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The History of Heavy Podcast

Michael Huntsman

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Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 48

A show that traces the chronology of extreme, loud and extremely loud music song by song. From The Kinks to Kiss, The Beatles to Black Sabbath, Miles Davis to Motörhead we dive deep into the circumstances, influences and popular culture that made each of these tracks seem so intense and groundbreaking when they were released. Your co-hosts Michael Huntsman and "Big Daddy" Dave Lieberman take you on a journey from the late 50's to present day that promises to blow your hair back and piss off your neighbors.

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EP33: Janis Joplin "Move Over"

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 • Duration 31:56

We know why Black Sabbath and Deep Purple and the MC5 are heavy but how does Janis Joplin fit into our chronology? Dave explains during our latest conversation. Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading HHP Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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EP32: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • Duration 59:02

Coming mere months after the release of their debut LP, Black Sabbath changed the future of music for the second time in less than a year with the release of their sophomore release, Paranoid in September of 1970. Our conversation covers all of its greatness and somehow we also somehow touch on Hip Hop, Billy Joel, and The Grateful Dead. #BlackSabbath #Paranoid Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading The Dickies "Paranoid" https://open.spotify.com/track/0ttUuij1GDXSmyKV6PVLDz?si=0426224fc7e0451d Inspiral Carpets "Paranoid" https://open.spotify.com/track/65d1QLKQE1RZ14PFT4WeER?si=61963b3c6e2c4639 The Cardigans "Iron Man" https://open.spotify.com/track/2cpJAVteVpeXFCiOgjcx7m?si=0227ad2371ff4d3f HHP Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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EP23: Stray "All in Your Mind"

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 • Duration 38:34

Stray were largely ignored throughout their career in the 1970s and have been all but forgotten since. However, their lack of any commercial or critical success is due to no fault of their own. They were good players that wrote some great songs. Chalk their irrelevance up to bad timing in a highly competitive market that included the likes of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Regardless of their cultural and financial fate, this song from their debut LP is an absolute jam and slots nicely into our conversation chronicling how heavy music was evolving in the early 70s.

Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading They Just Seem A Little Weird by Doug Brod https://www.amazon.com/They-Just-Seem-Little-Weird/dp/0306845199 Iron Maiden "All in Your Mind" https://open.spotify.com/track/3FdwNolOXxTx573XgVclZV?si=3a2322be887740e7 Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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EP22: The Stooges "Loose"

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 • Duration 55:40

The Stooges are to punk what Black Sabbath is to metal. That is, they effectively invented the genre and all of its splinter subgenres which would all sound completely different without them. Like Sabbath, The Stooges don't get enough credit for how multi-dimensional their music was. Elements of Free Jazz, psychedelia and even art rock are as prominent as their acclaimed shambolic electrical blues approach to garage rock was. All of these influences come together with beautiful chaos on their second record, Funhouse. For our on-going conversation about the history of heavy music, we focus on the albums second track, "Loose." Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading Movie: Gimmie Danger Directed by Jim Jarmusch https://www.amazon.com/Gimme-Danger-Iggy-Pop/dp/B089XYBLKB Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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EP21: Black Sabbath "The Wizard"

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 • Duration 01:19:07

We're always talking about Sabbath but now we're really talking about Sabbath. Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe by Mick Wall https://www.amazon.com/Black-Sabbath-Universe-Mick-Wall-ebook/dp/B00NS3175I/ref=sr_1_4?crid=UVSY0FM3XE6C&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ZL-Jtc78tbIzspOEs2s6tp9ncgzhDInZGu-Me2ZmIF3UBkdeNEZNO3m48WWig802HMuhJNw45g8A_puFkSuaS8JDpoc4JimfQ0XUu10r7_inIJIamdeJF9kRZMAhagXd1z6aLFl26ZMCPm6dFrABAvieQpFc5VrywoOz7F8yYIrVJ5JBlOYvX4R189YBlHIYEJajv5oFRJ6qgXDnOpGNVUwULjsrHMjfCFk-YdBcvULtFDiPRgDcX_JEI4n68pb0ta0MYxA64k8jX3oiIrUz9x6RkHsd3PBuHkBvAqrIFBA.RzbvvhH4HHQQNoD2nRQ7niN1eZMbQcCZqg5lSASgt8A&dib_tag=se&keywords=black+sabbath+book&qid=1747857296&sprefix=black+sabbath+book%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-4 Into the Void by Geezer Butler https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063242494/?bestFormat=true&k=into%20the%20void%20geezer%20butler%20book&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k0_1_20&crid=8JTN59D9L19E&sprefix=into%20the%20void%20geezer The Huntsman Hill Polanco Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1GFdiJwePQggciuOMAF3cI?si=2cb1be20608b48a8 Spotify Playlist Instagram

EP20: The Heaviest Songs of the 1960's

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 • Duration 55:03

We dedicated 18 episodes to the heavy songs to the 1960's and traversed psychedelia, electric blues, proto-punk, acid jazz, hard, garage, art, and occult rock. Now we reevaluate all of them to determine which two songs will rule them all and be crowned the heaviest of the decade.

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Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception

https://www.amazon.com/perception-Foreword-Biographical-introduction-Bradshaw/dp/0099458209/ref=asc_df_0099458209?mcid=d565e7f012ea35f48c900eb6ee5064d4&hvocijid=13193201624939488800-0099458209-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13193201624939488800&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032360&hvtargid=pla-2281435177818&psc=1

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EP19: Coven "Wicked Woman"

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 • Duration 45:11

This late sixties/early seventies Occult Rock band featured a member named Oz Osborne, had a track called "Black Sabbath" that kicks off it's debut album and is credited with being the first band to ever use the devil horn hand gesture... and they are not called Black Sabbath. In fact, Coven's debut LP predates Sabbath's by a year and while not widely acknowledged, their influence stretches well beyond the Birmingham legends. Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy LINK TO EPISODE IN BIO

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EP18: Captain Beefheart "Dachau Blues"

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 • Duration 54:33

It's time to get weird and you don't get much weirder than Captain Beefheart. His amalgamation of garage rock, free-jazz, delta blues and avant garde insanity was challenging and strange in the 1960's and its power hasn't diluted one bit all these decades later. "Dachau Blues" is from his widely recognized masterpiece Mask Trout Replica and the future sound of PiL, Gang of Four, Sonic Youth and the like can be heard in every note. Add lyrics about an infamous Nazi concentration camp and you have capital "H" heavy. It's an important touchstone in our ongoing conversation Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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EP17: MC5 "Kick Out the Jams"

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 • Duration 52:47

It's safe to say that without the MC5 punk rock and all of its adjacent sub genres would sound completely different. They were chaotic, intense, political and heavy in every sense of the word. Nothing about their unedited, unwavering approach was ever delivered lightly. Though their popular musical legacy doesn't go much further beyond the title track of their debut LP, their impact and influence cannot be overstated. Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading MC3 https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q5N8i35?si=0BOt5RyMSDi2r2MYcb_cLw Sonic's Rendezvous Band "City Slang" https://open.spotify.com/track/2btWvfhvg9qn2ApUIl4GCE?si=bfc26af8237345cd Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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EP16: Led Zeppelin "Dazed and Confused"

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 • Duration 46:19

Led Zeppelin were pretty popular. Though often pigeonholed as a "Hard Rock" band, their music was fairly eclectic, touching on elements of blues, folk and psychedelia. Still, they are mostly remembered as being loud and bombastic and one of the forebears of what would come to be known as Heavy Metal. Their eponymous first album predates Sabbath's debut by a full year and the sludgy tempo of their version of Jake Holmes' "Dazed and Confused" is as legit a ground zero as any. Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading The Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Gods-Stephen-Davis/dp/0425182134 Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62 Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy @historyofheavy

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