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 Dec 20211h 41min
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
