So Far, So Pod... So What! Megadeth Podcast

Trace your way back twenty years

The C-drop tuning

Blood & Tears

Let Hedline and Gregadeth

Take you back to the times of Serenades of Disaster

SFSPSW

Proudly Present:

The year: Fucking 2004

The place: Planet Fucking Earth

The breakdowns: Real Fucking Generic

The master: Real Fucking brickwalled, squeezed like a car wreck!

Sadness! Threnody! Follow me! Bullet! Beauty!

Rise! Demise! Betrayal, and, of course:

DISASTER! DISASTER!

Let's find out, once and for all, where those iron crosses grow. Fred Estby of Dismember is in with us to guide us thru the ultimate combined force of Iron Maiden and Autopsy. This is a cross-over production with Maiden A-Z helmed by our own Greg DiPasquale.

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Call it a crossover, call it something else.

Either way: Erik Shaw (Maiden A-Z) joins in and the badlands now are home to us.

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You are a drum - we're gonna POUND it.

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We are in grave need of a ride to the morgue.

Luckily, that's what 911 is for.

1992s "Countdown to Extinction" is on top of the pile today, If that's not enough to shake the dirt of the earth, Undeath vocalist Alex Jones arose out of his moldy tomb, juuuuust in time to join in on this potentialy suicidal ride.

No escaping pain,

It's time too RISE FROM THE GRAVE.

Some bonus lyric talk from the KATAKOMBLAST session. Jonatan and Anton casually dig into themes and words within 'Reckoning Day' and 'The Dissintegrators' by MEGADETH and 'Cosmic Reflection' by KATAKOMBA.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,

But not even Jack had hands this sick.

Lucretia’s hammer, swung by a true killa

Kristian from Sorcerer,

No skitsnack, full strimla!

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Here we are, undre a giant granite cross, sounding the buzzsaw siren and tripping into a nightmarish Lovecraftian landscape as painted by Dan Seagrave.

The saw is the law, & Sweden wrote the book.

Anton Bryvall of Katakomba joins as our second guest for the artist series. As per tradtion, of course we dissect a guest choicee Megadeth tune and you can probably gues which!

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Of course, having had this happened while we weren't looking, it had to be discussed.

Feauturing Matthew Backlas.

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Seasons change, so do we, And all things come to pass, Dealing deth, the artist series, Season 2, up your ass.

We welcome Matt Backlas of Dissenchant to discuss a classic Megadeth deep cut, 1997’s “The Disintegrators” and "Cryptic Writings" at large.

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Time waits for no one.

Not even for us, stuck in-between seasons.

Face the wrath of Cronos, it's about time.

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The wheel of terror keeps on spinning - but,

do we sense a rare case of mercy for the meatballs, this very week!?

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We open our second season, or perhaps we live in the uncharted no-mans-land territory inbetween season one and two.

One thing is, however, certain:

In order to celebrate one year of SFSP we have a SPECIAL MAGICAL MYSTERY TREAT.... for YOU!

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It's the season finale and grand wrap-up of our most extensive series to date. We hit up the title track, we hit up the album conclusions, we get some listener input and all in all tie a nice wrap around our main business since back in November last year. It's still "we, the podcast" rrrright?!

The curious tale of the one swift-finger New Yorker and his sudden involvement in the killng industry and all that would follow in the wake of it.

This is our Chris Poland extravaganza, the first part in our member biography series.

Butter up that legato and join the rollercoaster, we are about to take off.

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With "drummer Pete" filling in for Greg DP we take a quick lil' detour and review the new Metallica album.

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HERE WE COME, AGAIIN!

What's up with all the monologue, all the comedy and all the relationship drama and various other forms of , well, acting incorperated into the music of Megadeth?

The Three Magics take a look into the world of Megadeth amateur theatre.

This is the final one to come out of the March 23 Punt Road session, so lets extended a loud skål to our new found pal down under!

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The Three Magics are back, packed and ready for a boat ride to a demonic penile colony (noo, no, not Australia - how DARE you!!)
Summon your inner Papillon and join us for this rocky ride.

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After more than 20 years out of 'deth, ultra guitarist Marty Friedman rejoined the band on stage at Budokan, Tokyo 2023.
In this special, somewhat patched together, episode of the transatlantic state of the art speed metal podcast Greg, Jon & Punt Road attempt breaking down how it all went.

Enjoy!
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Something is coming over us.
Sharpen your toolkit, it's time to go full time maniac.

Killer, intruder, homicidal podcast
If you see us coming, push play fast as you can!

Punt is back with us for this criminally insane endeavour!

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Is bad omen literally channeling a bad omen considering the incoming cover feature of the album?
Does "I Ain't Supersticous" ruin the show?
And, if so, can My "Last Words" then save it?
Stick around & find out!

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Podcast law.
Who knew it was as corruptible as any other law?
Certainly not us.
As such, on the advice of counsel, we begrudgingly release this episode of So Far, So Pod…So What!”

Did black magic really ruin the life of one Dave Mustaine?*

- Hexes that 100% work
- Satan
- Stars collapsing into the sea
- Dijon
- Militant Speed Riffage
- Break free from the prison of conventional song structure
- Satan
- A Salesman, if you will
- You know our name
- You know our name....

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Time for another lil' SFSP bonus round.
Bonus time agaaaain!
Greg brings you a couple of underground favorites as well as a story of how he became unfuckwithable, for a day!
Check out our network mates "Diary of the Madmen - The Ultimate Ozzy Osbourne Podcast" if you are feeling more Ozzy (we know you are!)

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We sneak into our own podcast studio...
... it's 4 in the morning,
We've had too much to drink...
... we slip into our sanguinary sect of song analysis.

Wake up dead, with us!

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You know it, you love it. If you don’t, take this show & shove it.
Wake up dead, sunshine, it’s Black Monday.

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The year: 1986
The place: Planet Earth
The jeans: Really fucking tight
The sneakers: Really fucking big
The riffs: Really fucking fast

Come with us,
as we flip up our brims, patch our vests,
dive like swimmeers and run like Nascars.
To a time when the metal underground poked its head up
and opened a sinkhole for society to fall in.

This.
Is.
Thrash.

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Last round of album shelf fun before we move back towards out central topic.
In this one we travel the world via some less beaten tracks and pick up riff rarities along the way.

Take a magical mystery trip with us meatballs thru the wonders of metal found in our album shelves. 

Never, ever, hesitate to hit us up. We deal in 'deth!
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After slicing thru the latest album with out razor sharp blades of sanguinary analysis,
it does make all kinds of sense to re-visit the 1990s and figure out, once and for all:
What is cool... ...INSOMNIA... ...or....SLEEP??

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The two meatballs are back on the ice.
Concluding September and concluding our massive run of analysis on the new Megadeth:
"The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead!"

Main features this round are "Célebutante" "Mission To Mars" and "Police Truck",
but we also indulge a bit in Planet's On Fire as well as mixed rear view bits,
all topped off with our holistic summary and JUDGEMENT on this fresh release.

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We sneak back into our own pod....it's four in the morning but we still have enough time to enter the penultimate round of our "The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead!"-analyses. 

Psychopathy, Killing Time & Soldier On!

This is a continuation of Episode 11,

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Your very 'eavy... very 'umble  hosts carry onward the nuclear torch of song analysis via the midddle chunk (Night Stalkers, Dogs of Chernobyl, Sacrifice & Junkie) of deth's latest offering:
"The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead!"

This is a continuation of Episode 10.

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Well, well, well...!

Your transatlantic riffmongers re-enter their sanguinary sect of song analysis, and you are in-vi-ted!
It's time for the one-two punch opening the new 'deth:
"The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!" and "Life in Hell"

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Get on your bus & join in for a ride.

Early eighties axe shredding pride.

You know the story, so let’s dance.

Dave in Metallica, no warning, & no second chance.

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Back with yet another format!

In this series we steal a trick from podcasting friends of ours (And the Podcast Will Rock / Pod of Thunder) and spin a Wheel of (miss?)fortune to determine which Risk song to tackle.

Behold the TERROR that is RYSK ROULETTE!

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This is the first installment in our TWO MEATBALLS series. The concept is diving into our recent rotation, music we've been listening to lately. This is, for the most part, off-topic but of course we connect the conversation to Megadeth a time or two.

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We go into "nice story" mode for a wee bit.
This one is mostly off topic. 

But, that said, can't see how any of our listeners would want to miss out on this.

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Just when you think it's safe...
SNEAK ATTACK!

HEY GUYS: at 33 minutes there is a bit of silence, should be a clip of the beginning of DMs guitar solo. Don't know what went wrong, but I know it's my fault and further, I acknowledge my lack of will in solving the issue. It's like 30 sec. Figure that out yourselves, I am SURE you can.

We advance in from the opposite front and go as recent as one can, in the current Deth discography.

Full track analysis plus a healthy serving of derailed thinking - our boxcar lifestyle.

When you least expect your fate, I'll load it up (We'll be back)

Or, actually you may go ahead and expect our return, strengthened in numbers.

Time everlasting.
Time to play b-sides.

Still within our sanguinary sect of musical analysis, let's make haste onto the B-side of the first Megadeth LP release, Killing is My Business...and Business is Good!

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Welcome to our sanguinary sect of analysis…..it’s episode 1: “Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good!” - Side A.

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We are a Megadeth podcast.
Let us introduce our misfits way of life.

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