Metal Mike Chlasciak
Guitarist for PainmuseuM, Halford, Testament, etc.

Interview by EvilG and Lord of the Wasteland

Most people know the name Metal Mike Chlasciak as guitarist for the Halford band. If you’ve dug any deeper, you know that Metal Mike is, and has been, involved in varying capacities in many other bands. More recently Mike has been added to the Testament line-up, his own band PainmuseuM has released a killer album called METAL FOR LIFE, and it was announced that Mike will be on the next Halford album! We touched on many aspects of Mike’s metal life both current and past.

Bart Frydrychowicz and Yanic Bercier of
Quo Vadis

Interviewed by EvilG
Transcription by Nick
All pictures taken by Louis-Charles Levasseur
and used by permission of troisrivieresmetal.com.

Quo Vadis is the best prog/death metal band I've heard since Into Eternity. Both are Canadian bands, but Quo Vadis comes from the burgeoning Quebec metal scene where a long list of extreme metal bands has emerged. For many it all began with VoiVod in the 80's to newer bands like Cryptopsy, Kataklysm, Gorguts, Martyr, Oblivion, etc...  After I heard the new Quo Vadis album DEFIANT IMAGINATION, I was instantly hooked. The album is miles ahead of everything they've done prior to this release. If you are into progressive death metal and bands like Death, you should already know who these guys are. I was given the opportunity to interview guitarist Bart Frydrychowicz and drumgod Yanic Bercier of Quo Vadis. The lengthy (50+min) interview covered things like the new album and why it took a long time coming, the guest appearance of bass legend Steve DiGiorgio on the album, and the band's determination to get on the road and to make this album the one that really puts them on the international metal map.

Whitesnake
16.11 2004
Tampere Ice Hall, FINLAND
Review and pictures by Marko Syrjälä

The “Live … In the Still of the Night” tour landed Finland for the first time in September 2004 when band played in the front of a sold out crowd in Helsinki. A couple of weeks later they returned to play one show in the far North of Finland in Oulu and now they are here again playing a show in Tampere and still there is one more gig left in Turku tomorrow. So in total there are four Ice Hall gigs within three months in Finland by Whitesnake. So the question is, is this band popular or not?

Markus Vanhala of Omnium Gatherum
Interview By Anders Sandvall
Pictures provided by Sound Pollution
Thanks to Niklas "Hobbe" Andersson at Sound Pollution for help with the interview.

The Finnish act Omnium Gatherum have recently released their second album YEARS IN WASTE on Nuclear Blast. I took the opportunity to ask guitarist Markus Vanhala a few questions about the album and about the band.

Megadeth/Exodus

Friday, November 26, 2004

The Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC  Canada

Live Review & All Photos By Lord of the Wasteland