JD Fortune has lived one hell of a rock’n’roll story. From sleeping in his car and eating two-minute noodles to fronting INXS and flying on private jets, Fortune opens up about the highs, lows and lessons along the way. Read More …
Category: Interviews
Mortal Sin: Forty Years of Mayhem, Fifty Shows Back and No Signs of Slowing Down
There are some bands you simply cannot talk about Australian heavy metal history without mentioning, and Mortal Sin are absolutely one of them. From those early Sydney thrash days and the impact of Mayhemic Destruction through Face of Despair, international touring, breakups, reunions and later Read More …
The Ocean: Robin Staps on Solaris, Rebuilding the Collective, Dual Vocals and Exploration
Some albums arrive according to a carefully mapped plan. Others sit unfinished for years, waiting for the world around them to catch up. For Robin Staps, Solaris became something even more important. It became the unfinished story that convinced him The Ocean still had a Read More …
Sarcator’s Mateo Tervonen: The Ones We Follow, Death “N” Roll & Breaking Boundaries
There are albums that introduce you to a band, and then there are albums that immediately make you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. For me, Sarcator’s Alkahest was absolutely the latter. I first came across the Swedish band properly when that record landed Read More …
Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys Unleash Their Most Human Record Yet: Disgust
Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys return with Disgust, an explosive new album shaped by twelve years of songwriting, live shows, anger, mortality and musical evolution. Read More …
From Under Concrete Kings’ Joseph Izayea on Impulse Tension, Trauma & Acceptance
Some records capture a moment. Others only really begin to make sense once enough time has passed to understand the person who survived it. From Under Concrete Kings’ Impulse Tension feels very much like the latter. I’ve known Joseph Izayea for a few years now. Read More …
Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell: Rebuilding Trust, Rediscovering the Songs and Returning Down Under
Twenty years after Razorlight, Johnny Borrell joins Jai That Aussie Metal Guy to talk about the album that seemed determined to exist, rebuilding his creative relationship with Andy Burrows, returning to Australia and the raw live moment captured in “Wire to Wire.” Anniversary conversations can Read More …
Segression: Chris Rand On 30 Years, Australian Metal History And We Are Deathless
There are some interviews that are work, and then there are the ones where you sit there thinking, fuck, sixteen year old me would never have believed this. Catching up with Chris Rand from Segression definitely sat in that second camp for me. I first Read More …
Beautiful Skeletons Turn Survival Into Sound on Pulse/Line/Scar
Some conversations hit you before the official interview even begins. Before I rolled into the formal intro for my latest Crannk chat with Beautiful Skeletons, drummer Huwy Williams and I were already comparing the strange reality of life after cancer. I have now been in Read More …
OUTLIER’S JOEY ARENA: SCREAMIERE CLOSES ONE CHAPTER AS “DIGITAL HELL” OPENS ANOTHER
Five years can disappear bloody fast. When I last caught up with Joey Arena in March 2021, we spoke about his ARENA synthwave project, Sammy Hagar giving his blessing to Joey’s version of Van Halen’s “Dreams,” and an Outlier catalogue already holding enough material for Read More …
Bloodstain From Schoolmates To Sweden Rock & Beyond
The first time I heard Bloodstain, I had to go and find out more about them. These guys were playing with a confidence that made it hard to believe how recently they had come together. Finding out the band had formed in Stockholm in late Read More …
Green Lung’s Tom Templar : Coffin Trains & Doom The Horror And History Behind Necropolitan
Green Lung have always felt like more than a collection of massive riffs. Every album opens a doorway into a world of folklore, horror, forgotten history and the overwhelming power of nature. Their music can hit immediately as traditional British heavy metal and hard rock, Read More …