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Hatebreed and Shadows Fall are currently on the road together for Hatebreed's The Divinity Of Purpose tour. This week, Matt Byrne from Hatebreed and Matt Bachand from Shadows Fall are checking in with AP from the road to give you a look at a metal tour from their perspective in the second of this three-part […]

Hatebreed and Shadows Fall are currently on the road together for Hatebreed's The Divinity Of Purpose tour. This week, Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed and Brian Fair from Shadows Fall are checking in with AP from the road to give you a look at a metal tour from their perspective in the first of this three-part […]

Finding a permanent practice space has always been somewhat of a hassle for the Venetia Fair. When we go into writing mode we usually practice five days a week for seven or eight hours each day, so we need to find a practice space that is available to us pretty much 100% of the time. […]

Being on the road in our situation can be very exhausting. By “our situation,” I mean barely scraping by. I'm talking about pooling money together to buy an 8-pack of hot dogs and a loaf of bread for dinner and then sleeping in the van in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's actually a very common […]

When the Venetia Fair lost their original keyboardist about four years ago, I was playing guitar in a band that I had been in for about four years. Benny (TVF's vocalist) and I had been hanging out daily, so I mentioned to him that I might be interested in joining. I toyed around with the […]