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The Smashing Skull Sessions Hosted by Letty Sharp & Produced by Richie Duhig
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The Smashing Skull Sessions is a podcast, interview and review website, set up to showcase and support the underground rock and metal scenes. Our goal is to promote artists and bands from right across the globe, giving them another voice and another forum in which to get their music out to a greater audience.
The podcast is hosted by me, Letty Sharp, and I hope to offer my guests a different style of interview which is relaxed, unscripted and fun!, The show is entertaining, informative and well worth a listen!
However, none of this is possible without the support of you music lovers. We are eternally grateful to every person who subscribes, shares, likes and listens to the shows and reads the reviews. To the bands, be sure to hit us up and let us help in promoting your art, whether through interview or review. Thanks to you all!
The Smashing Skull Sessions - Always Supporting The Scene
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Brenner Moate (BRAT)
Straight out of the Crescent City, BRAT are set to release their forthcoming debut album,
Social Grace, via Prosthetic Records on March 15. Since their 2021 inception, the New Orleans.
Between an intense live schedule over the last three years, which saw BRAT share the stage
with the likes of Eyehategod, Cro-Mags and contemporaries in grind such as ACxDC and
No/Mas, the band recorded Social Grace over the course of a year and a half at HighTower
Recording studio (Thou, A Wilhelm Scream, Eyehategod). Recording songs in batches helped
BRAT finetune and focus their songcraft in condensed bursts, resulting in a coalescence of
death metal, thrash, and powerviolence brutality.
Social Grace follows extreme music’s well trodden themes of futility and distaste for
humankind’s ruling classes throughout it’s 10 tracks, with the band’s reverence for
psychological horror fiction and admiration for Stephen King genre classics evident on songs
such as Hesitation Wound and Truncheon, as well as the title-track’s scathing rebuttal of
aristocracy.
I got to sit down with guitarist Brenner Moate where we talked about the bands new album, 'Social Grace', how the band started and so much more!
With great stories, chats and banter this is not one to be missed.
Avalible on all streaming platforms.
Check out BRAT here: https://bratband.com/
Track played: Social Grace ©️ all rights reserved BRAT
Edited by Richie Duhig of The Metal Cell Podcast.
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Dave Gregor (Morta Skuld)
Formed in 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Morta Skuld are an American death metal band. ‘Creation Undone’ is the latest work of inspired extremity from frontman and mastermind Dave Gregor and co. In a time when the band’s iconic and celebrated debut ‘Dying Remains’ reaches its thirty year milestone, and with recent live activity on both sides of the Atlantic seeing the quartet performing to a ravenous fanbase of metalheads both old and new, Morta Skuld now returns with a ten track opus of pure death metal in their unrelenting and unwavering pursuit of heaviness, still going strong after three decades, as the band unleashes their successor to 2020’s ‘Suffer For Nothing’.
I got to sit down with lead singer and guitarist David Gregor where we talked about the new album, his style of vocals and if he had any favourite albums of the year so far!
With great stories, chats and banter this is not one to be missed.
Avalible on all streaming platforms.
Check out Morta Skuld here: https://www.instagram.com/mortaskuld1offical/
Track played: We Rise We Fall ©️ all rights reserved Morta Skuld
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Jim Hodge: Mastiff
Mastiff have announced their forthcoming album, Deprecipice, will be released on 22nd March via MNRK Heavy. The new release features an onslaught of special guests including Ethan Lee McCarthy from Primitive Man, Harry Nott from Burner, Dan James from XIII and Rob Scott from Yersin.
Everything Mastiff do is in the name of intensity. Since forming amid the misery of Kingston-upon-Hull in 2013, the five-piece have crashed extreme metal, sludge and hardcore together to create the most brutal sonic onslaughts possible. Vocalist Jim Hodge, guitarists James Andrew Lee and Phil Johnson, bassist Daniel Dolby and drummer Michael Shepherd write together in their rehearsal room then record as quickly as they can – all in the name of keeping their music fresh, raw and seething.
I got to sit down with vocalist Jim Hodge where we talked about the new album, Deprecipice, advice for people wanting to start bands and more!
With great stories, chats and banter this is not one to be missed.
Avalible on all streaming platforms.
Check out Mastiff here: https://www.instagram.com/mastiffhchc/
Track played: Serrated ©️ all rights reserved Mastiff
Edited by Richie Duhig of The Metal Cell Podcast.
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Coffin Womb
On this weeks episode of The Smashing Skull Sessions I get to talk to KM North, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for Coffin Womb.
Coffin Womb is a hardcore project from K.M North. With a focus on making the most unnerving, challenging, heavy music possible.
I got to sit down with KM North where we talked about the puppybowl, the projects new album, 'Godless', and so much more!]
With great stories, chats and banter this is not one to be missed.
Avalible on all streaming platforms.
Check out Coffin Womb here: https://coffinwomb.bigcartel.com/
Track played: Bleached Crosses ©️ all rights reserve Coffin Womb.
Edited by Richie Duhig of The Metal Cell Podcast.
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OV SULFUR
On this weeks episode of The Smashing Skull Sessions, I get to sit down and talk to Chase Wilson, the guitarist and backing vocalist.
Ov Sulfur is a blackened deathcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada. In a thrilling display of blackened deathcore prowess, OV SULFUR is proud to announce the release of their latest single 'Hivemind', featuring Lukas Nikolai of MENTAL CRUELTY. The single showcases OV SULFUR's consistent stance against conventional religious narratives and herd mentality, a theme that aligns seamlessly with MENTAL CRUELTY's established defiance in their music.
Chase and I talk about the bands sound, the concept behind their music video for the song, 'Stained To Rot', and the abnds upcoming tour with Mental Cruelty across North America.
With some great chats and amazing banter, this is not one to be missed.
Avalible on all streaming platforms.
Check out Ov Sulfur here: https://www.instagram.com/ovsulfur/
Track played: Stained in Rot ©️ all rights reserve Ov Sulfur.
Edited by Richie Duhig of The Metal Cell Podcast.
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SHAME: Seb Alvarez, vocalist of meth. talks about their sophmore album, how the band started and the story behind their name
This week for The Smashing Skull Sessions I am joined by meth. vocalist Seb Alvarez. Meth. is an experimental noise metal band formed in Chicago, Illinois.
The band have just released their sophomore album, 'SHAME', and myself and Seb talk about the writing process, how the band started and the backstory of their unique band name.
There are some great stories and loads of banter between myself and Seb so this is one not to be missed.
Check out meth. here:
https://www.instagram.com/meth.band/?hl=en
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Track played: SHAME ©️ all rights reserved meth.
Edited by Richie Duhig of The Metal Cell Podcast.
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