Cutter's RockCast

Rich Ward has been Chris Jericho's right hand man in Fozzy for the better part of 25 years, but before that he was the guitarist in the legendary underground rap metal band Stuck Mojo. The man is a guitar players guitar player and he has riffs for days. He's nicknamed the Duke for a reason and he is here this week to discuss Fozzy, guitar, Stuck Mojo and even his 80s tribute band Guardians of the Jukebox.

Dead Poet Society is the ultimate band to prove the point of why you show up early to see the opening band. These days they are opening for much bigger bands and even headlining their own shows, but it's a brand of music that might be jarring at first. Once you hear the melody and Jack's voice though you're hooked, or at least that's what happened to me. Their new album is called Monarch and lead singer Jack Underkofler is here to get into it with us.

Emily Lazar is September Mourning. September is as much a character, a comic book hero, as she is a band or a musical entity. The whole idea started over a decade ago, and this former drama kid and ballerina is using her experience and love for heavy music to create and evolve September Mourning.

Jay Gordon of the band Orgy has never been short on words, but it's been a long time since I've caught up with the singer/producer, and that still holds true. Orgy hit the nu-metal scene in the late nineties with their cover of "Blue Monday," but after not being able to hit that same success level they broke up. That is, until Jay brought it back. Now with new music and fresh off a tour with Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson Orgy is set to be back at the table.

It's not every day that a band or musician puts out their debut album and it already features 3 top ten rock singles. Well that is the case with the band Autumn Kings. Their full-length debut is called Epiphanies and it's 2 years in the making. Now we finally get the full Autumn Kings experience that many fans despertly wanted. It's been an historic year for the band and Jake Diab is back on the Rockcast to go through it all.

Late 90s rock music is having a moment. During that time is was harder to find a bigger band than Fuel. 30 years later and through all line-ups and all trials and tribulations, guitarist and song writer Carl Bell was at the forefront of it all. Now Fuel has a new singer and it has seemingly lit a fire under Fuels ass. A new album Pendulum is due out at the end of October and right now they have two songs out that are heavy and modern and just good. Time to go through it with Carl Bell of Fuel. 

This interview was held partly in honor of Fuel playing a show for my morning show radio station WAPL's Xmas bash. Laura Lee co-hosts this interview with me.

It is time to celebrate the release of Mastodon's 9th studio album Marrow Deep. Bassist and singer Troy Sanders and I caught up a couple of weeks ago and now is the right time for you to hear this conversation. As the new album (as of Friday) is out, and it's emotional but for many different reasons. Let's dig in to Marrow Deep.

Who is Zahna is the question you may have asked outloud when you saw the title of this week's episode. We try to answer that this week. She's a fiercly independent woman who has battled back from kidney failure and recording industry hardships to sign a record deal with Head from Korn and write some of the best music of her career. That's the short answer, hit play for the rest!

Growing up Puerto Rican in New York gives you a plethra of influences and music is a constent. From dance lessons to concert halls Joey Varela heard it all. So when it comes to writing music and doing his own brand of hard rock, it all comes out. VRSTY is at a point where the music is ready to meet the world, so it's our honor to introduce to you, or maybe reintroduce to you VRSTY.

Backstage at XRoads 41 - Rock Detour for real quick catch ups with:

-Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire
-Chris Daughtry of Daughtry
-Paul McCoy of 12 Stones
-CJ Pierce of Drowning Pool
-Brandon Saller of Atreyu
-Bobby Amru of Saliva
-Randy Webb of Saving Abel

XRoads 41 - Rock Detour was a one day hard rock music festival taking place in Oshkosh, WI on August 9th. Fingers crossed for a full festival next year!