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
Episode 49 – CAVEAT!!!!!! Nuclear Death 1986-2000
Many bands have professed to play death metal, but few have summoned the power of death itself, have forced the very bowels of earth to erupt. Nuclear Death, the lords of their own putrid hell-scape, ...
28 Jan 20201h 27min
Episode 48 – Vaffel House of Kicks: The Works of Albino Slug
For the second time in a matter of months, your intrepid hosts find themselves in the frosty arms of Trondheim, Norway, this time to investigate the world of the frustratingly private Albino Slug. Kno...
14 Jan 202053min
Episode 47 – This is Self-Destructing Turnip, Come in Radish: Porcupine Tree’s Curious Debut
After firing up a band called No Man Is An Island (later shortened to No-Man), a young Steven Wilson corralled a couple friends and some wild ideas to sculpt homespun cassette recordings under the str...
31 Dec 20191h 6min
Episode 46 – For Knobs, For Wires, For Faders: Synth Whores II
Bust out the Purell and take a healthy dose of penicillin because the whores are back in town. On this special -- and occasionally-recurring -- episode of Radical Research, we stroll alongside a porno...
17 Dec 20190s
Episode 45 – A Means to an End: The Manes Discography
For the 45th episode of Radical Research, we continue our trek north, this time landing in Trondheim, Norway, where we take a close look at the vast and fascinating discography of Manes. Well-respecte...
27 Nov 20190s
