Vicky Psarakis of The Agonist | Mastering Her Voice

Sean McCulloch of Phinehas | Reaching Beyond Christianity To Explore Within

Wasted Land of Saudi Arabia: Exporting Metal Beyond its Borders

Zosia West | Reign of Z: Turning Raw Trauma to Revealing Metal

Adam DiMicco of Lorna Shore: 'Return to Nothingness' also Return of Hope

Frankie Mish of Sleep Waker: Living the Dream

Jesse Zuretti of Binary Code and the 'Moonsblood' of depression

Lazaro Pina of Ill Nino: Remembering and re-igniting 'Revolución'

Kristof Bathory and the new evangelism of Dawn of Ashes

Otep Shamaya: Metal's leading protest artist

Mallika Sundaramurthy of Abnormality

Nate Garnette + Scott Hedrick shake the bones of Skeletonwitch

Chaney Crabb of Entheos: The newest female voice in extreme metal

Tommy Victor of Prong: Danzig + Ministry + his own creative rebirth

Marc Görtz of Caliban and the 'Gravity' of creating new music

Robin Staps of The Ocean: Don't call his music 'progressive'

Eli Santana of Holy Grail: It's all about metal

Emerging Artists: Mandroid Echostar & Toothgrinder

Steffen Kummerer of Obscura: The cerebral side of death metal

Karl Sanders of Nile: Unearthing his truth