Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome back to That's Non Metal, and welcome
back to Hyperblasts. This is our weekly rock, hardcore heavy
metal news show where we come at you every single
week and let you know everything that you need to
know that's transpired over the past seven days or so
in these lovely auditory worlds that we call home. We
are going to get into all of that over the
next i don't know, forty five minutes so a little while.
My name is Parenhish with me joining me for a
higher blast once again. Sam Dignant is here. Hello, Sam,
How you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 2: I've got to let Live ticket this week, so I'll
be seeing them twice because they added an extra London
show after two thousand trees. I'm just I'm just fully
let live pield and I'm like, let live, let live,
let's live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can actually.
Speaker 2: Get excited about this union now, you know, after my
initial like when it first happened.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I'm all good.
Speaker 2: Been listening to the Bleeding Through album a lot, like
being excited about Let Leave to.
Speaker 3: Me Too on that been a fun week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'll let you just be you know,
you're allowed to be excited over that you can just
enjoy your little world you're in for the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just glad they added that second show. So
I was like, I was like, I'll be dead coming up,
like it's the day after two thousand and twoes. I'll
be like dead after that festival for like four days.
But I was like, if this is it for my time,
you let live, I'm taking every opportunity to sort of
catch as many times as I can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you've earned your living in you
a little let live bubble for the next few months
or so. I am currently in the midst of what
will probably end up being one of, if not the
best week for live music all year, because I'm doing
a little three shows in three different cities over about
four days. Little run I'm currently doing where the day
that this shows goes out, it will be the day
for me of the Green Lung unto others tour. So
talk about that on next week's show. But firstly, you know,
behind me, I went to see High Viz in Liverpool
with narrow Head supporting, which you know decent. I was
a bit distracted by how metal their shirt game was.
The singer was in like a crowbar long sleeve and
then one of them was wearing a massacre from Beyond
Top and I just I was just like, why does
your band sound about that? Anyway? High Vis. My you know,
kind of conversion with them was seeing them outbreak and
get this huge, like passionate reaction. So I was, you know,
chomping at the bit since then to see a headline show,
which resulted in me kind of re routing my whole
week a little bit here to accommodate doing this, but
worth it because they were fantastic. I really feel like
we are, you know, collectively as a as a nation,
as I was kind of onto something a little bit
special with High Vis because the records are great and
the songs themselves are incredible, but when you see how
people connect with it and how all of the you know,
the passions and the sentiments of the music are put
across live, you realize how potentially seminal a band that
they may be, because you know, one minute, it's so
agro and like generally just a hardcore show, you know,
in the best way, like you know, bodies flying Graham's
two step in It's it's brilliant, But then they swerve
and now they've got this like variety in the set
with the new album where they will have those like
out and outbursts of hardcore weaved in between, like oh
now we're in a kind of late eighties you know,
Stone Roses type groove or something with guided tour or
you know, like minds are Lie where you have a
crowd of hardcore fans just nodding and like moving along
with this sort of chill edm type beat, but then
still joining in for the like hardcore gang chaut on.
You're like, what is true when your mind's a lie?
Like it's so fluid and adept. Now in terms of
the different things that they can kind of bring in there, well, yeah,
it's particularly if obviously see it at a headline show
or whatever, Like it still feels like a hardcore show,
but it has much more dynamics than I think you
would normally see at like a hardware show. And it
really feels like they flow through a lot of different states,
quite a lot. And you know, I seeing them in Liverpool,
I know, technically not a hometown show for the band itself,
but you know, the lyrics You'll live and die on
the banks of the Mersey and feeling how much louder
that line popped that I imagine, you know, anywhere else
it felt like it, and all of that themes of
you know, like urban neglect and the music and everything,
you know, like right after Trauma Bonds, which is a
song that I've sung the praises of a lot and
will do plenty more so, but you know, visibly emotional
talking about the kind of you know, sentiments of that
song and everything. And then right after funneling all of that,
you know, visible emotion into the bustard inside from the
first record, which just because of that became this like
genuinely crazy, hectic in sensed delivery. So, I mean, I
guess the next time I see High Veers will be
opening at that you know, big Outdoor Deaftone death Tones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be my first time seeing them. I'm excited
for that, but will be a different experience, I imagine, Yeah,
the intimacy of this exactly.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, I'm sure they'll be great,
but I think obviously the vibe will be very, very different.
But like I mean, if you can catch them at that,
then absolutely do so. But also seeing them, you know
in the world where they are currently kind of reigning
kings at the moment. I think they're really like one
of the standout bands that we have in the country
at the moment in terms of being witnessing, you know,
kind of what they can do with their And then
yesterday day after that, I popped down to Your End,
Sam to the Underworld for a day to catch the
Tribulation headline tour that they are doing this week. I
was originally I had planned this. I was going to
go to Leicester for some reason, and then the Midland shows,
like both of them got canceled. Probably for the best
really that I swung around to London because it's it's
always great seeing bands with songs about the underworld in
the and like this just in general, I was making
sure I was not going to miss it because, unbelievably,
considering how long I've been fucking wanging on about them,
Tribulation have never done a headline tour in the UK before,
Like the only times they have played have been support
slots or festivals, and so for a decade I have
been waiting to see them do a full length set,
which is why this was a big deal. And even
though you know, considering that the Underworld was like maybe
like just over half full, and obviously some of the
other show's got canceled, so you know, come on everyone,
But in that sense it did not disappoint. Support was
from not the post punk band who whose album we
reviewed a couple of years ago, who they kind of
support like every particularly London.
Speaker 2: They're They're, They're, They're they're kind of the goth like
after Zetra. They're like second They're like second choice, aren't they.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I at least I like songs quite
a bit more so that's fun. And a bank called
Live Gone, who was not really familiar with, but Tribulation
was I guess, first of all, it's an a plus
example of an awesome looking stage show that doesn't have
to be expensive because they authentically themselves. They just look
like Ghoules, right. So you combine that with you know,
some some clever lighting that particularly looks like it's kind
of like illuminating your Hannahs's face from the chin up
when he's singing, so it's like he's telling you a
scary story by talks light, you know, with kind of
this glowing light and Beef's face while he's going Oh,
it's great. But then they also had like these like
stage prop things that I've not seen them do again
any of they're like short sets or anything, but they
it's like these sort of fake stained glass window looking
things with like skulls and bats and stuff on them,
just like on either side of the under Yeah. So
you know, and when they're again in this like already
you know, kind of underground venue with that around it,
it's just totally it's like, yeah, we're in like the
tribulation kind of you know, underworld bar, and you know,
it's just totally the vibe for some of the best creepy,
crepuscular metal you know, of the last twenty years. I
mean even before that, like on Brand, they were set
in the mood by just playing Giallow themes in the
venue before they play Yes, So there was like the
Red Queen Killed seven Times? The do Do Do Do
Do Do? That was just like playing around the end
of World, which was great. I was quite surprised they
left almost all of the new album material for a
run near the end.
Speaker 3: Okay, I was curious how much they would do with
the new album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they opened with Ted skuy the the intro
thing and then Tantus guys, and then they didn't play
anything else new for another hour. It was just like
all classics from there. And then I was like, what
are you doing? And then at the end they did
decide that they did like a run of like Hungry Waters,
Satin coming Down, Murdering Red, like all in a row,
and I wonder if it's like a vocal thing, like
he doesn't want to switch between the growls and yeah,
I don't know, but but it was, you know, it
was great stuff. I mean, like Satin coming Down with that,
like the way people like responded that kind of fist
pumpy riff, like feels like it's going to be maybe
along with like Melancholia and stuff like that one of
their more sort of staple songs now and Murdering Reder
thought particularly with all that like kind of again imagine
that lighting I was just explaining to you, and kind
of the goulishness of the presentation with that like electronic
horror atmosphere and that you know, creepy sung chorus and
everything that I thought that was awesome. But they also
had like a long section in the middle of like
formulas of death material, which is like weird Tribulation like
the least least immediate ten minute songs Suspirior de Profundis
just like Strange Proggy a bit tripy, So they like
covered quite a lot of ground as well, and I
still again like a ninety minute set some of their
best songs like Leviathan's Motherhood of God Not Present. Might
not have been the most ram show at the Underworld ever,
but I tell you it was there. At one point,
I had a short little conversation with Tom Dalgaty, who
produced the last Tribulation and you know the last and
two others Creeper Green Lung Go, so you probably know
his stuff. And I was talking to him and I
just glanced over his shoulder and Tobias for just standing
right behind. It kind of stopped me in my tracks,
just like Unmasked Papa standing right there in the wild
about two feet away from me, Like it was like
spotting a rare pokemon. It was wild, obviously, like you know,
he and Tribulation go go way back. But yeah, I
was also like you've duwetted with Patrick Wilson. It was moment,
but you know, nice that he came along to watch
the lads anyway going, I suppose relatively unnoticed. Still you know,
a small underworld show of about three hundred people, and yeah,
you know, big goth metal shows can can continue tomorrow.
Let's get into the news where I guess the biggest
show of all shows just decided to get.
Speaker 3: Somehow got big I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Black Sabbath Big show, which you know, sold
out obviously immediately as they were doing, even with the
you know, the various.
Speaker 3: Hundreds of pound tickets, yeah.
Speaker 1: The various ticket option packages whatever, Like as we all
kind of you know, knew it would it would sell
out just immediately, And I mean I know that we
heard there were things. There are things to praise about
this show, things to be excited about. There are also
things that we were poking a little bit of fun at.
But I do think it's kind of incredible the the
just the gumption of announcing that show immediately selling out,
and then after you've sold out going. Yeah. Also, by
the way Guns and Roses and Tool are playing like
fair enough, that.
Speaker 2: Is that is kind of like showing that's flexing at
this point. Yeah, this is like the most biggest all
star metal event, Like this is your like Metal Live
Aid kind of like all the stars are here, we are.
Speaker 3: Getting everyone, and again like how are they going to
fit this all in? How many?
Speaker 1: This is what I saying. If it looked fucking jam
packed in terms of tight schedule before, now you've got
Guns and Roads doing fucking November rain or whatever to
a tool set like.
Speaker 2: How yeah, what are all going to do like you know,
chin stroking, like patience yeah, frog band tool especially on
like their newer stuff.
Speaker 1: Like I reckon you do, do a medley, do a
ten minute set of like cram all yits in somehow
they'll work out the time sick of how to do it.
And then that's not also that if you can believe
that rival Sons hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Sabbath rival Sons were gonna end up
on there because they always seem to find their way.
Speaker 1: And then also there's been more names as well. I
feel like Flying on the Road added to the kind
of you know, the individual performers who I guess you
imagine again as we're discussing before, probably going to be
part of the kind of Sabbath all stars, you know,
karayoke stuff. So Andrew Watt is there, which is you know,
not surprising at all the Ozzy Osborne's best mate these days.
But we've also got Chad Smith is there, Dave Ellison
is there. Who else is new on this thing? The
guy at venom Re or Vemon read from from Living
Color and Whitfield Crane from Ugly Kid Joe and also
hosted and compared by Jason Momoa, which I guess makes sense,
you know he I feel it's one of the things
where again you might see that and be surprised if
you've not actually followed what Jason Momo is is up
to most days when he's not being you know or
you know, a fast and the furious villain. But quite
fun to see him I don't know doing the I said,
the the the mc ing role. It'd be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean like like that that one I
was gonna like. I mean it was like hosted by
Jason Momoa rather than like if he'd just been in
you know, the additional performance that would have.
Speaker 3: Been of a like wait, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: He probably still will come out with Pantera anyway, because
that's what he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, possibly fair enough, that'd be cool, But yeah, he's
just one of those. I mean, Dave Ellison on there
made me laugh, just because you know, everything that happened now,
I was like, yeah, was gonna get caught during.
Speaker 1: This time one Interestingly, actually there was a lot of
discussion about so obviously with Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax there's
three of the Big Four, so there was when the
you know, initial announcement came, some people were like, well,
where's Megadeth. You could have made this a Big four show,
and that they've got one guy who used to be
Death and you know was removed for reasons. I like
that he's the one bit of Megadeth representation there. It's
like you could have a Big Four jab with Dave
Ellison as your one representation of Megadeth.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting what Mustane thinks about all of this? But anyway, Yeah,
so that just the gumption of here's guns and roses,
roses and tool as well. By the way, sure we
also have some download announcements which fucking came come your
pants everyone for this. So we have you know, a
good handful of names added to the the download built
this year right against their o pah thuy and you
know the kind of they they make their download appearances
every few years or so, not surprises they're they're.
Speaker 3: On a good album this time, so you know that's
that's decent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, yeah, Palo Royal, Hate Breed nice. You know,
Miles Kennedy, he's a house act, isn't. The kids in
glass houses are their municipal waste lots to go through
it again, even more added on there as well, But
it's not often that this band, I guess will be
the story. But I can't believe how high Shinedown are
on this poster.
Speaker 2: Shine Down something to sleep Token is my personal health
is the like I look at them going to go
like there is no god like, but that makes me
go like sleep Token would be a sweet release after
Shine Down.
Speaker 1: If sleep Token had a song on the Final Destination
soundtrack and it was as rad as on the NASCAR race,
then we could have a different conversation my hat for
I did think of you in that regard. But right
so removing you know, the sleep Token, we discussed sleep Token.
We're you know, we're not fans, but we were quite
you know, please I supposed to see it, you know, yeah,
the band getting the headline slot, so you know our
feelings aside there obviously, shine Down and sleep Token is
not where we would be found necessarily, but just shine
down subbing download if that is what this position on
the poster is to be, you know, unless they have
something else up their sleep. But it looks like.
Speaker 2: It's either subbing or second stage headliner. Isn't it like
that position on the bill where.
Speaker 1: Do you shine down? Normally go the only the one
time I've seen shine Down was when they opened in
arenas for Iron Maiden, and I feel like a download
subheadliner you would normally expect, I know, obviously, you know
at an America Fest you would expect this, Yes, but
it is a bit like why now of all time
for Shindown to step up to subheadline My.
Speaker 2: Fourth Shinedown is you know, you know how like every
year that Altar Bridge tour, whatever Yeah comes on, they're
kind of like the go to support for every time
alter Bridge or Hailstorm or Blackstone Cherry would play an arena,
like they felt like like the the band they'd bring
along just to you know, sweeten the deal for people
who like that sort music are Yeah, I know, I
mean I could almost believe shine On subheadlining download a
couple of years ago when they did feel bizarrely popular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels uh, it feels like a bit of
a relic at this point.
Speaker 1: It feels like what have shined Down done, you know,
in the last ten years to kind of warrant such
a position. But you know, there they go. They are
there on the upside chatter capitation are there, which that's nice.
Speaker 2: That's cooled Cross Favor back in the UK and like,
good see them back on the UK festival.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they'll do like some other shows.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Elliott Minor back any love for Elliott Minor, No.
Speaker 2: Like you you would imagine me, you know, being a
fan of a lot of those ship brickrock bands, Elliot
Minor when everyone that I always was like, what's the point?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I saw Hate Breed say that they're
on the main stage, which is a nice Hate Breed
being a download is like cool, you know expected, but
Hate Bred on the main stage is like, oh, getting
some some some serious you know power.
Speaker 3: Corn Day or something like that. Like there's like fist pumping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more, I guess you know. A summer festival news
Tho not located in the summer at this time, A
spin off of Bloodstock have just announced they had been
teasing something for the last kind of week or so,
and it has gone up to be that Bloodstock have
announced a kind of spin off winter event, the Bloodstock
Winter Gathering, that is taking place on the sixth of
December at the the kk's Steel Mill Venue in Wolverhampton.
That's the venue owned by by KK Downing, which you
know there's a lot of Bloodstock connections. They're so not
surprised to see them kind of you know, move the
into those realms. But Bloodstock Winter Gathering, I feel like,
you know, we've seen like outbreak autumn and stuff like that.
So on the upside, I think, you know, there's something
about when a fest or something like this where you
assume they're doing pretty well, right because they've got like
the extra they're taking the extra financial swing.
Speaker 2: It's it's now that they can't necessarily push their main
event much bigger right now, but let's let's branch out
and add sort of an extra something to see how
we can builder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously, like we know this year the Bloodstock
you know, the summer event has has sold out, so
like you know, this isn't any surprise or anything, but like,
you know, the idea basically that you know, a festival
won't be if they were like struggling to kind of
make ends meet with or that, you know again to
push you know, financially their main event, they wouldn't be
branching out and paking a swing like this. So I guess,
you know, just the evidence of us existing is you
know that Bloodstock are doing very very well for themselves
at the moment, So that's you know, kind of a
tick in their column. Here at least, the lineup consists
of Candle Mass headlining, venom Ink hell Ripper, and then
we also have Raised by Owls, King Kraken and Tortured Demon,
and there's a second stage with a few bands, Red Method,
a poster a logo here that I can't read thumb
and a band I think are called hell Bearer. So
the lower ends of that are very Bloodstock, right, like.
Speaker 3: Very second stage Bloodstock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, you know, it's the kind of like if
you are absolutely squarely in the like you are at
Bloodstock and you are you know, attending every single stage
every year, then you know, chances are you're going to
be you know, having a decent enough time there, so
you know, appeasing, you know, safe, you know, solid stuff.
I suppose for the Bloodstock fan base, it's like the
top three bands on this post. I suppose where that
the real draw I guess is because Candle Mass, venom Ink,
and hell Ripper. There is something definitely tempting there. Candle
Mass anywhere for me is a get like anything would
be a draw. Hell Ripper, you know, obviously one of
the great bands at the moment. Venom Ink. I mean,
there's there've been ups and downs recently with venom Inc,
but fundamentally they play venom songs, right, I did see
a good time, Yeah, I did see somewhere. I think
on the Bloodstock announcement of this that venom Ink are
maybe going to be playing the debut venom Ink album
are they in full? Which you know, considering that's that's
the record that I at the time on an online
review I gave a gentleman seven and the band got
upset with me on the internet for doing so. It
is a bit less of a draw than when they
were doing black metal blood right, I think that maybe
is like, okay, you know, not as much of a draw.
I wonder how Damnation feel about this because it is
a you know, again, I suppose it's not maybe direct competition,
but like I would have loved to have seemed like
a Candle Mass, for example, at Damnation.
Speaker 2: You know this because it is it's in the winter time,
it's a month later, and you would look at like,
at the very least, hell Riffering can.
Speaker 1: Hell Riper are playing Damnation? They're on both they are
they Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2: Right, like okay, yeah, well, I mean I suppose they
know a Scotch band.
Speaker 1: There's not like, yeah, I think someone like Candle Mass
would be more like the Again, they've obviously they've been
locked into one over the other. And yeah, I mean
again that's the kind of issue of a big summer
festival like Bloodstot expanding out into doing a little winter
one day a thing as well. But it is again
it's only one day. It's only you know, you're you're
paying for a one day ticket, as opposed to you know,
Damnation has kind of become more of a larger weekend festival.
So yeah, I mean candle Mass alone is the draw.
I suppose, it's how much the rest of it kind
of calls to you.
Speaker 2: But I mean they've said they've still got more to
be announced for it, so there could be some decent stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I've got a pose it.
Speaker 2: They say more to be announced, so there might be
you know, maybe that's just the second stage stuff, so
it'll be more of that kind of like lower stage
bloodstock material.
Speaker 3: But maybe there's more to sweeten the deal.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe there is more here to be seen. Then
there you go. Nirvana played another show after the you know,
revolving sort of tribute one they did. This time it
was part of the SNL concert for the the SNL
anniversary that all the Americans have been actually going mental
celebrating over while we look at them being like, okay, fine,
but Nirvana played a show with post Malone fronting them,
and this time they did actually play smells like teen Spirit.
Speaker 3: Sam.
Speaker 1: Do you think that this now means that we are
going to get a Nirvana tour with with post Malone?
Speaker 2: I don't think so, but it also like I am
a little afraid that this might happen.
Speaker 1: Would you go see Nirvana with post Malone? If they
announced the show, it would depend how much.
Speaker 2: Tickets cost be sort of like would be like as
like how like because they can they could charge crazy.
Speaker 3: Amounts for this?
Speaker 1: Yeh.
Speaker 2: If they wanted to, like, if tickets weren't saying insanely expensive,
I'd almost be tempted because I do love Navana and
like would be like again I would be I was like,
I'm seeing Navana karaoke.
Speaker 3: Like I've kind of been able to kind of like.
Speaker 2: Put these things as like whenever it's these sort of things,
Now I can just be like, it's not the real thing,
and I'm not going to treat it like it would.
Speaker 1: Be Queen with Adam Lamb but with face tattoos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, and like like I would probably have a
good time seeing those songs, but it's I wouldn't be like,
oh my god, I have to be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there you go. We have a couple of
album announcements and I guess the most surprising one and
if you know, if their literal word to be believed
that the most big ole of album announcements is a
data remember who This week, Surprise kind of I guess
half Surprise dropped their their new album, which is called
Big Old Album Volume one. That of course suggests the
volume two is you know, not far around the corner,
but they you know, appeared said hello, our new album.
It exists, and it's out right now for you to
buy physically. The streaming digital release is going to be
out on March to twenty. First, they have released a
couple more singles from this which we'll chat about in
just a minute. But again a lot of you know,
a data remember and the information and news to be
looking at here. First of all, you know, the sort
of the halfway surprise release. I mean, you know, we
have you know, received, you know, press copies of this album,
so we theoretically we could go and review it in
you know, the upcoming review show. But I feel like
I wouldn't want to jump before you know, the vast
majority necessarily are people who aren't going to buy the
album physically straight away without you know, like blind buying
it basically before it's available on digital people. I wouldn't
actually want to steam roll into that. So I feel
like we are going to wait at least until the
album is you know more around the kind of streaming release.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was thinking that because it was like
I've got really confused because I always additional Starkee man,
I was like, oh cool, can we add that to
the reason.
Speaker 3: You were like, oh, it's it's physical and I was like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Almost like the there's obviously an intentional thing of like,
you know, buy the album, which you know, if that's
the way they want to go about it, and then
then find it's you know, a legitimate business practice, I suppose,
But it is the reverse I suppose of what you
normally expect of like oh, it's here and then you
can buy the album at later today. But they've they've
gone the other.
Speaker 2: Way, which I mean, again I think fair enough, like
this is clearly a I mean part of me was
like it's because the last album was bad. You don't
want people to hear it before they buy it, but like,
I mean, this is clearly like we want fans, you know,
to go buy the album because they want to get it.
And like if that at least was sort of an
initial boost in what would be sALS because everyone actually
wants the album goes and buys it, then cool, good
for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Data remembers album. I suppose it has felt a
little bit. I don't know the way they behaved ever
since they dropped the last album, but then like didn't
really support it properly, Like you remember that, do you
remember how.
Speaker 2: Weird it was where Yeah, there was like there wasn't
there wasn't a tour forro over Here, Like I know,
it came out, you know, like the COVID, but it
was like.
Speaker 1: Online like even like their social media pages went like bizarrely.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was all mannership going with that band
around that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was messy.
Speaker 3: It was a messy album cycle, absolutely, But.
Speaker 1: It feels like since then, you know, if they remember,
have been this bizarre kind of uh you know again
sort of evolving, uh, not functioning how you would normally
expect a band to sort of function in the period
of their career, I suppose, And so you know, there's
been speculation. I suppose, I like, you know, when will
the data Remember come out in the new album. I
guess it's been a little while now about you know.
Speaker 2: I think this year, you know, with like the slam
Dunk and like the summer shows they're doing that like that,
they're kind of were gearing up as a live band
again a bit this year. So I guess the expectation
was they must have something in the pipeline. I don't
think an animal kind of expected it to just be
like it's it's.
Speaker 3: Here here you go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also it's Volume one, right, so they've obviously they've
been they've been busy bees. You know, we've got two
records worth of material. I don't know exactly when the
second one will be coming out, but you know, maybe
it'll be later this year, maybe it'll be, you know,
next year.
Speaker 3: I see this is going to be like a post
human one. What they're going to be. You know it's
gonna be.
Speaker 1: You know, they're close together.
Speaker 3: And then they take two two three years to get
the second.
Speaker 1: Part out of the time two of big old albums.
Speaker 3: Now, imagine, I don't think there's so much music. And
he's hard drive that he's hard like like on Jeremy
McKinnon's hard drive. I think his hard drive is safe.
Speaker 1: On this mckinner's computer is melting down. But you know,
we have Volume one, you know, appearing. We have an
album cover which is a tribute to the National Lampoon
kind of style of ridiculous large popper. I suppose, you know,
in the annals of rock history, I suppose something like
Dookie by Green Day has a little bit of that
kind of appearance to it. But this goes the route
of like it has caricatures of like lots of different
people on it. The first thing that I saw with
this is before I saw the full image. I saw
the various like Twitter accounts posting like here's Ollie Sykes
on the on the thing from Not Lose, So I thought,
oh cool, is is the album cover just gonna have
like the guests who are on the album? And then
I loaded the whole thing up and there's about a
thousand people on there, and there's a guy near the
front who I think is maybe meant to be Drake.
I don't know, and I feel like a Drake is not.
I mean, it would it be amazing if Drake now, of.
Speaker 3: All times.
Speaker 1: Album that would be what an incredible look that would
be right now. But I'm guessing all these people are
not guessing the album. Perhaps some of them are. There's
been interesting headlines again to do with like Olie Sykes
and Isaac Hale about them not necessarily actually appearing on
the album, but they like contributed writing ideas to like
parts like there's apparently like a chorus which was a
demo off a Olie Sykes contribute. So yeah, I don't know,
I don't know exactly what to expect in terms of
how wide the net might be cast here within a
Data Remember album, because obviously the case with the last
one was it took some swings. You can you know,
decide for yourself how well you thought those swings went,
but it was certainly you know, wobbly in how it
kind of went about things. And the idea with a
you know, a newer Data Remember album is is it
following on in terms of what we kind of didn't
really like about the last album or you know, oh,
we're going to be getting back to a Data Remember
when they were you know, for a long time, a
really great band. We have two new songs here. There
is the song Feedback, which was released quite a while ago,
but that is now appearing on the album as well.
But we have two songs that are out to day
on all stream and everything. So we are going to
talk about those right now as if it is a
prelude to an album coming out in a little while,
which those songs are called. It makes sense and Lebron
Sam listening to these two singles, they do you know,
they take different approaches. You can see why they would
release you know, these two at the same time, but
generally the data remember singles, how are you feeling on them?
Speaker 2: So, Lebron is like the kind of like this one
was like, you know, the A Day to Remember pop
punk song. It's pretty straight down the line on that front.
It's pretty big, it's pretty bright. I think I pre
to pretty much anything off the last album. I would
say my feelings in the Days Womb have been the
lowest they've ever been. Yeah, Like so I think even
something like this, which I don't think is terrible, didn't
exactly excite me.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's fine.
Speaker 2: I mean this was you know, a sort of like
solid two SAT ten pop punk song. Maybe it did
make me laugh at the mosh. Care is what the
villains in the Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 1: Say on brand I guess that seems like I did
hear and behavior.
Speaker 2: I was like, come on, we were writing around with
the villains of the first Mighty Ducks MO before Jeremy,
come on now. But I think of the two songs, Lebron,
what I thought was the better of the two Make
It makes Sense was kind of like, oh yeah, this
is everything I hate about modern metalcore right now, just
that complete like soul, a synthetic kind of modern metalcore
production sound on a kind of like a heavier song
that isn't actually very heavy and doesn't move me at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these two songs, I.
Speaker 1: You know, they are not, as you know, off putting
as the worst stuff from the last album, which again
at that album it's absolute worse I mean overall, but
like certainly you know, it's it's worth moments are genuinely
appalling yea, and these are not quite that. But I
can't say I particularly like either of these songs at
least from you know, the first go round of both
of them. Make it make sense, as you say, it
is kind of like a data mber octane core, right,
Like it is just.
Speaker 3: That sound that I've so just come to just give
me the it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know I feel like Bad Vibrations, which
I remember how that I like, you know, I would
say that is I guess their last like really excellent record.
I agree, But they did on that shift away from
the kind of you know, more pop punk, easycore whatever
style of heaviness and into something a little bit more
kind of like serious face arena rock, and this feels
like that template has now gone into again this sort
of like uh, you know, post bad vibrations now into
that you know, radio metalcore world and the riff in it.
I was like, is this like almost one of the
Isaac Hale songs. I don't know, because it has that
sort of squeakiness to.
Speaker 2: It, but it may be produced in a way that
doesn't have the menace and the power of like an
Isaac Cower rifts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds bad, It sounds ill fitting.
Speaker 1: And it made me think of that that news straight
from the Past single that we just covered, and how
this is like again a sort of clunkier, radio fied
sort of version of that same temper.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 1: And again it's not not a bad riff, but not
a lot of energy or fluidity in terms of you know,
progressions from section to section much. It feels like the
you know, the youthful spark that we used to associate with,
you know, prime editor remember, has been replaced by this
sort of metalcore hit maker radio mindset approach, which I
don't really like. Lebron again feels a little bit more,
you know, a little bit more tied to like the
glory years of a data remember. But I thought that
particularly the vocal production is so robotic, like yeah, you
can actually hear in the chorus the bits where it
almost like peaks like that sort of uncanny, you know,
teeny affected thing, and it just it put me off.
And you know, they're not the worst songs, but as
well in Lebron, the like the lyrics, you know, it's
twenty sixteen and I'm Lebron reminded me a of modern
fall that Boy lyrics in terms of like the just
sort of random bullshit pop culture, you know, comparisons or ever.
But also the rest of the lyrics they again seemed
to be they seem to be aimed at folks like us. Right,
there's a bit about those those.
Speaker 2: Critics or get their day, and and I'm like, okay, cool,
Like fine, everyone disliked your last album, so you know
you're angry at them.
Speaker 1: But the thing, I was listening to these songs right
on Spotify and when you know that one finished and
then auto played into again the previously released single Feedback,
which I remembered existed, and I was like, hang on,
this song was also that that was like, yeah, you know,
if I want to hear your feedback, I'll let you know.
It's like we got two out of the three singles.
Speaker 3: Exact, that's right. I didn't pay too much mind to
that yet.
Speaker 1: I didn't until that happened, but I was like, two
out of the three singles are like sticking it to
the critics songs, and it just I find those songs
almost hard to intellectually respond to because I just don't care,
you know, unless it's Weezer going cough Pitchfork. Like it's
just it just feels a bit like putting your fingers
in your ears, and it's like, you know, I, as
a person, you know, criticizing your music, I'm not really
talking to you. I'm here to talk to people who
are listening, right, And so just having to like after
that album crick suck it song, it just it feels
a bit, you know, desperate.
Speaker 2: It makes him seem a bit rattled, like that's that's
these all creates suck a song. They don't ever make
me feel like, oh, you're sticking it to the man
and you're rattled, like showing that you're rattled.
Speaker 1: Which makes me think that actually a Drake appearance on
the new album would be incredibly fitting the album cover.
Why are we like McKinnon on the album cover he's
literally doing like the Chad face me, like he looks
like he's got why have we got Chad filter McKinnon,
or like yeah, anyway, I do. I hope that there
is better stuff on the Data Remember album, because none
of these songs, again I think, are awful on the
level of the worst, you know, stuff from from last
time out. But I can't say the big old album
Volley one is particularly like that high on the things
I'm excited to hear right now. But the digital release
is March the twenty first, so I suppose around then
we can all kind of, you know, get in with
our opinions and whatnot. But it is available to buy
right now if you really do want to hear it
right this this moment. So we also have machine Heads
have announced their new album details. Their album is called Unatoned.
They're still sticking with the kind of dashed through oh
stylizing everything that they really adopted the last one. I
wonder whether that'd be a one album thing, but no,
that's just what machine Head right like now. Their new
album Undertoned. It's going to be out on April the
twenty fifth. The song which I guess probably still will
be the version that we heard with you know, in
Flames and all those other bands on it, those scars
will define it or won't define us is on this album.
But we also have another song called Unbound, which is
out now, and it's all right, isn't it?
Speaker 2: I mean the riffs call I mean otherwise it just
sounds a bit tired and not particularly exciting from Machine Head, like,
I don't know, it just doesn't really go anywhere for
me this song.
Speaker 1: Vocally, it's off and I can't quite put my finger
on what it is. But Rob doesn't really sound there.
I don't know whether it's maybe a weather ring in
his voice that I don't know. The intensity has been
toned down a bit, but there's a certain I don't know,
just sort of like growling flatness in it, and it
could be again it's literally the very first thing you
hear is you know, a roblin vocal which is kind
of never quite sits right for the whole song, and
you know, interesting here, I guess, but if that translates
from the whole album, but you know, it doesn't quite
sound like it's there on that one. So you know,
two exciting and exciting an album there, Machine Heads Unatoned
out April or twenty fifth. The week before that, April
the eighteenth, we do have the new self titled album
from super Heaven, which is their first album in a decade,
and that's that's actually on Blue Grape Records, so you know,
something else coming from from that particular label. But super
Heaven one of the most I guess, you know, quietly
beloved I suppose bands of the alternative rock boom of
the early twenty tens. So I feel like, you know,
their comeback story is probably the the comeback event of
that particular world for this.
Speaker 3: Year until Title Fight come back like they do well.
Speaker 1: Last year we had bouncing composure, didn't they release a record.
This year we've got super Heaven. Maybe next year Title
Fight will complete that trinity. But the super Heaven record,
self titled out eight.
Speaker 2: First single was really good as well, So I'm excited
for this just it sounds like you'd want Super Heaven
to sound like nice.
Speaker 1: April the eighteenth, that is, we swing back around to
some more show announcements to take her through to the
back end of the news, and this is maybe the
exciting one of the bunch, I suppose because Parkway Drive
again very casually dropped this week a little announcement that
they are going to be playing a show with a
symphony orchestra at the Sydney Opera House on June the ninth.
And I mean, I am about as far away from
Sydney as you know a person on this planet could
could feasibly be. But I am really excited just to
watch from a distance.
Speaker 3: What this.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a black tie event for one thing,
like Parkway Drive doing the first, I presume, one of
the first black tie event metalcre events, certainly the first
at the fucking Sydney Opera House literally probably one of
the top ten most recognizable buildings in the entire world.
Speaker 2: Genuinely historic, iconic, beyond our world venue that is like important,
Like that's crazy. I love the reveal alder them looking
like like like turtle neck and black suit. I was
like that the Villele gotta be really excited about this,
I mean beyond you know, it's also being done for
a live film thing. Also the fact that the previde
who had Homes for the Heart is playing Some'm like
put that back in the set list right fucking now,
Parkway Drive, because that with an orchestra could probably reduce
me to tears if they got that right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really, you'd almost forgive them are dropping out of
the set for a decade if they brought it back
with the show where they're playing with an orchestra, because
that's perfect for it. But I mean, there is so
much about that it's cool. I mean a Parkway Drive
have kind of become as much as you know there
are there is a vocal faction of people out there
who do not believe this. But from where we have
sat and where we have generally discussed kind of where
some of the bands of their generation have you know,
somewhat fallen away from us and we've had our problems
with them, Parkway Drive have felt like a really just
like in that context, something nice that we could rally
behind because of how we have enjoyed their their progression
and them being the one to repeatedly swing for the
fences like this is just so cool to watch. Obviously
the new material is just going to is perfect for this.
Speaker 2: Particularly this is yeah, like the songs with like Reverence
where they had you know, string because I didn't play
like a string. Yeah, Like, so they've dabbled with this,
but this is you know, the full like whole show orchestra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I mean, pray with an orchestra is gonna
be ridiculous. The title track from Darker still with a
full fucking you know is gonna be you know, a
moment you also wonders like, are we getting as you said,
romance is dead with the orchestra?
Speaker 2: That'd be funny, Like I would love if they did,
you know that, Like as he's mean to do the
the kind of like the throwback Medley sort of thing,
just throw that in an orchestra so we can have
the So grab your fucking rim a bitch, moscoll would like.
Speaker 3: Like that. I'll be like I would lose my mind
at that.
Speaker 1: I want Winston McCall to be the first person to
drop a bitch in this. But it's just it's just
exciting to watch them doing this stuff. I think, you know,
someone in our discord summed up really well by saying,
just like it feels like Parkway just kind of like
will themselves and behave like a bigger band than almost
anyone else. Like they just back themselves. They move into
stuff like this with a kind of confidence. They bring
the biggest stage show.
Speaker 2: They make these kind of like sweet Yeah, say sydney
O Prouse for an orchestra, and these are the sort
of things we've said so many times now, like it's
almost on bands to kind of like put themselves and
like no, we are a big man paying attention to us.
Speaker 3: And this is exactly the next sort step for Parkway
to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just you know, seeing them behave like that
is infectious. So it's going to be a hell of
an event. I think it's you'd be a made if
it wasn't awesome. Like in terms of some bads going, oh,
you know, will they pull off doing something like that,
I think we all just go yeah, Parkway to pull
it off. Of course they will. So really you know,
all eyes on June when that happens. But also you
know when the Again feature film, I'm sure like yeah,
live album stuff comes out. Very exciting indeed back over
here on these shores, maybe not quite as large as
performing with an orchestra and everything, but Queens a Stone
Age I've been teasing for Again. In about a week
or so something going on in Sheffield. They are going
to be headlining an event called the Rock and Roll
Circus in Sheffield, on August twenty seventh. So if you
are in the North of England you're a big Queen's fan,
then there is something there that you could potentially look into.
And if, just by happenstance, you live in the United
States of America and you are a fan of all
the things I was talking about in the live reviews
at the start of this show, then it's your week.
Because we have had announced Tribulation and unto others, are
going to be doing a co headline tour in the US.
It's really weird that those two tours are happening basically
at the same time in the UK and literally in
the Glasgow date they're overlapping, which is mental, but they've
worked out in the US like yeah, okay, we're doing
this properly together. If you are, I mean, that's like
the two best goth metal bands of the twenty first century. Yeah,
like teaming you know up, joining forces. That's going to
be brilliant. And we also have if you're also a
big fan of Hives over in the US. I think
they've been to the US before, but you know, obviously
a bit more an event when they travel over there
then being around here. But Hi Viz are doing a
US tour in April and May, and they're bringing Military
Gun along.
Speaker 3: With the military and supporting surprises me on that like speaks.
Speaker 1: Highly of High Veer's, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like good tour for hardcore bands who sound
like Oasis or you know, just.
Speaker 1: Big single long Corsey stuff from that world. But yeah, again,
any of our American listeners, if you're you know, thinking
about going and seeing High Veer's, you should definitely go
and do that. And military Gun being there should sweeten
the deal, I suppose, so lovely stuff there. We last
week on the Patreon we put out something that we
were discussing ahead of time, but we have now you know,
God had done it, the second part of our Black
Sabbath Non Aussie Special. And this particular second part is
a special part because it is the most chaotic part
probably of any band special ever. Right, the just the
shit that Sabbath did, how they functioned, and the members
they went through, and the albums that got put out
that weren't even meant to be Black Sabbath albums or whatever,
all that stuff, like it's all concentrated into the craziness
of this particular part but it also meant for us
talking about it, as you know, podcasters a get and
talk about. At this stage, we're getting into the likes
of Seventh Star in the Eternal Idol, which are records
that most people don't know exist, so happy to actually
like be like, what are these sabbath alms that no
one talks about sound like? And we are of course
continuing that into the next part of this special. But
the hour and a half that we did talking about
the entire the rise and fall, you know, from joining
the band to leaving at the end of that year
of the the Ian Gillen fronted Born Again era lineup
with Bevan Bev Bevan on the drums is for sure
to be I think, just some of the most fun
hour and a half of podcasting that we do all year.
It was they supplied the material for us by being
so ridiculous, but my god, it was so much fun
to talk about.
Speaker 2: I mean that we you know, England's number one fan
on the podcast of He's not here of us now,
But you know, that was a but that was that
was one of those like nine minutes talking about that
and it just flew by because it was just kind
of like that ship insay, like everything from the music
to the recording antics of you know, blowing up his tent.
Speaker 3: And all of that.
Speaker 1: The Dead Fish. If you don't know what the contents
of the ship is, I'm not trying to avoid give
too much content. You should find out because honestly, the
the bongos on the string, it was an hour and
a half of endless supply of just hilarious, hilarious yeah,
given to us by Black Sabbath to to talk about.
And it's I'll treasure it forever, just that that get
in the moment to talk about all of that. It
was so much fun, so funny, and as I said,
from here on out, we are going to be talking
about real kind of underdiscussed Sabbath albums I'm really excited
to be digging into. So if you want to hear
all of that and really you know, flex your your
your Sabbath fandom considering everything that's going on, then patroon
dot com slash That's novel is the place to do.
So let's end Hyperblast today with the releases for the
twenty first of February twenty twenty five. If you were enjoying,
you know, the Bleeding Through album last week. Again, as
me and Sam have been talking about, if you are
a fan of that generation's metalcore, then hello, like boy,
it's a couple weeks for you, isn't it, Because immediately
following that up, Killswitch engages new album This Consequence is
out today. Elsewhere Silverstein, the you know post hardcore, your
very long running band at this stage. Their new record
Anti Bloom is out out on Run for Cover Record.
There's a recorded Anxious who've got a record called band Bambi.
That album recommended from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah No, I saw them out for a couple years ago.
They're like cool, kind of like Emo with a little
bit of hardcore in there, like but their last album
was really good, so I'm excited to check this one out.
Speaker 1: Cool, there you go. If you're a fan of the
sort of current blackened Death Corps type stuff, as a
band called two obeya Tyrant who have a record out
today called a Freegore in Thurnie out on Church Road Record.
If you are a fan of you know, post metal
and sort of experimental sludge type stuff, you know from
that particular label here in the UK. And then there
is a band called Wren who have a record out
today called Black rain Falls. The long running European thrashband
Here Acts have got their new record out called Faster
than Death. If you want just some sort of you know,
current you're quite obscure arcane heavy metal, then there's a
band called More Acts who've released a record called The Ambulant.
And as we get into extreme stuff, there's also some
events happening this week because Piss graves new album Malignant
Worthlessness is out now as you are hearing this elsewhere.
There's also if you are looking more onto the black
metal side of things, there is a band called I
Believe It's Grab. It's like Grab with a little accent
on the A and I believe it's pronounced like Grab.
But a German black metal band formed by the original
vocalist of Dark Fortress, and he's to put a record
out called Kremes and that is kind of like medieval
style black metal, like for fans of early satirical on
that kind of stuff. And here in the UK there
is the black metal band Abduction, who released their record
called Existentialismus. Finally, two EPs out. One is from the
UK metalcore band God Complex, and there is another from
the hardcore band Spy called Scene Enough. The God Complex EP,
I should say is called He Watches in Silence, Seen
Enough from Spy. Two heavy EPs for you there, and
that is it from us this time. We will be
back next week as said, you know where the Green Lung,
unto others taught is happening, so there'll be a bit
of discussion of But there is also next week the
matter of the album reviews for February, which we will
be getting into. We will be of course talking about
the new albums from Killswitch, Engage, from Bleeding through from
Piss Grave. Of course we will also be talking about
you know, maybe some stuff that you haven't heard of
and you haven't heard and hopefully you know some some
great new music for you there. So be back here
in a week's time for that. But otherwise have a
great week everybody. We will see you there. Bye bye,