Interviews
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Join The Amish – Suicidal Riot… Join The Amish! (Video interview with Pete Alexander)
Join The Amish – Pete Alexander Using a clever pun of the classic Suicidal Tendencies album “Join the Army” as their band name, Melbourne’s Join the Amish are a dynamic mixture of thrash metal, hardcore, grind and humour. Featuring...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Eluveitie – “What you hear on an Eluveitie record is what you get at an Eluveitie show” (An interview with Chrigel Glanzmann)
Eluveitie – Chrigel Glanzmann Swiss folk metallers, ELUVEITIE are just over half way through their world tour in support of their fantastic fifth album Helvetios, a touring cycle that is about to include a lot of firsts for the...
- Posted 13 years ago
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“I rethought my purpose in life and what truly mattered…” – an interview with Encircling Sea’s Rob Allen
When it comes to powerful, enthralling music, Melbourne’s Encircling Sea are up there with some of the best. Their nature inspired style of atmospheric metal is the type that sweeps you off your feet; it’s as intense as it...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Soundwave Festival 2013: The Interviews
The Interviews Soundwave festival hits Australia with its biggest line-up yet. Like a violent tornado, Soundwave leaves nothing but empty beer cups, greasy food containers and satisfied music lovers in its wake. Crack open a beer or boil the...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Epica – “Every album is a result of acting on intuition” (An interview with Mark Jensen)
Epica – Mark Jensen EPICA‘s latest release, ‘Requiem for the Indifferent‘ has received positive reviews from across the globe and is fast becoming the “must have” album for symphonic power metal lovers. Thanks to Metropolis Touring, EPICA will soon...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Ensiferum – “To tell you the truth, the weather kind of sucks over here” (An interview with Petri Lindroos)
Ensiferum – Petri Lindroos Finnish heroic folk metallers, ENSIFERUM will embark on a journey to Australian shores this March to spread the glorious word of their new album, ‘Unsung Heroes’. Metal Obsession.net had a quick chat with ENSIFERUM lead...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Holy Grail – “It wasn’t my goal to be in a thrash band forever.” (An interview with Alex Lee)
Holy Grail – Alex Lee Almost a year after their successful appearance at Soundwave Festival, American traditional metal outfit Holy Grail released their second full-length album ‘Ride the Void’ last month. Following the release of the album, Metal Obsession had the pleasure...
- Posted 13 years ago
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A chat with Toby Wrecker (Hotel Wrecking City Traders/Daggers Mid Flight)
You may know Toby Wrecker as one half, the guitarist to be specific, from Melbourne’s Hotel Wrecking City Traders, or perhaps from Daggers Mid Flight. And now, if you dig his noisy, free-form style, he has dropped his first solo album. It’s certainly...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Suffocation – “It’s fun to hear who likes what the most” (An interview with Derek Boyer)
Suffocation – Derek Boyer American death metal veterans SUFFOCATION will unleash their brand new album, ‘Pinnacle of Bedlam‘ to the masses on February 15th via Nuclear Blast Records. Since the early 90’s SUFFOCATION have been at the forefront of...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Crashdïet – “We want people to think for themselves” (An interview with Simon Cruz)
Crashdïet – Simon Cruz With the impending release of the band’s fourth album and a heavy touring schedule, that will take them to almost all corners of the globe to follow. Swedish sleaze rockers Crashdïet are going to be a...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Album Reviews
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El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors
Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has...
- Posted 5 years ago
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Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces
A little background on Markus Saastomoinen: he is a...
- Posted 5 years ago
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Plini – Impulse Voices
The new album from Sydney instrumental guitar prodigy Plini...
- Posted 5 years ago
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HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel
Ex-Kevelertak frontman Erlend Hjelvik is about to open the...
- Posted 5 years ago






