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The band HURRICANE has released a new album called "RECONNECTED"! Listen to our chat w Tony Cavazo bass and Robert Sarzo guitar!

Bello is a teacher and guitar shredder who plays an Ibanez with 7-strings,, his albums are really cool! Check them out on iTunes today and take a look at www.stevebellomusic.com

Hek82 chats with the Ciravolos founders and creators of "Beauty in Chaos" about their new release CD... the fabulous duo is incredibly talented, and this album and new videos will make you love them! Listen in now!

New album release "At One With None", coming this Sep. 3 2021, PORTRAIT the Swedish Heavy Metal Band is terrific. Great new music on this album with Metal Blade Records.

Post- NAMM I enjoyed this follow up with guitarist Michael Ciravolo of Schecter guitars, now i know what's new is his album "Beauty Re-Envisioned" which is a totally cool newer and different compilation mix of what might've ended up on the cutting room floor ... and it's great, coming out this June! "Finding Beauty in Chaos" is one of the best records I've heard in the last year or so, with an incredible appearance by Tish Ciravolo, and an unbelievable song dedicated to Hurricane Katrina victims called "Un-natural Disaster"... look out for the videos they are amazing to see!

Henry Derek Elis is the vocalist of Act of Defiance, and he has a great new solo album which he released on iTunes. Don't miss out on this because it's really cool!! Hek82 wants you to buy "The Devil is My Friend" for your New Year's present!

Listen In to hear my chat w/ metal musician Skum Love, watch Hek82 react to a sudden scare from a flesh eating zombie...Appearances and Interviews also feature Psychic Medium Patti Negri, Actress Vida Ghaffari, Ent, Law Nadia Divari, and several ghosts ... Book readings include "Jack the Ripper", "Live to Tell", and original writing by author Hek82! Scare LA Hek82 Review it was totally awesome, so don't miss it next year!

Hard Rock/ Metal drummer Simon talked to me about all the bands, the shows, and his career as a well- known favorite drummer. Dio Disciples drummer and Bon Scott tribute with shows coming up in the area of LA, Dio Disciples in the US to kick off the summer but also a late summer tour in AU. Great talk!

So awesome to catch Joe Sparks news and chat! This cartoon is a favorite of mine, great character voice talent and musician!

March Madness! Its an Irish theme this month w/ radio hostess Hek82...

Eyes of the Sun is a new band on Metal Blade records, and Jeff Blanchard is the totally cool voice of this DOOM Metal band. Great sound, it's worth checking out as soon as the March 16th release hits iTunes everybody! Brooklyn has brought forth this music for all to enjoy, let's hope they journey all the way on tour from coast to coast and around the world.

Hek82 plays Classic Rock hits for your Valentines season enjoyment, it's KISS the band.... fantastic hits that go all the way back to the early 70's! Enjoy the Hek82 chat about Classic Rock coffee and more!

Randy Rhoads music, thanks to all the musicians who pay tribute to him each year! Led Zeppelin and Bonzo Bash was really great as always, thanks to Brian Tichy and everybody. Soundcheck live was also cool... Tune In!

Felipe Esparza's Bad Decisions Tour 2018 is coming up at LA's Novo Theatre, the dates are: March 23 and 24, with two shows on each date. The fans are demanding more already! His HBO special was really funny, you can check it out online or on Amazon, it's called "Translate This"...

Whoa, it's too cool that drummer Derek Abrams is playing for Ministry on the album release and upcoming tour, but he also gets along well with bandmate Sin Quirin. So, 3 Headed Snake will also be graced with him in the drumming throne. Really a great player, it's a pleasure to watch and listen to this guy, he knows his stuff!

Ministry has got a new album coming out as soon as March, and it's called AmeriKKKant! This promises some of Sin's best guitar work yet. This is what he stated, that he felt quite proud of his work on previous albums and had definitely built up to an excellent sound on the new record. DJ Swamp has added some interesting instruments to it, and Al Jourgenson is sounding absolutely cool. A new tour for 2018 is in the workd so look for these awesome players too; John Bechdel, Sin Quirin, Cesar Soto, Tony Campos, Derek Abrams join Al Jourgenson for some of the best music ever from the band. Guess what Sin Quirin has in store, besides showing off his amazing signature model Schecter instruments which are for sale online; he's got a new side project. A new band called 3 Headed Snake is in the making and the vocalist is super his name is Johnny Ray.

This bass player extraordinaire knows a lot about stuff that other people don't know! You wouldn't believe the hilarity of some of these songs, which were crafted with care by the Punk Rock group in the Huntington Beach part of the Ca. coast. Sure enough, the sound caught on in the nineties and became popular! I've heard his hobbies include bull riding, Amish cooking, and journeying to Iceland to be cool. He is also producing and writing for TV with shows on the History channel and others, ike "Ancient Aliens". Great works by Joe!

Rough Cutt, the Glam Metal band was formed in the early 80's w/ the awesome and breathtaking vocals of Paul Shortino ... the members have stepped in and out of the picture but briefly, they have remained mostly constant members and their songs are famous. Very well enjoyed music over the years is now available on iTunes, for those of you who have their Vinyl in your collection. According to Hager, their time touring with Ronnie James Dio was very special, and so was recording in the same studio with him; actually hearing the rough cutt of his first album Holy diver, too cool! He also loves to play around LA, with upcoming shows in April 2018 that you should look out for!

Miguel Sagaz played an awesome role in the TV series season 7 of American Horror Story and the episode is called Valerie Solanas Died for your Sins: SCUMBAG it is totally astounding to see ...! This recent premier on channel FX is now online so look for it, it's lots of fun to watch this show. Miguel shares with HEK82 his experience of taping this and what it took for him to make the grade, excellent! Look for his new movie Cherry Pop, too on Netflix!

Morales, the character played by Juan G Pareja is back this season for a great continuation of the character story series! You can watch the show online and make sure to catch up if you missed it, Morales adds a lot to the story this season. Surprising perhaps, but he has made a re-appearance and he was fun to chat with. The actor played the part when the story began in 2010. Cool to listen to him chat about how he got prepared for the actions scenes and made this continuation of the part enjoyable for everyone to see.

Hey, LA based Kali KAZOO is a cool girl with a record to produce, which will be the third one, and she wants your support for the Kickstarter campaign and so make sure you check out the website! Her cartoon style music performances as well as her drawings are too amazing for you to miss out on!

The beginnings of this band Skum Love were farther ago than we might imagine, that must be where the music gets it's great sound. Rock that is classic in origin, an Industrial sound, it's Punk and it's Metal too. I hope that you make it to the next show, and give this a listen on iTunes!

Hek82 chats with Robert Sarzo of the band Hurricane about this upcoming show which is right on Halloween night, in a haunted house setting. It's going to be scary awesome metal, so expect that the most famous and cool ghosts will be there too. Movies will be showing, HALLOWEEN 1 and 2 by ZOMBIE, and the first Carpenter '78 movie will be screening. The metal band Scum Love will be playing in support. MS benefit so, get your tickets online with a discount code ... Check out the new Boutique of Robert's swag, it is really cool looking. Listen to me and Robert talk about chicken bones and the day of the dead and Vu Du that is of Caribbean influence ... this guy tunes into the musical vibrations of the world and is quite a showman. Tune in!

Wow! Incredible metal vocalist Derek tells about what it's like working with ex-Megadeth players Drover and Broderick and how cool they are, as well as ex-Shadows Fall bassist Bachand. Talent is abundant on this record, the band's second release. Excellent songs that are well-worth listening to, and the live performances are great, so don't miss out!

DIO is one of our favorite metal vocalists of course, and we love him! His bands are so cool they will never unfreeze. Remembering RJD and DIO the band, let's keep up with Dio Disciples tribute concerts as well as the Stand Up and Shout cancer awareness fund and make donations ... Let's hear some Black Sabbath and others!

Hek82 had the opportunity not too long ago to speak with Craig Goldy about playing guitar for the band Dio. Ronnie James Dio was a close friend and a most loved collaborator and musician, greatest metal vocalist of all time. The music speaks for itself, but listen to the radio episode here and these great songs. More chat available on the iTunes Hek82 podcast...

Hek82 chats w/ Echovox in studio for the release of their new record "Sunday thru Thursday" which is now available on iTunes! Great music, really cool group of musicians. Original tracks w/ vocals from Jen Howard... listen to our show!

Wow, the incredible Ira Black of the bands Metal Church, Westfield Massacre, Lizzy Borden, Hellion, Randy Rhoads Remembered and so on... Hek82 talks to this incredible shredder about whats new and exciting especially coming up in 2017.

Hek82 got a lucky chance to chat w/ Tony Fernandez of Peace Frog the premier Doors tribute band. Jim Morrison is born! Celebrating his bday in 2016 on Venice Beach. LA culture then and now. Members of the band The Doors, music in the late 1960s.

New Dee Snider release, Hek82 chats w/ guitarist TD Clark about the album which is called "We ARe the Ones" set to release on Oct. 28th... Hek82 features Shreddtime Stories, the classic Halloween season Metal songs by instrumentalist TD Clark! each song is a storyscape... Shredding guitar with unique sounds full of character, musical phrases reminiscent of classic monster movie genre… spooky, horror seasonal for all year round,

Hek82 features Shreddtime Stories, the classic Halloween season Metal songs by instrumentalist TD Clark! each song is a storyscape... Shredding guitar with unique sounds full of character, musical phrases reminiscent of classic monster movie genre… spooky, horror seasonal for all year round, again and again! Listen to our chat about the upcoming "We are the Ones" album from Dee Snider, feat. TD Clark ... and more!

Hek82 is hooked on Electric Junkies! So Cal has great bands to offer, and this is one of them... if you haven't heard them yet make sure to Tune In! Upcoming shows inc. Friday Sep. 9th, supporting Lynch Mob at The Rose in Pasadena!

Tim Ripper Owens sings Dio Disciples at the '16 Stand Up and Shout cancer fundraiser, a stupendous performance and tribute to late singer Ronnie James Dio. The latest news is the new songs that Dio Disciples have played on stage, excellent! New Charred Walls of the Damned album to be released by the end of the year... Plus+ so many phenomenal concerts w/ metal players from supergroups we all enjoy, more to come! Tim Owens Travelers Tavern is where he calls home, so if you're in Cuyahoga, OH come on by and dine, check out a show too!

Drummer of Dio currently Dio Disciples, Hellion, Operation Mindcrime who is Simon Wright chats w/ Hek82 and tells of days w/ Ronnie James Dio. He also shares his opinion of current AC/DC vocalist Axl Rose... taking into consideration his time w/ the band, I asked him say- do you think you'll play w/ Angus again... Tune In to find out the answer!

Craig Goldy's current band is called Resurrection Kings, their first album was released Jan. '16 and is now available on iTunes. A brilliant guitarist famous and well- known for his songs with Dio, Craig shares stories about his lifetime in this podcast... Tune In!

Singer Gabbie Rae chats w/ Hek82 about forecoming Ride for Ronnie Dio event, last years' Dio Memorial concerts and many exciting things including her 18th birthday! Great to hear from Gabbie about her career as a young rockstar! Supporting Stand Up and Shout and Free 2 Luv organizations...

Most known for the national touring bands Type-O Negative and Danzig, now he is in Kill Devil Hill, has played with the BONZO and Randy Rhoads tributes, BLS, Hookers and Blow, and many others like Seven Witches and a Pale Horse Named Death.

Ron Thal - aka Bumblefoot chats w/ Hek82, and Jeff Watson onboard Axes Cruise '16

The brilliant artist Castiglia talks to me about the ESP guitar masterpiece he painted for Gary Holt of Slayer in Holt's own blood! This guitar was presented at NAMM 2016 in Anaheim, Ca at the ESP guitars expo. Incredible works! Photos and video featured at: www.hek82e.com

It's always cool to chat with the guys from The Last Vegas, a Chicago based Sleaze Metal band who are now hanging around LA more often than you might've imagined. Adam Arling, an excellent guitar player is a fan of Jimmy Page and loves the Bonzo Bash concerts. TLV has good news- another album is coming this spring '16!

Johnny Kelly is the new drummer of Kill Devil Hill, haven't you heard? Great things are in store for the new year and the band's new line up. His recent past include Type O Negative and Danzig... wow, guess what? He loves Zeppelin like none other...

Fantastic keyboard player Stephen Le Blanc, who every year delights us with his musical performances including the phenomenal Moby Dicks! This Led Zeppelin tribute band throws a party for John Bonham like none other and everyone's invited, that means famous drummers from across the nation will be there performing Zeppelin songs all night long.

Chas West is the lead man of the Bonzo Bash's Moby Dick's, what an outstanding singer! Led Zeppelin celebration of drummer John Bonham. His new band is called Resurrection Kings...! Check it out!

Students can make music and roll w/ the John Lennon community! Working for peace and musical education and a bright future for children. They are givin the opportunity to play music and record right on the bus with world famous stars. Organizations can have the bus stop on by ...! lennonbus.org

Alex Skolnick, Testament's well-known metal guitarist talks about music outside of the band and the albums he's produced in the past couple years like Planetary Coalition and Metal Allegiance. Looking forward to 2016...!

post DIO Memorial weekend 2015, so many great players were there to contribute to the Stand Up and Shout cancer fund, and made it an unbelievable time! This show features music by Tenacious D, Lita Ford, Rough Cutt, DIO, Stone SOur, and Lynch Mob! Check out the Radio Hek82 show tapes on the Radio Hek82 podcast channel...

Hek82 chats w/ Danny, well-known as the bass player of the sleaze metal rock band The Last Vegas... Latest news is that he's put together another band called Kids on Fire!

Paul Stanley talks to Hek ate too! This was at the opening ceremony of the new Rock-n-Brews location in Beuna Park, Ca! A benefit for the area veterans, Paul and Gene from KISS hosted the event. Commander Muller and the VFW post 8954 were in attendance as well as a large community! Listen to Hek talk to Commander John that day... 9-15

Devil City Angels is a great new Hard Rock super- group with the likes of Brandon Gibbs, Tracii Guns, Rudy Sarzo (was Eric Brittingham) and Rikki Rockett! Cool album with a few tracks available on iTunes and more soon to come!

Gabriel connor is Livin' Garden's bass guitar and lead vocals ... this band is TNT, what a cool performance they put on! I got to catch their show at Whiskey-a-Go-Go last week... check out their new CDs at www.livingarden.com.br