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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It’s episode 399! Yes, the Roach Koach podcast celebrates the episode before 400 by talking all about Who’s Tweeting! Nu News, Roachamendations, and more! Topics this week include:

-The Pact goes live February 15th on our Patreon!

-A Papa Roach book?

-Radio voice vs Podcast voice

-P.O.D.’s promo photo

-Lorin at Monster Jam

-The Roachamendation to top all Roachamendations?

-Who’s Festing at Michigan Metal Fest 2024

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

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The wait is over. After many many years of requesting, this week on the Roach Koach Podcast, Lorin and Matt discuss Stereomud’s debut album, Perfect Self. Helping them out is Roach Rider 4 Life and the co-host of the Breathing Nu Life Podcast, Tom! Topics this week include:

-History with Stereomud

-Erik Rogers, made to rock

-“Pure uncut nu-metal”

-Stereomud’s capable hands

-Being ok with getting Chainsed

-The back tattoo reveal

-Lorin’s marching band story

-Vampire music?

-Making friends at the gym

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Tom decide if Stereomud deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Make sure to check out Tom on Breathing Nu Life wherever you get your podcasts! 

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

-A eulogy for Pitchfork

-Alien Ant Farm merch store

-The Roach Koach Meet Up 2024

-Candyass 25th anniversary tour

-KottonMouth Kings 420 Puff Puff Pass Spectacular Update

-Who’s Emailing with “a banger so insane I had to share”

-Linkin Park feedback

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

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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!

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt discuss break ups, lists, hot takes, and more! Topics this week include

-Counting down to Episode 400

-Patreon Reactivated

-The Pact

-Matt against the machine

-Who’s Listing with the Nu-Metal Agenda’s Top 100 Nu-Metal Albums of All Time list

-Vandal’s Can’t Handles Part II: The Rise of the Roach

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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!

It’s the end of the year! Roach Koach celebrates the end of their Sell Out Year with lists! Announcements! And more!

Topics this week include:

-How was 2023 for the Koach

-What is in store for 2024

-The Pact

-Countdown to Episode 400

-Roach Rider hot tracks of 2023 featuring Jynx, Taproot, and Black Coast

-Lorin and Matt’s Top Nu-Metal Songs of the Year featuring Staind, Dropout Kings, 3Teeth and more!

-Who’s Emailing with an Orgy push

-New Big Trash!

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

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Well look at this, it’s the last album episode of the year! On this episode of Roach Koach, Lorin and Matt welcome back Jenny Socia to discuss our old friends in Korn and their ninth(!) studio album, Korn III- Remember Who You Are. Topics discussed this episode include:

-Where were we in 2010

-How tall is Korn?

-The Five Symbols of the Downfall of Man

-Concept albums 

-Being a people pleaser

-Why FYE went out of business

-Needing some “Vitamin Head”

-“One thing leads to another thing”

-The CVS at the Alamo

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

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s a special Who’s Tweeting episode as Lorin and Matt welcome back the Indigo Angel Jennifer Socia along with now frequent guest Ashley Woolsey. Kicking things off, Ashley and Lorin discuss their experience at Louisville Loves Emo, going over the setlist, performances, recommendations for future shows, and Lorin’s love of free range trash cans. Then, Jenny takes us through her experience seeing the diva Mariah Carey live. Topics discussed: When did Mariah become the queen of Christmas? What happens when you make a mistake a a Mariah Carey show? Jenny also talks about her experience seeing Geddy Lee be interviewed by Chad Smith! Finally, Lorin, Matt, and Jenny talk about their excitement for Limp Bizkit’s 2024 Loserville Tour. Take a listen! 

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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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After many years, the Roach Koach Podcast has returned to Adema. Lorin and Matt welcome back Garrett Fuller to the show to discuss this week’s album, Unstable. Topics this episode include:

-Local boy done good returns

-A hot seven minute doc

-Asylum gurney rentals

-Being “CODEPENDENT!”

-Songmeanings dot com and Top 5 Favorites

-Hot Chris Rock?

-Bops, bops, bops

-Earnest and simple lyrics

-“Being betrayed is a bitch”

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

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Watch all of Garrett’s videos @WayneCountyLyfe on Youtube. 

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt dive into listener feedback, nu news and more. This week’s topics include:

-Slipknot fires Jay Weinberg, Lorin and Matt react!

-Matt Naas vs Mer De Noms

-The video for “Judith”

-Episode feedback for Apartment 26

-A surprising DM

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

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about ignoring your dad and doing what you want! Lorin and Matt invite on long time Roach Rider Ben Rice of the Barley & Me Podcast to discuss Apartment 26’s debut album, Hallucinating. Topics this week include:

-Pranks

-Geezer Butler, dad

-Uncanny valley album art

-Ulrich Wild’s resume

-Dual Income No Kids

-“I’m livid”

-Dad jokes

-Lorin is roasted by his college professor

-Buying Ulrich Wild a new button

-Having a WTF reaction

-Commencement speeches

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Ben decide if Apartment 26 deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Check out Ben on Barley & Me!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Matt and Lorin discuss your thoughts, suggestions, and Roachemendations. Topics this week include:

-The Roach Koach Bump is Real

-Crosses and Venera

-Lorin vs Video Game quests

-Who’s Kicking You In the Throat with FILTH

-Mader Watch

-Who’s In Those DMs

-Nottingham is real?

-Smile Empty Soul and Breaking Benjamin recs

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

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast, Lorin and Matt welcome back longtime friend of the show Josh Toomey as they discuss the much requested major label debut by Zebrahead, Waste of Mind. Topics this week include:

-Yoo-hoo taste test

-Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3

-Nailing the choruses

-Bringing the boom and it stays the same

-Louie the Perv

-Fathers, then and now

-Matt’s hotel demands

-Making a pact to cut your dick off

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

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Check out Josh on Nu Pod!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about SICK NEW WORLD 2024! Matt and Lorin tackle it all:

-The complete line up

-Fonts!

-Matt vs A Perfect Circle

-“A pile of pillows?”

-3Teeth

-“A 6 is not a b!”

-Logos that look like jizz

-AIR.CONDITIONED.BATHROOMS.

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

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s back to Frank! Lorin and Matt welcome back Tucker Stone as they discuss the soundtrack to 2008’s PUNISHER WAR ZONE. Topics this episode include:

-Frank being about that life

-Bringing a kid to see a Punisher movie

-Punisher movie differences

-Bad accents

-Songmeanings dot com

-Becoming a Slipknot guy

-Fake Amy Lee

-“I know this band from t-shirts”

-Matt transports to City Club

-the Bloghouse era

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Tucker decide if this Punisher soundtrack is worthy of the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Listen to Tucker on Travis Bickle on the Riviera and Comic Books are Burning In Hell!

It is all about Who’s Tweeting on this week’s episode of the Roach Koach Podcast. Lorin and Matt go over your feedback, questions, and talk about the various goings ons in the world of nu-metal. Topics this week include:

-Boots on the ground at Louder Than Life

-Limp Bizkit letdown?

-New Staind 

-Ladies love Roach Koach

-Nonpoint/Hed PE tour

-Whos in those DMs

-Featuring the Dropout Kings

-New P.O.D.

-And Vandals Can’t Handles II

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