Episodes

Ben and John return to Life Beyond's 2003 album, Thousand Vision Mist by interviewing guitarist/vocalist Danny Kenyon, and bassist Louis Strachan. The pair talk about their infamous tour to SHOD III with Place of Skulls and ...

In this episode of The Greatest Thing You've Never Heard, Ben and John discuss Life Beyond's 2003 sole full-length, Thousand Vision Mist. Hailing from the iconic Maryland doom scene, Life Beyond's work compares favorably to ...

Ben and John return to Cloud Catcher's 2015 debut album, Enlightened Beyond Existence, interviewing band guitarist/vocalist Rory Rummings. Rummings discusses the band's roots and formation along with his influences, the reco...

Ben and John discuss Cloud Catcher's 2015 self-released debut album, Enlightened Beyond Existence. Sitting at an exciting crossroads between the more progressive side of Maryland doom and the heavier end of post-Kyuss psyche...

Ben and John return to Kalas's lone, self-titled album with guitarist Paul Kott (High Tone Son of a Bitch, Cruevo) and producer/engineer Willie Samuels (Green Day) in tow. Kott and Samuels go in depth on the album's sound an...

Ben and John return to Stubb's 2014 heavy rock platter, Cry of the Ocean, for a discussion with guitarist/vocalist Jack Dickinson and drummer Tom Fyfe. Dickinson and Fyfe expound on the recording experience at Britain's worl...

John and Ben discuss Stubb's 2014 sophomore album, Cry of the Ocean. Released on Ripple Music, Cry of the Ocean mixes blues, psychedelia, and classic rock influences to come up with a sound that is closer in feel to the …

On this episode of The Greatest Thing You've Never Heard, John and Ben discuss the lone album from Bay Area supergroup Kalas. Released in 2006, Kalas' self-titled album sits comfortably in a pocket somewhere between stoner r...

Ben and John discuss Warning's 2006 traditional doom metal opus, Watching from a Distance. Steeped in doom sonics and emotionally raw courtesy of frontman Patrick Walker (also 40 Watt Sun)'s stunning vocals, the album will a...

On this episode of The Greatest Thing You've Never Heard, John and Ben continue their discussion of Offenders' seminal 1985 hardcore classic, Endless Struggle, by talking to drummer Pat Doyle (Ignitor), the last surviving mem...

John and Ben discuss Offenders' 1985 album, Endless Struggle and its place in the 1980s Texas hardcore scene. Deviating from punk and hardcore norms, the album showcased increasingly mature songwriting that would mark the ba...

John and Ben kick off 2021 by going back to 1999 and discussing Wellwater Conspiracy's sophomore album, Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives. Steeped in 1960s psych and trading off between hooky garage tracks and ...

Ben and John send off 2020 with a countdown of Ben's Top 50 Albums of the Year in this this episode culled from a three part livestream taped December 30th. Season2, Episode 1, Album NA Find us on social media: …

On 2020's last episode of The Greatest Thing You've Never Heard, Ben and John talk to guest lecturer Cary Gordon, aka Cary the Metal Geek, of MSRCast, Metal Geeks, and the Houston Indie Podcast Society, about Ludichrist's pio...

John and Ben continue their discussion of Suplecs' 2005 opus, Powtin' on the Outside Pawty on the Inside; this time bringing in bassist/vocalist/founding member Danny Nick for an in-depth interview about the recording of the ...

Ben and John discuss Suplecs' 2005 barnburner of an album, Powtin' on the Outside Party on the Inside. Produced by COC's Pepper Keenan and full of all the punk, sludge, and stoner riff wizardry that one could ask for, Powtin...

Ben and John return to the show's 22nd album, 2005's Searching Low and High from Japan's Eternal Elysium. On this segment they talk with with guitarist/vocalist/founder Yukito Okazaki and bassist/vocalist Tana Haugo about th...

Our 50th episode! Ben and John conclude their discussion of Song's Ohia's 2000 album, Ghost Tropic, by speaking with guitarist Alasdair Roberts and percussionist Shane Aspegren. In an interview that spans 3 continents, 14 h...

Ben and John discuss the show's 25th album, Songs: Ohia's Ghost Tropic. A dark and often haunting record, Ghost Tropic is an outlier amongst songwriter Jason Molina's storied and extensive work. The episode reviews the reco...

For this episode, Ben and John return to fifteenth album discussed by the show, Demon Fuzz's epic and influential Afro Rock (as coined by Eddie Grant) masterpiece, Afreaka! This time, the pair interview Demon Fuzz's Paddy C...

In Part 2 of their discussion of Oversoul's lone album, the mournful and melodic Seven Days in November, Ben and John interview Oversoul guitarist/vocalist Dennis Cornelius. Having also played in Revelation, Place of Skulls,...

John and Ben dive deep into Oversoul's first and only album, the heavy and cathartic Seven Days in November. Doom metal through and through, the album combines Maryland-influenced melodic doom riffing with emotive and person...

Ben and John continue their discussion of Gore's 1987 sophomore album, Mean Man's Dream, with the band's longtime bassist, Rob Frey. Frey discusses the recording of the album, being a touring, heavy musician in the 80s, the ...

On this episode, Ben and John dive into Gore's influential 1987 album, Mean Man's Dream. Instrumental, monolithic, and loud as hell, the album would prove to be a launch pad for many of heavy music's genres and subgeneres th...