Heavy Metal History

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This week we pick up where we left off in the history of the progenitors of the genre.
We go through the years 1976-1980 of Black Sabbath’s storied career discussing the drug fueled creations of Black Sabbath during a completely toxic and almost un inspired part of their career. A time that was mired by excessive drug use, la...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast we move ahead in the wake of Black Sabbath to January through March of 1980.

The early days of metal, especially in 1980, the album releases weren’t as extensive as the later years would become. And the inclusion of punk rock and some of those early bands and releases are an equally i...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

We move into April of 1980 to discuss the rise of the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) scene with two of the most now well known bands putting out records in the same month on the same day. The timing of those two records couldn’t have been at a better time as the souring and dueling lea...

In this weeks episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast we have our first guest! But alas, Matt also could not join this episode due to scheduling conflicts. Our guest this week was legacy act Derek Kerswill from many many bands such as Unearth, Seemless, Kingdom of Sorrow, The Ghost Inside and Shadows Fall. Derek takes us on his journey of discovering metal and what influenced him into his style of playing.

This episode is full o...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast.

This week we move ahead to May through July of 1980. In this 3 month span of history we see the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene completely dominate everything in its path, with bands like Saxon, Accept, Krokus and Samson putting out albums. Samson is the band that i...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast!

Our guest for this episode was Mike Hill from the band Tombs. Mike is also the host of the Everything Went Black and Necromaniacs podcasts.

We were honored to have Mike on this episode to talk about 3 albums that influenced him as an artist and person while taking us through his journey of discovering metal through his local record and book store. And as always the m...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

We move forward to the months of August through September in 1980.
I once again cover a few punk rock records to show its importance of crossover within the metal genre. We see Black Flag’s first EP that was marred with line-up changes which the band would deal with for years to come and Dead Kennedy’s thrust t...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

This year on the podcast we decided to change things up with the content and move far ahead to albums celebrating 30, 20 and 10 year anniversaries respectively.

So with that, we move ahead to February 1987 (No metal releases in January of 1987 somehow).

On this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast, we talk with Beneath the Massacre guitar player Chris Bradley about their album "Mechanics of Dysfunction" turning 10 years old. Mechanics was a massive follow up to their EP and Chris tells the behind the scenes about making the album as well as other stories about touring and the rest of their discography. Also we have EXCLUSIVE news about the bands future and the inevitab...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

We move forward to March in 1987.
The Thrash Metal movement continues to shred its way across the decade of the 80’s where Anthrax would produce one of their finest works with their 3rd album “Among the Living” (which we briefly discussed, but not as in depth with Derek Kerswill on e...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast!
This week I sat down "live" with friends and former tour mates of mine in Carnifex. I joined them after they have been on the road for two months embarking on their massive 2017 headline tour. We talked about Dead in My Arms turning 10 years old and their massive evolution in sound from that album. Look forward to all the members coming on solo over the next few week...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

We move ahead to April in 1987. in which we see the explosion of Bay Area Thrash with Testament and Death Angel, both bands releasing their first records, but with a massive difference in their ages. The Members of Death Angel at the time of the release of their album were all still ...

Welcome to this weeks (late) episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week I sit down with my old friend Mark and we talk about the behind the scenes of the metal industry. We also delve into the touring life style, what its like for bands on the road and the over all business that most people never hear or think about, its very introspective and informative. Look for Mark to be on again soon to talk about bands that influe...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

May of 1987 saw such a plethora of legendary releases that we had to split this episode into two parts in order to cover everything properly. We talk about Anvil, a band that was largely forgotten and mostly considered a “generic” band up until the release of their 2008 documentary “...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

This week we continue where we left off in May of 1987. A classic and somewhat unknown Thrash Metal band Heathen released their album in a time when Thrash is dominating the scene and yet somehow never managed to take off like their peers around them. Bathory puts out one of the most...

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

This week we sat down with Jeremy Wagner, founding member and guitar player of the band Broken Hope. Jeremy takes us through his history of what music influenced him as a guitar player and how that led to forming Broken Hope. He then talks about recording the new album "Mutilated and Assimilated" and all the meticulous work and effort that went into writing and recor...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the heavy metal history podcast.

Joining us this week is Chris Fox, the singer of the band See You Next Tuesday. Fox came on to talk about some of the recording for Parasite and what the band has been up to since the Hiatus and the struggles that led to the Hiatus. Fox also recounted what the scene was like during 07/08 and they managed to carve a path for them selves in the wake of over saturation.

Welcome to this weeks episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast. Joining me this week is Stavros Giannopoulos (Guitar Player/Vocalist) of The Atlas Moth.

Stavros came on this week to talk about his influences as a musician/guitar player and then we get into the work that has begun on the new record which goes into a myriad of topics that you absolutely cant miss!

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