1 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,559 Hello, everybody, welcome to I am the sleeptoken farter h one moment of 2 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,000 beauty happened at sleep Tooken show. At least this is hyperblasts on. That's 3 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:38,759 the metal where we fire through the week news in rock and Heavy, mattal 4 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:41,119 We are between review shows at the moment, so I'm feeling kind of nice 5 00:00:41,119 --> 00:00:45,359 and chilled out about that. I'm Parenthish samd Iggnon and Elliott Paisley are here 6 00:00:45,359 --> 00:00:50,119 with me. What's that? Yeah? All good? Broke my mosh retirement 7 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,280 this week, like that thing but after that question, yes it did. 8 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,200 It happened at scow and my back was hating me for the next two days. 9 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:00,359 Like um, but yeah, Like the last time I moshed was to 10 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:07,280 scowl at Outbreakfest, so fitting for them at their London headline show to to 11 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,239 get that chain game fire going too that. Elliott, you're good, Yeah, 12 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,400 fine, I mean sure, it's all about Slater. It would just 13 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:19,439 come off three hours of chatting about two Evil Dead films, which is as 14 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,480 long as those films are. So if you haven't seen them, don't bother. 15 00:01:23,519 --> 00:01:25,280 We'll give you the rundown, give you all you need to know. 16 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,640 Yeah, Scowl. That was that was great. We'll say it was an 17 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,560 issue most to be at the Dome. It got moved to the downstairs Bossom 18 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:34,920 in the smaller part of that venue. I don't know if the fact that 19 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,000 New Crossing was built up that night with another similarly buzzy hardcore show didn't help, 20 00:01:40,079 --> 00:01:42,920 but possibly over something what that room normally actually is from where it'd moved 21 00:01:44,239 --> 00:01:49,680 packed out Shooting Daggers opened, cool, kind of feminist queer hardcore punk, 22 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:53,239 very young but really infectious energy. Enjoyed them a lot, pest control, 23 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:59,719 who are you know? UK crossover fresh They're getting quite turning up on all 24 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:00,959 sorts of bills. We saw them a worm Rock a couple weeks ago. 25 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,200 Yeah, I really enjoyed them. I thought they were really good, fun 26 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,120 Exodus T shirts and metallic, like just deck's head to toe in as much 27 00:02:09,159 --> 00:02:14,960 flash much as possible, one of the guitars wearing sunglasses like they're they're clearly 28 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,360 living there kind of eighties flash fantasies. But I found them really good fun 29 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,000 and got a really good reaction, like definitely one that doing some pretty cool 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,520 stuff within the UK and really good thing Scowl. Though I don't know if 31 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,000 you've seen like my timeline, the sort of the TENM discord has kind of 32 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,479 been buzzing with people actually kind of clocking on this week that Scowl are really 33 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:42,400 fucking good like they've been. They were fantastic in London, played for half 34 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,599 an hour. It reminded me of when gouge Away were first at Breaking and 35 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:50,439 they would just come in play a half hour set and just absolutely decimate whatever 36 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,680 room they were in the entire room, just go absolutely mental for it. 37 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:55,520 Scow have that kind of thing going on for them at the moment, where 38 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,479 like they just came on basically the entirety of the last and most of the 39 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:06,159 album and a Ramon's cover of a cover like Ore, they covered the Ramones 40 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,319 cover of a song, the Ramones cover do You Want to Dance Like, 41 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,879 which is just really fun kind of thing. So like just packed in half 42 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:17,759 an hour of just pure like rabid hardcore punk. Fury Cat their vocalist, 43 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,759 she's such a like great kind of figurehead for this band, where she is 44 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:29,039 so unlike your typical hardcore vocalist in just her mannerisms, but also when she 45 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:32,360 is like like healed Boots too, stepping around the stage and stomping about like 46 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,000 she just looks fucking cool, and then like I was, like I was 47 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,960 right on the front. I was too stepping in moshing and just going hard 48 00:03:39,039 --> 00:03:44,599 for it. Psychic dance routine is kind of like the kind of slow down 49 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:50,039 and can get everyone bouncing along and having fun with it. Was awesome that 50 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:53,560 those songs off that EP are the standouts in the set now, Like yeah, 51 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:58,439 because I watched the footage of Scout playing Coachella and obviously there's loads of 52 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,520 energy and they're fucking like a great fun and everything. I do think vocally 53 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:06,240 she seems quite unpolished, and I mean I'm saying that like more even than 54 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,680 in the screams than the clean vocal parts, like whether something will get a 55 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,919 bit more control over whatever. But it feels very kind of like that's kind 56 00:04:15,919 --> 00:04:17,319 of how our screams are on the album as well. Actually is that very 57 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,439 just like a bit a bit ragged even, Yeah, which again I kind 58 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:25,079 of really dig about them because it just adds to this kind of like it 59 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,879 feels like she could just go for your juggling at any moment. But but 60 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,800 that that is, you know, they're a young band, They've got like 61 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:36,160 thirty odd minutes of music out there across two EPs in an album, so 62 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,279 there's definitely like as they can go, but instead of just the energy of 63 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:44,839 the live performance my time and I had just been buzzing where people kind of 64 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,240 going like, oh that was that was crazy and that's what I got from 65 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,279 this. And I'm really like, I'm I've been all in on scal for 66 00:04:51,319 --> 00:04:55,160 like the last year and a bit, and I think they are. They're 67 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,000 showing they're getting the songs they're going with like Opening Night and shot Down as 68 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,920 like into the more hard stuff that actual big sing along was going alongside them 69 00:05:01,959 --> 00:05:06,319 washing so they can continue down that route where they've they've opened that door in 70 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,079 the new EP. I do think they're going to be a really just exciting 71 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,959 prospect in hardcore. Yeah. I had a nice little treat last week of 72 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,600 going to see Wayfarer and Woade together, two of these shining lights of upcoming 73 00:05:18,639 --> 00:05:23,120 black metal, both beginning with the letter w one of my favorite venues in 74 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,560 the country, the Star and Garter. Always excited for a show when it's 75 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,319 happened in there would a possibly the best black metal band in the country at 76 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,079 the moment, Like the last record is still fantastic. They've got this like 77 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,000 knuckle duster black and heavy metal energy in there that comes from their being in 78 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,519 like ten other heavy metal bands, but they kind of shine most live now 79 00:05:40,519 --> 00:05:45,839 when they're doing that stuff as opposed to the like more lengthy blasting material and 80 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:47,319 energy can kind of sag a little bit. But they played a new song 81 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:51,639 and it's kind of really driving Wayfarer more of a unique draw coming over from 82 00:05:51,639 --> 00:05:56,000 the US fresh off of playing at Roadburn, where they did like some insane, 83 00:05:56,079 --> 00:06:00,079 like long fucking set that they did there. I hadn't seen them for 84 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,240 but the reports from Roburn were really good, and I can confirm that they 85 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,720 are a seriously good live band. If you're into your black metal, they're 86 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,079 kind of like, if you don't know them, it's sort of Western frontier 87 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:13,240 kind of black metal, where it's like really fierce playing, but that has 88 00:06:13,319 --> 00:06:15,639 this big sound that's you know, big multi part songs about you know, 89 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,879 cowboys and iron horses, like you know, real Sergio Leone shit, and 90 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:26,560 it's brilliant. It's just really raging kind of turmoil going on in this huge 91 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,000 sonic space that cuts off the last two albums are amazing the only black metal 92 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,560 band I've seen with a clap along part because they've put this like slide guitar 93 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,199 entering the saloon really cool. They've normally got blood incantations drummer he wasn't with 94 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,920 them, but they had the guy from Krallis filling in and he's like really 95 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:46,199 fucking hard hitting, like intense. They also did a new song and that 96 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,360 sounded amazing. I bought a bunch of records at the merch Desk, so 97 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,839 I'm looking forward to their new one whenever that comes, and very much worth 98 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,519 seeing live news. The first little bit of celebration, the Enthrakari got their 99 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,199 first ever UK number one with a Kiss for the Whole World, which I 100 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:02,959 think it's been amazing considering you know, there's seven albums in. This isn't 101 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:09,199 particularly again dramatic narrative record for them or anything. That's just the new Shikari 102 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:13,079 record, but good for them finally getting that thing in. They've also announced 103 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:17,199 a massive UK arena tour for next year that has Fever three three three with 104 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:21,000 them, as well as a No Offense happening in early February, so that's 105 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,879 good. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced raised against the Machine 106 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:30,879 are going in. Iron Maiden and Sound Garden are not, despite the fact 107 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:33,600 that both of those placed in the top five of the fan vote. So 108 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,639 I don't know what the fucking point of the fan vote is, just a 109 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:41,959 completely arbitrary, nonsense thing to just make it even more clear that they're not 110 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,040 going to take what anyone actually wants them to do. But I feel nothing 111 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,439 about this. It's the same story as ever. You could have told me 112 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:53,120 Redicut between we're already in before this, and I would have believed you doesn't 113 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,199 matter just before we were recording. We can actually have a conversation about the 114 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:01,600 fact that Bring Me the Horizon have released a new single. It's called lost 115 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,600 with a T at the end of it, because watter Bring the Horizon song 116 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:11,360 without completely arbitrary font choices and spelling. Um. I've been feeling kind of 117 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,360 positive aout Bringing the Horizon in the sense that just like, I'm happy they're 118 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,639 getting their download shot right like that, that that post being shared around is 119 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:20,399 necrologos and I'm like, yeah, awesome, good for them getting their shot. 120 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:24,920 And sem Paternal turned ten about a month ago, so I was reminiscing 121 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:26,959 with that and stuff and then putting this on. I'm not going to get 122 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,159 angry about it because I know what they are now, but it was just 123 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,799 like a sharp reminder of what they actually sound like. Now. Yeah, 124 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:41,279 I know this is obviously this whatever the next project they're doing. You know, 125 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:43,240 they're doing these more kind of like concise jobs things. This is their 126 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:46,519 pop when they're doing that they've been building to since Die for You, which 127 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,960 is that like song feels like it's like two years old at this point. 128 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,320 They released a single a year like, and I'm just like, all right, 129 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,440 come and go with it. But this is like, this is the 130 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:00,879 hundred gets version of Bringing with the Hori, isn't it. This is a 131 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:07,840 full on just like manic hyperpop, TikTok algorithm kind of pleasing, just a 132 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:13,200 sort of different sounds, and it's just I found it a little bit unpleasant. 133 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:16,720 Will you say a hundred gigs? To me? It sounded more like 134 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:24,919 the Bunny the Bear. This is terrible, Like it's like nancatcre just a 135 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,480 trolley dash of like emo cliches. And I remember when they announced that they 136 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,080 were doing the CP and it wasn't even a pot. I don't know if 137 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,039 they've changed, it wasn't gonna be a pop one. Then they were like 138 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,000 I was thinking of sort of a glass Shaw kind of feeling, oh that 139 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,480 this is gonna be the emo one, wasn't it? Sorry? Like yeah, 140 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:43,080 and you just you listen to it and go, have you heard glass 141 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:48,879 Saw? Like just painful. Yeah. I haven't liked any bringing me the 142 00:09:48,919 --> 00:09:52,480 material, bring the rising material since the one baby Metal song on Post Human, 143 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,600 and I haven't really liked a project since Ammo. And I had to 144 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,840 remind myself of what they've released beforehand, because like the Differ obviously a war 145 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,039 crime, but after there was Strangers, which was I think a better song. 146 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:07,240 But I just can't remember how they Yeah, it's whatever. I just 147 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,559 can't deal with how they put together now. And I think that's just unfortunately 148 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,080 the truth of them that here where that the trend at the moment of you 149 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,080 know, the TikTok ification of the sort of so called classic emo sound, 150 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:22,480 where again one hundred gecks getting karrang and stuff like that. And this isn't 151 00:10:22,519 --> 00:10:26,960 me tarring them. I know they are one of the more sort of pioneering, 152 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,720 creative kind of bands in that sort of scene, and they're sort of 153 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,039 dabbling a little bit over here, I guess, but um, you know, 154 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,759 like I don't like it when the exerts have started doing it, so 155 00:10:33,759 --> 00:10:35,480 I'm not going to bring me a pass either. Like people taking that two 156 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:41,240 thousands emo sound and kind of updating it that to my old man ears sounds 157 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:45,600 like feeding it through seven circles of hell. Like. Also, the riff 158 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,919 in this was shockingly upbeat, where it's like crazy colorful sense, like bringing 159 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:52,200 those out of the fucking two thousands and you can fly if you like. 160 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:58,600 But I appreciate that it's like a it's a fun, up tempo song as 161 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,320 opposed to the dour stuff they like when they try to do that sound with 162 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,639 something like die for You just terrible. But I didn't like three oh three 163 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:11,440 back then, and I didn't like Machine Gun Kelly three years ago, which 164 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,559 is what this really sounds like. Like Emo girl and you know, the 165 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,159 one with housey on it and all that kind of stuff. It's just so 166 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:20,279 facing artificial sounding, like the chorus ain't bad. It's again it's like one 167 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,759 of the better m g K hits where the melody might be okay, but 168 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,840 the delivery mechanism just makes you want to have a wash. The breakdown part 169 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,480 made me laugh as well, silly like robot girl voices and all that stuff. 170 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,720 So right, the main thing that stuck me is that he's to the 171 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,240 open land is he's watching Evangelian and I'm just like, oh, we're going 172 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,919 to talk about that again. What is it with mediocre music and Evangelian? 173 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,120 Literally, yeah, it's just it's not lately. One of them was, 174 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:48,559 you know, from two thousand and six, like I mean, on this 175 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,159 on this podcast, but yeah, it's it's it's not cool at all, 176 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:58,399 but it's still best of the three songs they praised. So yeah, it's 177 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:01,279 a weird thing because like big, you know, the big British rock and 178 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,840 metal band of the last fifteen years or so, like the success story. 179 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,720 Sometimes when bands get that big, you kind of feel like you kind of 180 00:12:11,759 --> 00:12:16,120 root for them just because but for whatever reason, we'd bring me the horizon. 181 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:22,879 I don't feel like I've connect with them at all in half a decade, 182 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,799 and with stuff like this you just got, I don't even know what 183 00:12:24,919 --> 00:12:26,399 I'm supposed to root for. Is this even a band now? I honestly 184 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,600 don't know. Yeah, I think for me, they're at the point where 185 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:33,600 I'm like, just sail off into the sunset doing your thing, and I 186 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:37,240 won't be coming with you, because it's just it sounds like shit. The 187 00:12:37,279 --> 00:12:39,320 Gaslight Anthem was going to be the big, you know, single release. 188 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,080 I suppose it still is for some people out there. That way we're gonna 189 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:48,039 have in this particular news episode, they've released their first new song in almost 190 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,679 a decade. We did Get Hurt as an album club a little while maybe 191 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:54,919 last year, and again I'm not a fan. I don't know if they 192 00:12:54,879 --> 00:12:56,720 really in particular singers or anything after that, but certainly it's like the first 193 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:03,440 major material in Bloody Ages. We got the announcement of the reunion last year, 194 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,200 which people were very excited about, so obviously the first new track going 195 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,639 to be getting people very very pumped. Sam the first new gas like Anthem 196 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,759 song in nearly a decade. What do you think I mean? Is it 197 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:18,080 going to come as a huge shock if I say I love this, Like 198 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:26,559 I can't not pretend to be completely biased and just love whatever this band Brian 199 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:31,279 Fallon does. I think it's I just really like the sound of what they 200 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,840 do. This kind of picks up some of what Get Hurt does in the 201 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,360 like music. It's a bit brighter and upbeat again. You know, he's 202 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:39,320 kind of like seeing how he wants to sort of feel alive. He's like 203 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,360 recharged after the sort of the down years of world. That is amazing because 204 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,080 one of my only notes of this, which again I thought would just lead 205 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,159 to you, but I thought this was amazingly low key in a way that 206 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:56,440 sounds wearied. Definitely, I see that sounds like the middle aged souls that 207 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,480 they were in the fifty nine sound of actually become middle aged. Yeah, 208 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:03,200 I get that. I think lyrically, it's more, you know, back 209 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,879 to finding happiness, attention to that. Of course you weren't like, but 210 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,480 I do agree this is a wearious anything. It's going like picking up on 211 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:16,159 some of what he did on the solo records as well. Um, but 212 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:20,399 like Gaslight Anthem just doing what they are at their a's, they're at sounding 213 00:14:20,399 --> 00:14:26,399 a bit weary of I can't kind of find any kind of critical and as 214 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:28,639 the other then I love the Gaslight Anthem. I love the first Gaslight Anthem 215 00:14:28,679 --> 00:14:33,440 song in nearly a decade. Yeah, Elly, Elliott, you probably like 216 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,639 Bruce Springsteen and stuff like that more than I do. Are you a Gaslight 217 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:39,440 Anthem aficianado? Oh, I don't know. I like, I like a 218 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,440 sort of collection of songs, not any particular album, but they've got enough 219 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,240 songs where I would say they're a good band. I don't nearly have the 220 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:50,360 fanaticism that you know inspires other people. As for this, like, I 221 00:14:50,399 --> 00:14:54,639 think instrumentally it sounds pretty lifeless and it sounds really quiet. Then it's like 222 00:14:54,639 --> 00:14:58,960 it's amazingly no explosion on it at all. And the real crime from the 223 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,519 Gaslight Anthem is when they sound soulless, which is like for this sort of 224 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:07,279 music, it's kind of embarrassing. Well, I didn't think, well, 225 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:13,440 I did think that. I think Brian Fallon does help because he is he 226 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:16,039 is a great vocalist, to the point where i've heard some of the stuff 227 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:18,279 of his solo career. I'm surprised that kind of was a bit of a 228 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,879 damp squib with fans, and you know, I thought that's the sort of 229 00:15:22,879 --> 00:15:24,840 thing that could have gone big in America on his own, But for me, 230 00:15:24,919 --> 00:15:28,519 he saves this. So I don't think it's great. I think it's 231 00:15:28,559 --> 00:15:33,759 fine, but I think with a lesser vocalist it really would be pretty insipid. 232 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:37,840 Yeah, I would. I would never accuse the gas Anthem of being 233 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,200 soul us, even though I don't like them, and I think this is 234 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,600 a again, a sort needling trap. I would accuse him of being lifeless 235 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:48,559 and this again sounds but you know, I'm not a gasl Anthem fan anyway, 236 00:15:48,559 --> 00:15:52,159 and people just really love hearing this man sing is boring little songs. 237 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,279 The thing is is it has mostly gone over really well with fans. I 238 00:15:58,279 --> 00:16:03,360 don't think give then we are just you know, Brian Fallons singing about stuff 239 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:07,519 is just enough to like that man's voice, just whatever he's singing about, 240 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:10,720 you know, getting a positive charge feeling into his veins, and you know 241 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,360 like he sounds like he needs like a cartoon oil can to be dripped on 242 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,879 him to stop him fucking creaking. I listened to this right after the seven 243 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:19,960 inch we're about to talk about, and I was like, I can't be 244 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,639 fat with something this sort of flimsy like. But you know, sleepyheads everywhere 245 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,879 rejoice the Gaslight Anthem are back. Maybe you'll get an album later in the 246 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,320 year. What I'm referring to is two hundred Stab Wounds released a new seven 247 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,919 inch called Masters of Morbidity, which is brilliant because it sounds like an autopsy 248 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,360 title. The cover art is sick as well, autopsy worthy. Two are 249 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:41,519 just stab Wounds are a definitely a band that we've not really spoken about too 250 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:44,759 heavily on the podcast just yet. They released a debut I'm a couple years 251 00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:47,120 ago. I thought it was decent. The main attraction on it was a 252 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,679 song called skin Milk, which is just one of the most memorably renders titles 253 00:16:51,879 --> 00:16:55,720 to come out of death metal in a long time. But they're majorly one 254 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,559 of those bands we've got major buzz coming out of death metal moment, along 255 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:00,559 with Year, Frozen, Souls and so on. They're on the Decimel tour 256 00:17:00,799 --> 00:17:03,599 that's coming up, along with Black Braid, who have just announced a new 257 00:17:03,599 --> 00:17:07,640 album as well. But this seven inch at least some of that's been released 258 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,240 before, maybe one single like last year, but two songs together. I 259 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:15,000 think this is very good, Like um production is amazingly crisp on it. 260 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,759 It sounds like a step up to me. Yeah, massively for me too. 261 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,279 I liked that last record they released. I thought it was good. 262 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:23,680 I didn't really go back to it all that much though. This, particularly 263 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,400 the sort of the lead song off it massive improvement. Like when they signed 264 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:32,240 some metal Blade, I did find that slightly beguiling. Maybe not because they're 265 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:33,920 bad. I thought, of all the band's metal Blade to pick up on 266 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,440 really two hundred stab wounds, they kind of seemed like one of the less 267 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,559 remarkable ones on their roster at the moment. To be honest, well that's 268 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:44,160 it. But I think I mean, whether that was the last down or 269 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,880 this. For me, these two songs, particularly the first one, the 270 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,160 one that was sort of released earlier, it is the thing that's really got 271 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,039 me on board. Like listening to this, I was like, oh fucking 272 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:56,759 no, I don't know if I've probably go back to the last record to 273 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:00,640 see if it's I think that the last record had a bit more slam on 274 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,480 it, and this feels more kind of no nonsense groovy death metal with a 275 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,519 mixture of your Cannibal corpse stumps and Slayer disharmonies and stuff like that. And 276 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:11,519 the moment where they synchronize a bell toll and a diathomb as the riff changes 277 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:15,000 towards the end, like good shit. I was kind to with you as 278 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,119 I thought too what I've heard challenges that two hundred stab wounds was too many 279 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:25,000 stab wounds. Ye know, I thought they were they were decent. But 280 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:29,799 this is the most I've really just enjoyed. Just this like two song blast 281 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,559 of like like big, healthy sort of death metal grooves. There's one almost 282 00:18:33,599 --> 00:18:37,240 was like they're like they keep also that they're about to go into the raining 283 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:40,079 blood with if they keep of like having to fight themselves back from doing it. 284 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,960 And but it's kind of just like really fun, fast paced, exciting 285 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,599 death metal and the DIA bombs all that I was just like, yeah, 286 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,039 cool, give me more of this just blasts into me right now. Yeah. 287 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:53,480 And then the second track is you know, thrash. It's a it's 288 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:59,720 a toe tapper. But then it has this really stupid sludge mortician breakdown in 289 00:18:59,799 --> 00:19:03,559 the bridge that's so fucking dunderheaded good bit of songwriting craft than this. It 290 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:06,039 reminds me of Undeath in the way it's just like you know, groovy death 291 00:19:06,039 --> 00:19:08,119 metal, catchy, put something good together, have a good time, good 292 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,920 seven inch. You know, if I was at a show, I would 293 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,039 probably buy this little seven inch, so, you know, good stuff from 294 00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:17,440 them. Hope we get more improvement to come from them. From a news 295 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,319 I guess for a lot of people is tech Fest have announced that this year, 296 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:25,440 which is going to be their tenth particular addition, after which they're going 297 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,440 to go on hiatus. And I guess this continues on from our last couple 298 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,440 of HiPE of last episodes, whether we're talking about, you know, festival 299 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,200 climate in the UK and how many festivals have them and to dip and so 300 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:37,480 on, this feels a little bit more like a kind of graceful exit than 301 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:40,079 you know, a kind of humiliating failure, which is I think is very 302 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,160 very good for tech Fest and the little community it's built. It is. 303 00:19:44,519 --> 00:19:47,359 You know, I mean I've I've never been to tech Fest because it's it's 304 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,200 tech Fest, you know, Like I don't really like that kind of music 305 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,039 very much, but I do look at it and I go like, you 306 00:19:52,039 --> 00:19:55,319 know, that's that's really carved out a niche for itself, where like, 307 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:56,160 you know, we will even refer to bands as being oh yeah, kind 308 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,440 of your tech Fest type bands and someone it's one of those kind of institutions 309 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:00,720 in the way and because of that, it dealed, you know, it 310 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:06,319 did build up a community, um and so while I am again I'm glad 311 00:20:06,319 --> 00:20:08,920 to see it sort of bowing out on its terms at least rather than completely 312 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:14,359 collapsing and having a really poor year or whatever. Certainly this will be something 313 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:18,279 that will be mourned in the UK metal scene. Yeah, I think, 314 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,079 you know, like I say, tech Fest carved out its knee. It 315 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:22,000 was never you know, the big thing. I mean, it was literally 316 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:26,000 just like held in like a shed, basically a big like hangars like it 317 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:29,720 was quite like, but people who I know who went to it always had 318 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:33,200 really just like it felt like everyone knew everyone at tech Fest when the vibes 319 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,079 I got from the make who've been to it before. So I wouldn't be 320 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:38,319 shocked if it comes back as like a day fest thing. I think there's 321 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,440 you know, yeah, they have said that the brand of tech Fest is 322 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,559 not dead and that it's it's gonna hiatus. I agree with you. I 323 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:47,799 wouldn't be surprised to see it come back as a one day event rather than 324 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,640 having to fill and pay for a whole camping weekend deal. I think it 325 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,160 almost just doesn't help that, you know, the whole tech mel thing is 326 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,599 just kind of like it isn't the scene. It once was when tech Firs, 327 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:00,039 when tech Fest kind of first version they had, you know, it 328 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,400 was one of the exciting things going on in metal. So I guess they 329 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:07,839 kind of can normously that like just that their time has come to just wind 330 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,759 it down. Yeah, it feels a bit like the sort of tech metal 331 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:14,720 thing, like the big bands, you know, your peripheries, Polifias, 332 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,839 so on and so forth. You'll find them on you know, broader festivals, 333 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,599 the fest of the same. Yeah exactly was you look at this and 334 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,200 it's like headlined by Born of Osirius. I mean, where else is that 335 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:29,240 going to happen? So for this niche it served them brilliantly. Again, 336 00:21:29,279 --> 00:21:30,319 I've never been. It's not really my sort of thing, but the people 337 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,400 I know who went would only add super positive things to say about the people 338 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,400 who ran it and the festival itself. So yeah, if it does go 339 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,480 down to a one day thing, I think that's probably better suited to the 340 00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:47,960 festival climate in twenty twenty, twenty twenty four, I suspect in the years 341 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,720 going forward. So um, yeah, I want Todd. It's a shame 342 00:21:51,759 --> 00:21:56,039 book, Like there's no kind of no element of embarrassment with this one at 343 00:21:56,079 --> 00:21:57,359 all. Really. Yeah, So, you know, hats off to a 344 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,920 tech fest and the organizers for making a decade worth of a great events people 345 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,640 enjoyed going to. Something that we have been waiting for a long time is 346 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,000 Judas Priest have finally announced a UK headline tour. People have wanted that for 347 00:22:11,279 --> 00:22:17,640 fucking ages. I didn't even realize that I saw Juda's Priest on tour in 348 00:22:17,759 --> 00:22:21,559 twenty fifteen, and I did not even realize that was the last time they 349 00:22:21,599 --> 00:22:23,960 did a proper UK tour because since then it's been like, I guess, 350 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,759 two Bloodstock dates that I was at both times, so I never felt like 351 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:30,759 I missed them really, but no tours around then. They were locked into 352 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:33,920 the Ossley thing for ages. We were hoping they would do something like this, 353 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,119 and they are beginning and next year going to Arenas actually, which they 354 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:38,279 when I saw them on that twenty fifteen toy they were doing you know, 355 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,240 sort of apollo venues and stuff like that. They are bringing out Saxon with 356 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,920 them and Uriah Heap, which is a bill that somehow seems to get more 357 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:49,759 old man the closer to the opener you get. I mean that I don't 358 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:53,359 even really go for Uriah Heap. I can tell you from Bloodstock last year 359 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,680 or the year before. Even Saxon into Juda's Priest is one of the most 360 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,720 just like plow yourself with beers and sing along, fucking like several hours of 361 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,039 music. You know, Wimpson Posers leaves the hall with everybody. It's a 362 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,279 it's a fucking sensational package. It's a sensational double bill. And he might 363 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:14,880 not go see Saction on their own UK headline tour, but go and see 364 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,440 him fucking supporting us the Priest and they're pumping out Denim Leaver and all that 365 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,319 shit. It fucking rules. Um, Judas Priest doing the arena tour the 366 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,119 main draw here, Um fucking good. We wanted to. Yeah, really 367 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,359 happy to see them on the tour. I'm debating getting tickets. This is 368 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,960 a lot going on at the moment, but you know, yeah, good 369 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,440 times. It's funny to me that when Rob Halford has asked what metal bands 370 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,440 he likes, he always has cool answers, always like Electric Wizard, Power 371 00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:41,079 Trips, e Lanada. Yeah, it's time to pick support bands like this 372 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,400 time it's Saxon and Jiah Heap. I was like, I didn't go to 373 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,839 the I didn't go to the last UK tour. I was like, who 374 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:52,680 was it last time? Michael? To be fair, too fantastic. I 375 00:23:52,759 --> 00:23:57,880 wouldn't have seen Michael Schenker playing fucking scorpion songs or whatever probably outside of going 376 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,039 to that to us the Priest tour. So it's what the fans want to 377 00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:06,640 see, you have a good time. Why not? Now this is in 378 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,240 truly we don't normally talk I guess about setlists and whatnot in news, and 379 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,839 I guess because there's the idea that it could be spoiled and whatnot. We 380 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:18,440 don't want to do that. But Metallica have opened up there no repeats world 381 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,240 tour. They did two nights in Amsterdam where they've done two setlists. I 382 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:23,839 thought, you know, we were talking about Metallica dream setlists and stuff a 383 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,279 couple of weeks ago when we did the seventy two seasons episodes. So and 384 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,359 because they are changing this every single night, there's not really much risk of 385 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,000 you know, spoiling if you are going to a date fucking months down the 386 00:24:36,079 --> 00:24:37,680 line from what they do here. But I thought it was interesting to look 387 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,440 at what stuff they chose to do for the opening nights of this and I 388 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:45,640 guess a reflection of how there's sort of no repeat thing for them works looking 389 00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:55,359 at these two distinct dates that they did in Amsterdam. The power move not 390 00:24:55,559 --> 00:24:57,799 only of opening with a Ryan for the very first one, which it says 391 00:24:57,839 --> 00:25:02,000 here on set the stem first time it's opener since December the tenth of twenty 392 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,039 eleven, which if you're there and that happens, that's fucking awesome, but 393 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,880 the power move of them being one of the only bands in existence who could 394 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,880 then do the equivalent thing the following night by opening with the cooler Catulu, 395 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,079 Like, what an amazing thing you able to go, Oh yeah, we'll 396 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,839 open with the other eight, Like if they were doing three nights, they 397 00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:27,000 could do to Live to Die? Fuck it not suicondemption, what do you 398 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,680 I mean? Obviously both nights you're watching Metallica, there's a bunch of brilliant 399 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,279 songs and there you'd have a great time, but some cool choices. I 400 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,200 think overall, I'd say that the first night is probably the winner for me. 401 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:44,720 Again, both nights really good. The like closing run on the first 402 00:25:44,839 --> 00:25:48,519 night is just stupid. The night where they don't even play into sand Man 403 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:55,759 exactly is fucking bananas, isn't it, But they don't fucking struggle. Yeah, 404 00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:59,839 but like King, nothing's in there like um, I did like good 405 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:02,519 choices off the new album, like for the most part, you know, 406 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,119 Night Too being the only slight like misfire there. Yeah, I don't know 407 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:11,519 why You Must Burn is one of the ones given the very early deep Yeah, 408 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:15,640 I mean for me, like it's basically I mean I will be at 409 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,319 download this year, so I don't know if this whole similar these will be 410 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,960 to the list, But I mean I'm happy to look at them now because 411 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,519 I'll forget by then. But yeah, it's basically all the songs you expect, 412 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,839 plus a bunch of songs that don't always get you know, fight Fire 413 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,440 with Fire, Leper, Messiah King, nothing, that sort of thing. 414 00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,359 And there are some weird omissions for me, like I would have thought over 415 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,880 thirty two songs, you could have something like genuinely career spanning and only like 416 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,480 one song off load and reload each night. Nothing of Saint Anger, only 417 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,839 one song of hard Wired, like yeah, they do hard Wired on hard 418 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,119 Wired on one night and then the previous night that same slot was given to 419 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,400 a death magetic sun because they do The Day That Never Goes, which is 420 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,559 great. Um, I agree. I think over the course of this whole 421 00:26:56,599 --> 00:27:00,160 tour, like they will do something from Saint Anger, whether it's Frantic or 422 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,839 the title track or Dirty Window or something like that. They've done Saint Anger 423 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,079 songs in recent years, like over the course of you know, the mental 424 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,799 thing of Metallica is they've got what thirty two songs or whatever is over these 425 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:14,160 two nights, and these are not career spanning enough, but over the course 426 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:15,839 of the whole thing they will get there. It's just the luck of the 427 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,160 drawer what you'll get on that particular day. I mean saying no, like 428 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,880 only one song off load and reload each night or whatever until it sleeps. 429 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:29,799 I did not realize it had been two thousand and eight was the last time 430 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:32,759 they played that song? That's the first that was like the lead single or 431 00:27:32,799 --> 00:27:34,920 like with that record, wasn't it Like it was a huge track and they 432 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,200 just ignored it for fifteen years. So awesome seeing that back in there. 433 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:45,160 That's a fucking excellent song. No cook and rob Doodles though, so improvement. 434 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,000 Yeah, so again two banger set lists some maybe oh, you know, 435 00:27:49,039 --> 00:27:52,079 you go for a pitch right here or there, but um as a 436 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,279 kind of overview of what kind of vibes you're gonna be getting, but with 437 00:27:56,519 --> 00:28:00,119 very much different choices the whole way. I mean, it could be curious 438 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,559 to see whether they stick with kind of you know, a Ryan slash cool 439 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,319 Gatulla or whatever opening for longer than this. But yeah, it's amazing. 440 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,359 I look at this and I still go anything really goes with the dates after 441 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,640 this, Like you look at this and you don't actually have an impression of 442 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,359 what you could get on any given thing, which I suppose is the excitement 443 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,839 of the whole affair. So wicked there this for our friends across the pond, 444 00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:29,319 I thought was pretty pretty excellent looking. Little bill here of Lamb of 445 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,960 God have announced a big US tour obviously always a good time. But the 446 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,920 support acts they've got not all of the same thing, that'd be fucking ludicrous. 447 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,200 But across various different dates, you can get Lamb of God supported by 448 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,319 the Acasia strain. You can get Lamb of God supported by Ice nine Kills. 449 00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:48,000 You can get Lamb of God supported by Frozen Soul, which that's a 450 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:51,799 cool thing. To see Suicide Silence, and there's also the Black Dahlia Murder 451 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,880 with After the Burial and Alpha Wolf, which I would like to mix that 452 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,079 up and got what if I had the Black Dahlia Murder, Suicide Silence and 453 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,240 Frozen Soul or you know what if I had Ice nine Kills And then the 454 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:07,119 Black Dahlia Murder was like, what you are getting a fucking cool thing whatever, 455 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,839 it ends up being so lovely. And then this happened just before we 456 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,400 went to a record these podcasts to night, which made me do like a 457 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,279 oh my god, I didn't see that coming. Damn Nation Festival have announced 458 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,160 a few more bands on their bill. They have added Curacoma, who are 459 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,160 a kind of a UK I think doom Bad. I've never really been huge 460 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,640 on them, but you know, good for the UK doomheads a Damnation who 461 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,519 will always turn up for something like that. They have added Undeath, which 462 00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:34,240 is a very cool addition. I saw them on the UK tour at the 463 00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:37,480 start of this year and they were great. It's nice to see them debut 464 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,599 at a big festival like this at least, you know, at Damnation and 465 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,960 they're playing download as well, but fucking great Judie Christmas is playing at Damnation 466 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:52,000 Festival doing a career spanning you know, made out of babies, fucking Battle 467 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,000 of Mice, solo stuff whatever. If you have never seen Judie Christmas live, 468 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,519 which I've only seen her with Hoult of Luna, but just her as 469 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:04,680 a thing, it doesn't matter what she's playing, like, this is fucking 470 00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:11,799 hell. Oh they get to just get Julie Christmas the performer at Damnation investable. 471 00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:17,039 Yeah, I mean I looked at the bill again and I suspected this 472 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:18,359 was true, and it is. But I've not seen any of the bands 473 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,920 on the Damnation bill before in any capacity ever. Wow, And yeah, 474 00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:27,200 no, I can't remember the last time or maybe since the first festival I 475 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,720 ever went to, Like I can't remember the last time that happened. And 476 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,160 so many bucket list bands on that and one of them is Julie Christmas and 477 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,440 I wasn't expecting us to be on the bill at all, like it wasn't 478 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,359 even on a wish list yet that's it and like pretty high up. And 479 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:47,680 I just said career spanning setting eything. And I've only heard just the most 480 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,400 like avid praise for her live show, so that's like I mean, if 481 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,759 you're not going already, you should do that. Yeah, And for that, 482 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,279 Boy are releasing what they're calling Crimeal, which I like very much. 483 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:03,200 But they're releasing their new record containing actual, real Pete Wentz tears. This 484 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,640 is I mean, Sam, I think you quite succinctly summed out where it's 485 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:08,680 just an excuse for them to charge ninety nine dollars or whatever. It is 486 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:14,759 very a record, but I mean, I remember when Bohemuth released The Satanist, 487 00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:17,920 they did an addition where the I think it was, no, it 488 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,160 was actually the artwork, wasn't it. It's the the The painting of The 489 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:26,480 Satanist contains some of Nergal's real blood in there, and I thought that was 490 00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:29,720 cool. So it would be quite you know, hypocritical of me to go 491 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,599 like, oh, silly fall Out Boy with Criinal. I guess there's something 492 00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:37,359 different about real blood and Pete Wentz tears for you know, obsessive fall Out 493 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,119 Boy fans. It's the fall Out Boy fans want in it. So yeah, 494 00:31:40,119 --> 00:31:41,640 I can't knock them too much for it. I mean, if they've 495 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,880 got Pete Wentz tears, I'm thinking after that Chicken performance on Fun and wouldn't 496 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:53,359 it be easier to get Andy Hurley's that are real in demand? Okay questions 497 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,519 Johnny Bass asks, you can save Brickton Academy, but you have to sacrifice 498 00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:00,920 another big UK venue? Which one? And why? Yeah? Just to 499 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,880 follow up on the Britton Academy story, obviously a lot of people in the 500 00:32:05,039 --> 00:32:08,240 UK gig going you know community, have been fucking outraged at the sort of 501 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:14,720 prospect of Britaton Academy you've tend to been closed by the London authorities and there 502 00:32:14,759 --> 00:32:17,039 has been like a petition going around that's got like, you know, thousands 503 00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:22,440 of of of signatures. I've probably like several Brixton capacity you know sized numbers, 504 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,119 like several times over. So that's good, you know, I'd love 505 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:30,000 to see that continuing and hopefully that actually gets you know, taking notice of 506 00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:35,640 but saving Brixton Academy from its potential fate sacrificing another big UK vendue in the 507 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,200 process. Again, this is purely down to I guess your local area and 508 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,759 what venues you go to and stuff. The one that mean potting the head 509 00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:45,759 that I don't like going too is the O two Victoria Warehouse in Manchester, 510 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:49,960 which is a fucking out of the way. It's in a stupid place. 511 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,720 It's the most annoying venue to get to where when I see bands and outshows, 512 00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:54,000 I go, for fuck's sake, that's going to be an annoying thing 513 00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:59,240 to do. But also it's a kind of weird like cold venue. It 514 00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:02,319 is literally just to be warehouse that doesn't doesn't sound amazing. It's kind of 515 00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:06,440 again, it's out of the way. They fucking layout is bizarre. There's 516 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,440 not it's not very conducive to stuff that looks particularly cool, Like it's not 517 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,400 a big grand theater like Brixton. It's just a sort of but then you 518 00:33:12,519 --> 00:33:14,599 have like it's not you know, punk shows that happen there. It's like 519 00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:20,400 big things. And then you know yet weird instances like you know the bands 520 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,640 doing arena tours, like a Jeer and someone who come through here, but 521 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,480 they can't bring their fucking pyro to the Victoria Warehouse and I forget that it's 522 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,519 an arena tour, like just a it's a silly place. I like when 523 00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:30,720 bands either play the Apollo or play the arena if they're actually big enough, 524 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,720 fuck this stupid Victoria Warehouse norlsense so I would close that place to save the 525 00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:38,960 lovely Brickton Academy, and you Londoners can be very thankful that I've taken a 526 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:44,160 northern venue to be taken to the sword to save one of your precious little 527 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,440 places. Yeah, I mean for Londoners. I know everyone's going to go 528 00:33:47,519 --> 00:33:52,200 for the same one, and I'm not going to pick that because it is 529 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,720 a ball legg to get to. I'm not gonna lie. Ali Pally is 530 00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:57,720 a pain in the us to get to, like it's in into the station 531 00:33:57,799 --> 00:34:00,640 and also they're having to get up that hill. But what says Annie Paddy 532 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:06,799 for me is it's got a really nice craft beer bar that is cheaper than 533 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:12,039 like a ship point at Wembley. Like it is cheap's get a really nice 534 00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:15,679 craft beer. So so are you closing closing Wembley Arena. I'm closing Wembley 535 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:17,880 Arena. Oh I'm not sure I can back that just from the purely iconic 536 00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:22,320 status I know, but I'm going there recently and the fact that it was 537 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:29,559 like eight quid for a really crappy side and I'm just like, I can't 538 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,320 do this anymore. On hind side, the other one is is the forum 539 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,159 big enough to close. It's like two thousand capacity, are we can't? 540 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,880 That's big enough to Yeah, that that that that's that's so that I think 541 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,880 that upwards is what we count as big. I'm clearly fond of the Forum 542 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,199 Forum. It is just because the problem is is that main floor big. 543 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,880 It's way too crammed. It always feels like it's over It's the one thing 544 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,440 that always feels like it's over capacit. That's sad, that's true. I 545 00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:57,480 know, I know a lot of people were complaining about the the O two 546 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,440 Academy in Bristol for similar reasons, where it's like just always it feels like 547 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,000 it's fucking not conducive to having lots of people in it. Yeah, it 548 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,400 is that, and that's for that reason I would close the Forum. I 549 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:13,960 don't really have much of an answer for this because everyone keeps saying I'll terrible 550 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,840 the Bristol O two Academies. But that's where I saw stiff Little Fingers the 551 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,800 other month. Then, yes, a slightly inconvenient design, but I didn't 552 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,800 find it all too bad. So I'm going to cheat and say my local 553 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:30,280 pub must lose their live music license because they book the worst live music in 554 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,719 the world and it doesn't have to be to save Brixton Academy. I would 555 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:37,239 do that to save some yogurt from going off. Like then, is there 556 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,320 no venue of like you know, real substance and note in the UK or 557 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,599 purely which I mean you know, I don't mean legendary status. I just 558 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:46,519 mean you know, sighs again, if you whatever could be in you know, 559 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,159 fucking Nottingham less than whatever the fuck it would be that you go, 560 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,719 Oh, that's a slightly annoying place. No, not really, I don't 561 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,199 know what. There's a couple where I thought, like, you know, 562 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,239 it's a bit out of the way, but like there's no I mean, 563 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,320 like you know, I went to a Resorts World Areada in Birmingham to see 564 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,360 ghost and there's no pubs around it. By one thing, I'd knock it 565 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:13,559 down. It's fased to save Brixton, Save Brixton, No my old pub. 566 00:36:13,639 --> 00:36:15,679 I have to do it. I might only get this one opportunity. 567 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,480 No more bands there you go, It's okay, the Victoria Warehouse and maybe 568 00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:23,519 Wembley Reader in the formum. I've all been taken to the Sword instead. 569 00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:30,559 James Smurthwaite asks best band with no songs longer than five minutes. This fucking 570 00:36:30,679 --> 00:36:35,880 through me because five minutes is a real cap where it's almost like six minutes 571 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,039 would be like, okay, you know, but most bands, even ones 572 00:36:40,039 --> 00:36:45,559 who specialize in like in out, get something to five every now and then, 573 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,559 Like most bands who have ever been worth a dam have gotten something to 574 00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:52,239 five every now and then, even if it was like uncharacteristic. But I 575 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,159 mean, like, you know, hardcore bands like Black Flag and the Kennedy's 576 00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:59,800 and stuff like fucking have some five minutes songs. And I was looking at 577 00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:05,599 Rancid have like maybe one, Like it's hard work finding someone who has never 578 00:37:06,039 --> 00:37:09,079 got up to five minutes in length. I mean I found that's pretty easy. 579 00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:12,199 Out They're quite a modern band, so I don't if it' shooting, 580 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:16,079 but it's Turnstyle, okay, yeah, like I don't fetch my arms as 581 00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:19,280 to every question now at this point is if I can't think of anything, 582 00:37:19,559 --> 00:37:22,719 just say Turnstyle. But they don't have a song over five minutes, and 583 00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:28,599 they are like they are just you know, just not perfect wrong, and 584 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,000 they are continue to be amazing. So yeah, see, my first thought 585 00:37:31,039 --> 00:37:35,559 for this was a punk bands the Misfits, but come back on static Age 586 00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:38,360 is like five minutes long. I thought it might be Code Orange, but 587 00:37:38,559 --> 00:37:44,119 Dreams in Inertia is exactly five minutes long. But they've got a few like 588 00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:47,360 they haven't five minutes. Well, I can say, does that count? 589 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,800 It is that over the margin? I don't know. But they've got a 590 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,519 few like four minutes and stuff, but that's the only one they've got to 591 00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:54,400 getting into that range. Um Disphear have like a seven minutes song. I 592 00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:57,840 think like grind bands, right, but like Napalm Death have gone long, 593 00:37:58,199 --> 00:38:00,599 Pick Destroyer have gone really long because adventurous, right. Um. I think 594 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,159 even Nails had like an eight minute song that ended you can do and every 595 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,599 one of us. I think Nasam don't have any fives. They've got a 596 00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:12,480 few threes and that's long for them. Worm Rot have just reached their longest 597 00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:16,039 ever four minute thirty on his So if they if they keep going, they 598 00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:21,800 might get out of this. But they are in there, um might die. 599 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,199 Do they have a song over five? Because I was like Matt Change, 600 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,719 Josh just shy, it's like four minutes fifty six or something like that. 601 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,039 So if they could be then maybe I think it like Municipal Waste because 602 00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:35,000 there's Born to Party, which is like four minutes long, and that's including 603 00:38:35,039 --> 00:38:37,960 the hidden track, like the fact that he would stayed that. I think 604 00:38:37,119 --> 00:38:42,960 any thrash bands like better than Municipal Waste pretty much all have like you know 605 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,079 something, I think they are the best one who have never gone full long. 606 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,559 I think my answer similar to where you said turnstile, and its almost 607 00:38:50,559 --> 00:38:52,679 feel like one who should have one. But I checked and they don't. 608 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:57,599 You know, I haven't got there yet. Creeper. Yeah, actual projection 609 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,800 is that that's long one three minutes long? Isn't it that I was longer 610 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,599 because I don't have the big crescended at the end. But you're probably right, 611 00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:07,559 Like I mean, it's fucking it's punk, it fucking fire long, 612 00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,960 and none of their grander moments have gone long. They just managed to feel 613 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,119 like they pack a lot in. I'm checking right now. Astral Projection is 614 00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:21,039 three minutes fifty seven. So I think Creeper probably would be my favorite band 615 00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:23,360 who never have had a song to date going over five minutes long. I 616 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,159 think the Ramans maybe probably don't either, But you know, I'm not quite 617 00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:30,199 the bigger man well, so I struggled with this too, and I eventually 618 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,960 took to Google, like it's a tough thing to google, so I couldn't 619 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,199 get anywhere. So I went on chat GPT. I said, like best 620 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,639 or something like rock and metal bands that don't have a song over five minutes, 621 00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:45,840 and it thought for a while, and their first suggestion was Iron Maiden. 622 00:39:46,199 --> 00:39:51,920 So every time I died just this out, I trying to miss out 623 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,360 what was that song? The closing track on Radical is five minutes and two 624 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,800 seconds long. Yeah, they're they're in there in that ranted camp of and 625 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,719 you know, fucking it's turnstyle. We're sticking a turnstyle because they're the best 626 00:40:02,079 --> 00:40:07,280 sort of early twenty tens like emo pop. Part like Joyce Man and Title 627 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,760 Fight I think are both pretty good bands are really good at their best. 628 00:40:10,679 --> 00:40:14,800 But um yeah, I think gets a sort of hardcore and punk bands you 629 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,840 have like the Ramones Descendants. I checked Bad Brains, Minor Threat. I 630 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,119 don't think none of them have a song over five minutes, but my Bad 631 00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:22,199 Brains maybe have like one or two. They're in that sort of Black Flag 632 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,360 in Kennedy's camp. Oh no, yeah, I checked black Flag and I 633 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,000 remember I think it's the process of weeding out. It is twenty seven minutes, 634 00:40:29,199 --> 00:40:31,559 so it's not even I'm not surprised that they do because they get weird 635 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:36,800 like past the you know, yeah, I think I will go for as 636 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,280 my number one, and it's it's not it's a weird one because it didn't 637 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,360 come immediately to mind. But the Minute men like the eighties hardcore down, 638 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,679 which is weird because they have like double albums. But they're like, I 639 00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,880 mean, if they're the Minute as long, surely they can't they can't go 640 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,760 rules rules. Yeah, so I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna choose 641 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,480 that because yeah, I had Code Orange down, but and if you want 642 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,239 to include Code Orange kids, they have Bloom, which is I think five 643 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,199 and a half minutes, so they're really not sufficient. So I didn't look 644 00:41:02,199 --> 00:41:06,480 at yea, if not, if I can't have iron made and I'll have 645 00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,760 a Minute, then okay, there you go. And Tyler Ballard asks who 646 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:14,440 is the best live band in twenty twenty three, which is a question I 647 00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:16,280 like to have every few years, like almost like a state of the address. 648 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:21,360 Who was doing the best stuff right now? And it's hard to make 649 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:25,199 an assessment right now, I think because it's who's been over here since COVID, 650 00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:30,239 which not everyone actually has yet, because like Code Orange Circle eighteen would 651 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,079 have been one of my answers, but they've not been here since Jamie was 652 00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:37,840 behind the drums, so I can't like really say, and it's it's been 653 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,079 a few years since. We've got a few bands that I would put in 654 00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:43,880 the best live man in the world category, but I haven't have to check 655 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,639 in on it for a few years. I think I will save you saying 656 00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:52,719 it. Sam Turnstyle has got to be up there for like reaction and the 657 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,840 big moments you see. I still haven't personally seen them since pre COVID, 658 00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:59,119 so I can't argue with Taran Style, But I just I can't attest to 659 00:41:59,159 --> 00:42:00,960 it myself right now. I just think, like, again, of the 660 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,360 two times I've seen them, one of them being in the venue I would 661 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,239 knock down is still on the best things of them been too, because they're 662 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,280 that good. Um, if I was going to pure for what I've seen 663 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:14,639 this year based on like twenty twenty three live shows, it's paramore. Yeah, 664 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,679 there were only a few months into twenty twenty three. Let's go again 665 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:22,079 assessment of since live music opened up in twenty twenty one, who is the 666 00:42:22,159 --> 00:42:25,519 best live fans you know around? Like Turnstyle is my pick for that because 667 00:42:25,599 --> 00:42:30,800 yeah, I think Paramore. I definitely well up there. Yeah, I 668 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,000 agree. I think Paramour in terms of like just amazing show every time I 669 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,880 think similarly they I would say Creeper are in the conversation. I think Ghost 670 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,199 or is in the conversation for just spectacle. Um, I mean obviously to 671 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,079 some degree, it's still Ramstein, right, Um, It's just it's always 672 00:42:43,119 --> 00:42:45,159 going to be true. Nine Nails are still fucking amazing. But like again, 673 00:42:45,159 --> 00:42:49,480 they're sort of boring answers not upcoming. Um, look into sort of 674 00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,679 underground stuff that I'm always excited to see death Heaven or always spectacular live. 675 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,360 I think itslude well the inter rama that they're one of the best in the 676 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,760 world. M I think like a Ranti Pazuzo and stuff like that. Like 677 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,280 again, I haven't even seen them yet, but Imperial Triumphant like they are 678 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,639 all these things like consistent kind of mind blowers and like real bands where it's 679 00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:10,880 the power of musicality and so on. Yeah, I don't really have I 680 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,480 mean, for me, the one that stands out of the sort of current 681 00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:17,719 crop is Ghost because it's going to be Spectacle is part of it, but 682 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,599 it's it's also like it's not just theatrical because it's got, you know, 683 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:28,599 a big budget. It's like the character of Papa for the settlist they're able 684 00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:31,280 to put together now is insane. Like no, because I saw them sort 685 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:35,280 of at the end of the prequel cycle and I saw them a few times 686 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,239 they're like Royal Albert Hall supporting Metallica, but the last time I saw them 687 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,320 in an arena on their own, before Imperial came out, there was kind 688 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,719 of like these a bit too much of the sort of comedy sketch thing and 689 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,199 a couple of songs that were maybe I wouldn't say philler, but like it 690 00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:52,360 didn't feel like a packed I couldn't see it headlining download, Whereas after seeing 691 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,400 them in Birmingham last year, he was like, oh, this is like 692 00:43:55,519 --> 00:43:59,840 seeing Iron Made on like the World Slavery Tour or something like that. It's 693 00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:06,000 that level of I say, spectacle pomp power For me, it's like it 694 00:44:06,119 --> 00:44:09,400 feels weird saying like one of the most defining live rock and metal bands of 695 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,880 the last ten years because it's so seventies and eighties. But if I'm taking 696 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,039 someone to go see a band, that's nine times i'd turned out to what 697 00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:22,119 it's going to be. Yeah, I agree. I think it's a very 698 00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:24,960 worthy answer in that sense. I think part of me still thinks Behemoth to 699 00:44:25,039 --> 00:44:29,239 some degree. Like the Bloodstock show last year was insanely brilliant, just you 700 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,559 know, again, spectacle power, the extremity of the music, but played 701 00:44:32,599 --> 00:44:37,320 so fucking huge like they just did like the Polish Grammys and they did like 702 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,320 a set on TV and stuff, and just still seeing that is awesome. 703 00:44:39,639 --> 00:44:44,280 I think wat Ain are still up there in terms of the fucking fierceness of 704 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,880 that show and the immersion into it and everything. I still I haven't seen 705 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:51,599 them since COVID, but like next whenever they're able to, I'm sure they 706 00:44:51,599 --> 00:44:53,880 haven't lost, you know, a drip of that intensity. I think it's 707 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,119 kind of opened in the air right now for me. Like again, five 708 00:44:57,199 --> 00:44:59,360 years ago, five six years ago, I would have said oath Breaker, 709 00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:04,719 Code Orange, beheemouth Primordial again who I haven't seen in a while, the 710 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,000 only slam dunk everyone will agree on it answer I can think of right now 711 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,800 will be Turnstyle, and again I haven't seen them. I think Creeper and 712 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,360 Ghost is so consistent. They're in there as well, But ask me in 713 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,280 a couple of years when everyone has really got round to coming back over here. 714 00:45:16,559 --> 00:45:22,679 Releases for this the first release week of May Drain Living prof will be 715 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,320 the big one. I think, the new record from one of the kind 716 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,440 of great current hardcore bands that everybody loves. Excited to check that one out. 717 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,800 We will likely talk about it more in depth fairly soon. On Earth 718 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,119 I've got a new one called The Wretched the ruin Us, which is the 719 00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:40,320 only album title I can remember in ages seeing which has a semi colon in 720 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:45,079 It doesn't seem, you know, conducive to a catchy title at all. 721 00:45:45,079 --> 00:45:50,199 But on Earth, sure it'll be good. Always is. Therapy have released 722 00:45:50,199 --> 00:45:53,199 any record called hard cold Fire. I like Therapy a great, great deal. 723 00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:54,960 They're one of the bands who not only do I like there, you 724 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,800 know obviously trouble Gun one of the fucking best records if you know that whole 725 00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:02,199 period of rock mus but still making good records now. The last one I 726 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:07,440 really loved was Disquiet, which is like twenty fifteen, but their records are 727 00:46:07,559 --> 00:46:10,440 always good, and I'm sure that there'll be some good stuff in here as 728 00:46:10,599 --> 00:46:15,639 well. Dave Lombardo has released his kind of drum solo record who writes a 729 00:46:15,679 --> 00:46:19,079 Percussion, which normally would not be very exciting at all, But the talk 730 00:46:19,119 --> 00:46:22,039 I've seen around this Dave Lombardo record is that it is shockingly listenable for a 731 00:46:22,159 --> 00:46:25,599 drummer's solo album. Because of Dave Lombardo, I am actually going to check 732 00:46:25,599 --> 00:46:28,920 it out. I'm sure there'll be something of worth to hear, at least 733 00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:34,199 in your metal core zone. There's Currents and the Death We Seek jumping over 734 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,079 here to some kind of UK punkies and their death Goals, and a Garden 735 00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:39,000 of the Dead footing that band Sam Garden of Dead Flowers and the name of 736 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:44,039 the record no One. I've not actually really come across much. Struck me 737 00:46:44,119 --> 00:46:45,280 something that something could be in the sort of realm that you'd, yeah, 738 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,800 absolutely give it. A guy might like it, but I'm not. I'd 739 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:52,280 cross pass them. Yeah yeah. A band I like a called Blood Ceremony 740 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,679 The Old Ways Remain. They're one of those sort of like early twenty tens 741 00:46:54,800 --> 00:47:00,239 kind of occult psychedelic doom things. Who are still going fairly strong and making 742 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:01,719 some some decent stuff. If you like your flutes and your woodwind and you're 743 00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:06,639 spooky, you know, folk stuff going on in a heavy music A couple 744 00:47:06,679 --> 00:47:09,159 of trad metal hits for you. There's Enforcer and Nostalgia, who are a 745 00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:13,639 band who I mean, the album title doesn't do any favors, but I've 746 00:47:13,679 --> 00:47:15,960 kind of I've warmed to Enforcer over the years. They just do some good, 747 00:47:16,039 --> 00:47:20,599 you know, kind of Scandinavian heavy metal. And there's also Haunt and 748 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,920 Golden Arm who are in other sort of rising trad metal type bands, herold 749 00:47:24,159 --> 00:47:30,159 Iconoclass that's more you know, post metal, sludgy heavy stuff going on shit 750 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,400 present. What still gets me? This one you added to the list? 751 00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:37,880 Yeah, Um, DIY punk emo kind of that sort of vibe. They 752 00:47:38,199 --> 00:47:43,079 released a bunch of really cool EPs and singles in sort of the mid twenty 753 00:47:43,159 --> 00:47:46,079 tens and then seemingly broke up and we're kind of done, and then I've 754 00:47:46,079 --> 00:47:50,199 decided to come back and this is actually their first album, despite being like 755 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,559 kicking about for a good while. But if you like your your DIY punk 756 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,920 kind of like emo bands, but of a bit of like a power Pop 757 00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:00,400 touched to it as well. Give this a go. Yeah, And finally, 758 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,760 there's also a EP from the hardcore band Teeth called a Biblical Worship of 759 00:48:05,079 --> 00:48:07,760 Violence that is normally where we end hype blasts. I have realized I've done 760 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,000 this in the wrong order, and I forgot to tell you what's going on 761 00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:14,679 over on Patreon, So we're gonna end doing that for the lovely people who 762 00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:16,440 support us over at Patreon and keep this podcast a float. I know times 763 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,639 are tough at the moment, and so it is massively appreciate to all of 764 00:48:19,679 --> 00:48:21,880 you who still choose to, you know, give us a few quid and 765 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,480 support the show. It does not go amiss. We just did our newest 766 00:48:25,559 --> 00:48:30,679 album club pack, where we spoke about Deaf Leopards, Pyromania, Fight Stars, 767 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,679 Grand Unification, Comeback Kids, Wake the Dead, and Autopsies Mental Funeral. 768 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,360 I have to say the Mental Funeral discussion it's one of my favorite album 769 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,039 clubs we've done in a good while, just because it is such a gross 770 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:43,880 ikey record to talk about. If you're a fan of like horrendous similes that 771 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,159 create mental images that will never leave your mind, that album club was full 772 00:48:46,199 --> 00:48:50,599 of them. Of us trying to find way to describe what mental Funeral sounds 773 00:48:50,639 --> 00:48:53,679 like. But also even there were different positions as to like level of love 774 00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:58,320 for the record Pyromania too on like a historical level weighing up, you know, 775 00:48:59,079 --> 00:49:02,119 one of those moments where music as a whole kind of changes course forty 776 00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:06,440 years on, you know, fascinating to stop to her ponder. Yeah, 777 00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:08,800 I kind of changed my perspective on Deaf Leopard a little bit. So that's 778 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:16,079 pretty cool, even if it meant dog piling poor Rick Allen fight staff fans. 779 00:49:16,679 --> 00:49:22,320 I hope you understand you If you like playing Uification, I've got some 780 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:28,639 amazing albums to recommend to you that you're gonna go crazy for awesome. Sorry, 781 00:49:28,679 --> 00:49:30,920 I'm big a dick. Just this evening, right before we recorded this 782 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:36,559 podcast, we have just recorded our new st TNM does horror episode on Evil 783 00:49:36,679 --> 00:49:38,679 Dead, the three of us actually Elliot joined us for the first time on 784 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:45,119 that show. But Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead twenty thirteen bangers, horrible, 785 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,960 slippery, gory bangers. Elliot, you have fun? Oh yeah, 786 00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:52,719 like it, you know, just talking about No one else wants to talk 787 00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:57,119 to me about Evil Dead for three hours, so I will leap at any 788 00:49:57,159 --> 00:50:00,360 opportunity. Yeah, no, it's such a laugh. Like you know again, 789 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,159 of course, were talking about something outside of music, but with the 790 00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:07,239 same level of intensity and analysis and all that. Just yeah, so much 791 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:12,199 fun and you know, hopefully that comes across to a listener. Yeah, 792 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,639 so more good stuff all in this vein and more coming to patron of com 793 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,719 slash that's not at all very soon, and that is it. Thank you 794 00:50:19,079 --> 00:50:22,639 for listening. This weekend, I'm heading down to London to get endlessly stuck 795 00:50:22,679 --> 00:50:24,280 in traffic due to the King's coronation when I'm just trying to get to a 796 00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:29,280 fucking heavy metal show. But we will be back with hyper Blasts shortly after 797 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,320 that. Thank you for your support and being with us. As always, 798 00:50:31,599 --> 00:50:34,119 we think that's not at all jeers