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SWM & TTFN As we announce at the top of this annual Shit We Missed episode, this will be the last show for a while. Continue reading
We Did a Top 15 List This Year Because We Make Up Our Own Rules That’s right. We changed our Best Of list this yer. Not only did weContinue reading
How Are We at the End of the Year Already?! Somehow, this year flew by and dragged on at the same time. Was 2021 anContinue reading
A Grande Finale… …for our 2021 album reviews! That’s right! This is the last regular show for this year. We go out with a (head)bangContinue reading
Gobble Gobble Motherf%&ker! Here in the US it, it is almost Thanksgiving, and though, generally speaking, the world may continue to be a dumpster fire,Continue reading
Bringing the Heat We have some bangers for your this week, including two that will definitely be in our top three albums for the year. Continue reading
What Could Be Construed as a Melody We got a couple of big ones again this week, and – as we note in the showContinue reading
An Episode that Ties Itself Together The title will make sense as you listen. Oh, and what you get by listening are not only reviewsContinue reading
Ten. FREAKing. Years. That’s right. 10 years of bringing you the best – and worst – in music to make your ears bleed. 450 episodesContinue reading
Kaiju Metal is a Thing? We have one band that seems to think so, even if we don’t agree with some of their sonic interpretation.Continue reading
It Can’t Rain All the Time… …but it has been raining a lot as hurricane season is underway in the US. Your hosts recently gotContinue reading
Late for the Kill… Yeah, this is coming out really late. We know. Once again, life got in the way. Actually, it's still in theContinue reading
Let the Jaws Hit the Floor It has been while but we finally have an album that made our jaws dropped. Knocked our socks off.Continue reading
How about maybe we don’t? With some big names in this week’s episode, you’d think – or at least hope – there’s some goodContinue reading
The Dynamics Taking inspiration from the episode number, we checked out four new albums this time! Though all these releases are different styles ofContinue reading
Getting Back to “Normal” Concerts are starting to come back!! Some of them are going to be earth-shattering!! Exciting times! Exclamation points! Wanna know what else isContinue reading
You Can’t Say We Didn’t Show Up Sorry for the long wait!! Sometimes life gets in the way. We’re here now, though, and we haveContinue reading
45 Seconds from Awesome We have a good dose of heavy for you this episode, including the highly anticipated new album from Gojira. Unlike mostContinue reading
Chill Pill We calm it down this week, reviewing some albums much less intense than last week’s choices. In that, we have a new band,Continue reading
Vast Forest of Impaled Cadavers We have some dark stuff for you this week, including the the fifteenth album from the titans of Death Metal,Continue reading
Trip Like I Do In addition tor reviewing three new releases, we also kick off the show discussing some show and tour announcements! Yeah, youContinue reading
Dabbling in Body Horror We tried really hard to do an episode themed around bands with body horror names. However, despite our efforts, we onlyContinue reading
Rip Off, Rage, and Ruin I’m drawing a blank on some clever copy to put here. So, just start listening to the show and weContinue reading
Technical, Groovy, and Grimy We went extra heavy this week. Why the extra br00tal? No particular reason – these are just the albums that fitContinue reading
The Complexity of Simplicity Sorry this is late, but here is our first full episode on 2021 releases! As you can see, we have ourContinue reading
Off to a Groovy Start As we work our way deeper into 2021, we transition with a hybrid episode of sorts. We have two brandContinue reading
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Our 20 Favorite Albums of One of Our Least Favorite Years This is it! It is finally the end of 2020, and at the 11th hour,Continue reading
Beginning the End of this Clusterf#%k of a Year We’re almost there, folks! We know the world is not going to magically change come JanuaryContinue reading
Well, This Is A First There’s nothing particularly special about this episode aside from it being the last regular episode for this shitty year…and aContinue reading
What Do You Call a Man with No Arms and No Legs in the Ocean? There’s a couple of big releases this show, and weContinue reading
Third Time’s a Charm? We inadvertently chose to review three albums this week that would be our third time reviewing the three bands. It’s safeContinue reading
We Have Company In addition to our Crew Nation donor, we have another very special guest join us this week. Long-time listeners haven’t heard thisContinue reading
Animal-like Behavior This time around, we have a variety of heavy. Grindcore, Industrial, Death Metal, Melodic Death, Doom, Thrash, Progressive…and that is across just fourContinue reading
Creamy Center Death appears to be the name of the game this episode. We have it in a few forms, namely Progressive, Old School, andContinue reading
Opethian Transitions: Part Deux Unlike the last episode, this one doesn’t actually have anything to do with Opeth. However, our transitions of styles from review-to-reviewContinue reading
Opethian Transitions In this episode we come up with ideas on how to be better at social media, review some rad music, and have aContinue reading
High Fidelity We have some quality releases this week. Like, at least two of these releases will likely be in our end of the yearContinue reading
Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em So, in case you haven't noticed, we themed this episode! Enjoy it, because it probably isn't gonna happen againContinue reading
In Which We Try to Make Things a Little Less Shitty If you think about it, we help in our own way by entertaining andContinue reading
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Notes! Actually, yes we do. Well, at least Brian needs notes. Regardless, we have some good recommendations this week, someContinue reading
There Be Quibbles Ahead We have a solid set of releases for you this episode! They aren’t perfect – which is obviously what we discussContinue reading
Meow We have starkly diverse line-up of reviews this episode. I mean, we usually have a mix of styles, but there were some sharp transitionsContinue reading
Choose a Side We have some really good discussions this week, and a bunch of differing opinions. To the latter, Nick and Brian only completelyContinue reading
Nick Doesn’t Care The title sums up one host’s feelings for 3/4 of these albums. Can you guess which is the one he really likes?Continue reading
Stages of Evolution The only constant is change. We have seen bands change from almost unnoticeable amounts to seismic sonic shifts. As the catalogs forContinue reading
We’re Now “The InSideshow Podcast” Since we’re all essentially quarantined, we thought we’d unofficially name the show for the foreseeable future. Aren’t we hilarious? Anyway, whenContinue reading
Sick Music for (Hopefully Not) Sick People I usually put something funny here, but this time i am going to reiterate something from the topContinue reading
They’re Being Followed As you may realize, we try to keep up with a LOT of bands. Many we come across fade away, or weContinue reading
Change My Mind If you have been listening for, well, any amount of time, you know that Nick and Brian have a lot of similarContinue reading
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