Butt Metal Blast Cast – Details, episodes & analysis

The Booty Blazzting Boyez™ back with their first episode after a couple of months of hibernation! In this episode, those Bud Blazing Boys™ explore the trials and tribulations of applying Icy Hot to your testicles, they analyze the aesthetic intention behind Sacred Son’s album covers, they envision a high school comedy about a living skeleton assigned to be an undead skeleton in a biology class (a tale as old as time), they relate the uberwealthy’s support of the Dark Enlightenment to Road House, and they discuss whether the hypothetical wholesale car dealership Friendly Simon’s business model is a scam or if it’s driven by pure altruism. YOU DECIDE.

In this episode, The Booty Blood Boys™ are joined by a very special guest, fan, and friend of the show, The Shadowy One! The Bud Blasé Boyz™ learn how The Shadowy One became a fan of their silly lo-fi and low culture podcast. They discuss the New York City metal scene vibes and community and whether either has been affected by the closure of St. Vitus. They explore the generational divide between the sincerity of older metal fans and musicians versus the self-aware irony of younger metal fans and musicians. They also analyze the dark world of fascist cottagecore and tradwife cultures. All of this and much, much more!

The Butt Blasters™ have not one, not two, but THREE special guests by the names of CJ, BC, and Mark of the Beast. CJ is a longtime friend of the show and, together with BC, plays in the atmospheric post-black metal band Marsh of Swans. Mark of the Beast is also a longtime friend of the show and is both our resident bad lyrics analyst as well as our kvlt credibility maintainer. 

In this episode, the Budd Bladd Boi™ dive deep into Heartwood, Marsh of Swans’ debut full-length. We explore the process of the album’s creation, the conceptual framework behind the album, and why the band’s next album will be lo-fi psychedelic black metal with a horn accompaniment recorded in a missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

The Butte Blazzterz™ and special guests also analyze bad lyrics from across the metal spectrum as well as the kvlt credibility of different aspects of human culture. Is fast food black metal? Is weed black metal? There is only one way to find out: by listening to the newest episode of the BUTT METAL BLAST CAST.

Marsh of Swans links:

Marsh of Swans Bandcamp: marshofswans.bandcamp.com

Marsh of Swans Facebook and Instagram: @marshofswans

Marsh of Swans Twitter: @marsh_of_swans

Have you come across a map on social media showing the ratio of female to male metal musicians by country? Or have you seen a bar graph showing what months the most metal albums are released annually? If you have, there is a good chance that you have come across data visualizations created by Metal Stats.

In this episode, the Boo Boo Butt Boys™ Judge Dredd and Wulf interview Metal Stats about his process for scraping and shaping data from Metal Archives while controlling for variables. They discuss the eternal questions regarding regionalism in metal, such as the infamous Denmark Paradox (a.k.a. in light of having produced Mercyful Fate, why did Denmark never produce black metal to the same degree that the rest of their Scandinavian brethren did?). We also explore the relationship between a country’s GDP and metal produced by that country. Finally, we investigate why both creators and viewers of data visualization need to think critically about data that is being presented. 

We make references to many maps and graphs, mostly created by Metal Stats, throughout the episode. Check out the links below to see them for yourselves!

Episode References:

• Map of countries by metal bands per capita
• Metal bands in Finland per capita by municipality
• Comparison of metal bands per country per 1 million people and country average happiness score
• European metal vs. non-metal albums statistics
• Deep dive and analysis of the trifecta
• Ratio of female to male metal musicians by country (1 female:100 male ratio)
• Metal databases beyond Metal Archives
• Metal release counts over time by release type (LP, EP, video, box set, etc.)
• Metal release type breakdown by percentage of all releases by subgenre
• Metal band name length distribution
• How many albums have metal bands typically released?
• How many bands have metal musicians typically been in? (does not include live members)
• How many members do metal bands typically have?
• Metal album release count by day of the year
• Number of bands compared to how long it takes them to release their debut
• How much time do metal bands typically take between albums?
• Network of similar artists with "technical" genre tag

Metal Stats' Socials:

• Flourish (data visualizations website): app.flourish.studio/@metalstats
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Metalplots
• Wordpress: https://metalstats.wordpress.com/

In this episode, the Bud Bladt Bloi™ Judge Dredd, Wulf, and the Inverted Cross-Examiner take on guest Ian Chainey's Metal Archives-based game Tic Tac Dio. You will hear the Bust Blatt Beauze™ utter unforgivable blasphemies as they excavate the deepest recesses of their minds to unearth the most obscure metal trivia and knowledge of six degrees of metal separation necessary to play the game.

Which Butt Blaster will have the fastest Tic Tac Dio run? Which Butt Blast will end up in the rare recursive Brazilian loop? Which Butt Blaster will have a break from reality and, instead of Tic Tac Dio, choose to play with madness? 

In this game of Tic Tac Dio, three Butt Blasters enter, ONE BUTT BLASTER LEAVES!

Links: 

Tic Tac Dio Boards from the Episode: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R_Il-cN4QLep_W_ieHUpp0_SrZXHbeHX?usp=sharing

Tic Tac Dio explanation and directions: https://www.stereogum.com/2231511/shall-we-play-a-game-tic-tac-dio/columns/the-black-market/

Ian's Black Market Column on Stereogum: https://www.stereogum.com/category/columns/the-black-market/

Ian's Substack: https://plaguerages.substack.com/

Ian's Podcast Plague Rages: https://open.spotify.com/show/3kBzFYGqxCa0zuZHu6kiCT

Ian's Podcast Runout Grooves: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wCrs5NDnT9ykW94AUr05R 

Nu-Metal Agenda: https://open.spotify.com/show/4jLSnvzewSFPWciJV0VBA4

The Butte Blazzt Beauz™ reflect on their existential anxieties (or lack thereof) over aliens in light of the recent congressional hearings and two VERY, VERY credible posts from Reddit and 4Chan. In order to waylay their alien anxiety, they discuss their capacity to eat chicken wings followed by a lively game testing their knowledge of both band and weed strain names. Finally, they explore the sordid history of the Jackoff Kings, the greatest fictional rap group that has ever lived.

The Butt Blast Boyez™ explore the Headless Horseman-themed metal of Sleepy Hollow and neighboring Tarrytown while trying to figure out what the hell is up with Northeastern United States geography. They also provide their beef jerky siqq piqqs and discuss the different tiers of weed that drug dealers named Snake and Sorgen can sell you.

The Butt Blastin' Boyz™ dive deep into the discography one of the most legendary and influential death metal bands of all time: the Ancient Ones themselves...MORBID ANGEL. 

Is Illud Divinum Insanus redeemable? Is it ACTUALLY the worst Morbid Angel album? Why must there be so many interludes? Is Trey Azagthoth ok? AND...what is THE BEST Morbid Angel album? These questions may not be answered by any mere mortals...but they MUST be answered by the Butt Blasters™!!!

In this episode, the Butt Blast Beauz™ Judge Dredd and Wulf talk with Gene Meyer of Bandit. Gene is not only the vocalist of one of the best grindcore bands around today but he is also a therapist (specializing in helping metal/hardcore musicians and fans) and a stand-up comedian (specializing in exploring the absurdities of dating metal and hardcore fans)!

The Butt Blasters™ interrogate Gene about Bandit's excellent new debut full-length, Siege of Self, and the process that the band goes through to write new music. But the Boyz™ and Gene also discuss the potential benefits of psychedelic therapy, the Theater of Cruelty as a foundational concept for the metaphysics of live performances, and constructing and analyzing the narratives we tell about ourselves.

The Butt Blastin' Boiz™ explore whether psychics are just magic therapists, they ponder if Dying Fetus album covers could be mistaken for red-state death metal, and they speculate how much weed Bongzilla can smoke before not being able to perform their music. Plus, the Butt Beaus™ get their fortunes read by their in-house Level 1 Tarot Mage! This and more in Episode 22 of the Butt Metal Blast Cast!