🎙 **Metal Maniacs Podcast – Episode 105**

**"Living Dissection: Filth, Fury & the Future of Slam"**

Hosted by **Jay Ingersoll** & **Modd**

In this episode, we sit down with Detroit’s own **slammy death metal juggernauts**, **Living Dissection** — a band dripping in brutality, precision, and passion. From grotesque riffs to guttural breakdowns, Living Dissection is helping put Michigan on the map for **slam and brutal death metal**, and we dive deep into their past, present, and what’s still to come.

🔥 **Members Featured:**

* **Troy** – Guitarist, original vocalist, founding member

* **James** – New vocalist bringing the fury

* **Mike** – Guitarist, a.k.a. “The Witch”

* **Ben** – Blastbeat machine on drums

We cover everything from the **origin of the band's name** (yes, there's a **Cannibal Corpse** connection 👀) to the real grind of songwriting, practicing, and gigging as an extreme metal unit in the Midwest. This is a must-listen for fans of underground brutality and DIY hustle.

🧠 **Topics Covered:**

* How the band was formed and where it all began

* Transition of members and how that’s impacted the sound

* Band chemistry & writing dynamics — riffs, solos, slams, and song structures

* Practice regimens, live prep, and navigating stage chaos

* Tone, gear, tuning preferences, and recording setups

* Memorable live shows (good *and* disastrous)

* Life on and off stage — and what keeps them inspired

* What’s next for Living Dissection, and their 2025 goals

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💿 **Living Dissection Discography Highlights:**

* **"Internal Malignance"** *(EP)* – April 27, 2020

Five tracks of raw, slamming fury. Must-hear: *“Insatiable Punishment”*

* **"A Ghost in Flesh"** – July 1, 2021

A tighter, darker edge to their evolving death metal sound

* **"Becoming the Filth"** – July 17, 2023

Technical, brutal, and polished. Their modern slam signature.

* **"Ire of the Rotted"** – December 6, 2024

Savage tone meets sharpened songwriting

* **"Fear Not (For the Plague Lord Provides)"** – April 25, 2025

Crushing riffwork and spiritual decay in under 3 minutes

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🎤 **Live Shows & Highlights:**

Living Dissection has earned their scars on the Michigan death metal scene, sharing stages with **First Fragment**, **Syphoned**, and **Precordial Thump**, especially at venues like **The Sanctuary Detroit**—a go-to for extreme underground shows.

Their sets are high energy, low mercy, and all about delivering a sonic beatdown with precision.

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🌐 **Where to Find Living Dissection:**

* **Bandcamp:** [livingdissection.bandcamp.com](https://livingdissection.bandcamp.com)

🎧 **Closing Thoughts:**

We also get personal—talking about what keeps them going, what they're listening to, what it means to be part of Michigan's heavy music community, and how they’ve evolved beyond just writing brutal music—to telling stories through sound.

So crank the volume and get ready to **dig into the filth**, because this week’s episode brings the **slam** like no other.

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In this episode, Jay and Modd dig deep into the vaults of heavy metal memory to shine a spotlight on **some of the most criminally forgotten or stagnant bands** in the scene. Whether they burned bright and fast, went on permanent hiatus, or just never got the respect they deserved, these artists left a **permanent mark** on metal history—and it’s time we gave them their flowers.

From genre-defining pioneers to chaotic underground legends, we each bring our picks for bands that should’ve blown up—or maybe once did, but were lost in the churn of time. We’re talking **tech-death precision, nu-metal grooves, post-metal atmosphere, industrial heaviness, and raw metalcore emotion**. Get ready for a nostalgic ride through the early 2000s and beyond.

📜 **In This Episode, We Talk About:**

🔹 **Nothingface** – The overlooked bridge between nu-metal, groove, and emotional vulnerability. Matt Holt’s voice and lyrical style made them stand out, but they never got the recognition they deserved.

🔹 **Disincarnate** – Guitar god **James Murphy’s** death metal gem. One album—*Dreams of the Carrion Kind*—is all it took to cement them as a cult legend.

🔹 **Into Eternity** – Canadian progressive death metal with beautiful melodies and insane technicality. Why aren’t more people still talking about this band?

🔹 **Misery Loves Co.** – Industrial metal with emotional depth. Ahead of their time, and underappreciated outside niche circles.

🔹 **Isis** – Pioneers of post-metal. Atmospheric, heavy, and hypnotic. If you love Cult of Luna or Pelican, they owe a debt to Isis.

🔹 **Animosity** – A true force of early tech-deathcore. Their influence on modern heavy bands is impossible to ignore.

🔹 **Brain Drill** – Ridiculously fast, ultra-technical death metal that turned heads and melted minds.

🔹 **Glass Casket** – A precursor to modern deathcore/prog-metalcore with ties to Between the Buried and Me.

🔹 **Strapping Young Lad** – Devin Townsend’s manic, wall-of-sound masterpiece. More chaotic and complex than most bands dared to be.

🔹 **Misery Signals** – Melodic metalcore perfection. Their early work practically defined a subgenre. Still respected, but not as widely remembered as they should be.

🔹 **40 Below Summer** – One of the more aggressive and catchy bands in the nu-metal boom. They had *hooks and bite*.

🔹 **Viatrophy** – A UK deathcore band that showed immense promise before vanishing way too soon.

💀 This episode is **a love letter to the underground**, to the bands that inspired us, challenged the genre, and then faded into obscurity. Some called it quits. Some still linger in the shadows. Some we hope will return. But all of them are **worth remembering**.

🧠 Whether you’re a longtime metalhead or a younger fan just discovering these names, this is your gateway to some of the most **underrated acts** in metal’s history.

🗣️ **Let us know in the comments or on social media:**

What bands do YOU think were forgotten too soon? Who should we cover in Part 2?

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