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Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
“Where were YOU when you heard the news…?”
No one will EVER forget the day that Eddie Van Halen left this world. And the reason we will never forget is because Eddie Van Halen CHANGED this world in such an incredibly profound (and incredibly METAL) way that he can only be described as unforgettable. There have been many copycats and imitators over the years, but to paraphrase from The Highlander: “There Can Be Only ONE Eddie Van Halen!”
JOIN US as we pay tribute to the GREATEST, most innovative and un-orthodoxically BRILLIANT guitarist to have ever blessed music: Mr. Edward Lodewjik Van Halen.
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(00:00 - The celebration of a #fuckinglegend : Eddie Van Halen #thegoat / The “reason” for the “Brown Sound”
(03:45) - A Metal Nerdery dedication to Edward Van Halen (check out metalnerdery.com/podcast ) / Where were YOU when you first heard Eddie Van Halen? (***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com / #dontdenythepowerof / The smell of old albums…
(13:03) - October 6, 2020 (***GO WATCH the guitar solo from Live Without a Net***) / Van Roth vs Van Hagar / Seeing the Live Without a Net equivalent during the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen
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(18:08) - Like Pantera with MORE cocaine and MORE hookers and ZERO apathy / The explanation of WHY #vanhalenISmetal #tobefair / The formula for #hairmetal success / #wunderkind (when you’re gifted it doesn’t matter…)
(24:40) - The production quality for Van Halen’s FIRST (!?) album and the magic of Ted Templeman / I’m the One (Van Halen I): double bass = METAL / Atomic Punk (very #flangey) #thefirstsix of Van Halen
(32:00) - Unchained-Fair Warning (drop D proving once again that #vanhalenISmetal) / One of the first Van Halen music videos… / In the 80’s… (another inappropriate moment) / Light Up the Sky (Van Halen II)
(39:14) - Favorite #EVH guitar solos? EMAIL US your favorite EVH solos at metalnerdery@gmail.com (WARNING: #michaeljackson #notmetal HOWEVER, #eddie #vanhalenISmetal) / #onmicburp #FAIL / OU812 and The EVOLUTION of Artists / #thefirstsix / Metal Nerdery (NOW with Keyboards)
(46:55) – Can you imagine Eddie Van Halen…in KISS!? / Happy Trails (Diver Down) / Everybody Wants Some (Women and Children First) / #thatsNOTVanHalen / Could This Be Magic? and Take Your Whiskey Home (Women and Children First) #vanhalenISheavy
(1:00:50) – Mean Street (Fair Warning): A Vulgar Display of Van Halen (Van Halen was Pantera before Pantera was Pantera) #panterafist (The similarities between Van Halen and Pantera are striking…) / Number 8!? EVERY shredder OWES their life and livelihood to Eddie Van Halen / Check out metalnerdery.com/episodes/guitar-gods (and the weird tangentional tangentionalality to Jimmy Page #thatwomanisablessin
(1:08:52) – Direct quote from EVH re: Led Zeppelin & Jimmy Page (and #burn #whatsthepurpose) / Girl Gone Bad (1984: The Last of the Roth Halen lineup): The Song about the Girl Gone Bad Remains the Same / “Man, I saw Van way back in the day…” #crickets / 5150 (5150) and the Happiness that is the Van Halen sound / Get Up (5150) #vanhalenISmetal because #doublebass (Can you hear the Pantera?)/ Eruption (Van Halen I) #fuckingglorious HAIL and Farewell and THANK YOU to Edward Van Halen. R.I.P.
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Pantera had a gift for outdoing themselves with every song and every album. Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly be any heavier, they come around the corner and prove you wrong. FAR BEYOND DRIVEN, Pantera’s 3rd release (post Power Metal) blends the intensity and thrashy groove of Vulgar with the aggression and brutal heaviness of Trendkill. (No wonder it went to Number 1!!!)
JOIN US as we dive in, talk about the tracks, the production, the heaviness and the vulgar vulgarity that we all know and love courtesy of the metal band that OWNED heavy music in the 1990’s.
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(00:00): Pantera Far Beyond Driven (you should have seen the ORIGINAL album cover…)/Released 03/22/1994 (spring with a fall feel)/HOW does Pantera keep outdoing themselves!?/Pantera: The New Age of Thrash/Well see what happened was…#metalnerderyASMR (Wait, WHAT!?)
(05:35): Pantera “pre-Cowboys”/I am the night and #POWERMETAL/Fastest selling album EVAHHHH!!! Went to #1 on Billboard!!!/***GO WATCH PANTERA IN MOSCOW!!!***/A note on Wikipedia regarding the “original” album cover artwork/The PMRC’s blundering move of metal marketing GENIUS!!!
(11:13): Have you ever seen the video for Planet Caravan? / The juggernaut that is Pantera and releasing new songs before the release of the new record / ***GO WATCH METAL GRASSHOPPER!!!***/The best name for a Pantera tribute band EVAHHHH / R.I.P. Mule Camp Tavern / #cancerboogers
(17:52): #39!? Ummm, don’t you feel like.../ The Metallica of the 1990’s/Pantera stew/The Badge (Poison Idea): BONE US track on the Japanese version of Far Beyond Driven and some various tangentionally tangentional related tangents while Matt goes to Frost/#blackdog
(28:22): The Tracks (but first, the crickets) and #goindown/STRENGTH BEYOND STRENGTH (#killeropener)
(33:32): BECOMING (#cantbeloudenough) / The gloriousness that is Dime / FIVE MINUTES ALONE (and the story behind the song) and an important message (#DontBeAnAsshole #readthoselyrics) / The evolution of Pantera’s sound from album to album / The awesome Riff Lord Savantitude of Dimebag #thatmanisablessin
(43:00): I’M BROKEN (those riffs!!!) / GOOD FRIENDS AND A BOTTLE OF PILLS (Wait, WTF!?) Dark and Fun and definitely NOT like the first 4 songs!!
(48:07): HARD LINES and SUNKEN CHEEKS (#eviler #evilocity) / SLAUGHTERED (#workoutmix) #backshadowing #foreskinning / 25 YEARS (the 1st half vs the 2 nd half)
(59:06): SHEDDING SKIN (#breakupsong) /USE MY THIRD ARM (definitely some death metal gravy in the Pantera stew) / Moving towards the more aggressive sound of Trendkill/
(1:05:45): THROES OF REJECTION (another Pantera #breakupsong): Ending the song on A crescendo of hatred / WHY did Pantera have to “justify” including Planet Caravan in the liner notes of Far Beyond Driven!?!? It didn’t need to be needed… #noteven/PLANET CARAVAN/Nerd Out and Thank you and Good Night/#easteregg
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Back before corporations acquired (and systematically destroyed) rock radio by playing the same 10 songs on perpetual repeat into the dirt, radio disc jockeys used to actually have some control over their “playlists” and would sometimes throw on a song that wasn’t a normal rock radio favorite: maybe something that wasn’t a “hit single”, or something for which there was no “music video”; something longer, something unusual, something off the beaten path: we call these Deep Cuts. That’s what us Metal Nerds call “The Good Stuff”. And when it comes to Black Sabbath, it’s ALL Good Stuff!!!
There’s just one problem: because WE THE NERDS here at Metal Nerdery are already so intimately familiar with what shall be henceforth known as “The First Six”, it was kind of a challenge for us to each pick our favorite 6 deep cuts from The First Six Black Sabbath albums. There were a few that overlapped on our respective listicles but we tried to go as deeply as we could to give those of you who are only familiar with side 1 of ‘Paranoid’ a nice sampling of what we call “That GOOD Sabbath”.
JOIN US after you’ve finished your bowl (of breakfast cereal) as we discuss our favorite “deep cuts” from our favorite first 6 albums by our favorite First Godfathers of Metal, Black Sabbath. Also check out our live stream of this episode on our Facebook page and find out whether or not Russ will show his “Man Tetons” on Facebook.
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00.00: Goin’ down…#crunchyballriffs/***BTW check out our Facebook LIVE version of this episode***/The deep Black Sabbath Cuts from the 1st 6 Albums (from the Metal Nerdery perspective)/#thefirstsix/The “definition” of Deep Cuts
04.30: Sleeping Village (with the WHOLE finger, not just A Bit of Finger)/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Electric Funeral/Rat Salad/The Wizard/Supernaut/Solitude (#relaxer)/Supernaut AND Cornucopia (A little high, a little low)/The Thrill of It All (Is Sabotage “underrated”? ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and give us your perspective***)/Supertzar (Evil Disney)/Megalomania (STING ME!)/National Acrobat/Spiral Architect (Remember the intro from Spiral Architect being on the commercial for C.A.R.E. back in the 80’s?)/Lord of This World/Hand of Doom/#gold/Sorry I looked at you…
15.15: check out our Man Tetons on Facebook/Hole in the Sky (#mattsaid)/Billy’s List: Sleeping Village, Behind the Wall of Sleep, Into the Void, Supernaut/Cornucopia (tie), Thrill of it All, Megalomania/Russell’s List: Hole in the Sky, Snowblind (that’s not a #deepcut), The Writ, Symptom of The Universe (***Have a drink on behalf of Russell’s birthday***), Changes, Killing Yourself to Live, Supernaut, Behind the Wall of Sleep/Wheeler’s List: Sleeping Village (where’s the finger?), Electric Funeral (#suicidepaneling & #shagcarpeting), Solitude/After Forever (tie), St. Vitus’ Dance, St. Wheels of Confusion, Spiral Architect (EMAIL US re: C.A.R.E. commercial soundtrack at metalnerdery@gmail.com), Supertzar, The Writ
27.00: The influence of other bands on Sabbath’s sound (specifically regarding the change in their sound with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage; particularly Sabotage) and the departure from the mostly bluesy sound/***FACEBOOK SHOUT OUTS***/Ridiculous memories and “high” fashion.
30.16: NOW is where you sync up with Facebook: A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village (***listen with headphones***)/Russell’s birthday pledge and the transition to The Warning/Electric Funeral (#takeitoff #cantbeloudenough): It’s fair to say that Electric Funeral was a bit… #thrashish
38.11: Master of Reality (NOT Puppets): Wrong Master (and also NOT a deep cut…#foreshadowing)/After Forever and/or Solitude (because After Forever #rocksballs)/Thank you Russ for putting that thought in our brains LOL!/ After Forever = Happy Thrash/Our pledge…and a request (or a challenge) and a SHOUT OUT (and a tangentionally related bit regarding Storm Corrosion related to #bolth Opeth and Porcupine Tree, and ultimately: Black Sabbath)/WTF is in YOUR breakfast cereal!? BBQ’d Parrot (on the next #bigdaddysbbqpit)
46.46: A question from a long time listener (CHECK OUT #episode1)/HAIL to Mille Petrozza and Kreator with a ‘K’ /***BACK TO THE SHOW***/A 3-way tie for Supernaut (and some notable fun factoids)/#KISS is definitely #notBillysfavoriteband)/A bit of #bolthree: National Acrobat (#readthoselyrics): definitely a lot of space in the mix/The development of Ozzy’s voice over time.
1.01.01: Killing Yourself to Live (the creepy overchorused tremolo) and the impact of confidence on a performance/#multipreprobrems/Spiral Architect (and C.A.R.E….if you remember this, PLEASE EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com if you remember the 80’s commercial for C.A.R.E.)
1.08.30: Hole in the Sky (Sabotage: GO BUY IT!)/Megalomania (Black Sabbath Mushroom Night, COMING SOON to Metal Nerdery!): going from creepy & heavy to fast & thrashy in one song and the definition of megalomania (#stingme)/The Birth of NWOBHM (Listen with headphones: you’ll find new things!!!)/#notitsforyou and more on-mic burps and burp shaming/Thrill of it All (#cantbeloudenough so make it #louder): ‘Mr. Geezer’? Or ‘Mr. Jesus’? /More Foreshadowing
1.19.43: Happy Anniversary to BOLTH Vol. 4 (1972) and Technical Ecstasy (1976): Honorable Mentions: She’s Gone/Technical Extersy/Never Say Die/The Writ (or Am I Going Insane Radio?) No Writ, but The Symptom of The Universe (a love that never dies) will do: definitely an early THRASH song/***TANGENTIONALLY TANGENTIAL TANGENT Alert: Beatles vs Stones and Zeppelin vs Sabbath***/Future Metal Nerdery Episode #backshadowing and #foreshadowing for Vol.3/***Check us out on the Socials, The Book, and The Gram: Nerd OUT!***/Hand of Doom
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
One of the key components of classic thrash during the glory years was riffs; namely “how many can you fit into one song?” (sort of the same logic used in many of today’s finer adult motion picture feature presentations). Sabbat answers that question: ALL of them!! This was new territory for some of us as we weren’t as familiar with Sabbat back in the day and didn’t have access to it (though it if we did, we would have certainly bought it).
JOIN US after you fix your favorite relaxer and cancel the rest of your afternoon as we dive into Sabbat’s Dreamweaver and talk about the story, the plot, the riffs and that creepy ass careless demon whisper.
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00.00: #noteven Weirdness…we were streaming on Facebook LIVE as we recorded this…you can check us out on the Facebook at Metal Nerdery Podcast (***THANK YOU TO ALL WHO JOINED US ON FACEBOOK LIVE!!!***)/#HEY…and you can listen to this with headphones for a true surround sound experience/#productionASSistance/A very “Monday” kinda Tuesday night #itsfuckingmonday
03.38: 1989: Album Dive: Sabbat Dreamweaver-Reflections of Our Yesterdays (Part of Britain’s #Big4 #BritishBig4)/Lots of delicious and various splendoriousness all in one massive thrash casserole/***CONCEPT ALBUM ALERT*** #howmanyriffs? Andy Sneap (and on-mic burps) and some factoids (Wait, Glenn WHO?)/First time listening…
08.37: #cantbeloudenough for Russ (remasterize beyond the 2007 version?)/Some songs have to be uncomfortably loud! /#wellwhathappened/One of the British Big 4 Thrash bands/#lsdpasta
13.33: Are we still rolling? (it’s the weirdest non Monday Monday ever)/More shout outs…#motherfucker #bartsingslikeamotherfucker #revveduplikeadouche/***THIS is when you should sync up the podcast episode with the Facebook LIVE post***/Frozen Idiot/#moreshoutouts www.metalnerdery.com/episodes / Tangentional Tangentionalality Tangent: Ozzy Osbourne: Speak of the Devil vs the first 2 Rhoads albums, record stores, album art and the new “media”/Old Gwinnett Place memories regarding Ozzy/Ozzy’s “very specific” hair style type
22.22: Tangentiacally? I’m down!/#backhole/Sabbat: Dreamweaver (#metalnerderyASMR)/The Concept Album alert: #readthoselyrics/The Way of Wyrd/The basic plot of Dreamweaver (as told by Russell)/***This is where we break off from Facebook…come check us out at www.metalnerdery.com/episodes*** /***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com***
27.08: He got converted the “other” way/The intensity of the vocals/The “whisper” incident/Coming soon: #coverart/ The Beginning of the End/The Clerical Conspiracy/So many riffs: so little time/#seekit/Reflections of Our Yesterdays (the “extended” title)/Remember “The Laugh Factor”?
33.11: Advent of Insanity (#weird #creepy #down kinda vibe)/Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares? #evilwhispers and #fasturbation (again, READ THOSE LYRICS!! It’s a helluva story and exceptionally well written; High quality!)/#grunts
42.52: The Best of Enemies/Overkill Pretty? /Writing “hooky” songs.
53.30: Mythistory: conversion complete (#brujo)/Definitely old school thrash goodness/Interesting effects on the vocals/Happy Never After (Outro)/Is that it? (No, that’s not it)/#ourshow/Russ has a “secret”/Soundbox blue tooth speaker and Walmart (free plug) #brutoof/Until the Next…GO PURCHASE Dreamweaver: Reflections of our Yesterdays (and what he said)
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
It’s Vol. 2 of our 4 Vol. Metal Nerdery Stoner Doom Metal Sampler Series. We found some more incredible Stoner Doom Metal tunes “after the smoke cleared” from our last Stoner Doom Sampler Vol. 1 episode and of course “we wanted to share” with you the “bounty of our harvest”, because everything is better shared between “a couple of buds”.
Clear your calendar for an hour or so, turn on the black lights and the lava lamps, roll another bowl of your favorite relaxer and JOIN US as we “collectively” squint and cough our way through to enlightenment “together” and revisit some classics and check out some surprises and rarities that we felt we needed to share “for the greater good” of all that is Metal. (Plus check out Metal Nerdery ASMR).
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(00:00): Hahaha; it’s NOT quite Vol. 4…but it IS quite Vol. 2 of Metal Nerdery’s Stoner Sampler Series/Led Zeppelin’s No Quarter = ESSENTIAL Stoner Metal origins (check out The Song Remains The Same the movie)/#MNASMR/#pretzels/the #crunch #cantbeloudenough according to Marc Potterson/The uncomfortable quietness #quadraphonicheadphones/a testimonial from Archie about someone’s low relaxer tolerance
(06:19): Old Black Sabbath CONCERT BOOTLEG: Tomorrow’s Dream with alternative vocals PRE-Vol. 4/Tony Iommi’s sound (See also the Past Live’s version of Tomorrow’s Dream. And See also Also That Billiam and That Sabbath is a blessin’ (04/20/2012 #hashtag #hashbags/Clutch: Spacegrass #rollanotherbowl and break out the #suicidepaneling and #shagcarpeting #metalnerderyasmr/What I’m willing to risk to see Clutch in Concert
(13:22): The Sword: Tres Brujas (HAIL to The Sword!) #oooh/A word from Ron at The Rib Lounge down on COTLOD as he introduces Sleep: The Clarity (check out the video, especially after you #rollanotherbowl of your favorite relaxer) #sensimillion #MattPikeforPOTUS at the end of the Hall
(17:12): Kyuss doing Black Sabbath’s Into The Void (Please EMAIL US how you pronounce Kyuss at metalnerdery@gmail.com) #pretzelmetal #futureepisode/Mastodon: March of the Fire Ants (How Low do YOU go?) #blackdog (Actually, it’s Georgia, we do march into Fire…ants)
(23:20): Stoned Jesus-Stormy Monday (check out the video) Pick your Stoner Metal #projectband. EMAIL US your Stoner Metal Project Band’s recommendation at metalnerdery@gmail.com) / King Weed: Savannah (instrumental), a melodic Stoner Metal band
(28:06): Foghound: Quick, Dirty and High/Swamp Ritual: Ritual Rising/Stone Rebel: The Last Mile of Destiny and #rollanotherbowl of #pretzelbong/A quick word from Marc Potterson/Superjoint Ritual as a “potential” stoner metal band kinda sorta…
(33:52): Kyuss: Gloria Lewis (check out …And the Circus Left Town)/ Conan: Volt Thrower (#badass)/Weed Eater: (Good Luck and God Speed) God Luck and Good Speed #cantbeloudenough #doommetal
(39:48): Blind Dog: The Last Adventures of Captain Dog/A perfect closer just after Metal Nerdery ASMR Pretzel edition: Planet Caravan #productionmagic #thankyouandgoodnight
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Often in life, we don’t discover the truth about something until it’s too late. And the truth about Powertrip is that they are an anachronistic anomaly in Thrash Metal: yeah they may have come to power in the late 2000’s and 2010’s but they would sound right at home in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s era of Thrash Metal that we hold so dear. Sadly, some of us are only just now discovering the band for the very first time upon learning of the unfortunate and untimely passing of Powertrip frontman, Riley Gale.
So, prepare your favorite relaxer, raise a glass, raise your horns, and JOIN US as we honor Riley Gale and Powertrip and their phenomenal contributions (thus far) to the mighty pantheon of Thrash Metal.
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(00:00): What happened was…/HAIL To Powertrip (from Dallas, TX) and HAIL and Farewell to Riley Gale (R.I.P.)/check out the House of Strombo Show #glorious return to oldschool thrash metal/#shoutouts and #freeplugs/what happens in your house when you host a metal show? Summon the Metal Nerdery Time Tunnel and memories of The Ozone (ATL)/*oh yeah, we were streaming on Facebook Live*/#listeninspirit/A word from Selma May Bruwster/Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe) #coolheadphoneeffects
(07:27): “We’re Powertrip from Dallas Texas…”/HAIL to Riley Gale, a modern day Chuck Schuldiner: a uniting force in Metal/#metalboner/#easteregg/a brief overview of the brief Powertrip catalog/EMAIL US @ metalnerdery@gmail.com)
(15:23): #grassyass/The “potency” of powerful things in small doses/EMAIL US if you were THERE at the Powertrip House of Strombo show/#livingthedream in #1988 (Manifest WHAT?)
(19:50): 12 years/Riley’s writing style: don’t waste anything! /#letitflow/Manifest Decimation and Nightmare Logic/based on the tangenionalality of it all/Manifest Decimation (that just does NOT sound like 2013!)/ www.metalnerdery.com/episodes
(25:00): #noteven 35 minutes/1988-1991: Time Machine Metal (#posttimetunnelcore)/#ifeelproudofmyself/Executioner’s Tax, Conditioned to Death (#bolth of these albums have the “laugh factor” in the riff department)
(31:12): Soul Sacrifice (The Classic Old School Thrash Opener: check out our Opening Tracks episode)/#take2/Those climbing riffs…and then: The LAUNCH! Even the old school thrash shred is spot on!!!/HAIL, Farewell and R.I.P. to Riley Gale and HAIL to Powertrip: Chris Whetzel, Chris Ulsh, Blake Ibanez and Nick Stewart/Nightmare Logic
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Ahh, 1987. Before Bob Rock and The Black Album were even imagined, before Metallica cut their hair and gave us multiple LOADS, there were “The Garage Days”.
After the devastating and tragic loss of bassist Cliff Burton in 1986, Metallica had to find a suitable replacement bassist to help the band continue forward on their quest for worldwide Thrash Metal domination. Enter Jason Newsted. Enter some new blood. Enter Night… (Wait, it’s too early for that…we’re not there yet, so let it keep ringing out, just let it ring out. Okay turn it off now).
So JOIN US after you prepare and consume (and prepare and consume some more of) your favorite relaxer and block out some (most/all) of your day as we go through the cheapest and arguably one of the best Thrash Metal EP’s ever released: Metallica’s Garage Days Re-Revisited.
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(00:00): – A word from Selma May before “doing the business”/Into the Metal Nerdery Time Tunnel to 1987: The $5.98 EP-Garage Days Re-Revisited CASS-ETTE and the tragedy of personal loss prior to this release (and their GLORIOUS return with this fan-fucking-tastical EP!)
(05:33): – Not realizing that the songs were “covers”/ The Monsters of Rock Tour/The $9.98 EP CD/The vibe and the feel of Garage Days/#earcondoms #thinkingahead #huh and the #selectivehearing of the #shespeak
(10:01): – The power of bootlegging, tape trading and networking in the metal community/More associated Garage Days factoids/Lots of NWOBHM bands (Misfits, Diamond Head, Budgie, Holocaust) #dontdenythepowerof/perfect 2020 band name
(13:13): – The Tracks: Helpless (that tone!!)/Sage Bass Advice (#dearlars)/#whoopsiedoodles #falseintro Helpless original version by Diamond Head (complete with shoulder shake-check out the video)
(18:25): – And NOW, The Small Hours (#huevos) And THEN The Small Hours Holocaust version (#suckonthis) very stoner metal-ish
(23:33): – The Wait (original version-Killing Joke) vs the Metallica version of The Wait (and the impossible question to answer if you’re Killing Joke)/Crash Course in Brain Surgery (original Budgie Version): a “higher” Geddy Lee (#stonermetal) and the glorious Metallica Version (including Deep Thoughts with The Boys and Jason Newsted’s shining moment of bass zen)
(32:48): – Last Caress/Green Hell (Metallica version) and the “happiness” of punk/Does anyone remember the weird “moment” captured on the original release of this track? If so, please EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com (rereleased on 2018). Happy recent 33rd Anniversary to Garage Days Re-Revisited!/#hiddentrack #easteregg
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Ahhh, the 80’s and the early days of Thrash Metal. A time of exponential growth in the genre that would become THE most powerful and glorious force in the entirety of the known Thrash Metalverse.
The speed, the riffs, ALL of it: The 1980’s gave us the birth (and further evolutionary refinement) of Thrash Metal. If you’re reading this, then you already know that we here at Metal Nerdery LOVE THRASH and would delight in being able to listen to, play and/or talk about Thrash all the time! But in order to know where you’re headed, you’ve got to first take a look back at where you’ve been. (And thus, we have: backshadowing, or as they say in France: baqueshadeauxing).
So go ahead and stop whatever you’re doing (not that important), prepare a double dose of your favorite relaxer (actually extremely important), block out some time (call it “work life balance” or “a client meeting”) and JOIN US as we go through Discogs.com’s Top 50 Early Thrash Metal Albums listicle and gain some insight as to the evolution of Thrash Metal throughout the 80’s. Songs, albums, artwork, record and tape shops, shows…time to jump in the Metal Nerdery Time Tunnel and go back to The Golden Age of Thrash: time to go back to the 19motherfucking80’s!!
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(00:00): Show us on the doll…/valuable life lessons/S.A.D./Discogs.com Top 50 Early Thrash Metal Albums (1981-1987)/Venom-Welcome to Hell, proper production, and “happy black metal” (Is “In League with Satan” aka Venom’s “Escape”?) #eviler #backshadowing through #backmasking (Welcome to Hell)
(09:02): Anvil-Metal on Metal (Metal on Metal)/MORE Venom-Black Metal (Buried Alive) #softintro (do they ALWAYS whisper in Hell?): Baphomet is Baphomay, Boba Fett is Boba Fay/The KISS of Black Metal
(16:04): It’s NOT Exciter x3: Exciter-Heavy Metal Maniac (Heavy Metal Music): Motorhead style #highwaymetal/Anvil-Forged in Fire #readthosetitles (Motor Mount, Hard Times and Fast Ladies)/#yorelore
(22:12): #crickets/The NEXT 3 albums…#6 (July 1983) The Debut (better see a chiropractor about that) #gamechanger/Metallica-Kill’em All (Whiplash) #nevergetsold/6 months later, Satan got a Christmas shout out: Slayer-Show No Mercy (Evil Has No Boundaries)/Old jam memories/Another brush with Big 4 Greatness: Mr. Neil Turbin and Anthrax-Fistful of Metal (Metal Thrashing Mad) #rocksballs
(29:39): Exciter-Violence and Force (another Canadian 3 piece…no, it’s a different power threesome …nope, not that one either)/#crickets and Awesome Song Titles (Pounding Metal)/Venom-At War With Satan (Venom and Satan are #bolth in counseling #itscomplicated)/#11 (check out our Album Dive Episode) /Metal Church-Metal Church (Metal Church): Metal Church x3: YAHTZEE (the new boxset from Exciter)! #projectband A really Small #funsizedDio
(37:30): Piledriver-Metal Inquisition (check out that album cover!): wait WHAT? #songtitles/Celtic Frost- Morbid Tales (Dethroned Emperor)/WTF was that Celtic Frost song they used to play on WREKage?/Onslaught: Power from Hell (Remember, it was the 80’s) #hellisbrutal (Is that Ahrnold?)
(44:02): Slayer-Hell Awaits (#16): Check out the Album Dive Episode!/Exodus-Bonded by Blood (Bonded by Blood) #murderinthefrontrow #getthrashed/Razor: Executioner’s Song (Take This Torch)/#canyouhearmenow/Overkill-Feel The Fire (Rotten to the Core) and past Overkill show memories (including the LEGENDARY Civic Center show: email us at metalnerdery@gmail.com)
(53:05): Destruction: Infernal Overkill/#21 (Whaddya Mean?) Megadeth: Killing is my Business…and Business is Good (Mechanix aka The Fifth Horsemen)/Celtic Frost-Emperor’s Return EP/Stormtroopers of Death (check out our Humor Metal and SOD Album Dive episodes)/Kreator-Endless Pain (Endless Pain)
(59:52): Anthrax-Spreading the Disease (S.S.C./Stand or Fall)/Possessed-Seven Churches and The First Death Metal album EVAHHH (The Exorcist (see also Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells), Pentagram)/Celtic Frost-To Mega Therion: The Master of Puppets of Celtic Frost (Circle of Tyrants, The Usurper) check out the #albumcover
(1:07:22): Razor-Evil Invaders/Exciter-Long Live the Loud (check out Skeletor’s Sword)/Zoetrope-Amnesty (very obscure!)/#surprise (February 1986 #joyfulnoise) Metallica-Master of Puppets (The Thing That Should Not Be) #huevosgrandes #crunchybottom (Go check out Cliff ‘Em All and Binge and Purge)
(1:13:03): More Razor/Destruction-Eternal Devastation/Flotsam and Jetsam-Doomsday for the Deceiver (a testament to Jason Newsted’s musical geniusdom): Hammerhead (#listenuplars this is what SLAPPIN DE BASS is supposed to SOUND LIKE! \m/ >^<\m/) /#35 (1986): Megadeth-Peace Sells but Who’s Buying? (Wake Up Dead) #killeropener/NO INTRO NEEDED: #albumdiveiscoming Track 8: Slayer-Reign in Blood (Epidemic)
(1:20:53): Nuclear Assault and The Dan Lilker aggro bass (Radiation Sickness)/Metal Church-The Dark (Ton of Bricks)/Dark Angel-Darkness Descends (Burning of Sodom: also check out the Pig Destroyer cover version)/Kreator-Pleasure to Kill (Pleasure to Kill)/Overkill-Taking Over (Powersurge)
(1:29:38): Anthrax-Among the Living (N.F.L.-Efilnikufesin)/Death Angel-The Ultra Violence (Thrashers #thrashmetalchildren)/Testament-The Legacy (part of the Big 5) and a special Rib Lounge Request from Ron: C.O.T.L.O.D.b.l.v.d./Razor-Custom Killing/Infernal Majesty-None Shall Defy/#47-Exodus-Pleasures of the Flesh (Brain Dead) #hailtheHolt
(1:38:59): Sacred Reich-Ignorance (Death Squad) #thoseriffs #longthrashintro (go check out Awakening!)/Kreator-Terrible Certainty, Kreator’s Reign in Blood(?) Tales of Yore (Terrible Certainty)/#50: Zoetrope-A Life of Crime (Detention)
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
“What happens when fresh green collides with Metal? Duuuuuuuuuuude…”
That’s right! Stoner Metal. Doom Metal. Sludge Metal. The label doesn’t really matter. What DOES really matter is how fantastically heavy & awesome ALL of it is!!
On this, Metal Nerdery’s Stoner Metal Showcase, Vol.1, we check out some of the early, influential Stoner & Doom Metal bands (*cough* Black Sabbath *more coughing*), discuss the differences between the different subgenres, and talk about anything and everything that may have relevant tangentionalality to Stoner Metal.
So, roll another bowl, prepare your favorite relaxer, crank up the lava lamps and black lights and JOIN US for a trip down the rabbit hole where everything is wood paneling, shag carpeting and incredibly heavy, fuzzy, stony rifftastical goodness.
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(00:00): A message from Marc Potterson/Stoner Metal awesomeness!!/DOWN at Download (Bury Me In Smoke)/Email us YOUR favorite Stoner/Doom Metal Bands at metalnerdery@gmail.com
(05:50): So many stoner bands, so many stoner styles…a smorgasbord of stoner metal: Suicide Paneling & Shag Carpeting/Early Stoner Bands/Update on the …And Pasta for All Tour/#stonercough #thcmetal/HAIL to The Sword!!! (Winters Wolves) #cantbeloudenough/Sword = ZZ Sabbath/Cloak of Feathers
(14:44): Black Sabbath: Sweet Leaf (because you can’t have Stoner Metal without THIS!)/Pentagram (the American take on Black Sabbath)/The 3 different subgenres of Stoner Metal/Acid Mammoth: Them (check out the song titles!)/ Every time a Stoner/Doom Metal band plays, Tony Iommi smiles.
(19:14): Stoned Jesus (Here Come the Robots)/Stoner Metal Album Art/The Harvest (go to www.bandcamp.com )
(21:24): Orchid (Capricorn)/Black Sabbath (Fairies Wear Boots)/HAIL to Tony Iommi & Black Sabbath/Red Fang (Prehistoric Dog) Check out their videos!!! #strohs #pbr/Stoner Metal: The New Enlightened (Stoned) Wave of Party Rock/Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues (Pre-Sabbath Prior to Sabbath: 1968)
(30:43): Mississippi Gun Club (Shovelhead)/Fu Manchu: California Stoner Metal (#rollandpass) In Search Of/Best User Name EVAH!/Supercruel (a touch of QOTSA and Foo Fighters)/#rollanotherlaxer/Queens of the Stone Age: Feel Good Hit of the Summer (#nowitsaparty) Song For The Deaf (QOTSA has a tangentional relation to Kyuss)
(39:16): Orange Goblin: Time Traveling Blues/Is it pronounced Kyuss? Or Kyuss? /Another word from Marc Potterson regarding the Shag Carpet Strain from the 70’s/Electric Wizard: Funeralopolis (#hearthecough)/Dopethrone/What level are Willie Nelson & Snoop Dogg operating on? /#dontdenythepowerofweed
(46:16): High On Fire: Devilution (A heavier Motorhead)/Silver Black (#gofast #badass #mattpike)/#stonermotorhead/ High on Fire was a more energetic version of Sleep/Sleep’s Holy Mountain (1992) /A word from Ron/Is Sleep The Modern Day Black Sabbath?/If you have time to kill, go listen to Sleep’s Dopesmoker (aka Jerusalem)
(53:47): King Weed: Doomsday, Smoking Land/Dark Passenger (Smoking Land)/If you get the munchies, check out #bigdaddysbbqpit/Kyuss: Blues for the Red Sun (Thumb)/Check out the #bbqsativarub/100*-Space Cade-Demon Cleaner (Welcome to Sky Valley)Also for other tangentionally related bands of consequentional tangentionalality check out Unida
(1:01:58): Zeppelin + Sabbath + Weed = Stoner Metal/Monster Magnet: Tractor (#readthoselyrics)/FYI: There is an UNCENSORED version of Space Lord/Solace (more doomy): Black Unholy Ground, King Alcohol (#blackdog and #strangerdanger)
(1:10:05): YOB (super slowed down Thrash metal) Quantum Mystic (CHECK OUT The Unreal Never Lived)/Stoner Metal = Sludge Metal/Patreon Idea/List of Stoner&Doom metal bands to check out
(1:16:28): Pentagram: (check out the Pentagram documentary “Last Days Here”): Relentless/Honorable Mentions: The Melvins (MORE Volumes of Stoner Metal to come…)
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Any metalhead who hears the phrase “80’s era Metallica” will IMMEDIATELY conjure visions of James, Lars, Kirk and Cliff (R.I.P.) and be transported back to the days of yore, back before Metallica was a household name, back before they were part of The Big Four of Thrash Metal Royalty, back before Master of Puppets was even a “thought”. Back to 1984 and the badassness of Ride The Lightning.
Ride The Lightning, Metallica’s 2nd album is, without a doubt, one of THE most glorious sophomore SLAMS (not slumps) in Metal history (like right up there with Paranoid and Vulgar Display of Power). Given that it’s recently celebrated its 36th anniversary, we here at Metal Nerdery HQ felt that it was time to DIVE in a bit further to this thrashsterpiece and give it the Metal Nerdery Treatment.
So prepare your favorite relaxer and JOIN US as we go back to the Days of Yore (let’s call it Pre-Puppets-Thrash-Core) and discuss some of the trivia associated with the album, go through some of the tracks, and address how hilarious “misheard lyrics” can be.
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(00:00): 1 st Official METALLICA Metal Nerdery Episode: Ride The Lightning Album Dive/Lightning vs Puppets and the context of #bolth/Released 07/27/1984 (36 years young!)
(05:16): The mystery of James’ master wrystery/#clinky and some RTL factoids/Intro to Fight Fire with Fire/Loudwire Metallica Ride The Lightning FACTS
(10:40): The title inspiration (Thank you Stephen King!)/Songwriting credits* (see also the prior Metal Nerdery episode regarding the Great Riff Conspiracy(?))/A moment of beer (and a FREE plug!)/#itswhatbitchesdrink/The Metallica Sonic “Palette”/A Tangentional connection to RJD/Flemming Rasmussen/#squealer
(15:51): Imagine RTL sans James/Fade to Black/The hatred of Escape/Bill’s tangentional postproduction notes relative to KEA/sophomore SLAM (NOT Jinx!)
(20:00): The Tracks: Fight Fire with Fire (#bookingalonghella #waitwhat #looksotired/Look for our future Metal Nerdery #misheardlyrics episode/#weallshalldie because #bartsingslikeamotherfucker
(24:47): Ride The Lightning (and capturing the magic with a click track)/#themiddleofthemiddle/#waitforit/6:35
(30:28): That’s NOT a bell! / For Whom the Bell Tolls and Bill’s Tangentional Perspective/How to also play Fairies Wear Boots/The Staples of the Metallica Set
(34:14): Fade to Black, Metallica and Star Wars/#eyepissing/Trapped Under Ice
(40:33): Escape (Metallica gets croutons!)/Creeping Death (and Cliff ‘Em All)/#cantbeloudenough/Matt’s misheard lyrics/#revveduplikeadouche/Remember that guitar solo!?/#bringbackconcerts
(48:48): Call of Ktulu (Wizards of Metal)/The Metallica Sonic Palette/#whatsthatnoise (Bill’s Remix #justkidding)/The experience of listening to an album vs listening to a download/The tsunami of harmonies (GO BUY THIS ALBUM!!)/The Visual vibe of Metallica’s sound