Hello everybody. Welcome to this new edition here of Hyperblasts. Here on that's
no matter, your weekly rock and heavy metal podcast. We're here to tell
you everything that you need to know that has gone down in the last week,
every single thing, no stone left unturned. My name is paren hairsh
with me today as usual. We've got Elliott Paisley here, We've got Sam
dick On here. Hello. Hello, very well. I mean I've not
seen Brian Fallon, but I'm doing as well as I can. I mean
I've had love I've had I mean I could be seeing him right now again
right now. They're playing London again tonight, and I just I did to
rather than go to that, i'd be here for the podcast. I'm I
didn't know they were doing three nights. I'm genuinely for all three. Yeah,
so we've got we've got another show that we're going to talk about,
but very quickly. You have been talking about, you know, the Lasting
night seeing the Gasla Anthem. With something like that, I'm sure people will
always be interested in kind of like differences between show setlists whatever. I know
you were mentioning a little bit, So give us a very quick before we
go on to talk about something else, round up of all the interesting things
that occurred over the gas plat anthems stint at the Roundhouse. Well, yeah,
so really different set lists across the two nights, like about twenty it
was like twenty two songs something each night, sort of ten sort of songs
that were the same, like the big hits, fifty nine sound, handwritten,
the sort of the ones you'd expect them to play a decent showing for
the new album. Intually, they focused for the new I'm live on the
slower material, so the stuff like Michigan and Auto, those sort of songs,
like the big kind of more rocky numbers. They only played one of,
like a different one of that each night, but still not kind of
like relegated, like outside of handwritten and fifty nine sound take up the bulk
of the set list each night. The new album still got a decent shit
people. I guess the interesting thing about this is if people responded to that,
because I know that amongst Gaslight fans, the album you know, was
a little bit sort of fifty to fifty. It was a bit fifty to
fifty on the show Night one. No Night one was an old crowd.
I was like, Oh, this is a bit Q music, isn't it
Tonight I was I felt very young, and I was like, oh,
I guess that Avapan is really this boring now. Night two was a lot
more at it, which was nice and better response to the newer songs,
more singing and then like the actual hits off of on Night two when they're
dropping like Great Excepit, so it's like the open with a newer song,
So Night to the Open Spiderwebs. It's got a decent reception. And then
they went straight into Great Expectations and Americans slang ra afterwards, and that was
like, oh, yeah, well everyone is actually people are jumping about and
singing along now. But they were great. Brian Fallon is actually on really
good format. I mean he is particularly energized, like coming out Night one
in a black sabbat, short of long hair, and I'm like, oh,
I can't fancy this man anymore, but here we are, like but
yeah, no, just really good. As a fan, it was nice
to go two nights and see a really like wide select of songs across two
nights, all of my favorite, like real favorite songs, including some like
deep cuts that they don't always play alongside the obvious hits and yeah, it
was just a good sort of see them just having fun on stage that it
felt like as a band. This was the most engaged I'd seen them since
the sort of a reunion as well, So they feels like things are rolling
for them properly as a band now, very good sort of two evenings,
I had a lovely time, jolly good well something that we were both at
on separate nights. Speaking of reunions, is last week I suppose last weekend
was when Botch actually arrived in the UK. It feels like almost a whirl
wind twelve months or so where that doesn't feel that long ago where we were
going like teasing a reunion that definitely isn't happening. It will be reissues and
stuff like that. And now we've seen Boch. Yeah, how bizarre like
that whole journey of Botcher teasing something. Do we got hopes it's gonna be
issues? Watch have a new song out? Oh We're not actually back though,
played a song in the middle of another band set. But we're not
actually back though. Watcher back though. Like stuff, It is fucking it
feels really surreal that, like, you know, we're actually I mean they're
they're closer to the end now than they were to the beginning of the Reginnon
because they're going to be playing their final show in Seattle. I think it
is in June, but Boch came through the UK for I think it was
three shows because they have stated, you know, yeah, our final final
show is going to be in June in Seattle. If you wanted to see
Botch in the UK, this was your one window to do that. So
both me and you, I'm sure what absolutely swayed me. I was about
it, and then when they said like, oh, these are our final
show, I was like, fucking get a ticket, haven't I? Yeah,
so it was a big event. You know, did you see Great
Falls were opening? I didn't catch who was on first. I caught the
end of like the main support, Like there were two bands in London.
Greatful was the one who had the woman on. Yeah, they were the
only support on the other dates. I think it was so cool. Yeah,
Great Falls. I've sort of lightly followed their albums. I guess it's
cool that they came over here, but they were ferociously heavy live, Like
it's kind of sort of a like a neurosis meets a noisier Ken Mode type
thing. Yeah, really fucking intense, like conviction from them, like another
crazy drummer to watch in terms of like the how much of a kicking he
was he was putting into that. Yeah, I thought they were cool.
I wasn't totally blown away with them, but I had no familiarity with them,
and I was kind of just walking in halfway through the set and was
be like, this is this is a lot going on right now, where
like they say, like how hard they're playing, and then you've got this
woman on the side of the stage kind of like vocalizing and not singing and
just kind of like creating a load of different noises colliding together. Yeah,
I really enjoyed at the very beginning of their set. Again, I think
that might be uh someone who did like some guest vocals on an album or
something. I think she's not a permanent part of the Life band, which
again sort of strange that they came out to the UK tour, but cool.
But the very first thing she did at the start of the set,
before she started singing, was she started doing what I can only describe,
but you know when you did that noise when you're trying to call a cat
and you go ppsps. Yeah, as they were building up, she was
just doing that and I was like, is this gonna be the whole vibe?
But yeah, they were really fucking heavy. I was like, I
was looking forward to seeing Botch in terms of you know what we've just said,
but like the joke that you could and certainly did see made about this
was like it's the big event for hardcore fans between the ages of thirty five
and forty five, right, Like, it was certainly Botch, and the
kind of devotion to Botch feels like it is most intense amongst a demographic who
were you know, there for them the first time. I like, I'm
a much bigger fan right now than I was a week ago, which is,
you know, the testament to the power of a show like this.
But like I was going in as someone who obviously like really raped you know,
we are the Romans and American thevoso as kind of you know, seminal
influential bits of Violet Matthey hardcore. But you know, I hadn't been waiting
my whole life to see it. Like people, you know, those people
who were ensconced in that at that time, they're not what you know,
I know it converge or someone mean to me in the same way, Sam
Botch were incredible. What the fuck they were like they just open and that
the last two her friends in the Great White North for you as well.
Yes, yeah, and I was that that just immediately got the crowd like
going hard because I was like it was a you're right, it is there
a bit of an older crowd and you could what everyone knows coming out of
Marshall tirement sort of yeah, like I'm the same, like I've probably gone
to watch maybe a little bit before you like again in sort of like as
when I've really want to mail calls out. Going into the roots of it
and getting into all those bands is when I got into Botch, and so
it's when I was kind of like one of was like, you know,
I'm never gonna see Botch, so fair enough, like but let's let's going.
And yeah, they were just fucking incredible. Like any kind of like
legcy band coming back, there's always a kind of like is it gonna you
know, capture those sort of feigned live shows and the intensity of what I'd
heard about or is it gonna be like watching a bunch of guys or of
trying to do that and just kind of like falling a bit flat. But
my god, they sounded just suns of the energy on stage was like so
high and up there, and just those songs are just amazing sort of blends
of like incredible technicality and like interesting song structures with just some of the heaviest,
like hard hitting moss parts band can come out with. I mean,
yeah, this was This was one of those cases of kind of exceeding expectations
because you know, I've I've seen bands like at the Drive in or whatever,
and I've been like, yeah, you know, cool, I like
these relationship with command songs or whatever, but it's certainly not comparing to I
guess any idea of what people who were there the first time kind of tell
you about at the drive in. But this was like manically intense. And
you think for a band who you know, prior to about a year ago,
hadn't played these songs together for like over twenty years, but the fucking
way they attacked them was like delirious and a proper assault. You know,
there was one song where they just like reached this big crescendo at the end
of it, and the strobe was going fucking crazy, and it was so
like physically viscerally intense in a way that you couldn't get away from, not
just in a like I'm here to see the songs deal, but like the
physical violent sensation that you associate with that band in their prime felt like it
was there intact, you know, like multiple parts where the singer Dave is
like leaping out on top of the crowd despite there being a barrier, Like
by the end of the seale, like half about had their tops off and
they were just going even harder, Like this wasn't I'm really bossing names thement,
but it's almost like kind of also, it's been like quite like weirdly
spacey bits and these like really really violent stabs, and that push and paul
between those sort of sounds just makes the sort of two extreme mens so that
every time they do hit on those hard bits is just like it physically moves
you, just through the sheer power of like the song. Yeah, I
mean, watching them live, I was drawn to or sort of registering,
you know, the kind of the freak guitar genius going on in terms of
like where are you pulling those parts from? Like the alien kind of tapping
parts in the middle of songs and stuff, you know bits in John Wu
where you go, oh shit, that's that's Gadjira, you know, which
like I know you talk about like more of an angel a lot with someone
like them, but like here's another one and then I think you know what
you might be talking about there, and there's like there in transitions from persona
to object, they were like those weird kind of awkward, rhythmic sort of
nudely bits. People in the crowd, yeah, were like clapping along,
like clapping through these weird o botch parts or you know, singing that it's
so quiet here in Hutton's Great Heat Engine, just like people who clearly know
those songs extremely well, and like you could see how important they actually were
in terms of, you know, not a case of showing up because you
know the name or whatever, like people genuinely fucking hollering for these things.
Yeah, you like you definitely see that, like the portion of card who
will like being either waiting till you sees again or like missed out on it
at the first amount and just were so intensely sort of devoted to these songs
that the it didn't feel like you're kind of watching a legacy nostalgiantod Their arms
were like, yess, very good. It was a real kind of like
everyone caught up in the moment of just watching this fantastic band get the moment
they are sort of deserve in like selling out a respectable sized venue in London
and just bringing the pace, bringing the place down in terms of the carnis
they were bringing. Yeah, hearing fucking Brian's bass, like sliding around in
all these really weirder ways ment all some of the stuff they would do,
Like as a band, they are so musically like freak show in like you
can't cohesively kind of put together what they're doing, but they just are slamming
it out every time, and it's just like other times, I just wasn't
like, how the hell are you doing this? Like yeah, I thought
one twenty two, which was that new song they released last year, was
really good in terms of like it didn't feel out of place in the set
despite there being a two decade gap between that and any other material. And
then obviously that song is always now going to sit on its own because they're
not doing it and nowm or anything. But I thought it sounded, you
know, really it wasn't any kind of detour away from what you want to
watch. You can tell you can I mean you cold hear like this is
a newer song in it maybe it's slightly less all out chaos, but it
still feels so thoroughly from that same creative mindset where Botch did a yeah previous
songs. It fits nicely and and I think as well, like there's sort
of stage band teas kind of when he was introducing that song and talking about
like they never really did political songs, but this has to be one of
those because of the times and things like that. You could tell that even
just come back, they wanted to do a song that meant something still Yeah,
And I felt like I was having my mind newly blown by the We
Are the Romans material, just in terms of like seeing it in front of
me for the first time, because I've always you know, appreciated that album
very very much. But like towards the end when they get into like the
big crescendo and see Thomas Howell as the soul man, which like after a
lot of carnage leans into like a proper like emotional chord progression, and that
was incredible because you don't really get that much else throughout the set, and
so when you hit like there are there are moments of emotion, you know,
some of like the piano stuff and the softer moments, but when you
hit that like big grand crescendo and it coming like near the end of the
set, it really didn't hit on like a like probably emotional level. Yeah,
like the grandeur in that moment that you forget Boch were capable of,
and they're fucking on this one moment. They absolutely nail it, and like
you know, again, I went along because I was like, well,
if I want to see Boch, who are this very influential band for you
know that strand of heavy music, this is my one time to do so,
and I really like them. That's a good enough reason to have gone
along in the first place. But like that was for me. That was
as good as I saw her every time. I die like approaching like last
tour, Dillinger, I imagine it had a similar energy to those famous shows
people talk about when Refused first came back and it was just like this fucking
crazy energy like, and I just think for Botch to come back for just
over a year's worth of shows when we know they're going away again, this
isn't any kind of you know, dragging out Reuni or whatever. Come for
just over a year's worth of shows and going yeah, we can still do
this, by the way before going again and doing that is like a fucking
flex. I mean, it's probably my gig of the year so far in
terms of just like pure like enjoying us singing, just getting quite a moment.
But yeah, I agree, like I've really said them were going to
go like, yeah, you know, we're gonna do this because we can,
because we want to give a fan something back, not phone it in
as going like a half assed cash gamun Clearly again, this will mean something
to them, So it just felt like a real cause for celebration, even
if it is short lived. Yeah, and it feels like a moment to
have caught on them, you know, because like you know, obviously,
if if you weren't there, then I'm afraid the chance is gone. Butcher,
are you going to be gone again within a few months. But I
feel like, you know, if you did catch this, it'll be spoken
about you know, like that wild run of Botch shows when they came back
and were like fucking way more unbelievable than they had any right to me,
is how I'm kind of thinking about it. They were like seriously, seriously
intense and impressive and yeah, fucking it. Like my memories of Botch have
Obviously I never sold them the first time around, but like just as a
thing I associate with in my mind, now they've gone up a few levels
in terms of like you've got that like real iconic moment. I have that.
Yeah, I have that tangible memory of like them being fucking unbelievable.
So that was seriously wonderful, absolutely highlight of the year so far, I
agree. News today in the hyperblasts there's been like fuck all new singles.
We weirdly have a couple of new band demos based on, you know,
some things that you might be interested. We're gonna talk about those very quickly
instead of any sort of like you know, big album that's or anything like
that. A couple of new bands first up as a band called Mistress.
Not to be confused with the Anamothrak grindcore kind of side project, but Mistress
is a band that have released a demo this week. It features members of
High Command and Fuming Mouth. I've not been able to find out like exactly
who and who does want. All I know is that there are people from
that band involved. There's a female vocalist, so I don't think it's any
of any of those guys there. But when you are thinking High Command Femal
Mouth, you're probably thinking hardcore, thrash, death metal, nasty stuff.
This is just doom. I mean, I guess we like Highermand, You've
got that heavy metal link as well, but yeah, this is like the
cool side of doom that I'm like, hell yeah, it's got that real,
like Crackley kind of seventies feel to it. But I read like first
demo, I think this is really cool. Yeah, it's a weird combination
because it's tonally it's pure classic doom, like Cathedral, candle Mass, that
sort of thing. But when you said we were going to be listening to
this for the show, I was like, oh, fuck, I'm quite
short on time, Like I'll see if I can squeeze it in. And
when it ended, I was like, oh, the four truck Doom demo,
I said, thirty minutes aside for is over because in minutes, yeah,
like two of the songs are under four minutes. There's a sort of
outro at the end. The longest is just about five So it's really in
and out and punchy and crunchy for a doom record, but it does still
have all those classic tones, so it's like, like you say, you
can tell there's the heavy metal influence of something like High Command, but also
I wouldn't say like hardcore sensibilities. You can tell the people involved or maybe
you know they're in a scene where it's more cuts to the chest. Is
it's like brief little doom pop songs. I think that the production was the
weird part for me in terms of, like it's not overly reverby in the
way that this kind of doom normally is, you know, the sort of
like you know, electric wizardly type riffs with a sort of you know,
haunting female vocal upfront. You might think about something like wind Hand or whatever
as a comparison point, but this, again, it's like punchy and crisp
like hardcore, and I think I'm not sure it could even be a drum
machine, Like it feels like a sort of strange. Again, it's only
a demo, so we'll see, like if a full like the materializes what
proper you know, kind of sonic job or anything. They end up kind
of applying to it. But it was a bit of like, oh,
this is a you know, a an interesting sort of combination of like production
style and the kind of music you're playing with that. So yeah, again,
we'll see if that kind of goes anywhere further. But there is a
new demo from a band featuring members of High Command and Fuming Mouth. I
know a lot of people like and then we also have again coincidentally, this
week another demo from a brand new band. Twenty bucks Spin randomly announced that
the band Cerebral Rots had broken up. Who are a real were? I
suppose a really good stinkin' death doom band we reviewed. I think it was
their second full length album a few years ago. I always really enjoyed,
Like, yeah, absolutely horrid. But twenty back Spin well, like,
yeah, Cerebralrot had done, but some of their members are immediately starting at
this new thing. So there's a band called Corpus Awful, which is very
good. The logo weird me out a bit because but before press play on
it. The logo looks a bit more like a kind of like space prog
like cryptic shift kind of prog thrashdown thing compared to like, you know,
dripping ooze what everybody you'd associate. But it basically is more you know,
cerebral rock style, just honkin death doom. You know, how does psychosis
ripen I don't know, but it has got a honkin riff, I know
that much. Yeah. The again, just disgusting guitar sound on this.
I've come around more to that cerebral album over the years, and like again,
I just you know, ongoing. Oh yeah, definitely always good like
this as a demo, Yeah, just filthy, like stinking, like fettied
like corpse writing, riffs like big doomy bits, just nasty like music.
Well, if you're into you know, deafitel doing whatever death do, I
can't see anyone having a problem with this. Yeah, I agree, I
was. I thought I remembered you weren't that into cerebral rocks. I didn't
know how much to expect a kind of two track demo from a new band
would do for you. But you know, please to hear that. I
think it's a sign my brain is truly rotted, because the world awful just
denotes quality to me. You see the way that'll be excellent, and it's
it's appropriate because it's it's such a smelly sound th thing, like it's recorded
to tape and you can absolutely tell because there's no pro tools or yeah,
there's definitely not a drum machine. There's nothing tight enough. If they like
a limited cassette or something, you know, you'd get that, Yeah,
exactly. And it's like, I just love when these bands when they kind
of play in a way that sounds sloppy and then put the put the echo
on so it's even sloppier. Just they're not even trying to hide any aspects
of I just it feels like it's kind of in the exact middle ground between
something like it's sound like a weird comparison, but the songs being long and
quite I don't know if Dynamics even the world. They're kind of long and
winding with these weird choices kind of reminds me of blood and cantation, but
it's so filthy that that doesn't seem like the appropriate comparison. Yeah, I
get what you're going for that I mean, the drummer on this is is
Jesse from Belwich as well, who is very very good, and there's a
really lovely kind of like when you can again with the sort of like tape
production everything you can hear the kit just sort of sloping all over it during
these doom parts, like he's splashing in a paddling of shit or something.
It's absolutely brilliant. So if you like your you know, brief little demos,
hopefully ian both those bands we might see full length coming soon. Who
knows, but two new bands on the scene their Mistress and corpus Off or
both featuring members of bands we think are rather good. Tour news is primarily
what we're talking about this episode. In terms of news, there's bloody loads
of it both sides. At the Atlantic first up is more of a I
guess it's gone beyond a rumor at this stage. It's not a confirmed lineup
or anything, but it has been sort of, you know, theorized over
the past couple of weeks if you've been following the conversation over in the States,
that the Summer Slaughter Tour might be returning to being a sort of regular
institution, And this week we seem to get the confirmation that would be the
case. I don't know about you, Elliot. The Summer Slaughter tour,
obviously I never went because I live here. I have not been to the
USA since about two thousand and four or something. But being into you know,
extreme metal, getting into death metal and stuff in the kind of you
know, early twenty tens, I always looked over at the Summer slot of
tour as a thing that happened every year, and you know, people i'd
you know, be chatting to on Twitter or whatever would be going and I'd
be like, oh, man, what a dream line up that is?
Now at the back at them and I go, there's like eight or nine
bands on these things, and like five of them are Sumerian Records, gent
bands that I wasn't really into. I was just excited because count of the
capitation we're playing. But there is something quite seminal of an era about Summer
Slaughter and I didn't even realize it necessarily, you know, being defunct.
But people over there, quite naturally, I think, are quite excited that
it seems to be coming that I'm smiling because it feels like you've read my
notes. It's getting into extreme metal around that time. It was like,
you know, for something I never went to in a country thousands of miles
away, Summer Slaughter still seems quite significant, and like you were saying,
like the lineups I always got, Oh, I so wish I could have
gone like it would have been. But it's like I just used to see
between the buried in me and go oh, brilliant and then just look down
and just go behold the Arctopus Empirical and never say died tour with then just
a bunch of like with like a bunch of really cool like death metal bands
and sit on top of it, been away. This is the perfect time
for them to come back, because now there's so many great small extreme metal
degree yeah, that you could fill up that bit. You wouldn't just have
to email Sumerian and say, you know, our chip span a free or
whatever. Like the amount of stuff you could get to fill this out,
you could legitimately have a fucking great lineup. Yeah, I agree. I
think you can certainly imagine if Summer Slaughter Tour coming back and filling it full
of you know, Undeaths and two hundred stab Wounds and all these bands that
are really popular at the moment and it getting a really good you know,
attendance and buzz and everything. Again, for me, I think about it.
I think about it more in a logistical sense of like you've got like
eight or nine bands, legit fucking rolling around city to city together, all
turning up, like you know, touring for like at least a month or
two to do half hour sets at four point thirty pm. That seems like
ANET twenty tens thing. You look at the like like some slow was obviously
you're going on them. But there were so of those US tours that were
like eight band lineups and that's why you had like the empirical and the sidietal
being like the UK like budget version of it. But yeah, like it's
all of those Like could not watch that many of these bands on one day
anymore. It'd be exhausting. Yeah like that. But but I am,
I'm looking at some of these lineups and he's like twenty eleven, The Black
Dahlia, Murder, Whitechapel, Darkest Hour, six Feet Under, Dying,
Fetus As Blood Runs, Black Oceano, Flesh God, Apocalypse, Apocalypse stand
out there, mental what you know, fucking I mean, the fact that
you could get a tour you're like Cannibal Corpse and Nile together and Suffocation and
then you go, oh wow, that's amazing. When does that start?
And then it's got six other bands on it. It's just it's absolutely bananas.
But yeah, it's very, very I'd be massively intrigued as to what
kind of bill a Summer Slaughter in you know, twenty twenty four would be
put in together, even if I obviously have you know, no plans of
flying over and attending currently, But yeah, I'm definitely intrigued to see how
that turns out. And if you are a you know, a death metal
faithful or whatever over in America. I'm sure this is a massive, massive,
exciting news. We've got a download announcement which I'm it's it's a good
announcement that I'm slightly disappointed in because it slightly lessens the banter factor, which
is that we've got a couple more additions to the main stage at Download this
year. We've got Creeper and Kerry King have both been announced for Download this
year, both on the same day on the same stage, the main stage
of the Sunday which is the event Sevenfold day. What I say about lessening
the banter is we were having a right laugh at basically Code Orange being sandwiched
between two shit show bands with Bowling for Soup and Lord of the Lost.
Now Creeper and Kerry King have been put right before them, which still means
that Kerry King is playing before Bowling for Soup, and that is very funny.
But Code Orange stand out a little bit less as like a rabbit animal.
Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna go to download, you're not
gonna get a sort of a better run than going Creeper into Code Orange.
That's like the weekend sorted aside from fucking body sleep in the middle there and
opening with All the Lost that looks like a really good stage. Now,
I mean, I've got iving bodoms. You could be fun enough as well.
But yeah, like that is a like Kerry King. We're still going
to be up in there, like what the Life's gonna be like? All
that and more material. But I imagine as a downloads or act forty minutes
of Kerry King cranking out riffs on a Sunday afternoon, decent time in it.
Well, I don't think this has less than the banter factor, because
it's probably been twenty years since anyone's played after Kerry King at a festival.
You're right, and so maybe the first time that happens since the late nineties.
He's walking off. Maybe do it the Curl or the bad Guys want.
It's just like that. I mean if Slayer, if the Slayer even
hadn't be announced yet, that would kick it off. You'd be walking off,
going, I can't do this again, Tom, please take back everything
I said. Very good. Indeed, we've got the announcement of ac DC's
European Arenas stadium actually support tour. Sam, you amongst us certainly are going
to be there, and I imagine you were very excited to see the Pretty
Reckless announced in that slot. I mean, if they play maybe Want to
Die, I'll watch that and then I'll go get a drink. Like I'm
not going to pretend that. You know in twenty ten, was it when
the album come out that I was not liking the pre Reckless because I like,
I watched the Gossip Girl because you know whatever, Like I didn't mind
that first album. But I'm also there were those bands it something come up.
I'm sort of like still together, like it's like still getting these slots
as well, like they've not They've not come up with anyone better in the
last fifteen years to support a CDC in the pre record Like it's just I
just I just get I'm like hashould have gone off to do something else at
this point, like fair enough she was committed to the band. But just
a surprise every time they I learned that the pre Reckless are still an active
band and just maybe you know, for some people it might be an early
night. You know, you go see the pretty Reckless that into ACDC,
get get the train home, getting gets out of the way, so hopefully
it'll faster people out that way. Pay nine hundred pounds see forty five minutes
the Gossip Girl. In all honestly, I thought I was bracing for a
worse support, like just knowing what like UK stadium tour supports tend to be
these days. Yeah, well I was surprised I've heard of them because I
was talking to you and who you think it's going to be. And I
remember last time when I saw ACDC, I think at the Olympic Stadium and
it was vintage Trouble. Yeah, I like someone like that who I've never
heard of who you can imagine being on the old Dad Rock Sunday of a
download festival mainstays like some shit like that as what I was expecting, So
I will I'll take the pre reckless as a win because they've got ones on
a like, yeah, well, let's veer back over to the summer slaughter
side of things. It's happening over here. Cannibal Corpse have announced a pretty
fucking crazy, I must say, UK tour. I'm not sure exactly,
but you'd imagine this has to be some of, if not their biggest UK
shows ever, which is fucking like sensational to see, Like, thirty five
years into that band's career, I actually saw, you know, when you
see that little events like kind of advertised on Facebook before you a should see
a full tour announcement. I saw this first and it was like Cannibal Corps
at the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester and I was like, who are they supporting?
You know they with I'm on the Martha at Bloodstock. It can't be
them like they doing over in the States. But Cannibal Corps are bringing a
full European UK headline tour, playing sizable venues like the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester,
the Roundhouse in London, and the bill they're bringing along with them is
Municipal Waste, Immolation and Schizophrenia. I'm not massively familiar with schizophrenia, and
part of me goes, oh, immolation of the more classic band nation supporting,
main support, whatever, but a package of cannibal immolation and municipal waste
is in fucking big arenas. This feels like one of the the event heavy
tours of this year for sure. Well, it feels like when Behemoth went
up to when they did the Forum and sold out. Yeah, it's the
biggest extreme metal show in British soil ever, and then they did I comment
if that was a COVID one, but they're doing Brixton with Arch Enemy,
yeah Bricks shortly after the COVID sort of ended. Well, some of these
aren't aren't far off that size and if that's what they're doing, Cannibal Corps
don't even of the show them Victoria where Good Year are played on that recent
tour, What you hell that is? Yeah? Like because like Groundhouse is
like two five hundred I think in London, you know that's this gas an
from where they'll do three nights. But Mensings have done that groundhouse. That's
what size like venue. It is not a small room in there. Yeah,
I mean I won't because of course, like this show that they now
days after I brook a holiday to Japan, Cannibal they're touring at that exact
moment of Bastards, So you're welcome. I would just into existence by being
out the country after. I'm very very excited for this. And you know,
on that same note, Paul Zerwitz, the drummer of Cannibal Corps,
has announced his debut stand up comedy show, which is going to be doing
over somewhere or other, you know, around around where he lives. But
he's making his stand up debut. Paul. I've interviewed him a couple of
times. He's in general we see him, he's a very chill, amiable
kind of guy. So I imagine this probably would be you know, if
he can not fucking whacking Phoenix joker it, I'd imagine this would be quite
entertaining. I was gonna say, like, if you've seen Centuries of Torment,
you know he's he's at least a good storyteller. Yeah, and you
know, I interviewed him soon and he's he's a super nice guy. The
only thing that puts me on edge about this is I think he's paired with
an improv comedy troupe for this, which is maybe the lowest form of entertainment
there is, so that slight sets when there's slightly but I mean in terms
of like twenty twenty four Ingo Cards Paul, which being a stand up comedian
is low. I mean, it's just that he's taken him thirty five years
into the band to do it. You know, He's like, it's only
now he's gone, Yeah, I've got enough stories now to uh. But
you know, the Cannibal Corpse. A lot of funny shit has happened to
them on the road over their three plus decades, probably quite entertaining stuff.
More us torn used corn of an Outsdade. Bloody, big old fucking North
American headline tour they're doing. Obviously, they're huge shows over here. Feels
like every corner announcement right now is like them shooting for the stars, going
fuck you, We're not main support band anymore. We are legends. Yeah,
a huge tour here with Gadjira and spirit Box, two of the bands
of you know, the current moment, sure, like yeah, because obviously
they announced it proved that that massive show that that arenamal essence as well,
didn't that. I'm guessing this is kind of like an extension of that by
just taking a fraction of that lineup out on the road. But you'd have
a lovely time seeing spirit Box, Ga Jura and Corn And wouldn't you something
that we actually got surprisingly early? Unearthed are doing the Oncoming Storm over there
now back where they're from, we got it first. Ah, But yeah,
they are doing their twentieth anniversary Oncoming Storm shows, one of which is
a show in Boston which features Bleeding Through, Overcast, Viewing Mouth, all
Out Wore Apes, and another band to be announced as well. But Unearthed
Oncoming Storm Bleeding Through. If you're there, you know you're gonna have a
good old time. Also, Lizzie Hale is now the current live singer for
skid Row because skid Row are a man who have you know, have their
fair few singers in their day. They have just announced that they have parted
ways with Eric who had for a couple of years. They had the guy
formerly of heat h At with dots in between them if you remember that band.
But I saw them with that guy and he was good and the show
was great, but he's had to step back for health reasons, and I
suppose probably not a permanent gig because Hale's dorm are like pretty busy and pretty
successful. But I imagine I'm like, you know, I'm not a Hailstorm
fan. I am a skid Row fan. I imagine if you catch one
of these skid Row shows with you know, undeniable rockstar Lizzie Hale fucking belting
out, you've gone wild, probably gonna be fucking great. Yeah, Like
as a vocalist, you can't fuck with her. She's got the pipes to
sort of give these Skido songs a bit of something extra, So I think
like as a kind of like temporary partnership thing, like pretty solid idea to
get him. Yeah, it kind of seems a bit like when a ten
years ago, when it was being thrown around that Corey Taylor was going to
join Anthrax, and you were like, I'd love to see that bebe be
a fucking idiot to do that full time. So if Lizziell's gonna doing some
skid Row songs, I mean if said back still doesn't want to come back,
that this is a pretty worthy successor Yeah, and there is always something
quite interesting about bands of that certain generation and moment thing. And obviously there's
a certain kind of attitude and aura that is associated with those bands when they
like gender swap the singer and you get you know, someone like Lizzie Hale
singing Sweet Little Sister and all those fucking songs. Like I think there is
something genuinely pretty cool and you know, like it puts a new slint on
them kind of. So like, yeah, I say do it full time,
fuck it, sing some wicked songs. You'd probably be really good at
it. Yeah, bring that over here. Black Sabbath have finally announced their
release date for their big reissue campaign for the forgotten uncelebrated Tony Martin era.
That's going to become it on May the thirty first, a big old box
set. The hilarious thing about this is Tony Martin era, So it's nineteen
eighty nine to nineteen ninety five they're having in this box set. The first
Tony Martin album, Eternal Idol, had already been like available, so it's
not part of it. Also, that window of time does it include the
one album they randomly decided to make me run a James Dio again in that
time. Black Sabbath in the eighties to nineties is absolutely be fucked. But
I am genuinely excited about this. I've been waiting for it for a long
time. We can talk about, you know, doing more Sabbathy stuff or
whatever. Good news there And this week most Lady story of the week.
Yes, mister Lordie and friends are on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia posing with
some lovely vegan friendly fake handbags and stuff like that in their full you know,
master attire. What's going on? Right? Because I know, like
Lordie, like mister Lordie, he's an icon on everything, and I know
that, like he must be very popular over in Scandinavia. But like they
are shit, aren't they? And it's like, I know, we've had
our laugh when we've done an album club or the one well are you on?
And stuff like that, But like the thing that Lordie just did of
releasing that like seven album box wherever it was, of them like doing we're
gonna do a disco album, We're gonna do a country album or be demonic,
Like how the fuck do bands get a like doing that, you know,
Devil Daddies and stuff like that end up still being like, yeah,
we're in Vogue the power of Eurovision and like like no, what you mean,
but like they just have I think like build up over is that iconic
status that even like like people don't see, like most people don't care about
that seven album box there you ask Lord, And yeah, the photos are
amazing. Fairs like wearing it again the Parada bag Like, yeah, outfits
with like little holding little handbags is seriously funny. It's just it's proof that
the whole who's going to be the next big band conversation is completely pointless because
we can shout about Creeper and Code Orange all we want. They've got some
star power. I could see then, Like, Lord, you're on the
cover of Vogue in twenty twenty four, a few years where people saying,
oh, we're going into we're going to the next golden age of alternative music.
Was it was this on the calendar like a few years into that.
Fucking mister Lordie, it's still a cover star. It's truly unpredictable conversation that
will give you that much. All right, questions are actually back on hyperblasts.
I apologize for not having them in here for several weeks now. Things
got really busy. We were kind of moving these shows pretty quickly. But
questions are now back for hype blasts, and so for the returning round of
them, we threw over as we normally do, to the That's Notmental focus
group over our Facebook if you want to go and join and engage in our
conversations over there and everything, and we've got three questions here for you.
The first up is this is the very first I think I'm right and say
with the very first comment that got posted, and I love that this is
just like still I don't know the debate or whatever, but David gieland that
says I'd love to hear the team discourse on Baddikore, the good, the
bad, and the ugly, And that's all that we've got to infer into
this conversation. So I can only assume that we are assigning because Baddikore has
those like three big bands of the moment, right like if you say that
term, which again I know is still a controversial term that some people would
very much like people to stop saying. But there are three sort of scene
leaders who are lead in the way for what that is. I guess for
me, I can quite easily assign which one of these I suppose each would
be. Yeah, if if we're being the same thing bands, I'm assuming
we're talking spirit Box, Sleep Token, bad Omens. Yeah cool, because
I know obviously people like to lump loave in there and for that. But
like there's some step though. But yeah, I assume we would all have
fully or wean we all have the same first pick. I can't imagine any
of us mortes. I mean, they are TikTok stars, so I have
TikTok stars. I think you could. You could quite easily like brand Watison
is a baddycore band, if you ask me. Yeah, So, I
mean, I guess I'm going you know, spirit Box the good bad Omens
the bad it's in their name, and sleep Token the ugly because they wear
masks and they have to mushroom head, they have to hide. There are
debilitating physical appearance, and if people saw his face they stop thinking he was
really sexy. So I guess that's I guess you can also, you know,
if you turn this into the same you know, tree, you could
do like a fun marry kill scenario, and myself, I would have to
be I'd have to fuck bad Omens because like I don't know again, I
saw them live would bring me earlier this year, and like quite good looking
lads to be fair well, you know they've got like a catchy chorus here
and there, like okay, Mary, I'm going spirit box because that's a
that's a much more healthy love affair going on there, and again not trying
to raggle them too much. But the questions been asked, you are I'm
not, you know, I would simply have to kill sleep Token. Do
we have any disagreements on the ordering of this very arbitrary little game? I
mean I kind of back and forth on who I dislike more about of bad
Omens or sleep Token, because I you you play me asleep. I know
it's sleep Token because you can't not that bad problems were bad Omens is They
are the most faceless back other than being like say, good looking lads.
I was at face down a couple of weeks ago and I was just like,
who is there was a bad was? Like I could have guess ten
bands before I reached bad Omens. Yeah, there's nothing that quite makes me
as angry as some of that stuff on that seventy minute sleep Tooken album.
I will probably side with you on this, parent, but it was not
as easy a decision to make. I would kill bad Omens because I think
I wouldn't feel anything if I did that, like treading on an ant,
Yeah, exactly, I would. Then I'd probably I'd probably fuck spirit Box
and sleep Tokens seem very busy making a lot of money. No, they're
away on tour. I'm at the mansion. Those those fifty pound coins.
What that money can buy exactly? And when we when we inevitably split up,
Oh, the payout. Imagine being sat there while that guy is doing
the dishes, you know, singing to himself. I could not live that
domestic lifestyle. Yeah, I guess. On the bandy core thing, I
know that like last year, we had a lot of you know, necessary
with some of the bands at releasing albums and stuff like that and what we're
hot top, because we had a lot of discussion about this this year.
The start of this year, I feel like I've moved into the firmly,
Like the baddy chore is happening over there, and that's fine. By me,
you know, like we we we cleared it all out in the award
show. I'm just just content with my life, So there you go,
although it would not be a content domestic life with you know, older sleep
sleep token boy. Right. Next question, Paul Terry asks if you were
all recruited to join Slipknot, who do you think would last the longest?
And why? Here's the thing man, because I don't know. I like,
have you played an instrument? Are you musing any in any capacity?
Or yeah? But you know I play a few instruments. Because I was
like, well, I know, Paran obviously you you you are about being
a druma phone like plays. I was like, oh no, wait,
parents are drummer like yeah, sticking around? If he's joining slip Not,
is he like yeah, I would I would not even you know, I
don't rate my own playing highly enough to go, Yeah, I can easily
slip in and do Jay Weinberg's job, let alone fucking Jerry Jordison. So
I'm and I'm not additionally for that position. Let me tell you, if
I did, I would probably go either the percussionist route. Well that's all
I would do, because that's all I could probably get away over at this
point, is that a keg whack a keg or you know, you could
do some little rudiments or whatever, you know, play along to the blister
exists. But again that seems to be a slightly volatile position, and I'm
thinking of obviously, if you're in Slipknot, you've got to displace someone you
know. And obviously the reason this question has been asked is you know their
recent slate of you know, line up fracturings and stuff like that. You've
got to think basically, this is the question that's being asked here, really
is slip not survival strategy? How do you stay a member of slipnot and
not get kicked out? Right? And you look at the people who that
has gone well for, I know that you would have until very recently gone
Oh here, Jane Wiberg's having a good old time. So it could all
go wrong at any moment. But I think I might have to kill v
Man, is what I'm saying. I think, you know, I maybe
slipping into the base position. If I practiced really, really hard, I
could do a little bit better than that. Then, you know, trying
to be fucking Joey Jordison or whatever. V Man seems to be doing a
good job. Like he's he's holding it down. He's not even from the
same country as the rest of them, and he's still like, you know,
he's stayed there that whole whole time. Whatever he's doing, he's doing
something right in terms of keeping his head low. Yeah, keep your head
down. Yeah, not upsetting the powers that be. I think my strategy
would be basically replace V Man and have them not realize. I would try
and sort of like slip into his brick like yea of the difference, like
wear the same mask, I have to grow a big beard. But I
would basically have to do my best V Man stealth impression. And I'm sorry,
V Man is nothing personal, but you might end up being buried somewhere,
which I feel like slipnot would approve of. But that's the only way
I e a thinking slipping into slip Noo and maybe surviving for a manageable amount
of time. I mean, I would just go in and do it,
because I'm here for a good time, not a long time. How many
keggs can I hit him? One go? Like, I just I'm not
sure agreeableness is actually that much of a tactic because like like Grant, like
Chris Fenn, right, I understand why it's like suing your band while you're
in them. It's pretty low agreeable behavior. But as much as they keep
your head down, Craig doesn't talk, Craig doesn't say it would and he's
gone. So it's like, I don't know, I'm trying to I think,
if you can, intimidation is the way. So I'm gonna square up
to Mick Thompson as big as Mick Thompson said, no one can fuck with
you? Is that what it is exactly? And I'm not going to clown
on his nose, be like, no, I'm not doing this anymore.
You're going to respect me, ruffle Cory's hair, and just like, well,
I think you've got to do that. Whatever it is. I don't
think slipping in is I mean's slipping in maybe if they don't notice it is
one of But I think keeping your head down might not be the right tactics.
So I'm just going to go in a you know, maybe what would
I do to Mick Thompson and poke him in the eyes or something and then
take his position. Although as much as I lasting long in the band.
I don't really like face paints, so I don't. I don't think i'd
last very long if I How can we have a vote on the masks?
Boys, we definitely married to this idea. So who of us do you
think I was the best shot? I think that's the question. It's not
just how he would you do it? It's we have to decide. Yeah,
I mean it could also be you know, how successful do you think
these strategies laid out would Because I'm sticking with my basically the man identity fraud
path of trying to get into Slipknot. Sam is very openly saying I'm not
going to be here for long, but I'm going to get as many good
keg smacks out of this as I can, literally, and you're going to
walk in and bully them on that. I mean, Pin might take this
one. Now. I think it would be like a mob thing where you
know, they think, oh no, they're going to kick when it's like
this kid's got moxie. That's quite a long that's a long shot. That's
a big bet. But I think it's like, if you can take out
the alpha, you can you can run the gang yeah. I like the
idea of them like talking to me in the mask being like yes, so
how are the boys in Crocodile doing? Then I'm under that mark sweating.
So let us know what you think the most successful path into maintaining a membership
of Slipknot would be. And final question today, David Roach asks our longest
question, are there any bands where you like one or two albums but have
no interest in anything else they've put out? For instance, Troublegum by Therapy
is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I couldn't tell you
about anything they've put out in the last twenty years. Likewise, I saw
Thrice play Artists and the Ambulance in full recently. They played about ten Later
era songs afterwards, and I just went to the bar area to wait for
my mate. I went with I don't know if it's me being incurious or
the band setting the bar so hi that I don't think they'll have a top
it. Who knows. This is one of those ones where I guess,
you know, I was thinking about what the what are the parameters of the
question? What is actually being asked here? Because I think it's it's very
normal to have bands where like you love a certain era of them and maybe
you just don't think or maybe it's widely agreed even that you know that era
isn't something necessarily recatch it like, and again, not a band I am
like a die hard fan of or anything, obviously, but I thought about
something like taking that Sunday well, I really like their first few albums,
you know, particularly tell your friends in louder now their current output. I
actively don't give a shit, But this question it feels more of like a
hard divide and maybe less of a like you know, a general consensus of
whether things have gone downhill or not because you know, for the cases of
like therapy or Thrice, I don't think that's necessarily fair. That sounds more,
you know, individual for the person asking the question here. So like
hard divide of like I've got one random album that I adore while not caring
about most things else whether the world kind of aligns with me or not made
it a slightly more slippery question. I mean on the fries part, I
mean, I reckon there are a number of Friest fans who would tell you
they have top Tist in the ambulance. So just to me. People probably
ask argue in favor of like Vesu, you are you on that one yet?
Like so there for me, I mean there was a couple that immediately
jumped into head modern baseball for me. I think Holy Ghost is amazing.
I think that album is like incredible, do not then I never liked them,
then got into that album, went back to the other stuff, and
I was still just be like, include, what's it You're gonna miss it
all? Whatever that be? Yeah, I know, I know. And
that's when I was like, a none of those bands I didn't like,
and then kind of red trops we'll come back and films of enjoying one and
baseball still seeing that character. I really like that one album, don't care
for anything else. A couple of differentes that Finch. I think What It
Is to Burn is an incredible album, like shout out for What it Is
to Burn. It's one of those more easy emo records that is really good,
proper one hit wonder band. Though with that one, nothing else is
worth a and from them. And then even like a similar kind of like
probably not a good band, asking Alexandria from Deaf to Destiny, they hit
on something a lot people are actually quite good there and again done like into
the previous things outside of like occasional laughs at like how funny it gets being
stupid ever after from Deaf to Destiny is crap, like to just put it
bluntly, and I was like, you know what I do actually quite like
that one asking Anxander album. Yeah. I found this quite tough because,
like you say, there's loads of bands where I can think of like three
album curves that I like or a set number of years, but it's trying
to narrow it down to just that one. And that's why I picked those
three, because everyone was like they are onele I know there's that one album.
Yeah, and there's a couple. So two of the more obvious ones
Counting Crows first album. Enough quite like the second count Crows album to be
fair. I like the Shrek song as well, but everything else is pretty
much completely forgettable. I don't know. Accidentally in love song, maybe I
I thing about the Counting Crows. I probably know the song you're talking about,
and I can oh something sorted oh no, but warmed into that one
parent. The other one that came to mind was and maybe this is another
obvious one but like something to write home about by the guess Up Kids.
Again, like that's the only one I people mentioned. Maybe that's a widely
viewed thing. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, some people throw in
the first album five minute mile, and that's a four minute mile. I
think that's okay, but quite a step down. I tried to think of
some more like later ones. I kind of struggle with that, but like
my Dinosaur Life by Motion City soundtrack, I think it's a really good record.
I don't really like anything else they've done, and I thought it was
all kind of a bit emo. So I trying to thinking of stuff on
the more metal end, and I kind of realized there's only really one and
Morphis album that I care about in twenty twenty four. Is that? How
tell the fact? Yeah? Pretty much everything else I haven't in years,
And that was just kind of like it's just dawned on me. I hadn't
even considered it. Yeah, that's what I I can respect that because I
think that's their ten you know. I think Amorphis are a wonderful band with
a really long catalog of really strong albums, but that album does stand out.
You know, there aren't other albums in their discography that sound necessarily exactly
like that one, so I can see why that would be the one you
the only one you continuely return to. For me. Again, similarly,
I was thinking about, you know, like, there's a couple of Stone
Sour albums I really like and I don't really engage with much else, a
couple of old Bridge albums from around the same time, you know, the
same, similar kind of thinking, you know, the brief little moments I've
been into with Mice and Men or whatever, not a you know, particularly
rock one, but like the first Florence on the Machine album, I was
really into when that like came out, and like Path the second one,
I've not followed that trajectory at all, but I still really enjoyed that first
record more, you know, the landing on the Answers. I suppose we
spoken recently aout Death Left and stuff, and I really like the first def
Lepper album. They're a new weather British in Membrane, not really bothered about
hysteria, suck it, but no, the Answers, one of them definitely
was fashionably late by falling reverse before Ronnie completely exhausted his welcome. But you
know, on a musical level. That's the only moment where I was interested
in what they were doing. Again, the two answer for me that where
I went, ah, yeah, those are the ones albums that I like
where I'm like actively a bit disinterested in the rest of the catalog. Are
The Holy Bible from the Mana Street Preachers just really sticks out in terms of
their catalog, and you know, everything kind of surrounding that record and the
kind of are it has. It's the only one that's ever kind of particularly
appealed to me. Thus are But I think maybe the definitive one for me
is Death of a Bachelor by Panic at the Disco, which I actively did
not I still don't like, you know, supposedly classic era a Panic at
the Disco. I don't think feither you can't swear out as a record that
has aiged well at all. I said that many times on this show,
but randomly in twenty sixteen that guy released now and I think is fucking brilliant
and then immediately started going downhill again. So it's the only one that I
would say, yeah, I would nail my color to that particular one.
I think Death of Achela might be my definitive response here, I mean wrong,
but I assume we are coming from I think that's a really good answer
because I don't like Panic at the Discord. But if I was to list
the songs that I think are pretty good and then they'd all come off that
record because they're all the best ones. Absolutely has got like as an album.
It's maybe got problems, but come on, I'm not having like the
music. Hey, this is a very personal question. I'm just saying for
me, you know this is that's my example of a thing where I like
that album I don't care about that is fair enough, Like, yeah,
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we are currently in the midst of planning what our next special is going to
be following on the tale of that as well. So finally, the release
round up for this episode, these I get in. I don't know if
it feels like more bands are releasing records every single week. I don't know
why that is. Like it's a bit of a struggle to try and figure
out, like how many records I should put into these, where I should
put in absolutely everything, because I know that some people do, you know,
find records that they like from these, and I think that's awesome,
But you know, trying to kind of keep a keep a manageable level on
this and not be you know, spending my entire day listing out the thing
right here. But we've got a mixture of records here. Firstly from last
week, which was the week we put out our reviews episode that was Dodd's
Reach album week, which you know, how bloody excellent is that record.
But also coming out that particular week, we had that Jesus and Mary Chain
released their new record Glasgow Eyes, you know, a kind of alternative rock
icons. At that point, someone actually someone mentioned that this band Night Versus.
We hadn't mentioned them in these and they were quite right. They put
a record calld Every Sound has a Color in the Valley of Night. I
think it's because it was released in a part of a double album. Yeah,
it was like part one, part two, and I probably thought the
part two was like a reissue or something along those lines. But it's a
kind of, you know, sort of a very proggy, tech metal thing.
I believe they've been hand picked to play shows with Tool in Europe,
so I definitely I've seen the name around a lot of feels like some of
the people are into So they used to be got more of a post hardcore
band, and then their vocalist left and so they became a sort of proggy
instrumental band. But yeah, they're quite a cool thing. Yeah. I
was sort of checking in on this, and you know, the reason we
didn't review or anything is because no one really brought it to the table.
You know, that strikes me as the kind of prog that certainly myself would
kind of glance off me. I don't know if I'd be speaking for everybody
here, but you know, again that is one of them. I suppose
more something's going on there in terms of something being pushed night versus. We
have some kind of pop rock from probably this country, crushed by Waves,
more to life in kind of alt rock circles. We had an out in
Church Ride Records. It was Blanket with Ceremonia. There's also a self tape
record from Restorations, which is a band I had completely forgotten about, but
pulling this up, I recognized their album cover from their previous one, LP
five hundred or something like that. I believe we reviewed it way back in
the day. If you like your total heartland rock, you know, sort
of gas Lightism's that kind of thing. We have Mastiff Precipice if I'm saying
that correctly. Who knows, but Mastiff. We did review their last album
UK sludgy hardcore, just noise, you know, merchants, brat social grace.
This was a strange record. Seems we're getting an again bit of push
in terms of like a very noisy hardcore thing, but with a you know,
a kind of feminist bimbo core apparently your self described sort of tag on
that scene. A few different sort of takes about what's going on with that
record floating around Zombie Direct Inject that's for the kind of you know, Italian
goblin. Since score prog type fans out there, obviously you can probably tell
them their name. Going into the more underground territory in Doom, we had
Hanford with men Honda Stuck Norwegian black metal. This is kind of sort of
very you know, sort of like mid dark throne to tyracon like black and
rolly type black metal that actualr things about called Cold That is k h Old
and do Dom's Till Dodd Broder, Quinn Harbinger of Whoa. This is a
death brutal you know, proper brutal death metal band. Their first record they
released in like twenty years. They just sort of came out of the woodwork
and released one for no reason, seemingly, but a lot of people very
excited to have them back, so there you go. We also had in
more sort of like prog death. There's Hideous Divinity with Unextinct and a few
of again the really stinky death Thoon type stuff coming out at the moment.
We had apparition with disgraced emanations from a Tranquil State. I believe that Taylor
Young from Twitching Tongues and nails and so on and is involved with that one
to to some degree. We also had on twenty bucks spin Civrus Maize Envy,
and we had Aberration Refracture, and we had a little EP which I
don't think was a metal EP. I think it's largely the softer side,
but a little EP from Sylvain called egg ear framand lots of challenging my linguistic
skills across that particular weeks of releases, today's the twenty ninth of March.
We've got a couple of big ones because we do start with While She Sleeps
and their new record Self Hell. We also have the final some forty one
album Heaven x Hell, a lot of hellish stuff going on. Both of
those are obviously very very you know, notable significant releases. They came,
you know, a bit late in terms of when we were trying to figure
out our review show and stuff. But next week on the Hyperblast we are
going to be bringing you one of our hyper Blast review episodes where we're going
to be giving you our thoughts on both of those albums together, so those
will be covered elsewhere out Today, we've got Boundaries. Death is little more
for the metalcore fans. I imagine their name probably refers to what they are
strictly following. I checked out a song from this earlier and it had one
of the most jarring clean vocalists start singing and comes into the song metalcore,
you know breaks I have heard in some time, and I'm like, are
we still doing this? But if that is your thing, then Boundaries are
about and you can go and find that. In the kind of scuzzier area
of metal core and stuff like that. We have Risk Meat Razor their new
record Degeneration, and this is a pretty cool one that seems to be,
you know, again getting some tongues wagging if you like your kind of artsy
scream o type stuff, you know, think artwork painted by Jake Bannon.
As we have this has banned Frail Body with their record Artificial Bouquet. A
couple of records in the kind of like indie punk, you know, soft
punk type sphere. We've got Vile with Burnout and teens in Trouble What's Mine,
and then veering hard again over to extreme metal stuff. We've got Coffin
Storm Arcana Rising. That was the new band announced featuring Fenras on vocals.
That's their record that is now out today, so I will be checking that
out. This one really fucking out of left field, out of nowhere.
Mutilation, which is mutilating with Two Eyes, which is a band who are
highly significant in the kind of like raw, underground vampiric black metal thing that
has been all the rage for the last couple of years, like on band
camp and you know every fucking vampiric black metal bando in their demo whatever.
Mutilation are like one of the godfathers of that. I guess they just just
decided to cash in on like how popular that is because they were leasing their
first record in like seventeen years, and they announced it the week they fucking
putting it out. They were like, oh, yeah, We've got our
first album out in seventeen years on Friday. Okay, cool. I love
Mutilations, So I'll go and check that out. That record and it's cooled
black metal cult. I'm not taking the Pith that's the name of the album.
Also in black metal, this is a good record. I recommend this
one. Vorga Beyond the Palest Star that's kind of sort of like space themed,
you know, spacey, melodic, quite clean, you know, fairly
easy to get into black metal. And then descending further down that rabbit hole,
we have ver Woad with the Mother and a band I believe features members
of Ulcer Eight, Verberice, The Apothetic Wilderness, and Darkest Stra the record
No Mad, which is a band from I think Kyrgyzstan and it's kind of
bringing those sort of like folk elements in there. Then in death metal we've
got Coffins, Sinister Oath, Japanese death Doom, Stalwart at this point if
you like autopsy and shit like that. We have Hate Force Systems of Terror,
which is a band I'd forgotten about, but it's a follow up to
a record that came out in sort of twenty nineteen ish, features members of
Harm's Way and stuff like that, but doing like Bolt Throwery, you know,
heavy death metal stuff and a full on if you look at the artwork,
you know what this is, like, sloppy, early carcass style death
grind, gore, grind affair, septage with septic worship, brackets, intolerance,
spree of infesting forms, close brassing, but fucking brackets. Listening to
that list so long, I am losing the ability to speak, which is
our cue to get out of here. So thank you very much for listening
to this episode. As said up next from us, within the coming days,
we are going to have our album club pack with some fucking mental grind,
let me tell you, but also other things as well. That's going
to be coming over the pat the that's on old Patreon. And then next
Friday, as you hear this, we will be doing a little Hyperblast review
episode talking about those new records from While She Sleeps and some forty one before
you know, April rolls around with everything that brings. So we'll see you
there for all of that. Thank you very much for listening. We will
see you next time. Slipknots Management, please don't come for me. I
have no nefarious plans