Does anyone else listen to any podcasts where people discuss music? I tend to like ones that are dialogues of two or more music fans talking about particular bands or styles more than shows that just interview big-name artists. Here are a number I've enjoyed over the last few years, but I'm always looking for more.
Requiem Metal Podcast
The gold standard for metal podcasting, long episodes with in-depth research about various metal (often on the more extreme end) and blocks of full songs in-between conversational sets about the artists covered.
Phil's Breakfast Metal
A few British guys talk about various metal, sometimes with clips, often a bit on the more obscure end.
Radical Research
Two guys talk about some of the more experimental and avant-garde metal and prog bands with clips.
That Metal Podcast
A dude in Texas and a revolving cast of his friends shoot the shit about metal (prog metal reasonably often) and metal culture, occasionally with forays into extra-topical stuff on movies, video games, sports and such. No connection to Eddie Trunk's That Metal Show.
Into The Combine
Three buddies talk about metal (mostly extreme, and some hardcore) they've been listening to recently, do dives into the discographies of certain bands, album reviews, and sometimes artist interviews.
History in Five Songs
Martin Popoff does exactly what the tin says.
Bleeding Metal (formerly Metal and High Heels)
Two/three women and occasional guests talk about various metal bands and topics. They've increasingly leaned much more heavily into social and political topics of late for my taste, but they still tend to cover more of the symphonic metal and such I like that most other podcasts seem to avoid.
Heavy Metal Historian
Seems inactive or on a long hiatus, and violates my preference for conversations rather than monologues, but it's a well-researched primer on all kinds of metal topics, with short samples.
No Filler
Two twins play samples and talk about music they like, which is often spinoffs of various alt rock movements, shoegaze, electronic music and such.
There are also a number of podcasts that are still mostly dialogue, but have videos of the participants to go along with them:
Sea of Tranquility/Hudson Valley Squares/In The Prog Seat/Friday Morning at the Fun House
Lots of different things going on at Pete's channel, but I particularly enjoy the group discussions or conversations with Martin Popoff. The Squares are classic/hard rock/classic metal-focused, but do touch on more modern, extreme, and adjacent music from time to time. In The Prog Seat is prog rock/metal-centric and pretty pertinent to the interests of this forum.
Hell's Headbangers/Hellcast
Two brothers that are extreme metal elitists talk about various metal topics. A bit annoying because of their stereotypical parochial gatekeeping, but when it comes to the really heavy stuff they know their shit and can be entertaining.
Banger
They had an actual podcast that was short-lived, but their Lock Horns shows in particular have been entertaining, even if they're a bit frustratingly underinformed on certain topics, particularly depending upon who is available to host and guest.
Great Metal Podcast
Three friends discuss various metal topics. A bit surface-level and sometimes the humor is too corny for me, but fun on occasion, as they are prog fans.
Jams and Tea
Newer to me, but seems promising. Some younger but prog-enlightened guys cover some prog canon, as well as some mainstream rock and such.
The Prog Report:
I need to watch more of this one, but what I've seen so far is promising. For some reason their topics don't often catch my eye, and I haven't quite connected with the personnel, but hopefully that'll change at some point.
A lot of others I've seen a few episodes of, but not enough to get enough of a feeling for them yet. There are also a lot of other channels that are music humor, reaction videos, album reviews, rankings, monologues/rants, etc. Those have their time and place, but don't usually appeal to me as much as a good back and forth between music aficionados and enthusiasts.
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