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Holland’s Little Monsters: The Chicago Metal Album That Got Lost Between Scenes
Little Monsters hid power-pop instincts beneath its hard-rock armor.
 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight
The 70s Ballot: Rose Tattoo, Wishbone Ash, Starz, and a Lost AOR Gem
The overlooked records are waiting. You decide which one gets pulled into the light.
 • J Dziak
59:51
Why Did America Miss Fields of the Nephilim’s Elizium?
Pink Floyd-scale production, occult grandeur, and goth rock with nowhere else to go.
 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci
The 80s Metal Poll Ended in a Tie. You Break It.
Holland’s Little Monsters and L.A. Guns’ Cocked & Loaded finished dead even at the top of the ballot. The 24-hour runoff vote is now open.
 • J Dziak
1:03:48
Hawkwind Made Proto-Stoner Rock Before Anyone Had a Name for It
The riffs are thick. The journey is long. The influence is everywhere.
 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight
Which 80s Metal Album Would You Rescue From the Used Bin?
Choose between a controversial GNR detour, L.A. Guns at their sleaziest, Tesla’s ambitous follow-up, and Holland’s one-record mystery.
 • J Dziak
Cut City: The Swedish Post-Punk Band You Missed
Revisiting Exit Decades, a 2007 album shaped by The Sound, Interpol, and dark-wave tension.
 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci
45:14
Tora Tora Sounds Like Judas Priest Fighting Aerosmith
Inside the riff-and-blues collision that made Surprise Attack different from every other 1989 hair metal record.
 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight
1:00:36
Space Rock, Proto-Metal, and One Glorious Album Cover
Hawkwind’s cosmic live blast, Skid Row’s early Gary Moore, Bloodrock’s second chance, and Nick Gilder’s glam-pop gem—your vote picks the winner.
 • J Dziak
Before “Run-Around,” There Was a Different Blues Traveler
It had virtuosity, songs, Gregg Allman, and no clear commercial lane.
 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci
1:09:27
New albums from The Mountain Goats, Shearwater, The Durutti Column, and Trashcan Sinatras, plus a 4CD Cherry Red shoegaze archive.
Plus the Billy Joel proto-metal record that time forgot, Blues Traveler on deck, and Darren Leach just dropped The Wipers’ Is This Real? into the…
 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci
The 1970 Billy Joel Metal Album That Time Forgot
Attila turns a Hammond organ into a proto metal wrecking ball
 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight
59:59
Dig Me Out
Dig Me Out
Every album tells a story. Most never get heard. We dig them out with podcasts exploring heavy 70s, 80s metal, 90s alternative, and 00s rock—forgotten masterpieces, lost classics, and legends that still have something to say.
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