Squared Circle Pit

When I started this podcast, one of my dream guests was Slipknot's Corey Taylor. I was able to get a short window of time with Corey on the phone, as he is out on the road on Slipknot's massive summer tour. Corey talks about how he got into wrestling in the 80s through N.W.A., his favorite pro wrestlers, his thoughts on the current scene, attending this past WWE Monday In The Bank live, how pro wrestlers inspire his onstage persona, as well as the backstage story of how his altercation with NXT star Baron Corbin came about.
If you missed the altercation, here's video of it:
 
Check out previous Squared Circle Pit interviews about wrestling with Jamey Jasta, Every Time I Die's Andy Williams, Zakk Wylde, Killswitch Engage's Mike D, Converge's Jacob Bannon and more.
Follow Squared Circle Pit on Facebook and Twitter.  Subscribe to Metal Injection podcasts on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well), Google Play & Stitcher. Feel free to leave some feedback in the comments about what you thought of the show and any future guests you'd like to see. Special thanks to Hugh Myrone for the intro music. A huge thanks to my dawg Noa Avior for sound mixing the interview.

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This week, I had a chance to speak with one of my wishlist guests, Converge frontman Jacob Bannon. I got a chance to catch up with Jacob before Converge's killer set at House of Vans in Brooklyn, NY yesterday to talk a whole lot of 1980s wrestling. We talked Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-Atlantic, WWF. Jacob shares a story of going to a Kerry Von Erich autograph signing, watching World Championship Wrestling at 6:05 on Saturdays, and, of course, Ric Flair. We wrap up the show talking about Brock Lesnar's UFC fight this weekend.
Check out previous Squared Circle Pit interviews about wrestling with Jamey Jasta, Every Time I Die's Andy Williams, Zakk Wylde, Killswitch Engage's Mike D, and more.
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I was so pumped to finally be able to spend an hour talking about pro-wrestling with AltPress Awards executive producer Josh Bernstein. Josh has been a wrestling fan for life and responsible for booking a lot of wrestlers on rock award shows. Josh tells some incredible anecdotes about Vince McMahon, CM Punk, Chris Jericho and orchestrating the confrontation between Baron Corbin and Slipknot's Corey Taylor.
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Noa and I got to go to WWE Extreme Rules in Newark, NJ and I had the bright idea to record a recap show on the car ride back. The audio quality is not my proudest moment, but it was a fun experiment discussing our experience at the show and all the matches that took place.
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This edition of the wrestling-meets-metal podcast features very special guest, Andy Williams, guitarist of Every Time I Die, and professional wrestler in training. Of all the episodes recorded of Squared Circle Pit so far, this was the longest, because we just had so much to talk about. We kicked off the conversation discussing what inspired Andy to pursue training for pro wrestling, and he revealed that CM Punk was his inspiration. We discuss his training and how preparing for a rock gig compares to preparing for a match. We go deep talking about independent promotions like PWG, ROH, CZW as well as old-school NWA, and a lot more.  Have I mentioned it was a really fun conversation?
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This was quite an enlighting conversation for me. I spoke to Hanno from Mantar, an awesome new death-and-roll duo. Hanno is from Germany so it was fascinating learning how a German person interpreted the overly nationalistic storylines of the WWF at the time. Hanno talks his favorite moments from the early 90s, his favorite wrestlers and perhaps the greatest retelling of the Yokozuna Body Slam challenge I have ever heard. We also discuss Doink the Clown, I.R.S., Abe "Knuckle Ball" Schwartz and the Macho Man.
At the end of the interview, we played the new Mantar track "Era Borealis" from their album, Ode to the Flame out now on Nuclear Blast. Order it here.
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If you never saw the bodyslam challenge, here it is:
Also, here is the pro wrestler Mantaur…
Check back for a new episode of Squared Circle Pit in about two weeks. Special thanks to Hugh Myrone for the intro music.

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On this edition of our metal-meets-wrestling podcast, Rob interviews Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta about how he got into pro wrestling, his favorite wrestlers, his attempts to sing on an official WWE theme, including auditioning, what metal could learn from pro wrestling, what a metal network similar to WWE network would look like and the big bad booty daddy, Scott Steiner.
After the interview, Rob talks a bit about WrestleMania and we play a clip from this week's Livecast and sports broadcast Mike Francesa hating on WrestleMania and we hilariously mock him for it.
Here is the Scott Steiner promo I was talking about early in the show:
Check back for a new episode of Squared Circle Pit in about two weeks. Special thanks to Hugh Myrone for the intro music.
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I am so excited to bring you the second episode of my metal-meets-wrestling podcast, with a dude I've wanted to talk to about pro wrestling for the longest time, Mike D'Antonio, bassist of Killswitch Engage. Killswitch Engage famously wrote the entrance track "This Fire Burns" for CM Punk. We talk about Mike's friendship with Punk, as well as his love for ECW, NXT, Ring of Honor, seeing WrestleMania live, this upcoming WrestleMania and more. We originally were scheduled to chat for 30 minutes but ended up talking for almost an hour until Mike had to go to do sound check. At some points in the interview, you will hear some  (sorry for the noise pollution in the background, we tried
At some points in the interview, you will hear some noise pollution in the background, we tried to find the quietest place in the venue and the music was still blaring, but the interview is still worth your time. At the end of the show, I put a little excerpt from the Metal Injection Livecast of the crew discussing the Hulk Hogan trial.
Check back for a new episode of Squared Circle Pit in about two weeks. Special thanks to Hugh Myrone for the intro music.
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I am so excited to launch the newest podcast here at Metal Injection: Squared Circle Pit! The goal of this podcast is to talk to metal musicians almost exclusively about pro wrestling and their love of it. To kick things off, we have a huge guest, legendary guitarist Zakk Wylde. Zakk of course played with Ozzy Osbourne and his own band, Black Label Society and while he wasn't shredding, Zakk was taking in some pro-wrestling.
We talk about some of Zakk's favorite wrestlers, including the Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man Randy Savage, Undertaker, Chris Jericho and more. Zakk shares some tales of hanging backstage with the boys, witnessing WrestleMania VII live and Zakk even shares some opinions on the new Star Wars film (lots of spoilers).
Zakk Wylde's new solo album, Book Of Shadows II, his second solo album, is out on April 8 via eOne. Listen to the excellent first single, "Sleeping Dogs" here.
Check back for a new episode of Squared Circle Pit in about two weeks. Special thanks to Hugh Myrone for the intro music.
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