Hello everybody, and welcome to Please don't do that with estrogen. My god.
This is that's not metal, your weekly heavy metal, rock music,
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Hyperblasts where we are back on that news grind. Thank you everybody who had
checked out our last big fucking reviews bag. Holy shit, there were a
lot of comments about how just like incredibly stacked, even more so than usual,
like one of the best bunches of reviews that you know we've had in
who knows how long, really great stuff there. You should go and check
out everything that was involved with that. But today we are back, as
said, with Hyperblast with news. My name is Peren Haish, Sam Dignon,
Elliott Paisley are here. We are recording this a day earlier than usual,
but we are also doing it in the same session as an album club
pack discussion that is going to be out as well, which means it is
very funny that in this particular conversation, this session of all of them,
Sam Dignon, you are going to start presumably talking about bands more than one
of them actually, But go ahead, but let's just say this particular day,
of all days, it is bold to say at least one of the
bads in question. Yes, yes it is. We will get on to
them. They are number two on the list. But yeah, I've been
to three gigs over the last few days, over like a four day period.
We oh, yeah, god, there was a good one. Yeah,
there was a good one. I end up seeing two albums played in
full, which was very different kind of sobance treats. One one like a
genuine ten out of ten zero skips classic that deserves the live in full treatment.
Another that maybe not that, but it's my favorite album by that band,
so I was happy to see. And they never play anything fucking off
it. So yeah, which we'll start with, which was a death Vanna
playing their album Old Souls in full, which I know, defer they're not
the most ridiculed of these bands. They're kind of on those bands that I
feel like you're almost willing to just kind of ignore and let them exist.
Is that? Am I right? And assuming that no? Essentially, yes,
I do remember they released one there was one album where they did like
a pop pivot, Yes, which is the album not the one don't off
this, the one after that, which fair enough like that was that was
dogshit, but otherwise they are the one where I go, I don't like
you, but you know you can go exist in your corner. Yeah.
So Old Souls is their third album. It was that when they were kind
of at their peak and they decided to do a Springsteen album, which no
surprise, why it's my favorite one of theirs. They added like seven members
to the band, a backing vocal like a sax Off. They went big
on it, and it didn't quite work out because fans weren't ready for that
much Springsteen in twenty thirteen, you know twenty tens britwrock fans. But this
was celebrating that album. It was a deliberately small, like two days for
them in London and isn't an Assembly hall, which is about half the size
of what they could probably reliably play. So maybe the two nights together is
about the same as one London date. But what I will say is it
meant that for the album in full show, it meant everyone there wanted to
see that album in full which did actually work so much in its favor.
Because I've been tonether album in full shows by similar bands recently where they've been
playing in big venues and half the album. Everyone just kind of stood there
waiting for like, oh, can you play the hits again? This was
just a really, just a very nice evening. They did the album.
They had a choir on stage to kind of like fill out some of the
extra elements of it. They didn't have all out of some playing saxophone on
songs and all that, but it was, it was, It was very
nice. Then they played a couple of the other songs afterwards, like not
much to sound, but then I was happy to see songs off that album
that I've never seen them play live, and I was like, yeah,
no, this is their best album because when they were playing the songs afterwards,
none of them were as good and def Vanna fans got that one wrong.
I like, but yeah, very good time onto the main event.
Shall we say though that The following night I went to my favorite venue in
London for one of two shows because I went there again two nights later because
fucking Albone's playing that ship at the moment. I went to the Forum to
see the return of the Black Band played the Forum. Everyone's planned the Forum,
Yeah, like yeah, well like yeah, so I saw not technically
now I listened to the album we're going to talk about that means a lot
more. We're gonna we're gonna like the story of the Rise before the Blackout
is. We are going to get into that on the album Club. Do
subscribe if you want to hear the opposite side to what I'm about to say,
because there is there is so much we're going to get into. But
yes, The Blackout on their return after doing Download Festival last year, we're
back playing the Forum sold out I believe or standing was at the very least
sold out, and maybe there was a couple of seats left. And here's
the thing. Right at their best, The Blackout were always a very good,
fun live band when they were, you know, not starting the party.
This this was just a really fun wind the clocks back. Pretend that
we're all like it's all ten years ago before Start the Party even existed,
Like I maybe maybe inlightly long that want to ignore Start the Party, But
that didn't get any any anything at all. Every every other release they did
got at least one song pulled out. It was mostly dominated by the Best
in Town, which is unsurprised, and it's it's the one album. There's
a lot of the people still go, yeah, that album's good. All
the others you can kind of like debate, but it was just a very
fun like there was a massive group of us. I was with so many
mates and we were all quite drunk because we've gone to the pub beforehand,
and we all had a very good time singing along, dancing amoshed when they
played the fire off Best in Town because I was like, screw it,
let's pretend like it's twenty eleven and I'm seeing the blackout and going yeah,
I'm with mosh. Yeah, like I had a lot of fun. And
again they completely ignored their worst material. They played once So Off, the
EP that came after Start the Party, which no one actually cares about but
is not like embarrassing like that album is, and they just were like,
yeah, you know, we have actually got a quite a good bunch of
like high energy post hardcore like brit rock songs that you can fill ninety minutes
set with mostly really fun material. Yeah, there was like a bit,
there's a little there was a little section in the middle. I was kind
of like, uh, you know, if I wanted to get a drink
a pispeg, I'd probably go now. But I was just with friends,
and I was like fuck trying to get out of the crowd at the Forum.
I'm just gonna stay here. But had had a very fun time with
that one. I will say, I hope that's it. I like,
like, God need to like the Blackout. The way it ended for them
was, you know, not good. They've they've they've got to come back
and rewrite that ending and have a positive note on it where people like them
again. Don't do an album, Just just leave it at that, you
know, do slam, don't do the best in twent fall, and then
just you can quietly go away and pretend that like you had a nice ending
to your band. Don't do an album, like because I don't think we
need a new Blackout album anymore. And yeah, and then the final of
the three, the best show of the free unquestionably back to the Forum to
see Frice play Artists in the Ambulance in full. Which the thing with Fries
every time I see them, Like Fries aren't the most exciting band to talk
about in a lot of ways, because they are. They just come on
stage, be absolutely brilliant, sound better than everyone, and go off like
that. They're like they're not really much in the way of sty showed there're
some cool lights. Palm Reader was supporting first. I was seen par in
a few years. There's seven of them now. I don't quite know when
they multiplied, but they sound like the band as well that no, well,
they're obviously doing a more kind of like post rock posts. I've seen
Readers since their latest album, so I imagine it. Yeah, like so
like I kind of get it. They've got someone doing like some key bits
and like an extra guitarist, so it like it's to fill out that that
kind of newer sound. And they sounded absolutely incredible in the Forum, which
again notoriously can be a bit of a shitter for sound. They sounded fantastic.
They did not sound a patch on frist though. Who again, every
time I see them they might be sonically the best live sounding band I can
think of. Who always sound just utterly flawless, like they sounded so big
and full in that forum, but crystal clear Dustin's vocals again like he's got
like one of my favorite voices, and like on them because it sounded like
I was like getting a playthrough of that recording of Artist in the Ambulance and
just how like earthy and like hard it felt, and they just tore through
the album. They stopped set out to the crowd a little bit, but
for the most part it was just like, you know, startus in the
ambulance. Every song here is fucking outstanding, with you know those singles and
those big hits Peppertrowzer, when you get Silhouette and Stare at the Sun early
on and you just gonna go like, ah, these are the perfect the
title track late on being like the biggest sing along of the whole thing,
just incredible. And the thing is that I say this sound perfect, they
have actually got energy on stage to match it. It's not like you're just
listening to a recording and watching four dudes stand there and sound amazing. And
then they did afterwards, they did kind of a selection of I'm not gonna
say hits because Frist don't like doing the hits, and I think doing ars
in the ams in full kind of filled their quotes of like, you know,
this is enough crowd pleasing songs for us that they played a selection of
other songs for following they did play dead Bolt, which they don't always play
live now, and that got everyone going a bit rowdy, but yeah,
just it's nearly two hours of just playing their their best album and a bunch
of other great songs. What a lovely what a lovely time. Yes,
news begins. I guess we get this one out of the way fairly quickly
because I don't know sure how much there really is to say about it.
But the thing that everybody has been talking about this week in a week for
hardcore, I tell you that like it certainly has. I mean, we've
got some really big album announcements and stuff like that. And again, we're
recording this a day early, but haven't been able to get away from fucking
estrogen Gate, where you have probably seen this story floting around by now.
But I always like when there's like, you know, stories come out of
band who like the band themselves is not the important factor. And this isn't
you know, I can't even remember the name of the band. Is not
to dismiss their music in any way at all hardcore. It's just like stories
come out of like local proper no name bands and somehow become international sensations.
We've seen similar things with you know that was the band recently who fucking apologized
for the pig's head at the show and all that kind of thing, like
no one remembers with the band, they'd remember the story. And I think
this represents one of those sort of watershed moments where you go, can it
possibly get any crazier and more demented than this? And it will, and
when it does, we will be to tell you about it. But the
story is, if I read this correctly, essentially a band has fired their
vocalist because he drunkenly admitted, which is my favorite part of it, is
the fact that he just got pissed and told on himself that he had been
supplying another member of the band secretly with estrogen in order to become more manly
than him and stealer's girlfriend, and he'd be like giving him like gym supplements
and stuff like that, they've been dosing with estrogen. Again, the conversation
in which he drunkenly went, yeah, I would have loved to have been
in that room, just to watch everyone else's faces as they go hang on
what particularly the guy who, of course this is unfortunately happening to and it
twinks, Oh, that's what has been happening to me. That's why I've
been like yeah, going, my body's been we'd be like that bit in
Blair Witch when he goes and then I threw the map away. You did
fucking what what? Yeah, that's exactly it. Wow. Yeah, so
that is just fucking deranged. Don't do that, don't you know. We've
all done it. We've all been there, wild moment, just bizarre and
like like like like checking all the other band members. But like it's that
like caveman minds of like, oh, I'll give him estrogen. It will
make him more effeminine, make me look more alpha so I can get his
girlfriend. I'm like, that's not what estrogen does. Like again, like
as someone who with gender stuff has looked into you know, sensial effects of
what like that could do your body, that's just not gonna just make him
more feminine. It's gonna you know, growing brests and just absolute moron ship
and like yeah, yeah, it's so funny when these stories get out because,
like you say, and the bands themselves aren't famous, So I know
people who don't know anything about rock and metal and they've sent me stuff from
this story because it's been in a tabloid or whatever, and they go like
what the hell's going on here. It's like, I don't know who they
are? What was it witch Rot? That band that were like, you
know, the guitarist for my girlfriend, oh and our drummers. Yeah,
one of those statements that lives in infamy forever. Yeah, and like when
that happened to loads of people are like, oh, you're your metal bands
are weird. It's like, that's not one. I don't know, They're
not a famous band. This is not normal behavior. Yeah, absolutely all
right, So there are severale out of announcements. But there's a story here
that maybe we're jumping the gun, but it feels like a story that has
potential significance. It would be noteworthy anyway, but I think everyone and their
mother who has seen the story has kind of jumped ahead in terms of like
inferring something that may or may not be happening. The story is that Eli
Cassagrande, who has been the drummer of Sepultura for over a decade now.
I can't rememberf they had someone in the interim between Eagle Caballeerra and him,
or whether he was the immediate replacement. Anyway, he's been Sepulturier's drummer for
quite a long time. Now. Sepulchera of course are calling it a day.
They are going on a farewell tour you know that. I can't remember
exactly when that ends, but the UK dates in like November, so certainly
it's going to be going throughout the year, perhaps into early next year.
He look as Grande has perhaps surprisingly for some people, considering that Sepultaer are
literally, you know, within their last year of being a band. He's
jumped ship and he's no longer the drummer in that band. They have announced
an immediate replacement. The phrasing of Sepultura's own statement about this suggests that it
was a real surprise, and perhaps not one they appreciate. They use the
word abandoned in terms of what Eloy has you know, done for their following
year's plans or whatever. That is the only information that we essentially have.
But everybody thinks he's joining slipknot, don't they? And uh, you know,
I I wonder it. I don't think anyone would be alone in you
know, having independently come to that that idea. Yeah, I mean it's
it's you know, the big drummer vacancy. He's, you know, a
drummer who could probably slot into that quite nicely. If you're going to bail
this coast to the end, there's probably because you've been given a pretty big
offer for something. It all again, it's all speculation, but it's not
reckless speculation in a way. It feels pretty like well reasoned. Well.
He was also the name that I saw people throwing around kind of first after
Jay left. I think he's got those yeah, well he's got those viral
drum covers. Ware. It was like people equal shit and they're they're ridiculous,
like he hits so unbelievably hard. So it was one of those where
oh could they get him? And it was and I was thinking, wow,
Sepultur, you know, at the time, they were still going and
then it's like they're retiring. It's like, well they kind of need someone
sooner than that. I mean, all going on is just the timing of
him leaving. But it's so suspicious and it's like if Slipnot haven't got him
in this situation, that's their fuck up. That is yeah, because the
thing with you know that the timing of this is as said in a way
like if it is for him to leave at this point, You're quite right
in saying, clearly a massive opportunity has come up, something that would be
bigger for him than you know, sitting out the final year or two of
like probably the largest Sepultura shows that he will have played with them in their
time because they're playing larger venues on their farewell et cetera. So it is
I like the I think the honorable thing to do would have been to you
know, because he's been their drummer for over a decade. You know,
they've made several pretty damn good albums together very well. Like liked, I
think this lineup or SEPULTURER is, you know, the closest thing they have
gotten to a really well respected light lineup since the Cavaliras were gone, and
you know, when they are on their kind of farewell, their glory run,
it is a bit of a shame to have, you know, kind
of dropped them in this particular fashion. But when you think about the fact
that, you know, like I said, Sepultura A's UK shows are like
November Ish Slip Knots Tour when they're doing the self title in Fall, which
again we currently don't know who the drummer is for that that's is that like
December time, Like it's very similar timing. And if you were imagine,
you know, he's the guy they're kind of ringing up, he's not going
to be able to go, oh yeah, Slipknot, Can you like,
I'm gonna be doing Sepultuury until sort of February or whatever. Can you just
kind of put a pin in that one and let me finish? Like he's
obviously had to go, like Slipnot is starting now, You're in or you're
out. This is the moment. And if that, again, is what's
happening here, it would certainly make sense as to why the last year or
so of sepulturer is something that he's not been able to commit to. Uh
so, so I agree, Like so when I thought about, oh,
Sepultura are retiring, tiring, slip Not need a drummer. Ilokus Grandi was
one of the very first people who popped into my mind before this, and
it is because he's fucking insane. And the thing about Elucus Grande is like
he is one of like if you asked a metal fan to name like the
three or four best drummers in the world right now, and we're not we're
talking, you know, like relatively mainstream in the sense of the NUE.
I'm not we can talk about inter armor in a bit. I'm not saying
they're gonna go oh yeah, TJH. Elders, who replaced Jerry Dawderson or
whatever. Just well known drummers. People will say. Mario de Plantier,
people will say, obviously a fair while now, but like brand Dayla and
Ilokus Grande is in that category despite being in a band who while they have
made good albums, it's fair to say people haven't. Like the last decade
plus of Sepulturer is not as big a story to people. They're a tear
below though, yeah yees, following the ongoing works of Mario do Plantier right,
like married de Plante are such an immediate fits. Could Gajira have been
like the band for this period of time Sepultair haven't And yet I guess just
threw his presence on the internet whatever people all still go oh yeah, Eliicus
Grande, he's like on that level with Mary de Plantier. That's fucking mad
to have achieved that, And it's certainly again, if you was to go
and step into Slipknot, that would be like, you know, one of
the like god tiered drum talents of his generation entering a project in which like
that amount of eyes and kind of uh, you know, attention to the
actual music he's making would be on him in a way that they haven't been
for the last ten years, with the best of respects to you know,
some very good Sepulture records. Yeah, and I think when Jay left Slipnot,
I was kind of saying on the show, I think this is a
real, a real weird move and kind of put me off slip Not a
bit. But I mean, if Eloy is taking his place, I'd be
pretty thrilled with that because he's a different drummer from those two. He seems
like quite a natural fit as well. I know, Slipnot kind of have
that tribal element already in there and he's so adept at that. It would
be cool to see him get what the biggest possible platform a drama could have
because no one's replacing Lars Auric, so after that being the drummer and Slipknot
is like the the position. Yeah, because Jay again we've we've praised his
work in Slipknot quite extensively, but I think everybody recognizes that it was a
more simplistic approach than Slipnot had had immediately prior, because it's hard not to
when you've got Jerry Jordison and he looks at the Grande as one of the
only people who could maybe approach that level of like mania that existed in you
know, older Slipknot. So, you know, again, with the better
respect to Jay, who I still think, you know, I agree the
way he was kind of ousted is very strange. Indeed, but if you
are going to go from Jay Weinberg to someone, you might as well get
someone where you go, Yeah, like the talent there is fucking undeniable and
on a level again where you could put like four or five people in the
world on a similar level to him. If there is one thing where I
go, is he the right fit? It's gonna be weird seeing slip Not
with a drummer with no hair. He can have a wig on his mask.
Yeah, you're right, You're absolutely right. Yeah, So I guess
if he's not joining the slip Not, it'd be fucking mental And the timing.
But as you say, a drummer at the moment. Yeah, if
he's not, maybe he's the new drummer against me. That'd be hilarious,
right, As said music, We've got three albums here that have all been
announced, all with lead singles, all you know, to varying degrees,
some you know, potential highlights on the calendar. The first one, the
biggest one, is of course Not b Loose, who are back with a
new proper album there first since twenty nineteen, actually a different shade of blue.
The album is called you Won't Go Before You're Supposed to crappy title,
unfortunately not the most memorable or flows off the tongue. But we have a
we have a track list, which means that we can, for example,
see that those two singles they released Deep in the Willow and Everything is Quiet
Now they are not there. Those are nouns download singles, which you know,
pretty cool. We get an all new knock Loose material. It is
going to be out on May the tenth, and we do have a lead
single here called Blinding Faith. And I think as you would expect with Not
Loose, at the moment, they are such a band of the moment,
an awful lot of just like fuck yeah, Not Loose, you know,
being flighted around there around this. They feel like such an anomaly at the
moment in that this is for a band who appealed to a like as metal
and like metalcore, hardcore, just music go they have such a mainstream appeal
to a crowd of music, a crowd of people who don't like this kind
of music. Yeah, you're right and the like, and they are salivating
over Knock Close, and I'm just like, it's like, again, fucking
wicked that we've got a band like knock Cluse who are winning over that crowd
by just sounding absolutely disgusting as they do on this track. And it's just
when I just can't work out how it's like how it's all cricked into place
for them, But I think this is awesome. It's it's it's not you
know, I don't think it's completely like revolutionary new for Not Loose. It's
them just kind of dialing up the extremity of their sound just a couple of
notches more and just you know, having a snare sound that could like crack
a skull open and the beat down at the end that is absolutely filth and
just kind of up adding those more like abrasive elements. But this is wicked
and it's taking not those places where a band is on this maybe shouldn't be
going. Yeah, I think you know that the narrative around not loose is
kind of they just keep getting heavier. I don't know if they do in
terms of like the Different Shade of Blue was the leap. I think in
terms of going from laugh tracks that the Horror EP was, you know,
more extreme again perhaps, and I think now they are, like they're probably
on a level similar to that EP. But what I'm saying, they're kind
of you know that they are admirably, admirably maintaining how it's dream and heavy
they are. It feels like you can always now again from a bout twenty
nineteen onwards, you can always rely or not lose to like not just be
a hard band, but genuinely cave your scullon a little bit. Well.
I think maybe they seem like they' getting heavy and heavy because all the other
hardcore bands that are in there echelon of popularity I kind of softening. And
I don't think that's that's a criticism. Yeah, because glow On is the
least aggressive Turnstile record that happens to be my favorite. The above is the
least heavy extreme Code Orange album. And then even like Newmos, that Scowl
kind of taking that alternate punk, isn't it Like yeah, yeah exactly,
and not loose or able to maintain their popularity without softening or going in any
way more popular with it, because like you said, there's nothing badycore about
their sound, like not even a clean vocal, not even a stray you
know melody. There's a borderline like pig squeal. That bit you'd lose my
mind. It's a proper as that. I don't think it's quite a pig
squeal, but it's the words will flash in your mind. Yea, he
goes that fucking guttural, that breakdown, and that wasn't even that doesn't even
feel like something major metal bands have done in the last It felt like something
that kind of disappeared, and like even among it was seen as sort of
too off putting, in too extreme in this not loose band. Who I
mean I was listening to it. They've got a million monthly listeners on Spotify.
I mean, that's starts comparable to bands not even nearly as heavy as
them. Yeah, they might well be. Again, if you remove the
likes of you know, Slipknot, who are obviously so established, they might
not be like the heaviest, most sonically crushing band at that level of exposure.
And listening to this track for me that I don't know if you'd even
say secret weapon because it feels very front and center. Just the weapon in
Not Loose is Isaac Hale's guitar approach. And there was a video from a
few weeks ago, maybebout a month ago that kind of him just playing just
like him in his bedroom. He had his shirt off and he was just
playing his guitar essentially doing like a weird little array of noises, and everyone
was just like, how are you doing that on just like a shitty little
six string, no crazy like pedal or everything. He just like had a
guitar and he was getting the most like insane ignorant And I think every Not
Loose song it feels like the results of those you know, mad science experiments
come out, and this like the combination of that insane squealing riff and also
that kind of like almost like the Witch score like kind of twigs like clanging
together in time with that like bizarre guitar sound. It's they've really found their
niche as like, you know, a panic inducing with the air of kind
of darkness, horror and violence around it pummel you to a pulp hardcore band.
It's that blend of like I said, yeah, just pure like skull
crossing hardcore with that darker horror influenced things. And again that's what draws me
to It just makes them feel so one of a kind and cool, and
I like, I want to get more of that, and I think there's
you know, esthetically they're kind of leaning on that with the album with the
kind of the religious symbols and all that sort of stuff, So I feel
like there's gonna we're gonna get a good taste of it up then. But
this as a as a lead single, it was just like sold me on
it all. Yeah. I think even if they're not getting heavier with each
record, the more they go down the horror atmospheric end, I like them
more and to us at the beginning on laugh Tracks, I wasn't that taken
with the songwriting. But the sound is fun, but I wasn't that taken
with the way they were writing songs. I think they've gone so much better
at that, kind of quite publicly. Each record, the quality of songwriting
improves time on time, and I think listening to this and the last two
songs, I don't see any reason to think that trajectory is changing. I
probably wouldn't put Not Loose in that upper echelon of hardcore bands sort of artistically
with Code Orange Turnstyle and the like, but they're kind of hovering in that
tier below. And if we get a record that's as good as it's kind
of they're kind of promising this time around, it's it's possible they graduate to
the next one. Yeah, it's brilliant this particular week, though, it
is stopped from being the heaviest track because Jesus fucking Christ inter Amor have announced
their new album as well. It is called New Heaven, is out on
Relapse Records on April the twenty sixth. Those last two weeks of April Singers,
I've been putting, you know, the schedule together for everything. Those
are the mad weeks currently looking at that the amount you're going to be dealing
with. But this is going to certainly demand a lot of attention at that
time, because this is their first record in five years, not including the
covers album. It's the follow up to Soul for English, which I've mentioned
a few times. I like it a lot. This record has been one
that has been felt like it's quite a while come in. They've had a
lot of trouble, you know, kind of in the interim of trying to
get it made and inter arma. Now it is here. They are one
of genuinely one of the rare bands where I have this feeling of not knowing
what it will sound like when I press play on it, and you know,
there aren't too many bands in the world where we can say that.
Where again that not loose record, They're not lose track. Really fucking great.
I'm glad it is what it is. I sort of knew the sensation
I would be hit with when I pressed play on it. Inter armored,
like this could have been so many things. This song, this is a
lot. This song is so fucked up. This is the most absolutely fucking
demented track may have ever made. It gave me imperial triumphant, like oh
God, oh god, no, no, We're not no, Like again,
I don't think I say I dislike it because like, I have no
fucking idea what is going on on this track. There is so much just
like weird discordant turns and disgusting noises, and like, if you're into your
avant garde like black metal, whatever or like definitely whatever you want to,
you know, label it as I'm sure you're gonna be all in on this
parent Like it's a absolute again in terms just like how overwhelmingly extreme eye popping,
fucking scanner's head exploding just a first single or from over an album can
be. And you've thrown out a bunch of terms there. Interama. At
their core, they're arguably like a post metal band, right It's like they're
in there with like Corta Luna and Eurosis and stuff like that. But no,
I don't know what to label them masks because they they That's what I
mean. They are one of the most unpredictable, creatively untethered heavy bands working
right now. That's part of why I think they are so great. This
is again, those bands you just mentioned, none of those are released anything
close to this. This is It's a fucking ordeal. When I kind of
got the weird that there was going to be a new Introima record soon.
I was like, oh, yeah, I've been wanting one of those,
like say, shape that hunger and the song comes out, and it does,
but it's a whole new sensation that I wasn't. It's going I'd love
a roast dinner right now, and then they give you one and it's covered
in fireworks. You're like, well yeah, but and like you said,
that sort of brassy, nonsense imperial triumphant thing. This like I'm kind of
I'm hoping that this might be the sort of sci fi Interama record, which
again isn't something that I was looking for or like it hadn't occurred to me.
But if that's what this is, I am even more excited. I
mean, it looks like in a data Remember record, which is in front
of the Blood incantation timewave zero. This is like I've listened to it three
times and if someone says, have I heard it? I don't even know
what to say because it's like it's just I can't reliably convey what goes on.
Yeah, it's it's the first track on the record. The record is
you know, a lot more than just but it is the most like audacious
way to open your campaign for the record in a way just like the most
overwhelming, Like it's as much a gauntlet has been thrown down by like a
lead track as we have heard I think in the last you know, six
months or so. It is unbelievably. I mean, if you are going
to roadburn and you're seeing them, they are the set of this album full
and they open with this, I hope you've got your fucking you know,
space speeders, you know, strapped to your fucking side because you are gonna
need it, Holy Christ. And then a lovely just come down from all
of that. Alcest have also and that was there out and that one's a
little bit further away that's coming out in June. The record is called Le
champ de la Row and there is a track now called long vol which is
again speaking of not knowing where the fuckingtro Arma were going to take me.
This was more like ah an Alcest track that's nice and comforting. Yeah,
yeah, And they're very pretty, very lush, just lots of like nice
sounds kind of greeting you, very calming and soothing, yeah, which I
imagine you would have needed if you put it on after the inter Arma track,
Yes, yes, a little bit. Yeah, they've kind of established
themselves as one of those super dependable bands where every three years or so you
get a new record and it's just delightful to sit with. Like this song
particularly really reminds me of that le Voyage de lem Right, their third record,
which is it was the first one I ever heard and it might still
be my favorite or anything that harks back to that as nice. And I
just they're one of those rare black metal bands where I really want a high
fidelity production job. I don't want a kind of crusty, smothered alces record
this and this just sounds like it's made of It sounds like harpstrings that are
made of gold. It's just so pleasant, And you know, June is
a good time to release a record like this. You want the last summer
Roulette, wasn't it, but you know before, Yeah, you don't want
that kind of dang august heat. You want crisp, sunny skies. That's
the kind of vibe. And Yeah, I mean I don't think they've put
out a bad record, so no reason to think this won't be great.
Yeah, this thing was it's like eight minutes long or something as well,
and I thought it got sort of better as it went along, like a
nice little journey to be taken out. The moments of most kind of caught
my ear were in the sort of back half of what it does. So
yeah, I think this would be quite as like expectation shattering as the Interama
record, but it's something to look forward to. Nonetheless, Arctangent have completed
their lineup for this year rather good stuff. Indeed, the completed you know,
the final announcement includes Baroness, Blood Command Earn an Imperial Triumphant. So
if you didn't have enough good bands when they were already, there's certainly a
few more really bloody good ones for you there now. And my kind of
latest edition of I don't need to tell you anything more about this story.
I just like the headline, Tim Comerford, I don't know if the band
have broken up. I'm the bass player, big bassist. I love it.
Blessing all the headlines I've seen it this they miss out my favorite bit,
which is when he says I don't get involved in that, like it's
none of his business. What are you doing? Glasking the wrong guy?
Like he's in catering yeah right, Patreon this week, the I guess the
latest thing will be what we are about to record, which is the album
Club Pack, which I announced last week. It features some albums I'm really
excited to momentarily talk about. It includes Power, Windows by Rush, The
Blackout, Start The Party, American Football's LP one and Agalos The Mantle as
said this, that will be out I think the day before this. So
if you are listening to this then it is you know, it's already out.
You might have already heard it. If you haven't, it means you're
slacking. So go and get involved with all of that. And I'm pretty
sure within the week, within seven days of this, you will also have
the Second Party election on Fire Special, which we are also you know,
deep into preparing for so big stuff happening over there for everybody who supports us.
I guess I'd also just like to slip in a little bit T and
M does horror people people who you know, give that little bit extra to
be a part of that releases, like kind of the international schedule. February
took the fucking piss out of the UK. It has been a extremely bizarre
period. But I am hoping that come sort of you know, March,
we will have you know, we've got a big boy to talk about,
you know. I mean it's annoying. There's like a number of things again,
February completely barren. The only thing that we could have spoken about only
came out in the US, didn't come out here. End of March.
There's like three or four options of things, so it's kind of annoying.
We'll have to meet things out see what we can do. But just to
say, if you are, you know, if you've signed up for that
material, thank you very much for supporting us. We haven't forgotten you.
There will be something, you know, coming towards the end of this month.
So that is what's going on. Like I said, we are about
to go in and record the our club pack that I just mentioned. The
only thing left to do today is talk about releases. And again I spent
like an hour earlier fucking putting these releases together. There's so many considering there's
not many big names necessarily, but there's loads of stuff to leaf through.
This of course includes records that came out last week as well, when we
had our full reviews bag. I believe the job for a cowboy and Darkest
Hour albums that we spoke about last week came out last week as well,
but some other things that are worth mentioning. I suppose it was a big
day for a strange guitarist of hair metal bands because Mick Mars put out his
you know, post Motley Crue record. The other side of Mars and Ace
Freely also had a record called ten Thousand Vaults. I believe one that you
know, plenty of T and M people will be interested in is Amigo the
Devil releases I think maybe third record Yours until the War Is Over Amaranth for
the Swedish ravers out there release the record called The Catalyst. It was actually
quite a busy week for kind of emo and alternative rock, which I don't
always say, but there was a few records here that certainly seem to have
kind of you know, they will fix you up if you are looking for
that kind of material. The first one comes from Glitterer. It's called Rationale.
I believe that record the guy from the guy from Title Fight. So
if you are a Title Fight fan wishing that they would come back, you
should go and listen to this. AM's dead. He's doing something we also
have Shoreline to figure Out and Time Lost Drained, both in those alternative rock
terrains for the freaks out there, the weirdos, sleep Time Guerrilla Museum one
of the I hate, like what's it like dog fashion disco and those kind
of I'm sure again they've got a good material, I'm sure, but what
a fucking awful trend of just like ooh, Animal Zoo band named crazy,
but sleep Time Guerilla Museum, you know, I Gather are a quite real
respective bands in that kind of mister Bungle esque avant garde realm. And they
had a record calld of the Last Human Being, a colab record, another
one from the Body with an at of course well they do like nothing but
with an artist called dis Fek. That record is called Orchard of a Futile
Heaven. If you want some heavy metal Canadian heavy metal, I believe so
vener Is probably loves it. It is a band called Traveler. The record
is called prequel to Madness And as we go more into the kind of extreme
and as if the Body wasn't already that, but Bocknagar released their record fall
Is. They follow up to their last record, which I genuinely believe is
one of the best words they've ever made. I'm not sure if this one
is quite as good as that, but well respected, you know, progressive,
I guess former at this point black metal band. Then we have Stygian
Crown, Funeral for a King for some doom. We have some death metal
in the form of More to Skuld Creation Undone, which is a more kind
of legacy band, and a current band who I believe are one of the
most like flying under the radar, completely overlooked death metal bands currently working are
a band from Ireland called Verkalak and they released their second folloth album called Veneration,
and there isn't another band that sounds like them. Some of it's like
melodic portal like it's really weird, like it's kind of strange and underground and
crypt like, but also the big guitar harmonies and shit in it. Generally
nothing really sounds like him, so good on vercal like, I want listen
to that if that sounds like it, traxy fancy. And then we have
some EPs one on neurot Records, Guiltless Thorns, and another kind of genre
blending crazy metal band at a Japan called Pale Dusk with their EP Pale Hell.
And then we move on to today's releases, and I guess the one
that I am most curious to hear is the first solo record in nineteen years
from the big Man himself, Bruce Dickinson, The Man Drake Project. I'm
sure we will review that one because that feels like an event. Maybe it'll
be the first solo record from Bruce Dickinson that Elliott says is any good,
even though he is wrong. We also have Zach Sabbath Doomed Forever Forever Doomed,
which I'm sure you will not at all be surprised to learn is Zach
Wilde's Black Sabbath kind of cover project. This album is a double album,
hence the kind of mirroring title in which they play the entirety of Paranor and
Master of Reality. I don't understand the point. Why would you listen to,
in sequence a double album of Zach wild and Crewe covering his bosses,
old bands records? What your connections? This man only runs so close,
Zach, you go so far. I wonder how much long remakes with the
solos on the songs like It's not even easier now than just putting the two
original records on. But you're not going to save any or anything. It's
pointless terrible. I haven't heard it, but I'm sure it is anyway.
Ministry have a record called Opium for the Masses New Year's Day if they still
have fans. Their record is called Half black Heart that is out today,
going back again to kind of more like punk up there and stuff like that.
A Mannequin Pussy have a record called I Got Heaven. Pissed Jeans in
the more noisy Terrain have a record called Half Divorced, which is quite kod
I hope you're not full divorced. I hope you make it work. I
don't know heavy metal time one of my enemies, your favorite person fire Wind
Gus g speaking of actually Ossie former guitarists. I suppose stand united new fire
Wind record. This is a band I really used to like about ten years
ago. They are kind of I think Greek thrash band called Suicidal Angels,
and their record is called Profane Prayer that is out today. A bunch of
like heavy metal. We got Haunt with Dreamers, who I was realized earlier.
Haunt are on like their tenth album or something, even though the first
one came out in twenty eighteen, like they need to calm down a little
bit. But if you are on top of all of it is another one
also shea mag playing Favorites and a self tattle record from Century, which is
a band formed by some of these surviving members of Manila Road as that band
are no longer around. And then more extreme stuff. We've got Messiah with
Christus Hypercubus, Devastator, Conjurers of Cruelty, and kind of more again extreme
death, black thrash, whatever, a band which I am this one.
I'm certainly getting interested to hear what it sounds like. I guess the band
called Saturnalia Temple. The record is Paradigm Call. It's not their first record,
but it's a band featuring former members of In Solitude and stuff like that,
but it doesn't sound anything like that. It's much more strange, psychedelic
doom, fair that kind of business. And then we have Celestial Sword Nocturnal
Divinity for the proper raw dungeon synth vampire black metal fans out there, incredible
vampire Dude on the cover of that particular album. And then finally, if
you want some kind of just goth synthy dancy stuff contravoid detachment. Thank you
very much. That is your list of records this time. As said,
I guess next week would just be backfro with a normal hyperblasts. But we
do have in the interim all of that business I was explaining earlier over in
the Patreon, So if you want to go and get involved with that,
support us, listen to that many many hours of content over the week patron
dot com slash that's not the place to be for that. I am off
to a festival at the weekend, so I'll see. I guess how much
I will report on from from from that next time. But yeah, cheers
everybody, and we have to now go and start this party.