Kaala Radio

Novelist and game designers Olivia Hill ( twitter.com/machineiv ) stops by to discuss her book #iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy as well as her new novel ULTRA (www.amazon.com/Olivia-Hill/e/B071FKGPRM) before describing how gaming company White Wolf shit the bed so hard it caused an international incident. Then Jharrod talks about his recent interest in self-castration and Aaron learns something important about vampires. Check out Olivia's work at machineage.tokyo/ or oliviahill.tokyo/ or you can go to hell! Playlist: "Valley of Tears" -- Zothique "ガラクタ／Junk" -- The シガーズ "電車でPO!" -- バリキャンズ "Bitch! Your My Angel" -- Abigail

Kubine, vocalist of Kaala's favorite grind band Self Deconstruction, returns to Kaala Radio to tell us about performing at the notorious Obscene Extreme Festival! But first everyone talks about how much Ikebukuro fucking sucks. Later Adam stops by to talk wrestling and nu-metal (ugh) and Kubine reveals her terrible secret (that she also likes nu-metal). Playlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday -- "Still Spins" Endon -- "Penson" Self Deconstruction -- "Self Deconstruction" Self Deconstruction -- "Fake It Happy" World End Man -- "King Dissection"

As the Kaala boys crack open season 4 you'll get to hear Jharrod report on Asakusa Deathfest 2018 and Aaron whine about how he's depressed. You'll also get the lowdown on what happens when you get arrested in Japan, how much that fucking sucks, and what you should do in case it happens to you. Also, check out Jharrod's t-shirt company for some rad metal/horror film shirts at https://jubokkoproductions.bigcartel.com/ and follow him at instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jubokkoproductions/?hl=en Playlist: Abigail - "Ready for Fucking Drunk" Teethgrinder - "Death of the Individual" Inhumate - "A Trip" Unholy Grave - "Death by Terror" Bafomet - "Leviathan's Priest" Boris - "Death Valley"

Jharrod interviews Nick from Lizzard Wizzard and the guys from Conan! Aaron is nearby, occasionally getting in the way.

A familiar voice returns to Kaala Radio as the Once and Future King, Tom Giles, comes down to the studio with Thom Smith to tell Aaron and Audrey all about their new album! You'll get to hear some track's from Retch's first full-length album, Anathema, as well as: --the torturous process of recording --Thom's art --Audrey getting cursed by transients in the south of France --Tom being mean to Thom about Thom's art --Everyone bitching about how kids mosh these days --New York vs Tokyo Pick up their album at these fine retailers! https://retchjapan.bandcamp.com/album/anathema http://diskunion.net/metal/ct/list/0/80882475 Playlist: Retch -- Palace of Tears Retch -- Suffering Funeral Sutra -- Grace Retch -- Temple of Vermin Retch -- Mass Homicide

Not long ago someone wanted to buy land in Osaka from the Japanese government to build an ultra-nationalist elementary school -- because that's apparently a real thing -- but didn't have the money to do it. Fortunately, that person was friends with Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and before long the price of the land dropped significantly. The scandal that followed involves forged documents, arrests for fraud, high-ranking government official resignations, and even suicide. Today Aaron and Jharrod lay it out on the table with significant help from the Shingetsu News Agency. Here's their patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ShingetsuNews Playlist: Invictus -- "Devouring Room" Galvanizer -- "Mood for the Blade" Zay -- "There Is No Future in Dreaming of the Past" Abnormals -- "Holiday in Sagittarius" Sunday Bloody Sunday -- "I Am Not Filled"

Actress, voice-actress, author, former ring-girl and current announcer Nanami returns to talk Japanese professional wrasslin' with Adam and Jharrod! Namami's bloodlust is in full effect as we learn about Ryan Gosling's salt-sauce face, Jharrod's complete ignorance in regard to The Rock's real name, and Adam's undying passion for every single Joshi wrestler. Plus we explore the weird and wild world of Japanese underground wrestling, starting with madman Jun Kasai and ending with blow-up doll wrestler Yashihiko.

Where to begin! We talk Noise, Adam's NuMetal project, the concept of sound, Lobster Assault, $hallow Grave, gear, Noise as a genre, Kenji Kuroda (aka Darklaw), sonic photographs, getting tagged by Indian production companies, and introduce the worst person in the world: a young man named Jart. It's Kaala's Noise episode and it's gonna challenge you. Get ready Hot Freddie it's Kaala Radio episode 24! Links to Kenny's music -- https://www.facebook.com/FACIALMESS/ Links to the interview we did with Kenny -- https://www.kaala.jp/blog/2017/09/30/tokyo-noise-an-interview-with-facialmess/ Playlist Man Is The Basrard -- "Faces of the Man" Kazumoto Endo -- "Last Train to Nishi-Funabashi" Guilty Connector -- "Asagaya Crystal Crypt (The Suginami Dungeon)" LIKE WEEDS -- "They Grow (side A)"

Aaron and Jharrod finish off their investigation into the recent Japanese elections and examine the results, but not before discussing local shows, local bands, and local murders.

Season three of Kaala Radio begins NOW! Former-guest-turned-new-host Adam helms the new series with his strong, callused, Brazilian hands and Costanza-level neuroticism, and brings the Kaala gang together to look back over 2017 and give you the inside scoop for 2018. Towards the end Aaron completely ruins the bathroom and Audrey is speaking through a scarf to protect her delicate nose.

We've got a real treat for you guys on our extra-long 20th episode: Kaala's Glorious Leader, Matt Ketchum, returns to Kaala Radio to interview Joseph Schafer, editor-in-chief of Invisible Oranges, as well as Emily McCafferty, one of his staff writers. Together they discuss the Seattle scene, Northwest Terror Fest, the creeping return of nu-metal, Matt's accidental appearance at a Christian metal show, and you'll get to here some Seattle/northwest-based bands as well as new tracks from our friends in Tokyo metal band Evil! Playlist "Mandala" - Evil "Paralyzer" - He Whose Ox Is Gored "Bone Chapel" - The Drip "Slaves Beyond Death" - Black Breath "Of Winged Fire and Crawling Shadow" - Isenordal "Sword of Stupa" - Evil "Rites of Evil" - Evil

Kubine of Self Decontstruction stops by the studio to answer our insipid questions, Aaron wakes up in a bathtub after the Tokyo tattoo festival, Audrey (aka Suzy Gomatik www.instagram.com/suzygomatik/?hl=en ) tells us all about her experience with the art of Japanese rope bondage, and we discuss the filthiest band name in all Japan (JK肉壺切断 twitter.com/nikutubosetudan ). Plus, Jharrod reveals that once upon a time he was a Strong Man with Muscles. Sweet holy hell it's Kaala radio!

We cram a lot in a little amount of time with good friend Leif as we discuss the following: discovering comrades in unlikely places, Hanjob: The Bike, Galleria de Muerte's Brutal Doodles, Jordan biting faces, indulging in a decade-old grudge, making fun of Jordan, and Leif bicycling all the across the entire damn United States. Every has had at least seven beers at the time of this recording.

Adam from Chicago-based Disrotted stops by only a few months after his tour of Japan and reveals his intentions of moving to this fair island. Suzy Kreuger is back in the studio as well, and the gang discusses the coming meme wars of 2017, the best music from the 90s, and how one actually goes about moving to Japan.

Possibly the nerdiest episode to date, Jharrod and Aaron invite Panoptic Press (www.thepanopticpress.com/) publisher Justin Knipper to the studio to talk comics, metal, and Japan. Is Marvel suffering from too close an association with Hollywood? Is comic-based TV any good? How does one make an independent comic these days? These questions and more answered on Kaala Radio 17! (NOTE: there was an audio issue with the later half of the interview; due to this problem our producer had to patch the missing half together from various sources. Forgive us our imcompetence)

It's a full house at the studio when frequent Kaala Radio guest Jordan returns, ostensibly to assist Aaron and Jharrod but more likely because he has nowhere else to go, but forget him because on this episode we also have special guest Suzy Krueger (www.instagram.com/suzygomatik/) to discuss the strangely colorful aftermath of the Kaala Presents: Eros Revenant! But that's not all - we all have a secret guest, someone we've wanted on the show and have mentioned a half-dozen times, someone active in the Tokyo underground extreme music scene. His hair is long and he loves cats, and that's all we're going to say about him.

IT'S A KAALA RADIO INTERNET EXCLUSIVE! For those of you who don't know, Kaala Radio is also broadcast on WRCT in Pittsburgh, PA and our producer works hard to clean up the horrible language we use on a regular basis in order to make the podcast fit the cruel FCC standards. Sometimes, however, we have audio equipment issues, or files get lost, or the dirtbags on this show display such utter distaste for decency that our over-worked producer has to abort the whole process. This is one of those times, which is why we named this episode after the aborted Sepirot haunting the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Featuring bands such as Life, Abigail, and Jk肉壺切断 (JK nikutubosetudan)!

We decided to do a punk theme this time around, and sweet holy hell do we have a show for you! We snagged the punkest dude we know and got him to spill his guts, so get ready to hear Nori, bass player for Life and former bassist of more than two dozen bands over the past thirty years, tell you all about growing up punk in a land where the nail that sticks up gets hammered. Getting arrested, being under surveillance, squat culture, it's a non-stop story of excitement and danger and discrimination. It ain't the same ol' song and dance, it's Kaala Radio 14!

It's a treat for inked-up scumbags everywhere! Special guest Eric Hurlburt joins Jharrod and Aaron to talk about the history of tattoos in Japan as well as modern tattoo culture. Find out which host once had an embarrassing barbed-wire tattoo, learn which former Osaka mayor we hate most of all, and listen to music from bands like Gallhammer, Orgasm Grind Disruption, Horse and Deer, Disgunder, and more!

Shut the front door, because prodigal son Tom Giles is back from his adventures through time and space! Today we talk about style, about why some bands put out the same album ten times in a row, and about what the definition of "style" is, all while hosts Aaron and Tom try not to disappear up their own assholes. Are you interested in the philosophy of art? No? Well tough titty said the kitty, because this is Kaala Radio Episode 12!