Singer Monica Primo – My Black Light

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band

My Black Light is a new Italian goth metal act that late last year released their brilliant debut album HUMAN MAZE and because of the great album I felt it was time to hook up with singer Monica Primo in order to get to know the band better. The music of My Black Light isn’t the ordinary Goth music instead they have featured some really interesting progressive influences so if this sounds like something you may like then check out the interview.

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Bandleader/bassist Joakim Hedestedt – Mass Murder Agenda

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Black Lodge for the promo pictures of

the band taken by: Gunnar M. Petersen

From Stockholm Sweden comes a brand new act called Mass Murder Agenda. The band is led by former Face Down member Joakim Hedestedt and the music falls into the industrial metal genre. Their debut album is called BRING THE VIOLENCE and because I have always been a fan of Hedestedt I thought it would be time to check out what he’s been up to and what he has to tell us about the new band, the new album. We couldn’t but slip into some more personal questions and if you’re familiar with the earlier work of Hedestedt be sure to check out the interview.

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Bandleader/singer R.D Liapakis – Mystic Prophecy

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Daniela, webbattender for Mystic Prophecy for making the interview possible

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band

RAVENLORD is the name of the seventh Mystic Prophecy album. I got in touch with bandleader R.D Liapakis (he’s also the only remaining original member in the band) to talk about the new excellent album, the line up changes and the past present and future of Mystic Prophecy. Read more about this great Greek/German heavy metal act down below.

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Guitarist/bandleader Rex Zeco – Nightqueen

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Massacre Records for promotional pictures.  

FOR QUEEN AND METAL is the debut album from the goth/fantasy act Nightqueen that comes from Belgium. I hooked up with guitarist and bandleader Rex Zeco in order to talk about the brand new album, about the band, the past present and future. If you’re into goth music with female vocals and fantasy influences be sure to check out Nightqueen.

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Freddy- lead singer and guitarist of Necronomicon

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing promotional pictures of the band.

Freddy is the only remaining original member in the German thrash metal act Necronomicon who released their debut album back in 1985.  Freddy and I talked about the bands seventh album that came out at the beginning of the year called INVICTUS. Besides the new album we also talked about guest appearances on the new album and about the bands past, present, and future. Be sure to check out Necronomicon if you’re into thrash metal the slightest.

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Singer Maike Holzmann – Voices Of Destiny

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing promotional pictures of the band.

This is the second time I had the opportunity to interview the young German goth metal act Voices Of Destiny. This time around I had the pleasure to talk to singer Maike Holzmann. Amongst a lot of things we talked about was of course the brand new album called POWER DIVE but also about the bands plans for the future as well as how it was to record the new disc. I spoke to Holzmann at the same time as they were out on tour supporting Epica and naturally we spoke about the life on the road.

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Guitarist Theo – Descending

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing me with promo pics.

The Greek thrash metal act Descending has a new album out, it’s their second one called NEW DEATH CELEBRITY and sounds great. The album was released at the end of last year and I thought it was about time for the band to be featured in metal-rules.com. The guitarist Theo and I talked about the new album that was recorded in Sweden by the famous producer Fredrik Nordstrom. Of course we talked about a lot of other things which you can read about below. If you like thrash metal, be sure to check out Descending.

 

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Marco Kern master mind / singer, guitarist – Garagedays

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing the promo pics.

Garagedays is the name of the Austrian band that recently released their brilliant debut album DARK AND COLD to the metal masses. I hooked up with band leader and master mind Marco Kern in order to set the record straight regarding the bands past present and future as well as DARK AND COLD as the recording process that took them to Sweden. Garagedays has also been out as support act to the band Master and the music of Garagedays ought to appeal to fans of heavy metal. 

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Bandleader/drummer Soren “Snoppi” Van Heek

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing the promo pics.

If you’re into power/heavy metal music then you should check out the brand new Wizard album  ….OF WARIWULFS AND BLUOTVARWES from the German act Wizard. The band have been active for 22 years so I thought it was time to get a hold of bandleader Soren “Snoppi” Van Heek and to have a long talk about the band, its history, the new album, and of course the future.

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 Arch Enemy

Swedish Chaos Tour 2011

Engel – special guest
Evocation – support act

Mejeriet, Lund, Sweden
11/11 – 2011

Reviewed and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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Days Of Anger: Alex Jonsson – singer/bassist

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up this interview

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band.

Alex Jonsson from Days of Anger was kind to do this shorter interview with me and metal-rules.com. The band is a new Swedish thrash metal act that involves members from the bands Scaar and Fatal Smile. Their debut album was released at the beginning of 2011 and down below you can read about what me and Alex talked about.

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 U.D.O. – Rev-Raptor European Tour 2011

Sister Sin – special guest
Sevenfield – support act

Kulturbolaget, Malmoe, Sweden
5/10 – 2011

Review and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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Roger "Rogga" Johansson: An extreme metal legend 

Interviewed by: Anders  Sandvall

Thanks to: Roel at Vic Records for the help and thanks to Vic Records

for providing promo pictures of Bloodgut and Ribspreader

Roger “Rogga” Johansson is a familiar name within the extreme metal genre. Roger is a very busy man with numerous of releases in his back catalog. His latest release is the first album from Bloodgut called NEKROLOGIRUM EVANGELIKUM PT 1 ZOMBIE REIGN 2666 AD. Other band projects that he is involved in include Ribspreader and Paganizer etc. Johansson was kind enough to make space in his busy schedule for an interview with Metal-Rules.com. As you can see, the interview became pretty long and despite that had we only time to scratch the surface. Here is what mastermind Johansson had to say.

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Guitar player Erwin Suetens – Fireforce

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for making the interview possible.

Thanks to Masacere Records for the promo pictuers on the band

Fireforce is a an act from Belgium that recently launched their debut album MARCH ON to the world. I met up with Erwin Suetens, one of the guitar players, to have a chat about the band and the new album. The bands music can be categorized as power metal and MARCH ON is jammed with every element a great power metal album needs. Read the interview if you you’re curious on how the Belgian metal-scene is doing.

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Dan Swano – extreme metal legend

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Dan Swano for additional personal pictures.

Thanks to Vic Records for the promo picture.

Dan Swano is a very busy man but he had the kindness to do this interview with metal-rules.com despite his busy schedule. As every one probably already knows, Swano is an icon within the extreme metal genre and the founder and owner of the studio Unisound Studio. REINVENTING THE PAST is the name of the new Odyssey album where Swano have covered his favourite songs into metal versions. As an extra bonus have he also threw in the Odyssey mini CD from 1999 along with the disc.

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