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The Dark Side of Business: An Interview with Scott Ian Lewis of Carnifex

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), there are over 450 million people who currently want a job, but are unable to get one. Many of these people lost their jobs in the pandemic, as...

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“The songs you love, but not played well”– An Interview with Devin Townsend

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Meditating Reptiles – An Interview with Karl Sanders

Since nowadays I make several videos per month, it might come as a surprise that I used to be extremely camera-shy. In fact, when I first started interviewing people, I would not even appear on the...

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Chillout Rock out of Pain – An Interview with My Sleeping Karma

Started in 2005 by bassist Matthias “Matte” Vandeven, guitarist Seppi, drummer Steffen Weigand, and keyboard player Norman Mehren, and with 5 studio albums already under their belt, My Sleeping Karma...

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12 Years and 74 Lashes for Your Songs

So then the prosecutor, a priest that’s talking to you, says that what you sang is apostasy… And in that position you only have two options: You can do whatever it takes to save your life, or just say...

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The Satanic Fight for Human Rights: An Interview with Lucien Greaves

Note: A transcript of the interview (with LOTS of links and references for you to peruse) is available for subscribers on our Substack. Otherwise, you can watch the interview below. The Satanic Temple...

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Bringing More Women to Metal – An interview with Sonia Anubis

Sonia Nusselder, better know as Sonia Anubis, is a Dutch musician, and the founder and guitarist of Cobra Spell (formerly also of Burning Witches and Crypta). Besides discussing Cobra Spell’s newest...

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Rock n’ Roll Terrorist: The Life and Times of GG Allin

I recently met with Reid Chancellor, the author of Rock N’ Roll Terrorist, a graphic novel about GG Allin. We had a very fascinating conversation about GG’s life and crimes, and about his complicated...

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The Eye of Stone: Interview with Amorphis’ Tomi Koivusaari

Continuing their tradition of expanding their sound and refusing to be limited by expectations or genre constraints, Amorphis have just released Halo, their long-awaited follow-up to Queen of Time....

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Time Traveling with Arjen Lucassen

Arjen Lucassen is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who, since 1980, has been an unstoppable creative force. As if it wasn’t enough to have completely redefined our understanding of  what a rock/metal...

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Unkillable Soldiers – An interview with Sabaton’s Chris Rörland

How do you mix a drumkit with a tank? How much barbed wire can you put on stage? Can you play guitar wearing a gas mask? These are some of the questions that Sabaton have faced in recent years, as...

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Acoustic Adventures with Sonata Arctica’s Tony Kakko

Sonata Arctica are a Finnish metal band started in 1995 under the name Tricky Beans. With 10 studio albums in their discography, and a bunch of EPs and live albums to along with them, they are a legend...

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The Bloodlust of Empires – A 1914 Interview

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We flee from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to...

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Down the Rabbit Hole with Diablo Swing Orchestra

In November of this year Diablo Swing Orchestra will release their long-awaited 5th studio album, Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole, the follow up to 2017’s Pacifisticuffs. Although we haven’t...

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The Wild North: An Interview with Hváll of Vreid

More melodic and catchy than traditional black metal, but heavier than death metal, Vreid have successfully blended elements from different genres. Though they are often considered to be one of the...

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Giving a Voice to the Past: Einar Selvik of Wardruna

Just a few years ago, the idea of a folk band topping sales charts or playing sold-out concerts all over the world, would have sounded farfetched. But that’s exactly what Wardruna have done. At the...

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Nocturnal Supremacy: An Interview with Dani Filth

The COVID19 pandemic has created an enormous crisis for the entertainment industry. Concerts require people to be indoors, in close proximity to each other, and that doesn’t seem to be possible right...

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The Black Sheep – An Interview with Maurizio of Kataklysm

Right now metal is missing its balls Although the COVID19 pandemic has wreaked chaos on every area of the economy, few industries have been affected as much as music and entertainment. Indeed, a live...

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Bringers of Pain – An Interview with Eero of Battle Beast

Note: This interview, together with others that will be published in the coming weeks, were made before the pandemic as part of a larger project that (for obvious reasons) had to be postponed...

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Still Alive: An Interview with Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear

We compose metal because we love heavy metal An often forgotten victim of the COVID19 pandemic is the entertainment industry. Though it’s easy (albeit mistaken) to imagine that all musicians are rich...

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