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Everything Old is New Again Part 1: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne in 1980!
Season 2 Episode 2
Wherein Eric and John take a look at what the mighty Black Sabbath (Heaven and Hell) and the newly musically single Ozzy Osbourne (Blizzard of Ozz) w…
3 years, 10 months ago
Iron Maiden’s Gonna Get You!
Season 2 Episode 1
Wherein Eric and John return to the fray for season #2, and explore the rise and debut album of one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time, th…
4 years ago
A Seventies Sabbath Season Finale Spectacular!
Season 1 Episode 10
Wherein Eric, John, and very special guest author and Sabbath scholar Nolan Stolz pick up right where we left off on episode #1, exploring 1970's Bla…
4 years, 3 months ago
A Very Heavy Metal 101 Listener's Guide to the Heavy Metal of the 1970s
Season 1 Episode 9
Wherein Eric and John get down to the business of creating a concrete list of essential heavy metal bands and albums from the 1970s for a listener's …
4 years, 5 months ago
The Roots of Heavy Metal #1: 18th and 19th Century Virtuosi/Composers (The Classical Roots of Metal)
Season 1 Episode 8
Wherein Eric and John explore the surprising amount of interconnectivity and influence between arguably the least and most prestigious of musical gen…
4 years, 6 months ago
Heavy metal’s first musical genius: The story of Van Halen 1
Season 1 Episode 7
Wherein Eric and John wax rhapsodic about the majestic debut album of Van Halen, arguably the single most important heavy metal release of the 1970s …
4 years, 7 months ago
That's Not Heavy Metal!
Season 1 Episode 6
Wherein Eric and John establish a foolproof, highly scientific (ish) taxonomy of early heavy metal, tour the porous and contentious borderlands separ…
4 years, 8 months ago
A Shock Rock Double Dose: The Image and Dark Theatricality of Heavy Metal
Season 1 Episode 5
Wherein Eric and John explore the aesthetic look of heavy metal fans and artists, delve into the genre's darkly theatrical onstage sensibilities, and…
4 years, 9 months ago
Special Topics in Metalology #1: The Evolution of Death!
Wherein Eric and John temporarily shed the strictures implied by the "101" course designation, and drink deep from the cup of Death, arguably the gre…
4 years, 9 months ago
When punk and metal collided (aka Lemmy is god!)
Season 1 Episode 3
Wherein Eric and John discuss the arrival of punk rock on the scene, its near-destruction of heavy metal, and how metal would soon rise like a phoeni…
4 years, 9 months ago