KICK AXE--CD RELEASE PARTY

Thursday November 4th, 2004
Mesa Luna / Vancouver, BC  Canada

Review and All Live Pictures by Lord of The Wasteland

In 2002, one of Canada?s most successful hard rock bands from the 80s, Kick Axe, announced they were working on their first album since 1986?s ROCK THE WORLD.  When the simply-titled IV was finally released in September of this year, I couldn?t wait to hear it.

Dream Evil Drummer Snowy Shaw

When Dream Evil came to Copenhagen on their Scandinavian support tour together with Saxon I had the opportunity to interview the legendary drummer Snowy Shaw in Dream Evil, in both Copenhagen and in Malm?. Right now they are out supporting their new album "THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL" and of course I asked Snowy some questions about the album but also some question about himself.

Dan Swan? of Bloodbath

I had the pleasure to interview the legendary Dan Swan? from the band/project Bloodbath about their upcoming album NIGHTMARES MADE FLESH and about the band in general. I?ve also asked Dan about what they are up to right know, about the line-up changes, and if he was content with how the new album has turned out, read on to get his thoughts on these and other topics.

Interview with Kerry King of SLAYER
Interview & live pictures by Luxi Lahtinen 

Slayer last visited Finland in 2002 on their ”Tattoo the Planet” tour. That tour suffered from the cancellations of both Pantera and Static-X due to the WTC/Pentagon tragedy. Luckily the Slayer guys stated that they didn´t allow terrorists to disrupt their lives, and they tour was eventually made with Cradle of Filth, Amorphis, and In Flames filling Pantera´s and Static-X´s empty spots for the dates in both Sweden and Finland.

On “The Unholy Alliance” tour, Slayer brought Mastodon and Slipknot with them to Helsinki Icehall on 17^th of October ´04 and Slayer proved to be in a very good live shape just like they have always been (hey, we are talking about Slayer here, so what more you can really expect from them!).

A few hours before Slayer hit the stage, I met Kerry King at Helsinki´s most expensive hotel, Hotel Kämp, and went through an interesting conversation about the on-going tour naturally, the band´s forth-coming album, Slayer –fans, Kerry´s own K.F.K. Industries (I guess it´s not hard to guess what the letters K.F.K. stands for, heh!), Kerry´s favorite hard drinks, the state of Metal scene nowadays, etc. – amongst many other cool things were talked through between me and him as well.

Now just keep on reading what Kerry had to say about all these things more accurately…  

Lamb of God, Fear Factory, Children of Bodom

Tuesday October 26, 2004
The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC  Canada

Review and All Live Pics By Lord of The Wasteland