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Pit Side Dad
by Tor
A podcast about the mid-life & times of an aging metalhead & his stupid love of live (heavy) music. I'm too old, it's too loud & I don't care. Your host Tor Hansen tells stories from Yesterday& Today (Y&T pun intended). Every episode brings an album of the week and a review of the concerts he's been to. It's almost always Metal, or Hardcore, or Metalcore, or Metallic Hardcore , you get the idea. Plus if you aren't about the metal but like the stories we have a special segment for you. Bangers for Beginners brings you one song every week that is hand-picked to start you on your own journey towards Metalhead...dom. There's some parenting stuff, some coming-of-age stuff, and lots of heavy music stuff. So pull up beside Tor at the edge of the pit and enjoy the show.
Episodes
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Late Summer Playlist
Send us Fan Mail This week, my sound was an adventure so apologies for the decreased quality...But better late and bad than never, not really. Today I bring you a handful of songs released in Summer(ish) 2026 that are sure to make you smile, or make you angry at me for daring to imagine what…
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A Resounding Failure
Send us Fan Mail This episode is pretty boiler plate, Chart Chuggers, Concert Calendar and an exciting (for a moment) new frontier for the podcast. I misuse words and say a lot of things. Music in this Episode: Godflesh-Love is a Dog from Hell Atom Kraft-Queen of Death Venom- Lay Down Your Soul...
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Chapter 22: Rumpling Marie In The Still of the Night
Send us Fan Mail Story time: A fond reminiscence/critical revisiting of a song and a night that are lodged in my memory like a cocklebur in my sock. Long one, but hopefully a goodin' Music in this episode: Godflesh-Love is a Dog From Hell Whitesnake-Still of the Night Cinderella-Nobody's Fool...
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10-10-10 best of 2025
Send us Fan Mail End of the year wrap-up time. Your fearful host and special guest from Hungary go through a list of the 10 best live sets, 10 best songs, and the 10 best albums. Spend a little time with me cataloging and exploring the best tunes and shows form the past years. And and and, write…
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BONUS: A (not really) Hungarian (not really) Halloween Playlist with The Countess
Send us Fan Mail Just a fun(?) little Bonus…In honor of the best time of the year that isn't spring or summer, we've called forth from the great hereafter, a very special guest from the Hungarian version of hell to layout a playlist of deeply troubling songs. Please enjoy and keep in mind she's...
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Chapter 21: Ozzy, a Punk and a Summer in the Southland
Send us Fan Mail This week it's story time again. It's a farewell of sorts to Ozzy and it's obscenely packed with a whole lot of flawed reminiscence. Plus an Album of the Week you really shouldn't miss. Music in theis Episode. Godflesh- Love is a Dog from Hell Ozzy Osbourne-Sweet Leaf (live) Ozzy...
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Summer of Sedition: A Protest Playlist from Drop Dee Sharp
Send us Fan Mail Hello, It seems to be a summer of lists here at the Pisdcast. This one is a bit different in execution from the last one. This week we’re bringing in a guest DJ with a familiar voice to help us build the ultimate bonfire of bangers to inspire you to get out and punch Nazis, tear...
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Glinting Metal: A Summer Playlist for a Party at the Edge of the Bluff
Send us Fan Mail Lots o’ Music this week. This week, your friendly neighborhood f**khead brings you a playlist reminiscent of Summers bygone, foretelling of Summers never to come, and above all, a playlist as non-sensical as this description. Apologies upfront, I put my favorite M. Manson song on...
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Chapter 20 : Kill A Poseur for Paul
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we do a quick recap of the championship of our March metal Madness Tourney. I tell you about a local show that blew my socks off and The tale of my near Exodus from Exodus. Music, Mirth, Meaning or 1 out of 3 of those things. Music in this episode: Godflesh-Love…
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Metal March Madness : Best Albums of 2024 Edition
Send us Fan Mail This week we start the inaugural March Tournament. The contest this year is 64 albums from 64 bands all vying to be crowned best album of 2024 and put the debate to rest. Here we cover the first two rounds. Some great matchups, some stupid comments by me, and hopefully a lot of...
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Top 10 albums of 2024
Send us Fan Mail This week we’ve gone visual, this the augmented audio version of our first ever video podcast ( you can watch me ugly shit up here... https://youtu.be/YyvR6LDlhIU?si=95i_fXnd0_kpgMb_ ). This week going through my top albums of 2024 and we have a Chart Chuggers or Billboard…
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Holiday Baubles
Send us Fan Mail An all segment episode to finish off 2023. We have a Snacks n Tracks, mini-Concert Calendar, Lesser Bangs and look at the Heaviest Hot 100 Chart entries in the history of Xmas/NYE week. I say a lot of stupid things, play music and work like a dog to entertain you. (two truths and…
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Bonus: Lesser Bangs and Billboard Bashers
Send us Fan Mail It's bonus time before we hit the end of year listravaganza. In truth I am testing out a couple of potential new segments. First Up, Lesser Bangs where I bash the venerated critic and highlight a song, album, or artist who is forgotten, unsung or non-traditionally heavy but…
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Chapter 19: A Vision of Resilience Part 2
Send us Fan Mail This episode, we finish up the story started way back in June, I swear a lot, there's a banger for beginners, and a Concert Calendar featuring maybe the most hypnotic and deeply affecting live set I have ever seen. And, we avow allyship in the face of the recent red wave of...
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Aftershock Saturday Report and Sandwich Cookies
Send us Fan Mail This episode, I recap my Saturday at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento and my son and I do a deep dive into a thumping great failure in the marriage of Coke and Oreo. Go figure. Music in this Episode Godflesh- Love is a Dog from Hell P.O.D. -Youth of A Nation (live) Body...
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Snacks and Tracks: Pop Tarts and Saylor Grift
Send us Fan Mail This short little bonus sees the return of my son, and the unfortunate return of Taylor Swift's AI doppelganger. We eat, we listen, we get out quick. Music in This Episode: Snack Jackson- Butt Inferno Olivia Rodrigo- Vampire Babes in Toyland- Handsome & Gretel PROTECT TRANS KIDS,...
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Metalympiad!!!
Send us Fan Mail This week in honor of the Olympics, that are currently over, we sat down and handed out medals to Metal...songs from 2024. And when I say 'we' I mean me and my son. Lots o' music, a short concert calendar and elite level bullshittery. Music in this Episode Godflesh- Love is a Dog...
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Bonus: Snacks and Tracks Rome Edition
Send us Fan Mail This week, I am on location with some special guests and you know what that means...bad audio and more entertainment than usual. We eat some semi-Italian Oreos and Bizzzkits, play a few songs and generally act like fools. Well, I act like a fool and call my son some not so nice...
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Chapter 18: A Vision of Resilience
Send us Fan Mail Today we trip back to Nu Metal to talk about a punk show. Confusing? Probably. Truth? As I remember it. Fun? Almost. A new banger for Beginners and that's about it. Music in this Episode: Love is a Dog from Hell-Godflesh Those Who Gave Us Yesterday-The Hope Conspiracy Honed...
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Chapter 17: Wrestle the Lightning Part 2
Send us Fan Mail FINALLY, the conclusion of the wrestling story from February. A PACKED concert calendar and a few other things that probably don't deserve an ALL CAPS DELIVERY. But it's fun, I promise. And there's a ton of metal in this one.. of the -lica variety and the non-lica variety. This…
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Ch. 16: Wrestle the Lightning: Part 1
Send us Fan Mail It's story time again, this time we start the case for one of the most reviled thrash songs of the 1980's and talk a lot about prep wrestling. Which, who among us doesn't love amateur wrestling talk. I mean it's a subject that has inspired at least 2 podcasts that I can think of....
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Mini-episode: Snacks and Tracks...Concussed Edition
Send us Fan Mail On this short and all too sweet episode, my son and I pop unfamiliar Pop Tarts into our mouths listen to 2 pop songs (one Metal, one meh) and I make fun of him for having head trauma, actual head trauma, while he sniffles into the mic and plays with fasteners. Music in this...
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Top 10 Albums of 2023
Send us Fan Mail Finally putting a bow on 2023's best and talking about my first few shows of 2024. Also a little audio essay on how the interwebs are a place where rumor is truth, and everybody's nose is 3 feet long. Music in this week's episode: Love is a Dog from Hell- Godflesh Indoctrinated...
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Wrapping up the Songs of the year 24 to 1.
Send us Fan Mail Ok, a rapid rundown of the best 24 songs this year. As chosen by Jesus, or as chosen by me if I was asked by Jesus to choose them. He and I aren't talking right now, maybe when I eventually get baptized into the Church of Cancer Christ we'll mend our fences. Happy Ewe Tears!!...
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Songs of the Year 49-25 Countdown: The Return of Sailor Grift
Send us Fan Mail That took a long time didn't? Rather than your honorless host blathering about the songs I loved this year, again, I thought I'd bring back an old...friend? Sailor reads out my favorites, you are entertained and everything goes off without a hitch. xmas miracle Songs featured in...
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Songs of the Year Pt. 1 (Pre-Devils' Day Edition)
Send us Fan Mail The Lists continue, Thanksgiving and it's abject colonial horror history of prolonged bloodshed bumming you the fuck out right about now? This will not help with that, but there is some good music herein contained. I run down my favorite songs of the year numbers 73-50. Maybe…
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EPilogue: My Favorite EP's of 2023
Send us Fan Mail The first of a nauseating number and array of lists of my favorites from this past year of heavy Music. Why did I capitalize the "M" in music in that last sentence? Concert Calendar and a mercifully short runtime. Thanks for listening... write me, please Music in this Epsiode…
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Chapter 15: The Sweet Sting of Truth
Send us Fan Mail This episode your host talks live music as curative, his favorite horror movies, tells how his moment of WASP based glory turned to utter shit and talks like a real old man about Creed...the band not the movie. Music in this Epsiode: Love is a Dog from Hell-Godflesh...
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Chapter 14: Kokomo Mike Vs. Blackie's Buzzsaw Britches
Send us Fan Mail Hello, no special segments this week. Just me, talking like I know what I'm talking about. A story about the WASP, the PMRC, and musings about Onan. Album of the Week, Concert Calendar, and Bangers for Beginners. Music in this Epsiode: Love is a Dog from Hell-Godflesh Become a...
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Chapter 13: Blank 'N' Blank Lies
Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: My timeline is wonky. I placed these events in the last two years of the 80s. They more probably took place in 1986-87.... Right upfront I lie to you...then I keep lying. There's is no Snacks and tracks segment this week as I say in the intro, that's a lie...This week...
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Chapter 12: Pt. 2 In Defense of the Death Metal Drill
Send us Fan Mail Music in this episode: Love is a Dog From Hell-Godflesh Engineering the Void-Soreption Douchebag-TVFilthyFrank Political Drillin' -Drillminister Nellie the Elephant- Toy Dolls Bitch in the Pit -Cage Fight You Suffer- Napalm Death Barbie Girl-Aqua Diamonds and Rust- S.O.D. We Got...
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Chapter 11: PT. 1 In Defense of the Death Metal Drill and Butcher Babies
Send us Fan Mail This episode we talk about the parallel troubles of Death Metal and Drill. Your host gets bent about male chauvinism and we get two new segments. Plus AOTW, B4B and CC, and if you know what those things are, thank you. Music in this episode: Love is a Dog From Hell-Godflesh...
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Chapter 10: The Newer Clearer Nuclear Reality (The Silo Story Pt. 2)
Send us Fan Mail Another exercise in Mutually Assured Distraction featuring the second half of the silo story from the last episode, a surprise guest, and ALL the segments. Bands talked about include Gel, State Faults, Stabbing, Defeated Sanity, Truth Cult,Johnny Booth, Crypta, Tesla, Karyo...
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Chapter 9: TAY-I and New Clear Nuclear Reality (The Silo Story Pt. 1)
Send us Fan Mail Finally a metal podcast episode for all the Swifties out there, maybe...In this Chapter your host welcomes a very special guest, wrangles with memories of Nuclear childhood and says the word 'stupid' eleventeen hundred times. A new Banger for Beginners and a brand new segment (to...
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Chapter 8: Jedis for Jesus
Send us Fan Mail This time out we go to church, sort of . Your very much non-believer host has a come to Jesus moment, sort of. Then he, against all the good advice, tries to do some character work , TRIES to. We get Bangers for Beginners, Concert calendar, and we'll explore how they Rock it...in...
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Chapter 7: In Godflesh We Trust
Send us Fan Mail K, It's the nearly all Godflesh episode. Your host waxes stupid about his 30 year relationship with the most unflinching of all British industrial metal bands. Including an anecdote about how Justin Broadrick and G.C. Green delivered him from abyssal self-annihilation to the…
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Chapter 6: The Ritual
Send us Fan Mail This week, we talk about what this old guy does to aggrandize and improve the concert going experience. We have a short tribute in honor of Juneteenth and a new (probably) semi-regular segment. Also Album of the Week, a stacked and ecstatic Concert Calendar and A Banger for...
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Chapter 5: Chapels, Nazis and Bad Research
Send us Fan Mail In this installment of the PiSDCast we take a (relatively) short trip back to 2004. Your host talks about the dangers of hasty judgement, and White Supremacists, and about being in the thrall of a sexy Black Metal wunderkind. As always, Concert Wrap, Album of the Week, and a…
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Chapter 4: Millions of Dead...Jocks?
Send us Fan Mail In this Chapter your host talks about being an arrogant, entitled ***hole jock. AOTW is Summerhaze '99- Inevitable. Concert review of Miasmatic Necrosis, Spirit Possession, Succumb. And of course a new segment of Bangers for Beginners. Music in this episode: Love is a Dog From...
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Chapter 3: Crossed Wires Pt. 2 or How AC/DC burned up in the Heartbreak Hotel
Send us Fan Mail This week, your host brings you the second part of his year in AC/DC 1980-1981. Humiliation visits his ten year old self in front of a whole audience of High Schoolers. Also AOTW is Cattle Decapitation Concert Recap with a signature old guys moment and... A NEW SEGMENT!! Bangers...
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Chapter 2 : Crossed Wires (A 9 year old discovers AC/DC)
Send us Fan Mail In this installment of the PiSDCast, I talk about my proto-metalhead years, how I graduated from KISS to AC/DC and price of trying to look cool. Also a concert wrap up for the Chaos and Carnage tour, plus an album of the week. Sound work is evolving but still appreciate your...
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Chapter 1: Origin Story (kinda)
Send us Fan Mail In this installment, the first installment, you'll meet your host. He'll tell you about the beginnings of his metalheadedness and offer some perspective the latrest shows he's been to and drop an album of the week in your lap. Sound is a journey so bear with the quality as your...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about the mid-life & times of an aging metalhead & his stupid love of live (heavy) music. I'm too old, it's too loud & I don't care.
Your host Tor Hansen tells stories from Yesterday& Today (Y&T pun intended). Every episode brings an album of the week and a review of the concerts he's been to. It's almost always Metal, or Hardcore, or Metalcore, or Metallic Hardcore , you get the idea. Plus if you aren't about the metal but like the stories we have a special segment for you. Bangers for Beginners brings you one song every week that is hand-picked to start you on your own journey towards Metalhead...dom. There's some parenting stuff, some coming-of-age stuff, and lots of heavy music stuff. So pull up beside Tor at the edge of the pit and enjoy the show.
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