Episode #25 - Sheer Chart Attack
Part of the enduring appeal of hard rock and heavy metal was always that it was downright unfashionable. As we gazed through a curtain of unwashed hair in our embroidered patchouli-soaked denim and studded wristbands, we were the outsiders, worshipping at an altar of spandex and noise, members of an exclusive and reassuringly unappealing club.
Episode #23 - Rock by Numbers
In the good old days, when we didn’t know very much and were happy for it, we had to rely on old fashioned methods of gaining knowledge. ‘Internet’ wasn’t even a word and if you were a rock fan then you were pretty much reliant on either Sounds, Kerrang! or your best mate’s older brother to learn what was hot and what was not.
Episode #22 - The Producers (Part 1): Max Norman
Generally speaking, the Enter Sadmen podcast is usually all about the people making the noise, rather than the people who are left to survey the empty cans of super strength Tennents and overflowing ashtrays covering every surface, listening to the hum of a Marshall amp in the newly-minted silence of the studio while they work out how the fuck they’re going to stitch together a month’s worth of assorted riffs, screams and clangs into something remotely coherent.
Episode #18 - Donington 1987
In the shadow of East Midlands International Airport, Blackie Lawless sharpened the blades of his chainsaw codpiece.
Ronnie James Dio stood on tippy-toe to meet the venue’s minimum height restrictions. James Hetfield practised his trademark woof! in front of the hotel mirror while, in the room next door, Jon Bon Jovi practised not tripping on the Stars and Stripes flag-turned-cape around his shoulders.
It was August 22, 1987 and the Monsters were back. All was right with the world.