Radioactive Metal Halloween Special: Return Of The Living Dead – Watch Along

“It’s Party Time!!” It’s no secret that the amazing zombie punk flick “Return Of The Living Dead” is an all time fave around the RAM offices. The classic horror comedy has it all – zombies, splatter, “Scream Queen” Linnea Quigley, and, of course, a kick ass soundtrack! So this Halloween season we ‘re going to pay tribute to ROTLD with another watch along. The idea is simple. Download this episode…

Radioactive Metal 675: Welcome To 1983!!

When we woke up this morning, it was ’83 all over again! The much discussed Satanic Panic era had the legendary Iron Maiden firmly placed as Public Enemy #1. Mainstream American media salivated over Bruce and The Boys break thru record “Number Of The Beast” do to it’s “controversial” (Ha!) monicker and artwork. Fast forward almost forty years later and we see some things never change. An Ontario high school…

Radioactive Metal 674: Doctor Doctor – interview with Paradox

“Two doctors walk into a bar…a pair of docs”. Ok, we’re mixing up bad jokes here but you get the idea. To the Metal World though, Paradox is an awesome veteran band spawned from the legendary 80s German thrash scene. Paradox have a new platter on the shelves in the form of “Heresy 2 – End Of The Legend”. A worthy sequel to their most famous record. So we sat…

Radioactive Metal 673: Crisix Million Dollar Band – interview with Crisix

Until now, Spanish thrashers Crisix were barely a blip on our musical radar. Well that’s on us. Once we investigated further we were blown away by their old school thrash. And the outfit’s new Listenable release “The Pizza EP” has been getting multiple spins in the RAM offices. So we got vox Juli Bazooka on the horn to explore this unique effort. We get into the concept of the record…

Radioactive Metal 672: Matt Of Steel – interview with Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Gruesome)

With the rise of superhero movies dominating the box office, these days it seems like it’s almost fashionable to be a geek. Veteran death metaller Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Pounder) was a geek long before being a geek was cool. Mr. Harvey grew up on horror/ monster movies, sci-fi and comic books. So being the talented musician he is, his latest project was inevitable. “The Last Son Of Krypton” is an…

Radioactive Metal 671: Twas The Month Before Halloween

It’s the fall season. So that means we’re gearing up for most Metalhead’s favourite time of the year – Halloween!! But this most sacred of daze doesn’t begin and end on Oct. 31st. There’s much to do in prep for The Big Day. This week we’ve compiled a list of movies to view, comics to read, costumes to procure and all the activities to get you in the Halloweening mood….

Radioactive Metal 670: Cringey Metal

Normally when using words like “cringe” and “creepy” with regards to our beloved genre, it’s used in a more artistic and horror related manner. Death and Goth Metal aside, a few of the more mainstream Heavy Rock/Metal artists have put pen to paper and come up with some rather cringeworthy lyrics. Call it art from a different era, if you will. Nonetheless, some classic songs (KISS, The Nuge, Winger a.o.)…

Radioactive Metal 669: In Trouble – Tribute to Eric Wagner

The RAM office was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Eric Wagner. Mr. Wagner was most noted as the founder and frontman of the legendary Trouble. The Doom metallers have a special place in our Metal Hearts, so we wanted to pay tribute. Former co host Roch was the creator and host of our awesome “Album Autopsy” series. The first episode focused on the amazing self titled,…

Radioactive Metal 668: Talkin’ Tunes

We found ourselves sans “Creature Feature” again this week. But no matter, as there was enough going on in the World of Heavy Metal to grab our attention. The month of August has some off the beaten path anniversaries. Death Metal legends Cannibal Corpse dropped their infamous debut this month in ’90. As well, this is the 20th anniversary of Go-Gos vocalist Belinda Carlisle appearing Playboy(!) But honestly… we read…

Radioactive Metal 667: The Neighbour Of The Beast

Welcome to the week after The Big One! Following our monumental 666th episode, the music world celebrated another milestone. It was the 40th anniversary of the debut of MTV. Of course even in those early years MTV never meant much to Metal fans. Apart from the Headbanger’s Ball, the only thing of interest was the fact that some of the coolest vids were constantly being barred from airplay. So we…

Radioactive Metal 666: The Big One – interview with Aborted and celebrating episode 666

As one of the longest running podcasts (of any kind), Radioactive Metal continues to roll. Of course, only a Metal program would acknowledge episode 666 as a milestone. After 665 episodes, we are here – The Big One! To celebrate we got “the band back together” and tapped former co hort Roch to co host. We cracked open some bevies and reminisced about some of our fave memories. We go…

Radioactive Metal 665: Woman Of Dark Desires – interview with Jade Willow

We’re always looking for that unique interview guest. Band interviews are the bread and butter of this show. But there are so many unsung areas all with a story of their own. Enter – Jade Willow. Miss. Willow is a “D.I.Y. model”, adult content creator, fellow podcaster and an all ’round interesting person. So we wanted to hear her story first hoof. We get into her modelling, the wonderful world…