Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome to That's Not Metal. We are your
weekly rock and heavy metal podcast, heavy music podcast, and
welcome to another edition of Hyperblast, where we are here
with you every single Friday, giving you the quick up
to date, you know, kind of speel on what has
been going on in heavy music for the last seven
days or so. It is April. It is the first
time we are recording this year in basically daylight, so
I guess that means it's basically summer spring it these Yeah,
there we go. My name is paren Haish Sam digon
Is so you can hear there. Sam. As your week been,
you've been listening to more Imperio Triumphant, I trust.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's clicked.
Speaker 3: Its genuinely like gold Star was the sort of like thing,
Like again, I don't like Alpha as much as gold Star,
but I was like, no, this is this is good.
I mean, like yeah, outside of that, it's a sad day.
Tomorrow is a very sad day. Yeah, more on that
next week. But the emotions have been building up inside
me over having to say goodbye tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Well, today is this podcast goes.
Speaker 1: I don't say if that banded Imperio Triumphant, who was
swirling around your head at once. That's a strange this week. Yeah,
that's the duality of humanity, isn't it. Yeah, just on
the Imperial triumphant front. I am amazed at how many
people have actually seen say the same thing, Like it
seems to be the recurring thing again and again. People
who didn't get or even in your case, actively didn't
like them suddenly being all in with this album now.
And I knew when I heard it, I knew it
was a more you know, it would be a bit
more legible for people. But I am like really taken
aback by the extent at how much people seem to
be won over.
Speaker 2: I think. I think for me, it's not just gold Star.
Speaker 3: I think like over the last sort of two years, sure, yeah,
come around to a lot more of this side of things.
You've worn me down with ter armor and the like.
But I think when you now and that does kind
of just make their approach to it make more sense.
You can kind of go back and kind of I
can pick out the riffs on Alphaville now and kind
of go, yeah, that fucks actually, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm amazed at how it seemed to actually be
going down as like one of the slam dunk albums of.
Speaker 2: One of the best aims of the year so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I certainly think so. But again, the
time and time again story that we're sitting play out there,
it surprised me at how well it's.
Speaker 3: The fact that it wasn't just me is maybe go like, no, cool,
there was actually something to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a nice story, you know. Speeding ahead
through the rest of this year, I have had a
pretty decent week. I spoke Tonrgil the other day. I
asked him all about the you know, the shitty poopy
poop of God. There was a wonderful moment where he
said he can't stand cheesy power metal, and in about ten
minutes later brought up how much he loves Man of
War and I was like, yeah, I know what that means,
because they are different things. But it was still good.
I've been rewatching the Park Chan Wook Vengeance trilogy just
for no particular reason, just just good in it. And
that's and that's where I'm at. And has said, you know,
you're going to know a certain funeral that we can
bring up next week, but otherwise let's get into the
news where I you know, I'd say it's a sort
of on the surface, a slower week, but there is
I guess some interesting tim kind of you know, tidbits
to talk about and a few stories I don't know
tu mull over in that regard. We're gonna start with
Lincoln Park, who have a sort of duel story here.
The first is that they have dropped another new single.
It's only like what like four months or something since.
Speaker 3: Yeah, six months, yeah, November the album exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's only about you know, four or five
months or something that as the album came out and
they're already released in New music. There's a song called
Up from the Bottom, which I I mean, I would
presume was probably sitting around the time that they were
making the album, and they've decided to you know, it
feels like.
Speaker 3: The inevitable like deluxe reissue. Yeah, the album does now
where they need that they still need a big single
put aside.
Speaker 1: To another single to kind of drum up a bit
more interest with for the tour when that's coming around,
that kind of thing. But you know, I can totally
imagine this being part of the from zero kind of
sessions because it sounded awful like it doesn't it. And
it's funny because you know, when we did that review,
and I felt like I certainly came to that review
very negatively based around the amount that that album was
kind of being shoved down our collective throats versus how
good an album I actually thought it was. But in
a weird way, I feel like that might come across
as me being I don't know, completely checked out from
the Linky Park reunion or something, because I do ever
remind myself there was at least sort of like two
singles or something from the record that I thought were
really good, one of which the Empties Machine being the
best Linky Park song in ages and ages and ages.
So I go into this and I think, yeah, at
the very least, I don't think they're producing good albums
right now, but I think there is a you know,
this is a very cynical sentence, and maybe to a
degree it is, But like, I think they know which
songs are the singles and which ones are the fillers,
right And so I think I can look at Linky
Park right now and be like, Okay, when Linky Park
are releasing a single, I can probably trust it to
be a bit better than you know, dumping ten tracks
of it on me and this it's not anything new
or outstanding. It sounds a lot like the Empty Miss Machine,
doesn't it. It's a second one of those. It's upbeat, Pacey,
it has the same kind of chorus and it's it's
not as good as the Empties Machine, but in terms
of being in line with the thing that they are
currently doing quite well, I would say this is probably
I mean, you were easily and like the the top
five songs that this version of Lincoln Parker's produced to date.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely agree. I genuinely like this. Again, I
really like the Interestine. I think the Empeschine is great. Yeah,
this isn't as good as that, but it's it's delivering
on that kind of like very slickly produced like Lincoln
Park and like Pacey, slightly rocking number Mike Schnodi's, you know,
slightly clunky rapping, but I've got a soft spot for it.
I think this is absolutely using the same ven as
Interest Machine, but.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: It's again better than most of what was on the album,
better than all the sort of bands imitating the Lincoln
Park sound. Again, so I'll take this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there was a lot of I think
there was a quote from Mike Shinoda in the round
of the road it was like, this is the best
song we've done to date, and it's like, well, whether
even meant the the current they done, I still don't
think that's true, because you know, Empty Machine and even
like Heavy of the Crown or whatever, I think are better.
And I don't necessarily know if this one will stick
around in the memory the way the Empty Machine at
least a few months on, you know, has been doing.
But as said, if Linky Parker to be an okay
singles band at the moment, then I'll take it. It's sort
of the best we've got going on. Speaking about drumming
up interest for the tour, that is, I guess, unfortunately,
where most of the Lincoln Park conversation has been. It's funny, actually,
they released a song and I barely saw a thing
about it. I only saw people sharing the story about
their ticket sales. Because they have been downgrading some of
the shows on their US tour they're currently going to
be embarking on. They are doing heavily discounted tickets for
a lot of them, and I guess the big headline
which grabbed a lot of attention is that they are
doing a big hometown show at the Los Angeles Dodger Stadium,
which has been downgraded to the Intuit Dome. And that
was a show that all tided Queens of the Stone
age on the bill, as support in Queens of Stone
have now dropped off in this smaller environment, and I
guess that you know, the question is our Lincoln Park
just you know, even six months on from they they
come back or whatever kind of stalling in terms of
the continued interest in that and overestimating their ticket draw.
Speaker 3: I mean, like it's a tough one sake because you
look at Wembley and how well that's sold. That's pretty
much like resell tickets only for silly price, and that
stadium and that is stadium, and there are stadium shows
they've sold out on these runs.
Speaker 2: I think, of course, of overside that, for me, I
do think it's.
Speaker 3: Part of a wider thing we've discussed I think many times,
which is the cost of live music on the larger states,
particularly in America. Like the stories I'm seeing come out
from like and that's why I think, you know, what
if they're doing tickets for forty dollars. Good, the fans win. Like,
that's my opinion on that one. I like, it might
be a bit humbling for the band, but I'm like,
the fans win. I think that's fine because live music
for the bigger bands is insane in America at the moment.
Like when I'm seeing you know, sleep talking tickets are
costing three hundred dollars, I'm like.
Speaker 2: How much on Lincoln Park tickets costing them?
Speaker 3: Are they like one thousand dollar tickets which they must
have been, And there's no wonder you're not selling out
stadiums if you're charging one thousand dollars a ticket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: And this downgrade thing, I would like to untest the
fact that the again the Dodger Stadium that they were
initially going to be in at what they've downgraded it to.
The Dodger Stadium is I think something like fifty five
fifty six thousand or something capacity, and the venue they've
downgraded it to is I think it says here eighteen thousand.
So they've not gone for Wembley Arena down to the Forum, right,
Like that is like absurd size of venue any which way,
And as you're saying, there, you know, fifty six thousand
people in the attempted venue, if they were I mean again,
I don't know what's that take your price was, but
I'm sure we can probably.
Speaker 2: Use couple hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like probably a minimum two hundred dollars or something
like that. You times that by fifty six thousand, that's
an awful lot of dollars. So even then you go, okay, like,
you know, let's say some of these other stadiums they
might be doing again twenty thousand doors or whatever it
might be, and they're doing that forty dollars you know
price thing. That's still quite an influx of you know,
ticket fee. And obviously there are all sorts of other
costs to account for, which are you know, offsetting that profit.
But in terms of uh, downgrading there, I don't know again,
their draw or whatever a band selling out fucking you know,
enormous stadiums, even before you get to the you know,
fifty six thousand Dodger stadium size that they've had to
downgrade from. I feel like, again with the proper context
of what we are talking about, being downgraded for one
through another, overestimating draw is like, yeah, they shot for
the fucking moon. Yeah, maybe maybe six months after their
big comeback, they don't quite fill what they But as
you're saying in terms of the amount that they are
still selling on top of the obstacles that were in
the way in terms of pricing, as you were saying,
I think those are obviously mitigating factors.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean again like that that they are still selling out,
like the O to arena, like is what they've moved
to essentially, Yeah, like those are these are not you know,
small rooms they're moving into.
Speaker 2: They're just going from the biggest of the big too big.
And like again, like like bands.
Speaker 3: Down grading is never a good look. There's no kind
of way to spin it. It's always a kind of like,
well that that didn't work out. But yeah, I do
think there are more factors other than more LINKA parkhn't
actually as big as they thought they were.
Speaker 1: Yes, we continue on with some of our you know,
big American rock bands from the early two thousands because
Evan Essence have also put out a new single. This
is a song called after Life. It is in conjunction
with the new Devil May Cry series, which sam were
to our regular segment of you have to be our
correspondent on NERD shit. What is the I don't know,
scale or relevance of this project that this is tied
in with.
Speaker 3: If in two thousand and four a Devil May Creit
anime happened with an Evanescent song on the sound they
would have genuinely told you it's the greatest thing to
ever happen to art like perfect like early to mid
naughties Edges, Definite ma. They are some of my favorite games.
They are, you know, a main character like all white
hair and a swoopy emo fringe with a big sword
in a red trench coat, like like the most kind
of like like edgy gothic cool stuff. And like they
were so in line with that that kind of like
post new metal, like you've been watching all the Underworld movies.
Speaker 2: They are the video games equivalent.
Speaker 3: They're in that lane, and like they you know long,
they've been going on since the Empty thousands and finally
had rubbishname the Noise. But like there's a new anime
coming out. I mean it's not just that they've got
an original evanescentce song written for it. The soundtrack for
this anime. They have gone like two thousand, New Metal
Last Resort is on the soundtrack, Rolling is on the soundtrack.
Like they know what they're doing. They know that Devil
May Cry fans for like two thousand and one, two
thousand and four might.
Speaker 2: Have been the coolest time in the history of the universe.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's interesting, as I guess, a larger piece
of new metal nostalgia. I wasn't aware of in that regard.
But as you say, there is a new Evanescence song
written for this. Evanessence say that they have a bunch
of new music written and they're sitting on but the
kind of you know, the deal came to put this
out with Devil May Cry, so they've gone ahead with
with this song. I love the It's just what you
were saying. The fact that when I, you know, clicked
play on this song, it came with a like AMV
anime music video.
Speaker 3: It's exactly so you would have seen Devil May Cry
AMVs to Call Me when You're sober and bring me.
Speaker 1: To life, like in two thousand and seven, exactly so
that really took me back. I thought the song was,
you know, very very gloomy. Obviously it has a good
amy vocal. She's present in the mix, which I you know,
I was thinking about recently because you know, the it
came up on the internet. It was like four years
or something since the Better Truth album reviews of my
podcast I Know, which feels like, you know, a wild
four years there. But I was thinking about that album
and how I you know, me and you are both
you know, we owe a lot in our lives to Evanescence,
shall we say yes? And the Bitter Truth is genuinely
the first Evanescence for like the album, which they don't
have many of, right, but it's the first one that
I don't think is great. And I remember we reviewed
it and my expectations were like really low because of
the singles going in, and I remember saying, well, at
least it's not that terrible, you know, yeah, But you know,
going on four years now, there is very little of
that material that has stuck around in the kind of
you know, either in the zeitgeist or just in my
brain and in his extent of the other you know,
Evanescence records, and we were talking about how fucking strange
the mixes and production and stuff, and this song, I again,
it's made think it's a throwaway track for an anime
tie in. I don't know's it's not top draw Evanescence stuff,
even by the standards of the last things they were
doing before the Bit of Truth album. But I know
at least it sounds a bit better than that did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind this.
Speaker 3: I think you know, it feels very much Evanescence album
track on the good Evanescence. I'm not like, look the
Self Tired this has been on the Self Tired album.
I'd have been like, yeah, no, that's another good song
on that album.
Speaker 1: Sure, but it doesn't doesn't sound.
Speaker 2: Like the World Fire.
Speaker 3: But coming off the back of the last album, I
was kind of a bit more infused about this song
than I have been about anything on that So again,
like maybe it's just the combination of Evanescence and Devin
may Cry just kind of like tickling me in such
a way that I'm more sort of soft on it.
Speaker 2: But I think it's decent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we get to our you know, our slap on
the wrist for the week, unfortunately, which comes, you know,
deservingly to Danzig, who played a big show in Englewood, California,
this week. Looked mad fucking down a buff and chromags
on it as a bill, which is a very strange combination.
But certainly, you know a lot of great music on
that night out and apparently the Danzig show, you know
it was in four and everything. But unfortunately the headline
that has, you know, come out of this one is
people snapping pictures of the merch desk where you could
buy some lovely Danzig t shirts or art prints with
big old sun wheels on them, which if you are
not familiar with what a sun wheel is, I think
this is something that people in maybe black metal spaces
have become a little bit more attuned to spotting when
it comes to what it is and where it comes from.
Big Danzig shirt with it on, maybe you won't know
what it is, but it is a symbol, as with
many symbols out there, as an ancient, you know, symbol
that predates whatever its current usage is. But it has
basically become a big old Nazi dog.
Speaker 2: Whistle, you're made from sort to prevail what it means like.
Speaker 1: Exactly, it's a It's a symbol that has come to
be very much associated and kind of opted by the
extremist white supremacist far right, and so Danzig selling T
shirts with an enormous I don't know it's how he
looks anyway, but like a very muscly, airy and looking
dancing figure on it in front of a sun wheel
is not a good look. And obviously people are upset
about this, and the discourse has become I don't know,
is this Danzig intentionally you know, dog whistling to far
right members of his audience or whatever. Is it just
he is just very, very thick and doesn't know what
it is. Is it somewhere in between, or if he
kind of knows what's going on and is indulging those
edge lord tendencies of just you know, putting old any
symbol that kind of has a slight you know, kind.
Speaker 2: Of edgy.
Speaker 1: Provocateur sort of look to it. Danzig. I mean, if
you are, you know, a regular listener, you will know
that Danzig is one of my guys. I would also
say he is about the most fucking thick, dislikable prick
that I would call one of my guys. And uh,
obviously I think it's fucking stupid and terrible that you
would go out and sell much like this. In terms
of his intentions. Obviously, I can't say I know that
he Obviously he does come out from time to time
and say other maybe you know, less hateful, but certainly
kind of you know, fringe views on vaccines or whatever.
It might be indulging the uh far right members of
your fan base by giving them the old nod with
the sun wheel logo and everything. It's definitely, as said,
the the edge lord ship from a you know, nearly
seven year old guy that I can see Danzig doing.
Speaker 3: Like to me, I was like, I feel like this
is Danzig being an edge lord idiot, like just because
that feels like the easy explanation.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like it was just kind of like Danzig.
Speaker 3: Again, like again it's been a bad week for you know,
being like I fucking love them, missays, Oh yeah, both
you're like most of us vocalist are absolute pricks, aren't there?
The thing was off on a ran yeah, and I
was like, oh god, why do I have to love
the misfits, Like both vocalists are both most those vocalists
are twats.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a wasp, isn't it in terms of like,
oh you're yeah, you're old and mental? Okay, But yeah,
stupid ship, don't do that, Danzig better. New Turnstile seem
to be teasing something or other. There are big billboards
of foots, which is always nice to see from the
Turnstile camp. They also seem to have confirmed their current
lineup because there was a swapping of guitarists that happened
a couple of years ago, and it seems that the
guitarists who were kind of was brought on board for
the touring has you know, he's sticking around, which you know, nice,
But it looks like there is going to be Turnstile
something or other coming on June the sixth. There is
a billboard that says never enough Turnstyle with that date
on it. Now, it would be very weird. I think
for a billboard with that date on it to appear
two months in advance of a single, like if it's
just a single, right, so you know, normally when things
appear with a date like that, it might be the
next week or something. So I can't imagine that we
are going to be waiting in dead air until June
the six That sounds like there might be something more
substantial coming June six and we're going to hear news
of it much much sooner than that.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, I was kind of expecting Turnstile to
be giving up some other summer because you know, they're
making their sort of live return the summer, so I
was kind of hoping, just expecting that there would be
something kind of like to be a little taste of
an album, be it a single bit the album coming.
Speaker 2: Out in June.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I you know, anything new Turnstile I'm going
to be salivating over. You can never have enough Turnstyle,
like and yeah, this is this is exciting. I just hope,
I hope it is, you know, a single coming with
the album during that, That's my hope.
Speaker 1: Yes, we also have the news of baby Metal album.
They are going to put out a record called Metal Fourth,
which I don't know grammatically what that really means how
that works as a sentence.
Speaker 2: The fifth album as well, like yeah, I get the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are quite right. I haven't thought of it
that way. Their album is out on June the thirteenth,
and it seems to have a big old list of
guests on it, and it's basically again I like Babe
Metal a lot, but you can imagine basically their you know,
their management and the game plan over there looking over
who's on TikTok, Yeah, looking over the you know the
other side of the Pacific and going okay in America
or whatever what is currently popular and not seem to
be the things that they always seem to tap. So
we've got pretty much, you know, all the guess you
would imagine on a baby a record.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: Spirit Box are on their Bloody Would, which I think
you can obviously imagine some kind of like bangor jpop,
you know, crossover going there. Polifia are there, Slaughter to
Prevail I think are on there in you know, more
big use of fans of some wheels. But yeah, Poppy
there is going to be the single with Poppy is
going to be out today as this goes out. We've
not heard it yet, but there you go. And new
Been Bebe Mutley is coming. We have heard a bit
of new Midnight, which is very exciting. So Midnight, you know,
released an album last year. This you know, had to
go and look at what it was. It's not a
full length new material. What it is Midnight releasing a
record steel, Rust and Disgust, which is both excellent, normal
like rhyming Midnight fair, but also I guess probably specifically
regional in what its inspirations are this time because Midnight,
who are based in Cleveland, Ohio, are releasing a covers
album of basically lots of like local Cleveland bands and
artists from back in the day that I guess Athena
would have been starting up. So I've never been to
Cleveland in my life, I have never heard of most
of the people on this I.
Speaker 2: Don't recognize any of the band names being covered, but.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Screaming Jay Hawkins of course, who
predates you know, all of heavy metal and everything to
a great degree. But you know, I do trust that
Midnight doing cover of these things will be a great
old time. And there are two original songs on this record,
one as a title track and one as has been released.
It's a song just called Cleveland Metal and I just
I don't know, it's a great celebration, you know, of
just a super just regional badge of pride. I'm going
to cover all these songs around it. I'm going to
write a song celebrating it all. I love that you
can probably tell that he you know, he heard dark
Throne doing Canadian metal, which you know then not even
from Canada, but you can imagine him hearing like I'm
going to do that for Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I knew exactly what the chorus of this song would
be before I play on it. It would be him
yelling Cleveland metal. But it is one of those that
has a nice kind of like new of a British
heavy metal melody line as well, like a little bit
more bit were like fuck off of you.
Speaker 3: Like Triumphant lead guitar lines are wicked. They really make
the song fun. Like this is, you know, the most
kind of like full for all like midnight song.
Speaker 1: It's as one.
Speaker 3: It is really just uplifting and good vibes and just
Cleveland metal.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I'm going to put in a prediction that
Steel Rest and Disgusted will be a sleazier kind of
nast song. And this is like the you know, Triumphant
Anthem and if I'm just gonna get two new Midnight
songs on a bunch of covers and I'm happy for
you know, those to be the thing Cleveland metal as
a track. It rips you know, probably won't review with
the new Covers album because it's all covers. But if
we are going to talk about some new midnight material,
I'm happy getting a song like this of Cleveland Metal.
Great stuff there, Sam Bruce Springsteen has announced that he
is releasing a box set of seven unreleased albums recorded
in between nineteen eighty three and twenty eighteen for a
very long time, almost his whole career, and that includes
seventy four previously un heard songs. There are certain artists
who I'm a fan of where if this came as
an announcement, it would be more exciting than I don't know,
other announcements. Yes, are you excited to hear seven albums
worth of Springsteen offcuts?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: I mean I'm sure that across these seven albums when
you look at the breadth of time and these sort
of ups and downs of his career on that time
in terms of there are albums from scenere as that
I was like, I'm not so keen on, but like
just the like seven unmerly Springsteen albums that are just
gonna be brand new to me is very exciting. I might,
you know, block out a day and just sit there
and all seven albums in a row and see if
that's too much Springsteen.
Speaker 2: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait to hear the the scintillating sonic
breadth across.
Speaker 3: How many cars and dinads is he going to sing about?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna keep it tally.
Speaker 1: I do wonder. So that's a bunch of new album announcements,
some live music announcements. It is going to be, you
know again, the friday this goes out. I think is
going to be a very expensive ticket day for maybe
rock fans in the UK of slightly eclectic taste as well,
because there is quite a lot that is jostling for
your pennies right now. We had the announcement earlier in
the week that My Bloody Valentine are doing a UK
arena tour, which is their first UK headline run in
over a decade. They are playing Manchester, London and Glasgow.
We've you know, we've done an album club and My
Bloody Valentine they are a very very important iconic band.
I am you know, I'm weighing up going in because
I feel like it'd be a cool thing again to
kind of you know, tick off and be like yeah cool.
I went to see my Blooy Valentine as they were there.
But that's kind of exciting then, I guess simillly just
for fans, you know, maybe a slightly different stripe of
fans of you know, turn of the late eighties, nineteen
nineties alternative stuff. Fields of the Nephelin are also doing
a UK tour, slightly longer UK tour, and that's another
one that I really would like to go to because
they were really great when I saw them a few
years ago. So that's your older stuff. But then we
also have the news that Ice nine Kills are good
going to be doing a UK and European tour which
includes their biggest certainly in this country headline dates to date.
They're doing Wembley Arena, Manchester Victoria Warehouse, Glasgow Hydro, Nottingham
Motor Point Arena as well, and the support acts there
are Creeper and The Devil wors Prada, So if I
guess if Devil was Prada play exclusively the zombie EP,
there will be some kind of horror theming going on there.
But Ice Night Kills, I know they're a very very
divisive band, but if you are a fan, bringing Creeper
along for it is one of those like, yeah, Creeper
should probably tour with Ice nine Kills at some point.
Speaker 3: Like theatrical Horritinge or spooky bands. Like I've got to
give this because I was like, adding Creeper on Mills,
I've never seen n Ice Thine Kills Creeper really sweetens
the deal. I imagine they'll bring a big show for
Wembley and again I'm just like, yeah, I'll have a
good night, Like I like horror and vampires and spooky shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Art the clown literally just fucking on the post
is so stupid. But yeah, I mean I was thinking
about this from Creeper's perspective, and I know that they
they technically they just co headline We Will Arena, didn't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were on rides first, but it was like
a co headliner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess, you know, it makes sense that
they wouldn't yet go and do it on their own,
and it makes sense Icelin Kills would get there before them.
And I'm happy for Creeper in terms of supporting this
because it feels like a big, perfectly aligned kind of
slot for them, you know what I mean. I would
love to see Creeper go and do something like a Wembley,
you know, on their own merit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so sooner.
Speaker 1: Rather than later. But Icenine kills with Creeper and.
Speaker 2: They're on the up as well, Iceline Kills.
Speaker 3: They've got momentum right now to sort of potentially pull
them like this off.
Speaker 2: So be interesting to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'd be really tempted by that as well.
We also significantly we have the news of when Refused
are going to be bringing their farewell tour to you know,
the Europe and the UK, which again they're going to
do in Brickson Academy, Manchester, Victoria Warehouse, Glasgow and Dublin
as well as you know, Paris and you know other
places around Europe. But they refused farewell sore. There's a
whole bunch of support acts. I can't quite tell. Actually
there'sn't gonna be a little symbol for when the UK
one is, which I don't know if that means the
UK support is not yet announced. I'm not sure. But Sam,
I'm going to guess that you're probably interested in going
to the final review to the UK tour.
Speaker 3: I probably will end up there, yes, I mean two
is quite expensive for I was like, oh damn it,
I looked and I was like, that's a lot bum.
It's final time to see Refused. I mean I've seen
Refused a couple of times before and like, show you
what about the albums after they come back? They were
always fucking brilliant live. So it'll be a nice celebration
to sort of see that band off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Refuse are fucking dead and this time they really
mean it, as it says on the poster. But yep,
that's coming to the UK, and unto others, have announced
a small handful of club shows in the UK around
when they are here in the summer opening for the
King Diamond tour. Unfortunately, there is not one of these
really near me. I would love for them to have
added like a Liverpool show or something, because I'm seeing
the King Diamond, but I really want to see a
headline tour. And as they have said, they've been over
here a little bit, so they're probably not going to
come back to Europe in the UK for a little
while after this, at least I don't know a few
months or whatever. But unto others, if you are in
one of these other cities where they've announced a small show,
for example Nottingham, they're playing the Rescue Rooms Southampton. They're
playing the Joiners Norwich. Quite a few little places they've
actually added and there are support from there, dependent on
the bill, depend on the data. There's support from Lowen.
They're playing with High Parasite as well. But yeah, last
little UK club shows around the King Diamond to r
from Untourthers before. I guess they don't come over here
for a little bit. Other side, are things going over there?
The sex Pistols, of course, they're you know current version
with Frank Carter, who are really busy, like that's.
Speaker 3: Doing everything they've been in Japan, like the yeah, like
all over the shop like it's got legs.
Speaker 1: This reunion fair enough, Yeah, I mean the you know,
Frank Carton the routs and make's kind of going Hiata
seems more and more. I don't know, like it was
timed appropriately for the sex Pistols to play every single
fucking place in the world. But they are going to
go over to the US as of course, a tour
that sees them playing the never Mind the Bollocks album
in full because they don't have any of the albums,
but they play some other songs as well. But yeah,
if you are in the US and you want to
see this great sex Pistols lineup, which, as I've sid
i've seen live, is a really really fun, good show
that is going over there. Unfortunately, if you are over
there you want to see High Viz, you are going
to have to wait a little while because they have
had to cancel their North American tour kind of last minute,
apparently because their vocalist Graham has had some kind of
incident and needs to go and have emergency surgery. They
say that he is you know okay and going to
you know, be fine, but that does mean they have
to cancel the upcoming US tour obviously. You know, thoughts
go into Graham, whatever's happened, their hopes, you know, his
recovery is great, and that the High Viz North American
tour gets to happen, you know eventually. Yeah, great band
currently really on a run as well. And then finally
gonna end up the news with just a couple of
obituaries for bands who are parting ways very very I think,
both pretty small bands, but both quite you know, they
have a presence in their little micro scenes that they're in.
First of all, Chubby and the Gang are going to
be going on hiatus. Chubby and the Gang is essentially
a solo project, isn't it. It's the Chisel that the
guy is also a member of.
Speaker 3: I think it might be like, yeah, like they were
those men, because obviously they were, like there was a
lot of buzz around them a couple of years a
guys just kind of like this rowdy UK punk band,
and then it sort of seemed to disappear and they
just kind of still existed as kind of like cropping
up on lines around them, but not with the same
level of like interest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Chisel are doing quite well for themselves.
Speaker 2: What I've come back and they're doing. They're going strong
at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but yeah, did you ever see Chubby and
the Gang. I feel like he probably did.
Speaker 3: I saw some support scale last year and they were decent,
and I asked spot Turnstyle a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Ago as actually so like doing that. They popped up
everything on them.
Speaker 3: But they it was sort of like immediately post COVID
there was a real kind of like, oh, they you know,
the new UK punk band.
Speaker 2: That everyone's going to get behind and never gonna happen
for them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I'm sure the cheers awe said, which
the guy is a member of, will continue, you know,
doing doing well for themselves. So I think there's it
makes sense there. But yeah, if you were inter rubbing
the gang, that is a man that's unfortunately, you know,
passing over to the realm of bands who no longer exist.
And that also goes for a really really fantastic band
from the UK underground called Heavy Sentence, who kind of
post COVID were basically if you were going to like
a trad heavy metal, old school heavy metal gig, Heavy
Sentence were like the opening band in the UK, and
I saw them a bunch of times in those kind
of roles and they were genuinely so great, and it
got to the point where like every time I saw them,
there were more and more people who were like visibly
there for them and knowing their songs and everything, and
they are there was such a highlight of heavy metal
shows in the past couple of years. I think I
spoke about them a little bit last year when they
opened for Kirathung Gold their last show in London. If
you're a fan of stuff, like you know, the kind
of very early like Paul Deano era years Iron Maiden
and like that kind of era of like slightly more
rough and tumble new way for British heavy metal. Heavy
Sentence were fucking that and they were really great and
they're you know that the Warriors of Man, this EP
they put out last year and the Bank to Rights
album are full of like legit tune. So I was
really sad to see that news that they're going to
be calling it a day, because I feel like there's
there's more to discover there in terms of like more
people who probably hadn't heard that band, who would love
those records I've just mentioned. So even though the band
are no more, if that sounds like something you shuld
be into, you should go and check those out because
those those songs still rip. But yeah, unfortunately Heavy Sentence
I'm not gonna be around anymore, which is really technical
by surprise because they seemed to have a good thing
going on. But yeah, you know, big respect to those
artists there. Let us finish off with questions obviously in
terms of the that's not mel Patreon. I think I
will announce what our next thing is on next week's Hyperblast.
Right now, we've got album club pack that we just
did not long ago, featuring We've been having great discussions
with people about like the Heaven and Hell album and
I want more people to hear like that Mad Integrity
album and you know, sixteen horse Power and stuff like
that we were talking about. But that was a really,
really fun good episode. As said glad, we managed to
polish off our Sabbath special.
Speaker 2: Truly, it felt like the right epilogue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, revisiting that album, it's so fucking good, really fucking good.
But we'll have more coming to the patroon very very soon.
We are going to finish this episode today here on
the Weekly Feed with the weekly releases, which is slightly
is one of those like slightly more merciful weeks in
terms of my tongue listing them. There's not quite as
many as you know, the last couple or certainly a
couple of weeks coming up. But the fact that that
perceived week you know of slightly more in between still
has you know, a couple of like really like big records,
I guess, shows how fully in the swing of things
we are. We're going to start off with a new
Scowl record, which is called Are We All Angels? I
would guess that probably one of the more anticipated albums
of any sphere of rock this year. So obviously we
will talking about the Scout record when it come to
our review show and stuff, but you know, a big
exciting one there. We also have the new Bleed from
Within album Zenith, one of our again kind of very consistent.
Gradually on the up UK metal bands, there is the
band thorn Hill with a record called Bodies. This is
more the kind of contemporary, you know, gente old metal
type of thing. I you know, I'm gauging from people
out there. If they're an example of that people are
you know, passionate about I don't yet know, but they
have got an album out doing that kind of a style.
Then there is a Pigs Time seven, you know Pigs
where they reclled death hilarious. This band are bigger than
I thought they were. I thought they were just kind
of a band with a kind of silly name who
would kick around in the UK and wherever for a while.
But then I noticed they were playing like some semi
sizable shows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so for a kind of like noisy Garrett like
Garas Rock, guess like Bandy, they've got a real I
think they're like like a big cult band is almost
how I describe, and we're like, they're not you know,
the most known name, but people who like them fucking
love them, and they pull they put in the crowds
like yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's never drawn me in particularly,
but a realization that that band are you know, bigger
than I thought they were. So there they go. The
new you know, Pigs et cetera album UK death metal,
you know kind of veterans, old school as Benediction. Their
current sort of renaissance are going on is continuing with
their record called Ravage of Empires. Then we have a
man called tom Orum with a record call Beyond Obsidian Euphoria.
This is a band who put out a record a
couple of years ago that I have been quite light
and it's sort of like very clean, progressively black metal,
I would say for fans of stuff like Neobliviscarrists and
stuff like that, but with a slightly more slight leading
slightly towards more the black metal than the death metal,
but that kind of you know, sort of like polished
based noodling around kind of proggy stuff. There you go,
And if you like tech death, then you know at
allegian allegaean whatever you're going to say, I think it's allegian.
The Ossuary Lens is out. We have a live album
another one. I feel like this band had put out
so many of these type things in recent years. But
there's a live album from Rotten Christ called thirty five
Years of Evil Existence Live and likea bettus. I believe
that's a big castle in Athens or something along those lines,
but suited ball for them. Yeah, I mean I looked
at the chatters from this and there's like twenty songs
or something on. There's a big, old bloody like career
spanning setlist, so you know, nice stuff if you're a
big Rotten Christ enthusiast, which I am. And then, as
is a tradition at the moment, we end on a
whole run of EPs that has been put out from
the hardcore world because it's always running. There is the
new EP from Balmora called Prologue and of the current
you know, kind of hot metallic hardcore bands and so
one of which there are genuinely two men's heat track
of there's so many now, like yeah, I would say,
like Balma, I feel like they're one of the ones
that have a bit more of a kind of they're
making a bit of a name for themselves. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so of like, like particularly America, that they
are the most exacting.
Speaker 2: So they they're the one who've got.
Speaker 3: A bit more than you know, we really fucking like
poison the World, which again oh lpple that show. Or
they've kind of got this like they've got you know,
big sort of league guitars without like and kind of
like those sort of melodies playing against other kind of
like metalcore kind of like beat down and stuff. I
think they're really cool and this this EP has kind
of got a like essential drama to with that lot
of those other bands don't have going on at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're probably one that, like when they
get round to putting out a full length album, will
probably like you know, review on the show or something,
but you go to need balm EP. Then we have
some more. We have the band Dynamite with set of
the score. What's this one sound like?
Speaker 3: UK hardcore just kind of like rowdy a little bit
more like I guess maybe a little on the hard
part said, but they're one of the kind of like
newer UK hardcle bands who are getting a bit of attention,
but like hard in your face stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then finally we have Not without Punishment and
Blood Runs Cold.
Speaker 3: Another UK band because there is a stein of math
Jump Scare on this. Really, they're literally on the songs
ends and it goes into the fucking stin of math
pro and I was just like, fucking hell was not
ready for that. But the numbers don't lie. But yeah,
again this is a little bit more metallic, but again
just like nasty hard, UK hardcore is cool.
Speaker 1: There you go, and that is the releases for you know,
the first week of April. As said, next week on
the show, we're gonna have Sam and Mark on I
think because there is the the eulogy to happen. There's
a eulogy that's gonna happen from you know that those two,
So don't say that I don't let these things happen.
We'll bring back questions as well, seeing as there's you know,
a bunch of us on the show there next week,
and as said, I will announce on next week Hyperblast
what are upcoming that week. Basically a special will be
on the Patreon So see you there. For all of that. Otherwise,
thank you very much for you know, hopping in with
us again this week for this quick little hyperblasts, and
we'll see you next time. Bye bye,