As metal nerds, we don’t just listen to the music; we dig. Forever digging: always searching for intriguing new information about our favorite metal bands (like the kinda stuff you might see on Metal Jeopardy if it were a thing).
On this Metal Nerdery Listicle (yes, you read that correctically), we run down some of UltimateClassicRock.com’s (UCR) “100 Metal facts you might not have known”. (NOTE: there were several that we already knew but many that we just learned about today that were completely fascinating.)
JOIN US as we bounce around and talk about UCR’s “100 Metal Facts You Might Not Have Known” list and chew the fat, as well as discuss some of our own personal metal factoids that weren’t on the list and (as always) indulge in some general Metal Nerdery hysterious hilarity that will leave you feeling just like you would at the end of a Pantera show: satiated and happy.
Show Notes
00.00: Intro/Announcements, Plagiarism, RE-commendments and RE-condiments/ Metal Nerdery Listicle Review: UltimateClassicRock.com 100 Metal facts you might not have known
04.17: YES!/Black Sabbath’s first album cover (which is eviler?)/Metal Massacre mistake (#backshadowing)/Black Sabbath, gangs, Dio and SHARON!!/Dime, BMX, and “RAD!”/#softintro
10.41: Encoded Iron Maiden album art/breeder of WHAT!?/The word is herpetologist (WHAT!?) / Best In Show/#facelocks and Show Snakes/Black Label Society and Zakk Wylde
14.27: Cliff Burton interestingness/Whaddya mean “Raising Awareness…”?/Judas Priest and American Idol/Dana Strum, Ozzy and KISS/the word is: afthand/The Legendary Lore of Lemmy
19.14: Cannibal Corpse and a yardful of holes and traps/System of a Down and Slayer (EXTREME kudos and commendments to System of a Down (S.O.A.D).…and of course, also to Slayer because…DUH! (FUCKING SLAYER!!!)/Rob Zombie vs White Zombie and the phases of artistry/Thrash Metal love triangle/ ultimateclassicrock.com/metal-facts /Whaddya mean!?!?/Phil Anselmo and Anton Crowley
24.53: Testament, Deftones and family ties/back to backshadowing?/EARLY Iron Maiden (which one is Ace?)/Olde Faece/Ozzy and the kid on the cover of “Diary of a Madman”
29.10: Tool, Mantra and “squeezing”/This Is Spinal Tap: 11 out of 10 stars/Wait! GWAR and…Circuit City?/some Ghost lore/how do you forget about breaking your neck!?/The Black Sabbath of MMA/Marty “Weird Al” Friedman (?) and the world of Japanese Television Hostmanship/S.O.A.D. and Vartan the badass
37.03: Avenged Sevenfold and Overkill mascot “debate”/ Schnitzel and Kreator (HAIL!)/Fear Factory and Nirvana connection/Meshuggah/Wait, WHAT!?/The life of a roadie
43.15: Morbid Angel, letters and math…and now NEW letters: Wait, how do you spell…?/Dream Theater and thrash band Meanstreak (ladies of thrash!)
46.30: Dimebag’s “David Allan Coe meets Elvis Presley meets Conway Twitty outta control and turned up to 11” 1969 helmet hair combover tribute (WTF!?)/ The New face of Metal Nerdery/Adam Jones, modern cinema and a brief tangential update about the new Terminator flick
50.10: Max Cavalera’s other “other” side project (Death Roar)/Metallica and Exodus and Kirk Hammett and riffs/Randy Blythe and “The Graves”/Glen Benton, Deicide and his “commitment issues”/Cannibal Corpse and School of Rock /Sleep’s Dopesmoker (aka Jerusalem) #foreshadowing/Geeoff T8 and Pantera
56.26: GWAR and Joan Rivers/Something tangentionally tangential: News Radio, Anthrax, Pantra?/Dan Spitz, Watch making and Switzerland/information about Bill Ward we didn’t need/Napalm Death and children
1.01.13: Anthrax State of Euphoria and MAD Magazine/Iron Maiden and Monty Python (fascinating!)/Chuck Schuldiner and taco stands/Conrad and Blackmetal Body Building/Judas Priest and The Simpsons/Sepultura and Motorhead tangentionally tangential/Napalm Death and The Guinness Book of World Records (get to the point FASTER!!)
1.05.25: Flotsam and Jetsam and J.R.R. Tolkien/Probot and Voivod artwork/a Metal Nerdery salute to George Lynch and guitar soloing and active volcanoes/Manowar and the Sacred Loincloths of Malta (which we will (hopefully) have a limited edition version of soon, which, when we get them, we’ll have them available at metalnerdery.com/merch)/Judas Priest and Sparkomatic/Black Sabbath’s trips to Number 1 (EXTREME kudos, commendments and condiments to Black Sabbath because BLACK SABBATH!!!!)/Milton Berle and RATT
1.10.23: W.A.S.P. and Spinal Tap/Behemoth and Nergel (#backshadow, #thenewsoftintro)/Manowar vs Twisted Sister (loincloths and mascara)/Black Sabbath and “Stonehenge”/Nicko McBrain and Number of the Beast video
1.15.15: Mercyful Fate and “Melissa”/Ozzy vs Dio/make a note: go back and listen to the Beast Album Dive for this next part/James Murphy and The Gathering (!?)…just listen as Sam Illiot announces technical difficulties/CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORDERY ABOUT THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!!