Latest Interviews
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Alcest - Musical Magic Alcest’s musical history stretches back, past two full-length albums (Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde and Ecailles de Lune) and one EP (Le Secret – re-recorded and re-released earlier this year in stunning quality). The sum of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Neige’s discography, however, says... |
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Janne Warman of Children of Bodom: "I can't wait to get back to Sydney!" Children of Bodom are a band that have carved their own piece of metal history. They have developed and moulded a sound that is totally unique. Listening to COB I hear older heavy bands such as CORONER, thrash bands like LAAZ ROCKIT and traditional melodic bands such as- and I stand by this- MOTLEY... |
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Psychology of a deathless MORTAL SIN- Interview with Andy Eftichiou 2011 and Mortal Sin have just released their next studio album Psychology of Death. It is without a doubt their heaviest release to date and an album dripping with venom and energy. But where do Mortal Sin go from here? They have been back for over eight years and have re-established themselves as... |
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Beyond Terror and Into the Abyss - an Interview with Beyond Terror, Beyond Grace Beyond Terror Beyond Grace has come a long way since their inception in 2004. In just a few short years, the Sydney quartet has evolved from pub-playing-grindcore-band to international show-casers of the Australian extreme metal niche, and are now on the verge of releasing their third studio... |
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Hollywood Undead - ready for the beaches and the bars! Rap metal outfit Hollywood Undead has been around the block a good few occasions since their formation in 2005. With two studio albums, 2008’s Swan Songs and this year’s American Tragedy, and the Desperate Measures live album under their belts, their appearance on the Soundwave Revolution line-up... |
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Initiating the Bastards - Psycroptic on BASTARDFEST Technical death metal troupe, Psycroptic, has been a mainstay of our national death metal scene for a while now, and in the past couple of years they’ve graced stages across the world with top-name bands and released the stellar live DVD, entitled Initiation. Since their debut release The Isle of... |
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Ruins' Alex Pope on BASTARDFEST Ruins is a band with their “own standards, and not really any iron laws, certainly none conceived by others”, in the words of the band’s founding member, guitarist and vocalist Alex Pope. You can hear it in their music; especially in terms of the atmosphere and feel, it’s still black metal.... |
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Marcus Siepen of Blind Guardian "...looking back, I would not change a thing." Blind Guardian is a significant and very important metal band who has not only taken a huge part in the initial power metal movement in Europe, rising from the German heavy metal scene since their inception in the mid-80s, but also an outfit who has created its own niche, becoming known as the... |
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Taberah and Rock n' Roll, Interview with drummer Tom Brockman Hobart-based metallers Taberah are only a few days away from the release of their debut, full-length album, entitled The Light of Which I Dream. From their inception in 2004 Taberah really began making waves in 2006, particularly in their homeland of Tasmania, and having since shared stages with... |
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Uriah Heep Interview - Mick Box "personally, coming to Australia is coming home." Uriah Heep has been fortunate enough - through their last two studio albums, Wake the Sleeper and the latest Into The Wild - to be able to escape their history and be recognised as a current band who is releasing brilliant material, and not just one with a celebrated record. The focus of this... |
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Interview with Matt Martorana of RECOIL v.o.r Sydney-based metallers RECOIL v.o.r have always had an indisputable reputation for leading the hardcore metal scene in Australia. Currently on the final leg of their Australian tour, the band is soon to take on the ambitious step of attempting to crack the U.S market when they set off for their... |
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Rob Maric of Dead Letter Circus - "They don't even need to be right; they just need to speak from the heart." With a UK and a US headlining tour firmly under their belts, Brisbane-based alternative, prog. rockers Dead Letter Circus have returned to their home shores for an extensive national tour, complete with a political viewpoint and a message of awareness toward saying no to CSG operations and the... |
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Interview with Dysie of Folk Metallers Claim The Throne After their formation in 2004, and the release of the debut album Only The Brave Return in 2008, Perth’s folk metallers Claim The Throne arguably became known as one of the most entertaining bands around the Australian metal scene. This month, the wench and four gentlemen are set to take on... |
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Zack Hansen of The Word Alive "We're planning on being around for a while." Arizona based metalcore outfit The Word Alive is not a band to sit silently around and grow roots. This six-piece of outrageously talented guys in their mid-twenties has been nothing but driven in the relatively short three years of existence, spitting out their EP ‘Empire’ in 2009 shortly... |
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Brent Stegeman of HEIRS "I feel that I may have aimed too high..." Since their formation, Melbourne-based instrumental post-metal outfit HEIRS has released two studio albums, their latest, the 2010 record entitled Fowl, highlighting a change in the band’s music, a leap forward in composition that is technically complex, and yet holds to a simplicity in its... |
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Down Under Shocker The year is 2011 and Steel Panther is getting ready to dominate their first Australian tour for the Soundwave Revolution festival. The time is just ripe for metal to "come back", but did it ever really leave? I took a long hike up a mountain [in other words, I got my ass off the couch and got... |
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Craig Locicero of Forbidden For any die hard thrash metal fan the name Forbidden means something special. Forbidden is synonymous with the thrash movement during the eighties, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area, releasing two albums at the height of this movement – Forbidden Evil and Twist Into Form – for my mind they... |
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Paul Mario Day – The First Man of Iron Maiden The name Paul Mario Day may not mean a lot to many metal fans, but it certainly does to any Iron Maiden follower. Paul was the original lead vocalist for Iron Maiden, playing with them for the first few months of their career. If you look back through Iron Maiden’s biographies, such as "Running... |
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Interview with Periphery's Jake Bowen Forming in 2005 and through a number of line-up changes since - the most recent being the departure of guitarist Alex Bois - Maryland-grown technical metal outfit Periphery is now on the verge or returning to our shores after their 2010 tour as support for mathcore quintet The Dillinger Escape... |
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Switchtense's Hugo Andrade - "We will never quit!" Internationally praised for revitalizing the irksome metalcore genre, Portugal’s Switchtense released their self-titled album and consequently commenced their mission to promote their unique style of metal across the world. Voltage Media recently caught up with front man Hugo Andrade to discuss the... |
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TELOCH on The Konsortium Morten Iversen, best known as Teloch from Norwegian Black Metal extremists MAYHEM, and I took a moment to speak about his working with this notorious band, along with his other, various black metal projects - and one in particular - the enigmatic The Konsortium. Based in Oslo, Norway, Iversen... |
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Interview with Steve Tucker of Nader Sadek This year the world was surprised by a new band… and a good one at that! A most talented collaboration between Steve Tucker [vocals, ex-Morbid Angel] along side Flo Mounier [drums, Cryptopsy], Rune Eriksen (guitars, ex-Mayhem) and Egyptian-born and currently New York-based visual artist Nader Sadek... |
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Interview with Vogg of Decapitated Decapitated are back, returning with a new line up, new energy and new album! Decapitated is considerably one of the biggest death metal bands in the world, and will be for a long time to come. For those people who aren't aware of Decapitated, be sure to read this interview to get a grasp on who... |
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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Sarah Jezebel Deva Not having talked much to Sarah Jezebel Deva after the last interview I had done with her in October of 2010, the increased activity on the band’s Facebook page did peak my interest and I scribbled her a few sentences to see what she was up to. Chatty and bubbly as always, Sarah agreed on a review... |
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Tomi Koivusaari of AMORPHIS talks of new album, writing and pranks With their 10th studio album on the way, Finnish metal outfit AMORPHIS have been relentlessly pushing their music into new territories. Recently, Voltage Media got the opportunity to speak with guitarist Tomi Koivusaari about the direction of the upcoming album. Renowned for their ability to... |
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Tobias of KATANA talks new album, spandex and traditional metal. Katana is everything that drew you to heavy metal in the first place, and more. After hearing their premier album Heads Will Roll I just had to track down one of the members to get the inside story on what makes this true-to-traditional metal band tick. I got to speak with guitarist and songwriter... |
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On War & Combat with Rasmus Henriksen of PANZERCHRIST After reviewing Panzerchrist’s latest album, Regiment Ragnarok, I was luckily to have been able to interview the band’s lead guitarist, Rasmus Henriksen, to discuss their sixth studio release. The answers received left me intrigued, with my admiration growing for the quintet - they are an outfit... |
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Chris Ratzlaff of FALLSTAR discusses new album and Chuck Norris. They’ve been turning heads in the American Northwest metal scene since 2005 and now, Fallstar are proud to present their debut album, Reconciler. Refiner. Igniter, to the masses. Hailing from Oregon, the five-piece, hardcore group is jumping around like madmen in their joy at releasing their first... |
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An Interview with Matt Heywood of Our Last Enemy The last time that I had the pleasure of catching this band live, I firmly planted them in the “why are they not huge yet?” category, and now – the question still remains, but they are surely climbing the ladder higher and faster. Currently on the second leg of their national ‘Tearing Down The... |
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SEGRESSION - An Ongoing Journey Since their inception in 1996, Wollongong-based metal quartet, Segression, quickly grew to become one of the highest profile metal bands on the Australian east coast. After departing away with the original name of Eezee, the band took on a whole new trajectory, enjoying a number of... |
