Beam Me Up Scotty with Joseph Palmer of Into Pandemonium

Let's begin with the honesty. 

I just discovered that this interview was sitting in my inbox. It's time to do some cleaning in there as I'm pushing 3,000 unread emails which is frankly panic attack inducing.

So, here's this interview from a couple months back and I'm not going to rob you of any quality Star Trek or metal content.

Especially since my wife and I are currently rewatching Star Trek The Next Generation.

Don't pass up Darkest Rise on BANDCAMP.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? Why's that?

Beam Me Up Scotty With Uncle Jameson of The Fistful of Doom Show

Do you like Metal?

Do you like DOOM METAL?

What about any other kind of metal that's not that metal, but a sincere sort of metal?

Of course you do.

Check out The Fistful of Doom Show.

Now, let's talk TREK.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? Why's that? 

I really enjoyed the most recent movies with the young James T. Kirk and I've always casually enjoyed the original tv series.

I can remember my older brother watching that on the rare occasions that he would come and stay at my mom's. So I'll have to say the original era.

Beam Me Up Scotty with Brendan Mainville of Mountain Dust

Brendan Mainville

From the very metropolitan city of Montreal, comes a band called Mountain Dust. 

It's a little hard to describe what they do, but they've got soul and throwback. Perhaps it's best to say they've got some throwback soul....if that's even a thing. 

If you dig Crobot though, you're probably going to want to snort some good old fashioned Mountain Dust.

Head over to BANDCAMP for checking them out purposes. 

If you're into it,  you can get those sweet metal grooves on your groove player via their STORE, and if I wasn't clear...

I mean vinyl.

In the meantime, let's talk about some Star Trek.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? Why's that?

Beam Me Up Scotty with Pepe of BornBroken

It's a good time to get in a little Star Trek Talk is it not?

It's been a bit too long if you ask me.

Today we're talking to Montreal's BornBroken.

Should you be interested, and you are, stream their latest record, The Years of Harsh Truths and Little Lies on their BANDCAMP.

Rub your Loonies together and get a copy.

But for now...

Energize.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? Why's that?

BB: The Next Generation era cause I would love to hangout with Data and Captain Picard haha!!

Beam Me Up Scotty with Gramma Vedetta

Gramma VEdetta

By now, someone has to be asking a simple question about this, the most ridiculous column thusfar, on Glacially Musical.

What does metal have to do with Star Trek?

Well, deep down, or maybe on their sleeves, all metalheads are indeed nerds. You can't learn how to play sweep picked arpeggios is you're cool like Ace Frehley.

And you're not going to be sucked into the worlds Robert Plant, Ronnie James Dio, Bruce Dickinson, and David Vincent sing about if you're not into fantasy. 

Metallica, Iron Maiden, Manilla Road, Led Zeppelin etc have all written songs about nerdy authors like Frank Herbert, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, and J.R.R. Tolkien. 

No one, to my knowledge, has gotten into Trek, but I feel like more metallers out there are into it than say they are.

Now, Gramma Vedetta!

Go to their BANDCAMP.

Beam Me Up Scotty with Iron Kingdom

Iron Kingdom

Iron Kingdom?

Well, if that's not the name of a band that's scary, I don't know what is. Certainly, though, it makes me wonder, what's this band all about?

So let me give you the TL:DR version...

They're a Canadian traditional/power/throwback metal band that gives major props and praise to the original Defenders of the Faith and the Tailgunners that took up the leather clad guantlet.

They've got a new disc coming out in October which you can preorder HERE. In the meantime...

Let's to the Starship Enterprise.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? Why's that?

Beam Me Up Scotty with Chris West Currently of Lost Orb

Chris West

Check out this BANDCAMP link. Chris West has a new project. From the mind that brought you Crawling for Carrion and Trippy Wicked...just wait till you hear this one.

Chris West is one of those guys who's a modern day heavy metal renaissance man because he's always undergoing some sort of reawakening and reinvention.

Check out  his latest crazy idea at that link, but...

In the meantime, phasers set to stun.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? 

Yes it is. It has to be TNG and mostly for the crew. 

Beam Me Up Scotty with Dropout Media's Matt Bacon

Matt Bacon

Beam me up, Scotty. This planet sucks!

My mother wore a shirt emblazoned with the bastardization of the classic Star Trek: The Original Series phrase: Scotty, beam us up.

This was my personal introduction into the world of tomorrow: Star Trek. 

A Wagon Train To The Stars created by Gene Roddenberry handed off to Piller and Berman, and I don't know who's running the joint now.

Simon Pegg is doing some writing though, but maybe he's just a clerk. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time we ever thought of something as not just a universe, but a multiverse.

Even in The Original Series, they were headed into parallel universes. Now there's even two damned timelines and I can't keep up.

Now, we're going to talk to Metal's handsomest boy, Matt Bacon. He's so many things that it's really hard to figure out exactly what he is and what he does.

But he can help you. Be sure to check out his podcast, Dumb & Dumbest, but only if you're either in a band who's trying to make it, or if you like witty word play.

Now...set phasers to awesome.