METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Our first zoom hang! We invited our patrons to watch Metallica Monday with us. This week was a 2004 gig from the Madly In Anger With The World Tour in Munich, Germany. We will be doing this from time to time with Patrons, so come join us over there for cool opportunities like this. This is not a traditional episode, but just the audio from our zoom party last night. Thank you to all the Patrons wh...

Metallicast is another all Metallica podcast hosted by our friend Brandon, a music teacher based in Connecticut. We've always considered the other Metallica podcast hosts as allies and compatriots in the ever evolving conversation about the greatest heavy metal band of all time. In this episode we talk with Brandon about Metallicast, the news that the boys have been rehearsing at HQ, his album ran...

It's the first MUYP Radio episode in nearly 5 months! Clint sat down for a couple of hours to play the newest batch of songs he's written during lockdown and answer your awesome questions. Topics include: films, film culture, the legacy of the Beatles and Dylan, depression, Billie Eilish, Michael Jordan, Taylor Swift, the darkness of humanity, Covid19, food, White Men Can't Jump, Jack Black, choos...

This week we jump back into the second half of Some Kind of Monster. More Phil jokes, more Metal Police, more MUYP Family, more movie trivia and more Jason + Brantley. We love you guys. Enjoy! This week we jump back into the second half of Some Kind of Monster. More Phil jokes, more Metal Police, more MUYP Family, more movie trivia and more Jason + Brantley. We love you guys. Enjoy! If you think M...

We recently received fan requests to revisit our Metallica album rankings to see what might have changed over the last three years. Way back in April of 2017 (Episode 16!) we sat down remotely from HQ1 and with Clint on tour in America somewhere to document our favorite Metallica albums. The changes after years of hosting the podcast and hundreds of hours of thought and conversation about the band...

Some Kind of Monster is a documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the making of Metallica's 8th studio album, St. Anger. The sessions began in the Presidio military bunkers after the sudden departure of long time bass player Jason Newsted and would soon come to a halt due to James Hetfield's stint in rehab for alcohol and other addictions. The documentary captures all o...

We're back with our #MetallicaMonday commentary series to celebrate this powerful show from The Shit Hits the Sheds tour in 1994. The boys were on the tail end of dominating the world with the The Black Album. This show has amazing deep cuts like The God That Failed, Disposable Heroes, the Kill/Ride medley and sections of Orion. Joining us is our friend and die hard Metallica fan, Brad Blazeck, of...

Since we are still camped out in St. Anger world, this week we take on the Presidio Sessions. The infamous "what could've been" sessions! As we all know, these were the early days of what would become St. Anger, even though there's not a lot from these sessions that made it onto the album. It's still worth exploring, as it was all a part of the process Metallica needed to go through to get to wher...

In our Explore the Big Four series we examine a record by Megadeth, Slayer or Anthrax. This week we tackle Slayer's most well known and beloved album, 1986's Reign In Blood. Reign In Blood is generally considered to be one of the most iconic and powerful thrash metal records of all time. We talk through it's inception beginning with their introduction to Def Jam's legendary Rick Rubin, who would g...

Clint & Ethan sit down in HQ1 to watch the St. Anger Bonus DVD and add their commentary. In 2003, the boys got together at their own HQ in the bay area to not only perform St. Anger front to back, but film it all for the world to see. Some of these performances are the first and only times Metallica would end up playing these songs together. If you think Metal Up Your Podcast has value, please con...

In this episode Clint and Ethan sit down together at HQ2 for the first time in over 2 months to listen to Metallica's controversial 8th album, 2003's St. Anger. Hear their running commentary on the snare sound, production, lyrics, songwriting and enduring legacy of one of the most interesting records ever made by a band as massive as the mighty Metallica. They also discuss the recent news that Met...

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Austin Manning is a die-hard Metallica fan based in New York City. He's the chapter head of NYC Attitude, a black ticket holder, has traveled the world seeing the band, and won meet and greets. Austin is also a black/trans man. Austin reached out about having a conversation with us about his experience in the metal community in the hopes that it would give a unique perspective, build empathy and i...

We're picking up with the Metallica Monday series to celebrate the Load/Reload era in a fun, raw show from the 1997 Poor Re-Touring Me tour. Joining Clint as a special guest is dear friend and co-host of Single Podcast Theory, Brad Blazeck. Sync up the live stream and enjoy this awesome show with deep cut Load surprises, throwback medley snippets and plenty of on stage rock spits from Het Senior J...

Michael Alago is an author, photographer and former A&R executive for Elektra records. He is mostly known for hanging out with Metallica to their first major label record deal in 1984. In addition to working with Metallica, Alago has worked closely with Nina Simone, White Zombie, The Dead Boys, The Misfits, Cyndi Lauper, and John Lydon. In this episode we catch up with Michael who is promoting his...

We're kicking it back to our 'Year in the Life" series to dive head first into the mercurial waters of the St. Anger era. We see our last show with our beloved Bob Rock on bass, the addition of the wonderful Robert Trujillo into the Met fam, Ramones covers, the completion, promotion and release of St. Anger, MTV:ICON, filming videos at San Quentin, the US using Metallica music to torture prisoners...

Our Metallica Monday commentary series continues with one of the earliest live documents in the bands history, the famous Metro gig on the Kill Em All For One tour with Raven in the fall of 1983. We've got bullet belts and bullet wrist cuffs, fingerless leather gloves, a small club full of sweaty metalheads, and Cliff Burton wearing all denim and showing us all how to headband in halftime. Hetfiel...

This week we continue our live stream commentary series of Metallica Monday with a special 30th anniversary Black Album show in which the boys played their entire self-titled masterpiece back to front as well as other classics and one of Clint's all time favorite deep cuts. Hear our hot takes and reactions to the setlist and rare live gems like "Don't Tread On Me," "The Struggle Within," "My Frien...

Greetings, MUYP family! It's another installment of Metallica Monday's! This week we sat down to listen to the wonderful House of Vans gig from 2016, the birthday of Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. It's hard to believe it's been almost four years since the boys dropped that great record on all of us. This Greg Fidelman produced show sounds amazing. The boys are in top form. Listen along with us as w...

We're back with another commentary episode of Metallica Monday! This week the boys dug deep to an early Black Album show (the third of the tour!) and let us in on a nutty performance featuring some of the first ever arena showcases of the self-titled record as well as blistering renditions of classics. In 1991 it's safe to say the band was at the top of their game. Special guest Paul?! Moak joins...

It's another Metallica Monday! Tonight's show is a barn burner from 2015 filled with insane deep cuts. Neither of us looked at the setlist so you can hear Clint's audible urinating when the boys busted out The Unforgiven II. Plus, Metal Militia, The Frayed Ends of Sanity, Disposable Heroes, King Nothing, Fight Fire and more gems! Listen along with us or just enjoy us riffing on the "Roam" guy and...

It’s another Metallica Monday episode! We rushed this one to get it to you as soon as possible. Running commentary on the Outside Lands festival gig from 2017. Watch the show with us if you can! We hope you enjoy and we’ll see you next week on the flip flop. Peace and Adios! If you think Metal Up Your Podcast has value, please consider taking a brief moment to leave a positive review and subscribe...

Metallica Monday's is a weekly live stream curated by Metallica and hosted on their youtube page. Every week a full, unique past show is streamed to raise money for their All Within My Hands foundation. On this week's episode we watched the live stream of a killer 2009 World Magnetic show with running commentary. Watch the episode along with us or enjoy our play by play in the comfort of a nice, s...

Tom Kwei is the host of Alphabetallica, an all Metallica podcast of deep dives into every Metallica song in alphabetical order with a different guest each week. Tom is a good friend of ours and came on the show to discuss the ups and downs of two of Metallica's most controversial records, Reload and St. Anger. We also discuss the announcement that Hetfiled will no longer participate in meet and gr...

Metal Tales From The Road is an ongoing series of conversations with patrons in which they tell us about a past Metallica gig they attended. We also hear unique stories about getting into the band and their journey through the years with the greatest metal band of all time. Other topics covered in this episode: rescheduled tour dates for South America, James and Kirk featured on a Mesa Boogie retr...