GODPILLED

We recorded this long ago in the past. It’s not timely; the words aren’t important. We just want you to connect your phone to the dusty JBL you have on your work bench and passively enjoy the original sounds and soothing conversation while you fiddle with your tools in the garage on a hot summer day. Life is a gift, thank you for not paying attention to the theater of this world. Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

[Dan Spencer - “Fat Vampire”]00:03 — Camo and playing with studio musicians in Nashville00:09 — Touring and festival circuit00:19 — Songwriting and cutting through infinite options of music[Even Oxen - “The Goat Lamb of God”]00:28 — Beard oil IPA Calvinism00:34 — The pain of selling gear, youth group bands, Tooth & Nail Records, and the Psalters00:44 — David Bazan, Mark Driscoll, and ragequitting Christianity00:50 — Jeff Hatrix and Zakk Wylde finding God and Varg getting dunked on by teenagers01:02 — Not taking yourself too seriously in music and comedians opening for bands[Ozzy Osbourne - “Hellraiser”]01:15 — Touring and noise tables01:17 — Church in Twelve Steps and the funeral home01:35 — Dan’s first band, Pumpkinseed, driving across the country, and genociding desert mice01:46 — Misfits as a “Christian band”, Kryst the Conqueror01:51 — Musicians being more open about faith02:03 — Christian transhumanists[Dan Spencer - “Eternal Platitude”]LinksDan Spencer BandcampDan on XDan on IG Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

Sam Petschulat discusses his excitement about the future of art and religion, his band The Angels of Death, reimagined music scenes, Galaxie 500, the rise of country music, therapy culture in art and church, and pre-distressed guitars. * [The Angels of Death - “Build An Altar”] * 00:08 — Hollister-core distressed guitars and spiritual aspect of objects* [Cleaners From Venus - “Only a Shadow”]* 00:26 — Reimagining music scenes* [The Angels of Death - “Under Water”]* [Galaxie 500 - “Tugboat”]* 00:46 — Sam’s religious influence* 00:55 — Therapy culture in church and art* 01:00 — ‘The search for a time machine is a dead end’* [The Angels of Death - “Hill To Die On”]LinksThe Angels of Death BandcampGODPILLED.com Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

Joel and T invite an anonymous guest to discuss the emergence of the so-called “Christian Dissident Right”.* [Jars of Clay - “Flood (Junior Vasquez Remix)”]* 00:06 — What is “Big Eva” and who are the “New Reformed”?* 00:20 — The Ogden coalition* 00:28 — Stone Choir* 00:39 — The Christian Right and the Dissident Right* 00:46 — Crunchy Cons * 00:52 — Christian Nationalism* [Drake — Hold On, We’re Going Home (A. G. Cook Edit)”]As always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bereans and DYOR.Follow T, Joel, GODPILLED on X Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

Joel and T discuss the infamous Tucker succubus experience and his belief that demons are giving hidden knowledge to our scientists, That Hideous Strength, gnosis, and America’s re-enchantment.* 00:07 — The technology and spirituality horseshoe, scientists influenced by dreams and mysticism* [Fire + Ice - “Gilded by the Sun”]* 00:15 — America’s re-enchantment* 00:26 — Secret knowledge and salvation* 00:34 — Panpsychism and cosmic geography* 00:46 — Accelerationism and the church as an institution * 00:54 — Aleksandr Dugin, Jason Reza Jorjani, Tucker Carlson, and C.S. Lewis * [Gunge - “Ur-Ma-Lady-BB/Never Enough”]* 01:00 — Nephilim, UAPs, transhumanism* [Otis G Johnson - “Walk with Jesus]Links* Tucker Carlson alluding that the U.S. government has entered into some sort of agreement with spiritual entities* Nick Land on Tucker’s assertion that demons gave nuclear technology to humans* Tucker mauled by a demon* Follow T, Joel, GODPILLED on X Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

I had a lot of fun talking with Duane Warr of the heavy metal project, Dwarr. Duane is warrior in the army of God and his love for serving Christ is evident through his retelling of a dozen great stories from his degen days, missionary trips, making of his albums and Drag City reissues, tour with Black Bananas, and his plans for a comeback. Hope you enjoy our conversation. * [Dwarr - Are You Real?]* 00:07 — Duane’s upbringing* 00:26 — Duane finds God* 00:38 — God tells Duane to write “Ode to Lucifer”* 00:41 — Church stories (prophecy, healing, having his hair cut)* 00:50 — Duane shares his favorite Spanish hymns & why he still plays music from his “lost years”* 01:00 — Making of the Holy Ones & Times of Terror albums* 01:12 — Touring with Black Bananas* 01:18 — Next season for Duane* 01:28 — Benediction* [Voces Divinas - Grandes Eres Tú]Links* dwarr.com* SoundcloudAs always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bereans and DYOR. Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

I catch up with my good friend Joel Jensen-Heath. He’s an illustrator and musician from the Bay. You may have seen his work for Safety Propaganda or Deep Roots Radio. He and I also collaborated on the Pyr Zine. As with a most of our phone calls we cover a lot of ground from the progressive push to a post-human goo, misconceptions of Good vs Evil, toxic Wholesome Culture in the church, and how he found God.* [“Gon’ Rain”- Steve Reich’s “It's Gonna Rain” x 3wi1fe's “ˢᵉᶜʳᵉᵗ ᵐⁱˣ”]* 00:11 — The Occult, Applied Sciences & California* 00:31 — Duality vs Trinitarianism Views* 00:44 — Preternatural technology* 00:54 — Church-Friendly Music, CCM Deconstruction & Wholesome Culture* 01:04 — Joel’s return to faith* [“We’re Complex Piss” - The Shadow Ring]* 01:24 — Darkness in faith* 01:37 — Who has access to the supernatural?* 01:55 — Joel shares a paranormal experience* [“Prayer” - Loren Connors]About JoelJoel Jensen-Heath is an illustrator and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. As an illustrator his work has a diverse catalogue including executing a mural for now defunct Huertas NYC, illustrating the layout for Safety Propaganda, Ehret Vineyards's Deep Roots Radio, Syracuse University, Pyr Zine (as well as co-creating), and countless bands. Outside of his work as an illustrator he has played in many bands including Advertising (Brooklyn, NYC), Total Heat (Los Angeles, CA) Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of) as well as sharing bills with the likes of Boy Harsher, Deerhoof, Mitski, Gitane DeMone (Christian Death), Gary Wilson, Spiritualized, and many more. He is currently working on a serialized comic entitled 'Morning Stars" which has appeared in issue 1 of Pyr. His interests include mystical toponymy, high strangeness, Christian mysticism, holistic nutrition, and researching alternative history. Links* X* Instagram* Pyr ZineAs always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bereans and DYOR. Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

Zac Davis and I cover a lot of ground bouncing between the death of culture and the rise of faith. Zac is a deeply spiritual person and an amazing experimental noise musician known for his insane number of projects including Lambsbread, Clearance, RFID, and collaborations with artists like James Ferraro, Thurston Moore, and many others. * [Intro: “.” — Clearance]* 00:03 — Zac’s Anglican upbringing and return to it* 00:12 — McLuhan’s approach to faith* [Evensong performed at the Epiphany Parish of Seattle recorded on phone by Tyler Everett]* 00:16 — Grace for the tradcath’s LARP-until-you-make-it strategy* 00:23 — Not making devotional drone music yet; ambient pads at church* 00:36 — Talking about Red Bull Music Academy like it’s 2016; the 2016-2018 art depression; making music for machines* [“A2” — Zac Davis]* 00:50 — Re-enchantment* 01:04 — What Zac’s been meditating on* 01:14 — Closing prayer* [“Glacial Rain” — Sky Juice]Links* Bandcamp* Substack* Soundcloud* NinaAs always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong. Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bareans and DYOR. Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

🎧 Apple · Spotify · Soundcloud · Youtube · MoreAriel Rosenberg aka Ariel Pink (Blissful Wizard ) and I talk about how he found GOD and jump in and out of different rabbit trails and a few dropped calls. The first part of our discussion was recorded live on Twitter Spaces (@GODPILLED777) and second part over a private phone call. * [Intro: "Smol Beginnings" — dj kingdom hearts]* 00:09 — John’s revelation [Talking about the book of Revelation but kept referring to it as the book of John]* 00:41 — Cancelling time [I incorrectly thought Ariel was talking about Constantine but was most likely talking about Dionysius Exiguus]* 00:52 — Don't need to pay anything or sign anything [I incorrectly say Israel was recognized as a nation in 1946 when it was 1948]* 01:03 — How Ariel worships* 01:12 — How Ariel found God* ["Time to Meet Your God" — Ariel Pink]* 01:39 — What makes Ariel's relationship with Jesus unique* 01:45 — Prayer* [Outro: "Smol Beginnings" — dj kingdom hearts]As always, this is a casual conversation in which we'll most likely misstate things or get some things wrong (as minimally addressed above). Whenever anyone talks about GOD, always be like the Bareans and DYOR. Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

I speak with an original Christian weirdo, Glen Galloway, aka Glen Galaxy, about God. Glen's best-known work includes the 90s spazz-rocker of Trumans Waters, which collaborated with Thurston Moore and Cat Power, and my personal favorite, Soul-Junk, a noisy-berserk-hop-experimental-whatever project combined with Scriptures.  [Intro: "Israel & The Limping Hip" — Soul-Junk] [00:00:00] Catching up, musical influences, musical career, like-minded artists started finding each other (Psalters, Danielson) [00:28:00] Turning point after becoming unglued by mainstream worship music (John Mark McMillan, Jesus Culture) [00:35:00] Power in repetitive music (eg, Jonathan Helser, Hong Kong protestors, Gavin Bryars, Upperroom) ["Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" — Hong Kong protestors] [01:18:00] A concerning dream [01:25:00] We die ["5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum)" — Bladee] [Outro: "Secret" — Parallel Stereo] Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe

GODPILLED is a biweekly, live discussion with artists, thinkers, and fringe twitter people on how they found GOD, why they're interested in GOD, and the projects they're working on that either honor or pull inspiration from GOD. Join the discussion live. GODPILLED.com.Your brother in Christ,T Get full access to GODPILLED at godpilled.substack.com/subscribe