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Podcast: Dreams of Consciousness
Episode: 220: Nite
Description: Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 220 features an interview with Van Labrakis and Scott Hoffman of Nite.
Based in the Bay Area, Nite make "Heavy Metal" in the unapolegetically strutting fashion of the Eighties masters - albeit coupled with raspy vocals that give their songs a "blackened" and modern edge. As founder/guitarist/vocalist Van Labrakis puts it, "The whole point was for metal to break the norms and think outside the box, not make another box for ourselves."
Van and guitarist Scott Hoffman spoke with me about how Nite sprung from a love of classic metal and guitar solos, as...