The Roach Koach Podcast

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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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we answer the question of whether Flymore is Korn or korn or corn as we listen to their 2009 album, Millennium IV V. Topics discussed:

-Nicknames

-The Korn rating scale

-Jonathan Devis

-“Life is too long until you die”

-Amazon reviews

-Filling “a” void

-Nothing personal!

-Attention to detail in music videos

-Songs for the common man

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

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about the Koach going Viral! That’s right, we did it! Topics this episode include:

-Matt’s secrets to internet fame

-What percentage of internet commenters just want to say hi

-Spineshank and the Roach Koach Bump

-The Louder Than Life slow drip

-Logo discussion Part 2

-Diving at the dial

-Who’s Listing with Josh Toomey

-Mini Canon Talk

-Movie podding

-Nu-Metal from Chile and Poland

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

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Exclusive episodes and more on the Roach Koach Patreon. New episodes of the Pact every month. Subscribe today! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it!  Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachKoach on Twitter, Roach Koach on Facebook , Roach Koach on Instagram, or send an email to RoachKoachPodcast at Gmail. Follow the show on Youtube and TikTok! Find every episode of Roach Koach and order your Roach Koach T-shirt at Roach Koach dot com. 

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we celebrate 450 episodes and make a long awaited return to the boys of Spineshank and listen to their third album, Self-Destructive Pattern. Topics this episode include:

-A song that drips

-College vibes

-Stomping and spinning in the pit

-Swearing too much?

-Going to the Bobby’s World tour

-Intentional smothering

-Muse

-Jammin’ tunes

-“Play it at my funeral”

-Paying to listen to a sound

-Knowing when you’re cooked

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

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Exclusive episodes and more on the Roach Koach Patreon. New episodes of the Pact every month. Subscribe today! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it!  Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachKoach on Twitter, Roach Koach on Facebook , Roach Koach on Instagram, or send an email to RoachKoachPodcast at Gmail. Follow the show on Youtube and TikTok! Find every episode of Roach Koach and order your Roach Koach T-shirt at Roach Koach dot com.