089: Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill Album Dive
PANTERA is one of the few bands to raise the bar consistently and continuously with each album. THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL is the most “everything” Pantera album. It’s easily the angriest, heavies...
6 Touko 20211h 6min
088: Favorite Obscure Thrash
“Among their own kind they live, a life that’s so obscure…” – DEATH. The thought of anything obscure with regard to Thrash immediately provokes thoughts of the Mall Days of Yore; a time before the exi...
29 Huhti 20211h 7min
087: Stoner Metal Vol III
Tony Iommi’s opening cough solo on Black Sabbath’s “Master of Reality” was the clarion call for a new KINE of Metal. The KINE of Metal that smells like Sleep’s jam room. The KINE of Metal that is ov...
22 Huhti 20211h 5min
086: Iron Maiden’s Self-titled Debut Album
With the advent of the NWOBHM and the IRON MAIDEN (aka: the genre definers; they’re bassically the Black Sabbath of NWOBHM), the Metal landscape was starting to take on a different dimension; with inc...
15 Huhti 202151min
085: The power of the RIFF.. Metal Riffs that RULE Vol. I
“The power of the RIFF compels me. . .” DOWN. Ever since The Almighty Iommi first blessed the world with his glorious presence vis-à-vis Black Sabbath in 1970 (and through the incredibly prudent use...
8 Huhti 20211h 9min
084: Do You Know Your Metal Genres and Metal Cores
In our quest for all things Metal, we decided (perhaps somewhat extremely erroneously) to delve deeper into the myriad of potentially possible genres, subgenres and “cores” that exist in the realm of ...
1 Huhti 20211h 33min
083: Covers Vol. II - Metal and Thrash Cover Songs Volume II
It feels like being back in the basement, rehearsing a set for an upcoming gig. For anyone who’s ever been in a band, one of the first things you learn is how to play someone else’s songs. Covers. ...
25 Maalis 20211h 15min
082: Metallica Master of Puppets Album Dive
We’ve all been there. We all remember our first-time. Metallica’s haunting, 1986 thrash metal magnum opus MASTER OF PUPPETS (or “MOP” for the acronym lovers) was, is and will continue to be (evermor...
18 Maalis 20211h 32min
