This time on the podcast, I chatted with Mike Hill of Tombs and all the members of Vattnet Viskar (Chris Alfieri, Seamus Menihane, Nick Thornbury and Casey Aylward) before their Metro Gallery show with Pallbearer on October 30, 2014. We talked about Halloween, podcasting, wrestling, bad interviews, coffee and how Lover Boy may influence modern …
Podcasting from Leyla’s before the Pentacle show
Continuing in our new mode of recording live from venues, we move to Leyla's in Hyattsville, MD. Amazingly, Steve Harris joins us AGAIN while we prepare to see Dutch death metal masters Pentacle, along with Sathanas, Sacrificial Blood, Extermination Angel and the beer can throwing monsters Maximum Oversatan. Our other guests are Mike Keller of …
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Podcasting from the Sidebar seemed like a good idea
The Metallomusikum podcasting team of Derek and Mary haven't done a podcast together in a while, but since we were both headed to the same show at the Sidebar last night we decided to get there a little early and see if we could record one on the fly among the goings on. It turned …
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Podcast: Maryland Deathfest recap #3 from Sunday
Here's our final installation of our Maryland Deathfest podcasts. We made it and no one died! We determined that Derek won MDF with most bands seen (47); most merch purchased, out latest, at the rail or in the pit for most bands seen and most unshowered (honorary crust award). William came in second with most …
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Podcast: Maryland Deathfest recap #1 from Friday
We stayed up till 3:30 a.m. making this podcast about the events of Maryland Deathfest XII from Wednesday to Friday. This needs no introduction. Just listen to it. We spent a lot of time on not editing this at all. Everything you hear is true. Guests include: Mary Spiro, Derek Beam, Sam Vietmeier and William …
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The Oracle thumb their noses at your elitist metal attitudes
The Oracle from Maryland brings the collective musical influence and experience of four well-established performers to create something unique that they hope will challenge the elitist attitudes of all the metal subgenres they meld together. It's a little bit sludge, a little bit doom, a little bit black metal and maybe even a little bit …
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Halloween Special means eight album reviews in an hour!
We get a lot of albums to preview here at Metallomusikum, and sometimes we get behind on listening to them all. So today, for Halloween, we decided to race through eight album reviews in an hour. In order, we talk about the following: Exhumed - Necrocracy (death metal) Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse …
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Podcast 4: Autumn Screams Doom
Doom, stoner metal and sludge seem to be what the kids wanna hear these days. So this time on the podcast, we talked to Hasan and Dan about the fall fest Autumn Screams Doom, October 25 and 26 at The Ottobar. Specific details of the fest can be found on the Facebook event page here. …
Podcast 3: Our show about nothing and everything
Apparently we were having way too much fun with this podcast because it is 95 minutes long. However, our guests Mike Walls of Queen Wolf and Jason "Mot" Waldmann of Iron Man (who also happens to be married to Mary), were quite engaging and had lots of cool things to talk about. Â So give this …
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Gorguts tears up Mojo 13 and our second podcast!
I don't go to Delaware for shows that often. But when you are presented with the option of driving an hour and a half to Springfield, Virginia on a weekday night  or driving on hour and twenty minutes to Wilmington, Delaware on a Saturday night to see Gorguts, you pick Delaware. At least that's what …
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