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Amazing Sounds Astounding Music is a music podcast dedicated to all the music which comes or takes you “to the ends of the earth”, with particular attention to its more radical and experimental aspects. The podcast is Italy-based but it's in English.

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This new episode of Amazing Sounds Astounding Music analyses the rise and fall and survival of British folk rock, from it’s heydays in the early 70s to these days where the legacy of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Albion Band still pushes many musicians to produce great music far away from the commercial limelight, an underground artistic ley line running beneath the mainstream.

In this episode you will hear:

  1. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
  2. Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
  3. Fairport Convention - A Sailor’s Life
  4. Pentangle - House Carpenter
  5. Pentangle - Cruel Sister
  6. Steeleye Span - Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo
  7. Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
  8. Shirley Collins and The Albion Band - The Murder of Maria Martens
  9. Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile
  10. Ashley Hutchings - He’s Young but He’s Growing
  11. Crumbling Ghost - The Good Old Way
  12. Galley Beggar - The Girl I Left Behind Me
  13. Mary Jane - Twa Corbies
  14. The Owl Service - Cruel Mother
  15. The Owl Service - Sea Song
  16. Trembling Bells - Adieu, England
  17. The Shining Levels - Slow Pass the Autumn Clouds
  18. Rowan Amber Mill - The Hunter
  19. Eliza Carthy - Worcester City

https://witheredhandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/five-songs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service_(band)

https://www.discogs.com/it/label/1575566-Dark-Britannica

https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/cropredy/

https://rowanambermill.bandcamp.com/

https://theshininglevels1.bandcamp.com/

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This new episode of our podcast deals with the lesser known work of great rock'n'roll icon Ian "Lemmy" Kilminster, from the beginnings with Rockin Vickers to collaborations with Ozzy and Slash.

Here is what we're playing and discussing:

  1. The Rockin' Vickers - dandy
  2. Sam Gopal - Sky is Burning
  3. Hawkwind - Lost Johnny
  4. Hawkwind - The Watcher
  5. Hawkwind - Motorhead
  6. Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Ejection
  7. The Damned - Ballroom Blitz
  8. The Young and Moody - Don't do That
  9. Headgirl - please Don't Touch
  10. Lemmy and Wendy O' Williams - Stand By Your Man
  11. Head Cat - Stuck on You
  12. Head Cat - Big River
  13. Probot - Shake Your Blood
  14. Ozzy Osbourne feat. Lemmy and Slash - I Ain't No Nice Guy

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In this episode of our podcast we're going to talk about that musical style that Maximum Rock'n'Roll defined "Italian Hardcore". A unique and very distinctive sound that emerged through the early 80s in the Italian peninsula and that gave local bands, which at home performed often for half a dozen friends, worldwide respect and recognition in the lively and exciting anarcho-punk underground movement.

Following the footsteps of iconic bands such as Crass and Discharge were:

  1. Wretched - Finirà Mai
  2. Wretched - Troppo Facile Morire
  3. Indigesti - Mai
  4. Indigesti - Astratto Concepimento
  5. Negazione - Tutti Pazzi
  6. Declino - Inutile Trionfo
  7. Contrazione - Sbarre
  8. Peggio Punx - No! Mai
  9. Underage - Entro Domani
  10. Raw Power - State Oppression
  11. Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - Furious Party
  12. Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - Enemy
  13. Bloody Riot - Naja de Merda
  14. Impact - Solo Odio
  15. Kina - Correre Cercare Piangere
  16. Franti - Il Battito del Cuore
  17. I Refuse it! - Sogni a Doppie Vie
  18. Contropotere - Demoni e Dei
  19. Nerorgasmo - Nerorgasmo

Resources:

  • Marco Philopat, Costretti a sanguinare, Shake, 1997, Milano
  • Marco Philopat, Lumi di punk. La scena italiani raccontata dai protagonisti, Milano, Agenzia X, 2006.
  • v.v.a.a. ‎– International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation R Radical Records ‎– R.R.R. 1984
  • v.v.a.a. - LoveHate80 ‎– 01, SOA Records
  • http://www.lovehate80.it/fanzine/TVOR/home.html

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This episode of our Podcast offers a selection of what we deemed were the best metal releases of 2019. Here is the playlist:

01 - Amon Amarth: Raven's Flight

02 - Candlemass: Astorolus

03 - PH: Justified

04 - Lingua Ignota: Butcher of the World

05 - Sunn0))): Between Sleipnir's Breath

06 - Crypt Sermon: Christ is Dead

07 - Inter Arma: A Waxen Sea

08 - Obsequiae: The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

09 - Venom Prison: Devoid

10 - Smoulder: Ilian of Garrathorm

11 - Waste of Space Orchestra: Syntheosis

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This episode of the podcast Amazing Sounds Astounding Music deals with the birth, decline and revival of underground sub-genre Occult Rock, starting from seminal bands such as Coven and Black Widow to contemporary Sabbath Assembly and Devil's Blood.

Here is the playlist:

1 - Coven: Wicked Woman

2 - Coven: Black Sabbath

3 - Black Sabbath: The Wizard

4 - Black Widow: Sacrifice

5 - Zior: Entrance of the Devil

6 - Pentagram: All Your Sins

7 - Witchfinder General: Witchfinder General

8 - Witchcraft: Witchcraft

9 - Blood Ceremony: Goodbye Gemini

10 - The Devil's Blood: The Anti-Kosmik Magick

11 - The Devil's Blood: A Waxing Moon Over Babylon

12 - Jex Thoth: The Places you Walk

13 - Jex Thoth: Separated at Birth

14 - Lucifer: Dreamer

15 - Jess and the Ancient Ones:Astral Sabbath

16 - Sabbath Assembly: Ascend and Descend

17: Purson: The Contract

18: Black Widow: Come to the Sabbat

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In this episode of Astounding Sounds Amazing Music we're talking about all those bands and influences which contributed to the birth of Norwegian and modern black metal. From Venom and Slayer to the infamous events sorrounding the birth of Norwegian black metal but strictly under a musical perspective.

If you are interested in the actual crimes/events connected to the so-called Inner Circle please read: "Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Moynihan and Sonderlind, or watch the movie "Lords of Chaos" by Jonas Akerlund.

On this episode:

  1. Venom - Welcome to Hell
  2. Venom - Black Metal
  3. Merciful Fate - A Corpse Without Soul
  4. Celtic Frost - Circle of the Tyrants
  5. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
  6. Bathory - Armageddon
  7. Bathory - Equimanthorn
  8. Burzum - A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit
  9. Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
  10. Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in your Head
  11. Electro Hippies - Run, Ronald
  12. Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon
  13. Slayer - Black Magic