Metal Nerdery Podcast

By now, you’ve no doubt noticed how we embrace our collective verbal turdery and nonsense early on so we can get it out of the way and move on to the good stuff. In the case of this episode, however,…

WARNING:  As a service to the greater tri-county, podcast-enjoying multiverse, we’d like to offer and advise listener discretion prior to the consumption of ANY of our existentially exhausting, provo…

The only thing more rewarding than having Waffle House after a show or consuming Chick-Fil-A on a Sunday (that was pre-purchased previously) is knowing that you share a city with an established, succ…

“M” is for Many things. Madness, Meat, Metal, Merch, and Most iMportantly: “M is for Martha” Meaning Martha Splatterhead, the Mascot of Oak Harbor, Washington’s crossover Masters, THE ACCUSED.

The du…

With the upcoming PANTERA reunion in the works, we felt it would be reprehensibly “irresponsible” of us to NOT touch on one of the greatest live albums by one of the greatest live bands to have domin…

Before QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, or Eagles of Death Metal, there were the godfathers of Desert Stoner Metal, KYUSS. 

And before anyone gets upset, excited, or bolth, please note that this is undo…

“Why can’t you just enjoy it? Why do you gotta complain about it?”

People worldwide have been asking these EXACT same questions forever (OR, at a minimum, at least the last couple of years). Whether …

Combining the literary influence of horror legend Stephen King with the ultra-groovy, ultra-speedy, and ultra-heavy thrash metal wizardry of ANTHRAX could only result in one possible (yet ever so glo…

1. A time of momentous change in the world. The Weather Channel premiered on cable television, Sony introduced the first compact disc player, “E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial” was released in theaters and …

For an album that was originally going to be called “Cocaine” (yes, you read that correctly, but the suits chopped that idea. The band even tried for “Snowblind”, until the suits bumped that idea as …

As of this episode, it’s the last day of the first half of 2022, and there’s a veritable plethora of NEW METAL that’s either already been unleashed OR is scheduled to be unleashed during the second h…

Halloween Eve, 1983…

Nothing screams “early black metal” like MERCYFUL FATE!

(Correction:  nothing screams “legitimate” early black metal like having KING DIAMOND, an actual satanist, as the frontm…

Although the differences between thrash and DEATH METAL seemed subtle at the time, there was a distinctive demarcation between the two subgenres, most notably with DEATH METAL having much deeper, gut…

“DAVE MUSTAINE FOR PRESIDENT, 2024!!!”

While many outside the tri-county metal multiverse would be absolutely mortified to have the MEGADETH leader as the “Commander In-Chief,” many feel it’s the onl…

It’s time to embrace the sound…of Skynet! Obviously, “Skynet Core” isn’t a thing (yet), but INDUSTRIAL METAL certainly IS! 

Nothing else in the heavy metal multiverse sounds quite like this ultra-mod…

“Which of The Big Four ‘Black Album-ed’ first?”

It’s a delicate subject, one which SLAYER fans will be unable to refute or deny, but SEASONS IN THE ABYSS (as genius as it is) IS actually (kind of) …

Talk about problematic procrastination:  only twenty-three years AFTER they were first eligible to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, JUDAS PRIEST will FINALLY have their day! 

Few band…

With the release of “RANDY RHOADS:  Reflections of a Guitar Icon”, we felt compelled to take a closer look at the brief yet mythical career of one of the most gifted guitarists in the history of heav…

Don’t get all “twisted up and twanglified” that we were so all over the road on THIS episode, because THIS is our very first “official” GRAB-SACK episode! 

Since the GRAB-SACK is a potluck of metal (…

The most impressive thing about the BON SCOTT era of AC/DC is that every word, every riff, every beat, and every note of every song just oozes a certain essence of sleaze and debauchery (in a good wa…