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In Our Headphones

KEXP DJ Reeves on Croatia’s Speedclaw

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP DJ Reeves about his love of metal music and Speedclaw’s new song “Allnighter,” from their 2025 debut studio album Stardust via Dying Victims Productions.

Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry

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0:00.0

You're listening to In Our Headphones, and I'm your host, E.B. Stokes. Today, I am joined by K-EXB DJ and resident Nice Guy Reeves. And you were the first person, actually, that I heard play by Akker Boys. Oh, nice. That's a fun fact about Reeves. That is a good, that's a good fact about me. I think that's a solid fact. You brought a track today from the Croatian band Speedclaw.

0:29.6

I know that you love metal.

0:32.4

Yes, I do.

0:33.2

I do love metal.

0:34.3

My show is on after our metal show at K-EX-CC-C-C-and-Destroy, and I always use that as an

0:40.0

excuse to play like 15 minutes of like solid, either really disgusting metal or like stuff

0:47.4

a little bit more like this. That's a little bit more approachable for people. Right, right. Well,

0:51.3

this song rips. So this is a song called All-Nighter. What drew you to, uh, to choose this song to share with us today? Yeah. Well, this song rips. So this is a song called All Nighter. What drew you to choose this song to share with us today?

0:57.9

Yeah, I, you know, since it's called in our headphones, I was like, I need to pick a metal song that's like more like in depth or more like emotional breadth, more like something kind of like deaf heaven something

1:12.2

kind of like wolves in the throne room if we're going to talk about like local Seattle metal

1:16.4

music where it's just like oh there's like atmospheric sounds and tones and stuff like that

1:20.4

but the problem is that what's in my headphone is this really awesome knuckle dragger song

1:25.2

that's speed metal new wave of of British heavy metal from Croatia.

1:30.2

And it's just like, what's the meaning of this song?

1:32.2

It's like, I don't know, riffs, staying out all night, drinking, partying.

1:36.9

The music video is them literally just drinking and partying in a tattoo parlor.

1:40.7

And they get matching Iron Maiden tattoos on their butt.

1:43.2

On their butt.

1:43.8

I was going to say, I watched it. I saw those booties. parlor and they get matching iron maiden tattoos on their butt on their butt i was gonna say i watched

1:44.8

it i saw those booties yeah so like i don't they're definitely not inviting us to think that this

1:50.0

is a very serious song so so it was just like i like this is what i'm listening to sometimes

1:55.7

you're just you're listening to metal music that makes you want to slam a tall like an empty tall boy

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