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NoFriender continues his ongoing series into the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal music. After a series of guitarists, 17 year old Bobby Gustafson joins the band Overkill and the band completes its transformation from metal cover band to original thrash metal band.

If we have learned anything about people over the years it is that there is a segment of us that seek out the most dangerous and extreme. So, it should come as no surprise that in the area of the occult and esoteric there are those who seek out the "most evil" and "most terrifying" book.  Several years ago, people searching for just such a book on the internet began being directed to a vague page about a documentary for the most evil book ever discovered. A book which, after reading, people went mad. What is the true story of the Oriuago?

NoFriender continues his deep dive look into the history of the thrash metal band Overkill. On this episode - finding a guitarist. The Thrash Metal Show podcast is a documentary style podcast exploring the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal music featuring such bands as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, and other highly influential thrash bands such as Overkill and more. The Thrash Metal Show Podcast is part of the When It Was Cool Podcast Network.

A rare mailbag and feedback show for DragonKing Dark Podcast but recently our shows on society, social unrest, and fear have generated a lot of conversation and host Karl Stern is going to share that with you. Despite these seemingly dire times, there is hope and we hear from a number of people this week one topics ranging from masks to social unrest and more. I hope you enjoy hearing from other listeners of the show!

NoFriender returns with the Thrash Metal Show Podcast to continue his long form history of the band Overkill. In this episode he talks Virgin Killers and the birth of Overkill. When he can bothered to do a show, NoFriender, the enigmatic host of the Thrash Metal Show Podcast covers the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal often with the speed of a sloth and the grace of gazelle.

The Devil and Father Amorth is a 2017 documentary film directed by William Friedkin showing the ninth exorcism of an Italian woman in the village of Venafro referred to as "Cristina", this time performed by Father Gabriele Amorth.  William Friedkin was, of course, the director of The Exorcist in 1973 and he wanted to see an actual exorcism, so he finally got to and filmed it for us all to see. What did an actual exorcism look like? Did it make me a believer? What can we make of exorcisms and demonic possession? Join me as we examine The Devil and Father Amorth.

I can feel the temperature rising, can't you? You can't escape the images of anger and violence in today's society, but what are we all so mad about? Turns out, there are plenty of reasons real and imagined.  Periodically, humans seem to lose sight of all reason and embark on witch hunts. Even a cursory study of history shows over and over again we collectively need to hunt and burn perceived evil and impose our vision of good... and we seem to be doing it again. Let's talk about it.

I'm sure you've noticed... we are having a hard time getting along with one another lately. Even the simplest of things seem to trigger people. One would think simply asking the public to wear a mask to slow the spread of a disease would be met with, "Oh sure, that's easy." Instead it's been met with wild eyes, slobber, and the insinuation that this easy request is an act of humiliation and enslavement. Seems like there's something deeper to it. And there is. There is a reason that Karen is going nuts in Walmart, there is a reason people are destroying property and burning cities, there is a reason we distrust even the mildest things the government asks and are now turning on each other. We've been conditioned to do it.

NoFriender is joined on this edition of the Thrash Metal Show Podcast by Howard H. Smith to continue our look at the history of Acid Reign and the process of putting a band together. The diabolical duo conclude by singing Vio-lence’s opus Kill On Command a cappella. The origins and evolution of thrash heavy metal continue on the NoFriender Thrash Metal Show Podcast from When It Was Cool.

DragonKing Dark gets darker again this week as we look at a 2011 documentary titled The Devil We Know. This documentary takes a look back at the historic origins of Satan. You might be saying, hey Karl, the origins of the devil are from the Bible, and while that is true the devil we know is really different than the one presented in the pages of the scripture. So how did we get from this etherial prosecutor for God to the lord of evil and master of demons? The answers are surprising.