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 #8 - The Little Wizard
In the space of 7 years between 1976 and 1983, Ronnie James Dio recorded three classic albums with three different bands. First came Rainbow’s Rising; then, 4 years later, Heaven and Hell , the first of two he would record with Black Sabbath; and finally, in 1983, Holy Diver, from the band that bore his name. Which of the three would give the Little Wizard his highest spot in the Hall of Fame?
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.
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.