For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Doug Moore is a prolific extreme metal musician based in Queens. He’s the vocalist of Pyrrhon, Scarcity, Glorious Depravity, & Seputus, and the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist of Weeping Sores.

In prior years, he worked as a music critic and editor for Stereogum, Invisible Oranges, and BrooklynVegan, among other outlets. Outside of his musical activities, he pays the bills by working as a software engineer, and pursues lifelong interests in fitness and literature.

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MUSIC MENTIONS

• Nirvana
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Soul Asylum
• Radiohead
• Fairport Convention
• The Beatles
• Pink Floyd
• Led Zeppelin
• Metallica
• Slayer
• Matt Hollenberg
• John Zorn
• Cleric

Early days, vocal inspirations (11:50 ):

• James Hetfield
• Mikael Åkerfeldt
• Opeth
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Dimitri Minakakis
• Tomas Lindberg
• At the Gates
• J.R. Hayes
• Pig Destroyer
• Peter Tägtgren
• Hypocrisy
• David Vincent
• Morbid Angel
• Tom Araya
• Jeff Walker
• Carcass
• Steve Schwegler
• Pyrrhon
• Seputus
• Dylan DiLella
• Digital Metal
• Metal Judgment
• Lambgoat
• Metal Review
• Last Rites
• WNYU Radio

Contextualizing work as a music journalist (26:45 ):

• Invisible Oranges
• Wyatt Marshall
• Stereogum
• Relapse Records

Q&A

• Lankum
• Ian Lynch
• Bill Wells
• Aidan Moffat
• Arab Strap
• Philip Glass
• Krallice
• “Second Wound” by Plowshare
• “Exhaust” by Pyrrhon
• Willowtip Records
• Scarcity
• “The Promise of Rain” by Scarcity
• The Flenser
• Weeping Swords
• I, Voidhanger Records
• Have a Nice Life

Discovering music today (35:08 ):

• Music journalist friends, band mates, etc
• Wyatt Marshall
• Ian Chainey
• Aaron Lariviere
• Caroline Harrison
• Thomson Guster
• Fire Draw Near

First album ever purchased (41:11 ):

• “Tubthumper” by Chumbawumba

Most recent album purchased (42:42 ):

• “Everything’s Getting Older” by Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells

Artists discovered in the past year (44:20 ):

• Shovel Dance Collective
• Błoto
• Plowshare

Desert island discs (49:33 ):

• “Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis
• “OK Computer” by Radiohead
• “Master of Puppets” by Metallica