Talks With Mark Weiss And James Christian on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 466 - The Weiss Guy

Longtime photographer Mark Weiss just published his first book “The Decade That Rocked: The Photography of Mark “Weissguy” Weiss”. Mark is on the show this week to gives us his insights into the music scene and to talk about what inspired him to finally release a book that celebrates the decade that rocked. 

Get your own personalized copy of Mark’s book at: TheDecadeThatRocked.com

Also this week we talk again with House of Lords vocalist James Christian as they release their latest “New World-New Eyes”.

Here's the title track off the new album

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House of Lords & Autograph Guitarist Jimi Bell Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 449 - Jimi Bell Returns

Guitarist Jimi Bell returns this week to talk about everything he’s got going on. He’ll give us some insight into the upcoming House of Lords album and also lets us know what’s going on with his latest gig in Autograph. In case you hadn’t heard Jimi joined the band when Steve lynch left in 2019. Jimi is definitely one busy dude but he always has time to sit down and talk about stuff.

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

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Ken Mary of Fifth Angel & Jamie Brown of Roxanne on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 399 - Rising Again

29 and 30 years that’s the amount of years since the last Fifth Angel and Roxanne albums. Both bands have risen again. Roxanne just released “Radio Silence” (Rat Pak) and Fifth Angel dropped “The Third Secret” (Nuclear Blast). So this week we talk with Jamie Brown from Roxanne and Ken Mary of Fifth Angel (not to mention Flotsam and Jetsam and so many more).

A track off "Radio Silence" with special guest George Lynch

And of course some new Fifth Angel

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Gregg Giuffria Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 380 - Gregg Giuffria

House of Lords, anybody? Yep, this week Richie gets a chance to talk with founder and keyboardist Gregg Giuffria about the origins of House of Lords. Gregg was also a pivotal part of Angel and Giuffria but House of Lords has always been high on Richie’s list of bands so enjoy his chat this week.

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Doug Aldrich Returns For More On This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 352 - A Brief History of Doug Aldrich Part 2

Lion, DIO, House of Lords, Burning Rain, Whitesnake, The Dead Daisies, Revolution Saints we could go on and on but the common denominator in all of this is guitarist Doug Aldrich. This week we continue our career retrospective on Doug with a look at what he was up to from 1993 up to the release of Revolution Saints second release “Light in The Dark”. An amazing career and he’s still going strong blasting out amazing new tunes on his Les Paul Gold Top.

Find Doug on Facebook at: facebook.com/DougAldrich.official

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Doug Aldrich Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 351 - A Brief History of Doug Aldrich Part 1

Doug Aldrich has been a frequent guest here on Focus on Metal. They guy has played guitar with some major players in the world of rock and metal and yet he’s still one of the most down to earth people you’ll ever talk with. Given his long history we’ve always wanted to do a career retrospective with him and this week we’re doing it. So on this episode we run through Doug’s career up to Bad Moon Rising and we’ll go from there up to Revolution Saints next week. Speaking of Revolution Saints, be sure to grab a copy of their new one “Light In The Dark”.

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House of Lords guitarist Jimi Bell Guests on The Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 331 - Jimi Bell

House of Lords just released “Saint of The Lost Souls” and this week we have guitarist Jimi Bell on the show to give us the whole story on the album. Jimi also regales us with some great stories from the eighties including a great Ozzy recollection. Get more info at HouseofLordsBand.com

Track of the week is from past FoM guests Wolfpakk from their new one on AFM  “Wolves Reign”. Find em’ at Wolfpakk.net

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James Christian from House of Lords on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 242 - Indestructible

House of Lords has been making albums since 1988 and Richie has been waiting about that long to talk to the voice of the band, James Christian. This week he gets his wish and does a bit of a House of Lords retrospective with James. In case you don't know HoL has also released a new one "Indestructible" via Frontiers records.

During the interview James cites the cover of "can't Find My Way Home" as one of his favroites. Although we don't play it in the episode here's the vid HoL cut for it.

Track of the week comes to us courtesy of Massacre Records. Massacre has just released "A Light in The Black" an excellent 2 CD tribute to Ronnie James Dio. This week we are featuring Love.Might.Kill's cover of the Dio classic Stand Up And Shout.

Here's a taste of Love>Might.Kill from their "Brace For Impact" release

Find James Christian at http://www.jameschristianmusic.com/. Love.Might.Kill is on the web at http://www.lovemightkill.com/

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