south of heaven

The first episode of 2024 has Duel and Richard talking about the best releases they "missed" or glossed over in 2023 as well as running down the most anticipated records of 2024, plus, What the guys have been listening to!

Join Duel, Richard, and Pete as they each give their top 10 albums of 2023 while also looking back at the year that was in heavy metal. 

This latest episode of the Funda-Metal-ists podcast features reviews for:

Enforcer - "Nostalgia"
Torture Rack - "Primevil Onslaught"
Blackbraid - "Blackbraid II"

as well as what the guys have been listening to a some live show and some live show reviews!

"OH YEAH"

The Funda-metal-ists are back with a mega multi-listisode of metallica themed mayhem. The guys give their top 10 80's Metallica tracks as well as their 10 top 90-present Metallica tracks bookending a review of the latest Metallica release "72 Seasons."

Patti Frye Meredith is a Southern fiction, Galax, VA born and raised novelist, currently residing in Chapel Hill, NC. She discusses her latest novel, South of Heaven, which takes place in Carthage, NC. The place her Grandmother and parents were raised. 

Learn more about Patti Frye Meredith: https://www.pattimeredith.com
You can find her book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1599489058/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4R78FVEEAYPP3XCVVWG7

It's also available at small book stores:

Chapters Bookshop
101 East Grayson St
Galax, Virginia 24333
(276) 236-9703
chaptersbookshop.com

McIntyre's Books
Fearrington Village
Pittsboro, NC 27312
(919) 542-3030
Fearrington.com/mcintyres-books

The Country Bookshop
140 NW Broad Street
Southern Pines, NC 28387
(910) 692-3211
thecountrybookshop.biz

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Join Duel, Richard and special guest Tyler from the Noir Hour podcast as they discuss the best shows they saw in 2022 in a variety of categories. The guys also take a look back at two of the biggest stories in metal this past year and Tyler shares his top 10 albums of the year. 

Join the gang for a deep dive into the discography of one of metal's all-time greatest bands, Slayer.  Part one focuses on the debut release "Show No Mercy" and continues until "Seasons in the Abyss" covering every colossal album in between including "Reign in Blood."

South of Heaven by Slayer. 

Cameron indulges in S-scatological humor, Nathan’s pockets are drippin’, and Slayer finally decides that Nazis are bad, m’kay?

Learnin' Links:

• NRP bought some of Jim Bakker’s slop
• Just some of Jim Bakker’s crimes
• “Eschatological” 
• The Silent Scream movie
• Thorazine, it turns out, is a psychoactive medication used to treat schizophrenia (and other disorders)
• John Vanderslice’s “Song for David Berman” includes the line “massacres are disguised as battles all the time”

Listen along to South of Heaven here!

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