03 Aug 2025 - Thorsten

Erik Tunison and Sahan Jayasuriya are maybe a few years apart from each other, but both are telling a story together - the story of Die Kreuzen. One of those highly influential 80s Punk and Post-Punk bands, Erik and his band were together for roughly 1,5 decades, they moved away more from their Hardcore Roots with every record. Fast forward another 15 years after their demise and Sahan gets into Die Kreuzen and another bit later he gets into contact with the guys and starts collecting material for an “oral history” of the band, which is a great way of going about doing a biography for a band as influential as Die Kreuzen as he was able to interview many people like Neko Case, Butch Vig, Steve Albini and Thurston Moore. Seeing this list should already show you how important Die Kreuzen were, but please do not think that is the complete list, because NO, it isn’t by far! That way he found out a lot about the band, their music, the musicians and people themselves and their influence on so many people. Talking to Sahan and Erik was a pleasure and we are sure you will enjoy it as well!

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27 Jul 2025 - Thorsten

A quarter of a century - that’s how long Car Bomb are now together. Such an anniversary of course demands for some new music and that’s what we will be getting on Friday, August 1 with their new EP “Tiles Whisper Dreams”, which will keep the course and will be self-released by the band. Thus we were utterly stunned to learn that their guitar player Greg was open to talking to us! We sat down with him and talked about the new record, their way of songwriting, the reason why they’re not on a record-label and much more! Therefore - enjoy our talk with Greg and find out why we mention Metallica, Kid Rock and Imagine Dragons!

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22 Jul 2025 - Thorsten

Sometimes we just can’t skip our routine - originally we wanted to release this interview after the release of Hemelbestormer’s great new record “The Radiant Veil”. But for several reasons, among them a long list of interviews to publish, we stuck to our routine: Cool interviews with brilliant artists/bands releasing amazing records on Pelagic Records are released a few days ahead of the release. “The Radiant Veil” will be released on Friday, and so here we are! Filip and Frederik sat down with our head honcho and talked a lot about the new record, the return as a quartet, their collab with Philip from Caspian, how they open up to including vocals, Black Metal and much much more. Including the connection between the new Hemelbestormer-record and the old Etruscans! Enjoy!

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20 Jul 2025 - Thorsten

What kind of music to expect when two guys from a famous American Avantgarde-Punk band get together again in a different band? Well, in the case of Umlaut you get Avant-Chamber Pop. And what do you get when talking to all four members of this band? You get one of the quirkiest, yet also most interesting interviews that we ever had on our channel. “Interesting” because the guys produce some strange side-noises, because they sometimes try to avoid clear answers but also because they show that underneath all the sarcasm and irony there are musicians who definitely know how to compose tracks and also to disguise their complexity. However, one should also take this interview as proof of maybe sometimes not interpreting music too much, because sometimes it’s just simply made to sound good. Enjoy our new interview with Umlaut!

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17 Jul 2025 - Thorsten

First of all, we want to say thank you to We Lost The Sea’s wonderful Matt Harvey for taking the time to do this interview even though he only has a dodgy Australian internet (connection). We originally wanted to release this interview on July 6th, together with the Ranges interview and we also say so early on in the interview. However, life is what happens to you when you are busy making (other) plans, right? Therefore we had to postpone this release but it’s still on time for this Post.Festival where Matt and his gang will take the stage by storm! Life is also what happens, once WLTS started getting everything together and write “Blood will have Blood”, their longest track to date. By far! 27 minutes! How could that happen? Why does Thorsten mention The Witcher? And why is Matt referring to a black hole when talking about his music? Questions over questions! But now, enjoy our conversation with Matt from We Lost The Sea and tell us - what do you think about their 27-minute-monster?!

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16 Jul 2025 - Thorsten

Mark Molnar is a new addition to Constellation (Records) which makes sense because, even though is from Ottawa, he spends a lot of time there, has a lot of musician friends from there, is a great composer and a wonderful performer - so it makes sense that he released his latest album “EXO” through Constellation on June 6, 2025. The record is a miraculous record combining Mark’s interest in the antique imagery of “pale death” and shows his amazing skills on the strings and the cello in particular. We talk a lot about the record and the way it appeals to people from multiple diverse scenes, the Vatican and their way of covering up their assets but also about the stuff he listens to and there’s one thing you might not expect. Which one? Well, you gotta listen to this cool interview and discover an artist you might not have heard of before but whose music is highly rewarding!

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13 Jul 2025 - Thorsten

If you ever listened to Noise-Rock and/or Indie-Rock from the 90s, you probably did not get around the city of Chicago and its bands like Tortoise, Shellac, Big’N, the Sea and Cake or U.S. Maple, who released their game-changing debut record Long Hair in Three Stages 30 years ago. This year, just a few years ago, Skin Graft released a second re-issue of the record, with a “re-worked” artwork and on colored vinyl. As the record is a real eye-opener and surely changed the listening habits of many people ever since, we are very happy and proud to give you this interview with their singer Al, who gave us many details into the band, the recording session with Jim O’Rourke, his love for AC/DC and also how he ended up in the movie High Fidelity- enjoy!

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04 May 2025 - Thorsten

Thor Harris is not only a famous drummer and musician, he is also a great person - to talk to and to listen to. He has a way of talking about things that is just emotionally and intellectually engaging and makes you want to get to know more about him, his band Thor & Friends, his former bands (like Swans and Shearwater), his love for Prog-Rock and how it sparked his love for counting the time signatures and so much more. We also talk about him being a very political person and how he uses his position to make this world a better place - however, the central point of our conversation is, of course, the new record “Heathen Spiritual”, which will be released mid-May be Joyful Noise Recordings and, among other things, how a special recording environment was created for the recording! Enjoy our detailed interview with Thor and tell us which record he was on do you like best?

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27 Apr 2025 - Thorsten

First Post-Roadburn interview - first GREAT one. Maybe a bit shorter as many of you are used to, but in a way that is also congruent to the length of the new EP Cumgitsum by Metro-Philadelphia based semi-anonymous outfit PLQ MRX. We got the chance to talk to one of their members, the mighty Midnight Moses (named after a song by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band). We chat about the sound of the band somewhere between Funk, Noise and Punk, about their very special songwriting process and much much more. Enjoy this appetizer for this EP and their next one which might come out in 2025 still! Enjoy!

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13 Apr 2025 - Thorsten

10 years after his legendary performance on the Forest Stage in Zottegem at dunk!festival Eric Quach aka thisquietarmy will return to Belgium, to dunk! and he will be playing a wonderful amazing record with a whole live band. Langue hybrid is his new record and the circumstances under which it was conceived are as remarkable as the music - thus it was the focus point of our interview, because there are so many sides to it. The other anniversary that TQA is having this year - because the project is turning 20 years old in 2025. And even though Eric points out that he has never been taught how to play the guitar, one thing remains clear: He is really good at it and surely has a knack for using it. That also becomes clear when listening to the new record which is simply sensational and will be released in a couple of days via our friends in Consouling Sounds!

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12 Apr 2025 - Thorsten

Roadburn 2025 Special Interview Number Six Steve von Till - there are artists which are part of the backbone of Roadburn festival and this guy surely is one of them, as he has performed in Tilburg with many of his projects and has also surely influenced a lot of us. Steve von Till will be one of the artists in residence this year with three “slots” for all of us to enjoy - once as part of collaboration with visual artist/tattoo artist Thomas Hopper, once as Harvestman, once presenting parts from his upcoming solo record, for which he will be bringing a special variant to Holland, so that Roadburners can get their hands on the new record four weeks before release! We talked with Steve about all three events, about what makes him write music constantly, about the disconnect between man and his roots and so much more. As usual he is a great person to talk to and as usual our head honcho left the interview feeling a little better as there seems to be a little bit of hope that we can turn things around - and certainly you will feel the same way after one of his performances at Roadburn, and hopefully after watching our third interview with Steve. Tell us - which did you like best by now?

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05 Apr 2025 - Thorsten

Roadburn 2025 Special Interview Number Five: We are coming closer and closer and closer…in less than two weeks the most important pilgrimage will already have started and we here are contemplating which gigs to attend, how to fit food into the schedule and so on. One thing many of us can agree on is the importance of triennium artist Otay:Onii. Not only because of that special status which will bring her to Tilburg every year from now til 2027 - but because of the importance her music holds for many of us. Lane Shi combines so many elements pivotal to the festival - the emotional value of her music, the different approach to songwriting, the multiple genres she’s touching upon. An artist that cannot be boxed into one single category as one can also see by the fact that Lane designs a lot of the merch and things herself. We talked a lot about the different projects she will bring to RB, about her life as a constant migrant, a life in between, so to speak, and much much more. Enjoy our fifth interview in this Roadburn-Special-Series!

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29 Mar 2025 - Thorsten

Roadburn 2025 Special Interview Number Four: 2023 saw Oiseaux-Tempête perform several gigs as Artists in Residence and this year one of the guys returns to Tilburg: Frédéric D. Oberland will performn with one of his other projects, Foudre! In a certain way, Foudre! is the perfect Roadburn-band because they are “located in between” - in between so many scenes, in between many different soundscapes and, yes, in between many different genres. Highly eclectic the trio (or as Frédéric says quartet) loves to pick elements from different artists and genres and then mix them according to a radiant recipe, even though it might be difficult to say whether it becomes a salad or a melted sauce. The guys definitely develop a very mighty pull-factor which will have some people excitedly dancing along to their songs, while other keep standing still but with their jaws wide open - but both groups will be listening to the same tracks. That also is one of the strongholds of Foudre! - to create soundtracks for everyone’s own individual enjoyment, everyone will bring his own background and ear to the table and will perceive the rich sounds differently, experiencing it in a very personal way. We talk about this experience and the way the tracks are created; we cover the differences between Foudre! and Oiseaux-Tempête and much much more! Enjoy and do not forget to check the landing page for our Roadburn Special on a regular basis!

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22 Mar 2025 - Thorsten

Roadburn 2025 Special Interview Number Three: Matthew Broadley is a multi-instrumentalist from England - and most of you will know him from his former band Dawn Ray’d - but the latter is not the reason for this interview but rather his new project Greet. The sound of Greet is based on the harmonium and he uses it to create long, breathing sounds that are close to Drone and Doom but of course based on Folk music, which is the third basis for the music he has given us on various releases on his Bandcamp including the EPs “Harmonium” and “Harmonium 2” (out via Fiadh Productions). The whole thing is very introspective, relying a lot on the environment in which it is performed and also, of course, on the reaction of the crowd. As we mention in the interview, it might not be music to mosh to (or maybe it is?) but it will give you a lot of introspective quality and provides a giant window to look into Matthew’s songwriting and soul. And honestly - what else could we want from music?

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15 Mar 2025 - Thorsten

This is already the second installment in our (let’s admit it now) weekly series of RB-related interviews - last week we gave you our interview with Choke Chain and just like the wonderful people at Roadburn do it, we are now giving you something very different - we talked with Sara and Rocco from Messa! Their new record “The Spin” will be played in full in Tilburg on the Friday and it is a more than cohesive concoction of two very “80s sounding” genres - Goth and Synthwave. However, Messa would not be Messa if they simply emulated those soundscapes, no, they took those and turned into elements of the Messa-sound. This gave us a lot of reason to talk about nostalgia, hunger for new adventures, the road and movements as symbols of their work and of course much more! Wait till you hear their “Careless Whisper”-story!

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08 Mar 2025 - Thorsten

Let’s kickstart our interview series for Roadburn 2025 by doing exactly the same thing that makes RB so interesting to the people who have an open ear and a love for rabbit-holes. We sat down with Mark Trueman the guy behind Choke Chain, who is a person very different from his music but who uses it in order to get rid of things he doesn’t like. That in itself is a step beyond simple catharsis, as he also tries to expose the bad people in this world by pointing out that they’re really simply that - bad people. We talk about the ideas behind his music, about how he writes his songs and why he likes to play Roadburn so much! This guy will be a really cool act to watch on Friday night! Enjoy!

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24 Nov 2024 - Thorsten

Monastic Doom. At first many of us might think of another senseless promo-neologism, but when listening to “Untouched by Fire”, the sophomore record by Northumbrian project Arð, one will understand why the term was created to explain some of the vocal harmonies and the great soundscapes on it. Mark Deeks, the mastermind behind Arð, who is also a member of UK Black Metallers Winterfylleth, explains how he wrote the songs and why not a lot of it has to do with classical Doom riffs first of, why his love for playing the piano and conducting choirs paired with his interest in the musical representation of regions and their folklore basically had to result in Arð; a project which he basically describes as that’s what he is. That he goes further back in time with “Untouched by Fire”, into times before the Viking attack on Lindisfarne, should not come as a surprise to anyone who might have heard his first record “Take up my Bones”. That Mark is probably the second person on a VoS-interview with a PhD is also a point we talk about as well as his love for Grunge, particularly Alice in Chains, or his love for classic Peaceville bands or that he will collaborate with Aaron Stainthorpe next year! So you see, loads of stuff to get to know for you - thus: enjoy!

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17 Nov 2024 - Thorsten

Doing an interview on a Saturday morning can be really crazy, because people might not be really awake and yes, this shows in this interview as well. Some people had to look after their pets, others need to get a coffee and the last group might have to leave for a moment to give the touring bandmates some stuff they forgot. All of this happened in our interview with Luc Hess and Jonathan Nido, the drummer and guitar player of Swiss whatever-core band Coilguns. Whatever-core because they might be categorized as Post-Hardcore (especially on stage), Math-Core (especially on their first records), Noise-Rock (especially in attitude) and you know what, all of these might be true. What is also true is that their upcoming record “Odd Love” is an amazing record which shows a band that wants to say something, that has “matured” and still retains their energetic youth, and if you look at all these “genres”, maybe the best thing is to call them “punk at heart”! “Odd Love” should see them gather more attention because it is not a small step but a giant leap for the band. And with this interview we are very happy to disclaim that their next record is gonna be a Bossanova-record! Enjoy!

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20 Oct 2024 - Thorsten

Okay, so this is a special day for us. Back in September of 2021, our webwizard uploaded and published the first video here on this channel, a video interview with our dear friends in Årabrot and today he does so for the 200th time! So we thought we need to get something special for the occasion (which will be the first of several special occasions over the next couple of weeks) - and who better to have on the show than Eugene S. Robinson (Buñuel and Oxbow) who has been with us numerous times and this time we have a chance to again talk about a new music endeavor - the new Buñuel album Mansuetude which will see the light of day next Friday. The record showcases a band on a fresh start as their first trilogy of full-lengths (A Resting Place for Strangers, The Easy Way Out, Killers Like Us) was wrapped up two years ago. Releasing through our pals in Skin Graft Records and Overdrive Records this record shows some of the Buñuel trademarks like Noise attacks and yet, there are tracks on this record which are nearly dream-like (please think of a Lynch or Cronenberg dream, nothing too soothing). We get into some reminiscences and many of you might find some easter eggs within these 45 minutes - so enjoy!

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14 Oct 2024 - Thorsten

Ten Years After. Wait, no, don’t worry. We are not gonna talk about the old British blues band, no today we are talking with David from Kerretta and the ten years after refers to the time between their last record Pirohia and the new one called Angelm which will be out next Friday, October 18 via dunk!records. Yes, the informed ones will remember that they used to release via Golden Antenna Records, but then you will also know why this change was necessary. We talked about the way the band works nowadays that one part in in New Zealand while David lives and works in London. He also explains a lot about the way they compose songs and what he is looking for in his songs. A wonderful interview with a musician, who surely has a lot to say!

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12 Oct 2024 - Thorsten

Yes, we here at Veil of Sound are all huge fans of Envy, the best Post-Hardcore and Screamo band of all time. Period. And therefore we also gave you Knut’s review of their new record and are very happy that it was received so well. Yesterday, Eunoia was released and of course we wanted to know more about the record, its development as well as the band and its history. Tetsu and Nobu were so nice and answered our question in a wonderful, precise and yet elaborate way.
So, let’s not waste any more time and dive right into the interview with Tetsu and Nobu!

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09 Oct 2024 - Thorsten

Fear Inoculum. The Sciences. Chinese Democracy. Three records which needed a lot of time to follow its predecessors, but none of them needed as long as Make it Fit, the upcoming record by none other than Karate, one of the absolute Indie-Rock institutions of the time around the millennium. The trio took some time off after Geoff had lost his hearing and then only due to a number of strange coincidences came back together and started to write music. Which coincidences? Well listen to our interview and you will know. The new record seems to have two faces, a pretty punchy one and a more elaborate one. How come? Check our talk where you will also get to know a lot more about the guys’ plans for touring, their very different approach to songwriting nowadays that all three live in different cities. Talking with Geoff was a wonderful opportunity as he is very articulate but never bragging or boasting. Enjoy!

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06 Oct 2024 - Thorsten

Usually we try not to outrun ourselves, try to stick to our initial plans. Initially we wanted to release this interview in two weeks (as you will also hear during the chat), but after having listened to Cool World again and again, I wanted to get this out ASAP. When talking to Raygun Busch about his band, Chat Pile, about the ideas behind his lyrics, the guys’ way of songwriting and much more - you get to know a humanist who puts a lot of thought into his work and who at the same time also knows the best way for his band to operate. Many people linken the band to rather negative, near-misanthropist ideas and thoughts - but when thinking about it, one must recognize that it’s pretty much the opposite. Cool World will be out via The Flenser on Friday and we are sure you are already hyped about it - maybe this interview can even raise the excitement for what you are to witness a bit more. Tell us if we succeeded with it?

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29 Sep 2024 - Thorsten

Decades ago George Orwell coined the term “Double think”, which was translated into German as “Doppeldenk”. That itself is the title of the new record by German Noise-Post-Punk band Gewalt, which is the last project of former Surrogat mastermind Patrick Wagner, who went into a long creative break before he started Gewalt like nine years ago. In our interview he comments that in that moment when he picked up the guitar again he noticed what he had been missing. Ever since then, the band has been all systems go and everything goes. The songs on the new record are vastly diverse, you will find tracks that might be modern Mamas and the Papas record or a Roxy Music track, but there are also hard, danceable songs and massive funky hardcore things. No red thread? Maybe, but isn’t that lack also already a red thread in and of itself!? Patrick and Helen give us a lot of insight into the new record, their attitude towards consumerism, their hometown Berlin and so much more. We are really happy to have this talk with you, because there are several moments when thinking out of the box becomes necessary and evident - just like when listening to Doppeldenk, which will be out next Friday, October 4 via Clouds Hill Music. Enjoy our conversation with Helen and Patrick from Gewalt!

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25 Sep 2024 - PBV

Coming off the ten ton fiery hammer of Exhaust that dropped a few weeks ago onto the streets across the world — we bring you a lightning round style interview with the skronkboyz of Pyrrhon. We hope you enjoy.

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