Reid Messerschmidt Gets Metal with Robert Piller

Reid and Robert are back to the old grindstone. Topics discussed: Clapping, Celine Dion, Slayer, Minneapolis, The Cabooze, Prince, Beyond Creation, Fallujah, Gorgatron, vegetarian pizza, Black Crown Initiate, King Diamond, 1349, Frost, Dracula, Tech Death, Nailed Shut, Suffocation, Nile, Terrorizer, Death Angel, Ex Mortis, Morbid Angel, Otis Redding, Ghost, Alabama, Five Finger Death Punch, Bad Wolves, Nothing More, Fallout Boy, “We Will Rock You”, Queen, Wayne’s World, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, Might Ducks, Freddie Mercury, “Somebody to Love”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, Twitter, Flash Gordon, Highlander, The Greatest American, George Costanza, Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, “Fall to Pieces”, Scott Weiland, Layne Staley, Frank Sinatra, Slayer, Tool, Pearl Jam, Jeff Ament, Steam Punk, John Waters, Alice Cooper, Enslaved, Wolves In the Throne Room, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Meshuggah, Eluvietie, Woods of Ypre, Burzum, Cattle Decapitation, Taake, Korpaklaani, Brother Ali, Patti LaBelle, “New Attitude”, KFC, “You’re My Lady”, Death, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Tom Gabriel Warrior, Hellhammer, Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Doom, Tony Iome, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Crazy Town, Slipknot, The Mountain Goats, San Francisco, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Fillmore, Chuck Schuldiner, Randy Rhodes, and new beginnings.

Reid and Robert discuss Enslaved.  Enslaved is very good. Topics discussed: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevski, Enslaved, Friday the 13th, Beyond Creation, Leo Kottke, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, ASPCA, “Arms of the Angel”, “Always On My Mind”, Adele, taco, Hellraisers, The Sound of the Beast, Mastodon, Metalcore, Pink Floyd, Rush, Euronymous, Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, The Hard Times, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor, Burzum, Monumention, Hammond B3 organ, Prog, Black Metal, “Thoughts Like Hammers”, RIITIIR, Bathushka, The Beatles, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Viking Metal, Wolves In the Throne Room, VH1, Headbanger’s Ball, New Order, Slipknot, Rick Rubin, “Plastic Jesus”, “Autoclave” by the Mountain Goats, “Dead Flowers” by The Rolling Stones, Cool Hand Luke, Corey Taylor, Stone Sour, Satyricon, Taake, Dying Fetus, Meshuggah, Woods of Ypres, “Tom Sawyer”, “Fly By Night”, The Grateful Dead, Phish, “Touch of Grey”, Robert Fripp, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Dio, “Faeries Wear Boots”, Punk, Orphan Annie, Happy Meal toys, Roger Rabbit, Burger King, Dead Boys, “Sonic Reducer”, “Ruby Soho”, Rancid, Reggae, Ska, Green Day, Simple Plan, Pearl Jam, Joey Ramone, Flogging Mollys, Dropkick Murphys, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone, Cynic, “Integral Birth”, Death, Black Heart Initiate, Chuck Schuldiner, Lemmy, Tom Araya, Abbath, Cliff Burton, Dimebag Darryl, Lars Ulrich, Fenriz, Hellhammer, John Bonham, Keith Moon, The Who, and other dead drummers. Enslaved, “Thoughts Like Hammers” https://youtu.be/dQz0_m16SaU Enslaved, “Raidho” (Live) https://youtu.be/wyrvSNRfEw4 Dead Boys, “Sonic Reducer” (Live) https://youtu.be/ohZnOaetFvY  

Reid and Robert are joined by Melissa, a listener who has made Reid laugh several times, so we had her on all the way from Australia. We discuss the fraught history of Black Metal monks Batushka. Topics discussed: Designing Women, Batushka, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia, Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, Winter, husky Goths, Kylie Minogue, Neighbours, Natalie Imbruglia, “Chandelier”, AC/DC, INXS, Silverchair, Frogstomp, Pearl Jam, Destroyer666, Parkway Drive, Berserker, TATU’s “Everything She Said”, Platypuses, Tasmania, Tasmanian Devils, This American Life, Feline Leukemia, Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin, Mel Gibson, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana, Faketushka, theft, Gorgoroth, Behemoth, Black Metal, Catholicism, Van Halen, Wolves In the Throne Room, anti-vaxers, Bart Simpson, Martin Luther, spiders, Art Garfunkel, vegemite, Shari Lewis, The Magnetic Fields, twee, Stephen Merritt, 69 Love Songs, “Papa Was A Rodeo”, Ben Stein, Ferris Bueller, “Meaningless”, The Charlie Daniels Band, Enslaved, “Thoughts Like Hammers”, John Ritter, Tex Ritter, and the more Black Metal. Batushka (the real one) (live) https://youtu.be/tMSTnY_3_qA Magnetic Fields, “Papa Was A Rodeo” https://youtu.be/8yZ50ptDpuQ

Reid and Robert are joined by Tim “Ripper” Owens, former frontman of Judas Priest, Iced Earth, and countless other bands, as well as a friend to DIO and a man with a lot of stories to tell. It’s great. Topics discussed:  “Rainbow In the Dark”, The Scorpions, Dio, Celine Dion, Robert Frost, holograms, Charred Walls of the Damned, Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Winter’s Bane, Heart of a Killer, Three Tremors, Spirits of Fire, Savatage, Dream Evil, The End of Prance, Jugulator, Demolition, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Glenn Tipton, Pantera, Painkiller, Slayer, Anthrax, Rob Halford, Metal Church, “Abigail”, King Diamond, Sebastian Bach, AC/DC, Brian Johnson, KK Downing, Dizzy Gillespie, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rock Star, Boogie Nights, Spinal Tap, REO Speedwagon, Mark Wahlberg, Don Jameson, Wendy Dio, Holy Diver, “Last In Line”, “Rainbow In the Dark”, Pink Floyd, Jim Croce, Ace Frehly, Dave Grohl, Wayne’s World, Queensryche, Dave Ellefson, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Black Sabbath, Scott Ian, Dimebag Darrell, Simon Wright, Steel Panther, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, John Carpenter, Rick Rubin, Spielberg, Fenriz, Rodney Dangergield, Spacehog, “In the Meantime”, Resident Alien, Royston and Antony Langdon, Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Zach Braff, I’m Not Here, The Chinese Album, “Second Avenue”, Vince Neil, Toy Story, Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live, Andy Kaufman, Laugh In, Ruth Buzzy, Australia, Batushka, Monastic Chanting, and assuming Black Metal vocals. Dio, “Man On the Silver Mountain” (Live” https://youtu.be/vOyFE-1LAI0 Tim “Ripper” Owens, “Don’t Talk To Strangers” (Dio Cover, Live) https://youtu.be/TfGKtZmZeFA Spacehog, “Second Avenue” https://youtu.be/Xv9QnPgYrFs

Reid and Robert discuss Slipknot.  Reid is less offended than he thought he might be. Topics discussed: Slipknot, Slippery When Wet, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Dio, Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwe Malmstein, Mark Wahlberg, Rock Star, Jennifer Aniston, Hot Topic, Corey Taylor, Iowa, “Left Behind”, “Gently”, Stone Sour, “Wait and Bleed”, Taylor Swift, MySpace, LiveJournal, Reddit, Incels, Woods of Ypres, “People=Shit”, Cattle Decapitation, Humanure, Existentialism, Black Metal, Nietzsche, Behemoth, Aliester Crowley, Joey Jordeson, Lars Ulrich, Frost, Clown, Dave Mustaine, Max Martin, Avril Lavigne, Ghost, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Nu Metal, Metallica, Re-Load, St. Anger, Pantera, Coal Chamber, “The Heretic Anthem”, Matchbox 20, Insane Clown Posse, Jimmy Buffet, The Super Bowl, The Crow, Murder Dolls, Euronymous, “Miracle”, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Primer, Carcass, Pantera, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, CD Burners, Killswitch Engage, Pearl Jam, Corrosion of Conformity, The Misfits, Frank Black, The Pixies, Fastbacks, Prong, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deftones, Sartre, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Peace Sells But Who’s Buying?, Tom Delonge, The Challenge, Real World, Road Rules, MTV, Third Eye Blind, Nina Simone, “Ain’t Got No/I Got Life”, Hair, John Travolta, Schoolhouse Rocks, What Happened Ms. Simone?, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Bill Ward, “The Last In Line”, “Rainbow In the Dark”, The Scorpions, and disappointing Ripper Owens. Slipknot, “The Heretic Anthem” (Live) https://youtu.be/l3GnK3bhBqQ Slipknot, “The Negative One” https://youtu.be/sgA7KIwKlOE Nina Simone, “Ain’t Got No” (Live) https://youtu.be/q7YjY8W8NZA