Another Metal Podcast Episode 80
Feb 19
If It Ain’t Got That Scream It Don’t Mean A Thing
There’s a lot of attention right now being given to old-guard hanging it up and announcing farewell tours, which is understandable, but I think it’s also a symptom of some of the things holding metal back as an industry. Back in the eighties when the genre was a completely different business, the big-label architecture was designed for everything to rest on a few huge pillars (‘tallica, Megadeth, Ozzy, etc.). But nowadays heavy music is much more diffuse stylistically and DIY business-wise, so it hurts the industry to rely on the fading big names rather than the underground. That’s one of the main reasons I produce a heavy metal podcast that focuses exclusively on non major label bands, many of them purely independent; it’s where the future is and these are the groups that need attention and opportunity, not bands that had their spotlight thirty years ago and already contributed their relevancy. Support the underground, because that’s what metal is nowadays.
Bands on this week’s episode hail from France, Canada, Israel, Sweden, US, Croatia, Norway, Singapore, Austria, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Italy, and Germany.
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Episode 80 Playlist:
Agrimonia – Foreshadowed (0:34)
Sweden. New album ‘Awaken’ out through Southern Lord.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Southern Lord
Usurpress – The Iron Gates Will Melt (9:17)
Sweden. New album ‘Interregnum’ out Feb 23 through Agonia Records.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Agonia
Insect Ark – In the Nest (14:26)
New York/Oregon. New album ‘Marrow Hymns’ out Feb 23 through Profound Lore.
Bandcamp, Facebook, Profound Lore
Treedeon – Breathing a Vein (18:40)
Germany. New album ‘Under the Manchineel’ out Feb 23 through Exile on Mainstream.
Hammr – Satanic Raid (25:25)
Ohio. Debut album ‘Unholy Destruction’ out Feb 23 through Hells Headbangers.
Bandcamp, Facebook, Hells Headbangers
Demonomancy – The Day of the Lord (28:52)
Italy. Second album ‘Poisoned Atonement’ out Feb 23 through Invictus Productions
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Invictus Productions
Funeral Winds – Cursed is this Pantheon of Flesh (34:45)
Netherlands. New album ‘Sinister Creed’ out through Avantgarde Music.
Website, Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, Avantgarde Music
Elegiac – Beyond the Physical Realm (38:41)
Oregon. New album ‘Black Clouds of War’ out through De Tenebrarum Principio.
Bandcamp, Facebook, De Tenebrarum Principio
Novareign – Heavy Heart (46:02)
California. New album ‘Legends’ out through M-Theory Audio.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, M-Theory Audio
Necrosexual – Dead Sexy (51:10)
Pennsylvania. Debut album ‘Grim 1’ out Feb 23 independently.
Centuries – Soil (54:14)
Florida. New album ‘The Lights of the Earth are Blinding’ out through Southern Lord.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Southern Lord
Greber – Backhanded Interest (56:26)
Ontario, CA. New album ‘Cemetery Preston’ out through Pink Lemonade (CD), Hibernation Release (cassette), and Ancient Temple Recordings (vinyl).
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, Pink Lemonade, Hibernation Release, Ancient Temple
Ocean of Grief – Fiend of the Overlord (1:01:32)
Greece. Debut album ‘Nightfall’s Lament’ out through Rain Without End.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, Rain Without End
Coffin Torture – Gustave (1:06:50)
South Carolina. New album ‘Dismal Planet’ out through Sludgelord Records.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Sludgelord
Harakiri For The Sky – Tomb Omina (1:14:02)
Austria. Fourth album ‘Arson’ out through AOP Records.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, AOP
Funerary Bell – Goat of Mendes (1:22:07) 4:34
Finland. New album ‘Undead Revelations’ out Feb 23 through Saturnal Records.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Saturnal Records
Dante’s Theory – Deconstruct (1:27:53)
Singapore. New single.
Dominant – Servants of Damnation (1:33:28)
Norway. Debut album ‘The Summoning’ out through Lacerated Enemy Records.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Lacerated Enemy
Astrakhan – A Change Begins (1:37:24)
British Columbia, CA. New album ‘Without New Growth Process is Bloodshed’ out independently.
Website, Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook
Asheraah – Fade (1:43:09)
Croatia. New EP ‘Everything Will Fade’ out independently.
Avslut – Deceptis (1:50:36)
Sweden. Debut album ‘Deceptis’ out Feb 23 through Osmose Productions.
Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Osmose
Ziggurat – Summoning the Giant Serpent (1:54:23)
Israel. Debut EP ‘Ritual Miasma’ out March 2 through Blood Harvest.
Bandcamp, Facebook, Blood Harvest
Rites of Thy Degringolade – The Final Laceration (1:59:15)
Alberta, CA. New album ‘The Blade Philosophical’ out March 15 through Nuclear War Now!
Chaos Echoes – Embodied by Perfidious Curls in the Innervated Flux (2:04:20)
France. Second album ‘Mouvement’ out through Nuclear War Now!
Website, Bandcamp, Facebook, NWN
