Extremely extreme as alwaysPlaylist: Chaos Inception - Ultima ExitiumSaevus Finis - Aeons of Spiritual StarvationAuroch - Her BiddingHomunculus - The Unclean Ascent I: Nuclear ApexGardenjia - Natura morta n.1Hellmouth Penetralia - Eternal Shadowed RealmPlebeian Grandstand - Angle MortThe Devouring Void - Splinters of his Psyche Strewn Throughout the RuinsEntheos - Sali
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Prisoner’s Dilemma - Episode May 1, 2025
the kind of world we want is in part a question of what kind of art we want.Playlist: Full of Hell - Knight's OathDead in the Dirt - Strength Through RestraintMICO - YunqueDendritic Arbor - Blooming AmygdalaUniform - American StandardPlanning for Burial - You ThinkIsis - Wills Dissolve
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Prisoner’s Dilemma - Episode April 24, 2025
Milan Uyeno (of Motte and Bailey) is in the booth tonight, spinning some dissonant and weird metal of all genres and styles.Playlist: Cave Sermon - MolochFathomless Ritual - Wielding the Bone WandVeilburner - Woe Ye’ Who Build these Crosses...Are Those Who Will Serve Us DeathVOID - II: A Mental Break - "Pink Beam of Light"Weeping Sores - Arctic SummerWAKE - Monuments to ImpietyAntediluvian - Guardians of the LiminalImperial Triumphant - Death on a HighwayCleric, featuring John Zorn - Grey Lodge
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Prisoner’s Dilemma - Episode April 10, 2025
Highlighting some of the artists I'm most excited to see at Roadburn 2025.Playlist: Concrete Winds - Flaying InternecineConcrete Winds - Infernal RepeaterGillian Carter - The Pain of Being AwakeGillian Carter - Abandoned & Lost in TimeGreat Falls - Ceilings Inch CloserBlack Curse - Flowers of GethsemaneMorvigor - Midden in De WereldSilver Knife - Restless BlightOntaard, Throwing Bricks - Spiralling on the Kitchen Floor
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Prisoner’s Dilemma - Episode April 3, 2025
Hey y'all, it's Matt from Black Milk. Hope you liked my attempt to emulate the great host of this program! Have a great weekend and Brennan will see you next week.Playlist: Black Sabbath - PariahFull of Hell - Bound SphinxChelsea Wolfe - VexGIVRE - Sainte Thérèse d'Avila (1515-1582)Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - Crone DanceKEN MODE - The Illusion of DiginitySUMAC - ConsumedLurker of Chalice - MinionsOriginal Sin - Despaired Cassandra
In order for things to change, one must accept that they too must be changed. On the Prisoner’s Dilemma, we explore the outer limits of music and what it means to be extreme, from Agoraphobic Nosebleed to Zhrine, from brutal free jazz to uplifting noise metal.