Talking Bollocks

Patreon Gateway I welcome James to the show to talk all things Metal, all things Mental Health and Metal Mental Health. James's story is a fascinating one and well worth listening for all you budding book writers out there as well as any of you who are/have/no someone into metal who is struggling. There is also a run through the news with old favourites making repeat appearances and Aaron Lewis. T...

Patreon Offers This is one of the most enjoyable chats I have had in a long time. Matt returns to the show for the first time in 8 years just ahead of their first European and UK headline tour in years. Prepare for lots of chat about thrash, metal, hardcore and music of all types as we have a proper natter! The news takes an unexpected turn, a bit like real life. This Is Descendents Bollocks. Vide...

Acid Reign Insider Programme In another Daze Of The Week special Dan and I talk all about the new Acid Reign album cover art from concept to realisation, complete with a few detours along the way. This Is Script For A Jesters Fear Bollocks. Video

Patreon Offers I review 19 movies: Wrecking Crew, Hellfire, Redux Redux, War Machine, Saipan, Giant, Dead Man's Wire, Ready Or Not 2 Here I Come, Mercy, The Trail, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Ballad Of A Small Player, Avatar Fire and Bollocks, Influencers, Send Help, Crime 101, Project Hail Mary, Thrash, and Americana. I also review 4 TV series:Steal, Evil, A Knight of The Seven Kingdo...

Patreon Goodies My good friend Steven Ivy asks all the right questions and I try to give some right answers the writing, recording and releasing of the first Acid Reign album for nearly seven years. This Is Old Head Bollocks Video Interview  

Amazing Patreon Content We get stuck into new releases from: Cryptic Shift, Corrosion Of Conformity, Metal Church, Eradikated, Sylosis, Nervosa & Sepultura. Have it! Old Head YouTube

Patreon Sign Up I get to have a chat with Elvin from Swedish thrashers Eradikated. They first came to my attention with their debut album Desendents which I liked and now they have blown that out the water with the epic Wiring Of Violence. We talk all about their history which began way before Eradikated even came into existence and how exactly they came to be nominated for a Swedish Grammy! There...

Patreon Good Stuff Let me explain. First up my good friend and fellow stand up comic and metal geek Brandon returns to the show who you may know from his excellent podcast Disturbing The Priest. We get into all sorts of metal chat as he was preparing for a bay area special when we recorded this, we also chat about comedy, roasts and Pink Floyd. That is followed by my chat with Pet Shop Boys fan Co...

Patreon Gateway One Saturday morning I went down to visit Chloe & Ben who run Raven Records in Camden a haven for metalhead's, music lovers and coffee fanatics alike. After a geek out around the shop and some great coffee I got to sit down and chat all about what made them risk everything and open London's premier heavy metal record store & coffee shop. This Is Concept Cafes Bollocks. Full...

Patreon Free Membership Let the madness begin it's my old touring mate Jason from D.A.M. We chat about their newly released compilation Inside The Wreckage (copies to be won listen to learn how), what the bands plans are, if any and we chat about both of our careers and how they have developed over the years. There is also a news section which turns out to be the gift that keeps on giving. This Is...

Exclusive Patreon Offers My Yorkshire brethren are on the show after they finally release their opus Overspace & Supertime. There is so much to talk about, signing to Metal Blade, the UK scene, old school shows and pits we have a right old chat. As always there is a news section featuring Gene Simmons, it's starting to become a thing. This Is Cakehole Bollocks. Video Interview Devin Video

Patreon Goodies The legendary DJ Will is on the show! A stalwart of the LA thrash scene he was there at the very beginning and we get into it all. The very beginnings of thrash, tape trading and his time as A&R at Metal Blade & Capitol Records. The news is here in all it's blocked nose glory with both KI$$ and Metallica getting a look in. This Is Cold Lake Bollocks. Video Interview Bastard...

Free Patreon Subscription We're back and review Megadeth, Stabbing and Howard goes through his top five of 2025 plus all the usual music chat. This Is Old Bollocks. Video  

Patreon Free Membership First released in December 2020 as part of SepulQuarta but recorded much earlier in the midst of lockdown I chat to Andreas all about Quadra. How did the album come together, the aborted world tour, family, mental health, music and more over the course of 90 minutes. This Is Flashback Bollocks.

Patreon Offers I got through a lot of movies over Xmas so here are reviews for twenty two films and nine TV shows. Movies: Soft And Quiet, Predator Badlands, Wake Up Dead Man, She Rides Shotgun, Nurenberg, Bugonia, Fackham Hall, Death Of A Unicorn, Relay, Sisu: Road To Revenge, Troll 2, Black Bag, It's What's Inside, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, Now You See Me Now You Don't, The Run...

Patreon Offers Jayce is back! He takes time out from his busy schedule to have a chat. We cover a multitude of subjects from digital verses analogue recording, his time working with Queen and Rammstein, hanging with thrash legends and Joe Calzaghe! We even mention the upcoming Acid Reign album he's working on. In the news, with a new album out we inevitably have Dave Mustaine and Metallica with wi...

Join Patreon For Free In 2026 This will always be my favourite interview no matter who I get the chance to speak with in the coming years. This is my chat with Franky De Smet Van Damme singer with Belgian metal gods Channel Zero and the story of a letter received by us both 21 years previously.     This Is Flashback Bollocks.

Patreon Xmas Offer It's time to get my old mate Marc on the show to see what's been going on since he left AR almost exactly a year ago. We chat all things Venom Inc, South America, new music and some of the more painful commitments that touring brings. As always the news is picked through with an even stranger skew on it than usual as it is dominated by Gene Simmons. This Is Geordie Bollocks. Vid...

Xmas Patreon Presents It's time for some more short and sweet movie reviews of: F1 The Movie, The Naked Gun, Weapons, Companion, Sinners, Caught Stealing, Murder Mystery 1&2, Tron Ares, Boys From County Hell, The Perfect Neighbour, A House Of Dynamite, Freaky Tales & One Battle After Another. Followed by TV Series: Peacemaker Series 2, Lioness, Ganglands Series 1&2, House Of Guinness,...

Patreon Goodness In this episode I am joined by the legendary main man of Canadian thrash pioneers Sacrifice, Rob Urbinati. They released their latest album "Volume Six" earlier this year which I was tipped off about by Todd from Propagandhi (thanks Todd!) and its an absolute old school banger. Having both been around since the 80's we had a lot of common ground to cover and cover it we did, this...

Patreon Goodies From the vaults this one comes from back in 2017 when I had my first chat with James. This is possibly the most revealing and longest interview I've ever done as about half way through he volunteer's to talk about a part of his life that he'd never really made public before. That is why we talked for nearly two hours. This Is Flashback Bollocks. Video  

Patreon Exclusives The one and only Knox Colby returns to the show on the eve of recording their new album. He goes deep on label shenanigans, what the future of Enforced looks like, how that's changed from just one album ago and all of the challenges the band has had to deal with. As always there is a run through the news, some of it news (musicians dying) and some of it pro shot video announceme...

Patreon Free Cashback We're back dropping bombs! This time we get into Gridiron, Dead Heat, Rage, Igorrr, Testament, Tribal Gaze, Revocation & Dark Angel. This Is Old Bollocks.  Show Video

Patreon Cool Stuff Dave is back on the show and this time it's to chat about their latest album New Gods, New Masters. We get into how it all came together and also about the up coming 25th anniversary of the band. Then it's off to the news and there's plenty to get through including amazing tours, amazingly bad tours and what promises to be the worst metal Xmas album in history. This Is Armed &am...

Get Your Patreon On This is the first of a new series called FlashBack Bollocks. From time to time I will drop a favourite interview from the decade old vaults starting with Episode 4 from 2014 and a chance to hear my chat with Chad. This Is FlashBack Bollocks.