Third Eye Cinema / Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Third Eye Cinema 9/15/13 with Mat Sinner of Primal Fear

Coming soon to Third Eye Cinema: a Teutonic power metal legend! As bandleader, bassist and vocalist for Sinner, he's been putting out AOR influenced traditional metal since 1982.  Joining forces with former Gamma Ray vocalist Ralf Scheepers in 1997, he's been the driving force behind one of power metal's most long running and respected acts, the legendary Primal Fear!  And with bands like Kiske/Somerville (featuring famed Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske and vocal coach and performer with such gothic/symphonic bands as After Forever, Epica, Kamelot and Serenity, Amanda Somerville) and the Whitesnake influenced Voodoo Circle (featuring Pink Cream 69's David Readman), he's been at the center of European traditional and power metal circles for decades! Also famed as a producer on most or all of these bands' releases as well as the international debut of Argentina's Dio-flavored Helker, please join us as we speak with Mat Sinner, only here on Third Eye Cinema! http://thirdeyecinema.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ThirdEyeCinema

Third Eye Cinema 9/8/13 with Rick Rozz of Death and Massacre

Third Eye Cinema: legendary death metal guitarist, Rick Rozz! As founding member and lead guitarist for Mantas and then Death alongside Chuck Schuldiner and Kam Lee, Rick set down the template for what would shortly thereafter become an entire genre.  With Kam, Terry Butler and Bill Andrews in Massacre, he kept the fires burning and crafted one of the most important and revered single albums in the history of death metal. With his thick and pummeling guitar tone and crazed whammy-bar centric leads, Rick has proved to be one of the most recognizable players in the genre, alongside such greats as James Murphy, Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel and Bill Steer and Michael Amott of Carcass, lending his sound and vision to the defining Mantas, Death and Massacre demos, Death's Leprosy and Massacre's classic From Beyond! After a lengthy absence from the metal scene, Rick and founding member Terry Butler have reunited, delivering a molten slab of punishing death metal that picks up where they left off in 1991! Join us as we speak to the one and only Rick Rozz, only here on Third Eye Cinema! http://www.facebook.com/ThirdEyeCinema http://thirdeyecinema.wordpress.com/

Third Eye Cinema 8/25/13 with Venomous Maximus

This week on Third Eye Cinema: your one way ticket to heavy metal hell! One of the most promising acts the US currently offers in the burgeoning "occult rock" genre, these four no-nonsense Texans deliver some hard driving yet melodic metal in a true retro-inspired manner! With echoes of classic metal pioneers of the NWOBHM like Witchfinder General and Satan signing an infernal pact with the likes of Mercyful Fate in their heyday and the sound of first wave gothic rock, they take a unique approach towards the doom and retro/occult rock labels they are often painted with. Join us as we head deep in the heart of Texas as we talk music, mysticism and outlaw biker culture with vocalist/guitarist Gregg Higgins of Venomous Maximus, only here on Third Eye Cinema! http://thirdeyecinema.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ThirdEyeCinema

Third Eye Cinema 8/18/13 with Ace Still of Goatlord

This week on Third Eye Cinema: the one and only Ace Still, of Goatlord and Doom Snake Cult! Legendary vocalist from not one, but two very unique and well regarded bands from the early days of underground metal, Ace, together with Joe Frankulin, Jeff Nardone and Jeff Schwab, was responsible for creating one of the earliest and most unique of doom metal bands, Goatlord! With a dark, evocative horror atmosphere and lyricism and some of the most sinister black metal style vocals ever recorded, Goatlord touched on doom, black and death metal years before any of those genres even came to exist!   Often derided at the time for their lack of polish and uniquely raw and aggressive yet lurchingly slow approach, they’ve developed a well deserved reputation over the years among aficionados of doom, blackened thrash and black metal for the sheer eeriness and power of their sound!   Join us when we plumb the depths of a hellish Southern swamp to uncover the great Ace Still of Goatlord and the slightly more experimental Doom Snake Cult, only here on Third Eye Cinema! http://thirdeyecinema.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ThirdEyeCinema

Third Eye Cinema 8/4/13 with Mirai and Dr Mikannibal of Sigh

This week on Third Eye Cinema: we present the most interesting couple in metal! With a career reaching back as far as 1990, and with their first album gaining worldwide attention as both one of the first acts and one of the few records ever released under Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence label, this man has been at the forefront of the black metal scene! As the first and most prominent of Japanese extreme metal bands, he and his bandmates pursued a musical path marked by an unusual diversity and determinedly unique sound, as syncretist and genre-bending as the late Frank Zappa! After an amazing 8 album run, this man met a woman of equal talent, whose intellectual acumen and natural beauty are bolstered by an unusual predilection towards underground death metal vocalization and a soulful saxophone style, and her arrival has marked yet another sea change in the band and its direction! Please join us as we speak to the multitalented Mirai Kawashima and the lovely Dr. Mikkanibal of progressive black metal maestros Sigh, only here on Third Eye Cinema! http://thirdeyecinema.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ThirdEyeCinema