[Dismember] 2008 brings Dismember’s 8th studio album simply titled, Dismember and it’s everything we’ve come to expect from the band – feral, swarming, with that buzz-saw guitar tone and galloping Maiden melodies. Highlighted by storming numbers like “Europa Burns,” “The Hills Have Eyes,” and “Combat Fatigue,” Dismember shows a band with no tread on its wheels, still capable of killing ‘em when they have to.

[Bullet For My Valentine] "Some songs take a year to take life. This one took 10 minutes. As soon as we wrote this, we rushed into the live room, showed everyone the basic structures and the parts. We thrashed out for an hour until we had the basic song. The next day we recorded it and what you hear is nothing really changed from the demo version.” - Matt Tuck

[Tomas Lindberg] "I feel much more relaxed now. I have only Disfear and the Great Deceiver to concentrate on. Even saying this, the Great Deceiver is not that much of a touring band. We do short European tours and stuff like that. We would like to come over to the States on this one. Disfear has more of a natural live sound. I feel less stressed after stripping down so many projects. These two bands mean so much for me to do them." - Tomas Lindberg

[Death Angel] "Dude, we would not even play together if we felt any different. It’s only way we know. It’s the ‘ole “boys club,” the gang, and it’s still an amazing feeling, even when the five of us get together in the practice room and start throwing down. I couldn’t imagine us being any other way." - Rob Cavesteny

[Brainstorm] "For me, everyday is a dream come true. I never expected to be talking to someone on the phone about my band. I still consider myself to be a down-to-earth kind, even after playing in front 10,000 – 15,000 people. It’s hard not freak out after doing something like that, but I think it’s important to never consider yourself too successful. You must be able to sit down and listen to your music and be proud above all else." - Andy B. Franck

[The Autumn Offering] "There are so many bands and you want to do something that separates yourself from the herd. I don’t think we did anything super groundbreaking. But I think we wrote 11 really good songs, especially in an old Bay Area thrash thing. There are a lot of harmonies and At The Gates guitar work that people seem to be big on. There are a lot of solos. We didn’t want to do the one note and the breakdown stuff. It’s so played out." - Matt McChesney

[Helloween] “You can bury yourself if you don’t change and move with the times. We don’t want to do that. But you can’t force change either. It has to come naturally. Sometimes all you need is one new and young guitarist to achieve that change. It’s easier to fulfill those expectations than if you had two old grandpa guitarists like me in the band! (laughs) I’m always running after the sessions to try and play something that’s going to live up to those expectations and compete with the rest of the band members contributions, and that helps push our sound forward." - Michael Weikath

[Sinamore] "The feeling when all the little pieces are together and we are sitting at our rehearsal place thinking, "Wow...what the fuck just happened?" In every single Sinamore song we try to surprise ourselves. The more weird the feeling is, the better the song is." - Tommi Mulhi

[Warbringer] "We’ve got a wide range of listening from metal to ‘80s synth music new wave-type shit. I think it’s good to have a wide range of influences. That keeps you interested in what you’re doing and keeps your mind going and changing. You can tell when a band is just trying to copy another band’s style – trying to put their own spin on something." - Ryan Bates

[Isole] It’s good for the genre in general that there are many doom bands coming and it seems that it is popular using growls for vocals, but there are doom bands rising with clean vocals as well. But I think it’s our sound as a whole that will set us apart, there aren’t that many doom bands sounding like Isole… at least I don’t think so." - Crister Olsson

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