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This is a home for some of the interviews and features I've written since starting my writing career in 2001. Here you'll find lots of interviews with musicians, but also highlights from the last 10 years in content marketing: valuable, original content that informs, entertains and persuades.
Prefuse 73/Scott Herren - Interview - 2002
Things go in cycles. And while hiphop seemed to be stagnating over the last few years, now seems to a time of experimentation and...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20243 min read
Rob Gallagher - Galliano/Earl Zinger - 2001
Can you keep a secret? In some ways it seems unfair to blow his cover, but Rob Gallagher has avoided detection for some time under aliai...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20243 min read
Hammerfall - Interview - 2007
Between The Hammer And The Anvil Enough about the cold already. It’s currently eight below zero at the Bohus Fortress, a seven hundred...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Atreyu - Feature - 2008
This isn’t a ‘taste’ of chaos, this is booking a table, ordering drinks and eating five courses from an all-you-can-eat buffet… of chaos....
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Turisas - Interview - 2008
“Do you consider yourself a metal crowd?” shouts fur-clad Turisas frontman Warlord (Matthias) Nygård to Bloodstock’s crowd who cheer in...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Hawthorne Heights - Interview - 2006
Chances are you’ve never heard of this band, let alone know that they are the surprise US hit of the season. With a half a million album...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20245 min read
Story Of The Year - Interview - 2008
“Here’s the thing about our band,” says gymnast guitarist Ryan Phillips slightly impatiently. “We’re a band who watch presidential...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Protest The Hero - Interview - 2008
Rody Walker is the kid you’d love as a brother but hate as a son. He’s hyperactive, noisy and lewd; he drinks, smokes and does drugs;...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20246 min read
Lacuna Coil - Interview - 2007
“A break up that happens like that only comes after a long time of things boiling up.” Andreas crosses his legs and looks to his...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Jamie Hull - Interview - 2024
Jamie’s story Jamie Hull is an extraordinary man. Not just because of events that have befallen him, but what he was before those events...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
TJ Miller - Still Remains -2007
The Memory Remains Heavy metal is about energy and anger and catharsis and celebration. From the gloomiest depths of Cathedral to the...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Trivium - Interview - 2009
Something’s wrong. Matt Heafy is pissed off. The rest of the band seem less than ecstatic as Metal Hammer trots into the chilly reception...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20249 min read
Underoath - Interview - 2009
Access All Areas Around a formica-topped table sit various members of Thursday, Underoath and Taking Back Sunday. We’re backstage at the...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20249 min read
Benji Webbe - Skindred - 2009
If someone described Skindred to you, you might have trouble picturing it, let alone deciding if you’d actually like it. A middle-aged...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Dallas Coyle - God Forbid - Interview - 2009
“If we don’t become a career band I’ll tell everyone [in the band] to fuck off and good luck,” states God Forbid guitarist/singer Dallas...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20247 min read
Dir En Grey - Interview - 2007
Tokyo is amazing. It’s just like London. Only completely different. Everything works. If there’s a soap dispenser it actually soap in....
James Gill
Mar 11, 20249 min read
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster - Interview - 2007
“My fiancé dumped me on Valentine’s Day while on tour.” Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster’s 27 year-old-singer is starting to explain how...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Angela Gossow - Arch Enemy - Interview - 2006
Angela Gossow vs Metal Hammer In issue 147 (Xmas 2005), Metal Hammer ran an article on Arch Enemy (read it here), which quoted Arch...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
36 Crazyfists - Interview - 2008
Access All Areas “Both my mom’s parents were alcoholics and her dad used to beat them,” says Steve Holt, 36 Crazyfists philosophical...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Killswitch Engage - Interview - 2006
Killing Memphis Of all the things you might expect to see on a tour bus, this is not one of them: Howard Jones is holding a bottle of...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
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