Hello everybody. Welcome back to that's normal of your weekly rock and heavy metal
podcast where we fixed up with everything that is going on that you need to
know about. And today is particularly pertinent for that because this is another episode
of hyper Blast where we come at you very quick and short with the news.
My name is Perrin Hash and as as usual, joining me here today,
we've got Elliott Paisley and Sam Dicknon. Sam, you've been enjoying choosing
your pronouns in your video game Shoff resume is what you've been doing all the
week, spending all the hours of the day doing that. I mean I've
really got the game yesterday because of the we're early released thing. But yeah,
you know, being able to select either he, she or they has
caused outrage among the games all the gameplay. I think it's just pronouns simulator,
Elliot, gender ambiguity. I mean, my week's been pretty chill compared
to it what it sounds that's been going on the gaming community. I've missed
all of this, so I missed it every time. Yeah, I mean,
I've now got the agony of choosing who I'm voting for. As we'll
get to all right, okay, Well, news wise, I guess we've
both as in me and Sam have been a handful of shows this week.
Sam missed last week's podcast because you were at the Spanish Love Songs on Hot
Mulligan show, and there's been something else that has happened el as well.
But I guess you want to just fire away sort of fairly quickly on what
you've been seeing and how it was. Yes, So last last Thursday,
I went to see Spanish Love Songs and Hot Mulligan in Kingston. Beforehand,
I did also see Spanish Love Songs George Just Dylan do an acoustic in store
in Bank Records, which was very nice. Between the two Spanish Love Songs
sets, I think I saw almost the entirety of the new album played live
across. I think the part from like the opening because I was kind of
interested again as the as the non Spanish Love Song fan very much. So
I kind of just assumed that all the Spanish Love Songs fans were going to
love the new album because that's just what seemed to always be the case.
I you know, the big explosion of love. There's been a bit,
of course there always was, but definitely seems slightly lesser than last timeout,
and there are a bit we've had you a word from a feuse fans kind
of in the tinam audience who are like slightly less enamored with this direction.
Yeah, I was a bit supposed for that. I mean, I will
say at the Hot Milligan show, they're like, I don't know if it's
because it was Kingston and there's a London show as well, so a lot
of the people, a lot of them went to that instead. Everyone at
the instore like was pretty pretty much enamored with a songs really just kind of
like big swooning over Dylan, like on his little table behind the counter singing.
Evon was just fully like, oh my god, this is amazing.
So that's and those who are at the actual gig were like, I will
say, sing along to every new song, even you know, everyone boulting
out Fuck the Garden in the Yard. I can barely tend to my own
dreams. That was anybody I because that guy's voice like puts me into such
a kind of trance, not in a positive way. I completely missed over
and brushed over the lyric Fuck the Garden and the Yard. I can barely
tend to my own dreams when we reviewed the album and had it pointed out
to me afterwards, and I was like, oh my god, I can't
believe we ignored that absolute clunker in that fucking review. I mean, hey,
it was it was a sing along for the people there, so they
say. But Spanish stub songs were absolutely incredible. They would like one of
the best times I've seen them, like, so they seemed really fired up,
which is like for a bands who are you know, are quite sad
live soon come out with quite a lot of energy, and ATTACK was like,
yeah, God, like they really This was the first date of the
tour and they were just so into it. I can't deal sing Spanish love
songs play like anything less than an hour at this point, because they didn't
play any songs off Schmaltz and I'm like, the last two times I've seen
you as a full bander, you haven't touched Smolts and I can't be dealing
with this. Yeah, like I'm still brave Faces even getting quite a lot
of airtime and and obviously quite a big focus on the new album, but
Haunted in particular as like an opening hours a really great way for them to
kick off their sets like just really kind of straight in there of a big
sing along. They kind of just smashed through forty five minutes of just like
I say, mostly the new album and the big hitters off of Brave Faces
everyone stuff like routine Pain is always gonna just be such a huge sing along
for me. Now I'm going to blow my voice out. But had an
amazing time, and like I say, it might have been like the most
rapturous response, but people are into it, are responding well at the live
shows, and I assume that will continue into the headline tour that is going
to happen early next year. As for Hot Mulligan, I haven't weird thing
of Hot Mulligan, I've realized, and that I do genuinely quite like the
songs. It is everything else that surrounds the songs of Hot Mulligan I find
to be really grating because I complained about the song titles when we did the
reviews. That has carried over into the live show in the like stage banter
and like all aren't we a bit quirky and wackiness between like the vocalists and
the guitarists. It's like they're still pulling out the sort of same old tired
blink one eight two like less kind of like lewd but still occasional dick jokes
stuff like that, and I'm just like, we are we still doing this
and it's not funny. And I was just a bit like, you're distracting
from what are like quite like songs I do genuinely like, but it just
I can't fully invest them because there's all of this other stuff that I just
find really cringe and annoying. And it just and that they just killed the
momentum of the set every time where they were kind of doing quite good and
they had to just you know, fire out the comedy routine, and I
was just like, okay, there's there's a lot of levels are kind of
irony, but the ground, Yeah, they're dragging so much irony that I'm
just like, I can't tell of like these songs which could be actually quite
sun seeming emotional, but it feels like you're you're too unwilling to actually like
let that emotion through. And yeah, I don't. I thought there was
still fun live and again like kudos, the crowd were super into it.
I went up on the balcony for their sex I was like, not too
fast, but crowd were super into it, so they they're doing something right
and they're playing, you know, pretty big venue in London alongside doing a
sizeable venue in Kingston. Like curious then, but it was. It was
one where I'm like, yeah, I don't know if I can be bothered
to invest much more in Hot Myleogan at the moment because there's too much that
I find distracting from what I should be enjoying. Following that, then,
obviously, I on Tuesday decided as as was a very last minute thing and
the Story so Far announced they were doing two very intimate Underworld shows because it's
a blink on it to UK tour, so of course some of the dates
have to get canceled. It would seem it happens at every time, it
feels like. But I grabbed a ticket to see The Story so Far at
the Underworld because I have not seen them since twenty twelve, which is kind
of crazy, but yeah, I figured I'd go on to that and melt
in the heat. Oh God, like I was, I was doing question,
I was like, should I have got a ticket? Goes go to
a gig in the Underworld in this heat, but I'm very glad I did
because they were fucking brilliant. Again, I've not seen them for a long
while. The coast we've got, we're probably seeing like No Pressure earlier this
year, but continuing. You know, he had a bit of a reputation
of being a bit MOPI and like surly on stage and not enjoying it.
Parker Camon genuinely seems to be a frontman who enjoys what he does now,
and I think that that that's really good because I don't know if it's because
they were back in like ty little venues and no barrier and they kind of
just reconnecting with what what they started as, but he was really into it.
The crowd are going absolutely mental. There are enough songs in that set
as now that I'm like, these should be like genuine pop punk classics.
At this point, Rome stuff like a Nerve off of the self titled album,
which I think is like I went back and revised with a bunch of
safabums as when I was like that is their best album, but so like
quick Sound as of Close or was such a like shot of adrenaline that just
was like bodies flying everyone. I mean bodies were flying everyone for the whole
set because it was the stories to find them. Apart from when they're opened
with Clairvoyant, they're sort of acoustic ballad, which was like a big really,
I was, is that what they opened with? But then when everyone
started to sing along, I was like, Okay, nope, you know
what as an opener kind of with this just this really arms in your air
where you mate singing along. But it was a really fun show that they
like as a really cool last minute thing. I had a great time of
it and it was nice to kind of check back in with a story so
far after not seeing them for such a long time. Yeah, I was.
I got to see Dawn Ray play the first hometown show then in Liverpool
for quite a long while, and it was you know, because Liverpool doesn't
get the largest maount of shows, I guess. It was quite a small,
little weave venue, like it was a super tiny, intimate type affair,
and Dawn Ray in a space that small was fucking intense, like just
fully shrieking your face off. Simon as a frontman is like ridiculously like animated,
fully throwing himself into everything on there, and that that works as well
again when he got the kind of the intimate crowd, but they're going with
you know, the every blue batter with his batton raised and all those like
great big parts that are in that new record, which I fucking love,
by the way, like it's still up there, so it gets higher all
the time, to be honest, in terms of my favorite records of this
year. So I was really excited to get to see those songs and that
was very very again fiery, like the drummer hits incredibly hard and having that
guy blast beating like inches from your face, super you know, just absolute
battery. And then last night I went to go see a big old grind
show in Manchester, which was full of hell coming through on a tour because
it was a grind show and all the band's gonna play half an hour sets.
It was with jar Head Fertilizer, Unyielding Love and a bit of a
kind of pivot into more sort of warm metal best to your black metal zones
with Anti Christ Siege Machine, which is a really kind of big draw for
a lot of people. Unyielding Love is basically just a bizarre spectacle of a
man having some kind of meltdown, like just literally battering himself over the head
so hard with his mic that he just had blood pouring from his head and
just fucking wounds when he was standing at the merch later he has like a
one of these big like power noise electronic setups, but he was literally like
had midset munchie chewing on the wires to get fucking sounds out of them.
He was like singing into like an animal skull that was plugged into the fuck
it. I don't know what was going on. It was just like a
bizarre again kind of like it's meltdown, how putting in front of you from
there. Anti Christs Machine around. I've not mentioned on this show before,
but they are a very They've really blown up in the underground in the past
like a couple of years, incredibly quickly, and in terms of like that
kind of you know war metal, if you like, you know, blasphemy,
revenge, proclamation, whatever it might be. They're one of the biggest
kind of deals in a while. And I think part of it is how
like gut a really basy heavy they are compared to some of those things where
they can be quite sort of you know, thin, and you know,
production wise, very hard to get handle things. Whatever is Anti Christs Machine
is just full on, like you know, blasting nuclear aggression. But the
riffs are so unbelievably thick. It's like fucking Max Cavalia playing blasphemy songs or
something. And there are two piece covered in fucking just war paint. The
drummer and vocalists together just like hitting the drums again talking about Dawn Raid having
a heavy hit and drummer. This guy firing fucking pump action shotguns every time
he hits that snare, and he was hitting that a lot. Let me
tell you super intense jarhead fertilizer. I hadn't listened to you before, but
that's it's a couple of members are full of hell in that band. And
I thought I was, like, you know, kind of the from the
logo, it'd be kind of maybe a bit dystopia, kind of grindy.
Whatever. It turns out most of it sounds like Mortician and it's just like
full on do theme Mortician part and one of the guitarists another drum of vocalist.
Actually, when the guitarists were chiping in with some vocals, it's that
he had a super like pitch distorted Mike, so he was doing full like
piss grave like, which kind of all throughout it just like the stinkiest half
an hour of experiencing quite some time, and then full of hell. I
guess I've saw them at Damnation last year and coming back again a year later.
They are a ridiculously just enrapturing intense live band again. They've got the
full like power electronics set up, except they use it a little bit more
sparing than unyielding love, which means it kind of really takes over and those
select moments still and the vocalist is like swapping between screaming and blowing into some
weird fucking appendage that's like plugged in. I don't know if that's like the
bass clarinet parts that are on the last record or what, crawling back to
God. Every time that riff hits. It's just like again, full on
moments in a set like that, which is kind of rare for a band
like them. And then again by the end of the set they like they
the guitarist was like scraping his guitar along the ceiling while Dylan was like blowing
into this thing he had, and then the yielding love guy who came out
for like a guest spot, and it was just like it's full, like
where do you look on stage? Like what is going on? And then
they did an actual spontaneous encore as well, where people demanded more and they
did one more song, which meant there full of hell. It was a
minute long spontaneous encore was another people last. So that was all lovely,
lovely stuff. Let's get into news proper. And the first thing is,
I guess, as we tend to do, we summon these people out with
some kind of story. But I'm more baffled by the concept of this in
general, not even just the character in question, but Fronds. It came
out of the woodwork as he tends to do a couple of days ago,
with this very elaborate, grandiose video in which he announced that he would be
running for president. And you know the thing, Abo, you know,
I'm a businessman, I'm a self made American and yadda, yadda, yadda.
I am more confused by the idea of musicians running for president, which
happens it seems like everyone every few months you have someone come out of the
woodwork announce their bid, and it never fucking happens. It feels like these
are like just weird incidents to get clicks for news sites because it never actually
goes anywhere. And I think we need to we need to call some kind
of you know, some kind of addendum on allowing musicians to announce presidential bids
when they're not actually going to do anything with it. I mean, this
is just act. This is an absolute publicity stunt too, Like there is
no further purpose this beyond I want to get people talking about myself because I'm
probably going to do a new Attiller album soon or something. We need to
do some kind of moratorium on this ship. Like it's because I'm running forwards
that the Libertarian Party like that has no actual chance to tell of ever getting
anywhere in politics as well, like in the US, so it is a
total non event. But I was just like, he knows what he's doing
though, because it's it's one of those what the fuck moments that everyone's gonna
everyone's gonna have to talk about because Fronds, the insane person that he is,
has decided he wants to get into politics because you know, regular Americans
need to be in contics, not politicians and whatever shit he's spouted out in
that thing. It's it's mad that we live in a world where so many
people have announced runs for presidency that it's now boring. Yeah, like in
a post at this point, Franz, this is it. There's literally no
one who can announce a run where you'd go no way, because you even
hear like quite serious people saying things like, oh, do you think the
Rock's gonna run? And you're like a pro wrestler, like think of what
you're saying, and Franz, like you said, I mean the facts,
he's going libertarian. That's going to be a bit of a hurdle when it
comes to getting the presidency. Maybe more of a hurdle is being the singer
of a tiller. I think just having the fact that he's got huge face
tattoos, Like you know, if you want to be in a serious chance,
you know, little little Lord Nanna from from Ohio, it's gonna be
a bit scared by the giant tattoo you have on your face. Mate,
Like there's a reason like or Middle America are going to be out stoked about
the father. When you announced this, you were a hoodie and adah,
it's the air pods in the video of a bit that doesn't me. I'm
like, I don't think anyone's ever you know, done that before. He
can't hear us telling him the Libertarian Party aren't going to get anywhere. He's
got his air pods in. Yeah, I just I've put this in the
new He's not even just like, Wow, Franz is running What a wacky
character. It's because I think we need to cool some kind of weed to
enforce some kind of ban on, Like we should only be reporting on this
ship from now on if they are like elected the fucking like the nominee for
the Republican or Democratic Party, because anything else, it's like it's a non
story, you know, it's it's not impacting the race. It's just a
guy sat in froup a screen going my fellow Americans. I have announced that
fuck all is going to be happening. Yeah, like I said, it's
a person don't probably to kick off and it's to the album campaign reason this
is happening. Yeah, elsewhere sleep tooken this week have a sort of being
the butt of a joke in a way by having to call out people who
are scamming fans, I guess by pretending to be in Sleeptoken because of course
the whole anonymous affair, and like again, when it when it goes to
I mean, I understand why they've had to say this, because when it
comes to, you know, if you are just called saying hey, you
know sleep tooken fans, don't fall for these scammers. You know, we
will never ask you for your password and bank details, etc. I don't
know what they're doing, trying to sell ship or whatever. So I understand
why they when it goes to that, why they have to do it.
But I just think it's so bizarre that that has to be said, because
I feel like, at no point has an anonymous band had to do that,
you know, because surely part of the thing of being anonymous is that
it could be anyone. So an anonymous band going yeah, it's not actually
anyone. It's definitely us, the members of sleep Token. You just don't
know who we are. It's such a bizarre contradiction that I think, I
guess follows up on it might be in the last episode when we were talking
about the kind of the weird features of being anonymous in the online age.
This is a kind of unforeseen one. This is this is just so lame,
like because again I don't I don't believe Sleep tooken for it if they
have to just call out scammers. But it's a really bizarre turn of events.
Yeah. No, like you say, if you have to do you
have to do it. But it's just weird to be like like we are
this unknowable force. But hey, guys, can you report their accounts?
It's like it's like if one of the creatures from Silent Hill I asked you
to sign a petition. It's just like, I'm not just saying this.
So I don't like Sleep. So I think if Ghosts or Uncle or any
bands who's worn the anonymity cloak, it would be sold just like just just
embarrassed. I mean, I said about Ghost that the Tobias is kind of
approach almost seems to be the opposite where he like, you know again,
legal matters or whatever. Fine, but his thing would be yeah, sure
anybody could be Ghost. It spreads the brand and it spreads the name.
But that's kind of what has been you know again, I saw that Ghost
cover band at Bloodstock and someone asked to buy us what he thought about him
was like, I loved it. This is exactly what I've always wanted to
happen for, like bands like that to pop up. I mean, you
don't ghost covers band. It could actually be actual ghost. It could be
Dave Grohl on the drums. No one knows. Like all the thing is
is the thing I think it's funny is like people do this for him and
having to be anonymous bans people pretend to be yeah people all the time to
try and scam. I guess that the trick is is that there is they
don't have to, you know, create a fake account pretending to be famous
person who is like trying to get in touch with their fans and all that.
Like they could just be like, oh yeah, I'm remember yeah.
But also I guess you know, we've got to throw us out to some
of the people in question, you know, not to victim Blaine, but
if someone is reaching out to you going hello, I'm a member of anonymous
band sleep Tooken, please give me such and such, I would say,
be doubtful. This person, yeah, Like I mean comes into the discussion
we've had before about abuses of powered bands or that, and gets into quavy
stuff there, but there is there is when we kind of go like,
is this would you actually believe that I remember the band? Would ever,
you know, particularly an anonymous band. If I had, if I had
Greg Pachato appear in my dms, that's one thing. But having Hello,
I played drums and sleep tooken. Please don't tell anyone that I am the
direct It violates all sorts of clauses. Very very silly situation. Let's move
on. Three inches of Blood this week have kind of raised some some blood
pressures. I suppose by they are beginning to tease what appears to be a
reunion. I guess it's been something like a decade approaching since three inches of
Blood were last around. And I don't know if you guys have any any
fondness for three inches of Blood, but they were a real favorite of a
certain class of metal fan kind of late noughties, early twenty tens. They
played blood Stock the first year I went, and I didn't watch them because
I knew nothing about them, because at that point I was going to blood
see like Lamb. If they if they go through with this and there's a
reunion or something, we'll do like an hour, because I reckon you'd have
five. Yeah. I the moment I saw this, I was like,
that's an album clubbing coming, and I like, there's a lot of people.
I'm pretty sure. Like again, people have tried to make this into
threats, but now I reckon they are won those heavy metal bands I would
really like if I gave them the time of day, but I just haven't
three inches of Blooded. They're just so good, Like of all those bands,
especially around like the two thousand two, it feels like now we're quite
spoiled for them. But two thousand, two thousand and ten there were some
sort of highlights, but I think they were up there for the best and
like Advanced and Vanquish, which I think this is going to be the reunion
thing of I'm presuming because that's twenty years old next year. Quite possibly that's
that normally is that the best one, but it's one of those It's weird
for a band with quite a retro sound. I can't think of many who
have kind of picked up the mantle like that because on that record they were
kind of doing the heavy metal thing with extreme metal. Yeah, one of
the end of ones that I could think of who who have done that is
unleashed. The Archers have that kind of sl scallow switchy thing along with like
power metal, but it's really kind of it is very unique and it's very
noticeable when a band does that. It's weird because, like you say,
they've been gone for ten years, but I've not seen a lot of clamoring
for a reunion. So it's kind of feels like they were assigned to the
history books pretty quickly. But then when you speak to people about them,
they seem pretty almost like quietly loved. I know a handful of people who
would will be all out for three instants blow reunion, we whipping their T
shirts around. So if that is what happens, then lovely new music.
Blood Incantation actually dropped pretty much out of nowhere that they are going to be
releasing a EP. They called it a Maxi single, but basically it's two
tracks that are both going to be like ten minutes long or something they believe,
and that is going to be coming out on September the fifteenth, so
that is next Friday. As we talked to you, I don't know when
if we might talk about it or whatever, but Blood Catations EP as said,
features two tracks. I believe that one of these it's going to be
a all out kind of death metal track, and another the second one,
will be kind of an ambient piece along the lines of the Time Wave zero
EP. The exciting thing about this is bland Ctation. I've been in the
studio for like most of this year, and I leave. What is happening
is this EP is coming out as said, next week, and then they
will have a full album to follow in perhaps early twenty twenty four. So
this is gonna be the first slightly smaller dose of the blooding Cantation material that
we are going to be met with over the next year or so. So
that is very very exciting. Indeed. So music we can talk about now
is Soul Glow, one of this podcasts favorite recent hardcore just punk in general
bands, have released a new song. It's actually the first song they've released
since the Diaspora Problems album, which is like a year and a half ago
at this point. But it's called if I Speak, Shut the Fuck Up.
It's got a very strange video with lots of dildos going. I'm not
quite sure what was what was happening there, but we all loved the Aspirates
Problems, So the first track released from US. I don't know if this
is an album or whatever, but new Soul glowers out there. Yeah,
more just kind of noisy, ferocious. I mean, it's not really fast
as like some of my some of stuff I don't think about. It's a
bit more menacing and a bit slower, but still got that kind of just
like really abrasive, like his voque was so so distined from that that like
like yelp, and it's so like and that is so much character in it.
But yeah, just mean like intense, kind of all over the place
hardcore from song. Like it's not the most excame thing they've done, but
as a kind of like a taste on the next step, I've got a
cool riff, which is not what you always hear when they're going so so
fast. It's kind of weirds, like the GARAGEI riff that pins it down.
I feel like the bulk of this song could kind of fit on der
Spoer Problems, But to me, the thing that's really interesting is the way
it opens and closes, because it sounds like like Latter Day Black Flag,
those really long songs you get on like slip it in or loosen up that
kind of thing, almost like precursor to sludge noise rock flipper, that kind
of stuff. And again it's not something that order thoughts soul Glow would have
a predilection for, but they sound really good doing it. So if they
do want to do that, like full songs in that style next time,
well up for that, because I think the song is really good. But
to me, the more interesting thing about it is sort of what it hints
at. Yeah, I think I would largely agree with that. And then
more on the kind of newer punk front Military Gun, who are another and
more popular bands, particularly their album that was released this year. They've come
through with another single. It's from an upcoming split with the band ms Paint,
but they've released a song called never Fucked Up Once, and it's like
two minutes of very kind of bright, sunny, usual Military Gun antics.
I guess, yeah, this is I might prefer this anything off the air.
I think this song is amazing, Like does that really bright summary melody?
I was like, oh mate, like very nineties in that sort of
way, But I think this is it's really good, just really sort of
lifting my mood and like perfect for a sort of scorching hot day like this.
Yeah, I never checked out that the last record, and it was
only because they announced they split with MS Paint that went and checked this song
out at all of it, or that I would have done because I really
liked them. And yeah, it's kind of refreshing. Like I mean,
now that you say nineties, that feels more obvious, but I like that
it kind of evokes early Joyce Matter Peak Title Fights sound when all those bands
went sort of shoe goes or kind of lost the spark, and to kind
of have that sound back from someone anyone, it's sort of immediately going to
get them some sort of kudos from me. And I think, yeah,
I think the song is really good. I'm going to go back and check
out the Yeah, because just like instantly likable, kind of like again weird
because it reminded me of so many things, but also a fairly distinctive sound.
I thought, yeah, And it seems like they're getting a pretty quick
stream of material from them kind of at the moment. So if you are
a military gun fan, then you know good Times a bound and then elsewhere,
Elliot, I don't know if you've got the chance to listen to this,
but they're Imperial Triumphant have spent most of this year releasing a weird series
of covers. I think we spoke about their Paranoid Android cover, which was
a fucking mental thing. My favorite one is actually the song that I was
the least familiar with the original with, but their version of Night in Tunisia,
which is like a full on jazz standard, but their version of that
is brilliant. But now they have maybe complete SAT I don't think there's more
coming, but if they were to complete the set with a cover of Rush,
then I think that would be pretty perfect. And this is remact my
favorite Rush album. This is Jacob's Ladder from the Permanent Waves album, which
I absolutely love. So I was very excited to see that happen and yeah,
I listened to it and it's weirdly recognizable but also very not recoversible in
that way that they've taken to approaching songs. I feel like the last two
covers they did, like if you compare those to the original, they're basically
like the Paralleled Android one, you have to really strain to hear what they're
doing. You can hear the Risk one. Yeah, there's a number of
Rush songs I think they could have done, and I'm really glad they showed
this one because Permanent Waves, I mean, it's not my favorite, but
i'd say it's up there. But it's also made me the breeziest of the
But this is one of the heavier tunes from that era, and I think
that's sort of dizzy growning guitara for really suits if you were Triumphant. And
the thing that got me was I there's all these bits this one, like
those sort of iconic lead guitar parts, and I just presumed that they were
going to turn that into brass lasts. And the fact that they kept on
a lot of them as league guitar parts, I thought that was kind of
nique because I thought, if you're a band like Imperial Triumphant with such a
distinctive and divisive sound, it's probably tempting to lean on that in every single
possible opportunity. But I think the cover's great, Like you say, recognizable
enough lace. They've not fucked with it too much, made me less so
than the other songs. But yeah, like I think this the last one
I would probably agree is the best one. But I'm very impressed. Yeah,
I mean when I think about Jacobs Ladder, would think about the kind
of the very long, sort of quiet build section kind of from the and
again hearing it dizzied up like this, Sam, I don't even know if
you would depressed play. I didn't get around to this. I was on
Elliott other things. Yeah, I don't know if I can handle Imperial Trumph
and covering rough right now fair enough, but it's cool and if that is
the last cover it maybe that. I don't know. Creed we spoke a
little while ago about the upcoming Creed Cruise and we were sort of debating the
place of it, how well it would go whatever. Creed ever adding a
second cruise, which I guess shows that the first one was in quite high
demand. The people have spoken. People are snapping up tickets to get their
little, their little cabin on the Creed Cruise. Creed are just like they're
they're winning at life. They've found a way of touring that's a holiday.
My bands talk about how shitty touring is. It's a leading with except that
you can only see Creed on cruisers and he's a buffet, have cocktails,
swimming a pool, maybe stop off at a little seaside village like you'd never
retire. Like it's funny. Like when this win this was first announced,
I was like, oh, this is so daft, but I think it's
just deep seeded jealousy. I do want to go. I'll be the proofs
of the pudding. At this point they've had to add a second one.
Whether you thought it was daft or not, the Creed fans have sold out
the Creed Cruise, so fucking you know, good on them. There some
tours that are can be happening over here. Catatic Caputation have announced a European
and UK tour. It's like a proper UK tour as well. They're doing
like twelve dates and kind of across the UK and Ireland and I've seen a
lot, but at last year I was like, I really hope they come
back to you know, Europe again. And the support Mother got with them
is signed the Swarm, who are a deathcore band. I'm not super familiar
with Cattle Lotton have like something like that along there. But also the opening
two bands are two of the kind of most you know, kind of hotly
tipped death nottal bands of the current moment, which are two hundred stab wounds
and vomit fourth and two understab wounds. Particularly, I'm very much for going
to see open for one of my favorite bands, Coutitic Caputation. Yeah,
this was what that was. I was like, oh, I definitely want
to see that because like to see to Understab wish his life. It's when
they I saw, even like in hardcore circles to all of the we're gonna
oh that cattle Decaputation Toilet's awesome, was like, ah, you're going to
get all all the MUSHes going out to that. But I would welcome all
our hardcore brether into this particular Deathmtal tour. Yes, absolutely, yeah,
and then they will be very pleased. Obviously you are. I'm committed to
go into this now because my first cat of the cap show was blood Stock
last year. We spoke about that and it was fucking like it was great,
but it was like the hottest day in the history of days and it
was so it was a bit overwhelming. So if I could see them maybe
in Southampton or something where there's might be air condition in the neck within a
three mile radius, that sounds ideal and terror site. I feel like it's
had maybe the most muted response to a cat of the Cap record, at
least in the second era. I still think that record is like fantastic,
and I think those songs certainly more than ones on Death Atlets, which really
I really warned to them live. I prefer the ones on Terror site,
I think, and they sound in my head like live that they're going to
be brilliant in that cell. Yeah, like we eat our young and all
that stuff, like ready made to be a live hits and then speaking of
our hardcore breather and they will be very pleased about the fact that Jesus Peace
are coming back after they're fucking brilliant outbreak this year, also with a decently
sized UK tour that's happening in December, and then we do on on you
know, t and mpticlely the high perplar shows we do like to, I
guess, take the moment to pay our respects to you know, some of
the prominent figures of rock music and beyond who have you know passed away during
you know, the week of our doing this, And I feel like the
two that we're going to talk about this time really run the gamut of you
know, what what TMM takes in and can be. So you know,
we would very much like to, you know, celebrate these two particular individuals,
the first of which Sack of the the vocalist of the Japanese hardcore punk
band Jism, who are one of the great I guess cult punk bands of
fuck it I guess like the last thirty forty years, because you know here
Jism's spoken about very much in sort of the more mainstream you know, maybe
American punk circles, but they have been one of the most quietly and widespread,
you know, huge influences on the underground of like punk and beyond,
like so many metal bands who are into their their punk. The absolute frenzied
chaos that is Jism really has paid an awful lot of you know, you
played such a large role in many records that we celebrated on this show,
and thinking about the chaos factor and the wildness that you would associate with something
like that. Sacer the particularly in the live vironment with Jism shows his exploits
are legendary. I literally I saw a tribute post on Instagram the morning this
news broke that was just like various clips of him fighting the audience. At
one point he was like utilizing a fine thrower or something. There was some
crazy shit going on, and you just look at that man and go,
that guy is just the definition of a fucking wild Japanese an archo punk elliott.
I wonder if you have kind of dabbled in Jism at any point,
which sounds a lot lot worse than a I'm really asking you, but I
still posit the question. Yeah, well, this is I think there's a
brand that I only got into this year and it's got. It's one of
those six reas where you get into a band and then in a matter of
months something like this comes along and that's you know, it's slowly trying things
to say, but it was particularly gusting because it's only been in the last
few months I've gone in zoo Jism the band, and like they're like they're
fucking mental. But even now, the first record it's like part cross punk,
part hardcore, bit of glam industrial rock and roll, and yet also
none of those things, and the only like common theme is they're sort of
fucked up, bizarre sense of humor. And listen to that record and then
look up the year it came out because I put it on without that context,
and this was in nineteen eighty four, like pre Napum Death, pre
extreme Noise Terror, those vocals that sound just, let you say, like
quietly and not really I guess getting the respect from certain circles, but sort
of quietly. One of the most influential and daring bands to everyone more from
that sect of punk and metal. Just fucking like amazing band. Yeah,
they are like the name in Japanese hardcore punk. So absolutely hats off for
what a legacy that is. And then elsewhere, smash Mouths vocalist Steve Harwell
also passed away, And like I said, we could be further from talking
about JIZM here, but we all know the impact of smash Mouth. We
all know particularly what the impact of All Star coming on at a certain time
of night can do. We all have memories and experiences type for the song.
I don't care who you are, I don't even care if you like
the song or not. You have a memory or an experience that is tied
to All Star by smash Mouth or one of its many cover versions or whatever
it might be. And you know that voice, even just the presence in
the video. It's iconic. You see there's somebody like that, the amount
of memes that came out of like like every couple of years, a new
smash Mouth All Star meme would happen because it was just right, it's so
iconic, and love my head ridicule him as that like that is one of
those just like mega hits that is gonna never ever go away at this point,
isn't it like that is a legacy to leave. Yeah, and then
he seemed like a pretty pretty funny dude as well in terms of I mean,
there's signs of him holding up, holding up signs, taking spots trans
kids, so I'm like, he couldn't have been that bad. Yeah,
it seemed like a genuine, genuine guy. But also I was just gonna
say about there being many tribute posts I think in the last few days,
just highlighting their favorite smash Mouth tweets, because the guy seemed like a king
of the former and a king of the game. That the DJ Kali with
the klord one who doesn't Dj Kaled saying that he does not give oral sex,
and smash Mouth man just appears and says a kink who does not give
is no king at all. Hails to you eternally, Steve Harwell, absolutely,
you know respect there so recipes for those two guys from you know,
the TNM universe questions we are going to skip over this time. I'm just
gonna little bit pressed for time and don't quite a time to do it this
week, but we will bring them back next week. If you're interested in
answer question for next week, then you can hop on over to the TNM
the Atamal focus group on Facebook and we will pop up this time next week
to ask for those. And that just leaves us this time with the releases
for this week, which is we are fully now in the month of September.
We had a little sprinkling of it last time, but now for the
next few weeks, I guess all the way through to the end of October
really, but you know, let's do one month at a time. Boys.
We have got some serious fucking releases, so let's have it first.
A couple that we are definitely going to be talking about fully when we get
to our review show in a couple of weeks time, so we'll skim over
these four and now. But the brand new Psilosis record is out to date.
That is called a sign of things to come. They are firmly back
in action now. And also the new Cavell Attack album, their first in
a few years at this point, called Endling is out. A couple of
things from the World are punk, the Angel Dust album, Brand New Soul
is Our and also Unity TX have a record called Ferrality. And this is
a band who we spoke a bit on the podcast like a good few years
ago at this point, kind of mixing kind of wrap a new metal into
kind of a punk basis. And I read that this is actually their debut
album, So I don't know whether what Will You Cover was like an EP
or a mini album. It feels like it was mixtapes and stuff like that
is what they've had before, so it feels like, I don't know,
they've been sort of slightly laying low for a while, But if this is
a full debut album from them, then I guess you know it will be
worth kind of a checking out and seeing what's going on there. Dying Fetuses
record make them beg for death Dying Feats again. I'm annoyed. It's sort
of like what we're saying about Autopsy last time. They keep dropping records whenever
they turn her up in like the busiest time. But it's been like six
years since the last Day and Fetus record. They kind of have become slightly
more sparse releases, I guess from the over the last kind of decade or
so, which means you know, when a Fetus record comes around and you
know it's going to be sick as hell, it's definitely going to be something
to seek out. So I mean, I kind of got back into dying
theaters because I saw them this year in a fairly decent way this year,
so I'm very stoked. Do you have a new record from them? Elsewhere?
We've got my Wrath or Mirath with a record called Karma. This is
a kind of Tunisian slightly progressive folky metal band who have released the material that
I've been quite partial to over the last sort of ten years or so,
so I'll check out that as well. And then a band who I really
like, a band called Uarda who are a highly melodic, very playful sounding
in their riffs and melodies, black metal band called Crepuscule Natura. I referenced
from a lot when we did the Black Boat Braid review because some of the
kind of the more melodic riffing. They're very reminiscent of something like Uarda.
And then we also have the return of Cryptopsy in the another legendary death metal
name who released records very kind of sparingly, but they've got a new record
out called Asgamura Burns will pivot over a little bit into some more sludgy,
doomy, stonery psychedelic fair first slomatics with Strontium fields that is, like you
very much if you like bands like Cone and stuff, just super sludgy,
just you know, battering you over the head with that, some slightly more
kind of stonery riffs. As a band called Fire down Below, who we
actually reviewed on the podcast and maybe like twenty eighteen or something, and I
remember being pretty decent. But they followed up that record after a few years
with a record called Low Desert Surf Club and then some more psychedelic y fair
doncraft with Sonic Moons. We jumped back to hardcore. Speaking of Dying Fetus
Aboud, I saw them early in the year Nasty. I've got a record
called Heartbreak quet Donals. Yeah, are you're gonna be going for the Nasty
record? Sam Oh I'll give it a listen. Like their records are,
like they do one like get I get a little kick from it every time
they do it, even if it is like repetitive, but hey, yeah,
be fund for what it is. Yeah, And then I guess I
would also ask you about the next band in question, who which is a
band called with Honor who about with the record Boundless and they seem to be
going been around for a fell little while, one that I've actually passed by.
I'm not familiar with that. This is uh yeah, called the bit
of a blind spot for me, So I can tell you there you go
if you want some more hardcore punk are kind of emoi alternative rock release for
the week. It's not the biggest week for that stuff, clearly, but
there is a band called Captain Planet with a record called comp Come On Cat,
which I think again from the kind of the kind of slightly coology rock
language going on there, you can probably tell if that's for you or not.
And then some more really underground death metal. There's a band called Excarnated
Entity with a brilliant album title Mass Grave Horizon that is some much more kind
of death doom type fair members of bands and Headinist and Soul and if you
want something really really to cave your skull in this week, and then a
couple of EPs too close us off where bats are small stonery fair with monolrd
and it's all the same and some kind of deathcore brutal death metal fair with
a cranius and a moral. So there is your lot for this week.
Thank you very much for listening to this episode of Hyperblasts. As said,
we will be back with another episode of this next week. We will have
the full question shebang and everything going on there. Should take the moment here
to also talk about what's going on. That's a little Patreon because this last
week we dropped our latest album, club Pack featuring Fronzilla Future President amongst many
others featuring Matchbox twenty. That was a fucking hell of a double build start
off, wasn't it. As one of those albums, it is not nearly
as bad as the other, even if no matter what you do try and
say, well, one of them I was more engaged and one of them
pert my ears up more. We're talking about different albums. I think they
were fascinating conversations. First with match was twenty to like what the hell is
happening here? How did this, you know, become what it is?
And then really I think, once and for all, trying to dial into
the attilla conversation, what is the merit, what is the worth? What
is the appeal? What is the character of fronds? How consistent is it?
Etc. And then we salvage all of that with a good conversation about
the modern classic hardcore record that is in Love There is no law by twitching
tongues, and then twitch and tongues proved they can be played at the rave.
That was a great fucking video. That was a great video. Go
over to that Rave version of Preacher Man. I'm like, I spending my
head a week now. I have to Collin Young's Twitter account if don't know
we're talking about. And then also closing off on the just harrowing sludge masterpiece
that is where the coat string pops by Acid Bath and here's a good sign
of a good album. Club. We finished recording and we continue talking about
Acid Bath for like another five ten minutes, and I was like, we
should we've stopped recording. We should probably stop now, But it's just a
fascinating fucking time. I mean, that's one that I think in the patron
there's been a lot of people have kind of been like, holy shit,
Asset, really, I really hope that would happen. I mean again,
that was when I was the discovery for me. But yeah, that's an
album that requires quite heavy discussion for everything it does. And one of the
things we've talked about afterwards, and I'm not sure if it's one of the
things we include, was the fact that someone was bitten by an alligator while
we're making Yeah, so that is the kind of shi an elegance that sounds
like it you know, it hooks you and appeals to you. Then you
can go over there. And this coming week, sort of the beginning of
this coming week, we are going to have the first part of the Alaskon
Chain Special that I'm going to get very deep into doing all of the scripting
and so on for this first part. It was gonna be originally going to
be a two part special because we're like, oh, there's only six albums,
and then you really think about everything that comes out in Chains. Not
only are there multiple extra EPs and live albums and whatnot that are worth huge
discussion of their own right, but the whole grunge boo and everything along with
it as well. So it's gonna be three parts, and this first part
covering you know, the early years, the first couple of oh my god,
Monolithic records from Alison Chains, all of that is going to be coming
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