This is a very special AUDIO ONLY version of our show. This week's guest is the mindblowing artist, Mack Chami.

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Mack Chami. 

If you're like me, you like most styles of music, if not all. You love when people take huge chances or live their life through their music. You love the drama and chance of it all. You love how it hits you.  

How music makes you sentimental or angry. How it curves the earth around your ears. Mack's music does that to me when I put it on in my car. When I'm vacuuming my house. When I'm doing anything.  

Because his project, God is War, plays instrumental soundscapes, it can be anything. The music takes over. You can swirl in its madness or get caught up in its beats. It's not noise, but it's all noise. I imagine learning about Mack today may have the same effect.

Let me say one last thing.  It may not be inspired by it, but if there's one thing I love about his music is it sounds like it belongs in a David Lynch movie, where the most terrifying people are hanging out near the edges of the room, waiting for you to leave so they can mug you at the car.  It's brilliant.

So...  let's get to it.  This is Mack Chami!

Time Codes:

4:00 When you're abandoned by a parent
7:00 Mack's listeners love to be challenged
10:30 Conversation starters are just that
13:30 Finding Slipknot and heavy music changed everything
16:40 Tons of arguments
20:00 Passion means "to suffer"
23:30 Figuring out HOW to make music
27:00 Growing up was rough on Mack
31:00 The first single just dropped off the new album
34:00 The Netflix movie, The Platform
37:00 How do we get out of the hole?
40:00 Making it through the roughest patches
43:30 Touring is a thing for Mack and that's good for us

Make sure you check out Mack's new full length album "Boogeyman Inc." from God Is War which will be available Sept 20th via Profound Lore Records. There is also going to be a God Is War tour supporting shoegaze act Lockstep from Tennessee from October 30th-Novemeber 10th across the midwest, Canada, and the east coast. I know you can't wait, either. 

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