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The Smashing Skull Sessions is a podcast, interview and review website, set up to showcase and support the underground rock and metal scenes.
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Episode 132: Burner Interview with Harry (Vocals) and Nathan (Guitars) (opens the original)
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Since their live debut in early 2022, Burner have rapidly ascended in the UK underground scene. Their impressive performance history includes a full UK tour supporting Employed To Serve in Spring 2022, multiple headline tours across the UK and Ireland, and notable festival appearances at Bloodstock, ArcTanGent, 2000Trees, Mystic and Incineration. They also supported UK metal heavyweights Sylosis during their April 2024 UK & Ireland tour, along with slots supporting Deicide & Suffocation, undersc
Episode 131: EVERY HELL Interview with Will (Saxophone & Vocals) and Andrew (Bass & Vocals) (opens the original)
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Every Hell are a Brighton/Bristol-based five-piece blending crushing riffs, melodic urgency, and fearless experimentation into something entirely their own. Fronted by vocalist and saxophonist Will Gardner, with Toby Stewart (guitar/vocals), Andrew Gosden (bass/vocals), Mark Roberts (drums/production), and Jules Maas-Palmer (guitars and synth) the band’s sound draws from their shared history in acclaimed UK acts like Black Peaks, Broker, Memory of Elephants, and Skin Failure — but pushes even fu
Episode 130: Voivod Interview with Michel 'Away' Langevin (Drums) (opens the original)
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Very few bands survive for four decades. Even fewer are those that continue to reach new creative heights, long after legendary status has been achieved. Voïvod were never like other bands: even as the thrash metal scene exploded in the early ‘80s, the Jonquière, Québec crew stood apart, both as unique visionaries and as proud subverters of the metallic norm. From early prog-thrash classics like Killing Technology and Dimension Hatröss through to the psychedelic explorations of The Outer Limits,
Episode 129: Obeyer Interview with Carl (Vocals) and Jamie (Guitars) (opens the original)
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A band is only as strong as the bond between its members… An unbreakable brotherhood, shared personal history, and proven creative chemistry fortify the bond at the heart of OBEYER. Leveraging the strength of their union to maximum effect, the Northampton, UK quartet—Carl Brown [vocals], Jamie Steadman [guitar], David Bartlett [bass], and Lewis Niven [drums]—pummel with unmatched power, fusing bone-rattling metallic grooves with intricate, yet infectious musicality, subtle melody, piercing screa
Episode 128: One Day In Pain Interview with Nicke Olsson (Drums) (opens the original)
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Swedish Death Metal force, One Day In Pain have announced the release of their fourth studio album, Devouring The Gods, set for release via Awakening Records on June 19th, 2026. Forged from the cold, uncompromising foundations of classic Scandinavian Death Metal and sharpened with a heavier, more technically ambitious edge, Devouring The Gods marks a significant step forward for the Stockholm-based band. The first single from the album, ‘Let It Bleed’, will be released on June 1st. Since emergin
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