Metal Nerdery Podcast

Imagine the following scenario:  you are one of the most powerful names in all of Thrash and are tasked with releasing a follow-up to your own unmatched, game changing, genre defining, masterpiece. 

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Metal Prophecy states that TB4 (The Big 4) made a pact with TAI (The Almighty Iommi) to unite like some ginormous Voltronesque Thrash Beast for the furtherance and advancement of Thrash (and really, …

Purple and Orange.

While it might sound like the name of some evolutionarily engineered super strain of relaxers, purple and orange perfectly describes the chromesthesia generated by the sound of "VE…

For the year that gave us dial-up internet, Global Positioning System satellites, and "Seinfeld", 1989 gave us an equally legendary year in Thrash (and that's including Metallica's absurd Grammy "los…

The San Francisco Bay Area is a sacred place in thrash, birthplace to many legendary (and muchly important) thrash bands and equally lauded (which means muchly awesome) thrash albums. 

FABULOUS DISAS…

“We’re MOTORHEAD and we play rock ‘n’ roll…”  -Lemmy Kilmister. 

It has been said that if you go to the Rainbow Bar & Grill in West Hollywood, sit down at the bar, and order a Jack & Coke, the spir…

THE SWORD is truly a blessing.  Blending the crushing heaviness and urgency of their own cutting-edge brand of doom metal with the cosmic feel of classic 70’s style prog-rock, THE SWORD has carved ou…

After grunge all but sucked the life out of thrash while at its zenith in the early 90’s (I mean, it “didn’t”, but it also kinda “did”, y’know?), the landscape had been forever altered and “thrash me…

Behold, the frosty arctic tundra that is The Great White North. Also known as Canada, or as geography enthusiasts sometimes call it: "Extremely Northern North America".  

If the endless snow packed…

Certain names in Metal are uttered in hushed tones of reverence, as if belonging to godlike, super-advanced creatures from other dimensions. Such respect and reverence are deserving of genre defining…

PANTERA is one of the few bands to raise the bar consistently and continuously with each album.  THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL is the most “everything” Pantera album.  It’s easily the angriest, heavie…

“Among their own kind they live, a life that’s so obscure…” – DEATH.

The thought of anything obscure with regard to Thrash immediately provokes thoughts of the Mall Days of Yore; a time before the ex…

Tony Iommi’s opening cough solo on Black Sabbath’s “Master of Reality” was the clarion call for a new KINE of Metal.  The KINE of Metal that smells like Sleep’s jam room.  The KINE of Metal that is o…

With the advent of the NWOBHM and the IRON MAIDEN (aka: the genre definers; they’re bassically the Black Sabbath of NWOBHM), the Metal landscape was starting to take on a different dimension; with in…

“The power of the RIFF compels me. . .” DOWN.

Ever since The Almighty Iommi first blessed the world with his glorious presence vis-à-vis Black Sabbath in 1970 (and through the incredibly prudent us…

In our quest for all things Metal, we decided (perhaps somewhat extremely erroneously) to delve deeper into the myriad of potentially possible genres, subgenres and “cores” that exist in the realm of…

It feels like being back in the basement, rehearsing a set for an upcoming gig.  For anyone who’s ever been in a band, one of the first things you learn is how to play someone else’s songs.  Covers. …

We’ve all been there.  We all remember our first-time.  Metallica’s haunting, 1986 thrash metal magnum opus MASTER OF PUPPETS (or “MOP” for the acronym lovers) was, is and will continue to be (evermo…

“Terminal, what disease?…”

Anytime Overkill’s 1989 Thrash masterpiece “The Years of Decay” comes on (henceforth also to be known in the realm of Metal Nerdery as “The YOD”, pronounced like nod, not…

“Sooner or later, everything old is new again…” – Stephen King

While we here at Metal Nerdery feel that ALL Metal is important and plays a part in the grand design of the Metal Multiverse, our favo…