Hello everybody, Welcome back to That's Not Metal and welcome to another episode of
hyper Blast, our weekly rock and heavy metal news show where we let you
know everything that is going on in those particular realms. My name is Parenheish
joining me today. It's just Sam diggonon. Hello you all right. It
feels like, you know, when you just chatted a couple of days ago
as we were finishing off Patreon stuff. But yeah, I mean I've been
You've been off on travels all around seeing Yeah. So the first part this
episode is as I was at a festival at the weekend, and I guess
it's it's not high profile enough of festival really to really give the kind of
whole, you know, full weekend break review. Yeah, but I am
going to go over, you know, a bunch of the most best interesting
stuff I saw. I was in London, hear about this the details of
this underworld set that what means of it in general. You know. I
went to London for the weekend, so I was, you know, cramming
in lots of work and stuff around it with what we've like you were just
alluding to with the patroon and everything. But I saw some movies. I
saw The Iron Claw, I saw June Part two, good movies. Do
you understand why how that that that movie led to the rush pilling? Yeah,
but also I was so sad at the end. It didn't make me
feel like rushed for you whiplash of like everything up to that. Tom sawyer
bit being like, dude, rock wrestling is the best thing ever, and
then it's like, oh my god, wrestling is like hell yeah. I
saw the big big sand Worm, the worm Drinks would say, saw that
on the big seventy millimeter only in Leicester Square, and it was like,
I'm getting shaken every time the woman's going hey yeah. I had a trek
across London to go find like an Imax screen to do that. I might
guesae it again before n aparm Deaf this weekend, you know, fit the
stuff in what I was at. The event I was at was a little
festival called Celestial Darkness Festival, which is something that has just popped up and
it's in London and it's a kind of an offshoot, I guess, of
something that's been happening for the last couple of years. It's the same promoters.
Do you know about Cosmic Void Festival. No, that's not actually I
would. I know there's been a few of these sort of festivals properly,
yeah, London. No, that's not what I was familiar with. Yeah,
Cosmic Void popped up. I think the first one might have been twenty
twenty two perhaps, and it's in London. The same deal as a lot
these festivals where it's like a cross the electric ballroom and the other world and
I think, you know there's like Incineration Fest and that's yeah, which you
Knowcineration. When I went it used the roundhouse. This was just like you
know ballroom of the because it goes like UK death Theft was when when we
went in that kind of thing. The Cosmic Void pops up and it's like
a proper full on cult black metal festival and Celes Your Darkness is again,
like I said, the same like company. And they they basically they they
put on like a second Cosmic Void Festival like six months before when the other
one happens, which was a kind of insane thing to do because you know,
it's a it's a niche style of music. The kind of thing we
were going for it was, it's slightly less themed than Cosmic Void, but
Cosmic Void is like a black metal festival. Cosmic Void looks like the kind
of things you get in Norway, like Beyond the Gates and you know,
those kind of things, but on a smaller level. So that's your darkness
was like I guess, like Cosmic Void, but a bit Gothia and a
bit kind of you know, more sort of like strained kind of rty things.
I don't say, kind of like like a bit of a bend of
like the artsier side of black metal just can like slightly avant garde touch,
yeah, road Bernie a little bit on like a tiny little scale, and
yeah, I guess, you know, maybe the it's certainly it's the smallest
in attendance festival I have ever attended because it again literally just across the Electric
Bore room in the Underworld, no clashes, so they had to cap it
at whatever the underworld size was, and it didn't sell that out. And
it's like, at what point does a festival just become a small gathering?
You know, like there was none of that sense of if you ever go
to like Desert Fest or something, which is again in the same you know,
collection of venues, it has that thing where you're walking around London and
around Camden and you can see everyone. You know, it's like you can
tell the fest was going on because there's everyone in fucking sleep t shirt.
I mean death Fest was a bit like that. Yeah, where this was
properly like if you were walking on Camden, you probably wouldn't know there was
an event going on. You just see the odd person and a black metal
T shirt walking back and forth between the Underworld and the ballroom. So it
was really, you know, it was a strange little thing, and I
guess, you know, there was there were certain things that happened obviously in
the ballroom, the larger of the two where it was like, yeah,
this is like minuscule for what is apparently, you know, a festival.
But I did, you know again seeing niche things. I saw some really
cool stuff. There was enough on there that I like really wanted to see
to make sure I you know, made the effort to to go. It
was a three day event. The first day actually took place in the It
was just one venue in the the two Islington Academy, uh, and that
was across in a different part of London. Like yeah, it is Linton
to Canada isn't too far, but like, yeah, I had to get
the tube to that one. But that was again just the one venue that
was the that basically an evening event that was headline by Primordial, So going
I'm guessing sure. Yeah. A couple of times before that was a band
called a Doorderdu which is a there were a kind of an offshoot band of
this brilliant Romanian black metal band called Agua Bungat, who are no longer around.
But seeing Door today was pretty cool and Primordial as you say, you
know, certainly if you if you've got Primordial to headline a festival, I
probably will try and try and go along. And it was the first time
I'd seen Prime Ordial in a bit over four years, like pre COVID,
and it used to be a thing in the kind of mid to late twenty
tens. I'd have a yearly date, like a yearly little jaunt to London
to see Primordial, whether it were headlining the Islinton Academy or the Underworld or
I've seen them do the Easington Assembly hallor whatever. It was like a yearly
event. I'll go and see my Primordial headline show. And it had been
a long time since I've seen them, but you know, comparatively because of
COVID and everything, and it was just a lovely again getting back in touch
with the band, who you could well say are my favorite live band just
in terms of reliably being incredible. They had like an hour set, which
I would have liked longer. I think there was one of those sort of
deals with like club nights and stuff going on afterwards, so ended pretty early
and with Primordia that basically meant eight songs, which also they were basically did
all like up tempo songs like I know when we were listening to that new
album and you were like, parts of these are like bangers, and parts
of these are a little more kind of moody, and you know, take
their time. The set was basically just like, yeah, we're just gonna
do only the fucking fist in the air songs and the new album. Yeah,
I think it was. The three of the eight songs were so decent,
Shine because like their lengthy pieces, like yeah, like I said,
eight songs all within like the seven to eight minute range, and of I
like it was the title track how It Ends, which is fucking amazing,
as we've said, a few times Victoria as a thousands Father defeats an Orphan,
which we end another big song, and it was a We Shall Serve,
which is one of the more kind of razy black metal ones that was
on that record, And they came out and open with as Rome Burns,
which is off an album that you will not have heard right now, but
one day you will, because we will certainly do it. Want album's like
at one point they're like their their biggest album, has this incredible fucking live
moment with this kind of chanted like sing sing sing to the slave moments like
every it's always a moment of any primordial set and coming opening with that and
then immediately how it ends fucking brilliant, and I was just like again so
won over by the proper semi spontaneous live energy of it, where it felt
like, you know, when Allen comes out as a front man and he's
talking to the crowd and there's there's little sense of the kind of canned this
is what he's said, you know, the same moves or whatever, even
like when he's saying he would just fucking like single people out in the crowd
and kind of you know, kind of focus on them at that moment,
really like intense movements and you know and responding to what you know, that
crowd is kind of bringing. My favorite moment was there was some guy in
the crowd who was like chant, who was shouting, and he shouted for
this song fweel Assa, which is the first song on the first Primordial record
from like nineteen ninety five, which they don't often. I mean, it
would have been cool for them to play that because I've never seen him do
that. But he was like, really, you want to hear the song
from the first song from the first album. I'll tell you what, We'll
do a new one. I went straight into victory as of Thousand Fathers and
yeah, I mean like even down to like some of the live sound go
like like the bass came like unplugged at one point and we had like this
fucking insane like drone version of the songs, but like, yeah, it
was kind of fed into this. Yeah, absolutely incredible live band again,
So great to see them again after several years away. The next two days
were the full you know, Camden back and forth deal, and in terms
of like some of the best stuff I saw there, I guess the second
day was the thing that the first thing I saw, one of the most
unexpectedly calamitous thing it was about I hadn't necessarily intended on going and seeing,
right. I turned up at the time when they were about to go and
play, and I feel like I shouldn't even name them because it feels like
beating a like a tiny you know, like a no name band. But
it's a bound you'd flown over from Mexico. So I was like, they've
made the effort to come from like Mexico City. I'll go and you know,
see what's going on here. I walked up to the Underworld and Ryan
de Fraitus was standing outside of the Underworld, and I was like, oh,
hey, what are you doing. Turned out he was there just for
that day to do to basically working in the Underworld, and we're like,
okay, cool. I had a lot of chat caught up, went inside
the venue. I started watching this first band, and within five minutes my
phone was blowing up of Ryan somewhere else in the Underworld working basically be like,
what is going on? I'm so scared what is happening? Because basically
it was two The band was entirely comprised of two guitarists, one of whom
was singing in a way that was much more kind of mumbling quietly, and
the drums and everything else was a backing track, and it just felt like
every single thing was not together. It's like this backing track that was behind
them, they were not playing in time with it. The two guitarists,
it was impossible to tell what they were actually playing because the guitars were like
it was like, are these out of tune? Are these even unlike plugged
in? Like one of them was just this woman who just like she was
kind of noodling, but you couldn't make out anything she was doing. It
was so fucking off putting just at them starting and being hit by this wall
of just like you know, there's like those like mean video of the Shreds
videos of like this guy who's like made songs just every element be out of
time in attitude and everything. It was exactly like one of those, and
I'm so again there was like twenty to thirty people in the underworld watching this
because it was you know, the yeah yeah, a not well sold thing,
and it feels like this really strange special moment of like that story lives
with me because there weren't many people there to see it. Like, thank
god Ryan was there so I can have someone to share that with and not
just be like, did I imagine how insanely like car crash this was?
But honestly it might be one of the most just like poorly conveyed put together
live performances I've ever seen. It was fucking nuts, and that again is
a worth my ticket money to have that story to remember other things, you
know, were good. So this band ad Nauseum, who were like a
fucking horrible dissonant like technical death metal band, it's exactly the thing that is
totally your nightmare like just like like imagine Imperio triumphant, but without all the
kind of the extra instrumentation, just the death metal like. But that that
record they put a couple of years ago got very well reviewed, and I
think Elliott was into it, so it was I think again, a lot
of these things were because it's a you know, they booked lots of like
UK debuts and UK exclusives and stuff for like underground cool bands who like,
it's not going to sell a lot of tickets, yeah, but there will
be to go really appreciate it. Yeah, Like so it was like cool
in that sense to see some of these things. And one of the things
to me was this band Chapel of Disease. So their new record came out
three or four weeks got a shouted out in a hyperblast. But I've been
fucking rinsing it. I absolutely love it, and seeing there was amazing.
It's kind of, you know, full on like they've done a tribulation of
kind of starting off as a death metal band and becoming something else, and
now they just have these all of the like insane brilliant seventies rock guitar solos
and stuff. Like the bassist looks exactly like he's like he looks like he's
from the Iron Claw, you know, like he pulled him out of the
seventies. He's got that kind of like mustache and really brilliant and energizing Save
Read who area you know, long running Norwegian black metal band. I was
having a conversation with a couple of people about kind of like I've ever met
a hardcore read fan, like in the way that obviously you know the Norwegian
black metal bands that you will kind of know like there are people who fucking
give their lives. Those bands. I've never met that guy who was like
pre ordering every single read album. They must be out there, but I
don't know who they are, but they they used to be in this band
called Windier, and they were because they were doing like this anniversary like thirty
year set that includes that window of time. They did like a couple of
Windier songs. That was cool to see those again classic stuff. So or
A Noir who are a like full on just like black thrash, black speed
metal, you know if you I've seen the name around on them, like
yeah times again. Men have some guys who like some in some other like
Norwegian blackmot bands and stuff, but that's they're kind of like full on,
you know, Motorhead, black thrashy type project, very very fun, live,
very very entertaining. Like you know, he comes out as like we
are aor A Noir, the ugliest band in the world, And honestly,
the stage pattern from him was fucking sensational. It was kind of that thing
where like I couldn't tell if he was actually drunk or just very good at
kind of acting I'm drunk. But every song it was like this one is
about hell. I think we've got like three songs in a row that are
about hell and every song or something like that. And then they fucking covered
They covered Fight Till Death by Slayer, which is like, you know,
like a deep Slayer pull from the first album. And it was like I
was talking to someone when they started playing it, and then I recognized the
rift, and I was like, oh, holy shit, hang on,
and you know a Slayer cover that isn't one of the obvious parties. Yeah.
Yeah, And for like a black thrash man to be doing like you
know that era Slayer was fucking wicked. So they were really really fun in
that sense. Satin Alia Temple, who I've mentioned again on a hyper blasts
recently, put an album fucking just super like grim heavy doom metal. You
know again former members of In Solitude and stuff involved with that. But they
were like they were the last band on in the underworld before the Ballroom Headliner,
and they went like fifteen twenty minutes over there allotted slots, just kind
of like grinding out these fucking super gnarly cave your head in fucking pitch black
rift. So that was quite a cool thing to witness. The Ballroom Headliner
that day was this band Imperium, which again they're a band who I think
I briefly mentioned them as sort of off the cuff when we did the Agaloque
Album Club recently because they were from the nineties. They're like a kind of
influential, sort of folky doom metal band I guess from I think Germany.
And this was the first ever UK show, like a band from the nineties
who had never ever played here. And again that's kind of thing where it's
like that doesn't sell a lot of tickets, right, but there will have
been forty fifty people there who have waited thirty years to see that. I
think. I'm you know, I'm not necessarily one of those people. I
was quite casual, Like, again it's a bit of a curio, I'm
guessing, yeah, a curio for me again, a band who have been
going so long seeing their first UK show and stuff like that. Again,
I spoke to someone afterwards who was a big fan. He was like,
yeah, that was amazing. Like I didn't necessarily feel that way, but
it was, you know, cool to see and again cool to have that
kind of stuff booked. And then the third day, again some of the
the earlier highlights. There's this band wolven Nest who do like this kind of
like really that's like proper road burn, like full on when you think about
like the commissioned pieces and stuff they do like the real like yeah, like
I like they're they're like a folky black metal band, but they've got this
this this singer at the front who is also she's playing a theremine while they're
and it's like full on like droney, you know, psychedelic kind of folky
black metal. And I sat up on the balcony in the ballroom for that
one and had a nice little kind of you know, meditation like thing.
Yeah a little bit who actually also played later that day. The other things
that I saw were I saw this band Esoteric, who are a funeral doom
band who are your worst nightmare where if they I think we've alluded to them
before because you know when you've kind of been like, you know, ahab
whatever a bit too much. It's like Esoteric make a hab look like minor
threat. Like like Esoteric, they're like a final notes can they play in
a minute? Like yeah, note in a minute? They were doing They
had like a forty five minute set and their hours. Their albums like an
hour forty five minutes long, Like I think I watched about half an hour,
and I think I saw nearly two songs, but uh, and I've
seen them before. And my favorite thing about them live is that the singer
has a Brittany mic. So oh that's so. That was that was so
it's just like you know, Funeral Dooms singer like playing guitar, just walking
around the stage being like with this little Britney mic on. It's really surreal.
But you know, they will just cave your head in for however long
you can see them. Tribulation were obviously another one of the main things was
like you've but Tribulation I'm gonna go set was like basically the exact same as
the Bloodstock set last year, except it was inside, so it you know,
fit kind of the the vibe or yeah, just gloomy and you know,
you guys know how I feel about that band. They were fucking brilliant,
amazing, you know, like watching the kind of reanimated court sort of
the seventies rock band, where like they do like synchronized moves and stuff,
and like the very last note of the set, like Jahannas will like stand
on the drum riser and then jump off at the end. But they're doing
like, you know, full on, you know, fucking necrotic, crypt
ghoul type songs. I've desperate seen to do a headline show. I've never
seen them headline. I've seen them I think three times in the past,
like you know, however many years, but they always come over just for
support slots or a festival, and they've got too many brilliant songs for me
to feel completely contented by forty five minutes. That's everything I wanted to say.
But they were brilliant and everything they crammed into that was really really strong.
And in terms of the new lineup as well, I think Joseph,
who's the new guitarist, I think I might have said this before again on
the Bloodstock review last year, but he's he kind of is like the flamboyant
one in the band in a similar way who Jonathan, who he replaced,
was, but in a different way. Where Jonathan was very kind of sort
of effeminate and you know, kind of moved around in this much more again
sort of flamboyant way, whereas Joseph is a bit more like a kind of
again like a seventies rock kind of guy that he will like get people pump
in their fists and that kind of thing. So it's it's a different energy,
but it is still an energy that contributes to the live performance. It's
all this band Dolt, which again like the most rob burn thing you can
imagine, like really like heavy gothy, I guess the kind of thing that
again differentiates this particular thing from what they do at Cosmic Void. But that
was interesting. And then after tribulation on the ballroom stage, a brilliant one
two booking was Goblin because you know that those kind of like progressive horror scores
and stuff like that a lot of what feeds into and it's funny Goblin.
I've seen them three times and they've they've just been adopted by extreme metal festivals.
It's like there are seventies you know, horror score progressive saying like prog
band, but they've just because they've got that darker side to them, obviously
with like all the ties to every horror movie you can think of that.
Yeah, and you know, I've seen them at Evelyn's death Fest before.
They've just been completely adopted by the extreme metal community, even though musically they've
got nothing to do with like death or black metal or anything. It's just
they turn up and play the themes of loads of Dario Argenta films with like
a they've got backdrop set for life. You know, they still do just
Yeah, the ballroom wasn't quite the right venue for that. I think it
was like the screen was a bit sort of far back and obscure. But
yeah, but you know, they've got that stuff behind them, so they're
doing you know, Suspiria and bits of like the Dawn of the Dead music
and stuff like. It was weird. They opened in a very slow,
strange manner where they came out and they opened with a theme for a Rigio
Diodato movie that isn't Cannibal Holocaust, so like a niche pool, And then
they did like a Darry Argenta movie from like the two thousands, and I'm
like, I don't think anyone knows what these are. But then straight after
that they did they went into Demons, which is one of the fucking sickest
Yeah, and as soon as that it was like, right, okay,
here we go, fucking classics. They overran their set a little bit.
So I didn't get to see I had to leave before the end, So
I think they were probably doing like Deep Red and like Tenebray and stuff like
that, which again, like Tenebray is like full on disco. It's like
like they're they're weird, like they're weird scores that like sometimes you know,
like associally them with horror, but it's it was all just part of the
vibe, weren't it. Like, but there what I'd like to see it
at some point just for the the whole vibe of it. Yeah, I'm
seeing them do again. It's almost like greatest hits of horror scores at a
festival or occasionally they've done like headline tours where they've done like live scores to
films and stuff like that, Like I've seen them do the Dawn of the
Dead version of that, and I know people have seen them do Suspirior stuff
like that. So it's always again a fun experience. The reason I had
to run off and I think I missed them doing again. There's ast couple
things is I had to run for the Unworld to see hex Vessel, which
is another one of the bigger draws for me because in general, you know,
I like hes xpscal have done for a long time, but particularly yeah,
particularly back of the polar Al album, And that was a really interesting
experience because obviously Hex Vessel are kind of psychedelic folk band originally, but this
last album they've done a black metal album, and it's like which version of
Hex Vessel are you get in then in the live show and so like,
I know that you saw them with with with Converge, and I imagine that
was like the full one that was full on psychedelic like yeah, like acoustic
guitars and stuff like that. Yeah, they had loads. There was like
a lot going on. When I came in, I was gonna like,
how many different things are they have? They got? But it was with
the trees, like yeah, and that's completely different to what I saw because
what I saw was Hex Special, the four piece black metal band like they
there wasn't like a four piece metal band sort of thing I saw there.
Yeah, because and obviously they didn't play anything from prior to this record because
I guess it's you know, it's not what they had with them. You
know, they can't just in a set, you can't just flip back and
forth between like, oh yeah, his are like electric black metal set up,
and they were also going to whip out the Mandolins and whatever. Yea,
So I saw them basically they do who they did, I I guess,
like almost the entirety of the Polar Ail new album, and there was
nothing else. So in a way, there's like a kind of again a
sort of a transient exclusivity to that where it's like if you see Hex Vessel
right now, you are seeing them do this black metal material, and who
knows how long they'll be doing that. You know, it's like they might
go off in a completely other direction again in terms of the live shows,
I'll be doing that and and again I feel like if they ever come around
doing the kind of folks show again, I would like to see that because
it's different to what I've seen. But you know, it was again really
cool walking to the Underworld. There's Matt in his like his robe with his
fucking hood up, like playing these like icy, you know, black metal
songs. There was like one of the two guitarists he did have like a
keyboard as well that he'd switched to to do that. The kind of little
accents and stuff those songs have but you know, again just the full on
meditative, you know, all the strange eccentricities, but very again primal black
metal that exists on that last record. And you know, it was like
Matt Is, you know, he's from London or at least England originally but
lives in Finland, and he does this kind of like every time I came
back. Every time I come back to England, I'm reminded of kind of
old friends and you know, people gone by, but I will meet them
again in the eternal meadow and movie into that. So you know he's always
been like that, though even with very pleasant, exactly inductions, he hams
it up a bit on them. Yeah, but it's like there's there's authenticity
to that in terms of what you were saying, but also a you know,
a theatricality and kind of those things in twine. So again like very
cool to see. And then the proper like the last headliner of the The
Sunday in the Ballroom was a sun who I guess was like it's his first
show off of the back of this new album, so it was like live
debuts for like, you know, the Promethean Spark and all the type songs.
And this was where it was really weird in terms of numbers because again
headlining and the electric ballroom, but the festival hadn't even sold out the Underworld.
So yeah, and again night, I don't know how many people had
like stuck around or whatever. Eastan played the Electropollum to literally about three or
four hundred people, and it was really strange in terms of like Isan could
probably play that venue himself and sell more than that. You know, It's
like Son could probably just headline that venue by himself and do a proper,
full on show, and here was headlining a festival ostensibly to this really minuscule
crowd at the end of the weekend. It was quite strange to see.
I suppose it's one of those things where like people are gonna pay forty thirty
forty quid see himy himself rather than however a three day festival is going to
cost with all the exactly that. But you know, so it was a
weird little atmosphere. But obviously in terms of seeing Isan play that material,
and it was, you know, fairly it was actually entirely waited on,
like the last few years of his material where he didn't go back at all
to like the like I've seenan a few times, but he's normally playing stuff
from like the After Record or you know, Aromet or whatever. Didn't to
do any of that. The oldest he went was a few songs from Arctists,
but it was almost entirely songs that he's released since the last time I
saw him, which is cool because again it was like a few from those
of the Telemark EP which he did, which is the one that Taylor Swift
took the cover from. But yeah, those kind of like Norwegian, you
know, slightly more black metally leaning songs and then these new ones which obviously
we just review that the album it's fucking amazing and I've been listening to it,
you know, continually, but it's such an extravagant, you know,
orchestral album, and this was like the the stripped down rock version of those
songs. Obviously you can hear the sinse on the backing track and stuff like
that, but it's like really more about the kind of you know, the
guitar grouves and stuff like that. Yeah, so like you know, it
heard those songs and a lot of different lights now and yeah, I mean
you know, won't necessarily be his kind of biggest show he's ever played or
anything like that, but obviously it was really really good to see. And
yeah, it was a festival that I don't know if they'll do this particular
one again, because you know, Cosmic Void, they've got a bit of
a a thing going on there. There's pretty well at this point this extra
one. I don't know if it will have I mean it was almost early
have lost money, but in terms of like being a continual thing they'll do,
I don't know, but I'm certainly glad it went because I got to
again. I like those that all cool, niche again exclusive stuff you won't
see at most festival type lineups, and I've got a few of those coming
up this year and that was a nice way, you know, to start
that. So that was my weekend at Celestial Darkness Festival in London. We
are going to move on to a bit of news that we have. We've
got some new music, we have got some strange things go going on.
We also have we're going to start off with some of that. I don't
know what's in the water recently in terms of like Jamie Lemmon retired from music
like the other week. It feels like a lot of that kind of yeah,
the cooler, artsier side of brit Rock and that kind of light.
Yeah, it's taking some losses at the moment and you will probably have no
doubt seen in the last couple of days that the lex Editions that Parlor Palm
Reader, who Palm Reader, have announced that they are going to be going
on a farewell tour and calling it a day later into this year. They're
doing four dates of a headline tour in July and then their final show you
know ever right now is going to be at two thousand and three so Fectial,
which is the first where theyve played many times, and I'm sure that
that will be a very very leave. That final show will be a nice
celebratory kind of moment for them. Palm Reader calling it a day is I
don't know. It feels a bit like like I was saying, they're kind
of they're so synonymous to me of a particular era, kind of like surviving
in between a couple of different eras exactly what mean, Like Palm Reader have
existed through a lot of different trends or whatever. Well, you go back
to like the bad that that was that like era of like the UK hardcore,
the real like punks or of like stuff the feed the Rhinos and that's
sort they were part of that, and then there are bands found out exactly
that they're from that kind of the post Gallows era really of like yeah,
you know, yeah, like the first of someone what was the point Gallows
like that they would like, yeah, feed the rhino, like Baby Godzilla
when they were you know, fucking Brotherhood of the Lake or whatever, and
they were kind of a bridge from that into what then became like you know,
the T and M era. And I think if you know, if
you think about a band who in the UK have just kind of been like
slumming it out forever and never you know, they never had any real moment
of mainstream pick up or whatever. It's just like what band have been like
in the trenches for the past nearly fifteen years in the UK. I think
Palm Reader, if you again, if you are in those trenches yourself and
go into shows, will be a quite uh you know, a very synonymous
band in that sense. Yeah. I mean they were one of those bands
that I think they're on those bands, I don't you never really meet a
casual fan of They were the people who liked Palm Reader, Like a lot
of them would tell you par are the best band to come from the UK
in the last like I say, fifteen years that they were that kind of
beloved band to the people were really wrapping up for they they did like go
on to you know, as they've soldiered on like towards the end, they
were doing decent numbers. Yeah, comparatively, they probably they picked up in
terms of how much how much recognition they were getting towards the end. And
if it were like that kind of artsier post milk and infant stuff where they
were following like Rolo to MASSI really starting to blossom and get popularity. Part
me you could kind of like ride that wave quite well. I mean,
like I say, I saw them just over a week ago supporting Price and
they were they were great live and it didn't feel like I had an air
of finality to it. But you know again they around, like I said,
they have slummed it out. They have gone for it all. So
if they they are an output where there like we we can't reatensibly further what
we will end it on our terms like fair enough I was really bummed out
about it because I've got a lot of time for Palm Reader, but just
yeah, it was a shame to see. Yeah, I think in terms
of what you're saying about kind of ending it when they feel like it,
I guess this this doesn't feel to me like you know, we've used examples
before of like Black Peaks or heck when they went or whatever, I've kind
of like untapped potential. Yeah, like before their time. This feels a
little bit more like kind of they've got what they wanted to out of it,
I suppose, which is always you know, it makes it a bit
easier to kind of stomach. It's funny you say that about like I think
I would probably count myself as that casual fan of Palm Reader, where I
do. I really like Palm Reader. But for me kind of like twenty
fifteen to like twenty eighteen kind of era, second third album sort of time.
Yeah, that's about when I was like when I would see them and
stuff, and obviously, you know, I think I remember that the track
Always Darkest, which is a fucking ripper. It's not any of their albums,
but that's a brilliant track, and that was premiered on the show.
It's one of those ones where the kind of you know, we've got this
track from you know, one of our bands in a way, which again
why this part Reader anouncement, I guess sort of hits slightly closer to home.
But like my favorite memory of Palm Reader was I think it was twenty
seventeen, like when that track was released. I was at two thousand Trees
and there's that band's Slot Face and they had to pull out of the festival
and they got last minute replaced by Palm Reader and basically we turn up to
the festival and it was one of those deals where like there were people with
signs around with like oh, Palm Reader are playing in place of slot Face
like in like an hour or whatever, and I was like, oh cool,
like fucking but it was one of those ones where like you never know
how much word had gotten around, So you went into that tent and I
don't know how many people in that tent were expecting one band versus another one,
And then Parmary had turned up and they did that like sad well that
start of that song, and it was just like, yeah, brilliant.
It was like I don't know, turned up and hijacked the fucking thing from
it and around that era is when I did see them a few times.
I've never seen them on the off the back of the latest album, which
I know is a lot of people's like, you know, favorite one they
ever did. But again that time they are one of those bands like roller
to Massie and employed to serve and heck when they were around in Black Peaks,
who do feel again a particular era of kind of hardcore leaning but just
sort of heavy UK music one of the front runners. Yeah, I mean,
like I said that, they they mean paved a lot of bands that
we probably loved would probably Tye Pimoingers quite obviously, which came from that earlier
era like you're saying, yeah, when they came before the like sort of
employed to serve and that's stuff they probably would all kind of champion part reader
as like well Ifhaca, I think we're like we say, like like Parmono
is hugely important to them. So I think there are bands who's like they're
not gonna be on these like Yuka bands who are forgotten about if they break
up. I think a lot of people that there'll be just a era of
person who will hold onto Primarder quite dearly. But I'm probably going to go
along to the London show they're doing as their final one and just see them
one final time. Like yeah, I'd like to go and see them off.
And obviously, like I said, I've not seen them on the back
of the latest record and that album, Sleepless, which came out at the
very end of twenty twenty, I think it will probably like you're saying about
kind of the people who hold this banda that's a real already. I think
it's it's a cult record, you know, and like I, I didn't
connect with it as heavily as people took. That one took me a long
time compared to the previous previous three. I like the record, but them
going that kind of sort of like uh you know, prog metale sort of
you know, deftones e techie type direction was again it's I guess it speaks
to their kind of evolution that Obviously, again we're talking about them coming out
of the kind of the the aftermath of Gallows post Hark or you know kind
of sound. Well, they were like probably like chaotic hardcore, but then
they went through to this full on you know, like you know, Radiohead
influenced, and I think, you know, obviously for people obviously if you
are like a regular arc tangent goer or something like that, that record is
a real you know, a lot of people's like favorite again record of the
last five years or whatever, And I can't count myself amongst that, but
like obviously it landed in that kind of way. And you know, I'm
curious, like if we were to ever do like a part Reader album Club
or something, what one would people actually consider to be like the classic,
you know, because like I remember, like you obviously people just spoken about
Sleepless. I think it's a lot of people's like that's their biggest achievement.
When Braille came out, that was like you know that that I always feels
like the one that that was like where finally started to feel more people catching
onto an upswing, like would you go back to bad Weather? And that
kind of era I really like, besides the one we love, the kind
of the sort of you know, when they've taken the angry hardcore thing to
kind of its fullest level, I guess, and like that kind of speaks
to yeah, like never never a big popular band on a large level,
but they certainly did in the decade or so around they covered a impressive amount
of ground. Yeah yeah, absolutely yeah, and a good live band as
well. So yeah, I mean another kind of formative to the early era
of T and M. I suppose band call it a day here and you
know, we worsen the best of luck in terms of this farewell to and
everything like that. And if they're coming to your city, you should definitely
go along because they were there. You know, they're a fine live band
and a band that I think they're a band who in five ten years time,
there will be a lot of people kind of they'll go Palm Reader or
on those like Yeah, I think even more they'll be there'll be people who
were will kind of like publicly lament the loss of Palm Reader who weren't necessarily
actually going to these shows at the time. You know, one of those
ones that might sort of go that kind of way. So you want to
get in on it while it was here, I guess, yeah, absolutely,
and like and whatever you know the members will go on to do next,
is that if any of them are going to carry on with music,
I'll be interested to see what any of them bands. Josh is in the
band with Joe from Black Peaks, who haven't released anything currently. If someone
called me up on it when I said that none of the other members apart
from Will are doing anything and but there's a bad who haven't released any music
yet but hopefully hopefully they will, you know, after Part Reader are gone,
and that was potential to be interesting, I suppose. But yeah,
Palm Reader. New album announcements. First one is a pretty big one,
I guess. It's Nick Cave and the Bad Seats have announced their new album
Wild God, which is going to be out in August. Actually it's a
long way away compatter to most things we are talking about, but this is
in terms of the Seeds canon. It is the follow up to Ghost Team
Really, which came out in twenty nineteen. Quite a while now. We
did have the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis record in between the we Review,
which I really like. I think actually like that like that one. Yeah,
that's the record that I saw them on the you know, the kind
of weird tour they did for that, and I think I might actually like
that record more than the latest Bad Seeds one. But this is the newest
Bad Seas record, and in terms of that again in particular naming of the
band or whatever. The entire time that I've been following them, basically they've
been doing that particular sort of trilogy they were working in, which was the
most like sparse, kind of ambient leaning Bad Seas material that they ever did.
I think Ghost Team took that to its kind of you know, furthest
level. So it was quite a I guess, like an acknowledgment that we're
in something new when I press play on this single and it's a meedle,
like there's bustle in drums and a fucking rhythm section past the trilogy really involved.
I think this track there's a lot a lot going on with it.
Yeah, that's not to say it's any of their heavier tracks and like that,
we're not going back to you know, full on growling murderer man Nick
Cave. This is like you know, Q Magazine and Jewels Holland Nick Cave,
but white celebratory though. I think like it's it's quite uplifting and like,
yeah, I like the melron darker moments, but like, yeah,
yeah, I think it's it's a more unassuming song. Perhaps then like again
Carnage coming off that trilogy. I really like the kind of increased bite that
was on levels of that. But there is that point when you hit like
the three minute mark in this song and it does that like bring your spirit
down and it just fucking shifts gears with the strings and everything and Nick starts
booting off that. Yeah, I think it's a like an acknowledgment. Like
I said that this album is at least going to be rather different and moving
a different direction to the last certainly two Bad Seeds records, And I think
that maybe more than the track itself, But that is kind of the interesting
part to me about where we might end up going with a Bad Seeds record.
Yeah, definitely. Yes. We also have in much more closer home
T and m fair Ceaspace Cowboy have got their new album A it's called Coup
de Gras. It's coming out on would you believe at the nineteenth of April.
I'm telling you that's the month where we're not going to be able to
review some of the big records that come out because like Metalcrep monthly Extreme Metal
as well, But it's like the last two weeks of that month, everything
is coming out, So there are going to have to be some notable records
that will slip through our particular net in that regard because we have time to
get to all them. But Sea Space Cowboys record is on that pile.
We've actually heard several tracks on this already because they've announced the track list.
I was thinking, like, surely we've had Ceaspace Cowboy singles and stuff that
we've spoken about, and they are, you know, here on this,
so maybe not too much stock to put into this particular new track. But
there's about four of them out and asume that you are into it, yeah,
I mean this newest one because it's kind of like two songs they put
on this new one, one of them kind of being like this really like
vaudeville introduction kind of track with a guest vocal, but then the main sort
of similar done. It is very panic at the disco core. They've really
died that. Yeah, well is that, but it's even it's less kind
of like all over the place, and I think it actually suits c Space
Cowboy a bit better with like Connie as like a vocalist, Like you can
now that really like high personality sort of thing means it is the most theatrical
sort thing they've done, but it's still got all the discordant riffs and panic
chords and metal or bits. I like, yeah, into this a lot,
sure. And then the following week, as I said, in that
busy, busy period Full of Hell, We're going to have their new album
which is called Coagulated Bliss. This is the follow up to whatever. The
twenty twenty one album was cooled that we did review that had all the fucking
bass clarinets and stuff on it. That was cool, But then this is
also it's coming very hot off the heels of the Co Lab album with Nothing
thing that came out just in in December, so you can really fill your
plates with full of hell. Jay Weinberg, which announced this week to be
joining Suicidal Tendencies, which feels like if you were going to, I don't
know, write a bingo card for what things that could happen after Jay Weinberg
leaves Slip Knot, it wouldn't have been outlandish to put joint Suicide Tendencies on
those because it feels like, has a go in suicidal when you when you're
out of your main band, do you head over to Suicidal Tendencies for stint.
Yeah, I'd forgotten that Dave Lombardo had even left Suicidal Tendencies. Apparently
he has been out for like three years. Yeah, but like it makes
sense. I guess that, like he'll do well in suicell Tendencies like be
a good kind of like and it presents behind the kit to like add a
bit of Yeah, the only thing I would say about this is Suicidal Tendencies
And like I said, they're kind of like you know, Revolving Drum Throwne.
It's such a legacy band right now, where like they haven't released an
abum since twenty eighteen. I don't know when the last Suicide Tenzcy's album that
people like really listened, Like yeah, yeah it came out. It feels
like a kind of like you go and see Suicide Tendencies and you're seeing the
name and the kind of the the legacy and that kind of celebratory side rather
than like a super creatively relevant band. And you know, fucking good for
Jay that he gets to go and play with, you know, this legendary
band who probably mean a lot to him, and he'll do very very well
there and he'll probably be fucking you know, he'll smash that role undeniably,
I think. But in terms of like, are you going to be hearing
Jay Weinberg on any kind of high profile records anytime soon under suicidal tendencys name,
at least I don't think that would be the case. Yeah, I
mean he might. He might have other stuff going on alongside this, you
know, if it's just like he's now tonal with suicidal tendencies whenever they're active.
But yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I doubt will get like
a suress Tendency's record with him on drums. Well even did I think it?
Just it just wouldn't be headline news the most exciting. But you know,
the revolving drum throne slipnot drummer has gone to a cell of Tendency's.
Dave Lombardo has gone to somewhere else. I'm fucking playing with Simon Neil,
isn't he ye? Sepulturer's drummer is probably gonna Probably they're all just moving around,
aren't they. Someone else will have gone to Sepulturer. Laurie Patterson is
an official member of Creeper. This is the guy who has been playing live
with Creeper for god well over a year now. By this stage, it's
been Yeah, it's been a good while probably I guess since you know,
post COVID that he's been even maybe pre I don't remember. He's been in
that band for a long time. But now he's officially inducted as like a
not just live member of Creeper, and you know, good for him.
He's been playing with her for a long time. He clearly he's putting a
good shift and and deserves that. And they've kind of announced this alongside a
video for the song Lover's Letters Stray, which I'm glad see that song getting
its flowers. That's like one of my favorites on the record that it doesn't
necessarily like you know, it's not like Further and Forever or people go,
oh my god, what the fuck? Yea, but that's just a banger.
I love it. And they're just leaning more. They're getting kinkier by
the day, like BDSM non video like cool creepy, Yeah, that's prep
Like they just look the coolest in the video though, like leather Jack like
leather Jacket. Vampire era Creeper I think might be my favorite era of creeper
at this time. Yeah, I actually think it's so funny thinking about like
when Hannah joined the band, and you know, there's a there's a confident
thing involved, where like when Hannah joined the band, she was just sort
of the the nice keyboardist at the back who didn't command a lot of attention
necessarily. And then a few years in, okay, Michelle Peifer, sure,
why not go for it? Corn have announced a massive thirtieth anniversary stadium
show. This is actually that makes the UK one look tiny. It does.
Yeah, the UK one still got a bloody good bill if you're going
on to the London Day. But this is I guess the thirtieth anniversary of
the debut record. I don't know. I can't see the information. If
that means they're actually playing the Deby record again as they have done in the
past, it will be interesting if they've gone back to doing that after I
guess that particular thing was sort of like had had different judgments on how well
people thought that that went. But along with it they've got Evanessence, Gadjira,
Star Scars on Broadway, spirit Box coming over from the UK again and
Vended, which, apart from the fact that Scars on Broadway is you know,
people wish it was System yeah fucking or Corn like yeah, an ridiculous
type makes no sense at all, but I would have a great time like
but like you could see both fitting with Corn like in a way like,
yeah, they both they do both fit Corn in like the different sides of
them, but as a one two before them, it is a weird,
weird like jarring, but yeah, I have an amazing time at that.
It's nice to see Corn playing fucking huge shows, like again, this is
a US fucking stadium. I think for a band who here, they've always
been kind of like locked in that download subheadliner, you know, maybe the
third yeah, whatever kind of level. And they're a band I think a
lot of people lament not kind of being at the very very top of the
tree when they've undoubtedly put the shift in to to warrant that. It's nice
to see them actually going, yeah, fuck it, we've been around long
enough, we are important enough, we have enough, like all Timer tunes,
we are going to pack out the fucking and most enormous shows that we
can book. And I guess it'd be interesting off the back of this whether
they're long term sort of stock does you know go up? Yeah, I
hope so that it'd be nice to see him, like really get their moments
to just be recognized as like, what an important again, I remember what
important band Corn were. Yeah, and I think public good will and everything
in terms of like, you know, obviously, how many new bands have
come through, like you know, spirit Box or whatever. Who are all
you know worshipting out that altar? I think you know, certainly they are
undeniably in legend status at this point, Bricks and Academy have announced their proper
re reopening date after the venue has been closed for again well over a year
at this point, isn't it? It is a quite amusing line up for
people are like really where it's just look, this is a bit of a
monkey's poor moment. It feels like to me is like yay, Bricks Academy
is reopening, but not even just like the firsts announced, but every sing
they've been out so far it's like, oh, are they exclusively booking show
for the most boring people you know, to just avoid any like yeah,
I mean the first announcement I'm looking at here is just all tribute bands basically
it's like Navana Uk and the Smythes and stuff like that. Definitely might they
invented like the Black Keys, I think, And this is like bands like
that, Oh, are you just booking the most boring bands you can to
just keep saying, But like the tribute things is reopening that. I'm like,
I kind of see what they're going for there is just have a safe
bit of one and go, oh, here's a song, here's here are
songs you recognize, comes sing along. Yeah, just news there is that
Brixton is you know, after a fear that it might actually you know,
go the way of the Dodo, it is opening up, so you know,
we'rehoo, that's good. This is a speculative piece of news. I
think. Refused have been announced for a festival in Sweden, the Rosendahl Garden
Party, which happens in Stockholm. It's their first live show in four years,
which I didn't realize. Apparently they haven't played since Covid I guess,
yeah, But being announced for this festival has come with this kind of announcement
from that festival that it is their final festival appearance in Sweden. Right.
This is at the time of recording the only information I have in terms of
any larger run or anything like that. But does that mean if it is
their first show again in four years or whatever, do you reckon refuse to
like actually calling it quits again or is this like, you know, are
they going to do a machine Head and not play festival and like what's going
on here? Are refused going out? I reckon this might be the start
of like a winding down process. Like I don't know if like they're going
to you knows, they're breaking up, or if they just kind of like
it becomes a very even more casual than it has been life. What they
might just play you know, the odd headlines show every now and then.
I hope that we get a few more dates. If they are like calling
it quits, I'd like to refuse again. They're still great now. I've
never actually been refused. So I saw them, see them why some both
times they've been like really really on it. It was on what was the
war music or whatever? That? Yeah, I saw them on that twice
and like both times really good. Like so yeah, I guess we'll see
if if this is going to amount to just a slow wind down or just
off festivals. Or they are going to, you know, in a couple
of weeks say yeah, this is it. Yeah, I think I refuse
to fucking dead again. This time it's permanent. But yeah, you wouldn't
be surprised, I guess after this to see the news of a refused farewell
tour coming you know, this year, so be beyond the lookout for that.
Maybe they will pull a Slayer and come back only play festivals or whatever.
But yeah, refused potentially on the way out here. And my favorite
piece of news of the week, which you brought to my attention, Sam,
is that uh iced Tea and on his new list of targets. I
guess it's like every couple of years, Iced Tea needs to get into a
beef with someone new you wouldn't expect. This time it is the UK Labor
Party leader Kiir Starmer. After Kiir Starmer started this which I think I can't
find the actuatqua like, is this a ship post that iced Ty is now
like taken literally? But I was like I did, But whatever it is,
I'm just like I'm here for that. I'm here for it. Yeah,
so Kir Starmer apparently, if you know, if we can't find the
article or whatever. But apparently in an interview he was asked to name a
public figure who he thinks has a corrosive effect on the youth, and he
immediately jumped to wrapper and body count for man Iced Tea because apparently his son
likes Iced Tea and like retweeted him or something, and he watching his son's
Twitter account, was like, who is this vile man spreading such violent you
know, full on like nineties conservative parent. Won't someone please think of the
children, Like yeah, hip hop is inspiring gang violence whatever type deal.
And Iced Tea probably never heard of Kirstarmer in his life replied on Twitter saying,
oh shit, we're famous. We've struck a nerve. You've got to
read this. F this clown. And again, if iced Tea knows nothing
about Kiir Starmer, then probably better for him. But Iced Tea calling Kostarmer
of all people a clown is my favorite quote of this year so far.
Is this is gonna be the one that I'm like this, this is you
know, when we come to the Ndabian Wars in the summer of the year,
Iced Tea kissed Armer, beef chat shit gets shot. Kistar is to
learn what happens when you talk shit and act hard. Motherfucker always been like,
yeah, fucking tell them the nerd. All right, Patreon this week
what we were talking about earlier, a couple of days ago, we recorded
and uploaded the second part, the final part of our band special on Alexis
on Fire. Actually I went back and looked at the other things. It
turned out this is the longest single part of a band special that we have
ever done. I think the longest one before was the second part of Killswitch
Engage was went over four hours. This one has eclipsed that, and you
can never predict which ones it will be, but it's it's the two albums.
It was all we had to cover on this one. You know,
other stuff as well involved in the middle. A good couple of hours of
chat in between the two actual Election on Fire albums, which is good and
representative because I was thirteen years story. Yeah, So summing up this special
in general, I will say I've said it a couple times on the special.
I think it was a real pleasure for me to because obviously with the
specials, we we flipped back and forth between doing kind of more extreme underground
stuff, but the way we do on the reviews. We try. We
try and sort of please everyone in terms of, like, whatever kind of
rock fan you are, we want to do some specials on some of your
favorite bands and some of the most important bands in kind of the fields that
you love. And so for me going over to the realms of kind of
like emo and post hardcore and stuff like that, finding a band who I
like again already liked and respected a great deal, and that's part of why
you know, I was a bit like, yeah, we should do Withlexi
on Fire, but like finding a band like that who you can fall just
so properly in love with and come out like full on celebrating what a like
genuine okay, a one off kind of band, which is one of those
things that people maybe isn't always attributed to a band like Alexi on Fire,
but like how interesting and how singular there kind of artistic lineage is. It's
the reason why we do these band specials. I mean it kind of like
we're in like on the opposite positions. This time we used it's music one
coming at me like I have such a new fan appreciation for band I liked
and like gushing about them, and like, for me, there's not been
much in the way from this next especially that's been a new revelation to me
because I fucking adore that band, and just hearing the Dead Tired records of
the first that was that was the biggest discussion. It was like, oh
cool, George has got this like wicked hardcore band on the side. But
also also you know kind of like it was just nice to really dig in
and even though you know it's not my favorite, like giving old croajon Cardinals
its Flowers is like a really like important pivot album that was like way ahead
of its time in terms of like post hardcore, released in two thousand and
nine, and yeah, just a really good time and like starting the Pink
Wars in the T and M discord. Yeah, I stand by my position
one. Yeah this so this was the second part. We basically had the
kind of the death and rebirth because we did the farewell album and the comeback
album inside the same special And I think that is the point where you're really
getting to like no one in the world but Alexa on Fire could have made
these records right Old croas current Young Cardinals coming at the end of their classic
period really if you've not heard it in a while, and I guess considered
how unique a record it is it really is, and then real one off,
Yeah, and then a couple of years after we reviewed it, sort
of seeing how well otherness has kind of stood that particular stretch of time and
how well it's slotting up and everything. This particular part also meant going through
the wider Alexis on Fire umbrella of related projects and City and Color Special as
we joked it is, but really it goes from everything from we just mentioned
Dead Tired, We speak about you know, the Wades, Doom's Children record,
Black Lungs, and a you know, as efficient as we could sort
of cram into forty five minutes or so run through of City and Color as
a project, all of the different records, which ones are kind of worth
your time, whether we like Sit in Color at all, the different you
know things we come out with, like we said, the wider Elextion Fire
umbrella, and then come in too, as we always do, summon up
the legacy of Alexis on Fire, which is one of the more nuanced cases
of like I said it, on the special, They're not Navana in terms
of like ushering in a massive sea change of like changing the face of rock
music and what bands sound like or whatever, but pinpointing what their legacy is
and what kind of standard they you know, project out there and uphold and
everything again is part of the thing where I always like to say, these
specials I think cover bands in the way that most places you are not going
to hear do that, and hearing this level of detail on everything Alexa on
Fire and really going into what makes them the band they are. It's a
special that I'm proud of. So if you want to go and get involved
with that, that would be a patron oft com slash that's not now.
The previous thing prize that was the album Club pack we did where we spoke
about another of the most important post hardcore bands of all time, the Blackouts,
starting the party, Aglocks the Mantle, like I mentioned earlier, really
fucking awesome. Stuck for me, like I'm I do expect to come out
of that album club a fully rush piled and going into more Rush albums,
oh yeah, and be thinking about that Aglock album and like along one kindering
like maybe having to check out a Raglock album at some point. Yeah,
So that is what going on Petroncon Slash. That's not metal. If you
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Gracing your ears this particular week, this Friday are Friday's releases, and
we start with one of the most anticipated heavy fucking metal records of I would
say the last few years. I guess it's Judas Priest back with Invincible Shield,
their first record in six years. Could you believe that? But like
Firepower still kind of fresh. Yeah, Firepower has not lost its fucking luster.
You can say that much. And I guess you know. There was
every chance that Firepower could have ended up being the last record, but we
have another one where that came from. So go and fill your ears with
some Judas Priest. We also have Sonata Arktica, Clear Cold Beyond. Apparently
this is much more like a power metal record as opposed to some of the
other things like acoustic records or what they've experimented with. I hope that there
is a cloud factory on it for Elliott to you know, have an earworm
there, myrath Karma. This is the first record to show up in this
hyperblast three times because every time I have put this fucking record in the wife,
I recognize every time I put this record in the release date has been
wrong. I don't know what the fuck has been going on. I am
sure it's coming out this time because like there are reviews up, like publications
are publishing their reviews of this. I am certain that this my record will
come out tomorrow as we are currently recording this. If it doesn't, I'm
not putting it in anymore. Fuck them, but myrath Karma should be out
kill the lights death Melodies. This is a moose from Bullet, m Valentine's
new band. I can't remember. It's been a while, I guess since
they were, like, you know, put forward as a band. He's
been at a Bullet for quite a long time now, isn't he. Yeah,
But this is another new record from them. We also have Oh if
Judas Priest wasn't enough for your heavy metal Today, Midnight's new record Hellish Expectations.
Just like long ago, this is the last Midnight record, but I'm
ready for a new one after how much I enjoyed that last record. It's
been two years, it was two years before that. That's how he doesn't
work. Yeah, it's just like constantly fixing it with more Midnight but Judas
Priest and Midnight on the same day. If you are a heavy metal fan,
you are fucking one for the heavy metal demons, Yeah, you are.
The demons are living today. Ghost not that one ghost as I like
to call him, even though he's pronounced ghost, But I have to say
it. Goss To I says, yeah, you have to say it to
determine which one you're talking about, the synth wave one. His new record,
Prophecy is out today. I've heard that this one goes much more to
the kind of like the extreme, blasty synth way thing that he did on
records like Possessor and stuff like that, which I think is maybe the most
unique thing that he's kind of offered to that particular kind of realm of music.
So if you liked that, I mean, the cover's got a big
fucking nuclear explosion on the front of it, so like, you know,
that's that's the vibe we're going for. And then today is really a heavy
metal day. Really because we've got ex order. Then you record Defectum Omnium,
you know, New Orleans kind of proto groove metal whatever, kind of
pioneers death metal, A pretty you know, one of the more buzzy I
guess current death metal bands around. Skeletal Remains releasing fragments of the Age List,
which is their follow up to I guess they're kind of more breakout record
that came out a few years ago. If you want some just nasty death
doom. At the fact that the band is called slime Lord, I think
we'll convey to you what you want. An album title that chere Chi Trio
Doo, Micosis Relinquished. That's how I'm going to do that named in the
description. If you need that one black metal full on, just corse painted
black metal, nothing fancy really going on. But if you want some of
that merrimack, I've got the record of Gravity and Grace and some slow,
slow funeral doom for Sam to dig into ethan or Doll with Requiem for Irene.
There you go. That is today's releases. Like I said, due
Priest of Midnight wol thank you very much for listening today. Go and check
out what we were speaking about with the excell Fire, especially everything. If
you so wish, that is a lovely time. If you are, if
you're maybe not the heavy metal who can be going for the midnight record today
and you want to listen to Dallas Green instead, We've got you covered.
We will be back with more of this where this came from, very very
soon, indeed, in fact, next Friday to be precise, So enjoy,
We'll see you there. Bye bye,