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Lamniformes Radio
by Ian Cory
Pronounced "Lam-Neh-Forms"Loud rock project in Brooklyn. Interviews other musicians for Lamniformes Radio.
Episodes
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Episode 81 - Ben Kramer
In this episode I'm joined by Ben Kramer, author of the new self-published novel "My Dad Won't Let Us", a queer retelling of the gospels from Judas' perspective. Ben and I talked about his religious upbringing, the challenges of structuring the novel, the influence of music on the text, and what...
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Episode 80 - Oliver Kalb of Bellows
Lamniformes Radio Season 3 kicks off with a delightful conversation with my good friend Oliver Kalb, whose band Bellows is due to release their sixth album "Que Bello!" on June 12th. As some listeners may recall I played drums in Bellows for years, including during the writing and recording of…
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Episode 79 - Brian Barr of Aseethe
This week I'm joined by Brian Barr of the Midwestern doom metal band Aseethe! Aseethe have a new album coming out on June 21st through Thrill Jockey records and personally I think it's their best yet. Brian and I talked about The Cost, why he almost walked away from doom metal entirely during...
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Episode 78 - Kabir Kumar (Sun Kin, Guppy)
This week I'm joined by songwriting, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Kabir Kumar. Kabir releases music under the name Sun Kin had has a new album called "Sunset World" dropping on April 19th. We talked about that album, writing songs as drummers, what Animal Collective has in common with…
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Episode 77 - Dream Theater Roundtable with Langdon Hickman & Ivan Belcic
Writer Langdon Hickman and Kosmogyr singer Ivan Belcic return to Lamniformes Radio to discuss the return of drummer Mike Portnoy to the progressive metal band Dream Theater. The three of us are cursed with more Dream Theater knowledge than any man should have, and our only cure is passing that...
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Episode 76 - Ali Jaafar (Another Heaven, Zero Brightness)
Ali Jaafar of Another Heave and the Zero Brightness podcast joins me to talk about Another Heaven's latest album "Heaven Sent", the Minneapolis music scene, PT Cruisers, horror, and much more! https://anotherheaven.bandcamp.com/album/iv-heaven-sent
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Episode 75 - Joseph Schafer (Colony Drop)
Joseph Schafer returns yet again! This time to talk about his band Colony Drop's debut album "Brace For Impact", writing metal about anime, his influences as a lead singer, and overcoming self-doubt to release one of the year's best collections of high-speed retro metal.
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Episode 74 - Cassie Wieland (Vines)
This episode's guest is Cassie Weiland, a classical composer turned ambient pop artist who releases music under the name Vines. We talked about some Lamniformes Radio staples (music school, what we did during 2020 lockdown) as well as the art of covers, the intersection of art and athletics, and...
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Episode 73 - The Mars Volta Return! (w/Frank Meadows & Jonathan Mondragon)
Frank and Jonathan return to get Podcasted in the Lamniforium once more. In the years since our first conversation The Mars Volta released a retrospective box set, then reunited with a new self titled record and a tour heavy on fan favorites. We share our thoughts on the new album, parse the...
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Episode 72 - AJ Santillan (Massa Nera)
Today I'm joined by AJ Santillan, bassist of the New Jersey screamo band Massa Nera and an old friend from college. Massa Nera's second album "Derremar|Querer|Borrar|" comes out on December 2nd. It's a great album, mixing long-form screamo with mind-bending electronic experimentation. I was…
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Episode 71 - Josh Stanely (Psychoid)
Josh Stanely came on the podcast to talk about his new album "Cataclysm Risqué" with his band Psychoid. Josh has played all types of music from rap to punk to folk and more. He even played in Lamniformes for a while! This one was recorded in person a few weeks ago. It was great chatting with Josh...
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Episode 70 - Erik Gundel (Gemma)
Producer Erik Gundel joins the podcast to talk about his new album "Level One Mage," working as a music therapist, his collaborations with Felicia Douglass (Dirty Projectors, Ava Luna) and Will Skarstad (Yellows Eyes) and playing Dungeons & Dragons during lockdown....
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Episode 69 - Max Coburn (Maxo, Battle Kitty, Game Composer)
Composer and electronic producer Max Coburn joins the podcast to talk about his journey from shelling out burnt CDs of his music to blowing up on Soundcloud all the way to composing for the upcoming Netflix show "Battle Kitty." Max and I played in a few bands together back in the 2010s but…
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Episode 68 - Andrew Sacher (BrooklynVegan) Explains Every Time I Die
BrooklynVegan editor Andrew Sacher joins the podcast to talk about the sudden break up of the long running Buffalo, NY metalcore band Every Time I Die. Every Time I Die were part of the boom in American metalcore in the early 2000s but out lasted their contemporaries to become a heavy music...
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Episode 67 - Lucio Oquendo (New Grass)
Lucio Oquendo of the screamo band New Grass joins the podcast to talk Rush, car culture, and his new album "Scoredatura Perforations" out now through Zegema Beach! https://newgrassrock.bandcamp.com/
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Episode 66 - Joseph Hurtado (Saint Thrillah, Young Moth, National Meat Treasure)
Producer and podcaster Joseph Hurtado aka Saint Thrillah aka Young Moth rejoins the program to talk about the beat making world during the pandemic, staying organized, learning to make lo-fi music, helping produce the new 303Bam album, and joining the National Meat Treasure podcast. Always love...
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Episode 65 - Upping The Irons with Mining Metal (Joseph Schafer & Langdon Hickman)
Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman of the Consequence of Sound column "Mining Metal" joined me to talk about Iron Maiden, one of the great bands of all time. We cover their entire discography, their outsize influence on heavy metal as well as the rest of popular music and culture, and plenty of...
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Episode 64 - Jessica T. of Daxma
Violinist and guitarist Jessica T. of Daxma came on the podcast to talk about the band's new album "Unmarked Boxes", her path from classical music to heavy metal, the difference between electric and acoustic violins, recording under hellish conditions in the summer of 2020, covering Fleetwood Mac...
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Episode 63 - Daniel Ott (Filmmaker, Secret Movie Club)
Filmmaker Daniel Ott joins the podcast to talk about his path from making movies with friends growing up in Tulsa to working professionally in the film industry in Los Angeles. We cover our time together in college in Chicago, his upcoming short film "Apartment Story", his recent music video for...
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Ep 62 - Preston Wollner (Morgus Bootoux's Shadow Show)
Puppeteer & writer Preston Wollner joined the podcast to talk about his journey as a visual artist, starting as a sculptor in high school, studying animation and performance art in Chicago, and finally launching his own Shadow Puppet show last month. Preston reached out to me to score his horror...
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Ep 61 - Quick Update
An overdue explanation for the no longer weekly schedule this podcast has been operating on lately. Basically, day job got wild, other projects picked up, my booking skills couldn't keep up the pace, etc. Talk soon.
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Ep 60 - Learn To Swim
The audio version of my latest newsletter, which you can find at https://lamniformes.substack.com/ In short, I found myself frustrated and angry in the wake of Tropical Storm Ida and decided to take it out on an old Tool song that hasn't aged well. Have fun!
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Episode 59 - Blake Luley (Rainwater)
Today I am joined by Blake Luley, a songwriter who releases music as Rainwater. I first came across Rainwater’s album “Saturn Return” shortly after it was released on Furious Hooves, the label that also released my own album Sisyphean a few years ago. As it turns out, Luley and I shared another...
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Episode 58 - Colors II // Thrice Upon a Time // Reworking Old Work
Some off the cuff thoughts on the new Between the Buried and Me album, the finale to The Rebuild of Evangelion, and what it means when an artist decides to return to an older project. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-human-instrumentality-podcast/id1549740529...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 57 - Between The Buried And Me: The Hyperpod Dialogues
Siddhu Anadalingham of Semaphore and Andrew Noseworthy of People Places Records joined me to talk about the long running prog metal band Between the Buried and Me. The three of us all got into the band during their come up in the 00s hardcore scene, but have all since fallen off after the band...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 56 - Joey Jordison Was Number 1
This is the audio version of a newsletter that I wrote about the passing of former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison. You can read the text version of it at the following link: https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/joey-jordison-was-number-1
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 55 - Calder Hannan (Metal Music Theory, Florid Ekstasis)
Calder Hannan is the host of the YouTube Channel 'Metal Music Theory', where he analyzes riffs from cutting edge metal bands with equally cutting edge music theory concepts. He also plays some really gnarly death metal of his own in the band Florid Ekstasis, and is working on a PhD from Columbia…
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 54 - Throat Clearing:Input Update
This is the audio version of my latest newsletter, which you can find here: https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/throat-clearinginput-update
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 53 - Derek Allen (Lower Automation, Formants)
Today I am joined by Derek Allen, the singer and guitarist of Lower Automation, a high energy math core band from Chicago. Lower Automation are about to release their self titled debut full length on Zegema Beach on July 12th. Recorded in a five day stretch during the summer of 2020, the album is…
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 52 - Stephen Schwegler (Seputus, Pyrrhon, Weeping Sores)
Today I am joined by drummer and guitarist Stephen Schwegler. I first became aware of Steve through his drumming in the band Pyrrhon, a chaotic and cutting edge death metal band from Philly. Pyrrhon are something of a scene unto themselves, as each of the band’s members extend into similarly mind...
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Lamniformes Radio Ep 51 - The Monophonic Ear
This episode is the audio version of an article that I wrote earlier this year about how a heady concept about the nature of sound from the producer SOPHIE could be applied to how I think about the drums. If you'd like to read the text version, you can find that here:...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 50 - Richard Gin (Photographer, Videographer)
Last Friday I dropped my first music video, for the song "Hypothermia (Saint Thrillah Mix) so I thought it'd be cool to have my good friend Richard Gin, who directed the video, on the podcast to talk about his experience shooting DIY shows in the NY DIY scene over the last decade and a half, his...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 49 - Any Major Pod Will Tell You (Why Are Steely Dan So Popular?)
Frank Meadows rejoins the podcast to talk about the one and only Steely Dan, patron saints of the studio project. For the last five years I've watched Steely Dan's popularity sky rocket among deeply online millennials and music nerds at large. In the summer of 2019 I caught the bug myself,...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 48 - Dave Reminick (Paper Mice)
Today I am joined by Dave Reminick of the band Paper Mice. Paper Mice are a three piece math rock band from Chicago who write songs based on bizarre and hilarious stories ripped directly from news stories. They just released their first album in eight years called "1-800-Mondays", which expands...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 47 - Emmett Ceglia (Sannhet, Semaphore, Detach The Islands)
Today's guest is drummer and audio engineer Emmett Ceglia. In his second appearance on the podcast, I spoke to Ceglia about his musical biography starting with drumming competitions in Long Island, studying drums at Berklee College of Music, and moving to Brooklyn to become a drummer for hire....
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 46 - Ivan Belcic (Kosmogyr, Invisible Oranges)
Today I am joined by musician and writer Ivan Belcic. Ivan is the vocalist and drum programmer for Kosmogyr, a black metal band he formed with guitarist Xander Cheng while living in Shanghai. When he isn’t writing his own music Ivan also writes about other up and coming metal bands for the blog...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 45 - A Quick Victory Lap
I put out a record on Friday called "You Can't Do This Alone" so I figured I should talk about how and why. https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-do-this-alone
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 44 - Ryo Miyauchi (This Side of Japan)
Today I am joined by writer Ryo Miyauchi who runs the blog and newsletter This Side of Japan, where he reviews and catalogs the best in new Japanese music. Ryo and I first met when we wrote for the website Unrecorded in the mid-2010s. I’ve always been impressed with Ryo’s voracious appetite for…
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 43 - Randall Taylor (Amulets)
Today I am joined by Randall Taylor who makes music under the name Amulets. Taylor’s music sits at the edge of a few genres, ambient, drone, post rock, and noise, but what interests me most about Amulets is his process. Taylor repurposes old cassettes and tape players, tinkering with their...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 42 - Clara Warnaar (A New For New Age, Infinity Shred)
Today I am joined by composer, percussionist and drummer, Clara Warnaar. If you’ve listened to Episode 38 of this podcast, you might already know Warnaar as the drummer of the instrumental trio Infinity Shred, but she is also an accomplished classic percussionist who makes a living performing…
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 41 - Introducing "You Can't Do This Alone"
Going off script today to talk about why I spent the last year putting together a remix album, featuring former Lamniformes Radio guests like Noumenah, Saint Thrillah, Frank Meadows, Adam Holmes, and Zain Alam. Long story short: live music died, I had steady income and wanted to keep my friends...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 40 - Joseph Klomes (Droughts, Mush, unprdctv)
Today's guest is one that will be familiar to anyone who has looked at the art for an episode of Lamniformes Radio. I am joined by Joseph Klomes, who in addition to being a professional graphic designer, plays in the bands Droughts, Mush, and his new solo project unprdctv. I've always enjoyed...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 39 - The Human Instrumentality Podcast
Taking a break from my interview format this week to instead give you a taste of another project that I've been working on. Earlier this year I teamed up with my friend and former Lamniformes Radio guest Joseph Schafer to launch The Human Instrumentality Podcast, a re-cap and analysis podcast…
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 38 - Damon Hardjowirogo (Infinity Shred)
Today I am joined by Damon Hardjowirogo of Infinity Shred, an instrumental trio with roots in the chip tune scene of the late 2000s, that have since evolved to incorporate post rock, heavy metal, and cutting edge electronic production. Last Friday Infinity Shred released EP 002: Recovery through...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 37 - Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour, Be Well)
Today I am joined by Mike Schleibaum, the guitarist of Darkest Hour and Be Well. For the last 25 years Darkest Hour have played a high energy mix of hardcore punk and heavy metal. After releasing nine studio albums through labels like Victory, E-One, Sumerian, and Southern Lord, the band have...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 36 - Zain Alam (Humeysha)
Today I am joined by Zain Alam, who performs music under the name Humeysha. Humeysha are a difficult band to in down, Alam mixes shoegaze inspired guitar, booming 808s, and samples recorded during a year long stay in India to study the effects of the partition of 1947. The end result is like very...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 35 - Molly Soda (Keeping Tabs)
Today I am joined by Amalia Soto, better known as the web artist Molly Soda. I wanted to have Molly on the show because of her most recent project, Keeping Tabs where she attempts to break out of the web’s social media hegemony and surf towards less visited parts of the internet. One of the key...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 34 - Gary Suarez (Cabbages)
This week I'm joined by Gary Suarez. In addition to writing freelance for Rolling Stone, Vice, Vibe, NPR, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Pit, and more publications than I could list here, Suarez also runs the hip-hop newsletter Cabbages, where he highlights the best in new independent hip-hop....
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 33 - Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life, Giles Corey, Black Wing)
Today I am joined by Dan Barrett, the singer of internet cult heroes Have A Nice Life. In December Barrett released his second album as Black Wing, a solo project where he limits himself strictly to electronic instruments, titled "No Moon." In our conversation we talk about the process for "No...
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Lamniformes Radio Episode 32 - Rush Retrospective with Langdon Hickman
On this episode I am joined by writer Langdon Hickman, to talk about his massive Rush retrospective project for Treble. Over the last year, Langdon has written about every studio album that the legendary Canadian progressive rock band Rush released in their 40 year career. Langdon and I went deep...
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Pronounced "Lam-Neh-Forms"Loud rock project in Brooklyn. Interviews other musicians for Lamniformes Radio.
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