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Ryan Rainbro, star of stage & screen, is joined by a friend to discuss one album in the history of RoadRunner Records chronologically. Find out how your favorite classics or unknown gems fit in the label's canon or informs music today!

Meep Meep Podcast Ryan Rainbro

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    • 4.9 • 112 Ratings

Ryan Rainbro, star of stage & screen, is joined by a friend to discuss one album in the history of RoadRunner Records chronologically. Find out how your favorite classics or unknown gems fit in the label's canon or informs music today!

    Ether Seeds - Ether Seeds (2003) [w/ Dustin Lowery of Ether Seeds]

    Ether Seeds - Ether Seeds (2003) [w/ Dustin Lowery of Ether Seeds]

    MEEPER SEEDS.
    Too Easy.

    Sometimes albums are made for Roadrunner... and not released?
    HUH?! WHAT'S THAT MEAN?!

    In the mid 2000s the label was going through a boom and signing lots of bands since Roadrunner had recently been caught by the coyote that was Island Def Jam essentially making the bird a major label with that major label money and a huge mainstream hit with Nickelback.

    In 2003, Ether Seeds, was set to release their self titled debut album on Roadrunner Records. The Seeds were a band fronted by Dustin Lowery who was then and still is now brothers to Clint Lowery of Sevendust fame and Corey Lowery who is currently in Seether but did time in Stuck Mojo, Stereomud and others.

    The band were signed to the label, recorded the album, and weeks before it was set to release... were dropped! And the album never came out. They weren't the only band on Roadrunner or in the music industry to suffer that fate by any means but certainly one of the more head scratching with not only a strong pedigree but a great record behind it!

    Dustin was generous enough to tell us the story of the band's entire life on this episode and while you know the ending, the episodes in between are pretty fascinating. 

    So save your own life... and listen now!!!
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    • 59 min
    3 Inches of Blood - Advance & Vanquish (2004) [w/ Cam Pipes of 3 Inches of Blood]

    3 Inches of Blood - Advance & Vanquish (2004) [w/ Cam Pipes of 3 Inches of Blood]

    MEEPLY SINNERS!!!

    3 Inches of Blood are celebrating 20 years of "Advance and Vanquish" in 2024 so vocalist Cam Pipes sat up to break down the making of this hallmark album in their catalog and the one that started it all for many of their Viking Faithful!

    The album is now available for the first time ever on vinyl from REAL GONE RECORDS so make sure to storm tha gates of your local record store and pick one up and they don't have it in stock, let them know they don't wanna be an enemy of metal.

    Oh, you didn't know? YOU BETTER AXE SOMEBODY!
    Because an all new Meep Meep is streaming NOW!!!
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    • 1 hr 28 min
    Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires (2003) [w/ Phil Demmel]

    Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires (2003) [w/ Phil Demmel]

    NO MEEPING REGRETS!!!
    It's often said all men think about is tha Roman Empire but in truth, all anybody is ever thinking about is Machine Head's 5th full length album "Through the Ashes of Empires" released on Roadrunner Records.

    On this episode, king of guitar Phil Demmel takes us through joining Machine Head, collaborating on these songs, recording this landmark album, and subsequent tours that followed in this truly incredible and important time in music and his life.

    Hear him now, words he vows... on an all new Meep Meep streaming everywhere!!!


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    • 1 hr 12 min
    Deicide - Serpents of the Light (1997) [w/ Scott Burns, Producer]

    Deicide - Serpents of the Light (1997) [w/ Scott Burns, Producer]

    MEEPSTERS OV HABIT

    This episode we're joined by legendary Meepster and producer Scott Burns who produced seminal records by all your favorites including Obituary, Suffocation, Sepultura and even Deicide. We talk about those in addition to lesser-known work with Gravity Kills, his final Roadrunner album "Serpents of the Light", and the new book about his career with author David Gehlke!

     
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    • 1 hr 7 min
    To My Surprise - To My Surprise (2003) [w/ Brandon Darner of To My Surprise]

    To My Surprise - To My Surprise (2003) [w/ Brandon Darner of To My Surprise]

    GET MEEP TO GO.

    Oh sorry...I didn't mean to startle you but we're talking about the 2003 album by tha band To My Surprise, 20 years after it's release.

    To My Surprise is a fascinating, although be it short lived, project, probably most known for being the side project of Slipknot mastermind and percussionist Shawn Crahan who not only thought it was fun to create with Crayola...but also with renowned producer and former owner of Smokey Mountain Wrestling... RICK RUBIN. That's right, this self titled album was produced by Rick and would be the first time these two would work together, pre-dating even Slipknot's Volume 3 record which Rick also helmed.

    Shawn was not alone however; Early Slipknot member and current successful producer in his own right, Brandon Darner, was the Crahan Collaborator for this opus and would help it sound like nothing else Slipknot or any of their off-shoots ever created and that's who we're talking to on this very special episode.

    Brandon tells us all about his relationship with Shawn, tha idea for the band, making tha album with Rick Rubin, his band tha Envy Corps and even early days with Slipknot playing with THE URGE.

    All this and nothing else on an all new Meep Meep!
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    • 1 hr 57 min
    Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (2008) [w/ producer Dave Fortman of Ugly Kid Joe]

    Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (2008) [w/ producer Dave Fortman of Ugly Kid Joe]

    I. MEEPED. MY. TIME. 

    15 years ago Slipknot released their BEST (???) album and tha final one with tha lineup considered classic: All Hope Is Gone. 

    Producer Dave Fortman (Evanescence, Mudvayne) of Ugly Kid Joe riffage was brought in to continue tha career of tha Nine and found himself in tha middle of a war while half tha band worked on a separate album simultaneously of what we refer to now as "Look Outside Your Window."

    Tha results? A timeless classic and end of an era and you can hear all about it NOW!!!
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    • 1 hr 20 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
112 Ratings

112 Ratings

I eat posers all day ,

To interesting attempt doucher

Best podcast ever. Brings back some pretty epic memories.

Hmmmmm only a true poser would call this an “interesting attempt”

Ead89 ,

Legit Podcast!

This podcast is great! I never want to miss an episode! Do yourself a favor, listen in and follow!

Burgermeister Meisterbooger II ,

MEEEPSTERS!

Any person who purchased anything Roadrunner put out needs to listen to this podcast.
Remember when you bought an album JUST BECAUSE the band was on Roadrunner?
Yes, I do and I did.
Not just a “Take a look back, my opinion and blah blah blah..”
Ryan knows what he is talking about, like little details he brings up that 99.99999999% of people didn’t know. Me included.
Long live the Meepsters!!!

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