Category: interview – hsc
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This is… Miki Simankevicius of Gravemind, and Annihilist
photo : Third Eye Visuals 27th October, 2024 Your resume is quite stacked :Musician – Gravemind, Hurt Division, and Annihilist.Photographer/ filmmaker – having worked on ad shoots for AMEX and KIA, and also worked with the cream of Australia’s best heavy music artists – Parkway Drive, Thy Art Is Murder, Polaris, Northlane, To The Grave,…
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This is…Paul Musolino – The Gloom In The Corner
28th October, 2024 Nothing says “I play metal” more than a black, 5 string B.C. Rich Warlock. Any chance it will make it’s way back to the stage, or has it been retired from active duty? Oh mate, I do really love that bass, plays amazingly, looks killer and sounds huge, but it simply isn’t…
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This is… Matt Clarke, Simon O’Malley, and Jack Simioni – To The Grave
photo : Nikki That Rocktographer 11th June, 2023 Director’s Cuts has put every Aussie deathcore band on notice. The brutality contained within has definitely raised the bar. What were your goals for this album? Simon – To put death metal drums in front of the widest audience possible. That shit means a lot to me.…
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This is… Jason Peppiatt – Psycroptic, and Domination Campaign
photo : Mlle Lazurite 18th August, 2023 With Psycroptic being known as one of Australia’s most successful and revered tech death bands, what was the inspiration to start Domination Campaign? Domination Campaign was something I had been toying around with for years, writing songs, but never actually had the time to do anything serious with. When touring stopped…
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This is… Mick Jeffery – Aversions Crown
12th April, 2023 Your last release, “Hell Will Come For Us All”, was released while the pandemic was still affecting a bands ability to tour properly. Were you able to get any shows in to support the album? The last show we were able to play was March 12th 2020 which was before the album…
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This is… Ben Matthews and Logan Gill – Zuko
photo : Nick Hargans How would you each describe Zuko’s sound? Ben – Zuko is a fusion of our favourite parts from metalcore and hardcore. With so many different sources of inspiration its difficult to pigeonhole our sound. Logan – Hardcore with a bit of flare from other genres (metalcore/punk). Why heavy music? What is…
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This Is… Andy Gillion – solo artist
photo : 31st March, 2023 You just finished a successful tour with Orpheus Omega. What were the highlights and lowlights of that tour? The highlights were getting to take my solo material on the road for the first time. In addition to that, this was my first time touring Australia, which was an incredible experience.…
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This is… Josh Clinch – Earth Caller
photo : Cris Greaves 22nd April, 2023 You finished a successful European tour last year with Within Destruction. What were the highlights and lowlights of that tour? The entire tour was the highlight! As I’m sure most musicians in Australia will agree, being able to play shows in another country is a huge achievement and…
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This is… “Shortie” Michael Petritsch – guitar tech, ex-Gravemind guitarist
photo : Kim Quint 28th March, 2023 Nicknames?? Honestly, far too many to count. I’ve basically never been called Michael. The main two are probably Shortie – which originated in grade 1 when I was absolutely tiny compared to everyone else – but somehow it stuck for the following 23 years despite no longer being…
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This is… The Stanley Knife – Dead Kelly
10th May, 2023 What is Dead Kelly’s mission? To be the best Aussie metal band in the fucken world. Have you submitted “That Cricket Song” for consideration as Australia’s entry for Eurovision? No I haven’t. It would be funny, though! Is there any more Legend of Borry tunes and vids in the works? Yes there…
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This is… Shaun Wilkinson – threesiximagery
5th September, 2024 How did you get started in this industry? It all happened pretty organically to be honest. When I first picked up my camera I didn’t really know what to do or what I was doing. I opened Youtube and studied the shit out of everything and practiced shooting pretty much everything (events,…
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This is… Jacson Robb – Pincer+, Remission, and Suneater
photo : JV Photo & Film 3rd June, 2023 With Hellfire, and now Castor, being released, is there a new Remission album in the works for us, or are they stand alone singles? There is indeed a new album on the way! Details of which are to be released in the coming week. We have…
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This is… Keyan Houshmand – solo artist
2nd June, 2023 How did Keyan Houshmand, content creator, get the coveted Animals As Leaders support slot after only playing his first live show a year ago? That must have been an amazing honour, and experience? It’s pretty wild, I still can’t believe it actually happened! The tour was organised under Destroy All Lines Touring…
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This is… Pat Haas – Zeolite
29th May, 2023 Your brutal last release, Proselytism, was released while the pandemic was still affecting a bands ability to tour properly. Were you able to get many shows in to support the album? Touring intially after the release was really difficult. I think we had a total of three tour cancelled post release due…
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This is… Scott Kaufman – photographer/ videographer
29th August 2024 The list of artists you have worked for, and had the opportunity to shoot, is quite amazing.How did this all start for you? I have been around the music industry for over 20 years, from 16 years old I was in and out of metal/punk bands as a drummer on the Gold…