Dreams of Consciousness

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 267 features an interview with Radek "Overkiller" Grygiel of Nuclear Holocaust. My thanks again to Radek for speaking with me, and to you for listening. Music In This Episode: "Nuclear Holocaust" "Dwelling with the Dead" taken from the album Mutant Inferno "Doom of the Astrohogs" "Pukelear Holocaust" taken from the album Grinding Bombing Thrashing "The End i...

Lüger • Motörhead • Waranimal • Bones • Bombs Of Hades • Bathory • Dead Neon • SLAVEHOUSE • Eyehategod • Reaping Flesh • Driller Killer • DELLAMORTE • Entombed • Disfear • Crucifyre • Abscess • Doom • Black Flag • The Dwarves • Poison Idea • Venom • Mondo Generator • Nebula Music On This Mixtape: Lüger: "Bloodmoon" taken from the album "Revelations Of The Sacred Skull" Motörhead: "Mean Machine" ta...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 266 features an interview with Matt Eiseman and Alex Huddleston of Tithe. It didn't take long for Tithe to carve out an identity separate from the Pacific Coast grindcore scene from which they emerged. Within two albums and an EP, the trio forged their own sound through a mishmash of grind, death, and black metal. I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Matt Eiseman...

In this supplement to Episode 266, Brandon Hayden recalled his experience of playing South East Asia with Endorphins Lost. Music In This Episode: "Bounded Choice" taken from the album Night People "Facing The Knife" "Warm Body Targets" "Choose Your Way" taken from the album Choose Your Way "Nothing Beyond The Fire" taken from the album Seclusions Thanks for listening! Interviews, reviews, and more...

esu • The Bleak Picture • Holy Water • Super Pink Moon Lazy Legs • BleakHeart • Vouna • Have A Nice Life • Anathema Music On This Mixtape: Jesu: "We All Falter" taken from the album "Jesu" The Bleak Picture: "Absence of Light" taken from the album "Songs Of Longing" Holy Water: "Sit Down, Restless" taken from the album "Holy Water" Super Pink Moon: "EVERYTHING" taken from the album "IRON RAIN" Laz...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 265 features an interview with Brandon Hayden of Endorphins Lost. My thanks again to Brandon for speaking with me, and to you for listening. Music In This Episode: "Once In The Bloodstream" "Rambo Syndrome" taken from the album Choose Your Way "Seclusions" "At a Crawl" taken from the album Seclusions "Regulation Area Bombing" "Fear Him" "Carcano '63 "Night P...

Insurrection • Re-Buried • Dead Will Walk • Celestial Scourge • Instigate • Psycroptic • A La Carte • Severed Headshop • Betrayal • Profanity • Goratory • Gorgatron • 200 Stab Wounds • Pyre • Mutagenic Host • The Flaying • Undertakers Music On This Mixtape: Insurrection: "The Eulogy of Hatred" taken from the album "Extraction" Re-Buried: "Sepulchral Stench" taken from the album "Repulsive Nature"...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 264 features an interview with Mike Score of All Out War. As a hesher who discovered hardcore in the mid-Nineties, I've always had a soft spot for All Out War. They were one of the first bands I saw at CBGB's, and their mix of classic thrash, death metal, and New York Hardcore represented a thawing of relations between longhairs and hardcore kids, presaging...

Swans • Fall of Because • Bottom • Zeni Geva • Harvey Milk • Fudge Tunnel • Art Of Burning Water • Sky Pig • CULTED • Cerbère • Tons • Unsane Music On This Mixtape: Swans: "Your Property" taken from the album "Cop/Young God" Fall of Because: "Malewhoreslag" taken from the album "Life Is Easy" Bottom: "Got Meth" taken from the album "Feels So Good When You're Gone" Zeni Geva: "Heathen Blood" taken...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 263 features an interview with Kåre André Sletteberg of In The Woods... Emerging from Norway alongside black metal's infamous second wave, In The Woods... were practically a genre unto themselves. Their early experimental and classically-inspired albums were a big influence on the avant and progressive metal scenes that coalesced throughout the Nineties. I s...

Cancervo • Godwatt • Endtime • Manic Abraxas • Witchfinder • Tribunal • Atomic Trip • Cosmic Reaper Music On This Mixtape: Cancervo: "The Cult of Armentarga" taken from the album "II" Godwatt: "Croce" taken from the album "Vol III" Endtime: "Beyond The Black Void" taken from the album "Doom Session Vol.7" Manic Abraxas: "Canonized" taken from the album "Foreign Winds" Witchfinder: "Lucid Forest" t...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 262 features an interview with Steve "The Krusher" Paradise and Seb Duster of Obelyskkh. As heavy as a menhir and equally imponderable, the German trio Obelyskkh pulled from their stoner and noise rock backgrounds to create their own version of slow, heavy music. I spoke with drummer Steve "The Krusher" Paradise and bassist Seb Duster about whether they cons...

Windy & Carl • Lori Goldston & Greg Kelley • Skullflower • Glenn Branca • Aarktica • Faust • SOL • GRAVKVÄDE • Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind • Winter Music On This Mixtape: Windy & Carl: "Snowing" taken from the EP "Christmas Song & Snowing" Lori Goldston & Greg Kelley: "All Points Leaning In" taken from the album "All Points Leaning In" Skullflower: "Rotten Sun" taken from the album "IIIrd Gatekee...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 261 features an interview with Jerry A. Lang. Jerry A. Lang shouldn't need an introduction - as the vocalist and founder of Poison Idea, he's a seminal figure in the history of American hardcore. Over 40 years have passed since he began, and he's still releasing new music, as well as books about his life and experiences. I spoke with Jerry about the early ye...

Godflesh • Voivod • Killing Joke • Dead Kennedys • Devo • Judas Priest • Motörhead The Stooges • Hawkwind • Neu! • Destruction Unit • Loop • The Ramones Music On This Mixtape: Godflesh: "Baby Blue Eyes" taken from the album "Pure" Voivod: "Pre-Ignition" taken from the album "Nothingface" Killing Joke: "Complications" taken from the album "Killing Joke" Dead Kennedys: "Moon Over Marin" taken from t...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 260 features an interview with Clay Olson and Alex Walstad of Nothingness. Minnesota's Nothingness meld elements of death, black and doom metal - a sound they refer to as "cauldronous". As vocalist Clay Olson explains it, "Nothingness is a blank canvas upon which anything or everything could be painted." I spoke with Clay and guitarist Alex Walstad about how...

Rush • Atomic Rooster • Captain Beyond • Birth • Vitskär Süden • Van Der Graaf Generator • Amon Düül II • WIZRD • BRIAN! • Jethro Tull Music On This Mixtape: Working Man: "Rush" taken from the album "Rush" Atomic Rooster: "I Can't Take No More" taken from the album "Death Walks Behind You" Captain Beyond: "Raging River Of Fear" taken from the album "Captain Beyond" Birth: "For Yesterday" taken f...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 259 features an interview with Brad King of Alienatör. My thanks to Brad for speaking with me, and to you for listening. TRACK LIST: "Reptilian Endoskeleton" "Drag The River" taken from the album Pariahs "The Priest" "Regrets" taken from the album Regrets Thanks for listening! Interviews, reviews, and more at www.dreamsofconsciousness.com

Music In This Episode: Skumstrike: "Ensnared (in Endless Night)" taken from the album "Deadly Intrusions" Defleshed: "Unburdened by Genius" taken from the album "Grind over Matter" Deathsiege: "At The Ruins of Legacy" taken from the album "Throne Of Heresy" Orthodox: "Starve" taken from the album "Proceed" HUSH.: "By This Are You Truly Known" taken from the album "The Pornography Of Ruin" VoidOath...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 258 features an interview with Jon DeRosa of Aarktica. Aarktica is the brainchild and decades-long endeavor of Jon DeRosa (who also provides vocals for the ethereal darkwave band Black Tape For A Blue Girl). From its origins in the Nineties ambient and experimental scene, Aarktica has broadened its scope to integrate folk, classical, and post rock. I spoke w...

In this supplement to Episode 257, I spoke with Gridfailure's David Brenner about the audience for noise and experimental music, and what it currently means to be "underground". Music In This Episode: Gridfailure & Megalophobe: "Play Me A Jig Through The Corpse Of A Cyborg" taken from the album Tasukete Gridfailure: "Special Dead" taken from the GRIDFAILURE / S.C.R.A.M. split EP Thanks for listeni...

The Doors • Feral Light • Vader ª Deicide • Dumal • Sacrilege • Dawn • Immortal • Tomorrow We Sail • Agalloch • DOPETHRONE Music On This Mixtape: The Doors: "Waiting For The Sun" taken from the album "Morrison Hotel" Feral Light: "Endless Nights" taken from the album "Void/Sanctify" Vader: "When the Sun Drowns In Dark" taken from the album "Necropolis" Deicide: "Day of Darkness" taken from the alb...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 257 features an interview with David Brenner of Gridfailure. Gridfailure is the musical sobriquet of David Brenner, an underground music lifer who has worked in every aspect of the industry. Samples, loops, improvisation, and the discarded recordings of other contributors are all dropped in the project's sonic bouillabaisse - the aural equivalent of system d...

Iffernet • Zëlot • Glassing • FLOATING • FINAL • T.O.M.B. • Collapse Culture • Swans • VÉVAKI • Noisepoetnobody • Wolok • Blattaria Music On This Mixtape: Iffernet: "For the Destitute" taken from the album "Silences" Zëlot: "Splintered Soul" taken from the album "Supplices" Glassing: "Dire" taken from the album "Dire and Sulk" FLOATING: "Gag" taken from the album "THE WAVES HAVE TEETH" FINAL: "T...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 256 features an interview with Adam Bjørn Schønemann-Warming of Orm. Copenhagen's Orm compose atmospheric black metal songs that include trumpets, string arrangements, and stretch past the 20 minute mark. Intended to be listened to without distraction, their releases hearken back to the "headphone albums" of the Sixties and Seventies. I spoke with drummer Ad...