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Hell Bent For Metal

Hell Bent For Metal

The LGBTQ+ heavy metal podcast. Looking at metal from a queer perspective, and a platform for the LGBTQ+ community within metal. Tom & Matt lead the discussion, opinions, insights, and interviews, and chat about good music. Every Tuesday.

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00:44:40

#64 – Dance Of Death Metal

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2022/01/25

Hell Bent For Metal once more seeks out heavy metal's finest phallic euphemisms, this time setting their sights on the riff-tastic 'Snakes For The Divine' by High On Fire. And what could possibly be making the hosts giggle about a song with a title like that?This week's Camp Classic is a long look at the danceable death metal of Dyscarnate's song 'The Promethean'. And as well as explaining why this song makes them believe when you say you want it that way, there are discussions both about how you

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01:02:08

#63 – Slave To The Grindr

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2022/01/18

Hell Bent For Metal recounts the story of how Sebastian Bach, when he was still in Skid Row, was at the centre of one of heavy metal's most upsetting incidents of homophobia involving a t-shirt with an offensive slogan – and how Seb's actions since are a brilliant example of how people can grow and change.This week's Camp Classic is 'I Wish I Had An Angel' by Nightwish, which leads to a lengthy discussion of, amongst all things, the awfulness of trawling through Grindr. After some sass about their

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01:05:57

#62 – Czech My Brain

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2022/01/11

Viktor Palak, host of Modeláři, a radio show in the Czech Republic that specialises in metal (and related genres), chats to Hell Bent For Metal about his experience of being out in metal, how metal has more points of affirmation than we might acknowledge, and how he views queer life in his home country.This week's Camp Classic is 'Seven Hills' by While She Sleeps. And while the song's meanings might be immediately and specifically clear, that doesn't stop there being plenty of room to identify queer

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00:59:51

#61 – The Ultimate Gay-Off: Power Metal v Black Metal

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2022/01/03

Hell Bent For Metal moves into 2022 by taking on a major, pressing question: Which subgenre is the gayer, black metal or power metal?This week's Camp Classic is 'Destroyer Of Senses' by Shadows Fall, from their 2002 album The Art Of Balance. And as well as being a metalcore classic, it also has clear queer relevance to both hosts.Plus there are new entries for the Hate Crew Gaybar jukebox additions, as the hosts correct errors by putting albums they missed in 2021 into the jukebox, with Noktvrn by

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00:18:10

The Hell Bent For Metal Blooper Reel 2021

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2021/12/31

Hell Bent For Metal aim to present a high standard of podcast to you all… and these are the moments that absolutely did not qualify, but that you may still find funny.This is a compilation of all the blunders, bungles and bodily noises that Hell Bent For Metal had to leave on the cutting room floor in 2021. Happy New Year, and we hope to see you in 2022.

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01:00:56

#60 – Inhuman Rumpage

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2021/12/27

Hell Bent For Metal recall a time when Guitar Hero was a global phenomenon, and it made a London power metal band one of the best known bands in the world – and that the song that did it, DragonForce's turbocharged 'Through The Fire And Flames', had a video that looks a tad more gay than the band may have intended.The Camp Classic this week is suitably NYE-friendly, as Whitesnake's 'Here I Go Again' (the 1987 version – the metal one) spawns digressions about queer dating and the brilliantness of

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00:53:11

#59 – Transilvanian Homo

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2021/12/20

In the Christmas episode, Hell Bent For Metal unintentionally cause James and Dan from the A Gay And A Non-Gay podcast to have a surprisingly passionate discussion about stereotypes around metalheads and metal bands, in the second part of the chat between the two pods.This week's Camp Classic is the apparently unlikely 'Leave No Cross Unturned' by Darkthrone. And while the 2013 epic from the Norwegian black-metal-turned-crust-turned-speed-metal legends might sound a stretch, its joyful gay relevance

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00:55:19

#58 – The Devil Wears Dillinger

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2021/12/13

This week, Hell Bent For Metal celebrates the time Dillinger Escape Plan marked same-sex marriage becoming legal in the USA by releasing a shirt for The Trevor Project, which is a charity that aims to prevent suicide amongst LGBTQ youth.This week's Camp Classic comes from one of the hosts' top 20 albums of the year, which means it's time for Powerwolf's 'Alive Or Undead' to be looked at from a queer angle. Or, more accurately, several of many potential queer angles.Plus this week's visit to the Hate

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01:10:11

#57 – Sashay To Hell Bent For Metal

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2021/12/07

Hell Bent For Metal are joined by Dan Hudson and James Barr from the UK's biggest LGBT+ podcast, A Gay And A Non-Gay. They discuss their new documentary 'Sashay To Hell', about the Non-Gay (Dan, who loves metal), taking the Gay (James, who very, very doesn't) to Bloodstock.This week's Camp Classic is the perhaps rather surprising choice of 'In The Grip Of Winter' by death metal legends Autopsy. From which, much to even his surprise, Matt manages to find exactly the same thing to identify with as

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00:59:49

#56 – Camp Suey!

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2021/11/29

Hell Bent For Metal casts a queer eye back over the varied and plentiful looks of Daron Malakian, the inspired guitarist of System Of A Down. In the return of the #YesHomo feature, Tom and Matt explain why some of these appearances erroneously set off the gaydar of both hosts.This week's Camp Classic is 'Leave Me Here' by Cult Of Luna, from the Swedish post-metallers' 2004 album Salvation. And while there's one very superficial reason CoL speak to the hosts' queer sides, there's a rather deeper

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01:11:07

#55 – Bloodstock's Adam Gregory

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2021/11/22

Hell Bent For Metal talks to Adam Gregory, one of Bloodstock's directors, about the aftermath of transphobic social media posts by Vicky Hungerford (booker and director for the festival).In an in-depth discussion, Tom and Matt talk to Adam about what the festival's done to educate themselves about why Vicky's comments were offensive, what they've done to improve their inclusivity towards the LGBT+ community, what Bloodstock stands for, and forgiveness.Plus there's just enough time to pop into

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00:57:02

#54 – Queer Stories From The Home Of Metal

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2021/11/15

On Sunday November 14, Hell Bent For Metal took part in Queer Stories From The Home Of Metal, an event celebrating the LGBT+ community of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England: the place heavy metal was born. Recorded in front of a live audience at Subside Bar, the hosts are joined by two of Birmingham's queer residents, Eva Echo and Andy O'Malley, about their experiences of being out in metal, and out in the place metal started.As they were in the West Midlands, they also took the opportunity

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01:13:14

#53 – Holy Diva

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2021/11/09

Hell Bent For Metal celebrates when White Ward very recently stood Side By Side with us, and made their stand against homophobia completely clear in as vocal a way as they could. As they're one of the hosts' favourite bands, this one felt personal. In a very, very good way.The absolutely classic Dio anthem 'Holy Diver' is this week's Camp Classic, as both Tom and Matt immediately agree that it speaks to their queer sides, in many different ways – which leads to a bucketload of digressions about

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01:00:58

#52 – Profoundly Homosexual Post-Black Metal Joy

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2021/11/01

As Hell Bent For Metal's first birthday arrives, the podcast has good news to talk about, and an in-house favourite to turn into a positive Camp Classic.Roadburn Festival's first announcement for their 2022 edition gets discussed, not just because there's loads of amazing stuff in it, but because they've shown everyone else how to do LGBT+ representation right.A Skindred show – the first gig either host has been to since the pandemic began – gets celebrated, not just because it ruled, but because

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01:16:03

#51 – Lowen, Pupil Slicer, And Power Metal Boxer Shorts

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2021/10/25

Nina Saeidi from Lowen talks to Hell Bent For Metal about intersectionality, and how their gender identity, sexuality, and ethnicity have affected their experience of heavy metal. This includes some candid descriptions of racism and assault, but also some timely positivity about how respect for people's correct pronouns is improving (ironic, given this chat was moved from last week's episode due to the events covered in that show).Katie from Pupil Slicer also makes a welcome return to talk about her

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01:26:53

#50 – Bloodstock, We Have A Problem

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2021/10/18

Last week, Vicky Hungerford, the director of Bloodstock Open Air, the UK's biggest metal festival, used her social media account to tweet about how anyone who included their pronouns in their email signature could expect her to put their emails in the bin. Hell Bent For Metal has to talk about this.We decided that, while we have to talk about what happened, and why it's bad, for some this week's show, we would rather spend as much time as possible relaying messages from our trans and non-binary

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00:50:09

#49 – Death Metal Vs Homophobes

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2021/10/11

There's a bumper crop of news for Hell Bent For Metal, with talk of specials, and details of the podcast's first live event.The main chat for the week is about how the most Swedish sounding band ever to come out of the US, Black Breath, wrote a Satanic death metal song that sounds like defiance to homophobes. Sort of. Who knew it was so easy to get from 'Black Sin (Spit On The Cross)' to eschatological homophobic religious extremists?Plus it's a trio of additions for the Hate Crew Gaybar jukebox,

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00:56:50

#48 – Wherever I May Bone

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2021/10/04

Matt's ill, so Hell Bent For Metal welcomes back the gayest straight metal fan, Abhi Ahluwalia, as guest host, to take a look at the feast of euphemisms that is 'Spit Out The Bone' by Metallica. "Oh Matron!" just doesn't do that one justice.Boogie metal belter 'Earth Rocker' by pod favourite Clutch is this week's Camp Classic, with it being revealed as a genuine queer metal anthem – even if that may have come about by accident.Plus the new additions to the Hate Crew Gaybar jukebox this week are

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01:07:06

#47 – Hell Bent Against Racist Metal Bands

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2021/09/27

Sick of finding racist or even Nazi bands within our scene, Hell Bent For Metal explains exactly why it's especially important the LGBT+ community, and our podcast in particular, stand against racism and the rise of the far right in metal.After that horrible topic, there's a much more fun time to be had in this week's Camp Classic, as we explain why Ensiferum's folk metal/disco/country song 'Two Of Spades' spoke to us as queers.Plus the Hate Crew Gaybar jukebox's new additions this week are The Work

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00:57:38

#46 – Amon Amarth's Massive… Weapons

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2021/09/20

Hell Bent For Metal makes a gay assessment of Amon Amarth's habit of holding big axes, mighty hammers, and long, long swords in ways that might just be more suggestive than the metal-as-hell intention. Expect innuendo.This week's Camp Classic is 'STFU!' by Rina Sawayama, a song in which Matt and Tom both see queer relevance, but in very different ways.Plus the Hate Crew Gaybar jukebox gets its weekly updates, with Conquering by Employed To Serve, Eternal Blue by Spiritbox, and Remains by Hellish

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