Butt Metal Blast Cast is a podcast featuring Malicious Intent blog contributors Judge Dredd and Wulf and our co-conspirators Professor Grindstein and The Inverted Cross-Examiner! We are four grown men…
HEAVY ROTATION: October 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of October. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
HEAVY ROTATION: September 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of September. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
HEAVY ROTATION: August 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of August. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
Heavy Rotation: July 2024
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of July. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
Heavy Rotation: June 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of June. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
Heavy Rotation: May 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of May. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
Heavy Rotation: April 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of April. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
Heavy Rotation: March 2024 Edition
These are songs former MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of March. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and…
Heavy Rotation: February 2024
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of February. Listen to the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and current…
Heavy Rotation: January 2024
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of January. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
The State of Metal: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10 of 2023
A year ago, I couldn’t predict where I’d be at now. I decided to move back to the United States after living a little over a decade abroad (with some…
Heavy Rotation: December 2023
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of December. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Heavy Rotation: November 2023
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of November. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Heavy Rotation: September 2023 Edition
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of September. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
SCENE REPORT: Chepang | Bandit | Decultivate | Missouri Executive Order 44 (8/04 @ Howdy KCMO)
Bandit Several months prior to this show, our sister podcast, the Butt Metal Blast Cast, interviewed Philly grindcore band Bandit‘s vocalist Gene Meyer. At the time, he told us that…
SCENE REPORT: Cynic | Atheist | Phobophilic | Existem (6/25 @ The Bottleneck)
Kansas City’s own Existem opened up the show with their particular brand of muscular progressive metal. What sets Existem apart from a lot of other modern progressive metal bands is…
HEAVY ROTATION: Best of 2023 (So Far)
These are albums MI DJs and blog contributors past and present have been spinning the most in 2023 so far! Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM…
Heavy Rotation: June 2023 Edition
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of June. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Scene Report: Carcass | Municipal Waste | Sacred Reich | Creeping Death (4/20 @ The Granada)
With Bongzilla performing about a month prior and then Carcass playing on 4/20, the Green Gods certainly seem to be smiling down upon us Lawrencians in their hazy splendor! To…
Heavy Rotation: May 2023 Edition
These are songs MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of May. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Heavy Rotation: March 2023 Edition
These are albums MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of March. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Heavy Rotation: February 2023 Edition
These are albums MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of February. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Heavy Rotation: November 2022 Edition
These are albums MI DJs and blog contributors past and present are listening to for the month of November. Remember to listen to Malicious Intent on KJHK 90.7 FM every…
Scene Report: Beyond the Gates 2022
A overview of Judge Dredd’s experiences at Beyond the Gates, an annual metal festival in Bergen, Norway…
Scene Report: Obscene Extreme 2022
A bucket list item I’ve had since I was a teenager is attending a metal festival in Europe. I remember meeting a fellow teenage metal fan in an AOL chatroom…
The State of Metal 2021: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10
It’s me! I had the longest professional break this year that I’ve had in six years, the last one being the six months just prior to starting grad school. I…
Butt Metal Blast Cast
Former Malicious Intent DJs (including two current contributors to this blog), Judge Dredd, Wulf, Professor Grindstein, and The Inverted Cross Examiner, started a podcast called Butt Metal Blast Cast in…
The State of Metal: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10 of 2020
It’s been interesting reviewing a few of my best of the year introductions over the last four years. Hilariously, I always presented the prospect that it “can’t get much worse…
Metal in the Time of Quarantine 3
Well, here we are — almost seven months after I wrote the first edition of Metal in the Time of Quarantine. On some days, it seems like the last seven…
Music in Isolation: What Local Musicians and DJs are Listening to in Quarantine
While us metal fans are simply missing out on going to shows and the community that is built into and around that ritual, the loss of revenue to local venues,…
Metal in the Time of Quarantine 2
First, an announcement: we at Malicious Intent have decided to move our radio show to Twitch for the foreseeable future. You can stream us every Sunday evening from 7 –…
Metal in the Time of Quarantine 1
With the shutting down of clubs and bars across the country because of fears of COVID-19, fans of metal are left wondering how to connect with their community. Clubs and…
Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10 of the 2010s
I think it’s odd how easily we can be obsessed with a band, but then, after a year or two (or less), we barely listen to them. This also happens…
Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10 of the 2000s
I recently stumbled upon a list I made of my favorite metal albums from 2000-2009 that I sent Malicious Intent co-conspirator Vlad The Impaler back in 2009. Honestly, it’s a…
Interviews with The Old Ones: DJ Nietch
This one was a little different. Arguably the first “real” Malicious Intent DJ was Nietch. There was one before him, but by all accounts, he wasn’t very trve. Here Nietch…
Interviews with The Great Old Ones: DJ Wulf
I forgot to post these and a few other special interviews for KJHK’s 40th Anniversary from about 5 years ago. Now, Malicious Intent has been on the air for approximately…
Interviews with The Great Old Ones: DJ Frankenstein
I forgot to post these and a few other special interviews for KJHK’s 40th Anniversary from about 5 years ago. Now, Malicious Intent has been on the air for approximately…
Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10 of 2019
credit: Mike Teal Greetings. I’m Judge Dredd. I practice law. Metal law, that is. In fact, metal IS the law as far as I’m concerned. Below, you will find my…
20 Years of Chaos and Confusion
I’ve been listening to metal for over 20 years now. From first hearing “One” by Metallica on the radio to my cousin introducing me to Overkill and Sepultura to the…
The State of Metal 2016: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10
Phew, 2016! I mean, right?! Listen, bad shit happens all of the time, every year. I think people are making a bigger deal about 2016 than is really necessary or…
The State of Metal 2015: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10
I will preface this by saying this is probably the most curmudgeony end-of-the-year write up that I have ever done. Fitting that it’s also the end of the first year…
In The Beginning…There Was METAL
The following is the retelling of the early days of Malicious Intent on KJHK re-imagined as mythical lore, and was provided by previous MI DJ, Nietch. The Bible of Malicious…
My Favorite Metal Albums For Different Situations and Settings
I’ll own up to it…I have a problem with complete silence. Whether I’m hanging out in my apartment, driving in my car, or working out at the gym, I always…
The State of Metal 2014: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10
As the dreaded Judge Dredd, I have to admit that I did a pretty poor job of keeping up with the Metal world this year – especially in the last…
Sergeant D is Coming…AND WE’RE ALL ON HIS LIST
Love him or hate him, infamous Metal (and non-Metal) writer, Sergeant D, has made a valid point about the collective obsession that Metal fans have with the past. If I…