Like someone said in that movie one time: "A man is only as good as his word." and this interview has a lot of them so enjoy every one of them.
Yesterday I posted a review for Septa's latest album The Destroyer and promised you an interview. As a man of my word I have brought you what I said I would.
Like someone said in that movie one time: "A man is only as good as his word." and this interview has a lot of them so enjoy every one of them.
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That man you see there, with a giraffe shirt and a spectacular beard, is Pete Davis. You may or may not have heard his music released under his own name, Surface Area or, most recently, Invalids. These projects are quite varied but they all display great musicianship and composition while being written by one man, Pete Davis himself. For some of the projects he's had additional people playing or singing along, for Invalids the bass is done by Nick from Black Crown Initiate for example, but they're all essentially solo projects. I got a chance to interview Pete and ask him the obvious, the obscure and the nerdy. Enjoy the interview and listen to all of his music, it really is worth it.
Black Crown Initiate, I've written about them before and I'll write about them again. Their debut EP, Song of the Crippled Bull, took the internet by storm and blew away music blog after music blog with its progressive death metal assault.
Cliché introduction aside it's time for an interview with guitarist/vocalist Andy Thomas.
What can I say about THE HELL that hasn't already been said?
I could tell you about their new album Groovehammer. Or their fantastic Facebook page which is worth a like whether or not you're really into the music. Or maybe I'll just let the interview with guitarist/vocalist Black Mist speak for itself, after all he is in THE MOTHERFUCKING HELL (You Dick) So I recently got in touch with Closure in Moscow, whose album Pink Lemonade will surely grace my year-end list with it's psychedelic presence, about an interview and vocalist Christopher De Cinque was a total Sweet#Hart about it.
My questions, his answers and some songs, in case you're not familiar with the band, can be found below. So we've made it to the last day of Tech Fest, emotions are running high and the line-up is as killer as can be. This is the first of two interviews from Sunday which will then be followed by a live review of the bands I saw (which, due to interviews, ended up being the fewest of all the days). I bring you Italy's Destrage:
Saturday's headliners were none other that the mighty Monuments who kicked things off with Origin of Escape of their recently released Amanuensis. Well...Chris kinda kicked it off with I will go the distance from Hercules in the end of the band's soundcheck but Origin of Escape was the first song he let the band join in on.
When I got into the arena to see The Algorithm this was what stood between me and a good photo of the stage: I had arrived too late for a photo opportunity but just in time to have a lot of fun with a packed room, moshing and dancing in quick succession along with a crowd clearly in love with the creation of one Rémi Gallego.
Now, Voyager are a Belgian band I got into pretty hard pretty recently so they were near the top of my "must see at Tech Fest" list and following the live performance of Acoda they had quite a challenge ahead of them. They had some problems before even getting on stage as they had to break into their own van to get their equipment, apparently not the first time they had issues with the van recently but more about that in the interview.
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