The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

I must have had a more troubled childhood than I can remember. I mean, what else would explain this absolute fascination with anything and all things metal? Well, metal and coffee, but we’ll get to the coffee at a later date. At one point in my life, I thought that the more complex the music the better, but then I realized that just because something is complex doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s good. Complexity for the sake of complexity tends to lose the soul, and without the soul you’ve got no groove and, therefore, nothing to really shake your ass to. Even the greatest jazz masters knew this. Miles and Monk could swing with the best of them and still blow your socks off with their technical virtuosity. So, make the metal complex to the point where you raise my eyebrows a half inch or so and get my body movin’ to the music, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for making one happy Pope. Enter my latest group of heroes, Hacride, with their latest release entitled Lazarus.