This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s a 10 out of 10 episode as we discuss nu-metal supergroup Dark New Day and their album, Twelve Year Silence. Topics this episode include:

-Making an album with childhood friends

-House of Wax 2005

-Ultimate Guitar’s rating scale

-The return of Songmeanings dot com

-“This song has got to be about alimony”

-Nu-metal math

-Who is trying to change you?

-Taking it down to the bare bones

-Getting advice from anyone or anything

-Following the sun down

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if Dark New Day deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon.

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go over Roach Rider feedback, Nu News, and so much more. Topics this episode include:

-What are we doing this summer?

-Matt blabbing on the Patreon

-Taking It On the Chin

-Shirt Report from Deftones in concert

-Who’s Recommending 

-Who’s Emailing from Moscow

-The Rant

-And Stupid F’N Matt’s Nu-Core For Old Heads

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we consider the multitudes contained in Black Coast and their debut album, Outworld. Topics discussed:

-Stoke-on-Trent…Reznor?

-The real Black Coast

-SonicHits dot Com

-“everything that is missing from modern music”

-Black Coast vs the Hindenburg

-Tight and getting tighter

-Audition by Takashi Miike

-Mortal Kombat memories

-Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes

-And Canon Talk, where Matt and Lorin decide if Black Coast deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon.

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about the most important awards show, the Heavy Music Awards! Lorin and Matt discuss every category, the long voting window, the continued presence of non-heavy bands among the nominees, and so much more! Take a listen!

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast Who’s Festing consumes the show! Matt bleeds! Lorin bloviates! LOUDER THAN LIFE! Symbols! Circles! HOT! MILK! Flushable toilets! Also Stupid F’N Matt’s Nu Core for Old Heads! You gotta listen! Do it!
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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about deep cuts! Lorin and Matt welcome Brian and Corey from Louisville Loves Nu-Metal back to the show to discuss their just announced Deep Cut night. The guys talk about the origins of the event, the methods of picking the right kind of deep cut, and talk about the influence of the Koach on creating the setlist! They close out the segment with some blind Nu-Metal album rankings.
Later in the show, Lorin and Matt talk Disturbed’s 20th Anniversary Sickness Tour, check out a Roachamendation for Deathtape, and listen to the newest selection from Stupid F’N Matt’s Nu-Core For Old Heads.

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Tickets are now on sale for Deep Cut Night, April 19th 2025. Get yours today! 

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast get some Rock 101 with the boys of Speak No Evil and their album, Welcome To The Downside. Topics this episode include:

-Timely album art

-Matt vs Vocals

-A musical gumbo

-Wishing someone was in orbit

-The 90s

-Amazon Dot Com reviewers

-Rollbar music

-Sometimes things are too intense

-Taking big swings

-An extremely heavy chainsing

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if Speak No Evil deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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This week the Koach celebrates the return of My Ticket Home! Lorin and Matt sit down with Derek Blevins, guitarist from My Ticket Home. Topics this episode include:

-What brought them back and the future of My Ticket Home

-Self producing

-Returning to the live show

-Lorin’s music video ideas

-Derek’s nu-metal roots

-And This or That: Nu-Metal Guitarists

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast, one low res photo sends Matt into space and beyond as he and Lorin listen to Boiler Room’s 2000 album, Can’t Breathe. Topics discussed this episode include:

-Most nu-metal titled album of all time?

-Butt on the sun

-Amazon dot com reviews

-“Hitting stations all over the nation”

-Bands no one knows

-Prime gym music

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if Boiler Room deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go over the latest Nu-News, listener emails, lists and more! Topics this episode include:

-Viral video feedback

-Nu-Metal bands who should be in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

-Who’s Festing at Nova Rock 2025

-New songs from Tetrarch and Stray From The Path

-Who’s Emailing with the Nu-Metal Mount Rushmore

-And Stupid F’N Matts Nu Core for Old Heads

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