Episode 22 – Weeping Suns & Churning Seas: An Examination of Pyogenesis’ Twinaleblood
It would be inaccurate to say that Germany’s Pyogenesis is underrated because, in fact, they have hardly ever been rated at all. Over the course of their career – which is still in process – Pyogenesi...
1 Jan 20191h 10min
Episode 21 – Who is the Freak Now? Regurgitating OLD
Meet the creatures Plotkin & Dubin, instigators of some of the most beguiling music ever beamed to Earth from a New Jersey-shaped quasar. Like the guy in the petri dish on the Musical Dimensions… alb...
18 Dec 20181h 27min
Episode 20 – Wolf’s Lair Abyss: Answer & Announcement
From the dark past, in the light of freezing moons and through funeral fog, Mayhem reappeared in 1997, under cover of night and to relatively little fanfare. Wolf’s Lair Abyss, the band’s first releas...
4 Dec 201851min
Episode 19 – The Unquietness of Fleurety
Goodbye clarity, hello obfuscation… Norway’s other post-black metal duo, perhaps dwelling deeper in obscure shadows than Solefald… we hail Fleurety’s dedication to the dark arts and… which craft? All ...
27 Nov 20181h 16min
Episode 18 – Do You Hear Solar Music? Grobschnitt’s Cosmic Fantasia
From a kernel to a cosmos. Over the course of a decade and beyond, Germany’s Grobschnitt twisted and bent and stretched a piece of sound that would be known as “Solar Music.” An alchemical collision o...
13 Nov 201848min
Episode 17.5: Permeable Lines – A Dangerous Dance with Inspiration
The second in an occasional series of brief ambushes. With this mini-episode, we ponder and marvel at similarities between a certain few musical passages. Prompted by our previous episode on Afflicted...
6 Nov 201810min
Episode 17 – Take the Bröms Dose: The Works of Afflicted
Prolific for a brief few years, with curious beginnings and a mostly ignored ending, Afflicted’s supernova burned brightly at its peak. That peak, Prodigal Sun, is the essential cornerstone of Afflict...
30 Okt 20181h 8min
Episode 16 – Synth Whores
Few things in life get the hosts of Radical Research as excited as the squishy, otherworldly sounds of the analog synthesizer. For our 16th episode, a special detour from our typical musings, we sort ...
16 Okt 201855min
