Festivalphoto recently interviewed Bai Bang singer Diddi Kastenholt. Festivalphoto: Hey Diddi… You’ve just released your new album, “Livin’ My Dream” on AOR Heaven. Can you tell us a bit about the songs on the album? Diddi: Hallo to you Anthony! Well, we started to write songs almost right after the last album ”Are you Ready”,…
Festivalphoto interviewed Kreator founder and frontman Miland ’Mille’ Petrozza shortly before they played the main stage at this years Bloodstock festival. Festivalphoto: You started writing new material for a new album to follow the 2009 ”hordes of chaos” album earlier this year. Will you be recording the album in live conditions as you did with…
Festivalphoto interviewed Elize and Olof from Amaranthe at this years Bloodstock festival. Festivalphoto: First of all, well done on a great set on the Jaegermeister acoustic stage earlier. Olof: Thanks for being there and watching the show. Festivalphoto: OK, first of all, for the benefit of anyone who hasn’t heard of Amaranthe yet, can you…
Festivalphoto interviewed Byfrost shortly before their UK debut at the Bloodstock festival. Festivalphoto: OK first of all for anyone not familiar with Byfrost, can you tell me a bit about the band? Byfrost: OK we’re a three piece metal band from Bergen, Norway. We play the kind of music that makes your head spin and…
Festivalphoto spoke to Exodus bassist Jack Gibsonshortly after they played the main stage at Bloodstock 2011. Festivalphoto: Firstly congratulations on a great set tonight. How did you think it went? Jack: I think it was good and bad you know, as always with a live performance we had some technical difficulties, but in true Exodus…
Festivalphoto spoke with Snowy Shaw, vocalist with Therion shortly after their performance on the main stage at the UK’s Bloodstock festival. Festivalphoto: First of all congratulations on a great show tonight – my favourite performance so far this weekend. Snowy: Ok thanks, that’s wonderful to hear. Festivalphoto: You started as a death metal band and…
Festivalphoto recently managed to interview Chandler Mogel, the Singer with Greek band Outloud following the release of their new album, ”Love Catastrophe” Festivalphoto: Hi Chandler… You’ve just released your new album, “Love Catastrophe” through AOR Heaven… Can you tell us a bit about the songs on the album? Chandler: “Yes, sure!! The album came out…
The Finnish metallers from Amorphis have recently released an album called ’The Beginning of Times’, which they are touring to promote now. As they performed on the festival’s main stage, on the last day of Tuska 2011 I had the opportunity for a short chat with Amorphis’ bass player, Niclas Etelävuori. It was a really…
ALESTORM Riding the Storm Interview There are bands who struggle for ages, and there are the ones going places fast. It seems like yesterday, in reality since 2006, or, in the public eye, since 2008. That was probably the first time anyone outside of Scotland heard of this lot. How do you go from a…
Seventribe är det galna bandet med många medlemmar och rosa skjortor. Jag fick möjligheten att intervjua sex av dem (Mike Thaison, Handsome, Manman, Kid Bondage, Mike JR och Red Sixx) strax efter att de öppnat på Sonisphere Sverige. Håll i er, det är inte alltid solklart vad de menar, men fantastiskt underhållande. Jag har inte…
Kobra and the lotus are an up and coming Canadian band that is currently touring the UK. The band are being chased by major record labels, so if you haven’t heard anything by them before then its only a matter of time before you do – this band is going to be big ! Festivalphoto…
Formed as a jazz quartet in 1999 by saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jørgen Munkeby together with fellow students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Shining is a band who quickly caught the eye of music lovers by always pushing the boundaries and having a very daring approach to combining a variety of elements. For their first…