Category: Features

Chris Kael of Five Finger Death Punch

Chris Kael of Five Finger Death Punch

“This is our sixth record in, Five Finger Death Punch has become a well-oiled machine and we do the things that we do and do them very well, everything is gelling in the sense that everybody writes together and all the ideas are bounced off one another, so pretty much a continuation of the process really.” From release: FIVE FINGER […]

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Dennis Locorriere of Dr Hook

Dennis Locorriere of Dr Hook

“…these days what seems to remain  of Dr Hook is a sound that people remember, and this many years later that sound almost causes a sense memory, I can tell by what people say to me it’s almost like you smell chicken and you think of your mom’s house *laughs*, so I want this music to sound like they remember […]

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Paolo Gregoletto of Trivium

Paolo Gregoletto of Trivium

“…we pretty much just went in and we never deviated from it we never thought we had to appease someone that might like screaming, someone that might like singing, we just purely stayed true to what we wanted to do and very, very excited for people to hear it, so there’s a lot of cool stuff on the record.” From […]

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Aaron Barrett of Reel Big Fish

Aaron Barrett of Reel Big Fish

“…I love performing, I love being on stage, I love playing guitar and singing in front of people and making them dance and party and have a good time. That’s why we stay on the road like ten months out of the year, just because we love to play.” From Bio: Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of […]

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Chris DeMakes of Less Than Jake

Chris DeMakes of Less Than Jake

“…it’s kind of like we know the ten, eleven or twelve songs that we have to play that are fan favourites or so to speak, and then from there we just kind of try to sprinkle in and try to represent every era of the band and then you know try to make ourselves happy too, we like to entertain […]

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Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise

Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise

“It’s just honest music, it’s not like a bunch of dudes in spandex pants, big hair, driving around in limos talking about fucking chicks and doing cocaine, it’s honest blue collar lyrics that connect with kids and I think the world was kind of missing that and it found its place pretty damn quick.” From release: The mid 90’s were […]

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Liam Cormier of Cancer Bats

Liam Cormier of Cancer Bats

“…it’s a delicate balance you know? When you play enough songs that everyone is satiated then also I don’t want people to barf and die half way through, so you need to figure out where that barf point is you know?” From Release: CANCER BATS have come to destroy. Fuelled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder and have […]

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Sebastian Bach (Video Interview)

Sebastian Bach (Video Interview)

“It’s a cliché but I love the music, it’s my whole life really, I think about music all the time, I collect it, it’s like I escape into it and it’s like my escape is my job so that works out pretty good.” From Tour release: Known as the original voice of Skid Row, Sebastian Bach is one of the finest […]

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Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe

Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe

“…when we disbanded in 1997 that was a good time to do that, no one’s heart was in it anymore, it was over, we all love each other but we just ended the band, and then fast forward to the making of this full length record as you call it, everybody wanted it, and everybody was in a good space…” […]

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Mark Menghi and Alex Skolnick of Metal Allegiance

Mark Menghi and Alex Skolnick of Metal Allegiance

“…when the word Allegiance came up for me when naming this thing I wanted something loyalty, just a loyal group if you will and that’s kind of where the name came from and that’s what we’re trying to do, bring in all these different people, all these sub-genres of metal under one roof.” From release: Heavy Metal is more than […]

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John Corabi of The Dead Daisies

John Corabi of The Dead Daisies

“…we’re just fuckin’ musicians man, we just play an A chord, put a melody on it and try to put a smile on somebody’s face for an hour, you know what I mean? So it shouldn’t be anything more than that.” From release: The Dead Daisies are a powerful musical collective created by a rotating line-up that features some of the […]

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Dan Jacobs of Atreyu

Dan Jacobs of Atreyu

“It’s been kind of a whirlwind, we went from doing nothing for several years to all of a sudden back in the saddle again to recording and doing music videos and just touring around the world and just being all over the place and I don’t know, it’s awesome, it feels good and I’m really, really excited about the whole […]

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Dan Donegan of Disturbed

Dan Donegan of Disturbed

“…all we know is we’re only going to return when we’re all ready to commit for the long haul, when we’re ready to give it back to the fans the way they deserve it and we’re not gonna half ass it, we’re gonna come back stronger than ever and we have to make a statement and we have to make […]

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Sebastian Bach

Sebastian Bach

“I just want to tour the venues, bigger venues that are dangled in front of me like a carrot, like “If you get back with the old band you can play here” I know someday it’s just a matter of time before it’s “OK, just fuckin’ play here” *laughs* so that’s what I would like to accomplish… I would like […]

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Richie Lewis of Tumbleweed

Richie Lewis of Tumbleweed

“…it also takes you back to a time, you know, so it sort of unlocks the flood gates and all these other memories come out, so I suppose in relation to losing Jay last year, it was a really nice experience in I suppose having those wonderful memories again and I suppose remembering him as well as a part of […]

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Iva Davies of Icehouse

Iva Davies of Icehouse

“So really over the last four years we’ve become quite a family and I think that the guys are actually very, very proud of what they produced, they know the band very well, they know the material very well, and at a certain point the muttering started of we should actually record all this stuff because the band has never […]

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Matt Taylor of Motion City Soundtrack

Matt Taylor of Motion City Soundtrack

“Basically we took about a year to write songs which we’d never done before, so we had a lot of material diving into that period to choose from to put on the album, so it was actually a bit tedious trying to pick all the best ideas, we actually felt like we were very productive, we made a lot of […]

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Keith Nelson of Buckcherry

Keith Nelson of Buckcherry

“All these bands are afraid of being in a rock and roll band, all these bands are trying to reinvent the wheel, people around especially in the United States are saying that rock and roll is dead and we just say fuck all that, rock and roll is not dead and we’ll believe until you can believe again.” From release: […]

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Michael ‘Padge’ Paget of Bullet For My Valentine

Michael ‘Padge’ Paget of Bullet For My Valentine

“We’re still all kind of young, we’ve got a fire, an ambition and we just want to be a timeless band, we want to be as big as we possibly can, reach as many fans as we can and just continue to make music, I mean that’s the main thing, right?” From Release: Over the course of their career, Bullet For […]

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Mike Mushok of Saint Asonia

Mike Mushok of Saint Asonia

“…I’m enjoying this, I enjoy working with Adam, I’m very proud of the record we made and I think it’s only the beginning of what we’ll be able to do. There was two very hard decisions that we’ve had to make as a band, one was deciding on the name and figuring out what that was going to be, and […]

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Andrew McMahon of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

Andrew McMahon of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

“I met a bunch of people along the way that really excited me and inspired me in a new way towards creating and I think about after a year or so of kind of time away from making music for myself, I jumped in and started writing songs and gearing up to start the Wilderness project.” ANDREW MCMAHON needs no introduction […]

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Dino Cazares of Fear Factory

Dino Cazares of Fear Factory

“Whereas now we just do what we do, we haven’t really changed our formula, we haven’t done anything too extremely different, we are who we are and that’s really all I can say about that *laughs*, obviously as technology evolves it helps us create records a little more easier and faster.” From release: With Genexus, FEAR FACTORY forges a new hyper-alloy of sound, […]

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Vinnie Paul of Hellyeah

Vinnie Paul of Hellyeah

“…it’s hard to keep the ship floating in the right direction when you’ve got some people that are trying to lean it off to the side. So once we were able to get rid of the people that were the problem, everything really fell in line with myself, Tom and Chad, we’ve always been on the same page and we […]

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Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth

Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth

“Our interpretation of that was obviously the opposite, putting the hammer in the witches hands so they have the power, it’s about retribution, revolution, revenge I guess… because we’re not particularly a Christian band so we can entertain that notion.” From Release: Unquestionably one of the greatest and most influential British metal bands of all time, CRADLE OF FILTH have cast a […]

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Louise Post of Veruca Salt

Louise Post of Veruca Salt

“…the album really tells our story from breaking up to getting back together and beyond, and I look at each song like  a page ripped out of an old notebook, we’ve really looked at our past and studied it, and tried to get to the essence of what broke us up and why we couldn’t stay together as a band…” […]

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Shaun Morgan of Seether

Shaun Morgan of Seether

“Musically I think nothing’s changed and I think we’re more comfortable than we were back then, back then it was more of a question of ok we have to find where we fit in the musical landscape, we have to find where we fit in and I think now we just don’t care about that, we just write music we […]

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Gin Wigmore (Video Interview)

Gin Wigmore (Video Interview)

“I’ve really exposed myself in many ways musically, emotionally and I guess I’m at a point now, 28, and I’m kind of like you just can’t give less of a fuck at what people think, you get more self-aware, I feel like I’m just open and I’m at a place that I’m cool to write about that now you know…” […]

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Benjamin Burnley of Breaking Benjamin

Benjamin Burnley of Breaking Benjamin

“…I would rather if I do die from whatever this is, I would rather die on stage or doing something that I love rather than laying in a hospital bed waiting for them to give me another excuse as to why they can’t find the answers for me, so that’s what I decided to do. I love my fans and […]

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Patrick Dahlheimer of Live

Patrick Dahlheimer of Live

“So it felt god to get back to that because it had been a long time. We took our time writing and recording it, we knew we weren’t in a hurry but we just wanted to make sure if this were going to be our return record you get one chance, and we’re very pleased with what we produced.” From […]

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Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Malmsteen

“There’s a saying, there’s only two man-made objects that can be seen from outer space, The Great Wall of China and the Malmsteen Marshall stacks *laughs*.” From release: Yngwie J. Malmsteen has been blowing minds across the globe with his incredible guitar skills and showmanship for over 35 years and in June 2015, Yngwie and his band will be returning to Australia […]

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