DEATH // SENTENCE

Sometimes you hear an EP so filthy, so sickening, that it can only be consumed sat atop a toilet while you commit time-theft. That EP is Putrescine's The One Reborn: anti-fascist death metal with songs about labor struggles, anti-vaxxers and Bloodborne. How could be resist? Music by Carcass and Putrescine.

Trevor from Champagne Sharks joins us to talk about Colson Whitehead's follow-up to The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys. We talk about the long legacy of hatred in America, how to talk about tragedy and the uncanny nature of the chicken quesadilla deep-friend pizza. Music by Author and Punisher: https://authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/a-crude-sectioning-single

We have Morgan Giles, English translator of Yu Miri's masterful Tokyo Ueno Station, a story that is both a tearjerker and a study in understatement and subtly. Naturally, we talk about ghosts, adopting your boyfriend, the cool 9-11 and a penguin who fell in love with an anime girl. This is how you're supposed to do literary criticism. Music by Gatecreeper: https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com And Uniform & The Body: https://uniformthebody.bandcamp.com/ Support us on Patreon for more episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

New York bay-be! I'm walking here! We had a sit-down with two of masked jazz-black-metal trio Imperial Triumphant to discuss the truly incredible music they make, their philosophy of writing what they know but giving themselves enough freedom to follow their collective muse, and the graphic novel they have released as an accompaniment to Vile Luxury, their latest album.

Pee-yoo, what is that? Oh, it's 'Reed King' (not an actual person)'s stinker FKA USA, and we're here to read it to absolute shreds with Jake Flores of stand-up comedy, podcasting and encouraging the murder of ICE agents fame. Music by Falls of Rauros: https://fallsofrauros.bandcamp.com/ See Jake on tour across the western US here: http://www.feraljokes.com/ And https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

Y'all ready to get a little weird? Erik Davis's High Weirdness explores the lives of Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna, which means we get to explore... pretty much all of reality. If you thought the Evangelion episode was a head-scratcher then you'll need to be a post-subgenious to bend your head around this one. Music by Opeth: http://www.opeth.com/ There's more weirdness on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

War on Women's Shawna Potter has taken her decades in activism and 'the scene' and made a how-to guide for not being a dick and dealing with the dick behaviour of others. It's good, and it'll help you to do good. Music by War on Women: https://waronwomen.bandcamp.com/ And Baroness: https://yourbaroness.com/

Chris Zeischegg joins us to discuss his dark, sexy, DARK kind-of-memoir-only-not Body to Job. We discuss his work, the nature of transgression, Bret Easton Ellis, indie literature, Jeffrey Epstein and Gamer Girl bathwater. Music by A Pregnant Light: https://apregnantlight.bandcamp.com/album/broken-play And Immortal Bird: https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/thrive-on-neglect Subscribe to our Patreon to 'drink' our 'bathwater' (listen to weekly premium episodes): https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

Writer and podcaster RS Benedict of Rite Gud podcast joins us to talk about death, and, FOLKS, this one gets raw as we all explore our own brushes with mortality. Music by Cerebral Rot: https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/odious-descent-into-decay And Yellow Eyes: https://yelloweyes.bandcamp.com

Will from St. Louis-based proletarian punks Redbait joins us to talk about the band's genesis in activism opposing police violence, the books that inspire them and the least appropriate songs to play over footage of 9-11. Music by Adzes: https://adzes.bandcamp.com/album/climate-capital And Redbait: https://redbait.bandcamp.com