The Department of Metal Antiquities

In the middle 90's, an unknown, to the world, studio guitarist by the name of John Lowery, hooked up with the metal god himself, Rob Halford. So, naturally, they did some seriously metal things together! Join us as we dig deep into their one and only studio record. Help Nik clean his closet of metal cds, dvds, blu-rays, and odd video game items: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=27576300992...

Back in 1999, John Christ, formerly of Danzig and Samhain, dropped his only solo record to date. What makes this episode a bit on the difficult side is the lack of information surrounding it. Thankfully, we were joined by St. Louis locals, Abaddonia, who were good and chatty about all things metal, St. Louis, and awesome. Follow the podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast Check ou...

It's time again to get into the good stuff from the Iron Maiden camp. In 2012, Steve Harris finally made good on his promise with UK act, British Lion, to make their album. Unfortunately, by this time the band had broken up and he had to step into the bassist's shoes. This should be a problem for the beast of the bass right?

In the middle of 1996, Tony Iommi reunited with his old friend, Glenn Hughes, late of Deep Purple, Trapeze, and uh..Black Sabbath to make a brand new "solo" album. Unfortunately, the album, which in bootleg circles, would come to be known as The 8th Star, would be shelved for nearly a decade. In 2004, this record finally saw the light of day. This week we are joined by Steve Scavuzzo of Clouds Tas...

This year, it's been announced that all of the forgotten Black Sabbath albums featuring Tony Martin are going to be re-released. With that, we came to the obvious conclusion that we should dig into another one of those Tony Martin albums and we settled on The Eternal Idol! We were joined by Autumn, of Forever Autumn and she was good enough to give us her takes on this forgotten record as well. Che...

This week we were thrilled to be joined by Sean Hynes of INGESTED! Not only does he absolve me of not attending one of his shows last year, he helps us break down the oft overlooked album by Obituary, World Demise. Check out Ingested here: https://www.https://www.ingested.co.uk/ We're also playing a single this week. Support the DMA Podcast on Facebook. https:///www.facebook.com/dmapodcast

Thank you very much for joining us this week.  WE have a classic episode of the show for you.  Check it out with us!

As everybody knows, the world lost Jeff Beck recently. It's a great and terrible loss for all of us and it seemed like the perfect time to dig into the album he did with one Roger Waters. This week we are joined by Keefy of https://www.ghostcultmag.com and we get all up into it. Duncan's Music: https://www.devansmusic.bandcamp.com Nik's Vinyl IG https://www.instagram.com/glacially_musical

Today Nik and Duncan are joined by Gabriel aka Antimozdebeast an industrial artist to check out an industrial album by Murder Inc featuring members of Killing Joke, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, and Public Image Ltd. Check out the DMA on Facebook  here: https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast Check out Antimozdebeast's Linktree! https://linktr.ee/AntiMozdeBeast?fbclid=IwAR2Cg1_VaxGdvacZvrfZu2kVz6mzr...

Thanks for joining us (again) today. This is a rerun of a very old classic episode. Back in these days, we didn't have our puns, our introductions, or any microphones. What do you think we go right and wrong? Thanks! https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast

We are about to discuss the most absolutely punk rock thing a punk band could do. Join us as we get into to. Check out some Three Fourths Francis here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6gnUb0pHyxpgNAjh6mD4Vm Support the podcast https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast

When Duncan and Nik were researching Grip Inc, they came across a record by a band called Voodoo Cult featuring Chuck Schuldiner of Death, Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Waldemar Sorychta of Despair, and Mille Petrozza of Kreator! How had this record gone so unnoticed. If you thought this episode couldn't get any better, you were wrong! The fellas were joined by Henry Derek Elis!  Check out our gue...

Welcome to the holiday edition of The Department of Metal Antiquities! This time Nik and Duncan get into holiday traditions, what's the best roast dinner, what in the world is a jumper, and how hard is it to cook a duck from Aldi. Then when all of that silliness is over, they get into what happened on Twisted Sister's last studio record, which just happened to be a Christmas album. Get on it and l...

In 1995, the ex-drummer from Slayer, Dave Lombardo, released the first of many non-Slayer albums of his career. He was joined by some relatively unknown members to create a thrash(?) band of little reknown. Duncan and Nik dig into this, the history of Messir Lombardo, and all of the craziness of Nik's musical journey of sidemen, solo records, and odd ducklings. Like us on FACEBOOK! https://www.htt...

Let's check in on some intrigue and lawyer business with the first (and only) Queensryche record featuring Geoff Tate and NO ONE ELSE other than a cavalcade of guest stars. Should we spin it or bin it? Like us on FACEBOOKS! https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast

Do you remember all of those times you saw Iggy Pop on TV? Man, just seeing him as a Vorta on DS9 was enough to throw me into a tizzy. Well, let's get back to one of his musical periods as we examine the transitional record that is Kill City. Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast

Let's get ourselves right back into the mix and mess up the mix and mix up the mess. Back in the early 80's, there was a band called Pantera and it featured the Abbot Brothers, Rex Brown, but not Phil Anselmo. It's well known to the metal community that this lineup of the band did get into the studio and release four albums, they refuse to re-release those indie albums they did. So, in true Depart...

Sorry for the week off, but we are back and better than ever! This week Duncan and Nik were joined by the lead guitarist of the New York Extreme Metal Band, Sickbay. After the second departure of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Martin came back for his second official tenure.  Check out the show and https://sickbay1.bandcamp.com

If you're a long time listener, you might have already heard this unless you didn't start at the very beginning.  So, let's pretend this is a new episode to all? Back in 1982, after the untimely death of Randy Rhoads, Ozzy recruited a couple other guitarists and settled on Brad Gillis to do the recording of a set of Black Sabbath classics. We dig into this interesting album and give you all t...

At the end of 1983, something unique happened. Two masters of glam rock and glam pop rock got together and wrote a song. Those two greats would be Neal Schon of Journey and Sammy Hagar of Montrose, solo, and later Van Halen. Joined by a tight rhythm section, they took the show on the road and that's largely how they recorded the album as well. Join us! https://www.facebook.com/dmapodcast https://w...

Sometimes it's hard to believe how things just get lost. Here's a great example of that. Back in the middle 90's some really cool stuff was happening in the Van Halen camp and everybody thought something big was going down. Well what happened? Sammy was out, DLR was in then out, and Gary Cherone was IN. Come along as Nik details seeing the Cherone led Van Halen live and gives you the history of a...

When we dig deep into the world of metal, sometimes we find things that don't always seem to fight just right. Picture, if you can, Matt Sorum playing in a band that sounds like Jem and the Holograms that's fronted by Tori Amos. If that's messed with your brains, awesome, because it sure as shootin' messed with mine. Join us!

Have you taken some time to get yourself right with the lord? The lord of Dubstep that is! A little over a decade ago, Korn joined forces with some of Eletronic music's biggest names in order to make a Korn record. Join us as we go in deep with Korn + Skrillex

Imagine on Sunday, you're big man on campus and you're preening and Monday rolls around, but you've been relegated! Join us as we investigate this particular happenstance with Warrant on their third record, Dog Eat Dog. Checkout the following: https://www.duncanevansmusic.bandcamp.com

So, sorry about last week's missing episode! But this week we are back and badder than ever. We are kicking it with the first time the words Jefferson Starship made it into the world's collective maw. What we really have though is an all star solo record featuring Kanter, Slick, Crosby, Garcia, and way more. Check it out with us.