Hello everybody, Welcome to That's Not That On and welcome back to Hyperblasts,
where we come at you not in too aggressive form. I hope you know,
calm down, but we're gonna arrive calmly and tell you calmly about some
of the heavy metal news that's been going on this week. Thank you everybody
who checked out the reviews show that is, you know, was uploaded not
that long ago. It's a short turnaround with we podcasts and usually I suppose,
but you know, we're back again yet again. A little rats can't
get rid of us. But yes, the review show we did came out
Monday. We spoke about a load of some pretty heavy hitters. Actually,
like I'm sure a lot of those records that we spoke about will be you
know, big contenders when it comes to the usual end of year round up
stuff. So it was a big, big time and we are continuing with
that today in terms of just following up on all that and seeing what's gone
on since and what else might be coming out. We'll have the release round
up later, but got some news before then. My name's parenheyish with me.
We got Sam Dignon and Elliott Paisley Hello, Sam. Last week we
had fucking a billion shows to talk about. Have you been up to anything.
I haven't. No, not this week, I mean apart from Jamie
Lemon was in my work today. That's about as exciting as it gets for
me. Really very nice, just doing his shopping. Like still you know
that guy doesn't do casual. You could like, if you know Jim Lemon,
you will spot him anywhere because he just stands out. Does he dress
like a Victorian gentleman? Everwhere he goes, he's looking dapper as ever.
Yeah, like, no hat, But I just want to like you remember,
yeah, Elliott spotted any English rock musicians walking around the local area this
week? I mean Roger He's coming to follow up on the nasty things he
said about him. Yes, And I was slamming on my back door bricks
through my window. Gonna keep an eye out for that guy. Yeah,
so let's talk news. The first thing we have got is, I guess
one of the biggest fans back at it again. Felt like kind of a
surprise. I didn't hear any don't any rumblings or rumors of a new great
green day this time around. It was just like, oh my god,
a new green Day music just appeared, and it took a while it seemed
like if anyone's actually start talking about it. But they have fully, you
know, gotten back into the ring here because not only have we had you
know, some some tour dates and so on announced, as we said last
week, but now we have a new green Day album announced. It's it's
another nice January treat for us, just like the last one was, you
know, or at least early in the year. We can start it off
with a new green Day album. It's called Saviors. It's coming out on
January the nineteenth of next year, of course. And not only that,
but we have a single from it, the first piece of music, which
is the American Dream is Killing Me. It's the second like zombie apocalypse video
from a sort of aging pop punk band that we've had in the last week.
I thought the Alkaline Tria one was a much better but new green Day
song now, I mean, you guys know the deal right. The last
thing we had was Father of All Motherfuckers, which I think was a new
low even for modern green Day. I'm sure many people would agree with me.
That record was like almost completely without merits or any saving moments. This
song is Okay, it's not it's not that which I will guess I'll take.
I mean, I think this song is terrible, but you're right,
it's still better than come from. Like I mean, I shouldn't go into
Green Day like I should know now, like not to expect anything from Green
Day. But even though it was still just like this is so flabby and
boring even by their standards, it's not, I guess it's not completely embarrassing,
like yeah, but it is still just like this is this what Green
Day are now? Like just the most flabby, boring version of something that
was once brilliant. Yeah, this song, to me, it's like it's
a Green Day song that you could like very you know, aimlessly minded,
kind of bob your head along too if you had it on in the background,
and it doesn't draw attention to itself in such extreme ways. But it's
it's like sub twenty first century Breakdown, which is a record that I,
you know, for its various faults, I enjoy, but it was clearly
you know, Green Day going on the down. This is that again,
with that kind of bad sort of rock and roll skip and bounce to it.
But like Way Way further down, you know the decline. It's produced
better than the trilogy record. It is much much more listenable than Father All
Motherfuckers was. It's it's it's very very eh for me. I mean,
I think I'd have this over pretty much anything in the trilogy. Like,
I mean, as bad as people say the trilogy is, I think it's
probably worse than people give it credit for. There's a handful of okay songs
on it. But I think there is like one potentially all right album among
the trilogy if you took the best songs off each one. Praise there's a
handful of okay singles between three albums. But yeah, I guess if you're
talking the real bad era of Green Day and the one this is the most
like would be Revolution Radio. Yeah, this is what this reminds me of
my kind of vaguely political messaging on Green Day by numbers kind of execution.
I mean, it was only in my time before we've got a reference to
TikTok. So that's not great. I mean, to be honest, I
don't think Revolution Radio is as criminally bad an album as I think. It's
just that's records just a bit dull. I don't think it's terrible. It's
just Father of All is uncompromisingly bad. And I don't know, I mean,
for me, like this is a six. It's actually kind of a
pleasant surprise from Green Day, Like I don't rate twenty first century Breakdown,
so there's a chance this will be the best Green Day album in twenty years.
And also like a six out of ten, so that's kind of that's
kind of amazing for a legacy. I mean, that's a very You're jumping
over a lot of hurdles there to get to that from like a two and
a half minute single, which is pretty nothing. The solo is okay,
you're kind of a lotic solo. You know, Billy Joey can he can
play guitar in a you know, quite tasteful songwriting sense. Yeah, I
mean, you know, a lot yet to be seen on the album,
but this was a compared to last time, this was a very like,
Okay, I don't want to claw my ears off, but I have gained
basically nothing from listening to this kind of deal. And you know, the
the only thing that you're ever going to remember from this is just that sloganeering
of you know, the American dream is killing me. And it's like,
mate, you've won the American dream like you were. You were lucky enough
to be born to the generation where you could actually play music for a living,
and now you're a kajillionaire. And doesn't doesn't he sound it? Yeah,
New Green Day coming next year. In a way, I guess it's
better than it could be, but also in a way that makes it less
fun to talk about than it could be. We might just be in for
a fucking boring Green Day time, but I guess we will see. I
have higher hopes for the new Chelsea Wolf album, which is called She Reaches
Out To? What What is this album called? She Reaches Out to?
She Reaches Out to? She No. I thought I was having a stroke
there reading that for a moment that unless the Kerrang article I'm reading that from
is a made a typo, But I'm gonna assume. I'm gonna give them
benefit of doubt. Those guys conplicted album title perhaps, But Chelsea Wolf we
on a new single a little while ago. There is another one out with
this, but that is also a record that's going to be coming out in
the new year. Very excited for that. It's been a fair old while
since we've had a full Chelsea Wolf album. We've been talking about it for
a while that we're kind of jew one and she's she's rather good. Some
new news that that we are going to talk about more fully is the EP
that was released this last Friday from The Callous dow Boys. It's called God
Smiles upon the Callous dow Boys. This is one of these EPs where it
was announce were like, yeah, we'll talk about when it's out. It's
now out, so let's talk about it. The Callous dow Boys. I
think people are so extra about this band, Like the people who love this
band seem to think they've rewritten music. I really like this band, and
I agree with you. Yeah, I think this band of right. But
I do agree some of the praises heaped upon them is a bit like every
time they do anything, it's like they've redefined the genre. It's like they're
a wacky mathcore band with a wide imagination that isn't strictly new. But I
put this on as someone who is very, very casually kind of appreciative of
the calistaw Boys. I didn't love the album much as many people did.
This has perhaps some of my favorite material they've put out today, and I
was struck by how much color there is across these three tracks. The first
one alone really that like xylophones, Yeah, like streams or whatever. It
is that crazy instrumental hook over, like a big kind of momentum fueled you
know, metal core riff, but like it never ends or something like that.
But then you know, throwing all these like genuinely disarming, alien to
the ear sort of tech metal turns. And that's the first like minute and
a half before like daft samba and a full on two thousand and nine trunks
drop that I've missed that in metalcore, I've missed like those again you know
someone who loves suicideism and there as a hell that kind of like little stuff
like that. I think this is three of the best songs they've done.
I think there is a bit more cohesion in other kind of like they still
go all over the place. Yeah, feels less kind of like jarring and
more well thought out. I think there's actual hooks in their musical. Having
said that about all the different things that first song does, It's got like
a chorus that it returns to and it actually functions more as a coherence on
Yeah, totally. I think I think all three songs kind of have that
that those similar kind of hooks they can at least resort back to to like
guide the song through rather than just constantly putting in all these different directions about
necessarily much focus. I mean, I think we're three for three because this
is some of the best Color Starboys material so far from me, Like,
I mean, for me, it's like the most they've done in terms of
gelling the ideas together. Yeah, not in less in a way that's at
least compelling, And by the time I listen to it again, I go,
okay, that makes more sense, Like pushing the Pink envelope. When
that goes from the sort of elevator music into the trance bit. The first
time, you're like, what the like have you just thrown that in deliberately
to be wacky, But then a couple listens in it feels a lot more
coherent. There's still like an element of the band. I don't even know
if it's an element or more of a a vibe or something that I find
kind of off put and I feel kind of shitty using this as a criticism,
but there's something a bit try hard about them? Is it the panic
at the disco clean vocal bits? Is that it's like, yeah, it's
the fact it's a bit like Dillingder escape Plan, but you take out the
Trent restaurant, chuck in the Brendan Uri and that's exactly what I said I
want. I would like theater kid. Dillinger is just something that's can be
a little bit off putting. And I say that about a band who I
do generally like what they're doing. And again their sense of like uber clean
approaching melody and this is still not the most suited to me, but it
is quite interesting seeing it done in that Like the last song Designer Shrouded Turin
has this like kind of R and B vocal hook that is positioned next to
like some fucking a tonal like John zorn x saxophone and then like a bost
and over part And is that rapping that's going on around that part as well?
So again that song does loads like that. That song is that's probably
one of the most ambitious songs on like they've done, as well as probably
the most ambitious on this on the EP. Like I mean that song's really
cool again and that nostalgia for the two thousands hook again. When they keep
coming backround to that, it just kind of grounds in something bit more like
aggressive. But yeah, I think like super creative but not doesn't feel as
kind of like, oh look at us, we're being totally zany. They've
got like I does that put on that feel like they actually take the songs
in interesting directions, like all those elements you've just listed for that. Yeah,
it's still pretty early days for this band, you know, then terms
of them becoming like one of the major sort of new critical darlings of the
heavy music world. That's we're basically talking you know, just over a year
ago now that Yeah, they kind of just absolutely crashed through and became that.
So I'm encouraged by, I guess the some of the developments that are
going on in this EP. And as someone sort of observing from Afar,
that's all like an asked for really so yeah, pretty good stuff. They're
from the Kaloustar Boys. Here is news that I mean, I can't rememi
if I put it here for a start, if I just because I don't
know, the prog nerds will come for me. But news that I never
anticipated us talking about. I guess because Elliott's I'm going to talk to you
as the other person who will have any any any mileage here. I suppose
one of my I got like, really, you know, my metal fandom,
I suppose properly blows up kind of around the turn of the twenty tens,
like two thousand and nine through two kind of twenty ten, twenty eleven
is when I guess, you know, I was like thirteen years old.
That's when I became fully a metal head and I actually started following the culture.
One of the big I guess divisions and kind of splits from that time
that marks that kind of period in my memory is Mike Portnoy leaving Dream Theater.
I was in a lot of metal circles like that. Who you know,
that was the fucking that was you know, that was the end of
day's shit happened in there. You know. Mike Portnoy one of the most
celebrated drummers ever, certainly for Dream Theater, a huge part of at the
time they're kind of conceptual sort of you know direction. He was like a
real ideas man in that band, one of the brains behind it. So
that was a proper like that was a calamity there, and it feels like
another lifetime ago for me that Mike Portnoy left a Dream Theater and Dream Theater
since have in the scheme of things, been totally fine, right in terms
of like their place as a legacy band, They've won a Grammy in that
time, They've continued to be the band they were. Mike Manngeni, who
was drumming for them, did a great job through all those years, but
never anticipated being like, oh, fucking forty years into that band or whatever,
Mike Pu mightst come back. Yeah, I had the exact same thought
about how when I was first going into me it was one of the first
major stories I remember yeah happening. It was like that, And I mean
to the point where when Joey left Slipknot, I was like, oh my
god, it's like when Mike left. It was that level of reference point.
And for me, the fact that the band and Mike kind of got
Pali again a few years later made it seem less likely because it's like,
well, if your friends and everyone wants it and you've not done it,
I guess you never will. And it was they just seemed like they were
just enjoying, you know, getting back in touch with each other, but
to continue to do their own things. Yeah, everything seemed to be kind
of at peace. And I don't dislike Mike Mangenie and I'm not a big
enough Dream Theater fans to go like this is the era, but the last
five Dream Theater albums have kind of lacked any bite or spark whatsoever if they
had any, Like, they became a really polite, sort of classic rock
prog magazine band almost as soon as Mike Portnoy left. And that's not to
say it's going to sound like you know, GBH now, but Portnoy does
seem at least like the very least the kind of less restrained music theory nerd
type. Yeah, that's the kind of impression I've always gone. So if
we get a bit more of that, I was gonna say rock and roll.
I don't know about rock and roll, but a bit more of that
kind of bombastic energy, we might get a good Dream Theory record. I
think that's fair. Like they've had moments for me, like I enjoyed the
I think with the self titled record it he was like twenty thirteen or something
for me with the kind of the highlight of like the post Portnoy records.
Obviously right after that you had an astonishing moment if its yeah, And since
then I've kind of been like, yeah, okay, but the only time
I've ever seen Mike Portnoy in the flesh was drumming for Twisted Sister, And
you know, around the time the lettering fit was when he d he'd drummed
for Event sevenfold for a little while, and as has been pointed out,
he's done bizarre rock project like Adrenaline Mob and thing is like that. So
like he has you know, he obviously a very capable prog guy, but
you know he he knows how to rock out. He likes to rock out.
That guy. Remember when it was a few years ago we did I
think of his favorite albums ever, and I think Death Magnetic was like in
the top twenties, was like rocker what fair enough? Wow, that's a
that isn't of events. But yeah, you're right in terms of the final
record of port Noy can't what's called it's like Nightmares and oh black Clouds and
Silver Linings. Yeah, that one. I know that there's some good songs,
and there's one song on that has a really long one that's got a
fucker of a riff in it, and that's a really good song, and
it's a darker Dream Theater record. And then the very next one they released,
the Mike Mangenie one has that cover of the guy on the Typrope that
looks like like take that album where they're all like, you know, oh
yeah, Circus or whatever it is. So I think there is some some
truth what you're saying. As said as well for the real Dream Theater Faithful,
he was a huge kind of ideas guy in that band, and it's
just the classic lineup, isn't it. Like if you if the idea of
going and see Dream Theater, the perfect version imagine your head would be with
Mike Portnite. That is no disrespecting Mike Maginie, who is a better drummer
than I could ever fucking like imagine being in a hundred lifetimes. But I
mean Mike Magini has said himself with his statement kind of leave in the band
that he was like, you know, my job was always to be the
drummer in Dream Theater. Mike Portnoyd was a little bit more involved in some
of the other things than that. And I don't know, I feel like
I'm I'm past caring that much about new Dream Theater just for this to be
like, oh my god, what if their next Dream Theater album is their
magnum opus. But it's just a real like oh wow, it feels like
a you know, a historical moment of like that's genuinely something I didn't expect
to happen like that. How many years in their career coul Dream that they
have left like a decade. Maybe I figured they were just sort of close
enough to kind of ride it out and that that Sam, you are absolutely
stoked that you might finally get to your favorite band with their classic lineup.
Yeah, sure, whatever. I'm just you know, like, like Mike
Portnoll is a good drammer. Good for him, get that dream fit of
money that you're overdue for, a dream fit of money for a seven fold
for a while, I think, all right, No, But to be
honest as well, Mike Porty back in Dream Fitter means they're going to be
able to do bigger shows than what they probably have. Yeah, it's going
to be a bump up in that because then you're going to get those dream
fing like, oh my back. Yeah, it feels like big news,
so it is. I'm just you know, always sound like to you,
Sam, Yes, that is what that is what all dream fans sound like
to me. I'm friends with at least two dream Fir fans, so like,
including you guys. It means that the next time dream Fit to release
an album, we have to review it. We've got more reason to review
this one than a perhaps with the last few, So bring on. What
do you think Mike Portnoye thought about the astonishment you reckon? He thought that
was a that was a good move. Or he was like, oh you
all laughed at Adrenaline Mob and look at you now. Yeah, okay.
Festivals and live news are going to carry us for the rest of this little
news section, and the first one is going to be, I guess the
most sizable thing. Slam Dunk announced their first round of bands for this year's
event, and slam Dunk is, of course it's a you know, it
had a difficult year this year. There's a lot of kind of I don't
know, good will riding on how well this next event runs, and obviously
that is in huge part due to the logistical issues more than you know,
lineup, curation or what have you. But I think a lot of people
will be going. Something needs to be really big at slam Dunk for me
to want to yeah, go back there. This just and I don't mean
to slag anyone off who is trying to do their job or whatever with this,
And I hope there's more on the horizon, but this is embarrassing.
This is maybe the worst first announcement for a festival in the UK I have
seen in god knows how long. It actively makes me want to go.
Is this what you think rock music is? Is this how you want to
make us look You're making us all look bad. So the problem is is
for what slam Dunk's core is. There is an argument that this is a
very appealing slam Dunk lineup. I mean, this album, this sign up
is also we're in a post. We're like I know, and we're in
a post when we were young. Fest world and a lot of these bands
that were like to be honest, that belong on the lower down stages or
on the sort of the bottom end of the main stage opening it because they
are completely past it are going to be bumped up again because that nostalgia for
the two thousands, as the Callista boys like put it, is at high.
So like the thing is I think there is I look at this one
and go, well, there's actually a lot I want to see on that
lineup? Is there a lot that I've not seen before that I that is
like actually genuinely exciting. No, But like the particularly like the two lowest
down stages. I would watch every single band on those stage and have a
lovely time. The problem is you look at the first the top two stages
on that lineup, and even again as someone who likes some of those bands
on those stages, they're dreadful for like as a as your marquee. These
are you know, main stages because I mean, look you Music's headlining.
They're a safe bet headliner for Slam Dug. They are one of the least
offensive kind of bookings on that main stage. I'd make the argument for because
they're at least you know, at like whether you like them or not,
they're an established thing. But then when you go do you can rejects boys
like girls and we the kings beneath them, like what are we doing again?
Like I there are there are boys there are two boys like Girls songs
I like, there are like for We the Kings songs I like. But
these bands should be playing half an hour sets at the start of the day,
not, you know, they're they're bumped up that lineup. They're going
to have forty five minutes at least on their set, and like, who
wants to see that much? Boys like Girls or We the Kings in twins.
Yeah, and then you look at the heavier stage and you've got I
prevail Funeral for a Friend asking Alexandria set it off currently over there Feel for
a Friend obviously obviously a great band, but they have been very you know
again a fine slam note booking in you know, but they are just riding
the wave of nostalgic love. They're still right live, but it's when you're
looking to Funeral for a Friend to be like, you know, the shining
light of like, oh, that's something different on that stage with those despicable
bands, am I I There's been a few people who have been like,
oh, look at the lowest stages, you know, there's some stuff there,
Like you said that person, Yeah, that's that's that's fine. You
know if you are a big scar person or a big you know, grown
up he know, like I was, gonn say, they always have that
sort of no EFTs stage, don't they, like you know, yes,
you can go and see Penny Wise and the bouncing Souls and you know the
scar bands like the Selector being like legit UK scar legends on there. That's
yeah. The interrupts head on that stage. That's that's all well and good.
As you said, you're kind of grown up emo stages you want to
put it, You've got the one of the years Lstunes whatever. I agree,
Like, you know, if I was into that stuff, I would
have a really good day, you know, if I went, I would
probably you know, have an amazing time watching the interrupts. But the price
is now what's the exact price of what they've bought these tickets up? So
so what it is is the phase value price is one hundred and twenty pounds,
which is staggeringly high for a day for what's the what's what was it
this year? Because that's gone up this year. It was about one hundred
pounds this year. And what they've done is if you bought a ticket for
this year, you've been sent a discount code to get it for the price
of this year's festival if you book before the tenth of November. Like,
so, then on the strength of this lineup is what they want you to
er. Yeah, they want you to they want you to like pay a
slightly cheaper ticket because on this the strength of this lineup. Yeah. So
going back to what I was saying about, you know there's lowestages. Yes,
you can have a good day the when the price is inflating that much,
you are looking to Okay, what is the largest amount of this budget
going on for these bands? Right? And yes there is more to come.
This can be you know, if they offer a good alternative to UNI
at six, if they offer you know, anything that's interesting as opposed to
We the Kings and the endless, endless, fucking nostalgia bullshit that legitimately puts
us back as a culture by about fifteen years. The one nostalgia booking I
allow. I'm excited for Head Automatic ut. Yeah, that's that's that's something
different. But what I was going to say is that, uh, going
for a day you can go, oh yeah, I'll pay one hundred and
twenty pounds to stand at the scar stage all day because everything else is utter
bullshit that at that point it starts to feel like you are being taken advantage
of. Yeah, I mean, okay, fair to say, I mean,
it's fair to I mean, I know this again ties into the wider
conversations about the pricing of live events in the UK at the moment being utterly
ridiculous. And this is the one we come. This is the first one
I've gone. Yeah, no, the prop what their child, what they're
asking for and what they're offering is not adding up to quite a staggering degree.
Yeah, I mean I again, I look at that lamp and like
you've even got like pail Waves. I'm like, that's really cool to see
them. And I'm a big Pawaways fan. I'll go to and bobby them.
But it's it's not got that kind of big Okay, there's my money's
worth booking at the moment. There's a lot of bands I like, but
I'm waiting for, you know, there is That's what I'm paying my big
bucks for. Yeah, slam Dunk has historically been one of the like proper
big like if you were to pick like five core UK rock festivals actually mark
out the calendar that everyone is aware of, right, because there are loads
of festivals that pop up here and down the country. Right. But you
know you're talking to your downloads, your bloodstocks. If you're into your extreme
stuff, you've got Damnation at one end of the year. If you're into
your pop punker stuf, you've got slam Dunk at another year. Slam Wuk
is one of those proper, like you know, headlining kind of events along.
We know, two thousand trees, our Tangent whatever. I look at
this lineup and I go there were a lot of hard rock heavy metal festivals
aimed for aging people. Where you go to hard rock hell, you go
to Hammerfest, you pay a ridiculously inflated amount for the festival. Yeah,
the absolute crap they've got on there. And yes, as you say,
there will be a handful of okay extreme metal bands at the bottom that you
could go along and see and go, oh, it's not all bad.
But you are paying, however, many hundreds of pouns or whatever to go
camping with Anvil and to go camping with Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons and
any equivalent and kind of and you at least they'll play Motorhead songs fucking boys
like girls aren't playing Motorhead songs. I mean, I don't think we're quite
at that level yet, because I think there is still like I mean,
all work and reads I've got, you know, probably more. No,
it's it's hard rock hell for elder emos is what it looks like in terms
of getting in terms of the bang for your buck that you are getting.
I think the crazy part is it's about thirty quid cheaper than three days at
two thousand trees at the moment. Yeah, And like I I you know,
I've I've really I've had really good as this lad book in the past,
right, And this is not me coming for them as an institution or
whatever, but I just feel like I look at this and I go,
not only is that terrible value for money in terms of if you are asking
people to buy early to get their cheaper ticket or whatever. When you're yanking
up the price and you are doing it on the strength of this lineup,
that is a big, big ask unless you were just having the most you
know, absolute mark. They will go along for anything that was released you
know on feel By right in two thousand and nine or whatever. Kind of
people. But it also it makes rock music look bad, Like I look
at this and I go if people are talking about rock music having a hard
time culturally and you know, struggling to draw in people, you know,
struggling to be a kind of genuinely kind of dangerous alternative option or whatever,
no wonder. You know, young people can't be excited by something when that
a festival like this that used to be a kind of young person's festival right
is now turned into hey, thirty five year old who never grew out a
wee the King's and never got into anything else. Here you go again,
give us your one hundred and twenty pounds please for your one festival of the
year. I think, I mean, I don't go to slam that.
I've never been slammed UK and I'm not the demographic, but it looks like
a rewind festival poster, the sort of thing we're like, if you're in
your forties, you look at it and go Tony Hadley, you be forty
and you kind of love and then buy a ticket, like you're not going
like, oh my god, they've got Mark Harmond. You're going Mark Harmon's
alive. We've got to go like these people who are thirty, like these
elder emails. Are they even that passionate about we the Kings, I don't
know? Or is it just like, oh my god, we the Kings
are playing hilarious if we went, it's it's the combo of like like I
would say with the Kings, boys and girls were my comedians on their own,
they wouldn't be excited, but you put them together and for that audience,
that's exact. I mean again you say that, but Hawthorne Heights drew
one of the biggest crowds that slam Dunk this past year and that sums up
the crowd to me, It's just we you know, we've given download a
lot of stick at various points over you know, the history. For a
refusal to kind of move forward, a refusal to this feels like a step
back though as well, compared to you know, enter Zakari is like the
headline. Yeah, what I was going to say is that this, this
line up, to me, is the most dramatic stagnation I have seen from
any major UK rock festival in the last ten years. Like it's it's it's
a it makes me feel bad to look at it. It makes my skin
cruel. It makes me want to just like, you know, reconsider what
we're doing, because if you know, if this is it, then you
know, in terms of where we are at as a culture, then it's
just it. It makes us look all very sad, is my point,
bet and you is Malevolence completely sold out their larger venue tour that they've got
coming up soon this year. Every venue completely sold out and considering they were
going for some decently sized places, that is pretty fucking brilliant news. And
they were, you know, confident enough to go. Yeah, we're going
announce another tour after that's one, this time in UK clubs, doing a
bit of what I guess Trivium did this year. They're bringing pain of truth
and rough justice with them, which is one for the island, Yeah,
one for the spin kickers. Good stuff. There sounds very very exciting for
people who are able to make it to those. Bat Sabbath are also returning
to the UK. Yet again, I say yet again, I've never seen
they said they did like one or two thousand trees, but they haven't done
it. I've only like one Bat Sabbath tour before. But yeah, I
mean I don't say that disparagingly. The more bat Sabbatha around, the better
time we're all having, I suppose so. And they don't have a very
sizable tour as well, so good for them. Uh and the best news
story of the week. Let's be real, my my time has finally arrived
everyone because Uh TikTok, in all of its bizarre, arbitrary grace, has
decided to move on to uh none other than Mortician, who are now TikTok
icons. Mortician and specifically their song Rabbit, which you may if you go
back to our Mortician album club we did at the start this year. I
was like, Rabbit's my tune. Rabbit was the one that I loved.
I was like fourteen years old. It's got the most iconic intro, It's
got the best riff that he moves in. Uh. How did this happen?
Who don't know who started Rabbid by Mortician trending on TikTok so. I
probably think it's like like attractive Greebow goth girls who like Mortician and are like,
yeah, if you go on the tag for this. Most of it
is just basically kind of goth people just filming themselves looking you know, looking
gothy. But where did this start? Like, well, I don't understand
how something takes off on TikTok at this point, but I guess you know,
it's the hallow, it's Halloween season. It's the season of all things
spooking, like horror. And so when you've got that horror sample into a
riff that is not but not you know, it's not mortician drum machine going
off, it's not too like like oppressive immediately, so I can see how
I mean, it's a fucking it's a fucking groove, is what it is.
And it's like I said, it's got that intro of you know,
I eat your blood and I drink your skin, which seeing people lip syncing
to that is so fucking surreal. But yeah, there's been like, you
know, thousands and thousands. A couple of days ago it was up to
around seven thousand videos, which you know, in terms of TikTok standards,
is not you know, we're not talking Marry and across numbers here, but
if we look at morticians streaming currently, right, I listened to a lot
of underground extreme metal bands. They do not have huge streaming numbers. When
I tell you that approaching two hundred thousand monthly listeners for a band who sound
like Mortician is pretty incredible. Currently for a caparison point, they've got more
monthly versens right now than Creeper Do, who released not only are a much
more accessible we would like to beat popular band, but they also just released
a very well received album. But the power of trending on TikTok, Mortician
Rabid, the song that is going the rounds currently has over four thousand or
sorry, just just under approaching four thousand plays on Spotify. There are a
few of us sorry yeah a million? God that that would be pathetics,
that would be known. How much more than the rest of the album is
that song? Yeah? So that is it. There are a few other
songs that seem to have been kind of boosted up by this as well that
are breaching the a million mark. Anything Mortician having a million streams? Yeah,
I don't. Unfortunately, you know, I wasn't to have the clairvoyant
here to be able to check the before and after, but it has to
have been a major spike there. This is when you think of how many
bands write songs for TikTok, It makes it so much funnier. But how
many shit metical bands are going, Okay, they want to have this bit
and then they can put their makeup on and then they they will play this
bit and Mortitian just some grubby guys. Will Rama knows what TikTok is.
Do you think he will be confused as fuck whether he starts getting a different
kind of I'll say email. Does will Rama have email? No one knows
when where they're playing their next gig, and everyone gets there's a bunch of
teenagers who get their phones out when they play. Rabbit's gonna be like King
Kong, like rattling the chains or whatever. It's just like, I hope
this is a watershed moment because bands need to realize sounding like Lincoln Park it's
not the way the people want. Mortician let them eat skin. Yeah,
I think this is a It's like a wonderful cap on. I guess something
that I've been pushing for, like, you know, a couple of years,
because I've been talking a lot about a lot of the new wave of
death metal bands and how this daft fucking band, Mortician, who were almost
like a joke when I got into death metal, and they were almost like
the band I was told I shouldn't like because they're too stupid, and then
I got into them anyway, have been such a powerful influence on a lot
of what's actually gotten popular since we did that album Club laying it all out
and being like, Wow, this is special, isn't it? And just
a few months later, here we are the internet and you know, the
gen Z is out there absolutely completely credited everything we were saying. They're so
lovely stuff. Okay, questions have returned to hyper blasts this time. We've
not been able to do them for a few weeks just out of busyness,
but we have got a bunch and also we had a fair few really good
ones this week, so if there may be some, I will you know,
punt over until next week's patch as well. But the ones we've got
this time are going to be kicked off by Gary Blackwood who asks how many
times is it normal to see a band on tour cycle? I mean as
many times as you want to see it. I mean, for talking normal,
is that the most like one time? Is like for everyone that's gonna
be you know, the most common answer, But I just, you know,
see how many times you want to see them. I guess the real
question being asked here is how many times would you see a band on one
cycle before you start getting bored or start wishing they would do something else.
I mean I did, like I said, an entire Wilships cancilator. I
know it was only six dates, but you know I've done six dates of
one tour and canserbacks are a different set every night, and that was cool.
Yeah. I think let's let's ignore that. I think it's more in
terms of like bands, because most people will go to the show that is
in their city, right, Yeah. But if a band keep coming around,
keep you know, doing multiple tours on one you know, essential cycle,
at what point were about four album cycle? Yeah? I gaes,
Yeah, Like at what point would they announce one and you'd go, I've
seen the last three? I mean, for me, the cells Ka.
It massively depends on the band, because it depends how distinct each cycle is
or how it feels. Because like for the bands that change on each cycle,
you might only get a couple of chances to see like that band,
Like if you see slim on on Iowa, is your only opportunity to see
like that? Look that stage show that thing at that time. So for
me, I saw go. I saw Ghost three times on Prequel and twice
on Impier, and in both cases it was like in only a couple of
years, the thing I'm seeing right now as it is is going to cease
to exist. Whereas if you think someone like Springsteen, who it's not about
the show and all the extra stuff, it's just what songs you're gonna hear.
It's whether or not you can depend on that band to throw in some
variety. Yeah, and there are, certainly there are Ghost as a good
example of Like, they're a band who I've seen on pretty much like every
other cycle, and the cycles that I missed, I was like, I
would have loved to have seen that version, you know that moment. You
know. Creeper is another one obviously, where like I am really jazzed to
see the Sanguavore version, and I will take it really as much of that
as I can get before it turns into something else. I mean with Creeper,
like, I think a lot of that comes down to I guess festival
appearances as well, because you know, maybe a band will do one major
headlining tour for the record or whatever, but if you can see them scattered
around a lot. You can kind of almost like get more bite sized versions
of that film. So these Creeper as example, I tend to see Creeper
a lot on most album cycles. I only saw them twice on Sex Death
and The Infant Void, and that was majorly because of COVID and the fact
that you know, it took them ages to be able to actually properly tour
that. But the first album internally Arms, I think I saw them about
five times on that, and that's not including the EPs as well, which
are almost like a sort of prelude to to that. And a couple of
those were you know, headline tours, and a few of those were you
know, oh cool, I can go see them at Slam Dug, I
can see them at two thousand Trees or whatever, and you know, Sangle
all coming up, they've got the headline tour. I would very much,
you know, I would be excited to see them pop up anywhere else and
kind of grab as many moments of that, and I think filling in that,
you know, seeing them if you like, you know, go into
the headline tour and seeing them a few times at a festival kind of kind
of negates the Oh, maybe I won't go out to the third tour tonight
because I've been to the last one, because you're kind of already at the
festivals, you know. I think, I guess it depends on how distinct
how much do you like that particular cycle. Like, you know, there
are bands I really like when they're talking on an album. I don't like
some Like I'm just I'm not gonna bother on this touring cycle because it's they're
focusing on an album. I don't know, there are there are lots of
factors. I mean, generally, if I like a band, if I
can afford it, I'll get a ticket every time they come around. If
that as long as they've not you know, completely shut the bed or something.
But like, I don't think there is really a normal amount of times
to see a band. It's it's it's entirely down to how much you want
to see that particular set list, live show, whatever. Yeah, I
think like there are exceptions to the rule I just laid out. Like Clutch,
I would see every success every time. That's it. Like Clutch,
the show has been identical for the last decade or however, I've been seeing
clutch. But every time the show is distinct, you hear songs that you
haven't heard before, songs you might not I might even be familiar with.
You sometimes catch a clutch. So so that sort of thing is always worth
going for. But when it's like I don't know, when it feels like
it's kind of all laid out and it's the same thing for three years,
yeah, I'm less inclined, I think. Yeah, I agree, like
I say, unless it feels like this this thing you're seeing now, it's
not going to exist in five years. Yeah, I think, particularly if
a band was doing multiple tours, not just our tour and festal appearances,
like I said, because I think at festivals you always got to consider.
Some people get a bit like, oh, you know, this is the
same show I saw somewhere else, and it's like, yeah, fair enough.
But also you might be in a completely different crowd. It might be
you know, there might not be that crossover in they're presenting it to different
people. But if it is like you know, oh, you've just done
a headline tour, now you're coming through with another headline tour or whatever,
if that is essentially the same show, same setlist, or whatever, then
that is like, yeah, why unless absolutely do it, you don't need
to again. Creep a really good example the multiple headline tours that they tend
to do for something like, you know, back in the Turn of your
Arms days they had you know, the album tour which was you know something,
and then at the end of it they had the Theater of fear Thing
that was a completely different show, a completely different setlist whatever. Even though
it almost like capping off, if you can reinvent what you're kind of offering
throughout the album cycle, then yeah, as many times as you want.
Really, Tyler Ballard asks what heavy American band has yet to tour over there
that needs to So let's you know, we're talking bands who literally have not
been to the UK yet, who may be broken through. So we're not
just talking, Oh, who will we first to mention Afi or the Misfits.
So I was literally gonna say, can I just say here find the
Misfita? No, we're American bands who have broken through, who that you
would really like to see, who just haven't got the chance to go out
to the KA I don't think because every halfman I was like, no,
no, they've been here now I've kind of really got into recently. I'm
sure there'd be something. I mean, come back to me. I think
I initially missed the American caveat So I picked Streemboard because I don't know if
you've seen you want to see him doing the robot have you seen have you
seen his like his clips on YouTube is fucking electro dance shows of all the
fucking things to pick Elliott, You go, yeah, I'd like to see
the Streambord show. No one knows who you're talking about. Well, this
was this was all news to because I went down a rabble. I'm just
going have they ever played live? Have they ever played live? And streem
Borg I don't listen to. I don't like stree Board. It just came
to me and I had checked and they said, yeah, yeah, they've
done some gigs around New Zealand and Australia and I was like all right,
So I checked it out and it was like he's in corpse paint. He's
got kind of like a Prince jacket on, and like you say, kind
of robotting to year six disco light like disco lights at the school, the
primary school disco and the music's now it's screensaver ambient stuff. I mean,
someone's got a book. It okay, So everyone who now used to go
and Google's street board fucking dance shows, go go ahead. I've got proper
answers. I will salvat this question. For me, I meant non heavy
answers, but yeah for asking like heavy, yeah, I'll throw two in
a second for those. For me, it's like it's majorly the kind of
heavy metal a lot like the kind of underground heavy metal bands in the US,
because like coming up at Damnation, this is unbelievable. Kennys are playing
their first UK show and like I've been, Yeah, Chemists, they haven't
been to the fucking UK. I and I've been. I've been talking about
you know that band on this podcast a fucking alone for over like five years,
and I'm finally gonna get see Kennys. And similarly, like it's I
mean unto others have been here quite a lot, happily long way that continue.
It's whenever you get like a visa goth or an Eternal Champion tour,
it's like, yes, fucking a treat and there are bands in that realm.
The UK Debuty High Commander coming up played it. Oh god, fuck
no, no, that'd be a good one. They bet barely tour do.
They just sort of turn up at fucking you know, hello, we're
playing a Halloween show in Detroit or whatever. But I'm gonna say summer Lands
haven't been as far as I know, and fucking they're doing a European tour
with Eternal Champion. It's like, bring fucking the summer Lands Champion double to
the UK, thanks you very much. There's a band in that realm who
again really really small, much smaller than those ones who I think are fucking
brilliant. They're aunc caled Sonya, and I hear only yeah, yeah,
only good things about their live show from people in the US, and I'm
like, ah, yeah, like I really I would love to see that.
The someone on Twitter something they covered something the other day. What was
it? God, I would have to google that, which had not time
to do right here, but they were doing some really cool covers. I
want to see Sonia. You mentioned High Command as a back with Vicious Blade,
who I really want to see over here. And then pivoting the death
metal ones we've been you know, I've not fucking managed to catch one yet
through to fucking train strikes and all sorts of stuff, but Bloody Plantation come
here semi regularly. I've seen two more before. I missed fucking a Feather
and Bone that night because of again transport bullshit. But stuff like that band
who I am fairly sure have not come over here yet, even though I
had a ticket to see them once and it got canceled. Fucking always the
story. Piss Grave a band like UK tour, piss Grave, count me
the fucking John Waters with you. Yeah, piss Graves seemed very hard to
actually kind of get out to do anything like they're tour they do at the
moment is the first thing and then in a while and traveling international doesn't see
to something that they do very much. But pis Grave Tour would be lovely.
They're Canadian as well, But I loves of Catia list That's another one
I'm curious about the opposite. I guess like if you are an American listener
or you know, maybe just perhaps elsewhere, what like UK bands I guess
that have broken through maybe haven't made it as your neck of the woods would
be like really down to see. But yeah, for me, it's major
a couple of the underground death not ones like pis Grave, and then a
lot of the kind of trad heavy metal ones like your Summer Lands and so
on, and Ben Wilmot asks it would never happen because of health and safety.
But what bands can you think of that you'd enjoy watching entirely in pitch
black darkness, no lights whatsoever? Minus ten points if anyone suggests the darkness.
This is a bizarre idea, isn't it, Because even like you know,
there's I really enjoy watching bands who have sort of minimal light shows.
I guess you know often you know black metal bands by candlelight or whatever.
But we're talking you can't see the fucking person in front of you. So
what would what would work? I mean, I I guess a Chelsea Wolf
shown that sort of saying would be very like kind of like spooky sounding like
or just like entirely in the most I mean, I don't think there's any
and I'd want to see in a situation where it's complete darkness, but something
you know, etherial and spooky would probably be the right choice. Yeah,
because I'd be listening to like a fair bit of Woven Hand lately and that
kind of sprung to mind as well as like, yeah, I don't think
i'd want anything like loud and heavy, because it'd be a bit imagine,
you know, dragged into some out or Sun like I mean Sun would be
drone, will almost be like a century deprivation sort of tax. That would
work. But in terms of like a conventional heavy band, right, like,
you don't want to see a fucking hardcore band or a metal band playing
where you can't fucking see because it's a bit you know, it's like it's
you don't want to move basically, Yeah, it's like you know you I
think at that point you'd stop enjoying it and start panicking about where the fuck
you were and you know it isn't going to bash into you at any moment,
and et cetera. So I did. I went down saying with you
with that kind of something that sort of can hang in the air that isn't
like overwhelming, like you know, something that's kind of folky like that would
be I guess if it again, I don't think I pick anything, but
if I had to do something like you know, gun to my head,
you have to go watch a band in complete darkness I do that. I
mean I did go for the cacophony route. I thought Swans. If you're
there and you don't know what's coming next, you don't know how long any
song's gonna last. You can't see the people next to you, that would
be pretty cool. Or you know that Pig Destroyers show at Damnation last year,
you can't absolutely terrifying Roger Water's Dark Side of the Moon in Pitch Black
being read Tom or maybe just to do less than Jake. If I was
going to pick a heavy band, my brain went sort of like death Doom.
Like again, I've seen like spectral Voice playing in like very low light,
and it wouldn't be too far. I guess down the same kind of
route to do that to. You know, darkness like Evoken would maybe work,
Ruins of Beaver as stuff like that, but nothing like Fast that would
be a bit too kind of disorientating. As said, there were some other
questions that are probably pit back in next week, so check in once again
Patreon supporters this week. This weekend, we are going to sit down to
record what was announced last week, which is this year's twenty twenty three is
Halloween album Roulette in place of an album club pack this particular month, because
hey, it's got more albums in it, You're getting more bang for your
buck. This time. It's going to be myself, Elliott and Mark are
going to be sitting down. We have now you know, shared with each
other our album picks, and we've been having some fucking stupid conversations just off
the back of you know what was what were selected. So God knows what
the story is going to be on the podcast. Some I guess, you
know, some some really good. But also I think this particular episode,
all we see be quite suited for some some daftness and uh, we've gone
there in a couple of places. I suppose I'm genuinely quite good. I'm
going to miss this one. But I'm also like my contributions to the Duffers
would have made it would have been too much like the power of like shar
stupidity in this in this episode if I'd been there, like too much to
handle, I mean, Paring, you are a right that this does lend
itself to sort of mischief and funniness. But I have a feeling you'd have
picked your choices if it was Saint Patrick's Day Album Club roulette anyway, to
be honest, So I mean, to me, it's just who's going to
have their TikTok moment. I mean, place your bets. Now, that's
a great question. I mean, I really hope it's one of your ones
along the same it was more dispose and second place, I would go for
the less good one of my two would be very very endearing. Indeed,
So you can find out all that we're talking about this coming weekend that's over
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well, so thank you very much. Now it is time to close us
off on this type of last with the release round up. I know there
were a few people who said they were sort of missing it last week because
our review show was like slightly delayed in terms of when it had to go
out. So we have got a handful of releases from you know, last
week the twentieth that were not included in our review show, and then we've
got all of this week as well, So in that order, let's jump
back to last week and I guess the fact that you know it was a
big review show, we didn't have time to talk about the new Within Temptation
album Bleed Out. That is, we also have time to talk about the
Merca album Spine. I listened to that last night. We were talking I
guess about the single and how it's sort of almost like a kind of weirdly
dream like. It's a return to metal after the Folk one, but it's
kind of a weirdly dreamy, not so fiery sort of version of it.
That seemed to be the vibe for a lot of the album. It's quite
short as well, so interesting stuff going on there if you are someone who
absolutely could not be you know, signed up for this year slam dunk fast
enough. Then Boys Like Girls released their first album, and I believe a
fair while it's called Sunday at Foxwood Sam. Any any offering on a new
Boys Like Girls album? Are you are you going to it out? It
was a jump scare seeing it was out, especially the past tense one.
Yeah, Like I no, genuine I didn't realize that new ad man.
I was like, oh, that's just why, And then you know they're
back at Simlunk, So I guess I guess boys like Girls are back for
good. They are, and we also have in more kind of pop punk
realms. That's I guess. Slightly newer than that is Knuckle Puck Kanukla pook
As. I can always never not read them losing what we love the name
of the album, Max Cavalierra was back. He's always a dependable guy,
isn't he? His go ahead and Die project. We reviewed the first album
it was just like full on fucking crazy, crusty, nasty extreme metal.
Basically. They've come out with a second record. It's called Unhealthy Mechanisms.
If you liked the first one, I'm sure you would like the second one.
Kirith Ungal, let's go for some epic heavy metal here, some epic
heavy metal greats. They've released their record called Dark Parade and this band again
if you are into you again, if you were also pining for some of
those bands I mentioned to Tour the UK who have broken through in recent years.
Kira fun Goal are one of the absolute legendsory and they did recently announced
that twenty twenty four that is going to be their final year as a band.
They're going to do in their last shows. That's a band I really
fucking hope come over to the UK and play a show so I can see
them before they go. But this, I guess is going to end up
probably end up being their their swan song album, and I think it's very
very good. I maybe even like it more than the actual comeback album they
did, So if you want to hear some of that, you can go
and listen to that. Slightly newer in that regard, there was a band
called Savage who released ab called Glory Riders. There's a song on this called
thirty and Dirty or something along those lines, and I was like, well,
at least you're going for women in your own age. You know,
pop punk bands take notes clowns. Not very gooda for a band clowns,
but they seem quite okay. This is an Australian hardcore band. They've released
record Endless. If you're a bit of an emo and maybe you want something
that's a little bit more legitimate than boys like Girls or whatever as a band
all one word a week but still in bed and all lower case obviously chaos,
take the Wheel and I Am a Passenger. There was an album last
week some fucking stinky death metal. This is a kind of it. It's
like a sort of technical slam like it's really really intricate, but also really
really like a bandward after Birth. They record were called in but not of
Okay, Martha, that's Martha, I suppose further in Evil. That's a
kind of like epic black metal, d beat sort of crossover that sounded fairly
decent. And we also had a split last week from the band's Worm and
Dream Unending, who we spoke about maybe about a year ago. That's a
Derek from Two Molds kind of more I really like that. Yeah, it's
kind of the more Proggy Pink Floyd esque, perhaps not Roger Waters esk,
you know, sort of death being project. They really a split together called
star Path. If particularly if you like the Dream Unending record from last year,
you should go and absolutely check out the split release as well. And
that brings us to this week's releases. You may notice nothing from this week
was included in our reviews episode lastly. That's because we had enough on our
plate already. Anything here that we do cover it will be in our upcoming
I guess, you know, November episodes. You can I'm sure you can
imagine there will be a few kicking us off there. We have the return
of the Gasla Anthem history books. This is it's the first album to get
hurt, isn't it like that was the one that Yeah, nearly nearly ten
years since their last album, so a big story they have. They comeback
after nearly a decade of the Gasla Anthem. I'm sure there's a lot of
opinions on that album floating around there. This time Come Tomorrow also like I
like it a lot, but yeah, oh, there you go spoilers.
We also have Taking Back Sunday Back with one five to two. I believe
that me and Mark spoke about a single from this and we were a bit
confused by what was going on, So I guess I'll have to ask him
what he makes of the record. Overall elsewhere, Wargasm have got their album
called Venom. I've lost track of wit is this they like dates? This
is their actual debut album. Yeah, it was like they had like mixtapes
or whatever they were called EPs and all that shit. This is in terms
of albums, their debut. Yeah, but I guess we are at least
partially obliged to check out the album and see, you know, what's what's
going on with it, what the what the deal is? And we also
have poppy with her album Zig. I've kind of lost track at this point
of I guess how many poppy albums there. There's been a bunch of EPs
again and yeah, and which ones have been sort of like more rock on
metal adjacent than others. But I have enjoyed bits of poppy material over the
years, so you know, hopefully something here. Speaking of losing track for
a band I used to for my sins quite enjoying their first few records,
I have completely lost track of how many albums in this moment are on.
But god Mode is out, some of it is a little bit more.
I think In the Wheel has a lot of you folks out there. Year
of the Knife, their album No Love Losses, is of course a very
sort of momentous record for them at the moment. We spoke about that recently.
Very you know it's going to be fucking good. I can guarantee you
that Year of the Knife, you know, at one of the most absolutely
vicious, slamming hardcore bands around at the moment. But yeah, definitely go
and give that one to listen and if that hasn't you know, quenched your
If you were a double bill of like violent heavy music, this is it.
We've also got end with the Sin of Human Frailty, which is that
guy from Counterparts when he's not crying and is instead shouting and having a meltdown
on Twitter, yeah, being fucking angry that and seemed to be really popular,
so good for them, And this was a sort of last minute edition.
But this is something that's coming out on Church Road, and I think
if you're into your kind of like, uh, you can all you know
Church Road and what preceded it that kind of style of like you know,
venomous but intricate sort of hardcore and stuff. There's a band called Ryle who
released now called Pessimist Jumping over to you, just like kind of really bubbily
fun pop rock punk stuff. There's a band called No Bro with a record
called Set Your Pussy Free. I saw that band supporting Pup. Yeah,
really fun, they were really likable. I'm gonna have to check this out
and see if it's worth kind of dilating on any further. And then as
we move over into extreme stuff, we've got the return of Autopsy just after
a year. Celebrate fiends everywhere. Their record ashes, Organs, blood and
crypts. Just fucking They've already got torn ces, hackles and graves, haven't
they. They're just absolute, exhaustingly everything shopping list, isn't it like a
shopping list? They're doll in the house up for Halloween. Band I really
recommend a band called Wayfarer with their record American Gothic for your you know,
kind of Americana expansive black metal. Another band I'm a really big fan of
the recommend is the Slovakian band Malacarpatan with their record Vertumna Caesar. A band
I don't think weve spoken about on the podcast before, but they make kind
of really bizarre Slovakian folk horror inflected first wave black metal, like if you
want your kind of venom and merciful fate inflected with like spooky tales and flutes
and all sorts of shit. They rip, and I'm excited to check out
their new record. Elsewhere we got some death metal end Seeker and Global Worming
that was not a typo in this is The record is called Global Worming.
Fucking doccan have got a record out where it's come from. I didn't know
Docan were back. Heaven comes down, new doccan great. And as we
move for the last couple into sort you know of epic doom territories, we've
got Sorcerer, you know, the Reaper. That band played Bloodstock a couple
of years ago. They were pretty decent, and then more of a kind
of you know, a low fi kind of sort of band camp version of
that. But you know again, epic doom and epic heavy metal is kind
of all the rage at the moment in circles. It's a back called legendary
with time immortal wept. So go and forth, you know, go forth
and feast and all of that. Thank you very much for listening. We
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