Free Form Rock Podcast

🎙️ This week on America’s Podcast, we go way out of bounds with a Nu Metal Album Battle Royale! 🤘🔥 Both contenders dropped in 1999: ⚔️ Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip vs. Slipknot – Self-Titled.

We’ve got longtime partner-in-chaos Joseph Staub back in the mix, and we’re bringing in new blood 💉 with Mike Fowler to keep things wild. As usual, one cohost is not a Nu Metal fan (🙄 yeah, we all know who), and Jerry straight-up ditc...

🎙️ This week on America’s Podcast, we welcome long-time family member—but first-time Free Form guest—Bill Roseberry! Bill picked the album we’re diving into: Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger.

Does this grunge classic stand the test of time… or should it stay locked up in a Rusty Cage? We shall see. 👀

🔥 Tracks of the Week

• Marc – American Horse by The Cult

• Mooger – Whiskey, And You by Chris Stapleton

• Jerry – Sister by The Ni...

🎙️ This week on America’s Podcast we dive deep into Led Zeppelin III! Joining us are Family Member Eric Lussierand brand-new Family Member Bob Bannister.

But here’s the question: is this album an acoustic masterpiece… or does it make you wanna go Out on the Tiles or hang from the Gallows Pole? (👀 No spoilers here!)

🔥 Tracks of the Week

• Marc – Stick It by Great White

• Bob – No Such Time by The Southern River Band

• Eric – ...

🎙️ This Week on a Very Special Episode of America’s Podcast! We go full-throttle into one of the greatest rivalries in metal history: Metallica vs. Megadeth — Album Battles! Which band dominated their first six albums? Who crushed the riffs, brought the fire, and left the biggest legacy? We’re joined by a killer panel of guests: Jeff Allen from the mighty CraniumRadio.com, Eric RMCP Jordon, and Favio Vegas to hash it out, album...

🎙️ This Week on America’s Podcast – The Free Form Rock Podcast! 🌊🎸

This week we’re diving headfirst into infamy with a band that shocked metalheads everywhere: Celtic Frost and their much-maligned glam experiment, Cold Lake. Joining us for this bold review are our rock brothers Eric RMCP Jordonand Travis Perrotta.

Is this album a misunderstood glam-metal gem… or a leather-pants-wearing disaster best left buried in the '80s like ...

🎙️ This Week on America’s Podcast – The Free Form Rock Podcast! 🇺🇸🎸

We’re crankin’ up the amps and diggin’ deep into the blues as we welcome our good friend Brian Davis from the Damn Good Movie Memories podcast! Not only does Brian know his way around a killer flick, but he’s also a certified blues connoisseur—so we figured, who better to help us review an album by the one and only Lonnie Mack?

⚡ Will this album strike like lig...

🎙️ This Week on America’s Podcast! 🇺🇸 We’re cranking it to 11 and heading into the dark with Danzig III: How the Gods Kill—joined by our brother in metal, Travis Perrotta! 🖤

Does this album rip through your soul in the best way possible—or does it just leave you feeling like you wandered into a Dirty Black Summer with nothing but regrets and leather pants? Some say Danzig is a dime-store Elvis. Others say he’s channeling Jim M...

🎙️ This Week on America’s Podcast! 🇺🇸 We hit shuffle on the past and dive into Alan Parsons Project’s Turn of a Friendly Card, joined by our resident prog rock philosopher and family member Joseph Staub!

Is this album a masterpiece of musical storytelling… or just a fancy way to say, “Don’t gamble, kids”? 🎲💸 Is The Gold Bug solid gold—or just a shiny distraction? You'll have to listen to find out.

Then it’s on to our Tracks o...

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We welcome back family members Eddy Cannistraci and Travis Perrotta for an episode that was scheduled before the untimely passing of the Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne. Fate had other plans, and 3 weeks later, it’s become a powerful tribute to one of rock’s most iconic figures.

We're diving deep into Blizzard of Ozz — is it one of the greatest debut solo albums of all time, or does ...

🎙️This week on America’s Podcast... we answer a question literally no one was asking: what happens when the guy from AFI crashes Gwen Stefani’s garage band practice? You get Dreamcar—the most ‘80s band to be born three decadestoo late.

Is it a glorious throwback or a glitter-covered time machine crash? Are they the future of retro or should they have just left that sound buried next to a broken Walkman? No spoilers (as always), bu...

🎙️ This Week on America’s Podcast! 🎙️ Buckle up, metal maniacs—we're hopping in the time machine straight back to 1986, where the riffs are fierce, the politics are angry, and Dave Mustaine still hasn't smiled once. We’re diving deep into Megadeth’s Peace Sells... but Who’s Buying?

Is this album a thrashterpiece worthy of our hard-earned Reagan-era cash, or does it bomb harder than a VCR instructional video? No spoilers—but trus...

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We travel back to 1986 — perms were big, synths were bigger, and Peter Gabriel dropped his iconic album "So."

We brought in guest Travis Perrotta to help us break it down: Is this album "So-So"… or does it hit like a lyrical Sledgehammer to the soul? You’ll have to listen to find out! (No spoilers — we're classy like that.)

💥 Plus, we’ve got Tracks of the Week hotter than a lava lamp on a s...

🎙️ This Week on America’s Podcast 🎙️ We’ve assembled a panel so powerful, even your speakers might need a helmet! This week, we welcome an All-Star castplus a brand-new debut that’ll rattle your brain in all the best ways!

Featuring: 🎸 Eric Lussier – bringing the metal thunder 🎤 Aaron Camaro from the Decibel Geek Podcast – podcast royalty 💥 And making his debut – the mighty Brad Dahl! Welcome to the chaos, Brad! 🧨 (Warni...

🎙️ This Week on The BS! Sessions 🎙️ Episode Title: "The Amalgamut, a Mooger Flyby, and a Whole Lotta Rock!"

This week on America’s favorite barely-controlled audio trainwreck, we dove headfirst into Filter's ‘The Amalgamut’—a criminally underrated album that dares to ask, "What if industrial rock had feelings... and a gym membership?"

Our resident man of mystery, Mooger, was “on assignment” (which we assume means chasing down th...

This Week on America’s Podcast! We summoned the mathematical wizardry of Ryan T. Russell—armed only with a calculator, a dream, and a list of 50 of our favorite Cheap Trick songs. What did he do? He crunched the numbers, sprinkled some rock 'n' roll sorcery, and conjured up the ultimate Top 25 Cheap Trick songs of all time!

Joining this sonic séance are none other than Ross Warner, author of American Standard: Cheap Trick from the...

This Week on America’s Podcast: We slam you harder than a metal riff with the one and only Metal Mike Tyler! Together, we dive headfirst into Metal Church’s The Dark — is it a thrash classic that’ll make your head bang or a total meltdown waiting to happen? Spoiler: no spoilers here… we like to keep you guessing (and slightly confused).

Tracks of the Week:

• Marc rocks out to “Good Day in Hell” by The Eagles — because who does...

This Week on America’s Podcast  Strap in, folks—this week we're diving headfirst into a swirling pool of flannel, feelings, and post-grunge gloom as we break down Counting Crows' August and Everything After with guests Travis Perrotta and Andy Rodriguez. Is this album a poetic masterpiece or just the sound of someone staring out a rainy window with a journal and a half-smoked cigarette? We ask the tough questions—like: Is this wha...

This Week on America's Podcast: Coheed and Cambria 

Strap on your space helmets and tighten your prog-rock seatbelts, because this week on America’s Podcast, we descend into the melodically twisted, comic book-fueled universe of Coheed and Cambria—specifically, their tongue-twisting opus Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. (Yes, that’s the full title—breathe now.)

We wrangled in the ...

This Week on America’s Podcast – we’re heading into the desert with the album that made U2 a household name: The Joshua Tree. Joining us for this sonic pilgrimage are Travis Perrotta and Andy Rodriguez to help decide—does this album “Bullet the Blue Sky” or make you want to “Exit” because you “Still Haven’t Found What You’re Looking For”? No spoilers—but Bono might be lurking in your conscience.

Tracks of the Week:

• Jerry pick...