Reid Messerschmidt Gets Metal with Robert Piller

Reid and Robert are back to the old grindstone.

Topics discussed: Clapping, Celine Dion, Slayer, Minneapolis, The Cabooze, Prince, Beyond Creation, Fallujah, Gorgatron, vegetarian pizza, Black Crown Initiate, King Diamond, 1349, Frost, Dracula, Tech Death, Nailed Shut, Suffocation, Nile, Terrorizer, Death Angel, Ex Mortis, Morbid Angel, Otis Redding, Ghost, Alabama, Five Finger Death Punch, Bad Wolves, Nothing More, Fallout Boy, “We Will Rock You”, Queen, Wayne’s World, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, Might Ducks, Freddie Mercury, “Somebody to Love”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, Twitter, Flash Gordon, Highlander, The Greatest American, George Costanza, Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, “Fall to Pieces”, Scott Weiland, Layne Staley, Frank Sinatra, Slayer, Tool, Pearl Jam, Jeff Ament, Steam Punk, John Waters, Alice Cooper, Enslaved, Wolves In the Throne Room, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Meshuggah, Eluvietie, Woods of Ypre, Burzum, Cattle Decapitation, Taake, Korpaklaani, Brother Ali, Patti LaBelle, “New Attitude”, KFC, “You’re My Lady”, Death, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Tom Gabriel Warrior, Hellhammer, Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Doom, Tony Iome, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Crazy Town, Slipknot, The Mountain Goats, San Francisco, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Fillmore, Chuck Schuldiner, Randy Rhodes, and new beginnings.

Reid and Robert discuss Enslaved.  Enslaved is very good.

Topics discussed: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevski, Enslaved, Friday the 13th, Beyond Creation, Leo Kottke, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, ASPCA, “Arms of the Angel”, “Always On My Mind”, Adele, taco, Hellraisers, The Sound of the Beast, Mastodon, Metalcore, Pink Floyd, Rush, Euronymous, Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, The Hard Times, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor, Burzum, Monumention, Hammond B3 organ, Prog, Black Metal, “Thoughts Like Hammers”, RIITIIR, Bathushka, The Beatles, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Viking Metal, Wolves In the Throne Room, VH1, Headbanger’s Ball, New Order, Slipknot, Rick Rubin, “Plastic Jesus”, “Autoclave” by the Mountain Goats, “Dead Flowers” by The Rolling Stones, Cool Hand Luke, Corey Taylor, Stone Sour, Satyricon, Taake, Dying Fetus, Meshuggah, Woods of Ypres, “Tom Sawyer”, “Fly By Night”, The Grateful Dead, Phish, “Touch of Grey”, Robert Fripp, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Dio, “Faeries Wear Boots”, Punk, Orphan Annie, Happy Meal toys, Roger Rabbit, Burger King, Dead Boys, “Sonic Reducer”, “Ruby Soho”, Rancid, Reggae, Ska, Green Day, Simple Plan, Pearl Jam, Joey Ramone, Flogging Mollys, Dropkick Murphys, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone, Cynic, “Integral Birth”, Death, Black Heart Initiate, Chuck Schuldiner, Lemmy, Tom Araya, Abbath, Cliff Burton, Dimebag Darryl, Lars Ulrich, Fenriz, Hellhammer, John Bonham, Keith Moon, The Who, and other dead drummers.

Enslaved, “Thoughts Like Hammers”

https://youtu.be/dQz0_m16SaU

Enslaved, “Raidho” (Live)

https://youtu.be/wyrvSNRfEw4

Dead Boys, “Sonic Reducer” (Live)

https://youtu.be/ohZnOaetFvY

 

Reid and Robert are joined by Melissa, a listener who has made Reid laugh several times, so we had her on all the way from Australia. We discuss the fraught history of Black Metal monks Batushka.

Topics discussed: Designing Women, Batushka, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia, Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, Winter, husky Goths, Kylie Minogue, Neighbours, Natalie Imbruglia, “Chandelier”, AC/DC, INXS, Silverchair, Frogstomp, Pearl Jam, Destroyer666, Parkway Drive, Berserker, TATU’s “Everything She Said”, Platypuses, Tasmania, Tasmanian Devils, This American Life, Feline Leukemia, Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin, Mel Gibson, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana, Faketushka, theft, Gorgoroth, Behemoth, Black Metal, Catholicism, Van Halen, Wolves In the Throne Room, anti-vaxers, Bart Simpson, Martin Luther, spiders, Art Garfunkel, vegemite, Shari Lewis, The Magnetic Fields, twee, Stephen Merritt, 69 Love Songs, “Papa Was A Rodeo”, Ben Stein, Ferris Bueller, “Meaningless”, The Charlie Daniels Band, Enslaved, “Thoughts Like Hammers”, John Ritter, Tex Ritter, and the more Black Metal.

Batushka (the real one) (live)

https://youtu.be/tMSTnY_3_qA

Magnetic Fields, “Papa Was A Rodeo”

https://youtu.be/8yZ50ptDpuQ

Reid and Robert are joined by Tim “Ripper” Owens, former frontman of Judas Priest, Iced Earth, and countless other bands, as well as a friend to DIO and a man with a lot of stories to tell. It’s great.

Topics discussed:  “Rainbow In the Dark”, The Scorpions, Dio, Celine Dion, Robert Frost, holograms, Charred Walls of the Damned, Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Winter’s Bane, Heart of a Killer, Three Tremors, Spirits of Fire, Savatage, Dream Evil, The End of Prance, Jugulator, Demolition, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Glenn Tipton, Pantera, Painkiller, Slayer, Anthrax, Rob Halford, Metal Church, “Abigail”, King Diamond, Sebastian Bach, AC/DC, Brian Johnson, KK Downing, Dizzy Gillespie, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rock Star, Boogie Nights, Spinal Tap, REO Speedwagon, Mark Wahlberg, Don Jameson, Wendy Dio, Holy Diver, “Last In Line”, “Rainbow In the Dark”, Pink Floyd, Jim Croce, Ace Frehly, Dave Grohl, Wayne’s World, Queensryche, Dave Ellefson, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Black Sabbath, Scott Ian, Dimebag Darrell, Simon Wright, Steel Panther, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, John Carpenter, Rick Rubin, Spielberg, Fenriz, Rodney Dangergield, Spacehog, “In the Meantime”, Resident Alien, Royston and Antony Langdon, Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Zach Braff, I’m Not Here, The Chinese Album, “Second Avenue”, Vince Neil, Toy Story, Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live, Andy Kaufman, Laugh In, Ruth Buzzy, Australia, Batushka, Monastic Chanting, and assuming Black Metal vocals.

Dio, “Man On the Silver Mountain” (Live”

https://youtu.be/vOyFE-1LAI0

Tim “Ripper” Owens, “Don’t Talk To Strangers” (Dio Cover, Live)

https://youtu.be/TfGKtZmZeFA

Spacehog, “Second Avenue”

https://youtu.be/Xv9QnPgYrFs

Reid and Robert discuss Slipknot.  Reid is less offended than he thought he might be.

Topics discussed: Slipknot, Slippery When Wet, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Dio, Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwe Malmstein, Mark Wahlberg, Rock Star, Jennifer Aniston, Hot Topic, Corey Taylor, Iowa, “Left Behind”, “Gently”, Stone Sour, “Wait and Bleed”, Taylor Swift, MySpace, LiveJournal, Reddit, Incels, Woods of Ypres, “People=Shit”, Cattle Decapitation, Humanure, Existentialism, Black Metal, Nietzsche, Behemoth, Aliester Crowley, Joey Jordeson, Lars Ulrich, Frost, Clown, Dave Mustaine, Max Martin, Avril Lavigne, Ghost, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Nu Metal, Metallica, Re-Load, St. Anger, Pantera, Coal Chamber, “The Heretic Anthem”, Matchbox 20, Insane Clown Posse, Jimmy Buffet, The Super Bowl, The Crow, Murder Dolls, Euronymous, “Miracle”, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Primer, Carcass, Pantera, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, CD Burners, Killswitch Engage, Pearl Jam, Corrosion of Conformity, The Misfits, Frank Black, The Pixies, Fastbacks, Prong, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deftones, Sartre, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Peace Sells But Who’s Buying?, Tom Delonge, The Challenge, Real World, Road Rules, MTV, Third Eye Blind, Nina Simone, “Ain’t Got No/I Got Life”, Hair, John Travolta, Schoolhouse Rocks, What Happened Ms. Simone?, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Bill Ward, “The Last In Line”, “Rainbow In the Dark”, The Scorpions, and disappointing Ripper Owens.

Slipknot, “The Heretic Anthem” (Live)

https://youtu.be/l3GnK3bhBqQ

Slipknot, “The Negative One”

https://youtu.be/sgA7KIwKlOE

Nina Simone, “Ain’t Got No” (Live)

https://youtu.be/q7YjY8W8NZA

Reid and Robert discuss Korpiklaani.  Reid shares some drinking stories.

Topics discussed: Neil Diamon, Pittsburgh, GoFundMe, Korpiklaani, teetotalers, “Vodka”, black mold, Necrosexual, Tom Hanks, snorting liquid soap, Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey, Euronymous, Varg, Very Tall Folding Chairs, Burning Man, Electric Forrest, Spiderman, The Happening, Speed Racer, fireworks, patriotism, Sufjan Stevens, “Fourth of July”, Iced Earth, Finland, North Dakota, polka, Shamaani Duo, Shaman, Bjork, Longhorn Steak House, Municipal Waste, Cattle Decapitation, Sami, Oktoberfest, Eluveitie, Dave Matthews Band, The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Finntroll, yoiking, Windsor, “Happy Little Boozer”, Tales Along This Road, “Wooden Pints”, “Mony, Mony”, Billy Idol, Weird Al Yankovich, Frankie Yankovich, Lawrence Welk, Dolly Parton, “9 to 5”. “Yakkety Sax”, “Yakkety Yak”, Benny Hill, The Platters, “Jolene”, Kulkija, “Juomamaa”, “The Final Countdown”, Marvin Gaye, VFW, white guy dreads, Wayne’s World, Lionel Huts, Romania, Gypsys, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Eugene Hutz, First Ave., Gogol Bordello, The Triple Rock, “Start Wearing Purple”, Wild and Crazy Guys, Steve Martin, Dan Akroyd, Nu Metal, Static X, Slipknot, Hot Topic, Star Wars, “The Heretic Anthem”, Iowa, “Duality”, Radiohead, Corey Taylor, Joey Jordison, Frost, Satyricon, Lars Ulrich, Metallica, Motionless In White, John Cena, Mask, Joseph Merrick, Conan O’Brien, The Pixies, and the Insane Clown Posse.

Korpiklaani, “Happy Little Boozer”

https://youtu.be/80YlCQueSfo

Korpiklaani, “Juomamaa” (Live)

https://youtu.be/NlbhsK7IAlM

Gogol Bordello, “Start Wearing Purple”

https://youtu.be/SkkIwO_X4i4

Reid and Robert discuss Dying Fetus. Reid is ambivalent.

Topics discussed: Neil Diamond, Pittsburgh, Dying Fetus, Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel, The Simpsons, Built to Spill, Mastodon, outdoor concerts, Buckcherry, In Bruges, local Nazis, Joaquin Phoenix, acid, abortion, Christian Ronaldo, Killing On Adrenaline, Nu Metal, pig squeal, Burp Metal, Korn, Jonathan Davis, shitty David Lee Roth, Reign Supreme, “Subjected To A Beating, Corpsegrinder, Gillette Razors, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Adult Swim, “Hammer Smashed Face”, Target, Cattle Decapitation, Travis Ryan, Godflesh, Prog Rock, Emerson Lake and Palmer, YOB, Wolves In the Throne Room, Abnormality, Wrong One To Fuck With, “Fixated On Devastation”, “Freebird”, “Blinded By Fear”, At the Gates, Slayer, “If It Makes You Happy”, Sheryl Crow, “Burnin’ For You”, Iced Earth, “Oops I Did It Again”, “My Girl Wants To Party All the Time”, Eddie Murphy, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Bodom, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Alabama, Keep It Like A Secret, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, Seattle, Treepeople, “Twin Falls”, Ben Folds 5, “The Plan”, Eggos, football, Alestorm, Korpiklaani, “Happy Little Boozer”, mouth harp, Gogol Bordello, and not liking fun.

Dying Fetus, “Subjected To A Beating” (Live)

https://youtu.be/WyLL9AFuU9s

Dying Fetus, “Fixated On Devastation”

https://youtu.be/-79b3VblUyw

Built to Spill, “Twin Falls/Some” (Live)

https://youtu.be/h7i_WvF0BAI

Reid and Robert discuss YOB.  YOB is very good.

Topics discussed: Memory foam pillows, YOB, carpet, Pittsburgh, Prog Rock, ELP, Yes, Genesis, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind, Opeth, Neurosis, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Rush, Libertarian, Ayn Rand, Neil Pert, “Tom Sawyer”, “Fly By Night”, I Love You Man, Jason Segal, Paul Rudd, Styx, Mr. Roboto, Ronald McDonald House, 30 Below, Reba McEntyre, Brooks and Dunn, Eddie Murphy, 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, The Blenders, Boy Scouts, “Black Velvet”, Doom Metal, Stoner Metal, Sludge, Oregon, Hard Times, Our Raw Heart, “Beauty In Falling Leaves”, Meatloaf, “I Would Do Anything For Love”, Mike Scheidt, Woods of Ypres, Mastodon, Iced Earth, Dracula, Matt Barlow, Revolver, Queensryche, “Silent Lucidity”, Black Sabbath, The Great Cessation, Ama, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ancient Altar, Five Finger Death Punch, Rainforest Cafe, “Supernaut”, Vol. 4, “Victim of Change”, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, “Snowblind”, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, “Layla”, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, George Harrison, The Beatles, Wolves In the Throneroom, Gorilla Glue, Fender Telecaster, Dennis Wilson, The Beach Boys, The Manson Family, “Forever”, Full House, Jesse and the Rippers, Uncle Jesse, “Love Surrounds Me”, Bambu, “Stand By Me”, Percy Sledge, Ben E. King, “When A Man Loves A Woman”, Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Weird Al, Kenny G, Burp Metal, Dying Fetus, “Hammer Smashed Face”, “Subjected to a Beating”, Reign Supreme, “Wrong One To Fuck With”, and wooden snare drums.

YOB, “Beauty In Falling Leaves” (Live)

https://youtu.be/FG0UHpQiKTM

Dennis Wilson, “Love Surrounds Me”

https://youtu.be/FsyN9cQupGY

 

Reid and Robert discuss Godflesh.  Reid is in love.  Robert is not.

Topics Discussed: The Bangles, Godflesh, Godsmack, puppets, haircuts, Great Clips, narcissism, “Through the Fire and Flames”, Facebook Marketplace, Les Paul, Buckcherry, Randy Jackson, Step Brothers, American Idol, Randy Johnson, The Brewers, The Jackson 5, Journey, Michael Jackson, “Faithfully”, “Open Arms”, Napalm Death, Justin Broaderick, Scum, Industrial Metal, Grindcore, Streetcleaner, “Christbait Rising”,  Throbbing Gristle, New Wave, Erik B. & Rakim, Pain, Nine Inch Nails, Metal Archives, Pitchfork, Heavy Blog Is Heavy, Static X, Korn, “Shoots and Ladders”, Disturbed, Goth Bros, Mortis, Emperor, South Park Mexican, Ministry, King of the Hill, “Endgames”, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Challenge Coins, Stolen Valor, Jesu, Suicide, “Frankie Teardrop”, Joy Division, “Blue Monday”, Prince, “Nothing Compares 2 U”, “Manic Monday”, Big Star, That 70’s Show, “September Gurls”, Susanna Hoff, Sleater-Kinney, YOB, “Beauty and Falling Leaves”, Lost, Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone, Christian Slater, Chantix, Ray Liotta, Goodfellows, Dennis Wilson, The Beach Boys, The Manson Family, Rob Schneider, South Park, and fat nerds.

Godflesh, “Christbait Rising”

https://youtu.be/JsWv9nFLl_s

Godflesh, “Endgames”

https://youtu.be/Ve_4Gyg8Fj8

The Bangles, “September Gurls” (Live)

https://youtu.be/AtFuRlcapvA

Reid and Robert try to inject some estrogen into the mix with a female fronted band – Abnormality.  Turns out, it’s just some good old fashioned Death Metal.

Topics discussed: Murder Junkies, non-dairy ice cream, Abnormality, ghosts, Ouija Boards, ghosting, Tony Iommi, “Love Take Me Down To the Streets” by Wings, “Plastic Jesus”, Cool Hand Luke, “Free Fallin'”, “Hanger 18”, “Smoke On the Water”, “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley, “Schism” by Tool, “Wonderwall” by Oasis, Liam Gallagher, John Lennon, Noel Gallagher, King Diamond, Eluveitie, Alestorm, Winnipeg, Rob Ford, Toronto, Cannibal Corpse, KISS, Devin Townsend, Wolves In the Throne Room, Cattle Decapitation, Converge, Meshuggah, Woods of Ypres, 1349, Behemoth, In This Moment, Motionless In White, Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, “Penance”, Sociopathic Constructs”, “Hammer Smashed Face”, Deadwood, Corpsegrinder, Soulfly, Goratory, Chris Barnes, After Forever, Anneke Van Giersbergen, groupies, Yellawolf, Buckcherry, David Lee Roths, Adele, Taylor Swift, Panic At the Disco, Avatar, MTV Unplugged, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Mechanisms of Omniscience, “Irreversible”, Prince, Sufjan Stevens, “Fourth of July”, Carrie and Lowell, The Cramps, Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, Iced Earth, The Dark Saga, Spawn, “More Than Words”, “More Than A Feelin'”, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Power Metal, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and eating ice cream alone while watching bad music documentaries.

Abnormality, “Penance”

https://youtu.be/jK1RtDtJYbw

Abnormality, “Irreversible”

https://youtu.be/Hk1b1S4zW8Q

Sufjan Stevens, “Fourth of July” (Live)

https://youtu.be/EDK-nCxU7ks