Harsh Vocals

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year already! For our twenty-sixth episode, we discuss the highs and lows of 2024, and recap all of our favorite things, including both of our top30 albums for the year. Of course there is a little overlap, but there’s a few surprises too! It’s a long journey, but there’s several laughs and a lot of great discussion. We hope you’ll stick around until the end.

We also want to thank everyone who has supported us by visiting the site, checking out the podcast, and leaving us reviews. Every message, comment, and review means so much to us, and makes us feel like we’re really doing something to help promote this amazing music we love so much. We have so much to look forward to in 2025, so we hope you’ll all stick around and see what’s in store!

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For our twenty-fifth episode, we thought it would be fun to highlight our favorite and least favorite Metal Cover Songs. Some of these are great, but others are outright horrible. We play short clips from the bad ones so you can decide for yourself! As always, we’re sure we’ve missed great examples of both good and bad, so please let us know what your favorites are either way!

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a killer death metal band from Houston – Bleak Barrow!

Check out their first single “Inviscerate” on their Bandcamp here:

https://bleakbarrow.bandcamp.com

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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For our twenty-fourth episode, we continue our discussion about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is the final part of this three episode series, where we cover everything we consider important from 2006 through today! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any you feel like we missed, please let us know!

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a Death N Roll band called Atomic Spitfire!

Check out their Bandcamp here:

https://atomicspitfire.bandcamp.com

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

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For our twenty-third episode, we continue our discussion about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is part two of a three part podcast, where we cover everything we consider important from 1995 through 2005. We’ll cover 2005 through present on part three! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any you feel like we missed, please let us know! We’d also be interested to hear what albums you think are influential post-2005!

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a Melodic Black Metal band called Sparrows!

Check out their Bandcamp here:
https://sparrowsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/sparrows-ep

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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For our twenty second episode, we decided to talk about the different types of Metalheads that we’ve encountered online and at shows. We planned on making this more of a serious discussion, but between an overwhelming few weeks at work, and the passing of Christian’s mother, we didn’t approach this topic with the same serious tone we typically would. Instead, Christian came up with several caricature descriptions and we had some good, and much needed laughs. We hope you will laugh along with us.

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a Melodic Death Metal band called Svn.Seeker!

Check out their Bandcamp here: https://svnseeker.bandcamp.com/
Check out their Ampwall here: https://ampwall.com/a/svnseeker

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

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On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Blake Lamoureux – The talented solo artist behind melodic death metal band “Ophidian Memory”. We talk about his creative process, influences, what it’s like being a musician in Des Moines, Iowa, and more! Of course we also ask some deep dive questions about his latest album – Carrion Lord! This album is a lot of fun, and if you haven’t heard it yet, we strongly recommend checking it out! We had a great time getting to know Blake, and since he and Christian live so close, hopefully they’ll get to connect in person at an upcoming show. Listen at the end of the podcast to hear Blake’s favorite track from the album “The Murder on Warforged Soil”

Support Ophidian Memory at their bandcamp here:

https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/album/ophidian-memory

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For our twenty first episode, we decided to talk about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is only part one of a three part podcast, where we cover everything we consider important from metal’s origins throughout 1995. We’ll cover 1995 through 2005 on the second part! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any you feel like we missed, please let us know! We’d also be interested to hear what albums you think are influential post-1995!

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a Progressive Doom/Death Metal band called Negative Bliss!

Check out their Bandcamp here: https://negativebliss.bandcamp.com/
Check out their Ampwall here: https://ampwall.com/a/negativebliss

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

We had some technical difficulties at the beginning of the show, so please forgive the oddly edited intro. It only affected about 30 second, so hopefully you’ll still enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Kyle Chapman – The guitarist, vocalist, and one of the songwriters behind progressive death metal band “Blighted Eye”. We talk about Blighted Eye’s creative process, influences, future, and more! Of course we also ask some deep dive questions about their debut album – Agony’s Bespoke. As it stands, This incredible album is one of our favorite albums of 2024 and is very likely to make our top10 list for the year. It was an absolute blast to get to know Kyle, and hopefully we’ll get the chance to see him and the rest of the band on tour next year! Listen at the end of the podcast to hear our favorite track from the album “A Reverent Stillness”

Order a copy of Agony’s Bespoke from their label here:

https://www.beyondthetoprecords.com/category/blighted-eye

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For our twentieth episode, we decided to talk about how we discover new music. We go into detail about all the resources that we use to help us build our weekly playlists, as well as how we find worthwhile older music that we might have missed. We may have different methods, but we also both have a lot of great suggestions!

Check out our resources here:
Encyclopedia Metallum – https://www.metal-archives.com/
KmanRiffs – https://www.instagram.com/kmanriffs/
Metal Releases – https://metalreleases.com
Metal Collision YT- https://www.youtube.com/@MetalCollision
Heavy Debriefings – https://heavydebriefings.weebly.com/written-material

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as a huge amount of honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a Melodic Death Metal band called Embers Ignite!

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

Despite Justin’s voice still not being 100 percent, we hope you’ll enjoy the episode! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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For our nineteenth episode, we decided to talk about Religion in Metal. As an atheist, is there any real difference between Christian metal and Satanic metal? How important is religion as it relates to the music? Should metal musicians be subject to scrutiny for their beliefs? We discuss it all at length.

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as some outstanding honorable mentions. To close out the show, we’ve done away with the blast from the past segment, and are now using the closing song to highlight a band who has sent us a submission! The new segment is called “Extreme Submissions”, and if you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs, please reach out!

Despite Justin being a bit sick, we did have a lot of fun recording this episode. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it! If so, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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