Ben had a great time talking to Kevin Curran and Mike Munro—two legends of the incredible and underrated Boston power thrash metal scene of the 1980s and 1990s. They talk about the brotherhood and musical vision behind their new super group Kin

Talking Metal and Otherwise

Apr 14th, 2024 1h 40m

Getting back to why we created this cast in the first place: We're great friends who love metal and digressions about books and other things on our minds! We zoom, drink a beer, and chat it up. Always enjoyable! This chat was in anticipation of

Doom the World: The Gift of Sorrow

Mar 9th, 2024 1h 56m

With few exceptions most short lived metal bands make forgettable comeback albums. One very recent and clear exception to this rule is the stunning death doom record "Death of Sorrow" by Sorrow (Extreme Records, 2023). "Death of Sorrow" is equa

A Heart Wide Open - The Gift of Rebecca Vernon of The Keening

Feb 17th, 2024 1h 13m

Ben had the great privilege of talking to one of his favorite artists, Rebecca Vernon of the great @subrosaslc and now, after many trials and tribulation @thekeeningmusic Rather than presenting linear interview audio, the episode is mixed to re

Talking Metal 2023 and Beyond with Markisan Naso

Feb 3rd, 2024 3h 20m

He’s back! We’re back! After a crappy start to the new year for Ben, we are joined by our buddy Markisan Naso of the Metalheads podcast. It’s an epic beer guzzling hang and recap of best live shows, and metal albums from 2023 that continue to g

Timeless Threnody: The Gift of Rannoch

Dec 17th, 2023 3h 23m

On this special, end of the year episode, Ben welcomes Ian Gillings of the West Midlands (UK) band Rannoch. After another banner year for metal, Ben selected Rannoch's incomparable epic "Conflagrations" * as his number one album of 2023. The i

Revolutionary Riffs: The Gift of Kannabinõid

Dec 9th, 2023 1h 21m

We open with the killer RIFF slamming-heavy-AF track "Ootah" by the“Pop Doom” band Kannabinõid @kannabinoidband. Zooming in from Tailin, Estonia--a country with a remarkable history of struggle and recent independence in the early 1990s--an eas

Light in the Suffering: The Gift of Oktas

Dec 1st, 2023 1h 32m

We open with a snippet of "Light in the Suffering," a track from the Philly post-metal cello doom band Oktas's 2022 record The Finite and the Infinite; a mournful congregation of four talented musicians that is nothing short of a sonic masterpi

Promethean Wounds: The Gift of Aiwass

Nov 6th, 2023 1h 53m

Ben welcomes Blake Carrera, mastermind behind the genre bending doom metal project, Aiwass. Hot on the heels of an epic new release, "The Falling," released on the excellent King Volume records, we were excited to go deep into this masterpiece

Sacred Destruction: The Gift of Oldest Sea

Oct 26th, 2023 1h 12m

Ben and Jeff welcome Sam and Andrew Marandola of the ethereal and immersive doom group, @oldestsea . After seeing the band live for the first time in August at Philadelphia's legendary Kung Fu Necktie, Ben and Jeff were eager to talk about what

Heavy Catharsis: The Gift of A.L.N. of Mizmor

Sep 27th, 2023 1h 53m

We had a really nice chat with A.L.N. aka Mizmor @whollydoomedblackmetal - the powerful blackened doom metal force behind a series of 4 deeply personal and cathartic records—including the recent raw energized epic “Prosaic” released on @profoun

Heavy Intentions: The Gift of Aidan Baker/Nadja

Sep 1st, 2023 2h 29m

Ben chats with one of his favorite artists in heavy music, the prolific (anti) guitarist, vocalist, and even flautist, Aidan Baker. Aidan is incredibly prolific artist who releases solo works under his own name and the epic doom gaze duo with b

Adam Wright of Crucial Blast Records Part 1

Aug 14th, 2023 2h 31m

Jeff and Ben are joined by Adam Wright, owner of one of the most important extreme music labels of the 21st Century, Crucial Blast Records. As artists who released records as part of the label's Crucial Bliss CD-R series, it was wonderful to fi

Sonic Journeymen: An Interview with Ufomammut

Aug 3rd, 2023 2h 2m

Jeff and I had the pleasure of talking to Urlo and Poia, founding members of the incomparable heavy psych-sludge band UFOMAMMUT. We explore the early history of the band, how their sound evolved and is connected to their work as incredible vis

Andrew Corson of the Fathoming Heavy Podcast

Jul 19th, 2023 1h 57m

Andrew Corson's Fathoming Heavy podcast was seminal for what Jeff and Ben have aspired Endless Metal to become--namely, a place where both deep appreciation for heavy music and shared bonds of friendship could happen effortlessly and without th

Surrender into Sound: An Interview with Steve Von Till

Jun 22nd, 2023 2h

Steve Von Till is an American musician, songwriter, educator, and poet. He is best known as a singer and guitarist in the highly influential and genre defying collective, Neurosis, which has been credited with changing the face of heavy music

The Gift of Endless Metal with Paul Kaplan of Candle$

Jun 16th, 2023 1h 38m

Jeff and Ben welcome Paul Kaplan, baritone guitar player from the San Diego sludgecore band Candle$. Paul and Ben go way back as colleagues, friends, and fellow metal heads. We get to hear about Paul's metal origin story--growing up in the Bay

Emotion Never Dies: An Interview with Greg Chandler of the Legendary Death Doom Band Esoteric

Jun 16th, 2023 1h 58m

On this episode of the Endless Metal Podcast, we** are joined by Greg Chandler, one of the founding members of the seminal extreme death doom band Esoteric. The dialogue comes at a very exciting time for the band, as Esoteric prepares to tour A

The Gift of Endless Metal with Markisan Naso

Jun 6th, 2023 3h 23m

We are joined by Markisan Naso, one of the boys from the always great Metalheads Podcast! Ben begins with a little synopsis of this three and half hour epic dialogue that ensues. We learn about Markisan's metal origin story, share some laughs,

Doom Therapy

May 24th, 2023 28m

Jeff and Ben prepare for an upcoming interview with Greg Chandler from the legendary death doom band Esoteric. The talk that ensues broaches a number of well, esoteric, themes. And in post-production, Ben has fun mixing in various sampled sound

Don't Call Me Dude!

May 24th, 2023 11m 47s

Jeff and Ben were riffing on Voivod's recent show at Underground Arts in Philly--yep a little Voivod to start the show (and replay)--but a discussion of the metal punk band Ludachrist leads to Ben's story of seeing, um, Scatterbrain: Don't call

Cave(d) In

May 3rd, 2023 1h 38m

Ben opens the show with a few reflections about the phrase "endless metal" and the original inspiration for this show--namely, the upcoming Yob and Cave In concert in Philly! But Ben hears the new Dozer "stoner metal" and, um, "grunge" record,

Endless Riffs and the Gift of Steve Von Till

Mar 13th, 2023 1h 2m

Jeff and Ben riff briefly on great heavy riffs. But the real riffing is in the expansive dialogue that takes them from Slayer to the great jazz imprint ECM records and beyond. In the second half, they deep dive into the great Steve Von Till's

Endless Embrace: Windhand and Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou

Feb 22nd, 2023 57m 34s

Jeff and Ben begin with ongoing "metal origin stories." And then two "heavy immersions" into two of their favorite heavy releases of the past five years:https://windhand.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-returnhttps://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our

Metal Origin Stories Part 1 of ?????

Feb 20th, 2023 23m 34s

*The audio quality of this show was poor. However, we will improve it significantly on future episodes.To kick off the reboot of the Endless Metal Podcast, Ben and Jeff--although Ben totally hogs the mic-- present riffs on how they met, bonde