Tonight I was THRILLED to bring two hours of Carcass worship to the airwaves! In this episode, we listened to tracks from each Carcass LP in order, as well as some rarities, demos, live stuff, remixes, etc., before listening to some of the best Carcass-influenced bands (and there sure are a ton). You can listen to an archived recording of this episode here.

Tonight we enjoyed two solid hours of Floridian DM, listening to everything from the Big Four of Florida death metal (Death, Obituary, Deicide, Morbid Angel), to the proggier acts in there (Cynic, Atheist), slightly lesser-known faves (Solstice, Massacre, Monstrosity), and even people who started out in Florida but eventually moved somewhere else, ergo men will love to tweet at me about it (Acheron)

Tonight on The Unquiet Grave we listened to all Norwegian Black Metal, trve and perhaps also a little bit of un-trve. So much is written and said about this richly-storied genre, so tonight I’m taking it easy on the talking so we can just listen to the tunes. Thanks for tuning in and see you next week for some Floridian Death Metal!!

TONIGHT we took a walk on the Wild Side and enjoyed some trashy, glammy Hollywood Boulevard-esque metal (and things adjacent) here on WRIR 97.3 Richmond Independent Radio.

Tonight was all crust, no fillings on WRIR 97.3 Richmond Independent Radio. Catch the archive on my show page. Shoutout to Andy, without whom I would likely have never made a crust episode at all, let alone a serviceable one.

Tonight we headed into 2 hours of New Wave of British Heavy Metal like a bat-ter-ing ram, listening to some of the giants of the movement alongside more deeply-buried gems. Catch the archive on my show page.

Tonight’s episode was all Cascadian Black Metal — a term that, honestly, mostly music journalists use, and that loosely denotes atmospheric black metal bands from the Pacific Northwest who talk about nature. We’re starting off with CBM kings Wolves in the Throne Room and Agalloch, and getting a little more obscure as we go. Maybe I chose this theme for tonight because I’m excited about spending some time in the woods this weekend at Shadow Woods Metal Fest. If you’re there too, say hi.

Tonight we listened to new (NEW, not nü-) metal released in the last month or so. Thrown in here were some not-strictly-metal tracks from artists like SPECTRUMRITES (who I strongly encourage you to check out, and who I wrote more about here) and Lingua Ignota. Thanks for listening and see you next week!

Tonight’s episode of The Unquiet Grave featured the lineup of Shadow Woods Metal Fest 2021, including Panopticon, Voarm, Falls of Rauros, Feminazgul, Darsombra, and more. I’m perhaps a little overly stoked, following a year of isolation and dread, for heavy metal summer camp this year. Also, my little printing venture, Black Gum Print Shop, will be vending for the first time! To find out more about the festival, see the Shadow Woods website. See you in the trees!

Tonight’s episode of The Unquiet Grave was all about Les Légions Noires, or L.L.N., or the Black Legions as they’re variously called — a small, extremely insular circle of black metal musicians in France, mostly around the city of Brest, in the early to mid 90s.

Listen to an archived recording of this episode here.

Tonight’s episode was entirely in honor of some recent exciting additions to the Maryland Deathfest 2022 lineup, including Carcass and Hellhammer (!). Everything played tonight is from a band on the lineup for this twice-delayed and eagerly anticipated fest. See you in Baltimore!

Stealing an idea from MYSELF (from when I used to host the Monday Breakfast Blend at the crack of dawn each week), this week’s show was 100% comprised of intro tracks from metal albums. I’ve talked about this here and elsewhere before, but I love intro tracks, and those from the metal world are some of the weirdest and best. The playlist for this episode is below, and you can listen live to an archived recording here.

So stoked to announce that I have a new radio show of my own!

Today’s show was a collection of jazz on a loose Spring theme — bunnies, birds, blossoms, and wet weather. Thanks for listening and see you in two weeks!

This morning we listened to a selection of Child Ballads (a set of 305 folk tunes from Scotland and England, collected by James Francis Child in the 19th century).

Good morning and thanks for joining me for a heaping helping of country that doesn’t call 911! The playlist today defines country broadly — we’ve got classic outlaw country in here, of course, but also old time and Southern folk and blues. This haters’ ball takes on not only policemen, but jailers, judges, and company bosses, too. From songs decrying the “gun thugs” hired by coal company bosses to violently oppress miners to songs musing on fantasy worlds bereft of policing; from songs about life in the carceral system to songs espousing the joys of defying cops just to run the roads and get high — it’s all in here. See you in two weeks!

This morning on the Breakfast Blend we reviewed great stuff released in January 2021, from country to microtonal minimalist drone and beyond.

This morning we’re looking at the music of Les Légions Noires, or L.L.N., or the Black Legions as they’re variously called — a small, extremely insular circle of black metal musicians in France, mostly around the city of Brest, in the early to mid 90s.

This morning‘s show was a recap of my favorite releases from 2020. Thanks for listening and Happy New Year!

This morning, we celebrated the shortest day and the longest night with some winter music of all kinds, including traditional carols, folk and experimental music about wintry topics, blizzardy black metal, and music that just sonically evokes winter. Click for more.