Posts in 2026
Lindsay Schoolcraft’s HEAVIEST Record! Moldovan Prog-Death Metal, Cheese, Assault, Speed, and MORE | MRP #073
Lindsay Schoolcraft’s HEAVIEST Record! Moldovan Prog-Death Metal, Cheese, Assault, Speed, and MORE | MRP #073

Lindsay Schoolcraft returns to the Metal Robot Podcast to talk about her new album Harrowing. Plus, we review new releases from Shadowborne, Conflux Collective, and Drakkar before spinning the Metal Archives Roulette wheel into Moldova to discover Neuromist.

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Full Episodes, 2026Tom McKayMRP, Metal Robot Podcast, Podcast, Lindsay Schoolcraft, Harrowing, Lindsay Schoolcraft 2026, Neuromist, Moldova, Moldovan Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Death Metal, Power Metal, Shadowborne, Heaven's Falling, Conflux, Conflux Collective, In the Wake of Saturn, Drakkar, Drakkar 2026, Speed Metal, Tech Death, Technical Death Metal, Invasion, Drakkar InvasionComment
HAS THE BEST OF THE YEAR HELD UP? Spooky Essentials Dungeon. New Metal, 10-Years, & More | MRP #072
HAS THE BEST OF THE YEAR HELD UP? Spooky Essentials Dungeon. New Metal, 10-Years, & More | MRP #072

The Metal Robot Podcast celebrates 10 years of Metal Robot Reviews with new album reviews, a trip into the Essentials Dungeon for King Diamond’s Abigail, and a year-in-review discussion with Collin Sterling.

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Full Episodes, 2026Tom McKayMRP, Metal Robot Podcast, Podcast, WMD, Thrash Metal, Canadian Metal, Abysmal Growls Of Despair, Funeral Doom, Doom Metal, August Burns Red, Metalcore, Against All Warnings, Torn, Season of Surrender, King Diamond, Essentials Dungeon, Abigail, Collin Sterling, Thrashers Paradise, Influencers of Metal PodcastComment
YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT! Metal Is NOT Getting Worse. New Releases & MORE | MRP #071
YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT! Metal Is NOT Getting Worse. New Releases & MORE | MRP #071

Death metal filth, metalcore controversy, and a brutally honest take on the “metal is dying” debate—plus a powerful mental health conversation with Backline.

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Full Episodes, 2026Tom McKayMRP, Metal Robot Podcast, Podcast, metal podcast, metal album reviews, Atreyu review, Pig’s Blood death metal, sludge metal 2026, metalcore debate, is metal getting worse, modern metal vs classic metal, metal music opinion, Backline mental health, musicians mental health, touring struggles, heavy music podcast, death metal review, new metal releases 2026Comment
TESTAMENT on “Para Bellum”, “Thrash of the Titans”! DIO, Black Metal, & MORE | MRP #070
TESTAMENT on “Para Bellum”, “Thrash of the Titans”! DIO, Black Metal, & MORE | MRP #070

Black metal exploration, an Essentials Dungeon look at a Holy Diver, and a conversation with Testament’s Chuck Billy!

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Full Episodes, 2026Tom McKayMRP, Metal Robot Podcast, Podcast, Testament, Chuck Billy, Thrash of the Titans, Overkill, Destruction, Dio, Ronnie James Dio, Holy Diver, Black Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Year of Thrash, Heavy Metal, Para Bellum, Daidalos, Domhain, Merculistarya, Dante, In Perfect StillnessComment
THE YEAR OF THRASH! 2026 Predictions for Thrash Metal, Canadian Tech Death, New Music & More | MRP #069
THE YEAR OF THRASH! 2026 Predictions for Thrash Metal, Canadian Tech Death, New Music & More | MRP #069

Metal Robot dives into melodic hard rock, sludge, and old-school death, spins the Metal Archives Roulette for a Canadian tech-death surprise, and predicts the Year of Thrash 2026 with Collin

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Full Episodes, 2026Tom McKayMRP, Metal Robot Podcast, Podcast, Thrash Metal, Thrashers Paradise, Influencers of Metal Podcast, Lily Lowe, Lily Lowe 2026, Beautiful Disaster, Hard Rock, Sleeping Giant, Sleeping Giant 2026, The Beauty of Obliteration, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal, Deathmarch, Violent Retaliation, Death Metal, Old School Death Metal, OSDM, Widow's Peak, Claustrophobe, Tech Death, Technical Death Metal, Canadian Metal, Collin Sterling, Year of Thrash, ThrashComment