Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast

Scott Penfold
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Heavy metal news, hard rock interviews and the stories behind the music — hosted by Scott Penfold, a 20-year rock radio broadcaster and the founder of Loaded Radio. Two shows, one feed. The Loaded Radio Podcast brings long-form interviews with the biggest names in metal — Dave Mustaine, Corey Taylor, Randy Blythe, Max Cavalera, Phil Anselmo, Dave Lombardo and more. Not press-cycle soundbites. Real conversations about the records, the lineups, the fallouts and the comebacks, from someone who’s been on the air since 2002. The Metal Breakdown Daily delivers every major hard rock and heavy metal story of the day in under ten minutes, every weekday. Tour announcements, album news, lineup changes, and the headlines that actually matter — no filler. New episodes daily. Part of the Pantheon Podcasts network.

  1. 6h ago

    KISS Farewell Doc, Parkway Drive Film, Malevolent Creation

    KISS have announced End Of The Road, a documentary on the farewell tour, premiering November 19 on KissOnline.com for $14.99 before any other platform, promising to show "how the band plans to carry its legacy forward." Parkway Drive's Sydney Opera House film, Home, hits US theaters November 18 with a 20-track live album December 4. Scott Penfold on which one deserves your money, and why one is a concert film and the other is an onboarding video for the avatars. Also today: Malevolent Creation fire bassist Jesse Jolly and guitarist Chris Cannella, Jolly calls the band "far too toxic," and Phil Fasciana responds by offering Cannella $1,000 to play one song without a mistake. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    KISS Farewell Doc, Parkway Drive Film, Malevolent Creation

  2. 1d ago

    System Of A Down x4, Meshuggah + Testament, Disturbed 2027

    System Of A Down have added a fourth and final Rose Bowl show, June 12, 2027 with Gojira, after the first three sold out inside a week: four nights at a 90,000-seat stadium for a band with no album since 2005. Scott Penfold on why that's the best argument yet against System ever making another record, and what the counter-argument gets right. Also today: Meshuggah's 40th-anniversary North American run, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, with Testament and Blood Incantation, on sale Friday, October 30, with Detroit's Masonic Temple (February 16) the first date out. And Disturbed take The Sickness to Australia, New Zealand and Asia for twelve arena shows in April and May 2027, a year after Dan Donegan said the band needed "quite a bit of time off." Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    System Of A Down x4, Meshuggah + Testament, Disturbed 2027

  3. 2d ago

    AI Ozzy Won't Sell Phones, Crowbar Album, Dead Wyte Debut

    Jack Osbourne says the backlash to the family's AI Ozzy avatar "was my own fault," that people wrongly assumed "Ozzy Osbourne selling cell phones," and that building the "digital fingerprint" is about owning his father's IP the way Bob Marley's and Michael Jackson's estates do. Scott Penfold on why Jack is right about ownership and wrong about what people were actually reacting to, two days before Back To The Beginning hits theaters. Also today: Kirk Windstein says Crowbar "start writing first of the year," with Down's Volume V, the first full Down album since 2007 (King Diamond included), due November 20. And Mudvayne's Greg Tribbett and his brother Tripp launch Dead Wyte with "Mother Trucker." Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    AI Ozzy Won't Sell Phones, Crowbar Album, Dead Wyte Debut

  4. 2d ago

    Blind Channel's Niko Moilanen On Painstream + Tori Kravitz

    Niko Moilanen of Blind Channel joins Scott Penfold two weeks before Painstream, the band's sixth album and the first with every vocal on him, after what the band called twenty months of deliberate silence. He talks about what the quiet was for, Joel Hokka leaving for a reason nobody can argue with, the song inspired by the Fermi Paradox and the 1977 Wow! signal, a track called Youthanasia (yes, like the Megadeth album), Scary Noise Records, the red middle fingers at Eurovision, and the one Helsinki show on November 14 that has to carry the whole comeback. Then a special guest: Tori Kravitz, publicist at Atom Splitter PR and host of Knotfest's She's With The Band and Beyond The Breakdown, on what gets a pitch deleted instantly, what her guests say off the record, landing Alissa White-Gluz after years of asking, and going back to Warped Tour as the pit reporter. Full story: https://loadedradio.com/blind-channel-interview-loaded-radio-podcast/ Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Blind Channel's Niko Moilanen On Painstream + Tori Kravitz

  5. 5d ago

    Sonic Temple 2027, Fehn On Pawn Stars, Deafheaven Tour

    Sonic Temple 2027 is out: nearly 150 acts, May 13–16 in Columbus, with Iron Maiden (one of the last two Run For Your Lives shows), Korn, Blink-182 and Falling In Reverse on top and Alice In Chains, Faith No More, Meshuggah, Testament, Mastodon, Blood Incantation and Knocked Loose underneath. Scott Penfold on why a pop-punk Thursday headliner is the right call for the heaviest Sonic Temple yet. Also today: former Slipknot percussionist Chris Fehn appears on Pawn Stars to authenticate his own long-nose mask ("It's too nice... I had three of them made and it just didn't fit right") and watches the shop offer $1,200 against a $15,000 ask. And Deafheaven and Interpol announce an eight-date March 2027 US tour, from New Orleans to Sayreville, NJ, presale October 28. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Sonic Temple 2027, Fehn On Pawn Stars, Deafheaven Tour

  6. 6d ago

    Sharon's Ozzy Secret, Godsmack New Music, Obituary Reissues

    Sharon Osbourne says Ozzy's doctors warned that Back To The Beginning "would kill him," that Ozzy answered "I know I'm dying... I want to go this way," and that she never told Black Sabbath or her own children how sick he was. Scott Penfold on why that was the right call, with the Back To The Beginning film in theaters October 28. Also today: Sully Erna confirms new Godsmack music "at some point next year," three years after calling Lighting Up The Sky the band's last album, with Mike Mangini now on drums ("I'm under contract, and I owe another record anyways"). And Obituary reissue Xecutioner's Return and Darkest Day, remastered through Relapse, with a tribute to the late Frank Watkins and Ralph Santolla. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Sharon's Ozzy Secret, Godsmack New Music, Obituary Reissues

  7. Oct 21

    Nirvana Pass AC/DC, Alice Cooper No. 1, Metal Allegiance

    Nirvana's Nevermind has passed AC/DC's Back In Black to become the sixth best-selling album of all time, by one thousand copies: 66,832,000 equivalent album sales to 66,831,000, per Chartmasters. AC/DC still lead on physical copies, 37 million to 30 million. Scott Penfold on how the count works, why the streaming number is the honest one, and the fact that should bother everyone: nothing released since 1991 is in the all-time top ten. Also today: Alice Cooper's memoir Devil On My Shoulder hits No. 1 on the UK Sunday Times list and No. 4 on the New York Times list, the same week Dave Mustaine's book is also in the Times top ten. And Metal Allegiance announce their January 28 NAMM-week show at the House Of Blues Anaheim with members of Opeth, Overkill, Mastodon, Queensrÿche and Armored Saint, plus David Ellefson and Marty Friedman; tickets on sale Thursday. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Nirvana Pass AC/DC, Alice Cooper No. 1, Metal Allegiance

  8. Oct 20

    Slipknot Told Eloy Not To Be Joey, Crüe Vegas, Papa Roach

    Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande says Clown told him on day one, "you don't have to be concerned about playing everything right," that the band "don't want to have another Joey in the band," and that the Brazilian rhythms Clown once shut down are now going into the studio. Scott Penfold on why that's the most important thing anyone has said about the next Slipknot album. Also today: Mötley Crüe announce "Carnival of Sins in Sin City," eight nights at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace from March 19 to April 3, 2027, with fan-voted setlists and presales starting today. And Papa Roach add a 30-date 2027 US leg to the Rise of the Roach tour, May 11 to June 27, with Ice Nine Kills and the breakout duo Ninth Key. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Slipknot Told Eloy Not To Be Joey, Crüe Vegas, Papa Roach
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Heavy metal news, hard rock interviews and the stories behind the music — hosted by Scott Penfold, a 20-year rock radio broadcaster and the founder of Loaded Radio. Two shows, one feed. The Loaded Radio Podcast brings long-form interviews with the biggest names in metal — Dave Mustaine, Corey Taylor, Randy Blythe, Max Cavalera, Phil Anselmo, Dave Lombardo and more. Not press-cycle soundbites. Real conversations about the records, the lineups, the fallouts and the comebacks, from someone who’s been on the air since 2002. The Metal Breakdown Daily delivers every major hard rock and heavy metal story of the day in under ten minutes, every weekday. Tour announcements, album news, lineup changes, and the headlines that actually matter — no filler. New episodes daily. Part of the Pantheon Podcasts network.

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