Meep Meep Podcast

READ 'EM AND MEEP⁣ ⁣ Before becoming a pillar in tha monument to hardcore known as Terror, guitarist Martin Stewart masterminded donnybrook! with his brother and array of other accomplices to make an album in my favorite style of hardcore - WHEN I BELIEVE THEM.⁣ ⁣ Martin tells us about forming tha band, life changing tours, art direction, personal vendettas, tha Mike Jones hit "Still Tip...

MEEPINY WITHIN. It works. Episode 100 of Meep Meep is discussing the self-titled album by New Jersey and... England's MUTINY WITHIN. We speak with Chris Clancy (now of As I Lay Dying) about moving his life across the world to join the band, signing to Roadrunner, Attack Attack!, working with a variety of Jasons to make tha album, having a song on a WWE Music compilation and video game, gramma...

ARF ARF Talkin' tha Victory Records album "This Is Our Revenge" by Connecticut hardcore band, With Honor. On this episode vocalist Todd Mackey takes us through this once polarizing record turned fan favorite including events leading up to it, working with producer Brian McTernan, anxiety about their new sound, no longer being in the band almost as soon as this record is released, an...

ARF ARF... exploring albums released on VICTORY Records. This time, 2013's follow up to Terror's career-defining album "Keepers of the Faith", we talk to drummer and primary songwriter Nick Jett in my car in the rain about this Chad Gilbert produced Victory Records debut. And isn't that fun?

THA COMPLETE MEEP Vocalist and founding Scar the Martyr member Henry Derek joins us for a tell all of everything about this band from before it existed, to conception as a black metal band with members of Gorgoroth, recording tha album, touring it, and it's untimely demise as well as working with Joey Jordison throughout tha process. Bonus intro with Front Line Assembly / Fear Factory mainsta...

SCAR THA MEEPSTER That one seems too easy. Scar the Martyr was the short-lived side-project turned full time band of Slipknot drummer and primary songwriter Joey Jordison. On Part 1 of this episode, we talk to literal hall of famer and guitar hero Kris Norris, formerly of Darkest Hour and member of Scar the Martyr who tells us all about his involvement with the project, touring with Danzig and Kor...

Lonely MEEPLE With Power Deafangels rejoice. Deafheaven vocalist George Clarke joins us for our best episode at number 100.

Justice MEEPLACED By Revenge. Twenty years ago Ringworm released a pivotal album in their career. With primary songwriter and Meepster Frank "3-Gun" Novenic joining Terror full time (and eventually Hatebreed), his time he could dedicate to Ringworm was thin and that led guitarist Matt Sorg to step up and take the reins, which he has white knuckled ever since and led Ringworm to previousl...

NOTHING MEEPMAINS... Almost works. It's the 20th anniversary of Chimaira's self-titled 2005 album and we got half the band to tell us all about it. Ohio's finest were coming off the strength of their 2003 breakout "The Impossibility of Reason" and would lean into a much more metal sound with longer songs, bigger solos, and more technical riffage. This would also be their l...

Episode 100. This is a show about albums released on Roadrunner Records so who better for episode 100 than the best selling band in the history of the label - Nickelback. Bassist Michael Kroeger joins us to discuss their 2003 album The Long Road which was sandwiched between their insane breakthrough Silver Side Up (2001) and the diamond selling All The Right Reasons (2005). In addition to making t...

Self Meepstructive Pattern. A prophetic title for a band who broke up 6 months after it's release! Hear Mike talk about tha highs, lows, yesses, no's, Grammy nomination, Roadrunner United, and two people you would not expect to have auditioned to be their new vocalist after this album cycle was over. All this and nothing else on Episode 100!

MILLIONS OF MEEPS-ES,⁣ MEEPS-ES FOR ME!⁣ ⁣ Get it? That “Peaches” song.⁣ ⁣ On tha eve of America’s Independence Day, I present to you our greatest independents: Presidents of the United States of America.⁣ ⁣ Their splendor rivals that of Bill Pullman in ID4, or even Julianne Moore in Hunger Games and on this episode President Chris from tha band that brought you “Peaches” and Weird Al’s “Gump” tel...

MEEPDINA LAKE⁣ ⁣ One might say… tha greatest lake. SIT DOWN, HURON!⁣ ⁣ Madina Lake was formed in tha aftermath of two Chicago mainstays: Blank Theory and Reforma.⁣ ⁣ But after a fluke victory on Fear Factor (Rogan, not Cazares) and a chance meeting with Nickelback A&R Ron Burman, the band signed to Roadrunner Records to release their debut album “From Them, Through Us, to You.”⁣ ⁣ Laker Matthe...

Now THAT'S a spicy MEEPBALL! Madball's 5th album, Legacy, was released domestically in tha U.S. under THA GUN aka Ferret and internationally on tha Bird - Roadrunner. Madball broke up... for a year and then they got back together! With the core members of vocalist Fred and bassist Hoya, they were joined by ex-Hatebreed drummer Rigg Ross and Skarhead alumni MITTS on guitar. B"M"...

MEEPICATED. This episode tackles tha self-titled debut and farewell of midwest monsters, downthesun. This band has so many Slipknot ties and that pun writes itself but they didn't wear tha masks - you saw and heard exactly how ugly they were. Vocalist Aaron Peltz (no face tattoos) tells us about how they were signed, working with Mega Meepster producer GGGarth Richardson, touring with Slayer,...

Each Meep Haunted. The [Bruce] Banner from New Jersey were an interesting entry in tha world of metalcore in 2005. A punk rock aesthetic with a spooktacular subject matter wrapped up in breakdowns and mosh madness. In this episode, singer Joey Southside takes us through the early beginnings of tha band, unlikely inspirations for their songs spanning from Batman video games to Outbreak, an argument...

CAN'T MEEP NOW Before Rob Caggiano was a super producer of bands like Cradle of Filth and 36 Crazyfists and even before riffin' and rockin' guitars as a member of Anthrax or Volbeat, Rob Caggiano was in the band BOILER ROOM who were signed to Roadrunner for an album to be released in 2000. Their single "Do It Again" appeared on the RR compilation MTV'S RETURN OF THE R...

Tha Meep Kings. New Jersey's Step Kings epitomized a DIY ethic coming up through hard work and grinding which eventually landed them a record with Roadrunner produced by Machine and tours with everyone from Slipknot to international shows with Papa Roach. Bassist Bob McLynn is now a titan in the music industry with Crush Management while guitarist Fern is still a passionate musician who takes...

MEEPER SEEDS. Too Easy. Sometimes albums are made for Roadrunner... and not released? HUH?! WHAT'S THAT MEAN?! In the mid 2000s the label was going through a boom and signing lots of bands since Roadrunner had recently been caught by the coyote that was Island Def Jam essentially making the bird a major label with that major label money and a huge mainstream hit with Nickelback. In 2003, Ethe...

MEEPLY SINNERS!!! 3 Inches of Blood are celebrating 20 years of "Advance and Vanquish" in 2024 so vocalist Cam Pipes sat up to break down the making of this hallmark album in their catalog and the one that started it all for many of their Viking Faithful! The album is now available for the first time ever on vinyl from REAL GONE RECORDS so make sure to storm tha gates of your local recor...

NO MEEPING REGRETS!!! It's often said all men think about is tha Roman Empire but in truth, all anybody is ever thinking about is Machine Head's 5th full length album "Through the Ashes of Empires" released on Roadrunner Records. On this episode, king of guitar Phil Demmel takes us through joining Machine Head, collaborating on these songs, recording this landmark album, and su...

MEEPSTERS OV HABIT This episode we're joined by legendary Meepster and producer Scott Burns who produced seminal records by all your favorites including Obituary, Suffocation, Sepultura and even Deicide. We talk about those in addition to lesser-known work with Gravity Kills, his final Roadrunner album "Serpents of the Light", and the new book about his career with author David Gehl...

GET MEEP TO GO. Oh sorry...I didn't mean to startle you but we're talking about the 2003 album by tha band To My Surprise, 20 years after it's release. To My Surprise is a fascinating, although be it short lived, project, probably most known for being the side project of Slipknot mastermind and percussionist Shawn Crahan who not only thought it was fun to create with Crayola...but a...

I. MEEPED. MY. TIME.  15 years ago Slipknot released their BEST (???) album and tha final one with tha lineup considered classic: All Hope Is Gone.  Producer Dave Fortman (Evanescence, Mudvayne) of Ugly Kid Joe riffage was brought in to continue tha career of tha Nine and found himself in tha middle of a war while half tha band worked on a separate album simultaneously of what we refer to now as &...

Famous MEEPSTERS! In 1999, Misfits released their Roadrunner debut and 2nd LP with a reborn line-up entitled FAMOUS MONSTERS. Infamous Monster himself Michale Graves himself tells us about how approaching this album differed from "American Psycho", his time in World Championship Wrestling, working with horror icon George A. Romero, hanging with Dark Carnival royalty Insane Clown Posse, a...