the outfit’s eighth studio album and their first non-conceptual release, with the previous […]

” It’s basically one on one with Dave Lombardo, you get to sit there with me and we basically have a conversation but it’s in a large forum with a lot of people. So it’s fun, I enjoy doing it.” From release: As an original and founding member of Slayer, Lombardo has performed with Slayer on seven albums, including their ground-breaking […]

“I think we were worried for about a year but when it happened it felt like we were launched into space and our lives were never the same. It’s hard to explain but I can say that every boy hood rock and roll dream I ever had came true … and then some.” From release: In recent years, the tale […]