The Great Metal Debate Podcast

In this interview recorded May 13, 2023, Xander talks with singer Chaney Crabb from deathcore tech-proggers Entheos during their tour stop in Nashville TN opening for Whitechapel! Excerpts from the Entheos track "Absolute Zero" (Time Will Take Us All, 2023) used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/...

Xander checks in with vocalist Alex Paul from New Zealand slamming brutal death metal outfit Organectomy during their tour stop in Atlanta GA as they traverse North America opening for Ingested! Excepts from the Organectomy track "The Third Mutation" (Nail Below Nail, 2022) used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feed...

In this interview Xander talks with metal upstarts Narthex during their recent performance at Springwater Supper Club in Nashville TN! Excepts from the Narthex track "Witch King" (Witch King EP, 2022) used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:66031413/sounds.rss https://www.yo...

Welcome back metalheads to another episode of the great metal debate podcast. It's your man Xander again and today the Swedish thrash metal band Mezzrow has finally released their second album titled Summon Thy Demons. This long awaited release on Fireflash Records has much better production quality and it is instantly noticeable during the first song "King of the Infinite Void". Gone are the days...

Welcome back to another Metal Debate album review. Today we’re reviewing the new album “Dreams Of Lands Unseen” by Ignea. Ignea are a symphonic metal band from Ukraine. The material fits in the general mold of symphonic metal, but Ignea provide enough musical twists and tangents to keep things fresh and not be too derivative. Following the intro instrumental “Téoura”, Dreams of Lands Unseen opens...

Welcome back metalheads to another episode of the great metal debate podcast. Today, I will be reviewing a new album from the one man dungeon synth project called Midnight Betrothed with his new album Death ... My Faithful Bride. This just might be the first album we have ever reviewed on this channel that most other metalheads probably wouldn't even consider to be metal. There is some guitar work...

Welcome back to another episode of The Great Metal Debate podcast. I'm Xander and today we are looking at the debut album from Haliphron titled Prey. This symphonic blackened death metal band from The Netherlands has given us a new modern art masterpiece. This band may have clearly been inspired by old school acts but I assure you that they have still managed to produce stellar content that doesn'...

In this interview Xander talks with Decrepit Birth frontman Bill Robinson at the band's tour stop in Atlanta opening for Vader. Excerpts from the Decrepit Birth track "Vortex of Infinity... Axis Mundi" (Axis Mundi, 2017) used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:66031413/sound...

Xander interviews Dan Ratanasit from Malformity at the band's performance in Atlanta GA opening for Suffocation! Excerpts from the Malformity track "Perverse Apotheosis" (Monumental Ruin, 2021) used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:66031413/sounds.rss https://www.youtube.c...

Welcome to The Great Metal Debate podcast. Today we are talking about the Brazilian black metal band known as Outlaw with their new album Reaching Beyond Assiah. These guys have a slightly melodic sound to their guitar riffs but I guess not enough to be classified as such. According to the metal-archives, they are a three piece group that formed in 2015 with two other full-length studio albums. Th...

In this interview recorded on March 11, 2023, Gomthog talks with guitarist Markus Vanhala of Omnium Gatherum on the band's stop in Joliet IL on their tour across North America supporting Eluveitie! Excerpts from the track "Slasher" (Omnium Gatherum, 2023) used with permission from Century Media. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feeds.soundcloud.com...

Welcome back metalheads to another episode of The Great Metal Debate podcast. It's me Xander again and today I'm going to be talking about the Finnish goregrind band known as Torsofuck and their new album Postpartum Exstasy - the band's first album in 19 years! In the year 2004, I was between the ages of 12 and 13 years old. At this time in my life, the heaviest bands that I knew of were: Slipknot...

Welcome to another episode of The Great Metal Debate podcast. It's your man Xander again back with another album review. Today we will be looking at the brand new album from the melodic funeral doom metal band from Athens, Greece called Ocean of Grief with their 2nd studio release titled Pale Existence. Some of my favorite melodic death metal bands include Agalloch and Be'lakor while my favorite f...

Welcome back metal heads to another episode of The Great Metal Debate podcast. I'm Xander and today we are going to be looking at the new album from Scottish death metalers Man Must Die titled The Pain Behind It All. This is the band's fifth studio album but it is their first album in 10 years! Their previous album Peace Was Never An Option came out all the way back in 2013. I think that Man Must...

Kalevala have a new album released this year – the seventh full-length of their career – entitled “Пляска Святого Вита.” As is typical for releases that excite me, I can’t help but go through this one track by track to share my thoughts… The opening song “Гори по полной!” begins softly but quickly ramps up the pressure, especially when the accordion kicks in. All elements work together perfectly o...

Welcome back metalheads to another episode of The Great Metal Debate Podcast. I'm Xander and today we are going to be talking about an underground metal band from Joplin, Missouri called Gravehuffer. I was granted early access to review this new album titled ... Depart from So Much Evil a full month before it's February 17th release date. According to metal-archives, the genre is a mix between thr...

Welcome back metal heads to another episode of the great metal debate podcast. I'm Xander and today we are going to be talking about a local blackened death metal band from Nashville Tennessee called Act of Impalement. This is the band's sophomore album titled Infernal Ordinance. I was first introduced to this band a couple months ago when they played a live show when my friends in the band Storm...

Welcome back to another episode of Metal Debate podcast with the new release by French technical deathcore band Solar Eruption with their debut The Demon's House. If you are a fan of a band like Shadow of Intent, this is definitely for you. "Red Room" is the name of the crushing first track on this album. Right away we are thrown into rapid fire blast beats and fast vocal delivery. There is a slig...

Welcome back to The Great Metal Debate podcast. Today we’re reviewing the album from German metal act Atrocity - their newest release Okkult III. For my money, Okkult III is a solid metal album with a great mix of tracks. Short of perfection, but still pretty badass. As an overview, I’d categorize the songs on Okkult III as falling into three general camps – those that are more traditional death m...

Welcome metalheads to the first album review of 2023. I'm Xander and today we are talking about the brand new album from German funeral doom metal band Ahab titled The Coral Tombs which was released on January 13th via Napalm Records. The first single for this album was "Colossus of the Liquid Graves". Napalm Records uploaded that claymation music video that gives us a motion picture glance of the...

Xander interviews the guys from atmospheric black metal act Storm Ritual following their performance in Nashville TN on December 10, 2022. Excerpts from the Storm Ritual track "Follow The Flies" (Follow The Flies demo, 2021) used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal-debate-podcast/id1037874814 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:66031413/s...

In this year-end episode, Xander and Gomthog count down their lists of top 15 metal albums 2022. Intro music by CONTRA; intro voice by Veronica Ortiz Rodriguez. The songs “Tormented By Atrocities” by Castrator (Defiled In Oblivion, 2022) and “Forgotten Iceburgs” by Depressive Witches (Distant Kingdoms, 2022) each used with permission from the artist. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/great-metal...

In this episode Xander Gomthog reviews recent concerts and talk what’s coming up in 2023! Intro/outro music by CONTRA; intro voice by Veronica Ortiz Rodriguez. The tracks “War Gnomes” by Adavant (The Mystic And The Mountain, 2023), “Silhouettes Of Horror” by Hyperia (Silhouettes Of Horror, 2022), and “Let Him Be Crucified” by Blasphemer (The Sixth Hour, 2020) each used with permission from the art...

In this episode Gomthog reviews recent concerts with Accept / Narcotic Wasteland in Nashville and Sabaton / Epica in Cincinnati! Intro/outro music by CONTRA; intro voice by Veronica Ortiz Rodriguez. The tracks “Forge Your Destiny” by Aftertime (Infinite Legacy, 2021), “Dragon Saga” by Dark Legion (God Of Harvest, 2022), and “The Oath” by Gloryful (Cult Of Sedna, 2019) each used with permission fro...

I'm Xander and today we are going to be talking about a slamming Deathcore band called Nitheful with their crushing sophomore album The Creation Ov God. This band sounds like one long continuum of the breakdown from the song "Blasphemeon" by Infant Annihilator. Imagine if that one breakdown never ended and just kept going and going and going. I can't go any further into this review without mention...