Speaker 1: All right, now, Hi everybody, welcome to That's Not Metal,
your weekly rock and heavy metal podcast, and welcome this
time to another edition of Hyperblast, which is our weekly
speedy rock and heavy metal news show where we let
you know everything that you should know that's happened in
the last seven days or so. Today might be a
slightly beefier than usual edition of Hyperblasts because we have
a lot of live music reports and announcements. I suppose
both me and Sam who is here, Hello Sam, say hello, hello,
I'm here. Yes, yes, both me and Sam had you know,
our first shows of the year of twenty twenty five
this past week to talk about.
Speaker 2: Second show for me, technically I didn't get talk about it,
but Bett Lovers was a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Fucking how completely forgot about that? Okay, fair enough, first
shows we're talking about, all right, fucked it. But you know,
one of the at least one of those is one
of the biggest high profiigans tours of this whole year,
so we got that to talk about. But then also
not content with that, we have one of i mean
one of the biggest announcements of the last handful.
Speaker 3: Of the most absurd things we've said, well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely crackers. And then to top all that off
as well, it was like Grammy's Week and some others
have to go on as well. So we are going
to get into all of that over the next I
don't know hour or so whatever it might be, So
strapping rights first shows of the year. Aside from that
Better Lovers one that you mentioned, I know you went
to see mad Ball as well, so you know, I'm
sure mable were mad Bull.
Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, on like fifty minutes of just stomping New
York hard core.
Speaker 3: It rich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not to be dismissive with them.
Speaker 3: Love.
Speaker 1: Mad Ball was just something that.
Speaker 2: Is you're not going to get like a big report
from Madville because it's just them rolling through town doing
what they do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for them. But I believe about twenty four
hours later or so, right, you went along to isn't
it called the Poison Descendants the Poison Descendancy Tour, which
is of course the combined twentieth anniversary tours for Bilking
My Valentine, the Poison album and Trivium's Descendancy, which was
marketed from day one as like a big deal, maybe
the big event tour of this whole year because of
the way they announced it with like an actual press
conference and all of this kind of stuff. And they
were going for bigger venues and either band normally do
on their own. And I'm sure everyone's going to want
to know what was like if they weren't going on
to it. So Sam, take us into uh you went
to to the London two, wasn't it?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Again like big wait, the first arena Trivium ever plat
headline like Codlin and it's the O two that they
they've not do, only padly not done. So for them,
like for Truvium, that is like huge step up. Bullet
have had you know, some experience in arenas, so they're
a bit more arena you'd say, arena ready, but again
still by far the biggest thing they've done. So yeah,
like this is it is. It wasn't just you know
them seventieions. They were growing for the big fry. They
were like they were like going for the big big
deal O to I think was the co Op in Manchester,
like like the real kind of like lofty venues.
Speaker 3: So yeah, all the culture supporting didn't make much of them.
Speaker 1: They're the go to Trivium support band at the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they were fine.
Speaker 2: They got a decent reception, but it was a bit
one note for me, so I not that much I
was to say about them. So yeah, Trivium and Bullet
in London, I know they were alternating who went on
last in different cities.
Speaker 3: In London, Bullet went on last.
Speaker 2: I think they clearly kind of like poured some strings
because from what I gather, they had a bigger production
budget in London than the rest of the tour and
all that sort of stuff. So I don't fine. They
were like, yeah, no, we want to we want to
be on last because we want to do all all
all of this big show. But Trivium come on and
like you know, you get that intro on on Ascendency,
and I was kind of like, ah, as Rabbis says
that keyboard sounds.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. I wouldn't change it for the world.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I wouldn't change it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't change it. It feels my heart like it
makes you feel warm, fuzzy inside. Because then I know
that rain's about to kick in and I'm gonna be
like fuck yeah, let's fucking go. And I have got
to say when Rain kicked in, I was quite far
forward because one of my friends who was like true
his favorite band, and so we were like, we'll go
fairly far forward. The pit that kicked off from Rain,
it's one of probably the rowdiest Triviun crowd I've ever seen.
They were so up for it at that London show,
and again like them in like a bigger reader. You know,
sometimes the really crowds can be a little bit more
like because it's so big, they can be a bit
more timid. But no Trivium crowd were just at it
for pretty much the entire set, and they rarely led
up from like Rain. It wasn't until like the kind
of like last few songs in the album where the
energy sort of started to waver a little bit because
they've just been going absolutely batshit for the entire Trivium
set and like Rain was like fucking yeah, this is
a big open. You're gonna go like, oh yeah, they're
about to play there like nine times out of ten
closer second in the set, let's fucking go pull hard
on the strings.
Speaker 3: Your matera rips in like.
Speaker 2: They had the stage sets, subsou they had like the
it was called that the hellhole was like the Metallica
snake pit sort of thing like in the middle of them,
so that they were coming out to like along the
side of the walkway. Matt was like on that for
like almost the entire set, So I do want it
was like, what if it was like watching it from
in there, if you're watching the back of Matt's head
for the most of the set.
Speaker 3: But the whole band were kind of like playing up to.
Speaker 2: Like to that part of the crowd into the stage,
and they had like the first thing they had was
like a big kind of the like acendenity theme but
unique backdrop which looked really cool, and they had that
for the first couple of songs, and then a couple
of tracks in that drops down you get a little
mini kind of drum solo just as they're prepping the
next bit of the stage show, and up in flates
the giant ascendency goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is amazing, looking.
Speaker 2: Like it looked like it was like, go on to
him if this is your first one, Arenas, you've decided
what is a really fun, unique kind of novel, And
I think you're only gonna getn Arena And it's a
giant inflatable of your album.
Speaker 1: Doing the invisible orange hands as the guy on the
famously does, but E's And the thing is.
Speaker 3: That because tis still and that I don't think it
was meant to be.
Speaker 2: It was that warbling, so was like he was reaching
out to you, and it like gave it this this
really cool Soprea much fan and it felt like, I say, Trivium.
They what they've done is they've gone, we're not gonna
go crazy on Pyro and laser shows and all that
we've got and have one major set piece that is
gonna just look really fucking coronsation like that. The BADS
was like kind of wings coming off from as well,
which looked really cool.
Speaker 3: So like, even though that.
Speaker 2: One on the actual inflatable, it was just another cool
visual and then you know they're just ripping through ascendency.
That album is fucking amazing, you know, going start thetation
crowd is like bouncing up and down.
Speaker 1: I saw it a few like again, so I was
watching this essentially through many other people. Yeah, many different
angles of Instagram video. And that's again people who are
in that little snakepit thing you're talking about, people sort
of in the normals downing area and then people kind
of you know, sitting on the sides and so on,
and those sort of side profiles. Seeing a venue the
size of you know, the O two and seeing how
much of the floor was indeed like either you know,
spinning or you know, bouncing up and down dry gunshot
like you're saying I did. I looked at those veners like, dah,
this is like a you know, kind of bird's eye
view of like what looked like a legitimate I know
it was a co headline, but you know, it just
looked like this is a trivial crowd that happens to
be fucking massive going for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that that is honestly what it felt like.
And again I was going forward, so I was in it.
We were kind of stood to the side, kind of
a little bit safe to us. I wasn't like directly
in the pit, but I was kind of like adjacent
to it, so I could always have a good view
of like how rabid they were. And I was quite
far forward parallel was like a man of was shirt
like what a lad?
Speaker 1: I saw that? Good lad?
Speaker 2: I was like, yes, rock on, but yeah, you know,
and then you had like dying in your arms. I
was just like everyone belting that song out like like
again like that. To me, it was actually been every
Drivium set because it's just huge and it's like what
they haven't played for the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: I was like, as much as.
Speaker 2: You know we've discussed, Ascendency does kind of make up
the bulk of a lot of Trivium sets they do
swapping out those songs. But I reckon, if you've seen
Trouthm a lot over the last couple of years, you've already,
over various states seen two first to three quarters of Ascendency,
So maybe that does kind of like dot the specials.
But when you're getting it all in one go and
you're kind of going, oh, this this album front to
back track list, absolutely unfucking real, like so good.
Speaker 3: And like them playing it with so much power, Matt.
Speaker 2: Like commanding an arena crowd, you know, sugod night we
are here like kind of like properly like getting people
like really rowdy. It was incredible and it felt like
I say it did, I was kind of forget it.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, fuck, bullet, I'm gonna come on
haf of this because Trivium.
Speaker 2: They just felt so assured in controlling an arena crowd.
And so when they finished the album and they get
one last like this time in Waves, and you get
again the pe entry and he's that everyone crouched down.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, Matt, your bass don't make me
crouched down.
Speaker 2: But again for in Waves, I didn't turn aud and
think of everyone back was but people got down that
they they did it slip what style it was?
Speaker 3: The crowd responded.
Speaker 2: The crowd were willing to go with Trivium on this
kind of like what is a bit past now the
whole crowd doesn't jump up, but it felt right in
the moment for everyone to give Trivium this kind of
like rowdy like send off within Waves, and it was.
It was genuinely incredible, and like Matt during the set
sort of cordy shots saying like we're all here, you know,
seventeen thousand heavy much it was in the arena like
it was. I was looking around standing was like rammed
to capacity and the seating maybe a couple of empties
here and there, but it was pretty damn near sold
out like that. This was not a like like there
was this one you know the two were the top
layer was shot off or anything. They were playing the
two is pretty much capacity and he was like, you
can do this. Next time I went download, I want
us to be headlining, and I was like, yeah, that's
the dream, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things like if he if this
had happened like a couple of years ago, I would
have said, no chance because of those loops. You know
that down the ahead the bands have to jump through
when you look at you know, the way they've changed
the bill. You know that going forward this year with
Corn finally getting their shot and sleep Token jumping up
the headline and all that, I know, obviously I think
I like Trivium. I guess still do have some way.
But you know they've done the O two as part
of a co headline thing. Could they do that on
their own? I don't know. But I mean, at the
very least, like you're saying, I mean, I'm gonna say
something kind of similar about the gig that I went to,
and it was on a much much more scale. It's
a co headline show. But where you've got to say,
surely almost everyone there is a Trivium fan and was
there for to some degree to see Trivium, So that
is an awful lot of people.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely, and.
Speaker 2: Even again during it was the deceivel when they got
one to get their like phone lights out, and that
was like a like and again every pretty much everyone
did it. So it wasn't a you know, even some
co headliners where like the crowd are a bit athetic
to the first band or everyone leaves after the first band.
It didn't feel like that. It felt like everyone was
there for both. And it just meant that Trivia felt
like a like really powerful, kind of like nostalgic, but
not like because it was you know, it was female
es sense. It was a look back to two thousand
and five. It was a celebration of that. But it
didn't feel totally regressive. It felt like kind of just
they put the effort in. They were kind of celebrating
this monumental album from the Matt like talks about, you know,
two thousand and five. When they were playing the Garage
and standard, it went by so quickly that this kind
of felt like, well, we can actually savor touring ascendency
on this.
Speaker 3: That was kind of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Trivian kind of earned their moments of
nostalgia because they are so productive and relevant still, you
know they can go, Okay, here's a year where we're
going to go down memory lane, I suppose, which brings
us on to the following burn.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, if on Valentine, who so, I will say,
like if we flash back to me circle two thousand
and six and seven getting into metal. The Poison one
of the first metal lambs I ever fell in love with. Yeah,
like legitimately, like I heard Tears Don't Fall, all these
things I hate hand I first time I heard them
was hand of Blood on Need to Speed most wanted,
like like that's still thing again. It was there on
those bands and I was like, fuck, that song's like
really hard. I need to listen to this band. And
so like part of me like might even have a
deep in my heart a soft spot for the Poison
and the Scency just because of how bit more formative,
but it did still feel like for me, I was
kind of like, well, truly, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Gonna be really fucking good. Star is Bullet gonna just be? Oh?
Speaker 2: I love hearing these Poison songs live and the thing
with the Bullet set When they were good, they were
fucking brilliant. They were really really again, like really good.
When you're dropping Tears Don't Fall third in the set,
like that song. If a metalcore band came out of
a song like Tears Don't Fall right now, we lose
our minds over how good it is because that song
is is huge.
Speaker 3: It's like it is.
Speaker 1: Quite a thing. As you say, dropping it third in
the third, I think when you say said the same
thing about Trivium or Paul Harder, you kind of know
they've got more in the tank for later. Whereas the
poison feels of it or like Tears Don't Fall is
surely whatever one it knows to be the the you know,
the closer and the poison again, it's it's a app
It is completely a classic formative record and everything, but
when you look at the track list, it is more
front loaded in terms of the hits, shall we say,
and you know when you look at the last like
three songs, and I'm not saying they're bad songs, far
from it, but I am saying in terms of like
when you're building to the grand finale of a show,
it's maybe an album that doesn't quite build in that
same way.
Speaker 2: I mean as supposed to say like the last because
like some I know, some people say like after dialing
your arms descendency, what was I'm like, I don't agree
with that. Again, I don't necessarily agree with the poison
because I love the title ta I love ten years today, and.
Speaker 1: I think I think it also comes into a fact though,
what they've got for their own core right where Trivium.
Sure they play essentially are you know one of my
favorite songs of Sense his departure so like I love
that back end, but they've got in waves in the
wings waiting whereas you know what Bullet decided to do.
I guess, like I.
Speaker 2: Mean, Bullet had waken the demon, so I thought it
was it's knives and waking they did too, so like
again like in the situation did you need to do knives?
But so Bullet, like I mean you say about to
before all these things I hate almost felt like the
Sense piece of the set, like that was huge when
they played that, the crowd went mental for it, And
I'm again that's one of the songs again like Angsty
and try Hard and like emost Is, I love that song.
But Bullets so like for London, they decided to play
all the belt and muscles they had, because I was
wondering because I'd seen some photos of the Bullet Shine.
I saw they had the.
Speaker 3: Screens and I was like, okay, a bullet just kind
of doing screens.
Speaker 2: So they have they not you know, come up with
a big inflatable ascendency goal, like, have they not got
an inflatable poison woman they could have or something like that.
Speaker 1: A whole lot of Rosie for emos.
Speaker 2: Could be, but they had so in London they almost
immediately had Pyro going off during her voice. I was like, oh,
cool that they They've They've clearly pulled some extra things
for London.
Speaker 3: That's cool. But my thing, and I mentioned a few people.
Speaker 2: The Bullet stage show felt odd to me because again
I don't want to be all like, oh, it has
to all be a nostalgic it has to be the
Poison because it can be aggressive. But for me, the
Poison has such a distinct aseetic that album. And again
you can say some of it is dated and and
all those things, fair enough, but if you're going to
do a nostalgia tour about it, commit to the bit.
Speaker 3: At this point this is the.
Speaker 1: Thing that I because like I say, every video that
I saw of Trivian with the big inflatable ascendency Ghouli
at the back and all that looked awesome. Every video
I saw a Bullet looked kind of weird. And it's
this strange like have your cake and eat it too
approach where they use a lot of the album cover
for you know, the latest album with the little kind.
Speaker 3: Of weird shaped skull.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's like a little b or something like
an insect. I don't know, but you know, the little
thing for the emblem from the last album that seemed
to be all over their backgrounds and stuff, and like
that's what the screens were shaped. Yeah, and if they
if the screens changed for that for the uncle when
they play Knives from an album, yeah cool, fine, that's
like the appropriate moment to do it. But there's this
weird thing of like, yeah, we're we're giving into you know,
we're giving you what you want in terms of nostalgia,
and we're playing the poison in full, but the backdrop
the entire TIMEE is just going to be reminding you
that Knives exists. Like what are you doing? Like you've
got to you can't half ass the nostalgia. When you're
playing an album in full, you either go all in
or you don't do it at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was like for Tears Don't Fall right again,
that that that song has such a like you know
everyone who was doing for that then playing in the
rain and yeah, they just had these weird kind of
like kind of like high tick looking screens showing like shapes.
Speaker 3: And the lyrics. It's just like this for Tears Don't Fall,
come on now.
Speaker 2: Like there were a couple of songs, like for the
title track, they had the poison woman lying there on
the screens and I was like, yeah, cool, you know
you've got it for this.
Speaker 3: That looks pretty cool.
Speaker 2: All these things I hate they had, you know, bits
from the video and like kind of like there's some
like angsty sort of imagery and that looked fine. But
all of the songs, it was just it was just
a weird disconnect of like this doesn't these backdrops you
you're trying to make these songs in something they're not.
It landed kind of weirdly, and I was just like
I would I much preferred, like I say, a bespoke
crafted for this tour stagho that Trivium put together as
opposed to Bullet My Valentine just sort of like bringing
out what is that their stage they've got for bigger venues,
but it just feeling like any other Bullet show, and
it just it just made the whole set feel kind
of like, Okay, this is good.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm hearing these points songs. They sound great live.
Speaker 2: They Bullet did sound good and all fire, yeah, we
all like fire, but I didn't feel like I was
seeing something like celebratory like ascendency. Ascendency felt like a
proper triumphant celebration of everything Trivium have accomplished over twenty years.
And when Bullet put said they had, you know, a
video package of like all the things they did in
two thousand and five where they were like playing in
cubs and suddenly they were playing download and the and
the Metal Hammer, Golden God Awards and all these sort
of things, and so I was like, basically all the
things they achieved over the ascent, over the Poison, I
was like, oh, well, they're probably gonna do something, But
then that kind of just disappeared after the after the
intro and crap backing and everything on them. But it
never just kind of had the power of trivium, and
the crowd didn't seem to be going as rabid for
the entire so they perked up for like the big singalongs,
but otherwise it was kind of just like yeah, you know, good, yeah,
having a good time.
Speaker 1: It's like I've seen Bullet do the Poisoning full before
when they last did it, like, you know, almost all
ten years ago, almost a decade ago, and that was
you know, that was a really great time. And you know,
hearing the album and fall and everything is a is
a great show for sure, and I'm sure that they're
going to in terms of just the life performance element.
I'm sure that they were on it in that regard.
But there is something weird that again that I again
I'm only seeing this through just images and videos, and
but this weird presentation that's like almost just embarrassed of
doing the nostalgia and buying into the visuals of that
era when they're doing it with the actual like like
selling the show that way, you know, yeah, just this
bizarre uh not being one thing or the other kind
of thing that did seem kind of strange. But I'm
sure that again they were, like.
Speaker 2: I said the Highless that bullets were absolutely fantastic, and
I was like loving life reliving those songs and being like, ah,
you know, fifteen year old Sam, all these things I
hate still rocks.
Speaker 3: You're you there, you.
Speaker 2: Know, feeling anngs in your room, listening to that song
where your headphones on. You're having a good time.
Speaker 1: Yes. I went to equally larger build co headline tour,
which is actually this is kind of I always forget
that this was a co headline tour with in the
kind of run up to it was really bizarre. I
would to see Cat Decapitation on a bill where they
were co headlining with Shadow of Intent and it was
also a pretty big I guess kind of death metal
and deathcore or whatever a bill underneath them where they
had Ravacation and Volvadinia opening for them. And this was
in uh it's a venue in Manchester called New Century Hall,
which is like a kind of nice venue. Like I
saw Botch there and stuff, and it was weird because
I've only ever seen chatic captation in dingy shittles and
it was like seeing them like like in a venue
that has a barrier and stuff like that. It was
like a large stage was really like odd, and I
was like, this feels too nice for them. But the
size jumpin venue from like the last times I've seen
Catico Importation play Again in Manchester, they played a venue
called Rebellion, which is like three hundred caps something like that. Yeah,
and this again good like I don't know what the
exact is, but somewhere in the like one thousand to
two thousand sort of range, which is a huge jump
from that. And you obviously go, Okay, well, it's a
co headline tour with Shadow Intent along with them. But
I guess sed what you're saying. I was looking around
and I was looking at again, like actually having to like
queue around the block to get into a catteryaptation show
was like really really strange, And I was looking around
people and I was like, surely there isn't this huge
influx of people who are only here for Shadow of
Intent and don't care about cut they appetation. You know.
It's like, I'm sure, God, there's a you know, a
good crossover people who love both bands. Of course, that's
why the tour worked, But I can't imagine that there's
lots of people here who like wouldn't be here for
County Appetation and wouldn't show up to one of their
shows normally, So I was like trying to work out.
I was like, has this like been a you know,
the last time I saw them again was before the
Terror Site album came out.
Speaker 3: Could you miss the last talk because it was, you know,
clashing with the other I.
Speaker 1: Did, Yeah, So I made sure to go see them
this time. But I was like, has there just been
some insane leap in their popularity in terms of like
literally like dub like tripling at least the side of
any of they're playing here from when they were last here,
or is there like I know, tons of Death Corps
fans here who don't normally go to Cowardows. But I
didn't seem that way to be so again, it was
a really interesting trying to gauge. I guess how large
they are based on just the ticket sales and stuff
like that. But you know, obviously a big fun night
out for my first show of the year. Volvadinia South
African slam band. They've been around for ages. They're one
of those slam bands who have like mean pages and
stuff like that, and I kind of remember them from
like ten years ago, but it felt like maybe some
kind of an omen that the first band I saw
live this year was a slam band. Maybe that'll carry
forward in terms of aura or something. Revocation I was
excited about because vacation, but sort of between twenty twelve
and twenty fourteen, I had a real era of them
being like one of my favorite bands. And they're still good.
You know, they've always been good, but just that that
little run of records in that time, I was like
super in on. But I never got seen before just
one of those bands. I just never I've seen them
living their good luck. I've just never ever caught them before.
So I was like, oh cool this band I was
like legitimately a huge fan of like over ten years ago.
And obviously they were like the music of Redacents and stuff.
They weren't playing like here Pernhetish are the songs exclusively
that you ridged between two than and twelve twenty and fourteen,
So I didn't see that my masolute favorite ones. But
they did do like YEA when they went into a
Scorched Dearth policy from the Deathless rec was like, I
remember this one. This is a ripper so that it
was just nice to be like, oh cool ticked off there,
And I also liked something that's all about Cat's imputation
is other bands seem to recognize how weird it is
in terms of the vocals and stuff. Because Dave from Rivacation,
Dave Davidson, he he did he did like a like
a little two was like, you know, like give up
for evolved in here, who's excited for shadow Intent? And
and he did the thing. Yeah, it's nice to other bands,
I don't know, recognize the distinctness of like what Catt'll
do shadow Intent. So again they were builled as like
the co headliner, even though to me it always sort
of struck me as weird. I was like, are they
that big already? That like they are on par with
cattle who have been around for like way way longer,
Like yeah, before Shadow Intent even formed, cattle were on
like monolith of in humanity, which was like when they
really started to get kind some kind of sizeable momentum
behind them. So they don't have the catalog or I
would say, the kind of esteem that cattle currently have.
And that's not really a slant shadow Intent, it's just
cattle are one of the great twenty first century Yes,
the position the band, and I was like, this is
kind of weird and shadow of intent. Again. The crowd
that had come out for this show, where compared to
most death metal shows I go to the crowd even
at normal cattle shows where they're not co headlining with
these kind of type bands and stuff, tends to lean
more in the sort of like death cory, brutal death
metal whatever type direction rather than like the more old
school death metal crowd that I, you know, would maybe
more normally find myself amongst the shows. So you know,
we're talking you know, the the snapbacks and uh you know,
shorts with crazy brutal death bittal logos on that kind
of crowd, and like, you know, those folks were really
like they were up for shadow intent absolutely, and I
was like, okay, cool. You know, this band clearly have
a popularity within this scene and people you know, know
them and stuff, and we're going off them and that
was cool to see and they were good, but live
it feels very much like a a lawn a shot,
you know, by which I mean like it's accomplished, it's proficient. Yeah,
vocalist is very good and he does like the really
precise Yeah, like it does the gutturals really well and
stuff they can play. They've you know, it's all on tape,
but they've got the big like orchestra kind of sounds
as well, but it's not exciting necessarily.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And again like on record, like when we reviewed their
last album a couple of years ago, which I quite enjoyed,
and I was like, this reminds me of Flesh God
Apocalypse because of how like over the top of the
orchestration and stuff is, but live and in presentation it's
nowhere near a theatrical or something like Flesh God Apocalypse
because it's just a kind of death call guys, you know.
And I was like, if you're going to go really
ott and theatrical with the music, you kind of I
want to show to go go with it in the
same way I would get frohim someone like a flesh.
Speaker 2: Gord Or reminds me of as like Brand of Sacrifice
and then another one who have got like all of
that kind of like overland bells and whist stuff. But
when you see it live, it doesn't feel as like BOMBASKI.
It's just like, yeah, it's like defficult guys play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I you know can compare to what came next.
It was kind of you know again they both bands
had like an hour set and it was more one
dimensional for its hour. It was again very solid and everything.
But what they didn't have in comparison to their you know,
co headliner was Bangers, which brings us on to Cattle
the amputation, which.
Speaker 2: Again that we have like chunter captures and Bangers. I
mean they do at this.
Speaker 1: Point absolutely because I mean, for a start, when they
were just setting up you know, their stage and everything
and doing the sound check and stuff, there was a
guy who kept appearing on stage and he was like
helping move things around, but he was wearing what I
can only describe as a full like Grasshopper onesie. So
obviously they had the backdrop with the Terror Site album cover. Yeah,
and they had a guy who was dressed essentially like
as Hopper in like this fucking and I was like,
I was like, is this a part of the stage show?
Like have you have? Cattle suddenly got like just again
a very like fucking mascot, a bloodstock third stage type
thing of like gain a Grasshopper mascot man coming out
and being like neckrobicor whatever. He didn't appear during the
show because it turned out when Cattle actually went on stage,
he ran back to the sound booth and he was
their sound guy the entire like set. I could trim
them into the beer. I turned around behind me and
like doing this sound mixing is the guy still wearing
the full And I was like brilliant, love that view.
And they also like between some of the songs and stuff,
they had like a tape and it was like a
David Attenbro boyfriend, like here we see the terror sites
going around doing its business. So that that was fun.
But Cattle, I mean speaking of the bangers. So they
opened with the Carbon Stampede, which is the first track
on Monolthan Humanity, which is still forever my personal favorite record,
one of my favorite records of all time, and that
was wicked, and then they went straight into the Profits
of Loss and then right it's It's one. Though, was
like yeah, when you say, oh, the opening run and
then the opening run just turned into the whole set. Yeah, right,
So Carbon Stampede, the Profits of Lost, We Eat our Young,
Scourge of the Offspring, bring back the Plague one day
closer to the End of the World. That's like the
first fucking half of the set. I like, bring bout
the player is like there, you know, their new biggest
song these days. But they just checked out in the
middle there. They brought the uh, the guy from Shadow
Intent out to do a bit of vocals with them,
But hilariously, it wasn't actually like the chorus bring back
the play kind of. It was just the horrible stinky
bit at the end where they go so that was it,
and they just did that and left. But it was like, oh, yeah,
like shoots, you know, like proper fucking rockers, like throwing
out in the middle again. Somewhere after that will run
force gender reassignment that, yeah, And it was just always killer.
And I thought again after Carbon Stampede and that, I
was like, okay, that'd be a lot from Monoliths so far.
But then to a couple of songs later they throw
out a living breathing piece of defecating me and I
was like, yeah, you know, doing the crazy vocal for
that chorus and stuff like that. And then ending on
they kind of alternate tours now seeming whether they end
on Kingdom of Tyrants from that record or the tattle
track of Death Atlas, which is.
Speaker 2: Like I I'd say that that to me feels that
that would be the closer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again I'm annoyed I missed the last tour
because that's when they were doing Kingdom of Tyrants, which
is like the fucking greatest thing ever. But you know
it will come back. Death Atlas as like a big
near ten minute actually like really quite emotional. So yeah,
and I was like, this hasn't got the insane like
bells and whistles that like, you know, Shallow and Tent
have in their mix or whenever, but it is actually
more epic and more like more stirring, more stirring and
more sweeping and everything. Absolutely, and so just again seeing
a really large venue of people again doing they Bring
Back the Plague and all that kind of stuff, I
was like, I would hope that Cattle could actually play
shows like this kind of on their own merits without
a younger, trendier band alongside them in the kind of
co headlining slot, because they can clearly, I mean fucking
you know, Travis is a god like in terms of
what he does. He's unbelievable. And there was you know
the kind of support there for them. So yeah, that
was like a really fun again, good start to shows
in that regard. Right, let's go to the news and
we are going to largely stick to again the kind
of live environment because there is stuff that I guess
demands discussing and demand's opinions on, and we are gonna
go I guess first of all, I mean, there are
actually multiple places this week where we could start, but
I guess, you know, we'll start with the biggest, one,
big one.
Speaker 3: To our world.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, in general, it's one of the pretty
much the biggest rock show that will happen this year surely,
but you know, it's been kind of pushed. It's like, oh,
it's going to be something, you know, the greatest show
ever whatever. Someone on the lines Black Sabbath are back
for one night only, which we there has been a
thing for a while that whenever we do a special
on a band, they kind of revive in activity. Unfortunately,
if that was really true this time, we're one week
too early for us to make Ian Gillan jokes, because
if we had the Ian Gillen BEV Bevan lineup or
some of the other stuff that's really where my brain
is at and it's greedy, like, oh yeah, people don't
care about that. But Black Sabbath, the original four Geezer Butler,
Tony Naomi, Ozzy Osbourne, bill Ward, Bill of course, being
the guy who was lacking the last time Back Sabbath
were around playing shows, are going to be coming together
for a final show, a fourth or fifth final show
in Birmingham on the fifth of July in Villa Park,
of course, in Birmingham. Considering all the Adam Villa associations
that Black Sabbath has, it is marketed as not only
Black Sabbath's final show, but Ozzie Osbourne's final live show
on you know, appearing on stage and as well as
Black Sabbath playing some songs, Ozzie himself is apparently going
to play some a short kind of solo set as
well to kind of offer a last hurrah from there.
And there you go like, wow, okay, that's a pretty
big set. That's and then you read out the rest
of this poster. So the first thing I saw was
there was like the BBC headline and it was like
with Metallica, Slayer and Pantera or something, and I was like, what,
what the fuck. And then I opened the poster and
that's just the top line of it, because we have
underneath Black Sabbath and Ossy, Metallica, Slayer, Panterra, Gajerra, Alison, Chains, Hailstorm,
Lamb of God, Anthrax, and masted On. And that's just
the mid card, because then underneath you have additional performances
from Billy Corgan, David Draymond Duff, mccagan, Fred Durst, Lizzie Hale,
Jake E Lee, Jonathan Davis, KK Downing, Mike Bordin, Papa
v Perpetua, Rudy Sarzo, Sammy Hagar, Slash, Sleep, Token two,
Tom Morello, and Wolfgang Van Aleen. And that's the poster
which we have to go on. And then everyone scrambles
to go, Okay, how the fuck does this work? Because
the moment you have let alone the guest appearance a bit,
which really I think is the giveaway of what this is,
but even just the bill of bands above it, you go, okay,
So they're playing like three songs each, right, Like, yeah,
this is not like an actual You're going to go
and see a full fucking Alice in Chains or you know,
Anthrax or Massid or whatever type set. It's like they
are going to be appearing for. Whether they'll actually you know,
even be playing their own songs or doing you know,
Sabbath covers or jams or whatever, I don't know yet,
but we are seeing, you know, those short form type things.
I mean, Metallica being again one of the only shows
ever that Metallica turn up. And I guess, like, aren't
top Bill or whatever. But you can imagine me like, yeah,
of course we'll do that for the Sabbath thing. But
I guess the only way that this can work when
you look at the guests as well is my mind
immediately went to, uh, I know, there was the Taylor
Hawkins one as well, but my mind immediately went to
a few years ago there was the Chris Cornell tribute show. Yeah,
and like Metallica at that playing a couple like Soundgarden
songs and stuff, and Miley Cyrus was there and she
sang like a you know, a sound Garden song, and
that kind of revolving table of people coming on and
doing their bit and then dipping is is what it is.
So essentially I look at this and I go, this
isn't like, you know, this shouldn't be confused for like
a proper headline type show or even a festival or whatever.
This is one of those kind of like showbiz extravaganzas
like that is yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean I'm guessing like the BIS what's performance is from
and it's the bands like they will have like some
degree of a set.
Speaker 1: I say, is it free song?
Speaker 3: Is it fifty in twenty minutes? Like if?
Speaker 2: Depending on how I think starts, and they'll just you know,
come on, they'll rip out something, they'll go and they'll
do that.
Speaker 3: And then this one was will they go? These are
people who are gonna.
Speaker 2: Come out and play with Sabbath and do and help
Aussie through the vocals or you know, if you're sleep
Token two, which I think is the guitarist.
Speaker 1: I think it's the guitar. It's the drummer actually from
Ta Tokens the drummer.
Speaker 3: It's the drummer.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're you're they might you know, play he
might play drums on the Aussie songs potentially or something
like that, like yeah, however they want to do it
like they like that.
Speaker 3: That to me is what that is.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you're gonna it's gonna be you know, a big,
long extravaganza thing. But it is gonna be a mixture
of like a couple of Alison Chain songs cool and
then like say Lizzie Hale singing a Black Sabbath song
with them and all of that, and that sounds like
that's gonna be a spectacle to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, no matter how you want to spin.
Speaker 2: It, like a getting that four members of Sabbath back together,
big fucking deal, like becausing that Bill was missing on
the last.
Speaker 3: One, Like not under the particularly great circumstance.
Speaker 1: Was there a bit of a there was a lot
of controversy around it, and by the sounds of it,
particularly the other members of you know, it was business stuff,
and I think maybe it was stuff that didn't quite
fall actually to the members of Sabbath entirely read into
that how you will, But basically the other members of Sabbath,
particularly Ozsye and and Tony as well, for years afterwards,
were like, our one regret is that we didn't have
Bill there, and it's a real shame that didn't happened.
And maybe it was fucking engineered all along that they
do a reunion tour without Bill so they could use
an excuse later that they could come in and do
another one with Bill. But there is so much on
this poster I guess for us to like go through
and dissect and kind of make stupid quips about or whatever.
So like let's kind of just go from the top.
Black Sabbath coming back for as said, this will not
be our faull. This won't be you know, if you
saw Black Sabbath in the twenty tens, like I think
we both did right there.
Speaker 3: I never saw Sabbath as okay, right.
Speaker 1: Well, well I saw Sabbath, and you know many of
people saw them, whether it be a download or the
final show they did in Birmingham or whatever it might be.
This won't be that in terms of like a full
set list, headline show from those four guys, because, among
other things, I guess the main thing that might be
going on here is obviously Ozzie's health has stopped him
from playing shows. You know, remember during COVID times, the
whole the amount of times that that tour was like
postponed and then re kind of you know established and
then postponed again whatever, primarily because Ozzie was in not
you know, kind of good enough health to go out
and do that, and that hasn't suddenly changed. Ozzie is
not going to be getting up and doing many more
than a handful of songs, either in his Soilo set
or with Black Sabbath. So I imagine that the four
of them together will do like, I don't know, between
three and five.
Speaker 2: Pigs Paranoid, Yeah, the black sound of title track or
something like that, you know, like, and.
Speaker 1: Well, the rest this will be is like probably Tony
will be there, you know, manning the guitar for a
lot of it. Maybe Geezer will come out on bass
for a lot of it as well, But the rest
of it will be these other folks that are all here,
all dipping in. So again, just this is just be
aware of what you are buying into, I suppose. And
that's not me, you know, criticizing one thing or I'm
just saying that, you know, know what you're getting into.
It's not a full headline, you know, two hour whatever
Black Sabbath show. It's kind of OSSI appearing for a
handful of songs, maybe build up here for a handful
of songs, and then the rest of it is just
this all star kind of you know, tribute thing going on.
So let's I guess, just talk about the idea of
Black Sabbath coming back yet again. There have been complaints
about Black Sabbath coming back yet again as part of
you know, as we see from so many bands, whether
it be Slayer or Motley Crue or whatever, it might be,
that the endless carousel of reunions and then final shows
and reunions and whatnot forever. And there has also been
a lot of like, but this one with Bill there
with supposedly all the ticket proceeds are going to go
to kind of local Birmingham charities and so on, being
kind of warranted in your eyes. Again, we're in the
midst of doing Black Sabbath stuff, not with these four guys,
but you know, we've got Sabbath on the brain at least.
Was your reaction a kind of like sigh of exasperation
or was it the oh my god excitement that everyone's
sharing this on the Instagram reels kind of puts out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of bewilderment to me.
Speaker 2: What I read this is like, well, if this is
going to be Ozzie's final performance, ever, it would not
feel right if there wasn't some part of it being
sabbath like that?
Speaker 3: That's that was my reading.
Speaker 2: Of it, was like, if this is as as billed
as the final show was, Osbourne is ever going to
play and it again, like I believe that because I
think his health is not going to allow to do.
Speaker 1: I think the question is is is he actually going
to be able to get like yeah, how how fit
is he going to be at this show? Because there
was again today as we were recording this, which is
a day after this show was announced, there's another headline
that was going out and it was like Ozzie's voices
as in as good as shape in ever, but he
can't currently walk, And it's like, so he's probably going
to be just sat down for you know.
Speaker 3: Me sound a throne or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which, you know, fine, if that's what he's got
to do, then I'm not I'm not shaming him for it.
Speaker 3: No, no, me, even not at all.
Speaker 1: But like in terms of there is the the irreversible
effects of age and of a certain type of lifestyle, yeah,
and certain types of health decline and whatever. It's like
Ozzie is where he is now in life, and we're
not going to suddenly see that change, like he's going
to come out and he's going to do the best
he can at this show if he can make it.
And I don't see. I mean, the fact that he
hasn't played a big you know tour whatever in the
lst kind of five years, I think goes to show
that this kind of has to be it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get we don't know what, but if this
is his fine, if this is Newsli performance, I think
Sabbath would have to be part of it. It would
be wrong if Sabbath were part of the final live
going to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, and I for me, I was thinking
about the Bill Ward side and the fact that, like
like we said, the other members of Sabbath for several
years now have been going. It's such a shame that
we didn't have Bill there. And if this was to
turn into like a huge you know, round the world
reunion tour whatever like we had in the twenty tens,
which I think.
Speaker 3: Don't buy for a second there it will well.
Speaker 1: I can't see it happening because of what we just described,
Like physically, they particularly Ossie, are not going to be
able to do that anymore. I think it has to
be this and that's it. But I do think it's
nice to have Bill involved in there after again the
kind of unfortunate way that he was left out of
the last final shows and so on, and if they want
to come back for one with again giving Ozzie his
kind of last moment and bringing Bill back for a
finale and then as said, giving the proceeds charity whatever. Like,
I'm not going to get upset about that. If you
are upset about it, then you know you're you're you're
entitled to feel that way. You're entitled to look at.
I don't know kind of the cynical way that reunis
in general and the industry seem to work, but I
do think there are cases much much more worth getting
upset about than this particular one, Like I'm not going
to waste my time shaking my fist at Ozzy Osbourne
and Toni Iomi for Darien to get back together for
one last time with Bill Ward or whatever it might be.
Looking down at the rest of this, I guess again,
we have the various guests and so on, and it's
it's a hilarious cast of guests. I think, because it
is I believe it's Tom Morello, who's been labeled as
a sort of like musical coordinator, so it's people who
have been at his invitation, which I don't know. Cass
is in a particularly funny like when you like, okay,
who is Tom Morello? And I guess you know, with
Sabba's help as well invited to be there. It's like, ah, yes,
Fred Dust and David Drayman and all these type people
particularly things of interest in there. I mean, as said
Fred Durst, being there is so fucking mental, like we're
gonna save this because we actually have a question about
like what what Sabbath song would you like to see
these people do? And so on, But the idea of
like what vocalist do we get the Sabbath tribute show?
The guy from Limp Biscuit is so funny. David Draymon.
I hope that he gets up and sing some of
War Pigs and says how much he hates war and
how much he completely stands against war, and hope he
really puts his everything into into War Pigs and standing
behind every every word of that. I think it's funny.
It's obviously because she's gonna do some of her own stuff.
And then with Sabbath as well. But the fact that
Hailstorm and Lizzie Hale are separately listed made me giggle.
Sleep Token two brackets of sleep token is really funny.
It's like with Vessel busy minting coins that day, Like, like,
is only the drummer.
Speaker 2: You asked you could have just done to bracket sleep token,
not sleep token too, bracket sleep token.
Speaker 1: It's such a bizarre Imagine if I know that again
he is a great drummer and everything, And then it's cool.
They've got, you know, some kind of all star musicians
who aren't just like vocalists or whatever, but with a
bad like sleep token. Who are you know anonymous and
the guy who everyone kind of knows is Vessel. Imagine
if Ghosts participation in this was like a nameless gul
the basis ghost in a hood gets up, plays, fucking
into the void and fucks off again. I love that.
And then, speaking of Ghost Papa the Perpetua, it has
been noted that that is actually the new you know
kind of album cycle, Papa being named for the first
time before Ghost have actually done it, and you can
infer into that as Elliott's you know, put a compelling
case in our TNN discord that maybe Perpetua is actually
going to be the name of the new ghost album
because they have like the Perpetual Tour and Perpetual Tour
a kind of thing. It falls into a you know,
the line of Latin titles like in Pera and Prequel
and so on. So yeah, I mean I would I
would probably put money on that at this stage that
Perpetua is where we are going with Ghosts. But again,
just a bizarre circumstance that it's been named for the
first time in as part of this Black Sabbath announcement.
It's gonna cost fucking seven billion pounds to get there,
so I imagine the majority of us are going to be
watching this. I'm treating this as just like a a
spectacle to watch on my phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be nice if they you know, ended up
like streaming or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd watch that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, tickets are going to you know, I've seen
different theories, but you're going to be looking at like
approaching two hundred for the cheap seats is the kind
of like general.
Speaker 1: Yeah, realistically, when you factor everything in, whether you've got
to get a hotel, or whatever you're looking at, sort
of a four or five hundred quid. It's a holiday basically, Yeah,
I mean contractually obliged. Whenever you have any one of
these tribute events like this, Wolfgang van Halen has has
to be there. He's involved in every single one. Yeah,
I mean, like, would I wish to be I don't know,
like planted just in that audience to watch it? Yeah,
I would. I mean it would be like a hell
of a day. Am I expecting it to be, you know,
the greatest heavy metal show ever? As they're putting it
the Sabbath Show to end all Sabbath shows? I mean literally,
yes it is, but in terms of, you know, the
performance show, we say no because of what we all
know about Sabbath at this point in time. Am I
happy that it's happening primarily for Bill Ward's kind of accounts,
I kind of am, And I would totally be you know,
I would want to absolutely leave it there at that point,
But I also think it will be left out at
that point for all of the practical and health reason
soul and that we've kind of listed. So yeah, big
crazy day. Fascinated to see kind of what comes of it.
I suppose, And you know, it's mad that a Nirvana
reunion very very briefly is you know, kind of relegated here.
But I guess it's been a week of those type
of things, because this is another example of exactly this
is what it is. Right Because at the fire Aid
benefit concert this last week, which is you know, raising
money for the Los Angeles you know fires that have
been kind of going on, we had three fourths of Nirvana.
You might be thinking, but Navana's a three piece. That's
because they had Pat Smear, who was part of the
life bander Nirvana at the end also as part of
it reuniting with a kind of various guest vocalists. And
this is, I think is a template of exactly what
you can expect, right, Like this is the kind of
thing that that Sabbath show will be, right, It'll be
like some people kind of mucking in and getting together
and people doing it. But yeah, I mean this is cool,
like an unexpected Nirvana type thing. They notably it's all
women vocalists that they got to kind of step in
fort obviously. And the thing I liked about this is
I saw a clip. First of all, I think it
was the Breed with Saint Vincent, and I thought I
didn't think she sounded all that very good.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a weird one for Breed for
a song that's kind of as at it as.
Speaker 1: Breed is very like, oh, that's kind of off. But
then I actually looked at the whole set list, and
if you're going to get Nirvana together, yeah, don't do
spells like Dean Spirit, don't do in bla bloom or
lithium or anything like that. Do school and do territorial pissings.
Speaker 3: Get jone Jets, do territorial pissings. That's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then watching the full performance, I think that
the getting you know, Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth doing
school that was rowdy. That's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's saying that though, like the Kim Gordon
and the Jone job Wones was like those probably like
the two parts of performance. Was like those are the
best partsic me because again like hard hitting, rowdy songs
with like vocals who are like a bit more at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously this is this is essentially just a novelty.
There's nothing further coming of this mental to assume. So,
but in a weird way it adds into Nevada that
they turn up something like this and then just play
school in territorial pissings and songs in that kind of
vein and then leave. So there you go. We also
had the Grammys that happened this past week with all
of the associated stuff to talk about in regards to
who won the rock and metal categories and general appearances
there and so on. So like, the the rock categories
are fucking abysmal, even more than the metal ones. Like
we complained about the metal ones, but the metal one
is like the diamond in the rough of the overall
there is there is metal in the metal. Yeah, the
overall rock categories and alternate our dog shit. And I
think the fact that like the Rolling Stones one, like
the was it the best rock album or whatever, poor,
but the one that is most revant to us best
Metal Performance was won by Gajira for their Maya Culpa
kind of reworking of a French Revolution song that they
performed at the Olympics. And then there was that kind
of recorded version they put out on streaming afterwards, wasn't there?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 1: Of course, beat Out not Loose and Poppies Suffocate due
to the Preeze, Crown of Horns, Metallica's Screaming Suicide, and
Spirit Boxes Cellar Door. And I think most people, I
guess who listened to us were probably like pulling for,
like not loose to win, just because it's like they've
had the big moment.
Speaker 3: You know, it's the new band as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really fucking heavy song there, the Kimmel thing. It's
just generally exciting. It probably is the best track of
the particular. I do really love Crown of Horns from
Judas Priest, but you know, most peop probably pot I
theyre not loose. But Goodyearra winning for this. I we
actually we watched it, which you know, don't make a
habit necessarily doing, but we just like had there was
just like a YouTube streamers like it would just put
that on in the background whatever. And they announced the
best metal thing. It was like, yeah, Goodyearra and they
said it, and I almost didn't react because I was like, yeah, okay,
you know, good Year a big popular band, great whatever.
And then as they were walking up, I realized, E've
not done this before, like this is good Jera's first win.
And as they went up and they went on stage
and there was Joe and Mario Deplantier and yeah, you know,
talking doing their speech, really.
Speaker 2: Good speech about like sporting, like DIY music and all
that shit like that.
Speaker 1: And I had this, like I don't know, in the
span about thirty seconds they announce it and I was like, yeah, okay, cool,
good Year fine. Good to then see them on stage
of being like hang on, no, wait, that's good Yearra,
Like oh fucking band, Goodyearra winning for the first time,
because it's It's the thing with the Grammys where for
us we almost imagine good Year are having won this
ten to fifteen years ago when they should have, you know,
but then you go, oh no, this is their first win.
And then I like just having it on there. In
the space of about thirty seconds, I went from not
caring to actually getting sort of emotional, being like yeah, Goodyearra.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I mean, I'm out of the bunch, like
probably would have liked to not lose to win. I'm
also like I kind of didn't want to lose Spirals
because it would have wound up the most annoying people.
So like part of me was like that, but I'm
happy Gadera one because again it is overdue. I don't
care for the Grammys, but fuck it if Goadura are
going to get a nod, I'm always happy to see
Gadjeera get recognition because they're fucking good Yearra and they've
been one of the most like important, progressive, forward thinking
bands of odd sort of time awesome, like happy with
that and again, this was a fucking moment in Metal
good Youra's performance. That's that's the reason why they should
have won in a way. This was a fucking moment
of them getting on like the biggest stage metals been
platformed on in a while and doing the coolest thing
in that opening ceremony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you in for Kajira in the you know,
the span of kind of Grammy results and so on
are better than than the usual one, I suppose, so
good there. But the best things to come out of
the Grammys in regard to our scene was of course
the incident with courting the Plant of spirit Box, who
on the red carpet was interviewed from someone going so
poppy you're here nominating with not loose and courtly the
Plant like an absolute shamp. Spirit Box are so likable,
like whenever I like see interviews over them they just
they always come across really really well. I think, you know,
just that they seem like good ambassadors Corny.
Speaker 2: You know, it's because she's been about in the scene
for fucking ages through like I Rest of the Bear
Wants and other project. So she's clearly like had her
time of like grinding and so you just kind of
not forgot that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like but very genuine. But like you know,
on top on top of you know, of being kind
of one of the better bands in that scene in general,
of those kind of you very popular medical bands, they
seem like some of them.
Speaker 3: They far more likable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're really really like, well, it seemed like good people.
So I'm always hapy to see him about. But Courtney
just rolling with it and basically doing it's a repeat
of you know, people out there might know what I'm
talking about. This happened almost beat for beat with Charlie
XX and Lord a couple of years ago, where Charlie
XCX was like, yes, I'm Lord. This song is about
how I'm from New Zealand and I come from my
small town in New Zealand. Because that for metalcore girlies,
I suppose just rolling with Yeah, I'm poppy. I'm really
happy to be here with with with not loose. I'm
definitely poppy. And you can see like the flicker in
her face of like, am I doing this? Am I
going with this? Is it's wonderful?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was.
Speaker 2: I mean it frustrates me because I was like, do
your like the most basic research for fux sake, give
you an interviewer. I like a lot of people point
I was like, this is what this what you get
when you send influences onto these things and not actual like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the comments where it's like, oh, you know,
I'd be the first one of the first women to
win or whatever, and it's like, there's two women nominating
in the country. I suppose three because Kaja is not
pre singer was also yes, there, but like it's two
kind of vaguely old looking women with black hair, and
they just get them completely.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, well done. But no, Corny is
really funny in this sort of thing, just like she's
just I'm supprised she didn't break. I was like, she's
gonna break at some point, like the cat and she
she just keeps it together and they've kind of all
kind of rolled of it like Poppy's done the I'm
Poppy merch of like Courtney on it, like like that
they've they've clearly both Poppy and Courtney have had a
good lie about this in Hein, and so I was like,
let's let's let you know, make a bit of this
and good on them.
Speaker 1: I liked it where she really carefully she kind of
chooses her words very deliberate so that she's not actually lying.
She says something like, uh, you know, it was really
cool like for our whole scene, actually it was really
cool the performance on Jimmy Kimmel, and it's like she's
actually she's not lying there. She's saying, like you know,
as a person in that scene who probably watched that
and thought, wow, that's really really great, she's kind of
maneuvering it into like she's actually speaking the truth there
about like, yeah, it was really cool watching not loose
and Poppy play on Jimmy Kimble which she's just very
deliberately chosen her words. Yeah, wonderful stuff, excellent, excellent work.
So let's try and just very quickly, like with a
sentence of peace, kind of fly through most of the
rest of what's going on this week. But we have
one piece of new music to talk about, which is
the new single from Stray from the Path. They've also
announced that they're going to be playing in London like
next week, hopefully going to go to that. But they've
dropped a new single. It's called Cubrick Stare, and this
is a big, rowdy straight from the Path fair but
it has this like very deliberate They've gone the kind
of like we're going to try and make a horror
sounding riff with like dissonant, scratchy, scary noises and stuff.
But bizarrely, when you put that on like really fucking
like you know banger balances straight from the part like
I do, it has the effect to me of almost
sounding like this this is sound gonna sound more condemning
than I believe it to be because I like the track,
but it almost has that like new metal floor filler
kind of spooky cor.
Speaker 2: Thing I could add the same thing. I mean, I
was just like, yep, this is straight from the half banger.
But I was like I'm fine with that. You know,
no one kind of offers that that specific thing of
like raising scene tinged hardcore that straight from the path too.
Speaker 3: So they're like a lot of bones. You need the
nmail thing.
Speaker 2: But like they just they come back every a couple
years and they drop this off thing and I'll go
with it like that walk it off kind of hook
on the chorus, cool and it just pops off with
that spooky riff.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, ac DC are actually they're bringing their Power Up
Tour back around again, this time in the UK at least,
only playing Edinburgh at the moment, but if you are
in Edinburgh or you want to go up to Edinburgh
to the ac DC, you could do so. And we
have had if you know, all that announcement was not enough,
We've had a barrage in the last few days of
you know, UK festival announcements. So first of all, Outbreak
have announced first of all that Glass Jaw are going
to be performing at this year's event Outbreak. You remember
this year is actually split across There is a London
Day and then there is also the full event happening
in Manchester. But Glassjow are going to be playing sets
themed around everything you ever wanted to know about Silence
and Worship in tribute. I believe at the Manchester they
are actually playing both records in full on on the
two days the London thing, I guess you're getting a
mixed in kind of best of both.
Speaker 3: It will be like the what first they did for
the war all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean obviously for the for the big
Glass your fans out there, that's like amazing news. I
mean everything you everyone know about silence in full gonna
have a lot of good questionable words being thrown around.
Speaker 2: That they've done this before, but outbreak, you know, everyone's
about silence without a barrier. That's gonna be like, you know,
as much as some of those lyrics are dated, that's
gonna go fucking yea.
Speaker 1: You can have your half hour misogyny as a treat.
Speaker 3: And elsewhere by comfort misogyny.
Speaker 1: Comfort misogyny. Leave it to me. But we also have
again I saw the glass thing. Oh you know cool,
you know, big Glass, your thing. But there's also plenty
of other announcements below that, and.
Speaker 2: They've announced the full Manchester lineup is all out there now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the fact that Glass Yew kind of stole
the thunder from Terror on this who you know, Terror
like you know, very reliable always around or whatever, but
like I imagine like seeing Terror at an Outbreak is surely like.
Speaker 2: They were because they did it in twenty twenty two
and it was like just like what it felt like
it was meant to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now it's even big on the outdoor stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go on. Yeah, I've seen Terror before, but I
was really I'm a bigger fan now than I was
at the time then as well, but like also just
like seeing Terror like actually in their home environment, so
to speak, like that would be great. And they've also
announced a bunch of other stuff Big Boy, Pest Control.
Speaker 3: X, WEAPONX is a really cool one, you like you
real hardcore?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff there. And then we also have the
new additions to two thousand Trees Festival who they have
added like a good was it like a good thirty
forty bands or something I've been added on.
Speaker 3: To announced all like the day splits and everything. So far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have forty five new bands added to two
thousand Trees Festival and looking down this I mean two Trees,
we've discussed the headliners and that it is looking like
I think, you know, a pretty appealing year of two
thousand Trees with the likes of for Lex on Fire
and Cohitting Canbero and so on up there adding on
a unched this stuff. I mean, most of it isn't
necessarily like the stuff that I am like super super
o fa or like really really into, but it seems
very right for the Trees, you know, kind of demographic
as they always are. You have to absolutely give them
that they know what they're doing in that regard. And
I mean particularly as there's a Wednesday that's been added
that just feels like, I don't know, like a who's
who of like the two thousand Trees corner I suppose
of yeah, what you would consider vaguely TNM kind of
bands where the blood command of their you know, unpeople
and Vour who are a couple of kind of upcoming
UK bands featuring members of some old favorites Haggard Cat
of their Grove streak. They've got Meryl streak there, like you.
There's a whole bunch of just not being out of
there again looking at the main kind a few days
and the logos and the post and whatnot. Again, it's
not all necessarily one hundred percent my thing, but they
are slotting in kind of pretty nicely below those like,
you know, big kind of headline grabbing bands and so
on and also that we have Arctangent Festival, the you
know sister festival of two thousand Trees, very greedily announcing
a bunch of bands the same week as well. First
of all, adding a couple of the headliners. Tessa Rat
are there on the Saturday, and war Drouner, who we
you know reviewed their new record last month, are going
to be headlining the first night, the Wednesday night. And
then there is also added beneath that are a bunch
of bands where they've got a clown core back after
they were due to play a couple years ago and
they had to drop off. Leprous are there, always amazing
Sliffed arab Strap, which was one of Elliott's favorite records
of the year, Green Lung are there, and yeah, I mean,
looking at this bunch of headliners and stuff, it's not
actually like my in terms of headliners. I mean, I
love Wardrouner, I'm gonna be seen in a couple months,
but the headliners aren't really what's grabbing me here because
in terms of like the Tessarat, Canna all the type
of thing, it's that sort of end of prog metal
that I don't always really go into. But look at
the undercard and the stuff they've added. They've added inter rama,
They've added Ahab, They've got you know again, Green Lung
aer on there. Envy are on there, so it's like
again looking like a very taste. I mean, Horrendous are
on there, which is actually, yeah, a bit of a
coup because Horrendous have never played the UK before and
they've been.
Speaker 3: Around for like I never played the UK.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe one of those American bands I thought I
didn't know if i'd ever get to see or whatever.
And I'm good on the uck tangent folks for I
don't know, throwing enough money at Horrendous for whatever reason
to get in the come over here. And if they
were to play some more UK shows around it, then
I would. I would definitely owe James Scarlett a pint
if Horrendous played like a few more shows around this.
So there you go. If you are over in California,
then Acid Bath The Continued Adventures of Acid Bath added
a couple of fucking unbelievably good looking shows over in
LA where the first one they are being supported with
High on Fire and Windhand, which Acid Bath and High
on Fire is like arguably the two greatest ludge metal
bands of all time right there that sold out immediately.
There's a second show that I Am Adam will also
probably have sold out immediately by the time this goes
out there, but with Pig Destroyer and the obsessed.
Speaker 3: Acid Bath and Pig Destroyers, just like do you want
a horrible noise? You know, an evening.
Speaker 1: Like So Cool, So Good, and Baroness have also announced.
I saw they'd announced this as like a festival date
and I thought, all that'd be cool to see, but
they've now actually expanded it into like, you know, a
full tour where they are going to be playing a
Red and Blue album themed tour, highlighting those two records,
and like, I love those two records, particularly the Red
album was the first Baroness you know material that I
kind of fell in love with, and there's a lot
of stuff on that album, you know, outside of Isaac,
which they always play, which I would love to see,
like you know, Wonder Last and tracks like that. So
it'll be amazing seeing a Red and Blue show that's
going around the US right now. And also if you
are over in Ireland and you like that particular corner
of Irish extreme metal that we talk about on the
show sometimes. Primordial have announced that they are going to
be doing currently a one off club show in October
in Dublin where they are going to be doing a
special set themed heavily around the album Spirit, The Earth
of Flame, The Gathering Wilderness and to the Nameless Deads.
That's three of their classic albums doing a kind of
special theme set there. And the Gathering Wilderness in particular
is like one of my top three albums of all time.
And I'm wondering, like, I've never been to Ireland before.
Do I fly over to Dublin just to go to that?
I don't know, it'd be amazing. But there you go.
Whole load of news. We are going to extend this
a little bit further because we also are bringing back questions,
which I said that we would do last week, and
then obviously with some of the announcements this week, we've had,
you know, some questions primarily relating to those. We've got
a whole bunch of questions. If you asked one that
is not here, I do kind of take note of them,
so we may return to it. But I guess we're
primarily focusing on the ones that are relating to the
subjects of the news today that we will come back
to the other ones. So Johnny Bass actually asked the
one question that's not related to that, but I suppose
we should throw it in here just very quickly before
all the twenty twenty five albums come in. Any twenty
twenty four highlights discovered from other end of year lists, Sam,
anything that you kind of picked on from last year,
I went, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: So I did finally get on to listen to the
Row Republic album. I like, as a party, that's a
good that's a good time. Now after I like, after
how much marks on it, and yeah, every time it
kind of came up with the interviews and be like, yeah,
it's so good, it's so fun.
Speaker 3: I was like, I should give that listen and yeah
good time, wow.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, yeah yeah, I'm not like especially for me here,
I gave the I'd heard the album already, but after
Elliott was like so huge, and I went back and
I gave the Bloody Keep album another listen, and it
is just good fun. Because of course I like sort
of Castle Dungeon, you know, cheeky rats on the cover,
black metal like that, you know. I wouldn't certainly as
highly as he did, but as like his number three
album of the year or something like. You know, there
are plenty of other Black Metre oubs from that year
that I prefer. But it's a it's a good time,
I can't deny it. So I have absolutely having a
nice old time with Bloody keep in that regard, but
no otherwise in terms of like totally new discoveries, hasn't
been one that's like fully come my way yet. Either
I was very very good at keeping on top of things,
or you know, that will come a little bit down
the pipeline. But there's our last little twenty twenty four
I guess you know, cap off in that regard. So
let's move on to Brad Stratton asks, thinking of how
well received the Trivium Bullet Tour has been received, which
bands would you love to see celebrate twenty years of
formative albums with a tour themed around said record in
the next couple of years. Ozzie get out for a
Black Rain twentieth anniversary tour? The people demand it, no,
I think they. It's a funny question this because when
you say, I'm obviously it's been limited to you know,
twenty years because we're thinking the kind of era of
the poison and desensity and so on, so I guess
we're thinking, you know, it's two thousand and five, two
thousand and seven ish kind of time of things. They
nailed this package pitch perfectly, like whatever you want to
say about one band versus the other, like those two
records together and actually being something that like you can
do that as a big arenatur and it will reliably
fill them and stuff like that. I think they really
obviously they absolutely perfected the kind of pairing there, and
thinking of like realistically else could go out on a
at least a similar sort of scale or whatever. It's
kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, like you were the only around that, you know,
if you wanted to round into like a tree, you
could have thrown like Avenge doing City of Evil or
something like that, that would have been like.
Speaker 1: That would have become a stadium show at that point.
Sure that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But if you were like the perfect trifecta of
those kind of like two thousand and five metal core.
Speaker 3: Adjacent records, you throw you throw that in there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was thinking about this and not really
actually like looking at it like like kill Switch doing,
you know, and as Day like dies, but again, do
you need to do much something like that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: Like like like would I want to see i know,
obviously the Black Parade ones coming up and all that,
And I'm like, again, I'm like, do I am I
that fuss about seeing me Grumitt squeeze into Black Parade jackets?
Speaker 3: And that actually not that fussed about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, because this is the thing. The question here
is kind of is sort of asking like what nostalgia'd
like pick more nostalgia to kind of do, and again,
in the right environments, I'm not against it or whatever,
but like it was a funny question, but I was thinking,
you know, we were talking earlier today just privately with
the other you know, T and M guys. We were
talking about like the when Trivia did the Shogun thing
a few years ago, which was not playing the full
album in its entirety in the way they did here.
It was just like, here's a few kind of deep
cuts for like, you know, the hard corealts who really
want it. And I was thinking, like, you know, Showgun
sort of combined with the Crusade with the best of
because there is a even though They're two very different
albums in terms of how they are esteemed. There is
a sort of kinship between those albums at times, you know,
Showgun with they're also playing You're Becoming the Dragons and
Conflagrations and so on, like would be wicked. But I
don't want that from Trivia now because they've just done
They See and they did did little Showgun deep cut things.
So after this, I want them to get back on
you know, the kind of that where they current and
so thinking about like, you know what else is actually
of a similar scale. The only one I could come
up with is I imagine in a couple of years
time when we get to twenty twenty seven, there must
be thoughts going on around the Blackening and twenty years
of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, actually, yeah, that's that's the answer. Is the Blackening,
isn't it?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean in terms of something realism that
you know, could happen, that could have a big fuss
made about it in a similar way to us we've
seen with poisons.
Speaker 2: If you wanted to, like do Arenas by themselves again,
the Blackening in full cells.
Speaker 1: Out, like yeah, So that's the only one I could
come up with them, Like I could. I can kind
of see that one happening and having a big hubbub
around it in a couple of years time. Otherwise count
your blessings come on.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean like like this wouldn't be a huge thing.
Speaker 2: And he's he's obviously busy, you know, doing another nostalgia
project now, or he's finding another band. But if by
some magical happenstance, we've got like twenty years of orchestra
of wolves and Frank rocks up with them, like I
would lose my ship would never happen. It's never ever
gonna happen. But like that, that wouldn't happen, like I
would fucking like run for a wall.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, who knows, but yeah, Blackening in a couple
of time is the only one I can think of
around But like that, I think will at the very
least have a similar level of for.
Speaker 3: I think that's the answer, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Aaron Quick ask, just following up on that
particular subject, why does Trivian being English and Bullet being
American make so much more sense? I don't know if
I actually feel this, What do you think?
Speaker 3: I kind of get it?
Speaker 2: Because to me, I was like what was because Trivia
have a bit more of a kind of like British
heavy metal lineage in their sound. There's more, like you
would say, there is more Maiden.
Speaker 1: They always talk about how the UK is like the
most important country for them.
Speaker 2: And Bullet have that kind of more like hyper clean
radio polished metal corps sound that I guess people associate
with us. So that's why I kind of got where
it was coming from with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I understand the logic and I can
see where it's coming from. But for me, Bullet have
which again I have been at times in my life
a very big Bullet Mountaine fan. I still really love
like the first three record. I like you know Venom
as well. They like overall as a band, I think
they are a good band.
Speaker 3: They've got more hits than Missus, but the Misses are
a bit cast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But so with that in mind, you'll know exactly
what I say by this. Bullet for me kind of
have a specific quality of like when British bands try
and be kind of cool and American, and I think
you could see, you know, asking like Xandria as a
similar one. But I'm also thinking about your brit Rocks
you U MEI at sixes and you know those kind
of bands like where there is something about those kind
of bands from Britain when they like try and be
kind of like, I don't know, hip in the way
that I think Bullet have a real and we again
how they have presented their band over the years, even
going into the visuals and so on that we were
talking about earlier. I think Bullet have a real streak
of like British people kind of really trying to be cool.
That stops me from viewing them as like, oh, yeah,
you're just an American.
Speaker 3: I get what you mean. I totally see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Triviam just have a real earnestness that I
do think is also I don't know, seems very American
about them. So yeah. Adam Morker asked now and a
couple of questions are around the big Sabbath news. Alam
Walker asks, I'd be very interested to hear if you
think the Sabbath announcement would trigger any further recording activity.
My gut had always said no due to Ozzie's health
and his focused on solo work. Do we think that's
still the case. The answer is absolutely still the case,
not a fucking chance in hell. I mean, at the
you know, at most Ozzie could squeeze out another solo
album the way he did with the last two that
he's done in the last couple of years, and again
even that seems kind of questionable right now. But if
anything was going to happen on the recording front, it
would be another record with the exact team of collaborators
and so on. You know, you're Andrew Watts. He's kind
of done with the last stuff. In terms of Sabbath
absolutely fuck know that is done now. Said what I
think as well, Yeah, absolutely no chance. So slightly more
substantial question in terms of what we will give it is.
Paul Terry then asks, in the scenario that the other
acts that the Sabbath Ossie Show are doing covers, which
acts would you'd like to see perform which songs? I'm
going to take this as the actual bands who are listed,
did your Metallica, Slayer, whatever. I'm going to assume that
because they are listed as their own bands, that they
will do some of their own songs. I'm sure they
will chip in on jams or whatever at some point,
but I'm going to direct this to the additional performances
from bit all those individual people who are listed there,
I would imagine that they are going to appear and
you know, help out with Sabbath songs. So looking at
that list of individual names and so on, does anything
scream out at you as being like, I would like
to see this person doing this particular Sabbath jam.
Speaker 2: I mean in me, I did just Fred Dust doing
an IV just oh yeah, so like that would be hilarious.
Like I can't mean, I can't imagine fred do'st doing any.
Speaker 1: Saying what the fuck do you get him to do?
It will be so out of place no matter what
it is. My first response was the self titled song
Black Sabbath, just because the idea of something that is
so like based in horror atmosphere, and then fred Dust
comes in and.
Speaker 3: Goes, what the fuck is this that stands before me?
Speaker 1: Oh no, is the most just fucking out of whack
things that we could have done.
Speaker 2: I could almost see him doing Iron Man like kind
of just like that, like I mean Jonathan Davis doing
like again, like Jonathan Davis or Papa VI Perpetu doing
the title track Black Sabbath, Like those feel like kind
of like quite natural fits like Jonathan Davis could do,
you know, the creepy thing. I don't know if they're
going to do anything from this era, who knows, but
I mean Papa doing.
Speaker 3: Heaven and Hell title track.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think it will be all Ossie era.
But I would like to see them dip into you know,
like some sabotage stuff or you know, Sabbath like you know,
get someone doing a hole in the sky or something
like you know, Papa doing hole in the Sky or something.
Would be as well as your paranoid andself and I
want to see your symptoms of the universe and you know,
I mean maybe Metallica obviously a history doing Sabbath colors.
Maybe you know, James will come out and seeing Sabra
Kadabra or something along our lines, and that will that
would be great. Obviously Obviously Jakie Lee is there, so
he'll be doing some of his stuff with Ozzie doing
Bark at the Moon and all that. I'm saying it now.
David Draymond will do war Pigs. He will, and he will,
You've got that right, and that that makes me very upsette.
He will and he will see absolutely no irony in
that the sleep token drummer. I mean again, he's a proper,
you know, talented drummer, so he could do probably just
about anything, you know, fair enough fair play to him. Yeah,
I mean fred Durst is like all these other guys,
they're gonna come in and whatever they do, I think
it will be quite tasteful. Right.
Speaker 3: I want to hear Billy Corgan's weird voice doing something
like Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, like he's a huge Sabbath fan, isn't he,
So he could probably do just you could watch most
things aside again, aside from the Draymond issue, all these
other guys, they'll come in, they'll do something, it'll be
good and tasteful and whatever. It's the fred Durst question
of what the fuck do they get that guy to
do within the Sabbath context that is just completely overshadowing
the rest of the terms of Like, it's the thing I.
Speaker 2: Most want to see though, the most intriguing prospect of
this whole show is what does Fred Durst do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that is the you know, fucking million dollar
question that we are going to carry on to I
guess until July when we find out about all this.
So thank you very much for your questions. As said,
we had other ones that were you know, hopefully we'll
kind of find the moment to circle back to in time.
Let's quickly mention what you and I Sam are going
to be doing in a few days time, which is
over on Patreon where you know the real juice I
suppose goes on at here at that's not metal Black
Sabbath wise mentioned it. We have done in the last
few weeks the beginnings of a not quite relevant to this,
a Black Sabbath without Ozzie Special is what we are doing.
The aim is to really dive into the last years.
But we started a few weeks ago doing the Doo Years,
which was obviously sensational. We are in a couple of
weeks time we are going to get into the sort
of middle years when things really go mental and Black
Sabbath lineup start chopping and changing like no one's business.
And those are the folks who I would love to
see appearing on this particular But before then, over you know,
this weekend, Sam and I are finally gonna you know,
get our asses in gear and do our Nosferratu episode
over on T and M does horror where if you
are anything like us and you have brain chemistry aligned
anywhere like ours is you have also been thinking about
the Robert Eggers Noserratu film for the best part of
you know, over a month, So we are gonna be
talking about that, but we are also, of course gonna
be doing the whole nos Feratu triptich. Essentially, we have
to talk about, of course, the nineteen twenty two silent
film original, the first time we've ever covered you know,
a silent movie or anything like that over on TNM
does Horror. So very very cool to be doing that.
And there is also the matter of the nineteen seventies
Werner Hutzog Nosarratu in there, which is a real I mean,
I will get onto this in the episode. This is
a this is a special one for me, and yeah,
my my love of horror in general and my love
for these things. But the fact that we are gonna go, yeah, okay,
this is the episode where we get to talk about
German expressionism and Werner Hutzogi the seventy and like all
of this stuff. It's like it's it's headline news because
nos Feratu is so big and everyone knows it, and
the new movie has been such a success. But we're
also going i know, slightly more art house than we
sometimes do on the show.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the first time we're going like way
way back into the past. It's the first one we're
covering the same movie three times essentially, but three quite
wildly different interpretations of largely the same story. And I
guess that's gonna be gonna be much because it's almost
not like I was, we'll going for this movie, but
it's gonna be a bit like and you know, going
through the stormycap mightn't be as much as that, So
we can spend a lot of time really digging into
the finer details.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and collectively, the three of them kind of come together,
like you know, the Power Rangers, Fists of or whatever, Yeah,
to create this kind of comprehensive image of like what
is Nosferatu? What does nos Feratu represent to to horror,
to you know, our collective psychees, whatever. And it's that
stuff that I am. I'm kind of obsessed with and
I'm really really looking forward to get into I have,
you know, so far, I wrote notes on the original
twenties film, and I wrote so many notes just based
on because it's one of the you know, the most
significant formative films of all time, and the like weird
history of like its production and all yeah, and the
genuine weirdos who made it and all of that. And
after this, I'm going to dive into you know, the
other side and doing everything else. So that is what
is coming immediately now on the T and M Patreon
over this weekend, and then after that, as said, we
are going to jump right back into Black Sabbath and
dialing into the mid eighties with Sabbath and what was
going on with them there. So if you want to
hear all that, you can hear that at patron dot com. Slash.
That's done. El. There's also the matter of our recent
album Club Pack.
Speaker 2: I've had one person come to me saying that Family
FORCEERB has positively changed their lives since they heard it,
So so we needed.
Speaker 1: I think we can up that. I think we can
make a greater impact on that. I think we can
can get more people involved in that regard. So yeah,
keep all of that coming. Cheers everybody. Let's finish this
bumper edition of Hyperblast with the release round up for
this first week of February. The seventh of February. First off,
it is the return of Sam's all time favorite band's
Dream Theater. Baby. They are back with there I think
what is going to be their most high profile record
in an astonishingly long time, because we have the return
of Mike Portnow on the drums. That was a really
like kind of unexpected reunion that me and Elliott spoke
about when it happened about a year ago, and they
have you know, got together quite quickly and released a record.
So the new Dream Theater record the first with the
kind of you know, classic Portnoy behind the kit line
up in some years. Parasomnia is out big week for
our guess, you know, kind of your progressive technically type stuff.
Because Ginger also have a new record out which is
called Dual. Marco Hitala or haitar Sorry I don't know
how to pronounce that guy's name, but Marco the former
Night Wish member who left a few years ago. He
has come back with a solo record called Roses from
Deep and also if you like your you know, European
power metal, I suppose I haven't heard a note of
this record yet, but I saw the title an album
cover was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Is this.
Speaker 1: There is a power metal band I believe called Majestica
and they have a record called power Train and.
Speaker 3: If the album's how has kind of got me intrigued.
Speaker 1: And the cover is the most fucking Disney bullshit polar Express.
Oh hell yeah of a powerful Train. And I was
looking at the details and I was like, I think
this is a time train because it's coming through some
kind of portal and down by the right hand side
of the train is a Viking. He has as a
spiked like horned Viking helmet and he's in there amongst
all these like Victorian gentlemen and whatnot. So I'm like,
the power train going through time. Just an image tells
a thousand words, doesn't it. So Majestica power Train. They
have the Naffis logo as well. Great great stuff going
on there. We move into more of the underground. They're
the new Obscura called the legendary Tech death Band. Their
record is called a Sonication. Unfortunately, there has been a
bit of controversy around this obscure record, where various ex
members of the band have all kind of come at
the main guy in the band, accusing him of using
material of theirs without their permission essentially, and having Manifestan's
records as a whole. There's a bit of a drama
going on around past and present members of Obscurer over
things like, you know, the music involved and whatnot at
the moment, which is a shame because I really really
love Obscure at their best. But you know, that new
record is out there now at the moment. If you
want more of a raw death metal approach, if Obscure
is too clean for you, then there is the European
band Frenolith, who have returned with their new record ashen Womb.
The long running sludge metal band sixteen have got a
record out called Guides for the Misguided, a real you know,
kind of didn't you like black and doom kind of
scenario from a band called Morast with a record called
Fentanyl Say. Or the Scottish you know Celtic folk black
metal band Favorites of Mark, favorites of you know, Highlanders. Essentially,
their new record is out called amidst the Ruins, the
I guess kind of Viking themed, you know, Norse black
metal band arab Altur, I've got a record called Halsing
Walca And in your like post black Metal Realms, the
band Unrequited, with the vs. The The you have got
a pathway to the moon. So that is your release
is forty day. Thank you very much for listening to
this edition of Hyperblast here with us. Let us know
your opinions on everything we spoke about, because again, we
had the Poisoned Ascendancy tour, we had the crazy Black
Sabbath news, we had the Grammys and all of the
stuff to actually share, you know, discussions and thoughts of
this time around, so do so, yeah, and we will
be back next week with another of these hyper Blast.
Surely nothing crazy can happen like as much as this,
so but we will see what happens, and we'll also
be back before then with our Noceratu t then does
Horror for a nice people ever on the Patreon. Sorry,
we'll see you there for all of that, and then
we back sooner than you can say. All right now, right, cheers, alright,