Dreams of Consciousness

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 232 features an interview with Samuel Smith of Artificial Brain. Artificial Brain belong to a new generation of underground metal band that New York has become known for - one that combines speed, dissonance, melody, and stellar musicianship to create a sound that hearkens back to the classic death metal albums that emerged from the area, whilst simultaneous...

Godflesh • Above & Below • Foetus • Einstürzende Neubauten • Kollaps • MØTIVATIØN • N8NOFACE • KYOTY • ScorpKlub • Gridfailure • Luminous Vault • Depressor • Omnibael • MASTER BOOT RECORD Godflesh: "Pulp" taken from the album "Streetcleaner" Above & Below: "Isolate" taken from the album "Suffer Decay Alone" Foetus: "Friend or Foe" taken from the album "Gash" Einstürzende Neubauten: "Für Den Unterg...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 231 features an interview with Jaleel Castillo and Matti Güey of Rottenness. Rottenness have been around in some form for almost 30 years. Originally based in Mexico, the band's current line-up includes members of various Midwestern death metal and grindcore acts, including Formless Master, Gorgotron, and Invidiosus. What hasn't changed is the band's commitm...

Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo • Hawkwind • Dead Can Dance • Glissando • J. Zunz • Jesu • Swans • John Coltrane • Iggy Pop • Cocteau Twins • Ryan Michael Patterson • The Cure • Marissa Nadler Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo: "The Lines On the Road That Lead You Back Home" taken from the album "Prince Avalanche OST" Hawkwind: "D-Rider" taken from the album "Hall of the Mountain Grill" Dead...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 230 features an interview with Mauricio "Boka" Alves Fernandez of Brazilian crossover legends Ratos de Porão. Hopefully Ratos de Porão don't need an introduction to this audience - São Paulo's legendary "basement rats" are held in high regard by everyone from Sepultura to Jello Biafra, and were instrumental in shaping the Brazilian underground beloved by hes...

Small Life Form • Ushangvagush • Kaatayra • pando • Red Sparrowes Pseudodoxia • Snøgg • Nick Vasallo • Arne Heesch Small Life Form: "doll piano" taken from the album "First Recordings" Ushangvagush: "Amasia's Letter" taken from the album "Mntu" Kaatayra: "Dundararaiê" taken from the album "Inpariquipê" pando: "dadaism" taken from the album "rites" Red Sparrowes: "Buildings began to stretch wide ac...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 229 features an interview with Mando Tovar of Las Cruces. Hailing from San Antonio, TX, Las Cruces are metal lifers who have weathered line-up shuffles and music industry tumult since they emerged in the mid-Nineties. Since their inception, they've represented a style of "true doom" that has one foot in early Black Sabbath and another in the New Wave of Brit...

Healing Magic • Assumption • Pyrithe • The Crooked Whispers • Crypt Monarch • Stöner • Black Lung • Witchfinder • Beastie Boys • JIRM • Tzompantli Healing Magic: "Wolf Coven" taken from the album "Volume 1: Fire" Assumption: "Submerged By Hadean Tides" taken from the album "Hadean Tides" Pyrithe: "Luminous" taken from the album "Monuments To Impermanence" The Crooked Whispers: "Evil Tribute" taken...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 228 features an interview with Scott Burns of Cavernlight. Over the course of a Cavernlight song, expect to traverse through doom, shoegaze, noise and ambient music. As oppressive as the Wisconsin band's music is, their songs have an inherent listenability that guarantees repeated returns. I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Scott Burns about why Cavernlight lar...

Voivod • Brave the Waters • Hippie Death Cult • Giöbia • SLIFT • Saturna • Yawning Sons • Tiamat • Opeth • Anathema • Pink Floyd Voivod: "Astronomy Domine" taken from the album "Nothingface" Brave the Waters: "Trials of the Sunken Swamp" taken from the album "Chapter II - Days of Solitude" Hippie Death Cult: "Walk Within" taken from the album "Circle Of Days" Giöbia: "Haridwar" taken from the albu...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 227 features an interview with Come To Grief. Come To Grief are one of the few bands to be interviewed on this podcast twice. The last time I had the New England quartet on was soon after the release of their first EP The Worst of Times, and prior to their split EP with Fistula. The whole band (vocalist/guitarist Jonathan Hebert, guitarist Terry Savastano, d...

Temple Of Dread • Savage Necromancy • ULTHAR • Tyrannus Possessed • Violentor • NECRODEATH • Undeath • Egregore Skumstrike • QAYIN REGIS • Azaab • MYSTAGOS • Lurking Temple Of Dread: "Symbiotic Delusion" taken from the album "World Sacrifice" Savage Necromancy: "Disgorging Christ’s Kingdom" taken from the album "Feathers Fall To Flames" ULTHAR: "Furnace Hibernation" taken from the album "Providenc...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 226 features an interview with Poia and Urlo of Ufomammut. "Psychedelia is the way we see the world with the eyes of a child." So says Italian psychedelic sludge trio Ufomammut. The group were early adopters of the slow atmospheric metal sound; and as they enter their third decade as a band, they've outlasted and outworked most of their peers in the genre. I...

Johnny Cash • Mortician • Cannibal Corpse • Sick of it All • Suicidal Tendencies • Vio-lence • Slayer • The Crown • Chakal • VHS • General Surgery • Videogram • Motörhead • Beastie Boys • Samhain • December Wolves Johnny Cash: "Thirteen" taken from the album "American Recordings" Mortician: "Camp Blood" taken from the album "Chainsaw Dismemberment" Cannibal Corpse: "The Time to Kill is Now" taken...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 225 features an interview with Mark Wallace, Ria Wallace, and Mike Flory of Cartilage. San Francisco's Cartilage are part of the boom that the Bay Area metal scene has been experiencing recently. The five-piece play grindcore/gore metal in the vein of Exhumed and Impaled - not surprising, since those two veteran bands are friends and mentors to Cartilage, an...

SOL • Blut Aus Nord • Swami Lateplate • Chaos E.T. Sexual • Mizmor & Andrew Black • Pentagram • Endtime SOL: "Ceremonial Rot" taken from the album "And the mouth of time is open" Blut Aus Nord: "Procession of the Dead Clowns" taken from the album "The Work Which Transforms God" Swami Lateplate: "Doom Jazz" taken from the album "Doom Jazz" Chaos E.T. Sexual: "Tomorrow, Prudence" taken from the albu...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 224 features an interview with Sean Walsh of Skullshitter. NY's Skullshitter play grindcore with a through line of psychedelia (not to mention Satanism). Expect conga drums and John Carpenter-esque keyboards to be in the band's songs in addition to blastbeats and guttural vocals. I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Sean Walsh about how an overnight hotel shift l...

Sewer Fiend • PYLAR • An Evening Redness • Alice Coltrane • QAALM • Earth • GRAVKVÄDE • Endtime ewer Fiend: "Echoes from the Cistern" taken from the album "Echoes From The Cistern" PYLAR: "El Dios-Año" taken from the album "A ella te conduce la sagrada espyral" An Evening Redness: "Mesa Skyline" taken from the album "An Evening Redness" Alice Coltrane: "Charanam" taken from the album "Turiya Sings...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 223 features an interview with Donny G of Chasmdweller. Chasmdweller are a Canadian duo who play a chimaeric form of death metal that's rife with blastbeats. From their initial atmospheric death metal releases, their sound has evolved to incorporate more slam parts and blastbeats. I spoke with vocalist Donny G about how he met his bandmate Zach Smith, and wh...

In this supplement to Episode 222, Justin Stubbs talks about the history of Father Befouled, and audience reactions to their earliest drummerless performances. MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE: "Christless Mass" taken from the album "Morbid Destitution of Covenant" "Holy Rotten Blood" taken from the "Holy Rotten Blood" EP Thanks for listening! Interviews, reviews, and more at www.dreamsofconsciousness.com

Black Sabbath • Kyuss • Bongzilla • Old Grandad • Rollins Band • Brutal Truth • Inhalement • Cannabis Corpse • Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard • Sleep • Earth Black Sabbath: "Sweet Leaf (Studio Outtake)" taken from the album "Master Of Reality" Kyuss: "Asteroid" taken from the album "Welcome to Sky Valley" Bongzilla: "Mother Flowers Little Helper" taken from the album "Doom Sessions Vol.4" Old Grandad...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 222 features an interview with Justin Stubbs of Father Befouled. Atlanta's Father Befouled are synonymous with the resurgence of dark, morbid death metal (sometimes referred to as "Incantationcore"). As the band's founder Justin Stubbs says, "You can't mention that without mentioning my band." I spoke with Justin about the classic death metal bands who inspi...

Abysmal Dawn • Apparition • Epitaphe • Wrack Abhorrent Expanse • Choreomanic • Feralia • Aeviterne Abysmal Dawn: "Blacken The Sky" taken from the EP "Nightmare Frontier" Apparition: "Entanglement" taken from the album "Feel" Epitaphe: "Melancholia" taken from the album "II" Wrack: "Repulsive Gravity" taken from the album "Repulsive Gravity" Abhorrent Expanse: "Path of Extremal Action" taken from t...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 221 features an interview with Vaedis Eosphorus of Vimur. Atlanta's Vimur represent the aggressive side of USBM that's often overlooked. Their speed and searing riffs separates them from their folk-influenced and atmospheric peers. I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Vaedis Eosphorus about what led him to form Vimur, and how Vimur's sound has evolved as it moved...

Rush • Joe Satriani • Early Man • Twisted Tower Dire • Dark Meditation • Portrait • Night Demon • Satan • Great Electric Quest • Warlung • War Cloud • Cirith Ungol • Hawkwind • Iron Maiden Rush: "2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx" taken from the album "2112" Joe Satriani: "Hill Of The Skull" taken from the album "Surfing With The Alien" Early Man: "Evil Is" taken from the album "Closing In" Twis...