The Goth & Nerd Music Podcast

It is time once again to gather, dear worshippers, as the latest offering has been release, and V (Nick), and VI (Chelsea) offer their meditations on Sleep Token’s 2025 offering, Even in Arcadia.

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For Nick's last pick of the season, he chooses a new favorite, art metal band, Spiritbox's 2021 debut album Eternal Blue. Both Chelsea and Nick are floored by Courtney LaPlant's (aka Poppy) lyric writing and vocals!

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For Chelsea's last pick of the season, she chooses one of her favorite, as well as one of the most meaningful albums to her, pop artist Adam Lambert's debut album, 2009's For your Entertainment. Nick gets a deeper dive into the album, and enjoys how much Chelsea gets into every song.

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For his pick this week Nick goes with something a little different with Detroit based musical collective, The Armed, and their seminal 2021 album Ultrapop! Chelsea is a bit thrown off by the way the album makes you listen to it on their term, but gets there soon enough.

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For her pick this week Chelsea picks a recent album, previously featured deathcore band Wage War, and their 2024 album Stigma! Nick is continually throw off by the band's new experimental approach, while Chelsea enjoys his reactions!

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It's the seasonal drinking episode!

For this season's drinking episode Nick picks the 2013 album from the comedy pop rap trio The Lonely Island, The Wack Album! No drunkenly trying to speak German this season, but come listen to Nick and Chelsea drink bourbon while they listen to some very wonderfully silly songs!

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For Chelsea's pick this week she chooses one of her longest listened to band, Toronto goth rock/synth rock bands The Birthday Massacre and their 2017 album Under Your Spell! Chelsea and Nick realize while listening to the album that there may be a narrative at play.

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For his pick this week, much like Chelsea did last week, Nick digs back into his formative years and picks one of his favorite albums of all time, alternative/nu metal power houses System of a Down's seminal 2001 album Toxicity! Chelsea gets her first full true listen to the album, surprised how much she already knows of it, while Nick gives some behind the scenes information on the making of this album recently acquired from front...

For her pick this week Chelsea goes back to her middle school days with alternative metal band, Eighteen Visions' 2004 album Obsession! Nick and her spend some time reminiscing, as well as seeing how well the album has aged.

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For his pick this week Nick chooses a previously feature artist, Canadian progressive metal band, Protest the Hero with their 2020 America themed opus, Palimpsest! Chelsea gets some edutainment as Nick goes through the stories, historical events, and people behind each song on this album.

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For Chelsea's pick this week she continues the trend of 00s nostalgia with Italian goth metal band Lacuna Coil's seminal 2002 album Comalies! For the second week in a row Nick and Chelsea get hit with hardcore nostalgia-quakes, while they both fawn over Cristina Scabbia's voice, and how much of a crush they both had/have on her.

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For his pick this week Nick takes us back to the mid-00s with an album he listened the shit out of, melodic hardcore band, Rise Against's 2003 album Revolutions Per Minute! Chelsea and Nick both get hit with several nostalgia-quakes, while they listen to this thoroughly 00s album (said non-disparagingly).

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For Chelsea's pick this week she does an album from one of her favorite band's, Black Veil Brides, choosing their 2013 concept album Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones! Chelsea fills Nick in on the story behind the music, while he's just surprised he wasn't the one to pick a concept album for once.

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For Nick's first pick of the season he goes with a new favorite of his, art metal band HEALTH's 2023 album, RAT WARS. Nick goes into how quickly he got into the album, the sometimes cutting lyrics, while Chelsea vibes to the sweet Industrial-esque sounds.

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We welcome you back for a new season of The Goth & Nerd Music Podcast with a hardy "BLEGH!".

Chelsea starts season 3 off with podcast favorites, pride of the 570, goth metalcore band, Motionless in White's 2022 album Scoring the End of the World! She goes into how hard this album slaps while Nick echos his love for the album!

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For Chelsea's final pick of season 2 her quest to regain her Goth cred comes to a climax with her selection of goth stable Gary Numan's 2017 album Savage (Songs from a Broken World)! Nick and Chelsea dive deep into Numan's astonishing professionalism and talent while discovering Chelsea, unknowingly, chose a concept album!

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For Nick's final pick of season 2 he picks noise metalcore band Norma Jean's 2006 album Redeemer. He and Chelsea are hit with several nostalgia-quakes, remising of their youth in the 00s, and admire the wonderful organized chaos of the music.

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It's time for the seasonal drinking episode! For this season it's Chelsea turn to pick and she chooses German comedy trance metal band Electric Callboy's 2022 break out album Tekkno. Both her and Nick, get very loose during the episode. It's a shit show, but a fun shit show.

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