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HEAVY Music Interviews

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All the latest music interviews from the team at HEAVY Magazine.

HEAVY interviews the worlds leading rock, punk, metal and beyond musicians in the heavy universe of music.

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  • Prepare For Take Off With RYAN And ALEXANDER From CRYPTIC SHIFT

    Prepare For Take Off With RYAN And ALEXANDER From CRYPTIC SHIFT
    Mar 2 2026
    UK progressive death metal outfit CRYPTIC SHIFT released their Overspace & Supertime full-length on February 27 through Metal Blade Records.
    While not commonly known as an extraterrestrial hotspot, Leeds faced an encounter of another kind in 2015 when vocalist/guitarist Alexander Bradley and drummer Ryan Sheperson set out to accomplish a project embodying their joint passion for the art of science fiction and heavy metal music. With CRYPTIC SHIFT taking form as a crossover between the worlds of technical thrash/death metal and all things sci-fi, the two set out to spread their influence across the UK and soon ventured across the globe.
    CRYPTIC SHIFT unveiled their debut full-length, Visitations From Enceladus, in 2020. The offering helped bring the band to the worldwide playing-field, receiving critical acclaim for its adventurous, progressive technical death thrash compositions, a twisted form of extreme metal simply referred to as the “Phenomenal Technological Astrodeath.”
    This year’s Overspace & Supertime continues the conceptual and musical themes of their debut and delivers a new standard of technical thrash/death metal showmanship, including returning influences of progressive writing, harmonized with their fantastical storytelling.
    “The concept of Overspace & Supertime plays as an alternative reality to the happenings of Visitations From Enceladus, taking our character into new dimensions filled with both greater adventures and more bizarre encounters,” notes drummer Ryan Sheperson. “Whilst the concept themes of our sci-fi tale have grown, so have our efforts in synthesizing it with the ultimate Astrodeath soundscape. The record takes the listener on a deeper journey through the fusion of our influences, with some exciting twists and turns along the way.”
    HEAVY sat down with both Ryan and Alexander to get more information.


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    12 m
  • From Dark Rooms To Loud Truths: LOST SOCIETY Are Still Standing

    From Dark Rooms To Loud Truths: LOST SOCIETY Are Still Standing
    Mar 2 2026
    Interview by Ali Williams
    Samy Elbanna of Lost Society caught up with HEAVY's Ali Williams to talk about all things dark and the journey of coming out the other side. Their chat feels less like a promo interview and more like a long, honest exhale. There’s humour, perspective, and the unmistakable tone of someone who’s been through the grinder, come out the other side, and is now enjoying the simple pleasure of writing loud music without staring into the void between riffs.
    Lost Society’s sixth album, Hell Is a State of Mind, arrives March 6, and Elbanna doesn’t sugarcoat how close it came to not existing at all. The band’s previous record was written during an extremely dark period in his life, one where the idea of a future album felt wildly optimistic at best. That’s what makes this release feel different. It’s not fuelled by misery or desperation, but by rediscovering the fun of being in a studio and remembering why making music mattered in the first place.
    Rather than chasing trends or trying to outsmart algorithms, Elbanna talks about returning to instinct. Writing music he actually likes. Melodies that feel good to sing. Lyrics that say something without needing to be cryptic for the sake of it. He’s visibly proud of this record, and not in the chest-beating way, more in the “I can finally enjoy this again” sense. Hell Is a State of Mind is heavy, unapologetically so, but lyrically it leans toward empowerment and self-acceptance, which is a pretty solid bait-and-switch for a metal album in 2026.
    The conversation drifts back to Lost Society’s early days, which read less like a fairytale and more like a DIY survival manual. Underage, unable to play bars, the band organised their own shows, youth centre gigs, and mini-festivals, entered every competition they could find, and sold homemade demo CDs the old-fashioned way: face to face. No viral clips, no shortcuts, just persistence and a worrying amount of faith. Eventually, a televised performance landed in front of a Nuclear Blast A&R, and things slowly started to snowball. Slowly being the key word.
    Elbanna is refreshingly realistic about the modern music industry. He’s not anti-streaming or anti-TikTok, just anti-bullshit. He points out that “overnight success” usually follows years of unseen work, and that skipping those years doesn’t exactly prepare artists for pressure, touring life, or longevity. Social platforms, he says, are tools, not commandments. Not every metal band needs to dance for clicks, and not every promotion strategy has to look identical. Radical concept, apparently.
    Finland, unsurprisingly, gets its moment in the spotlight. Elbanna credits the country as one of the best places on earth to start a metal band, thanks to accessible venues, youth programs, and a culture that doesn’t clutch its pearls when teenagers plug in guitars. Born and raised there, with Egyptian heritage and English as his first language, he’s grown up in a musical environment that encourages experimentation rather than punishing it, which helps explain Lost Society’s longevity.
    Looking ahead, the band aren’t easing into anything. The album release is immediately followed by a three-week European headline tour, a major Helsinki show, and then straight into festival season. Touring remains the heartbeat of the band, not just for exposure or income, but because that’s where the music actually comes alive. Bus life, inside jokes, and temporary escape from normal reality included.
    Australian fans also get a nod. Elbanna recently toured Australia and New Zealand as a fill-in member for Amaranthe and fell hard for the place, despite being deeply disappointed by the lack of constant spider attacks promised by the internet. Lost Society haven’t toured here yet, but it’s firmly on the wish list, with this album shaping up as the one that could finally bring them Down Under.
    At its core, Hell Is a State of Mind isn’t a comeback story or a carefully packaged redemption arc. It’s a heavy record made by someone who didn’t expect to still be doing this, now offering listeners half an hour of noise, catharsis, and a brief sense that things might not be completely cooked after all. Loud therapy, if you will.
    And honestly, that’s a pretty decent reason to press play.

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    25 m
  • Fun After Dark With MAGNOLIA PARK

    Fun After Dark With MAGNOLIA PARK
    Mar 2 2026
    Since forming in Orlando, FL in 2018, Magnolia Park - vocalist Joshua Roberts, guitarists Tristan Torres and Freddie Criales, drummer Joe Horsham and bassist Vincent Ernst - have repeatedly proven themselves to be one of the most exciting and forward-thinking groups in the underground. Spinning a chameleonic, genre-spanning sound that incorporates punk, hard rock, hip-hop and metalcore into a dizzying, multi-sensory experience, the prolific band has dropped a mixtape, 4 EP’s, a slew of singles and two full length albums totalling an impressive 510 Million catalog streams to date.
    The heavy genre-bending five-piece have announced NIGHTS AFTER VAMP, the deluxe version of their ambitious concept album VAMP released last year. Out on March 13 via Epitaph, the band picks up where they left off with six explosive bonus tracks that expand the soundscape of their dystopian universe.
    With NIGHTS AFTER VAMP, Magnolia Park have spun an electrifying mix of hard rock, punk, nu-metal, hip-hop and metalcore into a dizzying, multi-sensory experience. Throughout its 17 songs, the record soundtracks an ominous journey through the fictional world of Nocturne Nexus; where rulers and rebels battle with the future hanging in the balance. Heavily inspired by the band’s love of anime, horror and fantasy, the album’s narrative was spurred by the long-running Vampire Hunter D, iconic works like Star Wars, Dracula and Joseph Campbell’s legendary monomyth.
    Magnolia Park will be in Australia this March supporting BABYMETAL, so to bring us up to speed HEAVY sat down for a chat with the whole band.


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    11 m
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