Jesse Zuretti of Binary Code and the 'Moonsblood' of depression
Jesse Zuretti suffered such a deep and suffocating depression that it threatened his livelihood and his life. He channeled much of what he experienced...
Metal Brainiac
Share:
Listens: 19
About
The smartest half-hour in heavy metal, Metal Brainiac features serious interviews with metal artists about their music, histories and the creative process.
Lazaro Pina of Ill Nino: Remembering and re-igniting 'Revolución'
In 2001, the band Ill Nino released its debut album “Revolution”—and at the time, a revolution is exactly what it seemed like, an American band of His...
Kristof Bathory and the new evangelism of Dawn of Ashes
Kristof Bathory recently became an Ambassador with the Greater Church of Lucifer, so it would be easy to cast the music he creates as evangelistic evi...
Otep Shamaya: Metal's leading protest artist
Otep Shamaya is perhaps the only true protest artist in metal. On the heels of her seventh studio album, “Generation Doom,” Otep talks about her polit...
Mallika Sundaramurthy of Abnormality
Mallika Sundaramurthy, vocalist of Massachusetts technical death band Abnormality, talks art, politics and working like an athlete to develop her sub-...
Nate Garnette + Scott Hedrick shake the bones of Skeletonwitch
Nate Garnette and his bandmates in Skeletonwitch fired Nate's brother, vocalist Chance Garnette, after 11 years together. That was in April 2015, prom...
Chaney Crabb of Entheos: The newest female voice in extreme metal
Chaney Crabb’s audition video for Veil of Maya didn’t land her the microphone in that band, but it did catch the attention of a lot of other musicians...
Tommy Victor of Prong: Danzig + Ministry + his own creative rebirth
Over three decades of near misses and missed trends, New York band Prong has found new life with stellar back-to-back albums. Prong mastermind Tommy V...
Marc Görtz of Caliban and the 'Gravity' of creating new music
Marc Görtz, the guitarist, songwriter and mastermind of Caliban, orbits the creative process behind the German band's 10th album, "Gravity." The album...
Robin Staps of The Ocean: Don't call his music 'progressive'
Robin Staps, guitarist and songwriter for the German band The Ocean, bristles at the description of his music as progressive. But there’s no denying t...