Fans of progressive music can sometimes have trouble “getting into” newer bands in the genre.  The reasoning is different for everyone, but it can som...View Details

We have made fun of Cradle of Filth on this show for FAR too long.  It’s time to do the work and get the proper context behind this band.  Are these g...View Details

As we pivot away from nu-metal back into more familiar territory, Dan and Joe turn to Battlecross for salvation.  Is this band’s intense cocktail of m...View Details

On this episode recorded live Dan, Joe, Rance, and Mike sit down to discuss an important topic to us.  That topic is Elitism and Gatekeeping in heavy ...View Details

We finish up Nu-Metal May this year by discussing the often overlooked Flaw.  Is Flaw a hidden gem in nu-metal history?  Joe thinks so, some of the ti...View Details

Can star power association carry a band?  This is the question everyone had about Adema when the band broke into the nu-metal scene in 2001, and there...View Details

As Dan struggles to recover from the Papa Roach episode, Joe decided it was time for him to try out some Dope.  Love them or hate them, Dope makes hea...View Details

Papa Roach is one of the most popular Rock bands of the past 22 years.  Most people know Papa Roach for their nu-metal influenced hard rock of the ear...View Details

We kick off Nu-Metal May 2022 by taking a look at American Head Charge. A band that Dan claims to know little to nothing about, even though he seems t...View Details

Have you ever wondered where your favorite video game fits into the various subgenres of Heavy Metal?  Maybe you haven't, but we sure have!  Dan, Joe,...View Details

It’s time to party! Rance joins Dan and Joe to party!  And without further ado, we bring you this new episode of Discography Discussion all about Andr...View Details

Dan returns to the podcast this week, and the only way to welcome him back was to get down and dirty with some metalcore.  On this episode of Discogra...View Details

You want progressive?  You want heavy?  You want some metal!?  This episode of Discography Discussion has you covered as Joe welcomes Jon and Brian fr...View Details

David Bunton and Josh Childers of The Showdown sit down with Dan to give a very special announcement and then they spend some time doing what we do be...View Details

This band brings the heat, and the metalcore!  Bryan Patton joins Joe this week to talk about Texas in July.  No matter how much of the metalcore form...View Details

When one of the biggest voices in rock music is the subject of your podcast, you must summon one of the biggest voices in podcasting.  This week on Di...View Details

This week Dan sits down with Pat Servedio and Klank Dialosa of Klank to talk about their brand new album Between Unholy and Divine Vol 1.  Klank and P...View Details

Joined by Jon Drake of The Nerfherder Council, Dan and Joe spent a week with one of the biggest bands of all time.  With all the hype, and one album t...View Details

Tonight, Joel Bailey sits down with Dan and Joe to talk about the early days of metalcore, a time period when the style was exciting and new and didn'...View Details

Many years ago, we promised a Soulfly episode.  In fact, it was right after we finished our Sepultura discussion.  The time has come, and we thank you...View Details

At times it's refreshing to listen to a band that is uncompromising in their approach to heaviness.  Heaven Shall Burn is a staple in the collections ...View Details

When talking about doom metal there is always an expectation of crushing riffs, and an isolated feeling.  Pallbearer certainly provides this.  However...View Details

Defeated Sanity is a favorite amongst technical brutal death metal fans around the world.  On this episode of Discography Discussion Dan and Joe try t...View Details

Narnia is one of heavy metal’s best kept secrets.  This Swedish Christian heavy metal band has been unabashedly waving the flag of heavy metal for the...View Details

Friends of the show Matt Naas (of the Roach Koach Podcast) and Rance Denton (FPS Podcast, QBC Podcast, Published Author of His Ragged Company) join us...View Details

Crimson Thorn is one of the heaviest and brutal Christian death metal bands to hit the scene in the mid 90s.  Sporting the deepest vocals ever heard i...View Details

As Blood Runs Black was a band here to make a ruckus and that is exactly what they did over the course of 3 albums.  Was As Blood Runs Black one of th...View Details

Bryan Gray from The Blamed, and The Satire, sits down with Dan and Joe to talk all about everybody’s favorite rock band Stavesacre.  Dan and Joe give ...View Details

Silent Planet is one of the most celebrated bands in metalcore.  However, if somebody really listens to Silent Planet, they will be surprised at how m...View Details

Have you ever found a band that is better at what they do than other popular bands?  A Hill to Die Upon could give any blackened death metal band a ru...View Details