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February 28, 2010

Episode 43 – Hmmm… I Don’t Know/Sloppy Turkey Sandwich

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Death Metal, Deathrash, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Josh, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, podcast, power metal, Review, Rob, Rob Revell, speed metal, Steve Gaines, thrash metal, Unleash the Archers, Vains of Jenna, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

Brian Botley is BACK! Heh… Sucker…..

We start off the show with some round table discussion, and then..To the GRAB BAG!

First up, Vains of Jenna. Botley apparently knows who they are. Jeff and Rob agree, possibly for the first time ever on Metal Rules Radio, that they like them! Botley hates them. Angus is on the fence, and Josh wants to have their children.

Next up, Unleash the Archers. No… we didn’t watch Gladiator. Although we should have! That movie rules! Remember when they hung his family and burned them? Her feet nearly made me puke with all the burning scaling flesh…. But I digress… These guys get a general “eh” from most of us. Which is neither great nor awful. But check them out anyhow.

We go into our interview of the night with Steve Gaines. He was originally in Lynyrd Skynyrd, but died. Then he came back as a metal dude in Anger As Art! It’s a true Hollywood story.

Aaaand… Back the the bag! Angus pulls out Deathrash. Jeff loves these guys. Jeff loves thrash in general. If Jeff were a metal genre, he’d be thrash. If Jeff were to get married again, he’d carry Maria across the thrashhold. Jeff goes out and rolls around in poison ivy, just so he can get a rash simply because it’s two letters short of thrash. Jeff doesn’t take out the trash, he takes out the thrash, and his family knows it or it’s PIMP HAND STRONG!

The End..

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February 14, 2010

Episode 41 – Dead Cow Punch

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Bruce Corbitt, Cheap Trick, Death Metal, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Joey Allen, Josh, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, power metal, Review, Rob, Rob Halford, Rob Revell, speed metal, Terry Gilliam, thrash metal, Viking metal, Warrant — rob @ 10:00 am

Brian Botley is sitting in with us again this week, and we get his friends calling in.

First up is the GRAB BAG OF METAL! Botley pulls out St. Madness.

Next we get into a round table discussion about a melting pot of topics including Cheap Trick and Terry Gilliam movies. You may be wondering what Terry Gilliam and Cheap Trick have in common, and apart from both willing to be The Flame, we believe they’re both heavily into bananas. Lots of bananas.

We get a make up phone call from Joey Allen of Warrant. This guy’s on thin ice for ditching us last week, but we’re a bunch of forgiving teddy bears and take his call anyway.

From there we talk to our second interview of the night – Bruce Corbitt of Rigor Mortis/Warbeast.

BACK TO THE BAG FOR ONE LAST HURRAH! We pull out Rob Halford’s Winter Songs. That’s right, winter songs. Hey, next time you’re at your grandma’s for Christmas and she wants to have the family gather around the fire to sing about Jolly old St. Nick in 4 part harmony, try Rob Halford’s winter songs instead. She’ll either love it and slip you the tongue, or hate it and ban you from family functions henceforth. Hope your grandma’s hot dude…

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February 7, 2010

Episode 40 – Charred Cherry Pie of the Damned

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Death Metal, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Jeremy, Josh, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, power metal, Review, Rob, Rob Revell, speed metal, thrash metal, Viking metal — rob @ 11:59 am

What do metalrulesradio.com and majorleagueasshole.net have in common? Brian Botley! You may remember him as Hardcore Brian from the zine days. That’s right, he’s back and sexier than ever. And this week he’s sitting in on the show. We start the show off by talking to him for a while. Check out his blog at majorleagueasshole.net, become his fan on facebook, call him and ask him to strip for your bachelorette party, he’s game.

From Botley, we jump into the Grab Bag of Metal and pull out Grindbashers. These guys have been grabbed before, like a good looking goat in a hillbilly bar. BACK TO THE BAG!

Next we pull out Sparzanza who did a pretty good cover of Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell. And finally Botley goes for the hat trick and pulls out The Seed.

Finally we start a REALLY good discussion of submitting music to a show digitally vs. hard copy. But we had to cut this discussion short because we were rudely interrupted by our interview of the night, Richard Christy.

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January 31, 2010

Episode 39 – Aggravated Perineum

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, Black Flag, black metal, Conan O'Brien, Death Metal, Goblin Metal, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, Jay Leno, Jeff Beccerra, jeff Rappaport, Jeremy, Josh, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Morphine Killer, Music, NJ Batman, Orcrist, podcast, Possessed, power metal, Review, Rob, Rob Revell, Roxx, Scheisse Minnelli, speed metal, Sucicdal Tendencies, thrash metal, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

Jeremy is still here as Rob is off in Canada to join Alpha Flight. We digress into comics briefly then go right into our interview with Jason Netherton of Misery Index, cofounder of Dying Fetus. Great interview. Not like last week when Josh kept calling ALL the WRONG numbers.

Thanks Josh.

We talked a bit about various Metal Fests, the good, the bad, the weather. We’re gonna be at the Maryland DeathFest, come see us and laugh.

We impromptu called Chris Kontos. Chris friggin rules!!

We tried to call Jeff Becerra, he wasn’t there.

On to the GRAB BAG! But first we call Rob’s voicemail so we can include him in on the grab bag. First up is Roxx pulled by ANGUS! Jeff and Josh met the singer, Joseph D’Angeli. Roxx, well, rocks. Great glamrock for those of you into that. Somehow we went from talking about Roxx to Mark Singer, to the Original V series, to the remake V series to Serenity and space hookers then back to Roxx.

Back to the bag grabbin’

Jeff pulls Orcrist. Yay, Lord of the Rings reference! Josh predicts “Goblin Metal”. Josh doesn’t care for the vocals‚ and might start a section on the website called, “Goblin Metal” where he will rant about things he doesn’t like. Hence forth referring to such things as “Goblin Metal”. Josh launches into the bag and comes up with Morphine Killer. Great music, but the guy has terrible vocals. Josh declares his love for Rob then we address the complaints about the way CDs are reviewed on the show.

One more from the grab bag. Jeremy picks Scheisse Minnelli from the almighty grab bag o’ holding. They had a very early Suicidal Tendencies/Black Flag sound to them.

Jeff suggest that everyone checks out the movie Repo Man.

Josh wanted to mention that it’s almost Valentine’s Day, so check out our sponsor Adam & Eve, adameve.com use the code word METAL to get 50% off almost any one item, 3 FREE DVDs, one special mystery gift and AND FREE SHIPPING on your order.

We learn something disturbing about Josh’s grandmom…

We wrap the show with a discussion of the Conan and Lenno “Late Night Wars” and what famous persons were born the same day as us…make sure you listen‚ it’s riveting.

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January 17, 2010

Episode 37 – Viking Shopping List

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Age of Evil, Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Dark Angel, Death Metal, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Jeremy, Jim Durkin, Josh, Josh Williams, Martin Starr, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, metalcore, Music, podcast, power metal, Review, Rob, Rob Revell, Ruthless, Sanhedrin, speed metal, thrash metal, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

We jump right into the show and talk with our first interview – Jim Durkin – Guitarist for Dark angel. Jim is currently with the band Ruthless and they are writing a new album.

From there we go right into our second interview with Martin Starr. Martin recently starred in the movie “Adventureland”, and starred as Bill Haverchuck in the TV show “Freaks and Geeks”.

We have a special occasion, Rob gets to choose from from the Grab Bag of Metal FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! That’s right… 37 episodes and he’s just now able to choose. And choose he did… First up, Age of Evil. And then we pull out Sanhedrin.

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January 10, 2010

Episode 36 – I told you no drums in the living room!

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Booger, Brady Bunch, Count Raven, Cousin Oliver, death angel, Death Metal, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Josh, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, power metal, Revenge of the Nerds, Rob, Rob Revell, Robbie Rist, speed metal, thrash metal, Viking metal, Will Carroll — rob @ 9:33 am

We start out the show with 4 brand new phone calls! You can call us too at 856-67-RULES

Our first interview of the night is Will Carroll of Death Angel. Death Angel’s album is scheduled for release in September 2010, with recording starting to start on March 1, 2010.

Our second interview of the night is with Robbie Rist, AKA Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch! But that’s not all he ever did, tune in to hear what he’s up to these days. Fun Robbie fact: There was a “Revenge of the Nerds” TV show pilot produced, in which Robbie played “Booger”. You can catch up on Robbie’s career and give him some love by friending him on his Facebook page.

Finally we dive into the Grab Bag of Metal and pull out Count Raven.

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December 20, 2009

Episode 33 – Where’s Josh to name this bitch?

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Death Metal, Doc Coyle, Geoff Thorpe, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Josh, Josh Williams, Machines of Grace, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, metalcore, metallica, Music, podcast, power metal, Rob, Rob Revell, speed metal, Stink Fisher, thrash metal, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

Doc Coyle (of God Forbid) and Stink Fisher are in studio, Josh is on a job interview in Laos.

We jump right into our first interview with Geoff Thorpe (of Vicious Rumors).

We spend the rest of the time talking to Doc in our round table discussion, and then finish up with a Grab Bag of Machines of Grace.

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November 29, 2009

Episode 30 – Taint of Steel

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Angus Pursglove, Armored Saint, black metal, Blood of the Prophets, Death Metal, Gonzo Sandoval, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Josh, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Metal Sludge, metalcore, Music, power metal, Rob, Rob Revell, speed metal, Stevie Rachelle, thrash metal, Tuff, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

We start off with a bit of round table discussion, and move from there into the Grab Bag of Metal. We pull out Blood of the Prophets.

Our first interview of the show is with Gonzo Sandoval of Armored Saint.

From there we move into our interview with Stevie Rachelle of Tuff and Metal Sludge.

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November 22, 2009

Episode 29 – Speed’s a bitch… all night

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: AJ Benza, Angus, Angus Pursglove, black metal, Blas Elias, Blue Man Group, Celebrity Fit Club, Death Metal, Gimme My Reality Show, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Josh Williams, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Michael Angelo Batio, Music, podcast, power metal, Review, Rob Revell, Slaughter, speed metal, thrash metal, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

We have NO TIME people, SIT DOWN! We jump right into the episode with our first interview A.J. Benza (and this link) (Celebrity Fit Club, Gimme My Reality Show, E! Mysteries and Scandals, ).

From our first interview, we jump right into our second interview with Michael Angelo Batio (Nitro).

And for the hat trick, we jump right from there into our third interview with Blas Elias (Slaughter, Blue Man Group).

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October 25, 2009

Episode 25 – It Came From Hammerhill

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: 90210, Alice in Chains, Andrew Galeon, Angus, Angus Pursglove, Anthrax, Anvil the story of Anvil, Bang Tango, Bea Arthur, Beaches, Believer, Believer Gabriel, Ben Folds, Bette Midler, Beverly Hills 90210, Beyonce, Bill Zebub, Billy Milano, black metal, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness month, Bull Terrier, Camp Seneca Lake, Carbon 9, Carbon9, Chris Kontos, Clint Eastwood, Combat, Crimson Glory, Crimson Glory Red Sharks, Cryptic Writings, Czech Republic, D.A.D., dangerous toys, Deadly Blessing, death angel, Death Metal, Denis Leary, Dennis Leary, Dio, Disneyland After Dark, Don't Panic, Don't Panic band, Dream Theater, Dream Theatre, Edie McClurg, Ernie Hudson, Eugene Cummings, Euthanasia, Faith or Fear, Forbidden, Freddie Mercury, Ghostbusters., Godsmack, goth metal, Greenpeace, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, Heroes With Movies, Ian Christe, Interview With A Vampire, Iron Giant, Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden 2 Minutes to midnight. Tom Petty, Jalapeno, Jalapeno pepper, James T Kirk, Jason McMaster, Jeff Becerra, jeff Rappaport, Jennifer Aniston, JJ Hrubovcak, Joe Satriani, Josh Williams, Kanye West, llamas, M.O.D., Machine Head, Magic School Bus, Megadeth, metal, Metal Rules Fanzine, Metal Rules Zine, Metal Rules! Magazine, Metal Rules! Radio, Michael Cummings, Michael David Cummings, Michael O'Keefe, Midnight Oil, Mike Gorham, Mike Mawby, Mindy Hall, Moonshine, Music, Nigel Dupree band, Nigel Tufnel, onions, Paul Stanley, Peach Pit, Philadelphia Phillies, Pizza stone, podcast, Possessed, power metal, Powerman 5000, Randal Flag, Randal Flagg, Randall Flag, Randall Flagg, Renee Schuls, Renee Schuls Jacobson, Review, Richard Christy, Rob Revell, Rob Zombie, Rock Of Love, Rowan Robertson, Rush, Rust In Piece, Scott French, Sideshow collectibles, speed metal, Spider, Spider 1, Spider one, Spinal Tap, Stephen King, Steven King, Sully Erna, Sushi, taint, Taylor Swift, The Bull, The Rose, The Swimmers, thrash metal, thrash of the titans, Tiberius Project, Tim Calvert, Tim Ripper Owens, Tommy Aldridge, Tommy Chong, Tomorrow's Outlook, Tony Harnell, Transylvania, Viking metal, Vin Diesal, Vin Diesel, Whoopi Goldberg, Why we suck, William Shatner, Yngwie Malmsteen — rob @ 10:25 am

Mike Gorham, famed singer of the Metal Rules! Radio theme song, and all around awesome guy, is our guest host for this weeks show. Check out his channel on YouTube.

We start out with a solid 17 minutes of round table and then jump right into the Grab Bag of Metal!

First up, Carbon 9.

We listen to Tiberius Project.

The funny thing about guests of the Metal Rules! Radio show is that 99% of the time they are excited to talk to us and follow through on their plans to stop by, call in, or wait anxiously by the phone for us to call them. BUT… There is that 1% of the guests that DICK US OVER! And that 1% is SPIDER! That’s right, Spider of Powerman 5000 completely screwed us and didn’t call. It takes a special team of guys to handle that kind of a dick over and have the show go on without a hitch. And that special group of guys is clearly not Metal Rules! Radio. No, instead of having a well though out backup plan, we ran around panicking trying to figure out what to do next. So we tried calling friends of the show, and finally got a hold of Mike Mawby, former guest host on the show. But hilarity truly found its way to the show when we spoke to Chris Kontos, who answered all of the questions we had for Spider, as Spider! It was a huge rebound from the middle finger we received from Spider.

We jump back into the Grab Bag of Metal. This time it’s Combat.

Rob has it out with Renee! Live on the phone!

Finally we listen to the Nigel Dupree Band and close out the show with them.

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October 4, 2009

Episode 22 – Fried Green Cerebellum

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: AC/DC, Ace Of Cakes, adolph hitler, American Idol, Angus, Angus Young, Battlestar Galactica, BJ's, Black Label Society, black metal, Blue Moon Beer, Brian Forsythe, Cabbage Patch dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Camp Seneca Lake, Celtic Frost, Cerebellum, Chain smoking, Chicken Parmesan, chicken parmigiana, coffee, Corrosion Of Conformity, Cow bell, cowbell, Death Angus, Death Metal, Dio, Dokken, Down, ebay, Facebook, Fava Beans, Fly on the wall, football, Fried Green Tomatoes, George Michael, Gordon Ramsay, goth metal, Hand puppets, hardcore, Heaven & Hell, heavy metal, Hell's Kitchen, Homeless man, Iron Maiden, Jackals, jeff Rappaport, Joe Lynn Turner, John Macaluso, John Tempesta, Josh, Journey, Julia Child, Ken Kelly, Kiss, Kix, Kosher kitchen, Lamb Of God, Larry King, Last In Line, Led Zeppelin, Lemmy, llamas, Louross, Lung Machine, Matt Sigel, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, metallica, Mike Varney, Mindy Hall, Motorhead, Music, Neal Peart, Norway, Opera Festival, Opie and Anthony, Paul McCartney, Pepper Keenan, Piss drinking, Poland, poontang, power metal, Professional skateboarder, Quiet Riot, Rainbow, Renee Schuls Jacobson, Review, Rhino Bucket, Ringo Starr, Rob, Rob Halford, Robert Fleischman, Robot Chicken, Rock Of Love, Rowan Robertson, Rush, Savatage, Scooby Doo, Silence Of The Lambs, Simon Cowell, Simon electronic game, Simon Wright, skateboard park, Slipknot, soccer, socks puppets, Sonic The Hedgehog, South Jersey Magazine, speed metal, Starbreaker, Sweden, Tattoo, Taylor Dayne, Thailand, The Beatles, Therion, thrash metal, Tim Ripper Owens, Titan, TNT, Tom Petty, Tony Harnell, Tony Iommi, Toys R Us, Transgender, Tweeter Center, Tytan, Tyton, U.F.O., UFO, Van Halen, Viking metal, Waitress, Wendy Dio, Wham, Yngwie Malmsteen — rob @ 9:43 am

Chef Matt Sigel from Hell’s Kitchen season 4 is our guest host for the show. Listen to tales of Hell’s Kitchen past, and listen to Matt pay homage to Opie and Anthony!

We have our first message from our hotline! Any guesses?

We talk to Simon Wright of Dio, AC/DC, and Rhino Bucket.

We talk to Matt, and he tells us about the intricacies of cooking, and Gordon Ramsay.

Finally we talk to Tony Harnell, formerly of TNT.

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August 30, 2009

Episode 17 – Ripper vs. Terrell

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: black metal, Death Metal, goth metal, hardcore, heavy metal, Into the Presence, Judas Priest, Memory Driven, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, podcast, power metal, Process of Guilt, Review, Rob Halford, speed metal, thrash metal, Tim Ripper Owens, Viking metal — rob @ 10:00 am

In this episode, Angus is drinking… again… AND we talk to Tim “Ripper” Owens! Or at least we try to right off the bat. Until we get his answering machine. But have no fear, we get to talk to him later on. Jeff forgets how to eat roast beef. On a sad note, this is Jeremy’s last episode as a weekly host, but we think we can talk him into coming back to do spots here and there. Reviews include Process of Guilt, Into the Presence, and Memory Driven.

Show links:

Tim “Ripper” Owens

Process Of Guilt

Into the Presence

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August 16, 2009

Episode 15: What’chu Talkin’ ‘Bout Josh

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: black metal, caught in a wheel, comedy, Death Metal, Edie McClurg, electricity, Elenium, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, hive, Hogan Family, Hogan's, jeff Rappaport, Josh, llamas, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, metalcore, Music, podcast, power metal, prostate, Review, router, speed metal, talk, The Hogan Family, thrash metal, toe, Valerie, Valerie's Family, Viking metal, what's wrong with jeff — Jeremy @ 6:00 am

We start the show off with a rousing tale from Jeff about angel dust and crying. Quickly then to Jeff’s Grab Bag of Metal. Elenium – Caught in a Wheel. Moving onward we, Rob, interviews Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Hogan Family). Sadly we just had a few tech quirks at that exact time. Jeff’s mic was coming across too hot causing it to break up (we believe) on Edie’s speaker phone. You mostly hear Rob doing the interview. Towards the end we got Jeff’s mic working better. Jeff did all this work to set the interview up and in the end hardly got any questions in. Isn’t technology great? The show took a turn when we heard way too much about his prostate exam. From there we tumble into What’s Wrong with Jeff! Amazingly there’s a lot. He lost his electricity, his router died, his toe is infected and he has a random hive. We wrap the show with an impromptu call to Josh.

Show links:

Elenium
Edie McClurg
Josh’s Blog!

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August 9, 2009

Episode 14: I Just Got A Text Message

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Alice in Chains, Anonymous Horses, black metal, comedy, Death Metal, goth metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, Horse the Band, Jason Newsted, jeff Rappaport, Kam Lee, llamas, Massacre, metal, Metal Rules! Magazine, Metal Rules! Radio, metalcore, Music, podcast, power metal, Review, rumpelstiltskin grinder, Simbios, Six Feet Under, speed metal, talk, Terry Butler, thrash metal, Viking metal — Jeremy @ 10:00 am

Welcome to the show—we are sans Josh this evening. We’ve discovered that Josh is on a hunger strike until the show starts getting more reviews on iTunes. We start off with an interview of Metal bassist legend and grandfather, Terry Butler! Terry plays bass in Six Feet Under in case you were wondering. Rob brings up the new Alice in Chains CD. Apparently Layne Staley is dead. From there we jump right into “Jeff’s Grab Bag of Metal”. Anonymous Horses – Neigh! Sayers. Jeff wonders if they were influenced by Horse the Band. Next band up is Simbios – Bounded In Adversity and Naked Mental Violence.

Show Links:

Six Feet Under
Alice in Chains
Anonymous Horses
Simbios
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder

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August 4, 2009

Episode 13: Clubber Lang Bent My Penis

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Ace Of Cakes, Angus, Bill Leverty, black metal, Camp Seneca Lake, Canada, Clutch, comedy, Dead Brain Cells, Death Metal, dethklok, Down, Food Network, Golden Monkey Beer, goth metal, grindcore, Guns N'Roses, hardcore, heavy metal, Iron Maiden, jeff Rappaport, Judas Priest, Jugulator, Led Zeppelin, Live in America, llamas, Metal Rules! Radio, metallica, Music, Opeth, Ozzy, Painkiller, Pantera, podcast, power metal, Probot, speed metal, Stuart Smith, Sweet, Ted Nugent, The Cure, thrash metal, Urto, Viking metal, Wolverine — Jeremy @ 7:17 pm

Did you know that you can drink at fully nude strip bars in Canada? Canadians rule! Jeff tells us how he was attacked by a “Wolverine”. There was alcohol involved in the story. Dethklok and The Goon will be teaming up in comic book form! Awesome. Then on to the reviews!! Josh and Angus talk about Probot, Dave Grohl’s project with a bunch of metal guys. Josh hates Led Zepplin. Angus reviews Clutch – Strange Cousins from the West and some how we end up talking about Pantera and Down. Josh and Jeff do their best Phil impressions. Josh brings up Opeth, trying to bring the proverbial ship around to talk about what brought us into Metal. We wrap the show with a rousing round of “What’s Wrong with Jeff?” and Jeremy and Jeff talk about the band Sweet. Friend of the show, Stuart Smith, is in the band Sweet now. He sent in their newest release Live in America for us to sample. Fun fact: Angus watches the Food Network. He says to try his Cheese Cake.

Show Links:

Urto
Bill Leverty
Camp Seneca Lake
Dethklok
Stuart Smith
Dead Brain Cells

Purchase Clutch – Strange Cousins from the West from Amazon or iTunes
Purchase Probot – Probot from Amazon
Purchase Sweet – Live in America from Amazon

Beer being consumed: Golden Monkey

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July 26, 2009

Episode 12: Scumdogs of the Webiverse

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: black metal, comedy, Death Metal, goth metal, GWAR, hardcore, heavy metal, Hit the Lights, jeff Rappaport, Jeffree Star, llamas, Lust In Space, metal, Metal Blade Records, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, Oderus Urungus, podcast, power metal, Review, speed metal, The Millionaires, there for tomorrow, thrash metal, underoath, Viking metal, warped tour — Jeremy @ 8:00 am

Episode 12: Scumdogs of the Webiverse

Greetings Metal people! We jump right into it with Jeff’s tale from the Warp Tour. He recalled the bands: Under Oath, The Millionaires, Jeffree Star, Therefore Tomorrow, Hit the Lights – who apparently were douches, 3OH!3, and Bad Religion. He missed NOFX for shame.

We have the one, the only, Oderus Urungus! Who is awesome and gave us the best ending ever to any interview! We’d like to thank the great Space Warrior for thawing out to bring destruction to our planet.

We do a review of Stripping the Pistol. We all agreed that the band was great but there was a lack of info to give out about the band. You should definitely check them out.

www.myspace.com/strippingthepistol

http://www.GWAR.net/home.php

http://oderus.com/

Bound By Nothing

Playing at Hanger 84 Aug 4th; Tues in Vineland, NJ with Trust Company.

http://www.boundbynothing.com/

Greetings Metal people! We jump right into it with Jeff’s tale from the Warped Tour. He recalled the bands: Underoath, The Millionaires, Jeffree Star, There For Tomorrow, Hit the Lights, 3OH!3, and Bad Religion. He sadly missed NOFX.

We have the one, the only, Oderus Urungus of GWAR! Who is awesome and gave us the best ending ever to any interview! We’d like to thank the great Space Warrior for bringing destruction and/or doom to our planet. GWAR is set to release their new CD Lust In Space in August on Metal Blade Records. Pre order your copy over at AMAZON.COM

We do a review of Stripping the Pistol. We all agreed that the band was great but there was a lack of info to give out about the band. You should definitely check them out.

SHAMELESS PLUG! Josh’s friend’s band Bound by Nothing will be playing at Hanger 84 Aug 4th; Tues in Vineland, NJ with Trust Company. Here’s a link to Hanger 84. Check their calendar and head on over to catch Bound by Blood. Josh would never steer you wrong…mostly never.

As always subscribe to the show, leave us some iTunes reviews! For those of you who don’t like iTunes leave us a rating on PodNova and send us email thru the contact section of the site! If we like your email, we’ll read it on the show—forever making you internets famous. Check out our MySpace page for the contests we’re running.

Show Links:

Stripping the Pistol
Purchase Stripping the Pistol at Amazon and iTunes
GWAR
Purchase GWAR CDs at Amazon and iTunes
Oderus Urungus
Bound By Nothing
Purchase Bound By Nothing’s Nine Thirty in Kansas at iTunes

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July 19, 2009

Nuclear Theatre – self-titled

Filed under: Josh, Reviews — Tags: doom metal, Music, Nuclear Theatre — josh @ 3:45 pm

Nuclear Theatre – self-titled

Here’s a CD that we listened to on Episode 6: I Want a Beer. Angus didn’t like it at all, but Jeremy and I thought it had potential. So, I decided to take a listen to the full 7 song CD. The first time I listened through I thought, “Okay, not perfect, but I’m curious”. The second time I listened to Nuclear Theatre I thought, “Well, the singer needs work. Maybe a better recording or multiple vocal tracks could make it better…but he does too much of the wacky vocal screams.” The music itself was enough for me to listen to it one more time and then I thought, “I’d rather have my eardrums scooped out with a melon-baller and have them fed to hippos than hear these vocals again!”

After all of this time and effort I now agree with Angus. Nuclear Theatre’s music isn’t bad, but get another singer.

The End.

www.myspace.com/nucleartheatre

Nuclear Theatre – self-titled

Here’s a CD that we listened to on Episode 6: I Want a Beer. Angus didn’t like it at all, but Jeremy and I thought it had potential. So, I decided to take a listen to the full 7 song CD. The first time I listened through I thought, “Okay, not perfect, but I’m curious”. The second time I listened to Nuclear Theatre I thought, “Well, the singer needs work. Maybe a better recording or multiple vocal tracks could make it better…but he does too much of the wacky vocal screams.” The music itself was enough for me to listen to it one more time and then I thought, “I’d rather have my eardrums scooped out with a melon-baller and have them fed to hippos than hear these vocals again!”

After all of this time and effort I now agree with Angus. Nuclear Theatre’s music isn’t bad, but get another singer.

The End.

www.myspace.com/nucleartheatre

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Beyond Dishonor – Signs of a Struggle EP

Filed under: Josh, Reviews — Tags: Beyond Dishonor, grindcore, metalcore, Music, New Jersey Metal, Reese Dunlap, Signs of a Struggle, Slipknot — josh @ 3:39 pm

Beyond Dishonor – Signs of a Struggle EP

Jeff brought this CD to the show back in Episode 6: I Want a Beer. We didn’t play it on the show, but Jeff’s quick review was that it was metalcore and the vocals sounded like a mongoloid. So, I took the package and said I’d do a proper review. Firstly, the envelope it came in has a well-executed graphic of a “BD” and the great state of New Jersey (I like presentation, it goes a long way!) Inside is a DVD case, which is also well designed, but a little misleading, because there is no DVD in the case, just two CDs. I think it should’ve been a CD case instead of the DVD for this reason. You can do a lot of things with a CD package to make it stand out and have it still be recognized as a CD.

Onto the music! I think I liked this a little more than Jeff. The music is heavy, has some groove and very well produced. The big issue that Jeff has, and I’m not completely against his thoughts here, are the vocals. Most of it is what you expect from metalcore, growls and screams. There are brief moments when you hear the singer Reese Dunlap sing. The singing actually reminds me a little bit of Corey Taylor from Slipknot. I wish the percent of growling to singing were reversed. That would help make Beyond Dishonor a more memorable band. For me, I like to know what the song is about (or at least a general idea). With vocals that sound so intense at every second of every song and without being able to discern the words, it looses some of the connection with the audience. I know that Jeff and Angus don’t really care about the words or vocals or butterflies or other mind-numbing wonders, but some of their disconnect might be that the vocals here are what you expect.

So, for Beyond Dishonor, I’d like to hear the next recording show a little more diversity in the vocals. Anyone that is into metalcore should check these very talented guys out, but for anyone else I don’t know how much they would enjoy it.

Sorry it took so long to post this review, but I was caught up in my antique smashing business. I always enjoy going to antiques stores and breaking as much old crap as I can before the authorities get there, but it can become overwhelming if you don’t stay on top of it. PEACE!

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Episode 11: Midgets of Nok Su Cow

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Angus, Benevolent Creation, black metal, comedy, Crimson Glory, dangerous toys, Death Metal, Dream Theater, goth metal, hardcore, heavy metal, Jason McMaster, Johnny Sin, Killswitch Engage, llamas, Machine Dog, malevolent creation, Marilyn Manson, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, power metal, Review, Slayer, speed metal, thrash metal, Viking metal, watchtower — rob @ 9:45 am

ED sits in for Jeremy while he is on a soul seeking walkabout in Cambodia.

We have news! We pay our respects (sort of) to Midnight from Crimson Glory (You Tube clip of Ski and Mike Gorham) and we learn of Phil from Malevolent Creation’s latest convenient store adventures.

Question for the listeners – is it ok to re-record a hit album 20 years after the original release? Leave us your comments.

Dream Theater has a new CD, Black Clouds and Silver Linings. Angus saw a guy play a stick. Killswitch Engage has a new CD, self titled.

We listen to Machine Dog from the 80’s and compare it to the new Machine Dog (which we also listen to). Then as a REALLY special treat, we listen to Johnny Sin. Strap in kids! We listen to a couple of tracks including staff favorite Big Black Lesbians.

Slayer has a new album coming out – World Painted Blood, and will be playing the Mayhem Festival with Marilyn Manson.

We interview Jason McMaster of Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, and Broken Teeth. He’s an excellent interview, a self proclaimed metal dork, and a friend of the show.

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Listen to Johnny Sin at www.myspace.com/johnnysin

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July 12, 2009

Episode 10: The Fiery Remains

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: Ace Of Cakes, Bill Leverty, black metal, Clutch, comedy, Deadly Blessing, Death Metal, Duff, Faith Factor, Firehouse, goth metal, hardcore, heavy metal, jeff Rappaport, Jeremy, llamas, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, podcast, power metal, Review, Rob, Scott Wily, Shadows Fall, Ski, So I Had To, speed metal, talk, thrash metal, Viking metal, Vital Remains, Zircon — rob @ 8:08 pm

Metal Rules Veteran Ed, aka “Stroke“, sits in for Jeremy who is off on a secret mission in, we believe, Nicaragua.

We interview Bill Leverty, the guitar player for Firehouse. Angus reviews Clutch who he went to see in Atantic City. Shadows Fall was there, so was So I Had To who is Ace of Cakes Duff’s band. Jeff Hates Duff (Sorry Duff, the rest of us think you rule!). Angus talked to a drunk guy at the show, and was picked up by a guy (we swear!) and thrown into the mosh pit. Ed likes Cake.

We listen to Ski’s (of Deadly Blessing) band Faith Factor and review. Faith Factor is a Christian metal band.

We interview Scott Wily of Vital Remains and Zircon, and learn much about Josh’s past. Ed gets slobbered by metal Buck. We learn Josh is not embarrassing…. at all.

Finally we learn all about Ed, and his Buck slobber filled shirt.
Check out Vital Remains
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Check out Bill Leverty’s website at www.leverty.com
Check out Faith Factor at www.faithfactorband.com
Check out Scott Wily and Vital Remains on tour from July 31 – Aug 10. You can get the dates on their website at www.myspace.com/zirconblackmetal or www.zirconmetal.com or check out Scott directly at www.myspace.com/scottfromzircon
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May 10, 2009

Turisas – The Varangian Way

Filed under: Jeremy, Reviews — Tags: century media, Music, Turisas, Varangian way, Viking metal — Jeremy @ 6:11 pm

Turisas – The Varangian Way
Century Media Records

TO BATTLE!!!

That’s what I would say had I been a Viking…or Angus. This is some fantastic Viking Metal—hands down. I first heard these guys on Liquid Metal on XM Radio…at least that’s where I think I first heard them…whatever—it doesn’t matter, after the merger between Sirius and XM Radio the music channels really suck. They kept Sirius’ music stations or in some cases they kept Sirius’ playlists but kept XM’s station titles.

I canceled my subscription, but I digress.

Turisas’ The Varangian Way is the second release on Century Media Records. The album features tons TONS of battle chorus vocals, pounding drums, and thick guitar work giving you the overwhelming urge to set sail on a Viking ship, off to plunder all!!!

Fans of this genre of Metal won’t be disappointed—I know I wasn’t. While you’re at it pick up their original release Battle Metal. It’s just as good.

Pick up Turisas – The Varangian Way at: iTunes, Amazon or Century Media Records

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April 14, 2009

Episode 01: Good Friends, Bad Beer

Filed under: Episodes — Tags: comedy, llamas, metal, Metal Rules! Radio, Music, talk, the sword, volbeat — Jeremy @ 7:20 pm

This is it, the pilot episode of Metal Rules! Radio. Sure there are some format issues, we’ll get those hammered out as we go, for those of you out there that remember the magazine, it just kept getting better as the years went on. So here we are again, the core staff, Jeff, Josh, Jeremy, Angus and Rob.

In this pilot episode we discuss a lot of random things. Bands that we briefly got to touch on were Volbeat, The Sword, and sadly Metallica.

To check out Volbeat or the Sword here are their links:
Volbeat: www.volbeat.dk
The Sword: www.swordofdoom.com

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