Radical Research

05/11/2025

November is chilling...but we're safe here...

Wagner:
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
In Lingua Mortua - Salon des Refusés
In the Woods... - “Weeping Willow”
Voices - Frightened
Cardiacs - L*D
Ween - White Pepper
Peter Hammill - Patience
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
The Chameleons - The Fan and the Bellows (early songs 1981-83)
Mew - A Triumph for Man
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal
Dark Millennium - Diana Read Peace
DVC - Molecular Shadow
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Delirium - III
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Incantation - Upon the Throne of Nazarene
Abigor - In Memory EP
Type O Negative - “Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia),”“Haunted”
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Ginn:
Craft - White Noise and Black Metal
Hawkwind - Church of Hawkwind
Absu - The Sun of Tiphareth
Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet
Anathema - Pentecost III
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Gorgoroth - Destroyer
Joy Division - Closer
Beyond Dawn - Frysh
Rush - "The Garden"
Killing Joke - Nighttime
Ulver - Perdition City
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Type O Negative - "Wolf Moon," "Haunted," "It's Never Enough," "12 Black Rainbows"
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
In The Woods... - "Karmakosmik," "Epitaph"
Old - Lo Flux Tube
Swervedriver - Raise
Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Osanna - Palepoli
Disgrace - Grey Misery
The Cult - Love
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Varathron - Walpurgisnacht

04/11/2025

Episode 136, by popular demand, investigates the first two albums by German psychedelic doom/death weirdos Dark Millennium. Listen here, and please tolerate the tangents on Therion and graphite. We also begin the show with listener responses to our previous episode, Course Corrections...
https://www.radicalresearch.org/dark-millennium-1992-93-the-freaks-have-spoken-we-have-listened/

01/11/2025

Hunter and I getting grim in the darkest of locales, small town Georgia, Halloween 2020. - JW

28/10/2025

This oughta set us right... [P.S. recording episode 136 tonight!]

Wagner:
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
Tones on Tail - Pop
Ace Frehley - 1978 album
Kiss - Kiss
Autopsy - rehearsal 1987
Rok - This is Satanik
In Lingua Mortua - Salon des Refusés
Monumentum - In Absentia Christii
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Split Enz - various songs 1977-1984
The Chameleons - Strange Times + “Tomorrow Never Knows”
Radiohead - Drill EP
The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
Bill Nelson - “Banal”
Peter Hammill - “Patient”
The Police - “Invisible Sun”
Gentle Giant - “Aspirations”

Ginn:
In Slaughter Natives - Sacrosancts Bleed
Drudkh / Hades Almighty - One Who Talks With The Fog split
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Thought Industry - Outer Space Is Just a Martini Away
Mental Home - Black Art
Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis
Mind Over Four - Halfway Down
Zemial - For the Glory of Ur
Pulsar - Pollen
Opeth - "April Ethereal"
Mew - various tracks from 2003-2017
Ulver - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi EP
David Bowie - Blackstar
Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Vaura - The Missing
Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence Is Sexy
Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker EP
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Rome - Flowers From Exile
Impaled Nazarene - Ugra Karma
My Bloody Valentine - Tremolo EP
Warning - Watching From a Distance
Voivod - Nothingface

25/10/2025

Well this was a ton of fun...2 and a half hours talking about my forthcoming Voivod book and their massive discography with Marty Rykonen at Heavy Metallurgy. Thanks Marty and Alan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7gYDcN0_Gw
Voivod

Voivod has been and always shall be, one of those deeply polarizing bands. People either love them, or would be wrong (sorry Alan) and cannot understand the ...

24/10/2025

Hello Freaks! Join Jeff Wagner tonight as he is interrogated by fellow Voivod fan Marty Rytkonen on HEAVY METALLURGY. It streams live tonight (Friday, Oct. 24) at 9 PM EST. Marty has read 'Always Moving - The Strange Multiverse of Voivod,' Jeff's forthcoming book, and there's much to chat about... join us!
https://youtube.com/live/_7gYDcN0_Gw

Voivod VOIVODIANS

17/10/2025

autumnal...

Wagner:
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
Steven Wilson - “King Ghost,” “Personal Shopper,” “Count of Unease”
Anekdoten - Vemod (incl. “Sad Rain”)
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Autopsy - 1987/88 demos
Death - Back from the Dead 1985 demo
Amebix - No Gods No Masters
City Boy - Dinner at the Ritz
Finn - Finn
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Ace Frehley - “Fractured Mirror”

Ginn:
Eden - Fire and Rain
Sand - The Dynamic Curve
Naervaer - Naervaer EP
Talk Talk - “New Grass”
Dry Wedding - Sway
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Coil - Black Antlers
Katharsis - World Without End
Whirr - Sway
A Small Good Thing - Slim Westerns
Comecon - Converging Conspiracies
Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight
Rumskib - “Springtime”
Beequeen - Ownliness
Rotting Christ - Nov Serviam
Solefald - “Hyperhuman”
Vaura - The Missing
Thought Industry - Short Wave on a Cold Day

17/10/2025

It’s either “no words” or “this is the first picture I ever saw of Ace Frehley, at 8 years young, and his is the band that provided the gateway to the paths and abodes I continue to travel [and then ten zillion more words].”

I’ll choose “no words” because there truly are none. There are also no words in “Fractured Mirror,” which will be loudly blared here very soon. JW

15/10/2025

Episode 135 is now out! It's called 'Course Corrections' and this one requires some explanation...
Listener and friend Paul Stolp prompted this conversation, saying how he thought a “course correction” episode would be fun. Paul offered the example of Judas Priest’s Ram it Down being the wipeout and Painkiller being the glorious course correction. Naturally, this got our gears turning, and this is the conversation that resulted. As Hunter notes in this episode, “a course correction is not necessarily an achievement, but more that you got back on your path.” (Driving mishap analogies abound in this episode.)
And we want to hear from you: what are YOUR favorite examples of the Course Correction? The aforementioned Painkiller, Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool, Celtic Frost's Vanity/Nemesis, Gentle Giant's Civilian and Savatage's Hall of the Mountain King are just a few corrections we offer in this episode...

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