RIP a Livecast

On this edition, I talked to former WWE announcer Justin Roberts, who was the main ring announcer for WWE for about 10 years. Justin talks about his time in WWE, the backstage grind, how he found his way in to WWE and his new book, Best Seat in the House: Your Backstage Pass through My WWE Journey . Justin is currently working with TOOL hosting their VIP experiences, and we discuss how that came a...

What an eventful episode. We kick things off talking about Steve Harvey's letter to his employees. We also discovered our favorite Israeli radio stations, and we take a walk down nu-metal memory lane, leading us to discuss a new nu-metal band that reached out to Rob, Dirty Machine. We ended getting a member of Dirty Machine on the phone, and Rob let the dude know his honest opinions. We play a new...

The first hour was Darren-less but we had plenty of stories. Rob discussed his brief trip to Belgium, we talked about Ashba water, Sid shared his experience at a Russian restaurant and Noa talked about her jiu-jitsu tournament. We also discussed weird baby sex dolls, and got some calls from new listeners. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on the episode, whether by leaving a comment...

I'm so excited to finally have my friend Arda Ocal on the show. Arda is a lifelong metal and pro wrestling fan, and we discuss his fandom journey in both recreations and also his incredible journey from intern at a Canadian cable channel to a full-time WWE announcer. Arda shares some great stories from his time at WWE and also offers some top-notch advice for people looking to make it as an a...

We kicked off this week's show getting a call from Israeli Guy. We spent a lot of time talking about the giant disaster that was the Fyre Festival . A Livecast fan shared a very interesting story about Chuck Berry which led us to go on a rant for a second week in a row about his infamous sex tape. Rob played some of his interview with Fronz from Attila and we discussed if we wanted to live li...

We kicked off this episode discussing the new Danzig single , we talked about steak and we discussed Chuck Berry's farting habits. We also chatted with The Howard Stern Show's most metal correspondent not named Richard Christy, Shuli Egar . We talked to Shuli about how he landed his gig, his favorite metal bands, and Shuli shared some incredible Iron Sheik stories. As always, we'd l...

We had a great conversation with That Metal Show co-host and comedian Don Jamieson. We talked Don's new standup album, Communication Breakdown , which is out this Friday, and joked about Metallica, Megadeth and marijuana. We also discussed James Hetfield narrating an anti-porn addiction documentary , Alex Jones calling himself a "performance artist" and Rob and Sid get personal with...

There were a lot of laughs between myself and this episode's guest, Jordan, aka Gwarsenio Hall from Two Minutes to Late Night. Jordan talks about how he got into wrestling through watching RuPaul's Drag Race, the similarities between drag and wrestling, his favorite wrestlers, the Undertaker, we talk about the Superstar Shakedown and what Jordan likes in a finisher. Check out previous Sq...

Loni joined us on this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast. We kicked off recapping Rob and Darren's arrest from a decade ago, we discussed the United flight debacle, we talked about Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa and Gene Simmons' tribute to Chuck Berry. We also find out the mysterious identity of the Darrensky guy, learn about what happens at a Warbringer show, and Loni's brand new p...

We dive into politics on this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast. We kick things off with discussions about the Mets, Alex Jones, Donald Trump and the Russia scandal. We also spend time on eating too many pancakes, cops doing naughty things in backyards, banyas, Dave Chappelle's comedy special, and we played some amazing voicemails. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on the...

This is a very special edition of our metal-meets-wrestling podcast, Squared Circle Pit, where I welcome my Metal Injection Livecast co-hosts 3D and Noa to recap the biggest wrestling event of the year, WWE WrestleMania. We all watched the show together at Darren's house, and after every match, we paused the show to give our thoughts on what happened. If you dig what you hear, let us know if...

I'm trying something different on the new edition of the Squared Circle Pit. With WrestleMania this weekend, I wanted to invite two of my favorite all-time guests back on the show to talk predictions. First up, I catch up with Killswitch Engage's Mike D., who just got on the road with Anthrax, to talk his predictions. Then, I talked to Andy Williams of Every Time I Die about everything g...

On this edition of the show, we had a very special edition of Thrash It or Trash It, with guest judge Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder. Trevor is also the author of our monthly death metal recommendations column, The Obituarist.  On this edition, we critiqued Untrop , Brain Dead , The Hereafter , Taberah , Nailblack , dotgif from God and Josh Nolan . We also discussed pro wrestling, Noa&#0...

We kicked off this week's show with a discussion about the recent sex tape leaks of WWE superstars, which leads to some intimate details about Livecast hosts' personal pleasure habits. We talk about Dave Mustaine's recent revelation about "A Tout Le Monde," and the Power Rangers movie. We hear some political opinions from Shlomo, and learn about his failed internship and w...

This week, we briefly spoke to founding Darkest Hour guitarist Mike Schleibaum about the band's new album, Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora, today's political climate and how he enjoys his grass. We also talked about marijuana suppositories, Alex Jones, trucking, arm wrestling contests, road rage, trans athletes, we played user submissions and Noa showed off her trucking knowled...

On this edition, I interview 19-year pro wrestling veteran Frankie Kazarian – Frankie has been in WWE, TNA and now is a member of the Bullet Club in Ring of Honor. Frankie talks about training with Killer Kowalski, the controversy with his hair in WWE, the downfall of TNA, teaming with Christopher Daniels and ROH's 15th anniversary PPV this Friday. Frankie also talks about his favorite...

We kicked off the episode recapping our monumental 400th video episode . We played some covers of "The Sound of Silence," one from orthodox Jews and one from a David D. Rainman fan. El Duderino called in from Thailand to talk about his vacation experience. We played some new audio from Mike Francesa, we learned what a Brojob is. A fan submitted some fun new drops, we listened to some voi...

This was our monumental 400th episode. Thank you to all of you who made it happen. To celebrate, we recorded our first ever video Livecast, which you can view below. Sean joined us, and we kicked off the show catching up about Noa's food adventures, Sean's job, gave some podcasting advice, and talked about Suicide Silence. In hour two, we welcomed the return of Sexual Jeopardy and played some voic...

I'm really excited to get 3TEETH frontman Alexis Mincolla on the show this week. Alexis talks about getting back into wrestling after going on tour with TOOL, and broing down with Adam Jones about it. He talks about going to recent PWG shows and the recent RAW in LA where he got to meet the Rock. Alexis also shares stories of trying to bring pro wrestling attitude to his high school wrestling...

This was an eventful show, for sure. We kicked things off talking about the Marduk controversy from over the weekend. Mario called in to talk about his latest conquest. We also heard from Shlomo and a big fan of the iO Digital Cable song. We discussed Dave Mustaine's reaction to the Grammys some more, KISS air guitar strings, circumcisions, smegma and the earth being flat. Listen to RIP a Livecast...

Our good friend Loni sat in on this Valentine's Day edition of RIP a Livecast. We started the podcast talking about hats and deep dish pizza. We discussed all the metal happenings at the GRAMMYs this week, including Megadeth winning the Best Metal Performance GRAMMY, and Metallica's performance with Lady Gaga. In hour two, we discuss Slayer's recent political statements and read some amazing revie...

I'm back after a short hiatus of traveling with an all new Squared Circle Pit. This week I talk to Metal Hammer editor Merl Alderslade, who was one of the early pioneers of the WrestleMetal connection, an inspiration for this very podcast. We talk about Metal Hammer's past dealing with wrestlers, how he got Dave Mustaine to award Triple H the Metal Hammer "Spirit of Lemmy" awar...

Rob is coming to the Livecast straight from the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise and he's got a bunch of stories. We talk about Rob's experience and we hop on the line with Testament's Chuck Billy, who was also on the cruise and shares his perspective on the awesome trip. We also talk to Chuck about Testament's new album, The Brotherhood of the Snake, and their upcoming tour with Sepultura and Prong. D...

This week is a very special edition of RIP a Livecast: we're doing another documentary commentary episode, much like with Metallica's Some Kind of Monster and The Anvil doc . On this edition, we're watching Penelope Spheeris' excellent documentary The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years. We are joined on this episode by our good friend, Axl Rosenberg, and we have some good fun. Thi...

This week, our special guest is legendary Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne. Buzz talks about his new project , Crystal Fairy, which features drummer Dale Crover, Le Butcherettes vocalist and guitarist Teri Gender Bender, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of At The Drive-In. Also, Rob shares some NAMM stories. Noa's roommate Cristina shares a story of stitches. We discuss this afternoon's Phil Labonte story an...