About this podcast
A podcast about the mid-life & times of an aging metalhead & his stupid love of live (heavy) music. I'm too old, it's too loud & I don't care.
Your host Tor Hansen tells stories from Yesterday& Today (Y&T pun intended). Every episode brings an album of the week and a review of the concerts he's been to. It's almost always Metal, or Hardcore, or Metalcore, or Metallic Hardcore , you get the idea. Plus if you aren't about the metal but like the stories we have a special segment for you. Bangers for Beginners brings you one song every week that is hand-picked to start you on your own journey towards Metalhead...dom. There's some parenting stuff, some coming-of-age stuff, and lots of heavy music stuff. So pull up beside Tor at the edge of the pit and enjoy the show.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 42 episodes
- Late Summer Playlist · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail This week, my sound was an adventure so apologies for the decreased quality...But better late and bad than never, not really. Today I bring you a handful of…
- A Resounding Failure · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail This episode is pretty boiler plate, Chart Chuggers, Concert Calendar and an exciting (for a moment) new frontier for the podcast. I misuse words and say a lot…
- Chapter 22: Rumpling Marie In The Still of the Night · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Story time: A fond reminiscence/critical revisiting of a song and a night that are lodged in my memory like a cocklebur in my sock. Long one, but hopefully a…
- 10-10-10 best of 2025 · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 99Send us Fan Mail End of the year wrap-up time. Your fearful host and special guest from Hungary go through a list of the 10 best live sets, 10 best songs, and the 10 best albums…
- BONUS: A (not really) Hungarian (not really) Halloween Playlist with The Countess · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Just a fun(?) little Bonus…In honor of the best time of the year that isn't spring or summer, we've called forth from the great hereafter, a very special guest…
- Chapter 21: Ozzy, a Punk and a Summer in the Southland · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 18Send us Fan Mail This week it's story time again. It's a farewell of sorts to Ozzy and it's obscenely packed with a whole lot of flawed reminiscence. Plus an Album of the Week…
- Summer of Sedition: A Protest Playlist from Drop Dee Sharp · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail Hello, It seems to be a summer of lists here at the Pisdcast. This one is a bit different in execution from the last one. This week we’re bringing in a guest DJ…
- Glinting Metal: A Summer Playlist for a Party at the Edge of the Bluff · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail Lots o’ Music this week. This week, your friendly neighborhood f**khead brings you a playlist reminiscent of Summers bygone, foretelling of Summers never to…
- Chapter 20 : Kill A Poseur for Paul · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail In this episode we do a quick recap of the championship of our March metal Madness Tourney. I tell you about a local show that blew my socks off and The tale of…
- Metal March Madness : Best Albums of 2024 Edition · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail This week we start the inaugural March Tournament. The contest this year is 64 albums from 64 bands all vying to be crowned best album of 2024 and put the debate…
- Top 10 albums of 2024 · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail This week we’ve gone visual, this the augmented audio version of our first ever video podcast ( you can watch me ugly shit up here…
- Holiday Baubles · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 12Send us Fan Mail An all segment episode to finish off 2023. We have a Snacks n Tracks, mini-Concert Calendar, Lesser Bangs and look at the Heaviest Hot 100 Chart entries in the…
- Bonus: Lesser Bangs and Billboard Bashers · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 11Send us Fan Mail It's bonus time before we hit the end of year listravaganza. In truth I am testing out a couple of potential new segments. First Up, Lesser Bangs where I bash…
- Chapter 19: A Vision of Resilience Part 2 · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail This episode, we finish up the story started way back in June, I swear a lot, there's a banger for beginners, and a Concert Calendar featuring maybe the most…
- Aftershock Saturday Report and Sandwich Cookies · 16 min · Season 2 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail This episode, I recap my Saturday at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento and my son and I do a deep dive into a thumping great failure in the marriage of Coke…
- Snacks and Tracks: Pop Tarts and Saylor Grift · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail This short little bonus sees the return of my son, and the unfortunate return of Taylor Swift's AI doppelganger. We eat, we listen, we get out quick. Music in…
- Metalympiad!!! · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail This week in honor of the Olympics, that are currently over, we sat down and handed out medals to Metal...songs from 2024. And when I say 'we' I mean me and my…
- Bonus: Snacks and Tracks Rome Edition · 18 min · Season 2 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail This week, I am on location with some special guests and you know what that means...bad audio and more entertainment than usual. We eat some semi-Italian Oreos…
- Chapter 18: A Vision of Resilience · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Today we trip back to Nu Metal to talk about a punk show. Confusing? Probably. Truth? As I remember it. Fun? Almost. A new banger for Beginners and that's about…
- Chapter 17: Wrestle the Lightning Part 2 · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail FINALLY, the conclusion of the wrestling story from February. A PACKED concert calendar and a few other things that probably don't deserve an ALL CAPS DELIVERY…
