Enter Sadmen: The Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Hall of Fame

Sep 06 2024 89 ep. 85 mins 12

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It's the world's loudest podcast as hosts Steve Davies, Richard Napthine and Mark Norman take their collective 120 years of worship at the altar of golden era hard rock and heavy metal (1970-ish to 1996-ish), cut the ribbon on their newly-built Hard Rock Hall of Fame - and debate the albums that have earned their places in its gilded rooms.

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Episode 82 - Scene Of The Crime (ft. ZZ Top, Mortal Sin & Malice)

Sep 06 2024 71 mins

In this episode the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes set the lads the task of finding three albums or bands that were in some way linked to criminal acts. And not just misdemeanours, thank you very much - these had to be crimes for which jail time would not only be inevitable, but also very lengthy.So, enter stage left Richard, clutching a copy of ZZ Top's Deguello (you'll

Episode 81 - Have A Drink On Me (ft. April Wine, King Kobra & Thunderhead)

Aug 19 2024 102 mins

For this edition of the podcast the lads are being driven to drink. Not literally, because that would be irresponsible. No, this time the Sadmen had to find an album each that had a link to alcohol. Richard travelled back to Canada to pick up Nature Of The Beast, an album thought by many to be the finest hour of April Wine. Steve opted for the comfort of 1986 and the rock-lite Thri

Episode 80 - School's Out (ft. Metallica, Triumph & Dare)

Jul 29 2024 89 mins

The Tico Torres Tombola of Topics & Themes handed out a banger for this episode, with Mark, Steve and Richard tasked with finding three albums released between 1970 and 1995 that had a tangible link to the subject of 'school'. Steve went all Billy Bunter and drew inspiration from the1950s when teachers in English schools were still known as 'masters'. Any excuse to get messers

Episode 79 - Coq Roq (ft. Trust, Blaspheme & Vulcain)

Jul 24 2024 72 mins

The boys didn't have to venture too far for the latest episode of the podcast - in fact, just a short hop and skip on Eurostar across La Manche and straight on to Paris. Because this time the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes had tasked Richard, Steve and Mark to find something distinctly French to c state with each other. Paris wasn't a prerequisite for the show, but n

Episode 78 - 1972 (ft. Jethro Tull, A Foot In Cold Water, & Dark)

Jul 24 2024 97 mins

In the latest episode of the Sadmen's journey down a rock and roll highway that starts in 1970(ish) and ends in 1995(ish), the lads pull out the corduroys and the paisley shirts and head for the warm bath of psychedelic bewilderment that was 1972.Having encountered Jethro Tull's Aqualung some 68 episodes previously, and hashed out the whole 'is it a concept album, isn't it a concep

Episode 77 - The Letter H (ft. Pink Floyd, Headpins & Hurricane)

Jul 12 2024 85 mins

So, in this episode the lads were eached tasked to find an album with a tangible (this word is important) link to the letter H. Yes, we know. You're squinting at the episode title and the featured bands and wracking your brain to think of a Pink Floyd album beginning with H. Let us help you out: there isn't one. A, O, U, S, P, D, W, M and F, all present and correct. H? Not so much.

Episode 76 - You’ve Got Another Think Coming (ft. Black Sabbath, Ratt & Van Halen)

Jul 03 2023 92 mins

So this episode is all about the albums you bought and lisened to and thought, fuck me that's a great album! Or possibly, fuck me, that's terrible! And then, 30 years later, you discovered your opinion had done a 180 degree turn. In this episode, Mark revisits the much maligned Black Sabbath experiment that saw Ian Gillan step up to the mic, Steve discovers that Ratt's Detonator

Episode 75 - Drummers (ft. Genesis, Y&T & Toto)

May 29 2023 99 mins

Yes, Sadfans, we're giving over our 75th episode to the unsung heroes of every band that ever set foot in a recording studio or onto a stage - those apparently indefatigable timekeepers without whom there would be little or no momentum. Stuck behind the kit at the back of the stage, these are the artisans of the hard rock and heavy metal engine room. Whether it's a sense of rhythm

Episode 74 - Making Magic (ft. Dokken, Survivor & Piledriver

Apr 30 2023 83 mins

Episode 74 sees the lads tackling the subject of inventions. If ever there was scope to push the envelope on a theme this, surely, is it. And so it proved, as Mark fishes out a set of what can only be described as 15th Century blueprints to qualify Dokken's 1981 debut, Breakin' The Chains. (Don't get antsy, America - we know the better known version of the album was released in Ame

Episode 73 - Creeping Death (ft. Witchfinder General, Candlemass & Entombed)

Apr 12 2023 83 mins

The latest episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast finds the boys in more familiar territory as the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes serves up 'Death' as the theme for Episode 73.End of life certainly offers up a wealth of stuff to go at in the world of hard rock and heavy metal, which makes it even more bewildering that Steve and Rich didn't follow Mark's lead and go with some