#356 - 1980: The Beginning of Modern Metal

The year is 1980. The U.S. National Debt is a paltry $900 Billion, the word “yuppie” appears for the first time in print, the Pac-Man videogame is released in arcades everywhere, Mount St. Helens explodes in Washington state, and Cable News Network (also known as CNN) becomes a thing.   In the world of metal, Iron Maiden release their self-titled debut album, Black Sabbath reinvent themselves with new frontman Ronnie James Dio on vocals and release Heaven and Hell, and AC/DC regroup after the tragic loss of Bon Scott and release Back In Black featuring new vocalist Brian Johnson, an album that would go on to sell more than 40 million copies and become one of the biggest selling albums of all time.   Just as time and technology continued marching forward, the hard rock of the 70’s continued its evolution into a new direction with a faster, heavier, and more aggressive sound beginning in 1980 that would become even faster, heavier, and more aggressive throughout the 80’s.   Get ready for a taste of “Something Haunted” from the “Necronomidonkeykongimicon” and find out why “you gotta watch for the flops” if you want to get in the spirit and enjoy the FIFA World Cup.    Discover which dinosaur is “the biggest dinosaur”, understand the rules and regulations regarding “flip-flops”, find out which type of rooster has the best breasts, and be sure to “have a nice June” when you JOIN US as we dive headlong into the year that gave us the birth of modern metal with THE YEAR OF OUR RIFF LORD – 1980. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “Welcome back to the red button section of the show…”/ “We’re gonna do an ITM of nothing but Goblin Cock…”/ “They might be on their way to the ATL…”/ The complete #GoblinCock collection / “Necronomidonkeykongimicon…”/ “The dongasaurus…that’s the biggest dinosaur by the way…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ #AI / #Juicebox / “That’s what I want…please send me a shape shifting sex doll…”/ “One night I might want a home cooked meal…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST DEEP DOWN IN THE BUNKERPOON CENTER FOR METAL EXCELLENCE!!!*** / “Consumption is old school tuberculosis…”/ “Okay, so you wanna hear the joke?”/  #cuntscum #scumcunt (6:55): “Now that we’ve offended everybody…”/ ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Uh…you missed…”/ “Am I completely wrong or did you miss the Grandmaster Vag Destroyer?”/ “So the song…from Goblin Cock…SOMETHING HAUNTED (Necronomidonkeykongimicon – 2016) / “It’s like hooky doom metal…”/ “Button please…”/ “That was just on #Spotify …”/  ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Facebook #YouTube #Instagram and #TikTok*** / *** EMAIL US at [email protected] *** / #peachstarfish   (13:13): “I will tell you…how to watch the game ‘soccer’ and be entertained…”/ #FIFA #WorldCupSoccer #WorldCup2026 / “You gotta watch for the flops…that’s the best part…”/ #markthetime / “A good 7 inches…”/ #OzzyManReviews / “These guys KNOW there’s replay…and the internet is forever…”/ “If you want to get in the spirit and watch the world cup, look for the flops…”/ Rules for wearing Flip Flops / #doublefuckyou   (20:00): ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / Ken from Connecticut… / #MiltonBerle and #UFO / The dispute regarding AC/DC’s country of origin relative to the band members’ respective countries of origin vs where the band was formed / “Is Scotland England?” / “The band was formed in Australia…”/ NOTE: only Phil Rudd was born in Australia.   (26:08): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE YEAR OF OUR RIFF LORD – 1980 (***Also check out our 1980 – THE YEAR IN METAL episode from 2019!***) / “Metal was hard rock and then some, just like death metal was thrash and then some…”/ NOTE: Iron Maiden’s first album is NOT Killers…/ “Remember video games back in 1980?”/ “There’s something to be said about nostalgia…”/ #Atari / “I could still get behind Mario…”/ #markthetime / “It’s June, dude, we can do that…”/ “Adventure? Oh, where the dragon looks like a duck?”/ “Billboard’s Top HOT 100 Songs in 1980…”/ “What’s number uno?”/ “If you put some distortion on Air Supply…hair metal, all day…”/ “It’s June, we can do that…”/ “The Dirt Band?”/ “Let me ask you guys something about Pat Benatar…”/ #premetal / “Especially ‘Hell Is For Children’…”   (34:44): “Them’s fightin’ words, bro…”/ #killeropener / #IronMaiden PROWLER (Iron Maiden – 1980) / “I just noticed something…Paul Di’Anno’s voice…” / #nuanced /  “What about The Black Album of 1980?” / #allegedly / “Did they not remix/remaster Back In Black (the album) not too long ago?”/ “Let’s do a deep cut…”/ #ACDC GIVIN THE DOG A BONE (Back In Black – 1980) / “Oh…dogs like bones…” / “Is AC/DC metal?...it’s close enough…”/ “It was remastered in ’94, ’03, and ’09…”   (41:25): “What about something from Saxon? They had 2 albums that year…”/ “Lars is a big Saxon fan too…”/ #Saxon HEAVY METAL THUNDER (Strong Arm Of The Law – 1980) / “That sounds familiar…”/ “That sounds like old Pantera…”/ “On the #UFO kick…we’ve got No Place To Run…”/ #UFO MYSTERY TRAIN (No Place To Run – 1980) /“Is that Schenker?”/  NOTE: it was NOT Michael Schenker…it was Paul Chapman / NOTE: Pete Way was also in #Fastway and #Waysted / “That’s the other thing about 1980…the artwork…”/ #bodydysmorphia #bodypositivity / #Budgie FOREARM SMASH (Power Supply – 1980) /  “Yep, that’s got metal vibes to it…”/ NOTE: It IS the same guy/singer.   (52:33): “How about some Priest?” / “If your title’s too long it doesn’t get played…”/  “I wonder if that site actually gives Rob Halford a residual?”/ “It’s June…have a nice June…I mean, it’s June…”/ #JudasPriest THE RAGE (British Steel – 1980) / “There was a lot of comments when we did the ’86…this is NOT better than ’86…”/ “People love nostalgia…”/  “Maybe even ’83 I can get…’83 maybe more than ’80…” / “What are you feeding those things?”/ “You could SEE the TASTE of that…”   (1:00:20): “I’ve never heard of Atomic Rooster…”/ “That cock has got some huge boobs on it…I mean it’s June, so…”/ #AtomicRooster FRIDAY THE 13TH (Atomic Roooster – 1970) /  NOTE: #AtomicRooster, the band, released Atomic Roooster (the album) in 1970, the album which included Friday The 13th…the album Atomic Rooster was released in 1980. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused, but to be fair, the 1970 album has a much cooler album cover than the 1980 album does. / “We talk about Bone movies enough…and it’s June…”/ #OzzyOsbourne NO BONE MOVIES (Blizzard Of Ozz – 1980) /  “Context matters…”/ “Animal Magnetism…look at that cover…there’s a dog there too…”/ “I’ll shut up about June…” / #Scorpions THE ZOO (Animal Magnetism – 1980) /  “Not fisting…”/ “You know what, I think he might actually be shorter than Dio…”   (1:08:46): “How about the Tygers of Poon Tang, dude? Or Pang Tang?”/ “I had (a curry) one time that was supposed to be spicy and it literally tasted like halitosis…”/ #debutalbum / “The G is silent…”/ #TygersOfPanTang EUTHANASIA (Wild Cat – 1980) / “Oh yeah…okay?”/ “Very lackadaisical performance…”/ “More metal than Black Sabbath? Or Iron Maiden?”/ “I wanna hear this one…” / #DiamondHead HELPLESS (Lightning To The Nations – 1980) / “That is 7 years before Garage Days came out…isn’t that crazy to think about?” / “And we never really would have known about this band without Metallica…”   (1:16:37): “That’s probably the most metal Van Halen tune…”/ “Oh, it was Mr. Bungle…and they nailed it…”/ #VanHalen LOSS OF CONTROL (Women And Children First – 1980) / “You can almost hear #Pantera doing that…” / #SevenMaryThree #CHiPs / “I think we would be remiss if we did not include something from Heaven and Hell…” / “Molly Hatchet was such a tease…remember what their album covers looked like?”/ #BlackSabbath DIE YOUNG (Heaven And Hell – 1980) / NOTE: It’s Geoff Nichols NOT Don Airey / “Wait a minute…that’s on the first album, right?” / “How we play a little bit of ‘Running Free’ just to compare the riffs…” / #IronMaiden RUNNING FREE (Iron Maiden – 1980)    (1:22:46): “What was the most metal song on ‘Permanent Waves’?” / “Given the Rush fanfare…”/ #Rush NATURAL SCIENCE (Permanent Waves – 1980) / “Very trippy…”/  “The coolest thing I’ve heard somebody say about Rush, especially this era: that album came out 40+ years ago and it STILL sounds like it’s from the future!”/ “They were the first real ‘music nerd’ band…”/ “Whatever…it’s June…”/ The way radio shows were back in the 70’s and 80’s / “I liked ‘Don’t Fear The Raper’…”/ “How about some Angel Witch…is that like a Sand Witch?”/ #AngelWitch ANGEL WITCH (Angel Witch – 1980) / “It’s like uppity, happy metal…”/ “If we’re gonna do a death match between years…”/ “We need to start setting up #SpotifyPlaylists of what we do on the show…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“I wanna hear THAT at my grocery store, when I’m going for the meat section…”   Whether it’s the song we all rise for at sports ball events,  the first song on Rush’s “Fly By Night” album (not to mention the first song on Anthrax’s EP of classic rock covers), or the sing-along, encore at the end of a rock show, ANTHEMS represent a clarion call, a rallying cry that unites fans in unspeakable joy, unity, and celebration. It’s almost always the song that EVERYONE knows (even your grandmother) and is very much NOT a deep cut.    “AC/DC’s kind of an anthem band…they have at least one on every album…”   In fact, ANTHEMS are those kinds of songs where, if you hear one in a public place: at a bar, a restaurant, the grocery store, or a friend’s party, you’re not going to NOT like it. Sure, it’s probably the most well-known, popular, played into the ground, mainstream “hit” that EVERYONE (again, probably even your grandmother) is familiar with, but no matter what song it is or where you might hear it, ANTHEMS are  guaranteed to get you fired up, lift your spirit, and bring a smile to your face.   “I wanna do a little birthday squig…”   Find out what’s happening “THIS FRIDAY”, realize that birthdays are the anniversaries of life, and JOIN US for a Bunkerpoon birthday celebration full of cake, refreshments, and good cheer as we cuss and discuss the unifying power behind rock and metal ANTHEMS. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “I think I just turned it up…”/ “I’m upright and taking nourishment…”/  “I’ll give myself the bean…”/ “I’ll put it wherever you want…you want it on the inside or the outside?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #keepitthrashy / “Maybe he just unlocked another dimension with his weed…”/ “Dr. Pepper, Captain Morgan, and PB&J’s…”/ #yeah / #McDonalds #DirtyDrPepper #Rim / “Was the rim the best part?” / “If you have foam down there, you should really go see your doctor…to have him finish you to completion…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST AND THE BUNKERPOON CENTER FOR METAL EXCELLENCE!!!*** / #happybirthday / #birthdayepisode / “I eat once a day…I’m the lightest I’ve been in 3 years…”/ “A handful of food, 5 times a day…”/ #cavemandiet / “Fasting is the way…”/ “Now they’re saying that sugar is WORSE than heroin…”/ “It’s all mental…” (07:37): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / #SpiritInTheSky /  “I was looking at the name: I thought it said ‘My Boss’…”/ ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #MetalNerderyPodcast on #YouTube #Facebook #InstaGram and #TikTok *** / #drysockets and #wisdomteeth #viralaf / #Pyscroptic GATHERING A VENOMOUS HERD / (The Pulse of Annihilation – 2026) / #technicaldeathmetal / #Tasmania #Australia #AussieMetal / “They got a Wiki page, that’s saying something…”/ Tasmania, Australia (“Yeah…”) / “How any albums do they have?” / “Let’s go through the album titles…”/  “You wanna watch a video?”/ #youwatchamovie / ARCHITECTS OF EXTINCTION /  “Those guys are re-tah-diculous!” / The reaction of laughter to unbelievable riffs and technical prowess   (18:18): “So here’s what we’ve got to contend with…I’m gonna ask you, right here in front of everybody…” / “You think God listens to this podcast, dude?”/ “I wanna do a little birthday squig in the beginning…”/ “This year marks the 25th anniversary of Pig Destroyer’s Prowler In The Yard, which is like the Reign In Blood of grindcore…”/ “I’ve got a kink now, where I can’t get off unless Stephen Hawking is watching…”/ “I hate this so bad…”/ “This is beautiful…this is art.” /  #PigDestroyer JENNIFER/CHEERLEADER CORPSES (Prowler In The Yard – 2001) /  #TwentyFifthAnniversary #ProwlerInTheYard / “Oh, I farted…”/ “A little bit of WHAT?” / PISS ANGEL / “Is that better or worse?”/ “Should we start calling birthdays anniversaries instead of birthdays?”   (24:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: ANTHEMS / “It’s gotta be bolth…” / #rockanthems #heavymetalanthems / “What is an anthem? What do you think of when you hear the word ‘anthem’ (if it’s metal or rock)?”/ “Everybody knows it…it gets people fired up…”/ “When the band plays the song where you all become a part of the show…that’s the sing along…”/ “What is the first anthem you can think of?” /  “Everybody knows it…it’s the one that your grandmother has heard…it’s the non-deep cut…”/ “What would Van Halen’s anthem be?”/ #BetterOffDead /  “What would AC/DC’s anthem be?”/ “AC/DC’s kind of an anthem band…they have at least one on every album…”/ “Did we just unlock a new dimension here?” (30:06): “What’s a Zeppelin anthem?” / “We’re all humans, who cares?”/ #markthetime /  “Anthems are one of those things…if you hear it at a public place like in a bar, a restaurant, or even at the grocery store…”/ “Cart…buggy…”/ “You can’t NOT like it…even if you’re a #Rush super deep cut fan…”/ #BlackSabbath WAR PIGS (Paranoid – 1970) /  “Now we’re smiling, all of a sudden…”/ “I don’t know if you’ve ever heard this before…about that song…those first few words…it almost has a country vibe to it…the vocal…”/  “They put the Eventide voice machines on him…”/ “All the guitar nerds will get that…”/  “What’s an Eventide? Is that like a dildo or something? What do you do with that?”/  “What about Ozzy anthems?”   (38:48): #Motorhead ACE OF SPADES (Ace Of Spades – 1980) / “This is one of the most metal parts, evah!”/ “If your doctor doesn’t recommend metal to you as a lifestyle improvement and a medical treatment, find a different doctor.”/ “Was the Van Hagar more anthem-y than the Roth era?” / “Yeah…you’ve got to, with the hairdryer and the whole thing…you don’t remember the video?” / #hairdryerASMR / “Soooo…for metal bands…”/  #IronMaiden THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (The Number Of The Beast – 1982) / “Everybody in America is like: ‘You went to the pub and got pissed off? What’s wrong with you?’ / “I’ve got one…”/ #QuietRiot METAL HEALTH (Metal Health – 1983) / “Assgrinder?”/ “That’s a sing-along…”/ “Which do you think was bigger?” / “I think that’s what possibly killed Twisted Sister…”/ #TwistedSister I WANNA ROCK (Stay Hungry – 1984) / #No / “How much fun was that?” / “Every band probably has their own anthem…”/ “Testament, what would be theirs?” / “For the mainstream customer…but for their fans, it would be…”/  “It is a weird anthem…that’s probably one of their encores…” (51:55): “Everybody knows the Pantera one…”/ “At a bar, at a party, at a friend’s house…if I hear it in a public place…I’m not complaining…I’m cool with that.”/ “It still feels like it belongs to you…”/ “Do you feel like they (Metallica) are almost in the AC/DC bucket?” / “Does your grandmother know Dyer’s Eve?” / “What’s Creed’s anthem?”/  #Pantera COWBOYS FROM HELL (Cowboys From Hell – 1990) / “I wanna hear THAT at my grocery store, when I’m going for the meat section…”/ #markthetime / “Fun and anthems kinda go together…”/ “I don’t NOT like ‘Walk’…” (58:58): “I got another one for us metal heads…”/ #StormtroopersOfDeath MARCH OF THE S.O.D. (Speak English Or Die – 1985) / “Does #Anthrax have an anthem?” / “Okay, so how about Priest?” / #abigone / “Let me know if you think this is THEIR anthem…it’s gotta be…”/  “THIS FRIDAY!” / #keepitin / “That was awesome…”/ #KoRn BLIND (KoRn – 1994) / “That’s gotta be, right?” / “Are you ready!?” / “This Friday…are you ready?”  (1:04:00): “What is the most recent rock or metal anthem you can think of?” /  “Has everybody lost their ability to do anthems?”/ “The anthem is the call to arms…”/  “Here’s my answer to that question…in my opinion…”/ “See, I thought that was Cake…” / #TheWhiteStripes SEVEN NATION ARMY (Elephant – 2003) / “I’ll take the bottom off?” /  “What’s the band that everybody fucks with…everybody hates on them…?”/ “Nickelback has some anthems, for sure…now that you mention it, maybe not…”/ “That’s how I clap, by the way…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“Today is all about 7’s…”   We can’t believe it…it’s officially been SEVEN years since we began our podcasting journey, and as of this episode, we are celebrating SEVEN years of heavy metal podcasting excellence!  And in the spirit of heavy metal greatness, what better way to celebrate and commemorate the completion of our SEVENTH year than a tribute to the best thing MTV ever did for metal heads that started way back in the late 80’s: HEADBANGERS BALL!!!   “It was the novelty, because that was the only place where you could get it…”   Premiering on Saturday April 18, 1987, MTV began what would become a weekly Saturday night tradition and/or ritual for metal heads with HEADBANGERS BALL, the one section of MTV that belonged to the metal community…it was OUR show, OUR music, and OUR videos, made by metal heads for metal heads (ironically, not unlike this podcast).   “SEVEN!”   Granted, there were often a lot of glam and hair metal videos mixed in, but there were always a plethora of obscure thrash, power metal, and other assorted heavy metal videos on there that you absolutely could not see anywhere else on MTV except for when you tuned in to “The Ball” (NOTE:  this is where the crochety “back in my day” sentiment comes into play because, as everyone with access to the internet knows, in the late 80’s, rock radio sure as hell wasn’t doing much to promote metal artists, and we certainly didn’t have Spotify or YouTube at our disposal. “The Ball” was all we had…mark the time.).   “They weren’t Trans then, dude…they were 100% dudes and they were the Savatage Brothers…”   Break out your finest relaxers and get ready for a celebratory stroll down memory lane, and understand that since we’re discussing music videos, you’re gonna need all the sensory enhancement you can muster to thoroughly maximize your enjoyment of this episode. Find out who’s “lips are always out”, understand why calling a woman “handsome” is a dangerous move even with the proper context, see how many applicable references to “SEVEN!” you can find in this episode, and don’t deny the power of “The Dinklage” when you JOIN US as we celebrate our 7th birthday in nostalgic style with HEADBANGERS BALL. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “That’s weird looking…”/ “I tell you one thing: don’t call a woman handsome…they do not like it…especially when they don’t understand the context…”/ #thebiggestloser #jillianmichaels #handsome / “They think everything is an insult…”/ #WWE / “I wanna see if this is a handsome woman…”/ The definition of a handsome woman / “It fits…see if it fits down there…”/ “Make sure to get his face during this part…”/ #markthetime / “Soap Opera for men…”/ “They’re referring to my Croc sneakers / “Let’s get this road on the show…year number 7!” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “We are 7 years old today as a podcast…”/ #sixseven / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #YearNumberSeven (06:22): “Drinkin’ some #Ghoulade …” / “Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s not…it’s hit or miss…kinda like with sex…”/ “We never have mistakes, they’re unique performances” – Kirk Hammett / #happyaccidents #BobRoss / “Within 5 to 7 times, you kinda know…”/  “That was angry, and rapey…” / #keepitthrashy / “Speaking of which: where has that dude been?” / ***PATREON US AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/ #Interceptor /  ***EMAIL US AT [email protected] *** / “We’ve got some Australian friends…”/  “It’s so good, I could feel it in my balls…” / #Shittah #spotifyplaylist / ***CHECK OUT www.metalnerdery.com/episodes   for show notes, band and album info, and other goodies…***  (13:36): ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “What would you consider a Metallica classic that was released after The Black Album?” /  Thanks to American Dave from Ill-Noise for the voicemail! / “I don’t hate The Loads…”/ #SiriusXM #MaximumMetallica / “That’s low…it’s either a helicopter or a drone the size of this house, flying over…”/ #aliennews #UAP #UFOFiles / NOTE: It’s shit you HAVE before…on our inaugural Poony’s episode! / #UFO ROCK BOTTOM (Phenomenon – 1974) / NOTE: You absolutely HAVE heard this song before!!! / #RussellsRepetitiveReflections / “Get to the solo…”/ “Metallica Only is a better name…” (25:26): “What’s the first #HeadbangersBall memory that comes to mind?” / #StormtroopersOfDeath MILANO MOSH (Speak English Or Die – 1985) / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST CELEBRATES 7 YEARS IN PODCASTING EXCELLENCE & PAYS HOMAGE TO MTV’s HEADBANGERS BALL!!! / #HeadbangersBall #SaturdayNights / “That was still OUR show…”/ “I remember it being pretty long…”/ #markthetime / Earliest memories of “The Ball” / “Remember Killer Dwarfs?”   (31:34): #KillerDwarfs DIRTY WEAPONS (Dirty Weapons – 1990) / “Stand Tall, that was the one…”/ “You may remember this video…”/ #skatethrash /  #GothicSlam WHO DIED AND MADE YOU GOD (Just A Face In The Crowd – 1989) / “I think the drums are the most loud thing in the mix…it’s probably produced by Lars Ulrich…”/ “Would it work now?” / “It was the novelty, because that was the only place where you could get it…” (40:10): “Didn’t Annihilator have one for ‘Alice in Hell’?” / #Annihilator ALISON HELL (Alice In Hell – 1989) / “I thought of another one…”/ “I got one that’s a deep one that’s gonna blow y’alls mind…do y’all remember Helloween?”/ #RussellsConcertReflections / #powermetal / #Helloween HALLOWEEN (Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I – 1987) / “Here’s some obscure ones…”/ #Voivod ASTRONOMY DOMINE (Nothingface – 1989) /  “Dude, you should have cupped…you wasted that!” / #cuppingASMR / #WrathchildAmerica SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS (3-D – 1991) / “It’s in 7!” / “SEVEN!”/  “That reminds me of Scatterbrain…the funk, the fun, and the progression…”/  “Today is all about 7’s…” (50:32): #Sepultura TERRITORY (Chaos A.D. – 1993) / “Funny seeing those two flags together, huh?” / “What was the first S.T. video you think you saw on Headbangers Ball?” / “What was the first Slayer video you remember seeing on the Headbangers Ball?” /  #Slayer WAR ENSEMBLE (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) / “This was prime for us…”/  “SEVEN!”/ “That should be Phil’s fill…” (56:39): #GreenJelly (originally known as #GreenJello before Kraft Foods got all butthurt and bitchy about the name) / THREE LITTLE PIGS (Cereal Killer Soundtrack – 1993) /  #Scatterbrain DOWN WITH THE SHIP (SLIGHT RETURN) (Here Comes Trouble – 1990) / “Here’s an obscure Megadeth one, I think…”/ #Megadeth GO TO HELL (Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey: Music from the Motion Picture – 1991 & Hidden Treasures – 1995) /  “Let’s go back old school…”/ “They’re not Injuns, they’re Native Americans…”/  #IronMaiden RUN TO THE HILLS (The Number of the Beast – 1982) / “If you like Iron Maiden after Paul Di’Anno, you’re a poser…”/ “When I listen to Floyd, it’s generally ‘Meddle’…” (1:08:05): “That might have been the first time I saw Exodus…”/ “I remember seeing that on The Ball…”/ #Exodus THE TOXIC WALTZ (Fabulous Disaster – 1989) / “They all look like children…”/ “Maybe it is Zee-Tro…we’ve been fucking that up for years too?” / “Really?”/ “I don’t have to do anything…settle down, Beavis!” / “Somebody made a complete collection of the MTV Headbanger’s Ball playlist…”/ #Cinderella SOMEBODY SAVE ME (Night Songs – 1986) / “His lips are always out…”/ #Warlock FIGHT FOR ROCK (True As Steel – 1986) / “I would have liked to see her prime…”/ “This does look familiar…”/ #theangleofthedangle / #KillerDwarfs STAND TALL (Stand Tall – 1986) / “This is the video I remember…”/ “That one that one that one that one…”/ #Dio THE LAST IN LINE (The Last In Line – 1984) / “This is such a fucking 80’s video…”   (1:17:12): “That one had Milton Berle...”/ #Ratt ROUND AND ROUND (Out Of The Cellar – 1984) / “To make it in Hollywood, you’ve gotta wear the dress…”/ #Motorhead EAT THE RICH (Rock ‘n’ Roll – 1987) / #ACDC FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK WE SALUTE YOU (For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) – 1981) / “Get to the cannons real quick…”/ “Headbangers Ball taught us a lot…”/ “They weren’t trans then dude, they were 100% dudes and they were the Savatage Brothers…”/ #Savatage HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING (Hall of the Mountain King – 1987) / “I wonder if that’s Peter Dinklage?” / “It’s very left leaning…in the headphones.”/ #dungeonmetal / “Smooth Up In Ya is exactly what it feels like when you go inside…”/ “You wanna see The King?”/ “Wanna see my Dinklage?”/  “Probably got a tall boy Red Bull down there…”/ #KingDiamond WELCOME HOME (“Them” – 1988) / “Look how hot grandma gets…”/ “Seven years of podcasting excellence completed…” (1:28:42): ***Ask The Metal Head***: You can only listen to one metal album for the rest of your life. What is it?” / “It’s between two, but technically it’s the same band…”/  “What’s the most overrated metal band of all time?” / “Here we go…”/ “Overrated or over popular?”/ “When you come out with a killer album, you get rated…”/ “First metal shirt you ever owned?”/ “I could have seen so many more shows, because they were pretty affordable…”/ THANK Y’ALL FOR JOINING US FOR OUR 7th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“Would it be fair to say that horror metal and death metal are kinda…symbiotic?”   Released May 25, 1987, SCREAM BLOODY GORE, the debut album from Florida death metal pioneers DEATH, marks a dark and transformative turning point from thrash metal into something else…something with “thrash overtones” that “sounds like thrash” but also doesn’t. While it seemed to be the next logical evolutionary step for extreme metal, we weren’t exactly sure what it was. It was still thrashy, yet there was a much darker presence to it than the thrash to which we were accustomed.   “They don’t have the cookie monster vocals, which is kinda nice…”   As it turns out, when you mix in the violent themes of horror movies like ‘Evil Dead’ with the sonic intensity of thrash metal, you end up with death metal, the genre which Chuck Schuldiner and DEATH helped establish in the mid 1980’s, putting Florida on the map as the death metal capital of the world.    “They just have a sound…if you take the vocals out, you can tell it’s Death.” Discover how immersion reading can make Dr. Seuss and Lord of the Rings even more compelling, always remember where you should  “NEVER put alcohol…”, and find out which song on this album was “renamed” (thanks to the PMRC) when you JOIN US (with special guest “Xander Bonerman”) as we explore the dark depths of the debut album from the band that revolutionized extreme metal by launching a brand new subgenre of horror infused thrash with DEATH and SCREAM BLOODY GORE. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “It IS a thing…to listen to the audio book and then read the exact same book…”/ “That’s what it sounds like without lube…”/ “Do you have a neighbor that has a ginormous drone?”/ “It sounded like a hornet the size of this table…”/ “We have some bees here that are called cicada killers…”/ “That looks like a horror story waiting to happen…”/  “Giant hornet vs cicada killer…”/ “I’ve seen bigger ones…”/ #restingdickface / “Those motherfuckers will come AT you!”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***   (06:06): ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** /  “The only reason I was jealous is because y’all looked good without shirts and you got poon…”/ #Ascension / #HotCarlson / #CrotchQuicksand #Dickhammered / ***PATREON US AT patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “I added the cunt part…”/  “That was the first official #storytellers edition of Metal Nerdery Podcast…”/ #thehogstory /  “The more you talk it up…the less good it’s gonna be…”   (10:55): #RussellsReflectionsKittenEdition / “When the wife brought home strange pussy…”/ “Mark all the time, please…”/ “I wake up in the morning with whiskers on my face…”/ “Maybe buy her a fucking steak, bro…”/ “OMG, so you’re THAT guy!”/ “Does she kill people?” / “As long as she’s on top…”/ “Never put alcohol on your dick…or butthole…”/  ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Facebook #Instagram #YouTube and #TikTok & EMAIL US at [email protected] & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “That was like #KingDiamond with a really bad cold…”   (18:38): “Let’s go back in time a little bit…”/ #Era / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  DEATH – SCREAM BLOODY GORE / “Annnnd Take 2…”/ ***Check out our Death Inside The Metal episode!!!***/ “It’s not thrash, but it sounds like thrash…”/ #genre / “Dude, when I cup it sounds better…”/ “We were wearing masks back then…”/ “Do y’all have early memories of Scream Bloody Gore?”/ #grower / “It wasn’t what WE were used to…”/ Released May 25, 1987 / (NOTE: it’ll be 3 days after, not 4…) / #UltimateRevenge / “This and Leprosy have thrash overtones…”/ “THAT’s a fucking album cover!”/ #origami   (27:27): INFERNAL DEATH / “Yeah, that’s ’87 all day…”/ “It’s kinda got a #RigorMortis sound…”/ “It’s like thrash plus…the next wave…”/ ZOMBIE RITUAL / “It was progressive even then…first album.”/ “So much reverb…like they’re playing in a cave…”/ “At that time, that’s definitely thrash metal…”/ “They don’t have the cookie monster vocals, which is kinda nice…”/ “How do you do the death metal vocals?”/ “It’s…all in the throat…”/  “Finish it, because I know where it’s goin’…”/ #throatsinging / “Girls…”   (36:00): DENIAL OF LIFE / “Death had a lot of drummers over the years…”/ #offtopic / “How will you know…if he really loves you? When he finishes…”/ “San Francisco was the city of thrash, but Florida is the state of death metal…”/ “It was renamed…because the #PMRC are cunts…”/ SACRIFICIAL / “They just have a sound…if you take the vocals out…you can tell it’s Death.”   (43:07): “What’s another band (like that)?” / “I think #IronMaiden is like that…even the new stuff…”/ “Pantera maybe a little bit…”/ “I would never confuse #DOWN with #COC …”/  “Motorhead always sounds like Motorhead…but Zeppelin is all over the place…Sabbath is really all over the place…”/ #futureepisodeidea / “What are bands that, if you took the vocals out, you could still tell who they were?”    (47:13): MUTILATION / “I can hear how you would hear Rigor Mortis with this…”/  “Would it be fair to say that horror metal and death metal are kinda…symbiotic?”/  “No fisting dude, that’s a high five all day…”/ REGURGITATED GUTS / “That’s just old thrash…”/ “You can almost see them writing it…like in the jam room…”/  “As the screamer for Decimation, did you offer input for riffs?”/ “So, he was kinda like the Lars Ulrich of Decimation…in a way…”   (54:32): “This is a song about period sex, y’all…”/ BAPTIZED IN BLOOD / #Bonerman /  “One thing you’ve gotta hand to Death…especially Chuck, he does not write boring songs…”/ “Have y’all watched the documentary on Chuck?” / #DeathByMetal /  “Everything does happen for a reason…”/ TORN TO PIECES / “It’s all horror film stuff, isn’t it?”/ “Uh oh…”   (1:01:01): “Did y’all ever see the movie?”/ “It’s just Evil Dead…it’s not like ‘Black Sabbath I’…”/ “Evil Dead 2…it’s like ‘The Origin of the Feces’ of Evil Dead…”/ “I wanna see her Dunst…” / #SamRaimi / EVIL DEAD / “See, that feels like 1987 to me, all day…”/  “Did you see the remake of the original ‘Evil Dead’?”/  #EvilDead / “So it’s better is what you’re saying…”/ “Let’s watch the trailer real quick…”/ “There’s nothing funny in this movie…”/ “Death and horror movies kinda go together…”/ “Do you think that really good actors have to have a multiple personality disorder to do it?”   (1:12:40): SCREAM BLOODY GORE / #killercloser / “That’s thrash…”/ #notontheboat / “Excuse me, is Greg here? Thank you!”/ “Inspired by Re-Animator…”/  “I think we know the best scene in that movie…”/ “For funzies…play the song ‘Re-Animator’ by Rigor Mortis…”/ RE-ANIMATOR (Rigor Mortis – 1988) / “So, what did y’all think about THAT scene…when you saw it?”/ “I was told I looked pig eyed!”/ “How about a little taste of the reissue?”/ SCREAM BLOODY GORE (SBG reissue – 2016) / “It’s way louder and way bigger…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Xander Bonerman…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel  

“I wonder how many modern bands still do it?”   Maybe the song is named after the band and referenced in the chorus. Maybe the song is named after the band but there’s no reference to the band’s name anywhere in the lyrics. Or maybe it’s a song with a completely different title than the band name BUT the band name IS mentioned somewhere in the lyrics.    “They mostly do it during their early years…”   Whatever the case may be, A METAL BAND’S TITLE TRACK ultimately becomes the cornerstone of a band’s sound and their overall mission statement and objective (especially when they’re young and just starting out).   “Taylor Swift doesn’t have a song called ‘Taylor Swift’…and The Beatles don’t have a song called ‘The Beatles’…”   Whether it’s about building a mood, declaring some philosophical ethos, or making a proud, self-referential namecheck for fans to latch on and lock in to, A METAL BAND’S TITLE TRACK sets the tone and lets the listener know what can be expected whenever they hear it. Discover what it means to be a “hill jack”, understand why the good people of “Missourah” enjoy sipping on “Kentuckah” bourbon while floating down the “Mississippah” river, and find out how “Three Dudes…” are about to fundamentally transform metal award shows forever when you JOIN US as we investigate the importance of A METAL BAND’S TITLE TRACK. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “Tinkler Widdler?” / “How about some #EvilBean (with the Mean Gene, brother)?”/ #HulkHogan / “Howard Schwanzenstein?” / #AndrewDiceClay / “Have you ever looked at his Instagram?” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** /  “That is bean worthy…”/ “Let’s retire that guy and go to this guy…”/ #markthetime / “Let it ring out…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** /  #BunkerpoonCenterForMetalExcellence / #Hotlanta / “Don’t say that…”/  “Wait a minute…isn’t it ‘Missourah’?” / “Are you trying to throw up the state name?”/  “Yeah, why not? #Skynet knows everything, dude…”/ #Kentuckah / “A warsher…”/  “Alright, so you’re a Hill Jack as well, then…”/ “What’s a hill jack?” (06:20): ***PATREON US at PATREON.COM/METALNERDERYPODCAST *** /  #instantgasm / “WELCOME, New Patreons!!!” / “No spoilers…but it involves…”/  “Did you literally just spoil #TheHogStory …?”/ #DoomSickle #DoomSicle / “It’s gonna be longer than a day…”/ “I’ve got a bass rig…it’s getting no use in my house…”/ #digitaldrums /  “He’s a bass player, kind of a drummer, maybe a guitar player…don’t forget about singer…and poon magnet…”/ #autotuneddoommetal / “I gotta open up the…”/  “Just know there’s a surprise coming…” / #markthetime / “The good news is…I’ve been in your house…”/ “A little bit of elbow grease and you’re good…”/ Crone’s Kitchen Cleaning /  “You don’t wanna be that roommate…”/ “I’ve been in appliances for a very long time…this is so fucking metal…”/ #reallifeshit / #wisdomteeth #drysockets #viralaf #TikTok /  “The dishwasher people are gonna love it…all the women, right?”/ “You guys know what I do for a living, right?” / “I know what he’s doing…” /  ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #AussieDave / #ThanksCunt / “We’re learning so much!”/ “His #voicemails are gold!”/ “I think it’s ‘shit-hard’…”   (19:00): “Let’s get into the Daggone…” / #TheDocket / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  A BAND’S TITLE TRACK / THE TITLE TRACK OF THE BAND /  “They mostly do it during their early years…”/ “Taylor Swift doesn’t have a song called Taylor Swift…and The Beatles don’t have a song called The Beatles…”/ “Who’s Pink Floyd?”/ “Hats off to Roy Harper, by the way…”/ “Is that the same one from the Led Zeppelin?” “That’s what this podcast is about…”/ “Unfortunately, it wasn’t on Black Sabbath Records…”/ #Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH (Black Sabbath – 1970) /  “We gotta hear some weather dude…and the bell…it sets the tone.”/ #PerfectEditing /  “You ever run like this?”/ “What’s he doing there?” / “Like an auto-wah…not Canada…”/  “We’re learning shit…”/ ***SOCIAL MEDIA US AT #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram and #TikTok *** / #ViralAF   (25:08): “You wanna hear the Hawkwind version?” / #Hawkwind MOTORHEAD /  “Prizes of Christmas?”/ “It goes up like prices at Christmas…”/ “Now check out the difference…”/ #Motorhead MOTORHEAD (Motorhead – 1977) #killeropener /  “I got one…”/ “It’s always fun when he has a surprise, dude…we all win.”/  #IronMaiden IRON MAIDEN (Iron Maiden – 1980) / “Sing IRON MAIDEN!”/ “That reminds me…”/ “Vinny Dimebag, man…”/ “It’s very punk…”/ “I kinda wish he would have kept his cool Samson mustache…”/ “Wait a minute…what were we talking about?”/  “Have you ever met somebody that you think is actually in the CIA?” / “When in doubt…”/  #CIASMR / NOTE: It’s Metal Storm/Face The Slayer, NOT Tormentor/Face The Slayer   (34:12): “How about some Metal Church?” / “I still think they should have opened that first album with that song…”/ #MetalChurch METAL CHURCH (Metal Church – 1984) / “He’s got Dio vibes in the vocals…” / #Overkill OVERKILL (Feel The Fire – 1985) / NOTE: E.vil N.ever D.ies is apparently Overkill IV / “More creepy wind…love it!”/ “Old School…or Old Skull…if you’re from Missourah…”/ “Oh Whiplash, c’mon…”/ “They do have an album called Metallica…”/ “Can we find that one part?” / “Did the song live up to the name?”/  #Metallica WHIPLASH (Kill ‘Em All – 1983) / “I fucking nailed it!”   (41:21): “How about a little Megadeth…?”/ “Dave Mustaine is not a they…he’s a dude…”/  #Megadeth SET THE WORLD AFIRE (So Far…So Good…So What! – 1988) / “It’s not as…precise.”/ “You’re almost there anyway…”/ “That was obviously from the remaster with the weird drums…”/ “Let it ring out…”/ “It’s like a flaccid drum set…”/ “It kinda still bothers me that Baloff doesn’t do that anywhere else on the record…maybe Rob Dukes will do that sometime…”/ #Exodus EXODUS (Bonded By Blood – 1985) / “We never talked about the band title track…”/ “What would our statue be…?”/ #ThePoonys / “Put this dick on your mantle…”/ “Three dudes…all lickin’ ass…”/ #thenewbutton / “There it is…he finally did it!”/  “He doesn’t say a lot, folks…but when he does, it’s fucking GOLD!”/ “That’s called a callback I think…”   (50:15): “How about something that…maybe a lot of people probably don’t know?”/  “I love it…aftershocks!”/ “That’s the Surprise we were talking about before…”/  “We’re getting a lot of lies…” / “How about Electric Wizard?”/ “I told you, I can’t smoke weed…”/ “It’s not for everybody…” / #ElectricWizard ELECTRIC WIZARD (Electric Wizard – 1994) / #StonerMetal #SmogMountain #SmaugMountain / “Our local boys…”/ #localmetal #AtlantaMetal / #ActusReus ACTUS REUS (2022) / #WitchfinderGeneral WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Death Penalty – 1982) / “Actually, that’s a cool loop. We’ll keep that for Smaug Mountain…”/ “Dude, she IS nude!”/ “Princess Areola: Queen of the Bra People…it’s a fantasy movie…in the style of Heavy Metal.”/ “I wonder how many modern bands still do it?”   (1:01:03): “I don’t know why my voice went up so much…” (“I know why…”) /  #Queensryche – QUEEN OF THE REICH (Queensryche – 1982) / “It’s Bill’s favorite style of singing…”/ “Do you wanna cleanse real quick with Anthrax by Anthrax?”/ “Mouthful of Braces…”/ #NewAnthrax #ItsForTheKids / “Really!?”/ “I guess that’s the equivalent now of old 45 singles, right?” / #Anthrax ANTHRAX (Fistful of Metal – 1984) / “It’s like sped-up KISS…”/ NOTE: ’84 would have been Animalize / “I don’t know why my voice is going up…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outrreel  

“It took me like a hard 16 seconds…but I got it down…I swallowed all of it…”   Released April 10, 2026, DEAD TO RIGHTS, the 14th studio album in 40+ years from the mighty METAL CHURCH, features a new line up and a return to the power metal infused thrash style that made them a force to be reckoned with back in the 80’s, during the heyday of the (then relatively new) thrash scene.   “I was proud of myself…that I finished that much…in so little time…”   Featuring David Ellefson (formerly of Megadeth) on bass, Ken Mary (currently of Flotsam and Jetsam) on drums, and brand-new vocalist Brian Allen, DEAD TO RIGHTS contains all of the best elements of “The Dark” and “Blessing In Disguise” with the added blessing of modern production quality. This album is chock full of great riffs and catchy hooks that maintains the classic “flavor of Metal Church” with some upgraded, present-day refinements.   “He’s got great gear…he’s got really nice gear…I kinda wanna play with his gear…”   Find out why “Splitting The G” is an essential St. Patrick’s Day event for every holiday, get yourself a tiny sample of the brand-new Venom album, “Into Oblivion” (featuring Cronos), and find out why “the Metallica of the WCW” likes to enjoy “the Evil Bean with the Mean Gene” when you JOIN US as we embrace the power and the fury of METAL CHURCH with their latest offering, DEAD TO RIGHTS.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “I’m not a beer chugger…there’s a thing called ‘splitting the G’…”/ #SplittingTheG /  “I guess they do it in Ireland or something, where #Guiness is big…”/ “I’m not usually a big beer chugger…”/ “We practiced ALL night…”/ “It took me like a hard 16 seconds to get it…but I got it down…I swallowed all of it…”/ “It was creamy and foamy…OMG it was too much…”/ “We got The Mean Bean…wait, wasn’t that the dude with The Hulkster? ‘The Evil Bean’…that’s Mean Gene!”/ “The Hulkster’s got a show on #Netflix…it’s a #documentary …”/ “He was like the #Metallica of the WCW I think…”/ “He was part of…WCW, WWF…was he in the whole N.W.O. thing? That was when he got The Black Beard, right?”/  “He was drinking the Evil Bean with The Mean Gene, brother…” ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** (03:26): “That’s where that comes from…”/ “Someday…a selfish part of me wants to see Bill like…FAT…and like us…or like me…”/ #TheAntiBill / “It’s not gonna happen…”/ #highschoolfashion / #baremidriff / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST and THE BUNKERPOON CENTER FOR METAL EXCELLENCE!!!*** /  “That’s right…I like that…”/ ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/  “Mine’ll be the smallest…”/ “I showed somebody The Twiddler files the other night…”/  “OMG, you didn’t see The Twiddler Files!? Duuude…”/  ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and #TikTok / #viralaf / ***EMAIL US at [email protected] *** / #TripSix (Shoutout to Grandmaster Vag Destroyer!!!) / #TwoHotDogs / #blessyou / #Shart / ***VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!***   (9:56): “A little #ActusReus ???”/ “He’s got really nice gear…”/ #ActusReus TENSION /  “It’s the cowboy hat that gives him the power, dude…”/ #markthetime / #thickness / “Maybe a little bit of the new…Venom…the Godfathers of Black Metal…they’ve got a new album out…they’re like the Black Sabbath of Black metal…”/ #BlackSabbath #BlackMetal /  #IntoOblivion / “The titles look badass…”/ “It looks like the A.I. ‘Black Metal’ version… (re: the Into Oblivion album cover vs the Black Metal album cover)…”/ #Venom KICKED OUT OF HELL (Into Oblivion – 2026) / “This is also with #Cronos by the way…”/ “You wanna grab one more on that…?”/ #thebighitsingle / LAY DOWN YOUR SOUL / “That’s the line from ‘Witching Hour’…” (NOTE: That’s actually from Black Metal, NOT Witching Hour) / #RussellsCigarReflections / “He’s like the Ozzy of black metal…or Lemmy…”/ #powerburpASMR / “That’s why we’re here…to support the commitment for Metal Excellence…”/ #keepgoing / #Pentagram /  “That’s what it’s all about…if you can do that…”/ “Whether you’re a painter or, y’know, a writer…a whittler…”/ “That’s NOT stopping…”/ “Real quick…can you pull up ‘Black Metal’ by Venom?”/ “It’s the AI face of that dude…” / “Jamie? Sorry, I know it’s a lot…sorry Jamie…”   (22:11): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: METAL CHURCH – DEAD TO RIGHTS – BRAND SPANK ALBUM DIVE!!! / “If you wanted a cool t-shirt…that’s it!”/  “What was #MetalChurch to you…when you were discovering…the thrash scene?”/  “Sorry, I cupped a little bit that time…I half cupped it…”/ #InsideTheMetal / “What was your first Metal Church experience?”/ “Was it the name or the artwork?” / “They’ve got power metal elements…” / “It was darker…heavier…faster…” / #allgoodthings / “I’ve still got a big boner for metal, dude…rock hard…like 11:00…”/ BRAINWASH GAME / Released April 10, 2026 / “It’s like a nice blend of David Wayne and Mike Howe…PLUS…”/ “It still sounds like old-school metal…elements of “bolth” power metal and thrash   (29:58): F.A.F.O / #FAFO / “I just think it’s rad that David Ellefson is now part of Metal Church…”/ “They’re trying to outdo each other…and we ALL win!”/ “I think there needs to be ‘Eric Cartman does The Smashing Pumpkins’…” / #Cartman #SouthParkASMR #BillyCorgan #SmashingPumpkins / #CaptainCritical / DEAD TO RIGHTS / #titletrack / “That guy’s gonna destroy the old stuff…perfectly.”   (38:24): DEEP COVER SHAKEDOWN / “It’s got grunt to it…”/ “That’s a hooky riff, dude…”/  “If you’ve got two guitar players, they need to be doing some different shit…don’t be doing the same thing…”/ “It forces you to listen…”/ FEET TO THE FIRE / “That’s a different mix…it’s softer, it’s not as grunty…70’s-ish…”/ “Ken Mary is the drummer…”/ “Like 70’s power metal…yeah I can see that…”/ “That’s cool…I like the textures…”/ “Oooh, I like that…I don’t know what’s going on there…”/ THE SHOW / “That’s a meat and potatoes tone right there…”/ #DaveMustaineASMR / “C’mon, let’s do some Winger…”/ “Oooh, yeah, dude! We should do some Slaughter…”/ #edibles    (48:40): HEAVEN KNOWS (SLIP AWAY) / “Are they touring yet?”/ “Nobody ever comes to Atlanta…you know why? Because we’re the rap capital of the world, dude…”/  #RapNerdery / “I can totally do that dude, it’s America…I think…”/ NO MEMORY /  “That’s probably the cleanest he’s sang so far…”/ “They got some hooks in there…hooks are good…”/ WASTED TIME / “That’s kinda got an 80’s feel to it…”/ “Here’s everything I love about this album so far…”/ “Articulate grunt crunch…”/ “Flotsam!?”/ #flotsamandjetsam /  “That’s the vocal equivalent of that dude…”   (58:28): MY WRATH / “Whoa!”/ “That was super nice…”/ “It’s still the flavor of Metal Church…”/ BONUS TRACK / BLOOD AND WATER / “I still wanna hear it…”/ “Wait a minute…is this a cover?”/ “That’s got Dio vibes to it…”/ “This is two things I love about this podcast and metal in general…”/ “This is REAL PEOPLE doing REAL SHIT with REAL INSTRUMENTS…”/ #HailToMetalChurch / “That dude’s a fuckin’ dude, man…”/  “That’s metal…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

“If you were gonna be a stripper…what would your stage name be?”   When you think about 1986, it’s almost hard to fathom that we are 40 years away from it. Four decades away from perhaps THE biggest year in metal, and we’re not just saying that because we were still young and impressionable, but because it was quite literally THAT epic of a year!    March, September, and October of 1986 gave us Master of Puppets, Peace Sells… (But Who’s Buying?), and Reign In Blood (respectively), and that’s only 3 albums of thrash greatness from that year!    There was also the (now classic) documentary “Heavy Metal Parking Lot”, showing a bunch of young metal heads pre-gaming for a Judas Priest show. And of course you had “Crossroads”, the favorite guitar movie of young fledgling woodshedding shredders who would become obsessed at mastering Eugene’s bag of tricks in order to conquer the dark fretboard sorcery of one Jack Butler.    Basically, when it comes to 1986 and metal, “everything that was good came out that year”, and now, over 14,000 days later, 1986 is still being celebrated and lauded as one of the biggest landmark years in all of metal, especially on this podcast!   Get ready to find out which movie is “basically Karate Kid…but guitars”, prepare for a grammar lesson from Down Under regarding the proper usage of one of their most popular words, discover the transformative power of “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning”, find out how “saddling” might be just the thing to spice up your bedroom game, and then JOIN US as we welcome “Juicebox” to the mainstage while we celebrate those who graduated MAGNUM CUM LOUDLY from THE CLASS OF 1986!!! Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “Step away for a second and we’re talking about shaving our balls…”/ “That’s the noise it makes…”/ Impossible Baby Maker Legend / “It reminds me of the old Crone story…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “This clinky, sponsored by, Evil Bean, coffee liqueur…”/ “The world’s largest micropenis…”/ “Somebody’s got the title of the world’s smallest macropenis…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “The Hog Story is hard to beat…” (05:27): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** /  ***SOCIAL MEDIA US ON #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram and #TikTok & EMAIL US at [email protected] & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / “G’day, cunts…”/ Aussie Dave’s grammatical analysis of the word ‘cunt’ / “Geoff is apparently a long time listener ‘from the beginning’…”/ “Let’s just say he’s from Australasia…”/ “Let me go kill the dog…”/ “I’m starting to run out of gas doing hand solos…I need a lady…”/ #AlienWeaponry (Te Ra – 2025) MAU MOKO / “Are they singing in English?” / “Speaking of Swedish…”/ #Waipu / #TheGentleArtOfSwedishDeathCleaning   (17:13): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE CLASS OF ’86 / “Wait, don’t paint THAT picture…”/ “Everything that was good came out that year…”/ “We did do a 1986 episode about 5 years ago…but we were a different podcast then…this is the 40th class reunion of 1986…”/ The Top Rock Radio songs of 1986 / “Big bands…big logs…”/ “That’s Dave wearing tribal face…”/#DavidLeeRoth YANKEE ROSE (Eat ‘Em and Smile – 1986) / “Remember that movie Crossroads?”/ #EugenesBagOfTricks / “I was trying to learn how to finger correctly…”/ “It’s basically Karate Kid…but guitars.”/ “Don’t you think Get Up is bordering on thrash?”/ #VanHalen GET UP (5150 – 1986) / “It’s more CFH than thrash…”   (28:38): “What do you think was the favorite…and the deep cut?” / “It’s the one I don’t like the most…”/  #IronMaiden WASTED YEARS (Somewhere In Time – 1986) / “It hits you in the ball feels…”/ NOTE: Patronizing = condescending / “It’s not a greatest hits…it’s a soundtrack…”/ #MaximumOverdrive / #ACDC WHO MADE WHO (Who Made Who – 1986)/ #ColumbiaHouse / “Speaking of ’86, y’all know David Allan Coe passed the other day, at 86…”/ #DavidAllanCoe #RIP #RebelMeetsRebel   (37:40): “Don’t let the cokelines fool you…”/ #MetalChurch PSYCHO (The Dark – 1986) / “They always had THE best logo…”/ #KingDiamond THE CANDLE (Fatal Portrait – 1986) / “That’s the only one that’s not really a concept album…”/ “How about some stuff we don’t listen to a lot…”/ #CroMags WE GOTTA KNOW (The Age of Quarrel – 1986) / #NYHC   (47:47): “Let’s listen to some Whiplash…not the song…the band”/ #Whiplash POWER THRASHING DEATH (Power and Pain – 1986) / “Sounds like Rigor Mortis…”/ “I thought of a new sexual position the other night…saddling…the saddle horn…”/ #TheAccused MARTHA SPLATTERHEAD (The Return of Martha Splatterhead – 1986) / “Since you’re in the YouTube space…”/ #Motorhead MEAN MACHINE (Orgasmatron – 1986) / “We know what the headliners are…”/ “Is that short for Blowjob Hussein or Anal Hussein? Buttfuck Hussein?” / “Everything is fucking ragebait…”/ “Shitcunt Hussein and the Whittlers…” (58:03): #Sodom VOLCANIC SLUT (Obsessed by Cruelty – 1986) / “Let’s get to the main event…”/ #Megadeth THE CONJURING (Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? – 1986) /  “There’s something about that record that’s darker…”/ “Before we hit the main stage…”/  “If you were gonna be a stripper…what would your stage name be?” / #Juicebox /  #Kreator RIPPING CORPSE (Pleasure To Kill – 1986) / “I will say…I’ve missed Millie…”/  “We’re closing in on the headliners…”   (1:06:36): #Slayer JESUS SAVES (Reign In Blood – 1986) / “Let it wash over you…”/ “C’mon, one more…”/ “You know, we haven’t done the Psychic Slayer of the Episode in a minute…”/  EPIDEMIC / “The ultimate COVID soundtrack song…”/ “Coronavirus, Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID…they had to rebrand it a few times…”/ “They get the Magnum Cum Loudly for 1986…” / ***Be sure to check out our 1986 Head-to-Head Death Match*** / #Metallica THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE (Master of Puppets – 1986) / “Oh man, it’s like I’m 14 again…wish I had that 14-year-old boner…”/ “That’s got to be a button…”/  NOTE: It’s tuned down to D standard / “That’s where I was going…”/ DAMAGE INC. / “Once you’ve done that…you can’t do it again…you’ve gotta move on…”/ “It’s like a reverse mohawk…”/ “Did you see the bangs on that dude?”/ “We are so stupid…I love it…”/ “Honorable Mentions…”/ “We’ve got episodes for all this stuff…”/ “What was your favorite album out of this list?” / #markthetime / #MagnumCumLoudly / “The Billboard Top 100 for ’86…”/ “You know what my new move is?”/ #thememusic #walkonmusic /THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext / Class of 1986 – Magnum Cum Loudly / #outroreel

“You like to hear how they have progressed or digressed…or either…or gressed…”   This episode is a lot like looking at pictures of family when everyone is much younger and then looking at recent pictures of family and realizing that after enough time, a LOT changes.    Just as people grow and age and (hopefully) evolve over time, no artist should currently be EXACTLY as they were when they first started, as there should be an obvious evolution and progression of their style and sound over multiple albums and decades, from their very FIRST to their very LAST.   “I’m liking how this is going…we could do this for hours…”   Prepare yourself for THE FIRST AND THE LAST, a snapshot in time from the killer opener on the very first album to the killer closer on the very last (or in some cases, most recent) album; basically it’s the very first from the very first paired with the very last from the very last.     “The word of the episode, ladies and gentlemen, is…”   By the time you’ve finished this episode, you will no doubt have “the word of the episode” carved deep into your subconscious, so much so that you’ll wonder where you put that lock blade buck knife your cousin gave you for Christmas.    Realize that “sometimes you gotta check your oil” and a large majority of us “don’t think John Cougar knows how to eat a chili dog”. Get ready for another round of ASK THE METALHEAD, because “we’re doing things…and stuff…” down in The Bunkerpoon (including using fancy words and phrases like “comeuppance”) which is exactly why you should JOIN US for a retrospective comparing “now & then” with THE FIRST AND THE LAST: THRASH EDITION – VOL. 1. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “And now, a word from the Whittler…”/ “Percocet? No, prednisone…”/ #whittling and #whittlers / “He’s looking for freedom…”/ “What are they made of? The same stuff the #WTC was made of?” / #eaglesnest / “I could be Wheeler the Whittler…”/  ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Smog Mountain and The Whittlers…”/ “That might be the word of the podcast…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Sixteen…I’m counting…”/ #whittlerometer / “What do you think are the most common curse words that we use?” #flapjack   (06:17): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Sometimes you gotta check your oil…”/ ***GIVE US A CALL AND VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #greatradioASMR / “I could eat two hot dogs right now…”/ #markthetime / “I don’t think John Cougar knows fucking AT ALL how to eat a chili dog…”/ #chilidogkink / ***EMAIL US at [email protected] & SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram and #TikTok *** / #viralaf / “For us, it’s huge!” / “Dude, you could be Smog Mountain and we’ll be The Whittlers…”/ #stonerrockabilly / “The chick with the…”/  #TheReverendHortonHeat ONE TIME FOR ME / #Rockabilly / “New #COC …” #GoodGodBaadMan / “It’s different…”/ “Did you ever hear #NoCrossNoCrown (the last album)?” / “The word of the episode, ladies and gentlemen is…”/ “That’s 21…”   (17:17): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  THE FIRST AND THE LAST VOL. I– THRASH EDITION / “Okay…’splain…”/ “The very first song from the very first, and the very last song from the very last (or most recent, in some cases…)”/ #TheFirstAndTheLast / “Let’s make it easy to start with…”/ #Metallica HIT THE LIGHTS (Kill ‘Em All – 1983) / “Did you notice the sound change?” / “That’s 52…”/ “Remember how The Loads were kinda stonery?” / INAMORATA (72 Seasons – 2023) / “That sounds like #Sleep could have done that…”/    (25:18): “Also to keep it simple…”/ “Show me mercy?”/ #Slayer EVIL HAS NO BOUNDARIES (Show No Mercy – 1983) / “Two albums on 9/11…just like the two towers…”/ “Kinda like Die Hard: it’s technically a #Christmas video…”/ “That’s the last on the last…”/ PRIDE IN PREJUDICE (Repentless – 2015) / #WTFMusic / “That’s special effects I think…I think maybe that’s added for extra texture…”/ #killology / “Every time I watch that video, I kinda get a little bit hard…it’s like 9 o’clock…” / #comeuppance / “Sometimes we got bangers, dude…and sometimes we have whittlers…”/ “We’re all wordsmiths of sorts…”   (34:00): #Megadeth LAST RITES/LOVED TO DETH (Killing Is My Business…and Business Is Good! – 1985) / NOTE:  Megadeath = the death of 1 million people caused by nuclear holocaust / #tippingpoint / THE LAST NOTE (Megadeth – 2026) / “Killer openers on the first to the killer closers on the last…”/ #killeropeners & #killerclosers    (39:30): “The new Anthrax is coming out in September…maybe it’s their last album?”/  #Anthrax DEATHRIDER (Fistful of Metal – 1984) / “That’s VERY close to ‘Hit The Lights’…”/  ZERO TOLERANCE (For All Kings – 2016) / “It’s a great cover, but that does not count…”/ “Is that with an X or Z?” / #waitforit / “That sounds like 80’s Anthrax…late 80’s…” (44:20): “We gotta do some Exodus…”/ “Wouldn’t you love to hear Rob Dukes do that?”/ #Exodus BONDED BY BLOOD (Bonded By Blood – 1985) & THE DIRTIEST OF THE DOZEN (Goliath – 2026) / “That sounds like something…what does that sound like?”/ “I’m liking how this is going…we could do this for hours…”/ #derp / “I like how we can see the progression…how much they’ve changed…”   (53:03): #Testament OVER THE WALL (The Legacy – 1987) / “We should just do another dive of this again at some point…a refresher…”/ #ChuckBillyASMR / #EnvyLife / “Lord, Bless ya!” / “I appreciate that…about you…”/ PARA BELLUM (Para Bellum – 2025) / “Thirteen albums later…”   (58:10): “See what they did there?” / #TheEastern / “It’s called ‘necromancy’ btw, if you’re looking for the proper term…”/ “Nothing was great in the 80’s…except cocaine and hookers…”/ #Overkill RAISE THE DEAD (Feel The Fire – 1985) / “Do demons giggle? I’m not sure they do…”/ “…back then they actually had to have twiddlers and whittlers…”/  BAG O’ BONES (Scorched – 2023) / “Nineteen albums later…”   (1:06:25): “I got a good one…you got it cocked and loaded down there in the holster…”/ “I’m gonna spit it out, I’m not gonna swallow…”/ #StormtroopersOfDeath #SOD MARCH OF THE S.O.D. (Speak English Or Die – 1985) / “The ballad of Nirvana…what is it, just a shotgun noise?” / JAVA AMIGO / BALLAD OF NIRVANA (Rise of the Infidels – 2007) / #youredead / “I think we’ve known about that for 30 years…”   (1:11:00): #Forbidden CHALICE OF BLOOD (Forbidden Evil – 1988) / “That might be the best album ever…”/ “That’s an episode:  best debuts…” / “I like the word Poony…”/ OMEGA WAVE (Omega Wave – 2010) / “Crunchy scrunchy…”/ “Mr. Anderson…”/ “They got a new album coming…don’t know when…”/ “We’re doing things…and stuff…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!    (1:16:30): “Oh, wait! We’ve got some questions…”/ ASK THE METALHEAD… /  “Who was the first metal band from another country?”/ “Are we counting Britain, or no?” /  “Who was the first metal drummer that used double bass drums?” / “There’s a bit of trivia there…”/ “First death metal group?” / #blackdeath / “Alright…one more…”/ “What metal vocalist can scream the highest?”/ “No way he gets higher than King…”/ #untilthenext #bloopers #outroreel / “The word of the episode, ladies and gentlemen, is…”

“This is the 80’s before the 80’s was the 80’s…”   Released April 18, 1980, HEAVEN AND HELL, the 9th studio album by BLACK SABBATH (and the first to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals), marks a simultaneous sonic departure and rebirth for the Godfathers of Metal.    While some would argue that it sounds more like RJD’s solo output and NOTHING like the Sabbath of the 70’s, HEAVEN AND HELL is more than just “the next Sabbath album”.   Featuring fantastical & medieval lyrical themes coupled with a revitalized songwriting style and renewed vigor, HEAVEN AND HELL is a brilliant example of how a band in desperate need of a “heavy metal makeover” can completely reinvent their sound and expand their artistic palette to accommodate a brand-new chapter for a brand-new decade.   If you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Check out our newest segment, “ASK THE METALHEAD”.    Find out who might just be “the Yoda of metal”, discover which song absolutely must be played on misty mornings, and realize that “the anxiety of being around family” can only be rivaled by the disturbingly high readings captured on the “goddamnometer” when you JOIN US from The Bunkerpoon Center for Metal Excellence as we celebrate 46 years of the BLACK SABBATH Mark II lineup with HEAVEN AND HELL. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes:   (00:01): “It’s a good time we have here in The Bunkerpoon…”/  ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “There was a lot of that on the boat…”/ #MrBlack / “The butterbean?” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “It’s the anxiety of being around family…don’t do regular Matt…dial it down...”/ “What’s the name of your…DON’T worry about it.”   (04:46): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #Facebook #YouTube #Instagram and #TikTok & VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!*** / #Mammoth THE END (The End – 2025) / “You know who my dad is? GFY…”/ “It was Dave…’Merica Dave…” / (1-boat) / (2-pizza)/ “This guy was the perfect, freakin’, bloke…he was from Yorkshire…”/ “We were discussing the ‘cunt’ word…”/ “Fun fact about that one…”/ Fun vagina facts / #StevenTylerFace / ASK THE METALHEAD/ “What was your favorite ‘gateway’ band?”/ “What’s the most ‘non-metal’ artist you secretly love?”   (20:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  BLACK SABBATH – HEAVEN AND HELL / #RecordStoreDay #HousewolfRecords / “As of the date of the recording of this podcast…it’s the 46th anniversary of Heaven and Hell / Released April 18, 1980 / #Era / “Mob Rules sounds more like Dio…”/ “Did you guys watch the Dio docufilm?” #DreamersNeverDie / “I swear that I saw the promo video for Die Young as a kid…”/  “This sounds, sonically, NOTHING like the Sabbath of the 70’s…”/ Produced by Martin Birch/ NEON KNIGHTS / “I always think of the Live Evil version of this whenever I hear it…” “They could not have picked a better replacement for Ozzy…”/ “Something about that man’s voice with that band…they just go together.”   (28:55): CHILDREN OF THE SEA / “Misty mornings…whenever there’s a misty morning, it’s this song…”/ “Sounds like baby Dio…”/ “It’s almost kinda got power metal vibes a little bit…”/ “I would’ve rather have gone to metal school than middle school…”/ “Talk about beefy bass…”/ “Here’s a question…dude, you always just assume I’m gonna go for the worst…”/ “In fairness…they’re the ones that put out…”/ #StinkySlimy / “See? See? See?”/  LADY EVIL / “Did you hear that?”/ “Is that Yoda? It’s like Grover on backing vocals…”/  “Fuck you in the ass, I may…”/ #LOL / “Yoda it did sound like…”   (35:35): HEAVEN AND HELL / “There’s Yoda again…”/ “Wait, Yoda was kinda short, wasn’t he?”/ “So is Dio the Yoda of metal?”/ “This is the 80’s before the 80’s was the 80’s…”/  “It’s like Sabbath got a makeover…”/ “It’s like a spooky Renaissance Festival, idn’t it?”/ “Those are some of the best lyrics in metal history…”/ “Send the hate mail…and the high mileage butthole pics…”/ “Remember our discussion a few weeks ago re: side 2 vs side 1…”/ “Side 2 is all deep cuts…”   (42:06): “There’s a line from this that I had on my wedding cake…” / “Dude, I kept a count on the notes…”/ (11 thus far) / “You can’t say that…”/ WISHING WELL / “Side 2 might be happier than Side 1…”/ “You need a tambourine right there…”/ “Time is a never-ending journey, love is a never-ending smile…”/ “I blame Styx…and Journey…and rocks…”/ “It’s like the #algorithm of the day…”/ “I never made it to side 2 of this album…”/ DIE YOUNG / “I think this was the promotional video I saw…with the wizard sleeves…”/ “Very proggy…it’s almost like a different band…”/ “Something about Dio and Black Sabbath just go together…”/ Geoff Nichols on keyboards / “Tommy Lee plays keyboards with his dick…that’s why he’s so good at it…”   (52:44): “The next one kinda sounds like maybe some leftover Rainbow riffs…”/  WALK AWAY / “Lord, she’s handsome…”/ “Ladies can be handsome…”/ #Xena / “Look at the jaw on that girl…”/ “She got a bulge…”/ “What if…that’s their song warning people about the transvestites?”/ “You’ve seen handsome women…”/ “As long as the water park is still open…or the water slide…as long as the hot pocket still works…”/ #JoanJett / “I’m 11…and you’re showing me this on MTV…”/ LONELY IS THE WORD / “I think I like this song the best on Side 2…”/ “This is why I kinda fucking hate legal shit…that’s the kinda shit that makes me just hate-fuck everything in the world…”/ #HeavenAndHell / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! #untilthenext #outroreel

“If you’re gonna pick an album that’s supposed to be the album of the decade…”   The Grammy’s have proven over and over to metal fans over the years that their decisions are (more often than not) completely arbitrary and have absolutely zero basis in honor, truth, or reality whatsoever. And if you need to be reminded of this irrefutable fact, just remember who won the Grammy for “Best Metal Performance” in 1989.    “This was a little difficult and it was the first time…and there was no science behind this…”   Every award show, whether it’s The Grammy’s for the music industry or The Emmy’s for the acting industry, seems to be nothing more than some random selection of whatever artist is deemed popular or worthy enough by an elite few individuals to receive such an esteemed and prestigious award, based on nothing more than pure speculation and industry favoritism.   Well, we’ve decided that it’s OUR turn to do the same for metal. Because “it’s OUR award to give…”   With that, we proudly present to you The Inaugural Bunkerpoon Awards for Excellence in Metal, to be known henceforth as THE POONYs, an awards show where WE decide (based on our own personal experience and metal knowledge) which artist is worthy of our own, self-important seal of approval, honor, and recognition.    Ultimately, we hope that THE POONY AWARDS will become an event of prestigious accolades and glory that everyone in the metal community will attend with greater and greater anticipation and excitement.    And given that this is our very first ever POONY AWARDS, we have to start with the decade that has defined everything in metal up to this point:  The 1970’s. Understand that with this being our very first ever (ahem, “inaugural”) awards show that the logistics behind our nomination process might seem a bit clunky (and, again, completely random, which is “why those awards shows take so long…”), but this is OUR take and OUR nominations for the artist that will receive the coveted POONY Award for THE NUMBER 1 HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE 1970’S.   “We’re gonna get better at this…”   So break out your Sunday best and the most top shelf relaxers you have in your stash and JOIN US as we launch our first ever, totally random, self-indulgent, heavy metal awards show from the Bunkerpoon Center for Metal Excellence where we select “The Best Heavy Metal Album of the 1970’s” on this, The Metal Nerdery Podcast Awards:   THE POONYs: Volume I – The 1970s. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [email protected] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “We don’t care about the masses, we care about OUR asses…”/ “Food in middle age is like porn in your teens…”/ “Was it Oui?”/ “I actually bought a #Velvet at a gas station…I was not even 18…”/ “Food addiction…next will be the fitness addiction, then it’ll be the sex addiction, and then I’ll go back to drug addiction and then it’ll be the end of the world…”/ “We need to be clear for this…”/ “Welcome to our very first ever POONYs awards…”/ “It’s the POONYs…it’s the inaugural POONYs…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***    (04:52): ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “We did a St. Anger dive over there…we gave it the treatment it deserves…”/ #TheHogStory / ***VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “A fantastic David Lee Roth impression…”/ “How many of y’all have ever fucked to our podcast?”/ Cunt Grunt / ***SOCIAL MEDIA US AT #metalnerderypodcast ON #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram & #TikTok and EMAIL US at [email protected] *** / #highmileagebuttholepics / #goingviral   (10:10): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: THE POONYs – The Inaugural Metal Nerdery Podcast Awards – The Best Heavy Metal Album of the 1970’s /  “They WANT to make it to The POONYs…”/ “Tell us YOUR nominations for The POONYs…”/  “I’ll bet you 5 pubic hairs I could tell you…”/ “69 is way too much multitasking for sex…”/  #ACDC GO DOWN / DOG EAT DOG (Let There Be Rock – 1977) / “This would have been a better opener…” / “So, if I were to disagree…”/ “If you’re gonna pick an album that’s supposed to be the album of the decade…”/ “As it ‘twere…” / BEATING AROUND THE BUSH / “Okay, I’ve got a story about that…” / IF YOU WANT BLOOD (YOU’VE GOT IT) (Highway To Hell – 1979) / #CantBeLoudEnough / “I don’t know…it won’t be the winner…”   (23:15): #BlackSabbath / “What was your first Sabbath experience?”/ “I didn’t really get into Sabbath until high school…”/ “I knew it was gonna be fucking hard…it IS hard, dude…it’s extremely hard…”/ “If we did the years, the top album of that year is going to be the Sabbath album…” / “Life’s not fair…”/ “We’ll fight about it at the end…”/ “I had to do it…”/  FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS (Paranoid – 1970) / #SurpriseSurpriseSurprise #LOL / “That was perfect…”/ “It never gets old…”   (31:37): “If there was another band that could possibly make the list…RUSH.”/ “I think with metal, we do this a lot, I think we always go backwards…like we’ll start here and then we’ll work our way back around…”/ #RUSH WORKING MAN (RUSH – 1974) / “People thought this was Zeppelin at the time…”/ “That’s a far cry from Power Windows…”/ “Why is it so quiet?” / TEMPLES OF SYRINX (2112 – 1976) / “You’re doing good, bro…” / “That’s the riff, though…”  (37:00): “We probably didn’t find out about 70’s Priest until South of Heaven…”/ “You cannot get that on the internet and DON’T YOU go look it up…”/ #Scorpions #VirginKiller / #Nazareth HAIR OF THE DOG (Hair of the Dog – 1975) / #sonofabitch / “We can throw some honorable mentions in there…”/ “How about some Deep Purple?” / “Don’t let the one cokeline fool you…”/ #DeepPurple BLACK NIGHT (7-inch single released in 1970) / “That sounds like Sabbath…”/ “It’s like stoner metal…”   (42:10): “I like elephants…”/ “It’s the most metal Zeppelin song…in the 70’s…”/ “No Quarter is early doom metal…”/ “I like how this is evolving…”/ #LedZeppelin NO QUARTER (Houses of the Holy – 1973) / “This is stoner metal at its best…it’s a mood…”/ “It’s a little bit slower for metal…it’s softer…doom (metal) is heavier than that…”/ “Other bands that get honorable mentions in the 70’s…”/ #EddieTrunk #ThatMetalShow / “That Metal Show was one of the earliest, televised, metal podcasts in the history of metal podcasts…”/ #UFO ROCK BOTTOM (Phenomenon – 1974) / #MichaelSchenker   (50:50): “You did mention Van Halen…and given the voice mail we got earlier…”/ #VanHalen ATOMIC PUNK (Van Halen – 1978) / “You know what, I’m not gonna judge…however…”/  “This episode’s going nowhere, btw…”/ “We can call this The 70’s Part II / “We have to pick 1 album…”/ “It’s which Sabbath album is the best…that’s gonna win the decade?”/ “So now is when the argument starts…”/ “The award goes to…”/ “If there was a top 5…” / Top 5 Metal albums of the 70’s…/ “This is no particular order…” / #recordscratch / “Don’t try to read it, you’re gonna break a blood vessel in your brain…it’s all 7’s…”/ “I think Master…of Reality, fuck face…”/ “So you’re picking the common ground…as you do.”/ “Of those…what’s the best album?”/ “This is why those awards shows take so long…”/ “We’re gonna get better at this…”/The Number 1 Heavy Metal Album of the 70’s / “And The POONY Award goes to…” / “This was a little difficult and it’s the first time… there was no science behind this…” / “It’s OUR award to give…”/ “This was a more fun version of The 70’s than our first one…”/  Let us know what YOU think…/ #untilthenext #outroreel