The Brooklyn Blast Furnace

"I'd still like to know what you were doing shacking up with three other kids in the middle of the night, especially with a lunatic delinquent like Lane!" - John Saxon as "Donald Thompson. (A Nightmare on Elm Street. 1984) My guest on Episode 235 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is actor, producer, director and Minister... Jsu Garcia. You might know him as "Rod Lane" in the original "A Nightm...

Joey Z. is my guest on Episode 234 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast ladies and gentlemen. Guitarist and Founding member of Brooklyn's own... "Life Of Agony". We happened to record this on the 28th anniversary of their debut record "River Runs Red". We reminisce about Brooklyn in the early 90's and the beginning of LoA, before the record deals and world tours. Stories about L'Amours, Lenny and...

Founding member, bass player and song writer for "Life of Agony"... as well as artist and comic book creator Alan Robert is my guest on Episode 233 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast. He is also a founding member of "Spoiler NYC". We speak about the early days of LoA and how he was the first kid on the block to have an Atari 2600 by winning a drawing contest from a cereal box. We speak on the 2...

An Academy Award Winning Make-Up and Effects Artist. A legend with an absolutely incredible resumé. My guest on Episode 232 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is John Caglione Jr. He earned his Academy Award for his make-up effects on "Dick Tracy" in 1990. He created Heath Ledger's "Joker" make-up in "The Dark Knight". He is Al Pacino's "go-to" guy and has worked with him on a ton of projects i...

On this Bonus Mini Episode of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace, I spoke to actress turned filmmaker Deborah Voorhees. She's mostly know for playing "Tina" in "Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning". She also starred in "Avenging Angel", "Appointment with Fear", "Innocent Prey" as well as numerous episodes of "Dallas". She recently made "13 Fanboy" with an all start cast consisting of former "Friday th...

Z9! is a new side project formed by Richie Mancuso of Wisdom in Chains, The Post America Podcast, Krutch, Boxcutter and Comin' Correct. We recorded this full length Bonus Episode so we can talk about "We Don't Come in Peace", the debut EP from Z9! which drops on October 29th on Fast Break! Records. Richie has been on in some capacity a couple times but never his own solo episode. We talk everythin...

Does he even need a description? A staple in the hardcore scene for thirty years. My guest on Episode 231 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is Hoya Roc from Madball. We have a casual conversation about the pandemic, vaccines, Madball, his show, The Smokin' Word Podcast, being a single father and bettering his life and getting healthy. The dude that makes you shake your ass with his bass. A great guy i...

Masamoon (Masamune) was a 12th Century sword maker and blacksmith. Regarded as Japan's greatest swordsmith. Steel sharpens steel. Big Left, Frankie Fadeless, Billy NoJokes and Aztek the Barfly adopted the same concept and incorporated it into a monster of a rap group and are my guests on Episode 230 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace. Complimenting each other and sharpening each other's different style...

Taking it back to my favorite horror franchise once again. My guest on Episode 229 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is Melanie Kinnaman. Best known for her role as Pam Roberts in "Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning". She was also in episodes of "Cheers", "Saturday Night Live" and "General Hospital". We go into why her entire role in "Best of the Best" with Eric Roberts was completely cut out wit...

The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is back. Thank you for stickin' around while I was on break. You're appreciated. My guest on Episode 228 is Warren Lee. He is a founder and co-owner of "Pitchfork Hardwear", a sales rep for "Richter Straps" out of Germany. Warren has deep roots within the NYHC scene, being a former member of "Out of Line (Queens)" and "25 Ta Life". We go from back in the days all the way...

I decided to bring it back to Long Island in the early 90's to talk with former bass player for LIHC band "Disciplinary Action". My guest on Episode 227 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is Kevin Caputo. We talk about DA, the band that formed after that, "Soul-Sick" and his "Stereo Assassin" project. Not to mention, brawls, a little bit of shit talk and that time he bit a bouncers nipple off. This one...

My guest on Episode 226 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is actress, Darcy DeMoss! You've seen her in movies like "Friday the 13th Part 6", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Hardbodies", "Reform School Girls" with Wendy O. Williams and "Return to Horror High" with a very young George Clooney in his first ever role. She's been in dozens of movies and television shows since the early 80's when she was the star of...

Delta Bravo does it better. My guest is Andrew Katz. An artist and a member of the Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team. This is something a bunch of us really enjoy doing. We go in on finding locations. Whether it's iconic photos, scenes from movies or television shows, music videos, sports figures, true crime spots, pop culture or whatever it is that you're into. Not many do what we do, and one of...

We Return to Woodstock '99 on Episode 224 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast. The HBO Documentary drops today as well. So I figured I'd get several people together who all attended the infamous Woodstock '99 on the 22nd anniversary. I didn't know them at the time but we all have this one amazing weekend in common. I'm sure the documentary won't be kind and will have a nonsensical 2021 "woke" sp...

The owner of North Main Tattoo, original member of "Walls of Jericho" and former member of "Universal Stomp". My guest on Episode 223 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is the super talented Aaron Ruby. He took time off from bis busy schedule tattooing to chop it up with me for a bit about everything from his high school days getting introduced to punk and hardcore, how Iron Maiden changed his...

Born in Brooklyn, bred in Queens. From playing local shows to big stages in "Sworn Enemy", he has gone on to much bigger things. My guest on Episode 222 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is actor, producer and writer... Lorenzo Antonucci. He headed out to Hollywood to accomplish a couple two, tree things and he's killing it out there. He's been casted on "Game of Thrones", "Ballers" on HBO working wit...

Being a fan of "Walls of Jericho" and having had Candace on recently, I reached out to Dustin Robert, their drummer to chop it up. But Episode 221 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast turned into much more than just a conversation about "Walls of Jericho". He was in the middle of a tour plating with Corey Taylor when we recorded this. We talk about growing up in Ohio and his early bands including...

Brace yourselves because this one is a non-stop barrage of insane talk. And not in a bad way. My guest on Episode 220 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is actor Tom Fridley. Known mostly for his role as "Cort" in "Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives". He was also in the 1987 slasher "Summer Camp Nightmare" which is mostly remembered for the performance of the FEAR song "Beef Bologna". He has r...

Formed in 1998 in Detroit. The singer for metal band "Walls Of Jericho", Candace Kucsulain is my guest on Episode 219 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast. We go way back to her being born in Anchorage, Alaska to moving to Detroit when she was five years old. From her early bands to her joining "Walls of Jericho". From local shows to touring the world on huge stages. She goes into a couple of cha...

Since this happens to be the 40th Anniversary of "Friday the 13th Part 2", I wanted to have another person on the show who stared in the film. My guest on Episode 218 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is Lauren-Marie Taylor. She played the role of "Vickie". Always casted as "the girl next door". She was also in the 1982 slasher film "Girls Nite Out", she was in "Neighbors" alongside John Belushi and D...

After a couple of months, I decided to go back to the Bay Area to have a conversation with, in my opinion, an unsung member of a criminally underrated band. "Forbidden" bass player Matt Camacho is my guest on Episode 217 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast. We start off talking about selling cemetery plots, crypts, tombstones and mausoleums... which what he's been doing for a living for over two...

For the horror fans! Here's a deep cut. My guest on Episode 215 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is Bill Randolph. An actor best known for his role as "Jeff" in "Friday the 13th: Part 2". One of the most brutal kills in the F13 series. Impaled with a spear through his back and through "Sandra" underneath him, though the bed to the floor. He was also in Brian De Palma's "Dressed To Kill", "Swi...

My guest on Episode 214 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is Randy Shanofsky. Randy is a First Assistant Cameraman. His story is an incredible and how it came to fruition is pretty near impossible. From ordering a pair of shoes out of Rolling Stone magazine, he got his foot in the door in order to become a cinematographer. Almost forty years later he's still at it. He has worked on television...

He is the singer and guitarist of the rock band "Playing Dead" from Long Island. My guest on this Bonus Episode of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace Podcast is Sam Hoyos. He is also the host of the "Red River Podcast" and co-host of the "If I Ruled the World" podcast as well. Red River is one of my favorite podcasts. If you're not familiar with it, go check it out. We talk everything from our overall ecl...

My guest on Episode 213 of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is a "Neighborhood guy". With roots in Brooklyn and residing in Long Island, Mark Menghi has done and continues to do amazing things. From being a regular at L'Amour to playing in local bands in venues all over New York City. He became friendly with members of legendary metal bands. He founded and put together "Metal Allegiance" with him, Dave...