INTERVIEWS
JEFF SCOTT SOTO Talks New Album: “With SOTO I Decided to Establish My Heavier Side, This Band is a Collective Effort and Much Different From My Solo Output”
There no much you can say at this point about American rock singer Jeff Scott Soto that hasn’t been said before, time and time again.…
OVERKILL’s Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth: “We Have Always Felt Proud of Ourselves About Sounding as OVERKILL at the End of the Day, But Each Song in the New Record has its Individual Personality”
In an age where music is available instantly and bands appear and fade just as quickly, the power and resiliency that is Overkill who’s initial social…
JOHN ARCH Reveals the Secrets Behind his Ageless Voice: “I Don’t Smoke, I Rarely Drink, I Don’t Do Drugs, and I Mountain Bike”
JOHN ARCH, the unmistakable voice of the first three Fates Warning records, left the music industry in 1987 after just four years of the touring…
POSSESSED’s Leader JEFF BECERRA Talks New Album ‘Revelations of Oblivion’: “Death Metal is About Doing Whatever the F*ck You Want and Having Artistic Freedom”
There was a time in which genuine power was felt erupting from the sonic landscape that is now referred to as “old school” death metal.…
ULI JON ROTH Recalls His Exit From SCORPIONS: “Nothing Would Have Made Me Stay When I Decided to Leave”
The word “legendary” has been used to a large extent when introducing classic rock artists, but in Uli Jon Roth’s case, there isn’t a more…
BIG BIG TRAIN’s Greg Spawton Talks New Album: “In Europe, GRAND TOUR goes back to the 17th century as a concept of getting out into the world and finding yourself and discovering things about history, so we liked that concept for the album.”
For the past many albums, progressive rock band Big Big Train have excelled in telling stories of the English countryside and its people. Formed 20…
LORD DYING’s ERIK OLSON Reflects on New Album Creative Process: “We Wanted to Challenge Ourselves and Think Outside the Box”
Albums born from personal tragedies are not new in the music business – from Pink Floyd’s The Wall to Sting’s Soul Cages, from Bowie’s Blackstar…
STEEL PROPHET’s Mastermind STEVE KACHINSKY On New Singer R.D. LIAPAKIS: “He’s A Great Singer and I Don’t Think Our Fans Can Be Dissatisfied with His Performance”
Los Angeles based, US Heavy / Power metal legends Steel Prophet are back with a new massive sounding heavy metal album The God Machine, released…
UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY’s Mark Trueack: “If You Can Get the Message Across Quickly, and Complex Music to Support It, That’s the Best of Both Worlds”
Mark “Truey” Trueack created a stir in the prog world with the band Unitopia from down under, which he created with Sean Timms. After he…
WHITESNAKE’s JOEL HOEKSTRA: “The Choruses of Many Songs On The New Album Beg to be Sung by the Crowd”
Whitesnake, the mega-platinum legendary rock n’ roll band founded and formed by Deep Purple singer David Coverdale are embarking on their 2019 world tour, which…
IAN HILL of JUDAS PRIEST on the Follow Up to Firepower: “We Have a Lot of Unused Material that Was Very Solid and Could End up on Our Next Album”
At this point in time, Judas Priest is not just a band, but a British institution. One of the forefathers of the movement that came…
STEVE HACKETT Reflects on His Recent Album: “I Wanted to Include Friends From All Over the World and Celebrate What’s Best on All Corners of the Earth”
At 68 years of age, and soon to be 69, Steve Hackett seems unstoppable. Coming off of a tour celebrating the Genesis classic Wind and…
ARENA / LONELY ROBOT’s Mastermind John Mitchell: “I Like Making Music, I Think It’s What I’m Good At”
Singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer John Mitchell wears many hats, but he wears them all well. A member of such mainstay progressive rock bands as…
JANE GETTER And ADAM HOLZMAN Talk Upcoming Album: “My Upcoming Record Will Be a Natural Progression From “ON”, with a Better Balance Between Instrumental Passages And Sung Tunes”
It’s not every day that you get to chat with a couple who not only share their lives, but also amount to unbelievable musical pedigree.…
IRON SAVIOR’s Piet Sielck: “Patrick Is a 100% Power Metal Drummer and That’s What We Need in IRON SAVIOR”
Familiar to any friend of melodic, heavy sounds Iron Savior is the band around mastermind Piet Sielck, a staple in the power-metal scene of the…