Hello everybody, and welcome back to That's No Mattal, your weekly rock and
heavy music podcast, and today welcome back to another edition of Hyperblasts are just
pretty speedy in and out news show. Let you know exactly what has been
going on in the last week in those forementioned realms of rock and heavy music
and hardcore and everything else. We are here to let you know all of
that good stuff. My name is Parin Hayish. Sam Bignon is here.
We've got Elliott Paisley back as well. You're back from the Channel Islands,
which I'll be honest with you, I don't believe those are a real place.
It's a bit like the shadow realm or something like. They're not real
from Cornwall, you know, don't judge too much. At least it's attached.
It is weird that the plane's landing and I was looking at the window,
going, oh, that's weird. You can still see the shore.
You look out the other window and you can also see the shore. It
looks a little postman pat Island. It's the most like quaint. Even I
was there and I'm not convinced it was real. It still seems fake.
Yeah, so you're back that means that, you know, this week,
we've got some exciting stuff going on in terms of this podcast and what we're
going to be doing and recording. But before we that you know, all
of that, we're just going to dive into the news. Actually, before
I do that, I suppose just mentioned I was at a couple of shows
this week. Firstly, I went to see Sick of it All last week,
who I'd never seen before, and I just saw that they were touring,
you know, fairly last minute, and I was like, you know,
I've never seen Sick of it All. I've heard for years just like
what a great live band they are, you know, in that particular.
Have you seen Sick of All one of them? Mut have? Yeah,
I've seen him a bunch, one of the best hardcore bands I've seen,
like the Underworld to headlining the Forum to like Gross Rock Festival where there was
no barrier in a big festival tent, and they've just reliably incredible every time.
Yeah, I'd heard that they were like even within you know, the
realm of hardcore, that they were one of the must see live acts absolutely,
and I thought, you know, what better opportunity maybe will I have?
I didn't even realize. I turned up and they were doing a thirtieth
anniversary tour for Scratch the Surface, which they didn't play the album like in
its entirety in order, but they played almost all of it like over the
course of the night, mixed in with you know, loads of other classics,
you know, fucking It's Clobber in Time and all that good stuff,
you know, the recent songs that are really really good as well. And
it was yeah, like a properly just like joyful, I am all in
hour of classic hardcore views. He's got that like he's like, you're in
your like typical motivational hardcore front man. He's got that energy like every five
room I mean, but also like entertaining. Like there was a fun line
about obviously they're aware of the fact that they are like veterans in the hardcore
scene, and they were like, we're gonna play like a fast song.
We know that like the young folks don't like the fast stuff. They only
like the ones that they can like kunk Fu kick to that one, hate
breed Rift too, But we're gonna play you know, a far song if
that's okay with you, And yeah, just fucking you know, like I
said, loads of like you know, the staple classic sick of it All
songs, heavily weighted on Scratch the Surface, but plenty of brothers as well.
You know, by the very end of it, they're hitting like you
know, the song scratch the Surface and obviously ending on step down, which
is just brilliant. And it got to be obviously this was the day that
the new Not Loose album had come out that I went to the show,
and obviously I was listening to that album like you know, in the day
and stuff, and just with the amount of like buzz around that, it
just got me thinking like in say, like thirty years time even twenty,
which is again how far we're talking from Scratchersurface right now? Will like the
hardcore bands of right now that everyone's kind of falling over and everyone's kind of
talking about being because thirty years ago, like who was the hardcore band who
were kind of taking it to the masses and the mainstream in like the largest
way. It was sick of boll wasn't it. Yeah, they were in
a way like they not to Loose or whatever or the turnstile of their day.
I was just thinking, like you know, in thirty years, will
those bands that we talk about right now still be killing it in the same
way that you can go and see Sick of It All doing right now.
And it was just it was kind of inspiring. I'd like to hope.
So I'd like to hope that that that energy carries forward, and even if
you know, in twenty years time, you're just going to get not close
doing the Underworld every other year, like the same way, you know,
like mad Bourne and all of those bands just come back and they'll they'll go
to their usual stomping grounds. I would hope that even if like Talk aren't
massive, that they carry on that attitude. Yeah, and Sick of It
were just setting a very fine example. And then yesterday I went to see
Green Lung, which is maybe a tour. Obviously that was like, what
the number four album of the year or something with the listener votes, So
I think that's obviously a tour that a number of you guys were probably very
very interested in attending. I hadn't seen Green Lung yet, hadn't seen them
on the last album or anything, and I was very interested in terms of
like the crowd, because obviously you're gauging sort of the you know, the
appeal and who was turning up to a show like Green Lung And it was
funny. It was a mixture of like the shirts. It's like people you
would see at like a Damnation or something, you know, like kind of
an you know, underground like doom Sludge whatever type of event, mixed in
with people like loads of like you know, like like normy metal T shirts
and stuff and like that. Like and again as I say this, you
know, with no judgment or whatever, but you know, those people who
have patch jackets and it's just like guns and roses system under downwere like those
those type you know jackets you see like those people are at the Green Lung
show. Mixed in with people wearing fucking like underground slug shirt is a really
interesting mix. And I think that's good obviously because it shows that, you
know, it's a broader appeal of people, maybe skewing older rather than younger
because it is you know, like retro music in a way, but a
decently broad audience there. The set was they had a lot of For me,
it was like sound and tech stuff. It was funny after you know,
listen to the album A bunch and it's so like perfectly mixed and everything
getting a version of that that was just like genuinely like ear blasting, like
the sound which is like fucking really really in your face. And they had
some like tech problems like very first song, like a guitar lead cut out
and then they're to stop for a bit, and then he's got an a
Maxine witch queen. The the vocal mic just like completely cut out at the
exact moment when the second Maxine weird queen like comes in and he had to
like run over to the bassist like backing microphone, which is like a weird
like reverb effect, and it kind of sag it through there. But god,
that band sound good when they riff, you know, like again really
meaty power of you know, those those really classic black sambathy type riffs and
all that stuff. The bassist is the rock star. He's like the platonic
ideal of what you want a bassis to be, like you kind of like
a large framed guy, uh just kind of like you know, rocking along
on these basslines, tinted sunglasses on doing the backing vocals with the ancient ways
all that kind of shit. Very entertaining guy to watch him. They played
I think it was literally every song from this Heathen Land mixed in with like
a good you know seven or eight or whatever from their previous two as well.
All of those songs obviously sounded one for sorrow, particularly that with the
main closer of like the main set, and that really had like a sense
of you know again, a sort of timelessness to it, the ending of
oceans of time, with the kind of the I know you feel it me
and I feel it too. That whole part really really brilliant. Yeah,
I think, like I said, the kind of marred a little bit by
sound and tech and stuff. But I can certainly imagine seeing that band armed
with those songs, maybe in a larger space again if you want to see
and get those good supportsorts, so whatever, I can imagine it going very
very well. Indeed, they had like some cool stage set behind them,
the massive like teeky skull thing that I watched them assemble, like they put
his horns on during the band change, a fun stuff. So yeah,
I enjoyed seeing that those two shows. Indeed, as saying the news this
week where maybe it's everyone has announced their albums for like both spring and then
I guess we'll get the autumn one as well. But we're quite a patch
for sort of new singles and now announcements and stuff like that coming out.
The first thing that we're going to talk about is one that I maybe can
throw to someone else here to see if they kind of registers more, I
guess. But the Blood Brothers have announced this week that they are going to
be doing a reunion shows and also live album reissues and stuff like that.
But it is their first show in ten years. And the Blood Brothers,
I guess maybe they noticed that a C Space Cowboy have arrived and are talking
about them a lot. That kind of feels like the moment of it arriving,
doesn't it. Well, it's that, and you know you're seeing a
lot of the naughties and sort of formative metalpor bands are coming back, like
the Bled are back with the Blade yea, the Bla Yeah, like all
that sort of stuff. And the Brothers you know that they were a little
different I guess to a lot of those bands being purely the one they were
like they were the sassy ones. Yeah, you want know that the whole
sascore that sees his Cowboy going about the bled obviously, actually when of the
key influences there, I've gone to the bed quite late on again when I
was just kind of like fully in my okay, what was medtlecore in the
naughties? I have to listen to it all the Blood I mean Blood Brothers.
Yeah, bands, but Blood Brothers are really like the the Again,
if a band like the Space Cowboy are like arguably the biggest and most sort
of like popular a band like that have ever gotten on a kind of like
breaking out of a scene level, Blood Brothers are like the classic example of
like when that sound was coming through, who was like the definitive band of
it? They're the band, I say again, So for me, it's
not like it's not the realm. I have the most knowledge expertise on by
any means. But the Brothers are like the if you liked Saskred, that
was like the band doing it, I guess, and kind of embodying it.
So again I expose, while that sound has been like on a bit
of an up again, might as well play some shows. Yeah, it
was funny because there was a couple of like weeks ago maybe month, so
there was like a clip of them that kind of went viral in like metical
and hardcore twins of them just playing leven them and kind of going like,
oh, this is actually really cool with the like the two vocalists being a
bit like wacky and sassy all over the place. And I was like,
and now that they've actually come back, and it was unrelated, but it
just felt like interest was kind of winding up in them anyway because of how
that, like the whole Sasqua thing starting to take off, So they've they've
picked a good moment to come back and sort of catch up one's attention.
And it really feels like every time one of these bands comes aback, you
go Okay, that's really it, now, no more coming back. That
was the last one, and then go, oh fucking hell the blood.
I genuinely didn't see this coming. You fan like a big fan. I
really like Burn Piano Island Burn. I'm not that familiar with that's album.
Yeah, that's the one. I'm not as familiar with Crimes, which I
think is the one they're doing the push for this time. To be honest,
it's like I think I said this when we talked about Coalesce. If
it doesn't intail either new music or UK dates. There's a kind of ceiling
to how excited I can get because it just, to be honest, it's
almost worse than them not coming back, because I just get fomo, like
it's just get I get sad that I'm not there. But they're like,
if it, I mean, I'll take a final reissue because I don't come
across their records all that much. And like Sam and I just said,
like burn Piano island, Burn rocks pretty hard. Yeah, son, that
is happening. At the very least, sleipnot have a brand new song that
they've said that they've written, and we don't have a release date or anything,
hopefully becoming sooner rather than later. But their first song written and recorded
with elo has a Grande in the band, which feels like it must.
I mean, obviously, I suppose Eloy had been in the band for a
certain amount of time before it was publicly announced that he was so, but
that still feels like a very rapid turn around. It feels like last time
we were here, we're like, oh shit, yeah, they've announced they've
played the first show with Eloy, and I was like, oh yeah,
we've already got new music nice to and they keep them momentum up hit while
the iron is hot, so to speak. Yeah, part of me is
like if this' has been like a sort of surprised, whether they're just going
to went bam new song when they had it ready to go, rather than
I'm like, oh no, we've got it ready and not know when to
release it. I don't know if that's maybe with this, but I guess
because whilst momentarmy is on their side and they're just going to keep the good
press going. But I'm excited to hear what this new iteration of Slipno's going
to sound like. I see in iteration they have a new drama, but
it feels like a re energized band all of a sudden after these recent live
shows. I actually like how forthcoming they're being with the info this time around,
because I mean, it's been about fifteen years since Shawn has taught like
a normal person, where every time he's asked about Slipknop music, it's always
riddles and stuff and they say it's other surprise releases or it's teased three years
in advance, where it's just going like, yeah, we have a new
song. It's it's coming out so well. I haven't said it's coming out
soon, but i'd be surprised if not. I mean that long may You
Die phrase, which is they've said is the title of it, that was
on the posters for the California Desert Show, so I would think it was
done maybe with that in mind, and they chose to delay, so I
would think it's fairly soon. I just think it's kind of refreshing for a
band of their size and with their history to just be kind of lax about
this stuff now, and like you say, with momentum on their side,
and it seems like people are more pro slip Not than they have been at
least since we are not your kind, it seems wise to me. And
I mean the prospect of Elloyd playing in slip Knot, like I can't really
get over how excited I am. Yeah, So I just hope that we're
talking about that like next week or the week after and not in three months
time, as you say, But yeah, that is coming. The most
exciting stuff I think, you know this week for news, especially here in
the UK actually for once, is all live announcements stuff. So let's go
through those The first of those is that Outbreak Festival are bringing back something that
I believe may have been done before but not in a long time. Outbreak
Autumn, which is a random, you know, Outbreak branded one day event
happening in the same place, the BC Arena in Manchester. It's happened October
twenty seventh, and the announcement, the lineup announcement, which it does say
and more so, this is not the full thing, but it's the story
so far. Headlining it with Citizen Angel, Dust narrow Head, Fleshwater and
horse Jumper of Love for their horse ri name I've never ever heard of before.
Maybe that shows my ignorance, but it's Hele ofn a Ban. Yeah,
I'm not familiar with them either. Yeah, but you know, if
you are in the Manchester ever, even if you wanted to travel to it,
that certainly seems like it's leaning on, obviously the more kind of alternative
rock side of Outbreak, although flesh Water for me would be the real,
you know, exciting band amongst that bill. But yeah, maybe some people
are complaining that this isn't part of the actual Outbreak this year, considering some
of the controversy around that, well, I mean, like they said,
they've been trying to get to the story so far for ages apparently Outbreak and
just never manage it. And this is clearly I don't even mention because this
is part of the story so far as headline tour. Oh yeah, they
are doing a UK tour around it, They're doing a full UK tour with
angel Dust supporting. But this is they've clearly gone, oh, we've gon
need to do something pretty cool for the Manchester Day and have jumped on that.
And I kind of agree it would have been nice if this had been
part of the main festival that's coming up in a month's time, but also
the sort of the Saturday sunder that is still looking so good that I wouldn't
swap out what I've got on those two days for anything here. Maybe next
time it would be an idea to take that hip Hop Day and make that
the Outbreak autum, almost like its own standalone thing, and then this just
make that the Friday. Yeah. I think obviously we will discuss this to
some degree when Sam, You're going to Outbreak, aren't you soam? But
you're not doing the only during the Saturday Sunday and may end up at the
hip Hop Day. We don't know yet, but yeah, we'll so,
but we'll certainly, you know, when we talk about that, we'll talk
about But I think, you know, we've spoken a lot about how last
year the hip Hop Day seemed a bit more integrated and this time the way
they've done it seems like a mistake. And I think the people who are
firmly against it, maybe who aren't interested in the hip hop stuff outbreak at
all, well like this would have been a better, you know, extra
day as opposed to this separately ticketed thing. But yeah, that's that's not
conversation. But if you want to go there, it is. And I
said stories about our doing a you get all around it. However, over
in maybe my little corner, I apologize to Jane from two Thousand Trees and
Art Tangent. If you're listening, we're going to talk about the Damnation announcement,
which is I won't lie, right. So, you know, last
year we did the album club special thing around the Damnation sets and stuff.
I don't know if we'll do that again this year. It was like a
nice little tie in maybe well, but certainly I haven't had it in my
mind for some reason since like last time, I was like, oh yeah,
this time next year, we'll be talking about Hatred for Mankind by Draggon
the Sunlight. They hadn't even booked it. I just somehow knew they would
deep down in my mind. I just saw the pieces coming together. I
was like, I know that Dragon the Sunlight will be playing Hatred for Mankind
at Damnation twenty twenty four. And it's nice that, you know, my
my intuition has not been proven to be like completely and utter bullshit, and
that is in fact happening. Hatred for Mankind Dragon the Sunlight a future album
club in for in like October or whatever, get around to the gift,
but one of the genuinely like top five like most intense, extreme, terrifying
live bands certainly that I've ever seen. I feel quite quite lucky actually during
the sort of like mid twenty tens Dragged to sun Like, if you're in
the UK. I know, in the US it's a different question if they
go over there like Maryland definitely something it is like a huge fucking deal.
But in the UK in the mid twenty tens, I feel lucky to have
been, you know, going shows and stuff at a time where Dragged to
someun like were very readily available and readily you know accessible, and they played
a lot of shows around that time, and then they went away for a
good like five years or so. Obviously you know, COVID and everything made
it a real question. Drags are like coming back, I think for anyone
who has not yet seen this band, and they are going to be playing
what is you know, their generally lauded record, never mind everything else that's
already on the Damnation build that makes it look very very appetizing and would shine
with this very nicely, but Hatred Man, let me tell you is an
unmissible set right now. It's one of those again. Like, I'm not
like a super Dragons Slight fan, but I think they're a fascinating, incredible
band that when I'm in the right mood I can listen. Never seen them
like this is the thing. The first time I saw Dragon Sunlight, I
like, I liked them. It was one of the sets that I immediately
went to the merch table and bought, like one of everything. I have
to be I have to be in the mood to listen to Dragons to Sunlight.
But and again with the album of Full sets. This is when you
kind of go like, well, yeah, no, Hatred of mankind is
a body of work. If you're listening to if you ever listened to dragonson,
you're putting an album on to just sit there in darkness and like oppressive
misery for however long and kind of seeing that live is this is on a
festival that's got you know, bleeding through doing this love. This is Murders
and Nails coming back. This is like on the level of like, holy
shit, I got to see that. I mean, it's certainly it's on
the same level as intensity as you're cann expect from Nails, you know,
yeah, different kind of intensity, but like well yeah, but to the
point where I mean me and my damnation, like some people that go with
we were kind of spitballing like what album in forcets would you like to see?
And none of us ever brought this forward. And it's baffling cause it's
like a total slam dunk for that sort of thing. And then when they
announced it, well this is it. And when it was announced I was
like that might actually be too intense, Like it's more it's almost as daunting
as it is exciting. I when you look at the lineup this this year,
it's a pretty like frightening line up anyway, you know, inter Arm
and Nails, Cradle of Filth, all that stuff, Gate Creeper, and
then this is like substantially more kind of intense and scary than any of that
stuff. And I haven't seen Dragged into Sunlight before they kind of I know
that their sort of period of activity was like that a few year period was
I wasn't really going to any metal shows, and I don't know the way
that hatred for mankind, the way people talk about that of a certain age,
it's like the way people talk about I don't know, like our problem
by Iron Monkey and stuff like it's like these low level classic amshe it's you
have to hear that. And oh just it's again with nails outside of nails,
Like I don't know if there's a thing I'm more excited about on the
bill. Now, Yeah, they've they said that this is going to be
headlining. I presume it's the kind of the second largest stage, the sort
of the one where they usually have all the black and death metal type stuff,
which does mean that I now fear for whatever is going to be headlining
that in the other room, and I hope it isn't something I'm you know,
Gavin, if you're listening, do not put a hab there. I
swear to god. That is as said. They're literally slapped bag the middle
of the poster right now, and it's like the dark Heart like that that
logo just sort of like catches your iron just looking like way scary than anything
else on there. Yeah, and now I've a voiced that out loud.
I'm really terrified about ahab so Gavin, please, but very excited about Dragon
the Sunlight and then a few tours and stuff that are also rather exciting.
Jimmy World are going to be touring in the UK with Pup in support,
which Jimmy World I haven't seen since we did our big special on them,
and that's been like one I really want to say, bringing along like one
of the the best, most reliable, you know, support bands in that
kind of sphere perfectly. I'm just going to have a lovely time at that.
I'm just going to just see some of my favorite songs from two bands
that are always great, and I'm just gonna like that's just the perfect night
out for me, just like good feelings all the time. Yeah, I
can't wait for that, even Ali Pali, which you can. I I
don't know as much as many people, but I'm like, ah, nothing
could make me not have the like the perfect evening scenes in Mute Modern Pup.
Yes. Uh. And then Baroness are going doing a co headline tour
with Graveyard and they're bringing Paul Bearer along in support, and that's going around
the UK as well, and I think, you know, maybe from the
TNM sort of bubble, there will be people who are like Graveyard, are
they really like you know, because Baroness is such a beloved band here,
I think a Baroness are not actually as big heartbreakingly in the wider world as
sort of we treat them, want them to be as they are. And
Graveyard are actually very big in their specific kind of like retro seven e'es,
Like that's a band who headlined Desert Fest and stuff like that. I really
like their first Slab when it came out again like years ago. I haven't
always kept trap with them, but that's a you know, that is a
fairly you know, similar sort of pegging level. But Paul Bear along as
well, that makes it certainly if you're into your I guess Stoner Doom whatever
type area. That's one of the tours of the year. And I haven't
seen Baronet since Purple, so I've been fucking again gagging for that, so
very good and over in the US. To not leave you out the Brebre
Death Cort tour of the year, I suppose Lorna Shaw doing a big old
headline over the US with Whitechapel, Coupli Khn't and Sangue Sugar bolg in like
the four of a twenty twenty four Larna Shore fan and again like Lorna Shore,
an extremely heavy band, but there is no sex of their fan that
like the twenty twenty four, isn't it? Yeah, watching Sangue Sugar bolb
is just a fascinating image that I'm just like, how's that gonna work?
Yeah, Lorna Shaw, somehow are the link between like Leak Token and Sanguy
Sugar Bark if you have to, you know, Kevin Bacon away from one
of those bands to the other. Lord the Shore of the Way to do
it well, Sangwa super Bogs. I haven't really adjusted to their I don't
even know if like their music's popular, but like the number of times you
was watching some guar on Youwtube and he's wearing a Sangua super Bog shirt and
you're like, hey, when did this happen? When did that become like
the new Supreme or whatever? It's cool to be seen in the Sangua super
Bog logo. Yeah, very good. Right. Questions. We're bringing these
back to Hyperlasta for a couple weeks off and we have a few with the
start with one that we kind of covered extensively last week. But Paul Terry
asks, what are each of your top three albums recorded by Steve Albini.
They can be bands with him in or not. Obviously myself and Sam were
here, you know, eulogizing essentially, you know, the great Steve Albani
last week and we did say we're like, what is your favorite Steve Albanie
record? But Elliott, you weren't here, and I know that you will
have such an affinity for you know a number of Steve Albini's works, whether
again that'd be his own bands or bands he worked with, just to you
know, give you the moment, little moment to sort of pay tribute.
What would be your like favorite, very favorite Steve Albini associated records. This
like may maybe more than any other producer outside like Rick Rubin. I can't
think of anyone where this is more difficult for because even if you just look
at the ones he played on, which there isn't a ton of those,
but picking a top three of those is hard enough, and then when it's
stuff he produced, it's basically it'd be hard to do a top twenty.
I think Steve Olcaviuni produced like albums. I think, like if I was,
I find it hard to look past the two Big Black Records in terms
of like stuff he's on. I kind of flip floped between Atomizer and songs
about fucking like depending on the day, either one of those is number one,
and then maybe I think it's a shell Ac like. I feel like
they kind of get overlooked in a way, but all of their albums are
excellent, even like there's one called Excellent Italian Greyhound, which no one seems
to particularly like, but I think is one of my favorite. I'll say
at Action Park is the three those are my top three Steve Albini records of
ones he's on. And then if I just throw in favorite produced ones.
I feel like the two that come to mind are Goat by the Jesus Lizard
and I don't know how you say, It's Yankee Exo by God's Yeah,
And I feel like between those two you get a pretty good summation of what
it is that made Steve Albini like a once in a even generation, once
in a universe kind of character, because it's like he can make caustic alternative
rock sound as good as anyone, and he also you know, left space
for bands to make their most daring, strange act Like that's a now that
even Godspeed fans struggle with. But there's days I think it's my favorite album
of theirs. It's just like I was on the show last week to talk
about it, but like that news coming in, it's like I can't think
of many people who have had a career as long as him where it's still
like, oh, there had so much more to give, Like a lot
of this stuff you kind of go like, you know, it might be
a small cast long years ago, and you're just sad because you know you
have an association with that thing. But it's literally like well, like you
said, like the above, that literature record coming out of last year.
It's like two of my favorite albums, you know, within the last few
years. Still, like with that guy at the Helm, it's just insane.
Yeah. I think if I was to do like a top three,
because you know, we spoke about it last week, but I feel like
in Utero, I should says in my top three, but I would I
would almost have to decline this question because just of the Neurosis albums, right,
yeah, four of those would be contenters the top three, like the
Eye of Every Store will be number one, But honestly, like each of
like like Times of Grace, a Son that Never Sets and on a Fan
of Decay, every one of those could potentially find themselves being the one left
out of the top three. On the outside, I mean right now,
I might end up saying the Times of Grace falls out of like the top
three, like it's just top three. Steve Albini Neurosis album, it's fucking
bat shit. If I was limited to one per band, I would have
the Ivory Storm in Utero and then either Blessed Black Wings or the above,
and then Sam you were saying in Europe and the above certain and I probably
would say Times of Grace again, I was like, I was that kind
of you know the US. No, No, that album is like when
you put it take it as an albu but it's just a masterful piece of
work. And none of us said Surfer Rosa. It's just like, yeah,
I only got into Surf Rosa in like the last six months. Yeah,
I had to say it again like last But when we were sort of
prepping to do you know the episode and talk about Steve Albinie again, I
was listening to those records and I put on Surfa Rosa and like, I'm
I really like, I really like that record, and I like Picks in
general, but I'm not a die hard fan. It's not a record that
changed my life or anything, but fucking where is my Mind? Here?
And I found myself like welling up a little bit, and it's like how
many times as you have you heard where is my Mind? But in that
moment, it's like, man, when that song arrives is something. Yeah.
So there are again reiterated our very favorite st our Bean Eat records.
Stephen Sweeting asks, I'm curious what your take is on bands that just completely
neglect the UK and other areas when it comes to touring. AFI were my
favorite band growing up, but I honestly think the fact they haven't done a
headline tour in the UK for fourteen years is disgraceful and a kick in the
bollock for the UK fans, especially when they use to tour here before.
Yeah, So I guess the question here is let's take the obvious. I'm
sure there are other ones as well, but the obvious elephant in the room
is AFI. Bands who just like completely ignore a territory as someone who lives
in that territory wants to see them, Does it like lessen your affinity or
your respect or your you're thinking in any way of that band? Because again
it's particularly me and you, Sam. The reason we moan about AFI all
the time is because we love them so much and we desperately want to see
that band because they are one of I'm sure both of our favorite bands ever.
But is your love tested by the fact that AFI do not care about
you tested? Yes? But I also know that the moment they do set
foot on it, I'll be crawling towards them like same like. I ain't
got no lik like because there are a few bands I look at like there
are some bands where I go like, well, you know what, I
kind of get it. It's not reasonable to expect like small US hardcore bands
to tour the UK regularly. Yeah, I'm the same with all matter of
like bands and bands like I mean, I'm fucking seeing Rise off the North
start for the first time on Saturday, and they're like one of those bands,
like they're massive in Europe for their sort of scene, but over in
the UK, I'm like one of like probably like four die hard fans.
Yeah. Its like, let let's hone in the question of here, because
again, I think we can all understand why a small really struggling to make
ends meet kind of band might not be able to tour because again we've spoken,
everyone's spoken about you know, breast and stuff like that. They're not
exactly a small band that they do ready big females, So they just don't
come to the UK because it just that they won't be the rooms that they
are in sure, But I mean, but that's what I'm saying, is
hone in here on like actual big bands like an AFI, who I think
you know, we've wondered a lot whether the fact that AFI essentially removed themselves
for a generation of like UK rock fans lessons they're draw in the long term
because it feels like most AFI fans, particularly maybe in a place that the
UK are in there sort of like thirties or older. But uh yeah,
basically like bands who like are big and theoretically may have the financial means to
do it. I mean again, Poison Well are fucking coming over here for
the first time, and that they're They're a band of wids who probably are
in a position where they can do it, And I don't find my my
inffinity for them to test the talk because I mean, I'm fucking seeing them
so like I would like our wings and moan about it. But in the
long run, the moment they do any of these bands and they do come
over, like I say, I'll be there, so I'm like, it
doesn't affect my long term feelings for them. I just moan about it a
little bit. Yeah, Like entitlement is a weird thing as a music fan
because on one hand, we're always told like, don't demand music from your
favorite bands or don't get annoyed when they change. How could you be so
entitled they don't know you anything, And then like there's people I know who
just swear off bands if they cancel a UK tour or whatever. There's oh
fuck them then if they don't care about and it's a nail special that we
did. We spoke about how public opinion turned on nails at the end of
twenty tens because of failure problem. Yeah I suppose yeah, yeah, And
I just I think I said it then, But I just I find that
thing a bit weird, Like I don't prefer it when bands don't tour the
UK, But I don't know, I don't feel like I'm sort of owed
it necessarily, or that it's kind of them not caring. Like the thing
about does it affect my affinity for bands? Maybe it's more like the bands
that I do see and can see, I like them more more than like
in the bands I can't see less, if that makes sense. If it's
if it's a thing where you're competing for attention, I can't see you live,
maybe you are kind of doomed to suffer against bands who tour here a
lot. But that's not really the same as going you know what, I'm
not I'm not a fan anymore. Yeah, I think again is the great
example obviously is AFI, and as I said, obviously they're one of my
favorite bands of all time. And does it it does bum me out,
Like I mean, on a personal level, it bums me out that they
haven't obviously. The other one is the Misfits two, which is a I
don't expect that. I yeah, it's like theoretists because if they don't tour,
they only do those like one show. Theoretically they could do like his
one of those massive Misfit shows at fucking you know, Wembley Arena or something,
or even if it was just like in Germany or something. They haven't
obviously done a European date and they could do it, and they don't because
no one in Europe has offered them enough money and dan Zey can't get on
a plane and et cetera. The FI thing. It's like, I don't
know. I does it lessen my opinion of them, No, because what
makes my favorite bands my favorite bands is over anything else, the art and
how I view them as a you know, a purveyor of music so to
speak. And obviously that doesn't chime into AFI's output or anything like that at
all. It does bum me out that they haven't come here, and to
a degree you could say that it is like maybe not disrespectful would be the
word, but like it's that they're they're leaving a certain amount of their fans
out in the cold by not like going and performing to them, and uh,
it's a it's a shame. But I don't let that kind of I
don't know, turn me off a band and be like, oh, I
that like whole Oh you don't care about me because you're not playing here,
so I'm not care about you. It's not a mindset that I personally have
ever subscribed to in terms of stopping me listening to music or anything like that.
A more extreme, much more extreme version of this conversation comes to our
next question. Rory Bentley ask there is quite a large rumor going around that
a certain incredibly canceled artist has signed a Nuclear Blast, which is hugely disappointing
if true, particularly as they are home to so many of my favorite bands.
Should alternative label be more vigilant when signing artists with questionable ethics or as
all just business at the end of the day. I mean, right now,
it looks like it's more than a rumor, because there's been teaser videos
and stuff posted. It is looking like Nuclear Blast have signed Marion Manson,
who and they will be home to his new music. Obviously, we knew
that Marrion Manson was going to be touring again because he's doing that the most
disgraceful looking tora ether with fighting a death punge in. Is this a lot
to prevail over in the US? Probably, But yeah, Nuclear Blast looks
like are going to be signing Marilyn Manson, and yeah, I think it's
shitty. I don't think they should do that. I agree, Like I'm
going to people say it's a business. I'm like no, But like these
labels, they're in a position of power. They like are kind of expected
to offer some kind of like protection and and like safeguarding. There is almost
an expectation of that and not platforming people who are problematic. I mean my
thing with Manson as well is like it's been fucking forever since Manson did anything
good like and that, Like, I know, I'm not I might be
pop disgree with that, but I'm like, why would you want to stick
your neck out for Manson when the art isn't even worth it at this point?
Yeah, I mean he would he will still be a big live d
or. I think that much is fairly obvious. I think again, obviously
we have to make a different diition here in terms of like, I don't
know how extreme you want to take this, because again, there was a
little bit of a a debate opened up to the comments under thisath particular question.
Very friendly debate, but people talking about that, you know, the
levels of that, And I think someone in those comments put it that,
you know, like, we're not talking about people who just maybe have a
like slightly different leaning political belief or whatever it's win or whatever. Yeah,
like even like, yeah, again, people you have your own different levels
of what kind of count some of like what you want to support or whatever,
And that's entirely whatever. But in terms of those bands who are and
those weird sort of thresholds of like not being like hard canceled per se,
Like I don't really care about any labels I like signing those bands, right,
Because again, that's very much in the personal. What we're talking about.
Manson is someone who is you know, the rap sheet against him in
terms of his alleged crimes and so on, which I personally am inclined to
believe is like properly heinous, like criminal fucking stuff. And that is the
level where I'm like, yeah, like a huge business, like arguably the
biggest label in metal music right now, putting their resource behind that. I
do find disappointing. Obviously on lower levels, you know, there are certain
obviously in the underground, they'll always be like a, yeah, this extreme
label has signed X band who have like these obvious ties or whatever, and
that is unfortunate. And there are you know, there's discourse, debate and
stuff that signs up comes up whenever one of the cases. But I feel
like this is such an almost unprecedented case that we have seen of like huge
label signing a infamously like it's gone mainstream Manson's crimes exactly. Yeah, Like
this isn't you know bands where we could go on like everyone in the scene
or whatever knows that they might be a bit dodgy. They've said said or
done something problematic, blah blah blah whatever. Manson is like almost like banking
on his reputation as like a bad guy at this point. And and that's
why I think this one sticks out especially as a bit like just really dodgy
and irresponsible for nuclear blast. Yeah. I mean I've spoken before that I
don't like the whole you know, and you know, we're not talking about
this in this case, but whole like six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing where
it's like, oh, they follow this account, they read this book,
they have a photo with this guy. It's like that sort of thing where
that makes you paride. I kind of find a lot of that stuff a
bit pearl clutchy, and my instinct would be, you know, we shouldn't
get too deep in the weeds with that sort of thing. But the trouble
with the trouble with this one is it's like the Marilyn Manson case is particularly
different because we all, I presume, share the suspicions of what we think
he did. Right. The trouble is is he's not being convicted of anything,
which makes it easier and harder because on because one hand, people go,
well, you know, he's not being convicted of anything, he should
be able to live his life well, and that will be nuclear blasts sort
of justification in this case. Yeah, But on the other hand, if
he's not being convinced of anything, but if he did do it, well,
he hasn't even served his time, so you can't even fall back on
the whole light. He's paid his dues, he should be able to rehabilitate
himself. So what this is is either an innocent person trying to rehabilitate,
you know, their career after something that's there's something that you know, something
it's been taken and it shouldn't have or it's a serial abuser who's managed slash
managing to slip through the cracks. So it's like the worst case either way.
And it's like and so I try, and you know, I tried
sort of strong man the opposing thing of like, oh, you know,
is it a would you have a go at a pressing plant for making Manson
records? Would you condemn a record shop for selling them? Where where does
the record label fall in that? But it just a lot of the things
that you just kind of to trust your guy, and it's it just doesn't
feel right, Like if I ran nuclear blast, even without the convictions,
I wouldn't sign Marln Manson. Even if you're betting on people not knowing or
caring or whatever it is. It's a bad look on you, isn't it.
Obviously obviusly what this is. It's it's you know, some you know,
whatever executive at a nuclear blast is responsible decision has you know, taken
it. And you know, like obviously I've got friends who work at nuclear
blast and you know, people who I, you know, consider to have
good ethics. Yeah, and I know that, Like, you know,
obviously my friends doing whatever, like you know, pr a nuclear blast or
whatever, they aren't responsible for this decision being made. And I do have
to I wonder what their thoughts are on this, obviously behind closed doors because
it's their jobs and their livelihoods, But like I do wonder what their positions
are on something like this being sort of fed from higher ups. Oh yeah,
we're signing Manson. Now, how do you kind of deal with that?
And you know, it's again the higher up, the executive whoever has
done this has taken the position of the financial draw of Manson. Is I
suppose they have deemed worth the kind of bad press they may get for it.
But yeah, and I personally think it's shitty because again, maybe it
just comes to it and again, whether you are inclined to believe the allegations
against him or anything like that, where you fall on it. And in
terms of obviously like Nuclear Last have like the biggest roster in heavy music,
and in terms of like you know, like would we not cover like Spalbard
or something because they're like on the same label. I mean again, you
wonder how all these different bands does think about who they're apparently make some stuff
are now Obviously you know we wouldn't do that. We're not going to just
like block out anything associated with Nuclear Blast now, but I do think that
it is a shitty, irresponsible, morally bad thing to occurring. And other
than again discussing our thoughts on it here, we're certainly not going to go
back to color In Manson just because he's on Nuclear Last now, So that's
that. And James Bentley finished off our questions here asking how long after an
album's release would you class it as one of your all time favorites and not
just due to recncy bias. Rat wars By Health has only been about six
months by probably having my top ten of all time feels odd say that about
such a recent release. Yeah, I guess I'll throw us over to you
guys. At what point do you start judging, Hey, this album that
I cannot fucking stop listening to right now. Maybe it isn't just like my
favorite, you know, release of the minute. Maybe this is going to
be one with me, you know, forever. I'd probably say, like
for as well, at least a year, because there are some albums that
I will be subjects for a while, but they don't eventually that that stampower
will right out. If like a year later, I'm still you know,
reaching for something, I probably say reasonable has show. I mean, like
when we did our Top twentyes, I think most of like I've only had
one of the most recent lists out of all of us in terms of like,
yeah, a lot of my favorites at the time doing it will will
be in like five or so years of that. Like, so I'm not
one who's like, oh, you know, it's going to be with you
your whole life to be if it's not more than twenty years old, it
doesn't count. Yeah, I don't know that, But I wouldn't be like
I mean the above, right, I still don't know because it's like I'm
gonna pick that one because oh fucking not Underneath Forever Forever was on my list
of my family and I don't actually know now what my favorite of those three
records are, and so if I would say my family those records is the
above in theory, that would make it one of my top five records of
all time. But so this is why this is what I'm trying to graph
with it, so like it's what I'm gonna have to see, like after
after a year or so, do I still think or could the above be
my favorite code Imine record? Then I'd say, well, then yeah,
it is, you know, my one of my top five. Yeah.
And I remember when we did your Albums of All Time, we were also
doing Alex and that just happened to be The Fortune by Kajira came out and
Alex again, in the course of like we were doing that special basically at
the time that Fortune came out, and that was saying to me, I
think the Way of All Flesh was like in contention for the list, and
then Fortune came out and he was like, oh no, actually this is
my favorite Kajear album and the Way of All Flesh was going to be in
the list, So I suppose. So it was in Alex Albums of All
Time before it was actually his album of the Year because we did it like
that summer and that was a particularly mad case. But I guess if you
feel that strongly about like a record, if your favorite band's newest album is
your favorite thing, is like it just comes out and because this is my
thing they've done, you're going to go, well, yeah, realistically,
it probably will be one of my favorit albums of all time. So I
don't think there is like a armor tray and number you can stick in it.
But for me, I would look at around a year of kind of
like judging an album after I have sat of it for a relatively decent amount
of time. Yeah, I mean I've I haven't really encountered this problem in
that in the last few years hasn't been an alum that's come out that's entered
my Top twenty. It's stayed pretty static, And that's a bit. If
I did a top hundred, you know, there'd be more movement, and
there'd be some stuff in the last few years moving in there. And you
know, in theory, I have no issue with calling a brand new album
an all time favorite. You know, maybe it would be different if I
was like publishing a list, because just me listening it for myself, I
don't think that's a big deal. And I don't know, like this whole
thing, like nostalgia personal experience is it's sticking with you in that kind of
thing. That's a good test and you can give it more waiting. But
those are like new route new albums that enter the top, that would enter
those sort of top one hundred eeschalons. There's a kind of feeling like I
go, when I heard them for the first time, we just go,
this is going to be with me forever. And I don't think that's ever
led me astray. I've never heard Now I've got oh my god, this
is you know, a modern classic, and then a month later I'm not,
I'm not really listening to it, and I was. I always think
like the rules for it, this thing are a bit strange where it's like,
like, you know, just to give an example of a new album,
like if the Not Loose record came out and I went, this is
one of the best albums ever made, ever ever, people might go,
that's a bit weird. But if I found an old album and I heard
it for the first time and I went, this is one of the best
albums ever made, people go, yeah, you know what that's fine,
it's weird or like the kind of context that I'm not. But the first
one I heard Pinkerton, I thought like, this is the greatest rock record
I've ever heard, And you know that was I didn't have the context of
twenty years of it being a classic or whatever. It was just the first
time I heard it, and I thought, this is amazing, and it
entered that top echelon right away. I don't so it's like I don't know,
Like I said, I've never encountered it, But I don't see any
strong reason per se why a brand new album. I think like it's kind
of down to you as an individual. I don't think there is anything you
should be any rules you should set yourself or like you should feel forced on
you. You should set your own rules as to how you think, how
am I going to engage with this? Yeah, and like there's this I
kind of wish there was a bit more like big scale thinking in rock and
mela. That's not to say we need more hyperbole, because there's enough of
that, But I don't know. There's this thing where it's almost like a
taboo to say if you would do like the best metal bands ever, the
idea that Mastered On being number one would be like, oh no, it
can't be them. It's like because they're not they're not old enough. Like
their catalog is as good as any metal band ever, and I just I
don't know, it's you don't want to do it all the time and it
is, you know, a card you don't want to play when it's not
when it shouldn't be. But like this is outside of rock and melt.
But like when T Pimper Butterfly came out, they were like major outlets going
is this the best rap album ever made? On like the day of release,
and you know, maybe you totter them, but I kind of think,
I think that's kind of nice that when something special comes along, people
are willing to go, oh this could be an all time of this.
Yeah, I think for me, it just it doesn't happen that often for
me to think about this question extensively. I guess because you know, there
are historically an awful lot of brilliant, you know, albums that can be
in contention for your favorites of all time. Obviously there's always stuff coming out
that you like, but one coming out that you think is you know,
up there with fucking you know, the best things ever doesn't happen every week.
Maybe that might only happen once every handful of years or something. I
think the last time, you know, a record came out from a band
who I wasn't considering at that level and then it put them at that level
for me, it was maybe Ray by oath Breaker, as like, that
album came out and you know, within a couple of years, I was
like, yeah, this is like in my you know again, my list
of my top favorite albums of all time. Maybe it took a couple of
years for me to think about it in that way, but I wasn't shying
against the idea of it being in there because I connected with it so heavily.
I mean, I can think because that twenty sixteen, there was a
couple of weeks where I got Rail and Stage four in a few weeks of
each other, and that was one why I did feel like, oh god,
these are special albums that I will be you know, clinging on too.
Yeah, but the rare example again as a band too, like I
had heard Oathbreaker before, but they weren't at that level. The other one
that's happened since is maybe again at a band who are like in Darkument by
an Alathrak, who are like one of my like Mount Rushmore bands, and
that came out, and again it took me a you know however, many
months of listening to it to think about it in this way, but I
knew that, like, it's not my favorite Anna Threat record, it still
is not my like number one and now Threat record, but it's certainly in
you know, the the higher the upper like quarter or so of their catalog.
It could well be on like the podium if I thought about it.
Uh. And again with that being like one of my like, like my
personal like Mount Rushmore bands or whatever, even if it's not my number one,
even if it has potentially be in like the top three or whatever,
that certainly puts it in like my favorite albums of all time. But yeah,
it just it doesn't happen mega often. And I suppose you weigh up
against your own, you know, your personal comparison points or whatever. So
there you go. That was a question. Thank you very much for for
asking them. Everybody who did, if you want to get in on that,
so then it's in the that' somethingle focus group where you can go and
drop on the little questions posts that we do, so we should announce what
we're doing on Patreon this week. The last thing obviously last week when myself
and Samuel here we had just done the Tea and as Horror, we did
on Godzilla X Kong and Love Lies Bleeding, which we recommend you go check
out if you're interested in punching and other similars similar activities. Very very good
indeed. But what I have been working on this past few days is writing
the script for the next band special that we are going to be doing,
which we are going to be recording this coming week. I think it'll be
up sort of, you know, fairly early first thing next week. And
that is a band special that has been bandied around for I would imagine years
in terms of I guess how to approach it. We settled on how to
do it because a while ago there was a bit of news. I don't
think she spoke heavily about that news because it might have been during the Christmas
break, but the news at Sepultura we're going to be going on their farewell
tour, and obviously, whenever anything that happens, there's always a certain amount
of you know, recollection and reassessment and looking back on things and stuff like
that, and we are no different. I have to say I have wanted
to do a Sepultuer band special for like forever, like I thought it always
be a really, really good one. The problem came in how to do
it, because Sepultura are a strange case in terms of like how many dominoes
would be knocked down, right, because you know the deal the first six
albums of That's Cavallera is classic sepulturer era when that schism happens, if we
were to be comprehensive about especially the way we historically have been about almost everything,
right, if we were to do the entire story, we would have
to obviously we would cover all of the Sepultier stuff with Derek Green as the
vocalist. However, because the Cavalleras are so tied in with the mythology of
sepulturer and you know what people associate with that band at the same time,
it would feel wrong to not also cover what the Cavalleras were doing, right,
and it would it would end up being like a ten part special,
Like it'd be fucking crazy, And like if you've seen how many albums Matts
Carolao's pout Out. It's nuts. So what we are doing, out of
no disrespect for you know, the ongoing output of Sepultury clubs, that's the
version of the band that's going to be playing at the end of this year
and this kind of stuff, and no respect for Cavaliras or whatever, we
are doing the Classic Year's Sepulturer Special. It's going to be two parts in
which we talk about those first six records seven if you count the first EP.
Everything basically from that classic like first you know, ten plus years of
that band, which pound for pound could make it one of the greatest band
specials we'd ever do in terms of just like the selection of you know music
we are focusing in on, and so if you want to hear all about
that golden era of one of heavy music's greatest ever bands. As I said,
the first part of that is going to be coming first thing next week.
That first part is going to be covering there the thrash years of Sepultura
and their birth in Brazil, before we then go on to obviously the latter
part of the Cavalier years. Again, I've been writing the script for this
this past week. It's like a full Brazilian political history lesson. We the
context for because we've never done a band from you know, South America or
somewhere like that before, so the context of like where the Brazilian netle scene
came from. And that doesn't just mean Sepultura, it means at the start
to sort of compare them some of their peers. You know, we have
a sort of if you've ever been interested in, like who are these other
Brazilian bands who are around when Sepulturia came up, I can't have just been
them, you know, there's going to be spotlighting some of those before then
going through. So it is a we haven't recorded it yet, but it
is sure to be a jam packed, particularly juicy content heavy episode, you
know, part of a special. That's where my head has been because I
said, I've been doing all that research and putting it all into a document.
You too, have you kind of dug head at all into your your
your you're listening yet for this early year Sepultura, Well, I mean I've
dug into the part that was a complete mystery to me and kind of like
starting to talk about the first I don't want to go into where I'm out
because, like again draw like obviously, the albums I love are the albums
we're going to talk about in part two of this special, But there are
albums I like in this part one, and there are albums I've never listened
to and I've got right back to them, and it's kind of like I
was like, so, how do you get to roots from here? That's
that's the journey I'm looking forward to sort of tracing. Yeah, I mean,
like I'm very familiar with the Sepultury catalog, like back to the beginning,
but if it's the first time where I'm going through it in order,
and it's been very funny so far in a good way. Yeah, I
think we could maybe talk about this a little bit more, you know,
come next week when we've recorded it and uploaded it and stuff. But it's
certainly, uh, there is stuff in this which is a uniqu perspective in
terms of stuff like that coming from like one of our most iconic bands that
everyone listening will have you know heard. Certainly a song from right very one
off case doesn't happen very often, and that is part of what makes this
special, so so fascinating, and like I said, the whole context of
where they're coming from and stuff like that. It is going to be a
big, juicy special indeed, and I'm personally, I'm very happy to be
finally, you know, ticking off again figuring out for a while how to
do Sepultura. But we found the time in the moment and the way to
do so. So Sepultura Bad Special coming to that that's not a Patreon very
very soon. Indeed. To end off today's hyperblasts, we're going to do
what we always do, which is round off some of the releases that you
may be wanting to check in on. First of all, it was a
couple from last week which I just forgot to put in, even though there
once I was quite looking forward to. There's a band called Missiles. We
put a record called Weaponize Tomorrow, which is a really good post punk record
out on spart Records, like very like proper you know, fucking goth dancing
eighty stuff, but I think of the better end of what you might hear
from that in any given year. And then also one that was sort of
sent my way, but it's really bizarre. It's a man called Mark Graff
and their record hoh Abandon. I'm not sure what country and Europe they are
from, but again all the names of everything in the description of the episodes.
But it's like Kirethun Goal style heavy metal, which again, if you
know Kirethun Goal, that kind of mad vocal and stuff. But the last
song is twenty minutes long and it's like a technical, progressive death metals song.
But with those like Kirethun Goal heavy metal, it is batshit and I
liked the creativity, So a couple of deeper cuts there. First of all,
today, the seventeenth of May, we have some pretty large releases on
the metal calendar. Certainly we've got the release of Kerry King's debut solo album,
which is called From Hell I Rise. We have the quite heavily anticipated
had from Gate Creeper called Darker Superstition. Jasta has got an album ount called
and Jasta for All because of course it is, and the album cover is
exactly what you would expect it to be. Paul Bearer their new album Mind
Burns Alive is going to be out as well. We do have as I
mentioned last week, we have a shell Ac album. We have the last
you know, musical work from Steve Albinie that is incredibly you know, spooky
timing, but it probably won't be on streaming or anything because shell Ack and
Steve albin you would certainly want it to not be anywhere near Spotify or anything
like that. But however, you can find the shell Ack album you Know
that is out today. In hardcore, we have One Step Closer and All
You Embrace, which is a very melodic hardcore band. We spoke about him
on the Outbreak episode from last year. Be curious to see. I guess
if that sort of you know, takes off to become again one of the
buzzy hardcore releases or anything of right now. A band that I really really
love are abound called ropes Sex, which is again we're going back to kind
of the very gothy, you know, grave pleasures adjacent whatever kind of dark
post punk stuff rope Sect. Their album is called Estrangements. The first album,
the first debut, like so for length album, was fucking brilliant,
so I hope this one is similar and coming into sort of more underground death
metal stuff. We have Nocturnus ad the kind of revived Nocturnus Unicursal the name
of their album. We have for your you know, brutal death slammy stuff.
We've got Pathology releasing there probably like one hundredth album. It's called Unholy
Descent. A band who again in that sort of definitely so called be getting
a fair bit of buzz in previous weeks. Excuse my pronunciation here, but
zomb Panteley. That is a band who maybe from Mexico, maybe from the
USA, but with sort of Hispanic members. But the record is certainly massively
stooped in, you know, sort of like as tech and you know,
Latin American like asthetic and stuff. And their promo pictures there appeared to be
about about ten guys in that band, and they look like they would fuck
you up, and the record certainly sounds like it would just beat their hell
out of you. Similarly, Bat just bat under the Crooked Claw. That
is a band that features I believe what's his name, Ryan Waste the guitari
from Municipal Waste, but doing like a kind of like more black speed metally
type thing bats because of course he is. Then we have Golden Veil of
the Fallen. That is the band formed by the guy who used to be
in winter, so very heavy like hell hammer s kind of death doom stuff
for your like proper psychedelic stoner sludge sort of stuff, Ulfa Mammut back with
Hidden Botanist, back with Pale your botany Botanist, the sort of hammered dulcimer
themed blamer band. They seem be a real tary releases. I feel like
they've been in the type of a lot in the last couple of years and
a couple of EPs for your kind of like alternative rock grunge type stuff.
There's a soft cult with heaven and like really just like noisy abrasive stuff,
civil legies with no life. So that is a lot this time. Thank
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