Rich & Turbo’s Heavy Half Hour

(S2E68) – Bask On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E68) we talk to Scott Middleton, drummer for the amazing band out of Asheville, NC, Bask! Bask just dropped their album of the year candidate, The Turning, a few weeks ago and it is just so great. Scott told us all about the record and so much more, including some shows coming up, a major award win, his and the band's influe...

(S2E67) - Solace   On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E67), we have Tommy Southard and Justin Daniels from the legendary Solace join the show! Solace just had their masterpiece and genre-defining album, Further, repressed and remastered for its 25th anniversary via Magnetic Eye Records and the guys came on the show to talk about that and so much more, including the new mate...

(S2E66) – Mezzoa On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E66), Nacho Maldonado from San Diego heavy rockers Mezzoa joins the show.  The new Mezzoa record rules…it’s called TON 618 and you can get all sorts of crazy vinyl variants of this ripper from Glory or Death Records. Nacho was so cool to give us all the time he did to talk about the new record, his career, being in the Lif...

(S2E64) – Pale Horse Ritual On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E64), Paco and Will from the ultra-evil Canadian heavy psych doomsters Pale Horse Ritual join the show. The guys are on to discuss their upcoming new record, Diabolic Formation, dropping on November 28th, 2025, courtesy of Black Throne Productions, just in time to creepy out everyone south of the Canadian border...

(S2E64) – Stone Machine Electric Given that the record comes out tomorrow and given how killer it is, I wanted everyone to hear this interview right before the record drops, so…on this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E64), we talk to Texas trio Stone Machine Electric, who have their amazing new record, Faces, brought to us by Argonauta Records, dropping on Sept. 26th, 2025. This...

(S2E63) – Star Beast On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E63) we have all four members of Toronto, Canada’s Star Beast join the show! Their self-titled debut that dropped last year via Black Throne Productions was one of the surprises of 2024, and now the band is back with a new single and video, Everything Is Gone, that continues the awesomeness of their first record. We ta...

(S2E62) – Friendship Commanders On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E62) we talk to Buick and Jerry from Friendship Commanders! The duo is dropping their new record, BEAR, via Magnetic Eye Records, on October 10th, 2025, and it needs to be heard by all because it is so great. We talk all about BEAR and how it came to be, the recording process with the genius of Kurt Ballou,...

(S2E61) – Warcoe On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E61), Stefano from Italian doom trio Warcoe joins the show! The band has a new record, their first for Ripple Music and their third overall, Upon Tall Thrones, coming out on September 26th and it is killer.  We chat about the new record, how the band got connected with Ripple, Stefano’s love of black metal and Italian horr...

(S2E60) – Idol Lord On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E60), from the high deserts of Quartz Hill, California, Idol Lord joins the show! Back in January Idol Lord released their killer album, The Other Side, via Glory or Death Records to critical acclaim. The band joins the show to talk about what was and what will be, with BREAKING NEWS of what’s coming next for the desert...

(S2E59) – Stoned Jesus On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E59), the guys talk to Igor Sydorenko from Stoned Jesus! Igor is a music nerd like us, and he was so great in giving us all the details on part one of the new Stoned Jesus trilogy. Part one of the story, Songs To Sun, comes out on September 19th, 2025 via Season of Mist and whoa is it great. We talk about the upcomin...

(S2E58) – Grand Rapids Doomfest II Preview w/Jason Doome On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E58), Rich talks to Jason Doome, curator of the Grand Rapids Doomfest, which will have its second annual show on October 11 2025, at Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids the with Temple of the Fuzz Witch, Cobranoid, Pillar Of Light, Shadow Of Jupiter, and Buzzard Fight all performing for a...

(S2E57) – Temptress On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E57), we talk to Christian Wright from the recently signed to Blues Funeral band, Temptress! Christian was a great guest and told some amazing stories about his career, how Temptress signed to Blues Funeral, how he connected with his bandmates while gushing praise on the other two members of the trio, as well as some br...

(S2E56) – Howling Giant On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E56), We have all four members of one of our favorite bands, Howling Giant! Zach, Tom, Sebastian, and Adrian all joined the show to talk about their upcoming new album dropping from Magnetic Eye Records on October 31, Crucible & Ruin, which is next level stuff for already one of the best bands out there today. W...

(S2E55) – MAANTA RAAY On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E55), we chat with Chet Weise from MAANTA RAAY, who seemingly out of nowhere dropped their self-titled, amazing, heavy space psych ripper via No Sabes Records last month. Chet had one of the coolest backgrounds the show has seen so far, and spent almost an hour with us telling us some amazing stories about the band, t...

(S2E54) – Insomniac The episode is dedicated to the memory of Mike Morris On this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour (S2E54), the boys talk to Amos Rifkin from the new Blues Funeral Recordings band Insomniac! Insomniac have their amazing debut record, Om Moksha Ritam, dropping on Sept. 5, 2025, and it is a heavy head trip journey that really sounds like nothing else out there. It is a...

(S2E53) – Patriarchs In Black Fanboy alert! For this episode of the Rich & Turbo Heavy Half Hour, Rich speaks with Patriarchs In Black!!! Both Dan Lorenzo (Hades/Non-Fiction/Cassius King) and Johnny Kelly (you know…) joined the show to talk about the new PiB record, Home, that dropped on August 15th. As with the other three records, this one has some more killer guest vocalists, including Karl...

(S2E52) – HÖG Friday, August 22nd has a ton of killer new releases dropping, so we are loading up on the episodes! We listen to a ton of new music, but it is rare that an album stops me in my tracks and proceeds to blow me away. That is just what the debut record from Portland, Oregon’s HÖG did to me, so I knew I just had to have them on the show for the latest episode of Rich & Turbo’s Heavy...

(S2E51) – Black Sunrise We are in a time where there are so many excellent “new” bands dropping amazing records, and we got to talk to another one on this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E51), as Adam from Highland, Indiana’s Black Sunrise joins the show. Black Sunrise has their debut full length record dropping tomorrow, August 22nd, titled Drowning, and it is absolutely killer....

(S2E50) – The Judge One of the show’s favorite bands is back after a long hiatus, and we got to speak to them for this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E50). We have three of the four members of St. Louis band The Judge join the show!!! The guys were nice enough to join us from their Milwaukee hotel room as they were gearing up for their next show of their mini tour, where they wil...

(S2E49) – Liquid Pennies One of the things I love about having this show is that we are able to talk to bands that are new to me and maybe new to the listening community, and that is why for this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E49), I am so excited to give you my discussion with St. Petersburg, Florida band Liquid Pennies. I listened to the promo of their new record, Fore (out no...

(S2E48) – Supernaughty On this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E48), we keep it international and speak to the killer Italian stoner rock band, Supernaughty! We had all four members join us to talk about their excellent new record, Apocalypso, that is dropping from Ripple Music on August 22, 2025. We cover the making of their new album, the band’s influences, where the name of the...

(S2E47) – Lorquin's Admiral On this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E47), we talk to Dandy and Dawn Brown and Nick Hannon from Lorquin's Admiral, who just released their self-titled album of the year candidate debut record via Argonauta Records a few short weeks ago. The trio gave us more than an hour to discuss the new and amazing record, the genesis of some of our favorite track...

(S2E47) – Acid Magus On this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E46), we talk to Keenan Kinnear, the main man from one of the show’s favorite bands, Acid Magus! All the way from South Africa, Keenan joined us late in his evening to discuss Acid Magus and their amazing latest record, Scatterling Empire, which is being pressed on vinyl as we speak and available for preorder. We discuss...

(S2E45) – Bob Balch  (Fu Manchu and so much more)   On this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E45), we are lucky enough to have another guitar legend, Bob Balch, join the show. Bob is one of the busiest men in rock, with his full-time job as riff dealer in one of the best bands in the world, Fu Manchu, as well as his other projects like Big Scenic Nowhere, Yawning Balch, and Sun and...

(S2E46) – Psalm On this episode of Rich & Turbo's Heavy Half Hour (S2E44), we talk to a young band who gives me hope that rock and roll will live on, Psalm! The Las Vegas doom trio, and lovers of Trouble, just released their new killer EP, In Darkness…Have Mercy, which is getting a ton of buzz. Lead vocalist/bassist Jon Torres joined the show and we geeked out on heavy metal and talked about t...