Your Music Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad

Mercyful Fate - Night of the Unborn Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance Queensryche - Queen of the Reich Crimson Glory - Mayday Mystic Force - Man Made Master Lost Horison - Transdimensional Revelation / Pure Unleash the Archers - Tonight We Ride Lords of the Trident - Kill to Die American Empire - Unbreakable co-hosts Rich and Eric

Luckily only the first three songs / "videos" were available when we recorded this. New album "Hardwired ... to Self Destruct" available now on Napster. w/Rich and Eric

Prog Metal @ DROM: Infinite Spectrum Edensong Protean Collective  A Sea Awake --------------- The Living Earth Show Album Release Concert + XXXtreme Microtonal Shredfest https://nationalsawdust.org/event/new-amsterdam-presents-the-living-earth-shows-album-release-concert-xxxtreme-microtonal-shredfest/ http://thelivingearthshow.com/  co-host Rich

We discuss the remaining years of ProgPower USA (XI-XVI) as well as seeing Leprous in New York (w/Earthside, Binary Code and Dissona) w/ Rich and Kyle

PPUSA XVII including: Ghost Ship Octavius Blind Guardian Fates Warning w/John Arch Haken Devin Townsend Project --- also we saw Death Grips co-hosts Rich and Eric

We continue to discuss the first 10 ProgPower USA festivals with particular emphasis on Iced Earth, Sabaton, Fates Warning, and more. w/Kyle, Rod, Sumeet and Kelley

Over the past couple months we collectively went to an assortment of unrelated concerts: Imminent Voiceless Black Crown Initiate Ne Obliviscarus Herbie Hancock Scar Symmetry Shinobi Ninja and many more! w/Rich and Eric

Recorded at ProgPower USA, we discuss the many great and not so great bands we've seen over the years at the festival.  w/Rod, Kyle, Sumeet

Celebrating one year of making you feel bad, join us in criticizing our own guilty pleasure songs! co-hosts Rich and Eric

We attempt to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time by making fun of our Guilty Pleasure songs! How can we like things and criticize them at the same time!? Join us for this impossible madness! We may be guilty, but we feel no shame! co-hosts Rich and Eric

Jamie hears some Prince classics for the first time and we experiment with live streaming Also an update on Matt's Kanye analysis and our reaction to Axl Rose singing for AC/DC Shout out to The Rap Critic ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL3wRHKYmH4vJreoTw28jZQ  ) and his breakdown of Birthday Song by 2 Chainz ft. Kanye: (  https://youtu.be/Xl4IbALb4zg  )

Quick Review of recent Djent show (The Contortionist, Monuments, Painted in Exile) Prince - Some less well known songs we enjoy and why we enjoy some more well known ones less Matt recaps Prince's "Visual Album" Purple Rain co-hosts Rich and Eric

These Are Songs About Butts. w/Jamie Ignao, James Chen, Matt Soares, Ashleigh Walsh

Avantasia's first time in NYC, April 15th @ The Playstation Theater http://www.infinityconcerts.net/uncategorized/infinity-concerts-presents-avantasia-in-new-york-city/ We listen to Ghostlights for the first time.  

Power Metal fans are wracked with guilt and deeply ashamed. Find out why! w/Jamie Ignao, James Chen, Matt Soares

Die Fledermaus @ The Met Mozart in the Jungle wins some Golden Globes Times Square Jazz & iCadenza JAZZ WOLF VICE Article:  http://www.vice.com/read/an-earnest-exploration-into-the-musical-merit-of-jazz-wolf   Brooklyn Metal Show w/ Pyrrhon, Vomit Fist, Cadaveric Spasm, Replicant MORE JAZZ WOLF co-hosts Rich and Eric

Its Kanye season again, just in time for the Grammys. Co-host Jamie Ignao and special guests Ashleigh Walsh and James Chen

Semblant - (video:  https://youtu.be/QIedr_9_9hA ) Floor Jansen / Nightwish Epica / Mark Jansen Meshuggah Tangent Seven Spires Arch Enemy / The Agonist Unleash the Archers Kamelot, Therion co-hosts Rod & Kelley

Mega-Mall-Core Sacrificing Coolness to Metal Matt recaps Mozart in the Jungle (Season 1 Spoilers) Neurological Study on Music Listening Habits Related to Mental Health  co-hosts Rod and Kelley

Lyric Intelligence in Popular Music Study Rap Vocabulary Study Psychology Study on Personalities of Fans of Various Genres Metal / Classical correlation Co-Hosts Rod and Kelley

LIVE from the 2016 NAMM show in Anaheim, CA. Exciting new products and awkward industry shows. RAMS NAMM Metal Metal Jam Jam feat. Michael Angelo Batio Yngwie Malmsteen @ The Observatory Our Pantera tribute band, Cowboys in Hell, that only plays "Power Metal" and earlier Pantera. (see, they're still IN hell, they haven't left yet to take over your town) w/Special guest Rich's brother Bob.

R.I.P. David Bowie ---- Assessing Music Based on Variable Criteria Dragonforce still sucks Why Everyone Loves Adele co-host Jamie Ignao

King Diamond / Exodus show at the BestBuyNokiaPlaystation Theater. Star Wars / John Williams Braindance @ Santos Party House co-hosts Rich and Eric

Social media drama. Weird public attitudes about music criticism. No Music Everyone Likes and How to Ruin Parties Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Tesseract, Djent or Djent adjacent. New Foo Fighters EP Acknowledging Personal Nostalgia Bias We get it, you like The Beatles and/or Led Zeppelin. co-host Jamie Ignao

Scott Storch is a producer (of beats) who was a pretty big deal in the early to mid '00s. His biggest hit was Fat Joe's "Lean Back" in '06. Then he decided to work with Brooke Hogan and Paris Hilton and do all of the cocaine. Its hard to say whether these were directly connected, but we'll speculate wildly about it for a solid hour before we simply don't want to hear the same Korg Triton presets a...