Episodes
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We were lucky enough to grab some backstage time with Claudio Sanchez–guitarist, lyricist, author, and principal songwriter for Coheed and Cambria and The Prize Fighter Inferno–while he was in Naarm/Melbourne to headline the inaugural run of the recent Monolith Festival.
Claudio chats to us about returning Down Under, the narrative tension between his overarching Amory Wars sci-fi concept storyline and real-life events, capturing the spark of inspiration while fighting against imposter syndrome, and answering questions from an unofficial (and on-the-spot) Reddit AMA thanks to the eager fans of r/TheFence.
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🎥🤖 Owen & Paige kick off this week’s roundup with a discussion on needledrops: the good, the bad, and the AI slop variety. Then we get into the main show with grunge revivalism, a Cali post-hardcore algorithm surprise, a metalcore cybergrind hybrid, and much more. Tap in now to get your fix of new tunes! 🔥🚀
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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With their return Down Under just weeks away, as part of 2024’s incredibly stacked Good Things lineup (Dec 6th-8th), Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher joins the show from the comfort of his basement studio to catch us up to date on the band’s busy schedule.
We discuss their recent Ashes of the Leviathan tour run with Lamb of God, celebrating seminal records in their respective catalogues, while also collaborating on a new single. Bill reflects on the release of 2021’s Hushed and Grim double LP, dissects his creative process, and reveals his not-so-secret vault of dormant riffs.
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➤ Grab tickets to Good Things Festival (Dec 6th-8th) here: https://goodthingsfestival.com.au/event-info
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🕰️💀 Better late than never, amaright? With some new (and temporary) studio accommodations, Owen and Paige dig into another stacked slab of tunes for the week. Norwegian punk, abrasive Floridian post-hardcore, queer Naarm alt-folk, and much more. We’ve sourced nothing but the best from across the globe for your listening pleasure. Dig in! 🌏😎
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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Our guest this week is Allison Watters, a fixture of the Naarm/Melbourne heavy music scene and the creator behind Pulse: a self-published, printed zine focusing exclusively on the work of non-males in both the Australian and global music industries.
Allison & Pulse have teamed up with the WWDOTW crew to collaborate on the upcoming Nightmare Fest line-up, featuring performances from Outright, Gravitate, Stressed, Identity Error, Chapel Hill, Slowburn, Goethe, and Takoba, while also raising funds for Refuge Victoria.
➤ Follow Pulse Zine and grab tickets for the Nightmare Fest Fundraiser @ Stay Gold on Sat Nov 16th here: https://linktr.ee/pulsemag
➤ Support the incredible work of Refuge Victoria here: https://refugevictoria.org.au/
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🔥Here’s our brief chat with Luke Sweeney of Blind Girls and Nic Kuczynski of Frail Body 🔥
Both bands are on the vanguard of their respective screamo/power-violence/post-whatever scenes, and they’re teaming up for an East Coast Australian tour run in January next year with support from Naarm/Melbourne’s Gil Cerrone.
Luke and Nic chat about the challenges of recording new albums in and around the aftermath of the pandemic, touring internationally outside of their comfort zones, and wild tour spots both fun and dismal.
Grab tickets to the 'An Exist Exists' Australia 2025 tour (Jan 15th-25th) here: https://www.destroyalllines.com/tours/blind-girls
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➤ Follow Frail Body here: https://fanlink.tv/frailbody
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🦇🎃 Get it? Two peas in a pod… on the POD pod? Look, we’re doing a belated Halloween thing here. So just, like, go with it, okay? To celebrate the recent end to spooky season, we’ve got a banger haul of tracks, including gothy doom, chilled out gazey alt-rock, catchy Norwegian death-pop, and much more. Oh, did I mention we have costumes? That’s what we’ve BEAN doing. Ahhhhhh!!! 🦇🎃
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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For Perth metalcore juggernaut Make The Suffer, their self-titled fifth album (out November 8th through Greyscale & SharpTone Records) represents a clear reaffirmation of their sonic intent through unrelenting, genre-bending heaviness.
Frontman Sean Harmanis joins the show to chat about touring outside the Western comfort zone, the group’s continued evolution, his creative dynamism with new member, keyboardist, and vocalist Alex Reade, and how the pressure of expectation yielded a daring new chapter in the band’s journey.
Follow Make Them Suffer and pre-order their S/T record here: https://grysclrec.lnk.to/makethemsuffer
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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⁉️ Need new tunes for the week? We’ve got you covered! Paige finds more online manufactured outrage bait, while Owen highlights some scorching new records at the top of the show. We’ve also got metalcore ragers, indie pop crooners, and punk rock barnburners. It’s all happening, folks 🫡
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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For the remaining members of post-hardcore powerhouse Planes Mistaken For Stars, their long-awaited fifth studio album will forever be an open wound. Completed in the wake of not one but two founding members passing away—guitarist/vocalist Matt Bellinger (2017) and frontman/guitarist Gared O’Donnell (2021)— ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ (out November 1st through Deathwish Inc.) is a howling cry of catharsis pitched into the great beyond.
And yet, despite the palpable sense of grief and loss that hangs tenuously over the record’s diverse tracklist, glimmers of hope and communion peak through the darkness with the promise of a brighter tomorrow. We’re joined by Chuck French (guitar) and Mike Ricketts (drums) to talk about the enormous task of shaping these songs into not just a tribute to their dear friends, but also a record worthy of the band’s formidable legacy. "We ride to fight. Thunder in the night forever."
Follow Planes and pre-order/stream ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ here: https://planesmistakenforstars.net/
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🔥Here’s our brief chat with Fit For An Autopsy frontman and ecstatic dog dad Joe Badolato 🔥
The New Jersey metaller’s seventh studio album, ‘The Nothing That Is’ (out on October 25th through Nuclear Blast/Human Warfare), is an existential battering ram that takes aim at geopolitics, social decay, environmental collapse, and the crushing despair at the heart of human existence.
Joe chats with us about his good boy Bruce, finding joy in the recording process, authenticity in performance, filling in for Lamb of God (!), and much more.
Follow Fit For An Autopsy and pre-order/stream ‘The Nothing That Is’ here: https://linktr.ee/FitForAnAutopsy
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🎶 It’s roundup time once again, and we’ve got a banger crop of tunes for this week. Blooming alt-rock and Bangkok evil-core. Austrian blackened post-rock and posthardcore supergroups. Aussie metalcore throwbacks and London post-punk odes. It’s all here, ready to go 🫡
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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This week we’re joined by Monica Strut, music journalist and frontwoman for “cyber-pop metalcore” outfit The Last Martyr. The group are gearing up to release their new EP, ‘Requiem’ (out independently on October 23rd), which follows a period of creative renewal for the Naarm/Melbourne quartet and a reaffirmation of their dark sonic intent. Monica chats about reflecting on rejection, finding collective solidarity and strength in her bandmates, and using narrative metaphors to emphasise dystopian lyricism.
Follow The Last Martyr, pre-order/stream ‘Requiem,’ and grab tickets to upcoming shows here: https://www.thelastmartyr.band/
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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🔥Here’s our brief chat with fellow podcaster, label head, frontman, record store guy, and all-round legend Jeremy Bolm of post-hardcore staples Touché Amoré🔥
The Cali group are gearing up to release their sixth full-length album, ‘Spiral In A Straight Line’ (out on October 11th via Rise Records/BMG), which is also their second collaboration with famed producer Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Sepultura) following 2020’s critically acclaimed ‘Lament’.
Jeremy pulls zero punches in our chat, as he delves into the universality of grief, anxiety, the idea of legacy, and growing older.
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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⚒️ It’s another busy week on the tools, so we get stuck right into the business at hand. Owen briefly forgets how time works, and Paige sacrifices the pod at the altar of Beyoncé. We cover post-hardcore from Sheffield, moshy death metal from Tokyo, and indie-punk storytelling from Naarm/Melbourne. Plus much, much more. Let’s go! 🔀
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After landing some backstage time during their recent show at The Forum in Naarm/Melbourne, we’re joined by Jesse Barnett of Stick To Your Guns and Ways Away to chat about the upcoming eighth full-length album from the Cali hardcore powerhouse, ‘Keep Planting Flowers’ (out January 10th through SharpTone Records).
Proving that he’s one of the most insightful and passionate frontmen in hardcore today, Jesse gives us the lowdown on the need for collective solidarity, using music to speak to revolutionary struggle, his work and community outreach with All Power Books, the inherent dangers of tribalism, and how to stay hopeful in the face of seemingly endless nihilism.
Follow Stick To Your Guns here: https://sticktoyourguns.net/
Follow All Power Books and all the resources mentioned here: https://allpowerbooks.org/pages/resources
Stream/purchase ‘A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation for the Palestinian Liberation’ here: https://hardcore4gaza.bandcamp.com/album/a-homeland-denied-a-compilation-for-the-palestinian-liberation
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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📆 It’s a new month (and Mother of God, how is it October already?), so we’re kicking things off right with a brand new slate of glorious alternative tunes 📻 Owen & Paige quickly recap the recent AWMA controversy and important on-the-ground reporting before diving headfirst into scrappy prog bangers, Aussie alt-rock sing-a-longs, death metal skull-crushers, and much more 😎
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Find Jamie-Lee’s original Substack piece here:
"Brothers for Sisterhood: A Missed Opportunity for Accountability at the Australian Women in Music Conference"https://jamieleedimes.substack.com/p/brothers-for-sisterhood-a-missed
Read statements in response from Brian “Smash” Chladil and the AWMA Board here:
"Oztix Chief Issues Apology Following ‘Train Wreck’ AWMAs Panel"https://themusicnetwork.com/oztix-chief-apology-train-wreck-awma-panel/
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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This week we’re joined by fellow podcaster and Balance And Composure vocalist/guitarist Jon Simmons, who returns to the show to discuss the group’s highly anticipated comeback LP, ‘with you in spirit’. On their fourth studio album and first in eight years, B&C offer up a spectral synthesis of all that came before, presenting ten self-assured songs that are both haunted by their collective past and eerily fixated on the allure of the group’s newfound potential. Jon opens up about his journey of self-reflection, holding himself to account, and using vulnerability to shape the band’s most direct and urgent material to date.
Follow Balance And Composure and stream/purchase ‘with you in spirit’ here: https://www.balanceandcomp.com/
Follow Jon, Creeks and Your Morning Breakfast here: https://linktr.ee/ItsCreeks
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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Here’s our brief chat with drummer and producer Sam Bassal from Aussie alternative outfit Ocean Grove. Following a regional run with Polaris earlier this year, the Naarm/Melbourne trio are gearing up for a three-city headline run at the start of October. Sam joins us via Zoom to chat about the band’s turbulent decade, the desire for nostalgia, and prepping for LP#4, ‘ODDWORLD,’ due out on October 25th via the band’s own label (Aus) and SharpTone Records (ROW).
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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Owen and Paige are strictly business this week for another cracking lineup of alternative tunes. We keep things Down Under with pop essentialism, experimental death metal, flexing hardcore, and bright horn-filled indie rock. Then on the global front, we’ve got football breakdowns, noise rock meltdowns, and the existential folk horror of interdimensional cosmic messages. It’s all here, folks. So dive right in.
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Theme/title music: “L.S.I.A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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