Twin Terrors Macabre Manor of Mead Metal and Mayhem

Welcome back to the Manor!  This midweek Halloween special is on Waukegan, Illinois, birthplace of Ray Bradbury.  James took a trip to check out the Ray Bradbury Experience Museum, gander at the places that influenced Ray (including The Ravine!), and the local Ray influenced brewpub. Next week's episode is about... more accurately this Friday's episode keeps going with our spooky author theme as w...

Welcome back to the Manor and our favorite time of year!  It's time to traipse through the October Country and start this year's theme of spooky authors with Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree," one of James' all time favorite books.   Next week's episode is about... ha!  It's October!  You don't have to wait a week.  We'll be back midweek with a small Halloween episode about James' Waukegan, Illi...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We hope you're enjoying the Led Zeppelin episodes, because we sure are!  We continue our look into their third album, particularly their writing and recording at Headley Grange and a few early shows in Iceland and at the Bath Festival. Next week's episode starts our Halloween blitzkrieg!  We start with an episode about one of our favorite books and favorite authors, "Th...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our annual Hobbit Day episode!  (Which also marks our second anniversary!)  Each year we talk about Hobbits to celebrate Bilbo and Frodo's shared birthday of September 22nd.  This year, we get into how the movies made the hobbits, especially Merry and Pippin (but a fair bit of Samwise, too) the short shrift and how much more awesome they were in the books....

Welcome to a special episode!  We wish Elvira, that most gorgeous of ghouls, the mistress of the dark, she who put the "bra" back in bravo, a happy 69th birthday.  Well, we actually go into some detail about why we love her, too. Don't worry.  There's still an episode coming out tomorrow. Next week's episode is on Hobbits!  It's our annual Hobbit Day episode, celebrating Bilbo's and Frodo's shared...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more Deep Purple.  To quote Dee Snider "You're Gonna Burn in Hell!"  Well, one of those words are correct for this episode.  We introduce the new bandmates into DP, making the mark III line-up and discuss their first album together, DP's 8th studio album "Burn."  It's good stuff! Next week's episode... we have two!  Thursday will be a special tribute to Elv...

Welcome to the Manor, where we come from the land of ice and snow.  We're continuing our Led Zep III arc, with more history and context than you can shake a dragon boat oar at!   Next week's episode is a tribute to that most awesome of horror hosts, Elvira, for her 69th birthday.    Get in touch with us at Podbean:   https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a   Or on Facebook:   https://w...

Welcome to the last of our folk music episodes (although we may do future episodes on specific bands), finishing with folk metal!   Grab some mead and prepare to delve into the musicology and history of the genre.  We start in the early 1990s and work our way to the present, examining the sub-genres of this genre of metal.  Slainte and wassail!   Next week's episode is continuing our arc on Led Ze...

Born August 22nd, 1920, Ray Bradbury has his 100th birthday tomorrow, albeit postmortem (June 5th, 2012).  Pull up a chair and enjoy a pint and pipe as we talk about our favorite stories from one of James' top five authors (and a general favorite of Jody's, as well).   We'll also get into more detail on the specific books "The Halloween Tree" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" when we get into...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Today, we're talking about another manor, that most wonderful of hunting lodges / fortified manors, Traquair House!    Why?  Because James fouled up a couple things in a previous episode and wanted to correct himself, the process of which created an entire episode on the history of Traquair, some history and context of Scotland, and the brewing that occurs at their mano...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin III!  To celebrate, we're doing the usual multi-episode (3, 4, or 5 - you know how we are) arc.     So sit back with us here at the Manor and enjoy a pint and a pipe as we talk about the band and their writing, recording, touring, and more!   Picture courtesy of James' music collection.   Next week's episode is about Scotland's Traquair House an...

Occasionally, as we're sitting at the Manor, we'll just start talking about whatever stupid things come into our heads (rather than the usual specific stupid things about which we usually talk).   This one is on our favorite non-metal music.  There will be a few of these and they kind of, more or less, basically, go by decade and genre.  They'll also be used for when we are hard at research on oth...

Welcome back to the Python Series 1 arc!  More Pythonesque jocularity as we cover first series (what we'd call 'season' in the States), as well as what they were doing post-university that led right up to the show. Enjoy! Next episode: Led Zeppelin, the third album era. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/t...

Welcome to the second episode on Prohibition!  This time we're focusing on Clinton, Indiana and its general area.  Family lore, local lore, and more on the Slaven Prohibition Ale! Next episode: The second episode of Monty Python Series. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmay...

                        Happy 70th, Eric.  We hope you enjoy this tribute from the Terrors (mostly Jody, natch).  Next episode: The second of our prohibition episodes. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor  Image: Wikicommons Eric Carr    

For fans of "The Boys," whether the graphic novels or the Amazon series, or even if you're just a Garth Ennis fan, this episode is for you!  Don't listen if you dislike British curse terms, but maybe we'll C U Next Tuesday anyway.  We do not care for the terms in actual life, either, but when one reviews an Ennis comic, we go with the philosophy that to truly understand, one has to dive in and exp...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Get some Irish whiskey (or whatever suits you) and join us as we talk about folk punk, with bands such as Dropkick Murphys.  This will be a nice bridge from the '60s (previous episode) to folk metal (next episode). Next episode: The Boys (the graphic novel and the show). Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook...

Welcome to our second cryptid episode!  This time we're talking about Nessie the Loch Ness Beauty (she's not a monster).  So yes, this makes our batting average 1.000 on lake creatures for our cryptozoology episodes, but we promise the next one will be different (and may include a guest!). Sit back and relax with a Scotch ale or some Scotch whisky or anything you just want to enjoy (milk, water, r...

Finally!  We've been talking about doing a Monty Python episode for quite a while now and here's the first!  We have a couple of episodes based on their first series (what we'd call 'season' in the States), as well as what they were doing post-university that led right up to the show. Enjoy! Next episode: cryptozoology episode 2! Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/shar...

We love Motley Crue's music.  Not enough to dig around in the editing tools to find the umlauts, but we love them.  We listened to them all the time in middle school, high school, college, and beyond.  We both find their first two albums to be seminal and do really like/love the others, as well. Their farewell tour did sour us a bit, though.  They certainly did not perform well and it seemed as th...

Back at the dawn of time, specifically last fall as we were starting the podcast, we recorded a very long episode on our favorite beers and beer styles.  It ended up being long enough to break down into four episodes!  Between that and then recording what we thought were more worthy episodes, it's just taken a while to get these out to you.  You may have heard the first two, but it's not necessary...

Welcome to the manor!  Today we're continuing our foray into folk music, this time hitting on its cultural impact (context!) of the '60s.  Wow, this is getting close to Zep III!  Part three, coming up in a month, will be a short bit on Celtic punk and similar things, after which will be folk metal. Woooo!   Next week's episode: our favorite beers (part 3). Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https:/...

Woohoo!  We've made it to episode 100!  My grandmother would be so proud of me.  Actually, she'd probably ask me why I'm doing this and then hit me with a slipper for a flippant answer (then proceed to tell everyone else to leave me alone).   Anyway, I digress.  For episode 100, we thought we'd do something special!  In our introductory episode, we mentioned a podcast we had been working on before...

Welcome to part 3 of our 3 part series on Kiss' "Music from the Elder."  If you want to know more, go check out the first two episodes.  If you already have, then you're all set!  In any case, you're bound to appreciate Jody's enthusiasm on this much maligned album. Image: back of the album courtesy of Jody's music collection. Next week's episode: our 100th episode!  We dig back in the vaults and...

Walpurgis Night is upon us!  From sundown on April 30th to sundown on May 1st, beware the witches! More Walpurgis greatness!  It's a witches' festival, so why not go with Burning Witches the band!  We talk about their history and delve into their latest album.  So whether you're skyclad or not... enjoy! Enjoy! Image: James' photo of the front cover of his copy of Burning Witches' "Dance with the D...