Interview with Heaven And Hell: They Say That Life’s A Carousel JJ Koczan May 16, 2007 Interviews Since it was announced late last year that the lineup of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice would be touring under the moniker Heaven And Hell, there has been much fervor in the Black ...
Interview with Porcupine Tree: Filling In The Blanks JJ Koczan May 9, 2007 Interviews Centered around the 17-minute opus, “Anesthetize,” and structured to flow as a continuous piece of music, Fear Of A Blank Planet, the latest in a string of stellar albums from lush UK prog-metal stalwarts Porcu...
Interview with Thrice: Sonnets, Alchemy And The Lash Jen Guyre May 2, 2007 Interviews Southern California quartet Thrice have zigzagged all over the map of musical styles in their nine year career, starting out as a post-hardcore hybrid in 1998 and landing most recently in atmospheric rock with ...
Tribal Passage Tattoo: Brick, NJ Tim Louie May 1, 2007 Tattoo 2 After getting a few e-mails from my buddy, Michelle, about a cool tattoo shop down in Brick, NJ, I decided to make the trek down the shore to check this place out. The name of the shop is Tribal Passage Dermagr...
Interview with Linkin Park: Reanimation One Step Further: Reinvention Divya Gunasekaran April 25, 2007 Interviews As a band whose music shows no reverence for the lines dividing genres, Linkin Park have not just blurred those lines, but have mercilessly annihilated them by merging rock, rap, alternative and metal and by...
Interview with Lordi: The Arockalypse Is Upon Us Jen Guyre April 18, 2007 Interviews If the days of Arena Rock are over, then pyro enthusiasts Lordi are here to resurrect the past. Playing their monster mash with monster masks, Finland’s own costumed crusaders Lordi— vocalist Mr. Lordi, guita...
Interview with Hellyeah: Say It Loud Amy Sciarretto April 11, 2007 Interviews Hellyeah marks the return of Vinnie Paul—a legend who needs absolutely no introduction, but in case you’re not a rock fan and don’t know him, he was the drummer for one of the most influential metal bands of al...
Modern Age Tattoo: Nanuet, NY Tim Louie April 4, 2007 Tattoo This month my journey of the area’s coolest tattoo shops leads me to my very first shop in the Empire State…New York! Well, technically, Nanuet is so close to Jersey that it still has that Jersey state of mind....
Interview with Type O Negative: The Everdying JJ Koczan March 28, 2007 Interviews Released just a scant two weeks ago, Type O Negative’s Dead Again marks the culmination of about four years of tumult, despair and emotional upheaval. So, needless to say, the band were right in their element. ...
Interview with The Used: Shy Away From The Sun Amy Sciarretto March 21, 2007 Interviews In 2005, The Used headlined the first installment of the now-annual Taste Of Chaos Tour. Back then, My Chemical Romance were on the verge of exploding, and Underoath and Killswitch Engage had just released grou...
