Hello everybody. Welcome to that's normtal, your weekly rock and heavy metal podcast,
letting you know what the heck is going on on this here edition of
Hyperblasts. My name is parent hairsh I'm a little under the weather, so
apologies of the energy is not the absolute highest. Elliott is as we speak,
stuck in traffic somewhere stationary on a motorway. So the team is in
disarray, but we are here to let you know everything that's going on.
Sam digging on, you've seem fine. I am more than fine, more
than fine. Actually, yeah, there is. It's been a good week
for me in terms of shows. Are like getting announced that I can get
tickets four and you know the first news story we're going to get onto.
I'm I'm buzzing. Yeah. I just just today before recording I am after
a few years of Alec Chillingworth saying to do it. I watched the Crank
movies. I watched both for them the other week. Have you watched both
of them? Yeah? Two is fucking mental in it, Maynard, James
Keenan is in it. Chester Bennett's in it. A stoner in the first
one. Yeaheah, Mike Pattern does the score that refused needle drop at the
start of the first Crank movie is so sick. I can only describe them
as being the like two thousand action movie equivalent of everything we said about Old
States of America by agoraphobic nose you know what. Yeah, yeah, genuinely
similar pieces of art, that commitment to maximalism, repulsive insanity movies. So
that's where I've been. I've also had a supremely heavy metal week prior to
that, because first I went to see Last Weekend, which was for me
and I know my group of friends as well. The long awaited return of
Blind guard to the UK still just one, yeah, I have. I've
seen them before in twenty sixteen and seventeen, the last time they were around.
But you know again flashing ahead to news that let Live were a band,
then you know, like that the don't pray speaking out there, Blind
Guardian coming around every you know, half decade or so, give a take
a few COVID years. It is an event pretty cool heavy metal support band
called The Night Eternal I think, also from Germany. But it's nice enough
that right now there's a kind of enough of a pool of bands like that
that the Blind Guardians of the World can get like good cool supports from kind
of that trad metal side of things rather than relying too heavily on like the
goofy modern power metal side, you know. And Blind Guardian. You know
that they have the stage presence of like your transfer German teacher. But my
god, one of the greatest sing along bands that heavy metal has ever produced.
Honestly, Like, I hadn't listened to the new album as much as
I had the one that they were touring last time they were here, but
it is a really good again revisiting it, and the songs really, you
know, come out further again live as a quality album. I've spoken about
more as kind of one of the bands sort of still holding up the standards,
you know, because they are a band that started in the eighties,
you know, granted it's the late eighties rather than sort of the Iron Maiden,
you know tier of it, but they are in that kind of upper
tier of that generation right now. You know, Hansy's voice still holds up
tremendously, But that string of records from like the late eighties to the late
nineties, it makes one of those shows where they finish and they still have
a ton of classics that they hadn't gotten to and I had a look at
the sets and like barely anything off Nightfall and mid Love, and I was
like, oh, come on, yeah, I think it was two songs,
maybe three songs if you I think that, you know, changing bits
here and there, but you know, yeah, similar amount from Imagine from
the Other Side, similar amount from you know, Somewhere Far Beyond or whatever,
like they just want of those bands only really do two songs from each
album that people want to hear, so you're gonna pick and choose. But
I was like, yeah, no that I think that speaks to the quality.
I guess. Yeah, opening with Imagination from the Other Side, which
is this huge, like grand, epic, stately way to begin throughout a
faster new one, and then bam at Nightfall just so good. And you
know, I do again a couple of weeks ago and we're doing the sort
of fantasy festival booking thing. I was talking about sort of the UK crowd
sort of relationship with like traditional heavy metal and more European styles of metal,
and the fact that we don't seem to have that those audience whs go,
who go, you know, fucking all out for it in the way that
you see in like Europe and so and I regularly meant that even though we
kind of birthed those, you know, genres of music. But Blind Guardian
fans are like a lovely little oasis that kind of buck that trend because people
who are into Blind Guardian have just accepted that. They are, like they're
big nerds and they're all in on it. And you know, Nightfall fucking
singing every single word of the Barred song in the forest and they go through
to the end. You've got Majesty, which is just this unbelievable speed metal
fist in the air Valhalla with the repeating val deliverance for about fifteen minutes after
the end of the song. Absolutely just such a joyous affair. Definitely a
band where you know, every time they're doing a touring cycle, I want
to go out and see it and have that kind of celebration. And then
a few days later a Dirty Year affair because Midnight and High Command as well.
And this band's Cyclone, who I wasn't too familiar with. They were
Belgian band from the eighties who were just reunited and it's like their first ever
time in the UK was something sort of sandwich in the middle on the bill.
High Command definitely, I think one of our favorites of the sort of
like post power Trip, you know, current thrash crop compared to Cyclone,
who was literally just like the same thrash tempo the whole time. This had
like, you know, those the crunches, the kind of heavy metal parts.
He came out with two swords, not did they have did they have
a balaclava run again or one of the guitarists did, yeah, and yeah
the swords. Yeah, two swords, you know, for the price of
one and you know this one's for the heavy metal freaks and shit like that.
Just great, great vibes off him. You know, i'd half of
their set of Damnation. It was nice to see a whole one. Very
good Midnight. I've said before, I think it's one of the most thrilling
sort of dial the clock back to when heavy metal was this like underground,
grassroots, working class, sleazy, dangerous thing shows that you can see because
it's three guys on stage going mental, constantly in physical contact with the crowd,
you know, fucking sticking the end of the bass out in the crowd.
And what kind of shit even in like a you know, a tiny
venue with no elements of sort of stage elevation or anything like that, something
like that. The weird final extra riff in that song sex Witchery, the
two guitarists, you know, sort of going up to like standing on top
of their amps on either side of the stage. It's just sort of like
teared effect DIY style. And for the whole rest of it, it's just
like punk metal Sleez didn't play Prowling the Leather, which was sad, but
the Satana Royter songs are just such classics. And we've got a new album.
This is what you can expect. Expect total hell before going into So
the new album is like twenty five minutes long on the record, isn't They
played everything and they did of course they did it, and they did it
in so they opened like a couple of other songs and then you know,
did that went into the first track, and then they just kept going and
they did it. So they did the first five songs, so the side
A, and then kind of did throw in a couple of other songs from
other albums and then came back and did the following five songs, but we
got the entire thing and it was because it was all in order as well.
I knew that fuck Off and Live was at the very very back end
of it, so I was waiting for it and it was absolutely as you
know, inflammatory see your video fuck Off and Liv and I was like,
ah, man, that just looks like a good time. They were brilliant.
And also the Merciless slawal They had shirts with them at the Merch desk
that had been altered again to say Merciless Slaw Tour the tour shirts for the
Earth, So not only have they altered the spelling in the first time for
the album, but they've come up with another alteration to put on the merch.
Absolutely incredible game. No notes there. So that was my lovely,
lovely week. Sam. You should have some stuff to report for us next
week. But I think right now all you're going to want to talk about
is the fact that let Live after our We discussed a little bit they were
teasing something or other and it almost seemed like, you know, they're doing
a little bit too much for it to be just the sort of reissue they
will be inviting disappointment. If they were doing that was all it was.
They have confirmed that Let Live are going to be playing actual shows. We
haven't got specific dates right now, I believe, but so so yeah,
So what it is is Jason has confirmed that Let Live will play a farewell
tour next year if people will book them. He's basically said, this is
the email. If you want to book us, get in touch and so,
like he said, we will play as many shows as people can like
realistically book us for. And so that that's kind of where it's at at
the moment, which cool. Yeah, I mean it's quite nice to sort
of unveil it in that way, isn't it to be like, right,
if you want us fucking come and get it. There is obviously there's gonna
be remixed you know, Blackest Beautiful stuff coming out as well, which is
a I know that a topic that people have very strong feelings on kind of
on either way. But the big news here is obviously the fact that Let
Live are going to be playing shows. We have to before I let you
go off, we have to give the little caveat here that this is not
a full on Let Live Our Back reunion. These are shows that have been
explicitly described in the announcements here as proper farewells. So this is it's a
litle bit basically what Botch did, isn't it. They came back, you
know, played shows explicitly going we're just doing these and then we're going again
and this is your last chance to see us. Except there's you know what,
like seven years here rather than twenty years. A comparison on the other
know of that spectrum is like, you know, I saw Alter of Plagues
do that about a year after they broke up. They were like, well,
we didn't do a farewell to here we go, so let Live are
not a returning creative band. If you are someone who listens to Fever three
three three and tears your hair out over what could have been, I unfortunately
have to, you know, dissuade you a little bit and say that that
is still the case and you are still gonna have to deal with all of
those feelings and any unresolved feelings about let Live as a creative force. What
they would have done after if I'm the devil whatever, it's not happening.
So not a reunion in that sense. Let's crush the hopes a little bit.
But you are hopefully if someone books are over here, presumably they will
gonna get the chance to actually see let Live play some shows for maybe for
the first time for many people, certainly for a last time for everyone else.
And so Sam, as our resident, let live is your favorite thing
ever host, I'll hand over to you to express how you feel about this
news. Yeah, this is why this is just gonna have hope for I
never bought into let Live coming back full time because, like I saw the
people saying, oh is it because you know, Fever three view hasn't panned
down, and I was like, that's kind of a myth that Fever three
fore ifew hasn't worked out, because they are bigger than that. Jason's bigger
things with Fever three for three then let Live ever could have dreamed of.
I mean, he did a little live video and basically said part of the
reason they've had to break cups because we weren't It wasn't doing the numbers for
us. People weren't coming to see us enough, like we were playing to
half empty venues and stuff like that, and three for three doing big rooms
that like, So that's that I never expected Let Live to come back and
completely replace Fever free through three. I almost respect. I like that they've
been up, that he's been up front of it and said this is this
is essentially the farewell tour you never got fucking cool. Give let Live a
proper send off. That's all I needed, Like, I would love more
than anything for let Live to be back for good. Obviously. I think
they're the best band of the twenty tens by some distance, but that's not
happening, and that's fine. I will fight people to get to these shows
whenever they do in the UK. I don't get Like, if they fucking
if Download is the only UK show they'll do, I will pay three hundred
pounds and go to Download to see if. If fucking bands like hate a
headlining, I'll still go because I will be seeing let Live one more time
regardless of like the circumstances. My dream is like Outbreak fucking books him to
headline Outbreak next year and I'll like, you know, gold Wristband, Moss
wavever it up to let Live like but I don't care where it is.
I will be at a let Live show next year somehow. I will fight
people, but yeah, like like not confirmed, who what iteration of let
lift? This is what the lineuppears. I know, I know some of
the people are concerned that you're gonna be Jason and a bunch of other people
just you know, carry like playing through. I mean, surely the fact
that it's been announced that there's no reason to come back and do a farewell
till you never got if it is not let Live. But obviously there was
a bit of a revolving door, like revolving drummer lineup. I would imagine
like Sean and like Jeff, but I would imagine those that key figures of
Let Live would be in on it because they all got together and readd the
album for the for the re release. So like there is clearly like some
actual Let Live line up, not just Jason and whoever is working on the
project. So I'm kind of buying into like, like they're doing it because
they want to do it. They want to give let Live a proper send
off and if they can, you know, just for like this one run
recapture the magic that was like Let Live as a live act. Because again,
I like, I don't know, like obviously there might people who never
got to see Let Live because it's I never saw that because I was I
wasn't really eight years since their last It's been eight years since their last show,
Like, so some people will have missed, Like you might have heard
the stories now of Jason coming through the crowded download and fighting security, Jason
coming on stages down there with his leg in a cast and ending the set
by climbing the lighting rigging on like after coming on in crutches, like all
of these sort of things. Jason managing to make the entire tent and reading
festival cry their eyes out to mother, like you hear all these stories and
like just getting to experience that again, that's enough for me because I think
again, if it's let Live, let like Jason, Let Live and Fever
three for three Live are different people to me now, Like Fee three three
he is performing a version of himself that fits that. I mean, Let
Live Jason is different. And I am just again just so happy that Let
Live in some form I will get to at least, you know, say
goodbye properly to them rather than just kind of that. That weird process about
that week was like let Live might be breaking up and then yeah, we're
breaking up. No more shows, like like I don't want my last lit
Live show to be them supporting Piers to Veil. He completely blew them off.
They were incredible and completely blew them off stage, but it was at
a fucking Pierce to Veil. Yeah, Like, I don't want that to
be my final memory of let Live. I want a proper let Live show.
Yeah, that is absolutely imagine how many many people will feel like it's
weird. I feel like we should have more to say about this news because
I know that, like, you know, let Live are you know,
you said they're kind of your favorite, you know, the best band of
the twenty tens, and I know that so many people listening to us right
now, you know, the sort of the what is the T and M
kind of target audience, fucking fifty percent of those people will have that exact
same you know. Oh yeah, let Live were definitively the best band of
the twenty tens. And you know, the way that Let Live went out
is routinely used as kind of the most gutting, disappointing breakup of that just
a complete fizzle out. No, no, not even like you know,
a grand explosion of like them all falling out. I'm just kind of just
stopping with nothing. No, fan fare nothing. Yeah, and I remember
again on this show and everything, just how sort of sudden the that whole
thing felt so again, like the fact that let Live are back in a
capacity and you are going to be playing shows and everything, it feels like
it is a massive answering of prayers for so many of those people. But
like I said, so because of that, I feel like we should have
more to say about it. But because it is just explicitly this we are
coming back for like a year or whatever, it will be playing shows that
we all are upfront about it being the last let live shows, and then
we're going off again, we can't do any of the usual sort of theorizing
about you know, oh, well will they go creatively? What would you
like to see from Lets Live in the future? How long do you think
it will go? I mean, I guess we can theorize what they're going
to do to my favorite album of all time, like yeah, which I
know again that's a like I said before, it's a people content strong feelings
about the you know, the production either for or against on the album.
And I suppose that we will we will see, you know, is it
going to be feldmanized? Who knows, But yeah, just that the fact
that Let Live are like are going to exist again and play shows is enormous,
enormous news. And yet, like I said, I feel like I
can't extrapolate that much sort of like about it because we all know exactly the
shelf life they've been They've been completely upfront about like, which again like they
I think that's fair, Like they're not you know, trying to like sugarcoat
it. They're not trying to like manipulate orly. They've just said, like,
you know, we never got to a farewell tour. Now feels the
right time to do it. Let's go. Yeah. So and again like
I personally, I don't share the extremely strong feelings on let Live that you
know, the people who are really going crazy for this news do. But
so yeah, in terms of, like I said, theorizing or looking to
the future or whatever, we can't do it because Let Live as a creative
band are still no more, but a bunch of these rate leme and fucking
Slayer are coming back. But yeah, Let's Live are going to exist again
temporarily and they are going to play shows. And I know for so many
of you that means the absolute world, So fucking celebrations all around for that
particular piece of news. Good luck everybody in getting to them, and yeah,
here's here's to all of that. Frank Turner has announced that he is
going to be attempting the world record for playing the most gigs in different cities
or towns. As some pedants out there are pointed out, within twenty four
hours, it is so the the date in question is May the fourth into
May the fifth of this year. It's kind of for the lease of his
new record, which is coming out on that particular weekend. And he has
announced what looks what is this about fifteen shows or something, all the different
places up and down the country. A lot of them are organized by independent
record stores and stuff like that, so a couple of are in stores,
but he is going to be fucking taxiing, by the looks of it,
up and down the country to make these shows in sort of like two hour
hour and a half type intervals. Sam, how many do you reckon he'll
get in before it all goes comically wrong and the knock on effect of being
late for one continues down all the others. Well, I think the the
ones with that the biggest travel are all happening overnight, so you'd hope that
like the because it like a lot of the shows happened they start in the
evening and then he plays through the night. I was looking at London's like
three am or something like that. The Underworld he's playing there, so all
like four am. But yeah, it all got. The funnier part of
this for me was are you familiar with the music act Crywank? I know
the name, I'm aware of them vaguely. Yes, Yeah. They have
decided the day before they're going to try and play one more show. Like
that's my favorite thing about this whole thing is they like I need to look
at the route of other towns and they're playing one. Oh my god,
massive, massive, good luck to Crywank, Holy shit, Yeah, obviously
good luck to Frank Carr in particular. It's a it's a it's a mad
thing to attempt. Like I said, the two things you can think considering
if you are going to one of these later shows, how fucking knackered is
he going to be? Like older shot at seven thirty am, right,
which is like, yeah, twelve or so into the fucking route At that
point I would be naked. If I'll go and see Frank Turner going to
be like twenty to half twenty minutes, half hours. Yeah, but just
like you know, we he's running on fucking twenty four hours nos leep or
whatever. He's come out and doing these. But also, like I said,
for me, I'm curious about the knock on effect of if one goes
wrong, how catch Yeah, Like so you know Liverpool is the very first
one, that's where he's kicking off, and if you're going there, you
know he's not going to be late. If you are going to the final
one, which is at twelve pm or May the fifth in Southampton, I'd
rock up four hours late. See when he gets there, you're going to
be keep that. The people are going to be going going to be probably
like you know, they're gonna be checking these progress they'll be updates, they'll
see he was at this show because like Frank Turner fans, again, he's
easy to mock for a lot of reasons, but there are like Frank Turner
fans are deadicated, yeah and hardcore. I mean that there'll be small shows,
so it will only be the people who really want to be there will
yeah. Yeah, so that but that they'll be keeping tabs in it so
they'll know how how likely he is to turn off the show they're at.
Yeah, so, as we said, we'll be keeping tabs on the process
throughout that whole day and just seeing where we goes. Like I said,
good luck to him. Also, one of the record stores, the one
in the Huddersfield, was apparently organized by a record store called Vinyl Tap,
and I would just like to say I had no knowledge of the existence of
the record store Vinyl Tap when I came out with the name for our YouTube
series. So there you go. Last week we alluded to the fact that
the following day after we recorded that, Thursday announced that they were going to
be releasing their first song in thirteen whole years. It's been a long time
for now of Thursday existing as a band and playing shows and doing things like
full Collapse in Full and all that kind of stuff without you know, and
engaging with the creative part of being a band. The last album they released
was No Devolution, which is twenty twelve, twenty eleven, I guess somewhere
around them. And now they finally released a new single, No Word of
an Amaything just yet. But like I said, Thursday creatively in general is
interesting because as you would sort of kind of infer from again if you look
at like when we were young or whatever, it's like, oh yeah,
Thursday doing full Collapse in full and then you know people go oh yeah War
all the time as well. But it's like the hardcore group of Thursday fans
who kind of go through with each constantinua album, you know, it gets
a little bit smaller and smaller, but they are I think, a you
know, a interesting and kind of engaging band to you know, continue to
hear their creative output. It's just sort of, I guess you know that
where that has been appealing to has sort of shrunk over the years. So
Thursday coming out with their first song in fucking you know, over a decade
forever, there will be a whole generation of people who are like, oh
yeah, I love full Collapse or whatever and maybe haven't followed up on everything
else. But to my ears, this sounds a doesn't sound like they are
at all sort of doing what some of these bands do, which is pretend
their later albums people that just do don't exist, right, Like, this
is not a remember two thousand and two type song. If you again,
if you followed their records through to things like no devlution on or whatever.
The kind of wide screen you know, synth feel and stuff that this has
feels very natural from that. But Thursday returning, I know that you are
again. I don't know exactly how many albums down the line you love Thursday,
but I know in general you're a Thursday. You know, I appreciator.
What do you make of their new track, which is called Application for
a Release from the Dream. I need to revisit those later albums again,
because I was never blown away with them at the time. I'd listened to
them, but I was. I was like, they're pretty good. I
think this track is incredible. It's very good. I think it like it
sounds amazing. That widescreen simple kind of like vast, kind of like really
just it's like really classy sounding, really uplifting, powerful, bright. Yeah,
I think that again. I agree. It's not trying to, you
know, just do full collapse again and just be you know, two thousand
early two thousands emo. It is naming that kind of grander kind of like
again rey noir, black and white, monochrome, sort of all those things
that even that Jeffer was doing a little bit with no devotions stuff like that,
but Thursday just take it in a kind of like a much grand grander
scope. But yeah, I think this is amazing. When it really builds
up and you get those like fudding kind of like arena drums pounding away on
a song like this, it sounds incredible. And I think it's a very
uplifting song in terms of like when the that moment you're talking about, when
all the instruments coming together and the vocal line is moving up there, you
know, can you hear the angels? Cool kind of part really really you
know, affecting kind of swell going on there. I also like, you
know, further into the song, there's kind of the guitars are kind of
in the back in this sort of like mechanical tearing kind of way, and
it's like a you know, elements you hear in post rock and stuff like
that, but in the body of this like melodically quite immediate, accessible,
fairly simple song. And I like when Thursday can kind of, you know,
pull those things together in that way. Also, there's a scream jump
scare towards the end. Do you expect when it gets really quite brazy,
like, oh, yeah, no Thursday can still Yeah, I wasn't expecting
to go there. This is about too can you know, sit out on
Outbreakfast and and go a bit harder. I doubt they'll play this outbreakfast,
which is a bit of a shame because I think, like, it's a
great song there. Yeah, no Thursday actually doing something Greative is that good
that I'm willing to go back and like reassess those later albums that I didn't
dislike but was never kind of like all in Yeah, I think they are
worthy and again, you know, listening to this, I think obviously the
fact that we've had, you know, over a decade without new Thursday music
kind of makes it a little bit difficult to necessarily sort of commit to that
so heavily. But I think they are I think of them in tandem with
bands like Thrice and particularly obviously we just did whole thing on Axel Fire in
terms of the ones of that post Ard called scene who can aide really beautifully
and you know, continue to make again work that's kind of true to themselves,
but in a you know, expanding the capabilities sort of sort of way.
I think you can see that when you go through those Thursday albums and
this particular track, if that is hinting to again, if we get you
know, more of this continue to go further than that direction, it'd be
really nice to see Thursday sort of just reaffirm that particular fact about themselves that
they are sort of, you know, in that league of bands rather than
the you know, kind of much more nostalgic of its day sort of yeah
league of bands. So yeah, really good work from from Thursday there.
I do hope that we hear more sooner rather than later. There's a couple
of shows here that have both been announced sort of around you know, Download
Festival. The first one is that Code Orange have announced a only in London,
So basically it's a warm up show for Downlod because they' obviously they're playing
the main stage there, so they're doing a warm up show for Download at
the Dome in London in June. But that is the first London headline show
close to ten years. That's fucking mental. Yeah, how did we let
that happen? They they know they haven't played London. They've done a bunch
of sports, but I saw I didn't go to the London day of that
last headline run they did. I went to the Kingston One, which still
technically London unless you're Frank Frank turning London and then maybe that'd be where cry
Wank call him out, but no, yeah, I I that was the
first time I saw Code Orange twenty fourteen, and that they've not done a
headline show in London since then insane And I obviously I have tickets for this.
I'm going to go absolutely fair all at it. I cannot wait.
Yeah, I mean thinking about obviously Code Orange headlines, I guess technically I
saw them headline Outbreak twenty eighteen. They were you know, obviously I saw
them headline in twenty eighteen where they did Portsmouth after doing London with Trivia.
Yeah, but certainly we've not had a headline tour, which we obviously still
not getting. But if you've seen Code Orange headline in the UK, it's
because you've been lucky enough to catch certain oh they're doing one thing over in
this region sort of stuff. So obviously the wait continues for any sort of
longer thing. But considering this is just attached to download Festive, I think
it's fair enough they're just doing the London warmut thing. But yeah, first
Code Orange London headline in fucking forever. That's mad and then technically I get
a warm down show because that's happening afterwards. But Kerry King has announced his
first UK headline performance as well, which is happening at the Electric Ballroom.
I guess that seems right for you know, launching a new band and everything,
but you're gonna get see Kerry King presumably playing some Slayer songs as well
in a tiny little venue, so that would be, you know, intriguing
little thing to go down. Over in the US, we have Clutch and
that's a tour where they gonna be playing Blast Tyrant in full, which is
interesting for Clutch because they don't normally do Yeah, they're normally the kind of
you never fucking know at all what they're gonna play, So having a sort
of like you know exactly what order they can play the songs in is quite
different for Clutch. But I guess if they can do it for any one
of their records, it would be Blast Tyrant. But I like that the
bill for this it's a is it a co headline to it's because rival Suns
are doing an album of theirs. I don't know, rival Sons album Western
Ofol Korean an album with equal caliber, or I'm sure to blast Tyrant.
But the thing I like about this is the poster. You've got Clutch and
Rival Suns on either side on the same sort of level co headline, and
underneath them you've got Fu Manchu on Clutch a side and Blackstone Cherry underneath Rival
Sons, which a if Blackstone Cherry I fucking opening a four band tour.
That puts a lot of you know, the way people have spoken about the
band into some sort of you know, interest perspective. But I just like
that that means an exact divide down the middle of the poster of of quality.
You know. It's like on the one side you've got fuck Yeah,
Clutch Hu Manchua like a you know, a very respected Stone up band as
well, and then the other side the Rifle Sun side. Great. It
just as a poster, it struck me as being very funny. You're one
side for the freaks and one side for the absolutely And also this is hardcore
festival and out there a lot of their bill as well. Their three headliners
are going to be Etown Concrete, Colder's Life, and Black Flag, which
is so funny in terms of hardcore, in terms of like I would say
about hardcore, hardcore is a pit that you just go down and you never
ever ever ever reach the bottom, and no matter how far down you go,
there will be bands who some guy will be like, oh my god,
you never heard them, they were like the greatest hardcore band of all
time in that particular you know, or district or whatever. And having fully
fucking, you know, world famous iconic band Black Flag. Admittedly, obviously
whatever live Black Flag, whatever live version they are right now is anyone's fucking
guess. But having Black Flag next to only ever ever spoken about in exclusively
the hardcore world, absolutely no crossover to anything outside of at all Colder's Life
and Etown Concrete bands I'm sure many many people you know have never heard or
listen to. It's very amusing. It's like, yeah, Etown Concrete are
hilarious bands, like they are the embottom of like knuckle Dragon a little bit
yeah, like and they are so funny. They're good fun I'd like to
im live at some point, but yeah, it's just then headline. This
is hardcore alongside Black Flag and probably Etown Concrete Colders I've probably being the more
exciting book. Yeah, I'm all for it, go ahead of what you
know. Again, it's a hardcore festival. Why not have bands of that
sort of you know, Niche have it. I just think it again,
it's very amusing to see of those logos next to each other and stuff like
that. And again, this is hardcore festival outbreak or something where I guess
bands do need to have a little bit of a crossover. This is hardcore.
Is this weird little bastion of like, yeah, we'll have Colders live
headline and no one will question it. Sure. Julie Christmas has announced finally
her new solo album, Julie Christmas, If you're not, I think people
know the name, but maybe haven't explored a lot of the catalog. He
hasn't released a solo album since fucking you know, the cart of Lunar Marinet
album, and that's going back some way now. Like her music has been,
She's been building to this next release for quite a long fucking time.
We've had singles again, she was performing some of them around dan Nation Festival,
but finally released through cort of Luna's Red Creek Record Label. Very good
title, ridiculous and full of blood. The album. It's got a really
scary album cover, very David Lynch kind of like, yeah, very very
upsetting, and that is going to be out on June the fourteenth. So
new Cult of Luna. Well, sorry, I knew Judy Christmas music abound
there for I don't know if you got to listen to this at the time.
Yeah, did add a good line. Yeah, this is great.
Frozen Soul have released a cover of the White Zombie track from the album After
a Creek two thousand, Creature of the Wheel and before I put this on,
because I mean, you think Throzen Soul White Zombie, right, not
two bands you would necessarily put together different styles of groove, different eras,
different fan bases. You know, there's no real hints of much industrial or
anything like that in Frozen Soul. But you know, I stuck on this
track just to refresh myself for putting the Frozen Soul version on, and it
opens like a slam track where it is it's one of the heavier songs from
that era of White Zombie and the first riff in the original version of Creature
the Wheel could be a Dying Fetus riff if you just like they could take
that riff. So I can one hundred percent see how Frozen Soul have heard
that and gone a death metal band should have a cracker. Yeah, no,
totally. It is more like the heavier, kind of more slamming grooves
and then they basically take that they roll out, and then they just lay
into the rest of those grooves and and once you get because once you can
lock into like the sort of that like industrial group, but like crank it
into more like sort of samon death met sound, you can ride that out
for the rest of the song and just have a good time with it and
have a video that's full of like schlocky b movie video nasty looking horror stuff.
And I was like, yeah, this is this is Frozen Solder just
having a whale of a time. Yeah, and ride it out they do,
and again any the sort of hints of industrial or whatever are removed from
the track basically, and it's just like, hey, here's the death metal
groove version. That's it. But it is just taking that core groove and
going like that's what you that's the hook. You can you can like catch
it on too. Yeah, good fun. Why not an Electric Cool Boy?
This fucking took me way off guard. I had no idea that we
were reaching that point with them already. But Electric Cool Boy have announced that
they are going to be showing their concert film of the techno tour they did
last year in odions up and down the country the cinema chain, all happening
on the twenty ninth of April. Like it's the Eras tour. I mean,
yeah, sure, I summed up on the discord as the Era's tour
for people who was fronting magazine. I'm wondering whether to go or not.
I'm like, I'm not. I'm shocked that you're not. But it's it
is like when else will I see Electric Cool Boy? Have you seen Cool
Boy live yet? Or No? I haven't because I don't know. I
you have some standards, Yeah I haven't. It hasn't worked out where obviously
post them blowing up and becoming a somewhat legitimate band, haven't haven't worked it
out. Yeah, very amusing. If you want to go and see that,
then there is the date to do so. Patreon this week, we
are currently working a little bit on the schedules and stuff. We're gonna be
in the album swap that we announced last week. We now fully we've we've
fully exchanged albums. Sure there's gonna be some wonderful conversations and stuff in there,
and very curious to see how it will turn out. I think we're
going to record that over this weekend sometime. It will be out early next
week, I think. And then also next week was gonna be here.
You know, it was going to be the big April Review show. Life
is fucking busy at the moment. Got a lot of like, you know,
work stuff sort of floating around here right now, So we're sort of
scheduling a bunch of stuff between the three of us, So that show is
actually going to be pushed back to probably the following week. So the first
week of May will be the April Review show, with everything that's out today
and tomorrow, next week, et cetera, all in there. Next week
I will figure out whether we will have just a normal Hyperblasts or it might
be a week off from the show. I don't know. If we pop
up in your subscription feed, then lovely to see you. If not,
we will see you in two weeks time with the big review show of all
the great stuff that you want to hear, and so right now we're just
gonna leave that with today's releases. And as I've been saying for a long
long time, now these two it'll probably be this and some week in September
will we've got more ads that outs down the line, because there are always
the everyone throws the darts at that point in the cow under whever, there's
always the one, isn't it, Like yeah, it's it's you know,
pre and post festival season whatever. So this for me, combined with next
week, but particularly this one, is there is an awful lot of stuff
that you're going to be checking out. There's awful awful lot of big event
type releases. It does not even include on your list which ones are I
can add right now if oh yeah, of course I'm not adding that one
enough press. What we do have is Pearl jam I released their new album
Dark Matter, one of the biggest fucking rock bands in the world, literal
stadium band, so of course that goes front and center here elsewhere, we've
got the Ghost Inside are releasing their new record Searching for Solace. We will
have you know, I'm curious to see I guess what the feeling around that
one sort of turns out to be trickling a little bit further down the sort
of metalcore ladder. So you u Space Cowboy are releasing their new album,
Coup de Gras. Is this there? I guess it's their third full length,
third as album, yeah, because obviously they released those first two EPs
as an album, but like toms of proper albums, is yeah, free
and it feels like that, you know, the last album was kind of
where the sound sort of settled, I guess, and they sort of were
like, Okay, this is what Seas is, So this is the follow
up to that, essentially elsewhere we have no Effects releasing half album. I
remember a while ago they released the album that was called the double Album.
I guess this is some sort of extension of that, and considering no Effects,
as you know, winding down period we're going through right now, I
guess this is probably gonna be one. I feel like that last album was
want to be their final album, wasn't. Yeah, I don't know if
this is sort of a again a epilogue chapter or something, but a little
bit more effects to add on to the end of that, and we have
Cloud Nothing's Final Summer. How would you describe them? Sound sort of a
metalcore hardcore I'm not kind of want to be passing you by. Actually I'm
not super not my world either, but I'm not like invested time in floating
around a lot today. The biggest fucking genre for it seems to be sort
of doom and do me adjacent stuff. So if you are a you know,
big sludgye rift worship person, then you are going to have so much
today on your plate. Let me tell you. First off, we've got
one of the all time fucking kings of sludgy rift worship stuff, high on
fire new album, Cometh the Storm. If you're a little bit more gloomy
and romantic and sensitive about your rift worship, We've got My Dying Bride Immortal
Binding. The Melvins have got their one hundred and ninety eighth album out.
It's called Tarantula Hart. I'll check it out. Mellyns Or albums are always
fucking you know, jod knows what they'll fucking turn out to be, but
I've heard this is meant to be a pretty decent one. Elsewhere, we've
got you know, homegrown kind of upcoming proggy doom sludge type band June with
Avid Void, kind a follow up to a very well REALI liked, Yeah,
good, well liked album from twenty twenty one ish twenty twenty twoish.
So exciting to be having more of that proper, you know, just all
out if you like doom bong Ripper, I've got a new album out called
Empty, sort of moving out from there into more sort of like you know,
post rocky noise, rocky whatever, sort of you know, area stuff,
Big Brave. I've got an album called a Chaos of Flowers in kind
of we're gonna review this album so we can fully you know, say what
it will end up being. But you know, a kind of gloomy,
dark gothic sort of rock band. I guess it's just what you would call
them. Duel have got their album out called The Shape of Fluidity. Henrik
Palm, he formerly of In Solitude. He's a string of set of the
records at this point. He's got one out today called nerd Icon. I
believe sort of a Scandinavian you know, early you know, scandy punk type
sound housed, which is h a ust negative music, full on nightmare cry
yourself to sleep while lying in a pool of your own blood noise, rock
couch slut you could do it tonight and moving into again more kind of you
know, death and black metal type stuff. We've got Nuclear Tune with Terra
Labyrinthian, which is sort of a you know, sort of like a death
thrash thing, but with a kind of a techy edge in there as well.
Anti Christ Siege Machine, Vengeance of Eternal Fire, the sort of current
Kings of War metal, Bestial black Metal, one of the most brutal bands
in the world. Again, this month is so fucking stacked in terms of
reviews. I don't think we have to fit this one in this one,
but I might see if we can fit it into the following one, because
I want to get Sam to listen to Anti Crosies Machine. And maybe similarly
we could say for Falter Cama Viba Macht, which is Zachary from Imperial Triumphant
teaming up with a sort of German opera singer doing a like opera black metal
band. You will be absolutely not shot at all to hear. I think
they're really really good and really really cool, So that is out. Then
again, more straight to the point, black metal if you just want to
you know, a fix of you know, blue album cover icy this type
stuff Hexa blood with k morehen and I think this is an EP which is
world Good at Last, but a release from Unpeople, which is Unpeople,
which I think I'm right in saying, is the new band that contains some
of the former members of Press Tamiko. So if you will into that band,
then you know, more stuff in that kind of vein coming out now
today. So there you go. Thank you very much for listening. Like
I said, next week, well we will definitely have the album Swap coming
to the Patreon over then you know the coming few days. We may turn
up again next week for somebody else here. If not, we will absolutely
be here you know, the following Friday, the first week of May with
the sort of late aprils you know, reviews round up, So we will
see you there for all of that. Thank you very much for being here,
and yeah, we'll see you around. Bye,