Thunderdome Metal Reviews: The Church of Heavy Metal

Metal Heads!! Welcome to the Prog Files on Thunderdome Metal Reviews! We have another Tracey-special with the sophomore album by Valis Ablaze 2019's Render. What will the Old Head think of this? Relax your mind and join us, in the Prog zone.  

Metal Heads! After doing a discography blast on these guys you knew we were coming back soon to look at their self-titled release from 2020. So here it is, the Church's review of the lastest from Lamb of God! 

NOW YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO POD FOR!! We roll into our second Discography Blast with Richmond, Virginia's Lamb of God! Spinning Ashes of the Wake (2004) , Sacrament (2006) , Wrath (2009) , and S turm und Drung (2015). Aside from Slayer, this is the band David, Ben, and Tracey have seen the most times. Despite this, the discography was something Ben wasn't all that familiar with. That changes now....

Metal Heads!! This episode, we look at a covers album, one that seeks to take classic outlaw country songs and turn them into metal. Ben keeps a foot in both worlds while Tracey is only powered by prog. What will they think?

Metal Heads!! The Kloaka Metal Hammer strikes with one of Tracey's favorite band, Scar Symmetry. These mad Swedes come in with their 5th studio album, The Unseen Empire! An album or reptilian overlords and other David Icke fever dreams. The questions, as always, are, is it heavy and does it rock? One of us certainly thinks so, what about the other?

Metal Heads!! Tracey and Ben suit up in their most excellent plate mail and follow the sign of the hammer to Sweden to experience the power metal glory that is Hammerfall's second album Legacy of Kings . Is the legacy worthy, or is it mere bluster? Raise your horns high and find out!

Metal Heads!!!!! Tracey's pick for an album released in May of this year emerges. The fifth studio album by Australian progressive band Caligula's Horse, Rise Radiant.  You might say opinions diverged on this incredibly well played and produced the album. 

Metal Heads!!!! Glenn Danzig knows no shame and neither do we here at Thunderdome Metal Reviews! Thus, we have started a new service here in the Church of Heavy Metal, discography blasts. These episodes will follow the format we used for the special Max Cavalera & Slayer episodes. We take an artist and review four albums to see the growth and change of the artist over time. In this episode, we...

Metal Heads! It is our 100th album review! The second studio album from the godfathers of metal Black Sabbath, Paranoid. We discuss this album, look back at our first year, and discuss things to come. We want to thank all of our listeners and all the bands whose albums we have spun over the last year. Without them, we wouldn't have this music that keeps our heads banging. So thank you to them, and...

Metal Heads!! We are back to discuss Megadeth's fourth studio album and the first with Nick Menza and Marty Friedman, Rust In Peace. This album is widely regarded as one of the best metal albums of all time. Will Ben, Tracey and David concur, or will they be taken away by the "Tornado of Souls." Get your horns up and find out! 

Metalleux!! Ben & Tracey head to Southwest France to check out the now legendary outfit Gojira. This 2005 album, the bands 3rd, has become a seminal album for metal fandom. Ben & Tracey square up with it and give you their thoughts. 

Metal Heads!! This episode we spin one of the solo albums by Emperor frontman Ihsahn, Àmr. This is certainly a departure from the symphonic black metal of his main band. Tracey and Ben discuss this slice of progressive ambiance. 

Metal Heads!! This episode we spin the 2016 effort by Prong. Our second outing with this band this year. How did the sound change in the intervening 22 years since Cleansing? Tune in and find out. 

Metal Heads!! The mind behind Metalocalypse Brandon Small's had a kerfuffle with Comedy Central about the making of a Metalocalypse album. This is the result. One of us loved it, one of us didn't. Can you guess which was which? Tune in and find out. 

Metal Heads! This episode we look at Ben's pick for an album that came out in May.  The first one under the . . . And Oceans moniker in eighteen years. What will the boys think? Get your horns up and find out. \m/

Metal Heads!! This episode, we look at the only studio album by the Maryland Death Metallers Garden of Shadows. This album is an overlooked gem by a band with a lot of potential.

Metal Heads!!! We conclude our journey with Dr. David Pizzo (@Pizzohistorian) through Swedish metal with the 11th studio album by Soilwork, Verkligheten! Both David and Tracey had more experience with this band than Ben so see what he thinks of this particular brand of melodic death and groove metal. 

Metal Heads!! Our journey with Dr. David Pizzo (@pizzohistorian) through Swedish metal continues! This episode we enter the polyrhythmic pummeling machine that is Meshuggah's second album Destroy Erase Improve! Join the Church of Heavy Metal with another chapter of the gospel. 

Metal Heads!!! This episode we begin a three-episode tour of Swedish bands with our great friend Dr. David Pizzo (@Pizzohistorian). We begin the journey with the album that kicked off the Death N Roll sound, 1993's Wolverine Blues by Entombed! We talk about metal, comics, and ad campaigns. Join us!! 

Metal Heads!! The Church of Heavy Metal returns to the mean streets of Brooklynn to spin the third studio album by Biohazard, State of the World Address. Old Head Ben bought this album new when it first came out, what will Kloaka Metal's Tracey think of it? Walk the Five Blocks to the Subway with us and find out. 

Metal Heads!! This episode we take another trip through the cosmos with Canadian out Traveler, on their second studio album Termination Shock. Ben and Tracey had high expectations after their debut. Did this band of retro-Metal soar or did it crash and burn? Tune in and check it out! 

Metal Heads!! This episode we spin Iron Maiden's legendary frontman Bruce Dickinson's fourth studio solo album and his return to metal with 1997's   Accident of Birth.  The Reverend Dangerously has had this one in his collection for a long time, what will Kloaka Metal think of it? Tune in and see!!

Metal Heads! We go into the hills of North Carolina with our good friend and guide Dr. David Pizzo (@PizzoHistorian) to discuss the fourth studio album from Raliegh natives Corrosion of Conformity's 1994 effort Deliverance.  This was Tracey's first time with this band, whereas Ben's first concert was headlined by them. See what they think of this album and keep your horns up \m/

Metal Heads!! This episode we head into the mountains around Knoxville, TN to get some of that Death Core special white lightening from White Chapel. However, the group's seventh album The Valley adds both very personal lyrics and progressive sensibilities to the formula. How smoothly will it go down? Take a sip and find out. 

Metal Heads!! This episode that Old Head, Ben takes us back to the late 90s and soars with the metallic eagle of the German band Primal Fear! There second release, Jaws of Death what will Tracey think of the Teutonic power of this outfit? Tune in and find out!