Heavy Metal

That Metal Show started airing in November of last year and was approved for a second “Season” by VH1 Classic channel. Although it got some mixed reviews the new season began airing last Saturday. Eddie Trunk has been around the metal scene a long time, but he’s more of a throwback metal fan and is pretty much clueless about the current metal scene unless it still contains bands that were big before 1990. The new list of guest stars that will be on the show has cemented this notion and I think the only people that watch this are the same people that are just starved for a good metal show…which is almost every real metal fan.

We all want a good metal show but the closest we have come is Talking Metal, which was pretty good when it was on but still a little out of touch with the huge metal scene, both underground and mainstream. If I had my choice I would choose Talking Metal. Check out the list of forthcoming guests on That Metal Show and try to tell me that this show doesn’t need someone with current metal knowledge and more up to date guests. I’m not disrespecting any of these artists, God knows I love most of them, but what about the younger guys that are carrying the torch today?

3/14: Frank Bello of Anthrax
3/21: Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme
3/28: Steve Kudlow, Robb Reiner of Anvil
4/04: Duff McKagan of Velvet Revolver and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead
4/11: Geoff Tate Queenryche and Lars Ulrich of Metallica
4/18: Scott Gorhamof Thin Lizzy
4/25: Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler of Heaven And Hell (and/or Black Sabbath)

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