I interviewed Ripper Owens!!!

from the introduction I wrote:

MAKING HIS NAME AS ROB HALFORD'S REPLACEMENT IN JUDAS PRIEST, HISTORY
SEEMS TO BE REPEATING ITSELF FOR TIM "THE RIPPER" OWENS. WHEN NEWS OF
MATT BARLOW REJOINING ICED EARTH WAS GLADLY ENDORSED BY MAINMAN JOHN
SCHAFFER IN THEIR WEBSITE, THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WORD CONCERNING THIS
TALENTED SINGER'S FATE. SUCH AN EVENT ALSO DIMINISHES THE VALUE OF THIS
INTERVIEW SINCE IT WAS DONE WITH RIPPER FRESH OFF THE LATEST LEG OF
ICED EARTH'S WORLD TOUR JUST A FEW WEEKS PRIOR TO THE SUDDEN LINEUP
CHANGE. WELL, AT LEAST HE CAN NOW DEVOTE HIMSELF TO BEYOND FEAR.
PERHAPS THIS INTERVIEW WILL RANK AMONG THE STRANGEST HAILNDKILL HAS
EVER DONE GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT HAVE NOW ALTERED THE CAREER OF
ITS SUBJECT. MAN, TO THINK THAT YOU'RE ALREADY A PERMANENT MEMBER OF AN
ESTABLISHED BAND AND THEN BE "HONORABLY DISCHARGED" THE NEXT DAY . . .
SUCH DRAMA HAS PLAYED OUT ON VARIOUS MOMENTS OF METAL HISTORY. AN
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THE READER: KEEP IN MIND THAT BOTH RIPPER OWENS AND
HAILNDKILL HAD NO INKLING OF THE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ICED EARTH CAMP AS
THIS INTERVIEW WAS DONE BETWEEN NOVEMBER AND EARLY DECEMBER, WHICH
MEANS THE QUESTIONS ARE FOCUSED ON RIPPER'S VARIOUS MUSICAL PROJECTS,
THE TOURS AND ICED EARTH'S LATEST RELEASE.


check it out:

http://www.filipinometal.com/articles/?id=48

Awesome

Funny how he mentions Anthrax, I am glad he didn't get the gig though to be honest. I think it would be a mismatch. They don't wanna go back to their more melodic, Belladonna-styled metal.

lol, with his past luck & Anthrax's habit of ditching their singers ...he'd just be repeating the cycle.