Bleeding Metal Podcast

Our podcast has a new name with which we begin a new chapter of the podcast and our lives. With Bleeding Metal, we want to approach the more  important topics, such as politics, mental health, feminism, LGBTQIA+ rights, among many others and be more vocal with our opinions around them...

Summer festivals are back this year and we welcome a familiar voice to talk about our experience at High 5ive Summer Fest 2022. Our former co-host Steffi joins us for this bonus episode to talk about the trip Kiki and she made to Stockholm for this Metalcore festival and the travels they each planned around it...

After around five years of complete silence, the German Symphonic Metal band XANDRIA returns with a new line-up and a new album. In this short bonus episode, Pia and Kiki discuss their opinions and interpretations of the full-length release that the band has optimistically titled "The Wonders Still Awaiting".

Recorded on January 27th, 2023...

The new IN FLAMES album "Foregone" has both of us, Pia and Kiki, hyped and impressed. In this episode, we discuss the history of the band, the role of the pandemic on "Foregone", and the lyrics on the album and how they relate to current topics in the world. 

Recorded on February 22nd, 2023...

Hungarian band THE HELLFREAKS has just caught our attention with their fifth and latest album "Pitch Black Sunset", which has been out since April 14th, 2023. It's quite the short album, which makes this bonus episode even shorter.

Recorded on May 8th, 2023.

Show notes:

• Check out THE HELLFREAKS' website...

What is intersectionality and how does it relate to white feminism? And what are our experiences as intersectional feminists in the Metal scene?

Kiki and Pia welcome HORIZIS-singer Martha to the podcast to talk about their experiences and views around the topic of feminism and the intersections each of them fall into, including being metalheads.  

Recorded on October 5th, 2021...

What is "mental load"? And how does it affect the romantic, creative, and other types of partnerships? And how can we share it so that the tasks are in fact shared equally?

Kiki and Pia discuss their experiences with unequal mental loads and how we can all try to be better.  

Recorded on October 21st, 2021...

In an extraordinary episode, Kiki and Pia recount their experiences at different music festivals, especially in the ten years of working together on Metal & High Heels turned the Bleeding Metal Podcast. But before we go down memory lane, we must address two pieces of news from the Metal scene that are important to us. We also have a special announcement...

Kiki and Pia connect through the timezones to chat about what music they've been listening to this year. We discuss our favourite albums, favourite songs, music videos but also the video games we have played throughout the second year of the pandemic - yes, someone had to say it.

Recorded on October 14th, 2021...

Will we ever grow tired of talking about Feminism and how it relates to the Metal scene? The answer is nope!

On a new episode of Bleeding Metal, Kiki and Pia are joined by Dr. Anna S. Rogers, sociologist and lecturer at the University of Georgia, who just released a book about Heavy Metal Feminism. Listen in to learn about concepts like "defensive othering", the male gaze in Metal, and tokenism...