Heavy Metal History: The Podcast

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This is a bonus episode this week. Earlier this week we had a few minutes to talk with Johnny, lead singer of Winds of Plague to discuss their new album being released October 27th. Johnny talked to us about his start into metal and hardcore, why the band took a hiatus off writing and touring and we delved into how and why they recorded their n...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This week we venture ever forward into August of 1987. This is the month the Black Metal genre as we know it came into existence with the Mayhem EP "Deathcrush" forever changing the landscape of not only the underground metal scene, but how metal as a whole would be viewed for decades onward. Then we talk some new releases that have c...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week our guest is Joel Williams, Bass player of the band Usnea. Joel came on this week to dig down deeper into the making of their new album "Portals into Futility" which Matt and I both raved about on our previous episode. We talk about his roots of metal, how he started playing and all the philosophical writings wit...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. On this weeks episode we go back to June of 1987 (We skipped June somehow) In June we see a crossover band make waves with their 2nd album, and album that took almost 4 years to get out and they even alienated quite a bit of their original fan base with just this release. Whether thats because their listeners weren’t ready for music...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast! This week we sat down with my friend and tour mate from the band Carnifex, guitar player Cory Arford. Cory talked to us about his unorthodox way of how he got into metal, when he started playing guitar, how Warped Tour was and so much more!!   Follow Carnifex FACEBOOK Follow the Podcast! ⁠Facebook ⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠

Welcome back to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! We pick up about an hour and 13 minutes into the documentary "Some Kind of Monster" and manage to power through this long and arduous film. Laughs were had, Lar's eminem hair style gets made fun of a lot and we give Hetfield his due for getting clean. And we do the math on how rich Metallica probably is. Follow the Podcast! ⁠...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This week we continue the saga of Metallica's "St. Anger" record by watching the documentary "Some Kind of Monster" Matt and I watch the documentary "live" and talk about what's going on during it and adding some commentary of the band, what they were going through as well as the amount of time it took them...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This week Dustin and Matt decide to change things up and discuss an album specifically, an album that is controversial and maligned for many a Metallica fan, the album of St. Anger. The band took a long time and a lot of money to write and record this record all while embroiled with James going to rehab, filming a documentary while writing it a...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast! Moving into July of 1987 we witness the birth of Grindcore with Napalm Death’s groundbreaking and terrifyingly fast album “Scum.” While Guns N’ Roses explodes the hair metal scene releasing “Appetite for Destruction” into the world. Also the legendary Ronnie James Dio puts out Dream Evil, and album that according to Dio was made dur...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. Our guest this week was Mike Schleibaum, guitar player of Darkest Hour. Mike came on to talk with us about "Deliver Us" turning 10 and the new record "Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora" Follow Darkest Hour FACEBOOK Follow the Podcast! ⁠Facebook ⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History! Joining us this week is past guest Matt Solis, Matt came on to talk about his band Cormorant and their new album coming out August 11th called "Diaspora" as well as the bands and albums that influenced him as a guitar player and got him into metal. We also talk about the bands DYI ethic and the wants/needs of crowd funding. You can download all...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast. Joining me this week is Stavros Giannopoulos (Guitar Player/Vocalist) of The Atlas Moth. Stavros came on this week to talk about his influences as a musician/guitar player and then we get into the work that has begun on the new record which goes into a myriad of topics that you absolutely cant miss! Follow The Atlas Moth https://www...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the heavy metal history podcast. Joining us this week is Chris Fox, the singer of the band See You Next Tuesday. Fox came on to talk about some of the recording for Parasite and what the band has been up to since the Hiatus and the struggles that led to the Hiatus. Fox also recounted what the scene was like during 07/08 and they managed to carve a path for them sel...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week we sat down with Jeremy Wagner, founding member and guitar player of the band Broken Hope. Jeremy takes us through his history of what music influenced him as a guitar player and how that led to forming Broken Hope. He then talks about recording the new album " Mutilated and Assimilated " and all the meticulous w...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week we continue where we left off in May of 1987. A classic and somewhat unknown Thrash Metal band Heathen released their album in a time when Thrash is dominating the scene and yet somehow never managed to take off like their peers around them. Bathory puts out one of the most game changing records that would eventually evolv...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. May of 1987 saw such a plethora of legendary releases that we had to split this episode into two parts in order to cover everything properly. We talk about Anvil, a band that was largely forgotten and mostly considered a “generic” band up until the release of their 2008 documentary “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” saw the band receive a...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week I sit down with my old friend Mark and we talk about the behind the scenes of the metal industry. We also delve into the touring life style, what its like for bands on the road and the over all business that most people never hear or think about, its very introspective and informative. Look for Mark to be on again soon to...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. We move ahead to April in 1987. in which we see the explosion of Bay Area Thrash with Testament and Death Angel, both bands releasing their first records, but with a massive difference in their ages. The Members of Death Angel at the time of the release of their album were all still under 20 years of age and had been writing since t...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast! This week I sat down "live" with friends and former tour mates of mine in Carnifex. I joined them after they have been on the road for two months embarking on their massive 2017 headline tour. We talked about Dead in My Arms turning 10 years old and their massive evolution in sound from that album. Look forward to all the...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. We move forward to March in 1987. The Thrash Metal movement continues to shred its way across the decade of the 80’s where Anthrax would produce one of their finest works with their 3rd album “Among the Living” (which we briefly discussed, but not as in depth with Derek Kerswill on episode 5) Overkill would drop their 2nd album that...

On this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast, we talk with Beneath the Massacre guitar player Chris Bradley about their album "Mechanics of Dysfunction" turning 10 years old. Mechanics was a massive follow up to their EP and Chris tells the behind the scenes about making the album as well as other stories about touring and the rest of their discography. Also we have EXCLUSIVE...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This year on the podcast we decided to change things up with the content and move far ahead to albums celebrating 30, 20 and 10 year anniversaries respectively. So with that, we move ahead to February 1987 (No metal releases in January of 1987 somehow). Our Guest this week was Matt Solis who plays in the band Cormorant and writer fo...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. We move forward to the months of August through September in 1980. I once again cover a few punk rock records to show its importance of crossover within the metal genre. We see Black Flag’s first EP that was marred with line-up changes which the band would deal with for years to come and Dead Kennedy’s thrust the Bay Area punk scene...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast! Our guest for this episode was Mike Hill from the band Tombs. Mike is also the host of the Everything Went Black and Necromaniacs podcasts. We were honored to have Mike on this episode to talk about 3 albums that influenced him as an artist and person while taking us through his journey of discovering metal through his local record...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week we move ahead to May through July of 1980. In this 3 month span of history we see the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene completely dominate everything in its path, with bands like Saxon, Accept, Krokus and Samson putting out albums. Samson is the band that introduced the world to Bruce Dickinson who would e...