Metal Nerdery Podcast

“The look on his face is like a kid on Christmas morning getting everything that he never asked for from Santa…”

July 21,1987 marked the beginning of the GUNS N’ ROSES era of L.A. metal with APPETI…

“This might be my favorite moment in music in 2025…”

Just when you think “all the riffs have been done”, 2025 gives us the gift of BRAND-NEW METAL, including new music from OLD SCHOOL THRASH BANDS,…

“That’s the thing about music…it’s time stamped…it’s the soundtrack of our lives…especially for metal heads…”

The metal world mourns the tragic loss of another legend, and this one hit too close to…

“We can’t ever talk about this so let’s talk about not talking about it when we’re talking about it…”

Released on July 14th, 1992, COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION, the 5th MEGADETH album (and the 2nd to feat…

“I like feet, bro…”

Whether it’s the “spooky kabuki KISS” face paint of the 70’s, the “ultra gloves of shame glam KISS” from the 80’s, or the black metal corpse paint of the modern day, MAKE-UP has b…

“When you thought it was over…it did kind of a slide down…and then he slid back up and back down again…and then he does it again…”

August 8, 2006, marks the first SLAYER album in 16 years featuring D…

“It’s strange to think about a world without The Prince of Darkness…” 

It all started on February 13, 1970, with the ominous sounds of chapel bells, thunder, and pouring rain, and it all ended with a…

“Careful back there…”

Generally speaking, an artist’s DEBUT ALBUM will often be quite good, while their SOPHOMORE ALBUM, in contrast, will often be far more advanced, sophisticated, and light years…

“There were some heroes and there were some zeroes…”

BACK TO THE BEGINNING, the final concert performance by the O.G. lineup of BLACK SABBATH featuring Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Ozz…

“If you’ve got a whole room full of 10’s, that’s the 5…”

We’ve all been there. Every one of us have experienced an album where it was “almost perfect” front to back, yet there was that one song tha…

“I thought it was gonna be tight…”

1982 –Michael Jackson releases what would become the biggest selling album in music history with Thriller, Survivor and Olivia Newton John are locked in their own H…

“I’ll take your ‘Lord of This World’ and raise you ‘After Forever’…”

From “The Moses story” to “the shortest verse in The Good Book” to one of the creepiest spoken word intros in all of metal which…

“If they’re not fat, they’re soft…”

Think back to The Sunset Strip and the emerging metal scene of the early 80’s, full of sleaze, shred, and riffs, long before the emergence of the “serious glam” an…

“It was almost too big…”

Get ready for a rebuttal from “Captain Backpedal” after being challenged to a fight on a “goat farm”, discover the “magic number” required to transform your twanglification …

“It’s like the Sam Kinison meets Bobcat Goldthwait of dogs…”

Bridging the gap between the thrash metal of the late 80’s and early 90’s and the tidal wave of groove metal that made landfall in the m…

“Wait, the reason you cut your hair was for 2 dudes?”

It’s officially our 6th anniversary! That’s right, 6 years of metal discussions, ludicrous nonsense, and beers of the episode, and what better …

“You’ll be divorced, alone, and flaccid…”

Let’s go back a few years, back to a time when we were young and impressionable and just starting out on our respective metal odysseys as fans and purveyors …

“If anything, it’s three 7’s…and one of them has a line in the middle…”

This episode is effectively “nonverbal” in that it contains zero lyrics and is truly beyond words (so to speak). That’s right…

“You’re not supposed to swallow it…but it’s fine to have it in your mouth.”

Whether it’s the debut from Metal Church or Dream Theater, or the swansong from Slayer or Pantera, TERRY DATE is undoubte…

“I know who you’re talking about!”

So, we did a thing…

After almost 6 years into this podcast, this is the first time we’ve ever done a BREAKDOWN of a single track, and what better way to kick thin…