Metal Injection Podcasts

Welcome to episode 169 of MSRcast, the heavy metal audio zine brought to you by Mainstream Resistance and Metal Injection. Your hosts, Cary the Metal Geek and Sean the Metal Pigeon bring you lots of frank discussion and some killer metal jams. Topics include our review of the Sabaton/Nightwish concert, Heavy Metal books, Blind Guardian touring, VIP packages and if they are worth it, and lot of other topics. Playlist: Kamelot – Fallen Star – Haven Thurisaz – Rays of Light – Pulse of Mourning Monox – Perfect Sky – Perception Changes Gwar – Madness At The Core Of Time – Battle Maximus Arcturus – the Arcturian Sign – Arcturian Helloween – Lost In America Paradise Lost – Beneath Broken Earth – The Plague Within The official MSRcast website is live! Visit us at msrcast.com, or metalgeeks.net, for all of your MSRcast needs, including archives of podcasts, interviews, reviews, and lots more. Remember to contact us at msrcast@gmail.com, and follow us over on twitter, @msrcast and @themetalpigeon. Come and join Cary and Sean over on Facebook, and while you are there, like our facebook fan page to keep up at www.facebook.com/msrcastofficial. Come find is over on Instagram @msrcast. If you like the show, let others know about it by tweeting about it, talking about it, and subscribing in itunes and leaving a review and comment. Enjoy, and Keep It Metal!

Some sad news to report with this episode. Apparently the album "Larks" is the last "Returning We Hear the Larks" album for the foreseeable future. But "Larks" is an excellent album comprising of re-recorded versions of popular songs spanning the career of Returning We Hear the Larks. Hopefully it won't be the last we hear of this amazing band. And while we end this episode on a bit of a downer we have 45 minutes of ear-punishing Creative Commons Metal starting with a brutal track from Austin Deathrip, Alexander Oden, Manakel, Polygons, Fallen to Flux, and TORT. Add to that a brand new EP from Deep Space Destructors and you have a broad swath of metal music to check out and support. Shownotes after the break: * (00:10) Antisignum by AUSTIN DEATHTRIP from None (BY-NC) * (03:49) Primal Shadow by Alexander Oden from The Culmination (BY-NC-ND) * (08:10) Impostor by Manakel from Oscuridad (BY-NC-ND) * (11:34) Apeirogon I: Singularity by Polygons from Apeirogon (BY-NC-SA) * (15:57) Relapse by Fallen to Flux from From the Outside, Looking In (BY-ND) * (20:40) Cry of the Damned by TORT from II (BY-NC-ND) * (27:47) Journey To The Space Mountain by Deep Space Destructors from Spring Break From Space EP (BY-NC-ND) * (37:51) Prologue: Stheno; Slain by Hand of Gods by Returning We Hear the Larks from Larks (BY-SA) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, head to the shows, or buy their cross-stitch patterns on Etsy. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

This Mother's Day episode kicks off with the GWAR drama earlier this week with the band kicking out the performer who played Vulvatron. We find an old episode of Noa's original podcast, which is absolutely worth the listen alone. We then discuss originality in music and bands' influences. To buffer all this music talk, we get a call from LeRoy, who accuses us of payola and another call about a marijuana interaction with a police officer. Hour two is mostly dedicated to discussing Ja Rule's new credit card and Rob hiccuping all over the place as we discuss our question of the week: what musician would you want to take your mother out to dinner? Here's this week's playlist: Pig Destroyer – Towering Flesh SOD – Identity Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at our new time 7pm Eastern (4PM Pacific Time) and going until 9PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "If you could replace any active musician in a band, who would it be and why?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

If you enjoy us discussing Hasidic Jews, this is the episode for you. Noa discusses her tour of Borough Park. Rob and Noa talk about going to see Randy Blythe's photo exhibition opening and meeting stars from yesteryear. We discussed Scott Weiland embarrassing himself and got a bunch of calls from listeners we haven't heard from before. We also answered the question of the week, which was If you can reactivate any band, what band would it be? Here is this week's playlist: Veil Of Maya – Teleute Ne Obliviscaris – Painters of the Tempest (Excerpt) Harm's Way Law Of The Land Wolvhammer – Clawing Into Black Sun Code Orange – Slowburn Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at our new time 7pm Eastern (4PM Pacific Time) and going until 9PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "For Mother's Day, which musician would you want to take your mom out to dinner?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

Welcome to the long overdue first Relapse podcast of 2015! We have new music from SKINLESS, ROYAL THUNDER, GRUESOME, TORCHE plus plenty of old tunes celebrating our 25th Anniversary! As always, we have the latest updates, tour info, and Relapse artist news.  We also have an exclusive interview with Rick Smith, drummer of TORCHE!  DOWNLOAD, PLUG IN AND TURN IT UP! Skinless – Serpenticide  Maruta – Stand in Defeat  Tau Cross – Lazarus  Valkyrie – Mountain Stomp Royal Thunder – Forget You  Minsk – To The Garish Remembrance of Failure Gruesome – Hideous  Zombi – Sequence 2  Bedemon – Child of Darkness  Myrkur – Skaol (Demo)  Call of the Void – Cold Hands Exhumed – Open the Abscess Redux  Rwake – Nagarachi  Primitive Man – Loathe  Lord Dying – Darkness Remains Torche – Annihilation Affair  Torche – Loose Men  Dead World – The Machine Siege – Drop Dead 25th Anniversary Vinyl Reissues Segment  Incantation – Golgotha  Human Remains – Human Amorphis – Better Unborn  Pan Thy Monium – The Battle of Geeheb   Nile – Sarcophagus  Nasum – Scoop 

We kicked off the show talking about the controversial story earlier this week about the porno filmed at a metal festival. We were also joined by Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, who talked about the band's current tour with Clutch, his side project, Arcadea, jamming with his wife, and stories about his grandparents jamming with Johnny Cash. In hour two, we spend a lot of time talking about Khia, geriatric pro wrestling legend Verne Gagne, foreskin facial masks and our question of the week, Which band do you want to stop recording new music and just tour?. Here's this week's playlist: Arcadea – Gas Giant Obituary – Circle Of The Tyrants Sigh – In Devil's Arms Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at our new time 7pm Eastern (4PM Pacific Time) and going until 9PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "If you can reactivate any band, what band would it be?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

It's been a few weeks since the last Open Metalcast episode dropped from the skies to shove pitchforks of amazing metal into your earholes. But suffice to say we're back and ready to grant your eardrums the best in Creative Commons Metal Music. We have the latest from The Burial Chamber, Eternal Dream, Interceptor, tao te kin, Dahkma, Logic of Denial and Orphans of Dusk. So sit back, relax, and let the pitchforks poke where they may. * (00:09) Fuckinsaurus by The Burial Chamber from Turbulent Circle (BY-SA) * (04:11) Eternal Dream – Neoclassical Fantasy by Eternal Dream from Reign Of The Skies (BY-NC-ND) * (09:30) Run Like Hell by Interceptor from None (BY-NC-ND) * (13:40) Once Again by SANTO ROSTRO from II: The Bleed (BY-NC-ND) * (22:02) Exilio by tao te kin from Abada (BY-NC-ND) * (30:35) Eulogy by Dakhma from Raze (BY-NC-ND) * (36:20) 01 – Immaculate by Logic Of Denial from Hymns Of Acrimony – Promo MMXV (BY-NC-ND) * (41:51) Nibelheim by Orphans of Dusk from Revenant (BY-NC) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, head to the shows, or turn their music into Karaoke. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

We kicked this week's Livecast off with a discussion about the new Slayer track, "When The Stillness Comes." Noa and Jake talked about their recent trip to Puerto Rico. We got a call from our listener, Daanish, who asked us to help him with his Jewish Studies homework. In hour two, we got advice from Steve Harvey and got some very important tips on washing our genitals and answered this week's question of week, If every musician was forced to retire and you could only save one from retiring, who would it be? Here's this week's playlist: Emigrate – Hypothetical Capharnaum – Perpetuate Catatonia Carach Angren – There's No Place Like Home Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at our new time 7pm Eastern (4PM Pacific Time) and going until 9PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "What musician or band do you want to keep touring but stop making new albums?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

Welcome to episode 168 of the MSRcast podcast with your hosts Cary the Metal Geek  and Sean the Metal Pigeon. In this episode we dive into topics such as Megadeth announcing their new lineup, what’s going on with Gwar, Testament/Exodus review, what our pre-show and after metal show rituals are, why Manson got beaten up in Canada, and much more metal discussion! Playlist: Gruesome – Hideous – Savage Land Nightwish – Weak Fantasy – Endless Forms Most Beautiful Ghost Ship Octavius 0 Mills Of The Gods – Self Titled Kiske/Somerville – Walk On Water – City Of Heroes Lancer – Iwo Jima – Second Storm Barren Earth – Howl – On Lonely Towers The official MSRcast website is live! Visit us at msrcast.com, or metalgeeks.net, for all of your MSRcast needs, including archives of podcasts, interviews, reviews, and lots more. Visit our home over at Metal Injection.net. Remember to contact us at msrcast@gmail.com, and follow us over on twitter, @msrcast and @themetalpigeon. Come and join Cary and Sean over on Facebook, and while you are there, like our facebook fan page to keep up at www.facebook.com/msrcastofficial. Come find is over on Instagram @msrcast. If you like the show, let others know about it by tweeting about it, talking about it, and subscribing in itunes and leaving a review and comment. Enjoy, and Keep It Metal!  

We kick this week's episode off talking about the recent Scientology documentary, Going Clear. We transitioned into a convo about the recent religious confrontation in the metal sphere. We also discussed Khia and CoCo, toilet paper, Steve Segal movies and Marilyn Manson. Here's this week's playlist: Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at 6pm Eastern (3PM Pacific Time) and going until 8PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "If every musician was forced to retire and you could only save one from retiring, who would it be?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

Loni joined us for this week's episode, and we kicked it off talking about the religious freedom act. Somehow we transitioned into a conversation about Rob losing his job at SiriusXM. We then celebrated the 10th anniversary of another legendary metal outlet. After the music break, we read more Yelp reviews from Ken P. and took some phone calls. There was virtually no conversation about heavy metal this episode, so it's a good one, for sure! Here's the playlist: Taake – Orm Cherubs – Unhappyable Black Sheep Wall – White Pig Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at 6pm Eastern (3PM Pacific Time) and going until 8PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "What is the most traumatic thing your parents have ever said or done to you?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

This week, we celebrated recording 300 episodes of the Metal Injection Livecast. We got congratulatory voicemails from past guests like Gunface, Dave Hill, Dan Ozzi, and even Sister Robba. We talked about some of our favorite moments in the history of the show and played over 300 drops from the show. Our music break was all song parodies we did over the years, which we kicked off with a new parody from "Dave Mustaine." Thank you to everybody who's listened to even a moment of our first 300 episodes. Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at 6pm Eastern (3PM Pacific Time) and going until 8PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our question of the week: "What is the most traumatic thing your parents have ever said or done to you?" Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

Welcome to episode 167 of the ‘ol MSRcast podcast with your hosts Cary the Metal Geek  and Sean the Metal Pigeon. In this episode we dive into topics such as Megadeth rumors, the possible sale of Century Media records, and Bruce Dickinson. We also play a quick game of Heavy Metal trivia. Keep it metal! Playlist: Anthrax – Soror Irrumator – Game Of Thrones Mixtape Vol II Oceans Of Slumber – Solitude – Blue EP Angra – Silent Call The Gentle Storm – Heart Of Amsterdam – The Gentle Storm Exhumed – Open The Abscess – Gore Metal – A Retrospective Voivod – Mechanical Mind – Target Earth Steven Wilson – Happy Returns The official MSRcast website is live! Visit us at msrcast.com, or metalgeeks.net, for all of your MSRcast needs, including archives of podcasts, interviews, reviews, and lots more. Remember to contact us at msrcast@gmail.com, and follow us over on twitter, @msrcast and @themetalpigeon. Come and join Cary and Sean over on Facebook, and while you are there, like our facebook fan page to keep up at www.facebook.com/msrcastofficial. Come find is over on Instagram @msrcast. If you like the show, let others know about it by tweeting about it, talking about it, and subscribing in itunes and leaving a review and comment. Enjoy, and Keep It Metal!

We kicked off the show with Rob recapping his adventures from SXSW, including a quick call from Godless of the MetalSucks podcast. We followed it up with another Beyond the Band segment featuring Earache's U.S. label manager, Al Dawson, who talked about coming up in the metal scene via Australia and how you should go about getting a job in the music business. Hour two was a lot of talk about Jews, Nobody Beats the Wiz, and our Question of the Week – what is your most embarrassing masturbatory experience? Here's this week's Noa-curated playlist: Between The Buried & Me – Astral Body In Flames – Dialogue With The Stars Loudness – Black Star Oblivion Gaza – The Astronomer Listen to the Metal Injection Livecast on Stitcher or on iTunes (please leave a rating/review as well). Also, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us live next week starting at SPECIAL WRESTLE MANIA START TIME 5pm Eastern (2PM Pacific Time) and going until 7PM eastern time for an all new edition of the Livecast.  Our (double) question of the week: "What was the hardest you've ever laughed in the 300 episodes of the Livecast?" "If you could do one thing with one of the hosts 300 times, what would it be? (Not f-ing Noa) Leave a voicemail below with your answer and we may air it on next week's show:

This episode we decided instead of our normal format we'd try something similar to our neglected (and long overdue) Instrumetalcast episodes and just let the music play straight through. Part of this was tracks selected for this episode lent themselves better to being played with just enough space left in-between them to breathe. This episode features an amazing line-up of tracks from Frigoris, Doodsangst, Odradek Room, Lotus Eater, The Scimitar, WOHEDNESS, Ladder Devils, Screaming At The Sun, and finishes up with the latest from Palm Desert. It's a mix of blackened death metal and doom that breathes best with a pair of headphones. Shownotes after the break: * (00:24) Im Keim ertrunken by Frigoris from Wind (BY-NC) * (07:47) de naamloze ziel by Doodsangst from de zekere afgrond (BY-NC-ND) * (11:48) Inflorescence of Silence by Odradek Room from Bardo Relative Reality (BY-NC) * (18:08) Red Desert by Lotus Eater from Sanctum of the White Lotus – EP (BY-NC-SA) * (24:48) Void Traveler by The Scimitar from Doomsayer (BY-NC-ND) * (31:27) Usurping the Throne by WOHEDNESS from WOHEDNESS (BY-NC-ND) * (35:29) Hunt For Life by Ladder Devils from Clean Hands (BY-NC-SA) * (38:45) Singularity by Screaming At The Sun from Screaming At The Sun (BY-NC-SA) * (45:19) No pain No sorrow by Palm Desert from Pearls from the muddy hollow (BY-NC-ND) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, head to the shows, or play their music so loud your neighbors' ears bleed. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.