Xander meets Per to chat about guitars, supporting Epica and choosing a shorter setlist, the storyline of the album trilogy and recording Volume One!
Xander meets axeman Mark for a chat about Epica and Mayan, the bands own festival and touring the world!
Xander meets Chrigel Glanzmann for a chat about.. well, everything really!
Xander catches up with Crobot to chat zombies, artwork, No Doubt and Tina Turner!
Xander meets Scorpion Child to chat about shampoo swagger, caves and the new material, ‘rock fuckin fish’!
Xander meets Ken and finds out about Japanese cheesecake shops, Uncle Rikuro and exclusively the next UK visit!
When Xander met Arya for a formal chat rather than at the bar, who would have thought it would have gone this way! NSFW!!!
Xander catches up with the band to meet Jahred, talking about the departing and new members, the appreciation of Skindred and what the future holds!
Xander gives Chris a call to find out everything he’s getting up to!
Xander meets Barny from SB6 to discuss pretty much everything! The Manchester and Liverpool music scenes, the upcoming album struggles and being DIY, Marmite, festivals and decide on the album date!
Xander meets drummer Paul to chat about the latest album concept!
Xander meets Rich in person for a great chat about joining Cradle of Filth and other bands NG26 and Emperor Chung. The differences of recording in the bands and the new Cradle album and tour, teaching and prog and cheesecake!
Xander meets Klause for a good ol chinwag!
Xander meets the Aussies to find out who they are!
Xander catches up with the guys for an update and chat about touring and the album!
Xander catches up with Kaan for an update!
Xander meets the guys and chat about playing around town!
Xander catches up wth the coco-demons on the streets of Nottingham!
Xander catches up with the band for an update of touring with Steve Harris and playing Download Festival!
This years Bloodstock festival was fantastic, great weather, great bands and we talked to a lot of bands. In fact, I conducted all our interviews! Here’s a silly video of me soiling myself…
You can see all the interview here!
Audio recorder failed 😦 But if you can work it out, I catch up with me ode mate Burty who’s just joined the band on bass!
Bands Over Breakfast: Download Special Pt.8 – TotalRock, 16/07/15
The Ghost Inside – Avalanche
The Ghost Inside interview with Andrew
In Flames – Take This Life
In Flames interview with Anders
L7 – Pretend We’re Dead
L7 interview with Danita
Like A Storm – Love The Way You Hate Me
Like A Storm interview
Qemists – Dem Na Like Me
Qemists interview with Bruno
September Mourning – Lost Angels
September Mourning interview with September
Faith No More – Naked In Front Of The Computer
Bands Over Breakfast: Download Special Pt.7 – TotalRock, 14/07/15
36 Crazyfists – Time And Trauma
36 Crazyfists interview
The Raven Age – Eye Among The Blind
The Raven Age interview
Sylosis – Mercy
Sylosis interview
Testament – Disciples Of The Watch
Testament interview
Three Days Grace – Pain
Three Days Grace interview
Kiss – I Wanna Rock And Roll All Nite
The Hell Drive – TotalRock, 10/07/15
Aerosmith – Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Mutants – Dead Beat Generation
Windhand – Two Urns
Alesana – Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
Harlott – Denature
The Graveltones – Big Money
You Want Fox – Bad Girls
Kataklysm – The Black Sheep
Mordred – The Baroness
Brave The Fall – Autumn Ruin
Midday Committee – She Gets Me
Northlane – Obelisk
Lamb Of God – Overlord
Vamps – Get Away
Revocation – Scroched Earth Policy
Rivers Of Nihil – Perpetual Growth Machine
Seething Akira – Airstrike
Thy Art Is Murder – Light Bearer
Teenage Casket Company – Don’t Look At Me Like That
Eva Plays Dead – Live Again
Myrkur – Hævnen
Headless – So Much Of A Bore
Big Country – In A Big Country
Tigertailz – Love Bomb Baby
Fahran – Take This City Alive
Magnum – Live Til You Die (Live)
Foreigner – Feel Like The First Time (Live)
Aerosmith – Love Me Two Times
Foo Fighters – Have A Cigar
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts – I Love Rock N Roll
AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie
Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name
Slade – Cum Feel On Feel The Noise
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Steel Panther – Death To All But Metal
Megadeth – Hanger 18
The Levellers – What A beautiful Day
Between The Buried And Me – The Coma Machine
The Gentle Storm – The Greatest Love
The Great Discord – L’homme Mauvais
Kontrust – I Freak On (Explosive)
Bands Over Breakfast: Download Special Pt.6 – TotalRock, 09/07/15
Malefice – Dreams Without Courage
Malefice interview
New Years Day – Angel Eyes
New Years Day interview
Northlane – Obelisk
Northlane interview
The One Hundred – Unleashed
The One Hundred interview
Pop Evil – Footsteps
Pop Evil interview
Love Zombies – Be Honest
Love Zombies interview
Slipknot – The Heretic Anthem
Bands Over Breakfast: Download Special Pt.5 – TotalRock, 07/07/15
The Dead Daisies – Lock n Load
The Dead Daisies interview with Marco Mendoza
Heart Of A Coward – Shade
Heart Of A Coward interview with Noddy and Jamie
Insomnium – Daughter Of The Moon
Insomnium interview
Krokodil – Shatter
Krokodil interview
Lacuna Coil – Enjoy The Silence
Lacuna Coil interview with Andy
The Hell Drive – TotalRock, 03/07/15
Aerosmith – Girls Of Summer
Demob Happy – Wash It Down
The Sword – High Country
Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls – The Next Storm
Wilson – Give Em Hell
Thy Art Is Murder – Holy War
Act Of Defiance – Throwback
Deadly Circus Fire – Devil’s Opera
Ransom And The Sunset – Million Out Of Me
The Libertines – Gunga Din
Phoenix Calling – Traces
Redwolves – Letting You Go
Headless – Shortage
Battlecross – Spolied
Lamb Of God – Overlord
Soulfly – We Sold Our Souls To Metal
The Maccabees – Something Like Happiness
The Longing – Wicked
Elegies – Throen
Trucker Diablo – Where Angels Fly
The Answer – Gone Too Long
Symphony X – Nevermore
The Black Dahlia Murder – Vlad, Son Of The Dragon
Arkona – Zov Pustyh Dereven
Diemonds – Over It
Mammoth Mammoth – Fuel Injected
Year Of The Goat – The Emma
B2 – Vegetarians
Nervosa – Into Mosh Pit
Honey Desease – Bellevue Groove
Man The Machetes – De Seier Nei
Jack Dalton – Inherit Repetition
Riwen – Hades Trail
Noctum – Until Then… Until The End
Magnum – Start Talking Love
Big Country – In A Big Country
Tigertailz – Love Bomb Baby
Bong – Time Regained
Amaranthe – The Nexus
Korplikaani – Pilli On Pajusta Tehty
Bands Over Breakfast: Download Special Pt.4 – TotalRock, 02/07/15
The Amorettes – Rock Me, Roll Me
The Amorettes interview with Hannah
Andrew W.K. – Party Hard
Interview with Andrew W.K.
Carcass – Captive Bolt Pistol
Carcass interview with Jeff Walker
Cavalera Conspiracy – Bonzai Kamikazee
Cavalera Conspiracy interview with Max Cavalera
Crobot – Legend Of The Spaceborn Killer
Crobot interview with Keith
Muse – Hysteria
The Hell Drive – TotalRock, 26/06/15
Aerosmith – Big Ten Inch Record
Kobra And The Lotus – Black Velvet
Shaman’s Harvest – Dirty Diana
Honey Desease – Neat Neat Neat
Eradikator – Mesmerised
The Love Buzzards – Cash
Red House Glory – So Easy
The Jacques – Artfl Didger
Fear Factory – Soul Hacker
Romans – Bet
We Came As Romans – The World I Used To Know
American Fangs – Bukkake Summer
Being As An Ocean – Sins Of The Father
Broken Hands – Meteor
Cradle Of Filth – Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Gods
Dew Scented – Ode To Extinction
She Must Burn – Eclipse
Editors – Marching In
Elasea – Lost In The Dark
Gus G – Burn
Jungle Rot – Paralyzed Prey
Kadavar – The Old Man
Offpeak – Feelings Stay The Same
Only Rivals – Sing
Orchid – Sign Of The Witch
Perfect Crimes – Black Cloud
Headfuzzy – Sing
Slayer – Repentless
AC/DC – Miss Adventure
Brant Bjork And The Low Desert Punk Band – Controllers Destroyed
Unleash The Archers – Tonight We Ride
Glowsun – Behind The Moon
Storms – Girl
Stramash – Bang Bang
Symphony X – Without You
Anti-Clone – Take This Pill
Tame Impala – Eventually
Tear The Heart Out – The Rejected
Tess Of The Circle – Love Is The Drug That You Crave
The Bunny The Bear – It’s Not Always Cold In Buffalo
The Great Discord – The Aging Man
? – New Years Day
Bands Over Breakfast: Download Special Pt.2 – TotalRock, 25/06/15
Corrosion Of Conformity – Broken Man
Corrosion Of Conformity/Teenage Time Killers interview with Reed
Crown The Empire – Wake Me Up
Crown The Empire interview
DragonForce – Ring Of Fire
DragonForce interview
Five Finger Death Punch – Hard To See
Five Finger Death Punch interview with Jeremy
Heart Of A Coward – Shade
Heart Of A Coward interview
Bands Over Breakfast – TotalRock, 23/06/15
Download Special Pt.1
All That Remains – What If I Was Nothing
All That Remains interview with Phil
American Fangs – Just Don’t Care Anymore
American Fangs interview with Gabriel and Micah
Apocalyptica – Broken Pieces
Apocalyptica interview with Mikko and Franky
At The Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul
At The Gates interview with Thomas
Blues Pills – No Hope Left For Me
Blues Pills interview with Zach
Bombus – Enter The Night
Bombus interview
Slipknot – Verillion
The Hell Drive – TotalRock, 19/06/15
Aerosmith – Can’t Stop Messin
My Sleeping Karma – Moksha
The Mutants – Dead Beat Generation
Ferocious Dog – Ruby Bridges
Sepultura – Under My Skin
Buckcherry – Bring It Back On
KidBrother – Angst
Death Angel – Fallen
Lamb Of God – #512
FOES- No Sleepers Verse
Soley Mourning – The Unmaking Of A Rational Mind
Fuck The Facts – Solitude
Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody – Prometheus
All Time Low – Runaways
Aversions Crown – Parasites
Battlecross – Not Your Slave
Between The Buried And Me – Famine Wolf
BirdPen – Alive
Ghost – Cirice
Culture Killer – Justice Through Retaliation
Death From Above 1979 – Virgins
Dew-Scented – Affect Gravity
Earthside – Mob Mentality
My Reflection – Dead Musician
Cut Up – A Butchery Improved
Myrkur – Hævnen
Inacoma – Isn’t That True
Dirt – Insomnia
Exodus – Body Harvest
Fizzy Blood – Black Sheep
Failure – Hot Traveler
Incinerator – City Of Thieves
Jolta – One Apple Tree
Kataklysm – Thy Serpents Tongue
Kissing Candice – Put Em Up
Eva Plays Dead – Live Again
Motor Sister – Beg Borrow Steal
Well, yet again another wet year – but we have a trick up our sleeve, I brought a gazebo! Here are the 15 interviews out of the 60 that I conducted this year…
36 Crazyfists
Blues Pills
Cavalera Conspiracy
The Darkness
DragonForce
Every Time I Die
Evil Scarecrow
Godsmack
Like A Storm
The Lounge Kittens
Mac Sabbath
The One Hundred
The Raven Age
The Von Hertzen Brothers
Yellowcard
Bands Over Breakfast with The Defiled and Stoneghost – TotalRock, 09/06/15
The Defiled – Infected
Interview with Stitch and AVD
Stoneghost – Faceless Ghost
Interview with Stoneghost
Stoneghost – Raynardine
Snakebite – 60 Units
Snakebite – Destroy The Seed
Snakebite – Throwdown
Snakebite – Bruised, Hungover & I’m Fucking Broke
The Hell Drive – TotalRock, 05/06/15
Aerosmith – Girls Of Summer
Slipknot – The Blister Exists
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Clutch – Mice And Gods
Lacona Coil – Swamped
The Cadillac Three – I’m Southern
Blues Pills – High Class Woman
Black Stone Cherry – Lonely Train
Pain – Dirty Woman
DragonForce – Ring Of Fire
Krokodil – Shatter
A – Nothing
The One Hundred – Unleashed
Fearless Vampire Killers – Neon In The Dance Halls
Allusondrugs – Am I Weird?
Muse – Hysteria
Faith No More – Epic
Marilyn Manson – Personal Jesus
Black Star Riders – The Killer Instinct
Carcass – Captive Bolt Pistol
Ace Frehley – Space Invader
The Lounge Kittens – Party Hard
Andrew WK – Party Hard
Every Time I Die – Decayin’ With The Boys
Purson – Death’s Kiss
Crobot – Nowhere To Hide
Iconic Eye – I Can Feel It
Kiss – Do You Love Me?
Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood
Slash – Watch This
Cavalera Conspiracy – Bonzai Kamikazee
36 Crazyfists – I’ll Go Until My Heart Stops
Lamb Of God – Now You’ve Got Something To Die For
In Flames – Touch Of Red
Eagles Of Death Metal – Only Want You
Godsmack – Awake
The Ghost Inside – Avalanche
Evil Scarecrow – Book Of Doom
Like A Storm – Love The Way You Hate Me
Kobra And The Lotus – Hold On
Kontrust – Just Propaganda
The Great Discord – L’homme Mauvais
Avatar – Let It burn
Bands Over Breakfast with Coal Chamber and Soil
Interview with Mike and Meeks
Coal Chamber – I.O.U. Nothing
Coal Chamber – Bad Blood Between Us
Coal Chamber – Another Nail In The Coffin
Coal Chamber – Wait
Coal Chamber – Over My Head
Coal Chamber – Empty Handed
Interview with Tim King
Soil – The Hate Song
Soil – Way Gone
Soil – Breaking Me Down
Soil – Obsession
Bands Over Breakfast with The Darkness, The Amorettes and Zebrahead – TotalRock, 02/06/15
Interview with Dan Hawkins
The Darkness – Open Fire
The Darkness – Barbarian
The Darkness – Nothings Gonna Stop Us
Black Star Riders – The Killer Instinct
Interview with Hannah and Heather
Europe – War Of Kings
Zebrahead – In My Room
Interview with Matty Lewis
Zebrahead – Playmate Of The Year
Xander meets Jay to have a chat about recording new material and being back on the road!
Bands Over Breakfast with Eva Plays Dead and Blues Pills – TotalRock, 28/05/15
Eva Plays Dead – Wonderland
Interview with Eva Plays Dead
Blues Pills – High Class Woman
Interview with Dorian Sorriaux
Blues Pills – Jupiter
Blues Pills – Black Smoke
Xander catches up with Nick to chat about starting from the bottom and being back in the UK!
Bands Over Breakfast with Arthemis and Europe – TotalRock, 26/05/15
Interview with Arthemis
Arthemis – Scars On Scars
Arthemis – 7 Days
Arthemis – Resurection
Interview with John Leven
Europe – The Final Countdown
Europe – Rock The Night
Europe – Carrie
Europe – Gonna Get Ready
Five minutes with The Defiled is just enough time to get some mad tour stories!
Xander catches up with Tim for a quick chat!
Xander meets Meeks and Mike to talk about the latest album and the future!
Xander catches up with the guys to chat about changing names!
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