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“I am so excited about the direction of the new album. I grew up influenced by the blues, and the great blues-rock singers – Paul Rodgers, Robert Plant, David Coverdale, and Ian Gillan…I wanted to get back to the basics: great songs with great vocal performances.”
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Seeb on Liv Kristine providing guest vocals on ‘Gunmen’; “You got other singers who do ten takes. You throw away nine. Keep just the one. With her, it’s the other way around. Keep nine and maybe one is crap.”
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Inglorious lead singer Nathan James joins us in the room during the interview. When asked for words of advice for Mason Hill, he pauses for a moment and simply smiles and states “Don’t Be Shit”. With a laugh he’s gone again. So lads….. no pressure then?
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I think it’s more about making a killer album with awesome material that we really believe in, and that’s the most important thing.
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Vocalist Steve Grimmett remains in a South American hospital after being refused flight home when the airline disallowed him to board on Saturday evening.
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With the release of ‘The Astonishing’ Dream Theater not only gave the public a magnificent slice of conceptual progressive metal but they also planted the germ of an idea in the creative mind of fantasy writer Orullian.
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With a box set of all of the Gillan albums available soon, Ian talks to Karen Hetherington about reissues, his love of Jazz and flamenco music and why Gillan won’t be reforming any time soon.
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Lajon Witherspoon is calling my house this time except we do a conference through his manager – who is fucking awesome. He actually took the time before he connected me to LW to chat about the loss of Prince that day and how he was processing it. That to me is very very cool.
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Final Sign hails from North Carolina and they have just released their debut album: “Hold High The Flame.”
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During the recent tour of the UK with his band, Operation Mindcrime, leader singer and former front man with progressive metal icons Queensrÿche took time out to speak to Myglobalmind in Southend upon Sea. Not your typical heavy metal resort location but look up Chinnerys, the venue where the band are performing and you discover a wonderful musical history and a look at the walls confirms that pretty much anyone who is anyone has at some point pushed a flight case through the doors on the road to success.
Read moreWhen I think of Goth I think of mostly as the lyrical darkness. That is the thing that I very much like. There’s the style as well and I’m a very big fan of wearing black lipstick to go grocery shopping because you can, you know there is something about it which I’m very much drawn to
Read moreI first heard of Zakk Wylde back in the eighties when he recorded and toured with rock legend Ozzy Osbourne. Zakk then went on to form a short lived blues rock trio Pride & Glory. Since the demise of that band Zakk has forged his own musical path with Black Label Society. Bls as they have become to be known are returning to play a UK Tour next month. I managed to secure some time with Zakk while he was touring in the States last week to have a chat.
Read moreThis is already his 7th or 8th solo album, and as I’ve been fan of Mike’s extremely unique ‘rough silk’-y voice, I was quite curious to see how does his new material sounds like.
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