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We are between review shows at the moment, so I'm feeling kind of nice
and chilled out about that. I'm Parenthish samd Iggnon and Elliott Paisley are here
with me. What's that? Yeah? All good? Broke my mosh retirement
this week, like that thing but after that question, yes it did.
It happened at scow and my back was hating me for the next two days.
Like um, but yeah, Like the last time I moshed was to
scowl at Outbreakfest, so fitting for them at their London headline show to to
get that chain game fire going too that. Elliott, you're good, Yeah,
fine, I mean sure, it's all about Slater. It would just
come off three hours of chatting about two Evil Dead films, which is as
long as those films are. So if you haven't seen them, don't bother.
We'll give you the rundown, give you all you need to know.
Yeah, Scowl. That was that was great. We'll say it was an
issue most to be at the Dome. It got moved to the downstairs Bossom
in the smaller part of that venue. I don't know if the fact that
New Crossing was built up that night with another similarly buzzy hardcore show didn't help,
but possibly over something what that room normally actually is from where it'd moved
packed out Shooting Daggers opened, cool, kind of feminist queer hardcore punk,
very young but really infectious energy. Enjoyed them a lot, pest control,
who are you know? UK crossover fresh They're getting quite turning up on all
sorts of bills. We saw them a worm Rock a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, I really enjoyed them. I thought they were really good, fun
Exodus T shirts and metallic, like just deck's head to toe in as much
flash much as possible, one of the guitars wearing sunglasses like they're they're clearly
living there kind of eighties flash fantasies. But I found them really good fun
and got a really good reaction, like definitely one that doing some pretty cool
stuff within the UK and really good thing Scowl. Though I don't know if
you've seen like my timeline, the sort of the TENM discord has kind of
been buzzing with people actually kind of clocking on this week that Scowl are really
fucking good like they've been. They were fantastic in London, played for half
an hour. It reminded me of when gouge Away were first at Breaking and
they would just come in play a half hour set and just absolutely decimate whatever
room they were in the entire room, just go absolutely mental for it.
Scow have that kind of thing going on for them at the moment, where
like they just came on basically the entirety of the last and most of the
album and a Ramon's cover of a cover like Ore, they covered the Ramones
cover of a song, the Ramones cover do You Want to Dance Like,
which is just really fun kind of thing. So like just packed in half
an hour of just pure like rabid hardcore punk. Fury Cat their vocalist,
she's such a like great kind of figurehead for this band, where she is
so unlike your typical hardcore vocalist in just her mannerisms, but also when she
is like like healed Boots too, stepping around the stage and stomping about like
she just looks fucking cool, and then like I was, like I was
right on the front. I was too stepping in moshing and just going hard
for it. Psychic dance routine is kind of like the kind of slow down
and can get everyone bouncing along and having fun with it. Was awesome that
those songs off that EP are the standouts in the set now, Like yeah,
because I watched the footage of Scout playing Coachella and obviously there's loads of
energy and they're fucking like a great fun and everything. I do think vocally
she seems quite unpolished, and I mean I'm saying that like more even than
in the screams than the clean vocal parts, like whether something will get a
bit more control over whatever. But it feels very kind of like that's kind
of how our screams are on the album as well. Actually is that very
just like a bit a bit ragged even, Yeah, which again I kind
of really dig about them because it just adds to this kind of like it
feels like she could just go for your juggling at any moment. But but
that that is, you know, they're a young band, They've got like
thirty odd minutes of music out there across two EPs in an album, so
there's definitely like as they can go, but instead of just the energy of
the live performance my time and I had just been buzzing where people kind of
going like, oh that was that was crazy and that's what I got from
this. And I'm really like, I'm I've been all in on scal for
like the last year and a bit, and I think they are. They're
showing they're getting the songs they're going with like Opening Night and shot Down as
like into the more hard stuff that actual big sing along was going alongside them
washing so they can continue down that route where they've they've opened that door in
the new EP. I do think they're going to be a really just exciting
prospect in hardcore. Yeah. I had a nice little treat last week of
going to see Wayfarer and Woade together, two of these shining lights of upcoming
black metal, both beginning with the letter w one of my favorite venues in
the country, the Star and Garter. Always excited for a show when it's
happened in there would a possibly the best black metal band in the country at
the moment, Like the last record is still fantastic. They've got this like
knuckle duster black and heavy metal energy in there that comes from their being in
like ten other heavy metal bands, but they kind of shine most live now
when they're doing that stuff as opposed to the like more lengthy blasting material and
energy can kind of sag a little bit. But they played a new song
and it's kind of really driving Wayfarer more of a unique draw coming over from
the US fresh off of playing at Roadburn, where they did like some insane,
like long fucking set that they did there. I hadn't seen them for
but the reports from Roburn were really good, and I can confirm that they
are a seriously good live band. If you're into your black metal, they're
kind of like, if you don't know them, it's sort of Western frontier
kind of black metal, where it's like really fierce playing, but that has
this big sound that's you know, big multi part songs about you know,
cowboys and iron horses, like you know, real Sergio Leone shit, and
it's brilliant. It's just really raging kind of turmoil going on in this huge
sonic space that cuts off the last two albums are amazing the only black metal
band I've seen with a clap along part because they've put this like slide guitar
entering the saloon really cool. They've normally got blood incantations drummer he wasn't with
them, but they had the guy from Krallis filling in and he's like really
fucking hard hitting, like intense. They also did a new song and that
sounded amazing. I bought a bunch of records at the merch Desk, so
I'm looking forward to their new one whenever that comes, and very much worth
seeing live news. The first little bit of celebration, the Enthrakari got their
first ever UK number one with a Kiss for the Whole World, which I
think it's been amazing considering you know, there's seven albums in. This isn't
particularly again dramatic narrative record for them or anything. That's just the new Shikari
record, but good for them finally getting that thing in. They've also announced
a massive UK arena tour for next year that has Fever three three three with
them, as well as a No Offense happening in early February, so that's
good. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced raised against the Machine
are going in. Iron Maiden and Sound Garden are not, despite the fact
that both of those placed in the top five of the fan vote. So
I don't know what the fucking point of the fan vote is, just a
completely arbitrary, nonsense thing to just make it even more clear that they're not
going to take what anyone actually wants them to do. But I feel nothing
about this. It's the same story as ever. You could have told me
Redicut between we're already in before this, and I would have believed you doesn't
matter just before we were recording. We can actually have a conversation about the
fact that Bring Me the Horizon have released a new single. It's called lost
with a T at the end of it, because watter Bring the Horizon song
without completely arbitrary font choices and spelling. Um. I've been feeling kind of
positive aout Bringing the Horizon in the sense that just like, I'm happy they're
getting their download shot right like that, that that post being shared around is
necrologos and I'm like, yeah, awesome, good for them getting their shot.
And sem Paternal turned ten about a month ago, so I was reminiscing
with that and stuff and then putting this on. I'm not going to get
angry about it because I know what they are now, but it was just
like a sharp reminder of what they actually sound like. Now. Yeah,
I know this is obviously this whatever the next project they're doing. You know,
they're doing these more kind of like concise jobs things. This is their
pop when they're doing that they've been building to since Die for You, which
is that like song feels like it's like two years old at this point.
They released a single a year like, and I'm just like, all right,
come and go with it. But this is like, this is the
hundred gets version of Bringing with the Hori, isn't it. This is a
full on just like manic hyperpop, TikTok algorithm kind of pleasing, just a
sort of different sounds, and it's just I found it a little bit unpleasant.
Will you say a hundred gigs? To me? It sounded more like
the Bunny the Bear. This is terrible, Like it's like nancatcre just a
trolley dash of like emo cliches. And I remember when they announced that they
were doing the CP and it wasn't even a pot. I don't know if
they've changed, it wasn't gonna be a pop one. Then they were like
I was thinking of sort of a glass Shaw kind of feeling, oh that
this is gonna be the emo one, wasn't it? Sorry? Like yeah,
and you just you listen to it and go, have you heard glass
Saw? Like just painful. Yeah. I haven't liked any bringing me the
material, bring the rising material since the one baby Metal song on Post Human,
and I haven't really liked a project since Ammo. And I had to
remind myself of what they've released beforehand, because like the Differ obviously a war
crime, but after there was Strangers, which was I think a better song.
But I just can't remember how they Yeah, it's whatever. I just
can't deal with how they put together now. And I think that's just unfortunately
the truth of them that here where that the trend at the moment of you
know, the TikTok ification of the sort of so called classic emo sound,
where again one hundred gecks getting karrang and stuff like that. And this isn't
me tarring them. I know they are one of the more sort of pioneering,
creative kind of bands in that sort of scene, and they're sort of
dabbling a little bit over here, I guess, but um, you know,
like I don't like it when the exerts have started doing it, so
I'm not going to bring me a pass either. Like people taking that two
thousands emo sound and kind of updating it that to my old man ears sounds
like feeding it through seven circles of hell. Like. Also, the riff
in this was shockingly upbeat, where it's like crazy colorful sense, like bringing
those out of the fucking two thousands and you can fly if you like.
But I appreciate that it's like a it's a fun, up tempo song as
opposed to the dour stuff they like when they try to do that sound with
something like die for You just terrible. But I didn't like three oh three
back then, and I didn't like Machine Gun Kelly three years ago, which
is what this really sounds like. Like Emo girl and you know, the
one with housey on it and all that kind of stuff. It's just so
facing artificial sounding, like the chorus ain't bad. It's again it's like one
of the better m g K hits where the melody might be okay, but
the delivery mechanism just makes you want to have a wash. The breakdown part
made me laugh as well, silly like robot girl voices and all that stuff.
So right, the main thing that stuck me is that he's to the
open land is he's watching Evangelian and I'm just like, oh, we're going
to talk about that again. What is it with mediocre music and Evangelian?
Literally, yeah, it's just it's not lately. One of them was,
you know, from two thousand and six, like I mean, on this
on this podcast, but yeah, it's it's it's not cool at all,
but it's still best of the three songs they praised. So yeah, it's
a weird thing because like big, you know, the big British rock and
metal band of the last fifteen years or so, like the success story.
Sometimes when bands get that big, you kind of feel like you kind of
root for them just because but for whatever reason, we'd bring me the horizon.
I don't feel like I've connect with them at all in half a decade,
and with stuff like this you just got, I don't even know what
I'm supposed to root for. Is this even a band now? I honestly
don't know. Yeah, I think for me, they're at the point where
I'm like, just sail off into the sunset doing your thing, and I
won't be coming with you, because it's just it sounds like shit. The
Gaslight Anthem was going to be the big, you know, single release.
I suppose it still is for some people out there. That way we're gonna
have in this particular news episode, they've released their first new song in almost
a decade. We did Get Hurt as an album club a little while maybe
last year, and again I'm not a fan. I don't know if they
really in particular singers or anything after that, but certainly it's like the first
major material in Bloody Ages. We got the announcement of the reunion last year,
which people were very excited about, so obviously the first new track going
to be getting people very very pumped. Sam the first new gas like Anthem
song in nearly a decade. What do you think I mean? Is it
going to come as a huge shock if I say I love this, Like
I can't not pretend to be completely biased and just love whatever this band Brian
Fallon does. I think it's I just really like the sound of what they
do. This kind of picks up some of what Get Hurt does in the
like music. It's a bit brighter and upbeat again. You know, he's
kind of like seeing how he wants to sort of feel alive. He's like
recharged after the sort of the down years of world. That is amazing because
one of my only notes of this, which again I thought would just lead
to you, but I thought this was amazingly low key in a way that
sounds wearied. Definitely, I see that sounds like the middle aged souls that
they were in the fifty nine sound of actually become middle aged. Yeah,
I get that. I think lyrically, it's more, you know, back
to finding happiness, attention to that. Of course you weren't like, but
I do agree this is a wearious anything. It's going like picking up on
some of what he did on the solo records as well. Um, but
like Gaslight Anthem just doing what they are at their a's, they're at sounding
a bit weary of I can't kind of find any kind of critical and as
the other then I love the Gaslight Anthem. I love the first Gaslight Anthem
song in nearly a decade. Yeah, Elly, Elliott, you probably like
Bruce Springsteen and stuff like that more than I do. Are you a Gaslight
Anthem aficianado? Oh, I don't know. I like, I like a
sort of collection of songs, not any particular album, but they've got enough
songs where I would say they're a good band. I don't nearly have the
fanaticism that you know inspires other people. As for this, like, I
think instrumentally it sounds pretty lifeless and it sounds really quiet. Then it's like
it's amazingly no explosion on it at all. And the real crime from the
Gaslight Anthem is when they sound soulless, which is like for this sort of
music, it's kind of embarrassing. Well, I didn't think, well,
I did think that. I think Brian Fallon does help because he is he
is a great vocalist, to the point where i've heard some of the stuff
of his solo career. I'm surprised that kind of was a bit of a
damp squib with fans, and you know, I thought that's the sort of
thing that could have gone big in America on his own, But for me,
he saves this. So I don't think it's great. I think it's
fine, but I think with a lesser vocalist it really would be pretty insipid.
Yeah, I would. I would never accuse the gas Anthem of being
soul us, even though I don't like them, and I think this is
a again, a sort needling trap. I would accuse him of being lifeless
and this again sounds but you know, I'm not a gasl Anthem fan anyway,
and people just really love hearing this man sing is boring little songs.
The thing is is it has mostly gone over really well with fans. I
don't think give then we are just you know, Brian Fallons singing about stuff
is just enough to like that man's voice, just whatever he's singing about,
you know, getting a positive charge feeling into his veins, and you know
like he sounds like he needs like a cartoon oil can to be dripped on
him to stop him fucking creaking. I listened to this right after the seven
inch we're about to talk about, and I was like, I can't be
fat with something this sort of flimsy like. But you know, sleepyheads everywhere
rejoice the Gaslight Anthem are back. Maybe you'll get an album later in the
year. What I'm referring to is two hundred Stab Wounds released a new seven
inch called Masters of Morbidity, which is brilliant because it sounds like an autopsy
title. The cover art is sick as well, autopsy worthy. Two are
just stab Wounds are a definitely a band that we've not really spoken about too
heavily on the podcast just yet. They released a debut I'm a couple years
ago. I thought it was decent. The main attraction on it was a
song called skin Milk, which is just one of the most memorably renders titles
to come out of death metal in a long time. But they're majorly one
of those bands we've got major buzz coming out of death metal moment, along
with Year, Frozen, Souls and so on. They're on the Decimel tour
that's coming up, along with Black Braid, who have just announced a new
album as well. But this seven inch at least some of that's been released
before, maybe one single like last year, but two songs together. I
think this is very good, Like um production is amazingly crisp on it.
It sounds like a step up to me. Yeah, massively for me too.
I liked that last record they released. I thought it was good.
I didn't really go back to it all that much though. This, particularly
the sort of the lead song off it massive improvement. Like when they signed
some metal Blade, I did find that slightly beguiling. Maybe not because they're
bad. I thought, of all the band's metal Blade to pick up on
really two hundred stab wounds, they kind of seemed like one of the less
remarkable ones on their roster at the moment. To be honest, well that's
it. But I think I mean, whether that was the last down or
this. For me, these two songs, particularly the first one, the
one that was sort of released earlier, it is the thing that's really got
me on board. Like listening to this, I was like, oh fucking
no, I don't know if I've probably go back to the last record to
see if it's I think that the last record had a bit more slam on
it, and this feels more kind of no nonsense groovy death metal with a
mixture of your Cannibal corpse stumps and Slayer disharmonies and stuff like that. And
the moment where they synchronize a bell toll and a diathomb as the riff changes
towards the end, like good shit. I was kind to with you as
I thought too what I've heard challenges that two hundred stab wounds was too many
stab wounds. Ye know, I thought they were they were decent. But
this is the most I've really just enjoyed. Just this like two song blast
of like like big, healthy sort of death metal grooves. There's one almost
was like they're like they keep also that they're about to go into the raining
blood with if they keep of like having to fight themselves back from doing it.
And but it's kind of just like really fun, fast paced, exciting
death metal and the DIA bombs all that I was just like, yeah,
cool, give me more of this just blasts into me right now. Yeah.
And then the second track is you know, thrash. It's a it's
a toe tapper. But then it has this really stupid sludge mortician breakdown in
the bridge that's so fucking dunderheaded good bit of songwriting craft than this. It
reminds me of Undeath in the way it's just like you know, groovy death
metal, catchy, put something good together, have a good time, good
seven inch. You know, if I was at a show, I would
probably buy this little seven inch, so, you know, good stuff from
them. Hope we get more improvement to come from them. From a news
I guess for a lot of people is tech Fest have announced that this year,
which is going to be their tenth particular addition, after which they're going
to go on hiatus. And I guess this continues on from our last couple
of HiPE of last episodes, whether we're talking about, you know, festival
climate in the UK and how many festivals have them and to dip and so
on, this feels a little bit more like a kind of graceful exit than
you know, a kind of humiliating failure, which is I think is very
very good for tech Fest and the little community it's built. It is.
You know, I mean I've I've never been to tech Fest because it's it's
tech Fest, you know, Like I don't really like that kind of music
very much, but I do look at it and I go like, you
know, that's that's really carved out a niche for itself, where like,
you know, we will even refer to bands as being oh yeah, kind
of your tech Fest type bands and someone it's one of those kind of institutions
in the way and because of that, it dealed, you know, it
did build up a community, um and so while I am again I'm glad
to see it sort of bowing out on its terms at least rather than completely
collapsing and having a really poor year or whatever. Certainly this will be something
that will be mourned in the UK metal scene. Yeah, I think,
you know, like I say, tech Fest carved out its knee. It
was never you know, the big thing. I mean, it was literally
just like held in like a shed, basically a big like hangars like it
was quite like, but people who I know who went to it always had
really just like it felt like everyone knew everyone at tech Fest when the vibes
I got from the make who've been to it before. So I wouldn't be
shocked if it comes back as like a day fest thing. I think there's
you know, yeah, they have said that the brand of tech Fest is
not dead and that it's it's gonna hiatus. I agree with you. I
wouldn't be surprised to see it come back as a one day event rather than
having to fill and pay for a whole camping weekend deal. I think it
almost just doesn't help that, you know, the whole tech mel thing is
just kind of like it isn't the scene. It once was when tech Firs,
when tech Fest kind of first version they had, you know, it
was one of the exciting things going on in metal. So I guess they
kind of can normously that like just that their time has come to just wind
it down. Yeah, it feels a bit like the sort of tech metal
thing, like the big bands, you know, your peripheries, Polifias,
so on and so forth. You'll find them on you know, broader festivals,
the fest of the same. Yeah exactly was you look at this and
it's like headlined by Born of Osirius. I mean, where else is that
going to happen? So for this niche it served them brilliantly. Again,
I've never been. It's not really my sort of thing, but the people
I know who went would only add super positive things to say about the people
who ran it and the festival itself. So yeah, if it does go
down to a one day thing, I think that's probably better suited to the
festival climate in twenty twenty, twenty twenty four, I suspect in the years
going forward. So um, yeah, I want Todd. It's a shame
book, Like there's no kind of no element of embarrassment with this one at
all. Really. Yeah, So, you know, hats off to a
tech fest and the organizers for making a decade worth of a great events people
enjoyed going to. Something that we have been waiting for a long time is
Judas Priest have finally announced a UK headline tour. People have wanted that for
fucking ages. I didn't even realize that I saw Juda's Priest on tour in
twenty fifteen, and I did not even realize that was the last time they
did a proper UK tour because since then it's been like, I guess,
two Bloodstock dates that I was at both times, so I never felt like
I missed them really, but no tours around then. They were locked into
the Ossley thing for ages. We were hoping they would do something like this,
and they are beginning and next year going to Arenas actually, which they
when I saw them on that twenty fifteen toy they were doing you know,
sort of apollo venues and stuff like that. They are bringing out Saxon with
them and Uriah Heap, which is a bill that somehow seems to get more
old man the closer to the opener you get. I mean that I don't
even really go for Uriah Heap. I can tell you from Bloodstock last year
or the year before. Even Saxon into Juda's Priest is one of the most
just like plow yourself with beers and sing along, fucking like several hours of
music. You know, Wimpson Posers leaves the hall with everybody. It's a
it's a fucking sensational package. It's a sensational double bill. And he might
not go see Saction on their own UK headline tour, but go and see
him fucking supporting us the Priest and they're pumping out Denim Leaver and all that
shit. It fucking rules. Um, Judas Priest doing the arena tour the
main draw here, Um fucking good. We wanted to. Yeah, really
happy to see them on the tour. I'm debating getting tickets. This is
a lot going on at the moment, but you know, yeah, good
times. It's funny to me that when Rob Halford has asked what metal bands
he likes, he always has cool answers, always like Electric Wizard, Power
Trips, e Lanada. Yeah, it's time to pick support bands like this
time it's Saxon and Jiah Heap. I was like, I didn't go to
the I didn't go to the last UK tour. I was like, who
was it last time? Michael? To be fair, too fantastic. I
wouldn't have seen Michael Schenker playing fucking scorpion songs or whatever probably outside of going
to that to us the Priest tour. So it's what the fans want to
see, you have a good time. Why not? Now this is in
truly we don't normally talk I guess about setlists and whatnot in news, and
I guess because there's the idea that it could be spoiled and whatnot. We
don't want to do that. But Metallica have opened up there no repeats world
tour. They did two nights in Amsterdam where they've done two setlists. I
thought, you know, we were talking about Metallica dream setlists and stuff a
couple of weeks ago when we did the seventy two seasons episodes. So and
because they are changing this every single night, there's not really much risk of
you know, spoiling if you are going to a date fucking months down the
line from what they do here. But I thought it was interesting to look
at what stuff they chose to do for the opening nights of this and I
guess a reflection of how there's sort of no repeat thing for them works looking
at these two distinct dates that they did in Amsterdam. The power move not
only of opening with a Ryan for the very first one, which it says
here on set the stem first time it's opener since December the tenth of twenty
eleven, which if you're there and that happens, that's fucking awesome, but
the power move of them being one of the only bands in existence who could
then do the equivalent thing the following night by opening with the cooler Catulu,
Like, what an amazing thing you able to go, Oh yeah, we'll
open with the other eight, Like if they were doing three nights, they
could do to Live to Die? Fuck it not suicondemption, what do you
I mean? Obviously both nights you're watching Metallica, there's a bunch of brilliant
songs and there you'd have a great time, but some cool choices. I
think overall, I'd say that the first night is probably the winner for me.
Again, both nights really good. The like closing run on the first
night is just stupid. The night where they don't even play into sand Man
exactly is fucking bananas, isn't it, But they don't fucking struggle. Yeah,
but like King, nothing's in there like um, I did like good
choices off the new album, like for the most part, you know,
Night Too being the only slight like misfire there. Yeah, I don't know
why You Must Burn is one of the ones given the very early deep Yeah,
I mean for me, like it's basically I mean I will be at
download this year, so I don't know if this whole similar these will be
to the list, But I mean I'm happy to look at them now because
I'll forget by then. But yeah, it's basically all the songs you expect,
plus a bunch of songs that don't always get you know, fight Fire
with Fire, Leper, Messiah King, nothing, that sort of thing.
And there are some weird omissions for me, like I would have thought over
thirty two songs, you could have something like genuinely career spanning and only like
one song off load and reload each night. Nothing of Saint Anger, only
one song of hard Wired, like yeah, they do hard Wired on hard
Wired on one night and then the previous night that same slot was given to
a death magetic sun because they do The Day That Never Goes, which is
great. Um, I agree. I think over the course of this whole
tour, like they will do something from Saint Anger, whether it's Frantic or
the title track or Dirty Window or something like that. They've done Saint Anger
songs in recent years, like over the course of you know, the mental
thing of Metallica is they've got what thirty two songs or whatever is over these
two nights, and these are not career spanning enough, but over the course
of the whole thing they will get there. It's just the luck of the
drawer what you'll get on that particular day. I mean saying no, like
only one song off load and reload each night or whatever until it sleeps.
I did not realize it had been two thousand and eight was the last time
they played that song? That's the first that was like the lead single or
like with that record, wasn't it Like it was a huge track and they
just ignored it for fifteen years. So awesome seeing that back in there.
That's a fucking excellent song. No cook and rob Doodles though, so improvement.
Yeah, so again two banger set lists some maybe oh, you know,
you go for a pitch right here or there, but um as a
kind of overview of what kind of vibes you're gonna be getting, but with
very much different choices the whole way. I mean, it could be curious
to see whether they stick with kind of you know, a Ryan slash cool
Gatulla or whatever opening for longer than this. But yeah, it's amazing.
I look at this and I still go anything really goes with the dates after
this, Like you look at this and you don't actually have an impression of
what you could get on any given thing, which I suppose is the excitement
of the whole affair. So wicked there this for our friends across the pond,
I thought was pretty pretty excellent looking. Little bill here of Lamb of
God have announced a big US tour obviously always a good time. But the
support acts they've got not all of the same thing, that'd be fucking ludicrous.
But across various different dates, you can get Lamb of God supported by
the Acasia strain. You can get Lamb of God supported by Ice nine Kills.
You can get Lamb of God supported by Frozen Soul, which that's a
cool thing. To see Suicide Silence, and there's also the Black Dahlia Murder
with After the Burial and Alpha Wolf, which I would like to mix that
up and got what if I had the Black Dahlia Murder, Suicide Silence and
Frozen Soul or you know what if I had Ice nine Kills And then the
Black Dahlia Murder was like, what you are getting a fucking cool thing whatever,
it ends up being so lovely. And then this happened just before we
went to a record these podcasts to night, which made me do like a
oh my god, I didn't see that coming. Damn Nation Festival have announced
a few more bands on their bill. They have added Curacoma, who are
a kind of a UK I think doom Bad. I've never really been huge
on them, but you know, good for the UK doomheads a Damnation who
will always turn up for something like that. They have added Undeath, which
is a very cool addition. I saw them on the UK tour at the
start of this year and they were great. It's nice to see them debut
at a big festival like this at least, you know, at Damnation and
they're playing download as well, but fucking great Judie Christmas is playing at Damnation
Festival doing a career spanning you know, made out of babies, fucking Battle
of Mice, solo stuff whatever. If you have never seen Judie Christmas live,
which I've only seen her with Hoult of Luna, but just her as
a thing, it doesn't matter what she's playing, like, this is fucking
hell. Oh they get to just get Julie Christmas the performer at Damnation investable.
Yeah, I mean I looked at the bill again and I suspected this
was true, and it is. But I've not seen any of the bands
on the Damnation bill before in any capacity ever. Wow, And yeah,
no, I can't remember the last time or maybe since the first festival I
ever went to, Like I can't remember the last time that happened. And
so many bucket list bands on that and one of them is Julie Christmas and
I wasn't expecting us to be on the bill at all, like it wasn't
even on a wish list yet that's it and like pretty high up. And
I just said career spanning setting eything. And I've only heard just the most
like avid praise for her live show, so that's like I mean, if
you're not going already, you should do that. Yeah, And for that,
Boy are releasing what they're calling Crimeal, which I like very much.
But they're releasing their new record containing actual, real Pete Wentz tears. This
is I mean, Sam, I think you quite succinctly summed out where it's
just an excuse for them to charge ninety nine dollars or whatever. It is
very a record, but I mean, I remember when Bohemuth released The Satanist,
they did an addition where the I think it was, no, it
was actually the artwork, wasn't it. It's the the The painting of The
Satanist contains some of Nergal's real blood in there, and I thought that was
cool. So it would be quite you know, hypocritical of me to go
like, oh, silly fall Out Boy with Criinal. I guess there's something
different about real blood and Pete Wentz tears for you know, obsessive fall Out
Boy fans. It's the fall Out Boy fans want in it. So yeah,
I can't knock them too much for it. I mean, if they've
got Pete Wentz tears, I'm thinking after that Chicken performance on Fun and wouldn't
it be easier to get Andy Hurley's that are real in demand? Okay questions
Johnny Bass asks, you can save Brickton Academy, but you have to sacrifice
another big UK venue? Which one? And why? Yeah? Just to
follow up on the Britton Academy story, obviously a lot of people in the
UK gig going you know community, have been fucking outraged at the sort of
prospect of Britaton Academy you've tend to been closed by the London authorities and there
has been like a petition going around that's got like, you know, thousands
of of of signatures. I've probably like several Brixton capacity you know sized numbers,
like several times over. So that's good, you know, I'd love
to see that continuing and hopefully that actually gets you know, taking notice of
but saving Brixton Academy from its potential fate sacrificing another big UK vendue in the
process. Again, this is purely down to I guess your local area and
what venues you go to and stuff. The one that mean potting the head
that I don't like going too is the O two Victoria Warehouse in Manchester,
which is a fucking out of the way. It's in a stupid place.
It's the most annoying venue to get to where when I see bands and outshows,
I go, for fuck's sake, that's going to be an annoying thing
to do. But also it's a kind of weird like cold venue. It
is literally just to be warehouse that doesn't doesn't sound amazing. It's kind of
again, it's out of the way. They fucking layout is bizarre. There's
not it's not very conducive to stuff that looks particularly cool, Like it's not
a big grand theater like Brixton. It's just a sort of but then you
have like it's not you know, punk shows that happen there. It's like
big things. And then you know yet weird instances like you know the bands
doing arena tours, like a Jeer and someone who come through here, but
they can't bring their fucking pyro to the Victoria Warehouse and I forget that it's
an arena tour, like just a it's a silly place. I like when
bands either play the Apollo or play the arena if they're actually big enough,
fuck this stupid Victoria Warehouse norlsense so I would close that place to save the
lovely Brickton Academy, and you Londoners can be very thankful that I've taken a
northern venue to be taken to the sword to save one of your precious little
places. Yeah, I mean for Londoners. I know everyone's going to go
for the same one, and I'm not going to pick that because it is
a ball legg to get to. I'm not gonna lie. Ali Pally is
a pain in the us to get to, like it's in into the station
and also they're having to get up that hill. But what says Annie Paddy
for me is it's got a really nice craft beer bar that is cheaper than
like a ship point at Wembley. Like it is cheap's get a really nice
craft beer. So so are you closing closing Wembley Arena. I'm closing Wembley
Arena. Oh I'm not sure I can back that just from the purely iconic
status I know, but I'm going there recently and the fact that it was
like eight quid for a really crappy side and I'm just like, I can't
do this anymore. On hind side, the other one is is the forum
big enough to close. It's like two thousand capacity, are we can't?
That's big enough to Yeah, that that that that's that's so that I think
that upwards is what we count as big. I'm clearly fond of the Forum
Forum. It is just because the problem is is that main floor big.
It's way too crammed. It always feels like it's over It's the one thing
that always feels like it's over capacit. That's sad, that's true. I
know, I know a lot of people were complaining about the the O two
Academy in Bristol for similar reasons, where it's like just always it feels like
it's fucking not conducive to having lots of people in it. Yeah, it
is that, and that's for that reason I would close the Forum. I
don't really have much of an answer for this because everyone keeps saying I'll terrible
the Bristol O two Academies. But that's where I saw stiff Little Fingers the
other month. Then, yes, a slightly inconvenient design, but I didn't
find it all too bad. So I'm going to cheat and say my local
pub must lose their live music license because they book the worst live music in
the world and it doesn't have to be to save Brixton Academy. I would
do that to save some yogurt from going off. Like then, is there
no venue of like you know, real substance and note in the UK or
purely which I mean you know, I don't mean legendary status. I just
mean you know, sighs again, if you whatever could be in you know,
fucking Nottingham less than whatever the fuck it would be that you go,
Oh, that's a slightly annoying place. No, not really, I don't
know what. There's a couple where I thought, like, you know,
it's a bit out of the way, but like there's no I mean,
like you know, I went to a Resorts World Areada in Birmingham to see
ghost and there's no pubs around it. By one thing, I'd knock it
down. It's fased to save Brixton, Save Brixton, No my old pub.
I have to do it. I might only get this one opportunity.
No more bands there you go, It's okay, the Victoria Warehouse and maybe
Wembley Reader in the formum. I've all been taken to the Sword instead.
James Smurthwaite asks best band with no songs longer than five minutes. This fucking
through me because five minutes is a real cap where it's almost like six minutes
would be like, okay, you know, but most bands, even ones
who specialize in like in out, get something to five every now and then,
Like most bands who have ever been worth a dam have gotten something to
five every now and then, even if it was like uncharacteristic. But I
mean, like, you know, hardcore bands like Black Flag and the Kennedy's
and stuff like fucking have some five minutes songs. And I was looking at
Rancid have like maybe one, Like it's hard work finding someone who has never
got up to five minutes in length. I mean I found that's pretty easy.
Out They're quite a modern band, so I don't if it' shooting,
but it's Turnstyle, okay, yeah, like I don't fetch my arms as
to every question now at this point is if I can't think of anything,
just say Turnstyle. But they don't have a song over five minutes, and
they are like they are just you know, just not perfect wrong, and
they are continue to be amazing. So yeah, see, my first thought
for this was a punk bands the Misfits, but come back on static Age
is like five minutes long. I thought it might be Code Orange, but
Dreams in Inertia is exactly five minutes long. But they've got a few like
they haven't five minutes. Well, I can say, does that count?
It is that over the margin? I don't know. But they've got a
few like four minutes and stuff, but that's the only one they've got to
getting into that range. Um Disphear have like a seven minutes song. I
think like grind bands, right, but like Napalm Death have gone long,
Pick Destroyer have gone really long because adventurous, right. Um. I think
even Nails had like an eight minute song that ended you can do and every
one of us. I think Nasam don't have any fives. They've got a
few threes and that's long for them. Worm Rot have just reached their longest
ever four minute thirty on his So if they if they keep going, they
might get out of this. But they are in there, um might die.
Do they have a song over five? Because I was like Matt Change,
Josh just shy, it's like four minutes fifty six or something like that.
So if they could be then maybe I think it like Municipal Waste because
there's Born to Party, which is like four minutes long, and that's including
the hidden track, like the fact that he would stayed that. I think
any thrash bands like better than Municipal Waste pretty much all have like you know
something, I think they are the best one who have never gone full long.
I think my answer similar to where you said turnstile, and its almost
feel like one who should have one. But I checked and they don't.
You know, I haven't got there yet. Creeper. Yeah, actual projection
is that that's long one three minutes long? Isn't it that I was longer
because I don't have the big crescended at the end. But you're probably right,
Like I mean, it's fucking it's punk, it fucking fire long,
and none of their grander moments have gone long. They just managed to feel
like they pack a lot in. I'm checking right now. Astral Projection is
three minutes fifty seven. So I think Creeper probably would be my favorite band
who never have had a song to date going over five minutes long. I
think the Ramans maybe probably don't either, But you know, I'm not quite
the bigger man well, so I struggled with this too, and I eventually
took to Google, like it's a tough thing to google, so I couldn't
get anywhere. So I went on chat GPT. I said, like best
or something like rock and metal bands that don't have a song over five minutes,
and it thought for a while, and their first suggestion was Iron Maiden.
So every time I died just this out, I trying to miss out
what was that song? The closing track on Radical is five minutes and two
seconds long. Yeah, they're they're in there in that ranted camp of and
you know, fucking it's turnstyle. We're sticking a turnstyle because they're the best
sort of early twenty tens like emo pop. Part like Joyce Man and Title
Fight I think are both pretty good bands are really good at their best.
But um yeah, I think gets a sort of hardcore and punk bands you
have like the Ramones Descendants. I checked Bad Brains, Minor Threat. I
don't think none of them have a song over five minutes, but my Bad
Brains maybe have like one or two. They're in that sort of Black Flag
in Kennedy's camp. Oh no, yeah, I checked black Flag and I
remember I think it's the process of weeding out. It is twenty seven minutes,
so it's not even I'm not surprised that they do because they get weird
like past the you know, yeah, I think I will go for as
my number one, and it's it's not it's a weird one because it didn't
come immediately to mind. But the Minute men like the eighties hardcore down,
which is weird because they have like double albums. But they're like, I
mean, if they're the Minute as long, surely they can't they can't go
rules rules. Yeah, so I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna choose
that because yeah, I had Code Orange down, but and if you want
to include Code Orange kids, they have Bloom, which is I think five
and a half minutes, so they're really not sufficient. So I didn't look
at yea, if not, if I can't have iron made and I'll have
a Minute, then okay, there you go. And Tyler Ballard asks who
is the best live band in twenty twenty three, which is a question I
like to have every few years, like almost like a state of the address.
Who was doing the best stuff right now? And it's hard to make
an assessment right now, I think because it's who's been over here since COVID,
which not everyone actually has yet, because like Code Orange Circle eighteen would
have been one of my answers, but they've not been here since Jamie was
behind the drums, so I can't like really say, and it's it's been
a few years since. We've got a few bands that I would put in
the best live man in the world category, but I haven't have to check
in on it for a few years. I think I will save you saying
it. Sam Turnstyle has got to be up there for like reaction and the
big moments you see. I still haven't personally seen them since pre COVID,
so I can't argue with Taran Style, But I just I can't attest to
it myself right now. I just think, like, again, of the
two times I've seen them, one of them being in the venue I would
knock down is still on the best things of them been too, because they're
that good. Um, if I was going to pure for what I've seen
this year based on like twenty twenty three live shows, it's paramore. Yeah,
there were only a few months into twenty twenty three. Let's go again
assessment of since live music opened up in twenty twenty one, who is the
best live fans you know around? Like Turnstyle is my pick for that because
yeah, I think Paramore. I definitely well up there. Yeah, I
agree. I think Paramour in terms of like just amazing show every time I
think similarly they I would say Creeper are in the conversation. I think Ghost
or is in the conversation for just spectacle. Um, I mean obviously to
some degree, it's still Ramstein, right, Um, It's just it's always
going to be true. Nine Nails are still fucking amazing. But like again,
they're sort of boring answers not upcoming. Um, look into sort of
underground stuff that I'm always excited to see death Heaven or always spectacular live.
I think itslude well the inter rama that they're one of the best in the
world. M I think like a Ranti Pazuzo and stuff like that. Like
again, I haven't even seen them yet, but Imperial Triumphant like they are
all these things like consistent kind of mind blowers and like real bands where it's
the power of musicality and so on. Yeah, I don't really have I
mean, for me, the one that stands out of the sort of current
crop is Ghost because it's going to be Spectacle is part of it, but
it's it's also like it's not just theatrical because it's got, you know,
a big budget. It's like the character of Papa for the settlist they're able
to put together now is insane. Like no, because I saw them sort
of at the end of the prequel cycle and I saw them a few times
they're like Royal Albert Hall supporting Metallica, but the last time I saw them
in an arena on their own, before Imperial came out, there was kind
of like these a bit too much of the sort of comedy sketch thing and
a couple of songs that were maybe I wouldn't say philler, but like it
didn't feel like a packed I couldn't see it headlining download, Whereas after seeing
them in Birmingham last year, he was like, oh, this is like
seeing Iron Made on like the World Slavery Tour or something like that. It's
that level of I say, spectacle pomp power For me, it's like it
feels weird saying like one of the most defining live rock and metal bands of
the last ten years because it's so seventies and eighties. But if I'm taking
someone to go see a band, that's nine times i'd turned out to what
it's going to be. Yeah, I agree. I think it's a very
worthy answer in that sense. I think part of me still thinks Behemoth to
some degree. Like the Bloodstock show last year was insanely brilliant, just you
know, again, spectacle power, the extremity of the music, but played
so fucking huge like they just did like the Polish Grammys and they did like
a set on TV and stuff, and just still seeing that is awesome.
I think wat Ain are still up there in terms of the fucking fierceness of
that show and the immersion into it and everything. I still I haven't seen
them since COVID, but like next whenever they're able to, I'm sure they
haven't lost, you know, a drip of that intensity. I think it's
kind of opened in the air right now for me. Like again, five
years ago, five six years ago, I would have said oath Breaker,
Code Orange, beheemouth Primordial again who I haven't seen in a while, the
only slam dunk everyone will agree on it answer I can think of right now
will be Turnstyle, and again I haven't seen them. I think Creeper and
Ghost is so consistent. They're in there as well, But ask me in
a couple of years when everyone has really got round to coming back over here.
Releases for this the first release week of May Drain Living prof will be
the big one. I think, the new record from one of the kind
of great current hardcore bands that everybody loves. Excited to check that one out.
We will likely talk about it more in depth fairly soon. On Earth
I've got a new one called The Wretched the ruin Us, which is the
only album title I can remember in ages seeing which has a semi colon in
It doesn't seem, you know, conducive to a catchy title at all.
But on Earth, sure it'll be good. Always is. Therapy have released
any record called hard cold Fire. I like Therapy a great, great deal.
They're one of the bands who not only do I like there, you
know obviously trouble Gun one of the fucking best records if you know that whole
period of rock mus but still making good records now. The last one I
really loved was Disquiet, which is like twenty fifteen, but their records are
always good, and I'm sure that there'll be some good stuff in here as
well. Dave Lombardo has released his kind of drum solo record who writes a
Percussion, which normally would not be very exciting at all, But the talk
I've seen around this Dave Lombardo record is that it is shockingly listenable for a
drummer's solo album. Because of Dave Lombardo, I am actually going to check
it out. I'm sure there'll be something of worth to hear, at least
in your metal core zone. There's Currents and the Death We Seek jumping over
here to some kind of UK punkies and their death Goals, and a Garden
of the Dead footing that band Sam Garden of Dead Flowers and the name of
the record no One. I've not actually really come across much. Struck me
something that something could be in the sort of realm that you'd, yeah,
absolutely give it. A guy might like it, but I'm not. I'd
cross pass them. Yeah yeah. A band I like a called Blood Ceremony
The Old Ways Remain. They're one of those sort of like early twenty tens
kind of occult psychedelic doom things. Who are still going fairly strong and making
some some decent stuff. If you like your flutes and your woodwind and you're
spooky, you know, folk stuff going on in a heavy music A couple
of trad metal hits for you. There's Enforcer and Nostalgia, who are a
band who I mean, the album title doesn't do any favors, but I've
kind of I've warmed to Enforcer over the years. They just do some good,
you know, kind of Scandinavian heavy metal. And there's also Haunt and
Golden Arm who are in other sort of rising trad metal type bands, herold
Iconoclass that's more you know, post metal, sludgy heavy stuff going on shit
present. What still gets me? This one you added to the list?
Yeah, Um, DIY punk emo kind of that sort of vibe. They
released a bunch of really cool EPs and singles in sort of the mid twenty
tens and then seemingly broke up and we're kind of done, and then I've
decided to come back and this is actually their first album, despite being like
kicking about for a good while. But if you like your your DIY punk
kind of like emo bands, but of a bit of like a power Pop
touched to it as well. Give this a go. Yeah, And finally,
there's also a EP from the hardcore band Teeth called a Biblical Worship of
Violence that is normally where we end hype blasts. I have realized I've done
this in the wrong order, and I forgot to tell you what's going on
over on Patreon, So we're gonna end doing that for the lovely people who
support us over at Patreon and keep this podcast a float. I know times
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you who still choose to, you know, give us a few quid and
support the show. It does not go amiss. We just did our newest
album club pack, where we spoke about Deaf Leopards, Pyromania, Fight Stars,
Grand Unification, Comeback Kids, Wake the Dead, and Autopsies Mental Funeral.
I have to say the Mental Funeral discussion it's one of my favorite album
clubs we've done in a good while, just because it is such a gross
ikey record to talk about. If you're a fan of like horrendous similes that
create mental images that will never leave your mind, that album club was full
of them. Of us trying to find way to describe what mental Funeral sounds
like. But also even there were different positions as to like level of love
for the record Pyromania too on like a historical level weighing up, you know,
one of those moments where music as a whole kind of changes course forty
years on, you know, fascinating to stop to her ponder. Yeah,
I kind of changed my perspective on Deaf Leopard a little bit. So that's
pretty cool, even if it meant dog piling poor Rick Allen fight staff fans.
I hope you understand you If you like playing Uification, I've got some
amazing albums to recommend to you that you're gonna go crazy for awesome. Sorry,
I'm big a dick. Just this evening, right before we recorded this
podcast, we have just recorded our new st TNM does horror episode on Evil
Dead, the three of us actually Elliot joined us for the first time on
that show. But Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead twenty thirteen bangers, horrible,
slippery, gory bangers. Elliot, you have fun? Oh yeah,
like it, you know, just talking about No one else wants to talk
to me about Evil Dead for three hours, so I will leap at any
opportunity. Yeah, no, it's such a laugh. Like you know again,
of course, were talking about something outside of music, but with the
same level of intensity and analysis and all that. Just yeah, so much
fun and you know, hopefully that comes across to a listener. Yeah,
so more good stuff all in this vein and more coming to patron of com
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in traffic due to the King's coronation when I'm just trying to get to a
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