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…
BUTT METAL BLAST CAST, EP. 31: BINAURAL PEPTO BISMOL-LACED PIZZA-EATING REBEL DIARRHEA EXTRAVANGANZA (THE TWIZTID FRESH LOST EPISODE)
(NOTE: this episode was recorded at the end of Summer 2021 and was lost to the annals (read: anals) of Butt Blast history as editing other, more timely episodes took priority….
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…
Seasons in the Abyss
Well, another autumn seems to be abruptly coming to an end. Autumn always makes me feel reflective and a bit nostalgic, and I’m sure I’m not the only…
Grim Brew, TRVE Brew
Ever since I started going to Metal shows at the age of 14 or 15, I’ve noticed the extent to which beer and the consumption thereof has played a part in the…
Insider Gnosis
Like any other Metal Nerd, I have watched countless documentaries, read tons of articles and interviews, and looked at tons of photography concerning Metal’s history, fanbase, and of course, the…
We All Faulter
Man, the end of the year lists really take it out of me. Around November and December I usually scramble to catch up on all the Metal releases I may…
The State of Metal 2012: Judge Dredd’s Dreaded Top 10
On a personal note, this was probably one of the best years of my life. I spent the first half finishing up a year teaching English abroad in Santiago, Chile. …
Malicious Intent on the Facebooks
Sadly, none of us hosts the Malicious Intent radio show any longer (I haven’t for well over a year and a half while Mark of the Beast and Wulf haven’t…
Why So Serious?
As any casual listener can infer, Metal bands often take themselves very seriously. Even as an avid Metal listener and musician for the last 15 years, I’ve often felt the…
One Man Metal
Noisey, a sub-site of the uber-hipster king of irony, Vice Magazine, recently completed a surprisingly unironic video interview trilogy entitled “One Man Metal”. These videos focus on three “One Man”…
Moshing in Bangalore
(photo credited to Hindustan Times) Salon.com recently posted (OK, it was a whiiiiile ago) an article about Metal fandom in the tech-world of India. Unfortunately, the author, Jason Overdorf, follows some of…
The Death of the Hydra Head
While I was well immersed into the world of underground Metal by 2000, I was still naïve and impressionable in terms of my metal tastes. I obsessed over sub-standard bands…
We’ll Do It Live! Fuck It!
I had a laugh recently when The Dillinger Escape Plan posted a note dating back to a gig in 2008 on their Facebook page. The note was passed to them…