The State of the Scene (SOTS Podcast)

Sam and Marcos debate upon the nominees for Best Music Video, Rock Performance, Metal Performance, Vocal Performance, and Artist of 2024. Vote Now: https://www.sotspodcast.com/awards Become a Patron to gain early access and exclusive benefits! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sotspodcast Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jp0fpudUz7gvu0SFaXhK3?si=6cddbd5b63564c9a Youtube: https://www.you...

Sam and Marcos debate upon the nominees for Best Live Performance, EP/Mixtape, Lyricist, and Pop Performance of 2024. Vote Now: https://www.sotspodcast.com/awards Become a Patron to gain early access and exclusive benefits! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sotspodcast Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jp0fpudUz7gvu0SFaXhK3?si=6cddbd5b63564c9a Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sotspodcas...

Sam and Marcos debate upon the nominees for Best Collaboration, Best Debut Full Length, Rising Artist, and Emotional Performance of 2024. Vote Now: https://www.sotspodcast.com/awards Become a Patron to gain early access and exclusive benefits! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sotspodcast Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jp0fpudUz7gvu0SFaXhK3?si=6cddbd5b63564c9a Youtube: https://www.you...

This week Sam and Marcos talk new music and album announcements from Spiritbox, Architects, Memphis May Fire, Coheed And Cambria, Killswitch Engage, and Bury Tomorrow plus Three Days Grace first new song with Adam Gontier and lots more! News: My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, and Knocked Loose starting at (02:28). New Music: Architects, Spiritbox, Coheed And Cambria, Bury Tomorrow, Memphis May Fir...

This week Sam and Marcos review new albums from Linkin Park and Poppy, plus My Chemical Romance announce the Long Live The Black Parade Tour, Sleep Token to headline Download Festival 2025 (and drop new album???), Ticketmaster is a plague on society, Void of Vision call it a day and lots more! News: My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Download Festival, Void of Vision and more starting...

This week Sam and Marcos discuss the 2025 Grammy nominations for Knocked Loose, Spiritbox, Alpha Wolf and more, Chiodos announce a 20th anniversary tour, The Ghost Inside cancel their fall tour, As I Lay Dying's ongoing disaster, plus new music from State Champs, Counterparts, Starset, The Plot In You, If Not For Me and lots more! News: Grammy Nominations for Rock and Metal, Chiodos, The Ghost Ins...

This week Sam and Marcos discuss the 2025 When We Were Young Festival lineup, somehow Panic! at the Disco return, Linkin Park are already working on new music, Ghost ban cellphones at all their upcoming shows, My Chemical romance returned 5 years ago, plus we talk new albums from Make Them Suffer, Chase Atlantic, Cane Hill and lots more! News: When We Were Young Fest, Panic! at the Disco, Linkin P...

This week Sam and Marcos discuss Linkin Park's continued success, Ice Nine Kills highest charting single, Sonic Temple's 2025 lineup, age restricted concerts, Megan Thee Stallion teams up with Spiritbox again, the return of a masked Hollywood Undead, Cult of the Lamb's new metal EP, plus new music from Fit For An Autopsy, Halsey, Sleep Theory and lots more! News: Ice Nine Kills, Linkin Park, My Ch...

This week Sam and Marcos discuss the return of the Vans Warped Tour, Sick New World's 2025 lineup, Bad Omens massive performance at Mayhem Festival, Awsten Knight's update for Waterpark's fans, Sum 41 ending, Linkin Park dominating the charts with a classic, When We Were Young Festival's exclusive merch, new music from Silverstein, Underoath, Bloodywood, Real Friends, Nothing,Nowhere and lots more...

This week Sam and Marcos breakdown the new Terrifier inspired single from Ice Nine Kills, talk Bad Omens, Poppy, and Wage War submitting for Grammy consideration, Green Day dropping a toothbrush that plays Dookie, The All-American Rejects dropping off When We Were Young Festival for reasons, plus new music from Make Them Suffer, Memphis May Fire, Scowl, and lots more! News: Bad Omens, Poppy, Wage...

This week Sam and Marcos talk Spiritbox taking over the scene once again, Three Days Grace reuniting with old vocalist Adam Gontier, 20 years of In Love & Death, new music from Coheed and Cambria, Stick To Your Guns, and Knosis, plus someone has a copyright on Blegh, review of the new album from Allt, and lots more! News: Spiritbox, Poppy, Jinjer, Three Days Grace, Nothing,Nowhere, The Used and mo...

This week Sam and Marcos talk Linkin Park's heavy new single, Paramore's politics, Bad Omens and Sleep Token getting knighted, 20 years of American Idiot, if you're allowed to go to concerts if you don't know any of the band's songs, plus we review the new album from Rain City Drive and lots more! News: Linkin Park, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Paramore, Fever 333, Green Day and more starting at (02:16...

This week Sam and Marcos talk MORE rumors of Warped Tour's return, Veil of Maya go on hiatus, songs for "the bedroom," a new TikTok trend called "encores," new music from Beartooth, Poppy, RedHook, TSS, plus a review of the new album from Void of Vision and more! News: Warped Tour, Veil of Maya, Being As An Ocean, When We Were Young Festival, and more starting at (00:42). New Music: Poppy, Beartoo...

This week Sam and Marcos talk rumors of Warped Tour's return, Paramore working on new music, Linkin Park continued controversy and success, new songs from Underoath, Whitechapel, Jinjer and more plus review the new album from Kublai Khan TX! News: Warped Tour, Underoath, Whitechapel, Jinjer, Knocked Loose, Zebra and more starting at (38:09).  Reviews: Kublai Khan TX starting at (1:18:21). What We'...

This week Sam and Marcos talk big news from Linkin Park including new singer Emily Armstrong, new single The Emptiness Machine, new album From Zero, and lots more! Plus our thoughts on new releases from Fame On Fire, Blink-182, and Future Place! News: Linkin Park at (1:51). Reviews: Fame On Fire starting at (50:40). What We've Been Listening To: Future Palace and Blink-182 starting at (1:10:00) Be...

This week Sam and Marcos talk Valkyrae's jump to metalcore, the Bad Omens merch deemed too explicit, new music from State Champs, Chase Atlantic, and Silverstein plus a review of Sundiver by Boston Manor, our thoughts on new albums from Marianas Trench, To The Grave, and Oceano plus lots more! Intro Topics: As it is reunion(?), Sid Wilson of Slipknot's accident, new Motionless in White album, new...

This week Sam and Marcos review new releases from Stand Atlantic and Thrown! Reviews: Stand Atlantic (1:24) and Thrown (15:56). Become a Patron to gain early access and exclusive benefits! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sotspodcast Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jp0fpudUz7gvu0SFaXhK3?si=6cddbd5b63564c9a Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sotspodcastYT Discord: https://discord.com/in...

This week Sam and Marcos talk a possible return of Linkin Park, Fever 333 announced their new album, Marianas Trench might be really good, Vic Fuentes is having another kid, Slipknot sells out Madison Square Garden, we review new releases from Jeris Johnson and Miss May I and lots more! News: Make Them Suffer, Kublai Khan TX, Real Friends, The Oral Cigarettes, House of Protection, and more startin...

This week Sam and Marcos talk Make Them Suffer's long awaited new album, Hayley Williams sharing an SOTS post, Oli Sykes confirms Post Human 3, should camping for concerts be illegal, House of Protection drop music video of the year(?), a review of the new album from Siamese and lots more! News: Make Them Suffer, Kublai Khan TX, Real Friends, The Oral Cigarettes, House of Protection, and more star...

This week Sam and Marcos talk Gojira's metal as hell performance at the Olympics, MGK and Jelly Roll serving up some country goodness, Waterparks cancel their new album, seeing Blink-182 and Pierce The Veil at Citi Field, My Chemical Romance Facebook page was hacked, a review of the new Four Year Strong album and lots more! News: MGK, Jelly Roll, Waterparks, Fit For An Autopsy, Better Lovers, Cane...

My Chemical Romance leaked song and shelved album? Sam and Marcos are on the case! Enjoy an episode of SOTS Deluxe free this week and join the Patreon for access to all our deluxe episodes and more! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sotspodcast --- Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jp0fpudUz7gvu0SFaXhK3?si=6cddbd5b63564c9a Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sotspodcastYT Discord: https://...

This week Sam and Marcos talk new music from One Ok Rock, The Maine, Mayday Parade, Ice Nine Kills and more, review new albums from The Home Team and Windwaker, plus we went to the Northlane tour in Boston and lots more! News: One Ok Rock, The Maine, Mayday Parade, Ice Nine Kills, Miss May I and more starting at (33:25). Reviews: The Home Team (1:02:13) and Windwaker (1:16:12). Become a Patron to...

This week Sam and Marcos take Machine Gun Kelly (sad version), Waterparks breaking free of Fueled By Ramen, stage invasions, King For A Day goes double platinum, Starset fight AI with AI, review new albums from Speed and In Hearts Wake plus lots more! News: Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud, Waterparks, Starset and more starting at (27:45). Reviews: Speed (49:32) and In Hearts Wake (57:45). Become a Pat...

This week Sam and Marcos are back to talk expensive vinyl, Dave Grohl vs Taylor Swift, review new albums from Bilmuri, Nothing,Nowhere, and Scene Queen plus new music from Palace Royale, Loveless, Badflower, Magnolia Park and more! News: Palace Royale, Badflower, Loveless, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, Magnolia Park, Real Friends and more starting at (34:16). Reviews: Bilmuri (1:07:34), Scene Q...

This week Sam and Marcos are back to talk big budget music videos from Twenty One Pilots and Bring Me The Horizon, Travis Barker's $1000 Meet and Greet, Poppy teaming up with Jordan Fish, Matty Mullins fronting Anberlin, Fever 333 dropping a hot new single, plus reviews of new albums from Wage War and The Story So Far and lots more! News: Twenty One Pilots, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Fever 333,...