Released on August 22, 1989, CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS, the major label debut album from Martinsburg, West Virginia thrash metal savants WRATHCHILD AMERICA, is undoubtedly one of the most uniquely profound thrash metal albums in all of heavy metal history to be crafted by one of the most extraordinarily talented (and criminally underrated) bands in the entire genre. 

And to think, for many metalheads back in the day, their very first experience with this album was in a LIVE concert setting, opening for Testament. Just imagine how blessed one would be to see a band as unbelievable as WRATHCHILD AMERICA (for the very first time) opening for an established act like Testament and being completely blown away after just one show, having NEVER heard the album before getting to see them LIVE! 

“He’s making eye contact…”

With a stylistic palette that blends thrash, heavy metal, and 70’s classic rock, there is absolutely NO ONE else in metal who sounds ANYTHING like them. And if you’re jonesing to purchase a copy of CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS, not to worry, because it was recently re-released (along with their second and final album, 3-D) as part of a two-CD package with a couple of bonus tracks. 

“Is he still lookin’ at you?”

Get ready for a trip back through time to the days of yore, when thrash was still riding high and the opening band for Testament absolutely blew the minds of everyone in attendance when you JOIN US for one of the greatest and most underrated metal albums of all time with WRATHCHILD AMERICA: CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS.

(Also, just in case you might be wondering, there’s an early (we’re talking “6 years ago, during the Hodges Era” early: 02/20/2020) episode appropriately dubbed WRATHSAZ, which is a combo episode featuring both WRATHCHILD AMERICA and the darker, groovier, heavier incarnation that followed, Souls At Zero.)

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “See? That’s how much Bill loves #KISS…let the record show…”/ Gene Simmons vs King Diamond makeup confusion lawsuit / “Dwarf butt shot…it’s the gnome butt shot…”/

***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “Nothing that can’t be fixed with a razor…that was the tipping point of that episode…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Just like the thunder, (weather) used to be real in the 80’s…”/

“I was on my boat Friday, enjoying the beautiful weather…and today, I’m wearing a hoodie…”/ “Y’all are here for the metal…Metal Bitchery that’ll be our side podcast where it’s just me being angry…about everything…”/ #lifecoaching / “It could be the lack of poon…” (“Me and Wristina were still hanging out…”) 

(05:12): Check out our new “pop punk” side project: Bad Shoulder / #SmogMountain /

***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***EMAIL US (your #shittah) at metalnerdery@gmail.com and WE’LL PLAY YOUR SHITTAH!!!*** / 

“Here’s the fuzz…” #Erosions HOME GROWN / #AwwwMannnn / “I was gonna use the R word…(retarded?)”/ “In the spirit of this…I thought they were Hong Bong…”/ “You’ve gotta watch the video…”/ #BongKong WEIRDMAGEDDON / “The bass player is trippin’ balls!” /

“They’re from Portugal…I’ll bet they probably fly one of two airlines…”

(14:54): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #TikTok and #Facebook  / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com  / ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / Johnny O… / “I like my coffee like I like my Sabbath…Black.” / “They weren’t pieces of Shittah…they were portraits of Shittah (“It’s very #OlanMills - ish…”) / “So natural and uncomfortable…”/ “Sorry, I blew in your ear…my sticker pecked out…”/ “Hold on, let’s play some new Metal Church…”/ “I was listening to Metal Church by Metal Church on Metal Church yesterday…in fairness, THAT should have been the opener…for the album.”/ #MetalChurch BRAINWASH GAME / F.A.F.O. (Dead To Rights – April 10, 2026) / “Fuck anus, find orgasm…” / #ThrashFamilyTree / “I’m glad they’re remembering the fun…”/ “It sounds like Metal Church…go check out the #InsideTheMetal of that…” / #KeepItThrashy

(23:55): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: WRATHCHILD AMERICA – CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS / ***Check out our #WrathSAZ episode from way, WAY back!!!***/ “I think that one got way more exposure than 3-D…”/ #WrathchildAmerica / #MikeTysonASMR / “I didn’t buy it until I saw them with #Testament…” (NOTE: Bill and Russ saw them LIVE before ever hearing the album) / “We’re doing that next…”/ Released August 22, 1989 / “I didn’t cup it…” / ***Re-released along with 3-D (2-CD set…with bonus tracks) recently on Cherry Red Records / “BTW, if you’re a #Godsmack fan or an #UglyKidJoe fan…”

“They had that one song, right?”

(29:55): CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS / “It’s kinda power metal-y a little bit…”/ “It’s just throat box noises…Brad Divens always had articulate, clear, up-front vocals…”/ “(Groove metal) was the natural evolution from thrash…”/ “That’s it! Your ‘cut time’ is your groove metal…”/ 

“They formed in the late 70’s…1978…”/ “We’re doing the whole dive, bro…”

(35:32): HELL’S GATE / “Take your pants down…”/ “There was an Orion moment there…I heard influences…”/ “How can you not be influenced by what you like?”/ 

NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN / “I think this is about sex…maybe.” / “When she went ‘hawk-tuah…” / “He’s looking at me…he’s making eye contact…” / “I hear influences…this album has a weird 70’s feel to it…” / “When I’m listening to it, it puts me right back at the concert…”/ “I would have not known who they were without them opening for Testament…”/ ***Is anyone familiar with Baroness’ “Purple” album?*** / “All that to say…with opening bands…”/ Reflecting on Wrathchild America opening for Testament and Pantera / #tittape (“Don’t you tell anybody…”)

(44:49): HERNIA / “If you gave that a different mix, it would be a thrashier album…”

“It (the mix) makes it sound like early Maiden…”/ “When they go to the woods for the weekend, they take vampire jerky…”/ LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT / A moment of #TypeONegative ‘vamping’ that totally matches with the music…/ “That reminds me of #Venom so much…”/ “That might be the most gayest thing I’ve ever heard in metal but it’s still pretty awesome…”/ “You’ve gotta remember, this was ’88…you didn’t have virgin boys on black stallions though…”

(53:23): Side 2 Killer Opener / CANDY FROM A MADMAN / “Here we go…”/ “That fucker is looking at me! He’s got a lazy eye…” / “That’s the payoff…that’s what I wanted to hear…”/ 

“Their live show is so much different than their studio stuff…”/ “In fairness…the 3-D album sounds much more like they sounded LIVE than this sounds…”/ “If you got to see them live, it’s kinda like getting to see Pantera live (in the 90’s)…”/ #Blessed / SILENT DARKNESS (SMOTHERED LIFE) / “The lyrics are very visual…”/ “Very untraditional thrash…thrash redux…”/ “They sound like if you could take thrash and sprinkle it in the 70’s…”

(1:03:00): “That’d be a hell of a ballsy closer…”/ TIME / “No clocks, btw…”/ “Is he still lookin’ at you?” / “You CAN’T fuck this up!” / “We didn’t have the album… (and the shocker of hearing them cover Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’)”/ For the LIVE experience to blow people away enough to seek out the band’s debut, that’s saying something… / “Do you realize that Black Sabbath came out (Friday) February 13, 1970?”/ “But technically, that’s also Black History Month adjacent…”/ “Who’s Jason?” / “Is this ‘88 thunder?”/ DAY OF THE THUNDER / 

“That does sound like early Maiden…a little bit…”/ “That’s kinda power metal…”/ 

“I like it even more-more…now that Russell pointed out the Maiden thing…I can’t unhear that…”/ “I’ve got the magic now!” / “Let’s go for 3 in a row…”/ #booong / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Tell us in the comments what you’re thinking…” / #MattLooksAtTheComments / “You know what I found out the other day?” / “Why wouldn’t you think it would be on?” / “That butthole had some mileage bro…”/ #LOL / #untilthenext #outroreel

The early 90’s was a strange time for metal, most notably due to the change in the musical landscape with the emergence of the Seattle scene and Alice In Chains becoming one of the key crossover bands to bridge the transition from thrash to the next wave of darker, grungier sounding heavy metal. 

“Every time you do that, I have a less chance of getting laid…”

While ANTHRAX began the 90’s with a much darker and angrier sound on Persistence of Time, the darkness and heaviness of their sound would become further amplified with the departure of Joey Belladonna and the addition of JOHN BUSH (formerly of Armored Saint) on vocals, resulting in a new era of Anthrax: BUSHTHRAX! 

With more grit and heft in the vocals than before, the JOHN BUSH ERA of ANTHRAX is definitely a different flavor than the band’s output throughout the 80’s with Joey Belladonna, and with the changing of the guard in the early 90’s due to the growing popularity of the Seattle sound, the time was right for a slight alteration to the thrashier sounds of 80’s era ThrashThrax, resulting in the darker, more aggressive BUSHTHRAX era that would follow for the next decade or so.

“Alright, well it’s not like we’ve never done that for you before…”

Always remember that “springtime LSD is the best time for LSD” and that “it’s not as fun for me when I push away”. Realize that “girls with Doc Martens are kinda cute (except for when they wear ‘patrouli’)” and imagine what it’d be like “if we bled out of our dicks for a week” when you JOIN US for some 90’s era ANTHRAX featuring JOHN BUSH, aka BUSHTHRAX!!!

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Here we are…” / Jim Morrison #thelizardking / #schlongadoodledoo / “Dragon ass?” / Send Help & Fall (2 brief movie reviews…) / “When are they just gonna put those beds (Craftmatic adjustable beds) in the movie theater?”/ #acrophobia

(5:11): ***WARNING:  #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Freshly shaven and shorn…ready to be professional again…”/ Shoutout to (our former sponsor) Manscaped…/ #batterylife / #sausagewrapping / 

“Gotta keep moving…or you could take the shots…”/ “I think I went a little heavy on the last dose…so you get these rotten egg burps…where I can’t stand to be in the room with myself…” / #insertvomitnoisehere / #vomitnoiseASMR / “I can smell it…I can taste it…”/ “It’s like when someone says the word #Jager I can taste it…”

(09:09): PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / ***NEW PATREONS*** / Aussie Dave and Grandmaster V / “Is that 5? I think it’s ‘V’…”/ #onmicburp / “Hopefully they’re still listening…”/ VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #Powertrip / ***GO TO METALNERDERY.COM/ARCHIVES TO TRACK DOWN OLDER EPISODES!!!*** / #NWOOSTM (“You can do it…”) / “Pot luck pickin’…”/ “Push it back!”/ 

“Every time you do that, I have a less chance of getting laid…”/ SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and #TikTok

(15:10): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: BUSHTHRAX – THE JOHN BUSH ERA OF ANTHRAX / “Almost sounds like spikey pubes, doesn’t it?” / #crickets / 

“Do YOUR thing and THEY will find you…”/ #fuckthealgorithm 

(19:30): Sound of White Noise (1993) / “I didn’t cup it that time…”/ “(‘Push away!’) It’s not as fun for me…” / “It took me a minute to figure out what the cover was…”/ POTTERS FIELD

“That wasn’t as great an opener as I thought…I think ‘Only’ would have been a better opener…”/ ONLY / “If I hadn’t have known that was Anthrax, I would have guessed it was Alice In Chains…”/ HY PRO GLO / “I, aye, eye, hi…” / “It has a weird, opening, Twin Peaks-y vibe…”/ BLACK LODGE / “Howdy, partner…”/ “Anthrax In Chains…Alice In Anthrax…”/ “Every band adapts to any new kinda thing…”

(31:21): Stomp 442 (1995) / RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE / “Puto!” / “It’s more Pantera…”/ “That was the first year…that I ever did L.S.D….”/ “Springtime LSD…it’s the best time for LSD…”/ “Everything’s funny…”/ “She looked like a seagull, in a way…”/ KING SIZE (includes a solo from Dime) / “It doesn’t sound very Alice In Chains-y…or Godsmack-y…” / “He was on a Nickelback song…”/ “Try the closer…”/ BARE / “This is their Planet Caravan…”/ DROP THE BALL / “That sounds like our guitar class song…”/ #tippingpoint / “Oh, there’s a KISS cover, man…”/ NOTE: The Greater of Two Evils came out in 2004 / The Greater of Two Evils (2004) / “I kinda hate when bands do that…”/ “Alright, well it’s not like we’ve never done that for you before, so…”/ METAL THRASHING MAD / “There you go, you happy? I pulled back…”

(45:45): Volume 8: The Threat is Real (1998) / #killeropener / “There’s not a coke line in sight…”/ CRUSH / “I like this better than the last 2…”/ Special guest Pantera folks / PISS N VINEGAR / 604 / TOAST TO THE EXTRAS / “Weren’t expecting that, were ya?” / KILLING BOX (feat. Phil Anselmo) / “You know what? Cupajoe might wake you up a little bit…”/ 

INSIDE OUT (feat. Dimebag) / “That sounds like a Pantera riff…”/ “In tribute to my going without coffee for this long…”/ “Why don’t you fart into the microphone dude, like a man?” /

CUPAJOE / “That’s how I drink it now: black and strong (just like my women) …”/ 

Inside Outs (1998 – EP Japan & UK only) / #Japanthrax / PHANTOM LORD / “That’s what Metallica would have sounded like with John Bush…”/ “Doesn’t Gronk (that’s Grok)…sound like a big, curvy, buxom Norwegian woman?”/ “Imagine if guys did that…imagine if we bled out of our dicks for a week…”

(1:02:10): We’ve Come for You All (2003) / “It’s the most ‘Thrax-thrashy…”/ “If radio was halfway worth a shit…they would have played it…”/ WHAT DOESN’T DIE / “That sounds like that could be on ‘Worship Music’…this one’s got more thrash vibes to it…”/ BLACK DAHLIA 

“Anthrax black metal…”/ NOTE: Amazon WAS around back then…they just had no streaming as of yet…because that wasn’t a thing. / CADILLAC ROCK BOX (feat. Dime on voicemail) / “Is that what Nickelback sounds like?”/ TAKING THE MUSIC BACK (feat. Roger Daltrey) / “That’s Roger Daltrey...”/ “Recently, The Master just celebrated his 78th year on this earth!” / #TonyIommi #HAIL / “Without that dude, NONE Of this shit exists…”/ 

“When you hear this closer, it seems like such a perfect segue into ‘Worship Music’…” / W.C.F.Y.A. / “Girls with Doc Martens are kinda cute…”/ “And they smell like Patrouli, remember that? Patrouli? Patchouli? It smelled like pot and armpits…”/ “It sounds like an Italian scotch…”/ ***Go check us out on Spotify! *** / “I’m glad I didn’t go full baby…every time I do it, I hate myself…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

Whether it’s measured by a string of commercially successful albums or one’s own personal preference, almost every metal band has (at a minimum) produced a TRILOGY of albums that represent a three-album run of back-to-back-to-back awesomeness. 

“That’s the law, man…it’s gotta be three…rules is rules.”

Granted, we’re all very well aware that some bands have far exceeded such a phenomenal feat THRICE in a row. But to keep things fair, we limited our parameters to the perfect TRIFECTA of albums representing a band’s turkey, hat trick, or as we refer to it here at Bunkerpoon Palace, “the power threesome of perfection”.

“It’s a quadraplatic-ogy…”

When in doubt, remember that “y’all should be more like Paul” and keep in mind that you “can’t say that word!” because “all therapists are gonna be upset”. 

Go ahead and fire up your “Grinder Tinder” account, discover the wonders of “self-service hibachi”, and get ready to “Ride the Puppets of Justice” when you JOIN US for A TRILOGY OF PERFECT METAL ALBUMS.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “It’s a Quadraplaticogy…” / #tippingpoint / Russell’s Korean BBQ Reflections / 

“So it’s like self-service hibachi…”/ “You leave the place with meat sweats…”/ #hoggin /

“If you want to fuck up the meat…”/ Old restaurants that have gone away: On The Border, Rio Bravo, and Barnacles / “That’s where I met my wife, bro…”/ “That will never not be hilarious to me…”/ “How’s that shouldra?”

(4:55):  ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN THE DIGITAL BUNKERPOON UNDERGROUND!!!*** / “Have you hit your tipping point yet?” / “We got a great, fantabulous email to read…”/ ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / “No, there’s no blah…you can’t yada, yada, yada…”/ #FuckTheSuits / “Wait, what?” / (Thank you, Paul!) / “Y’all should be more like Paul…” / #BeLikePaul / “We also got an email from Justin…” / #Crumbsuckers #AgnosticFront #Leeway #Whiplash #Voivod / “He also had a lot to say about #WrathchildAmerica (he’s a big fan) …”/ #recordscratch / “Can’t say that word!” / #PDF / 

“All therapists are now gonna be upset…”/ #AgnosticFront HAPPENED YESTERDAY (Liberty And Justice For… - 1987) / “Dude, we’re like metal sommeliers…”

(14:14): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “I might join our own Patreon just to get laid…it’s better than Grinder Tinder…”/ “That’s the buzz word: every time somebody says ‘Tipping Point’, you must drink…”/ NOTE: the first Agnostic Front album, Victim In Pain, was released in 1984… / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #TikTok #Facebook or #Instagram & VOICEMAIL US 980-666-8182!!!*** / “Whether it’s 5 or 5,000, you do the same show…”/ “I’ve got you on camera, talking in black face…” / #TyroneTaintler /

“I did the voice…”/ “He has thoughts…”/ “Follow through…execute.”/ “I leave here needing to take a shower…”

(19:19): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: PERFECT TRILOGIES aka THREE ALBUM RUNS / TRIFECTAS / #era / “We got on this topic after talking about Flick of the Switch and the 3 albums that came before that…just back-to-back-to-back awesome.”/ 

#LedZeppelin (“You’re only picking 3?”) / “IV is #AtomicAcidBlues …”

(24:32): “What about Maiden?” / #IronMaiden / “Number, Piece, and Power…”/ “We’re talking ‘in a row’…”/ “Somewhere In Time is the beginning of the next wave…”/ “There’s a line…”/ “Everybody’s got a magic window…”

(26:39): #BlackSabbath / “To not include the first 6 is terrible…”/ #TheFirstSix / “Technically…I think Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the line where they started to change…”/ 

“I’m hitting my tipping point just talking about it…”

(28:32): “What about #Megadeth ?”/ “Talking about favorite 3 in a row…”/ 

***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and TELL US YOUR FAVE 3 IN A ROW!!!*** / 

#DIO / “I think that’s fair…” / “That’s a great song…”/ “What about Pantera?” /#PanterA / “Now this one’s hard…” / “From #CFH forward, not a bad one in the bunch…”

(33:03): #Metallica / “Yeah I knew you would…so are you…”/ #RideThePuppetsOfJustice / 

“Okay, speaking of seasoned…”/ #Slayer / “If I’m guessing, I bet I know everybody’s 3…”/  

“Let’s go back in time a little bit…Floyd…and here’s why I bring up Floyd…”/ #PinkFloyd / “I like Animals…”/ #markthetime / “What about #TooL even?”

(37:37): “There’s no way to do this…it’s not gonna work…”/ #OzzyOsbourne / “That’s the law, man…it’s gotta be three.”/ “That was The Last In Line for Ozzy…”/ “I would have liked to have heard what the next would have been with Randy after Diary…”/ #Helmet / #KISS / “Awww, Dayum!” / “Was it though? Was it live?”/ ***Check out “No Regrets”, the autobiography by Ace Frehley*** / “Come on, can we hear that, a little bit?”/ “It wasn’t racist dude, that’s how they be talking…”/ #tippingpoint / “What were your three, Bill?”

(42:20): #Exodus / “Let’s call it a predictive top 3…”/ “I like baked potatoes…”/ #Testament / “It’s kinda hard to beat that…/ #Kreator / “Not as familiar…” / “Is the internet doing internet shit again?”/ “Great, Adobe Acrobat is gonna love this…they’re getting nothing but free publicity…”/ #Overkill / “They started breaking with ‘Taking Over’…”/ “But…”/ “I think you listened to metal longer than I did…” / “Yo man, it’s February we can talk like this and shit…”/ “There was a tipping point in my life as well…”/ “I did all that stuff, but…”

(48:12): #KoRn / “Korn is Korn…”/ “What is that? Can you do it one more time?”/ “I think he’s at his tipping point…”/ “Okay…just for funzies…”/ #VanHalen / “Diver Down…kinda got forgotten about…”/ “You cannot take away the first album…”/ “Let’s take a different take…tack…tip…”/ “Of the #BonScott stuff, what is the 3?”/ “I think we’ve hit our #TippingPoint…”/ “We live here now…”

(54:43): “It’s weird without music…it’s like foreplay without sex…”/ #JudasPriest / “This is kinda interesting…it’s like metal bingo…”/ “Their catalog is so…weird.”/ “Filling in for the music…”/ #onmicburpASMR / “There’s females somewhere that get wet every time I do that…”/ #Anthrax / “For me, it’s easy…”/ “Dude, you said ‘brooding’, that’s pretty awesome!”

(59:03): #DeathAngel / “That’s tough…I dunno…”/ #KingDiamond / “Bolth, could be…” / “That was easy…because…high school.”/ #MotleyCrue / Our favorite 3 in a row and/or the most commercially successful 3 in a row…/ “That’s nothing but whores and blow…”/ 

“Shameless poon worship…”/ “Whores and coke will derail your career…”/ #DefLeppard / “Animals? I think you’ve just got a thing for animals, dude…”/ “Oh my God, NOW we’ve gotta play something…”/ “Anybody that’s looking for a hit producer, hit me up…”/ 

(1:06:04): “How about this one?”/ #Sepultura SLAVE NEW WORLD (Chaos A.D. – 1993) / “I can feel the cleansing coming on…”/ “I had no idea those (albums) even existed…”/ “I’m gonna let Russell go first though…”/ #SuicidalTendencies /PLEDGE YOUR ALLEGIANCE / TRIP AT THE BRAIN (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today – 1988)

(1:17:00): “Ooh, we’ve got one more…”/ “We always hit our tipping point, and we always find one more…”/ #Forbidden / “It’s like Zeppelin and Sabbath…all of ‘em.”/ “Rules is rules…”/

#DiAnnoMaiden / “Those 2 are almost kinda like Forbidden Evil and Twisted (Into Form) …”/ 

“How about this one?”/ #FlotsamAndJetsam / #DOWN / “Wait a minute, that’s bullshit, because they’ve only got the first 3…”/ “Have we ran the well dry?”/ “Okay, Type-O…?”

#TypeONegative / “Bloody feces? It’s a dual album…”/ “OHHH! #Whitesnake had some good albums…”/ “Those were 3 great #LedZeppelin sounding albums…”/ #Soundgarden /

“Back when I broke my leg…and got to do pharmaceutical heroin for 8 years straight…”/ 

“All those words did not belong together…that was bizarre…”/ “That should be another episode: bands we never got…” / #PearlJam

(1:27:47): “Since we’re talking the 90’s, can you pull up #NIN real quick…”/ #hotgothchicks #industrialmetal / “You’re getting poon and some secret bush…”/ #NineInchNails THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL (The Downward Spiral – 1994) / #usethoseheadphones / “Those are the last notes of ‘Head Like A Hole’…is it ‘Head Like A Hole’ or ‘Closer’?” / “So that’s where that comes from…I didn’t realize it came from that.”/ HEAD LIKE A HOLE (Pretty Hate Machine – 1989) / “Was it Closer?”/ CLOSER / “That’s it…so it goes from sex, shooting ropes, to shooting…different kinda ropes…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! #untilthenext #outroreel

There’s almost a strange, sarcastic satisfaction in knowing that the new self-titled MEGADETH album will forever be known (at least in our neck of the woods anyway) as “The White Album”. 

“Every time you keep talking, I just see shapes and letters…”

Released on January 23, 2026, MEGADETH is the 17th studio album from Dave Mustaine and Company and represents the final chapter in the 40+ year history of the angriest, snarliest, and most progressively technical thrash band of The Big Four. 

And oh yeah, it debuted at NUMBER ONE on Billboard and at the top of the charts all over the world!!!

While MEGADETH represents the band’s epilogue, it contains all of the elements that have defined the band’s sound and the ethos of the genre that they co-created with the rest of The Big Four. All of the essentials are there: insanely technical riffs, face melting guitar solos, triumphant twin guitar harmonies, as well as some more straight ahead, laid back and accessible material that screams “radio friendly” without being dull or boring. If you’re a fan, you’ll dig it. And if you’re not a fan, who knows? You too may also dig it.

“Maybe it’s not pronounced ‘Tey-Muu’…it’s pronounced ‘Steve’.”

Always remember that “Rugby is a man’s sport that should be having grindcore bands playing the halftime show…” and that “You’re gonna paint secret little bushes like you paint secret little bushes… (and don’t you tell anybody).

Get ready for an apology from us regarding the last “White Album” review that we did, prepare for a never before heard “triple record scratch” (because we’re trying to stay out of trouble) and JOIN US for Dave & Vic’s swan song with MEGADETH.

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(00:01): ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #coffeewithdrawal / “That’s my drug of choice…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / 

“It’s a ‘long cold’ now…”/ “Let’s be real…can we have a metal band play the #SuperBowl?”/ “You want me to use the word…can I use the word?” / “They pander…”/ “Rugby is a man’s sport. #Rugby should have #grindcore bands play their halftime show…”/ #FuckYouNFL / 

#AmericanIdiot / “The shitty overhyped football show…”/ #FuckYouGrammys for leaving out #BrentHinds from the #InMemoriam / “Give them the minivan…2 in the front and 5 in the back…”/ “Some people need a pat on the back…”

(07:52): #FairUse / “If anything, we are helping people find out about these bands and these albums and this music…”/ “So you know what? #FuckYouRecordIndustry …today is #FuckYouDay …”/ Worst roller coaster ride ever / “Not only our sexy voices but our shitty faces too…”/ ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Whooooooooo….” / #NewShittah #AtomicFreak TWO FACED WOMAN / “This is #ACDC from the 1970’s…”/ “One more…/ LIGHT THE FUSE / “Are we doing an album dive here?” / NUCLEAR MELTDOWN / “What if AC/DC kept recording with Bon Scott?” / #BonFest / “In the same vein…since we’re doing this…”/ #Airbourne TOO MUCH, TOO YOUNG, TOO FAST / “My CD player ate my #DreamTheater CD…”/ “Every time you keep talking, I just see shapes and letters…math equations…”

(22:13): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: MEGADETH (by MEGADETH) / 17th album by #Megadeth (and their first #1 album on #Billboard) / “It wasn’t you it was the door…”/ Released January 23, 2026 / “Yes…math and triangles…”/ “How’d you do that?”/ #vocalburnASMR / “It sounded like he had an effect pedal…”/ “He’s got #Elvis mouth…” / TIPPING POINT / “There’s some stuff on here I could almost hear on ‘Killing Is My Business…’”

(31:13): #skatepunkthrash / “Man, that #Coroner album though…you can’t have that helmet on…”/ “Have you seen the vinyl? It’s animated…”/ I DON’T CARE / “Maybe it’s not pronounced Tee-Muu…it’s pronounced Steve.”/ #SteveRoger / Pronounced TAY-mu…/ 

HEY GOD?! / “You know what I’m hearing? This sounds like it could have been…‘the sidepiece’ to The Black Album…”/ #radiofriendly / “Secret little bushes…and happy little trees…”/ #dontyoutellanybody / LET THERE BE SHRED / “He’s always been pretty serious…he’s not the ‘fun’ metal guy….that’s the ‘let’s have fun’ song…”/ “Let There Be Shred reminds me too much of Let There Be Rock…it reminds me of his fun side…his secret bush.”/ #surprisebush / “I don’t like all hardwoods down there, I kinda want some carpet…”

(43:32): PUPPET PARADE / “That very beginning riff is almost identical to ALMOST HONEST (Cryptic Writings (1997) / “Listening to it with you guys here…it’s better.”/ “He’s got his own palette…”/ “You’re gonna paint secret little bushes how you paint your secret little bushes…”/ ANOTHER BAD DAY / “Totally makes my secret bush…stand up.” / MADE TO KILL / “See that sounds more like classic Megadeth…”/ #TippingPointASMR / “I don’t mind a #secretbush that’s a little legato…”

(54:32): OBEY THE CALL / “That was not on the boat…”/ “If you’re a #Megadeth fan, you’re gonna love it, if you’re not a Megadeth fan, it’s not gonna convert you…or it might, who knows? They went #NumberOne all over the planet…”/ I AM WAR / “It’s good but that one’s kinda basic…”/ “The most memorable part is the last 30 seconds or so…”/ THE LAST NOTE / “There we go…it’s kinda like his goodbye…”/ “That part kinda got me in the heart balls…”/ “And also, fuck them a little bit for the whole #MickMars thing…”/ #triplerecordscratch / #bonustrack / “Tipping Point is Bill’s favorite, and that’s what matters…”/ “Play the middle of it…”/ RIDE THE LIGHTNING / “Whaddya mean what do I mean?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Actually, it’s Set The World Afire…” / #untilthenext #outroreel

Released on August 19, 1983, FLICK OF THE SWITCH (the 9th studio album by AC/DC and the 3rd featuring Brian Johnson on the mic) is what some fans might call their “White Album” (arriving after their “Black Album” and “Bronze Album”, respectively), showing a black and white grayscale drawing of a lone Angus pulling down some massive power, so to speak.

“That’s literally ‘Bad To The Bone’ and ‘In My Time Of Dying’…”

While self-produced by the band and containing a much rawer production and drier mix than the ultra-produced Mutt Lange masterpieces which came before it, FLICK OF THE SWITCH is a back-to-basics approach showing the band embracing more of their earlier blues based sound while still remaining faithful to the signature, high-energy, up-tempo jams which have become their calling card. It’s loud, straight ahead, and powerful, and while perhaps not as uber popular as the 3 albums that preceded it, FLICK is still very much an important album in the AC/DC catalog and one that would serve as a “connector” between where they had been and where they were headed.

“We could have a rated R show…it doesn’t have to be X…”

We’re finally back on track after getting derailed by the weather. Always remember to “wait ‘til it has some viscosity to it…” and then JOIN US for a “night time” dive into the album that would serve as the bridge into the next era of AC/DC with “The White Album” known as FLICK OF THE SWITCH.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): #selfconsciousness / “Hold on…you don’t know what you’re asking for…”/ #darkcomedy / “It’s kinda like…being in a cover band and having you guys show up when we play #POISON…”/ #carriesunderwear / “I need a rage truck…”/ “I like doing it…it’s fun…”/

“A little bit…only if you push back…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ 

“Synching up…locking in…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST (NIGHT TIME EDITION) ***/ #coveryourmouth / “I’m building up my immunity system…”/

“It could have been me…”/ #AIDSFlu / “It takes a flu nap is what you’re saying…”/ #homemadelube / “Wait til it has some viscosity to it…”

(05:55): EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #HailToTheBenton / “Dude, the Hog Story is worth the price of admission…”/ “Oh yeah…when we get done…I need to show you guys something…”/ “It’s like zazz and zhuzh…”/ #NWOOSTM / “Here’s what I hate about Marshalls…”/ #Traitor REACTOR IV (Venomizer – 2016) / #1986 / #incomplete / 

“You know what dude, that’s the best #BackstreetBoys song…”/ #Enmy – LEDGE / #melody / “It’s the hard stop…and then super soft…”/ #markthetime / “I wasn’t expecting to like that…”/ “No Slayer of the Episode?”/ #anush #penish / #SlayerOfTheEpisode / #Slayer HALLOWED POINT (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) / “And just like that…all is right in the world…”/ “It’s all 7’s…”

(22:47): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  AC/DC – FLICK OF THE SWITCH / #ACDC #TheWhiteAlbum / “I don’t remember being 10 and listening to AC/DC…”

“It’s black and white in grayscale…”/ Released August 19, 1983 / “Doing AC/DC always takes me back to childhood…”/ “In the For…Flick…Fly category, Flick is in the middle there…” / “It’s 3-D and you can feel the texture…”/ Recorded in Nassau, The Bahamas with Robert John “Mutt” Lange / “He’s the Bob Rock of the 80’s…”/ “Their sound is menopause…”/ RISING POWER / “I feel like it was a little slow to start…”/ “#Pyromania btw was January 20 (1983)…”/ “I don’t know what that is: a desert vagina kinda…”/ THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE / “They should have swapped those two…”/ “Mega ultra mother fucking super stardom…”

(33:23): FLICK OF THE SWITCH / “I think every band has a ‘connector’ album…”/ “That’s a good episode…3 albums in a row…”/ “Use penal clean…”/ NERVOUS SHAKEDOWN

“Two words…slower and sleazier…”/ “You know what the leading cause of death is for nymphomaniacs is?”/ “We could have a Rated R show…it doesn’t have to be X…”/ #killercloser / LANDSLIDE / “What a great closer for Side 1…”/ “That riff…reminded me of this…”/ PLAYING WITH GIRLS (Fly On The Wall – 1985) / “I try to hold this thing together…”

(38:38): GUNS FOR HIRE / “Turn this up to loud…” / “Once you reach a certain level, there is no ‘better’…it’s just different.”/ DEEP IN THE HOLE / “I’m over A.I…”/ 

“I cup the balls, I go all the way…”

(45:34): BEDLAM IN BELGIUM / “Side 2 better than Side 1…” / “It’s really close to ‘Fly On The Wall’…” / BADLANDS / “That’s literally ‘Bad To The Bone’ and ‘In My Time Of Dying’…”/ “I feel like he does that in the studio…”/ SG vs Les Paul / #markthetime / BRAINSHAKE / #killercloser / “That sounds like an AC/DC closer…”/ “It’s only 8 minutes longer than Reign In Blood…”/ “It sounds like a good bridge to ‘Fly On The Wall’…”/ “It’s the bridge between the old and the next…”/ Bands with great 3-album runs / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!/ #untilthenext #outroreel

Picking up right where we left off on our previous HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION episode with even more stories of metal nostalgia and teenage retardity as we reflect on the pressing issues of the day during our high school residency. 

“The bathrooms are over there, Everest is over there, and you’ve gotta be this high to ride the ride…”

From the discovery journeys that led us to our favorite bands to the band that was considered “the next level of ‘Shout At The Devil’”, we go further down the rabbit hole and assess how the 70’s factored into our respective musical paths as well as uncover a potentially jarring shortlist of metal (and non-metal) bands that were hugely popular that we just didn’t (and/or couldn’t) connect with.

“…AKA The Flat Earth Emporium.”

Find out what it’s like to enjoy “a little Mr. Black with some Elijah Craig on top”, discover why having hellions for children means “they’re gonna be good prayerents when they get older”, understand that sometimes you’re just not “mature enough to appreciate Reign In Blood” (especially if you “didn’t have enough pubes to handle it”), and realize that flat earth people can be a great resource for discovering new music when you JOIN US for ROUND 2 of the HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION BUNKERPOON BLOWOUT BONANZA!!!

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “The answer is always yes…”/ #sovereigncitizen #dindunuffin / “I kinda wish there was a nation of Pig Latin…where the national language was Pig Latin…”/ #piglatin / “He’s gonna smash…”/ “A little more than that…don’t be greedy…”/ “Jeptha?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “Side cheese? You mean poon?”/ “Does that mean they’ll be good prarents when they get older?” / #prayerents / “If they’re Irish, they’re pink…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #ThankYou #Shalom #SpecialGuest / “Just enjoyed a little Mr. Black with some Elijah Craig on top…”/

“So, what you’re saying: you had a threesome…”/ “I had a threesome with some dudes…”/ #TheRighteousGemstones / “Do you guys like stuff that’s weird?”/ #CyclingFrog #THCSeltzer / #gigglyhigh #aftershocks #laughtershocks / “The old Roxy or the new Roxy?” / #TheOldRoxy vs #TheNewRoxy / #TheEastern / “I ran over and got some old dude with a mop…” / “Right before Blackie goes on…”/ #WASP #ArmoredSaint / “Reagan was the mean orange guy for the early 80’s…”

(12:34): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #TikTok and #YouTube / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/ 

“Some people are being weird about the name…”/ #PatreonShoutout / “It’s not one fill…it’s 3 fills in 1…”/ “It is the same drummer…it’s the same album…”

(15:33):  #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  METAL REUNION – VOL. 2 / 

“What’d y’all think when Garage Days came out?”/ #Metallica HELPLESS (The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited – 1987) / “I’d have been happy if #Justice sounded like that…” / “You realize that’s almost 40 fucking years old!?”/ “He pulled into my driveway…”/ “Pull up anything on Ride The Lightning…challenge accepted…”/ “Go back…and see how much you can hear #CliffBurton…”/ #BunkerpoonVengeance / RIDE THE LIGHTNING (Ride The Lightning – 1984) / “You can hear the noise of bass…”/ “I’m so sick of this argument…”

(26:12): ***Check out our Rigor Mortis episode on our #Patreon page***/ “Two hard R’s…”/ #RigorMortis RE-ANIMATOR (Rigor Mortis – 1988) / FREAKS (Freaks – 1989) /

“Back in the day…which band would you claim as YOUR band?”/ #RussellsReflections / 

#TheHogStory / “Wait, how big was the band-aid?”/ “A certain #flatearther that we all know who shall not be named…” / “It sounded like Journey but more metal…”/ #Instrumental / 

Produced by #TerryDate / “Our flat earth friend gave Adam a copy of this…”/ “Flat earth is just a troll thing, right? People don’t really believe that…”/ #DreamTheater YTSE JAM (When Dream And Day Unite – 1989) / “Can you imagine if Yngwie had this band?”/ “Okay…kill it there…”/ “I’m having such a brainfart…what’s the guitar player’s name?” / #JohnPetrucci / ‘He’s not even the best drummer in Metallica’ meme… 

(43:00): “Metal Church…” / #MetalChurch TON OF BRICKS (The Dark – 1986) / “Before you leave…check out The Dark real quick…”/ “Greek? Like yogurt and gyros and stuff?” / #guyrose / “It’s just The Dark…are you guys scared of The Dark?”/ THE DARK

“That sounds like Dio Plus…”/ “This is like the next level of ‘Shout At The Devil’…”/ “Clean tigers and shiny diamonds…that’s the name of our new podcast…”

(48:54): “Did y’all find the modern stuff first and go backwards?” / “It was the #Thriller of #TheBlackAlbum of the black Michael Jackson…” / #BlackSabbath and #NeverSayDie memories / “I remember hearing the song on 96 Rock during the day…but I didn’t know that was #Dio …”/ “I got the first Rainbow tape…from that spinner…pirating music, analog style…”/ #Rainbow MAN ON THE SILVER MOUNTAIN (Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – 1975) / “Is it metal?”/ “It’s like early dungeon metal…”/ “Rainbow’s darker, metal wise, than Deep Purple…”/ “Sometimes you just don’t connect…”/ “What is a band from the high school days that was huge but never connected (with you)?” / “I prefer Even Flow…when you’re in a girl’s snooch?”/ #SnoochAndGooch / #IronMaiden #Anthrax / “I’ve got a friend that absolutely hates ALL #PinkFloyd after Syd Barrett…”  / #TheDivisionBell tour stop at Georgia Tech / “I wish I would have gone…”

(1:03:30): “I wanna go back to a day at my house…”/ #Slayer MANDATORY SUICIDE (South Of Heaven – 1988) / “Oh yeah, that brought me right out of prog rock…”/ “The first Slayer that I actually bought was…”/ “In fairness, I was 14 or 15, my balls hadn’t dropped yet, and I hadn’t even learned to masturbate right…”/ “I didn’t have enough pubes to handle it…”/ 

“I don’t think I was mature enough to appreciate Reign In Blood when it came out…” 

(1:09:46): Favorite high school thrash bands and pick one song… / #SacredReich SURF NICARAGUA (Surf Nicaragua – 1988) / “Went from Trump to Cartman…”/ “When I first saw the video for ‘The Family Ghost’ by King Diamond…” / #KingDiamond THE FAMILY GHOST (Abigail – 1987) / “Is that a bad sandwich?”/ “Nostalgic…”/ #Exodus FABULOUS DISASTER (Fabulous Disaster – 1989) / “Back to our flat-earther friend…”/ “The way his riffs are…you almost don’t know where ‘1’ is…”/ “…AKA The Flat Earth Emporium.”/ #FlatEartherFriend /

“The bathrooms are over there, #Everest is over there, and you’ve gotta be this high to ride the ride…” / #SuicidalTendencies YOU CAN’T BRING ME DOWN (Lights…Camera…Revolution! – 1990) / Remembering when S.T. opened for #Metallica at The Benz… / The proper setup and layout of P.A. speakers / “Was that the only time that you saw S.T. live?” / “Wait a minute…$15!?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #hereitcomes

Imagine learning about all of the latest and greatest metal bands without the help of Spotify or the internet. Back in THE METAL DAYS OF YORE, it was all about social networking (sans social media) and getting dubbed cassettes from your friends (or forming your own metal band with those friends) that helped you on your way towards finding the greatest and most obscure thrash and metal that you were looking for.

“I almost got my ass kicked by a bunch of guys in make-up…”

It’s time for a HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION in The Bunkerpoon because we’ve got a very special guest with us and we’re talking all about the glory days of our metal youth. From our first thrash and arena rock shows to our first band experiences, to all of the bands we got into back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, this episode will feel like a trip back in time.

“The only one of us that should have their tits out is probably Bill…”

To everyone who attended (or skipped) high school during 1987 to 1992 (or thereabouts), and anyone who wonders what that experience must have been like, we invite you to JOIN US in The Bunkerpoon Lounge as we wax nostalgic about “the good old days” of ancient metal venues, early concerts, and our favorite bands and albums from our teen years with our very own HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.

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(00:01): ALERT: special #Bunkerpoon Guest Visitor… / “I’m in every episode…smacking the skins…”/ #shalom / “Wait, you wiped with that hand, didn’t you?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY BUNKERPOON PODCAST ADVENTURE!!!!*** / “That might be one of the new names, we’re not real sure yet…”/ #specialguest / #sixseven / “I had no legitimate expectations…we don’t either…”

(03:21): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #TikTok #Instagram #YouTube and #Facebook / #viral #drysockets #wisdomteeth #vegancows / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182 or even PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “The only one of us that should have their tits out is probably Bill…” / “I’ve got a solid A-Plus cup, dude…”/ “I’m doing the Turd Zeppetide…”/ #PatreonShoutout / “I like that one the best…it has a ring to it…”/ #MandatoryMetalPodcast

(07:08): Time for the inside scoop regarding the origin story behind the Decimation lore of yore, including our early days as young musicians and how we chose our respective instruments… / #doommetalbassplayer / “They came next to a highway?”/ “That’s worth calling the cops over…”/ The days of ruffling feathers and pissing people off and getting notoriety for being young, loud, and obnoxious young metal heads…/ #LilburnDaze / 

“Adjusted for inflation, that’s like $28,000 today…”/ “You still sound like…you.”

(13:13): “Speaking of being whores for metal…” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE METAL DAYS OF YORE – HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION / #freestyle / “Did you find out about the thrash stuff before high school or after you got into high school?” / #memorex / #TheMetroplex / The old suitcase attaché cases of metal cassettes…Possessed AND Obsessed… / “We’d buy metal albums just based off the cover…” / Imagine learning about metal WITHOUT the internet…the people that you knew WERE your internet, and THAT was how you found out about new and obscure metal music… / “Was The Accused one of those bands all of y’all were into?”/ “Do you think, for the day, that was their #metalcore in a way?”

(21:33): #TheAccused PSYCHOMANIA (The Return of Martha Splatterhead – 1986) / “How about a little D.R.I.?” #TheYellowAlbum / “It didn’t age with you…”/ #cokelines / “That’s what we’ve unofficially called their official rating system…”/ “Is it Thrash Tard?” (“The T is silent…”) / #DRI #DirtyRottenImbeciles BENEATH THE WHEEL (Thrash Zone – 1989) / “Where were they from?” / #HoustonThrash / “My speakers just blew…it’s because it’s the best part of the show…”/ “Here’s the thing I’ll always remember about high school forevermore…”/ #HelloSteve or #HallowsEve / “That’s the difference between early 80’s and late 80’s…”

(32:26): #Overkill SHRED (Under The Influence – 1988) / “I’m gettin’ it…”/ “If you put Joey on this song and put it on Among The Living…it’s close…”/ “Show Me Mercy…”/ “Is there a band that you should have been into them at that time but you got diverted…like late to the party?” / “They’re scared of melody, I guess…”/ “It’s the same with death metal…and Dream Theater…”/ “Dude, the lyrics don’t even start until like 7 minutes in…”/ The thrash crowd vs the heavy metal crowd / “It was very tribal…”/ “I almost got my ass kicked by a bunch of guys in make-up…”

(40:10): “First arena rock/metal show and/or first thrash show…” / #ThePit / #WoeToYou / “Testament was here it seemed like every 2 months…”/ “For people that don’t know, that was Uber before Uber was Uber…”/ #Testament INTO THE PIT (The New Order – 1988) / 

“I tell you when I saw them…it was them, Megadeth, and Judas Priest…the Painkiller Tour at The Omni…”/ “He let me call him ‘Daddy’…”/ #JudasPriest PAINKILLER (Painkiller – 1990) / 

“This gets me hard every time I hear it…”/ “I would say that’s thrash…”/ “Watch this…hold my beer…”/ “The biggest disappointment…for me…with metal…in high school…”/ #96RockInTheDaytime / “He always wants to fist…it’s what we do in The Bunkerpoon, dude…we fist.”/ “I didn’t get that until high school when I started shoplifting…that’s when I got Live After Death…”/ “This is why (good) parenting is important…”/ “Surely weed is much worse than shoplifting…NOPE!”/ #mixedsignals

(55:15): “We were talking about thrash and high school…”/ “Matt was always into the more technical stuff…”/ #Exhorder and #Pantera / #Poonwagon / “This is like the heaviest power ballad…”/ “That’s a great name for a glam band actually…”/ “Can’t do it anymore can you, fuckface?”/ “Forbidden and Death Angel at the Center Stage was my 2nd thrash show…”/ 

#Forbidden CHALICE OF BLOOD (Forbidden Evil – 1988) / “They’re almost too good…”

(1:04:02): The transition from thrash to death metal and thrash to groove metal that we didn’t even notice…/ “Save it…organic, vegan, homemade lube that you made…” / #mucuslube / “How long is he gonna hold that note?”/ #Death PULL THE PLUG (Leprosy – 1988) / “You can say it…because Trump’s back in office…”/ “We made that man scream…”/ #guitarclass / The Berkmar Talent Show / “That was kind of Ascension’s first show…”/ “Here’s one for Mixon…”/ #Bloodfeast KILL FOR PLEASURE (Kill For Pleasure – 1987) / 

“That sounds like #WREKage …”/ #WrathchildAmerica WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE? (3-D – 1991) / NOTE: It was rumored that they were working on a new album a while back…not sure what the latest is on this…/ “That’s just ‘fuck you’ music…I can do this, you can’t…”/ 

NOTE: Opiate, the EP by #TooL, came out in 1992…Undertow came out in 1993. Everybody (but Russ) was already out of high school by then…/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / 

#untilthenext #outroreel #LOL

As metalheads, we’ve all heard some variation of this argument at least once in our lives, and the further down the rabbit hole we go, the more we truly reflect on what makes something obviously metal or obviously NOT metal. 

“Fish teeth is metal as fuck…”

What’s the lyrical content like? The darker the subject matter, the more metal it is. Lyrics about love and happiness might be considered less metal than lyrics about drugs and wizards, or other more doom and gloom topics.

“If it was distorted as fuck, then it would be metal. But it’s not, so it’s rock and roll…”

How about production? How does it sound? Is it distorted and heavy? Is it really fast or extremely aggressive? More distortion and more speed in the sound equals more metal. 

“He’s getting high with a wizard, dude…that’s pretty metal…”

Many of us who grew up with the likes of Ozzy, Dio, and Motley Crue in the early 80’s could easily tell when the boundaries started to shift between rock and metal. And of course, those are the easiest artists to reference as they each capture the majority of the traits that inherently make them metal artists: intensity and attitude, darkness and speed, distortion and heaviness.

“When I think of metal, I think of…Metal Church…”

There are some instances where it’s obvious whether or not something is metal (or not), and there are some where it’s not quite as cut and dry. So, if you’d like to get our take, be sure to JOIN US (along with our special guest for this episode, Mr. Bonerman) deep in The Bunkerpoon as we attempt to settle the great debate of METAL? OR NOT METAL? (because THAT is the question). 

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(00:01): “I think that’s definitely metal…” / #Krokus / “I said come…you said back…”/ #onetake / Some Christmas movie leftovers…/ #ChristmasVacation #HomeAlone / “He was beating on your Ethan?” / “You’re about to be cross trained, dude…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Possibly soon to be something else maybe…”/ #Bunkerpoon2026 / “The only thing useful that I’ve learned in 53 years…”/ #OneLineADay / #simulation / “I’ve got a lot to look forward to…”

(06:36): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “We don’t show our tits or anything…(yet)”/ “Oh…The Metal Nerdery calendar…” / #ThrashOfTheTitans / “It’s the old Roxy…” / “Alright…you’re fired.”/ “Hell to the naw, naw, naw…”/ “That fits perfectly…”/ “It’s a Tuesday night…”/ “It’s Mr. Bonerman…”

(12:49): “Metal, or NOT Metal!? THAT is the question!!!” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PRESENTS:  METAL? OR NOT METAL? / “Is it on the edge? Is it metal? Is it not metal?

Is rock metal? Is light beer ‘beer’? Is nonalcoholic beer ‘beer’? / “Rock seems kinda like the lite beer of metal…”/ “Metal is heavier…and angrier…” / “If you dial it all the way back, it’s all blues, right?”/ “Think of songs you’re not sure of…like we don’t know their pronouns…”/ #BeavisASMR / “This song is definitely gonna get us flagged…”/ #MetalOrNotMetal / #DeepPurple SMOKE ON THE WATER (Machine Head – 1972) / “When I think of metal, I think of #MetalChurch …”/ #BlackSabbath DIRTY WOMEN (Technical Ecstasy – 1976) / “That’s more metal than what we just listened to…”

(22:49): #NIN TERRIBLE LIE (Pretty Hate Machine – 1989) / “If we’re using heaviness, and intensity, and darkness…”/ “It’s like Bob Ross coloring only in neons…”/ #FaceDownAssUp / #SugarRay MEAN MACHINE (Lemonade And Brownies – 1995) / #sixseven / “#Motorhead IS metal…”/ #Mountain MISSISSIPPI QUEEN (Climbing! – 1970) / “It’s gonna sound great in post…”/ #RamJam BLACK BETTY (Ram Jam – 1977) / NOTE: Black Betty was originally written by Huddie Lead Belly Ledbetter / “This is a little bit…just a touch heavier than rock ‘n’ roll…”/ “If you stroke broadly…”

(33:22): “I’m gonna go more modern…me and the wife argue about this…”/

#FallingInReverse POPULAR MONSTER (Popular Monster – 2024)

“Alright, play God is a Weapon…they got shit that is metal…” / #FallingInReverse GOD IS A WEAPON / “I saw the eyebrow raise…”/ “Hold on, play Bad Girls Club…”/ BAD GIRLS CLUB 

“That was not even close…”

(37:16): #UriahHeep THE WIZARD (Demons and Wizards – 1972) / NOTE:  Long Haired Country Boy by The Charlie Daniels Band came out in 1974 / “He’s getting high with a wizard, dude…that’s pretty metal…”/ “Hair metal bands…are those bands metal?”/ “Wait a minute…you just did 3 Falling in Reverse songs that were NOT metal…”/ “Fish teeth is metal as fuck…”/ #LedZeppelin ACHILLES LAST STAND (Presence – 1976) / “If it was distorted as fuck, then it would be metal. But it’s not, so it’s rock and roll…”/ “I’m sorry, what was that?”/  “Is it a monkey…or a chimpanzee?”/ “That and the breakdancer…”/ #AldoNova MONKEY ON YOUR BACK (Subject…Aldo Nova – 1983) / “You think THAT is more metal than Fantasy?”/ “Metal? Or NOT Metal?”/ #Weezer HASH PIPE (The Green Album – 2001) / 

“I got more thoughts now…” / “You’ve gotta have attitude…extremes is what we’re talking about…”/ #TheKinks YOU REALLY GOT ME (Kinks – 1964) / “They were shooting coke and heroin…and ropes…”/ #BlueCheer SUMMERTIME BLUES (Vincebus Eruptum – 1968) / “You add more distortion to that and they’re opening for #Sleep …”/ “Is Bon Jovi metal? You throw his voice on that, and that’s Bon Jovi…”

(54:44): #Heart BARRACUDA (Little Queen – 1977) / “It’s almost Achilles Last Stand…”/ 

“More metal than #KISS?”/ “You know Nancy was in Fast Times At Ridgemont High…”/ 

“That’s gotta be Joe Walsh in the background…”/ “OMG, her sweater reminds me of a great joke…what’s the difference between pink and purple?”/ “We’re gonna have to do a few episodes of this…”/ “It’s kinda like how death metal was…it wasn’t really thrash but it was something beyond thrash…”/ #BlueOysterCult GODZILLA (Spectres – 1977) / #Cream SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE (Disraeli Gears – 1967) / “He must have done all the acid…”/ “This is Vol. I…”/ #DefLeppard STAGEFRIGHT (Pyromania – 1983) / “Let’s pick the least metal Slayer song…”/ EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

Generally speaking, whenever someone says “Slayer” or “Metallica”, you think of two veteran thrash bands which both formed in 1981 and both released their debut albums in 1983. This is common knowledge among most fans of both of these bands. 

Ironically, there’s another band who follows this exact same timeline of forming in 1981 and releasing their debut album in 1983, yet at the time, they were NOT at all thrashy…not even close. 

Most of us know of PANTERA as the brutally heavy, groove metal masters from Arlington, Texas who lit a proverbial fire under the ass of the thrash and heavy music scene in 1990 with their “major label” debut album (with the emphasis, in this case, on the words “major label”) as CFH was actually their FIFTH studio album. 

Fifth? Wait a minute…what about THE FIRST FOUR studio albums!? And why are those albums not talked about and celebrated just like all things PANTERA!? 

Well, there’s a reason that THE FIRST FOUR aren’t really talked about or acknowledged. Actually, there are probably a multitude of reasons, but the most glaring one is the stylistic difference between their early glam and power metal days and the heavier, grittier era when they truly became the “Cowboys From Hell”. 

Remember those awkward Olan Mills pictures you used to take with the family, or better yet, the pictures of you in high school with that absurd, dorky hairstyle that people always like to bring up in conversation? That’s kinda what THE FIRST FOUR ALBUMS by PANTERA were like.

Always remember that “Dokken is better than KISS” and you absolutely have to “pill up before PT”. Find out why “concubine” is a much cooler term than girlfriend, why the stress of having multiple families can be fatal, and realize that most doctors’ definition of “prescription pain medication” is painfully incorrect and a complete waste of a prescription pad. 

Get ready to find out which Pantera album came out on Rex’s 20th birthday, which song features Dime on lead vocals, and understand that while we absolutely did not plan for this to be episode 333, it just so happened to turn out that way. 

Brace yourselves and get your relaxers ready before you JOIN US as we go back to the 80’s to get a better idea of why one of the greatest metal bands of all time tried to bury their earliest work (and original “not as metal” logo) with THE FIRST FOUR from the mighty PANTERA.

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(00:01): “Welcome back to the Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, Wisdom Teeth, Dry Socket Podcast…”/ “I am an adult children who refuses to move out…of my own house…”/

Double sided blade…or dildo? / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Well I’ve got my Masters in Bation…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST (for now…)*** / “I can’t jerk right now…there’s no tugging…” / “Pill up before you do PT…”/ #painkillers 

(05:43): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #Facebook #YouTube #Instagram #TikTok - EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “We’re pondering changing the name…”/ #namechange / “Hookers and Metal…Metal Dildos…”/ NOTE:  Steely Dan is not a vibrator, it’s actually a slang term for a metal dildo…/ #multiplefamilies /

“Even having multiple significant others at once…King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines…”/ “That’s what we should start calling girlfriends now: concubines…”/ “Snooch, gooch, or hot pocket?”

(12:43): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “What happens if we change the name? Do they get a new shirt…everybody?”/ “Tragesty…that’s a tragedy and a travesty…” / #freshstart / “I don’t think it’s Norveen…”/ “It’s always been Waggis…”

(16:22): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  PANTERA – THE FIRST FOUR ALBUMS / Pre #CFH #Pantera / #TheFirstFour / Metal Magic (1983) / “It’s like a He-Man Thundercat…”/ “They’re on the same timeline as Metallica and Slayer…they didn’t really break until 9 years later when CFH came out…”/ “I wonder if Rex Rocker is related to John Rocker?”/ RIDE MY ROCKET / “It sounds like KISS…I’ve been listening to nothing but KISS…”/ WIDOWMAKER / “His name’s gotta be Jerry…that’s a dude who lives in the South…” / METAL MAGIC / “I wonder if we’ll get a cease and desist on this episode…”/ “They didn’t change their name, they changed their logo…”

(35:00): Projects In The Jungle (1984) / “They’re like Texas’s #DeathAngel …”/ “It came out on Rex’s 20th birthday…”/ #albumcover / ALL OVER TONIGHT / “That’s High ‘N’ Dry, all day…” / “That sounds more like OUR Dime…”/ OUT FOR BLOOD / “He stepped into a whole other dimension of bad ass…”/ BLUE LIGHT TURNIN’ RED / “This is his Eruption…”/ #getchapull / “It’s like Eddie and Randy combined…Randy Van Halen…Eddie Van Rhoads…”/ PROJECTS IN THE JUNGLE / “The drums have been to the gym…the whole production has been to the gym…”/ “So far everything on here sounds less #KISS than the first album”/ HEAVY METAL RULES! / Bang Your Head (Like A Hurricane) / “What if they played this on 96 Rock back in the day and we just totally missed it?”/ “Dude, Dokken is better than KISS…”

(48:34): I Am The Night (1985) / “At this point, Dime is 19…”/ HOT AND HEAVY / I AM THE NIGHT / D*G*T*T*M (Darrell Goes To The Movies) / “What kind of movies is he watching?”/ “Let’s bring ALL the sound effects in…”/ “It’s the most serious song title we’ve seen…” / VALHALLA / “You can definitely tell he’s got an 80’s honk, for sure…”/ #killercloser  FOREVER TONIGHT / “This sounds like right before the sex scene from #Footloose that they cut out…” / “This is so weird…I kinda feel dirty now…”/ “Dude, you missed the ballad…”

(1:00:16): Power Metal (1988) / “Three years after I Am The Night…no more Glaze…” / Enter Phil Anselmo / “Phil started when he was 13…what were we doing at 13? I didn’t even know how to use Jergens yet…”/ #killeropener / Geoff Tate meets Rob Halford / ROCK THE WORLD / “I wonder how many bands tried to steal him?” / POWER METAL / “I think the first time I actually heard this…”/ DEATH TRAP / “It’s definitely heavier…the riffs…”/ “This is definitely…the turning point….”/ OVER AND OUT / “Much more metal…”/ P*S*T* 88 (with Dime on vocals) / “Pussy tight…tonight!” / “That was fun…that was definitely different…”/ 

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #HappyNewYear

Released on September 12th (and in the U.S. on the 13th), 2011, WORSHIP MUSIC is the first ANTHRAX album featuring Joey Belladonna on vocals since 1990’s Persistence of Time and is truly a return to their thrash roots, with a nice blend of classic 80’s era Thrash Thrax and the more groove laden heaviness of 90’s era Bush Thrax. This was definitely a comeback album for them and kicks off the 2010’s era with loudness, fastness, and awesomeness.

Discover “the most Christmasy sounding porn name”, find out what it really means when “the handy dude” comes over and starts “cleaning the gutters”, and be sure to enjoy Boxing Day Eve when you JOIN US as we dive into the revival of Joey era Thrash Thrax with WORSHIP MUSIC.

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(00:01): “Merry Christmas, everybody…you can say that in America, right…again?” /

“We were shamed for saying it…”/ “At some point you can’t say anything…”/ “Is it root or route? Genre or genre?” / “You know why? It’s because we’re Reinventing the Metal…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Welcome back AND Merry Christmas to you from Metal Nerdery Podcast!!!” / “Ooooh, the TRANS podcast…”/ 

“Uh, it’s Christmas magic…”/ “I think he spent most of his time there…there’s nothing but kids there…”/ “Not 4…it’s probably 5…”/ “Oh boy, you went to the donkey show…”

(04:39): ***Check us out on the SOCIAL MEDIA at #metalnerderypodcast at #Facebook and #TikTok and #Instagram and #YouTube and Head on over to the PATREON at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #PatreonShoutOut / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “It’s…it’s rough…if it’s anything, it’s rough…”/ “I don’t know why he talks like that…”/ “When you get winded / going down an escalator…” / “There’s 2 reasons to stay fit…” / “I’m not Peter North shooting ropes across the room…” / #PeterNorth / “Maybe he made adult toys at the north pole…”/ 

A shoutout to the people across the globe…we just saw our #SpotifyWrapped / “Per month…”/ “Lead streams…as opposed to a rhythm stream?” / .003 cents per stream / #RussellsMetallicaReflections / “You saw him cup the microphone!”/ “He can do the old windshield wiper pretty quick…”

(15:48): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  ANTHRAX – WORSHIP MUSIC / Released September 12th  (and/or 13th), 2011, the first album with Joey Belladonna since 1990 / “He left them for #Volbeat…”/ “It sounded modern, and it still sounded thrashy, and it still sounded like #Anthrax…”/ “It’s not in the cards…”/ #vices / “You mean I gotta shoot ropes again…right now!?”

(18:52): WORSHIP / “You can tell this is intro music…”/ EARTH ON HELL / “Starting tonight, people will die…” / “#ThrashThrax vs #BushThrax - totally different ‘Thraxes…” / “It sounds like classic Anthrax…”/ THE DEVIL YOU KNOW / “It fits everywhere…” / FIGHT ‘EM ‘TIL YOU CAN’T / #zombies / “It sounds like it could have come out…in ’90 or ’91…”/ I’M ALIVE / (NOTE: “Blending” in this case refers to the layering of the clean guitars over the crunchy guitars) / “I know, it’s got melody…whatever…” / #ThrashThrax

(29:20): “In between-ies…”/ HYMN 1 / IN THE END / “That kinda sounds like John Bush era Anthrax a little bit…” / “His honk didn’t get too out of shape…”/ #JourneyTribute (he played drums AND sang!?) / THE GIANT / #usethoseheadphones / “There’s more and more of the John Bush era in there…the element of that period…” / HYMN 2 / JUDAS PRIEST / “Let it ring out…”/ “Yeah, that’s kinda 2000’s-y…” / “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds…”/ 

“You and the handy dude?”/ “That’s what you call it? ‘Cleaning the gutters’?” 

(39:13):  CRAWL / “Legs spread out before me…”/ “It sounds like the time…” / “Curly Taylor…”/ THE CONSTANT / “It does have that (Five Minutes Alone) vibe to it…”/ “It’s like pop punk meets Anthrax…the 2000’s…” / #PopPunkThrax / “This sounds like a nice blend of Thrash Thrax and Bush Thrax…all the Thraxes mixed into one…” / REVOLUTION SCREAMS/NEW NOISE/ #Refused / “Oh you’re on the #Metallica recording schedule? Nah brah, #TooL recording schedule…we go decades between our albums…”/ #MerryChristmas #untilthenextyear #outroreel #sixseven

1996 marked the time that The Super Bowl went Triple X, when Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics, the United States national debt was a measly $5 Trillion, and the world of heavy metal continued its march forward, trudging past the brief grunge fad into darker, sludgier, and heavier waters. 

“Is this KISS?”

The thrash period of the early 90’s had already faded away as the grunge period came and went, and the overall vibe of metal was shifting to something even angrier and darker, with a veritable orgy of new metal subgenres popping up and coming online faster than OnlyFans accounts during the lockdowns of 2020, back when we were all just trying to “flatten the herd”.

“Now it’s just me and Wristina…she’s been by my side forever…she knows all the moves…”

Discover why having a “fistful of Jergens” is essential and why shampoo bottles should really come with a warning label. Get your holiday prime rib dinner properly roasted, get your state of consciousness properly toasted, and JOIN US as we look forward to 2026, a mere 30 years since THE YEAR IN METAL – 1996.

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(00:01): “Hey…nice shot.” / Richard Patrick…Dick Pat…/ “It’s the holiday season…”/ “Squeege?” / “Dennis Leary…the comedian formerly known as Bill Hicks?” / “It’s the basis of what ended their friendship…”/ “You can’t be funny if you’re happy all the time…” /

“Other R-worded (you can say it, Trump’s president)…” / “All the words that are offensive, we’ll just pick a letter…to be 100% politically correct…”/ #politicallycorrect / “You don’t have to say ‘W-word’…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “It’d be like a trans-metal song…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “We’re all W words down here, man…”/ “But now it’s just me and Wristina…she’s been by my side forever…she knows all the moves…”/ “This hand…looks like it could use a fistful of Jergens…” / #shampoowarning

(07:57): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #TikTok #YouTube #Instagram and #Facebook & EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com (including your #Shittah!) & PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / Patreon shoutout…/ “Thank you Trip6 for joining us…he’s the inspiration for the Angry Matt podcast…”/ YOU CAN GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!! / #RussellsWeddingReflections / “Is he a big #MAGMA person?”/ #ChateauElan / “Open bar is scary, dude…”/ #fivecoursemeal / “Fuck the food, dude…we’re getting’ hammered!”/ “How do you get your filet, sir?” / #primerib / “WTF is prime rib? I could never tell if it’s a roast, a steak, a steak-roast, or a roast-steak?” / “It’s generally not smoked, it’s roasted…”

(19:34): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  1996 – YEAR IN METAL / 

“The Year of Tool, Pantera…the Loads…”/ “Everytime I wanna hear a deep cut, Russell wants to go with the hit, and now, it’s the exact opposite…”/ #onmicburp / “I don’t know if you do that when you stroke…not like that…”/ #Overkill COLD HARD FACT / BATTLE (The Killing Kind) / “We’ve gotta do a dive on this at some point…”/ #Annihilator REFRESH THE DEMON (Refresh The Demon) 

(29:43): “That’s like their #GarageDays …”/ #Slayer GEMINI (Undisputed Attitude) / 

“Just don’t do that again…”/ “Have we ever played #IcedEarth on this podcast?”/ #IcedEarth I’D DIE FOR YOU (The Dark Saga) / “Is this KISS?”/ “That felt like a gloves of shame moment right there…”/ #Pantera DRAG THE WATERS (The Great Southern Trendkill) / “It’s just noise…that’s my least favorite…”/ “I don’t think we’ve ever played The Exploited on this show…”/ #TheExploited BEAT THE BASTARDS (Beat The Bastards)

(40:30): “I already pulled it up…how about…this one?”/ #Tool HOOKER WITH A PENIS (Ænima) / “Remember the two different album dives we did of this?”/ #Sepultura ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS (Roots) / “Is this like their Lick It Up?” / “How about some Life Is Peachy?”/ “We need to do a noise episode…” / #KoRn MR. ROGERS (Life Is Peachy) / “If it comes on sounding like #Queensryche I’m gonna laugh…”/ #Neurosis LOCUST STAR (Through Silver In Blood) / “Definitely atmospheric…” / #Assmopheric / #buttexhaust / 

“Technically if we eat cows, we’re also vegan, right? 

(50:55): “In terms of the album cover, relative to the first one…FAIL!”/ #RATM YEAR OF THA BOOMERANG (Evil Empire) / “Let’s play Burzum…I’m kidding…remember what that is?”/ 

“Saffonic noise…” / “I do sling my flagen dugen…”/ #Burzum (Filosofem) / “You gotta work a little harder to kill somebody with a hammer…”/ “He’s so shitty that R.E.M. must write all his songs for him…”/ A moment of #STP during Russell’s brief absence…/ #StoneTemplePilots AND SO I KNOW (Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop) / #STPASMR / #markthetime / “How about some Acid Bath, actually?” / “And then…”/ #AcidBath PAEGAN LOVE SONG (Paegan Terrorism Tactics) 

(1:03:40): “How about a little Cannibal Corpse?” The first album featuring George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher on vocals… / “How about the #killeropener?” / #CannibalCorpse DEVOURED BY VERMIN (Vile) / “That’s good stuff…”/ “I feel like children smell like sadness…”/ “How about a little EyeHateGod?”/ #AI / “What an album cover that is?” / #EyeHateGod  DIXIE WHISKEY (Dopesick) / “That’s album number 3 for them, btw…”/ 

“What was the number 1 #Billboard hit song in 1996?”/ “You know…NOPE!”/ “Let’s end the show this way…”/ “You know what they’re doing? Reinventing the Metal…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #likesharesubscribe #happyholidays

The release of THE ULTIMATE SIN on January 24, 1986, the 4th studio album from OZZY OSBOURNE (and the 2nd & final album to feature Jake E. Lee on guitar) is definitely one of the heaviest albums of Ozzy’s 80’s output. 

“I’ve got the magic!”

With heavier riffs, crazier guitar pyrotechnics, and darker lyrical themes like nuclear annihilation, THE ULTIMATE SIN blends in just the right amount of glam while still maintaining the essential heaviness that is a prerequisite for any classic OZZY album. While perhaps a bit “more Blizzard than Diary”, it’s a dramatic improvement from Bark At The Moon and is overall heavier and more focused.

“Oh yeah, the ‘dunniguhh’? Yeah…I remember that one.”

Get ready for some metal news and current events, understand that “most people, if they have a mustache” can only look like one of three different people (or a combination of all three), and accept the fact that “the bur-duh-dur is what got ‘em”. 

Be sure to check out our 2 brand-new embedded podcasts within this one and realize “I’ve lost my magic…ever since you moved me over here…” when you JOIN US as we head back to the mid-80’s with OZZY OSBOURNE and THE ULTIMATE SIN.

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(00:01): “Date night sausage…isn’t EVERY sausage a date night sausage?” / “We’re keeping with the ‘O’ themes…” / “I’ve lost my magic…ever since you moved me over here…”/ #markthetime / “This is great radio…”/ “This is why we have 6 listeners…”/ “Let’s hold ‘em high and suck ‘em down…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “It’s delicious and sticky…here in Bunkerpoon, Georgia…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s 2 in a row…”

(04:04): “I think the government is actually changing the time…and that shit the airplanes are spitting out…”/ #MetalNews and #MetalHappenings / #pictorial (“A spread?”) / #ArchEnemy / #GunsNRosesWorldTour / “How much are tickets gonna be?”/ #CastleRat and #HighOnFire / “Could be #ThunderAtlanta if it was raining and it was the 80’s…”/ #EmberingEffigy / #Slayer #HellAwaits / “If they did remix it…”/ #RIBMix / “R.I.B’d for our pleasure…” / #Megadeth and the final tour

(9:47): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US AT #TikTok #YouTube #InstaGram and #Facebook at #metalnerderypodcast, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com , VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182, and/or PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***Check out our wide variety of merchandise options for the holidays at metalnerdery.com/merch *** /  “We’re working through some things right now…” / “We’re all gonna look just like Bill…”/ “We could do…an embedded podcast within a podcast…” / #AngryMattPodcast and #RussellsLoveTips

(13:39): “WHADDYA WANNA HEAR!?” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OZZY OSBOURNE – THE ULTIMATE SIN / “Have you guys seen the documentary?” / #OzzyNoEscapeFromNow #OzzyOsbourne / “This will be the #conspiracytheorypodcast …”/ “45 or 50?” / 4th studio album / Released January 24, 1986 / “Wait a minute…what was that?” / “There were 2 years of my life that I was dead certain I was gonna be a breakdancer…”/ “Dude, I did it!”/ “Mega 80’s” / “I know what your breakdancer name would be…WAGE WAX…” / “It’s gonna be better than Bark At The Moon…fingers crossed…”/ “Remember the video for The Ultimate Sin?” / Produced by 

Ron Nevison / THE ULTIMATE SIN / Go check out the #musicvideo for this!!! / “Oh yeah, where he looks like Boss Hogg?”/ “I bet she does backdoor stuff, man…look at her eyes.”

(28:00): SECRET LOSER / “That sounds like the 80’s, for sure…”/ “It’s a better mix than #BarkAtTheMoon for sure…”/ “I’ve got the magic!”/ NEVER KNOW WHY / “You can’t say that! That’s Dio’s song…” / #WeRock #IWannaRock / “That’s an #IronMaiden tune…the drums…what song is it?” Women in Uniform?”/ “Oh yeah, the ‘dunniguhh’? Yeah…I remember that one.”

(35:40): THANK GOD FOR THE BOMB / “This is not the one I was thinking of…I was thinking of ‘Killer of Giants’…” / “Nuke you, nuke you…” / NEVER / “You can definitely feel the 80’s in this…”/ “It’s way riffier than Bark At The Moon…”/ #placekeyboardnoiserighthere / “That song is so good but the rest of the album…”

(41:26): Side 2 / LIGHTNING STRIKES / “There’s your hook, Russ…” / #veryhooky / “This is so much more Blizzard than Diary…” / “Let’s be honest…most of Ozzy’s stuff is pop…He’s the pop of metal…”/ “The 2nd (and also last) album with Jake E. Lee…” / KILLER OF GIANTS / “No Kerslake?” / #Sailing / #RoyClark and #JerryReed / “It was another Burt Reynolds movie…”/ “Most people, if they have a mustache, they look like either a fireman, a gay porn star, a pedophile, or a combination of all three…”

(50:43): FOOL LIKE YOU / “Awww, listen to that!” / “That’s gotta be harmonics…”/ “It’s my thing now…”/ “He’s got some tasty riffs and tasty licks…hey, that should be the name of the podcast…”/ #metallicks / “Do you think the beginning of Fool Like You is like the beginning of Surfacing?” / “It reminded us of that…”/ “Dude, we should do a #Nickelback Inside The Metal…maybe a #Chronicles (episode)…”/ “Which is worse: Nickelback or #KISS?” / “Not 3, but three…”/ #IlluminatiThree / “I guess you do gotta do more finger acrobatics…”/ SHOT IN THE DARK / #thekillercloser #thebighitsingle / “That’s a terrible closer…” / “Records? Who am I kidding…the more I listen to streams I really like…”/ “Remember the 80’s pants?”/ #momjeans / “This is our front butt gunt…” / #frontbutt #frontgunt #frontbuttgunt / “You know who she reminds me of a whole lot!?” / “She had that ‘why’…”/ “That’s 2 things she’ll never forget…or always remember…”/ “It’s the first album cover to feature artwork…”/ 

“The bur-duh-dur is what got ‘em…” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

As with the many legendary concept albums that have come before, masterpieces such as King Diamond’s Abigail, Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime, and Dream Theater’s Scenes From A Memory, THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, the latest offering from OPETH, is one of the finest examples of storytelling ever captured in audio form and is their first proper “concept album” to date. 

“They cram so much into such a small space…”

Chronicling the reading of the will of a wealthy patriarch (and featuring Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull as the patriarch in question), THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT perfectly represents the culmination of the various components that have established OPETH as a progressive metal force to be reckoned with for more than 30 years. 

“I realize this is not y’all’s favorite flavor of the month…”

With a seamless blending of their early progressive and melodic death metal period through their more eclectic, 70’s prog rock infused progressive metal period of the 2010’s, OPETH is akin to a “haunted house version of Dream Theater”, loaded with a wide  variety of sonic textures, top tier instrumental prowess, and vivid lyrical imagery, all of which are covered in a thin drapery of darkness. 

“Have they ever done anything ‘hooky’?”

JOIN US as we take on what is arguably one of the finest progressive metal concept albums in existence (and most certainly a top contender for “Album Of The Year”) and quite possibly the greatest OPETH album of all time, THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “I would like to take this moment to say…AND…” / #GeorgiaBulldogs / “Dangole sports ball dawgs…” / #Natty / “Speaking of Athens…my only thought was…R.E.M. must have written this song…”/ #WeBuiltThisCityASMR / “That’s when they dropped the Jefferson…”/ “As long as there’s a bend in the wrist, you’re fine…”/ #markthetime / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #waitforit #markthetime / “And I screamed like a little girl…not one footstep did I hear…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #strangerinthetub #jackoffhand / “Like a chimpanzee?” 

(06:06): PATREON US at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast  / “Who knows? Santa might bring a shirt…” / MERCH US at www.metalnerdery.com/merch / SOCIAL MEDIA US at #FaceBook #InstaGram #YouTube #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!! / CASTLE RAT –WIZARD (The Bestiary – 2025) / “It’s like Pat Benatar in a stoner band…she’s got swords dude!” / “That dude’s hard to look at…his mouth is weird…”/ #markthetime / “That’ll be the shittah not that other shittah…”

(12:50): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OPETH – THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT / “It’s an oopsie that’s a fun oopsie…”/ #educationalpodcast / #Opeth #TheLastWillAndTestament / “It’s their very first concept album…” / “I like to think of them like haunted house #DreamTheater …”/ “The first album with the return of the death growl vocals (aka ‘screams’) in 13 years…”/ “I’ve got room now, dude…”/ Released November 22, 2024 / “This is cool because it’s new and it’s old at the same time…”/ Featuring Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull / “Subsection…not SS…in case you’re wondering…”

(17:00): §1 / “Is this good with relaxers?” / “Draped in death…the howl of lore…” / “Let’s do backroads…maybe some dirt roads…” / §2 / “Isn’t that a creepy, haunted sound?”/ “Until his return…” / #useyourheadphones / “It’s kinda not necessarily all over the place but it’s all over the place…”/ “It’s got a weird, haunted 70’s feel to it for the modern age…”/ “Every album is different but they’re all uniquely different…”/ #Oldpeth / “Have they ever done anything ‘hooky’?”

(26:47): §3 / “Reminds me of #Rush …”/ #onmicburp / “He’s looking for the big hit single…” / “He’s talking about…the hook…”/ §4 / “No! No! No!” / #harpsolo / “This is music nerd music…” / §5 / “He does that one vocal part that sounds like #Forbidden to me…”/ “It’s all head…”/ #markthetime / “Where’d that come from?”/  Death growls vs Screams / “I realize this is probably not y’all’s favorite flavor of the month…this is right up there with #Coroner for #AOTY …”/ “They cram so much into such a small space…” / “There’s tons of coke lines…”

(39:17): §6 / “He’s an octopus genius…” / #drumvirtuoso / “This is like #Rainbow on steroids…70’s prog…” / “It’s almost comical it’s so awesome…”/ “Is this one all in 7’s?” / #towardsthelater / §7 / “I like the flute, I do…I never thought I’d say that…”/ “They should get the guy who made #HeavyMetal (the movie) …animate this album…like a concept album movie…but with a lot of tits” / “It’s hereditary ropes, bruh…”/ A STORY NEVER TOLD / “This is the most consistent…”/ “Bless y’all for at least giving it a shot…”/ #urgent / #moodmusic / “I got into them when the #Damnation album came out (2003)…you might like that…it’s more like #PinkFloyd …”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

With that in mind, we’ve put together a veritable cornucopia of clips from our 2025 collection that we hope you enjoy. Our only real cautionary advisory would be that you listen to this prior to enjoying your Turkey Day feast in order to avoid the very real possibility of laughing until you vomit.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! Enjoy your Thanksgiving Day feast, prep carefully if you’re deep frying a turkey, be thankful and gracious for the lack of giblets in your gravy, and enjoy an abundance of relaxers before dinner with the family when you JOIN US for the most off-putting, irresponsible, and exhausting VACATION TAPES you’ve ever heard.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): SHARON!!! / #oldefaece / “He came in for the tur…”/ #whatsitcalled / “Whatever happened to #JuiceNewton …? / #juicebox / #DownTime / “Let’s not make it gross…”/ “She sounds like #PeterSteele…” 

(02:43): #AI / “She stopped sucking me today…”/ #ConwayTwitty / “The power was in his hair…”/ “Ladies and gentlemen…Conway Twitty…”/ #BramStroker / “…slash handjob…”/ “What am I saying? I’m fixed…”/ #vasectomyawareness 

(07:02): “I just don’t give a shit anymore…I’m not gonna bring the A game…”/ “Nobody ever wants to go first…I set the bar ultra-low…”/ #mealprep / “Sometimes Dracula likes to go camping…”/ #vampirejerky / “I thought you were gonna go the frozen tampon route…”/ “If it looks like #liquidsneeze / #GospelBand / “This is extraordinary news…”/ #carnivore 

(11:05): “The #fuckbag review!?” / #redemption / “I was having a bad day…I changed the review to 5 stars…”/ “Okay let’s not do that…”/ #shittalkuh / “Yours is by far one of my FAVORITE podcasts…”/ #offputting and #exhausting / “The #superfuckbag review is still out there…”/ “Could have been a ‘Them’…”/ #TransAms 

(14:56): “That’s a fantastic band name!” / #coathangerabortion / “Our house is haunted, btw…”/ #maryreilly / #GhostStoryASMR / “The original owners died in that house…”/ “The headphones, man…”/ #Megatron / #Transformers 

(17:58): “This is from the mighty Mixon…since we’re on the way…”/ “Conan…the Barbarian Destroyer?” / “I would have done it from the balls…from my balls to you…”/ #OMG / #DJTASMR / #vagmetal / “Really? You’re gonna go there…”/ #DOGEASMR / #batvagina / “Nutrition is a lie…”/ #saltwater / “Butter is good for you…”/ #nutritionadvice / “Does Santa Claus come up from the septic tank now!?” / #markallthetimes 

(22:16): “Tattered and torn…or shaven and shorn?”/ #footfetishporn / “There was a moment when we needed money…”/ “I’m always looking right at the snooch…”/ #toethumbs / “Apparently people think she’s a dude…wait, don’t women have Adam’s Apples though?” / “Which do you think would be more risky?”/ “I got a kiss on the cheek from my first stripper…”/ “I usually put it in the G-string…”/ #manintheboat 

(27:39): “Every time I see sports highlights…in slow motion…” / #slowmotionporn / “What was that voice you just did?” / “It was #KattWilliams…”/ #KingOfComedy / “That’s a better Katt Williams impression…”/ “Not since Tuesday…”/ “I sit back and wait…”/ #shockvalue / “It was odd…”/ “I don’t want to no more…”/ “How does it reattach?” / “That sounded almost like #RichardPryor a little bit…”

(32:20): “And the verdict…”/ “I gotta back snooch…you wanna see my balloon knot?” / “It was in the dark…if I do it in the dark my dick will seem bigger…”/ “The yurt, as it ‘twere…”/ “That’s the pre-hole, right?” / “I think ‘fuck off’ is a full sentence…”/ “I’ll fix that in post…”/ “Y’all know what snails look like, right?” / “No, no, no, these were slugs…”/ #whatareyouwatching / #sexualdeviance / #snoochguard / “I like that word, dude…” / “It’s the snooch & gooch…”/ “Paws…”

(38:19): “Sooooo…last week…” / “Wait a minute…this is #Sleep…this is #Dopesmoker…”/ #bestfridayever / “For those 35 minutes…it was the best Friday ever…”/ #MAGMA / “Is that one of them Trump supporters?” / #guitarclass / “That was his fuck-off hour…”/ “We came up with this song…”/ “I left it in there just for you…”

(43:11): “You should have got the burger…”/ #mediumrarechickentenders / “You get into that Gran Ma…”/ “You could stop drinking…”/ “If you’re doing a ride share…you owe it to yourself to be hammered at least on one end of the journey…”/ #shitfaced / “It was awesome…”/ “You know that pre-hangover hangover that you get?” / #markthetime / #UberEats / “So you paid $38 for $8 Chinese food…”

(48:14): “That’s one of the things I did like about #TheBlackAlbum…”/ “Bill needs a segment…”/ #tonechasing / “In my non-guitarist ears…he’s a singer, he hears things differently…”/ “What about #Pantera?” / “The mix is completely different…”

(52:41): “It’s not overbearing, but it’s definitely there…”/ “I’m gonna be that guy…”/ “But you didn’t have ‘Stairway To Heaven 2’…”/ “I forgot the after twang that Jager’s got…”/ #snoochsmooching / “Snooch smooching alright!” / “There IS no metal without #ACDC…”/ #Era / “Australasia…where is New Zealand?” / “I got some quality handies…”/ “Lube is a different game, bro…”/ #RussellsPornShopReflections / #markthetime / #ReverseOreo / “It was a toy of some form…”/ “I’m not gonna do it the way she said it…”/ “You think they get paid by the hour or by the load?”

(1:01:38): “Wouldn’t it be interesting…if #Spiderman was more scientifically accurate?” / #EmberingEffigy and #comedy at #SweetwaterLive / “So on the way home…”/ #blindedbythelight / #spotlight / “The light still works…it was just really, really dim…”/ Tag Light Visible – 50 ft / “I have no idea what he looked like…if you get pulled over, pull into a populated place…” / #DivineIntervention / “Wear your sunglasses at night…”

(1:08:12): “Incubus and succubus…what’s the difference?” / “Sleepfucker alright!” / “You know what’s almost equally offensive?” / “It’s fun if a 10 year old says cunt…”/ #recordscratch #IrishCarBombs / “Starts with an N, ends with an R…”/ “I had a dream that we were hanging out with the #Metallica guys…”/ #TridentChallenge / #PlanetCaravan / “I don’t know where they could have put it where I would have liked it…”/ #LMAO / “I’m laughing at him…”

(1:14:24): “Every time I listen to that song I think about the first time I finger blasted a girl…”/ “I know who you’re talking about…”/ “That’s a triple…you got slimy fingers…”/ “Third base is windshield wiper…”/ “Dude, I just scored…”/ #HotPocket / “It’s that from now on…”/ “It’s MG Approved…from the heart…”/ “Occasionally Matt comes up with some shit that fucking works…” 

(1:18:52): “Here’s the rules…if you wanna make a show on #HBO…”/ #flacciddicks / “I could put so much…right there…”/ “Why are you such a dick?” / “Last night while I was in slumber…Satan came into my room…and he had his way with my forehead…”/ “You’re not supposed to swallow it…”/ #LOL / #onmicburp / “You know what that sounds like?” 

(1:22:40): “We’ve got coyotes…”/ “Here’s what makes a lot of noise…”/ “Fuuuuuuck…”/ “Is it gay…?” / #fleshlight / “Yep!” / “Okay…follow up question…”/ #RequiemForADream #GAF #AssScissoring / #TheFourthHole / “I’m tripping balls by the way…”/ “This is not a microdose…”/ “This is what you sent me!?” / “What does that even mean?” / “When you said you were sending him a file…”/ “If anything, it’s three 7’s, and one of them has a line in the middle…”/ “Hold on…don’t tell me…”/ “Arnold by Enwuego…”/ “There’s Moby Dick…there’s um ‘I’m thinking’…”/ #HappyThanksgiving from all of us at #MetalNerderyPodcast and #BunkerpoonInternational

With SIDE 2 of our PUPPETS VS JUSTICE HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH, things are a bit trickier, because the math doesn’t sync up perfectly track for track. But not to worry, because we worked out all the math to try and keep things as “Even Steven” as possible.

“You go to the peak of your ability…that’s what Justice was…it was their Hemispheres…”

As we noted previously on the SIDE 1 episode, PUPPETS represents the end of the Cliff Burton era, and JUSTICE represents the beginning of the Jason Newsted era. On SIDE 2, we got deeper into the weeds, particularly with regard to the lyrical subject matter, the style and structure of the songs, and the personal impact and perspective of the instrumentals. We’re not saying that this was a complete blowout, and we’re not saying that the outcome was predictable by any means, but what we ARE saying is that the final verdict was actually a bit more shocking than we originally anticipated.

“What are they saying, dude?”

Stick around until the very end of the episode to discover the power of “frontmasking” after you JOIN US for the nail-biting conclusion to our PUPPETS VS JUSTICE HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH as we take on SIDE 2.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Kiss my FIRE…” / The pointlessness of DST…we can just stop, right? / “We’re never gonna win this argument…”/ “Why do you gotta bitch about it?”/ “That was for you, Phil…”/

“You just fingered me, I wanted to be fisted…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “We left y’all on a cliffhanger…”/ “I mean…I mean…I mean…”/ PATREON US AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #PatreonShoutout / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #TikTok #InstaGram #FaceBook / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com ***/ Some early concert memories…/ ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / Our sincerest apologies to #EmberingEffigy for the mistaken identity… / New Embering Effigy album OUT NOW… / #BehindTheMetal / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ 

(08:23):  #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: SIDE 2 OF THE MOP VS AJFA HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH!!! / “Side 2 is gonna be harder than when I was 15…”/ 

“Those are the good times…I could cut a mirror with this thing…”/ “My move is…I grab the butt…”/ “You’re not Little Bo Peep and I’m not Zorro…”/ 

(11:27): DISPOSABLE HEROES (Master Of Puppets – 1986) / “I was born for dying…”/ 

“Dismount, perfect…10/10…”/ The differences between #MOP and #AJFA / THE SHORTEST STRAW (…And Justice For All – 1988) / “I’m sorry…it already wins…”/ “You can kinda hear the bass on this part too…a little bit…”/ “By far, Lars’ best album…”/ “I wonder if that was a mistake…”/ #happyaccidents / #TheVerdict / “It’s kinda almost like when she jams a finger up your butt and you’re kinda like ‘I don’t know what I think about it…I kinda like it’…”

(24:42): HARVESTER OF SORROW / “Creamy…that’s the word of the episode…again…twice…”/ #MesaBoogie / “Lars is chewing gum and playing drums at the same time…”/ “I had to do that, because he does that live…”/ LEPER MESSIAH / “I always thought that was James saying that…”/ “It’s more heavy metal than thrash…”/ “This is where it changes…now it’s a different song…”/ “If you blend Harvester and Frayed together…”/ “Do you think Harvester would have fit on The Black Album?”/ “If you were gonna yank one right off The Black Album and replace it with Harvester…”/ “Maybe…the traveling song…”/ 

THE FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY / “And the China boy…the China boy makes it…”/ #China / 

“I come almost every time when I hear that part…even now…”/ “You can just listen in, Bill, if you want to…”/ “Young, angry…and unhinged…”/ “The Justice album is what made them huge…”/ “What did #Rush do after Hemispheres? They did Permanent

Waves…Hemispheres was their most progressive album…”/ “You max out…” / “The Black Album is closer to Puppets than AJFA…”/ “You go to the peak of your ability…that’s what Justice was…it was their Hemispheres…”/ #Rushtallica / #TheVerdict / “That’s a clear blowout…”

(51:23): “It’s the James solo part…that’s what you’ve gotta do for both…”/ TO LIVE IS TO DIE / “We gotta hear the James solo…because that’s what makes it…”/ “The drums get frustrated…you can hear it…”/ “I think we’ve gotta hear the spoken word part…It’s right here, so we may as well grab it…”/ “Really? Why!?”/ ORION / “That riff…is nothing but sack…” / “That’s heavy metal, dude…”/ #TheVerdict / #NoDraws

(1:09:44): DAMAGE INC. / “It’s about to get thrashy up in here…”/ “I never understood when my parents did that when I was younger…now I get it…”/ #CarnivalCruise / “I think Kerry King said this was his favorite #Metallica song…”/ DYERS EVE / “Surgical…precise…clinical…”/ “That one is personal…VERY personal…”/ “Those guys are parents to 2 babies…and we’re fighting over which baby’s cuter…” / #TheVerdict / “So here’s the tally…for #bolth Side 1 and Side 2…” / “It was kind of a draw…in a way…”/ “For the future, we should do a Side 2 better than Side 1 podcast…” / ***What do YOU think!? EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and let us know!!!*** / #outroreel / #untilthenext / #backmaskingASMR / “…and then play it backwards…the whole thing…”/ “It’d be like reverse backmasking…front masking…foremasking…” / “What are they saying, dude?” / “Edud, gniyas yeht era tahw?”

We’ve all heard that METALLICA’s “last great album” was 1986’s haunting thrash metal magnum opus, MASTER OF PUPPETS, one of the finest moments in the band’s catalog and the final studio album of “The First Three” to feature Cliff Burton on bass.

“I don’t care if there’s no bass…I’m sorry…”

We’ve also all heard (especially since the release of The Black Album) that METALLICA’s “last great album” was 1988’s progressive thrash metal tour de force, …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, the fourth METALLICA studio album overall and the first (of four) to feature Jason Newsted on bass (according to the liner notes, anyway).

“The bass is the LAST thing I listen to…”

Having said that, BOTH are outstanding and powerful albums for very different reasons, with PUPPETS marking the haunting, final chapter of Cliff Burton’s legacy with what many fans consider to be the classic, legendary era of the band, and JUSTICE beginning a brand new chapter for the band with Jason Newsted, launching METALLICA into a new era that would ultimately result in their meteoric rise to success and glory as the biggest and most popular heavy metal band on planet earth.

“Y’all are gonna abuse me for using this word…”

JOIN US for a HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH that promises to be absolutely “creamy” and chock full of 80’s metal nostalgia and loads of heated commentary as we take on SIDE ONE with 1986’s MASTER OF PUPPETS & 1988’s …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Listen to the B-roll stuff…that’s the gold…” / #LOL / “Let’s get right in the paint…” / 

Delicious homemade beer, courtesy of Russell…/ #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / #Pinter / “Produc?” / #BlueDog #BrewDog / “You take the package, and you put it in the thing…”/ 

“Blue package?” / Appalachian Tropical IPA / “The first few were all head…” / #markthetime / “An Irish Persian…”/ #RussellsHomebrewReflections

(5:55): “Let’s raw dog it…” / ***PATREON US on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Sorry, I was mid-swallow dude…” / 

Potential upcoming #Doomsicle goodness… / #cupping / “Sorry, I almost ran out of gas…” / “I cupped right when I thought I was losing it…”/ “I got an idea for that…”/ #genre / #Skynet

(08:43): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #Facebook #TikTok #Instagram at #metalnerderypodcast / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / “I wanna see one, dude…I wanna see a real one…” / ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #PissingPostASMR / “He’s building…anticipation…antica-pation…” / 

Antissa Payshun and Justin Case / “THIS is why…”/ “This is my son, Hourly Wages…my son Low…here’s my son Drained…” / #JustinCase 

(13:33): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  MASTER OF PUPPETS (1986) VS …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1988) – HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH: SIDE 1 / “We’ve done an ’88 and an ’86 Death Match with #Metallica and #Slayer, but now it’s gonna be ’86 and ’88, Metallica Style!!!” / “This might affect our friendship…” / “Not a shitty album…shittily produced album…”/ “No, here’s the reason…I know y’all know this…” / #GarageDaysRevisited #VeryUnproduced / “Where’s the guy you just hired to replace the guy who just died?” / NOTE: Garage Days was noted as being “Not Very Produced” / “It’s a dry mix dude, it’s a super dry mix…the drums are WAY up front…” / #AstonMartin / “That looks like a Camaro, dude…”

(20:42): BATTERY / “You hear that in the background?” / “The bass is the LAST thing I listen to…” / “Here’s a weird question…” / “If I could only pick one of the two, it would be…” / #nostalgia / “That’s like their #Hemispheres…”/ “It’s gonna be a 2-hour episode unless we…” / BLACKENED / “Have you heard the ‘unbackwardized’ version of the intro?” / “I don’t care if there’s no bass, I’m sorry…”/ “His balls dropped…” / “There’s no mids…the mids are his voice, that’s the only mids you get…”/ “Y’all are gonna abuse me for using this word…”/ #creamy / “Isn’t this when he was using the quarters?” / “It’s creamy…”/ “Justice definitely has a dryer mix…M.O.P. is more reverby…”/ #TheVerdict / “Here’s douchebag Matt coming out…” / “I looked past it…” / “You too, then…that was my first tape…” / #progressivemetal

(35:36): “Tittlees…on both sides, right?” / …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL / “Oooh, I heard it…”/ “I always loved that riff…it’s weird, but I liked it…”/ #timesignatures / “It’s the word of the episode…”/ “Ohhh, listen to it…”/ “I’m gonna say it…you can hear the essence back there…it’s very subtle…” / “My wife just said you have to quit doing this…”/ MASTER OF PUPPETS / “The #StrangerThings crowd loves it…”/ “You can hear Cliff back there just growling in the background…”/ #heavymetal / “I’m 14 again every time I hear this…”/ “I gotta hear that one part on the guitar solo…”/ #happyaccident / “That’s the cool thing about #progmetal…”/ #TheVerdict / “Song by song, it’s gonna be difficult…I think that’s gonna be a blowout…”/ #AngryJames / “I almost wanna do a draw…”/ #NoDraws

(50:43): “How about we let the producer produce?” / THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE / “That’s like scary Metallica…”/ #EvilHeavyMetal / #stankface / “It’s like he’s yelling at you…”/ “The day that I got the tape…that was the favorite…before I even made it to Side 2…”/ EYE OF THE BEHOLDER / #readthoselyrics / “Freedom…with their exception…”/ “A #Rocky montage but an Evil Rocky…”/ #TheVerdict / “Side 2 is gonna be a different story…”

(1:01:43): ONE / “They had to buy that movie so they could do that video…”/ “You can hear the bass in there…it’s creamy…”/ #PreBlackAlbum / “It’s just so fucking angry…”/ “It’s not as overplayed as Enter Sandman…”/ #hitsingle / “That’s why y’all give me the big bonuses every year…AND I get the Christmas hams and the blowjobs from the hookers…”/ WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM) / “You hear that bass line back there?” / “Oooh, big word…”/ #TheVerdict / “I don’t mean to be overdramatic…”/ “Out of curiosity…the three albums…Fade To Black, Sanitarium, One…?” / #TrackFour / “There’s no losers here…”/ “The verdict for side 1…” / #cupping / “Sorry, I cupped at the last minute, dude…”/ ***COME BACK NEXT WEEK FOR SIDE 2…IT’S GONNA BE A BLOODBATH!!!*** / #untilthenext #outroreel / Puppets? Or Justice? Let us know… EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!

Time has a strange way of playing with the mind and blurring perceptions. For example, 24 years is effectively a quarter of a century, and while that sounds like a pretty vast swath of time, in reality it is merely a tiny speck in the grand scheme of the endless universe. To put it another way, as of the date of this episode in 2025, it has been the same amount of time (24 years) since 2001, which included the launch of Wikipedia, the September 11th attacks, and the very first iPod by Apple.

In keeping with the relativity of time, NATIVITY IN BLACK: A TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH was released way back in 1994, a whopping 24 years after the groundbreaking eponymous debut from Birmingham’s founding fathers of metal. At that time, in the early 90’s, it seemed as if eons of time had elapsed from the release of Sabbath’s debut until the release of this tribute honoring the classic Ozzy era of Sabbath from the 1970’s and their collective contributions to the heavy metal canon. 

To take the concept of time just a step further, Black Sabbath recently played their final concert (Back To The Beginning) 55 years after the release of their debut album, and it has now been 31 years (as of the date of this episode, in 2025) since the NATIVITY IN BLACK compilation was unleashed upon the metal world, featuring some real bangers from metal bands spanning a variety of subgenres that still holds up to this day.

Discover the proper pronunciation of names which you have been saying the wrong way you’re entire life, including “Schuldiner, Peart, and chimpanzee”, hear our latest movie pitch for Rob Zombie, and remember the reason for feeling uneasy when you are unable to “touch bottom” after you JOIN US as we dive in to the first compilation of Black Sabbath covers that was cheekily named after Bill Ward’s beard with NATIVITY IN BLACK: A TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “It’s Good Buddy Day (10-4) …” / #onthisday / “I have no problem with Dream Theater…” / “I’m not gonna give you a but…”/ “It’s not bad, dude…it’s a little salty…”/ 

“The thunder in October…”/ “Here’s what October is to me…it’s football, barbecue, chili…”/ 

“Leaf Death…that’s a name for a stoner band!” / #MetalNerderyPlaylist / “Firewood…is that better than logs?”/ “There’s something about deep vagina that’s weird…I can’t touch bottom…”/ “Do we wanna try and do the hybrid?” / “The Dirty Monkey…The Dirty Black…The Dirty Black Monkey…” / “Y’all don’t have to make everything about everything…”

***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***

(07:07): “THAT, is Christmas…I see a future #TikTok…”/ Dirty Monkey Peanut Butter Banana Whiskey and Mr. Black coffee liqueur / “A what?” / Chimpinzee? Chimpanzee? Chimp’n’zee? / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST*** / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “That’s better…”/ “My body my choice, and I choose yes…”/ “If you remember it, just Tourette’s it out…” / “You saw him…he cupped the microphone…” / “We’ve been pronouncing it wrong the whole time… / “I’m sorry, what?” / #HeySiri / #Chimpanzee #ChuckSchuldiner #NeilPeart / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok at #MetalNerderyPodcast , you can EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and you can VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!***

(14:11): “I was going to community college at this point…”/ #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: NATIVITY IN BLACK – A TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH / 

Released 10/04/1994 as a tribute to the classic #OzzyOsbourne era of #BlackSabbath during the 70’s… / #GoodBuddyDay / “I like melody…”/ “Usually when you say Black Sabbath to people, most people think Ozzy…”

(18:50): “What’s the deal with Black Sabbath?” / #Biohazard AFTER FOREVER (Master Of Reality – 1971) / “#Friends was influenced by Black Sabbath…”/ “This one you can’t cut off so quick…”/ #Yeah / #WhiteZombie CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE (Master Of Reality – 1971) / “Movie remake idea for #RobZombie…”/ #Nosferatoe / “Nosfera-WHO?” / “Too not toe…”/ 

“You ever been to Timbuktoe? Kathmandoe?”

(26:46): #Megadeth PARANOID (Paranoid – 1970) / The beginning of being able to listen to modern metal bands do covers of Sabbath / #AlJourgensen #1000HomoDJs SUPERNAUT (Vol. 4 – 1972) / “In fairness, it would be like if someone did a cover of Ride The Lightning and sang ‘Ride The Lightning’…” / “Maybe that was aimed…at the record business…”/ #Therapy? And #OzzyOsbourne IRON MAN (Paranoid – 1970) 

(34:23): “This was more like Deliverance…”/ #CorrosionOfConformity LORD OF THIS WORLD (Master of Reality – 1971) / “That’s exactly how ‘Master of Reality’ should be remixed…” / “How come more bands don’t do that?” (re: covering an entire album) / “Why? Do we need it?” / #Train WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE / RAMBLE ON (Led Zeppelin II – 1969) / “Conducking?”/ “It’s pretty close…here’s what it is…the Zeppelin version is like full bush…”

(41:23): “This sounds like cavemen recorded this…South American thrash cavemen…”/ 

“Hold on…it’s not on the version I’m on…”/ #Sepultura SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE (Sabotage – 1975) / “Spread some of that on your breakfast toast…”/ #BullringBrummies #GeezerButler #RobHalford THE WIZARD (Black Sabbath – 1970) / The duet between Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne doing War Pigs (recently released, proceeds going to charity) / “If I ever move to Birmingham, Alabama, I’m just going to tell people I’m from Birmingh’m”/ #BruceDickinson #Godspeed SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – 1973)

(51:52): “This might have been a skipper…the world’s not fair…”/ #UglyKidJoe N.I.B. (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “He sounds like somebody else…”/ “Oh jeh…”/ #LiveInBrixton / 

“Oh, you wanna hear the one on the album? That’s fine…the live one’s so much more fun…”/ “I feel like that’s next to Narnia…is that even a place?” / #FaithNoMore WAR PIGS (Paranoid – 1970) / #OneLawnChair #OhLordYeah / “And now he goes Mr. Bungle…” / #TypeONegative BLACK SABBATH (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “I turn ‘round (slowly)…and start (to walk) …”/ “Octobruh…” / “There’s really 13 months…28 days each…” / “Everest is like right there…”/ #TheIceWall / #untilthenext #outroreel / “NO! Do not tell children…nope!”

Ahhh, the 80’s. A time when people could actually afford to live, back when Taco Bell was both super cheap and equally delicious, horror movies were genuinely scary and often boasted incredibly “special” special effects, and terrified parents everywhere were completely “freaking the motherfrickin’ frick out” over heavy metal and the ensuing “Satanic Panic” that followed. (Remember, we’re talking about the 80’s here…)

“I kinda feel like Satan probably listens to Air Supply nonstop…or Gino Vanelli…”

Not to worry though, because Tipper Gore was on the case, going out of her way to ensure that the future prosperity of heavy metal would be secure forever with the PMRC seal of approval (PARENTAL ADVISORY – EXPLICIT CONTENT) plastered on the cover of everything that would be deemed essential listening.

Thanks to the diligent efforts and painstaking research of Tipper Gore and her Parents Music Resource Center, the PMRC lovingly crafted “The Filthy Fifteen” for American parents to ensure that their children would only be exposed to the finest audio artistry the heavy metal genre (and somehow, also Satan) had to offer.  One of the bands included on that fateful list were the founders of black metal, VENOM (ironically, rated “O” … for “Obviously” …as in “Obviously, your kids should be listening to this!”). 

Hailing from probably the fanciest, most upper crust sounding city in all of England, Newcastle upon Tyne’s 3-piece of evil VENOM came blasting out of the gates of hell with what would become the foundation for the black metal genre that would begin its ascent into heavy metal culture around the same time as thrash metal in the early 80’s, with a sound combining the rawness of Motorhead, the darkness of Sabbath, and the speed of thrash with an imagery reminiscent of KISS if they were actually satanists. 

If Black Sabbath are ground zero for the formation of heavy metal as we know it, then VENOM is no doubt the Black Sabbath of the black metal genre. With a dark, detached creepiness that sounds like something recorded in an underground mausoleum, VENOM are the originators of extreme metal and were out in front, scaring the hell out of parents everywhere and delighting young and impressionable metalheads the world over.

Happy Halloween everyone!!! It’s time to celebrate spooky season the way we did back in the 80’s, by going through your kids trick-or-treat plunder and picking out all of that “good candy”. Prepare yourself for the latest outtake from The Angry Matt Podcast regarding the abolition of Daylight Savings Time, discover why “fist bumps and fisting are basically the same thing”, learn what “post mortis” actually means, and JOIN US for an “exploratory learning journey” as we go INSIDE THE METAL and review THE 80’s output of black metal pioneers VENOM.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “It’s not a girl drink…” (Apperall spritz?) / #buttocks / “How about the J and then the PB?”/ “That’s ‘Spirit in the Sky’ isn’t it?” / #thatdudeisadude / “It’s like a reverse sixty-nine, dude…don’t make it weird…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “That way is better…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #LikeShareSubscribe / “It’s approaching dusk at 4:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday…

when can we just not do Daylight Savings Time anymore?” / #AngryMattPodcast / ***You SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #TikTok #Facebook #Instagram at #metalnerderypodcast, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com, PATREON US at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast for exclusive video only content.*** / #PatreonShoutout / ***YOU CAN PURCH SOME MERCH AT www.metalnerdery.com/merch *** 

(7:26): #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: VENOM – INSIDE THE METAL (THE 80’S) / “Since it’s #Halloween season…”/ One of the biggest influences on thrash metal, especially #TheBigFour / Everyone was freaking out, the Satanic Panic / #RussellsCassetteReflections / #attache / “See? Everybody’s got a blessing to share…even if they’re a shitty person…”/ “How was it silly?” / “There’s a certain weird, dark, creepy, bizarreness…it’s like the feeling of being buried (alive)…” / #stereobreathing / Fist bumps and fisting are the same thing… / #SlayerOfTheEpisode / #Slayer WITCHING HOUR / “Oh, Robb Flynn’s singing…” (from #MachineHead) / 

(13:45): “What Venom means to me…” / #RussellsVenomReflections / #EpisodeIdea / 

“Their logo is creepy…I don’t know why it’s creepy…” / “Do you remember the movie: 

The Gate? (1987)” / #backmasking (“I don’t know if it was a #Venom record…) 

(17:11): Welcome To Hell (1981) / “He’s kinda the sound…(of Venom)” / #Cronos / 

“That’s the French gay Baphomet…” / 1981…other big albums from that time relative to Venom / “We’re on an exploratory learning journey here…”/ #Cockopolis / #killeropener / #postmortis / “Dude, you created a new word…”/ SONS OF SATAN / “The #Motorhead of black metal…” / WELCOME TO HELL (see also #MotleyCrue and ‘Looks That Kill’) / “How can we sound like Motorhead but rawer?”/ WITCHING HOUR / “The rain sounds creepy…”/

“Listen to that through headphones because that is really, really strange…”/ IN LEAGUE WITH SATAN / “This is the epitome of bad production…”/ “Backmasking is for the weak…”/ #backmaskingASMR / “I wanna know what that says now, backwards…” 

(28:26): Black Metal (1982) / “If #BlackSabbath are the founders of metal, then Venom are the Black Sabbath of black metal…”/ ***Check out our other Halloween specials…***/ 

BLACK METAL / “Sounds like soundcheck at The Masquerade…the Old Masquerade…”/ 

BURIED ALIVE / “It sounds familiar for a different reason…” / #fakenews / “Have you ever seen Hostel 2?” / #ElizabethBathory / “I had to watch it 3 or 4 times to finally get there…” / 

COUNTESS BATHORY / “Hey, I got a chorus pedal man…check it out!”/ “I just had a realization…I can kinda hear how Cronos influenced Mustaine’s singing style…” / DON’T BURN THE WITCH / “It’s like they’re recording underground, in a mausoleum or something…” / “This album probably costs hundreds of dollars to produce…” / “So far that might be their most complex riff…”

(37:51): At War With Satan (1984) / “I kinda feel like Satan probably listens to Air Supply nonstop…oooh, Gino Vannelli…” / Backstory regarding the epic title track / “This is like their Hemispheres basically…or their 2112…” / AT WAR WITH SATAN  / “The production’s better…they probably spent $800 on this one…” / “I can hear the Mustaine now…kinda like ‘The Conjuring’ in a way…” / “Let’s skip to the middle…” / CRY WOLF / AAAAAARRGHH / 

“What the fuck is that? Hey Alex…”/ #LOL / “This is the Venom version of ‘What’s That Noise?’…” / “Is that piano?” / “This might be my favorite Venom song ever…”

(46:19): Possessed (1985) / Released April Fools Day, 1985 / “Of course it’s gonna piss off the #PMRC…” / “Sorry, I cupped on that one…”/ “There’s a lot of #cokelines…”/ POWERDRIVE / “Sounds like #TheAccused…” / “That reminds me of WREKage…” / BURN THIS PLACE (TO THE GROUND) / “This one might have cost $900…” / “They’re no longer the influential band…now they’re competing with the bands they basically influenced…” / 

POSSESSED / “Keyboards…oooh, chimes!” / “I can literally see them playing at #Sweetwater to 5 people…”/ “Their whole thing was all about shock, obviously…”/ “If you don’t have the talent, you have to have the show…kinda like the #KISS analogy…”

(54:40): Calm Before The Storm (1987) / NOTE:  this is STILL with Cronos… #ConradIsCronos #CronosIsConrad / “Abaddon is like the John Wick of Hell…”/ BLACK XMAS / “Way better production!” / “They might have spent an actual $1000 on this…”/ “That’s definitely the best produced album thus far…less Satan…”/ METAL PUNK / “Is that a drum machine or actually bass drums?” / KRACKIN’ UP (with a ‘K’) / “They got away from the Satan thing…” 

(59:55): Prime Evil (1989) / First album with Tony Dolan (aka Demolition Man) / “Oooh, 2 producers…I’ll bet they spent $1200 on this…”/ PRIME EVIL / “They might have spent $2000 on this, dude…”/ “It’s almost like early heavy metal…but it’s way too late…” / “Oh boy…buckle up…”/ MEGALOMANIA (***See also Sabotage***) / “Sting me…” 

(1:05:00): “For fun, can we play the #Probot song?” / Probot (2004) / CENTURIES OF SIN (featuring Cronos) / “It’s amazing what a little production will do…”/ “Now is the time to ask questions of faith…”/ “Whaddya mean? He’s ’95 to Present…”/ #recordscratch / “I just wanted to know where the “Venom Inc.” lore came from…” / “It’s like #Queensryche…”/ #spinoff / “It’s like if #Metallica had their logo in bubble letters…” / “Go out there, get all that special candy that your kids get that you’re scared for them to have…send it to US!” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!  / #creepylaugh / #untilthenext #outroreel 

With Diego Rapacchietti, the “Swisstalian” timekeeper who replaced original drummer Marky “Marquis” Edelmann behind the kit, both Ron Broder (Ron Royce) and Tommy Vetterli (Tommy T. Baron), known collectively as Swiss thrash kings CORONER, have returned with DISSONANCE THEORY, the first new studio album featuring brand new material from the progressive thrash trio in over 30 years and the album which already has thrash fans worldwide shouting proclamations of Album of the Year.

Released on 10/17/2025, DISSONANCE THEORY is easily the finest thrash album in decades and may quite easily take the crown as CORONER’s magnum opus, a master work of progressive, technical thrash tempered with unmatched riffs, majestic solos, and a brilliantly engineered sonic vengeance where the drums, bass, and guitars each sit perfectly within the mix. It’s one of those albums that continues to impress exponentially with each subsequent listen and is, without question, a masterpiece, and an absolute joy to listen to.

“Just when you think all the riffs have been written…NOPE!” 

Remember that the word for this episode is “texture” and JOIN US as we celebrate CORONER’s crowning achievement in thrash greatness with the unpredictably precise complexity of tech prog thrash genius, DISSONANCE THEORY.

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(00:01): “There needs to be a heart healthy origami diet…the key is bumps, not lines…”/ 

“They’re changing…”/ “Are they gonna call it O’Shazzy’s?” / “Why don’t they just call it Lines?” / #PBJ / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “We went a little hard last night, me and the wife…”/ #markthetime / #Oktoberfest / “She had a Reuban, I had a schnitzel…”/ #HelenGeorgia / #AlpineVillage / ***WELCOME BACK TO METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #RockCity / “I’ll let her know that you approve, sir…”

(07:03): PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “The shirt brings…the sexy back…” / #PatreonShoutout / ***If YOU know the Patreon drum fill, TELL US…and you might just get a surprise…*** / “I think I just learned something…”/ #EmberingEffigy / #SweetwaterLive / ***You can SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #TikTok #Instagram #Facebook at #metalnerderypodcast***You can give us a call and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #PissingPost #Shittah #Exodus / “If it’s the song I think it is…it’s an old school #Scorpions cover…” / HE’S A WOMAN SHE’S A MAN (feat. Mark Osgueda from #DeathAngel and #KerryKing ) / “You know what they should rename this song…the ballad of Caitlyn and Chaz…” / “You mean I don’t have to TRANSplain it?” / “Nope!”

(15:26): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  CORONER – DISSONANCE THEORY / Released 10/17/2025 / #Coroner #DissonanceTheory / “If #DreamTheater were a thrash metal band, that’s this…”/ “People are saying #AlbumOfTheYear …”/ Produced by Tommy Vetterli (aka Tommy T Baron) / OXYMORON (creepy intro whispers…) / CONSEQUENCE / “That dude’s still going!” / “Talk about a killer opener…”/ #sorry / “He cupped the microphone…to make it louder…” 

(24:24): SACRIFICIAL LAMB / “The mix is (almost) perfect…”/ “Fear not, little flock…the kingdom is yours until I will come…”/ “It sounds like it has space and layers…it’s crisp and its upfront…”/ #raisingthebar / “Everything has its space…it has a very good texture to it…”/

“I think that’s your new word…texture…”/ CRISIUM BOUND / The word for this episode is ‘texture’… / The unpredictability factor of CORONER’s riffs and chords… / “Just when you think…all the riffs have been written… (“NOPE!”) / SYMMETRY (“Iste ego sum…”) #Swisstalian / “How do you make it more bad ass? We’re gonna put an ancient language in there…” / “I am this…”

(33:40): THE LAW “I am the law…for what I am, but I am the law…” / “Somebody’s playing piano…I hear guitar and piano…there’s some piano in there…” / “I think now they’re just there for show…they’re there for texture…” / TRANSPARENT EYE / “This one has a weird walkdown…”/ #fuckingsick / “That’s what I miss about ‘back in the day’…HOW!?”/

“This brings back that feeling…”

(40:28): TRINITY / “It’s like weird metal jazz…”/ “That bass tone is growling…it’s like a presence…and…it’s got texture…” / #wordoftheepisode / RENEWAL (this was the first single (in over 30 years), btw…) / “A little bit of Blackened in there…”/ “He’s Swisstalian btw…”/ “What I like about Ron’s voice: you can understand everything he says…but he’s much more pronunced.”

(48:06): PROLONGING / “Sounds like #Opeth, old #DeepPurple…or #Sabbath …”/ “I wonder who’s playing the organ…” / #whisperASMR / “Show us something we’ve NEVER heard before…”/ #SolarGuitars / Like, Subscribe, and Share / “Fourth walls just don’t matter in this room, do they?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

The entire month of October is Halloween. And you can’t do October without TYPE-O-NEGATIVE, as they are the official soundtrack to the month of Halloween. 

Released August 20, 1996, OCTOBER RUST, their 4th studio album (or 3rd if you count “Origin of the Feces” as a “live” album, which we actually do, even though it’s technically not) is much more gothy, textured, and atmospheric than previous TYPE-O albums while still maintaining the same gothic, heavy, doom laden aesthetic of their previous albums, making it the perfect sonic representation of all things Halloween: vampires, werewolves, haunted houses, haunted relationships, hot bisexual goth girls who are into threesomes, bottles of red wine, and lonely forests bathed in the colorful, seasonal transformation that is autumn.

It's time to imagine Molly Ringwald dressed as a goth girl for Halloween as you feast your ears on the creepiest, evilest sounding keyboards in metal while summoning Bacchus (the god of wine and revelry and/or tits) to help prepare for this season’s “fistivities”.

Discover the actual definition of “zoanthropic paranoia”, find out what happens when you make a goth girl squirt, and learn about Peter Steele’s lesser known “nickname” when you JOIN US as we rrrrrrroll our R’s rrrrrrright on through creepy season with OCTOBER RUST.

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(00:01): “I can smell all of that…over here.” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #BlazingAppleFireball / “Sometimes there’s after tang on apple…”/ “Something with bubbles…”/ #nerd / #RussellsFoodReflections / “I need that tool…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #alltheholes / #upcomingmetalshows / #markthetime / “Mmmkay…” / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok at #MetalNerderyPodcast & EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** 

(08:44): ***PATREON SHOUTOUTS!!!*** / ***You can PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/ “Wait a minute, this is where you fucked yourself before…” / #All7s / #RussellsMovieReflections #TheNakedGun #Code3 / “Wait, you mean they do it because that’s what their passion is?” / “I’m gonna take a guess here…” / PIECE BY PIECE (Reign In Blood – 1986) / #SlayerOfTheEpisode

(16:43): #TheDocket / “October is the month of Halloween…it’s the whole month.” / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  TYPE-O-NEGATIVE OCTOBER RUST / NOTE: It’s actually their 4th studio album: Origin of the Feces was actually “not” a live album / “If a girl ever invites you up to her bedroom…”/ #SuicideGirls / #GothMollyRingwald / “Gothic and doom are kinda close…right?” / #PeterSteeleASMR / ***IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, BE SURE TO GO CHECK OUT OUR TYPE-O-NEGATIVE INSIDE THE METAL EPISODES!!!***

(23:39): “Let it ring out…”/ BAD GROUND/UNTITLED (Intro) / LOVE YOU TO DEATH / #creepykeyboards / The evolution of #Carnivore to #TypeONegative / “It’s very sonic…”/ 

BE MY DRUIDESS / “He might roll his R’s, dude…”/ “I’ll do anything to make you come…”/ 

Find out what happens when you make a goth girl squirt… / “It’s plasm, dude…”

(30:30): “It might be green…”/ GREEN MAN / #RollYourRs / RED WATER (CHRISTMAS MOURNING) / “I think I read that they’re going to do a tribute tour…”/ “His name’s ‘Kickstand’…”/ #COD / “Let’s bring it back up…perfect, the next one’s about…goth lesbians…” / MY GIRLFRIEND’S GIRLFRIEND / “Just wait, he rolls plenty of R’s on this one…”/ “That sounds like # Halloween right there…”/ “Balls jangle…WOW!”/ “The only thing that scares me about 3-somes and drugs…”/ #allthepoon

(41:20): DIE WITH ME / “I guess this is like their #powerballad sort of…”/ There’s a lot of breathing on this album…” / BURNT FLOWERS FALLEN / “God I think she’s falling out of (love)…”/ “The next one is about the god of wine…and revelry…or ‘wine and tits’…the god of wine and revelry and/or tits…”/ “Lively and noisy #fistivities …”/ IN PRAISE OF BACCHUS / 

“It’s almost like stoner gothic…”/ #DoomBeatles 

(50:10): “Did she have red hair?”/ CINNAMON GIRL (Neil Young cover) / #PeterSteeleASMR / “The next one is just fun to say…”/ #instrumental / #readingisfundamental / 

THE GLORIOUS LIBERATION OF THE PEOPLE’S TECHNOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VINNLAND BY THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE UNITED TERRITORIES OF EUROPA / “I don’t know what zoanthropic means…”/ WOLF MOON (INCLUDING ZOANTHROPIC PARANOIA) / “The definition of zoanthropic paranoia…and/or cannibalism…” / #Druids / “That just sounds like fall…”/ “As a matter of fucking fact…”/ HAUNTED / “I hate the morning…”/ #spokenword #interlude #creepypoetryASMR / UNTITLED (outro) / 

BLACK SABBATH (FROM THE SATANIC PERSPECTIVE) / “On this one it is…”/ #bonustrack #BoneUs / “That dude is Dracula, man…” / “That’s the most evil sounding a piano has ever sounded…”/ “We should do that…an album dive of that album…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Switzerland is known for a few things with holes in them, most notably their cheese (and quite possibly their chocolate). But the biggest hole Switzerland is known for (other than CERN) is the seemingly endless void between the last CORONER studio album (“Grin” in 1993) and their upcoming 2025 release “Dissonance Theory”, which makes the gap between Tool albums look like a couple of weeks by comparison. 

As one of the most technically progressive, avant-garde thrash bands in the entirety of Metal, CORONER are the kings of odd time signatures, unusual chord shapes, and mathematically challenging riffs that set them apart from the rest of the pack, and we’re so glad they’re finally back!

Often called “the Rush of thrash metal”, most likely due to the incredible depth, musical complexity, and texture of music that a 3-piece band of their stature can deliver, CORONER doesn’t sound like anyone else in the thrash metal canon. 

Discover the potentially dark traits shared by those with middle names who write in notebooks, understand the line of distinction between “a millionaire and a billionaire”, and find out why sex on Christmas Day ensures you’ll be celebrating birthdays “on the same day as Russell” when you JOIN US as we go INSIDE THE METAL with the best roadies Celtic Frost ever had, featuring Switzerland’s masters of techno thrash sorcery, CORONER.

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(00:01): “Okayyyy…Gurrrrl…” /  “I saw something interesting in your refrigerator…”/ “#English is a stupid language…”/ #StewieASMR / “I thought I was the #guineapig…”/ “Blackberry and peanut butter…”/ #PBandJ / “Hold on…I’m not ready…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “It’s got a little after brr…”/ “Great big tongs on the end of it…”/ “Tomorrow night I’m working with the ‘special forces’…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s why they pay you18 figures a year…”/ #seniordiscounts / “Does that guy got a boat?”/ “You pulling down some good numbers?”/ 

“He’s the one that spoke in class today…” / #dadjokesASMR / “Did y’all see my chalice?” / “Shout out to Chelsea…”/ #FronteraMexicanKitchen / “I guess everybody fucks on Christmas…and then everybody’s born on the same day as Russell…”/ #CharlieBrownChristmas #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas / “I’ll talk to you on Boxing Day, how about that?”/ “Thailand? They’ve got ladyboys here, dude…”

(10:23): “Apparently #serialkillers do a lot of #notebooking …”/ “That’s a girls name…”/ Find out who’s stage name initials are “AH”…” / ***PATREON SHOUTOUT!!!*** / ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***WE’LL PLAY YOUR SHITTAH!!!*** / #Ravager / FROM US WITH HATE (from Tim) / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com, SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube, #Facebook, #Instagram and #TikTok / Find out how you know you’re rich…/ “That sounds like #Death…”/ “Darius, if you’re still out there…”/ ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “A couple of new listeners…two new recruits”

“It might have been the Post and Post Jr…”/ #throatboxing

(20:20):  #TheDocket / ***METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  CORONER – INSIDE THE METAL *** / “How crazy can the riffs be?”/ #Coroner / SYMMETRY (Dissonance Theory – 2025) / “It’s got Latin in it…”/ “Iste ego sum”/ “He said ‘peek-a-boo’…”/ “They are kinda like the #RUSH of thrash…”/ “If you want a Swiss bank account, call these guys…”

(26:34): R.I.P. (1987) / “Look at the logo, dude…”/ “Since they’re a 3 piece…it’s not like the singer has to go off the stage…”/ REBORN THROUGH HATE / “He’s not playing with his dick!?”/ SPIRAL DREAM (lyrics by Tom G. Warrior) / #oough 

(30:48): Punishment For Decadence (1988) / “They’ve streamlined their album covers…”/ 

MASKED JACKAL / “The vocals just disappear on this one…”/ THE NEW BREED / “It got the #Newsted treatment…”/ #LarsASMR / “Let’s fist, c’mon…” / “We’re fisting, it’s fine…don’t make it weird…”/ PURPLE HAZE (Jimi Hendrix Experience) / “The ugly vocals…”

(35:40): No More Color (1989) / “This is like when we all go back to black and white…”/ DIE BY MY HAND / “Hopefully they brought the vocals ‘back to the front’…”/ “That’s Switzerland’s contribution to the thrash canon…”/ READ MY SCARS / #TheClassicLineup / “Sounds like…a superhero with a cape…”

(42:04): Mental Vortex (1991) / ***Check out our #Covers episode…”/ SEMTEX REVOLUTION / “They DO NOT sound like #Whitesnake…”/ #OoohMama / 

DIVINE STEP (CONSPECTU MORTIS) / #Latin for “In the face of death…”/ “Those riffs don’t sound like anybody else…”/ “Coroner always had the weird chords like ‘what can your fingers do?’… / “I didn’t do #stinkfinger until sophomore year I think…”/ #BlackDog / “You’re looking at me longingly, and I don’t like it…”/ I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY) / #TheBeatles / “Do you miss it, dude?”

(50:50): Grin (1993) / “This is even darker than the other ones…”/ #Aliens / INTERNAL CONFLICTS / “We’ve talked about this briefly…and it’s only with CD’s…the intro…if it’s under 2 minutes, just make it part of the song…(On tapes it didn’t really matter…)”/ “Their cheese has holes in it…their chocolate too, I think it has holes in it…Swiss chocolate doesn’t have holes in it…if you get Swiss meat does it have holes in it?” / #differentcows /

THE LETHARGIC AGE / “Got it…”/ GRIN (NAILS HURT) / “It’s almost kind of industrial…”/ “They don’t have it…” / #FuckingAmazon / “Do you think bands should do that?”/ “It’s like a mish-mash quilt of music…”/ #DissonanceTheory / ***Let us know what YOU think about CORONER!!!*** / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Filled with driving metal riffs and all of the sonic textures that made the 70’s the best decade for music, the “Skynyrd Fried Sabbath” infused 70’s jam band stylings of WISEBLOOD evokes a “super-heavy fuzzy 70’s” vibe that pairs well with the flower of your choosing. 

Go fix yourself a PB&J (or a P&BJ) sandwich, relish the privilege of getting a Senior Discount for looking like a wizard at The Chick-Fil-A of burgers, and remember that “pre-AIDS poon is the best kind” when you JOIN US for a dose of retro southern metal with CORROSION OF CONFORMITY and WISEBLOOD.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “It’s gonna be a good show…All 7’s…” / #SiriusXM / “Doesn’t that mean #TheLord though?”/ #TheNumberOfCompletion / #markthetime / “Somebody left a lipstick in here…freshly used…”/ “Siri?” / Be careful what you say because Siri is ALWAYS listening…and always active…ALL the time…/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ #RayBanSkynetMeta sunglasses / #RepeatedReflections / “I get it!”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #SeniorDiscount / “I love #Culvers because they’re like the #ChickFilA of burgers…”

(7:30): #RussellsSausageReflections / “Now I want sausage…” / “Y’all knew about the gout attack…”/ “Back to the sausage…” / #markthetimeagain / “They’re just bun length hot dogs…” / A “brief” review of the #NIN show at Gwinnett Arena / “Here’s what the really cool thing was…”/ 

(15:55): EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & leave us a rating and a review wherever you download our podcast, FIND US on the social media at #Facebook #Instagram #YouTube and #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast and PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / PATREON SHOUT OUT / ***You can VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / That time when Axl Rose filled in for Brian Johnson in AC/DC / “I thought it was only a couple of shows…”/ #cashgrab / “Bad Axl: that should be the name of his solo band…” / #MyHonk / “Pre-AIDS poon is the best kind…”

(24:15): Psychic Slayer of the episode / “There was so many rascals…”/ #Slayer BEHIND THE CROOKED CROSS (South of Heaven – 1988) / A misspoken Slayer factoid/observation that wasn’t so recent. 

(28:16): #TheDocket / “By the time y’all hear this, it’ll be Rocktober…Metaltober…The soundtrack to weed, shag carpeting, wood paneling…”/ METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - WISEBLOOD / Released 10/15/1996 / 

“There’s 7 illuminati pyramids…”/ KING OF THE ROTTEN / “It goes from driving metal riffs into total 70’s vibes…like southern rock on steroids” / #SkynyrdFriedSabbath

(34:10): LONG WHIP/BIG AMERICA / “You can’t have the 70’s without 7’s…”/ 

“If this album came out today, would it be bigger now than it was then?”/

“I hear that, and it’s shag carpeting, wood paneling, fall, and weed…” / #Sativa vs #Indica / WISEBLOOD / “It’s just super heavy fuzzy 70’s…”/ GOODBYE WINDOWS /

#SmogMountain / “The coke line inventory is very good, across the board…”/ “I just need like $500,000…”

(45:54): BORN AGAIN FOR THE LAST TIME / The problem with being constantly reincarnated with no memory of past lives / “The snooch looks like a #StarCrunch bar…don’t put your dick in it!”/ DROWNING IN A DAYDREAM / “Godzilla!” / “I’m having a hard time between this and Deliverance right now…” / Lightning vs Puppets

(50:50): THE SNAKE HAS NO HEAD / #MrSnuffleupagus / “It’s like #BlackSabbath meets #JimiHendrix…” / THE DOOR / “Originally, Mr. Hetfield was not credited on this…” / MAN OR ASH / “These are primitive times…”/ “A Lot…”/ REDEMPTION CITY / “Break out the relaxers…all the coke lines…”/ “No Quarter…” / “Imagine my face is an acoustic guitar…that’s how they mic it…”

(1:03:53): WISHBONE (SOME TOMORROW) / “That almost sounds like a #DOWN song but I can’t think of which one…”/ “Put your seatbelt on…put your helmet on…and get ready…”/ FUEL / “It’s like 5 distortion boxes all set to loud…you can’t have too much distortion…” / “I am curious to know what the Spanish on this next one translates to…” / BOTTOM FEEDER (EL QUE COME ABAJO) / “The One Who Eats Below” / “It sounds like the new #Iommi sound…not from the 70’s…like modern…”/ “70’s jam band…”/ “It’s like PB& J…or P…and BJ…” / #BirthdayBeej / ***GO CHECK OUT OUR HALLOWEEN SUPER SPECIAL TO FIND OUT ABOUT “THE RUSS MASK”*** / #BOLTH / “Go fix yourself a PB&J or a P&BJ sandwich and THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!” / “Check him out with his meats…”

#SwizzleSticks #untilthenext #outroreel 

Released 04/21/1992, the 3rd official BEASTIE BOYS studio album, CHECK YOUR HEAD, is a genius title because this album is “all up in here” and is the perfect psychedelic ASMR accompaniment to justify your luxury headphone purchase. 

While this episode is more than a little bit “off the reservation” we feel like with the right headphones and the right relaxers you’ll be in just the right mood to really enjoy it from beginning to end. 

Loaded up with a wide variety of sonic textures, grooves, and more 70’s vibes than even Tarantino can shake a stick at (including the gratuitous use of Hammond B-3 keyboards and visions of wood paneled walls and orange shag carpeting), CHECK YOUR HEAD is the perfect album to make the trip back to 1974 “back when thunder sounded like thunder”.

Get ready for a Bunkerpoon ghost story regarding some paranormal activity captured during our recent Mastodon episode, find out what you’re NOT supposed to do when the red tide reaches the slippery shores of Snooch Gulch, remember that “Eerie Inhabitants 1988 thunder does not sound like 2025 thunder“ and JOIN US for CHRONICLES II: Part II – Off The Reservation with the BEASTIE BOYS and get ready to CHECK YOUR HEAD.

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(00:07): “It sounds like Eerie inhabitants thunder…”/ “They had better thunder than we did…”/ “There’s a crack in the ice wall…” / #flatearther / “My ears are perfect…”/ “I can’t see Mt. Everest from my house…”/ “The thunder they had in the 1800’s…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “How long were you married?” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Actually it’s part III, officially…”/ #ChroniclesII

(04:47): ***PATREON SHOUTOUTS*** / JOIN US on the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “It’s Cream of Crème soup…it’s gonna stick to your ribs…”/ You can EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com with your #Shittah / #LiftTheCurse FLY OR DIE (Don’t Bury The Dream) / “You wanna do it?” / #PsychicSlayerOfTheEpisode / “I don’t wanna play no more…” / #BunkerpoonGhostStory / 

“Is that 3-D?” / “Write in 7’s…”/ #Slayer BORN OF FIRE (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) / 

#SmogMountain 

(13:27): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  BEASTIE BOYS – CHECK YOUR HEAD / #OffTheReservation / #markthetime / “You guys remember the GOOD thunder?”/ Released 04/21/1992; the 3rd official #BEASTIEBOYS studio album… / NOTE: Polly Wog Stew was their first EP / “We had different sun in 1988…”/ Find out what you’re NOT supposed to do when the red tide reaches the slippery shores of Snooch Gulch. / BEASTIE BOYS (Polly Wog Stew – 1982) / “You put a lot of emphasis on…”

(21:47):  #CheckYourHead / JIMMY JAMES / “This next one is the first song on our new album…”/ “Yo, welcome to Rap Nerdery…” / “It’s a LOT different than the first one…”/ 

FUNKY BOSS / “That’s some 70’s sounding shit right there…” / “Is that Richard Pryor?” / PASS THE MIC 

(27:37): GRATITUDE / #onmicburp / #usethoseheadphones / “Sound designed soundscapes for your brain…”/ LIGHTEN UP (with a healthy dose of 70’s Hammond keyboard tones…) / “That’s 70’s right there…all day…”/ FINGER LICKIN’ GOOD 

The 70’s atmosphere stuff fair outweighs the rap stuff… / SO WHAT’CHA WANT! / “That’s some 70’s keyboards right there…”

(36:37): THE BIZ VS THE NUGE + TIME FOR LIVIN’ / “That sounds like old school punk…”/ 

SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE / “There’s a lot of texture to this…that’s just all vibe music right there…”/ “I just wanna get high now…”/ THE BLUE NUN + STAND TOGETHER / Some psychedelic #ASMR to justify your luxury headphone purchase… / “It’s like synthesized farting…”

(44:47): POW / “I’m sensing a huge hairy bush…”/ “Slow it down…” / “You need to handle that for a little bit…it wouldn’t quit looking at me…” / #MyPrecious / THE MAESTRO / 

“See, they remixed and remastered the weather…” / GROOVE HOLMES / The sound of Hammond B-3 organ, wood paneled walls, and orange shag carpeting that made the 70’s an epic decade… 

(51:17):   LIVE AT P.J.’s / “They say ‘y’all’ a lot…”/ “It feels like it’s 1974 and I’m just hanging out…with the GOOD thunder…”/ MARK ON THE BUS + PROFESSOR BOOTY / #usethoseheadphones / “They’re genius for calling it CHECK YOUR HEAD because this album is “all up in here”/ “It should be called “In 7’s” but it’s not, it’s IN 3’S…”/ “It’s totally 70’s T.V.” / “It’s a lot to digest…”/ #edibles 

(1:01:27): NAMASTE / “What do we call him? Is that Harold?” / #readthoselyrics #atmospheric #usethoseheadphones #usethoserelaxers / “Everything we did today was NOT our general wheelhouse…”/ “I’m sorry #KISS fans…”/ “There’s something for everybody…”/ “This was definitely a little ‘off the reservation’…”/ #MushroomChroniclesII / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US! (WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE TRIP!) / #ThePoopCruise / #shitwater / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Released March 15, 1976, DESTROYER, the “iconic and mysterious” 4th studio album by KISS, was the first studio release after their breakthrough double live album ALIVE!, which chronicled their first 3 studio albums in a live concert setting and really brought the power and spectacle of the live KISS concert experience of the mid 1970’s to the masses. 

Getting winded from tying your shoelaces is “the saddest thing about getting older” after coming to grips with the glaring realization that KISS just isn’t quite as awesome at middle age as it was upon hearing it for the first time in early childhood. But having said that, KISS was most definitely one hell of an exciting place to start one’s journey into the realm of metal. 

We’re going to ask that you go ahead and lower any “Great Expectations” you may have had for this episode, because only a “fly by the seat of our balls kinda podcast” such as ours would dare to take on something like this. 

Get ready for a “sobering moment”, remember that “Iconic” is the word of the episode, find out which Slayer album included “Fluoride Westone”, discover “how many people it takes to make KISS sound good”, and remember that “it’s nothing but 7’s” when you JOIN US for some “Rock and Roll Spiderman”  as we embark on our trip through CHRONICLES II with PART I: the 4th studio album by “the hottest band in the land”, DESTROYER.

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(00:01): “I have a list of what we’ve done…”/ #SlayerOfTheEpisode / “For our April Fools Day episode…“Everything that sucks about R.E.M.”/ “Staaaaaaaahhhhhhhp! Shut uhhhhhhhp!”/ #REMSucksASMR / “Sobering moment…”/ #Harold / “Let’s do…the things and the stuff…” / #BBQASMR / #LimpBrisket / “You’ve gotta let it rest for like an hour…”/ “Sleeping bag…with a “tent over it…” / “Next time I go out on a date, I’m gonna ask a girl if I can put my steak in her sleeping bag…” / #Whoops / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***”This show contains mushrooms, alcohol, and retardation…”***

(05:36): ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY AVERAGE DOUBLE TEAM PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s the saddest thing about getting older…”/ “And frankly…tiresome.” / ***PATREON US at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/ 

#PatreonShoutout #MetalNerderyPatreon / “It’s a life hack…if you need puss, you put that shirt on…” / GET YOUR MERCH AT metalnerdery.com/merch / ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #KenFromConnecticut and some comments regarding #Mastodon and #Ozzy / #WellPlayYourShittah /  “We’re a fly by the seat of our balls kinda podcast…”/ The laziest tattoo choice / #Turnstile HOLIDAY / “This would have been good for the next episode…”

(14:49): “Barbecued or fried? There’s a big difference…” / #PsychicSlayerOfTheEpisode / #markthetime / #Slayer AT DAWN THEY SLEEP (Hell Awaits – 1985) / “7’s…it’s 7’s…nothing but 7’s…”/ “Flouride Westone? Is it Chemical Warfare, maybe? / “To be fair…it’s been about an hour…” / “We should probably go ahead and admit: this is a Chronicle event…”

(18:13): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: KISS – DESTROYER / (***NOTE: We actually did a KISS Inside The Metal on our first Chronicles episode a few years back…***) / “I remember all the cool kids at school had this…” / Released March 15, 1976 / “There must be something about producers named Bob…”/ #BobSeven / 

“It’s iconic looking and mysterious…this was like ‘Pre-metal’…”/ “Their show is a big part of what metal is now…”/ “When we were kids, that was probably the closest thing (to metal)…” / DETROIT ROCK CITY / “They’re at the #WaffleHouse…”/ “Alive! Too, btw (NOT AliveII)” / “That’s an iconic riff…”/ 

(29:15): “Oh yeah, it ends with a crash…”/ KING OF THE NIGHT TIME WORLD / 

“I’m sorry, it’s so hard not to hear Al Gore when he sings…” / GOD OF THUNDER / #KingVolumeRecords (“When the drummer brings a riff to practice…” – you can find it on #Instagram) / #TheSDRShow #GaSDigital #GeneSimmonsFromKISS #MichaelJacksonJokes / GREAT EXPECTATIONS (“Just lower ‘em…way down…”) / “See what his mouth can do (and his fingers…and his hands…) / “It’s like a bad version of The Beatles…” / “You guys go on and on about how good #KISS is…” / “No, I talk about their stage show and I thought they were cool…I had the lunchbox, y’know…”

(37:30): FLAMING YOUTH / “Think about how many people LOVE this band though…”/ 

#ReMasked / SWEET PAIN / “It’s definitely 70’s…” / “In fairness, I guess if they didn’t have the make-up, what would they have? A different career?” / “Yeah…”/ SHOUT IT OUT LOUD / “I think I understand now why it was only appealing to me as a 6-year-old…”/ “The next song is probably the best song they ever wrote…”/ BETH / “That’s how many people it takes to make KISS sound good…” / DO YOU LOVE ME? / “This is what you wanted…I wanted the best…you got the best…” / “It’s instrumental…that’s why it’s better…”/ “I’m sure they’re WAY better live…” / “They were Rock ‘n’ Roll Spiderman”/ NOTE: Beth was the B-Side to Detroit Rock City, not Shout It Out Loud / “As a kid, it worked.” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #ChroniclesII 

July 21,1987 marked the beginning of the GUNS N’ ROSES era of L.A. metal with APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION, the scorching debut album chock full of enough sleaze, swagger, and excess to put the boys in Motley Crue to shame. 

If Slayer were the 80’s answer to 70’s Sabbath, then it’s not a stretch to say that G’N’R were the 80’s answer to 70’s Aerosmith, with a loudness that falls right in that “in between” phase of hard rock and heavy metal. Technically, “it’s not metal, but it kind of is…in a way”.

Discover “the worst part about getting older”, realize why overalls always translates to “good barbecue”, hear “the stoner thought of the day” and find out if “girls can tell the difference” when you JOIN US as we soak up some classic late 80’s decadence and debauchery with GUNS N’ ROSES and APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “We gonna do shots?” / #trafficcircle #roundabout / “That’s gonna be good barbecue…stereotypes exist for a reason…”/ “Is it #KoreanBBQ?” / “All you gotta do is just change one letter on certain words and you can completely change the meaning of it…”/ “Demons are fat…everybody’s fat in Hell, bro…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “It’s like a peanut butter and banana sandwich…”/ “It was super appley…” / “The last time I fucked up a butt with an injection…the last time I ruined a butt…”

(06:46): ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s the shitty thing about getting older…”/ ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #PissingPostASMR / #StonerThoughtOfTheDay / #RapNerdery / “I’ll show it to you if you wanna look at it…”/ #PatreonShoutOuts ***JOIN US ON PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast AND GET YOUR #METALNERDERYPODCAST T-SHIRT!!!*** 

(13:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  GUNS N’ ROSES – APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION / “It was ’87…”/ Where were YOU when you first heard this? EMAIL US and tell us about it at metalnerdery@gmail.com !!! / “It was like #Aerosmith on steroids…or more drugs…”/ The in-between point of hard rock and heavy metal / “They got so huge…when you start off that big, you can’t keep going…”/ “If you think about the name…I think we all know what they were talking about…”/ #exhausting / “That almost looks like a #BlondeAlbinoSlash in that picture…”/ #BucketsTheDrummer 

(23:13): “Y’all can’t see it, but the look on his face is like a kid on Christmas morning getting everything that he never asked for from Santa…” / WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE / “There’s no guitar sound that sounds like Slash’s sound…”/ “Something in the fingers…”/ “I wonder if girls could tell the difference?” / “Remember when you were younger…and there were cuss words?” / IT’S SO EASY / “Why don’t you just…FUCK OFF!” / #profanityistruth / NIGHTRAIN / #cowbell / “Guys, there might be too much cowbell…”/ “It’s kinda like Malcom and Angus…” / “Don’t fuck it up by making it perfect…” / “Without #GunsNRoses there would be no #BuckCherry and without #Aerosmith there would be no Guns N’ Roses…”

(35:53): OUT TA GET ME / “More profanity coming…”/ “If you suck out all the distortion and subdue the guitars, you’ve got Aerosmith in the 70’s…”/ “I realize I made #KerryKing sound like a professional wrestler…”/ Imagine Black Sabbath playing the first album but with Kerry King’s guitar rig / MR. BROWNSTONE / #heroinawareness / “I’ve never noticed it without the headphones…”/ #usethoseheadphones / “If you’re 6 beers in at a party and this song comes on…”/ PARADISE CITY 

(44:44): “It’s a little darker…” / #SideTwo / “The beginning is almost Slayerish…”/ MY MICHELLE / “Kinda like metal punk…almost anthemy…is that a word?” / “Sometimes the greatest ballads are all written about drugs…”/ THINK ABOUT YOU / #morecowbell / “That’s what ‘fucking them in the bathroom’ is, dude…” / SWEET CHILD O’ MINE / “Okay we’re good, alright…”/ “I have seen more tits playing Sweet Child O’ Mine…”/ #overplayed / “I didn’t even know about poon yet…”

(53:20): YOU’RE CRAZY / “It’s got like a weird 70’s vibe to it…”/ “I’ll bet we’ll know it when we hear it…”/ ANYTHING GOES / #killercloser / “The song completely changes…”/ ROCKET QUEEN / “Oh! That is real…” / #sexnoises / “I can’t believe he banged his bandmate’s girlfriend, and they recorded it…”/ #sexualrecording / “I don’t know if I remember that as a kid…” / “We made it through! It’s not metal…but it kind of is…in a way…”/ “They were probably still rockin’ some local poon…”/ #LocalPoon / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Just when you think “all the riffs have been done”, 2025 gives us the gift of BRAND-NEW METAL, including new music from OLD SCHOOL THRASH BANDS, a feat many would call miraculous, considering how long it’s been since these bands have released any new material! 

Whether it has been a half decade, a decade and a half, or in the most extreme case, three decades or more, it’s truly glorious to see the classic thrash metal bands of yore regroup and rejoin the fray stronger than ever with some of the finest output of their careers.

Welcome back to “The Average Double Team Podcast”, where we’re all about “shooting ropes” and “painting walls” (especially with regard to new music). Always remember that the reason you ever do anything is “because you’re YOU” so “just be yourself”, have some “grizzled truck stop ASMR” to go with your “perineum sunning” and JOIN US as we dig into a whole boatload of brand-spank metal on our 2025 NEW RELEASAL SHOWCASE. 

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(00:01): “Freakin’ huge…” / #electriccallboy / “Welcome back to the Average Double Team podcast…”/ #AverageDoubleteamPodcast / “What’s it called?” / #MetalNerderyASMR / #ASMR / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Dayum!” / “It was just a vinyl that I stretched…”/ “It was actually pretty redneck and pretty awesome…”/ “You gotta lube up the shaft…I was very proud of myself…”/ “Have you watched that yet?” / “You know what the move is? Here’s the move…”/ “You take 2 fingers…”/ “Here…let me show you…”

(10:04): ***WELCOME BACK TO METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #untilthenext / #PatreonShoutout / ***JOIN US on the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “I love it, every time…”/ “Tell your hot babysitter…”/ ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #PissingPostASMR / #TheChronicles / ***You can find ALL of our episodes at #Instagram or on metalnerdery.com/episodes *** / “Y’know, I’m not scared…let’s start early…” / “It’s also after a 5 martini breakfast…”/ “We could just do the #KISS that’s fine…”/ “She doesn’t do any of the freaky shit that the uglies do…”/ “We need to do that album too…” / ***EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com ***

(18:01): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  NEW METAL FOR 2025 (Including NEW MUSIC FROM CLASSIC THRASH BANDS)!!! / “They were shooting ropes, bro…”/ “You guys have never even seen it…”/ #Testament (Para Bellum – October 10, 2025) / INFANTICIDE A.I. / “Blast beats are the next level of thrash drumming…” / “You can like melody, it’s okay…”/ “It’s weird that they didn’t get as popular as #Metallica …”/ “We are probably gonna reboot some old episodes because we blew our load early…” / “I was painting walls…”

(28:32): “How about that new #Coroner (Dissonance Theory – October 17, 2025)” / RENEWAL / “That is such a rad riff…”/ “It reminds me of the best parts of Mental Vortex and Grin…”/ “You’ve not heard it!? WTF is wrong with you!?” / “That song has ear wormed me so bad it made me think I’m autistic…”/ #ItsBecauseYoureYou / “Again…again…again…”/ ***How many songs can you think of that you had to keep playing over and over and over again? ***/ #Forbidden DIVIDED BY ZERO (TBA: 2025-2026) / #Skinner / “This might be my favorite moment in music in 2025…”/ “That’s SO fuckin’ bad ass!!!”/ “He sounds just like Russ (Anderson)…” / “I’m gonna be paintin’ neighborhoods when the album comes out…”

(41:15): “We talked about that on the #VagMetal episode…”/ #spankbank / #ArchEnemy (Blood Dynasty – March 28, 2025) / ILLUMINATE THE PATH / “Dude I wanna take her to a movie and buy her a milkshake…”/ “You’re ruining it…”/ “We’re not gonna talk about it if we’re gonna talk about it so we’re gonna talk about it…”/ #Deftones (Private Music – August 22, 2025) / MY MIND IS A MOUNTAIN / “On the same vein…”/ #RussellsWifeReflections regarding #FallingInReverse / “A BIG fan…”/ “She’s not that big, dude…” / “No I think we’ve heard enough…”/ “WTF? Get this alcoholic, pregnant, mom of 5 out of here, man…”/ “Well I’m working on mine, so…”/ #scorchedearth / “Maybe we’ll get on that list…”/ “When would she get away to be able to see a show?” / “When you’re an adult you don’t call people names…” / 8 minutes and counting…/ “You need to do a whole episode…”

(54:34): “The only way to fix this…”/ “It doesn’t stand out as much as the other stuff…”/ #DarkAngel (Extinction Level Event – September 5, 2025) / EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT / “I’d like to say something for the record…a lot of people on #YouTube are…”/ #AngryMattPodcast / “Now I got a reaction, I feel validated…”/ #ElectricCallboy / STILL WAITING (***Check out our #Patreon episode with Electric Callboy***)

(1:00:00): “You can tell this is the 2nd episode…it’s been about an hour…”/ #Biohazard (Divided We Fall – October 17, 2025) / EYES ON SIX / “This is what you listen to when you’re punching the bag…”/ “October is gonna be a happy, happy month for metal fans…”/ “She was suntanning her butthole…”/ “Here’s the thing dude…it was dark I don’t know what I was doing…”/ #CheVelle (Bright As Blasphemy – August 15, 2025) / RABBIT HOLE (COWARDS, PT. 1) / “All the riffs have been done…”/ #JustBeYourself

(1:06:51): “Let’s do some #CradleOfFilth…”/ (The Screaming Of The Valkyries – March 21, 2025) / TO LIVE DELICIOUSLY / #TacoBell / “It’s anticipated…”/ #GrizzledTruckstopASMR / #Halestorm (Everest – August 8, 2025) / DARKNESS ALWAYS WINS / #chainmail / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US! / “There’s a term for that…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel

The metal world mourns the tragic loss of another legend, and this one hit too close to home... 

BRENT HINDS of Atlanta metal pioneers MASTODON was killed on August 20, 2025, in a traffic accident, just months after he and the band parted ways.

There is no other band on earth like MASTODON, and there will never be another guitar player like BRENT HINDS, and so with that, we give you our 2nd installment of MASTODON, focusing on their later work, from 2011’s “The Hunter” to the final album to feature Hinds’ contributions, the progressive double album opus, 2021’s “Hushed And Grim”.

Discover why metal girls are so much better than girls who aren’t into metal, learn the importance of spirit animals and shamans when traveling to other dimensions, and be sure to embrace the power of telepathy when communing with The Ineffable when you JOIN US as we bid farewell to BRENT HINDS and dig into the 2nd half of the MASTODON catalog with MASTODON CHAPTER II: 2010-2025.

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(00:01): “The greatest misheard lyric…” / “It’s really good…it’s perfect…”/ “Looks…tastes…behaves like a peach…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN BUNKERPOON 3-D DIGITAL!!! / #TheAverageDoubleteam / “Did you know, that if you take a tape measure…” / “She went to 73 inches…”/ #findyourage 

(05:26): “Up to a point…which is the point of this episode…”/ #BrentHinds #RestInPeace / #allegedly / “Look twice, save lives…”/ “If you’re not using your headphones with your phone in public, you’re an asshole…”/ #onmicburp / “He said to do more, so I’m trying to…I’m working on it…I can only eat so much, I can only drink so much, but I’m doing my best…”/ #RussellsReflectionsBedtimeEdition / “I listen to #Slayer on my phone at the same volume…”

(12:52): PATREON SHOUT OUT: ***JOIN US on The Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “See if you can guess what this is? EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182 and let us know if you know what this is? / “For somebody that doesn’t like rap…”/ “You’ve gotta be careful, especially with Slayer lyrics…”

(15:51): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  MASTODON VOL. II – 2010-2025: BRENT HINDS IN MEMORIAM / “He was as green as a lime…”/ #BloodMountain BLOOD MOUNTAIN (TRACK 1) / “That sounds like 1984…”/ “If you look at the first four albums, notice the logo…” / The impact of a band’s logo & branding / “They always had a different logo…”/ “Glad you’re excited bro, let’s all fist together…”

(21:50): The Hunter (2011) / “Here’s the hit…”/ CURL OF THE BURL / “It’s got a #QOTSA vibe to it…”/ BLASTEROID / “Your first one?” / “That’s the thing about music…it’s time stamped…especially for metal heads…”/ “That’s #boatmusic when I’m in the boat…”/ “We’ve got to…it’s for us…it may not be your thing…”

(28:46): Once More ‘Round The Sun (2014) / “That album cover is DMT…”/ “What if Norm is Norvyn?” / “If you’ve ever done DMT…that’s what it looks like…”/ #RussellsReflectionsDMTASMR / “He didn’t charge us…”/ “It tastes like smoking a tire…”/ “The best way I can describe it…”/ “You’ve gotta come see this…”/ “It was talking to her in a language she didn’t understand…”/ #TheIneffable / “Keep doing what you’re doing, I’ll see you in about…”/ “And we’re back…”/ THE MOTHERLOAD / “Listen to this riff… / AUNT LISA / #Fucking / “Every time I listen to #Mastodon I’m so confused…”/ “Remission and Leviathan were sludge thrash…”

(43:43): Emperor of Sand (2017) / “You know the cool thing about Bells…”/ “She’s the first girl I ever met who loved Slayer as much as I did…”/ “Andi with an I? Oooooooh, you know what that means, right?” / STEAMBREATHER / “They make the best music videos…”/ #redudeulous / SHOW YOURSELF / “How is Mastodon gonna sound going forward?”

(51:20): Hushed And Grim (2021) / THE CRUX / “When it kicks in, it’s kicking…”/ PEACE AND TRANQUILITY / “Here’s what we should end on…”/ “Shut up…”/ Did y’all hear that? / #AdultSwim DEATHBOUND / “WTF is that?” / #technicaldifficulties #WTF #ParanormalASMR #untilthenext #outroreel 

Released on July 14th, 1992, COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION, the 5th MEGADETH album (and the 2nd to feature “the classic lineup” of Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, Marty Friedman, and Nick Menza) would become the follow up to “one of the most perfect thrash albums of all time”, featuring a more streamlined, simplified, straight forward approach which served as a sonic palette cleanser to the progressive thrash complexity of 1990’s masterpiece, Rust In Peace. Simply stated, COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION is complex in its simplicity.

Even though this might be the most offensive episode we’ve ever made, we’d like to remind everyone that we’re still all about “rainbows and peaches” even though we’ve emphatically stated for the record that “we’re not gonna talk about it”. 

Remember proper cell phone etiquette to avoid being bothersome to others, prepare yourself for “The Average Double-Team”, head on down to Dangol County for some “High Speed Dirt”, and last but not least, find out “how to get out of offending anybody” when you “go pick up some honkies” and JOIN US as we start the clock and begin our analysis of MEGADETH’s COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “We’re not gonna talk about it…but you always wanna talk about it…” / “We can’t ever talk about this so let’s talk about not talking about it when we’re talking about it…”/ “Rainbows and peaches, dude…”/ #buttstuff / “It’s more peach-like in flavor…”/ #KoolAidMan / “Is she a #Redskin?” / “Is it the Washington Nationals?” (NOTE: It’s the Commanders.) / #RacistReflections and using your phone in public (where EVERYONE can hear your music, your conversations, etc.) / “So is it racist…?” / “Do you know where #honky comes from?” / “Why don’t we have better slurs?” / #beeroftheepisode / “Let’s go pick up some honkies and go out and do some stuff…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised 

(07:27): ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #DreamReflections / “Has anybody caught the new #KingOfTheHill…?” / #RussellsReflectionsNostalgiaEdition / “He LEANS into it…”/ #onmicburp / “King of Hill…”/ #InMemoriam / “There’s some conspiracy…”/ “They’re selling their #voicerights to AI…”/ #DangolCounty / “Dude…the Average Double-team…that’s our new podcast…that’s this side of the table…”/ #TheAverageDoubleteam

(14:44): ***JOIN US on the Socials at #Facebook #Instagram #YouTube and #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast and EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #BunkerpoonRequestLine / #PatreonShoutOut / “We’ll do 3 solo episodes…kinda like the solo albums…”

(17:11): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: MEGADETH – COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION / “Can you believe it’s been 33 years!?” / July 14th, 1992 / #wisdomteeth and #drysockets / “I remember I had these tea leaves…”/ “When they pulled it out…it was purple…”/ “Do you hear that? I hear a lot of gay…” / “This was the follow up to probably one of the most perfect thrash albums of all time…”/ SKIN O’ MY TEETH / “Slurps?” / #rrrrrollthoserrrrrs / “Let’s get to the meat…”/ “It’s very old school…”

(26:26): SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION / “Watch him become a god…” / “Complex in its simplicity…”/ ARCHITECTURE OF AGGRESSION / “That’s a bazooka…”/ “Time to pay with your ass…” / “In 2004, they went back…and fucked up the drums…”/ FORECLOSURE OF A DREAM / “I’m not hungry dude, but thank you…”/ “It’s their #BlackAlbum…”

(34:00): “This was the fun one…”/ SWEATING BULLETS / “It’s an extra 24 seconds long…”/ “Remember the video for this?” / #WAYUPFRONT / “Twenty Daves talking to Dave…”/ “Now I just jump out of airplanes and do kung fu…”/ THIS WAS MY LIFE / “Hey…”/ “That was the end of side 1…” / NOTE: CD’s do not include Side 1 and Side 2. Russell could not have been more wrong. / “Here’s how you can get out of offending anybody…”/ “I don’t identify with that unless it can get me free food…” / “Finish the story…Russell…”/ #WaylonSomething #WaylonJennings #WaylonSmith / #Edgelord / “My wife does not have #toethumbs she has nice thumbs…”

(41:11): COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION / “There’s a #Nirvana song that has a similar progression…it might be In Bloom…”/ “She’s talking about sushi…”/ “I know it’s gonna be an unpopular opinion…the problem is the mix…”/ “How pissed off would you be if you put on #MasterOfPuppets and everything sounded different?” / “The drums on this are completely different than the original…”/ “It sounds like a shitty drum machine…”/ Remixing vs Remastering / HIGH SPEED DIRT / “Doesn’t High Speed Dirt sound like a drug?” / “Dave was ahead of his time because he was singing about AI back then…Psychotron is apparently a #Polaroid camera…”/ PSYCHOTRON / “What did #whatshisdick say to #SarahConnor before he banged her back in 1984?”

(51:00): CAPTIVE HONOUR / “It’s like a clean scoop…” / “The last one is the most proggy…”/ ASHES IN YOUR MOUTH / “This sounds like it could have been on Rust In Peace or Peace Sells…” / “Asses in your mouth…”/ “It’s after this next part…”/ Potential future #DeathMatch episodes / “If we do that, that’s a bloodbath…” / “So it has aged like fine wine for you guys…”/ “It sounds as different as putting bass on #AJFA and making the drums sound like #StAnger…” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

Whether it’s the “spooky kabuki KISS” face paint of the 70’s, the “ultra gloves of shame glam KISS” from the 80’s, or the black metal corpse paint of the modern day, MAKE-UP has been a part of rock and metal across a multitude of decades and genres that not only made for a superior stage show but also helped homely looking metal heads look and feel more attractive and confident. 

It’s time to take care of the “nut breath”, pretty up the “front gunt”, and manicure the “gash” before you slip on those “acid washed jeans” and head out the door. 

Discover who was NOT “an official KISS character”, learn how to streamline your vacuuming schedule, and prepare to JOIN US on the most double entendre laden podcast in metal “where dreams can come true” with MAKE-UP IN METAL.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “I had a dream the other night…”/ “Can you stop talking for a minute?”/ “You and my wife should get together and just tell each other about all your fucking dreams…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “So…back to the dream thing…”/ “Wait I thought dreams meant nothing…” / “That’s a warning, dude…even though they don’t mean anything…”/ “I always dreamed I’d be in middle management…” / #dreamscancometrue

(08:45): ***JOIN US on #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast and EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / #pissingpostASMR / “You know what I hear? It’s the #glovesofshame…” / “It tastes like fruit juice for adults…with drugs in it…”/ ***PATREON SHOUTOUT!!!*** JOIN US on the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Sorry, my dreams of #misogyny were coming true…”/ #drumphil / “I almost wonder if we should up the ante…” / “He’s still alive, dude…”/ “I’m gonna mention it…”/ #RussellsReflectionsKillTonyEdition / “So he’s the Greta Van Fleet of Mitch Hedberg…”/ #RussellsReflectionsStillGoingEdition

(21:47): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  MAKE-UP IN METAL / “Is there a #transmetal possibly?” / #Kimdracula or #KimDracula / “It sounds like every other 60’s song…”/ “Remember when he was getting his butt eaten in that movie?” / “He’s got the bone…he’s got a bone on his face…”/ “Makeup, with any artist, has always evolved…”/ #SpookyKabuki / “Dildo man…the golden dildo…”/ “He was like #Zorro…he wasn’t #Starman…”/ #AliceCooper UNDER MY WHEELS (Killer – 1971) / “He’s got #nutbreath now, I can smell it…” / #TheDeclineOfWesternCivilization #TheMetalYears

(32:32): “It’s kinda like the hot chick you knew in high school…”/ #frontgunt / “If I were to play a #KISS song…”/ “I feel like Destroyer is more like KISS’s Load era…”/ “Zero coke lines…shocking…”/ SHE & PARASITE (Alive! – 1975) / “I don’t like that song…”/ “I feel like you’re just relieved this part is over…” / “What about bands like The Sweet?”/ NOTE: The Sweet and Sweet are the same band / “All the guys that are banging super-hot women…”/ #gash / “Of all the crazy shit we’ve said…dude, you just made my dreams come true…” / “Is that the only KISS song you like?” / “I don’t think #dildoman was an official KISS character…”

(44:56): “They wore the jorts…”/ #TwistedSister UNDER THE BLADE (Under The Blade – 1982) / “Let’s go with #Misfits…chronologically they would be next…” / SKULLS (Walk Among Us – 1982) & LAST CARESS (Beware – 1980) / “I never really heard of them before #Metallica…” / #RussellsReflectionsOffTopicASMR / “I would say this guy’s next…it’s Temu #KingDiamond…” / ***Check out our #MercyfulFate #DeathMatch *** / NUNS HAVE NO FUN (Mercyful Fate – 1982) 

(56:30): “I heard a wheeze…”/ “They went from scary makeup to glam makeup…that was the beginning of #Poison…”/ “He walks out there with a big turkey leg…” / #MotleyCrue PIECE OF YOUR ACTION (Too Fast For Love – 1981) / “Can we skip to the guitar solo?” / “So after Crue…” / #Cinderella SHAKE ME (Night Songs – 1986) / #TomKeiferASMR / “They had some eyeliner…they weren’t all Poison’d out…”/ #SpookyBukkake #BukkakeKabuki #SpookyKabukiBukkake / NOTE:  Other than Sean Yseult, no one else in White Zombie wore makeup… / “If I was a woman…” / “How does Ozzy do this all the time?” / #mascara & #eyeliner / “I would fuck me…” / “They made ‘em different back then…”/ #annualvacuuming / #WhiteZombie GRINDHOUSE (A GO-GO) (La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One – 1992) / “Oh excuse me…how often does your wife vacuum?” 

(1:12:20): “I don’t wanna rush through this…” / ***Check out our Shock Rock episode*** / “I’m curious to know the songs on that…”/ “Rock and Roll Brother…” / #MarilynManson THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (Antichrist Superstar – 1996) / “Sorry Andrew Schulz…”/ “You know what I hate worse is when they say…”/ “Have you seen the back album cover of Show No Mercy?” / #shownomorrissey / “Here’s the weird thing about makeup…”/ “She don’t have like toe fingers or anything…” / “I like feet, bro…”/ “Y’know what, out of fairness, to end the show…” / NOTE: we did play this before, and we’ve also got a #Ghost episode you can check out / “It sounds like crispy chainsaws…”/ LACHRYMA & SATANIZED (Skeleta – 2025) / “There is something inside me…” / “A fidget?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

August 8, 2006, marks the first SLAYER album in 16 years featuring Dave Lombardo behind the drum kit with CHRIST ILLUSION, their 10th studio album and their first since the release of God Hates Us All on 09/11/2001. 

With the original classic lineup in place and artist Larry Carroll’s trademark macabre album art, CHRIST ILLUSION represents a true return to form for the thrash veterans, effectively picking up where 1990’s Seasons In The Abyss left off. Prepare to understand why the concept of “Uncanny Valley” has become exponentially creepier with the rise of artificial intelligence, discover which track is officially “the title track” and which one sounds like “a Taco Bell combo meal” for Slayer fans, realize that “Nickelback’s not that bad…they’re right up there with Creed” and get ready to enjoy some “sex noodles” when you JOIN US as we try to overcome our “Slayer Arrested Development (which is S.A.D.)” with CHRIST ILLUSION.

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(00:01): “Me Grok, me know what things are!” / “Destroyer is like their Black Album…you should know all of this…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #tritoon / “We went to a tie up…”/ “Sounds like…sex noodles…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN 5D DIMENSIONS!!!*** / #poonboat / “Why not call the boat a #trypoon…?” / “You think that’s like the monster truck of the water?” / #ponpoon / #RussellsReflectionsBoatEdition / “That’s a LOT money, man!”

(06:26): PATREON SHOUT OUT!!! / ***Come JOIN US over on the #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “The mighty hail…”/ #JustInCaseASMR / #Shittah / #ActusReus RABID DOGS #localmetal #metalcore #deathcore / “Those aren’t Grok Dogs…”/ #EmberingEffigy will be playing at #Yonderways at #TheBlackStrap in Gainesville 

(11:23): ***JOIN US on the social media at #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “I have a little quick thing I wanted to show you…” / “I would say it but I can’t pronounce it…”/ “Hot little Angus…”/ “Apparently when girls talk about size, they’re more into the girth…”

(14:44): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST Presents: SLAYER – CHRIST ILLUSION / The first album featuring the original #Slayer lineup since Seasons In The Abyss / Released August 8, 2006 / #LarryCarroll / “That dude is a DUDE, man…”/ “Interestingly enough…” / “OMG that’s amazing…when you have that spot that you can’t get to…”/ “Then we just gotta go back…we’ve changed over the past 6 years…”/ FLESH STORM / “…and we’re back!” / “When I delete it in post…”/ CATALYST / “When you thought it was over…it did kind of a slide down…and then he slid back up and back down again…”

(25:35): SKELETON CHRIST / “Thrashy and groovy…”/ “Slayer were one of the first…breakdown bands…”/ #GrammyWinner #BestMetalPerformance / EYES OF THE INSANE / #UncannyValley / “Isn’t it like A.I., where it’s almost human but you can tell it is not…?” / The definition of Uncanny Valley / “I am SO fucking tired…let’s just get this out there…”/ “Maybe it was an A.I. generated article…”

(35:00): JIHAD / #CBLE / “There’s an outro part that’s really creepy…”/ “Every time…I get so much boner…”/ “That was mainly written about the 2 towers…but not WTC7…”/ “It’s right over there…on a map, it’s like 6 inches that way…”/ “She frew on a big prane…”/ “That might be one of the few times in life where it’s okay to do acid…”/ CONSFEARACY / “It’s like Dittohead…but opposite…”/ #RussellsReflections regarding #Ozzfest back in ’99 / “That’s a sign of aging…Nickelback’s not that bad…they’re right up there with Creed.”

(47:27): CATATONIC / “It’s kinda nice to hear Slayer do the heavy…”/ “Okay this is gonna sound weird…I feel like every band kinda does this a little bit…they try too hard to be themselves…”/ BLACK SERENADE / “This isn’t me being argumentative…I promise…”/ “You’ve got…Slayer Arrested Development, which is S.A.D.” / “I feel like they’ve got a file on me…check out his shit from last Thursday…”

(55:21): CULT / “That has classic, creepy Slayer vibes…”/ #titletrack / “I feel like that’s the title track…there it is!” / #backmasking / “I wanna get a Supremist meal…”/ SUPREMIST / “It’s good dry…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #Doomsicle / #recordscratch #outtakes

It all started on February 13, 1970, with the ominous sounds of chapel bells, thunder, and pouring rain, and it all ended with an emotionally charged, worldwide downpour of tears from fans across the planet on July 22, 2025, the day that OZZY OSBOURNE, The Prince Of Darkness, bade this world farewell and passed into eternity.

Ozzy, for many metal heads, represents “the “beginning” of the heavy metal journey. With a “creepy and unsettling” voice that sounded like no one else before or after him, he was, for all intents and purposes, “the first and the last” of his kind in metal, helping to lay the foundations for the countless heavy metal subgenres that would follow and spawning legions of metal heads that would loyally follow him across multiple generations. 

Get ready to “quit dick-docking around” for a little bit because it’s time to JOIN US as we “bless that man & bless that band” and pay tribute to the man who helped birth “the most powerful genre of music in the world” as we salute and bid a fond farewell to The Prince Of Darkness with OZZY OSBOURNE – IN MEMORIAM.

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(00:01): “She hangs out…but she doesn’t run off…I said ‘Hey lady’…”/ #markthetime / #Dice / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST, NOW (SADLY) IN A #POSTOZZYWORLD *** / #shizirt / “I know but “just do it already…quit dick docking around…”

(03:11): #PatreonShoutOut ***JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerdery.com ***/ #TomDick / ***JOIN US on the Social Media at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok ***/ #drumfill / “That was not gay…” / ***LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “I have missed that sound…so much…”/ #PissingPost / “We all knew it was coming…”/ “It’s almost like if suddenly oceans didn’t have water anymore…”/ “Since we’re already in this space…”

(07:56): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OZZY OSBOURNE – IN MEMORIAM / A #eulogy for #ThePrinceOfDarkness #OzzyOsbourne / Our earliest memories of Ozzy / “His voice as a solo artist was different to me than his voice in Sabbath…”/ “It was a little creepy and unsettling…”/ “He doesn’t sound like anyone else…”/ “I never had any friends that had parents with cool record collections…”/ “Married his 14 year old…cousin…”/ “All our heroes were doing this in the 70’s…”/ “You didn’t realize how mainstream Ozzy was until Tuesday…”/ “He had to do the vocal words…”/ “After you heard the news…what was the first Ozzy song you heard?”

(19:44): “It’s gonna be #OzzyDay from now on…”/ July 22, 2025 #RIP #OzzyOsbourne / “From here on out…”/ “He’s ALWAYS been there…”/ MAMA I’M COMING HOME (No More Tears – 1990) from #JacobDavisGuitar / “The window’s open, the breeze flowing…your balls are out…”/ “Like old #MichaelHedges style…”/ #acousticguitarplayers / “He’s kind of The God of Heavy Metal…”/ “I feel like #TheOsbournes made him more relatable…”/ “She kept that man alive…him and his career…”/ “Think about your parents…Ozzy has always looked like Ozzy…” / #BackToTheBeginning is being proposed to be an annual event/ “The most powerful genre of music in the world…there’s no #PopNerdery podcast, how about that?”

(29:52): “Here’s a thought…”/ #TheFirstAndTheLast #BlackSabbath and #OzzyOsbourne / “Bless that man and bless that band…”/ BLACK SABBATH (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “Get to the fast part…”/ “Vita-macta…facta-mica…”/ PARIAH (13 – 2013) / NOTE: It’s Dear Father / “Sounds like #RATM …”/ “I would trade this for Technical Ecstasy…”/ DEAR FATHER / #TheEnd / “It’s all the same…only the names have changed

(41:41): “In terms of an opener…not only an album opener but your (solo) career opener…” / I DON’T KNOW (Blizzard Of Ozz – 1980) / “Perfect…”/ “Chainsaw metal…”/ “The last song on Never Say Die! was…” / SWINGING THE CHAIN (Never Say Die! – 1978) / “Wait, is that Ozzy!?” / OVER TO YOU / “This album is still infinitely better than Technical Ecstasy…”/ “Those 2 albums became southern rock…you’d listen to this on #DazedAndConfused…”/ “That’d be weird if #Liberace was in Black Sabbath…”/ “Well I didn’t see my balls for a couple of days…” / #mycondolences / “It was 4 this time…”/ GOD ONLY KNOWS (Patient Number 9 – 2022) / “As soon as I said the ‘M’ word…”/ DEGRADATION RULES 

 ***NOTE: Degradation Rules was released as a single on 07/22/2022, 3 years to the day before Ozzy’s passing. ***

“Crazy…but that’s how it goes…”  - Crazy Train 

(55:33): “I mean I never shat on it…” / “You held the cheeks apart…handles and everything…”/ “Sid Wilson…from Scranton…”/ “Has anybody ever translated (the runes) the album cover of Speak of the Devil?” / ***Go check out all of our Ozzy and Sabbath episodes!!!*** / GOD BLESS OZZY OSBOURNE FOR EVERYTHING METAL!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel / “What do you wanna hear!?” / #RestInPeaceOzzy

Generally speaking, an artist’s DEBUT ALBUM will often be quite good, while their SOPHOMORE ALBUM, in contrast, will often be far more advanced, sophisticated, and light years better than the first, in terms of song writing and overall production. While this is more often than not the rule, there are some notable exceptions.

As with asking a parent with 2 kids “which one do you love more?”, sometimes the answer is obvious, and other times it’s “not even close”. And in the instances where dissenting opinions clashed, the resulting debate may have impacted the feelings of others “forevermore”.

It's time to “go get your mom” and bear witness to some “Gonz Bozonders” as we discuss the blockbuster movie magic behind “Shark Week” and prepare to “show no Morrissey” with regard to “butt scissoring” when you JOIN US as we try to determine whether various metal artist’s second albums are BETTER OR WORSE than their first.

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(00:01): “23 lbs down, son…”/ “That’s a heart healthy #origami diet…”/ #semiglutide / “Every time I come, you’re like ‘that’s fine’…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #RussellsTwanglifiedVocals / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY FENG SHUI UNDERGROUND BUNKERPOON PODCAST!!!*** / “I’m getting feng shui’d with my Wang Chung…”/ #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / #ObiOneCanObi / “Oh it smells like green pee…”/ “The cover model on the upstairs magazine…”/ #starcrunch / #uhhhhkay

(06:00): ***PATREON SHOUT OUT!!!*** / ***COME AND JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “It’s like two dudes butthole fucking each other…”/ #buttscissoring / ***EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “It’ll probably be out before this episode…the LAST episode…”/ “Don’t choke on those nuts, bro…”/ “I’m fuckin’ trippin’ balls…”/ “You might wanna swallow first…”

(10:30): #RussellsReflectionsMovieEdition #Jaws / “That’s not Snowflake…”/ #sharkweek / “Every month is shark week for women…”/ “Oh, you mean like the #moonlanding…”/ “BTW, who owned #MarthasVinyard?”/ “Without men, women would never be mothers…”/ #Duel #StevenSpielberg / #BJAndTheBear #EveryWhichWayButLoose #AnyWhichWayYouCan / “I’m telling you…go get your mom…” / “These guys are assholes…”/ #spoiler / “So anyway, that was Steven Spielberg’s first attempt…”/ “So it’s like #TheShining vs The Shining…”/ “That was his 4th movie (Jaws)…”/ “Sorry, had a couple of beers…(too many)”/ #swallowit / “I know this sounds weird, but…”/ #GonzBozonders / “I might have felt a little weird down there…”

(23:23): “I forget what we’re doing…/ #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  2ND ALBUMS THAT ARE BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THE DEBUT ALBUMS / “They’re not all gonna be equal…is it better or is it worse?” / “Okay, I’m gonna make this real easy to start…”/ “What?” / Hell Awaits vs Show No Mercy / “How about Shout At The Devil vs Too Fast For Love?” / “I am so lost…exactly…”

(29:43): “Kreator…how about Kreator?” / “Violent…what is it?” / “It’s not that different…it’s not as memorable…”/ “Put on your 1983 hat…Ride The Lightning (was not even out yet) …”/ “I was gonna say DirtBox…”/ Black Sabbath vs Paranoid / “If we’re doing a #DeathMatch…”/ Van Halen or Van Halen II? / “This is effectively a Death Match between first and second albums…”/ #VanHalen YOU’RE NO GOOD (Van Halen II – 1979) / “Maybe Kerry King played bass on all the Van Halen albums…”

(38:28): “I do wanna go back to the #Slayer thing…”/ #titillation / “You like Show No Morrissey…”/ “Progressive? Maybe…”/ “I didn’t fart in your face, I didn’t dishonor your family by farting in your face…”/ The Legacy or The New Order? / “That’s very easy…”/ “It’s like asking a parent with 2 kids ‘which one do you love more?’…”/ Holy Diver or The Last In Line?/  “Careful back there…”/ “No I don’t! OMG, I’m not trying to be difficult!”/ “Let’s make an album real quick…”/ #heshammered / “What are we doing now? He’s lost the argument…you’re doing what women do…because you lost…”/ “That’s the next episode…”/ #forevermore / “So anyway…”

(49:55): “Which #Pantera are we talking about?” / “Okay, that one loses…”/ “Here’s why Vulgar is so much better…”/ “Roadhouse Blues, but heavier…”/ “Toly different…”/ A NEW LEVEL (Vulgar Display of Power – 1992) / “Did it make you feel special in your special place?”

(54:29): “This is gonna hurt…Blizzard or Diary?” / “If you’re talking 1982…”/ #OzzyOsbourne OVER THE MOUNTAIN (Diary Of A Madman – 1981) / #MatthewsReflections / THE ULTIMATE SIN (The Ultimate Sin – 1986) / ***NOTE: This episode was pre-recorded prior to Ozzy’s passing on 07/22/2025. R.I.P. and THANK YOU to #ThePrinceOfDarkness for everything you’ve done for metal!!! #HailAndFarewell*** / “We did the #BarkAtTheMoon dive…put that keyboard back in the closet where it belongs…”

(1:00:15): “What about AC/DC?” / “It was ’81 when Dirty Deeds was released in the U.S.” / “Does she know how to run all the equipment?” / “What about #Exodus? Bonded By Blood or Pleasures? / “I like rabbit holes…”/ PIRANHA (Bonded By Blood – 1985) / “I think I’m done…I should go…”/ ***IF YOU CAN THINK OF ANY OTHER EXAMPLES, EMAIL US OR VOICEMAIL US AND GIVE US YOUR 1ST & 2ND ALBUMS…*** / #untilthenext #outroreel 

BACK TO THE BEGINNING, the final concert performance by the O.G. lineup of BLACK SABBATH featuring Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Ozzy Osbourne (along with an all-star roster of top shelf rock & metal artists) was held at Villa Park in Aston, Birmingham, England on 05/07/2025 (that’s July 5th, 2025 for people in the United States) and raised nearly $200 Million for charity. 

While BACK TO THE BEGINNING will go down in heavy metal history as “The Live Aid of Metal”, it also represents a significant turning point and an emotional marker for metal fans from all over the world who came to pay homage and bid a celebratory yet poignant farewell to the Founding Fathers of Heavy Metal and The Prince Of Darkness.

Ladies, prepare to comprehend why Pantera playing Sabbath songs at a Zeppelin tribute is as much a faux pas as “showing up to a funeral wearing a bridal gown”, gentlemen, understand how Slipknot’s Sid Wilson is an absolute genius when it comes to remembering landmark dates with that special someone, and as for everybody else, break out your assortment of relaxers and various modalities of twanglification and JOIN US as we celebrate Sabbath, Ozzy, and all things metal with our take on BACK TO THE BEGINNING.

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(00:01): “Mr. Black or Mr. Monkey?” / NOTE: that was actually #CoalChamber with #OzzyOsbourne / “Going forward, I need you to know…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #christmaspeanutbutterballs / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN FENG SHUI BUNKERPOON PARADISE!!!***/ #ragefulreflections #freeair #gasstations / “Dude, that’s a thing…”/ #DiscountTire #DriveUp #FreeService / “Now you go to 2 or 3 and they’re all fucked…”/ “Is it some kind of conspiracy?” / “If anybody sees somebody doing that…”

(05:55): “We have a little #shittah…”/ ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182 or PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast*** / “Maybe knuckle deep…”/ #PatreonShoutout / “Apparently…I dropped the whole sack today…”/ #wellplayyourshittah WE’LL PLAY YOUR SHIT-TAH!!! / #Kalmo from #Finland #BlackenedDoomMetal THY CHOSEN ONE / “Oh that made all the difference…”/ #spokenwordASMR / “The release month is the 16th month and the 7th day…”/ “Smallest to biggest…no, y’all go big, small, big again…” / #ThankYou

(12:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  BLACK SABBATH & OZZY OSBOURNE – BACK TO THE BEGINNING POST-SHOW WRAP-UP / “We now live in a #PostSabbathWorld…”/ “I had a really, really, REALLY, bad 4th of July…it was awesome!”/ “Luckily, for some strange reason…”/ “The first thing I saw was this…”/ #BackToTheBeginning #MetalLiveAid #MetalCharity / #JackBlack MR. CROWLEY (Blizzard Of Ozz – 1980) / “Things move fast in the metal community…” / “The only things that I had questions about...WHY?” / NOTE:  #LedZeppelin is NOT from #Birmingham / #NunoBettencourt / #onmicburp / “There were some heroes, and there were some zeroes…”/ “Apparently he’s got a really thick Rolodex…”/ #SabbathBloodyAnthrax / #RussellsReflectionsASMR 

(22:22): “She sang amazing dude…she hit a note…the whole band quit playing…” / #LzzyHale #Halestorm PERRY MASON (Ozzmosis – 1995) / “I’m gonna gush…”/ “Bark at the Boon?” / BARK AT THE MOON (Bark At The Moon – 1983) / “Hit it Vernon…” / “All-righty-then…” / #NunoSolo / #onmicburp / “That’s helpful…”/ #rotatingstage / “Oh…play it…trainwreck…”/ #AliceInChains FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS (Paranoid – 1970) / “That’s not a ‘train wreck’…”/ “It’s meaty…and thick…and full…”/ “To be fair…the bigger fuck up was at the very end on the #livefeed where they cut off…”

(33:00): “They actually released that as a single…”/ “Here we go…with the negativity…”/ “Why the fuck did they have Steven Tyler come out and not even sing a Sabbath song?” / “It’s kinda like showing up to a funeral wearing a bridal gown…”/ “Let’s see #Pantera play some #BlackSabbath at a #LedZeppelin tribute…” / #RussellsLaughterASMR / “Slayer absolutely destroyed the show…the Slayer set was…what are we doin’?” / #Slayer WICKED WORLD (Black Sabbath – 1970) 

(39:00): “I understand the criticism…but #GunsNRoses…they don’t fit as much as the other bands fit…”/ “One album really…”/ “The next band was perfect as usual…”/ #Metallica HOLE IN THE SKY (Sabotage – 1975) / “I like the whole purple motif…”/ “I’ve never heard Johnny Blade played live ever…”/ JOHNNY BLADE (Never Say Die! – 1978) / “I can’t watch Lars Ulrich play drums anymore without thinking about that dude on #Instagram…”

(46:06): “Let’s get to the meat…”/ “45,000 tickets sold in 16 minutes…” / #OzzyOsbourne MAMA I’M COMING HOME (No More Tears – 1991) / “I mean, he’s trying…” / “Alright play a Sabbath one real quick…”/ #BlackSabbath N.I.B. (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “It’s kinda cool that he went topless…”/ “Getting old sucks so bad!” / “This was the #LiveAid of #heavymetal…”/ “Who got kicked off? Who was it?” / #Feuds #FeudFuel / “Drama sells…”/ #Loudmouth is actually a #Merger between #Loudwire and #Blabbermouth / “It’s getting really close…”/ #clickbait / “Everybody feels like they’ve got to be a whore for the algorithm…”/ “This is what the internet says…”/ “That’s it. That’s the last time…this is over.” / “I get both sides of it…you could have waited til the day after…”/ #marriageproposal / “He’ll never forget it, and in fairness to guys, that’s probably why he did it on that day…”/ “Propose on #LeapYear …if you get married on Leap Year, you only have an anniversary every 4 years…”/ THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE #BACKTOTHEBEGINNING A REALITY AND A SUCCESS!!! / “If it was great, I did it…”/ ***GO CHECK OUT OUR SABBATH EPISODES!!!*** / #untilthenext #outroreel / ***BONUS PREVIEW***

We’ve all been there. Every one of us have experienced an album where it was “almost perfect” front to back, yet there was that one song that blemished its perfection and brought it down a notch. 

Granted, some songs may not fit relative to the context of an album and should have never been included to begin with, while others may have been played into the ground a quadrillion times to the point that even though it has become tiresome to listen to, “it’s not like it doesn’t belong” on the album.  

Basically, the most pressing points to ponder when evaluating whether a song is “skippable” or simply should not exist are:

1. “If you take this song off the album, does it make it a better album?”
2. “If it’s 1980 and you’re wearing your jorts and your tank top and you’re at a Boone’s farm bonfire…is it a bad song?”
3. “Is this the song that made this album worse…?”

Discover the most “prostate meltingly hot” thing a woman can wear, hear Beaker’s favorite song to do at karaoke after a long day on set at The Muppet Show, and prepare to get “T.B.R” when you JOIN US for the “hysteria” surrounding THE SONG THAT SHOULD NOT BE  as things get heated and hostile regarding GREAT METAL ALBUMS RUINED BY ONE SONG. 

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “…just the tip…” / “No panties, no undies…like Donald Duck” / #dreams / “Maybe Mick Jagger liked it black…” / “So you’re a #Beatles guy, huh?” / “Dude you are TBR: Twanglified Beyond Recognition…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “After 2 doses of peanut butter, the black’s kinda weird…” / “Our latest Patreon was definitely irresponsible…we talked some real shit…that was just too much reality…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN THE FENG SHUI’D SUMMER SOLSTICE BUNKERPOON PLACE!!!*** / “Somewhere in the ether…”/ “I think we got rid of all the internal demons…” / ***”If you wanna hear what he’s referring to, JOIN US over on #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerdery.com to find out!!!*** / “Don’t choke on those nuts, dude…”

(06:51): #nextlevel #SlayerOfTheEpisode / #mentalist / “Fingers in the butthole…the whole thing…”/ POSTMORTEM (Reign In Blood – 1986) / “She’s not old, dude…she’s our age…”/ #JenniferAnniston / “Funny makes a chick super-hot!” / “Here’s a hot look for the ladies…” / #prostatemeltinglyhot / 

(12:18): #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: GREAT METAL ALBUMS RUINED BY 1 SONG (AKA: The Song That Should Not Be) / “We’ve gotta exorcise the demons, dude…”/ “Maybe it’s radio’s fault…” / #ACDC YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG (Back In Black – 1980)  / “If it’s 1980 and you’re wearing your jorts and your tank top and you’re at a Boone’s farm bonfire…is it a bad song?” / #ICantGoBack / “Now it’s country…”

(17:52): “This is the first one I purchased with my own money…”/ “Your shutter speed’s a little slow…”/ #BlackSabbath CHANGES (Vol. 4 – 1972) /“You skip it because you feel unhappy and you feel so sad…”/ “You listen to as much of that as is appropriate to listen to before skipping…”/ “To stay on the Sabbath…”/ AM I GOING INSANE? (RADIO) (Sabotage – 1975) – NOTE: ‘Radio’ in this context means ‘mental’, NOT radio edit. 

(24:57): #LedZeppelin HATS OFF (TO ROY HARPER) (Led Zeppelin III – 1970) / “The soundtrack to Beaker…” / #TheMuppetShow / “Weirdly…it’s gonna sound like I’m pulling a Russell here but I’m not…”/ #Metallica ESCAPE (Ride The Lightning – 1984) / “Maybe I like it more than I should…”/ “It’s the least favorite song on the album…” / “I’m not trying to say that your opinions are ‘malleable’…”

(31:54): “We’ve recently touched it…It’s all 7’s…”/ “I’d be happy to hear that in public, but if I’m listening to the album…”/ #IronMaiden INVADERS (The Number Of The Beast – 1982) / “It’s too happy…” / “If Technical Ecstasy comes on at a bar, I’m gonna listen to it…I’m not gonna be happy about it…(but at least it’s Sabbath)…” / NOTE: Russell was WAY off on this one…it’s NOT a Rainbow song. ‘Turn To Stone’ is from the album Magica… / “Like he’s smiling through his pain…”/ #TheSongThatShouldNotBe / “Would the The Black Album have been better without Enter Sandman?” / “Walk is Pantera’s Enter Sandman…Enter Sandman is Metallica’s We Will Rock You” / “I get it…does that mean I’m not gonna skip it?”/ “It’s still your turn btw…”

(43:21): “Some of these songs are just growers…they just take time…” / “I don’t wanna touch any of you guys…”/ ROCK OF AGES (Pyromania – 1983) / “Y106…Johnboy in the mornin’…”/ #LMAO / “That was country as hell…” / “If you’ve got a whole room full of 10’s, that’s the 5…she might be malleable, too…”/ “You can just take Reborn right off of Reign In Blood and make it perfect…see, it’s a win-win for everybody, Russell…” / #Slayer REBORN (Reign In Blood – 1986) / “It sounds like it’s Slayer trying too hard to be Slayer…” / “If you were to pick a song off of Shout At The Devil…it just doesn’t fit…”/ GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN OF THE BEAST (Shout At The Devil – 1983) 

(53:25): “To go along with your rant on Changes…” / #OzzyOsbourne #BlizzardOfOzz / GOODBYE TO ROMANCE (Blizzard Of Ozz – 1980) / “Does it fit the album?”/ “Is this the song that made this album worse…?” / “It’s the Changes of Blizzard of Ozz…” / “I will pick something else…” / “That song made #BlackSabbath Black Sabbath…that song made them evil Black Sabbath…”/ IRON MAN (Paranoid – 1970) / “This is NOT ‘You Shook Me All Night Long”…this is NOT ‘Enter Sandman’…”/ “Skippable is different than it not existing…it needs to exist…”/ “I’m trying to come up with a #Pantera one but I really can’t…” / “It’s not a song…I’ve skipped it so many times I don’t even know the name of it…” / GOOD FRIENDS AND A BOTTLE OF PILLS (Far Beyond Driven – 1994) / “This may sound unpopular…”/ 

DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR (South Of Heaven – 1988) / “It doesn’t sound like it fits with the context (of the rest of the album…)” / “It’s not that out of place…”/ “Hysteria…”/ ***THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK AT metalnerdery@gmail.com or 980-666-8182!!!*** / #untilthenext #outroreel 

1982 –Michael Jackson releases what would become the biggest selling album in music history with Thriller, Survivor and Olivia Newton John are locked in their own HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH on the Billboard Charts with Eye of the Tiger & Let’s Get Physical, and IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST, two of the greatest twin guitar attacks in all of  metal, both release two of the most iconic albums in all of metal with THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE.

Go ahead and put on your ’82 hat and be resigned to the fact that with regard to getting through this, “it’s gonna be tough!”. 

Get ready to discover the proper (and most savage) way to “enjoy” fried chicken and realize that “nudity now” doesn’t mean what it meant back in the day. Always remember that “if you’re looking for a good time, it’s in the bottom” and just know that “the banana helps it go down” when you JOIN US for some “Bunkerpoon Feng Shui” on this 1982 HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH with THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE battling it out to the death.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Welcome everybody to #Bunkerpoon #FengShui…”/ “What’s the official name?” / #DirtyMonkeysBananaPeanutButter / “I love fucking fried chicken…”/ “What’s your #deathrow meal?” / #QueenCheeseIcing / “Their boat’s about 3 times the size of my dock…”/ #edibles #gummies / “They’re legit…like this…”/ “As long as there are college kids creating ways to get high, they will always be in front of the government…”/ #LosingTheWarOnDrugs / “Everything’s big in Texas…”/ “Have you ever wondered how many houses you drive by that are drug houses?” / “They’re responsible…”

(07:11): ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “The banana helps it go down…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN THE FENG SHUI BUNKERPOON!!!*** / “I knew it was gonna fuck with you…”/ #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #SnafuBrewingCompany #KeepingItTeal #Sour / “Micro booze?” / #CyclingFrog / “THC gives me extreme anxiety…” / #RussellsReflectionsTHCASMR / “The gateway drug…the one you start off with…THAT’s the one I’m terrified by…”/ “It could be #heartdisease too…I get winded coming down the stairs…” / #gout 

(14:32): #PatreonShoutOuts / ***YOU CAN JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #Patreon #MetalNerderyPatreon #HogStory / “She’s the one that wore it out…”/ “It’s gonna be like #frisbeegolf…”/ #RussellsReflectionsChatGPTEdition / “I got…what’s the word? I got tricked…hoodwinked…hornswoggled…bamboozled…”/ “I kept getting led on and on and on…”/ #Skynet / ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!! EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com or SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #YouTube #Facebook #TikTok *** / “Do you have TP?” / “It sounds like Smoke On The Water…it was #Jackyl…”/ I STAND ALONE / “That sounds pretty close…you can only write so many riffs…”

(23:35): “You wanna do psychic tentacle choice?” / #SlayerOfTheEpisode / #Slayer DISCIPLE (God Hates Us All – 2001) / “Every time I hear that it’s 9/11/01 all over again…”/ #nineelevenreflections / “Oh it’s #WorldWarIII …I was waiting for the #mushroomclouds …”/ “I can’t believe no planes flew into #TowerSeven …” / “I’ve got a reflection…”/ #RussellsReflectionsNetflixEdition / “When it says #NudityNow it means…it’s always a guy…”/ “They show shows on TV…”/ #Netflix #series #BadThoughts #TomSegura / “Used to be you only got tits, femme cheeks, and occasionally a bush…”

(34:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  1982 HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH – IRON MAIDEN VS JUDAS PRIEST (THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST VS SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE) / “I think there is probrem…”/ #ESO / “#Skynet before Skynet…”/ “We need to see how many tracks we’ve got…” / “How about we, on the coin toss, give it to whoever released their album first…Mar. 22, 1982 vs Jul. 1, 1982” / “There’s a logistical reason for the #fengshui …”/ #IronMaiden INVADERS / “To me, this is one of their worst openers…”/ “Going back to that other topic we were talking about…this one…bye.”/ #JudasPriest THE HELLION/ELECTRIC EYE / “I think we already know…” / “You’ve gotta play those two together…”

(44:11): CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED / “For some reason I thought The Prisoner was track 2…” / “So you’ve got Children of the Damned…of the Sea…of the Grave…Children of the Sun…”/ #BillyThorpe / “Did you see the smack he was talking?” / RIDING ON THE WIND / “It’s not as fast as I remembered it…”/ “It’s kind of a draw…”/ “Make a decision, be a man, c’mon…”

(51:11): “Would you let the #BlackDog out?” / BLOODSTONE / “Everything’s way up front, the guitar, drums, and bass…”/ “I am not a number, I am a free man!” / THE PRISONER / “Am I gonna be a dick if it’s a draw, two in a row?” / “It’s gonna be tough!”/ #RussellsJustifications / “That’s what happens, man, when you Feng Shui the Bunkerpoon…”

(58:22): 22 ACACIA AVENUE / “It’s in the bottom…if you’re looking for a good time, it’s in the bottom…”/ “In fairness…we could group those two together…how about those two equal the closer…”/ (TAKE THESE) CHAINS / “Almost sounds like ‘Snuff’…”/ “This is 80’s, fierce…”/ NOTE:  They did go back to that opening riff, which resembles the opening of ‘Snuff’ by #Slipknot / PAIN AND PLEASURE / “This is just…no.”

(1:05:25): “This one might be a little difficult…” / #SideTwo #KillerOpener / THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST / “This is where the work starts…it’s gonna be tough…”/ SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE / “That’s thrash…”/ “That sounds like #Motorhead…like a refined, pointier Motorhead…”/ “The world is a manacled place…” / “When somebody says 666 and you’re a metal head…” / “Don’t speak for him…” / “It would be the runner up anyway because it’s the loser…”

(1:12:05): “Yeah, yeah…”/ YOU’VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMING / “This was their Enter Sandman…”/ “There were so many misheard lyrics when I was a kid…I had no idea what he was saying…”/ “I don’t think non musicians get the whole…(#djunts & #flahns)…I think #metalheads get that more than any other genre…” / “I think it gets easier from here on out…”/ RUN TO THE HILLS / “Is that the ONLY song Judas Priest has?” / “It’s so ‘that’ that one might think it’s a cover…”

(1:21:02): FEVER / “I do like the fancy panning…”/ “He used to stay at home…”/ “Wasn’t quite what I thought it was gonna be…”/ “And here’s Adam’s favorite song…”/ GANGLAND / “It almost kinda sounds a little like Invaders…”/ “I think we made a big mistake…”/ “You can hear the prepackaged loudness from the factory…” / “They’re not all from Birmingham…I think Maiden is from London…”

(1:27:40): DEVIL’S CHILD / “Sounds like a mix between #MotleyCrue and #ACDC …”/ HALLOWED BE THY NAME / “I almost feel like this isn’t even fair…”/ “I thought it was gonna be tight…”/ “I feel like there’s Priest fans and there’s Maiden fans…”/ “Maiden does not have an album that they have to apologize for…”/ “You have to tally…”/ “What’s the final score?” / “It’s all 7’s…”/ “Album by album, here we go…it’s been about an hour…”/ “Shocking…there’s 7’s…” / ***LET US KNOW WHAT YOUR OPINION IS…ARE WE WRONG? *** / “What’s the Top song of 1982?” / “I’ll bet she smelled like Aqua Net and Marlboros…”/ “That was fun…til it all went to 7’s…”/ “PRIEST? OR MAIDEN? OR BOLTH?” / #untilthenext #outroreel 

From “The Moses story” to “the shortest verse in The Good Book” to one of the creepiest spoken word intros in all of metal which references end time prophecy, the impact of GOD IN METAL can be found everywhere, no matter how subtle or obvious, positive or negative.

Whether it’s an album cover, a band’s name, a song, or even direct Biblical scripture, there are endless references to GOD IN METAL across all genres of heavy metal, and we barely even mentioned Christian metal.

Discover the truth about “A.I.” and why “pretty clean is not clean enough” (for some), learn about the “Christmas Vacation” reference (and the ensuing drama) we forgot to mention on our recent Metallica concert review, be sure to always exercise prudence & discernment regarding the concept of “easy hole” and remember that “Yeah, That Dude is huge, too” when you JOIN US for The Bunkerpoon Revival as we behold the divinely everlasting and eternally omnipotent impact of GOD IN METAL.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “It was a teen club…” (NOT to be confused with #YoungLife) / “And the reason is YO!” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Shut up man, the music’s still playing…”/ #metalnerderysong / “You know what A.I. is, right?” / “I was a safety…you were the quarterback, sir…you were feeding the ball…to the receiver…”/ #footballtalk / “Pretty clean is not enough clean…”/ “Every time a woman begs me…you know they beg for it all the time…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN THE BUNKERPOON DIGITAL DUNGEON!!!*** / #markallthetimes / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #Scofflaw #Float #WatermelonLimeShandy / “That’s a #KISS song, right?” / #TheVerdict / “Limey watermelon?” / Pears vs Apples / “It’s like tumbleweeds down there…”

(09:19): PATREON SHOUT OUT!!! / ***JOIN US over on the #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast for all kinds of stuff that you won’t get anywhere else!!!*** / “It’s 99.9% guaranteed…kinda like #condoms…” / #wiiings instead of #wings / “Going back to the last episode, what we forgot to mention…”/ #Bethany / “There was a couple that were extra #twanglified…”/ “You know what I didn’t know…”/ #MaeQuestal #ChristmasVacation #BettyBoop / “Do you think she would have been easy hole?” / #easyhole #investmenthole / PATREON SHOUT OUT (CONTINUED) #PatreonShoutOut / “Everything’s gay when you get married…”

(17:44): #MatthewsReflections / #TheCharismaticVoice / “She’s done some metal stuff…and she did #RainingBlood…” / “I watched a couple, and they did…I don’t remember who it was, but she’s got dark hair…Jinjer? It might have been #Jinjer…” / “You know what we forgot to do on the last episode?” / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182 & SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube #TikTok / “It was Jinjer…”/ #SlayerOfTheEpisode #MCTentacleChoice THE ANTICHRIST (Show No Mercy – 1983) 

(25:25): “Reflections…let’s see…”/ #RussellsReflections / #JayJayFrench #TwistedSister / ***Check out his #audiobook (and/or regular book) - Twisted Business: Lessons from My Life in Rock ‘n’ Roll*** / “We’ve gotta do a dive on that…”/ “Here’s the path: either it’s a gradual build or a Matterhorn spike…”/ “He said he made more off that album than he ever did with Twisted Sister…” / #Sevendust / “I don’t wanna tell the whole story…”/ “Tim Robbins? Or Tony Robbins?” / “That dude’s huge, too, and he’s got big fingers…”/ “There was a couple in front of us…they took a perfectly framed #selfie with them, my mug, and my #MetalNerderyShirt …”

(37:37): #TheDocket #AlmightyThen METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  GOD IN METAL / #ChristianMetalBands / “No limits…anything that’s #God #tangentional…” / #TheAlmighty / #Dio HOLY DIVER (Holy Diver – 1983) / #shinydiamonds #cleantigers / NOTE: #RockyIII came out almost a year to the day before #HolyDiver / “I have #faith that you’ve got it in you…” / #Metallica CREEPING DEATH (Ride The Lightning – 1984) / #BushOfFire #LandOfGoshen / (REFERENCE: Exodus 3, Exodus 12) / “It’s also a redhead’s downstairs…” / “You got one?” / #BlackSabbath LORD OF THIS WORLD (Master of Reality – 1971) / “I’ll take your Lord of this World and raise you After Forever…” / “It’s 1971, it’s the fall, and I’m high…”/ “That one’s more about…” / #AfterForeverLyrics / “Going back to our #MachineHead episode…” / (REFERENCE: John 11:35)

(48:56): “The Dave/Metallica thing keeps making the rounds…” / #Metallica THE FOUR HORSEMEN (Kill ‘Em All – 1983) / (REFERENCE: Revelation 6) / “Actually this part is more relevant…”/ “I’ve got a surprise one to throw you off…” / #LedZeppelin THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE (Led Zeppelin IV – 1971) / “The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom, and walked the night alone…”/ “We are not all seeing…because we all have glasses…”/ #IronMaiden REVELATIONS (Piece of Mind – 1983) /( REFERENCE: G.K. Chesterson O God of Earth and Altar, Psalm 47:7) /  “It’s like going to Wal-Marks…Krogers…”

(56:48): “I mean, we talking deities or…?” / “It’s got a lot of melody…”/ #TypeONegative CHRISTIAN WOMAN (Bloody Kisses – 1993) / “If you look at the first #DOWN album…” / #CyclingFrog / “Okay wait a minute, how’s that different from In League with Satan!?” / #Forbidden FORBIDDEN EVIL (Forbidden Evil – 1988) / “Behold good God the Savior will rule Eternity…” / “It appears that Metallica kinda wins with #BiblicalReferences or references to #God…”/ “You’ll have to hold all four of your horses…”/ #Sepultura ARISE (Arise – 1991)

(1:08:04): “I’m not gonna do it, but you know what I mean…” / #Rammstein ENGEL / #Angel / “I don’t know what he’s saying…”/ “Their live show is nothing but fire…”/ “It’s all about That Dude…” / #Slayer JESUS SAVES (Reign In Blood – 1986) / “That’s all you say…”/ “I feel like religion has wronged that man somehow…” / “Here’s the irony though…if you see that on an album…” / “I’m sorry Russell, you walked in at a very awkward moment…” / #SuicidalTendencies SEND ME YOUR MONEY (Lights…Camera…Revolution! – 1990) / “Now let’s have some silence…for all you sinners!” / “That’s probably my favorite guitar tone…of ALL thrash…” / #steakaupoivre

(1:17:51): “You reached for all the Satanic shit right out of the gate…”/ “No, that’s about having a baby…”/ #Creed MY OWN PRISON (My Own Prison – 1997) / “This is where #TheDocket came from…”/ “Nuts how?”/ #BlackSabbath GOD IS DEAD? (13 – 2013) / “This is SO Sabbath…this could have been 1972…”/ “Was NOT expecting that!” / #IronMaiden / (REFERENCE: Revelation 12:12 & 13:18) THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (The Number Of The Beast – 1982) / “In the mist, what kind of figures move and twist?” / “It’s like #fignewtons but…you just heard it wrong…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Do you know who filled in for them on tour?” / #TwistedSisterTrivia #untilthenext #outroreel ***GO PURCH SOME MERCH AT metalnerdery.com/merch ***

Think back to The Sunset Strip and the emerging metal scene of the early 80’s, full of sleaze, shred, and riffs, long before the emergence of the “serious glam” and “serious thrash” of the mid to late 80’s. METAL HEALTH and OUT OF THE CELLAR, released in 1983 and 1984, by QUIET RIOT and RATT (respectively) both preceded the hair metal movement of the late 80’s and ironically (to a great extent) helped to define it. 

While both METAL HEALTH and OUT OF THE CELLAR were “more metal than we thought”, each album has its share of pros and cons, with some tracks drowning in 80’s nostalgia that sound a bit dated by today’s standards, and others possessing a far more timeless heavy metal quality that still holds up and sounds awesome even today. 

It’s time to “purse the lips up a little bit” and grab the attention of those who smell like “Aqua Net and Marlboros” that are wearing the “bustiers and leopard skin spandex” who just want to “use the bathroom”.

Discover the shared traits which “vegans and wizards” have in common, find out why squirrels are “deadass” the dumbest creatures on earth and why some birds are “a little bit touched”, go ahead and submit your early enrollment for “Juilliard Speech School” and get ready to do some “edging” to try and replicate “the weird feeling” you had when you were 10 when you JOIN US for the SUNSET STRIP EDITION  of our HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATHMATCH featuring 2 of the greatest debut albums in the history of early 80’s metal, METAL HEALTH by QUIET RIOT and OUT OF THE CELLAR by RATT.

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(00:01): “He became a recluse…” / “Have you ever seen a fat vegan…ever?” / “If they’re not fat, they’re soft.” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “I was influenced to do that…squigglies and boobs…”/ #downstairssquiggly / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / “I am worried…I’m worried, dude…”/ #NewHaze #MasonAleWorks #ZombieWars #ninepointfiveABV / “Lime green…shag…on the walls, on the floor…that’s new corporate condo carpet…this is NOT #daydrinking…” 

(05:25): “I feel terrible…” / #RussellsReflections / “It was a squirrel…I went out of my way…”/ #deadass / “Every squirrel looks EXACTLY the same…”/ #squirreldrones / “If the earth is flat, why can’t we see #Everest?” / “It’s like we’re standing on a great big deck…”/ #overlymuch / “Without women, we wouldn’t have…”/ “But also…”/ “Not to one up your story…I didn’t do it on purpose, but it came from nowhere…”/ “Here’s a weird ghost question…did I tell you guys about the time I heard 1 bird chirping at 1 a.m.?” / #touched #specialneedsbird / #JuilliardSpeechSchool 

(14:14): PATREON SHOUT OUT!!! / #MetalNerderyPatreon / ***JOIN US over on the #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #Doomsicle / “You never see a fat wizard, do you?” / #allthepoon / #DraculaLand / “That’s where vampires go on vacation…”/ “Are #hemophiliacs the #bloodlight of vampires?” / #theloreofyore / ***JOIN US on the #socialmedia at #metalnerderypodcast on #TikTok #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / #RussellsReflectionsASMR regarding the #MetallicaConcert / “You never know…so let’s just go…”/ NOTE:  not EVERY one of them, but an awful lot of them / “Bands used to make money…now the only way they make money is to go on tour…”/ “You have to own your own music and merchandise…”/ “Of course they’re metal!” / #fightingwords / “Wow, he’s really fast on guitar…”/ “Have we ever played them on this show?” / “Dude, there was a girl yesterday that walked by…and she smelled like #strawberrynerds…”/ #IceNineKills THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE (The Silver Scream – 2018) / “See, it’s got melody…”/ “As soon as I heard keyboards, I knew it was gay…”

(28:47): #TheDocket / “We’ve gotta get into the meat because the meat is gonna be fun…”/ METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATHMATCH – QUIET RIOT VS RATT (METAL HEALTH VS OUT OF THE CELLAR) / 1983 & 1984, respectively / #SunsetStripMetal / “Let’s be gayer or let’s be heavier…”/ “If I purse my lips out a little bit…”/ “I’m fucking that in the bathroom…”/ “You did not play football…”/ #debutalbums 

(34:02): “If you were going to pick one…who’s gonna be the winner?” / “That was kinda the coolest #mascot because that could be any dude with that mask on…”/ #MTV / #QuietRiot METAL HEALTH (BANG YOUR HEAD) / “That’s WAY up there!” / #Ratt WANTED MAN / “Maybe at some point we could do battle of the songs…”

(42:33): “This next song…is probably the biggest song of 1983…”/ #Slade #coversong / CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE / “If you put your 10-year-old hat on…”/ “Why’d they spell it like that?”/ #drygasm / “Ohhh, the weird feeling?” / #edging / YOU’RE IN TROUBLE / “Is this Bon Jovi?” / “When I hear that one, I smell Aqua Net, Marlboros…and slimy fingers…” 

(48:48): “I think Ratt’s gonna win the rest of this one…”/ DON’T WANNA LET YOU GO / “Here we go…” / ROUND AND ROUND / “Just give it time…”/ “Every time I hear Warren DeMartini, I hear George Lynch…” / “So between Round And Round and Metal Health…you gotta pick one…”/ “Apparently he was loaded, dude…”

(54:16): “I kinda like it…the first time I heard it, it was very loud…”/ #CBLE / SLICK BLACK CADILLAC / “The tone is weird…” / #midrange / IN YOUR DIRECTION / “It already wins…”/ “That’s very #Ozzyish…”/ “I think that’s the better song of the two…which one would you remember more?” / #nostalgia

(59:13): LOVE’S A BITCH / “That’s a very metal opening…it’s dark…”/ “He’s using a #wordydird…”/ #CaptainOrigami / “The next one ironically ties in well with Love’s A Bitch…” / SHE WANTS MONEY / “I almost hear #VanHalen…”/ “That’s why Love’s A Bitch…because She Wants Money…” / “That one didn’t age as well…” 

(1:04:18): “So now we’re on to #Side2 for bolth…”/ BREATHLESS / “Power metal, dude…”/ “That aged pretty well…”/ LACK OF COMMUNICATION / #MovingInStereo / #BackOn / #Loverboy #BillySquier #SammyHagar / “Between the 2, Breathless might be more timeless…”

(1:08:44): RUN FOR COVER / “Double bass…”/ “That sounds like Tony Iommi!” / “This album’s got way more metal influence to it than we thought…”/ BACK FOR MORE / “I almost feel like this ain’t fair…”/ “A Wyla cat?” / “I think that’s a blowout…” / “Why do you gotta make it gross!?” / “You know that’s pee, right?”

(1:13:26): BATTLE AXE / “The tone is so fucking weird…guitars & midrange…”/ “Kinda has Randy vibes to it a little bit…”/ “It’s not even that distorted…it’s like a Marshall turned all the way up…”/ “I used to voiceover porn…” / “I got a great story!” / #RussellsReflectionsDocksideASMR / “He got him…”/ #PatreonReference #VanHalenSuprise / THE MORNING AFTER / “He almost has a weird Dave Mustaine vocal affectation…”/ “The sound is the same…in my head…it’s weird…”

(1:20:34): LET’S GET CRAZY / “Smoke on the cat fever…”/ “Cat scratch water…”/ I’M INSANE / “That’s 80’s metal all day…”/ “This is almost gonna be Side 1 Quiet Riot and Side 2 Ratt…”/ #dontgiveitup / #RickRoll #BeingRickRolled / #goingviral / #killercloser / THUNDERBIRD / “It’s almost like Queen…”/ “Have you ever polished anything off?” / SCENE OF THE CRIME / “Now I think of #SteelPanther …”/ “Those last 2 just cancel each other out…”/ #DonaldJTrumpASMR / “Basically, literally…technically Quiet Riot with 11 and Ratt with 14…”/ #votes / “If we put the last 2 in… / NOTE:  somehow the math doesn’t work out if we ended with a tie / #grocerystoresoundtrack / “Whoa, whoa, whoa…”/ #soccerhockey / “As Russell would say…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel

Get ready for a rebuttal from “Captain Backpedal” after being challenged to a fight on a “goat farm”, discover the “magic number” required to transform your twanglification levels “from sea level to skyrocket”, remember that “four fingers is all it takes”, understand that “convenience can be creepy”, and prepare to “plug it into the house backline” and park it in “The Red Deck” when you JOIN US as we break down our critique of the recent M72 TOUR STOP at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, June 3 , 2025, featuring SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, PANTERA, and the unstoppable force of metal known as METALLICA!

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “They’ve been around since 1979…they have to have more songs than #TheBreakfastClubSong (#SimpleMinds)…” / #onehitwonders / “Wouldn’t it be a shame if he’s got a whole album that’s killer but…”/ “Dirty Monkey Banana Peanut Butter?” / #uncorking / “He pulled it right out…clean.”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “That’s headache fuel right there…put that on some ice cream…a milkshake with that in it…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #CreatureComforts / “Wait, they’re getting paid…in college!?” / #Paradiso #WatermelonAndSalt #Tart #daydrinking / “Tastes like the white part versus the red part?” / #boatbuddy

(06:06): “When we got home…after the show…” / “I’m surprised y’all don’t have more listeners…”/ #profananity / “I don’t think it’s the burps…”/ ***PATREON US!!! JOIN US over at the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #PatreonShoutout #MetalNerderyPatreon / “It’s y’alls month…”/ *** EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / “Great ANALysis…” / “Shame, shame, Russell…”/ “I challenge you to fight me on my #goatfarm…”/ “Captain Backpedal…”/ ***FOLLOW US on the #socialmedia at #TikTok #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “Oh, I gotta push play…”/ #ThePostReturns 

(13:08): “Ohhhh…you emptied it into your facehole…”/ “Has anyone watched the #ShaneGillis show?” / “I dunno if you can get #blackoutdrunk on beer…”/ The mathematical formula for achieving blackout drunkenness and/or uncontrollable projectile vomiting / #RussellsReflectionsASMR #Metalsome / “It’s like a weird, music stranger orgy…”/ “So he admitted he was wrong?” / #HeavyMetalKaraoke / “They were plugging into the house backline…”/ “Heyyyyy youuuu…”

(22:30): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  M72 CONCERT REVIEW TOURSTOP IN ATLANTA GEORGIA AT MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM – METALLICA, PANTERA, AND SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!!! / #TheRedDeck #MercedesBenzStadium / Seeing #Metallica 30+ years ago versus seeing them on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 / “The only real downside…”/ “It was noise salad…”/ “We had good seats…”/ “It was almost too big…”/ “#Pantera got fucked on the bass…” / “We gotta get in better shape just to be able to go to concerts…”/ “It was kinda like watching a movie with subtitles: do you read your movie or watch your movie?” / “The biggest disappointment to me was the sound…”/ “Here’s the weird thing…” / #unpopularopinion #herewego / “They’re not a stadium band…”/ “They’re the same thing as The Stones…of metal…”/ “Even with #SuicidalTendencies opening, it was weird…”

(33:30): “When I saw Metallica back in the 90’s…” / #ticketstubmontage / “I wonder how many employees they have?” / #psychicconcertreview #AJC / “So Wednesday night at 8:19 it’s saying that 2 days ago we posted that story…”/ “The show was awesome but the sound left something to be desired…”/ “They didn’t play anything off of Trendkill or Reinventing…”/ “Pantera is a young man’s game…”/ “It left a different taste in my mouth…than the first time…it didn’t set right with me…”

(40:33): “There was no deep cuts…”/ #setlist / “I don’t know if y’all noticed or not, but they made him (Lars) hang for an extra measure or two (during One)…” / #balls / “The crowd went crazy!” / “It’s very cool…but very surprising…”/ “Why not just do an #EveningWith show?” / “The closest thing I could think of to compare it to…it was weird…but they’re still doing it…” 

(47:22): “What were y’alls highlight picks for the night?” / “I guess they had all the sound stuff underneath the stage…”/ NOTE: that remark was supposed to be “groupies” and definitely NOT “roadies” / “It was nice having the parking deck attached to the actual venue…”/ “Four fingers is all it takes…same with a lady…”/ “Did you hear any screwups?”/ “I have a weird feeling that somebody got their butthole chewed out about the sound…”/ “Do you have it turned past 1!?” / “See THAT sounded killer…”/ “It took an hour between Pantera and Metallica…and you couldn’t hear the music playing between bands…usually there’s a final pulse (sound) check…” / “Usually you still get a little bit of that, just to build the anticipation…maybe it’s because we’re used to the old school way…”/ #feedbackometer 

(56:56): “The merch lines were ridiculous…”/ #limitededitionposter / “At the whole place, there’s only 2!?” / “What if when you buy a ticket, you can click the merch option?” / “I thought you said #HotPocket dude…”/ #grabandgo / “It’s a little creepy…I don’t understand how they know what I got…”/ “It’s a weapon if you don’t…”/ “I still don’t understand…how the fuck does it know!?” / “Convenience can be creepy, sir…”/ “$3 for a water and $2 for a Coke…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! BE SURE TO CATCH METALLICA ON THE #M72WORLDTOUR THROUGH THE END OF 2025 AND BEYOND!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Bridging the gap between the thrash metal of the late 80’s and early 90’s and the tidal wave of groove metal that made landfall in the metal community during the early 90’s (courtesy of Pantera), MACHINE HEAD came screaming out of the gate on August 9th, 1994, with their blisteringly crushing debut, BURN MY EYES. 

Filled with brutally heavy riffs that occasionally blur the lines between thrash, groove, and even death metal, BURN MY EYES marked the continuing expansion of the next “next” wave of thrash and groove metal. 

Discover the not-so-subtle ways that “Rod Roddy and Johnny Olson” have impacted this podcast, find out why “speaking in cursive” is not always helpful, and remember that not everybody gets to be “Charlie Chaplin”, even though you’re already more than “halfway there” whenever you “solemnly swear”. 

Realize that “Phil Dremel and Robb Frynn” go back a few years, prepare to experience “SepulPanThrera”, and behold the impact that “writing with 7’s” can have on riffs when you JOIN US for the MACHINE HEAD debut that helped further the evolution of thrash and groove with BURN MY EYES.

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(00:01): “Turn down for what?” / “I can see why you’d be upset by that…sounds like you’re angry…”/ #shadowing #shading / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “I told him he had to learn some tunes…”/ “He takes his dog with him everywhere…it’s like the Sam Kinison meets Bobcat Goldthwait of dogs…”/ “The black one and the big fat bitch…a fairy tale…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #TropicalEsses 5%ABV #DayDrinkingBeer #TheVerdict / “It’s not like the crazy sours…”/ “When you’re reading the description…I got the whole #PriceIsRight thing going…”/ #RodRoddy #JohnnyOlsen / “That’s a game show name right there…” / “There’s 2 Price Is Right channels…there’s 2 Family Feuds…”/ “I’ve decided he will be my personal director of music…”

(08:43): ***JOIN US on the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/ #PatreonShoutOut / “We got a new one…”/ EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / #KillerKarl I’M A METALHEAD, BITCH! & NOT MY FUCKIN’ PROBLEM / “It’s just so weird…” / ***LEAVE US A REVIEW WHEREVER YOU DOWNLOAD OUR PODCAST!!!*** / “His name is definitely NOT #StuckMojo…”/ #fivestarrating / VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!! / “There was no life in that at all…”/ “Hey…”/ “Maybe that’s why there was no life left in it…”/ ***CHECK US OUT ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA AT #YOUTUBE #TIKTOK #FACEBOOK #INSTAGRAM AT #metalnerderypodcast ***/ #SlayerOfTheEpisode / “Is that a disease?”/  ALTAR OF SACRIFICE (Reign In Blood – 1986) / “How dare you!” / “I feel better so much…”/ #RussellsReflectionsBrunchEdition / “It’s pure MSG actually…” / “You’ve gotta grab both pieces…”/ #CGCustoms #customguitarpainting #newguitarbone 

(24:51): #TheDocket / “They already know what the docket is…it’s in the name of the show…”/ METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  MACHINE HEAD – BURN MY EYES / #Unatoned is the new #MachineHead album / “What if Metallica’s entire catalog was mixed like Master of Puppets?” / “The 2 Loads were almost the same…”/ “To me, it doesn’t sound like the first album…”/ UNBOUND (Unatoned – 2025) / “It was melodic, I was worried Bill wasn’t gonna like it…”/ “Let’s go back to 1994…”/ ***Go check out our Machine Head Inside The Metal episode from a few years back…*** / “Let’s be real, after 1990, #Pantera influenced everybody…”/ DAVIDIAN / “Are those #flahns?” / “Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!” / “BTW, Chris Kontos (who is the drummer on this album) is now the drummer for #Forbidden…”

(37:37): “I like the shot glasses…”/ OLD / “It’s definitely 90’s…”/ “Why does oldness have a darker connotation to it?” / “We tried to find some stairs and coat hangers…I guess we’re paying for college…”/ A THOUSAND LIES / “Definitely a #Sepultura vibe and influence there…”/ Produced by Colin Richardson / “Slow…slooowww…slooooooowwwwwww…”/ “It went up and then it went down…”/ “Do you solemnly swear? If you’re in court and you’re testifying, what’s the first thing they do? Your halfway there…”/ “Why didn’t they all have the same mustache?” / NONE BUT MY OWN / “That’s like my favorite Machine Head thing…”/ “It’s kinda that creepier, moodier thing going on…”/ “They were kinda there first…but I wouldn’t call that #NuMetal it’s more like the next level of thrash…#ThranTera #SepulPanThrera…” / “It’s been about an hour…” NOTE:  It’s Demmel, NOT Dremel…and also, it’s Robb Flynn, NOT Robb Frynn…

(51:00): THE RAGE TO OVERCOME / “It’s got the Sepultura…tribal thing…”/ #pinchharmonics / “What’s the difference between a pinch and a peench?” / “Mayo goes on the bottom…”/ DEATH CHURCH / “Lozenge, sir?” / “He can write some fuckin’ riffs…”/ “The shape of that riff sounds really familiar…”/ “The drum mix is perfect…” / A NATION ON FIRE / “It’s a trans zebra leopard…”/ “That’s right!” / “That’s a lot of detail…what you’re saying is probably more true…”/ BLOOD FOR BLOOD / “I get the feeling this is gonna be a little angry…”

(1:04:52): I’M YOUR GOD NOW / “The good old days at the pharmacy…”/ “A couple of observations…”/ “I’m sure they never heard Harvester of Sorrow…”/ “It’s something to do with barbecuing, right?” / REAL EYES, REALIZE, REAL LIES / “It’s called #wordplay or #wordsmithery…”/ “It’s like you’re speaking in cursive…”/ BLOCK (NOTE:  This song was written with 7’s…) / “That’s a cool riff…(probably because it’s in 7/4 time)”/ “Sometimes when you have that one riff that carries the song…” / “How did you find out about it (this album) back in the day?” / ***GO GRAB THE NEW ALBUM, UNATONED, AND THE SHOTGUN BLAST WHISKEY!!!*** / “That sounds like some #BlackMirror shit…”/ #spoileralert / #untilthenext #outroreel

It’s officially our 6th anniversary! That’s right, 6 years of metal discussions, ludicrous nonsense, and beers of the episode, and what better way to wrap up our 6th year in podcasting excellence than with STEEL PANTHER, the parody band that helped make 80’s hair metal FUN again, with every hyperbolic metal cliché you can think of that makes them the epitome of everything that made late 80’s hair metal so awesome. If S.O.D. is thrash metal with a generous side of hilarity, then STEEL PANTHER is quite obviously their hair metal counterpart.

Find out what happened “three or four days later…after the crying stopped”, discover which Slayer song is considered their “ballad”, understand why it’s healthy and fun to maintain the silliness of your youth as you get older and JOIN US as we celebrate 6 years of metal and nonsense by going deep INSIDE THE METAL of a band that blends hair metal and nonsense together on a level that our inner 8th grader would have greatly appreciated with the kings of L.A. hair metal absurdity, STEEL PANTHER.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): Happy 6th anniversary to #MetalNerderyPodcast!!! / #NakedGunRemake / “That was when he was trippin’ balls…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Did y’all ever used to do #OlanMills when you were little?” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #SceptreBrewingArts #Mastodon #SickleAndPeace / “Carpety for a 4.6ABV…”/ “It’s one HUGE load…”/ #Mastodon SICKLE AND PEACE (Hushed And Grim – 2021) / “Fuck yeah, dude…WIZARDS!!!” / “Thank you to Russell for the burps…”

(09:00): “We do…do we?” / ***EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com SOCIAL MEDIA US AT #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / #SlayerOfTheEpisode WAR ENSEMBLE (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) / #SlayerReflections / “I was a little disappointed…”/ “You think Spill The Blood was their ballad?” / #RussellsReflections

(15:52): #PatreonShoutOut ***JOIN US on the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #ThankYou / “If you wanna raw dog it…yeah…”/ #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  STEEL PANTHER – INSIDE THE METAL / NOTE:  the word was cliché / “They’re like the meme of metal…they’re the epitome of 80’s excess…the hyperbole of #hairmetal”/ Some backstory regarding the history of #SteelPanther aka #MetalSkool aka #MetalShop aka #DangerKitty / “The reason I cut my hair…was for two dudes?” / “Ladies and gentlemen, Meatloaf is here!” / “Three or four days later after the crying stopped…”/ “They’re like the #hairmetal version of #SOD…” / “Free cocoin?” / #PlatinumPocketPussyMelter 

(27:07): Feel The Steel – 2009 / DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL / “I wanna bang a cheerleader now…”/ FAT GIRL (THAR SHE BLOWS) / “The music sounds so legit…”/ ASIAN HOOKER (LIVE) / “It takes so little…I’m still a teenager sometimes…”

(35:07): Balls Out – 2011/ “Play the ballad real quick…”/ IF YOU REALLY REALLY LOVE ME / “Do you think girls in general just don’t like…”/ I LIKE DRUGS / “It’s got all the #cokelines…”/ WEENIE RIDE / “They should have got him for the #MotleyCrue reunion…”

(40:34): All You Can Eat – 2014 / “The way it opens…” / “I kinda can’t believe we haven’t done this sooner…”/ PUSSYWHIPPED / FUCKING MY HEART IN THE ASS / “That’s just applicable across the board, really…you’re more beautiful when you sound like this…”/ “Think 80’s power ballad…”/ BUKKAKE TEARS / “It’s so serious…but not…”/ “Do y’all care to guess what that stands for?” / B.V.S. 

(49:00): Lower The Bar – 2017 / “I think that was always my favorite Cheap Trick song…”/ “I’m sorry, make that a button and #markthetime…”/ “Too many people don’t understand that, because a date can be…”/ GOIN’ IN THE BACKDOOR / “We could do that…that could be #SoomDicle…”/ POONTANG BOOMERANG / “That’s such a rip-off…”/ “I don’t know why I always go the long way around to get to that…”/ WASTED TOO MUCH TIME / “They’re writing hit riffs…”/ PUSSY AIN’T FREE 

(56:40): “Pull up the ‘Steel Panther Roasts Zakk Wylde’…” / #ZakkWyldeRoast / “It was weird, but we were listening to #JudasPriest…”/ “Maybe check out the Dee Snider one…”/ #DeeSniderRoast #Revolver / #TheGuyFromFirehouse / “I think we’re in the homestretch at this point…”

(1:03:40): Heavy Metal Rules – 2019 / “What do you think based on titles alone?” / ALL I WANNA DO IS FUCK (MYSELF TONIGHT) / HEAVY METAL RULES / “Gene Simmons said it…”/ GODS OF PUSSY / “That was pre-plague…”

(1:09:01): On The Prowl – 2023 / “How many references do you think there’s gonna be to 1987?” / 1987 / “I like the melodies and the music…they found all the cliches…”/ “Before we leave, I’ve gotta know what Magical Vagina is like…” / MAGICAL VAGINA / “That’s a perfect way to close it out…”/ “Age is a bitch, isn’t it?” / “That’s only 17 years away…I remember 17 years ago…I remember being 17…”/ #RussellsReflectionsSteelPantherEdition / “We keep getting skipped…but we get all the good hip-hop shows…”/ #DirtySouth / “It’s said in a million rap songs…”/ “What does that mean?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!/ “They’re definitely a band of moments…and the videos make it better, too…”/ #untilthenext #DoomsiclePreview #outroreel 

Let’s go back a few years, back to a time when we were young and impressionable and just starting out on our respective metal odysseys as fans and purveyors of all things metal, including (but not limited to) the hard rock of our childhood years in the late 70’s to the plethora of NWOBHM, thrash, and other classic metal bands we discovered during our teen years in the late 80’s and early 90’s. 

Back to a time when wearing a newly purchased tour shirt from a show the night before to school the next day was a sacred badge of honor, a time when local bands gave out flyers for shows that included “treasure map” style instructions for locating the venue, and a time when we each had our own personal attaché case containing the cassettes we’d recently procured (or otherwise came into possession of) on our unquenchable thirst and unending quest for anything and everything metal. 

Imagine what “Miss Piggy with laryngitis” might sound like and remember to never do people dirty, because just like Pepperidge Farms, karma remembers. Get ready for a “crombination” of “skythes…or scythes”, discover some of the most absurdly talented drummers and bassists in the world today, and prepare to behold one of, if not the best, thrash bands from the local scene back in the day when you JOIN US as we travel back in time to THE METAL DAYS OF YORE: OUR FORMATIVE METAL YEARS.

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(00:01): “He’s 70…and he’s in great shape.” / #DLR / “He started getting a salary and not royalties…”/ MichaelAnthony #⁠VanHalen⁠ / #RussellsReflectionsDavidLeeRothEdition / “Apparently he’s got a #teenieweenie …”/ “There it is…right there…”/ “I think he’s fine…”/ #networth / “He was a 20% member, manager Noel Monk being the 5th…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Once we hit 6 years, we need to do something…maybe we should do our own version of it…”/ “That makes me 100% flaccid…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST FROM DEEP WITHIN THE BUNKERPOON!!!*** / “Sounds too much like #MissPiggy with laryngitis…” 

(09:40): “I feel like my whole routine is shot…I talked about it too much…”/ “You mean the front parking or the rear parking?” / “We may be ordering a pizza halfway through this…”/ “You’re gonna be hammered later…”/ “I started to mention it on the #Patreon…”/ “You can’t enjoy ANYTHING anymore because EVERYTHING is stupid…”/ #CharlesBerthoud / “I recognize that name…”/ #bassvirtuoso / FADE TO BLACK #fretlessbass / “That’s next level…”

  (18:00): “Let’s talk about the #Patreons first…”/ #PatreonShoutOut / ***JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT ⁠patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast⁠ *** / “Hail TO all…he’s got a case of the Russes today…”/ ***JOIN US on #Instagram and #YouTube and #Facebook and #TikTok or EMAIL US at ⁠metalnerdery@gmail.com⁠ or VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #GalacticEmpire / THE IMPERIAL MARCH / “A #crombination of #KISS and #⁠Slipknot⁠ #KISSKnot …” / “That’s what this show is about…it’s about learning.”/ “Haven’t heard from Milla (Milley) or Geeoff…”/ “It’s just on the edge of being annoying as fuck…or impossible to stand…”/ #sixyearanniversary #metalnerderypodcast / “First of all, we got an email from a girl…”/ #Leafblower #wellplayyourshittah / “Burn Cruise? That sounds awesome!” / UNSATISFIED / “Tool Doom…or Doom Tool…” / “You guys ever see this guy?” #ElEsteparioSiberiano #Blur SONG 2 (Whoo-Hoo!) / “Lars Ulrich on steroids…”/ #⁠Metallica⁠ ONE / #Prodigy

 (29:31): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE DAYS OF YORE – OUR FORMATIVE METAL YEARS / “What got YOU into metal…what were your earliest memories of metal?” / “He had a #KISS album in his room…I think it’s #Destroyer…” / “The old #Atari2600…and #Cracked or #MADMagazine…”/ “The first thing I can remember is #TheWall…”/ “That’s the first step…that is definitely a step towards metal…that’s fucking metal.”/ “The #HeavyMetal movie…”/#boinkboink / “Bon era #⁠ACDC⁠ was the first thing I heard that was heavier than #KISS…”/ #QuietRiot MetalHealth / “I can’t tell you how many times…every morning it was #⁠Rush ⁠#NewWorldMan…”/ #GroundhogDay  

(41:41): “The first real metal tape I bought…” / “As soon as I hit play…immediately, the tonality of my life changed…”/ “Can we just…can we hear a little taste?” / #Metallica BATTERY (⁠Master of Puppets – 1986⁠) /#NoFlans #OnlyDjunts / “Every time…I’m 14 again…”/ “Going back a little bit…” #Nazareth MISS MISERY (Hair of the Dog – 1975) / “That’s early #heavymetal…”/ NOTE:  He was mistaken…it was 1975, not 1973…/ “It’s got skythes…or scythes…”

 (48:30): “We probably got fully immersed into metal in high school…”/ The transition of our metal tastes going from middle school to high school / “Really? I thought that was a great album…”/ “When do you think you started to move into the next level of heaviness?” / “If you think back, a year in 8th grade was like 15 years…”/ “In fairness to #BonJovi dude, I know we all don’t talk about it…”/ “Poon got into metal…”/ “But you went to high school for 10 years…”/ “I started seeing the division in 8th grade, and that’s when I started going heavier…”/ “I just remember this girl calling me a poseur…” 

(57:09): “What’s the last #BigFour band you bought?” / “There’s something about that record that’s just all by itself…”/ “See all that stuff started blowing up in high school…”/ “Had these big suitcases that were double sided…”/ #cassettes #tapecollection / “Is it #CelticFrost or #CelticFrost? Is it #⁠CirithUngol ⁠or #CirithUngol?” / “We bonded over…not blood, but metal…”/ “That’s how people met, at the mall too…”/ “That was important…you’ve got to get the tour shirt with the dates and the cities on the back…”/ “What was your first #⁠BlackSabbath⁠?”

 (1:04:47): “What was the first band outside of #⁠TheBigFour⁠ that you got into (back then)?” / #markthetime / “They spoke to me…I gotta know how to play all the metal…starting with that one…”/ “The first 2 thrash bands…”/ “The secret is all in the gum…”/ “He ⁠Ozzy’d⁠ himself out of the band…okay I’m done…”/ “Are you sure?” / “Wait, but are you really?” / #⁠Exodus⁠ FABULOUS DISASTER ⁠(Fabulous Disaster – 1989⁠) / ***GO CHECK OUT GARY HOLT’S BOOK “A Fabulous Disaster: From the Garage to Madison Square Garden, the Hard Way*** / “You just Sabotage’d yourself…”/ “Cos it’s metal as fuck, hell yeah…” / “Even when you’re jamming with some dudes…”/ #riffs

 (1:16:07): “High school is when we went deep into the mines of metal…and then youd’ start going to shows…”/ “He would take us to #ThePit…”/ “I miss the old flyers with instructions on how to get there…like a #treasuremap on there…”/ “Would you have ever thought, 40 years later…?” / “You’ll be the only one…you’ll be divorced, alone, and flaccid…”/ “I think #GhostStory and #Akathesia were my favorite #AtlantaThrashBands…” / #GhostStory WHAT FEW EVEN DARE (Surrender to Death: A History of the Atlanta Metal Underground1982-1989) / “That’s like Atlanta’s Maiden…plus thrash…”/ HousewolfRecords / “Maybe he was a dick to dicks…”/ “Oooh, that sounds dark…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “I use a straight razor, bro…and you’re a little shaky…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel

This episode is effectively “nonverbal” in that it contains zero lyrics and is truly beyond words (so to speak). That’s right, it’s all about INSTRUMENTALS and it just so happens that they come in a wide variety of styles and options. 

On a studio album, INSTRUMENTALS are 7enerally either lon7er, extended, standalone musical arran7ements, or brief interludes which serve as a brid7e between two son7s. In a live scenario, INSTRUMENTALS are a 7reat opportunity that allows the vocalist time to take a brief break and enjoy some “ori7ami” and poon while the rest of the band continues to jam. Either way, INSTRUMENTALS offer instrumentalists a chance to express themselves musically in a way that truly transcends the power of the written word.

Be sure to radically adjust your expectations whenever someone says “I’m gonna send you a file” and prepare yourself for a macrodose of happiness that is sure to transpire, especially if your brain “has to fix it” (and particularly if you “want it from the train”). JOIN US for an episode that defies all rational explanation as we master the art of WRITING WITH 7’S: THE INSTRUMENTAL CHRONICLES.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “If I had #origami I’d be fine right now…”/ “It’s a thing…”/ #StewieASMR / “You’re gonna like it…it wasn’t what I was expecting…”/ #metalnerderymerch / “For year number six, we should do that…”/ “Sounds like twinks…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #trippinballs / “Two in a row…”/ “We all had a discussion where we would take a…”/ #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #CoffeeStout / “The maple is strong in this one…”/ #smellslikebeanspirit / “Should we just make this a #Chronicles Part 2?” / #TugboatCoffee #OctopiBrewing #WisconsinBeer / “Your taster is all fucked up…”/ #onceagain #trippinballs 

(05:53): “For less than a price of a pack of smokes, a bag of shrooms, or a bottle of liquid girlfriend…”/ #Patreon ***JOIN US ON PATREON AT PATREON.COM/METALNERDERYPODCAST *** / “Look at Russ shutting down the show…”/ “It’s a 1 out of 6 for me…”/ #hearmeout / 8%ABV / “Aldo Nova, you know what I mean?” / #AldoNova #Fantasy / #thisepisodesSlayeroftheepisode / “Have you watched the #FooFighters horror movie…?” / #whatsitcalled? / #Slayer BLACK MAGIC (Show No Mercy – 1983) / “I think this is my new favorite segment…”/ “You always do it by accident…it’s kinda like #standup and you accidentally destroy…”/ #sadtrash / #SweetwaterBarAndGrill #OpenMicComedy / “That place is extremely haunted…”/ “Is it gay…?”/ #fleshlight / “YEP!”/ “Here’s my follow up question…”/ #GAF / #assscissoring / #TheFourthHole / “At least it’s a step in the right…in the WRONG direction…not that there’s anything wrong with that…”/ “She lives for that…”/ “Talk to me after the show…”/ “I’m trippin’ balls…”

(16:26): “If you wanna email us…”/ ***EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182 or Check us Out at #TikTok and #YouTube and #Facebook and #Instagram at #metalnerderypodcast / “OMG, are you totally stupid!?” / “Somebody just emailed you…”/ “What’s on #TheDocket?” / “This is not a #microdose…”

(18:58): #TheDocket / “WTF is THIS!?” / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: INSTRUMENTALS / “What does that even mean?” / #7RSWE / “Seven…”/ “You sent him a file…”/ “It’s 2:30, it’s Saturday, you ain’t got shit to do…”/ #psilocybin #yourmother / “Why is everything so colorful?” / “Totally, ‘cos it was built like 10 years ago…”/ “When you said you were sending him a file…”/ #onmicburp / “It has to be played…”/ THE CALL OF KTULU (#Metallica – Ride The Lightning – 1984) / “If you’re still keeping score…I’m tripping…”/ #MaryReilly #scarycreepy / “Can we jump to the very end of this?” / “That was Cliff…”/ “Hope you figure it out, #fuckface…I’m gonna send you a file…”/ “What do you think between #GenghisKhan and #Transylvania…?” / “Is #Bollocks the same as #Balls or #Bullshit?” / English English vs American English / TRANSYLVANIA (#IronMaiden – Iron Maiden – 1980) / “How do you read ANY of that!?” / #772 / “I’m gonna send you a file…”/ “It’s a Lamar 7…”/ “Your eyes are wet, bro…”/ “You are actually pronouncing the name right…”/ #Genghisvitis 

(31:41): “How about some Rat Salad?” / “What can you make out on there that I haven’t pointed out to you yet?” / #LMAO / “There’s #MobyDick…”/ “You’d have to be here…”/ RAT SALAD (#BlackSabbath – Paranoid – 1970) / “Doob…Turtle…”/ “Frankenlobster…”/ “I’m glad I’m here…”/ “I’m just glad you sent him a file…”/ ERUPTION (#VanHalen – Van Halen – 1978) / “You just have to put yourself back in 1977…”/ #HendrixOnMushrooms / “Was that a quest…to be able to play it?” / “Thank you…”/ “Other than Metallica, I think that’s the only other thrash instrumental out there…”/ Various #Testament instrumentals…and we forgot #ConfusionFusion / INTO THE LUNGS OF HELL (#Megadeth – So Far…So Good…So What! – 1988) / “It would have been funny…”

(41:58): “I’ve got one…is that on the Red Album?” / #TheRedAlbum / WELCOME TO YOUR FUNERAL (#RigorMortis – Rigor Mortis – 1988) / D.T. (#ACDC – Who Made Who – 1986) / “Oh yeah! They had one…”/ #MaximumOverdriveSoundtrack / “Nice choice…”/ “How about a little Forbidden?” / SPIRAL DEPRESSION (#Forbidden – Twisted Into Form – 1990) / “No, that’s not on the list…”/ “This is the one that starts with a 7, right?”/ “Now it’s creepy…”/ “Earlier I thought I was gonna laugh so hard I was going to throw up…”/ “You spell that with a 7, right?” / “Raping The Dragon’s Scrotum In The Dungeon, Opus 26…” / TRILOGY SUITE: OP 5 (#YngwieJMalmsteen – Trilogy – 1986) / #dungeonmetalASMR / “It’s the most beautiful dungeon metal I’ve ever heard…”/ “Spelled with a 7…”/ “They’re not actually ‘saying words’…”

(52:22): “How about YYZ?” / 777…take your #PlanetCaravan and get out! / YYZ (#Rush – Moving Pictures – 1981) / “My brain has to fix it…”/ “I got one…it is on the list…my brain had to fix it…”/ MOBY DICK (#LedZeppelin – Led Zeppelin II – 1969) / #JohnBonham / #storytime / #BecomingLedZeppelin / “When I was in 8th grade…”/ “Suspenseful music…”/ #blacklightposters / “Let’s do a handful more…”/ “I want this played at my funeral…”/ FOR ABSENT FRIENDS (#Opeth – Deliverance – 2002) / #cloudyweather #melancholy / “It’s very Swedish…they’re from Sweden, dude…”/ “How about we close with that?” / “I want it from the train…”/ “I think he gave it away when he said it’s pretty ‘Meddle’…”/ ONE OF THESE DAYS (#PinkFloyd – Meddle – 1971) / “Healthy AND thick…down there…with 7’s…”/ “One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces…”

(1:05:00): “You know what part I’m talking about…”/#AwwwwwwwMannnnnnn / “Jimmy Bower plays everything on this…”/ DOOB INTERLUDE (#DOWN – DOWN II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow – 2002) / “All the 7’s?” / “Let’s close it out…”/ “From a sexual standpoint, a train is…”/ “Sorry there wasn’t enough 7’s in my explanation…”/ ORION (#Metallica – Master Of Puppets – 1986) / “This is the Hetfield solo…he always had the best solos…”/ “Alright, get to the train part…”/ “There’s no reason to ever be mad at Metallica…”/ “Write with 7’s and just STFU!...7’s across the board…”/ “Mushroom Chronicles Part 2: Writing With 7’s…”/ #Lucky777 / “It’s weird…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! THANK YOU FOR THE 7’S… / #InstrumentalChronicles / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Whether it’s the debut from Metal Church or Dream Theater, or the swansong from Slayer or Pantera, TERRY DATE is undoubtedly one of the most prominent and prolific producers, engineers, and mixers of metal music to have blessed the ears of metal fans for more than 40 years.

Get ready for “a little origami”, remember that cross walks exist “for health reasons”, and discover why it’s better to not be “on the boat” during a thunderstorm if astraphobia is an issue.

Check out our accidental album dive that was riddled with “Dysfunction” and discover just how many outstanding albums got left out of our discussion thanks to the “different tastes” of some of us.

Behold the hilarity of “Dealer’s Choice”, realize that “Episode 300 will be ‘The One’ (it’s gonna be a mindblower)” and JOIN US as we go BEHIND THE BOARD with our METAL PRODUCERS SPOTLIGHT on TERRY DATE.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “We both cried a little bit…it was fine…”/ #EasterPotluck / #fabulous / “Wait, are they Lebanese? From Lisbon?” / #markthetime #OreoBalls / “If you saw ‘em, you’d be impressed…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Advised but not recommended…”/ “I act like I don’t hear it…you keep saying it…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Here we go…”/ Crosswalks exist for a reason…use them as if your life depended on them. / “He probably would have rioted…”/ “Okie dokie…” / “Sorry, is that better?” / “Two girls walking together…probably no undies either…”

(07:50): #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / #TwoTidesBrewing #GardenOfEvil / “It looks like Opeth’s Still Life…”/ “Super day drinking…4%ABV…”/ #RussellsReflectionsBoatEdition / “You start small…”/ #Bowrider / #Astraphobia / “How long is the water electrified?”/ “Isn’t it great how they can be wrong all the time and still keep their jobs?” 

(13:13): “If you wanna reach out and touch us you can EMAIL US at

metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182 or hit us up on the socials at #metalnerderypodcast at #TikTok #InstaGram #FaceBook #YouTube / “This episode’s #SlayerOfTheEpisode…”/ #BumpOfSlayer / “A little #origami bump of Slayer…my precious…”/ MANDATORY SUICIDE (South Of Heaven – 1988) / “And just like that…”/ “If Reign In Blood had THAT production…”/ “It comes from the factory #preloud …”/ #origamiASMR / “We don’t need to do that anymore…” / “Maybe just a little…” / #RussellsReflections / #TheWhiteLotus / “Here’s the rules if you wanna make a show on #HBO…” / “They can’t be hard…”/ #TheRighteousGemstones / “I can put so much, right there…”/ “No, I’m talking about White Lotus…Righteous Gemstones is funny…”/ “It’s people you want bad things to happen to…”/ The joys of being wealthy and giving back 

(23:55): #TheDocket / “You’re about to get re-railed…”/ “That’s gonna be the one, dude…”/ #nextweek / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  BEHIND THE BOARD – PRODUCER SPOTLIGHT: TERRY DATE / “We didn’t do the #Patreon…” / “Do you think it’s possible to make #PulpFiction chronological?” / #TenFilmRule / #PatreonShoutout / ***COME JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “What is that noise?” / #MetalChurch METAL CHURCH (Metal Church – 1984) / “Here’s a trivial question for you…remember the #HowardSternTVShow on cable?” / #FifthAngel MIDNIGHT LOVE (Time Will Tell – 1989) / *** NOTE: This was actually produced by Terry Brown, NOT Terry Date, and was released in 1989, NOT 1986. The eponymous Fifth Angel debut was released in 1986 and was produced by Terry Date. *** / “Wait…that’s not racist either…”

(35:00): “You were so into the shred though…the super technical…”/ “I like it when he does this…”/ #TheAccused PSYCHOMANIA (Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told – 1988) / “How many riffs can we put in there?” / “That was like comparing dick sizes…”/ “It sounds nothing at all like the rest of their catalog…”/ #debutalbum / “What’s up with the cover?” / #DreamTheater A FORTUNE IN LIES (When Dream And Day Unite – 1989) / “Does it sound like Queensryche?” / “They’ve got Paul Stanley naked on the cover…”/ “It’s like a nasal hallucination…”/ #Soundgarden LOUD LOVE (Louder Than Love – 1989)

(44:04): “We did a dive on it…you were here…if they got their sound from that, let’s play something off of that…”/ “Every now and then we’ll throw a hit out there…”/ #Overkill ELIMINATION (Years Of Decay – 1989) / “Even the riff is shaped similarly…”/ #Pantera THE ART OF SHREDDING (Cowboys From Hell – 1990) / #MetalYoga / “It’s the French one…”/ #Overkill HORRORSCOPE (Horrorscope – 1991) / “Very #djenty…”/ “It’s doomy…”/ “It’s the chair…”/ “Now wait a minute, why is that funny?” / “Just for funsies…you’re not gonna like it…”/ “I gotchu…when someone says that, they’re gonna hook you up…”/ #Pantera FUCKING HOSTILE (Vulgar Display Of Power – 1992) / “Fun fact about this that I learned the other day…”

(54:22): “I thought we have…maybe it was on our #BlackMetal episode…”/ #whyareyousuchadick? / “Last night…Satan came into my room…and he had his way with my forehead…”/ “It’s okay to have it in your mouth, just don’t swallow it…” / #247Spyz BREAK THE CHAINS (Strength In Numbers – 1992) / “Do you have to put the mic IN your mouth?” / “How about some Prong?” / ***INTERJECTION:  THESE ARE ALL #TERRYDATEPRODUCED ALBUMS!!!*** / #Prong (NOTE: slight misunderstanding…This was NOT “Cleansing” but “Rude Awakening”) / RUDE AWAKENING (Rude Awakening – 1996) / “We don’t have to, but we kinda have to…”/ #DoobInterludeExtendedMix / “Dealer’s choice?” / #LMAO / #Pantera SHEDDING SKIN (Far Beyond Driven – 1994) 

(1:03:55): “We’ve skipped a lot…we don’t have to play every band…”/ #WhiteZombie ELECTRIC HEAD PT. 1 (THE AGONY) (ASTRO-CREEP: 2000 – 1995) / “This is where he went from White Zombie to Rob Zombie…”/ “That brings back fond memories…”/ “You can’t skip over that…”/ #Pantera (REPRISE) SANDBLASTED SKIN (The Great Southern Trendkill – 1996) / “That is fucking ugly as homemade fuck…”/ “I met him at Redneck Fest…” / “You’ve gotta go with some #Helmet, right?” / “We’re filling a hole…”/ #Helmet PURE (Aftertaste – 1997) – Mixing / “What about that one?” / “It’s actually my favorite KISS album…”/ #Staind MUDSHOVEL & HOME (“I’m surprised you like this…there’s a lot of melody…”) / “It’s not Planet Caravan…”/ SUFFOCATE (Dysfunction – 1999) 

(1:17:43): “This is what you wanna hear?” / “This was a huge album…let me see the #setlist…” / #LimpBizkit NOOKIE (Significant Other – 1999) / “You know what that sounds like? / #Soulfly PROPHECY (Prophecy – 2004) / #KoRn TWISTED TRANSISTOR (See You On The Other Side – 2005) – Mixing / “Whatever dude, it’s the same thing…”/ “I know there’s some good stuff near the bottom…” / “That was THEIR last album ever…”/ “Where did this come from? And you’re still doing it!” / #Slayer TAKE CONTROL (Repentless – 2015) & PIANO WIRE / “Sounds like a mess, right?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Here’s what makes a lot of noise…it sounds like a woman screaming through the woods…”/ “Fuuuuuuuuck…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel 

So, we did a thing…

After almost 6 years into this podcast, this is the first time we’ve ever done a BREAKDOWN of a single track, and what better way to kick things off than SLAYER’s ANGEL OF DEATH, which is without question “one of the most perfect thrash metal songs EVER written” and also just happens to be the killer opener on one of the most perfect thrash metal albums ever recorded, the Rick Rubin produced legendary 1986 masterpiece, Reign In Blood. 

Time to relive the memories of yore, including the joys of “lunchtime and slimy fingers”, and decide whether or not you will be joining “Team Hot Pocket or Team Snooch”. 

Prepare to comprehend what “abacinate” actually means and understand why it is so horrifying in context, realize that “Manghoul” isn’t phonetically accurate but does make a gruesomely fitting nickname, and discover the reason why “time doesn’t matter and isn’t important” when you JOIN US as we go BEYOND THE BREAKDOWN  into the essence of everything that makes ANGEL OF DEATH “one of the most perfect thrash metal songs EVER written”.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “#Creed is better than #PearlJam…” / “Do they give you cheese dip for free?” / “There’s music you generally hear at a Mexican place…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Maybe it’s coming out of the #metalnerderyslushfund over on the #Patreon …”/ #sixyearsofawesome / #femalecomedians #bucketspots / NOTE: she’s NOT from Atlanta / “She’s pretty funny…for a female…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN THE DIGITAL BUNKERPOON!!!*** / #chokingitback / “Every time I listen to that song I think about the first time I #fingerblasted a girl…”/ “I know who you’re talking about!” / #markthetime / “That’s a triple…you got slimy fingers…”/ #windshieldwiper / “Dude, I just scored!” / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE…GO TO #THEDOCKET…*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #CreatureComforts #XI / “This one is an 8.0 ABV…”/ #ImperialIPA / “I like the color…what color is that?” / #Teal / “I said teal, fuckface!”/ #theverdict / “It’s new corporate condo office carpet…”/ #NakedLunch / #TheMovie / #spoiler / #HotPocket / “It’s that from now on…wait, hot pocket or snooch?” / #HotPocket or #Snooch / “It’s MG approved…#fromtheheart…”/ “Is this gonna be a pseudo Chronicles…?” / “This is the first thing I said…and I wish I could claim it…”/ #Instagram / “I will buy it for you if you will wear it…”

(14:47): “Do we have any correspondence?” / ***CHECK US OUT ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA AT #FACEBOOK #YOUTUBE #INSTAGRAM AND #TIKTOK AND EMAIL US AT METALNERDERY@GMAIL.COM OR VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / ***JOIN US on #ThePatreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “No reflections?” / “She thinks it’s cute, and kinda flattering…”/ #DoubleStuffedArbys / “When’s the last time you went to #Arbys?” / “It was everything I wanted it to be and more…”/ “A triple is a little bit above my paygrade…

(19:52): “It’s new and old at the same time…it’s #Nold…”/ #wedidathing / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS THE BREAKDOWN OF SLAYER’S ANGEL OF DEATH / “Behind the breakdown?” / #FuckingSlayer / “Was it the first Slayer you heard?” / “This is the soundtrack for Hell…” / “Interjection real quick…” / “Try and do the whole #followthebouncingball on Hell Awaits…it’s impossible…”/ “Are you gonna spit on your hand?” / “We need to break it up into chunks…”/ Produced by Rick Rubin / “I think that’s the thing that freaked me out the most…I heard the scream…” / #extrememetal

(28:15): #TheIntro / “Right there…”/ #killeropener / “That’s full 2 minutes to midnight bone…”/ “There’s a note, like a chime…in the high hat…” / “It’s the cymbals, but the way it rings…it’s like a note there…”/ “You used a lot of headphones…”

(31:17): #FirstVerse / “The vocals are up front and in your face…”/ “Everything was CLEAR…”/ “He’s talking about what happened…there were multiple scumbags…”/ #Manghoul / “Thank you for correcting me…I’m sorry I’m just a poor dumb kid from Lawrenceville, Georgia…”/ #TheChorus / #DaveLombardo #doublebass / “Metallica had double bass…but not like THAT!” / “It’s so crisp…”/ #SecondVerse #WithNoAnesthesia / #RecordScratch / “Can you imagine being in the studio, recording this?” / ***GO TO METALNERDERY.COM/SLAYER  FOR MORE SLAYER STUFF!!!*** / “Slayer’s harmonies are very weird and atonal…” / #RussellsReflections

(38:26): #TheBreakdown / “Listen to that riff…it’s tremendous!”/ #MadeInAmerica / “I think this may be one of the first breakdowns…”/ “Those are evil, EVIL harmonies!” / “Right before the solo you’ve gotta pause it…”/ “That’s how metal is mind expanding…I know what rancid means…but I don’t know what #abacinate means…” / #definitionASMR / “What episode was that from? / “I think the breakdowns started with this #genre…”/ “It’s the #HalftimeShow…”/ “Take your get ready pills…”

(43:43): “I wanna feel it…” / #TheGuitarSolos / “Moment of silence…you paused it at the perfect time…”/ “They fit, they work…they’re memorable…it matches the song…”/ “When they play leads, I’m listening to the rhythm they’re playing behind the leads…”/ #SoloRiff

(48:38): #TheDoubleBassFill and #TheOutro / “One of the most #perfectthrashmetalsongs 

ever written…”/ “Everything about that song is right…”/ “That’s how #cancelculture works…”/ #prejudice / “BTW, that’s 40 years ago…this still has staying power…”/ “That was fun…let’s do another one…”/ “What’s the time looking like?” / #clickclickboom / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORDERY ABOUT METAL NERDERY!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

Prepare to learn the proper “order of operations” with regard to relaxers and hear some hilarious post 4/20 tales that will force you to make some “executive decisions” about the rest of your day. Understand the reason a “jigger” needs to be rinsed out after every use, why you should never utter that word near the hearing impaired, and why “Black Power Metal” isn’t what you think it is. 

Discover the common ground shared by “sex & buffalo wings”, understand what it means to be part of the “metal family” (even if you’re from “different snooches”) and JOIN US for an update on Metal Happenings and News (and such) for April 2025, including some new metal releases arriving soon, as well as some fun (for us anyway) video viewing…because it’s WAY more fun to watch AND listen than it is to just listen.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Gimme some black…”/ #itsmarked / “That’s a word, btw…”/ #jigger / “I just like saying that over and over…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “…and three other people…”/ “Hold your piece…vs hold your peace…” / #killyoutodeath / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “I don’t know why I said indentured…”/ #utterregret / “I think the one, though…you had it right…the one that should have been on there was…”/ #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #CreatureComforts #BoneChurch / 5.2%ABV / “Czech…oslovakia?” #CzechRepublic / #ASerbianFilm / “You wanna put that next to your mouth now?” / ***IF YOU WANT TO SKIP THE NONSENSE…CHECK THE SHOWNOTES FOR #THEDOCKET ***

(6:03): JOIN US on #ThePatreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #PatreonShoutout / “I’m sure of it…I really hate him.” / #Tombstone / #ValKilmerRIP / “It’s in your hedgerow…”/ If you want to VOICEMAIL US, you can do so by giving us a call and leaving us a voicemail at 980-666-8182!!! / #shadowban / “It’s like we’ve got a huge dick boner, but our balls are totally flaccid…”/ JOIN US on the socials at #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast / #voicemailsegment / #whoareyou? / #CafeDuMonde / “That coffee sucked my butthole…”/ #EmberingEffigyASMR / #CoffeeTalk / “There’s a lot of money in the death business…because it comes right after the healthcare business…”/ “I feel like if you worked in a funeral home…”/ #ABetterPlace 

(13:10): “No story ever starts off good when you use the words…”/ #RussellsReflectionsTHCASMR / “She holds up a package…”/ “I didn’t really wanna do it…but I thought ‘I got plenty of time…’” / “Let me see your mouth…”/ “When you eat, it pushes it through…”/ “We’ve gotta watch #TheWhiteLotus …”/ “Things aren’t right…”/ “I lost 3 hours…”/ #executivedecisions / “Super fog brain…”/ #dontdenythepowerof #DeltaEightTHC / #MatthewsReflections #MedicalEdibles / “I felt like a great big cotton ball…” / #OrderOfOperations / “To me, that’s #surprisehigh because surprise high is never fun…”/ “Let’s just legalize the regular…”/ #MakeAmericaStonedAgain #MakeAmericaHighAgain

(24:06): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  METAL CURRENT EVENTS, MUSIC VIDEOS, AND UPCOMING NEW RELEASES - APRIL 2025 EDITION / “You wanna start with the top?” / #Nekrogoblikon #DoubleFeature SHOW ME YOUR GOBLIN / “I think we gotta come to grips that this is…”/ FIEND / “Bring me back a taco…”/ #Electronicore / “Brand new Ghost...this one’s pretty good…”/ #Ghost LACHRYMA (Skeleta – 2025 – released April 25, 2025) / “It’s modern-day Alice Cooper…”/ “Maybe they’re #boxless…”/ “Y’all know what sex and buffalo wings have in common, right?” / #rimshot / #ArchEnemy A MILLION SUNS (Blood Dynasty – 2025 – released March 28, 2025) / “Maybe my new favorite band…”

(36:00): “We’ve never talked about these guys…” / #WoeIsMe HERE’S TO ME (A STORY TO TELL, PT. 2) / #metalcore / NOTE:  Woe, Is Me is a metalcore band from Atlanta, GA / #localmetalcore / “Then we go into straight devil music…”/ #Behemoth LVCIFERAEON (The Shit Ov God – 2025 – May 9, 2025) / “Black power metal…that sounds weird…” / “Look at the name of the song though…” / “Are you still stoned, dude? Maybe I’m not stoned enough…” / “They basically did a couple of Loads…”/ #Volbeat IN THE BARN OF THE GOAT GIVING BIRTH TO SATAN’S SPAWN IN A DYING WORLD OF DOOM – #ITBOTGGBTSSIADWOD (God of Angels Trust – 2025 – June 6, 2025) / “Take 3 or 4 weeks off from drinking…go buy a guitar…”/  BY A MONSTER’S HAND / “He went back to the good way of singing…” / “You know what’s terrifying…?” / “Those guys look nothing like they sound…” / #RussellsReflectionsConcertEdition

(52:47): “We’ve got some crazy shit going on…”/ “I guess this falls into metal news…”/ #MetalNews / #GrandTheftAuto (NOT the video game) / “The police chased this car into a neighborhood of the bass player of Weezer’s wife…”/ #recordscratch / “Wait, say that again…”/ “Her days of bone-in are over…”/ “Kinda hot…I mean, for a bass player’s wife…”/ #touchbass / “Speaking of bass…”/ #Soulfly and strange #Sepultura news / “Very, VERY important, Bill’s favorite band, has decided…”/ #GeneSimmonsRoadie / “Shouldn’t you be paying them…?” / “What they’re doing is an #Unmasked show…”/ “When you say you’re gonna retire, just retire and STFU!” / “I think when they’re done…it’ll be like Led Zeppelin, it’ll be over.” / #MetallicaSavedMyLife #Documentary / “I got a little in the feels, man…”/ “Kind of a different approach for us…” / “Can you say all the other ones too? So it’s really a T word…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

DOWN III: OVER THE UNDER, the 3rd studio offering from southern fried doom lords DOWN, has a very 70’s centric feel from start to finish. From the songs and the production to the album cover, OVER THE UNDER might just be the most 70’s influenced and 70’s sounding DOWN album ever recorded. 

Time to fire up the “bowrider” and begin preparations for “The Dockside Sessions” coming later this summer. Discover why knowing the difference between a succubus and an incubus is critical when it comes to certain forms of somnia, remember that if you’re learning guitar to always focus on your “fingering technique”, behold some outstanding metal from Australasia that’s very “throaty”, and just accept the fact that “I don’t know where they could have put it where I would have liked it” when you JOIN US as we take a trip through the heavier side of the 70’s with DOWN III: OVER THE UNDER.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “That’s brand new, condo carpet right there…” / “Well…here’s the thing…”/ #bowrider / #runabout / Metal Nerdery: The Dockside Sessions / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #audiobook #Hellraisers #debauchery / “They called it ‘The Zakk Wylde Drinking Game’…” / “Is it really reading if you’re doing it with your ears?” / #earreading / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / A brief reflection regarding our #WeSoldOurSoulForBonScott episode / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #WingedCreatures / #WayfinderBeer / Succubus vs Incubus / “One’s a dude, right? I want the one that’s NOT the dude…” / #markthetime / #sleepfucking / 6.8%ABV (“It’s green as fuck…”) / “It is brisket, but it ain’t brisket…” /

“They salt it…and corn it…”  / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE MEAT OF THE EPISODE, GO TO #THEDOCKET IN THE SHOW NOTES***

(08:35): “Grab the shaft…I’m gonna grab the horn…”/ Check us out on the social media on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast  and EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com or GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!! / #voicemail / “Hail yeah!”/ Tips for new guitar players / “You’re gonna fall into so much poon, you have no idea…” / “As I started adding fingers…”/ #EugenesBagOfTricks / 

“Tablature is helpful, too…”/ “Get your fingering technique good…” / “Do we have any more voicemail?” / A comment regarding some old school #Aerosmith (from the 70’s) / “What’s it called?” / #AlienWeaponry / “I want the phone number of your #relaxerdealer …” / “If you had to pick an Aerosmith album…”/ #ghettoblaster / “You know what’s almost equally as offensive?” / “You shouldn’t say THAT word…EVER!” / “That’s like going on to #TheView and saying…” / Learning how to “read the room” / “Starts with an N, ends with an R…”/ “A great new band out of Australasia…” / #NewZealandMetal / HANGING BY A THREAD (Te Ra – 2025) / “I like that word…throaty…” / A little too much / “Isn’t that a song?” / “It’s a different ‘lade’…” / “Speaking of NOLA…”

(24:16): #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  DOWN III – Over The Under / We felt like it was time to break out some #DOWN and properly prepare for 4/20 festivities and their upcoming new album which they’re currently working on as we speak… / “…and stuff?” / Released on September 25, 2007 / “You know what this reminds me of?” / #MasterOfReality / “It’d be like 70’s No Quarter influenced doom metal…”/ 

THREE SONS AND ONE STAR / #HeavyZZTop / “Embrace the riddle of regret…”/ THE PATH

“Awwwwwww mannnnnnn…” / “I can hear #Pantera doing this…”/ “Well, caterpillars are weird…” / “Grab the shaft, I’m gonna grab the horn…”

(34:54): N.O.D. (“Because L.S.D. ain’t what it used to be for me…”) / I SCREAM / “I had a dream and we were hanging out with #Metallica…” / “OMG, It’s the Trident Challenge…” /

ON MARCH THE SAINTS / “This sounds more #southernrock …”/ “There’s no such thing as a good time for bad luck…” / “On mosh the saints…” / “That totally reminds me of Master of Reality…” / “Back it up because there’s feedback that’s weird…” / NEVER TRY / “That’s the 70’s, all day…that riff…” / #RussellsReflections regarding #LynyrdSkynyrd and their less popular stuff / “You can come over and taste my meat any time you want…”

(48:00): MOURN / “Do you ever turn down a bathroom break?” / “Castawhy?” / #HenrysHardSoda / “I think the next day I pee’d and it was green colored…”/ “Were you wearing your special shoes?” / BENEATH THE TIDES / “That’s so fuckin’ 70’s, dude…” / “Feel Anselmo?” / “If you have relaxers, please set them on fire, right now…”/ HIS MAJESTY THE DESERT / “Bye Felicia…”/ “And building…and building…” / PILLAMYD / #usethoseheadphones / “I might like the riffage on this one better…”/ “Dude, your credibility is gone…” / #PlanetCaravan / “I don’t know where they could have put it where I would have liked it…” / “You’re welcome…”

(1:03:27): IN THE THRALL OF IT ALL / “Doesn’t it have a 70’s vibe to it? (This whole album does…)” / “I think they need to take #Pentagram out on tour…”/ “That’d be literally a Doom Fest…” / NOTHING IN RETURN (WALK AWAY) / “Sounds like Zeppelin…No Quarter, the middle part…” / “This might be my favorite song on the album…”/ “The harmony is so killer…”/ #victoryswampmetal / “Huh?” / “Probably gonna play a little butt-games…”/ 

“I kept being reminded what ‘the fourth hole’ is…” / “That’s a very descriptive dream…” / 

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND HAPPY 4/20 TO ALL!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“I’m sorry, what was that? No, the second part…the part that came after that…”

METALCORE seems to be all over the place, in that its components are quite varied and cover a broad spectrum of everything that has historically made metal awesome: double bass drumming, guitar shred, breakdowns and mosh parts, and sometimes even some emo screaming and heartfelt vocals sung straight from the balls. Like a heavy metal jambalaya with a ton of different ingredients, METALCORE is the next wave of metal for a new generation of metalheads who want to enjoy a little bit of everything all at once.

Be sure to stop “adulting” and remember that “when people lose their argument, they shift their whole stance”. Realize the darker connotations of saying “I did a thing today” and understand that Cory Hart wears his sunglasses at night because it’s terrifying to be “blinded by the light”. 

Get ready to ponder the entertainment value of a “scientifically accurate Spiderman”, brace for some quality “decoction” bloopers from the cutting room floor of “Transition Hospital”,  accept the fact that there are still some folks who believe “a non-tattooed 6 is way hotter than a fully tatted 10”, grab yourself “a hot pocket” and JOIN US as we sample the smorgasbord of modern fusion metal known as METALCORE.

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(00:01): “Wouldn’t it be interesting…if Spiderman was more scientifically accurate?” / #webslinger #spiderman / “I think it would be better…”/ #markthetime / “I wanna be into it…it’s just hard…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Wanna do the beer first?” / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #ShippingOutOfBoston / “’scew meh…” / #TheDeparted /

“I don’t know what decoction is…”/ #decoction / “Isn’t that a soap opera? Transition Hospital?” / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE, HEAD TO #THEDOCKET IN THE SHOWNOTES!!!***

(06:00): “Fireplace is a doom metal band out of Louisiana…” / “The only good thing about traveling for business…”/ #IWillTellYou / The never-ending sprawl of #BourbonStreet / #RussellsReflectionsTravelEdition #NOLA / Food reviews, including superior hotel fare and bartender recommendations / “…with a Q…”/ “I must break you…you will lose…”/ #CafeDuMonde / “I’m sorry, what was that?  The 2nd part…” / #Beignets / “The coffee was nothing special…” / “I will tell you…”/ #redbeansandrice / “The bars were the cool thing…”/ 

#AbsintheBars / “The real stuff is supposed to be trippy…” / “It was 130 proof…the colors get a little brighter” / “I don’t wanna go on too long about this…” / #shittons / “It’s my kinda dump…” / “Oh, I will say…The Dungeon…was a disappointment… / “If you’re going to a heavy metal bar…wear a #MetalNerdery t-shirt which you can find at www.metalnerdery.com/merch ...” / Older tits / “She was getting high fives…”

(18:02): J.D. from #EmberingEffigy and his comedy debut at #SweetwaterLive / “The crazy thing was…on the way home…” / #trafficstopASMR / #taglight / #MattsAngryRant / #warning / “I have no idea what he looked like…this is the terrifying thing” / “You dodged a bullet, sir…”/ “Don’t run your mouth…wear your sunglasses at night, that’s why Corey Hart did it…” / “Don’t do it…”/ #ManfredMann /”Blinded by the light”…/ “The lights didn’t look like the usual #seizurelights …” / “Back at you, buddy…”

(25:10): Come JOIN US on the socials at #Instagram #Facebook #Youtube #TikTok at #MetalNerderyPodcast, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / “It’s like a snooch guard on the tits…”/ ***IF YOU WANNA LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL YOU CAN GIVE US A CALL AND DO SO AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #VoicemailSegment / Ken from Connecticut…/ #NewEnglandMetal / #whatsitcalled? / #KillswitchEngage COLLUSION (The Consequence – released 02/19/2025) / “We forgot the Patreons…it’s always the first episode…” / “For less than the price of a pack of smokes or a bottle of virtual girlfriend…you can JOIN US in the Bunkerpoon After Dark over at our #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #PatreonShoutOut #BunkerpoonAfterDark

(33:33): #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: METALCORE / Not to be confused with all the different “cores” we covered sometime back… / “Some of this stuff my wife likes…”/ “I hate that term…”/ #adulting / “Ya gotta quit…/ ‘I did a thing today…’ just stop that…” / “THAT is ‘I did a thing today…’” / “Ladies…a non-tattooed 6 is way hotter than a fully tatted 10…” / “You’re gonna be in shape forever…”/ “I just need to use the facilities…”

(38:32): “Back to the docket…”/ “Metalcore…all the metal components…melode (melodic vocals)…” / #markthetime / “Tell you what…I’ll grab the tip, you grab the shaft…” / #AllThatRemains WHAT IF I WAS NOTHING (A War You Cannot Win – 2012) / “This needs to hurry up…”/ “This is like Hoobastank, dude…” /  TWO WEEKS (Overcome – 2008) / “There we go!” / “That’s cool: shred and double bass…” / “He doesn’t like the heartfelt melodies…from the balls…” / “My wife really likes that band…” / “It’s like the tattoo thing…”/ #differentstrokes / “I #windpiped and I thought I was dying and I almost died and I didn’t die…” / “It’s a different generation (of metal)…”

(45:32): “I bet Bill’s gonna hate it…”/ #BringMeTheHorizon CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART (Sempiternal – 2013)  & THRONE (That’s the Spirit – 2015) / “Alright…we’re good…” / “Everytime I hear that, I wanna pull my shirt off…take my tit out…and tongue my nipple…” / #LambOfGod  OMERTA (Ashes of the Wake – 2004) / “I would have thought of them as the New Wave of American Thrash…”/ “I just called it ‘drugs’…” / “Play something off of that…”/ “I thought they came out whenever…or are they vampires?”/ #AvengedSevenfold WE COME OUT AT NIGHT (Sounding The Seventh Trumpet – 2001) / “So it’s gonna suck?” / “These guys sound like if Blink 182 made a metal album…”/ #ADayToRemember / A quick 

interjection regarding breakdowns / “To me, none of this is #metalcore yet…”

(54:32): #NormaJean SWORD IN MOUTH, FIRE EYES (Wrongdoers – 2013) / (NOTE: Norma Jean is actually Atlanta metal, hailing from Douglasville, GA) / “I like this better than most of what we’ve heard so far…”/ “There’s one they’ve got with vultures in the title…or eagles…”/ #Converge EAGLES BECOME VULTURES (You Fail Me – 2004) / “What’s metalcore about this?” / “No melody in that, I knew Bill would love it…” / “He just grabs on to something and rides it out…” / “It’s about Lenny & George…from the book?” / #bookreport / #OfMice&Men #OM&M / WOULD YOU STILL BE THERE (Restoring Force: Full Circle – 2014) / “That’s metalcore!” / #Unearth THE GREAT DIVIDERS (The Oncoming Storm – 2004) / “That sounds WAY better!” / “It’s a broad genre…” / 

(1:03:28): “As I lay dying in all that remains…”/ #octopusface / “Which one’s got all the streams?” / #FiveFingerDeathPunch WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN (A Decade of Destruction – 2013) / “Here comes the heartfelt lyrics, get ready…” / “I mean, the production is good, right?” / “She’s not a she…”/ “Why is the devil not a woman?” / “Is this Creed?” / “Apparently #dadrock and #buttrock are the same thing…”/ “You don’t like Pearl Jam but you like Creed!?” / #AlterBridge is to #Creed like #Audioslave is to #RATM / “When people lose the argument, they shift their whole stance…” / “You think maybe they’ve got a video where she’s nude?” / #SnoochMetal #InThisMoment BLACK WEDDING (Ritual – 2017) / “Are you out thah?” / “Women are always bitching about pants that don’t have pockets and yet they have their very own…they’ve got a hot pocket and a back pocket…” / “Let’s pick one or two more… / #AugustBurnsRed WHITE WASHED (Constellations – 2009) / “Oooh…squealies…” / “Okay, that’s good…that’s metalcore…”/ “I’m waiting on him to sing…I know it’s coming…”/ “Maybe my favorite so far…”/ “End it with that…right there.” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND LET US KNOW YOUR METALCORE RECOMMENDATIONS!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

Find out how tasting the “after-tang” from “snooch smooching” is a lot like “when you’re used to the black and you get the green”. Brace yourself for our upcoming “Metal Nerdery apology tour” with a stop in “Australasia”, embrace the presence of the “Ghost of The Bunkerpoon”, and prepare for a story with a cast of characters that can only be described as “The Reverse Oreo”. Get ready to “mark the time” a LOT and remember that “Balls are BALLS, dude!” when you JOIN US because WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR BON SCOTT!!!

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(00:01): “From the heart…” / “Give it to the dog…”/ #baconsoda / “Somebody’s gotta drink it…”/ “We should do a toast…it should be our thing…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “I forgot the #aftertwang that Jager’s got…”/ “When you’re used to the black…and you get the green…” / “Snooch Smooching and the pee after-tang” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE DIGITAL BUNKERPOON WITH METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Over here praying that my family doesn’t listen to this…” / #forgiveness / 

“Crafting my perfect #LaughingSkull set…” / “I think the 3 of us…need to go to Austin, Texas…and sign you up…”/ “But now he’s going on The View and sucking their tits…”/ “I wonder if people love our podcast but hate our politics…”/ ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE MEAT, LOOK FOR #THEDOCKET *** 

(08:00): “Y’all need to get some of this Bunkerpoon After-Dark Meat over on the #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #PatreonShoutOut / #complimentary / #HellYeah #BunkerpoonAfterDark / #Doomsicle update / “I’ve been warming up to the Helmet…”/ “It’s marked…” / “Whenever I do a hand solo, the finish is the same…”/ #rapnerdery / “Hold on, I’m not ready…”/ ***CHECK US OUT ON THE SOCIALS AT #TIKTOK #FACEBOOK #INSTAGRAM #YOUTUBE at #metalnerderypodcast EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / “I got really good accolades at home because of that…”/ ***IF YOU WANNA GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL YOU CAN DO SO AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #EmberingEffigy stickers (share the wealth) / #MetalNerderyApologyTour 

(15:15): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR BON SCOTT – THE BEST OF THE BON SCOTT ERA OF AC/DC!!! / “Angus bangs his head, yes, #ACDCisMetal !!!” / #Era / #Ghey / “I didn’t get any gay come on me…now I’ve got come and gay come on me…” / #GreatestHitsPackage #TheBestOfBonScott / A reference to #ThePerfectAlbumSide from the golden years of #WKLS #96Rock / “Australasia?” / How to sequence a greatest hits package? Do you do it chronologically? Or do you do it like Pink Floyd: Echoes? 

(22:44): “It’s got to start with…” / “We gonna play the video?” / LET THERE BE ROCK (Let There Be Rock – 1977) / Reverend Bon / “I like the halo…”/ “What do you follow that up with?” / “Oy!” / T.N.T. (High Voltage – 1976) / “Ghost of The Bunkerpoon…” / “I almost hear a busted speaker…”/ “I almost think you’ve gotta throw Jailbreak right after that…” / “Is it #Australasia now because Donald Trump says so?” / JAILBREAK (’74 Jailbreak – 1976 – U.S. release was 1984) / “They were using real dynamite…”/ “We’ve gotta hear the breakdown part…”/ “Looking back, those lyrics are pretty dark…”

(35:19): “You need something up-tempo at this point…” / BEATING AROUND THE BUSH (Highway To Hell – 1979) / “That’s pre-thrash…”/ “I just remember the finishing scenes…” / “He’s gonna be a dick…”/ DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – 1976 – U.S. release was 1981) / “Who does the #deathmetalvoice?” / “It’s kinda like the Damage Inc. of Let There Be Rock…” / “That’s gonna be a button…”/ WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE (Let There Be Rock – 1977) / 42-39-56 / “That’s a LOT of poon…”/ 266 lbs / “You know what the Australian version is missing?” / “Did we limit it to 12?” / “There were 17 songs on We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘N’ Roll…”/ “Do you have a vinyl player?” / #fuckface /

“They’re following orders…” / “Technically…usually…” / “It’s always accidental and it’s perfect…”

(46:10): “We’ve gotta have something from Powerage in here…”/ “Should we slow it down after this?” / RIFF RAFF (Powerage – 1978) / #LOLASMR / “Now we’re gonna slow it down a little bit…”/ “In fairness…I know I didn’t score a lot of poon, but I got some quality handies…these were better than I can do…” / “I told y’all the story right…the #Astroglide story?” / Prepare for a story with a cast of characters that can only be described as “The Reverse Oreo” / #RussellsReflections / “Astroglow?”/ “I guarantee he was riding mouth…it was a strange grouping…”/ THE JACK (High Voltage – 1976) / “What’d she give you?” / “Well, we’ve gotta follow it with what actually followed it…” / LIVE WIRE (High Voltage – 1976) / “They tune a quarter step down…”

(1:00:05): “He said ‘balls’…”/ The double entendre…/ “Balls are BALLS, dude!” / BIG BALLS (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – 1976 – U.S. release in 1981) / NOTE:  there were a few tunes that unfortunately got “shot down in flames”, pun intended…/ “How about this one here?” / “That’s the one you just turn it up to loud…” / IF YOU WANT BLOOD (YOU’VE GOT IT) (Highway To Hell – 1979) / “That’s where you just turn it up louder…”/ “Bon was doing a Peter Griffin laugh way before #FamilyGuy was a thing…”/ “Between Go Down and Dog Eat Dog…if you were gonna pick?” / DOG EAT DOG (Let There Be Rock – 1977) / “It’s kinda got that ‘Everybody Wants Some’ drum line…”/ SIN CITY (Powerage – 1978) / “How about a little bit of that middle section?” / “So, I think if we were to close it now, I would say…” / “While you count that out…in your head…”

(1:12:50): RIDE ON (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – 1976 – U.S. release in 1981) / “Are we recording, Jimmy?” / “If you want, I could go first…”/ “Hold on…”/ HIGHWAY TO HELL (Highway To Hell – 1979) / “I had the lyrics to this so wrong when I was a kid…” / The count as of this point (songs from each album) / Some honorable mentions that didn’t make the cut… / “Break out your bagpipes…”/ IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP (IF YOU WANNA ROCK ‘N’ ROLL) (High Voltage – 1976) / “Here’s a question: What other AC/DC songs would be good with bagpipes?” / ***Check out our #ACDC #BonScottEra episode as well!!!*** / “I’ll make a #SpotifyPlaylist…”/ “I brought the Finger Ease, too…”/ #magicalpieceofpaper / “Your dick is like 90% water…” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #DoomsicleASMR / “You haven’t seen my stormtrooper!” / #untilthenext #outroreel 

DEATH MAGNETIC, the Rick Rubin produced 9th studio album from Bay Area metal titans METALLICA (and the first studio album featuring Robert Trujillo on bass) is chock full of riffs, tons of ugly chords, a boatload of guitar solos, and loads of twin guitar harmonies that harken back to the thrash metal veterans legendary 80’s output, with a sound that is a true return to their original thrash form which could have easily placed this album being released right after …AJFA.  They brought back all of the classic elements (including their iconic logo!) that made METALLICA awesome to begin with and more than made up for their “Angry Loads” era. 

Remember to always send back the “medium rare chicken tenders” and if you’re using a ride share, make sure to be hammered on at least one part of the journey.

JOIN US for a brief review of a recent local metal show featuring Atlanta’s own Embering Effigy at Sweetwater Live in Duluth (as well as a summary of the “aftermath” that followed), remember that “the Loads of Anger” are always at the bottom, and behold the victors of “The Loudness Wars” with METALLICA’s 2008 return to their thrash metal roots, DEATH MAGNETIC.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Why not shred management?” / #highschoolmemories / “That was his ‘fuck off’ hour…”/ #guitarclass / “We came up with this song…it’s in my brain…”/ #LMAO / “I can play it on guitar right now…”/ “I left it in there just for you…”/ “I think we should do a toast…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “He might get his feelings hurt…”/ #shinydiamonds and #cleantigers / #shinytigers and #cleandiamonds / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST HERE IN THE DIGITAL BUNKERPOON!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #baconsoda / “Somewhere Russell referenced ‘bacon soda’ and Billiam found a bottle of Bacon Soda…”/ “Tastes like maple bacon snooch…”/ “I need to let Doro taste it…”/ #markthetime / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE MEAT, GO TO #THEDOCKET ***

(07:20): “And I ordered #mediumrarechickentenders …”/ “Matthew…you were fuckin’ trashed!”/ “If you’re doing a rideshare, you really owe it to yourself to be hammered at least on one end of the journey…why take an Uber if you’re gonna be sober?”/ “I must have looked like a hammered 4 year old…”/ #blackoutASMR / “You know that pre-hangover hangover that you get?” / #markthetime / “Okay, so you paid $38 for $8 Chinese food?”/ “It was a lot of wind…and a lightshow…”/ “Let’s go back to the show…”/ #SweetwaterLive #LocalMetalShow #EmberingEffigy / #RussellsReflectionsConcertReview / “It’s not going in there…”/ “My relationship status is…complicated” / #strangerinthetub / “Back to the show…”/ “What kind of beast was he fucking?” / “Here’s what I liked about Embering Effigy…”/ “You don’t have to get hammered…”/ “Have you noticed that Waffle House has changed dramatically…? Now they’ve got cute girls working there…”

(22:44): “How about some #wolfsteak !?” / “We got an email here from Norvyn…”/ EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / For less than the price of a bottle of lube…you can JOIN US on the #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / PATREON SHOUTOUT!!! / “Wait, what did you say?”/ Speaking of which… #WrathchildAmerica news from #dissonanceproductions / #WrathSAZ / ***IF YOU WANNA GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL YOU CAN DO SO AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “We could do a whole Atlanta show…” / #metalmemes

(29:20): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: METALLICA – DEATH MAGNETIC!!! / “This one should have come after Justice…they brought their old logo back…”/ “It’s a little bit longer…”/ “When they released it, it was a #brickwalled mix…”/ Produced by Rick Rubin / Released September 12, 2008 / Debuted at Number 1 / #assholecavern / “They had that whole lawsuit thing with #Gibson …”/ “I think I clipped the bird…”/  THAT WAS JUST YOUR LIFE / “That’s a hell of a comeback after St. Anger…”

(39:35): THE END OF THE LINE / “The riff sounds familiar but I can’t place it…”/ “That’s got a little bit of a Load feel to it…”/ “I know it’s rock n roll, bro, but…”/ “He can smoke his guitars, play his guitars, and not give a fuck what I say about Lars…”/ #poetry / BROKEN, BEAT & SCARRED / “Rise, fall down, rise again…”/ “They brought back all the elements that made classic #Metallica awesome…we’re gonna let the #angryloads go…”/ THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES / “It kinda has a Fade To Black cadence to it…”/ “Don’t want no A1 for my #wolfsteak YEAH!” / “Even that riff is kinda like Fade To Black a little bit…”/ “Sounds like #southernrock and #ThinLizzy and #IronMaiden / “That’s the riff from Am I Evil?...” / “One man’s opinion…sometimes I get a little put off…to me, the sound is the same…” / “The Loads don’t sound like this…” / The variation of mixes from earlier albums until later albums across multiple artists / “The mix is completely different…” / “Mix-wise with this and Hardwired…they sound like they could have been recorded at the same time…maybe that was their second dose of Loads…”

(56:13): “This goes out to all the dreamers out there…”/ ALL NIGHTMARE LONG / “In just a few short months…”/ “Luck…runs…out…”/ “He just leans into it…just give us one…”/ “We need to have a #YEAH counter…I’ve got a clicker, I’m bringing it…”/ CYANIDE / “The bass does have a pretty big part in this song…”/ #thickandfullandgirthy / “It’s not overbearing but it’s definitely there…”/ “I’m gonna be a dick about that forever…”/ “Warning for Billiam…”/ “Sorry, that’s #AWavyAdolf …”/ THE UNFORGIVEN III / “That was a good one…”/ #Huh? / “Oh yeah, it’s horny too…it’s horny & stringy…”/ “I can’t hear him play drums anymore without thinking about that dude on #Instagram…”/ “Forgive me…why can’t I forgive me!?” / “That’s fuckin’ rock’n’roll, man…”/ Reflecting on other albums suffering from a #BrickwalledMix

(1:09:37): THE JUDAS KISS / “That’s super ugly…like #butterface notes…”/ “I’ve gotten more impatient as I’ve gotten older…” / “We got spoiled by The Black Album…you can only write so many riffs, right?” / “I’m about to piss on myself…”/ SUICIDE & REDEMPTION / “Is that BASS back there?” / “That sounds like the #Metallica of old…” / #classicmetallica / “Charles is in town…and he brought his horse…”/ MY APOCALYPSE / “C’mon, stand up like Lars…”/ “Almost like Damage Inc. vibes…”/ “It’s been a while since we did a proper Metallica episode…”/ “Is that all you guys do? Metallica and Slayer?” / #Bro / “Nobody said bro that much, bro…”/ “You wanna hold hands?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “If this is their 9th studio album, where does it rank?” / “The Loads of Anger is at the bottom…the bottom is filled with Anger and Loads…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel