Episode 84 – Gigan 2007-2017: A Decade of Brain-Frying Cosmic Escapism

Radical Research Podcast · Aug 19, 2022 · 53m

Radical Research spends much of its time plundering the most mind-bending sounds in rock and metal. On our 84th episode, we go several light years farther in our quest for psychic devastation as we survey and discuss the improbable body of work amassed by Chicago’s Gigan. As forbidding and violent as the character from which it derives its name, Gigan’s music blends savagery and psychedelia with skill and compositional might that have no peers. If you survive this episode, you can consider yourself a veteran of the psychic wars.

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We recorded this together, at Jeff’s place, in…