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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 6 hours 31 minutes
episode 4: Everything Old is New Again Part 2: Judas Priest, Motorhead, and more in 1980!
Wherein Eric and John take a look at what some of the classic metal bands discussed in season #1 were up to in the year 1980. Part 2 focuses on Judas Priest (British Steel) and Motorhead (Ace of Spades), as well as a look in on what all the other season #1 bands discussed were up to in and around the year of our lord 1980.
Assigned Listening #1: option A Judas Priest- "Breaking the Law" https://www.youtube...
episode 3: Our 2nd Annual Halloween Spooktacular Bonus Episode: The Extreme Metal Project
Wherein Eric braves both the end of the world and John's horrifying, disembodied groans and shrieks in order to bring you the haunting tale of three of the foundational bands of extreme metal: Hellhammer, Bathory, and Mantas (with just a touch of Venom thrown in for good measure)! Assigned listening #1: Venom- Welcome to Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0VvHZMaTs Assigned listening #2: Hellhammer- Triumph of Death https://www.youtube...
episode 2: Everything Old is New Again Part 1: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne in 1980!
Wherein Eric and John take a look at what the mighty Black Sabbath (Heaven and Hell) and the newly musically single Ozzy Osbourne (Blizzard of Ozz) were up to as a new decade dawned.
Assigned Listening #1: Black Sabbath- "Heaven and Hell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRA7UXlGu8
Assigned Listening #2: Ozzy Osbourne- "Mr. Crowley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0RE230PlX4
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episode 1: Iron Maiden’s Gonna Get You!
Wherein Eric and John return to the fray for season #2, and explore the rise and debut album of one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time, the mighty Iron Maiden!
Assigned Listening #1: "Prowler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnCHrQqmN0Q
Assigned Listening #2: "Running Free" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbK9vqF8EOc
Assigned Listening #3: "Iron Maiden" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXuD3cZUpm8
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episode 10: A Seventies Sabbath Season Finale Spectacular!
Wherein Eric, John, and very special guest author and Sabbath scholar Nolan Stolz pick up right where we left off on episode #1, exploring 1970's Black Sabbath from the release of the seminal Paranoid through Never Say Die! and Ozzy's departure at the end of the decade.
Music listening break #1: "Children of the Grave" from Master of Reality https://youtu.be/X01Envh1kSA
Music listening break #2: "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath https://youtu...
episode 9: A Very Heavy Metal 101 Listener's Guide to the Heavy Metal of the 1970s
Wherein Eric and John get down to the business of creating a concrete list of essential heavy metal bands and albums from the 1970s for a listener's "starter pack" of music from metal's first decade. We're more about the journey than the destination, but a short form of the list is available from 39:31-40:54.
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episode 8: The Roots of Heavy Metal #1: 18th and 19th Century Virtuosi/Composers (The Classical Roots of Metal)
Wherein Eric and John explore the surprising amount of interconnectivity and influence between arguably the least and most prestigious of musical genres, heavy metal and classical music, via comparisons of Deep Purple with Antonio Vivaldi and Eddie Van Halen with Niccolò Paganini...
episode 7: Heavy metal’s first musical genius: The story of Van Halen 1
Wherein Eric and John wax rhapsodic about the majestic debut album of Van Halen, arguably the single most important heavy metal release of the 1970s by a band not named Black Sabbath.
Here is a link to a recording of this episode's discussed track, "I'm the One" from the self-titled Van Halen debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzkXGIRaxcI
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episode 6: That's Not Heavy Metal!
Wherein Eric and John establish a foolproof, highly scientific (ish) taxonomy of early heavy metal, tour the porous and contentious borderlands separating "heavy metal" from "hard rock", and delve into the metal side of Boston's most favorite musical sons, Aerosmith, and their masterpiece "Toys in the Attic".
Here is a handy link to a recording of this episode's discussed track, "Round and Round" from the album Toys in the Attic: https://www.youtube...
episode 5: A Shock Rock Double Dose: The Image and Dark Theatricality of Heavy Metal
Wherein Eric and John explore the aesthetic look of heavy metal fans and artists, delve into the genre's darkly theatrical onstage sensibilities, and take a peak at the work of two of the most influential shock rock acts of the 1970s: Alice Cooper and Kiss.
Here is a link to the excellent live montage video of "Deuce" from Alive! that Eric and John watched: https://youtu...