Category: Interviews
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Cosmic Echoes: a conversation with Pyramids on Mars
Pyramids on Mars have released Echo Cosmic, which is easily the finest instrumental metal album since Joe Satriani’s seminal Surfing With the Alien. It is by turns inspiring, jaw dropping, progressive and uplifting. Pyramids on Mars are what metal could be, but increasingly (and sadly) is not. This is metal to banish the blues and…
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I love what I love… Hellbound’s 2015 Q&A with Phil Anselmo
Phil Anselmo needs little introduction to metalheads. He is best known as the frontman of the platinum-selling titans Pantera, but there is also Down and Superjoint to name but a few of his well-known bands. He recently spoke with Hellbound’s Jay Gorania, a week before setting out with Superjoint on Danzig’s Blackest of the Black tour,…
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Amorphis throwback (rocking it like it’s 2001)
To mark the release of the latest Amorphis album, Under the Red Cloud, let’s go back to a more innocent time—April 2001, to be precise—when Hellbound editor Laura Wiebe interviewed the band before a show in Toronto. They were touring to promote Am Universum, and her freewheeling conversation with Esa (Holopainen, guitar) and Niclas (Etelävuori,…
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Full Metal Parenting #9: Tom Campagna interview
We often take a reflective viewpoint here at Full Metal Parenting. Matt and I frequently talk about what we’ve learnt about parenting over the years. We talk about our successes, failures and/or frustrations. And we try to present some words of encouragement gleaned from all the experiences parenting can offer. We want to keep things…
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Fredericton: GREBER video premier and tour dates
GREBER‘s latest full-length, Kiln Hardened Psalms, came out late last year but the momentum is still building. The newest result? A video for one of the most ferocious tracks on a seriously (but not too serious) ferocious record. Bassist Marc Bourgon took the time to answer a few questions: Why this song, “Fredericton”? Fredericton has been…
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In From Out Of Nowhere – Round Eye Emerges
Ask any rock fan – even the disciples of the deepest quadrants of the underground – and none will proclaim that Shanghai is a hub of rock excitement. The city never jumps to mind when one thinks of rock n’ roll; places like New York, Los Angeles, London, Cleveland, Austin, Seattle, Toronto, Detroit and Liverpool…
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Anti-Flag: Against The Odds
It seems deliberately discordant in many ways, but some bands need to fight their battles on an uphill incline in order for them to produce their own best selves. These kinds of bands are the sort which need to feel as though they have something to prove because they’ve been knocked down or counted out,…
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The Dark Side of the Big Easy – interview with Sean Yseult
The Scott Edwards Gallery presents Sean Yseult – Soirée D’Evolution: Tableaux Vivants et Nature Morte April 16 to June 14 Let’s play a little game. I’ll describe a city and you tell me where it is. This city has secret societies, a penchant for debauchery and a general love for the the dark and occult. If you…
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From the archives – Type O Negative: Geriatric ‘Souldiers’ of Rock and Roll
Originally published in Unrestrained! in 2007. Peter Steele says he’s a “souldier,” a “tool of god.” And as that tool, Steele (who’s best known as the bassist/frontman of Type O Negative) claims it’s his duty to transmit god’s unpopular message any way he can – whether that’s through “rock and roll or heavy metal or…
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Get out your popcorn kiddies, MUTANK is coming
A deranged lunatic broke out of an insane asylum (which was really a front for a mutagenic testing facility) with a strong sexual magnetism towards nuclear waste. Upon finding a discarded vat of the stuff in a nearby swamp, he proceeded to pound-off into the glowing green slime. The smell brought back memories of his…