Kaala Radio

SWEET HOLY DEATH! Aaron and Jharrod interview author, actress, voice-actress, translator, wrestling anouncer, and Japanese death-metal fan Nanami and hold the first (and very likely last) spooky story-telling concert at Roppongi's Bar Brujeria. All this and so much Japanese extreme music you'll choke on it!

Suffering Christ in hell, we made it to double digits! Kaala radio is back with El Jefe de Kaala, Matt Ketchum, and long-suffering editor/producer, Aaron Krall, each more hungover than twelve bastards on a Sunday morning as they discuss the strange shadows on the horizon heralding horrors no less awful than a second wave of rap-metal and the rumoured death of their favourite Disney character haunting the streets of Shinjuku's Golden Gai. All of this plus music by Lurking Fear, Evil, and Abigail on an episode so momentous that Matt didn't even get out of bed while we recorded it. Is it a bed sheet meat show? No you dummy, it's Kaala Radio episode 10!

Sweet holy hell! Tom Giles is back in the captain's chair and together with Kaala's Glorious Leader of 1000 Years, Matt "Wet Mouth Sounds" Ketchum, he's interviewing one of his death metal idols. He's a man, he's a mystery, he's wearing the same shirt as Tom, he's Takashi from Anatomia and Transgressor and a half-dozen other bands! You'll hear death metal from way back in the mythical era of the late 80s, and more contemporary tracks from bands like Anatomia, Wormridden, Defiled, Little Bastards, plus so much more!

Kaala dictator-for-life Matt Ketchum talks about booking shows in Tokyo and Jharrod, AKA J-rod, J-Rodimus, and Jacky D-bag, gives us the inside scoop about Japanese broadcast laws that prevent anyone from ever hearing Japanese music with teeth. Hot Diggity Dammit, it's Kaala Radio Episode 8!

August in Japan means... death! That's right, its Obon season and no one is around, so we got together to discuss the state of things in the underground music scene of Japan and the world in 2016. With a nice mix of doom, punk, and experimental music, this is a different version of Kaala Radio than has been aired before!

Tom, Matt and Aaron sit down with Pablo (Bafomet, ex-Battalion (Chile)) to talk about incredibly unlikely Germans, The (Chilean) Way of the Sword, and his experience getting established in Japan's outstanding extreme music underground. Also have a very special playlist featuring some of his favorites from both Japan and Chile, so tune in for this scandalous episode of Kaala Radio! Playlist: 1. Magane - Into the Fire 2. Pentagram - Demoniac Possession 3. Batallion - The Way of the Sword 4. Crowley - Stalker 5. Yoshida Brothers - Overland Blues 6. Catafalco - Entrance/Ancient Invocations 7. Metalucifer - Monster of the Earth 8. Acero Letal - Duro Metal 9. Imbaru - Entre Raíces y Silencios 10. Yokohama Ginbae - Tsuppari High School Rock 'n' Roll

Your main Kaala Radio hosts Tom, Matt, and Aaron take a load off and shoot the shit abut Bizzare Voices, cryptic wooden structures deep underground, saboteurs, and a little city in Western Pennsylvania called Pittsburgh. Kaala Radio Ep. 5 Track List: 01 Desecravity - Demonize the Old Enemy 02 Funeral Sutra - Hope 03 Vampillia - Day of Departure, Be a Devil Has No Mercy and Just Move Forward _ Deathtiny Land Railroad 04 Vampillia - Wonderfully, Whole Luck Is My Side. _ Alice in Murderland 05 Shikabane - 人のために生きるか 自分のために生きるか 06 Transgressor - Limbless Doom 07 Def.Master - Blaze 08 Valkylie - Dark Lake 09 Infernal Revulsion - Trapped in Concrete, Seek Insanity 10 Vortex - Burnt with Thoughts 11 Acrostix - Awave 12 Sigh - Hail Horror Hail 13 Life - What's The Nature

Tom & Matt sit down with Makoto (Funeral Moth, Weird Truth Records) to talk about the weird, slow world of contemporary Funeral Doom in Japan. Check out what he's got to say about composing, recording, and distributing some of Japan's heaviest metal on this episode of Kaala Radio! Tracklist: Gotsu Totsu Kotsu - Kamisori Go-Zen - IS Twin Blades DMBQ - She Walks --- Funeral Moth - Behind the Closed Door Begrabnis - Fahr zur Hole Deadly Spawn - Lunatic Mainliner - Black Sky Misako Honjo - Endless Chain LSD March - Bishonure no Kimi Flower Travellin’ Band - Satori 1

Tom teams up with Matt to talk work-life balance, armchair Black Metal philosophies, and Deathgrind tours of Middle America, with a bouquet of D&D, with Paul of Funeral Sutra & Naru of Butcher ABC/CSSO/Obliteration Records.

Kaala Radio host Tom & Kaala contributor Aaron team up with Zothique's Shusuke & Kenji to discuss their origins, trajectory, and how they got such a psychologically punishing sound.

Makiko from Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation (aka F.i.D.) talks about the history of the band, and Kaala's founder Matt speaks about what Kaala is doing.