Shred Shack Podcast

In this brief installment, your favorite heavy metal caballeros take a look at the latest albums from Devilment, Diabulus in Musica, Protest the Hero and Ion Dissonance. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists. Chris gives an update on Gwar's crowdfunding campaign for their comic book series and brings up the YouCaring page for Mike Williams of EyeHateGod who is in need of a liver transplant. Pat and Reece on the New York side of things offers up a list of the top ten metal songs about dangly parts (seriously... don't judge).

In this installment, your favorite heavy metal caballeros take a look at the latest albums from Arkona, Cognition, Deathspell Omega, Sirenia, Superjoint and Animals as Leaders. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Metallica, Rhapsody of Fire, Soilwork, Motley Crue, Babymetal, Armored Saint, Arch Enemy, System of a Down, Overkill, Avenged Sevenfold, Korn and more. In the midst of the news, Chris gives an update on Gwar's crowdfunding campaign for a comic book series. Pat and Reece on the New York side of things offers up a list of the Top Ten Funny Heavy Metal Songs. The show closes out with two I Saw a Show segments wherein Pete reviews Ho99o9, Health and Deafheaven at the Paper Tiger and Rival Sons and Black Sabbath at the AT&T Center.

In this installment, two of your three favorite heavy metal caballeros take a look at the latest albums from White Swan, Hammerfall, Civil War, Burial in the Sky and Attila. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Anvil, Rush, Eagles of Death Metal, Monster Magnet, Mastodon, Mayhem, Metallica, SepticFlesh, Rex Brown, Judas Priest, Six Feet Under, Alcest, Alter Bridge, Sabaton and more. In the midst of the news, Chris gives updates on Gwar's crowdfunding campaign for a comic book series and Jason Becker's forthcoming music project. An I Saw a Show segment has us discussing Target 7 (this week's Social Media Highlight), Raven Outlaw and the always entertaining Forever Town before we close out the show with a look at numbers 25 through 1 of Loudwire's Top 50 Live Rock and Metal Acts of All Time.

In this installment, two of your three favorite heavy metal caballeros discuss some old business regarding Avenged Sevenfold before taking a look at the latest albums from Serpentine Dominion, Avenged Sevenfold, Testament, Theocracy, Crowbar, Helmet, Ulcerate, Anaal Nathrakh, Tower, The Answer, Paint in Exile, Car Bomb and Beyond Threshold. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Steve Vai, Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica, Adrenaline Mob, Iron Maiden, Six Feet Under, Sepultura and more. In the midst of the news, Chris gives the details on Gwar's crowdfunding campaign for a comic book series before updates are given on previously mentioned campaigns by Jason Becker, Silent Civilian and A Sound of Thunder. Pat, Reece and Joe on the NY side of things offer up a new Top Ten list in the form of Top Ten Heavy Metal Halloween songs. Chris gives a brief update on Apothica before discussing Upon a Burning Body as this week's Social Media Highlight.  The show closes out with a look at numbers 50 through 26 of Loudwire's Top 50 Live Rock and Metal Acts of All Time.

In this installment, your favorite heavy metal caballeros discuss some old business regarding Vince Neil before taking a look at the latest albums from  Dillinger Escape Plan, Iron Mask, Red Fang, Theatres Des Vampires, Goes Cube and Korn. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Lord Mantis, Fozzy, Avenged Sevenfold, Omnium Gatherum, Trap Them, Cradle of Filth, Nails, Demon Hunter, Skeletonwitch, Kreator, Trivium, Life of Agony, Alice Cooper, Lamb of God, Katatonia, Accept, Flotsam & Jetsam, Twisted Sister, System of a Down, Pop Evil, Opeth and more. In the midst of the news, Chris and I gives updates on the crowdfunding campaigns for forthcoming projects from Jason Becker and A Sound of Thunder before discussing the potential future crowdfunding for the band Silent Civilian. Pat and Reece on the NY side of things offer up an interview with Jason Rockman of Slaves on Dope as well as an accompanying list of the Top Ten Heavvy Metal Comeback Albums. We carry on with an I Saw a Show segment covering FOUR concerts, starting with Shotgun Vendetta, Byfist, Killstorm and Grim Reaper at the Rock Box (SATX) on October 15th, The Sword and Opeth at Emo's on October 14th (ATX), Dissona, Binary Code, Earthside and Leprous at the Rock Box (SATX) on October 19th and Raspa Recall, Requiem Rust and Monkeysoop at Zombies Bar (SATX) on October 21st. Chris and Pete close out the show with a discussion of their Top 3 Heavy Metal Albums of September 2016.

In this installment, two of your three favorite heavy metal caballeros review the latest albums from Gabriel and the Apocalypse, The Devil Wears Prada, Thy Catafalque, Gatecreeper, Anciients, Meshuggah and Alter Bridge. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Primus, Sylosis, Quiet Riot, Slipknot, Mastodon, The Devil You Know, Conquering Dystopia, Abbath, Deicide, Protest the Hero, Darkest Hour, Amorphis, Korn, Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder and more. In the midst of the news, Chris discusses the crowdfunding campaign for Jason Becker's forthcoming project before Dan gives an update on the ongoing crowdfunding campaign for A Sound of Thunder's forthcoming covers album and relays some recent struggles of and fundraising attempts by Bill Manspeaker of Green Jelly. Pat and Reece on the NY side of things offer up an interview with Gareth Murdock of Alestorm as well as an accompanying I Saw a Show segment of their performance that same evening. We close out the show with a discussion about the importance of pacing when it comes to laying down the tracklist for an album.

In this installment, a returning Pete gives his opinion on the Baroness concert discussed during the last podcast. Chris and Pete review the latest albums from The Agonist, Skálmöld, Brant Bjork, Winterfylleth, Evil Invaders (OFFICIAL), Epica, Oathbreaker, Alcest, Decivilize and Opeth. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Disturbed, Iced Earth, Kings of Chaos, Korn, Cellar Darling, Rhapsody of Fire, Revamp, Amon Amarth, Suicide Silence, Motley Crue, Grave Digger, Hammerfall, Delain and more. In the midst of the news, Dan gives an update on the ongoing crowdfunding campaign for A Sound of Thunder's forthcoming covers album. Pat and Reece on the NY side of things offers up a new Top 10 list in the form of the Top 10 Political Heavy Metal Songs. Invoking the Abstract and ADE are discussed during this week's Social Media Highlight before we close out the show with a little game of trivia for Chris and Pete.

In this installment, two of your three favorite heavy metal caballeros discuss some old business regarding Vince Neil before reviewing the latest releases from Source, Operation: Mindcrime and Every Time I Die. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Metallica, Slipknot, Jimmy Page, L.A. Guns, Death, Extreme, Overkill, Hellyeah, Xandria, Cattle Decapitation, Superjoint, Iron Maiden, Eyehategod and more. In the midst of the news, we introduce a new segment where we follow and give updates on ongoing crowdfunding campaigns, starting with A Sound of Thunder's campaign to fund a forthcoming album of cover songs. Turma and Denihilist are discussed during this week's Social Media Highlight before we close out the show with a reairing of the I Saw a Show segment from Pat and Reece regarding catching Blind Guardian and Grave Digger on one night and Devin Townsend on another followed by Chris' thoughts on the Baroness show at the Paper Tiger on Saturday.

In this installment, two of your three favorite heavy metal caballeros celebrate the return of Pete by having him weigh on his own list of albums that changed his life as an extension of the previous week's discussion before reviewing the latest releases from Heaven Shall Burn, Ghost, Finsterforst and Tesseract. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Dead Cross, Scorpions, Y&T, Guns n Roses, Bolt Thrower, In Flames, Nightwish, Demon Hunter, Black Sabbath, Infectious Grooves, Deep Purple, Eluveitie, Korn and more. Unearthed Elf and Arctic Sleep are discussed during this week's Social Media Highlight before we close out the show with a brief discussion of Chris' Top 3 Heavy Metal Albums of August 2016.

In this installment, two of your three favorite heavy metal caballeros discuss old business regarding The Misfits and The Ghost Inside before taking a look at the latest from Evergrey, Monkey3 and Devin Townsend. General, recording, touring and charting news is reviewed for several artists, including Bring Me the Horizon, CKY, Architects, Metallica, Motley Crue, Sirenia, Arch Enemy, Mastodon, Saxon, Crowbar, Gojira, Leaves Eyes, Korpiklaani, Black Dahlia Murder, Napalm Death, Dillinger Escape Plan, Fates Warning, Prophets of Rage and more. Cyrax is discussed during this week's Social Media Highlight before we close out the show with our lists of ten albums that changed our lives.