Turns out the new saviours of rock n' roll were just a marketing psyop
Geese.....yep.....Geese who were being touted as the new saviours of rock n' roll by the Guardian newspaper only a month or two ago have turned out to be more or less a marketing psyop created by a br...
24 Apr 34min
Was there an FBI conspiracy to kill off rock music?....no seriously.....
Was there an FBI conspiracy to kill off rock music? eh....no seriously....sort of, well Billy Corgan alluded to it on his podcast so I take it on face value and look into what changed. If we take Wood...
17 Apr 35min
Welcome to the old boys club.....
The first time Primordial played Inferno festival in Norway was 20 years ago, I reflect on then and now. Have we just graduated to the middle aged men's club without knowing it? growing old with the s...
10 Apr 39min
Is Pagan Metal refuge or revivalism?
After a weekend at a Pagan Metal metal festival, and all the adjacent forms of music, medieval music, new folk, and all the newer bands in the Heilung/Wardruna vein I ask the simple question, is this ...
3 Apr 29min
...is 1987 the greatest year in Heavy Metal history?.....
Episode 300 is proper heavy metal nerdism, together with Joe from that GAMA BOMB we go over our top 20 or so albums of 1987, and find we have wildly varying tastes when it gets down to the crunch. Who...
3 Apr 1h 55min
Are we heading for DIRE STRAITS?...
Are we heading for some really Dire Straits because of the war in the Middle East? Energy rationing? stay at home and work orders? or is that fear mongering....? did you realise how important Desallin...
27 Mar 29min
Making metal in authoritarian states
Following a trip to Albania I consider all the various coefficients that have to go together to allow scenes to exist in harsh conditions, religious oppression, totalitarian regimes or outright povert...
20 Mar 36min
The pleasure is to play....does it matter what you get paid?
Today's podcast looks back at the history of record contracts, over 100 years ago and asks were musicians back then paid more for their work than streaming does now? was the music industry the canary ...
13 Mar 40min
