Dreams of Consciousness

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 220 features an interview with Van Labrakis and Scott Hoffman of Nite. Based in the Bay Area, Nite make "Heavy Metal" in the unapolegetically strutting fashion of the Eighties masters - albeit coupled with raspy vocals that give their songs a "blackened" and modern edge. As founder/guitarist/vocalist Van Labrakis puts it, "The whole point was for metal to br...

Qwälen • Det eviga leendet • Dystopia [NL] • TURIA • Hadewych • KHANDRA • ATEIGGÄR • Negativa • NOX FORMULAE • Dawn • The Funeral Pyre Qwälen: "Viekää minut pois" taken from the album "Unohdan sinut" Det eviga leendet: "Estrange" taken from the album "Reverence" Dystopia NL: "Van De Meute Vervreemd: II" taken from the album "Geen Weg Uit" TURIA: "Storm" taken from the album "Degen van Licht" Hadew...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 219 features an interview with Falls of Rauros. On the surface, Falls of Rauros bear all the hallmarks of "cascadian black metal"; their blend of death/black, neo folk, and progressive rock bears many similarities to Agalloch and Wolves In The Throne Room, belying the the fact that the group is actually based in Portland, Maine (on the opposite side of the c...

Death • Dismember • Darkthrone • Autopsy • Benothing • Mindrot • Penny Coffin • Witch Vomit • ORIGIN • Of Feather And Bone • Funeral Chant • Astriferous • Disgusted Geist • Slayer • Disembodiment • Om Death: "Zero Tolerance" taken from the album "Symbolic" Dismember: "Misanthropic" taken from the album "Death Metal" Darkthrone: "Sunrise Over Locus Mortis" taken from the album "Soulside Journey" Au...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 218 features an interview with Jarno Salomaa of Shape of Despair. Shape of Despair excel in crafting music that's slow, oppressive, and bleak, but also beautiful in its icy, unsentimental way. Melody and atmosphere comingle with doomy chord progressions, just as the soaring vocals of Natalie Koskinen shares space with Henri Koivula's deep growl. I spoke with...

Flesh of the Womb • Imperceptum • The Sun and The Mirror • Pisswitch • Aludra • Sataray • GRAVKVADE Flesh of the Womb: "Settle your wounds" taken from the album "Absent" Imperceptum: "Beyond the Gates of Cosmic Mysteries" taken from the album "Entity of Undead Stars" The Sun and The Mirror: "Katherinella Angustri" taken from the album "Dissolution to salt and bone" Pisswitch: "Night Soil" taken fr...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 217 features an interview with Sebastien von Landau of Wyatt E. Belgian trio Wyatt E. create slow, atmospheric soundscapes with Middle Eastern overtones - an Orientalist counterpart to Earth's Southwestern twang. Their cinematic music conjures historical images without the use of lyrics, resulting in what guitarist/bassist Sebastien von Landau describes as "...

Captain Beyond • Fostermother • Pale Grey Lore • Sir Lord Baltimore • IT featuring Andrea Vidal • Sleepwulf • Moon Coven • King Bastard • Superlynx • Hawkwind • Tangerine Dream • Vanilla Fudge Captain Beyond: "Frozen Over" taken from the album "Captain Beyond" Fostermother: "Unholiest of Days" taken from the album "The Ocean" Pale Grey Lore: "Undermined" taken from the album "Eschatology" Sir Lord...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 216 features an interview with Bar-Gal of Pylar. Emerging from the Spanish town of Seville, the mysterious collective known as Pylar employ the violin, mandolin, french horn, and keyboards to create their singular mix of slow metal, ambient music, and psychedelia. The unclassifiable nature of their music (along with their desire for anonymity) has drawn comp...

Megalith Levitation • Bloodsoaked Necrovoid • KRVVLA • Eucharist • St. Barthelemy's Temple • Oxalate • Convocation • Turris Eburnea • Coil • Void Rot Megalith Levitation: "Datura Revelations / Lysergic Phantoms" taken from the album "Void Psalms" Bloodsoaked Necrovoid: "Encased Emanations of Scourging Suffering" taken from the Astriferous / Bloodsoaked Necrovoid split 7" KRVVLA: "XVII" taken from...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 215 features an interview with Ellen Southern, Tom Bush, and Katie Murt of Dead Space Chamber Music. "Weird", "heavy", and "melancholic" is how UK quartet Dead Space Chamber Music characterize their music. Their pool of influences includes renaissance music, doom, dark ambient, and folk, resulting in what they describe as "medieval dance music". I spoke with...

Musket Hawk • Today Is The Day • Slug • Gloop • Maggot Heart • Metroschifter • Exhalants • Breach • Oxx • Expander • Cherubs • Dukov • Buzzov•en • Backslider • Child Bite • Pain Killer • Don't Grow Old • Twin God Musket Hawk: "Punk Rock Ruined My Life" taken from the album "Upside Of Sick" Today Is The Day: "Cocobolo" taken from the album "No Good To Anyone" Slug: "Sung-il meat" taken from the alb...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 214 features an interview with Tristan Shone of Author & Punisher. The brainchild of robotics/mechanical engineer Tristan Shone, Author & Punisher reimagines industrial doom metal, using custom-built instruments to create a signature style of ominous, oppressive music. I spoke with Tristan Shone about the instruments he created for the project, and his defin...

Haiku Funeral • Ministry • Lard • Melted Bodies • THE LION'S DAUGHTER • Sigillum S & Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte • OLD • Foetus • Human Impact • Godflesh Haiku Funeral: "The Head of the Innocent One" taken from the album "Drown Their Moons In Blood" Ministry: "Dream Song" taken from the album "The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste" Lard: "Bozo Skeleton" taken from the album "The Last Temptatio...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 213 features an interview with Owen Robertson of Sleepwulf. Based in the Swedish town of Kristianstad, Sleepwulf invoke the early years of psychedelia and proto-doom, when an interest in esoteric knowledge went hand in hand with the emerging heavy music scene. I spoke with Sleepwulf vocalist Owen Robertson about what led him from Edinburgh to Sweden and into...

Heaven Falls Hard • A-Sun Amissa • Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo • Leila Abdul-Rauf • Sarram • Daxma • Anna Von Hausswolff • David Lynch • Theyrgy • Raphael Weinroth-Browne • Deeper Graves • Morbid Angel • Skullflower Heaven Falls Hard: "Safe Haven" taken from the album "The Mercy-Go-Round" A-Sun Amissa: "To the Ashes" taken from the album "Ceremony in the Stillness" Explosions in the Sky &...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 212 features an interview with Estefan Carrillo of Hazemaze. "Sabbathian doom" is how Swedish trio Hazemaze describe their music - a none-too-subtle nod to the extent that Black Sabbath influences their songs. I spoke with Hazemaze bassist Estefan Carrillo about how the band transitioned from their earlier garage rock sound to the "true" doom metal style the...

KOSMOKRATOR • Swampbeast • Voidceremony • Colin Stetson • Excarnated Entity • Burial [ITA] • Devoid Of Thought • Gridfailure • Gorguts • Occulsed • Fossilization • Fabio Frizzi / Andrew Leman Colin Stetson (music) | Nick Gisburne (narrator): "Funeral"/"The Nameless City" music taken from the "Hereditary" OST/narration from Nick Gisburne Youtube KOSMOKRATOR: "Nathir" taken from the album "Through R...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 211 features an interview with Simon Daniel Larsen of Phrenelith. The underground metal scene in Denmark is often overshadowed by its Northern neighbors, but that may soon change. Copenhagen's Phrenelith have been making waves with their cavernous style of death metal, joining bands like Taphos and Hyperdontia in raising their scene's profile. I spoke with P...

Thomas Leer & Robert Rental: "Fade Away" taken from the album "The Bridge" The Oracle: "An Ascension" taken from the album "Hypogeum" Public Enemy: "Megablast" taken from the album "Yo! Bum Rush The Show" Public Image Limited: "The Order Of Death" taken from the album "This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get" Glenn Branca: "Third Movement" taken from the album "Symphony No.6 (Devil Choirs at...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 210 features an interview with Jarro "Nuclear Exterminator" Raphael of Nocturnal Graves. Comprised of veterans from Australia's metal underground, Nocturnal Graves are adherents of the speed-obsessed, Satan-infused early years of death and black metal. I spoke with Nocturnal Graves drummer/vocalist/founder Jarro "Nuclear Exterminator" Raphael about his vario...

Our Place of Worship is Silence: "Church of Atrocity" taken from the album "The Embodiment of Hate" Imperial Savagery: "Claiming Dominion" taken from the album "Lashing The Feral Swine" Antichrist Siege Machine: "Carried Into Darkness" taken from the album "Purifying Blade" Sons Of Famine: "As Razors Gnaw Like Wolves" taken from the album "As Razors Gnaw Like Wolves" Kyle Clark: "Thanks for Ruinin...

Purple Dawn: "Death To A Dying World" taken from the album "Peace & Doom Session Vol. II" Worm: "Murk Above The Dark Moor" taken from the album "Foreverglade" Morgion: "Nightfall Infernal" taken from the album "Solinari" Slowdive: "Avalyn 2" taken from the album "Slowdive" Skin: "Blood On Your Hands" taken from the album "Blood, Women, Roses" King Crimson: "One More Red Nightmare" taken from the a...

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 209 features an interview with Sam Rosenthal and Jon DeRosa of Black Tape For A Blue Girl. There's no easy way to describe the music of Black Tape For A Blue Girl. The band call what they do "ethereal darkwave" and "neo-classical", but also have a healthy following from fans of goth rock, neo-folk, and drone. I spoke with Black Tape For A Blue Girl founder/i...

Meth Fetish: "200 Ton Self Destruction" taken from the "Meth Fetish" EP Greenwitch: "Celestial Tomb" taken from the "CosmoSteelBlood Trinity" album Wingless: "Contempt and Defiance" taken from the "Nonconform" album Nequient: "Strange Death Of Kings" taken from the "Collective Punishment" album Tony Conrad With Faust: "The Pyre Of Angus Was In Kathmandu" taken from the "Outside The Dream Syndicate...