The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast/ The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast

What a episode we have for you today. We were joined by the mighty Copespeaker who recently released their debut self-titled album CODESPEAKER.

We spoke to vocalist Greg Armstrong and guitarist Bob Fraser for their thoughts, the background of the band, and many other subjects.

Album- Codespeaker

The musical problems of particle physics (2.00)

Foundation of the band (3.00)

The importance of the track listing (5.40)

The story behind 'Carthage' the video (7.00)

The story behind the 'Phyrric' video (10.17)

Openness issues (12.17)

Danny Champion of Nothing (16.20)

The story behing Fraktur (18.00)

Giant Squid (21.57)

The story of Vrodi (23.30)

Oriflamme (25.05)

Hireath- (27.00)

Why is Hireath the closing song? (28.29)

Why put the first clean vocals mid-way through the album? (30.45)

The importance of 'the fuzz' (32.22)

"WE ARE NOT GENRE" 37.00)

Jazz & power violence (39.00)

Artwork of the album (39.50)

Current touring plans (42.00)

Tour Bus Bangers (45.00)

clipping. (46.00)

Top 2 horror films (47.15)

Other bands:

Tiberius

Tiberius videos of stop motion in the kitchen

Paper Rifles

Frontierer

Converge

Boss Keloid

Cult of Luna

Isis

iDLES

Peter Gabriel

Charles Mingus

clipping.

Party Cannon

Other important figures

Chris from Black Mass Video & Tiberius

Emperor Montezuma

HP Lovecraft

Iain M Banks

Pedra from Frontierer

Film Name Drops

Suspiria & The Red Sheets Scene

Midsommar

Martyrs

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Exorcist

Historical Events

The Taiping Rebellion

Gigs

Useful links

Instagram

Bandcamp

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we discuss another week of metal releases for your enjoyment.

Show notes:

Obituary- Dying Of Everything

Florida death metal scene

Mariusz Lewandowski

Misþyrming- Med Hamri

Moonlight Sorcery- Nightwind

Lord Of The Lost- Blood & Glitter

Alphabet Essential Metal Listening

Altar Of Plagues- Teethed Glory & Injury

Anaal Nathrakh- Hell Is Empty & All The Devils Are Here

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we discuss the latest part of our History Of British Black Metal series. Here, we talk about the album 'Atlantis Ascendant' from the mighty Bal-Sagoth

Key Figures

Byron Roberts

The Maudlings

Dave Macintosh

Mark Greenwell

Robert Magoolagan

Martin Handford

Simon Lee Photography

Fictional Characters

Professor Caleb Blackthorne III

Dr. Ignatius Stone

Key Locations

Angkor Wat

Ur

Tracklist

1. "The Epsilon Exordium"

2. "Atlantis Ascendant"

3. "Draconis Albionensis"

4. "Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers"

5. "The Ghosts of Angkor Wat"

6. "Cry Havoc for Glory, and the Annihilation of the Titans of Chaos (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, Part III)"

7. "The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur"

8. "In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica"

9. "The Chronicle of Shadows"

10. "Six Keys to the Onyx Pyramid"2:08Total length:48:53

Other Bands

Korpiklaani

Wintersun

Dimmu Borgir

Nile

Lyric Videos

"Draconis Albionensis"

"Atlantis Ascendant"

Bal-Sagoth Website

Welcome to the episode you've all been waiting for :D 

We go through each of our top 10 albums of 2022 to rapturous applause and universal acclaim.

Shrubs Top 10

10. Panzerfaust- The Suns Of Perdition Chapter 3

9. Blind Guardian- The God Machine

8. Hundred Year Old Man- Sleep In Light

7. Rolo Tomassi- Where Myth Becomes Memory

6. Gaerea- Mirage

5. Abstract Illusion- Woe

4. Cult Of Luna- The Long Road North

3. Black Braid- Black Braid I

2. ORM- Intet Altet

1. White Ward- False Light

Heavy Metal Strength Coach Top 10

10. Row Of Ashes- Bleaching Heat

9. Rammstein- Zeit

8. Toadeater- Bexadde

7. Absent In Body- Plague God

6. High Command- Eclipse Of The Dual Moons

5. Kurokuma- Born Of Obsidian

4. Electric Callboy- Tekkno

3. Black Braid- Black Braid I

2. Gearea- Mirage

1. Zeal & Ardor- Zeal & Ardor

Further Links

Metal 2 The Masses

Welcome to The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast with The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666. This week we discuss the following music and talking points:

SpiritWorld- Deathwestern

Vocalist from Integrity

High Command- Eclipse Of The Dual Moons

Razzle

Karg- Resignation

Violet Cold

Monolithe- Cosmodron

Elder- Innate Passage

Sisters Of Suffocation- Eradication

Essential Metal Listening

Brain Drill- Apocalyptic Feasting

This week, The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 welcome UK Black Metallers Aklash to the show.

Talking Points

The origin of the name Aklash.

The Aklash curry house UK tour

Wolves In The Throne Room

Heathenism

Animism

Paganism

Neo-druidism

The artistic melange.

Mountainscape

Mountainscape review episode

Black Braid episode

Irish folk music.

The diverse UK black metal scene.

Guerilla church recordings.

The Cossack

British Ukrainian Aid

Doom Over Kiev Festival

Experiences playing Portugal.

Darkness Over Cumbria

Reaper Festival

A Sacrifice Of Guinness

The importance of BBC Radio 3

Useful Links

Aklash Bandcamp

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach @shrubs666

Podcast Website

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach and Shrubs666 for another grumpy week of metal recommendations featuring:

Morbikon- Ov Mournful Twilight (a mix of Municipal Waste and Finntroll

Black Anvil

Toadeater- Bexadde

Codespeaker

Episode with Black Braid

Drudkh- All Belong To The Night

Mountainscape- Atoms Unfurling

Essential Metal Listening

Discharge- Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

Origins of D Beat

Fat Loss For Busy Parents

Talking Points

- His backstory

- His experiences as a parent

- Experiences in his early career

- Making the jump to a niche

- Dieting into a birth

- The importance of sleep 

- The stress of finance

- Does everyone need a big goal as a new parent?

- Showing up for yourself.

- Should being busy stop a parent from losing fat?

- What does consistency look like?

- The first habit

- Gina Conley on the podcast

- Addressing decision fatigue

- Feeling in control

- Being kind to yourself

- What to chase in the gym; calorie burn or getting stronger?

Mentors

Tom Mac @Tommac_scale

Paul's Instagram: @paul.broadbent.fllc

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Welcome to The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast. Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach and Shrubs666 in another grumpy chat about metal, new releases, gigs and essential metal listening.

Talking Points

Powerlifting meet round-up

Gigs

Conjurer live at Key Club

Sugar Horse

Tusker

Damnation 2022

Irist

Full Of Hell

Pig Destroyer

Wolves In The Throne Room

At The Gates

Converge

Godflesh

Incantation

Misery Index

Battalions/Row Of Ashes The Fenton

Grub Nap

Essential Metal Listening

Dismember- Like An Ever Flowing Stream

Welcome to episode 84 of The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast. @theheavymetalstrengthcoach and @shrubs666 discuss the following in another rambling episode of heavy metal goodness:

Gigs

Fatalist/Calligram gig at Boom, Leeds

Fatalist bandcamp

Calligram bandcamp

Talking Points

What is d-beat?

Cro-Mags

Agnostic Front

Cabal- Magna Interitus

Abduction- Black Blood

The episode with Blood Countess

Ninkharsag

Ggu:ll- Ex Est

Essential Metal Listening

Twisted Sister- Stay Hungry

We Are Twisted Sister

PMRC Congress Hearings