The CMS Network’s Substack Podcast

<p>Why is a rock star hitting the road to tell stories instead of shredding? Chris chats with Grammy winner David Ellefson about his upcoming South American BASSTORY tour, the deep reasons behind his storyteller shows...

<p>Why did one of the most influential guitarists in rock history spend decades running away from the very songs that made him a star? Was Sammy Hagar’s solo success actually the final nail in the coffin for Montrose’s...

<p>How would you react if the one thing that connects you to the world—your ability to walk—was stripped away in an instant? Most people see the prosthetic leg; they don't see the sweat, the blood, or the rotting...

<p>Is the “British Wave” of Heavy Metal actually dead in its own home country? Most new bands are too afraid to challenge their idols, but what happens when a young group tells a legend like KK Downing that his ideas...

<p>GET EDDIE MONEY - THE COVERS on Vinyl: https://amzn.to/4suNHgr</p><p>Think you’ve heard the worst AC/DC cover in history? You haven’t seen anything until you witness the mainstream media trying to prop up a “legend”...

<p>Is the new Anaconda movie a high-stakes thriller or just another piece of low-budget streaming fodder? Most people saw the trailer and immediately wrote it off as a joke, but is there a layer of self-aware humor that...

<p>“He took his belt off and started whipping him like a slave!”</p><p>[Sponsor: Blackout Coffee - https://www.blackoutcoffee.com?p=BoNofhazE → Code CHRIA20 for 20% off]</p><p>Bro, the world has officially gone off the...

<p>Think you know what “Real Metal” sounded like in 2025? While the mainstream media was busy worshipping the same three legacy bands, a massive shift was happening underground that most fans completely missed. Why has...

<p>“Nobody is enjoying going to your screen and working their way between Star Wars crap and, um, whatever is on there—DC or Marvel...”</p><p>[Sponsor: Metallica - The Broadcast Collection 1988-1994...

<p>[Sponsor: Blackout Coffee - https://www.blackoutcoffee.com?p=BoNofhazE → Code CHRIA20 for 20% off]</p><p>Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! Chris Akin is back and someone just got the boot right before Santa...

<p>Chris and Neeley are reminiscing about the early days of The Classic Metal Show, and Chris drops a story that will make you spit out your beer. You wouldn’t believe the lengths we went to for content back then...

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<p>🚨 NEELEY RAGES: IT’S HIS FAULT SHE GOT FIRED! 🚨</p><p>A drunken female police officer groped two colleagues, and Neeley is losing his mind not because she got fired, but because the male officer reported her! Bro...

<p>“By 2026, the local news anchor you’ve watched for twenty years is going behind a fucking paywall or they’re going extinct. Free TV is a corpse, and the streamers are just waiting for the smell to get bad enough to...

<p>This being the second of them and this was the I don’t know if you can call it the bigger one because it was a collaboration, but it is absolutely one of the shittiest pieces of shit that ever shit out of shit, ate...