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Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
“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.
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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?”
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
“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.
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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!!!
Thursday Nov 06, 2025
Thursday Nov 06, 2025
“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.
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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!”
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
“I had to watch it 3 or 4 times to finally get there…”
Ahhh, the 80’s. A time when people could actually afford to live, back when Taco Bell was both super cheap and equally delicious, horror movies were genuinely scary and often boasted incredibly “special” special effects, and terrified parents everywhere were completely “freaking the motherfrickin’ frick out” over heavy metal and the ensuing “Satanic Panic” that followed. (Remember, we’re talking about the 80’s here…)
“I kinda feel like Satan probably listens to Air Supply nonstop…or Gino Vanelli…”
Not to worry though, because Tipper Gore was on the case, going out of her way to ensure that the future prosperity of heavy metal would be secure forever with the PMRC seal of approval (PARENTAL ADVISORY – EXPLICIT CONTENT) plastered on the cover of everything that would be deemed essential listening.
Thanks to the diligent efforts and painstaking research of Tipper Gore and her Parents Music Resource Center, the PMRC lovingly crafted “The Filthy Fifteen” for American parents to ensure that their children would only be exposed to the finest audio artistry the heavy metal genre (and somehow, also Satan) had to offer. One of the bands included on that fateful list were the founders of black metal, VENOM (ironically, rated “O” … for “Obviously” …as in “Obviously, your kids should be listening to this!”).
Hailing from probably the fanciest, most upper crust sounding city in all of England, Newcastle upon Tyne’s 3-piece of evil VENOM came blasting out of the gates of hell with what would become the foundation for the black metal genre that would begin its ascent into heavy metal culture around the same time as thrash metal in the early 80’s, with a sound combining the rawness of Motorhead, the darkness of Sabbath, and the speed of thrash with an imagery reminiscent of KISS if they were actually satanists.
If Black Sabbath are ground zero for the formation of heavy metal as we know it, then VENOM is no doubt the Black Sabbath of the black metal genre. With a dark, detached creepiness that sounds like something recorded in an underground mausoleum, VENOM are the originators of extreme metal and were out in front, scaring the hell out of parents everywhere and delighting young and impressionable metalheads the world over.
Happy Halloween everyone!!! It’s time to celebrate spooky season the way we did back in the 80’s, by going through your kids trick-or-treat plunder and picking out all of that “good candy”. Prepare yourself for the latest outtake from The Angry Matt Podcast regarding the abolition of Daylight Savings Time, discover why “fist bumps and fisting are basically the same thing”, learn what “post mortis” actually means, and JOIN US for an “exploratory learning journey” as we go INSIDE THE METAL and review THE 80’s output of black metal pioneers VENOM.
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Show Notes:
(00:01): “It’s not a girl drink…” (Apperall spritz?) / #buttocks / “How about the J and then the PB?”/ “That’s ‘Spirit in the Sky’ isn’t it?” / #thatdudeisadude / “It’s like a reverse sixty-nine, dude…don’t make it weird…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “That way is better…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #LikeShareSubscribe / “It’s approaching dusk at 4:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday…
when can we just not do Daylight Savings Time anymore?” / #AngryMattPodcast / ***You SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #TikTok #Facebook #Instagram at #metalnerderypodcast, EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com, PATREON US at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast for exclusive video only content.*** / #PatreonShoutout / ***YOU CAN PURCH SOME MERCH AT www.metalnerdery.com/merch ***
(7:26): #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: VENOM – INSIDE THE METAL (THE 80’S) / “Since it’s #Halloween season…”/ One of the biggest influences on thrash metal, especially #TheBigFour / Everyone was freaking out, the Satanic Panic / #RussellsCassetteReflections / #attache / “See? Everybody’s got a blessing to share…even if they’re a shitty person…”/ “How was it silly?” / “There’s a certain weird, dark, creepy, bizarreness…it’s like the feeling of being buried (alive)…” / #stereobreathing / Fist bumps and fisting are the same thing… / #SlayerOfTheEpisode / #Slayer WITCHING HOUR / “Oh, Robb Flynn’s singing…” (from #MachineHead) /
(13:45): “What Venom means to me…” / #RussellsVenomReflections / #EpisodeIdea /
“Their logo is creepy…I don’t know why it’s creepy…” / “Do you remember the movie:
The Gate? (1987)” / #backmasking (“I don’t know if it was a #Venom record…)
(17:11): Welcome To Hell (1981) / “He’s kinda the sound…(of Venom)” / #Cronos /
“That’s the French gay Baphomet…” / 1981…other big albums from that time relative to Venom / “We’re on an exploratory learning journey here…”/ #Cockopolis / #killeropener / #postmortis / “Dude, you created a new word…”/ SONS OF SATAN / “The #Motorhead of black metal…” / WELCOME TO HELL (see also #MotleyCrue and ‘Looks That Kill’) / “How can we sound like Motorhead but rawer?”/ WITCHING HOUR / “The rain sounds creepy…”/
“Listen to that through headphones because that is really, really strange…”/ IN LEAGUE WITH SATAN / “This is the epitome of bad production…”/ “Backmasking is for the weak…”/ #backmaskingASMR / “I wanna know what that says now, backwards…”
(28:26): Black Metal (1982) / “If #BlackSabbath are the founders of metal, then Venom are the Black Sabbath of black metal…”/ ***Check out our other Halloween specials…***/
BLACK METAL / “Sounds like soundcheck at The Masquerade…the Old Masquerade…”/
BURIED ALIVE / “It sounds familiar for a different reason…” / #fakenews / “Have you ever seen Hostel 2?” / #ElizabethBathory / “I had to watch it 3 or 4 times to finally get there…” /
COUNTESS BATHORY / “Hey, I got a chorus pedal man…check it out!”/ “I just had a realization…I can kinda hear how Cronos influenced Mustaine’s singing style…” / DON’T BURN THE WITCH / “It’s like they’re recording underground, in a mausoleum or something…” / “This album probably costs hundreds of dollars to produce…” / “So far that might be their most complex riff…”
(37:51): At War With Satan (1984) / “I kinda feel like Satan probably listens to Air Supply nonstop…oooh, Gino Vannelli…” / Backstory regarding the epic title track / “This is like their Hemispheres basically…or their 2112…” / AT WAR WITH SATAN / “The production’s better…they probably spent $800 on this one…” / “I can hear the Mustaine now…kinda like ‘The Conjuring’ in a way…” / “Let’s skip to the middle…” / CRY WOLF / AAAAAARRGHH /
“What the fuck is that? Hey Alex…”/ #LOL / “This is the Venom version of ‘What’s That Noise?’…” / “Is that piano?” / “This might be my favorite Venom song ever…”
(46:19): Possessed (1985) / Released April Fools Day, 1985 / “Of course it’s gonna piss off the #PMRC…” / “Sorry, I cupped on that one…”/ “There’s a lot of #cokelines…”/ POWERDRIVE / “Sounds like #TheAccused…” / “That reminds me of WREKage…” / BURN THIS PLACE (TO THE GROUND) / “This one might have cost $900…” / “They’re no longer the influential band…now they’re competing with the bands they basically influenced…” /
POSSESSED / “Keyboards…oooh, chimes!” / “I can literally see them playing at #Sweetwater to 5 people…”/ “Their whole thing was all about shock, obviously…”/ “If you don’t have the talent, you have to have the show…kinda like the #KISS analogy…”
(54:40): Calm Before The Storm (1987) / NOTE: this is STILL with Cronos… #ConradIsCronos #CronosIsConrad / “Abaddon is like the John Wick of Hell…”/ BLACK XMAS / “Way better production!” / “They might have spent an actual $1000 on this…”/ “That’s definitely the best produced album thus far…less Satan…”/ METAL PUNK / “Is that a drum machine or actually bass drums?” / KRACKIN’ UP (with a ‘K’) / “They got away from the Satan thing…”
(59:55): Prime Evil (1989) / First album with Tony Dolan (aka Demolition Man) / “Oooh, 2 producers…I’ll bet they spent $1200 on this…”/ PRIME EVIL / “They might have spent $2000 on this, dude…”/ “It’s almost like early heavy metal…but it’s way too late…” / “Oh boy…buckle up…”/ MEGALOMANIA (***See also Sabotage***) / “Sting me…”
(1:05:00): “For fun, can we play the #Probot song?” / Probot (2004) / CENTURIES OF SIN (featuring Cronos) / “It’s amazing what a little production will do…”/ “Now is the time to ask questions of faith…”/ “Whaddya mean? He’s ’95 to Present…”/ #recordscratch / “I just wanted to know where the “Venom Inc.” lore came from…” / “It’s like #Queensryche…”/ #spinoff / “It’s like if #Metallica had their logo in bubble letters…” / “Go out there, get all that special candy that your kids get that you’re scared for them to have…send it to US!” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #creepylaugh / #untilthenext #outroreel
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
“You can understand everything he says…he’s much more pronunced.”
With Diego Rapacchietti, the “Swisstalian” timekeeper who replaced original drummer Marky “Marquis” Edelmann behind the kit, both Ron Broder (Ron Royce) and Tommy Vetterli (Tommy T. Baron), known collectively as Swiss thrash kings CORONER, have returned with DISSONANCE THEORY, the first new studio album featuring brand new material from the progressive thrash trio in over 30 years and the album which already has thrash fans worldwide shouting proclamations of Album of the Year.
Released on 10/17/2025, DISSONANCE THEORY is easily the finest thrash album in decades and may quite easily take the crown as CORONER’s magnum opus, a master work of progressive, technical thrash tempered with unmatched riffs, majestic solos, and a brilliantly engineered sonic vengeance where the drums, bass, and guitars each sit perfectly within the mix. It’s one of those albums that continues to impress exponentially with each subsequent listen and is, without question, a masterpiece, and an absolute joy to listen to.
“Just when you think all the riffs have been written…NOPE!”
Remember that the word for this episode is “texture” and JOIN US as we celebrate CORONER’s crowning achievement in thrash greatness with the unpredictably precise complexity of tech prog thrash genius, DISSONANCE THEORY.
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(00:01): “There needs to be a heart healthy origami diet…the key is bumps, not lines…”/
“They’re changing…”/ “Are they gonna call it O’Shazzy’s?” / “Why don’t they just call it Lines?” / #PBJ / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ “We went a little hard last night, me and the wife…”/ #markthetime / #Oktoberfest / “She had a Reuban, I had a schnitzel…”/ #HelenGeorgia / #AlpineVillage / ***WELCOME BACK TO METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #RockCity / “I’ll let her know that you approve, sir…”
(07:03): PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “The shirt brings…the sexy back…” / #PatreonShoutout / ***If YOU know the Patreon drum fill, TELL US…and you might just get a surprise…*** / “I think I just learned something…”/ #EmberingEffigy / #SweetwaterLive / ***You can SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube #TikTok #Instagram #Facebook at #metalnerderypodcast***You can give us a call and VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #PissingPost #Shittah #Exodus / “If it’s the song I think it is…it’s an old school #Scorpions cover…” / HE’S A WOMAN SHE’S A MAN (feat. Mark Osgueda from #DeathAngel and #KerryKing ) / “You know what they should rename this song…the ballad of Caitlyn and Chaz…” / “You mean I don’t have to TRANSplain it?” / “Nope!”
(15:26): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: CORONER – DISSONANCE THEORY / Released 10/17/2025 / #Coroner #DissonanceTheory / “If #DreamTheater were a thrash metal band, that’s this…”/ “People are saying #AlbumOfTheYear …”/ Produced by Tommy Vetterli (aka Tommy T Baron) / OXYMORON (creepy intro whispers…) / CONSEQUENCE / “That dude’s still going!” / “Talk about a killer opener…”/ #sorry / “He cupped the microphone…to make it louder…”
(24:24): SACRIFICIAL LAMB / “The mix is (almost) perfect…”/ “Fear not, little flock…the kingdom is yours until I will come…”/ “It sounds like it has space and layers…it’s crisp and its upfront…”/ #raisingthebar / “Everything has its space…it has a very good texture to it…”/
“I think that’s your new word…texture…”/ CRISIUM BOUND / The word for this episode is ‘texture’… / The unpredictability factor of CORONER’s riffs and chords… / “Just when you think…all the riffs have been written… (“NOPE!”) / SYMMETRY (“Iste ego sum…”) #Swisstalian / “How do you make it more bad ass? We’re gonna put an ancient language in there…” / “I am this…”
(33:40): THE LAW “I am the law…for what I am, but I am the law…” / “Somebody’s playing piano…I hear guitar and piano…there’s some piano in there…” / “I think now they’re just there for show…they’re there for texture…” / TRANSPARENT EYE / “This one has a weird walkdown…”/ #fuckingsick / “That’s what I miss about ‘back in the day’…HOW!?”/
“This brings back that feeling…”
(40:28): TRINITY / “It’s like weird metal jazz…”/ “That bass tone is growling…it’s like a presence…and…it’s got texture…” / #wordoftheepisode / RENEWAL (this was the first single (in over 30 years), btw…) / “A little bit of Blackened in there…”/ “He’s Swisstalian btw…”/ “What I like about Ron’s voice: you can understand everything he says…but he’s much more pronunced.”
(48:06): PROLONGING / “Sounds like #Opeth, old #DeepPurple…or #Sabbath …”/ “I wonder who’s playing the organ…” / #whisperASMR / “Show us something we’ve NEVER heard before…”/ #SolarGuitars / Like, Subscribe, and Share / “Fourth walls just don’t matter in this room, do they?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
“That dude is Dracula, man…”
The entire month of October is Halloween. And you can’t do October without TYPE-O-NEGATIVE, as they are the official soundtrack to the month of Halloween.
Released August 20, 1996, OCTOBER RUST, their 4th studio album (or 3rd if you count “Origin of the Feces” as a “live” album, which we actually do, even though it’s technically not) is much more gothy, textured, and atmospheric than previous TYPE-O albums while still maintaining the same gothic, heavy, doom laden aesthetic of their previous albums, making it the perfect sonic representation of all things Halloween: vampires, werewolves, haunted houses, haunted relationships, hot bisexual goth girls who are into threesomes, bottles of red wine, and lonely forests bathed in the colorful, seasonal transformation that is autumn.
It's time to imagine Molly Ringwald dressed as a goth girl for Halloween as you feast your ears on the creepiest, evilest sounding keyboards in metal while summoning Bacchus (the god of wine and revelry and/or tits) to help prepare for this season’s “fistivities”.
Discover the actual definition of “zoanthropic paranoia”, find out what happens when you make a goth girl squirt, and learn about Peter Steele’s lesser known “nickname” when you JOIN US as we rrrrrrroll our R’s rrrrrrright on through creepy season with OCTOBER RUST.
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(00:01): “I can smell all of that…over here.” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #BlazingAppleFireball / “Sometimes there’s after tang on apple…”/ “Something with bubbles…”/ #nerd / #RussellsFoodReflections / “I need that tool…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #alltheholes / #upcomingmetalshows / #markthetime / “Mmmkay…” / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok at #MetalNerderyPodcast & EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!***
(08:44): ***PATREON SHOUTOUTS!!!*** / ***You can PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/ “Wait a minute, this is where you fucked yourself before…” / #All7s / #RussellsMovieReflections #TheNakedGun #Code3 / “Wait, you mean they do it because that’s what their passion is?” / “I’m gonna take a guess here…” / PIECE BY PIECE (Reign In Blood – 1986) / #SlayerOfTheEpisode
(16:43): #TheDocket / “October is the month of Halloween…it’s the whole month.” / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: TYPE-O-NEGATIVE OCTOBER RUST / NOTE: It’s actually their 4th studio album: Origin of the Feces was actually “not” a live album / “If a girl ever invites you up to her bedroom…”/ #SuicideGirls / #GothMollyRingwald / “Gothic and doom are kinda close…right?” / #PeterSteeleASMR / ***IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, BE SURE TO GO CHECK OUT OUR TYPE-O-NEGATIVE INSIDE THE METAL EPISODES!!!***
(23:39): “Let it ring out…”/ BAD GROUND/UNTITLED (Intro) / LOVE YOU TO DEATH / #creepykeyboards / The evolution of #Carnivore to #TypeONegative / “It’s very sonic…”/
BE MY DRUIDESS / “He might roll his R’s, dude…”/ “I’ll do anything to make you come…”/
Find out what happens when you make a goth girl squirt… / “It’s plasm, dude…”
(30:30): “It might be green…”/ GREEN MAN / #RollYourRs / RED WATER (CHRISTMAS MOURNING) / “I think I read that they’re going to do a tribute tour…”/ “His name’s ‘Kickstand’…”/ #COD / “Let’s bring it back up…perfect, the next one’s about…goth lesbians…” / MY GIRLFRIEND’S GIRLFRIEND / “Just wait, he rolls plenty of R’s on this one…”/ “That sounds like # Halloween right there…”/ “Balls jangle…WOW!”/ “The only thing that scares me about 3-somes and drugs…”/ #allthepoon
(41:20): DIE WITH ME / “I guess this is like their #powerballad sort of…”/ There’s a lot of breathing on this album…” / BURNT FLOWERS FALLEN / “God I think she’s falling out of (love)…”/ “The next one is about the god of wine…and revelry…or ‘wine and tits’…the god of wine and revelry and/or tits…”/ “Lively and noisy #fistivities …”/ IN PRAISE OF BACCHUS /
“It’s almost like stoner gothic…”/ #DoomBeatles
(50:10): “Did she have red hair?”/ CINNAMON GIRL (Neil Young cover) / #PeterSteeleASMR / “The next one is just fun to say…”/ #instrumental / #readingisfundamental /
THE GLORIOUS LIBERATION OF THE PEOPLE’S TECHNOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VINNLAND BY THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE UNITED TERRITORIES OF EUROPA / “I don’t know what zoanthropic means…”/ WOLF MOON (INCLUDING ZOANTHROPIC PARANOIA) / “The definition of zoanthropic paranoia…and/or cannibalism…” / #Druids / “That just sounds like fall…”/ “As a matter of fucking fact…”/ HAUNTED / “I hate the morning…”/ #spokenword #interlude #creepypoetryASMR / UNTITLED (outro) /
BLACK SABBATH (FROM THE SATANIC PERSPECTIVE) / “On this one it is…”/ #bonustrack #BoneUs / “That dude is Dracula, man…” / “That’s the most evil sounding a piano has ever sounded…”/ “We should do that…an album dive of that album…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel
Thursday Oct 09, 2025
Thursday Oct 09, 2025
“I didn’t do stink finger until sophomore year…”
Switzerland is known for a few things with holes in them, most notably their cheese (and quite possibly their chocolate). But the biggest hole Switzerland is known for (other than CERN) is the seemingly endless void between the last CORONER studio album (“Grin” in 1993) and their upcoming 2025 release “Dissonance Theory”, which makes the gap between Tool albums look like a couple of weeks by comparison.
As one of the most technically progressive, avant-garde thrash bands in the entirety of Metal, CORONER are the kings of odd time signatures, unusual chord shapes, and mathematically challenging riffs that set them apart from the rest of the pack, and we’re so glad they’re finally back!
Often called “the Rush of thrash metal”, most likely due to the incredible depth, musical complexity, and texture of music that a 3-piece band of their stature can deliver, CORONER doesn’t sound like anyone else in the thrash metal canon.
Discover the potentially dark traits shared by those with middle names who write in notebooks, understand the line of distinction between “a millionaire and a billionaire”, and find out why sex on Christmas Day ensures you’ll be celebrating birthdays “on the same day as Russell” when you JOIN US as we go INSIDE THE METAL with the best roadies Celtic Frost ever had, featuring Switzerland’s masters of techno thrash sorcery, CORONER.
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(00:01): “Okayyyy…Gurrrrl…” / “I saw something interesting in your refrigerator…”/ “#English is a stupid language…”/ #StewieASMR / “I thought I was the #guineapig…”/ “Blackberry and peanut butter…”/ #PBandJ / “Hold on…I’m not ready…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “It’s got a little after brr…”/ “Great big tongs on the end of it…”/ “Tomorrow night I’m working with the ‘special forces’…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s why they pay you18 figures a year…”/ #seniordiscounts / “Does that guy got a boat?”/ “You pulling down some good numbers?”/
“He’s the one that spoke in class today…” / #dadjokesASMR / “Did y’all see my chalice?” / “Shout out to Chelsea…”/ #FronteraMexicanKitchen / “I guess everybody fucks on Christmas…and then everybody’s born on the same day as Russell…”/ #CharlieBrownChristmas #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas / “I’ll talk to you on Boxing Day, how about that?”/ “Thailand? They’ve got ladyboys here, dude…”
(10:23): “Apparently #serialkillers do a lot of #notebooking …”/ “That’s a girls name…”/ Find out who’s stage name initials are “AH”…” / ***PATREON SHOUTOUT!!!*** / ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***WE’LL PLAY YOUR SHITTAH!!!*** / #Ravager / FROM US WITH HATE (from Tim) / EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com, SOCIAL MEDIA US at #YouTube, #Facebook, #Instagram and #TikTok / Find out how you know you’re rich…/ “That sounds like #Death…”/ “Darius, if you’re still out there…”/ ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “A couple of new listeners…two new recruits”
“It might have been the Post and Post Jr…”/ #throatboxing
(20:20): #TheDocket / ***METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: CORONER – INSIDE THE METAL *** / “How crazy can the riffs be?”/ #Coroner / SYMMETRY (Dissonance Theory – 2025) / “It’s got Latin in it…”/ “Iste ego sum”/ “He said ‘peek-a-boo’…”/ “They are kinda like the #RUSH of thrash…”/ “If you want a Swiss bank account, call these guys…”
(26:34): R.I.P. (1987) / “Look at the logo, dude…”/ “Since they’re a 3 piece…it’s not like the singer has to go off the stage…”/ REBORN THROUGH HATE / “He’s not playing with his dick!?”/ SPIRAL DREAM (lyrics by Tom G. Warrior) / #oough
(30:48): Punishment For Decadence (1988) / “They’ve streamlined their album covers…”/
MASKED JACKAL / “The vocals just disappear on this one…”/ THE NEW BREED / “It got the #Newsted treatment…”/ #LarsASMR / “Let’s fist, c’mon…” / “We’re fisting, it’s fine…don’t make it weird…”/ PURPLE HAZE (Jimi Hendrix Experience) / “The ugly vocals…”
(35:40): No More Color (1989) / “This is like when we all go back to black and white…”/ DIE BY MY HAND / “Hopefully they brought the vocals ‘back to the front’…”/ “That’s Switzerland’s contribution to the thrash canon…”/ READ MY SCARS / #TheClassicLineup / “Sounds like…a superhero with a cape…”
(42:04): Mental Vortex (1991) / ***Check out our #Covers episode…”/ SEMTEX REVOLUTION / “They DO NOT sound like #Whitesnake…”/ #OoohMama /
DIVINE STEP (CONSPECTU MORTIS) / #Latin for “In the face of death…”/ “Those riffs don’t sound like anybody else…”/ “Coroner always had the weird chords like ‘what can your fingers do?’… / “I didn’t do #stinkfinger until sophomore year I think…”/ #BlackDog / “You’re looking at me longingly, and I don’t like it…”/ I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY) / #TheBeatles / “Do you miss it, dude?”
(50:50): Grin (1993) / “This is even darker than the other ones…”/ #Aliens / INTERNAL CONFLICTS / “We’ve talked about this briefly…and it’s only with CD’s…the intro…if it’s under 2 minutes, just make it part of the song…(On tapes it didn’t really matter…)”/ “Their cheese has holes in it…their chocolate too, I think it has holes in it…Swiss chocolate doesn’t have holes in it…if you get Swiss meat does it have holes in it?” / #differentcows /
THE LETHARGIC AGE / “Got it…”/ GRIN (NAILS HURT) / “It’s almost kind of industrial…”/ “They don’t have it…” / #FuckingAmazon / “Do you think bands should do that?”/ “It’s like a mish-mash quilt of music…”/ #DissonanceTheory / ***Let us know what YOU think about CORONER!!!*** / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel
Thursday Oct 02, 2025
Thursday Oct 02, 2025
Released 10/15/1996, WISEBLOOD, the 5th studio album from CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, is the perfect soundtrack to October and everything that goes with it, including shag carpeting, wood paneling, and fresh greens.
Filled with driving metal riffs and all of the sonic textures that made the 70’s the best decade for music, the “Skynyrd Fried Sabbath” infused 70’s jam band stylings of WISEBLOOD evokes a “super-heavy fuzzy 70’s” vibe that pairs well with the flower of your choosing.
Go fix yourself a PB&J (or a P&BJ) sandwich, relish the privilege of getting a Senior Discount for looking like a wizard at The Chick-Fil-A of burgers, and remember that “pre-AIDS poon is the best kind” when you JOIN US for a dose of retro southern metal with CORROSION OF CONFORMITY and WISEBLOOD.
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(00:01): “It’s gonna be a good show…All 7’s…” / #SiriusXM / “Doesn’t that mean #TheLord though?”/ #TheNumberOfCompletion / #markthetime / “Somebody left a lipstick in here…freshly used…”/ “Siri?” / Be careful what you say because Siri is ALWAYS listening…and always active…ALL the time…/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ #RayBanSkynetMeta sunglasses / #RepeatedReflections / “I get it!”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #SeniorDiscount / “I love #Culvers because they’re like the #ChickFilA of burgers…”
(7:30): #RussellsSausageReflections / “Now I want sausage…” / “Y’all knew about the gout attack…”/ “Back to the sausage…” / #markthetimeagain / “They’re just bun length hot dogs…” / A “brief” review of the #NIN show at Gwinnett Arena / “Here’s what the really cool thing was…”/
(15:55): EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & leave us a rating and a review wherever you download our podcast, FIND US on the social media at #Facebook #Instagram #YouTube and #TikTok at #metalnerderypodcast and PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / PATREON SHOUT OUT / ***You can VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / That time when Axl Rose filled in for Brian Johnson in AC/DC / “I thought it was only a couple of shows…”/ #cashgrab / “Bad Axl: that should be the name of his solo band…” / #MyHonk / “Pre-AIDS poon is the best kind…”
(24:15): Psychic Slayer of the episode / “There was so many rascals…”/ #Slayer BEHIND THE CROOKED CROSS (South of Heaven – 1988) / A misspoken Slayer factoid/observation that wasn’t so recent.
(28:16): #TheDocket / “By the time y’all hear this, it’ll be Rocktober…Metaltober…The soundtrack to weed, shag carpeting, wood paneling…”/ METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - WISEBLOOD / Released 10/15/1996 /
“There’s 7 illuminati pyramids…”/ KING OF THE ROTTEN / “It goes from driving metal riffs into total 70’s vibes…like southern rock on steroids” / #SkynyrdFriedSabbath
(34:10): LONG WHIP/BIG AMERICA / “You can’t have the 70’s without 7’s…”/
“If this album came out today, would it be bigger now than it was then?”/
“I hear that, and it’s shag carpeting, wood paneling, fall, and weed…” / #Sativa vs #Indica / WISEBLOOD / “It’s just super heavy fuzzy 70’s…”/ GOODBYE WINDOWS /
#SmogMountain / “The coke line inventory is very good, across the board…”/ “I just need like $500,000…”
(45:54): BORN AGAIN FOR THE LAST TIME / The problem with being constantly reincarnated with no memory of past lives / “The snooch looks like a #StarCrunch bar…don’t put your dick in it!”/ DROWNING IN A DAYDREAM / “Godzilla!” / “I’m having a hard time between this and Deliverance right now…” / Lightning vs Puppets
(50:50): THE SNAKE HAS NO HEAD / #MrSnuffleupagus / “It’s like #BlackSabbath meets #JimiHendrix…” / THE DOOR / “Originally, Mr. Hetfield was not credited on this…” / MAN OR ASH / “These are primitive times…”/ “A Lot…”/ REDEMPTION CITY / “Break out the relaxers…all the coke lines…”/ “No Quarter…” / “Imagine my face is an acoustic guitar…that’s how they mic it…”
(1:03:53): WISHBONE (SOME TOMORROW) / “That almost sounds like a #DOWN song but I can’t think of which one…”/ “Put your seatbelt on…put your helmet on…and get ready…”/ FUEL / “It’s like 5 distortion boxes all set to loud…you can’t have too much distortion…” / “I am curious to know what the Spanish on this next one translates to…” / BOTTOM FEEDER (EL QUE COME ABAJO) / “The One Who Eats Below” / “It sounds like the new #Iommi sound…not from the 70’s…like modern…”/ “70’s jam band…”/ “It’s like PB& J…or P…and BJ…” / #BirthdayBeej / ***GO CHECK OUT OUR HALLOWEEN SUPER SPECIAL TO FIND OUT ABOUT “THE RUSS MASK”*** / #BOLTH / “Go fix yourself a PB&J or a P&BJ sandwich and THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!” / “Check him out with his meats…”
#SwizzleSticks #untilthenext #outroreel
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
“Is that Richard Pryor?”
Released 04/21/1992, the 3rd official BEASTIE BOYS studio album, CHECK YOUR HEAD, is a genius title because this album is “all up in here” and is the perfect psychedelic ASMR accompaniment to justify your luxury headphone purchase.
While this episode is more than a little bit “off the reservation” we feel like with the right headphones and the right relaxers you’ll be in just the right mood to really enjoy it from beginning to end.
Loaded up with a wide variety of sonic textures, grooves, and more 70’s vibes than even Tarantino can shake a stick at (including the gratuitous use of Hammond B-3 keyboards and visions of wood paneled walls and orange shag carpeting), CHECK YOUR HEAD is the perfect album to make the trip back to 1974 “back when thunder sounded like thunder”.
Get ready for a Bunkerpoon ghost story regarding some paranormal activity captured during our recent Mastodon episode, find out what you’re NOT supposed to do when the red tide reaches the slippery shores of Snooch Gulch, remember that “Eerie Inhabitants 1988 thunder does not sound like 2025 thunder“ and JOIN US for CHRONICLES II: Part II – Off The Reservation with the BEASTIE BOYS and get ready to CHECK YOUR HEAD.
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(00:07): “It sounds like Eerie inhabitants thunder…”/ “They had better thunder than we did…”/ “There’s a crack in the ice wall…” / #flatearther / “My ears are perfect…”/ “I can’t see Mt. Everest from my house…”/ “The thunder they had in the 1800’s…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “How long were you married?” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Actually it’s part III, officially…”/ #ChroniclesII
(04:47): ***PATREON SHOUTOUTS*** / JOIN US on the Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / “It’s Cream of Crème soup…it’s gonna stick to your ribs…”/ You can EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com with your #Shittah / #LiftTheCurse FLY OR DIE (Don’t Bury The Dream) / “You wanna do it?” / #PsychicSlayerOfTheEpisode / “I don’t wanna play no more…” / #BunkerpoonGhostStory /
“Is that 3-D?” / “Write in 7’s…”/ #Slayer BORN OF FIRE (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) /
#SmogMountain
(13:27): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: BEASTIE BOYS – CHECK YOUR HEAD / #OffTheReservation / #markthetime / “You guys remember the GOOD thunder?”/ Released 04/21/1992; the 3rd official #BEASTIEBOYS studio album… / NOTE: Polly Wog Stew was their first EP / “We had different sun in 1988…”/ Find out what you’re NOT supposed to do when the red tide reaches the slippery shores of Snooch Gulch. / BEASTIE BOYS (Polly Wog Stew – 1982) / “You put a lot of emphasis on…”
(21:47): #CheckYourHead / JIMMY JAMES / “This next one is the first song on our new album…”/ “Yo, welcome to Rap Nerdery…” / “It’s a LOT different than the first one…”/
FUNKY BOSS / “That’s some 70’s sounding shit right there…” / “Is that Richard Pryor?” / PASS THE MIC
(27:37): GRATITUDE / #onmicburp / #usethoseheadphones / “Sound designed soundscapes for your brain…”/ LIGHTEN UP (with a healthy dose of 70’s Hammond keyboard tones…) / “That’s 70’s right there…all day…”/ FINGER LICKIN’ GOOD
The 70’s atmosphere stuff fair outweighs the rap stuff… / SO WHAT’CHA WANT! / “That’s some 70’s keyboards right there…”
(36:37): THE BIZ VS THE NUGE + TIME FOR LIVIN’ / “That sounds like old school punk…”/
SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE / “There’s a lot of texture to this…that’s just all vibe music right there…”/ “I just wanna get high now…”/ THE BLUE NUN + STAND TOGETHER / Some psychedelic #ASMR to justify your luxury headphone purchase… / “It’s like synthesized farting…”
(44:47): POW / “I’m sensing a huge hairy bush…”/ “Slow it down…” / “You need to handle that for a little bit…it wouldn’t quit looking at me…” / #MyPrecious / THE MAESTRO /
“See, they remixed and remastered the weather…” / GROOVE HOLMES / The sound of Hammond B-3 organ, wood paneled walls, and orange shag carpeting that made the 70’s an epic decade…
(51:17): LIVE AT P.J.’s / “They say ‘y’all’ a lot…”/ “It feels like it’s 1974 and I’m just hanging out…with the GOOD thunder…”/ MARK ON THE BUS + PROFESSOR BOOTY / #usethoseheadphones / “They’re genius for calling it CHECK YOUR HEAD because this album is “all up in here”/ “It should be called “In 7’s” but it’s not, it’s IN 3’S…”/ “It’s totally 70’s T.V.” / “It’s a lot to digest…”/ #edibles
(1:01:27): NAMASTE / “What do we call him? Is that Harold?” / #readthoselyrics #atmospheric #usethoseheadphones #usethoserelaxers / “Everything we did today was NOT our general wheelhouse…”/ “I’m sorry #KISS fans…”/ “There’s something for everybody…”/ “This was definitely a little ‘off the reservation’…”/ #MushroomChroniclesII / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US! (WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE TRIP!) / #ThePoopCruise / #shitwater / #untilthenext #outroreel
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
“In fairness, I guess if they didn’t have the make-up, what would they have? A different career?”
Released March 15, 1976, DESTROYER, the “iconic and mysterious” 4th studio album by KISS, was the first studio release after their breakthrough double live album ALIVE!, which chronicled their first 3 studio albums in a live concert setting and really brought the power and spectacle of the live KISS concert experience of the mid 1970’s to the masses.
Getting winded from tying your shoelaces is “the saddest thing about getting older” after coming to grips with the glaring realization that KISS just isn’t quite as awesome at middle age as it was upon hearing it for the first time in early childhood. But having said that, KISS was most definitely one hell of an exciting place to start one’s journey into the realm of metal.
We’re going to ask that you go ahead and lower any “Great Expectations” you may have had for this episode, because only a “fly by the seat of our balls kinda podcast” such as ours would dare to take on something like this.
Get ready for a “sobering moment”, remember that “Iconic” is the word of the episode, find out which Slayer album included “Fluoride Westone”, discover “how many people it takes to make KISS sound good”, and remember that “it’s nothing but 7’s” when you JOIN US for some “Rock and Roll Spiderman” as we embark on our trip through CHRONICLES II with PART I: the 4th studio album by “the hottest band in the land”, DESTROYER.
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Show Notes:
(00:01): “I have a list of what we’ve done…”/ #SlayerOfTheEpisode / “For our April Fools Day episode…“Everything that sucks about R.E.M.”/ “Staaaaaaaahhhhhhhp! Shut uhhhhhhhp!”/ #REMSucksASMR / “Sobering moment…”/ #Harold / “Let’s do…the things and the stuff…” / #BBQASMR / #LimpBrisket / “You’ve gotta let it rest for like an hour…”/ “Sleeping bag…with a “tent over it…” / “Next time I go out on a date, I’m gonna ask a girl if I can put my steak in her sleeping bag…” / #Whoops / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***”This show contains mushrooms, alcohol, and retardation…”***
(05:36): ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY AVERAGE DOUBLE TEAM PODCAST!!!*** / “That’s the saddest thing about getting older…”/ “And frankly…tiresome.” / ***PATREON US at www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/
#PatreonShoutout #MetalNerderyPatreon / “It’s a life hack…if you need puss, you put that shirt on…” / GET YOUR MERCH AT metalnerdery.com/merch / ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #KenFromConnecticut and some comments regarding #Mastodon and #Ozzy / #WellPlayYourShittah / “We’re a fly by the seat of our balls kinda podcast…”/ The laziest tattoo choice / #Turnstile HOLIDAY / “This would have been good for the next episode…”
(14:49): “Barbecued or fried? There’s a big difference…” / #PsychicSlayerOfTheEpisode / #markthetime / #Slayer AT DAWN THEY SLEEP (Hell Awaits – 1985) / “7’s…it’s 7’s…nothing but 7’s…”/ “Flouride Westone? Is it Chemical Warfare, maybe? / “To be fair…it’s been about an hour…” / “We should probably go ahead and admit: this is a Chronicle event…”
(18:13): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: KISS – DESTROYER / (***NOTE: We actually did a KISS Inside The Metal on our first Chronicles episode a few years back…***) / “I remember all the cool kids at school had this…” / Released March 15, 1976 / “There must be something about producers named Bob…”/ #BobSeven /
“It’s iconic looking and mysterious…this was like ‘Pre-metal’…”/ “Their show is a big part of what metal is now…”/ “When we were kids, that was probably the closest thing (to metal)…” / DETROIT ROCK CITY / “They’re at the #WaffleHouse…”/ “Alive! Too, btw (NOT AliveII)” / “That’s an iconic riff…”/
(29:15): “Oh yeah, it ends with a crash…”/ KING OF THE NIGHT TIME WORLD /
“I’m sorry, it’s so hard not to hear Al Gore when he sings…” / GOD OF THUNDER / #KingVolumeRecords (“When the drummer brings a riff to practice…” – you can find it on #Instagram) / #TheSDRShow #GaSDigital #GeneSimmonsFromKISS #MichaelJacksonJokes / GREAT EXPECTATIONS (“Just lower ‘em…way down…”) / “See what his mouth can do (and his fingers…and his hands…) / “It’s like a bad version of The Beatles…” / “You guys go on and on about how good #KISS is…” / “No, I talk about their stage show and I thought they were cool…I had the lunchbox, y’know…”
(37:30): FLAMING YOUTH / “Think about how many people LOVE this band though…”/
#ReMasked / SWEET PAIN / “It’s definitely 70’s…” / “In fairness, I guess if they didn’t have the make-up, what would they have? A different career?” / “Yeah…”/ SHOUT IT OUT LOUD / “I think I understand now why it was only appealing to me as a 6-year-old…”/ “The next song is probably the best song they ever wrote…”/ BETH / “That’s how many people it takes to make KISS sound good…” / DO YOU LOVE ME? / “This is what you wanted…I wanted the best…you got the best…” / “It’s instrumental…that’s why it’s better…”/ “I’m sure they’re WAY better live…” / “They were Rock ‘n’ Roll Spiderman”/ NOTE: Beth was the B-Side to Detroit Rock City, not Shout It Out Loud / “As a kid, it worked.” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel #ChroniclesII