Black Smoke Trigger hail from New Zealand and are determined to keep the spirit of rock alive. They arrive on our shores with an exciting new album in the can to be released on July 19th and a blistering live show to tantalise our taste buds. Our Stewart caught up with Charlie Wallace (guitar) from the band to discuss travelling, touring with Bruce dickinson and what their fantasy festival would look like.

An Interview with Blind Guardian

The legendary bards of Blind Guardian returned to mancunia for the first time in eight years. We were lucky enough to get the opportunity to sit down with rythm guitarist Marcus Siepen to discuss a whole host of stuff. So if you are interested in how Blind Guardian cultivate their songs, how setlists are created and the difference in their fan bases across the globe, make yourself a cuppa and press play.

An Interview with Heljarmadr of Dark Funeral

There is black metal royalty and there is Dark Funeral. Our black metal obsessive Stewart Lucas has pulled rank on usual interviewer supreme Matt Fraser and made it clear he only can interview Heljarmadr (Andreas Vingbäck) in the Manchester Academy kitchen. So set sail for tales of hot gigs, fluctuating setlists and how death and black metal are perfect bedfellows, no matter what us journos think.