Metal Nerdery Podcast

“Careful back there…”   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 ...

24 Jul 20251h 9min

“There were some heroes and there were some zeroes…”   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...

17 Jul 20251h 6min

“If you’ve got a whole room full of 10’s, that’s the 5…”   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...

10 Jul 20251h 14min

“I thought it was gonna be tight…” 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 HE...

3 Jul 20251h 43min

“I’ll take your ‘Lord of This World’ and raise you ‘After Forever’…”   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 ...

26 Jun 20251h 31min

“If they’re not fat, they’re soft…” 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...

19 Jun 20251h 36min

“It was almost too big…” 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 l...

12 Jun 20251h 5min

“It’s like the Sam Kinison meets Bobcat Goldthwait of dogs…”   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 me...

5 Jun 20251h 20min