Spinning the Wax

Adam Campbell-Train (guitars) and Benio Baumgart (bass) from British atmospheric sludge band Dimscûa join Spinning the Wax to listen to an album that showed them what instrumental post-rock could be: Caspian's Dust and Disquiet. They share the whirlwind journey of releasing their debut album Dust Eater with zero expectations, only to find themselves playing a festival to thousands of people mo...

Kat Keo and April Dimmick, two-thirds of the Portland, Oregon dark rock trio Hoaxed join Spinning the Wax to share two records in one sitting. April starts with the 1980 classic British Steel from heavy metal legends Judas Priest , before Kat transitions us to the 2000's emo/goth-rock of AFI's Sing the Sorrow. We swap stories about the albums while also digging in to the creation of Hoaxed...

Dimitra Kalavrezou, vocalist of Berlin-based avant-garde/post-metal band Unverkalt, joins Spinning the Wax to share her favorite album from her favorite aritst: Björk's "Homogenic". We chat about how this album still sounds like it's from the future, and how Björk's artistry has inspired Dimitra with her own willingness to experiment and explore. There's industrial metal...

Stefan De Graef, vocalist and guitarist of Belgian post-metal band Psychonaut, brings on one of his favorite progressive albums of all time: Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree. He discusses how he heard this record at the perfect time, and how it opened so many musical doors to bring him where he is today. We also chat the band's new record World Maker , and name drop British psychedelic...

Creeper frontman William Von Ghould brings on Meat Loaf's 1977 musical extravagana: Bat Out of Hell . Will discusses his love for Jim Steinman's larger than life music, and the album's bombast and theatricality. All things that make Creeper the shifting entity it is today. We chat about their new record, Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death , why the band wanted to try a sequel, how they c...

Brady Deeprose, guitarist for UK Riff Music heavyweights Conjurer, joins Spinning the Wax to play his favorite Opeth album: Watershed. We chat about their vast discography, their prog albums, artists writing music strictly for themselves, and how his musical and personal relationship with guitarist/vocalist Dani Nightingale has evolved over the last decade. There's also a deep-dive into Metall...

On the latest episode of Spinning the Wax, Ray Worth, guitarist from Asheville's Bask brings on "The Dirty South" by Alabama southern rock band Drive-By Truckers. Though it may not be one many metal heads are familiar with, Ray digs into why he fell in love with this record back in the day and what he still gets out of it. It also informed his way of writing songs as well as finding...

Stavros Giannopoulos, guitarist and vocalist in Chicago doom-punk band Motherless and as sludge/stoner metal heroes The Atlas Moth, brings on one of his all-time favorite records: Deftones "White Pony". We chat about how Stavros was practically a day-one Deftones fan, and how their music has influenced his music and his life, and the ins-and-outs of their discography. He also remembers h...

Guitarist James Danzo from New York heavy metal heroes TOWER joins Spinning the Wax to listen to Metallica's "Kill 'Em All", and brings along "Metal Joe" Chimienti of New Jersey's Old Bridge Militia. Metal Joe and the Old Bridge Militia played an integral part in heavy metal history, letting a young and broke Metallica crash at his farmhouse when they moved to the e...

Thérèse Lanz, one-half of Calgary doom/sludge duo Mares of Thrace joins Spinning the Wax to sing the praises of a local Hungarian instrumental post-metal band HEGY, and their 2019 album "We Won't Make It Home." Thérèse shares how HEGY (pronounced "hedge") blew her and bandmate Casey Rodgers away when they opened for Mares of Thrace in Budapest. She walks us through her favorite parts of the record...

Dan Tregenna, guitarist of UK/Spain gothic doom troupe Opia, spins "The Cold White Light" by Finnish goth metal legends Sentenced. This is also one of StayPuft's all-time favorites, so the two gush about the guitar lines, the infectious choruses and the despondent and depressing lyrics. Dan shares how finding this band helped him recover from a depression-related eating disorder, and...

Royal Thunder bassist and vocalist Mlny Parsonz joins Spinning the Wax to gush about an album she's listened to a hundred times: ADAM FAUCETT's "It Took the Shape Of A Bird". The Arkansas singer-songwriter blends folk, Americana, alt country and rock into a unique blend that captures Mlny's ears and imagination. We chat about how we interpret his songs differently, the differ...

On Episode 20 of Spinning the Wax, Vancouver gothic doom metal band Tribunal bring on one of their biggest influences: My Dying Bride's "Feel the Misery".Soren Mourne (vocals, bass, cello) and Etienne Flinn (vocals, guitar) talk about how their divergent interests in DOOM METAL combine for this band and this record. They also provide thorough insight on the creation of their new album "In Penitenc...

Patrick Crawford, drummer for blackened heavy metal band Nite, brings on a mostly-forgotten record from Savatage co-founder and Trans-Siberian Orchestra songwriter Jon Oliva. Patrick calls JON OLIVA'S PAIN - "Maniacal Renderings" the Savatage album that never was, and considers it just as important to their story as any album in their discography. He dives into the context behind the...

Scott Taysom, guitarist and vocalist of Atlanta blackened heavy metal band Cloak, brings on In Solitude's "Sister" to Spinning the Wax. He details why it's such an emotional record for him, what it's taught him about songwriting and being in a band, and how seeing them headline a show with Tribulation and Watain cemented his dream to be a heavy metal life. Song Excerpt 1: Clo...

Kyle Walburn (vocals/guitar) & Brandon Iacovella (guitar/vocals/contrabass) of Atlanta progressive/technical black metal band Tómarúm listen to Enslaved's 1997 album "Eld." The two musicians talk about how the progressive, Norwegian black metal band has influenced themselves and the band, and how they want to emulate Enslaved's fearless creativity across their 16 studio album...

Kathrine Shepard, the talented multi-instrumentalist behind Sylvaine, brings Depeche Mode's "Violator" to Spinning the Wax! We dive into why this band (and album) are so important to her musical journey, three of the big things Depeche Mode taught Kathrine about songwriting, and how a cover of "Enjoy the Silence" at music school led to the creation of Sylvaine. Kathrine als...

Two-thirds of New York's cacophonous, extreme metal triumvirate Imperial Triumphant stop by to spin the 10th studio album by German power metal werewolves Powerwolf. Zachary Ezrin (vocals/guitar) and Steve Blanco (bass) listen to this band for the very first time and have a blast. They marvel at the variety, the consistency, and the infectiousness of the record's 11 songs across 37 minutes...

Vocalist Chelsea Murphy and guitarist Tony Thomas of Oakland progressive blackened death metal band Dawn of Ouroboros join Spinning the wax to listen to Heretoir's "The Circle." Though this German, post-black metal album only came out in 2017, it was instrumental in shaping the music that Tony and Chelsea play now. They dive into the beauty and genius of the record, how they started...

Ripped to Shreds and Houkago Grind Time mainman Andrew Lee takes us to school with a double dose of goregrind! In a first for Spinning the Wax, Lee brings on an EP and an LP to show us the finer points of the genre. We start with Extremely Brutal's "Dead Reconsiderations" EP and end with a Sulfuric Cautery's "Chainsaws Clogged With the Underdeveloped Brain Matter of Xenophobes." He explains how Ex...

Benjamin T. Mainwaring, bassist of South Wales noir-pop band The Nightmares joins Spinning the Wax to listen to Blink-182's self-titled album from 2003.This was a massively important, coming-of-age record for Ben, as it not only helped him find his own identity at the time, but it set in motion all the dominoes that led to The Nightmares. We discuss the hiatus and turmoil Blink went through be...

TW: This episode contains discussion of mental health, depression and suicide. Giant Walker guitarist Jamie Southern joins Spinning the Wax to play one of his all-time favorite records: Soundgarden's "Superunknown" The band is a huge influence on Giant Walker, which is evident to anyone who listens to them. We chat about the identity crisis Chris Cornell had while writing the record,...

Today we're listening to Illinois death metal, courtesy of Illinois death metal! Aaren Pantke, vocalist and guitarist of MOLDER brings on IMPETIGO's 1992 album "Horror of the Zombies," a "quintessential" record he calls the "epitome of all things fun, gross, extreme and over the top, yet refined and listenable." We dive into his love of horror and death metal,...

Bec Thorwesten, bad bitch and vocalist of Melbourne, Australia's Terminal Sleep stops by the show to listen to Linkin Park's massive debut record "Hybrid Theory." It's responsible for turning countless kids onto heavy music, and we discuss who we were half a lifetime ago, the perfection of Chester Bennington's voice and how the album still generates feelings no matter how long it's been since last...

Enrique Sagarnaga, drummer for Philadelphia metal bands Crypt Sermon, Daeva, The Silver, and Head of PR at Relapse Records, brings on the criminally underrated Iron Maiden album "Dance of Death" Enrique shares how much Maiden's music has meant to him throughout his life, and the surprising amount of positive and uptempo songs on this record helped get him through turbulent times. While this album...