Composer and electronic producer Max Coburn joins the podcast to talk about his journey from shelling out burnt CDs of his music to blowing up on Soundcloud all the way to composing for the upcoming Netflix show "Battle Kitty." Max and I played in a few bands together back in the 2010s but haven't had a chance to catch up in a while, so I was psyched to have Max on to reflect on his career, video games, the rising Digital Fusion community, and much more!

https://twitter.com/maxotunes

https://soundcloud.com/maxo

BrooklynVegan editor Andrew Sacher joins the podcast to talk about the sudden break up of the long running Buffalo, NY metalcore band Every Time I Die. Every Time I Die were part of the boom in American metalcore in the early 2000s but out lasted their contemporaries to become a heavy music institution unto themselves over 20 years of consistent high quality work. Sacher helped break down why this band were able to endure and why their unexpected breakup leaves a void in modern metal.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/every-time-i-die-rip-a-transcendent-trailblazing-cathartic-band-till-the-very-end/

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Lucio Oquendo of the screamo band New Grass joins the podcast to talk Rush, car culture, and his new album "Scoredatura Perforations" out now through Zegema Beach!

https://newgrassrock.bandcamp.com/

Producer and podcaster Joseph Hurtado aka Saint Thrillah aka Young Moth rejoins the program to talk about the beat making world during the pandemic, staying organized, learning to make lo-fi music, helping produce the new 303Bam album, and joining the National Meat Treasure podcast. Always love catching up with Joey, give it a listen!

Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman of the Consequence of Sound column "Mining Metal" joined me to talk about Iron Maiden, one of the great bands of all time. We cover their entire discography, their outsize influence on heavy metal as well as the rest of popular music and culture, and plenty of strange digressions into all things heavy music.

Because this is a long one, here are some time stamps!

0:00 - Intro and warm up

7:48 - The Di'Anno era

21:48 - The Golden Age

1:03:00 - The 90s

1:24:30 - Tracing the influence

1:36:30 - The Reunion Era

2:02:00 - Final thoughts

Violinist and guitarist Jessica T. of Daxma came on the podcast to talk about the band's new album "Unmarked Boxes", her path from classical music to heavy metal, the difference between electric and acoustic violins, recording under hellish conditions in the summer of 2020, covering Fleetwood Mac and more!

Check out "Unmarked Boxes", out now:

https://daxma.bandcamp.com/album/unmarked-boxes

Filmmaker Daniel Ott joins the podcast to talk about his path from making movies with friends growing up in Tulsa to working professionally in the film industry in Los Angeles. We cover our time together in college in Chicago, his upcoming short film "Apartment Story", his recent music video for Bellow's "McNally Jackson", and how Secret Movie Club survived COVID.

Puppeteer & writer Preston Wollner joined the podcast to talk about his journey as a visual artist, starting as a sculptor in high school, studying animation and performance art in Chicago, and finally launching his own Shadow Puppet show last month. Preston reached out to me to score his horror themed puppet show for children, "Morgus Bootoux's Shadow Show", so I figured that I should return the favor by interviewing him about his growth as an artist. The two of us go waaaaaaaaaaay back, so we went on a ton of fun digressions in this conversation, covering action figures, Nine Inch Nails, the importance of collaboration, and much, much more. Hope you enjoy the conversation!

An overdue explanation for the no longer weekly schedule this podcast has been operating on lately. Basically, day job got wild, other projects picked up, my booking skills couldn't keep up the pace, etc.

Talk soon.

The audio version of my latest newsletter, which you can find at https://lamniformes.substack.com/

In short, I found myself frustrated and angry in the wake of Tropical Storm Ida and decided to take it out on an old Tool song that hasn't aged well. Have fun!