Interviews

On her new album ‘The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest’, Dutch singer-songwriter/guitarist Anneke van Giersbergen has produced her most personal album to date. Rather than going down a prog-metal route, ‘The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest’ is an intimate, acoustic album with some extra flourishes added. We spoke with Anneke …

English rock legends Thunder are gearing up for the release of their thirteenth studio ‘All The Right Noises’ (out 12th March 2021 on BMG). Set to be one of the best albums of 2021, ‘All The Right Noises’ is Thunder at their very best, and lead guitarist, songwriter, and producer …

Glasgow rockers The Swamp Born Assassins put the time in lockdown to good use by reimaging four of their tracks in an acoustic style. Having road-tested the approach, first with an instore appearance at a local HMV, then as part of Guy Bellamy’s ‘Spirit of Wildfire’ festival-on-the-radio, The Swamps knew …

With a combination of ultra-clean vocals and full-on guttural growls, Swiss powerhouse vocalist Melissa Bonny is one of the rapidly rising stars in today’s metal scene.  As well as featuring in Rage Of Light, Bonny is also turning heads with her new band Ad Infinitum. The quartet has just released …

Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen’s legendary Prog project Ayreon will release the epic new album ‘Transitus’ on September 25th via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group. As with any Ayreon album, it is an explosive and expansive affair and features the instantly recognisable Tom Baker as the narrator, along with the two …

Averaging a few hundred gigs a year, Halestorm always seem to be on the road. 2020 see’s the band back in the studio busy working on a new album. To tide fans over, the band has released a new EP; ‘Reimagined’, and we spoke to bassist Josh Smith about the …

L.A.-based rock band Dead Posey are wedded duo Danyell Souza and Tony F. New EP ‘Malfunction’, has just been released on Sumerian Records, and sees the band going down a darker, more industrial path. We spoke to Danyell and Tony about the EP, as well as the heartache surrounding the …

German medieval/folk-metallers Feuerschwanz are gearing up for the release of their latest album; ‘Das elfte Gebot’, their first since signing with Napalm Records. The captain himself; Hauptmann Feuerschwanz, was kind enough to put down his horn of mead and talk to us about the new album, and how the band …

Best known for her work with Crass founder Steve Ignorant, Huddersfield based Carol Hodge is a singer and pianist who has spent much of the last few years on keyboards and backing vocals touring with Steve’s acoustic project Slice Of Life. She was a lead vocalist in Steve Ignorant’s Last …

German symphonic metal outfit Beyond The Black are gearing up to launch their latest album; ‘Horizons’. Vocalist and founding member Jennifer Haben spoke to us about the album recording process, a slight change in direction on one of the tracks, as well as waxing lyrical about her love for Wacken …