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Episode 105 – We Are Intrigued! Steven Wilson Curates ‘Intrigue’ Compilation & We Dissect [Part 1 of 4] Dec 26, 2023

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For Episode 105, Radical Research follows the lead of musical polyglot and overachiever, Steven Wilson. Inspired by Wilson's recently-curated, Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-1989, this episode traces out the music found on the first disc of this four-volume edition, digging into such varied artists as Public Image Ltd., John Foxx, In Camera, and This Heat. This constitutes the first in a four-part series around Wilson's collection, which we will revisit occasionally throughout 2024. Should you have any interest in the rich mosaic of the late 1970s/early 1980s UK underground, tune in, turn on, and experiment out.

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As mentioned late in the episode, here is further reading on the Durutti Column’s sandpaper packaging of their Return of the Durutti Column album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Durutti_Column

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Music cited in order of appearance: intro: Peter Hammill, “Nobody’s Business” (Nadir’s Big Chance, 1975)

[all snippets in this episode are taken from the Intrigue compilation; the following indicates where the songs initially appeared]

Wire, “I Should Have Known Better” (154, 1979)

Bill Nelson’s Red Noise, “A Better Home in the Phantom Zone” (Sound on Sound, 1979)

Magazine, “Back to Nature” (Secondhand Daylight, 1979)

XTC, “Complicated Game” (Drums and Wires, 1979) Public Image Ltd, “Careering” (Metal Box, 1979) The Stranglers, “The Raven” (The Raven, 1979) Punishment of Luxury, “Puppet Life” (Puppet Life 7”, 1979) Ultravox, “Astradyne” (Vienna, 1980)

Gang of Four, “Contract” (Entertainment!, 1979)

Simple Minds, “I Travel” (Empires and Dance, 1980)

The Durutti Column, “Sketch for Summer” (The Return of the Durutti Column, 1980)

This Heat, “Health and Efficiency” (Health and Efficiency [EP], 1980)

John Foxx, “Burning Car” (Burning Car 7”, 1980) Robert Fripp and the League of Gentlemen, “Cognitive Dissonance” (The League of Gentlemen, 1981) In Camera, “The Fatal Day” (Fin [EP], 1982)

Episode 104 – Diskord 2007-2021: Architectonic Death Nov 19, 2023

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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 Diskord. At once garage-y, asymmetric, and morbid, Diskord hawks death-wares that invite listeners to stroll through the hallways of the weird metal madhouse. Only death and Norway are real.

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Thanks to Tim Hammond for the Oscillations mp3s. We only had the vinyl and no digital version, and we knew who to turn to. Thanks Tim, you are a fucking champ! Note II:

Wagner was thinking “Funebrarum” but said “Encoffination.” Please forgive a mind way too filled up with this otherworldly nonsense. Thank you. The point still stands, re: the rise of Funebarum and other similar combos in early Incantation mode around 2007.

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Wagner and Ginn are both huge fans of Autopsy up to and including Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves (2014). In fact, both, weirdly, believe that album to be the best of Era II Autopsy. Things after that are fine if all you want is more of that. But we wanted more than that. But goddamn we love the fuck out of Fiend for Blood FTW.

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Music cited in order of appearance: “Pervasive Discreetness” (Doomscapes, 2007)

“Reptilian Ancestry” (Doomscapes, 2007)

“Instauration” (Doomscapes, 2007)

“Overseer” (Dystopics, 2012)

“Psychotic Process” (Dystopics, 2012)

“Rambling Words from a Sore Throat” (Dystopics, 2012)

“Horrid Engine” (Oscillations, 2014)

“Hermit Dream” (Oscillations, 2014)

“Loitering in the Portal” (Degenerations, 2021)

“Dragged for Coronation” (Degenerations, 2021)

“Gnashing” (Degenerations, 2021)

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

Episode 103 – We’re After the Same Thing: Dead Horse’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers Nov 08, 2023

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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 Houston, Texas' Dead Horse as the subject of our 103rd episode. Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers, released by Big Chief Records in 1991, plunders the remotest corners of thrash, hardcore, and mangled death as fodder for its singular brand of knee-slappin' brutality. Join us for this rather less than peaceful episode.

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Music cited in order of appearance: all tracks from Dead Horse’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers, 1991

“Cod Piece Face”

“Turn”

“La La Song”

“Like Asrielle”

“The Latent Stage”

“Peaceful Death”

“Eulogy”

“Snowdogs”

“The Lark Nest”

“Medulla Oblongata”

“Aplo”

“Rock Lobster”

“Sawbone”

Episode 102 – INTO ANOTHER with Brothers from Other Mothers Oct 18, 2023

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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 -- seemlessly -- the disparate sensibilities of its members. The band's membership boasts a heritage that includes such stalwart acts as Whiplash and Youth of Today, though Into Another's rich, mystical rock hardly betrays those roots. Episode 102 of Radical Research does its best to reveal the treasures of this tragically-overlooked band.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

“Robot Whales” (Into Another, 1991) “Underlord” (Into Another, 1991)

“While I Die” (Into Another, 1991)

“As It Were” (Into Another, 1991)

“Laughing at Oblivion” (Ignaurus, 1994) “Maritime Murder” (Ignaurus, 1994) “William” (Ignaurus, 1994)

“Mutate Me” (Seemless, 1995)

“Locksmiths & Lawyers” (Seemless, 1995)

“For a Wounded Wren” (Seemless, 1995)

“Crossed” (Omens, 2017)

Episode 101 – Ambulance Chasing: Ulver’s ‘Blood Inside’ Oct 06, 2023

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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, the manic and panicked Blood Inside. The album has inspired divisive opinions and obsessive worship. Its nine songs come together like a house of mirrors, where every lunatic fantasy, every fear, every shameful ecstasy, is reflected and refracted back into the listener’s ears. Radical Research takes a firm position in defense of the album’s genius.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

“Not Saved” (Silencing the Singing, 2001)

“Surface” (Svidd Neger, 2003) “Doom Sticks” (A Quick Fix of Melancholy, 2003) “Dressed in Black” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“For the Love of God” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“Christmas” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“Blinded by Blood” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“It Is Not Sound” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“The Truth” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“In the Red” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“Your Call” (Blood Inside, 2005)

“Operator” (Blood Inside, 2005)

Episode 100 – VOIVOD is the Engine That Powers Us Sep 04, 2023

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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 incorrigible music obsessives. In celebration, Voivod released Morgoth Tales, which finds the Mark V lineup (Snake, Away, Chewy, Rocky) covering songs from various past eras. For ourselves, we pay tribute by offering our longest and most in-depth episode yet, while also celebrating a landmark of our own. We invite all chaosmongers, nothingfaces, cockroaches and diehards across the schizophere to join us in celebration of the one, the only, the eternal VOIVOD!!!

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Music cited in order of appearance: [all Voivod except where otherwise noted] intros from War and Pain, Killing Technology, Angel Rat, The Wake “Experiment” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988) “Blower” (War and Pain, 1984) “Ripping Headaches” (Rrröööaaarrr, 1986) Carnivore, “Carnivore” (Carnivore, 1985) “Forgotten in Space” (Killing Technology, 1987) Cave In, “Decay of the Delay” (Jupiter, 2000) “Cockroaches” (Killing Technology, 1987) “Psychic Vaccum” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988) “Brain Scan” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)

Wartech, "Virtual Reality" (demo 1991) “Missing Sequences” (Nothingface, 1989) “Into My Hypercube” (Nothingface, 1989) “Inner Combustion” (Nothingface, 1989) King Crimson, “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part Two” (Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, 1973) “Nuage Fractal” (Angel Rat, 1991) Alchemist, “Escape from the Black Hole” (Organasm, 2000) “Clouds in My House” (Angel Rat, 1991) Die Kreuzen, “Best Goodbye” (Cement, 1991) “Best Regards” (Angel Rat, 1991) “Freedoom” (Angel Rat, 1991) “Horror” (Rrröööaaarrr, 1986) Rush, “Natural Science” (Permanent Waves, 1980) Van Der Graaf Generator, “Man-Erg” (Pawn Hearts, 1971) “Moonbeam Rider” (The Outer Limits, 1993) “Time Warp” (The Outer Limits, 1993) “Phobos” (Phobos, 1997) “Temps Mort” (Phobos, 1997) “Neutrino” (Phobos, 1997) “Aware” (demo for unrealized 10th album, 2000) “Facing Up” (Voivod, 2003) “Divine Sun” (Voivod, 2003) “Polaroids” (Katorz, 2006) “Corps Etranger” (Target Earth, 2013) “Iconspiracy” (The Wake, 2018) “Always Moving” (The Wake, 2018) “Quest for Nothing” (Synchro Anarchy, 2022)

Episode 99 – The Four Freaks Roundtable: Jeff & Hunter + Thomas Nul & Brian Grebenz Jul 28, 2023

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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 and Forrest Pitts, please take a bow). But on the eve of episode 100, Radical Research has called on two of its most stalwart allies, the estimable Thomas Nul and Brian Grebenz. Over the course of almost two hours, this veritable Roman Senate chews on the hard-hitting issues that occupy the minds of all right-thinking citizens of the Research Republic. We invite you to turn on and tune in to this symposium of sickness.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

Genesis, “Dodo / Lurker” (Abacab, 1981) Black Sabbath, “The Eternal Idol” (Eternal Idol, 1987)

King Crimson, “Discipline” (Discipline, 1981)

Celtic Frost, “(Once) They Were Eagles” (Cold Lake, 1988)

A Forest of Stars, “Premature Invocation” (Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes, 2018)

Jethro Tull, “Thick as a Brick” (Thick as a Brick, 1971)

Slayer, “The Final Command” (Show No Mercy, 1983)

Acanthus, “Le Frisson des Vampires” (Le Frisson des Vampires, 1971)

Journey, “Of a Lifetime” (Journey, 1975)

Unearthly Trance, “Penta(grams)” (In the Red, 2004)

episode 100 preview: Voivod, “Temps Mort” (Phobos, 1997)

Episode 98 – The Meads of Asphodel’s Guts Spun on the Loom of Judgment Jul 02, 2023

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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 qualities. So why did it take one of the Radical Research hosts 24 years to acquire a taste for the Meads? We don’t have the answer, but in this episode, Jeff runs down all his favorite aspects of Meads while Hunter listens, corroborates and discusses this better-late-than-never obsession.

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This is from the main page of the Meads of Asphodel website, https://www.themeadsofasphodel.co.uk/: “Experimental extreme metal band The Meads of Asphodel believe in all peoples’ right to live in peace, free from the shackles of inflicted dogma and servitude.” Damn straight!

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Music cited in order of appearance:

“Psalm 666” (Damascus Steel, 2005)

“Christ’s Descent into Hell” (Brittania Infernus compilation, 2002) “A Healer Made God” (Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua, 2003)

“Send My Love to Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz” (Sonderkommando, 2013)

“Jezebel and the Philistines” (The Excommunication of Christ, 2001)

“On Graven Images I Glide Beyond the Monstrous Gates of Pandemonium to Face the Baptized Warriors of Yahweh in the Skull-Littered Plain of Esdraelon” (Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua, 2003)

“Boiled in Hell Broth and Grave Dust” (The Murder of Jesus the Jew, 2010)

“Jew Killer” (The Murder of Jesus the Jew, 2010)

“Sword of the East” (Damascus Steel, 2005)

“Hourglass of Ash” (Sonderkommando, 2013)

“Black is Black & White is White” (Running Out of Time Doing Nothing, 2019) “Like Blood Shaped Flakes of Snow” (Running Out of Time Doing Nothing, 2019) “Nazi” (English Punk Black Metal, 2010 split)

“My Psychotic Sand Deity” (The Murder of Jesus the Jew, 2010)

“Addicted to God” (The Murder of Jesus the Jew, 2010) “Weeping Tears of Angel Light” (The Excommunication of Christ, 2001)

Episode 97 – Disembowelment Discography 1990-1993: A Burial In 14 Snippets Jun 12, 2023

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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 says “Yes,” and we are here to offer evidence. For our 97th episode, we take our second trip down under to survey the concise but mighty discography of Disembowelment. We invite you to join us as we dig into the cryptic horrors of this otherworldly music. But be warned: research rarely gets this heavy.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

“Intro – Mourning September” (Mourning September demo, 1990)

“Impoverished Filth” (Mourning September demo, 1990)

“Thou Messiah” (Mourning September demo, 1990) “Extracted Nails” (Pantalgia – An International Death Metal Compilation, 1992) “River of Salvation (My Divine Punishment)” (Deep Sensory Procession into Aural Fate demo, 1991)

“As Your Soul Befalls…” (Deep Sensory Procession into Aural Fate demo, 1991)

“The Tree of Life and Death” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993)

“Your Prophetic Throne of Ivory” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993)

“Excoriate” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993)

“Nightside of Eden” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993)

“A Burial at Ornans” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993)

“The Spirits of the Tall Hills” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993)

“Cerulean Transience of All My Imagined Shores” (Transcendence into the Peripheral, 1993) “Outro” (Mourning September demo, 1990)

Episode 96 – This is Not Some Stupid Quest: Disillusion’s Glorious ‘Gloria’ May 18, 2023

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The Southeastern United States, from whence Radical Research is broadcast, has long prided itself on its sundry wrestling traditions. From the bare-chested hectoring of the SoCon to the gator-tangling of Central Florida, southerners approach wrestling with a sense of birthright authority. But today we face a new challenger: taxonomy. The second full-length album by Germany’s Disillusion, the forbidding Gloria, is an oil-rubbed beast that slips away from our every attempt to ensnare it with our inadequate classifications. We invite you to tune in to our 96th episode and declare, once and for all, a victor in this battle of equivocation.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

[All selection from Disillusion, Gloria, 2006]

“The Black Sea”

“Dread It”

“Don’t Go Any Further”

“Avalanche”

“Gloria”

“Aerophobic”

“The Hole We Are In”

“Save the Past”

“Lava”

“Too Many Broken Cease Fires”

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