[INTERVIEW STARTS AT 9:00] In this episode Paky and Johannes meet up with Stix of Steel Panther to talk honesty, longevity, common friends and more. After the interview Paky answers your questions. It’s a great mix of her sharing experiences, values and tastes. Enjoy!

Paky and Johannes make their triumphant return as Paky continues to have Johannes try to make sense out of what goes in to the process of writing and recording music. They also do their best to make the holiday season feel more METAL! Enjoy!

In this episode we carve some pumpkins and entertaining each other with increasingly darker and heavier subject matters all based in horrific acts from the wild world of black metal. Enjoy!

In this episode Paky is picking Johannes' brain about anything and everything regarding writing and recording an album. Enjoy!

In this episode Paky and Johannes meet Clémentine Delauney and Thomas Caser of Visions of Atlantis. We talk about their new album Wanderers, the motivations and musings of epic lyricism, what it means to find home and the long way back for a band that never stopped believing.

Enjoy!

In this episode Paky meets the CEO of the Tuska festival. They talk about the process of running a festival in general and a great independent one in particular. Enjoy!

Paky and Johannes finally have their long anticipated talk with Nikan Khosravi of Confess! This may very well be one of the most interesting and important voices in metal today due to the band's unique story and their members' courage and creativity.

The potential and purpose of metal is defined as Nikan shares stories about his time in solitary confinement in the Iranian prison Evin, his refusal to give in, back down or sell out and their tireless journey to express themselves freely and live their lives as they see fit.

Confess' new single EVIN is out now on every respectable streaming platform! Follow, support and spread the word about Confess via their social pages:

www.instagram.com/confessband.official
www.instagram.com/nikansiyanorkhosravi
www.facebook.com/confessband1
www.twitter.com/ConfessBandIR

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In this episode Paky and Johannes do their yearly breakdown of the Tuska Festival in Helsinki, Finland. While going through the bands they saw they discuss break ups and reunions, metal for children, bad ass front women and much more.

They also found time to meet up with Arejay and Josh of Halestorm for a quick round of the 'Smoke on the water'-game.

Enjoy!

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Paky meets her friend, your friend, everybody's friend Joakim Brodén from SABATON! They talk their coming album 'the Great War', their love for History, the evolution of the band and the random road of chance that in hindsight looks like a formula!

We also talk some news of the metal world and play Johannes' favorite game! Enjoy!

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In this episode Paky sits down with one of our absolute favorite people ever in music, Devin Townsend and do a deep dive into the motivations behind his latest release 'Empath'. Empathy, fear and forgiveness is discussed as they dig towards the core of what drives a great artist to keep going and find something important to say in his third decade of writing and recording.

Empath is out now and we love it! Check it out on any streaming platform, or get your physical copy today!

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