Category: News

Here are the rock star guests joining Lou Brutus on HardDrive Radio and HardDrive XL!

Over the weekend of August 22/23, we speak to Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Five Finger Death Punch, The Warning, Bilmuri, and From Ashes to New. We’ll also get you Ninth Key. We’ll also have music news in DIRT on Ozzfest, TOOL, and Sevendust. Plus, we’ll unveil the new Screamer of the Week!

Then for the week of Monday August 24, Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath will join us each night as Featured Artist of the Week on HardDrive XL. Other Special Guests will include Wage War, Godsmack, I Prevail, Beartooth, and Trivium. The historic interview segments in our new feature The HardDrive Archive will include In This Moment, Rob Zombie, Creed, Green Day, and Three Days Grace.

It’s Made Loud to Play Loud on HardDrive Radio, as we celebrate our 30th anniversary!

This weekend on HardDrive Radio with Lou Brutus, we will present our 30th Anniversary show! Debuting over the 4th of July in 1996, we’ve spent each week over the last three decades bringing you kick ass new Rock music and conversation with the stars who make it. However, for this special occasion, we will draw each of the interviews from the HardDrive Archive. You’ll hear from Ozzy Osbourne, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, David Draiman of Disturbed, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Jonathan Davis of KoRn, and Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch. Plus, each song we play (except one) will be drawn from our 30 Songs from 30 Years list. It features one tune from each year of the show’s history. Be sure to join us for this incredible look back at our thirty-years of Rock!

As the original weekend edition of HardDrive Radio with Lou Brutus celebrates its 30th anniversary over the 4th of July weekend, we are marking the occasion with our 30 Songs from 30 Years list. Beginning with the program’s debut in 1996 and going right up to 2025, we’ve taken one song from each year of the show’s three-decade history. The selections are based on each tune’s original show airplay and listener requests in that given year, coupled with sales and streaming numbers. We know everyone will love the list and no one will disagree with any of the selections! Click on the graphic to see the full list!

We’ll use the list for the songs on the 30th anniversary edition of HardDrive Radio with all of the guest audio drawn from our extensive archives. Made Loud to Play Loud!

Your friend and humble narrator Lou Brutus is featured in a new interview with Mike Stern of Barrett Media.

They cover Lou’s thoughts on his unlikely career in music media, his many adventures with the world’s top bands, as well as the impending 30th anniversary for HardDrive Radio and next year’s 20th anniversary of HardDrive Radio XL.

When asked about his decades of championing new music, Lou quipped, “I always say rock isn’t dead, it just smells that way from being in the pit.”

Thanks to Mike and the BM gang for the time and ink. You can read the piece here.

The first new custom guitar picks from Brutus World Industries have been unveiled for 2026!

Featuring artwork by Alan MacBain, the first two picks are inspired by The Beatles, as the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of their finest album Revolver. The third pick is a tribute to the late Darla the Wonder Dog and reads “Darla Forever” on the back.

The picks are produced by InTune Guitar Picks. They’re the same folks to who do picks for Three Days Grace, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, and many others.

To get a picks and stickers, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Brutus World Industries PO Box 361 Arnold MD 21012.