If you could only listen to 10 artists for the rest of your life who would they be?  Slayer?  Miles Davis?  Freaking Beethoven?!?  Lots to consider:  breadth of catalog, a variety of moods, songs you’ll never tire of.  It takes us over two and a half hours to compile our lists and it’s a journey of contemplation, joy and agony.  Episode 200 is exactly the wild ride we hoped it would be.       huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Bob Mould is an under appreciated genius.    RIP Christine McVie RIP Keith Levene    Recommended Listening:   Beaster  https://open.spotify.com/album/1Lj1hDF4hcyKGUiw0k7iC3?si=cafC_z4cQGaI1Tc4GWgXFQ   Bob Mould Workbook https://open.spotify.com/album/3VhSB8ozURez6qOSptLb15?si=WuoPoZdtRRS0ugB-fAB0Ig   Black Sheets of Rain https://open.spotify.com/album/6X7wrpHgbgBB3u2eMBFNuN?si=GtSFSJepTNev5HhRoRBkGg   Body of  Song https://open.spotify.com/album/48JZpYBLsQUd4O1d0wful4?si=-ZFfKW7aTU6TPy4WqX9nzA   Book   Bob Mould:  "See A Little Light:  The Trail of Rage and Melody"  https://www.amazon.com/See-Little-Light-Trail-Melody/dp/031604508X   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Excel’s debut is rarely mentioned along with the classic Crossover albums, a list that includes Suicidal Tendencies' “Join the Army,” COC’s “Animosity,” DRI’s “Dealing With It” and Agnostic Front’s “Cause For Alarm” and it's hard to understand why.   It’s a perfect blend of Metal guitars and Punk vocals with personal lyrics about how fucked up the world is an how helpless we are to fix it.  Venice Beach native Patrick Sweeney joins to help us crack the code of this under appreciated masterpiece.      Recommended Listening:   Welcome To Venice - Comp https://www.discogs.com/master/99961-Various-Welcome-To-Venice   “Tapping Into the Emotional Void” https://open.spotify.com/track/5knnuV8LT06mtp5K8Cfh8f?si=3941a130ea5d423c   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

It’s hammer time in DC!  After fronting a trio of legendary Dishord bands, The Untouchables, The Faith and Ignition Alec MacKaye had more than earned his status as American Punk Rock royalty and could have certainly rested on his laurels.  Instead, he’s back with a new project, Hammered Hulls that is more than worthy of his legacy.  Their debut LP sounds like classic Discord in all the best ways and the recently released Careening is getting better with each listen.      Recommended Listening:   The London Suede  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6GuRYj1MEnu1WZhDA2Xy0t?si=_zL-K5GSTi2R27CcGpc88A   Mercyful Fate - Live at the YouTube Theater 10/29/22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELC5T6ys5o   Inner Ear Studios Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2Rx6mu138   Academy O.C. Irish Goodbye https://open.spotify.com/album/300aJGhxoESCbUVUCpGKsW?si=I78OzqjcRByGbP2TWbVS2g   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

How much of our love of Mercyful Fate is based on nostalgia versus the fact that they were an incredibly innovative, talented band with great songs?  As a relative newbie to the band Rod helps us answer the question as we dive deep into their classic first LP while touching on their equally great follow up Don’t Break the Oath, discuss the conviction in the bands approach and debate how many riffs is too many riffs.      RIP Jerry Lee Lewis  RIP Timi Hansen    Recommended Listening: King Diamond Fatal Portrait  https://open.spotify.com/album/0l9HvMchT9T7ZPoWBhu1Zj?si=35hHcYFrSzWpGaufjpIENQ   Metallica Mercyful Fate https://open.spotify.com/track/45oVrneg2MiwAA74KgmtBj?si=943491a4c53a4c4d   manhuntsman Convalesce  https://open.spotify.com/album/68hyowzBh18ZcDvg1edBtJ?si=7QMxfxVOTyCX73fsH4s5CA   Movie The Munsters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Keith Morris and Dimitri Coats are back and this time with a brand new rhythm section.  Now four LPs in, the newly constructed quartet sounds completely revitalized.  The familiar OFF! punch is still there but now with new layers, textures and moods thrown into the mix.  Free LSD might not be the bands best album but it’s pretty damn great right now.     Recommended Listening:   HHPP EP151:  OFF! “The First Four EPs” https://huntsmanhill.com/2021/04/04/ep151-off-the-first-four-eps/   Burning Brides  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6093L65mwrPFONEN7Qbeeg?si=eEgVNDlORcW9nw0twyXGpg   Movie “Brainiac:  Transmissions After Zero” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7974564/   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Whether Discharge is simply one of Final Conflicts primary influences or their entire reason for being may be debatable but what isn’t is how great a hardcore record Ashes to Ashes is.  It’s decidedly Punk Rock but could not exist without its Metal trimmings.  It has all the attitude and urgency of the former without sacrificing any of the aggression or heaviness of the latter.  Regardless who Final Conflict were biting,  Ashes to Ashes is a stone cold classic of the genre that sounds as great today as it did in 1988.     Recommended Listening:   Discharge https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SRhOM75OnwuXH8BmCxD5a?si=inCL8YeBRr-xCCkgzIMDHA   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Mike notes that all the songs on the Chicago trio's second LP are about “terrible people doing terrible things”  while Rod describes the albums sonics as the sound of chewing on tinfoil" and Glenn astutely observes “this album should really be called Songs About Getting Fucked.”  They’re all right.   Recommended Listening:   Produced by Steve Albini Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7aLsoxNb3egrBqxnEEXadA?si=084262b414fe48fb   Academy O.C. “Roommate With An Axe” https://open.spotify.com/track/4RuIkJyvkUB4GwGnBEk6k4?si=59ac07d392d74b0f   Video Steve Albini & Ian MacKaye Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPMNY3roo_Y&list=WL&index=5   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

This week we are joined by dear friend, Metal aficionado and Armored Saint insider Bob Nalbandian for a conversation that takes us back to early 80’s tape trading, drunken escapades in Phoenix and Mike’s unlikely emotional response to the dawn of the power ballad.     Recommended Listening:   “Isolation (Live from Isolation)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUKNJ0UIDA   manhuntsman “The Writer” (Odin cover)  https://open.spotify.com/track/2UVHFmqxw9KS9Wv5HhjgQL?si=46bf8f20242940d9   Movies  Armored Saint doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBcqE0ZpTc   Inside Metal Documentary Series https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Metal-Scene-Explodes/dp/B078TMVYK7

Can a podcast episode be entertaining if the hosts just constantly agree and nothing remotely controversial said?  We ask ourselves this question all the time.  This episode is an absolute love fest, celebrating the Clash's 1980 compilation and the band in general however, Rod definitely stirs things up with his perspective on their place in the pantheon of great Dub artists (Mike does not endorse this comment).    Recommended Listening: EP39:  The Clash - Complete Discography  https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/09/11/ep39-the-clash-complete-discography/   The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack  https://open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKcC9epGo9viy1j8fN7?si=jUNzR601QCiFkAMyUsm36w   Playlist: “All the Bands That Mattered to the Only Band That Mattered" https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28PsiEn0kesL0yri22M678?si=4a750791a55d439d     Movie:  RocknRolla https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ