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the Matter. You're weekly relcome out on podcast. But today it's a crowded
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Paisley. We have Sam Dickon and we have Marks Anderson all with us today.
How are we all doing? Are we holding up all right? I
feel like I just random marathon. I feel like I've been to confession.
Yeah, I've had some impassioned rants going off and like find myself up on
them now it's like, oh it's late, but we soldier on. Yeah,
some controversial stuff thrown in there. But today, you know, the
hyper Blast it's a pretty easy breezy. I think welcome. As said to
the new show, the first thing to throw out is the maddest cap on
the summer festival season, kind of falling to ship when it comes to you
know, stories, horror stories about slam dunk download whatever. At least,
I hope none of you folks listening to this have found yourself locked out of
Vacan Festival, having arrived into Germany from God forbid abroad back in this weekend.
I've actually had to cap there festival admittance early due to excessive rain and
extreme mud and weather conditions, which means they had two people were coming into
the festival and they were like, well it's two. I don't stand those
entirely, but it's too you know, muddy, it's too rainy. We
cannot bring everyone in here. So around a third of the you know,
eighty five thousand people who are going to be at Vacan have arrived and found
out they can't actually get in. Can you I'm not gonna I'm gonna throw
mud ironically at the VACAN organizers here. I don't understand the health and safety
or whatever what's happening, but can you imagine if that happened at a download
or something. Can you imagine the reaction from the UK rock fans. The
level of complaints online would be like nothing ever seen before from rock and mail.
It'd be the biggest controversy to happen within like the UK rock mail scene
in such a long time. When you think of how much people winged after
the last Damnation, it's like there's no I don't go anywhere to sit.
So if you couldn't get in, shit, I mean, it says a
lot of that haven't been as far as we've seen them, have been riots
or anything, because, like you say, if people have come from abroad,
you would just go a bit mental. Yeah, you've got factually,
you've got thirty five thousand metal fans who were you know, paid and come
to this festival and can't get in. What are they all doing? I
don't know. Genuinely, a fucking crazy new story to see. I had
to look at it twice to be like, what what do you mean?
But that is obviously happening. New music, we do not actually have new
songs or anything to talk about from anyone in particular this time. But there
was a video that emerged on social media of a little band called Mama's attes
playing together practicing something, perhaps a new song, not sure, but Marmosettes,
after a long absence, after a long period of wondering what the band
status even was, factually they're in a room together, they're playing together,
and they wouldn't have published that video online on the social media platform if they
weren't going to be doing something pretty damn soon Marmosetts back. How are your
feeling? I mean, I will say this has been like a year long
teasing process where every couple of months they posted something of either one of them
planning their instrument or so. This has been drawn out and it's nice now
get something a little bit more like, oh, hey, we might actually
be getting the band coming back, which fucking a but this has been drawn
out and I can't bring myself to get too excited just yet because of that.
Yeah, I didn't know that they had been teaching out. All I
saw was this one than I initially initially very very excited. I feel like
they've been noticeably missed. Yeah, Marmosette for me, the second album never
really like I don't admit, because they did tour it, but like they
kind of went away, not too long. It's scheme of things after that
happened and then COVID happened and everything. It feels so long ago that record
never quite got his jews, and I would like, you know, I'd
love to him come back with more music and everything, and I would like
to see people I guess continually excited about Marmosette's rather than you know, piling
over the now nearly decade of old first record. Yeah, it's been so
long that the whole UK scene that they helped change, it's no changed again.
It feels like a completely different line stream. And how did they fit
into that? Yeah, I don't know. I'm excited to find out.
Yeah, very very much. So excitement. I don't know if that's the
word we could use here, But Bustard who are a band who I don't
know tangentially relevant to TNM. We will. I don't think we would ever
review a new record of theirs or anything, but like they show up every
now and then. Then they have links to the roxy in the UK and
so on. There are certainly a formative part of it for a lot of
people of a certain generation. They have announced as part of their twentieth anniversary
celebrations. They have announced a Greatest Hits record featuring a huge list of collaborations
of people you know they're going to be working on reworking their old you know,
selection of singles with and my god, if this list isn't a who's
who of the worst fucking shits in rock music, I mean like there are
there are a few bright spots on there. Say yeah, I think um
Dashboard Confessional are one of the bright spots on this list. I don't see
a single fucking A Top two point er featuring Hansen is the brightest spot I
can see. Funderbirds. I'll go with McFly because McFly are actually still good
and there their rock album they released this year pretty damn good, you know,
pretty good Sleep with the Light. I'm featuring Death of Annah. I
think that could be good, you know, just let James sing most of
it and get rid of the ones who like James and James from Death of
Annah sing most things that the ones from Bustard who can't actually sing not do
anything. I'm going to go for their Hostess featuring Umi at six. I
don't anyone else to be there with me apart from Mark and credit to them
for completing the meme by having Jonas Brothers do Year three thousand with them,
because there was a period where people fought Year three thousand was of Jones was
covered. I'm looking at three Am, which is one of the dreariest bustered
songs from the album that I had featuring James Arthur fucking still execute me on
the spot point this collap on this thing. Absolutely. I looked at this
and my expectations plummeted so fast, so early that by the time I read
the name wheat Us, it was a ray of sunshine, though some of
the most cred they have on this entire Again elsewhere, we've got Meet You
There two point zero featuring neck Deep twenty twenty three. Neck Deep, I
know that this is the fucking nightmare, so look forward to cracking the knuckles
and hearing what's offer there. Elsewhere. We did get an album announcement this
week from Twin Temple, who have announced their second album is called God Is
Dead usual kind of you know, mix and match kind of Twin Temple imagery.
It's going to be coming out on Friday, the thirteenth of October,
of course, meaning it's competing with the Creeper album. Creeper themselves are probably
quite huffed about, you know, sharing that with a Twin Temple. It
has been quite a long time since Twin Temple. I know they're still kind
of a you know, an active you know, they toured with Ghost last
year and that kind of thing. That's still a thing that's been put in
front of people, but it's been a while since we've had like significant new
music from them, so I suppose it's good to see a second album turning
up now. This is an event the Teutonic Thrash band, the German School
of Thrash. They are doing their version essentially of the Big Four or Thrash
shows. It's obviously happening in Germany, but Creator, Sodom, Destruction and
Tankard are all gonna be playing here there for the same time. I have
to say the German ones. In my head, it's the Teutonic Three.
Like I know, people bitch about Anthrax in the Big Four. Those people
are wrong and short sighted over the grand scheme of things. But Tankard really
really got lifted along for the ride, didn't they. When you're next to
Creator or fuck me, yeah it should be Electric Colboys. Yeah, the
one that I couldn't even tell you a Tankard song like that I could the
other. I'm a thrash fan, right, I've listened to my fair share
of Tankard. I'm not even slagging them off too heavily, But my god,
if again the Anthrax to Metallica gap double that several times to get you
know, create even destruction to Tankard, it seems like the only way this
makes sense is if tank could have kind of curated this image themselves as they
Yeah, it was kind of us. We were the four guys, and
it's like and others just going no, not really now, it was sort
of you know, you know, we were all together. Yeah, we
were around. It's just I could see the argument happening in nineteen eighty seven
or whatever, particularly when you look at their careers are sins, It's like,
wow, yeah, who is Does anyone like just sort of consider them
part of the same gang? Really? No, I think it's only because
it's only because the Americans have the four. It's like we have to have
the fourth, so three always work better for the Germans one because those the
top three of this. But I mean, you know, I don't re
turn this into a negative affair that doesn't atually sound like a amazing show like
I would have such a great time there, and I'm sure all the German
fans who are gonna be there with their homegrown favorites, it's going to be
a big event, a big event over here. Perhaps it's a skin dred
long time you know. Perennial fucking favorite on the UK live music circuit.
They are playing their biggest ever headline date at London's Embley Arena. They're also
gonna be playing Manes during a couple of other places. But I'm kind of
shocked they haven't done it before. They feel like they've been such a huge
thing that can sell fairly large venues in the game for so long. I'm
shocked they've never done a Wembley date. So they've done Wembley as like very
special guests, essentially co headlining with I think they did it with still Pan
Fat. They might've done it with someone else, but they they've they've done
like Wembley before as like a high profile supports loot. But yeah, them
doing it by themselves feels long overdue. I was just gonna I'm so toughed
for them. I kind of on one hand, Yeah, it is surprising.
But the thing with skin Dred is if you go to any festivals at
all, you are going to get exposed them. Like for me, I've
seen them about six times and I love seeing them live, but they've never
been enough for me to buy a ticket. If I saw a festival live
for a Skindred where on it, it would necessarily convinced me to go,
so I would. It could go either way. It could either be everyone's
seen them and everyone loves them, so everyone everyone's gonna go, or it's
like, well you can see them an awful lot. There's not really a
scarcity of Skindred good yea, even if they are always good. I've never
been to a Skindred headline show, and like I am a more casual Skindred
fan, but it is a thing where like if you've been to you know,
Download or Bloodstock, you've probably seen Yeah, And I think the Skindred
thing I've always said is the show is kind of the same every time.
But I can see certainly this is a Skindred date that feels a little bit
different. Right, It's not just Skindred come around again, it's Skindred going
for the biggest thing they've ever done, you know, a big one off
show at Wembley. That's always special for bands when they try and do that.
Um Skindred having their shot at it is you know, I hope it
does go well for them. I think they're kind of running on this like
homegrown swell of like we know you've all says before, but come on out,
this is going to be the special one, the one to remember,
the show that likes and you want to be remembered for which I really good.
I mean I was. I was amazed. They've got their first ever
Cran cover this week. Yeah, to go along with this, Like it
feels like God, these are these are things that like it's gonna have been
such an institution of the UK music that have been so beloved and have delivered
so many iconic download festival performances and moments that you kind of go, God,
they're only now just getting their first cover and their first arena show.
Is it's kind of crazy. Yeah, So yeah, I hope it does
go well for them. And also Military Gun, who are one of the
more kind of buzzy hardcore bands around at the moment. Who are you know,
threatening to knock on the door and do some things that kind of post
turnstyle wake and so on. They've announced they're doing a EU and UK tour
What's Coming to the UK in December of this year. They were rather good
at Outbreak Festival, so I'm sure a lot of people we wanted to go
along and see them good stuff. There not a lot of news this week,
but as said, there are plentiful hosts this week. So we've got
a few questions and so we're going to kick off with James Bentley, who
asked, what band are you currently stop faffing about and releasing an album about
health? Stop faffing out and releasing album? Well, what are we thinking?
What are the bands where we look at them and go, oh my
god, please against me again. I'm never getting it. I've given up
hope because no other members are too busy of doing other things. But I'm
just like, I quite liked the Laura Jane Gray stuff, but I just
wanted against Me on because there is something about against Me altogether where they bring
up the best in Laura in particular, So just give me that, please.
I'm tired of waitings like twenty sixteen was the last record is getting to
such an obscene weight. Now, please just stop packing out and give us
now Adam stopped drumming for Warriors even though I love Warriors as well, and
get back to against me. Yeah. I have a few of like you
know, reunion bands like who only do the nostalgia circuit and never released music
like Funeral for a Friend. Give me an album please, but my answer
is donosaur paylop okay, Like Celebrity Mansions was my my favorite album of twenty
nineteen. I love it. I think it's a brilliant collection of fun,
catchy like rock anthems they've released. I've run DMC cover during COVID, but
it's been sort of they've not released tenth and since and I just I'm just
desperate from that's again I was thinking about. Twenty nineteen is almost like a
bit of a cutoff for like how far back it would be for me to
start being like, you know, come on about it, like ID Health,
which you know, the person who asked question here says Health last studio
albums in twenty nineteen, but they've released, like you know, they've released
music. Yeah, I would like a new Health album, but I guess
I wasn't thinking about them being you know, absent for that long period of
time, obviously Winter Sun, but you know, because that thing. Similarly,
for me, I have to say Trip to Cong the last studio album
was twenty fourteen, the follow up to Malanacas Marta has become my tool album.
The difference there is, you know that the fat thing in question is
doing like the best originally written, you know, orchestral live performance a band
has ever done, and then in the years since then playing loads of the
back catalog live where I've gotten to see a set of hell Hammer songs,
and you know, next weekend I'm going to get to see Trip to Con
play a set of Celtic Frost songs. So I can't complain about the faffing
too heavily. But next year is going to be the ten year anniversary of
the last official Trip to Con studio album. I fucking need it. This
was Ahab for ages, but you know, this year they've finally done that.
We've mentioned them a few times in the last week because we're talking about
cosmic death metal a lot Catalist is my real big one here where that album
was twenty sixteen, most of Blood Incantations careers happened since then, It's still
just that one album. I really really need more and then just go through
a list here, just throwing out some names of bands who have been added
to a little while. I want new material from Acacoca nine inch Nails,
although he said he doesn't want to Mela Cash. It's been a long fucking
time. Dead Congregation has been a long fucking time new piss Grave. I
want disphere. Thomas Lindbergh fucking toll told me that they were working on a
new Despair album, and this was several years ago. I want it now,
Gallows Visigoth. I need a new Visigoth album like I need air in
my lungs. Electric Wizard. It's been a few years now and we've seen
he was doing special on them. I wan't bleeding through to hurry up and
release an album. Now we're supposed to dropping little bits and singles here and
there. When do we start up tool Watch again? How How long is
long enough to go? Okay? Tool You know the longest gap between your
albums aside from the obvious, is five years between latter houris in ten thousand
days. At what point do we start going? Are you going to follow
up their innoculum or is that it well next year? Well, Danny Curious,
Sorry, Danny Curious seems to think they were going to He was talking
about what they have an EP that they were going to do. They had
all these plans for it and stuff. I know, I don't know if
they've just given up on that with the opiate re recording sort of thing they
did, but I don't know it was Tool. It's a weird one because,
like you say in the part, it's only been five years. But
because of fear inoculum and the sort of magnitude of it, I wouldn't be
surprised if there isn't another Tool album. Yeah, I kind of wouldn't either,
But I do think again, when do we start too watch again?
You know what, it's been eight months since the last Weezard project where the
fuckerss thrown gonna come Two Mold Actually, two Molder is one I used to
use as a joke like they us every year, but then they haven't released
one for ages and they put out like a demo of a handful of songs
I think last year, And that used to be like when two Mold released
like a demo on band camp. You know the album will be coming fairly
soon, so I would like that rather rather soon, only because we just
did them on Alum Club. But my bloody Valentine have been threatening to release
an album for ages, like they really it was like twenty nine teen they
were going, We've got two EPs done, and You're just like, that's
an album. You're thinking of an album? Guys. It was a couple
of years after that they were like, oh no, now we've got two
albums and it was like release one that was three years ago and would just
Kevin Shield was just going to sit on it and then one day you'll find
it in your own letterbox. He's probably, you know, producing those guitars
a thousand times over again? Is he the fucking Winter Sun of like Shoegates?
Like, because that sounds exactly what Yari says, where he's like,
I'm the fourth album that I'm currently working on is thirty percent done. The
third one I'm currently working on a seventy five percent down. Is that Is
that his approach? Yeah? Sort of. He's not asked his fans to
fund a Sawney yet, but the same vibe. Tyler Ballard asked if you
were coming to the US, what venue would you want to visit the most.
This is interesting one because obviously think of historically, like you know,
you'd want to check out CBGB's and stuff like that. In terms of like,
for me, the music that's most relevant to my interest, so that's
come from the US. So I think about you know, maybe the Florida
death metal scene or whatever. There aren't may necessarily hugely iconic venues associate with
them. They're probably just bars that have been like torn down since then.
So the ones that came to mind for me are going along with like CBGB's,
which I you know, no obviously is huge, but Saint Vituses in
being yeah in New York is the one where if you watch any videos now
of like you know, whatever cool underground extreme metal band playing their set in
New York, it might get filmed by someone and put on their YouTube that
just looks like a hell of a cool place, and that would be like
a cool that's like a name that actually recognized, which isn't Actually there aren't
too many in the US that are like that. And then the other one
is the Red Rocks Amphitheater, which is I recently came into possession of the
Opeth live album from where they recorded there, and I got that live album
and I opened up the gate fold and the gate fold is just like a
photo of their show there, and it's a real like you open up and
go, WHOA, what's that place? Like this huge like huge fucking like
outdoor like in the fucking like mountains of Arizona or whatever. Um. Like,
I grew up in Cornwall and we have some kind of similar things,
like we have like an out there's like the Minac Theater, which is like
an outdoor open air theater like on a cliff just by you know, the
thing that that there's almost like a you know in a very American landscape that
we don't have here and don't on a much larger scale. Um, that
looked like a cool place. Um, Sam, you're saying some vis as
well any others. There's the other one is a commun's called but there is.
It's a like a church in Philadelphia where again it's such a like iconic
I think it's like a l convery church and hey, five six shoots loads
of gigs there as like like one that I of iconic card con venues in
that area that i'd be like, I think going to show there. Basically
any of the cool hard core venues across America i'd want to check out.
And yeah, I guess the parking lot from the Maryland death Fest video.
That'd be a real place of history. The Dennis that the Denny's Grand Slam
took place in the fuck is Up Dennis? It's a good shout. The
random backyard that Rick to Life played an a cappella set. Yeah, elliot,
did you say a people miss anything there? Oh no, no,
I mean you've already said a certain Vices and Red Rock those are the two
I had in mind as this a couple of super iconic ones like Radio City
Music Hall or there's a one in Nashville, like is it Nashville Country Music
Hall or something? Is It's also those are more like in a touristy sense.
Yeah, I feel like there's all the la ones that people talk about,
like the Rocks and everything, But I kind of don't really care.
I don't know why. There's no there's not a history for me there.
The Rainbow I don't like cool to check out, but again it's not like
I can. But other than that, yeah, yeah, and I'm not.
I don't want a bit of hair metal but or not like, oh
my god, this is where Warren used to play, this is where rat
got their start. Yeah, none that really like the ones I would care
about that have like cultural significance. I don't think even exists. I don't
think CBGB's or Gilman Street or even around any street would be cool if it
existed. Yeah, I'm not the answer. Yeah, that's I know very
little about the US, all right, and Ross Bow he asks, people
always talk about the next headliners for download, but who do you think are
staking a claim for Bloodstock. I've always wanted to kill Switch, so I'm
buzzing to finally see them get their shot. This is a question where again
I feel like in the mid twenty tens to late twenty tents, there were
so many when we were waiting for Saboton to finally get their shot, when
we went for a one and half, to jump up, when we went
for a Gagia. Now there's kind of less of that school of bands right
now, the one that is the equivalent I go Powerwolf when yes, like,
if power Wolf continue their kind of rise, I could very easily see
them doing something similar to what Saboton have done, and we were just speaking,
you know, long wondered whether skin Dred would maybe do that. You
know, they're such a festival kind of staple. Maybe off the back of
this Wembley date if that goes well for them, it could, It could
happen. But again the flip side is there, as you were saying,
Elliott, our Skindred actually enough of a draw in themselves to kind of be
the headliner. I don't know, but yeah, what what do I reckon
Sam terms of like the metal core lot in terms of either a band like
kill Switch, who have obviously been around for a long time but they're kind
of being ported on here, or the new lot hour parkwer Drive whatever.
Like again, like you would have said, like parkwer Drive felt like the
obvious one from the newer school of metal corey tomorrow. Very sorry, but
again I don't know if they'd ever be enough of a real draw architects with
where they've gone once anymore. I maybe you could have maybe seen a case
for it if they kept doing, you know, carried on the route from
Holy Hell without going down the sort of more arena rock thing. So I
don't know if they'd ever really do it um there's no one else really from
that kind of like Nat because Trivium have already done it. Although a Trivium
I think neid a round two because Trivium did it in twenty fifteen and it
was, you know, famously not their greatest hour at that point in time,
they weren't in the fittest state as a band. But Trivium now on
such a high. I would love to see them come back and really like
almost like what Avenge did the second time at download, like had Drivin come
back and really smashed the second download Bloodstock. My fear of the metal core
lot is again you say architects of time ago, and I don't know if
it's right. My fear is that Sleepdoken do it, because I think they
do slam dunk before they do. But they played the second stage and I
watched them and I thought it was really weird and I thought it didn't fit.
But now they're just playing. They've sold out Wembley Arena and like a
fucking second, didn't they. So my fear is that sleeked Oken would do
it, and you know I would not be there. But do we think
Volbeat could do it? I wonder about the Volby would be a good shout
out. Yeah, there's a couple of established bands who haven't had the shots
only to kill Switch who maybe could. And the two that came to minds
me there were Corn and Volby. Oh Corn's a good show. Yeah.
Yeah, I suppose Corner's got the darkness to like they can be because if
Rob Zombie can do it, I expect there's no argument against like Corn.
Yeah, I guess. I guess it's it's where you draw the demographics and
how many people would not like for that to because I am very sympathetic to
a bustock audience who goes you know, I want it to stay as Bloodstock
again, that's my fear of something like Sleep Tooken or Architects even was to
go over there. But thinking about you again, it's kind of hard because
the way I thought about this is you have to be bigger than Anthrax,
right for a Bloodstock crowd as well, because Anthrax are permanently subheadliners there and
they're in the Big Four and it's like no one questions really whether Anthrax should
be headlining it. But for a blast Ac audience, Anthrax are a pretty
big fucking band, and to surpass them, you have Anthrax, Like you've
got to be bigger than Anthrax to a Bloodstock crowd in order to headline that
festival. And even some of the band who are really buzzy at the moment,
like not loose, they're like halfway up the bill this year, so
it's not like they're even in that subheadline stage at the moment, so that
I think, yeah, we're there's not as many like knocking on the door
as there was in say twenty eighteen, and I'm curious to see what happens.
Obviously, the ones you're wanting to do it in a dream world like
fucking you know, unto others or you know, maybe malevolent or whatever.
They got big enough, but it feels like it's a little way off at
the moment, hope far up to crowd door filth play subheadlines, subheadline.
Same with DIMMI See this is the thing is like I always the thing,
always found really excited about Bloodstock and still find exciting because it always surprised me.
Is it felt like their pool of potential headliners was so much bigger than
downloads, Like, yeah, lots of different jot and then when they started
crossing into maybe less traditionally heavy metal stuff, it kind of opened up even
more. But like they're kind of in that weird thing now where it's like
Ghosts have probably gone too big for them to go back headline that, like
they He's really glad I caught the one and only ghost blood Stock. Yeah,
it's not happening again. I would love personally for it happening again,
but obviously it won't for you know, numbers of reasons. But catching them
at that one moment, they're like Square Hammer just come out. That was
magic, And there's quite there's quite a lot of bands at like Corns level
who maybe come from a similar time, who you think size wise would be
fine. But it's like death Tones aren't going to headline Bloodstock. You're gonna
get like Disturbed or anything like that. So you basically only have Corn from
that. I know, the other one that was thrown around a few years
ago, which obviously is going to happen anymore. But like people talked about
Maldon Manson, but if you haven't got that, you really have just got
Corner. And then in powermel like Powerwolf, yeah, but against Halloween a
subheadlining. It's that Anthrat thing. It's like you've got to be bigger in
that circle than hell to go on and the only one really blind Garding and
Similian kind of that sub headliners a lot. The only one really has been
Saboton and it's surpassing that. You're looking too power Wolf really and then even
if do it, if Saboton could, could you get could you see baby
Mittal taking it? Yeah? Hut On something like really out there as a
left field pick. It'll be a real risk, wouldn't it. So many
people would be really upset about it, like it would. But I'm like
they they've got the power metal kind of thing going on there. There is
I know a lot of male friends do like them. There be people in
your line, but I think baby Metal are a realistic shout as a Bloodstock
headliner. Trouble with that is, I think you need to balance it out
with something kind of proper heavy on the other end. And there's not that
many of a comparable size of because it's like Emperor used to headline Bloodstock and
now the subheadline and Cradle of Filth could headlines. So there's not really like
a how many really extreme bands. Could you have headline on the same weekend
there's baby Metal to really balance it out. Yeah, you need to wait
till Behemoth will back around again or if Demon Demon has ever decides to take
him more all on the road again, which he doesn't seem to be interested
in doing. Yeah, I think I still think their pull of potential headliners
is bigger than than downloads. But I think we're in a bit of a
transitional period where he might have w a few years as though some of those
bands like a Power Warlf, Malevolence even Whoever to kind of get a few
runs up up the ladder and get to the place where bands like a modern
Mars Sabaton whoever were about, you know, five years ago. And like
I said, I don't think there are a few returns that I think are
going to be big, like Trivium's return, machine Heads return, seeing as
they did their back on the festival stage and they did a secret set.
I think machine Head headlining Bloodstock for the first time in however many you know,
over a decade would be quite an event for people. But yeah,
we'll see how that goes. Patreon supporters, the latest thing we had it
from last week is our album a pack where myself Samon Elliott, we spoke
about I thought this was a really good album club episode, Like they're all
good, obviously we make them, but I thought this one, all four
were really really good chats, like we're really enthusiastic and interested with you know,
the stories and the discussion points around all four of the albums the question
here, which were of course Slayer Season in the Abyss, My Bloody Vantine's
Loveless Cancer about searching for Zero, where I think we kind of almost did
like the you know, the comprehensive like, you know, it's far enough
the view mirror, now, let's put the stamp on what did this album
do? And then Blood Plantation starts ball as well. I think HM had
its own story to tell that you could really dive into again, like going
into that My Blood Vantine record, which is the kind of like a new
experism in into like the madness of how that album tore apart the band,
the label. It's a crazy story, and then the genius that comes out
of it on the other side. And then also just talking about the best
trash Matter album ever, isn't it. I Mean, I can't disagree I
mean, I mean, I have to disagree, but I mean I can't
dissuade any ounce of enthusiasm for the it's the best Slayer album, Slayer are
the best fresh band. Yeah, well I think it was. It was
cool to you know, really give that its props because it is an album
that is such a classic, but also it's kind of overshadowed by, you
know, the big one in the Slayer catalog. It was really nice to,
like, for forty minutes or something, just go like season the abyss,
Holy fucking shit, look how much amazing shit is on this record,
Peels. I think it was also cool because all four of the choices kind
of blurred the lines in their each category. So it's like the big metal
thing that spearheaded it. It wasn't like a black album thing. It was
a sort of under not even underappreciate it, but like the silver metal Slayer
album and then the big rock record was so it wasn't like it was any
one of us could just throw to someone else. It was all felt very
like well balanced across the four album clubs. Yeah, and then as said,
what we have just recorded alongside this, this hype Blast, which is
out on the Patreon now as you were hearing this going up today as well
is the first chunk of the eight zed of Awful, something that many of
you have been asking for us to bring back. It's been a few years
since it's been around. We weren't able to do well, you know,
a couple of years ago whatever, but we've got to it here. I
have, of course already done this thing, so I essentially shared the bickering
that unfolded between Elliott, Sam and Mark who have all done lists. And
as said, this is the first part. This was the first half a
to M essentially and it is just under four hours long. We are going
to be coming with you to be very soon with the the second half of
that. But god, there were some some controversial picks also, some like
completely blind signed to me, Why am I having to google this and listen
to what this is? Picks on this list, which I think is a
great mix. Yeah, coming in as hot as it gets set, the
tone really didn't it And like any hours was, I was like, oh,
we didn't get anything quite that school we got. We came close,
but yeah, that was a real tone set. Yeah, and and some
trends that just needed a kicking. Oh me, I found a lot of
mine were just things I've just been like, I've sat on this and I
just want to just really lay in just how much some of this stuff pisses
me off. Yeah, al Amon, were very relevant. Mark I will
say this, Mark I Shit you not has picked a song from a nineteen
nineties animated TV show as one of his longestanding bugbears. I'm going to let
you discover in the episode what that is. But truly truly took me off
guard. It's so funny because we always like, oh, you know,
it's nice to be positive on the show. It's fun to just not slag
things off for a lot. At the end of the four hours, as
tired as I was, it was like, oh, I can't end this
now, I've got eight more things about We are a more possy show these
days, we do, you know, we primarily platform albums that we actually
want to talk about. But there is a special moment like this where again
to the to the people who pay for it, we will, you know,
lay the hammer down where it is so deserved. And as said,
the second half of that is going to be coming to you very very soon
as well, say thank you very much for supporting. It's at patron dot
com. Slash that's not matl that's what keeps the show alive. Releases for
this first week of August, it's not a very busy week at all.
But I suppose the big one in kind of the TNM sphere is the fact
that Teenage Wrist are back with their album Still Love. I guess it's not
that long ago The Earth as a black Hole was released, but that is
one of the more you know, beloved can alternative rock records of this decade
so far, so certainly feels like a big one that a lot of peoplere
gonna be checking in on the follow up to that Elsewhere of course, along
with you know what we spoken about earlier today in the show, Skin dred
A back with a new Album's Smile, which is actually is a while since
the last Wison it's the last one Still Big Kings, Yeah years ago.
Yeah, gosh, that is a while, so I mean, hopefully it's
a it's a good record to back up, you know, their arena campaign
and everything elsewhere. Mammoth w V eight, which is of course a Wolfgang
van Halen's band. They're really seeing Mammoth two. I've never listened to Wolfgang
van Halen, but you've been supporting Metallica on this round, doesn't he which
is not surprising considering he's Wolfgang van Halen. But if you want, if
you're going on to any of those, you know his album is out and
then a couple of heavier things thrown in there. I think on Unique Leader
Records, I believe is Humanity's Last Breath Ashen and the one that I will
be checking out is an Autumn for Crippled Children Closure, a very kind of
cool post black metal band they will just named a couple of years ago that
was excellent, so I'll be checking in on that. And there we have
it. Thank you very much for listening. We'll be back with a slightly
early Hyperblasts or at least for us recording it next week because I'm going to
be going after the Bloodstock festival. Butts, yeah, cheers for listening.
Head overs of the Patron if you want to hear the asad of Awful and
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