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Heavy Metal History is a weekly podcast, created by Dustin “Wildcard” Koetsch, who takes you on and audible journey about the history of the Heavy Metal genre. With in depth research into how the bands made the records or by having guests from bands to discuss various influences, histories and the behind the scenes stories, struggles and triumphs of how their records were written and recorded. The ONLY podcast that goes through the chronological history of the Heavy Metal genre on a month by ...
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Formerly known as DragonKing Dark Podcast, the When It Was Cool Dark Podcast show brings you tales of the supernatural, true crime, paranormal, and the darker corners of pop culture. Part of the When It Was Cool Podcast Network from WhenItWasCool.com and hosted by DragonKingKarl (Karl Stern). Feeding your curiosity of monsters, haunted houses, murder, death, UFOs, fear, history, society, and more.
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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest is Zak Vargas from the now defunct band Elysia. Zak came on the podcat to talk the 18 year history of the bands debut album "Masochist" which is currently getting a remaster\reissue treatment on May the 10th. Zak too me through the entire history of the record track by track discussing …
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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This episode is split into 2 parts as there was just SO much information about all these records and bands. Over the two episodes these are the bands and records discussed that are celebrating a 20 year anniversary in 2004! Exodus – Tempo of the Damned Feb 2nd Glass Casket - We Are Gathered Here…
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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest were Pete Lloyd and Mike Goncalves of the New Jersey based band Replicant. Pete and Mike came onto the podcast to talk about their crushing new album "Infinite Mortality" which will release soon on @TranscendingObscurity records. Replicant Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/replicantnj…
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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History, where, yes, we are FINALLY getting to the history episodes. The year I've chosen to cover is 2004 and all the insanely incredible albums celebrating a 20 year anniversary. The albums and bands covered on this episode are: Drawn and Quartered - Return of the Black Death Released Jan 1st WarCry – …
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Welcome to the 150th episode! This weeks guest is a part two from last weeks episode with the rest of the members of See You Next Tuesday, Drew Slavik the guitarist wasnt able to make the first episode so we set up a time to have him on and continue the discussion about how everything from the past year came to fruition with "Distractions" and how …
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Welcome to this weeks episode of the podcast. This week I had 3 out of the 4 members of the band See You Next Tuesday ( @cunexttuesdaygrind ) , long time listeners will know that Chris Fox the vocalist came on in the early days of the podcast to talk about "Parasite" celebrating a 10 year anniversary. Drew was also supposed to be on this episode, b…
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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guests were Jeremy Harlan and the brothers Justin and Kyle Mazlik of the band @sunmancer they all came on the podcast after we met through mutual friends at a show back in October of 2023! We all hit it off and they were integral in me bringing the podcast back from hiatus. They all came on t…
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WELCOME BACK! The podcast is officially back from hiatus! My first guest back is guitarist Taylor Danley from the death metal band Sacrificer. Taylor is the guitar player in the band and it also includes past guest Jamie Hanks from I Declare War. Taylor came on to talk about Sacrificer (who just put out an EP) as well as his guitar playing and what…
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This Edgar Allen Poe themed dark drama debuted on Netflix in November starring, among other people, Mark Hamill... yes, Luke Skywalker as an evil attorney if you can believe it. Drawing from the Sackler family and the opioid crisis, this is the tale of the fall of a billionaire family who made their fortune off selling a deadly medication with no m…
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Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool takes a look back at the psychological thriller Knock at the Cabin starring former pro wrestling and MCU star Dave Batista. A mysterious foursome appear at a cabin where a family of three are staying with a strange and dark request- choose to kill a member of their family or the world will end. When they refuse,…
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Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool return to discuss the new video game inspired horror movie Five Nights at Freddy's. While fans seem to love it and it has made a ton of money, critics have brutalized it. The truth, at least in our opinion, stands somewhere in-between! This also falls right into our pop culture wheelhouse as the animatronics in …
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On this edition of When It Was Cool Dark Podcast, hosts Karl and Tonya discuss the latest prequel for the Stephen King Pet Semetary franchise: Bloodline. The seeds for this story were planted in the original 1989 movie/book where we learn about a young Judd, Timmy, his dog, and the origin of the pet cemetery. This movie has seen some harsh criticis…
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When It Was Cool Dark looks back at 1939's Universal Monster movie Son of Frankenstein where the son of the original Dr. Frankenstein comes to claim his family estate and discovers The Monster has been saved by Ygor (played by Bela Lugosi of Dracula fame) and is being used as a weapon against Ygor's enemies. Karl and Tonya (from When It Was Cool we…
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PLEASE GO FOLLOW THE HORROR ARCHIVES! This is the last episode or anything that will go up on this feed ever again. If you enjoy the heavy metal history, please check out this new podcast thats about the history of horror. This same episode will be posted over there and as a new podcast every listen and view helps! This is just a sneak peek of thin…
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Our 100 darkest moments in pop culture series concludes with a trio of scandals involving WWE head honcho Vince K. McMahon. Host Karl Stern takes a look at the assault of Rita Chatterton, the 1990s steroid trial, and the multiple payoffs scandal which, temporarily, removed him from power... only to come back richer. Vince McMahon is not only Teflon…
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The band Fishbone quickly became one of the most influential and inventive bands in all of popular music during the 1980s. However, the bizarre story of band member Kendall Jones threatened to derail this eclectic group. Not only did he allegedly join a cult but another band member, determined to save him from himself, launched a plot to kidnap him…
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Have you ever seen a show with fellas on the mic with one minute rhymes that don't come out right? Well, pioneering rapper Slick Rick had a lot of things that didn't come out right. Mostly, the U.S. government hated him and sought him out at every turn. This is the story of Slick Rick and he makes the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history beca…
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Thomas Ince was the father of the Western movie genre. During his career in the pioneer days of film making he produced around 800 movies. Thomas Ince also was the first person to build their own movie studio. So how did this influential and pioneering film maker end up on the list of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history? Because of le…
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Continuing our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, this week we look at the shocking and tragic death of actor Chadwick Boseman who appeared as the Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including his own critically acclaimed Black Panther solo movie. The world was shocked when, unknown to virtually everyone, the actor died …
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In 1997 one of the most bizarre moments in boxing and pop culture took place when, during the second Mike Tyson verses Evander Holyfield fight, Tyson viciously bit the ear of Holyfield not once, but twice! Tyson earned himself a disqualification and tons of negative publicity. This strange incident was a real black eye (err... ear) for boxing and s…
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Look, ok, Mel Gibson is a very good actor. I like numerous Mel Gibson movies. He is certainly famous: Mad Max, Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Passion of the Christ, and on and on it goes. But there have been enough maniacally outburst to wonder what exactly is going on inside Mel Gibson’s head. Apparently, he really hates Jews (and others) and has expr…
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Whitney Houston was one of the most recognized and successful voices in any era of music. She had chart toping hit after chart topping hit. However, a toxic relationship and a reality show with hip hop artist Bobby Brown brought attention to darker problems lurking in the life of Whitney Houston. She would sadly be dead before the age 50 and an ico…
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Actor Robert Blake was best known for his time as the 1970s TV Detective Baretta. However, in 2002 Robert Blake's wife was shot and killed in the parking lot of a restaurant in Los Angeles and Blake was charged with her murder. Robert Blake was acquitted in the criminal trial but was found liable in a civil trial for her death. This is the story of…
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Lance Armstrong is far and away the most famous cyclist that has ever lived. He dominated the Tour de France and many other world class level cycling events. He was pop culture famous in the United States and beyond… however, that much domination, especially in sports, invites questions about performance enhancing drugs and, in Lance Armstrong’s ca…
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One of our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history series. This week, our show has a twist. Yes, it was a tragedy that 26 year old singer-songwriter Gram Parsons died. Like many music deaths, it was likely caused by the usual suspects. But what happened next is... bizarre. The story involves a stolen hearse, fake morticians dressed like cowboys,…
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Stuck in the Desert Podcast returns (as does the Desert Rat... literally) from travels abroad. So, let's travel to the land of Loki with The Desert Rat to Scandinavia this week as we discuss Nordic Mythology and play a little catch up. It will be a miracle if this actually works, but I have an optimistic nature. From my tool shed to you.…
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Our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history series begins winding down and this week we take a look at the domestic violence scandals of music artists Chris Brown. Chris Brown has been hugely successful and award winning and one of the most influential and important artists of the modern era. However, multiple allegations of battery against wome…
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