Exclusive: ICED EARTH - Rare Interview With JON SCHAFFER From 1991 Featured On Forthcoming Rock Hard Magazine DVD Sampler

July 12, 2008, 16 years ago

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According to BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai, the forthcoming issue of Germany's metal bible Rock Hard Magazine (#255, VOLBEAT cover) features Volume 10 of their ongoing Rock Guerilla series DVD sampler. Along with the usual video and interview features, this volume includes a special History Interview with ICED EARTH guitarist/founder Jon Schaffer, filmed in 1991 while the Night Of The Stormrider album was in production. Conducted by Rock Hard editor Götz Kühnemund (in English with German subtitles), Schaffer discusses the beginnings of the band, the making of Night Of The Stormrider, and comments on the lack of support in America for metal bands at the time. It also features performance footage of 'Desert Rain' in the band's extremely foggy rehearsal room.

The complete tracklist of the DVD, which is due out this month, is as follows:

Videos: 'Halo' (MACHINE HEAD), 'I Will Live Again' (ARCH ENEMY), 'Double Nature' (MUSTASCH), 'Bleed' (MESHUGGAH), 'Dethroned' (DEATH ANGEL), 'At The Left Hand Ov God' (BEHEMOTH), 'Engraved In Stone' (MISERY SPEAKS), 'Pyromancer' (SAHG), 'Without Walls' (TRACEDAWN), 'Gut Candy' (HACKNEYED).

Features: TESTAMENT (interview), BLIND GUARDIAN (interview), DOWN (interview and backstage), EXODUS (interview), OPETH (interview), JAMEY JASTA (interview), ICED EARTH (history interview), DANKO JONES (thoughts on European festivals), VADER (interview), Tonezone featuring Jeff Loomis (NEVERMORE), Uli Jon Roth (ex-SCORPIONS), Vinnie Moore (UFO) and Bernd Aufermann (ANGEL DUST), Outtakes.

For more information on Rock Hard (in English) go to this location.


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