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All the latest music interviews from the team at HEAVY Magazine.

HEAVY interviews the worlds leading rock, punk, metal and beyond musicians in the heavy universe of music.

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Friday · 28 min
THE MARK OF CAIN: The Long Game Pays Off
Interview by Ali Williams THE MARK OF CAIN aren't a band prone to excessive activity for the sake of it. They play when there is a reason to play, record when there is something worth recording and, still prefer enough amplifiers and cables on stage...
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Friday · 18 min
Cranked To Eleven: CONOR MASON Digs Deep Into The Belly Of STRAY DOGS
There are few bands in the modern alternative rock landscape that can genuinely claim to have completely rewritten the rulebook, but Essex powerhouses Nothing But Thieves are definately one of them. From their explosive self-titled debut right through...
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Thursday · 11 min
More Horns, More Members, Same PROTOMARTYR
Interview by Ali Williams Sixteen years into a band, creative expansion can become a logistical problem. For PROTOMARTYR, the latest version apparently comes with horns, extra personnel and the growing realisation that every good studio idea...
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Thursday · 13 min
Raw Sweat And Razor-Sharp Fury With JOE PRINCIPE: RISE AGAINST Return Down Under
The global punk rock landscape would look vastly different without the bruising anthems, razor-sharp sociopolitical fury, and unwavering grit of Chicago’s finest, Rise Against. For over two and a half decades, Tim McIlrath, Zach Blair, Joe Principe,...
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Wednesday · 30 min
Ira Black Steps Beyond the Shredder on Apocalypse
After decades spent establishing himself as a formidable guitarist across bands including Vicious, Lizzy Borden and Metal Church, Ira Black is entering a new chapter — one where he is stepping behind the microphone and putting his own story at the...
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Wednesday · 16 min
EIVØR: Darkness, Drums And The Space Between
Interview by Ali Williams Interview by Ali Williams Faroese artist Eivør is celebrating the impending release of her latest studio album, Tungl. For over two decades she has been considered one of Nordic music’s alluring treasures with her voice and...
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Tuesday · 9 min
AXIS MUNDI Unleashed: EDDIE BERG On IMMINENCE’s Brutal New Era
Swedish metalcore visionaries Imminence are a band that refuse to be put in a box. Just when you think you have their signature blend of crushing riffs and symphonic grandeur figured out, they tear up the rulebook and build an entire universe in its...
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Tuesday · 15 min
NFÏ: Get Drunk Or Try Dying With CHRISTOS
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the breeding ground of chaotic, beer-soaked, sweat-drenched rock and roll coming out of the Sydney and Central Coast underground over the last few years, then the name NFÏ should already be permanently...
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September 21 · 13 min
LA DISPUTE: JORDAN DREYER Talks Survival, Storytelling, And Upcoming Australian Tour
La Dispute have always been a band that operates entirely on their own axis. For over two decades, the Grand Rapids, Michigan post-hardcore titans have bypassed traditional genre boundaries, instead crafting a visceral, emotionally exhausting world...
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September 21 · 17 min
THE OCEAN: Rising Above The Modern Deluge With ROBIN STAPS
When the news broke that progressive metal titans The Ocean had lost two-thirds of their lineup, the heavy music community as a whole held its collective breath. Longtime vocal powerhouse Loïc Rossetti, alongside Paul Seidel and David Ramis Åhfeldt,...
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September 19 · 19 min
Overcoming All Obstacles With MATT KANE From MERTAS
Interview by Ali Williams If organising an interstate show for your band meant first having to consult an aviation specialist, gather a road-condition report and possibly notify the Department of Defence, most would assume that you're either stuck in...
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September 19 · 19 min
From Session Players To Contenders: The Rise And Rise Of NIGHTDIVE
Interview by Ali Williams NIGHTDIVE may be a relatively new band, but its members are hardly wandering into BIGSOUND armed with blind optimism and three rehearsals. Jack Robert and Mitch Clews have spent years working as session musicians, learning...
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September 19 · 20 min
Mayhemic Resurgence: An Interview with MORTAL SIN’s MAT MAURER
When you talk about the foundation of Australian heavy music, one name immediately commands respect. Mortal Sin. Emerging from Sydney in the mid-1980s, Mortal Sin became the undisputed pioneers of local thrash metal. Their 1987 debut album, Mayhemic...
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September 18 · 20 min
YELLOWCARD: Reinvigorated, Recharged, And Ready For Even BETTER DAYS
Few bands can drag a generation by the heartstrings quite like pop-punk royalty Yellowcard. When they wrapped things up a decade ago, it felt like the final curtain on a sound that defined the sweaty, sun-drenched glory days of the Warped Tour era,...
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September 16 · 26 min
JD Fortune Returns to Australia: Carrying the INXS Torch Once Again
JD Fortune is returning to Australia this October, bringing a full band and a set packed with the songs that helped make INXS a defining force in Australian music.Following the sold-out response to his 2025 Australian tour, Fortune says it was the...
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September 16 · 16 min
The Kings Of Freaks Head North: LIZARDMAN And CAPTAIN RUIN Talk CIRQUE LE STRANGE
Forget everything you know about the traditional, sanitized big-top circus, because a beautifully twisted, punk-infused counter-cultural storm is rolling through regional Australia. Straight from the beating heart of the underground party scene,...
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September 16 · 10 min
Leave Expectations At The Door: BANKS ARCADE Talk Aussie Tour And New Album
Melbourne-via-New Zealand heavy hitters Banks Arcade are a band completely devoid of boundaries, systematically smashing the modern metalcore blueprint to pieces and rebuilding it in their own chaotic image. Merging towering post-hardcore riffs with...
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September 15 · 28 min
MUDHONEY: STEVE TURNER On Surviving Seattle Without Losing The Plot
Interview by Ali Williams Australia has been claiming a little piece of MUDHONEY for longer than most of the world had worked out exactly what to call them. The Seattle band first made it down here in 1990, possibly becoming the first of the emerging...
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September 15 · 15 min
FROM ASHES TO NEW: Personal Warfare, Scrapped Demos, And The Aussie Invasion
When it comes to genre-bending, heavy music demolition, few bands have lit up the global landscape quite like central Pennsylvania's rap-rock juggernauts From Ashes To New. They didn't just crack the door open for the modern nu-metal resurgence—they...
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September 14 · 19 min
Architects Of Chaos: FISHBONE's ANGELO MOORE Promises Something Special
If there is one band that has spent the last forty years flipping a massive, middle-finger to the rules of conventional music, it is the absolute legends in Fishbone. These boys didn’t just break the mold when they burst out of South Central Los...
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