Hard Talk

1-HELLBASTARD has been around for quite a long time…could you please get everyone up to date by sharing the important ‘happenings’ of HELLBASTARD’S long standing existence??  Well,…. we recorded a demo in 1986 titled “Ripper Crust”, which subsequently gave way to Hellbastard being apparently responsible for the birth of a new musical genre called “Crust”,…or […]

Raised in the Pacific Northwest, the young Fox began playing piano at the age of five. A lifetime of playing music and sitting at the piano has allowed it to become second nature to him. He played piano and violin throughout his academic years, which led to learning guitar and bass. Soon after, he began […]

DEAN CRAMER of SO LOW and formerly of FUNNY MONEY with STEVE WHITEMAN of KIX, is one of the most excellent musicians I ever met…fun, always smiling, very self-confident minus the ROCK STAR EGO too many musicians have… DEAN’S band SO LOW is missing from the music scene today….. 80’s hair-band-get-your-fun-loving’-groove-on with lots of melodic […]

England’s hard rock/metal TYGERS OF PAN TANG are out and about and definitely on the prowl again since the recent release of their highly praised RITUAL album. I caught up with my friend, Gav Gray, TYGERS bassist extraordinaire and he got me up to date on TYGERS latest happenings….please read on, enjoy and check out […]

Manchester, NH….founded in 2011 by Melissa Wolfe & William Savant. Combining traditional heavy metal with modern rhythms, light synths, & a blend of urban hardcore. Melissa sings clean vocals while William adds harsher vocal pieces. Then you have heavy percussion alongside William’s synths, composition, and multi-genre experience, delivering a wide variety of down-tuned grueling bass, […]

This Interview was originally to be posted in Ballbuster Babes. However, Kat has asked us not to include it in babes so it’s now posted in HardTalk Interviews here at BallBuster Music! Enjoy!! –Editors Note I have known of the Great Kat since she released her debut release on Roadracer Records many years ago and […]

“I realized just how much competition there was and came to the conclusion that the only way I had any shot at even being heard (especially without having much money) was to learn what to do to promote the band nationally and basically out-work other musicians at promoting myself and the band.”  – Joe Sims […]

ANOTHER BALLBUSTER EXCLUSIVE! THIS TIME WE HOOKED UP WITH THE METAL QUEEN HERSELF, LEE AARON, TO TALK ABOUT HER PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE! ENJOY! JYM HARRIS – I think it’s fair to assume that many American headbangers like myself became aware of your music in the early 80’s. How did you initially get into the […]

After two decades, METAL CHURCH vocalist Mike Howe breaks his silence… not only by singing on the excellent comeback album ‘XI’ on Rat Pak Records but also giving BallBuster Music this Exclusive Interview! Make sure to catch Metal Church on tour this summer! So glad to have Mike back in the Metal world! Enjoy! JYM […]

Hey Bangers! We have another BallBuster exclusive for ya… Here’s an interview with a young new talent in the Metal world… a foul mouthed fella by the name of RazorFist who is quickly becoming well known a Youtube “ranter” due to his work critiquing things like 80’s action films, professional wrestling, comic books and video […]

For two and a half decades, I’ve been hearing stories about a concert that happened in my hometown of Medford Oregon… a show where the band played a blistering set to only a handful of people… where the drummer’s ride cymbal broke, so he threw it into the small crowd and it exploded into pieces! […]

Scar Symmetry invigorated the almost stale melodic-death metal scene when the hit the genre hard and fast in 2005 with their dynamic release ‘Symmetric In Design’. It was only months later when they muscled their way into the hearts of U.S. metal fans with the almost perfectly mixed blend of music with 2006‘s ‘Pitch Black […]

A Wednesday 13 show is like no other. It’s almost a religious experience. After a short introduction, Wednesday 13 came out and the energy level was high from the word go and, what’s real interesting, is the fact that they don’t slow down. With each song, that energy level goes up and up and it […]

As with most any new band out there today, Engel are ready to take the world by storm. Hailing from the ever so famous Gothenburg, these guys have a ‘uniquely mesmerizing heavy-as-hell melodic sound’ that can only be described as their own. Founded in 2005 by Niclas Engelin (formerly of Gardenian, In Flames, Passenger), he […]

Well by now, most of you should already have the latest Death Angel masterpiece, ‘Killing Season’ in your grubby little hands. If not, you are a bit behind the times here. And a true masterpiece it is. Death Angel come full throttle at you with their newest, and destined to be a classic thrash opus. […]

The mastermind behind what many of you out there may call “happy metal” band Edguy, is back after five years of silence. Well with his side project Avantasia that is. It was great talking with Tobias about his project and a little about Edguy. Here is a bit of what went down in our conversation. […]

Annihilator are considered by many as one of the forefathers of the thrash metal movement of the 80’s. And to others, Annihilator are considered as, “Who?” Yes, this too surprised me as well. But being as their success has mainly been in Europe and Japan, the North American shores have not seen Annihilator play a […]

Bullet For My Valentine had been launched into the mainstream with their debut release ‘The Poison’ selling over a million albums. 350,000 in the U.S. alone. That is quite a milestone for any band to sell that many copies of a single release, let alone the first. Add to that the bands relentless touring schedule […]

Queensryche is a band that needs no introduction. For more than 20 years, they’ve built a reputation as one of the best, most innovative bands the music world has ever seen. During the course of their career, they’ve managed to go above and beyond what people would expect from them…and they’re still going strong. In […]

Revered as one of the early pioneers of Scandinavian death metal, the band Entombed have journeyed down many a path. Both musically and within various line-up changes over the years. Present day, the Swedish death metal legends are proud to put forth their latest album, ‘Serpent Saints’, which takes their sound back to the more […]

Udo Dirkschneider is one of those names in the metal world that is just as recognizable and ranked up there with the likes of Bruce Dickenson, Rob Halford and Dee Snider. As well as his vocal style. Truly as unique of a voice as any. Breaking through internationally in 1981 with Accept’s third album ‘Breaker’, […]

When sitting here trying to find a few words to start out this interview, I wasn’t really sure I could really put down anything different than what starts out their own bio on their MySpace pace. So I’m using it here. One thing I can say that I did not see on that space is […]

Most notably know for their massive hits,’ Edge Of A Broken Heart and Love Is A Killer’, Vixen will go down in history as one of, if not the most successful all female rock/metal band. And with the release of their first two albums (Vixen & Rev It Up), it had gained them world wide […]

It’s great for us, the fans of music, when certain things or genres come back full circle. In my opinion that is. And the one thing that I’ve been impressed with the past couple of years has been the reemergence of thrash. Sure, thrash has really never gone away, but it’s just that there is […]

After only just last summer sending out a three song demo to various labels, new female fronted band Echoes Of Eternity are taking on the world one day at a time. Newly signed to Nuclear Blast, with one listen to their newly released ‘ The Forgotten Goddess’, the group is readying up for their upcoming […]

With their latest release ‘Internal Revolution’, we see Diecast hitting the road in support of the album with Sevendust through May. Most recent vocalist for the past two offerings Paul Stoddard sat down before their set on the first night of the tour to discuss a few things going on with the band. JH: First […]

Death Bound has an upcoming tour with the godfather’s of grind – Napalm Death. How stoked are you about this tour? What Napalm Death release influenced Death Bound the most? Kai – we are insanely stoked! This is one dream come true for sure! These are the dates: On tour with Napalm Death 10.01.2007 Gimle, […]

In support of their latest Rotten Records release, ‘Serenade The Samurai’, I was able to catch guitarist Brandon Manlove for a quick e-mail interview to talk a bit about the band, the release and a few other things. JH: Can you give us a brief history on how Vampire Mooose came to be? BM: Vampire […]

SpiRitual is the new ethno metal project of Stefan Hertrich. You may know some of Stefan’s work from the longtime gothic metal band Darkseed. He is also a soundtrack composer for several PC games. A couple other projects by Stefan include Betray My Secrets and Shiva In Exile. With the latest release ‘Pulse’, Stefan uses […]

Dubbed by their own words, “true German heavy metal from Sweden”, Hammerfall are unleashing to the world of heavy metal quite possibly the best power metal album to date. Many classify their works right alongside many great bands and some say they are the Helloween of the new millennium. Being a fan of Helloween myself […]