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.
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
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