Everything Went Black Podcast

EWB 363 THE RETURN OF RANDY LARSEN

This week, Randy Larsen returns to the podcast! Randy is the founding member of Cable, put in time as a touring bassist for Tombs and have been  a co-host of mine on Metal Matters as well as here at EWB. He has taken some time off from podcasting to put some time and effort into his new venture as co-owner of Little Lost Records, a new eclectic record store based in Stofford Springs, CT.

 

Our friendship has spanned decades, so conversion flows freely!

 

Intro:    “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “The Friends of Rock ‘n’ Roll” – Easy Action

EWB 361 FROM THE VAULT HARLEY FLANAGAN

This week we're going back to the Metal Matters Vault with this interview I did with Harley Flanagan around the time he secured the name Cromags.

Intro:     "All of the Dark Things" - Mike Hill

Outro:    "The Only One" - Cromags

 

EWB 361 DARKNESS WEAVES COLD LIGHT

Karl and I continue our darkness Weaves project with Cold Light, one of Karl Edward Wagner’s most genre-fluid stories. 

 

Intro / Outro:     “Darkness Weaves” – Mike Hill

EWB 360 RICK HABEEB GREY SKIES FALLEN REEKING AURA

Rick Habeeb of Grey Skies Fallen / Reeking Aura joins us this week.  Both bands have record out this year on Profound Lore. Grey Skies’ record Molded by Broken hands came out earlier this year and the new reeking Aura will hit later this year.

 

Intro:    “All of the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “I Can Hear Your Voice” – Grey Skies Fallen

EWB 359 BLACKL SABBATH'S DARK YEARS WITH CHAMP MORGAN

Champ Morgan returns to us this week.  Black Sabbath is an iconic bansd; Tony Iommi created heavy metal guitar and the rhythm section of Bill Ward and Geezer Bulter has influenced generations of musicians over 50 years.  None of this si news to anyone, but what about Sabbath in the 90’s?  Morgan and I talk about Sabbath’s “dark years.”

 

Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:   “Headless Cross” – Black Sabbath

EWB 358 WILL SMITH REEKING AURA HEAVY HOLE PODCAST

Death Metal frontman and Heavy Hole Podcast host Will Smith joins us this week.  I’ve been a fan of his since my old band Anodyne shared played a show with his old band Biolich back in the dim past in some forgotten basement in Upstate New York. Most recently, he is fronting Reeking Aura, whose album Blood and Bone Meal was on heavy rotation around here back in 2022.

 

Intro:    “All of the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “Harvesting the Hatchet” – Reeking Aura

EWB 357 PAUL ALOISIO

Paul Aloisio of Restless Spirit returns to us this week.  The band has been tearing up the road these past few months so I wanted to get caught up.  We also talk about our mutual love of horror movies and discuss the recent sensation Longlegs, which will be a subject of a future all-hands episode of Necromaniacs.

 

Intro:    “All the dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “Crooked Timber of Humanity” – Restless Spirit

EWB 356 CHRIS ASHLEY SLASHER FILM FESTIVAL STRATEGY

Chris Ashley of Slasher Film Festival Strategy joins this week to discuss his recent work with Cadabra Records.  We discuss his background in hardcore punk and the early influences that motivated him to embark on this dark journey into intense electronic music.

 

Intro:    “All of the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “Deimos” – Slasher Film Festival Strategy

EWB 355 THE METAPHYSICS OF LOVE

Ralph Schmidt returns to us for another deep, heavy episode.  As part of our Metaphysics of… we dive into one of the scariest human emotions in the human psyche.  I’m talking about Love, a feeling that defies logic and reason but underlies almost every aspect of our lives; either the presence or lack of love.

 

Intro:    “All of the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “ Eternally is Here” – Gun Club

EWB 354 DRUGOTH MARTIAL ARTS EPISODE

A few weeks ago, Drugoth joined us for his first of hopefully many visits to the podcast. We spoke primarily about music and the creative process and touched on martial arts, a passion that we both share.  I think we could have gone for another hour so I invited him back.

 

Intro:    “All of the Dark Things” – Mike Hill

Outro:  “We Bite” - Christbane