INTERVIEW: GUMSHOE

Photo: Cody Bollinger (Visual King, Cody Bollinger – Creative Studio) I’ve known Mark Li (guitar/vocals) for a hot minute. We go all the way back to booking Showplace Theatre through ESI EVENTS back in the mid 2000s, if anyone from WNY reading this remembers such a thing. Back then, he was slinging riffs for melodic […]

INTERVIEW: LEDWING (A FITTING REVENGE)

Next up, it’s my privilege to finally chat with Ledwing from A Fitting Revenge (Rochester, New York metalcore) for the first time since 2019. AFR just released a video for their new single, “The Overthrow” and of course, it’s a banger! Naturally, we reviewed the new AFR material, but before we get into that, let’s […]

INTERVIEW: JOHN “JT” TAYLOR (SPIT NICKELS)

1. Even though you weren’t there from the beginning, talk about YOUR beginnings with Spit Nickels. How did you come into the fold, and what has the journey been like since you took over front man duties? JT: My beginnings with Spit Nickels began when I was in Undead Messengers. I used to guest vocal […]

2021 IN REVIEW WITH RICK HORTON (METALLIC ONSLAUGHT RADIO)

If you don’t know who this is, it is indeed quite possible that you have never been to a local metal show in Buffalo or Rochester, New York within the last ten or so years. If this is the case, kindly click through this blog, find a band you like, and report to their next […]

INTERVIEW: BRODY UTTLEY (RIVERS OF NIHIL)

To put it mildly, Rivers of Nihil are a band who have intrigued me immensely since around the end of 2015. My old band opened for them in Niagara Falls in the midst of their Monarchy tour, and just seeing their musicianship and professionalism in action was enough to get me on board. They are […]

INTERVIEW: THE VIOLENT INZIDENT

A few weeks ago, DragonForce posted that their drum tech, Joyzi, had started up a nu metal parody band called The Violent Inzident. DF shared the video for TVI’s song, “This Is Nu Metal”, and of course I thought to myself, I need to interview these guys immediately because this is fucking amazing. Never in […]

INTERVIEW: MATTHEW BROWN (DEMON KING)

We’ve been chatting back and forth with Malcolm Pugh of The Artisan Era and Inferi for a few months now, picking his brain about all the cool stuff he’s been doing for extreme metal. In addition to his riff conjuring with Nashville, Tennessee melodic technical death metallers, Inferi, not to mention spearheading an entire record […]

INTERVIEW: LAUREN WISHNIE (DAMAGES)

Back in 2018, Buffalo, New York’s DAMAGES crept into the world to bring us some melodic death metal with a modern spin. This isn’t to say that they’re doing the ever popular metalcore sound of the 2020s and combining it with MDM, but more so, they are bending and breaking the original rules of the […]

INTERVIEW: JESSE ISADORE (NARWHAL BLOODBATH, DESIGN THE VOID)

Jesse Isadore is unquestionably my favorite harsh vocalist in the region for smaller bands. He’s a great dude all around and incredibly talented. Jesse is excellent in the studio in terms of creative layering. His range is unbelievable, which allows him to build a multitude of harsh vocal characters and layer several different pitches on […]

INTERVIEW: SAGE REDGRAVE (DARKENED DIVINITY)

Sage Redgrave has been a good friend of mine since around 2018. We met at an Angel Vivaldi show in Rochester, New York. I’ve known OF him a lot longer than that, but I suppose that AV show was the beginning of OUR journey. Since then, I’ve supported his efforts playing guitar with Skinbound, The […]