Ozzfest 2008 - Dallas, TX August in Texas is sweltering – temps hitting 100 or more and humidity through the roof – but that didn’t stop people coming from all over the country to the growing town of Frisco (just north of Dallas) for the ‘Biggest Fucking Metal Show On Earth’, OZZFEST! With only one show this year they packed in the bands, setting up two additional stages in the parking lot of Pizza Hut Park. More Interview with C.J. Pierce from Drowning Pool It's been a battle for us. There's been a lot of bands that once the singer is gone it's not the same. It's like third times a charm or three strikes your out. More Testament in S. California "Testament gave the crowd a preview of some of the material off their new disc "The Formation of Damnation". All four of the new songs they tore through, were in my mind instant Testament classics. Killer drumming, killer guitars and the classic Chuck Billy vocals." More Interview with Wayne Static from Static-X I guess one of the funniest things is, you know, Zakk’s wearing a kilt onstage. And I guess I feel like I know him well enough that I can give him shit about it. ‘Tell him he looks good in a dress, and all that. Everyone else just kinda looks at him and lets him walk by. [Laughs] Nobody fucking gets away with wearing a dress on stage. More Interview with M. Shawn Crahan and Stella Katsoudas from Dirty Little Rabbits I’m a little psychotic…from a very dark place. That’s how we kind of like, heal…I heal. Shawn fucking saved my life. He brought me out here just to heal, you know. That’s what this band does for me. More Interview with Maria Banks from In This Moment I think the music speaks for itself, and it’s just obvious that everyone is different live, everyone has a different sound. I scream and sing together, so maybe that’s something that can be a little bit more unique. More Interview with Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil To be honest, I think that the hottest chick in metal is every girl who knows her potential and feels unique and feels strong, despite what everybody else will say. More HELLYEAH If any of these guys histories teach us anything it’s that live music is meant to be enjoyed by both the performer as well as the audience. So getcha pull, grab your whiskey and weed and head out to one of the greatest traveling parties on wheels.....HELLYEAH! More An Interview with Otep Shamaya An artists job is to pose questions. The claim that if a Democrat gets elected President that there will definitely be another 9-11. What they don’t realize is that we had a Republican President, Congress and Mayor of New York when the first one happened. More An Interview with Front Man, Nathan Winneke, from Horse the Band Since I’ve joined the band, I played three different instruments. I started out as the drummer for over a year, the bass player for over a year and I was writing for Crook and when he quit, I took over for him. More Interview with Matt McGachy of 3 Mile Scream Plus CD Review of A Prelude to Our Demise I think it’s just a matter of time, finding the right time. Once we earn our keep, I think, up here in Canada, by going across Canada, I think the booking agencies will probably take us more seriously. More Interview with Silenoz from Dimmu Borgir Actually, I would rather have people either love the album or hate it, instead of being indifferent. As good as it is to be loved, it’s also great to be hated, because it shows that you’re doing something right. More Interview with Matt DeVries from Chimaira We broke the Billboard Top 50, and we’ve never done that from the first week’s sales, so we were surprised. And all of the reception has been great. We’re playin’ the new songs live and the reviews have been amazing from different magazines, so I’m pretty stoked. More Interview with David McClain from Machine Head They’re bands out there that sell ten times more records than us, yet, we’re all still playing the same venues. It says a lot for our fans, and it says a lot for doing things your own way, and not worrying about commercial success. More Interview with Matt Heafy from Trivium When we’re that prepared, we go up there, and it just blanks out. You don’t have to think of anything, so, I guess that’s the best form. When you’re so prepared for it and you don’t have to think about it, it becomes just instinct…and your instrument becomes an extension of you. More Heavy Music is here to stay The 2006 Sounds of the Underground tour paved the way for some of “extreme music’s” heavyweights to show the world just what they are made of. More Lamb of God Listening Party The band certainly knows how to make an entrance; suddenly the already crowded room is filled with a circus of trick bikes, men who could pass for ZZ Top's children and Mark Morton from Lamb of God toting a tinny portable amp for Mastodon's riff-master.More An interview with Brian Sheerin from Mower What’s really hysterical is we’re being tagged as an industrial band, we’re being pegged as a thrash band, as a hardcore band, classic rock band, punk band, and the thing is it’s all true, you know what I mean? From a marketing standpoint it’s a little confusing, but the way we look at it, it’s rock and roll. More An interview with Ray Mazzola from Full Blown Chaos Imagine being in a giant's hand, that much power, where they could just crush everything. They could either decimate everything or let it go. You have to be able to respect that much power and that's exactly what the album pulls, from beginning to end. That's the theory behind the title, Within The Grasp Of Titans, it's just concentrated aggression. More The wisdom of Exodus' Gary Holt The whole Nu Metal thing died and I was so glad about that, but now we have all these Emo kids who weigh like 105 pounds and wear girls’ pants that won’t even stay on there, ‘cuz they have no ass to hold their pants up, they left their ass in the other pants. More An interview with Spencer Chamberlain from UnderOath There's more out there then all the crappy pop stuff you hear on the radio. There is really in an art sense, no limitation on what you can do and not be scared to embrace or listen to it; checking something out that you would have never listened to before. We're not all the same, so were not going to all write the same songs. More A Field Guide to the Real Deal, A look back at albums that influenced Metalcore More   Interview with Max Cavelera We have the grooves, but there's a lot of fast stuff, too. There's parts of the show that are total fast that we just go for five, six songs full speed metal. I love that and it's right in the middle of the set. So I think it's very fun, very good, that's where we wanna be. That's where I'm supposed to be. More   Click here to view past Featured Stories and Interviews

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