This week we had a lovely chat with Daron Beck from Pinkish Black, the synth/keyboard and bass duo who have won the hearts and minds of heavy metal fans around the globe. We chatted about Daron's love for album oriented rock, lots of goth shit, the space rock scene in Denton Texas in the 90s, managing TWO Hot Topic Stores, Showbiz Pizza, doing interior design for offices, and a whole bunch of other great stuff! Note...the audio quality for Daron was a little rough for about the first 20 minutes ...
Apr 05, 2021•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 29
This week it's a new milestone...our first-ever (that we know of) Grammy nominated guest, the incredibly charming Chris Johnson from Deafheaven, Summoner, Doomriders, running live sound, and engineering lots of great recordings, including the Worshipper tracks on the Glory or Death Thin Lizzy and Deep purple tribute and the Magnetic Eye Records "Live at Day of Doom" records featuring Elephant Tree, Domkraft, Horsehunter, and Summoner. Deafheaven released a career retrospective record titled "10 ...
Mar 29, 2021•3 hr 7 min•Ep. 28
Get ready to hear about Swedish music and culture in this fascinating chat with our first submission-turned-guest Max Malmer from Cavern Deep. If you’ve been following along, you heard us listen to Max’s band in episode 25 (the Return of the Susie) and we were blown away. Turns out Max is a prolific musician and producer from Umeå Sweden, a small town (100K) population in Norland (Northern Sweden) that has produced a shocking number of popular metal and hardcore bands including Meshuggah, Breach...
Mar 22, 2021•2 hr 56 min•Ep. 27
Whoooooo boy. You ready to get Santos'd? Doesn't matter. Do you shower with a PS4? Did Aaron Turner and his wife mail you a double-headed Barbie for your daughter? Have you ever taken a shit next to Oscar Isaacs? Did your dad participate in a gang war in Oakland? Have you been in the same room with Donald Trump and Sir Ben Kingsley? We did listen to music, so listen to that part too! Old Man Gloom Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oldmangloomband Bandcamp: https://oldmangloom.bandcamp.com/ Sp...
Mar 15, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 26
What else can we say but welcome back Susie for our 6-month-aversary, and we went for it...for 3 and a half hours. We go all over...checking in on the Tom Aspaul situation, cocktail hour and the SF coctail club, picking a new bass for Susie, N'awlins, gumbo, changing the way you make music because of a pandemic, a healthy dose of Enver from Disastroid, Susie's metal buddha Hutch, her favorite Baton Roughe bands, and a revelation that she's working on multiple new music projects BECAUSE OF THIS P...
Mar 08, 2021•3 hr 32 min•Ep. 25
This week we bring you a lovely chat with JJ Koczan from The Obelisk, and his bird....birdy? We dug into his involvement in the heavy music scene...how he got started as a journalist, why he runs the Obelisk as largely a one-man show, how to catch the attention of journalists and bloggers (don't start an e-mail to JJ with "Hey guys!", and how he got involved in editing the Roadburn daily magazine. JJ is a lovely, thoughtful, and funny dude who does an incredible amount of heavy lifting for tons ...
Mar 01, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 24
What a delight this episode is...to finally sit down and chat with the man who created our theme music! Francis is a composer, player, engineer, producer, YouTuber, streamer, creator, and TEACHER. He has all the hats, and despite the pandemic and a pulmonary embolism that could have killed him, he had an amazing year as a creator in 2020, with major music outlets heaping praise on his work as Old Man Wizard, King Gorm, and his solo work. He also just announced that an animated fantasy series he ...
Feb 22, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 23
What could be a more appropriate for a Valentine's Day episode than a band that is also a couple? This week we talked to Zachary Livingston and Sarah Pendleton of Asphodel Wine. Their story is a heavy metal love story...they met on tour when both Minsk (Zach's Band) and Subrosa (Sarah's band) were supporting Cult of Luna! We cover lots of topics...the pandemic, long distance relationships, sexy time, the writing process, Zach's guitar collection (Zach is a master builder/luthier at Lakland), the...
Feb 15, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 22
Oh man...so excited about this one. We spent time chatting with Jordan Olds, the brains? behind Two Minutes To Late Night. If you don't know Two Minutes, what are you going....click the link below and dive in. Jordan spent the pandemic organizing an incredible group of "Bedroom Covers"...underground musicians covering some of their favorite songs and artists. Well it was underground until he trotted out a cover of Rush's Anthem by Danny Carey, Les Claypool, Bill Kelliher, Claudio Sanchez, Stephe...
Feb 08, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 21
This week we sat down and chatted/listened to music with frontman Alex Petralia of East Bay noise rock's Nopes. They released a new record via Magnetic Eye on January 29th 2021 and it's a banger, with some of the best song titles in music history ("Amber is the Color of Your Alert" is our personal favorite). Our talk covered a bunch of topics, but frequently came back to the east bay punk scene, the use of horns in heavy music, and why ska punk was Jeff's only window into punk rock (sad, we know...
Feb 01, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 20
Another Monday, a very special episode. This week we sit down for an epic chat and listen with our good friends Buddy Donner and Tyler Dingvell from Great Electric Quest and Glory or Death Records. Buddy and Tyler give us the scoop on: -What the label and band have been up to during the pandemic -Progress on the GOD Deep Purple Tribute record -Details on pulling together the Friends of GOD 3 LP compilation -Tyler's battle with testicular cancer this spring -What happens when your dog eats a bee ...
Jan 25, 2021•2 hr 56 min•Ep. 19
Suh, dude! Three audio engineers in a row?! Yep, buckle up because the one and only Andy Patterson (Subrosa, Insect Ark, DONE) is our guest this week. You know how we often say “this week’s episode is a real treat”, or “this was a fun one” or “this was a wild ride”? Well, there aren’t enough catchy sayings for this one. We really hit the ground running this week! Even before we started recording, this one went in some interesting places. Get ready for some laughs. Having been in 30+ bands, and r...
Jan 19, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 18
This week’s episode is a real treat, featuring Jeff’s friend, and engineer/mixer/producer on both KOOK records Chris Hughes. Chris is a multi-talented engineer, producer, mastering engineer, and musician producing DIY bands from many genres. We’ve actually already done a (semi) blind listen of Chris’ solo project Silent Type on the Billy Goate episode, and he talks about moving to LA and launching Stereo Lunch Mixing Studio. We also get into the music scene growing up in Denver, why he is a fan ...
Jan 12, 2021•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 17
This week is a real treat as we welcome one of the true heroes off modern heavy music. Billy has the longest and most illustrious engineering and production resumes in the world, and has also spent time playing in some incredible bands (played bass in the Melvins). He has incredible knowledge, and from spending time in the studio with him, stories (and puns) for days. We talked to Billy about what he’s been up to during the pandemic, what music he’s working on, his interest in cave paintings, ho...
Jan 05, 2021•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 16
This week we bring you a legendary chat/listen with a legendary NYC hardcore pioneer, Armand Majidi, drummer for Sick of it All. We had some serious “moist talk in the jam room” covering how he got started in music and the beginnings of New York Hardcore and Sick of It all. We went all the way from Iranian politics in the 70s and 80s and the links between refugees and the spreading of culture (food mostly) to touring with Korn. And trigger warning, there is a ton of beer and pizza talk, includin...
Dec 29, 2020•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 15
Buckle up your big person britches…this goes all over the place. We only got through three submissions, but somehow listened to more music than ever before. Honestly we could write 10 pages of notes about this episode…but just listen to it. John takes a call from his sister, drops the news that Moon Tooth is recording a new record, takes a pee break (more than once), shows off records, talks about Orcs boning in Mordor. We deep dive into Serbian label LIBRARION’S catalogue because why not and we...
Dec 22, 2020•3 hr 5 min•Ep. 14
For episode 13 we sat down and chatted with Christian Lembach, the charming singer and guitar player for pummeling noise rock outfit Whores. Turns out Christian is a chill homebody who has a side-hustle in Atlanta's film and television industry, and a cat named Taco. Taco Cat. We end up talking a lot about how important relationships are to DIY artists, and how strange a media empire eOne is, and what it was like to grow up on tiny Marco island in Florida. We dig back into the Bay Area's history...
Dec 14, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 13
Episode 12…the conclusion of our lengthy interview with the oft-referred to (in this podcast at least) Trevor William Church, the brainchild behind Beastmaker, Haunt, and a bunch of other very cool metal projects. Kicking off with the Merch Table, Jeff shows off a limited Earthless live record, Trevor shows us a MIJ BC Rich that he bought from Russia. Hmmmm. Long story short, he doesn't like it...because he can't "go" on it...needs a painted neck...so he can be gnarly. And them....Trevor shows o...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 12
Episode 11…the episode so big it became 2 episodes. This week, part one of our lengthy interview with the oft-referred to (in this podcast at least) Trevor William Church, the brainchild behind Beastmaker, Haunt, and a bunch of other very cool metal projects. We talk about sparkling water and sparkling weed, how Trevor got started, growing up the son of Electric Bill Church, bass player for Montrose, Sammy Hagar, and more. He then misses an amp delivery (but gets the footswitch at least). “Hey g...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 11
Episode 10 starts with a bang! Alyssa talks about playing in Eight Bells and Joining Lord Dying, how she started playing music (on a toy piano). She also talks about her other hustles including the digital portrait she did of Jeff’s dog Monkey, which leads to chatting about her spectacular pitbull/husky pooch Crom…who knows the “riddle of steal”, and doing cover art for the Magnetic Eye Records Black Sabbath Vol. 4 tribute record. "Sabbath chat" continues with another great story about attemptin...
Nov 23, 2020•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 10
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Nov 16, 2020•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 9
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Nov 09, 2020•2 hr•Ep. 8
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Nov 02, 2020•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 7
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Oct 26, 2020•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 6
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 5
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Oct 12, 2020•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 4
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 3
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 2
Blynd Submyshynz is a podcast from the wild minds of Jeff Wilson (KOOK, Glory or Death Records, Heavy San Jose) and JD Norton (Heavy San Jose). Our goal is to expose you to new music in the DIY scene, and hang out with musicians we know or want to know better. Every week we'll take submissions from any band who finds our email address ([email protected])...listen to them for the first time with our special guest and give honest reactions, and talk about things affecting DIY musicians around the...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 1
