Hello everybody, Welcome to That's No Metal On. Welcome back to Hyperblast.
We are back here for the second week now of twenty twenty four. News
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every Friday. My name is Parenhiesh. Sam Dignon is here before me.
Hello, Hello. Not a lot going on in my lab at the moment,
but you know, when's your when's your first what's your first gig of
the year? Come hopefully? Did I get all sorted Spanish love songs in
like next weekend? Right? Yeah? I was in the discord yesterday.
Yesterday, I was in five guys pre the gig I'm about to talk about,
and some rocker with the Orcs was playing the screaming trees hell yeah into
a Spanish love song song. I can't remember which one it was, but
it's all about the garden. I don't like him. It wasn't that one,
but it was a real like, oh shit, I can hear that
that man while I'm eating some farmyard meat in the form of this burger.
Very appropriate and very fun, but yeah, fair play there. Yeah,
so as I've obviously just alluded to, we haven't got a question section this
week because I feel like there's gonna be a fair old run time on this
anyway, because I have my first show of the year to talk about,
and it was a very one of those cases where the first show of the
year is one of the big sort of you know live music story, say,
the currently big tour of the year is going to be one of the
biggest tours of the year, isn't it really? Yeah? Absolutely, I
am, of course talking about Bringing the Horizons Arena tour that was supposed to
be in support of the post Human Next Gen record. It's now a prelude
to the Posthuman Next Gen record, but you know, it brought along a
really big support bill in terms of, you know, bands who are kind
of up and coming at the moment, and I decided to go along.
And my perspective going into this was is a bit of a strange one,
perhaps because the main reason I went into this is essentially Bringing the Horizon were
playing in the actual city I live in, and so I didn't have to
travel anywhere, and it sort of felt like almost like a now or never
moment in that regard of like me actually going to see them because them before
I remember no, because at their like artistic peak, when they were like,
you know, they were the up and coming band, I wasn't like
in and around their shows. I never caught any of their like big arena
tours prior to this. I didn't do download last year. The shows I
actually like would have liked to go to were in places like Malaga. I
wasn't going to go there, so and I guess it's in the last few
years they'd stopped being a band I kind of prioritized, so and you know,
this tour, you know, with the that has and everything, I
probably would have skipped over it again personally if it hadn't been like right on
my doorstep. So I was like, this is the time to do it.
And as it happened, it became a you know, it was a
really fascinating experience for me to sort of step into something that has you know,
obviously it's evolved far past the time that I was most plugged into it,
and because of that, I got to see, you know, as
an overall package, top to bottom, as a tour, it obviously represents
a lot of what has been rising to the top in heavy music lately,
you know, the Next Gen tour and I think, you know, whether
you like the bands on it or not, it as a really encapsulating kind
of case study that might end up being remembered as like this tour is where
popular heavy music was at in you know, twenty twenty four. I mean
that's kind of being the been the case for bringing me tours a lot in
the past when you look back to you know, their massive twenty eleven tour
when it was them Parkway Drive Architects, dev wes Prada like they they they
the has always been about that kind of like addressing the state of this is
what is going on right now? Yeah, the state of the scene if
you will to someone else, but yeah, And I went in with that
with a total sense of like academic curiosity, you know. I'd heard that
their recent live shows had been good, you know, Elliott Download said that
that was a really good performance, and I was curious as to how,
you know, other things would be received. Stack Dress the band. I
guess it was nice to see on the bill because they are the thing closest
to I guess us at the moment where we come from as a podcast.
The trade off for that is, you know, you fear for them a
little bit because they seemed to me like a band who are best suited to
kind of pop off in small venues, and like I saw them opening in
an academy size venue a couple of years ago. I think it was a
funeral for a friend and it was okay, and this was an arena,
you know, bigger again, but I thought for that slot they actually did
perfectly well. It's still a case of like their sound with all that sharp
odd edges, is like not perfectly suited to something like that, And you
know, they're the act of the four on this tour who kind of sung
felt the most muddied. I guess in that regard, nothing really came through
apart from clean at the very end, but there was energy and they were
very up for it, and they clearly you know, there were people in
the crowd who knew them and were up for it as well, and it
was just quite nice to hear some like proper post hardcore ahead of like anything
else, you know, and again, you know, kind of strange way,
it made me wonder, like what would someone like see Uspace Cowboy do
with a stage like this if they were sort of given that same opportunity.
Cassiette comes on, who, to put things very bluntly, I have only
heard name dropped by people who just don't seem to think the things are cool
that I think are cool right as a set, I have certainly heard and
seen worse. But her logo looks like it should be Cyber Dog in Camden,
and I quite enjoyed the kind of brain dead gabber energy it had at
bits of it, although her you know, non committal to like gabba dancing
was pitiful. I don't want you pretending to look cool and composed. I
want you flailing your limbs like you're a German in nineteen ninety five. But
you know, it was all right. But like I just I think my
thing with stuff like Cassieer is I just don't quite understand what the aim or
the audience is because it's it's essentially just vapid pop where she screams. I've
tried through so many of these acts coming through and I'm just like, I'll
just go listen to pop music, like it's like, what that's my takeaway?
Alternate even name only. But but you've alienated yourself from the actual mainstream
by you know, screaming and stuff. So it's it's not one thing or
the other. And so it's the kind of career where you're making pop music,
but the endgame of it is seemingly to be third on an arena bill
to you know, still heavier bands and you like bring me the horizon for
you know, the rest of time. So I can't say it getting further
than that. So I don't get it, you know, like your face
down, Anne Marie, Okay, it just seems like a useless slice of
the Venn diagram. It is very funny, obviously after everything that was said
on the T ANDM Award Show at the end of last year that my first
gig of twenty twenty four should end up being seeing bad Omens, but they
were the support act I was most curious about because obviously they are annointed ones.
I wanted to see it in action, particularly as we've said about it
being seeming like a kind of us phenomenon up to this point. But there
are signs that this upcoming year might be when bad Omens like really happens here
and again, going into this with as like objective academica mindset as possible you
might be expected me to, you know, really lay into this. There
is you know, there's there's another band who's often compared to bad Omens.
The one time I have seen them, I went into it with this same
kind of academic mindset of like, let's see what you got. In that
case. I cannot say it was entirely you know, like you know,
not in part due to the environment they were in, admittedly, but that
was genuinely dreadful. This what I saw as something where watching it work on
people, it made sense to me why it was working. The people who
were there like popping off for it, and I'd have to say it's probably
one of the best reactions I have seen for an arena main support band,
like it's it's obviously happening. It is just shouting networkor with then sad pop
parts that are like White Weekend or something like it's really obvious what the lines
between the elements are. But you know, for the generation who have grown
up with those things as they're kind of primary reference points, it obviously works
like Gangbusters, and people were genuinely reacting to the songs, like not just
screaming at Noah or whatever, but like, you know, while they're not
for me, they do clearly have some choruses and some songs that have made
a mark on people. And it was really slickly pulled off, like they
have a genuine production themselves, like it's a light show. Their mosh caulls
were coming up on the scream and all that kind of shit. There was
nothing about them that looked like it didn't look at home in an arena,
which in itself is kind of impressive. The inverse was actually the thing that
kind of jumped out of me in terms of like what wasn't there because it
was so machine like in that it was like, yeah, it was clearly
such a well oiled, well practiced thing. They kept all leaving the stage
after literally every single song. It was really weird, like there was no
sense at all of like, oh that song's finished, band organically, you
know, kick into the next thing or whatever. No spontaneity of one thing
lead to another. It was so weird saying like every single support every single
song of a support slot, even like being treated like the first song of
an encore, and that they all left and then came back like the other
guys on stage are adding absolutely nothing. There is one song that was the
most egregious health ripoff I have ever heard, like literally down to the vocal
effect, just a health song, and it threw me so hard for a
loop when it came on. And it's got millions more plays than all of
health songs, So there might be some legal grounds there. When they wander
off, are they having like you know, music and that atmospheric interview electerally
it's playing in between them? Is it just walk off and come back on?
Mostly it's just sort of the lights go down and then they come back.
You know, it's not like an extended, you know, three minute
absence obviously having something to like see it all together whilst they're wandering off stage,
Like not not entirely, no, it's just sort of like just kept
being like where's he going? What does he need to get off the stage?
But you know, my main problem with bad Omens isn't really even their
songs or whatever. It's just that it feels so much like a computer has
spat out the result of an input of modern metalcore band with twenty twenties pop
elements, Like it's really competently performed but it's just devoid of personality. And
you know, someone I was with afterwards said like, don't you just want
to develop a cult like obsession with this six out of ten at best band?
But it was it was obviously very assuredly delivered, you know, for
that audience. And yeah, as much as I'd like to say otherwise,
it did feel like watching a band in an ascendency. But you know,
seeing a band put on a really slick, professional pop metal core show but
with no personality, it did set the stage really well for Bring Me the
Horizon to follow and kind of show how it is actually kind of done,
because, like I said, I went into this tentatively positive, right,
Like I was looking really to like have a great time at least with the
songs I have loved for a long time, and otherwise just enjoy a big
arena production show. And you know, a lot of talk has gone to
the production on this run maybe similar to what they had it download perhaps to
my understanding, is it the greatest production ever? It was very good.
I'm just saying I've seen more than one person call it that, and I'm
like, can we grow up? I think it's I think it's the greatest
production that I have seen a metalcore band put on, aside from perhaps a
Parkway drive. Yeah, yeah, who again, it must be said I
have not seen Parkway in their arena filling years. I'm thinking back some way
in terms of like visuals rather than just lots of fire. It was like
a big, high budget production jump. Maybe you know, things in Bringley's
realm aren't always touching for a number of reason, and so I'm really glad
I end up going in the end, you know, considering my thought was
to basically grab tickets if there are any left, like a week or two
ago, even if they're you know, not in my favorite era, ticking
bring me off my list. While they are like you know, entering that,
while they are like very much in their pomp as like a truly massive
arena band, it was highly impressive. It's talking about the production. The
first like handful of songs amusingly to me, the stage basically look like a
Creator show. Like there was like crazy graphics or anything. Yeah, it
was just like a vaguely religious backdrop like they're at a church and some fire,
right, Yeah, And I was like, yeah, this is cool,
but it's it's a Creator show it, but I kind of I admired
that like no nonsense approach at the start of it. You know, they
kind of they did let the performance itself kind of do a decent amount of
the lifting to begin with, and those like first few songs dark Side to
open, which I said when we spoke about kool Aid is I think that's
the single that like I almost missed it being released, like it totally like
passed me by and barely just coming out. But to hear that like opening
the set and getting a really great response was like a bit of a wake
up call. And then immediately after that the first like oh yeah, kind
of moment of the night Empire let them sing that's cool to drop like and
actually like heavy hit her off paternal that one that is like, yeah,
big riff again going in. I still think it's mad that, you know,
we didn't get sleep Walking, didn't get House of Wolves or anything,
but you know, getting Empire second was a lovely moment. And then the
sixth song after his first run was kool Aid and again throughout it, you
know, this must have been at least kind of mostly new from the festival
run they did last year, because it was so new album centric, they
had this like obviously they're in like their video game era, right, like
that's the whole stick. And they've got this character Eve on the screens talking
like she's from like a Dead Space game or something like you know, hello
everyone, you've got to strap in whatever, and the dialogue is like pretty
cringe a lot of the time, like it is bringing the horizon. It's
a lot of like hello, we're here to fucking rock your world or whatever,
and at time it's a bit of the screen. It's a bit like
you're standing in the room before you get on a theme park ride where you
have to pretain you're like boarding a spaceship. But kool Aid hits the Sick
song and this huge fucking like rotting, decaying angel thing like breaks through the
backdrop of the stage on the screen with this like three D effect because it
like curved round the stage, and you know, you hear that story about
like the people who watched the first ever like recorded moving image of the train
coming towards them and how they all like screamed because they thought they were going
to die. If you showed them this, they would have spontaneously combusted.
Like it was seriously cool. There was a part in the middle which essentially
acted as like an advertisement slash assurance for the new record, because they were
like, yeah, it's coming, and they played like a bunch of snippets
of like unreleased songs, and then they got people they were apparently recording a
gang vocal that will be on the album, where they got the whole crowd
to like scream along and repeat a word. So that was like a little
fucking interlude in the middle, and you know, the cool aid like the
songs like that. You know, obviously it's the post Human tour, and
it was very much focused. They got six singles out from this new thing,
so they have to play all those and then there was about four from
the first one as well, so that's like a bit a bit more than
half of the set covered some of them, like I don't think there's much
saving die for you, even if it is slightly less obnoxious than on record,
doing the acoustic version of Strangers where they all come together to kind of
stand in the middle. I don't think bring me or a band meant to
sit in a sad little drum circle together like they're the script. Like Matt
looks so sad in the middle with a like pathetic little acoustic drum kit.
But that effect I just mentioned that of, like, you know, some
of these singles have had of kind of like passing through my brain like kind
of production line slop or whatever, or in other cases being outright annoying.
This really made it clear to me that a lot of that is to do
with this studio sound, because in front of me with a crowd singing along,
I found myself a lot more swept up in dark Side or Lost or
Parasite Eve than I expected. And so when they are then playing the songs
I do fucking love you know, can you feel my heart? Shadow Moses,
they're dropping at like the end of like the first third of the set,
thrown like they felt really amazing. Olie sounds really strong with the screams
like some guttur all noises coming out of that boy. The melodic vocals,
particularly on the new songs, obviously there's a degree of like effects on his
voice and everything, and he kept saying like, oh, my voice is
nearly going. I needed to help me out, and then proceeding to sing
pitch perfectly. But diamonds aren't forever. The one nod to the really disgusting
days. I was annoyed because Ollie was like, we're going to play an
old song, and he's like, what one do you want? Pray for
plagues? They It's like, all right, coward fucking do it. But
Diamonds, you know you'll take. They've been bringing Noah from bad Omens out
for Antivist every night, but seemingly for the first time last night, Yeah,
they brought Ali Appleyard out to do Diamonds and so the two of them
together just a big ball of aggressive energy on that. Yeah. Again,
you know, to be fair to them and settlers choices, like clearly most
people are there for the posts and paternal material. In terms of response the
songs where they have like really prominent guests on like the recent lot, it
is a case of them like basically playing a track for those parts with like
some kind of representation on screen, which, particularly in the case of Amen,
was mental because they had this Daryl Palumbo face on screen that it looked
a bit like the bit in Twin Peaks when Josie is trapped in the door
toob like it was really fucking weird and ugly. But again, the chorus
of that song like really goes off. That's like one of the best of
their like human tracks. I was expecting a wall of young bloods, like
when Baby Men will do that Sabaton song, but we were spared that King
Slayer. They've got like you know, fox Mask girls going ape shit on
the screen doing a dance routine. And to be fair, even when that
song, that chorus being like on track live, that song live, it's
so fucking crazy energetic that it is just like a proper blast in terms of
carry you in it on that one, Like yeah, it's just the drum
and based tempos with it. In terms of like obviously a lack of Jordan
Fish. I never saw them with him, so I didn't notice it per
se. It sounded great. They've got like an extra guitar guy doing some
backing vocals that I presume were his before. Yeah, yeah, minimal difference
live at least. I've never I've never quite fully got there with like backing
dancers at a metal show, but Sexy Hazmat Suits was quite funny. And
then they had this like during the encore break, they had this like sort
of you know, self indulging nostalgic video of like clips of bringing Horrizon all
down the ages, you know, the famous the videos and the famous clips
like Ollie jumping on cold place table, which took me back to that being
covered on the show all you know, the way back then. But I
was thinking about, like, you know, around the kind of that's the
spirit days. There was a little bit of people feeling like that they'd been
short changed from bringing me arena headlines because they were doing these like short seventy
minute sets or whatever, and here they did like a full, you know,
hour and forty minutes. Yeah, with a really high budget production,
a set list full of songs people love, even with more than half it
being songs from the last five years. I do think, you know,
you have to go. Yeah, that is definitely a proper arena headlining festival
headlining show. Like if anyone was still doubting that at this stage, it
feels like, you know, obviously, but was it like nine years and
one month ago was their first arena show at that famous Wembley thing, Yeah,
which I was really jealous about pople going into it when they showed they
could do it at that and that show was amazing, But it was Yeah,
the kind of the ones following that where it kind of felt I was
like, why is this not as good as what you did at Wembley?
And yeah, it feels like the last sort of twelve months between download and
then this have like kind of definitively answered that that sort of all points East
questioning, you know that existed for a couple of years before that, of
people going, oh, bring me actually that big or capable. It looked
borderline sold out, like all the tears were rammed, and it was Liverpool,
which always when there's both a Liverpool and a Manchester date, Liverpool was
always going to slightly suffer in terms of ticket sales. It was one of
the last shows to get anywhere near sold out or anything. But you know,
they basically did it. I thought it was a really great show.
And this is coming from someone who thinks there their creative masterpiece record is one
they didn't play anything off, and who has had a strained relationship with the
recent material. Maybe twenty twenty four is the year I get back into bring
me. Who knows new music primarily comes from sort of similar lanes ahead of
their arena at all, which I have to say I've not really kept tabs
on this one in terms of like is this one selling well? Is this
one I really big? I don't know. I need to do because I
want to look at getting it a tokeet for London, so I need to
actually look at what the state of that is. Yeah, but Enter Shikari
and Fever through through three have released a song ahead of that. It's called
Losing My Grip. It's it's an Enchicari song featuring Jason Butler, but he
is Fever and they've described this as like a kind of drummond bass punk song.
What struck me listening to this was just a kind of giggly feeling of
if you don't like ni, if they get on your nerves, this song
must be a nightmare. This is them out their mode, like yeah,
their most obnoxious kind of like big womping bass and Row doing his like like
rhyming couplets and all of this sort of stuff. I had fun with this,
like I've seen if you were really give this a bit of a kick,
and I'm like having it's a bitch, like a big kind of arena
pumping like pop song for them with just Jason Butler doing his like Hamilton Butler
like, yeah, I don't really like this. I think it's it's sort
of the electronic mix of elements is less fun this time than kind of unpleasant,
Like the main riff is this sort of weird plinky plonky attitude horrible thing
it's like, and Shikari doing almost like a Ramstein type tempo out of like
spare bits and bobs that they found, like there's I don think there's a
real chorus in there. It's bizarrely kind of stilted in tempo and momentum for
a band who are best at like flying but I did I remember, you
know, back before Kiss for the Whole World came out, they were releasing
like some standalone singles like that one with Orgasm that came out, and at
the time we're a bit like, I'm not wholly sure about this, and
then the album came out and it was great, and so with stuff like
this, I'm just like experiment with less good ideas off of the album's fine.
It's sort of thing where if you had told me a couple of years
ago that Shakhari and Jason Butler were doing your collab, I would have a
lot higher expectations, mainly on Jason Butler's part than Chakhari's part, but I
had fun enough of this. Yes, another new song in the metalcore kind
of realm comes from a band called invent Animate. It's called Sleepless. This
band weren't on my radar until last year ish when suddenly they released an album
and we had a few people in our comments going like, oh, you
haven't reviewed the invent Animate album. It's the best heavy album of the year,
et cetera. And I went, he was this and I checked it
out and I had no feelings on it whatsoever. This is the first thing
that has been released, I'd think, after you know, that album has
come out, So I thought, this is the opportunity for us to go
like, hey, like, what is our take on this? Like decently
popular new band, and aside from them having one of the worst does not
roll off the name fucking tongue band names I've ever heard after like invent Animates,
what this is just a total shrug from me. I'm afraid, Uh,
this feels like a band completely out of time, Like this you you've
plucked this from like the early twenty ten's of the whole gent scene, Like
this is so of that era, even down to the name invent Anime.
This to me screams you know, when it was like circles and textures and
all of those, all of those bands that again I quite like a lot
of that stuff, but Melkorn and have Music's moved on well beyond that,
and this feels just and there's like a Genti riff in this, which I'm
like, I've heard that riff so many times. It's like the like really
like sort of scarto like one and it just yeah, and the core or
this is completely flat. I was like, I don't think this is you
know, terrible. It just it's just another gent metical band to me,
Yeah, I just I just hear nothing interesting at all. Like even for
the talking points about what this is, it's just a total shrug of well,
it's a medical song. Like I'm genuinely I'm a bit stumped as to
what people are seeing in this because there's not really a big clear selling point
like a spirit box or a sleep token or whatever. It's just like the
riff, like you said, is that it's a non entity, like no
character or specific impact at all. The chorus is alright, I'm just a
bit nonplusters to what the big drawer is. It reminds me of when people
were like really trying to make North Lane happen in the twenty tens, and
it was like, well, this is just boring tech metalcre with no real
charisma beyond that, and we're still doing it. North Flank had choruses and
bigger moments in them. I know you discribed, but I always felt like
Northank, you know, had like Quantum Flux has like that really big chorus
and masquerade like they got it with North Flane, but that that's why they
are. This is just another one of those bad It's just that should have
been around ten years ago and it would have been like they would have sorted
in just as well. And I just feel this being is absolutely nothing new
to the table. I like say spirit Box or Loaf, you know,
those or bands who are the better bands of this modern genty metal core that
are doing something new of it. This is just doing that thing to a
not bad soundard but again very like what you were saying about bad Omens and
that it's so work like, it's so machine like, it's just got no
spark to it. Yeah, but I mean bad Omens has a like the
obviously the pop elements that they're drawing in electronic elements, they are very now
ye Whereas you know, people seem jazzed on this, and it wouldn't be
the first time that the popularity of a new metalcore band has you know,
bemused us. But even just in terms of like what is the specific cell
on this, this just like registers absolutely nothing with me. So it's a
bit heavier like than to some people that they go on They go with that,
but I'm with you, I don't get it. But to me,
I've already would have liked this ten years ago, but I shrugged at it
ten years ago, shrugging. That's what I liked North Lane, I liked
Circle. Yeah, pick any band of that era that they're all names have
escape me, you know, born of anything like that. I liked that
stuff, and this is, you know, just more of that. But
I don't see why it's particularly worthy of excitement in twenty twenty four. Yeah,
I guess we'll see, you know, what happens with invent Anime and
if it goes any further or whatever. But currently, I you know,
the popularity of this one is largely perplexing me and passing us by. Green
Day have announced that their Savior's tour will very much funnily feature them playing two
other albums in their entirety. Instead, they're going to be playing I Guess
the thirtieth anniversary of Dookie and the twentieth of American Idiot, which totals up
to I guess a bit over an hour and a half of music. Luckily,
I suppose Green Day play for about fucking three hours. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, they so they will fit in other stuff as well. Again,
you make tough for those haos. Yeah. I know. The thing
with this is you go, oh sweet, Dookie's half an hour, but
when they play it, it'll be fifteen minutes long. Which is the problem
with this up. I mean, obviously, you know, go and and
see these songs. A lot of great songs are going to be seen.
There's a lot of there's a lot of good stuff there. It is just
funny, right back to metalcore where all the ship shows happen. It's been
a week. Sleep Token have wiped their social media accounts, particularly their Instagram
and everything, and there's a little statement in their place which says nothing lasts
forever. This unfortunately comes hot on the heels of some fucking awful antics going
down doing from weird, obsessive, creepy story some some you know, obsessive
Sleep Token fans try to find who they are and we're leaking personal details onto
the internet. And then I don't know, if this thing had happened without
that a few days before, it'd be like, oh cool, a new
era of sleep That's what bands do, right, they delete the exercial media.
Probably even still, that's probably what this is. Like. Do I
think Sleep Token have just broken up? No? No, I don't really,
they're you know, they're riding too much of a high. But the
timing of this happening within days of like fans crossing a line and you know,
personally compromising the people involved. Is this a question of, like,
have sleep Tokens fans pressured them out of existence? I think it's gonna be
a case of because as similar thing has happened to bad Omens, as we've
talked about it, they've like guy deleted all this stuff. Oh the whole
band have now every single member is wiped their social media presence because they are
they like fans are just crossing lines. And I think I think this is
accommodation of a like pr stunt of like like a new year of see whatever.
But I do think when they come back, you're going to see again
a much reduced social media presence for at least the backing members of the band,
because they are probably tired of having their live stalked by people whose socials,
like skills have just evaporated and don't get boundaries. Maybe maybe it's a
warning, you know, it's like we're going away and we're going to come
up with a new era at this time. But remember that we did it
within days of up being fucking freaks, and don't do that to us again.
And if that is the case, then you know, fair play to
him. Spirit Box. Here is the big man that we spoke about being
absent before. Spirit Box are apparently in the studio with one Jordan Fish,
formerly of Bringing the Horizon. And I saw this and you know, again,
I don't know exactly why Jordan Fish left. Bring me if it is
a case he hasn't left to join another band at least immediately, right,
if it is a case of like he's done with the whole world touring,
you know, thing at the moment, I think a you know, rather
than a new creative project, and it being a kind of a producer role
for bands seems like a really natural role for him to slip into because that
was, of course what he's most famous for in regards to his relationship with
Bring Me. So I saw this and went, yeah, I feel like
that seems like a perfect match of like, who's the sort of guy you
could really like bring out? Because spirit walks away has been doing a bit
more of the electronic stuff, So who's the guy you want to turn to
to really get the most out of that? Get Jordan Fish in this feels
like a natural Yeah, I don't. I don't think he's like joining Spirit
Box. I think I've seen a few people say is he going to join
them? On? Like, I don't think so, but as a producer
for them, perfect makes sense. Yeah, I mean, if that is
a path that he decides to go down, you can absolutely see Jordan Fish
in a producer capacity becoming a really you're continuing to be a really influential figure
in kind of the sonic you know, landscape of you know, contemporary metal
and everything. And speaking of producers, Kerry King announced this week that his
upcoming album that were speaking about before has been produced by Josh Wilbur, so,
you know, not anyone who has actually worked on pre Slayer, because
I was expecting it to be honest, to be the guy who did Repentless,
but Josh Wilber is I guess, you know, the things that most
spring to mind are like the latest round of Trivium and Lamb of God Records,
so big, chunky, modern metal stuff. I think. I think
basically what we're expecting from this Kerry King thing is to it to sound like
latter day Slayer, but probably with like a scream vocalist or something like that,
rather than like old school, like a slightly more two thousands big American
metal festival version of like what classic Slayer kind of was. And Josh Wilber
certainly sounds like you'd be the kind of guy to line up with that vision.
Some people this morning, as we're recording this, headed over to one
Patty Walter's Instagram and we're greeted with a message that may have crushed them that
currently music has no place in the current forefront of that dude's life as it
is, are on indefinite Hiata God weeps, We'll always have dial tones,
we will always have dial tones, and some of the worst promo picture I've
ever taken by any band ever and equally shocking news my lord, when I
saw this turned up on my Facebook feed and I'd like stop and double take
at it. Winter Sun, all the ef and Winter Sun announced on Facebook
this week casually that the time to album is one hundred percent done. If
you are not in the no on Winter Sun, let's just say, take
any fucking weight for a tool album and amplify the hilariosity of it and the
bullshit of it many times over. It was very funnily pointed out that this
announcement was also accompanied by another crowdfund. I saw that there's that we need
another kickstarter to do something like that. Wait, if the AM's done,
then what Yeah? I think that that's for like, you know, the
pre or a physical deluxe editions, whatever the fuck. In a way,
you know, it's him, you know, being like invest in the thing
that you want to see. Yeah, and we will make it, you
know. But it's just increasingly funny seing that happen. But this is unbelievable.
I particularly did not see this happening hilariously so soon, because the way
this lunatic genius idiot man works is he has been updating over the past several
years that he's been working on about three or four different Winter Sun albums at
once right in his like mega fucking like take rivers Croomo's spreadsheets and amplify them
to some kind of like terminator degree in the amount of like fucking like pro
tools files this man will have in his computer. But he's been like,
yeah, like the Time two album is about seventy percent done, but I've
been working on this other album that's like forty percent done, and everyone's been
going, ah, just furnished one of the albums rather than getting eight percent
there and then putting on ice and going like, oh, there's another one,
come and just make one. And that's what I assume would just be
happening for so he is now. But then he just turned up and was
like, oh, by the way, Time two is done, you know,
give us a bit more money and we'll tell you when it will come
out later in the year. And that is fucking crazy news. It does
mean that we will certainly have to get around to that Time One album club
that was yeah, once sons of Foodstars is massive. More of that,
you know, within the next couple of packs. But yeah, or a
hilarious saga perhaps coming to a close before another one inevitably begins right off the
back of it. Right here is some fucking excitement. We've got a little
bit of festival news from a couple different places. First up, we're obvious
we're going to talk about the Damnation festival announcement because it aside from maybe the
mental one a couple of years ago when they were like, oh yeah,
fucking Pig Destroyer doing proudly that whole you know, Jane do that whole thing
that you know, broke fucking extreme metal Twitter for the day. I can't
remember a like single, like one day Damnation announcement that has like ticked so
many boxes for me as this one. This is fucking beautiful and it includes
things that we have directly asked for. It includes things that we didn't think
were physically possible. It includes things that are extremely timely for where we have
recently been. Wow, this fucking lineup, I mean, like I think
it was like because it was it was on that morning where they tea they
posted the little of the teaser trailer for it, and it had the boon
Dog Saints up and I was like, hang on a fucking second, boo
from can't be in the country, I swear and your tea and you're doing
this. If you've managed to like like Russellers together, then fair fucking player.
And then they roped the announcement. I just looked to him took like,
I mean, we'll look at that top line and I was like,
I'm that damnation, like don't even matter, Like the restaurant could be toilet
going by this not gonna be and going by damnation standards. But when your
top line is and these aren't, your headliners is bleeding through. Doing this
is love. This is murderous in full and fucking nails. Damnation could not
have done a better sort of Paul for me. Yeah. Absolutely, in
terms of the top line, I completely agree. And then going down further,
there are things that you may me more than you, but like directly
below them. I actually I think Russian circles are brilliant and gates, yeah,
I've wanted to see them for ages. Well, well, let me
read this whole announcement. We do have as said, none of these are
the proper full on headliners yet. But we have Bleeding Through playing This is
Love, This is Murderous in class exclusively in the UK a classic. If
you have heard our special and Bleeding Through we did last year, you know
how passionately we feel about that album and how high it sits in the all
time metal classics. We have. The UK return of Fucking Nails is an
exclusive. It's also a you know, we were saying that they don't seem
to have announced any other shows yet in terms of the Nails comeback that's ongoing,
so this is currently the first thing that has been announced to it in
the world. We have Russian Circles, we have Gate Creeper, we have
the Ruins of Beaver. We have Celeste Ahab Dual, Gillian Carter and Hexas.
Jillian Carter I was not super familiar with, but I know people were
quite excited that I need to check them out because they sound like I would
actually quite yeah, like this seems like quite a savvy, cool booking of
like a kind of a newer like scream oh Emo violence type band. Very
cool stuff there. Ahab were meant to play last year. I really fucking
wanted them to come back because I've been waiting for that band for so long.
Then they announced a London show in like June, and I was like,
oh, no, are you playing this instead of coming back to dam
Nation where I'm gonna be able to really see you. But here they are
a have a back ruins of Beaver asked I have their last album with like
in my you know, top twenty that year. I fucking love that record,
haven't seen them off the back of it, really excited for that.
Celeste are always just standard fantastic live band every time you see them. Duel
for me is one of like the Fly another radar, because I don't think
they're that well known, but I adore that band. They are like that
kind of sort of you know, uh, very very classy, sleek occult
melodic kind of rock heavy netle thing featuring fom memals of Doula Budd and the
like. Their last album fucking incredible, and they're one of those bands a
bit like Maggotheart and the like who only seem to exist in mainland Europe and
like when they come to the UK it's been extremely fleeting. So I've been
wanting to see them for a long time and this is an incredible booking for
that. And then as you say, Russian circles, Gate creeper, great
stuff. You know, we said this on the special we've just recorded itself.
But that Nail special we've just done, we were gonna record it two
days prior, we had to delay it, and then the morning we actually
recorded it, this announcement went out and we were like, oh, fucking
serendipity, absolutely incredible. So yeah, you gotta remember as well, this
is the Bees area that's Nails playing in, Like, yeah, they've got
to have a main stage. Surely enough people are gonna be wanting to see
Nails, but wow, that is gonna be something, and there certainly will
be some firefights. Of course. We also have the Friday headliner of Outbreak
Festival. That is the day that this time has turned into the kind of
the hip hop day. It's Action Bronson, Action Bronson. I do.
I'm not familiar with the Guys catalog at all. I would just say it's
it's kind of interesting this year, how even more than last year, they've
really separated well it's two separate tickets exactly, Like I'm not quite sure what
the thinking is there. They've properly gone. Okay, here is like a
hip hop Day essentially is its own event, and then like you know,
typical outbreak the next two days. What do you think about that? Yeah,
I wondered if it's because there was just like a weird kind of divide
in the vibes and the cards, so I will separate them out. I
would. I would like to see them just fully just integrate and just kind
of alternate between hip hop bands halker bands and not like have a hip hop
day a halfcolled day or whatever. But I mean, currently I've only got
a ticket to the Saturday Sunday of that outbreak, mainly because like we didn't
actually get to discuss the lineup because it announced after we were on our break.
But it's red that the hardcore you know, pairing of days is really
fucking good. Yeah, and they damn head like that. But I'd quite
like see Action Bronson. The few of these songs I've heard always pretty cool,
and he does does a wrestler, I like, he does his entrance
theme, so that's a thing of course. But uh yeah, I just
I don't know if I'll be out the Friday, but like that's a big
name to have headline Hip Hop Day for like the size of the thing they've
got, so I hope that goes down well. Yeah, And continuing on
the big trendy, popular hardcore stuff Coachella and that was their line up this
week. And it's always interesting seeing basically what bands from the hardcore eily.
Yeah, that's the only place apart from a couple of big names like No
I'm Sorry, Deathtones are on there taking back Sunday and they're no doubt is
that reunion shows No doubt reunions. That's pretty fucking wildn't it. Like that's
that's with Gwen right, Like, yeah, full on no doubt playing that
wucking something to see. But it's you know, the small hardcore bands is
always I guess what we'd look at as like who's turning up no surprise a
towards the military gun there that makes the most out of sense in the world.
Yeah, they're the band who got the Taco Bell adverts. So they
get to play Coachella. Yeah, and hopefully they will, you know,
get some great crowdsurfing photos of someone like jumping on the head of someone with
a flower crowd or whatever. Weird things normally happen at Coachella. Code Orange
unfortunately had to postpone their upcoming tour for the above record because guitarist dom Landolina
has suffered an injury and they are waiting for him to return to full strength
hopefully to see you know, we'll see Code Orange back on the road in
full capacity sooner rather than later. More grim news, unfortunately is that again.
This morning, as we're doing this, the news came that Pitchfork has
been largely gutted. It's being merged with GQ under an ownership thing. Half
of the staff has been laid off. I know that Pitchfork are a name
that like, there are people out there who I don't agree with, and
I don't think you should be this sort of like vindictive about it, But
there are people out there who are like, yeah, good fuck Pitchfall.
I mean, I don't like Pitchfork, but I don't want to see this,
Like people who they don't want to see people losing their jobs. You
don't want to see particularly, I think you don't want to see the cachet
of kind of music journalism and music writing as a you know, a medium
being perpetually kind of you know, gutted and reduced and devalued and turned into
a kind of commodity as it is with this. And you know, Pitchfork
for their faults they have, you know, they they fucking write about two
Mold right, like they've reviewed Cobalt Records if one comes along, like they
have done decent amounts to kind of put you know, interesting, strange,
arty, extreme music into the hands of people otherwise. So yeah, you
know, thoughts go into all the you know, the folks at Pitchfork who
are being affected by this are then Sevenfold have released their long awaited Fortnite map,
apparently based on the song We Love You, which presumably means it will
be an unnavigatable fucking nightmare. And Caliber Corps this week released branded Caliber Corps
dog collars, and if the comments on the announcement they're ready to go by,
it's not dogs are going to be used on this for some other purposes.
I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, would you snap up
the Cannibal Corps dog slash someone else? I haven't got dogs, so you
don't know. No, it's got the little fucking butchered the birth baby on
as well, So maybe if you put it on your baby, that'd be
hard right. As said, haven't got a question section this week. They
will return in the next Hyperblasts full episode. But we do have some news
to tell you about what is going on over on the Patreon this week,
as we alluded to earlier. As we warned last week, the band specials
for twenty twenty four are already underway. It's already happened. Our first one
is ticked Off. It was a special on motherfucking Nails, the band who
defined the twenty tens in hard extreme music, the band who got everyone so
hyped and excited and then got some of that audience pissed off and jaded with
them with how things went towards the end of that decade. But they are
back. They're gonna be playing fucking Damnations festival. We apparently got an album
coming soon, and we so decided it was the time to undertake a dissection
of their whole legacy and catalog up to this point. And oh my god,
what a fucking band those records. I mean, we did everything else
as well, but that the three albums that came out less an hour of
music, the most replayable, addictive shit ever like that, That has been
it for me is the last two weeks have just been slamming those Nails records
over and over and like the fact is right there, you know, see
there's let's own music there. How much discussion do we get out of those
amps, because there is so much to them that you can actually pick apart
and dissect and celebrate. And just again you say that I was one of
those, you know, kind of jaded now as fans by the end,
but like this was just me kind of going it doesn't matter because the music
that we got is just untouchable, ripping on the silent death still, Like
like this week I've just been like playing those songs against I'm like I've got
spare thirteen minutes. There you go. Yeah, we speak about all again
what those albums represented, what they did for kind of grind and power,
violence and the places they took it and how you know, they crossed over
into so many strange, unexpected areas, how everyone rallied behind them as like
the de facto hardest band on the planet in a way you rarely ever see
with like anything from anyone genre. We speak about the kind of strange public
image they had, like were they actually kind of gate keyp hardcore. You
will never be one of us elitists we speak about like press drama and fucking
hit pieces that were published on them and all this kind of stuff that all
factors into you know, again, when you think Nails, what is the
kind of band, the kind of image that pops into your head? And
at the end of it, we just look forward to the next chapter of
that story, really happy to have something like that in that level of detail
on again, a comparatively newer band like that put out there into the world.
Upcoming, we've actually got the album Clubs episode next. We have,
you know, the last couple months of last year, we kind of had
to like you know, really just skidaddle a bit to kind of like put
some of the stuff we were doing together, So album Clubs kind of fell
by the wayside, but they are, of course and be coming back in
twenty twenty four. We're reversing the order just for January because January first month
slower. You can see, the releases are building up steam as we go
forward. So this upcoming week we are going to have our album club episode,
and then next Friday we are going to have the full January reviews episode,
but album clubs that you were going to be getting in the next few
days are first. I guess it's the first twenty twenties record to make it
onto album club Obviously we've already started in these last two hyper Blast episodes.
But Bring Me the Horizon are going to be a big talking point band again
in twenty twenty four with the eventual release of their next post human record,
and the first one, post Human, Survival Horror, did not actually get
a proper review on this podcast. We've like alluded to it a lot in
the last few years, but we weren't up and reviewing at the time.
So we are going to get on record properly going ahead of next Gen.
An assessment of the Survival Horror record, and you know, now a few
years on, like what its impact has been. I guess then to get
a bit more true three Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish. Sam, you
have been saying, what a funny time you've had listened to that for the
first time. I shouldn't have listened to it for the first time in public.
I was on the bus going see the VP for and I put it
on and I just like, I won't say anymore, but it was I
was taken a there was an experience. Yeah, what a band in a
way that like, yeah, an album club I was surprised to have seen,
you know, hadn't been done according to my records from the punk and
emo end Joyce manner never hung over again. And we said last week about
Dying Fetus Fever sweeping the world very well time for us. Things still come
around in cycles too, because it's also coming up on the ten year anniversary
of a certain hilarious iconic and internet metal culture event from the last decade that
you were in some small way slam part of Oh Yep, what excused?
We really need, I guess to talk about the late career masterpiece from Dying
Fetus Reign Supreme. Those are the first four album clubs of twenty twenty four.
We are going to be talking about them this weekend. They're going to
go up shortly after that. Get involved at patron dot com slash that's Non
Mattal where you will hear that, where you will hear the Nail Special,
where you can hear the Amazon Chains special with you complete at the end of
last year, all of that good stuff going on over there, thank you
very much for your support. Let's end this hyperblasts with the releases that I
think you know, the first couple weeks of this year were more middling.
This time we have big names fully coming out of the gate here, hitting
the year hot for the first time. It starts with, of course,
none other than Green Day with their new third most important record of their upcoming
tour, The Saviors album is out today. As you were hearing this,
you probably already heard it before you put us on I don't you. We
will talk about that soon. We also have neck Deep releasing a new self
titled record out today. We have Saxon, hell Fire and Damnation. Can
question is this sound amatue? Is hell Comma fire and Damnation? Hell Fire
as one word? Is that how they like to know? It's It's It's
it's hell Comma Fire and Damnation. They rule of threes, you know,
hell Fire and Damnation weird anyway, Saxon and Saxon they have records of you
know, their later career that I think are really good. They have others
that I don't remember anything from. I will I guess see which category this
falls into. Now, this is a newer band, This is I believe
a deaby record upon Stone Dead Mother Moon. This is a new signing to
Century Media. And this is really, you know, kind of slightly hardcore
in kind of feel, but it's melodic death metal. Really. It's like
if of the proper gothenberg Heads, if you like old fucking at the Gates
in flames, bit of dissection, whatever, here is a new band to
whet your whistle in that regard. Going into you know, sort of sludge
and stonery terrain, we have the band Lord Dying with Clandestine Transcendence. They
have some pretty good stuff in their back catalog. We also have again much
more long form stonary slift and Ilion. This is a kind of interesting record
I came into Contact with Funny enough, the band is called Contact with their
K, but their record is called Full Contact with a C. Confusingly,
but basically this is like a kind of like old like trad speed metal type
band, but in space it's like a It's like, really it's like sci
fi tech, thrash, voivody type stuff meeting like you know, old school
a speed meal. Kind of an interesting mix. Then go into some death
metal. You've got an old name in the form of Master and their name.
Their record named Saints Dispelled, and you have a newer name. An
Australian band called resin Tomb Cerebral Purgatory. That's kind of some more sort of
dissonantly nasty type stuff in your black mal as a man called Vetmod with the
deepening. This record is one that I just saw this name looking at me
and I was looking through what was out, you know, this past week,
and genuinely before i'd even seen the album cover, which is its own
fucking bizarre, you know thing, but just the name written down made me
cry tears. The band are called Sexual Perverts and this is the best bit.
Their album is called sex Maniac dot dot dot Forever. Idly forgot like
I forgot to chat, and then when I was looking for the list,
I was like, oh god, Like, I mean, at least they're
upfront about it, you know, you like, yeah, you can appreciate
the honesty. There's a song that called fucking roll and and vocally it reminded
me of a little bit of macabre if you want some of that stuff.
But just Sexminiact dot dot dot Forever is one of the most beautiful things I've
ever seen. And I applaud them for that, and an EP from a
kind of homegrown heavy metal band, the rather good band Heavy Sentence, which
includes members of Wode and Aggressive Effecta and the like to it just like proper
you know, fucking new of a British heavy metal pub rock type stuff.
Their EP is out today called Warriors of Madness. Thank you very much for
listening to us here on hyperblasts On that's not metal. As said, the
next thing we are going to be recording is that album Club Pack, featuring
the records I detailed earlier post Human and the like. But coming up here
on the main feed next week. Following the trail of that, will be
our first reviews show of twenty twenty four. Obviously, we're gona talk about
the Green Day record, We're gonna talk about some of these other things that
are coming out as well. Band Unfortunately not sexual perverts this time, but
I do recommend you at least just let that into your brain. Yeah,
high's lows, oddo lows and I'm not talking about Green Day. Let us
see you there. Goodbye,