Episode 9: James LaBrie (Dream Theater) Ahead of the release of their 16th studio album, Parasomnia, I had a chance to speak with Dream Theater frontman James LaBrie about a number
Melody Walks Through the Door, and Memory Flies Out the Window: An Interview with James LaBrie (Dream Theater) In early 1991, Dream Theater were dangerously close to calling it quits. The promising young group, which formed at Berklee College of Music in Boston
Episode 8: Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) Failure has never really been an option for Jamey Jasta. He started out in the music business in his early teens during the mid-1990s and
You Wanna See Me Fail, You Won't Get Your Chance: An Interview with Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) Failure has never really been an option for Jamey Jasta. He started out in the music business in his early teens during the mid-1990s and
Every Night The Dream Is The Same: Warrel Dane and the Shakespearean Tragedy of Nevermore’s Dreaming Neon Black When the word tragedy gets used in a literary sense, it generally refers to a play or story that ends unhappily due to the fall
One Day, One Way, Can’t Miss! Archbishop Harold Holmes and Jack White’s Genius Marketing of No Name Jack White has never been one for doing things the conventional way. Whether it’s taking his wife’s surname during his first marriage, creating
A Journey Through the Desert: Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, and My Pilgrimage to Sky Valley The stretch of highway that connects Los Angeles and other more urbanized areas of California to the Mojave Desert is a fairly scenic, if not
Episode 7: Justin Foley (Killswitch Engage) Justin Foley joined Killswitch Engage in the fall of 2003 after the departure of then-drummer Tom Gomes. His former bandmate, Howard Jones, had just joined
This Is Not a Requiem: An Interview with Justin Foley (Killswitch Engage) The guys from Killswitch Engage are no strangers to adversity. Since the band’s inception in 1999, they have overcome a number of issues that
All Secrets Revealed Now, In Paragraphs: An Interview with Fredrik Åkesson (Opeth) Reflecting on when Fredrik Åkesson joined Opeth in 2007 after the departure of founding member Peter Lindgren, band frontman and general mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt said:
The Howl of Lore: Opeth's The Last Will and Testament “Draped in death…. The howl of lore….” It’s with these lyrics that Mikael Åkerfeldt chose to begin Opeth’s 14th studio offering, The Last
Episode 6: Fredrik Åkesson (Opeth) Reflecting on when Fredrik Åkesson joined Opeth in 2007 after the departure of founding member Peter Lindgren, band frontman and general mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt said:
