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 #24 - 1992
Well, it had to happen. At some point the Gods (or, in this case, the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes) were going to decree that the lads had gorged on the swollen nipples of the Seventies and Eighties for long enough and the time had come to teach them that there was a dark and forbidding world beyond the mascara, moogs and mellotrons that had cocooned them on their circumnavigation of rock’s monuments thus far.
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.