[Ulver] "We have higher standards that we have to live up to, not exactly commercially or to the audience but to ourselves. We have pretty strict demands on ourselves. It’s easy for us to make music but very difficult to make music that we think is interesting. Every record is failure. It’s a relative failure. It’s always a failure. But you go on when you fail. And there’s some comfort in that idea." -Garm

[Municpal Waste] "I think we earned it after this one. I think we might have partied harder on all the other albums. By the time we got to this one, we were all partied out. But when another album comes out, we have to start all over again. I had a huge reputation to uphold with that one.” - Ryan Waste

[Bring Me The Horizon] “The album’s been doing awesome here in the US. The reactions have been really positive from the press, so we’re pleased with the way things have been going so far on that side of things. As for the tour itself, it’s been really cool. Actually, it’s been doing amazing. The reactions have been crazy." - Oli Sykes

[Arch Enemy] Along with In Flames, Arch Enemy has made the Gothenburg, Sweden melodic death sound a staple in metal circles around the globe. The massive popularity Arch Enemy has earned in the last couple years is all the more exciting because they have never changed their musical vision and they have never sold out, by any means.

[SSS] "It’s a bit of a blur really. We’re pretty happy that we put our scribble where it mattered. To this day, we still haven’t gone out to celebrate the fact. That’s what, five months later? I’m stoked to be on Earache, though. They get their shit out there. That’s all we wanted: to spread the word across this dump of a planet." - Foxy

[Amorphis] Barely a year removed from “Eclipse,” Amorphis returns with “Silent Waters.” An album that recalls the lush, progressive-tinged “Tuonela” album, “Silent Waters” is a well-rounded, well-executed platter of melodic metal that only Amorphis could pull off.

[Five Finger Death Punch] "I decided that if I was going to go into this it was going to be with a shotgun and not a .38 Special. This is my chance to not be a comic book character like I was in Motograter and let people know more of who I am. It just seemed natural to me write what was in my heart, which at the time was a lot of pain and anguish." - Ivan Moody

[The Absence] The Absence recently released their second effort “Riders of the Plague,” further improving on the slick, European death metal sound displayed on their debut, “From your Grave.” “Riders” portrays the band as not only professional musicians—the guitar leads and solos show tremendous skills—but as major metal fans, too.

[Invitro] Over the past ten years, Mikey Doling has had his share of highs and lows throughout his music career. He got his break with the popular Santa Barbara based Snot, landing him a major label deal with Geffen Records. Things were looking good for them until frontman Lynn Strait was killed in an automobile accident on the 101 Freeway near Ventura, CA on December 11, 1998.

[Winds] "The idea of Winds is that it is a cosmic journey. The band, itself, is sort of like a concept. The releases are sub plots of the actual themes. We deal with ideas of the cosmos, existential themes, and universal themes. That was the plan from the beginning." - Andy Winter

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