Interviews

Staind’s Aaron Lewis: ‘It Was Time’ to Get Heavy on New LP [Interview]

Staind releases their seventh studio album today (Sept. 13), and frontman Aaron Lewis took the time to chat with Audio Ink Radio about the new album, the difficult process of recording it and why he wishes he’d never told anyone the meaning behind, “Epiphany.”
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Oh, Sleeper’s Micah Kinard: ‘Fire’ is an ‘In-Depth Concept Album’ [Interview]

Fort Worth-based metal-core act Oh, Sleeper always had a knack for crafting metallic, grandiose, in-depth concept albums, and their new release, Children of Fire, picks up right where 2009’s, Son of the Morning, left off.
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Tom Morello on Tool and Creating ‘Mosh Pits in Your Mind’ [Interview]

Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello talks about the Justice Tour, contemporaries Tool and why his alter ego, the Nightwatchman, “creates mosh pits in your mind.”
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Puddle of Mudd Guitarist Talks ‘Re(disc)overed,’ Metallica [Interview]

Puddle of Mudd guitarist Paul Phillips checks in to talk about the band’s just-released covers album ‘Re(disc)overed,’ their current stint on the Rock Allegiance Tour and gives his Top 5 Rock Albums of All Time.
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Burn Halo Singer on Drowning Pool, New Single ‘Tear it Down’ [Interview]

When Burn Halo sat down to flesh out the video for their latest single, “Tear it Down,” they knew, confidently, they wanted a plot that would match the message of the song: Be yourself. Read Audio Ink Radio’s exclusive interview with lead singer James Hart, here.
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Blue October Vocalist Gets Personal on New Album [Interview]

Justin Furstenfeld of hard rock band Blue October chats about the band’s new album (“It’s basically an audio journal”) and why, Any Man in America, has “a story behind it everybody can relate to.”
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Cold’s Scooter Ward on ‘Superfiction’: ‘I Have No Filter’ [Interview]

Scooter Ward and his alternative metal band Cold have a new album out, ‘Superfiction,’ and a broadening first single in, “Wicked World,” that’s mounting the rock charts. Lounging before a show in Allentown, Pa., Ward checked in to talk about what makes ‘Superfiction’ unique and Cold’s admiration for their fans.
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ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons Loves Keith Richards [Interview]

ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons talks about his recent collaboration with blues player Leslie West, his love for Keith Richards and ZZ Top’s simple secret to success.
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Seether Drummer John Humphrey: New Single ‘Tonight’ Almost ‘Didn’t Make the Album’ [Interview]

Drummer John Humphrey checked in with Audio Ink Radio to talk about Seether’s new album (“It was like a Christmas present for me”), their new single ‘Tonight’ (which almost didn’t make the album) and why the 2011 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival will be one big reunion.
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Sick Puppies’ Emma Anzai: Hearing Songs ‘in a New Way’ [Interview]

Sick Puppies bass slinger Emma Anzai has shared the stage with mega rock names: Nickelback, Seether, Shinedown, Velvet Revolver. But looking back on Sick Puppies’ decade-plus years together, the one that really stands out is playing Big Day Out in her home country of Australia.
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