Metal Urges Podcast

Chris and guest host Billy discuss the brutality of Maryland Deathfest 2015. Billy had an all-venues pass, so he ended up seeing many more bands than Chris did. Hanging out with Chris Dick and the gang made another Memorial Day weekend even more memorable! We were sad that Spence couldn’t join us, but next year […]

We’d like to welcome back Machine Head into the pantheon of quality metal with their brand-new album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, on Nuclear Blast Records! This is a band that has weathered a tremendous amount of criticism over the years, yet they still have the wherewithal to release one of the best albums of their career […]

Before Metal Urges was born, Brutal Truth was one of the first bands we talked about covering, and it just so happens that bassist/vocalist Danny Lilker announced last year that Brutal Truth, the band that he founded in 1990, is disbanding on Oct. 18 of this year, which was his 50th birthday. In a prepared […]

We love Alice in Chains! And we were so inspired by Requiem Metal Podcast’s Alice in Chains Episode 164 that we wanted to do our own tribute to Layne Staley and the boys. Consider this a companion to the Requiem episode, and we guarantee that there’s no overlap in songs. AIC was the most metal […]

For this episode, your intrepid metalhead Chris made his way down to Baltimore for MDF XII, and while mourning Spence’s absence, he drank in the synergistic vibe of the diverse crowd and hung out with Chris Dick of Decibel and Billy Gamble of Dig. The weather was amazing: sunny but cool for the leather-clad folks […]

Welcome to Episode 015! Every fifth episode we devote to death metal, and the recently reunited UK titans Carcass certainly deserve recognition. The band reclaims their metal throne with the release of their mighty comeback album, Surgical Steel. We cover their career in reverse chronological order, starting with their most recent melodic death material and […]

[Editor’s note:  Spencer was really lame and did not post this on time.  Metal Urges as a whole practiced due diligence in preparing, recording, and even writing this post on time.  Shame on you, Spencer] We’re back with another year-end list, and this time we’re almost on time! This was another big year for reunions […]

On August 23, 2013, EyeHateGod drummer Joey LaCaze passed away after finishing another successful tour with the band. He died from respiratory failure, as he’d been a longtime asthmatic. We’ve always wanted to do an EHG episode—one of the very first bands we talked about covering, actually—and though this is not exactly the reason we […]

This year, both of us attended Maryland Deathfest to witness the metal event of the year. Not only did we join Chris Dick of Decibel for band sets, Bergers cookies, and late-night chili dogs, but we also met Mark Rudolph of Requiem Metal Podcast to talk shop about podcasting. The weather in Baltimore was unseasonably […]

Continuing our SDM series (this happens every 5th episode because there is too much great death metal out there for us to cover in single-band episodes), this episode’s theme is “new material from the genre’s leaders”: every one of these albums was released in 2012. Plus, this is really a tribute to all these classic […]