Shut up about brackets you demanded and we listened. Turns out there were some great records released in 2020, many of them only came to our attention when buried in other people's lists of albums of the year.

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KI5150 42 : A Festive Lookback Over 2020 OR Will This Horrible Year Never End?

The pull back and reveal of the best ever metal song. But first the battle for who cares? Sixteen songs from various other sub genres are picked over to determine the best of the as yet unconsidered also rans.

KI5150 41 : Final Bracket - the battle for total metal supremacy

Last bracket, we explore 16 songs from the stoner, groove and doom genres. It's pretty much all 90s. Why would you want it any other way?

KI5150 40 : Bracket 4 Primal Concrete Sludge

Blast beats! Detuned guitars! Growled vocals! We put the internet's best 16 death metal and grindcore songs against each other in the third of our bracket-offs. Let's get into it.

KI5150 39 : Bracket 3 Endless Cycle Of Violence

Put on your giant hi-top sneakers, tight jeans and bullet belts, we're setting the dials to thrash. Sixteen of 'the top rated thrash songs of all time' (but mainly the 1980s) face off in our second bracket. Who will be crowned kings of thrash? Metallica? Slayer? Someone else? Obviously not someone else. Let's find out!

KI5150 38 : Bracket 2 Metal Thrashing Mad

Sixteen of the best metal songs you ever heard blasting out of a Camero face each other down in the first of our bracket play offs. We go deep and dumb on what the internet says are the best 'heavy metal' songs.

KI5150 37 : Bracket 1 Parking Lot Metal

We look at the top ten albums with the worst metal guitar tones according to the viewers of the Riffs, Beards and Gear youtube channel about 2 years ago. Because we bring you the freshest news here on KI Five One Five Oh.

KI5150 35 : The Tone Police OR A Crate of Metal Zones

The year is 1999 (I mean, not now, don't panic, aahh, be good though woudn't it? It wouldn't be 2020) so we get into the soundtrack of the year's most movie: The Matrix. Mainly out of our depth with a bunch of dancy house stuff but we muscle through it with our usual charm.

KI5150 34 : It's 1999 or The Matrix OST

Unsheathe your sword and hail the dragon wizards! Is Power Metal the funniest genre? Unclear. Unasnwerable. Let's dig in anyway.

KI5150 33 : The Power of Metal or Your Wizards Are Hilarious

We review Jon Fine's book Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear). Most of this episode was recorded in the before time of 2017

KI5150 32 : Book Club or Fine, I Suppose

Always on the cutting edge of metal - we dig into Slipknot's Iowa record. The duties of being Seattle's grindcore scene report are never worn lightly.

KI5150 31 : Mask The Fuck Up or Overdue Inspection of Iowa

The second pod, coming only 4 months after the first. We know how to do cliff hangers. Anyway we're back after a long absence and we promise to never leave you again.

KI5150 30 : Top 25 Metal Bands of All Time (part 2) OR Nerds Continue To Argue About Numbers

Loudwire (or possibly the readers of Loudwire) had the audacity to rank some bands in an order. This simply will not stand. We talked for way too long about this so we split it across pods. It's a multipodder.

KI5150 29 : Top 25 Metal Bands of All Time (part 1) OR Nerds Argue About Numbers

We see what happens if we each give ourselves just two hours to write and record a song. Songs are included. Strap in.

KI5150 28 : Two hour song challenge OR Better Than Asia

We finally get around to the big burning rock issues - was the cover mounted CD on the magazine Metal CD (issue 2) any good? We also talk about video games because our remit expands beyond our expertise

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