Darren Korb (Hades), The Beatles & Queens of the Stone Age Coming to CrossFade! Send Questions & Songs! (Patreon)
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The gods of guesting have always been good to us here at CrossFade, and the latest boons are a bounty indeed – Darren Korb of Supergiant Games (Audio Director, Composer, and VO of Zagreus in Hades), is talking Beatles and Queens of the Stone Age this week! Leave a question and song for our guest and host below by Tuesday, Aug. 10!
Darren’s music and sound design alone have had an outsized effect on video games since Bastion – and that was BEFORE he voiced the protagonist of Hades, one of 2020’s hottest games (out this week on PlayStation and Xbox platforms). He’s always called The Beatles’ Abbey Road one of his big influences (he even recorded a bunch of his own soundtrack music with Austin Wintory at the iconic studio last year), so we’re psyched to let him explain why it sticks with him and how he feels about Abbey Road after he’s recorded there himself!
They’ll be comparing it with Matt’s pick, Songs for the Deaf, the third album by Queens of the Stone Age and the first to feature Dave Grohl on drums. It was hugely acclaimed when it came out in 2002 and now it’s something of a rock/metal classic. If you’ve never listened to them, welcome to the club! I’m excited to find out what made Matt wanna talk about it…
and I’m excited to find out what you think, too! Tell us how you feel about The Beatles, QOTSA, Supergiant. Ask us what songs our pets hate, or what albums we love enough to hang on the wall as art. I’m gonna ask Darren how he feels knowing people will probably still be listening to his music 50 years from now. Leave your burning questions and whatever you’re listening to now in the comments!
Also, please check out our new charity drive to raise money for the community music school Hopewell Music in North Minneapolis. Your donation helps fund classes for students and puts instruments they can’t afford in their hands, check out our donation page here! https://www.givemn.org/story/Crossfade
CrossFade is MinnMax’s music podcast hosted by Matt Helgeson and produced by Jason Dafnis where a guest has Matt review one of their favorite albums and vice versa. We publish every other Friday, so subscribe, rate, and review wherever you get podcasts: https://apple.co/3kWBb5K
Even if we don’t get to your song this episode, we’ll add it to the CrossFade Community Spotify Playlist (https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox) and your song might be pulled on a future Community Shuffle episode, so keep sharing!
Thanks for checking it out!