2019 interview

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’…