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ALLOY Podcast 68: Featuring Across the Sun

Matt Jacobs — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:51:32 GMT

Episode Summary: Host Alloy Matt went up to Portland to hang with the Across the Sun boys before a show. Last time they were on, they recorded at Burgerville. This time? Taco Del Mar. Matt and AtS talk about tour hardship(s), getting recognized as "being on that next level" as a band and the departure of a band member.

ALLOY Podcast 65: Featuring Miss May I vocalist Levi Benton

Matt Jacobs — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:05:04 GMT

Episode Summary: In this episode, the Alloy Boys discuss how awesome robot voices are and talk about a new social network both of them have discovered called GetGlue. Matt also talks a bit about the live experience that was The Contortionist, Textures, The Human Abstract and Periphery show. The boys also got an interview with Levi Benton of Miss May I and they are going to roll it out for you!

ALLOY Podcast 64: Featuring letlive.

Matt Jacobs — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:41:18 GMT

Episode Summary: This week, the Alloy Boys have an interview with letlive. that Matt did back in January when they played in Salem, OR at the Wasteland. They were feeling pretty proggy this week, so there's a bunch of prog metal on this episode. They didn't figure anyone would mind. UPDATE: The voting for the Thrash and Burn Tour has ended, and Across the Sun did not win. However, with the list of mediocre bands that were voting options, at least a good band won. Congrats to the guys from Volumes!

ALLOY Podcast 63: Featuring Black Veil Brides vocalist Andy Biersack

Matt Jacobs — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:17:47 GMT

Episode Summary: In this installment we play some killer music, as always, and roll out an interview Alloy Matt did with Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides. *NOTE: Alloy Matt did this interview for the Standby Records podcast when the Alloy Boys were doing that, but negotiations on a contract with them fell through. Since he still had the interview on the hard drive, Alloy Matt decided to re-purpose this interview for this show. We hope you like it!

ALLOY Podcast 61: Featuring As Blood Runs Black bassist Nick Strewart and drummer Leche De Santiago

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:31:07 GMT

Episode Summary: This is the Alloy Podcast, Summer Slaughter Spectacular with As Blood Runs Black. This episode is a little different than most as Nick and Leche are on the entire episode. Host Alloy Ben has been very busy at work, so McCary Mccutcheon of Dallas, Oregon's Submerged in Cocytus joined Alloy Matt for this episode. They talk with Nick and Leche about As Blood Runs Black's new album Instinct and the recording process.

ALLOY Podcast 60: Featuring Within the Ruins

Matt Jacobs — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:10:41 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts Alloy Matt and Alloy Ben are still talking about Summer Slaughter! I guess then that it's more than appropriate they have an interview with Within the Ruins on this episode. They also talk about the unfortunate happenings with Coheed and Cambria's bassist and his recent legal trouble. Plus, they want to introduce all their listeners to some pretty crazy and techy bands, so if you want to hear some new stuff, then pull up a new tab and get your Facebook, MySpace or YouTube open so…

ALLOY Podcast 59: Featuring Chelsea Grin

Matt Jacobs — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:09:49 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts Alloy Ben and Alloy Matt discuss a show that they went to a couple of weeks ago… one they forgot to discuss on last week's show. They talk about the Last Chance to Reason, Affiance and It Prevails show that was in Portland, OR not long ago and also roll out a Chelsea Grin Interview (re-dubbed the Grin-terview). Alloy Matt and friend of the show Jordan did at a show in Portland on their last tour.

ALLOY Podcast 58: Featuring Fire in the Skies

Matt Jacobs — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:00:34 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts Alloy Ben and Alloy Matt talk about some upcoming shows they're going to and share some Texts From Last Night… again. Alloy Ben tells us why he couldn't record last week, and therefore why we didn't have an episode last week.

ALLOY Podcast 57: Featuring No Bragging Rights

Matt Jacobs — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:28:05 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts Alloy Matt and Alloy Ben hang out in the studio and chat about new releases that just came out, or are soon to be released. Matt is a shameless self-promoter and plugs his blog (link below) and the Alloy Boys talk about some upcoming shows they're hitting up. Same shit, different day! Later in the show, an interview Alloy Matt did with No Bragging Rights at the Wasteland in Salem, OR is featured. Had a blast hanging out with those dudes!

ALLOY Podcast 56: Featuring All That Remains Guitarist Mike Martin

Matt Jacobs — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:33:15 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts Alloy Ben and Alloy Matt are joined in the studio with friend of the show, Casandra. She wanted to see what the recording process was like, and we were happy to oblige. Little did she know we would fuck with her for the entire show and Alloy Matt would be Tweeting about her and her obsession with "Bawls." The Alloy Boys talk about upcoming shows they are going to and upcoming releases they are stoked on.

ALLOY Podcast 55: Featuring Abandon All Ships

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:19:28 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts Alloy Ben and Alloy Matt are in studio with more Texts/Tweets From Last Night. They're joined for a segment by Jon Daigle of the MetalsPeak Podcast because he saw our tweet that we were recording and to join us via Skype. We encourage all our listeners to do this, so watch the Alloy Podcast Facebook or Twitter pages (links below) for when to contribute to the show!

ALLOY Podcast 54: Featuring Son of Aurelius

Matt Jacobs — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:11:20 GMT

Episode Summary: Hosts, Alloy Matt and Alloy Ben, dubbed "The Alloy Boys" by Still Dead, hang out in the studio and talk about Texts from Last Night and Is Anyone Up on the show, again. Great tunes including the brand new single from Bullet Tooth's Nightshade. One of the bands that Alloy Matt manages, Dusks Embrace, played a show a couple weeks ago with Son of Aurelius and Alloy Matt saw this opportunity to double-dip and grabbed an interview with SOA while he was there. Enjoy the show!

ALLOY Podcast 53: Featuring Ocean of Mirrors vocalist Taylor Danley and drummer Bryton Wilson

Matt Jacobs — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:46:38 GMT

Episode Summary This episode finds your hosts Alloy Matt and Alloy Ben in studio after the Oregon stop of the "Road to Metalfest" tour featuring The Greenery, The Great Commission, Monsters, Legend and Lionheart at the Waste Land in Salem, OR. The Alloy Boys talk about all the crazy shows they are attending this week! Also featured in this episode is an interview with the upcoming Portland, OR metalers Ocean of Mirrors' vocalist Taylor Danley and drummer Bryton Wilson. Matt hooked up with them at a show also at the Waste Land.

ALLOY Podcast 52: Featuring Straight Line Stitch guitarist Seth Thacker and vocalist Alexis Brown [1]

Matt Jacobs — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:50:42 GMT

Episode Summary: Alloy Matt and Alloy Ben talk about some killer upcoming shows they're planning on attending, as well as some shows they went to recently. Also, what's with the alleged Jonny Graig scandal that's going on? Is there any truth to the accusations? Then, Alloy Ben hooks up with Seth Thacker and Alexis Brown of Straight Line Stitch and shoots the shit about music and microbrews. There is some background noise we would like to apologize about during the interview.

ALLOY Podcast 51: Featuring As I Lay Dying bassist Josh Gilbert

Matt Jacobs — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:06:08 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Podcast is back from break... finally! We've been working hard on making sure our new chunk of PureGrainAudio is functioning properly, and getting tons of great interviews! Your hosts Matt and Ben have a little bull session in the studio and try to shake the cobwebs while telling you everything they've been doing while on break. They got some dope music and a great interview with Josh Gilbert, bassist of As I Lay Dying.

ALLOY Podcast 50: Featuring Jonathon London of Geekscape.net

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:09:44 GMT

Episode Summary: This is another connection Matt made at ZomBcon. Jonathon London runs a website called Geekscape and is a podcaster that Matt has a lot of respect for. Matt and Jonathon hooked up via Skype and talked about film making, podcasting, metal geekdom and the difference between nerds and geeks. The interview went a little longer than usual, but thats OK. Matt only put 20 minutes of the interview into the show. The full interview is also available to stream and download below.

ALLOY Podcast 49: Featuring Unearth members Trevor Phipps, Buz McGrath and John "Slo" Maggard

Matt Jacobs — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:57:44 GMT

Episode Summary: Matt and Ben went up to Portland, this time on Metal Blade Records's guest list, so they we could get a few interviews. We haven't aired the other two yet, so we won't tell you who they are, but Unearth was way too cool! We have been Unearth fans since just after The Oncoming Storm was released, and unfortunately for Matt, that showed in the interview. Matt's fanboy status was over the top on this interview... sorry to the listeners for having to listen to the awkwardness…

ALLOY Podcast 48: Featuring Fairweather Creator Abi Post

Matt Jacobs — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:08:07 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY co-host Matt Jacobs attended ZomBcon this halloween and met lots of great people. He didn't do a lot of interviews while he was there, but he made a lot of great connections. One of the interviews he did get while he was there, was with the wonderful Abi Post. Abi has a zombie web-comic called Fairweather and Matt is a big fan of the comic. Head over and check it out!

ALLOY Podcast 47: Featuring 36 Crazyfists lead singer Brock Lindow

Matt Jacobs — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:28:46 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY co-host,Ben Abbott, went and caught a show in Portland, Or and got an Interview with Brock Lindow of 36 Crazyfists! Some of the band being from Oregon, we were stoked that Ben got the interview. Brock was as cool as a guy could be, including the total fanboy co-interviewer that went with Ben to the show. We are big 36 Crazyfists fans and we're pumped Brock was so cool.

ALLOY Podcast 46: Featuring Upon A Burning Body

Matt Jacobs — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:50 GMT

Episode Summary: Ben didn't actually go to the gym with Upon A Burning Body, he met with them at the Hawthorne Theatre in Potland, OR. We're calling this episode "At the Gym" because Matt and Ben decided to discuss this trend that happens to be running through metal right now. Most people call it Crabcore, but Matt and Ben call it "Squat Thrusts."

ALLOY Podcast 45: Featuring Veil of Maya guitarist Marc Okubo

Matt Jacobs — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:51:37 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY co-host Matt Jacobs went up to Portland for the Oregon stop of the Summer Slaughter Tour. I grabbed a fake band badge and just walked in the back gate. I originally only had an interview scheduled with Cephalic Carnage, but took the opportunity to talk to Marc Ocubo of Veil of Maya on their tour bus... yeah... I was on Veil of Maya's tour bus... you're jealous.

ALLOY Podcast 44: Featuring The Red Chord lead vocalist Guy Kozowyk

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:09:12 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY co-host Matt Jacobs went up to Portland for the Oregon stop of the Summer Slaughter Tour. I grabbed a fake band badge and just walked in the back gate. I originally only had an interview scheduled with Cephalic Carnage, but took the opportunity to talk to Guy Kozowyk of The Red Chord while I was at it. We talk Red Chord stuff and, Guy's record label, Black Market Activities stuff.

ALLOY Podcast 43: Featuring Cephalic Carnage bassist Nick Schendzielos and guitarist Brian Hopp

Matt Jacobs — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:36:55 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Hosts Matt Jacobs and Ben Abbott hung out at Lucky Larry's Lounge in Albany, OR to tape this first episode of the re-launch. We want to thank our New Sponsor Lucky Larry's Lounge in Albany, OR for sponsoring the show! Listen to future episodes and follow us on Twitter to find out when the next remote taping is going to be so you can come hang out with us! Anyway, this episode is just to introuduce you to your hosts Matt and Ben.

ALLOY Podcast 42: Featuring Run Bitch Run

Matt Jacobs — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:15:42 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Hosts Matt Jacobs and Ben Abbott went to hang out with Salem, OR supergroup Run Bitch Run at Kyle Castronovo's house for a pool and pizza party! Ben did some cray aeronautical shit into the pool and probably peed in it in the process. Matt peed in it… and he didn't even get in the pool… everyone knows fat guys can't swim. Hot tub sex definitely happened… TMI… never mind.

ALLOY Podcast 41: Featuring No Living Witness

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:06:45 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Hosts Matt and Ben went up to Salem, OR to meet up with No Living Witness who was in town from Olympia, WA and had a great chat with them outside of a Subway Sandwich shop in downtown Salem. They were cool people, but at different points heard that members of the band didn't like AC/DC, Pantera or Slayer! Call us old-fashioned, but we weren't sure we could air the interview after that. They are a great band, however, so don't judge them too harshly.

ALLOY Podcast 40: Matt and Ben Dick Around, and You Listen

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:46:26 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Hosts Matt and Ben didn't want to mess with an interview on this show, so they said fuck it and didn't have one. Their brother, Andy Abbott, came on to kick it with them and shoot the metal shit and enjoy some metal, the way brothers do. Enjoy!

ALLOY Podcast 39: Featuring Thorns of Creation

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:13:58 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Hosts Matt and Ben went to Dallas, OR for a show that included bands from all over Oregon. In the case of Thorns of Creation, they drove in from Bend, OR. We had a sit down with the melodic death metal band just outside the venue in some nice, cool grass. It was summer at the time and there was no air in the venue. What we're saying is it was hot as balls in that grange hall! Killer guys and thanks for driving like 4 hours to play the show.

ALLOY Podcast 38: Featuring Return From Exile

Matt Jacobs — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:36:56 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY co-Host Ben had to work the night Return From Exile came through Salem, OR, but Matt was available. So he ran over and watched them put on a killer show! Then Matt got to climb on their tour van and kick it for a while to get a great interview!

ALLOY Podcast 37: Matt and Ben Dick Around and You Listen; Revisited

Matt Jacobs — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:15:38 GMT

Episode Summary: ALLOY Host Matt got a little jaded with the local scene for a minute and decided to put some people on blast. Host Ben went along for the ride, but demanded they thank all their true supporters in the process. Good job Ben! Way to try to keep Matt's negativity on the up and up. Since Matt is the tech nerd of the show, there is no interview because he was in quite a mood. Ben didn't have a choice.