Episode 115 – Hexx Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
We celebrate musicians and bands that rapidly evolve and challenge their audience with newness each endeavor. But the abrupt left-turn San Francisco metal band Hexx took between 1986 and 1987 is beyon...
20 Kesä 202455min
Episode 114 – Mourning Sign 1992-1996: Triangulation
Radical Research can’t stay away from Scandinavia for more than a brief spell. To that end, your hosts find themselves in Sweden, digging through the short but robust initial run by Mourning Sign. Ove...
2 Kesä 20241h 27min
Episode 113 – Thief’s ‘Bleed, Memory’: What Was Your Original Face Before You Were Born?
For our 113th episode, we dispense with the usual exhalations of the past in favor of the thrills of the tense present-future. Thief, the Los Angeles-based brainchild of visionary producer, Dylan Neal...
20 Touko 202458min
Episode 112 – We Mean You Harm: Hail Spirit Noir 2012-2021
For its 112th episode, Radical Research travels to balmy Greece to investigate the cryptic evildoing of Hail Spirit Noir, whose hellbroth of black metal, prog, psychedelia, and witchery strikes a spec...
25 Huhti 20241h 5min
Episode 111 – Immortal’s Blizzard Beasts: Convoking Nebular Dimensions
For episode 111, Radical Research returns to its spiritual homeland of Norway. But on this trip, RR steers clear of the usual avant suspects and instead climbs the Mountains of Might to take a closer ...
2 Huhti 202445min
Episode 110 – Steven Wilson’s Intrigue Compilation, Dissection Part 2
We continue our wander through the 4CD Intrigue compilation. This installment features 15 UK bands, several which we’d never heard of before (Art Nouveau, New Musik, Section 25). We hope this episode ...
17 Maalis 20241h 40min
Episode 109 – Sigh’s Weirdest! Let the Strangeness Do the Talking
Sigh is unquestionably one of the weirdest bands in the metal realm. And since Radical Research skews weird, and since we are both fans of Sigh since the mid ‘90s, it seemed obvious that we would even...
1 Maalis 202450min
Episode 108 – Non-Classic-Logo-Era Napalm Death, 1994-1998
The body of critical study - and fan adoration - around the music of Napalm Death has concerned itself principally with the band's pioneering grindcore and its transition into the death metal of Harmo...
14 Helmi 20241h 7min
