Heavy Metal History: The Podcast

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! Here we are the final episode covering 1998, the year has seen the entire genre change and blow up to such epic proportions. The new millennium will change things even further, but we arent there yet! December of 1998 is the month where barely any records get released because one of two things happen, either it gets forgotten by the next year,...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest for this episode of the podcast is Kyle Rasmussen, Guitar player/Vocalist of the Death Metal Band Vitriol, based out of Oregon. When writing up the description for this episode I barely knew what to include or cover about our conversation in this episode, Kyle was easily one of the most interesting, honest and eloquent person to talk t...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest this week is Nick Lee, guitar player of New York based band Moon Tooth! Nick’s intriguingly unique guitar playing style struck me immediately upon hearing the bands 2016 release “Chromaparagon” and if I had the podcast going back then I would have had him on immediately. But here we are two years later and the stars aligned with Nick c...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest this week on the podcast was a long time coming, Jeff Wilson formerly of Wolvhammer, Nachmystium, Abigail Williams, Doomsday and about a ton of other recording projects. Earlier in the year Jeff was due to be on the podcast when his band Wolvhammer were about to release their album "The Monuments of Ash & Bone" but due to...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History, we're nearing the end of 1998 and we round out November with a lean and light month of releases. We get a release from a band that only a few years later would change the entire shape of Heavy Metal, a Death Metal force of nature, a Grindcore explosion, A covers album by one of the biggest Heavy Metal bands of all time and a couple of Death...

Welcome to this weeks first "lost" (and now found) episode of Heavy Metal History. This episode was recorded with the mysterious "NKSV" the Aussie mastermind behind Rebel Wizard. He is a musical wizard of epic proportions behind the guitar casting magic wizard riffs from his axe. "NKSV" never did interviews before this and I was really bummed when I lost the episode a...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! October of 1998 is the biggest and most jammed packed month of releases in 1998, so we had to split it into 2 episodes! One part one we discuss a massive amount of Power Metal records, a controversial Gothic Doom Metal bands release, a couple middle of the road releases from bands and ending part one with a controversial Black Metal band (Are a...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. We finish up October of 1998 with part two of our coverage. The rest of this month saw releases from a band that paved the way for a  new type of Black Metal, a solo release from a prolific metal guitar player, Funeral Doom, about 2 more somewhat controversial bands/releases, the start of our favorite band, Horror themed metal and once again ro...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. We're nearing the end of 1998 with only 3 months (episodes) left to go! September of 1998 is absolutely stacked, which saw releases from quite a few Black Metal bands, as well as a band that changed the face of Death Metal puts out their final album before the untimely death of their founding member. This month releases has music from nearl...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! We're a little over halfway through the year and there's a bit of a slump in releases, regardless 98 is clearly the year of Power Metal. Despite that, one of the biggest and game changing Nu Metal records of all time drops with Korn's "Follow the Leader". Albums discussed: Kamelot – “ Siege Perilous ” The Sins of Thy Belov...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. The time was right to start having guests on the podcast again and since its been a number of months, what better guest than Todd Stern, Bassist for the legendary Australian band Psycroptic. Todd is the bands newest member joining officially in 2018, but touring with the band since 2015. Todd discusses his musical history as well as some of the...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This weeks episode we pick back up with Part two of the history of the band Pantera. This episode is due to be released on an ominous day, the "deathiversary" of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbot. Not as a means to talk about the loss we as the metal community suffered that day back in 2004, but to honor not only his memory, but his brother Vinnie who pa...

Welcome to this special episode of Heavy Metal History. On part one of this episode I discuss the beginnings of one of the most legendary bands in the history of the genre, PANTERA! On this episode I go through the bands early years and origin all the way up to the year 1988 before Pantera hit mainstream success. Albums I discussed: Pantera - " Metal Magic "  Pantera - " Projects in...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. We are into July of 1998 with a wide range of releases from all genres. Crowbar released their masterpiece "Odd Fellows Rest" Power Metal mixed with melodic death metal, doom metal meets hardcore, christian hardcore, brutal death metal, a black metal bands debut album, and Fear Factory's Nu Metal masterpiece "Obsolete"....

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. After a brief hiatus the podcast is back and with a renewed vigor! This weeks episode delves into the releases of June 1998, an eclectic and somewhat genre defining month. Records that were discussed: Madball - " Look My Way "  Slayer - " Diabolus In Musica "  Gorguts - " Obscura "  Alabama Thunderpussy - " Ri...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History, my guest this week is the amazing and insanely talented Kevin Hufnagel. Kevin is in a multitude of amazing projects such as Dysrhythmia, Vaura, Sabbath Assembly, and Gorguts. Kevin also has released a plethora of varying solo projects, his newest being "Messages to the Past". Kevin's has been involved in the metal scene for over a...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History, our guest this week was Steffen Kummerer, founding member and guitarist of German Death Metal band Obscura. Obscura has been making waves for over 10 years now with each of their releases exponentially eclipsing their last in technicality, brutality and overall musicianship. Steffen came on to talk to us about the bands imminent release "D...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guests this week were 2 out of 3 members of New York based Avant-garde Black Metal Band Imperial Triumphant, guitarist Zach Ezrin aka "Ilya" and bass Steve Blanco. Born in the metropolis: Imperial Triumphant embodies the sounds of New York. The chaos, the menagerie, the perils and majesty of the greatest city on earth. We portray t...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This weeks episode we continue with part 2 to discuss and breakdown all the records released in the month of May in 1998! We see the rise and beginnings of Metalcore (and even Christian Metalcore), the next wave of Grindcore, and a little black metal band from England called Cradle of Filth ushers in the 3rd wave of the genre. Albums we discuss...

EDITORS NOTE: At the time of recording the heinous accusations against Inquisition weren't known yet, if we had known, we would have never covered this pedophile scums band. Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This weeks episode we discuss and breakdown all the records released in the month of May in 1998! We see the rise and beginnings of Metalcore (and even Christian Metalc...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! My guest this week was long time friend and tour mate Scott Lewis from the band Carnifex. Scott and his band started me on my journey of touring way back in 2008. Scott came on the podcast to chat a little about his early days in music and the beginnings of Carnifex, we briefly touch on "The Diseased and the Poisoned" turning 10 and a...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest this week is one of our first we ever had on our podcast way back in episode 7, Mike Hill, singer and guitar player formerly of the band Anodyne and now with his band of the past decade Tombs. Mike came back on to do a "swapcast" were we discussed each others podcasts as well as tour life and stories from the road, film, MMA,...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! My guests this week are guitarists, Cole Jacobsen and Gus Barr from Arizona based Death Metal Band Lago. The two came on to talk about the band, which If you haven't heard them, after listening to this episode, you HAVE to check the band out. They play a raw, yet outside the box approach to Death Metal. In a year that's already filled w...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This week I got to speak with Jadran "Conan" Gonzalez, lead guitar player and founding member of the band Exmortus. "Conan" came on to talk about the bands first album "In Hatreds Flame" turning 10, his very supportive upbringing and always having the heavy metal influence in his life. "Conan" started Exm...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! My guest this week on the podcast was guitar player Jonatan Ramm of the classic heavy metal band Graveyard. Jonatan came on to talk about his early influences in music, what started him playing guitar, how his first band was a punk band and the band's new album "Peace" which will be released through Nuclear Blast May 25th! Follow...