Metal Shop's Backstage Pass

Chicago band Harm's Way has been busting their collective ass for a looooong time, releasing heavy jams and ignited pits worlwide. Their new album "Posthuman" came out a few months back on Metal Blade Records and that's a huge move for them. The members of Harm's Way joined us in studio on Friday June 15th before their show at the Highline and we talked growing up in the hardcore scene, gnarly sca...

Local band HOTH was in studio this week to talk about their brand new album coming out on Friday June 15th. They shared two brand new songs with us. 

Kevin and Ian sat down with Pallbearer when they were in town for a show with Obituary. Listen as they chat about their favorite doom bands, the Arkansas music scene, their favorite Type O Negative songs, what they would play on a radio show of their own and the influence of the band RWAKE.  

Kevin and Ian sat down with Obituary guitarist Trevor Peres to talk all things death metal, fishing, BBQ and their upcoming European tour opening for SLAYER!   

Voidthrone joined us in studio for the all local episode of Metal Shop ! 

After The Fallout joined us in studio for the all local episode this weekend! 

Oxygen Destroyer joined us in studio for the all local episode of Metal Shop. Check out more from Oxygen Destroyer here 

Inquinok stopped by the studio to play a couple of their badass songs for us! Check out more from Inquinok here

Local badasses Rat King in studio with Metal Shop! Check out more from Rat King here 

We chatted with Max Cavalera about Soulfly's current tour with Nile, the band's new album coming out this summer and chatted a bit about his favorite NW bands of all time. 

Mastodon and Primus are touring this summer together and will be playing Marymoor Park on June 22nd. Kevin chatted with them on the phone about the awesome upcoming tour! 

Tacoma band Ancestors of God came in to the studio to play some songs off their debut EP! 

TKO sat down with us to chat about the band's history and their upcoming show on April 28th at Studio 7!

Neck Of The Woods just played their first U.S. show this past week at the Funhouse. Ryan the Beard had a chance to sit down and chat with this badass up and coming metal band! 

Biff Byford is the singer of legendary British heavy metal band Saxon. They just released their 22nd full length album "Thunderbolt" and are on tour right now with Judas Priest! Check out our phone interview with Biff ! 

We got to interview Damian from Deathbed Confessions and Ashley from Kyberox about their show this coming Friday (March 30th) at the The Swiss in Tacoma.  It's an art show and a metal show! Check it out! 

We interviewed local shredmasters WEAPONLORD and played a couple songs off their brand new album! 

This week on the podcast we preview new songs by At The Gates, Kamelot, Eryn Non Dae, Nekrogoblikon and Judas Priest. We discuss the contorversies surrounding both Taake and Young and In The Way, we find out that metal is good for your mental health, we chat about the Metallica tour announcement and talk about upcoming Sick of it all and Madball albums. + a ton more trash talk! 

COVEN 6669 is playing NW Metal Fest! Ryan the Beard talked with them about the show and some of the bands history. 

Beltfed Weapon just released the brand new song "P.O.W" with legendary metal vocalist Ronny Munroe ! Check out the song and listen to Ronny and Frank talk a bit about the single. 

Your favorite heathens are back to discuss all things metal. This week we break down the news all around the world including the fact that Napalm Death is putting out a rarities and B-sides album, Obituary and Pallbearer are touring together, Megadeth considers re-recording a classic, K.K Downing discussed his new autobiography, Dee Snider is gonna be releasing a metal album with the help of Jamey...

Ryan the Beard chatted with Jonathan Scott K from Q5 about playing NW Metal Fest at El Corazon (March 9th and 10th). 

This week on the podcast we discuss Ian's heinous food poisoning, the Meshuggah show, the upcoming return of the XFL and the current state of the WWE, Slayer announcing their farewell tour, new tunes by Machine Head and Cloudkicker, the most metal cruise ever, new music by Phil Anselmo and the Illegals and we end the episode off the way we always do, with a nasty, grim reading of "Brutal Poetry: T...

Welcome to 2018! Before we move forward, we must look back at what was 2017. Here is the Metal Shop Top 30 Metal Albums of 2017 list. Enjoy! 

Kevin and Ian chatted with Greg Bennick about his upcoming spoken word album, some killer shows he will be performing at, his new radio show, the new Between Earth & Sky album and gummy candies.  Enjoy!