Were finally back after a long break! As usual, we jumped into all the newer stuff we've been listening to and then talked about the Decibel Magazine tour, & got a collection update from Stan. We finished off with an interview with Luca Indrio of Necrot about the new album Lifeless Birth. We got into all the issues the band had to go through between the last album and this one, carving there own identify in death metal, keeping there songs memorable, and at the end messed around with some...

Part 2 of our favorite albums of 2023! Let us know what we missed and what you liked! See you in 2024!! Watch the video version of this over on our YouTube page: Youtube Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

Part 1 of our favorite albums of 2023! This is one of our favorite episodes of the year to do and we had a lot of fun with this one. Hope you guys enjoy Watch the video version of this over on our YouTube page: Youtube Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

Sorry guys we recorded this one back in September and got the video version up on our Youtube page but kept forgetting to upload the audio version. We went over a lot of releases from the past couple months and had Stan show us all of his new physical purchases.  Watch the video version of this over on our Youtube page: Youtube Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Music Played on this Episode:Dead Heat - Endless...

Man I really loved this talk with Derek, Payson, and Max of Tomb Mold about there insanely great new album "The Enduring Spirit", what's been going on since recording there last LP, & a lot more! Find the video version and a lot more at the link below: YouTube

For this one I was joined by two awesome people to talk REAL country music from a more metal perspective. For the first half of the episode I talked with my friend Jake Walters who is a long time listener, writer/editor for Lambgoat and writer for Everything is Noise to highlight some of the great newer country that you wont hear on the radio & for the 2nd half I was joined by Nate Garrett of Spirit Adrift to dive a little more into the classics (as well as some new stuff) and his overall...

Had an awesome talk with the guys from Horrendous about there insane new album Ontological Mysterium, how to progress in the right way, what bands have done it best, trying new things, improvising, new stuff they’ve been listening to, & a lot more.  Watch the video version of this over on our YouTube page: YouTube Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

Austin Haines of Outer Heaven joined the cast to talk about there extremely sick new album Infinite Psychic Depths. Watch the video version of this over on our Youtube page: YouTube Other Links to listen: Youtube iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher  

We got to talk to Death metal legend Chris Reifert of Autopsy about his history with music/metal, the early Bay area metal scene, how he met Chuck Shuldiner and what his experiences in Death were like, and then dove into the early days of Autopsy with a lot of great stories/insights about recording Severed Survival, Mental Funeral, &  more!  Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to listen: Youtube iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

Watch the video version of this over on our Youtube page: Youtube Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Music Played on this Episode:Enforced - Hanged by My HandVoidceremony - Forlorn Portrait: Ruins of an Ageless SlumberKalmah - Haunted by GuiltFange - A La RacineBlackbraid - The Spirit ReturnsIn Thy Dreams - Stream o Dispraised SoulsAscended Dead - Evenfall of the ApocalypseBloodrust - At Glory's End

For episode 133 we ranked and discussed every album from the mighty Morbid Angel. Hit us up with your ranking! Watch the video version of this over on our Youtube page: Youtube Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher

I finally got the chance to speak with the bass god himself - Steve Digorgio before a show for Death to All. I stuck with the Death theme for this one so we went way back to how he met Chuck, how he was in and out of the band even from the early days, writing/recording Human & Individual Thought Patterns, his friendship with Chuck, what it was like working with Chuck near the end of his life, working on Control Denied, & even his experience working on the latest Megadeath album. Video...

I recently talked to Tanner Anderson, Carl Skildum, & Matt Kirkwold who have come together to form a great new project called Majesties centered around the golden era of 90s melodic death metal. We talked a lot about melodic death metal in general - both the good and the bad, how this band got started, there goals, underrated melodic death metal albums and a lot more. Video version of the interview: https://youtu.be/ie3CcY2COOw Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Other...

For episode 131 we did a discography ranking and discussion of one of our favorite bands - Immortal. There was only one way to do this properly and that was to tap into the grim and frostbitten spirit of Blashyrkh by adorning our faces with the war paint of old and channeling the Northern Chaos Gods. There was an ice storm across the country the day we recorded this and I think this was no coincidence. Watch the video version of this over on our Youtube...

Our Patreon listeners once again told us to shut the hell up for a second and let someone else who actually knows what there talking about host an episode for once. So this episode is brought to you 100% by our friends from in the Into the Combine Backstage Lounge (Patreon Facebook/Discord group). If your sick of hearing the 3 normal hosts talk then your gonna love this one!  Find more bonus content and talk to these beautiful people over at our Patreon: Patreon Other Links to...

We’re back with a laid back episode filled with new and old music recommendations, rants, some bull shitting, & an interview with the legend Karl Willets of Memoriam! Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Music Played on this Episode: Majesties - The World Unseen Fires in the Distance - Harbingers Ulthar - Saccades Memoriam - All is Lost

We're back with the 2nd half of our top 15 albums of 2022! We once again have special guest Phil Wadey of Phil's Breakfast Metal plus Stan the Man finally jumped in with his top 5! It was a good one. Stay tuned for our full written list which will be published in a week or so on www.Intothecombine.com or hit us up on any of the socials or email if you want it sooner! Thanks to everyone who listened, shared, and hit us up with comments/messages throughout 2022. It always means a lot! Other...

We once again return with each of our top 15 albums of the year! This year we brought in special guest, the wise and powerful, Phil Wadey of Phil's Breakfast Metal Podcast to help round out the lists since Stan the Man didn't spend much time with new music throughout the year. Stay tuned for part 2 soon and let send us a message if you need the written lists or wait until we post them in a week or two to avoid spoilers!  Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Find more...

Better late then never! Were back with reports on all the music we've been into latelyand a throwback discussion on Emperor's classic "In the Nightside Eclipse". Other Links to listen: iTunes Google Play Spotify Stitcher Find more bonus content over at our Patreon: Patreon Music Played on this Episode:- Osserp - Lamora - Scorned deity - The Monarchy Memoirs - A Different Cloud - Salt- Morbific - Suicide Sanctum- Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil- Nazlgore -Seventh Secular Crusade- Ninth Realm...

Derrick Vella of Tomb Mold, Dream Unending, and OuterHeaven, is back to talk the new Dream Unending Album - Song of Salvation…but this time he’s not alone. We have the other half of Dream Unending - Justin DeTore who also plays in Innumerable Forms, Sumerlands, Magic Circle, Wound Man, and many more bands. We dove deep into the new album, the beginnings of the band, evolution of their sound, and everything in between. Highly recommend everyone pre-order the new album over at 20 Buck Spin and...

We talked about some newer releases we've been into, did a throwback review on King Diamond's classic album Abigail, & end things with an interview with long time King Diamond guitarist Andy Larocque.  Time Stamps 00:00 - New music recommendations 00:38 - Abigail Throwback Review  01:17 - Andy Larocque Interview  Music Played on this Episode  Killing Pace - Sacrificial Gain Inexorum - Memoriea Sacrum Crestfallen Dusk - Beneath the Cool, Calm Soil Bhleg - Gronskande gryning  Tomb Mold...

The final conclusion to our Death Discography series. On this one we give our opinions and ranking of the final Death album - The Sound of Perseverance as well as some final thoughts on the discography as a whole. Then we have an interview with Richard Christy who played drums on The Sound of Perseverance and finish things out with thoughts from Jason Hundey (One of the Co-hosts for the great Requiem Metal Podcast). Jason talked about the discography as a whole, what makes Death special, the...

After a short break were back with more Death! This time we're talking about Individual Thought Patterns & Symbolic and have interviews with Andy LaRoque and Gene Hoglan! Andy played on ITP and is the long time guitarist for King Diamond. Gene played on both ITP and Symbolic and had a ton of great stories and info about that period and Chuck so stay tuned for that at the end of the episode. Also, if you haven't, make sure to listen to the previous episodes in the Death series first since...

The Death discography series continues! For part 3 we discussed and ranked Death's 4th album Human! Plus we have interviews with Paul Masvidal of Cynic who played on Human and Matt Harvey from Exhumed, Gruesome, and Left to Die. Matt is a certified Death scholar after paying tribute to them with Gruesome, Death to All, and now with Left to Die so if anyone knows Death in and out its him.  Matt Harvey Interview starts at: 22 minutes  Paul Masvidal Interview starts at: 57 minutes  Other...