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HEAVY Music Interviews
All the latest music interviews from the team at HEAVY Magazine.
HEAVY interviews the worlds leading rock, punk, metal and beyond musicians in the heavy universe of music.
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Episodes
HEAVY Music InterviewsA Dozen Good Reasons To Die With SEAN BEASLEY From DYING FETUS
Armed with undeniably some of the heaviest riffs known to mankind, DYING FETUS have established a reputation for uncompromising integrity with a slew of…
HEAVY Music InterviewsDown The Garden Path With JOHANNES ECKERSTROM From AVATAR
Entering album number ten, the all-encompassing sonic realm inhabited by Swedish musical enigma Avatar looked set to face the band's biggest personal hurdle to…
HEAVY Music InterviewsDouble Trouble Down Under With CHRIS KAEL From FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
The main common thread that ties music and comedy together is timing, not that it works every time. While there and many - some would say the majority - of…
HEAVY Music InterviewsDAVE EVANS: 50 Years Of Rock, Still Sexy And Tough
Interview by Angela Croudace Half a century on from his Rabbit days and even longer since fronting the very first line-up of AC/DC, Dave Evans hasn’t slowed…
HEAVY Music InterviewsKeeping The Motor Idling For An Extension Of The BY REQUEST TOUR With DIESEL
For a man who has been there and pretty much done it all in the Australian music industry, Mark Lizotte - or Diesel to his friends - is one hell of a humble…
HEAVY Music InterviewsThree Decades Deep: ART ALEXIKAS From EVERCLEAR Gets Candid
Interview by Ali Williams 90’s alt-rock legends Everclear are heading back down under in November, ready to kick off their 30-year Anniversary tour of their…
HEAVY Music InterviewsMetal For Breakfast With VOX REALIS
While most kids are out and about trying to think up what trouble they could possibly get into, 13-year-old Vox Realis was indoors, practising his guitar. Ever…
HEAVY Music InterviewsMusical Closure With MATT FLOOD From CASKETS
For most bands, album number two is make-or-break time. The general consensus is that a band's debut album is their easiest, taking into account things like no…
HEAVY Music InterviewsTaking Metal To The Mountains With SHAUN FARRUGIA From IN MALICE'S WAKE
It's a great sign in the modern music scene in Australia that there are still festivals in this country that feature exclusively homegrown bands. It is a…
HEAVY Music InterviewsA Decade Of Maturity With SCOTT ANDERSON From FINGER ELEVEN
Ten years is a long time in music, especially when you take into account the changes in the music industry, which magnify with each passing year. When a band…
HEAVY Music InterviewsOpening Fresh Wounds With RAY MACDONALD From 200 STAB WOUNDS
The world of death metal is relentless and unforgiving, with hardcore fans renowned for their refusal to have pity nor understanding for anything that isn't…
HEAVY Music InterviewsWater Under The Bridge With NATO From BEASTWARS
New Zealand sludge/psych metal outfit Beastwars have been dominating the metal landscape ever since unleashing their self-titled debut album in 2011. Defying…
HEAVY Music InterviewsLeaning Into Heavier Territory With DRUE HERRING From BAD JUJU
For almost a decade, Melbourne alternative rockers Bad Juju have walked the tightrope between various genres, unafraid to experiment within or outside of their…
HEAVY Music InterviewsRocking Out with HZED: Behind The Music And Future Plans
Interview by Ali Williams HZED band’s leading lady Tenaye swung to chat with HEAVY’s Ali Williams amidst their hectic rehearsal schedule for their new single…
HEAVY Music InterviewsTaking Out The Trash With BUTCH VIG From GARBAGE
The 1990s were a turbulent time for music. The advent of gentrification began in earnest as strains and side strains of sidestrains of different sounds came…
HEAVY Music InterviewsMusic, Metal & Rotting Your Brain With MONICA STRUT From THE LAST MARTYR
After establishing themselves as serious contenders in the ever-growing Australian music landscape with their 2024 EP Requiem, Melbourne hard rock outfit The…
HEAVY Music InterviewsExploring New Horizons And New Releases - MARK From SOLENCE Brings Us Up To Speed
Electro metal group Solence frontman Markus Videsäter caught up with HEAVY's Ali Williams to chat about their upcoming release, Angels Calling, and the…
HEAVY Music InterviewsInvoluntary Shutdown With LINK From THE MEANIES
Certain things in this world should always be spoken in the same breath. Be it respect, acceptance or merely just because that's the way it has always been…
HEAVY Music InterviewsClearing Skies With JODI PHILLIS From THE CLOUDS
At a time when much of the music industry was still finding its feet after the rapid emergence of alternative rock, Sydney up-and-comers The Clouds took a…
HEAVY Music InterviewsDefying Expectations With LUCAS, NAV And MERRY From TO OCTAVIA
Melbourne rock/metal outfit To Octavia have shown their hand early in their career, resisting the temptation to follow in the path of easier acceptance in…
HEAVY Music InterviewsA Blending Of Cultures With KALANDRA
Norse folk music has always been a more than handy bedfellow with metal music. Despite the obvious sonic contrasts between the two, they seem to combine well…
HEAVY Music InterviewsBreaking Into Prison With DANIEL KONRAOSSON From ABORTED
What better way to kick off a new year than a trifecta of brutality? Which is exactly what Australia is getting next February when death metal miscreants…
HEAVY Music InterviewsRespecting The Horrors Of War With DIETMAR KUMARBERG From 1914
While the idea of conceptual records and music is nothing new, more often than not, these concepts are drawn from ideas, visions, or the minds of people who…
HEAVY Music InterviewsReady To Rock Australia With JESS MARGERA From CKY
CKY are the flag bearers for big, raw, authentic, earth-shaking rock liberated from useless pretence. They burned it all down, with a raucous, anarchic rock…
HEAVY Music InterviewsConfronting The Enemy With CHRIS SORBYE From SMASH INTO PIECES
In a relatively short amount of time as far as the music industry goes, Swedish rock outfit Smash Into Pieces have quickly risen to become one of the leading…
HEAVY Music InterviewsTwo Decades Of Dominance With ZOLTAN BATHORY From FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
Celebrating twenty years in the music industry is a great achievement in itself, but celebrating 20 years of sustained success is even better. Bursting out of…
HEAVY Music InterviewsThe End Is Just The Beginning With WOLFGANG VAN HALEN
Interview by Kyra-Jade Coombs Only recently I celebrated my five-year anniversary with HEAVY Mag and over the years I’ve had the privilege of meeting and…
HEAVY Music InterviewsTHE QUARANTINED: Overriding The Algorithms Of Life And Music
Sean Martin from The Quarantined took some time out recently to catch up with HEAVY Mag's Ali Williams to chat about their new release Nemesis (Friend of…
HEAVY Music InterviewsComing To Get Some Down Under With JOHN FAHNESTOCK From SNOT
Few bands in history have left such a lasting impression in music as Santa Barbara funk metal outfit Snot. Forming in 1995, Snot released just one album before…
HEAVY Music InterviewsStill Packing A Punch With BEN ELY From REGURGITATOR
Interview by Ali K Brisbane’s Community radio station 4ZZZ is celebrating 50 years of being on the airwaves. Known for being the springboard for most of…
HEAVY Music InterviewsWhere Legends Are Born With JOAKIM BRODEN From SABATON
In the more than two decades since the band's launch, Sabaton has headlined major festivals, sold-out arena concerts worldwide, and gained a legion of loyal…
HEAVY Music InterviewsBringing The Horror Down Under With WEDNESDAY 13
Interview by Kyra-Jade Coombs October with all its spooky Halloween charm is the perfect setting to catch up with Wednesday 13. Our very own Kim Dracula has…
HEAVY Music InterviewsFuture Plans And Favourite Memories: THE DELTA RIGGS Share A Moment
The Delta Riggs will be hitting home soil again this weekend, ready to headline the main day celebrations for Mo's Desert Clubhouse’s 6th birthday celebrations…
HEAVY Music InterviewsSweet, Sweet Revenge With ASHLEE EVANS-SMITH From THE WORKOUT
It's nothing new to see a fighter make the transition from the ring to the cinema, with people as far back as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris…
HEAVY Music InterviewsFamily Values With TYE TRUJILLO From SUICIDAL TENDECIES & OTTTO
They say music runs in the blood, and if ever there was a family to prove this theory, it's the Trujillo's. Dad, Rob, plays in Metallica, Mum, Chloe, is in…
HEAVY Music InterviewsStoking The Fires With KEVIN ASHBY From CRY WOLF
Coming together via other notable bands such as Fire At Will, Swerve City, Coridian, and the Sun Gods, New Zealand's freshest face on the hard rock scene is…
HEAVY Music InterviewsThe Physics Of Metal With HOWSIE From COFFIN CAROUSEL
After initially starting life as a one-man vehicle for Howard Von Noise (Howsie) in 2012, Coffin Carousel slowly morphed into something much more sinister…
HEAVY Music InterviewsAhead Of The Chase With JONO HAWKEY And JACK VAN VILET From BLOOM
Words and interview by Ali Williams Sydney-based metalcore band Bloom have just finished up the first headliner tour here at home and are about to set off to…
HEAVY Music InterviewsHungry For Change With JIM From HEATHENSPAWN
Heathenspawn return with their latest slab of blackened melodic death metal, The Ravenous Earth, a crushing track that dives into dark themes and envisions a…
HEAVY Music InterviewsBetter Days Ahead With RYAN KEY From YELLOWCARD
It's not often you get a second chance in life, especially in the music industry, where success - sustained or fleeting - is anything but a given. But that is…
HEAVY Music InterviewsPerseverance & Resilience With JOHN STEEL From THE ANIMALS
There have been select few bands that have truly shaped the course of history. For heavy metal, it would have to be bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest…
HEAVY Music InterviewsEverything Has A Price With CK SMILE From CHAOSEUM
Switzerland isn't known for its nu metal/metalcore bands, with thrash bands such as Coroner or extreme acts Celtic Frost more prominent. But all that changed…
HEAVY Music InterviewsGood Things Come To Those Who Wait With RUINATION
Maryborough rock outfit Ruination warmed music lovers up in 2022, offering a tasty appetiser with the EP Whispers. More of a demo release to showcase their…
HEAVY Music InterviewsThe Rebirth Of HEAVEN With LAURIE MARLOW
There aren't many true old school Aussie rockers left these days, but the ones who are remember the 1980s with fond memories. For all of the household names to…
HEAVY Music InterviewsCORY MARKS Makes No Apologies For His Blending Of Country Music And Metal
Canadian musician Cory Marks has succeeded where many others have failed - or weren't even game enough to try - by managing to bring elements of rock and metal…
HEAVY Music InterviewsCrisis Averted With OLLIE TWOHILL
Music is always a transitional thing. Be it mind, body, or sonically, there is always room for growth and expansion. Gold Coast-based rock artist Ollie Twohill…
HEAVY Music InterviewsWhen Two Worlds Collide Down Under With CHLOE TRUJILLO And SAM SPADE
This November, two U.S. heavyweights in BLVD Of Eyes and The Midnight Devils combine to bring their music to Australia for a run up the East Coast that…
HEAVY Music InterviewsPreparing For War With CHUCK BILLY From TESTAMENT
It is refreshing to hear old school metal bands still pushing their limits and exploring fresh sonic realms, even with a sound that is known and loved and has…
HEAVY Music InterviewsGetting The Party Started With ALEX MOORE From THE LATHUMS
In the modern age of seriousness, it is refreshing to see a band doing the rounds that still values fun and a good time over politics and bickering. A band who…
HEAVY Music InterviewsUnravelling Reality With BRADY DEEPROSE From CONJURER
British metal outfit Conjurer have continued to defy expectations since the release of their debut album, Mire, in 2018. Essentially an experimental metal…
HEAVY Music InterviewsFinding Beauty In Ugliness With MATT WILCOCK From WEREWOLVES
When Australian extreme metal outfit Werewolves proclaimed to the world that they intended to release 10 albums in 10 years, the collective sighs of here we go…
HEAVY Music InterviewsDissecting Serial Killers With MICK BARR From MONOLIYTH
Melbourne old school death metal machine Monoliyth have been steadily going about their craft for just over 25 years, grinding away on the circuit with a…
HEAVY Music InterviewsAdding The Cherry On Top With HOLLY And JOE From ARABELLA AND THE HEIST
Since their formation in 2019, Melbourne rock/punk outfit Anabella And The Heist have steadily gone about building their profile, mostly via word of mouth on…
HEAVY Music InterviewsThe Subtle Art Of Simplicity With DANKO JONES
Canada's greatest export ever, Danko Jones, have been flying the flag for rock and roll music ever since they combined to wreak havoc on the world in 1996. The…
HEAVY Music InterviewsKeep Turning That Shit Up With ADY MATT From TESTEAGLES
The turn of the century was an interesting time to be alive. You had the doomsdayers who were convinced some bug called Y2K was going to wipe out the planet…
HEAVY Music InterviewsA Force Of Nature With ERIC VANLERBERGHE From I PREVAIL
I Prevail swept into town like a rampaging force of nature with their debut album Lifelines in 2016. It was an album that screamed defiance from every note…
HEAVY Music InterviewsStill SUICIDAL After All These Years: MIKE MUIR On The Enduring Power Of Punk
Suicidal Tendencies have a love affair with Australia, touring regularly and bringing their infectious brand of skate punk metal to our tender ears with the…
HEAVY Music InterviewsPutting Your Faith In Rock N Roll With SCOTT OWEN From THE LIVING END
When The Living End burst onto the Australian musical landscape with their self-titled debut album in 1994, the blurred lines between rock, punk and metal were…
HEAVY Music InterviewsClimbing The Summit SCOTT KENNEDY From BLEED FROM WITHIN
Starting life in 2005 more influenced by deathcore sensibilities than their current, more accessible mixture of styles, Glasgow metal outfit Bleed From Within…
HEAVY Music InterviewsA Celebration Of Music With STEVE MERRY From BE'LAKOR
Australia’s own BE’LAKOR finally return for a powerhouse run of home shows this October, bringing their signature blend of melodic death metal and progressive…