Your Music Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad

Matt and Blake catch up on band news that is JUST AS INTERESTING NOW as it was when it happened 6 months ago, which is why you still want to watch / listen to this episode. Deep philosophical questions are tackled like when should bands retire? Why are they bothering to go on with a bunch of randos who they don't let do stuff? Which band is this about? Only one way to find out!

Matt and Blake review Blood Incantation "Absolute Elsewhere" and Avantasia "Here Be Dragons". One is good and one is bad. Can you guess which? YOU CANNOT. Or you can. It doesn't matter.

Matt and Blake force themselves to listen to The Stars Over Eternity or The Skies Above Eternity or The Skies Over Insanity whatever the second Fellowship album is called. They've been described as "single handedly keeping power metal alive" which is possibly the saddest thing ever said about power metal. RIP power metal.

Jeff Loomis and Van Williams reunite to form Nevermore 2.0 (Warrel's dead and Jeff wasn't invited) and hold open internet auditions for a new singer and bass player. Matt and Blake discuss what this could lead to and what the chances are it produces anything musically interesting. If nothing else it will definitely produce CONTENT.

Matt and Blake review Dream Theater's new album "Parasomnia" aka "Nocturnal Emissions" aka "Mike Portnoy's CPAP Machine". Its a concept album exploring how quickly Dream Theater can put you to sleep by playing riffs they've recycled so many times you're not sure if its an intentional quote of their own work or if they're just still deeply out of ideas. Fans (nobody) have been clamoring for an epis...

Matt is joined by Brooks Rocco to discuss their experience seeing BEAT - 80s King Crimson reunion / tribute featuring Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Zappa, Talking Heads) and Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Liquid Tension Experiment) as well as Danny Carey (Tool) and Steve Vai (Steve Vai).

Episode 88 Is Opeth BACK or is Mike just dumping his last good ideas? Do we love the album concept or are we annoyed that the song titles are a character I don't know how to type? Does this prog metal album achieve the jazz? None of these questions and more on this episode of Your Music Is Bad ...And You Should Feel Bad. Find us on Bluesky: Matt - @theonetruematt.bsky.social Blake - @buffalo70.bsk...

Adrian Belew and Tony Levin of King Crimson enlist Danny Carey (Tool) and Steve Vai (Steve Vai) to play the 80s King Crimson albums "Discipline", "Beat" and "Three of a Perfect Pair" Matt and Blake discuss this unique period of King Crimson's music and their first exposure to it

No funny title 'cause we didn't really think this album was very bad. What are we even doing here? Do you even want to listen to this podcast if we LIKE albums? Is there any point if we aren't hating on things? Why do I ask so many questions in the episode descriptions? This album came out in June but you want to hear what we think of it NOW! Except we also recorded what we thought of it in June s...

Matt and Blake discuss the long awaited Time II by Wintersun. They discuss the many rounds of crowdfunding, why there was a Time I in the first place and whether the album lives up to the hype. But most importantly, could Jari have made this album without a sauna?

Matt tells Blake about his unexpected trip to see Sonic Symphony featuring Ty Christian of Lords of the Trident on vocals. Also why this occurred because of Threads, the Twitter of Facebook. A surprisingly positive episode. Apologies to our regular listeners, someone will definitely dislike something on the next one.

In this episode, Matt and Blake discuss three new albums: Evergrey's 'Theories of Emptiness,' Unleash the Archers' 'Phantoma' and Lords of the Trident's 'The VGEP. The hosts discuss the use of AI in music and the challenges of creating concept albums about AI.

This is about music, really. It just happens to involve a lot of talk about video games. The Gamers are mad at Ludwig Goransson for comments made in his acceptance speech for his Academy Award for Best Original Score. Ludwig's done a lot of great work, what have video games ever done?

Matt and Blake review and discuss Judas Priest's latest album "Invincible Shield" After a strong reception for "Firepower" can Judas Priest maintain such a high level of quality at this stage in their career? And does it also sound like Painkiller?

Matt and Blake discuss Jeff's departure from Arch Enemy and discuss the history of Nevermore, and why Blake doesn't like them and also why he's wrong We also discuss Jeff's work post-Nevermore and why him leaving Arch Enemy is good news for everybody who likes non-boring music Rumors of Jeff & Van playing together again are discussed but will be covered in more detail in Part 2 (the next episo...

Matt has an unhinged theory about the parallels and differences between SynthWave, VaporWave and Dungeon Synth Do you think it’s accurate? Let us know or just tell us your favorite artist of these genres in the comments We read all of them because it sends them to my phone

Your Music Is Bad Episode 77 We listen to Winger's new record "Seven" as well as their "classic" 90s album "Pull" which they will be performing in its entirety while headlining ProgPower USA in 2024 Matt and Blake attempt to unravel the more mature themes and lyrics on these albums as well as the extremely 80s not-so-mature ones, which are also definitely still there Is Pain of Salvation influence...

Your Music Is Bad Episode 78 - Settle Down, Scardust! Matt and Blake stumbled onto Scardust on YouTube, and while they are a perfectly competent symphonic prog metal band, they are very annoying and also their music is bad. Matt Lee and Blake Robertson stumbled onto Israeli symphonic prog metal band Scardust While not reading too much into their song about taming the land or whatever (yikes) but f...

Rush Rumors - Who Will Drum? Jay Weinberg, Mike Mangini, Mike Portnoy, who could possibly fill in for the late great Neil Peart and who has the best SEO? Blake and Matt discuss in Episode 76 of Your Music Is Bad ...And You Should Feel Bad

Your Music Is Bad Ep 75 Matt and Blake review Angra's new album, Cycles of Pain as well as comment on the Angra album ranking by Dolphin Whisperer on AngryMetalGuy.com AMG Ranking: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/amg-goes-ranking-angra/

Is Disco Metal A Thing? | Dragonforce, Amaranthe, Nanowar of Steel and Edge of Paradise on tour Matt and Blake classify the new Dragonforce, Amaranthe, Nanowar of Steel and Edge of Paradise tour as Disco Metal for very good and non-arbitrary reasons. It is educational for everyone.

Matt and Blake discuss Mike Portnoy's return to Dream Theater. Do they need money? Will it make their next album good? We may never know.

Episode 72 - Matt and Blake suffer through 43 different covers of Toto's seminal hit Africa and try to come up with criteria such that this never happens again

Episode 71 - Matt and Blake discuss how quickly Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) starts acting like Kiko Loureiro (ex-Angra) isn't coming back from his personal time off, because fill in guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari (Wintersun) is probably cheaper We also see what Angra and Edu Falaschi are up to these days.

Full review of Fellowship's album Saberlight Chronicles as well as reactions to some of Fellowship's music videos. For fans of Dragonforce and Rhapsody who want something less good than those bands, but from musicians who still believe in themselves or whatever. We also discuss Ty Christian's cover of their song "Glint". Ty is the lead singer of Lords of the Trident who host Mad With Power Fest wh...