Focus on Metal

A double header this week as we bring you a chat with Kurdt Vanderhoof, as Metal Church releases “Classic Live” via RatPak and also we talk once again with Jarvis Letherby as Night Demon sets loose their latest “Darkness Remains”.

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

House of Lords just released “Saint of The Lost Souls” and this week we have guitarist Jimi Bell on the show to give us the whole story on the album. Jimi also regales us with some great stories from the eighties including a great Ozzy recollection.

Get more info at HouseofLordsBand.com

Track of the week is from past FoM guests Wolfpakk from their new one on AFM “Wolves Reign”. Find em’ at Wolfpakk.net

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

This week we continue our Kerrang! magazine project as we bring you a chat we just had with Howard Johnson. Howard had a wealth of great stories for us and we are sure you’re going to enjoy everything he has to say.

These days Howard is involved with the great Rock Candy Mag. They just put out issue 1 and you can get yourself a copy by going to RockCandyMag.com

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

Vocalist Robin McAuley returns to the show this week. We haven’t talked to Robin since late 2015 but as usual; the guy stays pretty busy. Besides the relaunch of Raiding The Rock Vault Robin has also been doing dates with Michael Schenker as part of Schenker Fest.

In fact they just did a multi format release of the Tokyo show "Fest: Live Tokyo International Forum Hall" in late March. Keep track of Robin at his site robinmcauley.com

See if the Schenker Fest is coming near you at michaelschenkerhimself.com

Get all the Rock Vault and tix at raidingtherockvault.com

Track of the week is from past FoM guests Helker from their new one on AFM “Firesoul”. Find em’ at helker.net

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

Overkill recently released their latest “The Grinding Wheel” on Nuclear Blast. The band just finished the US run of their Killfest tour and are getting ready to make their way to Europe in June.

Richie caught up with the band at their second to last US date in Worcester Mass and had a chat with Bobby Blitz.

Find all things Overkill over at their official site: wreckingcrew.com

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

Rat Pak Records just released the sophomore effort from KXM “Scatterbrain” This week we have bassist and vocalist dUg Pinnick as our guest to discuss the release as well as give some insight into future plans with King’s X.

Keep up with dUg at: dugnation.net/

Order up your own copy of “Scatterbrain” at ratpakrecordsamerica.com/kxm

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

This week we continue our Kerrang! magazine project as we bring you a talk we had with Steffan Chirazi. Stefan had lots of candid stories about his time working for Kerrang! and we think your gonna like them.

These days Steffan is best known as the editor of “So What” and for his continued work in metal journalism.

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

On March 24th Night Ranger released “Don’t Let Up” via Frontiers Records. Brad Gillis gave us a call to talk about the new release and what’s up for the coming year with Night Ranger.

Find out all the info on the band at NightRanger.com

Track of The Week is from the mighty Sinner off their latest “Tequila Suicide” on AFM Records.

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

Art of Anarchy just dropped their sophomore release “The Madness” and Ron Bumblefoot Thal dropped by to discuss it with us, Find out more about Bumblefoot at Bumblefoot.com.

Track of the week this week comes courtesy of Frontiers as we bring you a cut from Stephen Pearcy’s “Smash” album.

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

Joel Hoekstra has dropped by Focus on Metal in the past, most recently to promote the last Joel Hoekstra’s 13 release. This time around he dropped by to have a bit of discussion about some of the great metal releases that came out in 1987 with us as well as a bit of chat about the latest Monsters of Rock cruise.

Find out more about Joel at joelhoekstra.com

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.