Radical Research Podcast Jeff Wagner & Hunter Ginn

As is so often the case, Radical Research, for its 104th episode, finds itself in Norway, only this time to investigate the psycho-necrotic brutality of Oslo’s Diskord. At once garage-y, asymmetric, and morbid, Diskord hawks death-wares that invite listeners to stroll through the hallways of the weird metal madhouse. Only death and Norway are real.







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Thanks to Tim Hammond for the Oscillations mp3s. We only had the vinyl and no digital version, and we knew who to turn to. Thanks Tim, you are a fucking champ!

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Wagner was thinking “Funebrarum” but said “Encoffination.” Please forgive a mind way too filled up with this otherworldly nonsense. Thank you. The point still stands, re: the rise of Funebarum and other similar combos in early Incantation mode around 2007.




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Wagner and Ginn are both huge fans of Autopsy up to and including Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves (2014). In fact, both, weirdly, believe that album to be the best of Era II Autopsy. Things after that are fine if all you want is more of that. But we wanted more than that. But goddamn we love the fuck out of Autopsy. Fiend for Blood FTW.




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Music cited in order of appearance:
“Pervasive Discreetness” (Doomscapes, 2007)



“Reptilian Ancestry” (Doomscapes, 2007)



“Instauration” (Doomscapes, 2007)



“Overseer” (Dystopics, 2012)



“Psychotic Process” (Dystopics, 2012)



“Rambling Words from a Sore Throat” (Dystopics, 2012)



“Horrid Engine” (Oscillations, 2014)



“Hermit Dream” (Oscillations, 2014)



“Loitering in the Portal” (Degenerations, 2021)



“Dragged for Coronation” (Degenerations, 2021)



“Gnashing” (Degenerations, 2021)







Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

Death, humor, society? Who doesn't love these things? Radical Research certainly does! So, it should come as no surprise that we chose the second album by Houston, Texas' Dead Horse as the subject of our 103rd episode. Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers, released by Big Chief Records in 1991, plunders the remotest corners of thrash, hardcore, and mangled death as fodder for its singular brand of knee-slappin' brutality. Join us for this rather less than peaceful episode.







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Music cited in order of appearance:
all tracks from Dead Horse’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers, 1991



“Cod Piece Face”



“Turn”



“La La Song”



“Like Asrielle”



“The Latent Stage”



“Peaceful Death”



“Eulogy”



“Snowdogs”



“The Lark Nest”



“Medulla Oblongata”



“Aplo”



“Rock Lobster”



“Sawbone”




Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

Forged in the crucible of the Tri-State hardcore and thrash scenes, New York City's Into Another released three genre-defying albums that blend together -- seemlessly -- the disparate sensibilities of its members. The band's membership boasts a heritage that includes such stalwart acts as Whiplash and Youth of Today, though Into Another's rich, mystical rock hardly betrays those roots. Episode 102 of Radical Research does its best to reveal the treasures of this tragically-overlooked band. 







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Music cited in order of appearance:



“Robot Whales” (Into Another, 1991)
“Underlord” (Into Another, 1991)



“While I Die” (Into Another, 1991)



“As It Were” (Into Another, 1991)



“Laughing at Oblivion” (Ignaurus, 1994)
“Maritime Murder” (Ignaurus, 1994)
“William” (Ignaurus, 1994)



“Mutate Me” (Seemless, 1995)



“Locksmiths & Lawyers” (Seemless, 1995)



“For a Wounded Wren” (Seemless, 1995)



“Crossed” (Omens, 2017)




Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

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After several years of perdition, silence, and melancholy, Oslo’s Ulver, a totem of the Radical Research faith, released, in 2005, its sixth full-length album, the manic and panicked Blood Inside. The album has inspired divisive opinions and obsessive worship. Its nine songs come together like a house of mirrors, where every lunatic fantasy, every fear, every shameful ecstasy, is reflected and refracted back into the listener’s ears. Radical Research takes a firm position in defense of the album’s genius. 











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Music cited in order of appearance:



“Not Saved” (Silencing the Singing, 2001)



“Surface” (Svidd Neger, 2003)
“Doom Sticks” (A Quick Fix of Melancholy, 2003)
“Dressed in Black” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“For the Love of God” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“Christmas” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“Blinded by Blood” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“It Is Not Sound” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“The Truth” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“In the Red” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“Your Call” (Blood Inside, 2005)



“Operator” (Blood Inside, 2005)



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Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

2023 marks the 40th anniversary of Voivod, a band that are at the very heart of everything we do at Radical Research and everything we listen to as incorrigible music obsessives. In celebration, Voivod released Morgoth Tales, which finds the Mark V lineup (Snake, Away, Chewy, Rocky) covering songs from various past eras. For ourselves, we pay tribute by offering our longest and most in-depth episode yet, while also celebrating a landmark of our own. We invite all chaosmongers, nothingfaces, cockroaches and diehards across the schizophere to join us in celebration of the one, the only, the eternal VOIVOD!!!







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Music cited in order of appearance:
[all Voivod except where otherwise noted]
intros from War and Pain, Killing Technology, Angel Rat, The Wake
“Experiment” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)
“Blower” (War and Pain, 1984)
“Ripping Headaches” (Rrröööaaarrr, 1986)
Carnivore, “Carnivore” (Carnivore, 1985)
“Forgotten in Space” (Killing Technology, 1987)
Cave In, “Decay of the Delay” (Jupiter, 2000)
“Cockroaches” (Killing Technology, 1987)
“Psychic Vaccum” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)
“Brain Scan” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)



Wartech, "Virtual Reality" (demo 1991)
“Missing Sequences” (Nothingface, 1989)
“Into My Hypercube” (Nothingface, 1989)
“Inner Combustion” (Nothingface, 1989)
King Crimson, “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part Two” (Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, 1973)
“Nuage Fractal” (Angel Rat, 1991)
Alchemist, “Escape from the Black Hole” (Organasm, 2000)
“Clouds in My House” (Angel Rat, 1991)
Die Kreuzen, “Best Goodbye” (Cement, 1991)
“Best Regards” (Angel Rat, 1991)
“Freedoom” (Angel Rat, 1991)
“Horror” (Rrröööaaarrr, 1986)
Rush, “Natural Science” (Permanent Waves, 1980)
Van Der Graaf Generator, “Man-Erg” (Pawn Hearts, 1971)
“Moonbeam Rider” (The Outer Limits, 1993)
“Time Warp” (The Outer Limits, 1993)
“Phobos” (Phobos, 1997)
“Temps Mort” (Phobos, 1997)
“Neutrino” (Phobos, 1997)
“Aware” (demo for unrealized 10th album, 2000)
“Facing Up” (Voivod, 2003)
“Divine Sun” (Voivod, 2003)
“Polaroids” (Katorz, 2006)
“Corps Etranger” (Target Earth, 2013) “Iconspiracy” (The Wake, 2018)
“Always Moving” (The Wake, 2018)
“Quest for Nothing” (Synchro Anarchy, 2022)







Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

For 98 episodes, the pilots of Radical Research have gone it together. Mind you, the hosts have had some curatorial help along the way (Jason William Walton and Forrest Pitts, please take a bow). But on the eve of episode 100, Radical Research has called on two of its most stalwart allies, the estimable Thomas Nul and Brian Grebenz. Over the course of almost two hours, this veritable Roman Senate chews on the hard-hitting issues that occupy the minds of all right-thinking citizens of the Research Republic. We invite you to turn on and tune in to this symposium of sickness. 







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Music cited in order of appearance:



Genesis, “Dodo / Lurker” (Abacab, 1981)
Black Sabbath, “The Eternal Idol” (Eternal Idol, 1987)



King Crimson, “Discipline” (Discipline, 1981)



Celtic Frost, “(Once) They Were Eagles” (Cold Lake, 1988)



A Forest of Stars, “Premature Invocation” (Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes, 2018)



Jethro Tull, “Thick as a Brick” (Thick as a Brick, 1971)



Slayer, “The Final Command” (Show No Mercy, 1983)



Acanthus, “Le Frisson des Vampires” (Le Frisson des Vampires, 1971)



Journey, “Of a Lifetime” (Journey, 1975)



Unearthly Trance, “Penta(grams)” (In the Red, 2004)



episode 100 preview: Voivod, “Temps Mort” (Phobos, 1997)







Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.