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Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 76 - Revelations (ft. Black Sabbath, Ratt & Van Halen)So this episode is all about the albums you bought and lisened to and thought, fuck me that's a great album! Or possibly, fuck me, that's terrible! And then, 30 years later, you discovered your opinion had done a 180 degree turn.
In this episode, Mark revisits he much maligned Black Sabbath experiment that saw Ian Gillan step up to the mic, Steve discovers that Ratt's Detonator tickles his ears a little differently to he wya it did in 1990, and Richard recalls he moment Van Hagar suddenly made sense ....
2023-07-041h 32Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 75 - Drummers (ft. Genesis, Y&T & Toto)Yes, Sadfans, we're giving over our 75th episode to the unsung heroes of every band that ever set foot in a recording studio or onto a stage - those apparently indefatigable timekeepers without whom there would be little or no momentum.
Stuck behind the kit at the back of the stage, these are the artisans of the hard rock and heavy metal engine room.
Whether it's a sense of rhythm combined with a diver's boot (h/t to Gillan's Mick Underwood), the professorial science of Neil Peart, or the tour de force blunt trauma approach o...
2023-05-291h 39Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 74 - Making Magic (ft. Dokken, Survivor & PiledriverEpisode 74 sees the lads tackling the subject of inventions. If ever there was scope to push the envelope on a theme this, surely, is it. And so it proved, as Mark fishes out a set of what can only be described as 15th Century blueprints to qualify Dokken's 1981 debut, Breakin' The Chains.
(Don't get antsy, America - we know the better known version of the album was released in Amercia in 1983 with a title tweak - Breaking The Chains rather than Breakin' The Chains - and a very different running order, but where there's a reissue the Sa...
2023-05-011h 23Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 73 - Creeping Death (ft. Witchfinder General, Candlemass & Entombed)The latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast finds the boys in more familiar territory as the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes serves up 'Death' as the theme for Episode 73.
End of life certainly offers up a wealth of stuff to go at in the world of hard rock and heavy metal, which makes it even more bewildering that Steve and Rich didn't follow Mark's lead and go with something completly literal.
As it was, Mark arrived at the Sadmen party with an album in another one of those covers that, much like...
2023-04-131h 23Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 72 - I Am, I’m Me (ft. Andy Taylor, Doro & Robert Plant)Sometimes artists feel the need to escape the confines of the environment in which they made their name and give voice to the individuality of their art. Or some such bollocks.
In any event, whether going solo or, in the case of Doro Pesch, being forced by a legal ruling to cease and desist using the name of the band which made her famous, rock and roll's highways and byways are crisscrossed by the tracks of musicians who have wandered off the well-beaten track.
We meet three of them in this edition of Enter Sadmen...
2023-03-291h 22Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 71 - Epic (ft. Deep Purple, Motӧrhead & Exodus)So, a question. How maqny albums can you name where the title track is worthy of its status? And of those, how many eclipse even that honour to be classed asd truly epic?
That was also the question that was asked of our hardy rock and roll adventurers by the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes for this, the latest leg of the marathon attempt to review the greatest hard rock, heavy metal, prog (etcetera, etcetera) albums of all time (well, of 1970 to 1995, at least).
It's worth saying from the outset that Steve managed...
2023-03-281h 19Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 70 - A Vulgar Display Of Power (ft. AC/DC, Rush & Tesla)And on we go to Episode 70, in which the lads work to a brief that shouldn't have been too challenging to meet, even for men of singular taste and discernment.
Yes, in this run through another three albums from hard rock and heavy metal's golden era (that's 1970 to 1995, for the uninitiated) the boys were tasked by the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes to find examples of 'Power'. Whether electrical, nuclear, steam, wind, strength or gas was up to them to decide.
And so we end up slap bang in the middle of the 1980...
2023-03-271h 04Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 69 - Keeper of the Seven Keyboards (ft. Uriah Heep, Kansas & Gillan)For their latest journey down hard rock and heavy metal's many-faceted highway, the Sadmen's destination was that utopian land of pianos, synthesisers, Moogs and mellotrons. Yes, friends, having done vocalists, singers and bass players, it was time to pay tribute to some of the ivory tinklers who help to make up rock's great tapestry.
But if you thought we were going all Tony Banks, Jon Lord, Rick Wakeman or Richard Wright on you, think again, fans.
Yes, in this episode we do touch on some obvious waypoints, but of Genesis, Purple/Whitesnake, Yes and Floyd...
2023-03-271h 23Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 68 - All White Now (ft. White Sister, White Lion & Anthrax)And so following the previous episode, which - according to Rich - featured Diet Cult and Diet Marillion, the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes rumbled ever on and this time spat out a topic which challenged the boys to find albums that had a 'white' theme.
After they all studiously avoided the apparently 'obvious' Whitesnake, they each entered the Sadmen Sound Studio with more white stuff than you'd find at a mid-Eighties Motley Crue after show party.
First up for discussion was Steve's personal comfort blanket - the 1984 debut effort from the crown p...
2023-03-261h 20Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 67 - This Was My Life (ft. Alice Cooper, Mother Love Bone & Marillion)And so to an episode in which Richard, Steve and Mark were tasked with marking important life moments.
Mark and Steve opted for a broadly similar seam to mine - that of parenthood. Rich, on the other hand, eschewed the opportunity to reflect on bringing new life into the world, or discovering love for the first time. He spat in the face of death and pooh-poohed the notions of age, friends and work.
No, it seems that Richard's most notable moment in life is, in fact, stowing a lilo under his arm and...
2023-03-251h 26Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 66 - Alive,Too! (ft. Cheap Trick, Saxon & Nuclear Assault)The lads were having such a good time, dipping a gnarly toe into the cool waters of the late 70s and early 80s, when Steve decided to spoil the party with a dirty protest in the form of a thrash album that burned through 14 songs in fewer than short - albeit painful - minutes.
Luckily, you, dear listener, have dodged the bullet that Mark and Richard took on your behalf, and you'll only have to endure about 2 minutes of Nuclear Assault's live offering, Live At The Hammersmith Odeon.
Before that, though, the boys consider the a...
2023-02-251h 37Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameListener’s Choice #1 (Ft. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, The Cult & The AngelsA landmark moment for the Sadmen as listener Tony, from Australia, picks three albums for the boys to cast their ears over - and what an eclectic three they turned out to be.
First up, novelty sensation Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction with their debut, Tattooed Beat Messiah. With their 'out there' look, hilarious alter ego names and chart-bothering single Prime Mover, was this British oddity just a very clever joke - or is there more to it than that?
Following hot on the heels of Zodiac comes the pod's second encounter with The Cult w...
2022-11-261h 36Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 65 - Supergroups (ft. Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve, Lionheart & Phenomena)In their latest journey down hard rock and heavy metal's Memory Lane, the boys are checking out supergroups - those bands formed by musos who made their names in other bands.
There were some obvious ones to choose from - Bad Company, Audioslave and, erm, Revolting Cocks, for example - but the boys dived deep and came up with three outfits that were all new to at least one of them.
Anything involving Sammy Hagar and Neil Schon was probably dependably good (or was it?) so they all felt comfortable with Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve's...
2022-09-211h 40Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 64 - 1989 (ft. W.A.S.P., Bang Tango & Faith No More)After a short hiatus, the Sadmen are back with the latest instalment of the Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of Fame - an ongoing mission to create the definitive best-to-worst list of hard rock, heavy metal and prog released between 1970(ish) and 1995(ish).
The Hall of Fame unique's selling point is the fact that each and every track on each and every album is marked individually, with the averages of those scores calculated to give the album as a whole an overall score - often to 5 decimal places.
And because the boys each have different t...
2022-09-161h 39Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 63 - Humans Being (ft. Coney Hatch, Spinal Tap & Metallica)Human biology is the theme of the 63rd instalment of the lads' quest to compile the ultimate 'best of' list of hard rock and heavy metal albums. It's also an episode that sees debut appearances for two bands, along with the fourth of the six Metallica albums that are eligible for consideration under the pod's strict 1970-1995 (okay, 1996) parameters.
The task was straightforward: parts of the human body. Steve went for 'hand'. Check. Mark went for 'spine'. Check. Richard went for ejaculate, blood, and urine. Hmmm. And not for the first time.
Enter, then, Outa H...
2022-06-161h 41Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 62 - All About That Bass (ft. Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe & Megadeth)So often pilloried and made to be the punchline of heavy metal jokes (Q: Where's the best place to hear a bass solo? A: In the bar/bog), this episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast celebrates the 4-string virtuosos without whom much of the music we love would either not exist at all, or be significantly poorer.
The lads were tasked with finding three bass players who each personified their band's sound. It was a remarkably difficult choice, with Geezer Butler, Lemmy, Geddy Lee, Phil Kennemore, JPJ, and Roger Glover all in contention.
But in...
2022-06-161h 36Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 61 - 1974 (ft. Epitaph, Blue Ӧyster Cult & Sweet)For their latest journey down the time tunnel of hard rock and heavy metal the lads fired up the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes and found themselves transported back to 1974, where they discovered just how broad this church of hard rock and heavy metal really was.
First up - and not for the first time on the pod - a bunch of German musicians who had hitched their wagon to that of an English vocalist. Epitaph's Outside The Law reflects a broad tapestry of influences that range from Southern Rock to prog to jazz and fu...
2022-05-301h 29Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 60 - Supernatural (ft. Black Sabbath, White Spirit & Fates Warning)The latest edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast heads off in search of hard rock and heavy metal band names, album titles, or cover art with a distinctly spooky flavour to them.
Richard manages to push the envelope (again) by picking Sabbath's fifth outing, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath from 1973, on the basis that the images on the front and back of the cover depict a man being watched over by demons and angels respectively. Oh, and the whole shebang was recorded in a haunted castle. But when you're dealing with cuts as epic as the title track, A N...
2022-05-141h 19Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 58 - Angels & Towers (ft. Angel, Angel Witch, & Death Angel)The latest episode of the Enter Sadmen Podcast turns its attention to three albums that feature either either angels or towers, or (in two cases) both.
First up is the ambitious 1975 self-titled debut from American progressive band Angel, famous for both their white and outrageously angelic stagewear and for having Greg Guiffra as a member.
We then spin forward 5 years to the birth of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (at least in its recorded form) and one of its most influential releases - the self-titled debut from London outfit Angel Witch.
F...
2022-05-091h 23Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 57 - Symptoms Of The Universe (ft. Deep Purple, Hawkwind & Monster Magnet)The lads head into outer space for the latest trip down hard rock and heavy metal's Memory Lane as they investigate and appraise the merits - or otherwise - of three very different albums boasting some sort of connection, however tenuous, to the worlds beyond our own.
First up is Deep Purple with Fireball from 1971, the staging post between the previous year's In Rock and the genre defining Machine Head released in 1972. The band have since confessed to not being particularly enamoured with it; so how would it fare under the Sadmen spotlight?
Next up, an...
2022-03-131h 32Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 56 - The Weapon (ft. Twisted Sister, Magnum & L.A. Guns)The Enter Sadmen podcast is on a relentless, merciless mission to identify the ultimate list of the best Hard Rock & Heavy Metal albums (yes, and prog, and Grunge, and AOR, and thrash) released between 1970 and 1995 by rating them ... track by track.
Hard rocking fans and critics, Richard, Steve and Mark have so far admitted 165 records to the Hall of Fame and the next to queue up at its gilded doors like Charlie Bucket and his grandpa brandishing their golden tickets outside the Wonka Factory are an assorted motley crew of releases from the USA and the UK.
2022-03-071h 23Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 55 - The Black Albums (ft. AC/DC, Scorpions & Y&T)Well, it was only a matter of time. After swerving Back In Black for 162 albums, the hand of fate intervened as the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out the ball that correlated to a theme simply called "Black".
With most of hard rock and heavy metal's behemoths already admitted to the Enter Sadmen Hall of Fame only four albums have occupied the #1 slot in the list - Priest's British Steel, reviewed in Episode 1, spent a week there before being toppled following Episode 2 by Moving Pictures from Rush, which itself occupied the slot for just a...
2022-03-051h 40Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 54 - Come On, Feel The Alloys (ft. Chrome Molly, Sword & Metal Church)With more than a half a century of episodes under their belts, the most surprising thing for the Sadmen was that they hadn't yet been given an episode theme that centred on the word 'metal'. That all changed for this episode as the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics & Themes finally did the decent thing and spat out the magic ball.
But with two thirds of the eligible Metallica releases already housed in the Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of Fame, the field boasting the bleedin' obvious had narrowed considerably.
What we got instead were three...
2022-03-011h 18Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 53 - 1977 (Ft. Yes, Queen & Blue Öyster CultThe Seventies are often lampooned as the decade that fashion and music forgot. Admittedly, it was rich on Gilbert O'Sullivan The Carpenters and The New Seekers, but it also brought us Sabbath and the golden eras of both Zeppelin and Purple, so it wasn't all bad.
in fact, as the snot-nosed belligerence of punk prepared to make its invective-rich entrance, the world of rock music - and especially progressive rock music - was an interesting one to inhabit.
This episode features three albums from 1977 - all, coincidentally, marking each band's second appearance on the podcast...
2022-02-151h 28Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 52 - Chris Tsangarides (ft. Quartz, Tygers Of Pan Tang & Anvil)The albums reviewed each week on the Enter Sadmen podcast have to meet a theme. These are often tenuous and the lads aren't averse to stretching the elastic quite a long way when it comes to interpreting the episode themes that the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics & Themes spews out. Especially is it means Rich can choose a Rush album.
But among their favourite themes are those that require them to each choose and album relating to a specific producer. The third knob-twiddler to come under the scrutiny of the pod, after Max Norman and Bruce Fairbairn...
2022-01-131h 18Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 51 - Night Crawlers (ft. Uriah Heep, Praying Mantis & Spider)The next category to come out of the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes was 'insects', which the boys immediately changed to Night Crawler in homage to Judas Priest. The usual rules applied - a tangible link to entymology either in the band name, album title or album artwork.
The natural choice would obviously have been the Scorpions, the obviousness itself being reason enough for the boys to neatly sidestep it in favour of something else.
Which is how the lads came to spend a week in the company of Uriah Heep's Firefly from 1977...
2022-01-111h 16Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 50 - Freebirds (ft. Atomic Rooster, Budgie & Europe)The Hall of Fame hits 150 albums with this latest episode from the Sadmen, who were each tasked with finding an album with an avian theme after the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out Birds as the subject matter for the pod's half century.
The lure of the most obvious choice also giving him the opportunity to head back to the early 1970s was too much for Mark to resist and so he rocked up with a copy of Budgie's 1973 album Never Turn Your Back On A Friend under his arm.
Steve, a sel...
2022-01-091h 18Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 49 - Precious Metal (ft. Led Zeppelin, Foreigner & Meat Loaf)And so the Sadmen turn their attention to three albums that sit among the most commercially successful of all time. Passing on the chance - again - to put AC/DC's Back In Black into the Hall of Fame, they instead went with three records that ticked the brief in their own way, notable for not only the sheer volume of sales achieved, but also taking into account the relative stages each artist was at on the albums' release.
Two of the discs are debuts. Both were released in 1977 and 45 years later one of them is still th...
2022-01-041h 34Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 48 - Doro’s Homework (ft. Saxon, Dio & W.A.S.P.)Following their fireside chat with the Queen of Metal, Doro Pesch set the boys some homework, choosing the next three albums that would be up for review on the next episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast.
Once Steve had got over the shock of actually talking to Doro rather than just watching her from afar on a stage, the lads divvied up the albums she'd chosen and got down to business. It wasn't exactly a chore.
First up, Saxon's fourth album (the fourth in two short years, as it happened) Denim And Leather. Two...
2022-01-021h 25Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 47 - The Four Elements (ft. Rainbow, FireHouse & The Wildhearts)
At the end of Episode 46, the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out 'Four Elements', meaning our trio of trusty adventurers each had to find an album that had a clear and non-tenuous link to one or more of the four elements of life.
Yeah, we had to look them up, too. But at least we can save you the bother of also heading to Google or Wiki. Fire, Earth, Air and Water.
After a false start which saw Steve and Richard sniggering at the lack of creativity evident in Mark's...
2021-12-291h 19Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 46 - 1987 (ft. Whitesnake, Mötley Crüe & Rush)Big production. Big hair. Big names. Big albums. In Episode 46 the boys turn the Enter Sadmen spotlight on the year that marked the commercial peak of hard rock and heavy metal. Following the path forged for them the previous year by the likes of Slippery When Wet, 5150 and Eat 'Em And Smile, the big guns rolled themselves into the fray in 1987.
The podcast has already reviewed, rated and ranked some of the year's other big hitters - most notably Hysteria, Crazy Nights and Appetite For Destruction (coincidentally, in consecutive episodes - #25 and #26) - but two of the three...
2021-12-2959 minEnter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 45 - In Your Direction (ft. Axis, .38 Special & Threshold)So here we go again, thrill-seekers, with another three albums looking for admittance to the Enter Sadmen Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Hall of Fame - an always evolving homage to the great and the good of that broad church we all worship in.
This week, the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out Points of the Compass as the theme against which the boys' album choices needed to be made. But since they'd already reviewed South Of Heaven in Episode 34, the lads got a bit stuck.
After rejecting some obvious choices, Steve...
2021-10-121h 31Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 44 - Fast As A Shark (ft. REO Speedwagon, Manowar & Flotsam and Jetsam)n the latest edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast the boys are challenged to find three albums oin the theme of Things That Swim.
Rich managed to hit the brief with You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish, REO Speedwagon's forerunner to their commercial smash hit Hi Infidelity (which the boys reviewed way back in Episode 7).
Unfortunately, Mark and Steve stretched the elastic a bit too far by choosing things that float rather than things that swim.
So, making up the trio of albums aiming for a place in the Top...
2021-10-111h 18Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 43 - Round And Round (ft. ZZ Top, Warrior & Accept)For the latest leg of their journey through the history of hard rock and heavy metal from 1970 to 1995, the boys were each tasked with finding an album that broadly met the theme of 'things that spin'.
That made for an episode that began in 1973 with the album that most afdicionado's widely regard as ZZ (spinning) Top's finest - the raucous Tres Hombres.
From there it was a 12 year sprint to the mid-Eighties and Fighting For The Earth, the 1985 debut effort from ahead-of-their-time Los Angeles environmentalists Warrior, ahead of a final stop at 1986 where German rockers l...
2021-08-291h 03Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 42 - Crofty's Picks (ft. Iron Maiden, Metallica & The Black Crowes)After spending the evening chatting music, darts and very fast cars with Sky Sports F1 lead commentator David Croft a few weeks back, it was time for the lads to review the albums that Crofty had picked out for them to feature on the pod.
After wrestling with the thorny issue of whether one of them - Springsteen's Born To Run - should be included (a question that prompted comparisons of an F1 car with a Le Mans prototype) the boys settled down to a week of listening that, as Steve observed, was never going to be...
2021-07-191h 33Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 41 - 1986 (ft. Baby Tuckoo, Queensryche & Loudness)In this episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast the lads are travelling back to explore another year from hard rock and heavy metal's golden era of 1970 to 1995. This time, they're slap bang in the mid-80s - they year Bon Jovi's hair exploded and you weren't anyone unless you had a keyboard player in the band.
First up was Baby Tuckoo, a blink-and-you'll-miss-'em melodic hard rock band out of Bradford with their second - and. as it turned out, final outing Force Majeure. Lead singer Rob Armitage would briefly join German metallers Accept, but their tw...
2021-07-151h 27Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 40 - Welcome to the Machine (ft. Motorhead, Machine Head & Earth Crisis)This time out the boys are told to find three albums on the theme of 'machines' - which ended up being trickier to pull off than they had first imagined.
But never ones to back down from a challenge, they each returned to Enter Sadmen HQ with an album each that met the brief - and gave them their hardest listening week since Tool and Kyuss were on the show back in Episode 10.
This edition of the podcast features Orgasmatron from 1986 - Motorhead's first album as a four piece following the departures of both 'Fast...
2021-06-281h 10Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 39 - Colours (ft. Thin Lizzy, White Sister & Living Colour)In this episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast, the next three albums to join the list on the definitive all time hard rock and heavy metal hall of fame are linked by colours and include two bands yet to be considered by our trio of intrepid reviewers.
First up is Thin Lizzy's Black Rose from 1979, the album that marked the final appearance - albeit briefly - of Gary Moore in his third visit to the line-up (two as a fully-fledged recording member and one as a touring substitute for Brian Robertson).
It's hard to find a...
2021-06-201h 25Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 38 - The Producers: Bruce Fairbairn (ft. Bon Jovi, Aerosmith & Gorky Park)After a forensic examination of the work of Max Norman in Episode 22, the second visit to the control desk by the Enter Sadmen podcast headed for America and the man behind some of the biggest selling rock albums of the 80s - the late Bruce Fairbairn.
Mention Fairbairn in a game of word association and the chances are the words that immediately spring to mind are Bon and Jovi. closely followed by Slippery, When and Wet. In fact, record a show about Fairbairn's work and it would be an act of near criminality to omit New Jersey's finest...
2021-06-161h 24Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 37 - 1970 (ft. Bloodrock, Mountain & Lucifer's Friend)The lads fired up the time machine for the latest episode in their quest to find the greatest rock album of all time, journeying back to the farthest limits of the Enter Sadmen Podverse.
1970 is the arbitrary stepping off point for the Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Hall of Fame, so it was no surprise when the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes finally cranked it out as the focus of episode 37.
The boys went off in search of musical riches and reconvened on WhatsApp a week before the show was recorded to share...
2021-05-251h 04Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEnter Sadmen meet ... John VerityIn the latest special edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast the lads catch up with John Verity - guitarist, vocalist, record producer and, as it turned out, a fount of great rock and roll stories.
In the course of their hour and a bit the boys were taken on a journey that included guns at dusk with Jimi Hendrix's road crew, a manager dropped from a 4th floor Miami window in a drug bust, life on tour with Argent, being 'encouraged' to leave the United States by the US immigration service, the trials and tribulations of getting...
2021-05-221h 10Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 36 - Wheels of Steel (ft. Def Leppard, Terraplane & Tesla)For the latest leg of their tour through rock and metal's highlights and lowlights the boys were given the brief of 'transport'. The rules were simple - the band name, album title or album cover had to have a demonstrable link to a form of transport.
Like all the pod themes, it should have been easy. But then Steve and Rich hadn't factored in Mark's wide-ranging interpretation of what transport might actually mean, nor the fact that he failed to make the link between Steve's album choice and a well-known electric car brand.
Eventually, though...
2021-05-191h 38Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 35 - Metal Health (ft. Y&T, Ted Nugent & Poison)For this edition of the pod, the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out the ball with 'HEALTH' written on it, which meant the lads each had to find an album that not only had a medical theme, but was also infectious enough to merit consideration for a place in the Top 100 rock and metal albums of all time.
Richard tunnelled back to 1977 and emerged with the Ted Nugent classic Cat Scratch Fever. Mark put on his rose-tinted spectacles and relived a 1987 holiday in L.A., a lot of West Coast sunshine and the then-newly r...
2021-05-161h 19Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 34 - Watch The Children Pray (ft. Genesis, The Cult & Slayer)Episode 34 of the Enter Sadmen podcast sees the lads taking a more spiritual approach to their listening as the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spits out the ball labelled Religion to determine this instalment's theme.
But even though the show's title is a nod to all you Metal Church fans out there, the boys managed to avoid the dark (see what we did there?) and instead chose another ecelctic selection of albums spanning two decades.
Leading the charge is Steve with the first of what he considers to be Genesis's holy trinity of a...
2021-05-121h 24Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 33 - On A Storyteller's Night (ft. Helloween, Warfare & Fear Factory)So, for this episode the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out Concept Albums, which gave the boys a very large playing field to go at.
A night, surely, for the big hitters to make an appearance ... who would choose Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway? Who would earmark Thick As A Brick to represent Tull's third visit to the pod? And surely to God Richard couldn't resist the temptation to slide Operation: Mindcrime into the mix, could he?
The reality, as it turned out, was very different.
Richard turned up wi...
2021-05-061h 32Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 32 - Shot Down In Flames (ft. Grand Prix, Fastway & Vain)In the latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast, Steve, Mark and Rich get to grips with three albums from bands they believe should have been a much bigger deal than they ultimately were.
First up is British NWOBHM/AOR outfit (if one band can be both) Grand Prix with their second release There For None To See from 1982. They'd release one final album - Samurai - in '84 before finally calling it a day. Singer Robin McAuley went on to work with Michael Schenker as the McAuley Schenker Group, whilst keyboard player Phil lanzon and original s...
2021-05-031h 36Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 31 - Leaders Of The Pack (ft. Queen, Jethro Tull & Krokus)For the latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast, the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out Leaders of the Pack, which meant the boys had to choose three albums that had some kind of link to a deck of playing cards.
When they returned from their record collections and a deep dive into Google they discovered that Episode 31 would start in 1973 and end in 1988. The albums reflecting those 15 golden years and looking for a place in the top 100 of the Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Hall of Fame couldn't be more eclectic if you...
2021-04-261h 27Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEnter Sadmen meet ... Doro PeschIn the latest special edition of the show, the Sadmen sit down for an intimate chat - if being separated by hundreds of miles can be described as intimate - with the Queen of Metal, Doro Pesch.
Over the course of a candid hour, Doro discusses the re-release of her 1998 Love Me In Black album, befriending Motorhead's Lemmy, the break-up of Warlock and the 1986 Donington Monsters of Rock slot that brought her properly to public consciousness and affection (though how anyone could have missed her up to that point given the press she was getting at the...
2021-04-251h 01Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 30 - Fight For Your Reich (ft. Scorpions, Grave Digger & Warlock)We may still be in lockdown - just (hopefully) - but it's time for the Sadmen to spread their wings and flit beyond the shores of old Blighty and shine the torch of enlightenment into a land far, far away. Well, a hop and a skip beyond Belgium, at any rate.
This episode sees Mark, Richard and Steve taking a close look at three bands from the heart of the European rock and metal landscape: Germany.
The Scorpions make their first appearance in the podcast as Richard blows the cobwebs off the band's third album, 1975...
2021-04-131h 25Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 29 - Four Play (ft. Faster Pussycat, Britny Fox & Jackyl)The latest adventure with the Sadmen takes us into the animal world and, more specifically, to albums that are linked in some way - tenuous or otherwise - with four-legged creatures.
For this episode the boys welcomed a cat, a fox and, spelling aside, a jackal. They also welcomed an ozone layer's worth of hairspray and a hat trick of self-titled albums.
All the Enter Sadmen reviews are done in the chronological order of the albums' release dates, which means this episode kicks off with Faster Pussycat from 1987, pauses long enough for the boys to c...
2021-04-071h 15Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 28 - For Those About To Shock (ft. Judas Priest, Suicidal Tendencies & Rammstein)The latest edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast sees the lads getting to grips with three bands that found their way into rock and metal's Big Book of Notoriety.
In the spirit of avoiding the bleeding obvious, they completely ignored the PMRC's 'Filthy 15' - largely on the grounds that the bands on that infamous Washington Wives hit list were so tame they barely qualified as rock and roll ne'er-do-wells, never mind bad boys.
No, this episode needed behaviour and notoriety of scale - and the boys found it in plentiful supply.
Coming...
2021-04-021h 37Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 27 - Wherever You May Roam (ft. Nazareth, Marseille & Babylon A.D.)The boys get all geographical for the latest edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast as they put another three albums under the microscope in their bid to build the definitive hard rock and heavy metal Hall of Fame.
The brief? The name of the band or the title of the album had to relate to a location - ideally real (either now or once upon a time) or one that would be reasonably accepted to be a well known fiction, such as Xanadu - though if you've suddenly started panicking, relax ... no Olivia Newton John of ELO...
2021-03-291h 10Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 26 - Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter (ft. Van Halen, Def Leppard & KISS)Good parenting requires that learning doesn't just take place in the classroom. To really give your kids a rounded view of the world, any self-respecting parent should ensure they take a hands-on roll in continuing their children's education out of school.
The Sadmen are united by their love of rock and metal, but another thing they have in common is that they each also have one daughter, and one day they discovered those daughters have all been subjected to many attempts at rock and roll conversion therapy in the car.
So, fo...
2021-03-211h 28Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEnter Sadmen meet ... CroftyPetrolhead, metalhead, talking head ... who knows, maybe even Motorhead.
In this special edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast, the boys sit down for a cosy fireside chat with the voice of Formula 1, Crofty. Or David Croft, to give him his birth name.
From his earliest brushes with Deep Purple at the mudbath that was Knebworth 1985 to his all consuming love of Bruce Springsteen and penchant for Metallica, Maiden and Parkway Drive, Crofty gives the lads the lowdown on his 'other' life as an unashamed hard rock and heavy metal fan.
In this episode we...
2021-03-091h 25Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 25 - Sheer Chart Attack (ft. Bad Company, Guns 'N' Roses & Skid Row)In the latest episode of the loudest podcast in the world, the Sadmen look at three rock albums that topped the US Billboard 200. The episode spans three decades, stopping off at 1974 and 1987 for the respective debuts of Bad Company and Hollywood bad boys Guns 'N' Roses, and checking in on 1991 for Skid Row's sophomore release, Slave To The Grind.
Just how good were they, and where did they end up in the Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of Fame?
2021-03-031h 35Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 24 - 1992 #1 (ft. Kiss, Hardline & Stone Temple Pilots)For the latest adventure in the quest to review, rate and rank the all time great hard rock and heavy metal albums of rock's golden age, the boys take a rare trip to a world beyond the 1980s and explore a less well-charted land: 1992.
It was a time when the established old guard were trying to find a way to stay relevant and when new kids were on every block. Kiss personified the former, Neil Schon side project Hardline typified the latter.
But what was that dark smudge on the horizon? A smudge that was...
2021-02-121h 17Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 23 - Metal By Numbers (ft. Bon Jovi, Rush & Q5)For the latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes spat out NUMBERS. The brief? Choose a classic album released between 1970 and 1995 where either the album title or the band's name contained a number.
Then, as usual, listen to them end to end as many times as possible over the course of a week and reconvene to review them, rate them track by track, average out the overall scores to give each album an average score - and then put each one into the fabled Hall of Fame.
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2021-01-291h 25Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 22 - Max Norman (ft. Megadeth, Armored Saint & Savatage)Over time the lads shine a spotlight on the producers who've been responsible for some of the very best music hard rock and heavy metal offered up between 1970 and 1995.
First up on the Sadmen stage is legendary British producer, Max Norman, whose contribution to the genre stands comparison with any of the big names on the other side of the glass during rock's classic era.
With a list of production and engineering credits as long as Methuselah's beard, all the boys had to do was pick the three they thought worth of particular attention (at...
2021-01-241h 31Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 21 - 1971 #1 (ft. Uriah Heep, Yes & The MC5)For the latest edition of the Enter Sadmen podcast, the boys fired up the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes and waited for it to spit out a theme. Which, as sure as night follows day, it duly did.
The result? A journey back to 1971 and a land that time forgot. Luckily, it was also a time when a group of earnest and committed young men, together comprising three bands, discovered their musical muse and the succumbed to the allure of experimentation ...
First out of the gate was Detroit antiheroes The MC5 with High T...
2021-01-081h 29Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 20 - The Rock Goddess Homework (ft. The Runaways, AC/DC & Metallica)Just before recording this episode, the Sadmen sat down for a chinwag with Jody and Julie Turner - the drum- and guitar-playing sisters behind fan favourites Rock Goddess.
After an hour in which they all laughed a lot, discussed Jody's pipework and Julie's memories - or lack thereof - of debuting at the Reading Rock Festival at the age of 14, and shared their own Top 10 albums of all time, the girls chose three records for the boys to review, rate and rank in their next show.
Stepping up to the mic, The Runaways, AC/DC...
2021-01-031h 44Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEnter Sadmen meet ... Rock GoddessIn the latest of their occasional specials in conversation with rock's royalty, Mark and Richard sit down with two thirds of Rock Goddess - sisters Jody and Julie Turner - to talk about everything from being bribed with new jeans to practice their instruments in the early days of the band to sharing the Reading Festival bill with Iron Maiden as teenagers and how technology has changed the way they work.
And, as all the Enter Sadmen guests do, Jody and Julie also each get to choose their own Top 10 albums of all time
Strap...
2021-01-021h 05Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of Fame2020 ReviewAs we prepared to get say goodbye to 2020, Mark, Steve and Rich sat down together virtually with a glass of mulled wine and a few mince pies and looked back at the first 19 shows of the Enter Sadmen podcast.
The 57 albums they've reviewed over the last 8 months threw up some predictable moments, but their forensic track-by-track approach to reviewing and rating every single second of every single album gave some weeks the same sort of results that sometimes define the 3rd Round of the FA Cup.
It was a year in which some big guns un...
2021-01-0157 minEnter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 19 - Rock and Roll Siblings (ft. Raven, Heart & Rock Goddess)In the penultimate full episode of 2020, the Sadmen get to grips with three albums recorded by bands featuring siblings within their ranks. Stepping up to the amps for this show, then, are the Wilson sisters from Heart with Little Queen, Raven's Gallagher brothers John and Mark and the noisy Rock Until Your Drop, and Jody and Julie Turner from Rock Goddess and their cracking little self-titled debut.
2020-12-291h 29Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 18 - Donington 1987 (ft. Anthrax, Cinderella & W.A.S.P.)Six bands (or seven, depending on which Donington you happened to be at) in the August sunshine of the British East Midlands.
For this episode the boys take a trip back to the Castle Donington Monsters of Rock Festival in 1987 and choose three three different bands who were on the bill that day. The rules? None - other than the stipulation that the album from each band had to be the one released closest to the date of the festival.
Which all added up to Among The Living from Anthrax, Long Cold Winter fr...
2020-12-271h 28Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameThe Christmas Playlist SpecialThe boys take a break from normal business this Christmas Eve to bring you the ultimate rock and metal playlist. It's available for you to follow in Spotify - so listen along as Mark, Steve and Richard talk through a clutch of songs to make your metal Christmas as merry as possible.
Just don't forget to turn it down when the kids are around ...
2020-12-2441 minEnter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 17 - 1981 #1 (ft. Blue Oyster Cult, Gillan & Ozzy Osbourne)On the latest leg of the Sadmen's journey through the annals of hard rock and heavy metal, they headed for the NWOBHM-rich year of 1981 and three albums that were about as diverse as it was possible to get at the start of the denim-rich Eighties.
It's an episode that also has echoes of the Enter Sadmen podcast's beginnings, as two of the albums saw the lads picking their way through the new 'solo' adventures of two vocalists who we last met in Episode 3.
Under the microscope in this episode: Future Shock from Gillan, Fire Of Un...
2020-12-061h 25Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 16 - The Albums That Changed Our Lives (ft. Y&T, Pink Floyd & Boston)We've all got albums that have sentimental value because they were greater than the sum of their parts. In this episode the boys discuss the albums that made them feel differently about music.
It's an eclectic collection that includes Boston's self-titled debut, the seminal offering from Floyd - 1973's Dark Side Of The Moon and the third album (or perhaps fifth, depending on your take) from San Francisco veterans Y&T - Mean Streak.
2020-11-021h 31Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 15 - Sheer Art Attack (ft. Marillion, Blackfoot & Bad Steve)In this episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast, the lads pay tribute to the late and truly great Eddie Van Halen before digging out some of the albums they bought on the strength of the album cover alone: Marillion's Fugazi, Blackfoot's Strikes and a little known German outfit with links to Accept - Bad Steve and an album called Killing The Night.
As is often the case with the Enter Sadmen pod, the show manages to swing effortlessly from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous.
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2020-10-091h 08Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 14 - Metallica, Motley or Maiden?One of the questions the Sadmen had to answer for the Enter Sadmen website (www.entersadmen.co.uk) was very simple. Maiden, Motley or Maiden? With no conferring allowed, all three of them picked Metallica. Episode 14 was the time to find out if that was true.
The Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes randomly selected 1983 as the year that would anchor the show and the three albums up for review would be those released closest to that particular year - which proved to be quite easy, since all three bands released albums in that year (all...
2020-09-211h 22Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 13 - Wake Up With Makeup (ft. KISS, Mercyful Fate & Hanoi Rocks)In the latest edition of the hard rocking podcast Enter Sadmen, the boys reach deep into the vanity case and tackle three albums that went big on slap.
From early-70s New York City kitsch (KISS' self-titled debut) to two genre-defining Scandinavian bands (Melissa from Danish thrashers Mercyful Fate, and post-punk Finn-linked rockers Hanoi Rocks and Two Steps From The Move), this edition of the pod asks - and answers - the question: did the makeup mask a lack of musical talent ... or expose it?
2020-09-041h 22Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 12 - Brian Tatler's Homework (ft. Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin & AC/DC)Regular Sadmen followers will know we were honoured to record a special edition of the podcast with Diamond Head legend Brian Tatler recently, in which he shared stories about 40 years of life in the band and also gave us a run down of his Top 10 albums of all time.
If you're a DH fan and haven't heard the show, check it out now!
But what we also ask our special guests to do is choose the 3 albums that we'll review on the next edition of the show. So, this latest episode sees the boys get...
2020-08-251h 37Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEnter Sadmen meet ... Brian TatlerThe Enter Sadmen podcast is all about reviewing, rating and ranking the good, bad and the ugly of hard rock and heavy metal to create the ultimate hall of fame. But it's always nice to get the perspective of the people who were there at the time - either making the music or contributing to the process of making it.
Not only that, but we ask them to tell us their top 10 albums of all time - and then get them to decide which 3 albums we review, rate and rank in the following edition of t...
2020-08-1400 minEnter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 11 - 1980 #1 (ft. Diamond Head, Whitesnake & Motorhead)40 years on - give or take a few months - from the dawn of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the boys of the Enter Sadmen podcast choose three of the most notable albums released during the the genre-defining year of 1980.
One of them is Lightning To The Nations from Diamond Head - the band acknowledged as the inspiration behind the birth of Metallica.
One is Ace Of Spades, the classic fourth album from Motorhead, the band that essentially set the blueprint for the thrash bands who would emerge in the early 80s.
2020-08-111h 36Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 10 - Under the Radar (ft. Jethro Tull, Tool & Kyuss)What seemed like a good idea at the time - choose an album you've never heard from any Top 100+ list on the internet - turns out to be anything but as the boys get to grips with early-70s prog rock (Jethro Tull's Aqualung) and argue about the merits (or not) of two albums that are to prog as Genghis Khan was to human rights - Blues For The Red Sun from Queens Of The Stone Age prototype Kyuss, and Tool's Undertow.
2020-07-301h 29Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 9 - Broxit (ft. Thin Lizzy, Yngwie J. Malmsteen & Accept)In the latest episode of the loudest podcast in the world, the boys challenge themselves to review albums recorded by bands from Europe. There was only one snag: this was a Europe that felt very much like it might in 2021, in the sense that it doesn't include the UK.
With the whole continent - bar a smallish northerly island state - to choose from, would they be tempted to go for the obvious? Or inspired to find a hidden and long forgotten gem?
In fact, it was a bit of both - although Richard's reputation...
2020-07-191h 41Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 8 - The Little Wizard (ft. Rainbow, Black Sabbath & Dio)Roughly a decade on from his death, the latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast looks back at the life of Ronnie James Dio through his vocal work on three classic albums from three different bands over a seven-year period between 1976 and 1983 - from Rainbow's Rising, through Heaven & Hell from Sabbath to his 'solo' debut Holy Diver.
What Dio lacked in physical stature he made up for through astonishing vocal power and range. But would it be enough to see his legacy cemented in the Hall of Fame?
2020-07-041h 45Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 7 - AOR Heaven (ft. Journey, REO Speedwagon & Strangeways)After the all-out thrash assault of the last episode, the boys were in need of some soothing sonic balm. What better solution, then, than immersing themselves in the keyboard-laden delights of some honest to goodness AOR?
For a while it looked as though it would be a clash of titanic heavyweights as first Journey's Escape and then REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity entered the arena. But then Steve unveiled Strangeways' Native Sons - the AOR equivalent of Rocky Balboa stepping up to challenge Journey and REO's combined Apollo Creed.
Okay, so this analogy is getting stretched painf...
2020-06-221h 36Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 6 - Caught In A Mosh (ft. Flotsam & Jetsam, Overkill and Testament)This week the boys strap in for a 200mph ride through three thrash metal albums released during a 6-year period between 1986 and 1992.
Steve has rocked up with Flotsam and Jetsam's 1986 debut Doomsday For The Deceiver (he hasn't stopped going on about it since he bought it on the basis of that fabled Kerrang! 6K review, but is his passion for a pre-Metallica Jason Newstead and the 'Marmite' Eric AK enough to swing Mark and Richard into the church of the converted?
Richard, a self-proclaimed thrash novice, did a few hours of research and ended up w...
2020-06-091h 39Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 5 - Girls Are Loud (ft. Girlschool, Vixen & Phantom Blue)Oh yes it’s Ladies’ Night, And the feeling’s right, Oh yes it’s Ladies’ Night, Oh what a night, crooned Lemmy. Or Kool and the Gang. Hell, sometimes it’s hard to tell them apart.
Don’t worry, Enter Sadmen hasn’t gone all disco on you – Rage Against The Machine’s funk-metal fusion from Episode 4 is about as dance-hall as we’re gonna get, let me tell you – but ‘tis true that we have gone girlie.
Yes, simmer down lads but episode 5 of the coolest, loudest podcast around is a paean to the fairer sex as we asses...
2020-05-241h 53Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 4 - Calling Cards #1 (ft. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rage Against The Machine & Ratt)In the latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast, the boys debate three signature debut albums from three decades.
Mark's still finding it difficult to let go of the 1970s and turns up with (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd), the 1973 freshman offering from southern rock pioneers Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Steve's stopped off at Boots and Chelsea Girl (that's what River Island was in old money, kids) to stock up on hairspray, lipstick and lace and a lifesize poster of Tawny Kitaen before slipping Ratt's full debut Out of the Cellar onto the turntable.
And Richard has de...
2020-05-171h 46Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 3 - The Godfathers of Rock (ft. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple & Black Sabbath)The boys are back with a question that is as old as time itself (or at least since 1970): just who was it that invented hard rock and heavy metal? Steppenwolf may have been the first to use the term heavy metal (in Born to Be Wild), but the real roots of classic hard rock lie elsewhere.
The question is, where?
Steve, Mark and Richard identify three locations as the possible source of the holy riff:
Birmingham - the beating industrial heart of England; London - the epicentre of cultural change as the floral Sixt...
2020-05-091h 24Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 2 - Our Favourite Albums of All Time (ft. UFO, Rush & Van Halen)After the inaugural episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast saw the boys debating the merits of the first albums they'd each bought with their own money, Mark, Steve and Richard follow up by chewing over the records that sit at the very top of their personal tables.
Mark picks out British rockers UFO and their 1979 double live hook-laden classic Strangers in the Night for special attention; Steve returns to early 80s Los Angeles and Van Halen's unconventional third release, Women and Children First; and, fittingly after the loss of Neil Peart earlier this year, Rich takes his co-h...
2020-04-281h 32Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of FameEpisode 1 - The First Albums We Bought With Our Own Money (ft.Van Halen, Judas Priest & AC/DC)The loudest podcast in the world kicks off in style with three of the biggest albums of the late 70s and early 80s vying for entry into the imaginarium that is the Enter Sadmen Hard Rock Hall of Fame.
Steve turns up to the party with Dave Lee Roth, Michael Anthony and Eddie & Alex Van Halen, their eponymous 1978 debut and a Watneys Party 7; Richard ushers in the boys from AC/DC with their make-or-break 1979 release Highway to Hell; and, clutching a dog-eared copy of British Steel, Mark arrives on a large motorcycle, clinging onto Rob Halford for dea...
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