Metal Hammer

  • BIG|BRAVE’s Mathieu Ball: “Every tour we go on we realize how lucky we are.” (8/17 at MilkBoy)

    “What’s important to us is touring and playing live.  We put these albums out so we can keep playing and touring…  I thought if we could go to Europe once it would be great, but it’s been like 10 times over,” laughs Mathieu Ball, guitarist and co-founder of Montreal...
  • Zeal & Ardor, Back in the USA (9/12 at Underground Arts)

    Last year Swiss avant-garde metal outfit Zeal & Ardor, led by Manuel Gagneux, found themselves playing North American mega-stages, opening for metal legends Mastodon and Opeth, previewing their self-titled third full-length, which dropped this February on MVKA to resounding praise from the metal community.  Kerrang! said, “For a band...
  • Make Them Suffer’s Nick McLernon Talks Survival

    How to Survive a Funeral, Australian symphonic metalcore outfit Make Them Suffer’s fourth LP, dropped last June, just in time for the band to spend a year inside… However, during a recent chat with guitarist Nick McLernon, he tells me that, despite the circumstances, the album was far-from lost...