Category: Interviews

Get up close with your favorite bands through exclusive interviews. Discover their stories, insights, and behind-the-scenes experiences.

SABATON – Interview with Daniel Myhr

SABATON in US is not so known as we may want to, but still those guys are earining much more attention and in the nearest future they shall be big also in America. This interview was done for Polish fanclub and the polish version of MetalCentre. All fans from US should read it either! My interview mate was SABATON's keyboard player – Daniel Myrh. Take an eye of it!

CARRION – Wywiad z Grzegorzem

CARRION to zespół któy być może już wkrótce opanuje wasze odtwarzacze, który przepełni wasze serca, który wbije się w pamięć i pozostanie w niej na długo. Dłużej niż myślicie, dłużej niż byście chcieli. Ja uległem, poddałem się, kocham i wielbię. Jestem… jaki jestem i już. A jaki jest Grzegorz ''Kulavik'' Kowalczyk i jego zespół? Tego dowiecie się poniżej. Na pewno.

HELSTAR – Interview with Larry

As a result of the improving metal climate these last few years, long defunct bands from the 80’s have been giving their dreams another go. Helstar is no exception. One of the few groups to capitalize on the trail blazed by Thrash’s big four, this Texas quintet forged a solid discography across a decade-long career—highlight’s include “Remnants of War” and “Nosferatu”—before calling it quits in the early 90’s. Re-emerging from the depths of obscurity with this year’s “The King of Hell”, a comeback album that won’t win any awards for originality, but whose musical content is a metalhead’s wet dream: soaring vocals, dueling guitars, and a well entrenched melodic foundation. Helstar may be glorifying Satan for album number six, but it’s the heavens that appear to have given the band its new lease on life. Feeling glib and self satisfied, guitarist Larry Barragan keeps Metalcentre up to date on everything about his band.

VEDONIST – Wywiad z Vommbathem

Cóż mogę powiedzieć, VEDONIST to jedna z lepszych polskich załóg która wreszcie ma szansę zaistnieć na światowej scenie. Zdeterminowani, pełni wiary w siebie, a przede wszystkim świadomi swych umiejętności powoli zdobywają coraz większe uznanie. Podpisanie kontraktu z Amerykańskim labelem powinno wspomóc Warszawian, a o tym co, i czy tak na prawdę do powiedzenia miał wokalista grupy Vommbath, możecie przekonać się poniżej.

NACHTMYSTIUM – Interview with Guitarist/Vocalist Blake Judd

NACHTMYSTIUM has become America's answer to the Scandinavian monopoly on black metal talent. Since their inception in 2000, the group has become one of the more talked about black metal groups in the United States. Starting as a cold, psychotic black metal group that released albums through respected underground labels such as Regimental, Autopsy Kitchen and Total Holocaust, NACHTMYSTIUM has transitioned into more psychedelic/progressive spheres. The full weight of NACHTMYSTIUM’s growing cult status hit band founder, Blake Judd when he released “Instinct: Decay,” which sold over ten thousand copies through release of his own label, Battle Kommand Records.

Since the release of “Instinct: Decay,” Blake and his mates have continued on their journey into tracer-inducing havoc. The “Worldfall” EP and “Assassins: Black Meddle Pt I,” both released in 2008, show the group stepping further into experimental territories. Covers of the post punk/folk outfit DEATH IN JUNE and gritty desert rockers GOATSNAKE on the “Worldfall” EP revealed the group’s assorted taste in music.

Later into the year, NACHTMYSTIUM related even more personalities with “Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I.” This album featured a wider range of vocals, acid-dropping noise, moog and even saxophone. Acclaimed death/black metal drummer, Tony Laureno (ex-DIMMU BORGIR, ANGEL CORPSE, NILE) commanded the drum kit, resulting in the fastest NACHTMYSTIUM recording yet.

Before the leap to Century Media, NACHTYMYSTIUM undertook a number of high-profile tours with satanic agents such as GOATWHORE, WATAIN and ANGELCORPSE. With the diversification of their music came tours with a wider range of groups. Over the past year, the group has toured with BORIS and TORCHE, made an appearance at this year’s Norway’s Hole In The Sky Fest, and made a brief showing with OPETH before prematurely returning home.

Currently, NACHTMYSTIUM is touring the States with earth-worshipping black metallers, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM. Metal Centre caught up with guitarist/vocalist Blake Judd before the group took the stage in Austin.
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UNHOLY – Interview with Jarkko

If you don’t know Finland’s Unholy, it’s imperative you read this interview and learn about one of the most influential European Doom bands from the early 90’s. If you do know who Unholy are, then it’s equally important you read this interview—entertained no less by co-founder Jarkko Toivonnen—and get the juice on the new reissues (via Ahdistuksen Aihio Records) that cover their entire discography. Feeling glib and shooting straight, Jarkko guides us through his band’s turbulent history, his own baby, Tiermes, and explains why he hates Metal Hammer.

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