Metal Nerdery Podcast

Pantera had a gift for outdoing themselves with every song and every album. Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly be any heavier, they come around the corner and prove you wrong. FAR BEYOND DRIV…

Back before corporations acquired (and systematically destroyed) rock radio by playing the same 10 songs on perpetual repeat into the dirt, radio disc jockeys used to actually have some control over …

One of the key components of classic thrash during the glory years was riffs; namely “how many can you fit into one song?” (sort of the same logic used in many of today’s finer adult motion picture f…

It’s Vol. 2 of our 4 Vol. Metal Nerdery Stoner Doom Metal Sampler Series. We found some more incredible Stoner Doom Metal tunes “after the smoke cleared” from our last Stoner Doom Sampler Vol. 1 epis…

Often in life, we don’t discover the truth about something until it’s too late. And the truth about Powertrip is that they are an anachronistic anomaly in Thrash Metal: yeah they may have come to pow…

Ahh, 1987. Before Bob Rock and The Black Album were even imagined, before Metallica cut their hair and gave us multiple LOADS, there were “The Garage Days”.

After the devastating and tragic loss of b…

Ahhh, the 80’s and the early days of Thrash Metal. A time of exponential growth in the genre that would become THE most powerful and glorious force in the entirety of the known Thrash Metalverse.

The…

“What happens when fresh green collides with Metal?  Duuuuuuuuuuude…”
That’s right!  Stoner Metal. Doom Metal.  Sludge Metal.  The label doesn’t really matter.  What DOES really matter is how fantast…

Any metalhead who hears the phrase “80’s era Metallica” will IMMEDIATELY conjure visions of James, Lars, Kirk and Cliff (R.I.P.) and be transported back to the days of yore, back before Metallica was…

Humor Metal. It’s like our 2 favorite things rolled into one. What could be more awesome than killer riffs combined with killer punchlines? A Metal Nerdery episode about those two things.
So fix your…

Getting to know a fellow Metalhead is a lot like dating: you have to ask the right questions to see if THEIR Metal is in alignment with YOUR Metal.
So, we decided it’d be fun to give everyone a more …

Set and Setting are super important. Especially when it comes to “setting the tone” for an entire album.
You’ll want to double up on your favorite relaxer, shut out the world for a bit longer than yo…

1989. Brazil. Thrash Metal. Magic.

Sepultura’s “Beneath the Remains” is STILL a force to be reckoned with in the thrash metal community and really, the metal community at large. It is fast, heavy, th…

“There’s just something about those first 2 Slayer records…”
1985. This was a time in history where Thrash Metal was quickly taking over the musical landscape and proving that things were about to ge…

King Diamond.
Just seeing the name conjures all kinds of dark, creepy, diabolical imagery.
‘Abigail’ (which is King Diamond’s second solo album) is the first King Diamond album that truly captured hi…

On this episode we conclude our 3 part series on 1990: 30 Years of Metal, starting with the O’s. We went down the rabbit hole on a few topics and reminisced about some old show stories and other asso…

Continuing with our 3 Part Series on 1990: 30 Years of Metal (Part 2 of 3), we get further into the list, starting with the F’s.***

1990 was a tremendous year for metal, including some of THE greates…

30 years ago. 3 DECADES OF METAL!!!!! The tsunami of metal that crested in the late 80’s proceeded to plow right into the 90’s, slamming right into a decade that produced some of THE most important a…

The one thing that great thrash and great comedy have in common is great timing!! Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.) came around at the perfect time in the 80’s thrash metal scene and were the perfect b…

1995. JOIN US as we go through a list of albums that are turning 25 in The Year of Our Riff Lord 2020.

Prepare yourself your favorite relaxer of choice and go down the list with us. You can tell the …