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Is this metal feeling a little... mathy to you

Apr 20, 2026 1:00 AM – 3:00 AM

Music

With xXceresXx

DRIVE SHOW W/ DJ DEBBIE WEBBIE — OLD SCHOOL VS. NEW SCHOOL TECH METAL

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gonna be playing old school track and then new school track in a giant showdown

Is this metal feeling a little... mathy to you

1:00 AM		After the Burial Ometh After the Burial Rareform Sumerian Records 2008
1:04 AM		Meshuggah Aztec Two-Step None Reigning Phoenix Music 1994
1:14 AM		After the Burial Warm Thoughts of Warfare Forging a Future Self After the Burial 2006
1:15 AM		Cannibal Corpse Devoured By Vermin Cannibal Corpse Vile Metal Blade Records 1996
1:18 AM		Reflux Single File to Bliss Reflux The Illusion of Democracy Prosthetic 2004
1:24 AM		Necrophagist The Stillborn One Necrophagist Epitaph Relapse Records 2004
1:28 AM		Structures Encounter... Structures Divided By Sumerian Records 2011
1:32 AM		Dying Fetus Onslaught of Malice Dying Fetus Stop At Nothing Relapse Records 2003
1:43 AM		Veil of Maya Your World of Lies Veil of Maya All Things Set Aside Corrosive Recordings 2006
1:49 AM		Suffocation Surgery of Impalement Suffocation Souls to Deny Relapse Records 2004
1:53 AM		The Faceless An Autopsy Akeldama Sumerian Records 2006
2:01 AM		Cryptopsy Slit Your Guts Cryptopsy None So Vile Defen Society 3000 1996
2:04 AM		Norma Jean Face : Face Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child Solid State Records (SST) 2002
2:08 AM		Death Suicide Machine Human Relapse Records 1990
2:12 AM		The Red Chord Dreaming In Dog Years The Red Chord Fused Together In Revolving Doors ROBOTIC EMPIRE / BLACK MARKET ACTIVITIES 2002
2:15 AM		Nile Masturbating the War God Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance Relapse Records 2000
2:21 AM		Ulcerate Ad Naeseam Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure WILLOWTIP INC. (WTP) 2003
2:25 AM		Atheist Your Life's Retribution Atheist Unquestionable Presence Nuclear Blast 1991
2:28 AM		The Contortionist Flourish The Contortionist Exoplanet Good Fight Music 2010
2:40 AM		Cynic Uroboric Forms Cynic Focus Roadrunner Records 1992
2:43 AM		Invent Animate The Desperate Are the Calm Invent Animate Everchanger Tragic Hero Records 2014
2:47 AM		Decapitated Winds of Creation Decapitated Winds of Creation Earache Records 2000
2:51 AM		Psyopus The White Light Psyopus Ideas of Reference BLACK MARKET ACTIVITIES 2004
2:55 AM		Gorguts Disincarnated Gorguts Considered Dead Roadrunner Records 1991
2:59 AM		Architects To the Death Architects Nightmares In At The Deep End 2006

Chat is archived.

LIGHT THE TORCHES OF THE BONE TEMPLE

Heyyyy

what is up everyone

WE HAND A TORCH TO LIGHT THE BONE TEMPLE TO TAndy

Wake up EVERYONE!!! TIME TO PLEDGE !!!!!

I SALUTE THE MIGHTY IMPERATOR DJs OF MIGHTY COMMUNICATIONS TOWER WPRB RADIO

What better way to be tuned in than in the hotel bed watching a Gordo Ramsay compilation haha

LOL!

Matt Sabbath!!

His verbal abuse is top notch.

A bit counterproductive for getting a nap in before leaving early for my flight, but I don't wanna miss the tech metal special.

Wise choice TAndy

TANDY!!

2nd song in is the 7-stringed attack of Meshuggah ! Comin' outta da corner swingin!

the first time someone played a 7 string ever

Is the Aztec 2-step related to the Toxic Waltz of Exodus?

Debbie!

Old school vs new school! This is Thundadome! 2 genre enter, 1 genre leaves!

oh chit it's 4/20. Good thing I took enough edibles to kill an alpha baboon.

Hmmmmmm, I'm torn on the old school vs new school debate.

Can't wait to get back home tomorrow, gonna run straight to the dispo to pick up some sale stuff and perhaps a new cart too. And some pizza

woot toot!

love me some pizza

hang in there matt! we will turn up for the best holiday of the year

Hey aaa a!!

RATS RUNNIN UP YA LEGS

Cannabis Corpse

speaking of bears, we got hit a second time by a yuge bear who comes around at 4:20 am for the birdseed buffet

hapy 420

Hey coco!!

happy 420 coco!

hellooooooo

this is my first time using the chat

welcome in man! glad to have you

im a girl 😭

Welcome in, coco!!

I use man as a gender neutral term LOL my bad

thank you debbie

its ok

was kinda leaning toward Old School Tech Metal til Necrophagist

LOL yeah my definition of old school is a little broad

mostly going off vibes

Totally fine; I'm just an old crusty bastard and delineations of old/new are always shifting

Vibes work. Mostly trustable.

are you a math major

@coco moi? I teach some math, but I was Philosophy/Humanities.

and a PhD in Bong Rippery

wow

im trying to do that

LOL

Matt teaches math?? For real?

Debbie, I do have Matth in my full name, after all.

shade

😭

matt help me with my homework please

Math!! I am a fan

xXCeresXx it's really weird, I get these weird math concepts just fine (topology, astrophysics concepts, noneuclidian maths, etc) but I can't add six and three some days LOL

Haaaaaa!!

DJ Debbie, Samoth would appreciate this meme: https://www.instagram.com/mathymemes/p/C5gmf41gg2a/ RIP Samoth

The triple DJ moments at shift change at WPRB has been awesome!

Hannes Grossmann you are a good man.

THIS JUST IN: (CELTIC) FROST WARNING IN PARTS OF NJ

It is finally cold again... kind of happy about that

LOL Matt yeah I feel you with the math stuff. I know all the cool stuff but nothing important

LOL the Butthole Surfers bumper. The best.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/xjmomt/big_holes_with_math_in_them/

here's Wikipedia on tech metal: Technical and progressive experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely driven by four bands that, according to Allmusic, are "technical death metal's Big Four" – Death, Pestilence, Atheist, and Cynic. All but Pestilence are part of the Florida death metal scene,

LOL yeah I got 3/4 cued up here

The Death song "Pull the Plug" is so good it transcends genre, imho

how dafuq is it 34 degrees rn. I was just laying in the warm sun yesterday.

that's what I'm saying. thanks jersey

Norma Jean on SST?! What!!

I cannot figure out Greg Ginn for the life of me (SST owner, Black Flag guitarist). Dude is a hardcore Deadhead as well as early american punk founder. He bridges worlds.

Debbie give us the WPRB Radio Raven Report on the crows

yeah I guess so!

crows probably loving this show rn! Probably putting their beaks against the transmitter and just mainlining the metal.

No, crows tonight. Just a moth

The bats would enjoy this as well

hmmmmm now I'm leanin New School Tech Metal, for the groovy moments and wacky time signatures

its my favorite thing about it. trying to find the downbeat

this one especially

These "kids" ain't bad

Gojira do some pretty nutty math stuff with the drummer. LOL Debbie. The kids are alright, as The Who said.

oh yeah he's great. there's that one clip of him playing some 5/3/4 polyrhythm. so stupid

\m/ GOJIRA!! \m/

CHUGGY

the great state of NEW CHUGGY

SEEEEEEAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN

Debbie with the goblin vox! That was rad!

Debbie definitely won the scream off, with the goblin vox.

Thank you!! I had to try something as a way of saying thanks lol!!!

Debbie woke the crows up

The birds are DEF awake now

With fifteen minutes remaining I gotta give an advantage to New School Tech Metal. But its roots are fascinating.

hell yeah man im glad to have converted someone

I learned much! Heard some gnarly equations going on in the songs LOL

Decapitated playing with Cattle Decapitation and Severed Heads, imagine that

I was just watching Ghosts of Mars, John Carpenter's panned box office bomb, but it's got lotsa good decapitations and is a very metal movie, with feminist ideas. Deserves a reckoning.

DJ xXCeresXx, I will give one caveat to leaning toward New School Tech Metal that Voivod are old school and brought a lot to the table of technical metal. I hear their influence in some newer bands.

oh yeah for sure. I played some of them on my earlier shows I believe

Great show DJs! Many thanks. Good pre-Monday battle anthems.

We have to somehow sample Debbie goblin screaming, that was fukn rad.

Thank you Shaun!!!

SHAUNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Thanks for hanging with us, Matt!!!! Always a blast when your here!

wprb forevah

see you guys on Saturday with Debbie!