Machines of Death -- The Complete Interviews

5/11/2012 12:00:00 AM
The following are the raw, unedited transcripts from Bryan Beller's interviews with Derek Boyer, Steve DiGiorgio, and Jeroen Paul Thesseling for the article Machines of Death (May 2012).DEREK BOYER (Suffocation) What is the More...

Flea Association

10/13/2011 12:00:00 AM
If you were to imagine Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to be a passionate, intense, high-energy dynamo of a person, you’d be right—to a point. Of course, as anyone who has seen him on stage can attest, the man plays with the More...

My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship

10/13/2011 12:00:00 AM
“I’m not really of note as a bass player,” says humble Tom Blankenship. He may not be the most technically advanced bassist, but Blankenship’s balance of aggressiveness and delicacy works perfectly for My Morning Jacket’s More...

The New Golden Age Of Metal, The Complete Interviews

3/9/2010 1:05:00 PM
Yes, there really is a cartoon character on the cover of the April 2010 issue of Bass Player. But that’s no ordinary animated dude; it’s William Murderface of the quantruple- platinum, über-brutal metal band Dethklok, an act so More...

William Murderface Of Dethklok

3/9/2010 12:00:00 PM
You can’t put into words what I do. It’s like asking Robert DeNiro how to act, or why George Burns was a comedy genius. I mean, we’ve just got the goods. There’s no secret formula. And I’m sure all the sad struggling bassists More...

Steve DiGiorgio, Extreme Metal Session Ace

3/9/2010 11:45:00 AM
I just gradually became this “session player.” I love it. I don't care what it's called, I'm just so happy to just plug in and jam with somebody else. ‘Cause everyone has killer ideas, no matter what level of musician or what More...

Sharlee D’angelo of Arch Enemy

3/9/2010 11:30:00 AM
I think it’s great actually that people are getting interested in musicianship as such again – especially the guitar players, you’d be amazed by how fast they are, and their technique and everything. And some of them, you give More...

Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne

3/9/2010 10:30:00 AM
It's the relationship. It's not about how good or how fast or how many inversions I can play. It's the relationship that my parts bear to the other things that are happening within the song and whether it's musical or not, More...

Nate Newton of Converge

3/9/2010 9:45:00 AM
When I joined the band, we were actually a five-piece, and we had two guitarists, and so when we became a four-piece, I then had try to compensate at least for the sound of a guitar being there, so I started playing with a lot More...

Liam Wilson of The Dillinger Escape Plan

3/9/2010 9:20:00 AM
I’ve always loved to cop the Jaco punk-jazz stuff or like, you know, fusion-metal or something like that. I really abhor the whole sub-categorizing thing, but I definitely feel like my band is a mix of like really fusion-y More...

John Campbell of Lamb Of God

3/9/2010 9:05:00 AM
Honestly, I never saw the bass and was like, “I’m going to play bass.” I had friends [and] the opportunity to play music came up…they had a house with stuff set up, and I was playing my friend’s drums with his roommates and the More...

Jeroen Paul Thesseling of Obscura

3/9/2010 8:50:00 AM
Maybe the reason why the bass work sounds a little different than on most metal albums, and death metal albums, is because I [was] working with Pestilence in the early 90s. And I was recording bass for their fourth album, More...

Dan Briggs of Between The Buried and Me

3/9/2010 8:45:00 AM
As far as when we’re writing, we approach every song differently, but it's always just starting somewhere and not knowing exactly where the song is gonna go. Someone might have a part pre-written that is some sort of down More...

Chris Beattie of Hatebreed

3/9/2010 8:40:00 AM
I don’t want to be overly aggressive, but I like to have a clean tone so you can hear every note, like defined individually, but I like to dirty it up so it’s in the mix where it’s almost like a guitar but it has a lot of More...

Byron Stroud of Fear Factory

3/9/2010 8:30:00 AM
I find a lot bass players – especially [bassists who] played with Devin before me – they're like guitar players that play bass, or just come along and start playing bass. I think I brought a different thought process to it. I More...