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Inside Odelay: Beck’s Innovative 90s Breakthrough

Inside Odelay: Beck’s Innovative 90s Breakthrough

Chris Baldwin 1 January 2025

Beck's "Odelay," released on June 18, 1996, is a seminal album in alternative music, known for its...

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Riffology: Iconic Rock Albums Podcast

Welcome to Riffology, where a GenX and a Millennial talk about the albums from their youth. It’s more fun than it sounds…

This week on Riffology we get into Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains, the album that took them from being a local Brazilian band to breaking through on the world stage. We talk about how it was written and recorded, what Scott Burns brought to the table, and how the band managed to make something so heavy and sharp on such limited resources.

We spend time on what makes the record hit so hard — the riffs, the speed, the atmosphere — and how the band’s persistence and stubbornness made it stand out. It’s not just about technical playing, it’s about the intent behind it, and why this album still sits as a turning point for Sepultura and for thrash metal in general.

And because it’s us, the conversation drifts. There’s a bit about keeping the podcast going every week, some side stories about music and tech, and a completely unnecessary discussion about someone forcing people to watch Heartbeat on an iPod. The episode ends, more or less, when we realise that’s as good a place as any to stop talking.