Harsh Vocals – Details, episodes & analysis

For our twentieth episode, we decided to talk about how we discover new music. We go into detail about all the resources that we use to help us build our weekly playlists, as well as how we find worthwhile older music that we might have missed. We may have different methods, but we also both have a lot of great suggestions!

Check out our resources here:
Encyclopedia Metallum – https://www.metal-archives.com/
KmanRiffs – https://www.instagram.com/kmanriffs/
Metal Releases – https://metalreleases.com
Metal Collision YT- https://www.youtube.com/@MetalCollision
Heavy Debriefings – https://heavydebriefings.weebly.com/written-material

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as a huge amount of honorable mentions. We close out the show with an “Extreme Submission” from a Melodic Death Metal band called Embers Ignite!

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in this segment, please reach out!

Despite Justin’s voice still not being 100 percent, we hope you’ll enjoy the episode! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Vicious Blade – Forged Steel
• Groza – Asbest
• Torrefy – Street Reaper
• Ophidian Memory – Hunger of Your Deceased Deity
• Kanonenfieber – Sturmtrupp
• Blighted Eye – A Reverent Stillness
• Embers Ignite – The Prophecy

For our nineteenth episode, we decided to talk about Religion in Metal. As an atheist, is there any real difference between Christian metal and Satanic metal? How important is religion as it relates to the music? Should metal musicians be subject to scrutiny for their beliefs? We discuss it all at length.

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as some outstanding honorable mentions. To close out the show, we’ve done away with the blast from the past segment, and are now using the closing song to highlight a band who has sent us a submission! The new segment is called “Extreme Submissions”, and if you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs, please reach out!

Despite Justin being a bit sick, we did have a lot of fun recording this episode. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it! If so, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Marrow of Man – Upon Mighty Planes of Ash
• Together to the Stars – Earthbound
• Mordkaul – Dead Heart Awake
• Taur-Im-Duinath – Madre Notte
• Isolert – The End of Beauty
• Firtan – Wermut hoch am Firmament (Feat Ellende)
• Mass Disorder – Prophets of Hypocrisy

For our twelfth episode, we discuss Art vs Artists within Metal. Are we able to separate the music from the musicians, especially if those musicians are questionable? We have strong opinions, and are forgiving towards some and take a harder stance on others.

Of course, we also discuss each of our top three tracks from the past two weeks as well as several outstanding honorable mentions. To close out the show, we play a blast from the past – Children of Bodom’s “Mask of Sanity”, off their album Follow the Reaper. We had a lot of fun with this episode and hope you do too! If so, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Houle – La Danse Du Rocher
• Nightrage – A Throne of Melancholy
• Troops of Doom – Chapel of the Unholy
• Feigd – Ragnarok
• Oubliette – With Death’s Shadow
• Wormwood – Liminal
• Children of Bodom – Mask of Sanity

For our eleventh episode, we discuss Metal and Mental Health. How does metal help us cope with our negative emotions? Are all Metalheads violent sociopaths? Is Metal akin to therapy? Christian, the Metal Therapist has answers to all these questions and more!

Of course, we also discuss each of our top 3 tracks from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. To close out the show, we play a blast from the past that Christian picked – The Crown’s “Blitzkrieg Witchcraft”, off their album Deathrace King. We had a lot of fun with this episode and hope you do too! If so, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Gatecreeper – Dead Star
• Vredehammer – Blood Of Wolves
• Cognitive – A Pact Unholy
• Dark Affliction – Bargaining
• Vale of Pnath – Soul Offering
• Saidan – Genocidal Bloodfiend
• The Crown – Blitzkrieg Witchcraft

For our tenth episode, we discuss what makes music heavy, and how some music can be considered heavier than others. How can power metal and black metal both be so different, but both be considered heavy? Of course, we also discuss each of our top 3 tracks from the past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. To close out the show, we play a blast from the past that Justin picked – Soilwork’s “Rejection Role”, off their album FIgure Number Five. We had a lot of fun with this episode and hope you do too! If so, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Nihilo Machina – Artifice
• Darkness Everywhere – The Final Descent
• Soziedad Alkoholika – Control De Masas
• Horn – Pyres
• Ossilegium – Constellationrise
• Joures Pales – Noir Imperiale
• Soilwork – Rejection Role

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Splatterpvnk – The Songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist behind punk-infused black metal band “Saidan”. We talk in depth about his creative process, his love of horror movies, punk music, and Japanese folklore. It was a blast getting to know him a bit, and it’s an honor to help promote the incredible new release from Saidan – Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity. We also play the title track at the end of the episode, so hear it here before anywhere else!

The new album will be out this Friday, May 24th! Make sure to pick up a copy off their label, Jems Label:

https://jemslabel.bigcartel.com

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Songs in this Episode:

• Saidan – Visual Kill

For our ninth episode, we discuss Lyrical Themes and their importance in Metal. Can good lyrics ever save bad music? Can good music make up for poor lyrics? Listen as we go deep. Of course, we also discuss each of our top 3 tracks from the unbelievably stacked past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. To close out the show, we play a blast from the past that Christian picked – Carnal Forge’s “I Smell Like Death (Son of a Bastard!)” off of their album Firedemon. We enjoyed recording this episode and hope you enjoy it as well! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app!

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Songs in this Episode:

• DVNE – Sarmatae
• Amiensus – Vermillion Fog of War
• Walg – Als Een Korrel Zand
• Oak, Ash & Thorn – Ten Years on the Tundra
• ADON – Azimuth
• In Vain – Season of Unrest
• Carnal Forge – I Smell Like Death (Son of a Bastard!)

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Johnar Håland – the main songwriter, guitarist, and one of the vocalists of the incredible band In Vain. We talk in depth about his creative process, his passion for music, touring, vinyl, and much much more. We had an absolute blast getting to know him and hope that all of you enjoy this episode! If you’d like to purchase a copy of In Vain’s masterpiece “Solemn”, visit their bandcamp:

https://invainband.bandcamp.com/album/solemn

Vinyl copies are also available in the U.S. via Miami Metal Merchant, here:

https://www.miamimetalmerchant.com/search-results?q=in+vain+solemn

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Songs in this Episode:

• In Vain – Shadows Flap Their Black Wings

For our eighth episode, we decided to talk about Gatekeepers in metal. You know, those guys with the elitist mindset who judge people based on their music taste, or how Kvlt they truly are. We’re not big fans of that mindset and we discuss our personal experiences with it, as well as our general takes on the metal community as a whole. Of course, we also discuss each of our top 3 tracks from the past two weeks as well as a few honorable mentions. To close out the show, we discussed a blast from the past – White Ward’s “Poisonous Flowers of Violence” off their incredible album – Love Exchange Failure. We enjoyed recording this episode and hope you enjoy it as well! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Austere – Cold Cerecloth
• Veriteras – Manufactured Dreams
• Graufar – Nyctophile
• Tulpa – No One Wins
• Labyrinthus Stellarum – Transcendance
• Cistvein – At Light’s Demise
• White Ward – Poisonous Flowers of Violence

For our seventh episode, we wanted to talk a bit more about ourselves and our musical tastes/journey, but we also ended up discussing the importance of emotion in metal music. Hence the episode title – Frisson. Frisson is defined as a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli – or getting goosebumps when the emotionally driven music is just THAT good. Of course, we each brought our top 3 tracks from the past two weeks to the show and discussed them at length as well as a few honorable mentions. To close out the show, we discussed a blast from the past – Yoth Iria’s “The Mantis”. We enjoyed recording this episode and hope you enjoy it as well! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Deception (Norway) – Monophobic
• Vorga – The Sophist
• Terravore – Blue Brutality
• Urkara – The Flame
• Carrion Vael – Augustus Dead
• Dodsrit – Celestial Will
• Yoth Iria – The Mantis