🦇🎃 Get it? Two peas in a pod… on the POD pod? Look, we’re doing a belated Halloween thing here. So just, like, go with it, okay? To celebrate the recent end to spooky season, we’ve got a banger haul of tracks, including gothy doom, chilled out gazey alt-rock, catchy Norwegian death-pop, and much more. Oh, did I mention we have costumes? That’s what we’ve BEAN doing. Ahhhhhh!!! 🦇🎃 

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For Perth metalcore juggernaut Make The Suffer, their self-titled fifth album (out November 8th through Greyscale & SharpTone Records) represents a clear reaffirmation of their sonic intent through unrelenting, genre-bending heaviness.

Frontman Sean Harmanis joins the show to chat about touring outside the Western comfort zone, the group’s continued evolution, his creative dynamism with new member, keyboardist, and vocalist Alex Reade, and how the pressure of expectation yielded a daring new chapter in the band’s journey.

Follow Make Them Suffer and pre-order their S/T record here: https://grysclrec.lnk.to/makethemsuffer 

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⁉️ Need new tunes for the week? We’ve got you covered! Paige finds more online manufactured outrage bait, while Owen highlights some scorching new records at the top of the show. We’ve also got metalcore ragers, indie pop crooners, and punk rock barnburners. It’s all happening, folks 🫡

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For the remaining members of post-hardcore powerhouse Planes Mistaken For Stars, their long-awaited fifth studio album will forever be an open wound. Completed in the wake of not one but two founding members passing away—guitarist/vocalist Matt Bellinger (2017) and frontman/guitarist Gared O’Donnell (2021)— ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ (out November 1st through Deathwish Inc.) is a howling cry of catharsis pitched into the great beyond.

And yet, despite the palpable sense of grief and loss that hangs tenuously over the record’s diverse tracklist, glimmers of hope and communion peak through the darkness with the promise of a brighter tomorrow. We’re joined by Chuck French (guitar) and Mike Ricketts (drums) to talk about the enormous task of shaping these songs into not just a tribute to their dear friends, but also a record worthy of the band’s formidable legacy. "We ride to fight. Thunder in the night forever."

Follow Planes and pre-order/stream ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ here: https://planesmistakenforstars.net/ 

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🔥Here’s our brief chat with Fit For An Autopsy frontman and ecstatic dog dad Joe Badolato 🔥

The New Jersey metaller’s seventh studio album, ‘The Nothing That Is’ (out on October 25th through Nuclear Blast/Human Warfare), is an existential battering ram that takes aim at geopolitics, social decay, environmental collapse, and the crushing despair at the heart of human existence.

Joe chats with us about his good boy Bruce, finding joy in the recording process, authenticity in performance, filling in for Lamb of God (!), and much more.

Follow Fit For An Autopsy and pre-order/stream ‘The Nothing That Is’ here: https://linktr.ee/FitForAnAutopsy 

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🎶 It’s roundup time once again, and we’ve got a banger crop of tunes for this week. Blooming alt-rock and Bangkok evil-core. Austrian blackened post-rock and posthardcore supergroups. Aussie metalcore throwbacks and London post-punk odes. It’s all here, ready to go 🫡

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This week we’re joined by Monica Strut, music journalist and frontwoman for “cyber-pop metalcore” outfit The Last Martyr. The group are gearing up to release their new EP, ‘Requiem’ (out independently on October 23rd), which follows a period of creative renewal for the Naarm/Melbourne quartet and a reaffirmation of their dark sonic intent. Monica chats about reflecting on rejection, finding collective solidarity and strength in her bandmates, and using narrative metaphors to emphasise dystopian lyricism.

Follow The Last Martyr, pre-order/stream ‘Requiem,’ and grab tickets to upcoming shows here: https://www.thelastmartyr.band/ 

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🔥Here’s our brief chat with fellow podcaster, label head, frontman, record store guy, and all-round legend Jeremy Bolm of post-hardcore staples Touché Amoré🔥

The Cali group are gearing up to release their sixth full-length album, ‘Spiral In A Straight Line’ (out on October 11th via Rise Records/BMG), which is also their second collaboration with famed producer Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Sepultura) following 2020’s critically acclaimed ‘Lament’. 

Jeremy pulls zero punches in our chat, as he delves into the universality of grief, anxiety, the idea of legacy, and growing older.

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⚒️ It’s another busy week on the tools, so we get stuck right into the business at hand. Owen briefly forgets how time works, and Paige sacrifices the pod at the altar of Beyoncé. We cover post-hardcore from Sheffield, moshy death metal from Tokyo, and indie-punk storytelling from Naarm/Melbourne. Plus much, much more. Let’s go! 🔀

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After landing some backstage time during their recent show at The Forum in Naarm/Melbourne, we’re joined by Jesse Barnett of Stick To Your Guns and Ways Away to chat about the upcoming eighth full-length album from the Cali hardcore powerhouse, ‘Keep Planting Flowers’ (out January 10th through SharpTone Records).

Proving that he’s one of the most insightful and passionate frontmen in hardcore today, Jesse gives us the lowdown on the need for collective solidarity, using music to speak to revolutionary struggle, his work and community outreach with All Power Books, the inherent dangers of tribalism, and how to stay hopeful in the face of seemingly endless nihilism.

Follow Stick To Your Guns here: https://sticktoyourguns.net/ 

Follow All Power Books and all the resources mentioned here: https://allpowerbooks.org/pages/resources

Stream/purchase ‘A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation for the Palestinian Liberation’ here: https://hardcore4gaza.bandcamp.com/album/a-homeland-denied-a-compilation-for-the-palestinian-liberation

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