Martin Schulman, bass guitarist of the swedish group Demonical, was kind enough to answer a set of questions for Metalfan regarding the band concerts in Romania. Martin has also offered a few details about th...
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November 04, 2011
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Tiina Teal was the lead singer for the legendary underground thrash metal band Détente on their second album – “Decline” - released 24 years after the debut album “Recognize no Authority”. I have c...
Not many heavy metal bands have undergone so many lineup changes like Megadeth: seven guitar players and six drummers have come and gone between 1983 and 2002. But the bass player remained. David "Junior" Ell...
Peter Huss, the guitarist of the infamous swedish group Shining, was kind enough to speak exclusively for Metalfan Romania about albums that have marked him both as man and as a musician.Moving from Europe to Megadeth and from Guns N 'Roses t...
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September 26, 2011
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David Ellefson, bass player of Megadeth, was kind enough to list his 5 most favorite albums for Metalfan Romania, the albums that influenced him as a musician and as a person, he also did not hesitate to...
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September 23, 2011
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Rob "The Baron" Miller, the lead vocalist of legendary British crust-punk/doom metal group, Amebix, was kind enough to speak exclusively for Metalfan Romania about the albums that have influenced him the most...
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September 21, 2011
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Metalfan: Hello an...
Metalfan: Hello and welcome to Metalfan.ro! Last year you played your first show in Romania at the Artmania Festival. It was definitively my favorite concert I saw at this edition of the festival and as far as...
How was the beginning of Riverside 10 years ago? Which circumstances brought you together and decided you to make a rock band?The beginning was kind of an accident. Me and Piotr (th...
Immediately after he left the Emperor, Mortiis (Håvard Ellefsen) has created its own stylistic niche, becoming a character for cult, mysterious aura is amplified so his rare interviews to the press, and the...
What you think when you hear the word "Jupiter"? Okay, the second planet ... but instead what do you think? Exactly! The Atheist album, the first after a break of 17 years. A...
Name the three best French melodic metal bands! It’s not so easy, isn’t it? Not so many names come to mind. Well maybe this interview can help. Maybe these brave Britons gathered under the name of Shadyon could provide...
I have never had the opportunity of listening any Mar de Grises song until this year, when I accidentally ran into Streams Inwards. As I enjoyed this album very much, I started digging and discovered that Chile has produced more...
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November 16, 2010
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Norway has been known for a long time as the home of black metal music, but there are persistent rumors that one of the best Norwegian live acts is, in fact, playing thrash metal. Meet Manifest, a rather young Trondheim...
The latest Autopsy studio album was released 15 years ago. I knew some things about a reunion that took place some time ago, but I had no idea what to expect, so the release of The Tomb Within took me by surprise. As Metalfan...
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November 09, 2010
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This year, Orphaned Land came back with an extremely inspired, complex and ambitious album. Due also to the fact the band played this year in Sonisphere Romania, Metalfan wanted to continue the discussion from the point where it...
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November 04, 2010
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The discussions which I had, along the way, with bands from the far and cold Norway, have always been extensive and extremely interesting, and the discussion partners were open-minded and intelligent.This time, I ha...
After 13 years break, the Swedes from Algaion came back with a vengeance and a new studio album, seeming determined to start things over from where they’ve left them when they split up. As usual, Metalfan was alert and chall...
The latest release of thrash veterans Flotsam and Jetsam, The Cold, is actually quite hot and shows a band that's undeniably at the top of their game. We inquiered drummer Craig Nielsen about this wave of renewed energy and cr...
First of all, I’d like to ask you how long have you been with the band, are you one of the founding members?I joined Destroyer 666 in 1996, but originally Destroyer was more like a project band. KK Warslut was a member of Bestial War...
On the 16th of October (or, more likely, on the 17th, taking into account that our discussion took place around 2.30 hours in the night), during the mini-festival Labyrinthic Metal Evening, we had the pleasure to have an interes...
Tristania started more or less as a typical gothic metal band (1996) and some of the albums they released helped define the genre (Beyond the Veil, 1999). They never stayed too long in the same place though, and as they expand...
We talked with Rogga Johansson (vocals, guitar) and Ed Warby (drums) about the third album of their band Demiurg, namely Slakthus Gamleby...
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September 14, 2010
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Greece is a mysterious and captivating country and its inhabitants are charismatic and complex. I had no doubt that my discussion with Efthimis Karadimas, Nightfall’s leader, would be an interesting one, but in the end it my...
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September 04, 2010
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Metalfan: This is your first time in Romania. What are the things you want to know when you are about to play for the first time in a new place? What were your curiosities, if you had any, related to, before arriving here?Oliver: Well, in...
If you have listened to Unleashed's latest album, you already know half of the answer. Johnny Hedlund (vocals, bass) has been kind enough (as always) to provide us with the other half, so all of you warriors gather 'round and...
The Apocalypse, as seen from the Italian doom metal scene, sounds great. I mean, yes, it’s doom metal and it speaks about the end of the world, it’s not supposed to be a holiday in the sun. And it isn't. But when you liste...
Some of the band members have been on the metal scene for over 10 years, but they’ve only been known as METALFORCE since 2008. Consisting of: Tarek Maghary (vocals), Tristan Visser (guitar), Jan Raddatz (drums) and Freddy Schartl (bass) th...
Anders finally found some time in his busy schedule to answer my questions and not just that, he also mentioned Bathory as one of the most important Swedish bands ever, this has been definitely worth the wait! For me, at least! Those of you wh...
More than two decades ago, Rotting Christ have started their own chapter in the book of extreme metal. Continuously pushing forward the boundaries of their music, Sakis and his bandmates have ever since firmly cemented their position as metal lege...