Metal Shop's Backstage Pass

Welcome back to the backstage ! This week Kevin, Ian and Ryan the Beard break down pro wrestling porn, Korn basketball jerseys, shoplifting confessions, how Nuclear Blast records is signing every damn band, Brain Drill returns, the new Nails albnum ripped us all a new one, new music from Cruel Hand and Skeletonwitch, there's a couple new supergroups on our radar, more music on the horizon for Judas Priest and Ghost is coming back to Seattle ! 

God's Hate is a badass hardcore/metal band from Southern California that is signed to Closed Casket Activities. They sat down with Kevin and Ian when they came to Seattle to play Rain Fest. 

Local band Devils Hunt Me Down joined us in studio to talk about their upcoming Summer shows, their upcoming plans of recording with Jack Endino, and to play a couple of their sweet jams! Hit play you dirty metal hippies!

There’s a sickness going around and it’s not coming from any Nu-metal bands! Ian and Ryan the Beard discuss their tonsils, Baby Metal is set to perform with Rob Halford, and Meshuggah has a new box set coming out! A lightning strike sent 70 people at a music festival to the hospital… for the second year in a row. What’s God’s problem? Corey Taylor is out for the first two weeks of the Slipknot/Manson tour (including Seattle) due to an unexpected back surgery, Vinnie Paul uses old Dime recordings for a new Phil Collins cover, and we descend into depravity once more with Brutal Poetry: Too Hot For Radio! \m/ Press Play!

Rain Fest is a yearly 3-day festival that celebrates all that is awesome in the world of underground hardcore punk music. For this week's episode, we had 2 of the 3 organizers of Rain Fest in studio to discuss the past 10 years of organizing one of the wildest weekends you can imagine. Organizers Brian Skiffington and Matt Weltner have announced that Rain Fest 10 will be the last, as they are retiring the Fest after a full decade of stage dives and high fives. We play music from a ton of bands from this year's lineup as well as Rain Fest's past - including Trial, Down to Nothing, Modern Life Is War and many many more. 

Rain Fest is taking place Memorial Day weekend (May 27th -29th) at Neumo's in Seattle.

Kevin and Ian chatted with Max Cavalera from Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy about his current tour, his newest album and some of his current favorites artists.

Welcome back to the most disturbing podcast available on KISW.com. This week we discuss Ian losing his wallet, Kevin almost spoils the new Captain American movie, Ian's band gets signed and he also stops drinking liquor (!?!) while Ryan has been working himself to the bone. In metal news, we give some post-Lemmy Motorhead updates, we discuss Joey Jordinson's new band, Rotting Christ is coming to town, new Electric Wizard is in the works, Dying Fetus spread the ashes of a huge fan of theirs amongst a mosh pit, there's new music by Defeated Sanity, Weekend Nachos and Anal Blasphemy + Gojira is coming back to Seattle ! And finally, we end with a super messed up round of Brutal Poetry Too Hot for Radio and an interview + song premier by an awesome NW death metal band Devilation. Horns up! 

We're in our 90's! This week we were joined in studio by former Metal Shop hosts Kevin 1.0 and Steve Rock. They are old. In metal news, Megadeth gets sci fi with a new 3D video, new Hatebreed song, Ozzfest announced that they will be making an announcement, Ghost will continue to be Ghostly and N.W.A and Gene Simmons still don't get along (SHOCKING!). 

Metal Shop interviews Children of Seraph as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Disciples of Dissent as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016.