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Podcast: Dreams of Consciousness
Episode: 225: Cartilage
Description: Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 225 features an interview with Mark Wallace, Ria Wallace, and Mike Flory of Cartilage.
San Francisco's Cartilage are part of the boom that the Bay Area metal scene has been experiencing recently. The five-piece play grindcore/gore metal in the vein of Exhumed and Impaled - not surprising, since those two veteran bands are friends and mentors to Cartilage, and Impaled's Sean McGrath even designed their logo.
I spoke with guitarists Mike Flory and Ria Wallace, and vocalist Mark Wallace about how they started the band, and their relationship with the other death/grind bands around...