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A chat with Bjørnar Nilsen of Vulture Industries
If you're looking for catchy progressive metal with a high dose of 'WTF' element and you haven't yet listened to Vulture Industries, it's about time you use your google knowledge in combination with that name. Or simply visit their website. The Norwegians have been around with this name since 2002 and the début album, The Dystopia Journals, was released on … (read on)
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Sólstafir interview
With a history going all the way back to ninety-five, Sólstafir is a four piece Icelandic band whose current musical style makes it rather impossible to put them into one category or another. Hence, I tried to get to chat with the band to try to maybe understand better who they are and what their music is about. The band's … (read on)
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Interview with Ørkenkjøtt (Norway)
It's always such a cool feeling to go to a concert where they'd play a music you never listened to prior to that evening and after five minutes into the concert get completely sold to the sound and the live show on stage. That's the effect that the release concert of Ørkenkjøtt's 'Ønskediktet' had on me after seeing them live … (read on)
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Imbalance - Norwegian Thrash
Quality thrash metal is not something that many people would expect to emerge from the Norwegian realm, yet, the guys playing under the name of Imbalance have delivered an outstanding full album before, and have a fresh pressed one to be released in few days. For an interesting fact, the new release will only be physically available on vinyl, along … (read on)
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Interview with Syne, a fresh Italian band worth checking out
Upon receiving a recommendation from a friend, I visited Syne's official website and listened to the songs featured in the media section. Being pleasantly surprised by what I heard, I had a chat with the band's mastermind, Fabio “FaZ” Marchisio, to find out more about this fresh Italian band with a lot of potential, and you can check out the … (read on)
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Interview with Myrath
Myrath is an metal band from Tunisia who will play in Romania twice this year, as a support band for Orphaned Land. Anis Jouini, their bass player, agreed to answer a few questions from us. Let’s start by asking what's happening in the life of Myrath. What is new in 2011? We have a new album called “Tales of the … (read on)
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Memento Waltz - progressive metal from Sardinia
After the great performance of the Italian band Memento Waltz at ProgPower Europe 2011, Studio Rock followed up with the band to discuss about Memento Waltz music and future plans. Let's start with a short history of the band. Who is Memento Waltz, and when did you start as a band? Gabriele: Memento Waltz was born in Tempio Pausania (Sardinia, … (read on)
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Rishloo interview
Many have grouped the 2002 formed and Seattle based Rishloo with artists like Dredg, The Mars Volta, Tool, Fair to Midland and A Perfect Circle, while the band admits in drawing inspiration from celebrated artists such as The Beatles, David Bowie and Pink Floyd along with more modern talent like Tori Amos, Deftones, Radiohead, to Porcupine Tree. Their debut album, … (read on)
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Interview with Ryan Gardner - Rose Funeral
Lenti Chiriac conducted an interview with Ryan Gardner (Vocals/Guitar)of Rose Fineral. In this Interview Ryan talks about their last album, Gates Of Punishment, released via Metal Blade Records. Lenti: Please let me know how did everything started with Rose Funeral? Ryan: We started about 6 years ago in Cincinnati Ohio. We all were in separate local bands that came together … (read on)
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Interview with Matlary Miklos of Nevergreen
StudioRock conducted an interview with Matlary Miklos of Nevergreen, one of the bands invited to play at this year's edition of the Peninsula Festival 2011. StudioRock: Who is Nevergreen and how would you describe your music? Nevergreen was founded in 1994 in Hungary by Miklos Matlary – keyboards and Slobodan Macura – vocals and bass guitar. We took part in … (read on)
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Interview with Powerwolf
This year the Masters of Rock festival from Vizovice (Czech Republic) had some really good names on the list. Twisted Sister, Hammerfall, Moonspell, Amorphis represented established names from the metal scene with very good shows proving that bands that have been existing for more than 20 years can still be exciting. If you ever doubt that metal doesn’t offer anything … (read on)
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Amorphis interview at Tuska 2011
The Finnish metallers from Amorphis have recently released an album called 'The Beginning of Times', which they are touring to promote now. As they performed on the festival's main stage, on the last day of Tuska 2011 I had the opportunity for a short chat with Amorphis' bass player, Niclas Etelävuori. It was a really hectic day so it all … (read on)
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Interview with Fernando Ribeiro - Moonspell
This year Masters of rock festival in Vizovice, Czech Republic, hosted also one of the biggest names from the goth - metal scene, Moonspell. It was a pleasure to speak with such a deep-thinking, well–read person that Fernando Ribeiro definitely is. At about 9pm the band still had some time before the show that was supposed to start at 1am, … (read on)
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Interview with Mårten Hagström of Meshuggah
Probably every musical piece out there is a matter of experimenting, but the Swedish band Meshuggah has been really pushing the boundaries of experiments and has offered a very genuine extreme metal since their 1991 release called Contradictions collapse. 5 more studio releases and 20 years later I got the chance for a short talk with the band's guitarist, Mårten … (read on)
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Interview with Jørgen Munkeby of Shining (Nor)
Formed as a jazz quartet in 1999 by saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jørgen Munkeby together with fellow students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Shining is a band who quickly caught the eye of music lovers by always pushing the boundaries and having a very daring approach to combining a variety of elements. For their first release, Where the Ragged People … (read on)
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Suicidal Angels — Old school thrash metal
Suicidal Angels este un nume relativ nou pe scena thrash metal europeană, dar a ajuns destul de repede unul respectat. Chiar dacă are în palmares doar trei albume, acest grup din Grecia a lovit din prima şi ultima sa creaţie, Dead Again face furori cam peste tot. Pentru a afla mai multe despre cei patru greci ce formează Suicidal Angels, … (read on)
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White Walls on progressive rock and Michael Jackson
Aurel Nedelcu from Radio Nord Est Iasi conducted an interview with Șerban-Ionuț Georgescu — bass and Marian Mihăilă — drums after their concert at Rock'n Iasi 2010. You can listen to the interview (in Romanian) below, an English transcript will follow soon. no Javascript/Flash? download (read on)
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Interview with drummer Johanne James
Johanne James discussed with us about the latest Kyrbgrinder album, “Cold War Technology“, released on October 11th via Kyrbgrinder Records and distributed by Code 7/Plastic Head. He was designated as the Best Drummer by the Classic Rock Society four times, in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. I would like to start with a short history of Kyrbgrinder. When did you … (read on)
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Sacrum, on searching for the perfect musical experience
During the ProgPower Europe 2010 festival we had a short chat with Sacrum from Argentina. The interview can be viewed below: Big thanks to the band for the filming and production. A few words about them, from their myspace page: Sacrum started as a musical project in late 2003 when the two founding members Talo Silveyra and Martin Guerrero decided … (read on)
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Seventh Wonder interview
Formed back in 2000 and having 3 studio albums released so far (the fourth one will be out on December 4th 2010), the Swedish band Seventh Wonder is quite a wonder among today's progressive names out there. I personally have discovered them a few weeks prior to the Helvation festival that took place in Helsinki in November 2010, and after … (read on)