#86 David Gregor (Morta Skuld)

02/08/19 • 69 min

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest this week is founding member and guitarist, David Gregor, of the legendary underground Milwaukee Wisconsin based Death Metal band Morta Skuld.

Morta Skuld was conceived in the early 90’s during the Death Metal explosion in America. The band achieved moderate success between 1993 and 1997 but somewhere along the line got a bit lost and relegated to a more obscure band amongst history in the flood of other releases and bands over the years. In 1994, less than a year after releasing their first record “Dying Remains” Morta Skuld released their 2nd record “As Humanity Fades” a record that is inherently heavy as it is devastating. For a release that came out in 1994 it showed that Death Metal was far from dead and in this episode David joins me on the podcast to discuss the making of “As Humanity Fades” and its 25 year legacy as and album and as a band. This conversation about the album was to go into the February 1994 episode, but I felt like giving David his own full episode here because of all the behind the scenes making of the album and the bands history he shared.

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Bonus: Marty Friedman (Cacophony, Megadeth)

Welcome to this weeks BONUS Episode of Heavy Metal History, my guest this week was the legendary Marty Friedman! Former guitarist of Cacophony, Megadeth and Tourniquet. Marty has been building a massively successful solo career for the past 30+ years, his last studio album “Wall of Sound” came out in 2017 and in 2018 Marty unleashed his newest live album “One Bad M.F. Live!!”

Marty was gracious enough to give me a short amount of his time to discuss a few aspects of his unique playing style, the live album and current tour. Thanks for listening!

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#87 Josh Perrin (Basilysk)

Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. My guest this week is Josh Perrin, founding member/guitarist/vocalist of the Philadelphia based Death Metal band Basilysk. Josh came on the podcast to discuss the writing and recording of their new album “Emergence” and album thats taken almost a decade of hard work and determination to get this album done. Josh talks about the years of keeping the band alive through line up changes, the decline of the music scene and what its like to make an album for a band thats on a self produced budget. We also discuss a ton of records and bands and even talk about the Lords of Chaos film to close out this episode. “Emergence” comes out February 22nd, go check it out if you love old school Death Metal!

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