Speaker 1: Hello everyone. I'm just popping in at the start of
this week's episode to say that we've got Sam back.
Sam is returning to the show on this week's episode,
and they tell us a bit about their time in Japan,
going to hardcore festivals over there, that kind of thing.
But it turns out, with getting back into the podcasting
swing of things, we have some audio gremlins as well
that arise in this episode. I'm going to say that
it's usable in the sense that Sam is comprehensible. You'll
be able to understand what they are saying. But I
obviously know that the quality of what is coming through
on Sam's mike here is is not great. We are
going to you know, getit fixed for next week on
the show, so just bear with us for this one.
But yeah, just be aware that Sam's audio in this
show is not up to really usually what we want
it to be. As they say, the show goes on. Nonetheless, yeah,
warning the airhead off we go. Hello everyone, and welcome
to the adults only section of the download Ferris Wheel.
Everybody who has at download had a good weekend. It
seemed jolly unless you were, I don't know, in the
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That's not metal. And this is an edition of Hyperblast
where we are here with you every Friday, letting you
know in speedy fashion what has been going on in
the world of rock and heavy music this week. My
name is parentheyish with me first of all, resuming his
seat of the last few weeks. Mark Anderson is here again.
Hello Mark.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm undefeated. My chair has not been you so.
Speaker 1: Fending away any contenders, absolutely, but a contender rises, I
suppose re emerging after five or six weeks gallivanting, rocking
around East Asia, rocking around various Japanese rock bars, or
wherever you may be. Sam Dignon is back on the show. Hello, Sam,
it's been a minute.
Speaker 3: It's been Yeah, it's been like the longest ever been
away since I've been part of this. Yeah, five weeks
of traveling through Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan. It was like,
I mean amazing. It's just going to like disconnect from
the world for five weeks and just going to like
go off on an adventure seel the harder bands go
to metal bars, avoid online.
Speaker 1: Observe the banana discourse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was aware of the discourses. You know, no
banana men at hardcore gigs in Asia, I can tell
you that, but yeah, yeah, it was. It was an
amazing trip, like game going to go for that long
was at a bit of a tree and it was
kind of based around plans to attend Blacks Festival in Japan,
but then also did so much else. I fired and
AK forty seven at anyone shooting range. It was. I
was in one of those like tours of like the tunnels,
like to be at Common all that, and they have
like Prince blown by his Army basically those things they
have like managers like do you would you like to
buy a machine gun? I was like, I mean, like
why not. Target found like a really cool metal bar
in Thailand that was I went a few times. It
was called a Mortal and yes it is like themed
after the band. So there was like a massive Immortal
banner behind the bar, and the two guys are like,
as I said, bart it is a store set up
in an alleyway and then there's like a garage opposite
where they have gigs and stuff like that. And I
was like this is just the most kind of like
do I sort of phone together sort of thing. But
that was a really cool kind of like oh here's
my like metal tasting in Thaireland. That was really good.
But then yes, Japan, the big thing was blood Ex Festival,
which I mean support the blood Ax is kind of
like Japan's biggest hardcore and metalcorp festival happens twice a
year in it's.
Speaker 1: A ridiculously hard name for a fest. Yeah, in just
blood and how.
Speaker 3: Stops they will be They'll jenny to get like two
foreign touring big names in hardcoren metal core like to
come and be the headliners and maybe them one other
one or to have a big touring acts and then
it's all just you know, local Japanese hardcore melt core bands.
This year's note was like there was a real kind
of like interesting mix between hulking melicore because in Japan,
it turns out that you're like true real hardcore, you're
kinda like throw back angel stature card milk corep and
your more optane cor milk bands can all exist in
one space together and can can share a stage and
everyone will go mental for it. And there was definitely
like kind of like divides in some of the gruds
and bands I'll garge again too, but it is one
of those where like none of this friction that exists
between you know, the different kind of spheres of melt
cord hardcore over hearing in America doesn't seem to really
differing eis Pan. But yeah, so obviously this time it
was headlined by Speed and Poison the Welt as like
I said, come ahead. I think I did also go
to their warmup shows in Tokyo the week before Blacks
as well, which just them in like a tiny all
like Base on venue and Young Ou which have been
which wait to the last wunch youran as well, really
cool venues. The best vibes roll through like the whole gigs,
but the Speed when I do want to shout out
TIV who supported them, and they are one of like
the real buzzy hardcore bands in Japan right now, like
kind of like Japan's take on the sort of the
turnstyle kind of thing of doing hardcore but having bits
of pop in there and dance music and all this
kind of like broader template and that they're really gaining
some sort of attention of the last couple of EPs
they released there. I think they're a really cool band,
and definitely that they released a new EP whilst I
was out there, and I was like, oh sick that
that was a really cool But then you know, saw
Speed at that and that was that show was rammed.
That was crazy. And then saw Poison playing their first
Japanese showing god knows how long a couple of stags
not that was really cool as well. And then it
was onto the big vest of itself. But it's it's
in a half First of all, it's in a big
kind of like venue I think's like three thousand capacity
or something like that, like a couple of thousand people.
It's not not huge, but it's not tiny and insignificant either.
But you're just like big rooms, no barrier stage like
the title back. Inside of the room is all the
merch tables set up, and there's like a like like
food outside and just general very kind of like sociable.
Everyone's there to have a good time. It was one
of the least toxic hardcore shows I've been to in
quite some time, where people were fucking going hard from
band one. But if you like catch one on your washing.
They might then give you like a bit of a
receipt and then they'll hugu you out and like you're right, yeah,
well good Like it was a very much a all
around that everyone's going in turn hard and I will
tell you Japanese crowds the most music. You said.
Speaker 1: You sent us a video of a stage dive that
was I'm going to get onto that in one of
the ways.
Speaker 3: One of them a band I quite like, well, I
was just seeing them, like me, it's one of those
like this was like the second tee this band in Yeah,
it was. It was a very poor festival and there
was like opening band like this band Ball and Raised.
They were like pure interest were They literally played on
Holy Confessions trick at one point like nope for note
and I was like, yeah, fine, you know what. It's
quite people were going crazy for it. Early highlights for
me were True Fight, who are a band I saw
again last went to Japan. They were kind of like
straight edge you've crew hardcore bands. They are, you know,
like just all their songs are like sub two minutes.
It's all positivity and energy and like fist pumping, motivational,
but like hard music they were. They were fantast They
were the first band to really get you know, the
people diving off the stage pylons for the mic like
they were I think they were like seven or third on,
but they were like a good and like, okay now
that the first was kicking into gear, really sort of
building the mental They were great, really cool band. I
bought there because I really wanted to sets. Now I've
got a whole set fan. Yeah, because Tower Records had
loads and I saw they had their album sets. I
was like, yeah, that's a fifty minute hardcore record. That's
that's a good one table set. Foreign Hands were one
of the trog bands. They're a US medical band if
you like your kind of like really two thousands for
a metal corps. They're they're a very very good hand
at that. The most like the band that stood out
on that most of me were Nosis k N S
A S. They are that They are the most octane
core thing you could get on this so a Japanese
metical band. It's the old singer for Crystal Lake. Basically
that that's the kind of the fruit line.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, Japan produces a few of
those bands, and I was thinking Crystal Lake and they're
kind of ilk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so he is of that lineage. And look,
it was almost because they had the new metal bounce
and the kind of the gent risks. I was like,
it's so weird seeing this just kind of like exist alongside,
you know, like true part. I was saying, like youth
group and like posy hardcore earlier, and everyone's kind of
into it. I was arriving but less. And then what
they did is they did the one thing that's going
to get me back inside with your band, which is
ending the set of a cover of Perseverance, like if
you cover hate Breed, I'm going to enjoy your set
Like it was. I was like, you know what, I
wasn't so sure and then you went back highlights Koyo,
who have released we didn't review it, but probably this
year's best pop punk album. I mean, Koyo, I have
been mayving, going from strength to strength and they have
really stepped up this year on this album and they
were like the token pop punk band on the festival.
They also did a thing where every hard first tend
to have to have this at some point, which is
a band that plays two sets in a road because
it's two bands like all the members swap instruments. So
they started up to say to the players, love Sick
first of all, which is the Koyo all the same members,
but they're all stop instruments and it's a New York
Card Caoll band, like just sort of like proper mad
All style New York card. But that was really fine.
They played each like a ten minute set because they
think they have about ten minutes of music. But that
was like a fun and then five minutes later their
back on as choo Evone talked around and it's sing
alongs and jumping up and down pop punk vibes, which
was great views from the Sawyers was one of the
real highlights for me. I've shouted out this band a
little bit, I you know, had their albums one of
my favorites of last year. I think of the kind
of ilk of medical bands who are kind of doing
the an search scoring, but not just that. I think
they are great. They have so much of the kind
of mellow death in there as well, which does get
They have evil kind of lead guitar parts. They have
like fistling and beatdowns that their set was one of
the most violent of the day. They they're another one
who are in the sort of the Japanese scene really
good momentum. They support Poison the World. So I've got
seem twice, which was just very nice to sort of
be this Japanese band I've really got into in the
last or twelve months to catch them like twice. But
if you like your midle core to have that kind
of in Flames at the Gates kind of flavor to it,
but then have the kind of modern chunky beatdowns as well,
Bus Missails are are really doing that strong and that
they're gaining attention. The set though, that I had to
shout out is every Blood acts. There are two bands
who will play without faire, which are Loyal to the
Grave and None. They are Japanese hardcore. They are like legends.
They are royalty. In that scene, Lord to the Grave
are really good. The guy the vogus of Lord of
the Bag is the guy who puts on that acts
like they are like they oversee the whole being and
so like legends in that saying that the entire Tokyo
hard casine tends to operate through them. But the numb
set like this felt like seeing mad Ball or SignAll
in New York like seeing this a legends in their
home turf and it's one of the most insane crowds
of everything that had show. This was the one where
the mosh moves. They have a song called Ninja's Attitude
and the crowd responded so yeah nw a like attitude.
Speaker 1: Like and do you want to do you want to
quickly tell us about what Speeds Japanese said.
Speaker 3: Yes, so Speeds Japanese shirt that because obviously all the bands,
the bandsters have unique nurses of this one, Speed had
a tea shirt that having the back s w ag
swag something we Asians got and I was like, excellent
on point. Can't buy that myself, but that is an
amazing T shirt and it Yeah, I saw a lot
of them around the crowd of both the Speed headline
show and the like Yeah Numb. But the song is
Attitude where it has a hoope with like join the
Ninja Squad, which is like the big ending shout along
hook like that seemed to just activate the crowd and
the spin kicks got higher, the backups got higher. The
most biblical stage I've ever seen, where again this was
one of the mates on side the stage and he
was just like and he just did like the most
perfect frontlet into the crowd, not onto the crowd, into
the pit. Four who old out of it, got up
and card of wash and I was like, how did
you not break your neck doing that? It's like this
song giving like everyone superpowers. It's like one of the
most unbelievable holes of the thing, Like I quite like numb.
They released it now earlier this year, which is you know,
they meat headed, fun hard got obviously the interest music
was the God's fim the dun Dun dun d like
that that's where they came on to. They embrace it.
But this was like the crowd went absolutely ape ship
for them. It felt kind of like a real reverence
moment for this legendary Japanese hardcore bands who have like
helped so many bands for the scene. And it was
such a celeb between thing big Boy Women the other
twin bands. They were great fun big Boy is like
my favorite name for a hardcore band. I've decided, like
it's so good. And then it was aime for a
Poison world and speak Poison, I must say, was the
kind of like almost like the Okay or the thirty
year old both plushy roads to the front. We're gonna
have a nice sing along and watch a little bit
and go hid when they're drop opposite of the Sember songs,
but that's gonna, you know, just sing along and have
a nice time for this. And that was great, had
been fantastic. The new songs played off the new Albu
batch sheet, which I was really happy to see, like
they clearly try to push that a sort of thing
letter thing has maintained its place in the set, like,
and that got people buying. I saw two stage I ever,
during let of Things was like those two guys they
know what's up, but you know, and then you know,
nerdy and I swinning me slice paper sliced paper wrists
said the crowd fucking batship. Both times I saw them
that song, when you said that that opening riff, I
was like, okay, now this is like kicking to overdrive mode.
Let's start walking on people's heads. Which again it wasn't
like that for the entire Poison the World set, but
it was during those sort of choice cuts the crowd
went banana strait and otherwise was just like sing along
with you know, Bochler and all the new stuff. Really
great stuff. They they're clearly kind of just had the
best time in back and it was fantastic. And then
Speed Headline and Speed. I think the Speed one of
the things that they actually do trist for a sense
of occasion. As I said, like three fifths of that
band are aged, and they did all users a sort
of trance say like that you know them growing up
in Australia hardcle saying there weren't many guys like them.
They never FEI out it, so they just come to
Japan and see this kind of like hardcore se in
Tokyo see these leisurary bands like Numb and Loyal to
the Grave. But again, like all the members of them
came out to do various guest spots. I being like
every Japanese hardcore vocalist in Tokyo at that point, came
out to a guest spot with Speed. The crowd went absolutely.
H Ilwa was hanging at the Baptist because I was like,
I'm thirty three and my body has broken after mohing
trying to keep up with these Japanese mashes could do it.
So I was like, We're going to go hang at
the back. But it was it was a great ends.
There a real kind of like celebratory this is what
hardcore is all about, and speeds are really infectious live
like I like to feed on records, but live because
like he like he's the most energetic and intense hardcore
promerbly will just will you on. He was like, everyone,
get on this fucking stage right now on stage dive
and it was such a great end of the day.
And then there was like I say, just so called
the Blacks. All these festivals I wanted to go to
for years. Ever since, I've kind of like discovered that
jin Japan has this hardcore festival that they look every
type were in that I look at the lineup on
like there's a way, you know, I have all of
like American bands that they put on there that I
was going to see alongst like all of these Japanese
bands I want to discover and get into, and they
just had the best time. Outside of that, went to
a bunch of called metal Bars and Toko Gods Is
again I'll give a shout to that. That's just a
great metal bar spot. And then Deaf Matching Hell, which
went on my last night, which happened like going there
and I was like okay called hate Read's playing, and
then on one screen at one point drag Me Tail
was play when I came and to watch the rest
of that, and then as I was and then on
one screen, Demons came on, and on the other screen
Brain Dead, and I was like, I've got to stick
around and you know, enjoy a bit of Demons and
brain didn't have.
Speaker 1: To drinks a little those two at the same time.
Speaker 3: Its like again unbel a tiny little bar that sits
about like three seats, and then one else just saw
squeezes in there and I was just chanceing to be
guy find the bar cha guy about I was like
brained Dead and Demons and metal and it was it
was a really cool place like Japan like has a
break and of like like these small kind of hubs
for hardcore and metal that are really cool. Nude Records
is a great record store. That's where I've got a
lot of my scepts from. I bought the Numb album
vinyl and and then just I'd like to say it
was just a great time. But those are the kind
of like big T andm relevant kind of like adventures
on my time in this pan. I could go on
about Disneyland. I won't bore you for all that, but
you know, had had a had a wonderful old time.
Speaker 1: Really stuff before we get into the news proper. I
had not, as you know, exciting a jam packed few weeks,
shall we say, But I did this week. I went
to a gig I want to chat about a little bit,
which is a sort of unlikely pairing but very much
both in my area. I went to see Voivod and
Midnight playing together, which I guess the connection there is.
You know, they're both heavy metal bands, right, but very
different like you put them on paper, and they don't
seem like they naturally go together because Voivod is a
famously kind of obtuse, strange, esoteric, progressive kind of band,
and then Midnight is the most dumb just like hooking
pure heavy metals straight into your veins and going ape
shit for a little while, heavy metal band that you
could feasibly imagine. But those two touring together, like I said,
not really a natural pairing, but both bands I would
absolutely go. Want to see Voivod I had not seen
in eleven years. Amazingly, I only see Voivod the once
prior to this, and it was in twenty fifteen, and
I don't know why I've you know, because I love Voyvod.
I've been a fan for a long time, but for
whatever reason, our parts had not recrossed. Midnight I have
not seen in at least six months, on the other hand,
so it's fun that I will go and see every
time they're in town to have a sick time. And then,
like I said, for me, at least it'slightly rarer draw
of avand who I love but had not seen in
a very long time. Midnight and to kind of, you know,
make this even more confusing, I guess Midnight were doing
a special set of the fifteenth anniversary of their debut
studio album, Satanic Royalty, which is, in my mind a
heavy metal classic. It's not necessarily my absolute favorite Midnight album.
It's certainly up there in the higher echelons, but I
would say like it is probably the like maybe it's
because it's the first one, but it's almost like their
Hall of Fame album, and like they came out and
they didn't open with you know, they didn't go straight
into that record. They played black rock and roll and
evil like a Knife first of all, and then played
the entirety of Satanic Royalty, which does mean you're that
you're opening that with the title track, which is a
fucking classic, and then as you go through that record,
you've got you Can't stop Stick and Lust, filth and
sleez and violence on violence. And you know, as someone
who I do see Midnight a lot, it was cool
to see them do again something a little bit more specific,
and you know, wheeling out some songs off that record
that they won't always do. And then the final three
songs that they played after Satanic Royalty, Uh, we were
fucking Speed and Darkness, who Gives a Fuck? And then
ending on fuck Off and Live And I was like,
these are brilliant songs. I love them all. And then
I realized their lare three songs. That's the triple fuck attack, right,
every single one of those three songs has fucking the
title And that is the level of dumb that I
need from Midnight. But I will always say this about Midnight.
They are about as pure a heavy metal show as
you can see. And by that I don't mean, you know,
the big stage show, the big gimmicks. We're not talking
about seeing the likes of Iron Maid and all, like
you know, modern day creator or anything. What I mean
is like getting in there, down and dirty, no stage props,
no nothing, just feeling that fucking rock and roll mayhem
being pounded at you by a three piece who are
just going crazy, like like people are getting up on
the stage and stave diving and Athenar is basically headbutting
them on the stage next to him. Just so fucking cool,
like I said, so just like raw, a pure, unfiltered
heavy metal show. And then the flipside of that voivod
like I said, a way more strange, complex, difficult kind
of band. Who are you know, one of the most
probably the most ripped off and most influential kind of
sort of progressive thrashband. I suppose that you would call
them of like the the eras you know, classic eightieser
period and hancing him a long long time. They've released
like several album since the last time I saw them,
and I always, you know, I listened to and I
check out their new stuff, and some I particularly, you know,
connect with more than others. Whatever. I wasn't prepared for
what an old school set this would turn out to be.
Like they played a couple of the newer tracks that
I you know, have come out since I last saw them,
but a lot of it was just drawn from like
the first five records, which is like the you know,
as was most thrashbands, the most classic revered kind of period.
So we had like, you know, experiment from Operation and
sorry to mention Hat Tross opening it in a couple
of tracks from that record, and then you've got the
really fucking raw songs from like the first record, and
it's like really you know, playing sort of punky thrash metal,
not as elaborately prog as by like the end of
the eighties, but still doing weird choy choices and stuff
like that, and you know, watching them up close, like
this was a smaller venue than the last time I'd
seen Voyvod as well, so like more uploads and personal
and watching what they're doing and being like Snake, the vocalist,
who has one of the weirdest voices. He's probably one
of the reasons why Voivod never became like super super popular,
because you've got this like strange daralk on vocals basically,
but that adds a lot to their personality and that
the first song he comes out and he makes more
facial expressions inside the intro of that first song than
I've probably ever made in my life, just like a real,
like freak dynamic performer. And then I'm watching, you know,
the guitarist and wondering how you know, they're like classic
era guitarist Piggy who passed away long time ago, but
like again classic era guitarists, watching these parts that he
wrote and being like, how the fuck did you come
up with those chords? Like how are these the building
blocks that you've built thrash metal rifts out of? They
don't make any sense at all watching them as a band.
I think they're more like watching Napalm Death than they
are watching like any of the other like you know,
bands of their era HOSTI around playing shows like you know,
Testament or Exist or whatever. Because you've got like a
kind of a narco punk drummer. Basically, the band almost
kind of careen out of control in the way that
Napalm Death do, and they're veering between these weird grooves
and weird chords and stuff like that. The guitarist they've
got now, he was wearing a cardiac shirt and I
was like, you kind of are like to eighty thrash
metal what that band are to you know, like experimental
rock whatever, that lineage is really there. And then like
I said, lots of like unexpected old school deep cuts
and stuff like a Tornado from the Killing Technology, which
is probably my favorite VOYVOD record. Sit to see that,
and like weird songs to pull out, Like there's a
song called Condemned to the Gallows which they recently re recorded,
and I guess that's why I was in the set,
but that's initially from their like pre album demo, so
like a non album literally that like the first voiv
ever written basically just forty five years in or whatever,
being like, yeah, let's bring that one out again. And
then even the one that really got me is they
played the song Nanoman, which is from the Negatron album,
which is from the mid nineties period when Snake the
vocalist was not in the band, right, a bit of
the Blaze Bailey scenario maybe like as a period where
he was not in the band and they made this record.
I mentioned Piggy, the guitarist who is in that era,
is not in the Bannuy Bab because he passed away
a long time ago. Then we also have the fact
that they have a different basis nowadays. So they're wheeling
out a song from a mid nineties record. We're the
only person in the band now who is on that
album is the drummer, And in what scenario do you
do that? Like, we're getting everyone board to do that,
but they just like completely again unpredictably, will do shit
like that. And as a you know, first reconnecting with
Voivol for me in the live environment in eleven years,
it was cool to see what a bizarre, one off,
eccentric kind of band they are. We've definitely got to
do an album club or something at some point because
there's such a you know, seminal like one of the real,
the true heavy metal cult bands. But their influence and
their you know, the status really just kind of keeps
on going about it. And yeah, great to reconnect with
them in that live setting into the news. And speaking
of reconnecting, we are starting with one that I don't
think anyone saw coming. Faith No More. About two days
ago from where we currently are. First out of the
blow No Warning at All uploaded a teaser that was
a photo of a live crowd with the Faith No
More like star logo over it and just the date
twenty twenty seven, and that alone, the fact that the
photo was a you know, the picture was a live crowd,
you can immediately assume what's going on there. But it
has since been confirmed by Bassis Billy Gould in an
interview that yes, Faith No More in twenty twenty seven
are going to be played shows and this is one
that obviously Faithmore More reuniting is not unprecedented. It's happened
like twice before, right, but at this stage in the game,
right in twenty six going into twenty seven, based on
the word that we have been receiving for the last
several years, and how the most recent bout of faith
there more activity kind of you know fell away. I
really don't think anyone was expecting this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought freethonable. I think we discussed person like
if it's like firstone, what I've done, they're trying to
lie under it that they're not coming back like what
they Yeah, Like I think to me, this is one
of those just like never say never. At this point,
anything can happen. Bands are going to change their mind
at any moment. But I was doing shot to me,
do I want to hope we're geting UK at twenty
tway seven. I'd other to be the case. I'm not
gonna like on my breath just yet because this might
be you know, they end up doing a Sick New
World or one of those sort of things or whatever.
But still Faith No More are on the greatest bands
of the of their era. Them coming back in any
guys is something to celebrate. They are fantastic live. I
would love to see them again. So fingers crossed this
reaches us at some point, but yeah, what a happy thing.
Speaker 2: I guess this is our lesson to never trust Faith
No More or what they say. Yeah, but even yeah,
I mean if it does come to the UK, i'd
love to see it. I've never seen Faith No More.
I would love to obviously. I hope it's not you
saying Sick New World, said a shiver domest buying Sam.
That's probably what it's just going to be, like, hope
not residencies around the US, I please no. But yeah,
it's it's nice to see those guys back together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a photo that Roddy put on
his Instagram of just him and you know, with his
arm around Mike hanging out. Nice to see those guys
back together, you know what I mean. Because the way
that the last Faith name or as I said, sort
of a period of activity ended was they had shows
booked for like was it around COVID time, wasn't It
was like twenty twenty ish or something, And then the
shows got pulled and then they got postponed, and then
the word came out that essentially Mike was going to
be stepping away from the band for a good period
of time. And as the years went on, those postponed
shows became clear that they were essentially never happening, and
Mike was much more interested in playing shows with his
other projects, the likes of Mister Bungle for example. And
like you said, Faith No More themselves have said the
other members of Faith No More have said, yeah, us
and Mike like we're not really talking right now basically,
and we kind of all feel like this has run
its course and it's done. So the fact that this
has come around, like I said, so quickly, like those
comments from other members of Faith, the more we're not
a long time ago, Like I'll have to go back
and source, like you know, when those news stories were
going around. But I feel like it was Yeah. I
feel like it was only maybe a year or so
ago that we had comments from people like Mike Borden whoever,
being like, yeah, Faith No More is done. So the
fact that they could come together and so quickly you know,
book whatever shows they've got booked and all this is
it is absolutely like a surprising turn of event. Obviously
it's a very welcome one, not just in terms of
the like to have seen Faith No More, but just
the personal narrative of, like I say, following these guys
and I feel like we're all we all feel better
if Faith No More our friends that are on good terms, right,
But Faith No More definitely come back in twenty seven
playing shows. We don't know where yet, but if they
were to do you know, more than just the local residents.
Let we're saying, and actually you know, appear on let's
say our doorsteps. I mean I you know, I saw
Faith No More twice in their kind of mid twenty
tens period of activity. I did have a ticket for
one of that. I think the Brixton show that got
you know, postponed had never happened, so I would love
to see it again. Absolutely, my real like you know,
burst of joy for this is for anyone who has
not yet seen Faith No More and felt like their
chance was lost. Because if they do come round and
you've not seen Faith no More and you get that
chance to do it, then that's a you know, a welcome,
you know, branch from the heavens basically for an opportunity
that you may have lost it. That is brilliant news that,
like I said, none of us ever actually thought was
going ahead at this point. We thought they were done
and turns out not. And I don't think this is
a case where we're like, oh no, will they still
be good whatever? Because Faith no More?
Speaker 2: Live?
Speaker 1: If Faith no More the last record is you know,
it's over a decade old now, but the last record
is great. The shows around it were great, Faith There
or Live, particularly if they're all you know, obviously they're
in good spirits. Perhaps why they're coming back to doing this.
There's no level of obligation about this at all. I
think these shows will be great. What I suppose I
want to ask is how big do you feel, you know,
a twenty twenty seven Faith There or reunion will be?
Like obviously it's big for you know, music fans, it's
big for heavy metal historians. It's big for people with
good taste. But in terms of you know, the kind
of numbers that we're talking here, how far do you
think this goes?
Speaker 3: I mean in the UK, I would imagine Brickston would
be a sort of good base level. I can't gage
how much the kind of like nostalgia wave that seems
to take over everyone at the moment, how much faith
there are kind of part of that because they they
just seem always this is just a odd bands, because
they always seem to exist on their own island where
they are huge, but they feel they are cused. But
they're a cold band and that like a lot of
people who are like fans of you know, nineties rocking
melt bands, problem aren't necessarily a word of faith in
one They they kind of just exist in this weird
bubble Where'm like, has the young generation caught on to
faith there more yet? Like have they had an acid
bath moment where like that boald? Are they on TikTok?
Like I don't know, is there a faith and mortal
that's used on TikTok? These all sort of factors that
come into the conversation. I won't when we talk about
these legendary bands playing shows again, and I have no
idea where Faith No More sit in that I would
expect you're going to see them on one of these
big US festivals to start with. I think that that's
that is where it's likely to begin. They might they
or they will be doing a tour and that might
you know, stop a couple of dates and then oh,
they've also quickly here's more dates, you know, the rush
like model of like Consley adding dates as stuff sells out.
I mean to be that the size of it, I
would imagine big venues, maybe not like you know, the biggest,
most massive venues around, but could be arenas. I think
if the the wave of excitement for Faith and War
being absent for god knows how long now has kind
of like got people excited to see him again, i'd
expect that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is the stuff that I was I
was thinking about because a lot has changed in terms
of the numbers game, in the demographics of live music
since twenty twenty when these last Faith Nemore shows were
announced as taking place, right, it really feels like, you know,
post COVID, we have a whole different generation, a whole
wave of you know, fans and almost a different way
of looking at things because Faith Them are themselves already
have a kind of erratic history, where Like when Faith
Them was first reunited in two thousand and nine, they
headlined download right and I don't think any obviously they
didn't do that again throughout their you know, continued activity
in the twenty tens, even though they put out a
killer album in that time. But at the same time,
you know, in the twenty tens, I like the first
time I saw Faith Them More was in broad Daylight
because they were like halfway down the British summer time
bill that Black Sabbath headlined. Going into today, twenty twenty
seven were at this weird period where it's kind of
hard to gauge the size of many bands because there
are many bands who, like everyone is playing the co
Op live, bands who you would never they open this,
you know, the biggest arena in the country in Manchester,
the CRP Life, bigger than the O two, and bands
that you would never imagine filling the O two are
just booking that thing, fucking willy nearly like good Charlotte
booked it the other week, and it's like how are
we in a world where twenty twenty six good Charlotte
are booking the biggest arena in the country, like at
this level of their relevance or whatever. And then you
think about the nostalgia wave that comes in. I think
if we look at download for examples, obviously just happened,
are really you know, nineties into the noughties, new metal
themed download this year with Limb Biscuit finally headlining, and
you know, Linky Park obviously always big. But we've seen
this post, you know, kind of twenty twenty wave of
like these nineties bands and you mentioned Acid Bath, which
is a great example. All these bands have been like
somehow inflated from where they were in the you know,
the twenty tens. But I agree, I have no idea
if Faith No More? Have that are Faith no More
at this stage like a as we say, I sort
of cult band for like art rock fans, or you know,
if you were to go around this download this past weekend,
around that Biscuit crowd to like people in their mid
to late twenties, do those people like Faith No More?
So it's really hard to gauge, like do they come
through and you know, book a fucking arenat all like
every band seems to do, or do they you know,
play it safe with the level they booked the last
time out, which was like Brixton level.
Speaker 2: I just feel it's impossible to guess how big any
band is. Like if you showed me, h, if I
like you removed me from society and you're like, okay,
simple plan, how big are they? I would never be
like the biggest they've ever been, you know, like we
live in a culture and our word bands that just
willed themselves into being the biggest they've ever been. There
is a chance that, like it's impossible to predict, but
there is a possibility that there's enough people out there
who like Epic enough maybe that couldn't make faith no
more this big sensation event. Who knows, Like nostalgia is
a crazy thing. People will know Wepic, people will know
ashes to ashes like who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, genuinely, one of the hardest things to gauge about
this entire thing. I think, really, before it happens, before
we have any you know, bookings ahead of us, no
idea really, but we do know that they are back
and playing shows, so fucking good news. Everyone celebrations because
we really did not think that was happening anytime soon.
New music this week comes from Cult of Luna. We
knew last week when we did the Hype Glass that
they would have new stuff out, but we very shortly
got their new album announcement, which is called In the
Shadow of Your Shadow. It's going to be out on
November the sixth, which I believe is the day before
they headline Damnation Festival. So that is pretty perfect timing,
isn't it. And we have a track from out. It
is the title track of that album, and it feels
like it has been you know, a longer than average
weight for Cotta lunar Abs. I suppose about you know,
four and a half years or something like that, coming
up to Ideas, which is about the upper end of
the gap they tend to have between records. So I
was definitely looking forward to this. We don't just have
the return of one of the world's best bands this
week withoth from All, we have two because obviously Court
of Luna absolutely one of the greatest adorned Fear and
The Long Road North with the like Raging River in
between them felt like like those are complimentary, you know records.
That's kind of a little period, if you like. And
I wonder to what degree with this album we're sort
of jetting off somewhere new. I'm not sure exactly how
much this one single, you know, gives hints as to that,
unless it is into the crypt because this is a
necrotic Cult of Luna song.
Speaker 3: What the hell the vocals are the thing that ama.
I've been given the two listens and you know it's
in the eight minute, so it's going to take time
to unpack. But the immediate thing is that decaying, necrotic vocal.
The wait is like wretching, and like there's a bit
we like shouts as it's so just like rotted and evil.
I was like, I associate Colin as booming and earthy
and that, and there are some elements of that in
the sort the time of the band, but it has
just got a darker evil edge to it. And I
was like, Okay, Colin, I kind of thought I knew
what your your whole deal was. You know, you kind
of feel like you set into being this doing this
that is absolutely amazing, like you know, absolutely titans of
the kind of sludgy post melt thing. And they caught
me by surprise with this single.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they sort of operate like one of their songs
where like it'll start familiar, like they this song is
quite familiar to Coluna. In parts there's a really interesting
cool beat. There's a really majestic yet unnerving synth that
floats the top the mountainous rifts and stuff. But then
something like that vocal that is crusty and dusty and
everything musty were coming and it's like, oh shit, okay,
we're creaking now. It's so for a band that old
and a band you know, this is what their tenth
or eleventh album. I sometimes you know you'd read forgiven
for being like you know, post metal. It can be
a bit tired, but they can just shift something, shift
a tiny little thing and make it exciting and new.
And I think that's really cool. As for the record,
who knows it could Like, I mean, I hope it's good.
I mean, their last record is probably my favorite one
they've ever done. Like I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is really weting my appetite and
where I'm like, I do hope this record is particularly evil,
like if you presented me here's a new cut of
Lunar record it's just gonna be, as you put it,
mustier and dustier than usual. But like, yeah, gimmey, because
we're talking about Cult of Lune here, right. Johannas has
always had one of the heaviest voices in the entirety
of heavy new music really, So it's not like, oh,
you know, this is Dashball Confessional and they've included a growl. Right,
we all were already talking about a band who vocally
were fucking heavy. But what he's doing here to begin with,
he kind of sounds likenurgyle like it's really like guttural,
super like stretching those vocal cords to be more like
slimy and horrid. And that hook you mentioned sand which
is like that you are nothing kind of but it's
like it's really like domineering in a nasty, slimy kind
of way. And he has always had such a powerful voice,
but this sounds like the reanimated, undead husk of Johanna's
person on this new Cotalunar record, and that as one
element alone makes you go like, oh yeah, I'm looking
forward to see what the rest of this dials up.
But the song itself, you know, with like I said,
the building rhythms and stuff. The col Luna are always
so maskedful with is is great anyway. So November the sixth,
like I said, the day before Damnation Festival, where their
headline one of the most anticipated heavy extreme records of
the last sort of six months of this year coming up.
There was also a new track, bizarrely from Sleep, but
out just now Sleep. It's their first new music in
eight years. They put out the Sciences Comeback album in
twenty eighteen and it was a really you know, well liked,
well received, well reviewed return record, and then they played
shows on different stuff and then Sleep seemed to die away.
The most recent news we've heard before this is that
Jason Roder, who is the drummer of Neurosis but was
playing for Sleep during their reunion era, he was, you know,
let go from the band, and then that was when
he like said that he basically retired from music until surprise,
Neurosis are back, and I guess he's back where he
should be. But that was the last thing we heard
from Sleep. Now they're back with a new song, and
fucking Matt Pike isn't in the band, Like it's just
of the you know core Sleep guys, it's just Al
Cisneros on this. Matt Pike is not there. It said
they brought in a guy called Bubba Dupree, who is
of the d C hardcore band Void, and then Dale
Krover from the Melvins has taken the drumming position from
Jason Roader, who is another you know, legendary all time
iconic kind of you know, underground experimental music drummer. So
that's a good pick, of course, But I can't get
my head around the idea of Sleep without Matt Pike,
Like that's that's the guy, that's the riff guy, and
that's not to you know, mutes al sist and Ross's
contribution to Sleep because he's absolutely seminal as you know,
the voice of that band as well. But like we
had Ohm, which was al Sister Ross's own band that
he did for years after Sleep initially broke up, like
we've had undiluted al Siston Ross. I do not know
in what world they can come back without the most legendary,
arguably stone a doom guitarist of all time. When they
are the stoner doom band, and this track it does
you know, it's like four minutes long. It does kind
of groove like one of the shorter Sleep songs more
than it does like a you know, ten minute droning
Ohm song or something. I like the synths on it,
but the guitars are a little bit more you know,
pulled back than you would expect from big roaring, you know,
Matt Pike guitars in Sleep and Sleep have got to
be a strictly twenty nine toes band, like you've got
to have three members with a quota of twenty nine
toes between them, and there they are over that right now.
So I do not This just does not feel Maybe
they'll put out record and be amazing, I don't know,
but it does not feel apt or right doing Sleep
with only one of those core guys and losing Matt Pikes.
That's really bizarre. We do have a new pair of
songs as well, from Brand of Sacrifice. That's their first
new songs in twenty twenty three. I remember they put
an EP I think it was then. I it didn't
really take up any brains space for me for whatever reason.
But the record before that, Life Blood in twenty twenty one,
I think is one of the better like modern you know,
new wave Death Corps Records and Mark I think you
are the biggest overall Brand of Sacrifice acolytes amongst us,
so I threw these in for you. What do you
make of the new Brand of Sacrifice tracks?
Speaker 2: I think they're all right. I am a bit you know,
I'm a big Brand of Sacrifice fan because I'm sort
of burnt out on modern death core. Yeah, a bit
too as I know, generic for me, I guess. But
Brand of Sacrifice are really exciting because they're fucked up
and they're full of energy and ideas. These songs are
pretty good, you know, they're not quite as frantic or
I don't know, laser noise infused as you'd want. But
Seeing Red, the first track has a pretty decent, like
powerful chorus in a sort of White Chapel or Endless
War kind of way, like when they start to bring
in choruses. It's a bit like that, and I quite
like that vibe. And then it does the breakdown for
all the reaction channels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was kind of my impression as well. Like
the first track, Seeing Read, you press play on it
and there's no mucking about, like it's really straight in
with Obviously, it's very much produced like modern day super
fucking cybernetic Death Corps, which is a big part of
Brand of Sacrifice identity because they were one of the
most like electronic leaning, you know ones of those bands.
But the actual like rhythm and sensation of it reminded
me more of like an old death core sensibility. Like
it reminded me of like Whitechapel and Suicide Silence and
these type bands. It feels like there are less of
the you know, rave synth hooks and stuff that they
had on life Blog, which is kind of what it
felt that made that record feel fresh to me. And
it does feel more like a you know, stupid fucking
futuristic tank modern style production job, but on some older
death core sensibilities, you know what I mean. And I'm
notce soarily adverse to that, It just it did surprise me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to have it. I love
I love old school death cores. But like when it
gets to the second track, which is basically an atmospheric
track with a beatdown at the end, Okay, there's something
interesting here. Yeah, this is a bit different. There's something
cavernous about this that you don't hear a lot in
modern death cores, So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, scond track, Okay, you're just trying to be a
bit different from just doing the symphonic, overdriven, blusterous death
cord that I've grown quite numb to at this point
because it's just like all of these bands sound so
big and movastive bits so like pushing that during the
max that nothing stands out in the more. I think
Brand Sacrifice they're they're they're closing on that, but then
they're Dey're ferying just enough ideas to not become totally
like phaseless and generic. I think these two songs are decent.
I'm not again, I think Live blood Bound is the
best when they've done, and I'm not blown away by
these And again with the one definite thing like this
cup bands are really like psycho frame the stuff that's
kind of throwing back a little bit. And that's why
I think this one Brand Zac they kind of get
the balance of the kind of modern hyperthesise production thing
with this sort of stinky old till death core things.
So yeah, I think this TRAC's call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as it was, of course, download this weekend we
have the typical wave of post download show and tour announcements,
So we'll go through a couple of those here. First
up Iceman Kills, who I know were one of the
most spoken about and seen I suppose bands at download first,
which maybe feeds into this announcement. They have announced not
a tour, but just one show in London next year,
March the twenty eighth. They're playing the Two Arena.
Speaker 3: I mean, they did Wembley on the tour, and I
know they did the carb on that tour, didn't they
like they so they did like it. If the cold
one of those things that's really variable in how much
of it they'll open up for bands like I.
Speaker 1: Like, I think so yeah, I think I've definitely seen
some shows where it's only been you know, the lower
level of it open and then somewhere it's open up
the whole thing. And I can't remember exactly what that
was for Eisnein Kills. I would imagine, you know, a
certain level of.
Speaker 3: It was you know, not not not filled out, but
because that was an upgrade, yeah, it was never intended
to because.
Speaker 1: That's the thing they were playing. I think it might
have been the Victoria Warehouse they were initially booked for
and then they like completely leapfrogged the other arena that's
in Manchester and went straight into the coal And when
they did that it felt like almost bets are off thing, Like,
you know, we knew that Icene Kills were a band
who were growing a lot in popularity, and when they
put the Victoria Warehouse, which is sort of like a
Brixtonish equivalent, it felt like, yeah, okay, like you're you know,
you're filling some big venues. When they very suddenly went
from that to as I said earlier, the biggest arena
in the UK, it felt like, okay, like this, you know,
the the line goes up on this graph is going
like way beyond what we even had sort of adjusted
ourselves to being. So with that in mind, I'm not
surprised to see them do the O two here. And
considering how again the bands of their the back of
download yeah, bands of their ILK, this kind of popular
new wave of metal core is obviously one of the
most dominant, you know, popular amongst younger people types of
heady music there is. I think they'll do. I think
they'll smash it. I think they'll do really well. I
mean I can test that on that tour they were
the show was fucking brilliant. But just in terms of
you know, I don't think this is over ambitious for
as all I think this is they've they've judged this
quite well as like, yeah, we're we're gonna do an
O two ston now.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the factor as well that that does
happend a lot of more milk bands is they have
an audience outside of metal. I know people who don't
like metal and milkcore, who like Icenine Kilsy, like horror,
and they you know, they've seen Ready or Not and
the Rish screen movie that watched them by Home that
Ice like Ill did songs for and like again we
want of like those movies as songs. But this is
things that's getting Ice nine kills traction outside of a
typical metal audience. And that's why they've got you know,
terrified fans love them because they've done so many different
types of terrified collabs at this point that they're so
like Ubisis of horror that they would appeal to melt fans.
They'll appear to the younger metical crowd and horror fans.
So that's why I think they can comfort in these
biger venues now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even though like they haven't released a record in
five years. This is all based on singles that they're
they've doubled in size, tribled in size, which is really
weird but really commendable, like good for them. Just the
strength of like the Terrifier song or whatever, and their
whole deal as a band is so alluring that without
actually having a full album with material, they're just they've
become an arena band, which is mad like good for them,
and the show will be amazing. They put so much
effort into their show. I just it's it's really cool.
Speaker 1: But new album please, yeah, that would be good. We
also have eistein Kill's tour mates from that last UK
run Creeper, who I know, played two sets at Downlo
this weekend. They've announced a headline tour of next year. Obviously,
the last headline tour they did in the UK was
the really small, entirely sangle with or themed one that
I went to a couple of months ago and spoke
about on the show. This is then returning to some
larger venues. They're playing Cardiff, London, Manchester and Glasgow. They've
got Calvi, Luise and Starve Benders in support. I haven't
heard Starbenders in like a little while. That's a name
I haven't thought about unto whethers should be on this tour, said,
the Amorphous tour makes much more sense for them to
go and pick up some fans here.
Speaker 3: But there you go.
Speaker 1: Creepers show it download like obviously you know, last all them,
I said, in smaller venues where they didn't have the
full show download, they were doing fucking on stage beheadings
and stuff like that. So I imagine. Yeah, so I
think that this is going to be a more theatrical leaning,
you know, pulling out the stops creeper tour, which, if
that is the kind of creeper tour that you know,
drags in your fancy for where you want to see them,
that sounds cool.
Speaker 2: Did they support Alice Scrooper before.
Speaker 1: That rings a bell? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean fair play. They've become the beheader. I
didn't you said they got beheaded on stage and I
was like, WHOA, I didn't hear about that because I
was busy watching architects.
Speaker 1: For Yeah, maybe less on that. Muse have announced a
European and also includes some UK headline shows for their
record The Wow signal which does cut out next week.
Everyone their UK shows right now, It's not too many
of them. They've got two dates at the carp Life
in Manchester and two dates at the Two in London.
Palyithia have announced a whole bunch of shows, including a
UK run, and this caught my eye because Perturbator, I
believe is the UK support act for Prolifia. That I
am not a Prolifia guy at all, but at least
Perturbator is there. Ceremony, let's jump over to the US
announcements now. Ceremony have announced their first album in seven years.
They have got a US run for it right now.
But Sam, I I know that Ceremony are like a
sort of odd and off band in the hardcore world.
I suppose do you have a you know, particular interest
in ceremonies first record in you know, coming up to
a decade.
Speaker 3: I think in the in the last couple ye Ceremony
becomes such an influential and important.
Speaker 1: I think they're so risen in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: It's just shut up they are. They've become like such
a bubblishing amount of bands who cover curse now by
Ceremony like it's just those songs that bands will put
it out because they've got a park band and they
kind of moved into more kind of like post punk
and kind of different territories, and they still seem to
be adored by the hardcore card. You will get like
the tough guy Mosher's absolutely losing it to Ceremony, and
that they're they're not your typical hardcore band. They're so
different and they've become just such like revered, important, looked
up to bands. You know that they're very outspoken about
what they believe in it and that they will talk
about the stuff of their shows on their albums, And
so I think now is the right time for Ceremony
to sort of resert themselves with a new album. I
think these new songs are really cool, just kind of
like rowdy, shouty punk songs, but with a kind of
like again a little bit of that post punk kind
of like thing to it. I think I'm very excited
about the prospect of like Ceremony kind of really sort
of coming back as an active prospect, doing hopefully more
tours with the ab and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the track that i'd heard from from this it
has that like sort of you know, recent post punk
edge that I understand is kind of where they have
been dabbling a little bit, but also reminded me of
a little bit of some of the sort of recent
OI stuff that we've got to be talking about on
the like.
Speaker 3: The oil sort of thing that that chorus, it's very
boisterously in your face and kind of barging you about.
But again the real like driven political like expression to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that record will be come in later in
the year. Also us tour wise, Dying Wish and Gariea
are both going out on tour supporting Imminence. I cannot
for the life we remember which one Imminence is. I
know there's Imminence, Thrown and thorn Hill and all of
these bands who are completely changeable in the one with.
Speaker 3: The violin, I know that much. But they are one
of those just kind of modern medical band that they're
just different that they have a violin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know Dying Wish, you know, kind of
crossover a little bit in terms of fan base some
of those gar Aria going out as the opening activity
is unbelievable in it the album is where they belong now, Yeah,
I know, but if you top a couple years ago
just them into Dying Wish was a show and I'd
been like, what do you mean? But there you go, Uh,
Saboton tour. Why is this court myy? I believe they
do have a couple of other UK dates added as well,
like not the I think it's like some cities they
weren't playing when they went through last year when I
saw them something that's got a Glasgow show and maybe
a couple others as well. But they have announced what
I think is twenty one dates I think in just Sweden,
which is I mean for the Swedish heads out there
who are also you know, amongst the continue to our
audience who like Saboton, which I know is not everyone,
but I mean that's some Saboton being that enormous in
their home country they can just do that. What is
essentially like a full EU sized tour for most bands,
just going up and down Sweden is pretty incredible. So
there they go. And the final piece of news this
week is Mike Mangini, the you know drum god essentially
who until recently, with Mike Portnoy's return, was playing drums
for about a decade of Dream Theater's output. He's joined
the band god Smack, which is the most incredible case
of being overqualified for the position I have seen in
some time. I'm going to link this into We just
recorded part three of the Corn Special and we were
speaking a little bit about how on the untitled record
they had a former Frank Zappa drummer Terry Bozio performing
the session drums on it, and it was a bit
of a scenario where Terry Bozio seems to want to
join Corn full time. We were like, why are you doing?
You played with Frank Zappa and Captain Beefha. You do
not want to go out playing Corn songs at the
age of seventy every fucking night. Mike Mangini is now
living that reality. I think he's he's taking that position
in playing for Godsmack. So I don't know if you're
if you're seeing Godsmack anytime soon, let us know how
he is. As I have just thrown there and quite
expertly segued on the Patreon this week, the big deal
here is we, as I just said, we have put out,
recorded and released the third part of our ongoing band
retrospective special on Corn. Myself, Mark and Elliott have been going, well,
Sound's been away. We've been going through the entire catalog
of the band who changed metal forever in their own
special way. And this period is the most erratic part.
Like we have been talking about how utterly bonkers and
bowld the swings are from record to record here, whether
they work or not, this is kind of you know,
our task with this particular part of this special is
to go in, you know, unroot all of this stuff
and be like, can we find the gems? Like how
much of this stuff is actually like good? And is
of you know, how much the stuff really adds to
the legacy of Corn. But some of these records are
records that people never ever stop to think or talk about.
And the sheer wild hop from album to album in
the approach and the style who they're working with, what
they're aiming to do is one of the you know,
it's the broadest swinging from side to side parts of
any band special we've ever done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from a band who often get labeled as just
doing the same thing over and over, sounding the same,
having the same riffs over and over, these four records
are really different, and some of them even get painted
with the brush that doesn't represent them at all. Some
of these records have a lot more going on than
people give them credit, and there's some really interesting stuff
in here. And also I got to fulfill a decade
of talking about dubstehip on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Yes, because this is the part that starts with the
album See You on the Other Side, and it does
go up to and include Korn's scrill ex collaborating dubstep
album The Path of Totality, which I know that that
in particular, there are some abs as part which again
people never think to talk about, and that was really
interesting to get into and actually talk about those records.
But the Path of Totality in particular is an album
that I know that there are people in our audience
who have been asking us to talk about that record
for a long long time. So I was always saving
it for like when we do the Corn Special. So
here we are that time was arrived. We've ended it
in dubstep Land, and in you know, a couple of
weeks time in July, we will end it all and
will end the Corn Special with the final part bring
us up to speed all that. But this week, right now,
the topic of conversation is the sort of mid noughties
into the early twenty tens period when experimentation was all
the rage. We talk about the unplugged album and if
that's not enough, you know in petis to get involved
with this, I don't know what is so patron dot
com slash dot that's not metal is the play to
hear all of the parts of that special of course,
with all of the other specials we've ever done. Let's
finish this releases this week, very quiet week. We've had
a few very busy weeks at the end of May
and into the beginning of June. This is a really
quiet one. Not too many records to speak of. There
are I would say, at least one of the most anticipated,
you know, in their world, records of the year. Just
maybe it's not quantity this time. Obviously. The one that
I'm referring to there is the new album from Warning,
Rituals of Shame the Doom Metal Icons, the first album
in twenty years, the follow up to one of the
most untouchable doom records ever made, Warning from a Distance.
That record, Rituals of Shame, at record that many people
never thought would exist, is now out in the world.
Then are going to hop over to the world of
sort of artsy hardcore. I suppose as a band called
There Were Wires, who are a sort of you know,
early two thousand's Botch esque perhaps, you know, that kind
of world of like hydra Head Records e hardcore who
have also like those bands like Botch, like day Guy whatever.
They have reunited and they put out a record here
that you know, I think reflects that kind of change
of time and maturity and stuff. Elements of post metal
a lot in that record as well, that kind of
vein of world. So if you're looking for someone like that,
then there you go. Then there is a band called
chain Lacing who are a sort of like a dark,
wavy dream pop type band I suppose, like you know,
the darker side of dreamy asset electronics and that kind
of thing. Chain Lacing. Their record is called Messuage. Then
in the heavy metal world, on Dying Victims Productions, one
of the you know labels that is constantly producing bands
like this, has a band called Iron Cobra with a K.
The album called Eternal Dagger, and this caught my eye
and had to go in the round up because it
has a typically crazy heavy metal revivalist album cover with
a like woman holding like a space Reagan riding a
tiger in space, and I think that exactly conveys to
you the vibe of the record. So go into finding
that there's a couple of records from the black metal world.
This one it's of an extreme metal record I believe
from America, but with themes and aesthetic very much based
in like Jy horror and nineties and naughties, you know,
Japanese horror, a setic and stuff like that. The band
are called Saidan and the record is called Fang Driller
Colon Scars Beneath Memory's Wrist. But there you go more
straightfor forward to describe the Norwegian black metal band Mauk
has got his latest record. It's a what primarily one
man project called Monolit. Then in the Viking side of
that world, the Viking metal, there's ein Hersier with life Blood,
and then finally this week there is a record under
the named Liminal Sky, which is the project of Jamie
Gomez Arellano, who is one of the great kind of
extreme metal producers. I suppose, like the last twenty years,
like if you follow the worlds of like particularly European
like you know, doom or Gothic metal or anything like
that that no doubt you will have heard and loved
a record produced by that guy. But his own project,
Liminal Sky, has got a record out is kind of
sort of post rock leaning, I guess from the little
bits i've you know, dabbled into it. But it has
some guest vocalists on, including some of the busiest people
who are never far away from the guest vocal world.
Matt McNerney from Beast Milk, Scorpion, Milk, et cetera and
Christopher Rigg Garm from Ulva both getting involved with this,
and I'm sure maybe some others as well. I haven't
yet heard, but I'll check that out. That record. Those
are records I've got for you this week. Like I said,
not a really really large amount, really very little, seemingly
coming from some you know, often very productive areas of
the metal spectrum, but there you go. Certainly the Warning
Record is one to write home about this particular week,
and we will be back next week. I think next
week will be our review show for this month. We'll
talk about the Warning Record, of course, but we'll also
talk about some of the other really big names that
we haven't got around to in the last couple of weeks.
Bands like obviously Converge put our second one. We have
to get unto the Marmosett's record. Sam is obviously rejoining
us for this one, so we're going to cover again
some of the some of the names of that kind
of world that we haven't yet got into. Butts, that
is where we will be next week, and in the
meantime there at the corn special over on the patron
If you to get involved with you so please, So
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