Show Notes
Welcome back to your weekly dose of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a music podcast. On this weeks show Steve and Gaz once again discuss which 4 artists get onto the Mount Rushmore of their own particular genre. On this episode we look at Grunge, Sophisti-pop and (what we have decided to christen) the mid-90's Reggae Revival. It's maybe the first time Melvins and Shaggy have shared the same space. What a win. There's also some chat on new albums from Converge, Silversun Pickups, Angel Du$t and more, chat about Maximo Park's recent show playing their debut album A Certain Trigger in full and a lost banger from Pet Shop Boys.
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Hello and welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a music podcast, on this episode Steve is joined by John Henry from Washington metallic hardcore crew Darkest Hour, one of the most consistently excellent heavy bands of this Millennium. His band have a new album out on the 30th of October, their 11th, it's called Suffer Divine, and it continues their trajectory of releasing exclusively superb records. To celebrate the release of the album, John joins us to pick 5 albums, ranging from The Beatles at their most experimental, to the superstar grunge album, to legendary melodic death metal from some of the scenes legends.
Hello and welcome to a special review podcast on Dopamine Chamber, the 5th and brand new album from Irish post-punk, indie bands Fontaines D.C. Fontaines D.C.'s 2024 album Romance has turned them into the biggest UK guitar band of their generation. They're headlining festivals and, from next summer, stadiums, they have every chance of becoming the 2020's version of Oasis or Arctic Monkey's for young guitar music loving fans. The final thing they need to do to cement that legacy, release another big hitter of an album. Dopamine Chamber is their attempt at doing just that, continuing the alt-rock feel of Romance and making another set of post-punk, industrialised synth heavy rock songs with frontman Grian Chatten's unmistakable vocal charm at the forefront. Is it as good as their previous albums? Will it keep the momentum flowing? Listen in to find out.
It's time for us to have a look at some of the stinkiest music ever made and continue our search for the nadir of the album in Trve. Crvp. Pop! On this episode Steve and Sam take a look at the much maligned 8th studio album from thrash metal legends Megadeth; Risk, released on the 6th of September 1999. Oh Risk, what are you playing at?! Whilst a lot of the thrash bands from the 80's struggled as soon as Nirvana came into the view of the horizon in the 1990's, Megadeth did a decent enough job of staying relevant for a while. 1992's Countdown to Extinction and 1994's Youthanasia were both a success, and whilst 1997's Cryptic Writings didn't fare quite so well in the newly nu metalled up landscape of heavy music, it had a big radio hit, Trust, on it to keep them ticking over. Megadeth saw for themselves just how things were going to be as they played the Ozzfest in 1998 and Woodstock in 1999, getting a chance to witness Korn, Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, Kid Rock, Sevendust, Snot, Coal Chamber, Godsmack and the rest at their peak. So they knew what to do with this information right? Yeah, make a radio friendly hard rock/electro pop mash up that sounded a bit like Savage Garden and Bon Jovi... wait... what...? It flopped, the band left their label, split up a few years later and, were it not for a phoenix like return, this may have been one of the final abiding memories of Megadeth as a band. But, come on, is it that bad really?
Hello mates, welcome to the 200th episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! you should know that it is a music podcast by now. On this week's show we are joined by Cameron Humphrey of fast rising UK alt-metal crew Love is Noise to celebrate the news that they have new music coming... we can't say much more than that, with Cam delivering us a road trip playlist. that veers from classic, old school hard rock to modern UK hip hop and basically everything in between.