Happy Holidays to all of our ‘Scurians out there. Due to the abundance of amazing new releases in the world of rock n’ punk n’ metal, we will forego our annual Christmas episode for a 2-parter Shallow Graves 2024! At the end of every year, Kevin does a solo episode celebrating top releases of the year, but there are too many artists that Captain Content heard this year where he said, “…I’d like a little more of that”! So, Kevin’s Christmas present to the Captain is songs from artists he said he dug… Hope you dig these 2024 tunes also!

What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or grouping of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. This week we look back on bands that released new rock n’ punk n’ metal in the year 2024 that piqued the Captain’s interest. Hopefully, you get turned onto something new!

Songs this week include:

1. Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts - “Little Renegade” from Rogue To Redemption (2024)
2. Now After Nothing - “Criminal Feature” from Artificial Ambivalence (2024)
3. Skraeckoedlan - “Meteorb” from Vermillion Sky (2024)
4. The Damn Truth - “The Willow” from The Willow - single (2024)
5. Riot V - “Love Beyond The Grave” from Mean Streets (2024)
6. Shellac - “WSOD” from To All Trains (2024)
7. Nestor - “We Come Alive” from Teenage Rebel (2024)
8. UltraBomb - “Who Knows” from Dying To Smile (2024)
9. Meanstreak - “Rubberneck” from Blood Moon - Ep (2024)
10. Black Country Communion - “You’re Not Alone” from V (2024)
11. Type O Negative - “Red Water (Christmas Mourning)” from October Rust (1996)

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This week is a very special episode as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Captain Content’s 30th Birthday! If that wasn’t enough, we have the pleasure of welcoming the amazing MIGHTY K to the party! She takes us on a trip through her own personal selections of obscure rock n’ punk n’ metal painstakingly curated for Robert. Cheers to Captain Content; let’s light this joint up! 

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week Mighty K brings us all 3. We hope she turns you onto something new!

Songs this week include:

1. Law And Order - “Whiskey” from Guilty Of Innocence (1989)
2. T-Ride - “Zombies From Hell” from T-Ride (1992)
3. SouthGang - “Fire In Your Body” from Group Therapy (1992)
4. The Temperance Movement - “Beast Nation” from A Deeper Cut (2018)
5. Nudeswirl - “Ringworm” from Nudeswirl (1993)
6. Cry Of Love - “Too Cold In The Winter” from Brother (1993)
7. Quicksand - “Dine Alone” from Slip (1993)

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It’s been a long time coming and finally this week we deliver! It's another Shoulda Been Huge episode that has been promised since the show's first year. We had to go big with this one, so please welcome to the show, Mr. “Perfectly Rated” himself, BAKKO from the Cobras & Fire Podcast to discuss a classic punk & alternative band from his town: HÜSKER DÜ. Join us as we take you on their journey from hardcore punk to alternative rock. If you're new to this band open your mind and prepare for a zen-like experience! Like Bakko says, they Shoulda Been Huge!!!

This episode is rooted in our Should Have Been category. This is a band that we mentioned before on the show and one that both hosts are very familiar with. We wanted to talk in-depth with another fellow podcaster who’s a fan and intimately aware of the Twin City scene that came from, so enter Bakko! Do yourself a favor and check them out! We Hüsker, Dü Ü?

Songs this week include:

1. Hüsker Dü - “Everything Falls Apart” from Everything Falls Apart (1983)
2. Hüsker Dü - “Pink Turns To Blue” from Zen Arcade (1984)
3. Hüsker Dü - “New Day Rising” from New Day Rising (1985)
4. Hüsker Dü - “Every Everything” from Flip Your Wig (1985)
5. Hüsker Dü - “Hardly Getting Over It” from Candy Apple Grey (1986)
6. Hüsker Dü - “Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely” from Candy Apple Grey (1986)
7. Hüsker Dü - “Ice Cold Ice” from Warehouse: Songs And Stories (1987)

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This week: a sister-cast episode to a series we have called the Inbetweeners where we on the bands straddling the 80s and 90s in rock n' punk n' metal. This is more specific to metal in the 90s after feeling the impact of the overwhelming shifting of sounds during the decade. Metal became a dirty word by the mid-90s as grunge and alternative took over the rock world, but a new movement in the metal genre blended all of these influences with the heavy. Thus, we give you - 90s Alternative Metal!

What’s this InObscuria thing? Our podcast exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we cover mostly bands that have been forgotten including some bands that we played early on in the podcast. The transition from the heavy metal 80s to the punk-edged alternative of the 90s was a time like no other, and metal bands that began during this time put it all in an industrial-strength metal blender. Hope ya dig! 

Songs this week include:

1. Quicksand – “Thorn In My Side” from Manic Compression (1995)
2. Fragile Porcelain Mice – “Brown Nickel” from Frostbiddin (1996)
3. Therapy? – “Nasuea” from Nurse (1992)
4. Corrosion Of Conformity – “Clean My Wounds” from Deliverance (1994)
5. Prong – “Unconditional” from Prove You Wrong (1991)
6. Fight – “I Am Alive” from A Small Deadly Space (1995)
7. Life Of Agony – “This Time” from River Runs Red (1993)

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This week we respectfully welcome back to the show Slamfest Podcast host: Mad Brad Rusthoven. He has called us out on a grave mistake of not having played Black Country Communion on any of our recent New Wave Of Classic Rock episodes. Therefore, we give you “Grave Mistakes: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION Shoulda Been Huge”… scratch that: Should BE Huge!!! Celebrate this amazing supergroup with us. Apologies for a little hiss and background noise in the episode (our crack staff must have been smoking crack again).

This episode is rooted in our Should Have Been category. This is a band that we mentioned before on the show and played an offshoot band from them. They contain some household names in classic blues and rock and have a hell of a pedigree, but unfortunately, their brilliance has yet to be recognized to the degree that it truly deserves. This is the bastard child of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin for the love of Lemmy! We think they SHOULD BE HUGE… 

Songs this week include:

1. Black Country Communion - “Beggarman” from Black Country Communion (2010)
2. Black Country Communion - “The Outsider” from 2 (2011)
3. Black Country Communion - “The Great Divide” from Live Over Europe (2012)
4. Black Country Communion - “Midnight Sun” from Afterglow (2012)
5. Black Country Communion - “Sway” from BCCIV (2017)
6. Black Country Communion - “Stay Free” from V (2024)

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The scoundrel known as Scoldwell sent us a sealed package and no one knows what’s in it. Some say records, some say sea monkeys, some say it’s booby-trapped… Listen in as we open it. What secrets lie inside? Join us recorded live as we reveal the mystery of the notorious Scoldwell’s Vaults!!!

What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection: an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. Our listeners are so awesome that sometimes they share their own amazing obscure finds! We hope that Scoldwell turns you on to something new.

Songs this week include:

1. All Sinners - “The Hunted” from All Sinners (2022)
2. A Wilhelm Scream - “The Enigma” from Lose Your Delusion (2022)
3. Seven Spires - “Almosttown” from A Fortress Called Home (2024)
4. DragonForce - “Prelude To Darkness / The Killer Queen” from Warp Speed Warriors (2024)
5. Nikki Stringfield - “Where The Demons Lie” from Apocrypha (2023)
6. TMG - “Guitar Hero” from TMG II (2024)
7. NanowaR Of Steel - “Valhalleluja” from Valhalleluja – Single (2019)

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This week we are once again exorcising some demons and testifying to the New Wave Of Classic Rock! This is another round of 8 shots of bourbon… Listen in as we pour it on with classic, blues-influenced hard rock that reminds us of the days when FM radio rocked! Indeed, rock n’ roll is not dead and is in the very capable hands of these killer younger bands!

What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection: an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. The younger generation are picking up guitars and playing that classic blues inspired hard rock again! It’s Our hope is that we turn you on to something new.

Songs this week include:

1. The Georgia Thunderbolts – Whiskey Talkin’” from Rise Above It All (2024)
2. Thee Rock ‘N’ Roll Residency - “I Think He Is Playing Guitar” from Thee Rock ‘N’ Roll Residency(2020)
3. The Damn Truth - “The Fire” from Now Or Nowhere (2021)
4. 20 Watt Tombstone - “Magnolia” from The Chosen Few (2023)
5. The London Souls - “Steady” from Here Come The Girls (2015)
6. FUZZRIDER - “Slumdogs” from FUZZRIDER (2023)
7. JAYLER - “A Piece In Our Time” from A Piece In Our Time – EP (2023)

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This week we pretend like it’s still Gothtober and bring you a 2nd volume of a “Grave Mistakes: They Shoulda Been Huge!!!” from a band we covered 2 Halloweens ago. Another in-depth exploration of a perennial Halloween favorite for us: the frightfully amazing HELLOWEEN! This German band has had a long-lasting impact on Kevin, but will Captain Content agree that they should have a much bigger spotlight shone on them?

This episode is rooted in our Should Have Been category. This is a band that we have featured on the show several times over the years including our 2005-2021 episode 2-years ago. A German band that helped and establish the metal genre known as, “Power Metal”. Unfortunately, their brilliance and innovation has never fully been recognized to the degree that it deserves. We think they SHOULD BE HUGE… and we are ready to fly that banner proudly!

Songs this week include:

1. Helloween - “Where The Rain Grows” from Master Of The Rings (1994)
2. Helloween - “Power” from The Time Of The Oath (1996)
3. Helloween - “We Burn” from High Live (1996)
4. Helloween - “Midnight Sun” from Better Than Raw (1998)
5. Helloween - “Lay All Your Love On Me (ABBA)” from Metal Jukebox (1999)
6. Helloween - “Mr. Torture” from The Dark Ride (2000)
7. Helloween - “Hell Was Made In Heaven” from Rabbit Don’t Come Easy (2003)

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In our final week of Gothtober your fiendish-yet-friendly ghouls bring you an episode all about bands playing other bands songs! These are familiar songs you hear at every HALLOWEEN party this time of year! What vile and twisted interpretations can our rock n’ punk n’ metal ambassadors make??? Listen if you dare…

What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. Robert is forced to test his endurance and provide feedback, as he has no idea what he will be subjected to weekly. We hope that we turn you on to something that was lost on your ears, or something you've simply forgotten about, or that (in our opinion) should have been the next big thing.

Songs this week include:

1. Ronnie James Dio – “Welcome To My Nightmare (Alice Cooper)” from Welcome To The Nightmare – A Tribute To Alice Cooper(2006)
2. Machine Head – “Witch Hunt (Rush)” from Unto The Locust (extra tracks)(2011) 
3. The L.I.F.E. Project – “South Of Heaven (Slayer)” from Big F.O.U.R. EP(2022)
4. Ron Keel – “Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath)” from Keelworld (2024)
5. Lizzy Borden – “Pet Sematary (Ramones)” from Best Of Lizzy Borden, vol. 2 (1994)
6. L.A. Guns – “Don’t Fear The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult)” from Covered In Guns(2009)
7. Stuck Mojo – “Shout At The Devil (Mötley Crüe)” from Violate This (10 Years Of Rarities 1991-2001) (2007)

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This week: the 2nd in a newer series called “In The Shadow Of…”, where we compare obscure bands to a mainstream act. This is not about copycats or copybats, but more so about artists that have similar vibes to a band who has become synonymous with Gothtober; the one and only TYPE O NEGATIVE! Join us as we discover other bands who were influenced and inspired by TYPE O’s gothic metal greatness.

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This is not a statement about bands trying to copy one another, but more that they have a shared sound and vision. It’s been said that there is no originality left in rock n’ roll and also been stated that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. As always, we hope we turn you onto something new!

Songs this week include:

1. A Pale Horse Named Death – “Shallow Grave” from Lay My Soul To Waste (2013)
2. Frown – “Last Summer Days” from Lunar Brightshine And Fiery Splendour (2003)
3. Unto Others – “Double Negative” from Mana (2019)
4. Marble Orchard – “Liar’s Tongue” from Building Monuments To Misery (2023)
5. Seventh Void – “Slow Decent” from Heaven Is Gone (2009)
6. Orphans Of Dusk – “Spleen” from Spleen (2023)

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