Exist Immortal [Interview]

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Metal is often dismissed as being brutish, blockheaded, and generally stupid. In some cases, that reputation is well deserved – but Exist Immortal’s upcoming album Breathe (reviewed on TMMP here) stands as a great example of intelligent metal done right. I got talking to Exist Immortal vocalist Meyrick de la Fuente about not only Breathe, but also an approach to spirituality that pretty much exactly matches my own.

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Posted on 22 October 2016

Freddy Lim (Chthonic) [READ THIS INTERVIEW]

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Freddy Lim is not a normal politician. While his contemporaries are satisfied serving their own self-interests, Freddy Lim has made his name by helping others. As well as fronting Taiwanese extreme metal band Chthonic (pronounced “Thonic”), Lim has acted as chair of Amnesty International Taiwan for four years, organised a pair of Free Tibet concerts, met the Dalai Lama three times, formed Taiwan’s New Power Party in 2015, and been elected as a Taiwanese Member of Parliament in January this year.

This guy’s CV is impressive, to say the least.

Where the average politician is closed-minded, Freddy Lim is open. Where his opponents oppress, he aims to free. Most of all, where the average autocrat clings greedily to power and wealth and bullies others into surrendering their own, Freddy Lim is giving and generous.

As proof, I offer the above list of achievements, and this interview. Enjoy, and fight the good fight.

To a lot of people, metal is a very negative or even evil thing. How can it be used as a positive force for change?

For me, metal is just a style of music. So I think most people, they don’t understand metal. Most people think only strange people will like metal; they don’t consider it a serious business Read more…

Posted on 19 October 2016

Nick Johnston [The Remarkably Human Interview]

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If you think instrumental guitar is passé and boring and every lick, riff, and melody that can be written has already been written, meet Nick Johnston. Having previously collaborated with the likes of the Aristocrats and Paul Gilbert, Nick Johnston has proven himself worthy of top-class company, and is now set up to drop new album Remarkably Human at the end of September.

Having afforded Remarkably Human a full 100% score in a review readable by clicking here, there was one burning question I had to ask in order to kick off this interview… Read more…

Posted on 16 August 2016

Vanity Draws Blood [Interview]

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Sometimes interviews don’t go quite the way you expected them to. Preparing to pepper horror metallers Vanity Draws Blood with the questions answered in fantastic detail below, I expected to come away with multiple references to Satanism and small animal sacrifices. Instead, the intelligence that permeates their new EP Perspective / / Dread also came to the fore here – as did Pokémon Go, just as I fully evolved my first Pidgeot… Read more…

Posted on 24 July 2016

Nothing But Thieves [Interview]

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Over the past couple of years, Nothing But Thieves have risen from underground up-and-comers to guaranteed stars in the making. On the evidence of last year’s eponymous debut album and a firecracker of a show at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town (not to mention support slots scored with the likes of Muse), Nothing But Thieves are set to become global household names by 2018 at the latest. I had a quick chat with NBT vocalist Conor Mason as his band look forward to a set of recently announced winter shows… Read more…

Posted on 07 July 2016

Jordan Rudess [Interview]

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As the keyboard wizard whose constantly evolving taste for texture has added infinite depth to Dream Theater’s back catalogue from Scenes From A Memory to this year’s ever-expanding epic, The Astonishing, Jordan Rudess has brought his A-game to the biggest of big leagues for coming up on two decades. As a solo artist, Rudess has pushed his own boundaries relentlessly, exploring everything from mind-warping electronica to solo Steinway piano pieces and even full-on orchestral explorations. Then, there’s his collaborative project with King Crimson’s Tony Levin and The Aristocrats’ Marco Minnemann Read more…

Posted on 03 July 2016

Lonely The Brave [Interview]

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Lonely The Brave have acquired a solid reputation for hard work and massive rock songs fuelled by walls of guitars and a sense of awe-inspiring epicness. A rock musician’s work is never done – and that seems to be how Lonely The Brave like it. With the band’s latest album Things Will Matter having dropped on May 20, I talked to guitarist Mark Trotter about his band’s evolution, media fearmongering, and more… Read more…

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Posted on 20 June 2016

Tiny Moving Parts [Interview]

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With their new album Celebrate (reviewed in full on TMMP here), Tiny Moving Parts are flying the flag for manically complex, yet still emotionally evocative rock. With that in mind, I chatted to TMP vocalist/guitarist Dylan Mattheisen about Celebrate, motivation, golf, and more… Read more…

Posted on 01 June 2016

Lazy Habits [Interview]

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The UK-based hip-hop heads amongst you will no doubt be familiar with the funky, soulful, and fearlessly direct Lazy Habits. Even if hip-hop isn’t normally your thing, these guys pack enough stylistic variety into their tunes to keep any fan of remotely urban-related music satisfied. Keep your eyes peeled for my upcoming review of their brand new full-length, The Atrocity Exhibition, and read on for a very cool chat with the band… Read more…

Posted on 25 May 2016

Volbeat [Interview]

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Interviewing musicians can be a tricky business – especially when you know they’ve sat across from countless others before you and been subjected to endless barrages of identical questions. For ex-Anthrax and current Volbeat guitarist Rob Caggiano, who left the former on good terms to pursue his own path and joined the latter after taking on production duties for 2013’s Outlaw Gentlemen And Shady Ladies and finding that all-important chemistry sparking in the studio, that’s meant explaining the above over and over again. After touching briefly on what I referred to as “the Anthrax question,” Rob proved a fascinating and engaging conversationalist… Read more…

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Posted on 24 May 2016

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