In this episode, the Boo Boo Butt Boys™ Judge Dredd and Wulf interview Metal Stats about his process for scraping and shaping data from Metal Archives while controlling for variables. They discuss the eternal questions regarding regionalism in metal, such as the infamous Denmark Paradox (a.k.a. in light of having produced Mercyful Fate, why did Denmark never produce black metal to the same degree that the rest of their Scandinavian brethren did?). We also explore the relationship between a country’s GDP and metal produced by that country. Finally, we investigate why both creators and viewers of data visualization need to think critically about data that is being presented.

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 who bullshit in lo-fi recordings about our love of all things low culture through the lens of metal! We discuss food, news, and sick picks (heretofore referred to as “siqq piqqs”). We hold metal-themed discussions and debates, take metal-themed quizzes, and play metal-themed games. Our conversations often devolve into complete madness.

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