#358 Tributes to the Fallen: Celebrating the Lives of Those We've Lost in Metal

Death.

The word alone possesses the same tangible finality and permanence as the act itself. Death marks the end of one’s physical life & existence in this world and can come as a tragic, sudden, and untimely end, or as the sometimes “welcome” final resolution of life following a long, protracted period of illness and suffering.

“We got to live on the same earth at the same time as all these dudes…”

Regardless of how it presents, death impacts every single human on earth. Whether it’s the death of a loved one or our own mortality, it’s the one thing we as humans all share. And no matter what we do or how we live out our lives, eventually we will ALL be (as Lemmy so poetically put it) “killed by death” …and nobody has any idea “when” or “how” it will arrive.

“Do you know how many Junes they lived through?”

Over the course of our lifetime, we all bid farewell to the artists which have helped shape us as people, providing us with what would become the soundtrack to our lives. Many of our favorite artists passed away before we even became familiar with their work, and many have passed away so recently that we are still processing their loss from the perspective of our own lives and the impact that their lives and their art have had on us.

“All you gotta do if you miss them is press play…”

Having said that, we are not here to bemoan the losses we’ve experienced in the metal community so much as we are here to ask you to JOIN US as we CELEBRATE the legacy of those we have lost who have blessed our lives so richly with the timeless art they created that will forever transcend death.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “It’s the last Saturday in June…”/ “The Righteous Bean…”/ “It’s got the meatiest bass sound I’ve ever heard in my life…”/ #markthetime / #Converge #HumOfHurt #LoveIsNotEnough / “It’s like their Loads, basically…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “I’m sorry, dude…it’s June.” / “Yeah, I like showing my titties…”/ #sideboobaction

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#AmericanDave #PartTwo / “Any guitar solos from the day that blew your mind that still sends shivers?” / #allegedly /#guitarsolos / Some of our favorite, most memorable guitar solos (Thanks for the conversation starter, Dave!) / “I don’t pay attention to guitar solos as much as you guys do…”/ “Talk about ‘golden take’…”/ “They’re trying to piecemeal the perfect performance…”/ “Delicious might be the word…”

(09:38): “It’s appropriate that you’d say that in June…”/ #fabulous / “It was usually about food…” / “I had two pieces of chicken sausage…”/ #markthetime / #chickendick / “Dude, that looks fabulous!” / “I got corrected for it…”/ “It made me sound a little bit…June…”

(12:03): “I wanted to expose you guys…I think you’re gonna like this…” / #Converge DREAM DEBRIS (Hum of Hurt – 2026) / “I didn’t cup, dude…”/ “Those are drums, sir…”/ “Is that not meaty!?” / “If you look at the CD case…it’s like Led Zeppelin IV…there’s no song titles, the band name’s not on there…”/ “Like the old days…it was an experience…”/ #stankface /

“I wanna drive the #killdozer at 120 mph…”/ #rampagevehicle / “We’re not gonna listen to what I’ve been listening to the last few days…”/ #RussellsReflectionsASMR #Sublime / “Okay, that time I cupped…Bill got caught in the crossfire…”/ #markthetime / “I feel like metalheads are more open minded musically…”/ #TaylorSwiftIsAPsyOp / “Name 3 songs…”/ “Drugs and fuckin’…”/ “I always think it’s weird when 2 people go to the bathroom…” / ***EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com / SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and #TikTok

(21:28): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: TRIBUTES TO THE FALLEN – NOTABLE DEATHS IN METAL & THE CELEBRATION OF THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED BEFORE US / “Where were YOU when this happened?” / “Moments that changed metal forever…”/ #Dimebag / “That was the same day that John Lennon was murdered…”/ #jagermeistershots / “Of any dudes on Planet Dude, THAT dude didn’t deserve it…”/ #GoodTimeDime / “Hold on, let’s do a little tribute…I’ve got a deep cut…”/ #Pantera SHEDDING SKIN (Far Beyond Driven – 1994) / “I was gonna get another beer but I’m gonna wait…”/ “That riff is almost like The Sleep…”/ “In a way, he’s an extreme metal version of #EVH …”/ “He chugged…”

(31:06): “I mentioned #RandyRhoads obviously…” / “I remember when it happened…on 96 Rock they announced it…”/ “The weirdest thing I heard about that whole thing…somebody they knew looked at the pilot…she said she saw a dark aura around him…”/ #gutinstinct / “Ozzy said a million times that Randy Rhoads saved his life…”/ “It’s like (with) Cliff and Metallica … / “I don’t think I ‘got it’ until the Cliff ‘Em All video came out…”/ “While we’re on the Cliff subject…”/ #Ringah / “If you’ve got a 4-sided cock ring…”/ #OzzyOsbourne DIARY OF A MADMAN (Diary of a Madman – 1981) / “Bass player getting busy…”/ “The drummer…the youngest old guy…”/ #OldeFaece / “Can you imagine Randy Rhoads…at 70?”/ “What would #Metallica be like if Cliff never passed away?”/ #TheBigWhatIfs /

“I almost think with Cliff you’ve gotta do the train section…”/ “Driving with that on at night…”/ #Metallica ORION (Master of Puppets – 1986) / “That’s baby making music right there…”/ “That’s like musical zen…”/ “You know what I wonder…” / Cliff vs Lars

(43:56): “I kinda remember Bon Scott…” / “It was like a Mandela Effect…alternate reality…”/

“Christmas, Santa Claus brought me Highway to Hell…YOUR Santa was better than MY Santa…”/ “When you’re in this kinda mood, it makes you really think about it…”/

#ACDC RIDE ON (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – 1976 (Everywhere EXCEPT the US) & 1981 (US)) / “He was The Lord’s age when he passed…he was 33…Bon Scott passed away on Tony Iommi’s birthday…”

(48:55): “We’ve gotta mention the 90’s guys…”/ “You wanna hear something weird about the Kurt thing…that whole thing is coming back up…yeah we all kinda already knew that…”/ #LayneStaley #AIC #ChrisCornell #Soundgarden / #JeffHanneman / “He’s a normal guy…we don’t like going to the doctor…just put some dirt on it…”/ #Slayer ANGEL OF DEATH (Reign In Blood – 1986) / “Just let it wash over you…take in the Jeff Zen…”/ “You’ve gotta let it get to the good part…”/“Take 2 Slayers and call me in the morning…”

(53:41): “So maybe for Mr. Dio’s tribute we pull up something from Dehumanizer?”/ #RJD / “There was that whole weird thing: is he 40? Is he 43?” / “Oh man, that’s profound. Man, Shame On The Night is fucking beautiful, man…”/ “That’s fitting for this one…”/

#BlackSabbath AFTER ALL (THE DEAD) (Dehumanizer – 1992) / “This was the Mob Rules lineup…”/ “Almost sounds like Ozzy Sabbath in a way…”/ “Maybe this is what they were going for…”/ #Skynet / “What about Neil Peart?”/ “There’s always something there to remind me…”/ “That song will make you moist in the eyeballs…”/ #Afterimage / The process of grieving and coping with loss / “Love is the most powerful force in the universe…”/

“Speaking of drummers…John Bonham…”/ #LedZeppelin / “If you could have the last recorded gig of anybody, especially if they passed untimely…would you want it?”

(1:02:02): “How about Lemmy?”/ “Maybe my favorite part of any metal song ever…maybe just play that one part?” / “Lemmy 70 and Bill 70 is different…WAY different!”/ “He just lived his life…” / “You could live your life…bark like a dog…”/ #Motorhead OVERKILL (Overkill – 1979) / “I saw what you did there…”/ “I have a suggestion…”/ “It was hanging down…”/ #markthetime / “We’ve gotta end properly…we’re coming up on the month that Mr. Ozzy Osbourne has left this earth…” / #BackToTheBeginning / “What do you play though?”/

“Tribute has got some Sabbath songs on it, don’t it?” / “Ozzy is a symptom of the universe, for sure…”/ #BlackSabbath SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE (Sabotage – 1975) / #BlessThatMan / “I still think it’s ironic that a fly got in here while we’re talking about notable (metal) deaths…”/ #CelebrationOfLife / “Take the trash out first, leave these ones…”/ #MysteriousWays / “We got to live on the same earth at the same time as all these dudes…”/ “Do you know how many Junes they lived through?”/

“All you gotta do if you miss them: press play…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel