2024 is almost in the books and I’m absolutely staggered by the last 366 days of blistering metal. While there are still a few albums trickling in as this leap year fades away, it’s time to power down the stereo, disconnect the headphones and freeze my favorite metal albums in time once more.
Half of 2024 may be extinct, but the Metalheads Podcast has carefully preserved the best metal artifacts from the 1st six months in our Top 25 Metal Albums at Midyear! Discover our favorite heavy records of the year so far in this 5+ hour countdown episode of archeological metal wonder, filled with unique excavations, glorious gems and exploratory merriment. Featuring the historic return of Matt as Brew Metal Will!
The most magical time of the year has arrived. The Metalheads Podcast Top 25 Metal Albums of 2023 is here! We've secretly wrapped the very best extreme metal albums and piled them high under the tree just for you. So, wipe the sleep crusties from your eyes, pour yourself a yuletide beverage and nestle into your favorite battle snuggie, because you've got 5 hours of joyous unwrapping to do. Happy Holidays!
Here we are, at the end of an amazing year in metal. If you're a headbanger, I don't have to tell you that 2023 produced a mountain of ferocious, incendiary music from all genres and subgenres in heavy music. And now that our 2023 planetary trip around the sun nears its conclusion, it's time for me to once again take stock of all the metal I've spun and enjoyed over the last 365 days.
Couldn’t understand what the name of that band was when listening to the mid-year episode? They sounded interesting but you can’t figure out how to spell it? We’ve got you. Here are all our lists from the episode. Go forth and explore the ones you don’t know!
Yippee-ki-yay! It's here! The Metalheads Podcast Top 25 Metal Albums of 2022! Featuring James Lewis of Decibel Magazine! We got together, had a few laughs, drank some beers and counted down our favorite extreme records of the year. So, grab a machine gun and make fists with your toes on the carpet because you're about to be trapped in the Metalheads Plaza for 5+ hours. Welcome to the party, pal.
It’s a midyear miracle! This episode we reveal our Top 25 metal albums released between January and June IN UNDER 5 HOURS! Pour a beer and prepare your ears for this aerodynamic countdown of the best metal recommendations around (and no one’s ever gonna keep em down). Plus, Will reads his old love letters from Jay.
One of the most exciting tours happening in the US right now is Uada and Sylvaine, with Finnish melodic metal pioneers, Amorphis, headlining. I caught the show on April 22nd at the Oriental Theater in Denver, Colorado, and had a great first experience seeing these three bands live.
What’s that you say? No patience for sitting through five-plus hours of podcast? You just want the lists already? We hear you. Here they are in all their font-like glory. Our lists from 2021 year-end.
Once more unto the breach, dear metalheads! We emerge from a deep, metalogical abyss to bring you excavated treasures of heaviness! Listen to us count down our 25 favorite albums released between January and June 2021. Plus, the lyrical lament of Jay, Will can't shut up about Imagine Dragons, intermission ramblings from Markisan and we drink enough to discuss the very real possibility of cannibal camels.
2020 may have sucked overall, but metal did not. Bands and record labels truly rallied in the 2nd half of the year to deliver us some outstanding audio gifts. So, nestle in to a snug spot by your Christmas tree, pour a tankard of spiked nog and listen to us unwrap the very best metal presents of 2020. Plus, revel in the joy of John's Dork Fartress! Episode 110 – The Top 25 Metal Albums of 2020. Happy holidays to you and yours!
Markisan talks to Corsair about recording and releasing “Horizons” in a pandemic, telling pirate tales through metal and who in the band has the most convincing pirate accent.
In this special, 7-hour episode we welcome our friend James Lewis of Decibel Magazine to count down our 25 favorite albums released between January and June. We also reveal our Top 5 Album Covers and Top 5 EPs of the year so far. Plus, Matt tries to reference every song title on Metallica's Black Album, George perfects the art of speaking at half speed, and Markisan chases rainbows and crashes in a mead haze, only to make the greatest comeback in metal podcasting history. The ultimate TOP 25 METAL ALBUMS of 2020 MIDYEAR are here! Accept no substitutes.
2019 was an amazing year for metal. So amazing, in fact, we decided to beef up our lists from 25 to 40. Along with our Top 40 album reveals, you'll hear the sounds of George not drinking beer, John breaking down vital statistics, Markisan describing satanic summer home rentals, Matt getting bitchy with Google pronunciation tech, and an under-the-weather Will using a rectal thermometer wrong. We also discuss our Top 5 Metal Album Covers of the Year and debut a brand new, year-end feature – The Jay Award – in honor of Jay spoiling our combined album rankings without apology or regret.
The word Superterrestrial means “above the earth.” It’s an apt name for a band from Crawley, UK, who adopted it for their otherworldly blend of space-themed, black metal and dark ambient synth. Formed in 2017 by founders Martin Shouler and Warren King, Superterrestrial’s musical amalgam is inspired by the empty, unforgiving darkness and cosmic phenomena of our vast universe.
“If Dio goes, we all go.” I posted that statement on my Facebook page a few days before Ronnie James Dio passed away. I remember hearing that Heaven and Hell, the reformed and renamed Dio-fronted version of Black Sabbath, cancelled all their upcoming tour dates a few weeks earlier. There were occasional, mostly negative reports on Dio's health leading up to the day as well. Increasingly it became clear he wouldn’t be around much longer.
Like the 6 evil Constructicons combining to form the mighty Devastator... the Metalheads Podcast has once again come together to bring you our biggest, longest cast ever - the TOP 25 METAL ALBUMS of 2019 MIDYEAR!!! So, put on a hardhat, grab a six-pack and some salty snacks, and allow us to dump some liquid-cement love into your ears.
It’s been 20 years since Helevorn first started playing music in Mallorca, Spain, but listening to their new album, you’d never know they’ve been around that long.
King Diamond and the Grinch may have (allegedly) been trying to prevent Christmas presents, but Metalheads Podcast steps up and brings you some holiday cheer with our Top 25 Metal Albums of 2018.
For those that don't have the patience to listen to over four hours of podcast, here are our lists for your perusal. Lots of good stuff in there. Enjoy.
Yeah, I’ve been there. If you’re reading this, you probably have been there too. You wake up feeling like death slightly warmed over after a long night of drinking imperial stouts because for some reason it sounded like a good idea at the time...
The year is coming to an end and we are ready to kick 2017 to the curb and start hanging out with 2018. Per our tradition we recorded an end-of-year episode which this year brings together our top 25 metal albums for 2017.
When Alice Cooper was a young boy, a relative took him to see the movie, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. He recalls it as his first encounter with that part of existence that might be thought of as creepy, strange, or maybe just…
"Is there a boner emoji?" Such wise words, spoken by a wise man, and quite possibly the only way to sum up one's thoughts after witnessing Emperor perform Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, in its entirety, at Wacken this past year...
Look who is back! It’s the man behind the mask! Not only is Alice Cooper back with his first album in six years, but I am also getting back in the saddle after a break from reviews of over a year. Alice’s new “Paranormal” album...
2024 is almost in the books and I’m absolutely staggered by the last 366 days of blistering metal. While there are still a few albums trickling in as this leap year fades away, it’s time to power down the stereo, disconnect the headphones and freeze my favorite metal albums in time once more.