Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. Welcome to that's not metal. Welcome here to Hyperblast.
We are here with our weekly metal rock news, not
quite reviews, but news and releases show here today and
going to let you know everything's been going on. My
name is Parnhish, and I am here on my lonesome
today because I'm recording this a little bit earlier than
usual in the day because I am headed very shortly
off to All Things Incineration Festival. So I'm just here
on my own twickly to again get the news and
the releases out for you. What has been going on? Well,
the main event for me this week, I suppose was
I went to the Sanguine, which was Creepers in you know,
smaller venues than they have recently been playing very you know,
deliberately intimate type shows, doing a tour. I think many
of us in the you know, the kind of Creeper
fan base have been wanting to see for a couple
of years now, since they've been in this world that
they've been in, which is they did a tour entirely
one hundred percent you were warned in advance this is
what the settlers would be entirely comprised of their Sanguavore
one and two records are now you know, both out,
sang of War two obviously about six months old now,
so the right time I think to really go all
in on that world, which if you are a fan
of particularly those records of Creepers, you know what a
specific vibe, and it is music and records that are
so made for their own, you know, kind of rock
opera type presentation at the very least a as we say,
a specific sort of world of somewhere they can live.
And I'm a really big fan of when bands do that,
like provided you know, the recent current records are good,
of course and you actually one see that material. But
I'm a fan of you know, sort of album in
full or you know, deliberately themed type presentations, not necessarily
for nostalgia albums, but for this is where we are
right now. This is the show where if you are
like really plugged into our band at this exact moment
in our career, then we're going to really like give
it everything that we've got. I mean, like one of
my favorite album in full type shows I've ever seen
was when Behemoth played The Satanist. When The Satanist was
their most recent album out because it just felt like, yeah,
like this is now, this is contemporary, it's relevant, it's important,
and let's like really, you know, give it the treatment
it deserves. And so, as we say, you know, with
Creeper's whole vibe for sangle War being so seemingly made
for it, I was really looking forward to this. I've
seen Creeper, I mean, of course, you know, countless times,
but just on the Sango Wore cycles. In the last
year or so, I've seen them a couple of times,
but mainly recently in you know, festival type slots like
a bloodstock or support slots like at the the Eisnine
Kills Arena to all. So I was really looking forward
to seeing not only them headlining again, but like specifically
going all in on this, with it being more intimate
than usual shows for them. I think, you know, you
could have imagined maybe them doing this, and I think
what a lot of us would have, you know, in
vision from the beginning of the sangle War cycle, was
them doing you know, trying to up the production basically
and really put on the big theatrical, you know, fucking rocky,
horror meat loaf type show that you imagine from the records,
they obviously went the opposite direction and just went this
is specifically for you know, are hardcore fans basically, which
I think does have its merits as well. So you know,
production wise, it's obviously not the biggest creeper show you've
ever seen. They did do some cool things like clever
usage of lighting and stuff like that, you know, like
kind of lighting their faces from underneath, which I would
think it is a good trick on stage, particularly for
them at this point, because it made them look particularly vampish,
you know what I mean. But it was you know,
small show basically just entirely about presenting the songs and
for you know, these two records, which you I presume
have probably heard our reviews of these two records over
the last couple years as they've come out. Sangravore was
you know, so beloved by you know, the T and
M audience. I believe it's the audience ed album of
the year that year, so I trust that many of
you were really looking forward and going to this as well.
Sang of War two also did extremely well again amongst
you guys, and I think whichever your favorite Creeper record is,
whether it's a new one where it was an old one.
I think a lot of us have a general appreciation
for everything, I suppose, so yeah, was really really looking
forward to this. The support act was a band called
The Howling, who feel like, you know, there's a kind
of an interesting sort of sub ecosystem in the UK
rock scene of bands who feel like they really are
made to support Creeper, you know what I mean. Like
they had album was it The Nightmares a few years ago,
and then this band, The Howling, who musically and visually
really felt like essentially they had been born of like
older Creeper, basically, like the singer in particular was like,
oh yeah, like you are the child of you know,
Will Gouled circa twenty seventeen or something like that. But
they were all right. They did a cover of Like
a Prayer, which was not as good as the Dogma
one that I saw at Bloodstock Firm the other year.
But considering Dogma have you know imploded, Sean need someone
out there covering like a Prayer in spooky fashion at
all times. Basically, uh yeah, Creepers set it was I
believe all but one song off of each Sango Wore
record was played. They did not play Tino Sacrifice shockingly
from Sang of War one, which considered that was again
a big single from that I was surprised, but maybe
they've just played that one, you know, so regularly in
these shorter type slots that it didn't feel as necessary.
And then from the Sanga World two record, they did
not play pav Or Nocturnis, which was maybe a bit
of a shame because that's I think one of the
better songs on that record, really grand closer. But you know,
considering they've got like Further and Forever and stuff to
fit in as well, maybe there's only so many grand
songs that you could fit into the set, So that
was the one that was missing. But you know, otherwise,
every single song from both Sangle War records and even
Time for a you know, a kind of a bonus
track and off cut from this era as well, So
if you're into these records, you were well served. It
was very much a feast Will came out in the
first song wearing an eye patch, and I didn't really
know what that was for. I wasn't quite sure, and
maybe he had her some kind of you know, a
mishap on tour and needed it. But then by the
end the first song he'd removed that, so I'm sure
it's just an in character moment that he's wearing an
eye patch at the beginning for some reason. But yeah,
opened with the I guess the opening little run of
the songle War two records that just came out, So
Mistress of Death into Blood Magic, it's a ritual and
those are songs that I like, I enjoy, I think again,
not my absolute favorite Creeper tracks ever, but it's kind of,
you know, a decent sort of start to things. And
then they hit Lover's led Astray, which I was like, okay, yeah,
that's a ten. Now things are really really hitting up,
and from there just every song really from you know,
both one and two really like kind of just made
you know, made sense and really like made a case
for them being a great little part of the Creeper
set lists. I mean, like, on the one front, these
are the songs that I'm sure many of us, you know,
because they've been out longer, have seen quite a few
times and more often by this stage. But again kind
of as a you know, a celebration of this era,
a hamming hammering home, you know how good these tracks are.
Essentially the Ballad of Spook and Mercy I think has
gone down as one of my favorite Creeper live moments ever,
Like in all of their catalog, that's the one where
when it comes around in the set that's considering. It's
a sort of you know, a slower Moodiers song as well.
It's one of the ones that I will sing for
the loudest and people very much kind of you know,
get in line with that. Black Heaven is the best
Sanga Wore era song from either record for me. I
just absolutely adore it. And again getting this in again
a sort of intimate club environment, this kind of goth
club ready song with that incredible sort of you know,
almost like a prayer issue if you like, religious grandiosity
to particularly the kind of quiral part at the end
of it was very very good obviously, you know, I
think the encore was two you know, sang of War
one era songs, Further Than Forever and to Cry to Heaven,
and both of those in such different ways just absolutely
fucking smash it. The more energetic punk stuff, which is
some of the stuff that I, you know, was maybe
wanting for a little bit on the Sang of War
two record, but the bits of that that come on
the first record, like you know, Sacred Blasphemy and Chapel Gates.
Chapel Gates, they brought up a guy from the stage
who I guess had had a sign or something that
he came up and played bass for Chapel Gates, which,
for an audience perspective, the best thing about that was
the fact that it freed up Sean and Sean, who
has always been the kind of slightly Larry Punk on
stage in that band, just for that one song basically
standing on the side of the stage kind of leering
over the front row of the audience chugin beers, which, hell, yeah, Sean,
I'm glad that you got that moment for you. But
I guess you know, this show is particularly of interest
to me because we've seen most of the Sango Wore
One songs, the exception they're actually being closing the main
set with More than Death, the piano closer from Sango
Wore One, and I would say now that that is
my favorite Creeper album closer. I think it is spectacular
when it comes to those, like you know, piano bass songs.
I think it's the best one that they've done, and
that's the one I don't believe they had played certainly,
if they had, it was only in very rare occasions,
but I don't think they had played it prior to
like this run. Basically, So there are a couple songs
that you know, they were airing for the first time
on this run that felt like the moments for it,
more than Death was very much one that I was
looking forward to, and the considering that's a song where
again in the life en varying particularly it's basically Will
standing at the front on his own, you know, bringing
the audience along with it in terms of the you
know that staging and then certainly the audience reaction to it.
It reminded me of the really incredible, you know, quite
intimate sing along as you would get for Misery back
in the earlier days of Creeper. And obviously, you know,
Misery is a very special song and I hope to
see it back in the set you know, before long,
but as you know, again, a different take on a
kind of similar motif, maybe more than death, with just
that all of the maximum drama that you see in
you know, Peak, will goods when he's leaning into that
direction and bringing the crowd along with it. It was
one of those really fantastic moments that I think, you know,
many of us has had at Creeper shows down the year,
So that was brilliant. But the songle were two songs
outside of the you know, couple of bigger singles that
they were doing at places like you know again that
Eistan Kills tour. These are all the ones that were
basically fresh, and so I was very you know, curious
to see how they would go down. And like I said,
I mean in terms of album tracks and stuff, gotta
say they were crackers, like really really really good daydreaming
in the dark with that full on, you know, fucking
top gun volleyball, you know whoa really comes into its
own in the live environment more than it did on record,
I think, and I liked it on record. You go
through again to the kind of the more you know,
kind of like you know, Gothic, darker leaning songs like
the Crimson Bride and Pray for the Night and stuff,
and again these are kind of the almost the I
don't want to use the term the dregs because that's very,
very harsh but like, you know, they're the sort of
like the last guffs I suppose of like this is
what we're doing with the Sango Wore stuff. Here are
just some more really fun album tracks for you. But
again they come into the set and you are really
really having a good time with them. In terms of
the again, these Sanga Wore two songs that almost felt
like they were the event of this particular tour in
the way that more than Death perhaps was from the
first record I think everybody before this tour had even
you know started, really everyone kind of unanimously agreed, okay,
it's the Razor Wire at all, because Razor y becoming
such an immediate fan favorite from sang of War two,
as the you know, the Hannah led song from both
sangle War records. Really the first one didn't have one,
and the Hannah led songs have often been you know,
fan favorites. You know, think of course Crickets from from
way back in the day, but raise a Wire being
a contender for the best one they've done in that there,
and I think people knew that, Okay, this is the
tour where that's getting aired, doubt, and that's going to
be just a really celebratory moment for everyone, and like,
you know, they made a meal of it. They gave
obviously the current day creeper presentation of like you know,
the the vampire makeup and the slicked black hair and
the leather jackets and that kind of stuff. Hannah wearing
these like you know, enormous fucking leather boots and fishnets
and stuff like that. But she had like a special
custom leather jacket just for herself with a particular like
razor wire themed painted artwork on the back, you know,
with the Mistress on it and stuff like that. Whenever
she was like not actually singing a line in that song,
she would turn her back to the crowd and just
kind of like you know, flex it about a little
bit so people could really take in, like, you know,
this is the rais of why I'm moment. And yeah,
again that like Jessica Rabbit but evil you know, jazz
club kind of noir sing along vibe to that, the
whole Misfits you know, skulls reference in the bridge and
stuff like that going there an absolute treat with the
sing alongs. That was again another really really strong fun
moment from it, and another bit that again I was
happy to see because I don't think they're gonna keep
this in the set, particularly after this point, because again,
of all the songs, here was the one that the
least people I think you know, knew and recognized, but
the one of the again bonus tracks from the Sanguavore
kind of deluxe edition that they did, which again I
think a lot of people maybe you forgotten that even happened,
But like when they put out the deluxe edition of
the First Angle Wore like a year later and it
was like three bonus songs on it. Love and Pain
particularly from that record is one I think is a
really like again pretty much just as good as a
lot of the songs that are on the main Sangovore records.
And seeing that air for what I'm gonna probably presume
is one of the only times in their history they'll
be playing a song from you know, that particular sort
of again deluxe addition or whatever. And I love that
song because it's it's, you know, one of the least
rocking moments of their set in that moment, but it
leans really fully into facer to being like kind of
a you know, a drab, really gloomy but quite pretty
as well. Gossong basically and I love that track, and
again I was happy to see it in the set
for what is probably going to be its one world
around really good and yeah, I noticed as well as
last month, I think it was marked the ten year
anniversary of the first time that I saw Creeper, which
was when they played The Underworld for the first time.
I think, right as The Stranger Epe was coming out,
and just again sort of around the ten year mark
of that, when I've seen them basically more than any
other band in those ten years, getting a show like
this where the you know, the presentation, the vibe, the
you know, the kind of the whole look and the
way they play and everything of the band is massively
different and unique to what they were doing at that
moment ten years ago. But they're still, you know, they
still have that kind of that really loyal fan base.
And I was looking around again in this kind of
Yaen Smaller than You, very specifically themed in this thing
that's again kind of out of the zeitgeist. It's not
really you know, in tune with anything else is going
on specifically celebrating this, you know, Sanguavore, Vampire Rock opera
kind of era they're in and looking around and being like, yeah,
you know, this is cool. This is still you know,
they've changed and they've gone through different iterations and stuff,
but this is still essentially the you know, the our
little creeper cult kind of vampire golf band that people
are you know, really still passionate about. So thoroughly enjoyable
little time at the sanguaiteour seeing the you know, the
the real proper you know in in the works kind
of celebration of the Sangwavore records. I'm sure obviously Sanga
War two is only like six months old or something
like that. Like I said, so, I'm sure that we'll
have plenty more shows and touring and stuff in this
iteration of Creeper before whatever it is they decide to
you know, do after that. But getting the you know,
at this moment for it if at the right moment
to really again you know, give it what it's worth.
So good, Yeah news. This time we are going to
congregate mainly around I sometimes talk about how there are
particular dates in the music industry calendar where for some reason,
everyone you know kind of again congregates and primarily releases
their albums like around a certain date. For whatever reason,
today's date, We've got a bunch of album announcements all
for July the seventeenth, So enjoyers of July the seventeenth,
listen up, because these are the new albums that have
been coming up that day. And there's a few of
the the bigger releases that are gonna be out this year,
I think for us coming on the horizon specifically. Then
first up, the most long or waited one, Loathe, have
finally actually announced their new album, the follow up to
the I Let It In and It Took Everything album
that really took the world by storm back in twenty
twenty six years ago. For so long we have been like,
oh my fucking god, when a Loath we're going to
release a follow up album. They play every single festival
every single year, and they have the exact same songs
that they put out six years ago. But that record
has been again kind of almost outside of myself because
I you know, I enjoy Loath for what they are,
but it's been a weird observance, I guess, oh, you know,
watching how genuinely seminal this bound seemed to be for
like a particular generation of a particular Zene scene and
kind of you know, a type of current heavy music fan.
I suppose so like this particularly in that crowd. This
record has been so long away. It's been almost a
year since they put out that stand Home single last year,
which people were at that point were like, oh my god,
finally we must be getting more on new music, and
then almost a whole year past, and that was a
strange single as well, wasn't it quite all over the
place in terms of a you know, a piece of songwriting.
But finally the album is called A Stranger to You
out as I said, July seventeenth, Sharp Tone Records, and
there is a single out from it called Revenant. This
particular single also features Nowhere to Run, that of course
being Jamie Morgan and Eric Shade Ballerrows from formerly Code Orange.
They're kind of industrial electronic producing thing, and you know,
from the listener of this single I've given it, there
are some you know, quite aggressive I suppose, electronic elements
that do you know, they feel like coming from you know,
the the minds of you know, the guys behind Code
Orange and now Nowhere to Run as well. Yeah, like
I said, I think We're going to be talking a
lot more about Loath into the second half of this year,
as finally the you know, follow up album campaign really
gets underway. But big news and certainly probably the most
spoken about heavy release sort of come out in July
on the horizon there. But we also have I suppose
actually to keep it on the Loathe front. I will
add in here that also Outbreak Festival has added a
handful of new bands to there. This is now the main,
you know, the actual Outbreak Weekend rather than the various
like sub outbreaks that appear throughout the year. But the
main you know, Manchester Weekender has been added. You know,
Loathe are on there obviously, but also Joyce Manner are
on their Algernon CADWALLADRT, which apparently I'm not familiar with
that name at all, but I think you know, some
excitement out there for that lip critic Shady Nasty, I
Promised World, which is the post hardcore bound who put
out that kind of really myspacey revival EP earlier this year,
Thistle East Exchange and Midriff, so a few cool names
therefore the Outbreak goers. But back to our July the
seventeenth album announcements. The Mensingers have got their new album
which is called Everything I Ever Saw, and there is
a single out from that called Chance Encounters as well.
The main sort of news I suppose that is, you know,
of interest coming with this particular Mensinger's album announcement here
is that they are working with will Yip again on
the production front. And the last couple of Mensinger's albums,
actually it was the last one, which is the one
I think they did without Will yet, but the last
couple of Menzeger's albums that people have had, you know,
they're kind of minor production quibbles and stuff about them,
I suppose interestingly, But with this and there's a single
out called Chance Encounters, which is the first track on
it as well, I think there's a lot of celebration
going around really that Yeah, Mensingers are kind of sounding
how I don't know, people in an ideal world seem
to want the Mensingers to sound and yeah, a really
nice chorus on this track. So good to looking forward
to the men Singers on July the seventeenth and that record,
and then the third record that's coming around that date
coming announced this week is Boundaries, the again an interesting
thing to observe, you know, metallic hardcore band essentially, and
how they have kind of gone down. What I'm referring
to there is that they recently put out early a
single from this record that fascinated me because they put
out a single that was so like blocked up in
the mix that their fans you know, retaliated against it,
and they ended up retracting it and re releasing it
again with a different mix, which was a really fascinating
turn of events for me. But their new album is
called Yearning the Beautiful After, and I am I guess
I'm curious to observe again how that goes down with
people and what kind of route they've followen followed it
with considering the again that particular mishap they had. But
there you go. No album announced right now, but the
last new single that I want to talk about this
week comes from Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. We've put
a track called Don't Let It Control. And this comes
I think, ahead of a new album that's coming out
sometime soon also right now. It comes with a UK
tour announcement for November of this year, where they're going
to be playing Wolverhampton, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol, Southampton, Brighton,
Norwich and Nottingham, so quite a you know, a decently
extensive UK tour there as well. And this really excites
me because I'm class and debates are you know, a
band I absolutely love, but considering it's only been about
two years since they did that like really mad sort
of yellow soundtrack style concept record they did, and they
did a very limited tour, performing just very small handful
of shows of like that iteration of the band. Wish
I'd got into seeing that it didn't work out for me,
but I kind of assumed after again how much work
went into that. I suppose that we might not actually
see Unclass in the Dead Beats again for like another
few years and they would kind of, you know again
disappear for a while. So I'm surprised and not at
all ungrateful to see them emerging again so soon. It's
been a long time since I've seen them do a
headline show, so I am really excited about the tour,
but of course a record coming as well, and considering,
like I said, the very particular direction that their last
album went into this track that they've released, Don't Let
It control really like fully going back into the sleazy
killer sixties seventies rock and roll side a thing of
it basically like there are hand claps in this, there's
the old classic trick of the one piano line just
being hammered on it like it's a rager, this track
in the you know, the kind of confines of what
Uncle Aid do. So very much looking forward and excited
about that coming on the horizon. Then we have Metallica
continuing their reissue campaign, their massive expanded, you know, fucking
eleven discs for every single one recy campaign of what
has so far been. I think their entire catalog reload
is coming soon. Obviously Load came last year, so there
was a lot of you know, Load thirtieth anniversary reassessment
and stuff like that that was going on last year.
Reload following on that, coming out June the twenty sixth,
again bound to be countless bonus discs and content and
stuff like that. I think people will be very very
curious if it stops there. Maybe they'll do garaging you know,
the lead after the year after perhaps, but I think
people are basically really waiting, are we going to get
seven discs of Saint Anger, I do hope so on
a personal level, but Reload coming in an expanded form
in June. Then just a couple more show announcements, the Cavalerras,
the Cavallera Brothers, they have added one more date in
the UK of their KOSAD current celebrations in the live
environment they have been doing. The Cavalleras, of course, have
gone through most of the classic Sepultury records. They did Roots,
they did Arizon, Beneath the Remains Together, they did Morbid
Visions and Best Your Devastation together with a little bit
of Schizophrenia in there as well. Currently doing KOSAD. They
are performing that download, but if you're not at download
then I believe just ahead of that weekend, on Thursday,
the eleventh of June, they are playing the Electric Ballroom
in London, which, again, considering that's how little diary that
record is, that's like a decently intimate setting I think
to actually see them playing, you know, some of the greatest,
most classic metal songs of all time, I think it's
mad that of all of these Cavallera anniversary you know,
classic Sepultura shows that they've done, the only one that
I have seen is the first wave black beltle one
when they did like Morbid Visions and BESTHW with Devastation.
I didn't see Roots because I'm pretty sure they only
played it like in London at download. I don't really
know where I was when the Horizon one was happening,
but I don't think it was as extensive and the
same thing happening here with Kosad, why is the one
they decided to do the proper like expanded ukked all
for the most niche one that the least people like.
I mean, I'm really happy about it. I think if
any of them are going to pick to see I
would have picked them more with Visions one, just because
those are songs that you are never getting seen outside
of a troop to do maybe you know in your
average either Cavallera or sepulteer a set and it was
really cool and unique to see that, But bizarre that
that's the one that like had the widest know certainly
in the UK at least the widest accessibility. But everybody
in London who is going to go along to see
the Kosad show, I'm jealous of you enjoy And then
finally here damnation, who are really continuing at the moment
of basically like adding new stuff every week, aren't they,
But they are adding yet more bands this time, just
as I'm going to record here, they have added three
bands to this year's bill, Pelican, Frontier and Krallis Pelican,
a you know, quite revered post rock post metal band
from the around the noughties. Frontier, I think a lot
of people in the T and M audience will will
know and be fond of really like one of the noisiest,
kind of mathy hardcore metal bands in the world at
the moment. Really, Krallis feels like the real like wild
card on this not in terms of fitting in a
Damnation bill because they do perfectly, But I don't think
they've ever played the UK. If they have, it's certainly
very very limited, a very you know, part of that
kind of American and I think New York based experimental, jazzy,
procy black metal scene. But like I think they've just
played road Buns, so maybe they're just expanding into Europe
a little bit at last. But like that's a real
rare get to see Krales on there, so that's pretty
awesome actually not one that I saw coming, and happy
happy to see it there. So yeah, that's the news.
This week. We have got over in patreonland for That's
Not Metal. Coming pretty soon, you know, in the next
kind of week or so, we are going to be
doing the album club Pack that we announced on last
week's show. Last week we did the reviews here, but
we also revealed the next coming album club Pack, which
I will reiterate here features Counter Your Blessings from Bringing
the Horizon because obviously we have to reassess that at
this exact moment. It is also going to feature the
party masterpiece of Eath Thrash Metal that is Municipal Wastes
the Art partying. We're also going to be going back
in time with Rollo Tamassi, another great UK band from
a similar era but still going strong today of course,
but we are going back to their debut era record Hysterics.
And then in the underground Metallee corner, we're gonna be
talking about a real cult favorite of mine, maybe one
that not many people know, but I encourage people to,
you know, listen out for Caladan Brood's Echoes of Battle.
And then once that is in the can, we are
going to be looking to do the second part of
our Corn Special that is again currently underway, our current
band special that's happening on the Patreon getting into all
things Corn and the Godfathers of new Metal of course,
so that is what is coming up. Patroon of com
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Releases this time, we have two week's worth of releases
because last week was the reviews show and so last
Friday along with the records that we reviewed throughout last Friday.
So that's the at the Gates album and the Portrayal
of Guilt album that we spoke about more in depth.
I hope that everybody has been listening to those because
you really should give both of those listen if you
have not. But elsewhere we had the Foo Fighters, the
probably the biggest rock band in the world right Your
Food Fighters Your Favorite Toy album came out, and this
is interesting because I've seen basically no talk about it,
certainly in our audience, like no one seems to care.
We're probably not going to review it for that reason.
And I you know, I listened to the record. I
think you know, the single didn't instill a lot of
hope in US, and I wouldn't say it's necessarily a
complete car crash of you know, a total embarrassment of
an album, but I don't think it's a good record,
and it kind of sounds like an album full of
white limos if white Limo was not a good song
and didn't make you want to listen to. It's a
very strange thing that they've got going on where they seem
to have like that, I don't know, the millionaire rock
star compensation that goes on, which is what again. When
the single came out, I was kind of liking it
in my mind to something like Father or Motherfuckers by
Green Day, because I think it's a similar attitude that
somehow happens where in order to make something seem raw
and like off the you know, the garage floor, all
that kind of stuff, they put this like really tinny,
like kind of contrived production filter on it essentially, But
the songs themselves are often still quite tepid and quite boring,
so you end up with this weird mixture of like
flat songs that also sound like quite painful, and it's
like kind of unlistenable sometimes again, strange effect. I don't
think it really worked for them. Maybe it's what they
needed to do at this moment in time on a
personal level, but yeah, not not great. The Free Fighters record,
I also presume not great is the anti Afflictions album
House of Cars that came out last week. And then
fucking hell Real Rogues Gallery here a tray you also
put at the end is not the end. But we
also have the returning you know, a good decade or
so into now their reunion Space Rock, Post hardk or
whatever you want to call them. Failure came back with
Location Lost. Then one of the most revered and consistent
bands in the hardcore world, Terror put Out. I think
they're in like double figures of albums at this point
in time. Still suffer a newer upcoming name on the again,
kind of metallic hardcore, a bit of scream o front
seen some chatter about it. Roman Candle had unadulterated into
the sludge world. There's Armed for Apocalypse with the Earth
is Breathing beneath Me Who that's again kind of a
cult sludge band. But I know that bands like Kondura
and stuff like that have been very keen on like
bigging them up in terms of that just like low, churning,
burly kind of sound math rock. I suppose instrumental, you know,
Noodley stuff Doja Cat's favorite, Guy Plini. He put out
an album called an Unnameable Desire. There was another solo
album I think he has a few at this stage,
but another solo album from you know, an ever creative figure,
Aina Solberg from Lepres his album vox A Culta. Then
to go back into some I don't know. We weard
like sixties seventies proto metal. I think it's kind of
the vibe here as a band called Admiral Sir Cloudsly
Shovel with the Trouble with the Shovel, of course, move
slightly forward in the heavy metal timeline to get to
more the eighties period. And there's a band called demon
Spell with Blessed be the Dark, six feet under death
and Roll Chris Barnes, of course, a death metal legend
who has not necessarily been in his finest form recently.
But their new album called Next to Die came out
Scimitar Wild. We are definitely We're gonna put this one
in the next reviews bag. Talk more about this, because
I think this is a band that you know, we
can infuse about a band called Scimitar, kind of on
the boundary between like old school heavy metal and the
most vicious, scathing, wild black metal that you can imagine.
I'm seeing them this weekend as part of the whole
incineration you know, goings on, so I'm looking forward to that.
But they're Simtarium two album. We spoke about the first
one a little bit last year, but we're gonna go
a little bit harder maybe on this one. Then in
the black metal world, the Scottish black metal band Notock
and Ursa returning with their first record in a little while.
I think a Cry for the Slain UK black metal
kind of more straightforward, just you know, bloodthirsty stuff, blood
Countess with imperatric sanguinous, very good Creeper would approve. And
then a couple of EPs from last week. This is
again kind of interesting. They just sort of like leaked
out there. Sepulturer put out The Cloud of Unknowing as
a three or four track EP, I think, and it
has been described as the last new Sepulturer release, and
I think it's I don't know, it's kind of a
shame that you know, this absolutely again legendary band and
still had decently been putting out good records in the
last decade or so, with you know, the reigorated lineup
and everything. Their final you know offering as part of
their kind of farewell you know, campaign's been going for
quite a while now, was this, like you can, short
little EP that just kind of seemed to come and
go because maybe it's an EP format I don't really know,
but there you go, the last SEPULTURER EP. I think
it's decent. I don't think it's as good as the
last couple of albums they've done, because it is worth
noting that obviously, you know, Eloksa Grande, who had really
injected a lot of life blood back into that band
when joined on drums, is you know, not in Sepultuary
now because he's in Slept not obviously. So I think
it's the first thing they've done in a while without
him on it. And it's not as you know, again
wild as those, but there is some weird maybe it
doesn't all come together, but kind of the strange, creative,
you know, eccentricity and kind of Maverick quality that I
definite they always got credit for with like orchestration and
you know, fucking world music kind of coming together and
stuff like that in a way that is like really
off the wall. You can hear on this EP. Again,
I don't know if it entirely works at all times,
but at least it's a swinging for the fences kind
of final statement, even if it is essentially again just
a short little EP. And then we also had from
the upcoming death metal world Vomit fourth put an EP
called in the Name of the father Less. Notable releases,
I think this week as we come to the first
of May, but still a few out there that you
are going to want to be interested in. We have
the new album from American Football, the you know second
wave emo Midwest emo legends, I think, you know, maybe
their third record at this stage of the comeback here.
They've had it to American Football LP four I believe.
Then we have a Kneecap, obviously of course not even
really a rock band, but certainly have you know, you
know ingratiate themselves into the hearts of many a you know,
T and M world type listener. So Kneecap, the Irish
hip hop act. You do not need me to tell
you who her kneecap Are but their record Fenian is
out today. Then there is seven Dust again long running
sort of part new metal, part American radio rock. There
god knows how many abs they have, but their album
called One is out. Then as we go into again
some homegrown bands here from from the UK, we have
a Cage Fight, who are a upcoming sort of thrashy
hardcore type mix of sensibilities. There. I think they are
again attracting a few more fans and a few you know,
heads turning towards them around this point in time in
the UK scene. So interesting to see if you know,
this record brings them a little bit more of that
kind of thing the records called Exzuvia. Then we have Venom,
of course, the you know, the the pioneers of blackened
metal if you like black metal or not. They were
certainly you know, part of that, weren't they. And I
must point out that this is the main Venom, that
this is the one that's fronted by Kronos, rather than
Venom Inc. Which is the slightly more I don know,
regularly seen one these days, but featuring you know, other guys.
Venom's album Into Oblivion their first and a Handful of
Years is out today again into more underground, occult and
strange sort of heavy metal circles. There's a band called
Spell with an album called Wretched Heart, very raw, like
properly low fire, but if you're into that, then you
can go for this black metal band called Black Salice
from Portugal, I think, with their album called Votive Fire.
There is a band called Effluence, which is a band
who we mentioned a little bit at the end of
last year. This is the band who came up doing
essentially like brutal death metal, but on the record they
put out last year there was no guitars instead all
like mad jazz piano. They have another record out today
called Anticholinergic Derangement, and sonically I don't know what's going
on this one because I haven't heard any of it yet,
but they seem like a kind of band who will
be again doing something wild and maverick with their sort
of chosen form of you know, underground toilet stuff from
record to record, so I trust there'll be something interesting
going on. And then finally an EP out today from
again a UK based kind of tech death band called
Infected Death. Amongst other things, they feature the former bassist
of Pupil Slicer. At this stage he's in that band
with their EP called Invictor. So that is your round
up today. Thank you very much for being with me.
We will be back next week, not only with the
again the Patreon update where we're gonna do that album
club Imagine. We are going to be counting all all
the blessings that you want us to count. But next
week we're back here as well, and I will be
here with a report from everything that went down at
Incineration Festival in London right now. After this, I am
off tonight to go see Dragging to Sunlight and then
kick off that whole weekend of celebration, So we'll be
back for that next week. Cheers everybody. Bye,