#251.5: Jill Janus (Huntress)

On this special "half" episode of The MetalSucks Podcast we share a
never-before-heard interview with Huntress frontwoman Jill Janus,
who tragically took her own life earlier this week. The interview
was conducted by MetalSucks Podcast host Petar Spajic a few years
back at a Huntress headlining show in Las Vegas and has not been
published anywhere until now.  Explains Petar:  "When I
got the opportunity to interview Jill I was just a guy without an
audience who just wanted to learn how to talk to bands and spread
my love of heavy metal. Jill knew this and knew this interview
would not be heard by many, or any, but was all about giving me the
opportunity. I learned that if you are a part of this community and
love the music people will always give you a chance if you are
willing to try, and Jill did that for me. "I have a small list of
bands that allowed me to use them as practice for me to try to do
this on any scale in the future, and Huntress was the only band I
never got to pay it forward to when Vince and Axl allowed asked us
to do The MetalSucks Podcast. I looked for press releases every
week in hopes of getting a new Huntress album so I could attack the
publicist to get them on and help them, because that’s what they
did for me. "This interview holds a special place to me because
unlike all the other wonderful bands and people who helped me along
the way this is the only one I've aired posthumously. Thank you,
Jill, for allowing me to learn on your time and making me feel like
I knew what I was doing when I clearly had no clue. Thank you Blake
for taking my camera and taking pictures of Jill I when I was too
shy to even consider asking, and I hope this can somehow get your
music to more ears. "Rest in peace, Jill; you helped out many and
will continue to do so with your songs more than you will ever
know."  Songs: Huntress - "Blood Brothers" Huntress - "Harsh
Time on Planet Stoked" Huntress - "Eight of Swords" Learn more
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