Episode 34 – No More False Transparency: The Works of Anacrusis
It began with suffering and ended with screams (and whispers). St. Louis' radically-progressive Anacrusis never enjoyed the recognition they so deserved, but popular neglect did little to temper their...
25 Kesä 20191h 20min
Episode 33 — Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions
Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions What is music if not sound? In episode 28, we discussed the mathematical properties that have shaped some of rock and metal’s most extraordinary albums. In ep...
11 Kesä 20191h 15min
Episode 32 – In the Morphine Fields: The Works of Thought Industry
In less than 10 years’ time, Michigan’s maddest scientists, Thought Industry, built a five-album discography that drew upon every available atom and protein in the rock and metal corpora. From the mut...
28 Touko 20191h 18min
Episode 31 – An Abrupt Egress from the ’60s: Van Der Graaf Generator
Crawling out of Manchester to work strange machinations on the English psych-pop era of the late 1960s, Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator’s sonic architecture was a mirror to that decade’s cre...
14 Touko 20191h 40min
Episode 30 – Thank You, Uwe Osterlehner! Deathrow’s Deception Ignored
We here at Radical Research like a good departure. Whether that means the beginning of a vacation or the sixth Journey record, departures are just good for the soul. And so goes the third record by Ge...
23 Huhti 20191h 9min
Episode 29 – Walking Shadows: Mekong Delta 1987-1994
Under the guidance of bassist Ralf Hubert, Mekong Delta’s initial phase featured a revolving door lineup of Euro-metal luminaries. Adopting pseudonyms and lurking unseen in shadows, Mekong plied a bra...
9 Huhti 20191h 34min
Episode 28 – Rock Out With Your Calc Out: A Math Rock Survey
As Pythagoras mused, “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” So too is there magical energy in the shapely contours of the most mathematical ro...
26 Maalis 20191h 21min
Episode 27 – Fall Into Overdrive: Spiral Architect’s Tech-Metal Masterwork
A Skeptic’s Universe is what happens when student becomes master. Spiral Architect’s school years were spent in obscurity, honing their craft, learning their lessons, keeping their noses to the grinds...
12 Maalis 20191h 13min
