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Podcast: Dreams of Consciousness
Episode: 343: Excel
Description: Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 343 features an interview with Shaun Ross of Excel.
A product of the same Venice Beach punk and skateboarding community that produced Suicidal Tendencies, Excel were mainstays of the Eighties crossover/thrash scene. They went on hiatus after their third album Seeking Refuge, becoming another casualty of a shifting music industry that kept metal at arm's length. The band re-emerged in 2014 to play some reunion shows, and their first two albums were re-issued by Southern Lord Records shortly after.
I spoke with bassist Shaun Ross about how doom metal pioneers Trouble influenced his music, and his...