About Joel McIver

Joel McIver is an author, journalist, editor and album compiler. He’s written 14 books (20 more exist in translation) and writes for magazines such as Rolling Stone, Metal Hammer, Total Guitar, Classic Rock, Bass Guitar and Record Collector. He also writes about films for DVD Review magazine and regularly appears on radio and TV.

More info at Joel's Wikipedia page.

Interviews with Joel:

2002
Get Ready To Rock

2004
Metallica fansite

2007
The Legion fanzine

2008
Rock On The Net
Heavy Metal Nation
Thrash Hits
Heavy Metal About
Metal Shrine
Classic Metal Show (three parts, audio)
Guitarsite
Joel's Top 10 cultural memes of 2008 (scroll down)

2009
Goldmine
Ultimate Guitar
Thrash Hits

Joel has interviewed over 500 musicians, actors, directors, producers and associated goons over the years: a partial list of interviewees can be found here. Some of his features are available for syndication here.
Fanboy Gallery
Tom Araya of Slayer, 2001
[Slayer]
   
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, 2004
[Megadeth]
   
Kerry King [Slayer] and Mick Thompson [Slipknot], 2005
   
   
Lemmy, 2005
[Motorhead]
   
Yngwie J Malmsteen (for it is he), 2005
[Yngwie's site]
   
Deryck Whibley of Sum 41, 2007
[Sum 41]
   
Vinny Appice of Heaven And Hell, January 2008
[VInny's site]
   
Kerry King with The Bloody Reign Of Slayer, June 2008
[Slayer]
   
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, August 2008 [Iron Maiden]
   
Kirk Hammett of Metallica, August 2008 [Metallica]
   
Trivium, August 2008
[Trivium]
   
Dave Lombardo of Slayer, October 2008
[Slayer]
   
Troy Sanders of Mastodon,
February 2009
[Mastodon]
   
George Fisher of Cannibal Corpse, February 2009
[Cannibal Corpse]
   
George Fisher and Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse, February 2009
[Cannibal Corpse]
   
Adam Duce of Machine Head,
March 2009
[Machine Head]
   
Phil Demmel of Machine Head,
March 2009
[Machine Head]
   
Cronos of Venom and Ihsahn, ex of Emperor, June 09
[Venom, Ihsahn]
   
Herman Li of Dragonforce, June 2009 [Dragonforce]