Dreams of Consciousness

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 279 features an interview with Peter Östlund of Vomitory. Vomitory may hail from Sweden, but their style of death metal draws more inspiration from German thrash and grindcore than their neighbours in Stockholm and Gothenberg. After seeemingly calling it quits in 2013, the band is active again, and a new generation of death metal fans is ready to discover th...

Vomitory • Azath • Nucleus • Cronos Compulsion • Larvae • Kommand • Miscreance • Pentacrostic • Exitium • Corpsessed • Spinebreaker • Demonical • Ironmaster • Grave Desecrator Music On This Mixtape: Vomitory: "Piece by Stinking Piece" taken from the album "All Heads Are Gonna Roll" Azath: "In Reptilian Pathways" taken from the Nucleus/Azath split EP Nucleus: "Inculcate" taken from the Nucleus/Azat...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 278 features an interview with Jon Reider of Ascended Dead. Ascended Dead are young men with an old school mindset. Finding inspiration in the speed and chaos of pioneers like Possessed, the San Diego group stay true to the original spirit of underground metal while keeping pace with any modern death or black metal band. I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Jon R...

Ondfødt • Tilintetgjort • Muskeg Charnel • Hässlig • OMEGA INFINITY • Spirit Possession • Veriluola • Maudiir • The End Of Six Thousand Years • Harboured • DERHEAD • Behemoth Music On This Mixtape: Ondfødt: "Where Death Roams" taken from the album "Det Österbottniska Mörkret" Tilintetgjort: "Sannhetens Søyler" taken from the album "In Death I Shall Arise" Muskeg Charnel: "As Maggots Feed" taken fr...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 277 features an interview with Garrett Johnson of VoidCeremony. My thanks again to Garrett for speaking with me, and to you for listening. Music In This Episode: "Sacrosanct Delusions" "Abandoned Reality" taken from the album Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel "Entropic Reflections Continuum" "Abyssic Knowledge Bequeathed" taken from the alb...

The Melvins • Woorms • Anatomy Of Habit • Treedeon • Ugly • They Grieve • LETHVM • UMBILICHAOS • King Bastard • Obelyskkh Music On This Mixtape: The Melvins: "Joan Of Arc" taken from the album "Houdini" Woorms: "Quiet As Isaac" taken from the album "Fatalismo" Anatomy Of Habit: "A Marginal World" taken from the album "Even If It Takes A Lifetime" Treedeon: "Viking Meditation Song" taken from the a...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 276 features an interview with Fern Alberts of Deathgrave. Originally formed by a group of friends to play classic anarcho-punk, Deathgrave eventually morphed into one of the more thoughtful and original deathgrind bands to emerge from the Bay Area. It doesn't hurt that their guitarist is producer Greg Wilkinson, who is both a Grammy award winner and a curre...

Gorod • Demonstealer • Chasm of Discord • Embryo • Lunar Chamber • Entheos • Voidscape • Heretic Plague • Abaddonia • Pronostic • Dååth • NE OBLIVISCARIS Music On This Mixtape: Gorod: "Victory" taken from the album "The Orb" Demonstealer: "Monolith of Hate" taken from the album "The Propaganda Machine" Chasm of Discord: "Living Envy the Dead" taken from the album "Admonishing the Dawn of Reverence...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 275 features an interview with Shane Embury. My thanks again to Shane for speaking with me, and to you for listening. Music In This Episode: Unseen Terror: "Expulsions of Wrath/Charred Remains/Odie's Revenge" taken from the album Human Error Lock Up: "Submission" taken from the album Pleasures Pave Sewers Venomous Concept: "Voices/Fractured/Everything is End...

Music On This Mixtape: Birdflesh: "Chainsaw Frenzy" taken from the album "Sickness In The North" Grid: "Starving For Purpose" taken from the album "Livsleda" Sickrecy: "Man’s The Leech" taken from the album "Salvation Through Tyranny" Houkago Grind Time: "It's a Q.U.A.L.I.T.Y. Anime!" taken from the album "Houkago Grind Time 2: The Second Raid" Phobia: "Death To Leeches" taken from the "Death To L...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 274 features an interview with Him of Sermon. The British band Sermon have taken on the tricky task of making music that's progressive, heavy, and accessible all at once. It's an approach that could fall equally flat with casual fans of heavy music as well as elite metal snobs; luckily, Sermon has the songs to back it up. I spoke with Sermon's founder and ma...

Sepultura • Dead Kennedys • Ratos de Porão • Suffer • Testament Adversor • Lüger • Bulldozer • Mass Extinction • Cattle Decapitation Earth Crisis • Metallica • Obituary • Napalm Death • Proletar Music On This Mixtape: Sepultura: "Old Earth" taken from the album "Against" Dead Kennedys: "Forest Fire" taken from the album "Plastic Surgery Disasters" Ratos de Porão: "Amazônia Nunca Mais" taken from t...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 273 features an interview with Dominik Goncalves dos Reis of Downfall of Gaia. Downfall Of Gaia combine everything from post-rock to sludge and dark crust to create their own style of atmospheric "post-black metal", which studiously avoids the clichés of their more "kvlt" peers. The (mostly) German group may not wear corpsepaint or spiked gauntlets, but thei...

Witchthroat Serpent • 1782 • Acid King • The Crooked Whispers • Megalith Levitation • Moribund Mantras • Mesmur • Sorrowful Land • HANGING GARDEN Music On This Mixtape: Witchthroat Serpent: "The House That Dripped Blood" taken from the album "Trove Of Oddities At The Devil’s Driveway" 1782: "Devil's Blood" taken from the album "Clamor Luciferi" Acid King: "90 Seconds" taken from the album "Acid Ki...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 272 features an interview with Ian Logan of Kommand. LA's Kommand base their sound around death metal's crusty early years, when bands like Nihilist and Bolt Thrower still retained their punk rawness - a background that Kommand has in common with those legendary acts. I spoke with guitarist Ian Logan about how Kommand arose from his previous band Hoax, and h...

Joy Division • False Figure • NAUT • ESSES • Night Goat • Public Image Limited • Paradise Lost • Blood Moon Wedding • healthyliving • Tension Span • Rubella Ballet • Lotus Thrones • Christian Death • Bauhaus • Love Ethic • Wailin Storms • Sermon Music On This Mixtape: Joy Division: "Passover" taken from the album "Closer" False Figure: "Faim" taken from the album "Castigations" NAUT: "Nightfall" t...

Bloodjob • Maze Of Sothoth • Sepolcral • Vision Deprived • Siege of Power • Street Tombs • Necropanther • Ablaze My Sorrow • Majesties • Sadist • Embalm • Occulsed • Plague Bearer • Bred For Slaughter • MENSTRUAL VAMPIRES Music On This Mixtape: Bloodjob: "All for the Good" taken from the "Metastasis" EP Maze Of Sothoth: "The Revocation Dogma" taken from the album "Extirpated Light" Sepolcral: "Whi...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 271 features an interview with Daniele Tollon and Cristian Minin of Sepolcral. The roots of Sepolcral go back to the death metal gold rush of the Nineties. The Italian band was set to release their debut album Victims in 1996 when their label, Nosferatu Records, went belly up. Revived after a long hiatus, the band is writing and recording songs again, and th...

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band • BRIAN! • Ice Age • Dez Dare • Giant Brain • Gone Cosmic • Caustic Casanova • Morass Of Molasses • The Swell Fellas • STONED JESUS • Owl Music On This Mixtape: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: "The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)" taken from the album "Trout Mask Replica" BRIAN!: "Cascade" taken from the album "The Cataclysmic Engine" Ice Age: "Together Now" taken f...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 270 features an interview with Shelby Lermo of Ulthar. Originally based in Oakland, Ulthar took a different tack from the other bands in the Bay Area scene. Over the years, their albums have become increasingly ambitious in scope and songwriting, while retaining the turbulence of early death and black metal. I spoke with vocalist/guitarist Shelby Lermo about...

Arnaut Pavle • Pagan Rites • Haiduk • Black Lava • Slegest • Tryglav • Plague Bearer • Theophonos • UNFELLED • Qwälen • Downfall of Gaia • BIZARREKULT • WOODS OF DESOLATION • ...and Oceans • OMEGA INFINITY Music On This Mixtape: Arnaut Pavle: "Final Descent" taken from the album "Transylvanian Glare" Pagan Rites: "Pain Of The Flesh" taken from the Pagan Rites/Vulcan Tyrant split Haiduk: "Infernal"...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 269 features an interview with Julien "Nutz" Deyres of Gorod. 25 years since they started as high school metalheads emulating their favourite bands, French band Gorod are standard bearers for forward thinking and progressive metal. Though largely categorized as "tech death", their music bears the influence of everything from old school death metal to hardcor...

Sepultura • Morbid Angel • Larvae • Putrid Evocation • Reeking Aura • Swamp Witch • Autopsy • Chthonic Deity • Demilich • Worm • Obituary • Samael Music On This Mixtape: Sepultura: "Procreation (Of the Wicked)" taken from the album "Blood Rooted" Morbid Angel: "Where the Slime Live" taken from the album "Domination" Larvae: "Decomposed Disembodied" taken from the album "Necroptuary" Putrid Evocati...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 268 features an interview with Gary Thibert of They Grieve. They Grieve make a hell of a lot of racket for two people. The Canadian duo play slow, droning post-metal, adding ambience through synth parts and loops (which the two also create and play live). I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Gary Thibert about how his friendship with drummer Deniz Güvenç influenc...

The Cows • Botch • Today Is The Day • Unsane • Breach • Alienatör Minutemen • Black Flag • Bl'ast! • Meatjack • Coalesce • King Crimson Ornette Coleman • Shellac • Don Caballero • Lightning Bolt • Slug Pouring one out for producer SPOT (Glenn Michael Lockett) who produced the seminal early albums of Black Flag, The Minutemen, and Hüsker Dü, among others. RIP. Music On This Mixtape: The Cows: "39 L...