#069: In the Company of Serpents

Local businesses need your support more than ever. Grant Netzorg illustrates the ways online retailers and other corporations endanger independent businesses and bands.

Get In the Company of Serpents new album Lux here.

Song Clips This Episode

Lightchild

Archonic Manipulation

Metal News This Episode

How are you supporting local businesses during the COVID pandemic?

Westword: Tooey’s Off Colfax Is Music Scene’s Latest COVID-19 Closure

In the Company of Serpents Facebook Post: *Rant alert ahead. Skip to the bottom for the… – In the Company of Serpents | Facebook

When Will Concerts Feel Safe Again?

Slipknot European Tour: https://www.facebook.com/slipknot/posts/10158375170957672

Behemoth/Arch Enemy European Tour: https://www.facebook.com/behemoth/posts/10158087574087872

Are social media content rules too restrictive?

Theprp.com: Trapt’s Twitter Account Suspended Following Chris Taylor Brown’s Comments On Pedophilia

Metalix Mosh the Rockies Reacts

System of a Down – “Protect the Land”

Conflict in Artsakh explained by ABC: https://youtu.be/_sfxD0ofGx4

Deeds of Flesh – “Ethereal Ancestors (Feat. George ‘Corpsegrinder” Fisher)”

Bella Lindmark Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bella-lindmark-fund

Every Time I Die – “A Colossal Wreck”

#063: Nick Nova

Denver metal and hardcore advocate Nick Nova assembled the seventh Nova Fest but his top albums of 2019 are super alt and indy. Don’t judge him.

My Top 5 Albums of 2019:

1.) While She Sleeps – So What?

2.) Strung Out – Songs of Armor and Devotion

3.) Face to Face – Live in a Dive

4.) Lagwagon – Railer

5.) Baroness – Gold & Grey

Nick’s Top 5 Albums of 2019

1.) Bon Iver – i,i

2.) Baroness – Gold & Grey

3.) Muscle Beach – Charms

4.) Astronoid – S/T

5.) Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow

Song Clips This Episode

Fathers “Normal”
Sorry No Sympathy “Last Walk”

Metal News This Episode

Is Alissa White-Gluz is being treated unfairly by metal press?

ARCH ENEMY’s MICHAEL AMOTT Says ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ Has Been Treated ‘Very Unfairly’ By Metal Media In Recent Months (Blabbermouth)

Do you think Butcher Babies has the “right image” for metal?

BUTCHER BABIES’ HEIDI SHEPHERD: ‘I’ll Never Stop Proving That My Image Is Something That I Am Proud Of’ (Blabbermouth)

What do you think caused the downfall of Warped Tour”?

HERE’S WHAT REALLY CAUSED THE DOWNFALL OF WARPED TOUR (Kerrang)

Other Stuff in This Interview

Nick mentioned this Red Jumpsuit Apparatus stolen photo story (petapixel) in our discussion about Arch Enemy. There was no lawsuit.

Nick’s lasting memory of GWAR in the movie Empire Records:

Denver Concert Calendar

BANDSVENUEDATENOTES
2019 U.S. Sickness Tour – Morbid Angel, Watain, IncantationOriental TheaterThu 12/05/19 
As I Lay DyingSummit DenverFri 12/05/19SOLD  OUT
Cattle Decapitation with Athiest, Primitive Man, VitriolOriental TheaterSat 12/07/19 
VIO-LENCE with HAVOK,  AxeslasherBluebird TheaterSat 12/07/19 
NOVA FEST 7 FEATURING FATHERS, Sorry No Sympathy, The Burial Plot, Cheap Perfume and Saving VeronaHi DiveFri 12/13/19 
KHEMMIS with Wayfarer, UNBluebird TheaterSat 12/14/19 
DefeaterLarimer LoungeSat 12/14/19CANCELED
Unearth with Darkest Hour, Venom and Valor, IAMTHESHOTGUN and It’s Always Sunny in TijuanaRoxy TheatreSun 12/15/19 
Colorado Hardcore Holiday Party and Toy Drive Remain and Sustain with The Burial Plot, Fox Lake, MINDZ EYE, Mouth For War and Peacemaker HCMarquis TheaterSat 12/21/19$5 ticket with unwrapped  toy at door. Benefits Ronald McDonald House
Bodies We’ve Buried and Killing Creation with HydraformGlobe HallSat 12/21/19 
Green Druid with Scepter Of Eligos and TricomaLost LakeFri 12/27/19 
Death By Stereo, Slitwrist, Implied Risk, No Takers AND Trade-InsStreets DenverTue 12/31/19