“Sing For Science” Podcast: Dead Bodies Everywhere

Sometimes, combining foods can bring out the most amazing tastes and smells. How about mac and cheese? Or chips and salsa? Or biscuits and gravy?

That’s the intrinsic beauty of stitching together music and science in a podcast. That’s the definition of the Sing For Science podcast.

On the latest installment of Sing For Science on the Talkhouse Podcast Network, the podcast shows it is ready to entertain and answer the most morbid of curiosities. In an episode entitled “Dead Bodies Everywhere: Postmortem Biology and The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” Sing For Science host, creator and musician Matt Whyte puts legendary metalhead and Korn frontman Jonathan Davis in conversation with best-selling pop science writer Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers), to discuss mortuary science and demystify the macabre.

The interview is centered around Korn’s song “Dead Bodies Everywhere,” off of their 1998 album Follow the Leader — which sold over 14 million copies and was partly based on Davis’ own experience working in a morgue prior to forming Korn. Just a junior in high school when he began doing post-mortems out of the coroner’s office in his hometown of Bakersfield, CA, Davis went on to study at San Francisco’s College of Mortuary Science, where coincidentally, Mary Roach also attended. Driven by…