Ronnie James Dio is metal music royalty. From his early days in New York playing the trumpet and singing in... more

Pointless. Spontaneous. Hazardous. Deadly. That’s what mayhem can be like for some metal musicians. Host Jon Wiederhorn dives into the... more

Ever since Black Sabbath named themselves after a horror movie and started writing dark, foreboding songs that buzzed with menace... more

The bottle has called to many metal musicians since the genre’s early days. Some artists found it as a way... more

Judas Priest’s success skyrocketed in the early 1980’s. Along with their boom in fame, came a decline in Rob Halford’s... more

As one of the most eclectic and popular British metal bands and pioneers of the New Wave of British Heavy... more

This episode further explores the impact heroin, a drug some called the angel of death, had on some metal musicians... more

In the 80’s and 90’s metal scene, musicians used heroin to push the limits of excess and chase away their... more

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll...and girls. All part of metal music’s culture. In the five decades of metal, there... more

It’s hard to argue that Black Sabbath and Tony Iommi didn’t lay the foundation of what metal music is today.... more