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Patreon Gold I meet up with my old mate John in the bowels of Wembley Arena and take a stroll down memory lane to try and make sense of how they ended up here! As always the news is the news and it's always news when Dave's involved. This Is Me And James Bollocks. Mastodon Movie  

Patreon Gateway I welcome James to the show to talk all things Metal, all things Mental Health and Metal Mental Health. James's story is a fascinating one and well worth listening for all you budding book writers out there as well as any of you who are/have/no someone into metal who is struggling. There is also a run through the news with old favourites making repeat appearances and Aaron Lewis. This Is Wellness Bollocks. James's Website Video Interview

Patreon Offers This is one of the most enjoyable chats I have had in a long time. Matt returns to the show for the first time in 8 years just ahead of their first European and UK headline tour in years. Prepare for lots of chat about thrash, metal, hardcore and music of all types as we have a proper natter! The news takes an unexpected turn, a bit like real life. This Is Descendents Bollocks. Video Interview Shai Hulud Tour Dates Scott Burns Interview

Acid Reign Insider Programme In another Daze Of The Week special Dan and I talk all about the new Acid Reign album cover art from concept to realisation, complete with a few detours along the way. This Is Script For A Jesters Fear Bollocks. Video

Patreon Offers I review 19 movies: Wrecking Crew, Hellfire, Redux Redux, War Machine, Saipan, Giant, Dead Man's Wire, Ready Or Not 2 Here I Come, Mercy, The Trail, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Ballad Of A Small Player, Avatar Fire and Bollocks, Influencers, Send Help, Crime 101, Project Hail Mary, Thrash, and Americana. I also review 4 TV series:Steal, Evil, A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms and Man On Fire. This Is May Movie Bollocks.   

Patreon Goodies My good friend Steven Ivy asks all the right questions and I try to give some right answers the writing, recording and releasing of the first Acid Reign album for nearly seven years. This Is Old Head Bollocks Video Interview  

Amazing Patreon Content We get stuck into new releases from: Cryptic Shift, Corrosion Of Conformity, Metal Church, Eradikated, Sylosis, Nervosa & Sepultura. Have it! Old Head YouTube

Patreon Sign Up I get to have a chat with Elvin from Swedish thrashers Eradikated. They first came to my attention with their debut album Desendents which I liked and now they have blown that out the water with the epic Wiring Of Violence. We talk all about their history which began way before Eradikated even came into existence and how exactly they came to be nominated for a Swedish Grammy! There is also a news section that includes several gifts that keep on giving. This Is Pyjama Bollocks. Video Interview Eradikated Listen & Preorder Acid Reign Album Release Party

Patreon Good Stuff Let me explain. First up my good friend and fellow stand up comic and metal geek Brandon returns to the show who you may know from his excellent podcast Disturbing The Priest. We get into all sorts of metal chat as he was preparing for a bay area special when we recorded this, we also chat about comedy, roasts and Pink Floyd. That is followed by my chat with Pet Shop Boys fan Colin whilst he was queueing to see them at The Electric Ballroom. Why did I do this? Why is it on a metal podcast? Because you have more in common with Colin than you would ever think. I finish with a very short news section. This Is Autism Thrash Bollocks. Brandon Video Interview Disturbing The Priest Podcast

Patreon Gateway One Saturday morning I went down to visit Chloe & Ben who run Raven Records in Camden a haven for metalhead's, music lovers and coffee fanatics alike. After a geek out around the shop and some great coffee I got to sit down and chat all about what made them risk everything and open London's premier heavy metal record store & coffee shop. This Is Concept Cafes Bollocks. Full Video Concept Cafes Raven Records

Patreon Free Membership Let the madness begin it's my old touring mate Jason from D.A.M. We chat about their newly released compilation Inside The Wreckage (copies to be won listen to learn how), what the bands plans are, if any and we chat about both of our careers and how they have developed over the years. There is also a news section which turns out to be the gift that keeps on giving. This Is Speed Awareness Bollocks. Video Interview Acid Reign Pre-Release  

Exclusive Patreon Offers My Yorkshire brethren are on the show after they finally release their opus Overspace & Supertime. There is so much to talk about, signing to Metal Blade, the UK scene, old school shows and pits we have a right old chat. As always there is a news section featuring Gene Simmons, it's starting to become a thing. This Is Cakehole Bollocks. Video Interview Devin Video

Patreon Goodies The legendary DJ Will is on the show! A stalwart of the LA thrash scene he was there at the very beginning and we get into it all. The very beginnings of thrash, tape trading and his time as A&R at Metal Blade & Capitol Records. The news is here in all it's blocked nose glory with both KI$$ and Metallica getting a look in. This Is Cold Lake Bollocks. Video Interview Bastardane 

Free Patreon Subscription We're back and review Megadeth, Stabbing and Howard goes through his top five of 2025 plus all the usual music chat. This Is Old Bollocks. Video  

Patreon Free Membership First released in December 2020 as part of SepulQuarta but recorded much earlier in the midst of lockdown I chat to Andreas all about Quadra. How did the album come together, the aborted world tour, family, mental health, music and more over the course of 90 minutes. This Is Flashback Bollocks.

Patreon Offers I got through a lot of movies over Xmas so here are reviews for twenty two films and nine TV shows. Movies: Soft And Quiet, Predator Badlands, Wake Up Dead Man, She Rides Shotgun, Nurenberg, Bugonia, Fackham Hall, Death Of A Unicorn, Relay, Sisu: Road To Revenge, Troll 2, Black Bag, It's What's Inside, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, Now You See Me Now You Don't, The Running Man, Truth & Treason, The Gorge, Bring Here Back, Sovereign, Predators, The Rip. TV: Talamasca: The Secret Order, Landman, Season 2, Gen V Season 2, Death Cap - The Mushroom Murders, Is It Cake?, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman, Magic For Humans, Justin Willman - Magic Lover.  This Is Movie Bollocks. 

Patreon Offers Jayce is back! He takes time out from his busy schedule to have a chat. We cover a multitude of subjects from digital verses analogue recording, his time working with Queen and Rammstein, hanging with thrash legends and Joe Calzaghe! We even mention the upcoming Acid Reign album he's working on. In the news, with a new album out we inevitably have Dave Mustaine and Metallica with wives/managers Sharon Osborne & Wendy Dio doing their thing. This Is Tom Araya Bollocks. Video Interview

Join Patreon For Free In 2026 This will always be my favourite interview no matter who I get the chance to speak with in the coming years. This is my chat with Franky De Smet Van Damme singer with Belgian metal gods Channel Zero and the story of a letter received by us both 21 years previously.     This Is Flashback Bollocks.

Patreon Xmas Offer It's time to get my old mate Marc on the show to see what's been going on since he left AR almost exactly a year ago. We chat all things Venom Inc, South America, new music and some of the more painful commitments that touring brings. As always the news is picked through with an even stranger skew on it than usual as it is dominated by Gene Simmons. This Is Geordie Bollocks. Video interview

Xmas Patreon Presents It's time for some more short and sweet movie reviews of: F1 The Movie, The Naked Gun, Weapons, Companion, Sinners, Caught Stealing, Murder Mystery 1&2, Tron Ares, Boys From County Hell, The Perfect Neighbour, A House Of Dynamite, Freaky Tales & One Battle After Another. Followed by TV Series: Peacemaker Series 2, Lioness, Ganglands Series 1&2, House Of Guinness, The Diplomat series 3 & White lotus series 3. This Is Movie Bollocks.

Patreon Goodness In this episode I am joined by the legendary main man of Canadian thrash pioneers Sacrifice, Rob Urbinati. They released their latest album "Volume Six" earlier this year which I was tipped off about by Todd from Propagandhi (thanks Todd!) and its an absolute old school banger. Having both been around since the 80's we had a lot of common ground to cover and cover it we did, this is a long one and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. As always there is in depth coverage of the latest metal news afterwards, some of it interesting and some of it AI rubbish. This Is 50th Anniversary Box Set Bollocks. Kreator

Patreon Goodies From the vaults this one comes from back in 2017 when I had my first chat with James. This is possibly the most revealing and longest interview I've ever done as about half way through he volunteer's to talk about a part of his life that he'd never really made public before. That is why we talked for nearly two hours. This Is Flashback Bollocks. Video  

Patreon Exclusives The one and only Knox Colby returns to the show on the eve of recording their new album. He goes deep on label shenanigans, what the future of Enforced looks like, how that's changed from just one album ago and all of the challenges the band has had to deal with. As always there is a run through the news, some of it news (musicians dying) and some of it pro shot video announcements (Metallica). This Is We Only Do Dope Shit Bollocks. Video Interview

Patreon Free Cashback We're back dropping bombs! This time we get into Gridiron, Dead Heat, Rage, Igorrr, Testament, Tribal Gaze, Revocation & Dark Angel. This Is Old Bollocks.  Show Video

Patreon Cool Stuff Dave is back on the show and this time it's to chat about their latest album New Gods, New Masters. We get into how it all came together and also about the up coming 25th anniversary of the band. Then it's off to the news and there's plenty to get through including amazing tours, amazingly bad tours and what promises to be the worst metal Xmas album in history. This Is Armed & Harmless Bollocks. Video Interview Neil Turbin Live

Get Your Patreon On This is the first of a new series called FlashBack Bollocks. From time to time I will drop a favourite interview from the decade old vaults starting with Episode 4 from 2014 and a chance to hear my chat with Chad. This Is FlashBack Bollocks.  

Patreon Good Stuff Is Here Two interviews in one episode? That's a throwback right?! For the first time in years I bring you a double header of interviews that could not be more different. First up is Peavy from Rage who are about to drop the killer album A New World Rising very soon so we talk all about that and I get to ask him if he remembers playing with Acid Reign in 1989! Then it's over to returning guest Dan Hudson who forms one half of the hugely successful podcast A Gay & A Non Gay. They were on over three years ago to talk about their Bloodstock experience. Well this time it's just Dan talking about getting the owners of Birmingham City airport to do the decent thing and change its name to Ozzy Osbourne Airport! The news is covered, honesty is admired and laughs are had. This Is 2 In 1 Bollocks. Video Interview.

Free Patreon Stuff Dinner In America Here we go, grab some popcorn and strap yourself in for reviews of 20 movies and 9 TV series! Movies: Captain America Brave New World, Warfare, Inside Man: Most Wanted, Dinner In America, The Accountant2, The Rule Of Jenny Pen, Old Guard 2, Ballerina, 28 Years Later, The Amateur, Locked, Another Simple Favour, ME3GAN 2.0, Alto Knights, Blackberry, Nonna, I Kill Giants, Nobody 2, The Meg 2, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Superman. TV series: 1853, 1923, Mobland, Taboo, This City Is Ours, Untamed, The Waterfront, Alien Earth, White Lotus 2. This Is Movie Bollocks.

FREE Patreon Shizzle Here We are back and running the rule over releases from: End It, Deftones, Turnstile, Wanted, Paralysis, Sacrifice, Desaster & Alice Cooper. Video Show

Patreon Free Access One of the reasons for starting this podcast was to get to interview some of my favourite bands. My history with Propagandhi goes way back and Todd and I get a chance to talk ALL things music. By that I mean of course we talk about their new album but boy do we go DEEP into thrash metal and our very similar experiences in the 80's trying to get hold of records by thrash bands. The news is actual news which starts off incredibly sad but soon turns around. This Is Moneyfied Bollocks. Video Interview

This is the first episode of a new series from myself and Paul of A Year In Horror Podcast. We are going back and reviewing every episode of Black Mirror from the very beginning and it will be exclusively available on our Patreon channels. If you'd like to get them and all the other good stuff like early access to all podcasts, two radio shows, a live Zoom, album reviews, Acid Reign behind the scenes footage, new album updates sign up HERE from as little as NOTHING (free) to $6 a month there is a tier for everyone's budget. Hope you enjoy the episode. 

FREE Patreon Membership One of my favourite days this year was the unveiling of Lemmy's statue in his home town of Burslem. One man was the initial driving force behind the project and that was sculptor Andy Edwards. Here we talk all about the impact the statue has had on the area (BIG) and what the plans are for the Motorhead museum, future events and the whole area, Charles Darwin even gets a mention! Also the news is actual news with some big announcements getting coverage. This is Lunar Club Bollocks. Video Interview Megadeth's new album cover

FREE Patreon Membership Last time Dan was on we both felt we only scratched the surface of our love of metal and especially thrash. Here we go DEEP into the history of it, how he discovered metal and then thrash as a kid in the late 90's early 20000's, we try and shout out those long lost smaller bands that never got a break whilst also breaking down the role of thrash in today's metal scene. But first we needed to talk about Ozzy & Sabbath. As always I hack away at the tree of news including such branches as Megadeth, Body Count, System Of A Down, Ugly Kid Joe and Celine Dion! This Is Pizz Deininger Bollocks. Body Count Video Interview

Join Patreon For Free! We get together again and discuss releases from Propagandhi, Fishbone, Sodom, Destroyers Of All, Ready For Death, Alarum & Last Retch. Video Available Here

Patreon Bonus Bollocks! Jango and I met at the Ace Of Spades spatial audio launch event as he was the man tasked with creating the mix in his "Feel The Noize Studios". He gives a fascinating insight into how the mix was created and we also discuss his career to date and where things may go from here. There is also some nearly news stories including some unusual revelations from Nikki Sixx. This is Golden Child Bollocks. Video Interview

Patreon Shit Binge & Purge Andy is back! It's been a good long while since I had my mate and one of the UK's hardest working metal artwork specialists on the show. We cover every topic imaginable from album covers, to difficult clients to the ever changing landscape of the metal world. As always there is also a sprint through some random news stories that I think are worthy or not worthy of mentioning. This Is Very Metal Bollocks.  

Patreon Pure Gold I welcome my good friend Alan Hungerford to the podcast. Alan works behind the scenes making sure some of your favourite bands gear gets where it's supposed be, when it's supposed to be there no matter where that is in the world and I find out who, why and where! He is also plays a key role in all Motörhead & Bloodstock events. As always there is news and a couple of favourites are back in the form of Stryper & Ki$$. This Is Freight Forwarded Bollocks.  Video Interview

Free Patreon Shit Chris Ojeda is founder, singer, guitarist, engineer, producer, mixer and songwriter so he is THE man to speak to about all things Byzantine. With brilliant new album Harbingers set to drop imminently we get into the weeds of how their first album for seven years came together. All your favourites are in the news Ellefson, Mustiane, Stanley, Zetro & Doro? This Is Dog Shit Purge Bollocks. Video Interview Byzantine - Floating Chrysanthema

Free Patreon Stuff We have reviews and actual music on this episode for you. We check out new releases from (some of which are so new they are not out yet) Propagandhi, Cancer, Ghost, Heavens Gate, Inhuman Nature, The Haunted, Byzantine & Exorcism. This Is Old Bollocks.  Old Head YouTube  

FREE Patreon Membership In this episode I give you my opinions on 21 movies and 14 TV series! Movies: Love Lies Bleeding, Blink Twice, The Heretic, The Order, Conclave, Sleeping Dogs, Slingshot, Smile 2, The Operative, Get Away, Inbred, Den Of Thieves 2, Laws Of Man, September 5, Highwaymen, Sisu, The Monkey, Havoc, Holland & Bill Burr - The Drop Dead Years. TV Series: Until I Kill You, Senna, American Rust Broken Justice, Suspect, Star Wars Skeleton Crew, On Call, SAS Rogue Heroes 2, From, Yellowstone, 1923, Landman, Gangs Of London Series 3, The Bondsman & Woman Of The Dead. This Is Havoc Bollocks. 

FREE Patreon Membership The UK's premier Death Metal band are back with a new album and John and I get to talk all about the creation of it. We also pop back to the glory years, recording with Scott Burns and hanging out in the Florida scene. The news just wouldn't be the news without some Gene Simmons and someone else surprisingly telling us they never have to work again. This Is Spanish Bollocks. Video Interview Suicidal Tendencies

Patreon FREE Access Sean returns to the podcast for the first time and we discuss everything from holding a line up together, their upcoming European tour and possibility of new Vio-Lence music! The new format continues with the "news" following and an unlikely interview with Gene Simmons. This Is New Line Up Bollocks. Video Interview

Patreon Free Membership From Aborted to Xentrix and from Sepultura to Sylosis Dan has worked on art for them. We chat about how he got his start and both past and future projects. I'd suggest you familiarise yourself with his work and chances are you own some already. There is also a format change which I will walk you through right from the off. This Is Backwards Bollocks. Video Interview

FREE Podcast Patreon In this episode I get to chat with Haken stalwart, Tiktaalika founder and guitar maestro Charlie Griffiths. We talk all about his new Tiktaalika release "Gods Of Pangea", how it was written, recorded and finally released. We also totally nerd out all about our mutual love of thrash metal. As always the news gets a kicking but at least it's real, actual news. This Is Thrash Bollocks. Video Interview  The Accused AD  The Accused

Patreon Free Membership We are back with reviews of new releases from Cryptosis, Lambrini Girls, Exturminatus, Wick, Obscura, Better Lovers and the thrash metal side project from Haken guitarist Charlie Griffiths Tiktaalika. Also contains rambling thoughts and opinions. Old Head YouTube

Patreon FREE Trial I have always wanted to chat to Blaine ever since I first heard The Accused back in my youth. With his unique talent and style he made an immediate impression on young Howard and now I get to chew his ear off about anything and I do! As always I single out some news items to talk about including the greatest heavy metal gig line up ever, Gojira's Grammy win, Operation Mindcrime & democratic perfume. This Is Martha Splatterhead Bollocks  Video Interview

Patreon Special Offers Part two of my chat with Chris promoter of the legendary Milton Keynes Woughton Centre back in the day. I also race through some new old news. This Is Part Two Bollocks. Video Interview

Patreon Special Offers The legendary Milton Keynes Woughton Centre was one of the UK's premier thrash metal venues back in the day. Everyone played there from Nuclear Assault to Exodus from Acid Reign to Gang Green. All of this was made possible by a crack events team lead by Chris. We caught up after he interviewed me for a documentary about those times so I could interview him. As always this being the first episode of the year you also get my favourite albums of 2024 review. This Is Barrier Bollocks. Video Interview

Xmas Patreon Offers In this episode we chat about new releases from Better Lovers, Tribal Gaze, Dead Body & Extorted. We also talk about albums that surprised us in 2024, news stories that shocked us and conclude by ending with some movie chat. This Is Old Xmas Bollocks. Video Podcast

Patreon Free Trial The main man behind UK rockers InMe Dave and I have a chat about their long and varied career. From recording and partying in LA with the stars to having their record label go out of business just a year after releasing their debut album, to the resurgence they are currently going through. As always the rock news is examined in a little too much detail, legendary drummers leave, drummers are stolen and drummers move on close to home. This Is Hellfest Bollocks. Video Interview Pit Diaper