8 episodes
EARBVDS EARBVDS
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We love music. And we're buds. And we're so very trve. We're EARBVDS! In Earbuds, we review and talk about music (mostly metal). Old stuff. Recent stuff. Stuff that made us the passionate musicians and metal aficionados that we are today. Sometimes we agree. Sometimes we disagree. Sometimes we tear each other apart. But we'll always have fun along the way. There might also be guests. Who knows? This is the beginning of a journey... Want to be our Earbud?
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Neapolitan Pizza... and how to ruin it w/Malte (INHUMAN RAMPAGE/CYANT)
In our eighth episode, we talk only a few things metal, some things food, but also many things music, of course. Once again, we are joined by a wonderful guest: the illustrious, the titillating, the mezmerizing, the one and only Malte from Deathcore powerhouse INHUMAN RAMPAGE as well as emerging Metalcore megatrons CYANT.
After some convo with our globetrotting guest, we move on to discuss another eclectic selection of heavy (and not so heavy) music, including the recent releases by Darkest Hour - Perpetual Terminal (00:30:49), Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology (46:52), Sperling - Menschen wie mir verzeiht man die Welt oder hasst sie (01:00:45), as well as some more dated releases, namely Dream Theater - Images and Words (01:16:24), Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance (01:30:55), Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama (01:39:58), Alexisonfire - Crisis (01:50:23), and (much to one podcaster's dismay) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (02:02:18).
As always, we're happy to provide a Spotify-playlist to complement this episode for your convenience. Check it out!
Also, if you want to see Malte's prenatal premiere for yourself, check out ZA:boo - Clown.
And one more thing: Turns out, Heisskalt returned while we were off-air. Yay!
Once again, we invite you to come along for this metallic journey of epic proportions.
Instagram: @earbvds666
Covert Art: © franzbrand
Music: © Thomas Kuhn
Special Thanks to Dock 11 for accommodating us in their lovely studio! -
Kunst und Käse w/Moe (WAY TO PARADISE/FAILED STAR)
In our seventh episode, we return to our usual schedule and talk many things metal. Once again, we are joined by a wonderful guest, the very special Moe from Melodic Metalcore outfits WAY TO PARADISE and FAILED STAR.
After some convo about our guest's musical endeavors past and present, including some red hot information on upcoming releases and shows, we move on to discuss another eclectic selection of heavy music. Spoilers, we all really tried to keep an open mind this time... did we succeed though? Well, you'll see. In any case, we cover the recent outpourings of Being as an Ocean - Death Can Wait (00:31:44), Knoll - As Spoken (00:51:03), and Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace (01:10:39), as well as some more dated releases, including Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart (01:28:21), Despised Icon - The Healing Process (01:39:35), Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor (01:48:56), War From a Harlot's Mouth - Transmetropolitan (01:58:31), and Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows (02:12:26).
As always, we're happy to provide a Spotify-playlist to complement this episode for your convenience. Check it out!
Special shout-out to Failed Star for giving us access to (at the time of recording) unreleased material, which meanwhile has been made publicly available on Youtube. Make sure to check out their performances at Stagehouse. If this whets your appetite (as it should) and you want to see Failed Star live, here's your chance: 23 March Jazzkeller Hofheim!
Once again, we invite you to come along for this metallic journey of epic proportions.
Instagram: @earbvds666
Covert Art: © franzbrand
Music: © Thomas Kuhn
Special Thanks to Dock 11 for accommodating us in their lovely studio! -
Earbvm of the Year 2023
This is a special one! In our sixth episode we look back at what a fantastic year 2023 has been for heavy music. Join us for the official, authoritative, comprehensive, argumentative, and not at all unapologetically nerdy EARBVDS Album-of-the-year-round-up of 2023, as we move swiftly as ever through 29 albums spread across 16 positions in reverse order, all in the monumentally challenging, agonizing, bittersweet endeavor to discern the undisputed Earbvm of the Year 2023.
No guest in this episode, save for our very own audio wizard Stefan, who has emerged from the shadows of off-mic obscurity and graced us with his audible presence for this episode.
Also, no detailed show notes on the albums we cover this time, because, obviously, no spoilers.
However, as always, for your convenience we have prepared a
Spotify-playlist for you to check out all the lovely music we talk about, which inevitably, contains all the spoilers. But if you go there prior to listening, that’s on you.
Once again, we invite you to come along for this metallic journey of epic proportions.
Instagram: @earbvds666
Covert Art: © franzbrand
Music: © Thomas Kuhn
Special thanks to Dock 11 for accommodating us in their lovely studio! -
Gewalt Gewillt Gewollt w/ Nicolas (INHERIT THE ASHES)
In our fifth episode, we talk many things metal, as usual. And even though Thomas couldn’t care to join us this time (kidding, he had good reasons and he’s still our bvd), we have another guest joining our nerdy outfit: the one and only Nicolas from groovy death metal steamrollers INHERIT THE ASHES.
Mandatory prescription: You should absolutely check them out, especially their latest single, In The Realms Of Fire!
After some conversation about our guest's past, present, and future endeavors (including his work as a top tier audio engineer (recommend!) as well as his exciting solo project, SATZ MIT X) we move on to discuss another eclectic selection of fairly recent and some not so recent releases, including Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear (00:27:56), Underdark - Managed Decline (00:42:30), Capra - Errors (00:58:49), Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival (01:10:45), END - The Sin of Human Frailty (01:23:56), ToTheArk - ToTheArk (01:42:08), GWLT - Stein & Eisen (01:53:05), Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (02:04:28), and Earth Crisis - Firestorm (02:14:40).
As always, we're happy to provide a Spotify-playlist to complement this episode for your convenience. Check it out!
Once again, we invite you to come along for this metallic journey of epic proportions.
Instagram: @earbvds666
Covert Art: © franzbrand
Music: © Thomas Kuhn
Special Thanks to Dock 11 for accommodating us in their lovely studio! -
Ein Harmonischer Schuh w/ Lars (UNDER FALSE COLORS)
In our fourth episode, we talk many things metal, as usual. Except this time, we have a guest joining our nerdy outfit: the very special Lars from Saarland-local prog-metalcore outfit UNDER FALSE COLORS.
Sidebar: You should absolutely check them out, especially their latest single, Wake up!
After some conversation on our guest's past, present, and future endeavors, we move on to (fiercely!) debate about an eclectic selection of fairly recent and some not so recent releases, including Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns (00:23:25), Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask (00:40:28), The Hirsch Effekt - Urian (00:55:50), Beartooth - The Surface (01:13:48), Annisokay - Abyss Pt 1 (01:34:48), Hatebreed - Perseverance (01:54:20), Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (02:03:07), The Sorrow - Blessings from a Blackened Sky (02:07:37), Emil Bulls - Phoenix (02:14:28), and The Plot in You - Happiness in Self Destruction (02:22:16).
As always, we're happy to provide a Spotify-playlist to complement this episode for your convenience. Check it out!
Once again, we invite you to come along for this metallic journey of epic proportions. Also, we've fixed our impossibly incompatible rating system. We live and learn.
Instagram: @earbvds666
Covert Art: © franzbrand
Music: © Thomas Kuhn
Special Thanks to Dock 11 for accommodating us in their lovely studio! -
Three Soundsausages and a Johnny Sandwich for four, please
Ladies and Djentelmen! In our third episode, we again talk about many things metal. And music. Is there a difference? Let's see. Come along for a wild (and long) ride, with stops at (Hipster-)Black Metal Boulevard, Sound Sausage Street, Apocalyptic Deathcore Avenue, Metalcore Mainstation, Space Grunge Garage, and even Popmetal Plaza. Inevitably though, we end with a whimsical trip down Memory Lane.
After a rapid fire round, where we give shout-outs to all the superb releases that weren't quite superb enough to make our roster, we review a selection of fairly recent and some not so recent releases, including Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere (00:18:54), Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal (00:31:25), Calligram - Position | Momentum (00:42:18), Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen (00:55:10), Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst for Torment (01:07:12), Polaris - Fatalism (01:19:35), Holding Absence - The Noble Art of Self Destruction (01:33:58), Teenage Wrist - Still Love (01:44:22), Johnny Truant - In the Library of Horrific Events (01:53:45), The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (02:03:02), Make them Suffer - Neverbloom (02:10:33), and finally Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal (02:17:44).
Another epic journey, then. We even have the audacity to rate all our album picks - with a completely incompatible rating system, naturally.
Disclaimer: We had some audio issues. We hope we could still make for an enjoyable listen. We will make sure we fix this for our next episode.
Instagram: @earbvds666
Cover Art: @franzbrand (2023)
Music: @Thomas Kuhn (2023)