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
Episode 52 – Eight-Sided Views of Two-Headed Turtles: The Mars Volta’s Octahedron
A journey through a wilderness of Nembutals and Luciforms, The Mars Volta’s fifth album offers up a radical departure from the itinerant mania of The Bedlam in Goliath, to explore the inscrutable, dre...
4 Aug 20201h 8min
Episode 51 – Suffocated by Stars: Ripping Into Nocturnus’s ‘Thresholds’
Continuing our appreciation for the unloved misfits of Metalopolis, we always considered 1992’s Thresholds, by Florida’s Nocturnus, an honorary 1993 album. Until we found out it was recorded in Decemb...
15 Juli 20201h 15min
Episode 50 – Exalt of the Weird: Celebrating Celtic Frost’s Into the Pandemonium
Storming the gates with a new wave cover tune, borrowing from Baudelaire and sampling from NASA Apollo transmissions over primitive machine pulses, Swiss pioneers Celtic Frost exploited terrain no met...
11 Feb 20202h 11min
