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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 48 – Vaffel House of Kicks: The Works of Albino Slug
For the second time in a matter of months, your intrepid hosts find themselves in the frosty arms of Trondheim, Norway, this time to investigate the world of…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 47 – This is Self-Destructing Turnip, Come in Radish: Porcupine Tree’s Curious Debut
After firing up a band called No Man Is An Island (later shortened to No-Man), a young Steven Wilson corralled a couple friends and some wild ideas to sculpt…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 46 – For Knobs, For Wires, For Faders: Synth Whores II
Bust out the Purell and take a healthy dose of penicillin because the whores are back in town. On this special -- and occasionally-recurring -- episode of…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 45 – A Means to an End: The Manes Discography
For the 45th episode of Radical Research, we continue our trek north, this time landing in Trondheim, Norway, where we take a close look at the vast and…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 44 – 44th & Magical: Xysma 1989 – 1998
When Uranus falls, once and for all, in the cosmic background will be heard the humming, buzzing sound of a tragically-overlooked group of travelers. Formed in…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 43 – Cut It! Cut It! Dissecting Mr. Bungle’s ‘California’
After recording two mind-bending and defiant albums -- pieced together, ever so precariously, with the bacterial molecules of metal, ska, contemporary music…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 42 – Modular Madness: In the Laboratory with Heldon’s ‘Stand By’
Emerging from a web of poststructuralist philosophy and electronic fetishism, France’s Heldon -- whose name is derived from Norman Spinrad novel, The Iron…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 41.5 – Mystery Snippets pt. 2
Welcome to the second installment of this occasional episode in the margins...we have fun trying to fool each other by playing an unlabeled, unmarked piece of…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 41 – Express Bullet Train to Obscurity Town: Sindrome, Epitaph, Mid-Evil, Embrionic Death, Paraxism
Let’s face it: we live in a world bereft of justice. And so it falls on the shoulders of Radical Research to shine a bit of light into this dim world. On this…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 40 – Temptations So Wild: Gorgoroth’s ‘Incipit Satan’
Departing from the tractor-beam blasphemy of their seminal first four albums, Bergen, Norway’s Gorgoroth offer a more panoramic approach to (a career in) evil…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 39 – In The Woods… Family Tree
Greetings from the nativity. This podcast began as an examination of the vast and nebulous frontier of Norwegian post-black metal. In that spirit, episode 39…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 38 – Fathom by Fathom by Fathom: Kayo Dot’s Blasphemy
Toby Driver’s path to the present has been circuitous and inscrutable, which is to say, in keeping with music he has written over the last 25 years. His work…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 37 – Listen With the Lights Off: Devil Doll 1989-1996
Writing about Devil Doll is like skating about horticulture. Led by the deeply enigmatic Mr. Doctor, and purposely shrouded in the thickest mystery, Devil…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 36 – Melvins is Cult, Part 1: Hostile Ambient Takeover
Melvins’ career -- a vast, still-expanding 36-year odyssey across the full spectrum of heavy and experimental sound -- is marked by goalposts, some triumphant…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 35 – Grey and Pink Topography: A Canterbury Overview
The so-called “Canterbury scene” was an adventurous musical movement of time and place, bonded tightly by shared influences and an incestuous genealogy. This…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 34 – No More False Transparency: The Works of Anacrusis
It began with suffering and ended with screams (and whispers). St. Louis' radically-progressive Anacrusis never enjoyed the recognition they so deserved, but…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 33 — Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions
Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions What is music if not sound? In episode 28, we discussed the mathematical properties that have shaped some of rock and…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 32 – In the Morphine Fields: The Works of Thought Industry
In less than 10 years’ time, Michigan’s maddest scientists, Thought Industry, built a five-album discography that drew upon every available atom and protein in…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 31 – An Abrupt Egress from the ’60s: Van Der Graaf Generator
Crawling out of Manchester to work strange machinations on the English psych-pop era of the late 1960s, Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator’s sonic…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 30 – Thank You, Uwe Osterlehner! Deathrow’s Deception Ignored
We here at Radical Research like a good departure. Whether that means the beginning of a vacation or the sixth Journey record, departures are just good for the…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 29 – Walking Shadows: Mekong Delta 1987-1994
Under the guidance of bassist Ralf Hubert, Mekong Delta’s initial phase featured a revolving door lineup of Euro-metal luminaries. Adopting pseudonyms and…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 28 – Rock Out With Your Calc Out: A Math Rock Survey
As Pythagoras mused, “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” So too is there magical energy in the…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 27 – Fall Into Overdrive: Spiral Architect’s Tech-Metal Masterwork
A Skeptic’s Universe is what happens when student becomes master. Spiral Architect’s school years were spent in obscurity, honing their craft, learning their…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 26 – It’s Weird Being a Bob: NoMeansNo FTW
Angular, adventurous, and apocalyptic in nearly equal shares, few bands scratch the collective itches of Radical Research like Victoria, British Columbia’s…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 25 – Pytten’s Chamber Music: Black Metal in Grieghallen
Pytten’s Chamber Music: Black Metal in Grieghallen As the ground began to swell in early ‘90s Norway, a shadowy figure known to metal fans only as “Pytten” (ne…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 24 – This is the Ritual of Divination: Nasty Savage ’87/’88
Emerging from the swampy wastes of Florida, Nasty Savage created a body of work built on the inimitable vocals of Ronnie Galetti (aka Nasty Ronnie), hammering…
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Episode 23.5 – Mystery Snippets
This game originates from one Jeff plays semi-regularly with our pal Tim Hammond, where CD-Rs fly back and forth between the Boros (States and Greens), and one…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 23 – What the Hell is Art Rock?
The possibly despicable term “art rock” is where pop, prog & rock meet, with a generous layer of quirk embedded throughout. Art rock is pop without restraint…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 22 – Weeping Suns & Churning Seas: An Examination of Pyogenesis’ Twinaleblood
It would be inaccurate to say that Germany’s Pyogenesis is underrated because, in fact, they have hardly ever been rated at all. Over the course of their…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 21 – Who is the Freak Now? Regurgitating OLD
Meet the creatures Plotkin & Dubin, instigators of some of the most beguiling music ever beamed to Earth from a New Jersey-shaped quasar. Like the guy in the…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 20 – Wolf’s Lair Abyss: Answer & Announcement
From the dark past, in the light of freezing moons and through funeral fog, Mayhem reappeared in 1997, under cover of night and to relatively little fanfare…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 19 – The Unquietness of Fleurety
Goodbye clarity, hello obfuscation… Norway’s other post-black metal duo, perhaps dwelling deeper in obscure shadows than Solefald… we hail Fleurety’s…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 18 – Do You Hear Solar Music? Grobschnitt’s Cosmic Fantasia
From a kernel to a cosmos. Over the course of a decade and beyond, Germany’s Grobschnitt twisted and bent and stretched a piece of sound that would be…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 17.5: Permeable Lines – A Dangerous Dance with Inspiration
The second in an occasional series of brief ambushes. With this mini-episode, we ponder and marvel at similarities between a certain few musical passages…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 17 – Take the Bröms Dose: The Works of Afflicted
Prolific for a brief few years, with curious beginnings and a mostly ignored ending, Afflicted’s supernova burned brightly at its peak. That peak, Prodigal…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 16 – Synth Whores
Few things in life get the hosts of Radical Research as excited as the squishy, otherworldly sounds of the analog synthesizer. For our 16th episode, a special…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 15 – The Breed is Still Beyond: Roadrunner’s Tech Metal Trinity
Can you sense them? The ghosts? Quiet yourself for a moment. They hang in the air and whisper in our ears. They taunt us with memories of a golden age. Listen…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 14 – Northwest of Babylon: Candlemass 1998-1999
Had Leif Endling disbanded Candlemass after 1989’s Tales of Creation, he would have given enough to place his band in the halls of metal infamy. But the…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 13 – Make No Mistake: The Rick Rubin A/B
There are no happy accidents or lucky mistakes in Rick Rubin productions. The legendary producer knows exactly what he wants and how to get the leanest…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 12 – Out There: The Works of Mind Over Four
For our 12th installment, your intrepid hosts sift through time and dust in search of Orange County’s Mind Over Four. Bridging an unknown gulf between…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 11 — They Scream In Us Too: The Works of Carbonized
Death metal is very weird musick. It’s the rupturing and restructuring of musical tradition. At its best it offers otherworldly, phantasmagoric deliverance. We…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 10 – Let Go and Let Ginn: A Ginncore Primer
The 10th installment of the Radical Research odyssey pries into the amorphous body of work that has been known to your hosts privately as…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 9 – Panic Button at the Asylum: Semiramis, Corte dei Miracoli, Alphataurus
Rock Progressivo Italiano (RPI) was a remarkably fertile, prolific progressive rock movement of the 1970s. Italy’s compositional and performance acumen rivaled…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 8 – Strange Relief: The Works of Beyond Dawn
Join us on an extended tour through the curious world of Norway’s Beyond Dawn. For thirteen years, Beyond Dawn occupied a shadowy, distorted universe of…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 7 – Wishful Dreaming: A Study of My Dying Bride’s Urban Detour
Wishful Dreaming: A Study of My Dying Bride’s Urban Detour Join Radical Research hosts Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn in a spirited discussion on the fifth…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 6: Band in the Trees — Among the Ruins of Die Kreuzen
Band in the Trees: Among the Ruins of Die Kreuzen Episode 6 of Radical Research finds your intrepid hosts deep-diving into the discography of Milwaukee’s…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 5.5: Calling Dr. Morpheus – The Kiss/Nuclear Death Convergence
Radical Research 5.5 is the first in an occasional series of brief ambushes. Super-trivial stuff that’s too fun, weird and/or interesting to ignore, but…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 5: Ten Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations
Ten blasts of springtime joy before the scorch of summer. This is the Radical Research strain of fusion, corralling some of the baddest asses within the larger…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 4: Where the Weirdos are Dishing it Out – Disharmonic Orchestra
Episode 4 of Radical Research explores the surreal work of Austrian metalunatics, Disharmonic Orchestra.* Our conversation exposes the psychic tensions and…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 3 | Breathless Silence Sped to Violence: Gnidrolog, Supersister, Artcane
Episode 3 of Radical Research covers three progressive rock bands from the glorious ‘70s era that often don’t come up in the usual ‘70s prog conversations. But…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 2 | The Unorthodox Khaos of Dan Swanö
The second episode of Radical Research dives into the strange world of Sweden’s Dan Swanö. From his neo-prog roots in Unicorn to the way-left-of-center…
Radical Research PodcastEpisode 1 | It Ulver Is
For the inaugural episode of Radical Research, we delve into the mysterious, magnificent William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998), the fourth…