Interviews

“It’s the mother-fuckin’ Kottonmouth Kings, bitch!” An album review is written to hype a new release. You read what someone else has to say to form your opinion. Not today. You’re not gonna find it here. Do you wanna know why? Okay, sure, I’ll give you an explanation. Check this out. The Kottonmouth Kings have […]

by Freddy Metal BallBuster Music Contributor With clean vocals, shred oriented musicianship, five part vocal harmonies, and an emphasis on memorable, hook-laden songwriting, Azrael’s Bane are poised to make their mark on today’s metal music landscape. Influenced by the likes of Savatage, Lillian Axe and Queensryche the band has created a style that is as […]

Interview by The Troll “The Troll” is a pseudonym of the late Paul Autry I don’t get excited about too many things. Making fun of handicapped people, porno, Nikolai vodka and, of course, Martin Lawrence movies. However, when I was told that I would be doing an interview with GWAR’s Oderus Urungus, I was beyond […]

DTC: You have recorded quite a few Cds over the last few years, which one song are you most proud of and why? Gus G: From the FIREWIND albums I’m really proud of the song “I Am the Anger” cause it’s just the perfect heavy metal sound to my ears! I’m glad I accomplished that. […]

The first interview I did with Kittie was featured on this website. The second interview was featured in another publication. This interview was the first to feature the entire band and, once again, we’re proud to present Kittie to the Ballbuster readers. I was a little late in getting to the venue, which was kind […]

On January 4th, 2004, at the Webster Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut, I attended the Sevendust show with Ill Nino and this new band called Element Eighty for Ball-Buster. I was backstage just having a good time and then all of a sudden I hear the support act come on. I hear this big thick gigantic […]

On January 25th, 2004, at the Webster Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut I had an interview scheduled for the mighty Ball-Buster with the legendary underground band Life of Agony. I arrive at the venue in the freezing weather and the lead singer Keith Caputo escorted me quickly on their tour bus to escape the harsh weather […]

JACK STARR: How long have you been playing and what made you start in the first place? BERNIE TORME: Far too long. Almost 40 years actually. I started when I was 11 and I’m, oh, Gawd, you’ve just made me feel very sad and old Jack, where did I put that zimmer frame. I started cause I […]

The band Apartment 26 was on tour as a support act for the bands Flaw and underground heroes Life of Agony. They stopped by Hartford, Connecticut at the Webster Theatre on January 25th, 2004. The band pulled up in their bus and walked into the venue hours before the show started. I was introduced to […]

Guitarist Pete Wadeson talks guitars with Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton. Here he looks around his seriously cool guitar collection and reckons that the metal god has one very desirable tool kit? Im definitely not a collector of guitars. Guitars for me are a tool – they do a job and that’s it. Even though […]

What would you get if you took Megadeth, Corrosion of Conformity, and Godsmack, and threw ’em in a pot and cooked ’em up??? What you’d get is a raw & rugged sound called VooDoo Lordz VooDoo Lordz is a power trio from the outskirts of Detroit currently pandering it’s “Life’s Games” disc.

With the release of 1997’s ‘New Jersey Hate Core’ demo, Sludge! managed to create a swelling buzz around the band. They sold / traded nearly 4,000 demos in a very short period of time. Bolstered by a frequent and well-attended live performances. In 1998, they released their second demo entitled ‘Alone & Twisted’. This release […]

The controversial cover of Flaw’s new album has everybody talking but the band themselves. It’s not that they don’t feel like talking, but these guys are busy. So busy, that they still haven’t seen the video for their single ‘Whole’ currently on MTV. We caught up with Chris Volz and Chris Ballinger mid-Ozzfest and asked […]

Liegelord Guitarist Paul Nelson Talk’s Hard with Halford Guitarist METAL MIKE CHLASCIAK

Hoping to prove the sixth time’s a charm, Diamond Head was among a number of veteran British Metal bands to make the rare trip to perform in the states for the annual Heavy Metal Meltdown weekend show in Asbury Park last month. While “sixth time” may seem exaggerated, maybe third or fourth puts it better, […]

Metal Mike: Paul, here is my first compliment to you. I have really enjoyed your “look” solo release and I do not particularly like fusion type based music. There I said it, Metal Mike likes a fusion album …. I thought the CD was very well arranged and interesting to listen to. You still showed […]

“It’s a beautiful thing to be able to tour the world, do your thing & do what you love to do.” Lajon, Sevendust’s vocalist, sums up one of the driving forces behind this frank, aggressive & independent metal band. Lajon describes Sevendust’s self-titled debut release as “a real album dealing with everything that’s going on […]