Review Fix Exclusive: Mad Agony’s “Mad” Max Zane Talks Goals And More

Review Fix chats with Mad Agony’s “Mad” Max Zane who discusses the band’s new album, creative process and goals for 2018.

Review Fix: How did you guys get together?

Max Zane: We were younger in 1992, music was our life and we decided to form a band called “Mad Agony.” Then it’s history- we kept on playing heavy metal,recordedd a few albums and keep on rockin’ right now!

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Zane: Samael is the man! He composes almost every song, and I write lyrics. The rest of the band contribute to making a song unique and easily recognizable as a Mad Agony song. From time to time the other musicians in the band write a song. Hopefully more often than in the past.

Review Fix: What do you think makes this band special?

Zane: It’s all about attitude! A matter of attitude man! We think that there are a lot of great performing bands out there, skilled musicians and composers, but the lack of attitude strongly limit them. Mad Agony have the right attitude, a deep and strong heavy metal attitude!

Review Fix: How would you describe your style?

Zane: Heavy metal old school, with thrash influences.

Review Fix: What are your goals for this album?

Zane: Well, “Mad Patrol” is selling very well, the double-cd digipack limited edition is almost sold out and we’re very happy about this result. The goal for this album is to gain new fans, to let “Mad Agony” name and music known worldwide. Not an easy task, but we’re working hard for it!

Review Fix: What’s the standout song? Is there a story behind it?

Zane: We can’t honestly say that there’s a standout song in “Mad Patrol.” There’s a bunch of great songs and every fan tell us what he prefers. “Cold Stars,” “Circle of Fire,” “Let Me Die,” “Antiochia” and “Warriors of the Whales” are the fans favorites right now.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Zane: We’ll be back in studio next march to start to record the new album. It’ll be quite different from “Chernobitch” and “Mad Patrol.” But we don’t want to anticipate too much to you and the fans. We’re very happy and satisfied with the new songs, it’ll be a great album. Be patient and listen to “Mad Patrol” for now!

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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