Speaker 1: Greetings, boils and ghouls, and welcome to That's Not Metal,
your weekly rock, heavy metal, hardcore heavy music podcast, and
welcome to Hyperblast, where we are with you every single Friday.
We are coming at you with a little quick bite
side new show, letting you know everything that's been going
on in the last week or so, giving you some
hot takes, the opinions that everyone else is too afraid
to give about those goings on. Your Your hot edgy
folks today are myself parentheish and Mark s Anderson is
here with me this time. Hello.
Speaker 2: Mark, I am absolutely blistering today, Absolutely skin is peeling off.
Speaker 1: My take, absolutely roosting with all those hot takes. We
has to be honest, I don't know why I've started
that way, because it don't seem that controversial. Week. There's
some really exciting stuff. We've got some really good stuff
to talk about. I just maybe not the I don't know,
the putting the cattle amongst the pigeon that you know
very much led early with there. But as said, we
have got some very exciting and big news to be
talking about. Quite a lot has been going on live news,
album news and big album news, so we are going
to over the next little while forty five minutes or whatever,
gonna let you know all of that and have a
little discussion about it. So let's get underway. You know,
no reason to waste any more time. I think we
have got today, first of all, the news that we
have been I think waiting a little while for it
this day, considering they've been you know, there's been machinations afoot,
and it seems like the Ghost machine has been working
looking for you know, a little while. I did. I
spotted the man himself in London a couple of weeks ago,
so he's doing something. The Ghost have fully unveiled the
curtain on their their Stith album. It is called We
Did Think. For a while, Elliott was theorizing that because
it was the Perpetua you know, Perpetual tour, and there
was Papa Perpetua is the name of the new things
that that you know, seems like a good album name.
But out of nowhere a skeleton has appeared, very scary
that the best of times.
Speaker 2: I know, I was expecting normal ghost behavior, but I'm
spooked out of my.
Speaker 1: Pooper absolutely because it's skeletor with a little accent. So
I don't know if that means Skeletor. I don't know,
but you know, Skeletor is the new sixth Ghost album,
a title that, to be honest, it's sort of amazing
they haven't It's so on the nose. It's alwayst amazing
they haven't done it yet. And I guess that is
also true of the name of the you single that
has been dropped, which is Satanized, which my immediate association
is one that I'm sure to Bias Forge immediately has
as well, which is I will know for a fact
that he has named this after the band that existed
before Dissection. That dis Section then turned into you know,
came out of who released one rehearsal tape in nineteen
ninety one. I bet Tobias Forge is absolutely all up
on his Satanized law. It's probably not named after that,
but I guarantee you'll be in on that. But anyway,
Skeleton is out April the twenty fifth, end of April.
New single out, Satanized. I guess you know, the kind
of whole Perpetua tour, everything that's been announced, it's coming
up pretty soon. So this is around the time that
this is all kicking off very exciting stuff always around
a Ghost album that I think they're you know, maybe
the only band like alongside a Slipnot for example, where
before we even talk about the new song, we've got
to look at things like, oh, you know, promo pictures
and you know, the whole Ghost thing and the just
straight away the Ghost. The main promo picture that's gone
out with this of you know, Papa and the gang
is I'd have to go back and look, but it
could be the single coolest ghostfotoever. The drip is unreal,
ice cold.
Speaker 2: They look fucking so sick, so metal, like so ghostly.
You know, I everything about this, the album cover, the
promo picture is just like so fucking cool.
Speaker 1: The look for them is I mean again, like you know,
it's it's bizarre how Ghost evolved from like, you know,
back in the very early days, it was basically like,
you know, a pope and some like hooded monk guys,
which is pretty standard. And then I guess it around
a milliora time and they started going a little bit
steampunk and the ghouls started having these like cool masks
and stuff like that, and this is like that as
bizarre combination of like steampunk, medieval, you know, papal church
whatever has evolved so far. Papa is I mean, for
a start, he's way way taller. He's on like some
kind of stilts or something like that black from Hell,
which just looks really really the mask is like almost
like Necker, Papa, have we got a Robopapa?
Speaker 2: Shad's a doctor Doom complimentary absolutely, and then the gang
around him.
Speaker 1: Again, I don't know if that will be the exact
attire that the Ghules wear on stage every night, because
it just seems a bit cumbersome, but it is so
fucking good. The guys with like the big steampunk top hats,
and then I presume the ladies with the kind of
the nuns habits, but also the giant bat wings.
Speaker 2: Ah. I mean it's in a way it's like typical
ghost you know, what else would I be expecting. But
it's also like this is genius.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a weird it's you know, familiar.
I don't know, silhouettes in general, like you know, kind
of looks and stuff, but the specifics of how they've
like mangled it up this time all just looked really strange.
And again, the wings look to me straight out of
that kind of similar kind of time period, that tribulation
drawn of that sort of like the nineteen twenties, like Vampire,
you know kind of it's so up my alley. It
looks absolutely amazing. That photo alone has you more excited
to again. You know that the photo kind of dressing
up and everything doesn't necessarily always translate to like this
is the look of the band every single night or whatever,
but it has you excited to just see this version
of the band like you know, kind of come at
you in action. So that's great. As you said, the
cover art, you know, same artists who's done many ghost
ABMs now, but you know, very very cool my art,
because a lot of ghost album covers have like referenced
poses and layouts and stuff from like either famous pieces
of artwork or you know, the last one Impia had
the kind of Alista Crowley pose. Some of them have
done like you know, the early ones did like horror
posters and stuff. I can't quite pin what this is.
It's because I feel like I really recognize it, Like
the sort of mirrored paintings on either side, where the
sort of like look into another dimension or something. It
reminds me of like some kind of salvad or day
painting or something, but I can't my art brain is
not like refined enough pinpoint exactly what that is that
I'm thinking of. So if anyone has you know, more
knowledge than I, well, do say.
Speaker 2: Similar to your sort of like it's not going to
be the dissection, you know, pool It reminds me of
the Gallery by Dark Tranquility.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, there's a similar vibe there for sure.
I mean again, that's all the kind of era that
Tobias has growing up in. But anyway, we have a
ten track album. It's been another story's gone around that
there's no like interludes or instrumentals or anything on this
one that he kind of just has gone, Yeah, we're
just gonna have ten songs straight away, which I guess
is a little bit different. I suppose you can expect
me Asthma to stay in the set still for a
long old time. When it comes to the interlude that
requires a costume change and all that stuff, they're not
going to be cycling that out, And you know, fair enough,
they've got the perfect one for the job. The first
song that is out is Satanized, and this song is
really weird. I thought, like, it's not a square hammer
or a rats where it's like I immediately know that
one what's you know kind of what it's about. There's
no explanation needed. This has very strange elements to it.
I found that. I mean, I've listened to it a
whole shit of the times now and I will kind
of go further in my thoughts on it in a moment,
but like it has a very do you know what
I mean, where like, especially just on first listen, it
kind of it seems so obvious about the kind of
thing that ghosts do. But at the same time, the
structure of it and like the bizarre little elements seem
a bit kind off kilter.
Speaker 2: It's got sort of the sort of rhythmic thrust of it. Yeah,
it's sort of old school ghost in a way. It's
like it doesn't really remind me of anything of Imperial
but it does feel like something they would have done
ten years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, I was that sort of rhythm
in you know, particularly when it very first starts, I
was thinking about like everyone wants to rule the world
and like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's it. I'm just I'm thinking too recent history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the guitars in it are not like it's
not got a huge riff, right, Like it's not super metal.
The guitars in the verses are almost more like the
kind of the like rock eir guitars that play in
scores of eighties films, just sort of like in the
background somewhere. The production is not like particularly heavy, like
it's not a beefy song, you would say, And there
is a certain I don't know, there's like a lot
of space in the sound. I thought, particularly like at
the soilo section or something. It's not like super girthy
and the chorus with that like you know, blasphemy heresy,
But and then it feels like that would be the
interest of the chorus. But it cycles round on it
a couple of times and almost like the momentum of
the chorus and how like each line should kind of
just like power Through doesn't seem entirely natural. It's almost
like it undercuts itself there. And I'm what I'm saying
here all sounds super negative, right, It sounds like this
song doesn't work. But I thought that on my first listen,
I was like, this is very strange. I listened to
it once yesterday, right, and I was to a whole
load more today, But after that one listen yesterday, I
woke up this morning with it in my head, and
I'm like, why is this song that on paper seemed
like it shouldn't really like gel just immediately glued to
me in a way that singles don't normally do. I mean,
there's a middle bit of just like some sort of
Latin chanting, just very out of the blue. There's the
bizarre sort of pre last chorus with a sort of
twinkly bit. It's got a really weird solo, like not
a big guitar here at solo, but like kind of
a weird like kind of dissonant.
Speaker 2: So it's it's like Bringing the Evil Back is mostly
dive bombs for the first count of and then it
becomes like a beautiful melodic ghost solo after that. Yeah,
it's very strange. It's got all these weird little elements,
but it we like why is that in there? Like
who would think to put that in there? And it's
got it doesn't feel like the.
Speaker 1: Natural rhythm to how you would expect a big rock
single like this to work is there with it, and
it shouldn't work, but yeah, somehow I am like addicted
to it. It's really I don't know what's going on
with it. It's maybe it's a quation case of like,
you know, he's so far in at this point, and
you know the team around him and everything. Just don't
question the brilliance at this point, because this is something
that is so compositionally a sonically sort of weird. But
it's just working its magic on me somehow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am the exact same as you. The first
time I listened to it, I was like a bit underwhelmed.
I've listened to it a bunch today. The chorus is
so like complicated and like, yeah, almost like it's teasing
you because it has that beautiful melody to start, and
then it's switches times signature and the rhythms are really
hard to grasp onto and it sort of leaves you confused.
But I adore this song. It is unbelievably catchy. It
like it's a magic trick. I don't know what he's done.
Everything about the chorus makes me go that should turn
me off. You can't really nod your head to it
in a proper way, you know, because that just completely
throws it off, but it it feels like a song
I should have been listening to my whole life.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The way you've just described the chorus as being
like quite complicated is definitely as I said, it doesn't
ease you into I mean, it's not a spillways right again,
it's not a dance per card, it's not a square hammer.
But once you're in that rhythm, it is so sticky.
It's a magic trick, is really good way of putting it.
What a strange, strange song that immediately after a second
go I was like, oh okay, I'm in so yeah,
really intriguing taste of a ghost sick thick sixth psalm
as they have put here skeleton of course, very very
excited for that. But yeah, let's know what you think
of the ghost track Satan I is really really fascinating,
weird song that I think. It's nice to have a
big you know, a band who do like bigs like that,
but also there's a really strange creativity in there in
austral but what's that.
Speaker 2: But it's also at the same time a big banger. Yeah, yeah,
mad band like Galaxy brain shit.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. We also had news today that there's gonna be
a new Volbeat album, and Mark, I think this one was,
you know, time well for you because you're you're a
big volbeatman. Their new album God of Angels Trust in June,
I'm sure sure they do, is going to be coming
out later in this year, and there's a song from
it out as well. There's some tour announcements and the
fucking it's the European and UK tour, isn't it that
has the support acts Bush and Gel?
Speaker 2: I mean, what the fuck? But I was saying to you,
I can't imagine any of those bands having heard of
the other. The idea that Gel would listen to Bousche
vice versa.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you put a bad in between those two
you could have some kind of I don't know it'd be.
It'd be a really bizarre, you know, six degrees of
Kevin Bacon thing, but maybe you could find a way
to transition from one to the other. But having Gel
and then Bush right as like the two sport that
is so fucking strange and fair play for Volbeat to
you know, still doing that weird shit and be like, yeah,
we're gonna Gel to open our arena at all, very strange,
but yeah, Mark Volby news song I just do it
once didn't necessarily hit me with a huge chorus, but
it is a bit. It's one of their sad but
true riffers, isn't it's they're one of their many many
We like Metallica songs and that's always quite nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's stompy is They have sort of two modes
of singles, the big stompy, large and in charge and
their Kelly Clarkson ones. Yeah, this leans on the former.
I like it because I like Volbeat. I like you say,
it's not memorable, but I just base like the sound
of Vulbeat enough that I'm like, I'm having a lovely
little time and then halfways but it speeds up. That's sick.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 2: Their tone is a very big, you know, Arena ready
style production on their guitars, but it just sounds big,
especially when they start riffing like that near the end.
I love this band and I've also listened to anything
they put out.
Speaker 1: Basically, Yeah, and they will play it at one of
the craziest tours of the yearly.
Speaker 2: After Gavin Rosdale has decimated the stage.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, so you've all been. We also have dropped. Earlier
in the week, there was a surprise split release from
two very kind of popular current hardcore bands, Pain of
Truth and Tsunami. But out of split it's called the
Coast to Coast split, two songs from each band. I
listened to it earlier. It's about nine minutes total of
two bands who I think so far have only kind
of registered on my like, yeah, that's pretty good side
of hardcore rather than being super like incredible. But I,
you know, the first riff on the you know, I
think that the Pain of True side opens in the
first rift, in the first Paine a True song, I
was like, yeah, cool, that's got me going. And there's
some hilarious snare fills and the tsud Army songs as well,
because they're just very at it in that sense. So
I'm sure if you're in on your hardcore, you will
already be all in on that particular release. Live News,
we also have some mega mega stuff to talk about
right now. First of all, last time we were alluding
to Slayer teasing very heavily that they were going to
be playing shows in the UK. We already knew they'd
be in the UK because they're at the Black Sabbath event,
but they seem to imply that they were going to
be doing more stuff, and lo and behold, that is
what we have with two Slayer shows that are I guess,
you know, the first UK headline Slier shows since they
broke up. They are going to be occurring at Cardiff
at Black weir Fields, and a few days later, the
day after the big Black Sabbath thing, they're going to
be doing a huge show at Finsbury Park in London.
And the bill for these shows includes a mono Math
and Thrax mastered on Hate Breed and neck Breaker. Neck
Breaker someone you know. I don't know if it's a nuclear
Blast connection or what, but they're like they're one of
like the random, small kind of bands who suddenly he'd
be getting these kind of opportunities. Are like a pretty
all right, I think, very young death metal band, you know,
pretty clean, pretty you know what you would expect from,
like I guess, a pretty large label signing a death
metal band like them, but you know, the one new
band appearing, they're very out of place, but kind of
good for them, I suppose. Otherwise that's obviously a bunch
of like the most legendary heavy bands of all time.
All in again, it's not quite as absurd how are
they going to fit all these sets in as the
Black Sabbath thing? But it's still, I mean, a hell
of a fucking day of heavy metal.
Speaker 2: I mean, how many Bloodstock headliners is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Before? Three bands who have done it, you know, historically,
and that's you could imagine that Anthrax maybe would have
back in the day. I don't know, Yeah, I mean
that is Slayer, a Monomauth, Anthrax master on Hate Breed.
That is three bands who have change the trajectory of
heavy music to some degree or another. I mean, I
guess it's notable that I'm Onomath are the one who
have their kind of logo the highest that of those,
I think these days they apparently seem to have surpassed
the likes of Anthracs and Mathodon in terms of commercial appeal.
But yeah, obviously that's fucking huge. I think the tickets
were about like one hundred pounds or something, which for
like a big outdoor, you know, stacked event day like that,
I think it's probably about what you'd expect, and you know,
if you've snapped up a ticket to go and see Slayer,
plus all those bands, as you've said multiple like Bloodstock
headliners or sub headliners or whatever. That seems like a
pretty incredible affair. I have chosen not to go for
this one because London in July. This is the thing
with this summer, right, this is the most absurdly stacked
with like event shows summer in the UK I can
maybe ever remember. Right, So in just like called June
through August, let's say the summer, right, this doesn't even
include most of the festivals, right, So obviously in June
you've got Outbreak. In July you've got two thousand Trees.
In August you've got Bloodstart. Obviously Download is in the
middle of June. Right at the start of June, I'm
gonna be at Fortress Festival, the Black Metal Wine up
in Scarborough, So you can throw those around whichever one
of those you might be at. But otherwise, like June
through August, right, there's a nine Inch Nails tour coming
through which I'm going to. There's an Iron Maiden tour
later that week which I'm going to. The following week
there is the huge Deaftones and Weezer London show which
I'm going to, which we also talk about in a
minute when it comes to the glaston Breene news. But
there's that huge event happening the week before this fucking
Slayer thing. Right in between that big defens Weser thing
and then the Slayer thing, you have the enormous Black
Sabbath back to the beginning fucking show, which is like,
you know, the biggest event ever or whatever. I got
to mention after the Deathtone show that I'm also seeing
King Diamond at that time. There is just it's the
amount of like, oh my god, hughe Like if you
are someone who primarily go to see the big metal bands,
right like, if your main uh you know, demographic of
the kind of shows that you want to go and see,
the kind of bands you like is you want to
go see the big popular metal bands, you are like
beyond spoiled for choice, to the point of it actually
being a little bit kind of upsetting this summer because
the fact that, again I don't feel too bad about it,
because as I said last time, like I've you know,
I've seen Slayer plenty of times before. I've kind of
had my I don't feel like a desperate need to
go to go and see this, but I mean I'm
kind of upset that I'm missing man O War in
the middle of July as well, who are playing in London,
and I've opted out of that one for now because
of all these other things that are going on.
Speaker 2: But also like Judas Priest are doing the O two
and you're right a show in Scarborough, Like fucking all
the heavy metal bands need to calm down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So in terms of again, I think one hundred
pounds or something for this particular show right now, I'm
not surprised by that at all, and I don't think that's,
you know, particularly egregious or anything. That's a normal price
for what a show like that would be. If anything,
it's almost a deal at this point. But again, if
your demographic is like I want to go and see
the big metal bands, how many of those shows? Plus
you know, if you don't live in London or whatever,
your transport, your accommodation or whatever. It is absolutely crazy
business that's happening in the Sower and the UK. In
terms of big metal shows.
Speaker 2: I would love to you know, obviously I'd love to
see Slayer, but I'm busy seeing the get Up kids.
That's drained me dry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Sam a bit of a ticket to
this Slayer show, so we will have a report from that,
which I'm you know, I'm pleased about. I'm sure that
it will be absolutely amazing. But just there is so
much going on this summer it is fucking unbelievable. Maybe
that Sabbath show is going to see more like on
the ripple ons of other bands from it, like you know,
popping up and doing dates or whatever. Alison Chains do
a date there on it, That's my wish from that.
But yeah, absolutely razy news going on over the summer
in general. But there is the new Slayer show I
mentioned Deathtones and Weezer being you know, in part of
that summer affair. They are also appearing on the Glastonbury
line up the same weekend as that, which is pretty
pretty cool. I'm glad that they have decided to you know,
have this big show of their own, but also while
they're here port over to a festival that I think
Weezer said they haven't played it since the Blue album cycle,
so as that's some going for them, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Honestly I'm surprised they've played it at all.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm not too surprised they played it on
the Blue album, but yeah, thirty years ago. Glastonbury Festival
in general, this year, I don't know what it is. Mark.
For some reason, every single year the Glastonbury Announcements is
a year that you happen to be on this show,
even though you don't you actively don't care about Glastonbury,
but like you you're curse with that for some reason.
It's always Glastonbury week when you're here. But quite a
lot of actually rock stuff on show at Glastonbury this time,
as said, and Weser are there, Biffy Kleiro are there,
Annel and the Sniffers, Bob Villain, Nover Twins turn style
of there again in terms of again stuff from the
sort of rock and alternative sphere. Obviously a bunch of
other stuff that he's not from. Mark a little sphere.
But there's you know, good and bad stuff going on there. Otherwise,
you know, seems a pretty pretty, you know, busy Glastonbury year.
But quite a lot of again like excited to see
I mean I won't personally be there, but like exciting
to see Yeah, cool death Tones and Weezer and Biffy
Clyira again or were popping up at Glastonbury and making
themselves known there and maybe get to watch it at
home or whatever, so that's all fun. Indeed, there was
a headline that went out that slip Knots over at
their not Fest event in Australia, I believe, gave a
live debut, airing to a deep cut at this stage
from their catalog Gemetria, The Killing Name the opening song
proper on the All Hope Has Gone album and apparently
I don't know what the hell's wild, because who knows
what the politics is in that band, But apparently Corey
Taylor has been pushing for a long time to play
that song because he loves it, and the rest of
the band were like, no, we hate that one, and
so that is why they didn't play it for years
and years and years. But finally I guess Corey got
his way and it's a bit of a bang of
that one, isn't it? So yeah? Cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the first time ever, first.
Speaker 1: Time ever they played Geometric didn't play on the Vibe
Was Gone tour?
Speaker 2: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: I understand people don't like All Hope Is Gone because
they're idiots, but do you match me? Come on? That
one is so heavy. Yeah, assurely, that's one everyone could
get on board with.
Speaker 1: It's a great opener. And again, I don't know what
on earth will be going on behind the scenes for
the rest of the band to be like, no, that
one we just don't want to play ever, even though
they liked it enough to make it the opener on
the album. But yeah, I mean like a great song.
I mean another you know again bit of fuel kind
against the people who still think All Is Gone is
a bad album for some reason, even though this is
like the sixth best song on it or something. But
you know, a cool little live debut from obviously one
of our giant bands in Slipknot. Back over in the UK,
we've got some more festival news because Damnation actually had
a pretty big week of announcements. First of all, I
guess it was likely flying on the radar ahead of
the big announcement they did, but they did announce that
Onslaught the one of the kind of UK primary thrash
band off rings during the you know, the the eighties.
I think they've got a long history of Damnation. They
released like a live album at Damnation once they're gonna
be playing for the fortieth anniversary of their Power from
Hell album. And if you like kind of grubby, evil,
slightly low fi thrash metal from the eighties like I do,
if you like you know, Venom and Discharge and thrash
metal that is influenced by those things, then Power from
Hell is pretty powerful and pretty hellish, so pretty good. Yeah,
so that's good. But then later the same week they
came out as with a huge announcement where they added
Death Heaven, they added author and punisher, Toxic Holocaust, Messa
and Netcrot. Good stuff top to bottom there. I've never
seen Toxic Holocaust, so that would be cool. Net Crop
really great death metal band, or from Punish show really
fucking heavy industrial messer, quite a popular upcoming doom band
at the moment. But the fact that Deaf Heaven have
never played Damnation before is pretty wild to me. Like
we're coming up on twelve years now of like Deaf
Heaven being almost like the IT band in kind of
extreme alternative whatever, you know, that kind of world of music.
So it's such a long time coming that Deaf Heaven
would play Damnation.
Speaker 2: I I've been not pointed before. No, what, Oh my god?
I swear I've been living in sort of a Mandela effect.
Oh okay, yeah, wicked perfect. That is so exciting. Yeah yeah,
I mean, do you think it was I don't know,
maybe there are two hipstery to use the H word, Yeah,
at first, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm sure it would just be it just never
happened in terms of like schedules and bookings whatever, because
I do think some people have said this about Damnation,
and I think it's about to remember. Damnation is not
fucking like Beyond the Gates festival, right or like, you know,
it's not like fest or whatever. It's like, if a
band is sort of, you know, cool enough to play
like a road burn, unless it's like completely out of
the realms of metal, they can probably also play Damnation, right,
Like post metal and shoe Gaze and whatever has always
had a place at Damnation. So I don't think the
I don't know, the anti Death Heaven Ferrara of like
ten years ago, I don't think it ever would have
been that particularly an issue for the Damnation demographic. But
the fact that, you know, I would wonder whether death
Evan would headline some out of Damnation, but they're not,
and they still haven't got any headliners on the on
this bill yet, so you know, interesting to see what
kind of they add or that. But at the top
of this poster right now, they've got Death Heaven and
Perturbator and High on Fire and Pick Destroyer and a
bunch of good stuff and that is a Damnation Davy
for Death Evans. So that is awesome, very very cool.
Also as contemporary and up to date is the fact
that Glenn Hughes has announced a UK tour, And this
is just chiming very much with you know, the Black
Sabba special that we had me doing on the last part.
I know it was Born Again season, but it was
also Seventh Star season and we were talking about Glenn
Hughes and his place in Sabbath history and so on.
And Glenn Hughes has announced a full on UK tour
where he's gonna be playing songs from all across the catalog,
which does include a whole pantheon of great band you know,
Deep Purple, Black Country, Communion, the Super Grip, he was
in the kind of twenty tens. But I love that
the poster for this it has doesn't say Black Sabbath
on it. It says Iomi Hughes right, because again, if you've
heard the Sabbath special that we did, you will know
that the Sabbath record that he's on was never meant
to be a Sabbath record, and Glenn Hughes never actually
agreed to be in Black Sabbath. It just kind of
accidentally got put out that way. And I love the
pettiness of still, forty years later, he refuses to say
he was in Black Sabbath, Like he's the one guy
who can, who has the right to put on his
poster Black Sabbath and who doesn't in it. If I was.
Speaker 2: Even on stage with Black Sabbath for a second, like
fixing your keble or whatever, I'd be telling that for
the rest of my life. Yeah, what do you reckon
Glenn Hugh's secret Damnation headliner?
Speaker 1: That'd be pretty cool. I mean, I am, I'm sort
of tempted by this, Like, you know, he's got a
lot of great songs from all the different projects. I do.
You know, hear the Call of the Seventh Star a
little bit, and I guess I'll say how expensive it is.
But I've never seen you know, Glenn Hugh sing with anything.
And he's still got a great voice, and it'd be
cool to see him play again all the Purple and
Naomi songs or whatever. But like, there are so many
guys who tried out for Black Sabbath for a week
and have made it there, Like life's work to say,
I was in Black Sabbath and Glenn Hughes released an
album and did a bit of a tour, and it's like, nah,
it was only me Hughes, and I absolutely respect that.
Dying on that hill for forty straight years because it
wasn't really a Sabbath album fair enough, but yeah, awesome
Glenn Hugh's tour happening later in the year. Over in
the US, we've also got a bunch a pretty big
exciting tours if you are over there. The first one
is Karna X are going to be doing. I guess
it's a fifteenth anniversary for Hell Chose Me album, which,
in my opinion is one of the classics of you know,
late noughti's early twenty ten's peak death core. I absolutely
love that record and that little round of can't effects
records it sits in and they've got a whole bunch
of support bands with them. But for part of it
they've only got fucking development as part of it and
can't effects Hell chose me to with development and support.
That's an absolute dream. If you enjoy stink and filth.
Speaker 2: And I do, I am humian. This is supposed to
be mine. This is my tour. What are you doing
across the pond? Come here right now? Please? I love
that record, Hell Chows Me. It is like especially that
hell chose me Breakdown.
Speaker 1: One of the sickest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like an iconic part of death core history,
which might as well be my history at this point.
And development as well, like I love those stinky lads.
Give me this, this is mine. This is supposed to
be mine. Do in the UK now please?
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's brilliant. And also if you, as said, enjoy
you know, stinky filth, Dragon to Sunlight. They're gonna be
playing the Maryland Deathfest. They have been announced to be
doing that for a long time, but they have announced
this week that around that they are going to be
doing a whole like quite extensive US tour and run
of shows which will all will feature as well the
band mis Moore, who are a very good kind of
blackened you know doom band spoke about them at Damnation
last year and the band Meth as well, and it
marks the first Dragon of Sunlight US run since twenty sixteen,
so I know that again, UK band who we've had,
I know they had a little bit of an absence
after COVID and stuff, but we do. We have them
more frequently over here than they are over there. If
you are a US fan and you know you heard
us talking about let's say, the Dragons of Sunlight set
of Damnation last year and how fuck crazy it was,
and you've been wishing to see Dragon the Sunlight, then
that looks like one of the must see kind of
extreme tours happening over on the other side of the
pond this year, So get onto that. And if you
like extreme, if you like hardcore as well, Harm's Way
and Full of Hell have announced a co headlining US
tour together which also features the likes of Cruelty, the
One with a K who are very good, the Full
of Hell kind of spinoff band, jar Head, Fertilizer, and
a man called Click as well. So in terms of
just like vicious, nasty end of heavy hardcore and stuff
like that, that is also a very big tour. Indeed, last
couple bits of news before we move on to the
releases at the end. First of all, there was quite
a surprising studio photo that came out this week from
the Entombed camp of Nick Anderson, and I believe that
might be up for Chedlund in the photo as well. Maybe,
But Entombed have been getting together working out some riffs
and say they're being coming with a good bit of material.
The last actual Entombed album within two thousand and seven.
In between that, we had a few Entombed AD albums,
which was the band that LG. Petrov you know, ran
for a little while obviously before his passing a few
years ago. But the you know, the entunbe side of
Entombed have been creatively silent for a very very long time,
and I just sort of assumed that it was done
and dusted, because you know, I'd never had an Entombed
in tube album in my musical lifetime, so to speak
of following this stuff. So I don't even know if
I would have expectations of a this manifesting or B
how high my expectations would would be. But like, especially
because if we don't have Entombed a d you know,
out there anymore kind of at least playing the shows
and stuff like that, I would at least be curious
and kind of like ooh at the idea of entombed
kind of popping their head out again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've got to think like not too I
don't know, raise my expectations too high or anything, because
I don't really like the last couple entombed albums. But
older death metal bands do sometimes have a reputation to
still be pretty good at it, so you never know,
and it's it's just heartwarming knowing that there's entombed out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the last few entuned albums from you
know again the two thousands, and I think they're all
pretty solid, Like none of them are excepter like is
it uprising when they come in about two thousand and
that one's good. The following couple are like, you know,
pretty pretty decent. Never really kind of did much to
like super right home about. But considering you know, it's
again like almost two decades on from from those, that's
almost like a carcass surgical steel or whatever sort of
like absence of like doing any material or anything. It's
very long time that MBS have done anything. They did play.
They played a couple of like, you know, very limited
standalone type shows in Sweden in like the last few years.
I believe I'm right in saying one of the guys
from from morbus Kron, the really kind of cool you
know Proggy Swedish Definite band from the mid twenty tens,
he did vocals for like at least a few songs
at one of those big shows, and like, I would
be up for an entuned reunion with you know him
kind of taken on because I love that band and
that guy's got a great voice. But yeah, I mean again,
I don't know how we might be waiting fucking three
four years for another entuneed aubum if they're just like
slowly grinding out. But at least the prospect of new
Entombed material is more intriguing than when we didn't have
that prospect, So they're are very cool indeed. And then finally,
this week, I have not been able to escape the
face of Bobby Leebling from Pentagram on my on the
internet this week. Everywhere I go, his wild eyed, bug
eyed hair blowing back behind him face has stared back
at me because for some reason, just a little fan
film clip of a Pentagram live show, of which there
have been many, many, many over the years. There's nothing
new happening here. It's just Bobby Leebling just being the
fucking freaky menace that he is. Has just so I
had to become the metal meme of the moment. Have
you seen much? Was this organic?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Had you seen this before? I like put it in the.
Speaker 2: Script I've phund I saw this because my brother who's
just completely disconnected from metal but is connected to TikTok exactly.
This demonstrates it because it was like a meme of like,
why does this look like the villain in every regular
show episode? And I was pissing myself before I even
realized who it was. And then when you were like, oh,
pentagrammar trending it, I'll click to my brain and I
was like, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I saw the you know, the early
post of this. I kind of saw kind of early
on in terms of when it's just making it around
people on metal Twitter or whatever who kind of know
who it is, just having a laugh. But the fact
that it like again broke out and became like, I mean,
someone made a fucking puppet some like someone made like
a weird like Bobby Leeblink muppet based on this this meme.
And then this obviously then results in the amount of
law that you know, people have to learn about Bobby
Leblin because a you know, Pentagram are you know, a
doom metal pioneer band with a history going back like
probably like over fifty years. At this stage, there is
such a long history there. The guy has done more
drugs than maybe anyone else alive, and that is kind
of why his face is like that, and he you know,
that could have intense stage present everything that is kind
of that's that's just Bobby right as I say, he's
been for fucking fifty years or whatever. But then people
then go, oh, no, that we like have to explain
the law of him when he was like arrested for
like beating up his elderly mother or whatever went on,
because again a lot of drugs have been going around here.
So the explaining Bobby Leebling law to normies basically people
who should like never know for their own good who
Bobby leeblind iss been a weird feature this week, But
there you go. Everyone gets their moment of fame I
suppose popping above the you know, the kind of parapets
of the underground, and this week's it was pendagrams unexpectedly,
but there you go. So that is the main star
that's been going on this week in the news. Mentioned
Black Sabbath earlier here on TNM. This week we are
going to be undertaking in a few days time, this
coming week, we are going to be thinning off, finishing
off the Black Sabbath special that we started, you know,
over the last few weeks. We started off with a
part on the Runnie James Dio initial run, because the special,
if you are not aware, is Black Sabbath after Ozzie
and particularly focusing on the sort of wilderness years of
the eighties and nineties where the mainstream completely checked the
fuck out from caring about Black Sabbath at all. And
there are so many albums that most people who call
themselves metal fans actually we've never listened to. So we
kind of wanted to shine a light and be like,
if you've not heard these, this is what's going on
with them. So we started off with the running James
Dio years just to kind of really have that context there.
Then we had a second part where things that really
off the rails. We spoke about the period where Ian
Gillen from Deep Purple joined the band, which is the
most whirlwind batshit year any band has ever had. I think,
if you really want to know the full story, then
of course all that. In the special we spoke about
the seven Start. We are now getting into with this
final part that we are going to be coming up
to this week. We are going to be closing out
basically the end of the eighties and then the nineties
period of Black Sabbath all the way up to when
the famous kind of oz Fest you know, ninety seven
and the reunion album and everything with Ozzie happened and
kind of like put to bed the era of Black
Sabbath that we are choosing to focus on here, but
everything up to that point. There's quite a few albums
in this part. A couple of them are genuine kind
of bona fide classics if you are in the know
with them. Roddy James Dio comes back, there's like a
secret extra deo Black Sabbath album not everyone knows about,
and the Tony Martin years get really fucking good as well.
And then there's also some kind of off the rail stuff,
because there always has to be. With Black Sabbath at
this point in time, there is bizarre what to do
that for moments as part of this as well, so
the Wilderness Years of Black Salas special we are going
to be finishing up this week. That is over at
patreon dot com Slash That's Not Metal. Previously, in the
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album Club Pack, which featured Fucking Visigoth and Sabatan and
Family Force five and Hate Breed if you want to
get yourself jazzed up for that Slayer show. And we've
had a couple of very big tear lenders horror episodes
as well our horror podcast, where in the last month
or so we have looked first at the history of
Nosferatu with the new movie, and then we also did
the same thing for the wolf Man, looking at universal
monsters and so on. So that is all there over only,
that's what of Patreon. That is what keeps this podcast afloat,
essentially the people who are kind enough to support us
over there, So thank you very much to everybody who
does that. Let us finally finish out these hyperblasts with
some releases and considering. Last week was our reviews episode February,
which you should definitely check out if you haven't aready,
because we were speaking about some killer albums, big albums
from the likes of Kilswish Engage, bleeding through some small
and more underground albums from icons like piss Grave, also
some lesser known bands. Sam had to review a Dream
Theater album and that's a moment that I think we
will all be cherishing for a while. But February twenty
eighth last week, we have those releases to go through
as well, so let's do that first up. Obviously, speaking
about the big metal core gauntlet that we had in
that episode, we had another obviously a huge record come
out last week that we will, I guess give our
thoughts on, you know, in a couple week time when
we kind of get round to it. But the Architects
album that everybody else has been very quick to share
their thoughts on, what's it called The Sky, the Earth
and all Between, came out last week. We also have
if you like your kind of nineties shoegazy, you know,
alt Vibes, There's a band called Oversize who released a
record called vital signs and if you are particularly on
that kick and again like that kind of alt rock
born of the kind of hardcore background and world. I
suppose there's a man called Cloakrom who released a record
called Last Leg of the Human Table about was far
away from that as you can possibly have. Power Metal
had quite a week going on because we had Avantasia's
new album, Here Be Dragons Mark. Have you listened to
Here Be Dragons by Advantasia?
Speaker 2: I have it. I'll say this, it sounds like an
Advantageer album.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely positive that's true.
Speaker 2: The first song on't it I do actually like and
I I showed it to one of my friends who
was like, yeah, of course you fucking like this. It
just sounds like Waking Up in Vegas by Katie Perry.
So that's me.
Speaker 1: That's very funny considering I think this is meant to
be more like an old school back to the roots
album to the last ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Advantage's roots are still candy floss.
Speaker 1: That's very very true that you have candy colored roots
and staying in Germany. This is an album I had
been like anticipating for quite a while looking ahead to it.
You know, maybe we should have reviewed it last week.
I don't know. Udo Dirkshni, the former singer, the classic
era singer of Accept, announced around the kind of Christmas
period that he was going to be putting out an
album called Ball to the Wall Reloaded, which is just
a re recorded version of the classic Accept ab and
Ball to the Wall, but with a guest vocalist on
every single track, and uh, every single album like this.
There's we were saying this before. There's a group of
about fifteen to twenty metal vocalists who are just on
a fucking rotating like carousel of doing these type things.
And before I looked at the track list, I knew
that d Snyder and Tim Ripper Owens and Biff from
Saxon and fucking Doro would all guaranteed the appearances on
the re recorded Ball to the Wall album.
Speaker 2: And because they weren't on they weren't on the Advantage album,
this time they'll be on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had to check in their schedule somewhere, but
it was a dream when I loaded up the tracks
and I was like, please, I hope that Biff is
on London Leather Boys, and then seeing exactly that it
was so we.
Speaker 2: We have to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Hearing Udo, who has he had a wild voice forty
years ago, he's aged into it and then even whiled
away perhaps and hearing him kind of bounce off singers
who I mean, like you know, Biff, it's sucking one
thing he sounds mentally, but like the ones where it's
like Michael from Helloween right, like it's like a very
technically proficient singer and it's back and forth between him
and a hobgoblin. Going is so jarring.
Speaker 2: It's like every time Udo comes in you never get
used to it. It's still jarring. Like you say, you
have these great proficient paramattal vocalists like Michael from Halloween,
and then the fucking goblin behind a skip comes up
and drives to fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talking about his balls, but we highly recommend you
go and.
Speaker 2: Listen to Oh Please. It is so good.
Speaker 1: We genuinely Balls to the Wall reloaded. We're still on
last week's releases. There was actually quite a lot of
like really good stuff. A bank stress test put a
record that I've had a lot of fun with. This
is actually basically the rhythm section from unto Others. So
Colon and Brandon from unto others. I believe Brandon does
the vocals on it, and it's like a seventeen minute
long crossover thrash record, Like you load up the cover
and it's got the black and gray kind of you
know sort of effect and you know exactly what it is.
But it's really fucking good, Like if you like that
style of like just beefy, nasty minute and a half style,
you know, crossover thrash songs with gang vocals shouting things
like bastard behavior. It's a really really fun album that
I highly recommend. In black metally type fairs are quite popular.
Currently banned from Finland called have Akrunu put out called
tavast Land. I guess, yeah, I say black metal, but
it's very much of the you know, more heavy metal
inspired like Viking era Bathary and that kind of It's
got a sort of a you know, a bombast to
it that I think people are really clicking with. So
so that's cool if you want some slightly more you know,
sort of low key, more atmosphericy tye black metals. An
called Gream put a record called Night's Side. We slipped
over into some really fucking weird death metal first of
all is a band called Effluents, who have been aware
of for a little while, who do bizarre sort of
like freek ount free jazz versions of like slam and
brutal death. Basically like they're a bit of a nightmare.
It's like proper like freak out, you know, like John
Zorn would be proud type music. And they put out
a record called Pianistic Dismemberment, which is basically like a
slam record, but it has no guitars on it, and
it just has really weird like low pianos doing the riffs.
It's it's freaky, it's freaky, it's out there. It won't
sound like much else you've heard, So if you just
want to hear again like a fringe heavy music experiment,
you can go and find that one. And I guess
this one seems normally comparison, but again more slightly our
avant guard death metal Sleep Paralysis put it a self
titled record, much more back to basics, you know, kind
of early style extreme metal. Grave Infestation put up their
record Carnage Gathers, and it was quite a busy week
for this underground death metal because we also had some
pulpral voice releasing Crimson Moon Avocations and the band Ritual
Ascension that I believe features some members of Suffering Hour
and Aberration put out record proffer Nation. A last few
records from last week. This one is pretty cool. I
think a band called Scimitar put out a record called
Simutarium one, and this is quite a unique sounding So
I don't know if you call it a heavy metal
or black mettle record. I supper it's kind of the Rifts. Actually,
they sound a lot to me like Satan, like the
band like that sort of like quite you know, rollicking
if you know the band Satan, you know what I mean,
Like that style knew of a British heavy metal, but
with like a blackened kick where there's like blast beats
and stuff in it, and then the vocalist is like
a witch, just like a full on wailing mad woman.
It's quite a unique recipe. It's a cool record. I've
given it one spin so far, and I feel like
I should give it a few more because it's pretty
cool and much more raw black metal type stuff. There
was a band called Hailkundura put out a card Order
of Disgrace, and another underground slightly more epic leaning black
metal Tubalcane put out a record called slime Abyss, which
is a great name. Finally, let's move forward to actually
this week. There's a few less releases still here, but
some actually pretty obviously some high profile stuff as well.
We start off with spirit Box of course today, who
released their second album finally after five years or something.
We've had lots of materials because they've never gone away,
but the second long awaited spirit Box album, Soon AI
See is out. We also have the new White Chapel
album Hymns in Dissonance, which from the single seemed to
be much there, kind of like we want to play
some filthy death Corps again album, which I am very
excited to hear. So that is out. The Wildhearts, who
I'm sure have like broken up and reformed several times
in the last like two years or whatever, but they
currently seem to exist, and they put out a record
called Satanic Right, So the Wildhearts you can keep in
track of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Wild Horses broke up and now it's
Ginger and three other people. It's like all new guys.
But the singles they've released from this are really good.
I am really excited for this.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. And also, if you're a fan
of I guess UK rock music from around the turn
of the millennium, Raging Speedhorn have got their new album.
They're back with night Wolf. Going much further back into
the lineage of the UK rock music, Jeth Throw Toll
have an album called Curious Ruminant. We move into you know,
some thrash legends Destruction. I've got a new record called
Birth of Malice. It's been probably over ten years now
since I actually like spend any meaningful time with a
Destruction record, but they have a new one that is
out over on I believe Neurot Records. We have a
band called Guiltless putting out a record called Teeth the Sky,
pretty typical Neuroti type stuff. I think it's a members
of Battle of Mice involved with that, which is cool.
And then we have a very kind of vicious hardcore
band Ingrown with a record Idaho. We have another sort
of like older style hardcore band at one Relapsed Records
I believe, called Static Clone put out a record called
Better Living through Static Visions. We have a sort of
you kind of blackened crusty hardcore band. This Gift is
a Curse with a record air. We have a pair
of slightly I guess or tech prog death type records.
One is from Dawn of a Roberus with Bioluminescence. One
is from Cryptosis with Celestial Death. If that is much
too kind of wankery for you and you want Brazilian
speed metal, then there's an now called Whipstriker with a
record called cry of Extinction. And speaking of destruction, there's
actually a Destruction cover on that record, but you know
they're from Brazil, therefore maniacs immediately default. Finally, we have
a handful of EPs that are out today. We have
recon Siler, the I guess called Heartland rock band put
up three songs as a band from Germany called root Brain,
which is kind of sort of slightly grungey alt metal,
I suppose Mother Tomb. There is the aforementioned tun Army
Pain of Truth Coast to Coast split that was released
this week. And finally, there is a demo that I
came across from a band called Death Pulsation. I know
absolutely nothing about this band apart from what's on there
band camp, but it's on a label that I sometimes
check in on, and it sounded like a really cool,
like just vicious, necro war like, full on scuzzy style
death metal demo that I'm gonna go and you know,
check out the rest of now it's it's out there.
So a lot of releases there, my god. But that
is what we are here to do, and thank you
for listening. We will, you know, we'll have a review
show and a couple of weeks where we'll talk about
some of the again the most interesting and and and
best of that bunch of releases and whatever else might
be coming over the next couple but for now, thank
you very much for being here with us through all
of that. We are gonna move on too. We'll have
another Hyperblast next week, but between now and then we're
gonna move on to doing our big finale to the
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