Though he may not have known it at the time, Alexander Kuoppala’s eight-year tenure in Children of Bodom would prepare him for his future endeavors in music education.  When he joined the group in 1995 when they were still ca...

When interviewed about Mario Lalli for a documentary about the emerging desert rock scene he grew up in, Josh Homme of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age fame described him this way:“Mario is the one guy...

Porcupine Tree band leader Steven Wilson started his 2022 autobiography, Limited Edition of One, with a story about the band’s last show before the start of their well-known hiatus that began in 2010.   He wrote that...

Since their inception in 1997, Elvenking have never fit squarelyinto one genre or category in the world of metal.  On a surface level, the casual listener might blindly generalize them into power metal genre based on Davide “Damn...

When Swedish melodic death metal legends Arch Enemy were about to enter to studio to record Burning Bridges in 1999, which would become one of their most iconic releases, they were facing a bit of an issue: they ne...

In early 1991, Dream Theater were dangerously close to calling it quits.  The promising young group, which formed at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the mid-1980s under the original name Majesty, had let go original lead singer Charl...

Failure has never really been an option for Jamey Jasta.  He started out in the music business in his early teens during the mid-1990s and he has yet to look back.  When interviewed about his initial impressions of meeting J...

Justin Foley joined Killswitch Engage in the fall of 2003 after the departure of their original drummer.  His former bandmate, Howard Jones, had just joined the band as their lead singer and recommended Foley fo...

Reflecting on when Fredrik Åkesson joined Opeth in 2007 after the departure of founding member Peter Lindgren, band frontman and general mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt said: “Finally, we had a really, really good lead g...

Frank Hetzel has been a giant in the Seattle metal community for many years – so much so that it’s been said that any metal band who played in the city was booked through him.  After securing national and international band to grace...

Alex Skolnick is a world renowned guitar virtuoso most well-known for playing in the thrash metal band Testament from the age of 16. He has also played in Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and his jazz outfit Alex Skolnick Trio. I spoke to hi...

Karl Agell, who was Corrosion of Conformity's vocalist on 1991's breakthrough Blind, discussed a number of topics with me, including:how he joined Legions of Doom, a doom/stoner supergroup involving ex-members of Trouble, T...

I've been a King's X fan for over two decades now. The fact that I was able to interview bassist and vocalist Doug (dUg) Pinnick for ⁠ThisDayInMetal.com⁠ was a surreal experience. <...

I started writing about music two years ago, mostly as a joke, and have now found myself producing material for an actual website called ⁠ThisDayInMetal.com⁠. Given access to different musicians for intervie...