Focus on Metal

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of The Scorpions. To mark the occasion they have just released their 18th studio album "Return To Forever" as well as embarking on a celebratory world tour.

For those you that want the scoop on this years Scorpions plans (and who doesn't) we have a guy with the inside scoop, drummer James Kottak on the show this week. James called us direct from tour rehearsals and graciously gave us a nice chunk of time out of his very hectic schedule.

You can find James on the web at: http://www.jameskottak.com/

The Scorpions park their site at: http://www.the-scorpions.com while you are there check out the tour dates and maybe buy yourself some tix.

And of course be sure to grab a copy of "Return To Forever".

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Finally, this week we begin airing the episodes for our big 2015 project on Little Mountain Sound Studios.

Fittingly we kick it off with a talk with Miles Ramsay one of the founders of the studio.

Miles is a fountain of knowledge on the history of the studio and he shared a lot of it with us on this episode.

This is just the first of ten episodes we will run this year on Little Mountain so stay tuned for some great stories from both staff and

artists who were there in the heyday of this classic recording facility.

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

This week we continue our conversation with producer Chris Tsangarides. We pick up right where we left off last week. Be warned there's a point in the conversation where Chris and I go full on gear geek-out but be assured there's some great non gear talk after that including some tales from Painkiller.

Track of the week "Skin and Bones" is from AFM Records artist Lyriel from their latest release "Skin and Bones" which came out Nov 4th. Get more info at: http://lyriel.net/

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

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This week is part one of a two parter featuring longtime hard rock and metal producer Chris Tsangarides. The guy has been involved in the industry since 1975 and has had a huge part in forging the sound of modern metal and classic metal.

That being said you know that this guy has some great stories to share, and share he does right here on Focus on Metal.

Track of the week "The Irish Brigade" is from Pure Legends artist Wolfen from their latest release "Evilution". Get more info at: http://www.wolfen-metal.de/

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

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We celebrate week two of metal month by having a chat with the one and only John Gallagher of Newcastle metal pioneers Raven. The band is currently on tour in the states while concurrently running a Kickstarter campaign for their new album "ExtermiNation". We were lucky enough to snag a rare on the road interview with John as they were heading from Vancouver to their gig in Seattle. Enjoy the words of metal wisdom from John and be sure to head to up to Kickstarter and support these metal legends.

Check out the ExtermiNation campaign at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085707767/extermination?ref=nav_search

Check out all the tour dates and Raven news at: http://ravenlunatics.com/

Track of the week is "Queen of The Galaxy" which is the title track from the latest release from Dire Peril. Get more info at: https://www.facebook.com/direperil

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

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This is the eighth and final installment of our Dio Strange Highways series. This time we turn our attention once again to the band that supported Dio on the European leg of the Strange Highways tour, Freak of Nature. We talked to Jerry Best on the sixth installment but we were lucky enough to get the vocalist of FoH Mike Tramp as a last minute addition to the project. In this one Mike talks about touring with Dio, the demise of White Lion, and what he's doing now.

For the latest info on Mike Tramp head to: http://miketramp.dk/home

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

This week Joe Perry's autobiography "Rocks: My Life in And Out of Aerosmith" finally hits the shelves. To celebrate that we have none other than Joe Perry himself on the show this week. Joe has so much to talk about that this week will be one of those rare shows with no music, just talk.

Joe will also be doing a limited book signing tour and the schedule for that can be found at: http://joeperry.com/

Support the Inside Metal project at: http://metalrockfilms.com

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On this very special edition of Focus on Metal we FINALLY run the interview we did with Jerry Gaskill of Kings X back in 2013. Apparently it took a heart attack to get us off our asses in respect to running this one. Thanks again Jerry for a great chat and get well soon.

Keep up with the world of Jerry at: http://www.jerrygaskill.com/

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

This week we bring you an exclusive interview we did with Accept's Mark Tornillo. Yep while everyone else got to speak with Wolf we managed to score a one on one with our fellow East coaster. Mark gave us his very candid views on the new disc "Blind Rage", Accept's tour plans and his thoughts on the band now that he's three albums in as the "new guy".

Keep up with all things Accept at http://www.acceptworldwide.com/

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

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This is the seventh installment of our Dio Strange Highways series. This time we turn our attention to the band that supported Dio on the American leg of the tour for the Strange Highways album, Atomic Opera with our special guests Frank Hart and Jonathan Marshall.

For more info on Atomic Opera head to: http://www.frankhart.com/

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