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 Talking Shop w/ The Boss & The Boss, News Spliff: History of The Royal Rumble By Mike Vanek The History of the Royal Rumble The Royal Rumble was the brainchild of the late Pat Patterson and the first one was originally an episode of Saturday Nights Main Event on 2/21/1987 and was won by the mighty Hercules and was one of the go-home events for WMIII... The storyline was Andre eliminated Hogan easily where it took 8 men to eliminate Andre The Giant...  The Royal Rumble is a pay-per-view consisting of the Royal Rumble match, title matches, and various other matches. The first Royal Rumble event took place on January 24, 1988, and was broadcast live on the USA Network. The following year, the event started to be broadcast on pay-per-view and thus became one of WWE's "big four" pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Survivor Series, and SummerSlam. The men's Royal Rumble match is usually located at the top of the card, though there have been exceptions, such as 1988...

 #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog:  A look at Internal Bleeding  By Mike Vanek It’s not every day you get to write about a band that pretty much created a genre of music, let alone one of the coolest bands of all time... In the world of death metal and slam it’s hard not to like the mighty Internal Bleeding... Now before I write this a word of thanks... I just went through one of the worst times of my life right smack in the middle of doing the research for this blog and I took a week off... Watching I.B’s Smoke Sesh videos and listening to the band's latest album on Spotify really helped me get through some of the darkest days of my life and I thank them for that...  When I started getting into the extreme metal scene at The Workshop in Ceres California, Internal Bleeding is a band I heard a lot about and I would check em out on YouTube from time to time, and of course, they would be on my Spotify radar when that came to be and of course, I listened to everything I could re...

 #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog: A look at Monster God By Mike Vanek Today’s quest to bring you good music takes us to Oakland California and the Bay Area Doom/Sludge Metal mastery of Monster God... From someone watching from afar over the last few years I’ve been gone from my home state, One of the names I hear the most coming outta the Bay Area is the Doom/Sludge band Monster God... This band straight-up homage to great bands like Corrosion Of Conformity, DOWN, ACID BATH & More!! These guys lay down sledgehammer riffs and concrete songs that melt your brain... MG is the ultimate is the genre and I would put them up with any band that lays down the heavy sludge... Formed in 2017 By Mike Smarlo (Ex-Inhalent) Mike Kaufmann  (Ex-Defiance, Under), and Karl Casolori (ex-inhalant) they started playing shows and quickly gaining a following and landing shows with great bands like Crowbar, Insite, and Skinlab!! In 2019 Monster God signed with AIW records and released the self-titled “Mo...

 #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog: A look at Glitchkill By Mike Vanek Today’s quest to bring you good music brings up a quandary. Imagine starting a band and right after you form the pandemic hits... GlitchKill is a 4 piece metal band from Modesto California. GlitchKill is a throwback to awesome industrial metal bands of the past like FEAR FACTORY with current elements of awesome modern heavy metal. This band is abound with technical brilliance in their musicianship and it shows with their debut record entitled “Hindsight” released in January of 2021... Like I mentioned before this crew of Central Valley musicians formed in early 2020 only to have COVID-19 hit em in the face before they could get established in the local scene but did they let that bother them??? The answer is an abundant FUCK NO!! The band went right to work on their debut record above mention and boy howdy did they do a fantastic on it!!  Hindsight is an absolutely hellacious record of technical mastery and lyrical ...

 #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog: A look at They Watch Us From The Moon By Mike Vanek Today’s quest to bring you good music takes us beyond Laurence Kansas to The Moon... That’s right folks today we’re going to the moon so take a hit and join me in the stratosphere...  They watch us from the moon is a sci-fi based stoner doom band from Laurence Kansas that brings ties together an element of science fiction with entrancing lunar melodies and killer riffs...  This female-fronted group will take you on a trip of the inner mind that you never knew ever existed... With songs like “Moab”, “Creeper”, and the self-titled “They watch is from the moon” The 2020 released album is a total face melter and ever since my buddy Tommy from Moon Relic Records turned me into this amazing band it has been on heavy rotation on my Spotify account. This is the perfect album to chill out to after a super hard day at work. I love to find my easy chair at the end of the day with a strong beverage and fat...

 #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog: A look at Dress The Dead By Mike Vanek This time not only do I have a brand that you absolutely have to hear, but I also have a raging killer of a badass metal band that absolutely made for active rock radio and a group that is about to explode onto the mainstream!! The SF Bay Area’s DRESS THE DEAD is a collection of some of the best musicians in the area and collectively they made some of the best music to come out of the Bay Area in years...Formed in 2016 and playing live by the end of that year with vocalist Peter Dolving (The Haunted) until solidifying the lineup in 2018 with vocalist Kayla Dixon... DtD is a cavalcade of experienced and seasoned musicians and was formed by guitarist Craig Locicero (Forbidden, Man Made God, Spiral Arms) Drummer Mark Hernandez (Forbidden, Vio-Lence, Re:Ignition) Guitarist Mikey Rowan (Insolence), and bassist James Walker (Man Made God)... On January 5th, 2021 Dress the Dead released the single “Knives Out” on all platfo...

 #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog: A Look at Break The Paradox By Mike Vanek Well after my extended holiday break I’m back to bring you more music I think you should know about!! This week's band is BREAK THE PARADOX from the heart of the golden Central Valley of Northern California. Produced and managed by Central Valley legend Jeremy Brown BTP is a product of GK Music (Manteca CA) Youth Music Program and is the longest-reigning band to work out of the Central Valley music store’s program dedicated to supporting local young musicians. Break The Paradox has a very polished Heavy metal/hard rock sound custom made for active rock radio... With a technically progressive heavy rock sound reminiscent of bands like Shinedown, Evanescence, In This Moment, And other bands of the day it’s very exciting to see what this hungry pack of hungry young musicians is capable of... Break The Paradox is a cavalcade of beautifully layered music with dueling vocals that leave you absolutely speechless. With Cr...