WHITFIELD CRANE

OF

UGLY KID JOE

INTERVIEW AND PICS BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS BY PATRICK CLEMENT

Ugly Kid Joe are an American metal / hard rock band hailing from California. The band was formed in 1989 and to date, Ugly Kid Joe has released three full-length albums, two compilation albums and two EPs. Ugly Kid Joe enjoyed massive success with their early singles “Everything about You” and “Cats In the Cradle” which both ran almost constantly on MTV. The first two albums AS UGLY AS THEY WANNA BE EP (1991) and AMERICA’S LEAST WANTED (1992) were both certified double platinum in USA. MENACE TO SOBRIETY (1995) presented the bands heavier and more serious side and it included another hit single “Milkman’s Son”.  The third and yet the last full length album MOTEL CALIFORNIA was released in 1996. The album did fail to reach its predecessors success and the band decided to split up just one year later. In 2010 the band announced a reunion where the lineup will be the same as the last one before their breakup: vocalist Whitfield Crane, guitarists Klaus Eichstadt and Dave Fortman, bassist Cordell Crockett and drummer Shannon Larkin. The new six track EP titled STAIRWAY TO HELL was released in early June. Two weeks ago the band headed to play Swedenrock Festival and there we then had the pleasure to discuss with Mr. Crane himself and hear the facts behind the re-union, future plans as well as Crane’s personal stuff from a “super fan” perspective… Read On!

Shattered Destiny - Vocalist JJ
Interviewed by EvilG

New, up and coming band, Shattered Destiny, presents us with a mixture of power/thrash and even some tinges of prog on their debut EP entitled FRAGMENTS. We caught up with the vocalist and band mastermind, JJ, to talk about the band, working with Joacim Cans (HammerFall) and what their plans are for the near future!

Goatwhore Interview

With James Harvey (Bassist)

https://www.facebook.com/thegoat666

May 13th 2012 @ the Underworld, Camden

by Paul James

Photography by Andre Purvis

RHAPSODY OF FIRE
With VOYAGER

Words and pictures by Kyle Moore, the Metal Magnus
The Gramercy – New York, NY
May 29th, 2012

RHAPSODY OF FIRE is a band that mostly passed me by. I couldn’t handle the demon-wizard dragon battles. Just couldn’t. So for years, I ignored a band that completely owns a self-created genre – “film-score metal.” Sure, I’d heard a few songs and read about their recent troubles with record labels and former bandmates, but I was busy learning the back-catalogues of MOONSORROW at the time. Then the opportunity came to see them live and even interview them, so I figured I’d better start doing my homework before I set foot into NYC’s Gramercy theater.