1 00:00:26,559 --> 00:00:30,920 Hello everybody. Welcome to that's normtal, your weekly rock and heavy metal podcast, 2 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,399 letting you know what the heck is going on on this here edition of 3 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,600 Hyperblasts. My name is parent hairsh I'm a little under the weather, so 4 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,159 apologies of the energy is not the absolute highest. Elliott is as we speak, 5 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,200 stuck in traffic somewhere stationary on a motorway. So the team is in 6 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,159 disarray, but we are here to let you know everything that's going on. 7 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,880 Sam digging on, you've seem fine. I am more than fine, more 8 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,320 than fine. Actually, yeah, there is. It's been a good week 9 00:00:56,359 --> 00:00:59,600 for me in terms of shows. Are like getting announced that I can get 10 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,119 tickets four and you know the first news story we're going to get onto. 11 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,280 I'm I'm buzzing. Yeah. I just just today before recording I am after 12 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:12,480 a few years of Alec Chillingworth saying to do it. I watched the Crank 13 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,200 movies. I watched both for them the other week. Have you watched both 14 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:21,159 of them? Yeah? Two is fucking mental in it, Maynard, James 15 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,959 Keenan is in it. Chester Bennett's in it. A stoner in the first 16 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,959 one. Yeaheah, Mike Pattern does the score that refused needle drop at the 17 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,159 start of the first Crank movie is so sick. I can only describe them 18 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:34,799 as being the like two thousand action movie equivalent of everything we said about Old 19 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:38,879 States of America by agoraphobic nose you know what. Yeah, yeah, genuinely 20 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:46,239 similar pieces of art, that commitment to maximalism, repulsive insanity movies. So 21 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,120 that's where I've been. I've also had a supremely heavy metal week prior to 22 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:55,519 that, because first I went to see Last Weekend, which was for me 23 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,239 and I know my group of friends as well. The long awaited return of 24 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:04,319 Blind guard to the UK still just one, yeah, I have. I've 25 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:07,080 seen them before in twenty sixteen and seventeen, the last time they were around. 26 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:10,840 But you know again flashing ahead to news that let Live were a band, 27 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:15,199 then you know, like that the don't pray speaking out there, Blind 28 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:19,080 Guardian coming around every you know, half decade or so, give a take 29 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,800 a few COVID years. It is an event pretty cool heavy metal support band 30 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,199 called The Night Eternal I think, also from Germany. But it's nice enough 31 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:31,680 that right now there's a kind of enough of a pool of bands like that 32 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,680 that the Blind Guardians of the World can get like good cool supports from kind 33 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,120 of that trad metal side of things rather than relying too heavily on like the 34 00:02:40,159 --> 00:02:45,240 goofy modern power metal side, you know. And Blind Guardian. You know 35 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,360 that they have the stage presence of like your transfer German teacher. But my 36 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,400 god, one of the greatest sing along bands that heavy metal has ever produced. 37 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,599 Honestly, Like, I hadn't listened to the new album as much as 38 00:02:55,599 --> 00:02:59,719 I had the one that they were touring last time they were here, but 39 00:02:59,759 --> 00:03:01,439 it is a really good again revisiting it, and the songs really, you 40 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:06,479 know, come out further again live as a quality album. I've spoken about 41 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,560 more as kind of one of the bands sort of still holding up the standards, 42 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,520 you know, because they are a band that started in the eighties, 43 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,479 you know, granted it's the late eighties rather than sort of the Iron Maiden, 44 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,759 you know tier of it, but they are in that kind of upper 45 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,680 tier of that generation right now. You know, Hansy's voice still holds up 46 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:28,560 tremendously, But that string of records from like the late eighties to the late 47 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,840 nineties, it makes one of those shows where they finish and they still have 48 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,680 a ton of classics that they hadn't gotten to and I had a look at 49 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:38,400 the sets and like barely anything off Nightfall and mid Love, and I was 50 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:40,240 like, oh, come on, yeah, I think it was two songs, 51 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,159 maybe three songs if you I think that, you know, changing bits 52 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:46,840 here and there, but you know, yeah, similar amount from Imagine from 53 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,039 the Other Side, similar amount from you know, Somewhere Far Beyond or whatever, 54 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,759 like they just want of those bands only really do two songs from each 55 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:58,199 album that people want to hear, so you're gonna pick and choose. But 56 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,000 I was like, yeah, no that I think that speaks to the quality. 57 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:02,639 I guess. Yeah, opening with Imagination from the Other Side, which 58 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,840 is this huge, like grand, epic, stately way to begin throughout a 59 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:12,960 faster new one, and then bam at Nightfall just so good. And you 60 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,199 know, I do again a couple of weeks ago and we're doing the sort 61 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:18,759 of fantasy festival booking thing. I was talking about sort of the UK crowd 62 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,680 sort of relationship with like traditional heavy metal and more European styles of metal, 63 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,000 and the fact that we don't seem to have that those audience whs go, 64 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:30,600 who go, you know, fucking all out for it in the way that 65 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:32,279 you see in like Europe and so and I regularly meant that even though we 66 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,120 kind of birthed those, you know, genres of music. But Blind Guardian 67 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:41,319 fans are like a lovely little oasis that kind of buck that trend because people 68 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,800 who are into Blind Guardian have just accepted that. They are, like they're 69 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,240 big nerds and they're all in on it. And you know, Nightfall fucking 70 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,959 singing every single word of the Barred song in the forest and they go through 71 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:56,879 to the end. You've got Majesty, which is just this unbelievable speed metal 72 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,279 fist in the air Valhalla with the repeating val deliverance for about fifteen minutes after 73 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:08,560 the end of the song. Absolutely just such a joyous affair. Definitely a 74 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,519 band where you know, every time they're doing a touring cycle, I want 75 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,600 to go out and see it and have that kind of celebration. And then 76 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,360 a few days later a Dirty Year affair because Midnight and High Command as well. 77 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,680 And this band's Cyclone, who I wasn't too familiar with. They were 78 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,920 Belgian band from the eighties who were just reunited and it's like their first ever 79 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:28,399 time in the UK was something sort of sandwich in the middle on the bill. 80 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:30,680 High Command definitely, I think one of our favorites of the sort of 81 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,680 like post power Trip, you know, current thrash crop compared to Cyclone, 82 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,199 who was literally just like the same thrash tempo the whole time. This had 83 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,279 like, you know, those the crunches, the kind of heavy metal parts. 84 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,800 He came out with two swords, not did they have did they have 85 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,120 a balaclava run again or one of the guitarists did, yeah, and yeah 86 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,040 the swords. Yeah, two swords, you know, for the price of 87 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,959 one and you know this one's for the heavy metal freaks and shit like that. 88 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,399 Just great, great vibes off him. You know, i'd half of 89 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:01,360 their set of Damnation. It was nice to see a whole one. Very 90 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,439 good Midnight. I've said before, I think it's one of the most thrilling 91 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:11,519 sort of dial the clock back to when heavy metal was this like underground, 92 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,600 grassroots, working class, sleazy, dangerous thing shows that you can see because 93 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,279 it's three guys on stage going mental, constantly in physical contact with the crowd, 94 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,600 you know, fucking sticking the end of the bass out in the crowd. 95 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:26,680 And what kind of shit even in like a you know, a tiny 96 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:30,519 venue with no elements of sort of stage elevation or anything like that, something 97 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,040 like that. The weird final extra riff in that song sex Witchery, the 98 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:38,120 two guitarists, you know, sort of going up to like standing on top 99 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,480 of their amps on either side of the stage. It's just sort of like 100 00:06:40,519 --> 00:06:44,040 teared effect DIY style. And for the whole rest of it, it's just 101 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:47,639 like punk metal Sleez didn't play Prowling the Leather, which was sad, but 102 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:53,600 the Satana Royter songs are just such classics. And we've got a new album. 103 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,759 This is what you can expect. Expect total hell before going into So 104 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,959 the new album is like twenty five minutes long on the record, isn't They 105 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,079 played everything and they did of course they did it, and they did it 106 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:06,680 in so they opened like a couple of other songs and then you know, 107 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:11,639 did that went into the first track, and then they just kept going and 108 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,079 they did it. So they did the first five songs, so the side 109 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,360 A, and then kind of did throw in a couple of other songs from 110 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:18,720 other albums and then came back and did the following five songs, but we 111 00:07:18,759 --> 00:07:23,160 got the entire thing and it was because it was all in order as well. 112 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:25,759 I knew that fuck Off and Live was at the very very back end 113 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,160 of it, so I was waiting for it and it was absolutely as you 114 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,319 know, inflammatory see your video fuck Off and Liv and I was like, 115 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,920 ah, man, that just looks like a good time. They were brilliant. 116 00:07:33,959 --> 00:07:40,040 And also the Merciless slawal They had shirts with them at the Merch desk 117 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,240 that had been altered again to say Merciless Slaw Tour the tour shirts for the 118 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:46,000 Earth, So not only have they altered the spelling in the first time for 119 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,040 the album, but they've come up with another alteration to put on the merch. 120 00:07:49,079 --> 00:07:54,519 Absolutely incredible game. No notes there. So that was my lovely, 121 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:59,480 lovely week. Sam. You should have some stuff to report for us next 122 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,399 week. But I think right now all you're going to want to talk about 123 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:07,759 is the fact that let Live after our We discussed a little bit they were 124 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:09,800 teasing something or other and it almost seemed like, you know, they're doing 125 00:08:09,879 --> 00:08:13,360 a little bit too much for it to be just the sort of reissue they 126 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:16,959 will be inviting disappointment. If they were doing that was all it was. 127 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:24,920 They have confirmed that Let Live are going to be playing actual shows. We 128 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:31,199 haven't got specific dates right now, I believe, but so so yeah, 129 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:37,879 So what it is is Jason has confirmed that Let Live will play a farewell 130 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,879 tour next year if people will book them. He's basically said, this is 131 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,120 the email. If you want to book us, get in touch and so, 132 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:46,679 like he said, we will play as many shows as people can like 133 00:08:46,759 --> 00:08:50,000 realistically book us for. And so that that's kind of where it's at at 134 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:54,519 the moment, which cool. Yeah, I mean it's quite nice to sort 135 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,960 of unveil it in that way, isn't it to be like, right, 136 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:58,960 if you want us fucking come and get it. There is obviously there's gonna 137 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,360 be remixed you know, Blackest Beautiful stuff coming out as well, which is 138 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:05,559 a I know that a topic that people have very strong feelings on kind of 139 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,960 on either way. But the big news here is obviously the fact that Let 140 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,720 Live are going to be playing shows. We have to before I let you 141 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:16,480 go off, we have to give the little caveat here that this is not 142 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:22,720 a full on Let Live Our Back reunion. These are shows that have been 143 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:28,159 explicitly described in the announcements here as proper farewells. So this is it's a 144 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:31,080 litle bit basically what Botch did, isn't it. They came back, you 145 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,039 know, played shows explicitly going we're just doing these and then we're going again 146 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:39,080 and this is your last chance to see us. Except there's you know what, 147 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:43,600 like seven years here rather than twenty years. A comparison on the other 148 00:09:43,639 --> 00:09:46,200 know of that spectrum is like, you know, I saw Alter of Plagues 149 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,159 do that about a year after they broke up. They were like, well, 150 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,279 we didn't do a farewell to here we go, so let Live are 151 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,840 not a returning creative band. If you are someone who listens to Fever three 152 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:01,440 three three and tears your hair out over what could have been, I unfortunately 153 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,799 have to, you know, dissuade you a little bit and say that that 154 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,080 is still the case and you are still gonna have to deal with all of 155 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,759 those feelings and any unresolved feelings about let Live as a creative force. What 156 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:13,559 they would have done after if I'm the devil whatever, it's not happening. 157 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,679 So not a reunion in that sense. Let's crush the hopes a little bit. 158 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:24,320 But you are hopefully if someone books are over here, presumably they will 159 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,440 gonna get the chance to actually see let Live play some shows for maybe for 160 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,360 the first time for many people, certainly for a last time for everyone else. 161 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,320 And so Sam, as our resident, let live is your favorite thing 162 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:43,159 ever host, I'll hand over to you to express how you feel about this 163 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,679 news. Yeah, this is why this is just gonna have hope for I 164 00:10:46,879 --> 00:10:52,519 never bought into let Live coming back full time because, like I saw the 165 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:54,000 people saying, oh is it because you know, Fever three view hasn't panned 166 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 down, and I was like, that's kind of a myth that Fever three 167 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,960 fore ifew hasn't worked out, because they are bigger than that. Jason's bigger 168 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,919 things with Fever three for three then let Live ever could have dreamed of. 169 00:11:03,039 --> 00:11:07,000 I mean, he did a little live video and basically said part of the 170 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,360 reason they've had to break cups because we weren't It wasn't doing the numbers for 171 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,759 us. People weren't coming to see us enough, like we were playing to 172 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:18,360 half empty venues and stuff like that, and three for three doing big rooms 173 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,639 that like, So that's that I never expected Let Live to come back and 174 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,519 completely replace Fever free through three. I almost respect. I like that they've 175 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,679 been up, that he's been up front of it and said this is this 176 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,240 is essentially the farewell tour you never got fucking cool. Give let Live a 177 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,480 proper send off. That's all I needed, Like, I would love more 178 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:41,720 than anything for let Live to be back for good. Obviously. I think 179 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,559 they're the best band of the twenty tens by some distance, but that's not 180 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:52,279 happening, and that's fine. I will fight people to get to these shows 181 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,039 whenever they do in the UK. I don't get Like, if they fucking 182 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:56,919 if Download is the only UK show they'll do, I will pay three hundred 183 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,799 pounds and go to Download to see if. If fucking bands like hate a 184 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:05,519 headlining, I'll still go because I will be seeing let Live one more time 185 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,480 regardless of like the circumstances. My dream is like Outbreak fucking books him to 186 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:15,320 headline Outbreak next year and I'll like, you know, gold Wristband, Moss 187 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,120 wavever it up to let Live like but I don't care where it is. 188 00:12:18,519 --> 00:12:22,960 I will be at a let Live show next year somehow. I will fight 189 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,919 people, but yeah, like like not confirmed, who what iteration of let 190 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,960 lift? This is what the lineuppears. I know, I know some of 191 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,279 the people are concerned that you're gonna be Jason and a bunch of other people 192 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,720 just you know, carry like playing through. I mean, surely the fact 193 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,480 that it's been announced that there's no reason to come back and do a farewell 194 00:12:43,519 --> 00:12:48,000 till you never got if it is not let Live. But obviously there was 195 00:12:48,039 --> 00:12:52,799 a bit of a revolving door, like revolving drummer lineup. I would imagine 196 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,159 like Sean and like Jeff, but I would imagine those that key figures of 197 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,200 Let Live would be in on it because they all got together and readd the 198 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:05,120 album for the for the re release. So like there is clearly like some 199 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,799 actual Let Live line up, not just Jason and whoever is working on the 200 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:13,399 project. So I'm kind of buying into like, like they're doing it because 201 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:16,200 they want to do it. They want to give let Live a proper send 202 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,600 off and if they can, you know, just for like this one run 203 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:26,240 recapture the magic that was like Let Live as a live act. Because again, 204 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,519 I like, I don't know, like obviously there might people who never 205 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:31,039 got to see Let Live because it's I never saw that because I was I 206 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,480 wasn't really eight years since their last It's been eight years since their last show, 207 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:39,159 Like, so some people will have missed, Like you might have heard 208 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:43,600 the stories now of Jason coming through the crowded download and fighting security, Jason 209 00:13:43,639 --> 00:13:46,720 coming on stages down there with his leg in a cast and ending the set 210 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:50,480 by climbing the lighting rigging on like after coming on in crutches, like all 211 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,039 of these sort of things. Jason managing to make the entire tent and reading 212 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,720 festival cry their eyes out to mother, like you hear all these stories and 213 00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:03,080 like just getting to experience that again, that's enough for me because I think 214 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,200 again, if it's let Live, let like Jason, Let Live and Fever 215 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,919 three for three Live are different people to me now, Like Fee three three 216 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,519 he is performing a version of himself that fits that. I mean, Let 217 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:18,200 Live Jason is different. And I am just again just so happy that Let 218 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,320 Live in some form I will get to at least, you know, say 219 00:14:20,399 --> 00:14:24,120 goodbye properly to them rather than just kind of that. That weird process about 220 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,759 that week was like let Live might be breaking up and then yeah, we're 221 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:31,360 breaking up. No more shows, like like I don't want my last lit 222 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:33,240 Live show to be them supporting Piers to Veil. He completely blew them off. 223 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,000 They were incredible and completely blew them off stage, but it was at 224 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,559 a fucking Pierce to Veil. Yeah, Like, I don't want that to 225 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,720 be my final memory of let Live. I want a proper let Live show. 226 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:48,080 Yeah, that is absolutely imagine how many many people will feel like it's 227 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,120 weird. I feel like we should have more to say about this news because 228 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,000 I know that, like, you know, let Live are you know, 229 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:56,360 you said they're kind of your favorite, you know, the best band of 230 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,559 the twenty tens, and I know that so many people listening to us right 231 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:01,039 now, you know, the sort of the what is the T and M 232 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:07,480 kind of target audience, fucking fifty percent of those people will have that exact 233 00:15:07,559 --> 00:15:09,559 same you know. Oh yeah, let Live were definitively the best band of 234 00:15:09,559 --> 00:15:13,720 the twenty tens. And you know, the way that Let Live went out 235 00:15:13,919 --> 00:15:18,600 is routinely used as kind of the most gutting, disappointing breakup of that just 236 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,120 a complete fizzle out. No, no, not even like you know, 237 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,200 a grand explosion of like them all falling out. I'm just kind of just 238 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,440 stopping with nothing. No, fan fare nothing. Yeah, and I remember 239 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,120 again on this show and everything, just how sort of sudden the that whole 240 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,039 thing felt so again, like the fact that let Live are back in a 241 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,360 capacity and you are going to be playing shows and everything, it feels like 242 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:46,360 it is a massive answering of prayers for so many of those people. But 243 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,120 like I said, so because of that, I feel like we should have 244 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:50,320 more to say about it. But because it is just explicitly this we are 245 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,480 coming back for like a year or whatever, it will be playing shows that 246 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:58,799 we all are upfront about it being the last let live shows, and then 247 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:03,399 we're going off again, we can't do any of the usual sort of theorizing 248 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,679 about you know, oh, well will they go creatively? What would you 249 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,200 like to see from Lets Live in the future? How long do you think 250 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,799 it will go? I mean, I guess we can theorize what they're going 251 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,879 to do to my favorite album of all time, like yeah, which I 252 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:21,320 know again that's a like I said before, it's a people content strong feelings 253 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,480 about the you know, the production either for or against on the album. 254 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,879 And I suppose that we will we will see, you know, is it 255 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:29,919 going to be feldmanized? Who knows, But yeah, just that the fact 256 00:16:29,919 --> 00:16:34,679 that Let Live are like are going to exist again and play shows is enormous, 257 00:16:36,039 --> 00:16:37,879 enormous news. And yet, like I said, I feel like I 258 00:16:37,879 --> 00:16:45,840 can't extrapolate that much sort of like about it because we all know exactly the 259 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,960 shelf life they've been They've been completely upfront about like, which again like they 260 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,399 I think that's fair, Like they're not you know, trying to like sugarcoat 261 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,279 it. They're not trying to like manipulate orly. They've just said, like, 262 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,480 you know, we never got to a farewell tour. Now feels the 263 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:02,600 right time to do it. Let's go. Yeah. So and again like 264 00:17:02,799 --> 00:17:06,079 I personally, I don't share the extremely strong feelings on let Live that you 265 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:10,720 know, the people who are really going crazy for this news do. But 266 00:17:10,799 --> 00:17:12,519 so yeah, in terms of, like I said, theorizing or looking to 267 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:18,279 the future or whatever, we can't do it because Let Live as a creative 268 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:22,640 band are still no more, but a bunch of these rate leme and fucking 269 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,519 Slayer are coming back. But yeah, Let's Live are going to exist again 270 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,000 temporarily and they are going to play shows. And I know for so many 271 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:33,519 of you that means the absolute world, So fucking celebrations all around for that 272 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:37,599 particular piece of news. Good luck everybody in getting to them, and yeah, 273 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:42,039 here's here's to all of that. Frank Turner has announced that he is 274 00:17:42,039 --> 00:17:48,599 going to be attempting the world record for playing the most gigs in different cities 275 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,559 or towns. As some pedants out there are pointed out, within twenty four 276 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:56,599 hours, it is so the the date in question is May the fourth into 277 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,680 May the fifth of this year. It's kind of for the lease of his 278 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:03,000 new record, which is coming out on that particular weekend. And he has 279 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:10,599 announced what looks what is this about fifteen shows or something, all the different 280 00:18:10,599 --> 00:18:15,960 places up and down the country. A lot of them are organized by independent 281 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,839 record stores and stuff like that, so a couple of are in stores, 282 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:25,200 but he is going to be fucking taxiing, by the looks of it, 283 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,920 up and down the country to make these shows in sort of like two hour 284 00:18:30,079 --> 00:18:33,759 hour and a half type intervals. Sam, how many do you reckon he'll 285 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:37,799 get in before it all goes comically wrong and the knock on effect of being 286 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,680 late for one continues down all the others. Well, I think the the 287 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:47,400 ones with that the biggest travel are all happening overnight, so you'd hope that 288 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:52,400 like the because it like a lot of the shows happened they start in the 289 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,200 evening and then he plays through the night. I was looking at London's like 290 00:18:55,319 --> 00:18:57,160 three am or something like that. The Underworld he's playing there, so all 291 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:02,680 like four am. But yeah, it all got. The funnier part of 292 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,039 this for me was are you familiar with the music act Crywank? I know 293 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,240 the name, I'm aware of them vaguely. Yes, Yeah. They have 294 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:19,279 decided the day before they're going to try and play one more show. Like 295 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,119 that's my favorite thing about this whole thing is they like I need to look 296 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:27,319 at the route of other towns and they're playing one. Oh my god, 297 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,799 massive, massive, good luck to Crywank, Holy shit, Yeah, obviously 298 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:34,920 good luck to Frank Carr in particular. It's a it's a it's a mad 299 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:40,119 thing to attempt. Like I said, the two things you can think considering 300 00:19:40,519 --> 00:19:42,599 if you are going to one of these later shows, how fucking knackered is 301 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:48,000 he going to be? Like older shot at seven thirty am, right, 302 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:51,799 which is like, yeah, twelve or so into the fucking route At that 303 00:19:51,839 --> 00:19:55,319 point I would be naked. If I'll go and see Frank Turner going to 304 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,880 be like twenty to half twenty minutes, half hours. Yeah, but just 305 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,880 like you know, we he's running on fucking twenty four hours nos leep or 306 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,599 whatever. He's come out and doing these. But also, like I said, 307 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:07,759 for me, I'm curious about the knock on effect of if one goes 308 00:20:07,799 --> 00:20:11,640 wrong, how catch Yeah, Like so you know Liverpool is the very first 309 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:12,880 one, that's where he's kicking off, and if you're going there, you 310 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:17,160 know he's not going to be late. If you are going to the final 311 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,480 one, which is at twelve pm or May the fifth in Southampton, I'd 312 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:26,119 rock up four hours late. See when he gets there, you're going to 313 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,200 be keep that. The people are going to be going going to be probably 314 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,920 like you know, they're gonna be checking these progress they'll be updates, they'll 315 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:36,200 see he was at this show because like Frank Turner fans, again, he's 316 00:20:36,279 --> 00:20:37,880 easy to mock for a lot of reasons, but there are like Frank Turner 317 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,279 fans are deadicated, yeah and hardcore. I mean that there'll be small shows, 318 00:20:41,279 --> 00:20:44,839 so it will only be the people who really want to be there will 319 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,559 yeah. Yeah, so that but that they'll be keeping tabs in it so 320 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:51,759 they'll know how how likely he is to turn off the show they're at. 321 00:20:51,839 --> 00:20:53,680 Yeah, so, as we said, we'll be keeping tabs on the process 322 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,480 throughout that whole day and just seeing where we goes. Like I said, 323 00:20:56,519 --> 00:21:00,119 good luck to him. Also, one of the record stores, the one 324 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,119 in the Huddersfield, was apparently organized by a record store called Vinyl Tap, 325 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,200 and I would just like to say I had no knowledge of the existence of 326 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,440 the record store Vinyl Tap when I came out with the name for our YouTube 327 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,079 series. So there you go. Last week we alluded to the fact that 328 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,400 the following day after we recorded that, Thursday announced that they were going to 329 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,480 be releasing their first song in thirteen whole years. It's been a long time 330 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,759 for now of Thursday existing as a band and playing shows and doing things like 331 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:29,319 full Collapse in Full and all that kind of stuff without you know, and 332 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,519 engaging with the creative part of being a band. The last album they released 333 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,920 was No Devolution, which is twenty twelve, twenty eleven, I guess somewhere 334 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:44,599 around them. And now they finally released a new single, No Word of 335 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,480 an Amaything just yet. But like I said, Thursday creatively in general is 336 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:52,359 interesting because as you would sort of kind of infer from again if you look 337 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,240 at like when we were young or whatever, it's like, oh yeah, 338 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,039 Thursday doing full Collapse in full and then you know people go oh yeah War 339 00:21:57,039 --> 00:22:02,039 all the time as well. But it's like the hardcore group of Thursday fans 340 00:22:02,039 --> 00:22:03,960 who kind of go through with each constantinua album, you know, it gets 341 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,319 a little bit smaller and smaller, but they are I think, a you 342 00:22:08,319 --> 00:22:14,480 know, a interesting and kind of engaging band to you know, continue to 343 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,799 hear their creative output. It's just sort of, I guess you know that 344 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,319 where that has been appealing to has sort of shrunk over the years. So 345 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:26,200 Thursday coming out with their first song in fucking you know, over a decade 346 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,079 forever, there will be a whole generation of people who are like, oh 347 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,519 yeah, I love full Collapse or whatever and maybe haven't followed up on everything 348 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:38,519 else. But to my ears, this sounds a doesn't sound like they are 349 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:42,119 at all sort of doing what some of these bands do, which is pretend 350 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,319 their later albums people that just do don't exist, right, Like, this 351 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:51,680 is not a remember two thousand and two type song. If you again, 352 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,400 if you followed their records through to things like no devlution on or whatever. 353 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:57,200 The kind of wide screen you know, synth feel and stuff that this has 354 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:04,640 feels very natural from that. But Thursday returning, I know that you are 355 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,400 again. I don't know exactly how many albums down the line you love Thursday, 356 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,200 but I know in general you're a Thursday. You know, I appreciator. 357 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,759 What do you make of their new track, which is called Application for 358 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:19,480 a Release from the Dream. I need to revisit those later albums again, 359 00:23:19,519 --> 00:23:23,200 because I was never blown away with them at the time. I'd listened to 360 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,400 them, but I was. I was like, they're pretty good. I 361 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,359 think this track is incredible. It's very good. I think it like it 362 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:36,359 sounds amazing. That widescreen simple kind of like vast, kind of like really 363 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,039 just it's like really classy sounding, really uplifting, powerful, bright. Yeah, 364 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:42,880 I think that again. I agree. It's not trying to, you 365 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,000 know, just do full collapse again and just be you know, two thousand 366 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:51,400 early two thousands emo. It is naming that kind of grander kind of like 367 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,599 again rey noir, black and white, monochrome, sort of all those things 368 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:56,359 that even that Jeffer was doing a little bit with no devotions stuff like that, 369 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,240 but Thursday just take it in a kind of like a much grand grander 370 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:03,720 scope. But yeah, I think this is amazing. When it really builds 371 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:08,359 up and you get those like fudding kind of like arena drums pounding away on 372 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,440 a song like this, it sounds incredible. And I think it's a very 373 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:15,160 uplifting song in terms of like when the that moment you're talking about, when 374 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,759 all the instruments coming together and the vocal line is moving up there, you 375 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:21,759 know, can you hear the angels? Cool kind of part really really you 376 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:25,240 know, affecting kind of swell going on there. I also like, you 377 00:24:25,279 --> 00:24:26,519 know, further into the song, there's kind of the guitars are kind of 378 00:24:26,519 --> 00:24:30,319 in the back in this sort of like mechanical tearing kind of way, and 379 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,680 it's like a you know, elements you hear in post rock and stuff like 380 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,400 that, but in the body of this like melodically quite immediate, accessible, 381 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,920 fairly simple song. And I like when Thursday can kind of, you know, 382 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,680 pull those things together in that way. Also, there's a scream jump 383 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,680 scare towards the end. Do you expect when it gets really quite brazy, 384 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,240 like, oh, yeah, no Thursday can still Yeah, I wasn't expecting 385 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,759 to go there. This is about too can you know, sit out on 386 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:56,920 Outbreakfast and and go a bit harder. I doubt they'll play this outbreakfast, 387 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,400 which is a bit of a shame because I think, like, it's a 388 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:04,359 great song there. Yeah, no Thursday actually doing something Greative is that good 389 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,440 that I'm willing to go back and like reassess those later albums that I didn't 390 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,960 dislike but was never kind of like all in Yeah, I think they are 391 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,400 worthy and again, you know, listening to this, I think obviously the 392 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,000 fact that we've had, you know, over a decade without new Thursday music 393 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,400 kind of makes it a little bit difficult to necessarily sort of commit to that 394 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,720 so heavily. But I think they are I think of them in tandem with 395 00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:29,319 bands like Thrice and particularly obviously we just did whole thing on Axel Fire in 396 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,160 terms of the ones of that post Ard called scene who can aide really beautifully 397 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,160 and you know, continue to make again work that's kind of true to themselves, 398 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,559 but in a you know, expanding the capabilities sort of sort of way. 399 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:45,839 I think you can see that when you go through those Thursday albums and 400 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,440 this particular track, if that is hinting to again, if we get you 401 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,759 know, more of this continue to go further than that direction, it'd be 402 00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:56,599 really nice to see Thursday sort of just reaffirm that particular fact about themselves that 403 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,720 they are sort of, you know, in that league of bands rather than 404 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:06,160 the you know, kind of much more nostalgic of its day sort of yeah 405 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:08,000 league of bands. So yeah, really good work from from Thursday there. 406 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,920 I do hope that we hear more sooner rather than later. There's a couple 407 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,079 of shows here that have both been announced sort of around you know, Download 408 00:26:15,279 --> 00:26:19,559 Festival. The first one is that Code Orange have announced a only in London, 409 00:26:19,799 --> 00:26:22,559 So basically it's a warm up show for Downlod because they' obviously they're playing 410 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:26,200 the main stage there, so they're doing a warm up show for Download at 411 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:33,039 the Dome in London in June. But that is the first London headline show 412 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,559 close to ten years. That's fucking mental. Yeah, how did we let 413 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,559 that happen? They they know they haven't played London. They've done a bunch 414 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,079 of sports, but I saw I didn't go to the London day of that 415 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,240 last headline run they did. I went to the Kingston One, which still 416 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:53,680 technically London unless you're Frank Frank turning London and then maybe that'd be where cry 417 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,480 Wank call him out, but no, yeah, I I that was the 418 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,480 first time I saw Code Orange twenty fourteen, and that they've not done a 419 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:07,319 headline show in London since then insane And I obviously I have tickets for this. 420 00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:12,319 I'm going to go absolutely fair all at it. I cannot wait. 421 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,519 Yeah, I mean thinking about obviously Code Orange headlines, I guess technically I 422 00:27:17,599 --> 00:27:22,559 saw them headline Outbreak twenty eighteen. They were you know, obviously I saw 423 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:26,640 them headline in twenty eighteen where they did Portsmouth after doing London with Trivia. 424 00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:32,799 Yeah, but certainly we've not had a headline tour, which we obviously still 425 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,880 not getting. But if you've seen Code Orange headline in the UK, it's 426 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:41,079 because you've been lucky enough to catch certain oh they're doing one thing over in 427 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,920 this region sort of stuff. So obviously the wait continues for any sort of 428 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,799 longer thing. But considering this is just attached to download Festive, I think 429 00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:49,960 it's fair enough they're just doing the London warmut thing. But yeah, first 430 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,920 Code Orange London headline in fucking forever. That's mad and then technically I get 431 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:59,119 a warm down show because that's happening afterwards. But Kerry King has announced his 432 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,839 first UK headline performance as well, which is happening at the Electric Ballroom. 433 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:07,119 I guess that seems right for you know, launching a new band and everything, 434 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,039 but you're gonna get see Kerry King presumably playing some Slayer songs as well 435 00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:15,079 in a tiny little venue, so that would be, you know, intriguing 436 00:28:15,079 --> 00:28:18,640 little thing to go down. Over in the US, we have Clutch and 437 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,680 that's a tour where they gonna be playing Blast Tyrant in full, which is 438 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,799 interesting for Clutch because they don't normally do Yeah, they're normally the kind of 439 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,559 you never fucking know at all what they're gonna play, So having a sort 440 00:28:29,559 --> 00:28:32,039 of like you know exactly what order they can play the songs in is quite 441 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:33,960 different for Clutch. But I guess if they can do it for any one 442 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,839 of their records, it would be Blast Tyrant. But I like that the 443 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,400 bill for this it's a is it a co headline to it's because rival Suns 444 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,440 are doing an album of theirs. I don't know, rival Sons album Western 445 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,880 Ofol Korean an album with equal caliber, or I'm sure to blast Tyrant. 446 00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:52,599 But the thing I like about this is the poster. You've got Clutch and 447 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,039 Rival Suns on either side on the same sort of level co headline, and 448 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,720 underneath them you've got Fu Manchu on Clutch a side and Blackstone Cherry underneath Rival 449 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,680 Sons, which a if Blackstone Cherry I fucking opening a four band tour. 450 00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:07,160 That puts a lot of you know, the way people have spoken about the 451 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,039 band into some sort of you know, interest perspective. But I just like 452 00:29:11,119 --> 00:29:15,519 that that means an exact divide down the middle of the poster of of quality. 453 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,240 You know. It's like on the one side you've got fuck Yeah, 454 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:22,640 Clutch Hu Manchua like a you know, a very respected Stone up band as 455 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,039 well, and then the other side the Rifle Sun side. Great. It 456 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,880 just as a poster, it struck me as being very funny. You're one 457 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,480 side for the freaks and one side for the absolutely And also this is hardcore 458 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,839 festival and out there a lot of their bill as well. Their three headliners 459 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,359 are going to be Etown Concrete, Colder's Life, and Black Flag, which 460 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,079 is so funny in terms of hardcore, in terms of like I would say 461 00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:48,000 about hardcore, hardcore is a pit that you just go down and you never 462 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:52,400 ever ever ever reach the bottom, and no matter how far down you go, 463 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:53,920 there will be bands who some guy will be like, oh my god, 464 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,960 you never heard them, they were like the greatest hardcore band of all 465 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,880 time in that particular you know, or district or whatever. And having fully 466 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,799 fucking, you know, world famous iconic band Black Flag. Admittedly, obviously 467 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:12,279 whatever live Black Flag, whatever live version they are right now is anyone's fucking 468 00:30:12,319 --> 00:30:19,000 guess. But having Black Flag next to only ever ever spoken about in exclusively 469 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,000 the hardcore world, absolutely no crossover to anything outside of at all Colder's Life 470 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,799 and Etown Concrete bands I'm sure many many people you know have never heard or 471 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,599 listen to. It's very amusing. It's like, yeah, Etown Concrete are 472 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:37,640 hilarious bands, like they are the embottom of like knuckle Dragon a little bit 473 00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:41,440 yeah, like and they are so funny. They're good fun I'd like to 474 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,200 im live at some point, but yeah, it's just then headline. This 475 00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:49,160 is hardcore alongside Black Flag and probably Etown Concrete Colders I've probably being the more 476 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,440 exciting book. Yeah, I'm all for it, go ahead of what you 477 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,200 know. Again, it's a hardcore festival. Why not have bands of that 478 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,119 sort of you know, Niche have it. I just think it again, 479 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:00,839 it's very amusing to see of those logos next to each other and stuff like 480 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,160 that. And again, this is hardcore festival outbreak or something where I guess 481 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,400 bands do need to have a little bit of a crossover. This is hardcore. 482 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,359 Is this weird little bastion of like, yeah, we'll have Colders live 483 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,440 headline and no one will question it. Sure. Julie Christmas has announced finally 484 00:31:15,759 --> 00:31:22,079 her new solo album, Julie Christmas, If you're not, I think people 485 00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:23,279 know the name, but maybe haven't explored a lot of the catalog. He 486 00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:27,599 hasn't released a solo album since fucking you know, the cart of Lunar Marinet 487 00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:32,039 album, and that's going back some way now. Like her music has been, 488 00:31:32,079 --> 00:31:34,480 She's been building to this next release for quite a long fucking time. 489 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:37,680 We've had singles again, she was performing some of them around dan Nation Festival, 490 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:44,839 but finally released through cort of Luna's Red Creek Record Label. Very good 491 00:31:44,839 --> 00:31:48,039 title, ridiculous and full of blood. The album. It's got a really 492 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:56,519 scary album cover, very David Lynch kind of like, yeah, very very 493 00:31:56,599 --> 00:31:59,759 upsetting, and that is going to be out on June the fourteenth. So 494 00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:04,000 new Cult of Luna. Well, sorry, I knew Judy Christmas music abound 495 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,039 there for I don't know if you got to listen to this at the time. 496 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:08,240 Yeah, did add a good line. Yeah, this is great. 497 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:14,640 Frozen Soul have released a cover of the White Zombie track from the album After 498 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:20,640 a Creek two thousand, Creature of the Wheel and before I put this on, 499 00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:23,400 because I mean, you think Throzen Soul White Zombie, right, not 500 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:29,440 two bands you would necessarily put together different styles of groove, different eras, 501 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,200 different fan bases. You know, there's no real hints of much industrial or 502 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,160 anything like that in Frozen Soul. But you know, I stuck on this 503 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,440 track just to refresh myself for putting the Frozen Soul version on, and it 504 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:44,759 opens like a slam track where it is it's one of the heavier songs from 505 00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:49,519 that era of White Zombie and the first riff in the original version of Creature 506 00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:52,359 the Wheel could be a Dying Fetus riff if you just like they could take 507 00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:57,480 that riff. So I can one hundred percent see how Frozen Soul have heard 508 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,359 that and gone a death metal band should have a cracker. Yeah, no, 509 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,559 totally. It is more like the heavier, kind of more slamming grooves 510 00:33:04,079 --> 00:33:06,720 and then they basically take that they roll out, and then they just lay 511 00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:08,920 into the rest of those grooves and and once you get because once you can 512 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,880 lock into like the sort of that like industrial group, but like crank it 513 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,000 into more like sort of samon death met sound, you can ride that out 514 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:19,759 for the rest of the song and just have a good time with it and 515 00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:23,480 have a video that's full of like schlocky b movie video nasty looking horror stuff. 516 00:33:23,519 --> 00:33:25,799 And I was like, yeah, this is this is Frozen Solder just 517 00:33:25,839 --> 00:33:30,000 having a whale of a time. Yeah, and ride it out they do, 518 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:35,160 and again any the sort of hints of industrial or whatever are removed from 519 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,279 the track basically, and it's just like, hey, here's the death metal 520 00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:40,559 groove version. That's it. But it is just taking that core groove and 521 00:33:40,559 --> 00:33:45,440 going like that's what you that's the hook. You can you can like catch 522 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,599 it on too. Yeah, good fun. Why not an Electric Cool Boy? 523 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,000 This fucking took me way off guard. I had no idea that we 524 00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:53,279 were reaching that point with them already. But Electric Cool Boy have announced that 525 00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:57,880 they are going to be showing their concert film of the techno tour they did 526 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,680 last year in odions up and down the country the cinema chain, all happening 527 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,239 on the twenty ninth of April. Like it's the Eras tour. I mean, 528 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,400 yeah, sure, I summed up on the discord as the Era's tour 529 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,880 for people who was fronting magazine. I'm wondering whether to go or not. 530 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:21,840 I'm like, I'm not. I'm shocked that you're not. But it's it 531 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,840 is like when else will I see Electric Cool Boy? Have you seen Cool 532 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,039 Boy live yet? Or No? I haven't because I don't know. I 533 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:34,840 you have some standards, Yeah I haven't. It hasn't worked out where obviously 534 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,880 post them blowing up and becoming a somewhat legitimate band, haven't haven't worked it 535 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,400 out. Yeah, very amusing. If you want to go and see that, 536 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,320 then there is the date to do so. Patreon this week, we 537 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,440 are currently working a little bit on the schedules and stuff. We're gonna be 538 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,920 in the album swap that we announced last week. We now fully we've we've 539 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,920 fully exchanged albums. Sure there's gonna be some wonderful conversations and stuff in there, 540 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,679 and very curious to see how it will turn out. I think we're 541 00:35:00,679 --> 00:35:04,360 going to record that over this weekend sometime. It will be out early next 542 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,320 week, I think. And then also next week was gonna be here. 543 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,639 You know, it was going to be the big April Review show. Life 544 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:15,800 is fucking busy at the moment. Got a lot of like, you know, 545 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:16,960 work stuff sort of floating around here right now, So we're sort of 546 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,280 scheduling a bunch of stuff between the three of us, So that show is 547 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,519 actually going to be pushed back to probably the following week. So the first 548 00:35:24,519 --> 00:35:28,559 week of May will be the April Review show, with everything that's out today 549 00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:31,760 and tomorrow, next week, et cetera, all in there. Next week 550 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,599 I will figure out whether we will have just a normal Hyperblasts or it might 551 00:35:35,639 --> 00:35:37,440 be a week off from the show. I don't know. If we pop 552 00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:40,400 up in your subscription feed, then lovely to see you. If not, 553 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,159 we will see you in two weeks time with the big review show of all 554 00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:46,800 the great stuff that you want to hear, and so right now we're just 555 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:52,039 gonna leave that with today's releases. And as I've been saying for a long 556 00:35:52,079 --> 00:35:54,639 long time, now these two it'll probably be this and some week in September 557 00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:57,639 will we've got more ads that outs down the line, because there are always 558 00:35:57,679 --> 00:36:00,880 the everyone throws the darts at that point in the cow under whever, there's 559 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,119 always the one, isn't it, Like yeah, it's it's you know, 560 00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:07,519 pre and post festival season whatever. So this for me, combined with next 561 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,719 week, but particularly this one, is there is an awful lot of stuff 562 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,599 that you're going to be checking out. There's awful awful lot of big event 563 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,119 type releases. It does not even include on your list which ones are I 564 00:36:20,119 --> 00:36:22,920 can add right now if oh yeah, of course I'm not adding that one 565 00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:30,199 enough press. What we do have is Pearl jam I released their new album 566 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,480 Dark Matter, one of the biggest fucking rock bands in the world, literal 567 00:36:34,519 --> 00:36:37,599 stadium band, so of course that goes front and center here elsewhere, we've 568 00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:43,880 got the Ghost Inside are releasing their new record Searching for Solace. We will 569 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,719 have you know, I'm curious to see I guess what the feeling around that 570 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,440 one sort of turns out to be trickling a little bit further down the sort 571 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,840 of metalcore ladder. So you u Space Cowboy are releasing their new album, 572 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,679 Coup de Gras. Is this there? I guess it's their third full length, 573 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,760 third as album, yeah, because obviously they released those first two EPs 574 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,800 as an album, but like toms of proper albums, is yeah, free 575 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,039 and it feels like that, you know, the last album was kind of 576 00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:14,519 where the sound sort of settled, I guess, and they sort of were 577 00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:16,639 like, Okay, this is what Seas is, So this is the follow 578 00:37:16,679 --> 00:37:22,440 up to that, essentially elsewhere we have no Effects releasing half album. I 579 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,159 remember a while ago they released the album that was called the double Album. 580 00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:29,440 I guess this is some sort of extension of that, and considering no Effects, 581 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,719 as you know, winding down period we're going through right now, I 582 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,559 guess this is probably gonna be one. I feel like that last album was 583 00:37:35,599 --> 00:37:37,519 want to be their final album, wasn't. Yeah, I don't know if 584 00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,800 this is sort of a again a epilogue chapter or something, but a little 585 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,360 bit more effects to add on to the end of that, and we have 586 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:51,000 Cloud Nothing's Final Summer. How would you describe them? Sound sort of a 587 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,039 metalcore hardcore I'm not kind of want to be passing you by. Actually I'm 588 00:37:54,079 --> 00:38:00,400 not super not my world either, but I'm not like invested time in floating 589 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,320 around a lot today. The biggest fucking genre for it seems to be sort 590 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,119 of doom and do me adjacent stuff. So if you are a you know, 591 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,400 big sludgye rift worship person, then you are going to have so much 592 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,320 today on your plate. Let me tell you. First off, we've got 593 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:20,199 one of the all time fucking kings of sludgy rift worship stuff, high on 594 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,119 fire new album, Cometh the Storm. If you're a little bit more gloomy 595 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,559 and romantic and sensitive about your rift worship, We've got My Dying Bride Immortal 596 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,280 Binding. The Melvins have got their one hundred and ninety eighth album out. 597 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,800 It's called Tarantula Hart. I'll check it out. Mellyns Or albums are always 598 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,880 fucking you know, jod knows what they'll fucking turn out to be, but 599 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,960 I've heard this is meant to be a pretty decent one. Elsewhere, we've 600 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,639 got you know, homegrown kind of upcoming proggy doom sludge type band June with 601 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:53,039 Avid Void, kind a follow up to a very well REALI liked, Yeah, 602 00:38:53,199 --> 00:38:58,039 good, well liked album from twenty twenty one ish twenty twenty twoish. 603 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,320 So exciting to be having more of that proper, you know, just all 604 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,800 out if you like doom bong Ripper, I've got a new album out called 605 00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:07,840 Empty, sort of moving out from there into more sort of like you know, 606 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,320 post rocky noise, rocky whatever, sort of you know, area stuff, 607 00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:15,920 Big Brave. I've got an album called a Chaos of Flowers in kind 608 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,119 of we're gonna review this album so we can fully you know, say what 609 00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,360 it will end up being. But you know, a kind of gloomy, 610 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,079 dark gothic sort of rock band. I guess it's just what you would call 611 00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:30,719 them. Duel have got their album out called The Shape of Fluidity. Henrik 612 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,920 Palm, he formerly of In Solitude. He's a string of set of the 613 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,039 records at this point. He's got one out today called nerd Icon. I 614 00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:43,119 believe sort of a Scandinavian you know, early you know, scandy punk type 615 00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:50,599 sound housed, which is h a ust negative music, full on nightmare cry 616 00:39:50,639 --> 00:39:52,639 yourself to sleep while lying in a pool of your own blood noise, rock 617 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:58,400 couch slut you could do it tonight and moving into again more kind of you 618 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,599 know, death and black metal type stuff. We've got Nuclear Tune with Terra 619 00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:04,039 Labyrinthian, which is sort of a you know, sort of like a death 620 00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:07,639 thrash thing, but with a kind of a techy edge in there as well. 621 00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:12,199 Anti Christ Siege Machine, Vengeance of Eternal Fire, the sort of current 622 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,920 Kings of War metal, Bestial black Metal, one of the most brutal bands 623 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,960 in the world. Again, this month is so fucking stacked in terms of 624 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,800 reviews. I don't think we have to fit this one in this one, 625 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,920 but I might see if we can fit it into the following one, because 626 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,239 I want to get Sam to listen to Anti Crosies Machine. And maybe similarly 627 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,840 we could say for Falter Cama Viba Macht, which is Zachary from Imperial Triumphant 628 00:40:31,519 --> 00:40:37,039 teaming up with a sort of German opera singer doing a like opera black metal 629 00:40:37,079 --> 00:40:40,960 band. You will be absolutely not shot at all to hear. I think 630 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,639 they're really really good and really really cool, So that is out. Then 631 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,199 again, more straight to the point, black metal if you just want to 632 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:52,239 you know, a fix of you know, blue album cover icy this type 633 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,639 stuff Hexa blood with k morehen and I think this is an EP which is 634 00:40:55,679 --> 00:41:00,800 world Good at Last, but a release from Unpeople, which is Unpeople, 635 00:41:00,159 --> 00:41:02,880 which I think I'm right in saying, is the new band that contains some 636 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:07,320 of the former members of Press Tamiko. So if you will into that band, 637 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,440 then you know, more stuff in that kind of vein coming out now 638 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,760 today. So there you go. Thank you very much for listening. Like 639 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,519 I said, next week, well we will definitely have the album Swap coming 640 00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:22,599 to the Patreon over then you know the coming few days. We may turn 641 00:41:22,679 --> 00:41:25,960 up again next week for somebody else here. If not, we will absolutely 642 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,159 be here you know, the following Friday, the first week of May with 643 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,280 the sort of late aprils you know, reviews round up, So we will 644 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,039 see you there for all of that. Thank you very much for being here, 645 00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:38,920 and yeah, we'll see you around. Bye,