Metal Nerdery Podcast

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

1. 1987. That sounds like a very long time ago, but here’s a few events that will provide some perspective. 1987 marked the time of the Black Monday stock market …

“You are Number 6…”

There’s a t-shirt somewhere that perfectly sums up the philosophy of life, which is as follows:

“You can only trust yourself and the first six Black Sabbath albums.”

After 4…

“It was everything I loved about my teen years…”

The 2023 KLASH OF THE TITANS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR (featuring SpiritWorld, Death Angel, Sepultura, and Kreator) which recently graced the stage at The…

“They’ve got HUGE djunts!”

MESHUGGAH, the Nordic Godfathers of Djent (“Djunt”) hailing from Umea, Sweden, sound like the logical evolution of extreme metal to emerge out of the early 90’s thrash sc…

“Everything’s LITERALLY ‘literally’…”

It’s time to blow out the lines again, which means anything goes! And by “anything” we LITERALLY mean anything, including possibly the worst Aussie accent ever a…

SYSTEM OF A DOWN, the Glendale, California quartet who dominated the “Alt + Nu” metal landscape from 1998 to 2005 before going on hiatus, are one of the most uniquely incomparable & original bands of…

AC/DC’s 1978 banger, POWERAGE (pronounced like voltage, amperage, and sausage; NOT like volt-AGE, amper-AGE, or saus-AGE) is undoubtedly one of “the most 1978 sounding” albums that has ever been rele…

For anyone out there who identifies as a “cannabis person” on any level, even if that means just being a fan of STONER METAL, then we cordially invite you to our 420 SUPER SPECIAL to partake of a sma…

July 25, 1983:  the day that changed heavy metal forever.

There are certain turning points in heavy metal that simply cannot be denied. KILL ‘EM ALL, the debut album from the mighty METALLICA, is wit…

After touring a crapload for The Black Album and effectively unloading their classic thrash sound from the 80’s, METALLICA released LOAD in June of 1996 and RELOAD in November of 1997 (same sessions,…

IRON MAIDEN’s 3rd release with Bruce Dickinson (and 5th release overall), POWERSLAVE, might very well have been the most progressive heavy metal album of 1984.  In fact, it is easily the most progres…

“If you let it go long enough, it’ll get there eventually…”

Since this episode is focused on SLAYER COVERS, we decided to reference:

• covers OF other artists as performed BY Slayer 

As well as…

• cover…

In a way, you might say that DIVINE INTERVENTION, the 6th album from SLAYER (and the first with former Forbidden skins man Paul Bostaph behind the drumkit) was their moment of resurrection.  

By the …

“It’s the ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ of ‘Kill ‘em All’…”

Thanks to the “radio homogenization” resulting from the 1996 Telecommunications Act which prompted a handful of corporations to buy up all …

For the inhabitants of the Bunkerpoon, Georgia Tech’s college radio station (WREK 91.1FM) and their weekly, late-night metal show (WREKage) was our very first exposure to one of the titans of “The Bi…

With the exception of a few notable anomalies in metal history, a band’s second (i.e., follow-up) album is almost always more ambitious (and usually a ginormous quantum leap forward) than their debut…

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, the third release from “Big Six” Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT, is a bit of a departure from the more eerie, dark, and creepy signature sound represented on The Legacy & The …

We thank all of you and your respective ear-holes for listening to our absurd nonsense and continuing to spread the wordery and we hope that you’ll continue to JOIN US and keep listening to Metal Ner…

“How close can we sound like Black Sabbath without ripping off Black Sabbath?”

Initially we had planned to only do a 4-volume series on STONER & DOOM Metal, but we quickly realized that the likelihoo…

“It wouldn’t pain me more to bury you rich than to bury you poor…”

One of the quintessential principles of the Bunkerpoon creed is to arrive at a philosophically logical conclusion regarding any and …