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Jan 13, 2026
Apr 24, 2025
Apr 24, 2025
1hr 46 sec
Stan recently took a solo trip down to Decibel’s Metal and Beer festival in Philly to catch Dismember play one of his favorite all-time albums - Like an Ever Flowing Stream. He also made a lot of stops there and back hitting up record stores and filled us in on the albums he picked up.
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Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025
57 min
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Doomsday - Never Knew Pain
Havukruunu - Unissakävijä
Tormentor Tyrant - Torture divine
Corpus Offal - Gorging Gastric Decedent
The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard
Julie Laughs Nomore - In The Ashes Of The Midnight Sun
Enforsaken - Tales Of Bitterness
Catamenia - Kingdom of Legions
Abyssos - Banquet In the Dark (Black Friday)
Euphoreon - Starnight Rider
Jan 15, 2025
Jan 15, 2025
1hr 22 min
The conclusion to our top 10 albums of 2024! This is part 2 so make sure you check out Part one to see our first 5 picks and stay tuned to the end for all of our honorable mentions. Let us know what you liked or what we missed and stay tuned for hopefully more episodes in 2025...
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Jan 8, 2025
Jan 8, 2025
1hr 14 min
The lists of all lists returns! This is part 1 of our top 10 albums of 2024! Let us know what you liked and stay tuned for part 2 coming soon.
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Sep 20, 2024
Sep 20, 2024
1hr 26 min
We returned and played some catchup
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Antichrist Siege Machine - Son of Man
Pnuema Hagion - Harbinger of Dissolution
Piah Matter - Fallow Garden
Wraithfyre - Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms
Nakhteron - The Lost Kingdom
Spectral Wound - The Horn Merauding
Summoning the Lich - Reviled Crystal Wielders
Borknagar - The Unraveling
Gatecreeper - Oblivion
Ironflame - Majesty Of Steel
Jun 26, 2024
Jun 26, 2024
1hr 22 min
Mike from Noroth joined in to talk a little about the band and there sick new release - Sacrificial Solace. Then we jumped into a ton of recommendations for new death metal releases to check out, horror movies, ran through a bunch of album vs. album/band vs. band type questions, and a lot more.
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Apr 29, 2024
Apr 29, 2024
1hr 42 min
Were finally back after a long break! As usual, we jumped into all the newer stuff we've been listening to and then talked about the Decibel Magazine tour, & got a collection update from Stan. We finished off with an interview with Luca Indrio of Necrot about the new album Lifeless Birth. We got into all the issues the band had to go through between the last album and this one, carving there own identify in death metal, keeping there songs memorable, and at the end messed around with some band vs. band and album vs. album questions. It was a fun one!
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Music Played on this Episode:
Life Cycles - Portal to the Unknown
Griffon - De Republica
Dark Oath - Ages of Man
Slimelord - Gut-Brain Axis
Darkenhold - L'Ost de la Forteresse
Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon
I am the Intimidator - Eat my Smoke
Aorlhac - L'espirit des vents
Rhun - Bone Ornament
Jan 5, 2024
Jan 5, 2024
1hr 31 min
Part 2 of our favorite albums of 2023! Let us know what we missed and what you liked! See you in 2024!!
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Dec 29, 2023
Dec 29, 2023
1hr 29 min
Part 1 of our favorite albums of 2023! This is one of our favorite episodes of the year to do and we had a lot of fun with this one. Hope you guys enjoy
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Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
1hr 18 min
Sorry guys we recorded this one back in September and got the video version up on our Youtube page but kept forgetting to upload the audio version. We went over a lot of releases from the past couple months and had Stan show us all of his new physical purchases.
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Music Played on this Episode:
Dead Heat - Endless Torment
Uada - The Abyss Gazing Back
Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Ceasar
Horrendous - Preterition Hymn
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit of Calamity
Dethklok - Mutilation on a Saturday Night
Nattverd - I Helvetes Forakt
Desecrecy - Spirits at the Cursed Ruins
Job For a Cowboy - The Agony Seeping Storm
Sep 27, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
2hr 30 min
For this one I was joined by two awesome people to talk REAL country music from a more metal perspective. For the first half of the episode I talked with my friend Jake Walters who is a long time listener, writer/editor for Lambgoat and writer for Everything is Noise to highlight some of the great newer country that you wont hear on the radio & for the 2nd half I was joined by Nate Garrett of Spirit Adrift to dive a little more into the classics (as well as some new stuff) and his overall journey with Country music. We also dove a bit into the awesome new Spirit Adrift album "Ghost at the Gallows"
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Aug 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023
58 min
Had an awesome talk with the guys from Horrendous about there insane new album Ontological Mysterium, how to progress in the right way, what bands have done it best, trying new things, improvising, new stuff they’ve been listening to, & a lot more.
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Jul 20, 2023
Jul 13, 2023
Jul 13, 2023
58 min
We got to talk to Death metal legend Chris Reifert of Autopsy about his history with music/metal, the early Bay area metal scene, how he met Chuck Shuldiner and what his experiences in Death were like, and then dove into the early days of Autopsy with a lot of great stories/insights about recording Severed Survival, Mental Funeral, & more!
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Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023
1hr 14 min
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Enforced - Hanged by My Hand
Voidceremony - Forlorn Portrait: Ruins of an Ageless Slumber
Kalmah - Haunted by Guilt
Fange - A La Racine
Blackbraid - The Spirit Returns
In Thy Dreams - Stream o Dispraised Souls
Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Bloodrust - At Glory's End
May 2, 2023
May 2, 2023
1hr 13 min
For episode 133 we ranked and discussed every album from the mighty Morbid Angel. Hit us up with your ranking!
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Apr 18, 2023
Apr 18, 2023
59 min
I finally got the chance to speak with the bass god himself - Steve Digorgio before a show for Death to All. I stuck with the Death theme for this one so we went way back to how he met Chuck, how he was in and out of the band even from the early days, writing/recording Human & Individual Thought Patterns, his friendship with Chuck, what it was like working with Chuck near the end of his life, working on Control Denied, & even his experience working on the latest Megadeath album.
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Mar 6, 2023
Mar 6, 2023
58 min
I recently talked to Tanner Anderson, Carl Skildum, & Matt Kirkwold who have come together to form a great new project called Majesties centered around the golden era of 90s melodic death metal. We talked a lot about melodic death metal in general - both the good and the bad, how this band got started, there goals, underrated melodic death metal albums and a lot more.
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Feb 28, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
1hr 25 min
For episode 131 we did a discography ranking and discussion of one of our favorite bands - Immortal. There was only one way to do this properly and that was to tap into the grim and frostbitten spirit of Blashyrkh by adorning our faces with the war paint of old and channeling the Northern Chaos Gods. There was an ice storm across the country the day we recorded this and I think this was no coincidence.
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Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023
1hr 44 min
Our Patreon listeners once again told us to shut the hell up for a second and let someone else who actually knows what there talking about host an episode for once. So this episode is brought to you 100% by our friends from in the Into the Combine Backstage Lounge (Patreon Facebook/Discord group). If your sick of hearing the 3 normal hosts talk then your gonna love this one!
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Music Played on this Episode:
Circles - Bone Unto Brine
The Gauntlet - The Signal to Attack
Telekinetic Yeti - Invention of Fire
This White Mountan - Silhouette
Carne Debil - Ecdisis
Forlesen - Strega
Livsskye - Charred Sacrament
Orm - Fra dyden
Vanhavd - Likvaka
Lykotonon - The Apocryphal Self
Tzompantli - Tlatzintilli
Sonja - Nylon Nights
Night Hag - Slowly Festering in Rigor Mortis
Lexicon - Idle Hands
Losing Touch - Fixed View
Denal of Life - Bloodsaint
Besieged - Last Chance
Obscene - Faith Through Pain
Dark Throne - Caravan of Broken Ghosts
Host - The Final March
Belarus Beaver - Ascending to Beaver
The Gauntlet - Dark Steel and Fire
Impugner - Ostracized Vitality
Riot City - Severed Ties
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
1hr 22 min
We’re back with a laid back episode filled with new and old music recommendations, rants, some bull shitting, & an interview with the legend Karl Willets of Memoriam!
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Majesties - The World Unseen
Fires in the Distance - Harbingers
Ulthar - Saccades
Memoriam - All is Lost
Jan 9, 2023
Jan 9, 2023
2hr 11 min
We're back with the 2nd half of our top 15 albums of 2022! We once again have special guest Phil Wadey of Phil's Breakfast Metal plus Stan the Man finally jumped in with his top 5! It was a good one. Stay tuned for our full written list which will be published in a week or so on www.Intothecombine.com or hit us up on any of the socials or email if you want it sooner!
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Jan 2, 2023
Jan 2, 2023
1hr 48 min
We once again return with each of our top 15 albums of the year! This year we brought in special guest, the wise and powerful, Phil Wadey of Phil's Breakfast Metal Podcast to help round out the lists since Stan the Man didn't spend much time with new music throughout the year. Stay tuned for part 2 soon and let send us a message if you need the written lists or wait until we post them in a week or two to avoid spoilers!
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Dec 5, 2022
Dec 5, 2022
1hr 22 min
Better late then never! Were back with reports on all the music we've been into lately
and a throwback discussion on Emperor's classic "In the Nightside Eclipse".
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Music Played on this Episode:
- Osserp - Lamora
- Scorned deity - The Monarchy Memoirs
- A Different Cloud - Salt
- Morbific - Suicide Sanctum
- Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
- Nazlgore -Seventh Secular Crusade
- Ninth Realm - A Fate Unbroken
- Midvinter - At the site of the Apocolypse Dragon
Oct 10, 2022
Oct 10, 2022
2hr 9 min
Derrick Vella of Tomb Mold, Dream Unending, and OuterHeaven, is back to talk the new Dream Unending Album - Song of Salvation…but this time he’s not alone. We have the other half of Dream Unending - Justin DeTore who also plays in Innumerable Forms, Sumerlands, Magic Circle, Wound Man, and many more bands. We dove deep into the new album, the beginnings of the band, evolution of their sound, and everything in between. Highly recommend everyone pre-order the new album over at 20 Buck Spin and listen when it comes out on November 11.
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Sep 26, 2022
Sep 26, 2022
1hr 45 min
We talked about some newer releases we've been into, did a throwback review on King Diamond's classic album Abigail, & end things with an interview with long time King Diamond guitarist Andy Larocque.
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00:00 - New music recommendations
00:38 - Abigail Throwback Review
01:17 - Andy Larocque Interview
Music Played on this Episode
Killing Pace - Sacrificial Gain
Inexorum - Memoriea Sacrum
Crestfallen Dusk - Beneath the Cool, Calm Soil
Bhleg - Gronskande gryning
Tomb Mold - Prestige of Rebirth
Abhor - Ode to the Snake
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Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022
50 min
The final conclusion to our Death Discography series. On this one we give our opinions and ranking of the final Death album - The Sound of Perseverance as well as some final thoughts on the discography as a whole. Then we have an interview with Richard Christy who played drums on The Sound of Perseverance and finish things out with thoughts from Jason Hundey (One of the Co-hosts for the great Requiem Metal Podcast). Jason talked about the discography as a whole, what makes Death special, the importance of Symbolic and The Sound of Perseverance to him, Chuck's lyrics on those albums, and a lot more.
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Aug 17, 2022
Aug 17, 2022
1hr 16 min
After a short break were back with more Death! This time we're talking about Individual Thought Patterns & Symbolic and have interviews with Andy LaRoque and Gene Hoglan! Andy played on ITP and is the long time guitarist for King Diamond. Gene played on both ITP and Symbolic and had a ton of great stories and info about that period and Chuck so stay tuned for that at the end of the episode. Also, if you haven't, make sure to listen to the previous episodes in the Death series first since we recorded them all in one sitting and will probably make more sense.
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Jul 19, 2022
Jul 19, 2022
1hr 37 min
The Death discography series continues! For part 3 we discussed and ranked Death's 4th album Human! Plus we have interviews with Paul Masvidal of Cynic who played on Human and Matt Harvey from Exhumed, Gruesome, and Left to Die. Matt is a certified Death scholar after paying tribute to them with Gruesome, Death to All, and now with Left to Die so if anyone knows Death in and out its him.
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Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
1hr 4 min
Alright so Part 2 was originally going to be one long episode talking about Spiritual Healing and Human and then feature 3 interviews but when we realized how long it was we broke it into 2 shorter episodes after we recorded it. So think of it like part 1 of... part 2? Anyway, this one has us discussing and ranking Death's 3rd album Spiritual Healing as well as a new interview with Terry Butler who was with Death for the Leprosy and Spiritual Healing era and also played in Massacre, Six Feet Under, and Obituary. Then we finish off with a segment from older interview we did with James Murphy who played on Spiritual Healing and in the project Disincarnate.
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James Murphy Interview starts at: 45 minutes
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Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022
1hr 30 min
Part 1 of 3 episodes covering and ranking the discography of Death. In this episode we talked about Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy. Plus we have an interview with Rick Rozz (ex. Death/Massacre) who played with Chuck in pre-death project Mantas and wrote/recorded with Chuck on the Leprosy album. He was super cool to talk to with tons of history and stories about the early era of the band. Stay tuned for more!
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May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022
1hr 39 min
After a longer then expected break the boys return to pay tribute to Trevor of the Black Dahlia Murder, talk about
what they've been listening to (new and old), and answer a bunch of listener questions/suggested topics.
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Music Played on this Episode
Terror - Cant Help But Hate
Pharmacist- Accelerating Suppuration
I am the Night - Here me O' unmaker
Nightrage - Abyss Rising
Vital Spririt - Long Walk
Kalmah - Hereo's to Us
Cosmic Putrefaction - Amniotic Bewilderment