INTERVIEWS
ARTILLERY’s Guitarist MICHAEL STÜTZER: “We Would Have Done Things Different Instead of Breaking Up in The 90’s if We Were Older and Wiser”
When Artillery formed in the small Copenhagen suburb of Taastrup in 1982, little did they know they’d be here alive, vibrant, and ready to destroy…
ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN Talks Her New Album ‘Symphonized’: “The Most Important Thing Is to Share Energy, and I Do It with My Voice”
Anneke van Giersbergen burst onto the scene in the mid 90s when the Dutch progressive death metal band The Gathering decided to start doing things…
ROINE STOLT Talks New Album “Manifesto of an Alchemist”: “For Me, This Is a New Album but Also an Old Album. Around 60% of the Material Is Up to 25 Years Old”
Having released collaboration albums with The Sea Within, Jon Anderson and being out on tour with Steve Hackett, the leader of The Flower Kings is…
DAMANEK’s mainman GUY MANNING: “I Don’t Want DAMANEK to Be a Rock Band. It’s Got To Be Something Else. Not Quite Sure What, But Slightly Quirky.”
For many people, Guy Manning flies under the radar. That’s despite a 30-plus-year career that’s included more than a dozen albums under his own name,…
TESTAMENT’s Guitarist ALEX SKOLNICK: “At Some Point I Needed to Get Away From the Bay Area. It Suddenly Felt Like a Small Town”
Alex Skolnick first gained attention as the teenage wizkid whippersnapper super-shredder in the legendary thrash band Testament. But his musical passions have always had a…
THEM’s Singer KK FOSSOR: “Our Sound Can Be Defined As a Mix of KING DIAMOND, TESTAMENT, SLAYER and DREAM THEATER”
With an impressive concept that combines the most significant components of US power and thrash metal and songs that focus on lyrics about spooks and…
FIFTH ANGEL’s Bassist John Macko: “On ‘The Third Secret’, We Wanted to Go Back to The Roots of Our First Record”
The Seattle music scene in the mid 1980’s was a breeding ground of exceptional talent. “Heavy metal” was a new wave of music that was…
CHRIS IMPELLITTERI And ROB ROCK: “Our New Record ‘The Nature of the Beast’ Is an Adventure, Like Going to See a Scary Movie”
With so many great metal bands fading away into the sunset, IMPELLITTERI continues to carry the torch for guitar driven heavy metal that features powerful…
NOTHGARD’s Guitarist and Singer DOM R. CREY: “We Define Ourselves as Epic Melodic Death Metal and I Like to Write Songs that Touch Me”
Dom R Crey made a splash when he joined the German bier-loving metalheads Equilibrium, but his own band Nothgard had been making some damn fine…
SAXON’S Biff Byford: “It Wouldn’t Take Much for Us to Accept a Joint Tour with IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST”
One of the most important bands in the history of metal, Saxon appears to have nine lives: they went through every difficulty you can name…
THE ROAD TO PROGSTOCK 2018: Interview with FERNANDO PERDOMO
Fernando Perdomo is best known in progressive rock circles as the right-hand man and guitar gunslinger for Dave Kerzner and his live band, recently rubbing…
NORTHWARD And PAGAN’S MIND’s Guitarist JØRN VIGGO LOFSTAD: “No Matter What the Genre Is, If You Are Able to Write Really Good Music, People Are Listening to It.”
Much-beloved Pagan’s Mind guitarist and songwriter Jørn Viggo Lofstad is on the cusp of releasing the first album of a new (and yet not so…
THE ROAD TO PROGSTOCK 2018: Interview with IQ’s Guitarist Mike Holmes
ProgStock 2018 is happening in two weeks time! The sophomore edition of the three-day Progressive Rock music Festival will take place Oct 5-7, 2018 at…
HAKEN Bassist CONNER GREEN: “You Grow As Musicians As Time Goes On, And Naturally The Music Changes”
With the fifth Haken album, Vector, around the corner, appearing to the world on October 26, and the next Haken tour starting on October 30,…
SPOCK’S BEARD / ENCHANT Singer TED LEONARD About His LEGACY MUSIC FOUNDATION: “We’re Not Trying to Churn Out the Next Yngwie Malmsteen. We Are Trying to Foster an Interest that Hopefully Becomes Therapy For Them”
Ted Leonard stands in front of his audience—and he’s nervous. These folks don’t know him. They’ve never heard of his bands, Enchant and Spock’s Beard. …