Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to That's Not Metal. We are your
weekly rock and heavy music podcast, and this here on
this Friday is an edition of Hyperblasts, our shorter form
news and release round up show where we let you
know everything that's been going down in the last week.
We let you know the beefs which I guess there
are some of some of interest this week, and we
just give you an insight I supposing to what is
going on in the world right now. Particularly relevant this
week is big live shows once again as another summer
of we were saying this, you know last year before
that particularly, I guess here in the UK summer shows
seem to be really racking up with like massive events,
not just festivals, but then bands doing their own you know,
big events and you know one off shows and stuff
like that. And we are very much in the midst
of We're gonna have another one next week, right, We're
in the midst of all of that kind of stuff
rolling on, So we've got some of that to talk about.
My name is parent Haish and with me mainly reporting
on that front this time is Sam Dignon.
Speaker 2: Hello, Yes, yeah, unexpectedly busy event for weekly and I
was kind of just be like, oh, I was just
watching hell Fest clips online. That was kind of like
what my week was gonna be. And then all the
big stuff's happening this coming weekend. And then on Sunday
again message do I want a Metallica ticket? I was
like sure, why not? And then on Monday where I
was like do you want to free b fremcr?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just out of nowhere, I just wind up like
because I'm seeing I was planned to see my Chemical
Romance this Saturday. I was going I had a ticket
for that show, and they're doing, you know, like three
nights at Wembley Stadium, and evidently the Wednesday night, being
a Wednesday night, hadn't sold as well as the other two.
So my brother, through his work, was like, I've got
three tickets. I don't want to go see Mechanical Romance.
Speaker 3: Do you want him?
Speaker 1: Sam?
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, yes, yes, I would like to see
michaelmic Romance are free. Considering I paid one hundred odd
quid for the one charm now like this is now
like this is two Michamic Romance shows seventy pounds each.
The math checks out, like good, this is good use
of my money.
Speaker 1: This is a very jammy week for you because I
just have to sit here and basically be jealous of
everything that you are discussing. Because Michemical Romance they did
play in Liverpool, but it ended up being you know,
quite expensive, and I went to see Sun the same
night that they played Metallica doing the you know two
you know, no repeats weekend thing in the UK that's
only happening in London. They have done one off, you know,
individual shows other places in the UK, but they didn't
play in like the Northwest where I am. It was
you up in Glasgow or going over to you know,
Ireland or whatever if I wanted to go that and
I am very genuinely gutted to be missing out on
that one, and then you turn up.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, I didn't even plan. To me, I
would say, don't be too jealous because you did get
spared watching Avatar. That's true.
Speaker 1: Honestly, Me and you, I think possibly had the most
polar opposite gig weeks it's possible to have. Because my
one thing I did is I went to go see
a tiny raw black metal band called Natalitch who had
come over from Canada playing in you know dingy Grutthole Venues,
and they had like a bill of support bands going
out with them, one of whom was Final Dose, who
we spoke about. So you know, Sam's just throwing the
horn to me there while taking a drink. Very much true.
Fanal Doos spoke about a lot last year they rip,
so I went to get to see them, along with
this really fucking cool, nasty like candelarbras and keyboards, you know,
raw scummy black metal band Natalich, which was all very good.
But then there you are again on the opposite end
of the spectrum with stadium spectacle after stadium spectacles. So
we are going to talk about the little bit of
news we have and the releases at the end, but
I imagine many people out there either went to these shows
and want to relive them or are just curious about
both the you know, Metallica being no repeats type stadium
show's been going through the UK and my Chemical Romance
stadium show doing twenty years of the Black Parade. So
I guess the first thirty forty minutes whatever that being
of this show is going to be talking all about
those Metallica happened first. So let's get into that one.
Let me just clarify, you went to the obviously, as
I'm saying, there no repeats, weken two shows. You went
to the second night.
Speaker 3: Second of the nights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had a friend who had the ticket,
had the two tickets and the repeats, because again I
couldn't afford to drop two hundred odd quid on like
two Metallic shows. As like, I think, like, given two shows,
the bill they were bringing along with them, I think
that is you know, fair money for Metallicy to be
charging for these shows. But I just couldn't at the time,
given the amount of other stuff I'd got going on
this summer, I was like, I can't afford it. And
then when on the day my friend who'd been to
the first show with Kajia and.
Speaker 3: Not Loose, was like, I can't make it to the
one stage.
Speaker 2: You want me to just give my ticket mask Log
and you can just take my ticket and I'll do
you like a matriate for it. I was like, sound, yeah,
I'll take that, because I've i haven't seen Metallic rin
over a decade. And there was you know the other
thing of the support bands for this one. I mean
I've mentioned Avatar who might just be the worst band
I've seen this year, just woeful, abysmal.
Speaker 1: They get really shown up by every other band on
the poster right when you put the two.
Speaker 2: Genuinely that they have like how they've wound up on
this I don't like. I didn't even know that they
were like that much for a draw like crazy, but
not for me and not for anyone if anyone has
taste really quite poor.
Speaker 3: I left.
Speaker 2: I left halfway through the set to just go and
mosey about the concourse, and I was like, this is
better than watching Avatar the other sport who I I
are a talking point on this one.
Speaker 3: Pantera M so Panter.
Speaker 2: I have long had conflicting feelings on this Pantera union,
like no denying it. Pantera are one of my favorite
metal bands ever. Those albums, those nineties Pantera albums, the
classics were so important in my music taste and getting
me into metal. I think they are some of the
greatest metal songs you're ever gonna hear, like just unbelievable,
and then like so seeing those songs live on papers
to me is like overlos that's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Obviously is well documented. We have discussed it. Many times
on this podcast.
Speaker 2: There is a whole lot of baggage that comes with Pantera,
phil Aancelmo being the sort of the primary cause of it.
For me, I wouldn't buy a ticket to a Pantera show.
Speaker 3: That's kind of why I think I would draw the line.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would buy the tickets to see
this Pantera lineup. Again, you can discuss how Pantera is
as like that.
Speaker 3: That's sort of a whole discussion.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't feel necessarily right buying tickets Panthera show. But
if I'm going to see Metallica and Panterra put in
front of me, of course.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna gonna watch it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see what, like, what it's like seeing this
Pantera lineup per forming these songs. And here's the thing,
Like it was fucking brilliant. I I genuinely like, I was,
like I had to, I was. I'm shaking my head
disapproving me the entire time, so everyone knows I don't like,
I don't agree with this, but they were fucking unbelieva.
I'm gonna bring up the set list now quickly because
they had an hour and outside of not playing anything
off of greats of Trendkill, which is their best album,
Like it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's one of those things where with
with you know, supporting Metallica in a stadium. Obviously Pantera
themselves aren't a stadium level band, but to us, to
metal fans, right, this is almost like it's a generational like,
you know, one of the all time greats right there
with a set one of the few bands who have
a set list that if you gave them an hour
you could feasibly you know, level.
Speaker 2: Absolutely this is like metallically, No metallic will kind of
like doing like this is you know the eighties metal
kind of like and pandera like yeah, and this is
that for the Natties, And they were like honestly, like
I know, I know some people seem to sort of
have some gripes about the sound and Panterra, where I
was no no.
Speaker 3: Sound issues whatsoever for me.
Speaker 2: But when they are coming out and they go straight
into a new level, I'm just like that fucking riff
is the hardest shit ever. And they finish new level
and they go mouthful war strength beyond strength, becoming I'm broken,
as like the first half of the set like tom
on if you like metal, those songs are unbelievable and
they sounded tight. Then you get like a Cemetery Gates
kind of interlude with the Abbott brothers on like on
the video screens, kind of like doing another tribute to them,
and then the back end of the set list right
five minutes alone, this love fucking hostile walk with them
their kind of a bit of their Fairies where Boots
cover tapped onto the end of it because it's one
year on from back to the beginning. And then they
don't play Domination, but they just play the breakdown from
Domination because yes, more bands, if you have a riff
that is that money, just play the money riff and
then go straight to hollow as like a mash up.
Fucking unreal because that beat that that Domination breakdown is
everything I love about hardcore in that in that one
breakdown it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And then wrapping up with Cowboys from Hell as an hour.
If you remove all the baggage, you cannot that there's
feasibly very little that if you like metal, can be
better than that. It's so good.
Speaker 2: I was my whole time I heard I was like
you gotta, you know, keep clarifying Filancelmo not a good person.
All that, Yes that I'm going to get more into
the grapes of the stage show. There was some panstration
that during Pantera where again during some because the mediator
is the big circle they've got at the moment, and
I was in standing and there was moments in the
Pantre Sai where they were like right near me. I
wasn't even that near the front of the thing, but
because the way the stage is up, you even with
a bit of a back during some point.
Speaker 3: That you would have the most insane.
Speaker 2: View of of a like Philancelmo or Zach Wild just
ripping out these these riffs and solos and like I
mansed to get them doing some more favorite songs.
Speaker 3: It was fucking great.
Speaker 2: And there are other moments of the set where you
kind of were just left watching the drama because the
rest of the band are over on the other side
of the stadium, and that that becomes more of an
issue during Metallica, for like an hour of Pantea where
they're constantly having to kind of like rotate to keep
the crowd engaged. It worked really well, but yeah, it
just was like such a reminder of how good Pantera
at their best these songs I don't neber go to
anyone who was turning their nosebent and sort of not
want to go of it because of as I said,
the baggage I mened several times, but for me, just
as a howl on warm up from Metallica, it's one
of the best port slots I've seen it, fucking it
at the end, like when they were doing again the
sort of extended sort of break down the outros. You know,
Mark came on last year and was singing the praise
of five Finger Death Punch supporting Metallica. I'm allowed to
have this with with Pantera, who I am a better
band than five Finger Death Punch.
Speaker 3: Let me have this o oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the Pantera are in many ways the kind
of the you know, the forefather of the real one,
compared to the likes of fire Thinger Death punche Whether
this particular Panterra, you know, this incindation is the real one.
It's obviously another thing I'm similar to you in that
I like, you know, when Pantera they didn't play again
in the Northwest where I am, so I didn't have
that much to kind of you know, ethically think about.
But when they've come through and done a headline thing,
I didn't really entertain going. I don't know if I
would buy just a ticket to see Pantera right now.
But and we discussed that it doesn't really you know,
it's not quite the Pantera that we all know, and
the logistics and the ethics behind whether it you know,
even as feels like or it is kind of condoned
to be so to speak, you know that that Pantera
is a different thing. But if I was, you know,
again at a festival or in a support slots of
one ers where it is in front of me, I
I've only heard where the show itself is really strong
and great, and maybe that's a karaoke thing to some degree,
but I've only heard that it's great Metallica, seeing as
this is the whole appeal of a particular Ttalica show
unless you are just doing one day, which you know,
a Metallica shows Metallica show in it. But the whole
no repeat thing was the idea of them coming through. Yeah,
and basically you know, they take a you know, was
it like sixteen songs they're doing sixteen.
Speaker 2: Sixteen each night Yeah, Yeah, thirty two Metallica songs you're
getting across the two nights, is that's a sweet deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Metallica obviously a band where we've all got fucking
at least sixty songs that we want to see them doing.
And I've you know, I felt this from when I've
seen Metallica being like that was fantastic. God, I wish
that you'd played for four more hours to see all
of those other classics that we've all grown up, you know,
listening to, And that was part of why I really
wanted to see this particular, you know, hot whole thing.
Even between these two settlers I'm looking at, they don't
even cover all of those again songs And what you'd
imagine for any of the band in these sistence would
be like staple every night songs don't even make it
onto this, you know, thirty thirty two. I'm gonna read
out the set list from the first night just so
people know. These are the songs that they had already
covered by the time that they got to you, Creeping Death,
Harvester of Sorrow, Holier than Thou of Wolf, and mann
Luxe Turner. If Darkness had a son, Fader, Black cyanide
oryan nothing else matters, sad but true, hard Wired, Fuel,
Seek and Destroy, Master of Puppets. So the show that
you saw, every one of those songs that I just
read was like already deemed done, you know what I mean,
they could afford to leave those out.
Speaker 3: I didn't get a single Marster Puppets song.
Speaker 1: That's wild. I thought they would break those.
Speaker 3: Out of lists.
Speaker 2: But the first that was very much the Master of
Puppets night, and then my night was black Album, Ride
the Lightning and Justice for All kind of getting more
of the sort of I guess the shine, But yeah,
I didn't get a single Master Puppets song. That to me,
it's like even some of THEFF they didn't play, like
no Battery, that wasn't on there at all. Yeah, Dan,
And that's of course two nights I didn't play battery Battery,
Like this is what this Metallica, this is and and
it is just the nature of Metallica, like having that
many ten out of ten songs, like you know what
you're gonna do aside from cutting Kirk and Rob fucking about.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I've just realized we said the sixteen songs
thirty two songs. That's not really true because one of
those is the Doodle. So thirty songs again.
Speaker 3: Which I mean, okay, only thirty Metallica songs? How dare
they be?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So of the of the fifteen that you saw,
I can see right here how this went. And it
opens up with Whiplash, which is a hell of a
way to go. So how how was the Metallica experiencing
at least one half of the note repeats weekend.
Speaker 2: Opening with Whiplash, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Ride
the Lightning.
Speaker 3: I'm just like old school baby.
Speaker 2: Three in the in the bit of stating where I
stood so for this opening run where again Right the
Lightning is my favorite Metallica album. Getting for Whom the
Bell Toll was on the title track right when they're
right in front of me fucking eight, I was that
was great, and like Whiplash, was a really fun opener.
There's something about Metallica opening with a kill them All
song that kind of just makes me happy. The first
one I saw them, they opened to hit the Lights
and it's just such a it's such a feel good
way to start metallic sex.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Kill them All kind of rocks and rolics.
Speaker 2: In a way that other Metallica albums don't always it's
a it's just always got that slightly more kind of
rock and roll kind of thing.
Speaker 1: It's new way for British having met all played by
youthful maniacs playing it faster and harder than anyone before them.
It's just it's the most full of spark and you know,
fucking useful.
Speaker 2: It crackles in a way that again they get him
Attacker doesn't. So when you're open with Whiplash and you're
getting there and again like Metallica, aren't you know, stringis
and more, but they still come out and attack Whiplash
as an opener, which figure I have to say, Like
I've heard he had mixed things about James as a
vocalist in recent times, he was on really good form.
I don't know if it's just been on this tour,
if he's just kind of like found his voice a
bit more again.
Speaker 3: But like it's not obviously I'm not pulling the whole
He's never sound a better thing.
Speaker 2: But from what you're going to hear about, like oh,
Hetfield canna be a bit ropy these days, I think
he was on really good form of for the rest
of the band, like Lars was mostly in time, like
I would say, like Lars was pretty solid, and Metallica
the one thing I will say is that always the
loudest band you're ever gonna see live. I don't know
what it is, but when Metallica come out, everything is
just cranked up to the max, but it's all crystal clear,
like when I see some bands and everything's like like
turned uptid as it can and it is just some
kind of like overwhelming mess of sound and you know,
pip things out. Metallica makes to sound louder than everyone else,
but also sound clear and like you know what you're
listening to. And I mean that is one of the
real sweet things about the Metallica's live show. Obviously, the
actual live show pretty bare bones, and this one I'm
gonna get onto my one big.
Speaker 3: Criticism of the night, which is the staging.
Speaker 2: Like I think this Metallic stage show, if you're in
the snake pit, it must be amazing. If you're stood
in the middle of this big circle and Metallica are
playing all around you and you can kind of turn
around and just sort of follow Metallica around, that's really cool.
I think if you were seated the stage again probably
was less of an issue because you've got a white
sort of a further back view you can kind of see
everything for standing, as I said, there will be some
bits where like because also I don't know if this
was something need this night or the other night where
it actually felt like for a lot of shit, the
band were quite kind of playing close together rather than
kind of taking a like quadrant of the stage each
so there was no more of them kind of playing
in blocks, and it was just kind of weird. Then
because of this opening thing, they moved round to the
next part of the circle and I was kind of
having to like squint to see that the head of
like James just popping up over like I could see
when they finished, there was a big onesie that would
g and walk around the stadium with them, and I'm like,
you shouldn't have to, you know, walk around the stadium
to follow the live show as it's going on.
Speaker 3: It's my one gripe.
Speaker 2: And again I get it because it is like it's
for the lucky few who are in that snakepit that
they are clearly building, and those people have probably paid. However,
much like to get those tickets, and fine, they if
they pay that much to get the best view. But
it was just a minor frustration where there were some
parts of set where I could hear Metallica, but the
only way I could see Metallica was by looking up
at the big screens on the towers around like the stage,
and that to me was just a little bit frustrating.
It's my one My one critiz is about this whole
set is just the staging where I was in the
general in the sort of the general access standing, not
the greatest.
Speaker 1: I've never actually thought it looks cool, is the thing,
because I agree that you know, I I've seen Metallica
in this kind of in the round setup, but from
the seats where I could look down and look at
you know, I could see all of them mentality, But
I've never thought if you see photos or videos and everything,
I don't think it actually Again, you are right in
terms of if you're in the snake pit, then that's
the primo experience. I think there is a degree of
you know, obviously, when they it's they're one thing to
get considering they are, you know, the biggest metal band
ever stadium band wherever, they go. It does allow them
to get kind of up to every seat like that.
That's one cynical way, But I was going to say
it allows them to get up close and personal with
the fans in a way that the ninety nin percent
stadium fans weren't because even you know, yeah, there are
bits where they wander away, but those bits where James
Hetfield or you know, Kirk or whoever is right in
front of you, that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you really cool, really cool.
Speaker 1: Unbelievably close to you know, a fucking larger than life
icon compared to again any number of stadium shows out there.
So and from a musician's point of view, you know,
being able to play these shows where you can still
get up right in the faces of the fans, I
can understand the appeal there. But because it spreads them
out when you see photos and stuff or even just
you know, watching watching them right there, there's a certain
level of like each individual musician when they spread out,
looks so like isolated, like and like on their own,
Like Lars is just a drum kit sort of in
a middle of an empty space, rob Will where you
kind of you are wandering around somewhere, and even though
they are obviously they're playing together. There's something about the
the togetherness and like the physical you know, sense of
like what watching a band really crunching together and play
when they are standing fucking thirty meters apart from one
another and each individual one is just like in their
own pocket. And because again there's not like a huge
stage show behind them or something, because they are right
right in the middle. I think it does subtract from
just like the visual you know, the show and the
spectacle and the wow factor, cool fucking image factor. I
think again, the trade off is getting some parts of
the show where James Depfield is right fucking up in
your grill right, which you don't get at most stadium shows.
So I can understand that they're thinking. But from a
visual spectacle, I've never thought you never see a Metallica
stage and go wow, that looks fucking amazing in the
way that you do quite a number of other big
metal bands or if.
Speaker 3: We're about to get onto after sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but even when you think about bands who are
playing smaller venues like bands of like Iron Maiden or whatever,
they can put on big like you just look at
the stage and go that's a fucking amazing image.
Speaker 3: Well did you see I mean last year was it
the west Ham? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did see them at the London Stadium. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so you've seen them kind of put on
their Iron Maiden spectacle in.
Speaker 1: That it's just not as cool watching fucking Kirk Hammett
wander around on his own thirty meters away from every
other member of the band is just what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So this is what I was saying, like, because I
actually felt like they did play more together on this night.
They were and of wandering a part which went in
a way it was like, cool, they're actually kind of
like jamming as a band and kind of playing off
each other. But also just meant that because they were
doing that, there were longer porters. Well I didn't even
get you know, Kirk or Rob wander over to where
I was. And I agree, like the bit you get
amazing moments in there, but it does just kind of
as a whole experience to tract. As for the rest
of said you know, seventy two Seasons and Screaming Suicide.
I'll take those two off that album. You know, Luck
of Tournament is kind of like the one you want,
but those are two of like the decent tracks off
of like the latest album, the Kirk and Rob Doodle.
As I've mentioned, binning off Like, like I've always said,
in long sets, I appreciate a bit of pissing about,
But I don't even Metallica actually play for long enough
to justify the pissing about. Maybe it's just like that
James and Last need that needed a break, They need
to sort of take a moment, and Kirk and Rob
covering Sabbath and the Sex Pistols badly is just a
chance for them to sort of like reset.
Speaker 3: Maybe, but that was.
Speaker 2: You know, a bit of a momentum killer. But then
you know, the Day that Never Comes. Like I'm not
a big Death Magnetic fan, I think that song's cool.
It was really cool to hear that lie.
Speaker 1: That's one of the I do have a big soft
spot for Death Magnetic production. Aside, Yeah, they Know It Comes,
I think.
Speaker 2: Is three songs off that album that you'd say are
like legit.
Speaker 1: I would go to say at least half of that
record is brilliant, but I would certainly say that The
Day Never Comes is in. It's been proven by time, right,
the fact they're still here it's in the when you
think about the twenty first century songs and the Moth
into Flames and stuff that are like the genuine classics
Day never Comes, I think undeniably one of those.
Speaker 2: It's with something like Cyanide off that album, where like
there are just a couple of tracks off that on
that that do earn their place and like and in
a stadium it sounded huge because it is kind of
a real kind of like sweeping, stirring like track that
builds cool.
Speaker 3: Of Ctulhu as instrumental, that was.
Speaker 2: That was cool again, Like I like right the way
that that was coo instrumental. Unforgiven Whiskey in the Jar cover,
which I've never been like the biggest fan of that cover,
but you know, that was a really fun sick It's
a really fun sing along. It's it's not my favorite
Metallica cover as all like, but as a sort of
a fun sing along towards the end of the set,
right Blackened, which to me, that should be like a
song that Metallica never ever don't play like surely black
and should be infestimating.
Speaker 1: You just said that they across the two unites, they
didn't play Battery right and they and they've not got
fight fire with fire in here either, so that like
you know, track one Metallica, crazy ripper. They just have
such a number of them to choose from them, so many,
they have so many, Yeah, cycle and that was but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blackhoo looks fucking amazing.
Speaker 2: Mof into Flame, which again like that is obviously that's
the one off of hard Whire that has long kind
of like cemented itself as the real big one. And
that was where they actually towards the end of the
set cranked up the stage show because off in the
Flame fire like they had a load of fire shooing
out of stage.
Speaker 3: That was cool.
Speaker 2: One again more fire kind of explosions all that, like
it's one. It's like the best thing ever. I did
admittedly cut out when Salmon started.
Speaker 3: I was like I love Metallica and then like they
got the big balls out and that was fun.
Speaker 2: But I was like, I want to beat the crowd
and get on the train home because I've suffered getting
away from football games at that stadium many a time.
I was I was like I'm getting out ahead of
the crowd. I'm like Metallica even great, and Salmon obviously
like you know, one of the biggest tunes ever. I
don't need to see this, so I did make a
hasty retreat, but it was as a kind of like
someone who hasn't say it again, has seen Metallic for
a decade. Quibbles with the stage aside, really cool set
list again, like playing or Ride the Lightning, which well
for me big fan of like the title track. When
that billy kicked in third, I was like, let's fucking go.
They did sound like as good as I think Metallic
at this stage in their career possibly could sound doodle. Aside,
they seem to be enjoying during this sort of like
stage where they're playing again like these songs, these two
nights like getting to sort of really kind of explore
their catalog, and it was just you know, the Metallica show,
they're gonna come into it, and like, yeah, I don't
think you're ever going to really get a bad Metallica
show because it's just look at the set list they're
gonna play, look at those songs. But this was a
nice kind of like unexpected treat And I think if
you've got you know, if you went to both nights,
you probably were just like absolutely giddy. With the amount
of Metallica good shit you got across those two nights.
Speaker 3: It was a real cool, real cool show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm really disappointed that, you know, through not going
to download a couple of years ago as well, and
then just them not deciding to play in you know,
the cities in my vicinity, that I didn't manage to
get to see any of this, because it's been fucking
ages since I've see Batallica as well, and I've wanted to,
you know again, come and be part of this party
for a while. You do wonder seeing as as we said,
you know, we've they've already done download here doing this
particular type you know, two nights setup. They've taken this
no repeats weekend like all around the world at this stage.
I can't imagine there are too many territories left that
they haven't done. They've come back to the UK and
done it. It's been like at least sort of you know,
three ish years, right that they've been doing this two yeah, yeah,
So you wonder how long this will be going on
and once that does, you know, come to a close,
what wolstly will be the next thing in store for
them Atallica. But I guess we might not have to
wait incredibly long fingers crossed to see what that might
end up being. But that wasn't the end of the
big extravaganzas for you, because, as as said, My Chemical Romance,
twenty years of the Black Parade tour they've been doing.
My couple Romans have come around quite a few times. Again,
I've still not seen them, you know, since they've been
coming back and everything, but they've done a few different
sort of types of tour. But this one seems to
be if when they first came back and I know
they played that Milton Keen show and all that, that
was just like look mcra back right and almost I
know that he would change outfits for occasionally on the show,
but like almost like weirdly casual looking Michael kroumant at times.
This twenty years celebration of their most like Pompus theatrical album,
this seems to be like the genuine, what the fuck
actual like piece of theater Michemical Romance show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the thing is, when Michael Romance came back, this
was like the last thing I wanted them to do.
I didn't want Michael Rommins to squeeze back into the
Black Parade jackets and like pedal nostalgia. To me, initially
my hopes of kind of like Michael Romins as a
credit force. After Foundations of the K was amazing and
those Milky shows were great, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, this is you know, we're probably a Micham
CRMs back then.
Speaker 2: We've had fuck all since then, so I've kind of
just accepted maybe Michael mcrummins are just kind of like
a legacy act now fine, like it fine, but so.
Speaker 3: Here's thing like they're doing.
Speaker 2: You know this, this this long lived the Black Parade
tour has been going like fruit's gone for all for America.
Speaker 3: It's been going on for about two years now.
Speaker 2: That like and and when it kind of came up
that they'd come up with an entirely new conceptual narrative
for The Black Parade, which was already a concept album
and they have completely reworked the narrative and come up
with something totally new for I was like, Okay, maybe
this isn't just getting back on getting the jacket back
on and selling nostalgia. To me, I was really intrigued
at that, which is why when it got announced going
to you.
Speaker 3: I was like, I want to be at these shows.
I want to.
Speaker 2: See what this new, reimagined welcome, this renew reimagined Black
Parade actually is. And it turns out everything that me
getting into Michael Grummit when I was like sixteen seventeen
years old as a fearter kid who was also into
metal and punk and email and all that sort of thing.
This is everying I had envisioned that I'd ever wanted
a live show to be, which is an eighty minute,
full on eighty minute theatrical musical theater slash live rock
gig hybrid, like say, taking a fifty two minute album
and turning into a narrative, kind of driven, like eighty
minute performance piece. So good and and like I'll obviously
go into it. I will say Skunkin' and Sy supporting
was very cool to actually finally see Skunking Antsy. They're
one of those bands that was kind of respected more
than been the biggest fan of, but they're like they
were like an interesting call that that's a that's a
nice support thing to try to bring out clearly kind
of bring up bands that they just like and want to,
you know, play shows of it. And I thought like
they were very good, very sot of energy, can kind
of actually engage with the fans and trying to and
get the Michael Grummins fans on their side for the performance.
I thought it was a nice kind of warm up
for the gig, but the Michael gromance for itself. So
there is so much to this. So their stage is up,
but before they even come on stage, there are like
messages appearing like that are kind of like you know,
propaganda kind of message peering up the The whole thing is
themed on this fictional like nation called Drug which is
basically Nazi Germany mixed with Soviet Russia kind of like
aesthetically just all of that, Like the font is very
Soviet Russia. It's all very brutalist, and it's kind of
like architecture. You're getting these fake news reports popping up
on the screens, fake commercials for you know, cruel is
it like this this miserable, horrid dystopian dictatorship. But everything's great,
actually thumbs up, everyone is having a great time.
Speaker 3: No one here is miserable at all. We're doing great.
Speaker 2: And that's the kind of like set up where you
getting there and then before they even come on stage.
Speaker 3: You're then getting like a military drum procession coming on.
Speaker 2: You're getting these characters appearing who are all in like
military uniform that aren't the black trade one, but they
are like part of this whole drug thing. And then
you know, you get all rise for the drug national
anthem and it's a so fictionational mentham and then outcomes
the General himself, who is this dictator character like essentially
Trump meets Putin, kind of like fixedized version of that.
It's not subtle, not subtle in the slightest. They are
painting with the kind of like very obvious. This is
taking shots at Putin and Trump, and you can also
almost read into a kind of like shot at their
own kind of like feverishly coltish fan based times. That's
one sort of thing I saw people discussing is like
this whole kind of like cult like dedication to a
like leading figure. Is is it all that? But it
is very much a political statement of like these culture
personalities leading us to their to our doom kind of thing.
That's the kind of broad setup. So they've introduced the
General and then the band actually come out and they
are essentially the propaganda machine for drag the Black Parade
are you know, the the Rah Rah troops. They will
sing about how great drug is. They will motivate everyone.
They will deliver the message of the General, setting the
scene and then boom Dead kicks in and Michael Grummance
sounds fucking awesome, like and you are interesting in the
Black Parade Live between sort of songs, you're getting Joe
kind of introducing the General and saying like we're doing
this for the good of drug and all of this
sort of stuff. You meet like the Secretary, the sort
of chief of propaganda. These characters come on and like
in between songs, you kind of get moments were like
kind of like quite broad pantomime where the acting is
very big. They're not talking, but you know, it's all
very much conveyed through their gestures and the props they're
holding up and all that sort of stuff. And you
get through, you know, the opening run of the album,
which is like the end, this is how I just appear.
The Sharpest Lives is kind of just like the band
playing it doesn't go bigg inter narrative, and then it's
when you get to Welcome to the Black Parade, where
obviously this is you know, the anthem for like an
entire generation of like teenagers growing up in the two thousands,
and it's repurposed as the anthem to rally about this
nation that is like so good and nothing is wrong
and the kind of like fun jabs at propaganda and
all of that, and there's like, we're singing this for
the Black parades who've come before us.
Speaker 3: You know, we're the fifty sixth like unit of.
Speaker 2: The Black Parade or something like that is what Gerard's saying.
And it is like and it's so kind of like
broaden that, but like that song is still spine tingling.
You hear that first piano note and it just what
it does to a crowd is insane, Like you said
that note and gone. And then when Black Parade finishes,
this is where the narrative sort of starts starts to
really kick into overdrive because they do this thing where
like Gerard is at saying, oh, the General wishes you
partake in democracy, or like wills you to partake in democracy.
So when you enter the stadium, you're handed a card
which has a year or nay sign on it, and
they're basically like like essentially for some frivolous reason, these
men paraded to the front of the stage are on
trial to be executed, and we want you to vote
do we execute them or do we spare them?
Speaker 3: And it's it's a sham vote essentially, but.
Speaker 2: Like you're you know, the audience say, whatever happens, the
audience is going to hold up the one that gets
them executed. So then you get these like cardboard kind
of soldier things rise about the ground, they'll fire, Pyro
goes off and like the bodies drop and it's like,
this is democracy.
Speaker 3: These men deserve to die.
Speaker 2: This was all for the good of drag And it's
like it's so playful and kind of like the stabs
it's making, but it is it's so clear Gerard's brain
is like he's dreamt this up for so long and
he's now just getting into sort of parade around the
stage and do this sort of narrative. You then get
to you know, but time you get to Mamma, the
narratives women an underground bunker and there's like nuclear war
and then on the sort of the breakdown bit of
Mumma where it all goes off, the stage erupts into flames,
the nukes are fired, that drag, the bombs are going off.
You get a guy running around the stage on fire,
like in the full on like flame stunt kind of
suit running around the stage waving his arms around on
that breakdown, and I was kind.
Speaker 3: Of like, this is again, just so.
Speaker 2: The spectacle is such a step up from what I've
seen in a good while. And the narrative where Jarge
starts to get disenfranchised with his position as the propaganagy.
He takes a dag and is like, maybe I should
be the one to put a stop to this. Then
the next song you get drug firing their nuclear missiles.
You see on the screen all the bot nukes going off,
and it's teenagers. Is all propaganda videos playing everywhere, And
by the time you get to you know, famous last
Words at the end of the record, the entire stage
is on fire. There is a countdown basically going and
it is counting down into basically the end of Dragon.
It's kind of like the band trying to defiantly will
you on with famous last Words and like Eving's on fire.
The nation is under attack, but we can keep going,
we can keep doing this, And then by the end
when you get to the reprise of the end, like
I mean famous last words Ramstein levels of pyro, like
they did the thing where you have like the sort
of sound towels and they've got the fire shooting back
and forth between them, the fire going off and them,
the fire on the top of the stage, the entire
front of the stage on fire props and stuff on
the side that have now been lit up, so the
fire is are encroaching around the band, like do you
like real kind of like apocalyptic imagery to nail this
kind of like nation that is on fire. And then
by the end of it, when they are reprising the end,
after everything is burnt out and driving is a husk,
Gerard is stabbed, the rest of the band are like
put black hoods over their heads and bragged away, and
one of the other characters who is now just as
a clown, has like a suicide bomb best and blows
himself up to try and just like gender and even
at the end of it, the general were still just
left standing there after all, like the nations burned to
a Chris. This this maniac cult leader figure has sort
of driven led everyone to their doom and left the
world at burnt husk in his way and he's still standing.
Again not very subtle in this sort of narrative, but
as someone who loves loves theater and has always kind
of loved the idea of bands doing it, but I
think band there's not enough bands with the actual mad
spark and genuine love for theater and whimsy to pull
this thing off.
Speaker 3: Michael Rowance pulled off of Flying Colors.
Speaker 2: For me, it's one of my favorite stage shows I've
ever seen, just as a like a great bit of spectacle,
and it's the right music, it's the right band. And
I'm not saying every man should.
Speaker 3: Try something like this, because I think again most of
them would fuck it up.
Speaker 2: I think Ghosts could potentially do it Cohed give Give
Cloudy a spaceship like But it was as a great
be spectacle, which is one of the most hugely entertaining
live shows I've ever seen. And that was still only
half the show because after that, after about a ten
minute interval where they've had you know, oh, they also
had you know, string quartets and other instruments going on
as well to kind of like bulk out the songs,
They've added like extended bridges to songs where there's new
lyrics and all that going on. So they really reworked
the Black Parade. This is not just coming out and
again just doing the album to remind everyone it was.
It wasn't like the sound we did twenty years ago.
Great it howmuted twenty years ago what was fucking amazing.
But it was just such a great kind of way
to reclaim and kind of like reimagine it in a
way that that feels exciting. So that finishes, they have
an into where they have like a lady playing like
a on the cello to sort of just fill the.
Speaker 3: Time, and then they have the B stage in the
middle of the standing.
Speaker 2: The band re emerged there and they rip into Honey
This mirrors and big enough for the two of us,
and I was like, you fucking what just coming up
with that stabbing riff?
Speaker 3: Straight away?
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, okay, this is I'm glad I've
come tonight because they did that straight to thank you
for the Venom, And I was like, Michael mc romance,
are you just did you know I'm here? And are
you theming this second half of the set where you're
just doing stuff on the albums for me?
Speaker 3: Because this is so sick.
Speaker 2: You know, two of your hardest songs back to back
to kickstart this part of the set. And at this
point you know they are in their normal clothes. They
are normal Michael mac Romance this way, jo still Joan,
still frantic, wavy, and he has his little electronic box.
It still just plays about with him between songs Cemetery Drive,
fucking Sick, Planetary Go, which is one of my favorite
songs off of Danger Days. That was such a bop.
That was a great one live give Them Hell Kid,
No No that base. I was like, if I was
down in the standing right now, I'd be kicking people.
But again, I was just getting so many like songs
that were like my choice, and then out of nowhere
they fucking pull out and I didn't. Actually, I like,
maybe this is my casual sort Micha Romans thing that
they had this cover on one of their early demos
or early EPs, but covered Morrissey's Jack the Rip. I
was like, that is such a point of Joe did say, like,
we haven't played this song since our very early days
because we only used to play because we didn't have
many songs of our own notes.
Speaker 3: We needed a cover and I was like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Early Michael Macgrumm's covering Morrissey does make sense, and it
would make sense they would go for a deeper Morrissey Paul,
but this was such an like crazy unexpectable and I
looked and like I said, I said, yeah, played for
the first time since two thousand and three, for all
you can say.
Speaker 3: About coming out and doing the black firm and stage thing.
Speaker 2: Mico was also in their second half set kind of going,
We're gonna just explore every.
Speaker 1: Honey, this mirror is are big enough for the two
of us, first time performed since twenty ten, and like, Honey,
this mirror is a big enough for the two of us.
Thank you for the venom and give him hell Kid?
I like that could be my three favorite MCR songs
and getting them all in a very short speriod of
time like that is another element of like you absolutely.
Speaker 2: Get across the two sets between House of Wolves, give
them hell Kid. Yeah, I was a drowning lessons away
from having a perfect micro Roman set. I Destroyer, which
is my favorite fucking song off Danger Days. I fucking
love that song and I'm glad that that's the one
that that does still get to pop up every now
and then because danger days. You know, we've discussed the
album at length. That song is such a cool different
cut for Michael Romance, and I'm glad that still gets
a thing. And then when you're dropping your closing run
of I'm not Okay, Nna No in Helena, like that's
you know, that's your victory lap at that point of like,
these are are the big hitters, let's go. But yeah,
like see home, it's being bigger than a bank with
them and give them hell kid in this sort of
second half of the Cells, like you are dropping the
hard tunes for the Moshes Michael Wical Romance, Thank you.
It was a really great kind of like not just
like two great. And again at this point the set
no stage show. It is them on the B stage
in the middle of the crowd, with the crowd around them.
But again this is just you know, a small white
This is not you know, the big circle. This is
a pretty small island where they're they're just kind of
on that and so this is this is them getting
to do that kind of intimate, get in with the
fans up close sort of thing. But it also not
totally mean that the band kind of unit is spread
Finn and you're losing that. It was a really great
difference between the biggest, grandest spectacle I've seen in a
long while and then playing a stadium like it's a
club like.
Speaker 3: It was a really cool contrastween the two. Very my romance.
Speaker 2: Helena to close out perfect, you know like what I
sing along it was.
Speaker 3: It was really great. I'm excited see again on Saturday.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to see what random shit they pull
out in the in the B set on that night,
I'm praying for Drowning Lessons.
Speaker 3: Knowing my luck they will play drug.
Speaker 2: Lessons for the first time since what two thousand and
four and ever on the Friday when I'm not there,
knowing my luck.
Speaker 1: But you can't say knowing my luck when you've just
had these two shows plopped in your lap for precice.
I know, I know.
Speaker 3: That, but yeah, two big rockersals. I am someone who
will champion. Go to your local hardcore show, Go support
you're seeing, Go to your tiny club shows.
Speaker 2: That's where you're going to see the future of live music.
That is what's going to sustain live music. But sometimes
you have just got to go and see the biggest
rock and roll show you can see and have the
best time. I'm at it, and I managed to get
that twice, so I'm kind of like having a good
time with.
Speaker 1: This, Yeah, this whole black parade, you know, musical theater
reimagining version. It's the kind of thing that like, like,
you know, I've had conversations with people where they're like,
I quite like some michemical romance, but I could never
get fucking like the whole the the like raving your
fucking ravenous frothing at the mouth, you know, obsession with
all of the world building elements and the musical theater
and stuff kind of you know, I could never get
invested with that, and it turned me off and going
like full as you say, completely unsubtle camp high camp
musical theater version is almost like a type of MCR
show that would be most built to alienate people who
can't get on board with that. It's so fucking fucking naff.
But in terms of returning to the album and as
you say, not just like putting back on the old clothes,
but doing something with it, it does sound like, you know,
nostalgia done right, essentially with something extra to it, but
nat Lich and Final Dose were good, so to fuck you.
There's that.
Speaker 3: But that's the shows we should we should be championing.
Go to those shows, or don't just go to your
big rock shows. But sometimes you've just got to go
to the big rock show.
Speaker 1: YEP. So that is the big round up for this week,
and next week we're gonna be talking about bring Their
Rice in Nostalgia Show doing twenty years of Cat Your Blessings.
But there you go, a little bit of news this time.
It's been a fairly chill week on that front, unless
you are Damon Albarn Because on the beef watch front.
Something that's fascinating about the music industry and particularly I
guess some of the like the physical nature of live
shows and like literally putting people in the same you
know area, is you get crossovers of artists who you
would never imagine being like the come together with like
because I you know, we're talking about Uncollassen and the
Dead Beats and Damon Albarn of you know, Gorillas and
Blur fame and like obviously we all know Blur, we
you know, we all know Gorillas. You might have a
relationship with those bands I'm a big fan of Uncle
Ass and the Dead Beats. I can't imagine those two.
It's almost like those two live in different universes inside
my head, you know. So the idea of them congregating
in the same field at different ends at the same
festival and having a war of words something that you like,
could not have predicted, you know, wouldn't have pulled that
out of the hat at all. But that is in
fact what happened when performing at russ Kilda Festival, which
is one of those festivals that famously has very eclectic,
strange like lineups of the biggest stars imaginable and then
pulling in some of the you know, weirder, grottier end
of what we do. Both Gorillas and Unclasses and The
Dead Beats were playing at the same time on different stages.
Obviously Gorillas were doing the big one and Uncle Acid
were doing one of the little ones. Suddenly Damon Albarn
starts kicking off about apparently being able to hear music
from this other stage and uh, Uncle Ass in the
Deadbeats statement is apology to everyone who came to Reskilda
Festival hoping to see us play a full set last
night pop diva Damon Albarn of the novelty cartoon act Gorillas,
threw a hissy fit while we played, threatening to storm
off stage, before finally getting our set shut down because
we were too loud. They were the only headliner of
the whole weekend who couldn't cope with playing at the
same time as our artists. Unfortunately, we only managed twenty
five minutes of assaulting his precious ears from our stage
half a mile away before his goons came over and
pulled the plug, despite us being below at the festival
dB limit and offering the turn down front of house
to continue the show they wanted us off thanks to
Raskilda crew and stage manner who tried their best at intervene,
but it was altoly out of our hands orders from above,
which good on Uncle Acid for just like not pulling
the pudgy with the language. It's such a specific sardonic
type tone that they assumed there. But Gorillas, I mean,
I uh, the first three Gorillas records I do have
relationship with, particularly Demon Days when that came out, was
like a pretty big album for the underniab the classic
album I would say in that again, the kind of
alternative hip hop, whatever type of world. Uncle assen the
Dead Beats as much as I let the Guerrilla's albums.
They never wrote the riff to Poison Apple. They never
wrote I'll cut you down. You know, there is different
world going on here, Like I said, envisioning these two
coming together, considering as they were saying, you know, it's
not abnormal at all to have two different stages a
different festival playing and even though a headliner is financially speaking,
they're bringing more people to the festival whatever they are.
In that sense, they're the digat raw, They're more important.
I don't think there should be any sense of like
superiority between like a main stage headliner and then a
you know, smaller, more underground stage headliner. If that's what
unclassid we're doing. I don't think you really, as an
artist playing on one stage, have the right to demand
that someone else, you know, playing in their assign sloped
by the festival on the other fucking side of the site,
you know, cut everything off for your benefit. This is
absolute pop diva behavior, as they put it. But want
a clash? What a meeting?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I like I saw this and I seemed like
the clip of like oh, and I think it's clearly
like he's kind of growing about on stage and someone
on his behalf was then gone over. Like from what
it sounds like like his team are basically said to
cut the ung class set because he's winging about being
able to hear them and apparently like fair, I've seen
people say like, yeah, you could hear the other stages,
like there was a weaving with the festival, but you know,
like that the festival should like better plants that the
bands can't then, like you can't penalize another band for
something that is not their fault if they're you know,
playing beneath the agreed limits of the festival.
Speaker 3: But it is just it's just very funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, like again, I I do quite like those
earlier grill Grilla's record probably the best thing Damon all
One's done. You know, I don't like Blur, as we
discovered in the ninety seven special, so I'm kind of
very much on the you know what I'm on. I'm
on unclassic side on this one because I had to
listen to fucking Blur album, So fuck Damon albarn for
that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unclassid drummer independently added cartoon band. Indeed, Damon Albarn
and Gorillas are soft as baby shit fuck them.
Speaker 2: Which not missing, They're not mean. Some words they have
they have clearly taken.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like yeah, fuck you, Yeah, hopefully unclassid.
I don't know. Get a couple more fans out of this,
who would go, oh, who's beefing with Damon Albarn over
there and they discover this fucking sick band because one
of the great, yeah, brilliant, unbelievable story. There you go
a little bit of new music. This is weird. A
modo Math have released a single called Upath and it
is a Mono mass first ever acoustic single. I don't
know if this is the lead single from an album
that's coming up. I would imagine they'll probably, you know,
be a proper lead single for when an album comes out.
Whether this song appears on the album or not is
another thing. But it's definitely a choice taking a mono
ma mouth acoustic in a weird way because obviously their
music is so melodics despite how heavy it is, and
it has that root in you know, like Viking era,
you know, medievalism and stuff like that. I could sort
of see it happening, but it is still, as they say,
a choice, particularly when you have Johann still you know,
he's not quite death growling for most of it, but
he is still very much sticking to the gruff, hamming
it up Viking. I am carrying my steel you know
type type, you know, a character that he plays with
a Monomth. I think he probably like, you know, he's
he's a vocalist who has you know, decades in the game.
He probably has a really good control of, you know,
his voice, and I probably imagine that he could, you know,
if he was just to sing a regular folk song,
you know, he would probably carry that very well. But
he ins said he's chosen to very much stay in
the Monomath character for it.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I did sessue a man to listen to this
because it's very hot today and I saw a mono
Marth really's acoustic sing.
Speaker 3: When I was like, not today, I can't. I can't
bring myself to like today.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's a cookie monster campfire song.
Speaker 3: It's just what's gone on.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, for people who have a
lot kind of checked out over Monermath entire thing, those
people would probably find the song unbearably cringe. There you
have it. Then we also have on the new music
front a new album announcement from Devil Master, which is
right on que in my mind because I was just thinking,
like a week ago, it's been a while since the
last Devil Master arab when they're gonna do one. It's
been four years since the last one, and they're kind of,
you know, a punky band. You might expect to work
a little bit faster than that. But I said, right
with you in my mind. They have anounced Their album
is called Bloody Dreams. It's out September the fourth via
Relapse Records. Got to kill our fucking album cover, because
if Devil Master have nothing else, they will have really
fucking rad as shit aesthetic choices and you'll want to
buy their stuff on every format, every item of merch whatever.
And there's a song with a full on eighties horror
VHS star music video as well, very much fit in
the bill, called You Worms vein Delusions, which is a great,
great title, and I wouldn't say that are any surprises
really from the song itself, Like it's not even one
of their slightly more left field songs. That they can
do within their albums. It is a straightforward, fast, punky,
slightly crusty, you know, with that crazy gata too. And
they have a yeah, fucking careening, out of control devil
Master song. But as I said, after four years without that,
fine by me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got that kind of slightly psychedelic touch that
I think they can bring in, which I think is
a fun element to add. But I hope I was like, yep,
Devil Master doing that kind of punky, weird black melting
that I really got into on the last album. I
will take another album with that, and if the leading
will go by, I think this is like the opening
track on the album. It's a good kind of like vibe.
I'm ready for more Devil Master.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what does intrigue me about this? And
I did, like to extent that I did a genuine
double take because I thought I must have read it wrong.
According to everyone I'm seeing here, it has six tracks
this album, and like I said, Devil Master are a
pretty like fast in and out punk band. There are
other albums they are, you know, at least sort of
ten track affairs, if not a few more. When you
throw in some of the spooky interludes and stuff like that.
They tend to have so six songs on an album,
and one of them sex with Suckubus. That is a
title of a song from their like Demo era. It's
on their demo compilation from before their first album. So
maybe that's again the same you know, demo era song
they've decided to actually years later, like nearly a decade
re record and put on the album proper. But I
know that that is like a fast, punky, devil Master
type song and the way they are but six songs
to get it to full length when you are playing
del Master songs, I am predicting at least one of
these is going out there like I could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm expecting five songs of punky, fast devil Master
and then a twenty minute song or something like that. Yeah,
that is like them throwing every idea they've ever had
and just kind of going we are, We're running with it,
and I'm curious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm just gonna pull out. For example,
the final track on it, the sixth song, is called
Farewell Waltz to Unfortunate's Palace, and I could imagine that
being a full on ten minute plus trippy Yeah, or
maybe the title track Bloody Dreams, which comes before that.
But considering this song is very straightforward Devilmaster. Just the
fact that there are six songs on what Is you
Know being market as a full length does suggest to
me that there are more psychedelic, expansive passages to be
discovered awaiting in this It also has a couple of
guests on it. One of them is Chris aulsh from
Power Trip, who was their drummer on the previous album,
but he's you know, appearing in a part time capacity
on it, but also Mirai from Sai, the Japanese black
metal band, and also another Japanese black metal musician from
a band called Arkaspar. You know, Devil Master I have
always taken some influence from that kind of again psychedelic,
weirdo Japanese heavy music scene, so it doesn't surprise me.
But Mirai from CSI being involved with with Devvar's record
is fucking cool. That record is coming to September the fourth,
And while we are speaking about say, they have also
announced an album to be released the same day, September
the fourth. It's called Goka. It is the follow up
to the twenty twenty two album Shiki, which was very
I liked around these parts. And this also has a
few guests listed on it, one of them including Michael
Lakafelt from Opeth appearing. I hope that's a growl. I mean,
if he comes to us some singing or something, or
even a guest earlo, that would be cool. But I
hope we get full on beast Mo Demon Michaelacafelt a
PEII on a SI record, But just that as a
pairing at all. Oh no, sorry, I'm reading here. Apparently
he adds a guest guitar solo. Well there's that dream
dashed but still cool. Cool Michaelacafel a Pei on a
SI record. Very nice. Yeah, love site. They're beginning really
fucking killer album cover as well as they always expect
them to have. September the fourth.
Speaker 2: Good day for black metal. About black male albums, I'll
probably really like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, September the fourth is looking freaky. A few first
of all announcements over in the US, and I guess
it's of curiosity to us Maryland Deafest. I've added a
few more artists of Note Autopsy are right up there
doing a fortieth anniversary general celebration, which I imagine will
be you know, pulling out all sorts of historic cuts
and stuff like that. But two names in particular jump
out of this current MDF poster. One of them is
Black Breath, who did perform that set at the what
was it like Pacific Northwest Terrorfest or whatever it was
that they randomly got added to and we were like, well,
the fuck Black Breath are back. And they did play
that show, and I've seen a couple clips of it,
but not as much sort of coverage of it as
you might expect, and I was like, will they do more?
Will they appear? We now have in twenty twenty seven
at least one more Black Breath show happening, so the
dreamer is alive. Basically I'm saying Damnation or someone you know,
get on it. But Black Breath are playing at least
one show in twenty twenty seven, so it wasn't a
completely one time thing. And the other return is Insect Warfare,
who are playing a twenty anniversary set of their grindcore classic,
one of the most seminal grind records of the twenty
first century World extermination and the last time that Insect
Warfare played a show was in fact Maryland Deadfest ten
years before this for the tenth Anniverse three album. So
whether they do more than that, I don't know. But
for the grindheads, Insect Warfare coming out of their you
know that's big. Yeah, every decade fucking hiatus and appearing
is big news. So two shows added on to Maryland
Deafes say that we overhere are looking at with with
keen interest, wondering if it might possibly go anywhere else. Meanwhile,
Fortress Festival have added a their first wave of bands.
This is the black metal festival in Scarborough I've been
going through for the last few years. They had already
announced Emperor as one of their headliners for next year,
but this is the first proper wave of other artists.
And when they announced Emperor, it was a you know,
it's a larger than average band. It's one of the real,
like big name big gets for Fortress. But Fortress is
a festival that has kind of built its name on cult,
underground exclusives and stuff that you wouldn't imagine ever seeing
anywhere else, and when Emperor was added, people like, oh,
I hope we still have some of that that other stuff.
This first wave I think very much, answers that, yes,
that is still what the Viber Fortress is because what
they have added twelve fans. First one that they put
out there was Grub, whose album Cremas we spoke about
a lot last year. Yeah, and this is mad because
after group out of that album, the main guy was like,
I am retiring from music. He said that he had,
like you know, he had like health issues that meant
that he didn't feel comfortable performing or anything, and he
was like, I'm putting out his album and then I'm
retiring from music. And then less than a year later
he's come back saying like I'm better now, I'm gonna
play shows, Like yeah, okay, great, and if it's health.
Speaker 3: Reasons, you're gonna go back on, I mean, that's totally
cor yeah.
Speaker 1: But I like, you know, I didn't imagine the thought
that was like basically my favorite black metal record of
last year, and I didn't imagine I was gonna see it.
And then suddenly he's like, yeah, I'm gonna play a
show and it's a worldwide exclusive for twenty's even as well,
So there you go. If you want to see that
grab record being performed, then that is happening at Fortress.
Then they added the Quebec band miser Rare Luminis, who
put out an album that I've seen, you know, quite
well reviewed in some areas this year. They also then
added this is probably the maddest one of the bunch,
another Quebec band, Gre spelled g r i S, who
are performing their worldwide live debut at Fortress. And this
is like, you know, when we were talking about gallow
Bray last year, this is that because Greed are again
really in underground, but like a really well beloved, kind
of depressive black metal band, and they're like their sort
of key record that this is a record that, like,
you will have people out there who would say it's
out their favorite black metal album album ever. Right came
out in I think about two thousand and seven, and
they're just twenty years afterwards being like, we're going to
play it, or at least, you know, play the first
ever live show. Yeah, And so that's a you know,
a bout that people have loved for years and years
and years, never ever imagined it'd be performed live, and
then suddenly, for the first time ever, there it is
at Fortress once again pulling out something mental like that.
That's probably the most bizarrero thing on this announcement. There's
also the Swiss band tady Garda Yellow Eyes, the kind
of us experiment of black metal band. They are coming
over for the first time in eight years to the
UK performing their most recent album, Confusion Gate in full.
There is the band More appearing at Fortress tra which
is another fucking crazy pole, Like that's one of those
band camp guys who's put out like a hundred albums,
but like really mad stuff. It's like really freaky created
stuff going on in his records. Slagmar, which, aside from
sound like a terrible insult to to someone's mother, this
is the band where I was like, I recognize that name?
Why do I recognize that name somewhere? And then I
realized that they were involved in a scandal earlier this
year where they faked them all disappearing in the woods
and I was like, Oh, it's the it's the pr
stun't disappearing in the woods band. But they're playing.
Speaker 3: Was upon a burning body exactly that have a.
Speaker 1: Cruno are playing. Finnish band very good Sinemara, one of
the great Icelandic bands of that kind of period of
the sort of lar ten years or so. They're on
it for Arrests, the Quebec band who they played a
couple of years ago. They're coming back from somewhere. Yeah,
I've seen. And then finally a Dungeon Synth announcement for
Fortress Fortress Fest. An artist going by the name Dungeon
Troll is going to be appearing what else, and he
says that he's going to be performing original unheard music
at Fortress Festival that he has no plans to actually
record or release, so it's just to turn up and
hear the world exclusive of Dungeon Troll music that isn't
going anywhere else. But that is the round of names
that they have added after Emperor Onto for festival, which
fucking hats off to him. Madge it to the end
in terms of bands are like I'm a really big
fan of I want to say there's quite as many
in there as like, say, you know, the first wave
of last year's announcement. But obviously, like I said, grab
didn't I love that record last year? I didn't imagine
see it live. I'd be excited to see Sinemara. I'm
bit excited to see have a crew new I would
be here. It's about what the fuck Dungeon Troll is doing.
That has all been added to next year's Fortress Festival,
and then finally a couple of live announcements that I
maybe have more of interest to you, Sam Converge, after
appearing Breakfast year, they have added a UK and European
tour where in the UK they're going to be playing
leads Bristol, Glasgow, Nottingham and London. And the Converged Tour,
which is obviously in support of their two albums that
came out this year, is bringing along a package of
Sanguy Suger, Bog Black Braid and Pupil Slicer. I love
how Converge are so a so respected themselves, but also
be we know the members of that band have such
a clectic, wide reaching tastes that they can put together.
I'm like, I remember, for example, you know sometime in
the late twenty tens they did that bill that was
like Converge crowbar thou Grave Place.
Speaker 3: That's when I went to and like.
Speaker 1: And it's like nothing really unites those other than Converge
are able to bring them all along. And this considering
we have a really fucking like horrible Brittle Death. Got
a band in Sanguy Suger Bog, you know native American
black metal in Black Braid, and then you know UK
like math core in Pupil Slicer. Once again, nothing really
unites those other than converge can ask them to come
out on tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it just s captures these like what Conversion,
They're going to bring an extreme kind of support bill,
but it's gonna be you know, different lanes of that,
but it's all going to kind of have I guess,
a unifying vibe of just like, yeah, all of these
bands probably have as some oh something to converge in
some way, so it makes sense we're gonna go.
Speaker 3: I think I think it's a really cool.
Speaker 2: Interesting just kind of like it's somes of what I
love ourt converged tours when they come about where they
say you're gonna get some of that is going to
be heaviest shit, but interesting and care and different each band.
Easy sport bands really different vibe, really different approach to
vocals and like and their own take on heaviness. I
think I think it's great and I think we've converged,
you know, kind of leading thing.
Speaker 3: It's undeniably gonna be a great night. Yes.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then finally one again, very much to give interest
to you, sam Is, I promise the world, who just
played their UK debut at Outbreak Festival a couple weeks ago,
they are coming back through sort of you know, Western
Europe and playing quite a lot of show in the UK.
I promise the world coming about you're probably gonna hit
one of those that I'm at.
Speaker 3: The New Classing show in London. Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I want to, I want to,
you know show. They've got a band Rosa Sharon support
in which I think for like a new metal coal band.
Speaker 3: That's a very good name, Rose Sharon.
Speaker 2: They're pretty cool, like I think they played like hellfare
so I'm like, nice package of that kind of like
metal course scene revival stuff that I'm into.
Speaker 3: I grabbed my ticket for this already because I want
to go and have a good night with that.
Speaker 1: Yes. So that is the roundup of the news this
time here in you know T and M universe. We
are going to in about a week or so, we
are going to be getting our teeth into the fourth
and final part of our Corn Band Special, one of
the band specials that was most requested of us down
you know, the last handful of years, you know, over
ten years we're doing this podcast right, and Corn was
obviously in contention of a whole that we are coming
right to the finish line of this looking forward to
getting into that and then you know, most recent material
and wrapping all of that up. If you want to
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Let's finally end this with some releases for July the tenth,
twenty twenty six. First up, bringing the Horizon, speaking of
twentieth diversaries and all this jazz. Count Your Blessings repented
the re recorded version with I Guess That one original
song out as well of their debut album Count Your
Blessings out in the world. We are going to be
talking about the Count Your Blessings, you know, showcase at Outbreak,
the big twenty third three show on this show next week,
and I guess as the album is out, we'll probably
just chat a little bit about the you know, the
rerecorded product a little bit as well, so we'll get
some thoughts out on that. But that is out in
the world today. Then we also have in the metal
areo type lanes, you know, glossy radio metal core, the
plot in you have got a self titled album. Then
pivoting over to brit rock, we have the excerpts have
got their new album called I Think I Want to
Go Home Now experimental, weird hardcore, I guess is how
you would always describe this band, show me the Body
alone together. Their album is out devil Driver one of
those names still kicking around, Devil Driver. They have got
god knows how many albums they have now, but the
newest one which has a very funny cover of like
a hyena wearing a battle jacket. It's very daft looking.
But the album is called Strike and Kill. That is
out in sort of very rowdy, heavy metallic hardcore. There
is no cure with a record called It is Going
to Get Dark. There is day Dream Plus out on.
I think this was run for cover, wasn't it. This
was the band that was members of two Mold doing
like really snappy summary, like instrumental city pop. Yeah, that
record is out that second last day of summer in
a kind of instrumental post rock post metal. There is
if these Trees could talk with the Hidden Hand, weird
out there progue tech death metal arise from Worms featuring
members of Morbid Angel and Kryptopsy in various such such
legends a bleeding Tree hanging self destruction and then in
black metal more Rear, who was one of those bands
I just listed being on that latest Fortress announcement. They
have got an album called New levin In. That is
it for us. Hope everybody who went to Metallica or
My Chemical Romance enjoyed it just as much as Sam did.
I hope that everybody who's at two thousand Trees this weekend,
we are not a trees this weekend, but I know
that that is going on. I hope everybody over there
is a having a good time and b staying cool,
because holy shit, we looks like we're in another one
of those weekends.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I was like, it was bad enough
last year.
Speaker 1: I was goddamn yeah, but you know, solidarity to everyone's there.
I hope it's sick. As said, next week we are
going to be packed talking about the Bringing the Horizon
Out Your Blessings event, and then you know, we'll be
around after that. As I said, with more corn special
goods on the Patreon July's reviews at some point after
that as well, So lots look forward to. Cheers everybody. Bye,