Episode 83.5 – Metal Laughs
Metal is serious business. So why so much laughter? We don’t really have the answer, but here’s the first installment of some of our favorite metal laughs. There are more and we’ll revisit this silly ...
10 Aug 20228min
Episode 83 – Skin Yard 1986-1993: Fist Sized Snippets
The soils of Seattle rock have been tilled to ruin, the same seeds planted season after season. Radical Research has come to rotate the crops. Of the artists to emerge from the primordial welter of 19...
27 Jul 20221h 15min
Episode 82 – Fates Warning: An Impromptu Discussion
In anticipation of Destination Onward – The Story of Fates Warning and its publication in July, 2022, the author, Jeff Wagner, and Radical Research co-host, Hunter Ginn, sit down and talk about Fates ...
27 Jun 20221h 13min
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
