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Interview with Gary Arce of Yawning Man: The Thrill Of Pursuit JJ Koczan Columns September 20, 2010 0Inside A Thick Metal Skull The instrumental trio Yawning Man are the quintessential Californian desert rock band, though you might...
Interview with Yakuza: Action And Consequence JJ Koczan Columns July 28, 2010 0Having in the past released albums on heavyweight metal labels like Century Media and Prosthetic Records, Chicago outfit Yakuza now...
Interview with Ramesses: Giving Curse JJ Koczan Columns July 14, 2010 1There’s heavy and then there’s Ramesses. The British trio have just released 2010’s doomedest album in the form of Take...
Interview with Primordial: The State of Irish Deconstruction JJ Koczan Columns May 17, 2010 0When it came time for me to edit down the interview I recently conducted with Primordial frontman Alan Averill on...
Interview with Phased: Into The Spasmic JJ Koczan Columns April 26, 2010 0For anyone who might celebrate around this time last week as a high holiday, or might even know why someone...
Interview with Brant Bjork: How The Former Kyuss And Fu Manchu Drummer Came To Embrace The Classics JJ Koczan Columns April 14, 2010 0…And by “The Classics,” in the headline, I mean Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath (are there any other...
Interview with Dead Meadow: Coronation Of The Three Kings JJ Koczan Columns February 26, 2010 0Touring to support their newest studio album, Old Growth, Californian psychedelic rockers Dead Meadow wound up on the road for...
Metal Skull: Interview with Scott Hill of Fu Manchu: Knowing The Signs JJ Koczan Columns December 4, 2009 0As California’s Fu Manchu makes ready to enter their 20th year of existence (having formed as hardcore act Virulence in...
Metal Skull: Interview with James A. Rota of The Company Band: Hostile Takeover JJ Koczan Columns November 17, 2009 2Also of California stoner purveyors Fireball Ministry, guitarist James A. Rota operates as one-fifth of riffy supergroup The Company Band....
Metal Skull: Interview with Karl Simon of The Gates Of Slumber: The Doom Of Indianapolis JJ Koczan Columns November 4, 2009 0If it seems like Indianapolis traditional doomers The Gates Of Slumber are an underground success out of nowhere, they aren’t....