Thunderdome Metal Reviews: The Church of Heavy Metal

Metal Heads!! Join us on a musical pathway to transcendence Junius' third album, Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light (2017). This album was Tracey's (@kloakametal) #3 album of 2017 while it reminded Ben (@bendangerously) of incantations of a different sort. Join us and see where you fall on this post-metal, metalgaze slab. 

It was bound to happen, Metal Heads. How could this podcast stay away from arguably the most influential thrash album of all time? We couldn't, in fact, we had to turn to our friend Dr. David Pizzo (@pizzohistorian) to lend a horned hand. Come and join the trio of terror as David, Ben (@bendangerously) and Tracey (@kloakametal) invoke SLAYER!!!! 

Metal Heads!! It is 2020 and our heroes head back to the fertile metal fields of Ukraine to listen to Aeternus Prophet's second album Exclusion Of Non​-​Dominated Material. If you are into old school black/death metal this album is one to check out for sure. What will the old head and the brain behind Kloaka Metal Hammer think of it? Give it a listen and us a follow! You can find Ben @bendangerous...

Metal Heads!! We hope you survived your eggnog fueled holiday comas! On this last Friday of the year and decade, Tracey (@kloakametal) and Ben (@bendangerously) cast their eyes back to the first year of the century and review Halford's Resurrection which marked the return of Metal God Rob Halford to the genre. Fire up your beasts of chrome and steel and ride!! \m/

Metal Heads!! Have you hung your stocking by the chimney with care? Well, Tracey (@kloakametal) and Benjamin (@bendangerously) have a compilation album filled with metal luminaries giving these traditional classics a metal sheen. It....well........listen. Whatever you celebrate this season Thunderdome wishes you a banging holiday. In the immortal words of Dimebag, "Getcha Pull!!" Bang on bangers!!

Metal Heads, we return to review a very interesting album. A little bit country/Americana and whole lot of sludge. Huntsmen's 2018 release American Scrap! Join Tracey (@kloakametal) and Benjamin (@bendangerously) as they discuss post-metal and this slice of Chicago riffery. 

Metal Heads!!! We are back on a thrash kick looking at the class of 86! This week, we summon forth the arsenal of the dual Dave's Mustaine and Ellefson with a listen to their second album Peace Sells . . . But Who's Buying? Come for the iconic bass riff stay for the commentary. Horns up \m/ you can find Tracey @kloakametal and Ben @bendangerously. You can find the pod on Facebook by searching for...

Metal Heads!! We are back this week with Gothic Metal legends Paradise Lost 2017 effort Medusa ! Find out what our heroes think of this album. You can find Ben @bendangerously and Tracey @kloakametal. Also, although our website isn't quite ready yet, you can find our page on facebook by searching for Thunderdome Metal Reviews! Stop by and let us know what you're listening to. Horns up!! \m/

Metal Heads! On this glorious gastronomic American holiday, we bring you British prog/sludge metallers Sludge's fourth holy gastropod album. 2018's Esoteric Malacology. So when you tire of family time and need a companion to fight the tryptophan coursing through your veins, join us for discussion of malacological metal!! Gooble on!!

Metal Heads!! Our heroes are not quite back into the regular schedule, but this cosmic gem gets us closer to it. This Canadian retro-metal outfit's self-titled debut is a journey through time and space. What will the verdict be for these Starbreakers? Follow Tracey @kloakametal and Ben @bendangerously.

Metal Maniacs, after a brief hiatus due to a loss in the family and the old man's inability to upload an episode from his phone, the boys are back on the mean streets of Brooklynn listening to Biohazard's second full length, and debut on Roadrunner Records Urban Discipline from 1992. What will our heroes think of this fusion of punk, rap, and metal? Tune in and find out! Also, let us know what you...

Metalheads! On this somber Armistice Day, the 101 anniversary of the end of the four years of destruction wrought in World War One Ben (@bendangerously) and Tracey (@kloakahammer) are joined by Murray State University Professor of History Dr. David Pizzo (@pizzohistorian) to discuss two albums that pay tribute to the war. Ukranian band 1914's Bling Leading the Blind was released on the centenary o...

Metal Maniacs! This week Tracey and Ben take a trip down to Houston to check out the 2018 release from Oceans of Slumber, The Banished Heart. Will the power and majesty of Cammie Gilbert's voice impress our heroes? Will Tracey's (@KloakaMetal) love of progressive metal crack Ben's (@BenDangerously) old head sensibilities.  Tune in to find out, and as always keep your horns up \m/ 

It is a snowy Halloween here on the shores of Lake Michigan, and also our 13th episode!! To celebrate Ben's favorite holiday and end the spooktacular monthlong series the boys decided to look at Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys, Parts I and Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part II! Double the metal riffage. In honor of this, we brought in Buck of   https://thunderousvoices.com/ to assist us in t...

The Halloween Spooktacular continues!! This week we look at the Gothic metal of Type O Negative, with their 1993 album Bloody Kisses. Will our heroes bathe in the green light of all things Peter Steele & Company pr will it be like a "Death in the Family." Join us again for another October delight! Follow Ben (@BenDangeroulsy), Tracey (@KloakaMetal), and the Pod itself at (ThunderdomeMet1. \m/&...

The second of the October Spooktacular album review roles on with Lodi, NJ own Glenn Danzig's 1990 album Danzig II: Lucifuge.   Join us in fleeing from the light and join us under Her Black Wings. You can find Tracey @Kloakametal and Ben @Bendangerously \m/

Welcome to the bonus episode!! Tracey (@kloakametal) reviews the Soulfly concert he attended on 09/20/2019! Give it a listen! You can find Ben @Bendangerously

Ghouls! Welcome to the first in our heroes' look at the confluence of horror and heavy metal in our Halloween Spooktacular series!! This week we look at the legendary King Diamond and his 1987 classic Abigail . What will Tracey (@KloakaMetal) and Ben (@BenDangerously) think of this haunting album? How useful will Ben's heavy metal safety tip prove to be? Join us again, rockers for another spin ins...

Rockers!! This week we are back we the SDMF in Black Label Society's sixth studio album Mafia . Join us as we look as this mid-00s slice of American heavy metal. What will Tracey (@Kloakametal) think of one of Ben's (@BenDangerously) favorite band? Tune in, turn up, and fire it up for this week's episode of Thunderdome Metal Reviews!!

As September draws to an end our heroes look at an album fit for Mabon. Cellar Darling's 2019 release The Spell. Will our heroes be entranced by the band's mixture of Folk and Metal or does The Spell lose its charm? Listen and find out! As always you can find Tracey @KloakaMetal and Ben @Bendangerously Hold your hammers high, metalheads! 

Metalheads, the time has finally come for our heroes to review who is pulling their strings, Metallica's Master of Puppets . Released in 1986, one of the best years for metal, this Bay area thrash classic gets the Thunderdome treatment. Do you agree with what Tracey (@KloakaMetal) and Ben (@BenDangerously) have to say? Let us know and keep your horns up \m/

Cleveland, OH! This week we look at your avant-garde nu-metal pioneers Mushroomhead's major label debut XX . Our heroes take a look back at the early OOs and put the masks on.  Join us in taking a look back and reject "sympathetic posturing." \m/

After recovering from Labor Day weekend our heroes are back taking a look at a Doom metal album that landed on many 2018 best of lists, including number 7 for Tracey (@kloakametal), Khemmis Desolation. What doom may come when the old head Ben (@BenDangerously) listens to this Colorado outfit? Let us know what you think! 

After a thirteen year wait Tool has returned with their fifth studio album Fear Inoculum. In anticipation, our heroes gave 10,000 Days the Thunderdome Metal Reviews treatment. What did they think? Agree, disagree hit us up @ThunderdomeMet1 or individually @KloakaMetal and @BenDangerously. Happy year of Tool return \m/ 

This week we take a look at one of Tracey's (@KloakaMetal) top albums of 2019, Wheel Moving Backwards. Will our heroes bang their heads in unison for these Prog Metal newcommers or will the grumpy old metal head Ben (@BenDangerously) be less than enthused? Give it a listen and let the guys know what you think. Follow the pod on Twitter at @ThunderdomeMet1 \m/