Hi, this is Craig La Cicero from Dress the Dead and formerly of Manmade God and Forbidden.

And you're listening to Nate Goyer on the Vinyl Guide.

This guy knows his shit.

Oh, well, that made me blush.

Thanks, Craig.

Hey, everyone.

It's Nate, host of the Vinyl Guide, the weekly podcast where we talk to the artists behind the records

we love and collect. And this week on the Vinyl Guide, we welcome Craig La Cicero, guitarist of

Bay Area Thrash Legends Forbidden, as well as heaps of other projects, including Manmade

God, playing with Death, Queenstrike, and now his new band Dress the Dead, which we'll hear a track from shortly.

This week, again, it's double episode week. This is a two-parter. Today's episode will focus

on the tales from the early days, the Bay Area Thrash community, recording all those legendary

records, and then part two will go out shortly, which will go into Craig's time playing with

death and Chuck Scholdinger, Manmade God,

working in the studio being produced by Rick Rubin, and finally his new stunning band, Dress the Dead.

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