Episode 99 – The Four Freaks Roundtable: Jeff & Hunter + Thomas Nul & Brian Grebenz
For 98 episodes, the pilots of Radical Research have gone it together. Mind you, the hosts have had some curatorial help along the way (Jason William Walton and Forrest Pitts, please take a bow). But ...
28 Jul 20231h 50min
Episode 98 – The Meads of Asphodel’s Guts Spun on the Loom of Judgment
Formed in 1998 in the Hertfordshire region of England, The Meads of Asphodel are a special, experimental heavy metal band with many distinctive and beguiling qualities. So why did it take one of the R...
2 Jul 20231h 22min
Episode 97 – Disembowelment Discography 1990-1993: A Burial In 14 Snippets
Is heaviness a quantifiable aspect of music? Can a piece of music display such weight, such heft, that the listener can only accept its heaviness as fact? Radical Research says “Yes,” and we are here ...
12 Jun 20231h 7min
Episode 96 – This is Not Some Stupid Quest: Disillusion’s Glorious ‘Gloria’
The Southeastern United States, from whence Radical Research is broadcast, has long prided itself on its sundry wrestling traditions. From the bare-chested hectoring of the SoCon to the gator-tangling...
18 Mai 20231h 8min
Episode 95 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations Part 3: Time to Kill
Herein we present the third and likely final installment of our Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations series. We repeat two bands previously featured on other episodes (Kraan, King Crimson) and bring you eight...
15 Apr 202358min
Episode 94 – The Real Freakshow: Psychotic Waltz 1990-1996
Over the course of its previous 93 episodes, Radical Research has banged, thrashed, and decapitated but never before has it waltzed. That ends now. Formed as Aslan in 1985, San Diego's Psychotic Waltz...
19 Mar 20231h 21min
Episode 93 – The Sadus ‘Swallowed in Black’ Track-by-Track Batshit-Crazy Attaaaaaack!!!
When a member of a fringe Swedish death metal band makes a request, Radical Research heeds the call. To that end, RR episode 93 is a response to Philip Von Segebaden’s (Afflicted) appeal for a song-by...
21 Feb 20231h 3min
Episode 92 – Last Crack: The Best of All Our Burning Time
Rarely can a rock or metal band be described in terms of open-heartedness, nostalgia, or compassion. But the subject of Radical Research’s 92nd episode defies convention in nearly every way. Madison, ...
2 Feb 20231h 16min
