Your Music Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad

Blood Avantasia - Absolute Dragons

Matt and Blake review Blood Incantation "Absolute Elsewhere" and Avantasia "Here Be Dragons". One is good and one is bad. Can you guess which?YOU CANNOT. Or you can. It doesn't matter.

Fellowship Pretend to Play Guitar and Be Hobbits

Matt and Blake force themselves to listen to The Stars Over Eternity or The Skies Above Eternity or The Skies Over Insanity whatever the second Fellowship album is called. They've been described as "single handedly keeping power metal alive" which is possibly the saddest thing ever said about power metal. RIP power metal.

More Nevermore or Sadboy Starsearch

Jeff Loomis and Van Williams reunite to form Nevermore 2.0 (Warrel's dead and Jeff wasn't invited) and hold open internet auditions for a new singer and bass player. Matt and Blake discuss what this could lead to and what the chances are it produces anything musically interesting. If nothing else it will definitely produce CONTENT.

Dream Theater's Nocturnal Emissions (or Parasomnia or whatever)

Matt and Blake review Dream Theater's new album "Parasomnia" aka "Nocturnal Emissions" aka "Mike Portnoy's CPAP Machine".Its a concept album exploring how quickly Dream Theater can put you to sleep by playing riffs they've recycled so many times you're not sure if its an intentional quote of their own work or if they're just still deeply out of ideas.Fans (nobody) have been clamoring for an episode where we don't like the thing we listen to and we finally deliver... well, ok Blake kinda liked it? We have a lot to say. Just listen to the episode.

BEAT: The Ultimate Old Dude Band (LIVE!) Part 2

Matt is joined by Brooks Rocco to discuss their experience seeing BEAT - 80s King Crimson reunion / tribute featuring Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Zappa, Talking Heads) and Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Liquid Tension Experiment) as well as Danny Carey (Tool) and Steve Vai (Steve Vai).