High Defamation

High Defamation

Monthly podcast devoted to niche music, subversive or disregarded and across genres ranging from Scandipunk to first wave black metal and beyond. Not just limited to music, but also encompassing film and art, both illustrated and written. Will dive into works by publishing houses such as Fantagraphics and other indie entities not just in comics but also literature. Also expect a roster of rotating guests.

Episodes

June 11, 2020 87 mins

This time around, diving into the seedy underbelly of Southern California punk and hardcore, the Venice crossover scene. We're going the distance with this one, all the best shit from the Venice Suicidal set... tried to be as thorough as I could but still leave room for your own discovery. Everything here rips; totally crucial, totally essential. Get into it.

WASTED YOUTH - Fuck Authority... Tormented... Good Day for a Hanging

BEOW...

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FATUM - Informational Battlefield [2015 "Life Dungeons" Neanderthal Stench; Moscow, Ru] CONTAGIUM - Lies Beneath [2010 "Archaic" The Total End Records; Halifax, CAN] WILT - Cold Road of Despair [2017 "Self Titled" Profane Existence; Seattle, WA] SDS - Riding on the Ghost at Midnight [1992 "The Future Stay in the Darkness Fog: split w/ Misery" MCR Company; Gifu, JP] MISERY - Class Warfare [1994 "Who's the Fool" Profane Extistence; M...
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January 13, 2020 89 mins
When we think about European hardcore, or more specifically Scandinavian hardcore, we tend to go right to the home of mangel and kangpunk: Sweden. I think in terms of longevity that even Norway is often thought about more even though for the life of me I couldn't name any Norwegian hardcore beyond Svart Framtid or Fader War. Anyway, three 2019 releases really made me double back and get back into Finnish hardcore. There were so man...
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December 16, 2019 69 mins
Year-end list madness here, folks! Goin over some of the drops from 2019 that kicked my ass and then some. Hope you all find that something here that resonates, and thank you for making High Defamation a success!
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November 25, 2019 94 mins

Long one here, folks... covering the gamut of a bunch of death metal that I feel like doesn't get its just due. The bands covered here span the map and all draw on seemingly different styles and atmospheres but they all rule and I urge you to dive deeper into their catalogs.

Playlist:

MANGLED TORSOS "Drawings of the Dead"

KRABATHOR "Body as a Cover"

LEMMING PROJECT "Hysteria"

ANASARCA "I Will Not Be Broken"

INIQUITY "Spectral Scent...

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October 7, 2019 87 mins
In terms of High Defamation getting personal, this is probably the closest I've come so far. Exploring the regional shit that wet my appetite for music and got me headlong into not just the Seattle scene, or even the PNW scene, but really music as whole beyond anything "starter pack". Not the most obscure playlist you're likely to come across, but it's a pretty accurate timeline of importance related to the scene I was involved wit...
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September 2, 2019 62 mins
It’s rarer and rarer these days that I find I’m buying actual new releases or discovering new bands to fawn over or obsess about. While I try to keep my ear to the ground the art of “keeping up” is getting lost to a preference to filling gaps. However, here I want to talk about some 2019 slabs that have left a so far indelible mark on me... albums that I will continue to come back to over time... hell, over years if I’m honest. So ...
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March 8, 2019 78 mins

In this installment we dive into the early scene from the former Czechoslovakia. So many young and raw artists playing their renditions of evil metal that it was hard narrowing down my choices, though ultimately, as I repeat often in this episode, it’s all a subjective crapshoot anyway. My choices aren’t necessarily indicative of “the best” the country had to offer, just those that I wanted to talk about most.


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February 2, 2019 60 mins
Got a little personal with this one, giving up some backstory. Tracing my path from starter pack punk rock and UK anarcho punk to discovering the crustier, more metallic and abrasive beginnings of US, west cast specifically, anarchic hardcore, with a diversion to the wilds of Brazil. It's a journey told as a timeline and one that I hope sheds some light on my own journey through music, eventually landing me where I currently am in ...
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January 5, 2019 67 mins

Kochi City's Disclose was always a dichotomy of savagery and control, bedlam and refinement and the band left behind a MASSIVE catalog of releases that tend to be elusive in the wild but nonetheless important. Not just in the development of their sound but in the progression of d-beat and punk in general. We're diving deep into this one, folks, enjoy the ride.

Kawakami Forever

Playlist:

  1. DISCHARGE "But After the Gig" (Realitie...
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