Heavy Metal History

The Necrosexual Jan 13, 2019

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Welcome to the first episode of Heavy Metal History in 2019! My guest this week is the most electrifying man in Corpse entertainment, the grim one himself, THE NECROSEXUAL.

In this episode of the podcast we discuss all manner of dark and sexual interests, we rate the finest of Franzia wines and even talk about how to spot a poser amongst the herd.

The Necrosexual talks to me about his old school blackened thrash album Grim 1 out now through his bandcamp page as well as an upcoming EP due out in Spring!

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End of Year List 2018 Dec 31, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. On this episode i do a run down of all my favorite records of 2018. What were they??? Listen now and find out!!

2018 was a HUGE year for the podcast and I cant thank all of you who have checked us out and stuck with us enough. Here’s to a bigger 2019!

December 1998 Dec 20, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History!

Here we are the final episode covering 1998, the year has seen the entire genre change and blow up to such epic proportions. The new millennium will change things even further, but we arent there yet!

December of 1998 is the month where barely any records get released because one of two things happen, either it gets forgotten by the next year, or its not out long enough at the end of the year for people to give it a chance and these records are no exception.

Nightwish releases their most experimental album with “Oceanborn” Trail of Tears put out a masterful funeral doom ladened record.

Ulver completely changes genres which causes them to be dropped from Century Media. By releasing this album it shows Ulver’s true musicianship and experimental side, which unfortunately alienated a lot of their original fans who only wanted a black metal album, but the band didn’t want to make that kind of music anymore and have since left the genre behind.

Extol, a band from Sweden meshes an extreme style of music with the antithesis of what its about, being one of the first christian black metal bands, yes, you read that right…and finally I close out the episode with 2 addendum records that were omitted while doing research earlier in the year.

We've had quite a year and we cant thank you all enough for listening and supporting us and what we do! We hope 2019 we can bring you even more interviews, get even more insight from the bands about their records and even more listeners from that! Look for our upcoming End of Year list episode as well. December, just like November only saw a handful of releases from bands. We got Christian infused Black Metal, a once Black Metal band make an album out of and inspired by a piece of literature and some Gothic Metal releases. Thanks for listening!

Albums we discussed:

Nightwish – “Oceanborn”
Trail of Tears – “Disclosure in Red”
Ulver – “Themes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
Extol – “Burial”
Benediction - “Grind Bastard”
Dawn - “Slaughtersun”

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Kyle Rasmussen (Vitriol) Dec 17, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

My guest for this episode of the podcast is Kyle Rasmussen, Guitar player/Vocalist of the Death Metal Band Vitriol, based out of Oregon. When writing up the description for this episode I barely knew what to include or cover about our conversation in this episode, Kyle was easily one of the most interesting, honest and eloquent person to talk to and while we do spend about an hour talking about music and the band, the last hour is filled with Kyle’s personal struggle with addiction and his complete transparency of what he dealt with after an intense surgery almost took his life and was left addicted to pain killers.

I feel like thats about all I need to say and I hope that Kyle’s story and honesty will help anyone who listens to this that may be struggling with their own addictions as well. I cant thank him enough for the way he approached this story and his willingness to discuss a serious issue.

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Nick Lee (Moon Tooth) Dec 02, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

My guest this week is Nick Lee, guitar player of New York based band Moon Tooth! Nick’s intriguingly unique guitar playing style struck me immediately upon hearing the bands 2016 release “Chromaparagon” and if I had the podcast going back then I would have had him on immediately. But here we are two years later and the stars aligned with Nick coming on the podcast to discuss the bands upcoming release “Crux”

Nick and I discuss working with Mark Morton from Lamb of God as well as “Machine” aka Gene Freeman for the pre-production work on “Crux” we discuss many other topics like his guitar playing, his early metal influences and the history and beginnings of the band Moon Tooth!

The word “Crux” is defined as the “decisive or most difficult point of an issue.” The album ‘Crux’ tells the story of the band at this crucial point: where the past must die so new life can begin.

‘Crux’ is due out early 2019 on the soon to be launched, Modern Static Records. Official release date and pre-order info TBA very soon.

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Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves / ex-Wolvhammer) Nov 27, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

My guest this week on the podcast was a long time coming, Jeff Wilson formerly of Wolvhammer, Nachmystium, Abigail Williams, Doomsday and about a ton of other recording projects.

Earlier in the year Jeff was due to be on the podcast when his band Wolvhammer were about to release their album "The Monuments of Ash & Bone" but due to scheduling it never came to fruition....until now!!

Jeff came on the podcast to talk about leaving Wolvhammer and now refocusing on a past project he did called Chrome Waves (that also included past guest Stavros Giannapolous!). Jeff holds very little back in this candid and no bullshit discussion about the bands he was in and the realistic nature of touring and writing records.

Its a solid episode to end the month on and really shows what a lot of musicians deal with on the more personal side of things when not playing and writing songs. Jeff is a monster though when it comes to music and hes always writing new material.

His current project Chrome Waves can be found on Facebook and Bandcamp

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November 1998 Nov 18, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History, we're nearing the end of 1998 and we round out November with a lean and light month of releases. We get a release from a band that only a few years later would change the entire shape of Heavy Metal, a Death Metal force of nature, a Grindcore explosion, A covers album by one of the biggest Heavy Metal bands of all time and a couple of Death Metal releases, one of which we got the information on the making of the record directly from the band!

Albums we discussed:

Meshuggah – “Chaosphere”
Bolt Thrower – “Mercenary”
Eldritch – “El Nino”
Pig Destroyer – “Explosions in Ward 6”
Metallica – “Garage Inc.”
Beheaded – “Perpetual Mockery”

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"NKSV" (Rebel Wizard) Nov 12, 2018

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Welcome to this weeks first "lost" (and now found) episode of Heavy Metal History. This episode was recorded with the mysterious "NKSV" the Aussie mastermind behind Rebel Wizard. He is a musical wizard of epic proportions behind the guitar casting magic wizard riffs from his axe. "NKSV" never did interviews before this and I was really bummed when I lost the episode and I'm glad I was able to find it and finally release it for everyone to hear!

Rebel Wizard no longer has any social media. But you can buy his music from here on Bandcamp

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