Interviews

Swedish metal luminaries, In Flames are currently touring North America as special guests of Within Temptation. The band recently released its latest studio effort, I, The Mask to positive fan response and strong critical praise. The album…

Finland's Children of Bodom hit the ground running with their 1997 debut album, Something Wild, setting a standard in Melodic Death Metal. They have gone from strength to strength over the years playing some of the biggest festivals, and…

Owning one of the biggest voices in metal keeps Tim 'Ripper' Owens a busy man. The platinum-throated vocalist is celebrating the release of not one, not two, but three new albums this winter. In January, The Three Tremors dropped their…

Having spent the better part of the last decade working in The Devin Townsend Project together, drummer Ryan 'RVP' van Poederooyen and guitarist Brian ‘Beav’ Waddell discovered a common love of groove-laden heavy music. In their down time,…

The turning of the millennium felt like something of a sonic wasteland for heavy metal music for me. So much of it seemed uninspired. Then one day while wasting time on MySpace playing some insipid game called Vampire Wars, a foe I was…

Overkill is Batman. Dark, aggressive, and dangerous. They have no lofty superpowers. They can’t fly. They don’t sell out massive arenas, or have hit songs blowing up the airwaves. They just serve up good old blue-collar, kick your ass heavy…

After delivering one of 2016’s most exceptional metal albums in Avantasia’s Ghostlights, band mastermind Tobias Sammet planned to take some time off. He’s spent the last 27 years fronting Edguy, the power metal band he started at 14 with…

Like a Storm is a band of brothers, quite literally, based out Toronto by way of New Zealand. Matt, Chris, and Kent Brooks started Like a Storm, and  Zach Wood joined shortly after in 2014. They are set apart from most metal bands by Chris’…

When guitarist Marc Ferrari initially walked away from Keel in 1988, the wave of commercial metal still flourished. Little did anyone know that same flannel clad Seattle rockers were about to mud stomp the hard rock industry with a whole…

Few bands in metal have been as influential as they are underrated, and near the top of that list is Washington’s Metal Church. Founded initially by guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof in 1980, the band unleashed its eponymous debut record in 1984.…