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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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 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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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 we’re finally doing one for the haters. We heard your calls so fuck it, we’re doing DevilDriver. Topics this week include:

-Recruiting your band at a cookout

-The headache of choosing a band name

-Songmeanings dot com update

-The philosophy of Pantera

-Listening to a song 100 times a day

-Brats vs burgers

-What does it take to get into Heaven?

-White Magic vs Black Magic

-Thrones talk

-The shit part of hell

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

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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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We gotta build this canon! One album at a time! We’re back this week on the Roach Koach podcast and we’re talking about Loathe and their 2020 album, I Let It In And It Took Everything. Lorin and Matt finally heard your calls and dive in head first. Topics this episode include:

-Lorin doing the research

-Genius dot com annotations

-Riff Magazine

-Flying a gundam under the influence 

-Sick as hell slow motion 

-Liverpool bands

-Pyramid Head

-Night drives

-Matt vs Hot Browns

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

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast, Lorin, Matt, and Jenny take you through the Greatest Night of their Lives as they recount their experience going backstage at Limp Bizkit’s Loserville tour at Pine Knob and meeting Fred Durst. Huge thanks to Garrett Fuller and Michael Owen Smith of Wayne County Lyfe for helping make our dreams come true. Find some space on the green, crack a Celsius and take a listen!

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about the upcoming Louisville Loves Nu-Metal show, July 20th at Headliners Music Hall in beautiful Louisville, Kentucky. Lorin and Matt sit down and of course chop it up with Zack, Brian and Corey from Louisville Loves Nu-Metal to discuss this year’s show, the Nu-Metal Math needed to make the room “electric”, song selection, possible future theme nights, and answer the question, “What is Nu-Metal to you?”.  Take a listen!

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we’re talking plastic surgery, we’re talking goth industrial, yes we’re talking about Pighammer, Wayne Static’s solo album and final album. To help out, Lorin and Matt welcome back friend of the show and host of the Dancing is Forbidden podcast, Ronnie Neeley. 

Topics include:

-Where were we in 2011?

-Pighammer as concept record

-The ZZ Top of Nu-Metal

-Long censorship bars

-Matt’s Goth Industrial past

-Getting handed a flyer outside a show

-Crazed plastic surgeon in med school

-Who is Jack Keener?

-Charles Mansion with BARS

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Ronnie decide if Pighammer deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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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 Lorin and Matt are joined by previous guest JD to discuss Deftones and their modern classic/instant classic album, Koi No Yokan. Topics this episode include:

-Where were we in 2012?

-CD rot?

-The “Swerve City” music video

-Signing up for Songingmeanings dot com

-String counts

-Missed connections in the pit

-Sad-ism

-Investigating stage banter

-Is this Nu-metal?

-Night drive music

-And of course Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and JD decide if Deftones deserve another spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. 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 feedback, questions, Roachemendations and more. Topics this week include:

-Matt’s first livestream

-Addressing the Kendrick/Drake beef

-RIP Steve Albini

-Slipknot is back

-Coal Chamber on Tour

-The Heavy Music Awards

-Who’s Festing: Godsmack Edition

-And Chad Radical’s Rippers for Roaches

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Get the whole bottle and split a pie, it’s time to talk about Mudvayne’s self-titled album! This week on the Roach Koach Podcast, Lorin and Matt welcome back friend of the show and local boy done good Garrett Fuller to discuss Mudvayne’s apparent swan song. Topics this week include:

-Garrett’s growing celebrity

-Merch complaints

-Black light packaging

-When the band sounds like the band

-Funeral Dancer on Songs Meanings Dot Com

-Ranking talk show hosts

-Burger King jingles

-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

-Music video trilogy

-Mudvayne Rocking the Vote

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

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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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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting. Lorin and Matt break down your feedback, lists, nu news, and so much more. Topics this week include:

-A Patreon push!

-Celebrating 8 years of the Koach

-Roach Koach Meetup 2024 at Pine Knob with Limp Bizkit

-Roach Koach live stream

-Who’s Touring with Ill Nino

-The Nu-Metal Agenda’s Post Grunge List

-The Axl Rose Rhythm Method

-Matt’s dating life

-Who’s Festing with Rock Fest 2024

-Who’s in those DMs

-And introducing a new list! 

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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 it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt discuss your feedback, questions, and Roachamendations. Topics this week include:

-Patreon push

-The results of the Side Project Summer vote

-Who’s Touring and the return of Korn

-Korn is…milking?

-7/11 rips off the Bizkit

-Buckcherry live report

-And the finale of Vandals Can’t Handles Part II: The Rise of the Roach.

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

-Roach Koach meet up at Loserville 2024

-Louisville Loves Nu-Metal is back!

-Toomey Watch

-Who’s in those DMs

-TERRORBYTE

-Sending a song to Chris Motionless

-311 on Tinydesk

-Sending a song to Brian “Head” Welch

-And the penultimate Vandals Can’t Handles Part II: The Rise of the Roach! 

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