GODPILLED T Chevez Mathews

I had a lot of fun talking with Duane Warr of the heavy metal project, Dwarr. Duane is warrior in the army of God and his love for serving Christ is evident through his retelling of a dozen great stories from his degen days, missionary trips, making of his albums and Drag City reissues, tour with Black Bananas, and his plans for a comeback. Hope you enjoy our conversation.
* [Dwarr - Are You Real?]
* 00:07 — Duane’s upbringing
* 00:26 — Duane finds God
* 00:38 — God tells Duane to write “Ode to Lucifer”
* 00:41 — Church stories (prophecy, healing, having his hair cut)
* 00:50 — Duane shares his favorite Spanish hymns & why he still plays music from his “lost years”
* 01:00 — Making of the Holy Ones & Times of Terror albums
* 01:12 — Touring with Black Bananas
* 01:18 — Next season for Duane
* 01:28 — Benediction
* [Voces Divinas - Grandes Eres Tú]
Links
* dwarr.com
* Soundcloud
As always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bereans and DYOR.


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I catch up with my good friend Joel Jensen-Heath. He’s an illustrator and musician from the Bay. You may have seen his work for Safety Propaganda or Deep Roots Radio. He and I also collaborated on the Pyr Zine.
As with a most of our phone calls we cover a lot of ground from the progressive push to a post-human goo, misconceptions of Good vs Evil, toxic Wholesome Culture in the church, and how he found God.
* [“Gon’ Rain”- Steve Reich’s “It's Gonna Rain” x 3wi1fe's “ˢᵉᶜʳᵉᵗ ᵐⁱˣ”]
* 00:11 — The Occult, Applied Sciences & California
* 00:31 — Duality vs Trinitarianism Views
* 00:44 — Preternatural technology
* 00:54 — Church-Friendly Music, CCM Deconstruction & Wholesome Culture
* 01:04 — Joel’s return to faith
* [“We’re Complex Piss” - The Shadow Ring]
* 01:24 — Darkness in faith
* 01:37 — Who has access to the supernatural?
* 01:55 — Joel shares a paranormal experience
* [“Prayer” - Loren Connors]
About Joel
Joel Jensen-Heath is an illustrator and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. As an illustrator his work has a diverse catalogue including executing a mural for now defunct Huertas NYC, illustrating the layout for Safety Propaganda, Ehret Vineyards's Deep Roots Radio, Syracuse University, Pyr Zine (as well as co-creating), and countless bands. 
Outside of his work as an illustrator he has played in many bands including Advertising (Brooklyn, NYC), Total Heat (Los Angeles, CA) Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of) as well as sharing bills with the likes of Boy Harsher, Deerhoof, Mitski, Gitane DeMone (Christian Death), Gary Wilson, Spiritualized, and many more. 
He is currently working on a serialized comic entitled 'Morning Stars" which has appeared in issue 1 of Pyr. His interests include mystical toponymy, high strangeness, Christian mysticism, holistic nutrition, and researching alternative history. 
Links
* X
* Instagram
* Pyr Zine
As always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bereans and DYOR.


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Zac Davis and I cover a lot of ground bouncing between the death of culture and the rise of faith. Zac is a deeply spiritual person and an amazing experimental noise musician known for his insane number of projects including Lambsbread, Clearance, RFID, and collaborations with artists like James Ferraro, Thurston Moore, and many others.
* [Intro: “.” — Clearance]
* 00:03 — Zac’s Anglican upbringing and return to it
* 00:12 — McLuhan’s approach to faith
* [Evensong performed at the Epiphany Parish of Seattle recorded on phone by Tyler Everett]
* 00:16 — Grace for the tradcath’s LARP-until-you-make-it strategy
* 00:23 — Not making devotional drone music yet; ambient pads at church
* 00:36 — Talking about Red Bull Music Academy like it’s 2016; the 2016-2018 art depression; making music for machines
* [“A2” — Zac Davis]
* 00:50 — Re-enchantment
* 01:04 — What Zac’s been meditating on
* 01:14 — Closing prayer
* [“Glacial Rain” — Sky Juice]
Links
* Bandcamp
* Substack
* Soundcloud
* Nina
As always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bareans and DYOR.


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Ariel Rosenberg aka Ariel Pink () and I talk about how he found GOD and jump in and out of different rabbit trails and a few dropped calls. The first part of our discussion was recorded live on Twitter Spaces (@GODPILLED777) and second part over a private phone call. 
* [Intro: "Smol Beginnings" — dj kingdom hearts]
* 00:09 — John’s revelation [Talking about the book of Revelation but kept referring to it as the book of John]
* 00:41 — Cancelling time [I incorrectly thought Ariel was talking about Constantine but was most likely talking about Dionysius Exiguus]
* 00:52 — Don't need to pay anything or sign anything [I incorrectly say Israel was recognized as a nation in 1946 when it was 1948]
* 01:03 — How Ariel worships
* 01:12 — How Ariel found God
* ["Time to Meet Your God" — Ariel Pink]
* 01:39 — What makes Ariel's relationship with Jesus unique
* 01:45 — Prayer
* [Outro: "Smol Beginnings" — dj kingdom hearts]
As always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong (as minimally addressed above). Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bareans and DYOR.




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I speak with an original Christian weirdo, Glen Galloway, aka Glen Galaxy, about God. Glen's best-known work includes the 90s spazz-rocker of Trumans Waters, which collaborated with Thurston Moore and Cat Power, and my personal favorite, Soul-Junk, a noisy-berserk-hop-experimental-whatever project combined with Scriptures. 


[Intro: "Israel & The Limping Hip" — Soul-Junk]
[00:00:00] Catching up, musical influences, musical career, like-minded artists started finding each other (Psalters, Danielson)
[00:28:00] Turning point after becoming unglued by mainstream worship music (John Mark McMillan, Jesus Culture)
[00:35:00] Power in repetitive music (eg, Jonathan Helser, Hong Kong protestors, Gavin Bryars, Upperroom)
["Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" — Hong Kong protestors]
[01:18:00] A concerning dream
[01:25:00] We die
["5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum)" — Bladee]
[Outro: "Secret" — Parallel Stereo]


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Your brother in Christ,
T


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