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Sitting Down With One Of Heavy Metal's Most Iconic Front Men: My Interview With Geoff Tate Of Queensrÿche

When you think of Heavy Metal, there have been few bands as successful and innovative as Queensrÿche !  With over 20 million albums sold, Billboard hit album after Billboard hit album, they have managed to continue to stay relevant through an ever changing Rock environment.  Geoff Tate, the voice of the band, and considered one of Rock’s purest voices (Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader’s list of the 100 [...]

 

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Harnessing The Power Within: Herman Li of DragonForce

For almost 15 years, DragonForce have shredded their way ‘through the fire and flames’ of the music industry to become one of the top metal bands on the planet. Their 2006 album, Inhuman Rampage, produced perhaps their biggest single, “Through The Fire and Flames.” The song garnered heavy rotation on rock radio and Fuse TV. It was also featured on the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The song quickly became [...]

 

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"Shut Up And Give Me The Mic" With The Incredible Dee Snider

Dee Snider is nothing short of a “Renaissance Man”.  One of the greatest lead singers in Heavy Metal history.  Reality Star.  Radio Talk Show Host. Rebel.  And now he can add Bestselling Author to his extensive resume, because with the release of his incredible new memoir “Shut Up And Give Me The Mic”, Dee is giving the world an unabated, honest, and ultra raw look into the life of one [...]

 

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Hearing From A Hero: Rody Walker of Protest The Hero

I recently got a chance to sit down with Protest The Hero frontman Rody Walker, and the interview was anything but scurrilous; quite the opposite, actually. While I was setting up the camera, he offered me a beer. So, Rody and I kicked back, relaxed, and I talked about the band’s new record, Scurrilous, over a couple of beers. It was time for Rody to relax, too. It was the [...]

 

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A Farewell Loveletter: Juliet Simms Takes Her Final Bow On NBC's "The Voice"

Last night marked the end of an amazing run for soulful rocker Juliet Simms on NBC’s The Voice. After belting her way to the Top 4, Juliet came in a close second place on the Season 2 Finale. Throughout the season, Juliet infused her signature style into classic hits like “Roxanne” by The Police, “Cryin’” by Aerosmith, and a straight-from-the-heart rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” on the final episode [...]

 

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Finding Equilibrium with Doc Coyle of God Forbid

Equilibrium is not an easy thing to find. God Forbid seem to have found it on their latest album, of that very name. God Forbid have expanded there sound on Equilibrium, with tightly-written songs that pack a powerful punch both lyrically and musically. God Forbid have been grinding in the metal underground since 1996. The new record has shed some more limelight on the band. The guys are currenty touring [...]

 

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Practicing The Ritual with Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder

It’s never a good night to have a curse, but it’s always a good night for an interview. I recently got a chance to sit down with frontman Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder to talk about the band’s latest record, Ritual, and their 2012 U.S. Tour. It’s been nearly a year since the album’s release, and it peaked at #31 on the Billboard Top 200. We talk about how, for a [...]

 

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The Next Generation Of Music Stars Featuring Benny Marchant, Simon Oscroft Of Midnight Youth, Adam Tyler, Brennan Dylan, XELLE, And Capelle

Here are some very up and coming young names in music that are about to become household names (In no particular order)…. 1) Benny Marchant-“Conversations Missed,” the haunting EP by electric troubadour Benny Marchant, is the sound of a hopeful heart that’s bruised but still beating. Painting the stages of love and loss, Benny’s emotional alternative folk-rock, sweetened with pedal steel, a horn section and his own delicate guitar, is [...]

 

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Discovering Metal Heritage with Martín Méndez of Opeth

I recently got a chance to sit down with Martín Méndez, bassist of one of the premier progressive death metal bands in the world, Sweden’s own Opeth. I caught up with Martín on a tour stop of the band’s co-headlining Heritage Hunter Tour with Mastodon. Opeth has been grinding in the metal game for over 20 years. Godfathers of Sweden’s revival of thrash and death metal in the early 90′s, Opeth have long been [...]

 

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"Following My First Mind" With Grammy Winner P.J. Morton Of Maroon 5

Almost anyone would agree that P.J. Morton is in a great spot in both his music and his life right now, being a member of arguably the biggest and most popular band in the world right now, Maroon 5, as well as being signed as a Grammy winning solo artist signed to what is arguably the most successful record label on the planet right, Lil’ Wayne’s “Cash Money”, but you [...]