Heavy Metal History
Heavy Metal History is a podcast, created by Dustin “Wildcard” Koetsch, who takes you on and audible journey about the history of the Heavy Metal genre. With in depth research into how the bands made the records or by having guests from bands to discuss various influences, histories and the behind the scenes stories, struggles and triumphs of how their records were written and recorded. The ONLY podcast that goes through the chronological history of the genre to see how it evolved and changed.
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Welcome to this Heavy Metal History mini documentary about the band Dissection. In this episode we cover Jon's early life, the formation of Dissection, the writing and recording of "The Somberlain" and "Storm of the Light's Bane" which all lead up to a horrific moment lead...
Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History.
My guest was Blake Judd, guitarist and vocalist of Nachtmystium. Blake came on the podcast to discuss the history, writing and recording for the 20th anniversary of "Instinct Decay"
Nachtmystium is playing an anniversary set for "Instinct Decay" at this years Milwaukee Metal Fest.
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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guests returning once again were Drew and Fox from See You Next Tuesday and new guest Chop from Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop aka Chopx7.
The two groups made a collab 7" based on the Magic the Gathering story "The Brothers War" called "Brothers" we basically nerd out about magic and everything about the collaboration. Links to support the bands and the podcast in the show notes be...
Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guests were Cayle Hunter and Nate Burman of Armed for Apocalypse. We discuss the bands crushing new album "The Earth is Breathing Beneath Me" out on Church Road Records on April 24th!
0:00 intro
0:16 Start
0:51 Nate’s Heavy Metal History
6:37 Cayle’s Heavy Metal History
10:28 Discovering new music in the modern era vs growing up
19:07 Nate Joining the band and the “hiatus&r...
Welcome to this installment of the podcast. In honor of the 10th anniversary of the podcast i wanted to revisit what started everything, the history of the genre and what better way than to go back to the first episode and update it. Expect more of these episodes over the year. Next up will be the story of "Paranoid"
Welcome to this installment of the podcast.
In this episode my guest was Ben Mason, vocalist of Bound in Fear, Ben is also in 2 other bands, one being Pintglass and the other Hounds of War.
Ben came on to talk about Bound in Fear's new album "A mind too sick to heal" but during the conversation, the revelations about real life illness definitely took a forefront of the conversation with insight into the strife the band has been thr...
Welcome to this episode of the podcast, my guest was Kenny Hickey, formerly of Type O Negative, back with a new band collaborating with Kirk Windstein called Sun Dont Shine.
We discuss the band, its melodic elements and get into the 30th anniversary of "October Rust"
0:00 Intro
0:36 Start
0:58 Kenny’s Heavy Metal History
5:52 Musician Talent in the early days
7:53 Bands playing to backing tracks
8:57 Sun Don’t Shine Origins
15:...
Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History. My guest was Steven Blush, Author and filmmaker most known for the book and documentary American Hardcore. Steven came on the podcast to discuss his new book "When Rock Met Hip-Hop" and to talk all about the history of those influences on the genre.
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Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History. Ethan McCarthy, vocalist and guitarist of @PrimitiveMan returns to the podcast to discuss what hima and the band have been up to over the past 5 years since he was last on.We talk about the new album "Observance" out now on @relapserecords mental health, AI, live sound, politics and so much more.
0:40 5 Years since being on the podcast
3:48 Working on other m...
Mike Hill from Tombs returns to the podcast for his 3rd appearance. Mike has been a long time supporter of the podcast and his band has a new record coming out after 5 years called "Feral Darkness"
Mike and I discuss this time frame of writing and recording and the collaborative nature of this record. We also talk a little about horror films and Halloween.
Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History. My guest was Johnny Ciardullo vocalist of Carcosa (Also writes guitar for Carcosa and plays in Angelmaker)Johnny came on the podcast where we had an in depth conversation about the themes of the bands new album and a lengthy conversation about trauma and the importance of mental health.
0:20 Johnny’s Heavy Metal History
5:35 Playing different live vs on a record
7:00 Backing tr...
Joining me on this installment of Heavy Metal History is Evan Husney and Jason Eisener, Writer's and Executive Producer's of the new Hulu show about the history of the metal genre "Into the Void" the show delves into 8 stories of various metal moments and shows the raw humanity and emotion derived in each of them.
Evan and Jason have also worked together on the long running docu series Dark Side of the Ring. Jason has also written a...
Welcome to this weeks episode of the podcast. My guest was Sergio Soto, guitarist and vocalist for Californian Black Metal band Imperialist.
Sergio was on the podcast before but it is one of the rare "lost" episodes of the podcast. We stayed in touch over the years and with the release of their upcoming album "Prime" I had Sergio back on to talk about the album and its Sci-Fi setting.
Prime is out in September on Transcending Obscur...
Welcome to this installment of the podcast, my guest was Johnny Hedlund, vocalist and bassist of the legendary swedish death metal band Unleashed. I met and toured with Johnny's band back in 2008 and we had a nice conversation about the bands 30+ year history, and their FIFTEENTH album "Fire Upon Your Lands" out on Napalm Records August 15th.
Welcome to this installment of the Podcast. My guest was M.S.W of the Doom Metal band Hell. He came on the podcast to discuss the writing and recording of his new album "Submersus" , collaborating with A.L.N of Mizmor to make "Alluvion" and his audio engineering endeavors.
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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guest was "Ciccio" guitarist and main song writer for Italian Brutal Death Metal band Putridity. We discuss the bands 10 year "hiatus" and the new album "Morbid Ataraxia" out on @WillowtipRecords
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Welcome to this edition of the podcast. My guests were Corey Ray (Guitarist) and Noah Taylor (Drums) who are both original members of the band Destroyer Destroyer. The band was active in the mid 2000's era, as a part of the Tech Death / Tech Deathcore genre that released 2 EP's and a Full length "Littered with Arrows" Soon after the band stopped performing and writing and seemingly went on a "hiatus". This episode we go into the ba...
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My guest was Matt Harvey, guitarist and vocalist of Exhumed and Gruesome. This is Matt's return to the podcast!
We discuss Gruesome's new record "Silent Echoes" and much much more!
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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guest was guitarist and vocalist of the death metal band Graceless, Remco Kreft, who are about to drop their 4th album "Icons of Ruin"
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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guest was "Ashok" guitarist of @cradleoffilth . The bands new album "Screaming of the Valkyries" is available everywhere now on @napalmrecords
Ashok came on the podcast to discuss the bands new album, growing up in the Czech Republic, getting bootleg records, movies and so much more!
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