Guided by Voices’ August by Cake album cover
Here is my album review of Guided by Voices’ terrific August by Cake — the 100th release by frontman Bob Pollard. “By the time its 71 minutes are up, ‘August by Cake’ leaves a resin-free aftertaste.”
Guided by Voices’ August by Cake: FLOOD Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Guided by Voices on 04/29/2017 by kurtorzeckThe Violent Sleep Of Reason Episode 6, 4.26.17
Posted in MP3s, The Violent Sleep of Reason with tags Ancient Ascendant, Artificial Brain, Farsot, Game Over, Ghost Bath, Iconoclasm, Karma to Burn, Les Discrets, Mortiis, Nick Walker’s Acid Guide Service, Nothing Left, Tehom, The Obsessed, Vampire, Vomit Remnants on 04/29/2017 by kurtorzeck
Farsot’s Fail-lure album cover
The Bad Penny’s new program through Radio Free America, “The Violent Sleep of Reason,” focuses on new and upcoming heavy-metal releases. The show’s sixth installment featured new cuts by Farsot, Ancient Ascendant, Artificial Brain, Nothing Left and Vampire.
The Violent Sleep Of Reason Episode 5, 4.19.17
Posted in MP3s, The Violent Sleep of Reason with tags All Hell, Coltsblood, Dragonforce, Enterprise Earth, Epi-Demic, Hellwell, Karma to Burn, Katakomb, Loathe, Mastodon, Nathorg, Naudiz, Necrowretch, Nightbringer, Novembers Doom, Oceans Are Zeroes, Pyriphlegethon, Rotting Christ, Shores of Null, Suffocation, Tombs, Varg on 04/29/2017 by kurtorzeck
Varg’s Götterdämmerung album cover
The Bad Penny’s new program through Radio Free America, “The Violent Sleep of Reason,” focuses on new and upcoming heavy-metal releases. The show’s fifth installment featured new cuts by Varg, Necrowretch, All Hell, Tombs, Suffocation and Coltsblood.
Royal Thunder’s ‘Wick’-ed Awesome Gig: Two Cent Review
Posted in Concert Reviews, Reviews with tags Black Sabbath, Black Wizard, Brant Bjork, Fatso Jetson, Fu Manchu, Kyuss, Nick Walker’s Acid Guide Service, Royal Thunder on 04/15/2017 by kurtorzeckBrant Bjork, Royal Thunder, Black Wizard and Nick Walker’s Acid Guide Service at the Shredder in Boise, ID, 4.14.17
Royal Thunder frontwoman Miny Parsons, doing her best Kurt Cobain impression at the Shredder.
With sweat dripping off their faces and their bodies thoroughly spent, Royal Thunder huddled together onstage at the Shredder on Friday night after a blistering show, powwowing about their latest concert victory. Continue reading
The Violent Sleep Of Reason Episode 4, 4.12.17
Posted in MP3s, The Violent Sleep of Reason with tags Alazka, Bear, Despite, Doomsday Kingdom, Ecstatic Vision, Extremity, Fight, Fluoride, Fuoco Fatuo, Harlott, Hideous Divinity., Krokus, Royal Thunder, Russian Circles, Silence Equals Death, Tankard, The Obsessed, Trial, Valborg, Wear Your Wounds, Wending Tide on 04/12/2017 by kurtorzeck
Wear Your Wounds’ WYW album cover
The Bad Penny’s new program through Radio Free America, “The Violent Sleep of Reason,” focuses on new and upcoming heavy-metal releases. The show’s fourth installment featured new cuts by The Obsessed, Royal Thunder and Wear Your Wounds.
Treefort 2017: The Ultimate, Gorilla-Size Review
Posted in Concert Reviews, Reviews with tags Deafheaven, Doug Martsch, Grouper, Magic Sword, This Will Destroy You, Treefort on 04/12/2017 by kurtorzeck
Treefort 2017 delivered Deafheaven, Mac DeMarco, Grouper, Doug Marsch — and set a gorilla on the loose.
Check out my exhaustive concert review of Boise’s five-day indie-rock festival, Treefort — starring Deafheaven, Grouper, This Will Destroy You, Doug Martsch, Magic Sword and more — on Drowned in Sound.
The Violent Sleep Of Reason Episode 3, 4.5.17
Posted in The Violent Sleep of Reason with tags 1476, Amon Amarth, Bereft, Blame God, Dargar, Demon Hunter, Falls of Rauros, Gruesome, Mantar, Mastodon, Narcotic Wasteland, Novembers Doom, Piss Angel, The Royal, Troubled Horse, Vanum, Warbringer, Windswept, Wormwitch on 04/05/2017 by kurtorzeck
Mastodon’s “Emperor of Sand”
The Bad Penny’s new program through Radio Free America, “The Violent Sleep of Reason,” focuses on new and upcoming heavy-metal releases. The show’s third installment featured new cuts by Mastodon, Warbringer and Falls of Rauros.
The Violent Sleep Of Reason Episode 2, 3.29.17
Posted in The Violent Sleep of Reason with tags 1476, All Hell, Arkaik, Cut Up, Dead Meadow, Deafheaven, Ecstatic Vision, Ghost Bath, Gridfailure, Heaven Shall Burn, Ingrown, Isenordal, Loathe, Memoriam, Oathbreaker, Orm, Pallbearer, Slugdge, Today Is the Day, Valborg, Wicked City on 04/02/2017 by kurtorzeck
Orm’s “Orm”
The Bad Penny’s new program through Radio Free America, “The Violent Sleep of Reason,” focuses on new and upcoming heavy-metal releases. The show’s second installment featured new cuts by ORM, Cut Up and Isenordal.
The Violent Sleep Of Reason Episode 1, 3.22.17
Posted in Violent Sleep of Reason with tags Ascended Dead, Ashen Horde, Crimson Throne, Deafheaven, Deletere, Dodecahedron, Ghost Bath, Khemmis, King of Asgard, Meshuggah, Obituary, Pallbearer, Telekinetic Yeti, The Moon and the Nightspirit, This Will Destroy You, Warbringer, Without Waves, Woe on 04/02/2017 by kurtorzeck
Meshuggah’s “The Violent Sleep of Reason”
The premiere episode of The Bad Penny’s “The Violent Sleep of Reason” radio show featured the song after which the show was named, as well as new cuts by King of Asgard, Woe and Dodecahedron.
The Bad Penny Has A New Metal Radio Show!
Posted in The Violent Sleep of Reason with tags Radio Boise, Radio Free America on 04/02/2017 by kurtorzeck
The Bad Penny recently launched a new program through Radio Free America that cherry-picks from the best new and upcoming heavy-metal releases.
The Radio Boise/KRBX show is called “The Violent Sleep of Reason,” named after one of the best albums of last year (h/t Meshuggah). It airs terrestrially on Wednesday mornings from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. Mountain Time in the U.S., and also airs live online here.
Listen to and check out the playlists for the first two editions of “The Violent Sleep of Reason” here and here.
The show spotlights the best metal tracks released during the previous week, songs from highly anticipated upcoming albums, and cuts by bands with recent or upcoming shows in Boise. The show also highlights one Boise-area metal band each week, right around 2 a.m.
Interested in getting played on “The Violent Sleep of Reason”? Email korzeck at gmail dot com.
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