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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and happy New Year. Welcome back to That's

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Not Metal, where we are back once again. We will

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be with you every Friday throughout the year from here

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talking about all things rock and heavy metal music. My

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name is Parnhaeish and joining me to kick us off,

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We've got Sam dig Nunn and Mark Anderson both here. Hello, guys,

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How are we doing? How was your your New Year?

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Speaker 2: It was? It was nice?

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Speaker 3: Yay.

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Speaker 1: We very briefly saw each other on our friend Mitch

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Harold's Big Fat Horror Quiz of the Year, and I

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was like, I haven't seen I haven't seen for a while.

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There's there's Sam's face there amongst the masses. Yes, how

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we do the mark?

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Speaker 3: I'm all right. My New Year's was pretty chill, pretty nice.

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I went down to Glasgow and then it was characterized

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by a lot of stress trying to get back up

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north because we have a shitload of snow.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I can imagine we're snow din right now. Nice.

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Speaker 1: I spent my New Year in a pub watching literally

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as it tipped every year, watching a woman bang on

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the window from outside trying to get inside to pick

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a fight with someone.

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Speaker 4: Who was inside, and just which meant.

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Speaker 1: We got directed by the bar staff to leave through

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a different exit when it came to the end of it,

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so literally entered the new year the wrong way through

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an unintended exit.

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Speaker 2: But it was very good.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, we spent December doing all manner of end of

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year stuff with our albums of the year and the awards.

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Thank you to everybody who joined us through all those

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that meant. Obviously we stopped our weekly coverage of all things.

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But you get up to much sort of end of

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the year wise, geta what was your last.

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Speaker 4: Like show of the year?

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Speaker 2: Was there the big Ice nine Kills?

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Speaker 4: Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean I like.

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Speaker 5: I all of my my whole year banging on about

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my hardcore credibility, going to like proper hardcore gigs, catching

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local bands. My last two gigs of the year were

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Landmarks and Ice nine Kills, like torpedoing my hardcore credibility

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there by going to watch the two most coworker bands,

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like do you know what Landmarks? I've kind of come

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out to being like they're pretty good actually for like

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a pain of truth. Supporting them was very good and

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also they under took me to church.

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Speaker 2: And Christian melcore like I was young.

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Speaker 5: That was the other theme of my last two gigs,

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apparently because obviously Prada supported Ice nine.

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Speaker 1: Kills, Yeah, which was fucking dreadful. Prada, i should say,

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not Icenight Kills. Wasn't expecting that the very first band

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to get to be praised on that's not metal at

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all for the New Year in twenty six to be landmarks.

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Speaker 4: But there you go. Often maybe we're turning over a

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new leaf.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know mentioned the that Ice nine Kills show,

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which was fucking ridiculously good.

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Speaker 2: Actually was really and Creeple were fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mentioned that in the Award show. Same with

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the Orange Goblin show that I went to my final

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show of twenty twenty five. I was clutch got to

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It's been actually a while since I went to one

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of their you know, like every other December they do

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their you know running around the UK, but it's been

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a while since I've been able to go to one

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of those. And it was very, very good because obviously

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they changed the set list like intermittently. It was one

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of those where I looked at what London got the

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night after us, and it was like all the songs

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I really wanted to see, like all the earth rocker

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songs and stuff that they weren't playing all night. It

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was like, ah, just missed out on what would have

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been like the perfect setlist. But it was still rad

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as hell, and we did get a fortunate sun a

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Revival cover to end the set that London didn't so

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so have that I suppose. Yeah, obviously excellent time seeing Glutch.

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Couldn't have you know, asked for a finer way to

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end twenty twenty five. Kicking off twenty twenty six news wise,

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you know, in the sort of last couple of weeks

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since we did our award show and everything. You know,

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obviously in the wider world out there, the news is

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an absolute shit show, but it's been pleasantly sort of calm.

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I suppose it is how you would describe our rock

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music news currently. So let us have a little look

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at what we have pieced together what is going on

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at the you know, within the first seven days or

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so of twenty twenty six, and when I sent over

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the new script for this mark, you said to me

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that the first three stories I've got here, the word

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you used was sobering, and that is intentional to really

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kick us off, you know, with a flying start. First off,

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the big man himself, Josh Franceski, took to social media

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simply to say, twenty twenty six, let's cook threatening new

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music is how I would put it.

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Speaker 2: Chef Franceski in the kitchen. Let's go.

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Speaker 5: Let's let that man cook the most spiceless music you're

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gonna get, ever, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Maybe if we're lucky we get a little bit of salt.

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Speaker 3: That plane Lais and your sheet give me.

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Speaker 4: What I mean? Because it's going to like, it's not

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going to be rock music, is it. I don't know,

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why do we care?

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Speaker 5: I think he's going to go down the sort of

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like emo nostalgia pandering thing.

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Speaker 2: I think that's is like.

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Speaker 5: Like in line with the club dates look at but

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that's when we look at that the club lights. DJ

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the Cow has kept himself busy since like emit six stopped,

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solo material.

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Speaker 4: I'm unfortunately burdened with that, but I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I don't have high hopes, but let that man cook.

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Speaker 1: Over Christmas, my girlfriend's mum bought me, you know, a

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lose bruise the like the company that does all the

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like band themed hot sauces. She bought me like a

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multi pack of those, because I don't know how she

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stumbled across it. But not knowing really I think what

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bands I like or really what ice flavors are like

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the two things that were inquested. She's just kind of

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got me be a random assortment. And I do now

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have a sucker punch U MEI at six bottle of

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hot sauce. I haven't tried it yet. I've tried that.

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I think we open the Harriot one. First of all,

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there's like a I'm not really a big hot sauce guy,

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but there's there's a white Chapel Baroch I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 4: To getting into.

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Speaker 1: But for the first time, literally ever in my life,

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I've had to welcome a visage of Josh Franceski into

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into my home and so he is currently sitting in

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my cupboard. So maybe when we're talking about the spiceless music,

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maybe actually he will be applying a bit of that

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sucker punch spice onto it.

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Speaker 4: But there you go.

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Speaker 1: Moving on from their Steel Panther. When we're looking at

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what has been announced going on live music wise in

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the UK, Steel Panther have announced there. This is really clever, right,

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this is really clever their UK twenty twenty sex tour.

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Speaker 5: Do you know what I've really liked about this was

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I looked at the days I was like, oh, they're

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playing the Forum. Now no one gives a shit about

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Steel Panther anymore, like being tipped as like a download

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headliner and like like the bleak times those were, and

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now it's kind of like, yeah, they're just a rock

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band who like play middling venues.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: The main thing I thought about this is I saw

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the promo photo and I know that one of the

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you know, original the original Panthers, if you will, left

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a while ago, but I've been, you know, so checked

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out with him. I don't think I knew what the

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new guy looked like. And I saw the promo photo

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and obviously, you know, it's not dramatic. It's just a

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guy who looks like you should be in Steel Panther.

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guys I always knew was such a like, oh my god,

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a like it was like a far ago memory that

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one of them left but it's the first time i'd

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actually he's like scene a photo.

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Speaker 2: To photo, which one is the new one?

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Speaker 1: Like the one on the is it was the basis,

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So yeah, there you go. But yeah, the twenty twenty

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six tour, I have a heart take about this. Yeah,

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twenty twenty DIX is better. I had thought that, but

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maybe get this is. This is how high staked things

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are at the moment. The big track of the week

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we'll to talk about comes from As it Is, with

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a song called ruin My Life, which you know standard

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they normally do featuring The reason we've brought this in

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here really is. It features Murray McLeod of the excerpts

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of you know, excerts Fame Beloved, UK T and M

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band Fame getting up to some you know, questionable material,

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let's say, in the last couple of years, but excerpts

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you know involved here with with As it Is. And

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tenth anniversary TNN episode last year was I was like,

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fucking hell, ten years on and we still haven't managed

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to shake as it Is. Like they were when we

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were talking about the other first albums ever reviewed on

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the show to the present day. Here we are as

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it is still back at it. Yet this is very flippant, really,

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Speaker 4: As it is?

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Speaker 1: Song featuring Mary McLeod, What Do You Reckon?

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Speaker 3: I listened to the song for the first time and

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the first chorus hit and I was like, yarn, snooze, boring,

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I don't care. Then the second chorus comes in, Murray

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starts singing and it might as well be a completely

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different song. And I think I like this. I think

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I like it a lot. If this was an excert song,

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it'd be brilliant.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 5: I think I think the song itself. You can like

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Murray's written parts of this song. I'm sure like he

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like the bridge could be on There Is Only You, Like,

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there are parts of the song that sounded that they

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could be on exits albums pre Hold Onto Your Heart. Now,

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that's not just Murray singing, because he's got such a

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like unmistakable voice that like, when he comes in, you

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know it's him. But the first part of this song

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you just have to get over the fact pay what

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is a wet blanket? Like He's so just unpleasant to

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listen to, just completely moist, sappy nonsense. But when Murray

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comes in the life that song takes like takes on.

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Speaker 4: It's genuinely really.

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Speaker 5: Like I was like, ah, that's what I want from

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the excerpts right there, Like it's giving me that kind

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of just stirring heart on sleeve like British rot fling

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that the excerpts were so brilliant at for so long,

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and it's kind of a shame it's kind of just

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a middle section. I mean, the guest spot from Murray

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Speaker 2: For quite a bit of this song. He gets a chorus.

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Speaker 5: And a bridge, and I think, even yeah, and that's

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why I'm like this, this feels like almost like pro

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typing for exit material maybe, but it does genuinely lift

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like make this like the third good as it is song.

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Speaker 4: Or a fourth or four maybe four.

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Speaker 2: I know we did age that was free on on

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the Deby album.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I didn't feel any of these positive feelings that you're

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you're saying, mainly because I suppose like I still had to, like,

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you know, check myself when Murray came in, because it

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still has you know, pop as it is production essentially,

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I'm like, God, if there is only you who sounded

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Speaker 4: Be a terrible record.

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Speaker 1: But maybe some of that pelp positivity can be that

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you're feeling can be carried forward into new excerpts material

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this year. That would be nice, wouldn't it much better

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than as it is? Is? Bleeding Through Drop on streaming

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in the first week of the year scene Bleeding Through

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drop something or streaming and be like, oh, you know

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new bleeding Through or something. I do have to break

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into people with. This cover is actually about twenty years old,

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but it's only been on like deluxe you know, pressings

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of vinyl and stuff up to this point. So a

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nice Sick of it All cover, I guess, particularly right

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now be considering, you know, some of the difficulties that

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you know Lou from from Syca what has been going

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through and sycavi all have been like off the map

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understandably for a little while.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: It's nice just to have some general Sick of it

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All support going around. And if you've never heard Bleeding

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Through covering, you know classic sick of it all, then yeah,

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it's now more readily available.

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Speaker 4: Good for you.

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Speaker 1: You get to enjoy that over the Christmas period, we should,

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you know, kind of bid our farewell. Refused have wrapped

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up and finished their farewell run, so we are back

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again at a stage of refused once again, having parted

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and Refused are no longer in active band.

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Speaker 2: Actually fucking dead, they really are.

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Speaker 4: Did you get to see them on their.

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the same week come when I was the Parkway show.

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of quite going family stuff. I coudn't go to that,

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which was a real shame. But by all accounts they

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they went out on a high.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see them on this either. But looking at

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particularly there's a last like run of sort of five

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or six Swedish shows, and looking at the setlists of them,

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different stuff they're doing each night, Like there's one night

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where they bring Nick Anderson out from entombed and they're

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playing not only the helicopters but also a black Flag cover.

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Speaker 4: There's one night where they there's one where they bring.

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Speaker 1: Out pillow from The Hives, to Do Hate to Say,

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I Told You So and the cover of Where Eagles

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Dare by The Misfits, and on one of the last

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shows as well, in a Mayor they do an Anti

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Cimex cover in the encore and.

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Speaker 4: It's like fucking you know for a band who not say.

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Speaker 1: They refuse whatever like that mainstream, but they are like

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a name recognition band to be on one of your

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final ever shows, being like, yeah, Anti Simex cover, fair

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enough real ones. Yeah, So farewell to Refused. Unfortunately, it's

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also a farewell to the plans of Coalesce coming to

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the EU and the UK, which was due to happen

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in a few months time. Unfortunately, they have parted ways

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with one of their guitarists due to stuff that you know,

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I'm not going to get into the ins and outs

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of what is involved there. You can go look it up,

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but they have parted ways with one of their guitarists

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and unfortunately that does mean that the Coalesce. You know,

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if you were looking forward to coales playing here around

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Roeburn Festival in the next few months, that is not

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on the cards currently. Maybe they'll be able to get

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things back together and reschedule. I don't know what this

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means for their general reunion plans, but that's an unfortunate cancelation.

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But switching back over to the positive again, talking about

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you know, the last couple of years, all the reunions

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and stuff that we've been going on about, and even

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just like in the last few months of twenty twenty five,

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there were some exciting ones. You know, Black Breath or

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sixteen horse Power or whatever. The festival in the US

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Fire in the Mountains that is partially responsible for sixteen

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Horsepower coming back, just dropped like in this sort of

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New Year week randomly that Subrosa are also reuniting to play.

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I mean, I think I name dropped them on one

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of the you know end of years shows I talk

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about as a comparison point for something, because sub Rosa

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are like one of my favorite doom bands of I

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guess I would say the twenty first century, and if

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you don't know they or if you weren't around during

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the underground for that period in the early twenty tens

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of subros are drop in so like genuine for my money,

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modern classics in that scene record like more constant than

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the Gods, and the last one they left off with

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was fantastic as well. This is like a band I'd

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have genuinely missed, and I'm really pleased to see sub

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ros are coming back. I don't know how active they

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they might be, or indeed if this might find its

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way over to here at any point, but I only

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saw subros as the once on the tour for their

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final album. Just another really exciting out of nowhere. Ah,

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Subrosa are back again at this pretty incredible looking festival

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fire the mountains in the US. Maybe more ne used

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to come from there. There is news coming from the

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Jane's Addiction camp that they have settled the lawsuits essentially

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that fell over from the twenty twenty four on stage

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punch up into the essentially that very you know, swiftly

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and unceremoniously ended some of.

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Speaker 4: Their reunion plans.

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Speaker 1: Does this mean that Jane's Addiction the reunion will kind

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of pick itself back up, and maybe Elliott will get

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his chance to see Jane's Addiction that he was, you know,

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so lamenting not having I don't know, I wouldn't necessarily

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get my hopes up, but that is settled at least,

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and I just guess, you know, sort of pop culture

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news for that, you know, metal and rock adjacent. Of course,

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we had the ending of Stranger Things in the last

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sort of a couple of weeks or so, and much

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attention always paid to you know, rock music, needle drops

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and stuff like that, the big Master of Puppets moment,

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of course, from from the previous series. In the finale

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Iron Maidens, the Trooper got deployed in a quite you know,

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a nice little excellent moment of just a nice bit

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of yeah, fuck yeah rebellion, the kind of you know,

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general sentiments that heavy metal is always can be deployed

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in nice note of the Trooper playing in there.

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Speaker 4: I did a lot of pop for it.

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Speaker 1: I suppose we can just say, you know, did you

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guys kind of watch to the end of a Stranger Things?

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What do you make of the general wrap up of that?

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culture phenomenon for the past decade.

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Speaker 5: So I didn't really care for majority of the final season.

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I felt a lot of it. It was like, this

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is just shot for TikTok and just kind of like

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losing a lot of what I like things, but I

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enjoyed the finale as are kind of just like, yeah,

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this is a big, overblown, stupid wrap up with a

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nice kind of like filgen epilogue. I was not at

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like for someone who did like the majority of the season,

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I thought the finale was kind of like as good

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as I could hope for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Lastly is not great.

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Speaker 3: A specific problem I have with it is comparing to

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what we all love about Stranger Things, which is these

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four kids and the way they interacted with each other

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and how cute they were. We loved these characters and

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we liked seeing them be friends. All of Season five's

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dialogue is just exposition, and it's just no imagine that

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this slinky is vechna, this pen is you dust, and

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imagine that. Like it's all exposition. It's so dry. I

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was not looking forward to the finale, but then when

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the last hour of the finale is just a really

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indulgent wrap up giving me what I wanted, which is

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these characters talking to each other, it got me. It

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really got me. Like I went into the finale soul salty,

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but by the end I was like, ah, go on, then, why.

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Speaker 1: What you've just just described as essentially my exact thoughts

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as well, Where like the first seven and a half

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episodes or whatever it was, I suppose of the last

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series I thought was mostly bollocks, Like it is mostly

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as characters standing around explaining plans to each.

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Speaker 4: Other again and again and again.

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Speaker 1: But the sort of you know, the second hour of

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the finale was basically, you know, considering what TV episodes

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are meant to be, that might as well be an

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episode of itself. The kind of epilogue of the last episode.

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It got me in the same way of like, ah, yeah, okay,

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you know this thing where we have you know, followed

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these stories and whatnot, and this has kind of been

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a thing that has happened throughout the majority.

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Speaker 4: Of my adult life.

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Speaker 1: Essentially, I was like, oh, and you know, it gave

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most of the characters a pretty nice ending. I did

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enjoy it, like it was probably honestly, the last hour

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of it was probably the most I've liked Stranger Things

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in general in a good while, even though the majority

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of the series, like I just didn't really care at

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all about what was going on. But the final hour

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or so, the actual wrap up of it, I was like, ah, yeah, okay,

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wasn't Stranger Things a nice experience for res all in

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some ways at least and certainly I made and getting

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their big deployment moment. I don't know if it's necessarily

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going to be as you know, I suppose already we

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can say it's not. You know, it's not quite as

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dramatic a usage and therefore dramatic cultural spike as either

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you know, Run Up That Hill or Master of Puppets

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from the last series, but a nice little bit of

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metal in the last episode. Sure, why not? Let's move

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into some questions where we like to start off the

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new year with a bit of a question section from

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you guys, And because it is the first episode, they're

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mostly going to be questions looking forward to you know

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what we have got coming up in twenty twenty six.

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First off, Ami Lanio asks more of a really rounding

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off twenty five question. Have you listened to an album

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after making your twenty twenty five top twenty lists that

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you now feel should have been there or should have

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been much higher? I think no right now, But because

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it's so soon in my experience, when these things do happen,

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you go, Dan, that really should have been higher. It's

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much more with the process of time, albums being given

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their chance to grow or you know, discover or whatever.

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So not right now, but I'm gonna switch and twist

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this question a little bit just to say, is there

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anything maybe from you know, other lists that you know,

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other hosted or just you've seen up there or whatever,

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or just anything you've discovered from the end of the

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year kind of period where you've gone like, oh, yeah,

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that was a cool album that I'd missed, but that

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one's very much, you know, an enjoyable one that's going

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to stick with me as well.

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Speaker 2: Steroid, Yes, like other things.

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Speaker 5: I remember seeing that Steroid artwork and I was like,

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I should probably check that album out, and then just

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never got round to it. And again, like, I agree,

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my list is too much setting stone. My list has

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not buys my feelings on these ams haven't really changed.

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And again, like, there are some albums on the other

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post list I've been mentioned that I've checked out, and

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some of them other kind of just been like yep,

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not for me, or like fair enough, you know, Elliott,

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you like what you like. But Steroid is one where

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I'm just going like, ah, man, this is just this

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just makes me feel good. It makes me happy. I

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couldn't quite believe it when I hit play and just

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the vocals came in, and I was like, man, I

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would like that.

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Speaker 4: That's that's a left field like turn a little gnome.

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Speaker 5: But the just the feeling of these songs about rocking,

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like are just so good. The riffs are sick like

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it's generally liked of just goes. But then it's just

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this like little high pitch voice talking about rocking, and

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I'm just like, I love this. I'm having such a

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nice time, and just I want to go and rock

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and like rock by myself, like rocking alone at the show,

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like at the arena show.

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Speaker 4: Are so good, yeah, so like.

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Speaker 1: Steroid obviously is one that I mentioned at the beginning

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of our Albums of the Year show, and I expected

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that to be the extent of the you know, I

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wanted to give it a shout out because I've been

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listening to it a bit and I thought it was cool.

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But I expect that to be the extent of where

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it would show up in all of the end of

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year stuff. And Little Dough I noticed was about to

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become a major feature of a lot of ar thing and.

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Speaker 2: They found out they were playing London the night I

477
00:21:05,599 --> 00:21:06,079
got into them.

478
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,839
Speaker 5: I was like, fuck off, did I just literally miss

479
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,559
yeah was playing London as well as.

480
00:21:11,519 --> 00:21:12,880
Speaker 1: I think I think that was a common experience where

481
00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:14,720
a lot of people want to we started raving about it,

482
00:21:14,759 --> 00:21:16,440
but like, yeah, because I mentioned it, but the fact

483
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,359
that it became it came up so often then over

484
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,240
the next couple of weeks meant I was thinking about it,

485
00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:24,039
listening to it more, and yeah, a nice fixture. I

486
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,759
will also give credit to to Elliot Paisley on this

487
00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:28,480
one and say the album that I kind of discovered

488
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,559
from the lists and stuff which I have listened to

489
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,160
a good amount since, is the Lepomer album that he

490
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,160
mentioned in his list No Cure for the Sick, which

491
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,039
is like the medieval sort of you know, harpsicled chamber

492
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,079
music version of a hard Time with this one of

493
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,880
gorgrin genuinely I love it. I thought like when Elliot

494
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,000
was describing like ye, it's a goregrind album with you know,

495
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,799
slurpy b vocals and everything, but also like power metal

496
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,039
lead lines, that I was a little bit skeptical, but

497
00:21:52,079 --> 00:21:54,160
that is exactly what it is like, that's generally what

498
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,160
it sounds like, and it is the most I've enjoyed

499
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,400
similarly anything from the sort of gore grinding world. And

500
00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:01,079
I don't know how long, and I've been listening to

501
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,519
it a lot, and I think that is a really

502
00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:05,119
great record. So another nice little discovery for me at

503
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,599
the end of the year. There shout out Elliott that

504
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,519
one rips mark anything that you've been listening to, being like, yeah,

505
00:22:09,519 --> 00:22:11,240
that's a nice another fun one for the pile.

506
00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:15,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, similar to you. The Leypolmo album Rocks. It is

507
00:22:15,799 --> 00:22:19,160
so what my street. I love guttural nonsense and I

508
00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:24,519
like the major key nonsense. It is beautiful. I think

509
00:22:24,519 --> 00:22:27,119
the only other album that I heard post me doing

510
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,839
my Top twenty that I really like is the Coroner album.

511
00:22:31,039 --> 00:22:35,480
Yeah that's good, which is fucking sick. Two albums that

512
00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:38,839
you know, I just didn't give enough the listens before

513
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,920
my list. I don't know if they would well. Steroid

514
00:22:41,039 --> 00:22:44,200
might Star Wars Steroids are one of them. Can't stop

515
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,400
listening to it, obsessed with it as always. But another

516
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,799
album I've listened to a lot, sort of over the

517
00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:56,880
festive period. I'm brave enough to say it Mildador or

518
00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,279
Disco by Master's Hammer.

519
00:23:00,759 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I listened to it again as well, and I

520
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,839
was listening to obviously when we did it for the review.

521
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,039
I was listening to it very much with the knowledge

522
00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:09,400
that like the cheeky smile on my face of like

523
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,119
Sam and Elliott going to have to hear this. When

524
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,680
I laughed as at about or Disco, it was just

525
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,480
for own personal pleasure, and I was like, Yeah, I

526
00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:16,680
like this, no bones about it.

527
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 3: I love how sort of old it sounds because it's

528
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,519
obviously old black metal guys. I love how crazy the

529
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,160
array of synths are, where there's like there's craft work since,

530
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,519
but also there's since that genuinely there's songs on this

531
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,839
that genuinely sound like like pre debut album Electric Collboy.

532
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,519
If you do remind me of electronic core and your

533
00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:45,359
Eurovision and craft work, I don't care. I love you.

534
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,160
This record is so insane, but I think I'm on

535
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,559
board with everything it's doing.

536
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,039
Speaker 4: Thumbs up for that. Right.

537
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: Let's move on, of course, to the current year we're

538
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,359
now in, and Adam Blakeway asks, what is your most

539
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,440
anticipated album for twenty twenty six? What is coming up?

540
00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:05,440
That either maybe things you know we definitely know are coming,

541
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,200
but also anything that you you know, you kind of

542
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,799
have a feelings down the pipeline or whatever. What are

543
00:24:09,839 --> 00:24:13,000
you really looking forward to for the new year musically?

544
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 5: Converge obviously feels like kind of like of my bands,

545
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,119
that's the big one. There's the new Pony album out

546
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,039
next month, which I am very excited for, Like that'll

547
00:24:24,079 --> 00:24:26,559
be a really nice time. Holy Blade have said they're

548
00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:28,839
going to get an album out this year, which is sweet.

549
00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: I was literally I was thinking of right about that.

550
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,759
I was like, when we're going to I mean.

551
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 5: They did an Instagram post sort of saying like twenty

552
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:35,799
twenty six new album.

553
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 2: I was like, wicked, I'm really so for that.

554
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 5: So those are the ones where I was for, like interns,

555
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,200
the ones I know are definitely coming, and then one

556
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,400
that has sort of said it's coming and I'm excited for.

557
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: Those are the three.

558
00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, that's what's kind of like on the

559
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,000
horizon for me to really get excited about right now.

560
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, now you've mentioned Holy Blade, I will add

561
00:24:52,039 --> 00:24:55,200
that to my list for sure. Converge obviously, I mean

562
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,000
that's out very very soon, and this is probably the

563
00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:58,519
time for me to mention that I've had it in

564
00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:00,559
my inbox since about late no them, and we got

565
00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:02,759
so busy with all of the end of the year stuff,

566
00:25:02,759 --> 00:25:04,880
i haven't had the chance. I haven't had the time

567
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,559
even to put it on that so I've been sitting

568
00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:09,440
on new conversion I haven't heard, but obviously I'll get

569
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,799
to that very soon because it's out soon.

570
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 4: And yeah, obviously looking forward to that one. I think

571
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,359
the one that I'm really.

572
00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: Like, you know, keeping my eyes out for is there

573
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,039
was a bit of talk a while ago now that

574
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,200
Electric Wizard had an album basically kind of you know,

575
00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:26,400
pretty close to being in the can, and there was

576
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,160
also talk that it might potentially be the final Electric

577
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,759
Wizard album. But it has been a number of years

578
00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:33,920
now since the last Electric Wizard album. So I really

579
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,880
want that Electric Wizard album and the general Electric Wizard

580
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,359
you know season that it might bring with it. Of course,

581
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,039
the Act the Gates album that is, you know, supposedly

582
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,079
in the can. Obviously that's gonna have a lot of

583
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,559
you know, mixed emotions come in with it. But I

584
00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:49,799
obviously I want to hear, you know what the final

585
00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:51,319
out of the Gates album if it is to be the

586
00:25:51,319 --> 00:25:52,920
final that the Gets album, certainly the last one of

587
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,240
Thomas will be like Clutch, I've got one in the

588
00:25:57,279 --> 00:25:58,799
words seven, they've got one that.

589
00:25:58,839 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 4: I mean.

590
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,559
Speaker 1: They played a couple of new so when I saw

591
00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:03,240
them in December, So new Clutch always exciting. The last

592
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,160
album was really really good. We're pretty much it was

593
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,240
definitely getting new Masidon this year, aren't we, Like there's

594
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,319
a new Masidon record in the cannon, you know, similarly

595
00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:12,880
that's gonna be the first one without Brent on it.

596
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,160
But obviously I want to hear what new Mastodon is

597
00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:17,559
in terms of one that is like, you know, definitely

598
00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:20,920
coming soon and you know we've heard parts of it

599
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,359
and more on the sort of rock end of things.

600
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,680
I'm looking forward to the new Marmosett's album, of course,

601
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,799
because I haven't checked out the second single they've released

602
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:30,839
from it. But the first one that we covered was

603
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,079
fucking great and just such a reminder of like, oh,

604
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,160
this is why we all love Marmosette. So I'm excited

605
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,319
to hear what the new mam.

606
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 5: I've forgotten poison the well that's supposed to do. Yeah, yeah,

607
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,599
And if we're getting new Poison the Well like along

608
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,440
with me seeing him in the summer.

609
00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 2: I'm very much ready for the new Poison the Well mode.

610
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh one that is coming very very soon.

611
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,480
But I'm looking forward to hearing the new Mega f album.

612
00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 4: You know, the.

613
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,519
Speaker 1: Last Megath album Kiss. There's one single of release which

614
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:06,680
I just thought was a good song. There's another one

615
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,640
which has not left any of our minds. I'm looking

616
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,200
forward to. You know, that will be in our first

617
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,759
reviews bag at the end of this month. But I'm

618
00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:15,279
looking forward to the new Megadeth album Mark, how about

619
00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:16,960
you anticipated records in twenty six.

620
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,039
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't know anything that converge obviously

621
00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:26,279
Poison the Well, if that's coming, I want that obviously,

622
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,079
Josh Franceski, Steel Panther and top of all of our lists.

623
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,400
I think, Well the Male album is coming out in

624
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,079
a couple of weeks.

625
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, excited about that.

626
00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 3: I love more. Similarly, Land Loss just and Know it's

627
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:44,279
the new album.

628
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 4: Very excited for that.

629
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 3: I like Black Gays basically, and in twenty twenty six,

630
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,960
please King Diamond, please.

631
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 4: Fucking please, my god, it comes out.

632
00:27:58,839 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: I've seen him play that new track or at least

633
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,759
a couple of you tracks so many times now just

634
00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:07,640
want the album fair enough? Yeah good shouts. Zach Hogan asks,

635
00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:10,200
give us a blind take for something you'll think slash

636
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,559
want to happen this year in terms of music, can

637
00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,319
be wild or mild, and let's see what happens. I'm

638
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,319
calling the next silly way a hardcore will break up,

639
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:19,160
a hardco band will break up is because the drama

640
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,480
will be stealing someone's Pokemon cards. Whether you can't get

641
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,160
any more stupid than gooning and estrogen. I think, looking

642
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,799
at you know, the some of the controversies that have

643
00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:29,400
been happening in the last kind of week or two,

644
00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:32,000
like it's ever evolving, isn't it. But I think there

645
00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:36,119
has to be some kind of grock related rock drama,

646
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,799
Like some band will break up because what are their

647
00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:43,920
members asked grock to undress like another member's girlfriend or

648
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,680
something along those lines, or even if just like a

649
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,519
weird AI descriptor involves some falling out somewhere along the line,

650
00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:53,880
I think it has to be the year of grock

651
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,079
interfering more so in all of our lives.

652
00:28:57,559 --> 00:28:59,759
Speaker 5: I mean, AI is good, like you said, like any

653
00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:03,759
sort of Ai controversy of a band where something gonna

654
00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:06,079
go wrong because some bamber's got decided to say I

655
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:07,440
have something and it made the rest of the band

656
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,880
look bad and they're all going to fall out.

657
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,599
Speaker 2: Yeahs Afi U kate or.

658
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 4: That is my big prediction.

659
00:29:16,599 --> 00:29:20,119
Speaker 5: The Afi delusion lives on a fi U k T

660
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,839
or twenty twenty six let's go.

661
00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 3: Oh please, I need it. I think some like twenty

662
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,559
ten's brit Rock Chancer will attempt the wrong president.

663
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:34,599
Speaker 4: Blitz kids.

664
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:40,759
Speaker 3: Yeah for some a nuclear sort of take Mikey from

665
00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:44,039
Mallory Knox. I'm just putting out there. He seems like

666
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:49,000
the type I reckon. Some desperate metal core band will

667
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:50,839
use six seven as a marsh call.

668
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm surprised I had already happened to

669
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,480
be honest, but it could still happen more.

670
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,039
Speaker 3: It could probably happen, but I only listened to Dokin,

671
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,799
so I wouldn't know. I reckon. An aging hair metal

672
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,079
lunatic will attempt to launch a normally fans and fail.

673
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:15,759
And this is more just wishful thinking, but hopefully someone

674
00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:17,519
else will attempt to sell come.

675
00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: I hope that catches on as well. Take a leaf

676
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,480
out of the profanatica book, Yeah, very good, and Jonathan

677
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,839
Gordon asks, will Spotify still be king by the end

678
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:32,960
of the year? AI seems to be a real issue

679
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,839
to the platform. Is physical media released by real artists

680
00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:38,119
the most logical way to combat this. I am going

681
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,759
to have my most cynical realist cap on for the

682
00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:45,160
moment and say, will Spotify is still be king as in,

683
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,240
you know, the most popular youth streaming service by the

684
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:50,039
end of the year, Yes, I absolutely think so. I

685
00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:51,960
think the AI stuff that is very much, you know,

686
00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:55,680
particularly on that platform, prevalent. It is, you know, just

687
00:30:55,799 --> 00:31:00,000
disgusting and terrible. But if you look at like those

688
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,720
you know, AI songs that get in all the playlists

689
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,279
and kind of game streams and stuff like that, if

690
00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:07,400
you see how well they're doing, you know a lot

691
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,759
of people the kind of you know that the unthinking

692
00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:13,480
masses out there do have just kind of been consuming them,

693
00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:16,039
and they've been you know, prevalent. So while you know,

694
00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:19,400
subcultures like ours are going to have real problems with it,

695
00:31:19,599 --> 00:31:23,000
the actual like majority of the consumer population I don't

696
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,319
think are going to be leapfrogging from Spotify anytime soon.

697
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,400
Physical media from you know, realized the way to combat this,

698
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,599
I would say, again from a subcultural point of view,

699
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,559
you know that, or even just you know, throwing them

700
00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:37,039
some you know, digital download money on band camp or

701
00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:38,880
whateverything like that. But that's of course a good way

702
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,319
for us to continue supporting our bands. But I don't

703
00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:44,960
think Spotify is going to be dislodged as the primary

704
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:47,799
you know medium anytime soon. But again I'm going to

705
00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:50,920
twist this question very slightly and just say just because

706
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,519
it seems like the relevant place to bring it up.

707
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,640
One of my you know, I'm not really one for

708
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,599
New Year's resolutions or anything like that, but this year

709
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,160
I have decided. I was like, right a beginning of

710
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,319
this year, I am going to try to changing streaming service.

711
00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:04,640
And you know, I have used Spotify Premium for however

712
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many years now, but at the start of this year

713
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I have switched to Apple Music. I'm currently got that going,

714
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and so I have spent a lot of my you know,

715
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,680
first week of twenty twenty six just like sorting out

716
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,720
my library and stuff like that, because it did kind

717
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,680
of turn into a bit of a cluster fuck when

718
00:32:18,759 --> 00:32:23,240
it like it merged with my years old, unmaintained iTunes

719
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,279
library because it's Apple and sudly there was just like

720
00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:26,920
it was a nightmare that was duplicates the very thing.

721
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,720
It was terrible, But I've got it in some good

722
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:29,240
working order.

723
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Speaker 4: Right now.

724
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,559
Speaker 1: I am playing around currently with just using Apple Music

725
00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:35,440
and if I you know, enjoy that, if it, if

726
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,480
it suits me, and I can stick to it for

727
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,720
for the rest of the think I did decide like, right, yet,

728
00:32:39,839 --> 00:32:43,359
this is the time between not only just you know,

729
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,880
functional things that I was curious about with Apple Music,

730
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,680
but all of the outright evil things even amongst you know,

731
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:55,000
large mega corporations. Spotify has been doing some unreal levels

732
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,079
of nasty stuff between AI, between you know, political donations

733
00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:01,200
and all this kind of stuff. I was like, right, yeah,

734
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,839
I'm going to try it changing. So as of the

735
00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:08,119
beginning of twenty twenty six, hopefully for a while, I

736
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,680
am currently an Apple Music though.

737
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I made the shift over to Apple Music last

738
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,480
year as well. It is actually just the audio quality

739
00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:15,480
is as better as a service.

740
00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 5: But the thing is Spotify is still gonna be king

741
00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:19,759
all of these corporations. They're all in on AI. I

742
00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:22,960
don't think any of you watch the Anthony Fantana video.

743
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,920
We did a couple of last week' something about how

744
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,920
all of the labels are like, yeah, we've just partnered

745
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,119
with these AI companies that have been putting all this

746
00:33:30,279 --> 00:33:33,960
like AI music on streaming services. They're now all in

747
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,960
with the labels, so it's going to be getting even

748
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000
more pushed. These major labels are happy to sort of

749
00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:43,359
like give these AI slop services their music to just

750
00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:46,319
steal from now, so it's not going anywhere. It's not

751
00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:48,960
gonna fect Spotify, and as you say, a lot of

752
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,880
the people are just happy to just kind of unthinkingly

753
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:55,359
just take these songs in and it's I mean, yeah,

754
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,839
I feel the AI bubble is going to burst at

755
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:00,640
some point when everyone realizes it is a just shit

756
00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:03,799
that they're like when when someone so to pert like

757
00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:06,519
an all AI movers and the quality is just abysmal,

758
00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:09,559
and then we're gonna goes, oh, actual like human art

759
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:10,800
is kind of required.

760
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 2: Then the I bubble will burst and that'll be good.

761
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 5: But Spotify, as you've said, is still involved in several

762
00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:20,920
other shitty things. But yeah, its like again I've always said,

763
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,760
like we're streaming, use your streaming service because there's too much.

764
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: Music out there.

765
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,639
Speaker 5: You can't support every band and now we want to

766
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,800
listen to But that's why I've always said, like, like,

767
00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:31,920
I think streaming services are fine for that, but like,

768
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:32,840
don't have that be the.

769
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,679
Speaker 2: Only way you consume music.

770
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 5: Support the artists you like, your favorite, your top twenty

771
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,440
alms of the year, Buy as many of those albums

772
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,159
as you can digitally, CD, vin or whatever. Go see

773
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,559
those bands on tour, Go buy a T shirt. That's

774
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:47,159
the sort of way. But in terms of like combating

775
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:51,079
the AI stuff with Spotify, I don't think realistically there's

776
00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:53,199
a way to combat it right now until as I say,

777
00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:55,079
that AI bubble just bursts.

778
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yes, I do think Spotify will still be

779
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,519
king as you put it, at the end of the year.

780
00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:02,960
If it's not, then that probably means something good has happened,

781
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,880
and that would be a nice surprise that we can

782
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,559
look forward to, hopefully over the next twelve months or so.

783
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 4: But yeah, keeching.

784
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: Cassettes will be king, maybe, But yeah, you know, keep

785
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,519
sporting the bands you love. And as said, I have

786
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,400
you know, at the beginning of this year, for the

787
00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:23,039
for the foreseeable, I have switched to Apple Music, and

788
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,760
if you are you know, curious or concerned or whatever

789
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,519
it might be with streaming service and stuff, then I

790
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:31,280
would at least encourage, you know, looking into your options

791
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,239
of different services and stuff you can use and figure

792
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,519
out what is you know best for you and how

793
00:35:36,559 --> 00:35:39,320
you like to do things. So those are our twenty

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twenty six casting our mind forward subjects. Let's end hyperblasts

795
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,880
for this first edition of twenty twenty six the new

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year with a handful of releases, and obviously it is

797
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:52,360
just a small handful because we are, you know, a

798
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,079
few days into the new year. Essentially we had a

799
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,280
very small you know couple uh smatted out over like

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the first couple of days of the year, and then

801
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:03,039
this Friday, the ninth, we have from here on that

802
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:05,599
we will of course be doing our weekly rounds ups.

803
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:08,199
So some things that kind of appeared in the last

804
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,400
kind of week or so. This was actually released on

805
00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:13,039
New Year's Eve, so technically a twenty twenty five released

806
00:36:13,039 --> 00:36:15,119
because they don't know why they've taken to doing this

807
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,360
over the last couple of records, but you know, you

808
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,679
might have missed it. Ulva put out a record called Neverland,

809
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,920
and after their series of more kind of dark synth

810
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,519
pop adjacent records. This one is more of a kind

811
00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:30,519
of an ambient thing, but it does have kind of

812
00:36:31,079 --> 00:36:34,440
some familiar sounding like beats and electronic passage and stuff.

813
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,880
If you've enjoyed the last year, it seems like you

814
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,719
know their kind of era of being that kind of

815
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,599
gothy synth pop band. I feel like they've kind of

816
00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:42,480
done what they wanted to do with that now and

817
00:36:42,679 --> 00:36:45,400
this seems like they might be transitioning into whatever the

818
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,559
next phase is, but as a kind of interesting again

819
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:49,840
progression out of that and maybe into something else.

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00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 4: Then there is new.

821
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,159
Speaker 1: Ulva out there for you called Neverland Fuath, which is

822
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,400
Andy from Sewer, the Scottish black metal band that Mark

823
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,679
so loves his other project that is more kind of

824
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,480
like frosty, atmospheric black metal. I've forgot about this band

825
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,920
actually because it's be a few years and say released

826
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,320
anything but about their third record three and the great

827
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,880
black metal band Woe from America. It's always black metal

828
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,679
that populates like the first couple of days of the year,

829
00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:16,559
because it's one the genres that never stops releasing anything,

830
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,039
doesn't care about calendars. Whoa for some reason they have

831
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,599
a last A few years ago they put last record,

832
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,760
Legacies of Frailty, and I was quite excited when I

833
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,039
saw Woe like Surprise dropped a record at the beginning

834
00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:28,920
of this year, only to realize that it's basically just

835
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,800
a re recorded version of that last record called Legacies

836
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,199
of Human Frailty. The difference being the last record was

837
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,960
primarily assembled and recorded by the main guy in the band,

838
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,360
whereas this is a record with the full live band

839
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,039
you know, chippy and live recording of it, so you know,

840
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,599
not really new material, but a different interpretation of the

841
00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:47,880
material if you like, that is out there. And also

842
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,000
a pale Face Swiss put an EP following there, you know,

843
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,760
somewhat of a breakout years last year they put an

844
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,920
EP following that album called the Wilted EP. Today, as

845
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,719
you are listening to this Friday the ninth, I literally

846
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,000
have two releases written down in front of me that

847
00:38:02,039 --> 00:38:04,639
were you know, particularly jumped out. But the considering this

848
00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:06,880
is the third episode of the year, surprisingly big releases

849
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:07,719
all things considered.

850
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,679
Speaker 4: One of them is alter Bridge.

851
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: Like you know, actually really big mainstream you know, contender band.

852
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,679
Their new album, the self titled alter Bridge record is

853
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:20,000
out now, so a really big one to start the

854
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:21,920
year off. And the other one I've got is not

855
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,039
comparable in terms of size, but it's a record I

856
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:26,360
was actually looking forward to. The Ruins of beaver Est

857
00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:29,800
have also got their new album out called Temple Schlaff

858
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,719
and the last Ruins of Evers album, if you remember,

859
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,119
I was super keen on and I think I had

860
00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:35,599
it in my top twenty that year, and so the

861
00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:36,880
follow up to that is something that I would be

862
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,840
looking forward to. So I can't believe actually that we

863
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,840
are here with our very first release round up of

864
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,239
the year, and there was already at least one album

865
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,880
that I was genuinely anticipating and looking forward to hearing.

866
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,119
So here we Go twenty twenty six begins musically. We

867
00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:51,800
will be with you week in, week out for the

868
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,519
rest of this year, doing what you always know us

869
00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:57,679
to do. Thank you everybody for rejoining us here, and

870
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,360
we look forward to being here with you over the

871
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,639
next year or so. So we will be back next week.

872
00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:06,159
I think next week I will also, you know, announce

873
00:39:06,159 --> 00:39:09,440
what our next immediate plan is. Special wise, for all

874
00:39:09,519 --> 00:39:12,519
of you who are plugged into the that's a metal

875
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:14,719
Patreon and you know, help support us. We will of

876
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,159
course be kicking off our special plans very very soon,

877
00:39:17,199 --> 00:39:18,920
and I think I will lay out what those are

878
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,320
next week, so tune in then and otherwise, yeah, we'll

879
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,519
have a good rest of you know, beginning of January,

880
00:39:25,559 --> 00:39:26,960
and I will see you there bye,