The P.O.D. Kast

Jan 05 2025 65 ep. 110 mins 883

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Keep on rollin', baby. It's a monthly podcast where Bryan Quinby and John Cullen dissect a classic nu-metal album and wonder why they just can't give up thinking nu metal is good. Probably because it really, really is.

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Episode 65: Methods of Mayhem's "Methods of Mayhem", or Nu-Metal Densest Text

Jan 05 2025 116 mins

For the first time in the show's history, there is no preamble, there is no nu-metal news, there is no lead-up into discussion of the album. No, this 1999 album is nu-metal's richest text, and we needed the full length of the episode to unpack it all. Tommy Lee, feeling unmoored creatively in Motley Crue and after the leak of his sex tape with wife Pamela Anderson, decides there is

Episode 64: Insane Clown Posse's "The Great Milenko", or Finding Meaning in a Storm of Faygo

Dec 08 2024 119 mins

It's one of the most highly-anticipated episodes in POD Kast history, as Bryan finally gets a chance to delve into his long and complicated history with Insane Clown Posse, as we also review the long and complicated history they've had with themselves. John essentially only knew ICP as wrestlers, and so perhaps for the first time in the show's history, Bryan plays the role of teach

Episode 63: DMX's "It's Dark and Hell is Hot", or [insert dog noises]

Nov 06 2024 112 mins

We love covering a nu-metal-adjacent album, and perhaps no rapper was toeing that line more than DMX in 1998, as his debut album came out equal parts vicious and solemn, and we cover it all here. You know that John was scared by DMX (but still liked him) and Bryan was out of his hip-hop phase at the time but we find an awful lot to like here. DMX is both a very arresting character

Episode 62: Mudvayne's "L.D. 50", or the Mighty Mighty Bass Tone

Oct 03 2024 111 mins

We finally get around to covering Mudvayne on a main (hey, that rhymes), and it catches Bryan by surprise, as he ends up liking the album a lot more than he figured he would. We both do, as it really hits the sweet spot of nu-metal while claiming to be "math metal" that's really not all that mathy. They also seem like sweet and smart guys, so really the antithesis of a nu-metal ban

Episode 61: Korn's "Untouchables", or How To Spend 4 Million Dollars Without Really Trying

Sep 05 2024 114 mins

One of the most expensive albums in history–#9 to be exact–Korn's fifth album that reportedly cost $4m to make was a sign of the changing times in nu-metal, a sounding of the death rattle for the genre. And given how much money Korn spent on this record, the death rattle actually sounds really, really good. Impeccably produced and with way more good songs on it than we remember

Episode 60: Staind's "Dysfunction", or Sometimes I Sing, But Mostly I Fish

Aug 05 2024 124 mins

Aaron Lewis really, really likes fishing. While there's lots of interesting stuff to unpack with Staind's major label debut, from the probably made up story about Fred Durst discovering the band immediately after decrying their apparent Satanism to "Outside" breaking this thing to 2x platinum to the clear blueprint for "Break the Cycle" and what would ultimately become a very succe

Episode 59: N.E.R.D.'s "In Search Of..." or Finding Meaning in Horniness

Jul 08 2024 120 mins

An album that was seminal for John and one he had tried to get on the show forever, we take a long look at N.E.R.D.'s debut album "In Search Of...", an album that is as horny as it is confusing. The Neptunes were on an insane run in this time period, and so stepping away from that to make a nu-metal-adjacent rap-rock album with a high school friend who was originally known as just

Episode 58: System of a Down's "System of a Down", or SUGAHHHHHH, Doot Doo, Da Doo Doo, Doot Doot

Jun 04 2024 109 mins

It took over 4 years, but we are finally reviewing System of a Down again on this program and doing what a lot of people did after hearing "Toxicity": looking backwards at this odd album that follows SOAD's usual formula of a few clear hits and a lot of strange, strange songs. Toxicity having the success it did was strange, but this album going double platinum is even stranger, as

Episode 57: Trapt's "Trapt", or Feeling Trapt in a Glass Case of Soft Music

May 07 2024 100 mins

It was always going to come down to this. A band that got absolutely massive off of their early single "Headstrong" and has since begun a long, downward spiral into being a band that plays 100-cap venues in towns you've never heard of and exclusively advertises tours on Truth Social, Trapt is here on the POD Kast for the first time. We go over the music, which seems inspired by Lin

Episode 56: Stone Sour's "Stone Sour", or How Corey Taylor Became the Omega Dog

Apr 04 2024 124 mins

It's one of our longest episodes ever, but we simply had to do it, as there's too much here to process, even with a 2-hour running time. A complicated departure from their work in Slipknot, Corey Taylor and Jim Root set out to have their own thing that doesn't sound all that different from Slipknot and we still aren't quite sure why it happened. But they do try to explain it, from