Well we did it. we made it to 50 episodes and to celebrate we're covering one of the darlings of underground hip hop. Aesop Rock's 3rd studio album, Labor Days, is one of the more consequential records for backpack rap/nerd rap/underground hip hop/whatever you wanna call it. Aesop Rock really developed his unique, ultra wordy lyrical style and off-kilter, esoteric flow on this album and manage to make a few relative hits in the process with "Daylight" being considered a corner stone of not only ...
May 04, 2026•1 hr 42 min
Extremely good news, the audio is actually fixed on this one. Even better news, this is maybe our best episode yet. We're covering the Texas bred post-hardcore infused prog rock legends The Mars Volta and their debut album De-Loused in the Comatorium. We delve into the concept of this record surrounding the comatose dreams of a man named Cerpin Taxt as well as discuss the real life friend of Cedic Bixler-Zavala, Julio Venegas, whose death the story is loosely based on. The version of the album I...
Apr 20, 2026•1 hr 53 min
***EDITOR'S NOTE*** Some settings got messed up with this episode so the audio isn't our best. Both mics, especially Jason's, have a lot of echo going on. I did what I could to make it as listenable as possible but if it's too annoying I'll understand. I promise to have this fixed before we record the next one. For better or worse, Childish Gambino's Because the Internet acts as a time capsule of 2014 internet and pop culture. The album simultaniously feels nostalgic and also dated. Some stuff o...
Apr 13, 2026•1 hr 55 min
We're finally back for our first proper main episode in almost a full year so of course to make up for it we're doing a double album. Yellow & Green was a pretty ambitious and risky album for Baroness to put out in 2012, straying away from their sludge metal into something a little more spacey and chilled out. The version of the vinyl I have here is one of the many many many Relapse Records represses they pumped out for this album over the years. Specifically a yellow and green merge that me...
Apr 06, 2026•2 hr 2 min
Ok this one might be a litttttle late but better late than never right?! That's right your eyes don't deceive you, you are seeing a brand new episode of MBFRC after nearly a year and what better way to come back than counting down our individual top 10 albums of last year. Even if it's not very timely it just felt like the right place to start. So help us get this podcast ball rollin again by looking back at the incredible music that came out in 2025. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy...
Mar 11, 2026•2 hr 8 min
Oh we're back and it's probably the meanest we've been to an album on the show. Stone Sour's self titled debut is an ego-driven butt rock opus designed from start to finish to make you go "hey it's the guy from Slipknot." This album exists for one reason and one reason only; to make Corey Taylor a celebrity. Corey Taylor was upset that he had very little say in the writing process for Slipknot and he was alos upset that the meteoric success of Slipknot didn't come with my real celebrity because ...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Finally. An episode that is less than 2 hours long. It helps that this week we're covering Seizures in Barren Praise by grind/crust band Trap Them. The album is only 10 tracks and 25 minutes total. Compared to the last few episodes this one just BREEZES by! It also helps that Seizures in Barren Praise by Trap Them happens to be one of my favorite albums of all time. Illegally downloading this album from some guy's blogspot page when I was 16 started a snowball effect that would alter how I liste...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 25 min
This week we're talking about probably the most consequential album in Nine Inch Nails' history. The Downward Spiral was a monumental success, widely considered to be a masterpiece. The Fragile was largely panned as being too bloated and self-indulgent (even if it is their best album imo). After that Trent Reznor took a full 6 years to produce an album and it needed to be a hit. With Teeth is a sharp, focused, lean product compared to The Fragile, and because of that was a massive success spawni...
Apr 01, 2025•2 hr 9 min
Of course it's finally time for us to cover a Kendrick Lamar album and it happens to be the most divisive album of his career. Kenny came out of a 5 year hiatus following his most commercially successful album at the time, DAMN, and delivered a double album that is deeply personal and sometimes uncomfortable to listen to. We try to cover all of the various controversies surrounding this album, both fair and unfair. From accusations of transphobia to the questionable inclusion of Kodak Black. But...
Mar 26, 2025•2 hr 52 min
This week we discuss the 6th full length album from one of my favorite bands since my high school days. Revocation's Great is our Sin is a great album that somehow still manages to be somewhat underwhelming? We talk about how having a such a consistent catalog and album release schedule can actually hurt the final product even if the final product is actually very good. We also do our best to try and answer the question of what hyper specific type of extreme metal Revocation is. Too thrashy to b...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Even though it's February already we're still stuck in 2024 over here finally counting down our favorite albums of the year as well as doing our best to recap the year in music with little to no preparation. It was a year of rap beefs, country artists topping the charts, non-country artists doing country to try and top the charts, Brat Summer, Doom Metal Winter, Sad Girl Autumn, so on and so forth. We try to cover the full gammut of music as we each countdown our individual top 10 albums of the ...
Feb 12, 2025•2 hr 53 min
OBS tried to stop us. A hurricane tried to stop us. My crippling ADD tried to stop us but we can't be stopped. We're back and we're covering obscure mid-2010s indie pop album In The Cards by Robert Delong. While still falling into some of the tropes of the EDM-tinged indie pop of it's time, In The Cards has enough personality and big enough hooks to stand above most of the artists in that crowd. Too bad it never quite reached the general public. In the news corner this week it's all about bands ...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 51 min
That's right we're back baby. After a long hiatus we're finally covering the long promised Underneath by Code Orange. It's hard to understate how much of a splash this made in the metalcore and hardcore scenes when this album was first released. From the lead-up and promo, to what was probably the first lockdown-era live streamed concert for the release, to the subsequent "This band was the future of metal!" hype train that follows, I was on board 100% the entire time. It's also hard to understa...
Sep 09, 2024•2 hr 8 min
Our release schedule is all screwed up and based on vibes at this point so here's Episode 37, featuring even more Maynard James Keenan! This week we cover Maynard's jokey solo project Puscifer, which is neither fully a joke nor is it really a solo project. The more mellow, chilled out and synth-focused side project of the Tool frontman is often overlooked as a joke band that only exists for hardcore Tool fans, this episode goes a little deeper to figure out what the band's second album really ha...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 39 min
This week we take a look at The White Stripes' second to last, and possibly most controversial album, Get Behind Me Satan. This album has my favorite story of buying a record to date and we also go down a fun reddit rabbit hole trying to figure out who the people on the alternate vinyl cover are. This week in the news corner we start to talk about the current "big 3" rap beef and J. Cole's apology however we recorded this episode before the Drake song came out so this is a developing story. We a...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 50 min
It's time to expand our minds and open our third eye as we finally dive into the only band that manages to be equal parts butt rock and prog rock. It's Tool Time folks and you know what that means. We're talkin time signatures, aliens, funky basslines, and deceptively emotional lyrics. Plus some of the funniest negative reviews we've had on the show so far. This week in the news corner we do a rapid fire round up of some (mostly death doom) albums that have come out recently before spending abou...
Apr 02, 2024•2 hr 7 min
This week we continue to look at progressively heavier and heavier album with Gaza's chaotic, sludgy metalcore sophomore album He Is Never Coming Back from 2009. The very first vinyl I ever bought just so I could get a cool hoodie. We ever go into the problematic history of the band and the subsequent breakup that brought us another very cool sludgy metalcore band with Cult Leader. This week in the news corner we discuss whether or not Scowl are hypocrites for dropping out of SXSW but continuing...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 29 min
This week on the pod we take a dive into the most extreme music we've covered on the show so far, Grindcore (sorta). As we take a look at the 13th studio album by UK grindcore legends Napalm Death. We do our best to untangle the intricacies and subtle differences between grindcore, deathgrind, and death metal as well as try to decipher what these woke libs are screaming about! In the news corner this week we look at one of the funnier Kanye stories in recent memory where he sent the twitch strea...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 40 min
It's time to take a trip down memory lane with what is definitely the album Jason has heard most in his life. We discuss the second album from progressive post-hardcore emo band Coheed and Cambria, diving deep into not just the music but the comics and expansive, sometimes contradictory lore of The Amory Wars. In the news corner this week we talk about a tour designed exclusively for divorced dads, Kanye fans being ok with nazism but drawing the line at paying for music, and also cops at the pop...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 54 min
Back from the dead actually for real this time. Season 2 of MBFRC is comin at ya starting with the long promised review of Knocked Loose's essential metalcore sophomore album, A Different Shade of Blue. We also briefly touch on several fun twitter dramas happening in the hardcore scene lately and Jason goes on an unprompted rant about Sleep Token. We are so back. Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 22 min
We're back from the dead and we're counting down all of our favorite albums from 2023! Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewQPpTnfgg&list=PPSV Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 55 min
My Boyfriend has gone woke Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewQPpTnfgg&list=PPSV Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Oct 09, 2023•2 hr 24 min
My Boyfriend is online Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewQPpTnfgg&list=PPSV Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss! Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewQPpTnfgg&list=PPSV Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 35 min
Troy Barnes did a funk album Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 47 min
OBS tried to prevent this episode to happen but we did it anyway. Possibly the last classic rock album. Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 35 min
Possibly the last classic rock album. Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Aug 08, 2023•2 hr 25 min
We're the couple cornering you at the party to explain Coheed and Cambria lore Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 53 min
Nu-Metal is BACK baybe! Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Jul 24, 2023•2 hr 6 min
Finally back in the comfort zone. Twitter/Instagram - @ MBFrecordspod Amanda's Twitter/IG - @ Amandamoonchild Amanda's Art/moth IG - @ SpicyPiscesCrisis Jason's Twitter - @ FrequencyShifts Jason's Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/user/FrequencyShift/collection Theme music by SHADE08 x 80root on YouTube Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Jul 17, 2023•2 hr 34 min
