Episode 44 – 44th & Magical: Xysma 1989 – 1998
When Uranus falls, once and for all, in the cosmic background will be heard the humming, buzzing sound of a tragically-overlooked group of travelers. Formed in 1988 in Turku, Finland, Xysma waged a de...
12 Nov 20191h 36min
Episode 43 – Cut It! Cut It! Dissecting Mr. Bungle’s ‘California’
After recording two mind-bending and defiant albums -- pieced together, ever so precariously, with the bacterial molecules of metal, ska, contemporary music, free jazz, musique concrete, tango, imagin...
28 Okt 20190s
Episode 42 – Modular Madness: In the Laboratory with Heldon’s ‘Stand By’
Emerging from a web of poststructuralist philosophy and electronic fetishism, France’s Heldon -- whose name is derived from Norman Spinrad novel, The Iron Dream -- functioned from 1974–1979 as a vehic...
15 Okt 20190s
Episode 41.5 – Mystery Snippets pt. 2
Welcome to the second installment of this occasional episode in the margins...we have fun trying to fool each other by playing an unlabeled, unmarked piece of music. For diehard Radical Research enthu...
8 Okt 20190s
Episode 41 – Express Bullet Train to Obscurity Town: Sindrome, Epitaph, Mid-Evil, Embrionic Death, Paraxism
Let’s face it: we live in a world bereft of justice. And so it falls on the shoulders of Radical Research to shine a bit of light into this dim world. On this, our 41st episode, we give a voice to the...
1 Okt 20190s
Episode 40 – Temptations So Wild: Gorgoroth’s ‘Incipit Satan’
Departing from the tractor-beam blasphemy of their seminal first four albums, Bergen, Norway’s Gorgoroth offer a more panoramic approach to (a career in) evil on their daring fifth missive, Incipit Sa...
17 Sep 20191h
Episode 39 – In The Woods… Family Tree
Greetings from the nativity. This podcast began as an examination of the vast and nebulous frontier of Norwegian post-black metal. In that spirit, episode 39 of Radical Research probes the tentacles o...
3 Sep 20191h 21min
Episode 38 – Fathom by Fathom by Fathom: Kayo Dot’s Blasphemy
Toby Driver’s path to the present has been circuitous and inscrutable, which is to say, in keeping with music he has written over the last 25 years. His work in Maudlin of the Well, Kayo Dot, and as a...
20 Aug 201956min
