Switchin’ things up a bit, yeah! Today’s show was dedicated to the killer bands that will be playing in and around the Bay Area in the next couple weeks. A great way to get pumped for all the upcoming shows, and an even better way to check out some local and not-so-local acts you may never have heard of.

Here we go:

1. The Black Dahlia Murder | Necropolis | Deflorate (Summer Slaughter Tour, The Fillmore, SF, 7/29)
2. Whitechapel | Father of Lies | This is Exile (Summer Slaughter Tour, The Fillmore, SF, 7/29)
3. Murderlicious | Set Apart | Murderlicious (Eli’s, Oakland, 7/29)
4. Nero Order | Celebration of a Wounding | The Tower (Hemlock Tavern, SF, 7/30)
5. Black Cobra | The Sapphire Falcon | Feather and Stone (El Rio, SF, 7/30)
6. Lecherous Gaze | Sold | Lecherous Gaze  (El Rio, SF, 7/30)
7. Ringworm | Hellbound | Scars  (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 7/30)
8. New Lows | The Horrible and the Miserable | Harvest of the Carcass (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 7/30)
9. Exhumed | As Hammer to Anvil | All Guts, No Glory (Slim’s, SF, 8/4)
10. Cephalic Carnage | Ontogeny of Behavior | Anomalies (Slim’s, SF, 8/4)
11. Sentinel Beast | Sentinel Beast | Depths of Death (Cafe Cocomo, SF, 8/5)
12. YOB | Doom #2 | The Illusion of Motion (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8/6)
13. Dark Castle | Growing Slow | Spirited Migration (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8/6)
14. Oakhelm | Of Wood and Blood | Betwixt and Between (El Rio, SF, 8/6)
15. Eyehategod | Self Medication Blues | Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
16. Impaled | The Last Gasp | The Last Gasp (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
17. Laudanum| Wooden Horse | Coronation (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
18. Diamond Head | Play it Loud (BBC in Concert 1982) | Reading Rock (Elbo Room, SF, 8/17)
19. Slough Feg | Starport Blues | Atavism (Elbo Room, SF, 8/17)

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 7/30/11

xoxo Jody

The apex of today’s show was quite possibly my dramatic reading of the lyrics from “Pee Wee Herman/Paul Rubens” by Ed Gein. Here are the lyrics: “Isn’t it a relief to know that even the most perfect people have flaws? Hiding secrets behind candy coated exteriors. A book with a perfect cover hiding dry rotted pages. But don’t worry you goody-goody some day you will fall. Someday you will be caught pulling it in a movie theater. Someday….you will fall.” Ponder THAT, metalheads!

And here’s the playlist:

1. Craft | Past, Present, Dead | Total Soul Rape
2. Farsot | Thematik: Hass | IIII
3. October Falls | Part III | A Collapse of Faith
4. Black Cobra | Machine | Chronomega
5. Watain | Reaping Death | Reaping Death – EP
6. Lamb of God | Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard | New American Gospel
7. Bolt Thrower | Celestial Sanctuary | The IVth Crusade
8. Death | Suicide Machine | Fate
9. Iron Monkey | Bad Year | Our Problem
10. Rabbits | A Tale of Tales | Lower Forms
11. Leng Tch’e | Death’s Head Cockroach | Hypomanic
12. Smoke and Smoke | Abandon Ship | Love Suffers Long
13. Conifer | Albuquerque | Conifer
14. Dark Castle | Flight Beyond | Spirited Migration
15. Ed Gein | Pee Wee Herman/Paul Rubens | Judas Goats & Dieseleaters
16. Genghis Tron | Sing Disorder | Cloak of Love – EP
17. The Number 12 Looks Like You| Clarissa Explains Cuntainment | An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time – EP
18. United Nations | The Shape of Punk that Never Came | S/T
19. Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come | The Shape of Punk to Come
20. Metal Church | Beyond the Black | Rhino Hi-Five: Metal Church – EP
21. Warrior | Defenders of Creation | Fighting for the Earth
22. Armored Saint | March of the Saint | March of the Saint
23. Anvil | 666 | Metal on Metal

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 7/16/2011

xoxo Jody

You thought the Metal Asylum was gone forever, didn’t you, hmmm? Nope, no such luck! I’m back, snarling, with a clenched fistful of new music. Diehard fan Alex Penafiel summed it up nicely when he posted on Facebook: “That hurt my bowels just thinking of the heaviness.” Right on.

1. Onslaught | Fight With the Beast | The Force
2. Kreator | Behind the Mirror | Terrible Certainty
3. Laaz Rockit | Erased (Live) | No Stranger to Danger
4. Metallica | Metal Militia | Kill ‘Em All
5. Exodus | Shroud of Urine | Tempo of the Damned
6. Shrinebuilder | The Architect | S/T
7. Big Business | Easter Romantic | Head for the Shallow
8. Black Cobra | The Sapphire Falcon | Feather and Stone
9. YOB | Doom #2 | The Illusion of Motion
10. Bison B.C. | Medication | Quiet Earth
11. Goatwhore | Provoking the Ritual of Death | Carving Out the Eyes of God
12. Suffocation | Provoking the Disturbed | Blood Oath
13. Cattle Decapitation | Regret and the Grave | The Harvest Floor
14. From a Second Story Window | In a River Where you Least Expect it There Will Be Fish | Not One Word Has Been Omitted
15. Cave In | Vicious Circles | White Silence
16. Cave In | Ebola | Until Your Heart Stops
17. Immortal | Damned in Black | Damned in Black
18. Anaal Nathrakh | Volenti Non Fit Iniuria | Passion
19. Altar of Plagues | Watchers Restrained | White Tomb

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 7/9/11

xoxo Jody