Chris and J are ready for a summer full of outdoor concerts, grilling and beer drinking. This episode is all about metal songs for your summer. 

Our picks of the week: J - Nervosa - Downfall of Mankind; Chris - Tad Morose - Chapter X

Some of our favorite summer songs include: Metallica - Wherever I may Roam & Enter Sandman; Accept - Son of a bitch, Judas Priest - Bloodstone; Dio - Don’t talk to strangers & Stand Up and Shout; Iron Maiden - Wasted Years; DLR - Just Like Paradise; Megadeth - Hangar 18; Pantera - Mouth for War & Domination; Anthrax - Gung Ho & Caught in a Mosh; Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart & Livewire; AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill; Alestorm - Drink; Zimmer’s Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil; Candlemass - If I Ever Die; Exumer - Sacred Defense; Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua; Motorhead - Civil War & I don’t believe a word; Slayer - South of Heaven, Hell Awaits (live); Ghoul - Guitarmegeddon & Humans til Deth; Skid Row - Monkey Business; Darkseed - Forever Darkness; Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal; GNR - You Could Be Mine; In Flames - Only for the Weak; Ozzy - Shot in the Dark & Perry Mason, Queensryche - I don’t believe in love; Scorpions - The Zoo; Styx - Blue Collar Man; Ted Nugent - Stranglehold; Ugly Kid Joe - Neighbor; Helloween - I want out; Hammerfall - Renegade

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This week, Chris and J put on some lipstick, tease their hair, and grab some spandex (ok, not really) and talk Hair Metal! Special thanks to the band Within the Fire for letting us feature a a clip from "Three Days ago" from their album Still Burning. Check that band out at https://www.facebook.com/WithinTheFire/

Our picks of the week: J - Ghost - Prequelle; Chris - Within the Fire - Still Burning

Some of our favorite hair metal albums include: Dokken - Under Lock and Key; Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love & Dr. Feelgood; Lita Ford - Lita; Badlands - Badlands; Warant-Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich & Cherry Pie; Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry; Quiet Riot - Metal Health; Skid Row - Slave to the Grind & Skid Row; Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees; Cinderella - Long Cold Winter; Stryper - To Hell With the Devil, Bonham - The Disregard of Timekeeping, Extreme - Extreme; Mr. Big - Mr. Big; Night Ranger - Midnight Madness, Slaughter - Stick it to Ya; Great White - Twice Shy

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What makes a great live album? Chris and J talk about some of their favorites. 

Our picks of the week: J - Ghoul - Dungeon Bastards; Chris - Angelus Apatrida - Cabaret de la Guillotine

Some of our favorite live albums include: Slayer - Live Decade of Aggression; Iced Earth - Alive in Athens; Accept - Restless and Live; Obituary - Dead; Pantera - Live 101 Proof; Blind Guardian - Live Beyond the Spheres; King's X - Live All Over the Place; Ghost - Ceremony and Devotion; W.A.S.P. - Double Live Assassin; Iron Maiden - Live After Death; Ozzy Osbourne - Live & Loud, Tribute to Randy Rhoads, Speak of the Devil; Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism

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What would you do if you were trapped and only had 10 albums that you could listen to? This episode, Chris and J talk about their desert island top ten albums. This episode features a clip from the song "Necromancers" by Amorphia. 

Our picks of the week: J - Amorphia - Arms to Death; Chris - Overkill - Live in Overhausen (Blu Ray/CD)

Our Desert Island Top Ten Albums: 

J: Havok - Conformicide; Fear Factory- Demanufacture; Anthrax - Among the Living; Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast; Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction; Ozzy - Diary of a Madman; Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power; NIN - Downward Spiral; Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me; Slayer - Haunting the Chapel,

Chris: Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray, Iced Earth - The Dark Saga; Rush - 2112, Paradise Lost - Draconian Times; Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth; My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings; Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World; Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime; Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day; King Diamond - Abigail

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Metal and drinking go hand in hand. This episode is all about drinking songs. 

Our picks of the week: J - Anthrax - Kings Among Scotland (DVD); Chris - Anthrax - Attack of the Killer B's

Some of our drinking songs include: Alestorm - Drink; AC/DC - Have a Drink on Me; Black Label Society - Stoned and Drunk; Tankard - Rest in Beer, Municipal Waste - Beer Pressure; Pantera - Goddamn Electric; Metallica (Thin Lizzy) - Whiskey in the Jar; Kiss - Cold Gin; George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One beer & I Drink Alone; Holy Moses (Dead Kennedys) - Too Drunk to F***; Thrawsunblat - Goose River (Mourner's March); Blackguard - This Round's On Me; Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk; ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers; W.A.S.P. - Blind in Texas; Clutch - Drink to the Dead; Ozzy - Demon Alcohol; Korpiklaani - Happy Little Boozer

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This episode is all about heavy metal in the 1990's. Some of it was great, some was downright horrible. 

Our picks of the week: J - Epica - The Classical Conspiracy; Chris - Deicide - In the Minds of Evil

Some of our 90's albums include: Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses; Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power & Far Beyond Driven; Prong - Cleansing; White Zombie - La Sexorcisto & Astro Creep: 2000; Paradise Lost - Icon & Draconian Times; Fear Factory - Demanufacture; Rammstein - Sehnsucht; Pist-On - Number One; 

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This episode continues our series of essential albums focusing on modern thrash albums. This week highlights the newer bands that have brought thrash back to the forefront of metal. 

Our picks of the week: J - Jungle Rot - What Horrors Await; Chris - Cinderella - Long, Cold Winter

Our essential modern thrash albums include: Carnal Forge - The More You Suffer; Dr. Living Dead! - Dr. Living Dead!; Eruption - Cloaks of Obivion; Evile - Enter the Grave & Infected Nation; Game Over - Burst Into the Quiet; Harlott - Extinction; The Haunted - Made Me Do It; Havok - Time Is Up & Conformicide; Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying; Nervosa - Agony; Powertrip - Nightmare Logic; Terrifier - Weapons of Thrash Distruction; Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished, Witchery - Restless and Dead

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This episode continues our series of essential albums focusing on classic thrash metal. This episode will specifically focus on the classic thrash albums by bands other than Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer, and will save modern thrash bands and modern albums by classic bands for another episode. Chris and J will have a drink and say hello from the gutter!

Our picks of the week: J - Annihilator - For the Demented; Chris - Borknagar - Urd

Our essential albums classic thrash albums include: Anthrax - Spreading the Disease; Exodus - Bonded by Blood & Fabulous Disaster; Annihilator - Alice in Hell; Coroner - Punishment for Decadence; Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal; Death Angel - The Ultra Violence; Destruction - Infernal Overkill & Sentence of Death (EP); Evildead - Annihilation of Civilation; Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver; Kreator - Extreme Aggression; Overkill - Taking Over & Under the Influence; Nuclear Assault - Game Over & Handle With Care; Sacred Reich - Ignorance & Surf Nicaragua, Sepultura - Beneath the Remains; Sodom - Agent Orange, Tankard - Zombie Attack & Chemical Invasion, Testament - The Legacy & The New Order

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Chris and J discuss the state of heavy metal in 2018. From spinning vinyl to discussing what makes someone a "poser", this episode is all about today's world of heavy metal. 

Our picks of the week: J - Bloodletter - Under the Dark Mark; Chris - Arch Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance

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Do you hate it when your favorite band puts out an amazing album and there's just one song on it you can't stand? Chris and J talk about those songs by great bands on great albums that stink up the whole record. Some are laughable. Some are just plain terrible. 

Our picks of the week: J - Megadeth - Dystopia; Chris - Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins

Our Bad Songs by Great Bands include: Megadeth - Psychotron; Ozzy - No Bone Movies; Sepultura - Ratamahatta & Biotech is Godzilla; Pantera - Shattered; Iron Maiden - Mother Russia (And others from No Prayer for the Dying); Yngwie Malmsteen - Now Your Ships Are Burned; Testament - The Ballad; Obituary - Don't care; Metallica - Escape

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