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This new episode of Amazing Sounds Astounding Music analyses the rise and fall and survival of British folk rock, from it’s heydays in the early 70s to these days where the legacy of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Albion Band still pushes many musicians to produce great music far away from the commercial limelight, an underground artistic ley line running beneath the mainstream.

In this episode you will hear:


Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
Fairport Convention - A Sailor’s Life
Pentangle - House Carpenter
Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Steeleye Span - Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo
Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
Shirley Collins and The Albion Band - The Murder of Maria Martens
Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile
Ashley Hutchings - He’s Young but He’s Growing
Crumbling Ghost - The Good Old Way
Galley Beggar - The Girl I Left Behind Me
Mary Jane - Twa Corbies
The Owl Service - Cruel Mother
The Owl Service - Sea Song
Trembling Bells - Adieu, England
The Shining Levels - Slow Pass the Autumn Clouds
Rowan Amber Mill - The Hunter
Eliza Carthy - Worcester City

https://witheredhandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/five-songs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service_(band)

https://www.discogs.com/it/label/1575566-Dark-Britannica

https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/cropredy/

https://rowanambermill.bandcamp.com/

https://theshininglevels1.bandcamp.com/

This new episode of our podcast deals with the lesser known work of great rock'n'roll icon Ian "Lemmy" Kilminster, from the beginnings with Rockin Vickers to collaborations with Ozzy and Slash.

Here is what we're playing and discussing:


The Rockin' Vickers - dandy
Sam Gopal - Sky is Burning
Hawkwind - Lost Johnny
Hawkwind - The Watcher
Hawkwind - Motorhead
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Ejection
The Damned - Ballroom Blitz
The Young and Moody - Don't do That
Headgirl - please Don't Touch
Lemmy and Wendy O' Williams - Stand By Your Man
Head Cat - Stuck on You
Head Cat - Big River
Probot - Shake Your Blood
Ozzy Osbourne feat. Lemmy and Slash - I Ain't No Nice Guy

In this episode of our podcast we're going to talk about that musical style that Maximum Rock'n'Roll defined "Italian Hardcore". A unique and very distinctive sound that emerged through the early 80s in the Italian peninsula and that gave local bands, which at home performed often for half a dozen friends, worldwide respect and recognition in the lively and exciting anarcho-punk underground movement.

Following the footsteps of iconic bands such as Crass and Discharge were:


Wretched - Finirà Mai
Wretched - Troppo Facile Morire
Indigesti - Mai
Indigesti - Astratto Concepimento
Negazione - Tutti Pazzi
Declino - Inutile Trionfo
Contrazione - Sbarre
Peggio Punx - No! Mai
Underage - Entro Domani
Raw Power - State Oppression
Cheetah Chrome  Motherfuckers - Furious Party
Cheetah Chrome  Motherfuckers - Enemy
Bloody Riot - Naja de Merda
Impact - Solo Odio
Kina - Correre Cercare Piangere
Franti - Il Battito del Cuore
I Refuse it! - Sogni a Doppie Vie
Contropotere - Demoni e Dei
Nerorgasmo - Nerorgasmo

Resources: 


Marco Philopat, Costretti a sanguinare, Shake, 1997, Milano
Marco Philopat, Lumi di punk. La scena italiani raccontata dai protagonisti, Milano, Agenzia X, 2006.
v.v.a.a. ‎– International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation R Radical Records ‎– R.R.R. 1984
v.v.a.a. - LoveHate80 ‎– 01, SOA Records
http://www.lovehate80.it/fanzine/TVOR/home.html

This episode of our Podcast offers a selection of what we deemed were the best metal releases of 2019. Here is the playlist:


01 - Amon Amarth: Raven's Flight
02 - Candlemass: Astorolus
03 - PH: Justified
04 - Lingua Ignota: Butcher of the World
05 - Sunn0))): Between Sleipnir's Breath
06 - Crypt Sermon: Christ is Dead
07 - Inter Arma: A Waxen Sea
08 - Obsequiae: The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
09 - Venom Prison: Devoid
10 - Smoulder: Ilian of Garrathorm
11 - Waste of Space Orchestra: Syntheosis

This episode of the podcast Amazing Sounds Astounding Music deals with the birth, decline and revival of underground sub-genre Occult Rock, starting from seminal bands such as Coven and Black Widow to contemporary Sabbath Assembly and Devil's Blood.
Here is the playlist:


1 - Coven: Wicked Woman
2 - Coven: Black Sabbath
3 - Black Sabbath: The Wizard
4 - Black Widow: Sacrifice
5 - Zior: Entrance of the Devil
6 - Pentagram: All Your Sins
7 - Witchfinder General: Witchfinder General
8 - Witchcraft: Witchcraft
9 - Blood Ceremony: Goodbye Gemini
10 - The Devil's Blood: The Anti-Kosmik Magick
11 - The Devil's Blood: A Waxing Moon Over Babylon
12 - Jex Thoth: The Places you Walk
13 - Jex Thoth: Separated at Birth
14 - Lucifer: Dreamer
15 - Jess and the Ancient Ones:Astral Sabbath
16 - Sabbath Assembly: Ascend and Descend
17: Purson: The Contract
18: Black Widow: Come to the Sabbat

In this episode of Astounding Sounds Amazing Music we're talking about all those bands and influences which contributed to the birth of Norwegian and modern black metal. From Venom and Slayer to the infamous events sorrounding the birth of Norwegian black metal but strictly under a musical perspective.

If you are interested in the actual crimes/events connected to the so-called Inner Circle please read: "Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Moynihan and Sonderlind, or watch the movie "Lords of Chaos" by Jonas Akerlund.

On this episode:


Venom - Welcome to Hell
Venom - Black Metal
Merciful Fate - A Corpse Without Soul
Celtic Frost - Circle of the Tyrants
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Bathory - Armageddon
Bathory - Equimanthorn
Burzum - A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit
Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths 
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in your Head
Electro Hippies - Run, Ronald 
Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon
Slayer - Black Magic