Taking advantage of the situation he finds himself in, Stray From The Path drummer and The Downbeat Podcast host Craig Reynolds invites guitarist Tom Williams from his band onto the show for this week’s episode. A multi band manager, father and best friend, Williams has plenty to say about the risks of their recent headlining
Reminiscing about the Livin La Vida Loco Tour back in 1999 which saw them headline with support from Machine Head, Slipknot, Amen and Dope, Coal Chamber bassist Nadja Peulen is the latest to sit in the KnotFest Nu Pod hot seat. The conversation stretches to her work on graphic novels and the recording of “Rivals” as
One of the highlights of September was debut album “To Be Forgotten” from Leeds based Post-Metal act Helve via Ripcord Records. Some eight years in the making and yet feeling like the band had barely left the studio after their debut EP “Faint Hope” in 2015, it can be considered nothing short of a triumphant return…
Groove-centric Metal purveyors Crowborn hail from Cambridge, the brainchild of guitarist and bassist Matt Crawford and vocalist Ben “Bennboy” Goddard born to burn in the great plague years. Produced, mixed, and mastered by Numbskull Audio Production by Crawford himself, their debut EP “It Just Is” finds them joined by drummer James Chapman and creating songs
The Nu-Metal nostalgia that is Joshua Toomey’s Nu Pod on KnotFest returns and brings us a conversation with Morgan and Mercedes Lander from Kittie. 2018 saw them release a 20th Anniversary documentary and live featurette in “Origins/Evolutions” and that seems to have opened the door for them to play both Sick New World and When
The 99th edition of The Garza podcast from Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza finds him joined by Dutch Deathcore assassins Distant. They’re in the middle of tearing up the US with Left to Suffer, Cabal and Justice for the Damned and discuss everything from getting 17 guest vocalists on their track “Argent Justice” to how
Having previously assisted in the riff department, when it came to writing and recording “Common Suffering” vocalist James Pligge took a back seat with producer Will Yip (Turnstile, Code Orange) instead pushing the Harm’s Way vocalist to focus on giving the perfect vocal contribution. Pligge sat down with Belgian Jasper to discuss the merciless new record
Drummer Shaun Cameron from Deathcore pioneers Carnifex answers the questions from Belgian Jasper in a fresh interview about the bands new album “Necromanteum“. The record has at it’s heart a simple concept: what if you could use that kind of room to speak with death, itself? What secrets of the world could you uncover from
The second in our pair of creature double feature exclusive interviews with Raze mastermind, founding member and vocalist Louis Dunham finds us chatting about what went in behind the scenes when it came to writing and recording their long in gestation debut album “Pyrography“. A stunning piece of work that crosses the territories of Post-Grunge,
One of the many, many highlights of the 10th Anniversary of Tech-Fest this summer was a set from London Post-Metal act Itself Timeless, a band shrouded in mystery who like to let their art do the talking. Of course that didn’t stop us from getting not one but two exclusive interviews with them, this being
