Heavy Metal History

Bonus Episode: Live with Carnifex Apr 04, 2017

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Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast!
This week I sat down "live" with friends and former tour mates of mine in Carnifex. I joined them after they have been on the road for two months embarking on their massive 2017 headline tour. We talked about Dead in My Arms turning 10 years old and their massive evolution in sound from that album. Look forward to all the members coming on solo over the next few weeks!

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March 1987 Mar 26, 2017

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

We move forward to March in 1987.
The Thrash Metal movement continues to shred its way across the decade of the 80’s where Anthrax would produce one of their finest works with their 3rd album “Among the Living” (which we briefly discussed, but not as in depth with Derek Kerswill on episode 5) Overkill would drop their 2nd album that would prove to the world that the band would be a force to be reckoned with for years to come. And the band Pentagram furthers the “Doom Metal” sound pioneered by Black Sabbath on their release “Day of Reckoning”.

The albums we discussed:

Overkill - "Taking Over"
Pentagram - "Day of Reckoning"
Anthrax - "Among the Living"

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Chris Bradley (Beneath the Massacre) Mar 13, 2017

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On this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast, we talk with Beneath the Massacre guitar player Chris Bradley about their album "Mechanics of Dysfunction" turning 10 years old. Mechanics was a massive follow up to their EP and Chris tells the behind the scenes about making the album as well as other stories about touring and the rest of their discography. Also we have EXCLUSIVE news about the bands future and the inevitability of a forthcoming record. So enjoy!

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February 1987 Mar 06, 2017

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

This year on the podcast we decided to change things up with the content and move far ahead to albums celebrating 30, 20 and 10 year anniversaries respectively.

So with that, we move ahead to February 1987 (No metal releases in January of 1987 somehow).

Our Guest this week was Matt Solis who plays in the band Cormorant and writer for Decibel magazine. We discussed 3 albums and did a VERY special dramatic reading of King Diamond's "Abigail" record, spooky ambient music included! Even for the beginning of 1987 the releases that were put out are already a sign of the evolution of the genre in a very short amount of time, the speed, ferocity and technicality in which a lot of these albums were written is a good indicator of where the genre would end up in present day.

We hope you enjoy this episode and get a kick out of what we did.

Albums we discussed this week:

Racer X - "Second Heat"
Manowar - "Fighting the World"
King Diamond - "Abigail"

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August-September 1980 Feb 27, 2017

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

We move forward to the months of August through September in 1980.
I once again cover a few punk rock records to show its importance of crossover within the metal genre.

We see Black Flag’s first EP that was marred with line-up changes which the band would deal with for years to come and Dead Kennedy’s thrust the Bay Area punk scene into the world with the release of their biggest and most well known album that would prove to be quite as outspoken as their leading man Jello Biafra.

Saxon keeps their output going with their 2nd release of 1980. Finally we close out with the once leading man of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osborne, crossover to even more success with is solo career and unleashing Randy Rhodes into the world with “Blizzard of Ozz”

The albums we discussed this week were:

Black Flag - "Jealous Again"
Dead Kennedy's - "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"
Saxon - "Strong Arm of the Law"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Blizzard of Ozz"

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Mike Hill (Tombs) Feb 19, 2017

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

Our guest for this episode was Mike Hill from the band Tombs. Mike is also the host of the Everything Went Black and Necromaniacs podcasts.

We were honored to have Mike on this episode to talk about 3 albums that influenced him as an artist and person while taking us through his journey of discovering metal through his local record and book store. And as always the many many stories involved with finding new music and playing in a band.

The albums he chose were:

Iron Maiden - Killers
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Godlfesh - Streetcleaner

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May-July 1980 Feb 14, 2017

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

This week we move ahead to May through July of 1980. In this 3 month span of history we see the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene completely dominate everything in its path, with bands like Saxon, Accept, Krokus and Samson putting out albums.

Samson is the band that introduced the world to Bruce Dickinson who would eventually become the lead singer for Iron Maiden.

In Australia, AC/DC rises like a phoenix from the ashes after the loss of Bon Scott and puts out one of the highest selling records of all time with “Back in Black” while not an out right metal album, its place in the genre has some merit and that's why I felt it should be mentioned in this episode.

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The albums we discussed on this episode were:

Saxon - "Wheels of Steel"
Girlschool - “Demolition”
Accept - "I'm a Rebel"
Krokus – “Metal Rendez-Vous”
Samson - "Head On"
AC/DC - "Back in Black"

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Derek Kerswill (Unearth, Shadows Fall, Downpour) Feb 06, 2017

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In this weeks episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast we have our first guest! But alas, Matt also could not join this episode due to scheduling conflicts. Our guest this week was legacy act Derek Kerswill from many many bands such as Unearth, Seemless, Kingdom of Sorrow, The Ghost Inside and Shadows Fall. Derek takes us on his journey of discovering metal and what influenced him into his style of playing.

This episode is full of funny stories from Derek and many anecdotes about touring and how music impacts us all.

The albums we somewhat discussed this week were:

Anthrax - Im the Man
Anthrax - Among the Living
Metallica - And Justice For All...
Testament - Practice What You Preach
And
24/7 Spyz - Gumbo Millenium
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