Happy new year, metalheads! We're kicking off our 1st episode of 2019 (recorded in 2018, it's like time travel) with our final episode on Black Sabbath! We decided to get some BONUS Dio talk, before our main topic of discussion: the last Black Sabbath leg, pre-reunion. We're talking the massively underrated Tony Martin albums, Ian Gillan's one year in Sabbath, Ray Gillen's stint as live vocalist before Tony replaced him on Eternal Idol, and Mike's hatred for the Glen Hughes led "Seventh Star", plus as always, the Week in Metal!  Enjoy!

Also, our apologies for the audio this weak, bear with us.

We're back!  After taking some time off for Thanksgiving, and dealing with a few transportation issues, we finally are back in the *studio!  This time we're talking about Ronnie James Dio's **three different tenures with the band, and how he reinvigorated them before it fell apart twice.  Also, for our "Week in Metal" (more like 2 weeks plus), we talk Nita Strauss' album, Big Frog's impressions of her live show, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Styxx on tour with a surprising opener!  

*The San Diego Downtown Library

**for the sake of this episode, the band Heaven and Hell is being considered Black Sabbath.

We take a more in depth look at the classic Black Sabbath lineup, talk about our favorite albums and songs  and some off the riffmaster's greatest riffs.  In our "Week in Metal" we walk about seeing Ghost live at the Speckles Theater in San Diego!

Sorry about the delay, we had some health issues last week, but we're back and better(?) than ever!  For "Yhis Week in Metal", we discuss the new Ace Frehley album "Spaceman", KISS tickets going on sale for 2019, our upcoming Ghost show, and Ozzy's makeup dates announced with NEW opening act!  Then it's on to our main topic: The Grand-Daddys of metal, Black Sabbath!  This episode we're going to talk less about specifics, and more about our personal histories with the music, etc

After a couple of setbacks, we FINALLY get to our long awaited (at least by us) episode about RAINBOW! We're both really psyched about this one as we both have a huge passion for Ritchie Blackmore AND Dio! Enjoy!

Big Frog is flying solo again thanks to Mike being sick! We'll be back next week with Rainbow, but for now, here's Frog talking about the guitarists that influenced him (and the ones he thinks are over rated)

Part 1 of our look at the career of the legendary guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore.  While we will discuss several line ups, the main focal point will be the Mark II lineup.  We also debut our new  "This Week in Metal" segment where we start each episode off with a quick rundown of some current events. 

This week Big Frog is flying solo due to some issues w/ transportation. He gives a rundown of recent concerts he's seen.  Mike will be back next week in part 1 of our Ritchie Blackmore episodes: Deep Purple.   

Hammer pants. Attitude. Depressed rock stars. Gratitious use of the letter X. It's the 1990s!  This week Mike and Big Frog discuss what the 90s were like for them, the music they loved during that time, and the comics that influenced them. So sit back, shoot some heroin, and pound a bottle of Surge, we're getting X-TREME!