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Max and Nick go through and listen to some notable new releases from 2024, and look towards the future as well! Albums featured: Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out Aberration - Refracture Knoll - Offering Kawir - Kydoimos Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All... TWRP - Digital Nightmare

Metallica - Kill 'Em All VS Slayer - Show No Mercy VS Anthrax - Fistful of Metal VS Megadeth - Killing is my Busines... and Business is Good! We do the unthinkable and cover four albums in one episode! Among the titans of thrash, whose origin rocks the hardest?

Flip your hair out of your eyes and dejectedly lean against a wall while sighing, because we're comparing The 69 Eyes' Devils and Lacrimas Profundere's Ave End. Will you be my 'amburger? Or will you smoke cigarettes in your bed?

This episode, Max delves deeper into his list of good records from 2023. He goes through a bunch of albums and plays cool songs from them - so sit back and tune in! Songs included: Health - DSM-V Fires in the Distance - Adrift Beneath the Listless Waves Xoth - Reptilian Bloodsport Aodon - Swen Tomb Mold - Flesh as Armour Uranium - Pure Nuclear Death ...And Oceans - The Collector and His Construct...

1991. Brazil. Thrash. Fight. Kiss? We compare two of the meanest and greatest thrash albums of all time, both courtesy of Brazil, with a legendary history of shared members and nasty feuds. Who comes out on top?

2023 was a baller year for music, so Nick and Max deep dive into their top 5 albums and a few honorable mentions!

PETS V PEPS BEACH BOYS - PET SOUNDS VS BEATLES - SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BANDS Two of the most progressive and influential pop albums ever go head to head... Who will come out on top?!

Dark Taylor is here, and the cusses won't stop. Returning guest Branwen guides us through the best selling 2020 hit, Folklore, and we become Trve Swifties.

John Carpenter synths, check. Sludgy riffs, check. Catchy choruses, check. This record has it all! St. Louis, MO based The Lion's Daughter came at us in 2021 with Skin Show, and left us all... skinned... and showed us? Just listen.

A smorgasbord of early 90's prog rock, metal, and grunge, King's X are sort of underground heroes. Brett guides us through their 1992 self titled release!

Wind. Smoke. Tin. Toes. Jess Williamson's 2020 release, Sorceress, is a fantastic example of modern, kinda spooky, kinda sad American country folk. Plus, guest star Branwen joins and makes us all realize we're not paying enough attention to lyrics!

A triple threat! This time, we're covering some favorite EPs, splits, and demos. Isen Torr - Mighty & Superior Mono/The Ocean - Transcendental Queensryche - Queensryche

A bit of an experiment this time! Soja, an American reggae band, recorded two tracks and then sent them out to various reggae artists to reinterpret as they saw fit. Does it work as an album? Are the songs interesting to hear over and over again? Find out with us!

Take a cruise on a pixelated sunset beach with us as we talk about Eyeliner's 2020 vaporwave masterpiece, Drop Shadow.

R. Neilsen v N. Poffinbarger - The Neener-Neener Case (1977)

Widely regarded as the greatest piss-themed album of all time, Yellow River Boy's 2013 classic "Urinal St. Station" is a yellow ocean of elegant southern rock to dive into. Will we slurp it up? Or will we flush it down?

Take a ride (and the veil, Cerpin Taxt) on the drunkship of lanterns with us as we immerse ourselves in the 2003 post-prog-rock debut of madmen The Mars Volta!

Progressive folk metal masterpiece, or the Finnish Load? We find out! Listen along to Amorphis' 1999 classic, Tuonela, with us!

One of the famed Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson released a single solo album during his short life time. Brett loves it. Will Nick and Max finally hear the good vibrations?

One of the best selling albums of all time. The real Born to Run. We rant and rave about Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman's 1977 masterpiece, Bat out of Hell!

Is it the Old Ways of Maine? Or the Old Ways Remain? Honestly we'll never know. But we do know that this here is some good ol' flute doom rock.

Nick and Max get together for a special mini episode to talk about Cynic's new remaster of 1993's iconic debut Focus, as well as digging into Traced in Air's remaster and reinterpretation Re-Traced.

Max forces Nick and Brett to listen to industrial black metal. What could go wrong? Take a listen to Samael's 1996 classic, Passage, and become luciferean cosmonauts with us!

We sit down with Chris Dane Owens himself to discuss his life, inspirations for Blue Stone, and a brief discussion on his album pick, Yes's 1978 classic, Tormato!

We take a trip to the Third Kingdom! Famous for the incredible music videos, does Chris Dane Owens' solo debut have the tunes to back it up? We find out!