In todays Heavy Metal miscellany I discuss the predictable prep for last minute recording sessions, running around the city looking for bits of drums, a funny review of Primordial from Kerrang in 1995 supporting Cradle of Filth and 'Gorgoth', some memories of drinking Ihsahns whiskey, seeing Saxon in front of 50 people in 1990 and being heartbroken at a cancelled Cronos show in Dublin the same year.....

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In episode 148 I discuss Conspiracy theories, what do the two words mean anymore? just a slur to shut conversation or debate down, or do these ideas represent something more dangerous to society? I propose to the senate 10 rough rules for which any man, woman or creature of fortune can use to measure if a theory has conspiracy credentials!

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In today's metal miscellany I discuss being asked for my top 13 Death Metal albums of all time, and then realising all of them are 30+ years old, is Haunting the Chapel by Slayer Death Metal? is Morbid Tales Death Metal and other such important questions. Secondly I discuss what a Spotify stream is worth, how old record contracts roughly worked and why I will never pay the rent from streaming!

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Are there are any rebels anymore in the music industry? in the wider culture at large? is it even possible. After spending the last few months only reading rock autobiographies and stories about some of music real characters, from Sly and the family stone to Brian Wilson to Iggy Pop, Sid Vicious to Neil Young, The New York Dolls to Johnny Cash and many more from the darkest annals of rock n roll mythology have we seen the last of their kind? Could you even get away with the things they did now?

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Tuesdays heavy metal ramble considers the idea that Mark The Animal Mendoza bassist from Twisted Sister is somewhere in the multi-verse presenting an alternate Grammys, as he's about the same age as Madonna and made a few facial alterations.....is Satanism just wearing a top hat with some plastic horns on? are Limp Bizkit trolling the world with a prophetic deep fake video that might provide us with some insight as to how we meet our end as a species and can't bands do whatever they want with the legacy?

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A breathless consideration of the case of mid 90s metal, did the underground have the life sucked out of it by the forces of capitalism, of success, of aspirations beyond its station? did the scene lose its hunger and energy? if so what were the contributing factors, all mulled over after 4 pints of afternoon Guinness so things are a bit giddy and all over the place. Blame Arthur.....

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Tuesdays short sharp and sweet metal miscellany considers the process of booking a band, and why for example Mott the Hoople might cancel a show in Birmingham, Alabama. The song writing process, why you need to write awful stuff to get to the good stuff, what inspires lyrics and and the important and ongoing concern.....are the Welsh spying on us?

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Episode 145 is a chat with an old friend, John Cobbett from

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, ex Lord weird slough feg, Vhol, Ludicra among many others. One of the most under rated metal curiosities of the last two decades, 'The Locust Years' was for example just added to the Decibel Magazine hall of fame, probably one of the greatest bands you never heard of!

We get into all sorts of stuff, recording analog compared to digital, San Francisco in the old days before gentrification and silicon valley, the occupy movement, surveillance capitalism, the reason why you never make any royalties from record contracts, you goddamn name it we get into it....

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Nick Cave has recently called a song, well actually a lyric....written by Artificial Intelligence as a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human. So is he correct? Todays short, sharp sweet cast goes through his quotes, the story, as we've discussed here before on the podcast the implications AI will have for human creativity and we end with a triumphant reading of the AI lyric in question, how has AI's study been going? Find out

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In this episode I nurse a brutal hangover and dish out a spicy curry, maybe not a Vindaloo but a Madras at least. Have we as a society lost faith in our institutions, what happens when we do? Is politics merely pantomime now, Hollywood for the ugly, as they say. Do we have any say anymore in the future our technocratic political class have for us, and did we ever? All mulled over with a grumpy disillusioned brain fog that only 10 pints of Guinness can do for you....

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