InObscuria Podcast

Join us for a very special episode with 2 of our favorite guests, as well as 2 of Atlanta’s greatest drummers: Rob Hammersmith (Skid Row) and Kent Aberle (Blackberry Smoke). We talk about all things that go bang, boom, thump, and crash! Poor Robert must suffer while 3 drummers in one room chat about the greatest of all time and the brightest of the unsung heroes of the rock n’ punk n’ metal drummi...

This week the boys get all spiffed up to attend the 2023 Tony Awards! No, not those Tony awards. The ones where we hand out golden pentagrams to bands that wear their denim and leather proudly! What’s old is new again with the re-interpretation of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal known as New Wave Of Traditional Heavy Metal! NWOTHM is a product of post-screamo and the internet. Younger bands trying...

This week, a world premier crossover event… Grab some popcorn and join your hosts this week as we check out songs from flicks as interpreted by other artists. That’s right, we are going to the movies and listening to the sounds of bands covering other bands' material! Two infamous recurring InObscuria series are colliding like peanut butter and chocolate to bring you a blissfully delicious treat....

This week we present another installment of our ongoing series called “Grave Mistakes: They Shoulda Been Huge!!!”. This band is a true treasure from the Great White North that plays mean power chords and punch-you-in-the-mouth rock n’ roll! The lead singer and guitarist is a swaggering rock n’ roll force to be reckoned with… Twenty-Seven years into their career at this point, but most Americans do...

In this week’s episode, we unearthed our Gen 2 iPad and traveled back to the decade that many rock n’ rollers call the “dark decade”. That’s right! We are listening to obscure tracks from the previous decade of the 20-Teens; when Gaga wore a meat dress, we were introduced to Instagram, Indie Rock became a genre, we all got challenged with ice buckets, the host of The Apprentice got elected, and so...

This week InObscuria once again lets our hair down and fills it full of Aquanet! That’s right… we are again diving hair-first into the world of obscure glam metal. Whether you call it: glam metal, hair metal, cock rock, or hard rock… this time we are focusing on bands carrying the torch of the 80s by fully embracing the Sunset Strip sound and vision in the year 2023! Hope you dig. What are we all...

It’s that time of year again, where we lace up our Doc Martins and hike over to the Pacific Northwest to the land of everything GRUNGE! Is it possible that we are on our 5th ep in this series and we still haven’t played Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, and Pearl Jam??? Oh yeah… Your hosts remember this time fondly, as we were young adults when the Seattle scene invaded all rock n’ roll avenu...

InObscuria Podcast proudly presents: one night, and one night only, the 3rd annual Ghost-Fest live at the Old Smyrna Firehouse! This event is floating room only for all spirits, specters, wraiths, phantoms, and hot ghouls! Featuring performances by the living, the dead… and the living dead.  What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his person...

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! This week is the 5th installment of our series celebrating the gender with the most attitude and pure ferocity. Piss off a man; you can fight it out and then go have a pint at the pub. Piss off a woman, and you will pay for it 10-fold… In this episode, we focus on women that truly rock! Ladies that play loud and heavy with attitude, grit, and that rasp.  Wha...

This week we offer up the 10th installment of our series called, “Degrees Of Separation…” where we discuss side projects and solo releases from artists we love. This time around we got to involve the artist and get the story directly from him! Tuk Smith is a local Atlanta institution that your co-hosts have had a chance to watch and listen to over the last 20 years. A talented guitarist, songwrite...

Electric artists have been playing acoustically since the beginning of recorded music. Usually, the slower ballads and the prettier mellow songs by rock artists were accompanied by acoustic guitars. This week we are celebrating bands that can re-imagine their songs with acoustic instruments and still rock! We are pulling the plug… and gasping for air guitars! What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a...

This week is all about bands playing other bands' songs… Hit songs… Songs that have obtained diamond status! The poppiest of the poppy pop songs! Whether they are playing it straight note-for-note, or whether they are re-interpreting it; bands love to pay tribute to great songs that they love! In this episode, we showcase the diversity of how a band can take a radio-friendly, mainstream pop hit an...

This week the lads hop across the pond to do some more excavation of denim and leather… Well, sort of… While it’s sort of about the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, we instead visit France, USA, Canada, Japan, and Germany! The NWOBM movement was filled with passionate bands from Great Britain that were poised to take over the world. Most of the A-listers like: Iron Maiden, Saxon, and Def Leppard w...

This week we are discussing what the interweb calls the New Wave Of Classic Rock! There have been bands doing the retro-rock thing for years, but this phenomenon seems to be gaining momentum lately and we decided to focus on new-ish bands that have released albums in the last year or so. Indeed, rock n’ roll is not dead and is in the very capable hands of these killer new classics! What is it we d...

This week we feature fellow music podcasters that not only have the gift of gab but are also talented and creative musicians. Many of us who get on the mic every week either are or were, also in bands playing the music that we love talking about. We thought it would be fun to not only play some songs from podcasters that we know but to also get their insights around the tunes we selected. So open...

Kevin just got off a boat! Listen to his tales of the Kraken and other aquatic beasts encountered on his Monsters Of Rock Cruise 2023 experience! Did he finally see Tesla after 37 years of missing them live? Did he witness a Stryper vs. Burning Witches battle of good and evil? Did he mistakenly sit on Angry Anderson? Did he really have 8 podcasters in an interior room huddled around a single mic f...

This week we look to the stars for inspiration for our show theme. Oh yeah! We are talking about bands that have rock stars in them: Supergroups and Offshoots. A band consisting of well-known artists from other bands does not always equal great success. We dive into some of the more obscure supergroups and offshoots that didn’t break with huge mainstream success or stay around very long. What is i...

This week we present another installment of our ongoing series called “Grave Mistakes: They Shoulda Been Huge!!!”. However, this is a first for us as we actually have the artist on to walk us through their journey thus far! We got to sit down and chat with Anthony Corder the lead singer for the amazingly awesome Tora Tora! We think this band Shoulda Been Huge and ruled the 90s!!!  This episode is...

Transmission 1991: Danger! Danger! The Dinosaurs are at severe risk of extinction unless they can quickly evolve into a down-tuned, depressed, dirgy, dirty, flannel-wearing anti-dinosaur! Living fossils that once rocked stadiums with shredding guitars, spandex, lipstick, and hair spray have purchased wah-wah pedals and must sing about something other than their love pumps! Listen with extreme caut...

This week we chat with the man and fellow podcaster that we tell you to go and listen to in every one of our episodes. The man whose band was featured way back in ep. 16 on a “Shoulda Been Huge!” show. The one. The only: Mr. Monty Colvin! Join us as we dive deep into Monty’s musical past, and current artistic endeavors, and listen to several hidden gems that he wants you all to know about. Come di...

This week is our full account of our experience at the Nashville Rock N Pod Expo 2023! We, once again, played a little game at the Rock N Pod Expo with the brightest podcasters and artists. If you’ve listened to the show before, you know this is called WILD CARD… although this year we added a visual twist. If you want to play along at home visit our socials and look for the RnP banner picture! Wha...

This week we are joined by the man himself… He’s not only the co-host of the Decibel Geek, the founder, and CEO of the Rock n’ Pod Expo, but is largely the reason that our podcast is in existence. Of course, we are talking about Chris Czynszak! Kevin annoyed and berated Chris to the point where he felt he had to come on our show just to shut him up. Chris has brought us a very special selection of...

This week we provide you with the finest in Hair-To-Hair Combat! You got it… we are dipping our spandex-covered legs into the pool of obscure glam metal. These are groups with similar band names that we thought needed to go hair to hair to see who truly has the right to rock the name. If that’s not enough, we talk to Sam Spade with The Midnight Devils about the new frontier of glam n’ sleaze metal...

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! This week we turn several shades of green as we celebrate the emerald isle and St. Patrick’s Day… American style!!! We here in the good ol’ US of A have completely bastardized this whole affair into a day of wearing ridiculous amounts of green, pretending to be of Irish descent, and getting extremely drunk while listening to U2, The Cranberries, and Thin Lizzy. Two cities...

This week we welcome a very special guest who is an avid listener and commenter on our socials. He’s a dude with a lot of rock n’ punk n’ metal knowledge and an all-around good dude; our friend Mr. Steve Coldwell! Today you may want to put on your workout gear and set up your phone to record a video because you’re going to want to create an awesome montage while listening to these songs! Steve is...