Temple of Bleh

https://linktr.ee/TempleOfBleh We open with the outcome of the outreach programme, with Dave having listened to Periphery, and Shab having listened to Amon Amarth. After that opening salvoy of devastation, we loosely move into a discussion about the industry trend of censoring individuals as opposed to products/brands.

https://linktr.ee/TempleOfBleh https://www.metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse/ Violence Unimagined out on April 16th - check the pre-order offer from Metal Blade Records, now! Taking a (brief) break from the History of Roadrunner Records, Paul Mazurkiewicz takes a visit to the Temple of Bleh to talk about the new Cannibal Corpse album - 'Violence Unimagined', Morrisound Studios, and more!

@TempleOfBleh | Linktree Home | Mysite (dgk-art-editions.com) IndoGolf.com - Everything Golf in Wonderful Indonesia - About Us In this audio-only episode, I have the honour of speaking with Roadrunner's first ever employee, Dennis Kloeth. As part of his long and varied career, Dennis worked at Roadrunner for around a year as the first PR staff member at the Willemsparkweg office in Amsterdam....

https://linktr.ee/TempleOfBleh After a tedious message to new listeners, we talk about Nergal's attempt to evade further blasphemy litigation through Ordo Blasphemia, and the wider shitty implications of satanism in music. Dave and Shab commit to listening to some of each other's favourite bands. Then we spend ages trying to articulate our current bearings on modern metalcore.

https://www.instagram.com/templeofbleh/ https://twitter.com/TempleOfBleh This is possibly one of my favourite chats so far - for reasons that I go into in the intro. A man of many talents, Stefan's most prolific role during his time at Roadrunner was perhaps as the Head of International Marketing from the 90's up to 2001. He is possibly the most well-travelled Roadrunner alumni, working in...

Temple of Bleh and Uber Rock join forces to bring you a whistle stop tour of four bands who wear the 'lesser heard' tag. These are bands that are either unsigned or generally lurk in the underground at the moment, so we want to turn the spotlight and roll out the red carpet for today's cryptic offerings; RobaJett offers Dream Troll Justin offers AlleHackbar Raw offers Leeched Jonny off...

We open with an apology.... for omitting the best YouTube guitar show from our discussion last week. We'll never forgive ourselves, so hopefully you lot will. Another zero news week on the Bleh-genda, so this is way more of a ramble.

Shab and I discuss one of the most ridiculous and hilarious categories of the late 00's post-hardcore scene - Crabcore. We also go all over the shop trying to get a firm foundation on YouTube guitarists, and share experiences with music-themed cinema.

Definitely the MVP for the 'History of' Chapter I video, Dave King sings for the NWOBHM band BattleAxe. Here he tells be the history of the band and it's recent resurrection, and of course, the Roadrunner years. https://battleaxeuk.com/ There was a bit of technical fluffery and connection issues with this one, so do bear with us.

This week Shab drags us into the illegal and nefarious underbelly of some musical scenes, much to everyone's discomfort. We also peruse through some underground upcoming releases, and discuss the more recent events.

IRD was effectively the warehouse floor for all metal indies in the 1980's, and Roadrunner was no exception. Alan talks me through IRD's beginnings as an indie label distributor and all the way through the company's relationship with Roadrunner Records.

Jim Saliby is another guest with a varied and exciting career, with his fingerprints all over the best hard rock/metal outputs of the last 30 years. Jim regales me with tales of how he started at Roadrunner, and what it was like being the face of the label during it's explosion in the early-mid 90's. He was also at the Disco Demolition gathering in Detroit which I reference in Chapter I of...

Temple of Bleh and Uber Rock join forces to bring you a whistle stop tour of four bands who wear the 'lesser heard' tag. These are bands that are either unsigned or generally lurk in the underground at the moment, so we want to turn the spotlight and roll out the red carpet for today's cryptic offerings; RobaJett offers Video Nasties Raw offers Forlorn Hope Justin offers Sky Valley Mis...

In this chat, Richard and I try and uncover exactly how Carnivore got signed to Roadrunner Records. Along the way we talk about Richard's long and varied career in music, film and photography - and his ongoing relationship with Pete Steele from his Fallout days. Richard has some new music out, featuring Fallout guitarist John Campos - check it out here; https://richardtermini.hearnow.com/

This episode we Shab and I try and make the best of this week's lacklustre news. But the main feature this week is a deep dive on the Appleknockers Flophouse anecdote from the History of Roadrunner Records doc. It's quite the rabbit hole, and I'm not quite sure I'll ever be the same again.

In this episode I corner Brian Slagel and force him into a conversation about a label other than his own. It's a really good chat about Metal Blade's long and productive relationship with Roadrunner, the difficulty with the Japanese metal market, with a little bit of underwater hockey thrown in at the end for good measure! Check out Brian's book "For the Sake of Heaviness", for...

Given that today (27th Feb 2021) is Roadrunner's 40th birthday (see documentary for more context) - I thought it prudent to celebrate such an occasion with some of the key contributors to Chapter I of the 'History of', and also it made sense to try and get as much of the Amsterdam office back in the same room together - this is the best I could do. Please allow me to re-introduce; Meta...

Happy Birthday Roadrunner Records - 27th February 1981 First of three chapters. Bibliography - [https://www.templeofbleh.com/post/history-of-roadrunner-chapter-i-1980-1986-bibliography] Written and Produced by @RobaJett Exec Produced by @youtube.com/user/TheFinalCut All music composed by both, with the exception of the 'Appleknockers Flophouse' cover at the end, which was recorded by us -...

TheFinalCut (Shab) and Jim's friend Tom joins the pod today to talk about this week's lacklustre news, and the Nic Cage film, Colour Out Of Space.

This week Raw takes me down the long and tedious road which is Darkthrone's discography. We also tally about some of this weeks metal news and releases, and fall into a discussion about examples of artists and songs who have acted cynically.

This week we go all over the shop. Crowd funding ventures for Paul Di'Anno and Crobar, an education in belt heirarchy in ju-jitsu, and the 'politics in music' debate. Also Jim's mate Tom comes on to talk about Nic Cage's "Drive Angry".

Ed Van Zijl started his career at Bertus Distribution in 1982 before moving to the Roadrunner Records Amsterdam office in 1985. In this episode, Ed casts a light on the infancy of the company, as well as Cees' thinking behind the day-to-day running of the label. You can check out the Mascot Label Group's roster of artists at https://www.mascotlabelgroup.com/.

In this episode I close the chapter on The Great Kat (for now). Tom Von Doom was Kat's bass player for the 'Worship Me or Die!' period. Tom was kind enough to tell me the story of the album cycle from his perspective, as well as his relationship with Kat. If you've seen the mini-doc I did on Kat a few weeks ago, Tom should be a familiar face. You can find Tom @TomVonDoom on Faceboo...

Raw returns from his sabbatical in Panama this week to try and change the podcast to a more "trumpet jazz" direction. Also featured is his disdain for Ozzy Osbournes career trajectory, and Dungeon Synth. In the latter half - Tom and Jim talk about Nic Cage's psychedelic grindhouse film, Mandy.

This conversation is with Richard Bengloff - former CFO for Sony Music, and in the narrative of Roadrunner Records, former CFO for RED, the distribution company for Roadrunner in the 80's/90's. We talk about Richard's memories of dealing with Roadrunner, and he also gives me a comprehensive introduction into how the distribution/retail side of the record business works. This episode is...