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Willie Adler is a guitarist of Lamb of God, an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1994 the band also consists of bassist John Campbell, vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton, and drummer Art Cruz. Earlier in 2020, the band released their 10th studio album, "Lamb Of God" through Epic/Nuclear Blast.   Video Version: https://youtu.be/XUAUX-Atolg   For more on Lamb Of...

Curses is a metalcore band from West Virginia. The band recently released their sophomore album "Chapter II: Bloom" through Sharptone Records on August 7th.   FOLLOW CURSES: https://twitter.com/officialCURSES https://www.instagram.com/officialcurses/ https://www.facebook.com/officialcurses/   PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheVanflip TWITTER: https://twitter.com/VanflipPodcast   FOLLOW LURK IG :...

Mark Andrew "Barney" Greenway is a British extreme metal vocalist who is the current lead singer of Napalm Death and a former member of Extreme Noise Terror and Benediction. Napalm Death is an English grindcore band formed in Meriden, West Midlands, England, in 1981. The band is releasing their 16th studio album this month titled, "Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism" (Sept 2020). FOLLOW NAPALM...

Finn McKenty is an American marketing strategist, music commentator, writer, and graphic designer who currently runs the YouTube channel The Punk Rock MBA and is director of marketing at the online education platform URM Academy. Previously, he was an executive producer at CreativeLive's "Music & Audio" channel and, under the persona Sergeant D, wrote articles in MetalSucks and Stuff You Will Hate...

Diamond Rowe is the lead guitarist of Tetrarch. She is also the first African American to appear on the cover of major guitar publications such as Guitar World and more. Tetrarch is an American metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. They are now located in Los Angeles. They have released three EPs. Their newest album is entitled FREAK, which was released in October 2017. The band recently signed to Nap...

Ryan Morgan is the lead guitarist of Misery Signals. The band is scheduled to release its latest album, "Ultraviolet" on August 7, 2020. This is the first record since reuniting with original vocalist Jesse Zaraska. Ryan also played in the influential metalcore band 7 Angels 7 Plagues. For more on Ryan & Misery Signals: TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ryannothing/ TWITTER: http://twitter.com/miserysi...

Will Putney is a New Jersy based Music Producer (Graphic Nature Audio) who spent the last hand full of years recording some of the scene's best bands (Every Time I Die, Knocked Loose, Thy Art Is Murder, etc to name a few). However, Will also plays guitar in Fit For an Autopsy, and more recently in the heavy metalcore "Super Group" END alongside Brendan Murphy and Billy Rymer. END just released the...

Loathe is an English heavy metalcore/nu-metalcore band from Liverpool, England. Formed in 2014, the group consists of lead vocalist Kadeem France, guitarist and second vocalist Erik Bickerstaffe, guitarist Connor Sweeney, drummer Sean Radcliffe, and newest member bassist Feisal El-Khazragi. In early February 2020, Loathe released, "I Let It In And It Took Everything", the band's second full length...

Josh Grabelle is best known for his A&R and marketing successes with hardcore and metal bands Bleeding Through, Hopesfall, Walls Of Jericho, Bullet For My Valentine, Throwdown, Poison The Well, Terror, It Dies Today, Eighteen Visions, and more, Grabelle has sold over 2 million albums worldwide. He currently runs Bullet Tooth Records, but he more importantly created Trustkill Records one of the mos...

Invent Animate (no longer stylized as Invent, Animate) is an American metalcore band from Port Neches, Texas. We catch up remotely with guitarist Keaton Goldwire and their newest member, vocalist Marcus Vik. After losing their longtime singer in early 2018 the band has pretty much laid quiet. Plotting and planning behind the scenes up until recently releasing "Greyview" in March 2020. Their comeba...

Frankie is the vocalist and founding member of Emmure. Emmure is an American Deathcore/Nu-metalcore band formed in 2003. The group has a total of seven releases, and one on the way, maybe. Frankie, who now resides in the Northwest, joins us on the podcast via Skype to talk about the possibility of a new Emmure album releasing soon, his former beef with Fronz (Attila frontman), his new life path he...

Orthodox is a Straight Edge Metalcore / Post-Metalcore / Nu-Metalcore band from Nashville, TN. The group recently released its third album "Let It Take Its Course" through Unbeaten Records. We caught up with Mike and Adam to discuss that and other topics. For more on Orthodox: IG: https://www.instagram.com/orthodoxtn/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/orthodoxtn WEBSITE: https://www.orthodoxtn.com/ FAC...

Trapt is an American rock band formed in Los Gatos, California in 1995. It is best known for its chart-topping 2002 singles "Headstrong" and "Still Frame". We sit down with Chris to discuss his recent run-in with "Metalcore and Warped Tour Twitter", Trump, Corona Virus, and more. For more on Trapt: IG: https://www.instagram.com/traptofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TRAPTOFFICIAL WEBSITE: htt...

Varials is an American hardcore punk band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in October of 2013. The band currently consists of guitarist/Lead Vocalist Mitchell Rogers, guitarist James Hohenwarter, bassist Mike Foley and drummer Sean Rauchut.  For more on Varials: IG: https://www.instagram.com/varialspa/ TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/varialspa/ WEBSITE: https://www.varialspa.net/ FACEBOOK:...

Support The Vanflip Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheVanflip Buy Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/thevanflippodcast From Rockford, IL, Frail Body is a 3 piece embodiment of midwestern-screamo, and not the mid-2000's TRL pop-screamo, real screamo. Having formed just three years ago the band just recently released "A Brief Memoriam" through Deathwish Inc. We sit down with Lowell (Vocal...

Chris Colohan from bands such as Cursed, Burning Love, and Left For Dead now spends his time in the Vegan sXe outfit SECT. Which is made up by Chris on vocals, guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day Of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, The Damned Things). The result is a caustic, riotous style of...

Between the Buried and Me is an American progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2000, Tommy is the lead singer and keys player and Paul is the lead guitarist/back up vocals as well as the 2 founding members of the band. The band has released 10 studio albums including their break out "Colors" (2007) and is approaching their 20th year as a band. Notably Tommy and Paul were a...

Nick (Vocalist) and Rob (Guitarist) are in the band Mindfield and were just signed the Bullet Tooth Records (which is run by the old owner of Trustkill Records). In this episode we discuss the bands short history, being signed to Bullet Tooth, their love of the Brony culture, being arrested and their time in jail, thoughts on crowd sourcing for band, and more. Needless to say this episode has a lo...

Trey is the guitarist and Ross is the vocalist of the Dallas, TX death metal band Creeping Death. In this episode we discuss their love for Metallica, issues with marketing and branding due to their name, musical influences, the high and lows of touring, and more. For more on Creeping Death: @creepingdeathtx (Instagram) @creepingdeathtx (Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/creepingdeathtx/ http://ww...

Vocalist Olav "Ravn" Bergene and bassist Tor Risdal Stavenes both play in 1349. 1349 is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1997. The band's name is a reference to the year the Black Death reached Norway. In this episode, we discuss the release of their new album "The Infernal Pathway", working with the Norwegian government and Edvard Munch, history of black metal in Norway,...

Connie Sgarbossa is the lead singer for the band, SeeYouSpaceCowboy. SYSC is an American hardcore punk band formed in San Diego in 2016. It was founded by guitarist Jesse Price, vocalist Connie Sgarbossa, Drummer Ethan Sgarbossa, and guitarist Taylor Allen. Their name is taken from a phrase shown on many of the end cards of the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. In this episode, Connie discusses growing up...

Walter Delgado (Full Name: Walter Delgado Alvarez) is the lead singer of Rotting Out, an American hardcore punk band from the San Pedro community of Los Angeles in California. In this episode of The Vanflip Podcast Walter discusses his arrest and time in jail for transporting a very large amount of marijuana in Ohio, dealing with depression, finding Straight Edge and the Hardcore culture, being as...

Josh Scogin is currently the vocalist and guitarist for '68 (releasing a new album later this year). He is also known for being the vocalist for The Chariot, and former vocalist of Norma Jean and Luti-Kriss. Scogin has recorded solo material as A Rose, By Any Other Name, releasing an album in 2010.  For more on Josh: @thejoshscogin (Instagram) @theyare68 (Twitter) @theyare68 (Instagram) http://the...

Brendan Murphy is the vocalist is Counterparts (Pure Noise Records), a Canadian hardcore punk band formed in 2007 in Hamilton, Ontario which currently consists of guitarists Adrian Lee and Blake Hardman, bassist Tyler Williams and drummer Kyle Brownlee. In his downtime, Brendan also lends vocals to the band END. For more on Brendan: @Brendan905 (Instagram) @Brendan905 (Twitter) @Counterpartsbandl...

Chris is most known for his time spent in South Florida metalcore band Poison The Well. But while the band has been on hiatus in 2010 he has moved to California and pick up studio drumming, filled in drums for Senesfail from 2015-2018, and is currently on tour drumming for Dhani Harrison (Son of Beatles George Harrison). It has been 9 years since Poison The Well released any new music and has only...