Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Yes, I censored the title. Deal with it. This week, we talk about Cynic, the artist formerly known as Haarp Machine, Ten Second Songs doing Slipknot, Thrawsunblat, Babymetal, Machine Head, Cattle Decapitation, Insomnium, Oxxo Xoox, Periphery, and Covet. Then, cool people time with Gemini Man, Destiny 2, and The Gurkha and The Lord of Tuesday. Enjoy!
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. -Scott Murphy Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week we have Nick! Also some news. Kadinja’s new album DNA, covering nu metal classics. Metallica’s recent tour cancellation, Morbid Angel guitarist Richard Brunelle passing away, and the This Patch of Sky situation. Also new material from Babymetal, Leander, and Blut Aus Nord. Drewsif’s video on creativity. The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Calculating Infinity turning 20. Then, cool people time with Ad Astra, Undone, and Elvia Wilk’s Oval. Enjoy!
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! We’re alive! We discuss the Batushka split, Keep of Kalessin, Unprocessed, The Ghost Inside, Disillusion, Opeth, Babymetal, and an acoustic cover of Trivium (zombie chord video here). Then, cool people time with Stranger Things, Spider-man, Crawl, The City of Folding Faces, and more. Enjoy!
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Eden is finally back, but this time I’m derailing. We talk about new music from Dreadnaught, Inanimate Existence, Babymetal, Warforged, Xenobiotic, Flub, and Destrage. Then we talk about the Threatin lawsuit, Mayhem signing with Century Media, and Demons & Wizards coming back. Also some philosophy, cool people time with Detective Pikachu, Chernobyl, Charles Stross’s Laundry files, Hannu Rajaniemi’s Summerland and Re:publica. Enjoy!
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A bunch of industry news this week! Spotify uniting with Distrokid, revenue shares of services, and ranting about monopolies versus fragmentation. Then some bummer news – Oli from All That Remains passed away, the Ghost members lost their lawsuit, and The Faceless are embarking on a 10th anniversary tour for Planetary Duality. Then some new music! Babymetal, Soilwork, Fractal Cypher, and Beyond Creation. Then cool people time! I gush about The Return of the Obra Dinn, and Eden gushes about Maniac. Enjoy!
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! A bunch of good stuff this week! And some not so good stuff. So pretty usual. New
Yay, this week there’s stuff! Some good, some bad! New As I Lay Dying (ugh), Babymetal, Dol Ammad, this cool Russian band Sunless Rise, the Perturbator school shooting shitshow, The Lion’s Daughter, Contrarian, Bridge Burner, Leprous, Uada, Suotana. Then, cool people stuff with Hereditary, Beacon 23, Sisyphean, Yoku’s Island Express. Enjoy!
Maybe it’s time to cancel the podcast? If the allegations of Tidal committing fraud are true, then our days may be numbered. Well, if they’re not, in the meantime, we have stuff to discuss. New material from Babymetal, Obscura, Aegaeon, and live Animals as Leaders. Then we discuss the titular story, and Spotify’s attempts at curation by “hateful content or conduct”. Finally, we talk about the amazing Extreme Meme Megamashup. Yes. Then cool people time with Arrested Development, Santa Clarita Diet, and more Infinity War, and Frostpunk. Enjoy!
Since their inception, BABYMETAL has always been a gimmick driven by an insane marketing campaign. The fusion of a power/death metal act and a Japanese pop idol group was something to be dismissed on paper, but two albums deep and hundreds of sold out worldwide performances later, BABYMETAL is less…
