Swedish melodic thrashers Scaar are back on the attack with their third album NEXT LEVEL OF TORTURE. I thought it was time to do an update on what is going on in the Scaar camp. Alf Johansson and bass player Mats Vassfjord agreed to answer some questions. Scaar is a band that has a great future ahead of them.

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to the band for the promo pictures
Promo and live pictures by: Patrik Hellström

Eric Forrest - Vocalist and basist of E-Force

Interview by Luxi Lahtinen
Live pictures by Eva Tristessa (Stormblast) 

Eric Forrest, whom many remember from his days spent fronting the legendary Voivod, and replacing Snake, has got his own band E-Force going on. E-Force relies more on a straight-forward thrash sound; the sound Eric has always loved, and has now a possibility to bring out his own musical visions (or perversions - or whatever, ha!) through it. E-force´s debut album, EVIL FORCES, saw the light of day in 2003 on the French Seasons of Mist label, receiving a good amount of positive response from all over the world.

As some of us already know, E-Force was started in Montreal, Canada in 2001 - and the band was forced to go through a drastic line-up change when Eric moved to Toulouse, France in 2003. A new line-up around E-Force, was however found soon, and the band became ready to record their follow-up album in the end of 2007.

MODIFIED POISON is E-Force´s new album, featuring 11 thrash songs with a side order of “shreddzilla” - plus an unreleased Voivod cover song "Victory", which Eric also considers as his own personal tribute to Denis ´Piggy´ D´Amour who passed away due to Colon Cancer on August 26th, 2005. 

Eric was kind enough to talk to Metal-Rules.com about his whole history in bands from a Maiden/Antrax -tinged Thunder Circus to Voivod to his current band E-Force - as well as revealing some new, yet interesting things about Voivod´s plans for the band´s last album, DVD plans - and just much more... 

LIZZY BORDEN

Lizzy Borden carved his name to metal world in the 80’s with the horror looking visual stage show as well as look. All in all four full lengths came out of Lizzy’s horror dungeon during the 80’s, until he kind of vanished from the map without leaving many traces in the 90’s. Even though the 90’s was quite a silent period for Lizzy, he worked on his side project band Starwood. In 2000 the brand new album DEAL WITH THE DEVIL came out, but once again it took for about seven years to get the excellent APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH out. Lizzy and his horror masked crew arrived at Swedenrock. Therefore we had an excellent opportunity of questioning about his new album and the past and the present and the future. This interview was done at Swedenrock in the beginning of June, but it is timeless and extremely detailed.

INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ AND ARTO LEHTINEN

PiICTURES BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ

TRANSCRIPTED BY MURPHY 

Vocalist Ronny Munroe

***Interview By Lord of The Wasteland (Transcription By "Kill" Kamerman)