Speaker 1: Hello everybody. Welcome to That's Not Mettal. We are your
weekly rock and heavy music podcast, and welcome to Hyperblasts.
Here our quick little bash you over the head with
everything relevant that's gone on in the news this past
week in those relevant respective genres. We are recording this
unusually obviously only want in a blue moon, this rolls around.
We are recording this on October the thirty first, so
it'll be passed by the time you hear it. But
happy Halloween, boils and ghoules. My name is parryin haysh
Here we have Sam Dignon and Mark Sanderson. How are
you guys? Obviously we're know, aside from sitting and recording
this fucking thing, how are you celebrating the Wien I
went to see.
Speaker 2: The Texas Chainswaw Mascat at the best in my in London,
the Prince Charles Cinema. Seeing on, like I said, this
really grotty unearthed seventy millimeter print just added to how
disgusting and like dirty that movie looked, and just I
was like, yeah, no, this is just one of those
just all time of horror movies and seeing it in
a way that kind of enhanced the actual horror of
the sound and the way it looked just made it
that much better.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that was a fun little Halloween afternoon
for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every Halloween I tried to watch four films. I
tried to pack it fill to the boom, and I'm
currently halfway through the Almond very good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I normally I plan out in advance, normally what I'm
gonna watch that night, but I think because we're doing this,
I haven't done that. So once we finished recording this,
it's just gonna be a case of seeing where the
winds take me.
Speaker 3: I think that's my one. Is am I doing Malignant?
That's kind of becoming a fition for me because you
know what a movie.
Speaker 2: But I might also go for my ever growing pile
of horror blue rays that I should probably watch something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think me and my girlfriend we watched Watson
Grommit The Curse of the were Rabbit earlier, which is
banging away to started off, and when I was on there,
I noticed that the Hammer horror film The Vampire Lovers
was like leaving Prime in like eight hours or something.
So if I've still got time after recording this episode,
I'll catch that one before it leaves, So that's what
we're up to prior to getting into all the news
and that couple of live music things. For me, I
had one of the kind of most exciting tours of
the year for me in terms of, like, I you know,
I've had my tickets or ages. I've been counting down
to it for four months, which was Chelsea Wolfe's UK
leg of Her She which is after She, which is
actually tour she's been doing, you know, the whole year
basically all over the world since the album came out.
And as well as a you know, a generationally talented
artist and having one of the most universally brilliant catalogs
in the twenty first century, she's also in my opinion, one
of the best live acts. The last time I saw
Chelsea wolf it had been a long time, was in
kind of the first part of twenty seventeen, before his
Spun had come out, and she was so she was
technically she was touring Abyss, but she was like playing
songs from his Spun like unreleased before you know, we'd
heard them, and obviously a long old time now since that,
several records down the line, and I'm pleased to confirm
that she has just as you know, sensational live as
I remember from that occasion, and you know, seeing Chelsea
Wolf live, it's a case of all shades of Chelsea
Wolf's material kind of you know, comes together and under
the same roof. Obviously, the new record is one of
her more kind of like electronic industrial leaning and live
the industrial part really feels ramped up in terms of heaviness.
So she opened with obviously Whispers in the ecka Chamber
and that just felt genuinely like, you know, doubly heavy
and oppressive from what it is on the record, and
by the time she got a house of self undoing,
it felt like this kind of one to say, like, yeah,
it was like this like underground goth Ray with like
those like heavy beats going and stuff like that. She'd
like opened with the whole run of songs from that
new record included she did Tunnel Lights, but at the
end she kind of mashed it up with a bit
of Zombie by the Cranberries, which overcovered song that I'll
let Chelsea do it because it worked really really well.
She actually played every single song off of the new album,
like all ten tracks were in there, and you know,
I love that album greatly, so I was really pleased
to see a lot of that as well. But then
you know, you flip into how tender the acoustics stuff
is kind of in that regard, like you're doing flat
Lands and the Mother Road from from from Birth of Violence.
After that little run at the start of like newer songs,
she went into sixteen Psyche and so I guess that
was like, you know, the first like classic she was playing,
and that just like grungey opening riff at the start,
but it like huge cheer and you know, Jess Gowery,
who's her drummer, is such a hard hitting drummer that
it was like fully rocking on that, like really like
you know, rock based stuff. She did this version of
Feral Love with you know Benchers and going ham on
like the electronic noise part, like fully fucking with the
sound of what's going on in that song. At one point,
you know, Chelsea, she went over to the side of
State and she had a drink and it was from
a fucking Chalice which was a thomly brilliant non brand.
And then the really cool like you know, considering you know,
decent venues, but not you know, a huge arena actor
or anything like that. But I really enjoyed the production
in terms of like just simple staging of using shadow
work and stuff like kind of these like flickering almost
flamelike effect kind of casting their shadows like on the
backdrop behind them. Really really cool. And particularly the last
song of the main set, she did an acoustic version
of the Liminal from the new album, and like everybody
went off stage apart from her, And again it must
be a really simple thing of how they achieved it.
I'm not enough of an expert to know, but there
were essentially it looked like the kind of smoke from
the smoke machines had created a kind of wind tunnel
effect around her, where like the only light that was
shining was like from directly behind her, and it just
from again from like the stage just looking you know,
kind of all from the crowd looking dead on at
the stage. It was like she was almost like in
the middle of this like golden halo of like swirling
smoke around her. Like it was it looked absolutely mesmerizing
in terms of like a simple subtle effect that looked
kind of genuinely otherworldly. Like it was everything kind of
converging on her at the center of it. She hadn't
played any song from Abyss in the main set, but
then she came out for the encore and carrying flowers.
I was annoyed that I looked at the settlers for
London and they got every single song that we did,
plus after the fall in there as well. But it
was absolutely incredible. Mark you have handily just reminded me
before we went on air here that you can fill
us in about what you know is a pretty significant
tour in itself, which was Some forty ones closing thing
that actually happened in It happened here the same night
I saw Chelsea Wolf, so I did. I opted out
of that one, but you got to see Some forty
one on their their final sh Yeah.
Speaker 4: Some forty one. Obviously, I'm a pop punk guy, a
band I've loved most of my life, but for whatever reason,
I've never seen them live until now. So when this
was announced their final tour, I made sure I was here,
you know, yeah, and the whole time just thinking about
this is my first and last time seeing a band
I really love. The Bronx opened and they were fucking
wicked like that was my first time seeing the Bronx
as well. They just raged to a confused arena for
where like blin coretty two fans who didn't know what
was going on, and it was so good. Some forty
one was euphoric. It was like the best two hours
of my life. It was so much fun. They came on,
opened with motivation and slapped the breakdown from the end
of eighty eight at the end, and then did the
big metal guitar solo and stuff, and then track two,
the Hell Song, where they added a second to guitar
solo at the end. So I was like, fucking hell,
they're just gonna make every song super metal. But they
didn't after that, but that primed me for just swinging
my fists, jumping up and down, you know, trying to
kick his eyes. I can love all these songs, and
you know, on the Class Hero and No Reason and
stuff like, it's just songs have loved for as long
as I can remember. We got an extra Chuck song
then every Other Day and Welcome to Hell. So I
was chopped about that and considering, you know how large
and greatest hit catalog. Some point in one have I
was hoping they were gonna play more new songs, considering
you know, it's the farewell tour, but it's also sort
of the tour for that we only got four Landmines.
Dopamine went for a twist to fight and rise Up,
all of which are really just fit in those songs.
Bang Landmines in particular is like, well up there, I
love that song, and then you're getting like pieces into
fat Lip into still Waiting, then the encore Summer Waiting
on the twist fight into Deep and like into Deep
as an overplayed song. It's not a song I particularly
reached for actively all the time, but that was probably
the best moment of my life. It was just life affirming,
jumping up and down, surrounded by everyone else feeling the
exact same way. Then the band, you know, they bow
for all intents and purposes. It looks like the show
is over. And then after five minutes, after most of
the arena had funneled out, the lights dim again. Then
Derek comes out on stage with just an acoustic guitar
and like a piano to play so Long Goodbye from
Undercla Zero, and it was like most of the arena
had left, and it was a weirdly intimate moment for
what was an arena show, and it was really bitter,
sweet and lovely and something I will remember forever like
I love some forty one and if that's the only
time I ever get to see them, I'm chuffed that
it was that good.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is, as said Halloween night, and as we
know there is, there is nothing creepier or more ghastly
than when we were young festival which here we go,
so last week I think it was last week anyway,
last time we were here doing the news, we spoke
about one of these massive, crazy, you know us everything
happening in one day, logistical nightmare, bank rolling as the
country yeah type festivals, and we went, yeah, look massive
lineup's massive as you get with that kind of money.
But what's that bit about in terms of a section
of the poster. And here we are a week later
doing essentially the same thing. We do have a couple
of reasons to talk about we first, you know, one
of them slightly more you know, noticeable on the poster
than the other one. It is, of course, headlined by
Blink Twanity two in what is quite humorously labeled Blank
Twinity two performing songs from Enema of the State, take
Off Your Pants and Jacket self titled, and more so
that's just their songs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really, like that is your standard bling went too set?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm guessing that they're going to emphasize those
three albums, which they tend to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that the most specific that could maybe
be is like the equivalent of what Cradle of Filth
are doing it. Damna should be like, yeah, they're only
playing songs from like, you know, the classic era or whatever,
but I would be sprised they just played what's normal anyway.
That's the most, you know, least specific labeling of all time.
The other headliner is Panic at the Disco performing a
Fever you Can't Sweat out and more Panic at this
go broke up about what was it like four days ago?
How long have they been gone?
Speaker 3: Longer than as it is? That's our benchmark, that's our
bench Yeah, no, that that's.
Speaker 2: What I'm I think it was longer than as it is,
but let's see, let's go the Wipedia when it was
the actual Like, no, I think.
Speaker 1: You're probably right that it is longer than as it is,
but it's still not been long I guess that if
you know. By the time he you know, they'd released
that last album that no one listened to, and they
were doing a tour for it, where they seemed to
be actively annoyed that no one wanted to hear the
new songs. Coming back and doing Fever is about the
way that Panic would return. The hardcore Panic fans are
upset that Ryan Ross is involved in performing those songs
from that album. I can't speak to to that, but
Panicer back after, you know, as said a few weeks
the other reunion is much further down the poster, and
it's a band called Let Live Sam. Give us a cheer, yay,
Like I know.
Speaker 3: The thing is, I don't know that. The thing is
this band made your favorite album. No, no, we're going
to go to that. I'm not going to go to
the fucking when we were young festival. This is nothing.
Speaker 1: Well, I get you. So they were coming back like, yeah,
we remind me there was there were some rumblings of something.
Wasn't they remind me what the rumors were.
Speaker 2: So a couple of months ago they announced that they
were doing the repress of the remastering of the best
album ever, Black is Beautiful.
Speaker 3: And they said they were going to be playing their.
Speaker 2: Their official farewell shows that they never got to play before.
Speaker 3: So that so basically they're they're never coming back for
a final tour.
Speaker 1: Yes, so this is this is a lot less shocking
than Acid last week. As you say, I do think
there's probably higher chances that let They will play in
the UK than I think they I.
Speaker 3: Think they will. Yeah, I think we will get them
in the UK.
Speaker 2: I'm praying it's not download because I don't want to
pay download money, but you know, let them all come
over here at some point, which.
Speaker 3: Is exciting and I'm very happy.
Speaker 2: And I've got the re release of the Black Beauty also,
I've been listening to that a lot, So I'm kind
of all a bit let Live pild at the moment,
but I just I can't muster the excitement up for
them and when we were young, because it's when we
were young, and I just like, look at that festival,
can just go Yeah there's bands as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I guess you know, obviously let Live this
is the first show they've been announced, you know, since
they broke up in twenty seventeen, wasn't it, Which is
you know, for many people, it's the top reunion they've
been kind of awaiting, so it is a big moment
of celebration in many ways. But I do agree in
terms of, like, it's not the hugest surprise because they
knew it was coming and currently not stra right home
by in terms of where they are. But let live
are back less shocking news and acid bath but still,
you know, maybe worth a slightly higher cheer than the one.
Sam is simply the when we were young thing.
Speaker 2: It's so exhausting that festival now that I just kind
of like I can't bring myself to like get too excited.
But then that's the uk F I won't shut up
about it. You'll get that cheer for me then.
Speaker 1: Very fair. Also never shout never really is that happening?
Speaker 3: Apparently?
Speaker 1: Yeah, directly above alexis on fire on the poster. You'd
love to see it. Very you know, kind of the
opposite news that we want in terms of bands coming
and going.
Speaker 3: The i'd say shocking.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Ithaca announced a couple of days ago,
as we're doing this that they are going to be
calling it quits, that they are going to be doing
one final headline show in London on February. The eighth
of thea is Linton Academy, which is labeled the Cremation Party,
obviously after one their songs, but very much the idea
is it's kind of a farewell and awake of sorts
to the band, and following that that they are going
to be defunct. There will be apparently one more song
at some point, which is quite nice, but Ithaca no
longer be around. And the reason they give is essentially
commitments in terms of they've all got jobs, they've all
got things that they you know, are responsibilities and things
that they are you know, obliged to be doing, and
they can't balance that with doing Ithaca anymore. And in
a way like I'd notice that they had gone quite
like obviously they fear Us was such a huge moment
for them in terms of like really feeling like everyone
had their eyes on them, and that was such a
successful record and you know, maybe they didn't fully reap
what they could have off the back of that record,
but they certainly were a round a fair bit and
you know, they were in the right places where you'd
want them to be. But I you know, I did
wonder over the last sort of year or so, I
was like, where Bithaca gone? Are they? You know, just
on the down low after like you know, they're gonna
come up with a new record, but I'd noticed that
it was quiet. Unfortunately, this is you know, the the
answer I least wanted to see after you know, noticing that,
and we are losing a band who are more you know,
some people compared this to like, for example, when Palm
Reader recently, just because it's kind of you know, recently
similar type of bands. But Palm Reader we did have
for longer, and Ithaca is a band that it feels
like only recently in the scheme of things have really
kind of become one of those top top bands that
are always like you know that people would mention as such.
So it is a real fucking kicker to be losing
a band at that stage of their career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that what the part of
primary of like a chief totty much everything they could
really see that the areas they took their sound to
if Aca on they fear Us, it felt like them
sort of unfurling their wings and like showing new elements
that they on the next album would likely be like
even more fully realized. So it was kind of like
I think they first still on the best metal albums
for the last couple of years, but it was kind
of like a taste of what could be done on
top of that.
Speaker 1: Like so I think in some sense you can look
at They Fear Us and say that that is a
hell of a statement to go out on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm using, unfit.
Speaker 1: You know, I really do like the language of injury
their debut as well, Like you know, whenever I saw
if the car and they'd close on the whole crush
and get that breakdown, like you know, arguably my favorite
moment of the set. But in terms of getting a
record like They Fear Us, where you went, holy shit,
you really like ascended to something. It is in some sense,
it's great they're going out like that. It's unfortunate that that's
the only one of those that we got from them
when they did feel that they had a longer streak
of that kind of grace in them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is less like Palm Reading more like black Peaks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: This news is gutting, Like I'm so upset. I love
They Fear Us. It was one of my favorite Albums
of the Year when it came out, and it's only
grown on me since, Like I feel like we're gonna
look back on that as like a real moment. It's
such a special record to me, and I would always
listen to it in sort of excitement for what could
be next, and it's sort of being well, that's the
legacy now. Obviously it's a great legacy. It's a great record.
The language of injury is amazing as well. So it's
not like they haven't fulfilled the promise that they promised us.
It's just I would have loved to deceive what they
did next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's shitty. I mean it's the kind of
thing where, you know, we can imagine, you know, in
a few years time, we might be doing like a
They theor s Album Club or something in a way
that we've done for bands like Black Beats in their
final records and being like, ah, man, this is so good.
I wish that it wasn't just kind of where it is.
I mean, obviously the reasons they've given, you have to
respect it. I certainly respect the fuck out of their
their their final tour poster that they've done for that,
you know, for the the final show, which is.
Speaker 3: Always down for a Paul Bearer.
Speaker 1: Paul Bearer is there, but particularly the little tagline which says,
so we couldn't do it and they were correct, and
then down the side, which I didn't even notice the
first time I saw it. Honestly, great call from the haters.
It's like exactly the kind of I don't know, particular
way of delivery and humor that Ithaca always kind of had,
which it was a weirdly kind of large part of
what they were doing. But yeah, man, like I mean,
you know, it says rp Ithaca twenty thirteen to twenty
twenty five. And obviously there's a few years at the
start there of like you know, underground getting started in
kind of obscurity, and I remember when Language Injury came out,
being like, oh damn, you know, this is a band
who are engaging with a lot of things in this
world of metallic hardcore and so on that I like
and that I'm into, and I was excited to have
another band like that kind of on my plate who
I liked as much as I did on that record.
But then they fear Us was like, you didn't necessarily
see that coming from them, even as good as Language
of Injury was, and yeah, we just wish we got
more of essentially, you know, a year of touring for
that record and then no more and it is yeah, man,
the UK music scene, we we have a sad habit,
don't we of losing some of our most exciting heavy
bands kind of as they are cresting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's happened so many times and it's again it
makes me cherished ones that are still around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even more Corella to Mass still exists, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3: That would genuinely was that the band. I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Hell, I was like, God that that band have stuck
it out and that's blessing, but it is it is
a shame.
Speaker 3: And again like maybe at some point they might.
Speaker 2: Decide to you know, dust off and like pick her
up again, like so like some of these bands have done,
but for now, like, yeah, it is a real shame,
but I like they're ending it on their terms at least,
like it seems like you know, I always like I
would obviously this in the band implode and fall out
and it will be ugly and messy, Like yeah, I
would go to that final show and I'll have a wonderful.
Speaker 1: Time, really good people in Ithaca. Like yeah, in another sense,
it's genuinely it's sad to not have them around touring
because you know, you see them around less, you know,
and they were always just really really good, warm, fun people.
So we certainly wish our best to you know, everyone
in Ithaca going forward. But yeah, give By Fearis has
been because that is still a great record that unfortunately
right now is the last bit going to be hearing
from Ithaca. Moving on to some touring news, which is
you know, kind of very clearly aligned to some potential
new music as well. Ghost of course announced their huge
world tour, like are fully, They're going from April the
fifteenth in Manchester is the very first date of the
which I feel like happened last time as well. I
seem to remember that the Manchester that I went to
for Imperia was like the first date of the tour
at least one of the early ones. I love doing that.
But they've announced shows going all the way through into September,
going to Mexico and the US and places like that.
Now obviously people go so new album then notably, there
is not a name attached to this tour which Ghost,
you know, being very theatrical normally, do you maybe like,
what was it a pale tour named Death and impera
tour stuff, and so, you know, kind of quick minded
people assumed that. Okay, so the tour name is essentially
redacted here because presumably there'll be a new album after
which it will be named. I like the tour poster, which,
you know, shout out to whoever it was in our
discord who caught the little reference that it's clearly modeled
on the nineteen ninety one Cape Fear poster with the
portrait of Papa and you know the cardinal floating in
the water there. But basically, if Ghost have got a
world tour starting in April, maybe you know, you'd assume
maybe the record will land before then. Maybe it will
land somewhere in the middle, and we'll have a single
or something by the time April comes out. But we
are looking at a new Ghost record in twenty twenty five,
which in terms of like a you know, a three
year cycle or something, is perfectly normal. I just feel
like Impia is still very recent in my mind. So
I'm like, damn, So I say, maybe it's because we
had the concert, film and stuff. I've been a bit like,
you know, it's always been hard to escape Ghost. But
obviously I mean a bit of a kind of rhetorical question,
but are we excited for New Ghost in twenty twenty
five just a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's funny, like I still feel like Compire's recent
in this, not just because I'm listening to the all
the time. You know, spill Ways gets played on radio
to every once in a while, so like these songs
are still around. But hey, I'll take New Ghost all day.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess that and I can't wait for
this to shows you know, obviously how much momentum they've built,
where like we're still spinning and talking about that previous
record and we do have something new on the horizon.
So Ghost set to have a very big twenty twenty five.
Just last week we were talking about what was it
the bloodstock editions with nail Bomb and stuff like that.
They came back with our fucking wallaper announcement here, which
is that the final special guests lots. That's the subheadline
of the previous two announce where Emperor and Ministry the
final one, which is the one that sub to Gajerra
on the Sunday is none other than Mastodon, who, like,
I guess this is a case of you know, we've
spoken a lot how Bloodstock has grown in size and
bands who used to headline maybe can't headline now. Maybe
it's just that twenty twenty five is a particularly massive
fucking year for them, and a band like mastered On
are who would normally be in the headline position. I'm
just willing to take a hit and sub to someone else.
But essentially, I mean, considering.
Speaker 2: Emperor of headlined it, you know long ago, as I'd say,
that's two past headliners in the subheadline position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like.
Speaker 1: Fucking five in my mind, Bloodsdog headline or worthy bands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know, go up, go up against two
thousand trees five headliners that like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I mean it's also you know, a nice
little inverse of Gajerra subbing too mastered On back in
twenty sixteen. But I mean I realized I hadn't seen
Mastodon since before COVID. I think because they haven't I've
not seen them because Hushed and Grim. You know, I
got the little showed up on my social media fild Olier.
It was like three years old, like a couple of
days ago or something, and I you know, we never
saw them over here for that released in terms of
a big headline tour or something like that, so it's
gonna be a long time. It's Master, I've been around
here in the UK. This is their only UK show
for twenty twenty five and it is Yeah, I said,
I mean super fucking exciting that Mastered. I know that
some people have their problems with Mastered on outside at
festivals or whatever, so yeah, maybe not a guarantee that
it will be the greatest Master on shore you've seen
in your life. I don't know, but I'm really excited
to see masteron again because as said, it has been
a long time. And in terms of I guess you
know the sub headline position, what do you make it
in terms of again a band like masterd On. Do
you think this means that Masodon are now smaller than
Blastop headline size or is it just a case of
it being a big year where they're just gonna go Yeah,
well we'll sub to our friends in Gajira.
Speaker 2: I think any other year, I think Macedon could still
headline Bloodstong there. You know, they're still bad who would
probably be able to sell out. Brixton were relative ease
like they like they do. You know, they're they're there.
I don't think the position has diminished anything really. I
just think Gajira are like the biggest they've been on
the ascendancy and I don't think like and I think
again Sam with Trivium and Machine. You know, those bands
are all kind of riding a wave. So I guess
where else the massile playf they want to play Bloodstock
that they probably a ticket and pairing up pairing them
up with Gadjea is a nice double billing. As you said,
they've done it before, but just this is another reverse
of it. I think it just kind of worked as
they're available this year to do it. They were like,
yeah we will sub Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Bloodstock now has like you know, there are
more arena bands who have played Bloodstock, like you know,
Architect did it recently. ELI like bands like Nightwish or whoever,
can you know play arenas whereas I see Mathodon have
you for a very long time. I've been capped to
that kind of Brixton level. So I was thinking, is
that just kind of not big enough now for a
bloodstock but you know, the Sugar just recently did it,
and Behemoth still do it, and those are bands more
on that master On level of like you know, they're
not in arena as they are Brixton or even a
Roundhouse or something occasionally type type band. So yeah, I
think I agree. I think probably you know, maybe last
year Masterdon could have headlined if they decided to be
around there, but just this year, I think that just
means you're getting an even better deal on Bloodstock essentially,
Like again, if you go along through Counting Emperor as well,
that's like five headliner worthy bands that you're getting at
the top of that bill. So really like a big
fucking youth to see Master on that post and be like,
holy shit, they're not even at the top of it.
Really really good Slayer just again a noteworthy kind of
thing of the calendar for next year. Slayer's Louder Than
Live performance, which was one of their scheduled headline dates
for their reunion this summer, was called off because of
the obviously extremely bad weather that's been in the US recently.
They have been announced that they are going to be
returning to you know, fulfill that slot at that same
festival next year. But that does also mean obviously Slayer
are going to you know, be playing shows in twenty
twenty five, and wouldn't be a surprise to see several
other festival appearances pop up in twenty twenty five as well.
One piece of new music that we're going to talk
about on this again Halloween Hyperblast. I was holding out
for an acid bath track or something maybe we'll get
by the time we go to sleep. Spider released a
song which is another band that features membles of Devil Master,
so that was good and appropriate. But the songle that
we're going to talk about here is a new track
that's been dropped by Blood Command, which is a song
called We Could Be Heaven. There's no album announcement yet,
but they have said that they are looking at releasing
a new album in twenty twenty five. So again, what's
that active period?
Speaker 3: Like three albums five years?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of good stuff there. Obviously, the
last one was well DOMINATIOND, which came out about a
year ago now from where we are, but this first
track from it is a pop punk song. Isn't it
so good?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Like Blood Command have been since like Nikka doing Man that.
They've had so many examples that been like, oh, this
is what pop punk should sound like, and this is
like one of the best examples of It is still
got like a kind of like crunchy, chunky guitar, but
it's so like melodically bouncy big woes. On the chorus
they do that the best thing ever, which is playing
the chorus melody as a guitar solo, like always love that.
I just think, you know, Blood Command, I just on
such an insane good streak at the moment, and not
necessarily what I expected from them, giving you know, what
the fuck was going on with World Domination and how
batshit that album was, and then they've come on to like, yeah,
you know, here's a pop punk song and it fucking rocks, buddy,
this song is fucking.
Speaker 4: I'm like, like Sam said, I was expecting, you know,
I didn't know what to expect when I press play.
I was thinking maybe it will be another like Radio
or something. And the fact that it's this big, bright,
pop punk radio it makes me so happy. It's so hooky,
the bass is big and fat, it's got a great
rock and roll like lick, Like right before the chorus,
it's like, this is what I want it to sound like.
Basically it's my I've been listening to NonStop for about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good fun. I really like the there's
that kind of they started doing this thing. There was
a lot of it on the last album on like
obviously the softer side of it. The last album was
obviously very kind of very extremely divided. A lot of
it that was like the most ridiculous, like minute long
grindcore type songs they've ever done, but then also like
purely pretty songs. And they have this like really uplifting
eighties keyboard kind of you know, warm effect on some
of their stuff now and here it's like they've applied
that to a you know, a blinknety two Nanna Nach
type yeah, which was a really it's a nice combo,
and weirdly to me it kind of sound came out
sounding a bit like Andrew Wuk like that kind of
like here's like warmer, like what that's how we put
a few years ago that was like Believe in Music
or whatever the fuck that one was. And it was like,
you know, really just like again, very uplifting, very warm.
It has that kind of effect. But with this like
punk edge, there's a UFO reference in it, which I
suppose brings the Halloween connection of them releasing that today. Yeah,
it's It's the thing with Black Aman is I say, oh,
they've gone like full you know, pop punk. And there
are so many bands where that would fill you with
some kind of fear that they've like you know, traded
in a really unique sound like Block Aman have for
some awful sterilized you know, as it is type thing.
But Black a Man has this ability to as that
you know, they've proven their you know, last couple of
albums to really be chameleonic and kind of make these
other sounds still there. So them going like you know
eighties coming of age movie uplifting warm pop punk. Uh
somehow is like yeah that fits. And I also know
it probably won't be the only you know, feeling you
get on an album.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's it is.
Speaker 2: I think I have no doubt that this is This
might be you know a bit more of a pop
up game, but I don't think this is gonna be
the one flavor they do. And there is again, you know,
it's just still so identifiable it's got that scandy punk
thing that is kind of where the cord their sound
come from came from, and that's always present no matter
what is where they decide to fuck around with. And
it's just like, again, I never kind of thought that
blook com on when they bought Nikki, you know, the
kind of like shrill shrieker like in to kind of
do this kind of warm, fun pop punk.
Speaker 3: But it's such a good like fit for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And the great thing about Blood Command, like you say,
is when the album does come out, this could be
sitting next to a ground coourse, yeah, or a gabber song.
Who fucking knows. Like that's the fun of Blood Command.
They can do anything and they make it all sound
so much fun.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's the thing I like about this
song is that I like this song. I also am
fairly sure that this won't be my favorite song on
their new upcoming album because there are other things that
Blood Command do that I, you know, are a little
bit more me. So I go, yeah, like, this is
a really cool thing, and I know there will be
other things that I think are even better than this.
So yeah, good stuff from blacker Man. As said the
song there is called we Could Be Heaven, and we
also look forward to their record next year and then
a segment. I'm always happy when we get something for it.
We have been on a hot street recently. The quotes
of the week, this one, you know, it comes from
such a a list Hollywood celebrity that it's gone far
outside of our little corner here. But Helen Mirran coming
out saying that she wishes Kirk Cobain had lived to
see satellite GPS is I mean she definitely she knew
how funny that was when she was saying, and that's
why she said it. But it's still really fucking funny.
Speaker 3: That that is, you know, the real tragedy.
Speaker 4: Rest in peace, Kirk Cobain. You would all loved the
as it.
Speaker 1: Is with you, absolutely questions. Liam Robson kicks us off
here saying, do you like to check out a support
for a show we'll go into ahead of time, or
prefer to experience the music live for your first impression?
Open the floor for this one.
Speaker 2: Can kind of vary, like sometimes if I know I'm
not going to get to show for the probably on
a time I I like, won't like. But if it's
gonna like, like, do I get their early show out
the sport band if I'm if I'm unsure, I might
give them a cursory listening kind of go so hardcore shows,
I might, you know, check out the sport band if
I if I feel like, oh, that they might be
worth getting them and catching so that that's kind of
like I mean, in when I went to Japan, I
listened to all of the sport bands at that show
in advance, kind of sort of like what what's this
taste of like Japanese argicle pop?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be for me? And and I made sure.
Speaker 2: I was, like, I've really gone into them, so I'm
made sure I was there to see them. So yeah,
it can vary.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to. When I first started going to shows,
I would listen to I would check out every band,
and I don't really anymore like I might if I'm
like ify on times, like Sam says, if I'm a
hundred percent censure, I'm going to see all the bands
at a show, I probably won't listen in advance, but
if I'm wishy washy, I might check in check him
out if there's anything worth checking.
Speaker 1: I mean, the main thing I think it is again
sort of like confirmation of what you might be missing
in terms of like I as you know, as a rule,
I tend to try and get to shows at least
for a little bit after doors and kind of you know,
be there for most of the show because you know,
obviously it's always worth checking out support bands and stuff
if you've not heard of them, but you know, sometimes
you just can't. You're you know, you're doing something and
sometimes you can't make it. And sometimes it's like you know,
again checking like should I really go out of my
way to make sure I can get there? Or can
I take a hit or whatever? If I am like cool,
I'm gonna arrive, you know again just a bit after doors,
I'm gonna watch everything. I won't really check things out
because I do think if you're gonna be there, like
either way you're gonna be there, Yeah, then the best
thing to like do is again it's the most accurate
representation of like, oh, what are you doing as a band?
Is just kind of having it fed to you in
that sense, And it's also if you know you're gonna
be there, it's the least time consumer like you're gonna
watch them anyway, right, So, like do you need to
check them out in advance and spend that hour of
listening or whatever is you might be doing on top
of like being there at the show. A lot of
people don't have time for that. These days, we were
in such a like you know, hyper you know, control
from minute to minute type world in terms of schedule
that you know it just probably don't have the time
to go out and do that. If I am kind
can be at the show anyway, So generally I say no,
I won't unless I am trying to work out, like,
you know, what time should I be arriving if I've
got something that's you know, taking precedent or whatever. And
then if you obviously see a band and they impress it,
and then you go, oh cool, I'll check out the
record and then you get to go and listen to
the records with the kind of context of knowing what
they were were like live. Next question come from Peak
Ship And this is a nice question. I think is
kind of a hot topic onto itself that has been discussed,
you know, many times down the years, So I think
it's probably about time that we tackled it. Band members
wearing their own band shirts on stage lame or okay,
I actually think more people can get away with it
than you think. Still not most bands, but more than
you'd think. Like the base ground rule that we all
know is like Iron made him do it, and specifically
Kerry King does it. Although it's better when he's wearing
a Slayer shirt because now he obviously has a solo band.
It's funnier like he's going to forget his name if
you remove his shirt from him. But those are the
guys where we go like, yeah, obviously Iron made it
and Kerry King they're gonna do it. I do think
there are more people who fit that kind of molder
person who do get away with it.
Speaker 2: I think. I mean when I came round to it
was Malevolence always the band who kind of made me
come round to the idea of wearing your merches because
they are always really funny about it. They like anyone
who kind of like, oh, there were the like, yeah,
our merch.
Speaker 3: Is sick of course on our own merch.
Speaker 1: They managed to really savvly become a like our marketing
brand and too themselves. By anyone who's at Bloodstot this
year and saw the beer tent and shit everywhere. It's
like I think malevolentce is going to slap their name
on anything if they get a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and why not.
Speaker 2: I mean it probably is kind of lame, but I
think it depends on how cool your merch is. And
just like I can like sometimes I think I've seen
hate Breed you and I'm like, yeah, hate Breed, where
are your own merch?
Speaker 3: Because you're fucking hate Breed. You can do it, and
I like news about that. It's like, fuck off, it's
hate Breed, you know.
Speaker 2: But there are some bands where like if as it
is on Sage, wearing their own merch, we're given as
it is a kick in.
Speaker 1: Today, maybe it would done anything. They're just the bad
out their Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think they were with the measuring stick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what you're talking about that is I think if
there's any band, the way to measure how this works
is what you've just said for Hate Breed, where you
go like, yeah, it's fucking hate Breed. If you can
say that about a band and say it that's with
full sincerity, then they can get away with it. If
you go, yeah, it's fucking and then you put in
a band where you go, I don't know if I
can say that with full conviction, is that's when because
it's all about aura, isn't it? I think obviously the
other side is, like you were saying, with malevolence. If
there's a band who have a kind of like almost
like a uniform, like they are they present as a
unified brand in some way, then there can be something
to that. But it comes down to that, like, yeah,
it's fucking insert name here, legend status. It depends on
how cool your band is. Like, if you are Rob
Barrett in Cannibal Corpse, you can get away with wearing
a Cannibal Corps shirt on stage. If you're like Glenn Tipton,
you can wear a Juda's pre shirt. If you're I
don't know, like Mark Tremonty playing in Tremonty his band, right,
I want to see that guy wearing a Napalm Deaf shirt,
not a Tremonty shirt, although maybe I would respect him
wearing a Creed shirt. I don't know. But like that,
and it's not just about how good the band is,
you know, because like like the Mensingers, if the Mensingers
all came out wearing Mensinger's shirts, it'd be like, what
are you doing it look a bit corny, but there's
no aura there, you know, It's just that's just some guys,
whereas it's all about projecting that aura of like yeah,
we are fucking here.
Speaker 2: Yeah No, that's because the mensers are just a bunch
of dudes, so I don't need to see them in
their merch.
Speaker 4: Like my take is I always like it. I don't
care who does it. I always think it's charming. I'm
pretty sure I saw like young Guns.
Speaker 1: That's a man who do not have the aura.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's fucking young.
Speaker 3: But I can't join you on this hill. I'm sorry, Like.
Speaker 4: I just don't. I don't know. It's one of those
things like, oh, I don't wear merch of the band
you're seeing to the show that people talk about where
I'm like, I don't understand the wavelength you're on. I
think it's fun when anyone wears their own shirt. Fuck it,
why not if you're putting out If I was putting
out merch, i'd wear it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What this comes down to a slightly wider philosophical question,
which is the whole point of band merch is to
essentially market your band, is to it's to advertise and
represent taste, right, And like, I wouldn't wear a shirt
of a band I am going to see that night,
and it's not out of some kind of weird, you know,
enforced rule or something. It's just to me, it's a
given that I like that band when I'm at their
show because I've come to their show, Whereas if I'm
wearing a different band shirt, that might spark a conversation. Right,
You're not gonna have any conversation sparked about wearing the
shirt of the band you're there to see because they
know you're there, unless it's like a specifically really cool,
rare shirt or something. And it's a similar sense coming
from the band, where like, you know, maybe it's less
of a thing these days, I don't know, but like
you hear a lot from kind of you know, generations
gone by, people talking about like, oh I got into
this band because this musician in a band I like
was wearing their shirt or like you know, shouted them
out on the line the notes of an album or something.
And that's kind of the you know, the bonus of like,
oh I'm wearing someone else's shirt. Right. The flip side
is again that kind of branded aura type thing. And
that's where like I would rather see again someone who
can't pull it off advertising essentially someone else's band. Yeah,
again showing that kind of taste and doing that pointing
people towards the music type thing that band merch is
essentially kind of four Or if you are in the
kind of band where you can pull it off and
it adds to the again that the vibe of the
appearance of a show, then go for it, you know,
like I mean again, like someone like Dying Fetus or
something like. If your aura is dude who can knock
the fuck out at you, then you're allowed to wear
your own shirts. If your aura is Young Guns, then
probably not.
Speaker 4: Well, hey, there might have been people at that show
who wouldn't have gotten into Young Guns if they had
seen that shirt.
Speaker 1: Who are these guys? Oh they've got emblazoned on their chests?
I see. The other thing is I suppose, you know,
for some bands it might be a level of ease
if like they're on tour wat shirts. If we got
with us where we've got our merch. Fucking chuck went on.
But yeah, I think it there are more bands who
can get away with it, then you think, but it
entirely comes down to like again that like level of
projection and kind of that that viction in like how
well can you pull it off versus the ones who can't?
And Marcus Franz asks another like really big question, are
we too focused on bands making it big? And then
these are in quote marks, Could they play Ali Pally?
Are they download headline material? Are they the next Metallica?
Will the next album taken to the next level, et cetera.
Of course we want success with the bands we like,
but it seems this often takes over the conversation instead
of focusing on the quality of their output.
Speaker 2: I mean, so for me personally, I don't care about
how popular bands are, but this question being asked on
this week, of all weeks, you kind of go ihaka,
like if they got bigger, could they still be?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I guess it goes down to, as you say, the
financial sustainability thing.
Speaker 2: Like that, that's where that's where that's what my thing
of bands get bigger is my my key interesting bands
getting bigger at this stage is in their interest of
keeping the band going in a way that is financially stable. Yeah.
I know a lot of bands that I like that
are going to be playing the dome all the time,
They're probably not going to be able to keep up
as a full time thing. Even some like big bands
can't give as a full time thing sometimes.
Speaker 3: So it is a real tricky one.
Speaker 2: But for me, on my personal enjoyment, I always want
to see the bands I like do really well. I
want to see you know, in an idea world, the
Mensingers would be saying out arenas because they're the best band.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 2: But does that does the Menzingers know, playing like the
sort of venues they play, does it just to flect
my enjoying the band? Hellner, I'm going to go see
them whatever venue they play, and I'm going to have
the best night of my life because im seeing the Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I almost feel the Mensingers as a band
who have kind of made it because they are for
what they are, which is a they They you know,
year in year out, play some decent venues and they
sell them out and they've got the audience there. They're
almost a band who are kind of like, for the
measured expectations that we now have, they're almost kind of
gone over the mountain.
Speaker 2: No, I totally agree. I'm just saying for me personally,
you know, I would. I would I be like over
the minutef the Menzingers were in a band and they
were so big that everyone knew them and not insert.
Speaker 3: Band I don't like that are popular.
Speaker 2: But again, like it is, I want success for bands
I like because I want them to make money. I
want them to be able to continue to support doing
what they do. But I'm also like, I'm not going
to be like, Oh. The one that gets me is
when a band kind of has their short doesn't want
to make it, and then kind of dip down and
people seem to then duck out because the band didn't
become the biggest thing of the one, And I'm.
Speaker 1: Just was like, yeah, that's cowardly like and that.
Speaker 2: Happens more often than you'd think, and I think it's
such a like shitty attitude to take. So that's the
one where I think like we need to have less
of that rather than kind of hoping bands get big.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like we are stuck on this idea
because that's how it used to work. The bands who
were you know, who we all loved, would progressively slowly
get bigger and as human beings, we love a story.
We love being at the beginning of something a lot
of grassroots thing and then seeing it grow and each
the highest levels. So as for like why we always
do that, I think it's just human nature, Like we
just want to see the things we like grow and
get bigger and everyone else like it. And also, like
Sam says, I want the bands I like to be
able to still be bands by having success. I think
recently we have seen a lot of people sort of
like like you say, bands who have sort of reached
our level, but people are still like, oh, when's the Oh,
when are they going to do an arena And it's like,
I think this is as big as you know it's
gonna get. Like people used to say about Masterdon and
stuff like or masterd on the next arena band. No,
there are complex progressive metal band. It's a miracle that
they can headline bricks from the Academy.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I think certainly. Obviously both points you just
made I think are absolutely true, particularly obviously the financial
sustainability thing. I think that's more for again, like bands
who are really small and I go, I want you
to essentially reach a big enough level that like people
are interested in what you do at least a like
semi large kind of level, and therefore you can you
can have more resources come your way, you can keep
doing what you do. It's a wanting to see the
thing you like survive and prosper, which is absolutely true,
but I do in the last few years, I have
certainly found myself flipping on this kind of mindset where, yeah,
obviously when maybe when I was a teenager I get
more excitable about things, I'd be like, oh my god,
this thing is going to be so huge. I really
want this thing to get huge whatever. And part of
it is being jaded of seeing it happen for so
few bands and kind of the idea of like, you know, ah,
a new rock band is going to come through and
change the world and rock going to be like on
top again and be massive again. I'd like, you know,
I've just I've lost interest in that idea. I've lost
interest in wasting my time on trying to like and
the will that into being when I could just be
celebrating artists in the now. And that's the thing for me.
It's celebrating artists in the now while we have them,
and hopefully if we do that enough, then you can
obviously that's what this podcast is for. We we do it,
and therefore hopefully other people will pick up on that
thing and discover that thing. But in terms of uh,
you know, sometimes in objective conversation, it is interesting you're like, yeah,
like I think this band could go to Let's use
Malevolence as another example, right, like when they headline I've
just say headlines. Right when the subheadlined bloodstock this summer,
and I looked around at the amount of people there
were and how crazy like a significant portion of them
were going. I did find myself thinking, I think Malevolence
could have a crack at like an Ali pally, right.
But it's when that conversation supersedes the actual discussion of
the art that gets them there. Yeah, is where I
really do agree with this, and I'll use it again.
This is a kind of a random example, but the
banding pop up the head were Tribulation, who kind of
similar to what you were saying, Mark, I remember, like Tribulation.
You know, they've been around for a few years and
then they made the Children of the Night and they
kind of turned into the sort of sound that they
are more associated with Now and from there because it
was like a gothic heavy metal thing more, you know,
they could they started pick up a bit of steam,
and obviously you had a lot of like, oh my god,
could they be the next Ghost or something? And even
if like you know, that's maybe putting words in people's mouths,
it was at least like, could they in some way
step through a door that Ghost have opened?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone expected they'd be as big as
Ghost because fundamentally they have like a growler singer and
don't write songs like that. But the idea of like, oh,
Ghost are really popular, could someone like Tribulation capitalize on
that a bit? And I agreed that in an objective
sense that could be true, right, and it is. You know,
if anyone here likes something like Ghost or anything that's
sort of you know, that kind of goth heavy metal
or whatever, I do go like, yeah, you should check
out Tribulation. But I realized that Tribulation have essentially made
this whole string of fucking amazing records, a run of
records that I think of any band of their generation
is like as a classic run as anyone else has made.
And the conversation was still that like could Tribulation be big?
And I was like, well, they just made this a
fucking amazing run of records that's going unappreciated because people
are focused on like we should get them opening for Ghosts.
Wouldn't that really be something? And I remember I think
it was around like the down Below record was that
most like, oh my god, Tribulation because it was the
follow up to Children that night, it was like they
could really be you know, step through into that door
and be onto something. And now again they've made like
a fucking run of records, and now again their new
record comes out this Friday, and we're in review on
the next show. They're changing tact a little bit, they're
changing style because they've undergone a whole artistic trajectory or
like kind of completing the thing they were doing, and
the conversation around them hasn't caught up to where there
are is going because people were still stuck on that
like could they step through that door and become bigger
than they are? And like, do I Witstribations were bigger
than they are? Absolutely? Fuck yeah, I do. I think
they are that level of band. But I also think
just Appreciating a band in their prime has become weirdly
harder to do because band's primes happen and then they
you know, because they haven't stepped through that door like
you're you're saying and become that thing people kind of
and they lose interest because they didn't become the next
Ghost or whatever it is. It's like, yeah, but they
like their artistic prime has just unfolded right before your
eyes and you didn't fucking pay attention because you were
busy pondering like what venues they might play.
Speaker 2: I mean, the one for me is they could they
be the next Metallica or Michael Romance whatever, like those
are the other That's the mindset that I think is
just so like toxic to the development of bands at
the stage because like, no, no band can ever be
the next Metallica because the music scene and then she
is not designed to support.
Speaker 3: Like again, like it's a.
Speaker 2: Miracle that Ghost have got to where they are, and
I think, like it's great that a band like Ghost
of it, but again, they're still not the next Metallica
and they never will be because you can't do that.
Creeper are never going to be the next Michael Romances,
by the fact that they are again on a run
off three pretty flawless if you like Michael mc romance
and kind of like Emo E Golf Punk records, those
those three Cooper records are absolutely flawless. And again I think,
all right, some people aren't appreciating that because they're so
like on the lookoup for can this be the next
Michael Romance or whatever, and when it's not happening, it's
gonna be well, yeah, that's something that really I find
like they can they be the next?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think eventually, I mean maybe not, but you know,
let's just say eventually. Creeper are lately to make a
record that is not as unbelievably brilliant as the ones
that we have so far. And you know, obviously they've
just played like, within you know, hours of us doing this,
they've just played like, you know, a co headline Wembley
Arena show and that's fucking brilliant. And hopefully it does
continue from there. But they actually, if we get to
the point where Creeper that they're high, that they've been
on basically the whole periods of mant so far, you know,
pretty golden decade they've had starts to lower, as it
does for you know, ninety five percent of bands if
they haven't got to you know, some huge download, headlining
level or something. I do not want to see people
start kind of undermining essentially and not appreciating how brilliant
been for so long, just because that particular hurdle didn't fall.
And that's essentially what it comes down to for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Creeper was sort of where I stopped thinking like
that that because you know, the early days of Creeper,
I was caught up in the oh, they can be
the next my comforical romance the next afi you know,
I really believe in this band, and I do believe.
Speaker 1: In this band, and see what they've done so far
is pretty magical, and you feel kind of vindicated for
being there in the early days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I I obviously when what happened, and I didn't
see Creeper for years, and then the next time I
saw them, I sort of had this moment of like,
when I'm old in Creeper no longer exists, I'm not
going to look back and go, ah, I'm going to
think about how many of the best nights of my
life I had with that band who mean the.
Speaker 4: World to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So again it comes down to a objective measure
as again commentators, whatever the fuck you want to call
what we do, like where about our band sitting and
you know, wanting people to kind of jump on board
and again trying to point people in the right direction
so that they can prosper and survive. But I do
certainly again code Oranges and ever example can come up
with countless examples of bands who'se like classic runs that
we are seeing unfold before our eyes are going weirdly
unappreciated because of the kind of like you know, objective
tally measures that they are kind of being held against.
So that is where the kind of conversation changes for me.
So yes, good questions there do check out from a
couple of weeks ago, if you have not already our
most recent album, Club Pack, which was a you know,
Damnation theme special. But it is also not entirely just
relevant to Damnation in terms of it is for belter
albums that we had a conversation about that particular episode
you know, went life for everybody to hear. I should
also mention that, you know, again having mentioned Acid Bath earlier,
we do roll out the kind of older album club
packs we do that go up on the Patreon we
do after a certain level of time, they roll out
on the main feeds as well, And just coincidentally, the
episode we did last summer where we spoke about Acid
Bath when the kite String Pops happened to you know,
pop up to be due this particular week, so that
is available for you to listen to if you've not
gone and heard it on the Patreon already, if you
want some more pointers about acid Bath. That was also
the episode where we spoke about match Box twenty in Atilla,
which made it an absolutely ridiculous bunch, so go into
that as well. While you're at it. There's plenty of
content from us to keep you going, and we will
have more obviously of that coming to the Patreon feed
basically the other side of Damnation Festival, which is of
course this weekend, and so we're now going to end
on the releases for this which again this is the
first of November, but this goes out because we were
doing things like the review show and the Damnation album
club pack, we've missed a couple of weeks of hyperblasts,
so strapping This is not exhaustive. This is just genuinely
a bunch of stuff that I think is in some
level of note or again, like we were just saying,
deserve to have some eyes pointed towards it or whatever.
But get your notepad and pen out. Here is a
whole bunch of stuff from the past couple of weeks
that we haven't so far mentioned or reviewed on this show.
Going back to again the week that we did that
Damnation album club pack, pretty you know, good bunch of
records came out. The one that came out that we
did not review is Jerry Cantrell's I Want Blood, his
new solo record. Obviously we like Jerry Cantrell and awful
and I can tell you that's a really good record.
A couple songs on that in particular that have been,
you know, kind of reverberating around my head, really good stuff.
Heavier than the last one he did, which had more
of that sort of like you know Americano type field.
This is more like you know, Rainy of Fog type
Allison Chains type stuff. Riffy, but good stuff. They're also
the final Japandroids record, Fate and Alcohol. The band who
you know them announcing their split prompted us to then
do the recent album Club we did on them, so
you know it should be would be a miss to
you know, not point out that they have now released
their their breakup record as well, Pinhead Gunpowder, which was
the return of you know, Billy Doo. Armstrong's project released
their album Hunt. Grand Magas released Sun Raven, really good
heavy metal band. This is a damn fine album. I
think it's stronger than the previous one they had released,
so worth checking out. Enseferum also returned with winter Storm
Swaw the Sun, the kind of gothic doom band released
a record called Shining Or that was a weird kind
of departure in sound. I wasn't quite sure what was
going on with that one. Harvestman, which is Steve on
Till from Neurosis, released the third part of his Triptych
Records that had been releasing throughout the year, so that
is now complete as a project. And we also had
the return of Serpent Column, which is a really like
kind of mathy, aggressive, weird extreme metal band, kind of
just surprising out out of the blue. They were coming
back with a record called Tassel of Aries. Last week
the last week of October that we had albums, the
big ones that we did not review in our episode
that came out that week. We also, of course had
the Better Lovers album Highly Irresponsible. Obviously, we are going
to talk about that one in a little bit more
detail when the time comes. Devin Townsend released his record
Power Nerd. It was a pretty big day for kind
of alternative rock stuff. We had the Pixies releasing a
record the night the Zombies came. Kids in Glass Houses
released their record Pigs and Glass Houses their reunion record,
and Sam, after all that big en up, you did
not seem happy with it.
Speaker 3: It just it just quite boring and I felt sad
listening to it.
Speaker 1: Those Houses have released a that's never happened.
Speaker 3: It hasn't happened. That's the thing that has.
Speaker 1: Never happened before, Amil, and you with.
Speaker 3: Me on this.
Speaker 4: I mean it's like the eighties did a fart. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like the first thing is the al has always been
there and they've just kind of done that. But only
that I lost the thing of like writing choruses, and
I'm like.
Speaker 4: That's what happens when you lose the way of brit
rock from the twenties.
Speaker 1: Considering in gold Blood was like if Danger they did
a fart, I'm not shocked to see that. Amil and
the Sniffers, the Ozzie kind of garage punk band, released
Cartoon Darkness. Meryl Streak released Songs for the Deceased, which
is a thing that I checked out a bit of
and I was like, this is not for me, whatever
this is, but you know, people really seem kind of
into that. Pomp Pom Squad released Mirror Starks maybe without me.
This is a band you like, Sam so kind of
just like a one centens encapsulation of why this Pompom
Squad record is worth checking.
Speaker 2: Out if you like you kind of like grungey DIY
punk with a kind of like pop sense blood to it.
Speaker 3: That's kind of the vibe I dig that.
Speaker 1: Yes, Will Putney had a seriously big day last last
week because as well as Better Lovers, his main band
Fit for an Autopsy release their record Than Nothing. That
is a band called Poltergeist with I don't know what
they're cool but whatever that weird like an o with
a line throat. In Poltergeist they recorded Naped Music. That
is a new band. It's basically it's for the goths.
It's basically like if you like unto others and kind
of you know, great pleasures. He type stuff of like
post punk with a bit of heavy metal in there.
That's very much kind of in your area. Butcher, the
speed metal band who a few years ago released the
I think now already cult classic six six six Goats
Carry My Chariot, release the Fall Up Record, which is
a title that generally makes no sense on foul of
tyrant wing and it's foul like a chicken fowl. I
do know what the fuck that means. But new Butcher record.
Moving into black metal, Gayria though pretty again kind of
popular slightly even now getting ever more mainstream with every
record black metal band released. Coma. My favorite of the bunch,
the Swiss kind of avant guard no one really sounds
like them. Band Shamash released The Maldour Chance Old Ocean,
which is the second in their Maldura Chance series of
releases based on a like nineteenth century kind of avant
garde novel. The first one was like a half hour
kind of drone mini album, and this one is like
a fifteen minute actual metal album, So I don't know
what the's going on, but really good record and Black
Curse if you like your kind of like war metal,
you know, bestial black metal type stuff released Burning in
Celestial Poison that features members of Primitive Man and Spectral
Voice as well, so it's part of that kind of
Denver contingent. Living Gait, which is the newer death metal
band featuring members of like Oathbreaker and Arman. Rah and
Yob released their I think debut full length album Suffer
as One Boon Well, Boon, Well, however you pronounced that one,
which is features the singer from Oxbow, amongst other things released.
Mansitude Behemoth released their x x X Years of Blasphemy
Live album, which is essentially a like you know, streaming
live album you buy it physical as well version of
one of their like live streams they did during during
COVID but you know, sounds sounds really really good. We
had a few EPs last week worth mentioning as well,
which we had one from Enforced called a Leap into
the Dark which has original material and also an obituary
cover on it, so good. Pest Control as well, who
obviously just been announced as an opening for that Big
Knock Loose tour next year. They released an EP called
Year of the Pest and they're just like a couple
of really just random, like kind of grubby, metallic hardcore
things that I sort of stumbled onto that I think
are worth mentioning. That also came out recently. So this
is again if you like your like bands like Renounced
and kind of that just sort of like you know,
metalcore revival type stuff. Fifteen Rema released Drawing a Lost Time,
and A Year Ago Today released a self titled demo
or EP called A Year Ago Today. Finally we got
onto today's releases the first day of November, and we
start with a fucking big one, which is the new
album from The Cure called Songs of a Lost World,
their first record in sixteen years. I'm going to wake
up tomorrow and listen to a new Cure record.
Speaker 3: Which is that's my Coach Up to Manchester record.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a very nice experience. Indeed, cain Hill,
this is kind of come out of lefto. I don't
even really this was coming, but cain Hill are releasing
an album called A Piece of Me I Leve and
that You Find and they haven't released a full length
like album since, like was it the second one they
came in like twenty eighteen or something. Yeah, like they've
done all sorts of EPs and business, but they're actually
come up with an album finally, so that is out
plan's Mistaken for Stars are releasing a record do You
Still Love Me? And I believe that this is like
a posthumous record featuring the vocals of their frontman Garrett,
who passed away several years ago. But you know, a
good under a band playing Mistaken for Stars, So that's
a record that's worth your time. If you need some
like violent hardcore this week. Then there's a band called
Third Face who have released a record called Ministerial Cafeteria.
We swing back towards the goth if you're on your
cure kick, because we also have the new record from
Tribulation called sub Rosa in Eturnum. There's also a record
from a band called Neon Nightmare called Faded Dream, which
is I guess ostensibly still sort of semi anonymous. So
I won't go ahead and spoil the fun just yet,
but it's a very open secret who it is. If you,
you know, are thinking of any kind of vaguely prominent
doom slash heavy metal musicians who also maybe have their
own podcast and also literally appeared in the music video
for the new song from this band It's that guy.
But basically this is like kind of super typo, negative
old Danzigi type goth metal from someone who has made
records that are also very very good good stuff there
Bombus if you like, kind of again sort of raggedy
stone and metal. They're releasing Your Blood. Nats Mistium are
returning after fucking a whole saga of that band being
defunct and active again and defunct and everything that's gone
on with that guy. The record is called Blight Privilege,
which is a very stupid title that immediately kind of
sinks an awful lot of the good will that's maybe
going on in there. But Nat Mystium are returning with
a new album for the first time in full length
albums ten years, and the last one is a record
that I love very much. Then we have a band
called New Skeletal Faces, which is again super goth like
super I think it's out in Peaceville, and I think
Travis Ryan from Couch Like's like their manager or something.
He's the first place I heard of them. But that's
again a kind of just pure goth type band the
records called Until the Night. And finally, if you just
want something just claustrophobically suffocating, the Extreme Mitochondrian are back
with a record called Victory sep to me. Finally, that
is the end of what we got for you today.
Hell of a bunch to pick from there, Choose whatever
you like. We'll be back next week with our report
from Damnation Festival, which, as Sam says, in terms of
getting a coach, we are going to be leaving for
you know as you are listening to this record. So
we will return next week with you know, a hyperblast
combined with that Damnation review, and then after that we
will have stuff flowing on the Patreon once again, which
again we are knee deep in terms of scripting and
putting that stuff together. So thank you everybody for being
here spending your November Firs with us as we are
here on this Halloween night, and we will return to
your ears once again next week, So thank you. Byeye