Power trios! You’ve got your Venom, your Motorhead, your, uh, Anvil, and your Raven, who’s the subject of much hot air from your intrepid hosts this week. @DAMIANMASTER and @johnserba did a whole bunch of research on a band mostly on the periphery of their knowledge zones, and concluded that the Gallagher Bros. (no, not THOSE Gallagher Bros.) are sorta the unheralded black sheeps of the NWOBHM. The result is roughly 800 minutes of chatter about the “athletic rock” guys who made some raucous badass records, and then urped up one of the worst heavy metal albums of all time. OK, maybe it’s only like 80 minutes. But it’s definitely one of the worst metal albums they’ve ever heard. And even then, Raven kinda rules.

What the hell were your hosts thinking or drinking when they decided to deep-dive into the cutout bin for a couple of near-eternally forgotten thrash bands? Well, they wanted to learn some junk about things for a change, instead of just leaning on their well-established crapheaps of (insert cough noise here) musical knowledge. @DAMIANMASTER went pretty far into the weeds preparing for his verbal spew. @johnserba was a little more comfortable, talking about Headbanger’s Ball and That One Laaz Rockit Album he listened to a lot during his mullet daze. Not to mention, it was an excuse to talk about David Lynch on the pod. Any excuse to talk about David Lynch is a good excuse. Also, Chaly returns, and does horrible things to pretzels. (Maybe you had to be there?) Anyway: way-goofy episode. Listen to it. Thanks.

A few of you sick, twisted people who devote earbud time to us liked us so much, or had quarrel to the point of writing in to ask questions.  Rather than eat up precious time on a regular epidsode (Which of course, as you know is a tight ship.), we decided to answer these questions here.  We talk about how much Six Feet Deep and Angel Corpse mean to Serba.  He said they're very important bands to him or something equally preposertous and hilarious. Send in your questions to @DAMIANMASTER or @johnserba on Twitter, or [email protected].  Serba can also be reached on facebook, and I cannot be.  I reject your friend request.  I deny your existence. I hate you eternally and wish you ill.  Please support us on Patreon.

This week, the blathering ’banger brothers draw a pentagram on the floor, light candles at the points and sacrifice two poodles and nine bottles of High Life to the horn-ed gods of metal for an episode about Denner, Shermann, Diamond and sometimes Wead: MERCYFUL FATE. @DAMIANMASTER and @johnserba burned some oils and spread around some gypsy cloths (they hit Costco before the recording session) in an attempt to summon the Satanic essence of one of the all-time underground greats. And of course, they disagree about whether “Melissa” or “Don’t Break the Oath” is better. They’re both right, right? Right.

howdy pardners - We went to a show on the Slayer farewell tour.  Napalm Death, Testament, Anthrax, and Lame of God (lololll) were the openers.  And then Slayer played.  It was cool, kinda sad, but not in a sad way.  Sometimes it was sad in a sad way during the show, but we talk about it.  Just listen.  Gary Holt also dropped his guitar doing a whammy bar trick and I forgot to mention it, but that was awesome.  Having guitar techs must be nice.

Oh, Tony Martin. This week, the BSOGM boys engage in their most heated debate yet during an arduous journey into the hoary deeps of the non-Ozzy Black Sabbath discography. Then, they rank the albums, because it’s the kind of pointlessly argumentative thing hopeless hetpengers do. After some inevitable Dio worship, and nearly coming to blows over “Tyr,” @DAMIANMASTER shares his highly controversial list, and @johnserba nearly quits the podcast in disgust and chucks himself into the nearest rubbish bin.

Two BSOGM bands had the balls to name themselves Sabbat, so your intrepid hosts staged an asinine debate as to which is better. @DAMIANMASTER stumps for the sonically primitive Japanese Venom worshippers boasting a massive discography and a thing for leather diapers. @johnserba backs the articulate U.K. thrash wyrdos (that’s not a typo, thanks) with approximately 2.47 albums and a thing for Satanic fairies. TWO SABBATS ENTER, ONE SABBAT LEAVES. In theory, at least.

The podcast is cloaked in despair and misery as the hosts list their all-time top five BSOGM doom bands that don’t feature thee lorde Tony Iommi. Candlemass, Crowbar, Cathedral and a couple other bands that don’t start with “C” get hefty shout-outs. And @johnserba finally gets an opportunity to bore @DAMIANMASTER to death with endless blather about one of his favorite forgotten BSOGM bands, Solitude Aeturnus. Woe. Woe woe woe.  (also yeah the audio sucks, and I'm working on it... episode 7 will be better i'm figuring shit out please get off my dick - Damian)

Piggy, Blacky, Away and Snake: the greatest lineup in heavy metal history.  No weak links.  Sorry to E-Force and Jasonic, and whatever the new guys are named.  I think one guy is named Chewy?

@johnserba and @DAMIANMASTER talk for a v long time about the greatest thing to ever come out of Switzerland except for Rolex, chocolate, army knives, anonymous banking, and wartime neutrality.