I interviewed Rob Halford for the fourth time in 2010, when he was touring with his band Halford, in support of the new album Made of Metal.
Category: heavy metal
My metal-crazed nephew Jeff flew to Toronto to see Iron Maiden last night
Jeff comes by his Maiden infatuation honestly, 'cause when he was 14 I took him to see them at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum.
Bullet for My Valentine overcame its Vancouver setback to find glory in the pages of Kerrang!
A lot of rock bands have come to Vancouver to record and gone away with hit albums, but Bullet for My Valentine isn't one of them.
That time I asked Pepper Keenan if he’d wear a UFO t-shirt like fellow Down guitarist Kirk Windstein
I interviewed Down guitarist Pepper Keenan back in September of 2007, two days after the band released Down III: Over the Under.
That time I asked Rob Halford if there’d been any competition between Judas Priest and Iron Maiden over the years
I did my fourth interview with Rob Halford two weeks before Judas Priest released Nostradamus, the band's first concept album.
Testament guitarist Eric Peterson has been playing the crap out of Rainbow’s Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll
“I still go back and revisit a lot of ['70s rock]. The Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush records, the early Rush stuff like Hemispheres."
40 years ago today Heavy Metal Parking Lot captured ’80s metal mania before a Judas Priest show
On May 31, 1986, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn drove into the parking lot at Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland, and started videotaping.
Lacuna Coil guitarist Cristiano Migliore is okay with singer Cristina Scabbia being hotter than him
The rhythm guitarist for the Italian gothic-metal group is fine with the fact that his band's sexiest member gets all the glory.
That time Canadian rock great Ian Blurton raved to me about Welsh prog-metal band Budgie
I interviewed Canadian musician Ian Blurton back in September of 2005, when he was touring with his rowdy riff-rock band C'mon.
Metallica documentarian Joe Berlinger was fascinated by the dynamic between James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich
Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky spent the better part of three years working on the documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.
Iron Maiden announces world tour with Megadeth and Anthrax, but Vancouver’s not included (yet)
Nothing says heavy-metal at Halloween like Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie the Head comin' at ya with a fearsome grimace.
That time 21-year-old Lars Ulrich told me how Metallica was approaching the subject of death on the new Ride the Lightning LP
Way back in March of 1985 I did my first interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who was 21 at the time.
God bless Geoff Tate’s lead vocals on Queensrÿche’s “Spreading the Disease”
One of my favourite prog-metal albums of all time is Operation: Mindcrime, released by Queensrÿche in the Year of Our Metal Lord, 1988.