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Though he may not have known it at the time, Alexander Kuoppala’s eight-year tenure in Children of Bodom would prepare him for his future endeavors in music education. When he joined the group in 1995 when they were still called IneartheD, he was five years older than most
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When asked about Mario Lalli while being interviewed for a documentary about the desert rock scene he grew up in, Josh Homme of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age fame described him this way: “Mario is the one guy who I always thought deserved the most credit for everything.
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Porcupine Tree band leader Steven Wilson started his 2022 autobiography, Limited Edition of One, with a story about the band’s last show before the start of their well-known hiatus that began in 2010. He wrote that subconsciously, while playing before a sold out crowd at the famous Royal
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Since their inception in 1997, Elvenking have never fit squarely into one genre or category in the world of metal. On a surface level, the casual listener might blindly generalize them into power metal genre based on Davide “Damna” Moras’ soaring vocals and Federico “Aydan” Baston’s fast-paced riffing
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When Swedish melodic death metal legends Arch Enemy were about to enter to studio to record Burning Bridges in 1999, which would become one of their most iconic releases, they were facing a bit of an issue: they needed a bassist. The group had just returned from playing tour dates
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In early 1991, Dream Theater were dangerously close to calling it quits. The promising young group, which formed at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the mid-1980s under the original name Majesty, had let go original lead singer Charlie Dominici shortly after their 1989 debut record When Dream
Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with Texas Metal Legends Pissing Razors. Our conversation came on the heels of their some of their 30th anniversary celebration tour dates, which saw the band demonstrate to metal fans just why they have remained fixtures in the metal scene for over
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The guys from Killswitch Engage are no strangers to adversity. Since the band’s inception in 1999, they have overcome a number of issues that have caused many other groups to call it quits. Rising from a humble beginning in the western Massachussetts metal scene playing basement shows, the band
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Reflecting on when Fredrik Åkesson joined Opeth in 2007 after the departure of founding member Peter Lindgren, band frontman and general mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt said: “Finally, we had a really, really good lead guitar player, so I could step back a little bit…I always wanted a good lead guitarist,
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by Taita Vlakoff Paula and Nik’s five-star debut EP. It came with six fresh songs, plus one exclusively on Youtube, showing all the power and technical knowledge that this couple has. If you follow their career on social networks, when you hear it for the first time, you
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Frank Hetzel has been a giant in the Seattle metal community for many years – so much so that it’s been said that any metal band who played in the city was booked through him. After securing national and international bands to grace the stages of Seattle, he started to
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The term “renaissance man” is generally used to describe someone who excels in a number of different areas across a number of different disciplines. No one in the world of heavy metal fits that definition better than Alex Skolnick. When he takes the stage on September 6th at Starland Ballroom