The Department of Metal Antiquities

In 1988 Metallica's Kirk Hammett joined Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde, and some other gents for an epic thrash metal recording session.

With Kirk manning the board, Blind Illusion churned out an album full of riffs and spliffs.

Join Nik and Duncan as they deep dive into this forgotten record.

Back in 1985, Jimmy Page was about to awaken from his slumber. The Firm was about to drop, but he also did this interesting thing with Roy Harper.

Did you ever thing the worlds of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin might collide with Roy Harper?

Well, check that out and many other fun facts!

Let's get into the Wayback Machine (a device I stole from Stuff You Should Know who stole it from Sherman and Peabody) and check out a time in the middle aughts when all of the founding metal bands were back together and touring the world.

So, after one of those reunions fizzles out, Black Sabbath decides to completely repeat their history and calls up Dio.

Check in to see how this goes.

It's hard to imagine now after The Dirt, the upcoming (sold out) stadium tour, the many, many well attended headlining tours, but in the middle of the 1990's, Motley Crue couldn't get arrested. 

After Vince Neil's (contested) departure, John Corabi of The Scream took over as the vocalist and the band dropped their self titled album sans the oomlauts. There are many fans of a certain age who see this album as a lost gem, a hidden city if you will, in the canon of Motley Crue.

Duncan and Nik are ready to rip into it and see how it holds up. If you need more John Crabs Corabi action, check out Episode 54 of the Department of Metal Antiquities, where we dissected the next album Corabi would sing on.

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Year's before Tommy Thayer was singing Shock Me with Kiss, he was singing Shock Me with Cold Gin, often in front of Kiss. Years before that, he was a member of the glam hair band, Black'n'Blue with Jamie St. James and some other kids.

This week, Duncan and Nik deep dive into this forgotten LP. What's really special about this one is all the Kiss talk it engenders. It's produced by one Gene Simmons.

Find out what Kiss is in these grooves.

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In 1993, David Coverdale and Jimmy Page joined forces in what should have been the most momentous album of the 90's.

Join us as we deep dive into the music, the politics, and the drama surrounding this forgotten LP.

Theme Music: https://ashenhorde.bandcamp.com/

Come have some fun with us as we play with Twisted Sister's fourth album.

You know the drill. Let's see if we spin it or bin it.

Theme Music: https://thedeadspace12xu.bandcamp.com/album/faker

It's always a pleasure when we are joined by Keefy of Ghost Cult.

Join us as we meander through the last album by Syd Barrett.

Theme Music: https://mikenicolai.bandcamp.com/album/a-line-cooks-guide-to-new-satanic-empires

So, if you've just left a famous band who's got multiple platinum awards to your name, a fridge full of Heineken, and nothing to do.

What do you do?

If you're Brad Whitford, you call up Derek St. Holmes to make the rippin'-est blues rock album you can make and then go on tour to show the fans what's up!

Join Duncan and Nik as they check out the first album these two did before their reunion decades later.

Theme Music: https://djunah.bandcamp.com/album/ex-voto

Did you hear about the time that Jethro Tull defeated Metallica for the coveted, first ever, heavy metal Grammy?

You know what's odd about that whole thing?

I never once heard anything about the album that did in fact win.

Let's take some time now and get to know it shall we?