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