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Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast

Heavy metal news, hard rock interviews and the stories behind the music — hosted by Scott Penfold, a 20-year rock radio broadcaster and the founder of Loaded Radio. Two shows, one feed. The Loaded Radio Podcast brings long-form interviews with the biggest names in metal — Dave Mustaine, Corey Taylor, Randy Blythe, Max Cavalera, Phil Anselmo, Dave Lombardo and more. Not press-cycle soundbites. Real conversations about the records, the lineups, the fallouts and the comebacks, from someone who’s been

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04:41

Slipknot Warn Fans, Andy Williams Statue, Type O Live...

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2026/09/29

Slipknot's Jim Root says the new album is "gonna hurt some feelings" — no repeat of Iowa or the self-titled, and when a fan begged for "heavy, not Stone Sour," Root replied "Agreed." Tracked live with Eloy Casagrande, all analogue, Matt Wallace producing. Also, a Loaded Radio exclusive: Kenny Hickey tells Scott the unreleased Type O Negative song from the October Rust sessions is called "Prometheus," and the live album lands in Q1 2027. And North Tonawanda is building a statue and bench for Every

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05:11

Nirvana's VMA Moment, Fieldy And Head Reunite, GWAR Loss

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2026/09/28

Nirvana accepted the MTV Video Vanguard Award, and Krist Novoselic used the moment to call Kurt Cobain "one of one." Dave Grohl, Krist and Pat Smear took the stage with no performance, just a montage and a speech — the first rock band to receive the award since Duran Duran in 2003, in the same year MTV dropped its rock category. Also: Korn's Fieldy and Brian "Head" Welch shared a stage for the first time since 2019, playing "Sabotage" with P.O.D. and Lacey Sturm at The Whosoevers' new Boise HQ. And

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06:44

Knocked Loose Donate, Jasta On Hetfield, Ill Niño vs...

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2026/09/25

Knocked Loose have quietly become the single biggest donor to Jamie Ulshoffer, the woman left paralysed when a man fell from a tree onto her during the band's Louder Than Life set. No statement, no press release — just $8,000. Scott Penfold on who actually ends up carrying this. Also: Jamey Jasta on the one sentence James Hetfield gave him backstage in 2008 that got him sober. And Ill Niño's Dave Chavarri and Laz Pina have filed against former guitarist Marc Rizzo in a Dallas court — allegations at

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05:47

Bullet For My Valentine, King Diamond, Sabbath Cover...

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2026/09/24

Bullet For My Valentine have announced their eighth album, 'Social Apocalypse', out 19 March 2027 on Spinefarm, with Will Ramos of Lorna Shore and Chrissy Costanza of Against The Current guesting. Scott Penfold on what the Ramos feature really means. Also: King Diamond reissues 'Halloween' as a picture disc on 23 October. And Louisa Livingstone, the woman on Black Sabbath's 1970 debut cover and unidentified for fifty years, has released a rock opera about Alice in Wonderland falling for an AI

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05:39

Angry Anderson Dies, Peart Memorial, Maria Brink Solo

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2026/09/23

Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson has died at 79, weeks after suffering a heart attack during the band's European farewell tour. Scott Penfold looks back at fifty years, eight albums and the song Guns N' Roses made famous, plus Slash's tribute to his friend. Also: the campaign to build a Neil Peart memorial in St. Catharines, Ontario has hit $1 million, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson handing over a cheque for $785,000. Two bronze sculptures are going into Lakeside Park, the place that gave Peart

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06:01

Slipknot Tour Tease, Axl And Carrie, Mastodon Lawsuit

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2026/09/22

Slipknot have plastered cryptic posters across ten cities in the Americas, pointing to a site that spits out the numbers 9 and 28. Scott Penfold breaks down what's coming, why 'Arsenal' has split the fanbase, and why the tour will be judged on the first night this lineup plays it live. TMZ reports that Axl Rose is mentoring Carrie Underwood on a rock project. Neither has confirmed it, but four years of shared stages, from Stagecoach to Atlanta, make it easy to believe. Plus, Brent Hinds' estate has

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06:05

Chad Gilbert Has Died, And Geezer Butler On Lzzy Hale

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2026/09/21

New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert has died at the age of 45, following a cancer diagnosis in 2021. The band said he passed peacefully in his sleep on the morning of September 20, with his wife and mother beside him, and described his favourite accomplishment as being a husband and father. He founded New Found Glory at sixteen and made their first album with $300 he'd saved from a movie theatre job. Also on this episode: DragonForce frontman Marc Hudson steps back from the band's new album and

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05:22

Danzig Threw Emmure's Singer Off The Stage, New...

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2026/09/18

Emmure frontman Frankie Palmeri says Glenn Danzig's security removed him from the side of the stage at Louder Than Life in Louisville and took his access pass, after he attempted to strike up a conversation while watching Pantera perform. Palmeri responded publicly and did not hold back. Also on this episode: Pepper Keenan of Corrosion of Conformity and Down confirms he's working on the first solo album of his career — 36 years after joining COC — telling the We Wreck Records podcast he's "pulling

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04:51

Ozzy's Final Show Is Going To Cinemas, Metallica Book...

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2026/09/17

Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning gets a worldwide theatrical release from October 28, documenting Ozzy Osbourne's final performance at Villa Park on July 5, 2025 — including the original Black Sabbath lineup's first show together in over twenty years, seventeen days before his death. Produced by Mercury Studios and distributed by Trafalgar Releasing, with tickets on sale September 24. Sharon Osbourne on how the show came about: "I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy. And he said

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05:02

Ellefson Plays Countdown, Zakk Sells BLS, Abbath...

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2026/09/16

David Ellefson has announced the December leg of his Bass Warrior European tour, and he'll be playing Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction in its entirety across twelve dates from December 3 to 19 — five days after Dave Mustaine's memoir excerpt claimed Ellefson's time in the band was finished regardless of the 2021 scandal. Ellefson has previously said of his 2010 return as a salaried player: "In order to have a friendship, I had to give up some ownership." Also on this episode: MNRK Music Group have

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05:46

Roth And Alex Van Halen Reunite, Alex Terrible...

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2026/09/15

David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen have appeared together in public for the first time in years, sitting alongside muralist Robert Vargas at a TEDxFargo event about why great art requires risk. Roth called it "a step towards world peace"; Alex said the most important thing in art is to learn the basics and then break all the rules. It lands months after Alex told a Brazilian magazine that Sammy Hagar — who sang on four consecutive Van Halen number ones — is "a complete idiot," and after leaving him

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06:08

Iommi Says No To A Sabbath Album, Nicko Says Yes To...

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2026/09/14

Tony Iommi has told Classic Rock that producer Andrew Watt — the man behind Ozzy Osbourne's final two solo albums — offered to record one more Black Sabbath album with the original lineup, Bill Ward included, and that he turned it down. Iommi said Watt was "a bit too excited" and didn't understand what working with the original band was like, adding that having already been through the 13 sessions with Rick Rubin he didn't want to go straight into another record. Also on this episode: Nicko McBrain

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40:53

Miss May I's Levi Benton On No Place For Me, Plus...

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2026/09/13

Miss May I frontman Levi Benton joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about the band's eighth album No Place For Me, out October 2 via Solid State Records — a record he's described as everything he's felt for a long time but never had the words for. We get into where it came from, the decision to release five singles from a ten-track album, the entirely DIY video for "Death Threat," and nineteen years fronting a band from Troy, Ohio that outlasted most of the scene it came from

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05:18

Mustaine On Ellefson, Mastodon Sued, New Suicide Silence

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2026/09/11

Rolling Stone has published an excerpt from Dave Mustaine's memoir In My Darkest Hour in which he writes that David Ellefson's time in Megadeth "was likely near" its end even before the 2021 leaked-video scandal that got him fired — reflecting on their 2004 lawsuit, Ellefson's 2010 return as a salaried player rather than a creative partner, and a friendship he says was built on shared addiction. For the record: the person Ellefson was involved with was nineteen, the grooming allegations made online

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04:34

NBC Cut Away From Soundgarden, AC/DC Cancel Toronto,...

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2026/09/10

Soundgarden reunited at halftime of the Seahawks–Patriots game at Lumen Field with Taylor Momsen on vocals and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready on guitar, playing a medley including "Outshined" and "Spoonman" — and NBC aired little to none of it, sending fans straight to social media. Their final album featuring Chris Cornell's last recordings is currently in post-production. Also on this episode: AC/DC's September 16 show at Toronto's Rogers Stadium has been cancelled outright after a storm the venue's

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04:27

Slipknot Album 8, King Diamond Splits, As I Lay Dying...

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2026/09/09

Jim Root has confirmed Slipknot are tracking their eighth studio album — the first without Sid Wilson, the first with Eloy Casagrande, and the first with no record label since 1998. Producer Matt Wallace is behind the board and the band went in with around fifty song ideas. Also on this episode: King Diamond breaks his silence on splitting with Andy La Rocque after forty years, explains why Gus G is replacing him, and reveals he wrote seventy percent of the band's music himself. And As I Lay Dying

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05:24

Pantera Rumored For New Orleans Festival, Gene...

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2026/09/08

Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Live Nation tease "The Great NOLA Trendkill" at New Orleans' Lakefront Arena, with a rumored lineup including Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Corrosion Of Conformity, Eyehategod, Power Trip and Pig Destroyer. Gene Simmons speaks at length with Michael Moynihan about Ace Frehley's death, his influence on a generation of guitar players, the empty chair at the Kennedy Center Honors, and his current relationship with Peter Criss. And Enjoy Wrestling co-owner Kurt Hackimer issues a

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04:53

70000 Tons Announces Half Its 2027 Lineup, Static-X...

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2026/09/04

Friday, September 4, 2026. 70000 Tons Of Metal reveals the first thirty bands for its January 2027 sailing — Exodus, Arch Enemy, HammerFall, Moonspell, Obscura and more — with public tickets going on sale Monday and only 3,000 spots available. Static-X, Tony Campos and frontman Edsel Dope file a lawsuit against filmmaker Matt Zane alleging copyright infringement, false light and more, seeking damages in excess of $1 million. And Wage War announce their new album Landfall for October 9 via Fearless,

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04:44

Iron Maiden Bring Eddie's Dive Bar To America,...

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2026/09/03

Thursday, September 3, 2026. Iron Maiden bring their Eddie's Dive Bar meetups to the United States for the first time — ten dates alongside the Run For Your Lives leg opening Saturday in New Jersey, free and open to the public, pouring the new Trooper West Coast IPA brewed with Lagunitas. Scorpions postpone their Planet Hollywood residency by a full year, citing unforeseen circumstances, with new dates in September 2027. And Carcass reschedule their Australia, New Zealand, China and India dates

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05:25

Alex Van Halen Knighted In The Netherlands, Michael...

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2026/09/02

Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Alex Van Halen receives the Netherlands' highest civilian knighthood in Nijmegen, the city he and Eddie left as children in 1962. Stryper's Michael Sweet explains why he'd never join King Diamond's band but would tour with Mercyful Fate in a heartbeat, and tells the story of meeting Kim Petersen backstage in Mexico. And AJ Rebollo publicly corrects his own account of leaving Bad Wolves, confirming Dolly Parton's team blessed the "Jolene" cover and that founder John

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