This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we choose the path of Godsmack and their third album, Faceless. Jenny, Lorin and Matt discuss the fleshy album art, what size pipes you need on a motorcycle, Sully Erna’s memoir The Paths We Choose, “Fightin’ & Fuckin’”, what to call Godsmack fans, debate what the best Godsmack song is, and also decide if Godsmack deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have ...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Roach Koach is back, baby! This episode has it all: -Jenny had her baby! -Nu-Metal is back….shirts? -Matt’s computer…..is dying? -Should Justin Timberlake pivot to Nu-metal? -Holiday Kirk! -Limp Bizkit Limp Bizkit Limp Bizkit! Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachKoach on Twitter , Roach Koach on Facebook , Roach Koach on Instagram , o...
Jul 14, 2021•38 min
C’mon! It’s Side Project Summer! This week on the Roach Koach Podcast, we listen to Mudvayne/Nothingface/Pantera side project(turned main project) Hellyeah’s self titled debut album. Lorin, Jenny and Matt talk the origins of Hellyeah, the Hellyeah holy trinity, The Clubhouse in Dallas, Nutt Rock, going to a strip club during the pandemic, Hellyeah’s thank you’s in their liner notes, and decide whether Hellyeah is Ego or Essential. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d apprec...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 38 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as we go over your feedback, questions and recommendations. We talk new Fear Factory, #LoyaltotheRoach, announce a new t-shirt, discuss the Beatles of Nu-Metal, read your Unquestionable Truth feedback, and discuss a shopvac mystery with Vandals Can’t Handles. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from ...
Jun 30, 2021•51 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we listen to some of that New Nu with the band Volumes and their album, Different Animals. We talk about hot band members, interband drama, Towel Gate, “long story short, suck my dick”, Jenny’s almost tattoo, counting strings, and a decision on whether Volumes deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! ...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 32 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we ask, “Who’s Tweeting?” and go over listener feedback, questions, and recommendations. We talk about Who’s Reviewing Us, see who is sliding into those DMs, find out how deep our memories go, discuss the 100 Greatest Metal Songs of the 21st Century, listen to a Nu-Metalcore rec, dip in more Vandals Can’t Handles, and close out with Nu-Thoughts on a possible new Satanic Panic. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions...
Jun 16, 2021•54 min
It’s time for another Theme Summer on the Roach Koach Podcast! Side Project Summer returns, and we’re kicking things off with Crazytown’s Shifty Shellshock and his solo debut, Happy Love Sick. Jenny, Lorin, and Matt discuss the making of the album, 2004 vibes, “Beach Ball Music”, being cheesy and sincere, the confidence it requires to lick someone else’s lips, and decide whether Shifty’s solo foray is an egotistical folly or essential artist document. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach o...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 25 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Jenny, Lorin, and Matt go over listener feedback, questions and recommendations. Topics included Animal Alpha, Macho Man Randy Savage’s album, being Haunted and Daunted, Carly Rae Jepsen’s nu-metal connection, Hot Action Cop feedback, Vandals Can’t Handles, The Bloodhound Three Pound Pound, and Matt with a Nu-Question. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendati...
Jun 02, 2021•55 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we go international once again and check out the band Pleymo and their debut album, Keçkispasse? Released just one week before The Thick of It, Jenny, Lorin and Matt discuss party rippers, making weird noises, meticulous messes, Funky Ken’s love life, songs about boobs, “Wet Music”, and whether Pleymo deserves a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just wan...
May 26, 2021
This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as we go over listener feedback. We talk about Who’s Got Old Beef, announce our Theme Summer, talk about The Best Thing We’ve Ever Been Sent, listen to some Roachamendations, discuss 5 years of Roach Koach, go over System of a Down episode feedback, and close out with some Grammys discussion. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want ...
May 19, 2021•47 min
This week on the Roach Koach podcast we return to a band we have not done in four years, Evanescence, and their album, The Open Door. We talk the exit of Ben Moody and and the entrance of Terry Balsamo, the Anywhere But Home doc, musical theater vibes, “very bell sleeve”, Hot Gondola Music, magic mirrors, sex playlists, and decide if Evanescence deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? J...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 42 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we’re talking all about your feedback, Roachamendations and more! We dive into the ABCs of Korn video, Lorin chats with the young people about Nu-metal, we deal with “The Grunt”, listen to some new recs, go over feed back from our Mariah Carey episode and Matt rounds out the show with some Nu-Thoughts. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love ...
May 05, 2021•50 min
This week on the Roach Koach podcast we head across the sea to beautiful Italy to hear the chugging riffs and on point scratches of a band some have called the Italian Limp Bizkit, Folder, and their album, Keep The Flow. We talk about skepticism, what it means to be a crossover band, a nu-metal cover that is money in the bank, the amazing impressions of Jennifer Socia, why (and why not) have a Folder reunion, Charles Mansion’s Patreon, and of course we decide whether Folder deserve a place in th...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 22 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we are asking “Who’s Tweeting?” as we dive into your messages, feedback and questions. The team discusses the origins of the show logo, take credit for Downthesun reuniting, go over feedback of our Sloan episode, and discuss just how we like to listen to music. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachK...
Apr 21, 2021•41 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we check in on a band we have not done in years(!), P.O.D., and their followup to Satellite, 2003’s Payable On Death. As we’ve discussed on the show in the past, 2003 was a tough time for many Nu-Metal kings. Did P.O.D. manage to avert the fall? Jenny, Lorin and Matt discuss this along with with the P.O.D. documentary on the making of the album, the addition of guitarist Jason Truby, and the guitar stylings of one Phil Keaggy. Rate and review Roach Koach on i...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min
This week on the Roach Koach podcast we ask “Who’s Tweeting?” while we dive into listener feedback. We talk the 10 Bands Who Wouldn’t Exist Without Korn, discuss our feelings on encores, create our Dream Disturbed Setlists, go over some Ministry episode feedback, and ask the question, “What happened to rock bands?” Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @Roa...
Apr 07, 2021•57 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we celebrate 250 episodes with our favorite masked boys Slipknot, and their 4th album, All Hope Is Gone. We talk all about the making of this album in the special bonus “documentary”, what songs have and haven’t aged well, the music videos, the enduring appeal of “Vermillion”, rank Corey’s masks, and of course we decide if Slipknot deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? ...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 44 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we dig into your tweets, emails, and episode feedback. We talk recommendations for Resorte and Psychosexual, take credit for GGGarth’s restored Wikipedia page, go over Twin Method feedback, fret about turning a loved one’s bones into a guitar, and get very excited about our new theme music! Also, a special visit to Arby’s. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want ...
Mar 24, 2021•58 min
This week on the Roach Koach podcast our nu-metal journey finally takes us to the boys in Darke Complex and their album, Point Oblivion. Famously derided, is this band better than the reviews? Is the rapping kinda unhinged? Did anyone have a discussion on wardrobe? Most importantly, does Darke Complex deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon? Listen and find out! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 22 min
It’s another special Who’s Tweeting episode of the Roach Koach podcast. This week we talk about feedback from our Grade 8 episode, learn about the man behind Nu-Metal art direction, discuss the ultimate Nu-Metal Super Bowl halftime show, go over more recommendations in Vandals Can’t Handles and discuss whether rock music is fun anymore. Take a listen! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to...
Mar 10, 2021•47 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast the Twiztid Two Hundo arrives as we talk all about Twiztid and their album, Freek Show! We get into all the Wicked Shit as we talk about the “We Don’t Die” video, Lorin and weed, eating butt, having “an hour worth of dick”, Bill Bonds, the return of Shaggy 2 Dope, The Doors, more ghost debate, and just what is going to happen when we get 300 reviews on iTunes? Listen and find out! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the ...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 56 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we dive into your feedback, emails and recommendations. We see who is sliding up into our DMs, check out some hot Nu-Metal recommendations from Norway, go over the responses to our Korn - Take a Look In The Mirror episode and enjoy(?) the return of the Fop Twins. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachKoach on Twitt...
Feb 24, 2021•37 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we open up some jars and take a listen to Downthesun and their self titled album. Does anyone know the real reason this band broke up? Do these songs evoke dying, having sex and being born all at the exact same time? Most important, does Downthesun have a “Bodies” in their arsenal that might gain them entry in the Nu-Metal Canon? Listen and find out! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendation...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 30 min
This week on the Roach Koach podcast we discuss more listener feedback, questions and more! Who’s Got A Correction? Kid Rock returns to Nu-Metal? Big pushes for Ultraspank and Blindspott, along with Dragpipe feedback, the Korn Konundrum and a conversation about Bass Boost that takes an unexpected turn. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachKoach on Tw...
Feb 10, 2021•41 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we are finally listening to Bloodsimple and their album, A Cruel World. Join Lorin, Jenny, and Matt as they discuss a merging of hardcore with nu-metal, the injustice of dead wikipedia links, the best dips for your nuggets when taking a night drive, and whether Bloodsimple deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hea...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 21 min
This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we dive back in to more of your feedback, questions, and nu news. Topics include: -Wes Borland is selling his haunted house -100 Gecs remix Linkin Park -Jenny’s birthing playlist -Alpha Wolf! -Best weight lifting music -Little Nicky Feedback -An update on the Twistid Two Hundo Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We’d love to hear from you! Contact the show @Roach...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Rev it up, boys! This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we are back with our favorite boys in Limp Bizkit and we are talking about their 2005 EP/album/whatever you want to call it The Unquestionable Truth Part 1. We talk the return of Wes, the troubled making and release of the record, wearing a blazer with a t-shirt, the duality of Fred Durst, and so much more. Does Limp Bizkit re-enter the canon or get left in the cold? Listen and find out! Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate ...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 36 min
It’s our inaugural all Who’s Tweeting episode of the Roach Koach podcast. Your recommendations, your questions, your CRITIQUES, and so much more. This week we talk about being the hot topic on r/numetal board on Reddit, go over some hot Roach Ryder recommendations, give an exciting update on The Twizted Two Hundo, and go over feedback from our Dracula 2000 episode. Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We’d appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi...
Jan 13, 2021•52 min
It’s a New Year, which means more Nu-Metal on the Roach Koach Podcast. This week we accept the challenge presented to us and listen to Hot Action Cop’s self titled album. What is the best month to listen to this album? Is Captain Morgan and Ecstasy a bad combination? What happens when you hook up with a “club slut”? All of this and more on this week’s Roach Koach. Also in this episode: -Big announcements about the show in Who’s Changing -The Twizted Two Hundo marches on -The best version of “Hap...
Jan 06, 2021•2 hr 20 min
It’s the final Roach Koach of 2020! We’re going out with a double shot of System of a Down, as we listen to and discuss their last album (so far), Hypnotize. We talk about the humorless Songmeanings Dot Com pages, Matt’s blind spot for this album, Mitch at a System concert, and putting some extra grit on “Ass!” Also, do System of a Down deserve back to back Canon inductions? Also also! -Who’s Listing with the Koach’s 2020 album picks -What nu-celebs are sliding into our DMs? -Spawn feedback with...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 59 min
