Metal Nerdery Podcast

“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 across the Southeast with their blistering live shows and their recently released new album, OUT OF THE WOODS, featuring 8 tracks of old school thrash infused with a generous blend of blast beats, high energy punk, filthy breakdowns, and even some old school “mosh parts” for good measure.  There’s enough fast stuff, heavy stuff, and sick stuff on this album to give anyone who hears it a complete stank face makeover.    “We’ve never had this many inputs before…”   We recently had a chance to hang out with EMBERING EFFIGY and do a full playthrough of OUT OF THE WOODS (deep within the insulated walls of Bunkerpoon Studios), including some track by track insights from the band as well as some Q&A about their history, their live shows, and of course the new album and everything that went into making it (along with some ultra hilarious vulgarity that’s too obscene to be mentioned here).   “I want a juicy girl…”   If you haven’t seen EMBERING EFFIGY live as of yet (or if you ‘blacked out’ only three songs into their set like ‘some people’…), they are definitely one of those bands you must experience extremely LOUD and LIVE, so if you need something to tide you over until you can catch one of their shows, pick up OUT OF THE WOODS and crank it up to 11!   “Maybe we should be listening to THAT in the car…instead of KISS.”   It’s time to “Make Thrash Dangerous Again” because we’re packed in so “tight and intimate” that whoever is in the middle is “going skiing”. Get your relaxers prepared and get ready to JOIN US for our BEHIND THE METAL local metal showcase with EMBERING EFFIGY as we crank it up a notch and get OUT OF THE WOODS. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast EMBERING EFFIGY on the Interwebs: emberingeffigy.com   Show Notes: (00:01): “The problem was autism…”/ We have #EmberingEffigy with us down in The Bunkerpoon… / “Is that Jager?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/  ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Tight and intimate on this side…”/ “You guys just came from a gig, right? Where’d you guys play?” / #GroundZero /#ByWayOfFire #RisingRegime #RazorGrave / “You’d better get swole…”/ We got a copy of the latest EMBERING EFFIGY CD: Out Of The Woods…/ “It fuckin’ slaps…” / “Y’all have seen every one of those LIVE…”/ #SweetwaterBarAndGrill / “That’s when you got medium rare tenders…”/ “You gotta be a noob the first time…”   (06:00): PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “We’ve never had this many inputs before…”/ #tentacleoverload / “That’s him sitting in front of our logo…that’s Darrell…”/ “Did you ever see the Dolly Parton Playboy issue?” / “It might feel like wet sandpaper a little bit…”/ #lifelesslife / “Where did y’all record (Out of the Woods)?”/ Ledbelly Sound Studio (Matt Washburn)/ #LedbellySoundStudio / ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “You’re almost as good as he is, dude…” / #diplomatic (10:20): #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  EMBERING EFFIGY – OUT OF THE WOODS / “I feel like that’s talking about dicks…” / #familytree / “Mountains…?”/  “He’s like Michael Jackson after Michael Jackson became Micheal Jackson…”/ “Are you selling some CDs at the shows?”/ “Speaking of a long time ago… (as of this recording) it’s Embering Effigy’s 3rd birthday…”/ “I haven’t murdered him yet…”/  “Pubes don’t count…I’ve got mine braided all the way down to my socks…”/  “How’d y’all come up with the writing on this? “Do y’all both do lyrics?”/ #collaboration / “I kinda thought it was the exact opposite…”/ “Randall…Jay…Silent Bob…”/ #Dante / “You can find their shit on #Bandcamp#Deezer #Grover #Spotify #YouTube …”/ “I found one of our old shirts on eBay…”/ “Buying your shit back at a loss…”/ #balls #wordofmouth / “Always mark the time…”/ “Thrash rules in Australia…”/ #SouthernFriedThrashMetal / “I have an idea for a t-shirt…” / #SFTM (19:30): #KillerOpener / SCARLET ROT / #NWOOSTM / “That’s the dinner bell…”/  “My grandfather has this CD in his truck…”/ “How that song came about is kind of interesting… (“Period blood? No…even funnier…”) / “We had a 4-piece at the time…”/  “So, is that what that song is about? Zombies?” / #EldenRing / # #ViolentVoid / #BlackenedThrash / #RIP #ChuckNorris (27:04): EMPTY PROMISES / “Your voice on there doesn’t sound anything like your voice here…”/ “That one was much more rock and roll…”/ “So, you were more into the old school punk and then thrash later?” / “The cover for the single has Kenneth Copeland…”/ “Mike, what about your influences?” / #CarveSlayer / “It’s not a real carve, it’s a tattoo…”/ #buttrock / “Like Nickelback?” / “Play this…” / #onmicburp / “So y’all kinda had the punk first before the thrash…”/ “He’s the oldest 14-year-old I’ve ever met…”/ “I’ll bet (Raf) knows Tim Hurd…”/ #Flyers / “Death metal burp, had to throw it in there…”   (38:20): “I just want y’all to know, this is my favorite song on the album…”/ “Do you have a backstory behind this before we start it?” / MR. MAYHEM / “It is a demented circus…”/ “I love how he explains things…that’s a drummer for you…”/ #markthetime (42:31): “So this next one is MY favorite…it’s a cautionary tale for children…”/ “You don’t want the #Wolfman to come out here and get ya…”/ ROUGAROU / “I was on my way to work and listening to that, giddy as fuck…(Did he play bass for Rush? No, that’s Geddy)…”/   “How many layers of guitars did you do?” / “That chord progression…a little Skynyrd-ish…”/ “This is my favorite guitar solo…it’s nasty.”/ “Nasty and tasty…”/ “Would you say that’s approximately where Side 1 would end?”/ “There’s a side?”/ “Speaking of vinyl…it is an original 1977 press of Street Survivors…with the fire…”/ “Now, I go back and listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd…they’re a heavy metal band…”/ “Let’s keep the dumb fuckery to a minimum today…”/  (51:36): “Let me preface this…”/ “You were blackout drunk before the third song…”/ #jagerbombs / “Cassettes are making a comeback…”/ “My thing with vinyl was…it’s the art that draws you in…”/ #CriminalRecords / JOHNNY B. GOODE / “Lead riff?”/ “I didn’t hear it, it wasn’t said…”/ “Now, is this free use?” / “It’s not 100 years old yet…”/ “If you can imagine going back in time…throw some double bass and extra distortion on it, boom! You’ve got heavy metal.”/ “I was AM famous…”/ “Speaking of Korea, let me tell you this one story…”/ “Que?” / “He’s not wrong…”/ “The juicy girls…they’d all stand outside…”/ #JuicyGirls / “I want a juicy girl…”  (1:01:21): “Are y’all ready to get to our favorite part of our set?”/ “Like hot pink corpse paint?”/ BUREAUCRATIC BUTCHER / #blastbeats and #doublebass / “For those of you not familiar with thrash metal: this is the mosh part.”/ “I don’t do breakdowns, I do mosh parts…”/ “We don’t have one song that sounds the same…”/ “Our local friends #ActusReus - have y’all played a show with them yet?” / #MiddleGeorgiaMetalScene #LocalMetalScene #AtlantaMetalScene / Reminiscing about the old Atlanta metal scene / “Here’s what I hope happens…” (1:09:11): “Continue the ‘fuck the government’ theme…” / FALL OF TYRANTS / #twofingers / “Is that tuned down?” / “Everything we play is in Drop-C (tuning)…”/ “I don’t care what people say about that album, that album is awesome!”/ #ReinventingTheMetal /  “I actually wrote the lyrics to this song while I was in Afghanistan…”/ “Sergeant Slaughter?”/ “Fuck him in particular…with a cactus dildo maybe? No, we’re gonna inject his asshole with camel spiders…”/ #LOL / “#KISS used to do that with every song…they’d fade out.” / “Are y’all already working on new shit?” / “It’s NOT The Devil’s Lettuce…it’s The Lord’s Lettuce…” (1:13:58): “It’s about mental health…it’s a fight from within…”/ “This song was featured on #RockMental podcast on YouTube…” / VORTEX / #lyricvideo / “This is our original lead guitarist and our old drummer…”/ PR and AR / #alltheballs / “Tip your bartenders and your podcasters…” / “That’s exactly who I learned how to pinch from…”/ #markthetime / #breakdown / “After a show, you smell like balls…”/ “Russ is the load that made it…we are ALL the load that made it…”/ Embering Effigy is: Raf, JD, Bic Mac - Head over to emberingeffigy.com / Make America Metal Again…Make Thrash Dangerous Again… /  “Maybe we should be listening to that in the car…instead of KISS.”/ #theforgottenrealm /  THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! GO CHECK OUT EMBERING EFFIGY LIVE AND PICK UP THEIR LATEST ALBUM, “OUT OF THE WOODS”!!! / “Funny story with #Sevendust …”/ #USO / “Someone hit him just for that…”/ “Give ‘em a massage if you see them in public somewhere…” #untilthenext #outroreel

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 consuming music began to transform.    By the late 80’s and early 90’s, CD sales began outselling vinyl records and cassette tapes, due in large part to convenience and technological innovation, as vinyl records (albums) were limited to a maximum of 20 minutes or so per side and cassette tapes maxed out at around 30 minutes per side. But prior to compact discs, consuming music was (at a minimum) a two-step process which involved inserting the cassette into your tape deck and pressing play or placing the album on your turntable and dropping the needle to begin your music enjoyment experience.    With the advent of compact discs, the maximum recording space jumped to 74 minutes, far exceeding the limitations of records and tapes, and bonus: you didn’t have to flip anything over and repeat the process as all of the album tracks were included on one side (so to speak) as one complete, seamless work that systematically eliminated the technologically imposed intermission which required ejecting the cassette or removing the stylus from the album and flipping it over to SIDE TWO, as a CD version of an album quickly became a singular entity devoid of one side or another and just became one complete work (think Reign In Blood on cassette, where both sides are repeated).   In the case of a near perfect album, sides didn’t really matter, but what we’ve come to notice over the years is that SIDE TWO would sometimes be superior to SIDE ONE. Granted, this is not by any means an exact science nor is it always a guarantee, but many of the finest albums in metal history have a SIDE TWO that is much better than SIDE ONE. So, with that in mind, we invite you to JOIN US as we go through a few of our favorites to determine whether or not there is any validity to the claim that SIDE TWO IS BETTER THAN SIDE ONE.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “That’s how Indian people say ‘windows’…”/ #foodtruck / “Was it a chicken truck?”/ “The mac and cheese had kimchi in it…”/ #seoulman / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #DirtyMonkeyBananaPeanutButterWhiskey / “I left my liquid up there…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** /  “At this point it’s the Ides of March (roughly)…this might be after that…” (NOTE: The Ides of March falls on March 15) / #BewareTheIdesOfMarch / “It’s almost 311, y’all…”/ Beach Boat Rotation / #WuTang / “Did you have to say that?”/ “Gentleman Snatch…it’s all about the cockney…” / “Just curious…seeing what’s adjacent and what’s not…” (06:22): ***PATREON US AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “They’re gonna get laid and drained, thusly.”/ ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook #TikTok and EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** (“It’s very anticlimactic when there’s no voicemail…”) (09:10): “I say, I declare!” / #FoghornLeghornASMR / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  SIDE TWO VERSUS SIDE ONE – WHICH IS BETTER?  “We’ve found several albums where side two was better than side one…this is for the vinyl and cassette folks out there, pre-compact disc and pre-streaming…”/ #VanHalen “Let’s look at Women and Children real quick…” / #WaitWhat? #markthetime / “Maybe when they’re doing the tracking…they’re warming up on side one…”/ “Make every album like a #Nike swoosh…”/ “That is one of the biggest arguments between producers and bands: tracking.”/ “One more Van Halen…” (13:53): #Metallica / #Phenomenomenomenal / “That’s an interesting idea…not only a remastering thing but what if they re-tracked?”/ “That makes it the better side…”/ The perfect 10/10 album / “Side 3 is where Side 2 started on the cassette…”/ “Notice how I didn’t shit on the mix at all…” (“But you still had to mention it…”) (17:52): #AC/DC / “Ooooh…now it’s gonna get ugly…”/ “I’m sorry, that’s how they sound, dude…”/ #wokeASMR / “It’s not Power Age, it’s Powerage…according to them…”/ #markthetime / “I always liked that cover…it’s very classic…” (22:14): #BlackSabbath / “Side 2 is more of a vibe and a feel…”/ “Paranoid, I think Side 2 has got it…”/ “And there’s that…”/ “No more Sabbath, huh?”/ “It’s kind of a different vibe on Side 2…if you can’t pick a side, it’s kinda everything…”/ “Don’t you think the vibe is completely different (from Side A to Side B)?”/ “I think everything else makes up for ‘Am I Going Insane? (Radio)’…”/ (Side preferences and potential tracking adjustments according to us…) / “It’s scary Disney…” (26:53): #Slayer / “Have I told y’all the weird thing about my phone?” / “Either I’m in some serious spiritual trouble or my phone’s like ‘Listen to more Slayer’…”/ “Mine’s stuck in alphabetical order so if music starts playing on it’s own (It’s Coldplay?)…”/ “I’ve got some #SlayerHotSauce in bound…”/ Pre-ordering tickets for Metallica at The Sphere / #TheSphere / “That makes the #KISSArmy look like a militia and a couple of rednecks in Idaho…”/ “You can get in both days…”/ “It’ll be like The Chevy Show of concerts…”/  #FOMO (fear of missing out) / “Pre-Buy…it’s curious, btw…” (“I’m not even listening to you…”) / “So far your little theory is not panning out there, tough guy…”/ “I’ve just proven that men are just dumb idiots with dicks…”/ “If it’s close enough: Side 1.” (34:34): #IronMaiden / “Why not have the title track be your opener?” / “What would you swap out with ‘Invaders’…?”/ “More deep cuts on side 2 though…”/ “Revelations, this one!”/ “That ain’t right…”/ “On the tape, it’s side 3 & 4 (of the album)…”/ “That’s a guitar player’s wet dream, that one…”/ #WTFASMR / “My scientific method was not quite as scientific as I thought…it’s kinda like Just Talkin’ Shittah but it’s very specific…specific Shittah…”   (40:37): #PanterA / “In fairness, when I started buying Pantera, it was compact discs…”/ #seriously / “I started with tapes, but when I got to CD’s, all the side 1/side 2 shit just faded out the window…”/ “Well, I guess my little theory didn’t pan out quite like I thought it would…”/ #futureshowideas / “Progressive metal singers that Bill would like…”/ “Bands that are WAY better LIVE than their recorded stuff…”/ “We could call that Vol. 1 of Matt was wrong…that’ll be a long volume…multiple volumes…”/ “It’s time to go home and get some bed…”/ “Bed head or bed poon…bed butt…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“Wait a minute, is she your hall pass? Can we confirm that?”   Many folks in certain parts of the world have been calling the United States “The Great Satan” for decades, long before ROB ZOMBIE’s eighth studio album, THE GREAT SATAN, was called that.   “…and the first words out of her mouth when she pulls up: ‘Can I inspect your meat?’”   Released on 02/27/2026 on Nuclear Blast, the newest studio offering from ROB ZOMBIE, THE GREAT SATAN, has a much heavier, darker, and more aggro feel than past albums, and the album art, the album title, and the album sound all fit perfectly within the “haunted house motif” that has become part of his signature style and sound.   “There’s this thing called ‘consent’…”   Prepare for an accidental ADHD moment that took us down a rabbit hole into Mr. Zombie’s back catalog of albums and movies, always remember that “a rare steak is not cooked”, get ready for a big shoutout to Yelp, and find out what “PTO” actually stands for (and why you NEVER want to use it for that) when you JOIN US for a dive into the depths of hellbilly infused heavy metal brutality with ROB ZOMBIE and THE GREAT SATAN. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Rob Zombie on the Interwebs: https://www.robzombie.com/ Show Notes:   (00:01): “Why can’t we bring back quaaludes, man?”/ “It sounds almost like maybe they were GHB before GHB was GHB…”/ “You wanna do a stacker?”/ “Which one you want on the bottom?” / “It’s The Bunkerpoon Mixology Lounge (big Friday night energy) …”/ Butterscotch moonshine (?) / “Don’t make this a video…”/ “And the first words out of her mouth when she pulls up: Can I inspect your meat?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Pondering the mysteries of the universe…going on a month now…off of coffee.”/ #cornholioASMR / “You don’t wanna shit yourself going to work…”/ “Turn around…the day is over…”/ PTO = poop time off  (04:52): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #TikTok and #Facebook / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast (and you’ll get an AWESOME shirt!!!) / “Cheers…and balls…not balls, maybe…”/ #Death documentary / “Nobody can have standards because everybody’s got to be different…”/ Death By Metal (2016) / “It’s on #Hulu / “It’s probably a 10…but there’s always the one ‘1’ that fucks everything up…”/ “Just don’t go back…Don’t be a cunt about it…”/ #RussellsReflections / Big shoutout to #YELP / “It’s only $500 per month…”/ “Call our customer service number at 1-900-GO-FCKURSLF…”/ “I hope you get diarrhea with crabs in it…” (11:50): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS – ROB ZOMBIE: THE GREAT SATAN / #RobZombie / Released 02/27/2026 on #NuclearBlast (NOTE: That should have been March Eve…) / ***GO CHECK OUT OUR COMBAT RECORDS EPISODE…*** /  “I’ve had a couple of ginger fish in my day…”/ “I’m trying to unburn that image…” (14:48): #dickfirst or #titsfirst / “This is ’84 thunder…”/ F.T.W. 84 / “He’s got his own haunted house, spooky vibe…”/ TARANTULA / “The mix went to the gym…”/ “It’s definitely got #Slipknot vibes…”/ “It’s got a Halloween thing to it…if you take that out, it’s not Rob Zombie…”/ “There’s a haunted house motif in the background…”/ “It’d be like if him or James stopped going ‘YEAH!’…I’d be disappointed…” (23:44): (I’M A) ROCK ‘N’ ROLLER / “That’s definitely got a 70’s thing going on…”/  “I feel like it’s going somewhere…”/ “I can wait 30 more miles to pee…”/ HEATHEN DAYS / #NotOnTheBoat / “I don’t know why I said ‘tinklies’…”/ WHO AM I? / BLACK RAT COFFIN /  “Don’t take your tits off…” / #DoubleGs (30:53): SIR LORD ACID WOLFMAN / “Definitely a stripper song…can you see it?”/  “Some scrumpin’ music…”/ PUNKS AND DEMONS / The Metal Sommeliers (“If we were gonna change our name…”) / “I know it sounds too high brow and snoody (it does…)”/  “His full name if you’d like to hear it…in a Scottish voice…” / THE DEVILMAN (***NOTE: we totally skipped this one and went on an accidental ADHD moment that derailed The Devilman and took us down a rabbit hole of the Rob Zombie back catalog (including his movies) /  “Did we do The Devilman?” (YEAH!) / NOTE: actually, NO, we did not. (40:00): OUT OF SIGHT / “It’s a pancake, flancake world…”/ REVOLUTION MOTHERFUCKERS / “Rockabilly cooze? I’m all about it…”/ “The older he gets, he sounds like Alice Cooper…”/ “Generally, always…always, generally…”/ WELCOME TO THE ELECTRIC AGE/ THE BLACK SCORPION / “There’s your creepy organ…you’ve gotta have that.”/ “You’re not supposed to eat those…they’re supposed to not have any blood in ‘em…”/ “So it’s tampon free?” / “If you’re gonna cook a steak rare, just use a lighter…”/  “A rare steak is not cooked…it’s like a dragon sighed on it…”/ UNCLEAN ANIMALS /  “You’ve gotta have the creepy organ…”/ #eggshaped / #MetalBitchery / GRAVE DISCONTENT / “It’s like creepy Pink Floyd…that could be a hidden track on Wish You Were Here…”/ “That’s one bowl’s worth of relaxers…”/ “You know why? Because it gives you goth stripper chick imagery…”/ #snoochguard / “Wait a minute, is she your hall pass? Can we confirm that?”/ “There’s this thing called ‘consent’…” / “Everybody across the world…likes to call our country THE GREAT SATAN…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“He’s looking at me…”   Released on August 22, 1989, CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS, the major label debut album from Martinsburg, West Virginia thrash metal savants WRATHCHILD AMERICA, is undoubtedly one of the most uniquely profound thrash metal albums in all of heavy metal history to be crafted by one of the most extraordinarily talented (and criminally underrated) bands in the entire genre.    And to think, for many metalheads back in the day, their very first experience with this album was in a LIVE concert setting, opening for Testament. Just imagine how blessed one would be to see a band as unbelievable as WRATHCHILD AMERICA (for the very first time) opening for an established act like Testament and being completely blown away after just one show, having NEVER heard the album before getting to see them LIVE!    “He’s making eye contact…”   With a stylistic palette that blends thrash, heavy metal, and 70’s classic rock, there is absolutely NO ONE else in metal who sounds ANYTHING like them. And if you’re jonesing to purchase a copy of CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS, not to worry, because it was recently re-released (along with their second and final album, 3-D) as part of a two-CD package with a couple of bonus tracks.    “Is he still lookin’ at you?”   Get ready for a trip back through time to the days of yore, when thrash was still riding high and the opening band for Testament absolutely blew the minds of everyone in attendance when you JOIN US for one of the greatest and most underrated metal albums of all time with WRATHCHILD AMERICA: CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS.   (Also, just in case you might be wondering, there’s an early (we’re talking “6 years ago, during the Hodges Era” early: 02/20/2020) episode appropriately dubbed WRATHSAZ, which is a combo episode featuring both WRATHCHILD AMERICA and the darker, groovier, heavier incarnation that followed, Souls At Zero.)   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “See? That’s how much Bill loves #KISS…let the record show…”/ Gene Simmons vs King Diamond makeup confusion lawsuit / “Dwarf butt shot…it’s the gnome butt shot…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “Nothing that can’t be fixed with a razor…that was the tipping point of that episode…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Just like the thunder, (weather) used to be real in the 80’s…”/ “I was on my boat Friday, enjoying the beautiful weather…and today, I’m wearing a hoodie…”/ “Y’all are here for the metal…Metal Bitchery that’ll be our side podcast where it’s just me being angry…about everything…”/ #lifecoaching / “It could be the lack of poon…” (“Me and Wristina were still hanging out…”)    (05:12): Check out our new “pop punk” side project: Bad Shoulder / #SmogMountain / ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***EMAIL US (your #shittah) at metalnerdery@gmail.com and WE’LL PLAY YOUR SHITTAH!!!*** /  “Here’s the fuzz…” #Erosions HOME GROWN / #AwwwMannnn / “I was gonna use the R word…(retarded?)”/ “In the spirit of this…I thought they were Hong Bong…”/ “You’ve gotta watch the video…”/ #BongKong WEIRDMAGEDDON / “The bass player is trippin’ balls!” / “They’re from Portugal…I’ll bet they probably fly one of two airlines…”   (14:54): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #TikTok and #Facebook  / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com  / ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / Johnny O… / “I like my coffee like I like my Sabbath…Black.” / “They weren’t pieces of Shittah…they were portraits of Shittah (“It’s very #OlanMills - ish…”) / “So natural and uncomfortable…”/ “Sorry, I blew in your ear…my sticker pecked out…”/ “Hold on, let’s play some new Metal Church…”/ “I was listening to Metal Church by Metal Church on Metal Church yesterday…in fairness, THAT should have been the opener…for the album.”/ #MetalChurch BRAINWASH GAME / F.A.F.O. (Dead To Rights – April 10, 2026) / “Fuck anus, find orgasm…” / #ThrashFamilyTree / “I’m glad they’re remembering the fun…”/ “It sounds like Metal Church…go check out the #InsideTheMetal of that…” / #KeepItThrashy   (23:55): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: WRATHCHILD AMERICA – CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS / ***Check out our #WrathSAZ episode from way, WAY back!!!***/ “I think that one got way more exposure than 3-D…”/ #WrathchildAmerica / #MikeTysonASMR / “I didn’t buy it until I saw them with #Testament…” (NOTE: Bill and Russ saw them LIVE before ever hearing the album) / “We’re doing that next…”/ Released August 22, 1989 / “I didn’t cup it…” / ***Re-released along with 3-D (2-CD set…with bonus tracks) recently on Cherry Red Records / “BTW, if you’re a #Godsmack fan or an #UglyKidJoe fan…” “They had that one song, right?”   (29:55): CLIMBIN’ THE WALLS / “It’s kinda power metal-y a little bit…”/ “It’s just throat box noises…Brad Divens always had articulate, clear, up-front vocals…”/ “(Groove metal) was the natural evolution from thrash…”/ “That’s it! Your ‘cut time’ is your groove metal…”/  “They formed in the late 70’s…1978…”/ “We’re doing the whole dive, bro…”   (35:32): HELL’S GATE / “Take your pants down…”/ “There was an Orion moment there…I heard influences…”/ “How can you not be influenced by what you like?”/  NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN / “I think this is about sex…maybe.” / “When she went ‘hawk-tuah…” / “He’s looking at me…he’s making eye contact…” / “I hear influences…this album has a weird 70’s feel to it…” / “When I’m listening to it, it puts me right back at the concert…”/ “I would have not known who they were without them opening for Testament…”/ ***Is anyone familiar with Baroness’ “Purple” album?*** / “All that to say…with opening bands…”/ Reflecting on Wrathchild America opening for Testament and Pantera / #tittape (“Don’t you tell anybody…”)   (44:49): HERNIA / “If you gave that a different mix, it would be a thrashier album…” “It (the mix) makes it sound like early Maiden…”/ “When they go to the woods for the weekend, they take vampire jerky…”/ LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT / A moment of #TypeONegative ‘vamping’ that totally matches with the music…/ “That reminds me of #Venom so much…”/ “That might be the most gayest thing I’ve ever heard in metal but it’s still pretty awesome…”/ “You’ve gotta remember, this was ’88…you didn’t have virgin boys on black stallions though…”   (53:23): Side 2 Killer Opener / CANDY FROM A MADMAN / “Here we go…”/ “That fucker is looking at me! He’s got a lazy eye…” / “That’s the payoff…that’s what I wanted to hear…”/  “Their live show is so much different than their studio stuff…”/ “In fairness…the 3-D album sounds much more like they sounded LIVE than this sounds…”/ “If you got to see them live, it’s kinda like getting to see Pantera live (in the 90’s)…”/ #Blessed / SILENT DARKNESS (SMOTHERED LIFE) / “The lyrics are very visual…”/ “Very untraditional thrash…thrash redux…”/ “They sound like if you could take thrash and sprinkle it in the 70’s…”   (1:03:00): “That’d be a hell of a ballsy closer…”/ TIME / “No clocks, btw…”/ “Is he still lookin’ at you?” / “You CAN’T fuck this up!” / “We didn’t have the album… (and the shocker of hearing them cover Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’)”/ For the LIVE experience to blow people away enough to seek out the band’s debut, that’s saying something… / “Do you realize that Black Sabbath came out (Friday) February 13, 1970?”/ “But technically, that’s also Black History Month adjacent…”/ “Who’s Jason?” / “Is this ‘88 thunder?”/ DAY OF THE THUNDER /  “That does sound like early Maiden…a little bit…”/ “That’s kinda power metal…”/  “I like it even more-more…now that Russell pointed out the Maiden thing…I can’t unhear that…”/ “I’ve got the magic now!” / “Let’s go for 3 in a row…”/ #booong / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Tell us in the comments what you’re thinking…” / #MattLooksAtTheComments / “You know what I found out the other day?” / “Why wouldn’t you think it would be on?” / “That butthole had some mileage bro…”/ #LOL / #untilthenext #outroreel

“If I hadn’t have known that was Anthrax, I would have guessed it was Alice In Chains…”   The early 90’s was a strange time for metal, most notably due to the change in the musical landscape with the emergence of the Seattle scene and Alice In Chains becoming one of the key crossover bands to bridge the transition from thrash to the next wave of darker, grungier sounding heavy metal.    “Every time you do that, I have a less chance of getting laid…”   While ANTHRAX began the 90’s with a much darker and angrier sound on Persistence of Time, the darkness and heaviness of their sound would become further amplified with the departure of Joey Belladonna and the addition of JOHN BUSH (formerly of Armored Saint) on vocals, resulting in a new era of Anthrax: BUSHTHRAX!    With more grit and heft in the vocals than before, the JOHN BUSH ERA of ANTHRAX is definitely a different flavor than the band’s output throughout the 80’s with Joey Belladonna, and with the changing of the guard in the early 90’s due to the growing popularity of the Seattle sound, the time was right for a slight alteration to the thrashier sounds of 80’s era ThrashThrax, resulting in the darker, more aggressive BUSHTHRAX era that would follow for the next decade or so.   “Alright, well it’s not like we’ve never done that for you before…”   Always remember that “springtime LSD is the best time for LSD” and that “it’s not as fun for me when I push away”. Realize that “girls with Doc Martens are kinda cute (except for when they wear ‘patrouli’)” and imagine what it’d be like “if we bled out of our dicks for a week” when you JOIN US for some 90’s era ANTHRAX featuring JOHN BUSH, aka BUSHTHRAX!!! Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “Here we are…” / Jim Morrison #thelizardking / #schlongadoodledoo / “Dragon ass?” / Send Help & Fall (2 brief movie reviews…) / “When are they just gonna put those beds (Craftmatic adjustable beds) in the movie theater?”/ #acrophobia (5:11): ***WARNING:  #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Freshly shaven and shorn…ready to be professional again…”/ Shoutout to (our former sponsor) Manscaped…/ #batterylife / #sausagewrapping /  “Gotta keep moving…or you could take the shots…”/ “I think I went a little heavy on the last dose…so you get these rotten egg burps…where I can’t stand to be in the room with myself…” / #insertvomitnoisehere / #vomitnoiseASMR / “I can smell it…I can taste it…”/ “It’s like when someone says the word #Jager I can taste it…” (09:09): PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / ***NEW PATREONS*** / Aussie Dave and Grandmaster V / “Is that 5? I think it’s ‘V’…”/ #onmicburp / “Hopefully they’re still listening…”/ VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #Powertrip / ***GO TO METALNERDERY.COM/ARCHIVES TO TRACK DOWN OLDER EPISODES!!!*** / #NWOOSTM (“You can do it…”) / “Pot luck pickin’…”/ “Push it back!”/  “Every time you do that, I have a less chance of getting laid…”/ SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and #TikTok   (15:10): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: BUSHTHRAX – THE JOHN BUSH ERA OF ANTHRAX / “Almost sounds like spikey pubes, doesn’t it?” / #crickets /  “Do YOUR thing and THEY will find you…”/ #fuckthealgorithm    (19:30): Sound of White Noise (1993) / “I didn’t cup it that time…”/ “(‘Push away!’) It’s not as fun for me…” / “It took me a minute to figure out what the cover was…”/ POTTERS FIELD “That wasn’t as great an opener as I thought…I think ‘Only’ would have been a better opener…”/ ONLY / “If I hadn’t have known that was Anthrax, I would have guessed it was Alice In Chains…”/ HY PRO GLO / “I, aye, eye, hi…” / “It has a weird, opening, Twin Peaks-y vibe…”/ BLACK LODGE / “Howdy, partner…”/ “Anthrax In Chains…Alice In Anthrax…”/ “Every band adapts to any new kinda thing…”   (31:21): Stomp 442 (1995) / RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE / “Puto!” / “It’s more Pantera…”/ “That was the first year…that I ever did L.S.D….”/ “Springtime LSD…it’s the best time for LSD…”/ “Everything’s funny…”/ “She looked like a seagull, in a way…”/ KING SIZE (includes a solo from Dime) / “It doesn’t sound very Alice In Chains-y…or Godsmack-y…” / “He was on a Nickelback song…”/ “Try the closer…”/ BARE / “This is their Planet Caravan…”/ DROP THE BALL / “That sounds like our guitar class song…”/ #tippingpoint / “Oh, there’s a KISS cover, man…”/ NOTE: The Greater of Two Evils came out in 2004 / The Greater of Two Evils (2004) / “I kinda hate when bands do that…”/ “Alright, well it’s not like we’ve never done that for you before, so…”/ METAL THRASHING MAD / “There you go, you happy? I pulled back…”   (45:45): Volume 8: The Threat is Real (1998) / #killeropener / “There’s not a coke line in sight…”/ CRUSH / “I like this better than the last 2…”/ Special guest Pantera folks / PISS N VINEGAR / 604 / TOAST TO THE EXTRAS / “Weren’t expecting that, were ya?” / KILLING BOX (feat. Phil Anselmo) / “You know what? Cupajoe might wake you up a little bit…”/  INSIDE OUT (feat. Dimebag) / “That sounds like a Pantera riff…”/ “In tribute to my going without coffee for this long…”/ “Why don’t you fart into the microphone dude, like a man?” / CUPAJOE / “That’s how I drink it now: black and strong (just like my women) …”/  Inside Outs (1998 – EP Japan & UK only) / #Japanthrax / PHANTOM LORD / “That’s what Metallica would have sounded like with John Bush…”/ “Doesn’t Gronk (that’s Grok)…sound like a big, curvy, buxom Norwegian woman?”/ “Imagine if guys did that…imagine if we bled out of our dicks for a week…”   (1:02:10): We’ve Come for You All (2003) / “It’s the most ‘Thrax-thrashy…”/ “If radio was halfway worth a shit…they would have played it…”/ WHAT DOESN’T DIE / “That sounds like that could be on ‘Worship Music’…this one’s got more thrash vibes to it…”/ BLACK DAHLIA  “Anthrax black metal…”/ NOTE: Amazon WAS around back then…they just had no streaming as of yet…because that wasn’t a thing. / CADILLAC ROCK BOX (feat. Dime on voicemail) / “Is that what Nickelback sounds like?”/ TAKING THE MUSIC BACK (feat. Roger Daltrey) / “That’s Roger Daltrey...”/ “Recently, The Master just celebrated his 78th year on this earth!” / #TonyIommi #HAIL / “Without that dude, NONE Of this shit exists…”/  “When you hear this closer, it seems like such a perfect segue into ‘Worship Music’…” / W.C.F.Y.A. / “Girls with Doc Martens are kinda cute…”/ “And they smell like Patrouli, remember that? Patrouli? Patchouli? It smelled like pot and armpits…”/ “It sounds like an Italian scotch…”/ ***Go check us out on Spotify! *** / “I’m glad I didn’t go full baby…every time I do it, I hate myself…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“That’s the buzz word: every time somebody says, ‘tipping point’, you must drink…”   Whether it’s measured by a string of commercially successful albums or one’s own personal preference, almost every metal band has (at a minimum) produced a TRILOGY of albums that represent a three-album run of back-to-back-to-back awesomeness.    “That’s the law, man…it’s gotta be three…rules is rules.”   Granted, we’re all very well aware that some bands have far exceeded such a phenomenal feat THRICE in a row. But to keep things fair, we limited our parameters to the perfect TRIFECTA of albums representing a band’s turkey, hat trick, or as we refer to it here at Bunkerpoon Palace, “the power threesome of perfection”.   “It’s a quadraplatic-ogy…”   When in doubt, remember that “y’all should be more like Paul” and keep in mind that you “can’t say that word!” because “all therapists are gonna be upset”.    Go ahead and fire up your “Grinder Tinder” account, discover the wonders of “self-service hibachi”, and get ready to “Ride the Puppets of Justice” when you JOIN US for A TRILOGY OF PERFECT METAL ALBUMS.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “It’s a Quadraplaticogy…” / #tippingpoint / Russell’s Korean BBQ Reflections /  “So it’s like self-service hibachi…”/ “You leave the place with meat sweats…”/ #hoggin / “If you want to fuck up the meat…”/ Old restaurants that have gone away: On The Border, Rio Bravo, and Barnacles / “That’s where I met my wife, bro…”/ “That will never not be hilarious to me…”/ “How’s that shouldra?”   (4:55):  ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN THE DIGITAL BUNKERPOON UNDERGROUND!!!*** / “Have you hit your tipping point yet?” / “We got a great, fantabulous email to read…”/ ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / “No, there’s no blah…you can’t yada, yada, yada…”/ #FuckTheSuits / “Wait, what?” / (Thank you, Paul!) / “Y’all should be more like Paul…” / #BeLikePaul / “We also got an email from Justin…” / #Crumbsuckers #AgnosticFront #Leeway #Whiplash #Voivod / “He also had a lot to say about #WrathchildAmerica (he’s a big fan) …”/ #recordscratch / “Can’t say that word!” / #PDF /  “All therapists are now gonna be upset…”/ #AgnosticFront HAPPENED YESTERDAY (Liberty And Justice For… - 1987) / “Dude, we’re like metal sommeliers…”   (14:14): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “I might join our own Patreon just to get laid…it’s better than Grinder Tinder…”/ “That’s the buzz word: every time somebody says ‘Tipping Point’, you must drink…”/ NOTE: the first Agnostic Front album, Victim In Pain, was released in 1984… / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #TikTok #Facebook or #Instagram & VOICEMAIL US 980-666-8182!!!*** / “Whether it’s 5 or 5,000, you do the same show…”/ “I’ve got you on camera, talking in black face…” / #TyroneTaintler / “I did the voice…”/ “He has thoughts…”/ “Follow through…execute.”/ “I leave here needing to take a shower…”   (19:19): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: PERFECT TRILOGIES aka THREE ALBUM RUNS / TRIFECTAS / #era / “We got on this topic after talking about Flick of the Switch and the 3 albums that came before that…just back-to-back-to-back awesome.”/  #LedZeppelin (“You’re only picking 3?”) / “IV is #AtomicAcidBlues …” (24:32): “What about Maiden?” / #IronMaiden / “Number, Piece, and Power…”/ “We’re talking ‘in a row’…”/ “Somewhere In Time is the beginning of the next wave…”/ “There’s a line…”/ “Everybody’s got a magic window…” (26:39): #BlackSabbath / “To not include the first 6 is terrible…”/ #TheFirstSix / “Technically…I think Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the line where they started to change…”/  “I’m hitting my tipping point just talking about it…” (28:32): “What about #Megadeth ?”/ “Talking about favorite 3 in a row…”/  ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and TELL US YOUR FAVE 3 IN A ROW!!!*** /  #DIO / “I think that’s fair…” / “That’s a great song…”/ “What about Pantera?” /#PanterA / “Now this one’s hard…” / “From #CFH forward, not a bad one in the bunch…” (33:03): #Metallica / “Yeah I knew you would…so are you…”/ #RideThePuppetsOfJustice /  “Okay, speaking of seasoned…”/ #Slayer / “If I’m guessing, I bet I know everybody’s 3…”/   “Let’s go back in time a little bit…Floyd…and here’s why I bring up Floyd…”/ #PinkFloyd / “I like Animals…”/ #markthetime / “What about #TooL even?”   (37:37): “There’s no way to do this…it’s not gonna work…”/ #OzzyOsbourne / “That’s the law, man…it’s gotta be three.”/ “That was The Last In Line for Ozzy…”/ “I would have liked to have heard what the next would have been with Randy after Diary…”/ #Helmet / #KISS / “Awww, Dayum!” / “Was it though? Was it live?”/ ***Check out “No Regrets”, the autobiography by Ace Frehley*** / “Come on, can we hear that, a little bit?”/ “It wasn’t racist dude, that’s how they be talking…”/ #tippingpoint / “What were your three, Bill?”   (42:20): #Exodus / “Let’s call it a predictive top 3…”/ “I like baked potatoes…”/ #Testament / “It’s kinda hard to beat that…/ #Kreator / “Not as familiar…” / “Is the internet doing internet shit again?”/ “Great, Adobe Acrobat is gonna love this…they’re getting nothing but free publicity…”/ #Overkill / “They started breaking with ‘Taking Over’…”/ “But…”/ “I think you listened to metal longer than I did…” / “Yo man, it’s February we can talk like this and shit…”/ “There was a tipping point in my life as well…”/ “I did all that stuff, but…”   (48:12): #KoRn / “Korn is Korn…”/ “What is that? Can you do it one more time?”/ “I think he’s at his tipping point…”/ “Okay…just for funzies…”/ #VanHalen / “Diver Down…kinda got forgotten about…”/ “You cannot take away the first album…”/ “Let’s take a different take…tack…tip…”/ “Of the #BonScott stuff, what is the 3?”/ “I think we’ve hit our #TippingPoint…”/ “We live here now…”   (54:43): “It’s weird without music…it’s like foreplay without sex…”/ #JudasPriest / “This is kinda interesting…it’s like metal bingo…”/ “Their catalog is so…weird.”/ “Filling in for the music…”/ #onmicburpASMR / “There’s females somewhere that get wet every time I do that…”/ #Anthrax / “For me, it’s easy…”/ “Dude, you said ‘brooding’, that’s pretty awesome!”   (59:03): #DeathAngel / “That’s tough…I dunno…”/ #KingDiamond / “Bolth, could be…” / “That was easy…because…high school.”/ #MotleyCrue / Our favorite 3 in a row and/or the most commercially successful 3 in a row…/ “That’s nothing but whores and blow…”/  “Shameless poon worship…”/ “Whores and coke will derail your career…”/ #DefLeppard / “Animals? I think you’ve just got a thing for animals, dude…”/ “Oh my God, NOW we’ve gotta play something…”/ “Anybody that’s looking for a hit producer, hit me up…”/    (1:06:04): “How about this one?”/ #Sepultura SLAVE NEW WORLD (Chaos A.D. – 1993) / “I can feel the cleansing coming on…”/ “I had no idea those (albums) even existed…”/ “I’m gonna let Russell go first though…”/ #SuicidalTendencies /PLEDGE YOUR ALLEGIANCE / TRIP AT THE BRAIN (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today – 1988)   (1:17:00): “Ooh, we’ve got one more…”/ “We always hit our tipping point, and we always find one more…”/ #Forbidden / “It’s like Zeppelin and Sabbath…all of ‘em.”/ “Rules is rules…”/ #DiAnnoMaiden / “Those 2 are almost kinda like Forbidden Evil and Twisted (Into Form) …”/  “How about this one?”/ #FlotsamAndJetsam / #DOWN / “Wait a minute, that’s bullshit, because they’ve only got the first 3…”/ “Have we ran the well dry?”/ “Okay, Type-O…?” #TypeONegative / “Bloody feces? It’s a dual album…”/ “OHHH! #Whitesnake had some good albums…”/ “Those were 3 great #LedZeppelin sounding albums…”/ #Soundgarden / “Back when I broke my leg…and got to do pharmaceutical heroin for 8 years straight…”/  “All those words did not belong together…that was bizarre…”/ “That should be another episode: bands we never got…” / #PearlJam   (1:27:47): “Since we’re talking the 90’s, can you pull up #NIN real quick…”/ #hotgothchicks #industrialmetal / “You’re getting poon and some secret bush…”/ #NineInchNails THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL (The Downward Spiral – 1994) / #usethoseheadphones / “Those are the last notes of ‘Head Like A Hole’…is it ‘Head Like A Hole’ or ‘Closer’?” / “So that’s where that comes from…I didn’t realize it came from that.”/ HEAD LIKE A HOLE (Pretty Hate Machine – 1989) / “Was it Closer?”/ CLOSER / “That’s it…so it goes from sex, shooting ropes, to shooting…different kinda ropes…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! #untilthenext #outroreel

“You know what I’m hearing? This sounds like it could have been…the sidepiece…to The Black Album…”   There’s almost a strange, sarcastic satisfaction in knowing that the new self-titled MEGADETH album will forever be known (at least in our neck of the woods anyway) as “The White Album”.    “Every time you keep talking, I just see shapes and letters…”   Released on January 23, 2026, MEGADETH is the 17th studio album from Dave Mustaine and Company and represents the final chapter in the 40+ year history of the angriest, snarliest, and most progressively technical thrash band of The Big Four.    And oh yeah, it debuted at NUMBER ONE on Billboard and at the top of the charts all over the world!!!   While MEGADETH represents the band’s epilogue, it contains all of the elements that have defined the band’s sound and the ethos of the genre that they co-created with the rest of The Big Four. All of the essentials are there: insanely technical riffs, face melting guitar solos, triumphant twin guitar harmonies, as well as some more straight ahead, laid back and accessible material that screams “radio friendly” without being dull or boring. If you’re a fan, you’ll dig it. And if you’re not a fan, who knows? You too may also dig it.   “Maybe it’s not pronounced ‘Tey-Muu’…it’s pronounced ‘Steve’.”   Always remember that “Rugby is a man’s sport that should be having grindcore bands playing the halftime show…” and that “You’re gonna paint secret little bushes like you paint secret little bushes… (and don’t you tell anybody).   Get ready for an apology from us regarding the last “White Album” review that we did, prepare for a never before heard “triple record scratch” (because we’re trying to stay out of trouble) and JOIN US for Dave & Vic’s swan song with MEGADETH.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #coffeewithdrawal / “That’s my drug of choice…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** /  “It’s a ‘long cold’ now…”/ “Let’s be real…can we have a metal band play the #SuperBowl?”/ “You want me to use the word…can I use the word?” / “They pander…”/ “Rugby is a man’s sport. #Rugby should have #grindcore bands play their halftime show…”/ #FuckYouNFL /  #AmericanIdiot / “The shitty overhyped football show…”/ #FuckYouGrammys for leaving out #BrentHinds from the #InMemoriam / “Give them the minivan…2 in the front and 5 in the back…”/ “Some people need a pat on the back…”   (07:52): #FairUse / “If anything, we are helping people find out about these bands and these albums and this music…”/ “So you know what? #FuckYouRecordIndustry …today is #FuckYouDay …”/ Worst roller coaster ride ever / “Not only our sexy voices but our shitty faces too…”/ ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Whooooooooo….” / #NewShittah #AtomicFreak TWO FACED WOMAN / “This is #ACDC from the 1970’s…”/ “One more…/ LIGHT THE FUSE / “Are we doing an album dive here?” / NUCLEAR MELTDOWN / “What if AC/DC kept recording with Bon Scott?” / #BonFest / “In the same vein…since we’re doing this…”/ #Airbourne TOO MUCH, TOO YOUNG, TOO FAST / “My CD player ate my #DreamTheater CD…”/ “Every time you keep talking, I just see shapes and letters…math equations…”   (22:13): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: MEGADETH (by MEGADETH) / 17th album by #Megadeth (and their first #1 album on #Billboard) / “It wasn’t you it was the door…”/ Released January 23, 2026 / “Yes…math and triangles…”/ “How’d you do that?”/ #vocalburnASMR / “It sounded like he had an effect pedal…”/ “He’s got #Elvis mouth…” / TIPPING POINT / “There’s some stuff on here I could almost hear on ‘Killing Is My Business…’”   (31:13): #skatepunkthrash / “Man, that #Coroner album though…you can’t have that helmet on…”/ “Have you seen the vinyl? It’s animated…”/ I DON’T CARE / “Maybe it’s not pronounced Tee-Muu…it’s pronounced Steve.”/ #SteveRoger / Pronounced TAY-mu…/  HEY GOD?! / “You know what I’m hearing? This sounds like it could have been…‘the sidepiece’ to The Black Album…”/ #radiofriendly / “Secret little bushes…and happy little trees…”/ #dontyoutellanybody / LET THERE BE SHRED / “He’s always been pretty serious…he’s not the ‘fun’ metal guy….that’s the ‘let’s have fun’ song…”/ “Let There Be Shred reminds me too much of Let There Be Rock…it reminds me of his fun side…his secret bush.”/ #surprisebush / “I don’t like all hardwoods down there, I kinda want some carpet…”   (43:32): PUPPET PARADE / “That very beginning riff is almost identical to ALMOST HONEST (Cryptic Writings (1997) / “Listening to it with you guys here…it’s better.”/ “He’s got his own palette…”/ “You’re gonna paint secret little bushes how you paint your secret little bushes…”/ ANOTHER BAD DAY / “Totally makes my secret bush…stand up.” / MADE TO KILL / “See that sounds more like classic Megadeth…”/ #TippingPointASMR / “I don’t mind a #secretbush that’s a little legato…”   (54:32): OBEY THE CALL / “That was not on the boat…”/ “If you’re a #Megadeth fan, you’re gonna love it, if you’re not a Megadeth fan, it’s not gonna convert you…or it might, who knows? They went #NumberOne all over the planet…”/ I AM WAR / “It’s good but that one’s kinda basic…”/ “The most memorable part is the last 30 seconds or so…”/ THE LAST NOTE / “There we go…it’s kinda like his goodbye…”/ “That part kinda got me in the heart balls…”/ “And also, fuck them a little bit for the whole #MickMars thing…”/ #triplerecordscratch / #bonustrack / “Tipping Point is Bill’s favorite, and that’s what matters…”/ “Play the middle of it…”/ RIDE THE LIGHTNING / “Whaddya mean what do I mean?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Actually, it’s Set The World Afire…” / #untilthenext #outroreel

Once you reach a certain level, there is no ‘better’…it’s different.”   Released on August 19, 1983, FLICK OF THE SWITCH (the 9th studio album by AC/DC and the 3rd featuring Brian Johnson on the mic) is what some fans might call their “White Album” (arriving after their “Black Album” and “Bronze Album”, respectively), showing a black and white grayscale drawing of a lone Angus pulling down some massive power, so to speak.   “That’s literally ‘Bad To The Bone’ and ‘In My Time Of Dying’…”   While self-produced by the band and containing a much rawer production and drier mix than the ultra-produced Mutt Lange masterpieces which came before it, FLICK OF THE SWITCH is a back-to-basics approach showing the band embracing more of their earlier blues based sound while still remaining faithful to the signature, high-energy, up-tempo jams which have become their calling card. It’s loud, straight ahead, and powerful, and while perhaps not as uber popular as the 3 albums that preceded it, FLICK is still very much an important album in the AC/DC catalog and one that would serve as a “connector” between where they had been and where they were headed.   “We could have a rated R show…it doesn’t have to be X…”   We’re finally back on track after getting derailed by the weather. Always remember to “wait ‘til it has some viscosity to it…” and then JOIN US for a “night time” dive into the album that would serve as the bridge into the next era of AC/DC with “The White Album” known as FLICK OF THE SWITCH.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast More ACDC Episodes: https://www.metalnerdery.com/acdc   Show Notes: (00:01): #selfconsciousness / “Hold on…you don’t know what you’re asking for…”/ #darkcomedy / “It’s kinda like…being in a cover band and having you guys show up when we play #POISON…”/ #carriesunderwear / “I need a rage truck…”/ “I like doing it…it’s fun…”/ “A little bit…only if you push back…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/  “Synching up…locking in…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST (NIGHT TIME EDITION) ***/ #coveryourmouth / “I’m building up my immunity system…”/ “It could have been me…”/ #AIDSFlu / “It takes a flu nap is what you’re saying…”/ #homemadelube / “Wait til it has some viscosity to it…” (05:55): EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #HailToTheBenton / “Dude, the Hog Story is worth the price of admission…”/ “Oh yeah…when we get done…I need to show you guys something…”/ “It’s like zazz and zhuzh…”/ #NWOOSTM / “Here’s what I hate about Marshalls…”/ #Traitor REACTOR IV (Venomizer – 2016) / #1986 / #incomplete /  “You know what dude, that’s the best #BackstreetBoys song…”/ #Enmy – LEDGE / #melody / “It’s the hard stop…and then super soft…”/ #markthetime / “I wasn’t expecting to like that…”/ “No Slayer of the Episode?”/ #anush #penish / #SlayerOfTheEpisode / #Slayer HALLOWED POINT (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) / “And just like that…all is right in the world…”/ “It’s all 7’s…” (22:47): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  AC/DC – FLICK OF THE SWITCH / #ACDC #TheWhiteAlbum / “I don’t remember being 10 and listening to AC/DC…” “It’s black and white in grayscale…”/ Released August 19, 1983 / “Doing AC/DC always takes me back to childhood…”/ “In the For…Flick…Fly category, Flick is in the middle there…” / “It’s 3-D and you can feel the texture…”/ Recorded in Nassau, The Bahamas with Robert John “Mutt” Lange / “He’s the Bob Rock of the 80’s…”/ “Their sound is menopause…”/ RISING POWER / “I feel like it was a little slow to start…”/ “#Pyromania btw was January 20 (1983)…”/ “I don’t know what that is: a desert vagina kinda…”/ THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE / “They should have swapped those two…”/ “Mega ultra mother fucking super stardom…” (33:23): FLICK OF THE SWITCH / “I think every band has a ‘connector’ album…”/ “That’s a good episode…3 albums in a row…”/ “Use penal clean…”/ NERVOUS SHAKEDOWN “Two words…slower and sleazier…”/ “You know what the leading cause of death is for nymphomaniacs is?”/ “We could have a Rated R show…it doesn’t have to be X…”/ #killercloser / LANDSLIDE / “What a great closer for Side 1…”/ “That riff…reminded me of this…”/ PLAYING WITH GIRLS (Fly On The Wall – 1985) / “I try to hold this thing together…” (38:38): GUNS FOR HIRE / “Turn this up to loud…” / “Once you reach a certain level, there is no ‘better’…it’s just different.”/ DEEP IN THE HOLE / “I’m over A.I…”/  “I cup the balls, I go all the way…”   (45:34): BEDLAM IN BELGIUM / “Side 2 better than Side 1…” / “It’s really close to ‘Fly On The Wall’…” / BADLANDS / “That’s literally ‘Bad To The Bone’ and ‘In My Time Of Dying’…”/ “I feel like he does that in the studio…”/ SG vs Les Paul / #markthetime / BRAINSHAKE / #killercloser / “That sounds like an AC/DC closer…”/ “It’s only 8 minutes longer than Reign In Blood…”/ “It sounds like a good bridge to ‘Fly On The Wall’…”/ “It’s the bridge between the old and the next…”/ Bands with great 3-album runs / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!/ #untilthenext #outroreel

“Flat earth is just a troll thing, right? People don’t really believe that…”   Picking up right where we left off on our previous HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION episode with even more stories of metal nostalgia and teenage retardity as we reflect on the pressing issues of the day during our high school residency.    “The bathrooms are over there, Everest is over there, and you’ve gotta be this high to ride the ride…”   From the discovery journeys that led us to our favorite bands to the band that was considered “the next level of ‘Shout At The Devil’”, we go further down the rabbit hole and assess how the 70’s factored into our respective musical paths as well as uncover a potentially jarring shortlist of metal (and non-metal) bands that were hugely popular that we just didn’t (and/or couldn’t) connect with.   “…AKA The Flat Earth Emporium.”   Find out what it’s like to enjoy “a little Mr. Black with some Elijah Craig on top”, discover why having hellions for children means “they’re gonna be good prayerents when they get older”, understand that sometimes you’re just not “mature enough to appreciate Reign In Blood” (especially if you “didn’t have enough pubes to handle it”), and realize that flat earth people can be a great resource for discovering new music when you JOIN US for ROUND 2 of the HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION BUNKERPOON BLOWOUT BONANZA!!! Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “The answer is always yes…”/ #sovereigncitizen #dindunuffin / “I kinda wish there was a nation of Pig Latin…where the national language was Pig Latin…”/ #piglatin / “He’s gonna smash…”/ “A little more than that…don’t be greedy…”/ “Jeptha?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “Side cheese? You mean poon?”/ “Does that mean they’ll be good prarents when they get older?” / #prayerents / “If they’re Irish, they’re pink…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #ThankYou #Shalom #SpecialGuest / “Just enjoyed a little Mr. Black with some Elijah Craig on top…”/ “So, what you’re saying: you had a threesome…”/ “I had a threesome with some dudes…”/ #TheRighteousGemstones / “Do you guys like stuff that’s weird?”/ #CyclingFrog #THCSeltzer / #gigglyhigh #aftershocks #laughtershocks / “The old Roxy or the new Roxy?” / #TheOldRoxy vs #TheNewRoxy / #TheEastern / “I ran over and got some old dude with a mop…” / “Right before Blackie goes on…”/ #WASP #ArmoredSaint / “Reagan was the mean orange guy for the early 80’s…” (12:34): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #TikTok and #YouTube / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/  “Some people are being weird about the name…”/ #PatreonShoutout / “It’s not one fill…it’s 3 fills in 1…”/ “It is the same drummer…it’s the same album…” (15:33):  #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  METAL REUNION – VOL. 2 /  “What’d y’all think when Garage Days came out?”/ #Metallica HELPLESS (The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited – 1987) / “I’d have been happy if #Justice sounded like that…” / “You realize that’s almost 40 fucking years old!?”/ “He pulled into my driveway…”/ “Pull up anything on Ride The Lightning…challenge accepted…”/ “Go back…and see how much you can hear #CliffBurton…”/ #BunkerpoonVengeance / RIDE THE LIGHTNING (Ride The Lightning – 1984) / “You can hear the noise of bass…”/ “I’m so sick of this argument…” (26:12): ***Check out our Rigor Mortis episode on our #Patreon page***/ “Two hard R’s…”/ #RigorMortis RE-ANIMATOR (Rigor Mortis – 1988) / FREAKS (Freaks – 1989) / “Back in the day…which band would you claim as YOUR band?”/ #RussellsReflections /  #TheHogStory / “Wait, how big was the band-aid?”/ “A certain #flatearther that we all know who shall not be named…” / “It sounded like Journey but more metal…”/ #Instrumental /  Produced by #TerryDate / “Our flat earth friend gave Adam a copy of this…”/ “Flat earth is just a troll thing, right? People don’t really believe that…”/ #DreamTheater YTSE JAM (When Dream And Day Unite – 1989) / “Can you imagine if Yngwie had this band?”/ “Okay…kill it there…”/ “I’m having such a brainfart…what’s the guitar player’s name?” / #JohnPetrucci / ‘He’s not even the best drummer in Metallica’ meme…  (43:00): “Metal Church…” / #MetalChurch TON OF BRICKS (The Dark – 1986) / “Before you leave…check out The Dark real quick…”/ “Greek? Like yogurt and gyros and stuff?” / #guyrose / “It’s just The Dark…are you guys scared of The Dark?”/ THE DARK “That sounds like Dio Plus…”/ “This is like the next level of ‘Shout At The Devil’…”/ “Clean tigers and shiny diamonds…that’s the name of our new podcast…” (48:54): “Did y’all find the modern stuff first and go backwards?” / “It was the #Thriller of #TheBlackAlbum of the black Michael Jackson…” / #BlackSabbath and #NeverSayDie memories / “I remember hearing the song on 96 Rock during the day…but I didn’t know that was #Dio …”/ “I got the first Rainbow tape…from that spinner…pirating music, analog style…”/ #Rainbow MAN ON THE SILVER MOUNTAIN (Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – 1975) / “Is it metal?”/ “It’s like early dungeon metal…”/ “Rainbow’s darker, metal wise, than Deep Purple…”/ “Sometimes you just don’t connect…”/ “What is a band from the high school days that was huge but never connected (with you)?” / “I prefer Even Flow…when you’re in a girl’s snooch?”/ #SnoochAndGooch / #IronMaiden #Anthrax / “I’ve got a friend that absolutely hates ALL #PinkFloyd after Syd Barrett…”  / #TheDivisionBell tour stop at Georgia Tech / “I wish I would have gone…” (1:03:30): “I wanna go back to a day at my house…”/ #Slayer MANDATORY SUICIDE (South Of Heaven – 1988) / “Oh yeah, that brought me right out of prog rock…”/ “The first Slayer that I actually bought was…”/ “In fairness, I was 14 or 15, my balls hadn’t dropped yet, and I hadn’t even learned to masturbate right…”/ “I didn’t have enough pubes to handle it…”/  “I don’t think I was mature enough to appreciate Reign In Blood when it came out…”  (1:09:46): Favorite high school thrash bands and pick one song… / #SacredReich SURF NICARAGUA (Surf Nicaragua – 1988) / “Went from Trump to Cartman…”/ “When I first saw the video for ‘The Family Ghost’ by King Diamond…” / #KingDiamond THE FAMILY GHOST (Abigail – 1987) / “Is that a bad sandwich?”/ “Nostalgic…”/ #Exodus FABULOUS DISASTER (Fabulous Disaster – 1989) / “Back to our flat-earther friend…”/ “The way his riffs are…you almost don’t know where ‘1’ is…”/ “…AKA The Flat Earth Emporium.”/ #FlatEartherFriend / “The bathrooms are over there, #Everest is over there, and you’ve gotta be this high to ride the ride…” / #SuicidalTendencies YOU CAN’T BRING ME DOWN (Lights…Camera…Revolution! – 1990) / Remembering when S.T. opened for #Metallica at The Benz… / The proper setup and layout of P.A. speakers / “Was that the only time that you saw S.T. live?” / “Wait a minute…$15!?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #hereitcomes

“Forbidden and Death Angel at the Center Stage was my 2nd thrash show…”   Imagine learning about all of the latest and greatest metal bands without the help of Spotify or the internet. Back in THE METAL DAYS OF YORE, it was all about social networking (sans social media) and getting dubbed cassettes from your friends (or forming your own metal band with those friends) that helped you on your way towards finding the greatest and most obscure thrash and metal that you were looking for.   “I almost got my ass kicked by a bunch of guys in make-up…”   It’s time for a HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION in The Bunkerpoon because we’ve got a very special guest with us and we’re talking all about the glory days of our metal youth. From our first thrash and arena rock shows to our first band experiences, to all of the bands we got into back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, this episode will feel like a trip back in time.   “The only one of us that should have their tits out is probably Bill…”   To everyone who attended (or skipped) high school during 1987 to 1992 (or thereabouts), and anyone who wonders what that experience must have been like, we invite you to JOIN US in The Bunkerpoon Lounge as we wax nostalgic about “the good old days” of ancient metal venues, early concerts, and our favorite bands and albums from our teen years with our very own HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): ALERT: special #Bunkerpoon Guest Visitor… / “I’m in every episode…smacking the skins…”/ #shalom / “Wait, you wiped with that hand, didn’t you?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY BUNKERPOON PODCAST ADVENTURE!!!!*** / “That might be one of the new names, we’re not real sure yet…”/ #specialguest / #sixseven / “I had no legitimate expectations…we don’t either…” (03:21): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #TikTok #Instagram #YouTube and #Facebook / #viral #drysockets #wisdomteeth #vegancows / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182 or even PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “The only one of us that should have their tits out is probably Bill…” / “I’ve got a solid A-Plus cup, dude…”/ “I’m doing the Turd Zeppetide…”/ #PatreonShoutout / “I like that one the best…it has a ring to it…”/ #MandatoryMetalPodcast (07:08): Time for the inside scoop regarding the origin story behind the Decimation lore of yore, including our early days as young musicians and how we chose our respective instruments… / #doommetalbassplayer / “They came next to a highway?”/ “That’s worth calling the cops over…”/ The days of ruffling feathers and pissing people off and getting notoriety for being young, loud, and obnoxious young metal heads…/ #LilburnDaze /  “Adjusted for inflation, that’s like $28,000 today…”/ “You still sound like…you.” (13:13): “Speaking of being whores for metal…” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE METAL DAYS OF YORE – HEAVY METAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION / #freestyle / “Did you find out about the thrash stuff before high school or after you got into high school?” / #memorex / #TheMetroplex / The old suitcase attaché cases of metal cassettes…Possessed AND Obsessed… / “We’d buy metal albums just based off the cover…” / Imagine learning about metal WITHOUT the internet…the people that you knew WERE your internet, and THAT was how you found out about new and obscure metal music… / “Was The Accused one of those bands all of y’all were into?”/ “Do you think, for the day, that was their #metalcore in a way?” (21:33): #TheAccused PSYCHOMANIA (The Return of Martha Splatterhead – 1986) / “How about a little D.R.I.?” #TheYellowAlbum / “It didn’t age with you…”/ #cokelines / “That’s what we’ve unofficially called their official rating system…”/ “Is it Thrash Tard?” (“The T is silent…”) / #DRI #DirtyRottenImbeciles BENEATH THE WHEEL (Thrash Zone – 1989) / “Where were they from?” / #HoustonThrash / “My speakers just blew…it’s because it’s the best part of the show…”/ “Here’s the thing I’ll always remember about high school forevermore…”/ #HelloSteve or #HallowsEve / “That’s the difference between early 80’s and late 80’s…” (32:26): #Overkill SHRED (Under The Influence – 1988) / “I’m gettin’ it…”/ “If you put Joey on this song and put it on Among The Living…it’s close…”/ “Show Me Mercy…”/ “Is there a band that you should have been into them at that time but you got diverted…like late to the party?” / “They’re scared of melody, I guess…”/ “It’s the same with death metal…and Dream Theater…”/ “Dude, the lyrics don’t even start until like 7 minutes in…”/ The thrash crowd vs the heavy metal crowd / “It was very tribal…”/ “I almost got my ass kicked by a bunch of guys in make-up…” (40:10): “First arena rock/metal show and/or first thrash show…” / #ThePit / #WoeToYou / “Testament was here it seemed like every 2 months…”/ “For people that don’t know, that was Uber before Uber was Uber…”/ #Testament INTO THE PIT (The New Order – 1988) /  “I tell you when I saw them…it was them, Megadeth, and Judas Priest…the Painkiller Tour at The Omni…”/ “He let me call him ‘Daddy’…”/ #JudasPriest PAINKILLER (Painkiller – 1990) /  “This gets me hard every time I hear it…”/ “I would say that’s thrash…”/ “Watch this…hold my beer…”/ “The biggest disappointment…for me…with metal…in high school…”/ #96RockInTheDaytime / “He always wants to fist…it’s what we do in The Bunkerpoon, dude…we fist.”/ “I didn’t get that until high school when I started shoplifting…that’s when I got Live After Death…”/ “This is why (good) parenting is important…”/ “Surely weed is much worse than shoplifting…NOPE!”/ #mixedsignals (55:15): “We were talking about thrash and high school…”/ “Matt was always into the more technical stuff…”/ #Exhorder and #Pantera / #Poonwagon / “This is like the heaviest power ballad…”/ “That’s a great name for a glam band actually…”/ “Can’t do it anymore can you, fuckface?”/ “Forbidden and Death Angel at the Center Stage was my 2nd thrash show…”/  #Forbidden CHALICE OF BLOOD (Forbidden Evil – 1988) / “They’re almost too good…” (1:04:02): The transition from thrash to death metal and thrash to groove metal that we didn’t even notice…/ “Save it…organic, vegan, homemade lube that you made…” / #mucuslube / “How long is he gonna hold that note?”/ #Death PULL THE PLUG (Leprosy – 1988) / “You can say it…because Trump’s back in office…”/ “We made that man scream…”/ #guitarclass / The Berkmar Talent Show / “That was kind of Ascension’s first show…”/ “Here’s one for Mixon…”/ #Bloodfeast KILL FOR PLEASURE (Kill For Pleasure – 1987) /  “That sounds like #WREKage …”/ #WrathchildAmerica WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE? (3-D – 1991) / NOTE: It was rumored that they were working on a new album a while back…not sure what the latest is on this…/ “That’s just ‘fuck you’ music…I can do this, you can’t…”/  NOTE: Opiate, the EP by #TooL, came out in 1992…Undertow came out in 1993. Everybody (but Russ) was already out of high school by then…/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! /  #untilthenext #outroreel #LOL  

“Is it metal? Or is it NOT metal?”   As metalheads, we’ve all heard some variation of this argument at least once in our lives, and the further down the rabbit hole we go, the more we truly reflect on what makes something obviously metal or obviously NOT metal.    “Fish teeth is metal as fuck…”   What’s the lyrical content like? The darker the subject matter, the more metal it is. Lyrics about love and happiness might be considered less metal than lyrics about drugs and wizards, or other more doom and gloom topics.   “If it was distorted as fuck, then it would be metal. But it’s not, so it’s rock and roll…”   How about production? How does it sound? Is it distorted and heavy? Is it really fast or extremely aggressive? More distortion and more speed in the sound equals more metal.    “He’s getting high with a wizard, dude…that’s pretty metal…”   Many of us who grew up with the likes of Ozzy, Dio, and Motley Crue in the early 80’s could easily tell when the boundaries started to shift between rock and metal. And of course, those are the easiest artists to reference as they each capture the majority of the traits that inherently make them metal artists: intensity and attitude, darkness and speed, distortion and heaviness.   “When I think of metal, I think of…Metal Church…”   There are some instances where it’s obvious whether or not something is metal (or not), and there are some where it’s not quite as cut and dry. So, if you’d like to get our take, be sure to JOIN US (along with our special guest for this episode, Mr. Bonerman) deep in The Bunkerpoon as we attempt to settle the great debate of METAL? OR NOT METAL? (because THAT is the question).  Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “I think that’s definitely metal…” / #Krokus / “I said come…you said back…”/ #onetake / Some Christmas movie leftovers…/ #ChristmasVacation #HomeAlone / “He was beating on your Ethan?” / “You’re about to be cross trained, dude…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Possibly soon to be something else maybe…”/ #Bunkerpoon2026 / “The only thing useful that I’ve learned in 53 years…”/ #OneLineADay / #simulation / “I’ve got a lot to look forward to…”   (06:36): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “We don’t show our tits or anything…(yet)”/ “Oh…The Metal Nerdery calendar…” / #ThrashOfTheTitans / “It’s the old Roxy…” / “Alright…you’re fired.”/ “Hell to the naw, naw, naw…”/ “That fits perfectly…”/ “It’s a Tuesday night…”/ “It’s Mr. Bonerman…”   (12:49): “Metal, or NOT Metal!? THAT is the question!!!” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PRESENTS:  METAL? OR NOT METAL? / “Is it on the edge? Is it metal? Is it not metal? Is rock metal? Is light beer ‘beer’? Is nonalcoholic beer ‘beer’? / “Rock seems kinda like the lite beer of metal…”/ “Metal is heavier…and angrier…” / “If you dial it all the way back, it’s all blues, right?”/ “Think of songs you’re not sure of…like we don’t know their pronouns…”/ #BeavisASMR / “This song is definitely gonna get us flagged…”/ #MetalOrNotMetal / #DeepPurple SMOKE ON THE WATER (Machine Head – 1972) / “When I think of metal, I think of #MetalChurch …”/ #BlackSabbath DIRTY WOMEN (Technical Ecstasy – 1976) / “That’s more metal than what we just listened to…”   (22:49): #NIN TERRIBLE LIE (Pretty Hate Machine – 1989) / “If we’re using heaviness, and intensity, and darkness…”/ “It’s like Bob Ross coloring only in neons…”/ #FaceDownAssUp / #SugarRay MEAN MACHINE (Lemonade And Brownies – 1995) / #sixseven / “#Motorhead IS metal…”/ #Mountain MISSISSIPPI QUEEN (Climbing! – 1970) / “It’s gonna sound great in post…”/ #RamJam BLACK BETTY (Ram Jam – 1977) / NOTE: Black Betty was originally written by Huddie Lead Belly Ledbetter / “This is a little bit…just a touch heavier than rock ‘n’ roll…”/ “If you stroke broadly…”   (33:22): “I’m gonna go more modern…me and the wife argue about this…”/ #FallingInReverse POPULAR MONSTER (Popular Monster – 2024) “Alright, play God is a Weapon…they got shit that is metal…” / #FallingInReverse GOD IS A WEAPON / “I saw the eyebrow raise…”/ “Hold on, play Bad Girls Club…”/ BAD GIRLS CLUB  “That was not even close…” (37:16): #UriahHeep THE WIZARD (Demons and Wizards – 1972) / NOTE:  Long Haired Country Boy by The Charlie Daniels Band came out in 1974 / “He’s getting high with a wizard, dude…that’s pretty metal…”/ “Hair metal bands…are those bands metal?”/ “Wait a minute…you just did 3 Falling in Reverse songs that were NOT metal…”/ “Fish teeth is metal as fuck…”/ #LedZeppelin ACHILLES LAST STAND (Presence – 1976) / “If it was distorted as fuck, then it would be metal. But it’s not, so it’s rock and roll…”/ “I’m sorry, what was that?”/  “Is it a monkey…or a chimpanzee?”/ “That and the breakdancer…”/ #AldoNova MONKEY ON YOUR BACK (Subject…Aldo Nova – 1983) / “You think THAT is more metal than Fantasy?”/ “Metal? Or NOT Metal?”/ #Weezer HASH PIPE (The Green Album – 2001) /  “I got more thoughts now…” / “You’ve gotta have attitude…extremes is what we’re talking about…”/ #TheKinks YOU REALLY GOT ME (Kinks – 1964) / “They were shooting coke and heroin…and ropes…”/ #BlueCheer SUMMERTIME BLUES (Vincebus Eruptum – 1968) / “You add more distortion to that and they’re opening for #Sleep …”/ “Is Bon Jovi metal? You throw his voice on that, and that’s Bon Jovi…”   (54:44): #Heart BARRACUDA (Little Queen – 1977) / “It’s almost Achilles Last Stand…”/  “More metal than #KISS?”/ “You know Nancy was in Fast Times At Ridgemont High…”/  “That’s gotta be Joe Walsh in the background…”/ “OMG, her sweater reminds me of a great joke…what’s the difference between pink and purple?”/ “We’re gonna have to do a few episodes of this…”/ “It’s kinda like how death metal was…it wasn’t really thrash but it was something beyond thrash…”/ #BlueOysterCult GODZILLA (Spectres – 1977) / #Cream SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE (Disraeli Gears – 1967) / “He must have done all the acid…”/ “This is Vol. I…”/ #DefLeppard STAGEFRIGHT (Pyromania – 1983) / “Let’s pick the least metal Slayer song…”/ EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“I wonder if we’ll get a cease and desist on this episode…”   Generally speaking, whenever someone says “Slayer” or “Metallica”, you think of two veteran thrash bands which both formed in 1981 and both released their debut albums in 1983. This is common knowledge among most fans of both of these bands.    Ironically, there’s another band who follows this exact same timeline of forming in 1981 and releasing their debut album in 1983, yet at the time, they were NOT at all thrashy…not even close.    Most of us know of PANTERA as the brutally heavy, groove metal masters from Arlington, Texas who lit a proverbial fire under the ass of the thrash and heavy music scene in 1990 with their “major label” debut album (with the emphasis, in this case, on the words “major label”) as CFH was actually their FIFTH studio album.    Fifth? Wait a minute…what about THE FIRST FOUR studio albums!? And why are those albums not talked about and celebrated just like all things PANTERA!?    Well, there’s a reason that THE FIRST FOUR aren’t really talked about or acknowledged. Actually, there are probably a multitude of reasons, but the most glaring one is the stylistic difference between their early glam and power metal days and the heavier, grittier era when they truly became the “Cowboys From Hell”.    Remember those awkward Olan Mills pictures you used to take with the family, or better yet, the pictures of you in high school with that absurd, dorky hairstyle that people always like to bring up in conversation? That’s kinda what THE FIRST FOUR ALBUMS by PANTERA were like.   Always remember that “Dokken is better than KISS” and you absolutely have to “pill up before PT”. Find out why “concubine” is a much cooler term than girlfriend, why the stress of having multiple families can be fatal, and realize that most doctors’ definition of “prescription pain medication” is painfully incorrect and a complete waste of a prescription pad.    Get ready to find out which Pantera album came out on Rex’s 20th birthday, which song features Dime on lead vocals, and understand that while we absolutely did not plan for this to be episode 333, it just so happened to turn out that way.    Brace yourselves and get your relaxers ready before you JOIN US as we go back to the 80’s to get a better idea of why one of the greatest metal bands of all time tried to bury their earliest work (and original “not as metal” logo) with THE FIRST FOUR from the mighty PANTERA. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “Welcome back to the Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, Wisdom Teeth, Dry Socket Podcast…”/ “I am an adult children who refuses to move out…of my own house…”/ Double sided blade…or dildo? / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Well I’ve got my Masters in Bation…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST (for now…)*** / “I can’t jerk right now…there’s no tugging…” / “Pill up before you do PT…”/ #painkillers    (05:43): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #Facebook #YouTube #Instagram #TikTok - EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “We’re pondering changing the name…”/ #namechange / “Hookers and Metal…Metal Dildos…”/ NOTE:  Steely Dan is not a vibrator, it’s actually a slang term for a metal dildo…/ #multiplefamilies / “Even having multiple significant others at once…King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines…”/ “That’s what we should start calling girlfriends now: concubines…”/ “Snooch, gooch, or hot pocket?”   (12:43): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “What happens if we change the name? Do they get a new shirt…everybody?”/ “Tragesty…that’s a tragedy and a travesty…” / #freshstart / “I don’t think it’s Norveen…”/ “It’s always been Waggis…”   (16:22): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  PANTERA – THE FIRST FOUR ALBUMS / Pre #CFH #Pantera / #TheFirstFour / Metal Magic (1983) / “It’s like a He-Man Thundercat…”/ “They’re on the same timeline as Metallica and Slayer…they didn’t really break until 9 years later when CFH came out…”/ “I wonder if Rex Rocker is related to John Rocker?”/ RIDE MY ROCKET / “It sounds like KISS…I’ve been listening to nothing but KISS…”/ WIDOWMAKER / “His name’s gotta be Jerry…that’s a dude who lives in the South…” / METAL MAGIC / “I wonder if we’ll get a cease and desist on this episode…”/ “They didn’t change their name, they changed their logo…”   (35:00): Projects In The Jungle (1984) / “They’re like Texas’s #DeathAngel …”/ “It came out on Rex’s 20th birthday…”/ #albumcover / ALL OVER TONIGHT / “That’s High ‘N’ Dry, all day…” / “That sounds more like OUR Dime…”/ OUT FOR BLOOD / “He stepped into a whole other dimension of bad ass…”/ BLUE LIGHT TURNIN’ RED / “This is his Eruption…”/ #getchapull / “It’s like Eddie and Randy combined…Randy Van Halen…Eddie Van Rhoads…”/ PROJECTS IN THE JUNGLE / “The drums have been to the gym…the whole production has been to the gym…”/ “So far everything on here sounds less #KISS than the first album”/ HEAVY METAL RULES! / Bang Your Head (Like A Hurricane) / “What if they played this on 96 Rock back in the day and we just totally missed it?”/ “Dude, Dokken is better than KISS…” (48:34): I Am The Night (1985) / “At this point, Dime is 19…”/ HOT AND HEAVY / I AM THE NIGHT / D*G*T*T*M (Darrell Goes To The Movies) / “What kind of movies is he watching?”/ “Let’s bring ALL the sound effects in…”/ “It’s the most serious song title we’ve seen…” / VALHALLA / “You can definitely tell he’s got an 80’s honk, for sure…”/ #killercloser  FOREVER TONIGHT / “This sounds like right before the sex scene from #Footloose that they cut out…” / “This is so weird…I kinda feel dirty now…”/ “Dude, you missed the ballad…”   (1:00:16): Power Metal (1988) / “Three years after I Am The Night…no more Glaze…” / Enter Phil Anselmo / “Phil started when he was 13…what were we doing at 13? I didn’t even know how to use Jergens yet…”/ #killeropener / Geoff Tate meets Rob Halford / ROCK THE WORLD / “I wonder how many bands tried to steal him?” / POWER METAL / “I think the first time I actually heard this…”/ DEATH TRAP / “It’s definitely heavier…the riffs…”/ “This is definitely…the turning point….”/ OVER AND OUT / “Much more metal…”/ P*S*T* 88 (with Dime on vocals) / “Pussy tight…tonight!” / “That was fun…that was definitely different…”/  THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #HappyNewYear

“I’m not Peter North shooting ropes across the room…”   Released on September 12th (and in the U.S. on the 13th), 2011, WORSHIP MUSIC is the first ANTHRAX album featuring Joey Belladonna on vocals since 1990’s Persistence of Time and is truly a return to their thrash roots, with a nice blend of classic 80’s era Thrash Thrax and the more groove laden heaviness of 90’s era Bush Thrax. This was definitely a comeback album for them and kicks off the 2010’s era with loudness, fastness, and awesomeness. Discover “the most Christmasy sounding porn name”, find out what it really means when “the handy dude” comes over and starts “cleaning the gutters”, and be sure to enjoy Boxing Day Eve when you JOIN US as we dive into the revival of Joey era Thrash Thrax with WORSHIP MUSIC.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “Merry Christmas, everybody…you can say that in America, right…again?” / “We were shamed for saying it…”/ “At some point you can’t say anything…”/ “Is it root or route? Genre or genre?” / “You know why? It’s because we’re Reinventing the Metal…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Welcome back AND Merry Christmas to you from Metal Nerdery Podcast!!!” / “Ooooh, the TRANS podcast…”/  “Uh, it’s Christmas magic…”/ “I think he spent most of his time there…there’s nothing but kids there…”/ “Not 4…it’s probably 5…”/ “Oh boy, you went to the donkey show…”   (04:39): ***Check us out on the SOCIAL MEDIA at #metalnerderypodcast at #Facebook and #TikTok and #Instagram and #YouTube and Head on over to the PATREON at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #PatreonShoutOut / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “It’s…it’s rough…if it’s anything, it’s rough…”/ “I don’t know why he talks like that…”/ “When you get winded / going down an escalator…” / “There’s 2 reasons to stay fit…” / “I’m not Peter North shooting ropes across the room…” / #PeterNorth / “Maybe he made adult toys at the north pole…”/  A shoutout to the people across the globe…we just saw our #SpotifyWrapped / “Per month…”/ “Lead streams…as opposed to a rhythm stream?” / .003 cents per stream / #RussellsMetallicaReflections / “You saw him cup the microphone!”/ “He can do the old windshield wiper pretty quick…”   (15:48): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  ANTHRAX – WORSHIP MUSIC / Released September 12th  (and/or 13th), 2011, the first album with Joey Belladonna since 1990 / “He left them for #Volbeat…”/ “It sounded modern, and it still sounded thrashy, and it still sounded like #Anthrax…”/ “It’s not in the cards…”/ #vices / “You mean I gotta shoot ropes again…right now!?” (18:52): WORSHIP / “You can tell this is intro music…”/ EARTH ON HELL / “Starting tonight, people will die…” / “#ThrashThrax vs #BushThrax - totally different ‘Thraxes…” / “It sounds like classic Anthrax…”/ THE DEVIL YOU KNOW / “It fits everywhere…” / FIGHT ‘EM ‘TIL YOU CAN’T / #zombies / “It sounds like it could have come out…in ’90 or ’91…”/ I’M ALIVE / (NOTE: “Blending” in this case refers to the layering of the clean guitars over the crunchy guitars) / “I know, it’s got melody…whatever…” / #ThrashThrax   (29:20): “In between-ies…”/ HYMN 1 / IN THE END / “That kinda sounds like John Bush era Anthrax a little bit…” / “His honk didn’t get too out of shape…”/ #JourneyTribute (he played drums AND sang!?) / THE GIANT / #usethoseheadphones / “There’s more and more of the John Bush era in there…the element of that period…” / HYMN 2 / JUDAS PRIEST / “Let it ring out…”/ “Yeah, that’s kinda 2000’s-y…” / “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds…”/  “You and the handy dude?”/ “That’s what you call it? ‘Cleaning the gutters’?”    (39:13):  CRAWL / “Legs spread out before me…”/ “It sounds like the time…” / “Curly Taylor…”/ THE CONSTANT / “It does have that (Five Minutes Alone) vibe to it…”/ “It’s like pop punk meets Anthrax…the 2000’s…” / #PopPunkThrax / “This sounds like a nice blend of Thrash Thrax and Bush Thrax…all the Thraxes mixed into one…” / REVOLUTION SCREAMS/NEW NOISE/ #Refused / “Oh you’re on the #Metallica recording schedule? Nah brah, #TooL recording schedule…we go decades between our albums…”/ #MerryChristmas #untilthenextyear #outroreel #sixseven  

“You can’t be funny if you’re happy all the time…”   1996 marked the time that The Super Bowl went Triple X, when Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics, the United States national debt was a measly $5 Trillion, and the world of heavy metal continued its march forward, trudging past the brief grunge fad into darker, sludgier, and heavier waters.    “Is this KISS?”   The thrash period of the early 90’s had already faded away as the grunge period came and went, and the overall vibe of metal was shifting to something even angrier and darker, with a veritable orgy of new metal subgenres popping up and coming online faster than OnlyFans accounts during the lockdowns of 2020, back when we were all just trying to “flatten the herd”.   “Now it’s just me and Wristina…she’s been by my side forever…she knows all the moves…”   Discover why having a “fistful of Jergens” is essential and why shampoo bottles should really come with a warning label. Get your holiday prime rib dinner properly roasted, get your state of consciousness properly toasted, and JOIN US as we look forward to 2026, a mere 30 years since THE YEAR IN METAL – 1996. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes:   (00:01): “Hey…nice shot.” / Richard Patrick…Dick Pat…/ “It’s the holiday season…”/ “Squeege?” / “Dennis Leary…the comedian formerly known as Bill Hicks?” / “It’s the basis of what ended their friendship…”/ “You can’t be funny if you’re happy all the time…” / “Other R-worded (you can say it, Trump’s president)…” / “All the words that are offensive, we’ll just pick a letter…to be 100% politically correct…”/ #politicallycorrect / “You don’t have to say ‘W-word’…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “It’d be like a trans-metal song…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “We’re all W words down here, man…”/ “But now it’s just me and Wristina…she’s been by my side forever…she knows all the moves…”/ “This hand…looks like it could use a fistful of Jergens…” / #shampoowarning   (07:57): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #TikTok #YouTube #Instagram and #Facebook & EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com (including your #Shittah!) & PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / Patreon shoutout…/ “Thank you Trip6 for joining us…he’s the inspiration for the Angry Matt podcast…”/ YOU CAN GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!! / #RussellsWeddingReflections / “Is he a big #MAGMA person?”/ #ChateauElan / “Open bar is scary, dude…”/ #fivecoursemeal / “Fuck the food, dude…we’re getting’ hammered!”/ “How do you get your filet, sir?” / #primerib / “WTF is prime rib? I could never tell if it’s a roast, a steak, a steak-roast, or a roast-steak?” / “It’s generally not smoked, it’s roasted…”   (19:34): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  1996 – YEAR IN METAL /  “The Year of Tool, Pantera…the Loads…”/ “Everytime I wanna hear a deep cut, Russell wants to go with the hit, and now, it’s the exact opposite…”/ #onmicburp / “I don’t know if you do that when you stroke…not like that…”/ #Overkill COLD HARD FACT / BATTLE (The Killing Kind) / “We’ve gotta do a dive on this at some point…”/ #Annihilator REFRESH THE DEMON (Refresh The Demon)    (29:43): “That’s like their #GarageDays …”/ #Slayer GEMINI (Undisputed Attitude) /  “Just don’t do that again…”/ “Have we ever played #IcedEarth on this podcast?”/ #IcedEarth I’D DIE FOR YOU (The Dark Saga) / “Is this KISS?”/ “That felt like a gloves of shame moment right there…”/ #Pantera DRAG THE WATERS (The Great Southern Trendkill) / “It’s just noise…that’s my least favorite…”/ “I don’t think we’ve ever played The Exploited on this show…”/ #TheExploited BEAT THE BASTARDS (Beat The Bastards)   (40:30): “I already pulled it up…how about…this one?”/ #Tool HOOKER WITH A PENIS (Ænima) / “Remember the two different album dives we did of this?”/ #Sepultura ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS (Roots) / “Is this like their Lick It Up?” / “How about some Life Is Peachy?”/ “We need to do a noise episode…” / #KoRn MR. ROGERS (Life Is Peachy) / “If it comes on sounding like #Queensryche I’m gonna laugh…”/ #Neurosis LOCUST STAR (Through Silver In Blood) / “Definitely atmospheric…” / #Assmopheric / #buttexhaust /  “Technically if we eat cows, we’re also vegan, right?    (50:55): “In terms of the album cover, relative to the first one…FAIL!”/ #RATM YEAR OF THA BOOMERANG (Evil Empire) / “Let’s play Burzum…I’m kidding…remember what that is?”/  “Saffonic noise…” / “I do sling my flagen dugen…”/ #Burzum (Filosofem) / “You gotta work a little harder to kill somebody with a hammer…”/ “He’s so shitty that R.E.M. must write all his songs for him…”/ A moment of #STP during Russell’s brief absence…/ #StoneTemplePilots AND SO I KNOW (Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop) / #STPASMR / #markthetime / “How about some Acid Bath, actually?” / “And then…”/ #AcidBath PAEGAN LOVE SONG (Paegan Terrorism Tactics)    (1:03:40): “How about a little Cannibal Corpse?” The first album featuring George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher on vocals… / “How about the #killeropener?” / #CannibalCorpse DEVOURED BY VERMIN (Vile) / “That’s good stuff…”/ “I feel like children smell like sadness…”/ “How about a little EyeHateGod?”/ #AI / “What an album cover that is?” / #EyeHateGod  DIXIE WHISKEY (Dopesick) / “That’s album number 3 for them, btw…”/  “What was the number 1 #Billboard hit song in 1996?”/ “You know…NOPE!”/ “Let’s end the show this way…”/ “You know what they’re doing? Reinventing the Metal…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #likesharesubscribe #happyholidays

“There were 2 years of my life that I was dead certain I was gonna be a breakdancer…”   The release of THE ULTIMATE SIN on January 24, 1986, the 4th studio album from OZZY OSBOURNE (and the 2nd & final album to feature Jake E. Lee on guitar) is definitely one of the heaviest albums of Ozzy’s 80’s output.    “I’ve got the magic!”   With heavier riffs, crazier guitar pyrotechnics, and darker lyrical themes like nuclear annihilation, THE ULTIMATE SIN blends in just the right amount of glam while still maintaining the essential heaviness that is a prerequisite for any classic OZZY album. While perhaps a bit “more Blizzard than Diary”, it’s a dramatic improvement from Bark At The Moon and is overall heavier and more focused.   “Oh yeah, the ‘dunniguhh’? Yeah…I remember that one.”   Get ready for some metal news and current events, understand that “most people, if they have a mustache” can only look like one of three different people (or a combination of all three), and accept the fact that “the bur-duh-dur is what got ‘em”.    Be sure to check out our 2 brand-new embedded podcasts within this one and realize “I’ve lost my magic…ever since you moved me over here…” when you JOIN US as we head back to the mid-80’s with OZZY OSBOURNE and THE ULTIMATE SIN. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “Date night sausage…isn’t EVERY sausage a date night sausage?” / “We’re keeping with the ‘O’ themes…” / “I’ve lost my magic…ever since you moved me over here…”/ #markthetime / “This is great radio…”/ “This is why we have 6 listeners…”/ “Let’s hold ‘em high and suck ‘em down…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “It’s delicious and sticky…here in Bunkerpoon, Georgia…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s 2 in a row…”   (04:04): “I think the government is actually changing the time…and that shit the airplanes are spitting out…”/ #MetalNews and #MetalHappenings / #pictorial (“A spread?”) / #ArchEnemy / #GunsNRosesWorldTour / “How much are tickets gonna be?”/ #CastleRat and #HighOnFire / “Could be #ThunderAtlanta if it was raining and it was the 80’s…”/ #EmberingEffigy / #Slayer #HellAwaits / “If they did remix it…”/ #RIBMix / “R.I.B’d for our pleasure…” / #Megadeth and the final tour   (9:47): ***SOCIAL MEDIA US AT #TikTok #YouTube #InstaGram and #Facebook at #metalnerderypodcast, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com , VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182, and/or PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***Check out our wide variety of merchandise options for the holidays at metalnerdery.com/merch *** /  “We’re working through some things right now…” / “We’re all gonna look just like Bill…”/ “We could do…an embedded podcast within a podcast…” / #AngryMattPodcast and #RussellsLoveTips   (13:39): “WHADDYA WANNA HEAR!?” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OZZY OSBOURNE – THE ULTIMATE SIN / “Have you guys seen the documentary?” / #OzzyNoEscapeFromNow #OzzyOsbourne / “This will be the #conspiracytheorypodcast …”/ “45 or 50?” / 4th studio album / Released January 24, 1986 / “Wait a minute…what was that?” / “There were 2 years of my life that I was dead certain I was gonna be a breakdancer…”/ “Dude, I did it!”/ “Mega 80’s” / “I know what your breakdancer name would be…WAGE WAX…” / “It’s gonna be better than Bark At The Moon…fingers crossed…”/ “Remember the video for The Ultimate Sin?” / Produced by  Ron Nevison / THE ULTIMATE SIN / Go check out the #musicvideo for this!!! / “Oh yeah, where he looks like Boss Hogg?”/ “I bet she does backdoor stuff, man…look at her eyes.”   (28:00): SECRET LOSER / “That sounds like the 80’s, for sure…”/ “It’s a better mix than #BarkAtTheMoon for sure…”/ “I’ve got the magic!”/ NEVER KNOW WHY / “You can’t say that! That’s Dio’s song…” / #WeRock #IWannaRock / “That’s an #IronMaiden tune…the drums…what song is it?” Women in Uniform?”/ “Oh yeah, the ‘dunniguhh’? Yeah…I remember that one.”   (35:40): THANK GOD FOR THE BOMB / “This is not the one I was thinking of…I was thinking of ‘Killer of Giants’…” / “Nuke you, nuke you…” / NEVER / “You can definitely feel the 80’s in this…”/ “It’s way riffier than Bark At The Moon…”/ #placekeyboardnoiserighthere / “That song is so good but the rest of the album…”   (41:26): Side 2 / LIGHTNING STRIKES / “There’s your hook, Russ…” / #veryhooky / “This is so much more Blizzard than Diary…” / “Let’s be honest…most of Ozzy’s stuff is pop…He’s the pop of metal…”/ “The 2nd (and also last) album with Jake E. Lee…” / KILLER OF GIANTS / “No Kerslake?” / #Sailing / #RoyClark and #JerryReed / “It was another Burt Reynolds movie…”/ “Most people, if they have a mustache, they look like either a fireman, a gay porn star, a pedophile, or a combination of all three…” (50:43): FOOL LIKE YOU / “Awww, listen to that!” / “That’s gotta be harmonics…”/ “It’s my thing now…”/ “He’s got some tasty riffs and tasty licks…hey, that should be the name of the podcast…”/ #metallicks / “Do you think the beginning of Fool Like You is like the beginning of Surfacing?” / “It reminded us of that…”/ “Dude, we should do a #Nickelback Inside The Metal…maybe a #Chronicles (episode)…”/ “Which is worse: Nickelback or #KISS?” / “Not 3, but three…”/ #IlluminatiThree / “I guess you do gotta do more finger acrobatics…”/ SHOT IN THE DARK / #thekillercloser #thebighitsingle / “That’s a terrible closer…” / “Records? Who am I kidding…the more I listen to streams I really like…”/ “Remember the 80’s pants?”/ #momjeans / “This is our front butt gunt…” / #frontbutt #frontgunt #frontbuttgunt / “You know who she reminds me of a whole lot!?” / “She had that ‘why’…”/ “That’s 2 things she’ll never forget…or always remember…”/ “It’s the first album cover to feature artwork…”/  “The bur-duh-dur is what got ‘em…” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“I don’t think I’m smart enough to listen to this…”   As with the many legendary concept albums that have come before, masterpieces such as King Diamond’s Abigail, Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime, and Dream Theater’s Scenes From A Memory, THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, the latest offering from OPETH, is one of the finest examples of storytelling ever captured in audio form and is their first proper “concept album” to date.    “They cram so much into such a small space…”   Chronicling the reading of the will of a wealthy patriarch (and featuring Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull as the patriarch in question), THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT perfectly represents the culmination of the various components that have established OPETH as a progressive metal force to be reckoned with for more than 30 years.    “I realize this is not y’all’s favorite flavor of the month…”   With a seamless blending of their early progressive and melodic death metal period through their more eclectic, 70’s prog rock infused progressive metal period of the 2010’s, OPETH is akin to a “haunted house version of Dream Theater”, loaded with a wide  variety of sonic textures, top tier instrumental prowess, and vivid lyrical imagery, all of which are covered in a thin drapery of darkness.    “Have they ever done anything ‘hooky’?”   JOIN US as we take on what is arguably one of the finest progressive metal concept albums in existence (and most certainly a top contender for “Album Of The Year”) and quite possibly the greatest OPETH album of all time, THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “I would like to take this moment to say…AND…” / #GeorgiaBulldogs / “Dangole sports ball dawgs…” / #Natty / “Speaking of Athens…my only thought was…R.E.M. must have written this song…”/ #WeBuiltThisCityASMR / “That’s when they dropped the Jefferson…”/ “As long as there’s a bend in the wrist, you’re fine…”/ #markthetime / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #waitforit #markthetime / “And I screamed like a little girl…not one footstep did I hear…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #strangerinthetub #jackoffhand / “Like a chimpanzee?”    (06:06): PATREON US at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast  / “Who knows? Santa might bring a shirt…” / MERCH US at www.metalnerdery.com/merch / SOCIAL MEDIA US at #FaceBook #InstaGram #YouTube #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!! / CASTLE RAT –WIZARD (The Bestiary – 2025) / “It’s like Pat Benatar in a stoner band…she’s got swords dude!” / “That dude’s hard to look at…his mouth is weird…”/ #markthetime / “That’ll be the shittah not that other shittah…”   (12:50): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OPETH – THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT / “It’s an oopsie that’s a fun oopsie…”/ #educationalpodcast / #Opeth #TheLastWillAndTestament / “It’s their very first concept album…” / “I like to think of them like haunted house #DreamTheater …”/ “The first album with the return of the death growl vocals (aka ‘screams’) in 13 years…”/ “I’ve got room now, dude…”/ Released November 22, 2024 / “This is cool because it’s new and it’s old at the same time…”/ Featuring Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull / “Subsection…not SS…in case you’re wondering…”   (17:00): §1 / “Is this good with relaxers?” / “Draped in death…the howl of lore…” / “Let’s do backroads…maybe some dirt roads…” / §2 / “Isn’t that a creepy, haunted sound?”/ “Until his return…” / #useyourheadphones / “It’s kinda not necessarily all over the place but it’s all over the place…”/ “It’s got a weird, haunted 70’s feel to it for the modern age…”/ “Every album is different but they’re all uniquely different…”/ #Oldpeth / “Have they ever done anything ‘hooky’?”   (26:47): §3 / “Reminds me of #Rush …”/ #onmicburp / “He’s looking for the big hit single…” / “He’s talking about…the hook…”/ §4 / “No! No! No!” / #harpsolo / “This is music nerd music…” / §5 / “He does that one vocal part that sounds like #Forbidden to me…”/ “It’s all head…”/ #markthetime / “Where’d that come from?”/  Death growls vs Screams / “I realize this is probably not y’all’s favorite flavor of the month…this is right up there with #Coroner for #AOTY …”/ “They cram so much into such a small space…” / “There’s tons of coke lines…”   (39:17): §6 / “He’s an octopus genius…” / #drumvirtuoso / “This is like #Rainbow on steroids…70’s prog…” / “It’s almost comical it’s so awesome…”/ “Is this one all in 7’s?” / #towardsthelater / §7 / “I like the flute, I do…I never thought I’d say that…”/ “They should get the guy who made #HeavyMetal (the movie) …animate this album…like a concept album movie…but with a lot of tits” / “It’s hereditary ropes, bruh…”/ A STORY NEVER TOLD / “This is the most consistent…”/ “Bless y’all for at least giving it a shot…”/ #urgent / #moodmusic / “I got into them when the #Damnation album came out (2003)…you might like that…it’s more like #PinkFloyd …”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel 

It’s that time of year…time for some big tasty turkels, delicious side dishes, and a nice tryptophan induced nod after feasting yourself into fullness and naptime. It’s THANKSGIVING, and while most folks are gearing up for the coming holiday season (which will start promptly in the pre-dawn hours of Black Friday), we realize that we’ve NEVER taken any time off during the holidays and that perhaps it’s time we enjoy a little holiday breather.    With that in mind, we’ve put together a veritable cornucopia of clips from our 2025 collection that we hope you enjoy. Our only real cautionary advisory would be that you listen to this prior to enjoying your Turkey Day feast in order to avoid the very real possibility of laughing until you vomit.   Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! Enjoy your Thanksgiving Day feast, prep carefully if you’re deep frying a turkey, be thankful and gracious for the lack of giblets in your gravy, and enjoy an abundance of relaxers before dinner with the family when you JOIN US for the most off-putting, irresponsible, and exhausting VACATION TAPES you’ve ever heard. Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes:   (00:01): SHARON!!! / #oldefaece / “He came in for the tur…”/ #whatsitcalled / “Whatever happened to #JuiceNewton …? / #juicebox / #DownTime / “Let’s not make it gross…”/ “She sounds like #PeterSteele…”    (02:43): #AI / “She stopped sucking me today…”/ #ConwayTwitty / “The power was in his hair…”/ “Ladies and gentlemen…Conway Twitty…”/ #BramStroker / “…slash handjob…”/ “What am I saying? I’m fixed…”/ #vasectomyawareness    (07:02): “I just don’t give a shit anymore…I’m not gonna bring the A game…”/ “Nobody ever wants to go first…I set the bar ultra-low…”/ #mealprep / “Sometimes Dracula likes to go camping…”/ #vampirejerky / “I thought you were gonna go the frozen tampon route…”/ “If it looks like #liquidsneeze / #GospelBand / “This is extraordinary news…”/ #carnivore    (11:05): “The #fuckbag review!?” / #redemption / “I was having a bad day…I changed the review to 5 stars…”/ “Okay let’s not do that…”/ #shittalkuh / “Yours is by far one of my FAVORITE podcasts…”/ #offputting and #exhausting / “The #superfuckbag review is still out there…”/ “Could have been a ‘Them’…”/ #TransAms    (14:56): “That’s a fantastic band name!” / #coathangerabortion / “Our house is haunted, btw…”/ #maryreilly / #GhostStoryASMR / “The original owners died in that house…”/ “The headphones, man…”/ #Megatron / #Transformers  (17:58): “This is from the mighty Mixon…since we’re on the way…”/ “Conan…the Barbarian Destroyer?” / “I would have done it from the balls…from my balls to you…”/ #OMG / #DJTASMR / #vagmetal / “Really? You’re gonna go there…”/ #DOGEASMR / #batvagina / “Nutrition is a lie…”/ #saltwater / “Butter is good for you…”/ #nutritionadvice / “Does Santa Claus come up from the septic tank now!?” / #markallthetimes  (22:16): “Tattered and torn…or shaven and shorn?”/ #footfetishporn / “There was a moment when we needed money…”/ “I’m always looking right at the snooch…”/ #toethumbs / “Apparently people think she’s a dude…wait, don’t women have Adam’s Apples though?” / “Which do you think would be more risky?”/ “I got a kiss on the cheek from my first stripper…”/ “I usually put it in the G-string…”/ #manintheboat  (27:39): “Every time I see sports highlights…in slow motion…” / #slowmotionporn / “What was that voice you just did?” / “It was #KattWilliams…”/ #KingOfComedy / “That’s a better Katt Williams impression…”/ “Not since Tuesday…”/ “I sit back and wait…”/ #shockvalue / “It was odd…”/ “I don’t want to no more…”/ “How does it reattach?” / “That sounded almost like #RichardPryor a little bit…” (32:20): “And the verdict…”/ “I gotta back snooch…you wanna see my balloon knot?” / “It was in the dark…if I do it in the dark my dick will seem bigger…”/ “The yurt, as it ‘twere…”/ “That’s the pre-hole, right?” / “I think ‘fuck off’ is a full sentence…”/ “I’ll fix that in post…”/ “Y’all know what snails look like, right?” / “No, no, no, these were slugs…”/ #whatareyouwatching / #sexualdeviance / #snoochguard / “I like that word, dude…” / “It’s the snooch & gooch…”/ “Paws…” (38:19): “Sooooo…last week…” / “Wait a minute…this is #Sleep…this is #Dopesmoker…”/ #bestfridayever / “For those 35 minutes…it was the best Friday ever…”/ #MAGMA / “Is that one of them Trump supporters?” / #guitarclass / “That was his fuck-off hour…”/ “We came up with this song…”/ “I left it in there just for you…”   (43:11): “You should have got the burger…”/ #mediumrarechickentenders / “You get into that Gran Ma…”/ “You could stop drinking…”/ “If you’re doing a ride share…you owe it to yourself to be hammered at least on one end of the journey…”/ #shitfaced / “It was awesome…”/ “You know that pre-hangover hangover that you get?” / #markthetime / #UberEats / “So you paid $38 for $8 Chinese food…” (48:14): “That’s one of the things I did like about #TheBlackAlbum…”/ “Bill needs a segment…”/ #tonechasing / “In my non-guitarist ears…he’s a singer, he hears things differently…”/ “What about #Pantera?” / “The mix is completely different…” (52:41): “It’s not overbearing, but it’s definitely there…”/ “I’m gonna be that guy…”/ “But you didn’t have ‘Stairway To Heaven 2’…”/ “I forgot the after twang that Jager’s got…”/ #snoochsmooching / “Snooch smooching alright!” / “There IS no metal without #ACDC…”/ #Era / “Australasia…where is New Zealand?” / “I got some quality handies…”/ “Lube is a different game, bro…”/ #RussellsPornShopReflections / #markthetime / #ReverseOreo / “It was a toy of some form…”/ “I’m not gonna do it the way she said it…”/ “You think they get paid by the hour or by the load?” (1:01:38): “Wouldn’t it be interesting…if #Spiderman was more scientifically accurate?” / #EmberingEffigy and #comedy at #SweetwaterLive / “So on the way home…”/ #blindedbythelight / #spotlight / “The light still works…it was just really, really dim…”/ Tag Light Visible – 50 ft / “I have no idea what he looked like…if you get pulled over, pull into a populated place…” / #DivineIntervention / “Wear your sunglasses at night…” (1:08:12): “Incubus and succubus…what’s the difference?” / “Sleepfucker alright!” / “You know what’s almost equally offensive?” / “It’s fun if a 10 year old says cunt…”/ #recordscratch #IrishCarBombs / “Starts with an N, ends with an R…”/ “I had a dream that we were hanging out with the #Metallica guys…”/ #TridentChallenge / #PlanetCaravan / “I don’t know where they could have put it where I would have liked it…”/ #LMAO / “I’m laughing at him…” (1:14:24): “Every time I listen to that song I think about the first time I finger blasted a girl…”/ “I know who you’re talking about…”/ “That’s a triple…you got slimy fingers…”/ “Third base is windshield wiper…”/ “Dude, I just scored…”/ #HotPocket / “It’s that from now on…”/ “It’s MG Approved…from the heart…”/ “Occasionally Matt comes up with some shit that fucking works…”  (1:18:52): “Here’s the rules…if you wanna make a show on #HBO…”/ #flacciddicks / “I could put so much…right there…”/ “Why are you such a dick?” / “Last night while I was in slumber…Satan came into my room…and he had his way with my forehead…”/ “You’re not supposed to swallow it…”/ #LOL / #onmicburp / “You know what that sounds like?”  (1:22:40): “We’ve got coyotes…”/ “Here’s what makes a lot of noise…”/ “Fuuuuuuck…”/ “Is it gay…?” / #fleshlight / “Yep!” / “Okay…follow up question…”/ #RequiemForADream #GAF #AssScissoring / #TheFourthHole / “I’m tripping balls by the way…”/ “This is not a microdose…”/ “This is what you sent me!?” / “What does that even mean?” / “When you said you were sending him a file…”/ “If anything, it’s three 7’s, and one of them has a line in the middle…”/ “Hold on…don’t tell me…”/ “Arnold by Enwuego…”/ “There’s Moby Dick…there’s um ‘I’m thinking’…”/ #HappyThanksgiving from all of us at #MetalNerderyPodcast and #BunkerpoonInternational

“Those guys are parents to 2 babies…and we’re fighting over which baby is cuter…”   With SIDE 2 of our PUPPETS VS JUSTICE HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH, things are a bit trickier, because the math doesn’t sync up perfectly track for track. But not to worry, because we worked out all the math to try and keep things as “Even Steven” as possible.   “You go to the peak of your ability…that’s what Justice was…it was their Hemispheres…”   As we noted previously on the SIDE 1 episode, PUPPETS represents the end of the Cliff Burton era, and JUSTICE represents the beginning of the Jason Newsted era. On SIDE 2, we got deeper into the weeds, particularly with regard to the lyrical subject matter, the style and structure of the songs, and the personal impact and perspective of the instrumentals. We’re not saying that this was a complete blowout, and we’re not saying that the outcome was predictable by any means, but what we ARE saying is that the final verdict was actually a bit more shocking than we originally anticipated.   “What are they saying, dude?”   Stick around until the very end of the episode to discover the power of “frontmasking” after you JOIN US for the nail-biting conclusion to our PUPPETS VS JUSTICE HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH as we take on SIDE 2. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   More METALLICA Episodes https://www.metalnerdery.com/metallica CHECK OUT METALLICA ON THE INTERWEBS https://www.metallica.com/tour/   Show Notes:   (00:01): “Kiss my FIRE…” / The pointlessness of DST…we can just stop, right? / “We’re never gonna win this argument…”/ “Why do you gotta bitch about it?”/ “That was for you, Phil…”/ “You just fingered me, I wanted to be fisted…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “We left y’all on a cliffhanger…”/ “I mean…I mean…I mean…”/ PATREON US AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / #PatreonShoutout / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #TikTok #InstaGram #FaceBook / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com ***/ Some early concert memories…/ ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / Our sincerest apologies to #EmberingEffigy for the mistaken identity… / New Embering Effigy album OUT NOW… / #BehindTheMetal / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/    (08:23):  #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: SIDE 2 OF THE MOP VS AJFA HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH!!! / “Side 2 is gonna be harder than when I was 15…”/  “Those are the good times…I could cut a mirror with this thing…”/ “My move is…I grab the butt…”/ “You’re not Little Bo Peep and I’m not Zorro…”/    (11:27): DISPOSABLE HEROES (Master Of Puppets – 1986) / “I was born for dying…”/  “Dismount, perfect…10/10…”/ The differences between #MOP and #AJFA / THE SHORTEST STRAW (…And Justice For All – 1988) / “I’m sorry…it already wins…”/ “You can kinda hear the bass on this part too…a little bit…”/ “By far, Lars’ best album…”/ “I wonder if that was a mistake…”/ #happyaccidents / #TheVerdict / “It’s kinda almost like when she jams a finger up your butt and you’re kinda like ‘I don’t know what I think about it…I kinda like it’…”   (24:42): HARVESTER OF SORROW / “Creamy…that’s the word of the episode…again…twice…”/ #MesaBoogie / “Lars is chewing gum and playing drums at the same time…”/ “I had to do that, because he does that live…”/ LEPER MESSIAH / “I always thought that was James saying that…”/ “It’s more heavy metal than thrash…”/ “This is where it changes…now it’s a different song…”/ “If you blend Harvester and Frayed together…”/ “Do you think Harvester would have fit on The Black Album?”/ “If you were gonna yank one right off The Black Album and replace it with Harvester…”/ “Maybe…the traveling song…”/  THE FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY / “And the China boy…the China boy makes it…”/ #China /  “I come almost every time when I hear that part…even now…”/ “You can just listen in, Bill, if you want to…”/ “Young, angry…and unhinged…”/ “The Justice album is what made them huge…”/ “What did #Rush do after Hemispheres? They did Permanent Waves…Hemispheres was their most progressive album…”/ “You max out…” / “The Black Album is closer to Puppets than AJFA…”/ “You go to the peak of your ability…that’s what Justice was…it was their Hemispheres…”/ #Rushtallica / #TheVerdict / “That’s a clear blowout…”   (51:23): “It’s the James solo part…that’s what you’ve gotta do for both…”/ TO LIVE IS TO DIE / “We gotta hear the James solo…because that’s what makes it…”/ “The drums get frustrated…you can hear it…”/ “I think we’ve gotta hear the spoken word part…It’s right here, so we may as well grab it…”/ “Really? Why!?”/ ORION / “That riff…is nothing but sack…” / “That’s heavy metal, dude…”/ #TheVerdict / #NoDraws   (1:09:44): DAMAGE INC. / “It’s about to get thrashy up in here…”/ “I never understood when my parents did that when I was younger…now I get it…”/ #CarnivalCruise / “I think Kerry King said this was his favorite #Metallica song…”/ DYERS EVE / “Surgical…precise…clinical…”/ “That one is personal…VERY personal…”/ “Those guys are parents to 2 babies…and we’re fighting over which baby’s cuter…” / #TheVerdict / “So here’s the tally…for #bolth Side 1 and Side 2…” / “It was kind of a draw…in a way…”/ “For the future, we should do a Side 2 better than Side 1 podcast…” / ***What do YOU think!? EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and let us know!!!*** / #outroreel / #untilthenext / #backmaskingASMR / “…and then play it backwards…the whole thing…”/ “It’d be like reverse backmasking…front masking…foremasking…” / “What are they saying, dude?” / “Edud, gniyas yeht era tahw?”

“How about we let the producer ‘produce’?”   We’ve all heard that METALLICA’s “last great album” was 1986’s haunting thrash metal magnum opus, MASTER OF PUPPETS, one of the finest moments in the band’s catalog and the final studio album of “The First Three” to feature Cliff Burton on bass.   “I don’t care if there’s no bass…I’m sorry…”   We’ve also all heard (especially since the release of The Black Album) that METALLICA’s “last great album” was 1988’s progressive thrash metal tour de force, …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, the fourth METALLICA studio album overall and the first (of four) to feature Jason Newsted on bass (according to the liner notes, anyway).   “The bass is the LAST thing I listen to…”   Having said that, BOTH are outstanding and powerful albums for very different reasons, with PUPPETS marking the haunting, final chapter of Cliff Burton’s legacy with what many fans consider to be the classic, legendary era of the band, and JUSTICE beginning a brand new chapter for the band with Jason Newsted, launching METALLICA into a new era that would ultimately result in their meteoric rise to success and glory as the biggest and most popular heavy metal band on planet earth.   “Y’all are gonna abuse me for using this word…”   JOIN US for a HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH that promises to be absolutely “creamy” and chock full of 80’s metal nostalgia and loads of heated commentary as we take on SIDE ONE with 1986’s MASTER OF PUPPETS & 1988’s …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “Listen to the B-roll stuff…that’s the gold…” / #LOL / “Let’s get right in the paint…” /  Delicious homemade beer, courtesy of Russell…/ #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / #Pinter / “Produc?” / #BlueDog #BrewDog / “You take the package, and you put it in the thing…”/  “Blue package?” / Appalachian Tropical IPA / “The first few were all head…” / #markthetime / “An Irish Persian…”/ #RussellsHomebrewReflections   (5:55): “Let’s raw dog it…” / ***PATREON US on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Sorry, I was mid-swallow dude…” /  Potential upcoming #Doomsicle goodness… / #cupping / “Sorry, I almost ran out of gas…” / “I cupped right when I thought I was losing it…”/ “I got an idea for that…”/ #genre / #Skynet   (08:43): SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #Facebook #TikTok #Instagram at #metalnerderypodcast / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / “I wanna see one, dude…I wanna see a real one…” / ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #PissingPostASMR / “He’s building…anticipation…antica-pation…” /  Antissa Payshun and Justin Case / “THIS is why…”/ “This is my son, Hourly Wages…my son Low…here’s my son Drained…” / #JustinCase  (13:33): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  MASTER OF PUPPETS (1986) VS …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1988) – HEAD-TO-HEAD DEATH MATCH: SIDE 1 / “We’ve done an ’88 and an ’86 Death Match with #Metallica and #Slayer, but now it’s gonna be ’86 and ’88, Metallica Style!!!” / “This might affect our friendship…” / “Not a shitty album…shittily produced album…”/ “No, here’s the reason…I know y’all know this…” / #GarageDaysRevisited #VeryUnproduced / “Where’s the guy you just hired to replace the guy who just died?” / NOTE: Garage Days was noted as being “Not Very Produced” / “It’s a dry mix dude, it’s a super dry mix…the drums are WAY up front…” / #AstonMartin / “That looks like a Camaro, dude…” (20:42): BATTERY / “You hear that in the background?” / “The bass is the LAST thing I listen to…” / “Here’s a weird question…” / “If I could only pick one of the two, it would be…” / #nostalgia / “That’s like their #Hemispheres…”/ “It’s gonna be a 2-hour episode unless we…” / BLACKENED / “Have you heard the ‘unbackwardized’ version of the intro?” / “I don’t care if there’s no bass, I’m sorry…”/ “His balls dropped…” / “There’s no mids…the mids are his voice, that’s the only mids you get…”/ “Y’all are gonna abuse me for using this word…”/ #creamy / “Isn’t this when he was using the quarters?” / “It’s creamy…”/ “Justice definitely has a dryer mix…M.O.P. is more reverby…”/ #TheVerdict / “Here’s douchebag Matt coming out…” / “I looked past it…” / “You too, then…that was my first tape…” / #progressivemetal (35:36): “Tittlees…on both sides, right?” / …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL / “Oooh, I heard it…”/ “I always loved that riff…it’s weird, but I liked it…”/ #timesignatures / “It’s the word of the episode…”/ “Ohhh, listen to it…”/ “I’m gonna say it…you can hear the essence back there…it’s very subtle…” / “My wife just said you have to quit doing this…”/ MASTER OF PUPPETS / “The #StrangerThings crowd loves it…”/ “You can hear Cliff back there just growling in the background…”/ #heavymetal / “I’m 14 again every time I hear this…”/ “I gotta hear that one part on the guitar solo…”/ #happyaccident / “That’s the cool thing about #progmetal…”/ #TheVerdict / “Song by song, it’s gonna be difficult…I think that’s gonna be a blowout…”/ #AngryJames / “I almost wanna do a draw…”/ #NoDraws   (50:43): “How about we let the producer produce?” / THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE / “That’s like scary Metallica…”/ #EvilHeavyMetal / #stankface / “It’s like he’s yelling at you…”/ “The day that I got the tape…that was the favorite…before I even made it to Side 2…”/ EYE OF THE BEHOLDER / #readthoselyrics / “Freedom…with their exception…”/ “A #Rocky montage but an Evil Rocky…”/ #TheVerdict / “Side 2 is gonna be a different story…”   (1:01:43): ONE / “They had to buy that movie so they could do that video…”/ “You can hear the bass in there…it’s creamy…”/ #PreBlackAlbum / “It’s just so fucking angry…”/ “It’s not as overplayed as Enter Sandman…”/ #hitsingle / “That’s why y’all give me the big bonuses every year…AND I get the Christmas hams and the blowjobs from the hookers…”/ WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM) / “You hear that bass line back there?” / “Oooh, big word…”/ #TheVerdict / “I don’t mean to be overdramatic…”/ “Out of curiosity…the three albums…Fade To Black, Sanitarium, One…?” / #TrackFour / “There’s no losers here…”/ “The verdict for side 1…” / #cupping / “Sorry, I cupped at the last minute, dude…”/ ***COME BACK NEXT WEEK FOR SIDE 2…IT’S GONNA BE A BLOODBATH!!!*** / #untilthenext #outroreel / Puppets? Or Justice? Let us know… EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com or VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!

“Y’all don’t have to make everything about everything…”   Time has a strange way of playing with the mind and blurring perceptions. For example, 24 years is effectively a quarter of a century, and while that sounds like a pretty vast swath of time, in reality it is merely a tiny speck in the grand scheme of the endless universe. To put it another way, as of the date of this episode in 2025, it has been the same amount of time (24 years) since 2001, which included the launch of Wikipedia, the September 11th attacks, and the very first iPod by Apple.   In keeping with the relativity of time, NATIVITY IN BLACK: A TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH was released way back in 1994, a whopping 24 years after the groundbreaking eponymous debut from Birmingham’s founding fathers of metal. At that time, in the early 90’s, it seemed as if eons of time had elapsed from the release of Sabbath’s debut until the release of this tribute honoring the classic Ozzy era of Sabbath from the 1970’s and their collective contributions to the heavy metal canon.    To take the concept of time just a step further, Black Sabbath recently played their final concert (Back To The Beginning) 55 years after the release of their debut album, and it has now been 31 years (as of the date of this episode, in 2025) since the NATIVITY IN BLACK compilation was unleashed upon the metal world, featuring some real bangers from metal bands spanning a variety of subgenres that still holds up to this day.   Discover the proper pronunciation of names which you have been saying the wrong way you’re entire life, including “Schuldiner, Peart, and chimpanzee”, hear our latest movie pitch for Rob Zombie, and remember the reason for feeling uneasy when you are unable to “touch bottom” after you JOIN US as we dive in to the first compilation of Black Sabbath covers that was cheekily named after Bill Ward’s beard with NATIVITY IN BLACK: A TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes:   (00:01): “It’s Good Buddy Day (10-4) …” / #onthisday / “I have no problem with Dream Theater…” / “I’m not gonna give you a but…”/ “It’s not bad, dude…it’s a little salty…”/  “The thunder in October…”/ “Here’s what October is to me…it’s football, barbecue, chili…”/  “Leaf Death…that’s a name for a stoner band!” / #MetalNerderyPlaylist / “Firewood…is that better than logs?”/ “There’s something about deep vagina that’s weird…I can’t touch bottom…”/ “Do we wanna try and do the hybrid?” / “The Dirty Monkey…The Dirty Black…The Dirty Black Monkey…” / “Y’all don’t have to make everything about everything…” ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** (07:07): “THAT, is Christmas…I see a future #TikTok…”/ Dirty Monkey Peanut Butter Banana Whiskey and Mr. Black coffee liqueur / “A what?” / Chimpinzee? Chimpanzee? Chimp’n’zee? / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST*** / PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “That’s better…”/ “My body my choice, and I choose yes…”/ “If you remember it, just Tourette’s it out…” / “You saw him…he cupped the microphone…” / “We’ve been pronouncing it wrong the whole time… / “I’m sorry, what?” / #HeySiri / #Chimpanzee #ChuckSchuldiner #NeilPeart / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok at #MetalNerderyPodcast , you can EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and you can VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** (14:11): “I was going to community college at this point…”/ #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: NATIVITY IN BLACK – A TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH /  Released 10/04/1994 as a tribute to the classic #OzzyOsbourne era of #BlackSabbath during the 70’s… / #GoodBuddyDay / “I like melody…”/ “Usually when you say Black Sabbath to people, most people think Ozzy…” (18:50): “What’s the deal with Black Sabbath?” / #Biohazard AFTER FOREVER (Master Of Reality – 1971) / “#Friends was influenced by Black Sabbath…”/ “This one you can’t cut off so quick…”/ #Yeah / #WhiteZombie CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE (Master Of Reality – 1971) / “Movie remake idea for #RobZombie…”/ #Nosferatoe / “Nosfera-WHO?” / “Too not toe…”/  “You ever been to Timbuktoe? Kathmandoe?” (26:46): #Megadeth PARANOID (Paranoid – 1970) / The beginning of being able to listen to modern metal bands do covers of Sabbath / #AlJourgensen #1000HomoDJs SUPERNAUT (Vol. 4 – 1972) / “In fairness, it would be like if someone did a cover of Ride The Lightning and sang ‘Ride The Lightning’…” / “Maybe that was aimed…at the record business…”/ #Therapy? And #OzzyOsbourne IRON MAN (Paranoid – 1970)  (34:23): “This was more like Deliverance…”/ #CorrosionOfConformity LORD OF THIS WORLD (Master of Reality – 1971) / “That’s exactly how ‘Master of Reality’ should be remixed…” / “How come more bands don’t do that?” (re: covering an entire album) / “Why? Do we need it?” / #Train WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE / RAMBLE ON (Led Zeppelin II – 1969) / “Conducking?”/ “It’s pretty close…here’s what it is…the Zeppelin version is like full bush…”   (41:23): “This sounds like cavemen recorded this…South American thrash cavemen…”/  “Hold on…it’s not on the version I’m on…”/ #Sepultura SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE (Sabotage – 1975) / “Spread some of that on your breakfast toast…”/ #BullringBrummies #GeezerButler #RobHalford THE WIZARD (Black Sabbath – 1970) / The duet between Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne doing War Pigs (recently released, proceeds going to charity) / “If I ever move to Birmingham, Alabama, I’m just going to tell people I’m from Birmingh’m”/ #BruceDickinson #Godspeed SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – 1973) (51:52): “This might have been a skipper…the world’s not fair…”/ #UglyKidJoe N.I.B. (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “He sounds like somebody else…”/ “Oh jeh…”/ #LiveInBrixton /  “Oh, you wanna hear the one on the album? That’s fine…the live one’s so much more fun…”/ “I feel like that’s next to Narnia…is that even a place?” / #FaithNoMore WAR PIGS (Paranoid – 1970) / #OneLawnChair #OhLordYeah / “And now he goes Mr. Bungle…” / #TypeONegative BLACK SABBATH (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “I turn ‘round (slowly)…and start (to walk) …”/ “Octobruh…” / “There’s really 13 months…28 days each…” / “Everest is like right there…”/ #TheIceWall / #untilthenext #outroreel / “NO! Do not tell children…nope!”