1 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:30,079 Hello, everybody, Welcome to That's no mattal This is your weekly rock and 2 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,159 heavy metal podcast and everything else that might fall under the heavy music banner. 3 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:39,759 This is hyper Blasts. It's a bit of a pregame Hyperblast for us, 4 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:43,719 I guess because I am joined today by Sam Dignon, the two of us 5 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:47,399 plus Elliott. We're all going to be off to Damnation Festival tomorrow morning. 6 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,880 So we're off for the weekend and we'll catch up on all of that when 7 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,759 we return, but we're here just to give you a little bit of news 8 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,000 before all of that exciting stuff. Sam. I know we've just said that. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 You know, we've got some big coming up this weekend. But have 10 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:03,879 you been up to anything this week? Not a work stuff, you know, 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,640 no, Jamie Lemmon this week at work. But so this was grinding 12 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,040 you down ahead of the weekend, right literally? Yeah, Like I was 13 00:01:11,079 --> 00:01:14,920 like helping them opening up another store, and it was just like a very 14 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,840 busy time. But I'm already and fired up to you know, go Damnation. 15 00:01:18,879 --> 00:01:21,200 I'm excited for Damnation. It's like I was looking at there's only five 16 00:01:21,239 --> 00:01:23,319 bands on there I've seen before, and the rest of it is almost like 17 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,280 entirely new stuff for me, so it's going to be a really good time. 18 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:27,439 Yeah, I did get up something this week. I went to see 19 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:33,280 Employed to Serve on their headline tour, which I was really looking forward to 20 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,959 because Employee to Serve. I had not seen a headline show of theirs since 21 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:41,920 I think the warmth of the Dying Sun era, like just in terms of 22 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,719 kind of personal schedules, and then of course covid and fucked up a lot 23 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,799 of their touring for the last couple of albums. I'd not been able to 24 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,840 you know, I'm back like this year. I'm back to seeing them like 25 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:53,159 three times in a year, which is nice. But this was the first, 26 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:57,640 like you know, of their own shows I'd seen in a long long 27 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,640 time, and I didn't feel right going without that for for so long. 28 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:05,959 So I went along and I caught what is like madly the first proper headlining 29 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,639 tour for Conquering, released two years ago. It was a you know, 30 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:14,479 very good, you know UK as you'd expect with those guys, you know, 31 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:20,199 heavy Bill supporting them going off with the first band on. I know 32 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,479 you were really keen on the album that. Yeah, we spoke about earlier 33 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,879 at the start of this year. They seem to have really taken the Halloween 34 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,080 week thing to heart because I didn't even see them on Halloween, but I 35 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,759 walked in and they were on stage and they were in full costume. We 36 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,240 had ghost Face on guitar, we had hockey mask Jason on bass, and 37 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:46,960 the singer was complete full clown attire, like we are talking like, you 38 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,000 know, the full suit with the fucking little bobbles down the middle of the 39 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,199 chest, huge you know, fingered white gloves which are hilarious when he's throwing 40 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,520 his hands around in two step and stuff, you know, full face paint, 41 00:02:59,759 --> 00:03:04,280 full fucking curly haired, wig, red nose, and it made watching 42 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:10,680 him perform going off songs just really surreal. Those songs, like I said, 43 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:15,199 they are violent, angry, like scathing hard core. Watching a clown 44 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:16,840 do that is going to be a weird. It was really intimidated. They 45 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:21,159 had some like there had some big tech difficulties at one point and he literally 46 00:03:21,199 --> 00:03:25,159 pulled out some balls and started juggling to film. That's like, playmate, 47 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:30,680 I hope you've learned that tummit him into the just for this. Pupil Slicer 48 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:37,000 were second first time I had seen them since the release of the Blossom early 49 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,120 this year, which we all and a lot of you as well, very 50 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:42,719 very much enjoyed. It was an incredibly different experience to some of the other 51 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:46,039 times I've seen them because it was all Blossom material compared so, you know, 52 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,639 completely new lick of lick of paint from anything I've seen them do before. 53 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,719 But it meant that they were doing some things, like, you know, 54 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,240 kind of quite long songs with you know, some heavy, clean passages 55 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,039 and stuff like that that exists on record. They had, like they're utilizing 56 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:05,159 smoke machines and stuff like that. So when I've seen PUBI Size in the 57 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:09,120 past, it's often it's quite it's quite goofy in the you know, kind 58 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:11,599 of very self aware sort of way, you know, with the shades and 59 00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:15,759 everything. This time it felt more like a kind of you know, it 60 00:04:15,759 --> 00:04:17,680 had a bit more of a kind of atmosphere and a weight to it. 61 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,839 They still like they've not been able to equal the mix of the album, 62 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:26,920 I suppose in that in that setting, like when they were playing the title 63 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,720 track of Blossom, it took me a moment to actually recognize what song it 64 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:32,000 was. And it's an extremely recognizable song, but that chorus when they hit 65 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,000 it, it's like they've actually got a proper fucking chorus in the in the 66 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,439 set now. They opened with No Temple, which is just like the pure 67 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:44,199 groove on that record, just immediately really hard and it's into spice, spiced 68 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,839 with all these kind of like you know, electronic you know, breakbeats and 69 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,279 stuff like that. Yeah, so it was quite a different affair. And 70 00:04:49,319 --> 00:04:55,480 then employed to Serve who seemed to be in a kind of unadulterated heavy metal 71 00:04:55,519 --> 00:05:00,759 era, Like the playlist beforehand was like Saxon and all of this kind of 72 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:06,759 time. He was wearing like a ridiculous gearish blue black Sabbath Born Again long 73 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:12,199 sleeve. And then they came out to the Hellion as their intro and as 74 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:15,639 well as employed to serve, seeing them over the course of this year, 75 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,480 you know, performing essentially the the big game support for the Conquering record, 76 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:26,399 right because it was playing with Gajira, opening in you know, arena sized 77 00:05:26,439 --> 00:05:30,120 venues and then you know the summer festival circuit as well, seeing them are 78 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,439 Bloodstock. It was all very focused on you know that that recent material, 79 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,079 which was right and good. I was really I wanted to see all that 80 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:38,879 stuff, and that's what you would put in front of, you know, 81 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,600 an audience, but also, yeah, employed to serve are a band who, 82 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,000 as I kind of allude to be for, I used to go and 83 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,199 see an awful, awful lot in some of their earlier days when they were 84 00:05:48,199 --> 00:05:51,199 first being spoken up on this podcast. I have a real soft spot in 85 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:56,519 me for that era of that band, and I was like, you know, 86 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,199 I hope that there, you know, there are some kind of some 87 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,120 nods to the wider catalog rather than just it be completely being I guess someone's 88 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:09,160 like a new band on these last couple of records, and all fears of 89 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:12,839 that sort of dispersed when they came out and immediately opened with void ambition. 90 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:19,959 It was like my my heart soared in that moment, you know, the 91 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,759 first time seeing that song or anything off that record in like five years or 92 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:29,120 something, having it just smack out of the gates so so good, you 93 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,879 know. Obviously all the conquering and turnal for emotion stuff was really really great. 94 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,839 Got to see more of the Conquering record, Like I think it's the 95 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:39,079 first time at least I had seen them do the title track from that record, 96 00:06:39,079 --> 00:06:41,839 which is my personal favorite on that record. So that was fucking wicked 97 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:44,800 that you know, that pit stir a riff in the middle part of it 98 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,759 exactly what I wanted to see Mark of the Grave as like the standard closer 99 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:53,639 now is so fucking big, but also in terms of like you know some 100 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,439 of that other you know stuff that you might not have seen on the festival 101 00:06:56,439 --> 00:07:00,879 circuit or supporting Kajira this year, same way I thought of that void ambition 102 00:07:01,079 --> 00:07:03,519 when in that last run of songs along with like you know, a Turn 103 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:08,639 of four Emotion Mark of Grave, I spend my days wishing them away with 104 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:14,839 Katie from Pupil Slicer coming out and like basically jumping into the crowd during that 105 00:07:14,839 --> 00:07:17,120 that like you know again that we're still gonna get the full body head bang, 106 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:18,759 isn't there. Yeah, that's the one where I was like, if 107 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,920 you're gonna put one of the old ones into like the festival set, do 108 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,399 I spend my days? But that was so fucking rades see. And also 109 00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:30,720 the maddest bit was I think it was dull Ake behind my Eyes, which 110 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,079 is the song on a Turn of FOURD Motion, which was the most kind 111 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:40,759 of like mathy and like the earlier stuff. Halfway through they like mashed up 112 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:44,920 the first half of that song and went into out of nowhere, the oh 113 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:48,399 this well way, it's aren't you breakdown from Beg for Rain from the first 114 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:53,480 record. And when that happened without warning, I was like I felt like 115 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,120 I had been teleported in time a few years. I didn't know what was 116 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,040 happening, and I don't know how many people in the room knew what it 117 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:00,879 was because I was talking to Just and she was saying, like, you 118 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,680 know a lot of people, you know, they know us now for the 119 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,439 more recent material, but big Groovy met Yeah. But like slipping in a 120 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:13,199 breakdown from Gray than new member essentially as an easter egg, was like very 121 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:16,079 much appreciated, and they but they were fucking brilliant. Like seeing them again 122 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:22,519 in their own kind of venue was a wonderful reminder of how just how on 123 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,439 it that band are. So that was thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed. I hope 124 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,399 that you all enjoyed it if you went to other dates of that tour. 125 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,720 Let's get into the news and the first thing we're going to talk about musically 126 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:39,759 is something that is out today as this episode goes out. We have spoke 127 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:43,200 quite a lot this year. We spoke about one last week, if I 128 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,600 remember correctly, about a fairly big stream of high profile EPs this year. 129 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,399 It feels like there's been a lot of you know, the kind of buzz 130 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,159 bands have been really doing stuff with that format and maybe this will be the 131 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,799 last really big one for the year. I don't know, but spirit Box 132 00:08:58,159 --> 00:09:03,360 are releasing their six track EPs that's quite a substantial one today. It's called 133 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:07,440 the Fear of Fear. I was, you know, obviously been announced for 134 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,519 a while. I was surprised in a way to see another spirit Box EP 135 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,960 because you expect them. I supposed to follow up Eternal Blue properly. You 136 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,960 know, you'd be looking next year to kind of really keep the momentum going. 137 00:09:20,519 --> 00:09:22,240 Will they now do that within a year of dropping this EP? I 138 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:26,840 don't know, We'll say, I hope so, but you know we have 139 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:33,000 it's you know, two years of spirit Box EPs on the go. Is 140 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,000 this EP after you know, let's say the previous one and obviously album for 141 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,440 what enough to kind of keep you, you know, say, in an 142 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,320 interest and excited about what Spiritbox are doing. Kind I kind of fallen in 143 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,519 the middle of this EP. Really, I think half of it I think 144 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,720 is really good. Like I really like sort of half the tracks on here 145 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,799 and the other half I kind of think they could just have been sort of 146 00:09:56,799 --> 00:10:01,360 offcuts from Eternal Blue. That's kind of where I'm landing on this EP at 147 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,639 the moment. Yeah, I think that half of this EP feels like stuff 148 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:09,039 they can do in their sleep. And I think, you know, when 149 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:16,000 you press play on it and there's that just scatter gun cellar door, cellar 150 00:10:16,039 --> 00:10:16,960 doors, fucking yeah, that's one of the best songs they've done. That 151 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,919 fucking crazy poly rhythm in there, Like that's such a good way to open 152 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,879 it. And that's because it's got that kind of point. And then when 153 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:26,840 they really leans that low end beat down on it as well, I'm like, 154 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,960 this will be like anyone knows that it's probably pitstir Holy Rollers moment. 155 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,600 Yeah. The thing is that that didn't Holy Roll again. Holy Rollers a 156 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,799 song that came on like just between bands and I was like show the other 157 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:39,480 day, and that feels like such a kind of it cemented its place there 158 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:43,679 as a song that everyone knows. This doesn't feel like a floor filler in 159 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,159 the same way the whole of Rollie does. It's more like them going for 160 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,919 a kind of like a panic attack approach like that is it's the most extreme 161 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,879 song perhaps that they've done. Like the breakdown part that you mentioned is hilarious. 162 00:10:54,919 --> 00:11:01,080 It's so extra like all the swirling guitar noise and stuff around that they 163 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:01,919 can go for that and I heard that and go like, yeah, fucking 164 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:07,639 fair play for them. I'm also I like, just one of the spirit 165 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:09,159 box tricks that they do that I really enjoy is when they get like a 166 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:15,480 real kind of like up tempo like dance energy bounce going, but they're able 167 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:18,519 to kind of deliver that with the kind of like glacial melodic sheen. I 168 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,759 feel like this song was released probably an age ago, but the Void is 169 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:24,519 like the Void is that That's Yeah, That one's really grown on me in 170 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,279 that it's it's more kind of major key than they've kind of been, I 171 00:11:28,279 --> 00:11:31,240 think, and so brighter then, like even on their mormlodic passages, the 172 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,879 Void is actually quite bright and dancy, and I think that would go and 173 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,639 again really grown on me that those are the standout too, I would sell, 174 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:41,679 Yeah, I would agree. I think the rest of it is a 175 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:46,759 kind of bite sized version of some stuff that they do pretty effortlessly, right 176 00:11:46,799 --> 00:11:50,279 like that kind of you know, the sort of the circle with Me kind 177 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,960 of template of that kind of you know, getting that beauty pretty effortlessly. 178 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,559 Like I do think they do it really well. Like you know, the 179 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,879 having the actual the humanity and the singing performances I think really really helps those 180 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,559 kind of melody of them get over the top. I think it's more is 181 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:09,600 this and there's not a huge amount of growth really with this kind of pretty 182 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:13,080 melodica stuff. They like they've done that on Eternal Blue to a high enough 183 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,000 standard. And you know, last time we were talking about like some of 184 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:20,000 the directions they went on Rotoscope and that doesn't really feel like it's been followed 185 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,080 up so much here. Uh So, you know, this old Ultra Violet 186 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,320 has some kind of sense builds and stuff, but it's still pretty normal. 187 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:33,159 I think this EP it's it's like a it's a reminder of the classic pretty 188 00:12:33,159 --> 00:12:37,159 normal thing that Spirit Box do. And I think the harder leanings on something 189 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,840 like that first track are kind of the moments that will be more remembered for 190 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,519 I was they are still definitely better than most of these sort of other band 191 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:46,919 I like this EP. That's a start, right, Yeah, Like the 192 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,679 Gempans aren't really ripping off the sugar if anymore, they're ripping off the Architects 193 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:54,000 version of the Sugar. If it's because of they're doing the copy of the 194 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,279 copy at this point. Yeah, that first song that on this EP, 195 00:12:56,399 --> 00:13:00,600 the really hard one, actually does remind me of Mush Sugar, right, 196 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,039 Yeah, that's the other one. I would say one of the other ones 197 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,639 is like, you are doing Architects doing with Sugar, yes, and I 198 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:09,559 like, but I'm still like there's more conviction in Spiritbox doing that than all 199 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,120 the other bands. I think, like the clean parts are really nice. 200 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,480 I just think, yeah, i Rotoscope is my favorite Spiritbox song. I 201 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,320 think that is the most interesting and just like bang a thing they've done. 202 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,600 And I kind of was hoping we get a little bit more of that kind 203 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,200 of smong the more industrial dance sort side of things, and this just feels 204 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,840 like, oh, yeah, you know, they're still good at the sort 205 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:33,000 of slightly techy genty metalcore thing, but it's not it's not kind of set 206 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:35,240 the world on fire a bit. Yeah, I think aside from that first 207 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:41,000 track. This does not excite me as much as the Rotors Go EP did. 208 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,879 But but you know, if we were to get an album next year, 209 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:48,279 I hope that they can bring some of these different you know, kind 210 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:52,799 of wells together and really, you know, show how, you know again, 211 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:54,799 where they can progress from Eternal Blue on something like a second record, 212 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:56,720 if they can take you know, again, some of the best parts of 213 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,039 both of these EPs and whatnot that they've done. There's also there's two more 214 00:14:01,039 --> 00:14:05,960 Blink on eighty two songs from this new album. We've only just fucking spoken 215 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,159 about this album like two weeks ago, whatever it was, But there are 216 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:11,320 songs from the digital only edition of the album, I guess the one you 217 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,080 have to purchase that have also now made their way online. I put this 218 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,159 in the news here in case it's kind of like, you know, you 219 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,279 know, maybe these are some of the better songs on the record, in 220 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:24,679 case I like the sort of lost Shining Lights or anything like that. I 221 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:28,399 don't think these are that. I think one of them is best than the 222 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,200 other, the the more kind of the second one on the album, that 223 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,080 the more sort of tom led Sympthia one. I quite like that a bit 224 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,080 more than I can't do that. See You. Yeah. So there's there's 225 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:39,919 see You, which I listened to first, and to me, it sounded 226 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,639 like a like a worse auto tuney version of the kind of neighborhood zee. 227 00:14:45,559 --> 00:14:48,919 I like the neighborhoods you think, so I as well, but this is 228 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,000 like a you know, yeah, a worse version. I cut me off. 229 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,039 A So we were speaking about some of the auto tune on the album. 230 00:14:56,919 --> 00:15:01,440 This is so robot It's like it's almost this almost feels like they've actually 231 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,039 cut off the songs from the album that ended up sounding the most like our 232 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,639 City, like it's crazy. Yeah, no, I'm coming off in one. 233 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:09,759 I was like, I was like, oh yeah, you know them 234 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:13,240 definitely didn't need this, but I think I think see You I would There's 235 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:16,039 there's songs. I probably would have cut off the album and replaced with SeeU. 236 00:15:16,159 --> 00:15:20,519 But cut me off. Didn't need that at all. Yeah, twitching 237 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,960 tongues. This week, of course Halloween, they play a show as the 238 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,200 twitch fits. This was actually I believe it was in relation to a benefit 239 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:31,960 chords for the tailor Young's the Pit Studio, which is having to move somewhere 240 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:37,360 else. But the video of that set looked really, really fucking cool. 241 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,759 This is of course a Misfits cover set, as he twitch fits. They 242 00:15:39,759 --> 00:15:43,720 also then on Halloween Night itself, they put up a bunch of those songs 243 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,039 that they've recorded actually on streaming. And there's not a lot to say about 244 00:15:46,039 --> 00:15:50,320 this, right, it's it's twitching tongues doing Misfits doing Misfits. But that 245 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:54,360 sounds like a good time to me. Colin has got the voice to put 246 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,879 on Yeah, yeah, goes hard. Yeah, I'm just down with this. 247 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:06,279 My favorite bit is in Astro Zombies the way they term the PARANDU reactive 248 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,440 exterminate into it just a full on hardcore. I think it's Brody from God's 249 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,159 Hate, just coming on going extra like it. Do you do the fucking 250 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:18,639 us hardcore? You know, just all out version of that. So that's 251 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:22,120 rad And you can go listen to that if you want. We'f you're talking 252 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,240 about Creed for a little while and they've just brought to our attention here how 253 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:33,480 good their US tour announcement video is in the fact it's a follow on to 254 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,240 a like that. They've embraced the kind of like social media TikTok a little 255 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,639 bit and I'm like, you know what, self aware Creed, I can 256 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:45,159 kind of go with even more. But Scott stap you know, acting going 257 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:48,399 hey, we're going at tour, I know, just the guy to call 258 00:16:48,639 --> 00:16:52,200 and literally getting his phone up there and then having immediately accessible on the other 259 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:55,720 end, facetiming what's his name from three doors down and going we and the 260 00:16:55,759 --> 00:17:00,879 boys want you to come along. Very very funny festival stuff going on. 261 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,759 Bloodstock announced a I think a very good handful of bands here, Like this 262 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,839 is a you know, no major slots or anything here, but it's a 263 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,920 handful of bands that makes me go, oh yeah, Like the festival looks 264 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,839 tastier for having them on the on the poster. Whitechapel have been added, 265 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,480 which is good because they had to pull out last year. They're not in 266 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,759 that. I think they're playing like Beneath Malevolence, Beneath Architects, so that 267 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,039 that's a run that's a solid like Saturday Night that would be a very powerful 268 00:17:30,079 --> 00:17:32,279 one. I was going to say they're not. They were when they were 269 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:34,279 meant to be playing last year they were doing the Sophie Tent headliner, but 270 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,400 are out on the main stage in a higher slot is perfectly good by Meat 271 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,920 as well. Dea Side is very fucking exciting because, like I saw de 272 00:17:42,039 --> 00:17:45,720 Aside for the first time ever, even though they were the first deslot of 273 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,160 bands I got into like a couple of months ago around this Bloodstock and it's 274 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,720 because like they've been so rare to appear on the UK festival circuit and stuff 275 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,759 like that. So that's like something that would be I think, you look 276 00:17:56,759 --> 00:17:57,799 at that and you go, yeah, that makes sense deside of Blood Stop, 277 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:00,720 but that's actually quite a rare thing to have, so that's rad. 278 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,880 We also have Grand Magus on their beefing up the heavy metal and speaking of 279 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:12,759 a real long in the waiting festival you know, proper summer festival appearance for 280 00:18:12,799 --> 00:18:17,440 Eternal Champion in the UK there on the Sophie stage as well. That is, 281 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,480 you know, considering they're one of the smallest logos on the poster right 282 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:22,720 now, that's one of the biggest gets. So that's very good. And 283 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,200 uh, Sam, you just need to kind of bear with me for a 284 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,960 moment while I while I talk about I've mentioned before there's a festival that's happening 285 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,559 that I believe it started for its first year this year called Fortress Festival, 286 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:41,039 which is a black metal festival that happens in the Scarborough area, and I 287 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:42,720 was like, this year, I'd quite like to go. They had Panopticon 288 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:45,599 on there, they had Lampa Murmur on there. I was like, yeah, 289 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,839 that's I'd like to go this year. Then this time they have added 290 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:56,440 ten bands this week. One of them is a headlining slot from Trip Tocon, 291 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:03,279 so obviously I'm there. They also announced the the UK, the first 292 00:19:03,279 --> 00:19:07,039 time it's ever happened in UK, Soil Wolves in the Throne Room playing their 293 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,200 seminal Two Hunters record in its entirety there, along with a whole bunch of 294 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:12,960 other good stuff. Dodd's reat are on there, which is a band I've 295 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,920 been wanting to do a UK show for a quite a long time after I 296 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,000 was so in love with their latest record. So this is now the thing 297 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:22,680 I'm looking forward to the most next year. You have to deal with me 298 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,039 me talking about it looks good if you're into your artsy black metal. Isn't 299 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:29,400 it that this is a proper They've pulled up the fucking stops announcement that is 300 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,279 like Trip to con a fucking two Hunters set. Some really good undercar stuff 301 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:37,359 going on as well. That's that's now my highlight of next year. So 302 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:42,720 you know, wonderful stuff Paren goes where Trip go. Absolutely, but I 303 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,440 mean it's it's fucking serious that and there's still a loads more to come, 304 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:51,920 so that is well exciting. And then I've grouped these two stories together so 305 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,279 we can sort of go through them. I guess under things that people are 306 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:57,680 mad at this week, and it's all it's all coming out of America. 307 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:03,440 It always does, isn't it as always where discourse happens. Yeah. The 308 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:06,960 first follows up on the band that we've just been speaking about, Blink one 309 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,920 A two this week did a small little show where they popped up at Denny's. 310 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:15,920 And at this show they were selling a what the Fuck up Is Up? 311 00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:21,960 Denny's Blink Twentity two shirt, which if that sounds familiar, I believe 312 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,559 we've referenced it in one of the titles of this podcast, like you know, 313 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:29,720 not too many months ago. This is because this is referencing a already 314 00:20:29,799 --> 00:20:34,519 happened kind of viral moment where the hardcore band lived without play. The show 315 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:38,200 at Denny's gave it the old what the Fuck Is Up? Denny's that immediately 316 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,160 became a bit of hardcore law Blink one A two doing it and selling the 317 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:47,640 shirt in particular, has riled up a lot of people basically accusing them of 318 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,440 being kind of corporate profiteers swooping in to do something, you know, rip 319 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,880 off something that much much tinier band who would never ever see the sales of 320 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,559 a Blank Twentity two have done, and to piggyback their merch off the back 321 00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:03,480 of it, which I think, to be honest, it's fair enough, 322 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,440 that's a reasonable criticism. It's one of those I'm like, some of the 323 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:14,200 like level of like outrage has been a bit much like this isn't that blue 324 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,440 whited to play? Pay the band reparations and stuff like that. I'm like, 325 00:21:17,519 --> 00:21:21,200 yeah, that's that's You're being a bit dramatic there, But I do 326 00:21:21,279 --> 00:21:23,440 agree is it is a bit of a lame thing for like a massive band 327 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:29,440 to piggyback off another band's viral moment where and again, like a lot of 328 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,000 Blank Winy two fans aren't ever going to know that they might have seen the 329 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:34,640 video, but they're never gonna know who are And I think it's it's a 330 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:40,200 shame that they've kind of not credited the band for the inspiration. Yeah, 331 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,160 I could see, you know, I can almost see the the the innocence 332 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,000 in blank when they too doing this. You think it's cool or whatever, 333 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:51,240 but it is it's a bit shitty to have, you know, massive band 334 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:56,519 swoop in start selling merch with you know, a phrase that was maybe popular 335 00:21:56,559 --> 00:22:00,039 by a band a you know, a billionth of a size, so that 336 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,200 is you know, yeah, like figure out where these things come from a 337 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,160 little bit more. And then the other thing is even stupider. And I 338 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,599 don't even know where we really take this conversation, but there was major, 339 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:19,119 major outraging discussion at least on my timeline recently because Frozen Soul played a show 340 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:26,279 somewhere in the US and a viral video went out that someone had filmed of 341 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,480 a group of guys sat in the middle of the Frozen Soul pit, people 342 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:36,359 running around them, having a full on game on the floor of magic the 343 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:41,079 gathering with you know, all of the cards and everything, and Frozen Soul 344 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,359 just took it in like a yeah, this is awesome, keep patter. 345 00:22:44,519 --> 00:22:47,920 They encouraged it, they said, do it like this is funny whatever, 346 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:48,960 and a few people are like, yeah, this is great, but also 347 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,559 a lot of people I think this is good. This is coming off of 348 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:53,640 I don't know if we spoke about it on the show or not, but 349 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,440 the was it the death Grips the other way, the death Grip situation where 350 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,279 people seem to have lost their fucking minds of how to behave at shows. 351 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:07,400 And I think in particular, like I like, I'm not throwing my toys 352 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:08,960 out of the pran about It's like if I saw this, I wouldn't go 353 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:14,160 up there and I wouldn't stamp on their cards, right, But I do 354 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,200 lean towards here. These guys have clearly gone in with it in their heads 355 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,599 that we like, we are going to turn this show into a specifically social 356 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,759 media viral video. They're they're not going and playing magic for the fun of 357 00:23:27,759 --> 00:23:32,480 it, right, Like they have gone in there with the contrived idea of 358 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,000 getting a viral video out of it and something that is supposed to be about 359 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,359 you know, a band playing and you know, enjoying the show and everything. 360 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,880 People making it so much about themselves and distracting from that for online clout. 361 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,160 I can't help but feel is a a bit cringe, but b I 362 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:57,200 do think it is a clearly escalating phenomena in recent years and months, even 363 00:23:57,319 --> 00:24:00,079 as we've seen with things like the death Grip say I mean this, I 364 00:24:00,559 --> 00:24:03,240 agree with that. I do think there is an ongoing thing of everyone wants 365 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:06,240 to be the next viral moment. They want to be you know, that 366 00:24:06,319 --> 00:24:08,880 what the fuck is up Denny's moment essentially the thing that everyone they get someone 367 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,640 talking, and I find that verythating. This is one of the more harmless 368 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:18,240 ones for me personally. I'm like, you know, it's it almost was 369 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,680 in the back of we when the highlight of this was someone's filming a show 370 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,480 on their freed d s or something like that, like that being one of 371 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,079 the more innocent takes on this. But I know part of me was like, 372 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,160 I was like, I think a lot of the outrage of this is 373 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,960 coming from hardcore kids who are getting reminded that definitely kind of music for nerds, 374 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,279 a little bit like they were doing this in the eighties though like, 375 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,519 no, I know, but it's still like a lot of it. A 376 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:44,240 lot of the outrages come from I think the more hardcore side of the frozen 377 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:45,599 soul fans and the more metal side of them, like, you know, 378 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,160 it's funny. Yeah, I think it is kind of funny. Again, 379 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:55,400 I'm not I'm not going to fucking debase myself to being genuinely upset about this, 380 00:24:55,599 --> 00:25:00,480 But I do like the principle of kind of going in with the idea. 381 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,559 Literally, you've brought something into a show with the exact purpose of during 382 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,599 X song, I am going to do this to distract and hopefully cause a 383 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,759 viral moment. I do think he's lame, and I think that that's a 384 00:25:14,799 --> 00:25:18,640 mentality that we do for the benefit of, you know, shows going forward. 385 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:22,799 We need to poo poo it a little bit. Okay. Questions on 386 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:26,759 this edition of Hyperblasts. As I said, we had some leftover from last 387 00:25:26,799 --> 00:25:30,720 week, so here they are. Arna Schrader asks, are there any bands 388 00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:33,920 that make it hard for you to take their music seriously because their vocalist sounds 389 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,000 a bit too much like a cartoon character in your head? I really struggle 390 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:40,799 with at the Drive In Slash, the Mars, Volta, God Smack, 391 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:44,960 Idols, King Diamond, and way too many more. An incredible Rogues gallery 392 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,640 there of completely different sounding artists. I understand what you mean. And here 393 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,759 is the thing. Your list of bands there there is one major major outlier 394 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,359 for me because King Diamond, King Diamond, it's not just that I love 395 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,200 him, is that he is a cartoon character. And I agree, yeah, 396 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,440 And I think this is a difference someone like idols being like kind of 397 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:11,240 finding their vocal stick off putting is in part because of how kind of you 398 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:17,680 know, serious, faux deep whatever you may think. The the music to 399 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:26,359 be King Diamond is a enormous theater piece. So I I really really love 400 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:33,200 a lot of stuff in that regard that is kind of like super extravagant, 401 00:26:33,599 --> 00:26:38,440 weird, you know, like off the beaten track vocal often because it plays 402 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:44,880 into that kind of theater world building or whatever. That real kind of character. 403 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,480 That to me is like a feature, not a bug, And it 404 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:53,839 is notably different from someone sort of posturing as a either you know, super 405 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,119 super tough or super super kind of heart on sleeve of motive or whatever. 406 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,920 Someone's sound being funny in that context is very different to me than you know, 407 00:27:04,079 --> 00:27:07,079 what one of the all time goals down as examples of a King Diamond 408 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,000 of someone who is like it is the point that they are larger than life. 409 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:15,000 Yeah, No, I agree, Like I I I I was one 410 00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:18,720 of the band says I go, yeah, I do struggle to take I 411 00:27:18,759 --> 00:27:22,000 used to I'd quite like idols, but when he got more and more ridiculous 412 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,319 with his kind of es. I think they've had moments, but I could 413 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,880 quite happily never hear him again at this point. For me, like the 414 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,519 one I always struggle is not necessarily the ones where it's like it's it is 415 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:34,680 the sort of the foe. I'm so deep and emotional, and again, 416 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,559 I like a lot of singers who are overly emotional, but like and to 417 00:27:40,599 --> 00:27:41,759 a point where the cans on a cartoon character. I know, obviously you 418 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,079 know Dylan's first love songs, but that one I feel like, I'm like, 419 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,160 no, that's just him. He's actually Genie pointing out that's why it's 420 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,119 known to me and then say fucking bad omens or any of the or amity 421 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,240 affliction. I prevail it where it's so yeah, where it's so forced, 422 00:27:56,319 --> 00:28:00,119 and like I'm like, I don't buy your emotion. That's why that that's 423 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,319 why I find I can't take these bands seriously. Not the vocal sounds a 424 00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:04,519 bit silly, because you know, I again, vocals sounds a bit silly. 425 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:07,200 If it's part of the package, I can go with it. Yeah, 426 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,599 I think, like I said, you know, with King Diamond, 427 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,079 you know, on the Halloween Roundubuck we're doing, we were talking a lot 428 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:15,519 about the band Manilla Road, and their vocalist is kind of one you sort 429 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:18,160 of could fall into this, Like I was dying your impressions when you just 430 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,880 go into the mid sentence like alas, yeah, it's brilliant, and you 431 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,759 know, I love that kind of character. But that feeds into it for 432 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:30,680 me as opposed to my biggest ones for these are I guess some of the 433 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:37,400 things that you've mentioned of like when someone sounds actively funny when they are trying 434 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,119 to be super like over Earnest is when it falls down for me again. 435 00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,480 So like you know, you know you mentioned in Spanish Love Songs, guy 436 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:49,480 is one of the real ones that falls into there fucking dashboard confessional. Man, 437 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,400 I just that guy sings and I'm like, stop it, you can't, 438 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:57,440 you can't make me take you seriously, you know, the lardestputes of 439 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:02,480 this world, et cetera, and like right now, yeah, and then 440 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,599 here's one who I am like, I like a lot of this guy's songs. 441 00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:07,319 So I'm not saying this one is a deal breaker. But people in 442 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,680 the kind of Jordan Pundick realm of like how are you a real man? 443 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,960 You know, like, how are you as like a what like forty five 444 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:22,200 year old guy singing? Actually then from neck deep has always been the reason 445 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,640 I can't get on, Like his fake American accent has always been like a 446 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,880 deal breaker for me. Yeah, but again I would encourage you, you 447 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,559 know, question ask her here again, We're with you on some of these 448 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,000 ones, like someone like Idol's begging you to take them seriously. Well this 449 00:29:37,119 --> 00:29:41,799 or whatever, go into a King Diamond record or immerca or fake record. 450 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:48,680 With it in mind that it is all about extravagant. It's not trying to 451 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,000 I don't know, it's not aiming for you to be as grounded and serious 452 00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:56,559 in that sense. It is about kind of escapism, and you know it 453 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:02,559 for me at least it works. Wonders callum Waal asks Mount Rushmore of modern 454 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,240 UK metal bands. Now that's you know, a very simple question that in 455 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:10,079 turn kind of opens it up to some vagueness. So there are different I 456 00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:12,759 feel like there almost there are different categories of what kind of bands we could 457 00:30:12,759 --> 00:30:18,079 put into such things. What was your first I've poured so much over it. 458 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,200 I was like, I mean, how modern are we talking modern? 459 00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:25,319 Like what we're saying, what we're classing is modern at this point. Yeah, 460 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:26,359 I wonder where there was a cup of how long they've been around? 461 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:32,440 I mean, I've got like a couple almost different Mount Rushmos of different sort 462 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,799 of niches. I suppose because kind of end up pulling up the sound. 463 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,400 Yeah, because my again some of my own personal ones, my personal one 464 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,799 might be more towards the underground or whatever. But I feel like in terms 465 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:47,240 of I guess Mount Rushmore is meant to be the biggest of the big in 466 00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:55,720 terms of current significant to like the popular, ye universally accessible metal bands. 467 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,319 There was an easy four for me, which was bring me Architects Sleeps very 468 00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:02,559 tomorrow. That's perfectly fair enough. I I was trying to think a little 469 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:03,960 bit newer than that. I guess. I guess you know you could have 470 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,119 again, but as well do you count some of those metal bands still? 471 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,200 But I was if I had to go, like, why, I know 472 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,519 the talking points of UK metal where three of those bands have recently at least 473 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,920 sold out arenas, Yeah, one of them. I wouldn't argue with that 474 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,359 too. If someone's put that for I think that that's perfectly fair. Four 475 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,720 that I came up with similarly were again we're going almost like a tear down 476 00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:30,559 in terms of not as, but this is probably maybe more metal. I 477 00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:36,319 thought architects, malevolence, psilosis, believe from within that was exactly that was 478 00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:40,799 gonna be another pick for me or everything smaller. If we weren't beang architects, 479 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,640 I would have gone malevolant, silosis, believeble being conjura or employed to 480 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,160 sell. Because because there we moved down to akut of my one, I 481 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,839 guess we should also throw out, you know, if you're going for that 482 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:51,440 really huge when we bring me in everything Sleep Token are currently kind of the 483 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,079 biggest new bands, so maybe they would, you know, have an argument 484 00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:56,880 to get in there. But my my four I've gone for just like, 485 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,000 what are the four that I am most creatively kind of passionate about at the 486 00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:06,240 moment, And again they come from kind of different realms of thing. The 487 00:32:06,279 --> 00:32:08,599 only thing that unites in here is uk metal, I guess relatively close to 488 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,000 the underground, even though again employed to serve to me should be on there 489 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,960 with like the malevolence, you know, architects one, but my four that 490 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:22,599 I have is employed to serve Conjurer, Ashen Spire, and the fourth one 491 00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:25,920 that I think are just the best in the country is the banded Voices. 492 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,640 I think you know a lot of people would make the arguments for Ithaca to 493 00:32:31,759 --> 00:32:36,759 go on that, and that's fair enough Svalbard. You know, have you 494 00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:38,359 know, kind of put the work in and enough at this point to really 495 00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:44,000 be on them argue for ver. Yeah, relative mass is again for that 496 00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:45,400 kind of underground for I was like, what's their cut off point? Have 497 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,720 they been kind of around longer than the other one, you know obviously pupil 498 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,000 Slicer as well as another one. Personally, like purely selfishly my four would 499 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,119 be employed to serve Conjuration and spire voices, but I could you know what 500 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,279 I would got. I would go architects, malevolence, silosis, and then 501 00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:04,599 I would probably go employed to serve. At this point, it was then 502 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,119 we'll bleed them within lif if I had to repick me personally, not just 503 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,359 kind of going who are the biggest and most like significant, But yeah, 504 00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:14,400 that's why I pick us my my personal four Yeah, and then Ruddy mccahn 505 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,000 says, we got Actually, we've got two questions here that were essentially the 506 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,359 same. So I thought, because people have asked the same kind of sentiment, 507 00:33:21,359 --> 00:33:22,640 I've got to put it in. But you know, I'll read both 508 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,400 questions. I'm a total punk and generally don't like progue or power metal, 509 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,839 but I think cod and Cambria and Blind Guardian are great. Hey, so 510 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,119 do I like? Did you rate this? So? So? What are 511 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,720 your musical exceptions artists whose genre or style you normally that enjoy but you think 512 00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:42,319 it a great And then Matt Bailey individually asks which band in our world will 513 00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:45,480 people not expect you like? For instance, I listen to mainly metalcore, 514 00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:49,279 death Court and death Metal, buy a huge spot for Alter Bridge and Miles 515 00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:53,720 Kennedy. So essentially the same sentiment of question here, musical exceptions bands you 516 00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:58,440 like in styles you normally don't anything of the prog bands I like. I 517 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,319 wouldn't necessarily say Code because you know they've got that post hardcore emo thing, 518 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,680 but Lepra's kind of probably feel like one the obvious ones where they are like 519 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:09,960 a frog band and I have just everything I've heard from Lepros. I've just 520 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,559 been absolutely in love of the one of the sets I'm most excited about seeing 521 00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:16,079 this weekend. So I would probably say like they're there the big sort of 522 00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:22,079 standout one for that others much of the things there isn't like I've kind of 523 00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:24,119 like dabbled in anything enough that that I don't think anything else where that's like 524 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:30,760 a genre I actively dislike where there is a thing that I think is one 525 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,760 of the best liked. Yeah, I guess I don't have many styles these 526 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,840 days that I like point blank, blot out right like one. I have 527 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:46,079 styles that I am much less keen on. I'm the same, isn't it 528 00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:50,199 than others? But I don't think there are many genres where I just go 529 00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:52,320 no, I don't like that at least we're in the walls of kind of 530 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,239 you know what we what we cover. But it always would be that kind 531 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,639 of like, you know, heartland punk. I suppose heartland rock, like 532 00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:02,719 the Granddaddy's of it are not really into, so it always did feel like 533 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:08,320 an outlier. When I fell in love with the Menzingers even and then you 534 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,199 know the Mensingers and you know pre the latest one. The excerpts were the 535 00:35:13,199 --> 00:35:16,760 bands who were kind of the standouts there. I've never you know, you 536 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,000 know, kind of I was never a tech fest guy, right, like 537 00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:22,800 you know what I mean by that kind of instrumental tech metal or whatever. 538 00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:25,559 That's like we don't really review this stuff on the show because I feel like 539 00:35:25,599 --> 00:35:29,679 none of us really have the passion for it. But I really I've had 540 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,719 big kind of dalliances with Animals as leaders, Like I think on their their 541 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:37,599 best day, that band can be fucking brilliant. But even then, I 542 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:38,239 was trying to think of, like what our styles I don't like, and 543 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,519 one of the things that obviously came to mind sim is what we're saying with 544 00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:46,039 another question before, is that kind of over emotional hardcore thing, like the 545 00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:52,039 spoken words style you don't like or defeata But there's bike exception. I quite 546 00:35:52,079 --> 00:35:54,840 like Defeata. Well, I was gonna say, is you quite like you 547 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,760 quite like Modern Life? Yeah? The Modern Life is War record I thought 548 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,599 was was was pretty good, but I was reminded this year because we saw 549 00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:02,920 him an outbreak and I hadn't listened to them in like a few years, 550 00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:07,000 but I was like, yeah, defeat her actually the one in that kind 551 00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:08,760 of lardest ute two chet Lane. I don't know if they're a bit harder, 552 00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:13,079 a bit less whiny. I don't know what it is. It's darker 553 00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:15,559 and less kind of like all sadness, but like, yeah, I think 554 00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:17,760 again, I'm not in love with them, but I think defita are you 555 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,440 a band? I happily watched the outbreak and really enjoyed what they were doing, 556 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,199 and then I guess, of the kind of current gente pop metal thing, 557 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,559 you know, talking about them earlier, I really like spirit Box when 558 00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:30,760 I don't like a lot of the other ones that are, you know, 559 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,639 kind of as popular. I mean, you go, I hate a lot 560 00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:37,800 of the sort of the TikTok music, and I love Scene Queine, and 561 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,159 she kind of does sit into that category of of TikTok alternate music, like 562 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,000 I I mean, most of that stuff is terrible, but I'm I'm all 563 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,719 about Scene Queen. There you go. Okay, Patreon this week making some 564 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,519 allusion to Manilla Road before the thing that went up. For all the lovely 565 00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:55,639 people who support us and give their, you know, the harder money to 566 00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:59,840 keep this podcast going, we absolutely appreciate all of that. What we gave 567 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,360 you the week was in lieu of the month's usual album club is we took, 568 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,719 you know, the once in a year opportunity to see the Halloween album 569 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,119 Roulette. That was myself, Mark and Elliott who came together to do that. 570 00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:15,519 Sam. I sent you the podcast listened to and you'd sent over this 571 00:37:15,599 --> 00:37:19,280 morning that you were listening to alude to Vinamin Sannas for the first time in 572 00:37:19,519 --> 00:37:23,440 however long? How much of that has been awoke in you? Like I 573 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,119 was, I was sad, I was in part of this, but I've 574 00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:28,440 not listened to the whole thing. Yeah, I've still got the Macca part 575 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,239 to go. But maddest going back to going back to the first Morbid Angel 576 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,360 album I ever heard, and and kind of going like, hang on a 577 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,039 minute, this album is daft, stupid and terrible and I'm having a great 578 00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:46,280 time listening to it. How much fun did you like? Rad? I 579 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,639 was like, fuck me, Like, like the thing is though, is 580 00:37:50,679 --> 00:37:52,800 like Blazer with ba is actually like fucking legit banger. I mean, that's 581 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:58,599 what's wicked. But there was like two extreme in radical kind of bookending the 582 00:37:58,599 --> 00:38:01,480 album. Even though there's stuff, it's just like Jesus Christ This album is, 583 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,840 Yeah, it's terrible but kind of brilliant. The Halloween arm Wreck we 584 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,400 did it was it's the longest one of those we've done by a fair old 585 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,960 way, and it's entirely on the last two albums because essentially what we did 586 00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:17,480 is we had a you know, the pretty normal way we go about the 587 00:38:17,559 --> 00:38:21,440 Halloween album without picking stuff that sounds spooky or whatever. We had a nice 588 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,719 little conversation about you know, things like Niller Road and the Coffin Shakers and 589 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,360 you know, some some stuff for the punk fans and stuff for the metal 590 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,320 fans and all of that. But then the last two albums we just just 591 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:38,280 sidetracked, like it just it went so much deeper into like again, with 592 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:45,400 Morbid Angel, one of the most like just infamous has to be dissected, 593 00:38:45,639 --> 00:38:49,599 what the hell happened here moments in any metal band's creative history. It's one 594 00:38:49,639 --> 00:38:53,960 of those moments. And then with Macarb it was like me and Elliott seemed 595 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,800 to have built up so much macab law from over the years, and it 596 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,119 was like, we're never going to talk about the band again. We have 597 00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:04,800 to get it all out. It's like this is someone chance to talk about 598 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,159 all things but carb and it's it's a fascinating album in terms of, you 599 00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:09,519 know, how it makes you feel, the ethics of it, et cetera. 600 00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:13,079 We went into all of that, but yeah, it was it was 601 00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:15,599 like a normal album Roulett to begin with that was, you know, always 602 00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:19,559 enjoyable as they are. That then went fucking deranged towards the end. So 603 00:39:19,599 --> 00:39:23,000 that's why it ended up as it did. It was really really funny to 604 00:39:23,039 --> 00:39:27,960 talk about as a result. So I you know, if I really recommend 605 00:39:28,079 --> 00:39:30,840 you go out and check the Hallow I've heard I've enjoyed a lot. Yes, 606 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,119 yeah, just an absolute hoot and holler talking about some fucking sick, 607 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,199 sick stuff. So that is the how we down that. That was that 608 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:42,800 patron of com slash that's not metal. We will be resuming the Allison Chain 609 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,360 Special with the third and final William Devall themed part within the next couple of 610 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:51,800 weeks. And now let's just close this hyperblast with the release ran up for 611 00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:55,519 this week. First thing, I guess first week of November and the I 612 00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:59,559 guess that the probably the most hot high profile release here in the UK at 613 00:39:59,639 --> 00:40:04,000 least comes from Green Lung. It's their record this Heathen Land. That is 614 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,519 a band who have a lot kind of expectations riding on their shoulders, I 615 00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,199 think with this one, so you know, good luck to them there. 616 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,920 Also, if we jump to the as a side of the Atlantic, the 617 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:17,679 highest profile releases perhaps the new Dying Wish album Symptoms of Survive All these second 618 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:23,079 full length album from one of the most beloved current bands in metallic hardcore. 619 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,719 Continuing down the hardcore all least heavy route, Fuming Mouth that is the kind 620 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,800 of death thrash hardcore band who we've spoken about a couple times over the years. 621 00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:37,440 Their record Last Day of Sun is out and from here we will go 622 00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:39,679 to Sugar Horse, Truth or Consequence, New Mexico. That's a band I 623 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:44,000 know that in kind of when they've released records in recent years, they've had 624 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,880 a fair bit of kind of interest in them. So that is out on 625 00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:51,840 Blue Grape Records. That is the label that is now home to Code Orange 626 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,599 and many others. You go listen to the self titled Spiritual Cramp record. 627 00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:00,719 This is one that involves members of you know, Convert and Death Heaven and 628 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,719 all that kind of you know, death Wish supposed lot Sexless Marriage releasing a 629 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,960 record This is not Love. I think, you know, if you like 630 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,880 those bands. Jake Bannon does some guest vocals and stuff on parts of that. 631 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:15,239 You know, go go down in that avenue elsewhere. We have got 632 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,559 actually continuing in that kind of death wishy type route, you know, produced 633 00:41:19,679 --> 00:41:22,440 and mixed I believe by Kurt balou Morna. We're Engraved with Pain. That's 634 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,920 some kind of sludgy post metal stuff there with that, you know, blue 635 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:30,880 filter on it, your kind of alt rock emo. Stop this Week is 636 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,599 a self titled a record from a band called All Get Out. And as 637 00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:39,480 we move into the extreme stuff, we have death metal icons Suffocation returning with 638 00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:45,239 their album Hymns from the Apocrypha. This is their first album in Pharaoh. 639 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,280 I think it's like six years now, but I think more notably, it's 640 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:53,599 the first with the new Suffocation lineup that now features no longer features Frank Mullen, 641 00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:59,039 their longtime vocalist has now fully departed the band, and they've now got 642 00:41:59,039 --> 00:42:01,119 the guy Ricky, the guy who has been doing vocals with them live for 643 00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:05,679 a long time. This is his first proper studio recording, so you know, 644 00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:07,679 I guess something riding on that Suffocation record, but it sounds like they're 645 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:12,760 kind of, you know, supplying what Suffocation always do, which is what 646 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,360 people I guess want from them when they make a change like that, some 647 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,760 finish kind of occult seventies rock. We've got Crypta with Altu Laksu and speaking 648 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:28,639 of occult Italian freaks, I suppose Mortuary Drape Black Mirror. We also have 649 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,639 the live album from Wata, which is called Die in Fire, Live in 650 00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:35,679 Hell, Live in Hell, whichever you prefer, I presume, but that 651 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,480 is their recording of, you know, the whole the agony and NEXI of 652 00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:44,440 Watan live cycle they've done and they've immortalized it in live form and a few 653 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,519 EPs. We have STREEGOI Bathed in a Black Son. That is Greg McIntosh 654 00:42:47,559 --> 00:42:52,159 from Paradise Lost. This is his kind of crusty death metal project that followed 655 00:42:52,159 --> 00:42:57,599 on from his Valan Fire project Melo Death. We have Insomnium Songs of the 656 00:42:57,679 --> 00:43:00,199 Dusk, and of course we have the spirit Box Epia that we open this 657 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:05,119 episode talking about. So go and listen to those. Thank you very much. 658 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,400 We are now off, but we will return next week and be with 659 00:43:08,519 --> 00:43:13,519 you once again with what we've seen what we've been up to and anything else 660 00:43:13,519 --> 00:43:15,760 that's happened in the week since. So yeah, we'll see you all there. 661 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:16,440 Bye bye,