Chew The Metal: A Beginner's Guide To Heavy Music

Chew The Metal: A Beginner's Guide To Heavy Music

Author: Chew The Metal Language: English Episodes: 100
Ever feel like you want to explore the powerful world of heavy music but don't know where to start? Chew The Metal: A Beginner's Guide To Heavy Music is your friendly guide through the thunder. Each week, hosts Rich and Kyle pick a foundational or fascinating album from the rock and metal spectrum and break it down, not as critics, but as curious fans building the ultimate playlist. Their conversations are less like lectures and more like the chat you’d have with friends after a concert, full of genuine reactions, historical tidbits, and the occasional debate over a killer riff or a questionable lyric. The whole point of this podcast is to demystify the genre, one deep dive at a time, making those iconic and obscure records accessible to everyone. You’ll hear the music that shaped movements, understand why certain albums matter, and maybe even find your new favorite band. It’s a weekly journey where the hosts are learning right alongside you, making the vast landscape of heavy music feel a little smaller and a lot more welcoming. Join Rich and Kyle as they listen, laugh, and genuinely chew on everything metal has to offer.
Episodes
Episode 22 - Chew The Tinsel/Christmas Special [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:34
Ho ho holy crap, what have we done? It's Christmas eve and that means it's time for our Christmas spectacular, complete with our very own curated playlist. It's silly, it's cheesy, it's fun - basically everything the hol…
Episode 21 - Nine Inch Nails/The Downward Spiral [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:28
It's time for episode 21, and you know what that means? SPECIAL GUEST! This week, we welcome our first guest to the show and pick her brain as she tells us all about Nine Inch Nails (her favourite band) and their seminal…
Episode 20 - Deftones/Deftones [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:51
We made it to episode 20! This week, it's Rich's turn to talk about his favourite band and pretend like he doesn't already know every song on this album. What a treat! Key talking points - Gross generalisations about the…
Episode 19 - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:30
After thinking it’d be The Day That Never Comes, we’re finally talking about Metallica, and it’s their latest release we get to first. Despite mentioning them every week so far, we still had A LOT to say, hence the runni…
Episode 18 - Meshuggah/Obzen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:17
This week, we put our thinking caps back on and try to unpack perhaps the most complex album so far, all whilst diving into a new genre! Key talking points - Musings on mutings, the woes of being second best, an insultin…
Episode 17 - Feed The Rhino/The Burning Sons [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:32
This week, we right a wrong by listening to a band that Rich almost saw live 8 years ago. This is their breakthrough second album, but was it worth the wait? Key talking points - A costly Cornetto, the real victim of the…
Episode 16 - Black Sabbath/Paranoid [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:32
So, we're only 16 episodes in and we’ve already made it back to the birth of Heavy Metal! This album recently turned 50 years old, but does it still hold up? Spoiler - yes it does. Key talking points: The birth of a genr…
Episode 15 - Lordi/The Arockalypse [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:17
It’s our Halloween special! This week, we listen to the Eurovision winning Finnish Metal band Lordi and their 2006 breakthrough album. Key talking points: A karaoke world record, some sad KISS fans, a tracklist for the a…
Episode 14 - Skindred/Babylon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:08
It’s our final episode of Black History Month and we’re going out in style! This week, we discuss one of Newport’s finest exports and their third attempt at a debut album. Key talking points: A topless helicopter, Arthur…
Episode 13 - Thin Lizzy/Jailbreak [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:21
It’s week three of Black History Month and we’ve finally made it back to the 70’s! Rich and Kyle had never really listened to Thin Lizzy before this week, so how will they fare when listening to their most famous album?…