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Plague Rages Podcast #2: Big 4 Draft
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Plague Rages Podcast #2: Big 4 Draft

Big 4 draft, ALC: Paradise Lost's 'Obsidian'

In the second episode of the Plague Rages Podcast, heavy metal writers Wolf Rambatz and Stephen David Stevenson-Davison talk about a bunch of bullshit including:

1:55: Wolf issues a correction

3:10: WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO. Steve Dave talks about the new Cannibal Corpse album Violence Unimagined

3:59: Steve Dave talks about AC/DC and Wolf tries to remember the Marcus Hook Roll Band because (a) he couldn’t help himself and (b) his brain doesn’t work

5:19: Steve Dave talks about the new Steel Bearing Hand album Slay in Hell and Carbonized Records

6:45: Wolf and Steve Dave talk about the passing of L-G Petrov and Entombed

11:20: Wolf talks about the new Seputus album Phantom Indigo and the new Monochromatic Residua EP Eternal Mountain

13:37: THE BIG 4 DRAFT. Wolf explains the rules. Steve Dave picks the band name Meowgadeth. Wolf picks Caught in a Squash

16:15: Steve Dave and Wolf start drafting albums from Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer, aka The Big 4 of Thrash

33:18: Steve Dave and Wolf break down Meowgadeth’s career

38:13: Wolf and Steve Dave break down Caught in a Squash’s career

42:34: ALBUM LISTENING CLUB. Steve Dave reminds us why we’re listening to Paradise Lost’s Obsidian

43:57: Wolf runs the stats on Obsidian

44:45: The boys take a break to talk about Bodom After Midnight, for reasons

46:04: Wolf asks Steve Dave to step into the time machine as he runs down Paradise Lost’s history

55:21: Steve Dave and Wolf review Obsidian

64:32: Wolf gives Steve Dave some clues about the next ALC assignment, Jorn’s The Duke

Music in this episode:

Cannibal Corpse - “Inhumane Harvest
AC/DC - “Let There Be Rock
Marcus Hook Roll Band - “Ape Man
Steel Bearing Hand - “Command of the Infernal Exarch
Carbonized - “Vlad Tepes
Entombed - “Left Hand Path
Entombed - “About to Die
Entombed A.D. - “Torment Remains
Seputus - “The Learned Response
Monochromatic Residua - “Realm of Lava
Ken Nelson & Jim Long - “Powersurge
Megadeth - “Symphony of Destruction” (Instrumental)
Megadeth - “Hangar 18
Slayer - “Necrophobic
Anthrax - “Time
Metallica - “Fight Fire with Fire
Slayer - “Ghosts of War
Metallica - “The Four Horsemen
Metallica - “Battery
Slayer - “Praise of Death
Anthrax - “In the End
Metallica - “Mercyful Fate
James Hetfield and the News - “Hip to Be the Sandman” (Bill McClintock)
Paradise Lost - “Ghosts
Bodom After Midnight - “Paint the Sky with Blood
Seeburg Background Music - “IND-105B
Paradise Lost - “Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost - “Forever Failure
Type O Negative - “Black No. 1
Paradise Lost - “I Am Nothing
Katatonia - “Lethean
Paradise Lost - “Fear of Silence
Paradise Lost - “Ravenghast
Paradise Lost - “Beneath Broken Earth
Bloodbath - “Bloodicide
Jorn - “Duke of Love

You can listen to a full Spotify playlist of nearly every song mentioned here.

Other media:

Flashback Sound Effect
Sound Effect - Spin Back
Barenaked Ladies - “One Week
Ba Dum Tss!
Yelling Cat
Megadeth - “Sweating Bullets
NFL Draft Sound *HD*
Type O Negative Interview with Gregor Mackintosh (Paradise Lost)
"Yngwie about Jorn Lande" - whooo ?

Citations:

The Myth of the Peaceville Three” by Chris Dick, published in Decibel
Grim Northern Misery: How Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride took British gothic metal mainstream” by Dan Franklin, published in Knotfest
PARADISE LOST – An interview with Nick Holmes” by LordPist, published in Aristocrazia Webzine

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Plague Rages
Plague Rages Podcast
Metal writers Wolf Rambatz and Stephen David Stevenson-Davison talk about heavy metal music. Wolf is the dumb one, Steve is the smart one.