Focus on Metal
Since 2010 Focus on Metal has been a premier global metal crazed netcast featuring dedicated and knowledgeable fans with years of radio experience. This show features interviews with metal's most important personalities, the latest metal headlines, captivating topics, great music, reviews of the latest releases and plenty of segments from contributing metalheads. The weekly(ish) show you've all been waiting for is just a click away. We Focus on Metal. Everything else is insignificant.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 348
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
EP 608 - Bush Era Redux
Who doesn’t love the John Bush era releases from Anthrax?
What a killer string of releases, Sound of White Noise, Stomp 442, Volume 8 and We’ve Come For You All.
From 1992 to 2005 Anthrax was on a …
00:37:22 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
EP 607 - A Farewell to Ozzy
Yep, I know we are a bit late to the game for this episode but with a person of such importance we really felt the need to say something about Ozzy.
So this week like so many of our fellow podcaster…
01:04:04 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
EP 606 - Steppin' In It
The recent “is he in or out?” Zak Starkey shit show circus made us think about the whole landscape of rock and metal PR missteps.
So this week we go down memory lane on some classics including Lars …
00:50:55 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
EP 605 - The Kitchen Sink
On June 13th Metallica released their latest ultra mega box set for 1996’s “Load”.
So we’re taking this week to talk through the some of their past sets, this set, the tour, and the Load era in gener…
00:54:35 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
EP 604 - Back to The Future
Can you believe it, the rare two weeks in a row with a new episode. Don't get used to it!
This week we get back to what we were supposed to talk about last week before I hijacked the discussion, that…
00:44:40 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
EP 603 - The Great KISS Cash Grab
Honestly can’t believe this topic hasn’t come up before but I guess they have finally hit a new level with the solid gold Strutter 5” for 50 grand.
So this week we ended up digging into some other c…
00:38:49 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
EP 602 - Box Sets & M3
I hear ya, WTF does that episode title mean. Well I couldn’t come up with anything clever so I’m just calling out the two main topics for discussion this week.
First we go through this years M3 lin…
00:57:05 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
EP 601 - RIP John Sykes
Well 2026 is starting off with a low point as we lost John Sykes on the 20th of January. John is probably best known for Whitesnake and Blue Murder but the guy did so much more.
So we spent a bit of…
00:48:19 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
EP 600 - Hitting 600
Well damn, we actually hit our 600th episode. We’ve had some pretty cool 100th episodes in the past like our double header on Master of Puppets back on episode 300 and 301
but this week it’s a bit o…
00:53:23 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
EP 599 - R.I.P. Mista Bone
Yep we’re a little late to the party but this week we look back on past Focus on Metal guest Jack Russell and also talk a bit about the biography on the late vocalist that just came out.
Also this w…
00:53:23 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
EP 598 - I Am The Weapon
On Sept 13th Flotsam And Jetsam is due to release their latest studio album “I Am The Weapon” via AFM Records.
As he has for the last three albums, guitarist Michael Gilbert joins us once again to t…
00:45:59 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
EP 597 - Aerosmith and other stories
This week we discuss the total sad cluster that is currently Aerosmith and their sudden but not totally unexpected full stop.
This news is a solid body blow for one of us.
We also talk a bit about wh…
01:04:29 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
EP 596 - Summer Live 2024
We may not have been putting out many episodes lately but we have been enjoying some great concerts this summer.
This week we opted to have a recap discussion of the big outdoor tours we’ve attended…
01:05:20 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
EP 595 - Freak of Lion
Ten years ago bassist Jerry Best appeared for the first time on FoM as part of our HUGE Dio Strange Highways project (EP 183).
This week Jerry returns to talk about his time in Lion, Dio, Freak of N…
01:01:13 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
EP 594 - Babylon A.D.
This week we are joined by Babylon A.D. frontman and founding member Derek Davis.
The band has just released the latest studio effort “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day” and Derek is on board to talk about…
01:10:53 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
EP 593 - Not Buyin' it
Everyone has those bands that no matter what, if they put out a new release we’re buying it. AC/DC is a great example of this.
Then there are bands that perhaps it’s time to hop off the fan wagon. Ma…
01:01:54 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
EP 592 - Cold Sweat
A bit of discussion as we recap our recent concert adventures. After that we dive in with this weeks guest Marc Ferrari.
Marc is out and about talking about the a long awaited Cold Sweat live releas…
01:18:46 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
EP 591 - Manic Eden
March 12 1994 Manic Eden released their one and only album.
Little Caesar main man Ron Young makes his second appearance on FoM this week to discuss the story of Manic Eden as well as what’s going o…
01:44:37 |
Thu 16 May 2024
EP 590 - Roads To Madness
This week we are joined by author and frequent FoM collaborator Brian J Heaton to discuss his upcoming book “Roads To Madness” The Touring History of Queensryche 1981-1997.
If you may remember Brian …
01:12:02 |
Wed 01 May 2024
EP 589 - Invincible March
I was going to title this one March Metal Madness, for some reason Invincible March just resonated more with me.
Anyway, this week we discuss some current metal topics.
Obviously the latest metal m…
00:57:36 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
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