Did you screw up this week? Or perhaps felt stupid in a particular instance? Oh, you didn’t? Well why not? Why aren’t you in a situation where this can happen? Is it because you’re really just that good? Or are you just the big fish in a small pond?
Quite a bit of time has passed since I posted my first article on triggering and with time comes more gigs, experiences and technologies. This one goes into a lot of minutia that I’ve been trying to parse out so if you’re new to triggering, I suggest reading the older article first
Rob Brens interviews Satyricon drummer Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad, known to most as “Frost”, in this in-depth, thought leading article.
Ever since picking up the sticks, I’ve always experienced horrendous, debilitating performance anxiety before shows. This article is about confronting the beast.
There’s been a few recent things I’ve noticed that have compelled me to write a piece regarding music and education. It’s not a particularly polarising point of view, just a series of thoughts that occurred to me through various observations.
I interview George Kollias for Heavy Music Magazine. Best known for his work as an extreme metal drummer for the band Nile, but he’s also developed a reputation as an educator.
When people go so far off the beaten path, it tends to fly under the radar of the greater public consciousness, hence they tend to be left out of the conversation in later years.