The Heavy Metal Hangover
An unscripted, weekly heavy metal themed show that’s all fun and no politics. Join Rex and Duff, friends since childhood and lifelong metal fans, while they have the conversations you have with your buddies over a few drinks. Full of random topics and hilarious stories, this show is unlike any podcast you’ve ever heard. If you want a show about heavy metal without any agenda, but loaded with laughs, this is the show for you. Rex and Duff have a beer in one hand, and a fistful of metal in the other.
Episodes
3 hours ago
3 hours ago
58 min
Rex and Duff keep it simple on the best of all weeks as we go into Halloween this weekend. We talk about some of our favorite tracks to get you in the mood for the best night of the year... HALLOWEEN!
Oct 6, 2026
Oct 6, 2026
1 hr 39 min
This week on The Heavy Metal Hangover, Rex and Duff give our honest, unfiltered review of the long-awaited new Anthrax album. We’ve had it on repeat, and the results are complicated. We break down the production, the riffs, the pacing, and why we’re left with mixed feelings about where this record lands in the band's catalog compared to their classic thrash benchmarks.
Then, we shift gears to honor the monumental legacy of Cronos following his passing. We dive into a retrospective on Venom, looking back at how Welcome to Hell and Black Metal fundamentally warped the underground music landscape forever. We talk about their raw, chaotic aesthetic, how they laid the blueprint for speed, thrash, death, and black metal, and what losing Conrad Lant means for the history of heavy music.
Sep 21, 2026
Sep 21, 2026
1 hr 32 min
This week on The Heavy Metal Hangover, Rex and Duff dedicate the bulk of the show to a full recap of the current Iron Maiden tour. We pull no punches as we dissect the performances, stage energy, and full setlists from the legendary triple-threat bill: the thrash assault of Anthrax, the razor-sharp attack of Megadeth, and the unstoppable powerhouse that is Iron Maiden. Did the setlists deliver the deep cuts we wanted, or play it safe? We break down every riff and theatrical moment from the pit.
Before we get to the arena report, Rex shares a brutal realization from the underground: finally digging into Pathology’s crushing album Unholy Descent after remembering an old listener recommendation—and now he can't turn the damn thing off. Plus, Rex admits where he went wrong on cinema by stubbornly dodging subtitled films for years, only to finally watch the Finnish metal comedy masterpiece Heavy Trip and completely fall in love with "symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal."