DEATH // SENTENCE

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

What if you wanted to redefine Communism for the 21st century and accidentally wrote the plot to The Expanse? Novara Media's Aaron Bastani has written Fully Automated Luxury Communism, which extols the virtues of automation, artificial meat and asteroid mines as a means of achieving a socialist utopia. We're joined by Jon and Ash of The Horror Vanguard (https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard) for this epic voyage into the world of tomorrow. Music by Fetid: https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/steeping-corporeal-mess And Fuming Mouth: https://fumingmouth.bandcamp.com/ And here's the homunculus video I mention. There's like a whole genre of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGx74hdhOw Here's our patreon, jokers: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

Hussein Kesvani (MEL Magazine, Trashfuture) joins us to discuss his excellent book Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims. Predictably, we get distracted by how EXTREME Deadpool would be if he had a Venom symbiote and the religious ramifications of the Multiverse. Music by Imperial Triumphant: https://redefiningdarknessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-triumphant-inceste-ep

Gamers rise up! But in a good way. Like against your bosses. Jamie Woodcock's Marx At The Arcade (Haymarket Books) explores the history of the videogames industry right up to its present day, when labor organizing is just beginning to happen. We talk about the Marxist tool of workers' inquiry, Marx himself as a game character and why the bourgeois individualism of Sekiro has broken me. Music by Warforged: https://warforged.bandcamp.com/ and Spirit Adrift: https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com