Adrian Vandenberg Guests on This Bonus Episode of Focus on Metal

Episode 466SE - Vandenberg 2020

May 29th marked the first release in 37 years for the band Vandenberg as they rolled out “2020”. In this episode We’ll talk with Adrian Vandenberg about the decision to relaunch his namesake band and the the ensuing album. Plus we’ll talk a little Whitesnake and Moon Kings too.

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Silverthorne's Brian Tichy Guests on This weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 443 - Silverthorne

Lots of discussion this week as well as a chat with Brian Tichy about his new band Silverthorne. While we were at it we couldn’t resist digging back into some of the other bands he’s been involved with as well.

Here's the first single off the upcoming EP

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Adrian Vandenberg Returns To Focus on Metal This Week.

Episode 362 - MoonKings MKII

As promised we are back and this week we bring you another chat with guitarist Adrian Vandenberg. Vandenberg’s MoonKings just released their sophomore effort MKII and this week Richie talks with him about it. Also we couldn’t come back without a little discussion on the whole reappearance of Vinnie Vincent deal.

Track of the week is from upcoming guest Mike Lepond’s other band Silent Assassins off their latest “Pawn and Prophecy”.

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Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

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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Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

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”.

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

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Joel Hoekstra Makes a Return Appearance on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 323 - 1987 With Joel Hoekstra

Joel Hoekstra has dropped by Focus on Metal in the past. Most recently to promote the last Joel Hoekstra’s 13 release. This time around he dropped by to have a bit of discussion about some of the great metal releases that came out in 1987 with us as well as a bit of chat about the latest Monsters of Rock cruise. Find out more about Joel at joelhoekstra.com/

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Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

Just posted: Doug Aldrich on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 292 - The Dead Daisies

We caught up with guitarist Doug Aldrich just days before he was heading out with The Dead Daisies touring Europe in support of their new one “Make Some Noise” due August 5th. We talk about the making of the new album, catch up on Burning Rain, talk Les Pauls, and generally catch up from the last time we talked.

Head to The Dead Daisies Site for tour dates and other info and point your browser to DougAldrich.com for news and merch from Doug.

Here's the first single from "Make Some Noise"

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Joel Hoekstra Guests on Episode 253 of Focus on Metal

Episode 253 - Joel Hoekstra

Night Ranger, T.S.O., Whitesnake and now a killer new solo album guitarist Joel Hoekstra http://www.joelhoekstra.com/ continues to notch up some impressive career credits. This week Joel hooks up with Focus on Metal to talk about hie new album "Dying to Live". Which also has a solid rhythm section in the form of Vinny Appice and Tony Franklin and some vocals courtesy of Jeff Scott Soto and Russell Allen. Of course while we had him on the line Richie couldn't help throwing out some Whitesnake questions too. 

Also this week we feature a track of the week from Frontiers artist Voodoo Hill http://www.dariomollo.com/ which has the not too shabby Glenn Hughes on board. 

We round it off with a special treat from our friends in A Sound of Thunder http://www.asoundofthunderband.com/ . They gave us the green light to roll another track from "Tales of The Deadside" for you. All in all, a pretty packed episode this week.

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You can hear us Tuesdays on Platinum Rock Radio and be sure to check their schedule because we usually get a repeat run during the week.

You can hear us every Wednesday on these great stations:
Pure Rock Radio & Metal World Radio

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Jeff Scott Soto performing 'Here I Go Again' feat Joel. Hoekstra, Whitesnake at Lucky Strike Live

Jeff Scott Soto preforming “Here I Go Again” from Whitesnake/David Coverdale live with Joel Hoekstra, Howie Simon, David Z Rock, Steve Ferlazzo & Matt Starr last night at Lucky Strike. 

The fan filmed video can be viewed below.

https://youtu.be/J5iWs0skkK8

Started with Purple Rain: https://youtu.be/8dn0Q726qm8 with Jonathan Phillip Moffett, Spacey T & Steve Ferlazzo…then Howie Simon & David Z Rock joined for theTalisman official’s version of Crazy by Seal: https://youtu.be/Z8e7qBaE37A

SOTO recently released the new music video “Break” from the album “Inside The Vertigo“: https://youtu.be/ivgSA4V6gf0

Jeff Scott Soto – one of today’s premier Rock frontmen and vocalists – and a union of hotshot young musicians bring you a slamming blend of melody and muscle in some of the freshest power metal to surface in years present. Together they are SOTO, and their debut album “Inside The Vertigo” will blow your mind away. A neurotic blend of power metal, prog, groove-laden huge guitars, hooks and production, SOTO is a contender in today’s modern Rock arena while capturing the essence of strong songwriting simultaneously.

www.jeffscottsoto.com
www.facebook.com/JeffScottSoto 
www.sototheband.com
www.facebook.com/SOTOofficial

Now available - Focus on Metal 229 Featuring Adrian Vandenberg

Episode 229 - Moon Kings Rising

So we did this interview with Adrian Vandenberg way back in January and we were going to run it a few weeks back but after the Reb Beach and Doug Aldrich episodes we felt we were a bit Whitesnake heavy so opted to wait a few more weeks. So here it is a great chat we had with guitarist and all around nice guy Adrian Vandenberg about his current band Moon Kings as well as some delving into his past history.

Find out more about Vandenberg's Moon Kings at http://www.moonkingsband.com/ or be social at https://www.facebook.com/moonkingsband or https://twitter.com/moonkingsband

Track of the week is courtesy of our friends at AFM Records. Wolfpakk just released their third album "Rise of The Animal" and this week we feature a great track off of it. Find Wolfpakk on the net at http://www.wolfpakk.net

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You can hear us every Wednesday on these great stations:
Pure Rock Radio, Metal World Radio, Audio Graffiti

You can hear us Thursdays on Platinum Rock Radio

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

Martin Popoff guests on this weeks Focus on Metal.

Episode 225 - Martin Sails Away

One of our favorite guests, Martin Popoff makes yet another appearance on the show this week. Always the veritable fountain of metal literature Martin continues to unleash books you need to know about. The focus of this weeks talk are his latest books on Whitesnake and Megadeth. Of course while we have Martin on the phone we also talk about a few other books he's done since we last talked and also a preview of what he's got coming up next.

Also this week we have Cameron Taylor the vocalist of Secret of Boris. These guys have just released their debut "Your Ghost" on Cabo Records and we took the opportunity to discuss the band and the release.

Get your fix of Martin Popoff's literary might at: http://www.martinpopoff.com/

Secret of Boris can be found at: http://secretofboris.net/

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

Reb Beach Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 223 - Focus on Reb Beach

Another in our series of career retrospective episodes, our guest this week is Whitesnake/Winger guitarist and all around good guy Reb Beach. We talk with Reb and go through a brief history of his career through a bunch of bands and catch up with what he's up to these days as well. Reb doesn't usually go these type of things so it was very cool of him to allow the Focus on Metal team to put him under the musical microscope. We hope you enjoy what he has to say.

Visit Reb's official site at: http://www.rebbeach.com/ you can also get him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebBeach or follow him on Twitter https://twitter.com/realrebbeach

Visit Whitesnake's site at http://www.whitesnake.com/ or Winger's at http://www.wingertheband.com/

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

Get the latest episode from the Focus on Metal Site, The Focus on Metal RSS feed, or on iTunes

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

Doug Aldrich Talks About Revolution Saints on This Weeks Edition of Focus on Metal

Episode 222 - Revolution Saints

The new release from Revolution Saints drops this week and Doug Aldrich returns to the show this week to give us all the lowdown on it. Doug also gives us some insight into his decision to leave Whitesnake as well as an update on what's going on with Burning Rain and his hometown gig with Raiding The Rock Vault.

In keeping with the theme this week, track of the week is from Swedish melodic metallers Eclipse off "Armaggedonize" which was released via Frontiers this week.

Get social with Revolution Saints at https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionSaints or with Doug at https://www.facebook.com/DougAldrich.official

The official website for Doug is http://dougaldrich.com/

If you are heading to Vegas all the info for Raiding the Rock Vault is at http://www.raidingtherockvault.com/

Eclipse can be found online at http://www.eclipsemania.com/

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Episode 118 Snakecharmer

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What do you get when you mix two parts of the original Whitesnake with parts of Thunder and Wishbone Ash and also throw in a singer best known for AOR in the UK and ice the whole thing with the son of a legendary keyboard player? Snakechamer, thats what. This week we get to talk with Adam Wakeman about Snakecharmer as well as his other two high profile gigs as the keyboard player for Ozzy and Black Sabbath.

Our track of the week is from Ion Vein from their second teaser release "V 2.0". Check out more about the band at http://www.ionvein.com/ or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ionvein. You can get Ion Vein V 2.0 for yourself on iTunes.

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

MULTI-PLATINUM ROCK BAND WHITESNAKE TO RELEASE NEW DVD/LIVE CD PACKAGE: “MADE IN JAPAN” DUE OUT IN APRIL ON FRONTIERS RECORDS

Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of legendary rock band Whitesnake’s new DVD/live CD package, MADE IN JAPAN.  MADE IN JAPAN is set for release on April 19^th in Europe (22^nd in the UK) and April 23^rd in North America and will be available in several formats: a deluxe 2CD/DVD edition, Blu-ray and a standalone DVD.  The performance footage is shot in stunning HD in 5.1 and stereo and is taken from Whitesnake’s co-headlining set at the “Loud Park” festival on October 11^th, 2011 held at Saitama Super Arena in Japan during their “Forevermore World Tour.”  The performance was initially recorded only for Japanese TV and future Loud Park promotions, but after three songs were broadcasted on a Loud Park highlights program in Japan, Whitesnake received unprecedented requests for this performance to be made available to the general public. 

MADE IN JAPAN contains songs from Whitesnake’s most recent studio album, FOREVERMORE, as well as classic hits such as “Is This Love,” “Still Of The Night” and “Here I Go Again.”  The bonus CD also includes never-before-heard outtakes and acoustic versions of material from the award winning FOREVERMORE album that were recorded during soundchecks on the 2011 Japanese tour.. Additional DVD content includes various band photo slideshows and fan-shot videos.

MADE IN JAPAN track listing:

Cd1 - Best Years; Give Me All Your Love Tonight; Love Ain’t No Stranger; Is This Love; Steal Your Heart Away; Forevermore; Six String Showdown; Love Will Set You Free; Drum Solo; Fool For Your Loving; Here I Go Again; Still Of The Night.

Bonus Cd 2 – Soundcheck - Love Will Set You Free; Steal Your Heart Away; Fare Thee Well (Acoustic Version); One Of These Days (Acoustic Version); Lay Down Your Love; Evil Ways; Good To Be Bad (Acoustic Version); Tell Me How (Acoustic Version).

Dvd / Blu-Ray contents - Best Years; Give Me All Your Love Tonight; Love Ain’t No Stranger; Is This Love; Steal Your Heart Away; Forevermore; Six String Showdown; Love Will Set You Free; Drum Solo; Fool For Your Loving; Here I Go Again; Still Of The Night.

Fan Videos For Forevermore and Steal Your Heart Away.

Formed in 1977, and steered by the legendary David Coverdale, Whitesnake carry a rightful reputation as one of the world’s leading rock bands. Coverdale’s blues roots, combined with a feral sense of rock and roll, have consistently shaped the ‘Snake’s sound along with Coverdale’s love and appreciation of impeccable musicianship.  Whitesnake’s ascent to the very top of the rock n’ roll heap was confirmed with 1987’s self-titled mega-platinum album, which saw two massive Top 10 hits, two #1 singles with “Here I Go Again” and “Is This Love” and a virtual 24-hour domination of MTV around the world.  David Coverdale was recently named one of Revolver’s “100 Greatest Living Rock Stars.” and the UK’s ‘Kerrang!’ voted David Coverdale the ‘Last Great Rock Star’.  Musicians on MADE IN JAPAN include David Coverdale (vocals), Doug Aldrich (guitars), Reb Beach (guitars), Michael Devin (bass), Briian Tichy (drums) and special guest Brian Ruedy (keyboards).

For more information, please visit:

Official Website – www.whitesnake.com

Official Facebook - www.facebook.com/Whitesnake.official

Official Twitter - www.twitter.com/davidcoverdale

www.frontiers.it