REQUIEM METAL PODCAST

Back to Sweden again with the very under rated black/death act, Naglfar. We discuss their full back catalog and highlight the criminally neglected Harvest, which managed to slip past everyone's top album list last year.

Finish doom/death act Hooded Menace and NYC post-rock/shoegaze/black metal hybrids Tombs are the bands we cover this week.

Our first in a series of important genre records--our version of the "Hall of Fame." This episode we discuss Dark Tranquillity's Skydancer & Of Chaos and Eternal Night Ep.

Our first in a series of Death shows that we'll be doing this year. This one spotlights Scream Bloody Gore & Leprosy.

The one. The only... Bathory. One of the earliest and most influential bands in the extreme metal genre.

The last five episodes we recorded in a single session, since Jason and I live an hour apart, so this installment we decided to play things a little different. We start out this week's show playing a little catch up, announcing the launch of the Requiem site (which you are no doubt aware of if your reading this), what's been going on (in a metal sense) and kind of reintroduce ourselves and what we're about. We thought this would be a good chance to change things up a bit since we've had a string of 2-part shows, so this week we're featuring two acts that have nothing to do with one another. One an older lost gem, Ablaze My Sorrow, and the other a newer act that has really blown us away, Obscura. Join us for our first split show and as always let us know what you think of the show by dropping us a line.

The later years of Opeth are discussed, leading up to their most recent LP Watershed.

This episode we finish up the tail end of My Dying Bride.

One of the most successful death metal bands of recent memory, Opeth is the subject of this week's show. Chris DIck joins us again as co-host for this exploration of the early years of Opeth.

This time we break up the doom and gloom with some good feelin' rockin'. Enjoy Dokken!

This week we explore the early days of Swedish act Tiamat.

This week we complete the Peaceville 3 coverage with My Dying Bride, a band that has changed direction perhaps more successfully than many of their peers, yet seem to stay on the same path. For better or worse-- you decide! This first show begins with their primal early recordings and ends after their seminal album "Turn Loose the Swans". Enjoy!

Part two of Katatonia: We pick up in their post-death metal era. Goodbye growl, hello Jeff Buckley and Jason Molina.

This episode we count down the best metal and metal related releases of 2008. Join us as we countdown the 14 best of the year.

This episode, Jason and Mark continue to give each other gifts of music and each of us tries to guess the present before we unwrap them.