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  1. 6D AGO

    #349 - The First and The Last

    “You like to hear how they have progressed or digressed…or either…or gressed…”   This episode is a lot like looking at pictures of family when everyone is much younger and then looking at recent pictures of family and realizing that after enough time, a LOT changes.    Just as people grow and age and (hopefully) evolve over time, no artist should currently be EXACTLY as they were when they first started, as there should be an obvious evolution and progression of their style and sound over multiple albums and decades, from their very FIRST to their very LAST.   “I’m liking how this is going…we could do this for hours…”   Prepare yourself for THE FIRST AND THE LAST, a snapshot in time from the killer opener on the very first album to the killer closer on the very last (or in some cases, most recent) album; basically it’s the very first from the very first paired with the very last from the very last.     “The word of the episode, ladies and gentlemen, is…”   By the time you’ve finished this episode, you will no doubt have “the word of the episode” carved deep into your subconscious, so much so that you’ll wonder where you put that lock blade buck knife your cousin gave you for Christmas.    Realize that “sometimes you gotta check your oil” and a large majority of us “don’t think John Cougar knows how to eat a chili dog”. Get ready for another round of ASK THE METALHEAD, because “we’re doing things…and stuff…” down in The Bunkerpoon (including using fancy words and phrases like “comeuppance”) which is exactly why you should JOIN US for a retrospective comparing “now & then” with THE FIRST AND THE LAST: THRASH EDITION – VOL. 1. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “And now, a word from the Whittler…”/ “Percocet? No, prednisone…”/ #whittling and #whittlers / “He’s looking for freedom…”/ “What are they made of? The same stuff the #WTC was made of?” / #eaglesnest / “I could be Wheeler the Whittler…”/  ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Smog Mountain and The Whittlers…”/ “That might be the word of the podcast…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Sixteen…I’m counting…”/ #whittlerometer / “What do you think are the most common curse words that we use?” #flapjack   (06:17): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Sometimes you gotta check your oil…”/ ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #greatradioASMR / “I could eat two hot dogs right now…”/ #markthetime / “I don’t think John Cougar knows f*****g AT ALL how to eat a chili dog…”/ #chilidogkink / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com & SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram and #TikTok *** / #viralaf / “For us, it’s huge!” / “Dude, you could be Smog Mountain and we’ll be The Whittlers…”/ #stonerrockabilly / “The chick with the…”/  #TheReverendHortonHeat ONE TIME FOR ME / #Rockabilly / “New #COC …” #GoodGodBaadMan / “It’s different…”/ “Did you ever hear #NoCrossNoCrown (the last album)?” / “The word of the episode, ladies and gentlemen is…”/ “That’s 21…”   (17:17): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE FIRST AND THE LAST VOL. I– THRASH EDITION / “Okay…’splain…”/ “The very first song from the very first, and the very last song from the very last (or most recent, in some cases…)”/ #TheFirstAndTheLast / “Let’s make it easy to start with…”/ #Metallica HIT THE LIGHTS (Kill ‘Em All – 1983) / “Did you notice the sound change?” / “That’s 52…”/ “Remember how The Loads were kinda stonery?” / INAMORATA (72 Seasons – 2023) / “That sounds like #Sleep could have done that…”/    (25:18): “Also to keep it simple…”/ “Show me mercy?”/ #Slayer EVIL HAS NO BOUNDARIES (Show No Mercy – 1983) / “Two albums on 9/11…just like the two towers…”/ “Kinda like Die Hard: it’s technically a #Christmas video…”/ “That’s the last on the last…”/ PRIDE IN PREJUDICE (Repentless – 2015) / #WTFMusic / “That’s special effects I think…I think maybe that’s added for extra texture…”/ #killology / “Every time I watch that video, I kinda get a little bit hard…it’s like 9 o’clock…” / #comeuppance / “Sometimes we got bangers, dude…and sometimes we have whittlers…”/ “We’re all wordsmiths of sorts…”   (34:00): #Megadeth LAST RITES/LOVED TO DETH (Killing Is My Business…and Business Is Good! – 1985) / NOTE:  Megadeath = the death of 1 million people caused by nuclear holocaust / #tippingpoint / THE LAST NOTE (Megadeth – 2026) / “Killer openers on the first to the killer closers on the last…”/ #killeropeners & #killerclosers    (39:30): “The new Anthrax is coming out in September…maybe it’s their last album?”/  #Anthrax DEATHRIDER (Fistful of Metal – 1984) / “That’s VERY close to ‘Hit The Lights’…”/  ZERO TOLERANCE (For All Kings – 2016) / “It’s a great cover, but that does not count…”/ “Is that with an X or Z?” / #waitforit / “That sounds like 80’s Anthrax…late 80’s…” (44:20): “We gotta do some Exodus…”/ “Wouldn’t you love to hear Rob Dukes do that?”/ #Exodus BONDED BY BLOOD (Bonded By Blood – 1985) & THE DIRTIEST OF THE DOZEN (Goliath – 2026) / “That sounds like something…what does that sound like?”/ “I’m liking how this is going…we could do this for hours…”/ #derp / “I like how we can see the progression…how much they’ve changed…”   (53:03): #Testament OVER THE WALL (The Legacy – 1987) / “We should just do another dive of this again at some point…a refresher…”/ #ChuckBillyASMR / #EnvyLife / “Lord, Bless ya!” / “I appreciate that…about you…”/ PARA BELLUM (Para Bellum – 2025) / “Thirteen albums later…”   (58:10): “See what they did there?” / #TheEastern / “It’s called ‘necromancy’ btw, if you’re looking for the proper term…”/ “Nothing was great in the 80’s…except cocaine and hookers…”/ #Overkill RAISE THE DEAD (Feel The Fire – 1985) / “Do demons giggle? I’m not sure they do…”/ “…back then they actually had to have twiddlers and whittlers…”/  BAG O’ BONES (Scorched – 2023) / “Nineteen albums later…”   (1:06:25): “I got a good one…you got it cocked and loaded down there in the holster…”/ “I’m gonna spit it out, I’m not gonna swallow…”/ #StormtroopersOfDeath #SOD MARCH OF THE S.O.D. (Speak English Or Die – 1985) / “The ballad of Nirvana…what is it, just a shotgun noise?” / JAVA AMIGO / BALLAD OF NIRVANA (Rise of the Infidels – 2007) / #youredead / “I think we’ve known about that for 30 years…”   (1:11:00): #Forbidden CHALICE OF BLOOD (Forbidden Evil – 1988) / “That might be the best album ever…”/ “That’s an episode:  best debuts…” / “I like the word Poony…”/ OMEGA WAVE (Omega Wave – 2010) / “Crunchy scrunchy…”/ “Mr. Anderson…”/ “They got a new album coming…don’t know when…”/ “We’re doing things…and stuff…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!    (1:16:30): “Oh, wait! We’ve got some questions…”/ ASK THE METALHEAD… /  “Who was the first metal band from another country?”/ “Are we counting Britain, or no?” /  “Who was the first metal drummer that used double bass drums?” / “There’s a bit of trivia there…”/ “First death metal group?” / #blackdeath / “Alright…one more…”/ “What metal vocalist can scream the highest?”/ “No way he gets higher than King…”/ #untilthenext #bloopers #outroreel / “The word of the episode, ladies and gentlemen, is…”

    1h 24m

  2. APR 23

    #348 - Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell Album Review

    “This is the 80’s before the 80’s was the 80’s…”   Released April 18, 1980, HEAVEN AND HELL, the 9th studio album by BLACK SABBATH (and the first to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals), marks a simultaneous sonic departure and rebirth for the Godfathers of Metal.    While some would argue that it sounds more like RJD’s solo output and NOTHING like the Sabbath of the 70’s, HEAVEN AND HELL is more than just “the next Sabbath album”.   Featuring fantastical & medieval lyrical themes coupled with a revitalized songwriting style and renewed vigor, HEAVEN AND HELL is a brilliant example of how a band in desperate need of a “heavy metal makeover” can completely reinvent their sound and expand their artistic palette to accommodate a brand-new chapter for a brand-new decade.   If you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Check out our newest segment, “ASK THE METALHEAD”.    Find out who might just be “the Yoda of metal”, discover which song absolutely must be played on misty mornings, and realize that “the anxiety of being around family” can only be rivaled by the disturbingly high readings captured on the “goddamnometer” when you JOIN US from The Bunkerpoon Center for Metal Excellence as we celebrate 46 years of the BLACK SABBATH Mark II lineup with HEAVEN AND HELL. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes:   (00:01): “It’s a good time we have here in The Bunkerpoon…”/  ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “There was a lot of that on the boat…”/ #MrBlack / “The butterbean?” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “It’s the anxiety of being around family…don’t do regular Matt…dial it down...”/ “What’s the name of your…DON’T worry about it.”   (04:46): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Facebook #YouTube #Instagram and #TikTok & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / #Mammoth THE END (The End – 2025) / “You know who my dad is? GFY…”/ “It was Dave…’Merica Dave…” / (1-boat) / (2-pizza)/ “This guy was the perfect, freakin’, bloke…he was from Yorkshire…”/ “We were discussing the ‘c**t’ word…”/ “Fun fact about that one…”/ Fun vagina facts / #StevenTylerFace / ASK THE METALHEAD/ “What was your favorite ‘gateway’ band?”/ “What’s the most ‘non-metal’ artist you secretly love?”   (20:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  BLACK SABBATH – HEAVEN AND HELL / #RecordStoreDay #HousewolfRecords / “As of the date of the recording of this podcast…it’s the 46th anniversary of Heaven and Hell / Released April 18, 1980 / #Era / “Mob Rules sounds more like Dio…”/ “Did you guys watch the Dio docufilm?” #DreamersNeverDie / “I swear that I saw the promo video for Die Young as a kid…”/  “This sounds, sonically, NOTHING like the Sabbath of the 70’s…”/ Produced by Martin Birch/ NEON KNIGHTS / “I always think of the Live Evil version of this whenever I hear it…” “They could not have picked a better replacement for Ozzy…”/ “Something about that man’s voice with that band…they just go together.”   (28:55): CHILDREN OF THE SEA / “Misty mornings…whenever there’s a misty morning, it’s this song…”/ “Sounds like baby Dio…”/ “It’s almost kinda got power metal vibes a little bit…”/ “I would’ve rather have gone to metal school than middle school…”/ “Talk about beefy bass…”/ “Here’s a question…dude, you always just assume I’m gonna go for the worst…”/ “In fairness…they’re the ones that put out…”/ #StinkySlimy / “See? See? See?”/  LADY EVIL / “Did you hear that?”/ “Is that Yoda? It’s like Grover on backing vocals…”/  “F**k you in the ass, I may…”/ #LOL / “Yoda it did sound like…”   (35:35): HEAVEN AND HELL / “There’s Yoda again…”/ “Wait, Yoda was kinda short, wasn’t he?”/ “So is Dio the Yoda of metal?”/ “This is the 80’s before the 80’s was the 80’s…”/  “It’s like Sabbath got a makeover…”/ “It’s like a spooky Renaissance Festival, idn’t it?”/ “Those are some of the best lyrics in metal history…”/ “Send the hate mail…and the high mileage butthole pics…”/ “Remember our discussion a few weeks ago re: side 2 vs side 1…”/ “Side 2 is all deep cuts…”   (42:06): “There’s a line from this that I had on my wedding cake…” / “Dude, I kept a count on the notes…”/ (11 thus far) / “You can’t say that…”/ WISHING WELL / “Side 2 might be happier than Side 1…”/ “You need a tambourine right there…”/ “Time is a never-ending journey, love is a never-ending smile…”/ “I blame Styx…and Journey…and rocks…”/ “It’s like the #algorithm of the day…”/ “I never made it to side 2 of this album…”/ DIE YOUNG / “I think this was the promotional video I saw…with the wizard sleeves…”/ “Very proggy…it’s almost like a different band…”/ “Something about Dio and Black Sabbath just go together…”/ Geoff Nichols on keyboards / “Tommy Lee plays keyboards with his dick…that’s why he’s so good at it…”   (52:44): “The next one kinda sounds like maybe some leftover Rainbow riffs…”/  WALK AWAY / “Lord, she’s handsome…”/ “Ladies can be handsome…”/ #Xena / “Look at the jaw on that girl…”/ “She got a bulge…”/ “What if…that’s their song warning people about the transvestites?”/ “You’ve seen handsome women…”/ “As long as the water park is still open…or the water slide…as long as the hot pocket still works…”/ #JoanJett / “I’m 11…and you’re showing me this on MTV…”/ LONELY IS THE WORD / “I think I like this song the best on Side 2…”/ “This is why I kinda f*****g hate legal shit…that’s the kinda shit that makes me just hate-f**k everything in the world…”/ #HeavenAndHell / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! #untilthenext #outroreel

    1h 7m

  3. APR 16

    #347 - The POONYs THE NUMBER 1 HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE 1970’S

    “If you’re gonna pick an album that’s supposed to be the album of the decade…”   The Grammy’s have proven over and over to metal fans over the years that their decisions are (more often than not) completely arbitrary and have absolutely zero basis in honor, truth, or reality whatsoever. And if you need to be reminded of this irrefutable fact, just remember who won the Grammy for “Best Metal Performance” in 1989.    “This was a little difficult and it was the first time…and there was no science behind this…”   Every award show, whether it’s The Grammy’s for the music industry or The Emmy’s for the acting industry, seems to be nothing more than some random selection of whatever artist is deemed popular or worthy enough by an elite few individuals to receive such an esteemed and prestigious award, based on nothing more than pure speculation and industry favoritism.   Well, we’ve decided that it’s OUR turn to do the same for metal. Because “it’s OUR award to give…”   With that, we proudly present to you The Inaugural Bunkerpoon Awards for Excellence in Metal, to be known henceforth as THE POONYs, an awards show where WE decide (based on our own personal experience and metal knowledge) which artist is worthy of our own, self-important seal of approval, honor, and recognition.    Ultimately, we hope that THE POONY AWARDS will become an event of prestigious accolades and glory that everyone in the metal community will attend with greater and greater anticipation and excitement.    And given that this is our very first ever POONY AWARDS, we have to start with the decade that has defined everything in metal up to this point:  The 1970’s. Understand that with this being our very first ever (ahem, “inaugural”) awards show that the logistics behind our nomination process might seem a bit clunky (and, again, completely random, which is “why those awards shows take so long…”), but this is OUR take and OUR nominations for the artist that will receive the coveted POONY Award for THE NUMBER 1 HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE 1970’S.   “We’re gonna get better at this…”   So break out your Sunday best and the most top shelf relaxers you have in your stash and JOIN US as we launch our first ever, totally random, self-indulgent, heavy metal awards show from the Bunkerpoon Center for Metal Excellence where we select “The Best Heavy Metal Album of the 1970’s” on this, The Metal Nerdery Podcast Awards:   THE POONYs: Volume I – The 1970s. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “We don’t care about the masses, we care about OUR asses…”/ “Food in middle age is like porn in your teens…”/ “Was it Oui?”/ “I actually bought a #Velvet at a gas station…I was not even 18…”/ “Food addiction…next will be the fitness addiction, then it’ll be the sex addiction, and then I’ll go back to drug addiction and then it’ll be the end of the world…”/ “We need to be clear for this…”/ “Welcome to our very first ever POONYs awards…”/ “It’s the POONYs…it’s the inaugural POONYs…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***    (04:52): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “We did a St. Anger dive over there…we gave it the treatment it deserves…”/ #TheHogStory / ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “A fantastic David Lee Roth impression…”/ “How many of y’all have ever f****d to our podcast?”/ C**t Grunt / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US AT #metalnerderypodcast ON #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram & #TikTok and EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / #highmileagebuttholepics / #goingviral   (10:10): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: THE POONYs – The Inaugural Metal Nerdery Podcast Awards – The Best Heavy Metal Album of the 1970’s /  “They WANT to make it to The POONYs…”/ “Tell us YOUR nominations for The POONYs…”/  “I’ll bet you 5 pubic hairs I could tell you…”/ “69 is way too much multitasking for sex…”/  #ACDC GO DOWN / DOG EAT DOG (Let There Be Rock – 1977) / “This would have been a better opener…” / “So, if I were to disagree…”/ “If you’re gonna pick an album that’s supposed to be the album of the decade…”/ “As it ‘twere…” / BEATING AROUND THE BUSH / “Okay, I’ve got a story about that…” / IF YOU WANT BLOOD (YOU’VE GOT IT) (Highway To Hell – 1979) / #CantBeLoudEnough / “I don’t know…it won’t be the winner…”   (23:15): #BlackSabbath / “What was your first Sabbath experience?”/ “I didn’t really get into Sabbath until high school…”/ “I knew it was gonna be f*****g hard…it IS hard, dude…it’s extremely hard…”/ “If we did the years, the top album of that year is going to be the Sabbath album…” / “Life’s not fair…”/ “We’ll fight about it at the end…”/ “I had to do it…”/  FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS (Paranoid – 1970) / #SurpriseSurpriseSurprise #LOL / “That was perfect…”/ “It never gets old…”   (31:37): “If there was another band that could possibly make the list…RUSH.”/ “I think with metal, we do this a lot, I think we always go backwards…like we’ll start here and then we’ll work our way back around…”/ #RUSH WORKING MAN (RUSH – 1974) / “People thought this was Zeppelin at the time…”/ “That’s a far cry from Power Windows…”/ “Why is it so quiet?” / TEMPLES OF SYRINX (2112 – 1976) / “You’re doing good, bro…” / “That’s the riff, though…”  (37:00): “We probably didn’t find out about 70’s Priest until South of Heaven…”/ “You cannot get that on the internet and DON’T YOU go look it up…”/ #Scorpions #VirginKiller / #Nazareth HAIR OF THE DOG (Hair of the Dog – 1975) / #sonofabitch / “We can throw some honorable mentions in there…”/ “How about some Deep Purple?” / “Don’t let the one cokeline fool you…”/ #DeepPurple BLACK NIGHT (7-inch single released in 1970) / “That sounds like Sabbath…”/ “It’s like stoner metal…”   (42:10): “I like elephants…”/ “It’s the most metal Zeppelin song…in the 70’s…”/ “No Quarter is early doom metal…”/ “I like how this is evolving…”/ #LedZeppelin NO QUARTER (Houses of the Holy – 1973) / “This is stoner metal at its best…it’s a mood…”/ “It’s a little bit slower for metal…it’s softer…doom (metal) is heavier than that…”/ “Other bands that get honorable mentions in the 70’s…”/ #EddieTrunk #ThatMetalShow / “That Metal Show was one of the earliest, televised, metal podcasts in the history of metal podcasts…”/ #UFO ROCK BOTTOM (Phenomenon – 1974) / #MichaelSchenker   (50:50): “You did mention Van Halen…and given the voice mail we got earlier…”/ #VanHalen ATOMIC PUNK (Van Halen – 1978) / “You know what, I’m not gonna judge…however…”/  “This episode’s going nowhere, btw…”/ “We can call this The 70’s Part II / “We have to pick 1 album…”/ “It’s which Sabbath album is the best…that’s gonna win the decade?”/ “So now is when the argument starts…”/ “The award goes to…”/ “If there was a top 5…” / Top 5 Metal albums of the 70’s…/ “This is no particular order…” / #recordscratch / “Don’t try to read it, you’re gonna break a blood vessel in your brain…it’s all 7’s…”/ “I think Master…of Reality, f**k face…”/ “So you’re picking the common ground…as you do.”/ “Of those…what’s the best album?”/ “This is why those awards shows take so long…”/ “We’re gonna get better at this…”/The Number 1 Heavy Metal Album of the 70’s / “And The POONY Award goes to…” / “This was a little difficult and it’s the first time… there was no science behind this…” / “It’s OUR award to give…”/ “This was a more fun version of The 70’s than our first one…”/  Let us know what YOU think…/ #untilthenext #outroreel

    1h 4m

  4. APR 9

    #346 - Exodus GOLIATH Album Review

    Released March 20, 2026, GOLIATH, the newest behemoth to emerge from classic thrash masters EXODUS, feels a lot like 1989 but with some other added extras that are a bit different, experimental, and a little off the reservation relative to their earlier work. It also marks the return of Rob Dukes on vocals for the first time since 2010’s Exhibit B: The Human Condition.   Loaded with scathing social commentary against the modern philistine monsters of our time, GOLIATH is sure to get the blood & adrenaline pumping and the fists & heads banging with revolutionary glee and righteous vengeance. Amidst all the thrashing, there are also a multitude of brutally heavy moments, shredding twin guitar harmonies, melodic riffs with power metal overtones, and even a string arrangement that, while a bit different than anything they’ve recorded previously, is still 100%, unapologetically EXODUS.    Realize the “sad and/but true” fact that “people are getting dumber by the minute”, find out why you should NEVER go out on a boat drunk with a camera phone and talk to strangers, give some thought as to what might be “the most melodic Slayer song”, and prepare yourself for “The POONYs” when you JOIN US as we tackle GOLIATH, the latest metal monstrosity from EXODUS. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes:   (00:01): “Welcome back…” / A word about the “Ozzy’s Song” video… / #BLS / “I don’t wanna cry on this show…”/ “I wanna hear it…but not on this show…”/ “Let’s get this party started…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Nerdery withdrawal…”/  “We’ve got stuff…stuff to talk about, stuff to play…we’ve got stuff and things…things and stuff…”/ “We don’t need to do that anymore…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “I feel like people are getting dumber by the minute…”/  “Sad and/but true…butt true…”/ “If you’re homeless, just buy a house…”/ “Is that Geoff Tate?” / “The level of stupid…”/ “If you’re hungry, just eat…”   (05:55): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “That was just for you guys…”/ ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast ON #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram and #TikTok *** / #goingviral /  ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “It’s a different number…”/ “One of the highlights of my Thursday…”/  “Whoever your relaxer distributor is, that dude is on point…OR it could be a lady…”/  A potential ’86 death match that might shock some folks…/ #Shittah / “I’m the brunch guy…”/ “She didn’t mention they were on #NuclearBlast records…”/ “Kentucky is known for a lot of stuff…”/ #GatesToHell / NEXT TO BLEED (Death Comes To All – 2025) / “That was a good surprise…” (17:03): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: EXODUS – GOLIATH / #RobDukes / “There’s some differences between this and…the #Exodus of old…”/  “That (Persona Non Grata) came out in 2021!?”/ #seventhanniversary / “Where the f**k is time going, dude? Something is happening…”/ “What’s so funny? Share with the class…”/ #RussellsReflectionsBoatEdition / “I’m sorry…I’ve gotta tell the story…”/ “One of the drunks in my boat starts talking to him…”/ “I’m waiting for the payoff on this…”/ “Anyway, I’m sorry, that’s why I was tickled this whole time…” / #dickpix / “Talk about Goliath…”/  #markthetime “He had some good stripers on there…largemouth…”/ “Hard in the paint…”   (24:10): 3111 / “Oh yeah, this has that Psycho Holiday riff in it…”/ “There’s some Spanish in there too…”/ “The next one looks like it’s Latin…can we find out what that means?”/ #EnemyOfMankind / “Your pennies which cost 4 cents to make now, btw that’s why they stopped making them…”/ #inflation / HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS / “I couldn’t give a f**k about how I act…” / “Time to get swole…”/ “Didn’t we touch on this on the #EmberingEffigy episode?”   (32:32): “Swedish…”/ THE CHANGING ME (feat. Peter Tagtgren) / #Hypocrisy #Pain / #TheAbyss / “Very Maiden-ish…”/ #powermetal / “That might be the most melodic thing they’ve ever done…”/ “What do you think would be the most melodic Slayer song?”/  “What do you mean by ‘melodic’?”/ PROMISE YOU THIS / “Do we have a cokeline inventory by chance?”/ #notontheboat / “That’s hooky as fuck…that’s the radio hit…”/  “What’s the new ‘radio’…is it Sirius? Or Spotify?”   (42:00): GOLIATH (feat. Katie Jacoby) / NOTE: Katie Jacoby did the strings on Goliath, not saxophone…/ “I’m just trying to talk things out…trying to fill space, it’s called content creation…that’s what we’re doing…”/ BEYOND THE EVENT HORIZON / “Actually it has Fabulous vibes a little bit…”/ #usethoseheadphones / 2 MINUTES HATE / “That’s gated as shit…”/ “That’s some weird harmonies…”/ #bonusmix / “See, that was a real burp…”/    (52:32): “This is the one that, at the beginning, sounds like Wrathchild (America)…”/  VIOLENCE WORKS / “Yeah, I get that…kinda fun…upbeat…” / “And then when he sings too…”/ #WrathchildAmerica / “(Regarding the riffs…) If they’re not brutal, they’re brutal and interesting…they’re never NOT interesting…”/ “I feel like my fingers need to go to the gym, man…”/ #practicetime / “You could be writing originals for Smog Mountain…”/  “Don’t say you didn’t warn me…”/ SUMMON OF THE GOD UNKNOWN / “That’s kinda got South of Heaven vibes to it…”/ “They’ve rubbed off on him a little bit, mark the time…”/ EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com (1:00:42): “When the drummer writes lyrics, it’s always crazy…”/ THE DIRTIEST OF THE DOZEN / “It’s like groove Exodus…”/ #meaty #basssolotakeone / “That’s kinda got old school 70’s rock vibes to it…or early thrash…”/ “That’s triumph metal, dude…all day.”/  “I like the mix of the new and the old…you can definitely hear a lot of old Exodus thrash on here but…there’s some shit they haven’t done before on this album…”/ “That’s a great 2026 thrash album…”/ “We need to have our own thrash awards…what do we call ‘em? The Poonys…?”/ “Dude, did you get the Poony in 2026?” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!/  #untilthenext #outroreel

    1h 8m

  5. APR 2

    #345 LAMB OF GOD Into Oblivion Album Review

    “It’s like we’re missing someone…”   Released Friday, March 13, 2026, INTO OBLIVION, the latest offering from Richmond, Virginia’s LAMB OF GOD, features a new logo and an album cover that hints at the darker atmosphere that dwells within.   “It’d be wrong to do a clinky without Russ…”   Chock full of enough sick grooves, primal screams, and disgustingly brutal riffs to give anyone who hears it a healthy case of “stank face”, INTO OBLIVION checks all of the prerequisite boxes necessary to maintain the interest of the most loyal fans while also offering enough sonic surprises to capture the curiosity of potentially new LAMB OF GOD fans. In short, it’s everything you’ve come to expect with a little extra texture thrown in for good measure.   “This is so weird without Russ here…actually, it might be better without Russ here…”   Get ready for a whole bunch of “hot takes”, because we’ve got Embering Effigy back in The Bunkerpoon with us, and we didn’t waste any time with the usual foreplay and got “right into the meat” with this episode. Find out which band “doesn’t belong in The Big Four” and remember JD’s sage words of wisdom “if you don’t want a gut” when you JOIN US (and special guests Embering Effigy) as we sprint INTO OBLIVION with LAMB OF GOD. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes:   (00:01): “Alright, let’s go bitches…”/ “It’s like we’re missing someone, who is that?”/ “I’ve got an idea for 2 Asian airlines…” (“Here we go…”) / “Pho gets pho’d…” / “It’d be wrong to do a clinky without Russ…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** /  ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST AND ALSO WELCOME BACK TO OUR SPECIAL GUESTS: EMBERING EFFIGY!!!***/ “This is so weird without Russ here…actually, it might be better without Russ here…”/ “I am not subbing for him, that sounds weird…”/ “Let’s just get right into the meat…” (without lube and without delay).   (4:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PRESENTS: LAMB OF GOD – INTO OBLIVION / “How many cokelines would you give our album?”/ “Every band doesn’t have to have a tittlee…”/ #titletrack / “She’s like the female version of me…it’s like you with a vag…”/  “Everybody has one marriage that’s like a mulligan…”/ #LambOfGod #IntoOblivion / Released Friday, March 13, 2026 / “What do y’all think about the new logo?”/  “It looks like a D12…it’s a 12- sided die…last night we played D&D…in the AirBnB…”/ “Mmmm…hot dogs…”/ #BeardInterviews / “Are we making the same jokes as last time?”/  “We’re all about the hot takes here…” (09:50): INTO OBLIVION / “It’s like they blended their original sound with the modern metal sound…”/ “That’s my hot take…” (Resolution vs Into Oblivion) / “It might be a grower…”/  “The artwork is a smidge different…” / “You can’t do the same thing over and over…”   (13:24): PARASOCIAL CHRIST / “That’s a busy drumline…”/ “That’s almost got an #Exodus feel to it…”/ “The first time I ever saw Lamb of God…”/ #WallOfDeath / “Chrissss?” / SEPSIS “That’s a f*****g meaty bass sound…that’s just ugly…”/ #StankFaceRiff / “I think the Italian folks do this…chef’s kiss…”/ “If it looks like pasta, RUN…especially with marinara on it…”/  “If you don’t want a gut, put it in the butt…”   (19:10): THE KILLING FLOOR / #usethoseheadphones / “That was off the boat…” / #deathburp / “It’s the whole moving up and down the fretboard…that’s how you know it’s old school (thrash)…”/ “You stimming over there?”/ “I found this new monster…”/ #markthetime / #RiffMonsterATL (on YouTube) #podcast / “Surge...you could taste the grit in it…the taste of Chernobyl…”   (23:27): “The void…”/ “Void, empty, or vacuum…so also the butthole…”/ EL VACIO /  “It sounds like something and I can’t place it…it almost sounds like ‘Floods’…that kinda sounds like #Mastodon vocally…Hushed And Grim style…”/ “The next one, if I recall, might be my favorite one…”/ “Is there a backstory to this at all?”/ “This has all the ingredients…it’s like Prego…it’s in there…”   (26:25): ST. CATHERINE’S WHEEL / “Ohhh, it’s a torture method…”/ “The breaking wheel…”/ “THAT is the best Lamb of God album…” / #Sacrament / “What he said…”/  BLUNT FORCE BLUES / “Oh, he’s the Winds of Plague drummer…” / #Prong / #ArtCruz / “His first one was the self-titled…”/ “Do y’all ever notice…whenever a band does their self-titled album, to me it’s like their Black Album moment…” /  “A self-titled can either be a really good album or it can be kinda mediocre…there is no in between…” / #metalElvis / #onmicburp / “I’m sorry, what did you say? I didn’t hear you…”/  “It’s like there’s two of ‘em in here now…”/ “Bro let’s fist…usually I don’t have to fist across the table…”/ “Form of…dildo. Shape of…balls.” / #WonderTwins   (32:27): BULLY / “It’s like a chime…” / “That sounds like old school #LambOfGod right there…”/ “I like that little chimy thing… it just adds a degree of creepy to it…”/  A THOUSAND YEARS / “That f*****g bass sound!” / “Guys…we need more cowbell…”/  “Hot Take: #Megadeth doesn’t belong in #TheBigFour…”/ “Megadeth’s album was the last one that came out…and Megadeth is jazz metal, not thrash.”/ “I think he’s trying to save you from yourself…” (38:38): #killercloser / DEVISE/DESTROY / “I got a hot take about this…here’s my hot take…”/ “That’s 2 for 2…”/ “I feel like now, in 2026, there’s no reason for any band to have s****y production…”/ “We’ve had 30 something years of people learning how to mix extreme metal…”   (42:54): “What are y’all’s thoughts on A.I.?” / “The better it gets, the creepier it gets…”/ #TillyNorwood / #AI / “I’ve seen Terminator 2, dude…I know how it ends…”/ “If I know I’ve got three weeks…I’m gonna go do…all three at the same time…with Embering Effigy …”/ “Thank y’all for being the Guest Pod Hosts? Guest VJ’s sounds like guest Vag’s…”/  #WithinTheMindOfMattWheeler / “That should be a segment now…”/ Check out #LambOfGod and check out #EmberingEffigy / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! #untilthenext / #outroreel

    48 min

  6. MAR 26

    #344 - EMBERING EFFIGY - OUT OF THE WOODS Album Review

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

    1h 28m

  7. MAR 19

    #343 - SIDE TWO VERSUS SIDE ONE

    Ever since compact discs came out in the mid-1980s, the concept of SIDE 1 and SIDE 2 on an album sort of fell by the wayside. And with this new quantum leap in technology, the entire process of consuming music began to transform.    By the late 80’s and early 90’s, CD sales began outselling vinyl records and cassette tapes, due in large part to convenience and technological innovation, as vinyl records (albums) were limited to a maximum of 20 minutes or so per side and cassette tapes maxed out at around 30 minutes per side. But prior to compact discs, consuming music was (at a minimum) a two-step process which involved inserting the cassette into your tape deck and pressing play or placing the album on your turntable and dropping the needle to begin your music enjoyment experience.    With the advent of compact discs, the maximum recording space jumped to 74 minutes, far exceeding the limitations of records and tapes, and bonus: you didn’t have to flip anything over and repeat the process as all of the album tracks were included on one side (so to speak) as one complete, seamless work that systematically eliminated the technologically imposed intermission which required ejecting the cassette or removing the stylus from the album and flipping it over to SIDE TWO, as a CD version of an album quickly became a singular entity devoid of one side or another and just became one complete work (think Reign In Blood on cassette, where both sides are repeated).   In the case of a near perfect album, sides didn’t really matter, but what we’ve come to notice over the years is that SIDE TWO would sometimes be superior to SIDE ONE. Granted, this is not by any means an exact science nor is it always a guarantee, but many of the finest albums in metal history have a SIDE TWO that is much better than SIDE ONE. So, with that in mind, we invite you to JOIN US as we go through a few of our favorites to determine whether or not there is any validity to the claim that SIDE TWO IS BETTER THAN SIDE ONE.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “That’s how Indian people say ‘windows’…”/ #foodtruck / “Was it a chicken truck?”/ “The mac and cheese had kimchi in it…”/ #seoulman / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #DirtyMonkeyBananaPeanutButterWhiskey / “I left my liquid up there…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** /  “At this point it’s the Ides of March (roughly)…this might be after that…” (NOTE: The Ides of March falls on March 15) / #BewareTheIdesOfMarch / “It’s almost 311, y’all…”/ Beach Boat Rotation / #WuTang / “Did you have to say that?”/ “Gentleman Snatch…it’s all about the cockney…” / “Just curious…seeing what’s adjacent and what’s not…” (06:22): ***PATREON US AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “They’re gonna get laid and drained, thusly.”/ ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook #TikTok and EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** (“It’s very anticlimactic when there’s no voicemail…”) (09:10): “I say, I declare!” / #FoghornLeghornASMR / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  SIDE TWO VERSUS SIDE ONE – WHICH IS BETTER?  “We’ve found several albums where side two was better than side one…this is for the vinyl and cassette folks out there, pre-compact disc and pre-streaming…”/ #VanHalen “Let’s look at Women and Children real quick…” / #WaitWhat? #markthetime / “Maybe when they’re doing the tracking…they’re warming up on side one…”/ “Make every album like a #Nike swoosh…”/ “That is one of the biggest arguments between producers and bands: tracking.”/ “One more Van Halen…” (13:53): #Metallica / #Phenomenomenomenal / “That’s an interesting idea…not only a remastering thing but what if they re-tracked?”/ “That makes it the better side…”/ The perfect 10/10 album / “Side 3 is where Side 2 started on the cassette…”/ “Notice how I didn’t shit on the mix at all…” (“But you still had to mention it…”) (17:52): #AC/DC / “Ooooh…now it’s gonna get ugly…”/ “I’m sorry, that’s how they sound, dude…”/ #wokeASMR / “It’s not Power Age, it’s Powerage…according to them…”/ #markthetime / “I always liked that cover…it’s very classic…” (22:14): #BlackSabbath / “Side 2 is more of a vibe and a feel…”/ “Paranoid, I think Side 2 has got it…”/ “And there’s that…”/ “No more Sabbath, huh?”/ “It’s kind of a different vibe on Side 2…if you can’t pick a side, it’s kinda everything…”/ “Don’t you think the vibe is completely different (from Side A to Side B)?”/ “I think everything else makes up for ‘Am I Going Insane? (Radio)’…”/ (Side preferences and potential tracking adjustments according to us…) / “It’s scary Disney…” (26:53): #Slayer / “Have I told y’all the weird thing about my phone?” / “Either I’m in some serious spiritual trouble or my phone’s like ‘Listen to more Slayer’…”/ “Mine’s stuck in alphabetical order so if music starts playing on it’s own (It’s Coldplay?)…”/ “I’ve got some #SlayerHotSauce in bound…”/ Pre-ordering tickets for Metallica at The Sphere / #TheSphere / “That makes the #KISSArmy look like a militia and a couple of rednecks in Idaho…”/ “You can get in both days…”/ “It’ll be like The Chevy Show of concerts…”/  #FOMO (fear of missing out) / “Pre-Buy…it’s curious, btw…” (“I’m not even listening to you…”) / “So far your little theory is not panning out there, tough guy…”/ “I’ve just proven that men are just dumb idiots with dicks…”/ “If it’s close enough: Side 1.” (34:34): #IronMaiden / “Why not have the title track be your opener?” / “What would you swap out with ‘Invaders’…?”/ “More deep cuts on side 2 though…”/ “Revelations, this one!”/ “That ain’t right…”/ “On the tape, it’s side 3 & 4 (of the album)…”/ “That’s a guitar player’s wet dream, that one…”/ #WTFASMR / “My scientific method was not quite as scientific as I thought…it’s kinda like Just Talkin’ Shittah but it’s very specific…specific Shittah…”   (40:37): #PanterA / “In fairness, when I started buying Pantera, it was compact discs…”/ #seriously / “I started with tapes, but when I got to CD’s, all the side 1/side 2 shit just faded out the window…”/ “Well, I guess my little theory didn’t pan out quite like I thought it would…”/ #futureshowideas / “Progressive metal singers that Bill would like…”/ “Bands that are WAY better LIVE than their recorded stuff…”/ “We could call that Vol. 1 of Matt was wrong…that’ll be a long volume…multiple volumes…”/ “It’s time to go home and get some bed…”/ “Bed head or bed poon…bed butt…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

    48 min

  8. MAR 12

    #342 - Rob Zombie The Great Satan Album Review

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

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