Pit Side Dad
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
40 episodes
Chapter 22: Rumpling Marie In The Still of the Night
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 goodin'Music in this episode:Godflesh-Love is a Dog From HellWhit...
10-10-10 best of 2025
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. Spend a little time with me cataloging and exploring the best tunes and shows form...
BONUS: A (not really) Hungarian (not really) Halloween Playlist with The Countess
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 from the Hungarian version of hell to layout a playlist of deeply troubling songs. P...
Chapter 21: Ozzy, a Punk and a Summer in the Southland
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 you really shouldn't miss. Music in theis Episode.Godflesh- Love i...
Summer of Sedition: A Protest Playlist from Drop Dee Sharp
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 with a familiar voice to help us build the ultimate bonfire of bangers to inspire y...
Glinting Metal: A Summer Playlist for a Party at the Edge of the Bluff
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 come, and above all, a playlist as non-sensical as this description. Apologies up...
Chapter 20 : Kill A Poseur for Paul
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 my near Exodus from Exodus. Music, Mirth, Meaning or 1 out of 3 of those things.&nb...
Metal March Madness : Best Albums of 2024 Edition
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 to rest. Here we cover the first two rounds. Some great matchups, some stupid comm...
Top 10 albums of 2024
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... https://youtu.be/YyvR6LDlhIU?si=95i_fXnd0_kpgMb_ ). This week going through my top albums of 2024 and we have ...
Holiday Baubles
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 history of Xmas/NYE week. I say a lot of stupid things, play music and work like a d...
Bonus: Lesser Bangs and Billboard Bashers
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 the venerated critic and highlight a song, album, or artist who is forgotten, unsung ...
Chapter 19: A Vision of Resilience Part 2
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 hypnotic and deeply affecting live set I have ever seen. And, we avow allyship in the ...
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Aftershock Saturday Report and Sandwich Cookies
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 and Oreo. Go figure.Music in this EpisodeGodflesh- Love is a Dog from H...
Snacks and Tracks: Pop Tarts and Saylor Grift
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 This Episode:Snack Jackson- Butt InfernoOlivia Rodrigo- Vampire
Metalympiad!!!
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 son. Lots o' music, a short concert calendar and elite level bullshittery.Mu...
Bonus: Snacks and Tracks Rome Edition
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 and Bizzzkits, play a few songs and generally act like fools. Well, I act like a foo...
Chapter 18: A Vision of Resilience
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 it.Music in this Episode:Love is a Dog from Hell-Godflesh...
Chapter 17: Wrestle the Lightning Part 2
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. But it's fun, I promise. And there's a ton of metal in this one.. of the -lica vari...
Ch. 16: Wrestle the Lightning: Part 1
It's story time again, this time we start the case for one of the most reviled thrash songs of the 1980's and talk a lot about prep wrestling. Which, who among us doesn't love amateur wrestling talk. I mean it's a subject that has inspire...
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Mini-episode: Snacks and Tracks...Concussed Edition
On this short and all too sweet episode, my son and I pop unfamiliar Pop Tarts into our mouths listen to 2 pop songs (one Metal, one meh) and I make fun of him for having head trauma, actual head trauma, while he sniffles into the mic and plays...
Top 10 Albums of 2023
Finally putting a bow on 2023's best and talking about my first few shows of 2024. Also a little audio essay on how the interwebs are a place where rumor is truth, and everybody's nose is 3 feet long. Music in this week's episode:<...
Wrapping up the Songs of the year 24 to 1.
Ok, a rapid rundown of the best 24 songs this year. As chosen by Jesus, or as chosen by me if I was asked by Jesus to choose them. He and I aren't talking right now, maybe when I eventually get baptized into the Church of Cancer Christ we'll me...
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Songs of the Year 49-25 Countdown: The Return of Sailor Grift
That took a long time didn't? Rather than your honorless host blathering about the songs I loved this year, again, I thought I'd bring back an old...friend? Sailor reads out my favorites, you are entertained and everything goes off without a hi...
Songs of the Year Pt. 1 (Pre-Devils' Day Edition)
The Lists continue, Thanksgiving and it's abject colonial horror history of prolonged bloodshed bumming you the fuck out right about now? This will not help with that, but there is some good music herein contained. I run down my favorite ...
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