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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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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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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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s in the Pit, as Lorin and Matt are joined by Josh Toomey to discuss Slipknot’s 25th anniversary tour. Topics this week include:

-Slipknot, showmen

-Knocked Loose, pit legends

-Taking Lady Raven breaks

-Lorin’s updated list of Top 5 Rappers

-Josh Toomey going viral

-Matt the Nu-Metal Evangelist

-Updating the Genius List

-And Chad Radical’s Rippers for Roaches

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we have a guest! And it’s Josh Toomey of the Talk Toomey Podcast! Josh joins Lorin and Matt to chop it up and discuss his involvement in Louisville Loves Nu-Metal, taking place July 20th at Headliners Music Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. Josh talks learning Fieldy’s bass parts, Deftones on sex playlists, Peter Steele, Nu-Metal albums aging well, and more! Take a listen!

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

-The return of Louisville Loves Nu-Metal!

-Loserville meet up at Pine Knob

-Bands re-recording old albums

-Prime grappling music

-10 Most Insane Nu-Metal Feuds of All Time

-Limp Bizkit vs Eminem?
-“Can we talk about Eloy?”

-Chad Radical’s Rippers for Roaches

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LIGHTS OUT! Actually, turn them back on because we’re talking about P.O.D. this week on the Roach Koach podcast. Helping out Lorin and Matt is friend of the show and the king of VHS himself, Sweet Mitchell Socia, to discuss P.O.D.’s 2006 album, Testify. Topics this episode include:

-Matt’s public access past

-Glen Ballard, producer

-Adrien Brody on SNL

-Rasta Matt

-Mitch and the Black Eyed Peas

-Matisyahu on the mic

-Mitch and the real Tom Morello

-Charles Mansion

-Doing a Jonathan Davis impression 

-Doing reggae a service

-Gangster movie talk

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Mitch decide if P.O.D. deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon.

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Look to the sky! It's a very special episode of the Roach Koach Podcast, Eclipse Edition! This week we drop early to commemerate this once in a lifetime event by talking about Korn's tenth studio album and daring left turn into dubstep, The Path of Totality. Lorin and Matt welcome back the Indigo Angel herself, Jennifer Socia, to discuss this landmark album. Topics include:

-The Global Solar event

-The Comedown Album to end all Comedown Albums

-Critical Reception

-Jonathan Devis

-Munky as a Wife Guy

-Relationship with Dubstep

-Gary Numan

-JD's political leanings

-Sex with MechaGodzilla

-JD's craziest scat?

-And Canon Talk, where Jenny, Lorin and Matt decide if Korn get another placement in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast, Lorin and Matt invite long time Roach Rider David Fogarty onto the show to discuss every track on his band’s self-titled debut album, iBurn. Topics discussed include:

-Going from nu-metal fan to nu-metal creator

-Matt loves spines

-Adventures in Monaco

-U2 and the Grammys

-Matt adapting to Chainsings

-“Is this MF spitting?”

-Lorin’s energy drink era

-And of course Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and David decide if iBurn deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon.

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We did it! The Roach Koach Podcast’s 400th Episode! Lorin, Matt, and the returning Indigo Angel herself, Jennifer Socia, celebrate 400 episodes creating a Nu-Metal Canon the only way they know how, by discussing (hed) P.E.’s 2006 album, Back 2 Base X. Topics this episode include:

-How have we changed over 400 episodes?

-What did Jahred say that prompted us to do this album?

-How did Obama react to Gold Cobra?

-Genius list UPDATE

-“9/11, heh”

-“She’s an old soul”

-Lorin and peer pressure

-What does BBW mean?

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Jenny decide if (hed) P.E. deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. As always, please take a listen! 

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast, persistence pays off. Friend of the show and returning guest Kevvy has been sliding into those DMs asking to do Chinese Democracy. Finally, Lorin and Matt have relented. Is this Guns N’ Roses grand nu-metal return? Is it every genre? Did they “put their dicks on the line”? Listen and find out!

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Check out Kevvy’s band Fake Shark and their new album, Afterglow! It’s great!

It’s the first Roach Koach of 2024! Lorin and Matt kick off the new year with a decidedly un-Nu-Metal album as they discuss Linkin Park’s final album, One More Light. Helping them out is Hotline TNT frontman and Roach Rider 4 Lyfe Will Anderson! Topics discussed-

-Mike Shinoda tweets

-Is Will best friends with Jack White?

-The Hotline TNT/Nu-Metal connection

-Brad Delson guitar soup

-Grooving as a joke and grooving for real

-Linkin Park’s lost Hat Era

-SAW TALK

-The last Linkin Park setlist

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, Will and the rest of Hotline TNT chime in on whether Linkin Park deserves another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Follow Hotline TNT on Instagram and check out their upcoming tour dates, possibly near your house! And stream their album Cartwheel!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast, it’s a wild one. For the first time in Roach Koach history, Lorin and Matt discuss an album with someone who actually made it! Lead singer and lyricist Blake Beckmann from the band Stepa walks us through Stepa’s debut and sole release (so far), 2002’s Stepa! 

Topics include:

-The Stepa Journey

-Becoming a rock star in your teenage years

-Producer Jay Baumgardner

-Band photos

-Being asked to leave the band

-“You’re known as Throat”

-Page Hamilton in your living room complaining about a mix

-“Knock Knock, who’s there? A ripper!”

-What is the Fuck Status of the new Stepa songs?

-Posting on Songmeanings dot com on Thanksgiving

-“Is this song about Doing It?”

-Channeling Bjork

-“The Roach Koach Bump”

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Blake decide if Stepa deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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Thank you Blake for coming on the show! Check out Stepa wherever you stream music, follow Stepa on Instagram and follow Blake’s art on Instagram. 

This week on the Roach Koach podcast Lorin and Matt welcome Zack and Brian from Louisville Loves Emo/Nu-Metal talk all about the origins of their emo night (25:00), predicting the return of Emo and Nu-Metal, the lessons of putting on such an elaborate show, whether or not to include a chainsaw, and more! Make sure to check out Louisville Love Emo on Instagram and check out their upcoming shows, Louisville Loves Emo December 2nd at Headliners Music Hall in Louisville, Kentucky and Louisville Loves Emo at Madison Live in Covington, Kentucky on January 13th 2024. 

Also in this episode:

-PitFest!

-The return of My Ticket Home???

-Who’s Repping the Roach?

-Vandals Can’t Handles II: Rise of the Roach

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It’s all about Who’s Tweeting on this week’s episode of the Roach Koach podcast. Lorin and Matt go through the Nu-News of the week, read listener letters and discussion recommendations. Topics this week include:

-Who’s Guesting with Fred Durst and Wargasm (UK)

-Who’s Recommending with UnityTx

-Who’s Emailing with a Zebrahead push

-Who’s in those DMs with Yoohoo at Ozzfest

-Roach Koach is on Youtube!

-Lorin vs the Polish Nu-Metal Community

-A Puddle of Mudd push?

-And Vandals Can’t Handles Part 2 featuring Etched in Red

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NugFest 2023 arrives on the Roach Koach Podcast. The Indigo Angel herself, Jennifer Socia, returns to the podcast to discuss with Matt and Lorin the second Trust Company album, True Parallels. That means we’re talking night drives, chicken nuggets and sauces. Also, Lorin and Jenny talk about their experience at Disturbed’s Take Back Your Life Tour 2023. This episode has it all! Take a listen!

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go through your questions, recommendations and more. Topics this week include:

-Which Nu-Metal bands should get into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame?

-The 25 Best Limp Bizkit Songs Ever

-Who’s Reviewing Us

-The Insolence push

-My Ticket Home feedback

-and Old Dogs Nu Tricks

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s the return of Static-X, as we listen to their fifth album, Cannibal. As voted on by our Patreon Patrons, Matt, Lorin, and Jenny discuss extremely hot opens, Matt’s music taste in 2007, SEO song titles, Evil Disco, Big Boy Detective, “Get the Fuck Up music”, Grizzly Man, and more! Take a listen and find out if Static-X deserve another slot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s a return to one of the big 4 of Nu-Metal, Linkin Park, and their divisive third album, Minutes to Midnight. This album was chosen by our Patreon patrons! Lorin, Jenny, and Matt discuss their history with Minutes to Midnight, delight in the arrival of Rick Rubin as producer, parse out the lack of tension in Linkin Park and their IT department vibes, and of course decide if LP deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we’re talking all about your feedback, Roachamendations and more! We dive into the ABCs of Korn video, Lorin chats with the young people about Nu-metal, we deal with “The Grunt”, listen to some new recs, go over feed back from our Mariah Carey episode and Matt rounds out the show with some Nu-Thoughts. Take a listen! 

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