Episode 73 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations, Part 2
12 ripping snippets from 11 fusion ragers spanning 1972 to 1982. We did the first one in 2018, episode 5, and it was high time we returned to the madness! We herewith present a variety of displays fro...
29 Nov 20211h 16min
Episode 72 – Master’s Hammer: Dreaming Bulldogs & Shy Geckos
Formed in the Czech Republic in 1987, Master’s Hammer summoned a singular, constantly mutating approach to black metal over two distinct lifetimes (1987-1995, 2009-2020). The band’s debut album, Ritua...
8 Nov 20211h 1min
Episode 71 – Paul Chain’s Illogical Slow Evolution
Paul Chain’s Illogical Slow Evolution Radical Research interrogates, with few exceptions, the work of artists who operate in the darkest, most cryptic corners of the rock and metal multiverse. The ...
12 Okt 20211h 11min
Episode 70 – Solefald 1996-2015: A Red Episode With Black Edges
Extant since the mid 1990s, Solefald may have been the first Norwegian black metal band to entirely bypass the necro stages of development and arrive fully formed as a "post"/"avant" type mischief-mak...
24 Aug 20211h 25min
Episode 69 — Minds No Longer Present: Eucharist’s Mirrorworlds
Often overlooked relative to Gothenburg luminaries such as At the Gates, In Flames, and Dark Tranquility, Eucharist, whose entire legacy hinges upon two full-length albums and a clutch of compilation ...
3 Aug 202154min
Episode 68 – The 6/8 Time Signature in Heavy Metal: Marching into Fire
The occasion of Radical Research's 68th installment could have been marked in one way only – with a full-force exaltation of music's deadliest, most head-snapping time signature, 6/8! On this episode,...
19 Jul 20211h 8min
Episode 67 – Prog Macabre: French Dread
With this dispatch, we descend into the catacombs to examine France's heritage of musical terror. From the spectral melancholy of Pulsar to the howling conflagrations of Deathspell Omega, this episode...
7 Jun 20211h 23min
Episode 66 – The Houde Abides: Kataklysm 1993-1996
Have you even the slightest notion of mystical reincarnation? Unfortunately for you, as for the rest of we mortals, even after spending hours with the music of Houde-era Kataklysm, it is unlikely that...
11 Mai 202151min
