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Metal Nerdery Podcast
Heavy Metal podcast covering Thrash, Classic Metal, Album Reviews and Rankings. From SABBATH to SLAYER, Join Us as we Dive into all things Metal with an extra side of nonsense
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#315 MASTODON CHAPTER II: 2010-2025
“That’s the thing about music…it’s time stamped…it’s the soundtrack of our lives…especially for metal heads…” The metal world mourns the tragic loss of another…
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#314 – MEGADETH: COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION
“We can’t ever talk about this so let’s talk about not talking about it when we’re talking about it…” Released on July 14th, 1992, COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION, the…
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#313 MAKE-UP IN METAL
“I like feet, bro…” Whether it’s the “spooky kabuki KISS” face paint of the 70’s, the “ultra gloves of shame glam KISS” from the 80’s, or the black metal…
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#312 SLAYER CHRIST ILLUSION Album Review
“When you thought it was over…it did kind of a slide down…and then he slid back up and back down again…and then he does it again…” August 8, 2006, marks the…
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#311 OZZY OSBOURNE – IN MEMORIAM
“It’s strange to think about a world without The Prince of Darkness…” It all started on February 13, 1970, with the ominous sounds of chapel bells, thunder…
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#310 2nd Albums BETTER or WORSE than the 1st
“Careful back there…” Generally speaking, an artist’s DEBUT ALBUM will often be quite good, while their SOPHOMORE ALBUM, in contrast, will often be far more…
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#309 – Sabbath: BACK TO THE BEGINNING
“There were some heroes and there were some zeroes…” BACK TO THE BEGINNING, the final concert performance by the O.G. lineup of BLACK SABBATH featuring Bill…
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#308 GREAT METAL ALBUMS RUINED BY ONE SONG
“If you’ve got a whole room full of 10’s, that’s the 5…” We’ve all been there. Every one of us have experienced an album where it was “almost perfect” front to…
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#307 DEATH MATCH: THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
“I thought it was gonna be tight…” 1982 –Michael Jackson releases what would become the biggest selling album in music history with Thriller, Survivor and…
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#306 GOD IN METAL
“I’ll take your ‘Lord of This World’ and raise you ‘After Forever’…” From “The Moses story” to “the shortest verse in The Good Book” to one of the creepiest…
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#305 SUNSET STRIP DEATH MATCH: METAL HEALTH vs OUT OF THE CELLAR
“If they’re not fat, they’re soft…” Think back to The Sunset Strip and the emerging metal scene of the early 80’s, full of sleaze, shred, and riffs, long…
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#304 METALLICA M72 TOUR CONCERT REVIEW
“It was almost too big…” Get ready for a rebuttal from “Captain Backpedal” after being challenged to a fight on a “goat farm”, discover the “magic number”…
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#303 MACHINE HEAD: BURN MY EYES Album Review
“It’s like the Sam Kinison meets Bobcat Goldthwait of dogs…” Bridging the gap between the thrash metal of the late 80’s and early 90’s and the tidal wave of…
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#302 STEEL PANTHER: INSIDE THE METAL
“Wait, the reason you cut your hair was for 2 dudes?” It’s officially our 6th anniversary! That’s right, 6 years of metal discussions, ludicrous nonsense, and…
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#301 THE METAL DAYS OF YORE: OUR FORMATIVE METAL YEARS
“You’ll be divorced, alone, and flaccid…” Let’s go back a few years, back to a time when we were young and impressionable and just starting out on our…
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#300 THE INSTRUMENTAL.... CHRONICLES
“If anything, it’s three 7’s…and one of them has a line in the middle…” This episode is effectively “nonverbal” in that it contains zero lyrics and is truly…
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#299 - PRODUCER SPOTLIGHT: TERRY DATE
“You’re not supposed to swallow it…but it’s fine to have it in your mouth.” Whether it’s the debut from Metal Church or Dream Theater, or the swansong from…
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#298 Angel of Death - BREAKDOWN
“I know who you’re talking about!” So, we did a thing… After almost 6 years into this podcast, this is the first time we’ve ever done a BREAKDOWN of a single…
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#297 Metal News and Happenings for April 2025
“Let me see your mouth…” Prepare to learn the proper “order of operations” with regard to relaxers and hear some hilarious post 4/20 tales that will force you…
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#296 DOWN III: OVER THE UNDER Album Review
“One’s a dude, right? I want the one that’s NOT the dude…” DOWN III: OVER THE UNDER, the 3rd studio offering from southern fried doom lords DOWN, has a very…
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#295 - METALCORE
Summary: “I’m sorry, what was that? No, the second part…the part that came after that…” METALCORE seems to be all over the place, in that its components are…
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#294 WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR BON SCOTT
WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR BON SCOTT (a continuation of our AC/DC Side 1: The Bon Scott Years episode from way back in 2020) is OUR greatest hits package from the…
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#293 METALLICA Death Magnetic Album Review
“If this is their 9th studio album, where does it rank?” DEATH MAGNETIC, the Rick Rubin produced 9th studio album from Bay Area metal titans METALLICA (and the…
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#292 1995 Year in METAL
In 1995, Los del Rio infected popular dance culture with their one-hit wonder, “The Macarena”, the U.S. national debt was only $5,000,000,000,000 (five…
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#291 PENTAGRAM Lightning In A Bottle Album Dive
After 50 years, it’s great to see PENTAGRAM finally getting the attention they deserve from all across the world wide web. LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE, the band’s…
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#290 DARK ANGEL - Inside The Metal
Formed in 1981 and hailing from Downey, California (the birthplace of the mighty Hetfield), thrash masters DARK ANGEL unleashed a darker, faster, more…
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#289 PRIMUS - SAILING THE SEAS OF CHEESE Album Review
SAILING THE SEAS OF CHEESE, the 2nd beautifully bizarre edition of “the Sunday funny papers of metal”, brought to you by El Sobrante, California’s genius…
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#288 SLIPKNOT Album Review
“Don’t make it weird…” “They all wear jumpsuits, they’re kinda like KISS because you don’t know what they look like, but they kinda look like serial killers…
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#287 WTF Moments in METAL
As with life, “Left Turns” and WTF MOMENTS occur constantly in the world of metal. Whether it’s a radical, stylistic change to a band’s sound, any sort of…
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#286 FLOTSAM & JETSAM - DOOMSDAY FOR THE DECEIVER Album Review
DOOMSDAY FOR THE DECEIVER, the debut album from FLOTSAM & JETSAM, was released on July 4, 1986, after being recorded in just a mere 2 weeks with a paltry…
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#285 Women In Metal
For the longest time, metal has been predominantly a “dude game”, dominated by men. Thankfully, more and more female fronted metal bands (particularly over the…
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#284 - Part 2 - Deep Cuts of the First Four from The Big Four
We’re back with the backside of the ballsack of the taint of the boner of the top of the ass crack of the...WHATEVER you want to call it, now we’re up to “the…
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#283 TOP 20 METAL ALBUMS OF 1985
1985. Back To The Future would become the highest grossing film of the year, the Live Aid benefit would be hosted simultaneously in 2 different venues on 2…
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#282 - Deep Cuts of the First Four from The Big Four Part 1
“I wanna talk about DOWNTIME…” Many moons ago during the B.R. era (Before Russ), back in the early days of this podcast with Adam, we took on The 1st Four of…
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#281 - Ozzy Diary of a Madman Album Review
DIARY OF A MADMAN, the 2nd album from OZZY OSBOURNE (and his band, BLIZZARD OF OZZ) is a perfect example of how an artist’s follow-up album often eclipses…
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#280 - 2024 YEAR END WRAP-UP
It’s time to say goodbye to 2024 with our Bunkerpoon International holiday celebration, where we will be waxing nostalgic on this year’s episodes and…
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#279 - HAIR METAL
Just to be 100% TRANSparent, this is NOT an officially sanctioned “Chronicles” episode. However, it is the time of year for the TRANS-Siberian Orchestra…
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#278 DIO Last In Line Album Review
“I’m sorry, what was that? What was the last thing you said?” Forty years ago this year (specifically, July 2, 1984), DIO (the man and the band) released THE…
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#277 WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR THRASH
WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR THRASH is like the perfect blending of our Building The Perfect Thrash Album Vol. 1 episode from 2 years ago (Dec 8, 2022 to be exact)…
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#276 TOOL Ænima Album Review
AENIMA, the 1996 album from progressive metal shamans TOOL, is a progressive, heavy, and atmospheric album loaded with layers and layers of sonic texture that…
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#275 - 1992 THE YEAR OF OUR RIFF LORD
“You were all pro-bass during the Biden years…” The year was 1992, way back when a gallon of gas cost just over a dollar, compact discs had finally outsold…
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#274 - CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s 1994 masterpiece, DELIVERANCE
“It’s an actual word, dude, I’d appreciate it if you’d recognize it as such…” CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s 1994 masterpiece, DELIVERANCE, delivers the sonic…
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#273 CONCERT REVIEW - KING DIAMOND & OVERKILL
On Friday, October 25th, 2024, we traveled to The Eastern in Atlanta, Georgia for the Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920 Tour to see KING DIAMOND & OVERKILL (LIVE!)…
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#272 TYPE-O-NEGATIVE: INSIDE THE METAL
“Dude, you know you can donate plasm…” Because of the obvious “Halloween tingle” wafting through the Bunkerpoon, we decided to finish out “the month of…
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#271 - KING DIAMOND Metal Master of the Macabre
“Are you comparing King Diamond to KISS!?” KING DIAMOND is the undisputed champion of all things dark & creepy that scarify & terrify throughout the metal…
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#270 GHOST - INSIDE THE METAL
“They’re the Toto of metal…” In keeping with the Halloween centric theme of October, obviously we’ve got to talk about “devil music”, and what better band to…
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#269 - HALLOWEEN 2024 SUPER SPECIAL
Upon descending deep down into the dank, cavernous darkness of the Bunkerpoon Dungeon, there’s a mysterious change in atmosphere that instantly transforms the…
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#268 STONER DOOM METAL VOL. 7: THE SEARCH FOR DOOM
“It’s all the same…only the names will change…” Sometimes, just like with “identical” twins, identifying the differences between subgenres can be difficult…
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#267 - Alice Cooper Rob Zombie and Shock Rock
“That’s NOT how you eat a chili dog…” The allure of SHOCK ROCK is, has been, and always will be the LIVE component of it; being at the show and viscerally…
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#266 - CAN’T BE LOUD ENOUGH VOL. III
It’s time to learn about the healthiest, most productive way to release “all of your aggressions” fueled by “road rage” and crank the volume all the way up to…
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#265 SLAYER GOD HATES US ALL Album Review
For most SLAYER fans, Tuesday, September 11, 2001, began as every other new music release day would: we all anxiously anticipated stopping by the record store…
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#264 TITLE TRACKS
“I’m just letting you know; I was holding back…it may get worse…” TITLE TRACKS are not always the ultra-obvious, one trick pony they’d seem to be. Sometimes it…
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#263 NWOOSTM Vol. IV: THRASHING LIKE A MANIAC
“You can take something so pretty and make it so ugly…” It’s been a while since we discussed any NWOOSTM, so we figured we’d check out one of the NWOOSTM…
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#262 IRON MAIDEN SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON - Album Dive
“If Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, we should probably give him more cowbell…” You’ve heard of movies based on books, but what about albums based on books?…
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#261 - JUST TALKIN SHITTAH: Vol. IV
We got a little out of control and went far beyond the “appetizers” section, to the point that there was no “meat” to skip to (in terms of a docket), primarily…
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#260 EXODUS - The KILLER Openers
“Do you know how many burps I edit out?” EXODUS have been blessed with the almost uncanny gift of delivering absolutely devastating opening tracks on every…
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#259 SLAYER Diabolus In Musica Album Dive
Hopefully by now, everyone is familiar with those first three notes from the first Black Sabbath album. During The Middle Ages, this was referred to as…
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#258 LED ZEPPELIN IV - Album Dive
Imagine being in a record store, just flipping through the LED ZEPPELIN section of albums on November 8, 1971, and finding an album that appeared unfamiliar…
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#257 - TESTAMENT Souls of Black: Album Dive
Often in life you have to “strike while the iron is hot” because more often than not, the “First Strike Is Deadly” and not striking may result in lost…
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#256 1991 METAL and THRASH Albums
1991 was a year unlike any other. KFC changed their name to avoid paying royalties to the “trademarked” commonwealth for which they were named (whereas K-Y…