Hello everybody. Welcome to That's Not Metal, your weekly rock and heavy metal
podcast, and welcome to another edition of hyper Blasts, which is our rock
and heavy metal news show where we come at you. Ever we in a
kind of bite sized fashion, we let you know all the important stuff that's
going on, what you might have missed, et cetera. Hello, my
name is Perren Hash. There are there are four of us here again,
Mark, Sam and Elliott all here. We had a laugh doing it last
week. And also we've been we've just been recording stuff together this week.
Anyway, if you've been, you know, following what we've been doing.
But hello, everybody, how are we all doing? Yeah? Good,
Like I say, good, all the hatred out the system, feeling just
you know, nothing but positivity. Yeah. It was a cleansing, wasn't
it. It's almost like primal scream therapy. It's just like for four and
a half hours or eight hours, eight hours altogether and you'll you'll just have
a better outlook. Yeah, I feel like we're all all spaced out now.
But I feel like as a trio we've bonded, we've sort of connected
over a shared hatred. I mean, I mean Elliott share a bond I
never knew we had and I'm so glad now poo poo to that. Yeah,
So we can talk about that in a little while. This is just
hyper blast where we you know, as we said, we'd let you know
what's happening in the week. It's been a bit of a lull for me
in kind of the live music period for about a month or so. But
I did go along something this week, as did as did you Sam.
There's a few you know things that we can talk about. Mark. Oh,
yes, of course you guys lead one of you guys lead the way
because I think the tour that you know, the most people were anticipating.
I guess you know, in the recent couple of weeks here in the UK
at least is the long awaited return of the Dirty Nil coming through who you
know obviously fuck Art is you know an album cycle I go now and didn't
happen over here obviously for obvious reasons. But they did make it over for
this and you guys both went along to that. So Dirty Nil Experiences.
Was it as lovely as everyone seems to have suggested? Mate? It was
incredible, Like like like I said, we went to him opposite end of
the country on different dates, but I'm I'm sure the vibe was just the
same everywhere they went. This was just one of the most feel good,
like our music's the fucking best shows I've been to, just in terms of
sing alongs and just watching a band on stage. You go like, you
guys are fucking rock stars. Like they just look the fucking part like in
these look at these fucking bedazzled Dennon Jacket strutting about posing for his guitar solos,
like they are like the cool rock star flip side to something like pup
because they share that kind of like and that that Canadian punk rock kind of
origins where Papa like neurotic mess is kind of falling apart. The dirt Ini
was swaggering and strutting like the coolest dudes on the planet. Oh yeah it
was. It was my first time seeing them, and just it was such
a life affirming just like fuck hess rock music, Let's go. Luke came
out like chewing bubble gum, blowing bubbles as he's playing his leg up on
the amp, blowing the biggest bubble he can. Like, yeah, like
doing high kicks, fucking sliding on his knee slides a tiny little wonder World
stays but he's getting those knee slides in like and it's something like, as
someone who really loves Green Day, I really just love the visual of three
lads, tall, skinny bassist, like regular size singer. You know,
I like Green Day or Ship Now, so that's the coosest I'm going to
get to like seeing that. And again, like the new songs on record,
I really like them, but I feel like they I'm alive more in
the live environment with people singing along, the choruses are more obvious. Yeah,
absolutely mean, I still really like like the latest album. It's not
as good as fuck Art is like the kind of peak, but I was
very see those fuck up songs yet right, so I was very happy to
sort of see the fuck are athrew Rens Passion kind of take up the bulk
of the set in London. I think I've got about six songs off each
of them, and then the kind of the invest a set was filled out
with the old material. But doom Boy must have been a moment. Doom
Boy was the highlight the sea that was like there was that that the best
line doom Boy was on the do you delight in rule breaking? Dice into
fresh and hailing setting, And on the hailing set, the entire crowd you
noticed that the thorns for hailing satan and it was just because like it didn't
even like it was kind of a planned thing, but everyone was like,
we have to throw the horns filing satan. Yeah, like I fully went
for it for a blunt forced concussion, I was I lost my voice.
I was growing crazy. I think ye moments in the set where like the
crowd just seemed to all come together as well, like on a nicer guy
on they can I get a name and I'm gonna fuck no back to him,
like all together again, like it just gonna even people were like makes
everyone's just kind of in sync and just giving the Dirty New exactly what they
needed. Yeah. Absolutely, They're one of the most consistently feel good live
acts that you can see it rock music at the moment, that is for
sure. I'm ending on their cover of a hit the Lights Quickly as we
always lovely. I went to the other end of the spectrum. I went
along to a black metal all dayer in Manchester, even though like in a
strange term of events post outbreak. I've mainlyn listened to a lot of hard
cause I had to get myself back into like the necro mindset, but I
went along. It was made. It was like an all like a mainly
UK black metal all dayer, like you know, like like Winter Filler,
seeing loads of people screaming about a mountain when they play Mam tour. That's
always good. But the main draw, just randomly at the top of it
was the UK debut of Storm and Keep, which is a band who released
a record a couple of years ago. They're fronted by Isaac the drummer from
Blooding Cantation, members of like you're part of that Denver scene of like members
of all those fucking bands. But Isaac from Blooding Canantation has an Emperor tattoo
on his arm, and this band basically seems to be like I they're probably
my favorite band, and I want to write music that it's like that,
and you know, bits of Winter Sun and that's just very you know,
pure like blue black metal cover cores. And they released this record a couple
of years ago which opens with the line and wait it's bad, and it
just immediately became quite iconic of just that's how you opened a record. And
you know, they came out and did that. It was great. They
were all, you know, dressed accordingly. Isaac comes out and is waving
a sword over the crowd again because they're they're part of that Denver scene,
as a few members of Wayfarer in the band. And I saw Wayfairer this
year and they're a very like, you know, kind of handsome, presentable,
nice looking black metal band. They're always wearing like nice shirts and stuff.
And then you see the same guys in storm Keeping. They've got like
leather poultrons on and shit like the really the gauntlet of stuff. But that
was, you know, a very fun, enjoyable time and it's worn me
up very very well. For well, I've got coming up this weekend news.
This week we're gonna kick us i'd say, one last of Frozen Salt
of course, yeah, fucking we begin everywhere this week. I was tomorrow
as we record this. Yeah, yes, so I say you'll be seeing
Frozen Soul to Yeah. But I had a very good time. And on
the sports, are you familiar with Wallowing at all? I think so.
There's so many bands were sort of similar names like that are. They look
kind of I think they were like Church Road. I think yeah, yeah,
like like black metal noise kind of thing. They all have veils on
stage, and I was good. It was like the fuck is this?
It was pretty cool, but yeah, it was weird and the kind of
out there picked open. Was that the band who set the fire alarm off
whatever it was they, Yes, they had so much smoke pumped into the
venue that it did set after they finished it, Like I went to the
merch afters and I couldn't actually see any of the merch designs for a minute
because I was like, I can't see anything in here. There's so much
smoking the venue. And then eventually it set the smoke alarms off. But
yeah, they were called Celestial Sanctu remains spot and they continue to just be
the death metal band that get picked. They've got their new record coming up
in a couple of weeks time. Yeah, but they were they were good.
I'm like I said, they're they're They're definitely building a fan base.
But Frozen soult like they set the tone perfectly for me. By the moment
they come on stage, the singing, He grabs a snow machine and starts
spraying fake snow over the crowds. Like I was like, yeah, here
we go. This is like it was just really fun like for a band
like just really big, mean, bruising death metal. They were. They
were so funny and you can tell they're a band who've come from a hardcore
background as well, just from like he was like get on the fucking stage,
like probably like riding the cup like a stage dive. There was one
point where he took his shot off. The singing was like a big lad
and this is big boy music. Yeah, I'm looking forward seeing those new
tunes live because when I saw them in the air, they were like it
was madely the crypt device stuff where now I want to see you know and
all that shit that dorm Yeah, at least the bit in Arsenal War when
they do that like tempo chase and the drums just kind of like power frows
Like ah, that's so that that. I was like, those of its
have really got me. But yeah, I like really really come around on
Frozen Soul over the last year. They're just really fun live, sound mean
as fuck, but have loads of presence and personality and had a great time.
Yeah, lovely stuff. News we are going to start talking about Skindred
because Skindred released their new record Smile last week. You know, Skindred have
been such a reliable presence in the UK. But we did speak last week
about how they had like, you know, their first Kren cover Madly around
that time, and it feels like around this record, which I don't know
what number album will be from Skindred must be like seven or eight or something,
But it feels like there's been a little bit of an upswell in Skindred's
kind of presence in the scene and currently in the midweek charts. We will
see if this you know, comes to a fruition and victory at the end
or not. But Skindred have been in contention for their first UK number one
record with their new album Smile, so you know, very very pleasing to
see this kind of I guess sudden uptick of you know, fortunes for Skindred.
You know, we mentioned the fact that they're gonna be playing their show
up Wembley as well. It's just nice to see all this stuff happening.
Yeah, good for them. They deserve it, like they've been plugging away
for so long, being one of the best bands in the UK. It
just brings a massive smile on my face seeing all this happened to them.
Good for them, like a genuine kind of one of a kind band in
the UK, just like no like no one is quite like Skindred and what
they do, and it's really good again just at this stage in their career,
you know, this far in that they are seeing their sort of biggest
return five years since they released a record as well, So that's you know,
a decent bit of time away times. I wonder if that has helped
like where they you know, for the twenty tens, they were so present
everywhere, always touring, always releasing albums, so maybe a bit of time
away it's kind of got people. The whole absence makes a Hartgo fund and
all that. Like it's like say the midweek thing has always been like okay,
because there's been a lot times because it's always it's the fact that the
grebo fans will rush on get the album day one, and you will see
that massive spike and then there's not always the towel I've seen. They're kind
of doing what a lot of the bands will. They start to do kind
of like promotions and try things to kind of go like, come on,
let's get some extra sales in. And so I really I would be so
happy if they did it. I think it'd be so deserved. I think
it's such a cool thing. And like you say, the five years I
think also helps because Kill the Paddle was twenty fourteen, Volume was a year
after, and then they did big Teams, which maybe we're talking about this
more we review the record, but it wasn't didn't really set the world on
fire outside like a couple of songs that seemed to do quite well, but
it's hard to think of a more. They are like a sort of national
treasure type band, because I don't know how big they are anywhere else in
the world, but they're sort of road warriors who you can't find anyone to
really say a bad word about. And even if they aren't insanely big,
getting like they're not insanely bit so getting a number one still feels like quite
the step up. And unless I forget something, I think it would be
the first time Earache would have a number one record in the UK. Mean,
BlackBerry Spoke never gote it. I was convinced through about an hour earlier
that I was going to be skin seeing Skindred this weekend because Helloween have had
to pull out of Bloodstock and that me went o, that'd be Skindred,
then go and get skinder had come on? In what world is that not
going to be Skindred, especially this week? But shockingly it's not actually Skindred
pre songs instead, but that was a thing. But yeah, I would
very much like to see this happen for Skindred again to help swell the momentum
for that upcoming Wembley show and everything good stuff happening on their Taco Bell have
proved to be hardcore's leaks likely champions. And why is it Taco Bell?
Why this is like when fucking Toyota or whatever it was started releasing metallyp's in
about twenty and twelve. Why why have Taco Bell Someone in their marketing team
is a is a Musha? Like someone high up in their marketing team is
a Mosha? Because it's really bad. They did something with turnstyle and them
and their adverse. Yeah, and then this week's Scowl released a set on
YouTube. This confused me because I didn't know what the series is. It's
the unofficial halftime show from Taco Bell, which obviously is riffing on the idea
of the Super Bowl halftime show, but you have to look at it be
like, oh so it's not actually anything. It's just a YouTube series,
but fair enough if you're Taco Bell and you want a platform with three songs
set from a band like Scowl. I don't know if you've guys have watched
the set. It's cool to see. Yeah, it's cool to see you
know, a band who you know, like me and you Sam, we
saw them playing, you know, a hardcore festival a few weeks ago,
playing in this kind of strange you know TV kind of presentable like Cavan's kind
of polightly introduced each song. Yeah, obviously doing all the stuff from the
new EP with the melodic choruses, which I think, you know, for
the for the set is printable, good stuff. They're awesome. It did
prompt a bit of a you know I put again, I put this in
the news before this happened, and then it became more relevant because afterwards,
if you've listened to our eight is that of awful again. We won't go
into many specifics, but Mark, you mentioned something that there's been a lot
in that exact of awful that's true, proved very relevant or prophetic or whatever
around the kind of the week we've done this weirdly and scowl. I had
a bit of a kicking from you know, members of the hardcore community getting
upset basically that they're you know, going out and doing things with Taco Bell
and they're sing a cat released a big you know, sort of justified rant,
I suppose is what you would call it on on Twitter, being like,
stop fucking calling us an industry plant. Yeah, it's just sad,
Like if you're an industry plan, you wouldn't sound that fucking creative and exciting.
No industry is going to pump like the money and resources into a hardcore
band on flat spot refor listen to yourselves, you know, like again and
I like, I see that's not a dis against hardcore flats records, but
no, kind of like enerty people are gonna be like that's when we want
to pump the money into you know, get half thing that they're gonna go
no bigger. I mean, obviously the term industry plant is so like,
it's so daft. I don't think it's even worse. It's worth debating,
but as you know, you were discussing mark On you know, our special.
There is this weird backlash too. We've seen at times with turnstyle.
We've seen at times with not Loose and Scowl. You know, the newest
band to be fucking getting people crossing their arms because of hardcore band are getting
pot there. It's so bizarre, it's so bullshit, Like anytime a hardcore
band does something a bit interesting or ads hooks or anything like that has any
sort of commercial appeal, suddenly everyone's folding their arms and saying it's not too
hardcore, Like no, no, wonder all these fucking bands want to leave
hardcore. This is the attitude you all have. I mean, I will
say it's been quite nice to see a lot of the kind of the California
hardcssing that Scow were a part of all kind of gone like shut up.
They have actually rallied behind Scout, like Vocus from Drain, like purt Out
today basically saying like Scowler as real as it gets. You know, I've
seen them at basement shows doing all this shit like and so that that's been
quite nice to see. But it has still you know, like like people
been like oh they're they're taking that Taco Bell money. I'm like, yeah,
well you wish you could get that Taco Bell money. Let's be honest.
You're like, if you're in a hardcore band and you're winging about Scale
getting this platform, so because you want that platform yourself and you want that
like well, like Scout aren't selling out by you know, getting a decent
paid gig from this. Yeah, it's it's always the people who this will
never be on the cards for them, Like, those are people that are
going to winge about it. Like you know, any of these people who
are blaming Scale for taking the Taco Bell money, if Arby's asked them to
play in their parking lot, they would be kissing goodbye to Hate five six
or any hardcore credibility in a Harby They would drop in a second. But
it's it's not a choice they'll ever have to make, so it's easy for
them to just say, nah, you suck. It's just it's just sad,
scowl great and they got a lot of star power, and you know,
may stuff like this continue happening. This is funny, Brian Garris,
this is the headline you had to get what and then when I watched the
clip, it was even funnier. Brian Garris, speaking of you know not
Loose, guested with none other than than Morbius to perform the Kill this week.
And this video is hysterical because you might think, where the fucking the
kill? Any thirty seconds to our song? Are you going to fit?
Someone who sounds like Brian Garris right this video, he like appears out of
side someone's filming on their phone. He appears out of the side of the
shot like a jump scare, just in the middle of the course, just
to go ah, It's like what the big stream biting? It's so like,
oh there is It's just so su perfectly is industry plant I think.
I mean, the thing about the video that just keeps from me is seeing
Brian Garrets looking. You know, he's been like a boy. He's looking
relatively normal next to Jared Letter, who is convinced he is surving. Yeah,
like the Master of the Circus over there in his get up, like
he's like gold cape face paint, red gloves and like skeleton postume, like
like none of it goes on. Like he's so convinced he's serving blessing.
Like you keep being happolutely insane, Jared, that you do make the modern
more entertaining place, even if like you are mental. It's such a weird
thing for thirty seconds to Mars as well, because Jared Lettle it's well Aston
wish. He's got a Messiah complex, so for him to share the stage
with anyone is already a bit weird. Yeah, it's Brian Garriss and he
gives him like seven syllables to shout. It's like when like Andy Kaufman does
Mighty Mouse and he stands there on stage perfectly, still sings one line and
then stands there for the rest of the song. It's like he comes on
nails the seven syllables. It's like Brian garrets everybody. So everything about like
echo Jared. For the last chorus, it's just he like he does not
get you know much, but I'm like, I mean they're still just as
it's fucking call for Brian gas to get to do that, Like that's you
know, yeah, that's cool. I didn't see. I didn't think I
could like the kill anymore, and then this happens. I do still love
that song. I can't lie pass Mars are bad. Joelt is crazy but
man, the kill is stilled from of those songs for me. I'm sure
Brian Brian Garris would agree. Okay, handful of stuff that's cool to come
away. In terms of new music, Green Lung they have announced their third
album. It's going to be coming out on November the third, via Nuclear
Blast. It's called This Heathen Land, which is a great, very Green
Lungy title, and they've released a single from that called Mountain Throne. Green
Lung, are you know the definition of nothing new? Like? They are
literally a you know, kind of Black Sabbath esque, you know, classic
rock inflected doom band, you know, bits of lots of very you know,
British centric psychedelic folk influences and stuff like that in folk horror. But
they have really captured people in terms of like they hadn't been a band from
that sort of scene in the last couple of years. I think you've captured
people as much as as Green Lungs. So this is going to be exciting
thing for a lot of people. I'm sure, Elliot, have you even
I found a Green lun I wasn't really, but I really liked the last
record I saw them as well. Yeah, yeah, I think it was
the one that came out the year I saw them at Bloodstock and I hadn't
really engaged with them before that gig, but I thought they were really strong
and this single don't know. I think I just have a thing for sort
of slightly doomy thin Lizzy's emotionally resident, sort of guitar styles. I have
like that main with with the descending organ, that's just like the Keys to
My Heart. So yeah, it's it's not let you say nothing new.
I think it's going to set the world on It's not a forever moment,
but I imagine it's going to be a really good another great Green Lung record.
I suspect, Yeah, my jar hit the floor when that riff started.
That is a fucking wall of her massive green lunger about I saw them
supporting Poppy and like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and I thought they were
all right. I never listened to the last record when it came out,
but I've sort of gotten into it this year, and holy fuck, I
love it. It's good. I love them. I am so excited for
this And like I say, the riff on the new song flipping out,
Yeah, the stuff that the stuff that I really love the most from that
latest record, a kind of like the slowest songs where the singer can really
get that kind of mystical side going on. And this is more of an
upbeat, you know, kind of bouncy you know against Sabbathy good lead single.
It's a fun tune. I hope there is more of that, you
know that real again, the fucking atmosphere standing in the middle of a stone
circle, summering something vibes, but you know that kind of from subterranean like
hooking this. It's it's good stuff. It's good fun. So yeah,
looking forward to the new Green Lung record. The Story so far are also
back, and I didn't quite realize it had been you know, this is
the case, but they've released their first new track since twenty eighteen, when
they're their latest record, Proper Dose came out. We've spoken a bit about
the story so far in you Know in recent times. We did an album
club on then we spoke about seeing park A Cana's other band, No Pressure
Outbreak, But the story so far have been absent, and I guess what
are we saying about the return of you know? As we often might say,
the most ripped off pop punk band of the twenty tens. It's a
solid two minute pop punk song. I there's almost not like kind of them
guys, kind of going this isn't a bit more back to basics for them.
Yeah, like the production, it's less it's it's still not got the
really loud, like fucking hacking guitar. It's got kind of some area effects
and leasing it would stand pretty decent. But it also it feels less kind
of like slacker britpop than the last one did as well. It is like
two and a half minutes pretty fast, it's just got a bit more energy
to it. Again, you're right, did you have the kind of like
the crunch and the hack that like the early stuff does, But it always
feels like as an elder osance far them at least kind of getting a bit
of the pace and energy back. And I think it's decent. It's not
like, don't really like flow me away, but from pop punk, you
know when it's slim pick for the genuinely goodest about that. I heard this
and was still like this still you know, blows away most of the competition
at least. Yeah, I like it. It's fun, snappy, boppy.
The production, I don't know. I kind of wish it was a
bit more organic, but but hey, I listened to less organic stuff,
I guess. Yeah, Elliott, you don't strike me as the story as
fanh No, not really. I kind of recognize that they were one of
the best bands of their kind around that time, like maybe a tear below
things like The Wonder Years. But yeah, I thought this was pretty good.
Let you say, sort of up tempo bit were energy, but yeah,
totally. It's weird that production thing, because it's not super clean,
but it is. It's it's kind of, like you say, more upbeat
and not so slack of it. On the other end, it is kind
of shoegazy, and the way the guitar is kind of yeah, must there's
not really an obvious rift to it, but the chorus melody is nice enough.
The versus good, So yeah, it's it's fine. Yeah, no
album announced or anything attached to this so far, but you've gotta imagine there's
there's something on the way. We do have an ourb announcement from Crosses,
which feels like it's been so long fucking coming. I don't know about you,
guys. The first Crossers album from twenty fourteen thirteen, maybe you know,
approaching a decade ago at least, it's my favorite, like you know,
kind of Deft Tones spin off thing. I really liked that record at
the time. And then they you know, stopped, vanished whatever, and
then in about twenty twenty they came back. But since then, it's been
so like fucking you know, piece meal. It's been so like, here's
a song with no promises of anything else. You know, here's here's an
EP whatever, like very very scattershot that it feels like Crossers have been teasing
us for like three years straight or something. And I had to go,
I was like, did we get an album at some point? And I
don't know, But this is actually finally the proper second album from Crosses.
It's called good Night God, Bless I Love You Delete Fine. That's out
on October the thirteenth, though, you know, Friday the thirteenth October with
fucking Creeper and Twin Temple and everything's all stacking up nicely there. But again,
the way Crosses sort of like you know, just sort of milled them
out for a few years, but you know, being active but not prominent
necessarily it's being kind of strange in terms of building I guess excitement. But
as said, I did love that first album. Yeah no, I mean
I'm like Cross is a kind of like a no brainer that I like Cross
and I do like this so well. Oh the song's wicked. It's got
really like heavy intense production for someone that still has the kind of airy moments.
But yeah, I'm down for a second album. I was with you
because I feel like we spoke about new singles when I shortly after I first
joined, and that was like, that's going to, you know, be
for an album, and then it's been nothing for a while, but hey,
glad it's finally coming. Yeah. It's a weird one because I really
like that last Crosses record, but any announcement about them kind of comes with
a bit of the stone Sour syndrome where it's like, I like Crop,
I don't like stone sour, but I understand what I'm saying. Like,
but when Corey would announce something was stone sour, you just go fuck it,
really pleased? Do we have to? Like? Can't we just have
more slipknot? And we're coming up on the three years of OLMS now and
it's like, if this is your next year and half and then we get
working on the death Tones record, It's like i'd kind of just rather I
don't know when he's supposed to do it, but sort of think that since
twenty twenty, you think he's been busy with death Tones now and it's kind
of coming to the end of that. I feel that it makes sense,
but it's it's always changed with that slowly. But I do think the song's
really good. I'm sure it'll be another good Crosses record. I don't really
dislike anything on the death Tones front. I feel like, you know,
waiting for a record, and I feel like that's that's probably more to do
with the other members all coming together, being on the same page whatever.
Again, it was deaf to stop with his crazy conspiracy theories. I was
thinking about Olms and a year. I was like, it is. It
does feel a little while wasn't owns Now, but also that was twenty twenty
and it feels like they haven't. It's one of those records that you know,
didn't necessarily have a grand you know, touring cycle or whatever, because
obviously when it's landed, so yeah, we'll see what happens with death Tones,
but there is new crosses on the way. Month See Goals have announced
that they are going to be pulling it quits. They're going to be hanging
it up, doing a farewell tour coming up. Monthy Girls are one of
those bands who are you know, they're kind of like a staple of you
know, the kind of brit rock scene of you know, circa twenty seventeen,
twenty eighte whenever he'd always see that plays like two thousand Trees or whatever,
and like, you know, where I was at, it never really
kind of crossed into into my head. But we got one of their records
and we put this on. We saw this announcement, I was like,
this is actually quite quite fun, quite enjoyable. Like there's some really like,
you know, well written melodic tunes on there, and I know that,
you know, there will be people for whom Monthly Girls were, you
know, a favorite of that particular era of UK rock band, So this
does feel about someone that should be taken note of. Yeah, I really
liked Monthly Girls. I thought you would be honest record songs like record that
are really just like kind of you know, light and poppy. The one
with Jeremy on Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great tree. I
kind of assumed they already broke up because of been away for a while.
Yes, but that was the last record they've done Land of the Volklish.
She'd been doing solo stuff by herself for a couple of for a little while
now, because I saw her support Greg for the Menzingers, and so I
wonder if that's like kind of where how Folks has been. But yeah,
my schools when I kind of got into later on, I wasn't super into
them at their kind of peak when they were getting pushed, but they are.
They were like a good band, and I think it's it's it's the
same sim call it quits. Yeah. I never listened to them at the
time because I don't know if it would have been me, but I was
sort of not into that kind of British like that kind of thing. Around
that time. I was kind of getting sick of it. So monthsly Girls
being another one of those, I sort of dismissed it. But with this
announcement, I went and checked out about half of the Fixed Ideals record,
and it's really good. I don't know why they're in with like the DIY
punk scene. I've always kind of like they were kind of the one of
them who actually got a bit bigger. Yeah, I mean that might it
might just be like where I heard about them from, I sort of dismissed
them on those terms. I don't know, ye, same again, it's
not it's not my favorite area. But again if you tracked from this hit
and yeah, you know, if if you were a monthly Girls fan,
then they're going to be doing a fairwell tour later this year, so you
know, pop along and have a nice last dance. Vacn Festival. You
know, some people manage to get in and enjoy it, Uh do some
of the o mishaps that were described you know, not long ago, but
they VAC and festival and they normally always as soon as the festival has done,
there go right. Here's our first batch of bands for for next year.
It's one of those deals that immediately starts building excitement and I thought this
would be interesting to look at the the first batch of bands that announced for
VAC in twenty twenty four and start thinking about UK festival watch for next year.
Most relevantly would be Bloodstock, just because it's August. Lacon is like,
you know, the weekend before blood Stock, et cetera. There's a
bands to be traveling around the you know, Europe at that point in time.
But looking at this batch of bands for Vacan twenty twenty four, what
strikes your fancy? What do you think would be you know, feasible for
a next year of Bloodstock or any other you know, UK festival, And
what would you really like from from this lot? Blind Guardian like, oh
yeah yeah, and not as a headliner, but unleash the archers would be
well up for their meeting for Bloodstock. Hell yeah, a mono Maath strike
me as the most likely headline blood So I know they've done it before,
but that was twenty seventeen or yeah you're talking Wow, oh my god,
if if they did twenty twenty four, that'll be seven years between. That's
sucked up COVID time. That is that's crazy. Yeah, no, no,
that's what I mean. Like them, like them as a headline,
I would be like, I feel they'd be like long overdue them coming back.
I'm Monomath with Blind Guardian subheadlining, which is what we had. We
had that I'm sure I think Black Garden subline head on someone else. Maybe
it was I don't know, they might have headlines. Perhaps this is it
happened, I will say so. The two bands at the top of this
are Monomath and Scorpions. And Scorpions they did the blood Stock that I couldn't
go to, and the last like two years, I've got so into Scorpions
and I really want to. I've seen like you want to rocky like a
Hurricane. Yeah, I've seen them do that song I saw. I caught
their encore at a festival once, but I want to do a full Like
if Scorpions get announced as like the classic headline bood dot next year, I'll
be having a fucking great time. Yeah. Scorpions always one of those were
like they were for me, the one I maybe dismissed the most. They
always because I really don't like winds of changes. But like you, last
couple of years, that's way past their classic era though, isn't it.
This is it? Yeah? So like people start, people I knew were
like shaking we going blackout, You've got to check out Blackout and I was
like, no, I don't, and then eventually I got around to it,
and fucking well, I feel like I feel like a dummy all this
time, and now I'm getting into the fucking Scorpions Like this feels ridiculous.
It's Scorpions headline bloods Dot next year, and me and you are gonna have
a fucking lovely time elsewhere here. Well, last week we chat about Bloodstock
headliners and you know, all of us slap on the face, egg on
the face. None of us mentioned soil. You know what you're Faith's and
not an article here hopefully. Yes. Do you think Sick of it All
would ever play blood Stock headline the second State, I mean even the main
stage in the middle of day, like the hate pre kind of slop they've
done. I think that Bye Bye hasn't doing it. This hasn't a headline
second Stace this year, so sick of it It could easily do the biohazard,
suicidal tendencies, hate Bred, big Card Coort band headlines. I've never
seen secondal so that that would be cool, amazing live. Yeah, we
spoken about them for outbreak as well as a potential like kind of legacy like
that would be great. This will not be coming here because it says exclusive,
but Watter and are doing a lawless Darkness exclusive set at Vackard. Oh
my fucking god. I'd also like Primordial, who are on here. They're
back. I don't know if they go away for a long periods of time
between. It's been five years since the last one and you've got Primordial,
Yeah, you've got maybe i'd finished in your record. Primordial've got in your
record coming out in like a couple of months. They have announced it,
but they've they've been working on it. It's all done so that that would
be coming and so you know you will expect to see them on the first
festival circuit next year. Black Dali Murder actually as well, because Blackdally Murder
word you to do a blood Stock you know, a year or two ago,
and obviously they they had to pull out with that one because of you
know, what happened with Trevor. It would be a really nice returning,
you know, to see the new kind of incarnation about Dolly Murder be able
to take that stage at Bloodstock. I'd love that. You've got a thing
that would get a sort of hero is welcome, you know exactly. Yeah,
so there is a fair bit on that vack And announcement. I would
like to see, you know, pop over to a you know these shows
stuff that is happening here along with again that Month to Girls tour and stuff.
Vexed are going to be doing a UK headline tour in October if you
are a fan of theirs and we're into that new record, and Teenage Wrist
are also going to be doing a UK tour in December, So if you're
a fan, there's another band who you know, two album cycles to fit
into one. Yeah, yeah, you're right there. So if you were
into Earth as a black Hole, if you're into this new one, you
know, head along to the the Teenage Wrist tour that's coming this way.
Questions these all came from last week, mainly because there was one that I
literally just I had in the script last week and I just skipped over it
and I forgot to read it out, and then I thought, well I
might as well get some of these other ones here as well. But questions
come from the sort of focus group on Facebook. Head over there if you
want to contribute something and we will answer it. This time, we have
Matt Bailey is going to kick us off with a very simple question like it's
you know what nine words, but I feel like it opens on a whole
can of worms almost what's the best one hit wonder from our world and music?
And the first question to ask is do we care? Do we like
at all the one hit wonders that our associated with the world of rock and
metal, because particularly, I guess it depends on what generation you are,
because we haven't really had them for a long time. It feels like,
you know, people who you know were into rocky metal in the New metal
era or the hair metal era, perhaps they've got a lot more to kind
of think about. Whereas if it's real, really fucking retro, even considering
a one hit wonder, I mean, most of mine I've got, like
the latest would be like the late noughties. We'd be looking out for some
of mine, but you're gonna for like boys like girls, and they're a
lot. There was one back. But I mean, if I ask the
greatest one hit wonder please to me, because the fuck Yeah I Almost Seeing
Me by Lit is the greatest one hit one to ever. I was gonna
say punk novety ones from that era like Stacy's Mum and Heaven is a half
Pipe and God Forbid Tina dump Star. I don't like any of them,
like they're all rubbing, like All Star short I like Chunk Captain Chunks,
All Star. The smash Mouth one is like, you know, it's meme,
not song, isn't it. But the one of those that I do
actually it's a good song, is lit So it's clear that school it is
clearly the best one. Yeah, I don't know. Also, I was
like faced down by the Red Suit Jump Red Jumps. That song is amazing.
That is like legitimately that song deserves a better band because it's so good.
And then you just look at the rest of what theres ever did and
you're gonna go like, man, you struck magic with that one song,
and then it was just all shit after that. Yeah, this is going
to earn me zero cool points. But I do really like make you mark.
You're so right though, calling like, yeah, their albums, you
know that song, they had more than one, they had two albums song.
I would use this opportunity to say that Halo by Soil, I'm just
gonna I don't know whether this is going to open a war a war or
whatever. Halo better than Bodies by Drowning Pool. No, yes, definitely
not like exactly split fifty fifty here, what do you think everyone? Let
us know, I fucking love bodies well and you know it's got. It
was in w W A a lot, so that's that's a good thing.
But Halo is better. It was in Skins as well. I became a
bit obsessed with the concept of the one hit wonder a couple of years ago,
and I made it this mission where I would listen to full albums by
one hit wonders to see if there was something else. Tell you what,
massive, massive waste of time? Most of these bands for a reason,
Like you when you're listening to the fucking OPM album trying to find a song
half as good as Heaven is a half pipe, you are wasting your life.
But the other thing a tough one about this is is it is it
a one hit wonder to us or one hit wonder? There has beyond the
scale of pop music, because there's some bands where they're seen as one hit
wonders to the mainstream, but like like Faith and Moore always appear on the
list for epic and it's like, that's not even in the typeesus. It's
ridiculous if I put as like a one hit wonder, because Miss Murders got
so obscenely. I was looking this up earlier and I saw someone say Mother
by dan Zig, which maybe want to fucking Die the ones that I thought
of for that. Again, bands that I like, what they have a
song that really outpaces the rest. It's like Through the Fire and Flames by
dragon Force. Yeah again, yeah, that's it's not even my favorite dragon
Force song. That probably Theory of the Storm, but like that's obviously a
huge one. Does does Alison Hell count by Annihilator? Because I really like
Annihilator and that record in particular has a lot of great songs on it,
but there's always that thing of like metal bands will cover just specifically Alison Hell,
and no one's ever covered another Annila song in their lives, even though
they should definitely do fucking Night Jumps Queen or something. I don't know.
Because Through the Fire and the Flames I picked that because you can talk to
people who don't really know anything about metal at least like I think our Age,
and they'll be familiar with through the Yeah, the guitar hero bet,
isn't it? Yeah exactly, Yeah, And there's so kind of similar to
that, maybe like Cults of personality if that counts, or I believen a
thing called love like that, that's when you're sawing it is that I wanted
wonder. Yeah, I don't really know, but like I mean Alice in
Hell, like that's I don't think my mom knows it. No, we're
talking, you know, within metal culture. That Yeah, that would be
the best one if it was, but it is, you know, it's
not big enough to actually probably enter. I think maybe one of my favorites
is again, when when I this came into mind, I was like,
yes, it is Round and Round by Rat which who are definitely wasn't it
like the twentieth best metal? Not like the twenty fourth metal best our best
that song ever there's rolling Stone said, but again that is a band who
absolutely not. They have not got the cannon of songs of you know,
the big bands of that eighties era. But Round and Round is pretty big.
And then this is really lesser. No, this is so rubbish.
No one would have heard this song, so I'm clearly wasting my time even
mentioning it. But I love when hair, little bands and stuff will do
like an end credit song for a horror movie and it's the only song that
you've ever heard of their's and like, you know, there's the Dock and
Dream Warriors thing, but except Dock and have loads of great songs, but
Dream Warriors was the one that kind of signified what that was. But there's
if you've ever seen the eighties remake of The Blob, which is a fucking
brilliant movie. It ends on there's a band called Alien who no one's ever
heard of before or since, and there's a song on that the credit for
that that are called Brave New Love, and it's in my head all the
time, you love. It's really big. It's purely one of the no
one has ever heard another Alien song in their life. But if you enjoy
The Blob, those sort of like seventies rock bands and like carry on My
Way with Sun by Kansas, like that Fielding by Boston. Yeah, like
that's I mean, I have no more bostoms, but those are ones.
I like Camember song because that's been in so much but it's the only one
you ever hear is used in wrestling. It's using supernaturals on guitar hero like
Survivor, Yeah, yeah, Survivor, Yeah, The Warrior by Scandal that's
got to be top five. No one seems to know what that is,
all right, Please listen to that because I don't actually don't know if it's
a one hit wonder or part of our world. But either way, as
advice, listen to The Warrior by Scandal. That's sort of similar thing,
like kind of hair metal about embracing yourself. Oh that's sounds. I'm gonna
listen to any hair metal song. Anyone chucks at me hallelujah. That is
the great mean. You'd get arguments about whether they're a one hit wonder from
like from people, but that is a very good show. That is a
very good shout, Sam, are you gonna back me up? Do you
like Just the Girl by the Click five? The fuck is that? Do
you know? That? Sounds like? Oh my god? They were like
an American sort of pseudo boy band. They were like the McFly for America.
But they had the song Just the Girl that I think is a fucking
bop. I don't know, Sam, you'd love it. I probably would
you right, but I've never heard of it. I'm going have to listen
to it when we're done. The Click five fans are writing. Brenton Harris
asks I might be dating myself here, But did you ever get into a
band because of a mislabeled download from Napster or lime Wire? For example?
I got into every Time I Die because I was trying to download songs from
the used self titled alb Them and I got a mislabeled floater. One of
the best happy acts of a mislabeled floated sounds like a very different thing.
Or what was your MySpace profile song? And do you stand by it today?
So this is sort of a two segmented question, and I know that
you guys were more keen to answer the my Space part. I am more
interesting in the LimeWire part. So you what's your MySpace answers? I have
a lime Wire answer as well. To be fair, my MySpace, I
would change mine every fucking couple of weeks, even though yeah, I didn't
even have many any friends. No one was fucking looking at my account,
but I was changing it every week just in case. I have a whole
list. I had almost Easy by Avenge seven Fold, Waking the Demon,
the Taste of Ink into Oblivion, Yeah, the Young and Hopeless title track
by Good Charlotte, Autumn by Sparks for the rescue, and I there was
one kid I went to school with a hat on there whose song was Hollywood
Whore by Papa Roach. Another Papa Roach song I just hate and every time
I go, yeah, that that song we're playing, And I thought this
fucking sucks. But he had this thing of like thinking it was a really
hard, heavy song. So I sort of trying to seem really cool and
underground and heavy, had some random fucking shadows Fall song that I thought was
really heavy. I can't even remember watch Holder was false song it was,
but I was like, yes, that's the height of extreme. That's gonna
put him in his place. I mean, probably one one of my most
credible MySpace songs would have been Pray for Play because it kind of says,
you know, the setting is, that's that's you know, the upper one.
But I mean, we had to do can We're definitely that. There
was quite a few, but we'll go straight in at the lowest bar,
which was Family Force five earthquake. Hold up, wait a minute, I
mean I did. I'm prety sure I did have Love Addict at one point
as well, so we didn't get that. I did like Family five quite
a bit back in the day. I'm sure. I'm sure I had how
You Love Me No? By Hay Hundu as well as I never had my
Space because I wasn't involved in this fucking bullshit, but I did. The
first time I ever heard the Black Dahlia Murder was someone on Tumbler had set
up the song Christ Deformed to play Things and that was good. The Lime
Wire part Elliott is lime Wire before your Time? Are you old enough to
have ever downloaded the Lime Wire's on? No? No used beyond me?
But I have got sort of well, actually I have something older and kind
of younger than that in a way, because one mistaken identity was I went
to my friend's house and I was just sort of getting into metal and he's
like, have you heard Iron Maiden. We're about seven or eight and I
was like, oh, I've heard of them, but I've never listened.
He's like, you've come with me, took the CD player out started playing
me a song called Judas Rising, and he handed me the CD and get
get a load of that and I read. I was like, this says
Judas Priest and he was like, no, mate, that's a I And
it's like a real life mislabeled lame I'm looking at He's like, yeah,
who would know? Like me? Or you come on, you're at my
house. So that's and since a later thing than the Lime Wire was when
you could put copy MP three's from one iPod to another. Yeah, so
I knew someone who had a bunch of stuff on their iPod and I was
just copying stuff off that. And he had something under the name Sepultur,
an album called Sepultura, and the album covered was some sort of black and
white photo. I don't know if it's a bootleg or whatever, right,
and I listened to that. It is my first real exposure to death metal,
and it weired me out and I eventually adjusted. And it was only
like four years later I realized it was just Morbid Visions under a different name.
So my first Sepultur record was genuinely Morbid Visions, which is amazing,
pretty cool. Yeah. Well, on the on the Lime Wire front,
my friend has got an example that I will contribute here of this is this
is you will love this Elliott. He was downloading Saxon songs from Lame Wire,
and the way he tells it, he downloaded something it was either by
the Swedish like black thrash band Witchery or the American like war metal band Black
Witchery. I think it was probably the former, but I really hope it
was the latter. But he's just like this Saxon got really heavy for this
one song. It's like it's a fucking Witchery tune. But my example is
it's not a mislabeled song as much as is a misedited song almost, which
is really strange to just kind of explain. But you know, like the
way you Raining Blood as an album, so many songs seems to just kind
of lead into the next one, right, you know, the way Jesus
Saves comes out of you know, the end of the trap before, et
cetera. And it's like this really fluid experience, you know, the fast
bit at the end of post Mortem, you know then and and and the
do you want to die with that part, which is really different to the
first like minute and a half or whatever of post Mortem. I downloaded the
song Raining Blood, and for some reason, instead of starting with the like
the you know, the the kind of the rain and the dunton dun't and
all that, it started with the fast bit of post Mortem, So you
press play on the file and we go do you want to die? All
that ship and then seek into you know, the kind of the rest of
you know, Raining Blood. So I thought for a while that Raining Blood
start with that riff and that part and then went into the rest of it.
And then when I actually bought the album Raining Blood, I was like,
that's Postmawton, what's going on? Is that threw me for a while.
That's an odd one. Any mislabeled lime wire downloads from from you guys,
No, because see I was more using Toron at that point. You
just download for album rather than just you know, lime Wire was a very
strange specific process. Yeah, Like because like I said, you would literally
just typing this on you want and then you download, hoping you're actually going
to get the song you're after at that point, Like I only had a
couple that were like maybe those like the band's songs labeled wrong. But I
never had anything where I thought I was getting one band and got every time
I died. For example, like me and my cousin right after American Idiot
came out and we were like, American Didiot, It's the best thing ever.
We were trying to find it must have been like a bonus track or
a B side or something. It might have been favorite song. I don't
know. We were trying to find that and ended up with basket Case.
But so my first time here in basket Case was me being really annoyed and
disappointed because it didn't send, like American idiot. And then the next the
next day, he was like, oh, it turns out this is a
really a really really old song. And then we listened to it again and
suddenly I was like, holy shit, this is the best song I've ever
heard in my life. Yeah, you just because of misedited songs. This
is slightly different from Slayer. But that same iPod that was downloading stuff off.
I've got about eight Robbie Williams albums I don't know what, and whoever
put them on must have ejected the CD during the last song, because there
was his cover of Beyond the Sea and it's like ba bam. It was
only the first seven seconds to his first syllable, and I remember listening to
some thinking that is so subversive was seven second song? Wow, It's like
it's like code Oriente at the end of Forever. Yeah, you're listening to
swing when you're winning, going Wow, I'm really impressed with Robbie's artist vision.
Back to Sepult, Ben Wilmot Asks, Bonafini, bangers, the bands
never play live cough twisted transistor cough. So this is almost like this is
the too many hits wonders. This is I'm gonna say this is different too,
maybe a really fucking obscure song that you just really want to see.
We're talking like songs that any normal band would have in their setlist that just
for some reason have fallen by the wayside. And I mean we saw Depeche
Mode this year and the fact that we looked at that setlist like right,
no Halo, no policy of truth, which is using fucking trailers for movies
and shit like question the time, black celebration, strange love, blasphemous rumors.
People are people like so many great songs that they can't do. Yeah,
like black celebrations. When I was like that's what was saving masters are
like stuff like that, like yeah, yeah, no, there's so many.
I mean I was gonna be like, well, you know, pick
a song off the of like suicide season nor there is a hell let's do
it adendem for bands who just ignore entire eras of their career. Yeah,
no, I figured that would be the way we work. But yeah,
there's there's loads. Isn't there really interest? Carry don't play nor Sweep tonight
or like they did actually play a little bit of it at slam Dunk.
They do snippets of stuff a lot, don't they. They do that quick
fire around where they they do the mega mix is basically like but yeah,
there's like ten interester Gary songs. I wish they'd play Why the fuck right?
Why don't Trivium play Built to Fall? That's what the ones I have?
And Black? I love that song. It's like when William don't play
with Anthem and they should play Anthem, they should play an I don't care
what anyone says. Anthem is a banger. You will know. I don't
know a good time. But I was gonna say when when in Flame Hitting
Waves came out, there were those songs. Obviously play the touch track all
the time, but you're kind of lucky if get anything else off it.
And when that came out, it was like, oh yeah, Built to
Fall Black those starting those big almost like stepping up to fucking you know arena
level songs. I mean, I would say four second the d but that
feels like a more obscure pick. Yeah, I think I do that one
in fairness, but I've need to do that one as well. It's crazy
how Built a Fall and Black and like you know, inception of the End.
I don't know when the last time they had Dust Dismantle was like,
those are all just they're they're fucking B sides now. I saw them do
that enforcing Little Dream at the same set was when they did the Roundhouse on
Silence in the Snow and I was, yeah, but like that's the that's
the last time again. And the fact that Black and Built a Fall like
you're probably going back a decade like those are kicking her out. Built a
Fall is still one of the better choruses. I think it's one of my
favorite RIM songs. Yeah, we'll say Limb Biscuit should play gold Cover and
Shotgun again. Oh absolutely, like you know, their best album, Yeah,
that on that kind of trivia me kick. I don't think it's been
in the set since the cycle for this album Destroyer by Parkway Dry. The
opening track on Iyer is one of the favorite songs they've ever written. And
when they was opening on that torn and they're the confettic hand everything, it's
so fucking good and I really want to bring them back. And then obviously
you go, obviously they haven't done Sleepwalker in a while. It's kind of
mad hard they don't. Uh, And then you know, like Room three
or nine by Creeper is fucking the best song, and again they've I've seen
them do it, but it's by no means a regular I've got an example
which is going to blow your mind. But have we got any others?
Before I go into that spiel. There's a few that kind of like,
it's weird that Massel don't play the Motherload every single I think that's one of
the more populars or show yourself listen stuff. Sorry say that again. They
don't do calibbell a lot either, no or like Lamb of God set to
Fail. I can't re the last time I saw them, Oh God,
yeah, yeah real. And then there's and it gets to like that sort
of stadium band thing. But like the thing you're saying about the pressure Mode,
the one that always starts to me, it's a CDC, and I
don't know if it's because they're just not very inventive, Like it's unlikely when
you see a CDC that they'll play like if you want blood shot down in
flames, it's a long way to the top. I'm just up there,
ac is my example, because I went on sem and no you can see
when the last time they played certain songs was I want to know. I've
got a list of fucking a CDC songs here. Problem Child has been played
once since two thousand and one. Walk all Over You they haven't played since
nineteen seventeen nine when it came out and walk all over You. The chorus
on that is like the fucking you know Mutt Lang. You imagine them doing
that. Similarly, they played Touch Too Much about three times in two sixteen,
really round Me out of the Blue, but then gone again Rocker.
I know that's that's probably way too fast for them now, but that's long
gone. Rock and roll ain't noise pollution has been done since two thousand and
three. Beating around the Bush they played once in nineteen eighty and that's the
fucking riff kicked in the teeth they only did on the fucking Power Age Run.
Girls Got Rhythm they haven't done since nineteen ninety six. Fire Your Guns,
which is my favorite track on the Razor's Edge, hasn't been done in
nineteen ninety one. Riff Raff arguably the best song. It's a contender,
barely in there and the craziest one if you really think about it. It
is mental that ACDC don't play It's a long way to the top if you
want to rock and roll. They haven't done that since Bond Scott was alive.
Maybe that's because it's his song and he plays the bagpipes or something.
I don't know, but like there are bands who will use that song as
they're fucking intro tape to get people like riled up to have fun, and
the band who wrote it just casually don't even think about including it. That
is crazy, Like kicked in the Teeth, that's that's my favorite ACDC song.
What the fuck are they doing not playing that? Not so many songs
will blow your mind, how fucking just to the wayside they've gone and you
don't think about it because it's ac DC and the set is what they've got.
Too many, Yeah, like most of those you can at least like
riff Raff, Yes, it is the best ACD song, But I do
understand why they don't play it. It's a long way to the top.
It's like everyone knows that song. I can think of the Bonds got factor
for that. Yeah, but they do plenty of other Bond Scott songs they
do. Like I said, I don't know if it's a bagpipes thing,
I don't know. But again I don't know that a particular attachment, I
don't know, but yeah, it's the amount of songs they haven't done in
twenty five years, fucking forty years, and sometimes like Angus Young, if
you're listening, don't don't let the play beating around the bush, Like,
yeah, we're not that fussed about the bagpipes. We want it's a long
way to the top. Jesus Christ being the bone the bush is sort of
understandable because I'm like a third of the age of a CDC and I can
barely play that roof. Yeah, it's if you want blood. They almost
never play high voltage. It's just like it's almost sickening. Those were the
songs I skipped over in compie that list because they've done them more often than
the ones I just mentioned, Like yeah, madness. It has been a
momentous week over it. That's on a little patroon. As we mentioned a
couple of times. I can tell you because within the last week we have
completed the new updated for twenty twenty three version of the eight th of all
four were the three folks who are here with me, all putting to the
sword twenty six shitty things for different letters of the alphabet. The influx of
new people popping into the Patreon and you know, popping up in the kind
of the associated discord channel and everything has been huge. And I just think
it's hilarious that of all of the stuff that we've done, all of like
the heavily research specials telling the complete stories of some of those beloved TNM bands
from Bleeding through to Biffy Clyro to Clutch to Jimmy Eat World, what have
you, the Weezer special, all of those things that we do album roulettes.
You guys just wanted to hear us, bitch like, for all of
the talk of a more positive podcast focusing on the things we love, you
just wanted to hear us slag loads of things off. That's fine, sincerely,
you know, a huge way of appreciation, if everybody he knew who
has jumped up on board checked out Theaters of Awful, it's very rare that
you'd come along and do that, So welcome aboard. I hope you find
some other things that we put up there over the years that appeal to you,
because you will find all of our backlog of specials that we put together,
like all the ones I mentioned. We've got the t and Ander's Horror
series where we talk shockingly about horror movies. Those of you want something a
little bit extra, we normally do things like four hour mind melters on Ariasta
movies of late. But me and Sam are foth seen the Meg two,
so that's something fucking daff that's happening. So shark. Yeah. The Ages
in itself though, the second half we've put up in the weeks since we
did the last type of lasts, and there was I feel I was a
bit more debate this time. There was some real like similarly as we had
with fucking you know, Halo versus bodies just there there were some real like
fifty fifty population splitters. I mean, I'd quite a stray from you on
Elliott's SS like like it wasn't deserved. I'd expect this from Sam, but
not from you, Elliot. I'd expect this from a weak poser. And
Sam's you know, on their on their trolling like bullshit, like I was
like, I would not be trolling if I was to pick that from my
ass, it would be very just wasn't you heard it? And they went,
yeah, fair enough, that is me. Sacred cows were slaughtered?
You know, there was there was a Bruce Springsteen song that was, you
know, taken again to the out to the Slaughterhouse. Also, you know
which beloved rock icon does Elliott think we should consign to the sin bin?
You know, we can find out all those things. It has been hilarious
hearing what you guys have all thought about it. You know where you come
down on these things. So keep it all of that, you know coming.
We also have our latest album club Pack there, which was a rather
good one where we spoke about Seasonly a best by Slayer, my Bloody Valentine,
the divisive Canspatch record, searching for Zero Blooding Cantation. That was a
really good discussion and coming up there soon on the other side of the album
reviews and so on, we will be starting on our next full length band
Special, so I hope that that is something that will strike your fancy as
well. If you want to hear what the fuss is about and why so
many people are outraged with Elliott for one reason or another, or what we
were going to war over patron dot com slash that's no matter. There's the
place to check out and the releases for this week. Fetually, The Hives
are back with an album called the Death of Randy Fitzimmons. I really like
the Hives, you know from their kind of classic ERAa, but they haven't
been around in feel. I think you have me noticeable in a long time,
so I don't even know. I don't know why I expect quality.
I've seen around the Hives for a good while. People seemed genuinely excited for
this one. They were like, I've been there Outswong, Arctic Monkeys.
They'll kind of back on a fairly big platform and they just seem to have
like people are like, oh, yeah, the Hives rock again, So
yeah, I'm pretty excited for this. Maybe you should do a high album
club or something at some point soon. But they do have a new record
that you can go and check out the big TNM. You know faithful band
that we have got to talk about is the band earn Her, releasing their
their second album, A Feast on Sorrow. They released one of the more
acclaimed UK metal debuts of recent years not too long ago, so very keen
to here how they follow up. I'm going to be seeing them a bloodstock
this week. Elsewhere in your kind of metallic hardcore's own there is a man
called Caskets with the record Reflections. That's that one sharp tone, long running
death metal staples, Cataclysm with Goliath, more recent death metal of the Bad
Werewolves, My enemies look and sound like me. And then this is the
when I was just looking what was coming out, I came across this and
I was like, that is a name that is absolutely getting you in the
hyper blast. There is a band called slug Child. This is a total
band camp, you know project, but a Wound's untold is that And I
checked it out and it's kind of you know, noisy, sludgy. Maybe
I feel like Early Conjurer and stuff like that. So go and check those
out. And that is it from us, So thank you very much for
being with us. We are recording this hype of Glass a day early because
I'm heading to Bloodstock. I will talk to you all about that very very
soon. I'll be back, and then we will be diving from there into
the best stuff from August in reviews. If you're not in a field with
me and you want something to make you giggle at home, then the new
and completely Aids of Awful is available at Patreon dot com slash that's no matter.
We thank you for your support. I'm off to hear some heavy metal.
I hope you enjoy it. You're week. We'll see you soon.