WE GOT THOU. Mitch and Bryan from one of the greatest metal acts on the planet join us to discuss pop-punk, coughing, fantasy, comic books and not being super into metal. Featuring EXCLUSIVE covers of Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath and Prayer to God by Shellac.

Returning guest Michael Seidlinger joins us to talk about his new book Dreams of Being, sushi, wrestling and Meltdown May. Music by FLUIDS: https://maggotstomp-fluids.bandcamp.com/ And Couch Slut: https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/take-a-chance-on-rock-n-roll

Poet Brendan Joyce is on the show to talk about his new chapbook (available here on May 1st: https://gumroad.com/nicetryofficer). We talk about our own experiences of the lockdown and unemployment, poetry under quarantine, the possibilities for resistance AND we come up with a sure-fire way to totally destroy the Orange Orangutan Thief-In-Chief. Music by Cirith Ungol https://cirithungol.bandcamp.com/ And Katatonia.

Down for a quiet, sad book about maybe or maybe not getting your life together? Yeah you are. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's Starling Days, the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Harmless Like You is a gorgeously written, beautifully observed look at how people survive, and how relationships survive when one party wants out. Music by Infant Island: https://infantisland.bandcamp.com/album/sepulcher And ACxDC: https://acxdc.bandcamp.com/album/satan-is-king

Gabriela Herstick (@GabyHerstik) joins us to initiate us into the mysteries of her new book Bewitching the Elements. We learn about witchcraft, the Western Mystery Tradition, the importance of self care in plague times and of course Satan. Music by Outer Heaven: https://outerheaven.bandcamp.com/ And Archgoat: https://archgoat666.bandcamp.com/ Subscrybe to our enchanting Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

We've got our first YA novelist on the show: Emily Duncan is mid-way through her Something Dark and Holy series in Ruthless Gods, and she's already taken the meta-genre to spooky, eldritch places. We sit down with her to talk Final Fantasy 7, the depravity of the Dutch, writing as you go and the words you can't say in metal. Music by Anaal Nathrakh: https://anaalnathrakh.bandcamp.com/ And Igorr: https://igorrr.bandcamp.com/ And you can hear our voices in your head if you subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

Struggle Session's anime correspondent Emma Bowers (@hyenasandgin) joins us to discuss Q Hayashida's Dorohedoro in both its anime and manga forms. First though, we perform a quick vibe check and eulogize the Bernie Sanders campaign. Music by Calligram: https://calligram.bandcamp.com/ And Night: https://nightband.bandcamp.com/

I don't want to hit a sore spot, but can we talk about herpes? Writer and Critic Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable)joins us to talk about an obscure but incredible book about queer love and seismic activity by Davey Davis (@k8bushofficial). You can get The Earthquake Room for free from Tigerbee Press here (but you really should buy it): https://www.tigerbeepress.com/store/p17/the_earthquake_room.html And you can get Gretchen's own brilliant books about trauma and mechs here: https://gumroad.com/melmoththewanderer Music by Black Curse: https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/album/endless-wound And Allegaeon: https://allegaeon.bandcamp.com/

In Nino Cipri's Finna two co-workers, formerly a couple, have to track down a customer who has gone missing from a Scandinavian big-box store... into the multiverse. We talk about that, dropping acid in Ikea and, naturally, anime. Music by Pyrrhon and Afterbirth. Föölow üs on Patreon for mööre exclusive cöntent: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

Shannon Strucci (Struggle Session, Critical Bits, YouTube and elsewhere) joins us for a COVID-related reading series followed by Sweet Home, a webcomic about people having to self-isolate because of a virus. This virus turns people into very creative Cronenbergs though. Music by Mamaleek and Alcest Follow us from six feet away on our Patreon for exclusive viral content: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence