Podcasts

[The Butcher]

Alan and Addi (from Sólstafir) dissecting every Metallica album in order was a great two part natter. Geeky, interesting and fun.

Yeah watched it on youtube, good watch, Addi really couldn't bring himself to criticise St.Anger it's the discussion every metalhead has at some point but still peaks our interests. Will be interesting to see if Metallica go until about 2030 and then call it quits.

[ldj]

Alan and Addi (from Sólstafir) dissecting every Metallica album in order was a great two part natter. Geeky, interesting and fun.

Yep enjoyed those as well, his episodes with Joe from Gama Bomb are great craic too.

[nukeabuse]

Only listened to the immolation episode of this and prob only a few other episodes I would be bothered in. But might be few episodes of interest to most of yous.

Going through classic roadrunner albums one per episode discussing it with either a band member, producer etc.

It's called meep meep. (Roadrunner, meep meep? Took me a minute)

Can't vouch for the rest but the dawn of possession episode was v good. Ross and Robert talking about recording in Berlin just after the fall of the Berlin wall.

[Slaughterday]

Great shout on the roadrunner podcast. Immolation episode is great, what a fuckin legendary band.

There's a few cool albums on that list of episodes but Jesus Christ the amount of absolute scutter that label has released is astounding.

[nukeabuse]

The immolation guys seem like down to earth guys with still a genuine passion for music. Which I assume is rare that late into a career.

Each band member has been releasing a Spotify playlist atm in anticipation of the new album that are worth checking out, was surprised to see a lot of new underground bands included in each of them.

Had big hopes when the podcast description said 'classic roadrunner albums', they did one for code orange which I wouldn't  exactly call a classic album.

[Necro Red]

Alan and Addi (from Sólstafir) dissecting every Metallica album in order was a great two part natter. Geeky, interesting and fun.

I loved the first part, may watch the second during the week. The Averill podcasts are decent, the ones I've listened to anyway.

[Pentagrimes]

Catching up on the Radical Research podcast this morning - fantastic show covering the weirder/proggier history of underground metal. They'll pick a band or artist and do a comprehensive lookback on their work - listening to the Supuration episode this morning, having just finished the Solefald one. It'll make you check out a lot of bands you probably ignored.

[StoutAndAle]

A lot of podcasts - particularly the Acast ones - seem to be moving more and more towards paid platforms.

I've been a Sticher (formerly HowlFM and and before that EarWolf) subscriber for over a decade. It was pretty reasonable at €35 a year for ad-free versions of WTF with Marc Maron, "The Comedian's Comedian", "Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend", "Rivals" and loads more with access to series archives for free too.

All these shows are behind separate paywalls now - so my subscription paid through til April next year gets me fuck all.

Now Maron's podcast is $3 a month for an ad free version and $5 for the archives.

Richard Herring's show is the same - between £5 and £8 depending on the tier.

The Tommy and Hector podcast has been behind a paywall for ages - some people saying that the quality has diminished since they split the episodes. I'm still on 2021's offerings so I dunno.

I guess the +30 and -15 seconds buttons will be getting a lot more use.

[open face surgery]

Ya, the spark has gone out of Tommy and Hector a bit.

[Slaughterday]

Catching up on the Radical Research podcast this morning - fantastic show covering the weirder/proggier history of underground metal. They'll pick a band or artist and do a comprehensive lookback on their work - listening to the Supuration episode this morning, having just finished the Solefald one. It'll make you check out a lot of bands you probably ignored.

Yeah this podcast is a great find. Definitely went back to a few albums I had ignored over the years.

[StoutAndAle]

Ya, the spark has gone out of Tommy and Hector a bit.

Just about caught up on the THL podcast and the craic has definitely gone missing.

There were three episodes recently where entire 8 minute segments turned out to be nothing more than dynamic advert insertion (I read about this term a while back - canny fuckers) for Centra/GAA Tickets, the Guinness Nitro Surge yoke and Westworld/NowTV. The first one caught me off guard but it quickly became obvious. The other ones - they're clearly reading a script and trying to "Tommy & Hector" it.

Also - Christ almighty - Laurita Blewitt has become absolute torture to listen to!

A shame because it was genuinely one of the best podcasts around during lockdown etc.

[Caomhaoin]

It's a pity for sure, I was recommending it left right and centre for a while there in 2020/21, but lads if they haven't overdone it with the PAY FOR THE OTHER EPISODE etc.

[Bürggermeister]

Catching up on the Radical Research podcast this morning - fantastic show covering the weirder/proggier history of underground metal. They'll pick a band or artist and do a comprehensive lookback on their work - listening to the Supuration episode this morning, having just finished the Solefald one. It'll make you check out a lot of bands you probably ignored.

This is fucking class.

[Eoin McLove]

https://youtu.be/H_szemxPcTI

Great discussion here between Lex Fridman and Rick Rubin. I want expecting much but I'm finding Rubin to be an interesting, articulate and genuine dude.

[open face surgery]

Listened to it a few weeks back. Good stuff alright.