Everything Else is Insignificant
Here you’ll find many of our artist career retrospectives
EP565 – Maiden IV And twelve episodes later we are back with more Maiden. Yeah it’s really been that long. Was kinda shocked when I realized that the third installment
EP559 – R.I.P. Bob Nalbandian A sad topic this week as we have a bit of discussion in honor of our friend, mentor, collaborator and frequent guest Bob Nalbandian who
Continue readingA Heartfelt Discussion in Memory of Bob Nalbandian On This Weeks Focus on Metal
EP556 – Tangled In The Web III This week we wrap up our three part series celebrating the anniversary of the self titled Lynch Mob release. Last week we dove
EP555 – Tangled In The Web II Well, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of Wicked Sensation with a multi-episode run a few years ago so why not do the same
Continue readingVocalist Robert Mason Joins Us On This Weeks Focus on Metal
EP554 – Tangled In The Web Well, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of Wicked Sensation with a multi-episode run a few years ago so why not do the same for
Continue readingBassist Anthony Esposito Joins Us Once Again on This Weeks Focus on Metal
EP542 – Maiden II 83-86 So here we are 10 episodes after we started on this Maiden slog back to look at the next three Maiden studio releases “Piece of
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EP532 – Maiden 80-82 So sometime over the winter I had this idea of reprising what we did with the Saxon catalog but with another legendary British band, Iron Maiden.
Episode 455 – Cozy Powell Special This one just seemed to fall into place for us. First off we talk with author Laura Shenton about her new book “Dance With
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Episode 445 – Q2K Breakdown On September 14, 1999 Queensryche released their seventh studio effort Q2K. This was the first album by the band without Chris DeGarmo and the only
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Episode 440 – Dark Roots of Testament “The Legacy”, “The New Order”, “Practice What You Preach”, “Souls of Black”, “The Ritual”, and “Low”. Original Testament bassist Greg Christian played on
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Episode 432 – 10 Years of American Soldier On March 31, 2009 Queensryche released their eleventh studio album “American Soldier”. Producer and co-writer of the album Jason Slater, our guest
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Episode 408 – Erase The Slate June 15th 1999 Dokken released their 7th studio album “Erase The Slate”. With its 20th anniversary coming up Don Dokken took a little time
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Episode 404 – Mike Fraser Talks AC/DC Aaaand we’re back. Yep, as promised we are back from winter break and ready to launch into 2019. This week we welcome back
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Episode 400 – Focus on Dio Seems like only yesterday we were exploring Master of Puppets on episode 300 and here we are 100 shows later. Hard to believe we
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Episode 392 – QR at 30 30 years ago this month Quiet Riot released QR (aka QR IV, Quiet Riot, or Quiet Riot IV). It wasn’t the classic lineup of
