Interviews

Interview with Corey Glover

Published

6 years ago

May 23, 2018

Ron

Corey Glover of the super influential band Living Colour came into the Baltimore area with his solo band and showed us all how a true and inspirational front man is suppose to be. Before he hit the stage at FishHead Cantina, Empire Extreme sat down with Corey and had an amazing one on one chat.

Empire: You just came back from South America with Living Colour, how was that?

Corey: It was great, we went to Chile, two spots in Argentina and São Paulo Brazil. The fans there were great the audiences were amazing.

Empire: Have you done that area before?

Corey: Yeah, we haven’t been there for like 7-8 years though. It was long overdue.

Empire: Did you guys think Cult of Personality would blow up as big as it did?

Corey: We thought it was a good song, there’s a bunch of songs throughout all our records that you can look back and say, wow that really did happen. With Cult we were talking about Ronald Regan then and now it continues, it happens all the time. Which way to America is still relevant, all this stuff is still an issue, it makes you think the more things change the more they stay the same.

Empire: Yeah those songs are timeless don’t have a lock on any time period.

Corey: Ya, you can still listen to them now or 30 years later and still understand the message.

Empire: You guys won the first hard rock performance award at the Grammys and then won again the next year, how was that?

Corey: The first time was a complete shock, the second time was a shock too because we weren’t there.(Laughs) But it opens up eyes and ears to our music and gets there attention. The first time we had no idea, we happened to be playing that night on the Grammys. It was a real surprise to us, when they announced it you can audible hear someone say “oh shit”

Empire: You we’re in the movie Platoon, how was that and working with Willem Dafoe?

Corey: Willem was great, all the folks that came out of that movie went on to be something and do something. Johnny Depp was in that movie, of course Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger. Forest Whitaker was in that movie. It was a bunch of NY and LA actors that were struggling and went on to do amazing things.

Empire: How did you get hook up with that?

Corey: I’ve been an actor since I was like 14 years old. I was going to auditions everyday and doing commercial stuff, that was my bread and butter gig and being in a band was kind of secondary to that, and then it all flipped.

Empire: You also did Jesus Christ Superstar on stage?

Corey: I did that for a couple years. That was a dream come true for me. It was with Ted Neeley. I wanted to sing like Carl Anderson and wanted to play Judas my whole life.

Empire: What’s been your favorite tour moment?

Corey: Oh man, too many to even say. Opening up for The Rolling Stones was a major moment, going to Europe and playing for thousands of people, playing the Grammys or doing Saturday Night Live. Doing a show with this band and having Jimmy Page and Robert Plant show up just to hang out and watch the gig. Getting to meet at the people we got to, Chris Cornell (god rest his soul) and Soundgarden opened up for us in 88-89.

Empire: What band would you like to see reunite?

Corey: I love to see Rage against the Machine come back although I love Prophets of Rage.

Empire: If you could bring a musician back from the dead who would it be?

Corey: There’s a list of them. So many like Dio, hell I would want to bring Elvis back, Micheal Jackson and Prince. So many great musicians B.B. King, Layne Staley. They all left a mark on this world.

Empire: Anything else you like to add?

Corey: Shade is out now, you can pick it up anywhere or download it. I’m doing a new project now with George Lynch called UltraPhonix that comes out in August.

Corey put on one hell of a roller coaster show. He came out with Original Sin and after he kept saying “ this wasn’t what you were expecting”. During April Rain you could tell that these songs were very emotional for him. During Last Temptation Corey even stopped singing on the mic, came up close to us in the crowd and kept singing with just his pure voice and soul. Everyone was blown away and even shed some tears with him, on how powerful and raw emotional Corey sings to your soul. Corey even mentioned our conversation about bring back a dead musician while playing Prince’s The Cross which Corey says he can play this song on guitar because it’s two cords for him.

It was amazing to see Corey again it’s been far too long since I’ve seen him live, I’m so glad to see him on a solo tour and got to sit down and talk to Corey who has always been an icon of mine. Can’t wait to see him again in the future and maybe some ultraphonix will be soon as well.

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INTERVIEW WITH MERCURY OF PRIEST

Published

2 weeks ago

April 23, 2024

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Empire Extreme got to sit down and talk to Mercury of Priest when the band came into PA at LoveDrafts.

The show was amazing all the bands that we seen put on a great show for the fans. Vampires Everywhere killed it once again. Last time we seen Priest we only got to see them open for Powerman5000 and got like 6 songs, this time Priest was headlining and we got to see much more which I was excited to see.

Priest played a good mix of old and new and even a few songs off the album “Dark Pulse” which is out in May. We got to see 13 songs played and even Mercury come out into the crowd a few times and when they played “Obey” even blessed some of the crowd. It was great hearing songs like “BlackListed”, “Signal in the Noise”, “History in Black” and “Vaudeville”. It was such a great night of music and a great conversation with Mercury. If you get a chance to see this band play in ur town, it’s a must

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INTERVIEW WITH OF VIRTUE

Published

2 months ago

March 4, 2024

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Where does the band name come from? Wanting to be the best version of yourself at all times. The name is a reminder to hold ourselves accountable.

How is the music scene in Michigan? The Michigan music scene has always been vibrant and in my opinion, important. Do we get the credit we deserve? Absolutely not. But for the state that brought you Motown, Eminem, Lizzo, The White Stripes, I Prevail and so many other incredible artists – it’s kind of hard to believe that Michigan remains a hidden gem.

How’s the reception from the fans of the latest album “Omen”? It’s been incredible. From seeing people singing along at shows to us seeing new supporters of all different ages, colors, and creeds joining the journey. Omen has been a pivotal album in our career and we’re proud of it!

If you could tour with 2 bands, which bands would you want to tour with? Spiritbox and Bad Omens. They’re both making waves, changing who the metal audience is, and surely they’d be fun to hang around with.

Where do you draw inspiration for the lyrics? Honestly, the lyrics are our stories. The stories of our struggles, our trials and our tribulations.

What’s been your favorite tour or show? We just got off of a tour with our labelmates, Any Given Day. They treated us to a handful of sold out shows over in Europe, which at this point we call our second home. Those were great shows, but any show we’ve done in Europe is typically one for the books!

If you could bring back a dead musician, who would it be? Prince for sure. An incredible musician I would love an opportunity to chat or make music with!

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INTERVIEW WITH TWIN TEMPLE

Published

3 months ago

February 16, 2024

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Being Married and being in a band together. Do you feel that makes it easier or harder?

We love to do the Devil’s work together so for us its a match made in hell.

What’s your favorite horror movie?

That’s hard to narrow down but the first few that come to mind are Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil Rides Out, Wickerman, The Devils Reign featuring Anton Lavey, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, anything starring Vincent Price. We also got to see an advance screen of “Late Night with the Devil” featuring a very evil performance from our friend Dave Dastmalchian. We’re also looking forward to Bryan Fuller’s “Dust Bunny” and are positive it will be a new favorite. The list goes on…..we are huge horror fans.

Favorite Non Horror Movie?

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (which is horror/noir adjacent) and The Burbs (also horror adjacent…haha.)

All of Quentin Tarantino’s films- our latest favorite is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, because 1960’s LA…

What misconception of Satanists would you like to educate people on?

We’re not here to proselytize, force our beliefs on people, or educate people on them Selves, Satanism or anything else. If people are interested in exploring Satanism, we encourage them to do their research and question everything.

If you could bring back any dead musician, who would you pick and why?

We would have loved to do a song with Ronnie Spector who recently passed. Also would have been amazing to collaborate with Jack Nitzsche who arranged so many amazing songs.

If you could tour with any 2 bands, who would you want to tour with?

The Ronnettes & The Shangri-Las.

What has been your Favorite Tour so far?

The God is Dead Tour that we’re currently on is definitely the most evil and blasphemous tour yet. We find it very pleasurable to be able to continue expanding the rituals and seeing our nightmares come true on stage.

You were on “Dragula” with the Boulet Brothers, how was that experience?

It was a fiendish delight to collaborate with some of our fav monsters.

What was it like Touring with Danzig?

Another nightmare come true! We’ve both been fans for a long time and we’re obviously inspired by the wicked world Glenn has conjured. So to get to spend time with him and watch him live every night and to now call him a friend is completely surreal. He’s a legend— but was also one of the coolest, kindest, most unholy people we’ve had the carnal pleasure of touring with.

How’s the reception of the last album “God is Dead”?

Personally, we love the record and are very proud of what we’ve accomplished. As far as other peoples’ reactions…. we don’t know and don’t care! We pleasured ourselves and that’s what matters most.

What got you interested in the style of music you play? And how would describe your music?

We’ve always loved classic American music from jazz to blues to country to rock and roll and so on. We also love the pageantry of heavy metal and theatre. So for us it was a very organic culmination of our obsessions. Rock and roll has always been the devils music.

Have you visited the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts?

No we have not but Lucien did attend one of our rituals so we had a chance to share where we get our babies blood and all things Satan.

Have you had any bad encounters at shows because of the misconception of satanism?

No! We purposefully foster a live show environment where all are welcome, all should come being the most important person in the world which is themselves, whatever that may be. Even Christians! We believe music is meant to bring joy, transcendence… We just want to share the things we love; pink, rhinestones, big hair, great rock ’n’ roll, Satanic ritual, you know… but we have had churches assemble outside our shows, screaming through distorted PA speakers that God is not dead & wishing us all a “terrible time”. Why would their God not want us to have fun? This kind of behavior is only makes us more proud to be who we are and do what we love.