A new year always means more important anniversaries. We hate to remind our more veteran listeners that the year 1985 is 40 (!!) years old now! It was an important and pivotal year for Metaldom, to which the effects are still being felt today. So this time we’re going deep into ’85. We’re going over some of the fantastic albums that hit the racks and some of the amazing bands…

It’s not over until…we’ve had our Rammy Awards. Basically, the Rammies are our take on the Grammies. Meaning we make our picks for the “Best Of” for the year that was. In the categories that mean the most to Metalheads; Band, Album, Live, News Story a.o. As well, as is tradition, we give our inductions into the RAM Hall of Hall for Band, Album and what we call Myth and…

Aaron has become a proud papa again. First when his offspring came into the world. Second when his little girl asked for a skateboard. Excited as we are to commemorate this event, we felt it was a good time to discuss all things skating. We discuss our first decks, “skate” music, Thrasher mag and the skateboards impact on pop culture. We even invited Snowy’s board Betsy to sit in with…

Happy New Year!! 2024 is coming to an end, so consider this episode the Radioactive Metal New Year’s Eve party. This time we pour some bevvies, crank some tunes and talk about… whatever. You know, like a party. And what’s a party without good friends? So we pour a Lemmy for our bud and sister podcast Wrestling Night in Canada co host Mr. Matt Copper. We yap about new movies,…

The biggest news on the hearts and minds of Metalheads the world over is the retirement of long time Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain. Having been behind the kit since the classic ’83 record “Piece Of Mind”, Metaldom just won’t be the same. As is tradition, every significant retirement requires a proper send off. So we decided to have one for our listeners. We go over our fave Nicko skinbeating…

The annual Montreal black metal festival Messe De Morte is in the books. We never made it out to La Belle Province ourselves, but it’s a yearly trek for our good bud and sister show Wrestling Night in Canada co-host “Ducky” Dustin Maruca. So this week we sat Mr. Maruca in the hotseat to the get the 411 on the fest. We go over the line up, the highs and…

Remember when you were a kid and you hated brussel sprouts? As you got older, your palette may change and evolve to where those evil little veggies may not taste so bad. The same can be said for musical tastes. Particularly towards specific artists or even entire subgenres. We all have those specific bands that really didn’t turn our crank at the time. But now you find yourself front row…

Dec. 6th is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year. One Friday a month, Bandcamp relinquishes their cut of all the sales on the site. Effectively giving the artists 100% of the profits. We’ve been big supporters of BCF for years now. So this week we figured we’d throw out some of our recommends to add to your collection. But don’t just take our suggestions. Run, don’t walk, to Bandcamp…

It’s no exaggeration when we state that we grew up in record stores. From our early teens right up to this writing, we had a variety of shops that were/are our homes away from home. These hallowed halls come with a variety of memories you just don’t get with streaming. So this week we figured we’d give these cherished shops a “Horns Up” and share some memories. For instance, some…

We admit it. We’re old. Actually, we prefer “music veterans”. We’re veteran enough to have consumed out music on all three physical media formats – vinyl, cassette and CD (and even a few 8 tracks lol). So with these formats we have a number of special albums that we shelled out for all three. Generally the lineage would be from vinyl to cass. to CD. But of course there’s no…

We here at RAM have always been vinyl conisseurs. But more and more people are discovering the joys of vinyl. It’s really heartwarming when we see the youth of today (that was totally intentional lol) digging thru the racks. That means there’s a lot of fertile minds that we feel, as veterans, should be doing our part to enlighten. Vinyl records have basic terminologies every collector should know. For instance:…

The passing of ex-Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno was the major topic on the hearts and minds of Metal Heads the world over. Mr. Di’Anno wasn’t just a great artist, he was a frontrunner and influence on an entire generation. So it’s only appropriate we dedicate our discussion segment to this legend. We go over how we first discovered The Man. Our fave tunes. And where we think he would…