Reviews, Interviews, and Podcasts celebrating the best Extreme Metal music

Category: Podcasts

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 25 – The Best and Worst Metal Cover Songs

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 25 – The Best and Worst Metal Cover Songs

    For our twenty-fifth episode, we thought it would be fun to highlight our favorite and least favorite Metal Cover Songs. Some of these are great, but others are outright horrible. We play short clips from the bad ones so you can decide for yourself! As always, we’re sure we’ve missed great examples of both good…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 24 – Influential Metal Albums Part3

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 24 – Influential Metal Albums Part3

    For our twenty-fourth episode, we continue our discussion about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is the final part of this three episode series, where we cover everything we consider important from 2006 through today! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any you feel like we missed, please let…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 23 – Influential Metal Albums Part2

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 23 – Influential Metal Albums Part2

    For our twenty-third episode, we continue our discussion about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is part two of a three part podcast, where we cover everything we consider important from 1995 through 2005. We’ll cover 2005 through present on part three! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 22 – Types of Metalheads

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 22 – Types of Metalheads

    For our twenty second episode, we decided to talk about the different types of Metalheads that we’ve encountered online and at shows. We planned on making this more of a serious discussion, but between an overwhelming few weeks at work, and the passing of Christian’s mother, we didn’t approach this topic with the same serious…

  • Harsh Vocals – An Interview With Blake Lamoureux of Ophidian Memory

    Harsh Vocals – An Interview With Blake Lamoureux of Ophidian Memory

    On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Blake Lamoureux – The talented solo artist behind melodic death metal band “Ophidian Memory”. We talk about his creative process, influences, what it’s like being a musician in Des Moines, Iowa, and more! Of course we also ask some deep dive questions about his latest…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 21 – Influential Metal Albums Part1

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 21 – Influential Metal Albums Part1

    For our twenty first episode, we decided to talk about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is only part one of a three part podcast, where we cover everything we consider important from metal’s origins throughout 1995. We’ll cover 1995 through 2005 on the second part! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album,…

  • Harsh Vocals – An Interview With Kyle Chapman of Blighted Eye

    Harsh Vocals – An Interview With Kyle Chapman of Blighted Eye

    On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Kyle Chapman – The guitarist, vocalist, and one of the songwriters behind progressive death metal band “Blighted Eye”. We talk about Blighted Eye’s creative process, influences, future, and more! Of course we also ask some deep dive questions about their debut album – Agony’s Bespoke….

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 20 – Discovering New Music

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 20 – Discovering New Music

    For our twentieth episode, we decided to talk about how we discover new music. We go into detail about all the resources that we use to help us build our weekly playlists, as well as how we find worthwhile older music that we might have missed. We may have different methods, but we also both…