Jack Starr: Keep the metal burning! (pt. 1)

NOTE: this interview was done in 2020.

An in-depth interview with Jack Starr was something I wanted to do for a long time but didn't know how to. The man together with David DeFeis founded (once) mighty Virgin Steele and  helped to forge epic and power metal. With VS, his own band Burning Starr and other projects he has released about 20 albums. How to not get lost in this ammount of records and not to miss something important in Jack's biography? Well, that wasn't an easy task, but I like such challenges! In result I got a list of around 100 questions and was thinking that Mr. Starr would tell me to go to hell with this list. But he was so kind to answer them all! Here is the first part of the interview where we spoke about Jack's first steps in music, his journey with Virgin Steele and everything else before the founding of Jack Starr's Burning Starr. 

Tragedy Divine: Revisions of power

The middle 990's weren't the best time for progressive/power metal. Yeah, the big names like Dream Theater or Savatage kept on carrying the flag, but so many bands of that era didn't get that level of attention they really deserved. Germany's Tragedy Divine were among them. I discovered their amazing album "Visions of Power" years later through the Sacred Steel connection. On September 29 Jolly Roger Records released vinyl version of this masterpiece, and that was a good reason to chat with Gerrit P. Mutz (vocals) and  Jörg M. Knittel (guitars) and remember how the album was created.