Military Grade Metal

16/01/2025

For the love of GOD someone go keep Mark from going to nuts at this show! 😂😂Lineup looks SICK!

11/01/2025

One reminder JUST isn’t enough! Stay /v\eTaL my friends and crush it throughout the first month of this New Year! Also……Watch Military Grade Metal! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

11/01/2025

We hope everyone is having fun and staying safe this weekend! This is nothing more than a friendly reminder to /v\eTaL and have a great time doing it!

-Mark

01/01/2025

Nothing but the Happiest of New Years from Mark and Rett over here at Military Grade Metal! 🖤🔥🤘🏼

Get ready for another hilarious year of Failing Forward and bad jokes as we look at a few VERY interesting interviews for the year of 2025 AS WELL AS a more structured release schedule, and a more segmented Podcast! Gather your goals and your asses and follow us into another great year!

AlREADY bored this year? Check out our whole last years catalogue of interviews! Links below:

Parts 1 and 2 Interview w/ of

https://youtu.be/Fmkfb8X3jlg?si=dP_rVFKkFQCK3woM

https://youtu.be/Fmkfb8X3jlg?si=dP_rVFKkFQCK3woM

MGM Meets Tim and Bjorn of

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=3LJY407yEZC4w-Uj

2024 Episode 5

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=3LJY407yEZC4w-Uj

2024 Episode 4

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=3LJY407yEZC4w-Uj

2024 Episode 3

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=3LJY407yEZC4w-Uj

2024 Episode 2

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=3LJY407yEZC4w-Uj

2023 Recap!

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=3LJY407yEZC4w-Uj

Stay /v\eTaL 🤘🏼🤘🏼 and we’ll 👀🫵🏼 soon!

28/12/2024

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🚨WARNING! Audio Nerd Talk Alert!🚨
The DIFFERENCE between Mixing in the DAW, and Mixing in the Club 🤘🏼🤘🏼

What’s up y’all! I just wanted to drop in and relive myself of some mental baggage as I start REALLY diving in to what all can be done in a Live Mix, Vs what can be done AFTER the fact in the DAW. I’ve found THREE Major differences, and I’ll list them below, but I also what to stress how crazy powerful the two methods can be, when used in conjunction for long term projects.

The three major differences between Live Mixing and DAW Mixing are:

-Time: This is HUGE. Most of the time, you hardly have any time to set up and sound check at ALL. Once you do, you have even less time to shape and MOST of the time you’re still finalizing your mix on the first couple of songs. EsPECIALLY if you work at a production house as a House Audio Engineer. Conversely, in the DAW, you might not have “all the time in the world,” but you have considerably more time to complete a mix.
-Plugins: When Mixing Live, on MOST common consoles found either at a house FOH Mix Position OR on the road, you won’t necessarily be able to stack plugins (or inserts) on a track like you would in the DAW to fix issues. This means a few things. This means that you need to know your s**t when it comes to EQ, Gate and Comp. It also means that you need to learn how to send to FX Modules and then RETURN that signal to the output source. It can be a bit more tedious than just “throwing on a plugin.” Conversely to THIS, when you combine X amount of time mixing live with X amount of time mixing in the DAW, your daw mixes will get a lot cleaner because of the NEED for clean assets in your live mixes. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
-Perfection: In the DAW, you may actually have TOO much time. And you may even strive for TOO clean of assets. Over eq’ing can lead to dead sounding audio files, and over LISTENING can lead to over eq’ing. Find a balance between the two. It’s much easier when the pressure is on to shape your sounds and let em fly simply because of 1. The amount of time you have and 2. FEELING the physical room and vibe of the room.

While there are many more differences, those three have been on the brain!

23/12/2024

Good Morning /v\eTaL HeDz 🤘🏼🖤🔥🌅🌄🌇

Grab your coffee, toffee, and soffee’s for Part TWO of our interview with Jay Tino of Immortal Ex*****on 👀🤌🏼💪🏼 Y’all, we really could not have had a better time talking to this Man, and can’t wait to see what happens when Immortal Ex*****on hit the stage next. Best of luck to you Jay, and until next time….STAY /v\eTaL \m/

Watch with 🔗⬇️:

All right Y'all! Check out ou last episode of the year as we present Part 2 of our interview with San Antonio Vocalist Jay Tino of

20/12/2024

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03/12/2024

🚨New Episode on 🤘🏼🚨

Check it out /v\eTaL hEaDz ! We sat down with of a few weeks back and had an awesome discussion about the release of IE’s new Album “Cathartic Chaos!” So much so that there is almost 2 hours of footage! 🖤🔥🤘🏼In the interview we cover:

-What’s included in the Album Package?
-The meaning behind the song on the album lyrically and melodically
-Band Influences
-WHY PEOPLE REALLY@LOVE THE MOVIE TOTAL RECALL! (Directors cut only!)

We have released Part One of the Interview and you can watch it on YouTube now with the 🔗⬇️🤘🏼

https://youtu.be/eNgFr_PoQgk?si=TK0ss0zQngEpaG4-

31/07/2024

Alright everyone as promised…..we give you our interview with Tim and Bjorn of 🤘🏼🖤🔥

Check it out with the 🔗⬇️ as we talk all of the IMPORTANT things like:

-Song Structure
-Rehearsing in your Underwear
-Influences

and MUCH more! Enjoy…and Stay /v\eTaL🤘🏼🤘🏼

https://youtu.be/OvnloMGUIcA?si=gVo8pVf0LNR7zyG6

30/07/2024

Woot wooooooooooot!

Good Mourning All! Today is the DAY! Checking out some different bands this am while working on the bounce out and upload for todays release of the Military Grade Metal meets episode of the Pod! Crush it at work today, and look forward to a BRAND NEW EPISODE RELEASE POST tonight at 7PM Central 🤘🏼🤘🏼‼️‼️ Thanks for the song suggestion “New Way Out” by 🤘🏼🖤🔥💪🏼🫵🏼

29/07/2024

One! More! Day!

Good Afternoon all! We have one more day until@we release the interview with Tim and Bjorn of 🤘🏼🖤🔥 keep your 👀’s peeled as we have this interview, and aNOTHER Episode and Interview to release almost immediately after! Great month for Epic Convos about /v\eTaL \m/

Check out In Mourning’s “Black Storm” whilst you wait with the link below :

https://youtu.be/1c_WXKn0vUg?si=PArAEc-SCM0YRiwz

26/07/2024

SLAM! Looks like things are heating up at the San Antonio office! What shows are YOU looking forward to this coming weekend?! 👀🤘🏼🖤🫵🏼

21/07/2024

Today is the DAY! Grab your Java, Boba, or whatEVER you like to consume while mindlessly listening to two AWESOME Blokes babble on about METAL, and their journeys through life itself! Yeap I’m talking about your favorite two Village Geniuses, Slam and 🖤🤘🏼🔥💪🏼 Today we give you MGM 2024 Episode 5 and later THIS WEEK we will release our interview with Tim and Bjorn of 👀👀🖤🖤 What can you expect to hear about in todays Episode though? Don’t worry, we’ve got the highlights:

- ‘s World Record Wall of Death!
- Mix Organization in a Prod Environment vs a Live Environment
- and ‘s Rowing and Push up Pits
- Meeting your Hero’s / Show Life
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- Up and Coming shows
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- and their tendency to “Steal the Show”
- and their amazing, long term crew
- AND MUCH MORE!

Stay /v\eTaL 🤘🏼🤘🏼🖤🖤🫵🏼🫵🏼🍻. 🔗⬇️

https://youtu.be/-pPupYrJp88?si=BGoJ44PeNYztlUy7

16/07/2024

Good Mourning All🤘🏼🖤🔥🌅🌄🌇

It’s aaaaaaalmost hump day and things just seem to be dragging ASS 🍑 ‼️ No worries though, nothing a little won’t fix! Jamming “Pale Eye Revelation” this am \m/! Stay tuned for info on next week’s release of our interview with the band and listen to Pale Eye Revelation with the link in the comments!

Stay /v\eTaL

15/07/2024

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08/07/2024

Coming soon yall! IN MOURNING