In this episode, Billy Reeves takes a trip to the Kscope offices and spends some time talking to Kscope's Johnny Wilks. We hear a few pieces of exciting exclusive news from Johnny about upcoming Kscope releases and artists being added to the roster as well as a brief history of the label itself. We are also offering you a couple of tracks you may n…

THIS EPISODE COMES WITH A RUDE WORD WARNING! Welcome to Episode 167 of the Kscope podcast, the mornings are getting brighter, the daffs are out and Spring is round the corner so our thoughts have turned to regeneration and replenishment. Record Store Day special editions have been announced, and we will also be celebrating some of the other reissue…

We had the pleasure of sitting down with friend of the podcast, Shayan of the Black Metal band Trivax, as well as his own podcast, Iblis Manifestations. We read his Psycards and talked to him about his story and what it's like to be a Heavy Metal musician in Iran, among other things! Trivax: Instagram Facebook Bandcamp Iblis Manifestations: Youtube…

Kscope Podcast 166 - The Pineapple Thief - 'It Leads to This' An in-depth Billy Reeves interview with Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief: all about the brand new TPT LP which is out now. How does the hardest working man in showbiz keep so disciplined? Is this, dare I say it, a “political” album? Who is the John Taylor to Bruce’s Simon Le Bon? PLUS …

TesserchaT - A Kscope Podcast TesseracT half-hour special, featuring chat from all five of the band. Who is the party animal on tour, and conversely, who does yoga? What advice can TesseracT give to bands starting out? What was it like getting together in the studio after all this time, and why on earth was there absolutely no arguments? Where in t…

This week Floyd and Nina present their own top 10 albums of 2023! Including albums by; Baroness, Green Lung, Bloodrust, Cattle Decapitation, Enslaved, Morag Tong, Triumph Of Death, Mutoid Man, Dying Fetus, Astriferous, Ozric Tentacles, Memoriam, Horrendous and more! Also included in this episode is our interview with Legendary Death Metal frontman …

Kscope Podcast 165 - EQUILIBRIUM In an ugly world, we must equalise with beauty. Kscope artistes have succeeded in doing this in 2023 . Lots of chat this year about the challenges facing musicians, advice for those starting out, touring and merch. Moving to a new country. Using the web as a portal. Hear from our chums... ALEX LIFESON of RUSH and EN…

We sat down with the lovely Silas & Saski to talk about their project and creativity and the range of instruments they make use of from all over the world, as well as talking to Ed Wynne from Ozric Tentacles and reading his Psycards too! Silas & Saski - https://silasandsaski.com/ Ozric Tentacles - https://ozrics.com/ Serpent Temple: Instagram - htt…

Kscope Podcast 164 - Questions Answered: Bruce Soord, Mariusz Duda, Daniel Cardoso & Anathema YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Is there a new The Pineapple Thief album on the way? What does it sound like? How about the new Mariusz Duda album? Is it as beautiful as they say? How are the Anathema boys getting on? Are they OK? These questions are answered righ…

This week we talk to the lovely Wil Collins from Prosthetic Records and Candescent A.D. about what it's like to work as a publicist in the music industry as well as his band Candescent A.D. and what got him into the music scene, After that our interview with Coffin Mulch from this year's Damnation festival, where we talk to them about being in a bu…

We had the pleasure of attending 2023's edition of the Damnation Festival at the BEC arena in Manchester, we talk about what it was like to visit the festival, as well as Nina getting to perform at the event as a guest vocalist for Kurokuma, what bands we saw, what the event was like, and what future additions might bring! After the review is the a…

Ep 163: Head 2 Head: Ozric Tentacles & GONGWe celebrate the Psychedelic Double Dip of new LPs from OZRIC TENTACLES and GONG with frank discussions with both guv’nors: ED WYNNE and KAVUS TORABI... plus... the new TESSERACT single, a track from the forthcoming MARIUSZ DUDA album and a classic from the re-issue of ‘Murder Nature’ by HEAD CONTROL SYSTE…

We had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with Alex Jones from Undeath and read his Psycards ahead of their show at the Craufurd Arms in support of Municipal Waste and Gel, UNDEATH: Bandcamp Instagram If you have a question you would like read out on air, or would like to contact the podcast, please email us on: Serpenttemplemail@gmail.com Serpen…

Ep 162: Bumper edition. Joint headliner - TesseracT & Bruce Soord JAMES MONTEITH and AMOS WILLIAMS of TESSERACT, talk about the future of live music, merch cuts and the brand new ways they found of working together in an old-fashioned studio on new LP WAR OF BEING. BRUCE SOORD talks how to choose which composition goes to his solo material or THE P…

#Damim #serpenttemple We spoke to our friend Nathanael Underwood and read his psycards whilst talking about the new Damim EP "World Turned Hell" amongst other things! Thank you to Vincent Tessier for the additional mixing and audio processing for this episode! Damim: Bandcamp Instagram Damim's New EP 'World Turned Hell': https://bfan.link/world-tur…

Kscope Podcast 161 - NEW PROG ROCK! Featuring ACLE and JAY of TESSERACT - with advice on band merch (particularly Xmas jumpers), the new challenges of post-Brexit cost-of-living touring, and playing metal to a new-born baby… We’ll hear the new singles from TESSERACT, O.R.k. & BRUCE SOORD… AND the new single from GONG who are touring with OZRIC TENT…

BUSYBUSYBUSY! Featuring chats with TESSERACT’s DANIEL TOMPKINS and AMOS WILLIAMS and JAMES MONTEITH introducing their new single, GLEB KOLYADIN (IAMTHEMORNING) on his new album which features two of KING CRIMSON, his move to England, how he’s making friends and sourcing the best Fish‘n’Chips, BRUCE SOORD on his new single and turning 50, PLUS detai…

Kscope Podcast 159 - The Height of Summer Starring BRUCE SOORD on the unboxing and the re-creation from the original burnt source material of THE PINEAPPLE THIEF’s 1999-2006 work for the sumptuous book-set How Did We Find Our Way DANIEL TOMPKINS of TESSERACT (the first of our wide-ranging TesseracT interviews throughout this year) with his advice f…

T Coles, Author of the "Death Metal" book from the 33 1/3 series (and member of the band Sail), joins the podcast to talk about Morbid Angel, Zelda and Labour Unions whilst having their Psycards read. Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's band, Lowen: Bandcamp​​ Instagram Facebook This episode is also available in video format on Youtub…

Kscope Podcast 158 - Godsticks in the Flesh ..in which Billy Reeves is outnumbered by all four members of GODSTICKS: Darran, Gavin, Tom and new bassist Frankie Gee. The new album is out now – This Is What A Winner Looks Like, their first since the start of the pandemic – so we discover Darran’s nostalgia for the solitude of 2020, learn about the sp…

This week, Floyd, Nina and Shem sit down to read Psycards with long-time friend and collaborator Rich Stevenson, about being the bass player in Lowen, why he's in a million bands, and sharing stories about their friendship and time together. If you have a question, would like some advice, or have a recommendation you'd like to be read out / played …

#SerpentTemple #MetalArchives Metal Archives Episode Introduction (0:00:00) 1. Khasm - Season's Turn (0:02:08) 2. Alfheim - Ocaso Eternal (0:06:11) 3. Cannibal Landlord - Beginning of the End (0:11:45) 4. Sinister Creed - All That Lies Beneath (0:15:09) 5. Powerful - Welcome To The Slaughterhouse (0:21:09) 6. Salient - To Conquer Hell - (0:26:30) 7…

#Uprising #Desertfest #FiresInTheDistance #CattleDecapitation Episode Introduction (0:00:00) 1. Fires In The Distance - "Air Not Meant For Us" (0:09:58) 2. Cattle Decapitation - "Terrasite" (0:29:27) This week we talk about Nina's recents Lowen shows at Uprising and Desertfest, as well as the new Fires In The Distance album "Air Not Meant For Us" a…

THE Kscope Podcast 157 - The Promise of Springtime NEW SHOOTS! We hear about the next chapter of ENVY OF NONE via ALEX LIFESON (of Rush) and ALF ANNIBALINI … a trip to the principality because GODSTICKS have a new single out; … to Scotland to celebrate 10 years of ‘Fog Electric’ by NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; … huge THE PINEAPPLE THIEF news; ... EM…

#SerpentTemple #kerrang #entheos Metal Archives Episode Introduction (0:00:00) 1. Kerrang! - Living Loud (0:01:03) 2. Entheos - "Time Will Take Us All" (0:11:10) 3. Bloodrust - "At Glory's End" (0:21:53) This week we talk about the new Kerrang! book, Living Loud, The excellent new Entheos album "Time Will Take Us All" and the brutal new album from …

THE TIME IS NOW for… The all new BIG SOUND Empyre and Klone have been scheming and plotting during lockdown (and the worst of the pandemic) and are now fit and ready to go! We hear from Henrik from the former on how they approach gigs both small and large as one has to at this point, i.e. festival crowds and support slots in big rooms, and. convers…

#Hellripper This week, Floyd and Nina catch up after a couple of weeks' break, and review the new Hellripper album "Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags" If you have a question, would like some advice, or have a recommendation you'd like to be read out / played on the podcast, please email us a question or voice note to ; SerpentTempleMail@gmail.com Ser…

Ahead of their show together at Masters of the Riff II, Nina and Andy Valiant (Flamebearer, Oak), sit down and read his psycards and talk about being in a band, what its like to be a vocalist, nerves and stagefright, and a whole bunch of stories in between. Support Flamebearer; Instagram Facebook Bandcamp Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter …

Kscope Podcast 155 - HEAVYOSITY (with Guillaume from Klone) Le GRAND sound of KLONE from the forests of France. Touring with Devin Townsend! Guillaume from the band talks us through why they did livestream shows, how the notoriously bureaucracy-loving French dealt with lockdown and talks about vibrations a lot. PLUS the MIGHTY sound of EMPYRE from …

#Enslaved #Memoriam Weekly Review Roundup (0:00:00) 1. Enslaved - Forest Dweller (0:00:24) 2. Memoriam - Rise To Power (0:19:43) This week, Floyd and Nina look at Enslaved's new "Forest Dweller" EP and Memoriam's new album "Rise To Power" If you have a question, would like some advice, or have a recommendation you'd like to be read out / played on …

This week Nina and Floyd look at Katatonia's new album "Sky Void of Stars", Ahab's "The Coral Tombs" and Jonathan Hulten's "The Forest Sessions". If you have a question, would like some advice, or have a recommendation you'd like to be read out / played on the podcast, please email us a question or voice note to ; SerpentTempleMail@gmail.com Serpen…

This week, Floyd and Nina look at the line-up for Hellfest 2023 and pick out which bands they are excited to see, who they're not so fussed by, and who they've never heard of. If you have a question, would like some advice, or have a recommendation you'd like to be read out / played on the podcast, please email us a question or voice note to ; Serp…

Episode #154 - Into the Woods with Jonathan Hultén The pandemic accelerated the internet as a portal for musicians, but you need visuals too. No one does that better than guitarist, performer, songwriter, and animator JONATHAN HULTÉN. During lockdown as many retreated inward, he got outside and performed to the trees. The music from those sessions …

This week Nina and Floyd talk about the bands slated to perform at this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, who they're looking forward to seeing and more! If you have a question or recommendation you'd like to be read out / played on the podcast, please email us a question or voice note to ; SerpentTempleMail@gmail.com Serpent Temple: Instagram F…

We're back after a Xmas break and this week Floyd and Nina recount live shows they attended at the end of 2022 / beginning of 2023, including De Profundis, Sigh and Anaal Nathrakh at the Scala, Commoner, Flamebearer and Gevaudan at Aces & Eights, and Floyd going to see The Hu, as well as going to Hardcore all-dayer Reality Unfolds at the New Cross …

As creative, independent, forward-thinking musicians emerge from the worst of the lockdown, and try and tour, record and write again – we hear their thoughts on the future of music, featuring… PAUL FRICK of TANGERINE DREAM, BRUCE SOORD and GAVIN HARRISON of THE PINEAPPLE THIEF, MAIAH WYNNE of ENVY OF NONE, MARIUSZ DUDA of LUNATIC SOUL & RIVERSIDE, …

This week Floyd and Nina present their own top 10 albums of 2022! Including albums by; Spirit World, Wormrot, Terzij De Horde, Imperial Triumphant, Immolation, Sigh, Misery Index, Origin, Grave Lines, Slaegt, Meshuggah, Dystopian Future Movies, Tzompantli, Black Braid, Undeath, Ithaca, and more! If you have a question or recommendation you'd like t…

This week Nina talks to Caroline Cawley of awesome Nottingham-based Post-rock/ Doom-gaze band Dystopian Future Movies. They talk about the new Dystopian Future Movies album "War of the Ether", as well as the story that inspired its creation, and a whole lot else! Support Dystopian Future Movies; Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Serpent Temple: Instagram…

What is a “half-speed master”? Can artificial intelligence write a hit? How have Gazpacho stayed together for 25 years? Are Norwegian winters that bad? Why are we obsessed with authenticity in art? Is the first time Roland Barthes has been mentioned on the Kscope podcast? All these questions answered by Thomas Anderson of Gazpacho, as the band are …

This week, Nina and Floyd talk to Antti Boman of legendary Finnish Death Metal band Demilich, ahead of their show at the Underworld on the 17th November 2022, as well as a clip of the song "When The Sun Drank The Weight Of Water" from the show. Support Demilich; Official Webstore Facebook Instagram Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's …

This week, Floyd is fresh back from visiting Damnation's first year being hosted in the Manchester BEC arena, and Nina is fresh back from her visit to South America. Floyd gives a run down of the event and Nina shares what it was like to attend a Demonauta show in Santiago Chile. Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's band, Lowen: Bandca…

This week Shem and Floyd look into 1993 Dutch Death metal release "Shadows" by Creepmime. Creepmime Facebook Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's band, Lowen: Bandcamp Instagram Facebook This episode is also available in video format on Youtube here. The intro to the show is "In The Temple of the Serpent" by Lowen.…

A long chat on the Kscope sofa with COLIN EDWIN, who you may know best as the bassist of PORCUPINE TREE as there’s a new O.R.k. album out entitled SCREAMNASIUM out now. The band features award-winning vocalist/composer LEF, KING CRIMSON’s PAT MASTELOTTO and the unique guitar of CARMELO PIPITONE as well as Col’s bottom end. We hear what happened re:…

This week Shem and Floyd look into 1993 Labyrinthian Finnish Death Metal masterpiece "Nespithe" by Demilich. Demilich Facebook Instagram Bandcamp Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina and Shem's band, Lowen: Bandcamp Instagram Facebook This episode is also available in video format on Youtube here. The intro to the show is "In The Temple …

With Nina on holiday this week, Shem and Floyd look into the stone cold 1989 Death Metal classic "Consuming Impulse" by Dutch band Pestilence. Pestilence Instagram Facebook Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's band, Lowen: Bandcamp Instagram Facebook This episode is also available in video format on Youtube here. The intro to the show …

#InnumerableForms #Acephalix #CosmicPutrefaction This week Nina and Floyd look at a trio of Death Metal bangers, starting with "Philosophical Collapse" by Innumerable Forms, "Theothanatology" by Acephalix, and "Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones" by Cosmic Putrefaction. Innumerable Forms Bandcamp Acephalix Cosmic Putrefaction Serpent Temple: In…

This week we sit down with our buddy Tom Clements from Hertfordshire Prog Sludge band Everest Queen, to discuss their new album "Murmurations", his other bands, Praetorian and Orme, as well as Everest Queen's recent announcement that they are playing the 2023 edition of Desertfest, all while reading Tom's psycards. The theme song is "In The Temple …

This week, in a change to our regular content, Nina and Floyd discuss the new Lord of the Rings streaming show Rings of Power. As two huge Lord of the Rings fans they go into what it is they like and don't like about the show and what they think the future will hold for it. Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's band, Lowen: Bandcamp Ins…

Thanks for being there. Billy Reeves talks with Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, The Pineapple Thief) about the definition of collaboration in music, its pitfalls and advantages. Along the way we discuss the fall of Anathema, Steven Wilson’s teeth-brushing proclivities and a magic guitar… …and we g…

This week we do a roundup of the events and live shows that we have been to in the last couple of months, including Bloodstock, UK Deathfest, Akercocke at the Green Door Store, Gatecreeper at the Underworld, Atomic Rooster at the Eel Pie Club and more. Serpent Temple: Instagram Facebook Twitter Nina's band, Lowen: Bandcamp Instagram Facebook This e…