Over the past fifteen years, drummer Tommy Stewart has amassed an impressive résumé of credits including gigs with Detroit metal band Halloween, glam rockers Lillian Axe, high-profile tenure with Godsmack and an ongoing creative involvement with Lo-Pro featuring vocalist Pete Murray and guitarist Neil Godfrey, formerly of Ultraspank. In the current chapter of his career evolution, Tommy sits behind the drum throne of Fuel, touring with the band’s revamped line up featuring new singer Toryn Green (formerly of LA’s Something to Burn). Continue reading An Interview with Tommy Stewart of Fuel→
Gail has been a friend for a few years now. She has fantastic energy and is a pleasure to talk to and be around. Since the interviews she did with me for Modern Drummer and Metal Edge last year, I have had many compliments from friends, fans and industry folk still to this day. I very much appreciate her help in getting my name out there and hope that we can connect again in the near future. We should be thankful that she is a fan of the music and wants to write about people she cares about whether they are of mainstream success or from the underground. Thanks again, Gail . . . keep up the great work!
Extreme metal band Shadows Fall has been a driving force in aggressive modern rock for so many years, it’s almost startling to realize that the group’s latest offering Threads of Life – the band’s fifth album – is actually its major label debut. When asked if he felt pressure regarding his performance for the album, knowing it would be Shadows’ first for Atlantic Records, drummer Jason Bittner had a very thoughtful response. “I felt that I had to step up my performance, period,” Bittner explains, “because I feel like that with every record. I always want to do something different. Continue reading An Interview with Jason Bittner of Shadows Fall→
As former Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell prepared to release his second solo CD, Carry On, he started auditioning LA-area musicians for a new band. Cornell wanted to go out on the road with a different group of musicians than those who had played on the record, since the breadth of material he’d be touring with – catalog from both the singer’s two previous bands as well as his solo material – required a grasp of the heaviness of Soundgarden, the brutality and looseness of Audioslave, and the delicate nuances that define his solo balladry. Continue reading An Interview with Chris Cornell’s Jason Sutter→
Take a look at the “Tour Archive” page of Chevelle’s website and you’ll notice that, save for a few months between the late spring and mid-summer of 2005, the Chicago-based metal trio is on the road virtually non-stop. Even as drummer Sam Loeffler spoke with Metal Edge, the group was preparing to launch an ambitious spring tour with Evanescence and Finger Eleven in support of its new album Vena Sera – Chevelle’s first CD since bassist Joe Leoffler (brother to Sam and vocalist /guitarist Pete) left the group in 2005. Vena Sera introduces new bassist, Dean Bernardini. Continue reading An Interview with Sam Loeffler of Chevelle→
