The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast/ The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast

Welcome to The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast. Today we're joined by my good friend, Mike Bennett.

Mike is a shredded, mentor figure at the gym we work out of.

He's built a large following on Instagram with his personal diary-like posts of his physique and life.

I think we could all learn something from him as he continues to be in great shape aged 57.

Show notes:

A long interest in fitness a very short history in bodybuilding.

Running.

The importance of tracking diet.

Will Dyson, The Anabolic Scientist (@theanabolicscientist)

Coming from an academic background and struggling with perfectionism.

Graft Haus Gym

Atomic Habits By James Clear

Good habits and sustainability = as little energy spent on thinking as possible

Learning about RPE & intent

When numbers get stuck in your head.

Connah Scholes (@connah92)

Biggest lessons from lifting over the last 7 years.

Decision-making & lifting.

Instagram: @im.old.but.not.dead

@theheavymetalstrengthcoach

My website: www.gainsglutesglitter.co.uk

Outro Music By The Infernal Sea

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Welcome back to The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast. 

Shrubs had fun on his new mattress last week but now we are back.

Talking Points:

The incredible UK sludge scene.

Conjuror- Cracks In The Pyre

Conjuror- Those Years Condemned

Panopticon- The Death of Baldr and The Coming War

Fen

Belphegor- Bondage Goat Zombie

Panzerfaust- The Men Of No Man's Land

Lords Of Chaos Documentary

Lords Of Chaos Book

Euronymous

Releases:

Conjuror- Pathos

Panopticon- And Again Into The Light

Misfire- Sympathy For The Ignorant

Belphegor- The Devils

Panzerfaust- The Astral Drain

Grima- Frostbitten

Further Listening

Our history of British Black Metal Venom Episode

UK Sludge- Row of Ashes on the podcast

Essential Metal Listening 

Mayhem- De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Thanks for listening.

Today, we're joined by my good friend Chris Sutcliffe (@cssfitness), a Leeds-based PT and endurance athlete to give his perspective on endurance training, the lessons we can learn from extremely tough endurance events, and Coronation Street. This episode was great fun. thanks for coming on, Chris.

Talking Points

Shout-outs

Website: www.cssfitness.co.uk

Instagram: @cssfitness

Outro Music By THE INFERNAL SEA

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In episode 74, we talk to Jon Krieger. Jon is the man behind BlackBraid, a Native American black metal project straight out of the Adirondack mountains. 

This is my favourite episode I've ever recorded. Give it a listen, check out Blackbraid and get the album BlackBraid I in your ears when it drops on August 26th, 2022.

Show Notes & Talking Points:

Singles & Videos

The River of Time Flows Through Me

Barefoot Ghost Dance on Blood Soaked Soil

The River of Time Flows Through Me (Lyric Video)

Topics

[Topic] Origin of the name Blackbraid.

[Topic] Why a solo project?

[Topic] The Adirondack Mountains and their importance to BlackBraid

[Topic] Native American history in the Adirondack Mountains

[Topic] First contact with Europeans in the Adirondacks.

[Topic] The Mohawk People

[Topic] The Iroquois People

Map of the Adirondacks

[Topic] What about the harsh wilderness creates such amazing black metal?

[Topic] The influence of summer, love, and happiness on his BlackBraid.

[Topic] Did he choose black metal, or did black metal choose him?

[Topic] Norse Paganism

[Topic] Finnish black metal

[Topic] Satanic black metal

[Band] Wolves In The Throne Room

[Band] Panopticon

[Band] Winterfylleth

[Topic] Using black metal as a way to spread knowledge, mythology, and awareness.

[Topic] Did he expect to be answering questions about Native American culture when he was working on this album?

[Topic] "The first time I've done vocals for anything"

[Topic] Why call it BlackBraid I?

[Topic] The very successful pre-order.

[Quote] "The day I day, bury me amongst the stars and worship my memory as the warm autumn wind"

[Topic] The story behind the album artwork

Adrian Baxter artwork

[Topic] Taking BlackBraid on the road

[Topic] Is singing and playing guitar live a compromise he's willing to make?

[Topic] BlackBraid in the Uk and Europe?

[Topic] Making a show a ritual ala Watain and Wolves In The Throne Room

[Topic] What is the best way to listen to the album?

Tracklist

1. The River of Time Flows Through Me

2. As the Creek Flows Softly By

3. Sacandaga

4. Barefoot Ghost Dance on Bloodsoaked Soil

5. Warm Wind Whispering Softly Through Hemlock at Dusk

6. Prying Open the Jaws of Eternity

Website

BlackBraid Bandcamp

BlackBraid Instagram

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we discuss another week of crushing metal goodness.

Today's talking points:

Final Light- Final Light

Perturbator

Cult Of Luna

What is dark wave?

What is post-metal?

Roadburn

Jo Quail Roadburn Special

Failed Humanity- The Sound Of Razors Through Flesh

Saor- Origins

Werewolves- From Cave To The grave

The Antichrist imperium

Row Of Ashes interview

Gozer- An Endless Static

Amenra

Hundred Year Old Man

Essential Metal Listening

Dimmu Borgir- Death Cult Armageddon

Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse Video

Intro music by WITCHERY

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Join The Heavy Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we discuss the Bal-Sagoth album BATTLE MAGIC. This is part 4 in our series about Bal-Sagoth and part of the larger series, THE HISTORY OF BRITISH BLACK METAL.

Useful links & Further Reading

Cacophonous Records

Bal-Sagoth Part 1 

Part 2 

Part 3

Academy Studios

Byron Roberts

Nuclear Blast

Producer Mags

Warrior King Caylen-Tor

The Caylen Tor books

DMR books

Tracklist:

Battle Magic 2:45

Naked Steel (The Warrior's Saga) 4:44

A Tale From The Deep Woods 5:36

Return To The Praesidium Of Ys 6:29

Crystal Shards 2:17

The Dark Liege Of Chaos Is Unleashed At The Ensorcelled Shrine Of A'zura-Kai (The Splendour Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire Part II) 4:14

When Rides The Scion Of Storms 6:16

Blood Slakes The Sand At The Circus Maximus 8:53

Thwarted By The Dark (Blade Of The Vampire Hunter) 6:18 

And Atlantis Falls... 2:22

Artwork

Bal-Sagoth on Spotify

The Precambrian age

Boudica

The Circus Maximus

Emperor Nero

Hans Zimmer

Inro Music By Witchery

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Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we discuss some lovely new releases from the world of metal featuring:

Kreator- Hate Uber Alles

Avarsa- Ascending Into Perdition

Kruelty/Terminal Nation Split

White Ward- False Light

Hundred Year Old Man- Sleep In Light

Amenra

Conjuror

The episode with Row Of Ashes

Essential Metal Listening

Amenra- Mass 4

INSTAGRAM

The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast: @grumpymetalheads

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach: @theheavymetalstrengthcoach

Shrubs: @shrub666

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In today's banger of an episode we have Chris Wilson & Dan Arrowsmith on to talk about their latest album BLEACHING HEAT. Chris & Dan are two of the three members of the British sludge trio Row Of Ashes. This album is a piece of masterful heaviness that few albums get near. We delve into the following talking points:

Bleaching Heat

Let The Long Night Fade old song, with previous lead singer 

Chris Wilson

Dan Arrowsmith

Surviving Sounds Label. "Total Catharsis through heavy sounds"

Hundred Year Old Man

Underdark

Rob Hobson Mixing Engineer

Before & After Bleaching Heat Mixing Comparison

Hidden Mothers

Digital and cassette release of Bleaching Heat

Joe's Garage Bristol

Where did the lyrics come from?

Cormac McCarthy

The influence of hip hop on the album.

Unsane

Will Haven

Faith No More

Relapse Records

Pig Destroyer

Mogwai

Neurosis

The laundry-based origin of the album title.

The Underworld London

Show with Will Haven

The laundry sample.

Kleaver

Breakthrough moments.

Useful Links

Official Bandcamp

Row Of Ashes Instagram

Row Of Ashes YouTube

Row Of Ashes Spotify

Intro Music By WITCHERY

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@theheavymetalstrengthcoach

Join Shrubs666 & The Heavy Metal Strength Coach as we discuss another week in metal featuring such classic listens as:

Doldrum- The Knocking Or The Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance

A Forest Of Stars

Panopticon

Casket Feeder- Servants Of Violence

Temple Of Void- Summoning The Slayer

Hooded Menace

Coffins

Paradise Lost

Mariusz Lewandowski art

Black Void

White Void

Kvelertak

Gnome- Wecenclas

Celtic Frost

Martin Ain

Essential Metal Listen

Triptykon- Eparistera Daimones

Intro Music By Witchery

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Living Up To Our Potential

Reanimate Coaching

Talking Points:

SAS Who Dares Wins

Realizing you are only operating at 40% capacity.

Overcoming fear.

Suffering increases the empathy of a coach.

The amount of suffering required to learn a lesson is different when someone has pushed themself all their life.

The fear of not living up to our potential.

Transitioning from online coaching back into 1-1.

The loneliness of online coaching.

Similarities between online coaching and online gaming.

Lisa Lewis and fostering autonomy.

Are we doing things to feel validated by ourselves or seeking validation from our parents?

Differences from cut to cut.

Managing an extreme cut while in a relationship.

Where to find Reanne online:

Instagram: @reanne_reanimatecoaching

Outro Music:

Witchery

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