For Women’s History Month (and a belated celebration of International Working Women’s Day), it’s an episode with absolutely ZERO MEN. Every band played tonight is completely composed of women. There are a couple special blocks in this show, including sections featuring one-woman BM, foundational 80s acts, and more. (Click for more)

Tonight’s episode features extreme metal from Appalachia, in no fixed order by date, genre, or geography. We have doom metal from Eastern Kentucky, ambient black metal from the Pennsylvania coalfields, bestial black metal from the Smoky Mountains, and a lot more. (Click to read more)

Tonight, we explored stoner metal in a way that is by no definition ordered or organized—stoner metal of all places and times, starting here in Richmond, VA in the recent past. (Click to read more)

Tonight on The Unquiet Grave (9-11 pm on WRIR LP 97.3 FM) we took a trip through all the best new stuff released so far in 2022. We checked out everything from French avant-jazz metal to teenaged thrash from Sweden. [Click to read more]

Tonight on the Unquiet Grave we listened to war metal from all around the globe. War metal is a subgenre with contested boundaries, but suffice to say it's raw, chaotic, and bestial, and often tinged with death and thrash. [Click for more]

Tonight’s episode explores the extreme metal of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria. This episode is largely black metal, though there are a few outliers.

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Tonight, to complete our thrash tetrad (with previous episodes including East Bay, Brazilian, and Teutonic thrash), we did East Coast thrash! Everything from dusty New Jersey demos from the mid-eighties found under somebody's bed to heavy-hitters like Anthrax were covered in this episode. (Click to read more)

No talking, just grind! Tonight it’s short and fast ones for two hours and a total of 55 tracks. This episode has grind of lots of different types and eras and from a ton of different places and scenes. It’s a grab bag!

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On this episode, we explored heavy metal of the U.S.S.R., mostly from the mid-to-late-eighties. I want to give a special shoutout to my absolute favorite album cover from one of the bands featured on this episode—the cover of the Минздрав СССР/Реаниматор single by Режим (Rezim) featuring Lenin joyfully sweeping imperialists off the globe:

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Tonight listeners met me in Blashyrkh for a wintry mix of all eras of Norwegian black metal icons Immortal, including demos and the first EP, all the LPs, and pre-Immortal (Old Funeral; Amputation) as well as post-Immortal (I, Demonaz, Abbath) projects. We even listened to some of Demonaz’s music composed for video games! It’s comprehensive Immortal worship—brave the cold and listen to an archived version of this episode here.

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Tonight we reminisced on the year we all just survived and the best heavy metal created under its auspices! We checked out everything from the weirdest black metal to the silliest grind, and lots in between. I also gave my New Years resolutions for this show…

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It’s the last Unquiet Grave episode of the year 2021, and it’s the Yule episode. We listened to everything from Gehenna’s “Sathana Claus” to Satyricon’s “My Skin Is Cold” in celebration of this, the most festive season. Consider it cold therapy for your Christmas hangover.

Tonight’s episode was about Viking Metal, a subgenre I admittedly know little about and, tbh, am not that into personally! It was nonetheless fun putting this episode together and learning more about it, and I also appreciate that it’s extremely seasonally appropriate. Lots of frost and snow in these tunes.

This evening we feasted on Destruction, Kreator, Sodom, Tankard, Exumer, Living Death, and a ton more German thrash metal (not all Teutonic thrash bands are German…but everything on this episode is).

Tonight’s episode featured two hours of content…….but only nine tracks! It was an all-drone episode featuring Earth, Sunn o))), and all your glacially slow and interminable faves (well….nine of them, at least).

Tonight’s ep was all Bay Area thrash, from heavy-hitters like Exodus, Testament, and Metallica, to lesser-knowns, origins, and current torch-bearers. You can listen to an archived recording of this episode here. Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!

The Unquiet Grave served all funeral doom tonight, starting with some noteworthy precursors, stopping by some important locales in the development of the subgenre, and then listening to some more current examples of the style. This was two hours of some of the longest songs ever played on this show, each one of them mind-numbingly slow and atmospheric, and many of them pipe organ-y.

Listen to an archived version of this episode here.

The first Unquiet Grave Halloween Special featured classic heavy metal songs about witches, vampires, and ghosts, topped of with a bunch of songs about Halloween itself. As a Halloween treat for you all, I’ve also put together a 5+ hour all heavy metal Halloween playlist for you that you can find at this link. Thanks for joining me on this very special night, and Happy Halloween!

You can listen to an archived version of this episode here.

Tonight it’s wall-to-wall Brazilian thrash, and we’re listening to some precursors to the scene and then diving deep on three late 80s/early 90s thrash epicenters: Belo Horizonte (home of Sepultura and many, many more), São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, before getting into some more current stuff. Thanks for listening, donate to the fund drive (see below for more info), death to all posers, and see you next week for a special Halloween episode!