Episode 81 – Dave Murray, Drummer! (Traun, Estradasphere, Tholus, Sculptured)
How California-based drummer, Dave Murray, has escaped the notice of several more tens of thousands of people worldwide, we cannot say. We recognize an extraordinary talent in Murray, not only as a mu...
9 Jun 20221h 13min
Episode 80 – Supuration 1990-1994: Sojourns in the Absurd
For our 80th episode, Radical Research detaches itself from the icy grips of Norway and takes a sojourn southward to France, a country whose history with death metal gives priority to quality over qua...
16 Mai 20221h 3min
Episode 79 – Simen Hestnaes aka ICS Vortex: 25 Years of Agility and Quirk
For the final installment of our 6-episode Norwegian tour across this most creatively-fertile country, Radical Research surveys the career of Simen Hestnaes. Working both under his given name, as well...
26 Apr 20221h 45min
Episode 78 – Enslaved’s Monumension: Floating Diversity & Monumental Dimensions
We love Enslaved. They are a rare long-running band that, in our estimation, have not released a bad album. Of their 15 full-lengths to date, your Radical Research hosts highly rank their sixth album,...
31 Mar 202258min
Episode 77 – Wobbler 2005-2020: Seeing the Forest & the Trees
To date, Radical Research has made more trips to Norway than any other country. But, typically, we spend our time in the shadowy realms of post-black metal. For our 77th episode, we travel to the gree...
21 Mar 20221h 9min
Episode 76 – Ulver’s Kristoffer Rygg Outside the Wolf Pack
We know and love him as Garm, the frontman in Ulver since that pioneering band’s very beginnings. He has also fronted Norwegian luminaries Arcturus and Borknagar. All this alone would be enough to pla...
19 Feb 20221h 1min
Episode 75 – Ansur & Frantic Bleep: Norwegian Voyagers in the Hazy Aughts
At the dawn of the 21st century, strange sounds brewed in the Southeastern corner of Norway -- musical paths cobbled together with the tortured echoes of second wave black metal, the ambitious, border...
24 Jan 20221h 16min
Episode 74 – In The Woods… In The Weeds… 1993-2000
In our 39th episode, we explored the family tree of Kristiansand, Norway collective In the Woods... Here, in our 74th episode, we go straight to the source to explore and exalt the work of In the Wood...
21 Des 20211h 41min
