Sophie K sits down with Fernando Ribeiro of Moonspell at Wacken 2022 about the inspirations for the Portuguese metal scene, their upcoming live album, his fanzine beginnings, the fact he never wanted to be a musician and how he got here, and how the band’s latest album Hermitage became a Covid album.

Sophie K talks to James Monteith of Tesseract at the first ever Knotfest Germany, the band’s first international show since before the pandemic, about their upcoming album sounding more ‘organic’ than ever before, his love for new bands in the scene reinventing and fusing genres, more diverse crowds at shows, the influence of TikTok on a band’s popularity these days, and being a fan of every band on the bill.

Slugcrust’s Jesse Cole and Derick Caperton join KNOTFEST’s Pulse of the Maggots to discuss their debut album, Ecocide.

BRANDON SALLER takes the Disc Dive with Ryan J. Downey, detailing his entire discography with Atreyu. In Part ONE, Brandon remembers everything surrounding the band’s 2006 album, A Death-Grip on Yesterday.

Sophie K talks to Frans Aalto of Medeia about playing at the first ever Knotfest Finland, a story of playing Slipknot at school not going down to well, outsiders’ perception of metal, appreciating the down time over the past couple years, and his best drunken stories.

Matt Wilcock and Sam Bean of The Antichrist Imperium join Jon “StayPuft” Garcia and Cori Westbrook on KNOTFEST’s Pulse of the Maggots.

Sophie K chats Anni Lötjönen of Huora at the first ever Knotfest Finland about the band’s name, its origin and proving people wrong with their success, their latest album and its meaning, activism and politics, and how here family helped shape her music taste.

Sophie K talks with a member of black-metallers Gaerea at Wacken 2022 about their new album Mirage, its themes and atmosphere, their anonymity and the reasons behind it, as well as the origins of the design on their masks. He also speaks on extreme music as a whole needing to be challenging and keep pushing boundaries, and the influence of their 2019 China tour on the band.

Sophie K is joined by Hanno Klänhardt of Mantar at Wacken 2022 to talk about their album title Pain Is Forever and This Is the End, and how he hated every minute of recording it. He also chats about finally being able to get on the road and loving it, his excitement over nerves at playing shows, his love for Wacken as a festival and playing to Japanese crowds.