This week we dive head first into the world of blasphemous death metal with Deicide.  We try our best in this episode to figure out if Deicide is sinc...View Details

As we pivot away from nu-metal back into more familiar territory, Dan and Joe turn to Battlecross for salvation.  Is this band’s intense cocktail of m...View Details

Many years ago, we promised a Soulfly episode.  In fact, it was right after we finished our Sepultura discussion.  The time has come, and we thank you...View Details

At times it's refreshing to listen to a band that is uncompromising in their approach to heaviness.  Heaven Shall Burn is a staple in the collections ...View Details

Defeated Sanity is a favorite amongst technical brutal death metal fans around the world.  On this episode of Discography Discussion Dan and Joe try t...View Details

Crimson Thorn is one of the heaviest and brutal Christian death metal bands to hit the scene in the mid 90s.  Sporting the deepest vocals ever heard i...View Details

Have you ever found a band that is better at what they do than other popular bands?  A Hill to Die Upon could give any blackened death metal band a ru...View Details

Black metal and industrial music may not go together.  But, Samael challenges that notion and brings us a discography filled with extreme vocals, prog...View Details

Emperor is largely credited for being one of the foundational bands for symphonic black metal as a genre.  This week Dan and Joe explain why Emperor i...View Details

Roy Culver sits down with Dan tonight to discuss Roy's history with the heavy music scene. What it takes to enter the industry and how it has changed ...View Details

Morgoth was a hungry band who wanted to be as heavy and brutal as they come in the early 90’s death metal scene.  But, they didn't do that for some re...View Details

Pestilence is one of few key bands in the death metal scene that is still putting out albums to this very day. On this episode of Discography Discussi...View Details

Cave In has one of the most interesting musical arcs we have explored on this show so far.  How does a band go from being a garage hardcore band to be...View Details

Egyptian themed death metal might not sound like a great idea on paper.  Nile is one of the most celebrated death metal bands of all time, and on this...View Details

Cynic may have a short discography, but they were and continue to be one of the most influential bands in “weird” extreme metal.  On this episode Dan,...View Details

Malevolent Creation has been a staple in the American death metal scene since the early 90s. Dan, Joe, and Geoff talk about the band’s inception as a ...View Details

Geoff picks a great week to rejoin the podcast as we dig into the albums of Nevermore.  Nevermore is hard to describe, and impossible to pigeon hole. ...View Details

Point of Recognition is a very important band to the west coast Christian hardcore scene and possibly the hardcore scene at large.  With their own bra...View Details

Most of the time a super group is not the sum of its different parts.  Is it possible that Bloodbath is an exception to this rule?  Swedish death meta...View Details

Scott Mellinger of Zao joins the podcast this week to discuss Morbid Angel, one of the most influential death metal bands of the 90s.  We figure out h...View Details

We dug deep this week in order to bring you another band that can only be described as a “sure thing.”  Suffocation rewrote the book on technical deat...View Details

Filmmaker David Lipke sits down with Dan this week to talk about his recently completed film 30 Years of Sacrifice the History of Living Sacrifice.  D...View Details

Cephalic Carnage is a band ahead of their time.  Are they simply a grindcore band with technical death metal skills?  Dan, Joe, and Geoff will answer ...View Details

Vito Marchese of Novembers Doom joins Dan this week as they talk about his introduction into Novembers Doom as well as all things nerd with topics ran...View Details

It took us almost 4 years to do it, but now we present to you our album by album review of Testament?  Should Testament be part of the Big 4 of Thrash...View Details

Just forget everything you think you know about Cattle Decapitation.  You think they are a bunch of grindcore playing vegans?  Well, you are partially...View Details

This week we decided to revisit one of Dan’s favorite bands of all time, Death!  In order to do this right, we needed an expert in all things metal!  ...View Details

This week we head over to Sweden to talk about some classic Entombed records, and, you know, those other Entombed records...  Entombed helped pave the...View Details

Godflesh is one of the heaviest bands you’ll ever hear.  As one of the bands largely credited with inventing industrial metal, it is interesting to he...View Details

Do you folks like Vikings?  Hopefully you do because this week we grabbed our swords and axes in order to get in the mindset to truly enjoy Amon Amart...View Details