Radical Research

26/11/2025

I called him Helldriver!!!
Voivod books have arrived, shipping begins Friday morning…
“It’s now, it’s real!”

Radicalresearch.org/voivod

25/11/2025

From this maelstrom free are you...

Wagner:
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium
Coil - “Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)”
Coil - The Ape of Naples
Deathspell Omega - “Mass Grave Aesthetics”
Marduk - Dark Endless
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
Mind Over Four - The Goddess
Electric Light Orchestra - No Answer
Camel - Camel (super loud)
King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson - Thrak
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Iron Maiden - “Gangland,” “Moonchild”
Flotsam and Jetsam - “No Place for Disgrace” (song)
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Manes - Vilosophe
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind

Ginn:
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Samhain - November Coming Fire
Darkthrone - Total Death
Fear of God - Beyond The Veil
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Mr. Bungle - California
Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
Volahn - Aq 'Ab 'Al
Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io
The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
Desolation Triumphalis - Forever Bound To Nothingness
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Rush- Signals
Talisman - Talisman
Cynic - Focus
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Whirr - Sway
Gehenna - Seen Through Veils of Darkness
Coil - "S*x With Sun Ra"
Na**lm Death - Utopia Banished
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
Alien S*x Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain
The House of Love - The House of Love
Diamanda Galas - You Must Be Certain of the Devil
Amorphis - Tales From the Ten Thousand Lakes
The Cult - Beyond Good and Evil
Muslimgauze - Citadel
Radakka - Malice and Tranquillity
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and The Whole World Window

25/11/2025

Honored to be interviewed by Chad Bowar for Heavy Music HQ regarding the soon-to-be-shipping Voivod book, 'Always Moving'! We also talk Radical Research and other proggy topics. https://heavymusichq.com/jeff-wagner-interview/
VoivodVOIVODIANS

21/11/2025

RR137 on Brand X is now available! Dive into this focused fusion decapitation episode, listen, learn, and Keep Prog Weird!
https://www.radicalresearch.org/episode-137-brand-x-1976-1980-inhuman-fusion-conclusions/

18/11/2025

Decibel magazine asked me to curate a Voivod playlist for the soon-to-be-released Always Moving book. Check out this career-spanning stream through the Voivod discography…. Thanks to Albert, Greg and co.!

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/guest-playlist-jeff-wagner-of-always-moving-the/pl.a0b4823bf9544ca89eb289384f7fad3e

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14/11/2025

Brand X episode recorded and will launch next week! Until then, please share your recent listens...

Wagner:
Laster - Andermans Mijne
The Chameleons - Peel Sessions (1981-84), “In Shreds”
Queen - II
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Arch/Matheos - “Pitch Black Prism,” “Kindred Spirits”
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Comecon - Fable Frolic
Dark Millennium - Ashore the Celestial Burden
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Slayer - “Praise of Death” three times high velocity headphones!!!
Satan - Court in the Act
Xysma - Deluxe
Cardiacs - L*D
Coil - Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

Ginn:
Sentenced - North From Here
Love Spirals Downward - Idylls
Forced Entry - Uncertain Future
Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart
Goblin - Zombi
Death In June - The World That Summer
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Gorgoroth - Destroyer
Cocteau Twins - Aikea Guinea EP
Death - Symbolic
Skinny Puppy - Last Rites
Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
Eisenvater - III
Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
Slayer - Hell Awaits (at Wagner's nudging - glad he nudged!)
The Black Heart Procession - 3
Skeletal Family - Futile Combat
Deadboy And The Elephantmen - If This Is Hell, Then I'm Lucky
Laughing Hyenas - Life of Crime

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 S*xy
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