In the sixth episode of the Plague Rages Podcast, heavy metal writers Wolf Rambatz and Stephen David Stevenson-Davison talk about a bunch of junk including:

1:48 : Steve Dave talks about playing a show with Cradle of Filth and we ponder why Cradle of Filth is tolerable now

5:00 : Steve Dave and Wolf roll logs for the new Nite album, Voices of the Kronian Moon, out 3/1 on Season of Mist

6:06 : Steve Dave and Wolf get sidetracked again and talk about Keanu Reeves

8:17 : An update on Hands of Goro

8:48 : The show starts

9:12 : CORRECTIONS. Wolf’s embarrassing vocabulary and how they got the email account banned

11:23 : WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO. Steve Dave has been listening to Night Demon. The band has a podcast.

14:10 : Steve Dave saw Metallica. We then get sidetracked talking about bad albums with good production

18:09 : Wolf doesn’t want to listen to music because they made a top 50 for 2021

18:40 : Shoutout to our new podcast friends on Twitter, the Butt Metal Blast Cast. Reliably, Wolf screws up the name

21:55 : ALBUM LISTENING CLUB. Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War (2000)

23:37 : Wolf runs the stats on Grand Declaration of War

28:17 : How did we get here? Wolf needs to split this into two sections

29:20 : Wolf tries to condense Mayhem’s backstory to a minute

32:22 : Wolf gives Steve Dave a test on Mayhem

42:20 : Wolf reveals the answers

50:45 : Steve Dave and Wolf offer their brief assessments of Grand Declaration of War

57:30 : What is good about Grand Declaration of War?

64:55 : What is the worst part of Grand Declaration of War?

71:22 : Steve Dave and Wolf rate Grand Declaration of War?

74:26 : Wolf unveils the next ALC assignment, Celtic Frost’s Cold Lake

Music in this episode:

* Darkthrone - “Too Old Too Cold”

* Cradle of Filth - “Crawling King Chaos”

* Nite - “Kronian Moon”

* Night Demon - “Vysteria”

* Oscar Ortega Megamix (Cystectomy, Decortication, Engulfed in Repugnance, Septycemia, Servants of the Sword, Undeciphered)

* Mayhem - “A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun (Part II of II)”

* Spiral Architect - “Insect”

* Cadaver - “Bypassed”

* Lengsel - “Revival”

* Checker Patrol - “Jägermeister”

* Thorns - “Lovely Children”

* Mayhem - “Freezing Moon”

* Mayhem - “A Grand Declaration of War”

* Ulver - “Lost in Moments”

* Aborym - “Our Sentence”

* Mayhem - “Ancient Skin”

* Mayhem - “Crystalized Pain in Deconstruction”

* Aura Noir - “Grave Dwellers”

* Mayhem - “A Grand Declaration of War” (2018)

* Mayhem - “Psywar”

* Mayhem - “Completion in Science of Agony (Part I of II)”

* Mayhem - “In the Lies Where upon You Lay”

* Thorns - “Stellar Master Elite”

* Arcturus - “To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night”

* Enslaved - “Større enn tid - Tyngre enn natt”

* Emperor - “The Tongue of Fire”

* Thor - “Lightning Strikes Again”

* Celtic Frost - “Cherry Orchards”

You can listen to a full Spotify playlist of nearly every song mentioned here.

Other media:

* Journey - “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”

* RECORD SCRATCH - Sound Effect

* The Matrix Resurrections - Official Trailer 2

* Mortal Kombat 1 Arcade - Test Your Might (1992)

* Flashback Sound Effect

* Sound Effect - Spin Back

* Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Special Stage

* Tense Quiz Music Ideal for a Quiz TV Show or Podcast Segment

* Correct Answer/Idea | Sound Effects

* Wrong Buzzer - Sound Effect

* Walk Hard (2007)

Citations:

* “The Legend of Keanu Reeves,” by Alex Pappademas, published in GQ

* Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, published by Feral House

* Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, by Dayal Patterson, published by Feral House

* Blood, Fire, and Death: The Swedish Metal Story, by Ika Johannsesson and Jon Klingberg, published by Fer