#103 – Deafheaven As Transmasculine Role Models
The LGBTQ+ heavy metal podcast welcomes Tom's friend (and former guest) Benjamin into the co-host chair for one week only, to discuss how George from Deafheaven and Johannes from Cult Of Luna helped p...
20 Jun 20231h 3min
#102 – In Hot Pursuit Of Vikings
Hell Bent For Metal favourites Amon Amarth are back under discussion again, this time explaining why breakthrough song 'The Pursuit Of Vikings' makes them think about coming-out experiences, something...
6 Jun 20231h 2min
#101 – Hellish Form: "They want trans and gay people to be dead"
Hell Bent For Metal speculated in episode #99 that Hellish Form's new album Deathless may be heavily talking about LGBTQ+ – and, especially, trans – themes. And when HBFM asked Willow Ryan from the b...
30 Mai 202348min
#100 – St. Peter Won't You Let Me In (Your Bum)
Hell Bent For Metal seldom needs much reason to see something metal as hella gay, actually, but even by those standards, singalong stoner anthem 'St Peter' by British band Black Spiders is an easy tar...
23 Mai 202353min
#99 – On The Road(burn) Again
Hell Bent For Metal host Tom has been back to Roadburn to host another panel about queerness in heavy music, and reports back on how the festival's efforts to make themselves a welcoming, inclusive pl...
9 Mai 20231h 7min
#98 – Inter Arma's Randy Bumgardner
The vast expanse and crushing weight of 'Stillness' by post-metal/everything band Inter Arma seems an unlikely Camp Classic, but Hell Bent For Metal have somehow found a way to see not one but two ent...
7 Mar 202354min
#97 – Carbon Based
Hell Bent For Metal give 'Carbon Based Anatomy' by queer metal royalty Cynic the Camp Classic treatment, and explains why that song speaks to their queer sides. And no, it has nothing to do with the s...
21 Feb 202352min
#96 – Split Bi Tongue
Hell Bent For Metal returns from a health-imposed break, and begins by explaining what they've been up to in the interim, starting with a trip to see an unusual Clutch show in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.The ...
7 Feb 202352min
