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Drummer Gil Moore: “Triumph Is Planning On Mixed Reality Tour & Documentary Pt2”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 28, 2023
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently visited and interviewed founder, drummer of Triumph Gil Moore at the legendary Metalworks studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

In the chat Moore talked about the future plans of Triumph consisting of a mixed reality tour and part 2 of Rock and Roll Machine documentary. Moore also gave his thoughts on Artificial intelligence in music today and for the future.

When asked if there will a Rock and Roll Machine Documentary part 2
“I think so. I’m probably the only person that thinks that because I remember when we were filming this one (Rock and Roll Machine) I said to Sam Dunn who was the co-director, I said you know we got to keep some of this b-roll here because we’re going to do another one. And he’s like don’t get ahead of yourself and I said hey man my whole career I’ve been ahead of myself that’s how I had a career, so let’s stay with that. I have a plan to do a mixed reality tour for Triumph and I’m very serious about that. I’m working with our lighting director Paul Dexter at Masterworks in Los Angeles. He’s unbelievable and he’s kind of The Godfather of holograms, this is not a hologram Tour by any means. But we are going to use a form of holography or three-dimensional recreation to do this. There’s a lot of Technology involved. Let’s put it this way, it’s not going to be like anything that anybody’s ever seen before if Paul and I get our way with the way we’re developing the content that’s going to be seen. It’s going to be something that’ll blow people’s minds and it’ll be Triumph through and through. I don’t want to say too much other than, the key is, think of mixed reality and what that means, no glasses, no tricks that way. All the tricks will be coming from the stage. but we’ve got some phenomenal plans. All the music is pre-recorded, it’s all from live shows but it will be custom tailored to this particular performance l and it involves some actors. And involves footage of Mike, Rik and Gill and Recreations of Mike Rik and Gill and some of the coolest things that people are going to see in the touring Market, I can tell you that. I have a lot of things that I’m working on that I’m passionate about in the education field and so on for music so I don’t have the bandwidth for another Triumph tour at this stage and you know Mike and Rick have different things they’re doing as well .This is a way to give something to the fans that we know will absolutely knock them right off their chairs. ” 

When asked to clarify if this sequel to the Documentary will consist of new video footage
“I think there’ll be a tiny bit of the archival footage that’s already in the can from the first documentary that was not stuff that wasn’t used. But I would say there’s gonna be a lot of new footage and it’s going to tie into this tour so I think that the footage that is related to the tour and how we develop the technology that we came up with. And stuff that’s really unusual like some of our technical partners like Microsoft is helping us for example. People would be like what? Yeah Microsoft Microsoft mixed reality yeah they’re really happening you know they’re really helping Triumph, so yeah pretty cool stuff. “

AXS TV USA is airing our Doc, Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine, over Memorial Day weekend. Tune in on Sunday, May 28th at 12pm ET!

Can’t watch this weekend? Mark your calendar! Doc will re-air on July 1st at 3:30pm ET.

Between 1975-1988, Triumph – singer/guitarist Rik Emmett, singer/drummer Gil Moore, and Levine – rocked the world, and in the process, gave us countless classic hard rock anthems (“Fight the Good Fight,” “Hold On,” “Magic Power,” “Lay It On the Line,” “A World of Fantasy,” etc.) and albums (Just a Game, Progressions of Power, Allied Forces, Never Surrender, Thunder Seven, etc.).

Prika Amaral: “New Nervosa Album to Include Two Guests”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 23, 2023
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Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to Nervosa guitarist, vocalist and founder Prika Amaral about the bands upcoming shows, new studio album and taking on the lead vocals. Watch the interview below.

When asked about handling all the lead vocals moving forward in Nervosa
“I did not want to change the singers again (they parted ways with the last singer) in Nervosa and changing again the band’s singer would kill the band so I said, I will do it. Changing a singer is really hard, it’s the voice of the band. So I said this was not something I was planning to do but it’s time for me to do it. I had to learn how to sing basically in a few months. I was already doing back- vocals before but to be a (lead) singer is totally different.  So I had some classes with a friend of mine just to teach me how to do it with good technique. Then when we started to record the album our producer was riding me and this helped me a lot  but I’m still learning.”

When asked about the musical direction of the new studio album
“The album is finished and it will be out in September 2023. Our plan is to start promoting the new album in August and we have a plan for 3 or 4  video clips/singles. With the new album we are trying to make this musical style more different, with an instrumental. We will have super thrash songs, groove metal and mixing it up with styles.” 

When asked if they have any guests on the new album
“We have two guests on this album. One is singing with me, ,I can say it’s a woman. The second guest (man) is an amazing guitarist that did one solo on one of our songs. He is one of my biggest influences. “

UK Tour
23.05 – Nightrain / Bradford – UK
24.05 – Corporation / Sheffield – UK
25.05 – KKs Steel Mill / Wolverhampton – UK
26.05 – Satans Hollow / Manchester – UK

Kurdt Vanderhoof: “New Album is heavier but sounds like old Metal Church with a modern production”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 20, 2023
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Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to Metal Church‘s guitarist and main man Kurdt Vanderhoof 
Metal Church will release their 13th studio album, “Congregation Of Annihilation”, on May 26 via Rat Pak Records (America) and Reaper Entertainment (Europe). 

Excerpts from the interview
When asked about the making of the new album
“After the Covid stuff started lifting, I wrote a new album and sent it off to Mike (Howe) and we were going back and forth starting our process. So then it happened (Mike Howe passes). There were a few months there that I kind of figured that it was over. Both original singers are gone, am I getting the message? But then after months realizing I had an album sitting there that if nothing else maybe we can put it out in honour of Mike. When we found Marc (Lopes) we took things step by step. We didn’t want to do a huge international search for a singer and make a big production of it, cause it might not have worked. We wanted to do everything under the radar. So as things worked out with Marc because of the way he sings, (the album) started taking on a more aggressive sound, much more thrashy, back to our roots kind of thing. So half of the songs off the new album I wrote with Mike (Howe) in mind and when we started seeing there was a new direction, then I wrote another batch of songs to fit in the more thrashy aggressive style.”

When asked about their set list with new singer Marc Lopes
‘The set list is going to be mostly the first two albums, with some Mike (Howe) era stuff. So now we are going to go back and do a lot of the older stuff and we are going to pull out a few deep tracks from that era with things that haven’t been played which will be fun. And a couple of songs off the new album.”

When asked about the new Metal Church’s album musical direction
“The New Album is heavier but sounds like Old Metal Church with a modern production.”

“Congregation Of Annihilation” track listing:

01. Another Judgement Day
02. Congregation Of Annihilation
03. Pick A God And Prey
04. Children Of The Lie
05. Me The Nothing
06. Making Monsters
07. Say A Prayer With 7 Bullets
08. These Violent Thrills
09. All That We Destroy
10. My Favorite Sin (bonus track)
11. Salvation (bonus track)

New DORO Album “Conqueress Forever Strong & Proud” to Include Duet w/ Judas Priest’s Rob Halford

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 19, 2023
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Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to Doro Pesch (Warlock) live on Youtube. In the chat Doro gave some details about her upcoming solo album entitled ‘Conqueress Forever Strong and Proud’ which includes a duet with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford.

When asked what can fans expect with the new album she replied,” The album will be released the 27th of October, 2023 via Nuclear Blast and the first single is coming out the 9th of June. The title of the single will be called ‘Time for Justice’ and we plan to have like 4 or 5 singles (videos) before the official release of the album. The new album is pretty heavy, it’s pretty hard. The first five songs are totally heavy and then there are some mid tempo ones, Anthem (like). The song ‘I will prevail’ is the heaviest one I think. The opening track I love so much it’s called ‘Children of the Dawn’. There are two duets on the album, one with a very famous German singer and the other is with Rob Halford from Judas Priest, which is a dream come true. Rob is a great guy and we have been friends forever, it’s a special treat. I am so excited , I am so grateful, I love Rob, he was the biggest inspiration to me and it means the world to me.”

KING’S X Frontman Doug Pinnick Explains How He Was Abducted by Alien Who Looked Like Jesus, at the Age of 3

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 16, 2023
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Neil Turbin ( EX ANTHRAX) for Canada’s The Metal Voice, spoke to KING’S X frontman Doug “Dug” Pinnick about his belief that he was abducted by an alien when he was just three years old.

The interview was conducted at ‘Rock for Ronnie concert in the park on May 7, 2023 at Los Encinos park.

Excerpt of the chat

Neil- Tell us about the incident you had early on in life

Dug- I was abducted by Aliens when I was three (years old)

Neil-You remember when you were three?

Dug- Oh yes, I remember several things when I was three. I have this brain that just remembers things that were out of the ordinary. The reason I know I was three is because my mother was still living with me and my mother left me when I was three. So I remember coming back into whatever it was that I had experienced and she was there and I was in her lap crying and I remember it was dark outside and that’s the last I remember of her for years. I was sleeping and this person came into my room and he had long blonde hair and he had a robe on and he had a silver belt wrapped around it and I remember he was very tall. And he had these sandals on. He had these sandals that were wrapped around his legs. I remember going out the back door and going up. It was very bright outside even though I had just woken up. I remember it was so bright and we were going up. At that point I realized something’s going wrong man, going on that I’m not into. I remember I tried to get away from this being and I pulled and pulled. Finally I remember he let go of my hand and the next thing I remember I was in my mom’s lap.

Here’s my point. I used to think I was just crazy and it was stupid but when I was in my 40’s I was watching Ancient Aliens and they were talking about the four alien races that supposedly people have communicated with and have been abducted. So they showed the aliens and the one alien was called the Nordic and that was the alien that I remembered. See, before that I thought I was just dreaming and it was bull-shit. But 40 years later I see the being that took my hand and I went up into the Sky with. So that’s why I believe that I was abducted because if you put it all together it totally makes sense because it did happen. Anyway I don’t know the outcome of it but I do believe in aliens and I do believe in all that shit. I think they all have a valid place in our belief system. And I think that there are people that can actually say that this happened to them.

Neil-What did the alien look like?

Dug- Like Jesus, the American version of Jesus. He had blue eyes, blonde hair, long blonde hair. I thought it was Jesus. Growing up in a Christian family to me it was okay Jesus came and something happened and I came back.

Neil -Did you speak to him or did you talk?

Dug- No we never talked, we didn’t talk I remember several things when I was very young I remember my great-grandfather when he died I was one and a half. So what I’m saying is anything that tragically happened in my life I remember.

KING’S X released its 13th studio album, “Three Sides Of One”, on September 2. The LP was recorded during 2019 at Black Sound Studio in Pasadena, California with Emmy Award-winning producer Michael Parnin.

RATT’s Stephean Pearcy: “When Robbin Crosby was gone it was Mutiny on me”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 12, 2023
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently interviewed Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy about the bands upcoming limited 40 year Anniversary Box set which will be released June 12, 2023.   The Box set covers five studio albums and is being released by BMG in partnership with Rhino Entertainment, chronicling the band’s biggest years with Atlantic Records.  

Pearcy also talked about the infamous Gladiators, Van Halen and the legacy of the late guitarist Robbin Crosby.

In the interview Stephen Pearcy was asked about the legacy of the late guitarist Robbin Crosby he said,” he lived and breathed Ratt. If was around today he would be kicking some ass because of how some of the guys (in the band) have just dislocated themselves from this great brand band entity. Robbin was the epitome of Rat and Roll, he was our leader. He was our guy. He was the one who kept the sh-it together. So when he started falling apart, we (Ratt) fell apart at the seams. There was not much I could do and it was Mutiny after he was gone, it was Mutiny on me. because I was the only one left doing everything. Robbin was my right hand man from day one, I mean he picked Warren (DeMartini) to come into the band. Him and I did a lot of leg work. We bounced around as the Gladiators. We were doing that for a reason, to be noticed, here we are and he could not be missed. The only thing I could say about Robin is he was the glue that kept us together and he was the King man. He lived and breathed the band and I knew when he was out, it was pretty much the end of what we were, what we had accomplished.”