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The Metal Asylum: Podcast Catch-up

October 26, 2012
6:33 pm

I’ve uploaded three new-ish Metal Asylum podcasts, so check ’em out if you missed the live broadcast. If you’re wondering “However shall I decide which podcast to download?” here’s a brief summary of each:

9/15/12: This is the one where I play all bright, sparkly new music. 

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9/29/12: This is the one where my mom makes her radio debut. 

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10/13/21: This is the one without a theme, but you’ll hear some kick-ass Saudi Arabian metal, so that’s cool. 

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The Metal Asylum: 8/8/12

August 24, 2012
12:25 pm

Saturday was Backwards Day at the Metal Asylum! I have a slightly predictable habit of playing thrashy, punky, old-school metal towards the beginning of the show, then a little bit of death, ending with a transition to black metal or doom/sludge. Then, I typically leave the studio at 2 in a doom-y daze, blinded by sunlight as I exit Chicken Shack, gorge on Dynamo Donuts, and scoot home to take a nap. BO-RING! In the spirit of shaking things up, I reversed the typical playlist, and boy oh boy, I was PUMPED for the rest of the day.

Also. I have also re-fallen in love with Metallica. They’ve always been dear, but after their unforgettable spectacle at Outside Lands (8/11), I have been waking up every morning with a medley of Kill ‘Em All tunes whirling around in my head. My friend Andrea snapped this pic from the Snake Pit during the show. This is now my happy place.

Me and James.

 

Anyhow, back to the music. Here’s what went down:

1. Windhand | Libusen | Windhand
2. Guardian Alien | Birth Throes | See the World Given to a One Love Entity
3. Orchid | Eyes Behind the Wall | Capricorn
4. Pinkish Black | Fall Down | Pinkish Black
5. Howl | You Jackals Beware | Full Of Hell
6. Baroness | O’Appalachia | Red Album
7. Old Gods | Snakeoil Painting 2 | Old Gods – EP
8. The Dillinger Escape Plan | Horse Hunter | Ire Works
9. Ephel Duath | Black Prism | On Death and Cosmos – Single
10. The Faceless | Ten Billion Years | Autotheism
11. Cryptopsy | Phobophile | None So Vile
12. Entombed | Evilyn | Clandestine
13. Crowbar | Existense Is Punishment | Crowbar
14. Napalm Death | Hung | Fear, Emptiness, Despair
15. Bison B.C. | Quiet Earth | Quiet Earth
16. Megadeth | Go to Hell | Hidden Treasures
17. Morbid Angel | The Invocation / Chapel of Ghouls | Abominations of Desolation
18. Discharge | State Violence State Control | Never Again
19. Testament | Riding the Snake | The Gathering
20. S.O.D. | Raise Your Sword | Seasoning the Obese
21. Metal Church | Highway Star | Metal Church
22. Metallica | Ride The Lightning | Ride The Lightning

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xo Jody

 

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The Metal Asylum Playlist: 8/4/12

11:49 am

Just a little metal to brighten your day. Lots of new music in this playlist, and a little bit of old too.

1. Pig Destroyer | Loathsome | Phantom Limb
2. Enabler | Fuck Today | All Hail the Void
3. Suffocation | Provoking The Disturbed | Blood Oath
4. Gaza | Not With All the Hope in the World | No Absolutes in Human Suffering
5. Unpersons | Number | A Grey Sigh In a Flower Husk
6. Brujeria | Hechando Chingasos (Grenudo Locos II) | The Mexecutioner! The Best Of Brujeria
7.  Cephalic Carnage | Kill For Weed | Anomalies
8. Aborym | II | Psychogrotesque
9. Children of Bodom | The Nail | Something Wild
10. Nachtmystium | I Wait in Hell | Silencing Machine
11. Old Man’s Child | Phantoms Of Mortem Tales | Revelation 666 (The Curse Of Damnation)
12. Hooded Menace | Grasp of the Beastwoman | Fulfill the Curse
13. Bathory | Untitled
14. Evoken | The Unechoing Dread | Atra Mors
15. Black Pyramid | Mirror Messiah | Black Pyramid
16. Witchcraft | The Snake | Witchcraft
17. Saint Vitus | Burial at Sea | Saint Vitus
18. Probot | The Emerald Law | Probot
19. Down | Witchtripper | Witchtripper Single
20. Machine Head | Davidian | Burn My Eyes
21. Smoke And Smoke | Intro To Smoke And Smoke | Love Suffers Long
22. Slayer | Mandatory Sucide | South Of Heaven

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xo Jody

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The Metal Asylum Playlist: 7/21/12

July 22, 2012
8:15 pm

I’m back in SF, and that means I get to jam my metal LIVE in the studio again. Although pre-recording the shows from Austin has been fun (thanks, Mr. Evan Dunivan, for your production mastery), there’s nothing like being in front of a live mic to catch all the “ums” and “uhs” that I am so prone to mumble. Live radio, it’s a wondrous thing.

I started out the set today with some thrashy, dirty, retro tunes, then transitioned into some Black Metal, and ended on a moody note with some slow dirges. I was pleased as punch to dedicate songs to two of my awesomest listeners, Alison and Celisse, and to provide some tidbits of Babylonian theology.

Here’s the playlist:

1. Witchtrap | Damned to the Core | Vengeance Is My Name
2. Testament | Envy Life | Practice What You Preach
3. Slayer | Overt Enemy | Diabolus In Musica
4. HELLYEAH | Why Does It Always | Band of Brothers
5. Evile | Xaraya | Five Serpent’s Teeth
6. Onslaught | Thrash Till the Death | The Force
7. Demiricous | Acid Lung | Two (Poverty)
8. Speedwolf | The Reaper | Ride With Death
9. Death Angel | Death of the Meek | Relentless Retribution
10. The Contortionist | Dreaming Schematics | Intrinsic
11. Crowbar | December’s Spawn | Odd Fellows Rest
12. Wolvhammer | Shadowhorn | The Obsidian Plains
13. Kadavar | Goddess of Dawn | S/T
14. Danava | By The Mark | S/T
15. Pallbearer | Devoid of Redemption | Sorrow and Extinction
16. Marduk | World of Blades | Serpent Sermon
17. Krallice | Cnestorial | Krallice – EP
18. Emperor | The Acclamation Of Bonds | Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
19. Old Man Gloom | Regain/Rejoin | No
20. Loss | An Ill Body Seats My Sinking Sight |Despond
21. Isis | Collapse And Crush | Celestial

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xo Jody

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The Metal Asylum: Re-run

July 14, 2012
12:01 pm

Hola! This week’s Metal Asylum will be a rebroadcast of last week’s show (July 7, 2012). I’ll be back next week, in-studio, but until then, have a laugh and check out Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) on Aqua Teen Hunger Force…

 

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The Metal Asylum Playlist: 7/7/12

8:21 am

Since it’s Fourth of July Week, I wanted to showcase some of the most badass American Metal bands spanning the last three decades.*

* Disclaimer: If you’re planning on asking, “Where’s Metallica?” or “I don’t see (fill in the blank with your BFF’s thrash/metal crossover from 1992)”, I’d like to point out that this isn’t some kind of VH1 “Best American Metal” countdown. No, sir. I just wanted to play two hours of great music that just so happens to hail from the muthafuckin’ USA! USA! USA!

1. Lamb of God | Vigil | As the Palaces Burn
2. Death | Empty Words | Symbolic
3. High On Fire | Cyclopian Scape | Death Is This Communion
4. Dying Fetus | The Blood of Power | Reign Supreme (Deluxe Version)
5. Obituary | Turned Inside Out | Cause of Death
6. Nile | Tribunal of the Dead | At the Gate of Sethu
7. HELLYEAH | War In Me | War In Me – Single
8. Testament | True American Hate | True American Hate – Single
9. Megadeth | Devil’s Island | Peace Sells But Who’s Buying? (Remastered) – Single
10. Slayer | Black Magic | Show No Mercy
11. Municipal Waste | The Fatal Feast | The Fatal Feast
12. Manowar | Fast Taker | Battle Hymns
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan | Good Neighbor | Option Paralysis
14. Mastodon | Slickleg | Call of the Mastodon
15. The Locust | Scavenger, Invader | New Erections
16. Shrinebuilder | Science of Anger | Shrinebuilder
17. Pantera | Cowboys from Hell | Cowboys from Hell
18. Down | Never Try | III – Over the Under
19. Karp | Lorch-Miller | Suplex
20. Old Man Gloom | Common Species | No
21. The Sword | Freya | Age of Winters
22. Danzig | Dirty Black Summer | Danzig III – How the Gods Kill

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xo Jody

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The Metal Asylum Playlist: 5/26/12

May 26, 2012
3:44 pm

Oi!

It’s the Metal Asylum BRITISH INVASION! Today’s show is dedicated to my amazing dad, Gerry Worthington, who was the Metal Asylum’s #1 fan, and is sorely missed. Born and raised in Ringwood (Hampshire), England, he would have appreciated the 100% Blue Blood English Metal playlist I put together in his honor.

I’m sure you lot are familiar with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) during the late ’70s and early ’80s, but you might not be aware of the myriad kick-ass hardcore, death metal, black metal and proto-industrial metal bands that herald from Dear Old Blighty. From Birmingham to London to Stoke-on-Trent, I’ve got it covered.

So, bottoms up, enjoy the tunes, and as my dad would say: “OFF WE GO!”

 

1. Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Birmingham)
2. Diamond Head | Lightning to the Nations | Am I Evil? (Stourbridge)
3. Uriah Heep | Bird of Prey | Uriah Heep (London)
4. Judas Priest | White Heat, Red Hot | Stained Class (Birmingham)
5. Tokyo Blade | Death On Main Street | Tokyo Blade (Salisbury)
6. Iron Maiden | The Trooper | Piece of Mind (Leyton)
7. Discharge | Ignorance (Extended Version) | Never Again (Stoke-On-Trent)
8. Onslaught | Thrash Till the Death | The Force (Bristol)
9. Savage Messiah | Insurrection Rising | Insurrection Rising (London)
10. Evile | Schizophrenia | Enter the Grave (Huddersfield)
11. Carcass | No Love Lost | Heartwork (Liverpool)
12. Bolt Thrower | What Dwells Within | Warmaster (Coventry)
13. Betraeus | Towards the Sun | Towards the Sun (Manchester)
14. Sikth | Suffice | How May I Help You (Watford)
15. Xerath | Intrenity | I (town unknown)
16. My Dying Bride | Your River | The Angel & the Dark River (Bradford)
17. Hecate Enthroned | Centuries of Wolfen Hunger | Dark Requiems… and Unsilent Massacre (Cheshire)
18. Cradle of Filth | Absinthe With Faust | Nymphetamine (Suffolk)
19. Tesseract | Sunrise | One (Reading)
20. Napalm Death | Evolved As One | From Enslavement to Obliteration (Birmingham)
21. Cathedral | Ebony Tears | Forest of Equilibrium (Coventry)
22. Godflesh | Wound | Streetcleaner (Birmingham)
23. Killing Joke | The Wait | Killing Joke (London)
24. Electric Wizard | Black Mass | Black Masses (Dorset)

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The Metal Asylum Playlist: 3/31/12

April 1, 2012
6:17 pm

 

Not even a rainy, mildly-hungover Saturday morning with a re-routed MUNI bus could stop me from pumping metal today! I was pretty excited for the line-up of heavy jams I put together – a lot of shiny new stuff (Black Breath, Black Sheep Wall and Vaura), some really old (Pentagram and Priest), and a lot in-between. Oh, and here’s the awesome Oderus Urungus vs. Dave Mustaine clip I mentioned on the show:

Oderus Urungus vs. Dave Mustaine

And here’s the playlist:

1. Megadeth | Go to Hell | Hidden Treasures
2. Slayer | The Anti-Christ | Decade of Aggression
3. Gwar | Nudged | Ragnarök
4.  Warbringer | Forgotten Dead | Waking Into Nightmares
5. Strapping Young Lad | Bring On The Young | Strapping Young Lad
6. Exhumed | As Hammer To Anvil | All Guts, No Glory
7. Black Breath | Obey | Sentenced to Life
8. Refused | Blind-Date | The E.P. Compilation
9. Meshuggah | Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion | Break those Bones…
10. Gorod | Watershed | Process of a New Decline
11. Mayhem | Deathcrush | Deathcrush EP
12. The Locust | Wet Dream War Machine | Plague Soundscapes
13. Pathology | Incisions of Perverse Debauchery | Incisions of Perverse Debauchery
14. Black Sheep Wall | Agnostic Demon | No Matter Where It Ends
15. Trash Talk | Hash Wednesday | Eyes & Nines
16. Electric Wizard | We Hate You Dopethrone
17. Old Man Gloom | The Volcano | Christmas
18. Vaura | The Emanation | Selenelion
19. Krallice | Cnestorial | Krallice
20. Probot | Sweet Dreams | Probot
21. Pentagram | Madman | Day Of Reckoning
22. Judas Priest | Grinder | British Steel
23. Enforcer | Take Me to Hell|  Diamonds

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