Good evening everybody, or morning, I suppose this evening right now. But
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with me, it's just Sam digging on today. Hello Sam. How'd you
weep been? Yeah? Pretty good. We just did our horror podcast which
we'll go to like, but not a lot going on, no gigs.
I've been out really this time after my fun double bill, so just a
bit of a normal one, yeah, free, oh nice. As well
as recording the Kong chat that we just did. I've been watching the Planet
of the Ape series, so I've had the most monkey tastick week. I've
been like, oh, I've been an x Men territory because I've been really
enjoying X Men ninety seven, so i figured I'd go back and watch all
the X Men movies not as good, like maybe not Yeah. Before before
we did a recording session, it was the first night of the Taylor Swift
Eras tour in Europe right though in Paris, and we had the live stream
on of Paramore playing doing their support slot, and at first we were like,
they've only played like six songs or something. Actually played about nine songs,
but in terms of crowd pleasing, they didn't play Misery Business. They
did play the Talking Heads cover. They've just raised twenty four. I've got
this coming up in like a month's in a month, no as a month
as of yes, yeah, I'm up to Edinburgh three. I will report
back, we'll get like, we'll get a full live there. But I
was we were enjoying the live stream comments of like you know, the Swifty
who were streaming it other people. When they ended, they were like,
no, Misery Business, that's their only song. Like I'm cool with that,
Like it's you know, there's a sports lot for a nons and mine
not know the man. They don't need to play miss Business all the time.
It's a great song, but yeah, be unconventional. That's why I
like about Paramore at the moment. Yeah, I think they probably should have
played it, but it's funny that they didn't, and it's funny that people
are like, that's their one song, that's the only thing I came to
see. Shut up anyway, Right, as said today's Hyperblast, we're here
with the news and everything. It has been an extremely quiet week for new
announcements and music and stuff like that. And that's a good thing this time
because it means that we can really just focus really this week on giving Steve
Arbanie the time that he deserves, because on Wednesday we got the news that
Steve Arbanie had suddenly passed away of a heart attack. And for the world
that TNM covers that the art that we love, I think this is a
moment of unbelievable magnitude. One of the again, like I Steve Albini's work
goes so far as a producer, as a musician, I just like a
general force in what we do. He is like one of those ironclad,
like untouchable legend figures, isn't he. I've got quite a lot to say
about Steve Aarbini, even though you know, I never spoke to him.
I might not even have like as close a relationship with all of his work
the way that some other people do, but I'm the same. But it's
just one. You kind of go, like the name carries so much weight
that like very few figures actually do. Yeah, I feel like if we
were to make like a mount rushmore of people who represent and embody the kind
of values that like we as an outlook covering you know, alternative music,
not even a spouse because that sounds very self congratulatory of us, but you
know, should aspire to. Steve Abini, I think is unquestionably on there
because he like he was not a larger than life figure. That was kind
of the point of him. You know, That's why he is as loved
as he is. He was the ultimate like keep your feet on the ground
punk no matter what success he achieved. But through that, the shadow that
he has cast and the way that his you know that this music in this
culture has been almost shaped in his image is beyond words. In terms of
recording engineers, which is what Steve Albini insisted on being known as rather than
a producer. Yeah, because he famously saw his role as non interferer with
the creative process. He saw himself as there to capture in the most authentic
terms what the artists themselves was bringing, and accordingly he took upfront fees for
the job instead of continuing royalties. Nirvana posted yesterday a copy of the letter
that he sent to them when he was agreeing to make in Utero. And
if you want to get an insight into like how he saw his role and
the kind of creative process, I recommend you go and read that full thing.
But you know, for people in that role in our community, he's
probably the all time greatest, isn't he. Like he's the one of you
kind of just look at his cat and like it's ova asked, and then
you just look at like the big ones that he's done there and it's like
it's untouchable. It's like astonishing the work he did. And and again like
how he was able to like create a sound that made bands sound huge and
like pop commercial appealing like rock bands, but they were dangerous and they were
artistically credible. I think that's it is that there's just no one doing it
quite like what he did. More records are gonna sound shit now that Steve
Albin's gone, Yeah, and there was already enough of those, like I
said, on an engineering capacity, like unbelievable, and that the resume.
You know, I mentioned him last week in our reviews show, because we
we talking about the High on Fire album and he recorded Blessed Black Wings with
them, And in terms of like the albums that you've seen posted around in
the last day or so, that's not necessarily one of the primary ones you've
seen loads, but in High on Fire's catalog, that's like one of like
arguably their most like iconic and beloved. You know. The magnitude of the
collect records that he's you know racked up, either in their you know,
artistic quality or in how much they impacted the culture around them is borderline peerless.
Yeah, I mean, like obviously you're gonna go to like Surf Rosa
or in Utro like those ones as the kind of like ironclad like monoliths.
But like you've got so much for so many genres and so many different types
of bands like he wasn't you know, like you get some producers or like
Edgers, say, who stick to their kind of like stick to their lane
into what they do. Steve Albini like covered so much ground and like just
kind of like did again. The list of Cevlbini album for these albums I've
listened to is like minuscule competitive amount work he's done, because there's just it's
such a like insane catalog in terms of just the more kind of you know,
TNM centric kind of artists, you know, sun Ken Mode, the
Manu Street Preachers on Made out of Babies, Mono, God's Speaking, Black
Emperor, solo artists that I love that. You don't necessarily love that he
Laurd Jane Grace he's worked with, sure, Yeah, I mean like those
are the ones that you forget about, you know, because they're they're like
footnotes in what he's done. You know that the Jesus Lizard, Low McCluskey,
Jawbreaker, the nineties pretty much do not happen without Steve Albini in the
same way, and the kind of the ethos that he helped usher in,
like what he helped start first as a musician because you know, his own
band, Like I am not like the biggest noise rock aficionado, but but
Big Black are one of that album class. Yeah, and that kind of
like blew my mind now, Like again, it's one that I was not
Supermilian album club and it's okay, I'm necessarily love, But one that's stuck
with me is when I think about it like that is no an unconventional and
compromising album that needs to be remembered. Yeah, that was. We did
an album club on Songs about fucking a couple of years ago, and that
will have been you know, uploaded to the main feed here for free at
some point, so you can easily go and find it. It's it's the
album Club pack made two if you search for that. Such an interesting record
to talk about, such an interesting band, the way that we've spoken about
bands like Dillinger or whatever, kind of calling it quits initially in like a
really noble way. Big Black, like one of the standard setters for that,
you know, like two Bananas record, and then they got out with
their ethics intact. And then shell Ak, the band he'd been in since
the early nineties. I have to say I haven't heard most of their records,
but I have time, you know, like Steve Albini produced more great
music than you could feasibly become a fan of in a lifetime, but you've
got time to go and explore whatever facets of that draw you in. And
he was still doing it. There is a new shell Ac album out next
week. Like he's died a week before his album is out because he was
just constantly making like the man. From what I heard, he's literally died
in the studio. Yeah, that's what I heard was that's where he passed
away, Like yeah and so. And there's a big difference between Steve Albini
and any other kind of other legendary producer figures, I think because he famously
made himself so accessible right like, he was not demanding sky high fees that
meant only big, already famous successful bands could afford him the way that like
a Rick Ruben or someone is. Steve Albini was still working with grassroots artists
the whole way, and the result on his output was actually a rewarding one
because like the above by Code Orange came out last year, right like less
than a year ago. He also worked on the Liturgy album last year,
which is another you know, divisive band because what they are doing is out
there, it's creatively unique stuff. Steve Aarbini has like cutting edge albums under
his recording belt within a year of his passing. And how many other you
know, big producers can you say that about, Because people who have albums
as game changing in the eighties or nineties as Steve Aarbini has. But then
also you look at music in the twenty twenties to also have records as relevant
as those two we've just mentioned, that's an exceedingly small list, and it's
directly as a result of his work practices. Yeah, I mean, like,
you know, to those two albums, they're ones that appeared in the
top end of like very like obviously my album of the year. Elliott really
likes that littergy album, didn't He like, like these are like not you
know, inconsequential albums. They are must like like the above is is still
an album that I listen to and still get rewarded by because like, and
that's that's so much that is in the production, and you know, an
album that's been overly produced, and like we win that there's such a debate
about over production. Still have going to make this album sound incredible, and
it makes it sound super high tech in advance, but so timeless at the
same time, and that there was like just a knat to that that you
can't replicate. Yeah, And but he he was because of that, he
was like still helping artists reach their potential, you know, by by continuing
to work, like you can imagine a band like either like Gouage Away or
someone could have worked with Steve Albinia at some point. It's completely not at
the question. And so because of that, we're not just talking about someone
who helped shape music as we know it in the nineties. How many bands
who like we haven't even discussed yet, you know, won't now work with
Steve Albini and get the results that he would have got for them. Like
it's it's a massive loss. Yeah, you know, it really is.
Is one of like the like just as a figure like so vital to where
interesting artistic music could go. I mean in terms of you know that the
the things he stood for and kind of his attitudes that you put out there,
like hating Steely Dan, Yeah, I mean a certified hater, which
I've seen like Steely Dan fan accounts saying like every fandom, every band needs
a nemesis, we lost ours today. Yeah that taking in like good jest,
But I'm like Steely Steve, I've been hating Steely Dan just you know,
warmed me to him even Yeah, and just I think I really think
he is kind of like a patron ain't for alternative usic though, and I
don't mean that in a genre sense, but like anything from High on Fire
to PJ. Harvey, you know, like anything that is going against the
kind of the corporate angle that was pushed down onto it. I think he
was the living embodiment of that. And uh, you know, I put
this on my Instagram story. But like someone picking their favorite Steve Albinia album,
I think is like a glimpse into that person's soul and their personality and
their taste, you know, because there is so much different stuff to choose
from what's your pick. I mean, like I don't known to sound too
because like me being the code or expressed me thinks they are like the gifts
music like I probably hope for the person this age, I probably would say
the above, but like I mean, that just speaks to again the continued
relevancy of his work, like in Utero, for like over the course of
my development as a music fan, like for a period, I would like,
that's the best Navana album by some margin. For me, I think
in Utro is just an absolutely flawless record. And again like not necesarily you
know, my top to me albums of all time at this stage is where
I've gone, but I would pim back to Utro's been one of the most
important albums I could have heard when I heard it in church of sort of
like be like fuck me. That is what like dark, raw, like
dangerous Fortain music sounds like from a band who were the biggest band in the
world at that point and they made music that was that fucked up and Steve
Albini kind of helped it blossom. I think that is something that has to
just be like looked as like a one of a kind achievement. Yeah,
I think in uteruroh is you know, I have undergone a process that I
think a number of people have gone where like you know, I loved never
Mind first, but over the last sort of you know, five odd years
or whatever, I have you know, been won over by the idea that
in Uteruro is actually you know that the masterpiece and uh you know again speaking
about him as an engineer, right, the drum sound on in Uturo alone
warrants every bit that we are saying, like maybe the best drum sound ever,
like in terms of if you are just picking a handful, it's certainly
in the conversation, isn't it just unbelievable? Fucking sound on that record,
and that sort of that punk you know, anti capitalist, anti softening yourself
up for the mainstream, pro art, anti industry kind of spirit, getting
it out of like the literal biggest band in the world. Yeah, at
the time, it's just insane. It can't could be said enough. It's
one of the single most like unbelievable moments in the history of like our kind
of music, what they did with the U two and then of course Surfer
Rosa from the Pixies, like it's mad that again, the fact that that
album is not even considered like his most significant achievement, which again I don't
even know if it'd be in like my top five, but like talk about
ushering in the nineties, setting that stage for that whole moment in popular culture.
I finally go into the Pixi's kind of like over the last couple of
months, and Surf Rosea is the one. Now I was like, well,
I should actually spend the time with that. You kind of be like,
fuck me, this album like when it came out, it doesn't sound
like of its serial because it is it's laying down the groundwork for what nineties
going to be. It's so pivotal to that, isn't it. Yeah,
And you know, without it, we wouldn't have that malignant music cue.
And you know in U to Row and Surfer Rosa, like you know,
they're not his albums. He would obviously hate you saying as such, but
like, yeah, his personality is undeniably on them, and they see his
contribution is unavoidable. Yeah, and they sound the way they do because of
him. And my pick what are definitely my favorite Deevabanie albums come from his
long standing partnership with Neurosis, who are a band it's maybe been a bit
more difficult to talk about in the last couple of years, but that they
are unquestionably one of my favorite bands of all time. They are one of
the bands where it is is feasible to consider them as the greatest heavy band
there's ever been. And the whole third era of that band, starting from
Times of Grace in ninety ninety nine going through to what currently is their endpoint,
he recorded every single one of those albums and it is one of the
most perfect band producer relationships I think we've ever seen in this kind of music,
and so many of those are some of my favorite Neurosis albums are some
that never sets on a fan of Decay was huge for me when it came
out, and my very favorite of them all is The Eye of Every Storm,
which which I hold as close and as dear as I'm sure everybody else
holds whatever their favorite Steve Albini recording is. And that's what I'm saying,
Steve, I've been in the race ones. It's times of Grace for me.
But yeah, yeah, absolutely fucking classic. But what I'm saying is
like again, every person will have like whatever Steve Albini recorded album or even
you know, his own whether it's you know, Atomizer or whatever, whatever
their one is, will be like so dear to them. And there are
so many ones that you can go for in that regard. And the fact
that like he made like money from playing but professional poker that he used to
like basically you know, run his studio and not have to charge high fees
and what I like, an insane fucking dude, you know, like I
think that's it. She's just an amazing sort of character. And like read
interviews from him, like more resents where he addresses you know, passings,
and he just seems like something who just understood and like him beaten with transphobes
and stuff like that, Like he just seems like a really fucking cool guy.
Yeah, the fact that on Twitter his name was just regular Steve Albini,
you know, yeah, because he was, that was him, And
holy shit, he was funny on there again, like someone like that.
The day before he died, one of his last posts was like the rolling
Stones lips but in the shape of a butthole? Do they still sue people?
I have an idea, like someone has to carry out his final wishes,
just as we said, a gold standard hater. And you know,
there are so many other cases of like, you know, important punk dudes
in their sixties like he was, who become washed basically, like who maybe
regress more in their worldview and would not be as outspoken on sticking up for
you know, marginalized people and the right kind of causes and progressive world views
as Steve Albini was. And you know, he was the biggest caller out
of bullshit right through to you know, the present day. And I think
for me, the kind of the really romanticized kind of character and mindset that
people associate with that like that gen X, like artistic movement that then spawned,
you know, that kind of punk rock and that kind of anti establishment
culture and everything. Steve Albini, I feel, was like the platonic ideal
of it in that he was totally there at the at the spark of it
when it was you know, blooming, but right up into letting that naturally
grow into the modern day and you know, adjusting the lines accordingly and you
know, reckoning as you say, with the kind of the edge lord parts
of whatever that might be. And you know, we always talk about the
kind of capability of growth and change as humans, as things we want to
encourage. And I think how Albini carried himself is one of the great like
banner carry like he cooled out his own examples, and I think that's that's
really important when you can recognize your own flaws, that's the attitude that like
that you take forward and you recognize your own flaws, but with your own
like artistic statements. And how he interacted with the industry again, how he
treated you know, people on the ladder below him. Essentially, he was
the walking manifestation of integrity that I think people love to kind of ascribe to
punk rock but not everyone necessarily has it. Not everyone walks the walk the
way that Steve Albini did. And I really wish I could have seen him
play with like shell Ack or something. I never saw him on stage,
but one of the most influential people on the entire landscape of music, but
particularly our corner of it, and someone who you know, for decades helped
artists make the best art that they could. You know, he was an
enabler of art and a monumental presence. So we salute Steve Albini. I
think one of our truest heroes. Yeah, pretty much, I can up
any better. Like just a a real, like heartbreaking loss. So as
said, that's the kind of the main thing we wanted to dedicate this episode
to discussing, I guess, but Frank Turner did his little jaunt he is.
I'm gonna rely on you, I think. To clarify some of the
details here, Frank Turner did his like weird little fifteen shows in twenty four
hours in different cities around the UK, released event thing for his album Yes,
and we were like, yeah, we'll track this y how it goes.
It seems to have gone swimmingly. He did it. Cry Wank also
did it as we you you know, you dropped on us where we spoke
about this one more show with one more show on the day before. Cry
Wank somehow, very again without the resources or whatever, managed to fucking you
know, ring together sixteen shows in different places. I think it's kind of
a testament to you know, the di y kind of scene and like gang
something like that. Like it's one of those like real grassrooms you can get
like good for him, like he's a bit of a shit starre but good
for him. However, And this is where, like I said, I
might need to clarify a little bit because I don't quite know what they mean.
There was a bit of a controversy when I think it was the day
before the thing. There was a post from I guess it was like in
conjunction with like Frank Turner and the music venue. Yeah, because they were
doing this kind of this book World Records thing posted like a set of rules
basically laying out what would count and what doesn't. And as it happens,
you know, Criwank have done sixteen shows, Frank Turner did fifteen, but
only Frank Turner's is being recognized and cry Wank have been told their attempt is
is unofficial, and because of this, there's been a lot of like boom
it. What I will say is, I don't know how true this is
bad parents been put out that cry Rank was actually someone did reach out to
kri Wank and say, look, this is an established also because this is
what the last person who held the record went by as well. Apparently this
is something I'll kind of look, am I digging into what had gone on.
I've seen someone share this is like they think it's like as I like,
you know, they're not trying to like Sean Krawan can do that,
Like, but they said, this is this is not something that is just
Frank Turner has cobbled together to steal the prize away from this is this is
a thing that has been apparently I'm sure it is. It just looks bad,
doesn't it. He said, Like they said they do this not to
defend Frank Turner, but actually, like Music Venue Trust, they don't want
them as an issuation being disparaged trying to like you know, steal some from
crowncle Like it's not a good look for them. Like that's what like one
take I've seen to mean, like, it's easy to paint Frank Turner as
a villain in this situation, as it is in so many things. I
mean, I really know people the hate of Frank Turner gets so ridiculous,
like the littleman embodiment of Satan that like a lot tell you he is.
He is cringe, I will admit, but I do people take the Frank
and hated a bit far. But when this happens and the timing of it
and the kind of go like it is a bit like like it is a
bit Scrooge, isn't it? You know, like bo you can't have this
CRIKYA Elliott described it as anerna you can't touch me because I have a force
field a little bit that is that I have the money. I mean,
here's the thing. Watch the hate bomber Guy video on the roadblocks. Oof
sound. That's the that's the this was set up of it. It goes
into what a fucking Faskinness World Records actually are. And so that's why again
I doing crowk needs to actually get too upset about this because they are a
complete joke. Yeah he had they have it in fairness, they were just
like we've done this for giggles. Yeah, like and like again like I
I like, I wish Crowns music was better because they are they are,
there are a laugh to have around. They really like Blad but like,
good on him for the ship. How's read. But it is just,
you know, one of those things. I'm like, I don't think we
need to see that Poteco as the literal satan for doing this, but it's
just like, you know, it's happened. Good on everyone involved. Yeah,
so so well done. Frank Turner is an achievement. Crink did it
more though mastered on this week. We haven't got much to go on here,
but they've uploaded a little teaser video here. I don't know if you've
watched I haven't watched the WHO video. I've seen the Caveman pictures. That's
basically all is. It's like a twenty second clip. Troy Sanders is dressed
as a cave man because why not, and he's like, you know,
he's going through some some ferns and there's a question at the end of what
has he seen? You know, and he's like gasping and looking shocked at
something. And that's literally it. That's the extent of the teaser. But
what is mastered On teasing, I guess is the question. The one detail
about this that I think is somewhat interesting is the sound in the video is
the drum intro from Crystal Skull from the Blood Mountain album, And that just
makes you go, is that just like incidental because it sounds like it could
be like Caveman drumming or something, or is it, you know, something
Blood Mountain perhaps related. I don't know. I mean, obviously you might
go, is this a new album where I suppose it would be about duw
a master On album so you wouldn't be surprised, or is this again It's
not like we're on the twentie anniversary of Blood Mountin or anything, but fucking
who knows? Yeah, I mean, to me, my main takeaway from
this was like a mastered On ready to kind of cut loose, to have
a bit of fun again, because obviously the last few master On records have
been quite Yeah, they always they always do have fun with videos in promotion
though infent Yeah, like I suppose even on the sort of heavy records.
But I just wanted it like what it's gonna be. But yeah, I
don't know, Like I'm my guess is this is this feels like it's time
for a new master on album. I hope it's a new mastered album because
I want a new master on album. Like yeah, I mean, I
again, I'm so fucking just blood Mountain pilled that if it's anything to do
with that, then I would. I mean, if it's as a blood
Mountain like, I ain't gonna fucking complain about like blood Mountain stuff happening because
you know, good album. Yeah, one of my absolutely favorites of all
time, but it master not doing something at least, and hopefully we learn
what that is fairly fairly soon. Off I have announced that they're gonna be
on Farewell shows shows. They're going to be playing three shows this summer and
then going on hiatus and off. I guess we've never really spoke off in
a huge capacity. Again, I confess I'm not as familiar with OFF as
I am. Obviously, you know, Keith's Morris's work in Black Flag and
then also the Circle Jerks and stuff, but that's his sort of current venture,
I guess. You know, obviously, just someone like Keith is a
one of our sort of remaining links to that particular period in like you know,
essential hardcore history. And I've heard that offer a fucking great live band
as well. I've never seen them but offer on those ones, and I've
never really gone deep and I've kind always been aware of it and be like
I should you know, spend the time. I've never quite got round to
it, but they feel like one of those like hardcore adjacent bands that people
have a lot of, like high regard forms, like a cool, interesting
artistic sort of project. So yeah, shame that they're calling it. Yeah,
just notable that someone like Keith unless he starts a new project or something.
But as of right now, we stepping away from music. Yeah,
the thing he's been doing is going to be you know, hanging up somewhat
soon. And we got a confirmation from Kerry King this week, which I
know, confirmation from Kerry King as of later events does make you go but
how confirmed is it? But I believe this because he's essentially said what we
said. He said that Slayer the Reunion is not going to extend to like
active large touring or recording any music, which is exactly what we said will
probably happen when they shockingly reunited. So basically we will do event shows and
that's it, like yeah, cool, yeah, And that's financially that seems
to make the most sense for them, and that's obviously what's a good guide
the whole thing. So big money, isn't it. Yeah, So there
you go, Patreon supporters. This week, as said earlier, we're currently
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it was fucking dead. It's been really nice to We did the episode on
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it was nice to follow up fairly swiftly. What we have done is it
big muscles, big monkeys, big mullets. Was how we started this off.
Here we spoke about Godzilla x Kong, following up our Monster of Us
episode we did, and also the new Rose Glass film Love Live's Bleeding Rose
Glass, the director of Saint Maude, which we also praised very heavily on
that show. Love Live's Bleeding is one that I think we were both like
really looking forward to, like one of our most anticipated films and having just
record that chat a lot of fun talking as always about the big lizards and
the big monkey and they're silly antics and they're suplexing and all of that stuff.
But also with that, if you like, the more cerebral stuff are
really fascinating, thematically powerful, you know, brave, interesting fucking movie.
And Love Live's Bleeding, Yeah, one of our let's kind of like explicitly
horror episodes of the show we do, but like kind of throws back to
all the roots of it and just like a really fun, stupid movie talking
about and then you say, like a really bold, interesting, like as
I said, I think visionary sort of director striking, like swinging big on
their second movie, and the like really cool, fascinating results as you put
it, Bleeding through Cinema. Yeah, for the for the obvious t and
emlink if you enjoyed our bleeding through special Love Lives Bleeding certified Bleeding through Cinema.
Apart from the fact that it is very gay, everything else about it
is extremely bleeding through coded the similarities and cross occurrences in themes and peace of
imagery and everything. It's pretty staggery. So if you like that, you
should probably go and watch that movie and then listen to us talk about it.
So that is what is up on the Patreon this particular week. Musically,
our next music episode here. The last one we did was the Battle
Swap special thing we did where we spoke about you know, records from Rolla
to Massi and Battle Ruins and King Crimson and all sorts of interesting stuff there,
so you can go and find that. The next one probably announced on
next week's Hyperblasts. Plans are afoot, you know, putting together what the
next thing there is going to be. So thank you very much for everybody
who supports us over there and lets us continue doing this all these years in
your support means the absolute world and it's not take you for granted. So
yeah, thank you everybody. Go and have those if you're interested. So
ending this hyperblast today a fairly quick one, but we have got the releases
for May the tenth. It's been obviously we had a little bit of a
week off and everything, and then we had the review show so it's been
a few weeks that we've missed of hyperblasts. Rather than go back and cover
absolutely everything, which would take fucking ages, we are going to move forward
from this week. This week is quite a funny week because we have one
absolutely massive, like obviously one of the biggest event releases of the year with
Not Loose with You Won't Go for You Supposed To. I actually didn't realize
it was out so soon. This feels like it's yeah, but I mean
one of my most anti spared amms of the year, Like I'm ready for
it. Yeah, so expect that, you know, this time tomorrow to
be absolutely everywhere elsewhere. We have if you like your you know, kind
of contemporary metal core, there's like moths of flames with the cycles of trying
to cope with. If you like new metal, there is power amount of
five thousand with Abandoned Ship. If you like English new metal, it's killed
to this with variant. Moving on to some stuff that you might want to
put on Hot Water Music a back with a record called Vowels. We have
Indoor Pets with Pathetic Apathetic, a record that I was really intrigued by Unclast
and the Deadbeats are back with their first album in six years. It's called
nell Or a Blue, and we spoke about announcement for this. I've I've
heard this album. Honestly, it's not a rock up or at least in
a conventional sense. If you are like wanting like your traditional uncal acid you
know, like psychedelic black sabbath star pop songs or whatever, maybe you've waited
sixty of them, you might be a little disappointed that it's not that,
because literally what it is is a seven minute fake Giallo score. It's it's
a soundtrack to a fake Gallo film. So I said, you might be
disappointed that it's not normal and call acid, But if you go in accepting
and willing that you're going to have a different, specific kind of experience,
you might find something that you're you know, interested and in trigue by.
So it's an interesting record under less, and I think they know that it's
only going to appeal to a certain niche of their fan base, and they've
gone and done it anyway. So I think that's you know, applause worthy
and I applorable power metal, fairly busy, wee going on there. We've
got unleast the Archers, one of the most promising sort of current bands in
that realm with the new record Phantoma. We also have one of the oldies,
Freedom Call with Silver Romance and Nette Oldsen the X Nightwish saying that she's
got a silo album called Rapture Bastion Bark also has a solo album called Child
within the Man. We have in more kind of heavy metal, We've got
Riot Riot the Mean Streets with I believe Greek band called Flamekeeper with a self
touted record there. We also have some sort of thrash with take offence and
totality but with ttality, and then going into slightly more underground stuff Arab Strap,
who are a band I know that one of their last records was like
very well kind of liked by a number of people. I've reacent a record
with emojis in the name which I never quite trust, but it's called I'm
totally fine with it, don't give a fuck anymore, with some thumbs up
in there, and then again going into kind of extreme metal. Fair The
big event released of the week, I guess that six feet under Back with
a record called Killing for Revenge. Two things about this A I've heard it
is like not as bad as the last one, which six feet Under.
They do have, they have records that are possible, They have records that
are you know, sometimes they really go down the deep end and then sometimes
they slightly gain some more a little bit. I've heard this is more of
those. The other is that it has a Vince Locke album cover. Vince
Locke, who is the guy who has done every single Cannibal Corps album cover,
and I found it very strange to finally see a piece of his artwork
on a six feet under cover. But there you go. And then elsewhere,
Necrophagia have got a record called Moribundus Grim, which is very strange because
Necrophagia again very early, long running death metal band, but they haven't been
around for like a decade because the main guy died. But this seems to
be a record made up of like some finished recordings and stuff. And then
I believe like Mirai from CI and a few other people are involved it.
So I was very fucking baffled when I saw Negrophagia on the releases, but
there they are. And then also if you like your slightly more sort of
you know, dissonant nasty type stuff. Red Rot Borders of Mania is in
there. So that is the round up for this time. Thank you very
much for listening today. As said, the main thing we've got going on
this week is we've just done that Tad's Horror on Godzilla and Love Lives Bleeding,
but this time obviously here with Hypoblasts, we really wanted to just send
it out to, you know, to Steve Albini and recognize everything that that
guy contributed to everything that we love and that we talk about. So go
and spin whatever your favorites. Dvar Beanie Records are Rest in peace. What
an absolute fucking legend, and cheers for being here with us. We'll be
back here again next week with another Hyperblasts. We'll bring back questions and stuff
like that there and then fairly soon after that we'll have some more reviews and
new music. So cheers and we'll see you for the next one. Bye bye