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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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 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.

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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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

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.

Welcome to this installment of the podcast, my guest was Johnny Hedlund, vocalist and bassist of the legendary swedish death metal band Unleashed. I met and toured with Johnny's band back in 2008 and we had a nice conversation about the bands 30+ year history, and their FIFTEENTH album "Fire Upon Your Lands" out on Napalm Records August 15th.

Welcome to this installment of the Podcast. My guest was M.S.W of the Doom Metal band Hell. He came on the podcast to discuss the writing and recording of his new album "Submersus" , collaborating with A.L.N of Mizmor to make "Alluvion" and his audio engineering endeavors.

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Welcome to this installment of the podcast. My guest was "Ciccio" guitarist and main song writer for Italian Brutal Death Metal band Putridity. We discuss the bands 10 year "hiatus" and the new album "Morbid Ataraxia" out on  @WillowtipRecords 

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Welcome to this edition of the podcast. My guests were Corey Ray (Guitarist) and Noah Taylor (Drums) who are both original members of the band Destroyer Destroyer. The band was active in the mid 2000's era, as a part of the Tech Death / Tech Deathcore genre that released 2 EP's and a Full length "Littered with Arrows" Soon after the band stopped performing and writing and seemingly went on a "hiatus". This episode we go into the bands history and discuss the NEW material being released with the bands new EP "Void" out now wherever you stream or buy music.

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