Interview with Songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist RANDY MCSTINE: “If You Want to Keep People’s Attention, This Idea of Making Music Clickbait is Really Painful”
Talented singer, songwriter, guitarist / multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine is probably best known as the nucleus of his band Lo-Fi Resistance, but in more recent years…
NEAL MORSE Reflects on New Album and Bandmates: “THE NEAL MORSE BAND is a Special Mix of Ingredients – One of My Favorites I’ve Ever Been a Part of”
Born in 1960 to a musical Californian family, American multi-instrumentalist and composer Neal Morse is arguably one the most prolific musical composer in the prog-rock…
CASEY MCPHERSON Talks New Album: “It’s a Dream of Mine to Record My Own Prog-Rock Album, Because I Want to See What My Version is of The Scene”
Casey McPherson established his name on the more pop end of the spectrum with his band Alpha Rev, but as his career developed he has…
FRANKIE BELLO Talks New Band ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE: “It’s Very Cathartic For Dave and Myself to Release This Album at This Point in Our Careers”
On paper, Get It Out, the new full-length debut from Altitudes & Attitude, might imply something other than a collection of smartly crafted melodic hard-rock songs.…
SWALLOW THE SUN’s Singer JAANI PEUHU Talks New Album: “I Can’t Imagine How it Will Be to Play These Songs on Stage – Every Night, All the Wounds Will Be Open”
There’s beauty in life. There’s darkness in death. For Swallow the Sun creative force Juha Raivio, his world is the reverse. The Finnish songwriter is…
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s Guitarist MIKE GILBERT: “There’s Something Unique About How We’re Writing Up Music Now, Some of Our Older Albums Wouldn’t Hold a Candle Against THE END OF CHAOS”
What do you do when you unleashed arguably the finest hour in your 30-plus year career and you are ready to record its follow-up? You…
SOEN’s Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ: “We Wanted the Guitars on LOTUS to Sound Louder, Heavier and Crispier”
Prog metal fans can expect a great 2019, and evidence of that can already be found in one of the first releases of the year…
Indonesian Guitar Phenomenon DEWA BUDJANA Discuss New Album ‘Mahandini’, Featuring MARCO MINNEMANN and JORDAN RUDESS
When an artist takes an unexpected turn into new musical directions, it may cause stirring among fans. This is not the case of the increasingly…
SOILWORK’s Singer BJÖRN “Speed” STRID Talks New Album: “Our Sound Has Become Gradually More Extreme Again and More Melancholic and Darker”
SOILWORK is a band that has been through a lot. They has been around, in one form or another, for twenty years now. Some people say…
Former ICED EARTH Member and ASHES OF ARES Frontman MATT BARLOW Discuss Second Album: “Each Song We Write Deserves Our Time and Passion”
Matt Barlow is back! His band Ashes of Ares recently released the long-awaited follow-up to their self-titled debut album. “Well of Souls” presents an increased…
JOHNNY GIOELI Talks Solo Album “One Voice”: ‘I Wanted to Make a Feel Good, Turn-this-thing-up-in-your-car Kind of Album’
If you are unfamiliar with the name Johnny Gioeli and the bands he is/has been involved in, Hardline, Crush 40, and Axel Rudi Pell, then…
WITHERFALL Talks Scattering Deceased Drummer’s Ashes on Stage: “That Moment Was Super Powerful, Eerie and Beautiful. It Was Our First Show and Adam Was There”
California’s Witherfall has been on a hell of a ride. This stellar progressive-metal collective came into being when former members of White Wizzard, Jag Panzer,…
ACCEPT’s Guitarist WOLF HOFFMAN: “After All These Years, Playing Live with An Orchestra Is a Lifelong Dream Come True”
German heavy metal legends ACCEPT are experiencing more success than ever, and have hit their stride creatively! In the 10th year since the band’s reunion,…
CHROME DIVISION’s Guitarist MISTER DAMAGE: “I Think People Deserve to See Us Live and to Celebrate With Us”
Norway’s Chrome Division is known for many things, but most notably having a good time while playing adrenaline-fueled classic rock ‘n roll, and for being…
45 Minutes with DREAM THEATER’s Singer JAMES LABRIE: “With Our New Album DISTANCE OVER TIME We Tried to Encompass All of Our Roots and to Chase Something More Organic”
Kevin James LaBrie needs no introduction. Fronting two-time Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans Dream Theater since 1991, there are very few places in this…
