Squared Circle Pit

After a long (too long) hiatus, we're back with a fun episode that shifts from the tradition of interviewing metal musicians. I interviewed a leading pro wrestling journalist, Jason Powell of ProWrestling. NET . We talked about the Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar match at Survivor Series and the fallout, WWE's storytelling, the state of wrestling journalism. Check out previous Squared Circle P...

This might be my favorite Squared Circle Pit yet. I got a chance to speak to longtime WWE fan and wrestling fan in general, Cannibal Corpse frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher. George talks about how he keeps up with WWE programming while maintaining a full touring schedule, his favorite current wrestlers, great stories from going to shows in the 70s, including a meeting with Andre th...

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd be interviewing Maynard James Keenan of Puscifer and Tool about pro wrestling, but here we are. We hopped on the phone to talk about his interest in the genre, how he got into Lucha, his early memories of wrestling including Mighty Igor (clip below), the correlation between being a wrestling and a frontman and his upcoming autobiography,  A Perfect...

We're flipping the script on this edition of Squared Circle Pit by interviewing a prominent wrestling figure about metal. That person is Gabe Sapolsky, current booker of EVOLVE and vice president of talent relations for WWN. Gabe talks about how he got into metal through seeing the Road Warriors come out to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." We talk about Gabe's favorite metal ba...

This week's guest is one of the most knowledgable guests we've had on the show so far – I'm talking about Scott Kelly of Neurosis. We dig deep into how Scott got into wrestling, his favorite wrestler at the moment, Pentagon Jr. , having members of the EVOLVE roster use his music, and his thoughts on EVOLVE matchmaker Gabe Sapolsky. We also discuss old-school WWE, New Japan and...

When I started this podcast, one of my dream guests was Slipknot's Corey Taylor. I was able to get a short window of time with Corey on the phone, as he is out on the road on Slipknot's massive summer tour. Corey talks about how he got into wrestling in the 80s through N.W.A., his favorite pro wrestlers, his thoughts on the current scene, attending this past WWE Monday In The Bank live,...

This week, I had a chance to speak with one of my wishlist guests, Converge frontman Jacob Bannon. I got a chance to catch up with Jacob before Converge's killer set at House of Vans in Brooklyn, NY yesterday to talk a whole lot of 1980s wrestling. We talked Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-Atlantic, WWF. Jacob shares a story of going to a Kerry Von Erich autograph signing, watching World Champio...

I was so pumped to finally be able to spend an hour talking about pro-wrestling with AltPress Awards executive producer Josh Bernstein. Josh has been a wrestling fan for life and responsible for booking a lot of wrestlers on rock award shows. Josh tells some incredible anecdotes about Vince McMahon, CM Punk, Chris Jericho and orchestrating the confrontation between Baron Corbin and Slipknot's...

Noa and I got to go to WWE Extreme Rules in Newark, NJ and I had the bright idea to record a recap show on the car ride back. The audio quality is not my proudest moment, but it was a fun experiment discussing our experience at the show and all the matches that took place. Follow Squared Circle Pit on Facebook and Twitter .  Subscribe to Metal Injection podcasts on  iTunes  (please leave a rating/...

This edition of the wrestling-meets-metal podcast features very special guest, Andy Williams, guitarist of Every Time I Die, and professional wrestler in training. Of all the episodes recorded of Squared Circle Pit so far, this was the longest, because we just had so much to talk about. We kicked off the conversation discussing what inspired Andy to pursue training for pro wrestling, and he reveal...

This was quite an enlighting conversation for me. I spoke to Hanno from Mantar, an awesome new death-and-roll duo. Hanno is from Germany so it was fascinating learning how a German person interpreted the overly nationalistic storylines of the WWF at the time. Hanno talks his favorite moments from the early 90s, his favorite wrestlers and perhaps the greatest retelling of the Yokozuna Body Slam cha...

On this edition of our metal-meets-wrestling podcast, Rob interviews Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta about how he got into pro wrestling, his favorite wrestlers, his attempts to sing on an official WWE theme, including auditioning, what metal could learn from pro wrestling, what a metal network similar to WWE network would look like and the big bad booty daddy, Scott Steiner. After the interview, R...

I am so excited to bring you the second episode of my metal-meets-wrestling podcast, with a dude I've wanted to talk to about pro wrestling for the longest time, Mike D'Antonio, bassist of Killswitch Engage. Killswitch Engage famously wrote the entrance track "This Fire Burns" for CM Punk. We talk about Mike's friendship with Punk, as well as his love for ECW, NXT, Ring of...

I am so excited to launch the newest podcast here at Metal Injection: Squared Circle Pit! The goal of this podcast is to talk to metal musicians almost exclusively about pro wrestling and their love of it. To kick things off, we have a huge guest, legendary guitarist Zakk Wylde. Zakk of course played with Ozzy Osbourne and his own band, Black Label Society and while he wasn't shredding, Zakk...