Twin Terrors Macabre Manor of Mead Metal and Mayhem

Welcome back to the Manor!  And you may have noticed that each year our number of top things changes, and this year we only had 5 each (Jody with his albums and James with his books).  So if you want to see what are favorites were last year, listen on! Next week's episode is on Douglas Adams and Monty Python. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or...

Welcome back to the Manor!  And yes, you read that correctly, we're talking about rock and metal in Middle Earth!  Okay, not Tolkien's Middle Earth, but the musical venues/night clubs that were extant in the late '60s and early '70s, with one in London, England and one in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.   Pour yourself a pint and enjoy learning about the hippies/blues people/rockers/mods/proto-metal b...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our annual end of the year episode, which always features Iron Maiden!  This year, we're using this as a way to finish our Rime of the Ancient Mariner trilogy as we delve into Maiden's metal version!  Up the Irons and pour a pint! Next week's episode is about (we don't know yet mwahahahahaha). Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/...

Welcome to more Yuletide fun at the Manor!  Since last week we went into American Santa Claus, this week we thought we'd tackle (not literally -- we're not The Kinks playing at a Cheap Trick) England's Father Christmas!  Light your pipe and pour a pint and let's get at this wintery excitement! Next week's episode is our annual last-of-year-episode featuring Iron Maiden, this time concluding our tr...

Welcome back to the Manor!  This week, we get into the historical creation of American Santa Claus and how America turned away from its Puritanical antipathy towards Christmas, allowing it to blossom into the winter holiday it's become in the United States.  Pour yourself a wassail bowl of mead or a Smoking Druid or some eggnog and enjoy! Next week's episode is about Father Christmas. Get in touch...

Welcome back to Yuletide at the Manor!  This year we're starting the Yule season with a combination episode with some hygge comforting fun, followed by the (possible) history of where the hot toddy got its name as well as some recipes, and finishing up with the Christmas ghost stories we're reading this year (with some spooky excerpts).   Grab your pipe and a toddy or wassail bowl and enjoy!   Nex...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Jody insists that he hates humanity, but that doesn't stop him from going out to metal shows.  Here he reviews two of his latest shows, one with Raven and the other with Pentagram and The Obsessed.  Crank this episode up to 11 and enjoy Next week's episode is on Christmas Ghost Stories, Hygge, and Hot Toddies. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/me...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our (American) Thanksgiving episode!  It's another milestone, as this is also our 250th episode.  We're quite thankful to all of our listeners and their thousands of downloads, making something we wanted to do anyway even better! Pour a pint and listen to us reminisce a bit and pick our favorite episode from five genres (music, literature, drinking, holiday...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We continue our semi-themed arc that started with Halloween season's The Flying Dutchman with the second episode... Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."  That most spooky and creepy of epic poems from the very tail end of the 1700s.   Get ready for some epically creepy poetic goodness!  Pour yourself a pint and join us. Next week's episode is out 250...

Welcome back to the Manor!  This week, the Terrors look at a few websites that give the personality and beer type for astrological signs and we determine if they fit ours or not.  Hint:  It's not 100% either way.  Find your own sign's beer and pour a pint and enjoy with us! Next week's episode is about either Rime of the Ancient Mariner or a live show review by Jody. Get in touch with us at Podbea...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're easing out of Halloween spooky season (before ramping up into Yule spooky season) with a short episode on harvest monsters!  Join us as we discuss German and Irish harvest monsters and one English harvest demi-semi-hemi-sort-of-deity that gives us beer and whisky!   Next week's episode is on astrological beers. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean...

Welcome to a special All Hallows, Samhain, Day of the Dead, Halloween episode!  On the 10th anniversary of the passing of Ray Bradbury (2012) and the 50th anniversary of that most excellent of books "The Halloween Tree," here's a short sequel that James wrote, because he's always wanted to know what happened when D for Doom and B for Bones came to collect the year the boys gave Pipkin.  He hopes y...

Happy Halloween to all of you!  We hope you enjoy the best and most spooky of holidays this evening, as the sun sets and we go into the dark time of the year (for those of us in the northern hemisphere anyway!). Just a short episode to wish you spookiness, talk about what we're doing tonight, and then recaps of Nosferatu whose 100th anniversary is this year and of Halloween III whose 40th is this...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the 4th of Jody's Japanese horror flicks!  This time, sticking with the theme of this week's trippy hippy stuff (we're looking at you, Dracula AD 1972), we talk about House, that very interesting Japanese horror movie. Next week's episode is a Happy Halloween. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebo...

Welcome to more evil, spooky fun here at the Manor!  50 years ago, Christopher Lee once again donned his vampire cloak for Hammer Horror, for "Dracula A.D. 1972" and we are eerily happy that he did so!  Join us as we delve into the spooky and trippy/groovy/hippy movie that finally brings Drac himself into the modern era (on screen). Next week's episode is about the Japanese trippy hippy movie Hous...

Welcome to more spooky goodness at the Manor!  We're continuing Jody's spooooooky arc with the third Japanese horror films, this time it being 1964's Kwaidan!  Slice a bit of Barm Brack and a dram of witches' brew and enjoy!  Next week's episode is... well, either Dracula AD 1972 or House depending on who finishes first, but those are our next two episodes! Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https:...

Welcome back to Halloween's spooky season here at the Manor!  Our bonus episode this week is on the first of the Cornetto trilogy, that excellent RomComZom from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead from 2004.  We'll get to the other films in the trilogy, but with zombies and pints of ale, this fits the Manor perfectly for Samhain.  Head over to the Winchester or whatever your local is, g...

Welcome back to more horrific Samhain spookiness!  Our doubling up of episodes for spooky season consists of four Japanese horror movies, as recommended by Jody.  Earlier this week you heard us discuss Ugetsu and now it is time for Kuroneko from 1968!  Pour a pint or maybe some sake and enjoy! Next week's episode is about the first of the Cornetto trilogy, Shaun of the Dead. Get in touch with us a...

Welcome back to spooky season at the Manor!  For this week's special episode, we talk about Ugetsu, the 1958 Japanese horror movie.  You'll see this year that Jody wanted to get into some Japanese horror flicks and this is the first!   Enjoy some spookiness from the land of the rising sun! Next week's episode is on Kuroneko, the Japanese horror film from 1968. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  htt...

Welcome back to more spooky season shenanigans at the Manor!  Pour a pint and enjoy our annual Hallowre'ad where we give some recommendations and reviews. This year we review:  The Troop (Cutter), Dead Leaves (Burke), The Green Man (Amis), The Fiends in the Furrows II (editor Neal), and more!  Plus we have a few more that we're going to read throughout the season. Enjoy this spooky bonus episode a...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to more spooky season spooky fun!  In this episode we talk about the mysterious ghost ship The Flying Dutchman.  From it's deal with the devil to the brave adventurers who discovered it's final resting place.  Oooooooh! Next week's episode is Ugetsu, the 1958 Japanese horror movie. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to spooky season again!  For the first non-Friday episode of our October Blitzkrieg, we're talking about Glorious!  This Lovecraftian horror movie may or may not bathroom glory holes (it does) and is also rather hilarious.  Join us for a review! Next week's episode is about the ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman! Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podb...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We recorded this episode a couple months ago, but thought an episode about haunted pubs would make for a great pre-Halloween episode!  We didn't record it specifically as a Halloween thing, so it's not going into October, but will work well here!  We hope you enjoy and we'll see you next week for some Samhain spookiness! Next week's episode is the start of our Halloween...

Welcome back to the Manor!  And welcome back to our Tommy Bolin arc with the final episode before Tommy overlaps with another main topic that we've discussed.  Yes, James knows he previously wrote that part 3 was the last, but he was wrong.  Jody had more up his battle vest sleeve.   And what does Tommy do next that overlaps?  Wait and see, good listeners!  All will be revealed, but we have spooky...

Welcome back to the Manor!  It's Hobbit Day, which also means it is our anniversary episode!  We eat (and talk about) second breakfasts and foods of Middle Earth in general.  We hope you've been enjoying us and we look forward to another year of inane (and that's not a misspelling) episodes! And yes, we know we're six days early, Hobbit Day being the 22nd, but it's six days early or one day late. ...