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alor Kand is a musician known for his work with Christian Death, where he became a central creative figure as a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. His presence helped define the band’s identity for decades, and he became closely associated with its intense sound, theatrical style, and confrontational themes. In addition to performing, he played a major role in shaping the group’s direction and keeping it active across multiple eras.

As an artist, Kand brought a forceful and dramatic approach to Christian Death’s music. His work often emphasized heavy guitars, dark atmosphere, and lyrics that drew on religion, power, violence, and social tension. The result was a sound that felt severe and deliberate, combining gothic imagery with a harder musical edge. His style gave the band a sense of scale and intensity that remained a consistent part of its character.

Beyond individual albums or performances, Valor Kand’s significance lies in the way he sustained Christian Death as an ongoing artistic project. He was not simply a performer within the group but one of its main drivers, responsible for much of its continuity, image, and output over time. His name remains tied to the band because of that long-term creative leadership and the strong imprint he left on its music.

* **00:00** - Intro and Welcome

* **00:35** - Meet Hardip (Lead Guitar) and Ben (Vocals)

* **00:57** - Band History and First Releases

* **02:22** - The Bond Between Band Members

* **04:13** - Influences and Finding Their Sound

* **06:58** - Playing Alongside Different Genres

* **10:37** - Working with Tony (VENOM INC ) on the New Album

* **15:15** - Album Release Details

* **17:42** - Upcoming Shows and Bloodstock Festival

* **21:28** - Advice for Young Bands and the Reality of Touring

* **23:39** - The Importance of Playing Live

* **28:44** - Outro and Farewell

!Jesse Hughes has described Eagles of Death Metal as a creative partnership built with Josh Homme from the start, and in interviews he has spoken openly about how closely they write together. Hughes said he and Homme write the songs together, while also calling Homme his best friend and praising the chance to work in a Joshua Homme production session.

On the gear side, Hughes’ documented live setup is very specific: he has used custom Maton guitars, including an MS500 with lightning-bolt styling and hotter-wound humbuckers, and paired them with Orange amps onstage. A recorded rig rundown says he used both an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII and an Orange Dual Dark 50, with Hughes explaining that placing amps on both sides of the drummer helped create a stereo sound live; the same feature also noted that he recorded direct with a vintage Mosrite Fuzzrite and an original Orange Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz.

* **00:00** – Introduction and welcome to Dave Rude from Tesla

* **00:22** – Discussing the new album and the "economy of albums" in rock today

* **01:28** – Why Tesla chooses to release singles versus full albums

* **02:17** – How the new covers record came together "by accident"

* **03:03** – Exploring the vocal-focused direction of the new album

* **04:48** – Balancing original sound with the essence of cover songs

* **06:03** – Upcoming tour details with Mötley Crüe and Extreme

* **07:44** – The experience of headlining versus playing larger package tours

* **11:13** – Rehearsing for the tour and updating the stage production

* **13:16** – Why classic bands feel the need to play the "hits"

* **15:56** – The challenge of making new music feel "classic" in the streaming era

* **19:09** – Dave Rude’s solo projects and performing on the Monsters of Rock Cruise

* **23:32** – Recording guitar parts in hotel rooms and dressing rooms on the road

* **28:24** – Closing remarks and tour dates summary

Paul Booth is an American tattoo artist and multidisciplinary dark surrealist from Boonton, New Jersey, whose career has spanned nearly four decades. After beginning his tattoo journey in the late 1980s through an apprenticeship in New Jersey, he developed a signature black-and-gray style centered on macabre, psychological, and surreal imagery. Rather than follow standard flash trends, Booth built his name through large custom pieces that explored horror, religion, trauma, and the darker side of human nature.

By the 1990s and 2000s, Booth had become one of the most influential names in tattooing, especially within metal and alternative culture. His work attracted high-profile musicians and performers, while his broader practice expanded into painting, sculpture, film, and music. He also earned recognition beyond tattoo culture, helping push tattooing toward wider acceptance as a serious art form.

A major part of Booth’s legacy is the world he built around Last Rites in New York, an immersive tattoo and gallery space that became iconic in dark art culture. In 2000 he co-founded the Art Fusion Experiment, bringing tattooers and fine artists together in collaborative work. His fine art later reached international exhibitions, including a solo show at the H.R. Giger Museum in 2011 and a major museum exhibition in Paris in 2014–2015. Although Last Rites closed in 2020 during the pandemic, Booth remains a defining figure in the crossover between tattooing, outsider art, and dark contemporary art

Paul Booth is an American tattoo artist and multidisciplinary dark surrealist from Boonton, New Jersey, whose career has spanned nearly four decades. After beginning his tattoo journey in the late 1980s through an apprenticeship in New Jersey, he developed a signature black-and-gray style centered on macabre, psychological, and surreal imagery. Rather than follow standard flash trends, Booth built his name through large custom pieces that explored horror, religion, trauma, and the darker side of human nature.

By the 1990s and 2000s, Booth had become one of the most influential names in tattooing, especially within metal and alternative culture. His work attracted high-profile musicians and performers, while his broader practice expanded into painting, sculpture, film, and music. He also earned recognition beyond tattoo culture, helping push tattooing toward wider acceptance as a serious art form.

A major part of Booth’s legacy is the world he built around Last Rites in New York, an immersive tattoo and gallery space that became iconic in dark art culture. In 2000 he co-founded the Art Fusion Experiment, bringing tattooers and fine artists together in collaborative work. His fine art later reached international exhibitions, including a solo show at the H.R. Giger Museum in 2011 and a major museum exhibition in Paris in 2014–2015. Although Last Rites closed in 2020 during the pandemic, Booth remains a defining figure in the crossover between tattooing, outsider art, and dark contemporary art

I spoke with Karl Agell about the story behind Legions of Doom, a band born from a heavy kind of history. In the aftermath of Eric Wagner’s passing, what could have remained only a tribute to the past slowly became something more active and alive. Karl talked about how the project grew out of grief, friendship, and unfinished creative momentum, with musicians choosing not to let that chapter simply close.

What makes Legions of Doom compelling is that it does not feel like a band built to imitate what came before. It carries the weight of that history, but it is not trapped by it. Karl made it clear that the group came together with real purpose: to honor the spirit of the music, to give shape to material that still deserved to be heard, and to move forward without pretending the past can be replaced.

There is a real sense of continuity in the band’s foundation. The people involved bring shared history, but also the kind of experience that lets them turn loss into creation. In talking with Karl, that seemed to be the heart of Legions of Doom — not just remembrance, but resolve. It is a band connected to legacy, but driven by the need to make something new out of what was left behind.

Davy Vain’s story starts before Vain the band ever broke out. He first built a name behind the scenes as a producer, then stepped forward as a frontman and songwriter when he formed Vain in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986. After early buzz, club shows, and a growing reputation, the band signed with Island and released No Respect in 1989, an album that never became a huge chart smash but earned lasting respect for its raw, hungry sound. When label turmoil stalled the band in the early ’90s, Davy kept moving—briefly linking up with Steven Adler in Road Crew before reviving Vain and pushing on through years of lineup shifts, underground releases, and cult-level loyalty. Across every era, from Move On It and Fade to All Those Strangers, Enough Rope, Rolling With the Punches, and 2024’s Disintegrate Together, Davy has remained the engine of the band: its voice, songwriter, and constant creative center.

Boris T. is the online name of Boris Behara, a Croatian musician and YouTube creator best known for metal-focused videos and for leading the one-man project Tryglav. His channel originally started as “Tryglav Official” before expanding into broader content about extreme metal, music culture, and underground scenes.

As a musician, he is tied to black/death metal, with Tryglav described as a Croatian one-man project formed in 2018. His work blends aggressive black/death metal with horror-inspired themes, and he has also discussed side projects beyond Tryglav.

His video content mixes music, behind-the-scenes material, and metal travel/history features. Recent examples highlighted online include videos about Scandinavian black/death metal culture, including exhibitions, gravesites, and locations connected to bands such as Bathory, Mayhem, and Dissection.

https://ruthlesstalent.com/exclusive-creator-boris-t/

https://www.patreon.com/tryglav/about

https://tryglav.bandcamp.com/album/the-ritual