Hello, everybody, Welcome to Hyperblast here on That's No Metal, where we
are back once again as we always are, giving you the week in news
of rock, heavy metal, the surrounding world, everything that's gone on in
a week where like, I'm not making light of his diagnosis, I'm not,
but just as an insight into how my brain works. This is not
a bit My girlfriend told me the king had cancer and I immediately jumped to
what King Diamond? A few seconds there was I was in a panic or
like, you know, at least the another king that we are going to
spend you know, a bolt of this episode talking about you know, you
can't say that to me without context, but genuinely that is that is what
happened to me this week. Hello, you can hear the voices opposite from
me. My name is Paranhirsh. Opposite from me, we've got Sam Dignon
and also, for reasons that will become clear later in terms of what else
we are doing today, we've got Mark Sanderson with us as well. Mark,
How's how's twenty twenty four treating you? Sofar? I've done nothing.
I've not gone farther than twenty twenty minutes outside my village in about two months,
but I mean that does change. I suppose. Yeah, I'm seeing
the enter Shikaris very nice. I was very excited. Yes, I was
at a Merseyside like metal thing this week, mainly because Conan were playing really
weird mix of like when there's no theming or curation outside of these bands are
from like around the Liverpool area. You had like really awkward like pub metal
stuff suddenly shifting into that band Utopia who released that record last week, and
just going into like full on screeching math care. It was like some wild
transitions. But Conan, that's a band we take for granted. I think
like that's one the great doom band in terms of like benchmarks of how punishingly
Barbarrick you can take that kind of heaviness, like genuinely one of the nuttiest
sounding live bands in the world, maybe like without fail. Every time their
records are great, I love them, but then you see them live and
they will have a guitar tone that you just don't understand, like you can't
process how guttural and distorted it is, and they will smash you to pieces.
And then last night I ventured over the river to the strange wildlands of
the Wirral and Birkenhead to see Drab Majesty and Nuova Testamento playing over there.
For some reason, Nuova Testamento back again, very very quickly, immediately.
Genuinely, I think one of my favorite new artists of the twenty twenties at
the moment, Like they are just so much fun and so good at what
they do, like incredible disco synthpop songs, and it's a real case of
like, ah, if this was the eighties, you'd know these songs that
they were bloody pet Shop Boys ones, Michelle Miss Sheell all that shit,
although thank You Burke and here in an American accent is not something that feels
like it should ever be uttered. Drag Majesty I hadn't seen before, and
the Modern Mirror album I have listened to consistently for the last like five years,
so it was lovely to see those songs live. They played like my
four favorite songs off It All in a row. They're touring this EP at
the moment from last year. That's like a bit weirder. It's more kind
of like nineties British influence, like some shoegaze, but also some kind of
like psychedelic like Happy Monday's like influence at points in it or something. It's
not my favorite thing they've done. I don't think this direction that suits them
overall, but I am you know. I reminded of when we we talking
about EPs on the Award Show and Elliott was like, it's your free hit
experiment. You know. Two weird blokes in suits, crazy sunglasses a lot
that they're bolted onto their heads, blonde wigs like spray painted silver. Great
time. A man I would love to see in crazy sunglasses and a blonde
wig spray painted silver is Kerry King, who this week debuted his first piece
of music since the demise of Slayer. The last Sligher music was fifteen.
It's been nine years since we heard anything from the pen of Kerry King in
this guise, and that really does feel like quite quite a golf in time
there. He has an out of course previously that his band is just going
to be called Kerry King. We've had like festival dates and stuff like that
going along with it. But now we have an album that is going to
be coming out a little while in this year. We also have the full
announcement of who is in the band, and we have the first song.
It is called Idle Hands. The band it should be you know it,
no it. It consists of former Slayer drummer Paul boss Staff on drums.
In the least shocking move of any of them, Phil Demml is actually going
to be the co guitarist along with him. He's left Violence this week,
so I guess currently his primary musical gig is playing alongside Kerry King. He
had like filled in for a few Slayher dates towards the end ones that Gary
couldn't make. Former Hell Yeah bassist Kyle Sanders is in the mix, and
it is Death Angels front man mark Us Gwanda. However, you say that
man's name? Who is going to be performing vocals on the record and presumably
go It and Tory along it as well. He has clarified saying that he
is like still in Death Angel and all that as well. But that is
the lineup we have here. We can talk about, you know what those
people add to the song. But also this came out with a fairly lengthy
interview piece in Rolling Stone which had some I mean, he said some pretty
spicy things in this interview piece. When it came to, you know,
the the demise of Slayer in the last few years. Not a man to
pull his punches really, Yeah, wasn't mincing words on this one. Didn't
quite expect him to go quite as much venom like Tom Riah and like all
that. It was was like, oh, well, he's no holds barred
on this one. But you know, yeah interesting even I don't know if
venom is even the word I would use, because he seems like he's very
over it, but he did. He is very matter of fact about exactly
what he thinksbout people. But he like he didn't like to say, he
just didn't hold back. It was yeah, straight for the like straight to
the point. But I mean, I imagine if you're doing that interview must
be like, oh, this is this is gold, We're game right now,
like it's real, like it's it's had everyone's had an opinion on it,
Like that's what you want to guess. Yeah, he's been enlisted general
and I don't give a fuck war Like I like that about to be fair.
Yeah, I was reading it and I was like, thank fuck someone
still yeah, yeah, yeah, if he was just like oh yeah,
I really respect Tom such a lad and all this, I'd be like boring,
give me the tea. Yeah, I mean, like, you know,
obviously he talks about he talks about the split with Dave Lombardo, which
you know, and he basically says Dave Lombardo was dead to me over the
kind of the how he ended up exting Slayer the second time. He also,
you know, in terms of exposed, the relationship with Tom is the
more unknown quantity prior to his interview, but he basically said that hen't spoken
to Tom since the last Slayer shows. And you know, while he I
wouldn't say he has venom for Tom, he does basically say like the quote
which I imagine comes with a hint of kind of you know, sort of
twinkle in the eye when he says it, But he says like he I
don't wish him dead at this moment in time, which is a very ridiculous
Kerry King that that to me feels and was like at this moment in time,
Like he's like that he has at some point that there has been like
some genuine like real like yeah, eased off almost, But yeah, I
mean he talks about the there was there was the Trump incident with Tom where
Tom used the official Slayer like account to post some like republican content, and
you know, in Kerry's interview he says, like, you know, the
other three guys and Slayer at that point in time, Kerry, Paul and
Garry are all like, no, what the fuck are you doing? So
I imagine that you know, you do see divides, you know, a
bit like we've seen him with bands like System of a Down or whatever it
kind of those areas. And I think more generally, Kerry King is obviously
the guy who never wanted Slayer to go, like he is the guy who
completely fully lived and breathed Slayer and would have done until his last breath had
he been given the opportunity to. So I mean, I guess he probably
did have some frustration towards the fact that, you know, like Kerry King
has always been the guy who said, like, oh, yeah, I
would still be playing in Slayer, and people have gone, oh, does
that mean a reunion. It's like, no, it means that Kerry King
didn't want them to break up in the first place. You're not seeing a
reunion because the rest of Slayer weren't down for that. But Kerry King is
going to be playing music forever and that's what he does. And I guess,
you know, just in terms of this innity people we get to the
song. I like I said, I appreciate the honesty from Kerry. I
think we've seen you know, it's a bit like the the Dillinger thing we
spoke about recently when when Ben and Greg were kind of, you know,
sparring a little bit in the press. I think people sometimes see this stuff
about their favorite bands and they feel the need to like take a side,
even if like you know, they you don't know, you're not in the
room, you don't really know, like you don't know these people, and
people feel need to. But oh, you know, I think this guy's
in the right whatever. Slayer are one of my favorite things to ever grace
this earth. And you know, like, would it be nice if they'd
kind of kept up that full on band of brothers thing like they were in
the eighties till the end. Sure, But I mean, that's that's so
rare for that to happen to anyone. I you know, you can look
at this and go like, we don't know exactly, you know, the
Dave situation with the kind of financial contract stuff that they kind of were arguing
over that led Dave's exit the band. Could Dave have points? Yeah,
could carry have points? Yeah? I again, like I said, I
don't feel the need to draw some kind of allegiance, shall we say?
In these matters? We don't know him personally, so yeah, what's the
point? You know? It's a shame when bands get like I'm sure,
like I say, for a lot of them, they probably have their sides
that are valid, but it just it makes for sort of a gripping read
when it all drops it like this. Yes, the album is called from
Hell I Rise, which is a great name for an album for the first
you know past Slayer Kerry King project. It's gonna be on May the seventeenth.
We have a track from it called Idle Hands. It does not sound
like unto others unfortunately, but it does tell you what sounds like fucking Slayer,
doesn't it. Yeah, Like you hit play, you'd like if everyone
was expecting a surprise thing play from this. I think that's you know,
more for them. But it's good. Kerry King still do the Kerry King
thing. I find this like I put it on and like I said,
it's nine years since we heard a Kerry King, you know, proper song
like this, and it's a nice hitter familiarity for me, Like it sounds
like repentless in terms of like the kind of thickness of the guitars and the
production. Obviously that was the record where Kerry King took on like the hugest
bulk of the writing because Jeff was no longer in the picture. So it's
Kerry's style of riffing on it. And you know, maybe if you're kind
of the Slayer died after nineteen ninety kind of purist, you know this won't
be for you. But I love that, and you know, his all
over this, his like picking rhythms of how he writes a riff that you
kind of open chords on the chorus that like chugging kind of crunch stump when
the verse comes in, all that stuff, Like, I just fucking it.
It takes me back to, you know, nearly a decade ago when
we were last hearing a new Slayer record, and I always always get a
thrill out of it. Yeah, it's funny him saying in the interview he
never wanted Slayer to stop. That's very, very apparent when you listen to
this, it's the spot. I don't think it's a particularly memorable song,
but the riffing it's nice, it's comfy, you know, but it is
funny hearing a gruffer voice. Yeah, on that style of riff. It's
funny you say about that, the kind of the memorable soil. Maybe this
is just how fucking Slayer pilled I am. I've had this in my head
a lot, like particularly that makes sense. Yeah, I mean that the
chorus of like the that, because when we were talking about were all kind
of suspect it even before it was announced. Really that the vocalist, it's
it's hard to do what Tom Arayer does in terms of like being on like
such heavy aggressive music and keeping that kind of crystal clear clarity. And I
think we all kind of just knew that as soon as Tom threw in the
towel. It's almost like you have to go to a harsher vocalist at that
point, because you're not You're not going to get a full on, clean
singer, and no one else really does what Tom does in the same degree.
You're going to get someone who's a little bit more gruff. It's almost
like the end of an era in some way where like that kind of tom
Area school is not quite so in vogue. And for me that's always the
one on this where I was like, you know, it's not going to
recapture Slayer, because so much of Slayer is that kind of the extremity in
like crystal clear delivery that tom Arayer brought to that, and so hearing like
a more gutteral vocalist is a bit like, oh, you know, not
wholly sure about it, but I will say when he ramps up into that
chorus, the part where it's like that the where do I get in line
to stomp on all divine? And he says that fully feels to me like
a catchy Slayer you know chorus, like you know, it's stirring, anti
religious, kind of bullish, a bit stupid, you know, kind of
middle finger up kind of you know, modern Slayer kind of anthem and the
you know, the idle hands do the Devil's work back into that crunch.
That stuck with me a little bit more than anything else. I'm like,
he's got that sort of like good sort of like sloganeering right in there to
sort of saya as it's what you want from a lead single. I think,
like, I don't know, this isn't going to be like the best
Melting Hill year, but as just like a lead single for a new project,
it delivers that fix that I would kind of turn to a new Kerry
King for and I think it's gonna be going like there could be some really
good stuff on this album. Then. Yeah, I don't necessarily mean this
in a bad way, but when I was listening to it, I was
thinking, this sounds like every newer thrashbad. But I guess that speaks to
how every other thrash band is just trying to be Slayer but without Tom Mariah.
Yeah, I see what you mean, But I also think Kerry's riffing
style does just kind of that's a guy who has personality and his playing that
you can't the things like in the bridge on this when it goes all fucking
like Antichrist or whatever that is. I know what you're saying in terms of,
like, you know, meaty production, modern sound, a kind of
gruffer singer. You know, that could be Death Angel or something obviously,
but those kind of moments in the riffing no one has really done that like
that since Kerry stopped, so that shit to me is just it again.
It's such a nice point of familiarity, Like it's catchy. It stayed in
my head, it doesn't, you know. It's not the I'd say it's
not the coolest new you know, reinventing thrash metal or everything on the block.
But like, I'm a Kerry King fan and I like this song a
lot. I think it obviously doesn't sound like the eighties, but it doesn't
sound tired either to me. I think Kerry of all the Slayer is obviously
pretty fired up. And you know, he could be complacent at this point
and not release anything if you didn't have it in it, because he doesn't
fucking have to Slayer are Gone. But he's doing it because he feels like
it has in him. And yeah, it's basically a continuation of the same
thing that he'd been doing for several albums now, particularly Repentless. But he's
still got more songs in that guys that he wants to offer, and I'm
enjoying this very much. So I am like you know, as you say,
it won't be the best metal album of the year, but as a
fucking Slayer not I can certainly see it one being one that I spin quite
a lot. So I'm like really looking forward to the Kerry King album now
that's coming out on May the seventeenth. Elsewhere. We had teasers a few
days ago and then it was announced. Bathing it America, you are getting
Lamb of God and Mastard on speaking of something that Kerry King is involved with
as well. Lamb of God and Mastodon doing joint anniversary tours for Ashes of
the Wake and Leviathan together bringing the support bill of Kerry King by the way
to only the man from Slayer supporting that and Malevolence making it over for a
big US slot. Fucking good for them. That's awesome. The amount of
American Lamb of God fans We're going to see my level Andnce and be like,
oh shit if they haven't heard them already. But ah, man,
I mean that's tier records that, like, you know, I've put them
together in terms of like records that broke out about the same time and kind
of you know, fucking shook up what was going on with you know,
popular metal at that point in time. Oh, please bring this to the
UK, like please. I tend to not get you know that jealous of
us tours anymore. But I look at this and gonna go like that is
like one of those just like as a package with the supports and everything,
and those like say two seminal like hugely important twenty first century metal albums that
changed everything in ways. Yeah, like celebrating them like what a Night.
That's my favorite Lamb of God album. It's my second favorite mastered on but
still an album that could possibly be in my top twenty, top thirty whatever
records of all time. I'm a I'm a sucker for like an artwork mash
up poster of when bands like tour together and like the ashes of the wake
Birds, like flying down and meeting you know, Moby Dick coming up from
below. Just imagery like that to kind of have that clash of the Titans
feel. Yeah, because I obviously I saw the rumors and I was like
the Viythan Nash is awake, Yeah, that sounds big. Then seeing that
poster, yeah, I was like, oh fuck off, that's fucked.
Yeahsiconicness of the albums and Unarthur supporting on a couple of dates as well,
so you're going to hear so many of the best metal songs from two thousand
and four to Yeah damn right. And then I guess, while we're talking
to specifically the US listeners out there, an underground tour that I'm very jealous
off is Wayfairer are doing their first, like full US headline tour over there,
and they're bringing along Sonya with them, which is a brilliantly you know,
diverse but fucking awesome current kind of underground match up bill. If you
don't know Sonya, check that band out. That's a tour. I'm very
jealous, although I am very excited to be seeing Wayfairer in about a month's
time over here. All right. Speaking of over here, sleep Token have
gone from you know, the one insane Wembley sell out whatever to a full
UK arena tour, including like, you know, the Manchester date is the
new arena's just opening up and it's like one of the biggest arenas in the
in the country, and a whole load of these fucking dates, you know,
bloody sitting like hotcakes as well. So a pretty incredible rise in terms
of yeah, like like them or not. I cannot remember a band jumping
through the hoops as quickly as sleep token of doing it. We are used
to bands doing it the kind of you know, the architects Partway Driveway or
whatever of kind of you know, you do Brixton and in a few years
later you do Wembley and in a few years later whatever. That kind of
doing it all inside a year basically is speaking barmy. Each tour has just
gone consecutively. They've done like Brixton once and then it will or they did
Hammers before whatever like, but they have just each time has gone bigger and
bigger. So it's yeah, but to go bankrupt on some coins, imagine
the coins they can sell across that many, like you know, fucking nearly
sold out UK Arena day. It's fucking crazy, all right. The Grammy's
happened. Someone even in you know, the socials were like, I don't
think you should even talk about the Grammys on the news. This is about
as large as we all devote to it this time, because there's so little
love a story. My favorite piece of coverage about this was Metal Injections headline
for it, which just says Metallica won a Grammy. Rob Truhio showed up.
It is about the level of like, yeah, all right, but
this war obviously, that means that Metallica won the Grammy for Best not Forwards
for seventy two Seasons. They beat out spirit Box, Slipknock Disturbed Ghosts covering
Phantom of the Opera. I think you know we said I like seventy two
seasons the song. I think it's one of the bet songs on that record.
Yeah, I think we were saying that, you know, the best
two songs in the bunch really are the Slipnot one and the spirit Box one.
And in terms of like where you want to see a Grammy go for
lifting up a newer band, I think we all collect went, yeah,
it should pretty clearly go to spirit Box Box. And at the same time,
while it is a crying shame that the Grammys keep basically like pissing money
away by like refusing to lift up bands and allow them to become, you
know, more than they are, and they're not helping create the stars of
you know, the future, it's also not surprising that Metallica won, like
their twelfteenth Grammy. It's like, all I could think of was the when
I was watching the spirit Box fans have a meltdown is the the clip of
the movie with them in the Nooses. It's like, yeah, time,
first time. All I could think of when I was seeing spirit Box Fangs,
just like I was like, I promise you, you don't need to
get this work about the Grammys. This is this is nothing new. Yeah,
might be your first rodeo, but it is. It's just how it
goes. It is a shame, but also nothing else. Yeah, speak
for yourself. All as Disturbed heads are, I mean, I was saying
that they were the one who, like, of the legacy bands who hadn't
already won before, maybe they would get the kind of that. Instead they
just went known with Hallka again. They didn't even care about the fucking bands
of Disturbed generation that much. But fucking they didn't even care about the funniest
fuck song Disturbed words Yeah, which, as I've said before, I can
only ever think about the Skindred song bad Man, Bad Man when I think
about that, And that's actually very fitting because Skindred also won an award this
week, which is much nicer to say. They won a Mobo Award for
the Best Alternative Act, So you know they were rolling up on their red
carpet doing their thing that's so lovely to say. Well done, Skindred.
Okay, the Ghost Inside have announced their new album. We were suppose have
been waiting this for at while because they've been releasing some material that's out on
April the nineteenth. It's called Searching for Solace. I haven't actually listened to
this newest single, but I'm judging by reactions from from you guys that it's
kind of continuing in the vein of the one that we did cover where we
were like, I'm not sure what you're doing here. Well, it's going
a step further in like there is almost entirely removing any harsh vocals. It's
so like the guitars sound even more like sanitized process. It's got a good
chorus. I do genuinely think this one's got a good chorus. But the
problem is, like I was saying, like I love one of those big
ghost of side choruses come out of those like hard hitting marsh versus and when
it's kind of like kind of very soft like ambient bad omen z pop metalcore
clean verse into a pretty big chorus. But when that's still very much of
that kind of ILK doesn't leap out to me, anymore, and I would
just be like, I don't know. I like, I'm going to give
this album like an honest shot, because I think I'd always want you with
the Ghost of Side, But this is the first time I'm like, you're
not doing a thing that suits you creatively. Yeah, the guston cider and
there of mice and mayn Era. It's just it could be anyone. Yeah,
So speak of that what you will. There will be an album coming
in that regard. Okay, there was a festival announced to this week,
which I don't think is news in itself because it's one of many festivals.
It's Incarceration Festival in the US, and very occasionally, and by very occasionally,
I seemingly mean about twice a week we get a festival coming through from
the US, where we look at it from over here and go, what
the fuck are you guys doing over there? This looks terrible. But one
piece of news that did come from that is that or Shall Perish are back
and are reuniting seemingly properly this time. They've sort of attempted a reunion before
and nothing really came of it. But you know, this band have not
been massively active really since the early twenty tens and since Eddie Hamida you know,
joined Suicide Silence as their primary vocalist, but they have now done the
full thing. Like yet we are back properly this time, we're going to
be playing these shows and like I don't Death Corps is in a very different
era right now. I think the fact that you know, Suicide Silence are
releasing records that are like pretty good but nothing crazy. I think, you
know, a band like Orsha Perish doesn't necessarily have to add a great deal
to like the current Death Corps eitgeist. But I like Dorshar Perish. They're
are important man in you know, the development of that style in the kind
of mid noughties. And if I, you know, was in a position
where you're fucking throwing wage slaves down in front of me in a first field,
I would take that chance. So, uh, you know, interesting
to see. I guess what this means for Suicide Silence, whether he just
kind of juggles both bands kind of in a way that he hasn't necessarily done
up to this point. But Perish are indeed back on the on the scene.
I would welcome nostalgic throwback Death Corps as the more exciting thing going on
at the moment death because I've I'm the whole symphonic way that was going was
really exciting for like a year and then when everyone started doing it and it's
so tapped out that well so quickly that I'm like, you know what,
give me back, like the the like Naughty's MySpace Death Corps and that kind
of ear of it. I'm down for that to come back. So I
hope they come to the UK, Like I like death Core a lot,
but everyone's so self serious. Now, bring back the breeze, bring back
the sub drops, bring back the monster energy risk bands come on. Yeah,
and Altra Perish one of the more credible bands in that particular school,
so yeah, not to see back. We also have Therapy doing a thirtieth
anniversary tour of Trouble Gum. Who fucking knows how many times they will have
toured Trouble Gum at this point, but maybe this is the time I actually
go and see them do it. Who knows. Obviously it's an absolutely classic
record. Crosses are doing their first ever I didn't realize this their first ever
UK and European headline performances. So that is coming up later this year.
And you know, even though we didn't we'd cover, we didn't review that
latest record, it got a lot of you know, positive kind of feedbackers,
I think, as you would expect from you know, Chino and Crosses.
So if that is you, then you might get your chance to see
those songs in a headline environment coming up. I am very excited that Chelsea
Wolf has announced the UK tour coming through in October, doing you know obviously
venues up and down the country. It's been a hot minute since I've been
able to see Chelsea Wolf, and I have been feeling like I should.
I've never seen her, and so I'm like, this is gonna be the
world wor blood moat. Yeah, but I've not seen a Chelsea Wolf.
Yeah. So that's when I said, and that's what I really want to
see, is I want to see you know, Chelsea Wolf doing the Chelsea
material because like Blooming was incredible. But yeah, I will be getting a
ticket for this one because I think I've put it off seeing her in her
own show for too long. Yeah. The one time I saw Chelsea Wolf
headline, it was just before his Spun came out and she released like the
first single from it, and it was like a full on fucking experience.
It was absolutely incredible. So I'm so excited to get the opportunity to relive
that. And then we also got these sad news that the MC five's legendary
founding guitarist Wayne Kramer passed away. Who the Empty five are a bit of
a blind spot for me, really, I don't know an awful lot about
their their catalog, but I do know that they are such an important band
in kind of you know, that sort of stooges generation of like kickstarting in
the late sixties what would eventually become fully fledged punk rock. And you know
a lot of people kind of you know who we celebrate so hard, have
been celebrating Wayne Cramer for his you know, very very important contributions to that
over the years. So, you know, rest in peace, Wayne Kramer.
This is just a fairly quick little hyperblast for us today because we are
in this sort of recording session we're in currently. We're about to go on
and record our next that's not that our Patreon special. And I said last
week on last Week Hype Last I would be announcing what that is. I
did not necessarily know that it was going to be essentially in your ears right
now in that you know we're recording this tonight today out with this hyper last
episode as well. If you go out to That's My Patron, you are
going to have the opportunity to listen to the first part of our band special
on Alexis on Fire. That is the band that we are going to for
the first you know, multiple part band special of this year, and it's
a really interesting one to go and do. I think they're not like an
obvious band to do. They're a big popular band. When they release albums,
it's a big deal and people are excited about and people want to talk
about it, so why not go and do it? But I think they
might be a bit of a like a left field choice and that you didn't
necessarily think they would be at the top of the list for things to be
doing. But because of that, it's really fucking exciting to be doing it,
I think. And we have a two part band special. Obviously they've
only got five albums with a break in middle, it's a bit awkwardly split.
But this first part we are gonna be talking all the way up to
the crisis album. So the kind of the blooming of alex on Fire and
then going from you know, a small little Canadian emo band to you know,
one of the biggest bands of that scene, of that generation. And
I guess, you know, next time we can go into what sort of
talking about some of the discussions that we've had or whatever, but just in
general, you know, how excited are you guys to be talking about alex
on Fire in this deep fashion that we do the only band ever, you
know, Like, I've been so looking forward to jumping on this one because
I listened to Alex on Fire a lot and it's just nice to be like,
hey, this band fucking rule and really dig into, like particularly these
albums, these first view like how good they are. Yeah, it's interesting
because you were saying they are a big band. It's funny because they are
a big band, but they're not an obvious big band, but older fans
are extremely passionate. Yeah, so it's almost like there're a cult band who
are also really popular. Yeah, there is that. There is that class
of like you know, cult Brixton bands or something, and alex on Fire,
certainly I think one of the most worthy of that particular school for us
to be doing this treatment. You know, I'm really excited to be going
talking about this, this whole story in these records as well. And you
know, if you are someone of that alex on Fire and their ilk sort
of persuasion, then absolutely this is going to be the band special for you
amongst all the metal ones that we do or whatever. It's always nice when
we kind of find the right stuff in each kind of world like that to
go full all out on this. And yeah, alex on Fire, patron
of the commp slash that's not metal, is where you're going to find that
special. As I said, the first part should be out for you right
now as we are speaking, and the second part will follow one fairly soon
on its heels. So get involved ending this hyperblast. Today we have the
release roundom. It's a lot more manageable than last week, which is very
nice for me. We do start off with one of my most anticipated records
of the whole year. We were just talking about her doing the tour and
suport of it. Chelsea Wolf's new album is out today. She reaches out
to, She reaches out to. She I've remembered the order of the words
and have to say it by this point, but I mean, obviously today
as this goes out, that's the thing that I'm going to be listening to
all day if I can manage it. Very excited to be having you,
Chelsea Wolf. We then have a collaborative album. I believe it is billed
as it's Yellow Card and then a band I'm not familiar with called Hammock,
but the record is called a Hopeful Sign. And you literally just sprung this
on me basically right before we were going to record this, and I was
putting this list together. It's Yellow Card and Hammock kind of doing like soft
reworkings of Yellow Card songs if you need them to be even softer. Yeah,
like ambient piano. We like very chill versions of pop punk songs.
I'll give it a listen. I've not been blown away by what I've heard
from it so far, but who knows. It's like they always say,
you know a good song's a good song when you can do a post rock
version of it. You know a good song is a good song when you
can re record Ocean Avenue for the seventh time of your career. We also
have the Chisel UK punk hardcore heroes their new album What a Fucking Nightmare.
It's out today. In your kind of you know, more progressive spheres,
the Pineapple Thief are releasing It leads to this, speaking of Breebree Death Corps,
The Last ten Seconds of Life have an album called No Name Graves Haystack
Doomsday Goes Away. I'm curious to listen to this because it's Upha Cheddlund from
Tombe and this Sphere and so on, but doing a kind of like noise
rock noisy type thing, so I'll check in on that. And then a
bunch of more kind of death metally sort of black metally stuff. Morbid Saint,
one of the og kind of death thrash bands from the eighties, releasing
an ear called Swallow by Hell. One of the big releases in Like the
under Ground this year is the return of Spectral Voice and their record Sparagmos,
which is absolutely in the worlds of you know, death and doom metal,
a fucking monolith of the thing to be coming out this year. We also
have Holder Versus in Oath, one of the more popular buzzy black metal artists
who have emerged onto the scene in the last several years. We have Chapel
of Disease, Echoes of Lights, and I see this band back. They're
a kind of you know, death metal, black metal band, but they
sort of leaned into some kind of like proggy dire straits, guitar, fucking
you know stuff going on with them. We have in more you know,
simplistick straight to the fucking head death metal. We have Petrification with sever Sacred
Light. We have in black metal. This is a good record a band
called Zviilicht, which is a German band. They record the Ethotic Embrace.
It's their first record in like ten years and it's rather good. Then there
is also in black metal Theophanos Ashes in the Huron River and an EP from
the drummer Hannah's Grossman, who is basically related, seemingly writing a bunch of
songs inspired or in the style of various bands he's been in over the years.
So there's like, this song's meant to be a bit like Necrophagia,
this song's meant to be a bit like Obscurer, and I like those things.
So there you go. Yeah, he's good at it. He is
good at it. So there are your releases. Go and choose your favorites.
Thank you very much for listening here today. Next week we are going
to be back here with the reviews show for February. We are going to
be talking about that Chelsea Wolf album. We are going to be talking about
that Spectral Voice album. We're going to be talking about some other things that
are out either side of those things, and all of the biggest and best
stuff that's going on in February, So join us there for that. But
right now, as said, we are going to hop over to another lot
of recording session and talk about Alex on Fire for probably two to three hours.
So if you want to get in on that, you should go to
peguon dot com slash That's nut metal, and just fucking listen to Crisis a
whole load and listen to watch Out a whole load. Get excited. So
yeah, see you for both of those things. See you around