Interview: To The Pain...I See Your Princess Bride Reference There.

To The Pain

I've been pretty metal for about 30  years now. It seems hard to believe that one of the youngest genres of music is now so old.Metal is now old enough to have spawned children and maybe even grandchildren!

Well today we're looking at the grandchildren of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

To The Pain's parents, Megadeath and Metallica, share joint custody.

It's possible that they let these young men watch too much TV growing up, hence their name...

But more seriously, it's interesting to see how metal has grown and changed since the days that Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast was the scariest thing you were going to see on Friday Night Videos...

To The Pain is just about to release their sophomore album, 7, and hopefully play a show in St. Louis and one of the guys, took the time to pontificate upon my inane queries.

Album Review: "7" by To The Pain

7

The world has changed.

I remember when the only touring and recording independent artist I could name was MC Chris, but I can remember the first time I purchased an independently produced album.

It was A Dying Breed by the local metal act, Crucible. That was in 1992. I've been supporting indie music since before it was a bumper sticker.

Back then, it was hard to get out there. How would a band get their name out before the internet, iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, Twitter, Facebook, and the like.

I have no idea. In this day and age indie artists have won grammys. That's just hard to fathom. It's now possible to make your way alone in the music industry, at least somewhat alone.