The MetalSucks Podcast
The official podcast of MetalSucks, featuring Petar Spajic, Brandon Hahn and Jozalyn Sharp. One featured interview each week with a prominent metal musician, and discussion of the latest headlines in metal news. New episodes every Monday morning.
Music Interviews
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The MetalSucks Podcast #51: Filmmaker Sam Dunn
Sam Dunn, director, producer, anthropologist and co-owner of Banger Films is our guest this week. He has become the de facto record-keeper for heavy metal, having produced Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Metal Evolution, Global Metal and more...
77 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #50: Stavros Giannopoulo...
Stavros Giannopoulos of The Atlas Moth guests on this week's episode... and so does his girlfriend, at least for a little bit. Stavros points out the flaws with dating ladies who are into metal, explains how measuring his metal dick is a pain, what it...
80 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #49: Ben Falgoust of Goa...
Ben Falgoust, front-man for the almighty Goatwhore, guests this week after the band's appearance on the Metal Alliance Tour stop in Austin. We talk about the NOLA metal scene, his experience after his debilitating van wreck, Goatwhore's new...
80 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #48: Nergal of Behemoth
Nergal of the mighty Behemoth is our guest this week. Chuck and Godless had the opportunity to have a conversation with the man about his personal life philosophy, where he stands in the world of metal, his role in the band and...
85 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #47: Special Guest Amos ...
Amos Williams, just one of the masterminds behind Tesseract sits down with us before their show in Austin, we talk about how a band can go through four vocalists when they only have two albums, whether or not Ashe O'Hara is the right fit for the band...
71 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #46: Mikael Akerfeldt of...
Opeth mastermind Mikael Akerfeldt guests on this week's podcast to talk about their new album that drops in June, his life, how his kids take to metal and whether or not he is done with "death metal" altogether. Chuck and Godless also...
65 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #45: Steel Panther
Vince and Axl sit down with the spandex-wrapped vessel of hair metal, Steel Panther. They don't get to talk for long, but they don't need much time to make you laugh, and, for that matter, cry. They talk about the new Steel Panther album,...
73 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #44: Howard Jones of Dev...
Howard Jones, ex-Killswitch Engage and current Devil You Know vocalist, is our guest this week. We talk about his bout with depression, his reasons for leaving KSE and his new project, and we generally atempt to psychoanalyze a way too humble...
72 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #43: Trevor Strnad of Th...
Trevor Strnad, lead screamer of the Black Dahlia Murder, is our guest this week. We talk about death metal bands versus scene metal bands, his run-ins with fans about buying albums, what he has tattooed on his ass and what his mom would have named the...
63 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #42: Special Guest Wendy...
Wendy Dio is our guest this week. We talk about Ronnie James Dio's final days and his legacy, their relationship, her mission with the Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund and the new tribute album coming out in April featuring Motorhead,...
69 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #41: Whitechapel's Phil ...
Phil Bozeman of Whitechapel guests on the podcast this week. We talk about Phil's incredibly troubled childhood, from both of his parents dying at a young age to the severe anxiety problems he experiences to this day. Of course we talk about the new...
77 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #40: Torche's Jon Nuñez
Jonathan Nuñez of Torche joins our podcast this week; we talk about the ease of recording in his own home, having Kurt Ballou as the go-to guy for their albums, plans for their next record and which bands reached him at an early...
62 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #39: Special Guests KEN ...
KEN mode brothers Jesse and Shane Matthewson sit in on this episode. We talk about ; the realization that they're both accountants as are their parents, what it's like to put everything on tour in terms of dollars of merch sold, and...
73 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #38: Special Guest Scott...
Scott Ian drops in for this week's episode to talk about his upcoming Speaking Words tour, crowd funding his new DVD, Anthrax reclaiming their spot on the big four, getting made up as Jack the Ripper for Kirk Hammett's FestEvil and most importantly...
76 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #37: 70,000 Tons of Meta...
Chuck and Godless spent a week floating around the Caribbean with 40 bands and 2000 metalheads on the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise, and they've got a couple stories to tell... at least what they can remember. Soilwork, The Haunted and 70,000 Tons of...
90 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #36: Special Guest Zakk ...
Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society brings his wisdom to this episode. We talk about his run-ins with health issues, his recent birthday, how his dad's service in WWII affected him and whether he could be the man who could bring Pantera together. Chuck...
63 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #35: Cynic's Paul Masvidal
Paul Masvidal of Cynic is our guest this week. We have a long chat about his childhood, anger issues, his career as a writer for television and movies, the new Cynic album and why Focus broke up the band nearly 20 years ago. Chuck and Godless also...
87 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #34: Pelican's Trevor de...
We grill this week's guest Trevor de Brauw of the mighty Pelican about taking a break from his job to do an interview, if he's learned anything from his time in the music industry to help his band's career, how cloth diapers effect his neighbors and...
65 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #33: Red Fang's Aaron Beam
You may have just seen them perform on Letterman on Friday night, and now Aaron Beam from Red Fang is our guest on the podcast. We talk about turning 40 years old in an up-and-coming band, knowing that you just wrote a hit song, and his...
63 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #32: Dave Mustaine of Me...
The always controversial Dave Mustaine is our guest this week. We chat about his kids, learning to be a better person, his relationship with Roadrunner Records and we try to get an answer out of him about that whole "big four not happening again"...
67 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #31: Kirk Windstein of C...
Our guest Kirk Windstein of the mighty Crowbar discusses his 25 years with the band, how he needed to change his focus away from Down towards his family and Crowbar, and the influence Exhorder had on Crowbar's sound in the early days. Chuck and...
79 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #30: Mastodon's Troy San...
Troy Sanders of Mastodon guests on the podcast this week. We talk about Mastodon's new DVD Live at the Brixton, why the band looks prettier in this one than on Live at the Aragon, Troy's kids and family growing with the band, and also how it feels to...
64 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #29: High on Fire's Matt...
Our guest this week: the legendary Matt Pike of High on Fire! Not only did he play a show with his shirt on, but he allowed us a glimpse into his mind post-rehab, how his life is shaping up without drugs and booze, and how he handles some serious...
64 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #28: Billy Milano of S.O...
Our guest this week is the always-controversial Billy Milano, former lead singer for S.O.D. and current frontman for M.O.D. We hit record in mid-sentence and find out about his dog, Buster, who just passed away, his history with animals, his family,...
71 min
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The MetalSucks Podcast #27: Death Angel's Mark ...
This week Mark Osegueda of Death Angel fends off Godless' advances as we talk to him at a stop of Death Angel's latest tour. We chat about their rise to to the forefront of thrash metal, the bus accident that led to their break-up in 1991, Mark's time...
61 min