SonOfOdin opens the show with a discussion of Luca Turilli's Rhapsody's sophomore album while El Goro tackles the latest project from Rammstein's Till Lindemann.

Albums:

Luca Turilli's Rhapsody : Prometheus - Symphonia Ignis Divinus (2015)

In 2011, Rhapsody announced its friendly split into two bands: Alex Staropoli decided to go on as Rhapsody of Fire, while Turilli, along with bassist Patrice Guers and session guitarist Dominique Leurquin, decided to move on as Luca Turilli's Rhapsody.

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Lindemann : Skills In Pills (2015)

Lindemann is a German/Swedish industrial metal supergroup featuring lead vocalist Till Lindemann (Rammstein) and multi-instrumentalist Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, PAIN).

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Bonus Song:

Paganus Doctrina : Los Vértices del Cuarto Ángel  [Bandcamp • Album Review]

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El Goro and SonOfOdin start the party off with a new folk metal outing from Korpiklaani. Once the booze starts hitting, it's time to enhance the weirdness with some blackened avant-garde from Sigh. In the indie segment, they take their first trip to Indonesia to check out the death metal scene there with Exhumation's second album. Finally, they return to Sweden to look at the prototype for both black and Viking metal with Bathory's transitional album.

New Releases:

Korpiklaani : Noita (2015)

Korpiklaani are a Finnish folk metal band who actually started as a pure folk act called Shaman. Since converting, they have incorporated thrash stylings in with the folk metal, and mostly sing about drinking and Finnish mythology.

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Sigh : Graveward (2015)

Sigh is a Japanese extreme metal band formed in 1989. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, although they gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound to a more experimental, avant-garde style.

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Local/Indie Band:

Exhumation : Opus Death (2015)

Hailing from Indonesia, Exhumation play a classic, lo-fi death metal style with some East Asian flourishes, giving them a more sinister edge than most of the Suffocation/Dismember clones that come out of this region.

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SonOfOdin opens the show with a discussion of the recent Delain/Sabaton/Nightwish concert. Then, El Goro discusses Kamelot's new album while SonOfOdin tackles the latest LP from Unleashed. Finally, two indie alumni, Pseudocidal and Martyrs have some new music to share.

Albums:

Kamelot : Haven (2015)

Kamelot's elaborate melodic power metal integrates progressive elements, doom/gothic metal, and classical music, allowing these Floridians to practically define their own genre.

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Unleashed : Dawn Of The Nine (2015)

When Nihilist broke up in 1989, the other members formed Entombed, but Johnny Hedlund started Unleashed. Since then, Unleashed has shifted from occult themes to Viking/Scandinavian lore and have begun incorporating black metal elements into their classic Swedish death metal sound.

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Bonus Songs:

Pseudocidal : Dislodge  [Bandcamp]

Martyrs : Ensomt Krek  [Amazon.com • iTunes • Spotify]

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El Goro and SonOfOdin take another look at some folk metal with the newest album from the Dutch band Heidevolk. Then it's back to Finland for some cello action with Apocalyptica and their new full-time vocalist. They return to the USA in the back half of the show, first with the over-the-top antics of Wisconsin's Lords Of The Trident, and then El Goro tries recapturing his youth with Slipknot's second album.

New Releases:

Heidevolk : Velua (2015)

Heidevolk is a pagan folk metal band from the Netherlands. The lyrical themes of their music are inspired by nature, Germanic mythology, and the history of Gelderland. Almost all of their lyrics are sung in Dutch.

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Apocalyptica : Shadowmaker (2015)

Apocalyptica is a Finnish metal band from Helsinki. The band is composed of three classically trained cellists a drummer, and a new full-time vocalist. Originally a Metallica tribute band, their music borrows elements from a wide variety of genres including classical music, neoclassical metal, thrash metal, and symphonic metal.

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Local/Indie Band:

Lords Of The Trident : Frostburn (2015)

Calling themselves "The most METAL band on earth", frontman Fang VonWrathenstein and the rest of Lords Of The Trident hail from Madison, Wisconsin, and entertain their followers with their over-the-top costumes and on-stage presence.

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El Goro and SonOfOdin start the episode with a look back at Year Three (Episodes 25–36). After that, they get into some Norwegian progressive/black metal with Enslaved. Staying in Scandinavia, they look at Nightwish's first studio album with their new singer. In the indie segment, they see how the Swiss do thrash metal with Comaniac's first album. Finally, SonOfOdin confesses his first music "crush" with the debut album from Guns N' Roses.

New Releases:

Enslaved : In Times (2015)

Enslaved is a Norwegian extreme metal band formed in 1991 by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson when they were 13 and 17 years old, respectively. The band name was inspired by an Immortal demo track. To date, they have produced thirteen full-length albums, plus numerous EPs and splits.

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Nightwish : Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and then-lead singer Tarja Turunen. After Tarja was ousted by the band, she was replaced by Anette Olzon for two albums. After Olzon's departure in 2012, the band elected former After Forever singer Floor Jansen to the role.

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Local/Indie Band:

Comaniac : Return To The Wasteland (2015)

Short for "The Company of Maniacs", Comaniac was started by two teenage friends. After recruiting a bassist and lead guitarist, the band released a demo in 2012 that received significant acclaim. They further refined their sound and released this album in 2015.

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Scheduling issues are prompting another delay of the main episode, so SonOfOdin looks at some newer releases from gothic metal legends Moonspell and technical death metallers Primordium.

Albums:

Moonspell : Extinct (2015)

Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band formed in 1992. They are one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal and pioneers in the gothic metal scene.

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Primordium : Aeonian Obsolescence (2014)

Hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, Primordium play technical and emotive death metal. The music contains intricate riffing, unpredictable variations, and proficient (some would say insane) drumming.

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SonOfOdin keeps it all in the USA this time around, first with the sophomore release from the previously-featured indie band, Thorr-Axe, and the first full-length album from the blackened death act Emblazoned.

Albums:

Thorr-Axe : Gates Of Winter (2015)

Hailing from the woolly wastelands of Bloomfield, Indiana, comes a battle-ready trio of youngsters combining Viking-themed lyrics with a unique mix of sludge, groove, and old-school doom. Hide your booze and your daughters should these Warriors Three show up in your town.

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Emblazoned : Eucharistiae Sacramentum (2014)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin's blackened death metal act Emblazoned has been around for fifteen years but had only released a demo and two EPs in that time. Now, they have a full album of new material to unleash upon the world.

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El Goro and SonOfOdin look at new Peruvian black metal with Goat Semen and German symphonic metal with Orden Ogan. Texas indie act Brutalody attempt to impress with their multi-genre EP, and the Valhalla also gets the German symphonic treatment with Blind Guardian's seventh album.

New Releases:

Goat Semen : Ego Svm Satana (2015)

Over a decade in the making, Peru's Goat Semen released their initial demo back in 2002, but life, line-up changes, and South American economics kept pushing the release back. 2015, however, finally sees the release and Goat Semen are ready to unleash their blackened vitriol on the world.

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Orden Ogan : Ravenhead (2015)

Following in the footsteps of countrymen Rage and Blind Guardian, Germany's Orden Ogan return with their fifth album of bombastic, soaring power metal heavily infused with symphonic and folk elements.

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Local/Indie Band:

Brutalody : The Usurper (2014)

Brutalody was formed in 2013 from the ashes of the Texas-based metal band Descendant. Their blend of thrash metal, melodic death metal, and progressive metal has carved them a unique niche in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metal scene.

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SonOfOdin checks out some Utah epic metal with Visigoth and some Australian avant-garde folk metal with Troldhaugen. El Goro sees what UK metal legends Venom are up to these days.

Albums:

Visigoth : The Revenant King (2015)

Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, Visigoth deals in an epic traditional heavy metal style with lyrics centered around sword-and-sorcery guaranteed to get your testosterone pumping.

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Venom : From the Very Depths (2015)

England's Venom came to prominence towards the end of the NWOBHM era. Their music was a major influence on thrash and extreme metal in general, and Cronos and his crew are still going strong to this day.

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Troldhaugen : Obzkure Anekdotez For Maniakal Massez (2014)

Starting life as your typical Scandinavian-sounding folk metal band, Australia's Troldhaugen evolved into an avant-garde band who kept some of the folk elements but added things like swing beats, choral backing, and other weirdness to create a very unique kind of music.

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El Goro and SonOfOdin tread dangerously into cheese country with new releases from Wednesday 13 and Battle Beast. Things get more serious in the back half of the show as they check out prog/thrash metal act Satyrasis and revisit some classic extreme metal with Celtic Frost's first LP.

Article of Discussion:• Angry Metal Guy Speaks: On Editing and the Death of the LP

New Releases:

Wednesday 13 : Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague (2015)

When the Murderdolls went on hiatus, frontman Wednesday 13 embarked on a new solo career with members of his past bands and plays a mix of industrial metal and horror punk.

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Battle Beast : Unholy Savior (2015)

Battle Beast is a Finnish heavy metal band started in 2008. After several line-up changes, the band has settled on a style that mixes modern power metal with 1980s-influenced electronic music.

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Local/Indie Band:

Satyrasis : ...Of The Dead (2015)

Michigan's Satyrasis is a band with thrash metal roots and progressive tendencies. Their second LP is an opus built on tales of ambition and addiction, money and obsession,