_{Swedish band Amaranthe release their sixth studio album called “Manifest”, through Nuclear Blast Records on 2nd October. I had the opportunity to chat with singer Elize Ryd via Skype on 7th August. We talked about the new album, the four tracks from it that have been released so far and much more.}

_{That interview was featured on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 21st August and later 2nd October.  That first Show is available from the NI Rocks MixCloud page - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interview-with-elize-ryd-from-amaranthe-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-21st-aug-2020/}

 The interview has been transcribed and posted below.

_{There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those shows for the month of July – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by over 165 different artists on the Shows this month. Playlists for June were published previously and these Shows are also available via the On Demand Player – http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3777-ni-rocks-playlists-for-june-2020.html}

_{“Lions” is the second album from Tokyo Motor Fist, the band that features singer Ted Poley from Danger Danger and guitarist Steve Brown from Trixter. It was released on 10th July by Frontiers Music; who also released the band’s self titled debut in 2017. So far I’ve featured three tracks from the album on the Friday NI Rocks Show – “Youngblood”, “Around Midnight” and most recently, on the Show on 31st July, the track “Mean It”.}