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For Episode 18, we decided to focus on the women dominating the metal music scene. We go all the way back to the 70s and talk about the female heavy metal bands we used to listen to and bring you into the current century with bands like Kittie, The Heathers, and several others. We also discuss “Mission to Lars”, an indie movie that I felt was just too good not to share. As always, we couldn’t play every single band out there that has a female singer or member, but we did our best to cover the veterans and newcomers alike. I am sure we’ll do another episode in the future to cover more bands, but for now, enjoy Episode 18. If you want to check out more female metal bands, check out www.metaladies.com or this vid over at Youtube.

Well, we’re officially older than the kids (okay, episode 16 made us older than the kids, but Savannah is almost 16 and who’s keeping track?). Episode 17 starts with  a throwback review of Metallica’s …And Justice for All album, which is now 25 years old and easily considered one of their best albums (at least by us here at AAM). We then move on to the show’s main discussion, which is cover songs. We play a range of songs covered by Fear Factory, Coroner and Exodus, just to name a few. So, what’s more interesting: A metal band covering another metal band, or covering songs completely outside of the metal genre? Got a favorite cover we didn’t play on this episode? Don’t worry, just send it on over to us and we’ll add it to the next cover song episode we do. Songs played this Episode: Devildriver / 16 Horsepower: Black Soul Choir – Original In Flames / Depeche Mode: Everything Counts – Original Disturbed / Genesis: Land of Confusion – Original Fear Factory / Gary Numan: Cars – Original Exodus / War: Low Rider – Original Coroner / Beatles: I Want You (She’s So Heavy) – Original Metallica: Blackened Carnifex / Slayer: Angel of Death – Original White Chapel / Pantera: Strength Beyond Strength - Original Pro-Pain / Slayer: South of Heaven – Original Ice 9 Kills / Adele: Someone Like You – Original Amazon.com Widgets

Wait, KSE is metalcore? WTF? Isn’t that a bad thing? Here at AAM, we believe that no one should be given crap for liking a particular band or sub-genre of metal. If it resonates with you, that’s good enough for us (yes, yes… even Nickleback…). We actually think that KSE fits in the New Wave of American Metal genre classification more than metalcore, but we’ll leave the arguing to you. As part of keeping the show interesting to us, we’ve come up with a bunch of different ideas, one of which is what we’ve done in this episode: We cover a single band’s discography. We also discuss the reason’s behind Howard Jones’ departure from KSE, and update you on the Obituary Kickstarter. As always, we’d love to hear from you, so send us some feedback. You can hit us up on facebook, twitter, tumblr, or just send us an email. Songs played on this Episode: Killswitch Engage I Would Do Anything The Forgotten Save Me The Arms of Sorrow My Last Serenade When Darkness Falls World Ablaze Holy Diver My Curse The Hell in Me The New Awakening Asking Alexandria – The Final Episode (Let’s Change the Channel) Amazon.com Widgets

For this episode of Ask A Metalhead, Brian suggested we discuss christian metal. We ask the questions, “Does it really matter what a band sings about if they kick ass?, and “Would you stop listening to a band because of their religious preference?”. Before you skip this episode, trust me, there is some really good tunes from some bands that I really enjoyed, even as an atheist. Also, we take a quick moment to update you on the Obituary Kickstarter. Important!Housekeeping: We confused a couple things in this episode.  We incorrectly identified the singer of “Corpus Christi” as a chick (sorry ) We incorrectly called the band “Becoming the Archetype” Dichotomy, which is an album name We incorrectly gave the wrong song title for “Impending Doom’s song, Murderer (we called it baptized in filth)   Songs played this episode: War of Ages – Collapse Demon Hunter – Infected In the Midst of Lions – Defiance & Out Of Darkness Impending Doom – Murderer Corpus Christi – Until the Day & Baptized in Fire Becoming the Archetype – How Great Thou Art Forbidden – Infinite (Parting of the Ways) Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Kharon) Settle the Sky – Cheyenne Heathen – Hypnotized Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal Amazon.com Widgets  

Episode 14 is here and what an episode it is! I hope you like Chimaira, because this episode is chock full. We saw them live in Santa Cruz, CA at the Catalyst on 8/9. We were lucky enough to get to hang out with Matt, Emil, and Austin after the show. We also met John, Matt and Joey from Threat Signal (A band you definitely need to check out), and Johnny, Austin and Neal from Dark Sermon (again, you gotta check these guys out!). While the turnout was certainly not what I’d hoped for, all the bands still killed it playing excellent sets. It’s always such an interesting experience when you get to talk to the bands and hear what life on tour is like. In this episode we discuss supporting the bands and what you, the fan can do. Got an opinion about it? Send us an email telling us what you think the best way to supports bands is.    Songs played this episode: Chimaira – No Mercy, The Dehumanizing Process, The Impossibility of Reason, Cleansation, Nothing Remains, The Disappearing Sun, Empire, Resurrection, Year of the Snake,  Scum of the Earth, and All That’s Left is Blood Dark Sermon – The Shepherd’s Staff and Carcass Threat Signal – Uncensored and Fallen Disciples

What’s up everyone? Man, where has summer gone? August already!!! Savannah and Zachary start school in a couple weeks, but rest assured, we’re not slowing down. Outside the occasional schedule change, we are committed to posting a podcast per week for you! Episode 13 (my lucky number): On this episode we discuss meeting Chelsea Grin and Veil of Maya at the All Stars Tour show in San Francisco on 8/1. It is easily one of Zachary’s favorite moments so far. How often do you get to meet one of your favorite bands? Not very often right? Well, how often does every member of the band come off their tour bus to talk to you? Even less often I’d say. Well, the guys in Chelsea Grin and Veil of Maya all did, and let me tell you, it was super cool!!! We also answer 3 questions from you listeners!! We also got to talk to Steven and Ricky from IWrestledABearOnce, and they were very cool as well. We learned that Courtney actually joined the band while they were touring on Warped after the original singer Christa literally emailed them to tell them she was pregnant and not coming to play the Dallas show. They contacted Courtney, who quit her job, jumped on a plane and played the very next show!!! We also discuss Obituary’s Kickstarter, which is hugely important! We here at AAM backed Obituary for $200.00. I am excited to announce that they met their initial 10,000 goal in 1 day!!! Their well on their way to meeting the 1st stretch goal too. Chimaira’s new album – Crown Of Phantoms gets a little love in this episode, but we’ll be really discussing the tunes in an upcoming episode after we see them live on 8/9 in Santa Cruz, CA at The Catalyst, so stay tuned for more Chimaira goodness. As always, check out the episode and let us know what you think. We’ll be posting show pics soon. I have to fix our gallery plugin first. Songs played this episode: Havok – Time Is Up Chelsea Grin – Desolation Of Eden IWrestledABearOnce – Snake Charmer (Available 8/6) Despised Icon – In the Arms of Perdition Suicide Silence – Slave to Substance Ice Nine Kills – The Coffin is Moving Chimaira – All That’s Left is Blood & I Despise Obituary – Chopped in Half, Circle of the Tyrants and Don’t Care Bands mentioned: Blind Guardian – Valhalla Iced Earth – Travel in Stygian Nevermore – Poison Godmachine Nightwish – Ever Dream Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal Follow us on twitter at @askametalhead and Facebook.  Thanks everyone!!

This episode, we discuss why we love Kittie so much and how both Savannah and Zack are converting their non-metal listening friends to metalheads by having them listen to Chimaira! We also talk about our first week really using twitter to get in touch with potential listeners and the bands we love.  For those of you that listen, here’s the heavy metal Pug-huaha herself; Captain Dipshit (Sakura), showing your her totally normal DERP FACE!!! Songs played in episode 12: Kittie (Empires Pt. 2, What I Always Wanted, We Are the Lamb) Gemini Syndrome (Resurrection) Fall Rise (Back From the Dead) Burn After Me (Abduction) Devildriver (Ruthless) Carnifex (Until I feel Nothing, Angel of Death, Lie to My Face) Shaded Enmity (Sadness in Summer Rain) Despite (As You Bleed, Unexceptional) Exodus (Blacklist) Mentions: Killswitch Engage Lamb Of God Oceano Warbringer Obituary Asking Alexandria  

We’re back! After a long hiatus to focus on grades, travel, work, etc… We’re back with episode 11. We discuss the year in metal so far, the new Chimaira album and tour (back to CA, it’s about fucking time!), and we’re joined by our new host and my long-time friend and band-member, Brian. I think you’ll like what Brian adds to the show from a musician’s perspective as well as the types of metal he listens to. With episode 11, you’re going to see a weekly release of our podcast. We’re changing the format slightly and we’re doing a little more audio editing to make listening more enjoyable. We want you to feel like you’re sitting in the room with your friends talking about and sharing good music! I’ve also been involved with Waterfront Comics’ new podcast, 4 J’s and a Comic, which you can check out here as well as clicking the link in the sidebar. I’ve also been doing guest appearances on The Geek Life podcast, hosted at www.pandamanga.com. Both are excellent listens if you’re into comics, whether you just read them or create them. John from PandaManga.com asks, “I want to start listening to Slayer. Where should I start?” Listen to episode 11 to hear our recommendations. Bands in this episode: Exodus, (The Last Act of Defiance) Born of Osiris, (Follow the Signs, Two Worlds of Design) Pantera, (Shedding Skin) Slayer, (South of Heaven, World Painted Blood) Chimaira, (Frozen in Time, Scum of the Earth) Cattle Decapitation, (Living Breathing Piece of Defecated Meat) Job for a Cowboy, (Entombment of a Machine)

Another fun concert with lots of cool surprises! Zack got to meet everyone from OCEANO, I caught a drumstick, and we just had a hell of a show. One of my best friends, Darren stops by to hang out on the show and we talk a lot about old-school metal and how he got into metal, our old band “Unprovoked” and more!

Well over a month after recording it, I’ve finally gotten time to post episode 9. It was a killer show. Easily one of the best concerts the kids and I have ever been to. We were right at the front of the stage, and Jamey Jasta handed Zack the wristband off his wrist!! Sorry for the delay…

Like the title says, this show really changed us as concert goers. Our first foray into the scary world of being part of the pit and crowd near the front of the stage. In this episode we talk about the show and meeting an idol.

September already?!? Well, we hung out on the U.S.S. Hornet for Slaughter by the water on August 25th. Lots of good bands, lots of interesting history, and most important of all, EXODUS!!   One of the bigger surprises was when Dave Lombardo walked onstage to play with his side project “Philm”. I just about pissed myself! We had a great time at this show and there are some surprises awaiting the listener, so check out our latest installment of Ask A Metalhead; Episode 7!  

Man oh man, it’s been a long time since we recorded. With the kids out of school and off doing summertime stuff and work kicking my ass it’s been hard to get a recording done. A couple of nights ago, we got an email from someone and it really kick me in to gear. I’d like to share the email, it really was cool to read this. Thanks “Gentlemandrunk”. I loved you’re show. Found it on reddit. I see you haven’t done one this month. Fix that. I love the dynamic. You’ve done well to instruct your spawn in the dark art that is the metal. They really seem to know their stuff. I love the mix between your love of the classic metal of days gone by and the fire the kids have for the new stuff. Please keep it up. I just mentioned you on reddit tonight concerning an idea to highlight shows such as yours. Big fan, Please do another show. perhaps about a band such as maiden??? We’ll do a “Maiden” show soon, I promise. Anyhow, without further ado, Episode 6!

Sunday, July 1st and we’re on our way to Mountain View, CA for Mayhem Fest 2012 – Slayer, Slipknot, Motorhead, Anthrax and many, many more. In this episode we discuss the show and our favorite tunes from the various bands. Check it out and SEND US QUESTIONS!!  

Episode 4, we discuss the future of metal and Pantera’s 20 year anniversary release of Vulgar Display of Power, which includes a new track, “Piss”.

Well, episode 3 presents a huge milestone for us, our first submitted question! We’re hoping that you’ll also enjoy a little fun at the end of the show, so take a listen and don’t forget to submit those questions for to answer.   

This week we talk about the recent Fear Factory show at Ace of Spades in Sacramento, CA, and our favorite song intros. We still haven’t gotten any questions to answer yet, so take a listen and send us an email.

That’s right, episode 1 of our brand new podcast is up and ready for a listen. In this episode, we introduce your hosts, Justin, Savannah and Zachary. We discuss the purpose of our little show and talk about how each of us got into metal.Take a listen and send your questions to questions@askametalhead.com We also discuss some upcoming shows as well as the recent Kittie show that we went to on April 26th in San Francisco. So, without further adieu, we present you with Episode 1!