Good morning, mana Warriors. Welcome to That's No Metal, You're weekly rock
and heavy metal podcast, and welcome to hyper Blasts, where we let you
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back with another one of these. Thank you very much for joining us.
I am Perren Hash and today I am joined by Elliott Paisley and Mark Sanderson.
How are we com all right? I haven't been up too much rock
music related stuff this week, just mainly watching and thinking about bad Kenneth Branner
films and what you did just learn just before recording that Steel Panther have been
on America's Got Talent? What is going on? What? What are you
doing there? Some of them you're better than this guy's you'd think, well,
they've all just gone home. So if you're listening you didn't vote,
shame on you. You could have saved metal. We failed them as a
people. The sensored lyric version of deft or metal they just did is like
sensationally stupid. Anyway, I'm a couple of days fresh off of Trivium's second
UK tour of the year, the Goblins and Wizards Tour, which I thought
was very funny, and ill fitting when the support bands were like not like
in the Chemists and Visigoth, but Orbit Culture and Belief and within like Scott
Kennedy has never encountered a goblin in his life. He's from Glasgow. Orbit
Culture. Yeah, okay, it's better live than on record, and I
think you can tell that it's really gonna you know, it riles people up
who just want that kind of like base universal metal stomp. I can't say
they don't win over a crowd. I'm just you know, I'm a seasoned
metal and I need more than some warmed over groove metal core with a bad
singer to get me excited. It's a bit like watching the Sugar cover snap
your fingers, snap your neck by prong for half an hour straight. Believe
them within predictably very good. I confess I haven't really thought about their last
album all that much since we reviewed it. But Levitate is a really great
chorus for them in the live environment, and Scott really engaging as a frontman.
You're like this Mark he went every time we come to Liverpool as an
energy in the room that you can't get anywhere else in the UK except for
Glasgow. Probably a huge kind of raucous, you know, chorus of Booze,
to which he was like, you know, come on, fucking prove
me wrong. Then and then and then Trivium coming through in small venues.
Obviously that's going to be wicked. Paolo. He's just had some like bass
sorry, some back surgery that we had to set up a couple of shows
and he's back, but he's got his base on like a little stand that
he just stands there with. Most conversations with Trivium this year have gone to
the setlist because the dead Men and Dragon's tour in January was great but featured
a shockingly small amount of dead Men and Dragon. This time, it's been
widely reported that this kind of they turned this intimate run into like an impromptu
fifteenth anniversary celebration of Shogun, not playing the album in full, but spotlighting
like a lot of songs from it they've either not played in a very long
time or have never played in front of people at all. It was nice
to actually see in the court of the Dragon this time. Opening the set.
We also got Catastrophists, so that's the lead singles from both of the
last two albums that I at least at my date, did not get the
last time they came around amazingly. I think with the dead Men and Dragon
stuff, it's long term representation we're hoping for at this point, like they
haven't taken the opportunity on their big touring cycles back to showcase all of the
stuff they amassed over the COVID period. Whether they felt they still had to
like jam the settlers with old stuff to appease the casuals or not, I
don't know. But as we see here with the Shogun stuff, and we
have always really seen the trivium they are an incredibly good band, one of
the best in fact, at continually giving outings to every bit of the back
catalog and freshening up the set list with you know, stuff they haven't done
so even if though you know, if you've been to both of these UK
tours like myself, you will now have seen about five songs from across those
two albums maximum. I am sure over the course of like I don't know,
the next ten years, there will be plenty of stuff drip fed in
every tour as they've always done. Today, I wanted to focus on the
Shogun stuff because I mean, if you were going to distract me from the
lack of new stuff you were playing, you'd put in Shogun stuff because Showgun
is one of the dearest of albums to me, and I think it was
very well suited to a more intimate show like this because it's always been the
connoisseur's choice trivium album. They wouldn't do the massive album in full, in
big venues celebration for it, like they seem to be planning for ascendency,
and the deep cuts that they haven't played off it they were throwing in in
this run are really like more obscure trivian songs. But I have wanted to
see some of those songs for like almost all of those fifteen years. When
they started that little Shogun section with Kuris day Gomen, which is a song
that I saw them play at the second metal show I ever went to,
and I haven't seen again, I don't think in that whole time in between,
like you know, from this album that's been with me through thick and
thin, that was a slightly overwhelming moment. And then the various songs they've
been rotating in, like the fact that they've been doing Japanese Shogun bonus track
the Poison, the Knife or the Noose. On some dates, I know
we got of Prometheus and the Crucifix and the Calamity, which of the pool
of songs that they've been like swapping in and out would have been my first
choices. Like Prometheus particularly is like the Trivium deep cut song I've always wanted
to say, so that was really special to me, torn between Sill and
tru rib this as well, like just like these spectacular songs from like the
epic metal album of my lifetime. Obviously, you know, with the Shogun
total track track coming at the first tour of the year as well, it's
been a great year for Shogun representation. Two Crusade songs as well, both
classics Becoming the Dragon and Entrance of the Conflagration, which I always think of
those being almost like prelude to Showgun. So that's fitting very well. And
then you know, when you're in a kind of little small venue and you
throw out Paul Harder fifth, it's just like so mega and I was thinking
about the kind of the wealth of Trivium songs that you know, across these
two UK tours they've done with two radically different set lists. They don't even
have to play Dying in Your Arms any of them like a song that huge
for them. We can kind of fall into the background. But as you
know, they have pretty much all but confirmed that after they take a year
off touring in twenty twenty four, they are going to be back for Ascendancies
twenty of twenty twenty five, so they can do all of that there,
and that would be like the biggest event that they can do. Mark,
You're at a Death Heaven show this week? Who was playing with them?
It was a slow crush, all right, slow crosh are pretty good shoegazy,
you know, pretty slow vibes as you would imagine. It's not fast
crush. It's not fast crush. But they ended with the quite a dancing
song though, that was quite nice. Death Heavan. I will prefess to
this by saying I didn't watch the hall set because it was enough. I
was in degree temperature room and I couldn't handle it. But that was my
first time seen Death Heaven and they were fucking crazy. I George is the
most manic showman I've ever seen. He was doing like Hercules poses during black
Break and stuff. He's a he's a mentalist, got a lot. I
love a little slice of Infinite Granite songs that was lovely. Yeah, yeah,
I love that record. I don't know how you guys are feeling about
it. To your I really love it. I think it's basically I basically
love everything Death I would have done again. It's not my, it's not
my it's not definitive to them necessarily, but it's I think it's a really
great record. And then the songs were amazing life when I saw them on
the run for It. Yeah, it's a weird one for me because like
they were kind of the best at the thing they did before that, and
then moving into the Infinite Granites thing, it was like, you're still good
at this, but it's not your Like you said, it's not your definitive
thing. It's not the thing that's going to I'm going to go to death
Heaven Force. So I haven't really gone back to it, but I do
remember thinking the songs sort of on the collet from First Principles, it is
a good album. Yeah, I've gone back to it quite a bit.
Yeah, it's one of those albums I wonder when the next album comes.
The way we look at infinite grant it will be cemented. Yeah, you
know that that. I've kind of been viewing it through a sort of prism
of like hoping that's going to be the case anyway, because I love it,
but I would like it to be like, yeah, I remember that
great time that they did that the way we look at like Alceste in Shelter
or something. Ohay, but yeah, the show was amazing what I saw
of it. Someday the title track, I'm never gonna not love that,
you know, worthless, animal from or going to corrupt human love, lovely
lovely stuff. Yeah, excellent news. Today we are starting with the return
of a band who have sort of hinted their return for a long long time,
but they are finally truly back in action. Job for a Cowboy this
week released their first new music in nine years since the twenty fourteen Sun Eater
record. They announced that their first show since like twenty sixteen is going to
be I think it's upcoming. It's like in early September a little while ago.
But Job for a Cowboy, you know, one of the most significant
death metal apps of their generation, who then promptly disappeared off the face of
the earth like basically untraceable after releasing what a number of people would consider to
be their their finest record, as they kind of evolved into this, you
know, frog Tech death band. I like Latter Day Job for a Cowboy.
I'm a huge fan of the Demonocracy record, and then sun Eya go
in you know, full kind of boodle Boodle is very very good, indeed.
But the fact that yeah, they just fucking vanished, but we do
finally seem to be, you know, back in the year of Jofro Cowboy
being an active band, and we have a new track from them here.
How are you guys feeling about the return of, as I said, one
of the most sort of significant, widely renowned death metal adjacent acts of their
generation. I'm so excited. I when I saw the announcement that they had
the new song coming out, I could have screamed, I've been waiting for
this for nearly a decade, Like I love Job for a Cowboy, and
I think, like the first death metal band you liked, I seem to
remember, like, because I've been into a hard going to death metal longer
than you, but I seem to remember the first band that you really like
talking to me about was like, I love Job for a Cowboy. Yeah,
ru Nation was. I bought it on a whim because it was in
HMV for three pound when I was like fourteen fifteen, So I just bought
it on a whim and forced myself to like it, and that's how I
got into death metal. Basically pretty heavy duty. So they're a very special
band for me. I love all of the records probably pretty much equally.
This new song is sort of exactly what I would have hoped for. Like
it's got the bobbody base. It's still a progue epic, but it's got
a lot of the pre sunny to like death metal savagery to it. It's
got a proper edge to it, and it's still crazy and progressive, and
it's got a grandeur to the chorus. I guess that's the chorus. I
really really love it. It's a weird thing. I've a job for a
Cowboy back now, because it almost depends on how you see them, because
they were kind of pivotal in the death core thing, and death cours as
big now as it has been since they went away. So if you see
them on that thing in that group, you're kind of go well death coors
Big Now, it'd be nice to see them get some sort of nostalgia roses
from some of those people. But the weird thing is their brand of death
metal, the sort of technical, clean thing is sort of in a dip
now in the wedding, sort of the opposite of where it was ten years
ago. But their last two records were so good that I am just happy
to have more of that thing. It feels like sort of a bridge between
those two things, Like there's a bit of the healthy portion of the prog
stuff, but it feels like it leans more on the straight up death metal
end in a large parts too. So yeah, I really like this.
I don't think it's quite as gripping as some of the best songs that they
were doing towards the end, but as their first song back in however many
years, I think there's a really impressive return. And I wasn't that excited
about Job for a Cowboy coming back because I do like those last two records
and I like the Doo Meet Be but they were never as super important band
for me. But hearing this, it's I'm glad that it would be nice
to see them get their roses I think, yeah, I think what you're
saying about that kind of clean, progressive style of death metal that they lean
into being sort of less less of a feature now than it was ten years
ago. My hope is that just means that they can just kind of exist
on their own terms being great in that right like that, Like one of
my favorite bands in that world are Obscurer, and that's how I feel about
them. It's like, you know, there's there were lots of bands trying
to do Obscurer who weren't as good, and now Obscure coming I was like,
Wow, I'm glad that you're still here being the best at that thing,
even if it doesn't have to be like an overwhelming movement. And my
hope for john Rick Cowboy would just be to have a similar trajectory to that.
I think, you know, Johnny's vocal is so recognizable when he particularly
when he goes into those higher like registers. That's always something I loved that
he does, and hearing that on this song, I just love to hear
those again. But it does, you know, have that kind of proggy
gate to it with the fretless bait that chorus pass where it kind of the
chords go like spacious. It is a good mix of kind of you know,
prog death and sort of existing insidely, you know, a four minute
kind of identifiably structured song. It's very dense, but it's four minutes long.
It's crazy, and I do like that even during the more savage like
death metal parts, the bass you can still hear the bass like popping around.
It's such a cool thing. And I never really considered the technical death
metal thing being a lot out of style. But job for a coboy can
do whatever the fuck they want. They're the best at anything they do.
Yeah, So it's very good to have Jeoffrey Cowboy back. I do hope
this is part of a larger record. We have a couple of EP announcements
from two of the most sort of you know, beloved bands of the last
couple of years. The Calloustowboys are releasing their first music since their very very
acclaimed record the other year. It's an EP called God Smiles Upon the Calloustowboys,
and that's going to be out on October the twentieth and spirit Box have
also announced an EP which is slightly more substantial than the Rotoscope EP they released
a year or two ago. This is a six track EP. It's called
The Fear of Fear. They've released a single from that, but it also
features the single The Voids that we spoke about a few weeks ago, So
that's out on November the third. Both of those EP releases, I guess
we will kind of talk about more fully when there when there is more music
available from them, more kind of new just single tracks. Here we have
Steven Wilson returning with a new solo album announcements. Stephen Wilson, I mean,
like obviously this is coming off of the back of the Poor Key Pine
Tree record from twenty twenty two. I believe that one that came out,
and like Pokepine Tree, I mean I really really liked that comeback Pokepine Tree
record. I thought it was fantastic for them, and pokemone Tree are a
band who I like finally got into really are over like the past like handful
of years. But Steven Wilson's solo material still somewhat I guess eludes me.
Mark. I imagine you are more of a fan of just all out sort
of progue pop. Stephen Wilson, I am, yeah, there's sort of
up until hand cannot Raise from twenty fifteen. I am a fan of Steven
Wilson's is a bit more you know, Prague Magazine dad than a porcupine porcupine
tree. But I do really like his career up to a point. What
about you, Elliott, Yeah, I think Steven Wilson, It's been a
tough one for me because the last couple of records have taken solo for me
to get into them, and like you, Mark, I think the first
run of records he did solo all so great, and then hand cannot erase.
It was like, you haven't really written any songs here. This is
sort of just it's a bit nature documentary that record for me, and then
to the Bone had like one or two really good songs and a lot of
it was kind of much the last one in future Bites. It might be
the most divisive record he's done in any band, because you speak to people
and either they love it or hate it. I thought I had one like
incredible song on it in Twelve Things I Forgot and a few other okay tunes,
but I wasn't that gripped with the thing in it's entirety. So it's
a funny one and again it's a weird one because he's kind of moved into
this pop thing, but the song's almost less immediate, and yet he was
going to do the O two before that tour got canceled, So it's a
weird thing to pitch his popularity or the popularity of what he's doing now.
Yeah, well this is any track called Economies of Scale from a record called
The Harmony Codex, which is out with everything else on the tiny of September.
Again as a sort of non solo Stephen Wilson fan. This didn't do
an enormous amount to sort of like bring about some kind of epiphany in me.
Now that's a bit. It sort of left my brain as soon as
it ended. Really, yeah, it does. It does seem like a
song that is more of like an album based thing. So maybe it's a
bit of a wasted effort to be talking about it right now. But I
don't know if we'd review the Stephen Wilson record, we should I put it
in, But you know, there you go. Stephen wilson new solo is
coming out. Something I would definitely be thrown to you on Mark is the
fact that Taking Back Sunday have announced their first new album in seven years that
feels quite amazing. The album is called what is it called? Okay?
That's why my eyes were skipping over that one five two. I don't know
the significance of that. That can bet on October twenty seventh, and there
is a single out called Sold, which is clearly so old but with a
little apostrophe in and taking by Sunday, I guess the last thing I really
liked from them was probably like sometime over a decade ago, so you know,
again not really lighting my fire here, but I throw to you,
Mark, what's with the auto tune on this? Why is his voice doing
these like wobbly kind of runs towards the end? Man, I'm so tired
of this. I'm so tired of every time. Is this really another one
of those? Like again, I've mean that invested in to take about some
day to track their trajectory, but this is this like a hard knock to
be fair, like contextually taken back, Sunday, I've been going through a
bit of a I don't want to say identity crisis because that sounds a bit
mean, but the last record they released just sounded like against me. Yeah,
and then before that they were trying to recapture the roots but be more
mature, and it didn't really hit either. Flicker Fade from Happiness is as
a great, great song that's had taken back and their classic, but other
than that, they've been ropey at best for about a decade. But I'm
so tired of one of my favorite bands coming back. And my first listen
of the new song is spent entirely thinking about how bad the production is.
It's it's a bit feled money. Adam doesn't even sound like Adam. He's
one of the most be weird, one of the most like identifiable emo vocalists,
and he just he sounds like a computer man on it. Yeah,
it's rubbish. Like I don't want to shoot on them because I do love
them, but it's not it's not great. They try. It was particularly
the vocals. Like I said, there's this I wonder if it's an intentional,
sort of creative choice to add a kind of bit of an auto tune
wobble onto him. But it's like it feels like that ship sailed quite a
while ago. It's a weird time to be doing it. Yeah, it
does sound like they're trying to capture sort of a feld Money Tiktoki, but
a little bit more grown up perhaps sound, but it doesn't work like and
the hooks aren't there. They tried the classic two vocalists at the same time,
didn the vocal lines thing near the end, and it just it just
doesn't hit. Yeah, I don't know about that. I think more reliable
where we can assume that there's not going to be going for some kind of
orter tune. In a fact, in the fact that Autopsy have an ounce
that they are going to be releasing another new album. It's called Ashes,
Organs, Blood and Crypts and it's out on October twenty seventh. The context
for this is Autopsy when they came back with the Macabaternal record in twenty eleven.
For about four or five years afterwards, they were releasing something every single
year, like it was just reliably, like clockwork, here's an Autopsy album
at the very least, like an EP or a mini album or something.
And then for like a similar span of that kind of time, they just
suddenly went silent and the juicers stopped flowing. We stopped getting this concept flow
of Autopsy material until the record Morbidity triumphant from the last year, and then
sudd lead to get the news that we're seeming lead back to Autopsy doing an
album every year again. Elliott, you were saying earlier, it's a bit
like, oh wow, we're fully back into the right timeline. Yeah,
some things just feel right, and waiting for Autopsy records just it doesn't feel
natural. It feels like you should only be able to listen to the on
four sides before you've got more Autopsy to listen to. And the last time
they followed up an album this quickly, they followed up The Headless Ritual,
which it was. It was good, but it's probably my least favorite Autopsy
record. Are the one that came after that fun uh yeah, probably a
special case in it. And they followed that over the way better record and
more ability. Try another one. Yeah was great last year. So if
these trends continue, pretty good. And looking at the track list, any
album with a song called toxic Death fuck with Yeah artwork is suitably brilliant Autopsy
all the time. You're right, I don't got around to picking up the
latest record, and I wanted to just nice to have them back continuing again.
Damnation Festival have unveiled their completed now bill for twenty twenty three with a
final few additions. The kind of headline one I guess of this particular announcement
being the kind of wild card addition they have said that, you know,
occasionally they're like, we like, obviously we're an extreme metal festival. You
know, they're in post rock and stuff in there as well, but occasionally
we go Our demographic is mainly people who are probably about forty years old.
When these people were Mosha's twenty years ago. Let's give them an opportunity every
year to kind of relive their youths. And so the announcement that on Earth
are going to be performing the Oncoming Storm for seeming me the only date they've
not annound there doing a twenty fan of every thing around the World or anything
like that, but just Unearth are turning up here at you know, are
fairly large, but not the largest in the country. I guess, you
know, metal festival doing their most iconic album. That's one that even the
other non Damnation faithful might look at that and go, oh, I'd beat
down for a bit of zombie auto pilot. This is what's so weird,
is my mates and I were chatting about Arctics getting booked for Bloodstock, and
we were like, how far could Damnation go in that direction? And we
all kind of agree that it'd be weird from to book a proper noughties groovy
metal core band. But I think, like you said, this makes a
lot of sense because the Oncoming Storm that is a bruising record, and I
think it's more sense than doing the poison right right. I think on a
Damnation bill like this one, which is kind of more heavily leaning on the
esoteric, the patient, the kind of proggy end of things, I think
it's a nice counterbalance because last year's bill had a pretty healthy portion of like
really most friendly stuff, like virtually all the headliners, the people who love
seeing Jane No last year. A healthy amount of those people are also going
to love the Oncoming Storm. Yeah, this is it. Like I never
even considered on Earth. As I put later, I was thinking more of
Bullet for my Valentine, continue the way the going. Maybe they can do
the I saw merch tents. But but this I think is a pretty like
a pretty savvy booking. And again I never thought that. I know They're
never been one of my bucket list bands. But this has got me well
excited. I'm so jealous. You can fuck off. I I've never wanted
to be a Damnation More. I love that record. It's a classic.
It's for that type of metalcore, you know, two thousand and four proper
breakdown, heavy melodic death metal leads my metalcore. That's one of that's like
Mount Rushmore. Pick for me and you'll be better. Be motion hard for
your old pal Mark. Yeah, I mean I know that for Sam this
will be one of the things that they would most be anticipating at this thing.
And as I said, this is the completion of the Damnation Bill,
so let's take a little look over the post we have it. That is,
this is of course including the Damnation Bill and the Night of Salvation show
that they do the day before, which features a lot more of the kind
of special album theme sets and so on. And I would to talk,
I guess about Gavin who's the main kind of promoter and face behind Damnation Festival.
He's one of that we said if you times, he's one of the
most like kind of open honest promoters who is heavily associate with an event that
we have in heavy music really, and he's been quite open about the fact
that you know, they're they're doing all right, but compared to the mega
event that was last year, it's been a little bit more of a kind
of slower tick with sales and whatnot. And I've seen a few kind of
comments from people being like, the Damnation lineup this year, it's not as
good as it was last year. There's not enough for me. And I
know that like last year, you know, when you've got Jane do in
full Slaughter of Soul, in full Street Cleaner Revoll, that's more like huge
headline albums, that event sets that maybe this doesn't have. But the idea,
like the comments I've seen to people like oh, there's only three bands
I want to see this year, confuses the ever loving fuck out of me,
because, like I mean, if you are someone listening here who doesn't
really go into the kind of the more heavy, you know, kinds of
underground music, that's fine. I mean that probably is that Damnation isn't the
kind of festival you'd be going into anyway. But if you are someone who
is in the Damnation demographic who would normally go to this festival, what what's
wrong with your taste if you somehow won't need to manage to find like two
bands on this bill that you're a fan of. I saw someone saying like
I only wanted to see Rotten Sound, and it's like, what if you
like rotten sound, how are you not going to enjoy a now on a
thrack or anything else? It's and it's like, I guess, you know,
the only thing that is sort of lacking is they haven't got the huge
headline names for death metal this year, Like they haven't got a cannibal corpse
or a suffocation or a bituary or something like that. But if you like
doom, if you like black metal, if you like kind of grind,
if you like post metal, I mean arm and Rah Julie Christmas Lepreus performing
Coal and Full. If you like your post rock, there's maybe she will
who I know, a huge draw there, you know, But I'll kind
of lower down the bill. We've got Chemists, a Hab, Death,
Action, Spire, Harriet like I just Dead, Guy Are Back Dead,
Yeah, I just I fully cannot imagine being someone who likes the kind of
music that Damnation caters for and only having a couple bands on this build you're
interested in. Even if there is on there a couple of bands you're interested
in, there's a good chance you'll get to see them twice. Exactly.
I'm really excited to see two side sets, you know, but they instead
of Doom below the Lights? How are you not happy with that? Yeah?
And fucking the Daily Record. I just, I just I'm so confused
at any negativity around this line up, just because they've not got Jane No
for a second year in a row. I don't, I really don't get
this. Like I think, if you are disappointed or underwhelm, it says
more about you than it does about Damnation. Frankly, because last year,
like you say, it may have had the headline grabbing things, but the
number of things I missed last year because I was watching something else like it
might be head honestly might be the best festival like billing I've personally ever been
to, And I think following that up any year is like a near impossible
herculean task. But looking at this, I'm already getting anxious about the things
I probably won't see. Yeah, I don't. I look at this and
I don't go, Oh, that's a real shame. After last year's event.
You know, I look at it and go, oh my god.
You know, Electric Wizard performing their own UK show for the big one,
which is they are one of the hugest bands in that world. And then
as said you going down the bill, everything from en Slave to Judy Christmas
to Acacca to Rotten Sound as well Ash Inspire. It's just it's one of
the best lineups of the year once again. Yeah, surely Aca Cocker as
a slam dunk for the Damnation audience. Yeah. I just you know,
if you want to see a festival like this continue to operate at the scale
it's operating on, booking all these amazing, you know, exclusive flung bands
from all of the worlds of kind of underground music. It's a really special
thing. So please do you know, support it. I'm really excited to
go along to this completed event where you know, for one thing on Earth
are going to be performing the Oncoming Storm also slightly interesting sort of you know,
detol. I think it we've never mentioned really on this podcast before,
is as a festival called Fortress Festival, which I might have joked about because
I think it started for its first year last twenty twenty three, this year.
It's a festival that happened in Scarborough and it's a black metal festival and
I couldn't go this year. It was like around too many other things.
But they had Popticon, who you know, if you've heard our album Club
we did on Kentucky last year, are a hugely important band for the last
like kind of fifteen years of black metal in general. But the Popticon,
I've only recently started doing live shows. It was always a one man project
and their UK debut happened at this random festival in Scarborough and I was like,
what the fuck? This year fortunate festal twe twenty four, they've got
Popticon coming back and they are doing there my favorite album with there's the one
that got me into them, Rose to the North in full and elsewhere.
In this first kind of lineup of bands for bands who we've spoken about on
this podcast, they've got Lamp of Murmur and they've also got Black Braid coming
for their first UK show, which feels like a bit of a get to
get you know black Braid for a UK exclusive. I am. I'm seriously
looking up Fortre Essel this year and going I should go to Scarborough this year.
That's really good. And that's only the first round. Yeah, and
the first ever falls of ra Ross Ross. Yeah, it's a big one
as well. And again this is a smaller band. But I was so
happy to see Obsidian Kingdom get booked because I saw them at Damnation years ago
and thought they were excellently like a proggy post metal band from Spain with loads
of energy and if you're into stuff like Leprous and Soulstafere, check out Mansis,
which I think is the record they're playing in full here, So even
just like little like tiny curios outside of the big headline thing. Yeah,
it's a pretty much like water tight first announcement, I think. Yeah,
I'm a big fan of Abistle, the kind of a very chaotic dissonant Deathmital
and who are on there. But again just for sort of the headline name
bands, they've got one here, Panopticon coming back again, Lamper Murmur and
Black Braid. If you like your black metal, that's like immediately very very
enticing, and then just to swing to the other end of the that's the
metal spectrum. Spanish Love Songs have an outset doing a an enormous UK tour.
The kind of UK tour where you know, again, as an unto
others fan, I think experience, I look at it and go, oh,
I worry about the ticket sales filling that many venues, but I really
hope they managed to pull it off. They're doing, like what is this
about, at least ten dates, more so in the UK at various places
you know, around the country. The reason Sam is not here right now
recordings with us is they are watching Spanish Love Songs as we speak, but
they're coming back immediately, so you know, good things there for the Spanish
Love Songs fans. The news came this last week that bray Wyatt's had passed
away. Bray and Wyatt being a wrestler who in kind of the you know,
the T and M circles most notable for heavy collaborating with Code or In
to do his his you know, they wrote the original song to use as
his his theme music. And I know again Sam would be our wrestling correspondent
who could speak to the full sort of magnitude of what bray Wyatt kind of
achieved in that world. But I know, obviously Code Orange I saw posted
a very heartfelt Jamie particular kind of tribute about you know, the kind of
collaborative process that led to that. And I know that, you know,
there are people out there who heard of Code Orange for the first time and
a now fans because of you know, this this huge wrestling entr theme that
they did so and that's a real loss that is felt here as well.
And then just quickly won't spend you know, an enormous amount of time on
this, because I think we've done an awful lot already. But we've got
a couple of updates on some of the year's more unsavory stories, I guess,
just to kind of put a pin in them for now. See Jammin
from as Murder, who was our primary kind of discussion point on last week's
show, posted an apology video for the violent transphobic comments that he made forgot
him, you know, kind of removing his post from social media and everything.
I will read it here. Hey, guys, CJ here just wanted
to make this video to apologize to everybody that's been upset and offended by the
video that I shared and commented horribly on Instagram a few days ago. My
intentions weren't to be transphobic in any way, shape or form, and now
it's gotten to a point where it doesn't really matter. All my intentions were.
I apologize to the LGBTQ plus community and their allies and the people that
support them, and I thought I did support them, but obviously my video
that I shared and commented horribly on has proved otherwise. To my friends I
have that are trans, please don't take this as be being transphobic, My
intentions were very different to be anything other than that. And I apologize to
my band, and I don't blame them, so I don't know what to
say. I'm sorry quit Personally, I find that to be a very weak
apology for a lot of the reasons we discussed, and i'd been conversation last
week. Again, I can't speak for Sam, who is not here,
but an apology largely made up of I didn't mean to be transphobic. Please
don't take this as me being transphobic feels very out of whack with parents who
accept the gender identity of their children should be burned to death. And you
know what, he says, his intentions weren't to be transphobic. There's no
attempted explanation of what he possibly could have meant. By that, where you
know, where did that extremely ugly sentiment come from. You can't just say
that you support LGBTQ plus causes while your actions seemed to suggest very much the
opposite. The band seemed to be kind of quiet. Right now. I
think some more action to really show that you know that concrete support should be
made. It is obviously good that apology was made, but without any further
action or elaboration for me, it rings a bit hollow. You can make
your own decision, and I guess that also applies to the update that we
got that the the German prosecutors who were investigating the the sexual assault misconducts and
allegations everything that we're going on around Tin Lindermann of Ramstein have dropped their investigation
as of this week. And you know that that is something where there was
like an you know, an active legal investigation like this we didn't want to
weigh into heavily when it was happening. You know, it's kind of let
it unfold, you know, don't say anything potentially libelous or whatever. But
it this means really, I guess that we don't have any kind of closure
with it in the eyes of the law, not enough evidence was produced to
kind of come to anything. But you know, in these kind of cases,
I know that that isn't enough to make a lot of people out there
feel super you know, assured and kind of comfortable that to say that these
things definitely didn't happen. There's an awful lot that has been you know,
put out there into you know, the ether and the internet, you know,
around the kind of the the so called talent scout who was kind of
accused of recruiting goals for this whole situation that was allegedly going on, where
the lion's share of the alleged misconduct occurred if it was to have done.
So, you know, we can't really say. Unfortunately, that's all that
could really be said on the matter right now. I guess you know,
this situation with allegations being brought against Till and others in a circle did occur,
and without any lead confirmation. Again, you guys just kind of have
to go with your own feelings on it. Let's move on to questions which
come from thes of focus group on Facebook and Ben Wilmot. I guess we're
just going to quickly cap off our discussion before what album sets the Damnation lineup
are the most salivating ps. The correct answer is audio No Are by Boss.
It's funny you say that, because that is like the one really that
doesn't really kind of you know, wet my whistle too heavily. But I'm
glad that it's on there because I know that will be an event for a
lot of people, and you know, that would be a big draw and
I can go and see something else. So I'm glad that that is happening
there for me, the big one, and there are again a handful that
I'm really excited for. But of the special kind of album sets, it's
Accoca doing corns On, which is one of my favorite records really, and
I saw them doing the go to Mendez at Damnation like two years ago,
and it was like right when two years time when they come out of doing
corns On, which is the one it's one of the greatest extreme metal records
ever, I think that is going to be the really really big one for
me. And then elsewhere I mentioned the double side shows. I'm really excited
to see Scorned Defeat played. I think that's gonna be a real moment.
And of course, you know the Enslaved sets and the Catonia sets, but
Corenson will be one if I had to pick off these special ones. Yeah,
I think it's terms of using the word excited, Corenzon is the one
I'm most excited for because I kind of I have a fairly good idea of
what it's going to be, but I've never seen Akacca. When I missed
the Goat of Mendez, which I think is actually the album I prefer,
I was pretty gutted about that. So to right that wrong on an album
that I think is at the very least comparable is so I'm really excitful.
What I'm more intrigued by maybe is, like you say, the Scorned Defeat
set by Sight and the Enslaved doing the debut that I can't pronounce because both
those bands are so wildly different to who they were when they made those records.
I do wonder if is it going to be sort of straight down the
line recreations of those records or are we going to get some kind of artistic
reinvention. I'm kind of happy either way, to be honest, because I
think both albums are so good in their original form, but particularly the Enslaved
one actually because I don't even really know anyone whose favorite Enslaved album that is,
and they were bound who have a fair few contenders for like what the
classic is so below the low Lights being one of those. So that's going
to be a yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that, like I
say, sort of like the Acococa thing, I feel like I have a
fairly good idea of what that's going to be. Still incredibly excited for it,
but yeah, that the King ligear VELDI I really like. Yeah,
I feel like it could go one of a number of ways, and I'd
say maybe the overall, that's one I'm most intrigued about. But I mean
again, the fact that I haven't mentioned like Dead Guy or the Oncoming Storm,
it's not even it's just mental. Yeah, and Mark, if you
were going it would most certainly be the Oncoming Storm, right, although you're
a bigger Would you be there for an audienoir? Oh yeah, I like
that record. It's probably the best basque records. I saw them a couple
of times while they were touring. That would be nice to revisit that.
Yeah, Oncoming Storm, come on, you get to see Endless, the
best breakdown in the world. Very good Marcus Franz asked, what are some
bands where your favorite song was never on an album or EP? For example?
My answer would be burned by the cure do it. Kind Of looking
over this question, I came to the conclusion that I can name an awful
lot of great songs are like non album singles, even non EP singles.
Maybe they're from a split, maybe they were just released on their own or
whatever. But I genuinely could not come up with a single answer where it
is my favorite song from that band. Like the best songs I could come
up with for this category, I always have something it's on an album or
rep that is like my absolutely number one. So I in terms of the
literal definition of this question, I cannot answer it. I can only name
a whole bunch of songs I think are great and I think are up there
with their bands kind of respective catalogs. I had one right, It's not
very exciting. But when Andy beer Sack Andy Beer Sack from Black Veil Brides
he started the Zany Black Project, the first song he released, they Don't
need to Understand I think that was on the first album wasn't. No,
it's not It's not even on Spotify. It's only available on YouTube. I
adore that s It's such a slick, perfect, lovely little pop song and
he's not done anything with it's nowhere, And I'd go as far as to
say that's the best song he's written. Full star, We don't have to
dance as the song that I was thinking of, it's on the first out
right okay, but yeah, that's the best song he's ever written. Dance
we can come up with Andy Black Elliott. Do you have anything or are
you like me where it's a similar boat like lots of great songs, but
not any absolute best they've ever done. Yeah, I misread the question,
so I thought it was just so. I've listed to a bunch of songs,
and I'm quite glad that you pulled me out, because if I went
first, I would have said my favorite mass On song now was cut You
Up with a Linoleum Knife from the upteen Hunger five so on track, which
great. So death Bound that is great, that's true, that's yeah.
I'm looking at these now. I'm trying to think if there's any that I
want to hold your hand by the Beatles, I don't know if that's my
that's not my favorite Beatles song or Careful with the Acts Eugene my Pink Floyd
definitely not. Yeah, No, I can't. I can't think of any
yeah other major ones. So I'm just gonna name a bunch of songs I
think great but close, but no cigars essentially for this. I mean like
square Hammer is like a standalone single that was on a cover's EP. I
guess he wanted to throw in the seven inches of Tannic Panic as well.
Shouting this Guy's Above by Trivium one of the all time great Like if someone
was to tell me that was their favorite Trivian song, I would say fair
enough, it's pretty fucking immense a controversial one, but Out for Blood by
Code Orange is a recent one that I think is up there. All out
Life obviously as well. One of the best, Shake the Disease by depeche
Mode is Unreal Aggressive Perfective by Slayer I guess technically never exists on any sort
of larger thing apart from the Metal Massacre compilation, and that's a who an
icon it tune. I think the closest I got to like that was a
favorite is there is a spoul Barred song called Open the Cages that was on
a split they did with a man called The Tidal Sleep, and at least
when it came out that was I was like, this is my favorite tune
that you've done. I'm not sure if it I could still say that right
now, but it certainly is in the conversation and there was a comment as
well on this question where someone pointed out that the Smiths have shiploads of songs
on you know, on but again, I don't know if any of those
songs would necessarily be my absolute favorite Smith song. So I just loads a
great which oh yeah, is actually an answer. Again, it's might not
count because it is on B sides and the luxe editions and stuff. But
I do think my favorite Weezer song is I Just Felt the Love of My
Dreams, which is on the de Luxe version of Pinkerton. But okay,
it's not on a record, and you can chuck Suzanne in there as well.
They'll probably both be at the top ten, so and you could chuck
in It's always Sunny in Bikini Bottom. I'm very likely to do. So.
Yeah, I really love Redshift by Andrew Gary, but again that's not
Yeah, there's a there's a bunch of those that again are contenders, but
and you know, obviously the commentary question here said said burn your boys don't
cry. I don't think it's technically on an album they've They've got a load
as well, but again none of those are would be you know, I
don't like those more than the best songs of disintegration, and so I couldn't
quite a definitive answer. Graham Preston asks what band would you still pay one
hundred pound plus four? Nine nine's Nails are the only band who I would
still throw all my money out I, at least to memory, I haven't
a date had to do in one hundred plus. Like the biggest shows I've
been to this year were depeche Mode and Iron Maiden. Those like the upper
register of what I paid really for like a single band, and those were
both sort of around eighty So trying to think of something that would go over
that. And then I've also seen like most of the mega mega bands that
I want to at this point, so I'm trying to think of, you
know, bands who realistically I would maybe be prompted to do this for.
I think the biggest one is the Misfits, where you know, for a
start, if I want to see the lists at all, I have to
pay upwards of that for a flight. But if they were to play here
and it was one hundred plus pounds, easily like take my money straight away.
I think Metallica, if they were to go that high for something next
year, I could be tempted. Even though I have seen Metallica, I
don't think it would go this high, but the cure I do have to
see, and like I did for eighty with the Depeche Mode this year,
I would do it. I've not seen ac DC, so maybe if they
did, like a farewell tour at some point, if it went that high,
I'd be tempted. Kind of classic rock bands of that size and ilk,
there's probably not too many others I go that expensive for, you know,
like I wouldn't pay that for Guns and Roses. I wouldn't do that
for Kiss or Aerosmith Rush. I would, but they aren't around. And
then I don't know if I'm actually joking or not when I say Man of
War, you're not joking. I'd seriously think about it. I'd pay a
hundred pounds to be next to you while Man of War boy Hey, other
bands play Man of War kill. That's so true. I'd i'd pay a
hundred point pounds to watch you watch them kill. I think I did pay
about one hundred quid for a foofight just tickets. Okay, yeah, I
would be that for the food Fighters. I yeah, while I was paying
it, I was like, oh, fucks, say, can I really
justify this? But I love the food Fighters and I'm taking my mom.
That's a nice gift for my mom. Sure, yeah, it's I'll justify
it then. But other than that, fuck fuck off, I'm not paying
that. Would you pay that for let's say again Metallica or a CDC,
which you know, maybe a last chance to see one of those bands?
Would you? Would you be tempted? Actually? Yeah, if if if
it was like the only chance to see a CDC or Metallica, I probably
would. How much do Mattalica because they're doing the whole two nights, Yeah,
that's the whole thing for It depends on if you're doing one night or
two, which is just like any band. But I imagine it would for
the single stadium tours and doing right now, it'd be similar to what I've
done for other bands. Paying like eighty or something. I like, I
said, if it went up to one hundred, probably gonna at any twenty
quick. If James Hetfield called me and said, don't worry, Mark would
definitely want to play King Nothing and I disappear, I'd probably pay a hundred
I disappear in answer for the great even though I truly if anyone's favorite metallic
because someone is I disappear, I think you're a lunatic. Even that is
well extreme. But yeah, the thought of paying a hundred quick, I'm
sort of against it in principle because it's it's like if you're to a pub
and you pay, if you just pay like fourteen quid for a pint,
it just turns to piss in your mouth, like as you're drinking, you're
just you're so your analytic perception is so high that you kind of stop enjoy
it, because I felt like the whole time just going have I wasted my
money? But so it would have to be a band I've never seen before.
We're like dependably great and put on at least something of a show.
So like nine Inch Nails, I might spend one hundred quids. Tall Again,
I saw one Snails last year and it wasn't one hundred quid, so
oh well the only the only band again, this would well, it would
be flight. It's gonna have to fly to a jazz cafe in New York
if I wanted to see it. But I kind of have this rule for
myself, which I like because it will never happen, so I never have
to obey it. But if Naked City Reform, will travel as far as
I can afford to to get there because it's nice. It's uncomfortable saying out
loud because if they reform, it probably will be on Mars or something and
I'll be long dead. So, like I said, it's never going to
happen, but I would go as far as I would pay a one hundred
pounds to watch them play the song that starts to begin your funny Games.
That'd be fucking great. Yeah. Bands who I think actually could go to
that level who I would at least consider paying it for The Misfits, Metallica,
the Cure. If I had to a CDC for a last Hurrah,
maybe Man of War and Mark Paul asks. I was really going to ask
whether you think Slipno could keep their identity secret nowadays like they did, But
then I thought of ghosts, so I've changed it to how much harder do
you think it is to keep identity secret now with social media compared to when
slip not arriving the scene? And who do you think has had the most
bus But I wanted to know who they are. I think the elephant in
the room you've not mentioned here is sleep Token, which I think is a
really interesting case of this because it's like, I know who the sleep Token
singer is, right, And that's not me having some kind of industry insight.
It's just if you go on the internet, he's kind of you know,
you can find who it is, similar to maybe Ghost Circle like twenty
twelve, twenty thirteen or something like you know, before official and masking or
anything. But you could go down rabbit holes and go, okay, that's
clearly to bias. But sleep Token there doesn't seem there's a lot of interest
in unmasking them, Like even like from their Rabbid Rabbit fan base, people
just seem to be going with the kind of you know, sure you're you're
you're a mask guy. I don't really care very much, And I wonder
whether this speaks to a a different in sort of information overload, where when
again slipnot terrive on the scene and you are relying on print magazine still for
most of your kind of information about rock bands, maybe that sort of soul
infosource you know, television as well, if you like, as well,
creates more of a want to discover these mysteries, whereas on the Internet you
are so fucking bombarded with just everything existing all at once. Anyway, it's
like, is it actually exciting to know who the sleeptoker man is or you
know, if ghost we're still our master this day. I don't know if
it is, it's more exciting to me. If I don't know, I
don't. I don't really care. It's going to be someone I don't know.
I know. Obviously this is bands who exist on an extremely different level,
But there are quite a lot of black metal bands we're still to this
day no way fucking idea where they are, but who? But this is,
like Mark says, if we don't know who they are, that would
be true even if we knew who they were, because if what they unmask
them, It's like I want to who the singer of so and so is
it's like, Oh, it's a guy called Philip and he works in a
war museum, you know what I mean. It's like, it's not like
it's going to be some wow who had any idea. I feel like the
anonymity thing is only compelling either if it's implied that the band members could be
famous, like whenever we were going to Stave Rolling Ghost, or if they
manage to exute like tons of personality despite the anim aim to see. But
if you do manage to do that, you'll probably be fine after the veil
is lifted. Anyway, there's a heavy rumor that at Bloodstock twenty sixteen when
Ghost headlined it, Dave Grohl played drums, and like, if anyone knows
that, I would love to be at least aware that that happened. It
seems like it could be bullshit, but there was enough people were like,
oh yeah, like Dave Grohl's playing drums for them. It was like,
and there's no way of proving it. I saw a Ghost play a show
seven years ago, and I don't know if Dave role played drums. Are
that's cool though, that's different than a touring band. If it's like a
one off thing. Yeah, I'd like to know that, but I know
who's the basis, and sleep Talking I couldn't give a fuck. Yeah,
I think it's almost like I think Ghost arrived almost at like the turning point
of this sort of demand for information where people were rapidly seeking out whereas now
I think, particularly you know gen Zars, who have kind of just been
raised in this constant flux like just everything being bombarded at you on the Internet,
there's almost a level of like not caring really because it doesn't make any
difference either way. So I think Sleeptoken they are a band who have sort
of been able to take advantage of the full Like again, it's it's kind
of an open secret, if you know, if you look in the right
places, who Sleeptoken singer is. But no one really seems to be in
any rush to kind of make any big deal of it, because what does
it really add to, you know, the being a fan of the band.
Does that whole attitude of sort of being cynical about like slip Knot and
staff of other people on the care about them because they have a gimmick?
Does that still exist with like Ghost and sleep Tooken, I don't really know.
No. I think people have said that about those about those bands,
But again, as someone who adores one of those bands and absolutely hates the
other one, I view both of them quite similar in terms of, like,
it's not the thing to judge the band on, like it's part of
the press sentation, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with whether the band
is good or not. You know, we actually, in a way we
kind of saw how compelling the anonymity thing is with Slipknot, even in the
last ten years. Because they've drafted in four people and they've never announced it
from the outset who it was. It kind of had to be sniffed out,
and Jay and VMan were sniffed out almost immediately. Christ's replacement, Michael
was worked in like less than a year, and I feel like Craig's replacement,
people already seem to know who that is. But even though all those
names are certauling, as we all know, if you talk to people who
maybe like a couple of slip Knot songs but aren't following it, and I've
known them, they go and it's amazing because people still don't know who's in
the band. You go, we know everyone who's been in the band,
We know everyone who's left. We know like all of that information, if
you say, if you want, it is out there, but clear people
don't really give a shit, right, Yeah, It's like it's not that
because it's ultimately it's not gonna they're going to tear the mask off and it's
like you know their dad or something, do you know what I mean.
It's like it's ultimately some people you also don't know. So yeah, it's
it's it's it's one of those things where again and so many people have done
it. I kind of wonder if it's just we're going to be one of
those things of the past now where people will realize it's not worth hiding.
Yeah. So basically answer the question is which we did really answer, Whether
it's easier or harder. I think it comes down to people don't really give
a shit now, So I guess in a way that maybe slightly makes it
easier. I don't know, even though I guess it's it's easier for information
to leak, but it's harder to make people care about that information. Is
the answer? Will go with here Patreon supporters our album club pack that we
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to talk through some of the album releases that are out at the moment.
It's been a couple of weeks since we've done one of these because I,
you know, I missed a week of these because I was a bloodstock.
So just to quickly rattle through a bunch of the things that have just sort
of been of note in the last couple of weeks that maybe we didn't cover
on our review show before we get to this Friday's releases. I think the
biggest one that a kind of stirred the most reaction out of people from last
week was Holding Absence as third record the Noble Art of self destruction. I
kind of checked some of this out. I'm sort of very casual the interested
in Holding Absence. It didn't quite grab me as much as previous ones have
done, even though a lot of people seem to really really like it,
and I wonder whether that maybe just sort of speaks to knowing the deal right,
Like the standout songs on this didn't smack me in the face as much
as like an Afterlife or something. And it's not really a lot of surprises.
Yeah, it's repeating the trick, but they are very good at the
trick. It's not going to be my favorite Holding Absence record, but False
Dam has a fucker of a chorus on it that is an absolute tune.
Yeah, well, there you go. It's very you know, it's fairly
respectable, maybe just not like in my world on Fire. The Armed did
come back as well with their Perfect Saviors record, which is the foot to
ultra pop again. I've heard some of this. It's as always with the
Armed, who are band? I think the Armed they're a bit like Liturgy
in that I feel like I sort of like them, but I can never
bring myself to fully be passionate about it because I just kind of can't make
my mind up on it, Like it's just a kind of a strange thing,
strange slippery thing to get a handle on that, and I don't,
I don't know. It doesn't it doesn't move me in a kind of primal
way. It just sort of like strikes my ear occasion and goes all that's
sort of interesting. But the Armed you know, there are people who fucking
mental for that band. So even though I didn't see as much around this
as they did Ultra Pop, So I don't know where that's a lesser reck
of them or anything, but that came out not quite as exciting as the
return of asking Alexandria with their album where Do We Go From Here, which
I feel like this is about the third asking of Sandra I'm in a Row,
which we've mentioned in this sort of offhand way of going. I didn't
know there was an Act Andrea album until it came out, and I've not
seen a single person like that. Their fans are fully the Schrodinger's box of
you know, fans, and I wonder this is maybe even the last time
we include them in this like hyper Blast round Up, even cursory mentioned,
because what is there more to say about a band who clearly have a lot
of you know, a silent majority fan base, who are you know,
streaming the fuck out of these records? But then no one actually ever seemed
to be passionate about have released another record and a long stream of those where
no one actually converses in anyway. So the People's band, I mean,
but I did listen to the first track on this and there's just like,
there's like this awful electro drop in it, but at the same time the
chorus is on a blast beat. It's a very weird combination of things.
But the other the album peaks two seconds in with a bad blood Yeah,
very jarring. And then if that's not enough for you, The Word Alive
had an album out called Hard Reset. I know Sam was kind of joking
a bit about this. This album features guest spots from bad Omens, Escape
the Fate and From First to Last, which is a real real run of
the camut of that I guess to complete that trifector. Hot Milk also released
an album called A Call to the Void, and I saw the tour they're
doing for this album. It's fucking massive, Like they're playing like I think
it's the Forum and places like that like Hot Milk. I have now become
a big band for a band that we spoke about first few years ago and
kind of went no, So yeah, there you go. Those are all
out elsewhere Orbit Culture, who are the Man? I mentioned earlier metal bands
from Sweden. I belie who spot a Trivium quite popular at the moment.
They're really called the Scent. Some things that I would recommend to you.
The Fiddlehead album Death is nothing to us. They have always been a pretty
solid band in that regard. Death Clock have also come back. Brent and
Smalls Metalocalypse spawned fictional Death notal band with Death album four. Have you guys
ever? I guess sort of had any interest in death Clock slash Metalocalypse about
ten years ago. Yeah, that metalocalyps is one of those shows for me
where it's like I'd love to love it. Whenever it's on, I'm always
like I'm in the I'm in the chocks waiting to laugh or something, do
you know what I mean? Like I'm just gonna go okay, Okay,
I know the coffee song, but that's about it. No, I mean
the occasionally they put a couple of bangers, like that Bloodline song that was
on Guitar Hero is a good tune. I don't know how much more there
is in a sort of death clock theme thing, but there you go.
Death Album four is out. If you want some kind of you know,
early Teutonic style, kind of very you know, speed thrash metal stuff.
It's a man called Knife who released record called Heaven into Dust. It's got
a wicked album cover. And then to kind of continue more than the extreme
front death metal icons, Incantation released Unholy Deification. God Thrim released Distortions.
That's a band featuring Hamish Glencross used to play in My Dying Bride kind of
following more and that I really like the first record. Bluetous Nord released the
newest record in their Disharmonium series of records. It's called Nab Blue us Nord
Absolute Nightmarish makes Mark Cryant God Black Metal. It's a scary record as always.
An earth Faust released Unter Gang Who and they've actually announced that this is
going to be their kind of farewell record and they are immediately breaking up.
And they've always been kind of, I guess a presence in the kind of
you know, if you deepen your underground metal or foust always seem to be
kind of around, So that's a fairly you know, a notable departure.
You go check out the last record and a couple of EPs from before Drab
Majesty released An Object in Motion. And I had been waiting for the return
of Drab Majesty because they loved their last album from twenty nineteen, I believe,
and this EP is kind of a curveball. It's like, not really
the kind of gothic synthpop thing that you'd think of them. Therefore, it's
got some more like psychedelic sounds and stuff. It's it's not really the sound
I think works best with Drab Majesty, but it's kind of interesting that they've
done it, and also kind of just surprise dropped full of Hell put a
split with a man called Gasp, and listening to that it's very much on
their kind of lengthier, noisier end of the spectrum. And that will bring
us forward to today's releases, you know, fully up to date. Here.
Royal Blood are back with another album called Back to the Water Below.
I know it's cool to sort of roast Royal Blood because they are funny and
they are stupid, like they had their you know, throwing their toys at
the PRAMM moment earlier this year. But I've always thought the music is reliably
solid for what it is, So I guarantee they'll be like a couple of
like decent radio rock tunes on this record. Something I think it's more inspiring
for people that I think we will be reviewing in our upcoming show, because
how can we not is Empire Empire State Bastard's album Rivers of Heresy. That
is the Simon Neil Mike Vennutt extreme kind of noisy collaboration featuring another than Dave
Lombardo on drums drums. More to come. They're Polaris releasing an album Fatalism.
This is a metalcore band. I know they lost one of their members
earlier this year, so if this is a record, it's kind of be
produced in the aftermath of that. You know, I hope they are,
you know, it kind of provides some some some catharsis for them. There.
Jeff Rosenstock a real top hero of the kind of indie punk scene.
He's releasing His new album is called hell Mode more in that kind of vein
as a man called taking meds called dial M for Meds. I listened to
a single from this and it's sounded to me there was some kind of like
Matt Skiberry Alkaline Trio influence in there, so maybe go down there. And
then everyone's favorite German Judas Priest cover band, Primal Fear a back with a
record called Code Read. I say that sort of lovingly because they do have
some material. I really enjoy that band over the years. Bio Cancer this
is a thrash metal band who their last track about in twenty fifteen. I
remember enjoying it and they're kind of forgot about them, and then they're back
with an album that's called Revengeance. So that's exactly what I need from a
band called Bio Cancer. And then again just a couple more things here from
the extreme metal front Grave Pilgrim, the Bigotry of Purpose that's a very kind
of you know, low fi if you like a kind of medievally style black
metal playing and whatnot. And then an EP from Undergang, the Danish death
metal band, which is something in Danish. You can go and look that
up, but that is us caught up with the main stuff that's been sort
of of note of the last couple of weeks. Thanks very much for listening.
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