Metal Nerdery Podcast

“Is that Richard Pryor?”   Released 04/21/1992, the 3rd official BEASTIE BOYS studio album, CHECK YOUR HEAD, is a genius title because this album is “all up in here” and is the perfect psychedelic ASM...

25 Sep 20251h 8min

“In fairness, I guess if they didn’t have the make-up, what would they have? A different career?”   Released March 15, 1976, DESTROYER, the “iconic and mysterious” 4th studio album by KISS, was the fi...

18 Sep 202555min

“The look on his face is like a kid on Christmas morning getting everything that he never asked for from Santa…”   July 21,1987 marked the beginning of the GUNS N’ ROSES era of L.A. metal with APPETIT...

11 Sep 20251h 7min

“This might be my favorite moment in music in 2025…”   Just when you think “all the riffs have been done”, 2025 gives us the gift of BRAND-NEW METAL, including new music from OLD SCHOOL THRASH BANDS, ...

4 Sep 20251h 17min

“That’s the thing about music…it’s time stamped…it’s the soundtrack of our lives…especially for metal heads…”   The metal world mourns the tragic loss of another legend, and this one hit too close to ...

28 Aug 202557min

“We can’t ever talk about this so let’s talk about not talking about it when we’re talking about it…” Released on July 14th, 1992, COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION, the 5th MEGADETH album (and the 2nd to featu...

21 Aug 20251h 3min

“I like feet, bro…” Whether it’s the “spooky kabuki KISS” face paint of the 70’s, the “ultra gloves of shame glam KISS” from the 80’s, or the black metal corpse paint of the modern day, MAKE-UP has be...

14 Aug 20251h 32min

“When you thought it was over…it did kind of a slide down…and then he slid back up and back down again…and then he does it again…” August 8, 2006, marks the first SLAYER album in 16 years featuring Da...

7 Aug 20251h 5min