Send us Fan Mail Patrick and Andy sit down with Sam from Massachusetts grindcore band Entropy and his son Isaac, who plays bass and drums in the current Massachusetts heavy scene, including SoundOutTheBraille. Patrick, Andy, and Sam were all part of Twin City Hardcore — the Fitchburg/Leominster scene that helped shape their love of heavy music, DIY shows, and local culture. With Entropy active again and Isaac carrying heavy music into a new generation, this conversation digs into family, memo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Two Mics, No Masters, Patrick and Andy dig into The Gatekeeper Paradox: can a scene survive without gatekeeping, or does gatekeeping eventually kill the thing it claims to protect? Hardcore, punk, and metal have always lived on a tension between openness and standards. Everyone wants the scene to grow, but nobody wants it watered down. Everyone hates elitism, but most people still have a line where something stops feeling real. So who gets to decide what be...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Two Mics, No Masters, Patrick and Andy dig into the bands that were ahead of their time — the ones who sounded wrong, weird, confusing, or completely out of place when they first showed up, only to make perfect sense years later. Some bands don’t fit the moment they’re born into. They bend genres before the audience has the language for it. They mix scenes that aren’t supposed to touch. They get ignored, misunderstood, mocked, or written off — then a decade...

Send us Fan Mail Who owns the Pit? Was crowd killing responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs? Is banana man the face of a hardcore revolution or are some people obsessed with speaking to the manager?

Send us Fan Mail It's dark in the shadow of a masterpiece. Andy and Patrick discuss sophomore releases that couldn't quite fill the shoes of the first born sibling.

Send us Fan Mail Andy challenges the concept of good taste while Patrick contemplates his life choices. 20 albums that we consider to be perfect.

Send us Fan Mail Andy & Patrick talk about their first shows, authenticity in music, Nu-metal, and come to a consensus that Limp Bizkit still sucks. Art over gimmick. Inconveniences are not on our agenda. Do we need an attorney?

Send us Fan Mail May is mental health awareness month. Take care of each other. RIP Bo Leuders.

Send us Fan Mail Listener Kyle plays a reverse Uno card, and Andy and Patrick review each others favorites of 2025.

Send us Fan Mail Nothing beats a matinee show on a work night. Terror talk. New music. Old heads. Is hardcore boot camp a thing?