Metally Challenged

22/10/2024

Paul Di'Anno, original Iron Maiden vocalist, has exited stage left.

RIP Paul.

08/10/2024

If you know, you know- :D

02/10/2024

METALLY Challenged Episode 43

This time:

Marc fakes us all out by pretending to get disconnected
Toehider (band)
Marc has hiccups
J.R. broke an Atari Adventure cartridge
J.R. dissembles about his previous comments about John Lennon
Vinny Appice
Carmine Appice
Bill Steer’s Firebird
Classic rock
Toto
seventies classic rock
Steve Lukather
Trev Lukather (The Effect)
Judas Priest- a rock band instead of metal?
AC\DC “Let There Be Rock” video
AC\DC’s music being sold short
Fleetwood Mac
Kansas
Cheap Trick
Queen
Movie “Heavy Metal” and the soundtrack
Heavy Metal film sequel
Riggs (band)
Steely Dan and Donald Fagen appearing on the Heavy Metal soundtrack
Jefferson Starship
Underestimating how heavy old rock was
Underestimating the talent and hard work in classic rock
The two idiots try to remember the name of “Greta von Fleet”
The difference between rock bands with a flamboyant singer versus a band of musicians
Boston
Night Ranger
Alan Parsons Project
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Yes (band)
Jethro Tull
Seventies album cover art
HR GIger art on rock albums
Marc still pines for the Celtic Frost Cold Lake box set
JR relates a story about ELP\Alan Parsons references in the Buck Rogers show from 1980
Pink Floyd “Animals”
Steely Dan “The Royal Scam”
Climax Blues Band
Air Supply
Michael McDonald
Steely Dan’s newer albums
Swing Out Sister
Babylon 5 show from the 90s with smooth jazz on one episode
Massive Attack
Night Flight Orchestra
FC Kahuna
Mono
Deicide AI art controversy and Glen talking s**t about how bands dress
How Marc predicted Billie Eilish coming out of the closet
Skeletal Remains
Slayer touring again
Steve Albini RIP (Minor Threat)
Kerry King project
Mr. Big new album (Marc is stoked!)
Slayer’s retirement
Kansas
How Blondie’s Debbie Harry was almost kidnapped and killed by Ted Bundy in New York
Lucky Men

This time, the two post-Disco divas discuss...Marc fakes us all out by pretending to get disconnectedToehider (band)Marc has hiccupsJ.R. broke an Atari Adven...

05/09/2024

16/08/2024

METALLY Challenged Episode 42

Show starts, and…
Marc disappears again
Utah vs. Colorado
J.R. recounts a restaurant story of having to assist a customer in the bathroom stall
Lemon Shades?
The idea of “marketing” a girl being in a heavy metal band
J.R. compares female metal musicians with female wrestlers
Marc tries to get J.R. to believe in “GOD”
Stryper
KISS- Dynasty
The dudes talk about funk bands
J.R. gets elitist about music
Marc gets in trouble at work for wearing a Cannibal Co**se shirt around the patients
Kanye West] Burzum association
Kanye West’s new album art looking like a Burzum record
Cancelling people for dumb comments from the past
Death in June
Wearing offensive symbols in a “punk” or shock fashion
Backlash for Pestilence using AI art on their new album
AI creating music
Band symbols
Hollywood constantly remaking the same movies over and over
Gary Numan|FLA show in 2024
The demolition of the old Pompadour venue in SLC
J.R. talks about setting up a new distributorship with a European label
Marc forgets about his review with J.R. about seeing Cattle Decapitation
New Judas Priest 2024
Billy Joel’s first band “Atila”

This time, the two regurgitated guts quibble over...Show starts, and…Marc disappears againUtah vs. ColoradoJ.R. recounts a restaurant story of having to assi...

14/08/2024

Fu**in' Morbid Angel!!!

04/08/2024

...served with GOD HATES HOT SAUCE extra hot

01/08/2024

Metallica, L to R: Lars, Robert, Kirk, James.

24/07/2024

METALLY Challenged Episode 41

This time, the two pranksters pontificate on...

Marc is technologically challenged again
Kerry King’s new solo album
Slayer reuniting already for a live festival show
How Slayer never sold out
Marc has tech problems yet again and disappears
The Slayer discography
Dismissing good albums for not being into that sound at the time
The Record Bar (80’s record store)
Marc got caught stealing at Musicland as a kid
Starbound Records (West Valley City, Utah)
Hellhammer album covers
Witchfynder General covers
How JR discovered Metallica
SLayer’s style change on “South of Heaven”
Paul Bostaph
Walgreen’s and Marc in 2024
Marc and J.R> share stories about stealing stuff
J.R. talks about getting an expensive Mayhem record for free by accident
J.R. talks about trades with Mayhem and Mortiis
J.R. talks about a rare Mayhem box set he had in his record store that was a one off
“De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” by Mayhem
Kerry King’s new album and Deicide’s new albums using AI artwork
AI are in music and AI music
Kerry King’s claim that he played bass on most of Slayer’s albums
Nikki Sixx not playing bass on most Motley Crue records
Anton Fig
Celtic Frost “Vanity Nemesis”
Pig squeal vocals\gore vocals
Death metal “scat” vocals
Exhumed
Kids who like s**tty rap
Aborted
Cancer Slug
Prong
Voivod
Twin Temple
“The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” tv show

MC 41Marc is technologically challenged againKerry King’s new solo albumSlayer reuniting already for a live festival showHow Slayer never sold outMarc has te...

19/07/2024

It’s so hot, I wish we would get some rain…

19/07/2024

Bummer...

RIP

REST IN PEACH

Longtime BRUJERIA vocalist and samplist Ciriaco "Pi**he Peach" Quezada has died at the age of 57. Earlier today (Thursday, July 18),BRUJERIA's leader Juan Brujo released the following statement via social media: "I never thought I would have to do something like this. This is not easy for me. So he....

27/06/2024

METALLY CHALLENGED EPISODE 40!

("So Brutal, Yet So Inexpensive")

This time, the two tone deaf terrors agree to disagree about...

J.R. decrees new items and new lower prices on slaughterhouserex.storenvy.com
Marc complains about being tired
Kanye wearing a Burzum shirt
J.R. talks about a lingering bout of Covid at the beginning of 2024
Anthrax on “Married With Children” again
The different times of the nineties and show like “MWC” versus now
What was considered derogatory then versus now (i.e. sense of humor)
The idea of wearing metal band shirts and knowing absolutely nothing about the band
How generic is death metal after all these years?
Vinnie Vincent charging people $200 to join his official Fbook group
Marc defends VV charging people while J.R. bashes the idea (as usual)
Vinnie Vincent continuously committing to shows and festivals and then cancelling
Rush playing for three hours live
J.R. talks about going to see DE-VO live in Park City for Sundance Film Festival
Bands who plays short live shows and\or play no encore
J.R. talks about exorbitant concert ticket prices
J.R. talks about getting a $200 parking ticket in Park City while watching DE-VO live
J.R. talks about paying top dollar to see DE-VO live and they played under an hour and no encore
Blondie’s drummer Clem Burke and DE-VO’s old drummer Alan Meyer being great
DE-VO controversy regarding SLC live dates not happening
Bands who skip SLC and bands who repeatedly come back multiple times during a year
Marc talks about shows in Las Vegas
J.R. talks about adding tons of new titles to his Slaughterhouse Rex mail order site
Katagory V “A New Breed of Rebellion” album
Marc gets confused on his history in Katagory V
The SLAUGHTERHOUSE RECORDS website and some potential glitches
Severed Crotch (band) being really good progressive metal but silly name
The guys discuss rare CDs and what they sell for online
J.R. talks about the need to open up a CD shop again in Salt Lake City
The music scene in Wyoming
“Fire in the Mountains” festival in Wyoming
“Gathering of Shadows” festival in Colorado
The goth scene in Wyoming
Wolves in the Throne Room
Ivar Bjornson
Enslaved playing live in Wyoming
Marc exoplains why he calls the pandemic “Scamdemic”
Marc talks about working a lot
Michigan Deat Fest\Milwaukee Metal Fest
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
Marc is sleepy

MC 40“SO BRUTAL, YET SO INEXPENSIVE”J.R. decrees new items and new lower prices on slaughterhouserex.storenvy.comMarc complains about being tiredKanye wearin...

05/06/2024

METALLY CHALLENGED EPISODE 39

This episode, the two arguing old metal guys chat, disagree and spar over...

Possessed
The Pandemic
China’s culpability for the Covid pandemic
The origin of death metal style vocals on the Possessed “Seven Churches” album
J.R. reviews the Possessed\Nunslaughter\Black Moriah show from December 2023
Black Moriah Project
J.R. talks about his record order getting stolen off his doorstep
End of year 2023 album reviews:
Tom Warrior’s Triumph of Death project
Oblivion Castle
Fire Messiah
Ysbrydnos
Claws of Moriis
Godflesh “Purge”
Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul
Misery Inc. “In Nothing”
Dying Fetus
Scott Burns production
Na**lm Death going to Morrisound in Florida to record in 1989
Marc gets offended because J.R. still doesn’t like Morrisound
Malay death metal band Lavatory being signed to Slaughterhouse Records
Suffocation Human Waste vs Effigy of the Forgotten
Neil Kernon
Cannibal Co**se “Blood Blind” video
The Hall & Oates controversy
“Pandora is OLD!”- J.R. verbally eviscerates a sixteen year old girl for giving him s**t
J.R. talks about accidentally giving too much of his personal videos with an ex
Shane Embury’s book “LIFE”
David Vincent’s book “I Am Morbid”
Tom Petty playing himself in “The Postman” movie with Kevin Costner
Carcass appearing on “Red Dwarf” as “Smeg and the Heads”
British comedies
KISS ends their decades long Farewell Tour
KK Downing bashes “Point of Entry”
“Heavy Trip” movie

METALLY CHALLENGED EPISODE 39This episode, the two arguing old metal guys chat, disagree and spar over...PossessedThe PandemicChina’s culpability for the Cov...

14/05/2024

METALLY Challenged Episode 38

This time, the two post-apoca-nit wits discuss...

“Pregnant Pause”
Marc stimulates himself on the NEW WINGER
Marc lies yet again about why he won’t listen to music JR sends him
JR talks about smashing his takeout all over the floor of his car twice
JR talks about more ridiculous traffic in Salt Lake City
JR talks about how his mom can’t wrap her mind around cell phones and technology
JR calls Marc out for being a resistant poser who won’t listen to anything new
UK dark rock band Antimatter
UK doom death band Anathema
Marc taunts JR for being “seasonal” with his music
Slayer’s “Angel of Death”
Intestins Baalism (Japan)
Marc talks about the new Dying Fetus album
Decapitated
Exhumed
“Grind rock” scene of the nineties
Entombed “Wolverine Blues” era
JR talks about telling Entombed they sounded like grunge
Carcass “Torn Arteries” album
JR talks about the Entombed show from 1994
Convulse (Finland)
Amorphis (Finland)
The Gathering (Netherlands)
Disgrace (Finland)
Radical shifts in the identities of bands who play heavy music
Enslaved
Morgoth
Samael
Tiamat
Cynic
Death
Control Denied
Who started death metal and who coined the term “death metal”
Party Cannon (band)
Austrian Death Machine
Monstrosity
Millenium (band)
Are “wheat” pennies valuable?
Linda Carter is beautiful
JR talks about loving the 70s
Erin Gray (Buck Rogers) is beautiful too
Mary Tyler Moore
JR talks about pretty girls from the east coast (and their horrible accents)
The show “Charmed” and the hot girls on there
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Lita Ford vs. Doro Pesch- who’s hotter?
Do males judge female musicians by their looks, even in metal?
Possessed & NunSlaughter live show in December (SLC)
Stan & Reality Impaired Recordings (Missouri)
Front Line Assembly
Marc pines for a Shotgun Messiah reunion but playing rock instead of industrial
Tom Warrior’s “Triumph of Death” band
Rolling Stone magazine and how lame it always was
Nervosa
Promisqes
Crypta
Astarte
Aghast
Sanguinaria
If Marc was a Cenobite…

MC 38(Hot Girls, Grind Rock, and Girl Metal Bands)“Pregnant Pause”Marc stimulates himself on the NEW WINGERMarc lies yet again about why he won’t listen to m...