020: CALCULATING INFINITY WITH BIG METAL DATA FEATURING SANDRA BULLOCK'S THE NET (AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN CHAINEY, METAL WRITER AND PODCASTER)
Release Date: 02/24/2023
039: UNDEAD UBERWEALTHY SKELETONS APPLYING ICY HOT TO THEIR TESTICLES AT WHOLESALE CAR DEALERSHIPS
Butt Metal Blast Cast
The Booty Blazzting Boyez™ back with their first episode after a couple of months of hibernation! In this episode, those Bud Blazing Boys™ explore the trials and tribulations of applying Icy Hot to your testicles, they analyze the aesthetic intention behind Sacred Son’s album covers, they envision a high school comedy about a living skeleton assigned to be an undead skeleton in a biology class (a tale as old as time), they relate the uberwealthy’s support of the Dark Enlightenment to Road House, and they discuss whether the hypothetical wholesale car dealership Friendly Simon’s...
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038: HIDEOUS GNOSIS OF ANTIFASH COTTAGECORE AND OCCULT GRINDCORE (an interview w/ The Shadowy One)
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, The Booty Blood Boys™ are joined by a very special guest, fan, and friend of the show, The Shadowy One! The Bud Blasé Boyz™ learn how The Shadowy One became a fan of their silly lo-fi and low culture podcast. They discuss the New York City metal scene vibes and community and whether either has been affected by the closure of St. Vitus. They explore the generational divide between the sincerity of older metal fans and musicians versus the self-aware irony of younger metal fans and musicians. They also analyze the dark world of fascist cottagecore and tradwife cultures....
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037: 8-BIT COSMIC HORROR IN MIDI BLACK METAL (an interview with Shelby Lermo)
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, Judge Dredd and Wulf talk to returning guest Shelby Lermo. Shelby writes, records, and performs in a plethora of bands, including Ulthar, Human Corpse Abuse, Thanatotherion, and most recently: NAILS. During our talk, Shelby compares touring in the United States with touring in Europe. With Shelby, the Booty Blasting Boyz™ pontificate why small-town shows can be some of the best shows. They explore why cosmic and existential horror are the greatest horrors of all, and how they relate to the themes behind the newest Thanatotherion album. Finally, the Butte Blasters™ hear the...
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036: WAR METAL IS HELL! RATIONING TORTILLA SOUP AND ROOK PIE WITH CRYPTOFASCIST WARTIME HOUSEWIVES (ft. GORN)
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, the Bud Blazting Boyz get to the bottom of the issues that really matter: what are their favorite soups, and what kind of metal do their favorite soups match most closely to? They investigate the Venn diagram showing the overlap of wooks, those who have sacred geometry tattoos, and those who sell the best weed. They discuss how sports are just a civil representation of war for societies’ warrior castes. Finally, they critique the crypto (and sometimes not so crypto) fascism prevalent in war metal. Also, Judge Dredd gets more drunk in this episode than in any other...
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035: WRESTLING WITH THE SHIP OF THESEUS ON A SEA OF HOT DOG FLAVORED WATER
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, Wulf and Judge Dredd are coming hot off the heels of their interview with Garry Brents of Memorrhage (Ep. 34), so the Boyze™, joined by Professor Grindstein, delve into their ongoing obsession with the return of nu-metal. In addition, they analyze how genres generally evolve from underground rawness to mainstream gloss. They also explore the “Ship of Theseus” paradox as it relates to band membership: how many times can band members change and still remain the same band? Finally, they dive deep into their siqq piqqs for professional wrestlers. Ooo yea, brother!
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034: NU-METAL MAGIC: THE GATHERING OF THE RPG FAITHFUL (AN INTERVIEW WITH GARRY BRENTS)
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, the Butte Blazzst Boyezzz™ talk with a very special guest by the name of Garry Brents. Garry is the prolific solo artist behind projects such as Sallow Moth, Homesick, and Gonemage, as well as being one half of underground legends, the now-defunct Cara Neir. However, Garry is currently probably most well-known for Memorrhage, a project that incorporates a healthy dose of 90s nu-metal magic combined with metallic hardcore, grind, and industrial metal influences. Memorrhage has been covered by a wide array of underground metal publications as well as national news outlets,...
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033: MANDATORY AI-GENERATED OFFICE METAL AS PART OF NEW OSHA POLICIES, PT. 2
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, the Butte Blazzter Beaus™ Wulf and Judge Dredd create a horrorcore/black metal crossover band generated completely by AI. The Boyezz™ ask AI for their backstory, the album title and cover of their debut, and the bands they have beef with. Much of this is generated in the style of Joe Pesci’s character from Goodfellas with undertones of Lovecraftian horror, capeesh? The Boyst™ consider the various pronunciations of "gyro" and why Clevelanders might have a claim on having the correct pronunciation. Wulf and Judge Dredd also ask AI to predict how Mötley Crüe’s new...
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032: MANDATORY AI-GENERATED OFFICE METAL AS PART OF NEW OSHA POLICIES, PT. 1
Butt Metal Blast Cast
In this episode, the Bidet Blast Boys™ analyze a dream in which there is a meta movie called OSHA: The Movie starring Mel Gibson as a worker so dedicated to work that he was willing to work even while mortally wounded. The Boiz™ dive deep into the etymology of rizz and jizz only to realize that they are actually cognates (not really), and, as a result, the Boyz™ prepare themselves for the oncoming war between the Rizzers, the Jizzers, the Rizz Jizzers, and the Jizz Rizzers. The Boice™ explore the possibility of Egyptian nu-metal as well as other ethnic-inspired nu-metals through the...
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031: BINAURAL PEPTO BISMOL-LACED PIZZA-EATING REBEL DIARRHEA EXTRAVAGANZA (THE TWIZTID FRESH LOST EPISODE)
Butt Metal Blast Cast
(NOTE: this episode was recorded at the end of Summer 2021 and was lost to the annals (read: anals) of Butt Blast history as editing other, more timely episodes took priority. Enjoy!) The Buddhist Blatt Boizst™ pontificate over the influence of Kyuss, especially the butt rock vocal stylings of John Garcia. They play a true or false quiz game based on an absurd, but somewhat typical, self-serious black metal elitist interview with Satyr from Satyricon. They also touch upon the ethics of lucid dreaming of a fan fiction world in which fictional characters are murdered. Finally, they...
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030: I DID IT ALL FOR BEING DOWN WITH THE NU-METAL MOUNTAIN DEW A.D.I.D.A.S. PANTS SICKNESS (an interview with the CEO of Nu-Metal Holiday Kirk)
Butt Metal Blast Cast
Have you seen teenagers recently wear ball chain necklaces, black lipstick, baggy jeans, and Slipknot shirts? Have you wondered what's with all of the bounce rhythms infiltrating metalcore over the last few years? Oh, you haven't heard? NU-METAL IS BACK! Are you just as confused as we are? Did you, like us, put all of your money on ska coming back whereas nu-metal wasn't even on the bingo card? In order to elucidate the resurgence of nu-metal, Judge Dredd talked with Holiday Kirk, the self-proclaimed CEO of nu-metal. Holiday is the editor-in-chief of the , the host of the ...
info_outlineIn this episode, we have a very special guest by the name of Ian Chainey (a.k.a. Wolf Rambatz). Ian has been writing about metal for approximately 20 years with publications such as Stereogum and Invisible Oranges, as well as with his own Plague Rages substack containing the Booster and VaccZine newsletters. He is also a co-host of no fewer than THREE podcasts: Plague Rages, Nu Metal Agenda, and Runout Grooves.
We put Ian through the BUTT BLAST GAUNTLET with a series of impossibly difficult questions to answer. What does regionalism look like in metal today? What does the future of metal journalism look like? Why did Danish black metal never take off in the wake of Mercyful Fate’s success and wide-ranging influence? Who are the musicians behind metal’s longest-enduring mystery, the Lords of the Crimson Alliance? These questions and more WILL BE answered on this episode of the Butt Metal Blast Cast.
Stereogum's Black Market monthly column: https://www.stereogum.com/category/columns/the-black-market/
Plague Rages Substack: https://plaguerages.substack.com/
Plague Rages Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3kBzFYGqxCa0zuZHu6kiCT?si=9745afcdbe274e50
Runout Grooves podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wCrs5NDnT9ykW94AUr05R?si=72e7feeb187d436a
Nu Metal Agenda podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4jLSnvzewSFPWciJV0VBA4?si=9c49920e44d7470f