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Good evening metal heads! Welcome to another edition of Metal Mayhem ROC. Tonight, we are continuing our celebration of National Metal Day with the latest installment of our riveting series “The History of Metal”Show host Jon “The Vernomatic” Verno is joined by correspondence” Metal Walt” and Ian O'Rourke as the guy's dissect some of the greatest releases from the year- 1979.Vernomatic provides commentary on the ACDC Highway to hell Albums, as well as taking a deep dive into the unfourtunently end of LED ZEPPELIN and the breakup of AEROSMITH. Vernomatic also covers the VAN HALEN 2 release.“Metal Walt” catches us up on the” Deep Purple Family Tree” situation with updates on RAINBOW, WHITESNAKE And The GILLIAN BAND. “Metal Walt cover in detail two classic JUDAS PRIEST releases Killing Machine and Unleashed In The East, as well as the state of KISS and QUEEN at the end of the decade. Ian covers the EURO scene with the latest from UFO, THIN LIZZY and then joins the “Vernomatic ”on a show ending discussion on the brilliance of VAN HALEN 2.We invite you to share your comments at www.podchaser.com. Just enter Metal Mayhem ROC in the search box, scroll down and press the MMROC logo and Rate and Review.As Always you can contact us at Vernomatic @metalforever.com and join the discussion at the Metal Mayhem ROC Facebook Group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/409879766475870

Good evening, everybody. Its Thursday and time for another edition of Metal Mayhem ROC!Tonight-- show host Jon “The Vernomatic’ Verno has two fun informative interviews to share.THE THREE TREMORS, the project featuring acclaimed heavy metal singers Tim "Ripper" Owens (JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), Harry "The Tyrant" Conklin (JAG PANZER) and Sean "The Hell Destroyer" Peck (CAGE, DEATH DEALER, DENNER/SHERMANN), will release its second album, "Guardians of The Void", on November 5 via Steel Cartel Records.TREMORS shot out of a cannon at a frantic pace. They were pursuing an aggressive pace of live performances when the shutdown forced them to cut short their North American tour in the middle of their run in early 2020. They wasted no time, however, and got to work on another new album. Now their sophomore effort "Guardians of The Void" is ready for blast-off.Vernomatic’s second interview is a cool chat with listener Charlie Avino.On April 28th, 1981 Marty Duda was a young disc Jockey responsible for booking Ozzy Osbourne & The Blizzard of Ozz TV show "After Hours" at 31 Studios here in Rochester, New York. Charlie and Marty were friends and classmates at S.U.N.Y Brockport at the time, and was in attendance for the taping of that performance.Charlie heard our original interview with Marty from April of 2021 and reached out to me to share his memories of the event. Stories like what it was like to meet with Ozzy, Randy and the rest of the band, talking drumming with Tommy Aldridge, and to just see and feel the power of an ascending true heavy metal super star in Randy Rhodes.This is some of the only pro shot video footage in existence of the late Randy Rhoads and Charlie was there to experience it all and share his memories with us.We invite you to rate and review this and all past episodes at www.podchaser.com Simply enter Metal Mayhem ROC in the search box, scroll down, press the MMROC logo and rate the episode and leave a reviewAs always, we encourage you to listen, like and share this and all past episode to your metal and NON metal friends. Thank you for your support, you can follow us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/409879766475870Please stay safe and always remember to KEEP IT HEAVY!!!

It’s the weekend and time for another edition of Metal Mayhem ROC!Tonight-- show host Jon “The Vernomatic’ Verno has two fun informative interviews to share.Resist & Bite was formed in early 2019 by Tommy Skeoch (Formerly of Tesla) David Parks, Steve stokes, Brian Powell and Nathan Utz (Formerly of Lynch Mob).The band spend most of 2019 writing and recording. They made themselves public to the world in February 2020, just in time for the pandemic.!! The band self-produced and released their first song “The Myth I’m Living” on Metal works, 105.9 The Rock in Nashville TN. The track gained momentum and positive attention worldwide.In June 2021, saw the band release another single and video for the track “Fate”. The song was recorded and mixed by Michael Rosen at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville and is one of 13 new original tracks on the just released self-titled debut album Resist & Bite.Vernomatic takes a deep dive into that album band members Tommy Skeoch and Steve Stokes. The guys cover the formation of the band, their unique chemistry of writing and the “Magic “behind the tracks on this album. It’s a fun chat with a great band that has its roots in classic 80s style rock but yet still has the sound and feel of a current 2021 hard rock band. Vernomatic, then has an exclusive interview with Rock photographer Timmy McCrum as he shares his once-in-a-life-time experience of photographing both Van Halen and the Rolling Stones in one concert. Van Halen capped off their 1981 Fair Warning by opening up for the Rolling Stones on two sold out stadium shows October 24th and 25th at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando FL 40 years ago this week. Tim shares how he planted his photography equipment in an empty stadium days before the event to get past the strict security system. Tim relives the excitement and euphoria as a un stoppable VAN HALEN went toe to toe with the legendary rolling stones. It’s a great story with an even better ending.We invite you to rate and review this and all past episodes at www.podchaser.com Simply enter Metal Mayhem ROC in the search box, scroll down, press the MMROC logo and rate the episode and leave a reviewAs always, we encourage you to listen, like and share this and all past episode to your metal and NON metal friends. Thank you for your support, you can follow us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/409879766475870

https://metalmayhemroc.podbean.com/Hello Metal Heads. It’s the weekend and Its time for a brand-new edition of Metal Mayhem ROC.When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all genres and around the world. Van Halen’s debut sounded unlike anything that listeners had heard before and remains a quintessential rock album of the era.Tonight, show host Jon “The Vernomatic” Verno welcomes back Greg Renoff author of “Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal” and “Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer's Life in Music to the show to take "deep dive" into the history of Eddie Van Halen and celebrate Eddies life, one year after his death.Vernomatic and Gregg are also joined by Mike DiGiorgio, Writer/Broadcast Producer for 13WHAM-TV in Rochester NY and Ian O ‘Rourke, guitarist and Vocalist of the Hard rock band MOTORLORD.The Four discuss how the last year since eddies death has affected them. They cover the latest David Lee Roth developments regarding his “RETIREMENT”. Greg gives us some insight on how cool it was to be a guest at the famous Sunset Sound Recording Studios, the location where Van Halen recorded the first 5 albums. Finally, Greg’s shares the plan for his next project. This a fun, celebration of Eddie and classic Van Halen. We invite you to share your comments, Good or bad, with us at Vernomatic @metalforever.com and join the discussion at the Metal Mayhem ROC Facebook Group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/409879766475870Thank you for your support. Please listen, like and share with even your nonmetal friends and as always remember to -KEEP IT HEAVY!!

Good evening metal heads! Welcome to another edition of Metal Mayhem ROC. Tonight, we ae continuing our celebration of the month of ROCKTOBER with the latest installment of our riveting series “The History of Metal” Show host Jon “The Vernomatic” Verno is joined by show correspondence” Metal Walt” and Ian O'Rourke as the guy's dissect some of the greatest releases from the year -1978Vernomatic provides commentary on the ACDC POWERAGE and Live If you Want Blood …You Got It Albums, as well as taking a deep dive into the RUSH HEMISPHERES release. Vernomatic also covers the American ARENA ROCK Scene with updates on STYX , JOURNEY and FOREIGNER “Metal Walt” catches us up on the” Deep Purple Family Tree” situation with updates on RAINBOW, WHITESNAKE And the GILLIAN BAND along with detail commentary on their releases. He also discusses the ALICE COOPER, TED NUGENT and the KISS SOLO albums Ian O’Rourke covers the EURO scene with the latest from JUDAS PRIEST, UFO, THIN LIZZY and QUEEN and then joins the “Vernomatic” on a show ending introduction of VAN HALEN.We invite you to share your comments at www.podchaser.com. Just enter Metal Mayhem ROC in the search box, scroll down and press the MMROC logo and Rate and Review.As Always you can contact us at Vernomatic @metalforever.com and join the discussion at the Metal Mayhem ROC Facebook Group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/409879766475870 Thank you for your support. Please listen, like and share with even your nonmetal friends and as always remember to -KEEP IT HEAVY!!

https://metalmayhemroc.podbean.com/Good evening metal heads welcome to another edition of Metal Mayhem ROC. Tonight, show host Jon “The Vernomatic” Verno and Metal Mayhem ROC show contributor Ian O’Rourke share their review of the Alice Cooper/ Ace Frehley concert.Billed as the “OL’ BLACK EYES IS BACK ‘TOUR - Vernomatic and Ian traveled to Utica, NY and took in the concert in the historic Stanley Theatre, located in the downtown entertainment district.Without divulging exact set list song by song, the guys express their thoughts on both of the band’s sets, give there take on the musicianship of BOTH bands and rate the performance.Alice Cooper, who is touring with former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley as his opening act, pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock audiences. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors.Ace frehley is one of the first true guitar Gods and has remained a fan favorite from the original four founding members of KISS. With his fun-loving quirky smile and alien cackle, it’s a true treat to be able to see “SPACE ACE” Frehley in 2021.We thank you for listening, please rate and review this podcast. Share with your metal and NON metal friends too, and always remember to KEEP IT HEAVY!!

https://metalmayhemroc.podbean.com/Good evening metal heads and welcome to another edition of Metal Mayhem ROC. Tonight, we continue our riveting series “The History of Metal” as we highlight the year 1976. The Vernomatic is welcomed by show correspondence” Metal Walt” and Ian O'Rourke as the guy's dissect some of the greatest releases from 76.Vernomatic provides commentary and music from ACDC, and RUSH, as well as updates on Ted Nugent and Aerosmith. Ian catches up with what Thin Lizzy, UFO and Queen have been releasing and highlights the Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny era. “Metal Walt” gets us up to speed on the two new kiss releases destroyer and Rock and Roll Over as well as the state of Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper.We highlight the debut albums from Boston, The Runaways, Kokus and Ramones as well as take a peek at the up n coming bands honing their skills in garages and basements around the world.We invite you to share your comments, Good or bad, with us at Vernomatic @metalforever.com and join the discussion at the Metal Mayhem ROC Facebook Group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/409879766475870Thank you for your support. Please listen, like and share with even your nonmetal friends and as always remember to -KEEP IT HEAVY!!

Hello everybody! Welcome to this week’s edition of Metal Mayhem ROC.Tonight, co-host Jon “The Vernomatic’’ Verno shares his experience of the Rock N Pod Expo from last weekend in Nashville, Tennessee.Vernomatic welcomes back Mike Tyler from www.thatmetalstation.com to share his commentary and input on this 3-day event. The guys talk about meeting some fellow podcasters, internet radio personalities as well as interviewing some of the top members of the rock n metal community.Vernomatic shares interviews with comedians Don Jamieson from VH-1 ‘s That Metal Show, Craig Gass from The Howard Stern Show, as well as Van Halen expert Author Greg Renoff .Up and coming artist Kevin B Klein details his inspirational story of following his dream of becoming a professional recording artist and his connection to the legendary Rochester NY institution The House of Guitars.Vernomatic hangs out with the band SteelCity. Gets to know them on a personable level all while the band shares their Mt. Rushmore Of Metal of musicians.Vernomatic and Metal Mike from TMS catch up with Pat Gesualdo from the Metal Hall of Fame. Pat announces the 2021 inductee class for the sept 12 Live stream ceremony.And finally, The guy’s interview Chris Dunnett, guitarist for the Iron Maiden Tribute band Powerslave.It’s a fun look into what its like being a tribute band artist.All this and more on this week’s edition of Metal Mayhem ROC. As always thank you for the support, listen, like and share and always KEEP IT HEAVY!

Good evening metal heads! Its Thursday and it time for a brand-new episode of Metal Mayhem ROC.This week I welcome two show contributors on to help introduce a new original series we are taking on titled “The History of Metal.”Ian O’Rourke from the band MOTORLORD and Metal Mayhem ROC show metal historian “Metal Walt” help navigate this awesome new series.We are dedicating one entire episode to a particular year and reflect back on what the hard rock and Metal landscape was like at the time, revisit the albums released that year, introduce new bands debuting and just enjoy a fun, informative discussion. We have decided to showcase the 15-year run of 1973-1988, as we feel this period was the most explosive and history making time frame when chronicling the history of metal.We encourage feedback from the listeners, welcome fact checking, both your opinions and takes on these bands as we take a look back at the HISTORY OF METAL.Thank you for your support and always -Keep It Heavy.

Good evening metal heads! It’s the WEEKEND and it time for a brand-new episode of Metal Mayhem ROC.I welcome back Metal Mayhem ROC show contributors and metal historian’s Ian O’Rourke and “Metal Walt “to help navigate this awesome new series- “The History of Metal.” We have decided to showcase 1973-1988, as we feel this period was the most explosive and history making time frame when chronicling “The History of Metal.”In episode two of this 15-part series, we highlight the year 1974. We are reflecting back on what the hard rock and Metal landscape was like at the time, revisit the albums released this year, introduce new bands debuting and just enjoy a fun, informative discussion.1974 saw the debut albums from KISS, RUSH, JUDAS PRIEST, SCORPIONS and BAD COMPANY as well as follow up releases from UFO, QUEEN, MONTROSE and DEEP PURPLE.the 15-year run of 1973-1988, as we feel this period was the most explosive and history making time frame when chronicling the history of metal.We encourage feedback from the listeners, welcome fact checking, both your opinions and takes on these bands as we take a look back at the HISTORY OF METAL.Thank you for your support and always -Keep It Heavy.

https://metalmayhemroc.podbean.com/Good evening Metal Heads. While we enjoy a well-deserved summer 2-week vacation, we are excited to share with you another fun BEST OF METAL MAYHEM ROC episode. Originally aired during the holiday season of 2020, we hope you enjoy this very popular show with professional concert bootlegger "Metal Walt". I will be back next week with a brand-new show. Jon "The Vernomatic " Verno and Metal Forever Mark welcome Metal Mayhem ROC show correspondent "Metal Walt" to the show. The guys discuss "Metal Walt’s " 30 plus years of following hard rock and heavy metal bands around the world, and capturing their live concerts.Walt shares what propelled him to start recording concerts, the lessons learned along the way as well aschance meetings with some of his rock Idols.Metal Forever Mark reminisces with Walt about the times in NYC and hanging out with the HALFORD guys.Vernomatic goes one on one with Walt on a Epic segment of MT. RUSHMORE of Metal and shares his own concert shenanigans.All this and more. Enjoy the summer, stay safe and keep it heavy.

Good evening metal heads. This week we are on our summer break so we are sharing a few of our “BEST OF “episodes from the past that maybe you have missed or would like to listen to again. As always THANK YOU for your support and KEEP IT HEAVY!Jon "The Vernomatic" Verno welcomed Dean Dilorenzo on the show to discuss Dean's new book: "A Diehards Journey in Rock n Roll."From AC/DC to ZZ Top, meet the man who has met so many iconic bands. Dean is from downstate New York, followed his passion for Rock n Roll and created a book that captures his journey over the last 35 years. His book includes autographs, ticket passes, guitar pics and photos from backstage parties, tour bus shenanigans and random run-in's. It's a great story and just proves that anything is possible if you just put your mind to it and believe in ROCK N ROLL! Truly leaves you in awe. I've found myself reading certain chapters over and over to relive some of memories. Be sure to check this out. #rockon

Good evening metal heads. On tonight’s episode we are re- Airing the popular “Making of Kill Em All “interview with Andrew Wroblewski, the then 21-year-old sound engineer who helped record the classic debut album from METALLICA.We caught up with Andrew to see what kind of feedback he has received and who has reached out to him regarding this very popular episode.Andrew discloses publicly for the first time some ground breaking news regarding the donation of one of a kind freshly uncovered media and shares a few new tidbits from That magical 6 week run in the spring of 1983.Metal Mayhem ROC Correspondent “The Cranker’’ checks in as well to share memories of hanging out with the Metallica guys while they were here in town recording the album. If You haven’t yet heard this episode you are in for a treat, if you have, then listen again , Im positive you will enjoy it even more for the second time around.As always , please listen , like and share. Keep It Heavy!!

Happy Birthday AMERICA! – Good evening Metal Heads, we hope everyone is ready for a fun, relaxing safe and HEAVY 4TH of July holiday weekend.On This week show, we catch up with two bands that were featured on special episodes last fall.WICKED, from central New York, has just put the finishing touches on their official debut album, so Bassist Danny Doll returns to the Podcast to discuss how 2020 turned out, writing and recording the album, and to promote the July 8th showcase show at The Photo City Music Hall in Rochester NY. Danny shared a brand-new track that is exclusive to The Metal Mayhem ROC Podcast and can be only heard here, tonight!BLOODFEAST, veteran thrashers from the NY/NJ area are finishing up the follow up to 2017’s A Future State of Wicked, so we called on bassist and show friend Tom Lorenzo to share with us all the up to the minute details. Some major news regarding the band’s lineup is divulged for the first time anywhere right here on Metal Mayhem ROC. Tom gives us the live touring plans for the band in 2022 and beyond.We are doing our part to share with our listeners what some of the east coast National metal acts are up to and to support in any way that we can.Again, thank YOU for the support, listen, like share and always KEEP IT HEAVY!

Good evening metal heads! Hope everyone's start of summer 2021 is going awesome! On tonight's show, we take a trip down Heavy Metal memory lane as we celebrate the brilliance of KISS ALIVE 1. Jon "The Vernomatic'' Verno welcomes two of our more dedicated listeners from both the podcast and our weekly live radio show on www.thatmetalstation.com to participate in the discussion. Bill Lander, lead singer from the power /thrash band Order of The Dead shares his history of discovering KISS as a young metal head in the 70s and how KISS ALIVE 1 helped sculpt him into A current day thrasher.Jimmy Neff, AKA 'Jimmy from The Bronx", also joins us as our token KISS EXPERT. Jimmy is from NYC and was there when KISS started in the early 70s, saw all those early tours and witnessed first-hand the KISS EXPLOSION.Say what you want about KISS today, There is no denying the impact that the original band had on the history of hard rock and Heavy Metal. True Rock N Roll Royalty!! These Three KISS heads share their most memorable KISS concerts, tours and memories when they play the show staple Mt. Rushmore of Metal segment.As always THANK YOU for the support, and please like, share and subscribe to the podcast.Vernomatic and Metal Forever Mark