Metal Music NEWS and interviews

  1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of the group? Where is the band from?   Dan Lorenzo : Ron and I both live in New Jersey. Jimmy Schulman our bassist lives in NYC. Jason ...I think you live in Texas, right? ( laughs) Jason McMaster: Yes, I am from Texas. Born in Corpus Christi and moved to Austin in 1980. I joined Watchtower in May of 1982. Not long after,I became a big pen pal guy, writing to bands and fanzines, sending demos, tape trading and trying to get us exposure.That's how I first heard of Hades and later, Non-Fiction, was through singer Alan Tecchio, and of course that's how I met Dan, and Jimmy and even Ron.  About 9 years ago, Dan started sending me songs to collaborate with him on. Not until the last few years did we actually get serious about it, and release material.I have always thought that Dan wrote these big minor key riffs that rese...

To my readers please give a warm welcome to Wizzerd!!   1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? Thanks for having us! We are a heavy rock’n’roll band from Kalispell, Montana. We have been described as boogie doom and magick rock before, which are good descriptors of the sound.   2- "Space‽: Issue No.001" is the band's 3rd full album, how long did it take to write? The album has been mostly totally written since around 2018. We began writing it a few years before that, then focused on our other material and touring before recording these songs. With a few touches and changes in the studio, we really spent about six or seven years on crafting these songs to their fullest potential. 3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? We take influence from a wide variety of music from all genres and eras. For "Space‽...

1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of the group?  Where is the band from? Hey everybody and thanks for having us here at Metal Music Midwest - Well the short one is ...That we’re three guys from an island called Amager, not far from Copenhagen in Denmark - A hard rock band named The KillerHertz, with Thomas Trold our main songwriter on guitar and vocal, with Jakob on bass and Kent KillerHertz on drums controlling the engine room. We´re a mix of old and new, as Rock Lifestyle describe us: “The KillerHertz is like Volbeat had a baby with Megadeth”.   2- "Starburst" is the band's third full album, how long did it take to write? It was a totally different creative process due to the COVID situation, but it took three months to write  - Thomas Trold had made tons of songs at his small home studio, which means swoping files to all of us on a daily basis, before ha...

Please give a warm welcome to The Same River   1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? Hey hey Metal Music Midwest, thank you for having us! We are The Same River, a Heavy/Psych/Rock band formed in September 2019, and we are from Athens, Greece . 2- "Weight of the World" is the band's first full album, how long did it take to write? We were composing our songs for almost 8 months during the Covid-19 lockdown in Greece, and once we had the songs ready we recorded all parts. Drums and bass guitar in almost 2 days. After that we recorded guitar parts, solos and all the effects for post production in 6 days. Last but not least our singer/guitar player (Diamond) had his own “inspiration ceremony” for a few days in his home studio, and after a few days he completed all the vocals of the album! 3- What musical influence inspires the...

To my readers, please give a warm welcome to the band Nightstalker 1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? Hello there and thanks for  the invitation. Nightstalker was formed back in 1989 in Athens, Greece. Our first album was out in 1995 (side fx). From there on we are touring and recording since now. All these years we have been experimenting with rock music and we love trying different things on music. 2- Dead Rock Commandos is the band's 4th full album (now re-issued), how long did it take to write? I remember that the recording took us two months on recordings, but we were working on it for two years. You know, preproduction it's a long process. 3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? We are a rock (stoner) band, so our influences comes back in the 70’s music. We all love Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Hawkwind,...

Los Black Dogs live performance at Reggies Chicago as part of the Thunderpussy Summer 2019 Tour in the US. Other performers at this event included Hollis Brown, Mystery Actions and Thunderpussy. This was my second time watching them and they definitely delivered a great performance. The footage is taken with Canon T3i. Editing on PowerDirector 14 and AudioDirector 7. Be sure to visit the band on FB for their next live performance. About Artemorbid I'm a photographer and musician from the midwest. The gear I use include Canon T3i, Sony A6300, Yi 4k action camera, Panasonic GH2, Ricoh Theta V, Sony lapel mic, AKG condenser mic, Line 6 UX1, PreSonus pre Amp, Schecter Guitars, Marshall Amps, I also film with my Samsung J3. My main choice editor for photos is Lightroom 6. My main choice editor for video is PowerDirector 15. For editing on the go, I use Powerdirector mobile. For my 360 videos and photos I usu Ricoh Theta V plus App for Andro...

Thunderpussy live performance of Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith, at Reggies in Chicago as part of their Summer 2019 Tour in the US. other performers at this event included Hollis Brown, Los Black Dogs and Mystery Actions. Thunderpussy is an American rock band from Seattle Washington formed in 2013. The band members are vocalist Molly Sides, guitarist Whitney Petty and bassist Leah Julius. Thunderpussy is the self-titled debut studio album, it was produced and engineered by Sylvia Massy. Work on the recording began in September 2016 at Massy's home studio, Foundation Soundstage, in Ashland, Oregon.The first single, "Velvet Noose," was recorded at Hockey Talkter Studios. The album was released on May 25, 2018. This footage was filmed with Canon camera and Nikon Lens. Edited in PD17 and audio in AD 7. #thunderpussy #con...