LORD KARNAGE RADIO DRAMA

Maybe the last CGR Podcast featuring Turbo Volcano. Mark talks about the development of Operation Turbo Volcano and a very busy schedule. Turbo Volcano, Omega Ronin, Seatropica and more grow and evolve on streaming music platforms around the world. Mark wears Amber Vision glasses because the future is so bright he needs to see the galaxy with more amber.

Back from a month away in the space mines, Mark talks clothing, music, and Star Wars. Learn about the thousands of product designs published by CGR Publishing, hear some new tunes in development, and listen to Mark's scientific take on the health benefits of lightsabers.

CGR Publishing rolls out the Old Time Kitchen series with smooth funk. Turbo Volcano releases a new EP called My Mind is Melting. Mark messes around with a vocoder for voice-altering fun from the future!

New CGR Releases on Friday! Celebrate a new EP from Turbo Volcano and albums from Seatropica and Omega Ronin. Mark talks about the history of the Omega Ronin project and how it turned from a science fiction epic graphic novel into the galaxy's greatest synthwave band from outer space.

One, Two, Three, FRIDAY! New releases from CGR Publishing include Retromegatrex 2, Omega Ronin's On the Line and more! Mark has a bit of fun with a new vocal distortion toy and talks about upcoming projects, sounds, Turbo Volcano albums, Omega Ronin, and a new cooking show.

Welcome to the 25th century! Turbo Volcano prepares to drop its fourth album while Omega Ronin prepares its third and fourth records for mid-June. Mark talks about combining logistics with future laser disco and a complete disregard of reality. Prepare for CGR Fabulous Fridays!

Celebrate Release Day Weekend with CGR and two brand new album drops!! Omega Ronin: This Time it's Personal and Turbo Volcano: Future Spa erupts from your speakers with a 25th-century level of sonic funk the likes of which the universe has never seen before. Mark talks creation process and upcoming plans for global domination.

Mark completes the final mix for Turbo Volcano's third album, Future Spa. Hear clips from Gold Digging Space Muffin, A Derelict Spacecraft, and more. Omega Ronin's second album is announced. Capri Sun is suggested as a listening companion. Don't break the straw!

The year is 1985 and the future is so bright that you have to wear shades at 3 A.M. while driving your Lamborghini Countach down a winding road through the neon bathed streets of Miami. What music fits the mood? Omega Ronin. Mark talks about his rad neon synthwave project and how it differs from the totally tubular Turbo Volcano.

Turbo Volcano conquers the universe on Amazon, Spotify, and Apple. Great. Now what? What does it take to make a new album that sounds dramatically different than the previous one? Mark talks about building new synthesizer songs from the ground up by recording bizarre sound effects made on Moog DFAM and Korg Nu-Tekt. Hear early cuts of upcoming tracks from the Turbo Volcano: Experimental Beat Division.

Mark picks up the PS4 controller once again and plays Earth Defense Force 5 and Gran Turismo 7 while noodling with Korg Nu-Tekt synthesizer sounds as Operation Turbo Volcano crushes space-time and develops a third album titled Future Spa. Goin the CGR Podcast on a road trip to work with marketing photography, studio video, and preparations to make a fleet of drawing tutorial videos with Turbo Volcano and Seatropica beats.

Mop, mop, mop! Mark prepares to mop the studio after releasing three books and two full-length albums in a week. Learn about the second Turbo Volcano album titled Supernova Robot Dungeon and the upcoming first album from Seatropica titled Abyss. Includes multiple mixes of Turbo Volcano songs with different synthesizer sounds and a new drum kit.

CGR and Turbo Volcano get more technical as the podcast progresses and the band splits into TWO entities! Mark produces two new video series including a new music-driven drawing instructional program and a cooking show. Turbo Volcano continues to develop heavier synthesizer music while the spinoff project focuses on smoother ambient tunes to compliment relaxing drawing and wood grain admiration.

Enjoy an advance listen to clips from Turbo Volcano's upcoming second album titled "Supernova Robot Dungeon." Mark guides listeners through a track by track commentary as he finishes, mixes, and masters a new batch of songs created with Moog Matriarch, Nord Drum, FL Studio, and Korg digital synthesizers. Hear early cuts of West End Alien Girls, 30 Years to Carousel,  Abgrund Zwei, and more. Release date TBD.

Mark prepares to release Retromegatrex 2, a collection of mostly unpublished and experimental projects spanning the years 2018-2022. After facing the demise of a platform-dependent video business, he talks about changing careers, shotgunning out ideas, drawing styles, and challenging accepted norms in self-publishing. How does drawing The Horrible Octopus give way to a Turbo Volcano? Listen and find out....

Hanging out at a bar with King Ghidorah sounds great, and so do the new Turbo Volcano tracks in production such as Space Cavern, Future Spa, Millennium Mai Tai, and Faster than Light but Slower than Thunder.  Mark talks about Return of the Jedi, Wordle, Soylent Green, trolleys, sequencers, and synthesizers! The first Turbo Volcano EP album prepares to launch digitally.

Turbo Volcano prepares to release its debut album on a VERY special format. Can your brain handle all of the wood grain? Mark talks The Empire Strikes Back, recording, sequences, and more while also showing off brand new tracks in development created with synthesizers, broken computers, and gallons of coffee.

Following a mundane week of publishing and graphic design, Mark loses his mind and unloads a sonic assault of experimental synthesizer music upon the hapless, unsuspecting podcast listeners on Earth (and throughout the Solar System.) Learn about the Turbo Volcano sound creation process, hear songs in development, and enjoy a collection of stereophonic Moog Matriarch delights as Mark learns how to use the Death Star of analog modular synthesizers. Also more Star Wars talk.

Mark talks Star Wars, wood grain, analog synthesizers, music production, and more. He walks listeners through a time-vortex into Future Year 1982 to hear a Turbo Volcano track emerge from the wood-paneled bliss of the Moog Mother 32 and DFAM combination to form a space-tuned laser disco fueled sonic assault on the piteous wasteland of tomorrow's social media infested dystopia.

Turbo Volcano adopts a new Casio SA-21 Tone Bank keyboard and CGR Publishing announces the arrival of three new books (all delayed a week after Mark recorded this. Now due to publish first week in February.) Listen to numerous Turbo Volcano tracks in development, including Response from the Dark Nebula, their "longest" track to date created with FL Studio and various synthesizer plugins. Mark also talks 80s hair metal, Ratt, Cinderella, Rob Zombie, Blade Runner, and Casio keyboard sounds from Future Year 1982!

Engage Operation Turbo Volcano! Mark talks about the futuristic laser disco synth-pop band Turbo Volcano and announces a new concept album in production about a space robot who wants to fly through the event horizon to save the extinct human race. Learn how the project (and band) came to be, how Turbo Volcano reinvented a publishing company's 2022 marketing campaign, and hear numerous demo tracks in production. Turbo Volcano music is created with Casio keyboards, Moog analog synthesizers, Akai Fire, FL Studio, Korg, Edison Cylinders, and Bontempi Electronic Air Organs. 

Take a trip to the Intergalactic Space Arcade and spend a day with Mark working on new recordings, new shows, photography, video, painting, and inventory control management! Enjoy the first CGR Podcast on the go with mobile audio, lunch sounds, and interstellar road noise to experience life in the galaxy of publishing and production!

Mark interviews Joseph Pierce and Shmup Junkie about the upcoming film All Your Base Are Belong to Toaplan, a feature-length documentary about the history of the legendary Japanese video game developer behind Truxton, Fire Shark, Hellfire, Zero Wing, and more. Also, Mark has some news about who might narrate it...

Happy new year! Celebrate future year 1982 with CGR & Turbo Volcano. Mark regales listeners with tales of comic-con exploits, Star Trek episodes, new music, Star Wars, Logan's Run, and complete science-fiction nonsense. It's 1982! Break out your Atari 2600 and breakdance the night away. Features new music clips from Turbo Volcano.

Mark talks about Operation Turbo Volcano and the return of the 80s Comics comic book review program on the 80sComics.com website for 2022. Learn the history of CGR's comic book reviews and the ins-and-outs of small hobby review videos. Hear an unreleased 80s Comics review of Mark Hazzard MERC #3!

CGR Publishing and Turbo Volcano (more on that soon) go back through the history of the Classic Game Room sound which started in 1999. Mark talks about music creation and the reconstruction of a photo studio with many mysterious purposes...

Mark talks about comic books, art, and his career in self-published artwork and comics.  Learn about the process behind Mark's development and creation of the Robot Kitten Factory throwback manga series and what goes into content creation, drawing, and the uphill battle of promotion and publication.

Celebrate the spirit of Christmas with The Lord Karnage Radio Drama and Mark's irreverent trip through his special "1980s memory lane" filled with 80s action movies, Atari 7800, cartoon heroines, and 1970s comic books. Hear some tales from the early days of the CGR Publishing business with old school titles such as The Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guides, Retromegatrex, and 1893 World's Fair books.

Celebrate the absurdity of Cyber Monday with the CGR Publishing Top 10 holiday buyer's guide - YOU WON'T BELIEVE NUMBER SEVEN! Mark talks about a few silly things and discusses his favorite eclectic CGR Publishing releases for the 2021 holiday season. Happy Lord Karnage Appreciation Day!    

The Lord Karnage Radio Drama (aka CGR Publishing Podcast) returns in a completely new form from CGR Publishing. Broadcasting from space on the Intergalactic Space Arcade, writer, artist, and publisher Mark Bussler delivers a weekly dose of book publishing adventure mixed with retro pop culture silliness and general absurdity.  In the pilot, Mark talks about change and covers highlights from the 2021 catalog such as History of the Crusades and more.

Based on the Lord Karnage Adventures series of books from Mark Bussler, enjoy the Lord Karnage Radio Drama! The most popular intergalactic radio drama hosted by the galaxy's greatest space mercenary on the Space Web! Buy Lord Karnage in print and digital from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1731026900

Mark reads chapter 5 from Lord Karnage in the Vallay of Moon Wolves (in progress.) Available on November 10 in print and digital from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMZCQFQ

Mark talks about the writing process of Lord Karnage in the Valley of Moon Wolves and the Lord Karnage Radio Drama. (Book out Nov 10) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMZCQFQ Lord Karnage 1.5---> https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Karnage-Special-Mark-Bussler/dp/152131750X Mark

SPACE MIC SETUP! Broadcasting from the Intergalactic Space Arcade, Lord Karnage is the galaxy's greatest mercenary and radio drama host! Lord Karnage and Edit-Station 1 introduce themselves and set up the AM radio studio in the space arcade. Prepare for writing excerpts from series creator, LORD KARNAGE. Lord Karnage in the Valley of Moon Wolves https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMZCQFQ