Into The Combine Metal Podcast

Yes the world is falling apart around us with the coronavirus and maybe we should have picked a more uplifting topic but hey this is metal right? This one was in the works for a while so there was no turning back especially after all the hard work our guest Tyson Tilly put in to bring us some background on what he considers 5 of the most essential Death Doom releases. Ty writes for metal website Heaviest of Art so make sure and go check out the site and give them a follow. Go check him out on Instagram as well at "Tytilly" for a lot of great metal recommendations and content. We also talked about what we’ve been listening to and have an interview at the end of the episode with Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride to talk about their latest album as well as there classic “Turn Loose the Swans” album. Its a long one but what else would you expect when talking death doom? Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine Listen here or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Go

Part 2 of our top 15 albums from 2010-2019!  Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher    

Whats that you say? You didn't get enough best of lists from the end of the year? You want more? Well in that case here you go!  For this episode we tortured ourselves with the impossible task of picking 15 of the best albums from 2010-2019. Part 2 coming soon... Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

The Moment you've all been waiting for! Part two of our top 15 albums of 2019! Plus we talked about all of our honorable mentions that almost made the list AND we have an interview with Chase Mason of Gatecreeper!  If you want our printed lists we'll post those in about a week or so on our Facebook and website.  Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

Here's part 1 of our best of the year episode! We counted down from 15-8 and ended with an interview with Karl Sanders of Nile. Stay tuned for part 2 soon. If you want our printed lists we'll post those in about a week or so on our Facebook and website.  Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

Episodes 90's main feature is a discussion on some of the best lesser known melodic death metal albums. We had Thomas Gilliam, one of our long time listeners and expert on all things Swedish melodic death metal on to bring us his favorite picks. We also gave some of our own so get ready for some melody! Plus don't worry we still talked about what we've been listening to, a Shadie rant, and have a live interview with Luca Indrio the vocalist and bassist of Death Metal band Necrot that took place right after their set on the Gatecreeper/Exhumed tour. Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Music Played On This Episode: Left Behind "Peeling Wax" Abigail Williams "Ever so Bold" Crepuscle "In the Winds of Glory" High Command "Mercilis Steel" Hideous Divinity "Pray to a Vision" Blood Incantation "The Giza Power Plant" Sacrilige "Lost in the Beauty You Slay" Inso

Episode 89 is here and its a long one so here's the breakdown in case you get sick of us and want to jump around! Intro: We got caught up on some of the new music we've been listening to 45 mins: Live Exhumed Interview 73 mins: Discussion on what albums got us into each of the main genres of metal Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Music Played on This Episode Vomit Forth "Formless One Nile "Seven Horns of War" Insomnium "The Offering" In Mourning "Heirophant Borknagar "Thunderous" Obsequaie "Ceres in Emerald Streams" Gatecreeper "From the Ashes" & "Puncture Wounds" Exhumed "Naked and Screaming and Covered in Blood" Pig Destroyer "Trojan Whore" Antrhax "AIR" Necrophagist "Stabwound" The Faceless "Prison Borne" Queensryche "Eyes of a Stranger" As I Lay Dying "Confined" Blind Guardian "Im Alive" Candlemass "Solitude" Electric Wizard "Black Mass" Sti

Ep 88: We talked about albums we feel are under appreciated/underrated and got Derrick Vella of Tomb Mold back on the cast to join in with some his favorites and more! Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine    Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Music Played on this Episode: Pyrexia "God" Pestilence "Soul Search" Edge of Sanity "The Forbidden Worlds II" Brutality "Ceremonial Unearthing" Deteriorate "Rotting in Hell" Immortal Souls "Under the Northern Sky" Job for a Cowboy "Sun of Nihility" Dissection "Dark mother Divine" Insomnium "Down with the Sun" Cemetary "Dead Red" Scar Symmetry "Technocalyptic Cybergeddon" Naglfar "Exalted Above Throwns" Ripping Corpse "Anti-God" Fleshgod Apocolypse Dismember Massive Killing Capacity" Insatanity "Under the Baphoment" Mangled Torso's "Lost Emotions" Achrosticon "Zombies" Nex Carnis "Darkened Rights of Existence (Part 1 & 2) Zealotry "Mutagenesis" Mithra

We recorded a full episode but decided to split it in half for the sake of time... so more to come on that! For now though here's some new recomendations and an interview with Gabe Franco of Idle Hands! Stay tuned for Part 2 soon...   Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine    Music Played on this Episode: Tool "Tempest" Enforced "The Heath" Infant Annihilator "A Rape of Sirens" Vitriol "Legacy of Contempt" Pandemonium "In Search for Euthanasia" Shylmagoghnar "Transience" Dessecrecy "Towards Nebulae" Nightfell "No Life Leaves Here" Idle Hands "Nightfall"   Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

We talked about some older music we've been listening to and a few new ones including Edge of Sanity, Wintersun, Demolition Hammer, Hinayana, and Allegaeon, discussed Mastodon's Crack the Skye since it turned 10 this year, and answered a Patreon listener's question - Pick a band to cover any album from another band. Plus we have an interview with Gina Gleason of Baroness. Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Music Played on this Episode: Knocked Loose "Mistakes like Fractures" Hinayana Allegaeon "The Secular Age" Demolition Hammer "Skull Fracturing Nightmare" & ".44 Caliber Brain Surgery" Edge of Sanity "Unorthodox" Wintersun " Mastodon "Oblivion", "Divinations", "Crack the Skye", and "The Last Baron" Baroness "Seasons" & "I'd Do Anything" Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

This episode features talk on and music from Tomb Mold, Memoriam, Nightrage, Belzebubs, Thank You Scientist, Immortal Souls, and a little debate about whether the new Nocturnus or Possessed album was better. We also have an interview with Austin Haines of Outerheaven that starts at the 12 min mark and Nate Garett of Spirit Adrift/Gatecreeper which starts at the 1 hr and 10 min mark!  Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Music Played on this Episode: Tomb mold “Planetary Clairvoyance” Outerheaven "What Lies Beneath" & "Putrid Dwelling" Memoriam “The Veteran” Immortal Souls "Blue Flame Fire" Thank You Scientist "Terraformer" Beelzebubs “Cathedrals Of mourning”  Possessed "No More Room in Hell" Nocturnus AD "The Anti-Chamber" Spirit Adrift "Hear Her" & "Divided by Darkness" Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher  

We talked about new albums from Fetid, Idle Hands, Batushka (Krystov Drabkowski's version), & Krypts. Than we talked about how the 3 of us reunited for the (maybe?) final Slayer farewell tour with Cannibal, Lamb Of God, and Amon Amarth as well as Shadie’s review of the Tech Trek tour with Archspire, Inferi, Virgin, and Wormhole. Plus we’ve got interviews with Archspire (at the 45 min mark) & Inferi (at 1 hour at 20 min mark)!                              Listen at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Music Played on this Episode: Breakdown: Terminal Nation “Church Of the Gun” 1. Fetid "Cranial Liquescent" 2. Krystov Drabkowski's Batushka "Nechb 4" - Bandcamp Download link: https://sphieratz.bandcamp.com/album/- 3. Idle Hands "Blade and the Will" 4. Krypts "Circling the Between" 5. Archspire "Remote Tumor Seeker" & "Relentless Mutation" 6. Inferi "The Promethean Kings"

We talked about new music from Employed to Serve, Wormwitch, Altarage, Warforged, Full of Hell, Nocturnus AD, Inferi, Spirit Adrift, and Amon amarth and did a throwback discussion on Arch Enemy's first album "Black Earth". We also interviwed Anthony Natarmaso of After the Burial about there recent tour with Killswitch Engage/Parkway Drive, the new album "Evergreen", how it compared to recording the last one, his last conversation with Justin, playing live as a 4 piece, becoming comfortable as a front man, and more.  Time Stamps: Intro & new music recommendations  50 min: Arch Enemy "Black Earth" Review 1hr 15 min: Interview  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine  Music Played on this Episode: - Employed to Serve "Beneath it All" - Wormwitch "Two Wolves" - Altarage "Knowledge" - Warforged "Nightfall Came" - Full of Hell "Ygrumal the Many" - Nocturnus

Its time again for America's favorite game show - Into the Combine Trivia with returning listener Old Man Dave! Plus we have an interview with Mark Kloeppel of Misery Index and plenty of new music recommendations. Time Stamps: Intro & new music recommendations  34 min: Trivia  1hr 15 min: Interview  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher   Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine   Music Played on this episode: Cast Down "Pantomine Mine" Children of Bodom "This Road" Equipose "My Suite of Flesh" Before the Dawn “Phoenix Rising” Creeping Death "Revenge" Brymir "Hails from the Edge" Imprecation "Baptized in the Blood of Satan"   "Old Man Dave" Stan the Man Solo Artist

We started off with new albums we've been listening to including Venom Prison, Diabolical, Valtari, Rotting Christ, & Saor and than jumped into a discussion on our opinions of band gimmicks, live theatrics, etc, and reviewed the recent movie about Mayhem and the Norwegian black metal scene "Lords of Chaos". Stay tuned at the end of the episode for an interview with Ash Gray of Venom Prison! We talked about the difference of writing an album when they were relatively unknown compared to after blowing up in the scene, pushing the aggressiveness and technicality of the new album, the new styles incorporated into the album, Larissa's amazing vocal progression, their touring experiences over the last few years, and a lot more.  Intro - New Music Recommendations  28 mins: Band gimmick/theatrics discussion  43 mins: Lords of Chaos Review 1 hr 10 mins: Venom Prison Interview  Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Find more bonus content over

We talked about new music we've been listening to, whether or not lyrics matter in metal and to what extent quality of vocals are important and discussed Entombed's classic album "Clandestine". Plus we have an interview with Steve Tucker of the mighty Morbid Angel! We talked about Steve's passion for death metal, his path to extreme metal, the first time he heard Morbid, how it was to join the band, experience working on Formulas Fatal to the Flesh and Gateways to Annihilation, his vocal development, and some talk about metal in general. Interview starts at 1 hour and 10 min mark. Listen here, at the below links or on your favorite podcast app: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecombine Music Played on This Episode: Judiciary "Social Crusade" Ossuarium "Corrosive Hallucinations" Festerday "Kill Your Truth" Soilwork "Wolves are Back in Town" Misery Index "The Choir Invisible" Entombed "Sinners Bleed, Severe Burns, Stranger Aeo