EPISODE 6.11: John Connor (Dog Eat Dog) on the changes in the music business
This episode features the always-fun-to-hang-out-with John Connor from legendary East-coast crossover metal pioneers Dog Eat Dog, who observes how the music business has changed since he started as a musician and what it means to be an artist today. Make sure to catch their brand-new EP “Brand New Breed” at dogeatdog.nl and to go see […]
EPISODE 6.10: Alan Robert of Life of Agony on being a musician today
In this #fhtz episode, Alan Robert of alternative metal-pioneers Life of Agony elaborates on different aspects of what it means to be a musician in 2017.
EPISODE 6.09: Merlin Sutter of Cellar Darling on starting a band in this day and age
In this #fhtz episode, Merlin Sutter of Swiss metal band Cellar Darling discusses what it takes to start a band from scratch in this day and age after having split with his former band, Swiss folk metal icons Eluveitie. And, check out Cellar Darling’s highly acclaimed debut album «This Is The Sound» – out now.
EPISODE 6.08: Andreas Kisser of Sepultura on technology and robotics in music and in general
In this #fhtz episode, Andreas Kisser of iconic Brazilian metal legends Sepultura discusses digitization, technology, and robotics, which is the main topic of their highly acclaimed 2017 studio album Machine Messiah.
EPISODE 6.07: Henkka Seppälä of Children of Bodom on being a musician in this day and age
Henkka Seppälä has been playing bass for Finnish metal legends Children of Bodom since the 1990s. In this interview he elaborates on the main differences about being a musician today compared to when the band started in the ’90s and what it means to be a musician in these highly technological times.
EPISODE 6.06: Interview with Joey Cape of Lagwagon and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
The legendary Lagwagon frontman and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes guitarist Joey Cape sat down with us to talk about music, culture and technology, which resulted in an in-depth discourse on the state of today’s (pop-)culture. A must-watch interview.
EPISODE 6.05: Maja Shining of Forever Still elaborates on the band’s DIY approach
“Just do what needs to be done instead of worrying about, ‘oh, it was so much better back then’. Yeah, yeah. Sure. But a lot of things are better now. You see so many more mid-level bands actually making a living.” Maja Shining of Danish metal band Forever Still sat down with us to talk […]
EPISODE 6.04: James “Munky” Shaffer of Korn on becoming smarter in regard to the music business
Legendary Korn guitarist and founding member James “Munky” Shaffer sat down with us to discuss the main differences about being a musician in this day and age compared to when he started out with his band in the early 1990s. Munky touched upon how the band pioneered the usage of trending technologies for marketing and […]
EPISODE 6.03: Sonata Arctica’s Henrik Klingenberg on consumer behaviour, convenience of new tech and more
“There are so many ways of enjoying music and none of them is better or worse than the other.” We had the great pleasure to talk to Henrik “Henkka” Klingenberg from Finnish power metal greats Sonata Arctica. Henkka elaborated on how the marketing side of the music business changed with the advent of the internet, […]
EPISODE 6.02: Mark Jansen (Epica) on clever marketing, tech and grasping opportunities
“Samples nowadays sound extremely good, but when there’s a real human-being playing an instrument instead of a digital instrument – it’s a difference.” – Mark Jansen We had a very interesting talk with Mark Jansen, mastermind of the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, on which he elaborated on the band’s early marketing attempts, how to […]