Satan and Rainbows

Another season done, another SaR listening party for you to enjoy. Hear us baffle and delight one another with some of our favorite prog and metal tunes, both new and old!  New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

It's our Season 2 finale! This week we'll discuss Gentle Giant's final studio album, rank their discography, and recommend a few similar bands to check out. Not to be missed! New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

Often considered their worst effort, Gentle Giant's penultimate album is a more ambitious attempt to go commercial....and a bit of a mess (don't worry, we still liked it). This is Giant for a Day! (1978). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

After a slight commercial rebound with an interesting live album, the boys in the band decide it's time to take the plunge into pop. Well, sort of. This is The Missing Piece (1977). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows  Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod  Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

Gentle Giant release their final "classic" album and kiss their brief chart ascendancy goodbye. Join us as we try to make sense of a very complicated album and our very complicated feelings about it as we discuss Interview (1976). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

After 10 minutes of Mega Man talk (seriously) we tackle Gentle Giant's most commercially successful album! We also try to make sense of another confusing album cover and talk about jazz!...Hey, get back here! This is Free Hand (1975). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

Gentle Giant finally scores in the States with an ambitious, funky, concept album about corrupt politicians. Yeah, it's the mid-70s. This is The Power and the Glory (1974).  New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

The band decides to continue after the resignation of a key member, and the album they make as a result is a transitional one that sounds a little more spontaneous and A LOT more frantic than anything we've heard from them so far. Is that a good thing? Let's listen to In a Glass House (1973) and find out. New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Conta...

With a killer new drummer in tow, Gentle Giant return to the Medieval-tinged eclecticism of their earlier work on what may be their most well-known record, Octopus (1972). Join us as we break it down! New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

We're back with a new episode! This one is the first album Gentle Giant produced themselves, their first with a new drummer, and their first concept album. Do they pull it off? Join us as we check out Three Friends (1972). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

Apart from a poorly-chosen album cover (don't worry, we talk about it), we were pretty dazzled by Gentle Giant's much more eclectic and experimental second effort! Join us as we discuss Acquiring the Taste (1971). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

SEASON 2 IS HERE! Our first prog band is legendary cult act Gentle Giant! This week we explore the origins of this weird, wonderful group and go in-depth on their self-titled debut (1970). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

It's a SaR listening party! Join us as we play and discuss some random metal and prog tunes and continue to tease Season 2! New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

On this, our double-sized final (?) episode of Season 1, we break down Judas Priest's most recent album AND determine our official ranking of the band's discography. Don't miss it! New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

After a period of inactivity, a major personnel change, and rumors of retirement, a stunningly invigorated Judas Priest return to the spotlight with the highest-charting album of their career! Join us as we break down the late-career triumph that is Redeemer of Souls (2009-2015). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

This week: Glenn releases some old recordings from the solo career that never was, and the band finally gets their double album! Join us as we break down Priest's foray into European symphonic metal with Nostradamus (2006-2009). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

After a rough decade, it's time for a Judas Priest reunion! But can the re-assembled Painkiller lineup give us another classic? let's find out as we trace the path from reconciliation...to Retribution (2002-2005). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

Can you see a light at the end of the tunnel? Good! but, uh...we're not out of the tunnel yet. Join us as we close out the '90s and enter the new millennium with a look at some ambitious, nuanced Halford solo work and then also a Judas Priest album (1998-2001). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

Well...the dark years are upon us. Join us as we break down Rob Halford's exit from Judas Priest and what happened after that (1992-1997). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@SatanAndRainbows.com

The 80s are over and so is the Golden Age of Heavy Metal. Can Judas Priest survive legal troubles and changing musical tastes at the dawn of a new decade? Let's find out as we dive into Painkiller (1990). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@satanandrainbows.com      

Judas Priest's 11th album is one of the most disdained in their entire catalog. But there's also a lot to like, even love, about it if one looks close enough. And you know we will! Time to close out the 80s with Ram it Down (1988). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@satanandrainbows.com

There's some brilliant synthesizer work here, but is that enough to save Judas Priest's "sellout" album? Join us as we break down Turbo (1986). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@satanandrainbows.com

We've reached the halfway point of our series on Judas Priest! Join us as we hear the band take some chances (and make some enemies) on Defenders of the Faith (1984). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@satanandrainbows.com

We hope you're ready to nerd out with us, because we REALLY like Screaming for Vengeance (1982). It's the breakthrough album for a reason, folks. New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@satanandrainbows.com

In this household, we respect power pop. And Judas Priest never came closer to power pop than they did with the criminally underrated Point of Entry album (1981). New episodes every Friday! Facebook: @satanandrainbows Twitter: @SatanRainbowPod Email: Contact@satanandrainbows.com