#350 Was 1986 the Best Year in Metal? Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Peace Sells Turn 40
“If you were gonna be a stripper…what would your stage name be?” When you think about 1986, it’s almost hard to fathom that we are 40 years away from it. Four decades away from perhaps THE biggest y...
7 Touko 1h 26min
#349 - The First and The Last
“You like to hear how they have progressed or digressed…or either…or gressed…” This episode is a lot like looking at pictures of family when everyone is much younger and then looking at recent pictu...
30 Huhti 1h 23min
#348 - Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell Album Review
“This is the 80’s before the 80’s was the 80’s…” Released April 18, 1980, HEAVEN AND HELL, the 9th studio album by BLACK SABBATH (and the first to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals), marks a simult...
23 Huhti 1h 6min
#347 - The POONYs THE NUMBER 1 HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE 1970’S
“If you’re gonna pick an album that’s supposed to be the album of the decade…” The Grammy’s have proven over and over to metal fans over the years that their decisions are (more often than not) comp...
16 Huhti 1h 3min
#346 - Exodus GOLIATH Album Review
Released March 20, 2026, GOLIATH, the newest behemoth to emerge from classic thrash masters EXODUS, feels a lot like 1989 but with some other added extras that are a bit different, experimental, and a...
9 Huhti 1h 8min
#345 LAMB OF GOD Into Oblivion Album Review
“It’s like we’re missing someone…” Released Friday, March 13, 2026, INTO OBLIVION, the latest offering from Richmond, Virginia’s LAMB OF GOD, features a new logo and an album cover that hints at the...
2 Huhti 48min
#344 - EMBERING EFFIGY - OUT OF THE WOODS Album Review
“Let’s keep the dumb fuhqery to a minimum today…” EMBERING EFFIGY, the “Southern Fried Thrash Metal” threesome hailing from the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia are making some noise in venues all acro...
26 Maalis 1h 28min
#343 - SIDE TWO VERSUS SIDE ONE
Ever since compact discs came out in the mid-1980s, the concept of SIDE 1 and SIDE 2 on an album sort of fell by the wayside. And with this new quantum leap in technology, the entire process of consum...
19 Maalis 47min
