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Eric, an expert, and John, a novice, explore the history and repertoire of heavy metal. Visit us online at: https://schwartzmuzak.wixsite.com/heavymetal101podcast Contact us at: heavymetal10...
Wherein Eric and John, following a vanishingly brief look at the early history and development of doom metal, investigate the fragmentation...
Wherein Eric and John explore three significant, influential branches of Swedish death metal, the Stockholm scene, the Gothenburg scene, and...
Wherein Eric briefly introduces the listener to the storied career of Bay Area thrash legends Testament before sitting down to chat with Tes...
Wherein Eric and John unleash their inner chaotic neutral bard and lawful evil cleric and explore the D&D-laced fantasy world of power metal...
Wherein Eric and John rekindle their friendship whilst exploring the radiant majest of the holiest of holies that was Slayer from 1988-2001....
Wherein Eric celebrates the holiday season by presenting an informal fireside chat discussing some of the best books ever written about heav...
Wherein Eric battles John, at his very most Johnniest, in a doomed effort to convince him that nü metal can actually be pretty damn cool in...
Wherein Eric and John pay tribute to our beloved, dearly departed Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne. Click on the links below for all the mu...
Wherein the Heavy Metal 101 podcast dresses up for Halloween as a true crime podcast, and Eric and guest host author Josh Putnam explore the...
Wherein Eric struggles mightily in his efforts to convince John of the many virtues found in the music of early groove metal masters includi...
Wherein Eric and John put on their big boy panties and finally discuss arguably the most important proto-metal band of all time: Led Zeppeli...
Wherein Eric and John surprise the world with a midsummer bonus episode dedicated to the life and times of one of the most important metal a...
Wherein Eric and John celebrate the 4th season finale by looking in on some of the most monumental heavy metal ever made, including ...And J...
Wherein Eric and John gird their loins, say their prayers, and set forth on an exploration of two of the most frightening, awe-inspiring, an...
Wherein Eric and special guest co-host Ross explore the decline and fall of the most beloved musical genre of their shared misspent youth, g...
Wherein Eric explores a collection of the coolest new metal releases from February of 2025. Heavy Metal 101 is, at last, (almost!) up to dat...
Wherein Eric takes John on a scenic tour through some of the darkest and lowest circles of Hell via an exploration of the tragic tale of May...
Wherein Eric transcends the very fabric of reality as we know it and takes full advantage of the extraordinary opportunity to interview one...
Wherein Eric and John once again examine some of the gnarled roots underneath the heavy metal family tree, exploring the development and for...
Wherein Eric and John celebrate the holiday season first via a nostalgic deep dive into the 90s catalog of arguably the greatest heavy metal...
Wherein Eric and John rhapsodize over three of the greatest heavy metal albums ever made, Judas Priest's Painkiller , Megadeth's Rust in Pea...
Wherein Eric and John deep dive into the moldering early history of American death metal and British grindcore, exploring the fetid formativ...
Wherein Eric and very special guest Patrick, of the Rewind of the Living Dead Podcast, celebrate the spooky season by exploring the intersec...
Wherein Eric and John sip hot, black coffee and burn nag champa incense while exploring the diverse and wonderous "alt" branch of the metal...
Wherein Eric and John return to the fray, exploring the extraordinary music making of Iron Maiden in their first Bruce Dickinson fronted per...
Wherein Eric and John create the most complex, elaborate, and delightful list possible of the most essential, awesome metal albums released...
Wherein Eric and John explore the magnificent oeuvre of perhaps the most metal man who ever lived, the late, great Ronnie James Dio, from hi...
Wherein Eric and John return to some of Eric's most favorite historical stomping grounds, the epic history of that most maligned of heavy me...
Wherein Eric and John go to some truly dark places, exploring one of Eric's least favorite metal subgenres, progressive metal, but come out...
Wherein Eric torments John relentlessly, deep diving into the life and work of Kiss, the single most favorite band of Eric's misspent youth,...
Wherein Eric, flying solo, takes a bit of a chronological detour, examining the heavy metal of the 21st century. On this edition, Eric surve...
Wherein Eric rings in the holiday season in the best way possible: By exploring the esoteric underworld of 1980s American independent heavy...
Wherein Eric and John conclude their epic diptych exploring the music and stories of women who rock, taking a look at an assortment of amazi...
Wherein Eric and John embark on an epic diptych exploring the music and stories of women who rock, first by delving into the prehistory of w...
Wherein Eric and John take Heavy Metal 101 to the next level, combining elements of classic horror radio plays, telling the narratives of fo...
Wherein Eric and John take a scenic tour through the cassette collection of a young Eric, and explore three of the biggest pop metal hit alb...
Wherein Eric and John return for season three with a bang, exploring the seminal works of the "Big 4" of American thrash in 1986/7, Metallic...
The season #2 finale, wherein Eric, John, and special guest Ben Apatoff (author of Metallica: The $24.95 Book) discuss the formative history...
Wherein Eric and John continue to delve ever more deeply into the gritty, glitzy history of glam metal, focusing this time on the first wave...
Wherein Eric and John delve into the seedier side of the heavy metal multiverse, exploring the history of glam metal via both an examination...
Wherein Eric and John excavate the most significant of heavy metal's musical roots, the blues, exploring the origins and histories of the ge...
Wherein Eric and John reflect upon the ascendency of heavy metal as an increasingly significant force in popular culture by looking at four...
Wherein Eric and John explore the formative years and the 1980's output of possibly the most important band of all the bands, the glorious M...
Wherein Eric, flying solo, takes a bit of a chronological detour, examining the heavy metal of the 21st century in smaller, bite-sized chunk...
Wherein Eric and John take a look at some of the earliest evidence of the genre fragmentation that would eventually define metal in the late...
Wherein Eric and John explore the foundational moments of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in 1980, featuring early works by Saxon, Def L...
Wherein Eric and John take a look at what some of the classic metal bands discussed in season #1 were up to in the year 1980. Part 2 focuses...
Wherein Eric braves both the end of the world and John's horrifying, disembodied groans and shrieks in order to bring you the haunting tale...
Wherein Eric and John take a look at what the mighty Black Sabbath ( Heaven and Hell ) and the newly musically single Ozzy Osbourne ( Blizza...
Wherein Eric and John return to the fray for season #2, and explore the rise and debut album of one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all...