The Corona Files - Part #32

Welcome to the newest format from the Genghis and Ragman Show.  We are titling this series The Corona Files.  This is going to be a different format from the regular show, but will still provide similar content.  We are dedicated to put out more shows, weekly, while we're all on lock down.  Join us tonight for part 32 in this series where we discuss our current status as well as how artists are staying busy during the shelter in place.  The boys also talk about the latest news in hard rock and heavy metal.  Next the lads welcome in House of Lords vocalist James Christian to discuss life in Florida, during the pandemic, as well as their latest release New World - New Eyes.  He also talks about the title of the record, and how it was planned way before the recent changes in the world.  He also gives his thoughts on touring as well as the possibility of HOL shows in 2020.

Beer of the Show:  Spindeltap - One Love  Beer Rating:  4

Featured Tracks:  The New Roses - Nothing But Wild, Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Invasion, From Hell - Lilium, Ratt - Round and Round, Suicide Silence with Tatiana (Jinger) - Man In the Box (AIC cover), House of Lords - Can't Find My Way Home, One More

Ragman's Pick of the Show:  Acres - Lonely World

Genghis' Pick of the Show:  Within Temptation - Entertain You

-Ragman is feelin worn down.

The Corona Files - Part#: 32

The Corona Files - Part #31

Welcome to the newest format from the Genghis and Ragman Show.  We are titling this series The Corona Files.  This is going to be a different format from the regular show, but will still provide similar content.  We are dedicated to put out more shows, weekly, while we're all on lock down.  Join us tonight for part 31 in this series where we discuss our current status as well as how artists are staying busy during the shelter in place.  The boys also talk about the latest news in hard rock and heavy metal.  Next the lads welcome in Thundermother vocalist Guernica Mancini to discuss life in Stockholm, Sweden, during the pandemic, as well as their latest release Heat Wave.  She also discusses some of the deeper lyrical meanings behind songs like Sleep and Somebody Love Me.  She also talks about her hope to tour in 2020 as well as some of the behind the scenes thoughts behind their latest video for Driving In Style.

DVD of the Show: Pagan's Mind - Full Circle (Live At Center Stage)

Beer of the Show:  Spindeltap - Break Em Off   Beer Rating:  4

Featured Tracks:  Her Chariot Awaits - Constant Craving,  Roxanne - Super Bad, Pagan's Mind - Dreamscape Lucidity, Plague Years - Play the Victim, Motley Crue - Misunderstood, Yo! Up the irons - Transylvania, Thundermother - Whatever, Driving in Style, Racing on Mainstreet

Ragman's Pick of the Show:  Captives - Falling Apart

Genghis' Pick of the Show:  Grave Digger - Fields of Blood

-Ragman is thinking he and Genghis need to show Thundermother what Texas BBQ is all about.

The Corona Files - Part#: 31

The Corona Files - Part #30

Welcome to the newest format from the Genghis and Ragman Show.  We are titling this series The Corona Files.  This is going to be a different format from the regular show, but will still provide similar content.  We are dedicated to put out more shows, weekly, while we're all on lock down.  Join us tonight for part 30 in this series where we discuss our current status as well as how artists are staying busy during the shelter in place.  The boys also talk about the latest news in hard rock and heavy metal.  Next the lads welcome in Smackbound vocalist Netta Laurenne to discuss life in Helsinki, Finland, during the pandemic, as well as their latest release 20/20.  Netta also discusses how she got the guys, in the band, to along for her visions for the video shoots.  She also shares how the band came together as well as some of the deeper meanings behind her lyrics.

DVD of the Show:  Soilwork - Live in the Heart of Helsinki

Beer of the Show:  Parish - Irish Coffee Stout   Beer Rating:  4

Featured Tracks:  Thundermother - Driving In Style,  Soilwork - Like the Average Stalker, Lamb of God - Routes, Shattered Sun - Return to Serenity, Murderer's Row - Skeleton's In The Closet, At The Movies - The Power of Love, Night Ranger - The Secret of My Success, Smackbound - Wall of Silence, Run, Drive It Like You Stole It, The Game, Yhose Who Burn

Ragman's Pick of the Show:  Soilwork - Death Diviner

Genghis' Pick of the Show:  Take Offense - Cause and Effect

-Ragman dedicates this show to the memory of Bob Kulick.  RIP rock soldier.

The Corona Files - Part#: 30

The Corona Files - Part #29

Welcome to the newest format from the Genghis and Ragman Show.  We are titling this series The Corona Files.  This is going to be a different format from the regular show, but will still provide similar content.  We are dedicated to put out more shows, weekly, while we're all on lock down.  Join us tonight for part 29 in this series where we discuss our current status as well as how artists are staying busy during the shelter in place.  The boys also talk about the latest news in hard rock and heavy metal.  Next the lads welcome back Pretty Maids vocalist Ronnie Atkins to discuss life in Denmark, during the pandemic, as well as their latest release Maid in Japan - Back to the Future World.  Ronnie discussed what it was like performing some of these tracks after 30 years as well as how great the audiences are in Japan.  He also talks about how he is holding up afeter his cancer treatments. 

Beer of the Show:  Dogfish - Suddenly Comfy  Beer Rating:  4

Featured Tracks:  One Desire - Down and Dirty, Kyng - Electric Halo, Evergrey - End of Your Days, Thirty Nights of Violence - Marbeled Regression, Blackmage - Evil Lives, Stone Broken - Let Me Go, The Who - Ball and Chain, Anthrax - Taking the Music Back, Pretty Maids - My Soul To Take, We Came to Rock (Live), Little Drops of Heaven (Live), Over and Out, Strength of a Rose, Future World (Live)

Ragman's Pick of the Show: Dream State - Primrose

Genghis' Pick of the Show:  Fires In The Distance - The Climb

-Ragman feels like he's been run over by a truck.  All he can say is closure....

The Corona Files - Part#: 29

The Corona Files - Part #28

Welcome to the newest format from the Genghis and Ragman Show.  We are titling this series The Corona Files.  This is going to be a different format from the regular show, but will still provide similar content.  We are dedicated to put out more shows, weekly, while we're all on lock down.  Join us tonight for part 28 in this series where we discuss our current status as well as how artists are staying busy during the shelter in place.  The boys also talk about the latest news in hard rock and heavy metal.  Next the lads welcome Scar Symmetry drummer Henrik Olsson to discuss life in Sweden, during the pandemic, as well as his one man band project Apocryphon.  Henrik also gives an update on Scar Symmetry and the status of The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph).  He also discusses the complexity of his lyrics and thought put behind them.

Beer of the Show:  Sigma - Shutdown #3  Beer Rating:  4

Featured Tracks:  Mystic Prophecy - Metal Division, Haken - Invasion, Deadland Ritual - Down In Flames, Lynch Mob - Tie Your Mother Down, The Unity - Line and Sinker, Cole Rolland, Halocene, Kristina Schiano, Anna Sentina - Heaven (Bryan Adams cover), Scar Symmetry - Morphogenesis, The Anomaly, Apocryphon - Strangescape, Scar Symmetry - The Illusionist

Ragman's Pick of the Show:  Kill the Lights - Plagues

Genghis' Pick of the Show:  Malestrom - Army From Ash

-Ragman is feeling ragged....

The Corona Files - Part#: 28