(by JJ Koczan)
(photography by Mark Coatsworth)

Before you click the headline above and read the complete Q&A with Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, I humbly beseech you to forgive and forget any immediately apparent editing errors and say only the following: You try editing a 6,000-word interview. Go ahead, try it. See if by the [...]

(by Kevin Stewart-Panko)
Dead To Fall has endured a wholesale transformation over the course of 2006’s The Phoenix Throne and Are You Serious?, from their early years as an At The Gates-obsessed metalcore act to a thrashier prospect playing from the heart and funny bone. Are You Serious? continues pushing quirky edges and metallic angularity while [...]

(by Perry Grayson)
Budgie: An unlikely name for the most powerful heavy rock band to come out of Cardiff, Wales. A product of the late-1960s bluesy psychedelic explosion, Budgie main-man Burke Shelley (bass/vocals) was an innovative forerunner of the proto-metal movement that began to peak with Led Zeppelin’s first disc, Blue Cheer’s Vincebus Eruptum (1968) and [...]