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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome to That's Not Metal and welcome here

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to hyper Blast. We are your weekly rock and heavy

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metal podcast, and we are here with our weekly news

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show where we let you know as quickly as we can,

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in bite sized fashion, all of the news from the

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past week, all of the releases every Friday that you

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are going to want to hear as well, and we

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deliver it to you as efficiently, ruthlessly so as we can.

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My name is Parry and Hayesh we've made joined for

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this task is a little bit of a sickly boy.

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Mark Sanderson alone, Maid, I've come down with field de fever. Yeah,

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we were gonna record the Corn Special podcast last night

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and we have slightly delayed for these reasons due to

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a mustering up strength. Hopefully tomorrow at the Corn Special

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will be out. We endeavor to make it so. But yeah,

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how you doing, man? Are you dosing up whatever it

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is you do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm recovery maxing loads of liquids, loads of stimulants. Basically,

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I'm hoping because basically, like I was facing down the

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barrel of a four hour podcast, I was like, is

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my voice gonna hold up? But more importantly, is my

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brain gonna hold up where there's a good chance you'll

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say to me, what do you think of your one

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A single? And I'd go, what is that?

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Speaker 1: Well? In terms of voice holding up, when it's a

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special that involves lots of scatting and exactly, it might

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be particularly challenging. I'm presuming the thing that struck you

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down this way is you went to see a Hacker

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Cat this week. That's where all the sick guys hang out?

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Is it so.

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Speaker 2: All the sick and twisted cycle paths? Yeah, that's why

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my pal's Haggard Cat. I was really interested in going

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to this show because the new Haggard Cat album, which

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I love, excellent record, is very different for them because

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obviously they're just two guys, and the previous Haggard Cat

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material sounds like two guys. But this new album is

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full of synth, is full of layers. There's so much

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weird dynamic staff, there's so many noises deep in the mix,

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and I was really curious how they'd pull that off live.

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But the show was basically classic Haggard Cat as ever.

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I've seen Haggrid Cat a lot over the years, and

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the only difference is this time there's a small synth

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at the side of the stage and like what I think,

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it's like looping pedal. And those are the only two

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new implements to the show. It's still Matt and Tom

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going crazy like rocking out, riffing out, but occasionally Matt

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will rush over to the synth and do a little

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simple and look at that for a bit. It was

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so much fun. They're such a fun live band. I

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love seeing them live. The new songs are so good,

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like the choruses on them sore. Even if it's a

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low budget version of the synth, the synth parts are fun.

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You know. Tom was going fucking like there's some insane

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stuff he does someone insane beats he does on the record,

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and he was going crazy. I always love watching him.

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It was great, Like it's I get the feeling with

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this new Haggardcat album that they're sort of going, well,

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fuck it, let's just go for broke one last sort

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of like blast to see what happens and is the

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most creative and exciting thing they've ever released. And this

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is the most exciting live show from them I've ever seen.

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I really loved it. I thought it was great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think me and Elliot are going to tackle

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the Haggard Cat album on the reviews bag next because

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it is I say, it is different, and it is

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as someone who has generally been you know, kind of

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ambivalent on Haggard Cat ever since you know, obviously the

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was the most like double take I did Haggard Cat record,

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being like what's going on here? So I think we

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are going to dive into that a little bit further

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on the next review show. But yeah, I'm glad that

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you are on your way to you know, being a functioning,

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full human again. We have got today on the hyperbar

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side of things for the news, a little run of

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album announcements here to start us off, and the first

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one that we're going to talk perhaps the most about,

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is the one that we knew was coming from last week.

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it's basically been gone because of the nature of us

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going to be Relea on last Friday. But we are

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here to give give a take. Anthrax have finally, after

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so so long, announced their new album is called Curse

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and Perfiicio. It's going to be out on September the eighteenth,

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and it is the follow up to the four or

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Kings album, which is now because I think that record

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over ten years old, that record. And there is a track,

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is called It's for the Kids, which is a quite

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funnyttitle that we might dig into in just a moment.

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us both when we put this single on, we weren't

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sound or whatever. There's none of that with this. Like

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it is even though they've been away for over ten years.

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this is essentially that it has been so long, how

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much relevance they have I suppose, because obviously they are

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it will immediately connect it will you know, the in

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built audience Anthrax have through being you know, one of

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the biggest legacy certainly obviously thrash metal bands, but just

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metal bands of you know, the Golden ear of the

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eighties or whatever. They obviously they have that like that

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in built audience of you know, people have been with

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them for decades and decades and will buy every new album.

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Ripple in the Waters, I suppose a new Anthrax album

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is in twenty twenty six. That's the thing that feels

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and the think of the entire journey, all the things

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then they're resurfacing all of that. That entire Power Trip

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nine years, let alone the last ten since Anthrax. You know,

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one of the daddy's obviously that kind of style of

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's so into you know this kind of

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around for so fucking long at this stage. Rights, it's

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insane that if I think about, what's the album before

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the last album of Anthrax, and it's worship Music, an

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album that came out when I was like fourteen years old,

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been around for fucking ever at this stage, but it's

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only the third record they're putting it in that guys,

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which ones they prefer whatever, I think me and you

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by a legendary metal band. I like a lot of

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the songs on it. I really like the vibe of

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it where it sounds like it was written for John

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Bush For All Kings. I think is a bit sleepy.

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boring and not that good. So yeah, he had basically

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no expectations for this going into it.

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worship music has a lot of songs on it in

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comparison that jump out with me, like songs like fight

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until you Can't and the Devil you know, and like

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was just called Judas Priest or whatever, like, there are

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that is a really like four modern day Anthrax in

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this lineup, you know, that is the benchmark for me.

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For All Kings has a couple tracks on it that

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being a pretty fun song in the live set. The

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opening song on it, You've got to Believe, had like

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a decent riff. But as a record, it did kind

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worship music. Nothing about that was done better on For

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All Kings. So I don't think Four Kings is, you know,

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a bad record in the way that people tend to

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like massively over egg how good or bad. Same with

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it was definitely the lesser of the two for sure.

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all getting into you know this as it's for the kids,

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which is the most ironic thing they could have said

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about this, because this is not for the kids. Maybe

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it's some kind of like, hey, we're trying to instill

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record or whatever, which obviously there must be some symbols

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of a generation that haven't done that. But an Anthrax

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record is not really for the kids, right, It's for

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the dads, And there's no shame in that. If that's

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were around and hit, right, And that's basically what it does.

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and memorable from four All Kings, this is probably about

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that level and that's the ceiling. And that's fine. I

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think the tone is good. They're like really thick Frank

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riff at the start of it is you know, decent.

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the last time they were here ten years ago. You know,

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despite the ten years of expectation, I did not have

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expectation that they were going to dramatically reinvent themselves here

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because ultimately, and I said as again as someone who

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thinks this song is fine, you know, pretty enjoyable even,

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but we're kind of in a period now in the

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mid twenty twenties where we're seeing the twilight of the

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now become a like entirely a festival heritage band, Like

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and Perficio Apparently that translates to my journey has come

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to an end, and they've said that's not necessarily meaning

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it's the final anthat album. It's more about like the

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ten years of you know, between the two albums. But

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we are I think across the board, there aren't any

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of those bands where I Am waiting for them to

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like have their resurgence moment. It's more about what else

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do we kind of you know, squeeze out before the end?

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To put it in really bleak cynical terms.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny going back to the what's Anthrax's cultural standing?

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you know, a new a new music metal fan, like

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someone who's emerged really getting into metal in the last

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five years. Anthrax are basically they only exist to support

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bigger thrash bands or occasionally parade among the living around

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again for the umpteenth time, and this new track is

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perfect for that. It'll sound great when they're supporting Testament

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or whoever. You know, Considering it's been ten years, I

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did expect it to sound creakier, but I think it's

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been good. The griff is good, it sounds chunky enough,

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there's a rip in solo in it. Charlie's doing some

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great work. Joey is there. I think it sounds all right,

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of keeping uh as these bands are bowing out, bowing out,

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Just hoping that they don't embarrass themselves in their twilight

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years is all you can hope for, really, And I

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think this is, you know, is good solid Anthrax stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because thrash you know, as a movement has kind

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of alluding it to you there with you know, the

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sort of referencing the whole story of Power Trip in

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the title Last Time you Know. Anthracxeri is a record

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thrash like has gone on a journey and changed in

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the last ten years, and ultimately it has that world

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has survived without Anthrax being a creatively active band in

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those ten years, right, I don't think it's necessary for

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Anthrax to be, you know, a band that we are

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looking to to be pumping out records. They are obviously

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an inspiration still to you know, a great deal of

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particularly there's more crossover leaning type thrash bands. But like

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the song would be decent or not, because it is decent.

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It's not great, but it's certainly not bad. It is like,

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as you're saying, it's keeping that flame lit, like reliably so,

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and that's basically exactly what I respected. The question would

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only be like, does anyone outside of the old heads

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care about new Anthrax in twenty twenty six, because despite

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the title, I don't think the kids do, you know

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what I mean? But that's a lot of thoughts about

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a song that is essentially ultimately kind of unremarkably pretty good.

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But there you go. The you know, more questions I

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suppose about you know, the relevance of contemporary Anthrax will

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be answered on September the eighteenth, when the new record

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Curse and Peficio comes out. Elsewhere, a much fresher to

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the you know press's album announcement that we have also

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for September. September is President have got their debut album.

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we had last year came off the back of an EP,

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the actual debut album. I am dread dreading the moment

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that that conversation becomes inescapable, I suppose. But the album

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is called Blood of Your Empire, and there is a

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track out and if you want to listen to a

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masked singer looking like he's melting while trying to be sexy,

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the song is basically like the Summit by Spirit Box,

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without a human focal point and instead refracted through a

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chat bob. So that's what it is. Apparently there's a

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big concept going on with organized religion and sort of

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a conflict between you know, faith and the value of

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religion versus the damage it causes. Did we ever get

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to the bottom of why he's a president? Like the

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whole political gimmick, it seems to be incredibly disconnected from

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what any of you know, even the stated content of

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the albums. It is supposed to be, like what they

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say the albums are about. I suppose you know that

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maybe there is some kind of attempt, a thin attempt

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to draw connections between you know, religion and as we say,

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a kind of perhaps a Trumpian you know, political messiah

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sort of figure. But I don't think we've ever really

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understood why he's a president.

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Speaker 2: There's no point even trying to justify in your mind

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why anything about President is the way it is. There's

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no conceptual depth. It's literally, ah, bands with masks are

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big and then you watch point break. Yeah, there you

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get surface level is so yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: September though obviously a significant you know, for positive or

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negative reasons, where it may be a significant debut album

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release coming late this year September, the new one from President.

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We then also have also in August twenty eighth, the

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announcement of bear Tooths album Pure Ecstasy. I will be

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the judge of that, mister Showman coming in August bear

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Tooth right. Another new single that we talk about a

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little bit is Burner, who are a UK metal bander.

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I don't think we've like formally reviewed them on the

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show before, but they have, you know, over the last

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sort of like three four years something like that, they've

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become a quite consistent presence, I suppose, you know, in

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the semi underground you know, UK metal scene. They have

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put out a track that's a lead single from their

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record which is coming September twenty fifth, No One Is

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Coming to Save Us, and the track called Sunrise Parabellum

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makes them the latest band in the you know, long

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stream of them to get the Matt Hafe feature, you know,

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treatment the most featured man in metal. And I don't

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say that with any sort of cynicism or anything, because

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it's nice when he is appearing on essentially small upcoming

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bands like Berner, where there is, you know, no tangible

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reason for Matt Hafe to be on a Burner track

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other than he likes them and thinks they're cool. And

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Berner get a little, you know, as we're talking about

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the right here, a little bit of a sort of

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boost out of it. So good for them, Burner are

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I haven't like really gone with them so far. They

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kind of exist in that like sort of nondescript lane

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of just metal, right like like bads like Harriet and

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stuff like that, and he Harriet, you have maybe a

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little bit more of a explicit sort of industrial metalcore

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sort of slant. Burner are like a metal band, Like

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there's a bit of hardcore, a bit of metalcore, slightly

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more extreme sort of death metal, sludgy elements. It's just

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kind of like big bruising metal, you know, like that

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Cage Fight band just put out a recorded this month

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as well, and that's just like, oh, this is just

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it's just metal for metal people, you know. And if

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you haven't got a load of extra like you know,

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spice on top of that, assarily or like a real

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like a world standard kind of talent, it's hard to

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make that stand out. But I think Berner are to

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date fine. I think this song with Matt hayfeon, even

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before we get to Matt's part in it, it's pretty decent.

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It's got a pretty sick, squeally kind of panic riff

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in the middle. It is again not necessarily like the

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brand of metal that is going to like most wallet

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me like, onto my ass if it hasn't got like

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some extra feature or draw about it. But it's a

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pretty decent track. And then Matt comes in and you

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go like, ah, here he is again on another like

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pretty small up coming band for them, so.

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Speaker 2: Small that I'd never even heard of Burner this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going around for like Fight three. I think

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it's like a second record.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I like this. It's great. It's snappy, it's

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heavy in the way you want it to be. Like

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you say, it's pretty. You know, it's metal, which means

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when Matt Hafey does come in, it's perfect, Like it's

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just the perfect scream for that part. I really like

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the vocalist of this band. He's got this sort of

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like really barkie like high roar, and it brings me

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back to like British bands from ten years ago that

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I was listening to her. I really like that, and

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it's just mad that Matt Haffey is almost that's on

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church World Records, like good, good for him, good for them,

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everything about it's just heartwarming. Really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty good song. And so the new

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Burner records coming out in a September on Church Road.

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As you say, yeah, I'm sure a lot of people

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looking forward to that good stuff. There's also a new

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album announcement from Holder Holder, the black metal band who

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I think two years ago put out a record that

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was featured in my End of Year list, My favorite

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albums of that year I love. I'm really a big

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fan of just Holder in general, but that last record

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I did think was excellent. This is the follow up

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to that comes out August the seventh. It's called Verbolgan.

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It's out on a season of mist I believe outside

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of North America twenty bucks spin in North America. And

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I haven't heard anything from this record at this exact moment,

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but I'm obviously looking forward to the new Holder record

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because their last one was so excellent. So if that's

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you know, exciting for the black metal people on the horizon,

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there's an ab announcement for you. Interestingly, I don't really

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know what this means. Behemoth have got an album coming out.

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It's called I Sculpta that's of course Sculptor with a V.

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It's out on a pretty small label. They've a teamed

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up with a label called Massacre Records for this one.

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So this is not like part of the main, you know,

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like huge fucking extreme metal Overlord's Behemoth commercial record deal.

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This is described as essentially a release of eight unreleased songs,

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but I don't have any more information than that. I

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don't know how old these songs are I don't know

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if they are songs from like, you know, the last

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album cycle that didn't make it. I don't know if

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they're brand new. I don't know if they're from the

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fucking like spentetherth era. Like, I don't know if these

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songs are thirty years old. I've got no idea. The

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way that this has just sort of being like very

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casually announced out there on this small label makes me

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feel like this is not like the proper follow up

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to you know, the Shit of God right, Like, this

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doesn't seem like a full on Behemoth album campaign. But

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some extras maybe. But I'm down with extras because they're

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i mean Behemoth. When they have put out sort of

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in between album you know, EPs or stuff like that,

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I usually really enjoyed them, Like the one where they

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did the a Forest cover by the Cure with Nicolas

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from Shirling on it was was great. Had they a

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couple of extra songs on it, that was cool. Like

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like I said, I don't know how old or fresh

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or whatever these songs are. But on September the fourth,

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the same day as the President record, there is a

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nice little bonus treat of unreleased Behemoth songs.

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Speaker 3: Cool Yeah, this is like the forth of God, the

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back draft of God for the after burns rush back

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of God. Yes, the splash Back of God is September

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the fourth on Massacre Records.

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Speaker 1: Fucking love bit. Very excited and just another little sort

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of update on something that we're I don't know, like

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waiting to see when it falls into our laps. You

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may remember that Slip Knot's long sort of mythical look

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Outside Your Window record was released for Record Store Day,

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which was like other like a month ago. At this stage,

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it was a while ago, wasn't it. It's been gone.

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I still haven't heard the fucking thing because it hasn't,

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you know, appeared. I didn't go out and buy it.

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It hasn't seemed to have appeared anywhere. I presume that

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there are a fair number of people out there who

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did buy that special record and have now heard it.

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But weirdly, considering how like, I don't know again, we

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were hearing about that shit for like fifteen years. Now

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it's out in to the world. I haven't heard a

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fucking peep about it and what actually sounds like or

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anything like that, And I guess that we are waiting

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to see if it actually gets any like wide release,

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specifically in my mind, like a streaming release right where

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you can hear it without having had to, you know,

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go and purchase this special record for it. There is

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news that on June the twelfth it is getting a

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wider release than just the record store day release. So

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it's going on like physical formats that presumably will be

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stocked in like your normal ass shops, right like maybe

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you'll be able to go into HMV and buy the

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Look Outside a Window release whatever. What I still don't

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know because it doesn't say anywhere, is if that means

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it's actually get like a proper formal you know, like

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wide wide, like you can go on your streaming service

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and hear it right there and then release. But if

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that is what happens, that's obviously when the majority of

473
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,960
people will hear it. June the twelfth is the next

474
00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:08,359
update window that we have essentially for Look Outside Your Window.

475
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,440
But maybe in a couple of weeks we will have

476
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,079
all heard this long awaited thing. And finally on the

477
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,200
new music front, this just appeared in my YouTube sub

478
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,640
box and it made me smile because I've mentioned these

479
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,920
on the show before. I love these. The YouTube series

480
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,119
two Minutes to Late Night, which is spearheaded by Jordan

481
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,200
Olds other than Guarcinio Hall. Since the last time these

482
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,759
were really around, you may remember that he actually launched

483
00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:36,519
his own like proper band, Blood Vulture, and put out

484
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,039
a really well we reviewed. It was really good. I

485
00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:40,440
mean it did really well in the audience part of

486
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,480
that year, like I really fucking well liked kind of

487
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,720
gothy vampire like Alison chensy Doom record. Essentially because the

488
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,559
guy who does these covers is like a really like

489
00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:53,559
legit player and musician. And obviously the fact that the

490
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,359
cover series on YouTube went on hiatus for a couple

491
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,200
of years presumably well he focused on like his actual

492
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,880
real band, is completely understandable. But the last time, like

493
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,519
I said, one of these uploads appeared was like two

494
00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:06,160
years ago at this stage. So when I just logged

495
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,640
on one day and another one had appeared, it was like, ah,

496
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,200
they're back, because I love these. They are the most fun, Like,

497
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:14,759
you know, in a world where these sort of like

498
00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:17,400
on the Remixy covers, you know, we used to have

499
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,559
like like concentrated areas for these. Obviously, the only thing

500
00:26:21,559 --> 00:26:23,039
I'm thinking of to mind right now is the fucking

501
00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:26,240
punk Go series. I'm obviously not comparing it in quality

502
00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:30,119
or vibe to those, but ye like, no, it's not

503
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,640
that good. But you know, being able to log on

504
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,079
and be like, oh, a bunch of musicians who I

505
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,799
like have knocked out a ripping version of what in

506
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,079
or pretty much all these cases the series do is

507
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,480
like a really awesome pick either of like a cool

508
00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:45,640
metal song to do or like a cool left field

509
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,160
kind of choice. But it returned this week anyway, long

510
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,640
story short with a cover of iron Age, the crossover

511
00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:57,920
thrash hardcore band from the late noughties, and their song

512
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:02,000
Burden of Empire. Iron A. We've done an album club

513
00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:04,000
on them about like, you know, two three years ago

514
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,599
something like that, speaking about how they were essentially a

515
00:27:06,599 --> 00:27:09,720
part of the like really foundational to the kind of

516
00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:13,359
Texas hardcore and thrash scenes and everything that would then

517
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,119
go on later to produce you know, all these bands

518
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,599
like it features future members of Power Trip, features a

519
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,079
future Eternal Champion vocalist Jason Tarpi on vocals, like future

520
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,079
members of all sorts of great bands who have come

521
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:26,960
from that scene. And so it makes a lot of

522
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,960
sense that the all star lineup for this cover features

523
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,960
basically a lot of people from that Texas metal scene.

524
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,240
We've got Chris from Frozen Soul on guitars. We've got

525
00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:38,279
Lincoln from a Fugitive who are that? Gain of that

526
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:40,400
kind of like power Trip sort of splinter off band

527
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,000
that appeared. He's on the drums. We have Adrin from

528
00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:46,240
Creeping Death on bass and Jake from the you know,

529
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,000
Texas kind of crossover hardcore band Judiciary on vocals covering

530
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,400
the Iron Age. Like not a big song, right, this

531
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,240
is not when they do fucking Turbo Lover or something,

532
00:27:55,319 --> 00:27:56,880
but this is like a real cult classic And that

533
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,160
made me smile. And the cover fucking rips because it

534
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,039
is all wicked song and I'm just happy that this

535
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,160
is back in such cool form.

536
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it made me so happy. I have such warm

537
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,440
memories feelings for two minutes to late night of just

538
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,240
like it being deep pandemic.

539
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone was a real lockdown thing.

540
00:28:16,839 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, every once in a while getting notification, Oh here's

541
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,960
Clutch covering riff Raft by ACDC or whatever it was.

542
00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:29,039
And I love all of them, and especially it's coming

543
00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:32,039
back as making its grand return, I assume, and it's

544
00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:38,319
such a cool underground left and Field pick that's awesome

545
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,720
and there's a great song anyway, and the cover is great,

546
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,279
Like this is so exciting.

547
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, And obviously in a week where we were speaking

548
00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:48,640
about with Anthrax one of like the daddy bands of

549
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,559
sort of this world of thrash metal, it's nice to

550
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:53,759
get like, oh yeah, the best thing this week is

551
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,319
iron Age cover, you know what I mean? Like that rips,

552
00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:58,440
So yeah, you encourage you to go check that out

553
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,359
on YouTube because it's just a lot of fun. And

554
00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:02,640
if you've never heard iron Age and you like this

555
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,559
kind of thrash metal, then maybe this is the perfect

556
00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:05,920
way to get into that. And then you can go

557
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,440
and find our album club that we did on the

558
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,839
record that this song Burner Empire comes from Wicked Stuff

559
00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:16,279
Tail Gunner, the UK kind of trad you know, classic

560
00:29:16,359 --> 00:29:20,279
eighty style heavy metal kind of revival band who they

561
00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:22,119
have been building up quite a bit of steam in

562
00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:24,920
the last couple of years. Haven't spoken them too heavily

563
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:26,960
on this show. I did see them at blood Stock

564
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,559
a couple of years ago. They opened them. They played

565
00:29:29,599 --> 00:29:31,640
on the Sophie Lancaster stage on the Thursday. One of

566
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,920
the years that I went, and it was they did

567
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,759
have like a kind of swell around them. They have

568
00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:36,759
built up a fair bit of steam. They put out

569
00:29:36,759 --> 00:29:39,200
a record earlier this year that again for people who

570
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,200
are like very much plugged into like again essentially you know,

571
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,599
eighty style old school Britain newaver for British heavy metal

572
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,559
style revival stuff in the vein of Iron Maid and

573
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,200
Judas Priests, et cetera. Tail Gunner got quite a bit

574
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,119
of buzz around the record that came out a couple

575
00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:57,400
of months ago. They seem to be pretty much splintering

576
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,640
right now because they're bassist Thomas hu has taken a

577
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,839
step back from the band due to currently unspecified but

578
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,039
allegations have been you know leveled in our swhirling and

579
00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:11,319
so he has taken a step back from that band.

580
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,839
And following that, their guitarist Raya Thompson has quit the

581
00:30:16,839 --> 00:30:20,240
band and fully you know, distance herself from it. Obviously

582
00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:25,240
some major fucking roadblots to say the least about that. Obviously,

583
00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:28,880
due to the uncertain nature of the allegations, you can't

584
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,559
make any kind of comment beyond that. But yeah, it

585
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,720
does not seem that things are going well over there

586
00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:35,680
in that camp at all. But there you go. That's

587
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,240
the tailgun in News Live News. First up, the big

588
00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:41,680
tour of the Bumps. It's been announced this week is

589
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,599
Barry Tomorrow have announced what ard I believe I'm right

590
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,920
in saying, their biggest ever UK headline shows in twenty

591
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,279
twenty seven. They are playing three shows the Glasgow s

592
00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:57,480
WG three Galvanisers. So mouthful of a venue name, isn't

593
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,000
it Nottingham's Rock City and London's Bricks Academy, which I

594
00:31:01,039 --> 00:31:02,920
haven't been keeping track, but I guess this is probably

595
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,319
the first time then that Berry Tomorrow have headlined on

596
00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:09,319
their own back Brixton Academy, and I know that we

597
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:10,839
have in the last you know, the last couple of

598
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,119
album cycles for them been fairly lukewarm to negative basically

599
00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:19,079
about Berry Tomorrow. But I'm not, you know, mad to

600
00:31:19,119 --> 00:31:22,559
see them doing well essentially and you know, playing some

601
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,000
as someone who does have a lot of fond thats

602
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,799
for this band from way back when it's you know,

603
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,440
would you have asked me ten years ago if I'd

604
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,039
like to him the word where Berry Tomorrow headliney Bricks

605
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:31,000
and Academy on their own Yeah?

606
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:37,599
Speaker 2: I would, Yeah, it's seeing this news brought me back

607
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,039
to a very specific memory, which is in twenty on

608
00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:48,319
Union of Crowns twenty twelve, I remember, I think it

609
00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:51,640
was Danny, one of them, being interviewed by Murrell on

610
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,559
the Old Metal Hammer podcast and Mrrell was like, oh,

611
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,759
are you ever going to play your Living Walker cover live?

612
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,160
And was like, maybe if we ever headline Bricks in

613
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,440
an academy obviously, you know, like that's never gonna happen

614
00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:12,799
sort of way, And I remember listening to that and thinking, oh, yeah,

615
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,079
maybe never. And now you know how I feel about

616
00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:21,160
the last couple of Burning Up Tomorrow Records doesn't really

617
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:23,720
I don't know, I don't like them, but the fact

618
00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:27,200
that those guys now get to headline Bricks in the academy,

619
00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:31,359
where clearly it's a thing they every band in the

620
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,079
UK dreams about and it's just something they've even joked

621
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:37,039
about not being able to do it really warmed my

622
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:41,240
heart and I'm really hit chopped for them, and yeah,

623
00:32:41,759 --> 00:32:44,759
good for them. It's just so lovely that they've managed

624
00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:46,519
to do it, even if it is off the back

625
00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:49,279
of music that I don't enjoy anymore.

626
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is we need to start the

627
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,759
campaign to remind them that they have to play the

628
00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:57,079
Living Local CA Yeah, Brick Academy, because that is a

629
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,279
quote that I mean, I don't remember that quote. I

630
00:32:59,279 --> 00:33:02,200
didn't remember the to be But if that is a

631
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:04,720
quote from fifteen years back, there's no way that you

632
00:33:04,759 --> 00:33:07,200
know Danny or whoever which mevement it was a band

633
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,799
that made that quite will remember it. But if we

634
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,960
start it here, we spread the word out. You know,

635
00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:13,880
some people who listen to this who might be going

636
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,039
to these shows, need to remind them. Basically, the Ripple

637
00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:19,920
Effects starts here Berry tomorrow. They said they would fifteen

638
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,759
years ago. They have to play brings An Academy. That's

639
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:26,920
not where I saw this particular story going. But I'm

640
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,680
glad that that's the movement that we can start here.

641
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,759
The support out of this bill as well is Stick

642
00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:33,559
to Your Guns are playing along with wind Waker and

643
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,000
Elwood Stray. I believe that Stick to Your Guns have

644
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:39,720
also just been added to the No Play Festival as

645
00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:43,880
the headliner, which is the Liverpool based hardcore fest kind

646
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,039
of happens on my doorstep, happens in September. But yes,

647
00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:49,160
they are going to be headlining that this year, so

648
00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:52,640
there you go, But live tour announcement wise, if you're

649
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,160
in the UK at least, the people who are living

650
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,319
large the most this week are the doom Heads, because

651
00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:00,960
for some reason, all big Doom tours this week. First up,

652
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:04,119
to follow up from our discussion of the new Green

653
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,799
Lung album announcement from last week. In between now and then,

654
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:09,519
they have performed their headlining stint at Desert Fest in

655
00:34:09,559 --> 00:34:12,320
the Roundhouse, which looked fucking great pat audience there for them.

656
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,840
It's nice to see I know, obviously festival, but awesome

657
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,679
to see Green Lung essentially headline the Roundhouse this, you know,

658
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,840
at this days in their career, that's fucking wicked. Off

659
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,840
the back of that performance, they have announced a you know,

660
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,159
proper UK headline support tour for this new record, the

661
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,480
Dance to the Grave Tour, happening in December and in

662
00:34:29,519 --> 00:34:31,199
the UK. It's going across of ever verious places in

663
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,079
Europe as well, but in the UK they are playing

664
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,760
the Roundhouse, Bristol's Bristol Electric, Manchester Academy, One, Dublin's Academy

665
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,000
and that same venue that Barysmora play in Glasgow. The Galvanizers,

666
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:44,800
and the support bill for this is High on Fire

667
00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:48,679
and Noma like a quite I don't know. They seem

668
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,599
to have a audience right now in that sort of stone

669
00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,000
of doom world. That's all the bloodstot like last year,

670
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,119
and there's a whole you know, strange, gnome hatted sort

671
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:57,920
of gimmick thing going on. But they're you know, they're

672
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,639
a fine stone a band High on Fire main support

673
00:35:00,679 --> 00:35:02,639
for a Green Lung tour. Holy shit, that's one of

674
00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:05,119
the sickest bands of all time. That's an insane number

675
00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:08,280
of riffs put together. And yeah, just obviously the fact

676
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,760
that Green Lung taken on venues like the Roundhouse and

677
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,599
you know, Academy one in their own name headline the

678
00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:16,840
same venue as Bery Tomorrow in Glasgow. Off the back

679
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,719
of this record for a you know what was just

680
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,960
a couple of years ago, really an underground doom band.

681
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: Fucking sweep big is so I love when up and

682
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,039
coming bands take a legacy act out onto It is

683
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:36,199
so cool. Whatever that happens. Hi on Fire, that is big.

684
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,599
That's big bollic stuff, right Ah.

685
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,199
Speaker 1: The guitar is from Sleep basically is supporting Green Lung.

686
00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:48,199
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, Oh my god. Yeah, I'm sure the brand

687
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:53,320
House Academy one. We've seen machine Head there. That's mad

688
00:35:53,599 --> 00:35:54,159
good for them.

689
00:35:54,199 --> 00:35:56,599
Speaker 1: This is so good, really exciting taught announcement. We also

690
00:35:56,679 --> 00:36:00,800
have continuing the big doom riff VIBESU Kennis have announced

691
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,840
what I think is their first actual proper UK tour.

692
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,920
Have never appeared in the UK. It's just been limited

693
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,440
festivals that they've played, a desert fest. I saw them

694
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,280
when they played a Damnation. But they have for you know,

695
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,159
a band who have been fairly popular in that underground

696
00:36:13,199 --> 00:36:14,639
scene for the last like ten years or so, they

697
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:16,360
have been you know, reticent to tour the UK for

698
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,440
whatever reason, but they are coming around, also going through Europe.

699
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,800
So let's your sanctuary supporting them an eternal UK support actor.

700
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,159
Bizarre fit for them as a death metal band, but sure,

701
00:36:24,199 --> 00:36:26,119
go off. Why not? And in the UK they are

702
00:36:26,159 --> 00:36:30,719
playing Birmingham The Flapper, Manchester's The Breadshed, London's Underworld and

703
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,440
Portsmouth's Cola. So one of the you know, kind of

704
00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:37,159
coolest doom heavy metal bands of the last ten years

705
00:36:37,199 --> 00:36:39,519
or so finally doing a proper UK talt. That is

706
00:36:39,559 --> 00:36:41,960
great news. And if you are more into the kind

707
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,039
of ethereal side of the doom world. Kingwoman are coming back.

708
00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:47,760
I believe it's been quite a number of years since

709
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,159
Kingwomen had done a run like this over here. They

710
00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:54,000
are also in the UK playing London, Manchester and Glasgow,

711
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:57,519
so good stuff. They're for the doom heads. E. Then Sevenfold,

712
00:36:57,519 --> 00:37:00,679
this is a story that caught my eye. Then Sevenfold

713
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,840
have purchased back, they say, the master recording rights for

714
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,880
their album The Stage, which of course was released in

715
00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:11,480
twenty sixteen, and they say with this announcement they are

716
00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:15,599
now a fully independent band, no ties to you know,

717
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,639
larger major labels or anything like that, just a fully

718
00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:20,760
independent band right now. Then Sevenfold, which for a band

719
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,920
of their size, I suppose it's its own sort of

720
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,199
nice story to see them and they reach that stage

721
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,519
perhaps where they can you know, sort of self you know,

722
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:31,320
carry themselves like that. But also with the buying back

723
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,679
of the Stage, they you know, with this kind of

724
00:37:32,679 --> 00:37:34,679
announcement out there, they did say, you know, we are

725
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,000
aware that the ten year anniversary of this record is

726
00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:40,119
coming up, and they reference that it's an album that

727
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:45,400
tackled ai political and social critique, simulation theory and existentialism,

728
00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:47,639
all things that seem to be even more significant this

729
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,559
day and age. And this just sort of caught my

730
00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:53,639
eye in a ten years since the Stage kind of way,

731
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,239
which feels mad considering they've only had like what one

732
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,239
album in between you know now and then like it

733
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,840
has been I know, obviously the last album, even before

734
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,280
we get into what people thought about the album, which

735
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,280
as we know it was very very mixed, but it

736
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,880
was a big meal of an album where you had

737
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,320
a lot to take in, right, But the fact that

738
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,440
there has only been one of then zero fold album

739
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,199
in the last ten years since the Stage has been

740
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,000
a you know, it's been a very patient, shall we say,

741
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,559
a slow going kind of creative decade for them. But

742
00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:26,400
going back, you know, ten years to the stage was

743
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,000
just an interest kind of memory lane thing. I think, like, man, yeah,

744
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,800
that was a moment went obviously a surprise released that record.

745
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,280
It was the first record with Brooks Wackerman on the drums,

746
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,719
who now was again been in that camp for ages.

747
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,840
Now what are you all I suppose memories of you know,

748
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,639
looking back on ten years of this particular event, ZERREVL record.

749
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: I remember being on the outside looking in. I was never.

750
00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:51,719
I don't know, I didn't really like it when it

751
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,480
came out. I sort of dismissed it after a couple

752
00:38:56,599 --> 00:39:02,280
listens and never really revisited it. But I remember the

753
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,320
surprise drop. I remember us both being so excited to

754
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,559
listen to it. I remember the ferrara it caused, and

755
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:13,960
it'd been really just like a really exciting moment for people.

756
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,079
And that was a really well received record, right like,

757
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,239
I remember people being really toughed with it.

758
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the time, it was probably my least favorite,

759
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,760
you know, up against the debut, but it was one

760
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,960
of my least favorite event sevenfold records. Yes, I do

761
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:32,000
like Hail to the King. That's a topic for another day.

762
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,199
But you know, the stage at the end of you know,

763
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,519
what was their their period of like being such you know,

764
00:39:38,679 --> 00:39:42,559
when they were this unbelievable singles band basically, and that's

765
00:39:42,559 --> 00:39:44,239
all say the albums weren't great, because a lot of

766
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,320
them were, but you know, the run of hit that

767
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,039
they produced in between, you know, let's say, Unholy Confessions

768
00:39:49,039 --> 00:39:50,840
and Hail to the King, that decade where they were,

769
00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,519
that's the decade that made them the top dogs that

770
00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:55,440
they are. Right stage that came at the end of

771
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:59,000
that and was obviously it very much self styled as

772
00:39:59,039 --> 00:40:02,000
being not in that mode and wasn't as much of

773
00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:04,639
a crowd pleaser, and I didn't want I connected with

774
00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:07,280
it less than you know, the event records before it,

775
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,199
but I still really liked it immediately at the time,

776
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,760
I liked it, and interesting looking back on it now

777
00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,639
is it feels like, you know, it's ten years since

778
00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:20,719
the last shall we say, coherently events Sevenfold album. Because

779
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,800
Life is but a Dream I can see, you know,

780
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,519
I actually I completely understand the argument for Life Is

781
00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:29,559
But a Dream being a more interesting record, shall we say,

782
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:31,719
than the Stage, because the stage was then going prog

783
00:40:32,159 --> 00:40:33,599
after you know, I was hailed to the King with

784
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:36,039
the most stripped down rock album that they'd done, and

785
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:38,360
then the stage was then for like over seventy minutes long.

786
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,000
It's got multiple fucking huge, like you know, sweet type

787
00:40:42,079 --> 00:40:45,880
tracks on it. And then if you want to say

788
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,199
that Life is but a Dream, is them doing that

789
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,880
in a much more balls to the wall anything goes

790
00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:55,199
less married to the I don't know fundamentals of being

791
00:40:55,159 --> 00:40:58,039
a Sevenfold kind of record and prefer that for it.

792
00:40:58,199 --> 00:41:00,960
I get that completely looking back as someone who was

793
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,119
not into Life Is But a Dream. The stage is

794
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:06,199
you know, I said the last the event Sevenfold that

795
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,280
I was a fan of, Right, that's the last time

796
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,199
that band were around, and they were doing it in

797
00:41:11,199 --> 00:41:14,159
a way that was spreading their wings. I have fond

798
00:41:14,199 --> 00:41:16,599
memories of the cycle because the tour was brilliant, Like

799
00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:17,960
I wouldn't see him on that on that tour and

800
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,920
it was absolutely fantastic. And there are you know, tracks

801
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,079
I really like on that record. The title track opens,

802
00:41:23,079 --> 00:41:25,360
it is great sunny disposition. There are bangers on it,

803
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,079
like goddamn. I remember it being as a record very

804
00:41:28,119 --> 00:41:30,360
top heavy with the bangers, and like the further you

805
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,760
get into that, like seventy four minute or whatever, run

806
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,480
time like it keeps. You know, it is a time demanding,

807
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,440
patience demanding type of record that doesn't necessarily always you know,

808
00:41:41,519 --> 00:41:44,679
like give you back one hundred percent. But I think

809
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,320
it is a Yeah, it's a strange album to look

810
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,960
back on in hindsight from Life Is But a Dream

811
00:41:50,159 --> 00:41:54,800
because it is both much more normal. Life Is but

812
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,000
a dream in a way that you could say is

813
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,960
a little bit more I don't know, tepid. I suppose

814
00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:02,840
like life, but it was so wholeheartedly leaping into what

815
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,679
they were doing. But it is still tied maybe to

816
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,239
some of the traits that the older fans could have

817
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,360
wanted in a them cell fored right, that life's but

818
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,760
a dream, you know, for better or or worse shed

819
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,320
and became something else in its own thing. It is

820
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,039
also as they were saying in that description there, it's

821
00:42:18,039 --> 00:42:20,480
the events have a record that's all about science, right,

822
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:23,840
it's the science one. It's space and AI. And I

823
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,639
think that's an element of avenge that it's quite easy

824
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:27,119
to clown on because a couple of years after this

825
00:42:27,159 --> 00:42:30,960
they became the NFT guys. Right. But you know, certainly

826
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,960
if you look back throw the lens of you know

827
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,000
where we are in twenty twenty six, and you know

828
00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:38,800
AI is getting fucking more dominant by the day. Maybe

829
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,960
there is something in the heart of this record. I'm

830
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,559
not going to say, I'm not going to call it

831
00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:45,039
a classic, and I'm not going to say whoa it

832
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:47,159
predicted the future because it's basically it's like a more

833
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,320
Neil de grass tyson version of kind of the stuff

834
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,920
that Fear Factory were doing in the nineties, that itself

835
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,199
was taken from Terminator or whatever, right, you know, and

836
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:58,519
maybe in the kind of modern muse is maybe a

837
00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:00,840
close spiritual counterpart, at least the kind of the I

838
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,599
suppose the worldview or like, you know, the content of

839
00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:06,000
a record like The Stage. So I'm not gonna call

840
00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:07,760
it classic, but I do think I thought it at

841
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,920
the time, and I still think it now a pretty

842
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,119
good album, right.

843
00:43:13,159 --> 00:43:17,559
Speaker 2: I hate doing this. I didn't like The Stage at

844
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:19,719
the time. I listened to it today for the first

845
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,119
time in nine years. It's brilliant.

846
00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:23,559
Speaker 1: My god, really.

847
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: Is so good. And I was thinking, obviously so much.

848
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,639
There's so much context and so much baggage I have

849
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,079
with Avenge sevenfold because Life is but a dream has

850
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:40,440
happened since then, which is so, you know, admirable record,

851
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:45,159
but it's so batshit and it's so unavenged. And previously

852
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,800
the most unavenged album was Hail to the King, which

853
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,800
was an album full of bangers, and my problem with

854
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,519
the Stage at the time was there was no banger,

855
00:43:54,679 --> 00:43:57,679
Like obviously, I don't know goddamn as a banger, so

856
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,719
it's not after Life backcountry, you know, And that's why

857
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,199
I was like, yeah, I appreciate the prog thing, but

858
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,800
you could have given us a couple of choruses, having

859
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,719
had even less hooks since then going back to back

860
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,960
to the stage, thinking about the stage coming out after

861
00:44:16,039 --> 00:44:18,519
Hill to the King and how mad that is. It's

862
00:44:18,559 --> 00:44:22,159
almost like the Anti. It's what the Anti, what every

863
00:44:22,199 --> 00:44:26,800
other band does when mastered on right, their prog oppus

864
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,719
would Crack the Sky. Yeah, they follow up with the Hunter.

865
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:32,559
They wrote the Hunter and then they were like, should

866
00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:36,960
we do Crack the Sky? It's that makes me appreciate

867
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,199
it even more. And the fact that comes after Hail

868
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,000
to the King, which is it doesn't sound like classic Avenged,

869
00:44:44,159 --> 00:44:48,559
It sounds like classic metal. This the stage it sounds

870
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:52,159
like Avenged, Yeah doing progue, but it sounds like Avenge sevenfold.

871
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,719
Ah Yeah. And I really the dramming on it that

872
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,000
Brooks is putting in some performance. He's is it incredible

873
00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:06,880
on this? Obviously Cinder Store is whodling so well. Shadows

874
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:13,519
sounds sleazy as ever. I really like going back to

875
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:16,440
it really made me appreciate how good we had it.

876
00:45:17,679 --> 00:45:21,559
I think this is a really great record, and I'm

877
00:45:21,599 --> 00:45:23,519
sorry took this long to realize.

878
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, my position has basically stayed the same

879
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,559
as it was almost ten years ago. It just has

880
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:30,079
the extra complicating factor of, you know, looking back from

881
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:31,760
the position of where we are right now and the

882
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,719
record that's coming between. But ten years ago, I thought

883
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,440
it was a pretty damn good record, and I still

884
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,440
think that. I think the first like half of it

885
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,880
particular is great. I do think like what you're saying

886
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,039
about it sounds like classic Avenge as we know them,

887
00:45:45,079 --> 00:45:48,079
doing a more progressive kind of idea rather than you know,

888
00:45:48,519 --> 00:45:52,440
fully go and be on the pale. Is the particular

889
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,320
slant that it has, Like I said, it is still

890
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,800
am I going to take the stage over certainly any

891
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,199
of the records between like Waking the Fallen and Nightmare,

892
00:45:59,199 --> 00:46:00,960
And no, I'm not, But I do think the stage

893
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,719
is And for the reason you're saying about kind of

894
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:05,480
the place that came in their trajectory. I always thought,

895
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:08,400
like people who dismissed the record really quickly at the

896
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,320
time because it wasn't Nightmare, I did always think those

897
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,079
complaints were kind of weak source right, And I still,

898
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:16,280
you know, kind of my my stance is kind of similar.

899
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,840
I'm glad that you know you have had this positive

900
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,400
awakening with it, because that's just always a nice thing

901
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,920
when that happens with the record. But yeah, like I said,

902
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:27,039
a very interesting album back on ten years considering we've

903
00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:29,880
only got one album between you know now and then.

904
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,960
But what a bizarre old decade. Like ten years ago,

905
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:34,679
they feel like a different prospect of a band than

906
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,840
the one that they are today. What are your memories

907
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,440
of the stage from ten years ago? How do you

908
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,599
think it? A holds up would be very interested to hear.

909
00:46:41,039 --> 00:46:42,360
And the last piece of news here is just one

910
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,440
I've added in that I was really sad to hear that.

911
00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:50,280
Federico Bernini, who is a long kind of standing member

912
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:55,719
of the essentially the UK underground extreme metal scene. He

913
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,159
played in Aca Cocca. Most recently he was the bassist.

914
00:46:58,519 --> 00:47:01,880
He most recently he joined Olfusian, the Irish death metal

915
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,440
band who there He was on their record last year,

916
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,159
the Summoning Bell, which you may remember if you were

917
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,199
you know, along with me on the ride for end

918
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:09,199
of year stuff or whatever. One of the best death

919
00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:10,840
Matt records I think of the last like twelve months,

920
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,079
absolutely phenomenal record with some killer base playing on it.

921
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,800
Also a member of bands like on Fathomore ruined Nation

922
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,760
cerebral bore. Like if you could throw a dart almost

923
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,440
at like a you know, UK or you know, Ireland

924
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,679
based extreme death metal band and you could imagine that

925
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,760
Federico Bernini had possibly played in that band. So the

926
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,519
news that he had seemingly quite suddenly passed away this week,

927
00:47:33,039 --> 00:47:35,159
I know, will hit people who are you know, particularly

928
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,480
ingrained in that scene quite hard, so absolutely wanted to

929
00:47:38,519 --> 00:47:41,719
pay my respects there. So yeah, rest in peace, Federico. Right,

930
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:46,199
we have got, like I said, the Corn Special Part two.

931
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,199
I've mentioned it quite a lot over the last couple weeks,

932
00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:50,960
so I'll skip the super hard sales pitch. But hopefully,

933
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,440
as I say, tomorrow, as you are listening to this,

934
00:47:53,559 --> 00:47:55,000
that will be out there on the patroon where we

935
00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:58,519
are talking all about the peak New metal years basically

936
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,719
and their peak period of khmer dominance. Very excitingly forward

937
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,119
to getting into that. Let's end today's Hyperblast with the

938
00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:08,679
release roundup and not the largest quantity of releases I

939
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,280
would say today that are really like punching above the

940
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,599
standard weight bracket, but there are a couple that definitely

941
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,840
are you know, big notable names that are longer waited

942
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,880
records as well. The first of those is Marmozett's their

943
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:27,559
third studio album, cow War Dice. That's out. I don't

944
00:48:27,559 --> 00:48:28,760
think we are going to review it on the next

945
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one because Sam's away, and that feels like one that

946
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,679
we should tuck in the pocket until Sam comes back

947
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,239
and can really give us a thorough take on that record.

948
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,000
But I know that obviously. Right now, as this episode

949
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is out, lots of you will be going and you know,

950
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,199
spinning and making your mind up about the first Marmott's

951
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,920
record in eight years or whatever. It may be a

952
00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:49,400
much longer period away is we have the returning album

953
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:53,440
from A. Jason Perry and those those little brit rock

954
00:48:53,559 --> 00:48:58,239
jokers back with their album Prong. First album in You'll

955
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,440
know better than I mark a long time right.

956
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Speaker 2: Twenty one years?

957
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: Wowser?

958
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, thank god.

959
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,559
Speaker 1: I mean you will definitely be pin a show since.

960
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Speaker 2: Two thousand and five. Oh absolutely? Will it be good?

961
00:49:14,519 --> 00:49:17,480
Don't know? Do I like the singles? Not really? Am

962
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,320
I going to be best to do it? Yep?

963
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll let you give me the report back.

964
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Speaker 2: There you go.

965
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Speaker 1: A's new album Prong and another album that's the first

966
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,480
in there, like also eight years. I think dimu Borgear,

967
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:34,440
the symphonic black metal Titans from Norway their album called

968
00:49:34,519 --> 00:49:38,880
Grand Serpent Rising. They have been very slow to make

969
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,639
albums in the last like twenty years really, but when

970
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they emerge and slither out of hibernation. I haven't heard

971
00:49:44,599 --> 00:49:46,960
this one yet. I have heard some pretty good things

972
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,880
about this record, and I am in the camp of

973
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people who basically liked everything Dimibore have done, so looking

974
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forward to it obviously, we'll be checking that one out.

975
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Then we have a debut album from a band called

976
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XCOM called Time to Burn. These guys are a hardcore

977
00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:01,679
punk band and this record has picked up a little

978
00:50:01,679 --> 00:50:04,320
bit attraction because it is produced by mister Ross Robinson.

979
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So a Ross Robinson produced upcoming, you know, young hardcore band.

980
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There you go x Com. For the old heavy metalers

981
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:15,159
out there, we have Armored Saint with a motion factory reset.

982
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:20,519
David Eugene Edwards, the frontman of sixteen Horsepower and Woven Hand.

983
00:50:20,679 --> 00:50:22,800
As much as you know, sixteen Horsepower are back out

984
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,320
there in the world playing shows and stuff right now

985
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,679
as we speak. I'm very jealous of everyone who's seen them recently.

986
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But he has a solo record out, his second fully

987
00:50:29,559 --> 00:50:33,719
Solar record, I believe, Mercurial Silence. Then we have, on

988
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,760
the kind of proggy post metally side of things, coming

989
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,119
from Europe, we have a band called Blind Dead twenty

990
00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:40,360
three which does just make me think of I don't

991
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,559
know band names like Breed seventy seven or whatever, but

992
00:50:42,599 --> 00:50:44,440
I understand that they are not of that ilk of band.

993
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:45,920
They're a little wit as I say, maybe a little

994
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,679
bit cooler than that. But their record Juteriarium. There you go.

995
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,639
Not a huge day for the underground, really, which is

996
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:55,119
considering the that's the place which normally produces a million,

997
00:50:55,199 --> 00:50:58,840
you know, records a week. This time we have on

998
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,360
the kind of black thrash side of things. On Dying

999
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,000
Victims Productions, we have Witching Hour with descending Dot dot

1000
00:51:05,039 --> 00:51:08,320
Dot where time has ceased to exist, giving us enough

1001
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,519
album title for the rest of us. Really, we have

1002
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,760
on the UK blackmount front the band Law with psychotic

1003
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,599
trance of the Black Knights and two EPs to end

1004
00:51:18,639 --> 00:51:21,679
us out. On the mushy hardcore side, we've got grid

1005
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:25,000
Iron who've just dropped an EP called Lights Out, and

1006
00:51:25,159 --> 00:51:27,119
we have on the kind of math core east side

1007
00:51:27,199 --> 00:51:30,119
a band called Bear with an EP called an Herdonia.

1008
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,480
So that's your lot this week. Thank you very much

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for being with us here listening. As I say, let

1010
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,719
us know what's your take on the Anthrax single just

1011
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,119
the state of anthrects I suppose right now? Are you

1012
00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:43,480
looking forward to the new President album? And yeah, memories

1013
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,440
of the stage from ten years ago, all of those

1014
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,599
tools we were talking about. Let's know your thoughts. We

1015
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,159
will be back. First of all, we will be back

1016
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,119
immediately essentially with as I say, part two of our

1017
00:51:54,199 --> 00:51:58,880
ongoing corn band dissection of everything they've ever done. Going

1018
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,559
to be really really a fun, hefty, meaty part this

1019
00:52:02,639 --> 00:52:06,039
time around, for sure, like a bunch of massive, massive

1020
00:52:06,079 --> 00:52:08,960
records on top of like side projects and you know,

1021
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:11,119
major events in their story and all of that stuff.

1022
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And we will also be back. Ellie and I will

1023
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be back with a reviews bag reviewing a number of

1024
00:52:18,559 --> 00:52:21,039
the coolest records that we want to talk about from

1025
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the month of May. So be with us for both

1026
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of those and we'll see around. By everyone,