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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to Week two of That's

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Not Metal for twenty twenty six. We are here with

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another edition of Hyperblast, our weekly news show where we

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let you know everything that's been going on in the

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world of rock, hardcore, heavy music, heavy metal over the

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course of this year. It's still somewhat early days for

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the year, but this week we do have a big

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flood of new music. Actually that is predominantly what we're

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going to be talking about today, but you know the drill,

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let's get into it. My name is Pernhish. With me

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across from me in week two of this is Sam

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Dick Noon, Hey Sam.

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Speaker 2: How do I'm good?

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Speaker 3: I've spent my week watching mostly f YA videos and

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clips from that festival, just like when the Big Hard

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Professor kicked off in America, and just seeing hate breed

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about barriers has got me like dying for it to

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be someone already swag it to have my version of that.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, hardcore looks cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Occasionally something from FYA, like I primarily think of the

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Dying Fetus event from a year or two ago, kind

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of breaks containment and goes around viral. I haven't really

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seen anything come my way from you know, that end.

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But I'm sure that was a grand old time. As

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far as I'm concerned. This week has been you know,

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it's the week where we have we've both paid a

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visit to the Bone Temple. Yep, we've boned down in

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the Bone Zone, and you know that is of interest

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to us.

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Speaker 4: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: We have done our horror podcast episode about twenty eight

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days later in the series so far before, but I

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don't want to actually say any specific details because seeing

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how it gets to that point is kind of the

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surreal joy of it. But there is certainly something in

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there that makes it why TNM not just TNEM does

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horror relevant? That has I don't know, dominated my thoughts

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for the last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well again I'm trying to be as vague as

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because I was avoiding all kind of like chatting and

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so you say, And then when that scene happened and

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I was like.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this awesome.

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Speaker 1: How have we got here as this you know sort

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of you know, quite initially very stark, very serious, you know,

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zombie post Apocalypse series has reached such a weird, like bizarre,

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gonzo kind of point, and I have to say I'm

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here for it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Eventually, some later down the line, we may you know,

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go more.

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Speaker 4: In depth about it.

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Speaker 1: But that was an event of the week. But let

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us get into our news for the week. And as

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I said, I guess we have reached the point in

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sort of mid January where we are having another rush

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of kind of new album campaigns and stuff being kicked

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off with album announcements and leads and the like. So

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we are going to we're on depth talk about a

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couple of them, but then there are even more albums

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after that to you know, get the news out there

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as well. First off, the one that we had most

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explicitly been anticipating for quite a while now is.

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Speaker 2: What I predicted last week, wasn't it as well?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right on que Is, we have news, concrete news

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about Poison the Well's new album, which is to be

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their first album since The Tropic Rot in two thousand

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and nine, which preceded their initial breakup. So the first

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post reunion, proper comeback Poison the Well album. It's called

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Peace and Place. It's going to be out on March

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to twentieth, and there is a lead single from this

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called Thoroughbreds. The first thing that I checked past, you know,

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getting a new song itself is I looked at the

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track list and unless I am mistaken, trembling level, which

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was the comeback poison Well single that we got at

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the beginning of you know, Buring this time last year,

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the beginning of twenty twenty five, is not on that

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track list, and I was curious about that trembling level.

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it a good handful of times, seen it live of

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Speaker 4: End of last year.

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Speaker 1: Really strong, very worthy of the legacy and the name,

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I think, come back single. So you know, I was

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curious to be on the album. I guess you know,

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when when this comes out in March, that track will

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have been like, you know, existed for like over a

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year prior to that, so you know, I'm not mad

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about them not including it on the album, but it

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does have a level of like, Okay, what you have

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on this album has to live up to, you know,

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not just what you've done in the past before, but

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also this you know, very strong already lead single that

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you'd put out you know, the previous year. So we

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do have an album in coming that is all totally

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new material to us. We had that one great song

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that sounded the claxon of the return, and now we

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have more.

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Speaker 4: Fresh new music.

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Speaker 1: So as the first actual taste of the Poison the

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World album, what do you make of Thoroughbreds?

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Speaker 3: Well again, so like after Trembling, was like, right, so

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it's not going to be they're not doing you know,

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poison or like winding the clock back to nineteen ninety nine.

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this is gonna be more in line with where they

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left off. And obviously there are two albums you can

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look at from that latter period of Poison the World,

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and if they're gonna sound like that, you want it

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to sound more like versions than don't you like Okay,

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it is, you know, it's the worst Poison World album.

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Speaker 2: But I was gonna expect they're gonna pick U from that.

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Speaker 3: And when I am sort of thuds was like I

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felt very just immediately confided at the sound of this album,

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this track being like this is not like some regressive

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like kind of like throw back to early metical sound

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that like I love I will lap up and I'm

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gonna shout out all the sorts off like that whenever

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I can. But it's nicely Poisonoul kind of like pick

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up where they kind of left off but refine it

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and kind of bring a new strength to it. I

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think this song is is really great in that kind

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of like western tinge like medical thing they were doing

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on like moments on versions.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because what you were just saying there about you

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you know, dejure again in recent years, and you know,

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if Poison Wel aren't doing it, there are lots of younger,

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small hardcore bands out there who roughly have been doing

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you know what early the poison world is. POISONI is

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such a legendary name. I'm sure there will be a

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lot of eyes, particularly problem with the hardcore community of

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course on you know, their comeback album. But how many

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of those people are only into the first two or

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three Poisonel albums, you know? And I agree when I

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put this on it's a little bit in you know,

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if you were going to compare it to any music

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the poison while I've done.

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Speaker 4: In the past.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit Letter Thing and songs like that

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with that you know, rollicking kind of sort of punk

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rock and roll pace. That thing that I think is

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really kind of you know, stands out about Poison Well

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that they have this quite classic not actually that very

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much down tuned guitar. You know, like it's still heavy,

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from the version's album, it does lack that you know,

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unpredictable wildness, but a more kind of refined, you know,

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mode of Poison The well that is, you know, that's

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what they've aged into, rather than being the staccato breakdown

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of set out for bands trembling level. Like I said,

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we've had a year of that being around great song.

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from where we are at, the interest in the poison

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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like a nostalgial thing, and it just it just sounds

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like a nice mature update of where they left off,

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and people are still going with that. I've sort of

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who got in who you know, Redisco discovered Poisoned Well.

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Speaker 2: And in their absence, I like, yeah, this this sound

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's promising indeed. So when March the

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bag and really dive into. But yeah, exciting stuff. Around

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the same time. One week prior March the thirteenth is

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when we will be getting the new Lamb of God album,

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the tenth Lamb of God album. It's called Into Oblivion. Obviously,

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the news of you know, new Lamb of God and

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we've now got looking at the you know, the track

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list for this album. If you pull it up, we've

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got the first three tracks from this Lamb of God

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album out now. Was the first single, Sepsis, which we

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sort of standalone thing they did over the Christmas period,

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they dropped another one called Parasocial Christ. And now there

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track out now as well. So we have you know,

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I think it's got this weird logo, like I can't

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pinpoint exactly what it is, but the font it looks

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like some you know, pre rendered font that I'm sure

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I've seen somewhere else before. If anyone knows exactly what

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that is, then then do pull it up. But it's

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not the classical Labor of God logo, and instead, along

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with the cover art, they've gone for this kind of

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like techno Lamb of Gods We're in the Machine kind

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of version of it.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a north Plane album cover, is my

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initial I was like, or any of those kind of

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put a shape on there and have some neon colors

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean I wondered obviously with you know,

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the name into Oblivion and then a cover that seems

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to be leaning more you know, sort of robotic. I

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was like, are we talking, you know, are we thinking

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about going into AI in the age of the machines

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taking over and stuff that thear Factory would have been

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singing about in the mid nineties but you know, relevant

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in twenty twenty six and all that weird logo. But anyway,

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as I said, more of a cross section now of

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what the Lamb God album might be. And you know,

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bit of excitement about actually this new Lamb of God material.

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more different ones I suppose that they've done in their history.

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like thrashy, slightly punky Lamb of God songs that you

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can usually expect them to have. This lead single is

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the most I would say the mold of Lamb of God.

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sounding pissed off, but were like kind of hooks in there.

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kind of like standard Lamb of God track, But again

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it does feel a little bit more like got a

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bit more punched to it than I think they've had

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on the last two records. I don't know, like I've

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accept this is still my favorite of these sort of

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songs I've heard of this because again, that is just

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like dark and nast in a way that I thought

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Lamb of God wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Necessarily go to any more.

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Speaker 3: But I think all three of these songs, it just

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it just sounds a bit more fired up, and it's

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got me kind of more willing to go with this

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Lamb of God record.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I you know, I don't want to

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be too sort of revisionist history about it, because I

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think if we throw our minds back to Omens and

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when we review that, I remember us talking about and

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I remember, you know, having seen them play some of

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those songs live and stuff like that, Omens I felt was,

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you know, maybe not a drastic one, but I thought

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it was an improvement over the South album, and I

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liked that album, you know, quite a good amount already.

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lump everything they've done recently together and say that this is,

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you know, maybe freshening up. I think Sepsis is, like

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understand that, like, oh what a Lamb of God is

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cooking up here, where it has that kind of slurry

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sludge kind of you know, noise almost element to it.

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so far I thought it was good, you know, I

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did think this sounds like a single that could be

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basically roughly in line with what they've done on the

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last two albums. And so with that, you know, I'm

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looking forward to the Lamb of God album as I

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would always do. I think I'm maybe taking a more

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realistic position that I you know, I won't be surprised

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if this new Lamb of God album is good. I

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will not even necessarily be surprised if a lot of

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people can come out and say that this is the

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best they've done, you know, since Chris Adler left the band.

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But I'm also kind of keeping a realisting But I

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don't expect it necessarily based on the last couple to

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go like dramatically above and beyond what like certainly the

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last album was like I'm not going, I'm not sitting

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here going I'm expecting the new Lamb of God album

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to be like, you know, a wrath level return to

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form or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's fair.

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Speaker 3: I mean, for me, the way I'm looking at is,

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I think this maybe is the weakest of the Freesoms

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so far, and I would still put this on the

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sort of upper level.

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Speaker 2: Of some of the songs on shure the last I'm

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not like not not not.

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Speaker 3: Like Ditch and the almost like the two like real

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like bangers off of that album. But yeah, I would

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still take this over a lot of that last time.

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So that's why I'm kind of a bit more enthusiastic

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to it. But I like, yeah, I'm not I don't

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expect this to be, you know, a world beating Lamb

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of God are the best band in metal again, but

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it does just I don't know, it just feels like

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there's just a bit.

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Speaker 2: More spark or like fire that.

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Speaker 3: Makes it feel like least they're they're more engaged, and

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I think they're trying to like not fall too far

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behind what is going on around them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm maybe trying to strike something of

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a middle ground about that there. Where As I said,

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you know, these are pretty decent, you know, interesting tracks

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looking forward to what we what we've got, as said,

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March thirteenth is when we're getting the new Lamb of

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God album, which is called Into Oblivion, so that again

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i'll be alongside of the poison Well one some pretty

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good stuff coming certainly in that kind of you know,

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March April kind of pipeline at this point. Also, let's

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keep it going with the new music just dropped not

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long before we start recording. Static Dress have announced that

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they are now you know, currently back and in musical

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mode as well. They have signed to Sumerian Records, and

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they've released a new single called Human Props. Static Dress

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are one of those bands who I see in the

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kind of you know, let's call it the outbreak world, right,

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which is not you know, because they're not strictly a

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hardcore band, but that kind of post hardcore leaning into

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stuff like that. They're one of those bands much like

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someone like Loathe, for example, who of like the newest

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guard of like you know, popular bands do seem very well,

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you know, kind of almost semi revered to a certain

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degree by people who are really kind of you know,

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involved in that community. I've always thought Statuic Dress were decent.

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You know, I stick them on when we've gone to

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review them, and I like them well enough. I can

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now say, after you know, about five six years of

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them being around, they've never like made anything that's stuck

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with me, you know, Like I to be honest that

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they had a last album that came out two or

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three years ago, and I barely remember that one coming out.

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But I was more kind of when it comes to

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music that is, you know, harkening to that kind of

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post hardcore sound of the early two thousands, that kind

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of thing. I was more into, for example, what see

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Space Cowboy were doing on their like last album and

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that kind of thing than I have ever like really

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stuck with something from Static Dress. But I always thought

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they were decent in that, you know, With that in mind,

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I was more interested in throwing to you, Sam about

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what you thought about, you know, kind of this new

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track and if you've ever been like, you know, one

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of the people who you know puts a put a

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lot of stock into stat Ad Dress, I suppose, but

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you know, removing what I've just said from the equation,

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I started this on and I thought, well, that's a

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you know, a pretty strong single from them, where you know,

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it sounds kind of slick as they always do, but

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still with that spikiness of you know, two thousands post.

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Speaker 4: Hardcore and a pretty decent chorus in terms of what

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they have done up to this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I stat Dressed fellow on this band that they

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kind of feel made for me, and I feel like

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I should love them, but like you, I always have

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a good time when I'm listening to stag Dress. But

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the album has like really cool tracks in it, but

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none of them have ever really stuck around with me.

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And again it's kind of like yep, I like the

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sound this when it's on, but it isn't making the

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biggest impact. I think this is the kind of like

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most immediately kind of like catchy like thing they've done,

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where again it is slick and it's got a big

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kind of like naughty sort of pop emo chorus, but

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with that spiky, harder edge. I think I think that's

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where they really found the balance on on this track

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is still having that sort of more jagged post hardcore thing.

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Speaker 2: Again, it is such a throwback.

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Speaker 3: To two thousands kind of like emo and post harder

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that's always been their stick, and this is kind of

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like dialing up the kind of like the emo pop

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on the chorus, but whilst.

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Speaker 2: Still not lose whiles not sat down the edges too much.

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Speaker 3: I think this is like a really sort of strong

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first statement of a new Mirror first actdress that I'm

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kind of like, okay, cool throwing a couple more choruses

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out on an album and I think you might finally

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like here's something that that does make more of a

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lasting impact on me rather than kind of like, yeah,

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I like this because it's a sound I like, I

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don't remember any of these songs really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that again just from a very first impression from

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this single. While I think you know, what they are

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is not necessarily as like laser pointed at me as

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it is at you for example, that was certainly my

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impression that I was like, oh, you know, at least

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from one go, there's more of a Again, you could

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you could put that chorus on you know, two thousand

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and four MTV or whatever, and you can imagine it

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kind of you know, hanging in that environment where some

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of their stuff has been a little bit more kind

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of like slap dash, I suppose. So again, if this

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is like a first signing, you know, first single from

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a new sign into a label, maybe an album to

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follow that kind of thing, then I think if you

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are you know, very much into static dress, I think

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there is definitely some promise there. And if you are

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wanting more pop choruses, then we also have New Sun

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that is coming their first you know, proper full length

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album in six years. Since twenty nineteen. It is a

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self titled album, which is bizarre to be doing when

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your son at this stage in the game, but coming

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on April the third is their first for subpop. There

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is a like ten minute track that you know, has

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as many hooks certainly as all these things that we've

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we've been talking about. But if you are a big

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drone head, then you know the daddies of drone are

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very much back. Coming in April. Also in the underground

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kind of spotlight, Cryptic Shift have signed to Metal Blade

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and they have a new album in February, which is

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gonna be their first album since they had you know,

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a kind of buzzy album that released in twenty twenty,

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but that's, of course, you know, six years ago at

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this point. If you don't know Cryptic Shift, they are

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from the UK and they're again sort of they had

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one album out. It is kind of one of the

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buzzier things to come out of that world, a sort

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of proggy death metal, think you know, blood Incantation, but

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more along the kind of like slightly techy thrash vibes

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rather than the full you know, ambient cosmic explorers. But

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if they're signing to Metal Blade. I would expect, you know,

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some even more eyes coming on them by the time

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that record rolls around, and so, you know, curiosity is

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certainly there when it comes to what, you know, Cryptic

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Shift could be cooking up, because they have released a

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you know, a lead single from this which has a

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fucking ridiculous title that I'm not even gonna attempt. But

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it's like a ten minute long single with you know,

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some of those crazy kookie tech thrash prog kind of

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vibes in it. So Cryptic Shift coming you know, very

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very soon, actually, and the biggest one of the lot

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perhaps is certainly objectively the biggest one of the lot

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in terms of the gap between albums that we're talking

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about here. The Academy Is have announced their first album

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in eighteen years now, Sam, I don't even know which one.

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The Academy Is are like, what's their song?

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Speaker 4: If they have.

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Speaker 2: One, you're asking the wrong person.

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Speaker 4: No, not even you know.

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Speaker 3: I've got a couple of minutes of their like slam

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Up Reunion Channel. I was like, I'm guessing this is

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their big song. They're closing him.

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Speaker 2: I don't know it. So apologies for letting the side down.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if Sam doesn't even fucking know it, then Mark

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will definitely know. But if Sam doesn't know it, then

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God knows. But the Academy is first album in eighteen years.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Let us move to the live music announcements and we

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start with our first really big festival announcement that has

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occurred in twenty twenty six. It is the first round

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of bands for twenty twenty six. Is Damnation Festival, one

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of the greatest festivals in the country, possibly these greatest

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if you are into specifically underground and extreme forms of

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heavy music. So you know the deal. We talk about

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Damnation every single year, so we're of course interested in

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what they always have cooking up. And in terms of

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the first round of bands for the festival, they have

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said that none of these, let alone you know, the

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overall festival headliner, but none of these are even the

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stage headliners. So this is a comparatively speaking, a smaller round. Yeah,

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it's a smaller round of first bands that you might

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sometimes get from a Damnation, But considering the sixteen bands

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who make up this announcement, that is a nice little

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thing to consider.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 1: It is Walls of Jericho. I hate God, Benediction, Go Rotted,

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Slow Crush, Holy Forn, Cabal, Wait, Lamp of Murmur, God's Reached, Altha,

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The Moth Gatherer, Fan Medula Noctae, Black Sheep, Wall, and

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00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,599
Intercourse sam As a first round.

479
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:12,759
Speaker 4: Of Damnation bands.

480
00:21:12,799 --> 00:21:14,559
Speaker 1: You know, I think me and you are obviously we

481
00:21:14,599 --> 00:21:16,920
throw in you know, Elliott whoever as well. We will

482
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,319
have different corners maybe that we like to be represented

483
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,680
in the Damnation sphere, but certainly between us two here

484
00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:25,680
right now, there's a good cross section of stuff that

485
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,359
we you know, both have have passion and love for two.

486
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,799
I mean there are individual names on this that in

487
00:21:31,839 --> 00:21:33,599
just a moment I am going to like pudge the

488
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,039
air and.

489
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,519
Speaker 2: Go, yeah, there's that run of band. I'm like, Peren

490
00:21:39,599 --> 00:21:39,839
got that.

491
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,079
Speaker 4: I mean, what do you think I mean?

492
00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 3: I said in the discord, Damnation is on the few

493
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,039
festivals where I think fans can blind buy a ticket

494
00:21:50,279 --> 00:21:53,160
and they all be good. I mean Damnation in terms

495
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,079
of knowing their audience and delivering for it.

496
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 2: And I think the thing about Damnation is is like.

497
00:21:57,079 --> 00:21:59,599
Speaker 3: As a podcast, I think it is the most representative

498
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,039
of that's not metaling kind of our taste where it

499
00:22:02,079 --> 00:22:05,079
does tap into all of us quite simply because I

500
00:22:05,079 --> 00:22:07,720
was like, fuck yeah, Wolves of Jericho one of like

501
00:22:07,839 --> 00:22:12,240
just the sickest like like for the old head kind

502
00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:16,880
of like metallic hardcoreed melcor that Damnations of brings it. Now,

503
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,799
that's such a great pool. They are fucking brilliant WT Jericho,

504
00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:21,799
and they are great live. And again, if you're gonna

505
00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:24,960
stick in that kind of mid afternoon moshlot on the

506
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,160
main stage of the second stage, that room is going

507
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,559
to be stomping and head banging, the having a great time.

508
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,480
That's sick. I hate God. We have been, you know,

509
00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:34,960
in the swamps for how our mini moms like we

510
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,880
like anytime like a Nola band cups up and arms

511
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,240
like after that special I'm like I would go for

512
00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:42,839
that slow crushing kind of like the sort of more

513
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,640
like Gays.

514
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Speaker 2: So I think they're a great pool.

515
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Speaker 3: And then again I will throw over to you for

516
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,839
the free bands and guessing that made you kind of go.

517
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,519
Speaker 1: Oh my fucking god, yeah yeah yeah. So first I'll

518
00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:57,319
echo some of the things you said. I mean, walls Jericho,

519
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,599
I mean I've never seen water Jericho. I'm guessing you

520
00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:01,039
have proper you have in terms of.

521
00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:06,039
Speaker 3: Like whenever there was these like like Persistence EMP tours,

522
00:23:06,079 --> 00:23:07,720
what it was just a bunch of like exactly as

523
00:23:07,839 --> 00:23:11,480
nice Harker band. So it was like Suicidal Tendencies, Wolves

524
00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:15,480
of Jericho, Agnostic Fund all on a package in a

525
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:15,920
big venue.

526
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Speaker 2: I saw them on that every other year and they

527
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,480
were always sick.

528
00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:19,039
Speaker 4: Yeah.

529
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 1: I should be maybe a little bit more familiar with

530
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,240
their catalog than I am, but like you know, I've

531
00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:25,759
certainly I've got some time for Walls of Jericho and

532
00:23:25,759 --> 00:23:27,480
this is like, oh cool, one of those bands area

533
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,680
and I haven't seen, but do you know in that

534
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,079
bleeding through an unearthed sort of linear to those type

535
00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:34,079
of bands that have appeared at Damnation, they are a

536
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,920
perfect fit. I think, a really nice, cool, good booking there.

537
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,440
I hate God of course. It's actually the first time

538
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,240
they've ever played Damnation. They said they've been trying to

539
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,640
get them for like the you know, the whole twenty

540
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,440
odd years that they've been going around. But Legends of course,

541
00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:49,559
you know, Benediction, old school UK death metal staples. It's

542
00:23:49,559 --> 00:23:52,039
always nice to have something like that on the you know,

543
00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:56,000
the Damnation. Bill Garrotted is one of notes here because

544
00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:59,759
this is a reunion there. Garrotted are a again a

545
00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:03,480
kind of death metal grind call gorgrind whatever kind of

546
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,319
you know, a horrid type band, as you can gather

547
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,960
from the fact they're called gore Rotted and weirdly, we

548
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,920
had a little we were briefly talking about them in

549
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,880
our you know, T and M host group chat not

550
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,519
long ago, where we were talking about there's a very

551
00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:19,000
specific strain I'm sure a lots of people listening will

552
00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:23,680
be familiar with of like weird, slightly off kilter UK

553
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,960
humor in extreme metal bands, and we were thinking about

554
00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:29,000
the kind of some of the grindcore bands who have

555
00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:30,680
existed in that lineage over the years, and we were like,

556
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,480
where did that start?

557
00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:32,079
Speaker 4: Who did that?

558
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: And one of the bands that Elliot brought up is

559
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:35,880
like a you know, I think they were probably quite

560
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,440
you know, part of that lineage was Garrotted and a

561
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,759
record like Only Tools and Corpses, right, and then right

562
00:24:40,799 --> 00:24:43,599
on Q they turn up for you know, a reunion

563
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,359
show after what must be you know, over ten to

564
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,119
fifteen years or whatever of not being about So if

565
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,279
you are that, if that's your niche, then that's great

566
00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:55,200
obviously for me. The three names on here that really

567
00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:58,359
leap out as total fuckier moments. I mean the biggest one,

568
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,119
because I've not seen seeing them yet, is Wake right Who.

569
00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:05,799
Speaker 4: After album Yeah.

570
00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:08,279
Speaker 1: And all of twenty twenty five, we were just celebrating

571
00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:11,240
that band for not only being a kind of unsung

572
00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:13,640
band in terms of their general lineage in their history. Again,

573
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,640
they came up in that Nola special as a band

574
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,160
who have been kicking around for a long time and

575
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,079
that kind of thing and making interesting records, but specifically

576
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,279
on one of I think the best records of like

577
00:25:23,319 --> 00:25:25,880
certainly the last twelve months of heavy music, if not

578
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,559
the current decade that we're in. And I said on

579
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:29,839
a number of occasions I was like, please someone get

580
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,359
them over in the UK on this album specifically, I

581
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,160
was thinking either Damnation or if someone was to chuck

582
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,039
them on like the Acid Bath Show for example, But

583
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,480
Damnation getting them is absolutely perfect. That is for me,

584
00:25:40,599 --> 00:25:42,279
that as is the must see of all the things

585
00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:44,079
that are on this perfect to get them on what

586
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,759
is such a strong record, and in terms of representing,

587
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,160
you know, the cool end of black metal, I mean

588
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:50,640
you could throw a band like all Foot as well.

589
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,160
Who I saw Player at a Fortress Festival, I believe.

590
00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:56,519
But the two bands who often come round together, they

591
00:25:56,559 --> 00:25:58,480
are you know, they are kindred spirits. They have often

592
00:25:58,519 --> 00:26:01,720
done runs and stuff together. Lamp of Murmur and Dods

593
00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:05,559
read together, both Damnation debuts. Both to me, you know,

594
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,799
some of the cutting edge stuff in just the best

595
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,680
bands in I mean, I would say metal overall, considering

596
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,559
the breadth of kind of styles and stuff that both

597
00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:15,960
those bands are able to take on, but certainly the

598
00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:19,839
blackened end of things. Those are two incredible bands. And

599
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,160
you know, if you like your really nasty sludge and stuff,

600
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,720
you know, these are two bands that I am, you know,

601
00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:29,000
not the most familiar with overall, but bands like Intercourse

602
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,480
that is a UK debut that's kind of a noisy

603
00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:33,839
sludge thing, maybe along the lines of Chappile and stuff

604
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,000
like that if you like that. And Black Sheep War

605
00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:37,759
again it's a UK debut, but that bandoul be kicking

606
00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:40,359
around for ages. And I remember, like over ten years

607
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,319
ago now, they had a record called I'm Going to

608
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,599
Kill Myself, which had a really weird, memorable cover art,

609
00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:47,920
and when they got announced for this, I was like,

610
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,440
oh my god, it's that band that I'm going to

611
00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:52,160
kill myself guys. But finally, you know, make an appearance

612
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,240
in the UK. I'm not at all familiar with Medula Noctor,

613
00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:57,880
who are apparently performing an album in full. I believe

614
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,759
that that is one of those if you remember this

615
00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:02,960
and from the UK underground of the nineteen nineties.

616
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: That Damnation gets every year now as kind of like

617
00:27:06,759 --> 00:27:09,000
obscure nineties UK metal band.

618
00:27:09,319 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: There you go like, yeah, a nostalgia pa along those lines,

619
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,680
which there's nothing wrong with. If that's your thing, then sure,

620
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,880
grand that's you know, that's who they are there on

621
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,279
this Overall, you know, a very strong set of bands,

622
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,000
a handful in particular.

623
00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 4: That I are. You know, they would have been on

624
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,160
my dream.

625
00:27:24,279 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: Damnation lineup for next year. So overall excellent and as said,

626
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,640
we don't even have any of the overall stage headliners yet,

627
00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:36,200
so for a first batch of bands, bloody great, we

628
00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:39,160
very much. You know, it all rolls around again. We

629
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,319
are again on the road to Damnation. It's a long

630
00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:44,400
way away yet, but you immediately know from that that

631
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,799
it's going to be worth being there. And a few

632
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:49,640
tour announcements just to follow that up here in the UK,

633
00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:53,279
Speed have announced a UK tour of course, one of

634
00:27:53,279 --> 00:27:55,559
the buzziest, hottest bands in hardcore right now, so I

635
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:57,720
would expect these have probably when You sold like hotcakes.

636
00:27:58,039 --> 00:28:01,319
But they are hitting up a few venues in the

637
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,759
UK and they're bringing along with them Whispers and Body

638
00:28:03,759 --> 00:28:06,000
Web Sam for you. Is that a good hardcore lineup?

639
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 3: That's some really good Whispers are really kind of cool

640
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,599
from Thailand. Like there's a lot of buzzer them. They've

641
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,279
kind of played it. They played like the Outbreak Autumn

642
00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:16,960
show and they did that one a couple of years

643
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,440
ago and people went mental for their set.

644
00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: Like they're really cool.

645
00:28:19,759 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 3: Boiway we've kind of spoken about as one of the

646
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,480
sort of like more like interesting UK bands. Yeah, that's

647
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,440
some really sort of like good bill for Speeds coming

648
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,559
along and it's cool to see them stepping up in

649
00:28:29,599 --> 00:28:30,519
venue size as well.

650
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: Yes.

651
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,799
Speaker 1: Over in the US though, Behemoth, who for their you know,

652
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,160
kind of the last sort of year or so of

653
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,240
touring for them for their current album, they've been doing

654
00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:41,640
these tours which are just like legends only like maybe

655
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,319
it'd be nice at some point to see them bring

656
00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:45,200
back you know, some sort of younger opening bands and

657
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,359
stuff again. But you know they did that UK appearance.

658
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,079
Unfortunately it was London only, so I'd end up going

659
00:28:50,079 --> 00:28:51,519
to it, but it had like satirical and brought in

660
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:53,680
grist with it. They've gone around Europe. I think they

661
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,920
are now heading over to North America and their Legends

662
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,559
only lineup features day a side Rotten Christ and Which

663
00:29:00,599 --> 00:29:04,079
with Bohemoth on top. That's four of the Goats, isn't

664
00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:07,119
it in terms of like extreme heavy shit. So that's

665
00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:10,519
fucking grand. And if you are in Canada, of course

666
00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:13,160
one of your you know, your homegrown sons, Cancer Bats

667
00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:16,799
have announced a anniversary tour going all across specifically Canada

668
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,160
right now for Birthing the Giants, the twentieth anniversary I

669
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,680
believe of their debut record, Sam, you are a big

670
00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:26,960
Cancabat's head. What are your opinions on Birthing the Giants

671
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,559
specifically as their first album, because I suppose it is

672
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,160
right before what you would say is their like classic

673
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:34,759
three album run that followed it.

674
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like Hell Destroyer and be where they like

675
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:40,119
fully found it, Like I've got a lot of love

676
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,880
Birth from the Giant. I think it's it's a bit scrappier,

677
00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:45,640
but the best songs on it like are ones that

678
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,759
have lived in the Canterbats set from like the very start,

679
00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:50,319
that are always going to be there and stuff like

680
00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:53,799
Pneumonia Hawk and Yeah she Ley Like they're songs that

681
00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:55,799
they will almost always played because they are just like

682
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:56,839
classic staples.

683
00:29:57,079 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: So yeah, got a lot of love for that album.

684
00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and don't necessary imagine this will be making it

685
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,839
too much further a field. It feels like, you know,

686
00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:07,000
their smallest album for you know, the homegrown Canadian fan base.

687
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,720
You were about to say something there, do you disagree?

688
00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:11,519
Speaker 3: I think, because again this is just an assumption because

689
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:13,400
they're fond on the slam Dunk poster.

690
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 2: Is the Birth and the Giant fond and I think they.

691
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 3: Might have said that they would sort of celebrate the

692
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,960
album at slam Dunk. So I don't know if it's

693
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,400
gonna be in full, but I would imagine maybe again

694
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,720
if you like one a bit more of that album.

695
00:30:24,559 --> 00:30:26,559
Speaker 2: Themis Sam Dunk in the UK's there the time to

696
00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:27,160
see him do it?

697
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:27,279
Speaker 4: Like?

698
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,559
Speaker 1: Okay, I possibly stand corrected. Then there you go, Birth

699
00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:31,759
and the Giant season It is for a Counterbats. Let's

700
00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:34,039
move on to a couple of questions which we had

701
00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:36,200
our question Secsion last week. These are a couple more

702
00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:38,519
questions that came our way then that we're just gonna

703
00:30:38,599 --> 00:30:41,440
box off here. First of all, John Mann asked, what

704
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:44,599
is your favorite back to back festival run that you've experienced?

705
00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:48,640
Mine was hell Fest twenty fourteen with Behemoth, Soundguard and Emperor,

706
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,400
Black Sabbath and Turban Negro. That is certainly a big,

707
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,319
heavy evening, sam Uh. I mean, there are some that

708
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:57,240
we have referenced quite heavily between us that I imagine

709
00:30:57,279 --> 00:30:59,359
will be some first draft picks here. But have you

710
00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:02,599
got any any others maybe from the festival world where

711
00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:05,839
you go. That was a hell of a two three

712
00:31:05,839 --> 00:31:06,920
hour period, whatever it may be.

713
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean obviously like the two thousand trees

714
00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:13,000
on last year's when I mentioned a lot, Yeah, yeah,

715
00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:18,720
that was fucking outstanding. There was a reading Fest where

716
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:22,000
it was twenty fifteen on the lock Up stage where

717
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,480
the end of the day was something like Frank Carr

718
00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:24,079
and the rout.

719
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,839
Speaker 2: Snakes Bear to Bury Tomorrow while She Sleeps and Refused,

720
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,720
which for me in twenty fifteen, I was.

721
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 3: Having I was having the time of my life watching that,

722
00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:36,160
Like I was so so tough to be sort of

723
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:37,559
like doing that in the.

724
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,359
Speaker 2: Lock up stage. There's been a couple of them where

725
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:40,799
there's been like.

726
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 3: A really strong run of bands on that lock up stage.

727
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,200
That's all that really sticks out for me is recently

728
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:49,039
and obviously like the one we're going to kind of

729
00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:54,000
go for back to it is that Outbreak twenty twenty three, Yeah,

730
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:56,680
Saturday where the Machine Girl.

731
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: Although it was it was in all it was Soul Glow,

732
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:05,000
Jesus Piece, Machine Girl, Code, Orange Death Grips, Yeah, which

733
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,400
has five bands on the main stage.

734
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: That was fucking crazy, unbelievable, Like those sets and like

735
00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:12,839
that was like ridiculous. You know, there's been a couple

736
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,880
there's been a couple of good ones at like Outbreak

737
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,480
fests where Yeah, Poison the World two Share More a

738
00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:23,480
Have Heart Basement, Like that's a fucking like ridiculously good time.

739
00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:25,319
Like that's just one of those festivals where they can

740
00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:27,039
just stick a run of bands and I'm just gonna

741
00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:30,000
be like balancing between stages having the grandest time.

742
00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:30,559
Speaker 4: Yeah.

743
00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: I think obviously, you know, we were doing the awards

744
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,319
not too long ago for last year and stuff. I think,

745
00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:37,119
you know, in terms of two consecutive bands. Blood Incantation

746
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,039
into Triptic Incineration last year is maybe the one in

747
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:43,960
terms of longer runs. Certainly that outbreak one lives in

748
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,039
my head as a really crazy experience. I just pulled up,

749
00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:49,279
like you know, particularly like I was looking at Damnations,

750
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:51,960
because there's always runs at Damnation for me that are great,

751
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,759
and so these are some individual ones. A couple of

752
00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:56,480
you were there for Damnation twenty twenty four when there

753
00:32:56,519 --> 00:32:58,200
was the run of Nail. For me, this is what

754
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,799
I saw, Nails dual bleeding through into armor. I sat

755
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:04,079
down for about twenty minutes of Russian circles dragged to

756
00:33:04,119 --> 00:33:05,039
some light cradler filth.

757
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,559
Speaker 2: I think I was yeah, and that was yeah mad.

758
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,119
Speaker 1: The year before that, twenty three, the run was Arman

759
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,400
Rah Dead guy Enslaved doing their vecking leg of Veldie

760
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,160
set and now in the thrack Electric Wizard, which for me.

761
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,759
Speaker 4: Is fucking loud. That was ridiculous.

762
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I looked back to the first Damnation

763
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,640
I did in twenty fifteen. This one is really special.

764
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,799
Altar of Plagues for the last time they played Sols

765
00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:32,079
to Fear Arman Rah again, High on Fire, Primordial at

766
00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:34,079
the gates and a handful of those bands, which was

767
00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:35,960
my first time seeing them, so that was really something.

768
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,480
The time I went to grass Pop, I was like,

769
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:40,519
I saw loads of bands. I want a particular run

770
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:41,880
that stood in my head, but I pulled up like

771
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,240
the time I went to grass Pop and I found

772
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:45,799
a run from one of these days where I saw

773
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,119
Vallen Fire, I saw it again immediately followed other full

774
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,920
Vallen Fire, I saw Corpa Clarney, which was genuinely for me,

775
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,400
a very fun experience and it is one of the

776
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,119
few times in my life I have crowdsurved. Was that

777
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,240
set Primordial again? I saw about twenty minutes of the

778
00:33:58,319 --> 00:34:00,880
end of Alice Cooper set into the main stage, back

779
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,200
and forth run as you get as European festivals, Corn

780
00:34:03,319 --> 00:34:08,400
playing the self titled in full, Judas Priest slipknot pretty big,

781
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,400
and I do have to say British Summertime Festival when

782
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,880
I only stuck to the main stage and so I

783
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,719
saw him one day, immediately follow each other, Soul Flying Motorhead,

784
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,360
Faith No More, Sam Garden playing super Unknown and the

785
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,559
one time I saw Black Sabbath. So those are all

786
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,440
large events. Maybe in terms of just like again, just

787
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,360
the craziness of like each set being outrageous, that outbreak one,

788
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,920
even though like that's not necessarily my favorite set of

789
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,960
bands compared to some of those, it just felt like

790
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,280
everyone was going, this is a ma ma manic evening.

791
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,840
So those are someones that jump out and Jack Coker asked,

792
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,199
have you seen the lineup for Cruel and Unusual Festival

793
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,880
in Camden in March? Any pointers for bands we might

794
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,360
not know on the lineup there? So yeah, this is

795
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,360
just a very you know, just a regional shout out.

796
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,360
I suppose if you are in the area of you know,

797
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,079
London in March, I will say that you know that

798
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:03,280
that the event itself will just get an immediate endorsement

799
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,519
for me because the kind of the promotion agency that

800
00:35:05,599 --> 00:35:08,800
is putting on involves a former T and M host,

801
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,000
so I know that you know, there's there's legit, you

802
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,960
know there's good people involved with this. So fair enough

803
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,719
they're always putting on stuff in again the London area

804
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,320
for upcoming stuff. In terms of the lineup, a lot

805
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,719
of these bands are bands I'm not too familiar with, primarily,

806
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,559
I think because a lot of them are like regulars

807
00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:26,000
in the you know, regional kind of London Southeast if

808
00:35:26,039 --> 00:35:29,239
you like, you know, heavy noisy scene, which is not

809
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,440
where I live anymore, so I don't see these bands,

810
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,079
but it seems to be very much leaning on, you know,

811
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:38,320
kind of noisy, nastier hardcore. I suppose You've got a

812
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,760
couple of bands up Top of the Sun's Journey through

813
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,199
the Night, who are more of a black metal band

814
00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:43,760
who we've reviewed in the past, but again they are

815
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,079
you know that they've been on labels like Church Road

816
00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:47,599
and stuff like that, so they're kind of adjacent to it.

817
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,519
Speaker 4: An Oryx, who I believe.

818
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,559
Speaker 1: They played Damnation. If it wasn't last year, then it

819
00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:54,440
was the year before, and I don't think I saw them,

820
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,039
but I remember listening to them in the run up

821
00:35:56,079 --> 00:35:59,280
and thinking, yeah, this is decent, like really heavy, kind

822
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,719
of you know, agressive in scope, but very heavy, doomy

823
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,280
type metals. If those are your things, then obviously those two,

824
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,559
but otherwise it seems like a lot of again noisy

825
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,800
hardcore bands. You've got Pariah, who are more on the

826
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,400
kind of noisy, crust edge. Host Body are more kind

827
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,840
of like a noisy mathcore type thing. As a band

828
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,880
on there called sun Swarm, who lean more towards the

829
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,960
sort of the god fleshy industrial kind of size. Again,

830
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,840
I was just kind of scoping some of these bands myself.

831
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,639
They'm not too familiar, but this seems to be the vibe.

832
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,679
The band whose name did jump out with me as

833
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,559
like a band I have seen before, and I'm familiar

834
00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:32,639
with his Death Goals who Sam, are you a probab?

835
00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:34,039
You've probably crossed path with Death Goals.

836
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 3: To live yet A big fan of their music, just

837
00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:42,119
like very kind of like angry, sort of frantic hardcore,

838
00:36:42,159 --> 00:36:44,519
but with a very kind of like queer identity to it.

839
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:45,639
Speaker 2: I think they're really cool.

840
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I would just say, you know, if you

841
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:50,719
are in the area and you like incredibly noisy stuff and.

842
00:36:50,639 --> 00:36:52,599
Speaker 4: You're considering, then go for it. Why not?

843
00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: So those are a couple of questions for you if

844
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,920
you've ever asked anything else, and again we'll we'll pepper

845
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,880
them out over the following weeks. We are now going

846
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,400
to to give you a little bit of an insight

847
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:02,719
on what has been going on and what we have

848
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,760
been cooking for the specials for that star medal, which

849
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,360
of course it's a new year we want to get

850
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,159
into those as soon as we can deliver something for

851
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,320
all you people who are kind enough to support us

852
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,599
on Patreon, which is again I always say, it's what

853
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,840
keeps this podcast alive. It's the reason we are still

854
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,760
now here in our tenth year. So what we have

855
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,400
got going on right now that we are going to

856
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:28,559
start twenty twenty six as specials with is we a

857
00:37:28,559 --> 00:37:30,639
little while ago. It was a bit over a year ago.

858
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,639
At the end of twenty twenty four we brought back

859
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,480
the that' Star Metal Year in Review specials. You may

860
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,679
remember we did our twenty and fourteen special where we

861
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,719
cast our minds back ten years ago to that point,

862
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,800
and boy did we cover so much ground in it.

863
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:51,159
There was so much to take in with a year

864
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,639
like that, and we it was a great success of

865
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:55,440
a show like that, was a lot of fun. Let's

866
00:37:55,519 --> 00:37:58,639
keep along those kind of lines. We didn't fit one

867
00:37:58,639 --> 00:38:01,440
into last year because at the end of you know,

868
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:03,519
last year, when we were doing the one before it,

869
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,519
we were deep in the swamps, right we were doing

870
00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:08,840
our Nola Scene special also reviving that. But we did

871
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,280
have it on our minds of course that we were

872
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,719
going to bring back the Year Special again at some point,

873
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,679
and so that is what we're going to be kicking

874
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,719
twenty twenty six off with. And we have said that

875
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,159
when we have done these Year specials, in terms of

876
00:38:22,159 --> 00:38:23,880
our follow up one to it, we want to jump

877
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,360
to an era that is totally like disconnected. We'll not

878
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,960
have much crossover at all with the general layer of

879
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,119
the land as the one that we were just doing.

880
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,639
So moving from twenty fourteen as we as we were

881
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,079
the Heights of Empericorn and all of this type stuff

882
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:42,519
and you know all what was going on in you know,

883
00:38:42,559 --> 00:38:44,599
the extreme metal underground and in the Emo revival and

884
00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:46,679
all those things that were happening in twenty fourteen. Our

885
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:52,679
next Year Special is the year nineteen ninety seven. I'm

886
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,679
sure some of you out there will have memories of

887
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,360
what you were doing musically in nineteen ninety seven. It

888
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,039
is going to be a different one for us because

889
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,480
we weren't so boots on the ground so to speak

890
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,400
in ninety seven as we were in twenty fourteen. But

891
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:10,119
in terms of jumping to again a different era, totally disconnected,

892
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:15,480
but one with a really fascinating and fruitful and already

893
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:17,960
just put in the list of stuff together, so many

894
00:39:18,119 --> 00:39:22,199
cracking albums and you know, interesting phenomenons and stuff like

895
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,800
that that were happening in nineteen ninety seven. That is

896
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,360
where we're going, right, We are going to split that

897
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,440
into parts. Of course, our first part we are hoping

898
00:39:31,559 --> 00:39:35,559
to get into over the next week or so. It is,

899
00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:38,400
of course, as it kind of was before starting off

900
00:39:38,519 --> 00:39:40,960
looking at kind of the upper ends of what was

901
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,280
going on in Heavy right and nineteen ninety seven. You

902
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,960
have things that have come to mind for you there

903
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,639
as to what the zeitgeist is there, and yes they

904
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:51,800
are included, but also other things that you might not

905
00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:54,840
be thinking about. And then from there in the following part,

906
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,239
we are going to again really spread our wings and

907
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,480
cover all the gamut of what was going on in

908
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,159
Night seven. It's been a lot of fun. I gave

909
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,519
my weekend listening coming Heady is just going to be

910
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:07,599
I'm going to be fully in nineteen seven town listening

911
00:40:07,599 --> 00:40:10,360
to so much stuff, and that is going to be

912
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,840
coming very very soon too. The that's not a Patreon

913
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,159
following that special, when we wrapped all that stuff up,

914
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,559
we're of course going to cast our minds over band

915
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:19,400
specials and album roulettes and stuff like that, as we

916
00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:23,079
always do. But first up on the docket for twenty

917
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:25,639
twenty six, entering the new year, we're jumping back to

918
00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:29,199
a different year, nineteen ninety seven. I hope that has

919
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,559
people involved and excited for the stuff that might be

920
00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:35,400
coming up in that. So if you want to hear

921
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,480
that then Patreon dot com slash That's not matter as

922
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,599
the place to do so. As said, it is where

923
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:42,039
really the lifeblood of this podcast comes from. So thank

924
00:40:42,079 --> 00:40:45,079
you to everybody who is involved over there. Let us

925
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,719
wrap up this hyperblast with the releases for this week

926
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,079
of January the sixteenth, and if you know we were

927
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:57,119
slowly getting started, there are actually some pretty sizable releases

928
00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:00,119
this week. For me at least, there's one album that

929
00:41:00,159 --> 00:41:03,599
this week is all about, starting off Creators new album,

930
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,679
Crushers of the World with a k thrash Titans, the

931
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,800
Kings of German Thrash, one of, if not the best

932
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,239
eightieth thrash band in the twenty first century, so of

933
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,639
course there's fun stuff to be getting into with that

934
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,719
new Creator record. Elsewhere, Kid Kappechee, the you know political

935
00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:24,639
UK sort of alternative punks whichever genre you might want

936
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:26,920
to call them, how are you and kid Coppeechee Sam.

937
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,039
Speaker 4: I mean they are right.

938
00:41:28,079 --> 00:41:30,039
Speaker 2: I think they've got a couple of like really good tracks.

939
00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:32,719
I've never been like completely wild by them, but they

940
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,840
don't bother me. I'm just like, yeah, cool, I like

941
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,559
see them live. Have they been decent?

942
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's sort of roughly my kind of feelings

943
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,480
as well. But they have got their new albums called

944
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,920
Fearless Nature. Then there's another there's a name that was

945
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,599
like a blaff in the past, but the band Gray

946
00:41:44,679 --> 00:41:47,400
Wind have released that album called Severed Heart City, and

947
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,719
I think this is their like their second album, and

948
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,480
the first one was about eight or nine years ago,

949
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,119
and I was like, oh my god, these guys are back.

950
00:41:53,159 --> 00:41:55,920
But Irish, I believe sort of you know, alternative rock

951
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,920
or email whatever you might want to say. Then we

952
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,760
slipped over to death Corp. And one of though, one

953
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,239
of the names that you might have seen in the

954
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,199
kind of contemporary popular death sphere is a band called

955
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,360
of Sulfur and you know, along the kind of blackened,

956
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,440
slightly symphonic, kind of edge of death cores. They've got

957
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,000
an album called Endless. If you are into your shoegaze.

958
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,119
Then you may know the name Blanket, who have got

959
00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:20,000
an album called True Blue that is out today, the

960
00:42:20,119 --> 00:42:25,280
return of avant garde Dissonant Nightmare, sort of black metal band,

961
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,559
Serpent Column. I've got a record called Aon of Strife,

962
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,519
and we also have a gauntlet here of punk and

963
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:33,840
hardcore album. Some of these came out last week when

964
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,920
maybe you know, we kind of popping them now onto

965
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,760
the list here. Some of them are upcoming today. Between

966
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,559
myself and Sam here, there are a few names that

967
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:42,599
we can throw out. First of all, there is Rifle,

968
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,840
who have got an album that is a self titled

969
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,039
album that is again another sort of UK punk band

970
00:42:47,079 --> 00:42:48,679
along the lines of if you're a fan of things

971
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,440
like the Chisel and so on, in the Trees fun Okay, well,

972
00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:54,920
Rifle are part of that, and we have some things

973
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,039
that you know, Sam were thrown onto it.

974
00:42:56,119 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 4: So first of all, there's a.

975
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: Band called Push who put an album called Plowing Ahead.

976
00:42:59,519 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 4: What is the with Push?

977
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 3: Are there a Portuguese can like crossover hardcore band.

978
00:43:05,519 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 2: Discover them because of the.

979
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 3: Band where I've really intro recently, Calcine. They have a

980
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,320
guest on this on this album and I was like,

981
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,079
oh cool sture the album. But yeah, if you're like

982
00:43:12,119 --> 00:43:14,920
you're kind of like hardcore a bit of like frashy

983
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,840
riffing and that course of thing, this is just that

984
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,599
that kind of good stuff like yep.

985
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: Then there is Crush Your Soul with Ice Water, same question.

986
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one. This dropped today as we're recording.

987
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:30,159
Speaker 3: This is just pure like demonstrate your mosh style to

988
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,400
this or music. It's eighteen minutes. Is all just kind

989
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,039
of attitude and I think they're a New York cargo band.

990
00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:38,079
Like again, does all style on this one?

991
00:43:38,599 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 4: Yep.

992
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: Then there is an EP from a band called I

993
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,119
Promised the World. I believe this is that on like

994
00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:47,400
Rise Records, and this is very much your early two

995
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,519
thousand's post hardcore. Again, if you are a static dress fan,

996
00:43:50,559 --> 00:43:52,239
for example, then I Promised the World might be a

997
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,320
name that you could be familiar with. More again, more

998
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,840
on the EP's front here lights out Fall on.

999
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 2: Your Sword, Uh Glasgow. I believe that from Scotland.

1000
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,079
Speaker 3: I could be wrong on that one, but they're like

1001
00:44:04,599 --> 00:44:08,760
UK based hardcore band, just like loads of attitude, like

1002
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,559
like in your face kind of shouty hardcore.

1003
00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: Really cool. It will you fee this?

1004
00:44:12,199 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1005
00:44:12,559 --> 00:44:14,159
Speaker 1: One the ither on the list is a band called

1006
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,079
Guilt spelled g y Lt with an EP called in

1007
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,119
one thousand Agonies I Exist. And this is kind of

1008
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:23,320
maybe more the sort of crossover end of hardcore, like

1009
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,400
really nasty, vicious kind of vibes going off from that one,

1010
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,760
So check that out if that's your thing. And finally

1011
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,480
we have the demo two simply titled that from a

1012
00:44:32,519 --> 00:44:34,679
man called Sin Against Sin, and this is one that

1013
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,880
we had both kind of thrown into the mix. And

1014
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,000
this is like big I would say, marauder and God's

1015
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,639
hate vibes, like big, massive, dragging your fists along hardcore.

1016
00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 3: I saw someone described this as musical people who can

1017
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,000
spinkick above their jaw line, and I was like, I

1018
00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:55,360
like that description, like high spin kicks, cartwheels, swing your fist.

1019
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:59,000
The this is nasty, kind like violent marsh music.

1020
00:44:59,079 --> 00:44:59,199
Speaker 2: There.

1021
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 3: Again, there's a whole call bands on this right now,

1022
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:05,760
but Sin Against and they opened Fyafest right and the

1023
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,000
crowd will going fucking mental for them. So that's the

1024
00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:10,880
kind of like sort of excitement around them right now.

1025
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, the the scenes that never stop are hardcore and

1026
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:15,239
black metal.

1027
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,119
Speaker 4: There is always something coming up from Boise Worlds.

1028
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 2: Only is there's always an EP at this point.

1029
00:45:19,039 --> 00:45:20,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, and last week we threw out some of the

1030
00:45:20,599 --> 00:45:23,159
early year, you know, leaking out black metal releases. This

1031
00:45:23,199 --> 00:45:24,920
week seems to be a lot more of the hardcore stuff.

1032
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 4: But there you go.

1033
00:45:25,599 --> 00:45:29,559
Speaker 1: Those are releases for today. Thank you very much for listening.

1034
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We will return next week. I'm not entirely sure exactly

1035
00:45:32,559 --> 00:45:34,320
like when the podcast will go out next week or

1036
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,119
some scheduling to do, but you know we will left

1037
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:39,280
rest assured we will be back next week, and we

1038
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,280
will of course be back you know, some point soon

1039
00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:44,440
for reviews in January as well, when certainly some of

1040
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,440
those names, along with last week and coming up as well,

1041
00:45:46,559 --> 00:45:48,639
will find their way into our first.

1042
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 4: Reviews bag of the year.

1043
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: More immediately than that, look to the Patreon when we

1044
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:58,039
will be starting our nineteen ninety seven year in review special.

1045
00:45:58,159 --> 00:46:00,239
Promises to be a lot of fun and we'll see

1046
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,480
you wherever you choose to be there. So thanks everybody,

1047
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Bye bye,