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Heavy Metal 101

Heavy Metal 101

Eric Schwartz

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Your favorite podcast, wherein Eric, an expert, and John, a novice, explore, discuss, and argue about the history of heavy metal music. New episodes are available on the 3rd Monday of each month! Visit us at: https://anchor.fm/heavymetal101podcast Contact us at: [email protected] Social media: https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast https://twitter.com/heavy_101 https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/ Theme Music: Valhalla by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Heavy Metal 101 episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Heavy Metal 101 for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Heavy Metal 101 episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Wherein Eric and John take a look at what the mighty Black Sabbath (Heaven and Hell) and the newly musically single Ozzy Osbourne (Blizzard of Ozz) were up to as a new decade dawned.

Assigned Listening #1: Black Sabbath- "Heaven and Hell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRA7UXlGu8

Assigned Listening #2: Ozzy Osbourne- "Mr. Crowley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0RE230PlX4

Visit us at: https://anchor.fm/heavymetal101podcast (you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: [email protected]

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New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month*. See ya again soon!!!

*LOOK OUT FOR OUR SPECIAL HALLOWEEN BONUS EPISODE, AVAILABLE at midnight on 10/1!

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Wherein Eric and John return to the fray, exploring the extraordinary music making of Iron Maiden in their first Bruce Dickinson fronted period, 1981-93. Click on the links below for all the music listening breaks in this episode: Music listening break #1- "The Trooper" from Piece of Mind (1983) https://youtu.be/4VZbjrDwQ28?si=7rIZSnnsjQYHPH_Z

Video break #1: "Can I Play With Madness" (1988) https://youtu.be/Kvqr366Op3k?si=D5sXFYScBJNBAeMs

Video break #2: "Fear of the Dark" live from Rock in Rio (2001) https://youtu.be/epYKVcHrVr0?si=gznoMXr2u1UPyJwz

Please do consider joining us at our shiny, new Patreon page! Not only will you gain access to exclusive content, but you'll also get that sense of pure joy that can only come from supporting the world's wackiest, most insightful heavy metal podcast. Link below:

http://patreon.com/HeavyMetal101

Visit us at:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heavymetal101podcast⁠ ⁠(you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!) https://twitter.com/heavy_101

Contact us at: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

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New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Thanks for listening!

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Wherein Eric and John deep dive into the moldering early history of American death metal and British grindcore, exploring the fetid formative tales of an assortment of bands including Death Possessed, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Deicide, Napalm Death, and Carcass.

Click on the links below for all the music listening breaks in this episode: Music listening break #1- Possessed "Death Metal" from Seven Churches (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hadGUw2tpk

Music listening break #2- Morbid Angel "Chapel of Ghouls" from Altars of Madness (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUFREEJiGeQ

Music listening break #3- Carcass "Exhume to Consume" from Symphonies of Sickness (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDTwit60xo

Please do consider joining us at our shiny, new Patreon page! Not only will you gain access to exclusive content, but you'll also get that sense of pure joy that can only come from supporting the world's wackiest, most insightful heavy metal podcast. Link below:

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Visit us at:⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heavymetal101podcast⁠⁠ ⁠(you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠

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New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Thanks for listening!

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Wherein Eric and John rhapsodize over three of the greatest heavy metal albums ever made, Judas Priest's Painkiller, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, and Black Sabbath's Dehumanizer, in an episode so great that even John doesn't hate it. Click on the links below for all the music listening breaks in this episode: Music listening break #1- Judas Priest "Painkiller" from Painkiller (1990) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hadGUw2tpk Music listening break #2- Black Sabbath "TV Crimes" from Dehumanizer (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUFREEJiGeQ Not a listening break, but, of course, if you don't know Megadeth's iconic Rust in Peace you'll need to remedy that as soon as is humanly possible: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lBLXRW43EViiE9xRRCR6l1Ghtj1Ko6Mhc&si=NBGcAmLSVkEs9GEz Please do consider joining us at our shiny, new Patreon page for just $3/month! Not only will you gain access to exclusive content, but you'll also get that sense of pure joy that can only come from supporting the world's wackiest, most insightful heavy metal podcast. Link below: http://patreon.com/HeavyMetal101 Visit us at: ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heavymetal101podcast⁠ ⁠(you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!) Contact us at: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ Social media: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast⁠ ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/heavy_101⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@heavymetal101podcast ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/⁠⁠ New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Thanks for listening! Underscore credits: Music: Valhalla by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Song: Cherry Metal License: Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Funny Song | Comedic Background Music | Silly Chicken FesliyanStudios Background Music https://fesliyanstudios.com Death/Thrash Metal Riffs - Fight Like Hell // Royalty Free No Copyright Music White Bat Audio Atmospheric Doom Metal - ROYALTY FREE [No copyright Music] poweredBYGD ©Music provided by Nature Healing Society© Watch the original movie here: • 432Hz Meditation & Relaxing Music

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Heavy Metal 101 - We Need To Talk About Prog Metal
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02/19/24 • 65 min

Wherein Eric and John go to some truly dark places, exploring one of Eric's least favorite metal subgenres, progressive metal, but come out the other side stronger, wiser, and having talked about an assortment of amazing artists including the "big three": Fates Warning, Dream Theater, and Queensrÿche, as well as Eric's pick for THE SINGLE GREATEST HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE 1980s!

opening poem: Music by Walter De La Mare

Click on the links below for all the music listening breaks in this episode!

Music listening break #1: Rush- "Anthem" from Fly By Night (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9h2H5Sgzfw

Music listening break #2: Fates Warning- "Guardian" from Awaken the Guardian (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmDgdDXH944

Music listening break #3: Queensrÿche- "I Don't Believe in Love" (the music video!) from Operation: Mindcrime (1988) ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3g6tTYoxM Visit us at: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heavymetal101podcast⁠ (you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!) Contact us at: [email protected]⁠ Social media: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/heavy_101⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/⁠

New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month. See ya again soon!!!

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Heavy Metal 101 - Iron Maiden’s Gonna Get You!
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08/15/22 • 54 min

Wherein Eric and John return to the fray for season #2, and explore the rise and debut album of one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time, the mighty Iron Maiden!

Assigned Listening #1: "Prowler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnCHrQqmN0Q

Assigned Listening #2: "Running Free" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbK9vqF8EOc

Assigned Listening #3: "Iron Maiden" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXuD3cZUpm8

Visit us at: https://anchor.fm/heavymetal101podcast (you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: [email protected]

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast https://twitter.com/heavy_101 https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/

New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month. See ya again soon!!!

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Heavy Metal 101 - A Seventies Sabbath Season Finale Spectacular!
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04/22/22 • 72 min

Wherein Eric, John, and very special guest author and Sabbath scholar Nolan Stolz pick up right where we left off on episode #1, exploring 1970's Black Sabbath from the release of the seminal Paranoid through Never Say Die! and Ozzy's departure at the end of the decade.

Music listening break #1: "Children of the Grave" from Master of Reality https://youtu.be/X01Envh1kSA

Music listening break #2: "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath https://youtu.be/yuVmjv22Nqc

Music listening break #3: "Air Dance" from Never Say Die! https://youtu.be/vh7cGW_elQ0

Never fear! We shall return after just a short break for season #2, wherein we will explore the heavy metal of the 1980s. For updates on the next season you can:

Visit us at: https://anchor.fm/heavymetal101podcast (you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: [email protected]

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast https://twitter.com/heavy_101 https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/

We'll see ya again real soon!

Please do click the following link and check out Nolan's fabulous, indispensable book, Experiencing Black Sabbath: A Listener's Companion https://rowman.com/isbn/9781442256910/experiencing-black-sabbath-a-listener's-companion

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Wherein Eric and John get down to the business of creating a concrete list of essential heavy metal bands and albums from the 1970s for a listener's "starter pack" of music from metal's first decade. We're more about the journey than the destination, but a short form of the list is available from 39:31-40:54.

Visit us at: https://anchor.fm/heavymetal101podcast (you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: [email protected]

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast https://twitter.com/heavy_101 https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/

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Wherein Eric and John explore the surprising amount of interconnectivity and influence between arguably the least and most prestigious of musical genres, heavy metal and classical music, via comparisons of Deep Purple with Antonio Vivaldi and Eddie Van Halen with Niccolò Paganini.

Throughout these "Roots of Heavy Metal" episodes, we'll dig deep into the many influences that made heavy metal music what it is, with longer episodes, more musical examples, and even more delightful verbal sparring as we uncover the wide array of musical styles that contribute to metal's vast musical family tree.

Click on the links below for all the music listening breaks in this episode!

Music listening break #1: "Highway Star" from Deep Purple's Machine Head- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2BO3UTOhZ8

Music listening break #2: "Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, 'Summer': III. Presto" performed by Apollo's Fire with soloist Francisco Fullana- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1rvw-NUfs

Music listening break #3: "Niccolò Paganini: 24 Caprices, No. 5 in A minor" performed by Itzhak Perlman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuh0umnwDsw

Music listening break #4: "Eruption" from Van Halen's self-titled debut- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Czx8EWXb0

Visit us at: https://anchor.fm/heavymetal101podcast (you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: [email protected]

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast https://twitter.com/heavy_101 https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/

See ya again soon!!!

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Heavy Metal 101 - What’s the Alternative? (The Rise of Alt Metal)
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09/16/24 • 55 min

Wherein Eric and John sip hot, black coffee and burn nag champa incense while exploring the diverse and wonderous "alt" branch of the metal family tree, discussing an assortment of bands including: Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, The Melvins, Alice in Chains, Tool, and many more! Click on the link below for the episode video break:

Video break: Tool- "Sober" from Undertow (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspxAG12Cpc

Please do consider joining us at our shiny, new Patreon page! Not only will you gain access to exclusive content, but you'll also get that sense of pure joy that can only come from supporting the world's wackiest, most insightful heavy metal podcast. Link below:

⁠http://patreon.com/HeavyMetal101⁠

Visit us at:⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heavymetal101podcast⁠⁠ ⁠(you can leave us a voicemail if you're so inclined!)

Contact us at: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠

Social media:

⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavyMetal101Podcast⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/heavy_101⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@heavymetal101podcast⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal101podcast/⁠

New episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are released monthly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Thanks for listening!

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How many episodes does Heavy Metal 101 have?

Heavy Metal 101 currently has 41 episodes available.

What topics does Heavy Metal 101 cover?

The podcast is about Music, Music History and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Heavy Metal 101?

The episode title 'Everything Old is New Again Part 1: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne in 1980!' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Heavy Metal 101?

The average episode length on Heavy Metal 101 is 55 minutes.

How often are episodes of Heavy Metal 101 released?

Episodes of Heavy Metal 101 are typically released every 27 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Heavy Metal 101?

The first episode of Heavy Metal 101 was released on Oct 3, 2021.

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