ep42 - A Conversation with Ravenous

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Sup nerds! In this very special episode we have Jake Wright and R.A. Voltaire from Ravenous E.H. join the show to take a deep dive into their latest album, Hubris. Make sure to listen to it and get all the details on this detailed song by song extravaganza.

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Listen to Hubris:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ryCoecphq8r2CVx5NHmgp?si=GkYSTunUQdWvlWN5JskdeQ

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For the Impatient:

00:00:00 Pre-roll
00:00:48 'Sup Nerds!
00:02:30 Rav's Top 4 Power Metal Bands
00:05:04 Jake's Top 4 Power Metal Bands
00:09:26 Writing an album lockdown
00:13:10 Production approach for the second album
00:17:02 Track by Track Deep Dive Start
00:17:53 Ravenous' Songwriting approach
00:19:13 Track 1 - Carnage in Carthage (the Sabaton angle)
00:22:26 Finding the album's theme
00:25:33 Meticulous Planning
00:26:40 Polarizing Tracks are good
00:29:36 Lyrics tailored to the Music
00:31:08 Jake and Rav being the perfect pair
00:32:26 The classical inspiration for Carthage
00:34:53 Track 2 - Astral Elixir (an external need)
00:36:50 Musical Genres and Lyrics
00:38:50 Lyrics relation to Hubris
00:42:05 Picking the Singles
00:53:46 Track 3 - Son of Storms (Ocarina of Time)
00:57:29 The Viathyn Connection
00:58:50 Baritone representation in Power Metal
01:01:46 Trying to not repeat song title structures
01:03:00 Song working titles
01:04:02 "This is our Shark Song!"
01:05:40 Songs that don't make it to the album
01:06:40 Seven Spires tangent
01:07:55 "don't be Jari"
01:09:11 Track 4 - Die 1,000 Deaths (Oldschool AMV love)
01:12:52 Song title and Translations
01:13:28 Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat
01:13:54 Songwriting - Music first, Lyrics second
01:15:00 Heinrich Yoshio's Guest Solo
01:15:21 Japanese Bonus Track
01:16:44 South Park tangent
01:17:41 Back to the song
01:18:19 Sampling and being too literal
01:20:03 The song about Fabio
01:21:13 Track 5 - Bridgeburner (Malazan)
01:26:16 Bad programmer humor
01:28:18 Daniel Carpenter's Orchestration
01:33:59 Guitar Solos Approach
01:35:49 Track 6 - The Alder Queen (the halfway point)
01:36:45 Rav's Sound Design
01:37:43 Nina Osegueda's Guest Vocals
01:39:00 The inspirations for Alder Queen
01:41:03 The deeper meaning
01:45:02 Stereo Splitted Vocals
01:46:05 Singable Solos
01:48:48 Track 7 - The March of Hunger (the late commer)
01:52:46 Developing the song
01:56:57 Everything has a reason
01:58:40 The D&D idea that didn't come to be
02:01:50 Ad?
02:02:02 Track 8 - The Claw is the Law (Collaborating with friends)
02:05:29 The Dreadnoughts
02:07:09 Technically Friends
02:07:37 Getting wasted on White Claws
02:09:11 Collaborating with The Dread Crew of Oddwood and identity of the band
02:14:43 The Tragedy of the Music Video
02:18:07 Performing live - Backing Tracks and putting on a Show
02:23:39 Making a Video with guest Vocalists
02:24:15 Amazing Segways
02:25:03 Track 9 - Onwards and Upwards (Mathias Blad is lovely)
02:27:09 Writing a Ballad for a Metal album
02:29:23 Mathias is still lovely
02:33:36 Mathias if you are listening you are invited to the show
02:34:00 Making Music and the power of asking
02:36:42 The missed Guests
02:40:26 Track 10 - ...Of Beasts and Faust (Sound Design is my Passion)
02:41:29 "It's a great time to be intolerant"
02:42:02 The meeting of two songs
02:44:07 Brotherly Wisdom
02:46:13 The inspirations
02:46:55 The Music
02:47:52 Rav's one guitar solo
02:50:11 Obligatory Sabaton mention
02:51:24 The Lyrics
02:52:57 External interpretations of the lyrics (Ceth's take on it)
02:55:37 "The Beast the Moon the Faust" (Aether Realm Jake is lovely)
02:56:54 Rav's secret revealed!!
02:57:51 Dan's Guitar Solo (and Xylophone)
02:58:40 Variety within Ravenous' identity
03:00:43 Bonus Track - Cakaw te Partiro
03:03:50 The Inspiration
03:06:38 Doubts and the Mindset while making the album
03:07:54 Wrapping Up
03:10:40 Live DVD !!
03:11:06 Our socials

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