Heavy Metal History

Halloween Special 2017 Oct 30, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks spooky and horror filled episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week my friend Blaine fills in for a busy Matt, we discuss to essential Halloween/Autumn albums with Kind Diamonds "Fatal Portrait" And Type O Negative's classic and essential "October Rust" We also discuss two new releases that have similar themes with Veil of Maya's "False Idols" and Cannibal Corpse's "Red Before Black"

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Brendan Sloan (Convulsing) Oct 10, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History the Podcast! This week our guest is Brendan Sloan of the one man death metal project Convulsing and also guitar player in the post rock band Dumbsaint.

Brendan sat down with us to talk about his musical history and how the project of Convulsing was created, Brendan shares his personal and touching story of what motivated him to make this music and what drives him to be a creative person. We nerd out about all kinds of bands and music in this one and we look forward to having him on again soon!

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Johnny Plague (Winds of Plague) Oct 06, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

This is a bonus episode this week.

Earlier this week we had a few minutes to talk with Johnny, lead singer of Winds of Plague to discuss their new album being released October 27th.

Johnny talked to us about his start into metal and hardcore, why the band took a hiatus off writing and touring and we delved into how and why they recorded their new album "Blood of my Enemy" and how the band took their time to write and record and just decided to have fun with this record as well as the importance of really writing something worthy of their discography and to push themselves as musicians.

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August 1987 Oct 03, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

This week we venture ever forward into August of 1987.

This is the month the Black Metal genre as we know it came into existence with the Mayhem EP "Deathcrush" forever changing the landscape of not only the underground metal scene, but how metal as a whole would be viewed for decades onward.

Then we talk some new releases that have come out over the past couple weeks and what Matt and I thought of them (Hint, theyre all fantastic)

And finally, we end on Cacophony's "Speed Metal Symphony" and album that showcases two of the best virtuoso guitar players to ever live, Jason Becker and Marty Friedman. With that album comes a tragic tale of Jason Becker and his diagnosis of ALS and how he continues to write music and maintain his positive attitude to this day!

Albums we discussed this week:

Mayhem - "Deathcrush EP"
Cacophony - "Speed Metal Symphony"

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Joel Williams (Usnea) Sep 18, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast. This week our guest is Joel Williams, Bass player of the band Usnea. Joel came on this week to dig down deeper into the making of their new album "Portals into Futility" which Matt and I both raved about on our previous episode. We talk about his roots of metal, how he started playing and all the philosophical writings within the record. Hail Sagan!

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June 1987 Sep 10, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.

On this weeks episode we go back to June of 1987 (We skipped June somehow) In June we see a crossover band make waves with their 2nd album, and album that took almost 4 years to get out and they even alienated quite a bit of their original fan base with just this release. Whether thats because their listeners weren’t ready for musical growth or the album was just bad is for you to decide.

Out of the ashes of Black Flag Henry Rollins forges the Rollins Band and releases a blistering Metallic Hardcore album for our ears once again by will of his insane work ethic changing the face of music with this release.

The Swiss band Celtic Frost opens up their 3rd album in one of the strangest ways imaginable by having a cover song as the 1st track on the album. And its not a good cover song either, we don't know the reasoning behind WHY they chose to do this, but if I ever have the chance to talk to Tom G. Warrior, you can bet I will find out why.

We also are trying out a new segment called "The Weekly Breakdown" where we discuss new releases and tell you about the new record reviews on the website.

Albums we discussed this week were:

Suicidal Tendencies - "Join the Army"
Rollins Band - "Life Time"
Celtic Frost - "Into the Pandemonium"

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Cory Arford (Carnifex) Aug 28, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast! This week we sat down with my friend and tour mate from the band Carnifex, guitar player Cory Arford.

Cory talked to us about his unorthodox way of how he got into metal, when he started playing guitar, how Warped Tour was and so much more!!

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Some Kind of Monster Part Two Aug 19, 2017

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Welcome back to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History!

We pick up about an hour and 13 minutes into the documentary "Some Kind of Monster" and manage to power through this long and arduous film. Laughs were had, Lar's eminem hair style gets made fun of a lot and we give Hetfield his due for getting clean.

And we do the math on how rich Metallica probably is.

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Some Kind of Monster Part One Aug 07, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History.

This week we continue the saga of Metallica's "St. Anger" record by watching the documentary "Some Kind of Monster" Matt and I watch the documentary "live" and talk about what's going on during it and adding some commentary of the band, what they were going through as well as the amount of time it took them to record. Since the documentary spanned over 2 hours we split this episode into two parts. Pt.2 will be released next week so stay tuned!

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