Invent Animate vocalist Marcus Vik joined the podcast to chat about the band's much celebrated album "Heavener", his vocal technique improvements, and other thoughts on the current live music scene.

Johnny Franck of BILMURI joined the Steve O'G Rock Podcast to talk about the huge Sleep Token tour across Europe and the UK that they joined in 2024, some behind the scenes info about their songwriting choices, and what we might expect under their new era with Columbia Records.

The Download Festival booking team have put together a 2025 lineup featuring headliners Sleep Token, Green Day, and KoRn. So how does a lineup like that get booked? What are the lesser known considerations and challenges that go into booking the UK's largest rock and metal festival? Jenny Cotter and Dannika Webber from the booking team joined the podcast for a conversation all about their roles and the 2025 lineup that has everyone talking!

Vocalist Dryden Mitchell and guitarist Terry Corso share details behind their latest album "~mAntras~" along with insights on how they've stayed relevant over the years and the story behind the icon "These Days" music video.

Marcus Bridge from Northlane joined me for a conversation about their most recent EP Mirror's Edge, the new "Welcome To The Industry" video game OST, and lots of really cool insights into the decision making behind the band's records and live shows.

Vocalist Jack Murray and guitarist Jimmy Howell from 156/Silence joined me for a conversation about their latest album "People Watching" and reveal some of the choices they made in creating this fascinating collection of dark and intense songs that just grows and grows on repeat listens.

Vocalist Sean Harmanis joined me for a chat about the new self-titled album from Make Them Suffer. In this interview we chat about the variety in the non-singles on the album, the band's song-writing process, and the subjectivity of evaluating music.

In this interview I got to sit down with vocalist Jamie Hails and drummer Dan Furnari from Polaris about their epic tour with Beartooth, surreal experiences playing Download Festival and with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, and working on new music.Polaris links:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0v2e0oznnTaIXKLGKHphfX- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polarisaus

Mirrorcell are a new band from the US who create a super tasty blend of dark metal music styles. In this episode I chat with vocalist Nate Cell about the risks and rewards of taking risks when innovating in metal music, the origin story of this new band, and where he is hoping to take the band in future.

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In this interview with brilliant new UK metal band GRINN I chat with guitarists and vocalists Cam and Freddy about how bands like Sleep Token and Loathe paved the way for them to great their own unique blend of sound. We also discuss the songwriting and production choices they've made in their music so far and find out about how backing vocals group Espera impacted them.