Focus on Metal

As we head into the home stretch with three parts to go on our Little Mountain Sound Studio project we bring you an interview we did With producer Bob Rock back in January of 2015.

Bob is of course best known has the guy behind the boards for Motley Crue’s “Dr Feelgood” and Metallica’s hugely successful “Black Album” but Bob is also integral to the story of Little Mountain Sound.

Big thanks go out to Mike Fraser for making this one happen.

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

We are bringing you a damn fine metal double header this week as we welcome Doro Pesch and Joey Vera for episode 302.

We spoke with Doro after a killer performance on her Boston area tour stop. 30 years in and she shows no signs of stopping and is still as passionate as ever about metal and the fans. Doro will be kicking off her European leg of the tour on 24-Nov.

Joey Vera makes his second appearance this week as we discuss the Armored Saint Pledge Music campaign, Fates Warning, and other metal topics.

Doro’s official site is: doromusic.de/

All things Armored Saint can be found at: armoredsaint.com/ and their Pledge Music campaign is at pledgemusic.com/projects/armoredsaint

Track of the week comes courtesy of AFM artist Serious Black from their sophomore release “Mirrorworld”. Find em’ at serious-black.com/

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant

We continue our 300th episode celebration and the 30th anniversary celebration of Master of Puppets this week by welcoming former Death Angel drummer Andy V Galeon to the show.

Being on the scene back in 86 gives Andy a unique perspective on MOP. Although no longer with Death Angel Andy is still hitting the skins.

These days besides teaching drums he also plays with The Butlers and The Devil in California. Find him online at facebook.com/andyvgaleon

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

Another milestone passes this week as we roll out episode 300. We taken this opportunity to use this episode to celebrate another metal milestone that turns 30 this year, namely Metallica’s landmark release “Master of Puppets”.

Released on March 3rd 1986 MOP changed the thrash game forever. This week we talk with author Joel McIver and MOP producer Flemming Rasmussen about the album and next week we’ll have original Death Angel drummer Andy Galeon continuing our MOP discussion.

Stay tuned later in the year as we speak with MOP mixer Michael Wagener to wrap this one up.

Joel, as always can be found at joelmciver.co.uk/ or check out his other gig writing at bassguitarmagazine.com/

Flemming is online at facebook.com/flemming.rasmussen.35

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

Who knew you would find some killer metal in South Dakota, but we did with Seventh Calling. These guys have been around since 2007 and just released their latest “Battle Call” a few months ago.

I thought they were perfect for the show so I asked the main dude Steve Handel to come by for a chat. Wanna know more you can find Seventh Calling on Facebook at facebook.com/seventhcalling

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

As promised we are back from our break and ready to bring you your weekly dose of metal. This week we dig into the vault of audio and bring you our talk with Scott Fulwiler the owner of Texas Metal Underground Records.

TMU is a great label bringing us stuff from Texas metal history that those of us outside of the state would probably never hear. You can find their website at tmurecords.com

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

Our annual summer break is upon us but before we take a few weeks off Michael Sweet returns to the show once again this week to talk about the imminent release of his latest solo album “One Sided War” due from Rat Pak on August 26th. He also talks about the upcoming Stryper 30th anniversary “To Hell With The Devil” tour and we even manage to fit in some gear talk too.

Enjoy our talk with Michael and we’ll be back the week of Sept 12th with more metal goodness.

Michael can be found on the net at michaelsweet.com and the latest Stryper news and tour dates are at stryper.com

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

No drummers this week instead we bring you a chat we had with Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil, who recently released “Delirium” their 8th studio album. You can find out more about the band at lacunacoil.it/

Also this week we have Andrew Whiteman from Red Tide Rising. They are at redtiderising.com/

Track of the week is from Elm Street, off their new one on Massacre records, “Knock Em Out With A Metal Fist”.

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

Our summer of drummers continues this week as we talk with Wild Mick Brown. Need I say more?

Connect with Mick at facebook.com/Wildmickbrown/

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

Something a little different this week as we feature a discussion we had with rock biographer Graeme Thomson. He recently wrote “Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Philip Lynott” and this week we’ll talk all about it.

Read Graeme’s blog at graemethomsonwrites.wordpress.com

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