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Band formed: 1968 Band members: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler Genre: Heavy Metal Home town: Birmingham, England Most recent album: 13 Release date: June 2013 Label: Vertigo, Universal
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"As soon as I get a whiff of a pine lid closing over my head" -Ozzy
Black Sabbath’s music journey was truly epic, fans worldwide will miss Black Sabbath’s legendary live shows. What do you feel were some of the bands greatest achievements? Ozzy-The fact that we survived as long as we did - through the good times and the bad times. The California jam was a big moment for me, we hadn’t played with each other in a few months and hadn’t rehearsed. All we did was run through the set once in a hotel room without any amps and played a great gig. Are there any plans for Black Sabbath to do any final recordings? Ozzy-There are no plans for us to do any more recording in the future, we brought out a special cd for this last tour though with some live recordings as well as some unreleased material from 13. We’re proud of it and the fans seem to be enjoying it. Ozzy, while this is it for Black Sabbath we see talk of a new solo
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album already, do you ever see retirement in your future? Ozzy-As soon as I get a whiff of a pine lid closing over my head; how can I retire from something that I absolutely love, I learned my lesson a few years ago in case you can’t remember, no retirement in the immediate future for me. Over the years you have seen the creation of the Internet and social media. Have these tools been an integral part of bringing in a new younger fan base that otherwise would have missed Black Sabbath? What are your thoughts on the millennial way of music sharing? Ozzy-Consuming music has changed so much in the last few years; just as the music scene has, even though I am not really computer literate. I really enjoy listening to music on Pandora and Spotify. If I want to listen to something specific all I need to do is pop it in a search field and if I want to be surprised by things I can just choose a playlist based on a
song I like. It really is amazing how easy it is to access different music nowadays.
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Black Sabbath is one of the most legendary and successful bands in the world. Was there ever a time in the early days when you thought the band might not have made it? What helped you stay on top and keep that strong bond? Ozzy-We had a relatively quick rise to fame, which was great, but once you have the fame, you start worrying how long it will last. I thought I would just be having a little fun with the lads and heading back home to Birmingham in a few years. It was important to stay thankful everyday for what we had. Black Sabbath is going out on top after nearly five decades. Are there any new artists that you feel might have what it takes to carry the torch or have that kind of longevity?
Ozzy-We are currently on the road with a great band “Rival Sons,” they have a great style, a great sound and have all the makings of a long-standing rock band. Another band is Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, again we were on tour together so I got to hear and enjoy their music a lot. The world lost so many talented musicians over the last year. Which ones have you known or shared the stage with that you will fondly remember? Ozzy-Lemmy was a dear friend of mine - he wrote me many great lyrics, I miss him every day. It’s just not the same not having him around. I met David Bowie and Prince a few times – it’s all really sad. What would you like to say to your fans as they read this interview before watching you live at attending the first ever Ozzfest meets Knotfest? Do you have any special messages for the masses?
Ozzy-We thank you for the longevity and success; we could not have done it without you. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. I am excited as this is the first time two big metal “fests” are coming together and be sure that Black Sabbath will be giving you a great performance on the night!
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What are your greatest memories from 20 years of Ozzfest’s?
Ozzy-There are so many great memories; the first year we played we competed with 50 mph winds. My children were always on the road with us, which provides me with many happy memories and there were so many different bands out with us, there was always some sort of craziness happening back stage. One of my favorite moments involved the late Lynn Strait from Snot. Lynn was always getting into trouble with the police and would always try to hide from them, once he stormed into the room naked telling me the cops were after him. That nearly turned into a daily occurrence …
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Band formed: 1996 Band members: David Draiman, Dan Donegan, Mike Wengren, John Moyer Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock Home town: Chicago, Illinois Most recent album: Immortalized Release date: August 2015
Current Tour: September 10 – March 10 World-wide
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Label: Warner Bros, Reprise Records
In this day and age when bands come and go and it’s considered that there’s a level of accomplishment and success for being together a couple of years, very few can say they have been successfully together and active for over 20 years and amongst their accomplishments there are Billboard’s top place debuts, millions of copies sold, millions of YouTube views, international tours, etc. One of those bands is, of course, Disturbed. Despite the controversy under what type of “rock” Disturbed can be classified as. Whether they are heavy metal, nu metal or hard rock (I don’ really care, Do you?) they are achieving a new level of success (also outside of the typical rock/metal fan) and there is a new wave of fans who are joining the rock army thanks to the recent popularity of “The Sound Of Silence” cover, originally by Simon and Garfunkel. It is typical of the band to cover other band’s hit songs, but none other have matched the unforeseen success and exposure to other markets as this song has.
Disturbed is quite extensive in the creative department. Who would’ve thought that a cover with no instruments distorted would bring new life to their already successful career. Perhaps now with the success of the “Sound of silence” cover, it may also earn the respect of our grandparents, unless they already are metal heads and already like them. -Enrique Nunez 14 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
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Originally from Chicago and with well-known hits like “Down with the sickness” and “Stupify”, Disturbed have created a niche of their own and can boast a worldwide fan base earning them the respect of many in the music community. I have personally witnessed the warm welcoming front man David Draiman received on stage while being presented with the rest of the pane of the presentation of Ozzfest meets Knotfest in Hollywood Ca. at the Palladium. Draiman performed “Children of the grave” with Zakk Sabbath and it gave us a taste of what’s to come and experience at this historic event.
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth talks about current state of music and guilty pleasures…… By Missie Tong Dave Mustaine, who is currently on tour with his band Megadeth, took time out during the day of their 2nd show of a two-nighter in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 1st night selling out, to discuss with me the current state of the music industry, playing festivals and some things you might have never known about him unless you read this interview….talk about click-bait!!! What is going on in these countries like South America, Mexico, Central America, Europe that makes you guys be able to do 2 nights in big arenas and sell out, but here in America you barely get mentioned for anything? Well, metal isn’t as popular in the States as it is in some of these other countries. In the United States it’s all about the flavor of the day and it has no importance on musical merit, it’s all about who’s talking shit on who and who’s got the most outrageous appearance and whatever. If you base the musical concerts on merit, then you would see bands like Megadeth all over the place, but its not that America is doing it wrong either coz it’s not really a right or wrong to it. It’s whether or not there’s order, listen to the radio in America, they just don’t play meal music like ours anymore. Of course they still play some bands coz they’re brain-washed and create certain bands regardless of how the songs are just because the name of the band…. It’s sad when you look at it, some of the bands that get air play, you have to look at why they get air play and the stations that play them and what kind of advertising they can get. I’ve lived in San Diego forever and there is a station down there that wont even play us, and I was born there and I’ve lived there, its disgraceful. Real metal bands don’t rely on radio anyway so, we’re not a pop band in metal clothing, we’re a metal band that knows that you have to scratch and claw for everything that you get. How does overseas festivals compare to the ones you have done here in the US? I think the difference between festivals in Europe and South and 16 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
Central America is that the line up is diversified where as the people who book concerts and festivals in the States kind of rely on having a bunch of bands that are all the same. There have been some festivals within the States that have done good and there has been some that have been a little lacking and that sometimes has to do with the talent buyers… Speaking of the Big 4 Tour, how do you think something like that would have went down back in the 80’s with all the partying that went on back then? I don’t know, a lot of people comprised of the Big 4, they still party, there’s people who drink, there’s people who smoke, there’s people who do worse than that. I stopped smoking a while ago, but I still drink, people think that I don’t drink, I have a wine company and a beer company, what’s the point? I’m not an alcoholic anymore, but answering your question specifically, would it have happened in the 80’s? I think it probably would have, but then again there’s, there’s so much talent and so much personality that was going on between four different bands and it would be based on what would it benefit. Who would it benefit, how does it benefit them, because I have no problem with any of those bands. There are people who are in your line of work that like to print stories and stuff. It’s not necessarily that it’s dishonest or that the stories are not true or anything like that, but when you dig up stuff that is 10-15yrs old, again, you look at the people who dug up the stuff in the past and it’s like, if this is your first gig- I get it and you’re an amateur. You can’t write anything original so you have to stir the pot you have to dig up terrible stuff from the past. You know with my social media sites, there are people who have been asking me for days now have I heard the new Metallica song and whether I have or I haven’t, who gives a fuck?? Honestly, who cares what I think about that song, and I’m not gonna say if I like it or not…. I’ve seen that Madonna was one of your guilty pleasures as far as music goes…. *laughing* one of them, one of them, it gets worse…Madonna was definitely not the worst.
Give me something that no one would ever know even if they Google searched….Give me something that is totally new… The worst band I probably listened to was Scritti Politti. I love a lot of the R&B stuff, all the funky stuff. There was this guy that David Ellefson and I lived with when we were homeless, we were squatting in that guy’s house and we managed to turn the power on and there was this music device there that one of the only things we could play on it was this one disc and it had Scritti Politti on it. It was like, this song called “Wood Beez.” Scritti Politti had his own success, I’m not gonna knock him, but that’s probably the farthest off the reservation I have ever gone. There are also other bands that I am totally proud to say that I like, like growing up as a kid, Cat Stevens, I loved his music and in my later years there’s been bands like Crowded House. I think they’re great, Split Ends is a weird band that I liked a lot. There’s all kinds of different types of music, but Scritti Politti is probably the weirdest of all of them. You know I can tell you, last night I was watching Dirk and I walked into the dressing room and said “ Man, Dirk is so skinny, he reminds me of that song by Madness “Baggy Trou-
sers” and Ellefson looked at me like “HUH??” You know {singing} “Baggy Trousers….Baggy Trousers…” You remember those guys {singing} “Our house, In the middle of our street,” and they are looking at me like what happened to metal Dave?? THIS is NOT metal! I think that’s why I have melody in our music, it’s because I’m not stuck in the hole where you can’t listen to anything else, coz you’re afraid people are gonna call you a poser. We went thru that whole era where anybody who didn’t dress like us, high-tops, stretch jeans, they were posers, and it was very self-serving, but it was also very, kind of short sided, coz there was so much great music out at the time. I was talking to my wife about Van Halen, with the first couple of records, I think those were fantastic records and a lot of people hate Van Halen that are in the metal world, I don’t know why, Eddie is a great guitar player and Dave’s an amazing front man. I think that people don’t understand that your influences, in order to make good music, you have to have influences from all kinds of different music… Can’t all be Judas Priest and Black Sabbath…. -Missie Tong
Band formed: 1983 Band members: Dave Mustaine, Kiko Loureiro, David Ellefson, Dirk Verbeuren Genre: Thrash Metal Home town: Los Angeles, California Most recent album: Dystopia Release date: January 2016 Label: Tradecraft, Universal Current Tour: September 20 – October 16 U.S.
Band members: Zakk Wylde, John DeServio, Jeff Fabb, Dario Lorina Genre: Heavy Metal Home town: Los Angeles, California Most recent album: Catacombs of the Black Vatican Release date: 2014 Label: Mascot Records (Europe) eOne Music (US)
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BLS Front-man Zakk Wylde known for his insane guitar playing and mad vocals was once legendary rock god Ozzy Obourne’s lead guitarist for many years, also having played numerous Ozzfest’s alongside Ozzy, he ventured out on his own and has never looked back. Black Label Society has formed a massive following over the years and to their credit the “Black Label Society Army” was formed. Their fans are extremely loyal and follow them everywhere, one would say true fans to the very end. This band definitely knows how to tear the stage up and give a 100% performance from the start to the finish. BLS are the real deal; a true heavy metal band that metal heads still truly adore. This band is going to be one of the acts not to miss at Ozzfest meets Knotfest!
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Band formed: 1998
lack Label Society is one of America’s finest heavy metal bands from Los Angeles California. BLS first began its heavy metal journey in 1988; started by guitarist and vocalist Zakk Wylde. With 10 studio albums to their credit, this legendary rock band just gets better and better with age.
Band formed: 1990 Band members: Mikael Akerfeldt, Martin Mendez, Martin “Axe” Axenrot, Fredrik Akesson, Joakim Svalberg Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal Home town: Stockholm, Sweden Most recent album: Sorceress Release date: September 30, 2016 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: No dates scheduled at this time
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’s not everyday that you get your “fundamentals” in your taste of music questioned. Maybe every now and then you get into an argument with someone you know about our music. How the guitars, bass, drums, keys, etc., become one gloriously loud and beautiful raw sound called rock. Now, if you want to confuse someone during an argument and gain the upper hand or be seen as more cool or knowledgeable in the metal topic, you can play Opeth to other rock fans who have never heard their music, that’ll confuse them (and by that I mean well). It’ll be like giving them a museum tour where they will experience different techniques and art mediums. I know we hear very often the “Our sound is different” yet many bands sound just like the other million bands out there following the current trend and yes, getting with the times and jumping on the trend bandwagon can get you that attention of the moment or it can weight on the opposite side and allow you to become just a blur in a sea of all those other bands aiming to be outstanding and become lost in that sea of noise with all the other similar acts. That’s where Opeth stands out, love them or hate them, sure as hell you will be puzzled and entertained by the vast array of sounds and arrangements from this Swedish band. Although it has gone through many changes in the line up, frontman Mikael Akerfedlt has remained persistent and faithful guiding this ship. For more than 25 years, Opeth has experimented and been successful with a style of its own in a world where sometimes there’s little room to anything that does not have the familiar heavy distorted riffs, pounding bass, drums and have been successful at it. -Enrique Nunez
Band formed: 2009 Band members: Jay Buchanan, Scott Holiday, Michael Miley, Dave Beste Genre: Hard Rock Home town: Long Beach, California Most recent album: Hollow Bones Release date: June 2016 Label: Earache Records Current Tour: September 9 – February 4 World-wide
I can only imagine you hear so often the comparisons to some classic rock bands from the 70s and 80s. Is this something you purposely defined from the very beginning or did your style take shape as the band progressively found its course? Yes...I hear it plenty, and I totally get it. Clearly this band was and is influenced by many, many artists and bands from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s... and on until today, but the sound of 4 white boys playing soul and blues infused Rock n Roll, with 20 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
a lot of fuzz, groove and grit. Well that’s all, but almost disappeared. I didn’t it want it to disappear; It wasn’t as much wanting to sound like any particular band or era even. It was, and always will be about embodying elements into our music that we love - writing good songs, and not bullshitting the listener. In that I mean- leave everything on the stage or on the tracking room floor. Give everything; just like our jeeps gave us. That’s the tradition we strive to be a part of.
longtime friend and producer - Dave Cobb. He most definitely understands this esthetic and is a big reason this process works for us. I think this is a reasonably rare thing these days. It could be a total disaster and waste of time and money...t’s just worked for this band. What is the most remarkable comment about your music? Maybe the most notorious compliment from another band you admire? I think the silly, insulting, funny thing we often hear What would you consider is different, imis: that we’re nothing more than a blueprint of our proved or has evolved in “HOLLOW BONES” influences. Unoriginal- Retro. Etc… Often times from your previous records? we will get called a copy of just ONE old band. Songs, grooves, tones, and overall scope of Well, I’ll take that Pepsi challenge anytime. Listen collection of songs, but, I will stand by any of to our records, not just 3 songs. Not just the few our records, they’ve all acted like a snapshot of you’ve heard on the radio. We make ALBUMS. I where we were at the point of creation, and we’re invite anyone to peer into our catalogue and really evolving as individuals, as musicians, and as a say we’re trying to only be any ONE thing or box group. I believe Hollow Bones illustrates that very ourselves into something so menial or ridiculous. poignantly. Everybody will find a record they like In the end though, all we can do is continue to more than another in our catalogue, and that’s make the best records we possibly can and confine. Life experiences and circumstance when I tinue to prove it, and we do- every time. hear it affect that decision making process in our ears and in our hearts, with any band, but for us If this was your last tour ever; are you the new record is the best record. I would hope happy with what you accomplished or would every band or artist would strive for that. there be anything you can think of that was missing amongst your accomplishments? Here is a two-part question. How does RS Yes - and yes. I am happy with what we’ve accomshape its sound? plished, and how we’ve done it. But YES- there’s What brands do you play? (Similar set-ups in plenty left to accomplish for this band. We’re tourstudio and live?) ing the greatest venues in the world with Sabbath We subscribe to a saying, “It’s the fool, not the right now and id be lying if I told you we don’t want tool.” We shape our sound by being the 4 (and these places to be OUR spots, our homes. We 5 on stage) people who we are. Play with our want to continue to reach more people, make difinstinctsl keep things visceral and honest. ferent records, and make our own amazing history. I could run down a list of amps, guitars, pedals, The career is not contingent upon this. We play recording equipment and I’ve done that, but the music because that’s what we do. And we’ll play no bullshit truth is just that, you’ve probably heard clubs for 3 people - or stadiums for 35,000. We this 1000 times but, we could play on entirely dif- most definitely have aspirations and goals we’re ferent gear and sometimes we do, and in the end, striving and working towards. it sounds like Rival Sons. You know why you’ve heard people say that 1000 times? Because it’s When this tour is over, any last thoughts or true. words to fans or readers? I’d like to thank everyone out there that’s supportDo you have a unique and structured process ing not only the Rival Sons, but Rock n Roll, the when creating an album? Or just go with the music and art that touches there hearts, makes flow? them shake their money maker or pump their fist We record very quickly and instinctually, mostly in the air! playing live together- to capture our records. I will We’re in a very strange changing time for music bring riffs and parts in, as Jay will sometimes, and and Rock n Roll and I think now more than ever we will get in the room and write songs together. - the people have a loud voice. With social media We record everything while assembling songs, and the way we are consuming music. It’s just a and quite often will stumble upon completed very important time for people to make their voices versions while we think we’re working things heard. Thank you for hearing ours. out. This is with no small contribution from our -Enrique Nunez
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First of all, congrats on the very deserving success your music has experienced and what an honor to be on tour with Black Sabbath, right? SH: It would have been a huge huge honor just to do a regular Sabbath tour as the sole support act, but the way it went down, how we got the gig and that it’s their FINAL TOUR. It’s pretty much alltime, and the band has just been so friendly and fantastic with us. It’s definitely some “pinch me” kinda stuff. Epic. Would you like to share what were your reactions when it was confirmed that you would be touring with such iconic pillars of our music? It was overwhelming, exciting. For a band like us that tours A LOT, yet don’t always plan TOO far ahead, it was really trippy to know exactly where we would be a year and a half in advance. They signed us up and had the whole tour already lined up. We had been waiting for a tour of this magnitude to come to us...and it couldn’t be a better fit. What bands influenced you growing up? Did Black Sabbath have some influence in your taste in music? A lot of my growing up took place in Huntington Beach and in the high desert- Hesperia specifically. There were TONS of great bands, but I wasn›t ever really trying to go for exactly what was at hand. I was influenced in different bands prowess, musicianship and tenacity, but musically I kinda tried my best to stick to my own thing and that wasn›t usually the most popular thing going. I definitely cut my teeth on Sabbath, from a very young age. Young enough that when I first heard Black Sabbath (the song) on the first record (while staring at the cover) it scared me. I think Electric Funeral was one of the first riffs and songs I learned. I always loved the slower numbers they did also- like Planet Caravan. The mark of a great band for me has always been how they use dynamics, light, shade, and if they can show a little diversity.
Band formed: 1980 Band members: Mike Muir, Dean Pleasants, Dave Lombardo, Ra “Chili” Diaz, Jeff Pogan Genre: Crossover Thrash, Punk Cyco Home town: Venice, California Most recent album: World Gone Mad Release date: September 30, 2016 Label: Suicidal Records Current Tour: September 22 – October 30 U.S. Legendary hardcore punk/crossover thrashers Suicidal Tendencies are one of the biggest names in the metal scene. The band quickly rose to fame with their 1983 self-titled debut album which spawned their most famous song and one of the most recognized songs in metal, Institutionalized; which is famous for the verse where front man Mike Muir demands a Pepsi from his mother. The band continued their success with albums such as: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today (1988), Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Deja Vu (1989), and Lights...Camera... Revolution! (1990). It was during this time in 1989 when bassist Robert Trujillo (current bassist for Metallica) joined Suicidal Tendencies and gave the band his signature funk bass lines that can clearly be heard on their smash hits You Can’t Bring Me Down and Send Me Your Money which helped the band rise to even more fame. With Muir having an interest with Trujillo’s funk bass lines, the two formed the funk metal side project, Infectious Grooves; which has released four albums in total. Suicidal Tendencies continued to enjoy their fame as they toured with bands like Queensryche, Armored Saint, and even on spot on the Clash of the Titans tour with co-headliners Slayer and Megadeth. Following
the release of Art of Rebellion (1992), the band found themselves playing stadium tour with the likes of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, and Kiss. In 1995, the band broke up to fans’ surprise. Trujillo went on to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band, Muir formed his solo band under the name Cyco Miko and longtime guitarist Rocky George went on to form Samsara and joined other bands. The hiatus; however, was short-lived as the band came back in 1996. Trujillo, George, and drummer Jimmy DeGrasso were unable to return due to being busy with other projects. Muir recruited new members and released Freedumb in 1999, their first album in 5 years. The band went on a third hiatus in 2001, but once again came back in 2002. Many years later, multiple lineup changes, and eleven studio albums later, Suicidal Tendencies is still alive and well. Their popularity has not died down as they headline and sell out their own tours as well as play music festivals around the world such as Riotfest in 2013, Amnesia Rockfest in 2014, and Motorhead’s Motorboat Cruise in 2015. Most recently, Suicidal Tendencies headlined the side stage at Knotfest 2015. Now in 2016, Suicidal Tendencies has added the legendary metal drummer Dave Lombardo of Slayer fame to their lineup for an even more crushing feel to their live per-
formance. For the first time ever, they will perform at Ozzfest headlining the Monster Energy Drink Stage 1. It’s during this time that they will be touring in support for their new album World Gone Mad; which gets a release of September 30th. It seems Suicidal Tendencies is not ready to call it quits anytime soon and will continue to make music and tour for their legion of fans to enjoy them. You just can’t...bring...them...down! -Misael Ruiz
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Band formed: 1994 Band members: Jamey Jasta, Chris Beattie, Wayne Lozinak, Matt Bryne, Frank Novinec Genre: Metal, Hardcore Punk Home town: New Haven, Connecticut Most recent album: Concrete Confessional Release date: May 2016 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 24 – October 11 U.S. Your set at Ozzfest meets Knotfest kicks off fall 2016- “The Concrete Confessional” tour. What was your reaction to getting booked on the lineup and what are you looking forward to most about playing the fest?
our latest record “The Concrete Confessional”, you can expect a handful of new songs as well as songs from EVERY Hatebreed release. We are carrying a new lighting package and some other cool production as well.
Frank-Well what can you say? You’re playing with all these great bands, but once again you find yourself on the bill with Black Sabbath, how cool is that? We did Knotfest the year before last and it was great, so it was cool to be on the Ozzfest date this time around. Ozzy and Sharon and Co. have been so great to Hatebreed. We have now done more Ozzfest’s than anyone else besides Ozzy and Zakk. It has really been great for our career to say the least.
Where did the idea for the title of your newest album, “The Concrete Confessional” come from?
How have your past Ozzfest experiences been?
The process has always been Jamey and Chris writing the music and Jamey writing the lyrics. Starting at home maybe on Chris’ computer and ideas are shared, changed, scrapped, whatever. We all have our input in making what we think will be the best version of what is to become the song.
Whether it’s a tour, or a “one off” in Japan or whatever the case, It’s truly a reunion of friends putting on a great show for the people. We’re very proud to be a part of these things. Hopefully it will continue in some format or another for years to come. Can fans expect anything different this tour compared to those in the past? Well as always, we play a different set EVERY NIGHT, we never go off of a set list, it’s whatever Jamey calls out (exciting, I know). Also with 22 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
It is just us getting something off of our chest. Making something hard and heavy, yet meaningful and therapeutic. As always, open for interpretation as well. What was the writing process like?
lot of positive feedback when talking to the fans about the message Hatebreed puts out there. Do you have any before show traditions? Nope. Just turn the switch on and get out there and give 110%. What is some of the best advice you’ve gotten and do you have any for artists just starting out? I think it’s important to respect your fellow musicians. We are all in this together. There is no need to divide. That, and work hard and be humble, you never know who you’re gonna see on that way back down. What are some of the most influential albums to you as a band? Slayer- “Reign In Blood” Agnostic Front- “Victim In Pain”
What is the message you were trying to send with your recent music video for “Looking Down The Barrel of Today”?
Cro Mags- “The Age Of Quarrel”
Really just how important the music is to our lives and sometimes it really is all we have. If people can take our music and use it for guidance in their lives, thats super cool. We get a
Black Sabbath all (Ozzy/Dio/Gillan)
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lots of stuff.... -Jessica Howell
DevilDriver has a long history with Ozzfest and Dez even longer, dating back to 1996. Are you guys excited to be sharing the stage with Ozzy and Black Sabbath? For me, OZZFEST has always been the premiere festival , they brought the mold to the USA from Europe and anyone else just copied what they did. Although I’ve played OZZFEST with the mighty Black Sabbath before and in fact toured with them, this time, because it’s their final show it will be very special, I’ll have my wife and my children with me to witness this historical event! I do not think anyone besides OZZY and JASTA has done OZZFEST as many times as I have and for those memories I’m thankful. Dez, you were part of the very first Ozzfest tour. What do you remember most from that tour? I remember thinking to myself, this is the most fun I’ve ever had doing shows and hoping they carried it on summer after summer which to their credit they did! It was obvious when OZZFEST came out that there was a vacuum in the Rock- Heavy metal area that needed to be filled and OZZFEST filled it with a vengeance! Remember the first OZZFEST was shows not a tour, and the best part of that was meeting Sharon the first day , having her sit down with me, she gave me a beautiful chrome heart bracelet, I still have and asked to manage me; which she ended up doing. Fucking moments you cherish for a life time!
whole life and they turn out to be cool and humble, that is a game changer and forever taught me how to act when approached. First time I met Tony was in catering and he sat at our table, what a genuine and nice guy! Geezer and Bill both the same, always had time to say hello and chat up if there was time! Fucking legends one and all! The band released its latest studio album “Trust No One” earlier this year. Was it difficult to follow up 2013’s very successful “Winter Kills”? We did and it was our highest debut yet, in fact landing #16 on the billboard charts with no radio friendly track is quite a difficult thing to do nowadays. I would not say it was “ hard to make,” more like let’s make sure and put our best in as well as not compromise what we do to fit any certain expectation of any genre and ..... The fans loved it so we are thankful. Do you enjoy the process of making a new music or would your rather be touring and playing in front of a live audience? I do enjoy making new music, it’s always interesting to see the process from writing to recording then to see the release and hear what the fan base says about your latest effort, but I do enjoy touring and playing live more than the recording process. Something about the stage, you either live for it or you don’t!
Do you have a story about the first time you met Ozzy? How would you best describe Ozzy to those who have never met him? What about the rest of Black Sabbath?
After Ozzfest, you head back out on the second leg of the “Concrete Confessional” tour with Hatebreed and Devil You Know. How did the first leg of the tour go? Any stand out crowds?
First time I met OZZY was backstage, I remember him taking time to talk to me and asked me questions about the band etc . He’s a real down to the earth guy that took time to say hello or talk to anyone who came in the room that night. I can tell you this as well; he can cook a mean fucking breakfast! Once you meet someone you’ve looked up to your
The first leg of the tour went so well, so many packed houses and sold out shows it was an obvious good fit with all of us together and that’s why I brought it up to the Hatebreed camp that we should indeed do a second leg. I can’t wait to do the next run, plus Fall touring is my favorite time
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Band formed: 2002 Band members: Dez Fafara, Mike Spreitzer, Neal Tiemann, Diego Ibarra, Austin D’Amond Genre: Metal Home town: Santa Barbara, California Most recent album: Trust No One Release date: May 2016 Label: Napalm Current Tour: September 24 – October 28 U.S, Canada & Mexico to tour. As far as stand out crowds, most shows were
memorable in some way, shape or form.
You guys have made some pretty wicked to make them? Is it easier now than before? why?
music videos over the years. How difficult is it Which music video was the hardest to make and
Videos, they can be hit or miss and the video process as “hard” to make - I think “ Clouds over California “ video was money, got a crew to Santa Barbara, went rouge on different locamy family (my kids young at the time, my youngest plays me in authorities were called. Now that video has a few million The band released two versions of “Trust No comeback and will you continue to release your
can be a bit much, but it’s required to showcase the art. As far hard only because it was last min. I called in a favor with little tions with no permits, wrote the treatment in a day, featured it ) and just had to film it. Then get out of situations before hits. One” on vinyl. Do you like that vinyl is making a music on vinyl?
Man I love vinyl, and recently started collecting all restarted with are Black Sabbath, KISS ALIVE, and
the records I had as a kid so yea I dig it! First 3 records I Black Flag first four years!
Does the band have plans after the fall tour or is it
time for family and rest before the next project?
We come off 2 days before Halloween, I go home to be with DEVILDRIVER style (which basically means your harder than
family for holidays then start right back up in 2017 to grind away anyone thought possible).
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Band formed: 1997 Band members: Ben Falgoust, Sammy Duet, Zack Simmons, James Harvey, Robert Coleman Genre: Heavy Metal, Death Metal Home town: New Orleans, Louisiana Most recent album: Constricting Rage of the Merciless Release date: July 2014 Label: Metal Blade Current Tour: September 16 – October 1
I was thrilled to see you in the lineup. This being your third Ozzfest, how excited are you to be invited back for Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? Ben-Glad that we can add some excitement in an already stacked bill. It is a pretty big deal this year and we are quite excited to be a part of it. This Ozzfest will mark the last show ever for Black Sabbath on the West Coast, and one of the last few shows in the U.S. for their final The End tour, pretty immense thing to be a part of. Black Sabbath is every metal bands biggest inspiration since childhood. Rarely does one get this honor. Tell us what it’s meant to you? I have to say, that this will be one of those moments you look back on and memorialize. It will pop up in stories and in conversations down the line and adds to the list of amazing influential bands that we have played alongside in our own history. Overall, a pretty epic experience. With your beastly, authoritative delivery, fans adore Goatwhore live. Any new tricks up your sleeves for Ozzfest meets Knotfest? I can’t say that we have any tricks, but we will deliver as usual. We don’t have any fancy gimmicks or anything like that. We are a straightforward extreme metal band. We are here to have a good time and let the audience have a good time. San Bernardino for one night and then where are you off? We are doing a 2-week run around our Ozzfest appearance. Instead of just heading all the way out to California and back to New Orleans, we decided to make a small tour out of it. The night after we will be playing in Oakland, CA at The Golden Bull. We have some friends of ours, The Blood Royale from Austin, TX, doing the dates with us, except for the Ozzfest date. It should be a nice little trek for a couple of weeks. For those interested in dates outside of Ozzfest they can check our website at www.goatwhore.net Ben, I recently caught up with you at Siberia NOLA watching and supporting other metal bands. Is catching a show your way of showing support, or a typical relaxing day off? I guess it is a little of both. I enjoy going to shows in the area. We have a bunch of great bands spawning in the scene here and many good tours that pass through. Might as well take advantage when the opportunity arises.
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I also saw Jordan Barlow, NOLA’s most talented tattoo artist, who did the art on your last two albums, at Siberia that night. Tell us why you chose him and what the inspiration was? Tell us about the tattoos he has done on all of you. Jordan is a good friend of ours, and an amazing artist in all aspects. We work really well with him and he purveys our ideas in a detailed display that represents our albums and the band. We usually sit around and swap ideas and never limit his artist abilities. We give him samples of the direction we are looking to go in with personal ideas to add and he takes it into his artistic world and brings it all together. Besides, the art he has done for the band he has done some really elaborate tattoo work on most of us. Jordan is very eclectic in his art styles. I have seen him confront different formats and ideas. He is well rounded in that attribute and it is what makes him unique on all artistic fronts. He currently opened his own shop in New Orleans, LA called Abracadabra Tattoo. Venom, one of your all-time inspirations recently played at Siberia NOLA. The music was tranquilizing, and the pit was pure madness. A unique combination, how would you say Venom creeped into your sound over the years? Venom has been and will always be a great influence on this band. They are one of the top reasons this band exists, along with Celtic Frost. It stems from a young age and coming into the world of extreme metal. Once we took that plunge into what was offered, we never turned back. As much as you’re touring again this year, what are you doing to stay healthy and strong? Does it get harder every year? When I am home from the road I have a small workout regiment that I do to keep up on a physical level. Overall, we have pretty much adapted to the road over the years. We stay pretty close to our default touring plan of a van with a trailer and it seems to work in our favor. You got amazing feedback from your fans for your 6th album, “Constricting Rage of the Merciless,” 2014. What can your fans do to help support you even more in the future? Just keep coming out to the shows and purchasing the records. Keep the support going. For people that download music, come to the shows, buy merchandise e.t.c, assist in any way you can. Every little bit of support counts. How has social media helped your band throughout the years and whom can we thank for posting all those kickass photos on your FB
and IG that we love to see? Social media is a huge thing for bands; another outlet for people to see or hear your band. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram opened the doorway for bands to be recognized even more and have people more involved with a band that they like. One can find out about tour dates and shows, behind the scenes scenarios with the band, view photos and show flyers, and other little tidbits. Our pages are looked after by some of us and our management. How has the metal scene changed in Louisiana since you were kids? I don’t think it is a change, as much as it is a moment in time. When you are growing up and involved in some sort of scene, it is that point of time when things are happening and what you are witnessing that makes that time period, or that moment. I can’t really stand here today and say, “I wish it was like the past”. That point happened and I am grateful to be a part of it. It is a new time now and as with life, change is expected. New moments are happening and in 10 plus years those moments will be something we look back on and talk about. I have to say, the younger years are the best and they can never be duplicated, but they will always be engraved in the back of one’s mind. They are what mold us and make us what we are today. There is a whole young generation out there making history on their own level at this moment. Might not be like mine or yours, but that is why it is unique to the individual or scene.
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Band formed: 2008 Band members: Riley McShane, Greg Burgess, Michael Stancel, Corey Archuleta, Brandon Park Genre: Modern Melodic Death Metal Home town: Fort Collins, Colorado Most recent album: Proponent for Sentience Release date: September 23 2016 Label: Metal Blade Records Current Tour: September 12 – November 29, 2016
As a band, what are you hoping to accomplish differently this year and for 2017? Greg-Our goals have stayed the same for the past 4 years, we just haven’t been able to make them happen. We want to become a global entity. To have credibility worldwide is huge for us. Can you tell us a little about your new album Proponent For Sentience that comes out on September 23, will you be playing any of the songs from that album at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? We definitely will be playing at least one new song at the festival, if we can play more than that we’d love to. Kind of all depends on how much time we’re allotted. The concept of the album is based on a pair of interviews that Stephen Hawking did, one with the BBC and the other with John Oliver. In these interviews Hawking discusses his theories on Artificial Intelligence, and the probable future that would result from this AI gaining sentience. What was the biggest challenge in making the new album? Time management. Our touring scheduled made the writing for this album very hard. I call that period the “3 D’s” Depression, desperation, and self-deprecation. Oh and getting artwork together, that was a living nightmare. How will your musical direction change or stay the same with new vocalist Riley McShane? It will for the most part stay the same, but we will however, add to the bag of tricks. Clean vocals will take some spots in future records, but I can’t ever see them take over. What bands would you like to tour with in the future? That is constantly changing, and will change depending on which member you ask. I however would love to tour with more of the old school
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thrash bands. Overkill is a huge favorite of mine, along with Testament, and Slayer. As for bands more like us, I’d love to tour with Carcass, The Black Dahlia Murder, Lamb of God, or Opeth. What are your musical influences for your music? For myself the biggest are Megadeth and Dream Theater. Only after I entered into my collegiate career did I discover the Scandinavian wave of metal. Soilwork, In Flames, Scar Symmetry, which does influence a lot of it at this point. What does it mean to perform for Ozzfest Meets Knotfest to you? It feels incredible. I was in the stands in 1996 when I first experienced Ozzfest. That show will always be a huge part of my musical development. I just hung out at the main stage all day; I think I was completely oblivious to the fact that there were multiple stages. How are you all as a band preparing to play at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? What are you looking forward to the most about the festival? We are doing a fair bit of touring with the Cavaleras before we arrive. So we should be a well oiled machine upon stage time. I’m really looking forward to seeing all the performances from everyone. Even a band you’re not a big fan of, you should look at it as a huge learning experience. If they’re on this bill they deserve to be there and are doing something right. Looking back to when you all just started, in what would you say you’ve all grown the strongest in and have learned in the music industry? We have all grown as people in the years this band has operated, and we’re way better at our instruments. The music industry is a hard nut to crack, and I wanna say we don’t have anything figured out, but I think being assertive, and surrounding yourself with good people are the way to go. -Misael Ruiz
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Band formed: 2009 Band members: Jill Janus, Blake Meahl, Eli Santana, Tyler Meahl, Spencer Jacob Genre: Heavy Metal Home town: Highland Park, California Most recent album: Static Release date: September 2015 Label: Napalm Records Current Tour: September 9 – October 21U.S
Congratulations on all your tour dates this fall, including OZZFEST on September 24th in San Bernardino, CA. Aside from Black Sabbath are there other bands you are excited to see perform on that day? Jill- Thanks! We’re going full beast mode this fall and can’t be more excited to be part of this year’s historic Ozzfest Meets Knotfest. Suicidal Tendencies was my favorite band during my angsty teenage years, so I’m pumped to see them again. Huntress was on Motorboat last year and I got to hang with Mike Muir and the band. I turn into a dorky fangirl every time I see ST play. Many of the upcoming dates in September and October will find you performing all over the United States supporting Trivium and Sabaton. Is there any one town in particular that you are looking forward to playing in? Binghamton, NY will be fun, I grew up only 45 minutes away in Oneonta. It’s basically a hometown show; I’ll have family there. I’ve got a large farm family, so that’ll be a good time. We’re talking brothers, sisters, cousins, mom, stepmom, and aunt – nearly twenty rowdy mountain folks. You have several headlining dates scheduled with September Mourning as direct support. I know that Emily loves the theatrical performance style, using costumes on stage and off. I also read that Jill likes spectacular costumes for the stage. Is that what brought the two bands together?
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True, we both love theatrics. It’s cool to tour with a band that embraces the artistry of live performance. We share the same booking agent, so it comes down to business. I hadn’t heard of September Mourning until they joined us as direct support. Emily is a cool gal, and we’ve been having fun. The last time RNR spoke with you Jill stated that she’d love to work with an “incredible modern designer” to create some costumes. Has she been successful in doing so? I’ve been working with my “Sewceress” Jenny Luna since the start of Huntress. I also collaborate with Carin Cronacher of Hazmat Design. Someone like Gareth Pugh or Rick Owens would be a dream come true! Rick Owens is married to Michele Lamy, who is not only his muse, but was mine as well for the Huntress album “Static.” She inspired my Crone look. I read that Jill recently launched Heshette on Etsy. How is that going? Tell our readers how they can find your jewelry on Etsy dot com. Heshette is rocking! Huntress fans have been asking for an online shop for years, having sold my crystal and deer antler jewelry on tour since 2012. It’s also very therapeutic for me to make while on the road. You can stop by my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/shop/heshette If you had the opportunity to play on stage with anyone (past or present) you wanted, who would that be and why?
Rob Halford of Judas Priest! He’s an immense influence for me vocally and spiritually. Rob has lived through some heavy shit, yet maintained his vision and art. His longevity is inspiring, his voice is unparalleled. Rob’s bravery in relation to his lifestyle and sexuality truly affect me – I want to emulate the fierce, fearless metal god that he has become! Plus, he’s a Virgo just like me. We rule. I grew up in Highland Park, California. I have always kept my eye out for a great band that hailed from there. Until now I was not able to find any. Personally I think you are the best thing to come out of Highland Park! Are you supported locally? Is there much of a metal scene there now? That’s rad, you’re from HP! And thanks for the compliment. Those early days of Huntress playing small underground shows are over, we miss it sometimes. Traveling around the world at a rapid pace sometimes makes me sad; I reminisce about my magical little house with Blake Meahl on Malta Street and Avenue 50, my garden, our dogs and the hummingbirds. Life was simple before we signed to Napalm Records. We would rehearse in a tiny lockout, played local shows with terrible sound systems and dreamed big. I feel a heavy nostalgia for Highland Park. Even though we’re no longer part of that world, the metal scene absolutely exists there and in the surrounding dark corners like Lincoln Heights and Glassell Park. It will never fade. As long as anger, hopelessness and drugs exist, underground metal will survive. -Peggy Murphy
Band formed: 2001 Band members: Tony Foresta, Ryan Waste, Nick Poulos, Land Phil. Dave Witte Genre: Speed Metal Punk Home town: Richmond, Virginia Most recent album: The Fatal Feast Release date: April 2012 Label: Nuclear Blast
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unicipal Waste formed in Richmond, Virginia as a self-proclaimed Speed Metal Punk band in 2001. Some of their influences at the time were DRI, Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, Nuclear Assault and Attitude Adjustment. They toured the United States and Mexico throughout 2001 -2002. In 2002 they released Tango and Thrash on Amendment Records and Waste ‘Em All was released on Six Weeks Records. Municipal Waste signed with Earache Records, recording Hazardous Mutation in 2005 and in 2006 they shot a video for “Unleash the Bastards” doing both a censored and uncensored version. They went through a lot of lineup changes during this period.
2007 saw MW touring with Destruction in the United States and then did a headline tour of Europe. They made time in between the two tours to record The Art of Partying. They also toured with The Haunted and did a few performances at the Wacken Open Air in Germany and Reading and Leeds Festivals. After that they toured with Suicidal Tendencies. Still with Earache Records in 2009, they recorded Massive Aggressive, their fourth studio album. Their fifth and most current album, The Fatal Feast, was recorded in 2012 under the Nuclear Blast label, debuting at #1 on the Billboard New Artist charts. -Peggy Murphy
Band formed: 1989 Band members: Juan Brujo, Fantasma, Hongo, El Cynico, Hongo Jr, Pinche Peach, Pititis, A Kuerno, Sangron, Guero III Genre: Death Grind Metal Home town: Mexico Most recent album: Pocho Aztlan Release date: September 16, 2016 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 24 – December 18 World-wide
¡Hola cabrones! Damn I hope I don’t get a “machetetazo” on my head like the “Viva Presidente Trump” cover for this intro/greeting. Was that an appropriate way to start this conversation?
around was just slow and took time, Frankenstein wasn’t born in a day! Our Frankenpocho bebe had all kinds of delays and stalls we had to deal with, but finally our monster gets spit out Sept 16th! Called it Pocho Aztlan!
It’s all good! I just think Sr. Trump just needs a Mexican haircut, no more than that dealing with that cover. Also, we expect everyone will learn some Spanish from this album.
How do you know when it’s a good time to create new music or in this case, to release an album?
16 years since the last full-album production. What are your plans for the next one? Is this album some sort of Frankenstein child? Parts recorded here and there, all stitched up to create this monster? Well right now that depends on the election in Nov. that might be able to get some Brujeria done in a hurry, or might be another 15years again? We don’t plan anything so we don’t know? For most of the early albums, it was nearly impossible to get all the needed members together for anything! They all had their “real” bands to deal with and we’re always busy touring or recording etc. Getting them all into a studio on the same day in same city was not easy. No internet existed when this thing started, so we had to get together to work, and we would end up with like 4-5 days total to write and record and mix whatever we needed to finish an album! We would just go to the recording studio, walk in to set up the gear and start composing the music while I wrote the lyrics. The result was some crazy brutal sounding Brujeria! Raw and rough was just how it would come out. The perfect sound for the image we wanted to get out there, but now it seems like everything gets recorded on digital gear and computers, so we tried to get that old brujeria sound for this new album and that took awhile to figure out, it wasn’t really working like we wanted. So, we started over and recorded a few different ways, with tracks getting emails around instead of trying to get all of us together at the same time- same place. Emailing stuff 32 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
Best time for me is when I’m pissed off and angry. That stuff flows out easy; with this new one I had time to make it a puzzle or game, putting some nice messages and hidden clues that if found could lead someone to some interesting stuff!! Got some of my favorite prophecies can codes worked into some songs, nothing bad or stupid, more like been around long time and about things to come! Felt like they needed to get out there. I understand the words “Pocho” and “Aztlan, but what connotation are you implying and how would you describe it to those that do not understand these “weird” words they are reading? Spanish is weird for some people. Pocho is what Mexicans in Mexico call those with Mexican parents who are born in the USA. It’s considered a slang word describing MexicanAmericans or chicanos etc. In Mexico us pochos are told to go back to gringoland that we aren’t wanted in Mexico, but then in the USA we get told to go back to mexico along with some other nice words to describe us, even though we are Americans born in the US. Just unwanted and unlinked on both sides of the border. Aztlan is the old Aztec Indian’s promised land, where things were supposed to be cool. So, put them together trying to get us pochos to think we will have somewhere cool to live some day! Can’t wait for that! What’s the experience so far being under the
wing of Nuclear Blast? It’s been more great than not great! Wish labels were like this way back, It don’t matter to Brujeria though. We never cared about being “pushed” or whatever, our stuff is in weird lingo so its not that easy to push I guess. Tell us about the current BRUJERIA sound. What would be the choice of weapons for mass distortion? (Well all band member’s instruments of choice). Are they the same in the studio and on the road? Well Brujeria tends not to be the same sometimes, but that’s due to things we can’t control. If certain members can’t make it to the studio or for tours we got other standby members ready to go. It’s always a surprise with Brujeria!! It always ends up a good thing, not boring, not draining people to sleep as some copy bands do. Any “encouraging” words to both your fans and haters? (Ha ha) I sure do… Esto es Brujería!!! What are you looking forward to the most at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? To check out Black Sabbath!!!!! What were some of your reactions as well as thoughts when the news came about being requested to perform at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? Well some guys in the band went nuts over it! The rest of us were very happy to get in at last minute! We got lucky I guess? Or did we? Check out Brujeria and find out for yourselves!
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Band formed: 1991 Band members: Mauizio Iacono, Jean-Francois Dagenais, Stephane Barbe, Oli Beaudoin Genre: Melodic Death Metal Home town: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Most recent album: Of Ghosts and Gods Release date: July 2015 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 24 – December 18 World-wide
Maurizio, what inspired your In- victus tattoo and what does it mean to you? It’s a Latin word that means “Unconquered,” lets just say I didn’t have a “white picket fence suburban upbringing.” I grew up poor and in a tough as nails part of the city, had two choices in life: follow my dream in music and make something out of myself or take my chances on the streets. Fast forward to now, I have a great band who stood the test of time worldwide, I own my own booking agency and management company who are doing very well, it’s all possible in life if you believe in yourself and don’t let life’s bad blood conquer you. What were your inspirations for the Of Ghosts and Gods album? Ghosts and Gods saw Kataklysm take a new step into a more mature venture, an unapologetic anti trend pure as hell metal album. It was very well received around the world and earned us a Grammy in Canada. It brought fire back into the band, the inspiration was simply continue to challenge ourselves and to improve who we are without betraying the message or the bands identity. There’s a no holds barred attitude and unafraid of being the outsiders, the industry needs rebels and that what we will continue to be. How has the sound from your early albums changed to your new album? Usually for most bands, time is supposed to be on your side, supposed to be the element that helps mature every band’s sound. Learn from mistakes and improve. We have always held our own sound, our guitar player J-F has been the main man behind the studio sound of Kataklysm, we have had many great producers from Tue Madsen to Zeus and lately Andy Sneap work on our mixes, we keep evolving with it. What’s one band you’ve yet to tour with that you’d like to tour with?
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I would personally love to tour with Testament I’m a big fan of the band, for me they were a big influence in my teen years. We had the honor to support Slayer in Germany this summer, which was another one for the bucket list. I would love to tour with them here in the states, other than that we just want to play with whoever got the balls to take us out, we’re open minded. What’s one of your favorite countries to tour? Germany has got to be Kataklysm’s second home, we love it there. We do very well in Europe pretty much everywhere. I like to play in Latin America as well, fans are sick down there, but one of the biggest highlight’s and great experiences was playing South Africa, both times were incredible. How have you all been preparing for Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? Have you ever gone to either festival before? What does it mean to be invited to perform for it? We are excited and honored to be playing ozzfest again and we’re coming with an energetic show and ready to rock. We played the last Ozzfest tour in 2010; was one of the best times we had, had touring the US. Last year was equally a great time at Knotfest, we thank the organizers for inviting us again. What do you all have planned for the rest of 2016? How are you planning on ending the year, any New Year’s show planned or taking a break to be with family? We are going to continue playing more shows in the US after Ozzfest and then hit Canada up north. We are going to close the year by co headlining the return of MTV ‘s Headbangers ball tour across Europe with Iced earth. After that, we’ll spend the holidays home with our families, that’s the best part after a very busy year. -Misael Ruiz
Band members: Dillon Scott, Max Silverstein, Kyle Chrise Genre: Grunge Metal Home town: Los Angeles, California Label: Nuclear Blast
“Groove Rock.” Who are some of your biggest musical influences? To name a few of our major influences: Guns N’ Roses, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and of course Black Sabbath. These are the guys that taught us how to play rock n roll. Would you say the LA music scene has drastically changed over the years? For better or worse? How excited are you guys to be playing Ozzfest Meets Knotfest this year? We are so excited!!! It still hasn’t sunk in all the way. To be a part of an event with this much history is an absolute honor. What bands are you looking forward to seeing perform most? Sabbath! These guys invented heavy metal, so we’re just going to watch and take notes… Also bands like Slipknot, Black Label Society, Rival Sons and The Shrine. The whole festival is gunna be nuts! You guys were originally called LA Rocks. Why the name change? Plain and simple, everyone hated it. How would you describe your sound to those who haven’t heard Still Rebel before? Think late 80’s sleaze metal meets early 90’s grunge… we like call it
We weren’t around to witness the hay-day of the L.A. music scene, but from our personal experience there isn’t much of a live music “scene” in L.A. right now. There are some great bands and music being made, but people aren’t necessarily hanging out the way they use to. What venues are your favorites in the area to play? We love playing at The Kibbitz Room. Shout out to Jimmy! And it’s also fun to play legendary rock clubs like the Whisky A Go Go and the Viper Room. If you had the opportunity to collaborate with any artists living or dead who would you choose and why? If we could coliaborate with anybody, we’d love to do a session with George Martin behind the board. That was a man who understood sound like no other. What’s next for Still Rebel? WORLD DOMINATION BABY!
-Jessica Howell
Venice, California based, self claimed Psychedelic Violence band, The Shrine is a gritty, loud and powerful trip; through a cloud of smoke back to the 1970s world of punk and hard rock. Oozing long hair, fast guitars and a don’t care attitude. The wild, acid dropping trio formed in 2008, while the members were in high school. They are heavily influenced by several hard rock and heavy metal legends of the 70s and 80s, including Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Black Flag and more. The Shrine includes lead vocalist and guitarist, Josh Landau, bassist Court Murphy and drummer Jeff Murray.
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Band formed: 2008 Genre: Psychedelic Violence Rock and Roll Home town: Venice, California Label: CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS
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The band currently has five releases under their belt. These include their Bless Off Demo (recorded by one of their idols Dave O Jones on vintage reel to reel tape), their 2012 album, Primitive Blast, their 2014 albums Bless Off and Tribute To The Masters Black Sabbath/Black Flag and last, but not least their latest release, Rare Breed. They are now at the end of their 2016 headlining tour with the Deadbeats and Uncle Acid their last stop being the highly anticipated Ozzfest Meets Knotfest festival at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernandino, California. If you haven’t checked The Shrine yet, you absolutely need to, preferably live, loud and in the pit. You won’t regret it. -Jessica Howell
Dangerous D Shock Show The Dangerous D Shock Show is a modern day circus sideshow that will absolutely blow your fookin mind! Ringleader, Darin “Dangerous D” Malfi has traveled the world gathering a cadre of the most extreme,
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Band formed: 2004 Band members: GODRi (Dr), SIN (Ba), MAH (Vo), SHOW-HATE (Gt) Genre: Reggae Punk Home town: Shonon, Kanagawa, Japan Most recent album: The Beautiful People Release date: May 2016 Label: Gilsoundworks How did the band form in 2004? How did you all meet each other?
album. What can your fans expect during your upcoming tour?
Influenced by Sublime and Rancid…etc. Band formed in a hometown Shonan, Kanagawa with friends. Met at the one of the live houses. SiM originally started with three members including Mah (Vocals & Guitar back then). After few years, SHOW-HATE (Guitar), SIN(Bass) and GODRi (Drums) joined through introduction of their mutual friends.
In the lyrics, we wanted to get into more deep inside of the soul, especially our dark side. Sound-wise, we feel this is the best reggae and punk rock mixture album ever. This strong album is pop and dope; you will enjoy our everkeep-changing set list at the show.
In the music video Killing Me, there is a black ghost that shoots Mah (the lead singer) in the head. Who or what does he represent? Why does he kill Mah? Same as a human being’s, love is good, but sometimes you can love too much; you need to balance. That was the message the ghost wanted to give him. You can’t get too caught up. You recently released your latest album “The Beautiful People” in Japan on April 6th of this year. This is your 4th full-length
Do you enjoy touring? If so, what are your favorite cities and countries to play and why? We’ve never done the world tour. This will be our first show in the US. Really exited to go to LA and we sure will like it. Describe Ozzfest in Japan. Is there a big difference between metalheads in Japan and those in America? Japanese are very respectful and strict. They are simply the best audience in the world. We expect the atmosphere will be completely differ-
ent from the Japanese one. How did the opportunity to sing Creep by Radio Head with Corey Taylor of Slipknot, come about? What preparation was done for that performance? What were your thoughts as you played on stage with Corey? Slipknot and Corey Taylor is without doubt, one of the legends. When we first heard from the Ozzfest Japan promoter, HIP about possible collaboration with Corey Taylor, we thought it was a bad joke or something, but Corey Taylor came into our dressing room right before the stage and did rehearse … Can you imagine how we felt?? Yes, that was something so surreal. Is the band planning to play more American dates in the future? Our best friends, ONE OK ROCK, Crossfaith and Coldrain have done the successful US tours, so why not us? -Raquel Figlo
Band members: Tommy Vext, Ira Black, Stephen Brewer, Erik Tisinger, Dio Britto Genre: Metal Home town: Los Angeles, California Label: Urban Yeti Records Current Tour: January 10 – Jan 25, 2017 WESTFIELD MASSACRE is an LA based metal band founded by former DIVINE HERESY and ex-SNOT frontman Tommy Vext and features lead guitarist Ira Black formerly of METAL CHURCH, LIZZY BORDEN, VICIOUS RUMORS, guitarist Stephen Brewer, bassist Erik Tisinger (ex - Otep) & brazillian drummer Dio Britto. WESTFIELD MASSACRE’s music boasts heavy, down-tuned and melodic harmonies, while boasting brutal hooks and grooves and is often described 32 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
as American Modern Metal. With aggressive growls, high soaring vocals melodies, impossibly fast drums, classically-inspired passages and harmonized guitar leads, WESTFIELD MASSACRE aims to make their modern heavy metal accessible to fans of all music genres, something that grabs the audience upon the first listen. The band draws from several musical influences, including their own additional projects, and has been compared to the likes of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and PANTERA.
Genre: Conceptual Home town: United Kingdom Most recent album: Prepare Consume Proceed Label: SharpTone Records Besides the dictionary meaning for Loathe, why did you choose that name for your band? What is the bands purpose and message to your fans? We as a collective believe that any negative can be channeled into something constructive. Our “message” if anything, is to encourage people to embrace negativity and use it to an advantage. Whatever that may be. We feel Loathe portrays that well. Describe the metal scene in Malta- where you are from? The metal scene in the UK is growing more and more each day. More bands are emerging and bringing a new variety of music to the United Kingdom. We are glad to be a part of this new movement. What do your names stand for? DRK? DRT? SNK? MWL? And NIL? What is the mystery behind the band and the front man’s mask? We created the names to retain anonymity. We prefer not to give out too much information regarding the mask. How did you get your record deal with SharpTone Records? Sharptone connected with us, showing interest in what we had done previously and the direction we plan to follow. We partnered up soon after. I hear a lot of Meshuggah influence on your guitar work. I also hear a mix of hardcore and metalcore influence with some down tempo. Who has influenced your style of music and why? Meshuggah are definitely an influence, along with others such as Deftones, Radiohead, Slipknot and Korn. Various video game and movie soundtracks such as “Silent Hill 2” and “Akira” are also notable influences on our sound. Your music has been described as “conceptual.” What does that mean, can you elaborate? Our music follows a timeline. One which we have specifically designed to correlate with our music. “Prepare Consume Proceed” is the first insight into that timeline. What is the UK Tech fest 2016 and how did you get involved? I read it was your first festival. What was it like?
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UK Tech Fest is an annual event showcasing bands related to or directly involved with the “tech metal” music scene in the United Kingdom. Tech Fest connected with us, offered us a slot and we took it. It was our first festival appearance, everything went well. What is next for the band Loathe? Will you be working on a new album? 11 songs. We plan on making moves to spread more and more as time goes on. -Raquel Figlo
Band formed: 2005 Band members: Scott Lewis, Jordan Lockrey, Cory Arford, Fred Calderon, Shawn Cameron Genre: Deathcore Home town: San Diego, California Most recent album: Slow Death Release date: August 2016 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 25 – November 26, 2016
Carnifex has celebrated over ten years in Deathcore and has survived the industry’s ups and downs. What have you learned in the last ten years and what will you do differently moving forward? We’ve definitely learned a lot over the last 11 years and unfortunately it’s been a lot of what not to do. I think the biggest thing we learned is that our fans are most important to us. They are the biggest reason that we’re still around. Their support is the only reason we are able to write and play music full time. What caused the hiatus in 2012? During that time, was the band getting together or were you each focusing on your own life and handling business? Was the “break” good for the band and if so how? The hiatus in 2012 was caused by issues with our label at the time that made it impossible for the band to sustain itself and also progress it’s status in the music industry. When we realized that we were grinding ourselves to death on the road we decided that taking a break would be the best thing to do for the band and ourselves. We also realized that there was a loophole in our contract that if after a year and a half from our last release, if that record didn’t sell a certain number, then we were essentially out of our contract. At that point it was just a waiting game. During the hiatus we kept getting together and writing, but it was a lot more casual because we didn’t know if we were going to get off the label and if we didn’t then we sure as hell weren’t going to give them another record to shit out. Luckily everything worked out and there was still interest from other labels. The break was very good for us. It gave us all a break from that tour grind and really rejuvenated our love for music and playing on stage. Tell me what type of guitars and bass does the band play? Do you have any endorsements? Cory and Jordan play 7 and 8 string Ibanez Guitars and Fred plays Acacia Basses. They all use Ernie Ball strings and they’re all endorsed. All these companies have been very good to us. Through the history of Carnifex, at least in the beginning, there has been a lot of changing guitarists and bassists. How has this affected the music? Since Scott and I (Shawn) have always had a heavy part in writing the music ultimately how Carnifex sounds it hasn’t effected the music too much. We’ve really only had trouble with finding that fifth man. Cory joined the band in 2006 and Fred in 2007 so that’s been our core for almost a decade now. Jordan has been with the band since 2012 so he seems to be handling that spot pretty well. Haha Out of all of our previous guitarists I guess Jordan’s influence can be heard the most. How is being signed to Nuclear Blast different from when you were signed to Victory Records? Do you think the band has grown since then? If so how? Musically and Emotionally? It’s a night and day difference. Nuclear Blast knows that the label will benefit the most when its bands are happy. A label is supposed to help the band grow not hinder it. Everyone in the band is always trying to find ways to improve ourselves and the band so we’ve definitely grown since then. We try and make our live show more of an experience than just 5 dudes
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playing their instruments on stage. We’re always working to improve our live sound. When we write we’re trying to incorporate new sounds and atmosphere that we haven’t done before which is why all of our records are different from each other. Slow Death is a great album. There is so much debate on the Internet between your fans whether or not Slow Death is better than Die Without Hope. In your opinion what makes the two albums different? Are there any similarities between the two? If so what? The first thing that is different is that there are only two songs on Die With out Hope on 8 string guitars whereas Slow Death is entirely on 8 strings. That alone will make the albums sound different. Die Without Hope has mostly strings and piano throughout the album, which are mostly on intros and choruses. Slow Death has all that with added programming throughout the songs for much more atmosphere. Slow Death I feel is a lot more groove oriented. There are parts where I’d normally want to play a blast beat that I kept a groove instead. I figured it would be a little easier for a new listener to digest. There is a lot more soloing going on with Slow Death. I guess if you like what you heard on Die Without Hope then you’ll love what we’re doing on Slow Death. Slow Death to me seems to be the darkest album you have put out yet. It has less break downs than previous Carnifex albums and I really like the guitar solos. What is inspiring these catchy riffs, melody but still brutal, aggressive lyrics with a black metal vibe? It’s the song of our people! The riffs and lyrics are our inner voice. Every band we’ve toured with and every song we’ve listened to helps shape how that inner voice comes out. Scott writes his lyrics from the heart. They’re all very personal. The rest of us are just trying to write riffs that make you want to break things while you hum along. I enjoyed watching “Making the Album” for Slow Death on Nuclear Blast YouTube channel because it brought me into the process of making the album. Will you be doing more of these videos in the future? Was it fun to do and what was the response like from your fans? Seeing behind the scenes footage of bands you’re into is always fun. I love to see that stuff from bands that I’m a fan of so we will continue to do that sort of thing. Doing interviews aren’t always fun but we’d much rather be doing this than a regular job. haha Keeping our fans up to date is always a priority and the response has been overwhelming so far. What bands seem promising coming out of San Diego? When you are not touring do you support your local metal scene and check out shows? If so, which ones? It’s hard to keep your ear to the ground about local bands when you’re always on the road. I have friends in the local metal scene so I’ll try and make it to shows at Brick By Brick or Soma when I’m home. I guess a couple of bands worth mentioning are Nukem (Thrash Metal) and A New Challenger Approaches (Metalcore) I’m also in a Symphonic Metal band called Unicorn Death. We’re just starting to tour and we play shows in Southern California when I’m not on tour with Carnifex. -Raquel Figlo
Genre: Progressive Metal Home town: Cayman Islands Most recent album: Ironshore Release date: coming Fall 2016 Label: WPP Records Current Tour: September 16- December 19
You’ve come a long way in a very short time by most band’s standards. What do you think has contributed to your fast track to success considering most bands at the 2yr mark are still busting balls in local clubs; where as you guys already have several tours mapped out and stage time at Knotfest, all before you even have your first cd out, what’s your secret? It may seem as ‘though Oni has come from out of nowhere, which I suppose is a testament to the hard f**king work we’ve put in and the great team we’ve assembled within the band and behind-the-scenes. We are a young band, but we’ve taken our time to formulate exactly what this band would be before we took it to the people. We’ve been blown away by the response to what we are doing and as you noted, how quickly we’ve earned so many opportunities thus far!
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There isn’t a whole lot of info out there about you guys, give us the 411, spill the dirt. Give us something that the fans will only find out by picking up an issue of RNR Mag and reading this interview. I’ve lived on an island half my life! I grew up in the Cayman Islands, went to school in the United Kingdom and spent many months in Canada, which is where the rest of the band is based. All of it has resulted in a pretty unique life experience that feeds into what we do as Oni. We make technical metal that people can also bang their heads to and we try to make it different and interesting. Our fans are telling us we’re accomplishing that, which is rad! What’s the story behind the music and those who helped put it together? We worked up our tunes in the rehearsal room and played them live a bit. Then we brought in one of our favorite producers in the world, Josh Wilbur, who has worked with Avenged Sevenfold, Lamb Of God, Megadeth, Korn, and Killer Be Killed, among other bands. We really clicked with Josh. The chemistry between the guys in the band and Josh was key. He was able to help the guys in the band and I fully realize Oni’s creative vision. Speaking of the who/what/when and whys of the band, how did you
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all come to having a xylosynth player? I had heard about John D. in Canada and I was really intrigued. As timing is everything, when I was in the studio working on songs, it turned out that John D was available to join the band. We asked him to come and play and next thing we know, we’ve got a xylosynth player that fits like a glove. Cool sh** as I don’t know of another one playing in a metal band! Listening to “Eternal Recurrence”, my first thoughts were Dream Theater has sex with a Swedish death metal band who’s name no one can pronounce and this is what was created prog-death metal baby, a mix of very melodic progressive metal and brutal vocals. What would you tell the world about who and what has influenced the band to create the unique sound you have... Some people have described the band as Dream Theater meets Slipknot, which is of course very flattering, as we love those bands and many others. But many different films and our experience in daily life have been just as important in the development of our sound and vision. We’re young, driven and love to play live music. It all adds up to the sound of Oni. Being that you are a Canadian metal band, what kind of differences do you see between Canada and the United States in terms of support, the fans, radio and other media....live shows? Our fans all over the world are fu**ing awesome. We see the same reaction, passion and cool people everywhere we go. And believe me, were happy to play anywhere. The United States, Canada, UK, you name it! What are you all looking forward to the most about Ozzfest Meets Knotfest? What have you guys done differently to prepare for this festival versus regular shows? As a fan of both KnotFest and Ozzfest and now to share the stage with our heroes, in front of a huge crowd of fans that love metal as much as we do, this will undoubtedly be one of the most rad experiences of our lives. We are just as excited to see all of the rest of the bands as we are to perform. We are practicing our asses off and we can’t wait for the show. -Missie Tong
Band formed: 2006 Band members: Phil Bozeman, Ben Savage, Gabe Crisp, Ben Harclerode, Alex Wade, Zach Householder Genre: Deathcore Home town: Knoxville, Tennessee Most recent album: Mark of the Blade Release date: June 2016 Label: Metal Blade Current Tour: September 30 – October 21, 2016
Zach-Honestly, I think it was due to our ex-manager pitching us to Metal Blade. I’m sure Metal Blade didn’t know what we would turn into and they luckily took a gamble on us. Metal Blade has had some legendary bands on their roster over the years. Were you guys aware of the labels history when you signed with them? Absolutely. I used to buy MB compilations all the time (Metalmeister, Deathmeister) and a lot of the metal bands I came to love were or have been on the label. Not only that, but there was the history with Metallica and Slayer as well. Tell us about your current gear and endorsement deals, any local or national sponsorship’s? Honestly, I can’t speak for everyone in the band, but we really don’t have that many that I’m aware of. Mesa Boogie for cabs, Tama for drums, Fender for bass cabs and heads, Dimarzio for pickups/straps/strap locks, ESP Guitars, and Peavey are probably the only big companies that actually endorse us. Tim at Mesa boogie has always taken care of us and I/ we love Mesa cabs. Our guitar player Alex has a deal with Peavey amps. Myself and Ben Savage don’t currently have an amp company of any kind even though we used to have one with EVH, but I don’t know if it’s even still a thing. We all play Kemper Profiling amps but I don’t think they endorse us. Our bass player uses Fender cabs and heads and we’ve always had a good relationship with them. We all use Dimarzio pickups in our guitars and we have a great relationship with them as well. Larry Dimarzio, his wife Gina, and the whole crew that works there always go the extra mile for us. ESP has been the only guitar company to ever endorse us and we’ve stuck with them for almost 9 years now. Whitechapel has a great slot on this years Knotfest. Does the band prefer to do small venue headlining shows or big festivals? I think we enjoy doing both. Clubs allow for more production for our scale of band and for us to put on an actual “show,” but big outdoor festivaltype shows allow us to just play without all the smoke and mirrors. I don’t think we’re to that level of really putting on any type of legitimate production for a big outdoor festival show like knotfest. That requires money and production we can’t afford haha. The band has become a touring machine. Now Ozzfest Meets 28 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
Knotfest and then the Straight Outta Hell fall tour with your friends Suicide Silence. Any concerns with the back-to-back tours? You forgot to mention the European tour that starts literally days after the straight out of hell tour ends. Needless to say, I’ll be surprised if we all survive the rest of the year. We’re used to tour back to back all the time when we were younger. However, the idea was to tour less, but be able to support ourselves. Unfortunately, that’s not how the music industry works for smaller scale bands like ourselves. I’m thankful for what we have, but touring eventually takes its toll on everyone. It messes with your head. With all this talk about touring, if you guys could tour with any band ever, who would it be and why? Well, even though we’ve technically played festival style tours with some of these bands, it would really be cool to do a club/arena type tour with some of these guys: Slipknot, Slayer, Meshuggah, Lamb Of God, Deftones, Gojira, Periphery, and Testament to name just a few. I can’t speak for everyone on those and I’m sure there’s a lot of other awesome bands we could pick as well. Your band has had the same line-up for quite some time now. What’s the secret to your consistency? Not killing one another so you don’t have to get any new members seems to be pretty effective. Your new album “Mark of the Blade,” is again- produced by Mark Lewis, you have worked with him in the past. Does the process get easier with each album? Easier? In some ways, yes...in other ways, no. The more you know someone and are friends with them, the more likely you can butt heads sometimes. We’re very comfortable with Mark, but getting the album recorded is never just smooth sailing. With my OCD personality, I never feel prepared to record an album or do I ever feel we’ve made the album sound as good as we possibly can. I’m sure it’s hard for a producer to deal with that and Mark has had his feel of dealing with it when it comes to me, haha. Since you’re basically touring until the end of the year, what does Whitechapel have planned for 2017? Not touring for as long as possible during the beginning of the year, writing new material, and possibly doing some European dates during next summer. As far as actual touring goes, we don’t have any plans yet. -Arthur Stump
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After almost a decade and many albums with Metal Blade Records, you are a mainstay with the label. How did Whitechapel originally get signed to M.B.R?
Band formed: 2003 Band members: Andy LaPlegua, Joe Letz, Eric 13, Brent Ashley, Nick Rossi Genre: Aggrotech, EBM Home town:Atlanta, Georgia, Most recent album: THIS IS WHERE DEATH BEGINS Release date: June 3rd, 2016 Label: Out Of Line Music Current Tour: September 12 – October 21, 2016
est production. If we missed something or haven’t had the chance to listen to the album, will we be hearing more than a couple of tracks from TIWDB? Sure, we will playing a pretty varied set though. After 8 albums, it’s hard to pick your favorites. “My life, my rules” sounds almost like an anthem or made for a new generation of music fans and I really dig the aesthetics and feel of such. Where was this shot, and what can you tell us about the making of it? Yeah I would like to think so, even though it’s still been with me since my punk and hardcore days. I’ve always believed in DIY, and always did things my way. We shot the video in Marietta Georgia, which was important to me, because I live here now. Makes it more personal you know. Anyone can rent a studio in LA or wherever it’s hype to shoot a video, but why? When you can introduce a local flavor. Like religious mass suicide and witchcraft haha In the age of Youtube, Facebook and Spotify/Pandora. How does a band like Combichrist keep up with the sea and white noise of acts from all over the world? Is it ever overwhelming? I don’t know man, I think that the fact that you can search for music you want, also gives you the opportunity to find music that is fucking awesome, and not just the usual crap you get showed down your throat by major labels. I would like to think that we stick out just far enough, to end up on people’s playlists. I ask that question because you have released several productions and I would believe they all have been under different distribution circumstances. Little by little (or dramatically), the way we make, listen to, enjoy and purchase music is different than when you started back in the 90s. Right? True, but how amazing wouldn’t it be back then, to be able to search for your favorite type of music, just by clicking in some search words? I mean, yeah, I miss the fanzines, the mail-order catalogs, 7”s in my mail box from across the world every week. However, if we had the chance back then, we would have loved it. I’m sure in 20 years we’ll look back and say the same thing about 2016. “Remember 20 years ago? We had to have Internet to listen to music, how crazy” If you had the power to instantly change something (or many aspects) of the things that are “wrong” with the music industry today, What would they be? Bands and solo artists shouldn’t be allowed to have people writing for them. Write your own damn music; that would get rid of 90% of the pop shit, If not more…. Ozzfest meets Knotfest is only 3 months after the release of your lat-
Please share with us your evil instruments and brands of choice to create your music. Do you use very much the same equipment in the studio and on the road? Right now, we are using Dean guitars, Schecter bass, Bogner guitar amps, Ampeg bass amps, D-drums, and Access Virus keyboards. Really digging the Slate digital stuff for the studio too, and yeah, we’re trying to stay with the same stuff in the studio, because we know this shit inside out. What does playing at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest mean to each of you? What are you looking forward to the most about the festival? Shit, it means everything for us. It just happens to be in the middle of our tour with Max and Iggor Cavalera doing their 20 year anniversary tour for the “Roots” album. So basically I have Sabbath that got me listening to basically guitar music as a kid, Cavalera brothers on tour who changed how I wrote music in the early 90’s, and Slipknot that blew everybody’s minds with their live shows. I would like to say we are in good fucking company! What are some of the hardships that you all have encountered being on the road, and what would your advice be to new musicians out there that want to tour? Just never give up, and never try to be someone else, always do what you want. Because whenever you get even close to be as good as your favorite band, they are still better. So always be yourself. Stay on the road, be good to the people you meet. There will be times when you want to turn around, bite your teeth together and keep going. It’s a dusty road, full of broken bones, but you live once. Make that bitch yours, but you gotta earn it. No life for quitters. -Enrique Nunez
Band formed: 2010 Band members: Heidi Shepherd, Carla Harvey, Henry Flurry, Jason Klein, Chris Warner Genre: Heavy Metal Home town: Los Angeles, California Most recent album: Take It Like A Man Release date: August 2015 Label: Century Media Records Current Tour: September 20 – November 6, 2016 (alive or not) who would that be? HEIDI- Easy question.. Pantera! Nuff said! Carla- Opening for Pantera would be my dream. I got to see them play a couple times when I was a kid, and they are still my favorite metal band of all time. As a headliner where would you most like to perform? Who would you have as your support? HEIDI- One place that we’ve been dying to play is Japan. This year, we have the opportunity for Knotfest Japan, but, to tour Asia as a headliner would be a ton of fun. I would love to bring out Amaranthe, Sumo Cyco, All Hail The Yeti, Nekrogoblikon and Westfield Massacre. Who has been your biggest inspiration over the years as far as performances go?
become our anthem. Over the years has there been one show that stands out in your mind as the craziest? The best? The worst?
HEIDI- How can I not bring up Knotfest 2014. HEIDI- Thank you! We are so excited to return to Henry (Our guitar player) and I both decided that Knotfest. Looking back on last time we played this we were going to try and walk on top of the crowd festival, it still reigns as one of my all time favorite to the pit during the last song. We made it about festivals! One thing that I love to do is go into the half way before we both fell over. He still had his camp ground and party with the festival-goers the guitar in his arms and nearly knocked my teeth out. There are several pictures of the two of us night before. The energy is always the high and people create one giant party. For me, I love see- swallowed up by the masses. It was a BLAST! ing this first hand. For the show, I’m really looking The worst show we ever played would have to be about 6 years ago in Long Beach, CA. At the forward to the wild, crazy, full of energy crowd. time, we had a blood squirting bass. The switch From the moment the gates open, people are to the blood pump broke half way through the ready to party in full swing. There are no breaks, set and drenched us, the crowd, the walls, all the they go 150% the whole day. There really isn’t anything like it. And of course who can’t be excited equipment and anything else in a block radius. I think Henry still has blood in this guitar amp from about watching Slipknot thrive in their realm. that night. Carla- We played Knotfest 2014 and it was such a Carla- The craziest show we’ve played was a blast! We have so many great memories of it. I’m little hole in the wall called Frankies in Toledo... looking forward to seeing Anthrax and Slipknot. the crowd is basically on stage with you, it’s that close...extremely hot and sweaty. The last time Of the songs you wrote (or helped write), we played there a brawl broke out. I think the best which is the one you like best? Which is the show we’ve played was Hellfest in France...the one you like performing best? crowd was 60,000 people strong and we walked out on stage in shock! What an incredible feeling HEIDI- It’s really hard to choose between my chil- to step outside your comfort zone (stateside tourdren. Haha Each song is individually unique and ing) and in to an experience like that. We had no has their ultra strong moments with me. However, idea if we had any sort of fan base in that part of there’s a lot of emotion and baggage that I was the world at all. The worst show was in Niagara able to expel in our song “Dead Man Walking”. Falls. We were on tour with Danzig and on that Every time we play it live, I get chills because it particular night Danzig was the ONLY thing that reminds me how lucky I am to be alive. crowd wanted to see. I think we eventually won them over, but not without receiving a bit of heckCarla- My favorite song to perform is The Butcher ling. At one point, and we still laugh about this, off of our album Take It Like A Man because I someone threw Henry’s guitar pick back at him love the vocal dynamics in it. However, my all after he threw it in the crowd. We didn’t let it get time favorite Butcher Babies song to play live is us down, it happens to everyone. You suck it up Jesus Needs More Babies For His War Machine. and do what you do. When we play that song, the crowd knows it’s go time…constant crowd surfing and moshing. It has If given the chance to open for anyone ever
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Carla- As much as I love touring the states, Europe is fun to headline because you see so many places you’ve never been. We’re not getting rich playing music and we are away from everything and everyone we love most of the year, so sometimes seeing a new place really brightens your mood. There are so many great bands out there. I really dig King 810 and I’d love to have them out with us. Tell us about some of the gear that gives the band their sound. HEIDI- We run with SENNHEISER, SCHECTER GUITARS, IBANEZ GUITARS, DUNLOP EBS AMPLIFIRES, EMG PICKUPS, ERK, RANDALL AMPLIFIERS, EBS BASS AMPLIFIERS, PALMERS SPEAKER SIMULATORS, GIBRALTAR, GRETSCH and a lot of love <3 Carla- Heidi and I use Sennheiser wireless mics so that we can get up and close with you guys in the crowd! Heidi and Carla you both are into fashion tell us about some of your work and where people can buy it? HEIDI- I design shoes. It’s definitely a passion of mine. Staying creative is key to my happiness so during down time, you’ll typically find me plopped on my couch surrounded by paint, studs, spikes and a slew of high heels. I love turinng something basic into a work of art. Mine can be found at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HeidiTheButcher Carla- When I’m not singing, I’m an artist and writer. I put out an annual compilation of my tour sketches, do custom pieces and have published a novel and comic books. You can find my art at www.carlaharvey.bigcartel.com -Peggy Murphy
Hristo Shindov
Congratulations on being chosen to perform at Knotfest on September 25th! What are a few things you’re all looking forward to the most about the festival? Any bands that are also playing that you’re looking forward to watching play?
HEIDI- It’s really hard to beat the energy of a Slipknot show, but, watching Rob Zombie dance around and own the stage is also incredibly inspiring. One thing that really captivates me as an audience member is passion. If I can feel the passion from the artist and see them performing with everything they’ve got, I’ll more than likely be inspired regardless of genre.
Man with a Mission (MWAM) were genetically engineered by Jimi Hendrix (Master Wolf Biologist and Doctor of Guitar) and were frozen in Antarctica for many years and then freed do to the melting ice after many years. They debut was in 2011 and in the past five years, MWAM has played some of the largest music festivals in the world including Japan Expo 2012, Summer Sonic, Down Load Festival. MWAM has sold out pre-sale tickets for four shows during Summer Sonic in ten minutes. This is every bands dream. Fans love the positive energy this band gives out and they sing both in Japanese and English. Their music has different elements of rap, hip hop rock and alternative. Fans of all backgrounds are welcoming MWAM with open arms, including rockers and metalheads. In 2014 they played the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles and were a big hit! They also did a collaboration song with ZebraHead called Out of Control. The way the song came about was they met in Orange County, CA through a mutual friend. They had some beers together shared some jokes and wrote the song, it was meant to be! Later on in 2015, they went on tour with ZebreHead and made a music video for the song Out of Control that is worth checking out! They are taking the world by storm and now they are at Ozzfest Meets Knottfest. -Raquel Figlo
Band formed: 2002 Band members: Eddie Hermida, Chris Garza, Mark Heylmun, Alex Lopez, Dan Kenny Genre: Deathcore, Metal Home town: Riverside, California Most recent album: You Can’t Stop Me Release date: July 2014 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 25 – December 22, 2016 Who were your main influences starting out as a band? Eddie Hermida-I grew up listening to many different styles of music. My parents being Latino’s really made me love salsa and Latin jazz as well as growing up and listening to rock radio. My mom is a huge Beatles fan and that got me loving heavy rock and led me to listen to Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Korn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Limp Bizkit, Tool, Glass Jaw, then I got into Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation. That was about the time I joined a band and started wanting to spread love through violence and pain. I wanted to trauma bond with the world! I will forever keep exploring new music and enjoying artists from around the world. What is the process of writing music for each of you? We like to lock ourselves away and meet up 5/7 days a week for a few hours to just jam and see what comes out. It really helps loosen us up and keeps the vibe organic. All we have is each other in the end. Without my band I can’t sing and without me they are just an instrumental band without words to bond to the people. We have to work together to make the best music for us which we do every time. We are lucky enough for people to want to listen and freak out with us when we play. That is all we can ask for. Is there a main theme message to your
songs? Life is too short to sweat the small shit! Smile and live life hard. That is what we do. We work our asses off to play shows for people, we travel more than any band, we kill it and ourselves on stage for our music and we serve the ghost of music that lives in all of us. That is what we were born to do and what we strive to achieve every day we pick up our instruments. We want everyone to enjoy their life because when it comes down to it, life could be way worse any way you slice or dice it. Love yourself! Where was the worst and best show you performed at as a band? The best show we ever played is the last show we played because we are always trying to play better than the day before. We like to live in the moment and be on fire whenever we hit the stage so we don’t like to think about things as the best cause that means there can never be better, we just go hard every time. The worst show we ever played was still a bad ass show cause people showed up and banged their heads, but the venue was not meant to be a venue. There was no PA and we had to set up our own, we were halfway across the world without our gear and the gear they let us borrow was like a playschool drum kit and some practice amps. The roof of the venue had leaks and the rain was coming down hard. We all thought we were going to fuckin die! We still went out there and slammed it down for the fans and had a fun time. Like I said before, things can always be worse so make the best of it!
What are your thoughts and feelings about this being Black Sabbath’s last tour? Honestly I am secretly hoping that it’s not true because they have been such an iconic band for all metal heads to look up to. They will forever be the fathers of slam and groove. They allow us younger bands to get as heavy and brutal as we want which keeps people from feeling like metal has gotten too soft and pretty! The truth is we need The Sabbath! We need our hero’s showing us that metal goes until you die! It is the only truth I live. Keep your horns up high for metal cause metal never dies! If we don’t have a choice though I congratulate Black Sabbath for kicking ass as long as they have through the ups and downs, for creating a home for us fuck ups and outcasts, and for keeping the darkness alive in all of us! Thank you for showing us the things in life that we can’t find! -Peggy Murphy
Hristo Shindov
Are you stoked to be playing at Knotfest on
Sept 25thin San Bernardino, CA? What are you looking forward to the most about the festival? I can tell you that being on stage during the announcement of the show was one of the coolest days of my life. I got to shake hands with the Slipknot guys, Zakk Wylde, Geezer, Sharon, and Ozzy himself! I couldn’t believe it, but strangely felt at home. The fest is going to fucking crush! So many sick ass bands playing and also the greats are going to put it down as hard as ever. I heard somewhere there is going to be a sea of maniacs there and I can’t wait to make them let loose the fury on the world! We have been working on a bad-ass show for you all so don’t fucking miss it!!!
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Band formed: 2003 Band members: Frankie Palmeri, Joshua Travis, Phil Lockett, Josh “Baby J” Miller Genre: Deathcore, metalcore Home town: Queens, NY Most recent album: Eternal Enemies Release date: 2014 Label: Victory Records Current Tour: October 18 - November 10
Can you tell us about the current line-up? I really wouldn’t know where to start, but in essence, Joshua Travis, Phil Lockett, Josh “Baby J” Miller, and myself have all found a really great chemistry both on and off stage. I believe this to be the best line up this band has ever had. Having toured the U.S., Europe and even doing headlining shows in Russia. Is there any country or state you would like to perform in that you have not? I would love to literally perform anywhere and everywhere possible. I love to travel, and getting to do something I love in a new place is extremely satisfying. Places on the bucket list for me are South Africa, South Korea and Antarctica. What companies does the band have endorsement deals with? Joshua has some amazing friends over at Legator guitars that really bless the band big time with amazing instruments. I know Baby J just landed himself with a cool company for drums, but I sadly don’t have that right in front of me. Are there any side projects or releases you would like to your fans to know about? As of right now I would like my fans to please check out the new EMMURE album, slated for a 2017 release. -Arthur Stump
Band formed: 1980 Band members: D.D. Verni, Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth, Dave Linsk, Derek “The Skull” Tailer, Ron Lipnicki Genre: Thrash Metal Home town: Old Bridge Township, New Jersey Most recent album: White Devil Armory Release date: July 2014 Label: EOne Music (USA), Nuclear Blast (Europe) Current Tour: September 24, 2016 – March 10, 2017
As a band, how do you feel about being alive and strong after 30 years?
What activities do you have for when on the road in between shows?
After 30 years of this, ‘alive’ is the key word in the question, but I do suppose there is something to be said for the energy that is metal/rock n’ roll. Maybe, my biggest vice, is pride. Always knowing we can bring it. We are in it to win it... great motivation.
Well, I like to write, read, walk, and sports on the road… keeps me grounded. I also like to visit MLB ballparks on off days during the season - big fan, big, big fan. At home, I’m about speed and old, much like myself... HD and Chevy.
What bands are an influence to your music?
What is your favorite part about touring?
I think myself, as well as Overkill, come from similar backgrounds: metal, punk, rock. If you took the new wave of British heavy metal added the NY punk scene of the late 70’s and mixed well, you have attitude with a metallic core… Overkill in a nutshell.
The shows, no higher-high really! It’s as if you are chasing that first ‘blast’ from way back then and still thinking it’s possible to attain. What a drug.... life.
What is your favorite song(s) to perform live? I am partial to the new ones. I always look forward to doing songs off the new record... some of the others I hear in my sleep. Bobby, you were recently part of the Rock Against Dystrophy All Star Benefit, tell us a little about that. Do you know how much that night raised? BIG, BIG, BIG BUCKS! Actually, we doubled last year’s take. It was a great line up this year, guys from TSO, Accept, Twisted, GnR, and TT Quick. Killer, I would have paid!
If any, what other genres beside metal do you listen to? Sure I do! I am way into the classic-rock, first British invasion, big Stones fan, and being from NJ, we are all required to listen to Frank for an hour a week minimum. He did it ‘his way,’ you know? What advice do you have for young musicians starting out? Write good songs. Get off social media occasionally and shake some hands. It’s necessary to really know people to express yourself, your ideas and stay the F out of politics. Just because you wrote a few songs does not make you the voice of a generation. Very likely, you’re the same A-hole as before those songs. Do I get a ‘like’? -Misael Ruiz
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Band formed: 1999 Band members: Joakim Broden, Par Sundstrom, Chris Rorland, Hannes van Dahl, Tommy Johansson Genre: Heavy Metal Home town: Falun, Sweden Most recent album: The Last Stand Release date: August 2016 Label: Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 25 – November 19, 2016 Tell us about your annual three day festival and how it went this year? What’s some of the best memories about this festival? The festival went really great. Even if we could not attend except for the last day I heard good things from both bands and visitors. The festival runs great thanks to hundreds of fans who build and run it. It’s quite unique in that way. It started out as an indoor one day event and now it has become a real festival, with markets, lots of food. 2 stages where lots of bands from around the world performs over 3 days. You released three singles from your album early, The Lost Battalion, Blood Of Bannockburn, Shiroyama, tell us about your 8th studio album? The album is a concept album talking about famous and less famous last stands in history. From the ancient battle of Thermopylae in Greece to more modern stuff, fans have a lot to look forward to. It’s a traditional Sabaton album with some exciting new song ideas. How have your fans been receiving your compelling new album, The Last Stand? Very well. The first two singles created some confusion since they were quite different from the other songs on the album and from what Sabaton normally does. But then we released the album and fans realized that there were lots of traditional Sabaton on there. Now it’s all fine! You’ve been invited to play at Ozzfest Meets 20 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
Knotfest. What are you looking forward to at this festival, and what can your fans look forward to? It is great to play there. We need all the exposure we can get in USA to play for bigger crowds. We don’t get radio hits or anything like that. For Sabaton to grow, it requires that we perform for fans so that it will help us find a few more fans. You’re incredible story-tellers. Listening to your music and lyrics feels like you’re watching a movie, visuals not needed. Have you ever aspired to write a screenplay? We do it through the music as you said yourself. On the other hand, we would love to have music videos to be more movie like, but it is very complicated to visualize something in just a few minutes. The same as when we write songs. We only have a few words to explain something that one could write a whole book about. You have released several live albums. Which do you enjoy more, live or studio, and how would you compare them? I think the live albums are great and our fans really appreciate them. Sabaton is constantly growing and being exposed to new fans and this is also a great way for them to get acquainted with Sabaton. Also, it is a good substitute to watch when we cannot be around for touring. What are your plans after Ozzfest Meets Knotfest?
We are touring 8 weeks in America. After that waits a tour in Russia, the annual Sabaton Cruise, and then an almost 50 show big tour in Europe. The Last Stand. What is the meaning behind it? Basically it is an album that tells stories of last stands in history, famous and not so famous in a traditional Sabaton storytelling way. What are your thoughts on this being Black Sabbath’s last tour? I think we will see a lot of bands real last tours the coming years. Now it is not just about bands splitting up. It’s about musicians actually being old, we already saw several people going away this year. And we will see more since it is a natural way of life. There will be a gap in the scene when the big bands disappear. Hope there are new ones to fill the spots. Any last messages to fans? Cannot wait to tour with our new album The Last Stand. At the moment, we are not sure which songs from the new album will be played, but it looks like we gonna play lots of them which is great. It means that fans still appreciate what we do and that we still got the ability to write music which our fans like! -Evlin Lake
Band formed: 2005 Band members: Chris Cerulli, Ricky Olson, Devin Sola, Ryan Sitkowski, Josh Balz, Vinny Mauro Genre: Metal, Rock Home town: Scranton, Pennsylvania Most recent album: Reincarnate Release date: September 2014 Label: Fearless Records Current Tour: September 17 – October 22, 2016
Motionless in White is a metal/rock band from Scranton, Pennsylvania and came together in 2005. The band consists of Chris “Motionless” Cerulli (lead vocals), Ricky “Horror” Olson (rhythm guitar), Devin “Ghost” Sola (bass), Ryan Sitkowski (lead guitar), Josh Balz (keyboards) and Vinny Mauro (drums). According to the band their name was taken from the Eighteen Visions song “Motionless and White”. The group is known for their mix of clean and screaming vocals.
Motionless in White was signed to Fearless Records for their first three studio albums. The most recent of these, Reincarnate, was released on September 15, 2014 in United Kingdom and then on September 16, 2014 worldwide. As of 2016 the band signed to Roadrunner Records achieving their life-long dream of being signed with Roadrunner. On June 23rd they released their most recent single 570.
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You played last years’ Knotfest. How do you feel about these two iconic festivals coming together? We’ve had the privilege of playing multiple Knotfest’s worldwide, and one of the best Ozzfest’s of all time (the Iron Maiden year!); so we know that both fests are outstanding. The fact that they are combined is going to make it a legendary festival. Who are the legendary acts that you’re looking forward to seeing most? Slipknot, Slayer, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Motionless In White, Sabaton, Overkill, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Butcher Babies, Man With A Mission, and every single band on the fest! How do you feel about concert attendees trying to capture video of your performances with their phones? Do you feel that social media has made the relationship with your fans closer? The times are always evolving and changing, I love that people can live stream us to their friends all around the globe. We live in such an instantaneously connected world, that we should absolutely be taking advantage of that. Now, if someone is catching a CP 25
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Pidgey during our set, I will be confiscating their phone and rare Pokemon. What other gear do you guys use to get your sound? I think we are the most minimal band in terms of live gear, and for me - I feel that makes it far more raw than the opposite end of the gear spectrum. The less “stuff,” between us and the listener, the better. How did the set list for OMK get picked? We take into consideration our fans’ favorites and our personal favorites of tunes to jam. Songs like “In Waves,” “Strife,” and “Until The World Goes Cold” is mandated staples, but we do dig into the old heavy ones as well. This date comes in the middle of your fall tour. Tell us about some of the places you are looking forward to playing the most? For us, we’re so excited with how amazing America has become for Trivium. It’s always been great to play our home country, but it feels within the last two releases, that the USA has been bringing a fire unlike one we’ve seen before. -Arthur Gonzales
Band formed: 1999 Band members: Matt Heafy, Corey Beaulieu, Paolo Gregoletto, Paul Wandtke Genre: Heavy Metal, Thrash, Rock Home town: Orlando, Florida Most recent album: Silence in the Snow Release date: October 2015 Label: Roadrunner Current Tour: Silence in the Snow Tour Fall 2016
Dress accordly and have everything you need to stand outside and not worry about getting wet or too hot, just be ready to camp. Can’t worry about your shoes getting messed up or your hair getting wet, your clothes might get muddy, but you are going to have fun!
Anthrax is from New band in 1985.
the lead singer for in thrash metal.
Anthrax, one of
York City formed in 1981 and Joey joined the
You are no stranger to festivals; do you prefer a festival to an indoor show? When you play festivals the biggest hurdle is the elements, if it’s too hotdoes your trailer have AC? Are there bathrooms? Is there food close by, just dumb stuff you have to worry about every day while on tour, but I do love festivals! Being out in the air everything is buzzing, you get people in the open and it’s just a different vibe rather than being in a building. I love to play a show and it doesn’t matter to me, I like making people happy and putting on a great show. I give it up to the fans, they know how to go out and have a great day. Some festivals are three days long and the elements aren’t always in their favor so yeah fans are impressive, love our fans. Being a festival expert, what advice do you give your fans about having the most fun?! 16 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
I’m not sure how Scott came up with that, but for me, we are all kings of our own castles no matter what we do in life. How does Anthrax make a record? I go in last and record the vocals with our producer Jay Ruston, there is hardly any pre production, but I can still bring a song to life in two, three hours! We send it off to the others and if they dig it and so on, song after song. As it’s just myself and Jay, it’s really easy, we work really good together and working with him has been one of my favorite experiences in a studio. He is supportive when things get emotional, never any beat downs or badgering and it’s very peaceful. What were your inspirations? I’m just excited to be in the studio and I get to make something come to life, being in a studio is such a creative process and inspiring place to be, but a lot of the time I’m winging it! Making a new record can sometimes be very tiring on a band. Does it get easier?
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Joey Belladonna is the biggest names
Lets talk about the new album “For All Kings,” what does the title of the album mean to you?
Band formed: 1981 Band members: Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna, Jonathon Donais Genre: Thrash Metal Home town: New York, New York Most recent album: For All Kings Release date: February 2016 Label: Megaforce, Nuclear Blast Current Tour: September 11 – October 27, 2016 Way easier! I feel like I’ve gotten a lot better and the studio process is far easier; using ProTools makes everything so much quicker and I can listen to what I did right away. Back in the day I wouldn’t be able to listen to my work until the next day, now I can bang out two songs in a day and some of the songs I’ve never heard before! It’s great! Recording equipment has come a long way over the years, but it all feels the same, we can just hear things faster now and do things on the fly. None of that has made me sing better. I think I’ve gotten better with my approach, I’m less confused and more in tune with what we sound like as a band, I like it and I hope it continues to get better, I believe it will. You have been named number one metal singer and still going strong, how do you maintain your voice? I have?! I don’t know, who does those polls? That’s cool though and I’m honored, I couldn’t tell you who my favorite singer is as the list is too long! I’m conscious of how I sing and I sing a lot, I think they call it practice, really that’s all I do and I’ve improved over the years. I just try really hard, Anthrax music isn’t always easy to sing or find the hooks in. Tell me about your cover band called “Chief Big Way”, you play drums?! Yeah it keeps me busy when I’m home and I like playing different music, plus I love playing at a good local bar setting with different people. I only travel in a two hour window from home in Syracuse, NY so we play some small, small places and some casinos as well. We cover Led Zeppelin, Journey, Rush, Bad Company, Deep Purple, Stones, Floyd and a wide range of other bands from that era and you know we just get up there and jam. Out touring again, are you excited for a new adventure or have you seen it all? I’m excited to get out there, play great shows and make some people happy!
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With long tours you just have to pace yourself; you have to go from start to finish. After four weeks you might be done, but you have to keep going, you have to really put your mind to it in every State you play in, but I’m used to it, I’ve been at it for years. Pack up, get ready and go, just find your way through each day, which I’ve learnt to do. It’s a long day as you get up early and go till late, it’s an all day thing! And naps are no good for me! I just roll, people wonder how many cups of coffee I’ve had, but I’m just rocking, happy to be there. I enjoy walking around the different places and bugging people. Anything you would like to add? Shout out to all the fans, I appreciate all the support with the new album “For All Kings,” it’s great; people are digging what we are doing and can’t thank them enough. If you are a new fan thank you for considering us. The highlight for me while chatting with Joey on the phone at his home in Syracuse, New York was when his two recused Rottweiler dogs started bugging him for food and he went ahead and fed them. I was excited to hear that he had saved some lives as I have recused animals for many years; we talked about how important it is to rescue and not breed animals or buy from breeders. Anthrax producer Jay, who we talked about earlier is a rescuer and has six dogs! Joey expressed that he enjoyed having them around while recording. Spay and Neuter your pet’s people.
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Band formed: 1992 Band members: Johan Hegg, Ted Lundstrom, Johan Soderberg, Olavi Mikkonen Genre: Melodic Death Metal Home town: Tumba, Sweden Most recent album: Jomsviking Release date: March 2016 Label: Metal Blade Current Tour: September 20 – December 18, 2016
first starting out, so we try to do the same thing and bring new bands on tour with us: Exmortus, Skeletonwitch, etc. And to be a part of something like Ozzfest Meets Knotfest always affords an opportunity to see what might be our new favorite band!
Johan - It was something we’d never done before and it gave us a challenge. I started writing the story, went into it wholeheartedly and once you start going down that path, there’s really no turning back.
Johan you are staring in Northmen: A Viking Saga. Do you anticipate taking on more diverse roles and pursuing an acting career?
Olavi - When you write an album like this one, you’re basically making music for a movie. You have to follow certain moods and we had to figure out where we needed the aggressive songs or the more mellow or sad moments, and then we had to find the right ideas for that. It was difficult and it was challenging, but it was more fun! Before we were writing typical Amon Amarth songs, but this time we felt like we had to write something different. After ten albums you really need a challenge. We rose to the challenge and we’re really proud of what we’ve created Other musicians have been known to have secret genres that they like to play that would shock their fans. What music do you secretly love to play and listen to? Johan - If you saw my official Spotify playlist, you’d hear some of my favorites, which include Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Primordial, Slayer, etc. My top albums would have to be “Ride The Lightning” - Metallica, “Season In The Abbyss” - Slayer, “Master of Reality” - Black Sabbath, “Piece of Mind” - Iron Maiden... and many more. How has the departure of Fredrik Andersson, drummer of 17 years, changed the bands synergy? Has it effected the direction of the music? Olavi - Well, we wrote the record with our good friend and drummer Tobias Gustafsson from Cut Up and formerly of Vomitory. This allowed us to write an album without worrying about a replacement, just yet. What is your opinion of the state of metal today? What are some up and coming bands you like and want to see more of? Johan - There are always exciting new bands coming up through the metal ranks. Some of our favorite bands took us out on tour when we were 14 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
Johan - I had a great time shooting Northmen, and I would love to do more stuff, but Amon Amarth is my number one priority. I would love to be part of Vikings. I love the show, we’ll see what opportunities arise in the future. Your videos and stage performances are known to be larger than life and are some of the best in the music industry. The “At Dawn’s First Light” video was an outstanding production. How do you think these large productions enhance your music? Olavi - We just want more - bigger shows, more production, everything bigger and better than it was last time around. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be that way, too. There’s a very good vibe in the
band right now! Amon Amarth has stayed as a top band in the metal scene for 20 years. How many more years do you see yourself touring and releasing albums? Do you ever see yourself retiring? Johan - We have no plans for retiring and we take this voyage of ours one record and one year at a time. Bands much older than us are still active, so why not see how far we can take this? We are still growing. We grew with each album and we were never a trend. We’ve never followed trends and no trend has ever followed us. How is the metal scene in Europe different from America? Johan - The shows are always absolutely fantastic wherever we play. When you’re onstage, performing, whether it’s a festival or a club, and you have that connection with people and you feel that reaction to all the hard work you’ve put in, that’s when you know that all the hardships you’ve experienced over the years were worth it. We’re on our own. We do what we love. This is what we live for. -Raquel Figlo
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Jomsviking was recently released in March of this year. It is Amon Amarth’s tenth album and its first concept album. What made you decide now was the time to release a concept album? What makes this album different from other albums?
What can fans expect from Slayer at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest?
other odds and ends.
Kerry King-Pure, hateful, explosive thrash!!!
You’ve had to prove yourself to Slayer fans as a permanent fixture. Was keeping with your style, and still honoring the influences of the great Hanneman the plan all along, or did it just happen organically?
Well, we’re in the middle of it now. One offs to me are very similar to festivals in Europe in the summer. This particular festival will be a breeze. We only play an hour, and we’ve been playing an hour and a half. “Repentless” is a new word you created for the new album, does this also describe who you are as a band, personal living, and the overall way things are? Repentless was originally going to be a song about Slayer’s philosophy, but when I started working on the verses, I decided to make it more personal from Hanneman’s perspective. Who did the majority of the writing for Repentless? I wrote everything except the one song of Jeff’s, Piano Wire. Time contributed the majority of the lyrics to Pride In Prejudice, and some
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Just keep doing what we do. Write for ourselves and the fans. The real fans of the Slaytanic Nation have stayed true to Slayer because Slayer stayed true to their fans- 35 year of aggressive recording continuity. Do you plan to keep going that route or could there be major changes in your next album to mesh in with the ever changing metal genres of today? The future of Slayer is to sound like Slayer, perform like Slayer, with NO major direction changes. That’s why fans like us. Ozzfest Meets Knotfest brings together Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Will the Big Four ever happen again? Our door is always open for Big 4 shows! I had a great time at those gigs, and it had to be super killer for the fans. -Evlin Lake
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Tell us about your upcoming North American Fall Tour that will include Death Angel and Anthrax, how do you prepare and handle one off shows in the middle of a headlining tour?
Band formed: 1981 Band members: Tom Araya, Kerry King, Gary Holt, Paul Bostaph Genre: Metal, Thrash, Hardcore Home town: Huntington Park, California Most recent album: Repentless Release date: 2015 Label: Nuclear Blast Records Current Tour: September 09 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; October 27 Canada & U.S.
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tour for 3 weeks? 2 weeks? He did everything he needed to do, came out on tour and he kicked ass. He came out on fire in typical Slipknot style. We take great pride in what we know we have to do to take care of ourselves in order to play and tour the world. When something out of our control threatens to take us down, we get even more in our head, we will go all the way; Corey did. He wore that brace the whole tour, but it looked cool as hell. We had a great tour, we made up every date, all of our responsibilities. It was fantastic. What goes into creating the masks you adorn? Do you adorn them as part of your own life? Some part of a truth? Clown: It’s based off of nothing, but the truth, otherwise it wouldn’t be happening. Very honest ability, I have to put it on the first day and say this is who I’m going to be. Sometimes I wonder why I did that. It’s us; It’s funny being someone who influenced people to up their game, in wardrobe too. I see so many people who wear masks or outfits; we certainly didn’t invent that stuff. They are me and I have become that. People can’t even talk to me without calling me Clown; it’s effortless. In my opinion, when I look at everyone else, it seems like they’re just trying so hard. To us, it’s so natural. It’s very much a part of us. A lot of our souls go into it…. A lot of pain. We know you have outside projects. I’ve personally seen some of your books. What other avenues and projects will we see in the future from the members of Slipknot? Clown: We’re always ADD, trying to move to tour, bettering our mind and art. I’m a big supporter of everyone going out and living their life and doing what they think they need to do. I don’t think anyone is doing
father. My main goals are Slipknot and making movies. That’s where my main focus is these days. I’ll be doing a photography show in November in downtown L.A. at a place called Lethal Amount. It’s open to the public. I’ll be doing it by myself. I’ll be doing a Q & A. I may have a band and some food, we don’t know for sure yet. I have a movie coming out called Officer Downe so make sure to keep an eye out for that release.
Clown: If you want to see something different come check it out, It’s off of a comic book. It’s about a cop who just keeps dying and being brought back to life by these telekinetic people that are self-aware and know how to self-heal and help Officer Downe to come back and kill the bad people. If you want to see something different and something that different than what you think it’s going to be, this is the movie for you. I brought a lot of inspiration from being a child and growing up watching great movies with my mom and dad like “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Shining”. \Any last messages you want to leave for your fans? Clown: We love them; we’re coming, thanks for the support. We’ll see everyone soon…our fans mean everything to us. anything else musically besides Corey, well Sid does… he’s his own anomaly. He’s always thinking musically, he and Corey are musically motivated right now. Corey’s always writing books with other people. Everyone in the band also does other things. Nick will go to NAMM and do guitar stuff. As far as for me, I’m moving into movies that’s gonna be my priority. What I have in Slipknot is what I’m working toward to have in movies. In my time off, I’ll be making motion pictures, and books, I’m everywhere, but honestly these days, I’m trying to focus more; Slipknot is my life. I’m interested to see how far I can push myself to do it because a lot of times, when I’m pushing, I don’t really get any reward. By the time I’m out on stage and the movie in the back is playing, you know everybody else is looking at it like “Oh my God!” But I’ve been making it for like a week, 2 weeks, a month, programming it song by song. When I get on stage some of it becomes a little sterile; I’ve seen it 9 billion times. I’m performing so I can really see how the kids are reacting to it because they’re reacting to everything. I’m trying to focus on a couple of things, not a whole lot of things- like Slipknot, being a husband, being a 10 Rock N Roll Industries Magazine
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Anything you wanna say about the movie?
Clown: No, it’s kind of a loaded question, right? One thing I can contribute our band to is our work ethic, our desire for our dream…our passion. So when we loaded the gun we planned on using it and we used it. Here we are all these years later. Always wanted to be the biggest band in the world, always wanted to do what the biggest bands in the world did. Did I know it would be exactly what it is? I don’t think anyone can. I never ask how many people are out in the audience show by show, I like to walk out and know that’s what I’m dealing with. So since the beginning of my career, it’s been amazing watching it get bigger and bigger. Of course I’ve never imagined that we would play in front of 50…90…100,000 people. Just as of recently we booked some shows in Peru, It’s just amazing. My wife and I are flying to Japan tomorrow to do some press for the upcoming show in Japan. We’re going to a forest at the bottom of Mt. Fuji…I’m doing a bunch of interviews. That’s the stuff I never knew came with Rock N Roll. I always thought Rock N Roll was performing on stage. That’s what I wanted to do. I didn’t really care about records, interviews, and television shows. All it was, was to play live with my friends. So all of this that comes with this dream has just been almost insane. Really crazy life, 20 years of this. What’s the difference in booking out here {in the US} and booking in places like Mexico and Japan? I know you have Knotfest coming up there. Is there a problem getting the bands there? Clown: Availability ends up being one of the biggest things that there is and that’s because you can imagine, some bands are just going into the studio, some bands are in the studio, some bands just got out of the studio, some bands are preparing for a tour, and some bands just got off a tour. It can be very difficult to take bands. That’s why corporate runs it like they do…it’s a little bit of Europe April/Late May and then in June, you come to America for America’s Festivals which is in the Summer time. They do that to try and make it one standard thing for everyone, anybody who’s available, let’s rock. I know that we have done really well with bringing bands that’s never been to Japan. Our last Knotfest, we took quite a few bands that have never been to a pavedway place, places that the way have been paved for them. Places that
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bands {like mine} have spent our own money, our own time, and our work ethic for 20 years to break into locations and territories. What inspired this clash of the Titans to bring together OzzFest and KnotFest? Clown: I think most of it is on the Osbournes’s part. They’ve been away for a while, Black Sabbath’s doing their thing. We’re always very honored because if you look at the history of our path, we’ve only played OzzFest when Black Sabbath played, never just Ozzy. I’m sure the business minds got together and said, “Hey, there’s all these shows…” and decided to align forces. We’re honored…Ozzy, Sharon, Black Sabbath…they all broke us…they brought us out and that’s pretty much where we’ve been since. Last year you guys did Aftershock one day and then your own festival the next day. Tell me about how crazy that trip was doing both of them on the same weekend. Clown: I’m selfish, Aftershock, it’s cool…whatever. I’m always happy to help and be where the fans are. Business wise, it would have been nice to do both nights, but I have to keep reminding myself that what we’re trying to do is make a festival that is so beautiful and entertaining and what the kids-fans need that we don’t have to headline. That’s the goal. It is Knotfest, but it’s called Knotfest because it’s going under our concept, our visual conceptual mind. That doesn’t mean we’re always going to be around to headline it. My dream is to be able to get on a bus and go introduce the bands and then just have a good time. It’s always fun to do everyone else’s festivals, but we’re getting to the point where everything needs to be Knotfest, that’s several years from now. What inspired you to write such a dark album like the Gray Chapter? What are some of the steps it took in creating that album? Clown: Unfortunately one of the biggest steps that were taken, was my partner in crime passed away. When Paul passed away, life kinda stopped- our dream. There was a hot moment that we wondered if we should go on, it’s something that happens… he and I started the band. You take a moment to look at your life and your life with him and you ask yourself if you’re going to continue or not. Of course we were going
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Slipknot has such a massive following of fans throughout the world. Did you ever anticipate that Slipknot would be as successful as you are today?
to continue, and we decided to share the grieving with the fans. We spent a lot of years going out all over the world sharing our grief with grieving fans and that’s kind of the beginning of the making of the 45, was seeing the need for Slipknot and the care for Paul. For me {I can’t speak for anybody else}, the making of this album was a requirement for the closings dealings of one of my best friends, I think about it every day and I’m going to for the rest of my life of course, but up until the album, there were a lot of confused thoughts, emotions, a lot of hurt people. When we got together to make the album, we could finally get our asses together, get our pain out and get all that out. There’s other things that happened as well between when that happened and when we went into make that record to add fuel to the fire. As all great albums I think have circumstances and Slipknot unfortunately had a tremendous amount of circumstances. That’s why you make records and do art, you heal yourself…self-therapy.
Corey just went through Spinal Surgery, can you tell us how it’s affected him and affected things for you guys. Is it making it any harder for him on tour? Clown: I don’t want to speak too much for Corey, if any one of us speaks that for each other, we can get in trouble. What I can tell you is because I’m so naïve, I was asked to go to dinner, and I went to dinner. I was told by him that he had to go into emergency surgery that next morning. I was like, “Ok.” Because I was naïve, I just roll with the tide, I said, “You seem confident.” And he was. He did the surgery; I heard he ate Popeye’s Chicken when it was over. The next day, I saw him at breakfast and he was up walking around talking. I was with him for an hour and a half. He wasn’t sedated or in pain, he was sore. I imagin he had a lot of relief. He had been in pain for a while. I believe they took two disks out and I think they were grown together or damaged. He told me at some time in his career or his life, he may have broken his neck and it may have healed wrong. He took 2 weeks; we postponed the
Band formed: 1995 Band members: Corey Taylor, Mick Thompson, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Sid Wilson, Shawn Crahan, Chris Fehn, Allessandro Venturella, Jay Weinberg Genre: Heavy Metal Home town: Des Moines, Iowa Most recent album: The Gray Chapter Release date: October 17, 2014 Label: Roadrunner Records
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Current Tour: North America Summer Tour (2016)
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