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COVER STORY
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE: My Chemical Romance’s severely hyped new record has hit stores around the world, and singer Gerard Way is so caught up in the whirlwind of touring to support it that he’s not even sure where he is right now. The Black Parade, debuted at No. 2 in the US and has promised to extend My Chemical Romance’s influence to places Way probably never dreamed possible when he started the band. “We knew we were working on something really special,” he says. “It really restored a lot of our faith in the public, that they desired a record like this."
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DEFTONES: “Dog shit,” declares Deftones bassist Chi Cheng. “That’s how I’d describe the past few years." It’s been a long, hard haul, but Sacramento’s finest have weathered the storm, and have emerged with Saturday Night Wrist, a moody, metallic, and melancholy album of alternating quiet and loud dynamics.
CONVERGE is the most consequential metal band currently on the face of the planet. None of this sort of gushing praise is very interesting to Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon, however. No Heroes isn’t about getting the better of anyone else, Bannon explains. It’s more about getting the better of oneself and the best of one’s art.
SCARS OF TOMORROW vocalist Mike Milford takes a licking and keeps on ticking.The 26-year-old discusses his dedication and determination when it comes to Scars of Tomorrow, as the band was on one of its many recent tours supporting The Failure in Drowning.
ISIS: Any time one spends waiting for the concepts behind In the Absence of Truth — the band’s most expansive, diverse, unrelentingly epic offering yet — to be explained in detail will be time wasted. “To borrow a phrase from somebody I encountered recently, to over explain an idea is to embalm it,” guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner counsels.
TERROR: En route to Michigan from Pennsylvania, enduring a traffic quagmire in the name of touring, vocalist Scott Vogel offers his thoughts and insight on Terror’s latest album, Always the Hard Way, and other topics he says the band holds very near and dear to their hardcore hearts.
SAOSIN: It’s 7:30 AM, and Saosin vocalist Cove Reber is awake at the crack of dawn. Their self-titled album is built upon the foundation of Reber’s emotive vocals, which are set to a backdrop of urgent, post-hardcore riffery. Reber loves talking about the creative process and the positive vibe that marks their new album.
HAMMERFALL: In an age of blandness and banal brutality, Sweden’s HammerFall continues their crusade of classic heavy metal played with power, feeling, and pure class. Vocalist Joacim Cans and guitarist Oscar Dronjak are the songwriting foundation of HammerFall, as well as two of the nicest guys you could hope to talk to.
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