This week we discuss Woods of Desolation's Torn Beyond Reason, and whheerreee have we been?!

Album Discussion starts at : 0:40

Featured Discussion starts at : 26:49

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This week we discuss the newest album from Middle Eastern black meatless Melechesh, Middle Eastern elements in metal, mixing musical genres, and whether death metal is a more limited genre that black metal in that regard.

Album Discussion starts at: 8:38

Featured Discussion: 33:06

Official Melechesh site: http://www.melechesh.com/

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpAcHu3MhIrdfodbLnt6ftVRu0j_zcOHT

Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/enki/id956299226

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This week we discuss upcoming 2016 releases as well as bands that we'd like to see new releases from (but haven't announced any yet!)

Discussion about 2016 albums starts at : 8:40

Discussion about albums we'd like to see starts at : 31:48

This week,

Kate is listening to:

Caspian - Dust and Disquiet.Listen: https://caspiantheband.bandcamp.com/album/dust-and-disquiet

Blut Aus Nord - MoRT. Listen: https://youtu.be/aAZKo_cw7SI

Adam is listening to:

Fin - The Furrows of Tradition. Listen: youtu.be/eYBSjQLtXdU

Owen is listening to:

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4GUA2N-EnQC49T9No5LBfaZmyPW5XJ4

Panopticon - Roads to the North. Listen: https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/roads-to-the-north

Ethereal Shroud - They Became the Falling Ash. Listen: https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/album/they-became-the-falling-ash

Mechina - Progenitor. Listen: https://mechinamusic.bandcamp.com/album/progenitor

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This week we discuss ambient black metal masters Darkspace, programmed drums, Pandora's suggestion that Kate listen to Christian EDM, "why is Christian music so...bad?", satansatansatansatan, manufacturing music for a built-in audience, and Pagan bands Really Loving Nature.

Album Discussion starts at : 14:45

Featured Discussion about Christian Music starts at : 39:50

Official site: http://www.darkcyberspace.com/

Buy Band at their bandcamp: https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dark-space-iii-i

This week,

Kate is listening to:

Blut Aus Nord - Cosmosophy 777. Listen: https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/777-cosmosophy

Mustan Kuun Lapset - Talvenranta. Listen: https://youtu.be/1Z2RDaqYR6E

Csejthe - Reminiscence. Listen: https://youtu.be/ZhleUj5n1CE

Adam is listening to:

Nile show!!!

Stworz - Zagony Bogow. Listen: https://stworz.bandcamp.com/album/zagony-bog-w

Nekrokrist SS - Four Chapters of Satanic Evil split. Sample: https://youtu.be/y5w33zURfM4

Endstille - Navigator. Listen: https://youtu.be/FLRB1HkP0yg

Owen is listening to:

Mechina - Progenitor. Listen: https://mechinamusic.bandcamp.com/album/progenitor

Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS5Klhr28INVrLSTcThXTSrYmuNSIx_nM

Kid Cudi - Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven. Listen (or don't): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOqpyVO0Oa1VWV0BdotwmbiSWR2yt12t

Thrawsunblat - Wanderer on the Continent of Saplings. Listen: https://thrawsunblat.bandcamp.com/album/wanderer-on-the-continent-of-saplings

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In which we each discuss our top 6 albums of the previous year.

Owen’s top 6:

6. Ulvesang - self-titled, listen: https://ulvesang.bandcamp.com/album/ulvesang

5. Melechesh - Enki, listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpAcHu3MhIrdfodbLnt6ftVRu0j_zcOHT

4. Amiensus - Ascension, listen: https://amiensus.bandcamp.com/album/ascension

3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly, listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIen3IPVo_U30dpwJd2RDrPxYVXTplcq7

2. Ethereal Shroud - They Became the Falling Ash, listen: https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/album/they-became-the-falling-ash

1. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal, listen: https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-eternal

Kate top 6 in alphabetical order

Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short, Listen: https://drudkh.bandcamp.com/album/a-furrow-cut-short

Exxasens - Back to Earth, Listen: https://exxasens.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-earth

Fear Factory - Genexus. Listen: https://youtu.be/cfIAqYhLSr0

Horn - Feldpost. Listen: https://hornlichterlischt.bandcamp.com/album/feldpost

Panopticon - Autumn Eternal, listen: https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-eternal

Toundra - IV, listen: https://youtu.be/EF78BCfRG9I

Adam's 6:

1. Peste Noire - La Chaise-Dyable. Listen: https://youtu.be/sZWLlU0d5eM

2. Hermóðr - What Once Was Beautiful. Listen: https://hermodr.bandcamp.com/album/what-once-was-beautiful

3. Horn - Feldpost. Listen: https://hornlichterlischt.bandcamp.com/album/feldpost

4. Fin - The Furrows of Tradition, Listen: https://youtu.be/eYBSjQLtXdU

5. Ulfbehrt - L'aube D'une Nouvelle Ere. Listen: https://youtu.be/upjXAh2JcQM

6. Stworz - Zagony Bogów. Listen: https://stworz.bandcamp.com/album/zagony-bog-w

This week we discuss the classic Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, how many chances we give an album to see if we like it, why we might give an album a second or third chance, and the glories of Youtube compression.

Album Discussion starts at : 10:10

Featured discussion starts on 37:30

Official site: https://www.thetruemayhem.com/

This week,

Kate is listening to:

Falkenbach, Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty. Listen: https://youtu.be/17YPncbYD-4

Kroda, Schwarzpfad. Listen: https://kroda.bandcamp.com/album/schwarzpfad

Adam is listening to:

Gratzug - Bei da Nacht. Listen: https://youtu.be/67E3mn_QHJQ

Owen is listening to:

Nokturnal Mortum - Voice of Steel, listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ZzqWhvOVA

Panopticon - Roads to the North, listen: https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/roads-to-the-north

Ulvesang - self-titled, listen: https://ulvesang.bandcamp.com/album/ulvesang

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This week we discuss Nokturnal Mortum's Voice of Steel, their growth as a band and blending folk into their sound, NSBM and its shift into Pagan Metal, and Adam proposes a more comprehensive definition for NSBM.

Album Discussion starts at : 9:48

Featured Discussion about NSBM starts at : 44:40

Official site: http://nokturnal-mortum.com/

Buy Nokturnal Mortum on their official site or at their bandcamp: https://nokturnalmortum1.bandcamp.com/

This week,

Kate is listening to:

csjethe - Réminiscence. Listen : http://records.eisenton.de/album/r-miniscence

forteresse - Crépuscule D'Octobre. Listen: https://youtu.be/E8hfPgNXCmg

Cloudkicker - The Discovery. Listen: http://cloudkickermusic.com/album/the-discovery

Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion. Listen: https://youtu.be/g68hQ4zJ3t0

Adam is listening to:

Kjeld - Skym. Listen: https://youtu.be/F8kcYtAAkDE

Månegarm - Self titled. Listen: https://youtu.be/z0SPCd2TBJk

Augrimmer - teaser for 2016 Album Moth and the Moon. Listen: https://youtu.be/5QindNwAfYE

Owen is listening to:

The Metroid Prime soundtrack, listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mziw3FQkZYg

Ghost Bath - "Golden Number", listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg530raHyuo

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This week we discuss bands we used to listen to but wouldn't listen to now... including "phases", classic rock, radio pop, embarrassing old favorites, and how emotional impact changes over time.

Featured Discussion starts at : 6:30

This week,

Kate is listening to:

Brume d'Automne - self titled. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwqiusES0Q

Waldstille - Mirrors of Dreams. Listen: https://youtu.be/zD3Zz2aLB5I

Kältetod - Reue. Listen: https://klttd.bandcamp.com/album/reue-2

Vemod -

Venter på stormene. Listen: https://vemod.bandcamp.com/

Adam is listening to:

Same as Kate.

Owen is listening to:

Shaded Enmity - Forsaken and Forgotten, listen: https://shadedenmity.bandcamp.com/album/forsaken-and-forgotten

Lethian Dreams - Bleak Silver Streams, listen: https://lethiandreams.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-silver-streams

Animal Collective - "FloriDada", listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2ssNnA_Es

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Its been a few crazy weeks! Before we get back to our regular schedule here's a special bonus episode where we talk about some recent shows -- The yearly Montreal black metal festival put on by Sepulchral productions,Messe des Morts, and the Czech black metal Sekhmet!

Thanks for your patience, everything will be normal again soon.

In which we discuss The Glitch Mob, electronic music, non-Euclidean geometry, Mary Lambert shows, the volume at concerts, encores, and more.

Album Discussion starts at : 9:40

Featured Discussion about concerts starts at : 37:42

Official site: http://www.theglitchmob.com/

This week,

Kate is listening to:

Adam is listening to:

Owen is listening to:

Adele - 25, listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A&t=1m15s Mary Lambert in concert, listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqqqV50zaAc

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