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Rise To Offend
Rise To Offend
104 episodes
7 months ago
By 1991 Death Metal was in full swing, and the blueprint for a successful image and sound was in place for most bands in the Florida scene, but Chuck Schuldiner would make the huge right turn for the genre when he unleashed his Fourth album Human. At that point the path that the scene he helped create would go one way, and Chuck Schuldiner would go discover new ground. He would redefine the rules placed by those who came afterwards, and create art where critics felt was a low brow form of music. Every album he put forward would create a different path for anyone in extreme music and create a legacy that would only belong to him, but the conflicts internally in his camp and with the industry would follow him throughout his career, until the fateful day everything would change for the him and the fanbase he created across the globe.
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By 1991 Death Metal was in full swing, and the blueprint for a successful image and sound was in place for most bands in the Florida scene, but Chuck Schuldiner would make the huge right turn for the genre when he unleashed his Fourth album Human. At that point the path that the scene he helped create would go one way, and Chuck Schuldiner would go discover new ground. He would redefine the rules placed by those who came afterwards, and create art where critics felt was a low brow form of music. Every album he put forward would create a different path for anyone in extreme music and create a legacy that would only belong to him, but the conflicts internally in his camp and with the industry would follow him throughout his career, until the fateful day everything would change for the him and the fanbase he created across the globe.
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Rise To Offend
RTO 400 Chuck Schuldiner (Part 3 of 3)
By 1991 Death Metal was in full swing, and the blueprint for a successful image and sound was in place for most bands in the Florida scene, but Chuck Schuldiner would make the huge right turn for the genre when he unleashed his Fourth album Human. At that point the path that the scene he helped create would go one way, and Chuck Schuldiner would go discover new ground. He would redefine the rules placed by those who came afterwards, and create art where critics felt was a low brow form of music. Every album he put forward would create a different path for anyone in extreme music and create a legacy that would only belong to him, but the conflicts internally in his camp and with the industry would follow him throughout his career, until the fateful day everything would change for the him and the fanbase he created across the globe.
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4 years ago
1 hour 11 minutes 4 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 399 Chuck Schuldiner(Part 2 of 3)
After the release of the debut record form Death entitled Scream Bloody Gore, the musical genre known as Death Metal had a presence created by Chuck Schuldiner that would spawn extreme acts across the globe. Conflict would follow as his loyalty to his home and family would clash with the vagabond life of a touring musician in an extreme heavy metal band, line up changes and touring conflicts would start a rumor mill as the competitive nature of the Florida Death Metal scene in the late 80's would start to become a major underground musical movement, and Chuck would have to navigate through negative press and peers to maintain his hold on the genre he helped create, or he would have to redefine it once again. Part 2 of 3
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4 years ago
1 hour 10 minutes 21 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 398 Chuck Schuldiner (Part 1 of 3)
When it comes to the history of extreme heavy metal Chuck Schuldiner will always have a chapter, as the media proclaimed Godfather of Death Metal, he would invent a sound and style of the underground that would influence the genre eternally. However despite the brutal name of his band Death and the genres boundary pushing existence in horror, gore, and violence. The person behind the sounds birth, was never one to fit into a mold or label to the music he inspired, instead would create a truly original voice that would go beyond any genre. Part 1 of 3
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4 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes 48 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 397 Dance Marathons (Part 2 of 2)
October 28th, 1929 would be labeled Black Tuesday and would spark the end of the roaring 20’s and the beginning of the great depression in America, prohibition laws still in effect would create the rise of gangster culture and the newspaper would document the violence daily even making heroes out of the likes of gangsters like Al Capone, the desperation would bleed directly into entertainment as promoters and law officers would mimic the behavior of those above the law, and the fun endurance competition known as Dance Marathons would change into exploiting those who had no options for survival, distracting America through radio frequencies as contestants tortured themselves for months to keep a roof over there head and food in their stomach. Part 2 of 2
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4 years ago
54 minutes 34 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 396 Dance Marathons (Part 1 of 2)
When records in athletic events like the Olympics started to bring people fame and fortune, the common people of the world started doing endurance tests to gain the same record breaking notoriety as athletic achievements. The 1920's was a breeding ground for trends and fads that would be built on human endurance. Flag pole sitting, foot races, and marathon dancing would start to become news stories across the modern invention of radio broadcasting, and advertisers were first in line for the drama built around the contests, but after the stock market crash and the Great Depression swept across America these tests would become much more than simple games of fame and fortune. Part 1 of 2
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4 years ago
58 minutes 48 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 395 Charles Bukowski (Part 3 of 3)
Decades of writing and keeping a normal 9 to 5 job would finally come to an end for Charles Bukowski after the release of his first novel Post Office, and the words that he passionately dictated would become his life and reality. His voice wold reach an audience and they would clamor for more, some would fall in love with him, some would detest him, and he would embrace this lifestyle completely, cementing a legacy of someone who gave up on any social norms, embraced addictions, womanizing, and hopeless cynicism. Putting pen to paper he worked harder than everyone he knew to justify that philosophy of being a true loner, and lived in constant chaos but made it look easy and even fun. Part 3 of 3
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4 years ago
53 minutes 40 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 394 Charles Bukowski (Part 2 of 2)
The childhood behind him and the life of a drifter ahead. Charles Bukowski would gather genuine life experience by being the outcast he was always taught to be, and his voice as a writer would not compromise. Finding a partner would change everything for him as a person, writer, and his addiction to alcohol would be more of a pro than a con in his existence, but with that brought a wild card of drama and an embrace and apply of a lifestyle shunned by the masses. Part 2 of 3
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4 years ago
55 minutes 27 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 393 Charles Bukowski (Part 1 of 3)
Every person embraces a demon in life and gets tied to it, but Charles Bukowski made his demons cool. Writing in such a genuine cynicism that you would want to sit next to him to see the show that would be his life. Unapologetic to everyone he would embrace his addictions as a personality that would always be tied to his world view. Born on August 16th, 1920 in Germany, and growing up through the great depression, the voice of dirty realism would have hard lessons from the start of his life which would paint his future world view. Part 1 of 3
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4 years ago
48 minutes

Rise To Offend
RTO 392 John O' Brien (Part 2 of 2)
Is the fantasy left behind the legacy of an artist? Is the goal to reach the world and leave a positive mark on other’s lives? John O’ Brien would be the seed to motivate and change the lives of many that his work influenced, but the story of who he was when he was will always be secondary to the character he created, Ben and Sera or Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. Leaving Las Vegas would change all the lives that would take his work and translate it to cinema but it never changed his and as the creation to tell his story to millions as opposed to thousands would become a reality, his reality would be become the tragic back story of a press release to one of the most captivating and heartbreaking love story in the history of American Cinema. Part 2 of 2
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4 years ago
1 hour 26 minutes 34 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 391 John O' Brien (Part 1 of 2)
Self destruction and art have always found a kinship in searching for truth. The words an author creates, when they are unquestionable genuine, always outweighs the legacy of the person who created them. John O'Brien was on that pursuit, embracing the glorious moments of the broken, the fake confidence that gives that person a feeling of truly being alive, and showing the world everyone can find the story tale love despite their demons. The pages who wrote defined these philosophies but the reality of the demons that got him there would get the last word. Part 1 of 2
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4 years ago
57 minutes 16 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 390 Insane Clown Posse (Part 3 of 3)
After signing to Disney the Insane Clown Posse would get censored and their album would be pulled off the shelf across America, and that move by the corporate giant would make everyone want to know the controversy behind the Hip Hop Duo. The word of mouth alone would and hatred from critics would sky rocket the group, and their diehard fanbase the Juggalos would stick through them not matter which route the headed next. Part 3 of 3
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4 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes 6 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 389 Insane Clown Posse (Part 2 of 3)
After Carnival of Carnage dropped the Insane Clown Posse was met with horrible reviews from music critiques, and the major labels turning them down immediately. The persistent of the underground and Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope would not waiver as the mythos and marketing behind the group would find an untapped market and audience. The Joker Card imagery and the horror movie lyrics would speak directly too many and as the Juggalo Family grew ICP was now on the radar of all those money men that laughed at them. Part 2 of 3
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5 years ago
43 minutes 15 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 388 Insane Clown Posse (Part 1 of 3)
Few hip hop groups would be as unlikely to succeed as ICP was, but the found a core fanbase that nobody wanted or thought was out there and united them in a culture that would define many's lives. The Inner City Posse would form and want to conquer the world of wrestling and eventually hip hop, but couldn't break through until the group took on a new image and name the would speak to the masses and change their lives and futures forever. Part 1 of 3
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5 years ago
58 minutes 19 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 387 Woodstock (Part 3 of 3)
Recreating magic that occurred the weekend in Bethel, New York at Max Yasgur’s farm would be a lifelong journey for festival co founder Michael Lang, but with an expectation set of 3 days of peace and love and unity for half a million people would be difficult. In the process of finding that magic the 60’s counter culture movement would be destroyed, complete corporate takeovers, media takeovers, rapes, murders, fires, and full scale riots would eventually be associated with the brand. The legacy of Woodstock and that magically weekend can never be tarnished but the sequels will always be a black mark on the legacy and a lesson to generations ahead. Part 3 of 3
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5 years ago
1 hour 10 minutes 22 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 386 Woodstock (Part 2 of 3)
The budget went over 600 percent and the construction would never get completed, but the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was a revolution. A free concert, not by design, that would define a culture and music more than any moment in the history of America. Woodstock would garner an audience of nearly half a million people that would live for 3 days in rough conditions and show the world the possibility of peace and love that would silence all the critics fears and define the power of youth culture . Part 2 of 3
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5 years ago
1 hour 9 minutes 54 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 385 Woodstock (Part 1 of 3)
The 60’s were a time that was redefining culture in America and the generation known as the baby boomers had the challenge of living there lives through an influx of turmoil. 18 year olds were being drafted to a war in Vietnam, the leaders for change were being assassinated on a yearly basis, rejection of all the was the basis of survival for many and living in the moment would become a philosophy, counter culture would embrace sex, drugs, and homelessness as a new form of society, and rock n roll would become not just a outlet to those but also a safe haven. The meeting of all the chaos would form on a dairy farm into 1969 as the decade and summer of love ended with 3 days that defined a generation and culture forever. Part 1 of 3
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5 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 53 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 384 Jerry Springer (Part 2 of 2)
After the failed attempt to go through politics because of a prostitution scandal, Jerry Springer would take his talents to the news becoming a TV anchorman winning 10 Emmy's, but when opportunity knocked for a daytime TV show Jerry would put all his eggs in that basket. Although the show was not controversial or outrageous in anyway, when ratings needed a boost the world would be introduced to the sex, violence, and debauchery that will always be tied to his name and legacy on TV. Part 2 of 2
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5 years ago
53 minutes 50 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 383 Jerry Springer (Part 1 of 2)
The story of the man behind some of television's most outrageous and lowest moments would be grounded in positive change for society in his youth. Jerry Springer would grow up in a home of survivors and educate himself into politics, changing important laws, and following leaders like RFK. Throughout his intelligence and ambitious ways he would face the turmoil of a secret life that would derail one path and open the door for him to be the one of the sleaziest names in daytime television history. Part 1 of 2
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5 years ago
45 minutes 23 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 382 Dave Brockie AKA Oderus Urungus (Part 2 of 2)
Scumdogs of The Universe was released on January 8th, 1990 and the reaction would be immediate, the Slave Pit team that created this ultra offensive metal band of space aliens would get reactions from all. Dave Brockie would lead the charge and continue to create art that disturbed, took no prisoner, and took a made as laugh at everything wrong. The concept of GWAR would truly take perseverance through the years and as each album release would continue, line ups would change, musical trends would change, but there was only one GWAR, and only one Dave Brockie. The alter ego of Oderus Urungus would take on a life of its own and 30 years later the legacy of what was created at Richmond Dairy and its mastermind that kept it alive still stand true. Part 2 of 2
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5 years ago
1 hour 25 minutes 58 seconds

Rise To Offend
RTO 381 Dave Brockie AKA Oderus Urungus (Part 1 of 2)
Dave Brockie was an outsider but a leader among those in Richmond, Virginia, USA. The punk rocker that would turn to music while attending VCU would immerse himself in underground art and culture at the abandoned Richmond Dairy Building, and as the years went on he would create a stage experience and world with the help of many in that culture. Becoming Oderus Urungus frontman of the Heavy Metal trailblazers GWAR. Part 1 of 2
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5 years ago
52 minutes 28 seconds

Rise To Offend
By 1991 Death Metal was in full swing, and the blueprint for a successful image and sound was in place for most bands in the Florida scene, but Chuck Schuldiner would make the huge right turn for the genre when he unleashed his Fourth album Human. At that point the path that the scene he helped create would go one way, and Chuck Schuldiner would go discover new ground. He would redefine the rules placed by those who came afterwards, and create art where critics felt was a low brow form of music. Every album he put forward would create a different path for anyone in extreme music and create a legacy that would only belong to him, but the conflicts internally in his camp and with the industry would follow him throughout his career, until the fateful day everything would change for the him and the fanbase he created across the globe.