In the second episode of the Plague Rages Podcast, heavy metal writers Wolf Rambatz and Stephen David Stevenson-Davison talk about a bunch of bullshit including:

1:55: Wolf issues a correction

3:10: WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO. Steve Dave talks about the new Cannibal Corpse album Violence Unimagined

3:59: Steve Dave talks about AC/DC and Wolf tries to remember the Marcus Hook Roll Band because (a) he couldn’t help himself and (b) his brain doesn’t work

5:19: Steve Dave talks about the new Steel Bearing Hand album Slay in Hell and Carbonized Records

6:45: Wolf and Steve Dave talk about the passing of L-G Petrov and Entombed

11:20: Wolf talks about the new Seputus album Phantom Indigo and the new Monochromatic Residua EP Eternal Mountain

13:37: THE BIG 4 DRAFT. Wolf explains the rules. Steve Dave picks the band name Meowgadeth. Wolf picks Caught in a Squash

16:15: Steve Dave and Wolf start drafting albums from Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer, aka The Big 4 of Thrash

33:18: Steve Dave and Wolf break down Meowgadeth’s career

38:13: Wolf and Steve Dave break down Caught in a Squash’s career

42:34: ALBUM LISTENING CLUB. Steve Dave reminds us why we’re listening to Paradise Lost’s Obsidian

43:57: Wolf runs the stats on Obsidian

44:45: The boys take a break to talk about Bodom After Midnight, for reasons

46:04: Wolf asks Steve Dave to step into the time machine as he runs down Paradise Lost’s history

55:21: Steve Dave and Wolf review Obsidian

64:32: Wolf gives Steve Dave some clues about the next ALC assignment, Jorn’s The Duke

Music in this episode:

Cannibal Corpse - “Inhumane Harvest”AC/DC - “Let There Be Rock”Marcus Hook Roll Band - “Ape Man”Steel Bearing Hand - “Command of the Infernal Exarch”Carbonized - “Vlad Tepes”Entombed - “Left Hand Path”Entombed - “About to Die”Entombed A.D. - “Torment Remains”Seputus - “The Learned Response”Monochromatic Residua - “Realm of Lava”Ken Nelson & Jim Long - “Powersurge”Megadeth - “Symphony of Destruction” (Instrumental)Megadeth - “Hangar 18”Slayer - “Necrophobic”Anthrax - “Time”Metallica - “Fight Fire with Fire”Slayer - “Ghosts of War”Metallica - “The Four Horsemen”Metallica - “Battery”Slayer - “Praise of Death”Anthrax - “In the End”Metallica - “Mercyful Fate”James Hetfield and the News - “Hip to Be the Sandman” (Bill McClintock)Paradise Lost - “Ghosts”Bodom After Midnight - “Paint the Sky with Blood”Seeburg Background Music - “IND-105B”Paradise Lost - “Paradise Lost”Paradise Lost - “Forever Failure”Type O Negative - “Black No. 1”Paradise Lost - “I Am Nothing”Katatonia - “Lethean”Paradise Lost - “Fear of Silence”Paradise Lost - “Ravenghast”Paradise Lost - “Beneath Broken Earth”Bloodbath - “Bloodicide”Jorn - “Duke of Love”

You can listen to a full Spotify playlist of nearly every song mentioned here.

Other media:

Flashback Sound EffectSound Effect - Spin BackBarenaked Ladies - “One Week”Ba Dum Tss!Yelling CatMegadeth - “Sweating Bullets”NFL Draft Sound *HD*Type O Negative Interview with Gregor Mackintosh (Paradise Lost)"Yngwie about Jorn Lande" - whooo ?

Citations:

“The Myth of the Peaceville Three” by Chris Dick, published in Decibel“Grim Northern Misery: How Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride took British gothic metal mainstream” by Dan Franklin, published in Knotfest“PARADISE LOST – An interview with Nick Holmes” by LordPist, published in Aristocrazia Webzine

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