Hellcast | Metal Podcast

In honor of Black History Month, Reaper has made a list of metal bands with black members and delves into their history. Adam Tranquilli of BLOOD FEAST joins the show and satisfies Reaper's nerdy curiosity on the past for the band and gets up to the...

What better way to start the New Year than with a visit from Hells Bells!? After he sheds his wisdom Ash Thomas (Estuary, Acheron, The Vladimirs), joins the show and tells us more sane, actual events and bands that exist on his roster. From there we get...

Another CD give-away, HHR 2014 playlist and hell of a show! We're ending the year with a bang, we take a look at some concerning current events in the world of extreme music. In many media forms you often hear "top picks" for the year's end and so...

Is there more appeal to hear an old band for the first time as opposed to a new band? In the age we are in now with so many old bands coming back it is a wonder how can one expect them to be the band we all know and love when they've been shelved for so...

Metal is always viewed as extreme music and in most cases strives to be the most extreme music but we look beyond that to the reasons that metal is the most homoerotic form of music; it all makes sense! So many products have labels indicating the best...

It is Halloween and you are entitled to one big episode where somewhere along the line you can win yourself a CD! Attempting a Halloween theme, we start off discussing demons and their ties to metal, etc. From there we waste no time to get straight to...

Teacher and Student, Father and son; we are joined by both as the metal teacher comes back on the show. Reaper shares his experience from the follow up visit by Hell's Bells. Then we dive into the life of a father and son relationship in metal. We close...

As metal fans we hear a lot of stupid remarks from everyday people, most are trying to relate to us or understand the music we like. Sometimes you get that certain conversation you wish you could have recorded for your friends to laugh at. Reaper has...

Some say metal is being more accepted, but we say.....many things and eventually get to our opinion on whether it is or not. We have teamed up with the hit new game show METAL PRICE IS RIGHT who showcase various metal rarities from albums to memorabilia...

We start off with a rant on cassette tapes, the glorious moments we have had with them and the resurgence of this cryptic format. How many hours have you spent sitting around following along to lyrics, reading a new album's booklet front to back? The...

The riff police have arrived! That is right, even our beloved metal records have taken riffs from various styles of music or itself. Call it a rip off or call it flattering, Reaper and Eddie have prepared a list of songs with stolen riffs. As metal...

Armed to the teeth with material in celebration of our 50th episode! Joined by Kevin of GRAVEWURM we answer some nerdy metal questions from fans. As we give back to the fans and bands that have supported the show with submitting their material, we also...

As it has been published The Underground Ground Never Dies, this statement could never hold true without everyone playing a part to keep it alive and so the discussion starts here; playing your part. But when others do not play their part things take a...

There are many things taking place in this episode that if we wrote them here it would sound less interesting than they are on the show, so can we be so arrogant to say "It's HELLCAST, ya know whatever they record will be great". We agree, "no"! But...

Once again metal takes blame for the actions of idiots that are not metal and of course we have nothing but nice things to say about it. It is however the media's fault for generalizing things or perhaps mishearing them, much like our new batch of...

What is going on in this Episode!? An easy summary is a bunch of nerds chatting it up. We have the return of Eric (Hells Headbangers owner), artist Matt Putrid and for the first time Lord Vladimir Von Ghoul (The Lurking Corpses). It is literally a round...

If we all have a wisdom to share most metal fans would deem theirs is to share metal music to the world in one shape or another. While that is great, there is a large portion of fans who have no knowledge yet continue to act as though they do and for...

The metal world is erupted once more by the murder of Avaejee of SURRENDER OF DIVINITY and as the mainstream sites have been putting it as a "Fan murder" we shake our heads once more at the details they always miss and delve deeper into the tragedy with...

We are joined again by another Hells Headbangers owner delving a little bit more behind the scenes into the creative side of past and present releases. Elaborate vinyl releases for HHR is an art form, but for others they seemingly jump on the bandwagon...

We sit down with one of the big boss men at Hells Headbangers and get a nice glimpse into the history and inside of the label / distro sure enough to fill in the curious minds of those wondering. I think we all would have found school days to be much...