REQUIEM METAL PODCAST

This time we're going back to a dark day in metal... 1995. Or at least that's where our story begins, in southern California amidst a scene with the unfortunate moniker of nu-metal. While I still don't understand the success of this sub genre, there was one bright spot in an otherwise, to be frank, shitty scene: The Deftones. They quickly surpassed all their contemporaries in depth, concept and ex...

This episode we are joined by Jeff Wagner, author of Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal. In part two of our conversation we delve into the world of bizarre progressive metal, the avant guard and the downright weird.   Executive Producer:  Ron Merz   Celtic Frost, "Caress Into Oblivion", Into The Pandemonium (1987)   Talkset #1 Pan-Thy-Monium, "Machinery", Khaooos (1993) Ved Bu...

This episode we are joined by Jeff Wagner, author of Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal. In part one of our conversation we delve into the world of extreme progressive metal, running the gamut from thrash to black metal.   Executive Producer:  Jill Hundey   Voivod, "Overreation", Killing Technology (1987)   Talkset #1 Deathrow, "Machinery", Deception Ignored (1988) Death, "Ove...

Continuing where we left off last week with Autopsy, Dismember picks up the death/gore torch and elevates it to heights unseen in pure visceral, raw, searing sound. It's safe to say there wouldn't be a Dismember without Autopsy, at least not the band we know today. Dismember adopted some frameworks that Autopsy built, but ended up taking their sound to a level still unmatched. They were the counte...

One of the most crucial influences on the Swedish death metal scene of the late 80s, Autopsy pulled in elements of doom, hardcore, rock n roll and death metal to create a sound that was all their own. Being that they were an anomaly in the underground, they didn't get the attention they deserved at the time, but in retrospect, they are one of the most important bands in the genre.   Executive Prod...

Getting back to the United States and to some rock n roll with Monster Magnet. An anomaly back in the early 90s, clearly standing out from "Alternative" scene with their psychedelic, drug-infused, bombastic rock n roll. We explore three of their early albums: Spine of God, Superjudge and Dopes to Infinity.   Executive Producer: Jill Hundey   "Black Mastermind", Spine of God (1992)   Talkset #1 "Me...

It's been awhile since we've delved into the world of black metal, so we figured we'd discuss one of the most influential and notorious bands in the genre... Burzum. Instead of discussing the titillating and the controversial, we're just gonna talk about the music at where it falls into the history of extreme metal.   Executive Producer: Shawna Perez   "War", Burzum (1992)   Talkset #1 "Lost Wisdo...

This episode we conclude our discussion of Napalm Death with Albert Mudrian (Editor-in-chief of Decibel Magazine) and touch upon Mass Appeal Madness-era through 2009 album, Time Waits for no Slave. We are also pleased to announce an exclusive excerpt of Legacy was Yesterday, soon to be heard on Decibel's May issue's Flexi-Disc.   Executive Producer: Anonymous   "Mass Appeal Madness", Mass Appeal M...

Few bands hold as much cache in the extreme metal world as Napalm Death. From their early hardcore punk roots, they have blazeded trails that entire genres have followed. Some phases of their career have been more successful than others, but they have always pushed ahead, ADD MORE TO THIS. This episode we are pleased to be joined by Napalm Death enthusiast, Albert Mudrian (Editor-in-chief of Decib...

Thrash has the Big 4, but that group is missing one of the bands that embodies the term to its core... Exodus. Always a bit behind the curve (as far as release schedules) and didn't make the impact they could have initially, but they have made up for it in longevity. This episode we're exploring the early part of their career, showcasing: Bonded by Blood, Pleasures of the Flesh and Fabulous Disast...

Picking up where we left off last time.. The Victor Griffin, Joe Hasselvander and Martin Swaney-era of Pentagram. A decidedly different band than their 70s incarnation. The rock n roll has been bled out and the doom has really began to overtake their sound. Liebling's vocals aren't quite as bombastic as before, but what they create on the next 3 records is a blueprint for the next generation of do...

Since the 70s Pentagram have flown the flag of doom. Founded by Bobby Liebling and Geof O'Keefe as a heavy rock act influenced by the likes of Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Sir Lord Baltimore and UFO, they spent the next 6 years churning out some of the best rock n roll to ever enter an ear canal. The tragedy is they only issued a few singles and never released a proper album until 1985 with a comple...

This week we're trying something a bit different based on the suggestion of a listener... talking about metal documentaries. Not specifically just metal, but basically our "best of" list. We discuss: Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Global Metal, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, Iron Maiden: The Early Days, American Hardcore, Get Thrashed, Anvil: The Story of Anvil and many others.   Rush, "Working Man", RU...

We're back to our favorite metal country, Sweden. This time to discuss one of the underrated acts that got overshadowed by the likes of Dissection and their ilk, Unanimated. Their pedigree is quite impressive, with members of Merciless, Entombed, Desultory, Dismember, General Surgery, Watain and Carbonized calling Unanimated home. They only put out two records, one in 1993 another in 1995, then ca...

Part III of our year end coverage concludes with an unexpected debut from a Swedish satanic cult and the triumphant return from some established metal mainstays.   Ghost, "Ritual", Opus Eponymous (2010) Ghost, "Stand By Him', Opus Eponymous (2010)   Talkset #1 Darkthrone, "I Am The Working Class", Circle The Wagons (2010) Watain, "Four Thrones", Lawless Darkness (2010) The Dillinger Escape Plan, "...

Part II of our year end coverage continues with some metal mainstays and some debuts. Join us as we discuss 2010 in metal.   Danzig, "The Revengeful", Deth Red Saboth (2010) Danzig, "Deth Red Moon", Deth Red Saboth (2010)   Talkset #1 Agalloch, "Into the Painted Grey", Marrow of the Spirit (2010) Kvelertak, "Blodtorst", Kvelertak (2010)   Talkset #2 Deftones, "Beauty School", Diamond Eyes (2010) B...

2010 has come to a close and it's time to put together the obligatory year end list. This year didn't have the amount of immediately obvious choices that 2009 did, but after much deliberation we came up with what we feel were the most interesting and enjoyable metal releases of 2010. Jason and I each came up with 10 albums and over the next 3 shows we'll discuss and dissect the year 2010 in metal....

Part 4 of our Canadian metal discussion. This time we dissect the criminally underrated None Shall Defy album by Infernäl Mäjesty. Slayer meets Teutonic thrash, with a uniquely Canadian flair, makes None Shall Defy a proto-death metal, thrash classic.   "Overlord", None Shall Defy (1987)   Talkset #1 "R.I.P.", None Shall Defy (1987) "Night of the Living Dead", None Shall Defy (1987) "S.O.S.", None...

Part 3 of our Canadian metal discussion. This time we delve into the more "extreme" side of our neighbors to the north's metal cache. Starting out with punk-fueled, proto-tech-thrash masters Voivod and end the conversation in technical death metal territory with the likes of Cryptopsy, Gorguts and Martyr.   Voivod, "Fuck Off and Die", Rrröööaaarrr (1986)   Talkset #1 Voivod, "Overreaction", Killin...

1989. The tail end of the thrash scene; with one notable exception... Annihilator. The Alice in Hell record, recorded in 1988 and released in 1989 on Roadrunner, was a culmination of the entire genre. Embodying elements of speed metal, hardcore punk, proto-death metal and every permutation of thrash, Alice in Hell is a fitting goodbye to a scene that brought extreme metal to a wider audience and m...

When you think of Canada, the first thing that springs to mind isn't usually heavy metal. But after listening to this show it certainly should be. Bands that were muttered by the likes of Napalm Death, Entombed and Death in interviews, but for whatever reason always flew over our radar. No more. The first part of our Canadian Metal series explores the thrash, proto-death metal and heavy metal side...

Rounding out our coverage of the career of Death with their final record The Sound of Perseverance. This was the final death metal entry from Chuck Schuldiner before his tragic passing from brain cancer. See the final act of a band that created death metal as we know it today.   RequiemMetal.com Email us -  RequiemPodcast@gmail.com Support us on Patreon! Follow us on social media: Requiem Facebook...

Everyone loves Carcass. Well up to a certain point in their career. I can safely state that from Reek of Putrefaction to Heartwork, most would agree that that they could do no wrong (I'm omitting the nut jobs who think they sold out with Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious). After the relative success of Heartwork and their signing to Columbia, they were posed to set the world on fire as a m...

 Back to the early 1990s again. This time we're discuss seminal Swedish Death Metal act, Grave. Formed in 1986 as Corpse, then changed to the equally necrotic moniker Putrefaction, then finalizing as Grave in 1988. Often lumped into the Stockholm scene, Grave arose from Visby, a town on the island of Gotland just off the eastern coast of Sweden. This relative isolation is reflected in their sound,...

The first in a series of discussions of Neurosis' discography, Enemy of the Sun (1993). Their fourth full-length and first album to fully realize what we know now as the "Neurosis" sound that has spawned an entire sub-genre of acolytes.   "The Time of the Beasts", Enemy of the Sun (1993)   Talkset #1 "Lost", Enemy of the Sun (1993) "Raze the Stray", Enemy of the Sun (1993)   Talkset #2 "Burning Fl...