Interview and photo by Mike Bax http://www.dragonforce.com twitter.com/DragonForce http://www.facebook.com/dragonforce Already in the studio working on their follow-up to Maximum Overload, the mighty Dragonforce on July 22nd will release a double disc retrospective of their earlier material, entitled Killer Elite – The Hits, The Highs, The Vids. It will be a 22 track set clocking in…
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August Burns Red, Between & The Buried and Me – Guelph Concert Theatre, April 10th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax I hadn’t planned on attending this show until the day before when it was made known to me that the evening was a co-headliner show with Between & The Buried and Me (BTBAM) and August Burns Red (ABR). I’d assumed it was an ABR show with a 45-minute set…
Top Ten Albums of 2015 According to Photojournalist Mike Bax
Top Ten Albums of 2015 By Mike Bax Year by year, I take in a lot of music that spans multiple genres. I tend to be unaffected by hype, despite being bombarded by emails from publicists hyping music. I rely more on the input of my friends, my personal tastes in music, crowd-funding and an…
Between the Buried and Me – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto – Dec 10th, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax A few days before this show, openers Native Construct had their vehicle broken into and their passports stolen. Toronto’s Earth’s Yellow Sun took the stage at 6:45pm in their place, filling the Danforth Music Hall with their heavy take on saxophone doom to the early arrivers in the room….
Kamelot w Dragonforce – London Music Hall, Canada – November 26th, 2015
Review and photos by Mike Bax Here’s due warning Kamelot fans – I went into this show with zero knowledge of the Mighty Kamelot. Hard to believe really, as I am pretty immersed in all genres of metal, and some have managed to make my way to 2015 without allowing Kamelot into my life. That…
Interview with Kyle Gunther and Tony Asta of Battlecross – Heavy Montréal, 2015
Kyle Gunther and Tony Asta of Battlecross interview Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montréal – August 8th, 2015 Interview by Mike Bax heavymontreal.com http://www.facebook.com/HEAVYMONTREAL twitter.com/heavymtl battlecrossmetal.com http://www.facebook.com/battlecrossmetal twitter.com/battlecross
Herman Li and Sam Totman Interview – Dragonforce
Interview by Mike Bax If power metal was a balloon, and you turned it inside out and stuffed it full of the best elements of thrash metal, über guitar riffs, soulful (man-style) harmonizing and big meaty choruses, then you’d basically have Dragonforce. Known the world over as ‘that band with the hardest song to play…
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