If this conversation seems easy, it's because we are back in the cold waters of our favorite nation. Herein, we dig into the good deeds of Norway's often vexing but always pleasing The 3rd and the Mortal. We attempt to peel away the band's many layers and untangle its knotty evolution. Should you care about cutting-edge Norweird - and if you have stuck with us for all this time, surely you do - please join us on this most titillating conversation.

After all that flugelhorn talk, turns out Jeff mis-horned. It’s actually a crumhorn on Gryphon’s Red Queen to Gryphon Three album. A crumhorn!

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The Ulver song title we were trying to remember: “I Love You, but I Prefer Trondheim (Parts 1-4) (A. Wiltzie vs. Stars of the Lid remix)” (from First Decade in the Machines, 2003)

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Music cited in order of appearance:

“Ring of Fire” (Sorrow, 1994)

“Death Hymn” (Tears Laid in Earth, 1994)

“In Mist Shrouded” (Tears Laid in Earth, 1994)

“Neurosis” (Nightswan, 1995)

“Commemoration” (Painting on Glass, 1996)

“Persistent and Fleeting” (Painting on Glass, 1996)

“Veiled Exposure” [two parts] (Painting on Glass, 1996)

“Stream” (In This Room, 1997)

“Sophisticated Vampires” (In This Room, 1997)

“Did You” (In This Room, 1997)

“Spider” (Memoirs, 2002)

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

If Radical Research exists to dissect the most esoteric and weird and unique recordings in the spheres of rock and metal, then we are sorely overdue to feature the singular debut by Type O Negative. 'Slow, Deep and Hard' began life as Repulsion's one and only demo, 'None More Negative,' recorded in late 1989 and early 1990. After a name change and a contract with Roadrunner Records, the album was re-mastered, the song order re-configured, and the 7-minute "Glass Walls of Limbo (Dance Mix)" added, 'Slow, Deep and Hard' was born. Join us as we plunge into all the blood, fire and death of this completely unique album in the Type O Negative discography.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

[all from Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard, 1991]

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We think Tom would be amused by the gaff of a gaff Hunter makes when talking about post-Confessor bands. He said he called Fly Wheel Fly Leaf, when that band was actually named Fly Machine. Hunter knows a lot, and we can’t fault him for not knowing the specifics of post-Confessor tree branches.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

Die Kreuzen, “Elizabeth” (Century Days, 1988)

Forbidden, “Forbidden Evil” (Forbidden Evil, 1988)

Everything Everything, “Pizza Boy” (Raw Data Feel, 2022)

When God decides to record his first metal album, he will be disappointed to remember that Obliveon already recorded its masterpiece, Nemesis, in the Year of Our Lord, 1993. On its latest episode, Radical Research conducts a much-belated investigation of the first two albums by Montreal's most underrated sons, Obliveon. In the early '90s, the band treated a small-but-fanatical audience to highly-advanced, cutting edge, cosmic death thrash in the forms of 1990's From This Day Forward and the aforementioned Nemesis. Still unsung after all these years, Radical Research is here to set the record straight and shed light on one of underground metal's true greats. 

The “pointless, ridiculous 7 inch" Hunter mentions in this episode is this one, a Coroner covers split between his band, Canvas Solaris, and our phurry phriends phrom Pharaoh:

Speaking of covers: Jeff mentions Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s cover of Voivod’s “Forgotten in Space.” He says the cover if about 6 minutes long, but it’s actually a shorter 3:48. Don’t trust Jeff on ANYTHING he says about Voivod…

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Music cited in order of appearance:

“From this Day Forward” (From This Day Forward, 1990)

“Fiction of Veracity” (From This Day Forward, 1990)

“Access to the Acropolis” (From This Day Forward, 1990)

“Chronocraze” (From This Day Forward, 1990)

“Nemesis” (Nemesis, 1993)

“Obscure Mindways” (Nemesis, 1993)

“Factory of Delusions” (Nemesis, 1993)

“Strays of the Soul” (Nemesis, 1993)

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

Norwegian vocalist Gaahl is a man who we deeply admire...his work with Gorgoroth and Trelldom, in particular, has a special place in the blackest ventricles of our hearts. Same, too, for his band Gaahls Wyrd, In our initial listens to the band's freshly-released (as of this writing and recording) Braiding the Stories album, we find ourselves facing one of the greatest post=black metal Norweird offerings in a decade. We are particularly excited by final song "Flowing Starlight," which we dissect here for your enlightenment and/or amusement.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

Gaahls Wyrd, "Flowing Starlight" (Braiding the Stories, 2025)

Restless creative spirit Mat Kvohst McNerney has been roaming esoteric realms since the mid '90s, giving voice to a wide variety of bands, be it the international collective Code, Norweird supernovas Dodheimsgard, the Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures hauntings, and the incomparable Hexvessel, We feature these projects and more in this survey of one of the most distinctive vocalists we've ever had the pleasure to enjoy.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

Vomitorium, “Rhapsody in Blasphemy” (Hauriam Oscula De Te demo, 1994)

Code, “A Cloud-Formed Teardrop Asylum” (Nouveau Gloaming, 2005)

Code, “I Hold Your Light“ (Resplendent Grotesque, 2009)

Beastmilk, “Surf the Apocalypse” (Climax, 2013)

Grave Pleasures, “Infatuation Overkill” (Motherblood, 2017)

Hexvessel, “Bog Bodies” (Kindred, 2020)

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

Inspired by Jeff's soot-damaged, waterlogged, promo-punched copy of his treasured US CD version of this 24-song behemoth, we take an hour and 40 minutes to revel in this intensely special 1990 compilation. The epitome of the Earache label at its peak, this was a fun episode to record, captured partly in Savannah while we hung out at Hunter's and partly remotely, from our separate outposts. From the ruins of a devastating fire...GRINDCRUSHER lives on Radical Research!

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We're incorrigible Genesis fans. We hail every bit of output from 1970 to 1978. We even go further than that. But here, for episode 127, we stop and lovingly gaze at the band's final album of the '70s, the first after the departure of guitarist Steve Hackett, and a work that some mark as the band's departure from prog rock. Not so, say we! Spectral, ghostly, gauzy, playful, lush as all get-out...and total prog. We laud this fascinating transitional effort by one of the greatest bands of all time...prog or otherwise,

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Music cited in order of appearance:

All songs from Genesis, And Then There Were Three (1978)

“Down and Out”

“Undertow”

“Ballad of Big”

“Snowbound”

“Burning Rope”

“Deep in the Motherlode”

“Many Too Many”

“Scenes from a Night’s Dream”

“Say It’s Alright Joe”

“The Lady Lies”

“Follow You, Follow Me”

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

For our 126th episode, Radical Research travels to the farthest reaches of our favorite country and we do so with a rare companion, Agalloch lynchpin, John Haughm. In this episode, we dive into the discography of Thule, a progressive rock band that defies the rules of progressive rock. Dark, nocturnal, frozen, magical - Thule's seaborne prog offers the listener glimpses into forbidden worlds. We hope that this episode will seduce you into taking the risk that is well worth the reward.

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We were stoked as hell to have Agalloch’s John Haughm with us for this episode. As such, we go on even more tangents than when we get up to that nonsense when left alone. So, tangents on Emperor, on Genesis, on ZZ Top, and on much more as we trawl the murky, exotic waters of Thule.

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“Supernova” (Graks, 1997)

“Krigens Ansikt” (as Ultima Thule, I Lovens Navn, 1985 demo)

“Over De Iskledte Fjell” (Ultima Thule, 1987)

“Kolonisasjon” (Ultima Thule, 1987)

“Håp” (Natt, 1990)

“Langfærd” (Natt, 1990)

“Den Store Ordan” (Frostbrent, 1993)

“Aeventyr” (Frostbrent, 1993)

“Daga” (Graks, 1997) into Minus the Bear, “Broken China” (Lost Loves, 2014)

“Soldansen” (Graks, 1997)

“Hjaerteslag” (Graks,1997)

“Liquid” (Liquid [Rock and Roll Dream], 2005

“Aurora B” (Liquid [Rock and Roll Dream], 2005)

Radical Research has risen! For our first episode following the tragic event of Jeff's house fire and the loss of members of his beautiful feline family, we have chosen to return with an exploration of one of the most emotional and intense albums of the 1990's, Anathema's Eternity. This album takes the weight of the profoundest Pink Floyd and marries it with the doom and feedback sorcery upon which Anathema built its reputation. Please join us for this most cathartic and, ultimately, affirmative of episodes.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

[all selections from Anathema’s Eternity, 1996]

“Angelica”

“The Beloved”

“Eternity Part 1”

“Eternity Part 2”

“Hope”

“Suicide Veil”

“Radiance”

“Far Away”

“Eternity Part 3”

“Cries on the Wind”

“Ascension”

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.