Episode 448: To The Pain by Nonpoint

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s time to visit the road dawgs in Nonpoint and their 4th (or 6th!) album, To The Pain! Topics this episode include:

-Will Nonpoint listen to this episode?

-Swallowing bullets vs swallowing nails

-Bullet budgets

-Getting an autograph from Shinedown

-“Broken glass”

-The forces trying to stop Nonpoint

-Thinking about your ex at the gym

-“This is a dad song”

-Explain yourself/myself

-Getting a massage

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if Nonpoint deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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Episode 447: Who's Tweeting "Water levels"

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Matt and Lorin go over your feedback, Roachamendations, lists, emails and more. Topics this week include:

-Who’s in those DMs

-The Nu-Metal Renaissance

-Flymore, Korn clones?

-The Nu-Metal Big 4…or 5

-The Nu-Metal Junk Drawer

-Boggy Depot feedback

-Video game complaints

-And Stupid F’N Matt’s Nu Core For Old Heads

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Episode 446: Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park (Matt's Version)

It’s 2025 and it’s time to get Matt’s take on one of the biggest albums of all time! This week on the Roach Koach podcast, Matt shares his thoughts and feelings on Linkin Park’s world beater debut album, Hybrid Theory. Lorin dove into the trenches of Songmeanings dot com to find out what was happening in those internet hills in 2002. Get a bag of Pringles and take a listen! 

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Episode 445: Boggy Depot by Jerry Cantrell

Matt and Lorin get Very Cantrell and head to the Boggy Depot.

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Episode 444: End of Days Soundtrack

This week on the Roach Koach podcast we go back 25 years to the lost Arnold Schwarzenegger classic END OF DAYS and its accompanying soundtrack. Topics include:

-Shout out to Louisville Loves Emo

-Shout out to the Nu-Metal Agenda’s Christmas Album

-Being an Arnold fan

-The plot of END OF DAYS

-Filler on albums

-The majesty of “Crushed”

-Girl on a motorcycle mix

-The real Sherlock Holmes on SongMeanings dot com?

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if any of these tracks deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Episode 443: Who's Tweeting "Who's NOT Festing"

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go over Nu-News, Roachemendations and more. Topics this episode include:

-Recapping 2024

-1 year on Youtube

-Sick New World CANCELLED

-Unsolicited advice

-Welcome to Rockville

-R.L. Stine

-Josh Toomey’s phone

-The Daytona Owner’s Club

-New Nu from Architects

-Boots on the ground at Thrown

-And Stupid F’N Matt’s Nu Core For Old Heads

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Episode 442: The Paradigm Shift by Korn

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about returns! Jenny is back and so is Head to Korn! The Indigo Angel rejoins Lorin and Matt to discuss Korn’s eleventh album, The Paradigm Shift. Topics this episode include:

-Who is in Korn?

-A Hot Korn Doc

-Jonathan Davis vs Don Gilmore

-Rolling Stone’s review

-Jenny’s love of dubstep

-“Dabbling” in meth

-Korn and the survelliance state

-Being funny

-What member of Korn is the seventh string?

-Lorin vs Monsters University

-A lullaby for a sadist?

-Lorin loves noises

-Korn in E.T.

-And Canon Talk, where Jenny, Lorin, and Matt decide if Korn deserves another place in the Nu-Metal Canon.

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Episode 441: Who's Tweeting "The Koach in print"

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting. Matt and Lorin go over your Roachamendations, Nu News, lists, tours and more. Topics this week include:

-Roach Koach in The Independent!

-Skribbal goes Nu-Metal

-Who’s Touring 

-Linkin Park new album

-A show just for the Lorin

-Touching Logan Mader’s nipple

-The greatness of Thrown

-And Stupid F’Ns Matts Nu Core for Old Heads

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Episode 440: Beyond The Calm of the Corridor by The Blank Theory

This week on the Roach Koach podcast, Lorin and Matt dip into a box received at their treehouse and listen to the album Beyond The Calm of the Corridor by The Blank Theory. Topics this episode include:

-Having a fake face

-Twins!

-Matt and “cyber”

-Final Destination music video

-Fountains of Wayne and Smashing Pumpkins 

-Soccer challenges in the backyard

-Portishead 

-What are they doing in a tent?

-And of course Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if the Blank Theory deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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Episode 439: Who's Tweeting "Iconic logos require visibility"

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go over listener feedback, Nu News, Roachamendations and more. Topics this week include:

-Current events

-Sick New World feedback

-Iconic logos

-The Pact Bump

-New songs from Ded and Stepa

-Tour tips

-Limp Bizkit in the studio?

-New Swollen Teeth

-And Stupid F’Ns Matts Nu Core for Old Heads

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Episode 438: Prophecy by Soulfly

This week on the Roach Koach podcast we return to the comforting sounds of Max Cavalera as we dive deep into the fourth Soulfly album, Prophecy. Topics this episode include:

-What is like to be friends with Bobby Burns?

-Keeping these guys around

-Buying a cd in 2004

-Songmeanings dot com

-Sweating in the desert

-Making the corny cool

-“That ain’t no ballad”

-Defeat me? Defeat U!

-And of course Canon Talk, where Lorin and Matt decide if Soulfly deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Episode 437: Sick New World 2025 and a chat with Patrick Ryan

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s time once again to talk Sick New World! Lorin and Matt talk line up, ticket options, and of course the bathroom situation. Then they sit down with Korn superfan Patrick Ryan to talk Korn tattoos, Korn and fitness, and the best Korn tunes for gains. Take a listen!

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Episode 436: Armageddon Through Your Speaker by Bionic Jive

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we get consider having our lungs turning into gills and get ourselves a mouthful of grenades because its time to talk about Bionic Jive! Lorin and Matt dive into the debut album, Armageddon Through Your Speaker and talk about what happens when a band understands the assignment a little too well. Did the street team let them down? Are the freaks being let out in the club? Is there a song about Nam? Most importantly, is Bionic Jive going into the Nu-Metal Canon? Listen and find out!

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Episode 435: Who's Tweeting "How not to sell a t-shirt"

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go over your feedback, nu news, and so much more. Topics this episode include:

-Selling T-Shirts and being pressured by your own bit

-Limp Bizkit need those royalties!

-Who’s in those DMs

-“I would let this person do anything they wanted!”

-Who’s Emailing with a Vended rec

-Matt’s enduring love of Swollen Teeth

-The Koach predicted the iconic Ross/Slipknot meeting

-Liverpool bands

-And Stupid F’N Matt’s Nu-Core For Old Heads

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Episode 434: Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. by Crosses

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we finally say goodbye and goodnight to Side Project Summer, as Lorin and Matt discuss the final Chino Moreno side project, the 2023 album from Crosses, Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.

Topics this episode include:

-Top album lists

-20th anniversary albums

-Loving Depeche Mode

-“You can’t both be gimps!”

-Movie monster email chains

-12 string guitars

-Rescuing Amelia Earhart

-The Michael Mann synth

-And finally making a decision on whether this album is Ego, or Essential. 

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Episode 433: Korn Live and the Team Fries Controversy

This week on the Roach Koach podcast we’re talking Korn, Team Fries, merch, and more as Lorin and Matt go boots on the ground at Korn’s show on September 27th at Pine Knob. Topics discussed this episode include:

-3 dads in a Honda

-Merch critiques

-The Team Fries Controversy

-Korn, showmen

-Leaving early

-Who’s Emailing with the Jesus Christgau Challenge

-And Workshopping the Drop with a NEW LIST

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Episode 432: The Burning Red by Machine Head (Matt's Version)

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s time once again to get Matt’s Version, as we re-visit The Burning Red by Machine Head. Topics this week include:

-Matt took notes!

-Polarizing reviews

-Robb Flynn is gonna make it fit

-Songmeanings dot com having operational issues

-The Greatest Name in the history of Songmeanings

-A Moby Dick Update

-Drugs are drugs

-Matt, The Police fan

-“Great grunts”

-The devil’s tail

-And Canon Talk, where Matt decides if The Burning Red needs a canon reassessment. 

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Episode 431: Linkin Park and TEETH

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about teeth catastrophes and the return of Linkin Park! Matt and Lorin give an exhaustive examination of LP’s return along with some praise for House of Protection, Bruce Wayne, a Song For Roach Koach, and the final Chad Radical’s Rippers for Roaches. Take a listen!

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Episode 430: Palms by Palms

Side Project Summer continues! Finally! Lorin and Matt are back to discuss another Chino Moreno side project, and this week it’s Palms. Is this giving tropical vibes, Kong vibes, or something else? Topics this episode include:

-What were we bumping in 2013?

-Is this the album that is truly about Chi?

-A Songmeanings dot com development

-Star Trek vs Star Wars

-The ghost in Three Men and a Baby

-Jerk Off Island

-The downsides of a watery grave

-And the answer to the question, is Palms Ego or Essential? Listen and find out! 

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Episode 429: Who's Tweeting "Screaming guy"

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go over your feedback, Nu-News, and so much more. Topics this week include:

-Bobo Honks No More

-BAFTA Award Winner Andrew Scott

-Lorin’s instagram handle net worth

-What is in Marc Rizzo’s backpack?

-Lorin book update

-Watership Down and “this screaming guy”

-Loathe feedback

-Matt vs THE BEEKEEPER

-And Chad Radical’s Rippers for Roaches

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