WEBVTT 1 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.600 Hello everybody, and welcome back to That's Not Matt. Last 2 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.039 week we had a big reviews bag where we were 3 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:34.679 tackling a whole bunch of sick new records that came 4 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:36.200 out in May. But right now it's the beginning of 5 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.799 June and this here is another edition of Hyperblast where 6 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:41.719 we are with you every single week letting you know 7 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:44.119 what's been going on in the world of heavy music, 8 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.159 what releases you're going to want to hear from the 9 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.759 world of heavy music, and have a good old natter 10 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:50.600 all about that. That's what we're here to do. My 11 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.079 name is Parian hairsh across from me to do this. 12 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.880 Mark Anderson is back returning to the show. Hello Mark, 13 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.719 Hello mate, how are you doing. I have had a 14 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:02.000 very good week because I was at the weekend over 15 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:06.200 in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coastline for Fortress Festival, 16 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.159 enjoying a whole load of very very evil and very 17 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.400 sick black metal. So in today's show, at the end 18 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.959 of this I'm gonna talk about that little time that 19 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.200 I had, talk about all the elite black metal proceedings 20 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.319 that went on. So if you are a hardcore black 21 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:21.480 metal and then you are going to want to stick 22 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.079 around for the end of this show where I talk 23 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:25.200 about all of that. But before we do that, we 24 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:28.079 have got the you know, the earlier Hyperblast section of 25 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.560 the show to do, and we do have. It turns 26 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.879 out a whole load of news just new tracks wise alone, 27 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.799 before we get into the drama and controversies and all 28 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.799 of that, just purely new singles and that this is 29 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:45.040 a fruitful week. So let's first things first get underway 30 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.879 with all of that. Let's start with perhaps probably most 31 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.640 long awaited of these, mastered on back with a track 32 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:56.000 that is called Your Ghost Again. This is I guess 33 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.799 the lead single from their upcoming album. The album has 34 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.519 not been officially announced. We don't have a release date 35 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.760 or anything like that, but it does look like the 36 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.120 album is going to be called Poisonous Weapons, with an 37 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.919 album art that I think that you if you see 38 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:13.639 the tour poster that they've announced for the US run 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:15.159 that we're also going to talk about. I believe that 40 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.039 that is also the album cover for the record when 41 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:20.439 it comes out. Don't know yet, but we do have 42 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:22.960 concrete evidence of a master on album around the corner, 43 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.319 and even more than that, we've got a first track 44 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.520 from it and Your Ghost again. Obviously, there are many 45 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.680 levels of significance to this Just the fact that it's 46 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.400 new mastered on alone I always find to be significant 47 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.680 because they are one of the most consistently brilliant bands 48 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.960 of the last twenty five years of heavy music, one 49 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.199 of my favorite bands of all time, so that's always exciting. 50 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:45.919 But there is a particular you know, significance to this one. 51 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.400 I think it's like the longest gap they've had between albums, 52 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.280 like five years between Hushed and Grim and this one. 53 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.599 But even more than that, it's the first record without 54 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.000 Brent Hinz, who obviously first left the band and then 55 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:01.800 really sadly passed way a few months after that last year. 56 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:04.599 And the way that this this track has been described, 57 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.159 you know, they've kind of likened it to, you know, 58 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.479 the experience of basically, you know, inhabiting a place and 59 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.400 seeing out of the corner of your eye, you know, 60 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.520 the ghosts of the people who you were maybe once 61 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.000 in that place with, and they've specifically, you know, referenced essentially, 62 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:20.680 you know, being in the studio and that kind of thing, 63 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.599 and you know where where somewhere where they were so 64 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:24.719 frequently obviously with Brent in the band and him him 65 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:28.000 not being there. So that is the the thematic goings 66 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.159 on of this track with that in mind, and there 67 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:35.879 are definitely some more, you know, particularly lyrically, you know, 68 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.520 emotionally heavier parts to this track, but this doesn't feel 69 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:44.560 to me like one of those. Really, you're really pensive 70 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.400 mastered on tracks in terms at least in terms of 71 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.800 its sonic approach certainly. I remember when you know, Pushing 72 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.680 the Tides came out as the lead single from the 73 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.879 last record, and that's like a straight ahead banger, and 74 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:56.800 then the record turned out to be a lot more, 75 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:00.080 a lot more patient, and a lot more mood in 76 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.520 melancholic maybe than just that first taste suggested. So who 77 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:05.560 knows how much we might have to go on here, 78 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.199 But I wasn't expecting such a frantic, heavy leading with this, 79 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.479 like straight away when you press play, it's one of 80 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:16.639 the crazier like late period mattered on riffs, Like there's 81 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.680 a lot of notes in the riff, and then even 82 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.959 as the song goes on there's like genuine organ breaks, 83 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.279 like there's one that happens early on that I thought, whoa, 84 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:27.839 that's something, and then later on it comes back in 85 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:29.240 a sort of more extended form, and it's like a 86 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:34.879 full on like twenty tens Opeth like doodlelywoodly prog organ part. 87 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:37.040 And I did say that come in, but the song 88 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.720 overall is quite crushing, you know. 89 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.199 Yeah, this thing, I mean, that riff is so chaotic. 90 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.120 It's almost like it's not too far away, too far 91 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:51.639 removed from like a math core like maybe it's not 92 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:53.120 math core, but it's like. 93 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:54.439 It's an ingredient in the mix. 94 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:55.720 Yeah. 95 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.240 Yeah, it's got that great sort of prog metal. I 96 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:03.600 can't quite nailed down what time signature this is. It's 97 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.000 such a bulldozer. And then at the end you get 98 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:10.759 a proper like traditional heavy rift to bring it all back. 99 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:15.560 It's great and yeah halfway through, but it goes full 100 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:17.800 like Stephen Wilson. 101 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:22.120 Like Sorceress full Rick Wakeman. Yeah. 102 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.480 Yeah, Like it's a part that I can normally describe 103 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.240 as Noodley. It's so good. 104 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.240 I would go beyond Nudley and describe it as Boodley Woodly, 105 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.279 you know what I mean. That's the level that we're looking. 106 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.399 Oh my god, these guys have grown extra mustaches right 107 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:42.360 in that part. It's kind of how are you feeling 108 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.439 about it. I'm really I'm really happy with it. I 109 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.800 think this is song is so good. 110 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:49.079 Yeah, I like it a lot. I mean, there's never 111 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:50.800 been a lead single from a Maston record that I 112 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:53.000 haven't love. Me, There's never been a Maston record I 113 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.759 haven't loved really, but certainly the first taste of them, 114 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.720 they're always like, yeah, the boys are back, you know 115 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.040 what I mean? This one did strike me in the 116 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.399 So when the chorus from Brand comes in, obviously, it's 117 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.759 a clean, melodic chorus like the song's about, you know, 118 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.360 four or five minutes long, which is sort of in 119 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.920 the rough ballpark of you know, Latter Day, last fifteen 120 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.720 years or so mastered on stuff. But when the chorus 121 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:21.319 comes in, it doesn't feel quite as radio as like 122 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:24.120 it's not a it's not show yourself obviously, But even 123 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.360 when you compare it to songs like Pushing the Tithe 124 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.560 for example, you know, the lead single from the previous record, 125 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:32.399 so it's like high Road or whatever any of those, 126 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.600 when Brand's vocal comes in, it's not quite as like 127 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:41.600 piercingly melodic. It has this slightly more haunted, psychedelic sort 128 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:43.160 of effect on it, you know, with him doing the 129 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.839 I Saw your Ghost again reverberating around and it's still 130 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.879 like it's a good hook. I like that melody, but 131 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.839 it does feel, I say, a little bit more shadowy 132 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.120 maybe then your traditional like big brand led mastered on 133 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.720 chorus tends to be. And then we factor that in 134 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.480 alongside it, as we said, the kind of the more 135 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:07.240 like more aggressive end of later Day mastered on riffing, 136 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:11.360 but then also the full on like left field prog 137 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.439 rock parts beyond what is in the standard Masterdon song. 138 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.720 I think it's a really interesting and surprising mixture of 139 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.160 elements and components to having, like here's your first taste 140 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.120 of a new Masterdon song. Obviously, you know, not having 141 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.959 Brent in the band. When the lead part comes in, 142 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:35.279 it's not Brent, you know, it doesn't kind of cascade 143 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.600 into your ear the way Brent lead parts always would. 144 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:40.000 But it does have this real roaring, squalling kind of 145 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.199 part towards the end that fits again the sort of 146 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.639 vitriolic nature of the song and then that final riff 147 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:48.600 that you were talking about. The production credits for this 148 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.720 track and I guess the rest of the album are 149 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.839 kind of mad because apparently it's co produced by Kurt Balu, 150 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:58.160 which we know that guy, and the promise of a 151 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.720 Kurt Blue produced Masterton record is just that should get 152 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.120 every single heavy music fan's tongue absolutely, you know, salivating, 153 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:07.759 and that that riff crunch bit at the end does 154 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.040 feel like, yeah, that's what you want from that, but 155 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.839 that it's co produced along with Kurt by a guy 156 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.839 called Patrick Berger, who is a Swedish producer I believe 157 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.399 who is most if you look him up, he's most 158 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:23.759 known for doing pop musicians, as in Charlie XCX, Carli 159 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.560 ray Jepsen. He co wrote Dancing on My Own by Robin, 160 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:29.680 one of the most like beloved pop songs the last 161 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:33.000 twenty years. And he's even worked with Taylor Swift. And 162 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:37.120 so you've got a Taylor Swift collaborator, co writer of 163 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.559 you know these great Robin hits or whatever, and Kurt 164 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:42.279 Blou and what the fuck is that? As a like, yeah, 165 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.200 those the two guys we're going to get collaboratively, like 166 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.000 make guy record that's fucking weird. 167 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:49.200 Yeah you did that. 168 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.720 And then also, like you say, the song itself having 169 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.679 so many different components, what the fuck is this record? 170 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:56.159 I like? 171 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:57.000 That makes me? 172 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.320 I mean I was already so excited. I love master 173 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:03.159 Don but like, what the fuck. 174 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:04.080 Is this record gonna be? 175 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.799 Yeah, I don't know. Again, there's lots of anticipation expections 176 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:12.440 of the record considering just the circumstances around it. But 177 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.639 just like what we have from a first taste here, 178 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:19.720 and like the credits on the record are slightly bizarre 179 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.480 and so yeah, I echo exactly what you said. I'm 180 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.720 always excited for Mastered On. I wouldn't say I'm like 181 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.120 any more excited for this Mastered On than any other 182 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:28.919 one in their history, because they're just a band who 183 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.440 I've always loved, but color me intrigued as ever, and 184 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.000 I have very much enjoyed, you know, the time I've 185 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.039 spent with this first trap from it and just to 186 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.840 follow follow up and polish off the the Mastered On news, 187 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.559 they have as said, they've announced a US tour. They 188 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.799 have toured the US so much in the last like 189 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:49.759 five years. Come and do whatever here please, but full 190 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.960 US run later this year. As I said, if you 191 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:54.559 want to get a look at what seems like it's 192 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:56.440 going to be the album cover, I imagine it's the 193 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:00.159 crazy Beastie that's on this tour poster, but the bill, 194 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.639 they've just put together a black Gaze bill for some reason. 195 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.840 They're being supported by Death Heaven and alcest which is 196 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:10.200 like a cool. Mastardon have such diverse touring partners, like 197 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:11.679 if you look at all the runs that they've been 198 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:13.480 able to do, and it's cool that they can lean 199 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.080 into any one direction this time, but this time going like, yeah, 200 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.480 we're gonna get like the two most important bands in 201 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.279 a particular subgenre that we don't really have anything to 202 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.960 do with, but we guess like some of our fans might. 203 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.679 Like if you are a US based black gays loving 204 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.679 Mastodon fan, and that is the dream night. 205 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:36.799 Give me that. I'm so jealous. That is the ideal 206 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:37.440 night for me. 207 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.320 Yeah, really good. As said, don't know when the album's 208 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:43.559 going to be coming out now, but of course we 209 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.360 will be looking forward to it. We do have more 210 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.799 concrete news about the new album from Weezer, which is 211 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.039 going to be coming on August the twenty first. Obviously, 212 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:54.519 we knew it was a Weser album coming. We already 213 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.960 had a song a handful of weeks ago, but now 214 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:02.639 we have news several into details here. It is a 215 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:06.519 self titled record. From Weezer, which obviously means also it's 216 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.919 a colored album. It is the Gold album, which for 217 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:12.919 some reason I never entered my head as a color 218 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.159 that Weezer had left to do. But I'm like, yeah, 219 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.919 the Gold album sounds fucking cool, you know. I mean, 220 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.039 there's a there's a ring to it. What I don't 221 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.799 like is that they're not on the album cover, because 222 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.240 that has to be a colored album tradition. I want 223 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:27.480 to I think they should be like prospectors, you know. 224 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.519 They should have been like in like eighteenth century mining 225 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.039 gear with a giant pick over their shoulder, being like, 226 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.480 oh gold, you know what I mean. Instead, it's just 227 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:37.919 it looks like, I don't know, they watch the throwne 228 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:39.399 album cover or something, which is not as cool. 229 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.799 No, it doesn't look like a rock album, which whatever. 230 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.360 You're right, they should be dressed like Stinky Pete from 231 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:48.200 Toy Story two, like. 232 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.919 Exactly, imagine you have fun that they could have. 233 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.759 Remember Golden Nuggets, the serial, Just those four guys put 234 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:58.240 the donkey next to them. 235 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:03.120 Come on, where is the Golden Nuggets album? 236 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:03.480 Guys? 237 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.080 You have fucked up. But I will let them off 238 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.000 because there's also a single out called we Might as 239 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.679 Well Be Strangers, which features the band Wednesday, who I 240 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:14.440 confess I don't we know anything about, but I understand 241 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.240 that they are a recently, you know, fairly popular band 242 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.960 in the kind of the more alternative leaning world. But 243 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:25.399 this song considering as said, we got a track from 244 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.679 this record like a month or so ago, and we 245 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:30.559 spoke about it and I'm like, yeah, this is like solid, 246 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.200 but it didn't grab the headlines right. The mainly interesting 247 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:34.519 thing about it was that it was like the first 248 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.519 song in about twenty years that Patrick Wilson had written. 249 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.200 It was a fine, but didn't necessarily jump out to 250 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.360 us so immediately as like, this is a standout Weezer song. 251 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.320 This track, I mean, for a start, this is like 252 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.799 an emo song like that. I can't remember the last 253 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:53.200 time that Weezer had this like organic level of production sound. 254 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.039 I mean, obviously that was okay human, but that obviously 255 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.279 lent in a very particular kind of classical direction. This 256 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:03.559 is like an old school, almost nineties esque emo. We's 257 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:03.960 a song. 258 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.960 Yeah, it's proper like throwback to nineties alt rock. Like 259 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.240 River sounds raw on it, not that he's like screaming 260 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:14.440 and yelling, but. 261 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.279 You can hear the cracks in his voice. 262 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:18.559 I know what I mean. Yeah, there's the. 263 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.200 Roughness to it, and that the interval sort of like 264 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.879 bassing guitar on top of each other. It reminds me 265 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.399 of the debut Placebo album and like stuff like that, 266 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:32.759 and like you say, Emo and all this, and it's 267 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:37.159 so I mean, I'm head over heels for this. I'm 268 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.559 so so happy. I don't care if they're not on 269 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:45.360 the album cover. Just give me the album, like, yeah, 270 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:47.120 maybe laugh on. The opening line of the song is 271 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:48.600 happy birthday, thanks for the value. 272 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:50.840 That just strikes herre in an interesting way. At the 273 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.200 third time you hear it, Nancy and you know said 274 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.919 vicious references a bit played out, but whatever, the song 275 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.480 is lovely. Like I agree, like the guitar and vocal 276 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:05.000 melodic harmony that goes on with that core riff is brilliant. 277 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:07.240 I said, I don't really know much about Wednesday, but 278 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.320 like decent counterpoint to you know, Rivers on the second 279 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:11.759 verse of it kind of reminds me of you know, 280 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.679 the song go Away with the singer from Best Coast, 281 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:17.879 which is the one that blew up on TikTok. Really 282 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.000 bizarrely like a couple months ago and became huge, So 283 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.039 maybe this will be I don't know, purposefully, I don't know, 284 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.480 and I don't know if I want to call it 285 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:28.120 as cynical as that, But what I was going to 286 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.879 say is that maybe it could tap into a similar effect, 287 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.360 right if there are people who are you know, have 288 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:35.320 been enjoying that song, maybe it's their first Weezer song, 289 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.080 it's you know, reasonable, and then this one comes out. 290 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.279 It's like, ah, that kind of has a slightly similar 291 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.320 sort of you know, duet flavor to it. And I agree. 292 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:46.480 Even though like it's quite a you know, languid, melancholic 293 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.679 kind of song, there's a really like passionate delivery to it, 294 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.320 particularly on the Bridge. There's a real like urgency that 295 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.559 Rivers approaches it with and I haven't heard him like 296 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.720 that in a long time. 297 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:03.919 Actually, there's there's one song on Hurley where he sort 298 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:12.879 of does that, but like, you know, I mean for me, yeah, but. 299 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:14.360 Yeah, Like, and. 300 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:21.360 It's nice to hear him sound urgent, like he needs 301 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:24.679 to get something out. Because he's our sweet little like 302 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.639 songwriting machine man, it's not often that we hear like 303 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.600 actual emotion from him. And on the chorus. The chorus 304 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:37.120 melody is so bittersweet and so big and so catchy. 305 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.519 But the thing that really like lifts it, even though 306 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.159 it's already brilliant, is. 307 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.360 That if I say you were a song. 308 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:49.360 Bit it was just like it's like you're you've ascended 309 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.120 the mountain. You think you're at the top. Oh shit, 310 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.639 there's still more mountain to go. You know, it brings 311 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.120 something greater and makes it greater. Like I've listened to 312 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.679 this song oh God times today. 313 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:01.960 I love it. I love it. 314 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.919 I yeah, I know nothing about Wednesday, but she's got 315 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.799 a great voice, that great like lacks of daisical, sort 316 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:16.840 of too cool for school vibe. She really compliments Rivers 317 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.080 on the verse like I think this is the best 318 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:21.519 Weezer song Ah God. 319 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:23.679 In ages. 320 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:28.879 I will answer that obviously. This is the first major 321 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:32.399 Weser project since the Season's records, which are like two 322 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:34.799 three years old at the stage, and they were wank. 323 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.399 So the last time Weezer were good was twenty twenty one, 324 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.960 when they put out both Okay Human and Van Weezer. Yeah, 325 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.200 and this is unquestionably the best material since then. So 326 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:50.159 we had five years of you know, uh some in 327 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.000 between Wheezer years. As happens, they drift away, they come back. 328 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:54.279 We all know this. This is the cycle of the 329 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:57.639 Weezer fan. It's not new, but on the strength of 330 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.720 you know, the first single was decent, maybe all you 331 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.360 know jump out to us more when we got the 332 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.319 full record, this one is a great Weezer song, and 333 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:09.880 it feels like, after you know, five years since the 334 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.440 last time they were good, off the back of this 335 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.720 song we can go, it seems like Weezer are good 336 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.240 again because this is a really strong song. 337 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:20.680 I hope, so I want to believe. I always believe. Also, 338 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:25.039 I have a boom to pick. Everything is surrounding the 339 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.599 announcement of this album is like the twentieth album from Weezer. 340 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:35.640 We're not doing this. We're not counting each season's EP 341 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:37.160 as an album. 342 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.680 We can and that might also include Teal, which you 343 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:43.680 know is up for debate whether you include covered album 344 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.279 or not. So I lost track of weeze like even 345 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.519 though we've done the full special talking about every single week, 346 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.200 but I have one track of what counts and what doesn't. 347 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.640 But it does seem like this might be the first 348 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.039 good Weezer album since Okay, Human and Van Weezer came 349 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.079 out five years ago, so fucking sweet, I do believe. 350 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.079 Then we also have a few weeks ago there was 351 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:09.359 a little period where the signs seemed to be pointing 352 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.640 to Greta van Fleet of course, the band who've never 353 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:16.519 heard Led Zeppelin before in their lives, possibly splitting up. 354 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:19.319 And instead, once we put that show out, it was 355 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.640 announcement of like, oh no, we're back, guys. We had 356 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.480 like a two three year hiatus whatever, but we're back, 357 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.799 and we went okay, all right, fine and moved on. 358 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.400 But now they're like actually properly back, and they've put 359 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:34.640 out a single called play or Games. And this is again, 360 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.599 I guess the big you know, reveal of their kind 361 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.240 of comeback routine right now. I'll be real with you, 362 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.680 this song as it's been released right now, I don't 363 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:47.960 think I needed to spend any time with because where 364 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.400 we also got the announcement a couple weeks ago, it 365 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:50.640 is like, oh no, they're not breaking up there, They're 366 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.640 still around. There was like footage that went round of 367 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:59.440 them playing this song together, and that fucking chorus right 368 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:05.799 of matey boy going play a guy became like a 369 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.640 vocal stym for me for at least like two three days, 370 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.240 Like I was walking around, I'm like, okay, that's it. 371 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:14.960 I'm in a way, I'm almost glad gretvan Fleet are 372 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:19.039 back just because of how like I don't know, like 373 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.200 weirdly addictive not listening to the full song fuck that, 374 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:27.799 but just watching the five to ten in that turned 375 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:31.200 out to be. How is that Like there's at such 376 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:35.759 an incredible level of either lack of self awareness or 377 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:39.039 just not caring at all, that that is such a 378 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:40.920 thing that they could be beaten with that, Like people 379 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:43.440 have always said that amongst you a led Zeppelin, whatever, 380 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:47.279 aerosmith Sventy's rock type clones, he has a particularly shrill 381 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:50.599 voice and pushing it that far and being like, yeah, 382 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.200 that's the hook of our comeback single. In a way 383 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:54.519 I have to respect it. 384 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:59.799 Yeah, you know what, I like? This song is a nightmare. 385 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:04.680 Sort of I don't know how to even think about 386 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:11.680 it because objectively it's horrid. It's really stupid, and like 387 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:16.000 you say, it's like it's either really lazy and like, 388 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:18.160 oh who gives a ship we can put it out anything, 389 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:23.400 or a delusion of grandeur. I like to believe it's 390 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.000 a delusion of grandeur I have. I think it is 391 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:29.400 the two such a such a soft spot. And you'll 392 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.440 know this as my long suffering best mate. If music 393 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:39.000 is funny, I really just like it. 394 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.000 It is bad, I'll find it funny. 395 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.640 Therefore I will like it, especially if something is like 396 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.839 so confident and like trying to be like a party starting, 397 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.000 like come on, guys, we're all dancing. It's a boogie, 398 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:57.119 we're funking, and it's that bad and that embarrassing. I 399 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:01.519 really I find that so infectious and so funny. I've 400 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:06.319 listened to the song, I mean a few times today. 401 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:12.000 Earlier I was I was cooking dinner with my brother 402 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:13.200 and I was like, do you want to hear this 403 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:15.920 stupid song we have to talk about? I put it 404 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.160 on and by the end we were like clapping along, 405 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.559 adding your own like whoa yeah, come on, like really 406 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:29.079 getting into it considering it's crap. It's so infectious, like 407 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:34.240 like you, I'm glad they're back because that chorus makes 408 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:36.640 me happy. 409 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.880 Yeah, I'm somewhat sillller that. Like I said, I was 410 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:43.880 just like just just vocal ticking that frages when it 411 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:48.160 was first revealed. But what what come back what returning 412 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.200 the single? Yeah, kind of surprised that this has come 413 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:54.160 out so soon, I suppose, but they're striking on theye 414 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.920 and is hot. I'm poyed to serve. I've got a 415 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:58.319 new single. I believe this is. I'm going to take 416 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:00.960 this as currently a standalone saying rather than a reveal 417 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.960 avenue record or anything, because obviously the Fallen Start record 418 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:06.240 is just a year old now. But you know, if 419 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.000 you've got a track, why not why not put it out? 420 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:12.240 Dead reckoning from Employed to Serve and this considering the 421 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:16.160 last album Lent the furthest they ever had into like 422 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:19.079 it's kind of mainstream adjacent net will feel right, like 423 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:22.599 songs for big festival stages that kind of vibe. This 424 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:23.720 starts with. 425 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:27.559 A fucking like brutal death metal like slamming riff, Like 426 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:31.519 this is way more brutal than anything they've done in 427 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.039 a hot minute, like Justine's doing some like kind of 428 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:36.519 more necrotic shit, which does like the look in my 429 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:41.160 eyes that kind of stuff. There's frantic like spidery lead 430 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:43.640 guitars crammed into every nook and cranny, you know it. 431 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:46.720 There's a bit about like one minute fifty in where 432 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:50.079 Sammy just hits this like weird like gorguts tech death 433 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:54.240 kind of way, kind of god and sticking this on 434 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:57.000 was like, oh shit, Okay, I know, obviously, I know 435 00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:59.279 that you guys have this in you, but I didn't 436 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:01.319 expect to be hit with it at this exact moment. 437 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:02.680 And I'm certainly not mad about it. 438 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:06.920 No, yeah, I had no idea what to expect, like you, 439 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.039 but then immediately being hit by like an employed to 440 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.519 serve song that like has suffocation in it wicked. I mean, 441 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:19.680 it's so heavy, it's so brutal, that bit where Sammy 442 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:23.799 hits the like fucked up guitar, and then it's sort 443 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:26.880 of the song sort of is building to something grand. 444 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:28.440 I thought we were going to go into a big 445 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:31.920 like solo section or something, and then a big melodic 446 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:35.039 but still sort of like a fucked up like choir 447 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:40.319 melody comes in and I'm like, oh shit, this rips. 448 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:44.559 It's so good, like it's almost I don't know. They 449 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:46.920 seemed like a band who were just always creating and 450 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:53.240 always wanting to write stuff, And I think it's obviously 451 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.240 very natural for people who love metal as much as 452 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:58.920 we know they do if they write something slightly more 453 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:01.119 commercial in the last record. 454 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:03.680 Fuck it, why not just put a death metal song 455 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:04.920 with a great beatdown in it. 456 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:09.079 Yeah, it's so cool that that breakdown part is so 457 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:13.519 like twenty ten Death Corps almost like it's sap. Like 458 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:15.559 that breakdown sounds like it'd be on a new era 459 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.200 of corruption by White Chapel, you know, and that's kind 460 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:22.039 of the clean, cleaner I suppose, the kind of melodic, 461 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:25.920 you know, multi tracked bridge bit that is the part 462 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:30.720 that to me sounds like the strongest you know, continuation 463 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.319 on from what they have been doing, and that it 464 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:34.400 sounds a little bit like when you hear like the 465 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.759 big gang vocal tracking from bands like Beleef and Within 466 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:39.119 and stuff like that, who are sort of in the 467 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:41.319 similar realm of what you know. Latter Day Employed Observe 468 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:44.440 has been like that stuff is still in there, but 469 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:47.279 this is just a like way more of you know, 470 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:51.400 fast and aggressive, brutal you know, slut on that. And 471 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:53.160 I agree, you know, when you take the last record 472 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.240 and yeah, we spoke about how diverse the last record 473 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:57.799 is when we reviewed. It's like that, here's like a 474 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:01.279 weird goth metally song, Here's a song with Jesse Leach 475 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:03.680 on here's a song with like electronics like it was, 476 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:06.359 you know, try and stuff out. When you take all 477 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:10.119 of those things and then also factor this like as 478 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:13.519 you say, kind of suffocation adjacent employed to serve song 479 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:15.480 in with that, then they have, like you got to 480 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:18.119 give him a lot of credit for covering a lot 481 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:20.559 of ground even in just like the last eighteen months, 482 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:23.799 let alone their entire you know, catalog up to this point. 483 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:26.960 But a very nice surprise getting not just a new 484 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.160 employer serve track, but one that is like this fucking 485 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:33.440 no nonsense with its brutality. So definitely check that one 486 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.119 out if you haven't already. Even more new music, we've 487 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.519 got a new album from Jamie Lenman on the Way, 488 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:41.440 who seems to have taken his like brief little couple 489 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:44.799 year retirement period and gone. Now I've not got that 490 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:46.680 in me at least for now, because he seems to 491 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:49.359 just have come back to making records and so on. 492 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:52.279 But there is a new album which is called Puke. 493 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:55.519 It's gonna be out on August the seventh. There's a 494 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:57.559 single from that called not Likely as well, but new 495 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:01.200 Jamie Lenman on the Way. That's all good exciting new 496 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:04.440 music stuff. Let's shift gears a little bit and talk 497 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:08.720 about something stupid and horrible both, But here we go. 498 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:11.920 It's our job to report this stuff. Bal Morra, who 499 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:15.039 were one, say were? I don't know if they were 500 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:17.559 or are. Everything's fucking up in the air with this 501 00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:22.440 at the moment, but bal Mora one of the most hyped, 502 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.160 certainly bands of the like metalcore revival right of the 503 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:30.240 for the past like two years. I would say they've 504 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:33.079 kind of felt like the chosen ones of that scene, 505 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.759 like considering I'm talking like, you know, two thousand and 506 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:42.400 two esque, you know, revival, so called real metalcore right, 507 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:45.319 and we get so many of those bands coming out 508 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.200 of the hardcore scene. But the one of those bands 509 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:49.400 who have emerged in the last you know, handful of 510 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.000 years who seemed to be building the most like steam 511 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.720 behind them is this band bal Mora. We spoke about 512 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.960 on the show before. They had like a run of 513 00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:59.720 several EPs that were all again continually like each one 514 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:02.599 more so I hyped and built up a lot of steam, 515 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:05.640 all of which was you know, lending a lot of 516 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.119 anticipation to when they would put out a debut album. 517 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:09.680 We've been saying that for a while, like, yeah, when 518 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:12.759 the debut BAMAR album out, we'll review it and all 519 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:16.559 of that stuff. That album came out last Friday, and 520 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:20.200 immediately considering I already thought it could have been an 521 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.839 interesting conversation, considering I was seeing like mixed responses, like 522 00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:27.240 both very positive and very negative about actually the debut 523 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:29.799 album and all the whether it fulfilled or didn't fulfill 524 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:32.680 the hype that they had going into it. But pretty 525 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:35.559 much as soon as it was out, they got hit 526 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:39.680 by that old you know, scourge of the rock and 527 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:45.759 particularly Parkore and punk scene sexual misconduct allegations, and their guitarist, 528 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:49.359 Jay Torbler, who was the focus of those allegations, was 529 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.599 announced to have stepped away from the band. But since 530 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.519 then it's just sort of like snowballed in terms of 531 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:03.880 I guess primarily people taking umbradge with the wording of 532 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.480 their statements and how you know, well or poorly they 533 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.519 may have expressed and faced up to these things, and 534 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:16.079 this kind of snowball of negativity surrounding that seems to 535 00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:20.119 have gone further to the point where the entire existence 536 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:24.079 of the band currently seems up for you know, like 537 00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:27.759 I said, it's uncertain, right. Their initial statement, I will 538 00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:30.720 readoubt is in the past few days, we've seen the 539 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.400 evidence and screenshots of the behavior of our guitarist engaging 540 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.319 with someone under age. We the other four members, Danny, Paul, 541 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:38.519 Collin and Chaz don't fuck with us at all. Obviously, 542 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:40.480 Jay will be stepping away from the band, and our 543 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:43.240 summer tour will continue as planned. We're sorry, what's for 544 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:45.279 what seems like a lack of transparency, Just trying to 545 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:47.279 figure out how to navigate and continue all the shows 546 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:49.440 we have booked and planned to play. All of our 547 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.759 love goes out to the promoters, are tour mates, and 548 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.400 everyone who fucks with us on some real shit balmorra. 549 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:58.319 That was the initial statement, and I think, quite reasonably 550 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:01.480 a lot was made of the fact that they end 551 00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:04.599 the statement not by even though they are saying, you know, 552 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.680 we do not condone this this behavior, and Jay, you know, 553 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:10.079 will be stepping away from the band, they end the 554 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:14.079 statement not by expressing solidarity with you know, the victims, 555 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:17.039 but to going thanks to all the promoters and our 556 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:20.200 tour mates, right, and everyone who is still supporting with us. 557 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:24.920 And I think, like I said, quite reasonably, a lot 558 00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:27.079 of people went, hey, that's it doesn't seem like the 559 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.240 people you should be you know, referring to in this 560 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.519 exact scenario, and there was a lot of backlash against 561 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.559 that of you know, are they taking this particularly seriously? 562 00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:38.839 Shall we say? The follow up to this is that 563 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:44.440 one of those members, their bassist, Danny Kuneo, put up 564 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.240 another sort of follow up thing where he says, I said, 565 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:50.839 this shit band is nuked. Don't fuck with all this 566 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:54.079 weirdo shit, my fault slimes. I'm out. I started this 567 00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:56.160 shit years ago with my homie Brandon kind of a 568 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:58.079 turned into a shitty monster of a band. Don't fuck 569 00:29:58.119 --> 00:29:59.839 with people using their bands to act. We're talking to 570 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:02.000 their who are younger slash vulnerable, and yeah, like the 571 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:05.440 final part of that is essentially the crux of the matter. 572 00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:09.279 So I don't want to cast any more over that 573 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:14.079 is what it is right now. But I'm not alone 574 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:17.160 in thinking that just like the inability to form a 575 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:20.559 sentence in a way that is like mature, you know 576 00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.279 what I mean, is a major part of what's actually 577 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:27.359 upset people here, Like this continual wording of statements like 578 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:31.920 fucking fake gangsters, basically like saying my fault slimes, which 579 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:35.240 I had to like audibly quash my laughter while reading 580 00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:37.440 that out. When I'm talking about sexual miscondut allegations, I 581 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:39.000 should not be laughing at that, But it just feels 582 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:42.839 so absurd to be reading that statement out loud, combined 583 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:47.039 with again the initial statement where they were again thanking 584 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.720 the tour mates and promoters and all of that, it 585 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:52.200 just seems like people who are I know that they 586 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.000 are younger musicians, right, like this is a group of 587 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:58.880 a younger band, people who are like nineteen twenty whatever. 588 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.720 It just seems like they don't really have the emotional 589 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.960 maturity or like this just feel like a kind of 590 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.680 state where you should have gone to an adult and gone, hey, 591 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.400 maybe look over this a little bit, because they just 592 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:16.960 come across like fucking idiots basically, which is not helpful 593 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.799 to taking the matter in question seriously. 594 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:21.440 It's far too casual. 595 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:27.400 It's like they found out their guitars stole like someone's handbag. 596 00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:30.680 Is that time my fault slimes? I'm out, what do 597 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:31.119 you mean? 598 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.920 Yeah, it's it's so like it feels like not an 599 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:39.880 ounce of thought went into it. Like, like I said, 600 00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:42.960 it's way too casual. It's way too, like trying to 601 00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.519 keep up some weird persona they have. It's kind of 602 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:51.400 like you say, it's childish and not really it's a 603 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:56.279 bad apology in a way. We haven't really seen them. Yeah, yeah, 604 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:00.559 because they do acknowledge it and they do believe the victim. 605 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:04.799 Otherwise the statement wouldn't be the way it is. But 606 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:10.440 they never explicitly say that, like it's just yeah, I 607 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:11.240 don't know, I. 608 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:13.519 Don't know what they were thinking. Yeah. 609 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.319 Like I said, it feels like people who do not 610 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.240 have the skills required to have fought through this statement 611 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.640 and put out something that is emotionally mature enough to 612 00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:30.839 be handling such extremely sensitive subject matter right where, you 613 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:33.400 really want to read through these type things where you 614 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:36.640 put and make sure that you are expressing what you 615 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.880 want to express clearly right. That That would be my 616 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:44.440 advice for anyone of any fucking profession or whatever, if 617 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.440 you ever find yourself, like you know, for any reason, 618 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:47.920 and you have to make some kind of statement of 619 00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.839 like yeah, I'm sorry about that, you want to fucking 620 00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.400 read through what you've put and make sure that you 621 00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:58.640 are really trying right, just like trying to genuinely be 622 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.480 considerate of what it is that you're actually you know, 623 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.000 taking accountability for and the fact that it does just 624 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.440 come across, like as said, kids essentially who have not 625 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.119 consulted with a mature adult about how to express this. 626 00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:15.960 It just like that's what stoked even more of the 627 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.480 backlash against their apology, you know what I mean. And obviously, 628 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.920 you know, if the primary you know, initia allegations are true, 629 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.319 then it is a fucking shitty, horrible thing and that 630 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:29.160 guy should not be in the band going forward. But 631 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.880 the entire band seems to have combusted now over their 632 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:37.799 collective inability to handle what you know, kind of came 633 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:41.880 out of it in this way, which is people should 634 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:44.279 take that as a lesson right in how to again 635 00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:46.920 how to handle yourselves in such situations. But this particular 636 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.920 one scenario is stupid and disappointing on like, you know, 637 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:55.319 several different levels in several ways. So there you go. 638 00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:57.240 As we said, the Balmore album came out last week 639 00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.759 and people got a you know, a day's worth of 640 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:01.920 maybe discussing what they thought about it before this fucking 641 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:05.240 fell apart. We were obviously going to review it, probably 642 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:06.519 not surprise say, we're not going to do it now. 643 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.119 But there you go. That is the the end of 644 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:14.119 currently the bal Morra saga. Slightly better news, not loose. 645 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:18.719 Are continuing on with the metallicatur that's to be clear. 646 00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:20.599 That is the good part of the news. They are 647 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:23.800 continuing on with their Metallicator. They're supporting even though Isaac 648 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:26.760 Hale just got hit by a car and he posted 649 00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:30.000 a little video of him with like, you know, you know, 650 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.800 a cast or a sling or something on his arm, 651 00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:35.639 which I did see and think, fucking o, that's you know, 652 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.000 heavy going. Just from a guitarist point of view, right, 653 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.840 obviously you want to be able to coherently play guitar 654 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.639 when you're fucking supporting Metallica, And I don't know, clearly 655 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.079 it can't have been you know, it hasn't stopped him 656 00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:48.679 doing that, So that is again very good news. Fair 657 00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:52.239 play the puns obviously, the jokes about the scenario here 658 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:54.320 and the name of their band and all of that 659 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:57.880 do very much right themselves. But glad that Isaac is 660 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.519 okay and moving on with this lamp of murmur. This week, 661 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:06.280 speaking of statements, they have put out a statement unfortunately 662 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.719 saying that they are going to be canceling the majority 663 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:11.960 of there are a handful in Europe that are still 664 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.599 on that they are canceling the majority of their live 665 00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:18.039 shows this year for our most immediate purposes. That does 666 00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:21.400 include Damnation, the UK date they had unfortunately, the reason 667 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:24.519 being is that m of the primary guy in Lamber 668 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:28.280 Murma has relocated. He has moved from the US into 669 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:32.760 Europe and that he has like residential work permit stuff 670 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.079 basically that is stopping him from traveling around and going around. 671 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.960 So hopefully once that is all settled and sorted, we 672 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.800 will see Lamp of Murma back in the UK hopefully 673 00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:44.719 maybe next years Damnation and something like that soon. This 674 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:50.440 statement included a lot of you know, world building language speak. 675 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.320 I will say, as someone who I know, that I 676 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.119 ever built up tolerance for this because I read a 677 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:57.119 lot of these type statements from artists in my world. 678 00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:01.880 But it was still fairly clear statement, still genuinely much 679 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:05.000 more comprehensible than the Balmorra statements, So there you go. 680 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:09.800 The Linder Escape Plan have said that their upcoming Calculating 681 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:13.599 Infinity dates for the summer they are playing the London 682 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.800 Brickson Academy for example, later this month. These are going 683 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:19.519 to be the last dates of what they've been currently 684 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.800 doing of the like revived Calculating Infinity line up, you 685 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.039 know early years type sets they have been playing for 686 00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:27.880 quite a couple of years now, they've been doing that AVNA. 687 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.480 But these upcoming ones are to be the last ones. 688 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:34.239 I am going to guess after that that that just 689 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:36.360 means that the Escape Plan will revert to a state 690 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:41.559 of inactivity and will revert to being a essentially you know, 691 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:47.599 not functioning active active band. So if you have still 692 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:49.599 not seen the villind escape Plan, then you really really 693 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:51.639 want to make sure you see them. Then I would 694 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.639 definitely say that this is the time to do it. 695 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:56.039 Never saw this calculating finish I would have been cool. 696 00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:59.440 But there you go. Ending that particular run this this month. 697 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:03.400 It looks like but live announcements that are going ahead. 698 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:07.559 We have a static Dress have announced a UK and 699 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:09.760 European tour in support of their new album that also 700 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:11.480 came up last Friday. I've heard a lot of praise 701 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.719 around that particular album. They are going to be headlining 702 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:18.480 on that record in October going into November, as said, 703 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:22.880 across Europe and the UK, bringing a bill of Soul, 704 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.679 Blind Holder and Love rarely, so if you're in on 705 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:27.960 that record, then that's the thing to do. I am 706 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:32.480 bloody ampt that Electric Wizard have announced a UK tour 707 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:34.599 right now. It's been kind of you know, mysterious to 708 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.679 find these dates somehow, like they've linked out all over, 709 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.519 but it looks like there is a tour happening of 710 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:43.840 three dates Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow. No London, ha ha ha. 711 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.800 But the last time Electric Wizard like did a tour 712 00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:51.159 like rather than a festival date here or they're a 713 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:55.000 damnation an arctangent, et cetera. I think we're coming up 714 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:58.280 to something like a decade something like that. Like the 715 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.719 Electric Wizard, you know, you see every few years pop 716 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:05.320 up and play a show, but they very rarely tour, right, 717 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:08.480 So the fact that there is you know, Electric was like, 718 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:10.679 I've never seen Electricizard at their own show, and I've 719 00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:13.360 seen them several times, but it's always been like headlining 720 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.880 a festival, like they just don't actually do their own 721 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:21.440 headline dedicated shows very often. So I'm really excited and 722 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.800 definitely gonna make sure I get to one of these. 723 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:28.199 Bristol September the sixteenth, Manchester September the seventeenth and Glasgow 724 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.400 September the eighteenth. Fucking great. When the Wizard returns to 725 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:33.519 live activity, you make sure that you go out and 726 00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:36.519 catch it while you can. Cancer Bats are doing an 727 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:41.280 incredibly long UK tour. Still no Liverpool, the lazy bastards. 728 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:41.920 How dare they? 729 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:46.119 They're slacking, They're absolutely resting on their laurels. They're not 730 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:51.679 playing the Highlands either, Mark, how dare they this bullshit? Yeah? 731 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.079 But in all seriousness they are doing what is like 732 00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:57.159 too many for me to count. I think it's more 733 00:38:57.199 --> 00:38:59.639 than fifteen, perhaps less than twenty, but they're doing loads 734 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:09.519 of you shows Dover, Brighton, Exeter, Falmouth, Southampton, Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Milton, Keynes, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, 735 00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:13.840 Nottingham and London through October and bringing Ignite and Knives 736 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:17.480 as the support bills there. So I imagine there's a good 737 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:19.800 chance that they will be in your area, a good 738 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.519 chance that they'll be playing a show that's within an 739 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.920 hour's distance or so from you. So good on the 740 00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:28.840 Cats Bats for continuing to talk properly and show them 741 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.280 how it's done. Speaking of slightly mysterious dates, this like 742 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:35.159 emerged over the weekend and then they like deleted the posters, 743 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:36.679 so I was confused, but it does seem to have 744 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:40.360 been reconfirmed again. Funa Breum, who I'm gonna mention again 745 00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:42.280 a little bit later because they put out a release 746 00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:45.880 in the in the round up, but a fantastic death 747 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:48.000 not a band at Funa brem They have announced a 748 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:51.960 really like quite extended by their standards, also European and 749 00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:56.079 UK tour. In the UK they are playing London, Bristol, Manchester, 750 00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.880 Glasgow and Newcastle with more Bithick from Finland as a 751 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.599 support band, and Fundi Burrum are one of those bands 752 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:04.599 where when they have played Europe before, it's like, oh, 753 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:09.280 they're playing one dedicated underground death metal festival in Denmark 754 00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:11.480 and good luck if you want to see them anywhere else, right, 755 00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:13.440 So I was like genuinely stunned when I saw not 756 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:16.280 just one like London date which I could imagine happening, 757 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.199 but a full fucking like actual five date UK tour 758 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:24.199 is pretty amazing. And Funa Breum, as we may say 759 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:27.480 going forward considering the record, Dator Power are such a 760 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.119 sick death metal band. So if you do not know 761 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:30.920 Ifni Breum you should definitely check them out, and if 762 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:33.920 you are into death metal, then this is going to 763 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:36.320 be one of the cool, musty tours of the year. 764 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:40.599 I reckon they're coming through those dates in September, so 765 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:43.280 get on that. Over on the other side of the Atlantic, 766 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:48.960 Castle Rats have announced their largest US headline tour to date, 767 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.920 and the main support app for that is unto Others, 768 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.079 which is a really good time. Unto Others. Fit a 769 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:56.639 little bit more there maybe than they do on the 770 00:40:56.679 --> 00:40:59.199 Amorphous bill where they're opening up over here. Happy to 771 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.400 see them either way, but for the Americans out there, 772 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:06.519 Castle Rat and unto Others is a very sore hailing time, 773 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:10.639 So good stuff there. And Maryland Deathfest have announced their 774 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:14.639 first run of names for next years twenty twenty seven festival, 775 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:19.320 which includes Candle Mass. It includes Enslaved doing a Viking 776 00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:21.840 ear VELDI fucking I can ever say that fucking album 777 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:23.519 the first Enslaved album which they put it Downation in 778 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:26.320 a few years ago. They're doing that set. AKA Cocca 779 00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.840 are doing a Koran's on set. Over there. Voivod are 780 00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:31.280 doing an old school deep cut set, so that sounds 781 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.519 fucking cool. Sabat Demolition hammer loads of good stuff. And 782 00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:37.639 I'm gonna I'm gonna talk a lot about this because 783 00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:41.159 I saw corns On being played by Acacocka this week 784 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:43.880 and Aca Coccer a band I've seen many, many times. 785 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:46.079 But there are those bands where and this goes like 786 00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:48.480 both ways, we both look across the Atlantic with different 787 00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:51.320 levels of jealousy. There are bands that you see often 788 00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:54.119 just because of your geographical position that other people out 789 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.000 there can't believe that you've seen that many times, right, 790 00:41:57.119 --> 00:41:59.960 And I know that for American extreme metal fans. Akacca 791 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:02.280 are one of those bands where I've seen them like 792 00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.039 fucking eight times or something. I've seen them doing Coornson twice, 793 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.400 but it's been like a decade since the last time 794 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:09.119 they were over in the US, and so I've seen 795 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:11.320 this announcement and the most regular thing I've seen in 796 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.559 the comment is, you know, American fans being like Agagoka 797 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.960 finally brilliant. So I'm very pleased for you all that 798 00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:19.760 that is going to be happening over there. So there 799 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.280 you go on Patreon this week. For us, we are 800 00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:27.480 currently involved in the midst of doing our corn special. 801 00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:29.559 We most recently a week or so ago, we put 802 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:32.000 out the parts two where we spoke about the peak 803 00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:35.480 New Metal years, and pretty shortly we should get around 804 00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:38.519 two putting together and working on the third part when 805 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:40.400 we go into some slightly more mysterious years. So I'm 806 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.320 looking forward to that. If you want to hear all 807 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.800 of the T and M specials, from band specials to 808 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.239 fun silly things like the trial special we did last year, 809 00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:53.000 to you know lists, all our album clubs are up 810 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:55.039 there as well. Then Patroon of the Corms Last Lights 811 00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:57.239 on Metal is how to do it, and by doing 812 00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.719 that you will also be supporting this podcast and funding 813 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.920 us to move forward, So thank you everybody too. Does that? 814 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:06.440 Let us do the release roundup for this edition of 815 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:09.360 Hyperblasts because we had our reviews last week, we have 816 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:13.360 got two weeks worth to go and bloody cracking weeks 817 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.639 as well, like seriously, like last week alone was seriously busy, 818 00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:18.840 before we get onto what's coming out to date as well. 819 00:43:18.920 --> 00:43:23.440 So firstly, last time we had Devin Townsend's The Moth, 820 00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:27.800 his absolutely enormous like seventy minute and that's only including 821 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.880 the one disc I think edition essentially like symphonic album, 822 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:36.360 like there is metal in there. But it's absolutely arranged 823 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:39.239 and kind of you know, conveyed as like one large 824 00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:43.760 orchestral symphonic style piece. It is a lot to take in. 825 00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:48.239 I personally, I don't think it's really the Devin record 826 00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:51.039 that I will be most connecting with, but it's undeniably 827 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:52.800 you know, it's a huge passion project authaars that he's 828 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.440 been working on for over a decade or something like that, 829 00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.079 so it's worth going in on if you want to 830 00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:00.400 see what all of that time has produced from Devin. 831 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:04.800 Then we had the return of Turnover with Down on Earth, 832 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.920 which we spoke about the singles from that recently and 833 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.679 how it does seem to be moving back to a 834 00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:14.519 more kind of classic era of Turnover perhaps to some 835 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:18.039 degree or another so exciting release there. There is the 836 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:22.119 aforementioned Static Dress album Injury Episode, which if you are 837 00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:26.239 a fan of early to mid noughti's post hardcore from 838 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.679 the likes of Glassjaw to under Oath or whatever, then 839 00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:31.719 they are absolutely one of the you know, the leading 840 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:34.840 bands in the current wave of that style of material. 841 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.760 And as I've said, I've seen a lot of positive 842 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:41.039 feelings about that Statud Dress album floating around Sparta featuring, 843 00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:44.519 as I said, Jim Martin, Jim Martins from Faith in 844 00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:48.760 the gm Ward. Yes, he formerly like the Driving Sparta, 845 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:51.639 his post hardcore band. They put out a record called 846 00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.599 cut a Silover Wet. There was also I think this 847 00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:56.719 was announced if we remember correctly, as the final album 848 00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:00.920 from sixty eight, which is Scosh Ducking. I was about 849 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.079 to fucking say that Josh Scoggin, formerly of The Chariot 850 00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:06.400 and Normal Gene and so on. But here's like, you know, 851 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.000 kind of garage rocky band that he's been doing for 852 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:11.119 how over the last several years, their final album. Who 853 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:13.480 knows what he'll do next, but I guess we'll see 854 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.199 in the hardcore world as well. For a slightly more 855 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:19.119 underground release, you can go to a Healing Wound, quite 856 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:23.000 violent band with a record called Bodies of Heavenly Violence, 857 00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:27.119 more experimental kind of punk end. There's Death Kids with 858 00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:30.360 a record called Seeker Trees is the Future Row. There's 859 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:32.480 all them Witches, who are a strange sort of like 860 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:35.519 stoner adjacent band. They us support Ghostuck a number of 861 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.199 years ago House and Mirrors. They had turned out to 862 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:39.880 be a really big week for the worlds of you know, 863 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:44.159 doom and riffy substances because we also had Elder of course, 864 00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:47.760 the you know kind of progressive stoner doom type band. 865 00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:51.719 They put a record through Zero. We have Monolord, who 866 00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.079 are a just proper like fuzzed up ride on a 867 00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:58.719 riff that ages riff worship type band. They put out 868 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:03.480 an album called Never End. Into more of the gothic, 869 00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:08.199 miserablest doom world. There is the band Godthrim, which is 870 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:11.239 driven by a former guitarist from my Dyan Bride. The 871 00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:14.159 record also features a guest appearance from Aaron formerly now 872 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:15.559 with my Dyan Bride. He's not on that record as 873 00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:18.360 well their record called Projections. In the death metal world, 874 00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:20.760 the one release you should absolutely be hearing from last 875 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:24.159 week is the formation Fuena Breum with their record Beckoning 876 00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.800 the Void of Eternal Silence, which is just like brilliantly 877 00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:32.519 kind of the midpoint between absolutely knuckleheaded, smash your head 878 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:37.679 in but also really atmospheric and evil. It's just a 879 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:43.320 horrid but seriously well written, well performed, excellently done death 880 00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:46.320 metal record that you should be hearing. In the heavy 881 00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:49.400 metal world, there's Tyran with tran Forever, which is like 882 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:54.079 the just total seventies eighties trad metal revival band that 883 00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:57.280 features three of the four members of Tribulation. They're always 884 00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:01.639 good fun in the black metal world. There's Gal formerly 885 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:03.960 of you know, Gorgroth, obviously currently of his his solo 886 00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:07.320 band as well, but his old band Treldom, who revived 887 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:09.559 a few years ago. This is the second album they 888 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:11.519 put it in recent years, and they're both like leaning 889 00:47:11.559 --> 00:47:15.599 into some very strange, psychedelic, kind of progressive adjacent worlds 890 00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:17.400 of black metal. So if you like your black metal 891 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.159 little unconventional, then you should check out then. And there 892 00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:23.480 was Hakat Hroned, who are one of the ogs of 893 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:27.320 like nineties UK black metal, very much into the you know, 894 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:30.360 grand keyboard heavy side of that sphere and what was 895 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.440 producing the nineties. They put out a very fine record 896 00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:34.880 as well, called The Corpse of a Titan, a lament 897 00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:38.920 long buried. Today, the first release week of June, we 898 00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:41.920 are leading off with Converge's second album of the year, 899 00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:44.280 The hum of Hurt. Very excited to get into that one, 900 00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:47.159 Very excited to reconvene again with the guys who dissected 901 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:49.199 that one as we did their first album of the 902 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.559 year like four months ago or whatever. It was but 903 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.239 second converged record of the year. Aren't we lucky? There 904 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:58.760 you go. We also have Evanescence returning with their first 905 00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:02.239 album in like five years, their album Sanctuary. In the 906 00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:05.360 emo world, the very legendary band Death Cab for Quti 907 00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:08.239 are back with a record caord I've built you a Tower. 908 00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:11.360 In the hardcore world, another very legendary band, One hundred 909 00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:14.119 Demons are back with a comeback album. They haven't released 910 00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:15.679 a record in like twenty years or something, and they're 911 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:18.400 a very beloved band amongst the moshus. So Embraced the 912 00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:21.159 black Light is their record. A newer hardcore name, but 913 00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:24.760 one has very much been building steam. Guilt Trip UK 914 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.920 band who have become very actually, you know, quite popular 915 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.480 in the last couple of years or so their record 916 00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.239 Armor of Angels. Over into the metalcore world, there's August 917 00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:36.280 Burns Red who will always be here with an album 918 00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:39.920 every couple of years. They've got Season of Surrender, Blood Incantation, 919 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.440 have Got All Gates Open, which is the original motion 920 00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:45.719 picture soundtrack. This is the strange thing they've done where 921 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.239 they made a bunch of music to soundtrack the documentary 922 00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:52.159 they made about the making of Absolute elsewhere, But this 923 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:56.079 is I would imagine on the more new agey kind 924 00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:59.679 of instrumental vibe side of what Blow Incantation do. But 925 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.039 always interesting to see what they've got going on. That 926 00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:04.400 record has now been released, you know, individually, outside of 927 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:06.840 the confines of just the documentary they made about the 928 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:10.519 last record. Love those guys. What wonderful mavericks they are. 929 00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:14.480 Aa Williams the singer songwriter in the kind of folky 930 00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:16.920 doom world I suppose, but of post rock, et cetera. 931 00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:21.360 Her album Solstice is out in the world of kind 932 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:24.239 of the proggier side of what I suppose you could 933 00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:27.320 call stoner doom or post metal or something. Slift have 934 00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:32.119 got fantasia at progressive like Symphonic, maybe a little leaning 935 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:35.079 heavy metal band. Ever Gray have got Architects of a 936 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:40.079 new weave. The Dwarves, the punk band from the nineties. 937 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:42.480 They have got an out called Jenkam. Then we have 938 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:45.519 Voivod are putting out a live album where they have 939 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:50.320 performed with a symphony orchestra amazingly with their album Symphonique. 940 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:53.119 And then finally there's an EP from the UK band 941 00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:56.039 Gert which is called Survival of the shittiest And you 942 00:49:56.119 --> 00:49:58.880 might know this EP because it's the one where they 943 00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:03.679 put out the of No Limit by two Unlimited featuring 944 00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:05.400 the Hell a couple of weeks ago. This is the 945 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.519 EP that that track is from, and that is out there, 946 00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:09.719 so loads of stuff to seek your teeth into there 947 00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:11.679 across those two weeks of my goodness, So please go 948 00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:13.679 forth and do that. But like I mentioned at the 949 00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:17.199 beginning of the show, if you are interested in black metal, 950 00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:18.920 then I have a lot more to talk to you 951 00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:22.760 about because I at this weekend was at Fortress Festival. 952 00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.280 Fortress is I would say at this stage it's probably 953 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.880 right to call it the biggest purely dedicated black metal 954 00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:33.199 festival in the UK because you have you know, Incineration, 955 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:34.920 but that's always been a mix of kind of black 956 00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:37.079 and death metal. You've got Damnation, which is obviously just 957 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:41.519 sort of everything extreme underground all pulled together in one lovely, 958 00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:46.159 beautiful pot. But Fortress is absolutely four people who are 959 00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:50.480 specifically super super into black metal, and if you are 960 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:53.880 in that niche, I cannot say how wonderful that has 961 00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:57.400 been the last three or four years, having a festival 962 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.800 in such a great location as well, really doing that 963 00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:04.840 because Fortress. I've said it for a couple of years now. 964 00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:08.800 I love seeing black metal represented at all of these 965 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:11.400 other festivals up to your bloodstocks even download sometimes like 966 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:14.840 whatever it may be, But there is nothing like a 967 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:18.599 immersing yourself into a world so fully where I believe 968 00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:22.360 that Fortress is one of the only like genuine destination 969 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.719 festivals in the UK that's beyond just you know, a warehouse, 970 00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.360 a handful of venues in a similar corner, you know, 971 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:36.039 put together whatever Fortress you genuinely you dedicate yourself to something, 972 00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:39.960 you go through into another area where everything has just 973 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.079 become immersed in that culture. But also with that, they 974 00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:44.760 go beyond the top line of the band who you're 975 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:47.039 going to get represented these of the festivals, and they 976 00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:51.559 get the genuine like underground exclusive that you, as someone 977 00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:55.000 very much into and immersed in that niche might never 978 00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:58.559 dream of seeing anywhere else in this country. And that 979 00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:03.400 is a really wonderful thing. Is as I said earlier, 980 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.519 it's on the North Yorkshire coastline in the seaside town 981 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.920 of Scarborough, which traditionally is just like a seaside result 982 00:52:11.239 --> 00:52:13.679 and it is wonderful going there once a year and 983 00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:16.280 seeing all the residents confused as to why suddenly a 984 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.159 couple thousand people in like T shirts that says like, 985 00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:23.039 you know, Christ sucks or whatever your equivalent might be 986 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:27.599 wandering around the place and be like, what's going on here? 987 00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:31.639 But the niche bookings as well, because like this year 988 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:35.440 in particular, they had like cult headliners, Like the headliners 989 00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:39.679 of this year's festival were Old Man Child and gallow Braid, 990 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.719 And those are both names that might mean a lot 991 00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.159 to you if you are, again so immersed in this 992 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:48.480 particular niche, But if you are a more casual black 993 00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:51.119 metal observer, certainly someone who you know doesn't know anything 994 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:53.039 about that genre, really, you would go, who the fuck 995 00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.039 are they and how are they headlining a festival? And 996 00:52:56.119 --> 00:52:58.679 certainly one of those headliners will talk about how kind 997 00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:00.400 of absurd it was that they were head like a 998 00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:03.199 festival in the fird place in a good way, to 999 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:06.519 be clear, But they're bookings that are so kind of 1000 00:53:06.599 --> 00:53:09.440 out there that you would go, surely that's not a 1001 00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:13.400 safe thing to like hang a you know, successful festival on, 1002 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.280 and yet they've managed to do it because it is 1003 00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:20.679 so niche that it attracts people from all over who 1004 00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:23.119 are in that niche to the point that, like, I 1005 00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:25.400 think I'm probably right in saying that of the festivals 1006 00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:28.239 that I most regularly go to in the UK, when 1007 00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:32.199 I go to Fortress, I hear the most like international 1008 00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:35.679 accents and language's being spoken on site just by people 1009 00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:37.840 who go to it or any of those festivals, because 1010 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:40.440 people actually fly in, Like you speak to people who 1011 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:44.079 have come from America to Scarborough to see where like 1012 00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:46.800 you know, god Heimskar playing Black Medium Current or whatever, 1013 00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.639 you hear people come from the other direction from you know, 1014 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:54.719 areas of Eastern Europe, right because people they've got a 1015 00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:56.840 couple thousand tickets to sell and they will sell them 1016 00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:59.719 to people from literally all over the world who come 1017 00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:02.960 to it. And there's something again really special about the 1018 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:06.760 melting pop that that creates. And because people are so 1019 00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:10.239 immersed in that world, people are loving the vibe of 1020 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:15.039 being an old Victorian theater directly overlooking the beach basically 1021 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:17.320 and you've got the sea right out literally right outside 1022 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:21.079 the festival doors. People are happy to be there, you know, 1023 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:23.559 And I think that it does it creates a genuine 1024 00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:26.480 vibe of, as I say, a location festival where people 1025 00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:28.679 have done the work to travel somewhere and they feel 1026 00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:32.079 good about being there more tangibly than any festival that 1027 00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:36.119 I've gone to in this country. That's always lovely to 1028 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:39.119 immerse myself in. And this year, even though they did have, 1029 00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:41.320 like I said, smaller headliners, and even the last couple 1030 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:44.280 of years like Tryptocon in twenty four and Wolves and 1031 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:46.639 the Throne in that year as well, both bigger names 1032 00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:50.960 for that world, Agalock last year was a huge event. 1033 00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:53.639 This time they went kind of small with it, and 1034 00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:57.079 yet that vibe was still so apparent. The festival still 1035 00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:00.320 sold out, Everyone was still totally engaged and brilliant, and 1036 00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:01.880 there was lots of stuff in the bill that I 1037 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.039 was looking forward to it and looking forward to, you know, 1038 00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:07.119 getting my teeth stuck into. There was a pre show 1039 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:11.360 on the Friday nights with like Woed headlined it and 1040 00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:13.880 like a couple of other UK black metal bands. But 1041 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:15.960 it was in like the basement of a pub in 1042 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:18.519 the Scarborough area, and I think it was like one 1043 00:55:18.599 --> 00:55:23.119 hundred and fifty cap but it was It wasn't ticketed. 1044 00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:26.480 It was free entry for anyone with a festival ticket, 1045 00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:31.000 and they clearly underestimated how many people would actually be 1046 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:32.719 on site because actually it's like one hundred and fifty gap, 1047 00:55:33.039 --> 00:55:37.039 something like a thousand people turned up like literally like 1048 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:40.280 five six times over what that room could have held. 1049 00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:43.320 And again it you know, like Woe and a couple 1050 00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:45.000 of the UK Batmanman's like I love Woe. They're a 1051 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:46.760 brilliant band. That's why I want to go and see them. 1052 00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:51.119 But you know, not the hugest names of the genre, 1053 00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:52.400 and a lot of them are kind of more local 1054 00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:56.000 bands who certainly people from the North of England would 1055 00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:59.719 probably see quite regularly. But like a thousand people converged 1056 00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:01.800 to I can get into that pub for the Friday night. 1057 00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:03.360 So I did not get in there for that, but 1058 00:56:03.559 --> 00:56:05.960 I trust that the one hundred and fifty people who 1059 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:07.400 did get in there had a good time with that. 1060 00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:11.079 The festival proper Saturday and Sunday. The first band I 1061 00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:14.679 saw was a band called Groza, who are German and 1062 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:17.360 they are the kind of band that I was speaking 1063 00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:19.559 about that a month or so ago, when I was 1064 00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:24.239 talking about the post Maguire wave of like the hooded 1065 00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:30.400 you know, kind of veiled, melodic European sounding black metal 1066 00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:34.440 bands that have become like the visible sort of the 1067 00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:38.239 visible wave of trend and popularity since like twenty fifteenish 1068 00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:40.920 or so. Grows are very much one of those, to 1069 00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:42.880 the point that they share their name with an early 1070 00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:46.360 Mguarre album, Like it's very much not subtle about that. 1071 00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:50.679 Maybe they're more a little similar to like Geria pre 1072 00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:53.400 metal core, you know, because they have like the kind 1073 00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:56.440 of stirring emotional side of it. They had like pictures 1074 00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:58.960 of waves behind them on the you know, video screens, 1075 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:00.880 that kind of vibe. But I enjoyed them, you know, 1076 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:02.239 they were they were pretty decent. I think they even 1077 00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:04.639 at one point got the crowds to clap along, which 1078 00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:08.639 is genuinely rare black metal shows doesn't have to do often, 1079 00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:09.960 but but they got to be able to do it 1080 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.360 and it worked. So there you go. Decent European you know, 1081 00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:17.199 contemporary are good. Essentially, if you were to look at 1082 00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:21.480 like throw a throw a dart at the modern day 1083 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:27.199 European black metal see scene. Growser are like a perfectly rounded, 1084 00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:29.239 you know, example of what you would hit and be like, yeah, 1085 00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:31.280 that's kind of what the what the average band is like. 1086 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:34.239 But they're they're they're decent. After that, I saw Black Salice, 1087 00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:37.079 who are playing in the kind of second stage. So 1088 00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:40.159 there's a couple of stages that fortress I explain now 1089 00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:42.639 as they work, as I get a little bit more 1090 00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:45.239 into this when it's more relevant. But there's the main 1091 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.920 stage and then there's a second stage called the Ocean Room, 1092 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:50.159 and they just flip flop back and forth, so you 1093 00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:52.840 can basically see everything if you want to go between 1094 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.159 those two stages. Black salicse ware in the second stage, 1095 00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:59.840 and they are one of those bands who exceptionally raw 1096 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:04.320 on record, like proper it's a fuzz, you know, like 1097 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:09.199 they are. You're not really making out many particular components. 1098 00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:12.599 It's just about the overall sort of like ambience and 1099 00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:15.239 fog that you know, settles over to you. You know. 1100 00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:19.400 They sound like reverberating through an underground cave system. And 1101 00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:21.840 because of that, they're the kind of band who often 1102 00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:23.519 those bands might not even play live, you know, And 1103 00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:25.239 so I was intrigued to say what it would be 1104 00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:29.760 like live, and definitely they brought the fog with them, 1105 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:31.480 so that like I saw Black Salice, I don't think 1106 00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:34.039 I really saw Black Slice, you know what I mean, 1107 00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.800 Like I heard them play, I saw some faint silhouettes 1108 00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:42.440 of hooded figures behind a deep red fog. But even 1109 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:44.719 if you were close, you weren't seeing these deal I 1110 00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:47.159 don't think, And I wasn't that impressed with them, to 1111 00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:49.800 be honest, because I think you take you take away 1112 00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:53.880 them sounding like they're reverberating through an underground cave system 1113 00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:56.199 and they're just an okay black metal band, and it's like, oh, yeah, 1114 00:58:56.239 --> 00:59:00.679 this is The riffs are okay. It's not sooner dynamic, 1115 00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:04.079 there's not like an exceptional amount of energy. It's just like, yeah, 1116 00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:08.760 this is a perfectly all right. Example that was probably 1117 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:12.159 amongst the less exciting bands I saw the weekend when 1118 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:14.280 you again you strip back the particular ambience that their 1119 00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:18.000 records bring, but you know they were okay. But after that, 1120 00:59:18.039 --> 00:59:22.440 I saw a band called Mazarthin who Mazarrethim. I saw 1121 00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:25.679 their live debut at Cosmic Void Festival a couple of 1122 00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:29.000 years ago there from Australia, I believe. Again, so I 1123 00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:31.159 think they're probably surely their second time in the UK. 1124 00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:34.840 I imagine they probably not played that many shows across the 1125 00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:36.400 world because they're kind of band who would turn up 1126 00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.239 for again the sort of exclusive bookings and stuff, and 1127 00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:39.360 this is the kind of stuff you get to see 1128 00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:41.000 at Fortress, right, It's like, how many times do these 1129 00:59:41.039 --> 00:59:44.599 bands come through? The answer is definitely not regularly. And 1130 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:50.920 Mazartham are a kind of like they're very space themed. 1131 00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.400 They're on the more kind of atmospheric end of black metal, 1132 00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:58.400 but with you know, a very cosmic approach. Famously, if 1133 00:59:58.440 --> 00:59:59.719 you have seen them live, like when I saw them 1134 00:59:59.840 --> 01:00:02.599 cous Avoid a couple of years ago, the frontman he 1135 01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:04.960 almost could be again the kind of post Maguire hooded 1136 01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:09.880 esque figure, except in his facial area where normally there's 1137 01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:11.400 just a black hood. He has like some kind of 1138 01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:15.559 weird l D plate that creates a swirling galaxy, so 1139 01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:17.559 he's Milky Way face basically, and he has like this 1140 01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:21.280 animated moving galaxy face, which is pretty good. It's a unique, 1141 01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:25.440 you know, visual gimmick for the band. But primarily sonically, 1142 01:00:26.360 --> 01:00:27.599 I say they have those bits of like you know, 1143 01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.960 atmospheric black metal or whatever, but rather than being super ambient, 1144 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:35.320 they have like synths and I'm talking since right, like 1145 01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:40.440 there's genuine, palpable heavy influence from trance music in what 1146 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:42.119 they do. There was one song they played where it's 1147 01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:46.679 literally like a genuine trance beat songs and the more 1148 01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:48.800 straight haired black metal songs they do often have these 1149 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:53.840 full synth lead melodies that are like one of them, 1150 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:57.280 amind me a cross faith. That's the kind of synth 1151 01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:00.559 that we're talking And when you're fully imercer a black 1152 01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:03.119 beetle environment, it does stand out right, It's like, whoa, 1153 01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:04.559 this is not a synth I would expect to be 1154 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:07.559 here in here, but for how like seemingly out of 1155 01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:09.840 character you would imagine that to be. People loved them, 1156 01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:11.800 like it went down really really well, and I think 1157 01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:14.880 it ended up being a cool case of like this 1158 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:18.320 is a in the scheme of like all music that exists, right, 1159 01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.199 this is such a tiny niche thing. Like they've got 1160 01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:24.239 like five thousand monthly listeners on Spotify something like that, 1161 01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:26.119 and that probably puts them in the upper half of 1162 01:01:26.119 --> 01:01:29.400 the band who are playing Fortress Festival overall. But if 1163 01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:32.960 you can afford a band like this the capabilities to 1164 01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:34.760 put on a big show right where there again in 1165 01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:37.239 a big grand main Sage Victorian theater, they had like 1166 01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:39.239 colored smoke coming up and stuf. Obviously they've got the 1167 01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:41.719 spacey visuals with the guy with his you know galaxy 1168 01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:45.559 face and screen behind him and all that. It was like, Oh, 1169 01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:49.599 a band who have probably played fucking twenty shows top 1170 01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:52.320 around the world in I haven't looked at how many 1171 01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:54.400 they've done since I saw them for the first time 1172 01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:57.440 two years ago. But like, in the right environment, you 1173 01:01:57.639 --> 01:02:00.000 formed the capability they can actually put on like USh 1174 01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.599 show and people will come away. But going like that 1175 01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:05.559 was awesome. So that was a really nice affirming thing 1176 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:07.719 that happened, you know, witnessing that kind of thing at 1177 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:10.840 a place like Fortress. So mazarthin very cool if you 1178 01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:13.039 get a chance to see them live after that. On 1179 01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:15.119 the main stave is a band called oss Out. Another 1180 01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:17.000 thing with Fortress is you are going to struggle to 1181 01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:20.119 pronounce most of the names. I'm not definitely not saying 1182 01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:23.400 that correctly. It's a O double S A E R T. 1183 01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:26.480 I believe they're a Dutch band. One of them plays 1184 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:29.280 in Dodds Reat because also in the Underwear Black that 1185 01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:31.360 I was seen, every person will play in at least 1186 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:33.760 three bands, but this is like someone who plays in 1187 01:02:33.800 --> 01:02:35.880 Dodds Rey and it has kind of some of the 1188 01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:38.400 punk in it that you associate with that. But while 1189 01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:42.920 Dodds Rey is very like powerful and surging and melodic. 1190 01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:46.519 You know, this is like the very dark sort of 1191 01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:49.239 flip side of it, like very you know, dank atmosphere, 1192 01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:53.559 some like organ melodies stuff like that, like pretty you know, 1193 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:56.000 Dodds Rey is mighty, whereas this is evil. You know, 1194 01:02:56.440 --> 01:02:59.639 they will kind of hit a sort of repetitive blast, 1195 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:02.920 you know, underpinning, and then it will become quite hypnotic 1196 01:03:03.159 --> 01:03:05.440 through that, and I did find myself like drifting away 1197 01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:09.920 several times through it. People mention them quite a lot. 1198 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:12.000 When it came to like the highlights of the festival 1199 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:13.639 and what bads people enjoyed the most, A lot of 1200 01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:16.480 people said them, I didn't really feel that way that 1201 01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:19.159 strongly about it, but you know, they went down really well. 1202 01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:21.079 I was intrigued too. After that. Go back to the 1203 01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:23.519 Ocean Room to see a band called Midnight Odyssey, who 1204 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.000 I don't know if they have ever played the UK, 1205 01:03:26.119 --> 01:03:28.920 but they are abound who I first heard of several 1206 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:32.199 years ago because the main guy who like arranges their 1207 01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:36.679 music helped arrange some of the like extra layer stuff 1208 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:41.360 on the Cata Decapitation records. So I'm talking like the 1209 01:03:41.559 --> 01:03:44.920 like the more epic tracks from like their later records 1210 01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:47.159 when they start introducing like the bits of you know, 1211 01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:49.960 synth and symphonic touches and stuff like that. The guy 1212 01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:51.559 from Midi Odyssey is someone who has like you know, 1213 01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:53.960 been involved with that, so that's how I heard of them. 1214 01:03:54.119 --> 01:03:56.280 And as you would imagine, like his black metal band 1215 01:03:56.440 --> 01:03:59.559 is like, you know, that kind of vibe, big grand 1216 01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:02.960 you know, basic melodies brought into a black metal contact, 1217 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:05.199 which is obviously very very natural, and they had you know, 1218 01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:07.400 like decent guitar melodies and stuff coming through. The thing 1219 01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:11.360 we've been obviously live is the rhythm section is entirely programmed, 1220 01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:13.199 like they've got three members on stage, but they're all 1221 01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:17.920 playing guitars. The drums and the bass are like you know, 1222 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:22.599 coming through their programs like kind of industrial leaning parts 1223 01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:26.199 and like whatever it was like the bass I think 1224 01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:29.119 was like so overpowering like the rest of what they 1225 01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:31.719 were doing. It's just had this like enormous fucking program 1226 01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:35.159 like rhythm section part kind of overbearing it. And then 1227 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:40.320 sometimes you could hear through the mix someone who made 1228 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:43.239 a mistake and the click track that they were clearly 1229 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:46.679 playing to was coming through in the sound, and so 1230 01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:48.920 you'd have this big swamped out basically mix, but you 1231 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:53.480 would just here occasionally like going through the mixes of 1232 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:55.559 people like is that the fucking is that the metronome 1233 01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:56.960 they're playing to it that I could hear in the mix. 1234 01:04:57.320 --> 01:04:58.760 And it got to the point where, like the band 1235 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:02.159 themselves on social media after was after set, they were 1236 01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:03.880 like thanks to everyone who you know came out to 1237 01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:05.599 our set. And then they were just like posting like 1238 01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:08.480 little sheepish memes and little call it's about to be 1239 01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:11.119 like sorry about the click track. Someone fucked up, you know. 1240 01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:16.199 So Midnight Odose's metronome was I think the main character 1241 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:19.840 of the set, but there you go. After that was 1242 01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:23.519 for me, the first big band of the weekend, which 1243 01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:27.440 is Aca Cocker, who were billed as playing a Kornson 1244 01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:32.840 set at this festival. And Aca Cocker are a band 1245 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.280 who I think at the moment have kind of turned 1246 01:05:35.480 --> 01:05:40.039 into a like they've reverted reverted to a more nostalgic 1247 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:44.199 period at the moment in that they made a big 1248 01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:48.000 return in the mid twenty tens and they came back 1249 01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:49.960 off like a decade of inactivity and they released a 1250 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:53.119 new record called Renaissance in Extremists, which was really fucking 1251 01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:56.320 cool and added something new and distinct onto the Aca 1252 01:05:56.360 --> 01:06:00.239 Cocker catalog. And it was great having Aca cocka backer round. 1253 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:01.760 I got to see them for the first time, you know, 1254 01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:04.360 during that period because they had been inactive, and to 1255 01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:06.920 me they're one of the great extreme metal bands ever, 1256 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:09.760 but certainly that this country is they're produced. It was 1257 01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:11.159 such a joy you see them so many times, as 1258 01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:13.280 it still is such a joy seeing them so many times. 1259 01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:16.400 But in the last like you know, in the twenties, 1260 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:20.960 they have kind of they've slowed on any sign of 1261 01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:25.199 continuing to release more music, and generally when they've played 1262 01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:30.199 it has been more backwards leaning. So they've done sets, 1263 01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:32.639 you know, performing the go A Mendez album in full 1264 01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:34.440 I've seen them do, and then they moved on to 1265 01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:36.719 doing korans On, which is like their big classic. And 1266 01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:37.960 this is now the second time I've seen them do 1267 01:06:37.960 --> 01:06:40.360 wo korans Are because they did it on its actual 1268 01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:43.400 twentieth anniversary at Damnation in twenty twenty three, and then 1269 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:45.119 here we are three later years later and they just 1270 01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:48.320 got bill to do it again at Fortress. And I 1271 01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:51.320 would love to see Aca Cocker, particularly as voices who 1272 01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:53.159 were the sort of the sister band, but Voices seem 1273 01:06:53.199 --> 01:06:54.559 to have like, you know, taken a step back and 1274 01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:58.440 disappeared and no longer seemed to be around. So I 1275 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:01.039 would love to see Aca Cocker, you know, return to 1276 01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:03.480 being a creative band right and putting out new music, 1277 01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:06.119 because they've still got it as far as I'm concerned. 1278 01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:09.320 But I'm not mad about seeing Kornson again because it 1279 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:12.440 is one of the greatest records ever and you know, 1280 01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.960 at odd festival appearances because they're not regularly touring, it's 1281 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:18.880 just they'll pop up here and there, so to you 1282 01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:20.840 take the chance that you get to see it. They 1283 01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:23.239 were the one forum talk I went to this year. 1284 01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:25.199 They have another there's another stage where they put on 1285 01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:28.320 on the one day like sort of interview panel type 1286 01:07:29.880 --> 01:07:31.760 talks like in the past. I've been to ones with 1287 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:35.639 tom Ju Warrior Uh and you know, Fenn and several bands. 1288 01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:36.800 And the one that went to this year was the 1289 01:07:36.840 --> 01:07:39.039 Akakoka one because they were talking all about you know, 1290 01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:41.159 the Koranson period and making that record, which is, you know, 1291 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:43.840 as I said, a record that I absolutely adore. If 1292 01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:45.760 you've heard our album club that we did when they 1293 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.559 played it the last time three years ago, and they have, 1294 01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:50.519 you know, some great stories about that time period. I 1295 01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:54.079 asked them a question about the liner notes, the photos 1296 01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.679 of them inside the Cornson album, which if you own 1297 01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:59.480 that album, are infamous because they are incredible photos. I've 1298 01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:02.679 spoken about before. It's them all in the suits but 1299 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:05.480 in like old country houses surrounded by latex models and 1300 01:08:05.480 --> 01:08:08.159 it's nuts and it's a it's a wild phot and 1301 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:10.320 I asked them about that. So that was fun. But 1302 01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:15.639 the environment of again an old Victorian theater basically like 1303 01:08:15.679 --> 01:08:18.720 the Scarborough Spa is where Fortune Festival takes place, and 1304 01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:21.479 it's it's a grand location, you know, like it's a 1305 01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:26.239 really beautiful place. And there's something particularly delicious about saying 1306 01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:30.319 about like Aca Coca there, who famously with the you know, 1307 01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:32.560 the kind of the presentation of particularly that during the 1308 01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:34.159 era that they're kind of throwing back to with the 1309 01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:37.640 sets like the corns Onzet. They have this you know, 1310 01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:43.760 Victorian gentleman suited sort of appearance but doing this like 1311 01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:49.199 satanic cult you know, like the occult societies that exist 1312 01:08:49.239 --> 01:08:52.960 behind closed doors in you know, English high society. That's 1313 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:55.079 kind of the vibe of Aca Cocker and so seeing 1314 01:08:55.079 --> 01:08:57.720 it presented in this way where you know they're in 1315 01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:01.199 the suits. But they also had the the album Coronzon 1316 01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:02.760 and it starts with a track Praise the Name of Satan, 1317 01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:05.119 and it has like a two or three minute long 1318 01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:09.159 sample at the beginning from a Hammer House of Horror 1319 01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:11.920 episode and it's all about like a just what I've 1320 01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:13.560 described right, like a sort of a old you know, 1321 01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.680 satanic cult coming together and doing their ceremonies and stuff, 1322 01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:19.319 and it builds in this insane way. But they had 1323 01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:23.880 like they played that entire clip behind them to then 1324 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:28.359 lead them into the beginning of the set, which on record, 1325 01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:29.920 when it goes to the Praise Name of Satan fucking 1326 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.520 nutty sounding. This was slightly jarring because when they started, 1327 01:09:32.520 --> 01:09:33.960 no one could hear the guitars. That they had this 1328 01:09:34.159 --> 01:09:38.239 like full again intro lead in and then this crazy 1329 01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:40.239 drum fill building, but the only thing anyone could hear 1330 01:09:40.279 --> 01:09:41.680 was the drums. It was like guitars were just sort 1331 01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:43.399 of missing for a moment, and there were a few 1332 01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:45.800 comments that floated around, like, oh, Acoca sounded really bad. 1333 01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:48.800 It was only the like literally the beginning, I think, 1334 01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:52.399 like they came in and it wasn't that audible, and 1335 01:09:52.439 --> 01:09:54.840 then they fixed it by the next song, and it 1336 01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:56.920 sounded brilliant from there, so I don't think it should 1337 01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:01.840 be inflated too much, but just so brutal from there 1338 01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:06.239 with the parts that in a black metal environment getting 1339 01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:08.520 about ACA cocka who do have those like brutal death 1340 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:12.880 metal kind of suffocation, you know, Morman angel esque death 1341 01:10:12.920 --> 01:10:16.600 metal riffs really hits a particular spot coming through. You've 1342 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:19.800 got Jason Krab walking everywhere. You've got that mix of 1343 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:25.319 you know, dramatic proclamation vocals and the death metal vocals 1344 01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:27.840 some of the closest things to like big vocal chiming 1345 01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.520 hook moments with you know, if you've heard the song Leviathan, 1346 01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:32.840 things like that, I wish to be alone with my God. 1347 01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:35.680 All of this stuff. It was fucking awesome from there. 1348 01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:42.039 David Gray, ridiculous, fucking battery, blasts of drumming, just pommeling 1349 01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:48.600 you so insistently. Sam who in his secondary role as 1350 01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:52.439 AKA cocka keyboardist, his primary role as ACA cocka hype man, 1351 01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:55.760 just he throws himself into with such a band and 1352 01:10:56.399 --> 01:10:59.760 brilliant and we did on the show like a week 1353 01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:04.560 or ago, reported that one of their most recent bass players, 1354 01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:08.079 Feder Rico Bellini really just unfortunately passed away, also based 1355 01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:11.079 player in Malthusian and a whole number of other, uh, 1356 01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:14.199 you know, this corner of our world death metal bands, 1357 01:11:14.399 --> 01:11:16.680 and so they dedicated the set to him, and that 1358 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:19.520 was obviously a really nice moment as well. So despite 1359 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:24.399 minor hiccups, the pure animated energy that they came at 1360 01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:27.560 it with and the genius of that record as well, 1361 01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:29.800 Like what a special band. If you are you know 1362 01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:32.319 someone who's in the US waiting to see this at 1363 01:11:32.439 --> 01:11:34.880 Maryland death Fest, I trust that it will fucking rip 1364 01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:37.319 because just one of the greats, like absolutely one of 1365 01:11:37.319 --> 01:11:40.520 the greats, really really special band, really special record. And 1366 01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:42.920 as much as I would like them to put out 1367 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:46.319 some more new material at some point, it's a pleasure 1368 01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:48.279 still on a privilege still to have them around so 1369 01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:51.760 regularly over here and doing wicked things like these. And 1370 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:54.560 speaking of wicked things, after this, the second from the 1371 01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:56.439 top band on the first day of the festival proper 1372 01:11:56.800 --> 01:11:59.960 was Don Hims Guard and DoD Heims Guard were perform 1373 01:12:00.039 --> 01:12:04.600 forming a set of Black Medium Current, their latest album 1374 01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:06.760 from twenty twenty three. If you're a long time listeners 1375 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:09.359 of ours, I'm sure that you've heard our various discussions 1376 01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:11.399 around that record when it came out. It was a 1377 01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:13.960 delicious thing to get our teeth into back when that 1378 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:16.119 record was coming out. And I think that this speaks 1379 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.039 to the kind of thing that you can look to 1380 01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:22.880 events like Fortress to showcase essentially because by Meiding Current 1381 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:28.279 is a three year old record. But one of the 1382 01:12:28.279 --> 01:12:32.880 cool things I think about being really involved in, you know, 1383 01:12:32.920 --> 01:12:35.279 a subculture is kind of off the beaten path, as 1384 01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:39.920 black metal for example, is you can still see and 1385 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:43.800 feel in real time when classics are canonized, you know, 1386 01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:46.640 and when a record comes out and people within that 1387 01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:49.600 world and that niche speak on mass about like that's 1388 01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:52.760 a really special record, and then three years later it 1389 01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:56.000 hasn't been consumed by the content cycle. You know, people 1390 01:12:56.119 --> 01:12:58.640 still talk about it that way, and like I said, 1391 01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:02.760 people from across the will go they're playing that record 1392 01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:05.680 at that festival. I have to buy a plane ticket 1393 01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:08.800 and go. And that was the vibe that you got 1394 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:14.159 with this, where it is a niche underground recent but 1395 01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:18.880 solidified in that classic record and people wanted to fucking 1396 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:21.359 see it, you know, people wanted to be there to 1397 01:13:22.520 --> 01:13:26.239 witness that. That's what's happened with with Black Medium Current. 1398 01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:29.000 It was massively acclaimed when it came out, but here 1399 01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:33.359 we are and it's become the draw that people wanted 1400 01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:35.640 to be there and be part of it. It's one 1401 01:13:35.680 --> 01:13:38.159 of I would say, two bookings at Fortress this year 1402 01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:41.439 that felt like the really special, like this is a 1403 01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:44.439 privilege to be here seeing this bookings the kind that 1404 01:13:44.479 --> 01:13:47.560 people are you know, upending their lives and flying across 1405 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:50.520 oceans to do. And this one is for an album 1406 01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:52.079 that's just three years old. You know, it's not something 1407 01:13:52.119 --> 01:13:55.159 that people have a long standing you know, relationship from 1408 01:13:55.159 --> 01:13:58.560 their childhoods from or fucking whatever. It's something this essensibly new, 1409 01:13:58.920 --> 01:14:01.159 but people really wanted to see it. And I saw 1410 01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:04.439 DoD Heims Guard a couple of years ago doing a 1411 01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:07.000 all nineties set. Is what that turned out to be. 1412 01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:10.960 Like they only played up to they stopped at sixty 1413 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.319 six to six International, and that was chaos, like that 1414 01:14:14.439 --> 01:14:17.920 fucking Vicotnick cracking mic stands around and just being like 1415 01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:22.119 a crazy goblin. It was a really like violent, you know, 1416 01:14:22.279 --> 01:14:25.319 erratic kind of set. In a great way. This was 1417 01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:27.479 the other side of the spectrum. You know, this is 1418 01:14:27.800 --> 01:14:31.680 the grand DoD Heims Guard that the Majestic DoD Heims 1419 01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:34.960 Guard still weird in the they turn up and you go, well, 1420 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:41.399 the guitarists painted green. They've got a guy who's just 1421 01:14:41.479 --> 01:14:44.800 wearing a white rotten Christ t shirt and a balaklava 1422 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:48.600 on the keyboards just in the corner set up there, 1423 01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:51.520 and then Vicotnick at the center who is also painted 1424 01:14:51.560 --> 01:14:54.239 green like underneath, but he has like a red wedding 1425 01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:57.079 veil over his head when he first comes out. He's 1426 01:14:57.079 --> 01:15:00.479 also got like a massive like gold hanging really low 1427 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:04.279 necklace like and he's still doing the thing that he 1428 01:15:04.439 --> 01:15:06.600 was doing when I saw him laugh, which is like 1429 01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:12.560 literally chucking like spreading incense and stuff and smoke around everywhere. 1430 01:15:12.600 --> 01:15:15.640 They've got three backing singers on stage for this set, 1431 01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:19.079 so they have about nine people total on stage, like 1432 01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:21.399 a real you know, like it's the don Heims Guard 1433 01:15:21.399 --> 01:15:24.119 fucking orchestra that's coming out to put on this record. 1434 01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:27.680 They had some wild visuals where it was like nineteen 1435 01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:32.359 twenties meets the Future basically, where they had like twenties 1436 01:15:32.439 --> 01:15:36.640 flapper dancers and they had like if you know the 1437 01:15:36.640 --> 01:15:39.000 film the man who laughs with with Conrad right, like 1438 01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:42.239 his character like appearing on screen, but like all superimposed 1439 01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:46.000 over like space, you know, like a weird kind of 1440 01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:49.560 a weird meeting of those two things going all around them, 1441 01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:53.840 like kind of psychedelic fashion. And the wild turns of 1442 01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:58.119 that record, like the ending of the first song when 1443 01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:00.439 you've had this you know, slow build, but then it 1444 01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:04.039 suddenly turns into a nineteen eighties like yacht rock prog 1445 01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:07.720 part brilliant and the parts where I now was just 1446 01:16:07.760 --> 01:16:10.239 descend into like a really oppressive drum and bass bit 1447 01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:13.000 for a little while and stuff like that. The song 1448 01:16:13.039 --> 01:16:15.039 it does not follow with like the jazz swing sections 1449 01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:17.640 at the start, like all those weird turns of the 1450 01:16:17.720 --> 01:16:21.520 like really vibrant imagination of that record, which I think 1451 01:16:21.600 --> 01:16:25.159 is what it fundamentally captures. All sounding great in the 1452 01:16:25.159 --> 01:16:28.760 live environment, like we're actually kind of dancing during parts 1453 01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:31.319 of it, but I kind of for that's sort of 1454 01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:33.000 hite expected. I kind of forgot, and this is the 1455 01:16:33.039 --> 01:16:36.439 primary part that came across live, how graceful that album is, 1456 01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:39.560 and parts like the big choir parts with the end 1457 01:16:39.560 --> 01:16:41.880 they've got the three backing vocals behind them with you know, 1458 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:44.680 for Cottonick at the front leading it. The big like 1459 01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:51.000 choir vocal, the almost wordless like the oh all that 1460 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:53.560 stuff that's happening in that record. And I'm looking around 1461 01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:58.199 and people are like singing, and this little band of 1462 01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:00.760 freaks from across the world. I suppose for whom this 1463 01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:04.680 record means something. You know, they've convened here for this, 1464 01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:07.920 and it was a real like, you know, kind of 1465 01:17:07.960 --> 01:17:11.560 spiritual just sort of letting out of the all the 1466 01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:16.920 strangeness and the again the complicated contradictions of a record 1467 01:17:17.279 --> 01:17:21.279 like that, but really been translated in such an incredibly 1468 01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:25.239 graceful way. It was a real moment of like like, yeah, 1469 01:17:25.560 --> 01:17:28.159 we have all come together to celebrate this only a 1470 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:31.279 couple of year old record, and it's being put on 1471 01:17:31.399 --> 01:17:36.359 with such a level of both professionalism and just like 1472 01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:39.880 genuine artistic majesty. It's mad as well that Dodheim's Guard 1473 01:17:39.960 --> 01:17:42.319 have had such long periods of their career where vi 1474 01:17:42.359 --> 01:17:44.439 Kopnik wasn't actually the front man, you know, and he's 1475 01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:48.000 like the musical genius arranger guy, but him being at 1476 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:49.800 the front is the most natural thing in the world. Like, 1477 01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:52.079 I've never seen them live without him, so I can't 1478 01:17:52.119 --> 01:17:54.079 speak to you know, when they had a Oldron in 1479 01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:56.319 the band for example, or you know Matt from Grove 1480 01:17:56.359 --> 01:17:58.640 Pleasures That Excess, et cetera, when they had him as 1481 01:17:58.680 --> 01:17:59.960 the front man. I can't speak to what those were, 1482 01:18:00.439 --> 01:18:02.960 but I can't imagine in the live environment them not 1483 01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:06.399 being fronted by him, because he is just the most 1484 01:18:06.479 --> 01:18:09.319 like your eyes are glued to him, Like he is 1485 01:18:09.640 --> 01:18:13.840 such an absolute magnet, like the most animated performer in 1486 01:18:13.880 --> 01:18:15.960 this sort of realm of music that you can imagine 1487 01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:18.479 in him conducting. Everything that was going on with this 1488 01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:21.159 was fucking wonderful. Like again, it was a real privilege 1489 01:18:21.159 --> 01:18:23.039 to see everyone came out of it being like, yeah, 1490 01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:25.760 that was so I know you're shaking your head, Mark, 1491 01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:27.520 you love that record. It was really cool. 1492 01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:31.359 I'm furious. I'm so jealous. I should have just gone 1493 01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:37.319 like that. Black Medium current Top five albums of the 1494 01:18:37.319 --> 01:18:38.760 twenty twenties so far. 1495 01:18:39.520 --> 01:18:41.079 Oh, I mean it was my number two. 1496 01:18:41.239 --> 01:18:42.640 Big, it's a big claim, but I don't think it's 1497 01:18:42.640 --> 01:18:44.439 out of the out of contention. 1498 01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:45.640 Yeah, it was my number two. 1499 01:18:45.680 --> 01:18:49.039 The Europe came out, it'd be number one, though, Like 1500 01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:54.520 like you say, it's such a stagger majestic, horrifying and 1501 01:18:54.640 --> 01:18:56.279 beautiful record all in one. 1502 01:18:56.439 --> 01:18:58.439 I love it. I wish I was there. 1503 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:01.319 Yeah, it was, like I said, they're pulling out the stops 1504 01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:03.760 to showcase it the way that I think. The thing 1505 01:19:03.800 --> 01:19:06.239 with things events like this is obviously they are underground 1506 01:19:06.239 --> 01:19:09.800 bands who aren't normally afforded a huge deal of budget, right, 1507 01:19:09.960 --> 01:19:11.880 And like yeah, like it wasn't It's not a Ramstein show. 1508 01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:14.119 That's not what I'm talking about, but just getting to 1509 01:19:14.119 --> 01:19:17.359 see bands who make music that, like I said, fucking 1510 01:19:17.479 --> 01:19:21.239 means a lot to people, but who aren't normally afforded 1511 01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:24.920 the spaces I suppose to, you know, put it on 1512 01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:27.720 the way that you could in your wildest dreams dream 1513 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:30.279 of is the kind of stuff that you can see 1514 01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:32.920 with things like Dodheim's guy doing this black Medium Current 1515 01:19:32.920 --> 01:19:35.119 set in an old Victorian theater with these incredible visuals 1516 01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:36.760 behind them and all this stuff and you know, three 1517 01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:39.079 backing singers on stage, and it was just it was 1518 01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:41.159 really fucking beautiful. It was lovely. And from there I 1519 01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:44.239 saw a band called Howedham Rife We're Just Not, which 1520 01:19:44.279 --> 01:19:48.479 is not so beautiful, but they are. I mentioned again 1521 01:19:48.520 --> 01:19:51.600 the sort of the more recent wave of that, you know, 1522 01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:54.520 the hooded or you can't see their faces at all. 1523 01:19:54.600 --> 01:19:56.920 Veiled black metal bands Hordede and Rife are one of 1524 01:19:56.960 --> 01:19:59.359 a couple of bands who you look at and they 1525 01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:02.560 are like black bands of a more traditional era in 1526 01:20:02.600 --> 01:20:05.319 that these are like long haired, corpse painted guys right 1527 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:08.319 like these are like the layman's understanding of what a 1528 01:20:08.359 --> 01:20:11.640 black metal band is. These are the traditions that about 1529 01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:13.439 at Horde and Rife are dealing with. I think the 1530 01:20:13.479 --> 01:20:16.520 Norwegian and it is like, you know, second wave style, 1531 01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:22.960 fucking evil, spiky, icy, corpse painted, et cetera. Like they 1532 01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:26.119 they could have been part of waves with Gorga Roth 1533 01:20:26.239 --> 01:20:28.159 or then you know the whole wave with Shooder and 1534 01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:30.760 these type bands coming forward like and they are decent 1535 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:33.960 band and they are pretty straightforward, and certainly in the 1536 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:36.520 live environment they're kind of one dimensional and that it is, 1537 01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:39.680 you know, that kind of just blasty, not the most 1538 01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:41.520 dynamic thing in the world black metal. But and it 1539 01:20:41.560 --> 01:20:43.119 was very warm in that room as well. That's the 1540 01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:45.399 thing with the Ocean room is it was it was 1541 01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:48.039 cooking in there, like it was it was very insulated 1542 01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:51.600 in there, which certainly for some bands might add a 1543 01:20:51.680 --> 01:20:55.159 level of a pressure, pressive hellishness but there you go. 1544 01:20:55.199 --> 01:20:59.720 But yeah, and wife were decent in supplying that really 1545 01:20:59.800 --> 01:21:02.760 like necro fix, you know what I mean. The headliner 1546 01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:04.800 of the first day of Fortress was Old Man's Child, 1547 01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:10.359 which is the band that recently has been reactivated, the 1548 01:21:10.399 --> 01:21:13.760 band of Golder who for a long time was in 1549 01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:17.159 Dimu BORGI. If you are even kind of casually familiar 1550 01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:19.439 with Dimu I guess you might recognize Golder. He's he 1551 01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:21.960 was the bald guitar arrested, the one you could always 1552 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:23.279 put him out there because he you know, he looked 1553 01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:23.920 different to the rest. 1554 01:21:23.800 --> 01:21:25.760 Of his tongue alicking a. 1555 01:21:25.880 --> 01:21:28.119 Yeah. All My Child was the band that he had 1556 01:21:28.119 --> 01:21:30.399 before Demu Borgil like he joined in I think maybe 1557 01:21:30.439 --> 01:21:33.079 the turn of the two thousand somewhere around there. This 1558 01:21:33.199 --> 01:21:38.159 is Nighties, similar style of symphonic you know, keyboard lad 1559 01:21:38.199 --> 01:21:41.199 in black metal, obviously differences. Dimu went so fucking enormous 1560 01:21:41.640 --> 01:21:43.359 with it, with like we're gonna work with the Prague 1561 01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:45.319 Philharmonic and we're gonna soundra liket hell Boy trailers and 1562 01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:47.000 all that kind of stuff. All My's Child is a 1563 01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:51.640 little more, you know, for the devotees of that that 1564 01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:56.119 that style more, you know, fundamentally with the the keyboards 1565 01:21:56.359 --> 01:22:00.119 and that kind of approach to that style. But if 1566 01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:03.039 you love that shit, which I do, all my child are, 1567 01:22:03.079 --> 01:22:05.520 I would say an essential name like to hear if 1568 01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:07.640 you love that shit like they're Runner records from the 1569 01:22:07.720 --> 01:22:09.520 late nineties going into kind of the early to mid 1570 01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:11.760 two thousands when they were at their peak of activity, 1571 01:22:12.520 --> 01:22:16.319 really fucking great in that world. And Golder recently left 1572 01:22:16.399 --> 01:22:19.079 Demi Borgear and just out of the blue revived or 1573 01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:21.359 Man's Child. I think he said he's working on new material, 1574 01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:24.079 but certainly the last year or sorry, they've been playing shows, 1575 01:22:24.600 --> 01:22:26.520 and for a start, I respect that in terms of 1576 01:22:26.600 --> 01:22:30.840 you have a tasty gig in Demie Borgia right, like 1577 01:22:30.960 --> 01:22:34.920 you are in one of the three biggest black metal 1578 01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:38.520 bands in the entire world, who can play enormous you know, 1579 01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:41.119 slots at a vacan or something like that, and leaving 1580 01:22:41.159 --> 01:22:43.720 that behind to play with your smaller band, but the 1581 01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:46.279 one that's your your baby and your passion project. I 1582 01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:48.159 think that's cool and I think there's something there's a 1583 01:22:48.239 --> 01:22:51.439 nice element to seeing Orban's Child come back through that. 1584 01:22:51.720 --> 01:22:54.920 The Golder demeanor that you described from Demu right, the 1585 01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:57.359 sort of goblin walk. He does that will head tilt 1586 01:22:57.359 --> 01:23:00.239 to the side with the tongue out, which obviously he 1587 01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:03.720 now has years of experience playing these big shows with Demu, 1588 01:23:03.800 --> 01:23:07.079 like he has played larger slots and larger shows than 1589 01:23:07.399 --> 01:23:10.680 I would imagine basically anyone else on the Fortress bill. 1590 01:23:11.479 --> 01:23:15.159 He brings that into old Man's Child. Now they're playing 1591 01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:18.359 these slots and it's like, yeah, you are you are 1592 01:23:18.439 --> 01:23:20.399 a great musician, but you're also one of the I 1593 01:23:20.439 --> 01:23:22.640 would say, the few people on this bill who is 1594 01:23:22.680 --> 01:23:25.119 like an entertainer, you know, and he can bring that 1595 01:23:25.520 --> 01:23:27.159 side to it. And that was all there. You know, 1596 01:23:27.439 --> 01:23:29.680 it's present. He can entertain and he can do this stuff, 1597 01:23:29.840 --> 01:23:31.359 and him as the the you know, the front man 1598 01:23:31.359 --> 01:23:34.399 as well, because he does the vocals a you know, 1599 01:23:34.479 --> 01:23:37.520 an engaging focal point. And they sounded great, like the 1600 01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:42.119 band were really tight and propulsive. The piano lines I mentioned, 1601 01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:44.439 like the big symphonic keyboard lines they have, they were 1602 01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:46.720 on track. They did not have like a live keyboardist 1603 01:23:46.840 --> 01:23:48.239 there with him. It was a four piece, you know, 1604 01:23:48.279 --> 01:23:51.159 metal band, and so the lead melodies of the songs 1605 01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:53.439 often being these you know, keyboard parts. You could sort 1606 01:23:53.479 --> 01:23:55.000 of tell that like, yeah, that's a track while the 1607 01:23:55.039 --> 01:23:58.359 band are live playing the you know, metal underpinning to it. 1608 01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:00.399 But like I said, the band were really really tight, 1609 01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:02.359 and they do have some songs that are they lean 1610 01:24:02.439 --> 01:24:04.800 more on the lead guitar melodies as well, like doom 1611 01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:07.159 Maker for example, and those sounded absolutely fantastic, and it 1612 01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:09.600 was a recent, you know, a good reminder of just 1613 01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:12.239 what a great catalog they have, where they covered a 1614 01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.359 lot of basses that the of you know, their their discography. 1615 01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:17.760 They opened with the song Towards Eternity, which is from 1616 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:21.479 Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion, and that has such a mischievous 1617 01:24:21.560 --> 01:24:25.279 nineties keyboard start, like I Am ascending like a wizard spire, 1618 01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:26.479 you know what I mean. And that's exactly what you 1619 01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:29.039 want to hear when you're entering this set. Lots of 1620 01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:31.680 songs off of the Pagan Prosperity, a couple songs from 1621 01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:35.039 Revelation six sixty six. They played the Sole Receiver from 1622 01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:37.319 In Defiance of Existence, which I would have liked a 1623 01:24:37.319 --> 01:24:38.880 little bit more of that record. I would have particularly 1624 01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:40.720 liked Felonies of the Christian Art, the opening track on 1625 01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:42.880 that record, which I was quite surprised they didn't play. 1626 01:24:43.960 --> 01:24:46.840 But you know, still good stuff. And then the latest 1627 01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:50.279 representative was from the album Vermin, which is like from 1628 01:24:50.319 --> 01:24:52.600 two thousand and five ish, I think a track called 1629 01:24:52.600 --> 01:24:54.680 Twilight Damnation, so a good like you know, decade span 1630 01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:58.399 of old bands child material. It's fun to go like, yeah, 1631 01:24:58.399 --> 01:25:00.640 this is our new song from tonight. It's from twenty 1632 01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:02.239 one years ago, but there you go. And I just 1633 01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:05.600 thought it was cool that we're at a moment right 1634 01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:08.640 now at the last kind of two three years. This 1635 01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:13.239 sort of style of like late nineties you know, orchestral 1636 01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:16.560 symphonic black metal before it got fully you know, dem 1637 01:25:16.600 --> 01:25:19.079 U Cradle style, like massive and overblown, but like the 1638 01:25:19.119 --> 01:25:22.800 more underground variant of it, I suppose has become a 1639 01:25:23.319 --> 01:25:25.760 like a bit of a trend for bands to revive 1640 01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:27.720 a little bit. So most obviously we have like the 1641 01:25:27.760 --> 01:25:30.399 new Worm album, for example, from the beginning of this year, 1642 01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:33.560 which is like one of the most raved about underground 1643 01:25:33.560 --> 01:25:36.880 records of this year. The upcoming storm Keep album also 1644 01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:38.279 it looks like it's going to be very much in 1645 01:25:38.279 --> 01:25:42.439 that kind of like late nineties style, you know, cheesy 1646 01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:44.039 but in a great way that lots of us love, 1647 01:25:44.159 --> 01:25:47.199 you know, sort of symphonic black metal. That stuff is, 1648 01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:49.640 you know, sort of it in again at the moment, 1649 01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:52.399 and so it's cool to have one of the ogs 1650 01:25:52.800 --> 01:25:55.239 of this style essentially coming back and being like, yeah, 1651 01:25:55.359 --> 01:25:57.800 this is how the ship was back then. This is 1652 01:25:57.800 --> 01:26:01.159 why it's still great, you know, and really great to 1653 01:26:01.199 --> 01:26:04.479 see that, and also a booking as the headline act 1654 01:26:04.560 --> 01:26:07.239 that no one else would have gotten that. You know, 1655 01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:10.640 there's no other festival apart from the London based ones 1656 01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:12.359 like your Cosmic Voids, et cetera, who do get some 1657 01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:14.640 of these things, but like it's one of those things 1658 01:26:14.640 --> 01:26:17.520 where for a headline booking, lots of other festivals would 1659 01:26:17.520 --> 01:26:19.000 look from the outside and be like Old Man's Child, 1660 01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:20.600 Who the fuck is that? Who cares? Yeah, you know 1661 01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:22.880 what I mean. But Fortress can go, yeah, we're going 1662 01:26:22.920 --> 01:26:24.800 to book that to headline because we know that there 1663 01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:28.319 are enough people who will converge for whom this means something, 1664 01:26:28.520 --> 01:26:31.720 you know, and lots of people, I presume seeing Old 1665 01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:33.079 Man's Child for the first time because they've been in 1666 01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:38.039 active for fifteen twenty years something like that was a 1667 01:26:38.039 --> 01:26:41.720 celebration of a great little a great band and a 1668 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:44.039 great little corner of you know, the black metal universe 1669 01:26:44.119 --> 01:26:46.439 that we all enjoy. So that was a nice, just 1670 01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:49.600 good vibes's way essentially with a great entertainment, like I said, 1671 01:26:49.600 --> 01:26:51.720 like golda to send us home on the first day. 1672 01:26:51.880 --> 01:26:55.680 The second day started off with this is a fucking 1673 01:26:56.680 --> 01:27:01.640 grand heavy way to start the day, started off twelve 1674 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:06.760 pm with a Forest of Stars who this was this 1675 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:09.840 is their first show back after so we reviewed the 1676 01:27:09.840 --> 01:27:14.239 new record last week and I think that's my second 1677 01:27:14.239 --> 01:27:16.800 favorite album of the year right now, Like I absolutely, 1678 01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:19.680 I'm I'm in awe of it. It's brilliant and talking 1679 01:27:19.720 --> 01:27:21.199 to people what because I didn't know if that was 1680 01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:23.039 Dutch just me or whatever. I know. Obviously Elliot liked 1681 01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:26.319 have and reviewed it, but talking to people around sits, 1682 01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:28.640 I got the vibe what I was saying about Black 1683 01:27:28.640 --> 01:27:30.239 Median Current and the way people were like, this is 1684 01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:32.680 a fucking classic, right this has been candonized. Obviously we're 1685 01:27:32.880 --> 01:27:36.880 very very early with the Forestars record, but people love it. 1686 01:27:36.920 --> 01:27:39.159 In a similar way, I'm kind of gathering like everyone 1687 01:27:39.159 --> 01:27:41.039 who I spoke everyone who I spoke to, was like 1688 01:27:41.079 --> 01:27:44.720 that a Forest of Stars record is fucking unbelievable, and 1689 01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:47.720 I think that again it's a niche thing, but seeing 1690 01:27:48.119 --> 01:27:50.000 you know, being around people who are all, like, we 1691 01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:51.680 need to see this band. They're very first band on, 1692 01:27:51.720 --> 01:27:53.399 but we need to see them because their new record 1693 01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:57.000 is so spectacular, similar vibes, right, and really wonderful to 1694 01:27:57.000 --> 01:27:58.720 see that building up for them, particularly because, as I 1695 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:01.319 was just saying, this is their first show back after 1696 01:28:01.399 --> 01:28:04.880 their like long gap between records. Basically this was then, 1697 01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:06.039 you know, they put out the record and this and 1698 01:28:06.039 --> 01:28:08.199 then returned to the stage after a few years, uh 1699 01:28:08.239 --> 01:28:11.520 and showcasing it. And it's one of those where like 1700 01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:14.520 this was booked I don't know, a year ago, maybe 1701 01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:16.199 I don't know when the exactly they booked this. I 1702 01:28:16.319 --> 01:28:19.239 wonder if they were to book this again, knowing how 1703 01:28:19.279 --> 01:28:21.399 well the album has been received, whether they'd give them 1704 01:28:21.439 --> 01:28:24.520 the Dodheims Guard treatment of like here's a seventy minute slot, Yeah, 1705 01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:27.079 to fucking play the whole thing, because they were opening, 1706 01:28:27.119 --> 01:28:30.000 they had forty minutes, that's you know, I think it 1707 01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:33.600 was forty five minutes. Actually, I would have loved to 1708 01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:36.520 have seen them. Genuinely. I understand why it wasn't booked 1709 01:28:36.520 --> 01:28:37.840 that way, because, like I said, it was booked long 1710 01:28:37.840 --> 01:28:39.520 before the record came out, and you've got to move 1711 01:28:39.560 --> 01:28:41.199 things around and all of that, but it would have 1712 01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:42.920 been amazing to see, Like if they'd done that, I 1713 01:28:42.920 --> 01:28:45.399 think this could have rivaled the Dodheims Guard set because 1714 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:48.479 just the forty five minutes they played was really something. 1715 01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:52.079 They played Ascension of the Clowns, which is the opening 1716 01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:55.920 track from the new record. They played Root Circle Usurper 1717 01:28:56.079 --> 01:28:58.359 from the new record. They then they played Drawing Down 1718 01:28:58.399 --> 01:29:01.520 the Moon from the Way the Sword you Cannot See record, 1719 01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:04.079 which is also like a masterpiece of a song. And 1720 01:29:04.119 --> 01:29:06.600 then they ended on the closing track on the new record, 1721 01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:09.880 not Drinking Water, and just for those film and it's 1722 01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:13.920 those four songs. It was really I've seen the Forestars before, 1723 01:29:14.039 --> 01:29:16.560 but this was, like I said, seeing them in the 1724 01:29:16.680 --> 01:29:19.399 kind of environment where they're really made for it, where 1725 01:29:19.600 --> 01:29:22.159 similar to dott Heheims Guard, they're an impressive bunch of 1726 01:29:22.159 --> 01:29:25.640 people on stage right where you've got keyboardists, you've got 1727 01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:28.720 two guitarists, you've got a violinist who's also you know, 1728 01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:32.760 singing the female vocal parts. You've got mister Curse himself 1729 01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:38.399 stood center stage like a lot you know to take in. 1730 01:29:38.880 --> 01:29:40.880 And that's before as well that the visuals that they 1731 01:29:40.920 --> 01:29:43.720 had behind them really like if you look at like 1732 01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:47.199 the art style of the new record and these psychedelic 1733 01:29:47.640 --> 01:29:50.359 paintings and stuff, which I think might be done by 1734 01:29:50.800 --> 01:29:54.199 mister Curse himself, the vocalist. They had, like so they 1735 01:29:54.199 --> 01:29:56.079 had the new record on vinyl with them, but they 1736 01:29:56.119 --> 01:29:58.840 had I think limited to four copies. They were like, 1737 01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:01.920 we've got copies of the record, but these four copies 1738 01:30:02.279 --> 01:30:05.279 we've got like we've encased it in like each one 1739 01:30:05.520 --> 01:30:10.039 individually hand painted like wooden artwork stuff. And it was 1740 01:30:10.039 --> 01:30:11.800 like one hundred and fifty quid or something. But like, 1741 01:30:11.840 --> 01:30:13.920 if you are real, you know, forrest of stars head, 1742 01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:16.640 do you want like the most crazy bespoke four of 1743 01:30:16.640 --> 01:30:18.479 them that exist in the world with these like you know, 1744 01:30:18.600 --> 01:30:22.520 I said, each one different painted, you know, visual They 1745 01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:26.479 had those there, but those psychedelic visual kind of paintings 1746 01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:29.960 and stuff all around again like on the behind them, 1747 01:30:29.960 --> 01:30:32.439 on the stage and around them. Like it was a 1748 01:30:32.520 --> 01:30:37.319 trippy vibe and that like real psych rock, prog rock 1749 01:30:37.439 --> 01:30:40.840 kind of edge that they're coming at that new record with, 1750 01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:45.399 but mixed in with like those wonderful violin melodies that 1751 01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:47.960 she plays against these really great you know, black metal 1752 01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:54.279 guitar lines and of course really like emotionally engaged vocal 1753 01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:57.039 performance like that. I can't imagine that you could ever 1754 01:30:57.159 --> 01:31:00.760 half ass performing that way, you know what I mean. 1755 01:31:01.199 --> 01:31:03.600 He obviously did hit the poop Poop the chew choo 1756 01:31:03.640 --> 01:31:06.439 from the the album and I enjoyed that. But the 1757 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:08.239 vigor of which he was coming out that with and 1758 01:31:08.279 --> 01:31:11.920 then particularly into the closing track not Drinking Water, which 1759 01:31:11.960 --> 01:31:14.560 I mentioned on the review last week, is it feels 1760 01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:18.000 like the uh, the emotional kind of center point of 1761 01:31:18.079 --> 01:31:20.600 the new record. You could hear like a pin drop 1762 01:31:20.720 --> 01:31:23.039 during the quiet passages of it, Like the Fortress audience 1763 01:31:23.119 --> 01:31:26.079 is genuinely really respectful to the band when they have 1764 01:31:26.159 --> 01:31:28.199 these like you know, quiet passages and stuff like that. 1765 01:31:28.199 --> 01:31:30.600 But it was like everyone's really life just enraptured in 1766 01:31:30.640 --> 01:31:33.039 that moment. And then the climax from when that song 1767 01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:36.000 built up again just like it did bring a bit 1768 01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:37.600 of a tear to the eye, like they were really 1769 01:31:37.640 --> 01:31:40.720 wonderful and they are doing a this is just a 1770 01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:42.560 public service and that might I suppose for anyone who 1771 01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:44.680 has just got into this band with the new record. 1772 01:31:44.840 --> 01:31:47.399 They are doing a UK headline tour in November in 1773 01:31:47.479 --> 01:31:50.279 some small venues and a handful of cities in the UK, 1774 01:31:50.439 --> 01:31:52.680 So please pick up a ticket if if you love 1775 01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:54.479 that record and you want to go out and check 1776 01:31:54.479 --> 01:31:56.880 them out, because it was I definitely would be going 1777 01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:58.600 because I want more, you know, I've been on a 1778 01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:01.560 real kick with this band lately, and yeah, seeing them 1779 01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:04.279 open the day with forty five minutes of just Absolute 1780 01:32:04.439 --> 01:32:08.600 Wonder was really really great. From there, I'm going to 1781 01:32:08.680 --> 01:32:10.840 detour into something else that was going on, So I 1782 01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:14.119 mentioned that there is the third stage at Fortress where 1783 01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:17.720 they tend to alternate between doing the I say this 1784 01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:20.920 kind of forum talks the panels on the one day 1785 01:32:21.159 --> 01:32:24.359 and then the other day. They've taken to kind of 1786 01:32:24.399 --> 01:32:30.119 like booking something that's not metal but fits into the 1787 01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:34.039 you know, is culturally connected to black metal. So last 1788 01:32:34.119 --> 01:32:36.960 year they had a bunch of neofolk acts playing and 1789 01:32:37.000 --> 01:32:38.359 I saw a couple of those last year and that 1790 01:32:38.399 --> 01:32:39.720 was really nice. You know, it was cool to see 1791 01:32:39.800 --> 01:32:43.359 again in a smaller, more intimate setting. So there's like 1792 01:32:43.399 --> 01:32:45.680 acoustic music and stuff like that, but that fits in 1793 01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:49.039 the you know, folky black metal kind of framework. This year, 1794 01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:51.000 they didn't do the Neophix bands. They booked a bunch 1795 01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:55.640 of Dungeons In Acts headlined by the literal god of 1796 01:32:55.680 --> 01:33:00.960 the genre, Mortis, the absolute goblin himself. Who I did 1797 01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:03.960 not see Mortis sadly because I it was my only 1798 01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:06.159 actual like clash of the festival, really is. I wanted 1799 01:33:06.159 --> 01:33:08.680 to see the band who were on during Mortis. I 1800 01:33:08.680 --> 01:33:11.520 have seen Mortis doing like an Era one set before 1801 01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:13.159 a few years ago when he supported in Mayhem, so 1802 01:33:13.199 --> 01:33:15.520 that's why I went elsewhere. But Mortis was headlining it. Who, 1803 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:18.960 like I said, the pioneer, the god of the genre. 1804 01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:20.880 So if you like dungeon synth, that is you're scene, 1805 01:33:20.960 --> 01:33:24.880 then you can't get you know, more legitimate than that. Basically, 1806 01:33:25.199 --> 01:33:27.319 I did get a photo with Mortis because I saw 1807 01:33:27.359 --> 01:33:31.560 him hanging out and I very very rarely like ask 1808 01:33:31.640 --> 01:33:33.840 for photos with band members, but I saw a couple 1809 01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:34.760 of people do it before me, and I was like, 1810 01:33:34.800 --> 01:33:36.319 I've got to get a photo with Mortis. Come on, 1811 01:33:36.880 --> 01:33:38.920 is fucking more. It's fucking Mortois. 1812 01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:40.680 It's like of James Headfield. 1813 01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:43.720 Was there exactly for Dungeons In's heads That's literally true, 1814 01:33:43.760 --> 01:33:48.239 that's exactly. But I did. I was curious to check 1815 01:33:48.279 --> 01:33:50.119 out earlier in the day. You know, some of the 1816 01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:53.319 other Dungeon says acts because I appreciate the sound of 1817 01:33:53.399 --> 01:33:55.600 dungeon sin like I know it kind of is a 1818 01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:57.800 punchline to a degree from the outside because of how 1819 01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:01.439 just like cartoonishly dork it is. And I understand that, 1820 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:04.359 and I say that with absolute love. I do generally 1821 01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:07.720 I appreciate the sound of dungeon synth. I particularly love 1822 01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:11.960 when it is a component in black metal, right, so 1823 01:34:12.079 --> 01:34:15.479 obviously it the genre originally kind of spilled out of 1824 01:34:15.479 --> 01:34:18.960 basically like intro and interlude tracks on black metal records, 1825 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:20.640 and then people just went, I'm just gonna play those 1826 01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:24.840 by myself, and then you have bands like Summoning and 1827 01:34:24.880 --> 01:34:26.560 Kaladan Brewed and stuff like that, who kind of, you know, 1828 01:34:26.600 --> 01:34:28.520 mix it into the actual melodies and components of their 1829 01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:33.239 black metal records. But there is such a huge, like 1830 01:34:33.279 --> 01:34:36.760 actual Dungeon scene of like people putting on live events 1831 01:34:36.800 --> 01:34:39.720 and like there are genuine there are live, dedicated dungeons 1832 01:34:39.760 --> 01:34:42.239 and festivals in the UK, you know, And I've never 1833 01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:45.119 been to anything like that because I'm not quite that 1834 01:34:45.239 --> 01:34:49.359 in deep enough. And to me, Dungeons tenth is is 1835 01:34:50.479 --> 01:34:52.960 strange music live because it's kind of like sit at 1836 01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:55.159 home and drift away music like it's not to me 1837 01:34:55.479 --> 01:35:00.680 so active participation, you know, live music, you know what 1838 01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:02.640 I mean. But I thought, as it's here in the 1839 01:35:02.760 --> 01:35:05.119 theater stage at Fortress, it's a good way for me to, 1840 01:35:05.199 --> 01:35:06.760 you know, while I'm literally on site, I've got the 1841 01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:08.680 opportunity to dip my toe in to seeing some of 1842 01:35:08.720 --> 01:35:11.239 these acts and what it's like, but also the environment, 1843 01:35:11.520 --> 01:35:14.920 Like I imagine it's much nicer sitting in a lovely Victorian 1844 01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:17.800 theater in a nice seat on a balcony enjoying these 1845 01:35:17.840 --> 01:35:22.279 acts then being in a fucking pub watching a guy 1846 01:35:22.399 --> 01:35:23.920 go do do do? You know what I mean? So 1847 01:35:23.960 --> 01:35:25.319 I thought, this is about as good as time as 1848 01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:26.760 any for me to like go and watch them dungeons 1849 01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:28.159 and stuff and check out where they got going on here. 1850 01:35:28.159 --> 01:35:31.119 So I saw two acts on that stage. The first 1851 01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:33.680 one was a guy called pork Cullis, which is a 1852 01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:35.600 brilliant name for a Dungeons of actor. I think, just 1853 01:35:35.920 --> 01:35:38.319 a bit of a castle, you know, let's move around 1854 01:35:38.920 --> 01:35:42.720 get different areas of castle locations. I saw a port 1855 01:35:42.760 --> 01:35:46.600 Cullis who was very much into the presentation of it, 1856 01:35:46.720 --> 01:35:48.840 like he had like a monk robe on, you know. 1857 01:35:49.600 --> 01:35:52.600 I think he had like a gold leaf crown around 1858 01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:54.479 his head. And he also he went the kind of 1859 01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:55.840 the extra mile and that not only did he just 1860 01:35:55.880 --> 01:35:58.720 have the keyboard, he also had an electric loot that 1861 01:35:58.760 --> 01:36:01.279 he would like sometimes play them on. And he had 1862 01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:02.960 like a drum that he would do like you know, 1863 01:36:03.000 --> 01:36:06.399 the big pounding dungeons in percussion parts with so he 1864 01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:09.359 was like fully into the presentation of it. And then 1865 01:36:09.399 --> 01:36:11.239 the other guy I saw was a guy called fIF 1866 01:36:11.600 --> 01:36:16.000 spelled f I E F fIF. And this was a 1867 01:36:16.159 --> 01:36:17.680 great even though I only saw two acts in the stage. 1868 01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:19.279 It was a great contrast because compared to what I've 1869 01:36:19.279 --> 01:36:21.960 just described, a Port Colors thief turns up and it's 1870 01:36:21.960 --> 01:36:26.479 just a guy with sunglasses on, just just no president 1871 01:36:26.560 --> 01:36:28.560 at all, just dudes rock. I'm a man, I've got 1872 01:36:28.560 --> 01:36:30.880 long hair, I've got sunglasses on, and he only had 1873 01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:34.279 his keyboard, like no other instrumentation, just a dude with 1874 01:36:34.359 --> 01:36:37.640 shades on indoors doing his little melodies. And sonically the 1875 01:36:37.640 --> 01:36:40.680 two differed as well, because the two types of dungeons 1876 01:36:40.680 --> 01:36:44.640 in in my experience, are you've got like the basier 1877 01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:47.800 I am looking at the grand ruins of a castle 1878 01:36:47.960 --> 01:36:51.239 dungeons sin which is like that, that kind of stuff, 1879 01:36:51.439 --> 01:36:54.560 and then you've got I'm frolicking through the forest, I'm 1880 01:36:54.600 --> 01:36:58.920 having a drink with the hobbits in the tavern. Yeah, 1881 01:36:59.079 --> 01:37:01.600 those are the two two types of Dungeon synth, and 1882 01:37:01.640 --> 01:37:03.520 those are the two types that these acts played. Where 1883 01:37:03.520 --> 01:37:06.199 Port Carlos was more like the bar and Feet more 1884 01:37:07.680 --> 01:37:11.359 so I got both flavors with different visual presentations as well. 1885 01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:14.840 Sat in a nice you know seat, so hooray fun 1886 01:37:15.000 --> 01:37:17.039 and I will say it was packed in there, like 1887 01:37:17.079 --> 01:37:18.760 it was booming like one of those two acts. They 1888 01:37:18.760 --> 01:37:20.600 had to move people up to the balcony because the 1889 01:37:20.600 --> 01:37:24.800 floor was so full, and like I said, it's it's 1890 01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:27.439 like it's niche subculture than black metal is, which is 1891 01:37:27.479 --> 01:37:31.479 already a niche subculture, but the people who are into 1892 01:37:31.520 --> 01:37:35.720 dungeon synth support it so hard. Like they had you know, 1893 01:37:35.760 --> 01:37:38.680 these acts had much like the blackma bands did, and 1894 01:37:38.720 --> 01:37:41.960 they were fucking selling loads of shit, like every item 1895 01:37:42.000 --> 01:37:45.880 that you can imagine, like hats, cassette tapes, fucking you know, 1896 01:37:46.159 --> 01:37:49.479 like patches, everything that you can imagine a dungeon at selling. 1897 01:37:49.640 --> 01:37:51.319 They had it there and they were selling it and 1898 01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:53.920 it was really nice to see again like a congregation, 1899 01:37:54.239 --> 01:37:57.000 a gathering of people who are come in here to 1900 01:37:57.239 --> 01:37:59.600 really immerse themselves into something that is like off the 1901 01:37:59.640 --> 01:38:03.399 beaten track, off the beaten path and fucking packing it out, 1902 01:38:03.479 --> 01:38:04.960 you know. And I'm sure that the people who, like 1903 01:38:05.000 --> 01:38:07.920 you know, were really dedicated into the Dungeon thing scene 1904 01:38:08.239 --> 01:38:11.399 really appreciated having this stage here and getting to see 1905 01:38:11.439 --> 01:38:13.680 something the acts because it was booming all weekend. I 1906 01:38:13.680 --> 01:38:16.680 can only imagine how you know, popular Mortis might have 1907 01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:19.640 been later on in the day, and just the general 1908 01:38:19.720 --> 01:38:21.319 vibe of, you know, again, having this stage where they're 1909 01:38:21.319 --> 01:38:23.600 booking something that isn't actually black metal, so it is 1910 01:38:23.640 --> 01:38:25.760 your sort of palette cleanser, but it still feels like 1911 01:38:25.800 --> 01:38:28.199 you're in the world of black metal is a really 1912 01:38:28.279 --> 01:38:30.279 nice thing that fortunately started to do. I don't know 1913 01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:31.880 what they do going forward in terms of like, do 1914 01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:33.840 they book more of than NEATHOK bands because that was 1915 01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:36.279 nice last year as well. Do they keep the Dungeon 1916 01:38:36.359 --> 01:38:38.600 in stage. Can they do a mix of the two 1917 01:38:38.680 --> 01:38:40.520 or is that too difficult logistically. I'm not sure, but 1918 01:38:40.560 --> 01:38:43.039 I whatever they pack that stage with, I always like 1919 01:38:43.159 --> 01:38:46.000 to go there at least a couple times because you 1920 01:38:46.079 --> 01:38:49.239 see something a bit different that does fit in. And yeah, 1921 01:38:49.840 --> 01:38:51.560 if you're a Dungeonsent' head and you know those two 1922 01:38:51.560 --> 01:38:55.079 acts that I've mentioned both pretty fun times, right and 1923 01:38:55.199 --> 01:38:56.880 Feef there will actually be more about him later. He 1924 01:38:56.880 --> 01:38:58.920 will come up again. But I saw those two acts. 1925 01:38:59.479 --> 01:39:01.479 Back to the black metal the main stage, I saw 1926 01:39:01.560 --> 01:39:07.520 Abigail Williams, who are a very long running at this stage, 1927 01:39:07.560 --> 01:39:10.920 like comparatively they've been going for twenty years. Something like 1928 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:16.000 that black metal band from the US who well a 1929 01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:19.920 kind of odd fit on the Fortress bill, even though 1930 01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:23.399 they theoretically shouldn't have been because they are a black 1931 01:39:23.439 --> 01:39:26.600 metal band and their last couple of albums certainly they 1932 01:39:26.680 --> 01:39:30.279 lean to the more you know, at times atmospheric, but 1933 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:33.880 often you know, riffy, hard hitting black metal that you 1934 01:39:33.920 --> 01:39:36.760 could absolutely imagine being a Fortress. And that's why they 1935 01:39:36.760 --> 01:39:41.359 were booked, right. But Abigail Williams, their sort of story 1936 01:39:41.640 --> 01:39:44.960 as a band is an odd one to keep track of, 1937 01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:48.439 in that they have sort of shifted what they do 1938 01:39:48.880 --> 01:39:53.760 and you know, reinvented their identity several times over to 1939 01:39:53.840 --> 01:39:56.920 a degree that like I am a fan, like quite 1940 01:39:56.920 --> 01:39:59.560 a big fan actually, particularly there's one record they made 1941 01:40:00.199 --> 01:40:04.720 called Becunning in twenty twelve, which was a huge record, 1942 01:40:05.039 --> 01:40:09.279 Like genuinely I adored that record so much at the time, 1943 01:40:09.319 --> 01:40:10.880 and that's when they kind of went into a period 1944 01:40:10.920 --> 01:40:12.960 of like the more sort of Cascadian like if I 1945 01:40:12.960 --> 01:40:14.479 were to pitch that record to people, I would say, 1946 01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:18.640 it's like sort of alien, slightly symphonic leaning Wolves in 1947 01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:20.760 the Throne Room is what that record sort of sounds like. 1948 01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:24.199 And that record I love so much. But that wasn't 1949 01:40:24.199 --> 01:40:27.279 the first Abigail Williams you know sound, and it wasn't 1950 01:40:27.319 --> 01:40:29.560 the last either, because they have been through several things. 1951 01:40:29.720 --> 01:40:31.520 I would certainly imagine they are the only band who 1952 01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:33.680 have played Fortress who have played with Bringing the Horizon 1953 01:40:34.119 --> 01:40:38.880 early on, because they on their first like EP, were 1954 01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:42.039 essentially like a blackened metal call kind of band, like 1955 01:40:42.119 --> 01:40:44.479 influenced from Cradler Filth and Bleeding Through and those type 1956 01:40:44.479 --> 01:40:45.520 of things. And like I said, they were if you 1957 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:47.680 look at gig posters from two thousand and six and 1958 01:40:47.720 --> 01:40:49.640 Bring Me the Horizon shows and stuff like that, Abigai 1959 01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:51.199 Williams are the kind of band who would pop up 1960 01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:54.359 and you'd see them there. Their first studio album, Proper 1961 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:57.039 is like Demu Worship, like they shifted from there into 1962 01:40:57.079 --> 01:41:00.640 full on like orchestral bombasta, over the top black metal, 1963 01:41:00.680 --> 01:41:02.640 but then like I said, they moved into this more 1964 01:41:02.680 --> 01:41:04.960 sort of atmospheric wolve and the thronemish kind of guys, 1965 01:41:05.279 --> 01:41:06.760 and then from there they moved into a more sort 1966 01:41:06.760 --> 01:41:08.840 of dissonant guys and then the more kind of riffy, 1967 01:41:09.800 --> 01:41:12.439 slightly more accessible leading stuff that I've described them doing now. 1968 01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:15.720 So they've shifted several times over and I don't know 1969 01:41:16.520 --> 01:41:18.720 how particularly here in the UK. I actually they probably 1970 01:41:18.760 --> 01:41:20.119 do have more in the US where they're from, but 1971 01:41:20.119 --> 01:41:22.640 particularly here in the UK, I don't know how much 1972 01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:24.720 of a following that has actually lent them. I think 1973 01:41:24.760 --> 01:41:27.520 there might be people who have the odd record that 1974 01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:30.800 they really enjoy from them, but they are they haven't 1975 01:41:30.800 --> 01:41:33.039 gone with them all the time entirely as a band. 1976 01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:35.119 And I did see a couple of comments like before 1977 01:41:35.199 --> 01:41:37.399 the festival of people like Abigail Williams, aren't they like 1978 01:41:37.439 --> 01:41:39.039 that death core band? You know, like what are they 1979 01:41:39.079 --> 01:41:41.159 doing here? And it's like that because they have this 1980 01:41:41.239 --> 01:41:43.680 sort of they're the rare band where I genuinely kind 1981 01:41:43.680 --> 01:41:45.680 of feel that they should have changed the name and 1982 01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:49.119 started again and not in a like, I, how dare 1983 01:41:49.159 --> 01:41:50.840 you make more music under this name? Because I normally 1984 01:41:50.840 --> 01:41:53.560 find that to be an incredibly entitled attitude, but just 1985 01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:55.319 for their own good, like to kind of just put 1986 01:41:55.359 --> 01:41:57.520 a bit of a marker and like their earlier periods, 1987 01:41:58.439 --> 01:42:00.279 and because if they come back and had a more 1988 01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:02.239 fucking like even their logo on the screen is of 1989 01:42:02.319 --> 01:42:06.520 quite a like mid two thousands like metal chorus adjacent 1990 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:09.760 kind of logo, And you can't imagine the people who 1991 01:42:09.760 --> 01:42:12.279 are walking around wherein you know, the merch of these 1992 01:42:12.279 --> 01:42:15.119 other bands who are playing wearing that same thing. So 1993 01:42:15.640 --> 01:42:17.760 just just for their own good to like develop more 1994 01:42:17.760 --> 01:42:19.319 of a fan base here, I suppose, and more of 1995 01:42:19.319 --> 01:42:21.199 a consistent identity, because that's what I think they struggle 1996 01:42:21.239 --> 01:42:23.640 with because Abiga Williams, Like I said, I I am 1997 01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:25.520 a fan of all of their records, Like, I think 1998 01:42:25.520 --> 01:42:27.680 they're a very good band. Whatever they have tried their 1999 01:42:27.680 --> 01:42:29.479 hand out, I think they've done pretty well at it. 2000 01:42:29.680 --> 01:42:32.000 I like their most recent material. The album of theirs 2001 01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:34.880 that I absolutely love and have the strong connection with 2002 01:42:35.039 --> 01:42:38.680 is that one I mentioned Becoming, But it was I 2003 01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:42.399 would say the least populated mainstage set that I saw, 2004 01:42:42.800 --> 01:42:45.159 even though they are weirdly one of the most like 2005 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:47.399 one of the bands that people outside of this niche 2006 01:42:47.439 --> 01:42:50.399 might recognize the name of, you know, they're like the 2007 01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:53.760 most one of the more mainstream adjacent But conversely that 2008 01:42:53.840 --> 01:42:57.239 meant that they were less popular here and inside that niche, 2009 01:42:57.239 --> 01:42:58.760 and it was you know, I'm not gonna say it 2010 01:42:58.840 --> 01:43:01.720 was like completely fucking you know, sparse, because you know, 2011 01:43:01.720 --> 01:43:03.399 people had come to see them, but it wasn't a 2012 01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:05.359 full room in the way that lots of these other bands, 2013 01:43:05.359 --> 01:43:07.600 including these opening bands, you know, Forest the Stars example, 2014 01:43:07.600 --> 01:43:11.600 had a fucking full room, and it was a strange 2015 01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:13.479 sort of vibe being like, yeah, this is like a 2016 01:43:13.640 --> 01:43:18.960 long running veteran band, but the atmosphere of like people 2017 01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:22.239 are really here for this wasn't there for them in 2018 01:43:22.279 --> 01:43:25.079 the way that it was for objectively smaller bands. 2019 01:43:25.399 --> 01:43:30.520 Yeah, they're odd because their albums will come out and 2020 01:43:30.600 --> 01:43:35.640 sort of make no impact because I feel like every 2021 01:43:35.680 --> 01:43:38.600 album sounds different. They sound like a slightly different band 2022 01:43:38.760 --> 01:43:41.479 every single time, so they're hard to pin. 2023 01:43:41.439 --> 01:43:45.159 Down very much so, and that's me as a fan 2024 01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:47.920 right struggling to do that a little bit. And this 2025 01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:49.680 was my first time ever seeing Abigam Williams even though 2026 01:43:49.720 --> 01:43:51.640 it was so like fifteen years ago. I can't stress 2027 01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:53.600 they were a genuinely huge band for me, Like I 2028 01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:55.720 loved them and I still do like them very much. 2029 01:43:56.199 --> 01:43:57.920 But it's my first time ever seeing them because while 2030 01:43:57.960 --> 01:43:59.720 they played the UK a lot in the mid two 2031 01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:01.920 thousand and they haven't really in the last like ten 2032 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:04.479 to fifteen years. And they did say with this book 2033 01:44:04.479 --> 01:44:06.279 and they were like, we don't know if we'll come 2034 01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:07.600 back to the UK. You know, I think they might 2035 01:44:07.680 --> 01:44:10.000 be at the sort of I can understand considering, you know, 2036 01:44:10.279 --> 01:44:13.960 a small underground band having to fucking you know, tour 2037 01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:17.439 is harder than ever. Crossing you know, international boundaries is 2038 01:44:17.439 --> 01:44:18.880 harder than ever. I don't know, like we're gonna come 2039 01:44:18.880 --> 01:44:21.600 to the We're gonna play Fortress, like no promises. We 2040 01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:23.000 might be back, but we also might not, you know 2041 01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:24.800 what I mean. And I was like really key to 2042 01:44:24.800 --> 01:44:28.640 see them for that. They played almost all I'm gonna 2043 01:44:28.680 --> 01:44:31.680 say their last two albums. There's actually a lot from 2044 01:44:31.880 --> 01:44:33.479 not the most recent album that came out last year, 2045 01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:35.479 but the one before that, the twenty nineteen one, which 2046 01:44:35.479 --> 01:44:39.000 has the wonderful I think as Marius Lewandowski cover, that one, 2047 01:44:39.039 --> 01:44:40.760 which is really a really fine record, like a really 2048 01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:41.520 good album. 2049 01:44:41.560 --> 01:44:41.720 Yeah. 2050 01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:44.720 Yeah, they've played a lot of songs from that record 2051 01:44:44.720 --> 01:44:48.359 and I enjoyed it. And those riffs they are, you know, 2052 01:44:48.399 --> 01:44:50.520 they're they're quite clean by black metal standard. They're like 2053 01:44:50.560 --> 01:44:53.199 technically proficient, you know what I mean, Like you can 2054 01:44:53.359 --> 01:44:55.039 watch them and you can tell that they have musical 2055 01:44:55.079 --> 01:44:57.640 links to bounds like the Faceless and stuff like that, 2056 01:44:57.680 --> 01:44:59.960 because they have they can like they are really proficient 2057 01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:02.800 instrumental players clearly so, and you know, the front man 2058 01:45:02.880 --> 01:45:05.239 Ken is like again, he's a veteran, he's a pro. 2059 01:45:05.479 --> 01:45:07.239 He did this for a long time. He's an authoritative 2060 01:45:07.319 --> 01:45:10.159 kind of figure. They did not play anything, sadly from 2061 01:45:10.159 --> 01:45:11.880 that one record that I mentioned being such a fan of. 2062 01:45:12.279 --> 01:45:13.880 And this was a case for me of like I have, 2063 01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:15.720 which I kind of on santy degree because I said, 2064 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:17.920 that's the record where you're gonna to do it properly. 2065 01:45:17.960 --> 01:45:20.399 You're gonna need string sections and stuff like that. And 2066 01:45:20.399 --> 01:45:22.479 also they're quite long songs a lot of the time. 2067 01:45:23.279 --> 01:45:25.319 But it was like, yeah, I'm for the first time, 2068 01:45:25.359 --> 01:45:27.239 I'm seeing a band that were huge for me fifteen 2069 01:45:27.319 --> 01:45:31.319 years ago. But it's it's not quite the version of 2070 01:45:31.359 --> 01:45:34.399 the band that I maybe had the strongest attachment to, 2071 01:45:34.920 --> 01:45:39.399 and also the atmosphere and the vibe just isn't quite 2072 01:45:39.439 --> 01:45:41.159 here with this in the way it has been for 2073 01:45:41.239 --> 01:45:44.239 some of the the other acts, which is maybe a 2074 01:45:44.239 --> 01:45:45.600 little bit of shame, because they still put on a 2075 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:47.720 good set. Again, they were pros. They came out, they 2076 01:45:47.720 --> 01:45:49.640 did their thing, they did it well. It was just 2077 01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:52.880 weird thing. Like I said, one of the most name 2078 01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:57.640 recognition bands on the bill, but conversely means within the niche, 2079 01:45:57.760 --> 01:46:00.640 they haven't actually really built up the following that some 2080 01:46:00.720 --> 01:46:04.479 of these more dedicated underground bands have been. But there 2081 01:46:04.680 --> 01:46:06.560 that was Abagail Williams and after that, I guess this 2082 01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:08.439 proves my point. After this is a band who I 2083 01:46:08.439 --> 01:46:10.079 can never fucking pronounce their name. They're a Dutch band. 2084 01:46:10.079 --> 01:46:13.880 They're called Flea Starrs Flu Starars something like that, and 2085 01:46:13.920 --> 01:46:17.560 they are from the Dutch black metal scene and they 2086 01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:21.840 are like absolutely beloved at Fortress. They're kind of sort 2087 01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:23.960 of post black metally, but not in a like they're 2088 01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:25.840 not a black gaze band, for example. They're just kind 2089 01:46:25.840 --> 01:46:28.680 of like slightly weird, like they play like these long, 2090 01:46:30.079 --> 01:46:32.479 very hypnotic, like very like I am going into a 2091 01:46:32.560 --> 01:46:38.199 trance type songs, and they have like these core progressions 2092 01:46:38.399 --> 01:46:40.960 that go in these like slightly almost like bad trip, 2093 01:46:41.039 --> 01:46:42.680 like I'm really in the moment, but then something going 2094 01:46:42.720 --> 01:46:44.560 a little bit of a rye and like, oh God, 2095 01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:46.159 where am I'm a little bit scared? Like that's kind 2096 01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:50.279 of the vibe of their music and very intense performers, 2097 01:46:50.279 --> 01:46:52.680 particularly that the front man, he doesn't really look like 2098 01:46:52.680 --> 01:46:54.760 a black metal singer. He's got this sort of like 2099 01:46:55.399 --> 01:46:58.720 slightly seventies hippie thing going on, or maybe a little 2100 01:46:58.720 --> 01:47:01.640 bit of like a nineties slacker vibe, Like he has 2101 01:47:01.640 --> 01:47:03.399 this big, like curly head of hair. He doesn't really 2102 01:47:03.399 --> 01:47:06.000 look like a black metal singer, and he brings us 2103 01:47:06.000 --> 01:47:08.319 like weird like, as I say, almost like seventies hippie 2104 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:10.720 or like a Jim Morrison character or something like that, 2105 01:47:10.920 --> 01:47:14.760 but while screeching his head off, almost like they don't 2106 01:47:14.760 --> 01:47:16.039 sound at all like this band, but in the way 2107 01:47:16.079 --> 01:47:18.000 when you watch something like a Rancy Pazuzu and it's 2108 01:47:18.039 --> 01:47:20.000 like you don't quite feel like a black metal band. 2109 01:47:20.000 --> 01:47:22.319 You were like a bunch of just sort of strange, 2110 01:47:23.119 --> 01:47:26.159 strange maverick freaks basically who are regurging it as horrible music. 2111 01:47:26.239 --> 01:47:30.199 It's a slightly similar flavor there with Floysters and they 2112 01:47:30.199 --> 01:47:32.800 are I saw them at Fortress two years ago playing 2113 01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:34.920 the second stage, and here they were bumped up to 2114 01:47:34.960 --> 01:47:36.800 the mainstage and they had a fucking huge crowd and 2115 01:47:36.840 --> 01:47:39.279 everyone loved it and people like really, you know, reverential 2116 01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:41.479 about it. And that's what I mean, like within the niche, 2117 01:47:41.680 --> 01:47:44.279 bands fucking pop off and they're a very popular band 2118 01:47:44.279 --> 01:47:47.239 within that. After that was get into the slightly higher 2119 01:47:47.319 --> 01:47:50.199 reaches of the Sunday bill. Now. I saw amat called 2120 01:47:50.239 --> 01:47:52.960 vinter Land, which, speaking of the kind of things that 2121 01:47:52.960 --> 01:47:55.720 you will only see at Fortress, Vinterland was a mad 2122 01:47:55.720 --> 01:47:58.439 booking because they are one of those bands that seems 2123 01:47:58.439 --> 01:48:00.640 to happen quite regularly in black metal, but anyone from 2124 01:48:00.680 --> 01:48:02.640 outside of other niches goes, what do you mean, maybe 2125 01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:05.880 hardcore sometimes get this. Basically, they're a band who released 2126 01:48:05.920 --> 01:48:07.960 one album thirty years ago and now have just randomly 2127 01:48:07.960 --> 01:48:11.479 come back to play it live like like that's that's it. 2128 01:48:12.239 --> 01:48:15.920 They So they're one album nineteen ninety six. It's called 2129 01:48:15.960 --> 01:48:19.079 Welcome to My Last Chapter and it is from Sweden 2130 01:48:19.119 --> 01:48:22.520 and it's that Mires nineties Swedish melodic style of black metal, 2131 01:48:23.359 --> 01:48:26.159 and that record is like a minor classic within that 2132 01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:28.840 kind of realm. I wouldn't stay there for me one 2133 01:48:28.840 --> 01:48:31.159 of my very favorites. I like that record a great 2134 01:48:31.199 --> 01:48:34.039 deal because that particular niche of black metal is, you know, 2135 01:48:34.079 --> 01:48:36.640 something I have a love for. I wouldn't say like 2136 01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:39.840 I don't like them as much as like Dawn or Sacramentum, 2137 01:48:40.000 --> 01:48:42.680 who in turn are not as good as the giant 2138 01:48:42.680 --> 01:48:45.760 of that scene, which is Dissection. But you know, any again, 2139 01:48:46.079 --> 01:48:48.720 kind of the BT classics of that scene. Vinta Land 2140 01:48:48.800 --> 01:48:51.000 put that one record and of just for the thirtieth 2141 01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:52.840 anniversary come out, but yeah, we're gonna play it live 2142 01:48:52.840 --> 01:48:54.840 at strang of festival appearances around the world, and why 2143 01:48:54.880 --> 01:48:56.479 the fuck not right if you're a nineties black metal 2144 01:48:56.520 --> 01:48:57.960 hair do you love that record, then yeah, go and 2145 01:48:57.960 --> 01:49:00.560 see it. And yeah, in kind vein of what I 2146 01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:03.600 was saying, it's very melodic. I mean it didn't feel 2147 01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:05.199 like a Vinterland, I'll tell you that much. It was 2148 01:49:05.239 --> 01:49:08.560 too fucking warm in there to be particularly wintry, but 2149 01:49:08.600 --> 01:49:13.279 there is that you know, snowy outside kind of tragedy 2150 01:49:13.399 --> 01:49:16.000 in the guitar melodies, Like I think of those Swedish bands, 2151 01:49:16.119 --> 01:49:18.960 they have a little bit closer melodically to things like 2152 01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:21.159 early Catatonia and stuff like that, and they're going to 2153 01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:23.800 a slightly you know that real saj despondent kind of 2154 01:49:23.880 --> 01:49:25.720 edge to the melodic guitars, which I like a lot, 2155 01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:27.920 but at the same time it does blast and it 2156 01:49:27.960 --> 01:49:29.800 does you know, rift pretty hard and all of that. 2157 01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:31.640 And they played that record and it was a yeah, 2158 01:49:31.680 --> 01:49:36.520 a nice quite you know, pretty but still pretty intense 2159 01:49:36.960 --> 01:49:41.439 Swedish black metalley time after that. Oh, it's the band 2160 01:49:41.439 --> 01:49:43.279 who I would say the band who I most like 2161 01:49:43.399 --> 01:49:46.880 have gotten into through this Fortress festival is a band 2162 01:49:46.880 --> 01:49:51.800 called Vesperal, So that's v E s p E r 2163 01:49:51.920 --> 01:49:56.119 a L. And they are a Canadian band. They're from Quebec, 2164 01:49:57.000 --> 01:49:58.840 and like the Quebec black metal scene is one of 2165 01:49:58.880 --> 01:50:01.920 those that you know, people are really dedicated particularly into, 2166 01:50:01.960 --> 01:50:04.520 Like yeah, if you are into, for example, the Polish scene, 2167 01:50:04.880 --> 01:50:07.399 or you know, if the Norwegian scene, whatever, there are 2168 01:50:07.439 --> 01:50:10.039 people who like really like dead into the Quebec black 2169 01:50:10.079 --> 01:50:12.359 metal scene and they've had like like for arrests, like 2170 01:50:12.399 --> 01:50:13.560 one of the big bands of that scene. And they 2171 01:50:13.600 --> 01:50:16.479 played Fortress last year, Vesperol one of those who have 2172 01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:19.079 kind of merged through that scene, and I really they 2173 01:50:19.079 --> 01:50:21.239 put out a split EP earlier this year. That was 2174 01:50:21.239 --> 01:50:22.479 the first time I heard of them, but they put 2175 01:50:22.520 --> 01:50:24.319 an album larger as well. I've since gone back and 2176 01:50:24.319 --> 01:50:28.359 heard and I really enjoyed these guys because I would 2177 01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:30.359 stay for a start that the singer had the best 2178 01:50:30.439 --> 01:50:33.399 cape of the festival. It was like a kind of 2179 01:50:33.399 --> 01:50:35.960 shirtless guy but with a cape like tied around his neck. 2180 01:50:36.159 --> 01:50:42.920 Really great, but like really you know, riffy quite you know, 2181 01:50:43.359 --> 01:50:45.640 certainly I would say bits of like the punk edge 2182 01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:48.039 of Lamp of Murmur and stuff like that in there, 2183 01:50:48.359 --> 01:50:50.079 rather than when they start hitting the disco beats and 2184 01:50:50.079 --> 01:50:51.880 stuff like that, rather than like the two grand end, 2185 01:50:51.880 --> 01:50:54.199 you know, like the more punky end of a band 2186 01:50:54.239 --> 01:50:57.520 like that, and like Departure Chandelier as well, I would 2187 01:50:57.520 --> 01:50:59.520 say is a big reference for how they're again that 2188 01:50:59.600 --> 01:51:02.079 kind of com nation of you know, organs and quite 2189 01:51:02.960 --> 01:51:06.000 primal black metal riffs, you know what I mean. But 2190 01:51:06.039 --> 01:51:07.880 they played it with a lot of energy, like a 2191 01:51:07.920 --> 01:51:10.199 lot of like really throw themselves into it, and the 2192 01:51:10.279 --> 01:51:11.880 riffs they have a great you know, and particularly those 2193 01:51:11.920 --> 01:51:13.399 keyboard lines like the track that they put out on 2194 01:51:13.439 --> 01:51:16.279 the split earlier this year has a really really catchy 2195 01:51:16.359 --> 01:51:18.239 like keyboard melody that was like one of the things 2196 01:51:18.279 --> 01:51:20.359 that were stuck in my head after the festival. Really 2197 01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:23.319 really enjoyed Vesperal Again, band I probably would not have 2198 01:51:23.319 --> 01:51:25.600 seen if I wasn't at this particular festival, because I 2199 01:51:26.000 --> 01:51:27.159 have to imagine this is one of the first times 2200 01:51:27.159 --> 01:51:29.079 they've played the UK. But I'm really glad I caught 2201 01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:30.840 them because they put on a really good show, a 2202 01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.079 lot of energy. Definitely, I would give them a recommend. 2203 01:51:33.279 --> 01:51:35.600 One of the bands who I was most keen to see, 2204 01:51:36.279 --> 01:51:38.079 even though I've seen them a couple times before, but 2205 01:51:38.119 --> 01:51:40.520 I will always be keen to see them. Subbing the 2206 01:51:40.600 --> 01:51:44.600 Sundate main stage. Mis Theming maybe the biggest band to 2207 01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:46.640 come out of the Icelandic black metal scene. That was 2208 01:51:46.680 --> 01:51:48.600 one of those that, like I said about Quebec scene, 2209 01:51:48.640 --> 01:51:50.800 sort of about ten years ago in the mid twenty tens, 2210 01:51:51.239 --> 01:51:53.560 Iceland was producing a whole load of bands where I 2211 01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:55.199 was like, this is a new wave of really exciting, 2212 01:51:55.279 --> 01:51:57.920 fucking you know, killer black metal bands, and mis Theming 2213 01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:01.039 are one of the ones who have like lasted the 2214 01:52:01.119 --> 01:52:03.520 longest and are still fucking great and a really like 2215 01:52:03.560 --> 01:52:07.359 carved out particular niche for themselves and I fucking love 2216 01:52:07.399 --> 01:52:11.399 them like they are everything that I look for in 2217 01:52:11.399 --> 01:52:14.279 a black metal band. I see in this theomy they're 2218 01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:18.319 just like that's on record and live they're just so brilliant, 2219 01:52:18.319 --> 01:52:20.279 And I would say, and I've it's been my experience 2220 01:52:20.319 --> 01:52:26.159 before with them. When it comes to black metal live bands, 2221 01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:31.239 mis Theming are in the like elite tier. When WATA 2222 01:52:31.279 --> 01:52:33.079 and disband in a couple of years time, they might 2223 01:52:33.159 --> 01:52:35.880 end up being the number one because they have that 2224 01:52:36.079 --> 01:52:40.359 same thing of you can just feel the fucking like 2225 01:52:40.479 --> 01:52:45.359 almost arrogant violent passion spilling out of their bodies when 2226 01:52:45.399 --> 01:52:47.880 they are cracking into this shit, you know what I mean. 2227 01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:51.840 And the ability to play this kind of you know, 2228 01:52:52.159 --> 01:52:55.199 often quite esoteric music, but make you feel like this 2229 01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:57.720 is real, you know, like this is a genuine force 2230 01:52:57.760 --> 01:53:00.279 of energy that's coming out and it's being fed to 2231 01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:03.119 us is something that I would look to the best 2232 01:53:03.319 --> 01:53:05.560 black metal bands as being able to sell. And mis 2233 01:53:05.600 --> 01:53:07.720 Theming of the you know, the newer crop of the 2234 01:53:07.800 --> 01:53:11.159 last like ten fifteen years are the one to me 2235 01:53:11.159 --> 01:53:13.520 who whenever I watch them, I just I get that 2236 01:53:13.600 --> 01:53:17.119 in fucking spades, and I've had a moment of you know, 2237 01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:19.039 like I've seen them. This is my third time seeing them, 2238 01:53:19.079 --> 01:53:22.359 I think, and various sized venues. Last time I saw 2239 01:53:22.359 --> 01:53:24.239 them they played Fortress two years ago and they were 2240 01:53:24.279 --> 01:53:27.600 in the Ocean Room, the second stage. And this time 2241 01:53:28.000 --> 01:53:29.960 again watching them like you are, you know, the second 2242 01:53:30.039 --> 01:53:31.920 name from the top on the main stage in this 2243 01:53:32.000 --> 01:53:34.279 grand Victorian theater, and you are still a quite a 2244 01:53:34.359 --> 01:53:37.399 cult dedicated for black metal heads. Icelamed it black metal band. 2245 01:53:37.520 --> 01:53:40.319 But look at this setting we're in and look at 2246 01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:43.199 the people who are like visibly here passionate for you, 2247 01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:48.279 and they fucking killed it, just absolutely like violent, like 2248 01:53:48.319 --> 01:53:52.560 I said, pompous, fucking moving with just an arrogance and 2249 01:53:52.600 --> 01:53:56.479 a fuck you about them. Which like black metal bands, 2250 01:53:57.119 --> 01:53:59.159 there are various descriptions you can describe for how they 2251 01:53:59.199 --> 01:54:01.840 are a live. Lots of them are obviously evil, you know, 2252 01:54:01.920 --> 01:54:05.439 and I love that. I love that necrotic, dissonant edge whatever. 2253 01:54:06.199 --> 01:54:08.399 Lots of them might be more atmospheric and more beautiful 2254 01:54:08.439 --> 01:54:11.199 and moving. There aren't many black metal bands who live 2255 01:54:11.359 --> 01:54:13.720 you would describe as hard, you know what I mean? 2256 01:54:13.760 --> 01:54:15.600 Like that I want to kick your head in type 2257 01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:17.479 fucking hard where you can just feel it going. Ah. 2258 01:54:18.279 --> 01:54:21.520 Misfeaming are fucking hard live and they have that. They 2259 01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:24.600 brought that more than any other band I saw at Fortress. 2260 01:54:24.720 --> 01:54:28.479 Whether they are doing the more pounding fucking heavy metal like, 2261 01:54:28.479 --> 01:54:30.399 that's another thing that they really have. I think is 2262 01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:34.800 this like genuine almost like rock star like uh, you know, 2263 01:54:34.880 --> 01:54:37.479 fist pumping. This is a heavy metal song, just throw 2264 01:54:37.479 --> 01:54:41.000 an extreme metal kind of lens I suppose energy or 2265 01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:44.239 when they are like blasting and ripping your fucking head 2266 01:54:44.239 --> 01:54:46.880 off and they're all covered in blood, like blood and 2267 01:54:46.960 --> 01:54:50.479 ash and they are just these like violent figures just 2268 01:54:50.800 --> 01:54:53.359 devastating the place, like black metal crowds for example. And 2269 01:54:53.359 --> 01:54:54.399 I think this is one of those things that because 2270 01:54:54.399 --> 01:54:57.680 it's an extreme metal subgenre outside people who come from 2271 01:54:57.680 --> 01:54:59.840 the outside don't quite expect this in the same way. 2272 01:54:59.840 --> 01:55:02.920 But black metal crowds don't really pit like mosh pits 2273 01:55:02.960 --> 01:55:05.640 aren't such a thing in black metal as they are 2274 01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.000 in for example, death metal or any other kind of 2275 01:55:08.039 --> 01:55:10.960 you know, really fast brutal music. And it's because black 2276 01:55:11.000 --> 01:55:12.720 metal has this kind of air to it that is 2277 01:55:12.760 --> 01:55:15.399 a little bit more as I say, immersive, you know 2278 01:55:15.439 --> 01:55:18.159 what I mean. It's more you'd stand and you will 2279 01:55:18.199 --> 01:55:21.479 feel it absolutely, but you're not throwing hands to black 2280 01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:25.840 metal quite so much. But this feeling like opened up 2281 01:55:25.840 --> 01:55:27.199 a pit because people are like, Okay, we just need 2282 01:55:27.239 --> 01:55:28.560 to fucking get this out. We are just going to go. 2283 01:55:29.439 --> 01:55:31.920 And I may have found myself somewhat lured into that 2284 01:55:31.960 --> 01:55:35.720 slightly from the edges and they just yet really brilliant. 2285 01:55:35.760 --> 01:55:38.279 I really hope we have new music from them soon 2286 01:55:38.439 --> 01:55:41.640 because they have three LPs. The last of them came 2287 01:55:41.680 --> 01:55:45.159 out in December of twenty twenty two, so we're coming 2288 01:55:45.239 --> 01:55:48.039 up to four years since it and that album is 2289 01:55:48.159 --> 01:55:51.279 fucking brilliant. The album before it is fucking brilliant. Their 2290 01:55:51.279 --> 01:55:54.119 next album will be one of my most anticipated extreme 2291 01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:56.760 metal records when it comes out. I really hope it's soon. 2292 01:55:56.800 --> 01:55:58.920 I would love one this year. If not, then, you know, 2293 01:55:59.119 --> 01:56:02.199 hopefully next year. But whenever I see this Theamy on 2294 01:56:02.199 --> 01:56:04.600 a bill, I'm gonna catch them. And they did not disappoint, 2295 01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:07.720 just absolutely fucking brilliant. And from there it turned into 2296 01:56:07.840 --> 01:56:11.000 the most intense brutal double of the festival, I suppose 2297 01:56:11.039 --> 01:56:13.760 because the band headlining the Ocean Room on the second 2298 01:56:13.840 --> 01:56:17.800 day as a band called Darkened Nocturn Slaughter Cult, which 2299 01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:21.119 is one of the greatest band names. I'm sure I'll 2300 01:56:21.159 --> 01:56:25.399 agree you can feasibly have like, yeah, this other Nocturn 2301 01:56:25.439 --> 01:56:31.680 Slaughter Cult wasn't Darkened enough. Fucking brilliant, absolutely top tier. 2302 01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:33.319 That's what you want on a shirt, that's what you 2303 01:56:33.359 --> 01:56:35.720 want on a logo beaming across a stage. Killer. 2304 01:56:36.319 --> 01:56:36.960 They are a. 2305 01:56:38.520 --> 01:56:41.119 Think I think German. They're from that kind of corner 2306 01:56:41.239 --> 01:56:44.600 of Europe. I think German black metal band obviously, and 2307 01:56:44.640 --> 01:56:46.359 they'd be going for a long time, like since the 2308 01:56:46.439 --> 01:56:49.399 early two thousands. This is the first opportunity I've had 2309 01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:52.439 to see them live. I got into them several years 2310 01:56:52.479 --> 01:56:56.119 ago when like during the last few years of Bethlehem, 2311 01:56:56.439 --> 01:57:00.159 like their couple of albums, their front woman was the 2312 01:57:00.159 --> 01:57:02.920 the singer for the last couple records of Bethlehem. And 2313 01:57:02.960 --> 01:57:05.760 I love Bethlehem. I'm a huge fan. And if you 2314 01:57:05.800 --> 01:57:09.720 know Bethlehem, you know that getting the gig in Bethlehem 2315 01:57:10.000 --> 01:57:12.840 is not just you can be a normal black metal singer, 2316 01:57:12.920 --> 01:57:15.439 you know, like any old croaker is not getting to 2317 01:57:15.439 --> 01:57:17.560 be the thing in Bethlehem. To be the singer in Bethlehem, 2318 01:57:17.600 --> 01:57:19.840 you have to be fucking unhinged, and you have to 2319 01:57:20.359 --> 01:57:22.800 wail like a motherfucker, and you have to take your 2320 01:57:22.880 --> 01:57:25.439 voice places where people are not going to expect you 2321 01:57:25.479 --> 01:57:28.520 to place it. And Dark Knoton Slaughter Cult musically are 2322 01:57:28.680 --> 01:57:32.119 a like very fast, blasty, quite brutal black metal band, 2323 01:57:32.439 --> 01:57:34.760 Like I would compare them to bands like Marduke for example, 2324 01:57:34.800 --> 01:57:36.880 Like it's just like, ah, you know, really intense fucking 2325 01:57:36.920 --> 01:57:39.760 ripping all violence, like not a lot of slow passages. 2326 01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:42.520 But on top of that, you've got the singer who 2327 01:57:42.560 --> 01:57:45.319 like is doing like more so in you know, Dark 2328 01:57:45.399 --> 01:57:47.119 Knockton and Slaughter Colt than she did in Bethlehem. She 2329 01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:50.279 does do more conventional black metal vocals, but every now 2330 01:57:50.319 --> 01:57:52.760 and then, like they'll hit like a blast passage and 2331 01:57:52.760 --> 01:57:55.359 take off and she would just go like oh, just 2332 01:57:55.479 --> 01:57:59.960 like whale and like whoop every time it happened. I mean, 2333 01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:02.560 the audience like visibly and audibly responded to it, like 2334 01:58:02.760 --> 01:58:04.680 she'd hit like a fucking whoop and everyone would go 2335 01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:06.640 like ah, Like it's just like it was a like 2336 01:58:06.680 --> 01:58:09.439 a shot of adrenaline being pounded into her heart every 2337 01:58:09.439 --> 01:58:13.079 time she just did something fucked and crazy. But on 2338 01:58:13.119 --> 01:58:17.119 top of like this really like a blasting, violent, runaway 2339 01:58:17.199 --> 01:58:21.600 train wall of riffy black metal. And on top of that, 2340 01:58:22.640 --> 01:58:26.520 visually they are so awesome, like they are one of 2341 01:58:26.560 --> 01:58:29.520 the most evil looking black metal bands I've ever seen, 2342 01:58:29.520 --> 01:58:30.680 And this is part of why I wanted to see them, 2343 01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:32.079 because I've seen pictures of them down the ears and 2344 01:58:32.079 --> 01:58:34.600 be like, that looks fucking awesome. You've got like, you know, 2345 01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:38.880 corpse painted like you know, spiked bracer type vibe from 2346 01:58:38.880 --> 01:58:40.399 like the guitarist and stuff like that. But that front 2347 01:58:40.439 --> 01:58:44.720 woman I mentioned, she is wearing like an all white robe, 2348 01:58:45.039 --> 01:58:46.720 and the color of that will become very important. She's 2349 01:58:46.720 --> 01:58:49.880 wearing an all white robe and she has this crazy 2350 01:58:49.960 --> 01:58:54.039 fucking like almost crown of thorns situation going on, but 2351 01:58:54.319 --> 01:58:57.159 it's like winding down her whole back and her body 2352 01:58:57.159 --> 01:58:59.319 like she looks like she's had a fight with a tree. Basically, 2353 01:58:59.319 --> 01:59:02.479 feel like she'st this same fucking like headgear on and 2354 01:59:02.520 --> 01:59:06.680 then all down her like chin and all down her throat, 2355 01:59:07.239 --> 01:59:11.399 just bright red blood just like absolutely and obviously against 2356 01:59:11.399 --> 01:59:14.279 the white rode like I mentioned, it just pops so 2357 01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:18.399 hard and like if black metal, particularly in the live environment, 2358 01:59:18.479 --> 01:59:20.720 is a genre with a strong visual component, I just 2359 01:59:20.720 --> 01:59:22.800 think she has one of the best, like one of 2360 01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:25.239 the coolest looks, like go and look up if you're 2361 01:59:25.239 --> 01:59:27.159 listening right now, go and look up the front woman 2362 01:59:27.159 --> 01:59:28.960 from Dark Knot turned Stockholms and pictures of Worker that 2363 01:59:29.039 --> 01:59:31.239 just looks fucking awesome. And when you've got that on, 2364 01:59:31.359 --> 01:59:34.239 like I said, he's like twisting, turning, unpredictable bouts of 2365 01:59:34.279 --> 01:59:37.960 violence in the riffing and just this wailing madness in 2366 01:59:38.039 --> 01:59:40.319 the vocal. Just beat the shit out of you for 2367 01:59:40.359 --> 01:59:43.840 like fifteen minutes or so. Kill her. And then after 2368 01:59:43.880 --> 01:59:46.319 that the headline of the final band of Fortress twenty 2369 01:59:46.319 --> 01:59:50.479 twenty six, the headliner that, by all rights should not 2370 01:59:50.560 --> 01:59:54.119 be a headliner, but they managed it. They booked Gallow 2371 01:59:54.199 --> 01:59:57.760 Braid to headline this festival, which if you don't know 2372 01:59:57.800 --> 02:00:00.159 that name, because you're not in this niche, I wouldn't blame. 2373 02:00:00.560 --> 02:00:03.479 It's not like they've been playing lots because Galla Braid 2374 02:00:04.119 --> 02:00:08.159 is a band driven by Jake Rogers, who for the 2375 02:00:08.239 --> 02:00:10.840 last ten years plus has been the front man in Visigoth. 2376 02:00:11.199 --> 02:00:13.039 Before that, he was the front man in the band 2377 02:00:13.079 --> 02:00:15.840 Kaladan Brood. And if you have been the listener of 2378 02:00:15.920 --> 02:00:18.000 Arge recently, you will know. We did an album club 2379 02:00:18.119 --> 02:00:20.520 where I spoke about Kaldan Brude and why it is, 2380 02:00:20.560 --> 02:00:22.560 in my opinion, one of the best records ever, and 2381 02:00:22.640 --> 02:00:27.479 anyone who disagrees is a fucking coward. Absolutely. But Galli 2382 02:00:27.560 --> 02:00:30.399 Braid was his other black metal band that he did 2383 02:00:30.439 --> 02:00:32.960 like just before Kaladan Brude, and they put out one 2384 02:00:33.039 --> 02:00:37.880 record in twenty ten that's like forty five minutes long, 2385 02:00:38.439 --> 02:00:41.239 and that was it and they never played live. It's 2386 02:00:41.239 --> 02:00:43.399 because it's just a side studio project, but one record 2387 02:00:43.479 --> 02:00:45.399 never ever played live. And then he went on to 2388 02:00:45.600 --> 02:00:48.000 again do these other bands. So Galli Braid, by all rights, 2389 02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:50.960 should be dead. That's a dead band right there. So 2390 02:00:51.039 --> 02:00:55.760 when Fortress randomly went, yeah, the headliner for a festival 2391 02:00:56.199 --> 02:00:59.239 is Gallo Braid, a sixteen year old band who has 2392 02:00:59.319 --> 02:01:04.000 never played a sh show before that also only obviously 2393 02:01:04.039 --> 02:01:06.680 you know, has a following in this particular underwearn Niche 2394 02:01:07.399 --> 02:01:08.760 was one of the most what the fuck do you 2395 02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:13.319 mean scenarios I could imagine happening like by or right, 2396 02:01:13.439 --> 02:01:18.039 like imagine the trust, amongst anything else, to intrust the 2397 02:01:18.079 --> 02:01:22.720 headlining of your festival to a band's first gig, like 2398 02:01:22.760 --> 02:01:26.640 from a from a promoting standpoint. That is such a 2399 02:01:27.800 --> 02:01:30.319 move of trust, and I can imagine so many promoters 2400 02:01:30.319 --> 02:01:32.119 being scared off by that and be like, no, I 2401 02:01:32.399 --> 02:01:33.800 want a band who are a little bit more seasoned 2402 02:01:33.840 --> 02:01:35.720 and at bit more of a proven draw, thank you 2403 02:01:35.840 --> 02:01:38.680 very much. But they pulled it off, and I can 2404 02:01:38.760 --> 02:01:40.760 only imagine that, you know, the Fortress promoters are just 2405 02:01:40.800 --> 02:01:42.560 like fans who are like, we want to see this happen. 2406 02:01:42.600 --> 02:01:44.640 We think it will have enough appeal cross you know, 2407 02:01:45.159 --> 02:01:48.560 cross nations to get people to it, and we trust 2408 02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:52.199 the banding question to do it properly that they manage 2409 02:01:52.239 --> 02:01:53.359 to get it. And it's like an if you ask, 2410 02:01:53.399 --> 02:01:55.479 don't ask, you don't get thing. But it's fucking like 2411 02:01:55.760 --> 02:01:57.600 a wild thing. And this was the other thing where 2412 02:01:57.600 --> 02:02:00.640 I mentioned like the things that people will wanting and 2413 02:02:00.760 --> 02:02:03.039 being like this has an air of the surreal to 2414 02:02:03.119 --> 02:02:05.560 it that this has never happened. We are witnessing something 2415 02:02:05.560 --> 02:02:08.279 that's never ever happened before, and it's kind of odd 2416 02:02:09.079 --> 02:02:17.399 and gallibraid that record is absolutely incredible, like so wonderful. 2417 02:02:17.880 --> 02:02:20.479 If again you've heard our discussion on Caldan Brood, right, 2418 02:02:20.479 --> 02:02:23.520 it doesn't sound like exactly Calalan Brud. It is clearly 2419 02:02:23.520 --> 02:02:26.079 of the same mind of Caldan Brued. They share some 2420 02:02:26.199 --> 02:02:29.239 things like the vocal melodies and stuff like that. It's 2421 02:02:29.279 --> 02:02:31.399 not like, for one thing, I imagine Sam would probably 2422 02:02:31.399 --> 02:02:38.560 like Galibrayed more Brood, but it's of again the same mind. 2423 02:02:39.239 --> 02:02:43.439 Jake Rogers is probably like his catalog across the like 2424 02:02:43.720 --> 02:02:47.000 certainly the three major bands that I've mentioned. There a 2425 02:02:47.079 --> 02:02:48.960 limited catalog, but I can honestly say one of my 2426 02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:52.079 favorites like a catalog that really resonates with me and 2427 02:02:52.119 --> 02:02:55.840 like really means something to me. And the Gallibrayed record 2428 02:02:56.800 --> 02:03:00.880 is no exception in that it's clearly very much inspired 2429 02:03:00.920 --> 02:03:03.760 by the likes of Agaloque and that kind of you know, 2430 02:03:03.800 --> 02:03:08.000 sort of like Pacific Northwest more epic. Yeah, you know, 2431 02:03:08.039 --> 02:03:11.439 folky but atmospheric leaning black metal like big Agalot vibes 2432 02:03:11.439 --> 02:03:13.439 and stuff like that. But in the same way Abauma 2433 02:03:13.520 --> 02:03:15.520 Kaladan Brewed to take like, Okay, we're gonna take Summoning, 2434 02:03:15.600 --> 02:03:17.279 but then we're gonna put a little sprinkle of like 2435 02:03:17.359 --> 02:03:20.039 epic heavy metal melody onto this. It just gives it 2436 02:03:20.079 --> 02:03:22.439 that extra like mumph. That's kind of what Galabray have 2437 02:03:22.479 --> 02:03:23.920 done as well, but with like we take an agaloc 2438 02:03:23.960 --> 02:03:26.359 and then we've put some you know, epic sword waving 2439 02:03:26.399 --> 02:03:28.479 heavy metal into the mix and given it a bit 2440 02:03:28.520 --> 02:03:30.760 of extra umph. And in a similar way, that is 2441 02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:32.880 a real cult classic record where there are people who 2442 02:03:32.920 --> 02:03:36.079 love that record who would never have dreamed of ever 2443 02:03:36.119 --> 02:03:39.000 seeing it live and then suddenly there it is in 2444 02:03:39.039 --> 02:03:42.119 front of you. And that was I can't speak to 2445 02:03:41.800 --> 02:03:45.560 that just overstate how much how weird that one was 2446 02:03:45.720 --> 02:03:48.199 in so many ways where for a start we were like, 2447 02:03:48.239 --> 02:03:51.399 who even is this band? Like Jake is the guy 2448 02:03:51.479 --> 02:03:53.319 on record, who's he got with him? You know, like 2449 02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:56.359 who's around him? It turned out Jake was playing guitar 2450 02:03:57.000 --> 02:04:00.319 and also doing the clean singing vocal and amongst other things. 2451 02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:02.960 Obviously he's the front man in Visigoth. But he was like, 2452 02:04:03.039 --> 02:04:06.199 this is my first live show ever playing guitar, like 2453 02:04:06.279 --> 02:04:08.880 in front of an audience because he's just the front 2454 02:04:08.880 --> 02:04:11.960 man in Visigoth, and like the nerves you know, and 2455 02:04:11.960 --> 02:04:15.319 I will say from him he was clearly so like 2456 02:04:16.319 --> 02:04:19.159 the sort of surrealness of the occasion was shared on 2457 02:04:19.239 --> 02:04:21.720 stage as much as it was in the audience. There 2458 02:04:21.720 --> 02:04:24.600 were clearly like, you know, nerves, but in a good 2459 02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:27.399 way of like letting them loose, of them having worked on, 2460 02:04:27.560 --> 02:04:30.039 you know, putting this material together for a live band, 2461 02:04:30.159 --> 02:04:34.359 and also so genuinely appreciative that sixteen years after he 2462 02:04:34.399 --> 02:04:37.880 made this record people are so into seeing it live. 2463 02:04:37.960 --> 02:04:41.880 You know, people care, you know, and that genuine, visible, 2464 02:04:42.079 --> 02:04:45.760 you know, appreciation really fostered a really great vibe between 2465 02:04:45.800 --> 02:04:48.680 you know, audience and band for this particular set. But 2466 02:04:48.720 --> 02:04:50.720 he's doing the clean vocals like I said, and playing 2467 02:04:50.760 --> 02:04:55.720 guitar center stage was fief the Dungeon synth man. I 2468 02:04:55.760 --> 02:04:59.600 mentioned the twinkly running through the forest chirpy dungeonsnth guy. 2469 02:04:59.800 --> 02:05:02.880 He he was actually the harsh vocalist right doing the 2470 02:05:02.920 --> 02:05:09.119 screams for Gallabraid and also playing keyboard center stage, and 2471 02:05:09.199 --> 02:05:12.199 it made us some really fun arrangements where if you 2472 02:05:12.279 --> 02:05:15.920 know Gallibrade's music, for example, the song Stone of Remembrance, 2473 02:05:16.560 --> 02:05:20.880 which they ended on, has this like this an incredible chorus, 2474 02:05:20.920 --> 02:05:23.880 like a worldie of a chorus, but it has this 2475 02:05:24.000 --> 02:05:27.199 like tin whistle melody, and I amage that fucking Jake 2476 02:05:27.279 --> 02:05:29.520 Rodgers was also playing the flute occasionally, like when his 2477 02:05:29.520 --> 02:05:32.239 hands were free from playing guitar, he would whip and 2478 02:05:32.279 --> 02:05:34.800 do a bit of that, but the Stone of Remembrance 2479 02:05:34.840 --> 02:05:37.640 like whistle melody under the chorus. They translated it to 2480 02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:40.600 keyboard and the thief guy was playing it. But it 2481 02:05:40.680 --> 02:05:43.079 meant is there of the whistle melody you had the 2482 02:05:43.159 --> 02:05:48.880 most like the daftist fucking keyboard tone like doing that melody. Oh, 2483 02:05:50.000 --> 02:05:52.319 I was watching it. I was like, there are people 2484 02:05:52.439 --> 02:05:55.800 where this would repulse them, and those people are weak. 2485 02:05:56.000 --> 02:05:59.159 I'm having such a good time. But yeah, that dynamic 2486 02:05:59.199 --> 02:06:01.359 going on. I think like the other guitarists like the 2487 02:06:01.399 --> 02:06:03.239 leaketizing a lot of the solos, and the bassist, I 2488 02:06:03.279 --> 02:06:05.960 think we're both from Visigoth, so obviously just you know 2489 02:06:06.199 --> 02:06:08.479 guys from that scene who we know. It's like, yeah, 2490 02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:10.159 come along and I trust you to do this. And 2491 02:06:10.199 --> 02:06:13.520 it was a really great uh you know a component 2492 02:06:13.600 --> 02:06:16.000 you know, configuration. I suppose the word I'm looking for 2493 02:06:16.000 --> 02:06:19.600 for this music. And they obviously played the entire ashen 2494 02:06:19.680 --> 02:06:23.439 Iedl on record, the opening track on it. As soon 2495 02:06:23.439 --> 02:06:26.039 as that really driving first riff hit, you could just 2496 02:06:26.239 --> 02:06:28.520 feel people be like, oh my god, yes, this is great, 2497 02:06:28.720 --> 02:06:33.159 this works. We're so into this. But then also going 2498 02:06:33.680 --> 02:06:35.560 we are aware. He literally said, it's like we know 2499 02:06:36.319 --> 02:06:39.319 that our set time here, our headline hour along set 2500 02:06:39.880 --> 02:06:42.600 is longer than the music that this band has released, 2501 02:06:42.680 --> 02:06:44.920 like we are aware of that. And this was subject 2502 02:06:44.960 --> 02:06:48.399 of much, uh sort of what's the world I'm looking for? 2503 02:06:48.439 --> 02:06:52.439 You know, debate and theorization ahead of time of people 2504 02:06:52.439 --> 02:06:55.319 recognizing they have not got enough material to feel this 2505 02:06:55.399 --> 02:06:57.000 hour long headlines a lot like what are they going 2506 02:06:57.079 --> 02:06:59.479 to do? And people like will they play a you know, 2507 02:06:59.520 --> 02:07:01.920 there's like whatther song from a compilation or something? Will 2508 02:07:01.960 --> 02:07:04.439 they play a secret Kaladan Brood song which I never 2509 02:07:04.479 --> 02:07:07.039 actually believe would happen but obviously would have been unbelievable. 2510 02:07:08.000 --> 02:07:11.479 Or the third option, play new material, And that is 2511 02:07:11.520 --> 02:07:14.159 what happened because Gallo Braid a record that only has 2512 02:07:14.199 --> 02:07:16.560 one album twenty ten turn up and went, yeah, we 2513 02:07:16.600 --> 02:07:19.720 know we've got longer than we actually have songs, So 2514 02:07:20.239 --> 02:07:22.680 here are two new songs that we've got for you 2515 02:07:22.680 --> 02:07:24.920 that we're working on for an album that is coming 2516 02:07:25.000 --> 02:07:28.960 up at some point soon. And the vibes being already 2517 02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:31.399 really good when they were playing the material that people knew, 2518 02:07:31.479 --> 02:07:35.840 then the surprise of here are brand new songs for 2519 02:07:35.880 --> 02:07:39.880 the first time. The vibe, the good spirits in this 2520 02:07:39.960 --> 02:07:44.239 set hit another level. I was with my mate watching 2521 02:07:44.279 --> 02:07:45.720 this and at one point when they were playing a song, 2522 02:07:45.720 --> 02:07:47.159 he literally turned to me and was like, I'm going 2523 02:07:47.239 --> 02:07:50.319 to the bar to get booths, like just because the 2524 02:07:50.680 --> 02:07:54.680 new galibraded song they were playing was of such quality 2525 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:58.439 that it required appropriate celebration. And genuinely, those two songs 2526 02:07:58.479 --> 02:08:02.279 they played, one was a more like kind of windy, blasty, 2527 02:08:02.319 --> 02:08:05.399 atmospheric black metal, not like a little colder maybe, but 2528 02:08:05.520 --> 02:08:10.279 one of them had the biggest fuck off like folky 2529 02:08:10.399 --> 02:08:14.680 epic metal melody and chorus and like basically a Visigoth chorus, 2530 02:08:15.039 --> 02:08:17.279 is what I'm saying, like Jake who sings all those 2531 02:08:17.319 --> 02:08:20.720 amazing choruses, and literally I can sing it to you. 2532 02:08:20.960 --> 02:08:24.359 How many times ever have you seen a band play new, 2533 02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:27.800 unreleased songs and you have remembered it after You might 2534 02:08:27.800 --> 02:08:29.520 have enjoyed it, but you haven't heard it enough times 2535 02:08:29.560 --> 02:08:31.960 to like, you know, internalize it in your brain. You 2536 02:08:32.039 --> 02:08:34.720 know what I mean? I was singing. I don't know 2537 02:08:34.720 --> 02:08:36.840 the words to it, but the melody I have in 2538 02:08:36.840 --> 02:08:39.439 my head like it entered it immediately because it was 2539 02:08:39.520 --> 02:08:42.600 so good and so big and epic and inspiring and 2540 02:08:42.680 --> 02:08:43.960 rousing and like I said, Jake is one of my 2541 02:08:44.000 --> 02:08:49.079 favorite particularly like vocal melody arrangers probably ever and fuck me, 2542 02:08:49.399 --> 02:08:50.680 I can't even go and listen to it. There's like 2543 02:08:50.680 --> 02:08:52.520 a phone recording that someone's got of it, but I 2544 02:08:52.560 --> 02:08:53.840 can't even go listen to the song with the record 2545 02:08:53.880 --> 02:08:55.800 right now. I want it so bad now. I am 2546 02:08:55.960 --> 02:09:00.279 so give forward to hearing the Finnish studio versions of 2547 02:09:00.319 --> 02:09:02.000 these songs, because if you are a gallery fanily on 2548 02:09:02.079 --> 02:09:04.079 you weren't here, but you're curious, like what could new 2549 02:09:04.119 --> 02:09:07.239 record sound like? The new songs, particularly that one with 2550 02:09:07.279 --> 02:09:11.680 this incredible fucking chorus immediately earwormed itself right into my consciousness, 2551 02:09:12.439 --> 02:09:16.600 was just spectacular, and like I said, bringing that like 2552 02:09:16.640 --> 02:09:20.039 the vibes being so triumphant, like an actual like Stone 2553 02:09:20.079 --> 02:09:22.520 Remembrance I mentioned that song, like an actual, genuine sing 2554 02:09:22.560 --> 02:09:25.479 along and when matey boy Fief is playing the fucking 2555 02:09:25.560 --> 02:09:28.039 keyboard melody and people are singing it back, you know, 2556 02:09:28.079 --> 02:09:33.399 like an Iron Maiden show like oh just it turned 2557 02:09:33.399 --> 02:09:35.560 into a like a good vibes heavy metal show basically 2558 02:09:35.640 --> 02:09:37.840 at the end of this weekend of you know, blasty 2559 02:09:37.880 --> 02:09:42.279 black metal, and that was so sick. I can't again. 2560 02:09:42.319 --> 02:09:44.439 People who who was who were there and were really 2561 02:09:44.520 --> 02:09:47.439 like have waited however long for even the promise of 2562 02:09:47.640 --> 02:09:50.079 Gallo Braid anything, you know, people who love that record. 2563 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:53.800 Basically it was such a celebration of, like I said, 2564 02:09:53.800 --> 02:09:58.159 something that's so small and something that was so unproven, 2565 02:09:58.279 --> 02:10:01.560 particularly in the live environment, and that you could easily 2566 02:10:01.600 --> 02:10:05.359 imagine no one ever wanting to take the chance on 2567 02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:08.479 it and put it on basically, but the vibes that 2568 02:10:08.520 --> 02:10:12.600 it produced and the celebration of that was so good 2569 02:10:13.000 --> 02:10:17.239 and such a brilliant way to end it that Gallibray 2570 02:10:17.359 --> 02:10:20.199 not only is that record the first one like absolutely 2571 02:10:20.239 --> 02:10:23.439 reaffirmed in my mind as like you know, a kind 2572 02:10:23.439 --> 02:10:25.560 of an underground cult classic of the you know, twenty 2573 02:10:25.560 --> 02:10:27.399 tens of black metal. It's fucking brilliant. If you've never 2574 02:10:27.439 --> 02:10:29.319 heard it, you would actually check it out. But also 2575 02:10:29.520 --> 02:10:32.279 like not out of the blue, you're here, your back 2576 02:10:32.319 --> 02:10:34.279 and we've got new fucking material to look forward to, 2577 02:10:34.399 --> 02:10:38.720 and its sounding shit hot was killer, Like for two 2578 02:10:38.880 --> 02:10:41.239 cult headliners, you know, old Man's Child the more proven 2579 02:10:41.279 --> 02:10:43.279 of the two, and then Gallo Bray just whipping it 2580 02:10:43.319 --> 02:10:45.279 out of nowhere. People be like, who if they've never 2581 02:10:45.439 --> 02:10:48.039 you know, if they didn't intersect with that particular phenomenon, 2582 02:10:48.159 --> 02:10:51.359 but both headlining in the festival in it's such a 2583 02:10:51.359 --> 02:10:55.640 great way. It kind of proved that you don't actually 2584 02:10:55.680 --> 02:10:58.640 have to break the bank too crazy, like you don't 2585 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:00.359 maybe that's not time I'm looking for. You don't have 2586 02:11:00.359 --> 02:11:03.520 to try and appeal beyond the niche, right, you don't 2587 02:11:03.560 --> 02:11:07.279 have to book fucking you know that the bands who 2588 02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:10.319 you don't have to try and aim to reach, the 2589 02:11:10.359 --> 02:11:13.000 people who wouldn't normally go for a festival for this 2590 02:11:13.079 --> 02:11:16.319 kind of music. You can put on something that is 2591 02:11:16.479 --> 02:11:19.600 just purely for this audience and they will come and 2592 02:11:19.640 --> 02:11:21.720 they will love it, and it will matter and it 2593 02:11:21.760 --> 02:11:24.439 will be validated, you know what I mean. And then 2594 02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:27.000 the last I say about Fortress kind of on that 2595 02:11:27.079 --> 02:11:29.760 note is they are on site. It was after a 2596 02:11:29.760 --> 02:11:32.439 Forester Stars on site, but then it came out, you 2597 02:11:32.439 --> 02:11:36.239 know why the following day they've booked. Next year's headliner 2598 02:11:36.319 --> 02:11:40.840 is Emperor for one of the days. Yeah, and obviously 2599 02:11:41.000 --> 02:11:42.840 fortunes of the two day festival, they have made it 2600 02:11:42.840 --> 02:11:45.399 a habit last few years of Likelin, of announcing you know, 2601 02:11:45.560 --> 02:11:48.720 one headliner as soon as this one goes out, and 2602 02:11:48.720 --> 02:11:50.760 then people fucking you know, rush and get the blind 2603 02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:54.159 tickets and all that kind of thing. But yeah, next 2604 02:11:54.239 --> 02:11:56.760 year is gonna be the fifth anniversary of Fortress, and 2605 02:11:56.800 --> 02:12:01.000 they have booked Emperor to headline at least one of 2606 02:12:01.079 --> 02:12:05.359 the days. And that is pretty fucking crazy considering this 2607 02:12:05.479 --> 02:12:08.439 is a, like I said, a five year old festival 2608 02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:17.439 that has primarily booked pretty small bands. Two get arguably 2609 02:12:17.439 --> 02:12:20.000 the biggest certainly like again, one of the three biggest 2610 02:12:20.079 --> 02:12:24.560 and one of, if not the most legendary and musically 2611 02:12:24.600 --> 02:12:28.720 beloved and respective respected black metal bands of all time 2612 02:12:29.600 --> 02:12:33.600 to headline the festival. It's a great validation of Fortress 2613 02:12:33.640 --> 02:12:36.039 itself that it's kind of reached its reached a stage 2614 02:12:36.039 --> 02:12:40.159 where it can do that and can book that. Weirdly, 2615 02:12:40.560 --> 02:12:43.119 it is actually the rare black metal you know Fortress 2616 02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:46.960 headliner who do kind of appeal beyond the people who 2617 02:12:46.960 --> 02:12:49.680 are usually there, you know what I mean. Like Emperor 2618 02:12:50.000 --> 02:12:55.920 is a big band, Emperor sell tickets, Emperor actually play 2619 02:12:56.000 --> 02:12:59.880 big metal festivals. Like Emperor of headlined Bloodstock. You know, 2620 02:13:00.039 --> 02:13:01.800 they're not of the size to headline Bloodstock as it 2621 02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:03.840 is now, but they'll still sub headline it, you know 2622 02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:09.159 what I mean. And weirdly, like obviously I'm stoked. I'm 2623 02:13:09.199 --> 02:13:11.640 never gonna turn down seeing Emperor. It's one of the 2624 02:13:11.680 --> 02:13:14.079 greatest bands of all time, and I think it's gonna 2625 02:13:14.119 --> 02:13:18.000 be special because of the location vibe in the atmosphere 2626 02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:21.399 of Fortress, because I can say that the almost the 2627 02:13:21.479 --> 02:13:24.640 drawback of this is because there is a bigger than 2628 02:13:24.720 --> 02:13:29.920 average Fortress headliner, is they're actually more available and accessible 2629 02:13:30.079 --> 02:13:35.039 through conventional metal festival means. Like I've seen Emperor Bloodstock 2630 02:13:35.880 --> 02:13:37.720 various times, you know what I mean, and that like 2631 02:13:37.720 --> 02:13:41.119 I've seen them headline Incineration, Like they they're weirdly a 2632 02:13:41.479 --> 02:13:47.399 more accessible band through being bigger, right, because they go 2633 02:13:47.439 --> 02:13:49.359 out and do things and they were when Emperor announced, 2634 02:13:49.359 --> 02:13:51.520 there were a few people who were like, oh yeah, Emperor, 2635 02:13:51.560 --> 02:13:53.760 you know, great cool, obviously legendary band. No one's saying 2636 02:13:53.760 --> 02:13:55.399 Emperor aren't brilliant, no one saying they aren't worthy to 2637 02:13:55.399 --> 02:13:57.840 headline anything like that, but almost just like they are 2638 02:13:57.920 --> 02:14:01.840 so big that it goes on what Fortress traditionally is 2639 02:14:02.079 --> 02:14:05.479 because it becomes a band who you can see outdoors 2640 02:14:05.520 --> 02:14:08.600 at Bloodstock. And I understand that, and I am I'm 2641 02:14:08.600 --> 02:14:10.520 really curious about the second headline because to go from 2642 02:14:10.520 --> 02:14:13.680 old Manstroud and Gaalobray to Emperor is a fucking unbelievable 2643 02:14:13.760 --> 02:14:15.920 like without raising the cap of the venue or anything, 2644 02:14:16.479 --> 02:14:19.920 is a crazy thing. I'm curious about the second headliner 2645 02:14:19.960 --> 02:14:22.279 and whether they can go super cult again and get 2646 02:14:22.479 --> 02:14:26.399 something like a Gallibraiy for example, offset by how fucking 2647 02:14:26.520 --> 02:14:28.279 enormous Emperor, you know what I mean. But I will 2648 02:14:28.279 --> 02:14:31.079 say about the Emperor booking is because of the low location, 2649 02:14:31.239 --> 02:14:33.800 vibe of the festival and the atmosphere of it, I 2650 02:14:33.840 --> 02:14:38.319 think it has potential to be one of the better 2651 02:14:38.399 --> 02:14:43.319 Emperor sets played in certainly this country since they reunite it. 2652 02:14:43.359 --> 02:14:47.119 Because again I've seen Emperor Bloodstock. Emperor outdoors at Bloodstock 2653 02:14:47.159 --> 02:14:51.119 is not as good as seeing them headline inside in 2654 02:14:51.199 --> 02:14:55.119 a Victorian theater on the Yorkshire coastline. With this incredible 2655 02:14:55.159 --> 02:14:57.560 atmosphere that Fortress has developed, you know what I mean. 2656 02:14:57.800 --> 02:15:01.560 Like atmosphere and time and place and everything is important 2657 02:15:02.000 --> 02:15:04.720 for black metal. And I've never seen a bad Emperor show, 2658 02:15:05.079 --> 02:15:08.600 and I've seen them be spectacular mainly indoors, right, But 2659 02:15:09.000 --> 02:15:13.720 the entire everything that comes with Fortress I think has 2660 02:15:13.720 --> 02:15:18.720 the potential to make that particular Emperor show more than 2661 02:15:18.920 --> 02:15:22.680 just your average Emperor festival metal show. So that's my 2662 02:15:22.720 --> 02:15:24.960 take on the Emperor bookie, and that makes it very exciting. 2663 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:27.079 I know that all of their early bird tickets have 2664 02:15:27.159 --> 02:15:29.720 fucking flown at the door immediately. And again I'm curious 2665 02:15:29.760 --> 02:15:32.560 maybe how many people, if people do decide to come 2666 02:15:32.600 --> 02:15:35.399 to Fortress, who maybe wouldn't have come with Emperor went 2667 02:15:35.439 --> 02:15:37.079 headline it, you know what I mean. I'm curious how 2668 02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:40.079 sort of cross appeal it ends up being. I sort 2669 02:15:40.079 --> 02:15:41.520 of hope, to be honest, it's just all the same 2670 02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:45.199 normal Fortress people, but with a nice time seeing Emperor together. 2671 02:15:45.359 --> 02:15:47.880 Basically I want to happen. But obviously if you've never 2672 02:15:47.920 --> 02:15:50.479 have come to Fortress and it has pieter interest and 2673 02:15:50.520 --> 02:15:52.079 that I do, of course I recommend the festival in 2674 02:15:52.119 --> 02:15:54.720 gener It's such a wonderful place and hopefully if an 2675 02:15:54.720 --> 02:15:58.640 Emperor draws you in then they'll book a bill of 2676 02:15:58.680 --> 02:16:01.239 like fucking weird that I can't believe this is here, 2677 02:16:01.319 --> 02:16:03.439 or at least underground, you know, UK debutes all that 2678 02:16:03.520 --> 02:16:05.199 kind of stuff that you normally get from a fortress, 2679 02:16:05.359 --> 02:16:07.319 and you get to see those bands and get introduced 2680 02:16:07.319 --> 02:16:09.960 into that world through you know, coming in the door 2681 02:16:10.000 --> 02:16:12.319 with an emperor for example. But that is for next 2682 02:16:12.399 --> 02:16:14.920 year's Fortress, which I cannot wait for because it's always 2683 02:16:14.920 --> 02:16:16.600 such a good good time. And that is my report 2684 02:16:16.600 --> 02:16:19.560 from this year's Fortress Festival. Cheers to everybody who hung out. 2685 02:16:19.680 --> 02:16:21.880 Hope that you enjoyed the weekend as much as I did. 2686 02:16:21.920 --> 02:16:23.560 And like I said, all those bands I mentioned, there 2687 02:16:23.560 --> 02:16:31.119 are no big cross you know, appealing massively outside of 2688 02:16:31.159 --> 02:16:33.520 like you know, major metal press coverage, outside of the 2689 02:16:33.520 --> 02:16:35.879 black metal world. Bands I mentioned there really like, it's 2690 02:16:35.920 --> 02:16:37.920 all within the black metal world, and so if you 2691 02:16:38.360 --> 02:16:40.879 are not so familiar with that world, then you have 2692 02:16:40.879 --> 02:16:43.079 done the incredible deed of listening to this entire review. 2693 02:16:43.479 --> 02:16:45.440 Check out those names, you know, Like that's why I 2694 02:16:45.559 --> 02:16:47.719 here doing this. They were fucking sick loads of those bands, 2695 02:16:48.040 --> 02:16:52.360 and such a healthy, healthy scene with loads of you know, 2696 02:16:52.559 --> 02:16:54.479 new bands like That's like Vesperal and stuff like that 2697 02:16:54.520 --> 02:16:56.120 who are just coming through and putting on great stuff 2698 02:16:56.120 --> 02:16:59.159 and making great music. So check them out. Yeah, cheers 2699 02:16:59.159 --> 02:17:02.079 everybody for listening here through first the hyper Blast portion 2700 02:17:02.120 --> 02:17:06.200 of this show and then the Fortress review. We'll be 2701 02:17:06.280 --> 02:17:09.719 back next week with a more regular Hyperblasts. We've got 2702 02:17:10.000 --> 02:17:12.760 an outbreak late this month as well. Like festival season, 2703 02:17:12.799 --> 02:17:15.000 you know, swing into a different corner of the musical 2704 02:17:15.159 --> 02:17:17.639 TNM spectrum. But some is going to be hot and 2705 02:17:17.680 --> 02:17:21.760 sweaty indeed in many many a good way. But we'll 2706 02:17:21.799 --> 02:17:23.360 be back here next week with the Hyperblast. We'll be 2707 02:17:23.399 --> 02:17:25.920 back soon with more of the long form content that 2708 02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:29.079 we do over on the Patreon and we hope you 2709 02:17:29.159 --> 02:17:30.920 see you there for all of it. Bye.