Forte 11-30-12

Gonna do a couple more Trash Radios, so this is the last Forte for a few weeks, even though that seems to piss off the metalheads in Kalamazoo. WIDR podcasts here.

Tracklist:

Saint Vitus - Dying Inside
Skeleton of God - Urine Garden
Left Lane Cruiser - Black Lung
Smargoth - The Anvil of Fate
7000 Dying Rats - Paranoid
Aggressor - Barabas
Amen - When a Man Dies a Woman
Salem's Wych - Run From the Devil
Zarach 'Baal' Tharagh - Black sheep forever.
Sempiternal Deathreign - Creep-O-Rama
Absent Distance - Goliath's Brow (ft. Karlo Horvat)
Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation - In the Gray Room
Timeghoul - Occurrence on Mimas
Jesters of Destiny - Diggin' That Grave
Nuit Noire - Magical Blast
Graveyard - Thin Line
Incubator - Plants of the Bizarre
Ufomammut - God
Wasteform - Cycles of Tyranny
Skeleton of God - Withered Humans
Bongripper - Reefer Sutherland
Internal Void - Desolate Cemetery
Solefald - Countryside Bohemians
Mortuary Drape - The Last Supper
Gigantic Brain - Animal Implant
Aspid - Tam Gde Noch
Gadget - Black Light
The Gault - Outer Dark
Skeleton of God - Cerebral Vipers
Burzum - Dunkelheit

Forte 11-16-12

...a week behind on these 'cuz I was sick last week. Oh well, here's my show from two weeks ago. As always, you can get the podcast RITE HERE. iTunes only, I think.

Tracklist:

Iron Maiden - Killers
Primordial - The Burning Season
Incubator - Thinkin' Green - Believe in Grey
Yakuza - Chicago Typewriter
Decimator - Mutant Lieutenant
Blood Feast - Cannibal
Hellhammer - Maniac
Dub Trio - Felicitation
O.L.D. - Vein Water
Von - Devil Pig
Harvester - Cosmonautical Mile
Ripping Corpse - Beyond Humanity
Medieval Steel - Echoes
Pyha - Song of the Elderly
Enslaved - Hollow Inside
Devolved - Terminal Enslavement
downset. - Eyes Shut Tight
Diskord - Inane Existence
Puya - Montate
Bad Acid Trip - Strange Humans
Spaceboy - The Melting World
De Magia Veterum - I Am the Vine
Spastic Ink - To Counter and Groove in E Minor
Snot - Absent
Satan - Hunt You Down
Breadwinner - Kisses Men on the Mouth
Ash Pool - Under Zyklon Blue
The Deadlights - Bitter
Rotting Christ - One with the Forest
Gehennah - 666, Drunks and Rock'n'Roll
Orange 9mm - Failure
Cannibal Corpse - Sanded Faceless
maudlin of the Well - The Ferryman
Tiamat - Winter Dawn
Crypt of Kerberos - Yule Horror
Dead Horse - Like Asrielle
Napalm Death - Display to Me...

Forte 11-9-12

Back in business with the playlists...dunno if this one will be uploaded yet, but HERE is the podcast page...sometimes things get done very slowly at WIDR, but I guarantee all the shows will be listenable there pretty soon.

Voivod - Prolog/Experiment
Bologna Violenta - Paura in Citt
Nihil Nocturne - Phenomenon
Coroner - Metamorphosis
Surachai - Void
Morgus - Violent Beatings
Mudbath - Loserwood
Meathook Seed - A Furred Grave
Sodom - Sepulchral Voice
Circle of Ouroborus - These Days and Years to Kill
The Black Meat Procession - Fudge Tunnel
Atheist - Second to Sun
False - The Key of Passing Suffering
Fear of God - Running Through the Blood
Obliveon - Droidomized
Dragged Into Sunlight - Part II of 'Widowmaker'
Optimum Wound Profile - Melt
Executioner - Going Blind
Lento - The Roof
Deftones - Swerve City
Deftones - Gauze
EYETOFUK - Orgasm Killed Bill
Morbid Angel - Invocation of the Continual One
Wrath of the Weak - The Thunderstorm
ID-VISION - Destination Cybermind
DBC - Heliosphere
Acid King - Evil Satan
Bolt Thrower - Psychological Warfare
Reveille - Perfect World
Burzum - Key to the Gate
Possessed - Burning in Hell
Multicide - Zero Element
Cythrawl - Pact of Blood with the Black Stag

Forte 11-2-12

Last week's episode of Forte is up on the WIDR podcast page.

No playlist unfortunately because the WIDR website is undergoing renovation. Oh well. I'll try to post something interesting tomorrow afternoon.

Forte 10-26-12 - Halloween edition

Yep...this year's Halloween episode of Forte. Get the podcast by way of WIDR here.

Tracklist:

Burzum - Dunkelheit
Type O Negative - Black No. 1
Danzig - Evil Thing
Acid Bath - Paegan Love Song
Helloween - Murderer
Saint Vitus - Zombie Hunger
Flotsam and Jetsam - She Took an Axe
Electric Wizard - Wizard in Black
Mortician - Slaughterhouse
Mortician - Cannibal Feast
Black Hole - Demoniac City
Voivod - Fix My Heart
Voivod - Too Scared to Scream
Voivod - Sub-Effect
Voivod - Chaosmongers
Cryptopsy - Born Headless
Lord Gore - Human Bot-Fly
Venom - Witching Hour
Residents - Sinister Exaggerator
Death SS - Zombie
Candlemass - Bewitched
Black Funeral - Vampire/Der Werewolf
Cemeterium - Abandoned Crypt
Deliverance - Devil's Meat
Type O Negative - Black Sabbath
Disembowelment - The Spirits of the Tall Hills
Samhain - Mother of Mercy
Rudimentary Peni - Night Gaunts
Incantation - Unholy Massacre
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Vektor - Forests of Legend

Happy holidays...it's the only one I do a specialty show for.

Forte 10-19-12 - 'Incredibly Strange Metal Program 2'

The long-awaited sequel to the radio show I did a year and a half ago....plenty of new shit and old 'outsider' metal classics for ya. Download it or stream it from the WIDR podcast page here.

Tracklist:

Dwarr - Are You Real?
Alvin Dahn - You're Driving Me Mad
Coven - Jail House
Mourir et Revenir - Jouissance Ultime
Old Lady Drivers - Supermarket Monstrosity
Malicious Onslaught - Carcassed
Lullaby - Welcome Lucifer
Nuit Noire - I Am a Fairy
Black Hole - Land of Mystery
Black Funeral - Az-i-Dahak (Awake)
The Preachers - My Little Friend
Orthrelm - Untitled #8
Oranssi Pazuzu - Maavaltimo
Doom - Body No Body
Legion - Hold On
Reji Cat JimZ's Christ - Holy War
Woodlan's Edge - The Bloodsoaked Forest
Taist of Iron - Ouija
Black Mayonnaise - Graveyard
Lester Maddox - Egypt (the Chains are Off)
Vorak - Blitzkrieg - Fighting Under the Rune of Triumph
Killer Fox - The Sign
Furze - Demonic Order in the Eternal Fascist's Hall
Heather Leather - Child Molester
Cornbugs - Box 'A Hair
Pharaons - Nagasaki
Lugubrum - De Vette Cuecken
Pan-thy-monium - Thee-Pherenth
Uz jsme doma - Kapka - Droplet
Wolfmangler - Poludnica
Damien Storm - Stormbringer
Kuster - Love a Bit
Celtic Frost - I Won't Dance (The Elder's Orient)
Ornaments of Agony - Milarepa
Warning - Warning
Exterminator - Voyage to Hell
Brocas Helm - Hell's Whip
Varghkoghargasmal - The Forest is Whispering

Forte 10-12-12

Here's what I played last week on my metal show...you can listen to/download the podcast thru iTunes HERE.

Tracklist:

Type O Negative - Pyretta Blaze
Volhv - Fusion with the Tree
Within Temptation - Ice Queen
Fatal Narcosis - Valle de Bajada
O.L.D. - Special Olympics (request)
Fudge Tunnel - Sunshine of Your Love
Yellow Eyes - The Solid Chime of Matching Bone with Harder Strength
Death SS - Welcome to My Hell
Pantera - Where You Come From
Trollheim's Grott - Bizarre Troll Technology
Enslaved - Thoughts like Hammers (request)
Sveta Istina Vjestica - Eternity in Flames
Turisas - Miklagard Overture (request)
Mortuary Drape - Crepuscolar Whisper
Sleep - Dragonaut
Paradise Lost - Enchantment
Illogo - Retina-Scan
Cattle Decapitation - Applied Human Defragmentation
16 - Trigger Happy
Exorcist - Death By Bewitchment
Pig Destroyer - Naked Trees
Preyer - Terminator
Lugubrum - De Maeghere Cuecken
Slipknot - Coleslaw (Demo)
Beef Supreme - Death Shuts its Mouth
Strongblood - The Night is My Whore
Arsis - Forced to Rock (request)
Parabellum - Madre Muerte
Samael - Antigod
Gorgonized Dorks - Late Night Horror Show
Black Virgin - First to the Worst

Forte 10-5-12

...guess I'll start puttin' these up here, if anybody is interested. This is the weekly metal show I do on WIDR FM in Kalamazoo, MI. The podcasts are available for download on iTunes HERE. You have to go to the 'RSS Feeds' tab for the most recent ones. The tracklist below, lobviously, is from 10-5-12 (last week's show).

Tracklist:

Kyuss - Thumb
Brutal Truth - Anti-Homophobe
Hellhammer - Messiah
Tukaaria - Chasms in Creation
Amorphis - Veil of Sin
Solomon Kane - The Dread
Napalm Death - Caught in a Dream
Inopexia - Arterial Blood Incoagulability
AxCx - Flower Shop Guy
Assuck - Lithographs
Grinchfinger - Untitled
AxCx - Grateful Dead
Streptococcus Pyogenes - Wegener's Granulomatosis
Macabre - Rat Man
AxCx - Bill Scott's Dumb
Chemical Tomb - Combat Witchcraft
AxCx - You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side
Mordred - In This Life
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Danzig - Twist of Cain
Brainchild - Descend
Voivod - Mechanical Mind
Isis - Carry
The Axis of Perdition - Entangled in Mannequin Limbs
Christs Nails - Lost Soul Quest
Melvins - Ligature
OLD - PeriCynthion
Fear Factory - Dog Day Sunrise
TRTRKMMR - Lux Leti (w/ Husere Grav)
Lee Aaron - Metal Queen
Portal - Omnipotent Crawling Chaos
Phlegm - Clotheshanger Abortion
Yog Sothots - Torture in the Catacombs
Night Conquers Day - What Was and Never Shall Be Again
Gardy Loo! - Garbage Dump
Misanthropic Noise - Who Cares?
Mercynary - Repent for Your Sins
Running Wild - Bones to Ashes

The Demonseeds - 'Knee Deep in Hell's Grasp' plus Dead Horse EPs

Alright, sorry for this one being in .wma format...I hate that shit, but I'm at work and there's no iTunes, so I had to import the CD this way.

That being said, it's safe to say you're not going to find this album anywhere else. The CD is long out of print, and I scoured the internet for an upload of it to no avail. Unfortunate, because this shit rocks hard.

Longtime readers are probably familiar with Dead Horse and how much I love them, so it shouldn't be that surprising that I spent an afternoon finding a used copy of The Demonseeds' lone album 'Knee Deep in Hell's Grasp' on eBay.

The Demonseeds were Dead Horse frontman Michael Haaga's 2nd big project. I think he played bass on a Superjoint Ritual album and the following tour before, but this release finds him writing his own songs again.

I don't have a copy of his 2005 solo release 'The Plus and Minus Show' to put up, but suffice to say it's not very heavy. It's more like Pixies/grunge-type rock music, and is really really really good. The Demonseeds are like a step in between that and the goofy thrash-punk of Dead Horse. Basically, that means it's a perfect Haaga release. It's melodic and catchy with Haaga's trademark defeatist lyrics, but you can tell he took some cues from roommate/bandmate Phil Anselmo and his Down affiliates (note: just for the sake of clarity, I mean his Superjoint Ritual bandmates...Anselmo isn't on this release.)

If you like sludgy stoner stuff like Kyuss, Down, and Sleep, you'll definitely dig this, but to me it's a more enjoyable listen. Not to say I don't love Sleep, I'm just a sucker for a good pop song, which Haaga delivers on almost every track. As a side note, check out the awesomely reimagined version of the Dead Horse track 'Every God for Himself.'

I'm also posting the two final Dead Horse EPs which followed the 'Peaceful Death' album because they're not too easy to find either. The first one, 'Feed Me,' was the final Dead Horse release featuring Haaga. They did one last EP, 'Boil(ing),' with a different singer, then changed their name to Pasadena Napalm Division with basically the same lineup.

The Demonseeds - 'Knee Deep in Hell's Grasp'

Tracklist:

1. Discorporate
2. Fail
3. To the End
4. Death to Love
5. Promises and Lies
6. Every God for Himself
7. Rifle
8. No Heroes
9. The True Demons

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Dead Horse - 'Feed Me' EP

Tracklist:

1. Every God for Himself
2. Eaten by the Grave
3. Something/Nothing
4. My Dog the Prophet
5. Chiggers

***LINK REMOVED BY REQUEST***

Dead Horse - 'Boil(ing)' EP

Tracklist:

1. One Nation
2. What a Beautiful Day
3. Reach Around
4. My Apology
5. Eaten by the Grey
6. My Dog the Prophet
7. (Untitled Track)

***LINK REMOVED BY REQUEST***

Fortes, Society's Faults, Anal Cunt Interview, and Bizarro Jerry's Alternate Universe Radio Program #1

Well, my Podcast pages are updated so they have all the shows up to the ones mentioned in my last post, but there are a few new ones which aren't up yet.

Namely, I went back to the Obscuro! format for one three-hour Forte block. I played lots of classics from the Obscuro! days, and also lots of new stuff I've been saving up but didn't have anywhere to play it. That'll be up for download soon, and here's the playlist for now:

Bizarro Jerry's Alternate Universe Radio Program #1:

Charlie Tweddle - Four Empty Bottles
Dimthings - Anti-Computer Dealings
Stan Hubbs - Joe and Gina
Stan Hubbs - The Best Man for Some Jobs is a Woman
Stan Hubbs - Young Saint Augustine
Swilson - Electric Aborigine
Marlin Wallace - Abominable Snow Creature
Caroliner - 20' Tall Stacked Skeleton Growling Fat Broke
Mark Tucker - 1964 Cadillac
Father Pat Berkery - Celibacy
Wicked Witch - Erratic Behaviour
MC Trachiotomy - S.S. ssumpin' sseet
Full Dimensional - Tadpoles in the Bongwater
Alex Chilton - Jingo Bells (Riding through the Reich)
The Trees Community - The Parable of the Mustard Seed
The Everyday Film - The Everyday Film
Sensational - Chunky Buds
Divine Styler - Livery
Divine Styler - Mystic Sheep Drink Electric Tea
New Kingdom - Infested
New Kingdom - Suspended in Air
Orko the Sykotik Alien - Mouth of Madness
Sylvia Hallett - Woman with Dustpan and Broom
The Sun Also Rises - Death
Tennessee Madonna and the Full Life All Stars - Oh Yeah Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Eddy Detroit - Beelzebub
Sandoz - Apple Core Machine
Nun-Plus - Walk About the Craters of the Moon
The Nykels - The Teenager
Circuit Rider - Forever Angels Proud
Little Howlin' Wolf - E.T. Blues
Megatrip - Megatrip Outro
Brain Sound - Track #02

Yup, tons of weirdness for ya. Jake did Society's Fault alone last week because I couldn't find a parking spot, so here's the playlist for that:

Proto-punk:
Stooges - We Will Fall
Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt
The Who - Cousin Kevin
Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade
Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant
Skip Spence - Broken Hope
Skip Spence - All Come to Meet Her
T. Rex - Jeepster
Iggy Pop - Turn Blue
Iggy Pop - Neighborhood Threat
Blue Cheer - Out of Focus

Punk:
Wipers - Over the Edge
Wipers - Doom Town
Wipers - So Young
Wipers - Messenger
Wipers - Romeo

Post-punk:
Gang of Four - Return the Gift
The Smiths - Big Mouth Strikes Again
The Clash - Overpowered by Funk
The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself
Echo and the Bunnymen - It's Alright

...he left early to see the Pixies, so it's a shortened program. Oh well.

Here's Society's Fault's playlist for this past Friday:

Proto-punk:
The Tubes - Up from the Deep
The Kinks - Last of the Steam Powered Trains
Blue Cheer - Come and Get it
Velvet Underground - Ocean
Syd Barrett - Terrapin
Skip Spence - Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
Arthur Brown - Time
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Road - Spaceship Earth

Punk:
Green Day - I Want to Be Alone
Germs - Not All Right
Social Distortion - All the Answers
GG Allin - Snakeman's Dance
Melvins - Boris
Dead Kennedys - Chicken Farm
Embrace - No More Pain

Post-punk:
Tilt - Libel
Wipers - Land of the Lost
Jawbreaker - Ashtray Monument
Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford
Heiner Goebbels/Heiner Muller - Wild Speculations
Pansy Division - Fem in a Black Leather Jacket
The Bevis Frond - Close
Jane's Addiction - Up the Beach
The Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues
Jim Shepard - Quotients and Numbers

...Jake left early AGAIN, so that last bit of post-punk is all me. Dunno what we're doing next week.

...and last, but certainly not least, here is Forte from this past Friday night, featuring a brief interview with Josh Martin and Seth Putnam from Anal Cunt. I filled out most of the show with AxCx tracks and tracks by bands they like. If you don't know who these guys are, that's your loss. They've provided me with countless hours of humor and headbanging since early high school, and I own all their records, so obviously it was really cool to sit down and chat with them. Really nice guys, too (surprisingly).

Once again, the podcasts are not up, but I will make note on this page as soon as the interview is up. It should be on the 'WIDR INTERVIEWS' podcast page in its unedited form sometime soon. I had to do a ton of 'bleeps' to be able to play it on the air. But, here's the playlist for now anyhow:

Iron Maiden - The Ides of March
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Anal Cunt - Interview
Anal Cunt - Loudest Stereo
Anal Cunt - I Wish My Dealer was Open
Anal Cunt - Crankin' My Band's Demo on a Box at the Beach
Anal Cunt - Side B of the 'Unplugged' EP
Black Sabbath - Behind the Wall of Sleep
Anal Cunt - Radio Hit
Anal Cunt - Unbelievable
Anal Cunt - Even More Songs
Anal Cunt - I Don't Wanna Dance
Anal Cunt - Guy Lombardo
Anal Cunt - Pottery's Gay
Anal Cunt - You Play on a Softball Team
Anal Cunt - We Just Disagree
Anal Cunt - Windchimes are Gay
Anal Cunt - Hootie and the Blowfish
Anal Cunt - 311 Sucks
Judas Priest - Jawbreaker
Eyehategod - Kill Your Boss
Anal Cunt - I'm Not that Kind of Boy
Anal Cunt - Theme from 'Three's Company'
Anal Cunt - Big Pants, Bigger Loser
Anal Cunt - Your Family is Dumb
Anal Cunt - I Got Athlete's Foot Showering at Mike's
Damien Storm - Realms of Destiny (Edit)
Damien Storm - Behind the Curtain
Pantera (ft. Seth Putnam) - War Nerve
Anal Cunt - Hitler was a Sensitive Man
Anal Cunt - Rancid Sucks (And the Clash Sucked Too)
Anal Cunt - I Intentionally Ran Over Your Dog
Anal Cunt - Being Ignorant is Awesome
Anal Cunt - Flower Shop Guy
Anal Cunt - American Woman
Anal Cunt - Some More Hits
Anal Cunt - 'Stealing Seth's Ideas,' the New Book by Jon Chang
Anal Cunt - Pepe, the Gay Waiter
Anal Cunt - Stayin' Alive (Oi! Version)
Anal Cunt - Art Fag
Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered
Eyehategod - Left to Starve
Hellhammer - Buried and Forgotten
Altar of Plagues - Feather and Bone
Anata - Disobedience Pays
Cathedral - Ride
Primus - Too Many Puppies
Type O Negative - Christian Woman/Body of Christ
Carbonized - Succubus
Napalm Death - Blind to the Truth
Creeping - Crawling Into Hell
Rottest Slag - Opium Smokers
Argus - Wolves of Dusk
The God Machine - Ego
Leukemia - Wandering
Eyehategod - Zero Nowhere
Pestilence - Commandments


...wow, lots and lots of typing. Alright, I'm done, check ya later.

Society's Fault Episode 30-something and Forte 22, plus Sykotik Sinfoney's album 'Eargasm'

Wow, so I kinda stopped posting here for about a month....I'm just posting this past week's radio programs because there were a lotta half-assed ones in-between. You can check out the Society's Fault and Forte podcast pages to hear them all, but I don't feel like typing out all those playlists. Actually, on closer inspection, it looks like the podcasts haven't been updated in a while. They'll be up eventually, though.

For now, here's the SF playlist. Add'l material provided by Coma Nova's new drummer, Jacob:
Proto-punk:
Pink Fairies - Street Urchin
Peter Hammill - Red Shift
Destroy All Monsters - These Boots are Made for Walking
Faust - Picnic on a Frozen River (Deuxieme Tableux)
Todd Rundgren - Piss Aaron
Dick Dale - Death of a Gremmie
The Kinks - Nobody Gives
Big Star - In the Street

Punk:
Fang - I've Got the Disease
The Dicks - Shit Fool
Circle Jerks - Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Wipers - Over the Edge
Husker Du - Beyond the Threshold
Husker Du - Pride
Husker Du - I'll Never Forget You
Husker Du - The Biggest Lie
Husker Du - What's Going On
Husker Du - Masochism World
Husker Du - Standing by the Sea
The Replacements - Somethin' to Du

Post-punk:
Alice Donut - Lisa's Father (Waka Baby)
The Dismemberment Plan - Girl O'Clock
Screaming Trees - Don't Look Down
The Frogs - Homos
Sonic Youth - Titanium Expose
The Cure - Icing Sugar
This Heat - S.P.Q.R.
Jandek - Corner of the Street
The Raincoats - The Void
Sunny Day Real Estate - Friday

Allllllright, on to Forte. I had lots of new stuff built up for this week, including a brand new release by legendary doom-metallers Pentagram. This album is special because it's the reunion of the guitarist and the vocalist or something. I dunno. Pentagram changes members like most people change underwear. I just know this is the most rockingest shit I've heard these fellas do in a long time. Some of this album rivals mid-80's stuff even. It doesn't come close to the 60's and 70's demos, but what does? Anyhow, the album is called 'Last Rites' and I would strongly advise you to pick it up.

Playlist:
Moonreich - En Marche Sur Nos Terres
Death Axe - Night of the Slayers
Pentagram - Walk in the Blue Light
Pentagram - Call the Man
Pentagram - Death in the 1st Person
Pentagram - Treat Me Right
Pentagram - Be Forewarned (request)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (request)
Ezophagothomia - Instinct of Inhuman Devourment
Sieges Even - Apocalyptic Disposition
Abigor - Satan's Galaxy
Leatherwolf - Bad Moon Rising
Shining - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Shining - Fisheye
Voodoo Mule - Lettuce Storm
God Macabre - Ashes of Mourning Life
Sigh - Dies Irae/The Master Malice
Brotherhood of Sleep - Into Our Sea of Melting Dreams
What's He Building in There? - Avian Taxi
Drohm - Beyond the Grace of God
Om - Flight of the Eagle
Kampfar - Blitzwitch
S.O.D. - Freddy Krueger
Beelzeb - Mislaid in the Weird Labyrinth of Mirrors
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera (request)
Sepultura - Ratamahatta
Botch - Swimming the Channel Vs. Driving the Chunnel
Deep Purple - Highway Star (Live)

...and lastly, I've finally got another download for y'all.
It's not very often that I find an album that's a) really cool and b) so goddamn obscure that I can't even find it. So, to start off, I was watching a b-grade science fiction film called 'Bad Channels' (it's a Full Moon pictures...more on this in the weeks to come, because I'm hopefully going to write an article comparing Full Moon with Troma Studios). The plot largely involves music, and there were a couple of what I would call music videos throughout the movie. One of these was by the rather unfortunately-named group Sykotik Sinfoney. Okay, so anybody in their right mind would probably see this band name and not even give them the time of day. But, in this case, I saw/heard them before reading the credits and finding out who they were.

I figured it would be something easy to go download, but surprisingly, there is very little info on these guys online. They were 'ahead of their time,' according to their own crappy homepage, and they have recently released a compilation of all their recordings called 'Eargasm,' which I am bringing to you now. Apparently they didn't have any proper releases in their heyday (the early '90's) aside from the 'Bad Channels' soundtrack.

So then. On to the music. The first thing I thought, upon seeing these guys decked out in goofy costumes and playing a combo of thrash, funk, circus and hair metal, was that they were a poor man's Mr. Bungle. The lyrics are often laughably bad, and the tempo/time changes are executed kinda clumsily, but goddamn, these guys actually write some pretty good tunes. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, these recordings are mostly from the late 80's/1990, and Mr. Bungle's first proper LP wasn't released until '91 or '92. Sooooo, either these fellas were big on local Eureka, CA bands, or they just happened to be influenced by the same groups that influenced Bungle (Oingo Boingo is a definite point of reference, as is early Chili Peppers, Frank Zappa, Slayer, GWAR, Devo, Funkadelic and Pantera). Whatever the case, this compilation is definitely worth a spin, and there was an alt-metal group called D.M.T. on the 'Bad Channels' soundtrack that was pretty decent, too. No luck finding their album, however.

Sykotik Sinfoney - Eargasm

Tracklist:

1. Mr. Cool
2. Posers
3. Gardeners from Hell
4. Ignorance
5. Maggots with Guns
6. Sex Sells
7. Life
8. Cake Fuck
9. Brain Dead
10. Stupid
11. Daddy Long Legs
12. Manic Depresso (I'm So Happy)
13. Little Ol' Lady Polka
14. Gumby

NOTE: The tracklisting on my upload is all screwed up cuz it's the only download I could find. It's pretty easy to figure out which song is which by what they say in the chorus, but the titles/order/etc. are completely wrong. Oh well, it's the music that counts.

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Forte 21, WIDR Week

Only one Forte post because I had a Coma Nova gig last Friday. Lots of talking, just like the Society's Fault podcast, because of WIDR Week. Forte raised 210 dollars! How cool is that?! Thanks, metalheads, you guys rule!

Get dem podcastz.

Playlist:

Benighted - Unborn Infected Children
Mercy - Welcome to My Graveyard
Horse Latitudes - Necrophilia
Shrum - Tears of a Marionette
Shrum - Technodrone
Worship - Keep on Selling Cocaine to Angels
Death - Misanthrope (request)
Orthrelm - Untitled #11
Possessed - Satan's Curse
Orthrelm - OV
Slayer - Dissident Aggressor (request)
Gay Witch Abortion - Stain on the Floor
Danzig - Her Black Wings
Abscess - When Witches Burn
Demented Retarded - Puma Swede
Faith No More - Surprise! You're Dead!
Drunk Motherfuckers - Ain't Give No Shit About Sobers
Asschapel - Suffer the Destroyer
Vomit Orchestra - Black
Psilocybe Larvae - Sleepwalkers
Wombatt - Glass Skeleton
Morbit - Devastated Eyesockets
Icecross - Jesus Freaks
Vediog Svaor - Curled Up Stars
Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt (request)
Rotten Sound - Addict (new from Relapse)

Ha...I forgot that I played a 40-minute track by Orthrelm that sounds like a CD skipping. I got $5 from a donor to turn it off and play Slayer instead.

Forte 20, featuring Epitaph's EP 'These Rotten Remains'

Couldn't find much info on these guys...apparently they're from Illinois. The EP is kind of like what a thrash metal album played by Jesus Lizard or Shellac might sound like. Odd, jerky rhythms, buzzsaw guitars, and a singer who really doesn't sound like a thrash vocalist at all. I dunno. I thought it was kinda neat, and it was only a 4-song EP, so I played the whole thing. Also of note was the fact that I got a shit-ton of requests in the last half of the show.

podcast.

playlist:

Lugubrum - Attractive to the Flies
Candlemass - Gothic Stone
Starkweather - Bustuari
Freak Kitchen - Taste My Fist
Brutal Truth - Choice of a New Generation
Malevolent Creation - Multiple Stab Wounds
Gower - The Shores of Bloodshed

Epitaph - 'These Rotten Remains' EP
Immortality Not
Deaf to Reason
Systematic Repression
Cycle of Law

Electric Wizard - Behemoth
Znowhite - Baptised by Fire
Lurker of Chalice - Granite
Running Wild - Adrian (request)
Grief - I Hate You
Solefald - Buy My Sperm
Symphony of Grief - Wars of Vengeance
Manilla Road - Necropolis (request)
Saint Vitus - The War Starter (request)
Vorak - Dies Irae I: Kruel and Glorious
Onslaught - Onslaught (Power from Hell) (request)
Vindicator - Dead in the Water
Sodom - Blasphemer (request)
Morbid Saint - Beyond the Gates of Hell (request)
Metallica - The Four Horsemen (request)
Sepultura - We Who are Not as Others (request)
Burzum - Glemselens Elv (request)
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (request)
Death - Secret Face (request)
Dragged into Sunlight - Boiled Angel

....see? What did I tell you? That's a ridiculous amount of requests.

Forte 19

Kind of a half-assed show...I mean, obviously, what with the Earth 2 and all. But, it might be fun to listen to, who knows?

Podcastery.

Playlist:

Earth - Like Gold and Faceted Part 2

Mystifier - The Dark Ringdom (I.F.A.R.)

Morbid Angel - Lord of All Fevers and Plague

DeathMask - Walk Alone

Iron Maiden - Charlotte the Harlot

Decaying Citadel - And that is Eternity

Pentagram - The Deist

Organium - Invoke

Fallen Christ - Command Me Satan

Beherit - I  don't remember what song I played by them...

Sodom - Enchanted Land

Eyehategod - Dopesick Jam

Gorelust - Anthropophagist

Odyssey - Shake the Disease

Autopsy Torment - Consumed Christ

Lullaby - In the Name of the Devil

Repulsion - Radiation Sickness

Quill - Lodestar

Jabladav - Consumed

Forbidden - Overthrow

Type O Negative - Prelude to Agony

Esoteric - Bereft

Switch - All You Do is Bitch

Ganzmord - Punishment Made Flesh

Thought Industry - Smirk the Godblender (request)

Tormentor - Apocalypse

Voivod - Into My Hypercube

Hallow's Eve - Lethal Tendencies

Whatever. Next week's show'll be way better.

Forte 18, featuring Burzum's album 'Fallen'

If you've continued listening to Forte since I took over as host, odds are you like (or at least don't mind) Burzum. To me, Burzum isn't just one of the most innovative and original metal bands of the past couple decades, but they're one of the only groups in modern music that I find consistently enjoyable. This record doesn't come out in Norway til next week, and doesn't even reach America until April, so you might as well check out my podcast and hear the shit while you can.

That being said, here's my take on 'Fallen':

While 2010's 'Belus' was pretty subdued (for Burzum) and featured more emphasis on melody and intricate guitar parts than any other release, 'Fallen' sounds like Varg is getting angry again. The recording reminds me of older Burzum releases (pre-'Filosofem') where the idea was to do shit as lo-fi as possible. Maybe that's just the bad rip I have, but this sounds like a much 'dirtier' record to me. That being said, Varg has also continued to use his 'real' singing voice--something which first appeared on 'Belus.' Before that, it was all black metal screams and the occasional quiet talking part. There are full-on HARMONIES on this record. What the hell? There are also fewer 'ambient' pieces than on the last couple Burzum releases, which is fine by me. I like the stuff, but I pretty much just use it to fall asleep. I don't care about any of the murder or jail shit anymore, this guy is a great musician and he continues to prove it with each release.

Playlist:

Door into Emptiness - Ruh
Drainland - Jellyfish

Burzum - 'Fallen'
Fra Verdenstreet
Jeg Faller
Valen
Vanvidd
Enhver til Sitt
Budstikken
Til Hel og tilbake igjen

Enoch - Space Wizard
Cruel Force - Necromansy
Forgotten Spell - Into Sulphuric Vortex of Abyss Cult
Chaosophia - Schizophrenia
Grayceon - Shellmounds
Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
Euphoria - (Unknown Title)
Ives - Lost in the Pleasures of Moonlight
Malicious Onslaught - Blademade
Sky Shadow Obelisk - Dead Star Valley
Evoken - Descend the Lifeless Womb
Purtenance - A Dark Cloud Arises
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Bi-Polar Disorder
Slaughter House - Gettin' Away with Murder
Fudge Tunnel - Good Kicking
Dying Sun - We All Dissolve
Coffinworm - Start Saving for Your Funeral
Acid Bath - Bleed Me an Ocean
Satan - Oppression (Live)

Enjoy Bizarro Jerry's bootlegging while you can!

Forte 17, featuring Dead Horse's album 'Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers'

You remember these guys, right? I hope so. I've played them countless times on Obscuro, and periodically during my tenure as Forte's host as well. Now you get to hear the whole goddamn album.

Dead Horse was formed in the late 80's by Michael Haaga and his friends in Houston, TX. Maybe it's just the Texas connection, but to me these guys sound like if the Butthole Surfers started a thrash metal band. Weird interludes, bizarre humor, musical left-turns, and lots more stuff that doesn't really fit into the 'thrash' genre. They only cut two full lengths (two EP's also) and it was really hard to pick which one to play. The first one, 'Horsecore' is a little more thrash (and a little funnier) but it also has a lot more cursing, so it was just easier to play 'Peaceful Death.' Aside from the Horse, I played lots of 'classic' metal cuts to suit the early-90's mood of the album.

If you remember, I posted this album as a download a while back. There's also some info in that post about what lead man Michael Haaga is up to these days.

Anyhow, here's the podcast,

...and the playlist:

Sleep - Dragonaut
Cianide - Funeral
Witchrist - Shrine of Skulls
Fear Factory - Lifeblind
Atheist - Brains
Atheist - I Deny
Mercyful Fate - Curse of the Pharaohs
Ankrismah - Crawling Mist

Dead Horse - 'Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers'
Cod Piece Face
Turn
La La Song
Like Asrielle
The Latent Stage
Peaceful Death
Eulogy
Snowdogs
The Lark Nest
Medulla Oblongata
Aplo
Rock Lobster
Sawbone

Saint Vitus - Look Behind You
Atrox - Lizard Dance
Neurosis - Blisters
Eyehategod - Sister Fucker, Pt. 1
Carcass - Crepitating Bowel Erosion
Mayhem - Buried by Time and Dust
Voivod - Helldriver
Brujeria - Sacrificio
Brujeria - Matando Gueros
Brujeria - Grenudos Locos
Moss - Gate III: Devils from the Outer Dark, Pt. III: Exitus Templum
Drakar - Tunelem Zpatky
Crowbar - Self-Inflicted
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky
Cathedral - A Funeral Request
Shrapnel - Hellgrinder
Exemption - Blood Heaven

I'm thinking I might put a little more effort into this week's show...the past few have been kind of haphazardly-produced. Sorry 'bout that. Jerry's busy...Obscuro megashow still coming soon.

Forte 16...including an on-air reading of a letter demanding Forte be pulled from WIDR

So, I got a letter in my mailbox at the WIDR offices...apparently it dates back to 1999 (probably during former host Aaron's tenure) and concerns a very religious, very angry man who wanted Forte pulled from the airwaves for being 'university-funded Satanism.' It's pretty funny. I'll probably post a written version of it up here in a day or so. For now, check it out in this week's podcast.

Totally Satanic Playlist:

Groover - Hop Ride
Groover - Sharp Dressed Man
El Hijo de la Aurora - Portal a Venus
Disinter - The Wrath is Unleashed
Paragon Belial - Necromancer
Meanstreak - Snake Pit
Noisear - Inoperative (New from Relapse)
Noisear - The Alternative is... (New from Relapse)
Funeral Circle - Homunculus
Death - A Moment of Clarity (New from Relapse)
Thrash Queen - Chasing the Dragon (request)
Heather Leather - Child Molester (request)
Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Esoteric - The Noise of Depression
Neurosis - The Doorway (request)
Deicide - Empowered by Blasphemy
Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island (request)
Wolfmangler - Blue Hotel
Ghost Tower - Sacrifice
XII Boar - Sludge
Abysmal Dawn - Perpetual Dormancy (New from Relapse)
Colosseum - Prosperity
Spirit Caravan - Fang
Depress - Monotone Response
Silent Death - Undesirable Demise
Rotten Sound - Targets (New from Relapse)
Predator - Hawk Mistress
Onslaught - the Sound of Violence
Royal Thunder - Sleeping Witch (New from Relapse)
Inner Strength - Red Room
Biohazard - Down for Life

Indeed. I had not heard this Esoteric group from the UK before doing the program this week, and that stuff is badass. It's really creepy and slow, both things I like. Expect to hear more of them on the program. Also, Obscuro mega-blowout-3-hour-special is STILL coming soon. Give it a couple more weeks, probably.

Forte 15...I was sick and had no idea what I was doing, so sorry if the show sucked.

Here's your Forte podcast for last week. No podcast this week cuz Coma Nova had a gig and I had to skip out.

And the playlist. Look out, cuz a special edition of Obscuro! is coming soon...

Sleep - Sonic Titan
Deliverance - Killing for Jesus
Abhoth - The Tide
Burzum - Erblicket die Tochter des Firmaments
Parabellum - Engendro 666
Extreme - Get the Funk Out (request)
Melvins - If I Had an Exorcism
Gomorha - Yog Sothoth (Lord of Temptation)
Anaal Nathrakh - The Lucifer Effect
Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom
Scaffold - Dungeon
Pan-thy-Monium - The Battle of Geeheeb

Dad-metal set:
Blue Cheer - Parchment Farm (request)
Pentagram - Forever My Queen
Hawkwind - Lost Johnnie
Electric Wizard - Venus in Furs
Deep Purple - Pictures of Home

Disguster - Solve
Blood Feast - Suicidal Mission
Funcunt - Kitarat
Brainstorm - Leave the Dead Alone
King Diamond - At the Graves
Abhorer - Abandonment of Chastity
Gobblehoof - Where's the Fire?
Dusk Chapel - Quasireality
Voivod - Brain Scan
Blaspheme - Au Nom Des Morts
Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere

alllllllllright, see ya.

Bizarro Jerry's Alternate Universe Metal Program (aka Forte 14)

This one is for the 3, maybe 4 folks who've told me they miss the Obscuro! radio show. I played pretty much all the insane, deranged, twisted heavy metal I've found doing the show (and some cuts from the Obscuro! days, too) and put them into one 3-hour block of totally fucked radio. Okay, so I WAS about half an hour late because Coma Nova was playing a house party, but still...2 and a half hours of this stuff is probably more than enough. You've got your retarded-bad basement demos, misguided attempts at heavy metal by record executives, totally satanic black metal made by loner dudes in the woods, and every other kind of heavy shit you never knew existed. I am thinking about bringing back Obscuro! one of these weeks for a three-hour block in Forte's place once I get enough new weird stuff collected. We'll see.

Get that podcast, fella.

Playlist:

Striborg - Perceiving the World with Hate
Mayhem - Pagan Years (request)
Lullaby - Supreme Majesty
Reencarnacion - Reencarnacion (II Parte)
Heather Leather - Child Molester
Black Vomit - Deluge from Hell
Dwarr - Heavy Vibrations
Dwarr - Takes Me Away
Trifixion - Fear, is All that I See
Trifixion - Immortal
Exmortes - Prophecy
Lester Maddox - Egypt (The Chains are Off)
Secret Metal - The Cop
Apator - The Satanic Bloodspraying
Dawnfall - II
Ghost - Ritual
Flames of Hell - Flames of Hell
Killer Fox - Running Blade
Godzilla - Cinderella Rockefella
Kalaschnikov - Kill Your Neighbor
Satanic Corpse - At the Alter of Death
Malicious Onslaught - Emotional Death
Oranssi Pazuzu - Danjon Nolla
Svaty Vincent - Absolutni Vedomni
Brainstorm - My Total Vision
Black Virgin - Heavy Metal Mad
Varghkoghargasmal - War on the Hills

Embrace the weirdness, yall.

Forte 13...probably the widest variety of stuff since I started...

You've got your thrash, death, grindcore, black metal, funeral doom, regular doom, stoner metal, sludge metal, foreign, domestic, you name it, I played it. That's a picture of Death SS up there...one of the earliest 'occult' metal bands, and probably THE earliest Italian metal band. They started in like, 75 or something and are still playing today (albeit with different members, and NOT founding lead man and awesome fellow Paul Chain).

Podcast.

Playlist:

Gallow God - Summon the Rune Wizard
Bowel Fetus - The Lipstick Eaters
Bowel Fetus - Mass Suicide at the Old Folks
Sickening Gore - Obscene Existence
Ion Dissonance - The Budd Dwyer Effect (request)
Nightstick - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
AxCx - Cranking My Band's Demo on a Box at the Beach
Pantera - Power Metal

Melt-Banana mini-set:
'P-Pop-Slop' from 'Speak, Squeak, Creak'
'Excess' from 'Charlie'
'Type B for Me' from 'Scratch or Stitch'
'It's in the Pillcase' from 'Scratch or Stitch'
'Surfin' USA' from some EP, dunno which...

Ives - A Tangle of Hair and Bone
Ives - Sweet Fields of Ecstacy
Death SS - Terror
Death SS - Schizophrenic
Paul Chain - Antichrist
Cannabis Corpse - I Will Smoke You
Violence - Phobophobia
Acid King - Heavy Load
Agalloch - Into the Painted Grey
Phobia - Death to Pigs
Phobia - Nihilistic Grindcore
Svafnir - Death of the Sun
Burzum - Lost Wisdom
Infectious Grooves - Boom Boom Boom
The Toll - Seclusion
Helloween - Murderer
13 - Bound
Autopsy - Service for a Vacant Coffin
Death - Evil Dead
Gore - After
Shape of Despair - Quiet These Paintings are
Granicus - Hollywood Star
Beherit - Goat Worship
S.D.I. - Killer's Confession

That's this week in heavy metal, I'm Bizarro Jerry signing off. I'm gonna put some more downloads up this week, I think. It's been a bit.