Metal Shop's Backstage Pass

This past weekend, we had the honor of interviewing Cattle Decapitation drummer and all around badass Dave McGraw on the show. We talk Cattle, how he got into music, his drum endorsements, tour life and he plays some of his own personal favorite bands. Turn it up ! 

If you've been to rock shows in Seattle, you've probably seen Neil Lim Sang hanging out by the stage taking bad ass photographs. Metal Shop had Neil in studio this past Saturday to talk about what it's like to be a well-known rock photographer, and he shared some tour stories from his time with Gojira and In Flames! 

Devin Townsend attempts to crowd source a symphony about your junk, Megadeth kicks off a campaign to get you to come camp on Mustaine’s lawn, and Body Count returns with a new album. Brent Hinds corrects the record on his “I hate heavy metal” comments, and The Ghost Inside are honored by the LA Kings hockey team! Tony Iommi has received great news in that the lump in his throat was successfully re...

Welcome back! This week on the show Kevin is back and chats about his trip to PDX. (striiiiiiippppers). We listen to new jams by Darkest Hour, Kreator, Ex Deo, Mors Principum Est, Hour of Penance and Code Orange ....oh yeah and Ryan The Beard tells us about getting drugged while working at Spencers in Montana. 

On this episode we talk about Megadeth bootcamp, a bunch of killer tour announcements, Ian's weird dreams and Ryan the Beard's first on air shift on KISW ! 

John Pettibone from Himsa is a longtime friend of Metal Shop and an important person for the Seattle metal scene. We were lucky to have John in studio to chat with him about Himsa's upcoming reunion show NEXT SATURDAY October 29th at El Corazon. 

New music by Vader, In Flames, Superjoint, Testament, Life of Agony and Ion Dissonance, Phil anselmo apologizes again, Rob Halford celebrates 30 years of sobriety, we will soon be able to buy a Lemmy toy and Ozzy experiences some health troubles + much more news. Make sure you listen until the end to hear our interview with GOJIRA ! 

Welcome back to the backstage ! There is sooooo much rad new music coming out, so this week on the show we preview new songs from Vader, In Flames, Ion Dissonance and Life Of Agony. Congrats to Rob Halford on 30 years of sobriety ! Lemmy has an awesome toy coming out soon, Slash's lost guitar was found, Phil Anselmo continues to apologize, Pestilence is back together + a ton more news and notes. M...

We sat down with Devils of Loudun and taught them all about popping huge zits. They taught us about booty shaking while playing a show. Check it!

Welcome back to the backstage ! This week on the podcast Kevin talks about going to see Sabbath and Rotting Christ, we shout out local band Funeral Age, Ryan the Beard checks out Prophets of Rage live and sits in for a trippy recording session with Fungal Abyss. Ian is always moving and his cat Milton is a jerk. The new Metallica album has been finished and is awaiting being mastered, there's an a...

This week we celebrate 100 episodes of our heathenish podcast! Ryan’s snail shoots out a bunch of babies, Ian finds a new troll cave to inhabit, and Kevin prepares for his upcoming worship at the final Black Sabbath show in Washington! RIP Gene Wilder and an era where kids movies used to be dark and truly scary! We’ve got a bunch of samples of some new jams from Vader, Testament, The Devin Townsen...

This is a mini-cast in preparation for Pain in the Grass next week and our 100th episode of Backstage Pass! Kevin and Ian talk about the old college radio days, Guns N Roses, Summer Slaughter 2016 and the new Deicide vs. SLIPKNOT beef!

Welcome back stage ! This week we discuss how Ryan has been pulling some sketchy moves and hacking the Pokemon mainframe, Kevin saw Korn, Ian has to move again - plus new music by Trap Them, Arsis, news on the new album by Meshuggah, Max and Igor Cavalera are taking it back to the Roots, there's a new Metallica book coming out, The Ghost Inside are back at it after their horrible bus accident, we...

Are you the only metal head in your family? You’re not alone! I mean, technically you are but at least you can hear us complain about it too. Here’s to being in charge of the stereo in the family van. This week we talked about the move Megadeth made to acquire Dirk from Soilwork as their fulltime drummer, Dillinger Escape Plan are playing Gwar-B-Q, and Despised Icon time travels back to the 90’s....

Welcome back! After a short break from the podcast, we welcome you back to the realm of the UnGodly. Ian is out crashing a wedding this week, so Ryan and Kevin break down some of the interesting inner workings of the metal world. Ryan just got a wild ass new guitar, so he's been a hermit, Kevin went and saw Alice in Chains and his mind was blown and we show you a new band called Dystrophy. Iron Ma...

Welcome back to the backstage ! This week Kevin, Ian and Ryan the Beard break down pro wrestling porn, Korn basketball jerseys, shoplifting confessions, how Nuclear Blast records is signing every damn band, Brain Drill returns, the new Nails albnum ripped us all a new one, new music from Cruel Hand and Skeletonwitch, there's a couple new supergroups on our radar, more music on the horizon for Juda...

God's Hate is a badass hardcore/metal band from Southern California that is signed to Closed Casket Activities. They sat down with Kevin and Ian when they came to Seattle to play Rain Fest. 

Local band Devils Hunt Me Down joined us in studio to talk about their upcoming Summer shows, their upcoming plans of recording with Jack Endino, and to play a couple of their sweet jams! Hit play you dirty metal hippies!

There’s a sickness going around and it’s not coming from any Nu-metal bands! Ian and Ryan the Beard discuss their tonsils, Baby Metal is set to perform with Rob Halford, and Meshuggah has a new box set coming out! A lightning strike sent 70 people at a music festival to the hospital… for the second year in a row. What’s God’s problem? Corey Taylor is out for the first two weeks of the Slipknot/Man...

Rain Fest is a yearly 3-day festival that celebrates all that is awesome in the world of underground hardcore punk music. For this week's episode, we had 2 of the 3 organizers of Rain Fest in studio to discuss the past 10 years of organizing one of the wildest weekends you can imagine. Organizers Brian Skiffington and Matt Weltner have announced that Rain Fest 10 will be the last, as they are reti...

Welcome back to the most disturbing podcast available on KISW.com. This week we discuss Ian losing his wallet, Kevin almost spoils the new Captain American movie, Ian's band gets signed and he also stops drinking liquor (!?!) while Ryan has been working himself to the bone. In metal news, we give some post-Lemmy Motorhead updates, we discuss Joey Jordinson's new band, Rotting Christ is coming to t...

We're in our 90's! This week we were joined in studio by former Metal Shop hosts Kevin 1.0 and Steve Rock. They are old. In metal news, Megadeth gets sci fi with a new 3D video, new Hatebreed song, Ozzfest announced that they will be making an announcement, Ghost will continue to be Ghostly and N.W.A and Gene Simmons still don't get along (SHOCKING!). 

Metal Shop interviews Children of Seraph as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Xoth as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016.