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This one’s for Bob.   Recommended Listening    HHPP EP192 (featuring Bob Nalbandian)  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6LLWiEga88ZAenA3u9AZMA?si=d446d9b934624566   Movies   Inside Metal (Directed by Bob Nalbandian)   https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Metal-Pioneers-L/dp/B0797LG6FB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CZGSCQG1147A&keywords=inside+metal&qid=1675006630&sprefix=inside+metal%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1   The Rainbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7fnUJTt4M   Heavy Metal Parking Lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/aca

On July 3, 1969 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drown to death.  Two years later to the day on July 3, 1971 Jim Morrison was found dead in a Paris hotel room and in between both Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin would also meet tragic fates.  The four were each only 27 years old and their deaths would unwittingly form an infamous club whose membership, primarily among musicians  would mysteriously grow over the years as Chris Bell of Big Star, D Boon of the Minutemen, Kurt Cobain. Amy Winehouse and many others would join its growing ranks.  We discuss the phenomenon and dig deep into its luminaries that have had a specific impact on us.     Bob Nalbandian Go Fund Me https://www.gofundme.com/f/bob-nalbandian?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email_m_pd-5332-donation-receipt-adyen&utm_content=internal   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/12982

Scowl are one of a handful of up and coming hardcore bands poised to follow Turnstile into mainstream success.  Charismatic singer Kat Moss is the perfect front person for the moment and is kicking the doors open for thousands of young women to join a scene that long excluded them.   Their debut LP is all the buzz and their live shows are becoming can’t miss events.  But is their music any good?  And is their home town of Santa Cruz CA a bastion of Granola and free thinkers or actually sketchy AF and hard as nails?  Only the kids know for sure.      Recommended Listening    Greg Hahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQWjJ4V07Go   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7

When Metallica’s “Black Album” was released in 1991 Glenn and I looked at each other with confusion and exclaimed “There’s no Metallica in my Metallica!”  Gone were the screaming vocals, the long overly complicated song structures and pissed off aggression.  I had this same feeling again in 2021 with the release of Deafheaven’s “Infinite Granite.”  It was a far cry from their 2013 masterpiece “Sunbather” (their “Master of Puppets” if you will) and I was confused and a little bit sad though I quickly came around.  Being unfamiliar with the band or either record, neither Glenn nor Rod endured such a burden so I thought, “let’s get their unbiased take” by pitting the two records against each other in a VINYL CAGE MATCH and that’s exactly what we did.  The results surprised me.  Turns out those guys have pretty good taste.         Recommended Listening    Alcest Souvenirs d’un autre monde https://open.spotify.com/album/1zQQoViMwTIXwmidyqTXdF?si=HQsfD6LyRnipB_wlEJbm8A   Ride Nowhere https://open.spotify.com/albu

Now two years removed from the height of the COVD-19 pandemic, 2022 finally saw a return to normalcy and that included an abundant year in music.  Live shows were back in full swing, records were recorded with band members actually in the same room together and acoustic bedroom performances on Instagram slowed down considerably.  Our seventh annual Year End episode reflects all of this and indicates that our voracious appetite for all things music (including the music itself) has not waned a bit.  Our respective Best Of ’22 lists include some of the best shows we attended, our favorite albums released this year, old artists we've only recently discovered, great books we've read and in Glenn’s case even an entire music scene.  It all indicates that we still can’t get enough music and can’t wait to hear what we’ll get into in the coming year.  Happy New Year y’all.     RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlis

It’s a Peter Murphy Christmas!  Timing is everything and it could be argued that we screwed the pooch on our holiday episode selection. On the other hand, what could be better than sitting around the fire with a little rum spiked eggnog and the Godfather of Goth at his most joyful?  The boys get a little tipsy themselves while they contemplate how Murphy's 1987 sophomore effort has stood the test of time.  Happy Holidays form HHPP!   LINK TO EPISODE IN BIO   RIP Terry Hall   Recommended Listening:   HHPP EP103:  The Specials  https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/06/02/ep103-the-specials/   “Final Solution”  https://open.spotify.com/track/4iGukCefZBHnpQWBEnWMbT?si=42de9b05c8e94b00   Iggy Pop “Funtime” https://open.spotify.com/track/3tFQ4Zz3FKz3s6sCdY1mQg?si=61ccab28b90c46b4   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon A

Walter Schreifels had Gorilla Biscuits in the ’80s, Quicksand in the ‘90s and then Rival Schools in the early aughts.  Their debut album United by Fate is a record that Mike has obsessed over for twenty years, Glenn came to late but has gown to appreciate more and more and Rod had never heard before preparing for this podcast.  They come to the album from three different perspective but there’s little disagreement about this one.     Recommended Listening:   Far Water & Solutions  https://open.spotify.com/album/4enPQLBdrmgyL6NwrMZXx1?si=mo2EL9swR82X7-DsadIoAA   New End Original Lukewarm  https://open.spotify.com/track/6nqxqN3oaRkRLjz0VtKmJ9?si=aacc38b2c8044751   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.sp

If you could only listen to 10 artists for the rest of your life who would they be?  Slayer?  Miles Davis?  Freaking Beethoven?!?  Lots to consider:  breadth of catalog, a variety of moods, songs you’ll never tire of.  It takes us over two and a half hours to compile our lists and it’s a journey of contemplation, joy and agony.  Episode 200 is exactly the wild ride we hoped it would be.       huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Bob Mould is an under appreciated genius.    RIP Christine McVie RIP Keith Levene    Recommended Listening:   Beaster  https://open.spotify.com/album/1Lj1hDF4hcyKGUiw0k7iC3?si=cafC_z4cQGaI1Tc4GWgXFQ   Bob Mould Workbook https://open.spotify.com/album/3VhSB8ozURez6qOSptLb15?si=WuoPoZdtRRS0ugB-fAB0Ig   Black Sheets of Rain https://open.spotify.com/album/6X7wrpHgbgBB3u2eMBFNuN?si=GtSFSJepTNev5HhRoRBkGg   Body of  Song https://open.spotify.com/album/48JZpYBLsQUd4O1d0wful4?si=-ZFfKW7aTU6TPy4WqX9nzA   Book   Bob Mould:  "See A Little Light:  The Trail of Rage and Melody"  https://www.amazon.com/See-Little-Light-Trail-Melody/dp/031604508X   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOE

Excel’s debut is rarely mentioned along with the classic Crossover albums, a list that includes Suicidal Tendencies' “Join the Army,” COC’s “Animosity,” DRI’s “Dealing With It” and Agnostic Front’s “Cause For Alarm” and it's hard to understand why.   It’s a perfect blend of Metal guitars and Punk vocals with personal lyrics about how fucked up the world is an how helpless we are to fix it.  Venice Beach native Patrick Sweeney joins to help us crack the code of this under appreciated masterpiece.      Recommended Listening:   Welcome To Venice - Comp https://www.discogs.com/master/99961-Various-Welcome-To-Venice   “Tapping Into the Emotional Void” https://open.spotify.com/track/5knnuV8LT06mtp5K8Cfh8f?si=3941a130ea5d423c   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/

It’s hammer time in DC!  After fronting a trio of legendary Dishord bands, The Untouchables, The Faith and Ignition Alec MacKaye had more than earned his status as American Punk Rock royalty and could have certainly rested on his laurels.  Instead, he’s back with a new project, Hammered Hulls that is more than worthy of his legacy.  Their debut LP sounds like classic Discord in all the best ways and the recently released Careening is getting better with each listen.      Recommended Listening:   The London Suede  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6GuRYj1MEnu1WZhDA2Xy0t?si=_zL-K5GSTi2R27CcGpc88A   Mercyful Fate - Live at the YouTube Theater 10/29/22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELC5T6ys5o   Inner Ear Studios Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2Rx6mu138   Academy O.C. Irish Goodbye https://open.spotify.com/album/300aJGhxoESCbUVUCpGKsW?si=I78OzqjcRByGbP2TWbVS2g   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://op

How much of our love of Mercyful Fate is based on nostalgia versus the fact that they were an incredibly innovative, talented band with great songs?  As a relative newbie to the band Rod helps us answer the question as we dive deep into their classic first LP while touching on their equally great follow up Don’t Break the Oath, discuss the conviction in the bands approach and debate how many riffs is too many riffs.      RIP Jerry Lee Lewis  RIP Timi Hansen    Recommended Listening: King Diamond Fatal Portrait  https://open.spotify.com/album/0l9HvMchT9T7ZPoWBhu1Zj?si=35hHcYFrSzWpGaufjpIENQ   Metallica Mercyful Fate https://open.spotify.com/track/45oVrneg2MiwAA74KgmtBj?si=943491a4c53a4c4d   manhuntsman Convalesce  https://open.spotify.com/album/68hyowzBh18ZcDvg1edBtJ?si=7QMxfxVOTyCX73fsH4s5CA   Movie The Munsters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user

Keith Morris and Dimitri Coats are back and this time with a brand new rhythm section.  Now four LPs in, the newly constructed quartet sounds completely revitalized.  The familiar OFF! punch is still there but now with new layers, textures and moods thrown into the mix.  Free LSD might not be the bands best album but it’s pretty damn great right now.     Recommended Listening:   HHPP EP151:  OFF! “The First Four EPs” https://huntsmanhill.com/2021/04/04/ep151-off-the-first-four-eps/   Burning Brides  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6093L65mwrPFONEN7Qbeeg?si=eEgVNDlORcW9nw0twyXGpg   Movie “Brainiac:  Transmissions After Zero” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7974564/   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsma

Whether Discharge is simply one of Final Conflicts primary influences or their entire reason for being may be debatable but what isn’t is how great a hardcore record Ashes to Ashes is.  It’s decidedly Punk Rock but could not exist without its Metal trimmings.  It has all the attitude and urgency of the former without sacrificing any of the aggression or heaviness of the latter.  Regardless who Final Conflict were biting,  Ashes to Ashes is a stone cold classic of the genre that sounds as great today as it did in 1988.     Recommended Listening:   Discharge https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SRhOM75OnwuXH8BmCxD5a?si=inCL8YeBRr-xCCkgzIMDHA   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https:/

Mike notes that all the songs on the Chicago trio's second LP are about “terrible people doing terrible things”  while Rod describes the albums sonics as the sound of chewing on tinfoil" and Glenn astutely observes “this album should really be called Songs About Getting Fucked.”  They’re all right.   Recommended Listening:   Produced by Steve Albini Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7aLsoxNb3egrBqxnEEXadA?si=084262b414fe48fb   Academy O.C. “Roommate With An Axe” https://open.spotify.com/track/4RuIkJyvkUB4GwGnBEk6k4?si=59ac07d392d74b0f   Video Steve Albini & Ian MacKaye Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPMNY3roo_Y&list=WL&index=5   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.

This week we are joined by dear friend, Metal aficionado and Armored Saint insider Bob Nalbandian for a conversation that takes us back to early 80’s tape trading, drunken escapades in Phoenix and Mike’s unlikely emotional response to the dawn of the power ballad.     Recommended Listening:   “Isolation (Live from Isolation)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUKNJ0UIDA   manhuntsman “The Writer” (Odin cover)  https://open.spotify.com/track/2UVHFmqxw9KS9Wv5HhjgQL?si=46bf8f20242940d9   Movies  Armored Saint doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBcqE0ZpTc   Inside Metal Documentary Series https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Metal-Scene-Explodes/dp/B078TMVYK7

Can a podcast episode be entertaining if the hosts just constantly agree and nothing remotely controversial said?  We ask ourselves this question all the time.  This episode is an absolute love fest, celebrating the Clash's 1980 compilation and the band in general however, Rod definitely stirs things up with his perspective on their place in the pantheon of great Dub artists (Mike does not endorse this comment).    Recommended Listening: EP39:  The Clash - Complete Discography  https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/09/11/ep39-the-clash-complete-discography/   The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack  https://open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKcC9epGo9viy1j8fN7?si=jUNzR601QCiFkAMyUsm36w   Playlist: “All the Bands That Mattered to the Only Band That Mattered" https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28PsiEn0kesL0yri22M678?si=4a750791a55d439d     Movie:  RocknRolla https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill S

From the Sex Pistols take on Eddie Cochran to Black Flag's interpretation of “Louie Louie” and Refused trying their hand at AC/DC, Punk bands have always delved into other artists material that’s well outside their chosen genre.  In this episode of the HHPP the boys each choose their ten favorites.  Predictably, Mike and Rod lean into the classics while Glenn tries to pull us out of the 1980s.      Recommended Listening: Mdou Moctar https://open.spotify.com/artist/48dgx7iGqLQ3E5KO3pzd94?si=d45od4uIRuOPyU8BDefLZA   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO

The first of the three records that firmly cemented The Cure as Goth Rock royalty.  Seventeen Seconds has all the mood, mystery and majesty we’ve come to expect from Robert Smith & co and his incredible songwriting chops cut through the gloom with soon to be live staples “Play For Today” and “A Forest.”  One in a long line of Cure classics it’s a record that is equally suited for a variety of nighttime activities including crying into your pillow, mourning a lost love or dancing ’til dawn.    Recommended Watching:   Movie: M https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDu

One of the best selling and beloved records in Pink Floyd’s catalog, WYWH has all the elements that made the band great.  Long, sweeping instrumental passages, emotional and thought provoking lyrics, incredible playing and mood for days.  If you ever wondered how a psychedelic rock band with 10+ minute songs and Vonnegut-level intellectualism got so massively popular, the 44 minutes of their 9th album make it immediately clear.  Yes, the album is undeniably great but where does Glenn rank it all-time?   Recommended Listening: Animals https://open.spotify.com/album/3b4E89rxzZQ9zkhgKpj8N4?si=aQqivbZaQ_-vYWQmE5_S0Q   Syd Barrett Barrett https://open.spotify.com/album/53uU5rBCXOZ9Qb55PLjjLF?si=HldVOmY2Rf277aW2BeYo3w   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFk