Hello everyone, welcome to Hey mom, there's something in the back room.
Hope it's not the creatures from above, but it is. It is the
creatures from above all the way back in nineteen ninety nine. He knew I'm
so annoyed. I was home from Barbenheimer opening. But he's got pipped by
bigger news. Didn't it really well? I mean I could have done,
you know, hello, welcome to I am become Death of Destroyer of World.
But that's a bit bleak, isn't it. You're right, I'd be
like I was just rolling through the TV earlier today and filmed four hilariously.
I put on a double bill of Earth versus the Flying Sources and Close Encounters
of the Third kind, like they know what they're doing. But this is
actually that's the Metal, your weekly rock and metal podcast, And this is
back on another hyper blast where we fire the week's news at you. I'm
parent has Elliott Paisley's here, as is Sam Diggnon, returning after a couple
of weeks. Last time was our reviews bag of I think some of the
coolest smaller names that you might hear in the last couple of months. Sam,
you went here, but you'll listen to some of those albums with an
any thoughts or highlights, m Torture Rac I'm continuing my death metal and dumb
as fuck in the best way. Yeah, and the mutoin Man record is
killer yeah, big into the more emo ones at the end of that well
home as where Yeah, like that's one obviously again that and when when you
were discussonets bring Our, I was with Elliot and saying like, um,
yeah, definitely put that on. Yeah, so you've mentioned it. Aside
from the extraterrestrial news, the big cultural event this week has of course been
the earlier barbon him Erring. We talk about movies sometimes. We've got a
horror podcast which Oppenheimer is indeed horrifying, and Barbie unlocks the existential horror of
being ken. It's still be a stretch to do a Barbenheimer episode over there,
but me and Sam have gone along there. You've been to the movies
at all, Elliott, No, I've not only time this week. It's
it's pretty devastated. I've been meaning to do it day by day. So
the plan is to go next week and if not do them both in one
day within twenty four hours. Sure, well, Sam your experiences of a
you know, the the great global event that this is. Oh well,
I couldn't do them both on the same day, Saturday. I had to
do and Barbie on the Friday and then Oppenheimer on the Sunday. But I'm
going to go. I know it's gonna mean, but I think doing them
both on the same day for what they are is kind of deranged. Yeah,
no, no, it like it absolutely is. I mean, I
loved both movies and know you're a lot more fond of one than the other.
I think they're both really actually, like, I'm amazed that these two,
that two movies could be so misunderstood by the Internet. The range of
takes I've seen these two movies is baffling how many people seem to be widely
missing the point. But Barbie is really fun, quite ambitious in the amount
of themes. It actually tries to juggle a bit clunky with some of them,
but I had a great time. And Ryan Gosling is just like I
mean, Margain Robbie Ruan goes in together. I'm knable. But Oppenheimer is
up there is one of the best movies I've seen this year. It's like
one of the most kind of like dense and heavy watches. But is jaw
droppingly good. I mean, obviously it's it's amazing that I think it's been
like the single biggest box office weekend since the release of Avengers Endgame. And
this is, you know, collectively for two movies that you know aren't sequels
to anything, both made by like really creative, important filmmakers. Yeah.
Like, yeah, historical biopic that's three hours long, and that's one of
the biggest movies of the year. That's cool, Like yeah, and the
kind of meme playing into that has kind of, you know, boosted them
both up rather than like pitting one against the other. Yeah, it's it's
a rare moment of like organic hype leading to like a genuinely kind of feel
good result. I thought Barbie was very funny, Like I think, you
know, it kind of tries to do everything as like a self aware brand
movie, and I think at times it's a bit all over the place,
but it is would agree a laugh. Oppenheimer though, is like probably the
best movie of the year, though, isn't it. I would actually it's
not my favorite, but I would say, you know, saying it's the
best movie of the year. I think it is a very fair assessment.
It's just it's a fucking monument, isn't it. It just it just feels
like it's it's one of the most it feels like the genuinely important movie to
have landed this year. Like yeah, it is like coustly funny ways to
be like fuck, you know, this is like because it's it's a free
movie. It's so talkative and a lot of people are gonna winch about that,
but it's like it's so gripping the entire time. Cillian Murphy delivering probably
like career best performance, Like he's been great a lot of things, but
it's never kind of very really had that moment and it made movie to be
like keys, you know, front and centers doing the show. But like
the amount of like leading men in this movie and actors who are just playing
like bit parts that are still hugely important and just about pieces going on all
at once is it shows real mastery from Christopher Nolan to kind of like hold
this movie together. I mean it's just like the like the last hour of
it, after like they kind of they achieve the thing they're striving for and
then the last hour just like systematically fucking like dismantles anything that might make you
feel good about that, and like there are there are like you know,
multiple scenes in it that just like physically rattle you. And like I've seen
it twice. The second time we did do the Barbenheimer thing, that was
when I saw Bobby for the first time, but like maybe even more so
the second time. There are scenes where it's just like genuinely like just pulls
the floor out from under you and just leaves you suspended in this fucking like
doom that is so serious. It's really like again, it's like probably the
best work from like one of our kind of most important yeah filmmakers last like
a couple of decades, Like it's it's incredible. Sam More musical events,
yes, being gone for a couple of weeks, but you did see the
big Spirit Box shows recently, Yes, yeah, I did. Obviously I
wasn't here last week to talk about which is one of the relevant ones,
but figured, you know, this is still one of the big tour probably
like terms of non festival things, the biggest on the biggest tours to come
around this summer really, because it looked like such a mad struggle to get
tickets. They this is like about this is their first headline tour the UK
and they've sold out two nights at the Roundhouse, Like that's no like easy,
that's five thousand tickets on their foot, like in London on their first
UK tour. Like they did like say, those two headlines shows last year
after download, which I went to one of them and I was really thoroughly
impressed at that, and so I was like, yeah, I want to
see it again on you know, a bigger stage. And so I initially
I think I missed it to the first dight and so I was like oh,
and then also they added a second one. I was like, should
probably go along to that, bringing along Low from Brand of Sacks, which,
as Bill feels quite like good and kind of like different modern metal cores,
death cool bands, Brand of Sacrifice as an open who I was really
excited for. I came away from that set. It's the most disappointed I've
been in a good while. Did you, Because again I saw people discussing
this on Twitter. Were you one of the people who were at both dates?
Or you know, I don't need it the first because I saw some
people they'd improved a little bit on the second one, but like possibly what
explain explained what was happening. The problem is so brand of Sacafice. Obviously,
they are part of the wave of deathco bands that are heavily symphonic have
a lot going on outside electronic as well. Heavily yeah, exactly, yeah,
they've got so much going on. As a live band, they are
drummer, guitarist, bassis, vocalist. There is as like bar bands you
can't get And the problem is then, is that live that actual live bandging
It doesn't have the power to carry so much of it, and so what
you're on them hearing is so much backing track. And again I'm not expecting
these bands to bring an orchestra or any any actual with them, but when
you're even getting guitar parts noticeably propping up on the backing track because there is
so much of them and the one live guitarist can't do it all, it
is very very much like you I have you, You've got the songs that
they like. There were songs. I was like, I recognize songs and
that's really cool and paying live, but I'm like, but I feel like
I'm not actually getting the full live version of it. I don't know how
like again, like when you saw lawn Ashore, was did you find this?
Did you find this stouts you where you could tell so much of it
was backing. Yeah, I think that they have. I think there might
be a difference with again some of the kind of small symphonic bands and bands
who are heavily again a sort of electronic and have a sort of an industrial
edge. Yeah. Because this is the other thing that kept playing in my
mind because I was like, obviously, who would I like see a couple
of weeks ago do all of their electronics never live is code orange, And
I'm just like, I'm like it can be done like you with a key,
but that you can still recreate that sort of stuff. So when it's
I do think it's about to say that again, even even with lawn Ashore,
who that is a band who they like all their symphonic stuff are obviously
they're on track and it's obvious, but the band itself is still powerful enough
to like, you know, kind of sell it. But I do think
it's it's it's a reasonable point to make that in general, this sort of
wave of bands like them, m it is a heavily studio based product.
Yes, now I know that. That is absolutely the feeling I got walking
away from seeing it live. Love were very good again pretty much you know,
the same set we saw again, an outbreak just about a barrier,
but crowded really into it and like they they it's nice to them getting on
of live shows about things going wrong as can happen with Love as a spirit
box. They are so close to being like a really brilliant live band now
they've got they've got the presence, they've got the performance. Courtney is a
fucking star on that stage of how she is like. But they have a
really good stage show, like massive screen with like core effects going on.
They had piro and shit going on late in the set and like they had
like two tears on the stage so that they would all be moving around it
so it looked really visually impressive. When they were playing the best songs,
it was amazing. They obviously just with the one album and handful of like
singles and EPs they've got They've got about seventy percent of the set is good
material. They when they get the rest of that sort of liven tea up
there, they'll be great. But weird structuring forms with it were the only
thing I could really hold them against it. So they like they were like
Rule of Nines, which is one of the singles they did before like the
album, and it was a really weird flat opener, and then when it
turt you and I was like, oh, cool, that's picked up and
then Yellow Jacket's furred Sam Carter coming out that that is when you then really
felt the energy pick up, and from there it was rolling really good throughout
the whole set. Holy Roller is such a destructive moment in their set,
especially when they've got Pyro going on. The screens are showing like messed up
like destruction happening in the from station and just loads of like crazy imagery,
and it like really impressive, and so like they've got moments in the set
where I'm like, oh, this is incredible, and so I'm like really
enjoying it. I just think they just get another album out of great material
and we great Rotoscope was the highlight of the whole set for me. That
is like their banger that they've got there, and I was like, just
film that industrial dance thing when that's coming in, because as well, it
stood out so much from the Genti metal core, which does still make up
the bulk of their sets. So when you're having that as kind of like
in the middle of it as a total change of pace and it's like full
on dance bang when the crowd responds to it, it's awesome. But yeah,
Spiritbox, they are really close to being one of the like event live
bands now, And I would say when that next album comes out, if
they if that does like kind of just round up the set list with enough
killer songs so they can go here's ninety minutes Now that is pretty great,
then awesome. Yeah, well news obviously we've kind of already sort of alluded
to it. But Blink one eighty two's Tom DeLong is of course the center
of the largest story in the world, although it's it feels so like emblematic
of the world that we currently live in. Information Overload whatever that essentially like
members of kind of you know, high ranking US kind of government organizations or
whatever essentially admit in a hearing that UFOs are real and they have like possession
of like alien bodies or whatever it was they said, and the world on
social media collectively sort of scrolls part again like yeah, okay, like if
this had happened thirty years ago, my god, but what a world.
But Tom DeLong, of course, has been you know, on the Internet
celebrating his victory, which we should remember. It's not just the fact that
he is like some alien nut job who's just been banging the Trump for ages
and like something disconnected from him has kind of proved him right. He has
genuinely been at the center of this story because back in twenty nineteen, the
US Navy confirmed the validity of three videos that which had been made public through
Tom Delongs like kind of UFO Initiative company or whatever. And this is what
that hero he is kind of spilling out. Well, so he's not just
like, oh yeah, I was right. It's not like he has like
dedicated his life to forcing the US government to kind of like and they break
the secrecy around the UFO kind of handling or whatever. Like, it's not
just that he's right. Is that we have Tom DeLong to thank for all
this? Yeah, I mean I was kind of glossed over the soaks and
like I'm good time to be like cares like, I mean, that's it.
It's just come at a point where we're all just so like again,
like no one knows what to believe when they read online anymore. Anything can
happen, and everyone's just so burnt out from living from major events at the
moment that one's just kind of like, Okay, cool, there's aliens.
Excellent, what next? If this all pans out the way it might do,
and we as a species enter the paradigm of aliens exist, I mean,
that's about as radical of changes could happen to any species, And maybe
we'll ever happen to humans. And if that does happen, and it's because
of Tom DeLong, he might be like one of the most famous and significant
people to ever exist. He might get a biopic. He might get a
three hour biopic in which they first hour they have to cover. Oh yeah,
he was in quite a big punk band for a while. Again,
I'm seeing Blink way too later this year, and I hope if it's not
at the moment, I certainly imagine it will be in the set list by
the time it comes around. Can you imagine how like gloatally performing aliens exist
on the rest of this run, Like yeah, yeah, like that should
be their closure going for now. That's got to be like a permanent,
yeah, bringing us into a bold new world, absolutely wonderful Dark Side of
the Moon. Roger's version is how I put this down in the script.
Roger Waters, who you know is nobody Stranger too controversy, has announced this
week that he is We're going to be releasing a Reducts version of Pink Floyd's
seminal album Dark Side of the Moons, where it's fiftieth anniversary. I know
that the Roger's version is the obvious joke he has said. You know,
it's not meant to replace the original. It's not like I know some fucking
I don't know, copyright battle or something with the rest of Pink Floyd whatever.
It's just like I want to kind of revisit some of the themes of
this, you know album as an older man. But Elliott's the song Money,
which has been released in this new updated version as the kind of teaser
for you know, Dark Side of the Moon Reducts from Roger Waters takes quite
a dramatic reimagining of the source material, does it not? And it does
not seem to be I guess, delivery to people what they want to hear.
What So this is This is what the trudge of comic finale to one
of the saddest and most tedious fallouts of any rock band, because it's like
everyone in Pink Floyd if not a visionary, is so important and so talented,
and Roger Waters is just going Nana, noa, it's me. I'm
the guy. And his way of proving it is by taking one of the
most popular songs on their most popular record and a song that he doesn't sing
on the original and I'm going I'm gonna tom waits it, I'm gonna grumble
it as an eighty year old man, and that sack solo that everyone loves,
I'm just going to take that out completely. I'm put in some new
spoken word part. It's I mean, it doesn't it doesn't fill you with
the whole idea of Oh Roger Waters is the genius, and he was kind
of the artistic director of the band in this phase, so you have to
give him credit for that. But I mean, there's probably a bit of
a stretch. But it's a bit like if Megadeth in twenty twenty three released
a version of Kill Them All, but you wouldn't listen to it and go,
oh yeah, Hetfields a fucking fraud. It's just like you've taken out
contributions from some of the best artists of the time and replaced it with stuff
that's not nearly as good, and that's supposed to somehow prove that you're the
reason it's so popular. That the point about removing like the solos and stuff
and replacing them with more like Leonard Cohen grumbling bits is like, I could
not believe how this song is like seven and a half minutes long or something.
It's even longer than the original, and it does nothing like there's no
change at all. It's it's like so instrumentally bare, where anything that added,
like you know, there was like the famous you know samples and stuff
with the cash registers in the original version, none of that's there. It's
just like the most stripped down bare like Danzig Sing's Elvis version of Money that
you can imagine that goes on for seven minutes with all the instrumental kind of
you know, variety on it removed in favor of more mumbling. I completely
how long it was and how long it just does the same thing because I
don't listen to money them, I mean dark Solomon is one of the bare
Pink Floyd alms, but I do tend to skip that song because I don't
know, it's never been one of my favorites. But listening to this today
and he starts going into that spoken word bit, I was going, what's
is this one? Yeah, and I had to go back to say,
it's like you've replaced the sax solo like one of the moments of liberation on
the record, and you've just decided to go. Imagine if the whole album
is like that, if like every bit of kind of you know, flash
of color, that the album with the fucking kaleidoscope on the cover, a
great gig in the sky, Like, Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing
the whole thing because I do think it might be funny, but I don't
suspect it's going to be very good. You've nailed the track I want to
hear. I want to hear this guy when I might just press play on
that and then leave the rest of it to my imagine a But yeah,
that's quite special new music that you know, we can get excited about.
Dying Wish have announced their second album. The details around it is called Symptoms
of Survival. It's going to be coming out on November the third via Sharptone
Records. They've released another single from it because watched My Promise Diet. There
was the previous single, Torn from Your Clouette, which sounded a bit like
the end of Heartache that is on there. I like Dying Wish a lot
of the kind of current school of you know, metallic hardcore bands. I
love the video for this new single they've released. Emma is wearing like this
huge like kind of like roughed red dress. And I think if along with
Ithaca, we can make big dress metal core a thing, like we should
assemble a rainbow of them, like Power Rangers. We need to get the
green metal core dress, the blue metal core dress. Yeah, I'm so
down for this. Like, I think the song's wicked. I think the
video is really cool. I like metal core that sounds like two thousand and
four, and this is delivering that. It's got a really heavy, hefty
groove on it though as well, which means like something they haven't lenned too
as much in the past. And then it's got that riff that is just
at the gates worship. So ticking all of that boxes from me here.
Yeah, for me, there's a couple of bits where like the cleans are
slightly flyly for my tastes. Is that bad thing? I kind of like
that, you know, I like that, you know, it's that real,
like unashamed melody, but it's based in something that is a bit grittier.
Well that's the thing is because when it kicks hard, it sounds like
the Black Dahli Murder. It's so that gives it enough of a sort of
counteract. I guess that sort of thing because I don't feel surprised you're not.
I'm not the biggest fly Leaf fan, so shocking. I'm not ever
really. I am a big Eminescence fan, so you know, yeah too
shat. I mean, yeah good. I've never been a massive dying Wish
fan, but I totally see the appeal. And yeah, I thought it
was pretty good. Yeah again, I just want the the the assembly of
the you know, the dress Avengers from the metalcore of Faith for the Movement
is starting. Bare Tooth have also answered the details of their new album that's
called The Surface. It's coming on the thirteenth of October. I did not
listen to the single that's been released with this one. We listened to one
a little while ago. Sam, you tweeted something before we came on here
that leads me to believe some FeAs you need to know about the song,
tells you every you need to know about the song, right, bad Omens
will pay for their crimes, like what they have done to the current sort
of modern metalal landscape. Because I was going to discuss it, but when
you mentioned that that he goes to sidetrack the other week and the horrible production
on that again, like, yeah, that is again another symptom of the
bad Omens, a vocation of metal cores, but this is full on doing
the wet, lifeless bad omens kind of like menodic, not quite ballad,
but you know, emotional, like post hardcore. Medical song is fucking awful
bear to for a band I've defended in the past, and I'm like,
God, this album based on the three singles so far, this album is
not going to be good again. It really busy time September and Octobers.
I'll see if we decide to fit it in or not. Just if we
don't, I would just say here for the record that like it's happened at
the worst time for me because I only started enjoying their tooth at all.
Really yeah, literally, their previous record is like they made one like big
step forward of like oh yeah, you're you're doing something here and then have
immediately, like on the very next project, completely undone everything that that did
to advance that. So yeah, shame if that is to be you know
what's expected. Just we mentioned about omens, but these guys are Code Orange
copycats because the same year that Code Orange released Underneath, they put a record
called Below. Now when they're releasing the above, Beartooth released the soh my
god, Yeah, you're right, the real the real as above, So
below is you know, Angel Beartooth and a devil Code Orange? Which side
come on? Yeah, the Gaslight Anthem. Also, their album is called
history Books. There you know nine years I guess since the last one come
back album History Books coming the twenty seventh of October. We had a couple
of songs but just just for you, Sam. Along with this announcement,
they released a song featuring Bruce Springsteen. Literally who else made me freak out
that morning? They're to the gas Anthem. They are the only one of
like the Springsteen core bands who happened to just have him on speed dial.
Yeah that they aren't. Brian Fannon and Springsteen are buddies. Like, Yeah,
there's been videos of him like calling Bruce Springsteen on stage at his solo
shows together the world bloody, weren't you? Yeah, Yeah, this is
amazing. I love it. Parent Like, we won't go into it because
we're not going to agree, but I'm so I might listen to the album
when we do that. But you know, this really kind of older gaslight
anthem they've got going on. Springsteen just sound like you're cool, like uncore,
grand or whatever, like whatever, like people some like elder statesman like
Brian Fallon, like the two of them, hard less to give at the
end. Love everything about this. Yeah, Warriors, this is interesting.
They are announcing their their second album of the year. Their album is called
Trust Your Gut. It's going to be coming out later this year. I
cannot see a release date here what I'm looking at, but I'm sure it's
that somewhere. Um. But this is their second album of the year.
We were going to review their previous one, Warm Blanket, earlier this year,
and then we kind of ended up cutting it for something else and partially
but it was busy, but also partially it's because it was like barely even
a rock album. Really it was it was Lauren they were doing basically it's
when they'd recorded in Lockdown Isolation and I think she's put out. It was
very cozy, kind of like stripped back acoustic tracks. I liked it,
but it was one of those kind of like I want a full Warrior's album.
This is like a nice kind of like addition, you Almo feel like
that's one they'd really second after, you know, as like the the extension
to the wait, like a handful of months to get that. Yeah.
No, So now they are yeah back with actually doing their full band album.
This is again I'm never getting that Against Me album because Adam Willard I'm
pretty sure he's drumming on this record. So like the ongoing like members of
Against Me doing anything but Against Me like is a thing, but a song
as they've released in this have been really cool so far. I'm very excited
to sort of end of this year is just shaping up to be lots of
bands I like releasing music. Yeah, if you are in the Dallas,
Texas area, you might want to go along to Frozen Souls event, the
Wrecking Ball Metal Madness Festival, which is a it feels like again, they're
a pretty brand new band, but they have this sort of brand of like
events that they put on. They did during the COVID lockdowns. They did
a really cool stream that they put out on a VHS tape after the fat
Remember that. Yeah, yeah, that was like them, and I think
Creeping Death are on it and a couple of other bands as well. The
Wrecking Ball Metal Madness thing, and they are putting on a full on festival,
two day event in their home city of Dallas, which is going to
be co headlined by them and Dying Fetus. That also features across its bill
an Eternal Champion ten year anniversary step for them, which is great because it
is a just full Elliot's pull the face there. Yes, trad fucking epic
metal bad Eternal Champion. They're the only band like that on this bill.
It's brilliant there next to Development and Despised Chord and stuff is just justcaus risk
and that a makes but yeah, Eternal Champion going to be doing that which
sounds and sensational. Also skinless, the Acacia strain going lower down on the
bill, you've got two hundred stab wounds. Creeping death Day wish are there
as well. It looks like a fucking hell of a time. So and
that's the Halloween weekend of course of this coming October. So that is you
know, we have our festivals that we look at over in the US and
go oh, that'd be good when that's so, that's certainly the one that
caught by eye this week and Death Heaven this week have been kind of unrolling
their Sunbather tenth anniversary reissue campaign and everything there is a remaster. They just
released the remaster version of the track Vertigo that I was listening to. But
also along with these kind of deluxe version of the album, they are selling
the official typeface for the album, that iconic album cover font that is so
iconic that there is literally an account that just redoes the on Twitter, that
redoes the artwork, fitting different nine letter words onto the sunbathe Bink background.
Um. I didn't realize I googled this. I was like, you know,
typeface, They've done it before, back in late twenty fourteen. They
were selling the typeface then, so they've like turned it into a lucrative thing
that, But I mean fair play to them that the typeface is that iconic.
Are there any other albums which you would buy the font from to use
in a you know, everyday business torture rack. I want to spell my
name, yeah, everybody. The Autopsy logo would be amazing, yes,
yeah, Or you could just do the like nineties in flames thing like the
Gesture ace and just use comic sands. So that is very very good,
indeed questions. Ryan Moore kicks us off, saying I was thinking about Barbonheimer
and the upcoming craziness of September's album reviews as I just mentioned that, and
I was wondering, what is the biggest single release day of competing slash complimentary
albums of all time or in the TNM era. The kind of everything on
one day is almost becoming like a common occurrence now, right, Like yeah,
there's just immediately like you know, there's four release stage I would say
in a month. It says fucking like twenty five albums in a month like
there was in September that we are like considering choosing. There's a lot going
on there. I'm more interested, I guess in something like a kin to
the barben Heimer phenomenal where it maybe it's only two or three albums or whatever
that come out on that day, but they are like giants, like the
only one like not like in terms of giants, in terms of two albums
that I was really excited for that were like polar opposite YEA August twenty nineteen,
where Taylor Swift's Lover and Knock looses a differentiade of blue Out on the
same day, and in my moment, that's kind of like the embodiment of
the barber Heimer Bleakness and Candy the best one for the contrast. Yeah,
like that that's really stuck out to me. The only one I could think
of, really, because I'm not very good at remembering exact dates, was
within the TNMA era. I remember September sixteenth, twenty sixteen, Yea,
there was to share more Stage four Wave Against Me, Shape Shift From Me.
There was loads that day. I mean, the one I remembered was
Mount Ninji and a Nice Time Kid by deannt Wood, and I remember listening
to them both that day, and that is emotionally intense swing Looking back,
it's pretty unsavory, but I remember having them one after the other. I
think I did Stage four first, and I don't know if that was the
right way around be hindsight, Um, that's like seeing our Openheimer before Barbie.
That's that's serious. I feel like there were more of those kind of
huge joggleaut ones back in the day, where like famously never Mind and Blood
Sugar Sex Magic came out on the same day, the one that blew my
mind when it kind of it was like the twenty fifth anniversary of them at
some point not long ago, and the Broken EP and two of the Mute
Elected by Campbell Corps came out on the same day, which is if you're
asking me the best EP and the best death metal album both, like there's
just over hour of music for you there to just blow your fucking mind.
The Downward Spiral and super Unknown came out like fucking colossal days in kind of
modern times. The TLM mirror. The one that immediately sprung to mind for
me is August the seventh of twenty fifteen, the Anthroposyne Extinction by counter Decapitation
and Abyss by Chelsea Wolf both came out, and if I was to do
my album of the Year list for that year, there's a very good chance
that that would be the top two spots. What's the Barbie in that mix?
Yeah, well I guess it'd have to be Chelsea, But like you
know, kind of one of them was my album of the year and the
other one was also like such a favorite and I pre ordered them both on
vinyl, and so like getting them both to kind of sit with was like
a special day. The Barbeheimer thing is like obviously you're going for like you
said with the Knocked Loose Tales, with things like you want quite different moods.
There's a lot of Like going through the TL mirror I was looking,
there's some that really stick out in my mind of like not just two,
but like three or four often over like a fortnight, like two consecutive of
weeks, and April the first of twenty sixteen, I remembering a big one
because the White Album by Weeezer and Metal Resistance by a Baby Metal, which
is still the metal record with Karate, and then very shortly after that the
following week you got Gore Statues by Black Peaks, Arctist by Eson, and
Mariner by cart Luna and Judie Christmas. So that was a big fortnight,
and similarly later that year. I vividly remember twenty third and thirty September collectively,
for like a seven day period, we had Rayer Low teens September.
Yeah, Yeah, Crown faraal by Trap, then fives have been Fires by
Neurosis and Kadama by Alceste, and then still the following week it was like
dissociation by the Ginger escape Plan and the Violence Leeper Reason by my Sugar like
insane, the barbe Heimer Phenomenal and Radia. You're right, the barbone Heimer
Phenomenal should really be like two pillars maybe of contrasting vibes. I think you've
got the best one, Sam. But there were some serious like wow areas
for like a week or two during you know the kind of T and M
years. Kevin Rowan asks, I was surprised to hear Orange Goblin's Red Tide
Rising being played as part of the official halftime music at and Field when Liverpool
played Newcastle on the sixteenth December twenty twenty one. Very specifically remembered there what
metal songs have been surprised to hear in certain places? This question had been
nice a couple of times, so I thought I'd put it in I'm really
bad at like remembering stuff like this. It's mainly like TV shows and stuff
to be the jump out of mind of like remember when a Pig Destroyer song
got used in like a show or something like random. But rather than like
out and about hearing Orange Goblin at and Field, which is pretty special,
they should be just in general in those positions. I'm the same of you.
Like I think back to Try and Go of Sadness from last year when
New Noise Refused gets played at one point in that movie and like one of
the pivot scenes, and I was like, freaking cinema, We'll say,
not my story. But friend did once text me saying Scowler being played at
a latesn Orient game between like the halftime thing, So like that's that's a
very similar, very good Yeah, I'd already have a good answer for this.
You know. What I could think of was in that Taco Bell advert
where they're playing Turnstyle sort of talks already, but Taco Bell are back in
the Grivo bands at the moment. Yeah yeah, which as a tangent like
fair play to Scowl for being like kind of one of the secondary bands to
kind of run through that turnstyle shape Hoole because they're you know, she's got
an intense voice in that, like, you know, pretty pretty rough going,
so you know, that's awesome. And then obviously we've got a had
to have a couple of questions here that are you know, um, in
honor of our galactic event that's happened this week, Joe Bond asks with the
Big Alien News, what are your favorite sci fi themed bands or albums and
the world they create. I decided to distinguish here, you know, as
is the occasion. I was thinking of like kind of alien and spacey sci
fi rather than like you know, terminate machines whatever. Um. We spoke
all about the kind of specific atmospheres of like them A Sugar albums, and
that women did are special but galactic, you know, and there's quite a
lot that you can just pull from there. I mean, following up the
concept album question that we had a couple of weeks ago, crack the Sky
still applies here and that's still again just really sounds like kind of gliding through
galaxies and so on. I mean, I didn't realize just so much I
really liked this band until this past week. But Blood Incantation obviously right for
like spacey sci fi stuff. They they are the death metal one for that,
aren't they. I'd kind of dabbled with them a little bit before,
but then this past week I've kind of gone, oh wait, blooding incantation
a fucking brilliant, aren't they? So yeah, then they are an example
of like there's loads in death metal, right And like someone replied to a
questions saying, Catialist and Atrementous, which are both two projects made primarily by
the same guy, and them absolutely particularly Catialist like one of my absolute favorite
thing going on there, Like I think, weirdly some of it's Zelda themed,
but like there is some definite Madura mythos, but kind of a like
that album is like along within the history of the human race. It's like
my favorite of like the kind of last decade of kind of big death metal
burst like that. And then you've got like Artificial Brain, who are like
truly kind of odd sounding, the kind of dripping space slime of two Mold.
There's a lot going into more again kind of like maybe slight slightly more
ethereal spacey stuff. I think like Cynic is a big one, like the
Cynic catalog in general. My favorite of theirs is Traced in Air. That
was like they've got that real kind of like you know, sci fi universe,
but there's also kind of like a metaphysical kind of you know, um,
Embrace of the Soul and things like there's a lot going on. And
then you've got kind of modern airs to cynic in the kind of you know,
modern era, like you know, someone like Obscura or whoever. Um,
you generally think more death metal than black metal, but then you think
about black metal and you go, oh yeah, um, you know,
you've got like the kind of cosmonaut of Ranci Pezuzu stuff you can look at
like dark Space and things like that. There's Mysticum's album Planet Satan. You
don't get much more you know, cosmic than that. And also again this
is like a a really kind of like a cult black metal pick one.
But the band Beherret have an album from the nineties called Drawing Down the Moon.
It sounds like it's a truly strange, cold album, isn't it.
It's like it's like properly like, yeah, it's like a kind of bestial
black metal record, but feels like it's being played in like the black vacuum
of space. So that's definitely one. I mean at first I thought like
I couldn't really think of any I thought there's none, right, but then
you get thinking and there's lows. Yeah, you guys mentioned you mentioned so
many of them, both Throwers, Realm of Chaos because about Warhammer, which
I'm told the future if that counts, y Edge of Sanity's Crimson, Like
the whole story is about last child on Earth having magical powers in the distant
future, so I guess that. And to get away from the metal songs
from the Black Hole by Wheezer the non existent but you know, bits of
it, it's been it's been a cobbled together. You can't listen to other
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah. Because the first was called blast Off and
you're like, all right, we're going into space. And the second song
was called something like Don't call Me a Bitch. It's like, wait what,
Yeah, we spoke all about that, we did. We are special
even going to like other pools of metal, like kind of there's a lot
of like sci fi thrash stuff, the kings of which were obviously voivod Um,
particularly for me, killing technology is the one where they go proggier than
that, but that has like these just the guitar tone of it feels like
kind of like rusted warped odd angles of like a space ship or something.
And then you know, go into like I mean I've just mentioned it as
well, but like Marina by Yokota Luna, like the way kind of the
the throb of the kind of like the basin synth and everything in the reck
of ss Needle always conges up to me kind of almost like the image of
like a space ship kind of moving through like kind of you know, the
the abyss. So that's one, and even going into a kind of more
normal heavy metal like Somewhere in Time, Yeah, is big fun you know,
synth s fastastic times even like what was that Star Wars banned from a
couple of years ago, Oh god, a whole too many of them who
are very good. They're a black metal band who wrote like a concept album
about the fall of Darth Vader. But that shit nobody gimmick one that they
Yeah, there's a Star Wars them metal band. Yeah, as if that's
like as if that's a new thing, which isn't even even like the last
unleased the Archers is kind of like sort of like synth wave inflected progressive power
metal that's like really good. Um, and then going back to some of
the death metal stuff. Another like again just really odd sounding thing. Demolich
and their one album nest Bith is just like just the riffs and the way
they are played creates kind of a queasy, odd sci fi atmosphere, which
leads me into the next question that we got asked, because Harry Davis asks,
if you were to introduce an alien to metal music, what three records
five if too little would you pick to sherf the genre as a whole.
Now. I don't know what you guys have done with this question, but
I took this in the spirit of our previous one, and I thought,
you know, you could take the same question and go, what would you
give to introduce someone who's just never heard metal before? Right? I took
this as specifically, like the aliens are arriving, I want to communicate on
their wavelength. So the first one that I thought of was Obscura by Gorguts,
but I am going to upgrade that into Hidden History of the human race
because there's that little guy on the front and I feel like, yeah,
I feel like giving the aliens that album would be like, look, we
know we know about the ancient aliens, like we we've we've felt your presence
building our civilizations, like you know, we we we we we trust you
and we are with you, so hopefully that'll be okay. Um, that's
the kind of cosmic deathmit Pick like Nespeth would also kind of go in there.
I would give them something really fucking like mad and tangled and headachy,
like like a Bluetouse nord Alum or something or like ion by Portal, and
I would give them that and go make sense of that, because they'd probably
solve it immediately that some kind of like the people who can do Rubitts cubes
in my heart that the most fucking, you know, dissonant, bizarre shit.
But the aliens would be like, oh cool, you know, a
nice little brain pus. And then I would give them something kind of on
the doom end that's kind of similarly proggy and alien, but something more meditative
that they can kind of you know, throw them on a certain wavelength with
perhaps a yob record like Catharsis or something you know you've kind of like come
through a wormhole dimension, and you know, it'd be like trying to communicate
with them through this music, like like Close Encounters the Third Kind or something
like that. That was again I carried the sound of the spirit of the
alien conversation, you guys, where I took the as a drawer as a
whole. So I was just like, well, yeah, like you take
this more like just introduced to a normal person. Yeah, but I want
to alien, so I want to like pick the best of the best to
be like, yeah, sure please, don't you know Zappo? Yeah,
like, because here's Master a puppet, here's the debut slip the album and
his sem paternal like, you know, we've got good stuff going on,
and it kind of again drops as the broad range of what metal can be
over the eras that That was kind of where I went with it. So
none of none of us have done the same thing this time, because my
gut instinct was the same as yours, Sam, to just pick what are
the three best examples? And I thought, aren't over there aliens, so
let's take advantage of that. But we don't know anything about these aliens,
Like yeah, maybe they're just people who are blue and we could just go,
yeah, check out Raining Blood. It might just be six kilometers of
eyes or something like how did we begin to like the how didn't even be
interested in me? L So I took this as an opportunity for a bit
of soft intimidation, sort of a chance to show the aliens like not to
be taken lightly, because you know, you want to be friendly, but
you don't want to show that you're yeah, you want to display humanity's strength
exactly. So I'd go up and say, these are the most popular albums
among the human race. We like Streak Cleaner, we like Through Silver and
Blood. And then they'll go like, okay, let's tread lightly here.
So this is a political move rather than just recommending stuff I like it.
I've tried to communicate with them. You've tried to scare them, just got
in the middle of like, yeah, like all someone that you know they
still sound mean, you know these aren't you know it's not you know,
yeah, you've taken the peaceful option. I've tried to be like, I've
tried to assimilate. I've tried to be like, we welcome our reaglion overboards,
so yeah, well we do you do Patreon supporters our album club pack
that we revealed the components of Last Time. Sam has just mentioned some of
those records is going to be coming over the other side of this weekend.
I hope there are some favorites of yours in there or things that you would
like to discover, because Seasons in the Abyss, My Bloody, Valentine's Loveless
Blood and Cantations, star Sborn, Cancer Bat Searching for Zero, that's one
I imagine many of you will have your own opinions on or experiences with.
We're gonna be going all in on them at patreon dot com slash that's not
metal releases in this hyperblast. Firstly from last week when we had our reviews
episode, along with like the Outer Heaven album that we're reviewed in them that's
rather good. But first one that I want to talk about is gret Van
Fleet released that I think I guess third studio album. It's called Star Catcher,
and I like, I knew this was coming up because I had it
on our sort of potential, like you know, what's coming up that we
should maybe talk about, and then it came out when we didn't review it
and I didn't hear anyone talk about it at all, apart from Anthony Fantano's
review when he gave it a three, because that's what he always done with
Greta van Fleet. But when that's the only coverage of an album I've seen
at all, I want to take this opportunity, I guess, to sort
of maybe say, like, without doing a full review, perhaps the Greta
Van Fleet experiment is over, by which I mean, I'm not saying their
career is dead, right, because clearly not. I think they are going
to continue on doing what they're doing just fine. But if there was a
time when they kind of emerged and people, oh, maybe this is our
kind of you know, the band that's going to like take rock music to
the next level, change things whatever, I think now they've kind of slipped
over into that kind of you know, that sort of the hill of Middle
America, and maybe we don't actually have to engage with them that much anymore.
That's what I was thinking of the same as well, Like they're no,
they're not the saviors of rock and roll anymore. They're just you know,
another throwback rock band and you know, cool by and I can just
ignore it. Now. It feels that they've ended up exactly where they deserve
to be in a way, because there are some good hits coming out of
the gate with that from the fire ZP, where you can imagine it being
a big thing. But the last two records have been really bloated, slow,
soft, like just not all that exciting. I've not heard this record,
and I mean I completely forgot it was even coming out. So if
they are in that sort of middle American market, that that feels like that
sort of what suits them at this point. But like you say, I'm
not excited at all. Really yeah, And like I said, I guess
if that is where they just are now unless there's a major shift, like
I said that the sort of the amthlete experiment to a degree in terms of
like a wider reckoning or anything, maybe that is run its course. As
December Fools with a record called Join the Club. This is a I believe
UK based Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're okay. I listened to a
single from this earlier and I could not believe how squeaky the woman was,
like proper, like it's real. You press play on the song and it's
dolphin noises coming out of that speaking. Have you got any sort of feelings
on at Timber Falls, like they don't bother me. Like I've listened to
a few songs and a couple people are really into them, and I'm like,
there are worst bands you could be into, yes, just modern pop
punk, I suppose, So yeah, that's out there if that is your
thing. Similarly, kind of brit rock stuff, James and the Cold Gun
they have released there I think debut album certainly self titled to James the Cold
Gun. That's band who have kind of they've been along for the ride of
Creeper and Salem and stuff at points, you know, kind of brit rock
fair and then moving to a very different territory. Oxbo have released a record
called Love's Holiday. Elliott, you're probably an Oxbow fan, right, Oh?
Yeah? The last record is incredible White Dukes just like really weird kind
of mix of roots, the American music and kind of experimental metal, like
it really hard to describe proper in that hydra head I've an't guard bent.
So if you're into that sort of stuff already, it's I haven't heard this
new record yet, but I imagine it's more in that vein. So if
you're already into that stuff, then dive straight and probably not a place to
start if you're kind of on the outside of that because it is properly weird
points, But yeah, I gotta start somewhere, aren't you. I'm not
sure there's any easy entry point to something like that, so yeah, just
go for it if you feel like it. In extreme we have miss More
with Prosaic, who are a very good kind of sort of blackened doom band
I suppose is what you we kind of say, the components, their sounder,
they've had I think this is their third studio record properly and they have
become, you know, one of the more kind of reliable bands in the
underground of late. Agriculture put out an album that is a South tap record,
Agriculture. This I saw like kind of came out of nowhere, but
it was getting a lot of hype when it was released. It's sort of
a post Black Nettle thing. The riffing to me kind of sounds like more
normal liturgy, like if you like the sound or something like that, but
you don't want it to be like as fucking debilitating is listening to like a
ten hour liturgy record or whatever that's there. And then more kind of like
tech death stuff. There's the Zenith Passage and Datalysium and an EP was also
released from None Other and Yellow Card their Childhood Eyes EP, which is I
think their first official music since coming whichever number reunion. This is, Sam,
I have to ask you, why would you open your EP that is
your first music back with a collaborative song with Pierce the Vail. Yeah,
so that that really I was like, Oh, I want to pit play
the songs after I really like I just that first one. I didn't.
I definitely seep's good, Like the last song is like the ballad with Dashball
Confessional or it's shit, and then the songs in between just really lacking power.
Like again, I've got like I've got a lot of time for Yellow
Card, but I didn't think the energy or the songs on this we're up
to it. I don't think this is the best. I would say I
would actually take most of it, Like the latter of three songs in the
CPI I take them over most of what their last album was that that's the
kind of where I'm judging it on was where the album they broke up on,
which is probably their worst of their kind of modern era um So Dashall
Confessional and Pierce the Veil features though on a five track EP, like that's
a little bit the Dashboard personal I'm fine with. I'm not even a big
Dashboard crustal fan, but I'm like, I can go for a nice or
speechristy ballad. Pierce of Our One did kind of like make me grip my
teth a little bit out of the start Boy Scob Bust. I liked it.
Yeah. And then today's releases really not much going on, but there
are a couple that we reviewed last week that you can now go and do
so, which we recommend you do. Particularly the Mutoid Man album Mutants is
out. Myself and Elliot were both, you know, very much fond of
that one. I also, yeah, fucking cool from Mutoid Man, and
also the kind of the black metal record from the UK band on Church Road
that we reviewed, The Sun's Journey through the Night Worldless is out as well.
Elsewhere there's a seven Dust album called Truth Killer, and I think guess
the thing that I'm going to go and listen to tomorrow that I haven't heard
yet is a Colassid and the Deadbeats are releasing a live album called Slaughter on
First Avenue, and I like them a lot, so I'll go and get
slaughtered. And that is us. Thank you for listening. Coming up next
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