Lamniformes Radio

Lamniformes Radio Season 3 kicks off with a delightful conversation with my good friend Oliver Kalb, whose band Bellows is due to release their sixth album "Que Bello!" on June 12th. As some listeners may recall I played drums in Bellows for years, including during the writing and recording of this very album. I was psyched to have Oliver on to talk about his creative process, being a teacher, the...

This week I'm joined by Brian Barr of the Midwestern doom metal band Aseethe! Aseethe have a new album coming out on June 21st through Thrill Jockey records and personally I think it's their best yet. Brian and I talked about The Cost, why he almost walked away from doom metal entirely during COVID, touring while middle-aged, and more! You can pre-order "The Cost" here: https://thrilljockey.com/pr...

This week I'm joined by songwriting, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Kabir Kumar. Kabir releases music under the name Sun Kin had has a new album called "Sunset World" dropping on April 19th. We talked about that album, writing songs as drummers, what Animal Collective has in common with South Asian classical music, why harmonized guitars are like mountain climbing, and much more! https://sunr...

Writer Langdon Hickman and Kosmogyr singer Ivan Belcic return to Lamniformes Radio to discuss the return of drummer Mike Portnoy to the progressive metal band Dream Theater. The three of us are cursed with more Dream Theater knowledge than any man should have, and our only cure is passing that knowledge on to you. In this episode we discuss: -How far we each fell into the Dream Theater rabbit hole...

Ali Jaafar of Another Heave and the Zero Brightness podcast joins me to talk about Another Heaven's latest album "Heaven Sent", the Minneapolis music scene, PT Cruisers, horror, and much more! https://anotherheaven.bandcamp.com/album/iv-heaven-sent

Joseph Schafer returns yet again! This time to talk about his band Colony Drop's debut album "Brace For Impact", writing metal about anime, his influences as a lead singer, and overcoming self-doubt to release one of the year's best collections of high-speed retro metal.

This episode's guest is Cassie Weiland, a classical composer turned ambient pop artist who releases music under the name Vines. We talked about some Lamniformes Radio staples (music school, what we did during 2020 lockdown) as well as the art of covers, the intersection of art and athletics, and her new EP "Birthday Party", out on 8/18/23. Enjoy!

Frank and Jonathan return to get Podcasted in the Lamniforium once more. In the years since our first conversation The Mars Volta released a retrospective box set, then reunited with a new self titled record and a tour heavy on fan favorites. We share our thoughts on the new album, parse the contributions of the new band members, and reflect on the experiencing of seeing The Mars Volta on stage af...

Today I'm joined by AJ Santillan, bassist of the New Jersey screamo band Massa Nera and an old friend from college. Massa Nera's second album "Derremar|Querer|Borrar|" comes out on December 2nd. It's a great album, mixing long-form screamo with mind-bending electronic experimentation. I was psyched to talk to AJ about how she joined Massa Nera, transitioning during the pandemic, how the screamo sc...

Josh Stanely came on the podcast to talk about his new album "Cataclysm Risqué" with his band Psychoid. Josh has played all types of music from rap to punk to folk and more. He even played in Lamniformes for a while! This one was recorded in person a few weeks ago. It was great chatting with Josh again, hope you enjoy the conversation! https://psychoid.bandcamp.com/album/cataclysm-risqu https://ww...

Producer Erik Gundel joins the podcast to talk about his new album "Level One Mage," working as a music therapist, his collaborations with Felicia Douglass (Dirty Projectors, Ava Luna) and Will Skarstad (Yellows Eyes) and playing Dungeons & Dragons during lockdown. https://erikgundel.bandcamp.com/album/level-one-mage?label=4089023467&tab=music

Composer and electronic producer Max Coburn joins the podcast to talk about his journey from shelling out burnt CDs of his music to blowing up on Soundcloud all the way to composing for the upcoming Netflix show "Battle Kitty." Max and I played in a few bands together back in the 2010s but haven't had a chance to catch up in a while, so I was psyched to have Max on to reflect on his career, video...

BrooklynVegan editor Andrew Sacher joins the podcast to talk about the sudden break up of the long running Buffalo, NY metalcore band Every Time I Die. Every Time I Die were part of the boom in American metalcore in the early 2000s but out lasted their contemporaries to become a heavy music institution unto themselves over 20 years of consistent high quality work. Sacher helped break down why this...

Lucio Oquendo of the screamo band New Grass joins the podcast to talk Rush, car culture, and his new album "Scoredatura Perforations" out now through Zegema Beach! https://newgrassrock.bandcamp.com/

Producer and podcaster Joseph Hurtado aka Saint Thrillah aka Young Moth rejoins the program to talk about the beat making world during the pandemic, staying organized, learning to make lo-fi music, helping produce the new 303Bam album, and joining the National Meat Treasure podcast. Always love catching up with Joey, give it a listen!

Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman of the Consequence of Sound column "Mining Metal" joined me to talk about Iron Maiden, one of the great bands of all time. We cover their entire discography, their outsize influence on heavy metal as well as the rest of popular music and culture, and plenty of strange digressions into all things heavy music. Because this is a long one, here are some time stamps!...

Violinist and guitarist Jessica T. of Daxma came on the podcast to talk about the band's new album "Unmarked Boxes", her path from classical music to heavy metal, the difference between electric and acoustic violins, recording under hellish conditions in the summer of 2020, covering Fleetwood Mac and more! Check out "Unmarked Boxes", out now: https://daxma.bandcamp.com/album/unmarked-boxes

Filmmaker Daniel Ott joins the podcast to talk about his path from making movies with friends growing up in Tulsa to working professionally in the film industry in Los Angeles. We cover our time together in college in Chicago, his upcoming short film "Apartment Story", his recent music video for Bellow's "McNally Jackson", and how Secret Movie Club survived COVID.

Puppeteer & writer Preston Wollner joined the podcast to talk about his journey as a visual artist, starting as a sculptor in high school, studying animation and performance art in Chicago, and finally launching his own Shadow Puppet show last month. Preston reached out to me to score his horror themed puppet show for children, "Morgus Bootoux's Shadow Show", so I figured that I should return the...

An overdue explanation for the no longer weekly schedule this podcast has been operating on lately. Basically, day job got wild, other projects picked up, my booking skills couldn't keep up the pace, etc. Talk soon.

The audio version of my latest newsletter, which you can find at https://lamniformes.substack.com/ In short, I found myself frustrated and angry in the wake of Tropical Storm Ida and decided to take it out on an old Tool song that hasn't aged well. Have fun!

Today I am joined by Blake Luley, a songwriter who releases music as Rainwater. I first came across Rainwater’s album “Saturn Return” shortly after it was released on Furious Hooves, the label that also released my own album Sisyphean a few years ago. As it turns out, Luley and I shared another connection, as he used to play in the bands Howth and Air Waves in Brooklyn, NY. These days Luley lives...

Some off the cuff thoughts on the new Between the Buried and Me album, the finale to The Rebuild of Evangelion, and what it means when an artist decides to return to an older project. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-human-instrumentality-podcast/id1549740529 https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-do-this-alone

Siddhu Anadalingham of Semaphore and Andrew Noseworthy of People Places Records joined me to talk about the long running prog metal band Between the Buried and Me. The three of us all got into the band during their come up in the 00s hardcore scene, but have all since fallen off after the band swerved deep into the prog zone. Since BTBAM are set to release the sequel to their beloved 2007 album Co...

This is the audio version of a newsletter that I wrote about the passing of former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison. You can read the text version of it at the following link: https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/joey-jordison-was-number-1