Ex-SAVATAGE Drummer STEVE ‘DOC’ WACHOLZ Is Open To Performing With The Band At 2025 Reunion Shows [Video]

In a new interview with the That Metal Interview podcast, former SAVATAGE drummer Steve “Doc” Wacholz was asked if he foresaw the success of the band’s fourth album, 1987’s “Hall Of The Mountain King”, prior to the LP being released. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, you don’t see anything like that coming. You just go in the studio, you do the best job you can do, you bust your ass and you throw it against the wall and you hope it sticks. So, there’s no real, when you get down to brass tacks, security in this business that you know you just wrote a hit record or something. You hope you can, but it’s just kind of like the soup of the day.’

He continued: “When metal started getting to a certain point, all of a sudden, grunge came in and took over. There goes the hair metal, there goes metal down the drain — everybody was …