Radical Research Podcast
By Jeff Wagner & Hunter Ginn
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Subscribers: 67
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Episodes: 167
Michael Marcotte
Dec 18, 2018
This podcast is incredible. I have been introduced to so many awesome artists. Their passion is palpable and makes this a great listening experience.
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Join hosts Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn in a bi-weekly conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of left-field rock and metal music.
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Episode 149 – Those Nasty Talkers: A Collaboration with Hair Metal Memories Podcast on TNT’s ‘Tell No Tales’
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Episode 148 – CATHEDRAL 1990-1994: Lord, Release the Dragons…
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Episode 147 – Crack the Code: Kevin Moore’s Genius
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Episode 146 – Radical Metallurgy Challenge: The Chameleons’ Script of the Bridge
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Episode 145 – Pan-Thy-Monium First, Family Second
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May 18, 2026 |
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Episode 144 – King Crimson, Five Larks’ Tongues, Aspic, and a Thrush Deceived
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Episode 143 – Comecon 1992-1995: Frogs, Worms, Anacondas
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Episode 142 – US Prog Rock in the 1970s: Five of a Perfect Quartet
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Episode 141 – Watchtower Discography in 10 Tasty Snips
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Episode 140 – Wormholes! ARCTURUS 1991-2015
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Episode 139 – Realm? The Milwaukee Realm? Yes, THAT Realm (1985-1992)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Episode 138.5 – Hunter Gets 12 Minutes to State His Case for Chum
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Episode 138 – Monumentum’s ‘In Absentia Christi’: A Radical Research Christmas (Sworn Enemy of the Virgin)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Episode 137 – Brand X, 1976-1980: Inhuman Fusion Conclusions
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Episode 136 – Dark Millennium 1992/93: The Freaks Have Spoken, We Have Listened!
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Episode 135 – Course Corrections…
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Episode 100 [RELAUNCH] – VOIVOD is the Engine That Powers Us
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Episode 134 – We Stand With Ukraine: Drudkh’s Microcosmos & Handful of Stars
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Episode 133.5 – Gorguts, “Nostalgia”…and Pearl Jam?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Episode 133 — Depth of Memories: The 3rd and the Mortal 1994-2002
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Episode 132 — And Now, You Die! Type O Negative’s ‘Slow, Deep and Hard’
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Episode 131 – A Eulogy for Tom Hailey
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Episode 130 – Obscure Mindways: Obliveon 1989-1993
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Episode 129.5 – Drilling Down on Gaahls Wyrd’s “Flowing Starlight”
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Episode 129 – Mat Kvohst McNerney (Dodheimsgard, Hexvessel, Beastmilk, Grave Pleasures, Code)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Episode 128 – What Doesn’t Kill GRINDCRUSHER Makes GRINDCRUSHER Stronger.
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Episode 127 – Genesis ‘And Then There Were Three’ is Total Prog!!
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Episode 126 – None More North! Thule 1985-2005 (with Agalloch’s John Haughm)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Episode 125 – Do You Think We’re Forever? Anathema’s ‘Eternity’
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Episode 124 – FLOPTAGON: Bathory’s ‘Octagon’
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Episode 123.5 – Autopsy’s ‘Fiend for Blood’: An EP in the Process of Dying
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Episode 123 – Vauxdvihl 1994-2001: Exhumation Party
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Episode 122.5 — A Challenge from S. Craig Zahler to Hunter Ginn, re: Sarcofago “Nightmare”
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Episode 122 — Intrigue CD 4: The Fourth Time We Opened the Capsule
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Episode 121.5 – Previous Episode Updates (Hail Spirit Noir, Hammers of Misfortune, Manes, Diskord, Xysma, Kayo Dot)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Episode 121 – The CORONER Episode!!!
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 120.5 – Jeff Scott Soto and Queen’s “The Prophet’s Song”
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Episode 120 – DBC’s ‘Universe’: Black Hole Spelunking
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Episode 119.5 – Death, DiGiorgio, and the Bass on ‘Human’
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Episode 119 – The Fu*king Champs 1994-2007: Hot-Ass Majesty
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Episode 118.5 – Better Slit Than Never: Cryptopsy’s ‘None So Vile’ 28 Years Later
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Episode 118 – There’s Only One Good Song On These Albums! One-Song Metal Albums
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Episode 117.5 – Ginn Loves Gadd
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Episode 117 – Steven Wilson’s Intrigue Compilation, Dissection Part 3
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Episode 116.5 – King Crimson’s Schizoid Man and the Metal in the Hot Middle
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Episode 116 — What is Psychedelic Music? The Radical Research Answer to a Vexing Question
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Episode 115.5 – Permeable Lines, Part 2
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Episode 115 – Hexx Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Episode 114 – Mourning Sign 1992-1996: Triangulation
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Episode 113 – Thief’s ‘Bleed, Memory’: What Was Your Original Face Before You Were Born?
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May 20, 2024 |
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Episode 112 – We Mean You Harm: Hail Spirit Noir 2012-2021
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Episode 111 – Immortal’s Blizzard Beasts: Convoking Nebular Dimensions
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Episode 110 – Steven Wilson’s Intrigue Compilation, Dissection Part 2
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Episode 109 – Sigh’s Weirdest! Let the Strangeness Do the Talking
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 108 – Non-Classic-Logo-Era Napalm Death, 1994-1998
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Episode 107 – The Saturnine Sleep: Tiamat’s A Deeper Kind of Slumber
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Episode 106 — New Metal Massacre: Horrendous, Afterbirth, Laster & Vemod
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Episode 105 – We Are Intrigued! Steven Wilson Curates ‘Intrigue’ Compilation & We Dissect [Part 1 of 4]
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Episode 104 – Diskord 2007-2021: Architectonic Death
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Episode 103 – We’re After the Same Thing: Dead Horse’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Episode 102 – INTO ANOTHER with Brothers from Other Mothers
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Episode 101 – Ambulance Chasing: Ulver’s ‘Blood Inside’
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Episode 100 – VOIVOD is the Engine That Powers Us
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Episode 99 – The Four Freaks Roundtable: Jeff & Hunter + Thomas Nul & Brian Grebenz
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Episode 98 – The Meads of Asphodel’s Guts Spun on the Loom of Judgment
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Episode 97 – Disembowelment Discography 1990-1993: A Burial In 14 Snippets
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Episode 96 – This is Not Some Stupid Quest: Disillusion’s Glorious ‘Gloria’
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May 18, 2023 |
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Episode 95 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations Part 3: Time to Kill
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Episode 94 – The Real Freakshow: Psychotic Waltz 1990-1996
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Episode 93 – The Sadus ‘Swallowed in Black’ Track-by-Track Batshit-Crazy Attaaaaaack!!!
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Episode 92 – Last Crack: The Best of All Our Burning Time
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Episode 91 – Atheist 1985-2010: We Believe!!!
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Episode 90 – Anekdoten 1993-2015: An Embarrassment of Mellotron
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Episode 89 – Bassically: Metal Bass Guitar Solos That Rip Ass
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Episode 88 – Hieronymus Bosch, Russian Tech-Death Band, 1994-2008 (The Painter is Pretty Great Too)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Episode 87 – Dax Riggs & Deadboy 2003-04: It’s Just All Illuminated
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Episode 86 — The Forrest Pitts Takeover!
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Episode 85 – 3D Blasphemy: Abigor’s Infernal Reaping
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Episode 84 – Gigan 2007-2017: A Decade of Brain-Frying Cosmic Escapism
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Episode 83.5 – Metal Laughs
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Episode 83 – Skin Yard 1986-1993: Fist Sized Snippets
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Episode 82 – Fates Warning: An Impromptu Discussion
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Episode 81 – Dave Murray, Drummer! (Traun, Estradasphere, Tholus, Sculptured)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Episode 80 – Supuration 1990-1994: Sojourns in the Absurd
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May 16, 2022 |
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Episode 79 – Simen Hestnaes aka ICS Vortex: 25 Years of Agility and Quirk
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Episode 78 – Enslaved’s Monumension: Floating Diversity & Monumental Dimensions
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Episode 77 – Wobbler 2005-2020: Seeing the Forest & the Trees
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Episode 76 – Ulver’s Kristoffer Rygg Outside the Wolf Pack
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Episode 75 – Ansur & Frantic Bleep: Norwegian Voyagers in the Hazy Aughts
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Episode 74 – In The Woods… In The Weeds… 1993-2000
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Episode 73 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations, Part 2
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Episode 72 – Master’s Hammer: Dreaming Bulldogs & Shy Geckos
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Episode 71 – Paul Chain’s Illogical Slow Evolution
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Episode 70 – Solefald 1996-2015: A Red Episode With Black Edges
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Episode 69 — Minds No Longer Present: Eucharist’s Mirrorworlds
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Episode 68 – The 6/8 Time Signature in Heavy Metal: Marching into Fire
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Episode 67 – Prog Macabre: French Dread
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Episode 66 – The Houde Abides: Kataklysm 1993-1996
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May 11, 2021 |
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Episode 65 – DVC: God’s Work Reversed in Tallahassee
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Episode 64 – Steve Hackett is the Wizard
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Episode 63 – LunaTechSpiritGasm: Alchemist’s Cosmic Dramas
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Episode 62 – Under Separate Cover
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Episode 61 – Face the Goat at Sunrise: Dødheimsgard 1995-2015
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Episode 60 – God It’s Great to Be Alive: Helios Creed 1985-1992
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Episode 59 – At the Oxiplegatz: The Episode Nobody Wanted
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Episode 58 – Let’s Necromance! Ripping Off Rush With Love
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Episode 57 – Naught Was Anymore Like Before: Atrocity 1990-1992
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Episode 56 – Genesis & The Lamb’s Hindquarters
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Episode 55 – Wicked Webs Weaved: The Works of Hammers of Misfortune
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Episode 54 – Radical Miscellany: 7 Degrees of Norwegian Metal Separation & Uli Kusch Glorified
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Episode 53 – It’s All Gone Weird: The Ved Buens Ende/Virus A/B
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Episode 52 – Eight-Sided Views of Two-Headed Turtles: The Mars Volta’s Octahedron
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Episode 51 – Suffocated by Stars: Ripping Into Nocturnus’s ‘Thresholds’
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Episode 50 – Exalt of the Weird: Celebrating Celtic Frost’s Into the Pandemonium
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Episode 49 – CAVEAT!!!!!! Nuclear Death 1986-2000
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Episode 48 – Vaffel House of Kicks: The Works of Albino Slug
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Episode 47 – This is Self-Destructing Turnip, Come in Radish: Porcupine Tree’s Curious Debut
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Episode 46 – For Knobs, For Wires, For Faders: Synth Whores II
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Episode 45 – A Means to an End: The Manes Discography
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Episode 44 – 44th & Magical: Xysma 1989 – 1998
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Episode 43 – Cut It! Cut It! Dissecting Mr. Bungle’s ‘California’
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Episode 42 – Modular Madness: In the Laboratory with Heldon’s ‘Stand By’
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Episode 41.5 – Mystery Snippets pt. 2
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Episode 41 – Express Bullet Train to Obscurity Town: Sindrome, Epitaph, Mid-Evil, Embrionic Death, Paraxism
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Episode 40 – Temptations So Wild: Gorgoroth’s ‘Incipit Satan’
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Episode 39 – In The Woods… Family Tree
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Episode 38 – Fathom by Fathom by Fathom: Kayo Dot’s Blasphemy
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Episode 37 – Listen With the Lights Off: Devil Doll 1989-1996
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Episode 36 – Melvins is Cult, Part 1: Hostile Ambient Takeover
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Episode 35 – Grey and Pink Topography: A Canterbury Overview
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Episode 34 – No More False Transparency: The Works of Anacrusis
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Episode 33 — Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Episode 32 – In the Morphine Fields: The Works of Thought Industry
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May 28, 2019 |
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Episode 31 – An Abrupt Egress from the ’60s: Van Der Graaf Generator
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May 14, 2019 |
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Episode 30 – Thank You, Uwe Osterlehner! Deathrow’s Deception Ignored
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Episode 29 – Walking Shadows: Mekong Delta 1987-1994
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Episode 28 – Rock Out With Your Calc Out: A Math Rock Survey
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Episode 27 – Fall Into Overdrive: Spiral Architect’s Tech-Metal Masterwork
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Episode 26 – It’s Weird Being a Bob: NoMeansNo FTW
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Episode 25 – Pytten’s Chamber Music: Black Metal in Grieghallen
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Episode 24 – This is the Ritual of Divination: Nasty Savage ’87/’88
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Episode 23.5 – Mystery Snippets
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Episode 23 – What the Hell is Art Rock?
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Episode 22 – Weeping Suns & Churning Seas: An Examination of Pyogenesis’ Twinaleblood
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Episode 21 – Who is the Freak Now? Regurgitating OLD
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Episode 20 – Wolf’s Lair Abyss: Answer & Announcement
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Episode 19 – The Unquietness of Fleurety
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Episode 18 – Do You Hear Solar Music? Grobschnitt’s Cosmic Fantasia
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Episode 17.5: Permeable Lines – A Dangerous Dance with Inspiration
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Episode 17 – Take the Bröms Dose: The Works of Afflicted
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Episode 16 – Synth Whores
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Episode 15 – The Breed is Still Beyond: Roadrunner’s Tech Metal Trinity
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Episode 14 – Northwest of Babylon: Candlemass 1998-1999
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Episode 13 – Make No Mistake: The Rick Rubin A/B
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Episode 12 – Out There: The Works of Mind Over Four
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Episode 11 — They Scream In Us Too: The Works of Carbonized
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Episode 10 – Let Go and Let Ginn: A Ginncore Primer
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Episode 9 – Panic Button at the Asylum: Semiramis, Corte dei Miracoli, Alphataurus
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Episode 8 – Strange Relief: The Works of Beyond Dawn
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Episode 7 – Wishful Dreaming: A Study of My Dying Bride’s Urban Detour
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Episode 6: Band in the Trees — Among the Ruins of Die Kreuzen
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May 29, 2018 |
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Episode 5.5: Calling Dr. Morpheus – The Kiss/Nuclear Death Convergence
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May 22, 2018 |
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Episode 5: Ten Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations
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May 15, 2018 |
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Episode 4: Where the Weirdos are Dishing it Out – Disharmonic Orchestra
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May 01, 2018 |
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Episode 3 | Breathless Silence Sped to Violence: Gnidrolog, Supersister, Artcane
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Episode 2 | The Unorthodox Khaos of Dan Swanö
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Episode 1 | It Ulver Is
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Mar 27, 2018 |