Emma Ruth Rundle: A Place To Call My Own
"I'm a conflicted person. There's a cognitive dissonance going on constantly and I'm trying to find the path that makes the most sense."
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Bad Reputation: On The Road With Halestorm
"In my naivety I knew I was writing kind of a sexy song. But it doesn't click until you watch a stripper at Vinnie Paul's clubhouse dance to it that, oh yeah, this is totally a stripper song."
“It Felt Like Anything Could Happen”: The Menzingers And PUP Discuss Their Wild Years
"Whatever happened, you just rolled with it. It didn’t matter if you played well or your gear fucked up, it was just about being there together."
Black Foxxes: Hunt For The Wilderpeople
"The northern lights were easy to write about for a few lines, but there's so much going on that your mind gets clouded. But when there is just intense stillness, your mind can't focus on anything other than what you need to write about. I think the reason I wrote the most songs out in Iceland is because I hadn't felt nothingness for a long time."
Alice In Chains: Announce Rainier Fog
"To some degree, where this record came from is really none of your business."
Tom Petty: A Tribute By Brian Fallon
"His music doesn't need a genre to define it, and it doesn't need a generation to define it, either. It's everyday life."
Power Trip: "I don't see some rapture of music if we don't have the second coming of Metal Christ, y'know?"
Telling bands that they're on course to 'save' rock and metal is a needless burden, stresses Power Trip frontman Riley Gale...
Svalbard: Hope Springs Eternal
"I'm prepared for the negative reactions, because I've been getting negative reactions my whole life in metal."
Making A Killing: Body Count And The Cop Killer Controversy
"I don’t hate cops, I hate brutal cops. I don’t hate people, I hate racist people."
Introducing: Møl
“Metaphorically, the main theme of the album is how everything changes. We see ourselves as more and something lasting, but we’re just a blip in comparison to the universe around us. We accept this change, but there’s also this longing for something constant and definitive."
Meet The Superfans
An exploration of the fan communities and lifestyles formed around particular bands, told through the accounts of five young mega fans.
We Go Inside The Mystery Of Creeper's Room 309
A Scooby Doo-style investigation into Room 309, which lies at the center of Creeper's James Scythe mystery. A case of mistaken identity, goth punks and the incompetence of Ibis hotels.
Avenged Sevenfold: Dear Youth
"You need to realise that success gives you an opportunity to be good to the people who really need it the most."
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About The New Paradise Lost Album
"It’s different generations trying to grasp the same thing, all thinking they’ve grasped it more and no one ever has! It’s funny. We’re civilised with technology, but we still don’t know what the fuck’s going on and we’re all going to die. No one gets any closer to it."
The Menzingers: These Words Could Be Your Life
"Even if it's not immediately autobiographical, these songs are definitely autobiographical of someone close to me. But if you put their life into your songs, you can maybe tell a more universal story."