In the sixth episode of the Plague Rages Podcast, heavy metal writers Wolf Rambatz and Stephen David Stevenson-Davison talk about a bunch of junk including:
1:48: Steve Dave talks about playing a show with Cradle of Filth and we ponder why Cradle of Filth is tolerable now
5:00: Steve Dave and Wolf roll logs for the new Nite album, Voices of the Kronian Moon, out 3/1 on Season of Mist
6:06: Steve Dave and Wolf get sidetracked again and talk about Keanu Reeves
8:17: An update on Hands of Goro
8:48: The show starts
9:12: CORRECTIONS. Wolf’s embarrassing vocabulary and how they got the email account banned
11:23: WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO. Steve Dave has been listening to Night Demon. The band has a podcast.
14:10: Steve Dave saw Metallica. We then get sidetracked talking about bad albums with good production
18:09: Wolf doesn’t want to listen to music because they made a top 50 for 2021
18:40: Shoutout to our new podcast friends on Twitter, the Butt Metal Blast Cast. Reliably, Wolf screws up the name
21:55: ALBUM LISTENING CLUB. Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War (2000)
23:37: Wolf runs the stats on Grand Declaration of War
28:17: How did we get here? Wolf needs to split this into two sections
29:20: Wolf tries to condense Mayhem’s backstory to a minute
32:22: Wolf gives Steve Dave a test on Mayhem
42:20: Wolf reveals the answers
50:45: Steve Dave and Wolf offer their brief assessments of Grand Declaration of War
57:30: What is good about Grand Declaration of War?
64:55: What is the worst part of Grand Declaration of War?
71:22: Steve Dave and Wolf rate Grand Declaration of War?
74:26: Wolf unveils the next ALC assignment, Celtic Frost’s Cold Lake
Music in this episode:
Darkthrone - “Too Old Too Cold”
Cradle of Filth - “Crawling King Chaos”
Nite - “Kronian Moon”
Night Demon - “Vysteria”
Oscar Ortega Megamix (Cystectomy, Decortication, Engulfed in Repugnance, Septycemia, Servants of the Sword, Undeciphered)
Spiral Architect - “Insect”
Cadaver - “Bypassed”
Lengsel - “Revival”
Checker Patrol - “Jägermeister”
Thorns - “Lovely Children”
Mayhem - “Freezing Moon”
Mayhem - “A Grand Declaration of War”
Ulver - “Lost in Moments”
Aborym - “Our Sentence”
Mayhem - “Ancient Skin”
Mayhem - “Crystalized Pain in Deconstruction”
Aura Noir - “Grave Dwellers”
Mayhem - “A Grand Declaration of War” (2018)
Mayhem - “Psywar”
Mayhem - “In the Lies Where upon You Lay”
Thorns - “Stellar Master Elite”
Arcturus - “To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night”
Enslaved - “Større enn tid - Tyngre enn natt”
Emperor - “The Tongue of Fire”
Thor - “Lightning Strikes Again”
Celtic Frost - “Cherry Orchards”
You can listen to a full Spotify playlist of nearly every song mentioned here.
Other media:
Journey - “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”
Tense Quiz Music Ideal for a Quiz TV Show or Podcast Segment
Walk Hard (2007)
Citations:
“The Legend of Keanu Reeves,” by Alex Pappademas, published in GQ
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, published by Feral House
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, by Dayal Patterson, published by Feral House
Blood, Fire, and Death: The Swedish Metal Story, by Ika Johannsesson and Jon Klingberg, published by Feral House
“Interview with Hellhammer,” by Dmitry Basik
Letters from the Dead - In memory of Pelle Ohlin, by Per Yngve Ohlin, published by Deathlike SIlence Productions
METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries, by Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen, published by Bazillion Points
“Mayhem’s Long, Dark Road to Reviving a Black-Metal Classic” by Kory Grow, published in Rolling Stone
“Mayhem’s Necrobutcher: I was on my way to kill Euronymous myself,” published in Consequence
“Editorial: Regarding Euronymous’ Claim that ‘Almost ALL Norwegian Bands are More or Less Nazis’,” by Axl Rosenberg, published in Metal Sucks
“Satan’s Cheerleaders,” by Darcey Steinke, published in Spin
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