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This week on Toilet Radio: Gen X Correspondent Ian sits down with acclaimed film, video game, and television composer Bear McCreary. For folks unfamiliar, Bear has composed music for everything from Battlestar Galactica, God of War, The Walking Dead, and The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. Bear tells us the origins of his desire to put out heavy metal albums after working with Brendon Small, Serj Tankian, and Gene Hoglan on a track for Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019). Now on his second album of his Singularity arc, Bear tells us about getting every heavy hitter in hard rock and heavy metal to join him in releasing tunes. Gen X Ian presses Gene on drum quantization and sampling, the economics of recording drums, and sequencing music for a modern metal sound. Is releasing a metal record a sound financial investment? Hear it from a world-renowned musician himself, "Absolutely not!" This is an excellent interview. Enjoy!

Music featured on this 'sode:

Bear McCreary - Black Box (feat. Joe Duplantier)

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THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: We're talking about traumatic forklift accidents and answering a listener question about gore in metal from the perspective of traumatic healthcare. OTHER SUBJECTS INCLUDE: Ozzy goes AI! Aaron Lewis is using ChatGPT to write jingoistic country songs, and PRESIDENT plan to release their debut album! Let's explore the machinations behind this grassroots artistic powerhouse. We have a VERY SPECIAL closing song on this episode too. FOLKS, it's a good one.

Music featured on this 'sode:

BBQxBBQ - One Blood One Sauce

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Hot damn! On this week's episode Gen X Correspondent scores an interview with Michel "Away" Langevin. Away talks about providing the orchestra cues from some of the band's favorite cyperpunk movies, attempting to mic up every single piece of the orchestra, members of the symphony catching Voivod for lifting classical passages in their songs, learning how to make digital art in the early 80s and getting a band new computer with earnings from Probot, working on an 80s-style video game called Nuclear Warrior, the Story of Voivod, and creating art in every city on tour. For a little added color, Joe and Jordan talk about other bands that have experimented with the orchestra and we track down a 1999 Guitar World issue focused on Metallica's S&M. Folks,,,,,, it's a good one.

Music featured on this episode:

Voivod – Forgotten in Space!

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This week on Toilet Radio: Venomous snake disasters! Furnace Fest is back and more generic than ever! Instead of a collection of hardcore revivals for old heads and baffling Christcore bands, you've got something way more dishwater. Aaron Lewis is back with more jingoistic bullshit, this time a hilarious ballad about how much he hates China. Drowning Pool had to cancel an upcoming South American tour and we examine the BLUE DOT FEVER phenomenon that's sweeping the nation as gas reaches twenty bucks a gallon. Finally, we talk about a guy almost killing himself with a sword purchased from Amazon. Folks......,,... It's a good 'un.

Music featured on this episode:

Podre – Banana Podre!

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THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: Joe tells the story of how a brick that once lived outside of his car magically teleported inside of it. Also, Alex Terrible fought another ill-advised bare-knuckle boxing match and got stomped out. The former drummer of Suffocation offers a ChatGPT-authored apology for saying all those guys are toxic drug addicts. Dragonforce is bringing in Alissa White-Gluz as a second vocalist but no one knows why. Aerosmith's Steven Tyler finally gets to go to court for being a huge creep and we learn the final words Ian Watkins had before getting stabbed to death in prison. Folks, it's another heartwarming episode.

Music featured on this episode:

L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation - Boots on the Ground

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This week on Toilet Radio: Joe and Jordan finally met up! We talk about scumbag personal injury lawyers, Brady Ebert facing LIFE in prison, mass layoffs over at Blast Beat Network sites, Reba Myers quit playing with abusive scumbag Marilyn Manson and instead joined up with a man with a spotless record: Danny Elfman. Zao is experiencing the joy of modern technology as their music keep getting flagged for being AI despite the fact that it is clearly not! Finally, congress is revisiting Phil Labonte’s crayon-scrawled op-ed about the male loneliness epidemic from 2 years ago for reasons no one understands. Folks, it’s a good one.

Music featured on this show: 

Bringers of Disease - The Greatest Heresy

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This week on Toilet Radio: Joe bought a huge stack of guitar magazines from the 90s and now we're gonna make it YOUR problem. This time we're examining the Guitar World Survival Guide, a feature in which dozens of famous and famous-ish guitarists offer their five tips to survive the once-thriving cutthroat music industry. You'll hear pearls from Zakk Wylde, Yngwie, Wayne Static, Ted Nugent, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello, Dave Mustaine, and much, much more. It's a fascinating snapshot of artists on the rise and fall 25 years ago. We talk about the practical advice, the wildly egotistical stuff, and a whole lotta alcoholism from (some) people that would eventually realize that drinking constantly isn't super badass. If you dig this one, be sure to check out the Patreon where part two will be published tomorrow.

Music featured on this ‘sode:

BÂTARD – Refuge

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This week on Toilet Radio: Kiss did not break up. They were lying about that. Again. Iron Maiden are getting inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, will not be attending. Suffocation responds to their former drummer that accused them of being a bunch of druggies AND they brought receipts! LiveNation is finally getting slammed with an antitrust conviction, unfortunately, nothing good will happen from it. Jelly Roll has dropped off of Kid Rock’s terrible right wing music festival and been replaced with Staind. This means things for the nation. Finally, we found the secret to cracking RIAA certifications as a “metal” band. It’s sleep.

Music featured on this ‘sode:

Pissrot – Absolute Form

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This week on Toilet Radio: 
A very confused cryptocurrency-themed metal band emailed us for coverage. Here it is, enjoy! We delve into the latest on Brady Ebert’s ongoing vehicular homicide-related legal troubles. Suffocation’s drummer quit the band and implied that his bandmates are all on drugs. Good luck in Sanguisugabogg! We check in with Maynard James Keenan as he comes to the same conclusion about human “modern communication” that Simon & Garfunkel did in 1964. Finally, an ER story about a Real Rocker child. Folks, it's a good one.

Music featured on this 'sode:

Haine - Contaminated 

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THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: We talk about a fledgling TovH Guy really going above and beyond by attempting to murder the elderly father of his former Turnstile vocalist. See you in 15-20, Brady! We compare and contrast the journey of Brady Ebert with rapper Pooh Sheisty who also went above and beyond this week by attempting to kidnap Gucci Mane in front of a cop and a million cameras. In other news: Kiko Loureiro, former Megadeth guitarist, threatened to sue Arch Enemy over stealing a guitar riff, Arch Enemy responds and shatters Kiko into a pile of broken glass. Jordan makes me listen to a terrible Ladies & Gentlemen Core song from Dominum and I just kinda sigh into my microphone for 7 minutes. In much sadder news, Bo Leuders of Harms Way and James Lollar of Gost died way too young this week. Finally, we question whether the metrics behind fake band Dogma can be trusted at all.

Music featured on this episode:

Luddite – Perfect Organism

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