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God's Hate is a badass hardcore/metal band from Southern California that is signed to Closed Casket Activities. They sat down with Kevin and Ian when they came to Seattle to play Rain Fest. 

Local band Devils Hunt Me Down joined us in studio to talk about their upcoming Summer shows, their upcoming plans of recording with Jack Endino, and to play a couple of their sweet jams! Hit play you dirty metal hippies!

There’s a sickness going around and it’s not coming from any Nu-metal bands! Ian and Ryan the Beard discuss their tonsils, Baby Metal is set to perform with Rob Halford, and Meshuggah has a new box set coming out! A lightning strike sent 70 people at a music festival to the hospital… for the second year in a row. What’s God’s problem? Corey Taylor is out for the first two weeks of the Slipknot/Man...

Rain Fest is a yearly 3-day festival that celebrates all that is awesome in the world of underground hardcore punk music. For this week's episode, we had 2 of the 3 organizers of Rain Fest in studio to discuss the past 10 years of organizing one of the wildest weekends you can imagine. Organizers Brian Skiffington and Matt Weltner have announced that Rain Fest 10 will be the last, as they are reti...

Welcome back to the most disturbing podcast available on KISW.com. This week we discuss Ian losing his wallet, Kevin almost spoils the new Captain American movie, Ian's band gets signed and he also stops drinking liquor (!?!) while Ryan has been working himself to the bone. In metal news, we give some post-Lemmy Motorhead updates, we discuss Joey Jordinson's new band, Rotting Christ is coming to t...

We're in our 90's! This week we were joined in studio by former Metal Shop hosts Kevin 1.0 and Steve Rock. They are old. In metal news, Megadeth gets sci fi with a new 3D video, new Hatebreed song, Ozzfest announced that they will be making an announcement, Ghost will continue to be Ghostly and N.W.A and Gene Simmons still don't get along (SHOCKING!). 

Metal Shop interviews Children of Seraph as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Xoth as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Thunderbeast as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Substratum as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Guns of Barisal as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Metal Shop interviews Disciples of Dissent as part of their 3rd annual All Local episode of the show. Originally aired April 23rd, 2016. 

Maiden rocked it last week at the Tacoma Dome, and we discuss their new beer! Despised Icon, Gojira, Nails, and Defeated Sanity all have incredibly heavy sounding jammers on the way. Taste them here. We discuss how it sucks when bands print crappy quality merch, Chris Barnes and Six Feet Under returning with a new edition of Graveyard Classics, and Lamb of God goes GOLD with Ashes of The Wake! Met...

Both Kevin and Ian are back this week and talking all the latest news in metal. Kevin gives his run down of Wrestlemania, they discuss Nicolas Cage and Vince Neil getting in a fight, KISS being a joke, and much more! Plus, new music and an interview with The Devils of Loudun !

A Disturbed fan get disturbed, Warped Tour makes a comeback, Carcass breaks bones, Dave Grohl continues to prove that he's a great dude, Brett Michaels continues to prove that he's not such a great dude.

This week on the podcast, Kevin returns and tells us all about his trips to Cali and Vegas, Ian's experience opening for Suicidal Tendencies, Ryan almost kills a pizza guy, the dude's become the Cryptopsy Crew, new music by Discharge and Anthrax, there's a new Metal Massacre compilation coming (!), a Soulfly and Suffocation tour has been announced, we get a little political and then discuss more r...