Last Updated on January 16, 2026
Welcome to Beat Motel Podcast – Episode 121, where Andrew Laws and Dr Sam set fire to good taste and dance around the ashes.
🔊 This week:
- Cottage cheese: culinary delight or bin juice?
- Does coughing make you think of Black Sabbath?
- The Wu-Tang Clan’s Ipswich connection (it’s real, honest).
- Melvins live: genius or just the same riff over and over?
- The ultimate metal gateway band—is it The Sword or are we just lazy?
- Techno vs. Free Jazz: the never-ending war rages on.
- Why SpongeBob might be the most important rock educator of our time.
- Venetian Snares: music or a migraine factory?
Also, Andrew finally gets round to telling people about his new YouTube video series featuring noise gigs, angry synths, and, er… prosthetic man-parts.
🔥 Listen now, argue later!
### Riffs of the week
#### Dr Sam’s Riff
– Laibach – Fedayeen (1.20)
#### Andrew’s Riff
– Havukruunu: Laulunhenki (5:39)
### Dr Sam’s track choices
1. SpongeBob – Goofy Goober Rock (1.04)
2. Naked City – Demon Sanctuary (0.09)
3. Sepultura – Territory (0.52)
4. Jose Afonso – Cantar Alentejano (0.30)
### Andrew’s track choices
1. Jeff Mills – The Bells (1:03)
2. The Sword – Freya (opening)
3. The Vince Guaraldi Trio – Linus and Lucy (0:33)
4. Venetian Snares – Hajnal (3:26)
Email us – beatmotel@lawsie.com
Havukruunu review https://www.angrymetalguy.com/havukruunu-tavastland-review/
Bert Jansch – Avocet – https://tidal.com/browse/album/273477322?u
