The Sons of Metal Podcast

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CHR and Doug

100 episodes

9 months ago

Every month CHR and Doug review six heavy metal albums. Each of them chooses a recent release, and then they talk about a small label/independent/unsigned band. Finally, in the Heavy Metal Valhalla segment, they feature a classic metal release every fan should have in his/her collection. As a second monthly episode, they review two random albums they happen to like. Their different ages, backgrounds, and tastes make for some interesting discussions on a wide variety of heavy music.

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The Sons of Metal Podcast

Episode #103: Evoke the Dark God of Aggression

It's the final episode of The Sons of Metal. CHR embarks on one last solo flight with new albums from Anaal Nathrakh and Aldious, checks out some indie grindcore from Anthropic, and prepares to enter Valhalla himself alongside Amon Amarth's appropriately-titled seventh album.

Folks, it's been a pleasure entertaining you the last eight-plus years, and summoning the last bit of warmth from my icy, cynical heart, I thank all of you for your attention during this time. Whether you've been a subscriber since episode #1 or just recently discovered us, I hope we managed to both inform and entertain during your time with us.
Take care and be safe,--CHR

New Releases:

Anaal Nathrakh : Endarkenment (2020) 9:36
Anaal Nathrakh are a British extreme metal band formed in 1999 in Birmingham, England. Their sound is a complex mix of symphonic black metal, black metal, death metal, grindcore, and industrial.
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Aldious : Evoke 2010–2020 (2020) 19:43
Aldious is a Japanese all-female power metal band from Osaka, who formed in 2008. They have been labelled pioneers of the Girls Metal Band Boom that began in Japan in the 2010s.
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Local/Indie Band:

Anthropic : Architects Of Aggression (2020) 30:45
Anthropic are a grindcore band from from Buffalo, New York who are heavily inspired by 1980s grindcore, crust punk, and death metal.
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4 years ago

55 minutes 39 seconds

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The B-Side #26: Warmonger

It's Doug's last show ever and the final B-Side. CHR opens the show with the blackened folk of Finland's Havukruunu and Doug closes things out with the tech-death onslaught of Canada's Beneath The Massacre.

The Albums:

Havukruunu : Uinuos Syömein Sota (2020) 5:02
Havukruunu is a Finnish duo who plays blackened folk metal very much in the vein of mid- to late-career Bathory, Rimfrost, and similar bands. Their music is grand in scope with multiple movements, choral elements, and other forms of bombast.
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Beneath The Massacre : Fearmonger (2020) 21:57
Beneath The Massacre is a Canadian technical death metal band from Quebec. They play extremely fast, and although the songs are relatively short, they pack a lot of material into just a few minutes.
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5 years ago

34 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode #102: Fields of Reveries on the Theodicy of Nija

It's Doug's last main episode, so CHR gifts him the ursine onslaught of Chicago's Bear Mace, while Doug opts for the heavy groove of Sweden's Orbit Culture. CHR picks a conceptually unusual indie pick with South Africa's Incarnate Deity, and Doug uses his final Valhalla pick to feature one of his favorite albums of all time, Opeth's 2005 album, Ghost Reveries. Additionally, CHR talks about the future of the show.

New Releases:

Bear Mace : Charred Fields Of Slaughter (2020) 9:06
Hailing from Chicago, IL, USA, Bear Mace describe their sound as "planet crushing death metal". What started out as a cross between Bolt Thrower and Dethklok now incorporates more dynamic elements, such as those from later Pantera and mid-career Death.
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Orbit Culture : Nija (2020) 21:36
Orbit Culture are a Swedish melodeath/groove metal act who mix in some thrash and progressive elements into a unique sound.
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Local/Indie Band:

Incarnate Deity : Theodicy (2020) 34:39
Incarnate Deitiy is a conceptually unusual one-man act from South Africa. It's symphonic blackened death metal, but with Christian undertones. Even if you don't subscribe to the religious philosophy, the music should appeal to fans of SepticFlesh and early Dimmu Borgir.
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5 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes 22 seconds

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The B-Side #25: Regeneration Rex

Doug opens the show with a semi-posthumous release from Static-X while CHR keeps it simple with some death/thrash from Sweden's Vampire.

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The Albums:

Static-X : Project Regeneration, Volume 1 (2020) 3:14
Static-X is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, and was influental in the late-1990s/early 2000s nu-metal movement. After frontman Wayne Static's death in 2014, they found a significant amount of unreleased material that the remaining original members of Static-X put together into this new album.
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Vampire : Rex (2020) 15:47
Hailing from Gothenberg, Sweden, the anonymous quintet known as Vampire have been releasing a vicious combination of thrash and death metal since 2014.
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5 years ago

32 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode #101: Consequence of Death In An Orange Medium

The show opens with Doug dropping two bombshells, and follows it up with some slammy Russian death metal from Katalepsy. CHR slows some things down with some "jammy" doom metal from Pale Divine. In the indie segment, they listen to some punk-laden death metal from Argentina's Medium, and in Heavy Metal Valhalla, CHR brings back the Teutonic thrash with Sodom's third album.

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New Releases:

Katalepsy : Terra Mortuus Est (2020) 10:55
Katalepsy is a Russian death metal band from Moscow. The group formed in 2003, and have lyrical themes centered around gore, violence, murder, and perversions.
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Pale Divine : Consequence Of Time (2020) 24:15
Pale Divine are a Pennsylvania-based doom metal band that has been around since 1995. Their sound invokes shades of Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and Trouble with some progressive elements reminiscent of Yes and Uriah Heep.
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Local/Indie Band:

Medium : Medium (2018) 36:18
Hailing from Argentina, Medium present their own take on the grind/crust styl...

5 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes 56 seconds

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The B-Side #24: Curse Of The Fates

CHR opens the show with female-fronted blackened thrash from France while Doug indulges his drunken, stupid side with some Scottish pirate metal.

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The Albums:

Witches : The Fates (2020) 3:35
Formed back in 1986, Witches, known as the first French band in France with female guttural vocals, has been an on-again/off-again project with the vocalist being the only original member.
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Alestorm : Curse Of The Crystal Coconut (2020) 11:38
Scotland's Alestorm is possibly the most-recognized pirate-themed metal band today and are responsible for bringing the keytar back into vogue.
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5 years ago

27 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode #100: Deliverance From A Closed God Is Only Beginning

IT'S EPISODE ONE HUNDRED! This turns out to be a non-event (Thanks, COVID!), but still manages to be a fun show. CHR opens with some crossover/hardcore from the Cro-Mags while Doug indulges his "chugga-chug" side with Lamb Of God's newest. CHR gets slow and grimy in the indie segment with WeedWizard, while Doug highlights a forgotten band from the 1990s with Corrosion of Conformity's fourth album.

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New Releases:

Cro-Mags : In The Beginning (2020) 6:48
The Cro-Mags are a crossover thrash/hardcore band from New York City. With a Hare Krishna background, they were among the first bands to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal and were associated with the birth of a tougher attitude within the hardcore scene in the late 1980s, related to the world of martial arts.
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Lamb Of God : Lamb Of God (2020) 17:53
Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1994 as Burn the Priest, the band is considered a significant member of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal movement.
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WeedWizard : Closed Eyes... Open Mind (2020) 32:12
WeedWizard started somewhere in Germany back in 2013 to worship the heavy, fuzzy riffs of stoner metal, doom, and sludge. Their sound employs Black Sabbath style riffing with gravely vocals, and an excessive amount of downtuning.
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5 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 34 seconds

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The B-Side #23: A Rattle in Valhalla

Doug opens the show with some mythological doom metal from Indiana with Wolftooth's sophomore album, while CHR goes a more metal-adjacent route with Wailin Storms's third release.

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The Albums:

Wolftooth : Valhalla (2020) 3:32
Hailing from Richmond, Indiana, Wolftooth are a pack of well-seasoned musicians combining influences from the 1970s and early 1980s NWOBHM with thrash and doom-laden riffs.
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Wailin Storms : Rattle (2020) 13:21
Wailin Storms, from North Carolina, play a mix of doom-punk and swampy rock with vocals reminiscent of bluesy masters like Howlin’ Wolf and Samhain with emotive nods to Destruction Unit, Bauhaus, and Jesus Lizard.
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5 years ago

27 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode #99: The Party’s Volume Underneath the Rubicon

Still apart, but united in metal, CHR and Doug close out the double-digit episodes with some nü-hardcore from Code Orange and tech-death from Killitorous. In the indie segment, Doug introduces us to Hyborian's imaginatively-named sophomore album, and in Heavy Metal Valhalla, CHR opts for some classic English death metal with Benediction's third album.

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New Releases:

Code Orange : Underneath (2020) 3:56
Formed under the name "Code Orange Kids" in 2008, Code Orange started out playing straightforward punk, but would eventually take their music in a heavier direction. They now describe themselves as "doomy, abrasive" hardcore punk similar to Black Flag, Converge, or Integrity.
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Killitorous : The Afterparty (2020) 15:50
Killitorous is a three-guitar technical death/grind supergroup from Canada that features endless blast beats, non-stop screaming, and relentless 1990s movies references.
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Local/Indie Band:

Hyborian : Volume II (2020) 27:40
Hyborian are a Kansas City quartet who drop immense, neck-snapping riffs while espousing tales of mythology based on the works of Robert E. Howard.
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5 years ago

54 minutes 26 seconds

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The B-Side #22: Viper Genesis

CHR opens the show with some blackened death metal from Vredehammer while Doug throws some groove in his death metal with Abysmal Dawn.

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The Albums:

Vredehammer : Viperous (2020) 2:08
Vredehammer was originally conceived as Per Valla studio solo project, formed after his departure of Elite and Allfader. He later teamed up with other musicians and Vredehammer became a full functioning band in early 2013 with the release of an EP and the band's first concert.
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Abysmal Dawn : Phylogenesis (2020) 14:46
Hailing from Los Angeles, Abysmal Dawn plays an aggressive mix of modern death metal, blending the hooks and technicality of early '90s American death metal with the atmosphere, melody, and brutality of their contemporaries.
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5 years ago

32 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode #98: Stare Downward at the Rising Vermin

As the hosts practice social distancing, CHR opens the show with the densely-produced death metal of New Zealand's Ulcerate while Doug opts for some Michigan melodeath from The Black Dahlia Murder. In the indie segment, CHR ventures to Bangladesh to check out the debut from Nawabs of Destruction. In Heavy Metal Valhalla, Doug looks at one of the most popular industrial albums from the 1990s with Nine Inch Nails' sophomore release, to mixed results.

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Links Of Note:

* COVID-19 and Cancellations: How You Can Help/Support Your Favorite Bands

New Releases:

Ulcerate : Stare Into Death And Be Still (2020) 5:44
Ulcerate is a New Zealand-based extreme metal band formed in 2000. The band's sound is characterised by extremely technical death metal with extensive use of dissonance, time signature changes, and complex song structures.
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The Black Dahlia Murder : Verminous (2020) 19:12
The Black Dahlia Murder is an American melodic death metal band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2001. Influences for the band include heavy metal bands such as Carcass, Dissection, Darkthrone, Morbid Angel, The Haunted, In Flames, Judas Priest, and Megadeth. Vocalist Trevor Strnad has cited on many occasions that he is primarily influenced by Carcass in his vocal technique.
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5 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 20 seconds

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The B-Side #21: Slaves of Orion

Doug opens the show with the throwback classic power/speed onslaught of Germany's Stallion, while CHR drags him back to the U.K. to listen to My Dying Bride's newest death/doom outing.

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The Albums:

Stallion : Slaves Of Time (2020) 2:08
Stallion is a German heavy metal band evoking the 1980s my meshing classic heavy metal with the German speed metal scene. Their music is fast and aggressive, making it appealing for fans of that scene of music.
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My Dying Bride : The Ghost Of Orion (2020) 14:46
My Dying Bride is an English doom/gothic/death metal band that has been active since 1990. Along with labelmates Anathema and Paradise Lost, the "Peaceville Three" spearheaded the doom/death movement of the 1990s which ultimately split into the gothic metal and funeral doom subgenres of today.
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5 years ago

36 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode #97: A Carnivore’s Rumination on the Creation Controversy

As the hosts practice social distancing, Doug vents his frustrations through the new Body Count album, while CHR busts some stuff up to Testament's newest LP. Feeling everyone could use some guidance on life, Doug introduces us to the Deacons of Doom philosophy. Finally, CHR needs some comfort music from his past and revisits Tesla's second album.

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Links Of Note:

* COVID-19 and Cancellations: How You Can Help/Support Your Favorite Bands

New Releases:

Body Count : Carnivore (2020) 4:55
When rapper Ice-T got a hankering for metal back in the early 1990s, he hooked up with guitarist Ernie C. and formed Body Count, a rap/thrash hybrid who created waves with their first album Cop Killer (later retitled to Body Count). In recent years, Ice-T has the metal bug biting at him again.
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Testament : Titans Of Creation (2020) 15:35
Formed back in 1983, Testament is an American thrash metal band from California and consists of vocalist Chuck Billy, guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick, bassist Steve DiGiorgio, and drummer Gene Hoglan. After thirty-odd years, the band is still producing aggressive music.
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Local/Indie Band:

Deacons Of Doom : Rumination (2020) 28:19

5 years ago

56 minutes 26 seconds

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The B-Side #20: Rock Chapel

CHR opens the show with some "psychedelic doomcore" from Germany's Warped Cross, and Doug checks out the latest release from industrial shock-rocker Davey Suicide.

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The Albums:

Warped Cross : Rumbling Chapel (2020) 3:13
Warped Cross is a stoner doom band from Germany. Calling their style "psychedelic doomcore", they take typical stoner doom formulas and mix them with punk/hardcore style drums and some spacey guitar work to create a newer sound in the space.
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Davey Suicide : Rock Ain't Dead (2020) 13:57
Hailing from "Unholywood Killafornia", Davey Suicide is cultivating the underground by fusing arena rock, gutter grit, sleaze, and theatrics into their own brand of industrial rock. The band distills rock, industrial, and punk into anthems that are as corrosive as they are catchy.
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5 years ago

26 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode #96: Deep Origins of an Aeromatic Hunter

CHR opens the show with the throwback sounds of The Night Flight Orchestra while Doug opts for some deathcore from Suicide Silence. In the indie segment, CHR checks out some experimental gothic metal from the French band Ulvånd. The gothic metal continues in Heavy Metal Valhalla where Doug highlights the 1991 debut from Type O Negative.

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News:

* Sacred Reich guitarist and founding member Jason Rainey dead at 53

New Releases:

The Night Flight Orchestra : Aeromatic (2020) 6:52
The Night Flight Orchestra started when Björn Strid and David Andersson were touring with Soilwork in North America in 2007. They were bonding over classic music and the events surrounding it, and decided it needed a soundtrack. Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy), Richard Larsson (Von Benzo), drummer Jonas Källsbäck (Mean Streak) also joined. Their goal was to reclaim the '70s/early '80s sense for classic melody.
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Suicide Silence : Become The Hunter (2020) 19:32
Suicide Silence is an American band from Riverside, California, formed in 2002. Although primarily categorized as deathcore, they are also influenced by black metal, grindcore, mathcore, and groove metal.
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5 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 24 seconds

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The B-Side #19: Death Saga

Doug opens the show with some environmentally-themed extreme metal from California's Cattle Decapitation while CHR takes the dairy theme to extremes with some glorious cheese from Sweden's Brothers of Metal.

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The Albums:

Cattle Decapitation : Death Atlas (2019) 2:37
Cattle Decapitation is an American extreme metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 1996. Their songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals, the abuse of the environment and touch subjects such as misanthropy and genocide of the human race.
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Brothers Of Metal : Emblas Saga (2020) 16:37
Brothers Of Metal are a Swedish folk/power metal band who create songs about Norse mythology. Even with their tongues firmly in their cheeks, the band puts out some fun sing-along songs.
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5 years ago

33 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode #95: Anthems of Blasphemy Sealed the Spectre’s Fate

It's Black Metal History Month, so CHR and Doug are serving up an episode full of blackened goodness. In the new album segment, Doug serves up some blackened melodeath from Machinations of Fate and CHR opts for some blackened thrash from Midnight. In the indie segment, China's Vengeful Spectre provide some folk-influenced black metal. Finally, in Heavy Metal Valhalla, they revisit the second album from Emperor, one of the pioneers of the Norwegian scene.

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News:

* Ozzy Reveals He Has Parkinson's Disease
* Sean Reinert (Death, Cynic) Passes Away at 48
* Joseph Payne (Nile, Divine Heresy) Passes Away at 35

New Releases:

Machinations Of Fate : Machinations Of Fate (2020) 5:42
Machinations Of Fate is a band from Newport, Kentucky (near Cincinnati, Ohio), and play a form of melodic death metal that melds the Gothenberg formula with blackened influences.
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Midnight : Rebirth By Blasphemy (2020) 18:10
Formed back in 2002 in Cleveland, Ohio, Midnight is ostensibly a one-man project of vocalist/guitarist/bassist/drummer Athenar. His unique blend of speed metal, black metal and punk rock creates some fast-paced heavy music sure to please fans of any of these subgenres.
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5 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 55 seconds

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The B-Side #18: Deserted Rabbits

CHR opens the show with some slow, female-fronted doom from California's Brume while Doug picks up the pace with the old-school death-and-roll of Arizona's Gatecreeper.

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The Albums:

Brume : Rabbits (2019) 3:07
Brume are a San Francisco, California-based doom metal trio who combine the weight of Black Sabbath’s pioneering distorted riffs with the graceful beauty of singers like Bjork and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons.
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Gatecreeper : Deserted (2019) 19:03
Gatecreeper are an Arizona-based death metal quintet that evokes old-school Swedish death-and-roll mixed with the classic Florida scene.
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5 years ago

30 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode #94: Diary of an Impure Norseman’s Sickness

CHR opens the show in Germany with the speed metal assault of StormWarrior while Doug brings us back to the states for some crossover thrash from Red Death. In the indie segment, CHR introduces some Amon Amarth-laced, Gothenburg-style melodeath from Russia with the band KillHammer. For Heavy Metal Valhalla, Doug reveals one of his favorite songs of all time on Ozzy Osbourne's second solo album.

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News:

* Rush Drummer, Neil Peart, Passes Away at 67
* Paul Di’Anno Recruits Former Iron Maiden Bandmates For Final Show

New Releases:

Stormwarrior : Norsemen (2019) 13:45
Stormwarrior is a band from Germany drawing a lot of influence from 1980s heavy metal, especially bands like Helloween and Running Wild. Their lyrics revolve around Scando-Germanic myth and folklore, making them essentially a Viking speed metal band.
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Red Death : Sickness Divine (2019) 26:42
Red Death is a Washington, D.C.-based crossover/thrash metal band. Employing the vocal delivery of punk/hardcore with the speedy riffing of thrash metal, Red Death have carved out a niche in an often one-note subgenre.
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5 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes 16 seconds

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The B-Side #17: Light Diluvium

Doug opens the show with some progressive German tech-death from Obscura, while CHR indulges some avant-garde black metal from Schammasch.

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The Albums:

Obscura : Diluvium (2019) 2:31
Obscura is a German band who blends various forms of technical and death metal with progressive elements.
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Schammasch : Hearts Of No Light (2019) 16:50
Schammasch is a Swiss black metal outfit that incorporates avant-garde, doom metal, and gothic rock atop more traditional black metal elements to create a unique sonic experience.
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5 years ago

34 minutes 23 seconds