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Radical Research Podcast
Join hosts Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn in a bi-weekly conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of left-field rock and metal music.
Episodes
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 107 – The Saturnine Sleep: Tiamat’s A Deeper Kind of Slumber
For a podcast that traffics in all things wild and mind-expanding, the subject of our 107th episode makes everything else feel stone-cold sober by comparison…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 106 — New Metal Massacre: Horrendous, Afterbirth, Laster & Vemod
We tend to skew toward the past in our explorations with Radical Research, uncovering sounds we feel are overlooked and/or underrated. We’re breaking our usual…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 105 – We Are Intrigued! Steven Wilson Curates ‘Intrigue’ Compilation & We Dissect [Part 1 of 4]
For Episode 105, Radical Research follows the lead of musical polyglot and overachiever, Steven Wilson. Inspired by Wilson's recently-curated, Intrigue…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 104 – Diskord 2007-2021: Architectonic Death
As is so often the case, Radical Research, for its 104th episode, finds itself in Norway, only this time to investigate the psycho-necrotic brutality of Oslo’s…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 103 – We’re After the Same Thing: Dead Horse’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
Death, humor, society? Who doesn't love these things? Radical Research certainly does! So, it should come as no surprise that we chose the second album by…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 102 – INTO ANOTHER with Brothers from Other Mothers
Forged in the crucible of the Tri-State hardcore and thrash scenes, New York City's Into Another released three genre-defying albums that blend together --…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 101 – Ambulance Chasing: Ulver’s ‘Blood Inside’
After several years of perdition, silence, and melancholy, Oslo’s Ulver, a totem of the Radical Research faith, released, in 2005, its sixth full-length album…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 100 – VOIVOD is the Engine That Powers Us
2023 marks the 40th anniversary of Voivod, a band that are at the very heart of everything we do at Radical Research and everything we listen to as…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 99 – The Four Freaks Roundtable: Jeff & Hunter + Thomas Nul & Brian Grebenz
For 98 episodes, the pilots of Radical Research have gone it together. Mind you, the hosts have had some curatorial help along the way (Jason William Walton…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 98 – The Meads of Asphodel’s Guts Spun on the Loom of Judgment
Formed in 1998 in the Hertfordshire region of England, The Meads of Asphodel are a special, experimental heavy metal band with many distinctive and beguiling…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 97 – Disembowelment Discography 1990-1993: A Burial In 14 Snippets
Is heaviness a quantifiable aspect of music? Can a piece of music display such weight, such heft, that the listener can only accept its heaviness as fact?…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 96 – This is Not Some Stupid Quest: Disillusion’s Glorious ‘Gloria’
The Southeastern United States, from whence Radical Research is broadcast, has long prided itself on its sundry wrestling traditions. From the bare-chested…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 95 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations Part 3: Time to Kill
Herein we present the third and likely final installment of our Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations series. We repeat two bands previously featured on other episodes…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 94 – The Real Freakshow: Psychotic Waltz 1990-1996
Over the course of its previous 93 episodes, Radical Research has banged, thrashed, and decapitated but never before has it waltzed. That ends now. Formed as…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 93 – The Sadus ‘Swallowed in Black’ Track-by-Track Batshit-Crazy Attaaaaaack!!!
When a member of a fringe Swedish death metal band makes a request, Radical Research heeds the call. To that end, RR episode 93 is a response to Philip Von…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 92 – Last Crack: The Best of All Our Burning Time
Rarely can a rock or metal band be described in terms of open-heartedness, nostalgia, or compassion. But the subject of Radical Research’s 92nd episode defies…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 91 – Atheist 1985-2010: We Believe!!!
Occasionally, Radical Research dares to tackle the big questions: what is time, and can we have a piece of it? Can a psychic saw perform brain surgery? Can a…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 90 – Anekdoten 1993-2015: An Embarrassment of Mellotron
This installment finds Radical Research in familiar territory, in the wilds of Scandinavia, this time in pursuit of progressive rock luminaries, Anekdoten. Our…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 89 – Bassically: Metal Bass Guitar Solos That Rip Ass
It’s the gutsier, uglier, unwieldier alternative to the heavy metal guitar solo: The goddamn heavy metal BASS guitar solo! We have collected 20 beautifully…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 88 – Hieronymus Bosch, Russian Tech-Death Band, 1994-2008 (The Painter is Pretty Great Too)
We admit that, in all our geographic music spelunking, we haven’t scaled many of the mountains offered by Russian noisemakers. So, if we say that “Hieronymus…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 87 – Dax Riggs & Deadboy 2003-04: It’s Just All Illuminated
When onetime Acid Bath and Agents of Oblivion vocalist Dax Riggs took himself to the outermost reaches of his imagination with Deadboy & the Elephantmen, he…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 86 — The Forrest Pitts Takeover!
We know many Radical Research listeners partake in music we’re not totally familiar with. As much weird/left-field/inventive rock/metal as we digest or are…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 85 – 3D Blasphemy: Abigor’s Infernal Reaping
Miles away from the torchlight of Norway, Austria’s mysterious Abigor spent their time in the ‘90s not generating headlines but rather plying their heretical…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 84 – Gigan 2007-2017: A Decade of Brain-Frying Cosmic Escapism
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…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 83.5 – Metal Laughs
Metal is serious business. So why so much laughter? We don’t really have the answer, but here’s the first installment of some of our favorite metal laughs…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 83 – Skin Yard 1986-1993: Fist Sized Snippets
The soils of Seattle rock have been tilled to ruin, the same seeds planted season after season. Radical Research has come to rotate the crops. Of the artists…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 82 – Fates Warning: An Impromptu Discussion
In anticipation of Destination Onward – The Story of Fates Warning and its publication in July, 2022, the author, Jeff Wagner, and Radical Research co-host…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 81 – Dave Murray, Drummer! (Traun, Estradasphere, Tholus, Sculptured)
How California-based drummer, Dave Murray, has escaped the notice of several more tens of thousands of people worldwide, we cannot say. We recognize an…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 80 – Supuration 1990-1994: Sojourns in the Absurd
For our 80th episode, Radical Research detaches itself from the icy grips of Norway and takes a sojourn southward to France, a country whose history with death…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 79 – Simen Hestnaes aka ICS Vortex: 25 Years of Agility and Quirk
For the final installment of our 6-episode Norwegian tour across this most creatively-fertile country, Radical Research surveys the career of Simen Hestnaes…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 78 – Enslaved’s Monumension: Floating Diversity & Monumental Dimensions
We love Enslaved. They are a rare long-running band that, in our estimation, have not released a bad album. Of their 15 full-lengths to date, your Radical…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 77 – Wobbler 2005-2020: Seeing the Forest & the Trees
To date, Radical Research has made more trips to Norway than any other country. But, typically, we spend our time in the shadowy realms of post-black metal…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 76 – Ulver’s Kristoffer Rygg Outside the Wolf Pack
We know and love him as Garm, the frontman in Ulver since that pioneering band’s very beginnings. He has also fronted Norwegian luminaries Arcturus and…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 75 – Ansur & Frantic Bleep: Norwegian Voyagers in the Hazy Aughts
At the dawn of the 21st century, strange sounds brewed in the Southeastern corner of Norway -- musical paths cobbled together with the tortured echoes of…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 74 – In The Woods… In The Weeds… 1993-2000
In our 39th episode, we explored the family tree of Kristiansand, Norway collective In the Woods... Here, in our 74th episode, we go straight to the source to…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 73 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations, Part 2
12 ripping snippets from 11 fusion ragers spanning 1972 to 1982. We did the first one in 2018, episode 5, and it was high time we returned to the madness! We…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 72 – Master’s Hammer: Dreaming Bulldogs & Shy Geckos
Formed in the Czech Republic in 1987, Master’s Hammer summoned a singular, constantly mutating approach to black metal over two distinct lifetimes (1987-1995…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 71 – Paul Chain’s Illogical Slow Evolution
Paul Chain’s Illogical Slow Evolution Radical Research interrogates, with few exceptions, the work of artists who operate in the darkest, most cryptic corners…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 70 – Solefald 1996-2015: A Red Episode With Black Edges
Extant since the mid 1990s, Solefald may have been the first Norwegian black metal band to entirely bypass the necro stages of development and arrive fully…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 69 — Minds No Longer Present: Eucharist’s Mirrorworlds
Often overlooked relative to Gothenburg luminaries such as At the Gates, In Flames, and Dark Tranquility, Eucharist, whose entire legacy hinges upon two…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 68 – The 6/8 Time Signature in Heavy Metal: Marching into Fire
The occasion of Radical Research's 68th installment could have been marked in one way only – with a full-force exaltation of music's deadliest, most…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 67 – Prog Macabre: French Dread
With this dispatch, we descend into the catacombs to examine France's heritage of musical terror. From the spectral melancholy of Pulsar to the howling…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 66 – The Houde Abides: Kataklysm 1993-1996
Have you even the slightest notion of mystical reincarnation? Unfortunately for you, as for the rest of we mortals, even after spending hours with the music of…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 65 – DVC: God’s Work Reversed in Tallahassee
Erupting from the wastes of Tallahassee, Florida, DVC (Darth Vader's Church) produced two long-players of low-slung filth and Southside mania. From 1989 to…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 64 – Steve Hackett is the Wizard
No anniversaries, no deaths, no reissues, no birthdays, no arbitrary celebrations. This is Hackett for Hackett’s sake! Guitarist Steve Hackett is one of the…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 63 – LunaTechSpiritGasm: Alchemist’s Cosmic Dramas
There is simply nothing like Alchemist. Active throughout the ‘90s and into the aughts until their dissolution in 2010, the Australian quartet offered severe…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 62 – Under Separate Cover
Episode 62 of Radical Research challenges the notions of identity, probes at both the masks and the faces themselves. What biology occurs when the firstborn…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 61 – Face the Goat at Sunrise: Dødheimsgard 1995-2015
Citizens of a scene that demands innovation and progress, Norway’s Dødheimsgard have assembled a body of work that evidences the evolutionary strides common to…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 60 – God It’s Great to Be Alive: Helios Creed 1985-1992
We at Radical Research have made a habit of descending into the vortices of profound sound, but our adventures with the musical hijinks of Helios Creed make…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 59 – At the Oxiplegatz: The Episode Nobody Wanted
Even in the bizarro wilderness of Radical Research, Alf Svensson’s Oxiplegatz stands out in its peerless freakishness. A founding member of the epochal Swedish…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 58 – Let’s Necromance! Ripping Off Rush With Love
If the wild, transcendent music we exalt were a cluttered yet beautifully arrayed galaxy, the artists making that music would be planets and Rush would be its…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 57 – Naught Was Anymore Like Before: Atrocity 1990-1992
Germany’s Atrocity have been plying their execrable goth-metal wares since 1994’s precipitously tragic Blut, but the band’s first two albums, 1990’s…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 56 – Genesis & The Lamb’s Hindquarters
“If you think it’s pretentious, you’ve been taken for a ride” With this episode, we look at the second half of Genesis’s 1974 double-album, The Lamb Lies Down…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 55 – Wicked Webs Weaved: The Works of Hammers of Misfortune
Herewith we present an overview of one of the most beguiling bands to emerge from American soil. Part doomed epic metal, part gothic grandeur, peppered with…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 54 – Radical Miscellany: 7 Degrees of Norwegian Metal Separation & Uli Kusch Glorified
part 1: In which Hunter is assigned a 7 Degrees of Separation task, with these parameters: begin in Norwegian metal, end in Norwegian metal. Betwixt, he was…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 53 – It’s All Gone Weird: The Ved Buens Ende/Virus A/B
We love to draw lines and conclusions. We hear links and threads where there may be none, or, on a good day, where we might just be onto something. And we love…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 52 – Eight-Sided Views of Two-Headed Turtles: The Mars Volta’s Octahedron
A journey through a wilderness of Nembutals and Luciforms, The Mars Volta’s fifth album offers up a radical departure from the itinerant mania of The Bedlam in…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 51 – Suffocated by Stars: Ripping Into Nocturnus’s ‘Thresholds’
Continuing our appreciation for the unloved misfits of Metalopolis, we always considered 1992’s Thresholds, by Florida’s Nocturnus, an honorary 1993 album…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 50 – Exalt of the Weird: Celebrating Celtic Frost’s Into the Pandemonium
Storming the gates with a new wave cover tune, borrowing from Baudelaire and sampling from NASA Apollo transmissions over primitive machine pulses, Swiss…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 49 – CAVEAT!!!!!! Nuclear Death 1986-2000
Many bands have professed to play death metal, but few have summoned the power of death itself, have forced the very bowels of earth to erupt. Nuclear Death…