Episode 60 – God It’s Great to Be Alive: Helios Creed 1985-1992
We at Radical Research have made a habit of descending into the vortices of profound sound, but our adventures with the musical hijinks of Helios Creed make most other sojourns seem, by comparison, li...
12 Jan 20211h
Episode 59 – At the Oxiplegatz: The Episode Nobody Wanted
Even in the bizarro wilderness of Radical Research, Alf Svensson’s Oxiplegatz stands out in its peerless freakishness. A founding member of the epochal Swedish death metal band, At the Gates, Svensson...
16 Dec 20201h 13min
Episode 58 – Let’s Necromance! Ripping Off Rush With Love
If the wild, transcendent music we exalt were a cluttered yet beautifully arrayed galaxy, the artists making that music would be planets and Rush would be its sun. So much of what ticks off all the ri...
30 Nov 20201h 13min
Episode 57 – Naught Was Anymore Like Before: Atrocity 1990-1992
Germany’s Atrocity have been plying their execrable goth-metal wares since 1994’s precipitously tragic Blut, but the band’s first two albums, 1990’s Hallucinations and 1992’s Todessehnsucht (aka Longi...
13 Nov 20201h 6min
Episode 56 – Genesis & The Lamb’s Hindquarters
“If you think it’s pretentious, you’ve been taken for a ride” With this episode, we look at the second half of Genesis’s 1974 double-album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Garnering a mixed reactio...
28 Okt 20201h 28min
Episode 55 – Wicked Webs Weaved: The Works of Hammers of Misfortune
Herewith we present an overview of one of the most beguiling bands to emerge from American soil. Part doomed epic metal, part gothic grandeur, peppered with prog, and very much in the spirit of our ot...
12 Okt 20201h 38min
Episode 54 – Radical Miscellany: 7 Degrees of Norwegian Metal Separation & Uli Kusch Glorified
part 1: In which Hunter is assigned a 7 Degrees of Separation task, with these parameters: begin in Norwegian metal, end in Norwegian metal. Betwixt, he was free to roam. We start at Ivar Bjornson (E...
28 Sep 202058min
Episode 53 – It’s All Gone Weird: The Ved Buens Ende/Virus A/B
We love to draw lines and conclusions. We hear links and threads where there may be none, or, on a good day, where we might just be onto something. And we love Norway, especially its music. Especially...
25 Aug 202053min
