Heavy Metal History

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Cayle Hunter & Nate Burman (Armed for Apocalypse) Apr 20, 2026

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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guests were Cayle Hunter and Nate Burman of Armed for Apocalypse. We discuss the bands crushing new album "The Earth is Breathing Beneath Me" out on Church Road Records on April 24th!

0:00 intro

0:16 Start

0:51 Nate’s Heavy Metal History

6:37 Cayle’s Heavy Metal History

10:28 Discovering new music in the modern era vs growing up

19:07 Nate Joining the band and the “hiatus”

27:36 Armed for apocalypse drummer discussion

30:26 Recording with Kurt Ballou

33:08 Writing for the new record “The Earth is Breathing Beneath Me”

35:40 Working in the studio

41:25 Cayles Guitars

48:11 The final 2 songs on the album

52:05 Lyrical Content

57:38 Album art

1:05:42 End

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The History of Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" (2026 Version) Apr 06, 2026

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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. In honor of the 10th anniversary of the podcast i wanted to revisit what started everything, the history of the genre and what better way than to go back to the first episode and update it. Expect more of these episodes over the year. Next up will be the story of "Paranoid"

Ben Mason (Bound in Fear / Pintglass) Mar 27, 2026

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Welcome to this installment of the podcast.

In this episode my guest was Ben Mason, vocalist of Bound in Fear, Ben is also in 2 other bands, one being Pintglass and the other Hounds of War.

Ben came on to talk about Bound in Fear's new album "A mind too sick to heal" but during the conversation, the revelations about real life illness definitely took a forefront of the conversation with insight into the strife the band has been through the past 5 years since their last album.

We talk about all of that that and the fun of Pintglass.

0:00 Intro

:36 Editors Note about the audio/video sync

:41 Stella for tha geeza’s

1:52 Ben’s Heavy Metal History / Streaming Music

11:31 Ben’s other band Pintglass

18:41 Vocal Ranges

22:06 UK Metal Scene

23:53 Covid Affecting the bands trajectory

26:01 The 5 years since the last album and Ben’s Brain infection

31:49 Bens mental and psychical health after his near death experience

39:05 Writing for Bound in Fear

43:18 Pintglass recording / production

47:09 English slang words

52:20 Remembering Ozzy

57:00 Bound in Fear 2026/2027

1:00:00 Favorite part of the Music process

1:06:27 End of Interview

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1:06:59 End

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Kenny Hickey (Ex-Type O Negative) Mar 16, 2026

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Welcome to this episode of the podcast, my guest was Kenny Hickey, formerly of Type O Negative, back with a new band collaborating with Kirk Windstein called Sun Dont Shine.

We discuss the band, its melodic elements and get into the 30th anniversary of "October Rust"

0:00 Intro

0:36 Start

0:58 Kenny’s Heavy Metal History

5:52 Musician Talent in the early days

7:53 Bands playing to backing tracks

8:57 Sun Don’t Shine Origins

15:22 Working with Kirk Windstein from Crowbar

17:38 Subverting Expectations

21:14 Guitar Tunings / Guitar Writing

24:41 Lyrical Content and Kenny’s Writing Style

26:41 Grieving Process, Mortality, Sobriety and Personal Growth

31:54 Record Release

37:04 30th Anniversary of October Rust and Type O Negative Talk

44:21 Kenny’s Favorite Horror Films

48:20 Closing Conversation about Sun Don’t Shine

49:38 End

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Steven Blush (Author / Filmmaker of American Hardcore) Feb 09, 2026

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Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History. My guest was Steven Blush, Author and filmmaker most known for the book and documentary American Hardcore. Steven came on the podcast to discuss his new book "When Rock Met Hip-Hop" and to talk all about the history of those influences on the genre.

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Ethan McCarthy Returns! (Primitive Man) Nov 03, 2025

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Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History. Ethan McCarthy, vocalist and guitarist of @PrimitiveMan returns to the podcast to discuss what hima and the band have been up to over the past 5 years since he was last on.We talk about the new album "Observance" out now on @relapserecords mental health, AI, live sound, politics and so much more.

0:40 5 Years since being on the podcast

3:48 Working on other musical projects

7:00 Spiritual Poison Live show

10:00 Mental Health, Mortality and Social Media

20:00 Writing longer songs and attention spans

27:53 Ai bands, AI art and Anti-AI sentiments

40:56 Writing the new album

49:11 Backing tracks vs Live sound

56:00 Live Sound and using a sound person

58:34 Political themes of the record and the state of the country

1:14:00 End

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Mike Hill (Tombs) Oct 13, 2025

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Mike Hill from Tombs returns to the podcast for his 3rd appearance. Mike has been a long time supporter of the podcast and his band has a new record coming out after 5 years called "Feral Darkness"

Mike and I discuss this time frame of writing and recording and the collaborative nature of this record. We also talk a little about horror films and Halloween.

Johnny Ciardullo (Carcosa) Oct 06, 2025

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Welcome to this installment of Heavy Metal History. My guest was Johnny Ciardullo vocalist of Carcosa (Also writes guitar for Carcosa and plays in Angelmaker)Johnny came on the podcast where we had an in depth conversation about the themes of the bands new album and a lengthy conversation about trauma and the importance of mental health.

0:20 Johnny’s Heavy Metal History

5:35 Playing different live vs on a record

7:00 Backing track discourse

16:00 Starting the band during Covid

24:20 Recording albums to perfection vs more “raw”

26:27 Writing for “The Axe forgets the tree remembers” and the concept of the album

32:58 Societal pressures of trauma and being more open

37:08 Trying new stuff on the new album

38:44 The album title and its meaning and the cover art

43:12 Andor and Star Wars talk

48:26 The writing process for Carcosa

51:26 Writing in Angelmaker

54:33 Guitar talk

56:35 Funny social media interactions

1:03:40 Supporting Carcosa and buying the new album

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Into the Void with Evan Husney and Jason Eisener Sep 29, 2025

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Joining me on this installment of Heavy Metal History is Evan Husney and Jason Eisener, Writer's and Executive Producer's of the new Hulu show about the history of the metal genre "Into the Void" the show delves into 8 stories of various metal moments and shows the raw humanity and emotion derived in each of them.

Evan and Jason have also worked together on the long running docu series Dark Side of the Ring. Jason has also written and directing classic's cult films such as Hobo with a Shotgun a segment on V/H/S 2 and Kids vs Aliens.

0:00 Intro

1:06 Jason and Evan’s Heavy Metal History

7:30 Into the Void

13:44 Telling emotional stories and Documentaries

17:56 Pantera

28:27 Chuck Schuldiner / Death

36:34 Plasmatics

40:28 Choosing the 8 stories for the show

44:40 Hellion and NME

53:24 Importance of Mental Health

56:02 Black Metal

57:26 End

Sergio Soto (Imperialist) Sep 01, 2025

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the podcast. My guest was Sergio Soto, guitarist and vocalist for Californian Black Metal band Imperialist.

Sergio was on the podcast before but it is one of the rare "lost" episodes of the podcast. We stayed in touch over the years and with the release of their upcoming album "Prime" I had Sergio back on to talk about the album and its Sci-Fi setting.

Prime is out in September on Transcending Obscurity records.

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