Episode #22 - The Producers (Part 1): Max Norman
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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.

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Episode #13 - Wake Up With Makeup
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Episode #13 - Wake Up With Makeup

Hard rock is nothing without theatre, and theatre is nothing without makeup. Which means that like love and marriage, hard rock and makeup go together like a horse and carriage. It’s the first glam metal episode of many for the Sadmen

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Episode #7 -AOR Heaven
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Episode #7 -AOR Heaven

After the ear-bleeding week of thrash that was Episode 6, the Enter Sadmen tour bus rolled down the (Ventura) highway to AOR land, where Journey and REO Speedwagon played Apollo Creed to Strangeways’ Rocky Balboa.

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Episode #6 - Caught in a Mosh
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Episode #6 - Caught in a Mosh

So far the sad men of the Enter Sadmen podcast had neatly side-stepped the charging elephant in the room - 15 albums down and no sign of a thrash band. That all changed for the sixth instalment - though the boys placed an embargo on the Big Four and instead dived into deeper, darker and far, far choppier waters.

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