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Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 244 features an interview with Edd Robinson of Human Cull. This site has been plugging Human Cull since they released their split with DoC friends Homolka almost a decade ago. The grind power trio has always been a band to watch for lovers of forward-thinking, aggressive grindcore. For the third week of DoC's "Grindtember", I spoke with Human Cull vocalist/g...

Napalm Death • Unseen Terror • Benediction • Fall of Because • Cathedral Meathook Seed • Blood from the Soul • Scorn • Jesu • Head Of David Menace • Extreme Noise Terror • Lock Up • Venomous Concept Corrupt Moral Altar • Defecation • Carcass • Terrorizer Napalm Death: "Retreat to Nowhere" taken from the album "From Enslavement to Obliteration" Unseen Terror: "Garfield For President" taken from the...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 243 features an interview with Piotr "Edi" Kwiatek from Herida Profunda. Polish grind quartet Herida Profunda aren't against looking outside the genre for inspiration, but keep things simple and to the point all the same. The band's crusty punk roots are evident from their short, hooky songs, as well as the socio-political commentary they contain. Continuing...

NoMeansNo • Thetan • Sete Star Sept • Lightning Bolt • Japanther Radiation Blackbody • Bog Body • Bedtimemagic • Bismuth • HUSH. Black Tar Prophet • OM • Metallica • GREBER • A Tribe Called Quest NoMeansNo: "Big Dick" taken from the album "Wrong" Thetan: "Shitdozer" taken from the album "Abysmal" Sete Star Sept: "Disposal Of The Dead" taken from the album "Revision Of Noise" Lightning Bolt: "assas...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 242 features an interview with Pawel "Pavulon" Jaroszewicz of Antigama. For Polish grind veterans Antigama, their music is "controlled chaos". The quartet aren't afraid to work outside accepted notions of what a grindcore band could and should sound like, staying true to the anarchic and rule-defying spirit of the genre's origins. I spoke with drummer Pawel...

The Crown • Sacrilege • Dark Tranquillity • Edge of Sanity • Ceremonial Oath • The Haunted In Flames • Dawn • At The Gates • Eucharist • Dan Swanö • Opeth • Hypocrisy The Crown: "Earthborn" taken from the album "The Burning" Sacrilege: "Torment of Life" taken from the album "Lost in the Beauty You Slay" Dark Tranquillity: "Silence And The Fimament Withdrew" taken from the album "The Gallery" Edge...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 241 features an interview with Mark Norgate of Dawnwalker. Described as a "collective", Dawnwalker is the brainchild of London-based multi-instrumentalist Mark Norgate. The project draws from a wide assortment of influences, including prog, black metal, and post rock, with a varied group of contributors to match its eclectic sound. I spoke with Mark about ho...

At The Gates • Dead To A Dying World • Dissolve Patterns • Morrow • Contemplator • My Dying Bride • All My Faith Lost... • Giant Squid • Grayceon At The Gates: "Through Gardens of Grief" taken from the album "The Red in the Sky Is Ours" Dead To A Dying World: "Empty Hands, Hollow Hymns" taken from the album "Elegy" Dissolve Patterns: "II" taken from the album "Dissolve Patterns" Morrow: "The Hunt"...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 240 features an interview with Justin Storms, Mark Oates, and Steve Stanczyk of Wailin Storms. Durham's Wailin Storms were one of the first bands I spoke to as the pandemic unfolded in 2020. They were on the road as gigs were cancelled due to new safety guidelines, scuttling their plans to tour in support of their Rattle album. Two years later, they've got a...

Buddy Holly • Monks • Neu! • Led Zeppelin • Motörhead • MC5 • Hawkwind Judas Priest • Black Sabbath • Venom • Cheap Trick • Dead Boys • The Dictators The Stooges • David Bowie • The Ramones • Misfits • Descendents • Minor Threat Black Flag • The Bad Brains • Discharge • Hellhammer • Entombed • D.R.I. Buddy Holly: "Rave On" taken from the album "Buddy Holly" Monks: "Shut Up" taken from the album "B...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 239 features an interview with Charles Cure of Hush. Hudson Valley NY's Hush demonstrate that there's still room for innovation in the realms of sludge metal and atmospheric doom. With their bass-centric sound, theirs is a particularly rumbly and cinematic take on slow, heavy music. I spoke with vocalist Charles Cure about why Hush has two bassists, and the...

Coven • Black Widow • Sleepwulf • Slayer • Venom • Satyricon • Behemoth • Angel Witch • Mercyful Fate • Diamond Head • Stevie Wonder Coven: "Satanic Mass" taken from the album "Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls" Black Widow: "Sacrifice" taken from the album "The Ultimate Sacrifice" Sleepwulf: "Witches Covenant" taken from the album "Sleepwulf" Slayer: "Black Magic" taken from the album "Show...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 238 features an interview with Lewis Fischer of Altars. Altars is a name to remember for anyone who likes their death metal forward-thinking as well as brutal. The Australian trio's turbulent, chimaeric style builds on classic death metal whilst taking their music into experimental and exploratory directions. I spoke with guitarist Lewis Fischer about invent...

Righteous Fool • Behold! The Monolith • The Swell Fellas • Valley Of The Sun • Greyborn • Cities of Mars • Lord Elephant • Electric Mountain • Kyuss • Mother Iron Horse • The Sword • Ian Blurton's Future Now Righteous Fool: "FOREVER FLAMES" taken from the album "Righteous Fool" Behold! The Monolith: "Spirit Taker" taken from the album "From The Fathomless Deep" The Swell Fellas: "Wet Cement" taken...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 237 features an interview with Rick Habeeb, William “Big Will” Smith, and Terrell Grannum of Reeking Aura. Comprised of several names familiar to this site (including members of Buckshot Facelift, Grey Skies Fallen, Thaetas, and Artificial Brain), it shouldn't be a surprise to hear NYC's Reeking Aura on the podcast. But their blend of early Nineties death me...

Earth • The Shenandoah Electric Company • Orthodox • Stiu Nu Stiu • BongBongBeerWizards • Korperschwache • Lathe • Birth • Slow Burning Rage • The Goddamn Rattlesnake Earth: "The Dire And Ever Circling Wolves" taken from the album "Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method" The Shenandoah Electric Company: "Pillar Of Salt" taken from the album "LP1" Orthodox: "Abendrot" taken from the album "Proceed...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 236 features an interview with Paul Ryan of Origin. Origin should be pretty familiar to followers of Dreams of Consciousnes by now. The band has been written about ad nauseum on this site, and was the featured guest on the 100th episode of the podcast. Safe to say, I'm a fan. Guitarist/founder Paul Ryan caught me up with what the band has been up to since th...

Backslider • Herida Profunda • Severe Torture • Gorged Afterbirth • Birdflesh • Foes • Psychoneurosis • Matsunaga Was Right • Crisis Benoit • Wageslave • Holocausto Canibal • Gronibard • Black Rheno • Come Mierda • Skaven • Hive • Napoli Violenta • Rejekts • Balance of Terror • Skumstrike • Unidad Trauma • Antigama • Apes • Wormrot • Crawler • Bodyrot • Organ Trail Backslider: "Bone Thief" taken f...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 235 features an interview with Rob LaChance of Wake. Canadian grinders Wake have gone through a metamorphosis over the course of their release history. From the short, crusty ragers that defined their early albums, the band has broadened their scope to include shoegazing atmospheres and black metal dissonance, without neglecting the speed that defined their...

Feralia • Haunter • Mortal Thrall • Inexorum • Predatory Light • Bedsore • Gaahls WYRD • svrm • Axis of Light • IATT Feralia: "MARCIA FUNESTA" taken from the album "Under Stige" Haunter: "Spiritual Illness" taken from the album "Disincarnate Ails" Mortal Thrall: "Passion Made A Weapon" taken from the album "A Path To Fire" Inexorum: "Until There's Nothing Left" taken from the album "Equinox Vigil"...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 234 features an interview with Paul "Decaylust" Lang of Denouncement Pyre. Denouncement Pyre is the sound of burning dedication. Emerging from Melbourne as a number of more prominent bands had broken up or moved overseas, the band endured a shifting roster to emerge as one of the fiercest bands in Australia's metal underground. I spoke with Denouncement Pyre...

Neu! • Joy Division • Sol Invictus • Sonic Youth • Robert Rental • Killing Joke • Live Skull • Glenn Branca • Jarboe • Swans • Loop • Faust • Blind Idiot God Neu!: "E-Musik" taken from the album "Neu! '75" Joy Division: "Shadowplay" taken from the album "Unknown Pleasures" Sol Invictus: "Summer Ends" taken from the album "Sol Veritas Lux" Sonic Youth: "Star Power" taken from the album "Evol" Rober...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 233 features an interview with Axioma. Axioma are a study in contrasts. Flowing black/death riffs jut up against jagged noise rock rhythms; just as the listener is acclimating to the band's love of dissonance, the discordance gives way to an expected amount of melody. I spoke with guitarists Cyril Blandino and Justin Meyers, and bassist/vocalist Aaron Dallis...

Cartilage • Altars • Writhing Shadows • Putrid Evocation • Blasphemous Creation Cosmic Putrefaction • Harvested • Instigate • Husqwarnah • Void Rot • Mortal Incarnation Cartilage: "Slaughter Day at the Chopping Mall" taken from the album "The Deader The Better" Altars: "Perverse Entity" taken from the album "Ascetic Reflection" Writhing Shadows: "devourment of God's People" taken from the album "W...