Podcast Episodes

[Insert self into ocean]
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“A cold star stalks an old sun.”
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A lackadaisical chat with the bass-propelled Aussie hardcore punk trio, Rattleback.
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Belter after belter.
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“The hallway to hell is lined with doors leading to more hallways and doors leading to doors leading to doors leading to emo.”
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“Withstand the tide, Head above water, A maelstrom of revolt, Blood and brine”
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Wandering the Dreamer’s fields.
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“Dismissed country, prepare the urn, Bleached, burnt, and broken, a purposeless herd”
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Inferna tetigit possit, ut supera assequi.
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Maleficent pandemonium.
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An off-the-dome rambling on some top album picks from FCU’s contributors.
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We hope you were expecting a heap of coal this holiday season.
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“Your body is not a temple, it’s just food for the pump.”
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Nuke ’em, Rico!
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Rats in ruin.
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Imbibing the pared down, psychedelic-infused folk ditties from South Africa’s weirdo experimental duo.
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Enduring a Sisyphean struggle to attain ascension.
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Exploring beautiful nebulas, exploding quasars, and distant galaxy swirls.
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Put your head in a wind turbine destructive.
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“A life benign, the stench of a false sense of pride. Keep your 9 to 5, I’ll take a dead end drive. At best vermin in this dirt fucking life.”
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An extensive journey through the unrecoverable reality of the dark electronic producer, Insanity Check.
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Let the forest speak my name. Down this old road, to Appalachia.
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Visiting the UFO crash site that cratered in the pastoral countryside of [REDACTED], U.K.
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Ramblings and musings about fresh tunes that span the gamut of blistering grindcore, poignant doom pop, minivan jazz, and a litany of other timbres.
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Gazing into the depths of the latest opus from the Philly cyber-death goliath.
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The sky is falling in! Laugh! HA HA! I think I will.
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Getting virtually woodchipped by a floppy disk drive.
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Ramblings on resonances repugnant, riveting, tranquil, and biting.
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“You can’t die if you’ve been dead for years.”
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“Gaze upon the fetid rot, Weeping wounds of the world forgot”
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Excessive ramblings on timbres harsh, elating, groovy, boisterous, and psychotic.
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“Hell is a reflection of myself, branded in the skin of those I love.”
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Invigorating and alive, contrary to the deathly genre of which it belongs.
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While you’re nursing your rusty tetanus-filled wounds, be prepared to dance your way to a cyber beat.
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Eccentric, cerebrum-liquefying savagery.
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Immolating our cerebrums.
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Scott Stapp didn’t died for our sins.
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Load your cannons and prep the gunpowder!
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“No halting the flood’s advance, See it through to the end”
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Prepare yourself for the history and the horror of the “worst” band ever to be recorded.
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Entombed in dereliction.
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Ramblings about new EPs and tracks off of upcoming records: crusty death metal, blistering mathcore neuroses, worming noise rock, and a myriad of other resonances.
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Commands from beyond.
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Don’t you dare go Hollow!
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The tail of a happy little duck.
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Concise ramblings of some relatively fresh tracks and EPs: sloppy punk, planet-demolishing sludge, a synthwave cover, plus a litany of other timbres.
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An enrapturing sojourn through polluted skies.
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Mamaleek explores and emits timbres that ceaselessly flood city streets with deafening clamor.
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Manure in pearls.
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Wandering across landscapes dystopian, deranged, heinous, and haunting.
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“Where once you stood Climbs vapor to the stars Where did you go?”
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Succinct reviews of some fresh singles, EPs, and splits: cybergrind, funeral doom, noise rock, brutal death metal, and a sundry of other tones.
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An outlandish cross-pollination of psychedelic synth quirks, verdant folk melodies, acid-churning sludge, and a sundry of timbres balmy, bitter, and beatific.
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Forced to eat moldy granola.
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A psychedelic trip gone awry.
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An auditory experience that channels the fragrant stillness of a twilit evening in the dead of summer.
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A stopover at the enigmatic cottage cluster of unknown origin.
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Transcendental hypnosis.
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“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.”
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“Laid out on the floor without a tongue trying to ask why”
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Succinct reviews of some cybergrind, harsh noise/industrial, and hardcore-infused death metal.
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“Send my body to Arby’s.”
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Ensnared in a crystalline azure.
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Plunging into dismal depths with a doom goliath.
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“Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.”
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Crown the astral array of gnashing incisors.
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Regress to a polyp.
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Revelatory ecstasy.
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A new solo podcast endeavor. Succinct reviews of releases from a breadth of disparate genres.
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Peering behind the veil of loss.
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Amethyst-hued psychedelia.
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Peel back the long-dormant veil curtaining our lineage.
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Obsidian depths and suffocating forlornness reign.
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An in-depth discussion with vocalist Cameron Miller of the beach math quintet, Seizures.
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Idyllic nature-drenched folk.
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A pestilent brute of aural decimation.
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Unfurling a forlorn yet heartfelt odyssey.
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Revisiting the ominous mysticism harbored within this relatively obscure progressive folk gem.
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Powerful melody and spacious soundscapes stacked on sludgy hardcore riffing.
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An uncanny mosaic of emotions from a glacial dreamworld.
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Chaotic euphoria.
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Dissections of sounds arcane and apoplectic.
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A kaleidoscopic tunnel of ever-evolving influences, alien shapes, and colors both muted and vibrant.
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From the blackest umbrages of despondent landscapes long forgotten.
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Broaching uncanny depths of city life through aural exploration.
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Igneous, ash sodden black metal.
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Grab your space suits and prepare your cryo-dried coffee.
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Exhuming the 1996 death metal landmark.
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Cyberpunk haze.
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A (mostly) retrospective review of the Aussie pub thrashers’ 2018 ripper, Piss~Up.
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A plunge into the inner self.
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Steeped in mysticism, Farewell’s amorphous and verdant folk compositions beckon us into an early onset of autumn.
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An in-depth wandering about the introspective, ambient-laden album that pays respects to John’s brother, Peter.
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Osmium-drenched radiance.
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In this album review cluster, we plunge into the musty auras permeating from Disentomb, we make effort to settle the debate between the better of the two Batushka’s, Bartushka and Krzysztof’s solo record, and we capstone the episode with the harrowing psychedelic incantation invoked by Skáphe and Wormlust.
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Zessa comes together like an enchanting mist delicately strewn about a world long forgotten.
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A monolithic cyborg compactor that dwells in the fringes of space, slowly glassing and obliterating planets with surgical precision.
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Dredging up opaque memories from our respective childhoods, God Body Disconnect’s latest work imbued in us a keen sense of introspectiveness and longing.
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A recounting of our journey out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the festival that transpired near the Grand Teton mountain range.
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“All the wrath of god, none of the salvation.”
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Our latest album review variety episode where we dissect some frigid black metal, murky death-doom, progressive sludge, and Dark Souls-inspired black metal.
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Grab your makeshift wrenches and welding torches to keep this disheveled crew’s craft afloat as we strike murderous warp speed.
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POUND’s style is a caustic amalgam of doom, grindcore, d-beat, djent, mathcore, sludge, and a smattering of other genre textures. While this blend of sounds on the surface may sound like a trainwreck, the duo effortlessly weaves the core essence of each genre into a rather novel tone.
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Be it the soaring melodies grounded by gravelly rasps or the wind-whipped onslaughts of steel crushing bone, Amon Amarth port us to the biting, primitive landscapes of yore and imbue in us a keen sense of valiance and wanderlust.
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Ashley Jane (Dysphoria) expounds upon her early explorations of noise and discusses how these experiments eventually culminated into her biting debut album, Salt & Piss.
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A ferocious concoction of mathcore and hardcore infused with shots of progressive inclinations and black metal animosity.
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Depending on the time of day and/or the mood harboring your skull, each perceived track floats by like an amorphous mass, ceaselessly shape shifting before your eyes. It renders each listening experience a novel one. And this quality glimmers fervently, long after you depart from its substances and continue your day-to-day.
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Duncan Ritchie discusses his latest Cryo Chamber effort, Alive With Scars. He speaks about some of his field recording techniques, the album’s artwork, and how living with Multiple Sclerosis has ultimately served as a touchstone of influence for all of his compositions, old and new.
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There is a candid sense of liveliness and joviality that pierces Tempel’s compositions. Much of the record leaves an impression of a hard/classic rock aesthetic, however, the way they dig their heels into metallic qualities, carried by vociferous rasps, makes the album feel retro and simultaneously progressive.
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Elegiac are Emily Highfield’s compositions as she effortlessly floats from warm guitar passages to forlorn bogs of blackened malice. Amidst her transitional wafts, she often caresses listeners with witch-like whispers. And in flashes of ember-tinged light, she glides upward, transcending her auditory structures into feverishly blissful twinkles of awe.
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Adam speaks in-depth about his sludgy, blues-imbued hardcore project named Crowfeeder. He then expands upon this endeavor to illuminate the genesis of his chaos-teeming record label, Constant Disappointment Records.
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Alex of Death Tape Super Bass explains his reasoning for not adhering to a specific style of sound, the process by which he produces a track, and his innate desire to unearth new sounds to broaden his soundboard.
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From his auditory experiments, a keen sense of candidness percolates. And amidst what sounds like unbridled chaos and static froth curdling on the surface, the baritone drones undulating underfoot lull you into a trance-like state.
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A new album review podcast series between podcast host Ryan and album review writer, Tim. We discuss four albums for about 10 to 20 minutes apiece, expounding upon qualities we enjoyed as well as qualities we were not necessarily fond of.
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Nicolas Gomez, the vocalist of Zombie Holocaust, speaks about the founding of the band, the writing process, and he dives into some stand out tracks. He also talks at great length about his hero/inspiration the bass legend Cliff Burton (Metallica), who shares the same hometown of Castro Valley with Nick.
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Noxious Insect takes a sincerely novel approach to noise production as he channels frequencies we regularly hear whilst walking about nature or shuffling across the asphalt architecture of human design. Beyond this immediate realization, however, Noxious Insect presents us a reflection on the micro-biology us humans typically do not contemplate.
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Apoptosis is breathtaking in its technicality, uplifting in its melodies, and expansive in scope as it effortlessly incorporates tinges of orchestral flair.
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Sulphur English is utterly sullen and crushing, yet simultaneously intoxicating, triumphant, and revitalizing. It latches onto an ancient strand of DNA residing in each of us. And it strives to ignite a smoldering flame to illuminate an ancient path we have strayed.
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A despondent expanse made verdant by its lush, transfixing melodies; a seamless wayfaring, Jord och aska harbors an elegant blissfulness sodden in melancholy.
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Drano Cocktail satiates Ben Campbell’s drive for tinkering with sounds, mood palettes, and morose themes in liberating ways as he does not tether himself to a single noise style or flavor.
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From the eerie crawl of nausea-inducing orchestral strings to the gaping maw of hopeless black ambience and the bone-piercing industrial beats, Alive with Scars harbors tones immediately familiar to those acquainted with Duncan’s work, though it simultaneously treads new sonic terrain, bringing us closer toward understanding his existence with Multiple Sclerosis.
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Characterized by a turbulent mishmash of genres and styles, the experimental, melodic grindcore quintet Beaten to Death erect a unique tone that is as disorienting as it is blissful.
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Dead Twin digs into his early days of experimenting with noise. He describes his piercing sound, some of his wildest live shows, and he touches on some key influences, in particular, the Japanese noise scene.
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Etched into this album’s enigmatic fabric are dizzying patterns of electronic soundscapes, an unflinching quantity of bizarre timbres and transitions, and a keen sense of mania.
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The first episode in a new podcast series where artists perform a live set shortly after discussing their music and process.
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A moodboard of tones, soundscapes, electronic planes and spires protruding into the not too distant future, REMNANT ensconces listeners in a cyberpunk reality.
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Grave Blankets discuss the piecing together of their debut EP. They describe how the band formed and they also articulate an intriguing notion whereby each member’s contributions to the band’s output are for the collective of the outfit and not for egotistical inflation.
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Interspersed throughout the frigid void writhing, feverish outbursts of death industrial erupt and sometimes, molten heaps of sheet metal eek to create scathing harsh noise textures.
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The unbridled melancholy pouring from each individual note swirls together to forge a blizzard of biting anguish, though amidst the relentless gales, moments of sunlight manage to break through.
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We tread through eons of cobwebs and dust accumulating in the Tower Of Silence and attempt to unearth its dreary secrets.
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Worm Monolith dives into his eponymous LP, providing us details as to what transpires in his album’s narrative. He also provides us a glimpse into his future output, illuminating how his sound will evolve, and where his story will travel next.
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We delve into the ten tracks of unfettered punk energy pouring from Awareness and marinate in its slop of slurred notes, all while getting eviscerated by its chunky rhythms and unhinged ramblings.
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We delve into the seedy underbelly of the 1986 horror classic, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
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Nicholas of NONE discusses the blend of genres, feelings, and energy comprising this solo project of his. He goes into his writing process, what the project represents for him personally, and he also divulges the intriguing notion that NONE is more than just the name of his project, but a deity of his own construction.
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In episode twenty-seven, we vacate the halls of bone and flesh to journey to the quirky, synth-laden krautrock mountain of worms on Return to Worm Mountain’s eponymous LP. We get doused in the effervescent ambient energy of FOUDRE!’s Kami 神 and we get smoked out by the delectably hefty stoner doom crunch of Azimuth from Summoned by Giants.
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In episode forty-three, Duncan Park (Listeriosis, Return to Worm Mountain) delves into each of his projects and discusses what he has learned from them. He speaks about how he came into contact with extreme metal, his love for drone, and how his compositional approach has evolved as he works with more musicians.
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In episode twenty-six, we wander across the ancient, frost-bitten crags sculpted on Gaetir The Mountainkeeper’s Fornjörð. We stagger through the melodic funeral doom death march of VANHA’s Melancholia and on Andromida’s More Than Human, we soar atop its illustrious, cinematic djent compositions.
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In episode forty-two, VANCORVID delves into her surreal blend of violin arrangements and experimental electronic, her writing process, and paying respects to the Irish goddess Morrigan.
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In episode twenty-five, we get ensnared within the oozing tech-death miasma of Replicant’s Negative Life. We trek across the majestic medieval expanses conjured on Isegrimm’s Der Herr Von Verona and we suffocate in the pestilent blackened death metal tomb of Mylingar’s Döda Drömmar.
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In episode forty-one, Rich and Evan of Providence-based sludge brigade, Cyttorak, discuss the band’s formation, their tonal evolution, and how they channel the auras of the old United States land upon which they reside.
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In episode twenty-four, we get steamrolled by the sludgy, experimental dual bass, drum, and vocal grind of Burmese’s privileged. We are ported back to 14th century China in HolyArrow’s epic black metal opus, 靖難/Fight back for the Fatherland, and we convulse in the sludge ‘n roll bliss of BUMMER’s Holy Terror.
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In episode twenty-three, we languish in the dreary harsh noise auras erected by Worm Monolith, we seek reprieve from our monotonous existence via the unfettered noise rock energy promulgated in Tongue Party’s Looking for a Painful Death, and we traverse the night sky with Allogenic’s Rites of Fear, stepping into its experimental electronic portal to explore the occult secrets lying beyond.
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In episode twenty-two, we are cloaked in the droning, industrial-tinged sound palettes of Grave Blankets’ self-titled debut EP. We get hanged, drawn and quartered by the technical, groove-laden death metal savagery of Cognitive’s new LP, Matricide, and we stride across the neon synth skylines of MULE’s future retro debut record, Music for B-Movies.
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In an effort to cover more music, artists, albums on this site, I’ve teamed up with a close friend of mine, Connor, to begin a podcast series. Each episode we will discuss three records; the genres will remain in the realms of dark ambient, metal, or genres tangentially related to these. At the end of a record’s discussion, we will play a small sample clip of the record we think will give listeners an idea of what to expect should you go listen to the full release. The series is titled Voices From Corners Unknown. We will do our best to trickle these out on a bi-weekly basis. There are no ratings in our discussions, just simple yes/no recommendations. These discussions will not replace the written reviews that pop up on the site from time-to-time. Rather, this podcast series attempts to broaden the coverage of artists over the years ahead. You can download each episode from the player at the top of each post or listen in the video player linked below. Thank you for your continued support and we hope you enjoy our discussions. For our inaugural episode, we discuss the following artists and their records in this order: 1.
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