Modern metal/hardcore five piece band ELITHIA, hailing from the South West Of England became known after winning Plymouth Battle Of the Bands contest in 2010. The band released their debut EP “No Time For Mercy” a couple of years ago and have just been working on their brand new EP which is due for release later this year.
Metal Shock Finland‘s Blackdiamond caught up with the band after their show on Saturday at Bloodstock. The interview can be heard on the audio player below and check out more information about the band on their official facebook page.
Legendary German metallers ACCEPT have had an extremely busy last few years, since their explosive comeback to the worldwide metal scene with their highly successful “Blood Of The Nations” album in 2010. Then came the release of another great heavy album in the shape of “Stalingrad” last year, which the band have done extensive touring with and most recently at many summer festivals.
ACCEPT‘s penultimate festival appearance this summer was at Bloodstock Open Air 2013, where Metal Shock Finland‘s Ali Blackdiamond caught up with one of the most friendly metal musicians, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann.
The interview took place before ACCEPT‘s show on the Friday evening, a review of which can be read at this location. You can read some excerpts below and watch the full interview on the video or listen to the audio player below:
Discussing festivals, Wolf expressed his thoughts about them:
“I love them because it’s almost like a party atmosphere. When you do your own headlining shows it’s all on you – you bring your own production and you worry about how the day goes down, but here you get told what to do. (smiles) You show up, do your thing and the rest is just having a good time, not very stressful!”
When asked about the next ACCEPT album, Wolf said:
“Our upcoming album is hopefully going to be out next year. We’ve started working on writing some songs, we haven’t recorded anything yet. But over the winter and maybe early next year we’ll start recording it and try to make it every bit as good as the last one, maybe even better if we succeed, we’ll see. It’s going to be as heavy as the rest!”
On his next solo classical album, Wolf revealed:
“There’s a lot of it done already, but still a lot to do. Whenever I have some free time when I’m not working for ACCEPT, that’s what I work on. I spent the last few days with Andy Sneap working on new material – we’re getting ready to get the first glimpse of these new tracks. It’s gonna be next year before it’s released, I’ll not start recording till January or February.”
Manchester four piece progressive metallers BETRAEUS released their debut EP “Towards The Sun,” in 2011 which reached number 3 position on the Scuzz TV chart. The band have been playing many shows around the UK and Metal Shock Finland‘s Blackdiamond caught up with Eddie and Paddy at Bloodstock after their performance on the Sophie Lancaster stage.
Check out what Eddie and Paddy had to say on the audio player below and find the official BETRAEUS facebook page at this location.
Manchester based melodic death metallers INCASSUM released their debut album “Rites Of Passage” late in 2012 and have since been touring the UK. The band played on the Jager stage at Bloodstock Open Air 2013.
Metal Shock Finland‘s Blackdiamond caught up with John, Joe and Chris from the band prior to their performance and discussed all the news and upcoming events for INCASSUM as well as their Bloodstock favourites.
Check out the conversation on the audio player below and for more information about INCASSUM see the official facebook page at this location.
Things couldn’t be better for Floor Jansen: Since she joined NIGHTWISH in September 2012 the Dutch power woman has been touring the world with the Finnish symphonic metallers, if only as a stand-in singer to date – and now she’s ready with the furious sophomore release of her own band REVAMP! In a couple of weeks, on August 23, three years of agonizing waiting time for record number two will finally come to an end – that haven’t only demanded a great deal of REVAMP’s fans, as Floor admits: “Never before in my career had I faced a situation like the one we were in with this album. It was a huge challenge because of several reasons. My sickness caused a major break between the first album and tours, plus the writing of the first ideas for the second album and the actual finalization of those songs and the album. And right at the moment we started to pick everything back up after I was sick, I joined Nightwish.”
The new REVAMP effort “Wild Card” will come out via Nuclear Blast, on August 23.
Recently Tarja Virmakari had a nice chat with Floor Jansen, she spoke widely about ReVamp’s upcoming album “Wild Card”, but she talked also about the hard times she had when recovering from her burn out, but that she has learned a huge lesson through it. Today she’s stronger and knows how to take life’s challenges, and to make the best out of them. She’s very satisfied with this new album, and commented: “A wild card is an unpredictable and unforeseeable factor. You don’t know what you’re getting, or when. That’s this album! It’s 100% ReVamp and it’s your wild card!”
To hear all what Floor told to Tarja, please join the interview below.
ReVamp – “The Anatomy of a Nervous Breakdown: On the Sideline”
from left to right: Henk Vonk, Arjan Rijnen, Ruben Wijga, Floor Jansen, Jord Otto, Mattias Landes
JAMES LABRIE is an artist with a busy schedule, juggling his vocal chords between demanding full-time recording and worldwide touring schedules with multi-million selling Progressive Metal pioneers DREAM THEATER. Plus doing guest vocal appearances with diverse acts and his periodical solo releases; which should certainly not be perceived as mere side-note activity between Dream Theater releases. James LaBrie’s new effort “Impermanent Resonance”, was released on July 29th, 2013 in Europe, and August 6th, 2013 in North America via InsideOutMusic.
Recently Metal Shock Finland‘s Tarja Virmakari had a chance to interview James LaBrie and Matt Guillory for Truemetal.it. James and Matt spoke about the new album and its sound, birth, topics and influences. But how is James LaBrie going to support Impermanent Resonance, find out, among many other things, by joining the chat below:
To read this interview on Truemetal.it, in italian, please go HERE.
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