Where Did Mary Go?
Interviews from ThisDayInMetal.com and other sources related to musicians and their careers focusing mostly on metal and rock artists.
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Episodes
33 episodes
Episode 33: Tarja Turunen (Tarja, ex-Nightwish)
From a young age, everyone around her seemed to know that Tarja Turunen would have a future in music due to her incredible voice. What many didn’t see coming though, was the way in which that voice would become part of a groundbrea...
Episode 32: Joey Vera (Armored Saint, Fates Warning)
Though they’ve been together since 1982, you might be surprised to learn that Armored Saint has only released 8 studio albums to date despite their long history as a band. When it’s released on May 22nd through Metal Blade Recor...
Episode 31: Russell Allen (Symphony X)
For over thirty years, Russell Allen has had one of the most powerful voices in heavy metal music. Through his work as frontman for progressive metal titans Symphony X, performances with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, solo...
Episode 30: Children of Bodom's A Celebration of Music Recap with Antti and Janne Wirman
How do you describe something that you never thought you’d see? That’s the task I’m faced with trying to explain the performances I witnessed on February 26th and 27th at Tavastia in Helsinki as the surviving members of Chil...
Episode 29: Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne)
Call it cliché, but the namesake of the first record Zakk Wylde ever performed on back in 1988 with Ozzy Osbourne could very easily be used to define his illustrious career to this point. When Black Label Society rele...
Episode 28: Woody Weatherman (Corrosion of Conformity)
Throughout the long and storied history of American heavy metal legends Corrosion of Conformity’s existence, Woody Weatherman has been the only consistent member since the group started way back in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina....
Episode 27: Anssi Kippo (Astia-Studio)
When two teenagers from the suburbs of Helsinki traveled three hours northeast to Lappeenranta during the summer of 1995 to knock on the door to the basement of a church, they might not have known at the time that the man who answered would bec...
Episode 26: Chuck Billy (Testament)
Before meeting him, a future bandmate of Chuck Billy’s recalled seeing him work his way to front row of a KISS concert in this way: “One figure stood out among the carnage, someone so large, he could push his way t...
Episode 25: Attila Csihar (Mayhem)
The concept of death and Mayhem have been intertwined since most of the world first learned about them. It’s been an integral part of the black metal pioneers’ story that has become so synonymous with the group that for a long time...
Episode 24: Zachary Ezrin (Imperial Triumphant)
Imperial Triumphant has been pushing the limits of metal since they formed in New York City in 2005. By incorporating avant garde, jazz, and experimental sounds into their black metal delivery, the trio has risen to prominence with...
Episode 23: Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly)
Chama, the title of Soulfly’s thirteenth studio album released on October 24th through Nuclear Blast Records, is a Brazilian word with a dual meaning: it means both ‘flame’ and ‘a calling.’ The album is accompanied ...
Episode 22: John Haughm (Agalloch)
When Agalloch surprisingly disbanded in 2016, there was a collective sign of disappointment from those in the know in the metal community at losing one of its most creative, authentic, and genuinely unique bands. Agalloch ro...
Episode 21: Esa Holopainen (Amorphis)
Amorphis' fifteenth studio album, Borderland, was released on Friday, September 26th. To celebrate this milestone release in the band's 35th year of existence, founding member and guitarist Esa Holopainen ...
Episode 20: Mark Menghi (King Ultramega, Metal Allegiance)
Mark Menghi certainly didn’t take the traditional route to prominence in the rock and metal world. In fact, if you look back at his story, it might sound pretty familiar. For starters, he worked at a record store he frequente...
Episode 19: Gene Hoglan (Death, Dark Angel, Testament)
Throughout his spectacular career, Gene Hoglan has been involved with some of the biggest names to ever play heavy metal. From his earnest beginnings as a lighting tech with Slayer, that led him to be featured doing backing...
Episode 18: Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me)
When Dan Briggs joined Between the Buried and Me in early 2005, the band was at a bit of a crossroads. After releasing The Silent Circus in 2003, an album that showed flashes of their future progressive sound, the g...
Episode 17: Tomi Joutsen (Amorphis)
When founding members Tomi Koivusaari, Esa Holopainen, and Jan Rechberger named Amorphis in 1990, they must have had a view to the future of the band. A play on the word amorphous, which means having no definite form ...
Episode 16: Antti & Janne Wirman (Children of Bodom, Warmen)
When Children of Bodom played their final show on December 15, 2019, it quite possibly could have been the last time their brilliant keyboardist Janne Wirman ever played a single note of music he wrote. The last show came as...
Episode 15: Tom Angelripper (Sodom)
So the story goes, Tom Angelripper and his original bandmates started playing music as a means to escape a life of working in the coal mines in Germany. Now nearly 40 years later, after influencing innumerable thrash, death, and bl...
Episode 14: Alexander Kuoppala (Children of Bodom)
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...
Episode 13: Mario Lalli (Across the River, Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Queens of the Stone Age)
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...
Episode 12: Colin Edwin (ex-Porcupine Tree, O.R.k.)
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...
Episode 11: Davide "Damna" Moras (Elvenking)
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...