Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to That's No Metal, your
weekly rock and heavy metal podcast, and welcome back to Hyperblasts,
our high speed news show where we let you know
everything that's gone on in the last seven days or so.
It's actually it's been about four or five days since
our review show, hasn't it, And as well as massive reviews,
that had an awful lot of big news to talk
about as well. So today there's a couple of pieces
of news in particular that are of course absolutely like
globally massive, to the point that you probably don't need us.
You've seen it on like the BBC or whatever that
we'll go to give you our take anyway. So yeah,
we're here to do all that and let you know
the releases and everything else we normally do on these
little news shows. So let's get underway. My name is
Perry and Haish joining me for this. We've got Sam
Dignon and Mark Sanderson is here with us as well
to give all of their hot takes about the week's
big news.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: How are we doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty good, got some gigs. I guess I could
talk about that. I didn't get a chance to it's
been off before I saw.
Speaker 2: A Poison Ruin, which I'm not going to review, but
Elliott was spot on with his assessment of what the
members look like in his review.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good, Sam, you went to seeing I suppose
we should give a kind of a moment because, like again,
I'm I'm not entirely sure how like you know, hardcore
or prominent a fan basis band necessarily like have amongst
our audience, But I'm sure there will be some people
who are you know, kind of either were either there
or were like wishing they could be there. Misery Signals
did their like was their fairwell shows, wasn't it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? On UK show.
Speaker 4: I mean I will say, given the venue was upgraded
to double capacity, more than double capacity even I think
actually what they end up at like shows that there
was definitely tomorrow they they've gone from isn'ton Academy where
it was originally announced forward to Electric Brixton, which is
like I think Likedred which and it isn't just like
eight hundred. So the demand was definitely there for them
on this on this Feil tour. But yeah, Misery Signals
are one of those bands that if you like Naughty's
metal core, you know, if you like the year two
thousand and four, you will probably like really like at least,
you know, Malice and the Magnum Heart as an album, just.
Speaker 1: To check in on that. Mark an enjoyer of metalcore
from the year two thousand and four were back in
this absolutely.
Speaker 2: I love Breakdowns.
Speaker 4: Yeah they are, you know, one of those bands, breakdowns,
panic chords, the occasional singing bits, songs about being in
love and summer.
Speaker 3: Ending in June and all being sad, all the things
you want.
Speaker 4: Obviously, the big thing on this farewell tour was that
they'd got both their vocalists in to do their respective songs.
So every couple of songs they would tag out a
vocalist and he would take on his part. So because
they had theirs a vocalist, he then left. After Mathion
Magnum Heart, they had a new guy come in, they
got back, and then the original guy came back.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is it's the Pumpkins United Tour
of metalcore.
Speaker 3: You know what, if you want to put it that way,
you can put it that way.
Speaker 4: You're you're allowed to fine, and yeah whatever, But no,
what it just meanty like it allowed like a really
nice career spanning set list where they like got to
touch on everything. It was very focused on of Madison
and Magnum Heart because that is, you know, the classic album,
but they did between the two of them cover every
up until the latest album, a couple of songs off that,
even down to the self titled EP like debut EP,
so like they they really touch on the basis and
having the two vocalists coming and do their material, it
meant you could kind of like fans got to see
that material performed as it's meant to be essentially, and
you could really feel the sort of energy in the
room of seeing these songs performed by that particular vocalist.
Towards the end, for the last like two songs, they
did them as duets, so they they used took one
song from each of their ears and did it together,
which that was really cool, like having the two vocalists.
Speaker 3: Just like gone through these songs.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was it was a really like sort
of celebratory like you know, this the band had been
like going for twenty plus years.
Speaker 3: They've had it. They've had a good run mes of signals.
Speaker 4: There were those sort of naughties medical bands again, they
it Mud have been like on Earth where they just
you know, got to the point where they were just
every couple of years would do something something good. They
have you know, their classic material, and then they never
they never got bad. They never like embarrassed themselves or
released a turkey. They just you know kept drudging along
and then kind of was like, cool, we'll wrap it
up here. And it was, yeah, just a really great
night watching amazing medical songs and just sort of celebrating
a very good band going out on their terms and
kind of just said about the whole catog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there you go. A very good farewell for
Misery Signals. If as said, you were either there or
kind of you know, pining for it, you know, no,
they went out in that kind of way. Let's get
onto the news, which I guess our news starts at
Leeds Festival last weekend, of course, not reading festival specifically
in terms of the festival blowing away, which.
Speaker 3: The South remains winning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any particularly around the Leeds Yorkshire area, any festival
in the North seems incredibly curse. Yeah, unless you are
having a lovely time in Scarborough watching black metal like
I was. But yeah, horrible things going on there. Sorry
to everybody involved. Yea, I will say it sucks that
I'm not to be too flipping that. Yeah heard you know,
first time reports of all the man that sort's going
on there, like forty two column per hour winds completely
fucking up the campsite and blowing tents away and all
kinds of bullshit. I don't think it affected any of
shall we say, our bands, like in terms of like
because there were a couple of stages at Leeds have
got completely pulled and like, yeah, they're just like.
Speaker 4: There was there was a twitter this and we've lost
a stage and if it was a hanging a minute
when you say you've lost sage, has it flown away or.
Speaker 3: Is it just out of action?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, But I don't think affected any of our lot,
not that they were heavily represented US or spirit Box,
you know, some videos of them playing or at the
main stage seemingly to a pretty actually good crowd for
you know, a metal band, So so good for them.
But one of the headliners of Reading and Leeds Festival
was Leam Gallagher, who was playing the Definitely Maybe album
in full, which is I think one of the funny
flying under the radar parts of this story. The fact
that he was literally just playing the songs right. It's
not that you've had to wait a long time to like,
oh my god, hear that material life. He was just
playing it all over the place, just now, and then
immediately afterwards, has it got cold yet? Just gone? Yeah? Right,
and now here's the real one. But as soon as
lean Gallagher finished to set at Reading and Leeds, big
count or a big you know kind of a date
more accurately appeared on the screen and everybody immediately knew
what that was. It felt like the Oasis reunion had
basically be confirmed about four days before they actually confirmed
officially the Oasis reunion. But yeah, everybody in the world
knows this now. It's like the biggest live music events
since the Year's Tour apparently, or at least, you know,
it seems to be be hyped up as so we
will see what happens when the tickets go and sale
and how many extra dates they add and all that
kind of shit. But Oasis are back, and this is
I suppose where we waited and go like, how much
do we care? Because Oasis are sort of on the
periphery of being a t and m band. Like, if
we were to just not comment on Oasis at all,
I don't think anyone would bat an eyelid and be like,
oh my god, you're not covering the biggest heavy music news.
But they are a band who are incredibly heavily referenced
amongst I was gonna say, yeah, quite a lot of
things that we do talk about and if we were again,
for example, to do like, hey, are we gonna do
definitely maybe on album club or something, I feel but
that wouldn't be too far out of the question either.
So you know, one of the biggest bands again, biggest
reunions that everyone's kind of been sort of waiting to
see if it happened or not. That sort of falls
in the cracks of like do we care or not?
But you know everyone else is talking about it, let's
talk about it. I suppose Oasis reunion. Do we give
a shit?
Speaker 4: My interesting is kind of hinged on could my brother
hook me up with tickets? And it's not looking like
you can. I mean, like I Oaysis are a band I've
always felt kind of indifferent on great singles they've got.
You know, they have got amazing songs like Beyond the
first two albums, not really.
Speaker 3: Anything that's ever rubbed my attention.
Speaker 4: But I'm also on those peoples be like, oh, wows
are over eighted I was like that at one.
Speaker 3: Point many years ago, because you know Edgy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just I was just kind of like, I'm happy
people are, you know, getting to see the songs they've
been seeing live played anyway, but with the the two
of them together, I guess know that that is that.
I'm sure that makes a difference. But I also just
saying saying you get to you you've got to see
Oasis is cooler than saying you've got to see Liam
Gallagher play those songs. I guess, yeah, that's kind of
my my things, and I am quite indifferent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark, you are I think, probably the biggest Oasis
fan that I personally know. But I also like, while
that should be like, oh my god, you should be
foaming at the mouth, right, I don't know if you
are even planning on wading into the maya that will
be going after tickets or whatever for this, And then
you think about Oasis reunion, what does that mean? A
long run? Does that mean new music or anything? I
don't know if anyone cares about that. So how do you,
mister very big Oasis fan, feel about the Gallagher brothers
getting it back together?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I have lots of feelings on this really because,
like you said, the first two Oasis albums are two
of my favorite things ever, like to the point where
if one day I'm ever asked to compile my top
twenty albums list, one of those might make an appearance
if I feel like it's culturally relevant to us, like
I love them that much, and sort of on the
lead up to this reunion, I was thinking, I don't
think I care, like does my love and adoration for
two albums, two specific albums outweigh being surrounded by that
audience and paying presumably what will be astronomical prices and
dealing with like fourteen years worth of songs I don't
give a fuck about. But then the announcement happened and
I saw that picture of the Gallagher brothers together, and
I listened to Rock and Roll Star and I'm going
to be very upset if I'm not there, So does that.
Speaker 1: Mean that you are? Get so you know the tickets
again and say, oh, I don't have the day off
the top of my head, but at some point, you know,
very very soon. I are you wading into it, as
I said, the maya of however fucking expensive that manages
to be what processes from Ticketmaster or whatever you have
to go?
Speaker 3: Have you signed up for your pre sale? Like yeah,
promotional spinning the wheel of luck.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going to be going, but I'm
going to be very grumpy about.
Speaker 4: Just wait until like a couple of weeks before and
then check the resale and there'll be someone like trying
to flog their ticket on there.
Speaker 1: You know that normally worth four hundred pounds. Yeah, I mean, if.
Speaker 4: You're lucky, you know, you could do a idea of
sphinxing and go on the week of and get it
for like one hundred quid as opposed one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: That would be good. Yeah, because I like, I'm I
like Oasis, Like you know, they don't mean if if
I never got to see Oasis, which I presumed I
never would before you know this week, that wouldn't really
affect my life in any significant way. Now they are
like back, and you know they're playing shows, you know,
like obviously they're from Manchester. It's the city right over
from where I live, I go like, yeah, I'd like
to see that, like it would be good, But do
I like, do I want to see it enough to
go through all of those processes and pay that money whatever.
I don't think I like Oasis that much to really bother,
even though I do like again, like the first couple
of Wasaes records like you know, a fair old deal
and the again like the other question obviously right now
or anyone is hoping is like I hope they don't
break up before the fucking shows happened or whatever, not
since people have been saying online, But if it came
to like, you know, music, I it feels weird to
me because it's like two thousand and nine was the
last time Oasis were like a band, right, it's like
the re union fifteen years. It feels weird to me
that Oasis were even a band in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4: I kept thinking they broke up in like the mid Noise,
and I was like, God, they were going into like
nearly the ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it feels weird to me.
Speaker 1: What do you mean that the year that like Invaders
Must Die in Great Britain came out, Oasis were officially
a band, but it feels like they've they've been a
cultural vacuum for much much longer than that. And like
you know, those like like the Naughties Oasis that they
were making like in that kind of period, I've literally
I've never heard them. And I presume that when it
comes to like people hoping the Gallagher Brothers get in
the studio and make a record like they're going on
a lot of nineteen ninety five good Will, right, or the.
Speaker 2: People who were listening to BDI and high Flying Birds.
Speaker 4: I'd like to say those the projects they were doing
across like the twenty Tents anyway, were terrible.
Speaker 1: Hasn't Liam Gallagher like a couple of like seemingly okay,
well liked enough solo records, But one of.
Speaker 2: His albums, I think it was the first solo one
I quite like because he's just trying to do a
definitely maybe thing again.
Speaker 4: Okay, but I just remember like Flying Birds being rubbish.
Speaker 2: Pish like Worthless Records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess, like I said, it's obviously it's
a huge fucking event, But I look at it from
a kind of objective standpoint of like, yeah, I mean,
it's cool, that a band I do think at their
peak are good, you know, are back together, and everyone's
excited about that. But personally, the likelihood of me passing
with that money and going through all the processes of
being in you know, a field at one of those
shows is rather low, and the chances of them, even
if they were to get into a studio, the chances
of that meaning anything particular are also seemingly quite low.
So yeah, I look at this and go, well, I'm
happy for everyone who goes and has a lovely time,
but it's not actually tremendously relevant.
Speaker 2: I suppose, Yeah, but you get to see live forever.
Speaker 1: Well the people who go, well, yeah, good for them,
Good over everybody. But yeah, Oasis are back. And it
threatened to be a week of like the two biggest
fucking reunions possible when Lincoln Park posted a countdown that
was it's like one hundred hours, wasn't it. So it's
a good like, you know, three or four days whatever
that equates to, and it was counting down and people thought,
oh my god, this is obviously it. This is Lincoln
Park getting back together with a new singer to replace
Chester Mennington, and that even raises the question of like
do people want that? Is it Lincoln Park without Chester Bennington?
Can who would you get to replace Chester Benington and
make it not terrible? I don't know whatever. Then the
countdown arrived at its conclusion and started counting back up again,
and now people worked out and I think Link Park
confirmed themselves that September the fifth is going to be
the day when they announce something. And they posted a
little image that looks a bit like the Fantastic Four
logo for some reason. I don't know what it is
if anyone else does.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be the LP logo they
sometimes use, but like closed up on part of it.
Speaker 1: Done the little Fantastic four. Yeah, And before we even
get to the funniest part of this whole situation, who
got wrapped up in this either in an incredibly savvy
piece of marketing and self promotion or completely unbeknownst to
him and just ended up being very confused? Isn't that
so fucking stupid? This takes like announcing an announcement to
such piss take degrees having the countdown to then turned
out to be the count up announcements.
Speaker 3: I think it's excellent.
Speaker 4: I think I laugh at everyone who was hanging off
that countdown. This is what you get for like buying
into these stupid hype like countdown buzz, like, oh, big
things coming soon.
Speaker 3: I was gearing up to come on this show.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh my god, Oasis and Lincoln Park
big news in one week, and we've got Oasis and
like Lincoln piss just absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm already like not a fan of countdowns to announcements.
Just that's how I feel exactly. This coning up things
so fucking funny.
Speaker 4: I think I like Lincoln more for the ship house
of doing this.
Speaker 3: It's the final count up?
Speaker 2: Whose idea was like and then we'll have the countdow
and glitch a little bit and then all go zeros
a one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of someone out there like patiently,
like staring at it and then it reaches zero and
then it's like a glitch and it starts going up again,
and they'd being like, what.
Speaker 3: My several days I was staring.
Speaker 1: Really again. It's I don't know if Lincoln Park have
the self awareness to know how funny and what a
troll job it is. If they do, then brilliant. If not.
It is just absolutely, like again, an incredible lack of
self awareness at how stupid it is. But the funniest
part of this is, of course Derek Whibley, the soon
to be former frontman of Some forty one, which maybe
is you know, part of the sort of formula here,
he announced on like you know, around the same time
with Lincoln Park, that he had big Derek Whibley announcement.
And it was not Some forty one announcement, right, who
were obviously they're going on yeh fair Bottlor and everything.
It was Derek Whibley announcement specific to him for Wednesday morning,
which was the dates that the Lincoln Park countdown was
initially you know, scheduled to disappear. And so of course
several days people are like, oh my god, Derek Whibley
is the frontman of Lincoln Park.
Speaker 3: Well, the thing is they've performed together as well.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of years got reading when Some forty
one played and Mikes and have played on the same day,
and they did faint together. So I think there was
also things like it didn't seem actually completely impossible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know, it feels like a weird
mix on paper, but I feel like, you know, finding
anyone to do what Chester does will be very very hard,
and if this is to end up being a reunion
or something, there's you know, major things through that. But
just in terms of sort of vocal profile, I suppose
Derrek Whibley's like, you know, kind of quite high nasal,
melodic sort of voice. Yeah, is not like yeah, That's
probably why he did faint with you know, Mitchanoda, because
it's like he can probably sing Chester songs fairly well.
Whether you think it would be like, you know, an
appropriate fit or not is one thing, but purely on
like I said, vocal profile not completely out of the question,
but of course it was not actually in Derrek Wibley.
He's at the state of mind apparently, and he had
to clarify, Sorry, everyone, I'm not joining Oasis or the
Lincoln Park. I like that he had to put that
in there. I've actually got a big book and tour announcement.
And then he pushed back his announcement so it's not
the same day as Lincoln Park, so technically he announced
an announcement as well. In all of this, well, he ended.
Speaker 2: Up doing his announcement. He posted a video where he
was very apologetic and then was like, I'm signing more
book covers.
Speaker 1: Like I said, either the most confused old man no
one told Derrek Wibley, whose big announcement was happening on
the same day, or that man saw an opportunity and
he is now going to sell a lot more books
than the otherwise would have. And I applaud that either way.
Speaker 2: I love it. Good for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like the whole thing is a lot of like
what are the actual intentions of everyone involved?
Speaker 3: But like there are plenty of hilarious outcomes if that
was how they were intended.
Speaker 4: And I like to believe that Lincoln Park patrolling and
Wibley was like, I'm going to sell more books.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I suppose you know that that funny saga
is kind of the most I want out of this,
to be honest, I don't know, Like I suppose we
all see, you know this time next week when we
come back to do you know another of these episodes,
we will talk about whatever this linky part thing turns
out to be. But if it is as everybody immediately
jumped to, thinking a you know, kind of reunion with
a different singer or anything, again. We can have the
full conversation about this next week, I suppose. But in
sort of short, is that something you want?
Speaker 4: I mean, if you know you're gonna put on stage
at Download in front of me as a headliner Lincoln
Park karaoke doing mostly the first three albums, Yeah, I'm
gonna have a good time just you know, singing Lincoln
Park songs. It depends on if like and but is
this something I actively want? Not I'm not like, like.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think I haven't wanted like singer, but I
wouldn't terminos. But seeing it, I guess if they're going
to do the good material.
Speaker 2: I sort of have no real strong opinion either way. Like,
I'm not gonna bemong those guys wanting to continue the
thing they built.
Speaker 1: It's been a hot minute now, it's been seven years
since a thing.
Speaker 2: They can do whatever they want. Really, I'm just I
am sort of interested in who they'd get.
Speaker 4: I think that would be the sort of thing that
would like, you know, if putting fucking running Radke or someone.
Speaker 2: Like Josh Francheski is available.
Speaker 1: Big Josh Francheski announcement coming Wednesday morning. I've got a
lot of books that I need to flog. You can
only buy them with fifty pound notes in person. Right,
let's move on, as I say, we'll come back to
whatever the fact they give Bark got cooking up next week.
A lot of people have been confused this past week
by Spotify going onto the profiles of you know, whatever
they're preferred heavy band might be. It seems to mainly
be happening to kind of metalcore and some of the
bigger hardcore bands, but you know, maybe you're popping on
to see the new you know, Berry Tomorrow track or whatever. Instead,
a whole bunch of prominent heavy bands have had their
Spotify profiles completely like you know, invaded and hijacked by
what then turned out to be AI slop, which you know,
but somehow the Spotify and you know have a streaming services, butvious,
this is happening with Spotify. Surely you've got to learn
from this and have stricter sort of like I don't
know how you upload things to a band's profile, like
how you like, you know, what, what restrictions do you
have in terms of like being able to upload a
song to ex artist profile. It's mental that it's happened.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's been you know, instance in the past
where bands watch with similar names, you know, their songs
have ended up on Yeah, they get mixed up sometimes
profile like like that. So I was like, but A,
literally I saw like open, I knew I see some
saw the cover. I was like, nope, I just turned
like immediately saw the cover. I was like, this is
a this is absolutely bothers And then found out I
was appearing on a bunch of other things. I was like, oh,
someone's you know, don't know. I didn't realize it was AI,
so you didn't listen. I just saw it was absolute
bollocks and someone's cleue like trying to like pass off
their shy as these popular bands. But yeah, Spotify need
to you know, find a way to sort of clam
down on this because this is like a bad look
for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just in general, I think, you know, I
was very unsurprised. I applied from that element of like
how you know, unstringent or whatever the sort of regulations
were to have that happened. Unsurprised that this kind of
thing will happening. And I suppose now that we are
in the you know, kind of the AI wilderness, keep
your eyes out for things like this, because they will
happen more and more until someone stops it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: The Mensingers have been announced as the headliner for Manchester
Punk Festival, which is the festival that I, you know,
I've I've heard of before, but I've never really looked
at like doing it, And I guess, you know, for me,
I feel like I'm a bit of an outsider looking
in because I look at the lineup and I go,
there's a like a you know, single digit number of
bands I kind of am particularly aware of, and then
it's just like full of well, I guess someone out
there is like, you know, really really really like, you know,
onto those bands. But the mensing has been announced as
the headliner for Manchester Punk Festival, which does include a
handful of other bands that we have, you know, mentioned
on the show Strung Out. Are there the Chisel Single Mothers? Uh?
But yes, Sam Manchester Punk Festival.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one I've looked at a lot and gone
like because every year there is a hand of bands
I would really like to see and then a bunch
of suff'd be like, I don't know who half these
bands are. I'd probably quite enjoy them. Knowing my taste
and what they do, that's fair going blind, but I've
never really gone. But now that you know they've gone
and stuck, like basically my favorite band at the top
of the bill, probably should go and finally check out
and see what the deer is Manchester Punk Fest. But
I mean, yeah, I would like toe Strung. I've never
seen them. Belvidere another one I've never thought the Chisel.
There's even something like the Weirdest of Low Down Pussy
Liquor are pretty good some of the stuff I've heard
from them, So I'm like, yeah, I think this might
be you know what finally convinces me to go check
out Manchester Punk Festival because I like the Men's in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a three day festival, and I don't know
if that means that there's like two other sort of
larger headliners on, you know, on the letter of the
Mensinger's to be, yeah, like.
Speaker 4: Laura Jane Grace to be on the other headliners, and
then you know, like I would be having the time
of my life.
Speaker 1: As we'll make it sound fest. Yeah, weird sort of
ramshackle combination of venues all across Manchester as well that
it kind of happens in but anyway that is occurring.
And along with that, the Mensingers have released a unreleased
song that is called uh Second City. And this comes
from a compilation that's coming out for the label Red Scare.
And I just want to say that, you know, the
Mensinger's sort of off cuts and rarities kind of you know,
extra non album tracks now is reaching like Weezer levels
of you get every single year. How do you keep track?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you do, like and there's a distinct kind of
like vibe in sound to a Mensinger's B side. So
I realized there are still a lot more kind of
like the more relaxed like thing.
Speaker 3: I like this song.
Speaker 4: It's not essential, but I'll lap up more of these
men B sides every time they come about.
Speaker 1: Yes, So that is out there if you are a
hardcore Mensingers fans. New album announcement from God Speed You
Black Emperor, one of the greatest and biggest, most significant
post rock bands of all time. They released an album
about three years ago called God's Pee at State's End
and we reviewed it. We reviewed yeah, and that was
pretty good. They have a new album which is called
no title. As of thirteenth February twenty twenty four, twenty eight,
three hundred and forty dead, and that is going to
be coming out on October the fourth of this year. Now,
obviously that title, it's very in line with god Speed
kind of, you know, they have a slightly ramshackle athetic
sometimes of you know, like throwing things together, as God's
Pee at State's end might suggest. I don't know if
that means that, like them, might end up being a
sort of change of title, whether this just ends up
being the thing which would still be very brown for them.
The title there is obviously, you know, alluding to again
stats that have come out of Gaza that are now
far far outdated, and that number is now far, far,
far bigger than it was on the thirteenth of February
when that title was thrown together. Again, very in line
with God's Speeds kind of you know, political ethos put
in that at the four there. But that album is
going to become as said, on October the fourth, and
then we also have a potential seemingly kind of confirmed
album coming later down the line. And I know that
I have the the two people here in front of
me to be excited about this one, Poison the Well released,
as we discussed a little while ago, a big career
spanning vinyl box set of all their albums had come
out up to this point. With the release of that
box set very recently, they included a little note basically saying, hey,
thanks for support all the years. We'll be back with
a new album next year in twenty twenty five, which
would make it the first Poison Wel album since two
thousand and nine, also when Oasis Well aster band, and
obviously the first album since they you know, a more
recently reunited Poison the Well new album. This, I think
is a rather different ketler fresh to the prospect of
a new Oasis album Poison the Well new record. I
think it's fair to say that Poison the Well's most
beloved and most famous material is largely limited to the
late nineties and early two thousands. But they did, but
they did continue making records into the later two thousands,
and while they might not be as you know, recognizable
and celebrated, there is some pretty damn good material in
some of that later stuff. So when it comes to
the profit of oh my god, Poison the Well might
be making a new album, how excited do you to
get about that.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty excited because, like you say, there were a
band who always did what they wanted. Even though most
of the fans don't recognize the last two albums, which
Versions from two thousand and seven is fucking brilliant. The
Tropic rot is pretty good as well. So the idea
of if it's them reflecting the people they are, no
just writing the music they want to write, I'm excited
about that. If they tried to do a nostalgia thing,
I'd be less excited about that. See, I would argue
I have faith in them.
Speaker 4: I would agree, but I think I would also just
go with like an opposite of December throwback album, Like
if they wanted to just do yeah, Poison.
Speaker 1: Well turned up and sounded like Poison Well Circle two
thousand or whatever, and it was, you know, of quality,
I doubt many people would turn up their nose. That'd
be like, oh, no, go up.
Speaker 3: I would take either.
Speaker 4: I would take, you know, some of the more like
adventure stuff they were doing on versions of the Tropic
what where they were trying to you know, branch out
a little bit more. I would like if they wanted to,
you know, do that or if they wanted to just
you know, go full on.
Speaker 3: It's this, it's you know, the sound of tw thousands.
Speaker 4: So the panic chords are out in force, the sad
lyrics and spoken word bits are all.
Speaker 3: Here at your home. I would absolutely love that. But yeah,
I like they're on the bands of that.
Speaker 4: I have faith that could actually come back and do
something really cool and interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah I feel like that's not Weirdly, in my head,
I'm comparing them to will Haven and I'm not really
sure why, but just I guess just because they're a
band from a similar era with a lot of credibility
and artistically like, yeah, yeah, absolutely got me there. If
they did like known again, I probably would be like, yeah, come.
Speaker 1: On, yeah, yeah, should we do a Poison Weld band
special before the new album comes out? Let us know
if that's something that you would want to see. And
then undoubtedly headline of the week, which you know, I
I do admit probably has a real darker side to it.
But Cancer Christ who are a band who released an
album that came out in I think it's sort of
January of this year that was like, you know, decently
well reviewing everything really violent, agro extreme metal, stuff. The
band Cancer Christ their frontman Anthony Melhaff, really turned some
heads with the headline this week, essentially after going on
a unhinged violent bender through a national park, the Yosemite
National Park in California, in which he apparently assaulted an
employee at a restaurant there, led the police on a
car chase, afterwards, crashed the car, stole a bicycle, threatened
workers at a nearby lodge in the national park with
a knife stripped to his underwear, tried to kidnap a
store manager, then stole that store manager's car and started
ramming it into another car on the road, before then
crashing that car and then being arrested in his underwear,
which is the biggest well we've all been there moment
I could surely imagine happening this year. Oh my god, Wow,
what the fuck? And apparently no again. The reason we
can laugh at this is Noah was hurt and I
was actually like, you know, injured or you know, seriously
seriously damaged in this fucking again violent tirade.
Speaker 3: Through through a national park.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that really makes it for me. It's
like he's just decided to become a bear for a daywear.
Speaker 4: Like it's the winding up in his underwear something, the
picture of him like being arrested.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a plot of Cocaine Bear, but with
a man.
Speaker 2: Literally, if you're going to be in a band called
Cancer Christ, fuck it, you might as well be.
Speaker 1: A limited Yeah, this is it really rivals that you know,
the pat of Brian from Cannaba Corpse thing where it's
like how many guns are in your house? But yeah,
fucking hell Jesus Christ, Wow, what a story. Okay, questions
return for this edition of Hyperblast. As I said, are
kind of stored a few questions from the last time
we asked out for these, and we are going to
return to some of them now. And kicking us off,
Johnny Bass asks, while I do agree with a lot
of the criticism of the Scene Queen album, personally, I'm
enjoying it and think the gimmick hold up. So in response,
what is your favorite comedy slash gimmick metal album. And
I know that certainly one of us here might have
a I don't know, a real turn up your nose
at anything part of this uh thing?
Speaker 3: What he's trying to say? Yeah, yeah, strange.
Speaker 1: Question this because in terms of like I don't know,
defining it I think is the difficult part because you know,
there are albums that are that are quite funny as
things that exist. I don't necessarily like actively listen to them,
but like I don't know, like Picnic of Love is
quite funny, and then you but you think, you know,
defining this, do like bands like I don't know, like
Prime mus or whatever come under this or are they
just like Eccentric are Typo negative a comedy metal band?
They have serious black comedy and funny elements in there.
And again on the other side of it, I think
more challenging for me is like the gimmick side rather
than the comedy side. When does gimmick just become like
a theme right? There are so many bands who have
like gimmick labeled on them, which is so harsh a
term for a band who essentially just have like a
I don't know what you're laughing IM talking about, think
about like nil or some shit or.
Speaker 4: Like like like I was gonna go some of the
things that I know you like that I would that
I will tell and like that is absolute nonsense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, silly costumes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean this band top of my head,
like Fintrol, right, Fintrol. You look at them on the
surface and you go, yeah, that's a silly gimmick, but
it's just kind of a theme and they write credible
music within that kind of thing that's going on, and
then you think about there, like people call Baby Metal
a gimmick band, Electric call Boy, you.
Speaker 4: Know, like sound they are a comedy band, like they are,
they are a gimmick band if you ask me that that,
like the whole stick has always been dressing up in
silly costumes, wearing silly wigs, writing silly songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they certainly have huge comedy elements. I
agree that much.
Speaker 3: I mean we're stretching the word of comed there, aren't we.
Speaker 1: In terms of their intent and in terms of the
emotion with which they approach it. They have large comedy elements,
and like, yeah, I would say that album is good.
So Mark would obviously agree. Are Blessed by a Broken
Heart a comedy metal band? Or are they like one
hundred percent? Since here I don't know. So defining it
and what falls under it, my most pure definition is
something where the comedy slash gimmick is like the central
pushed appeal over the care on the actual music, and
that almost by definition usually means it's bad and you're
left with your okally docalis or whatever. So what what's
your take on this?
Speaker 4: I mean, I have one band that I can probably
say is a comedy band that I do really really like,
and that's the hell.
Speaker 3: Somehow they didn't occur to me, but they are.
Speaker 4: They are the one I'll pull and say like, I
do still like and again like because it's everything about
it was always just so perfectly tuned off the music,
the comedy actually feeling into each other and then just
kind of perfectly lampooning this shit bargain basement, one string chug.
Speaker 3: Metalcore like that, and they actual writing.
Speaker 4: But and the thing is as well is they end
up a lot of cases writing better songs than the
bands they were taking the piss out of.
Speaker 3: I do think that was a lot of the hell.
Speaker 4: And that's why I will point to them as the
kind of like example of a comedy slash gimmick band
that I will always go like, No, they were, you know,
actually good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's a very good answer, certainly on
the comedy side. In terms of like judging a band
on how legitimately funny they are. I think the Hell
is certainly right up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Hell are actually funny, which I can't say
about my answer. Listen, hair metal is the first thing
I ever loved and feel the steel by Steel panther fucks,
I can't help it. Like when I re listened to
it today to make sure do I want to stand
by this. The lyrical content, it's gross and I don't
like it. But the songs themselves are great fucking hair metal.
Speaker 1: Song And the thing that's a record that is like
a good album that is held back by the comedy
and like again, the lyrics and particularly that's some of
the you know, the slurs and whatever and the language
that they drop in there. It's like that's the stuff
that makes the record hard to defend. The songs themselves.
If they were just a good glam metal band.
Speaker 3: Go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I guess for a lot of people the
sort of the lyrics and stuff that is why they
are as big as they got. But fucking hell, that
stuff stinks. Party all Day is an amazing hair metal tune,
but it's it's just weighed down by talking about hookers.
The whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, similarly how I feel about like death to Metal
or whatever. But yeah, it's certainly on purely the quality
of the music, if you can, like fucking you get
past the comedy it's in there. I've got some answers
that are maybe best held back for the following question.
We're going to get to.
Speaker 4: Well, either there's one that you like, yeah, the obviously
that I was not going to mention that I figured
you'd mentioned.
Speaker 1: We'll get round to him. In terms of, like the
best album that falls under this, does zil Toy with
the Omniscient count.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what?
Speaker 2: Like I reckon Yeah, probably as like.
Speaker 3: A gimmick kind of comedy album.
Speaker 4: It's comedy, yeah, No, No, like I like, yeah, like
the two Zillo Tooid albums, like.
Speaker 1: Both of Yeah, even Deconstruction from the Devin town End Project,
which is fucking mental and I love that record, and
you know, it's got obviously sort of throw back to
Strapping your Lad and lots of times or whatever, but
that's got this whole ridiculous, stupid comedy element about like
the cheeseberg and narrative and all that kind of thing
that's going on in that.
Speaker 4: A lot of Devin couldn't you because he is an
extent yeah, slightly wacky.
Speaker 1: Person absolutely, But Deconstruction and the Zilloid albums are obviously
the one where it's most central to like the theme
of the record. But then they're really fucking good albums,
you know, and you know zill told the on this.
It might not immediately spring to mind because the music
is so good that you kind of know outweighs the
comedy somehow, but you know, it created a fucking stupid
merchandise character who's been like emblazoned and everything ever since,
so like it's got.
Speaker 4: To be I mean, I wondered if you were going
to mention like given you talk about your bloodstock with
for you but something like night Flight Orchestra, do they
see that's but they're all wearing like they've got air
hostesses dancing on stage. And again people do a fucking conger.
Speaker 1: The thing right what I said earlier about kind of
when does a gimmick just become a theme or whatever,
Like they have a visual aesthetic, but the songs and
the album they're not, Like the songs aren't funny.
Speaker 4: That's why That's why I was gonna ask, were you
gonna mean that that that that that was just me
saying like they're their shitty gimmicky comic comedy band, like
they do show me as silly flight orchestra, but like
I wondered, if you were going to kind of bring
up pairs one that you're gonna make a case for Yah,
I feel that way.
Speaker 1: That I think they're a themed band more than a
comedy or gimmick band because they.
Speaker 3: Just get people to do the conga.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you listen, Look, doing a conga is not
inherently like a comedic gimmick thing. It's a dance a
metal festival. Look, the songs are great, and the song
that the thing that the map falter is. Like I said,
the songs aren't funny. The songs aren't intended to make
there's proper songs gush like, but they're not even silly songs.
They're just like good fun eighty style song that that
have a certain assassance. So again, they didn't occur to me,
I think unless there's a really great obvious one that
I'm missing, I think Ziltoid is probably my answer of
what like the best thing relates to comedy metal?
Speaker 2: How do we feel about Andrew w k in terms
of this.
Speaker 3: Fun he just likes partying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just the night flight thing. Come me thinking
and obviously it'd be missing me not to mention child
of both.
Speaker 1: Shout yeah, staughter for death, you know, speaking wish will die.
But yeah, those are the ones and the next question
we're going to get to. Ben Wilmot asks my Facebook
memories reminded me that ten or so years ago I
was really getting into American Capitalist by five Finger Death Punch.
Thank gosh this podcast came along a few years later. Anyway,
what bands ten or so years ago did you really
enjoy that you now look back at, like, oh, dear,
and uh.
Speaker 3: The people I've.
Speaker 1: Assembled here talking to me, This question is very much
aimed at them.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, how far back are we going to go?
Because I were going ten years ten, Like, if we're
going to go ten years, I could come up with
relatively scape and say like the worst would be a
mure that would probably be like the worst of it.
But if we're gonna go back fur you know, Yashing,
Hollywood undead framing, Handley.
Speaker 3: Yashing is a low bar, isn't it, yash? It is
a low bar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they we could we go like Family Force five
and though are still back those first two albums they banged.
Speaker 2: Love but what oh, mate, Family Force five, that is
so fig Like Family for five.
Speaker 3: I don't know enough.
Speaker 1: About Family Force five to know whether that's a good
album club or not.
Speaker 3: Album club should happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's like I own multiple doctor Acula.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like, they're just a stupid deaf cult band.
Were they actually terrible?
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, I think that Aula, like they
weren't the worst of that sort of thing, you know,
but yeah, we're like talking death coul We could go
so did with like annotations of an Autopsy.
Speaker 1: And ship like that. I did like some annotations of
an autopsy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything that has stupid breeze in it. I consider
myself a fan of and I guess still do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to listen to a lot more Slam than
I do, and some of those records still hold up.
But some of them are like white. That's just why
I stump moll Onto and decided was good. But there's
no distinguishing features about it whatsoever. And it sounds like toilet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of the.
Speaker 2: Stuff that I do look back on like oh, dear
is more of like a moral thing, like if it's
a band who got canceled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's there's that.
Speaker 2: I don't really feel shame about anything, like oh, I
don't feel.
Speaker 3: Shame about any of these.
Speaker 4: Like I'm just like, if you want to laugh at
some of the shit I used to like, have at it,
get a little bit of shame.
Speaker 2: Asking the question never be ashamed to be a knucklehead
game in terms of how much I liked them ver Like,
like twelve years ago, I adored bowling for soup. There
were a band, yeah who were one of my favorite
favorite bands, and I look back, I still like a
lot of bawling for soup stuff. But when I look
back at just how much I liked them, I am like,
why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: What came over me for those years? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess being fifteen just does that to an amper.
Speaker 4: I mean, like I used to there was one point
where left where I really liked metro stations.
Speaker 3: So you know, shake as a banger.
Speaker 2: That's an album club.
Speaker 1: For special I think for myself, I find there's a
kind of hard question to answer because I think most
of mine are more more into marks made with the
bowling for super Thing, where it's it's Bounds who just
fell off, like, oh.
Speaker 3: They're player that. Well, yeah, I'm not really ashamed of
any of it exactly.
Speaker 1: There are very few bands where like the material that
I loved at the time, I look back on and go,
that was fucking rubbish. Why was I into that? Exceedingly
few examples and you know again Bounds who sort of
fell off and I stopped paying much attention to or whatever,
you know, the brief flashes of being into various metalcore
bands like and the being of into like of Mice
and Men for an album cycle, or like you know,
you say docu ocular, I say Chelsea Grinn.
Speaker 4: The Back.
Speaker 3: I'miningly wrong with Chelsea Grin.
Speaker 1: I liked a couple of records and then they got bad.
But you know whatever, I probably cared more about like
alter Bridge and all like Stone Sour than they deserve.
But they've got good tracks right in Kisse of Stone Tower,
like you know, some good some good albums.
Speaker 3: And uh one being around the bust to get to
the big one.
Speaker 1: I'm saying my other examples, Disturbed is one that comes
to mind in terms of it it links what I
was just saying to the moral thing, because that guy
is one of the biggest fucking nob eds in our world.
I think flight, you know, i'd say flying under the radar.
People don't on mass you know, treat them that way.
Speaker 4: I mean again, I was I can probably say very
second to mys, I love those first three albums, and
then kind of go like Jared Letto is a tit
is but.
Speaker 1: Like you know, Disturbed, They've got good tunes, a handful
of them, but I hate that guy and looking back
and being like, as a teenager being shown Disturbed, I
should have known to look elsewhere where earlier, I suppose.
But again most of mine that actually fits because I
don't kind of you know, regret liking the material for
most of these bands. Most of them are what Mark
was saying about, kind of you know, like moral things
and bands who I was really really into and maybe
passionately kind of like showcased where now like you know,
I wouldn't wear the T shirt or whatever, and that's
you know, it's you know, various fucking extreme metal bands,
not in a passionate sense. But I used to think
Deantwood were quite fun before like whatever the fuck happened
over there. But yeah, the one that Sam is like
desperate for me to spill out of my mouth before
I got there is Ailstorm, who which again if we
if we, if we remove the moral thing. I was
just talking from the equation the first handful of Ailestorm albums.
I've gone over this various times on this podcast. I
won't believe it, but the first handful of Alestorm albums,
musically at their core I do still think are good,
and they would fall under what the first question was.
But then, as again I've expained a couple of times
they stopped trying and they completely you know, lost the
plot and they got really shit, and now like, yeah,
obviously on a musical level, I wouldn't care extensive about
their ams anyway, but also everything else that happened with Ailstorm.
I think that's one of the few bands where like,
you know, as a teenager, I would wear the T
shirt and now I look at people wearing the T
shirt and go and kind of, you know, yeah, recoil
a little bit, but yeah them. So let us go
on to the final question, which comes from Tom Reid,
and he asks would you like to see fan requested
sets become more of a thing. Who would you love
to see one by? And do you trust fans to
pick well or is it mostly going to be a
repeat of the Metallica one at Sonosphere, which was basically
just a standard Metallica set. This is a funny question
for me to answer because I've just come off of
seeing Opeth do one, and the weird thing about this
is I still want to see Opeth do one, but
I want to see Opeth do one in a you know,
a sort of smaller scenario with a different crowd or whatever.
And again I went over this on the buzzdop review.
This does not mean that the Opeth by Request set
list was like bad, because for a festivals that it
was kind of fucking perfect and that was an amazing set.
But when I think about this, I think of obviously
bands whose material you want to see delved into which
is not normally through the light of day, and there's
a lot of Opeth where I still feel that way.
The overall question in terms of like would I want
to see them become more of a thing, I guess
I have like an idea in mind of how to
fix this, but I will throw to you guys first
what's your feelings on like, any band you would want
to see if a requesta sets from and in general,
are they a waste of time? Do they pay off?
Speaker 2: I feel like it depends on the band. I feel
like the bigger band is the worst the fan request, yeah,
is going to be And it also depends on the setting.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: I think a band I feel like could sort of
be good even under those circumstances would be creeper because
I feel like creeper fans would come out for that
good and pick cool, interesting songs and.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't pick me. Yeah, well probably some of them would,
but they you know they would. They would go for
some of those deep ep cuts that don't get their allergies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me that.
Speaker 2: I feel like, Yeah, unless it's a tailored smaller into
mid show, it's never really gonna yield the results you
hope it will.
Speaker 4: I mean for me, I've seen one biroquest that's probably
memorable for me, which was Devin Townsend doing it when
he did the albut Hale.
Speaker 1: That a bloodstock. And we've got some like, you know,
some fucking cool strapping songs and stuff that was good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't any like strapping songs.
Speaker 4: Man was all like different Towns, but there was you know,
like cooler stuff like the death of music and like
interesting sort of not not the sort of the most
obvious songs.
Speaker 3: And that was really I feel like.
Speaker 1: Being a fan of him involves keeping track of so
many like record and different projects and stuff that like
there almost aren't the obvious songs to like do all
the time. So that's the fan. If you're a passionate
Different Townsend fan, you're gonna be good at picking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's the thing is he hasn't got that
kind of massively mainstream fan base are gonna just pick
obvious hits all the time. And that's my problem with
by request sets is the fans, like I love them
in theory, fans can't be trusted like en mass music fans,
We can't trust you.
Speaker 3: You you can't pick to save your lives, like when.
Speaker 4: You're got, when you're when Metallica are doing a by
request and you're picking into fucking sand Man, like, no,
feel bad about yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Metallica are doing a better job of
it themselves on this current like playing you know, two
nights and not repeating songs thing like they themselves are
doing a better job of creating with the kind of
set list that would be cool to see than you know,
the fans apparently were back then. Yeah, so our list
of bands off the top of my head who I
thought would be like, you know again, in a perfect world,
what I take a mendsing as one, I.
Speaker 3: Will say that. That's when I'll request.
Speaker 1: Set Yeah, that'd be good, Like I said Opeth in
a different scenario, like I'd still want to say Trivium.
So many fucking albums now, so many songs you want
to say Kradler Filth, I'd like to say mastard On.
I imagine it could be really, really fucking good. Converge
could be like a cool that could be interesting. I
feel that, you know, interesting thing and bring me the horizon,
you know, whip out something or other. Similarly, Architects, you
could say that for you know, doing you know, architects
now being forced to pick from across the catalog or
whatever would be cool. And like, yeah, I would like
to see Metallica do it, but in a different environment.
And here's my my solution is for this. Right when
Opeth put up there by request like form for Bloodstock,
there was only a set amount of songs you could
actually vote for, and it was kind of annoying because
it meant that some of the songs I actually wanted
to vote for weren't on the ballot. But I suggest
doing that, and you remove from the potential songs all
the obvious ones big hit like either you know, songs
that have been played you know, heavily in like the
last few years, or songs that have like x amount
of you know plays, and the set this normally whatever,
Just go okay, here are the really fucking obvious songs
that you know, the songs that you wouldn't want to
see picked. Just remove them from the ballot. Right, here's
a Metallica by request setlist form, but enter Sandman and
nothing else matters, and Master of Puppets are not on
the form, and you are forced to pick from like
the album tracks and the B side. That is how
you actually get the cool scenario. That is the way
to go, oh yeah, this is what would happen here.
And here's a good example of one that I fucking
missed because the tickets infamously, in my mind, at least,
they went on sale when I was at a tent
in two thousand Trees and I couldn't buy it. But
in twenty seventeen, Muse did one and they played, Yeah,
they played the O two shepherds Bush Empire, which is
already an intimate setting for them, but Muse fans in
a small environment like that is a good you know,
like Biffy Kleira could probably do something similar, right, but
like that was a good selection of people to pick that,
and the set list that they played. I will forever
be fucking kicking myself that I wasn't able to go
to this. This is the new settlers from that shepherds
Bush Empire twenty seventeen, Assassin, Dead Star, Muscle Museum, Easily, Glorious,
Butterflies and Hurricanes, Citizen are Raised, Showbiz Fury, Hysteria, Newborn, Yes,
Please Sing for Absolution, plug In Baby, Futurism, Nights of Sedonia.
Speaker 3: So there's like fuck me three or so.
Speaker 1: Songs in there that are like enormous new songs that
they would normally play. There are literal B sides in there,
there are album tracks I'd want them play forever.
Speaker 3: There are just nothing off the terrible albums.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and plenty of those songs also have when you
see the little setless things say like first performance since
two thousand and five, two thousand and six, whatever's that's
the perfect case scenario. And again I fucking missed it
because of bad luck. But that's what you want to see.
Speaker 2: A sort of like morbid curiosity would want Weezer to
do this brain rotted fans juice.
Speaker 3: Blue album off limits fan requests that there you go.
Speaker 1: You have to produce your receipt that you bought Gratitude
the week of its release to be allowed to vote.
Speaker 4: I just think remove Blue Album from the ballot, because
that's you know, they basically played that album in four
every show. Now, to remove that from the ballot and
do a weeds of by request, I reckon you'd like
because you would still get people picking yes, pork and.
Speaker 3: Beans and hashpage, but they not being that they'd have
to pick something weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just the idea the memories could be picked.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just again, just to wrap up the question,
do I want it to see happen? Do I think
they will happen? I think and think they should be
basically what they are now, which is what they happen.
You know, occasionally, I don't think they will become more
of a trend. I think bands will just do them
once in a blue moon. I mean, Letpress just did one,
but they did a real time one where they had like,
you know, people shouting out that yeah yeah, which you
know they're freaks and can actually do that. Most bands
obviously a lot more rehearsal preparation.
Speaker 4: My fingers are now lost that Josh and the Boys
decide for the final nights of six that they'd said.
Speaker 1: To a fan request set, yeah, everyone vote for fucking God,
save the nineties kids or whatever. But yeah, I think
they will just continue to be what they are now,
and I think that's roughly fine. My only suggestion is
to do what we've said and come up with basically
remove the obvious songs from the ballot. So thank you
for your questions. We have a few more that we'll
come back to next time Patreon. This week, we haven't
got round to it yet because it's so it's only
been out for four days if we did our review show,
But we are, of course in the next couple of
days going to do the album club pack that we
announced on the episode last time, which if you missed that,
we're going to be talking about albums from WASP, The Distillers,
Japan Androids, and Watta. I've been writing some intensive notes
on some of those, and like I said, we'll record
that and it will probably be up in the next
couple of days.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 1: If you want to listen to that, you can go
to patron comm Slash that's not metal. I also suggest,
seeing as it's a particular release week, I suggest going
and listening to the Winter Suntime One album Club that
we did several months ago, because it's finally paying off.
So on that releases we did, of course, you know
we missed missed a few weeks, but I'm gonna pick
up from last week, the twenty third of August, and
we have a fair bit to get through on this,
So strap in and listen out for what may be
of interest to you. Last week, I suppose sort of
leading on the sort of pop rock front, if you
like Stand Atlantic, they released their album was Here. Simone
Simon's from Epacha released a solo album for some reason.
It's called The Million Within the Ruins. The sort of
gent deathcore band released Phenomena two. The first Phenomena was
like the one is a band, right? I liked that
one Within the Ruins album in twenty fourteen, and I
never really went back to them, but I was baffled
to they released a sequel to it ten years later.
Speaker 2: I like, I like multiple Within the Ruins records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why they were like, right, here's
a sequel, but there you go, right, noise rocky stuff uniform.
They pretty well liked him, respected us, sort of noise
rock band. They was this album called American Standard, and
then going to the other side of the Pacific, Melt
Banana released an album called three plus five Flesh God Apocalypse,
you know, symphonic death metal stallwats say, this album called Opera.
And then as we go into black metal as a
fair little bit a pretty prominent release from a quite
buzzy band at the moment, Spectral Wound released an album
called Songs of Blood and Maya, which is very good
if you like, you know, sort of classic scandy style
nineties black metal. And then moving forward more in that vein,
we have Cold Brand with Ingen Scan Cell and Grave
Noir with Devont le Porte Toilet. There's also a self
tutled record from Black Butch. If you are more of
a blacks thrash, speed metal kind of person. Demiser released
a record called Slave to the Scive, which has a
song on it called like Falamanca, the Falamanca or something,
which is up there for song title of the year.
A split release from Nil and Castle the Winds to
Again kind of black metal, fair Bastard Sons of Tyranny,
and I suppose a reissue that is off some note.
Mark Lanigan's Bubblegum album was released as Bubblegum x X
for its twentieth anniversary. But these significant part there is
there are like several bonus discs of like tons of
like unreleased material and new songs and stuff, some of
which is quite good. So if you are a big
Mark Lanagan fan and you know you miss him, as
I do, then you can go and hear some new
songs over there. Moving on to today, August the thirtieth,
which I think is probably the best release week since
about mid June. Like you know, we had a few
years a little while of not huge amounts going on.
But you are served today, let me tell you, because
it is the release day of Winter Sun's Time two.
Speaker 3: They didn't delay it in the time between the review
and the release.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, as we are recording us on the
twenty nights, so maybe we'll wake up tomorrow. And he
decided not, but as I said to Mark earlier, he
can't delete it from my computer. So the good work
will be done and Time two is out there. It's
also the release date of Nails's album Every Bridge Burning
and Lepross's album Melodies of a Tone, which are basically
the three albums we were all the most positive on
on last week's review show. Those are all out today
for you to hear. We also have a new album
from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, the Bad Seeds
album since Ghosting. I believe we had the Warren air
this album in the middle, but that new album, Wild
God is out. If you want to listen to some commercial,
you know, trendy metal core stuff, thrown have got excessive guilt.
If you're into more death core, Oceano back with Living Chaos,
I know they're back.
Speaker 3: As well, just lit up like.
Speaker 2: Like, ah, I'm going to listen to that.
Speaker 1: I was never into they were never one of the
ones who beat my attention at all, but earlier anything
with Breezing It, I mean yes, uh Satan Satyrs released
their reunion their comeback record after Dark. I'm quite excited
about this, and also, you know, relevantly here, I suppose
this is the band who are going to be opening
that bill with Green Lung and unto others. So if
you want to go and familiarize myself with that, if
you go into those, then they've got a new record
out today, heavy metal, kind of be again strange, you know,
obscure heavy metal stuff. Faith On, I don't know how
to pronounce that, but faith On wielder of this deal.
Then we have a band called Teeth releasing really fucking
heavy stuff. The Will of Hate is out. And then
as we move more into underground fair kind of proggy,
sort of underground band, Ancients with Two Eyes in Tunes
release their record Beyond the Reach of the Sun Deceased
kind of long standing horror metalers. I suppose Children of
the Morgue Concrete Winds release say self titled record if
you like, you know, full on fucking crazy, blackened grind war,
metally type stuff, just intense business from Concrete wins more
again sort of standard black metal. Fair av Mact released
a record on I think Peaceville called Satanic inversion of
Dot Dot Dot, and I want to know what is
the satanic inversion of So I've got to find out.
Cops release that's like Corpse, but with no R. Cops
they release their compilation record of a couple of EPs,
I suppose, but now it's kind of it's being packaged
altogether for you to hear. The compilation is the Roman
Numeral for twenty twenty four. That's MMXXIV. That is a
new sort of black, gayzy, post black metal type band
featuring Ed Gibbs from Double's Houlder Soul. So I haven't
really checked that out yet, but now this compilation is out,
I will go and you know, give that a listen
if you on EP of just like violent, old school
hardcore type stuff, you can listen to Cuts down to
the Grave. Chelsea Wolf releases an EP which is the
remix EP featuring you know, various artists putting their spins
on tracks from her new record that came out the
start this year. We spoke about. I think it was
like the Boy Harsher remix. There's a whole bunch of
those on an EP that's called undone. And then hell
Ripper releases a two track single called fork Tongued Messiah,
which I assume right now is a standalone single. I've
not seen him talk about making any album. But the
reason I'm compelled to put this in here in the
release roundups is the B side of this single, He's
only Gone and Done It is a red hot chili
Pepper's cup. Finally it pays off. I think if what's
that track called punk rock Standard or punk Rock Classic,
something like that, I was looking on the track list,
I'll go go to go listen to it. The hell
Ripper new single features finally the boy has done it,
Jimmy cover in I presume classic hell Ripper style. So
all of that is there for your your delectation. Go
and choose what you want. Thank you very much for
being here and listening with us. That was a very
very fun one. We will be back next week. We'll
see what the fuck Lincoln Park are doing. But yeah,
we'll be back with Hyperblasts next week and we will
also you know, within between now and then, we'll be
back on the Patreon with the album club pack as
well for Big Beefy in depth chat on some great music.
So go and get involved. Thank you very much, and
we'll see you next time. Bye bye,