What the fuck is up? Everybody? Welcome to that stumber. I love
when I say that. Every time we do it, Sam kind of recoils.
It's like you're getting flashback to being in the New cross In or something.
Literally, it's very aggressive. It's just very like, yeah, sometimes
the detext over this is that's no metal. Hello, everyone, welcome back.
Welcome to another edition of Hyperblasts here. This is our quick little news
show that we do. This will be shorter than last week's because last week
had the small matter of an entire Damnation Federal review put onto it. Thank
you everybody who checked that out. I like to think that those episodes are
they're as much like a guide to a bunch of cool bands that you might
not have heard as they are just a recap for people who were there.
So like, go and listen to, like, you know, in Human
Nature or Ash and Spire or Kennis if he hasn't. I said at the
start there of that episode that I'd been to a couple of pretty massive shows
outside a Damnation. So we'll rattle through those as quickly as can here.
Sam slightly less high profile than the ones I was at, I think,
but very quickly Warriors last night We've covered them a little bit. Good night,
Yeah, lovely night, real bu because it was them and the Wonderers
both playing London on the same night. Yeah, but it came last week.
It was like the Maggot Heart show at the Black car which I desperately
wanted to go to. It was the same night as the big Malevolent shows.
I think there's been a few splits lately for me. It was one
of those where it's been five years as Warriors last came here, and I've
seen The wonder Years a lot, so I was kind of like, we
I'm gonna check out Warriors. But yeah, really nice, just very chill
evening at the nucles In. It was built as a co headline with this
band Pause, who were there, like a Scottish kind of is that pauses
in stop or pauses in like in the Animal your Little cat feet. Yeah
all right, but they were They were cool. I'd never listened to them
before, kind of like Scottish sort of emo e alt rock, bit of
the mensing is He kind of stuff in there, very very much, just
my sort of band. Really enjoyed them, but Warriors were like the main
draw since they last told it. They've released three albums, so it was
very much almost an entire set of new material. Two of those alms came
out this year, like so yeah, pretty much almost entirely new material.
And Jack Kenny of Nervous and Milky drums for them, it's always nice to
see him rock up and him on drums did give them a bit of extra
kick for the night when they were kind of leaning into the more rocking materials.
Oh hell yeah, that's you know, a nice bit of like Pulster
but you know, worries. They just do the kind of the mens and
is he Springsteen punk I love but very queer kind of like uplifting. Nice
that their new Aarm's got quite a sort of dancing cynthy bits all over it,
which added to the fun. Just a very very just a wonderfully like
just uplifting, nice, very gay little evening at the New Class in a
very good time. You didn't go to the Creeper tour, did you know?
This is where I'm where I can only pick like a very select few
gig show. I'm in work until very late. Well I missed a bunch
of the big ones I did. It was the first time I've seen them
at all on the Sanga Vore cycle. I know that the album has just
come out, so it doesn't sound like much, but they were playing shows
with like cry to Heaven out like over the summer, and then you know
the religion, so that this was the proper Sangore show support bill of the
Nightmares, who were like basically some kind of unassuming light rock with the keyboarders
doing they supported kids in glass houses. Oh great, the keyboardists were doing
all of the heavy lifting and making it spooky. And then save face,
who annoy me? I'm sorry, I do not seem to be alone in
the reaction to that on this tour. Their heart's in the right place.
But like asking what if my Chemical Romance were glee club kids and if they
were ship isn't a question that I really needed answering. But you quite like
I thought it was mediocre. I thought it. I thought it was incredibly
shameless in terms of its three cheers, you know, lifting is what I've
said about the time. I hadn't listened to it since then. The singer
is high energy to the point of being like mate simmer down, like he
gives me meeka vibes. Which personally is not a pro you know me chemical
romance. If you will, you can make that work somewhere. Creeper.
This was my tenth time seeing them over the last like seven or eight years,
and it was really great to you know, hit that milestone with a
completely you know, new show, new ear at everything else, and it
was ridiculous. Further than Forever is ridiculous thing to see in person opening a
show, right like this band who started on you know we Ever Packed in
VCR. The first ten minutes of their show now is like one elaborate rock
opera piece and people love it and you can see that. I loved the
vibes of like a heavy metal show that we were talking about on the album,
where you've got like, you know, the riffs, the dual guitar
stancers on each side of the stage. It's very comforting, happy place for
me. And then I don't know if you've seen the set us at all
of this run Further than Forever ends Room three h nine hits, Yeah,
that is. I've said it a few times. It's my favorite Creeper song.
They brought it back for the first time like five years or something at
one of those release shows when I was at when You and I saw that,
and I was like, oh, please let that still be in there
come the November tour. I did know it was going to be in there
from astray Ian miles Instagram story. I didn't know it was going to be
second in the set, so and it felt so good to go from like
absurd opener further than Forever to immediately people losing their shit to like hardcore deep
cut from Attorney in their arms. You know that's that really suggests, you
know, the kind of they always remember the different places they've been along the
way, like there's never kind of out with the old, in with the
new. They played every single track from Sanguavore apart from More Than Death,
which I think they should have just done it and stuck it in the encore
somewhere and being able to go, yeah, we played the entirety of our
new album on this tour, and everybody lapped it up. All of the
songs pretty much great, like Ballad of Spook and Mercy. I think we
were all like, you know, it's none of our favorite track on the
album, but it's amazing live, let me tell you. And then even
the way they were like bringing some of the older songs I guess into the
current look and theme. What I mean is like they had this bit where
between some one of the songs, Will came out with like I don't know
if it was like a dummy or if it was like an actor, but
basically he had a vampire moment of like sucking on some girl's neck and then
you know, throwing her to the ground. And then they came out and
did Cyanide with has that you know, kind of like drink her every night
thing, And I was like, this is some thought that's got into kind
of a cohesiveness even with the older material. There is Neary a person more
built to be on stage right now than Will Gould. There is Neary a
backing vocalist more casually able to front the band in her free time than Hannah
Greenwood. It's like when Emperor have Einar from lepres on backing vocals and keys,
that's it. And they got me thinking they they've got to be one
of the best value for money shows in rock music right now, hands down,
hands down, because like I you know, the ticket price for this
was what like thirty something quid around around thirty maybe and it's like arena band,
do you all know what's going on there? Green Day were charging night
e Quid to play at you know, a smaller venue then and not play
that night actually as it turned out, Yeah, I mean I know that,
like what what creep attacked onto the London show by way of about that
was very funny, but you know, like the show going on here,
the Cockshaw performances, the set list of tunes, the like feeling of just
ecstatic, feverish reaction from a big group of fans. Everything you'd want is
there and it's thirty something quid. Almost all of like the Sex Stephanie if
at Void era stuff including the EP was gone. This time. They had
I think Annabelle and Cyanide, but the way they like again they did something
like surprisingly heavy, like a turn in your arms, deep cut representation,
like they had like black rayin ands and my other stuff in there as well,
and it was like, you know, it will come back around eventually.
This is obviously just as the Sanguavore tour, and I just thought it's
hilarious that as a band on their biggest you know, headline tour to date,
they can just decide not to do Susanne or they didn't do Midnight,
which I really wanted to hear in the encore, but they can go here.
We'll put the room through a nine in a second. It's just like
what they are, unpredictable to a degree. And then they ended the show,
came back out to literally the Blade Blood ray music like that track was
playing, and Darcy a little vampire familiar who's been on you know, I
guess if you've not been on the Creeper social media tour this kind of cycle,
we won't know who the fuck she was. But she came out with
the decapitated Will gold Head and it was squirting liquid all over the crowd like
it was a guare show. Obviously it was meant to be blood. It
looked like water to me, like it didn't look red or maybe it was
like kind of like alien android. You open them up and there's like white
milk or something inside. But all the members of Creeper and like say face
and everyone came out and we're just literally dancing around the stage for a couple
of minutes to the Blade Blood Rave song while darcias stool and squirted Will Gould's
fake head like liquid all over the front. It was mad and I just
I just loved the fun that was going on with that. So Creeper was
absolutely brilliant. The very next day, in the very same venue, I
went to catch the Cavallera Brothers because I thought it was frankly a little bit
mad that we were going to be able to get to see all of the
Morbid Vision's best, all devastation stuff that they've just released those re recordings of.
I wanted to see that. It's the first one I've done of these
like Cavallera album tours they've done, and it's like the cultest one, and
particularly in a venue of that size, because it's like Sepulchera and the Cavalira's
got, you know, so big and so iconic that they can pull in
this big amount of people. And I wonder how many people were there.
I was like, Oh, the Cavalleras, and they're thinking they're going to
see roots, bloody roots. Instead they get Funeral Rites and Antichrist. It
shouldn't have been in that room. It was like surreal. It was like
a full on first wave black metal show, like their Sarcophago in front of
several thousand people like Max was wearing like a huge spiked bracer like he was
in Gorgaov. He had a bullet belt draped over his mic stand and he's
yelling about real Brazilian black metal between songs. It's brilliant. They're doing a
bit of schizophrenia stuff as well, like Max is, you know, he's
not a really at full capacity live anymore, Egor fucking is, let me
tell you that. And then they brought out JJ, the current singer from
Discharge, and Shane Embury and they did a cover of Protest and Survive by
Discharge. Just such a fun experience. Max is just like beaming, having
the time of his life. He genuinely seemed to make up like half of
what he did on stage, like on the fly for most of the set.
Really was to the point where they ended, you know, Priss' Vive
obviously got Shane Embury there. He just turns around to Egor and goes,
do you suffer? Do you suffer? And then finally a couple of nights
ago I went to see Queens of stone Age on their UK arena at all
and normally I would come on here particularly there's other shows. Having spoken about
them, I would go, yeah, they were brilliant, I love them,
and move on fairly quickly. Obviously, with the very very well timed
news that they were headlining Download for the first time next year, I went
into this show, which I was really excited for anyway, with a renewed
sort of like you know, oh, this is the band that's going to
be doing that next year. You know, that's kind of assess where they're
at right now. It looked really well sold in terms of, like you
know, seating all the way around was like very populated. I have seen
three Queens of Stone Age shows over the last six years since the Villain's cycle.
They have been truly fucking sensational every time, like minimum nine out of
ten for every one of those shows. I genuinely think it is like them
and Nine Inch Nails of that generation of live bands who are like still that
good, Like you could throw a tool in there as well, But like
that's the camp that I'm talking about people from that kind of era in time.
Is five guys who have been played together for like ten years now in
this form, like they haven't had a lineup change since John Theodore joined on
drums from the Mars Volta, who have incredible chemistry, Like it is a
blast to watch those guys play. The stage in was cool, like they
they brought their own pyramid stage from Glastonbury or something that kind of like the
you know, just the triangle over changing colored lights and stuff. But mainly
you get to watch John Theodore play drums, You get to watch Mikey Shoes,
you get to watch Josh Homy master of the art of hip shaking dancing
while playing guitar. They just like exhude rock and roll energy and they play
with a ridiculous power for a band kind of in their position. They open
with No One Knows, which is like, obviously big shit. I was
like, throw over their their summer festival circuit they did. I was watching
loads of sets on YouTube, and most of it they were opening either with
No One Knows or go with the Flow, which is equally arguably one of
your two big hits in it, Like yeah, and then I was actually
I looked at the other setlist for the other nights they've done on this tour,
and mostly they've been opening with regular John from the Health Outed album into
them No One Knows, which is great, But this they did No one
knows straight into first it giveth like it is on the album, which is
the most I have had a song like throw Me off Balance by surprise I
have had in a while. I could not believe they were playing that song.
That is like, you know, it's like one of my childhood favorite
songs, you know, when I first got songs for the Death and I'd
never seen them do it and make this set list no one knows firsticlith smooth
Sailing, My God is the Sun, That that is God tear Shit and
yeah, I saw that run and I was like, that is ridiculous.
People that are download there's no one arguing you. Are you worthy of headlining?
It's unbelievable. And like they've been mixing up again each night what songs
they were playing from the new album, which like that you know the fact
that they have not just prepared the same stock set of songs for a hole
rather than you've seen them do every single song in that same order forever.
Anyway, Like they are genuinely spontaneous. They're kind of clutch esque in terms
of like how they can just change their minds on the day and go,
yeah, I think that one instead, you know, like a real band
who know their shit and who care. He goes like, here's a song
from Rated R and I'm like, Okay, what's it gonna be? Feel
good hit of the summer, Lost Art of Keeping a Secret. Nope,
it's I Think I Lost my Headache, the woozy Bad Trip song at the
end of that album that on the record go into that like horrible out of
tune trumpet, that whole thing live they kind of slam into like speeding the
riff up and doing this like weird speed metal version dead No. And then
they've still got, you know, for to end the encore, they've got
paper Machetty go with the flow and that ending of song for the Dead.
Like, I think they are just about the best rock band that you can
go and see in an arena. So to be honest, if they have
any problem with download next year, I think it's you guys that's the problem
and not them. Right news, we have a lot of festival stuff to
begin with. We've got an update on our favorite festival when we were young.
Our favorite festival that none of us have any I guess immediate plans to
be going to is in America when we were young, festival. I seem
to remember. Maybe I just get confused with Sidney World and everything else that's
going on over there. We knew most of the bands that were playing,
right, like the actual lineup itself, I think had been out there for
there was one that just happened quite recently. This is the Lace. This
is the newest announcement. They just out there, twenty twenty four edition.
I seem to have it in my memory that the actual bands were playing.
But what any either way, what becomes it's the same lineup as the maybe
I say. What has certainly been announced this week is the frankly ludicrous news
that every single band on this lineup, apart from seemingly fall that boy and
quite humorously ells June's the band who currently have one album It's easy do it.
But every band apart from those on this god forsaken lineup is going to
be performing an album in full. Which, okay, there's a couple on
there where you go, yeah, you'd see it. How the fuck have
we reached this point? What's this? Is it? Because you go,
like you could actually go Mierican mcroma is playing the Black Parade in full of
course, I want to see that. I mean, part of means to
be like, well, like didn't kind of take the piss out of the
cynical corporate nostalgia of this last time, and now they're coming back. You
know, I've not been to any of the MCR reunion shows yet. I
know obviously if you have, maybe it feel differently. I would rather se
an MCR set. I would rather just see an MCR set because I mean,
I saw that, but I'd still happily see the Black Trade in Fall.
But that and then you go like Bleed American in all of course.
I want to see Bleed American in Fall, like because that album is front
to back. They've done that before. That's crazy, you meant, well,
they do albums in four every now and then they will just decide to
do it like Thursday Full Collapse. If that came down or the tour,
I'd go to it. I think they've probably done that before maybe as well.
But we we talk a lot about when we were young and the kind
of pairs that were slammed on. We're slam on SAT right now. Yeah,
the awful nostalgia side of it. This is one of the most insane
fucking decisions I could imagine this festival doing Elliott You we were talking about this
quite you know, heatedly in our group chat the and you summed up I
think exactly what the problem is in terms of like doing this as nostalgia bait.
Well, yeah, because this sort of thing, you could at least
see it working for another festival. But when we were young, which is
all about getting your elder emos together, drinking whatever the American equivalent of sours
is, and spending a stupid amount of money, and then you go and
party two the hits, the emo pop punk hits of the mid two thousands.
With this lineup, you're gonna be standing there watching deep cuts of say
Anything, Viva la Copra. Where is the party there? Like, the
problem is is they've already exhausted their lineup, so they have to bring back
the same lineup they've basically booked now and they needed to come up with a
new hook. So they're like albums and I'm like, okay, but I
like a lot of these albums, Like I was saying, like Census Foult
the one I pick because I think still searching on a great album. I
don't see the point in doing that at a festival, Like this isn't you
know, Damnation where it's a it's a music fan who is actually genuine.
This isn't very curated, you know. And again it's like fucking like Cobra
Starship and there's stuff, you know, if you brooke like Cobra stars you
can at Slamong and the Clash. I go watch them for the novelty.
I don't want to see a fucking Cobra Starship album. In the Red Jumpsuit
Apparatus literal one hit Wonders, two hits, I can't tell you the second
hit to Your Angel. Everyone's saying in this world apparatus, one hit Wonders.
Who wants to see the rest Crown. They're gonna put a crowd they
will not name. But then, like Elliott says, people will go and
see it and then realize they don't know that the album, So like,
if they're smart, they're gonna That's what it's fucking deranged. That's what I
don't get because it's like, like you said, you're gonna see Red Jumsuit
oparatus. If it's four songs in, you're not stay till the end.
So you get like Metallica did the Black album, and they weren't confident enough
that people were gonna stick it all the way through. And then we have
fucking I don't even remember who's on the Bunny, the Bear, snow Whites,
Poison Bite, just make them up. I don't know. Just playing
it just appalled it. And again the mikem thing, like, are we
already over the fact that Mike Kemmer back. I know it kind of got
delayed, but it's like, if led Zeppelin came back, you wouldn't be
two years in going off. Could you just do led Zeppelin two in full
please? It's like, well, we already need special sets and maybe that's
delaying on getting any more new material out, but like fucking that. The
moment that Sebastian the Crab from Simple Plan walks out in front of that crowd
and goes, hey, we've been invited here to play, no pads,
no helmets, just balls in full. Thank you for joining us, is
the moment that a black hole of fucking you know, creative bankruptcy opens up
under when we were young, festival sucks in the entire planet around us and
lets us be born in you. And that's not even the worst one.
Three oh three is on there? Who does anyone consider that three h three
album like a classic by any measure, like one or two popular songs on
it. Again, if they're not at the end one song that it's not
aged particularly well. I mean that's not really the point of when we were
young. But you just think you're gonna give them, what forty five minutes
to an hour? Is this necessary? Like it's one of those people like
genuinely excited about the fourth pierced of our playing Collide with the Sky in four
and I was just like, is this where we're at? Are we are?
We? Like, come on please? There is no like and again
there are there are like scarce. It's like we talked about on the Summer
Roulette four you strong doing Enemy of the World in fall. That's when you
kind of go, well, no, that's a whole set that you actually
like, oh you take that, but as a whole it's so so baffling
with and again the nostalgia thing regressing to the point of like genuinely taking step
backs in like terms of representation, in terms of like the content of the
music being like stuff that like we can leave that in the naughties now at
this point, and it's just been such a boring like even I'm like a
person who likes naught easy, no nostalgia. It's just looking at this like
going too far. Quite hilariously, they heard the concerns about the lack of
you know, particularly female but in general, you know, gender diversity representation
on this because of the time when they're kind of focusing on and they went,
okay, well a millionaires genuinely like an actual millionaires playing their seminal ep
cash only Like this was the point where I was like, this is it
now? Is this the win we were after for representation veronicas on it,
you know, if they didn't done it before, to be honest, but
yeah, I mean, like it's to me, it's the idea. Is
the actual logic of this of like when we were young, from the moment
appeared, has always represented a kind of like just backwards nostalgification of current day
rock music, and this announcement is both even like the nostalgia FESTI were going
even further into that where it's literally is you know, outlawing anything released after
fucking two thousand and nine or whatever, But like Elliott's saying, it will
be actively worse for the attendees who are wanting to go just to kind of
mindlessly have fun because they're gonna find themselves. Oh no, what is track
eight on the State Champs album that they're playing Like, I don't know this,
I just want their hits, So it's it's more nostalgia and also worse
for the target. Denu Graphy, It's just absolutely fucking fuck. It's a
trick to get people saying, Oh, I'm gonna love all these alms and
you're gonna go no, but you don't just love these ABMs. You love
the four hits of that as yeah, and then you don't know any of
the other songs, So what's the point. It's a fucking brain dead exercise,
is what it is. And I just I thought it was fake when
it first casts, like this can't be real. It's absolutely bananas too.
Watch Tool, Ah, this is fucking you know. We're in the housey
and days, aren't we. If you could have told old, you know,
mister try Beza and mister Stephen Hill many a year a year ago,
that we'd have like two Tool tours in like a couple of years, and
there'd be a bunch of people who went to the first one go yeah,
I think I could skip this one. Is we are in, you know,
the golden times for a UK Tool fans. In particular, they've announced
they're going to be returning to the UK and Europe next year in kind of
late May early June time. I will not be going. It clashes with
Fortress Festival. But like I said, I feel like I got my big
Tool experience on the tour like eighteen months ago or whatever. It was,
so happy days for you know, all the Tool fans, either see them
for the first time or going back for round two. This is, I
guess the second most like a bit of news this week after everything we've just
spoken about Slipknot. We spoke extentively last week about the fact that Jay Weinberg
was quite unceremoniously ousted from the band, and we were like, surely,
when you're seemingly closing in on the end days of your career anyway, you
just stick with the drummer that you already have, who has proven very adept
at the job for the remainder of the you know, these last few years.
We know exactly what was the reasoning was there, but there is heavy,
heavy speculation right now that the identity of their replacement drummer has kind of
made its way onto the internet through someone else who conveniently left their band about
two or three days before this whole thing went down, posting and then deleting
something. If you are going, oh man, will Mike Portnoy skip out
on Dreamfitter once again to go and play? You know, I'm thin gonna
get Dave Lombardo like the Misfits and everyone else. It is apparently, if
all of this is to be, you know, believed, mister Jeremy Kling,
who recently the band he left a few days ago is none other than
venom Ink, the second Venom Now. I am a black metal idiot,
right I last summer, in fact, I watched venom Ink playing the entirety
of the black Metal record at Bloodstock, and I had the fucking time of
my life. I love venom I love particularly stupid extended stream metal drummers,
all these underground people, right, they never get their jews in the mainstream
whatever it's like. You know, Alex Bent was one of them. In
Trivia. He was playing like brain Drill or something, and then sudden he
became a bit of a metal celebrity because he joined massive band. But there
are a million olexpents out there who are super adept playing in pretty underground bands
who will just you know, they will never see the light of day in
terms of the wider metal consciousness. So this is no me casting judgment on
Jeremy Kling's abilities or anything. But you show me the headlines slip Not recruit
venom Ink drummer, and I go, what the fucking I mean? Can
you imagine the phone call like, sorry, a bits hide up with venom
Ink. At the moment, I'm not sure I'll be able to just like,
it's the fact that it's Venom right, the guy who actually Venamink is
the second Venom initially they had is a Baden was the original Venom? Yeah?
Yeah, it was him a mantass and he left Venomink. I don't
know. I'm not sure if it was a whether he couldn't play anymore or
was something going on, but he left them, So it's the guy they
got to play the parts of the guy on Black Metal and Welcome to Hell,
which are let's say it kindly, they are not slipknot standard recording.
Shall we say of all the bands, and Jay is Again there might be
some things behind the scenes, but Jay is very capable, which makes it
even more the idea that you'd be you'd already have j in your band,
and then they'd be watching Venamink and go, oh, we got to step
our game up, like I can't. I wonder if this is true.
They'll probably never tell us, but I need to know how this happened.
Yeah, I mean, maybe it won't be true. I don't know.
Maybe able to sort of jump in the gun. I will say, like
I said Jeremy Kling, he was probably overqualified to be in Venamink. Right.
Most extreme metal drummers in the year twenty twenty three are most people are?
They're better than you know the drummer from Venom in nineteen eighty one,
right, And I say that as someone who believes Venom in nineteen eighty one
are one of the best fucking bands to ever do it. But he was
probably ever qualified to be in Venom Right. He could probably have a pretty
good crack some Slipknot songs. All I'm saying is it's a really funny headline.
Slipno recruit venom Ink drummer it's like, what the It's like anyone's got
a shot, you know, like it could be it's like when he you
know, I suppose when they got the man and he was in like crocodile
or whatever. It was like what it's like everyone truly, if you think
you're down in your luck, if you think you're you're nobody, you two
could be in slipnot one day, so you know, hold up hope Sugar
are going to be headlining next year's twenty twenty four's up Tangent Festival. I
don't know if they've done that before, and I think they probably have,
but that feels like a very standard capable will do a blood a good job.
Headliner Lamb of God have announced their details for the lineup for their upcoming
headbangers Boat, their cruise they do. The latest one concluded not long ago,
this will be taking place the end of October the beginning of November.
We don't normally talk about, you know, because there are loads of bands
you do things like this. We don't want to talk about this. The
reason I put this one in is I'm annoyed at it because taking place around
November I means it takes place as it happens of the same weekend as one
Damnation festival in Manchester, UK, and just last week on our review episode,
we were theorizing about some bands that we'd really love to see booked,
particularly one with the initials BT who are not Buried Tomorrow, but as there
were even others where we were going that they'd be good and Gavin from Damnation
saw this news and literally posted online there's a bunch of fucking future bookings literally
down the river. I am. I am so annoyed that Bleeding Through are
going to be in the Dominican Republic and not in a fucking industrial estate in
Manchester. Come, how dare they? How fucking there? They cowards?
Way out? Yeah, I look listen, You're like, it's a really
fucking good lineup, but I am bummed out that there and stuff. I
was like, I look at it. There is a lot you could have
seen on Damnation, Frozen Soul, I Hate God, Napalm, Deaf,
like Poison the World Still, you know they've bead for how long now and
never fucking touch in UK soil. I feel like it's particularly the metal core
one because the big addition with Damination this year that we were talking about,
is the sort of the mid afternoon metal core thing they kind of know.
They sort of experimented with it with Unearth played in the Oncoming Storm and it
went down really well, and a lot of people are being like, we
should make that a thing, and people throwing around other bands and you know,
the kind of test, what damnation is metalcore mid afternoon? It's not
going to be spirit Box, right, It's going to be bands of that
sort of ilk of that particular time in demographic and number one on our hitlist,
people like get bleed Through doing this is love, this is murderous.
But if that fails, right, chime Era doing the Impossibility of Reasons would
be pretty good. Poison the Well is obviously a massive dream. And this
fucking tour boat comes along knocks out a whole bunch of them. It's like
the first like like four of like the five slots that you have for that
go oh no, they're all fucking in the Dominican Republic And how dare they?
As much as this is just jealousy talking, I'll look at that lineup
and I go, are they cruise liner bands? Fits for a cruise line?
No? No, I'm in the industrial seat. That's been a weird
question for a long time now, ever since you know, seventy thousand metal
tons of metal started running this. This is purely selfish. Now, this
is just the first time I thought with this because it's burned me personally for
the first time. But so many bands now do these cruises. It's like
Megadeth, I've had one, you know, Kiss have done, There's Parahoy
all of that. It's like, I think, now too many bands doing
cruises because it's taking bands off the market in other areas that kind of key
points. Do the fucking grind come on to a normal person, don't fuck
off to you know, four boats a year over the course of things,
it takes off the circuit. So you know, have a nice time everyone,
but boo down with it. I will get my hopes up slightly more.
The Decibel Metal and Beer Festival has been announced, which takes place in
Philadelphia in April of next year. I look at this Decibel Festival almost as
like US Damnation, right because literally in the past Damnation has booked sets that
will essentially happened there, like Peace Droy doing Prowl than the art happened for
the first time at this festival. I think converged of Dun Jane Do,
and that is not just light there are There're been many many sets that have
happened here that have not made their way over here and have been exclusives there.
But I do look at this and go I'd take Crowbar do an odd
fella's rest. Yeah, I mean Deoside. I've seen them do Legion this
year, but this time they seem to be doing Dioside, the self titled
Legion, and Once Upon a Cross all in one. I guess they're all
half an hour long. Fine, even Bayer has a doing Urban Discipline.
If you gotta get bleeding through, fuck it. Do them good. Good
lineup. I mean it's fucking it's a mean lineup. Bio has a Dioside
Jesus piece, an old school set from Dying Fetus two inches to murmur.
Those goths, they're going to be stuffed in's their locker so fast? Yeah,
so good stuff. They're okay. A few bits of new music before
we carry on into questions and then into the that's your second podcast that we're
recording tonight as we sit here. First up, I suppose the biggest piece
of news news is that Harriots have signed to one of the larger metal labels
in our world, Century Media, and to sort of, you know,
announce this, they've released a new track called Soul Chasm. It's been I
guess a little while since I last listened to whatever the latest Harriet release was.
I forgot how HM two E they are. Like, I put this
on, and this really feels to me more like fuming mouthful Nails or something.
Then it does code orange this, particularly with this sort of mid pace
that this song has. This sounds to me like a band who was sixteen
years old when Nails released Wide Open Wound. And I look at that and
I relate, and I go, yeah, this just sounds nasty and scuzzy
in like it's kind of got that mid tempo industrial thing that you know,
you can kind link to it like a code on whatever, but it's way
more just dirty and dirty. And like I said that the HM two sort
of thing really like caked in filth. But I think this is really cool.
Yeah. When I saw that the newsage Sciences of the Century Media,
I didn't know if that was going to hold some kind of change in sound
and you know, not really like it's as cruel and bruising as any Harriet
June today, so it's more of the same, but you know, it's
a taste that I don't get sick of. Yeah, hopefully this does mean
a new album on that label in the new year. Perhaps Darkest Hour is
a band I'd have on that fucking metal course slot. Darkest Hour have announced
their new album. It's called Perpetual Terminal. It's been We've been talking about,
I guess, sort of waiting for a Darkest Hour album for quite a
long time now. It's been, like I suppose when this comes out,
it has been about seven years since that latest Darkest Hour record, which was
really fucking good. It's like probably top two, certainly top three records they've
ever released in my opinion, and that was the one where they had Kurt
Balue producing, so it was absolutely fucking destructive. This is, you know,
maybe less in that direction, but I did put this on and go,
oh a reminder like Slaughter of the Soul Corps can be fucking good.
Yeah, Darkest Hour. They're a weird one because they're kind of a staple
of those New England metal and hardcore festival kind of thing or Summer Slaughter when
that was a thing. But they're kind of underrated at the same time.
I think it's because they never really had that much of a run, so
they could never get the kind of the classic era of dark style. But
they have great records and really like kind of almost hear it on a smaller
ear of defining songs, I think, and this is another just a really
good chewn like like you say, six years away, close to seven now,
it's just high quality at the Gates core and that's that's good. Yeah,
I don't I like, I still really rate that last Out at the
Gates. I'm last after album. We've said Out the Gates so much,
but like and again they're having that cur but this is yeah, it's just
it's not you know, rocking the Boat is not changing anything up too much,
but those riffs and that that that thought of the soul core at the
Gates wherever you want to call it, you're never gonna turn your nose up
at it when it sounds this good. I think it's just confirmation that,
you know, we did really like that last album with you know, the
show was very positive about it at the time, and it's been a lot
time since they actually, you know, release that, so it's nice to
have, you know, oh, finally they're doing something else. And Esan
has announced his new album. It is self titled Funnily Enough, a bit
of a strange thing to do when you're like the man, but that is
going to be coming out in February. This has actually been the first it's
been a little while we had an Eson album. He's done things like EPs
and whatnot in that time, which have been very good. But it is
in fact going to be about five six years since the latest proper full length
album from Esan, so it's been a little while. He was very productive
during the kind of you know, his earlier solo years, and this is
actually it's been announced. It's kind of two albums since there's a sort of
orchestral version and the metal version. Sometimes I look at that and go,
I'll probably listen to one of those, right, which I don't know if
that's the case, I don't know. But this track that he's released from
this is so extreme and heavy, like full Esan fucking fury, but the
strings on it and the orchestration is fucking mental, and hearing that just like,
you know, absolutely absurd. Over the top icy, windstorm bluster,
symphonic. East Side material has this like this is now you know, like
this is for like very early next year. This is the record I'm gonna
be waiting to get my clause into. I was talking to people who've heard
this record as well, and they were saying, it's very, very good,
So I'm really excited for this. Yeah. I they never really understood
why eas Son kind of got swept in with the likes of Catatonial latter era
ope, that kind of moody or slower thing, because he does it really
well. He does do that really well, but he also does, like
you say, this mental kind of savage, white hot, avant garde metal
that's kind of unlike anyone else, like everyone clamoring for empersor to release new
music. It's like, listen to east Side, it's probably gonna sound like
that anyway. And this song is fucking great. I mean you say it
is a self titled album and it's weird. It's also a concept album,
which sounds rather big headed. But this tune is like it's four minutes long,
and to kind of invert that cliche, it feels longer because so much
stuff happens like you say, when those strings come in, it's just like
it's dizzying, and it's the sort of thing that thirty years of crafting some
of the most forward thinking metal ever. It's this kind of skill palette that
only those people have and we should cherish it. Yeah, it's like you're
saying about like Emperor for Me are like, you know, easily like kind
of top ten favorite bands of all time. And I had to almost like
you know, switch my brain and I like, oh yeah, Like that's
the guy right there, and this is the music he's making and it's fucking
sweet. So February is sign record coming around. Get excited. Questions at
this time. Returning to Hyperblasts after last week, they come from that focus
group on Facebook. If you want to hop over there and ask some questions,
we've got a few. Rory Bentley asks who is the best late addition
to an already established band. I'm talking bands who already having aclaimed discography recruiting
someone who makes them even more awesome. I'm saying Gina Gleeson has to be
in the conversation. I mean that's a very shot. I mean one you
mentioned earlier sometimes about Alex bent joining Trivia. Yeah, definitely, like they'd
had, you know, a cycle of drummers and then he's come in and
I don't know whether how much on the act of the direction, but they
have just been since he's joined, you know, haven't put a single foot
wrong. They've just been better live than ever. And that was when of
that first jumped to mine. For me, well, to me, it
kind of depends on what counts is an established band, because I was thinking
Napalm Death would probably be a legendary band if they only did those first two
albums. And then Barney Yeah, Tilor is like the third Mayhem vocalist,
but he is on the debut album seemingly let's say, like you know,
let's almost take it a percentage of career wise, Okay, uh, well,
the one that came to mind, and this is already an individual person.
But when Swan's came back as a six piece band for my father guard
Mepper Rope to the Sky before that, I mean, they've done some of
the best music editions there. Yeah, but I think kind of now and
maybe it's just because you know, people of a certain age or whatever that
run from my father guy Broke to the Sky up to maybe the Glowing Man.
When it was the six piece band, it's kind of seen as maybe
the best Swans ever were. Like you talk to most people who are into
Swans, it's not abnormal for them to say one of those records is the
best one. And there were two that have come since which are more either
well, one of them, Michael gim are basically solo, and the others
another liner which share some people from the six piece band, and it's very
good. But that run when they came back, it's like, in a
sense, a completely different beast, but totally in line with the Swans.
Yeah, you know their thing. I agree that that's almost like a whole,
you know, a whole like Mark version of the band. Yeah,
like let's say an individual sort of like Shining Light edition. You're saying,
Alex Bent, I think sort of late period drummer. You remember Scott Travis
on Juda's Yeah, yeah, I can remember how the like almost all their
platic records have been completed up to that point, but he comes in.
There's unreal like every person death ever added as we went through on our like
whole special similar though I'm bleeding through Special Marta. You know, doesn't play
on an album until like Declaration or something. I think it was. That's
you know, upgraded their sound for sure. I think if you're counting Gena
Gleeson, that's kind of I guess like album five ish maybe or six.
Well, that around the time the ic s of Vortex joining Demi Borgy like.
I think a lot a lot of people have said that he's kind of
been hard to you know, replace since he's been gone, So that's one
maybe cheating a little bit. But the the guys that Tom Juarria has with
him in tripticc On like particularly you know Victa Centaur and Vanya on bass.
Victor did play in Celtic frost On like the Monotheists tours. I think that
will count. But he like produces all their shit now and everything, and
he's brilliant. Dio Sabbath hard to beat that really, just casually adding Ronnie
James Dio and I think Wade and Gallows as well. You know, he's
pretty sensational, unexpected, but you know, did prove perfect. Alex Afferton
says, what is the best metal song with only one word in the chorus,
inevitably the name of the song itself. This immediately made me think of
my my, my beloved Kings of just shouting the name of the song was
a chorus Midnight Midnight, though a lot of theirs are phrases two words,
you know, this is what frothing, foulness, devil's excrements, Satanic royalty
or whatever. But from midnight I worked backwards to Motorhead and went, oh,
yeah, overkill, overkill, overkill, it's like the best Motorhead song.
I don't think you're really going to beat that. No, because again
I was really struggling because I was like, you know, hail destroyer,
two words, fuck it loads is just the title and we love those,
you know, fucking circle of the tire. It's a throwne emperor. I'm
a big fan of Cudawn from Cradler Filth, but limited to one word Messiah
continuing on the hell Hammer kick comes like that trying for Death live Au and
they came out last week. I've been listening to it's fucking insane, but
Massiah is up there. I guess, does does rats count if it's rats?
Oh? Yeah, that's good. So I even thought of ghost trying
to find one. I frozer off. Yeah, and even like the the
one word ones the courses where you think it's one word, like whiplash or
something, the thing that stands out or massacred by Bathory. You find out
it's not acting like a maniac. You know, this is it. And
the one that I was so annoyed is I thought, does rolling count?
And it doesn't because it's ll keep rolling. I mean you mentioned Venom is
bloodluster one. I mean he doesn't really repeat it because blood lust that's good.
Yeah, I think in Venom have a lot of you know, the
two words, you know, yeah, die Hard all that ship, but
blood Last is a good one. Also, wad I guess that is the
chorus of Purity by slip not the bit where he just goes, because that's
that's one of the best Slippot songs. I think overkill is. I mean,
you nailed it on that. I can't think of a better as.
I think that's the most respectable answer. Paul Morton says it's great seeing footage
from the recent Queens of stone Age tour where crowd seems to be doing that
Glastonburyset pre song moshpit to a song for the Dead in anticipating for the chaos
that's about to unfold. It's been Queen's iconic set closer for about fifteen years
and it's one of my all time favorites. One of your favorite signature set
clothes from other artists. We've had this question a couple of times. I
don't normally have a song for the Dead Spring to mind, but this week,
fuck yet, it's in the equation for the best of them. Also,
you know Damnation the other week, the end of Funeralopolis a lot.
They do do that every single time, and I would not have them change
it for anything. It's how it should end. I do always. I
always say the same two, which I do think are my favorites, which
are Primordial Empire Falls and Behemoth Chant for Escaton, the latter particularly in sort
of how the show rolls out. You have the fire Jets, you have
O Ryan coming out and spitting the blood into the front row of the crowd.
You have before that final riff you have Buthemuth loves it, we shall
return Hell so done, and then the fire Jets go off again. It's
just absolute magic ship. What are your favorites? I mean, I struggle
with this because all of my favorite bands don't have signatures, they switch them
up. I can't think of my favorite band of mine who have like a
signature like that is going to be like I discounted like Metallica and Iron Maide
and stuffcause they do switch up. Yeah, and that that's why I was
really struggling, and I'm just like, yeah, I was like, I
couldn't actually think of anything, like I'm sure that's one of your favorite bands,
Code Orange ending on Forever, Yeah, but they don't always do that.
They'd of done that now the I them do that every single time I
seen that. Maybe I've just missed them. Open with them with a lot
of creeper with misery like kind of like that. That's again, but they
don't always do it and ended on the encore song was trying to Heaven Heaven
this four cycle, I really was struggling to be like, because against Me
kind of flip it around between like fresh on real like simple like no no,
I was like Menzingers they had it as in remission. They've kind of
ditched that now for something else, Like yeah, none of my favorite bands
have a signature set closer that I could like sadly think of. I I'd
quite so first one of the kids of Mind is forty three percent Burnt by
Dyllinger. Cool because just you know in the next eight minutes, because they'll
play that riff forever at the end. You know that's going to be amazing.
Obviously, Like you say, big ones, Surfacing is normally at the
end, usually close with a few different things. Yeah, it's like I
would have said surfacing, but this latest like touring cycle, they have been
mixing up and do it with Spin It Out people, Legal Ship Living after
Midnight. Yeah, I'm bout saying Night is again. It's like it's not
even one of my favorite pre songs on record, but in that moment it's
like so euphoric and one that like I think it will always be this even
if it's no longer their biggest song. And it was originally written for the
opener, but ghost ending with square Hammer very good, like Cross is substantially
bigger in terms of streams now, but I don't think it'll ever Yeah,
Square Hammer is again. They moved it into that sort around prequel because when
it first came it was opener, But since it's been there, I was
thinking a little while ago, I've not got entire Square Hammer yet it's like
it's it's over seven years now for that song. It's been around and I
still have to listen to the entire thing if I hear those opening notes,
and I will still play it on repeat for a little while every now and
then if I get the it, it's like closer to a decade than you
know. Not now with that song, I'm still completely head of a heels
and amal with it. And last one I will throw out on the bigger
bands I had, Living Off been that absolutely in terms of particularly if they're
like ending a festival, it's like the song you want to hear of the
entire experience is living off, Like Rocking Till the Dawn Meuse Nights of Sedonia
is staggering, brilliant. Ye the only one that is U me at six
of Underdog and I was like interet clothes, my plan should be better with
it. Maybe my favorite now that I'm thinking about it is when Faith and
More close on Week Care a Lot, and again it's the living after Mini.
It's not one of my favorite Faith No More songs, but their set
lists are so like amorphous, so you don't know what they're gonna play and
when like you might get midlife crisis first, or epic two thirds of the
way and or whatever, and then whatever song they're playing at the end,
it will be ringing out and then just hear bum bum and you're just like
it's one of them, whereas like you know it's gonna be the last one,
and it's just it's a laugh. Yeah. I was gonna say underdog.
It is probably our cue to move on from this question the next one.
Sorry. Pete Shipp asked, how do you feel like other music journalis
asking questions in a slot? I guess it doesn't seem to happen very often,
at least in terms of people who are like who I know and recognize.
Sorry to anybody who's asking who. I'm therefore out with myself as I
don't know who you are, but like people I recognize, it just tends
to be my mates, like you know, mister Chillingworth, you know,
like Rich Hobson from Mettalhammill, Turn of Time now, and they're like,
those are just my friends. So I don't really mind, you know.
I guess it's like, you know, we we talk in a sort of
like quite conversational, you know, in the pub chatting about music with mates
thing and just happen to work in the business. Shouldn't outlaw you from engaging
in those conversations. So, you know, if you've got some fun shit
to ask, just to nerd out about stuff, which is what we like
to do, absolutely no problem. And Eric Shun asks what festival are you
looking forward to most next year? I've already said recently that for me it's
Fortress Festival. Sam. I feel like the bee elephant in the room that
you can't answer this question for yet is that we are currently still waiting on
you know, we've got lots of festivalentuster this next year, we've not yet
got outbreaks. Yeah, that's the kind of one. If I had talk
about what is currently announced, what's most attracted me right now is two thousand
Trees. They've got the Gaslight Anthem, they've got better Lovers, Bunk Creeper,
you know Creeper. They've just announced there and they're like if Creeper headlining,
I think one like the tents with the show they've got like hell yeah,
it's me a good time. But outbreak is when I'm kind of like,
come on, outbreak, come through for me. Yes, Elliot,
what about what's current, you're fancy the most of what's been announced, well,
you know, DOWNDASI and Outbreak I'm always going to be intrigued about.
But of the ones that are announced, am I if I can swing,
I'd love to do Fortress Fest like again, just a new one I've been
trying to put and trip to con doing two hunters. Oh my word,
just and the venue looks pretty fancy, which I might book my ticket now
now. Yeah, of all the ones announced, because I've kind of been
open that Download and Bloodstock are slightly mixed for me next year, And those
are the ones I always look too first because you know, it's it's a
big old event. But next year, if I'm not going to those,
I'll have more kind of freedom and you know, disposable income to try something
else. And that's the one that's attracting me at the moment. Cool,
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right after we are going to be finally doing knocking Out, something that
I'd be wanted to do for a little while, which is our latest t
and M does horror. This is gonna be our I guess sort of post
Halloween recap in terms of what were the big you know, horror franchise things
that came out this Halloween season. We are specifically honing in on Saw ten
and The Exorcist Believer. Saw ten is like it's sow in general. It's
kind of you know, it's kind of part of the furniture here. You
know, we talk about Saul set By frequently. It's all you know,
for Greebes like us, it's like it's a greed for So that'll be fun.
I'm sure The Exorcist Believer, Elliotts, you watched this movie like what
like an hour before we like sat down to do this or something like,
I was it was it worth it? Is it all fresh in your mind?
I have so little spare time, So if that sounds like it'll be
fun, you can go check that out of a picture of corm Slash that's
not metal. And then we will, of course have you know, all
of the musical specials and antics and so on coming in the you know,
the future right after that. So last thing for this Hyperblasts releases. This
is like I guess it's, you know, the really big exciting rock releases.
Not quite top of the pile this time, a bit more of a
you know, we're winding down. We do have Dolly Parton releasing her rock
album called It's called rock Star. Rob Halford's probably on this. I know
that there was some fucking Ferraora and people upset that kid Rock is on this,
so god knows the cast of characters we all have on there. But
if you want to hear Dolly Parton goes rock there it is similarly sort of
you know, hard rocking, pretty chill fair this ban called high Spirits releasing
an album called Safe on the other side in your punk and hardcore space.
First up, we've got Race Traitor with Creation and the Timeless Order of Things.
This is one of many bands featuring one mister Andy Hurley. This is
I think the slightly weirder, more experimental bands of the two compared to his
you know, pretty straight ahead thing. He doesn't sect but if you want
to hear him doing some interesting music for once, that would be out.
Also the band Colosseum. They are resort of branded here as c L s
M, but they are Colosseum. I don't really know anything about this band,
but I saw, you know, some of my my elder hardcore friends,
shall we say, being very excited that they've suddenly reunited and dropped.
I saw them like years ago supporting Rise Against. That was pretty cool,
and then they kind of vanished after that point, and I was like,
oh cool, they're back. Yeah, they surprise releasing now this week,
so rejoice everyone who is you know, relevant interests death metal fair. There
is a new band from Denmark called Pleague mace Over released a record called Reptilian
Warlords. This record is really fucking daft. It's a really like if you
like death metal, that's kind of groovy and not afraid to be a little
bit stupid. There's some I probably like death Clock fans and things like that,
like it's pretty daft stuff going on there. And then right on Q
Fetal Juice are also back with their record Grotesque. Moving back to some more
classic bands, Sadus are back The Shadow Inside that is the sort of you
know, very long running now sort of death thrash band I guess from the
late eighties featured the likes of Steve de Giorgio and some once upon a Time
more you know, sort of in that death metal fair. We've got a
Turnus releasing their record Philosopher, Australian black metal band that was pointed in my
direction. There's a man called King who are putting out a recorded Fury and
Death black speed metal band. Bewitcher have got a kind of compilation of like
B sides and kind of ariies and stuff like that called Deep Cuts and Shallow
Graves. And then it was move over to more sort of you know post
metal Ease, Ludgie Affair or whatever proggy stuff. We've got Earthside releasing let
the True Speak. We've got Sores releasing Repeater, which is I believe one
of the members from Cotton Luna doing like a kind of solo post rocky thing.
And I guess the release that I would actually be most excited to go
and press play on is the ep from Celeste, which is called Epilogues,
which, as the name suggests, it's kind of a sort of a conclusion
some more music from around the same time as their latest album, which I
had in my end of year list last year. It's fucking great. So
there you go. That is what is out to day next week. Here
on that's our metal. It's the reviews bag. If you like really creative
and out there extreme metal, you should tune in. If you like really
fun, upbeat punk, you should tune in. If you like hardcore,
you should tune in. If you like theatrical, ludicrous rock music, you
should tune in for what is the last review show of the year, which
can be a little bit, you know, sort of bear. Sometimes it's
a really strong batch. So I'm looking forward to it. I hope you
are too, and we'll see you next Friday. Bye.