Category: Interviews

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A Chat With Suffocation’s Terrance Hobbs On The History Of Metal

Dan meets up with Terrance Hobbs Guitarist of Suffocation and chats about the history of Metal 

AAAmusic: Your last album was ‘Blood Oath’ in 2009 can you tell me when we can expect a new album?   

Terrance: Right now, we have most of the new record really ready to be recorded. We should be going in sometime next month, To start fully recording it. We are looking about fall 2012 for releasing it.  It will be called ‘Pinochle of Bedlam’ [...]

A Chat With Filastine

AAAmusic had a chat with Filastine: here’s what we discovered!

AAAmusic: Can you tell us a little bit about the making of this album?

LOOT was built in a dozen cities, but main nodes are my home studio in Barcelona, Indonesia, France, and New York City. There is a small group of musicians I’m working with regularly now, if I needs strings or a trumpet or whatever, know where to do for that. The two songs that feature the vocalist Nova were [...]

A Chat With Jonny Cola and the A-Grades

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Daniel Cairns chats with Jonny Cola and the A-Grades about Menswear and the tightness of silver PVC

AAAmusic: Tell me about the name of the band?  

Jonny – I am Jonny Cola and my band is the A-Grades, I got the name when I  was younger and I used to do music by myself. It was Electro-pop and I had   I used for a while which was ‘Charlie Bobbles’ which is taken from a 60′s   film and then [...]

A Chat With Aborted

Daniel Cairns chats with Sven and Eran from Aborted about what evil trap they would be and their music.

Sven “Svencho” de Caluwé – lead vocals (1995–present)

Eran Segal – guitar (2009–present)

 

AAAmusic: Your new album is called ‘Global Flatline’ is it about the global economy?

Sven: Not really it’s just about the end of the world and people dying, everybody dies on the planet it’s a pretty misanthropic subject.

Eran: Its death metal it’s just the craziest shit you could think of  strike [...]

A Chat With Jake Morley

AAAmusic: Hi Jake, congrats on your debut album “Many Fish To Fry”, the past few months must have been pretty hectic, how have you found them?

Mad. I’ve just finished touring the uk talking to radio stations. Sometimes it’s like one guy in a shed who doesn’t know what he’s doing with only his mum listening, and sometimes it’s a hundred people running around and they’ve got big red signs that light up when you’re live and thousands of people are [...]

A Chat With White Rabbits

Daniel Cairns chats with Alexander Even of ‘White Rabbits’ about Milk Cartons down the rabbit hole and Stadium Rock.

AAAmusic: Tell me about the new album ‘Milk Famous’ why that title, and what’s it about?

Alexander: I think I was drawn to ‘Milk Famous’ as a title because in America people are made famous by milk cartons. You know when someone goes missing they put them on the side of a milk carton and I thought that is something you shouldn’t be [...]

A Chat With Deathstars

Daniel Cairns meets up at the massive 02 Arena in London to glam it up with sexy symbol Cat Casino, where they talk about the magic of death glam and what porn stars he likes.

AAAmusic: This is probably the biggest tour to date for the ‘Deathstars’ how are you coping with it?

Cat: oh! We love it, ever since our first show we did yesterday, it’s been a f**kin’ ride and it’s pretty awesome to be here. We were kinda counting [...]

A Chat With Julien-K

Daniel Cairns chats with Julien-K about how difficult life can be when you have drugs and the whole world is an Orgy.

 

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Ryan Shuck – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Amir Derakh – Lead Guitar, Synthesizer
Anthony ‘Fu’ Valcic – Keyboard, Programming, Samples, Bass Guitar
Frank Zummo – Drums

 

AAAmusic: Who did ‘Julien K’ start after ‘Orgy’ and how was it for ‘Ryan going from guitar to lead vocals?

Amir – Basically we started Julien-K at a time when ‘Orgy’ was really dysfunctional and Ryan and I just [...]

A Chat With Clock Opera

Clock Opera join resident Controller Huw Stephens and this month’s Guest Controllers The 2 Bears at the Topman CTRL 2012 launch party.  #Topmanctrl / www.topman.com/ctrl

Daniel Cairns chats on the phone with Guy Connelly of Clock Opera about Topman and other things in the life of the band.

AAAMusic: So tell me how you got involved with Topman?

Guy: We played a gig for Topman control it was one of our first gigs and it went really well so we have a close connection with [...]

A Chat With Twelve Feet Clay

First of all Twelve Clay Feet, thank you for talking to us and congratulations on your debut album “Totem Bells”.

AAAmusic: Can you tell us a little bit about the process of making this record?

We started almost entirely independently, with our bass player Ollie, teaching himself how to record and produce. I guess Jay (Lead Guitar) Bob (Drums) and myself just made tea and positive noises, when we weren’t recording. We met Fraser Smith (Shed Seven/Ian Brown), who agreed to mix [...]

A Chat With The Popes

AAAmusic: Your new album ‘New Church’ is a brilliant piece of work. Can you tell us a little about the writing and recording of it?

Paul: We started Writing the songs for New Church almost immediately after the release of Outlaw Heaven ,I am always writing songs anyway I, could be watching the most banal program on TV and a simple phrase said by some fictional soap character could start me running into some deep thought process e.g. How many [...]

A Chat With Ronny Moorings of Clan of Xymox

Daniel Cairns meets up with Ronny Moorings and asks him about the past and the future of Clan of Xymox

AAAmusic: The band has been going for a long time and do you miss any of the old
members?

Ronny: Strains on a relationship have meant changes, the band is centred around  me same as ‘Trent Reznor’ he has to have a live band so he can play concerts, some members want to do things different some get pregnant so changes do have [...]

A CHAT WITH GREG CARMICHAEL of ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY

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Acoustic Alchemy has shown great persistence and an extraordinary energy over a 25 year period. Despite serious tragedy, the success of the group is reflected through the many songs which have become contemporary classics.

In 1987 Nick Webb and Greg Carmichael literally played their way to America.  They worked as an in-flight band on Virgin Atlantic flights between the UK and the United States. Six weeks after sending material to Nashville based label MCA, the band was called to record their [...]

A Chat With Saturday Night Gym Club

AAAmusic chats to Saturday Night Gym Club! Find out what we discovered!

 

AAAmusic: Okay, starting with the obvious: where on earth did your name come from?

 

Revising for finals, knowing that a bender could easily result in one of us being detained in a foreign prison. The obvious way to get the blood flowing without getting pissed was the gymnasium. We’d do a version of the bleep test where an amen break or a rave horn would go off at each end. [...]

A Chat With Cold In Berlin

Daniel Cairns up with Cold in Berlin and asked them what 2012 has in store for them!

My:Vocals Adam:Guitar and Bozley – Bass

AAAmusic: In my last review I said you were one of the music industry’s biggest secrets, have you had any major label interest since?

Bozley:Sadly not, I was looking forward to the bidding war, so far it hasn’t happened. Unfortunatly!!!

Adam:Thanks to you guys starting up the bidding war.

AAAmusic: I see your playing in Europe how do they react to you [...]