Metal Urges Podcast
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsExtreme Metal. Extreme Discussion
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REVIEW: JOTUNN
April 06, 2024 16:44Macaria (Self-released) #bythenumbers spotlights the blackened doom from Dayton, Ohio’s Jotunn. Boasting members of local groups Imbroglio, Colorless and sludge outfit Gâinsayër, the duo of Freya Reeves (vocals, bass) and Darrell J. Gilbert, Jr. (guitar, backing vocals, programming) manages to create a massive sound that straddles metal genre boundaries of doom, black, death, and sludge. […]
REVIEW: DEFECT DESIGNER
March 17, 2024 17:29Chitin (Transcending Obscurity Records) #sarcophagalsaturday spreads the word about the new full-length album from Norway’s twisted death troop Defect Designer. Diskord vocalist/guitarist Dmitry Sukhinin has been the only constant in every iteration of the Oslo-based band since their 2005 inception. After two albums on tiny European labels, they finally landed a contract with Indian giant […]
REVIEW: LESPECIAL
February 13, 2024 20:32Odd Times (Self-released) From the land of Fates Warning and the Nutmeg State comes another prog band vying for dominance: lespecial. Born in southern Connecticut but now operating with one member in Millerton, New York, this prog power trio plays that eclectic strain that appeals both to hardcore headbangers and oddball film soundtrack lovers. Don’t […]
REVIEW: XYSMA
February 05, 2024 00:40No Place Like Alone (Svart Records) #beyondscandinavia reveals one of 2023’s best albums, No Place Like Alone, by Finnish grind-turned-rock band Xysma. It’s been practically a lifetime of twenty-five years since their last full-length, 1998’s Girl on the Beach, released on Helsinki’s premier metal label Spinefarm Records. Before that, Xysma was introduced to North America […]
REVIEW: INGER LORRE
December 17, 2023 20:03Gloryland (Kitten Robot Records) #soloonsunday remembers the blaze in the Southern California sky that was the Nymphs, a confrontational grunge band that imploded as quickly as they debuted in 1991. Suffering from depression and social anxiety, frontwoman Inger Lorre got hooked on heroin and infamously urinated on the desk of a label bigwig before the […]
REVIEW: THE ANCHORET
December 03, 2023 16:56It All Began with Loneliness (Willowtip Records) Calling all Opeth (and saxophone) fans: #progressivesunday introduces Canadian prog sensations The Anchoret and their debut album, It All Began with Loneliness, released in June on Pennsylvania extreme label Willowtip Records. Not too long ago, Willowtip used to be known primarily for death/grind bands, but since they’re shored […]
LIVE REVIEW: GEDDY LEE BOOK TOUR
November 19, 2023 21:50Nov. 18, Orpheum Theater, Boston, Mass. Geddy Lee, bassist/vocalist for Canada’s greatest prog-rock export Rush, is on a book tour for his new biography, My Effin’ Life, published by HarperCollins. He spoke last night at Boston’s Orpheum Theater, which, coincidentally, Rush first played in 1977, “or around that time. I get these things confused,” quipped Lee to the […]
REVIEW: WARCRAB
November 12, 2023 14:40The Howling Silence (Transcending Obscurity Records) #britishinvasion is chuffed to spotlight the new album from U.K. death/sludge adversaries Warcrab. Ever since their 2012 self-titled debut, this Plymouth band has released album after album of such quality doom that it’s almost hard to believe that their doom could be so consistent—as much Eyehategod as Unleashed, as […]
REVIEW: DEAD AND DRIPPING
November 05, 2023 14:59Blackened Cerebral Rifts (Transcending Obscurity Records) #fellonblackdays returns with more death-metal sounds from New Jersey’s Dead and Dripping’s most recent album, Blackened Cerebral Rifts. With a moniker possibly inspired by Deicide’s “Dead But Dreaming,” this is the one-man band of Evan Daniele, who is also a member of a slew of brvtal Jersey bands: Vulnificus, […]
REVIEW: INCANTATION
September 12, 2023 12:00Unholy Deification (Relapse Records) #sarcophagalsaturday reacts to the question “How is a band this good twelve albums deep?” with Incantation’s new album, Unholy Deification, released last week on extreme metal leaders Relapse Records. My friend Billy posed that query, and the answer is simple: John McEntee. He’s a death-metal warrior, having survived the peaks, the […]
REVIEW: PETRA
September 11, 2023 12:00Fifty Box Set (Girder Music) #sacramentalsunday breathes rarified air with Indiana chart-toppers Petra. Considered one of the world’s most popular Christian rock bands, the group’s career lasted twenty studio albums from humble beginnings in 1972 through to their ceasing of formal operations in 2006. They amassed eleven No. 1 hits, fourteen Top 10 albums, and […]
REVIEW: SHEPHERDS REIGN
September 10, 2023 20:27Ala Mai (Golden Robot Records) #beyondscandinavia goes to the ends of the Earth to witness the Polynesian metal of New Zealand’s Shepherds Reign. The traditional Māori haka is a Samoan war dance, performed before battle to embolden fighters and to frighten their enemies. Nowadays, the haka is performed by the Samoan rugby team before games. […]
REVIEW: NEAL MORSE BAND
July 23, 2023 21:05An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live in Hamburg (Radiant Records) #progressivesunday highlights the latest album by the Neal Morse Band, An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live in Hamburg. The three-disc set includes a live rendering of their 2022 studio album Innocence & Danger plus the sprawling “Great Similitude Medley,” a disc-long pastiche of […]
INTERVIEW: VOIVOD
July 22, 2023 03:17Morgöth Tales (Century Media) Québec thrash/prog pioneers Voivod celebrate their fortieth anniversary with their new album, Morgöth Tales, released today on Century Media Records. Instead of releasing a greatest hits package with rare tracks, the band chose the more difficult path of re-recording classic tracks and added one brand-new song, “Morgöth Tales,” written while on […]
REVIEW: BENTHIC REALM
July 17, 2023 12:00Vessel (Self-released) #doomsday lurches to a lugubrious start today with Worcester doom witches & warlock Benthic Realm. Guitarist/vocalist Krista Van Guilder was the voice on Warhorse’s early demos way back in 1997, gracing that band with her syrupy guitar chords and low alto singing. Fast-forward to Second Grave, Van Guilder’s home from 2012 to 2016, […]
REVIEW: RADIANT KNIFE
July 13, 2023 12:00Pressure (Self-released) #SaturdaySludge slinks down to Louisiana to sling the progressive sludge with Lafayette’s dynamic duo Radiant Knife. Guitarist, vocalist, and keyboardist Stephen Sheppert (ex-Icepick Revival) cut his teeth with prog-core realists Collapsar for two records on Gordon Conrad’s Escape Artist Records before that band kicked the bucket in 2009. Sheppert eventually found his way […]
REVIEW: RPWL
July 12, 2023 14:30Crime Scene (Gentle Art of Music) #beyondscandinavia takes the Eurostar train to Germany to bathe in the healing sounds of Bavarian prog-metal outfit RPWL. Founded in 1997 as a Pink Floyd cover band, this quartet began in Freising, a university town north of Munich, and their moniker is an acronym of the original members: drummer […]
REVIEW: BLOOD CEREMONY
June 18, 2023 16:49The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above Records) #blamecanada tips its wizard’s hat to Toronto occult-pop collective Blood Ceremony. Weaving modern progressive folk à la Jess and the Ancient Ones with a definitive Jethro Tull-esque flute, the band—Alia O’Brien (vocals/flute/organ), Sean Kennedy (guitars), Lucas Gadke (bass), and Michael Carrillo (drums)—have spent the last decade-and-a-half dragging the […]
REVIEW: THE DUCKS
June 12, 2023 18:45High Flyin’ (Reprise/Shakey Pictures Records) Unless you were living in Santa Cruz, California in 1977, you probably never heard of the Ducks, a rock combo starring Neil Young. The band never recorded any studio albums or singles, but at the time their shows were widely bootlegged. In the spring of 1977 as he was compiling […]
REVIEW: PELICAN
June 11, 2023 15:49The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (Reissue) #FamilyAffair spotlights familial relationships within bands, and there may not be a more important fraternal bond in post-metal than the Herweg brothers of Chicago’s Pelican. Along with guitarists Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, the Herweg boys—Bryan on bass and Larry on drums—continue to […]
REVIEW: DORTHIA COTTRELL
June 07, 2023 23:04Death Folk Country #soloonsunday continues with the new solo album from Windhand’s Dorthia Cottrell. The Richmond, Virginia modern doom band Windhand mixes classic doom riffs with stoner and psychedelic elements, but Cottrell favors subdued acoustic folk with country components in her own work. Richmond extreme label Forcefield Records released her 2015 self-titled solo debut, and […]
REVIEW: MITCH MALLOY
June 05, 2023 20:29The Last Song #soloonsunday begins today with the new solo album from Great White’s Mitch Malloy. Through Sing-inc.com—an online market that sells hybrid digital/physical releases directly from the artists—The Last Song is now available as part of a deluxe package with the album on limited-edition white vinyl, autographed CD, poster, photo, sticker, guitar pick, audio […]
REVIEW: JAAW
June 04, 2023 00:09Supercluster #supergroupsaturday spotlights the new post-industrial supergroup Jaaw, featuring Andy Cairns (Therapy?), Jason Stoll (Mugstar, KLÄMP, Sex Swing), Wayne Adams (Death Pedals, Big Lad, Petbrick) and Adam Betts (Three Trapped Tigers, Goldie, Squarepusher). The group self-describes their sound as “greyscale psychedelia.” Knowing his experience as vocalist/guitarist of Therapy?, fans of Andy Cairns can expect dissonant […]
REVIEW: Gridfailure & Interstitia
June 03, 2023 16:43Sunyata Ontology #machinationsoftechnology drops out with the swirling electronic waves of Gridfailure & Interstitia. Gridfailure is the one-man band of New York City-based Dave Brenner, also of experimental noise group Diminishing. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Interstitia is the solo electronic project of Graham Scala (from Bleach Everything and US Christmas), who has released multiple […]
020 Maryland Deathfest 2015
January 18, 2016 19:00 - 91 MBChris and guest host Billy discuss the brutality of Maryland Deathfest 2015. Billy had an all-venues pass, so he ended up seeing many more bands than Chris did. Hanging out with Chris Dick and the gang made another Memorial Day weekend even more memorable! We were sad that Spence couldn’t join us, but next year […]
019 Machine Head
June 21, 2015 19:11 - 75.4 MBWe’d like to welcome back Machine Head into the pantheon of quality metal with their brand-new album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, on Nuclear Blast Records! This is a band that has weathered a tremendous amount of criticism over the years, yet they still have the wherewithal to release one of the best albums of their career […]
018 Brutal Truth
February 15, 2015 13:41 - 103 MBBefore Metal Urges was born, Brutal Truth was one of the first bands we talked about covering, and it just so happens that bassist/vocalist Danny Lilker announced last year that Brutal Truth, the band that he founded in 1990, is disbanding on Oct. 18 of this year, which was his 50th birthday. In a prepared […]
017 Alice in Chains
February 09, 2015 00:11 - 104 MBWe love Alice in Chains! And we were so inspired by Requiem Metal Podcast’s Alice in Chains Episode 164 that we wanted to do our own tribute to Layne Staley and the boys. Consider this a companion to the Requiem episode, and we guarantee that there’s no overlap in songs. AIC was the most metal […]
016 Maryland DeathFest 2014
December 05, 2014 02:58 - 92.6 MBFor this episode, your intrepid metalhead Chris made his way down to Baltimore for MDF XII, and while mourning Spence’s absence, he drank in the synergistic vibe of the diverse crowd and hung out with Chris Dick of Decibel and Billy Gamble of Dig. The weather was amazing: sunny but cool for the leather-clad folks […]
015 Sweetish Death Metal vol 3: Carcass
August 01, 2014 01:27 - 92.3 MBWelcome to Episode 015! Every fifth episode we devote to death metal, and the recently reunited UK titans Carcass certainly deserve recognition. The band reclaims their metal throne with the release of their mighty comeback album, Surgical Steel. We cover their career in reverse chronological order, starting with their most recent melodic death material and […]
014 Best of 2013
March 16, 2014 12:57 - 91.4 MB[Editor’s note: Spencer was really lame and did not post this on time. Metal Urges as a whole practiced due diligence in preparing, recording, and even writing this post on time. Shame on you, Spencer] We’re back with another year-end list, and this time we’re almost on time! This was another big year for reunions […]
013 Eyehategod
February 13, 2014 20:20 - 92.4 MBOn August 23, 2013, EyeHateGod drummer Joey LaCaze passed away after finishing another successful tour with the band. He died from respiratory failure, as he’d been a longtime asthmatic. We’ve always wanted to do an EHG episode—one of the very first bands we talked about covering, actually—and though this is not exactly the reason we […]
012 Maryland Death Fest 2013
September 20, 2013 15:33 - 88.7 MBThis year, both of us attended Maryland Deathfest to witness the metal event of the year. Not only did we join Chris Dick of Decibel for band sets, Bergers cookies, and late-night chili dogs, but we also met Mark Rudolph of Requiem Metal Podcast to talk shop about podcasting. The weather in Baltimore was unseasonably […]
010 Sweetish Death Metal vol. 2
August 02, 2013 18:58 - 98.7 MBContinuing our SDM series (this happens every 5th episode because there is too much great death metal out there for us to cover in single-band episodes), this episode’s theme is “new material from the genre’s leaders”: every one of these albums was released in 2012. Plus, this is really a tribute to all these classic […]