WEBVTT 1 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.320 What's up everybody. Welcome to That's not Mettal. We are 2 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.240 your weekly rock and heavy music podcast, and welcome here. 3 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.759 Every Friday, we are here with you for an edition 4 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.000 of Hyperblasts, which is our shorter form news and release 5 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.399 round up show where we let you know everything that 6 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:44.079 you need to know that's happened in the last seven 7 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.880 days or so. On that front. A few years ago, 8 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.840 we have the Turnstile pitpooper. He's struck again. He seems 9 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.000 to have moved to New Zealand this time, but there 10 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.520 is pit pooping still a foot out there in this terrible, 11 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:58.200 terrible world of ours, isn't that right? Sam? 12 00:00:59.119 --> 00:00:59.840 The size of a. 13 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.280 Shre Apparently, like other reports that it was like it 14 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.120 was like big poop this time, and people were throwing 15 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:07.680 up and it feels like this was like a real 16 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:10.879 like nightmare scenario for everyone involved. 17 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:13.319 But yeah, how do you how do you go on? 18 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.239 You know, like, how do you as the person who's 19 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.200 done the pit poop? How do you pick yourself up 20 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:19.840 and move forward from that? 21 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:21.599 Again? Like was it one way? 22 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:23.719 He was like you know what, like I'm just gonna 23 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.680 poop for laugh? Or like was it like a oh shit, 24 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:27.120 I'm not going to make it to the toilet. Oh no, 25 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:28.480 oh no, oh no, here it goes. 26 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:30.280 I have to imagine it's the latter. And if that 27 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.840 is true, then that's a terrible scenario to be in. Again, 28 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.439 I don't know how you come back from it. 29 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:37.799 Yeah, like there's. 30 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.319 Gotta be Warner says, you must know your stomach feeling 31 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:40.920 a bit funky and you need to get out of there. 32 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.319 But like, if the gig's that good, I like, you're 33 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:45.319 going to make the sacrifice. 34 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.000 Yeah, that didn't even happen where I was at the weekend, 35 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.959 which you'd think were given the name the prime environment 36 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.120 for it. I'm gonna talk out that in just a moment. 37 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:55.840 My name is parent. Here that Sam ticking on. You 38 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:57.239 can hear a cross from me, Like I said, this 39 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:59.120 is hyperblast. Let's get into all of this, and I'm 40 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.280 going to start off by talking about I want to 41 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:04.400 speak a little bit about where I was at the weekend. 42 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.799 There was no pit pooping around. I was at a 43 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.680 little festival that's appeared in Manchester here in the UK 44 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:16.439 in the last few years called Awful Fest. And we 45 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.439 have I don't know we've I think we might have 46 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:20.840 jokingly referred to it a handful of times just because 47 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:25.520 the name of the place right it paints such a 48 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:29.039 vivid picture. Doesn't it like they have done an absolute 49 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.080 worldy of a marketing job in terms of like subbing 50 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:35.520 up what the musical vibe of their event is with 51 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.000 you know, a name like awful Fest where if you 52 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:45.080 can picture the most diabolically nasty, dingy you know, death 53 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.759 metal festival, you could imagine you could call it something 54 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:49.639 like aful Fest. 55 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:51.879 It could only be a post where you can't read 56 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:52.639 the band names. 57 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:54.199 Yeah, like that. 58 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:56.560 If you've got an awful Fest, if you like, if 59 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.840 I can read more than half the band names on 60 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.360 that line up poster, you've you've failed at your booking 61 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:02.560 awful Fest right there? 62 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:04.120 Yeah, And I can tell you right now they have 63 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.560 never failed in that, like, they have absolutely lived up 64 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.400 to what that is. This is the fourth year this 65 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.680 festival has run, so the first one. Mathematically that works 66 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.719 out to twenty twenty two or three, doesn't it. I 67 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.000 can't even do my mast straight off the top my 68 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.960 head there, but I have you know again, it's in 69 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.439 a city that is, you know, somewhat adjacent in the 70 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.479 region of the country. Where I live. So I remember, 71 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:27.400 I think the first year it popped up, I saw 72 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.840 the poster and I did exactly what we just did, right. 73 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.960 I laughed at the name. I saw a poster full 74 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.360 of just like what could only be you know, slam 75 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.960 and brittle death metal bands, right, And I don't know 76 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:39.439 if it was the very first one that had guttural 77 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.319 slug headlining who I would talk about a little bit 78 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.319 more later on, but I took notice of a couple 79 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:44.800 names that are on there, and I was like, oh cool, 80 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.000 you know, a brutal death metal all day a thing 81 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:51.560 popping up in It was originally in Rebellion in Manchester, 82 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.319 which is the exact venue basical the way you'd imagine 83 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.639 like something like that would exist, right. I think Rebellion 84 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.960 is something like three hundred cap It's where I go 85 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.599 to a lot of my you know, small underground type 86 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.319 shows in Manchester, and I kind of I've watched it 87 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:08.599 from afar the last few years, and something that's happened 88 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:10.520 with it where I had to really start checking in 89 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.639 and paying attention because in a pretty small amount of time, 90 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.879 right again, the fourth year of the event running this year, 91 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:21.560 it has grown far far more than I think you 92 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.800 would have put money on a small startup brutal death 93 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:29.759 metal event based in Manchester would do right. So I 94 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.480 got invited to attend this year and I was like, again, 95 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.560 I've been watching this from afar. I am genuinely curious 96 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.879 and impressed by what they're starting to build over there. 97 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.079 So I came along. It's now in a venue I 98 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:46.319 think it was upgraded. It was so I was like 99 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:48.199 I said, started in Rebellion, then it was going to 100 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:52.319 move to the Breadshed. It's ended up going in a 101 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:54.000 venue which I'd never been to in my life before, 102 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.959 but a ven you called Boundary in Manchester, which I 103 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.920 believe if anyone has been to the Manchester Punk Festival 104 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.639 that I know bands like Mensingers and so and have 105 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.000 played that event in the part. Again, I've never been there, 106 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.480 but I was told that it's the same venue where 107 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:12.000 that takes place, which I went in and I was like, yeah, 108 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.519 I could imagine Manchester Punk Festival taken here for a 109 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:17.319 brutal death metal event, which is this is what awful 110 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.879 Fest is, right, alfle Fest is. It doesn't even summit 111 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.920 up to say it's a death metal festival because it's 112 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.600 not a death metal festival where you're getting Cannibal Corpse 113 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:32.879 and Obituary and you know, newer bands like Blood Incantation 114 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:34.920 or two Mold or whatever to that playing. This is 115 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:41.399 specifically brutal death metal and slam event, like we said, 116 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.800 one of those events where every band's name ends in 117 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:49.000 ectomy or toe me Me or idity like something like that, 118 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:52.360 and they all have you know, again that style, you know, 119 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.680 slam logo that we're we're talking about. This is a 120 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.480 niche within a niche within a niche, you know. Yeah, 121 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.839 And that is what made it so impressive to me 122 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.160 that they actually do seem to be building something and 123 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.079 having gone and attended it, that's genuinely the vibe I 124 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:10.279 picked up. It's the venue again, I'm not sure of 125 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.800 the exact capacity, but it's somewhere in the region of 126 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.839 perhaps a thousand or a bit under now boundary, which 127 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.199 four a full on like the absolute that. I'll tell 128 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:24.920 you the headliners of the festival. One of them was 129 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.519 meant to be Development, who unfortunately had to pull out, 130 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:29.160 which I'll talk about in a little bit, but one 131 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.839 of them is meant to Development. The other day was 132 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.680 I think a co headline between a band called Regurgitation 133 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:36.720 and another band who people may have heard of if 134 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.560 they're just outside of that niche as a band called Faultcy. 135 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.920 And again those are like the peak of the what 136 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.279 this vent, what this festival has currently been able to 137 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.480 you know, book in a like in a pipe dream world. 138 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.399 Basically the absolute biggest band in the specific style of 139 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.839 death metal that they you know, function in would be 140 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:02.959 if they booked Suffocation or Dying Fetus or perhaps perhaps 141 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.360 of Catalty Capitation or something like that they have like 142 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.399 Skinless last Yeah, skin Skinless have headlined it in the past, right, 143 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.439 So again the biggest bands that you can pull from 144 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:18.040 the specifically brutal death metal you know, sub category and 145 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.519 subniche of it. So like I'm saying, a niche within 146 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.279 a niche, but getting that to a point where it's 147 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:27.199 now in a you know, approaching something like a thousand 148 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:32.360 capacity venue is pretty crazy. I don't know if it's 149 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:34.839 been done before, at least in this country in terms 150 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.000 of again catering this specific kind of music to something 151 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.000 like that, and it is starting to Like I said, 152 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.319 when it's first started up, it was like a you know, 153 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.959 an all day thing in Manchester. Now it has grown 154 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.439 to I guess technically three days. I went along for 155 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.360 the Saturday and Sunday because the Friday we were sort 156 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:50.959 of like you know, labeled as like a pre show 157 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.319 type day. But it's still a three day event really, 158 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:57.519 and people are you know, traveling in from at least 159 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.160 across the country for it, and it's starting to position 160 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.600 itself as like, yeah, if you if this is your niche, 161 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.839 then this is the event that you're upon hear, that 162 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:09.959 you're gonna be wanting to go into. So I'm fascinated 163 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:14.120 and like thoroughly impressed really, Like I'm always impressed by that. 164 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.720 I've said that's about events like Fortress at anytime, you know, 165 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.480 an event starts up catering to something that no one 166 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.879 would tell you is commercially viable, and they succeeds with 167 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.759 it and they managed to make it work and they 168 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:28.759 do it the right way, which again you know, community 169 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:30.480 organized and all this kind of stuff, Like I am, 170 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:34.320 I'm always like buoyed by that. So I guess I 171 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.600 wanted to again just talk a little bit about this 172 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.799 sort of thing appearing that has been going around, you know, 173 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.279 long enough at this point to start saying like you're like, yeah, 174 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.000 this is a legitimate staple in the calendar at this 175 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.200 point in time if that is your niche. And again 176 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.080 if you are observing from kind of outside it and 177 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.919 you didn't realize how large a draw because again basically, 178 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.120 all the bands on this festival, a couple of them aside, 179 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.720 aren't bands that we've ever spoken about in a you know, 180 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.799 reviewing capacity or you know, in our clerbal or anything 181 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.600 like that. So if you were to look at this 182 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.240 festival poster and you're not in that niche, you wouldn't 183 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.519 know anyone. So to go, this is like again actually 184 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:14.320 like pulling into numbers, right, I think is again a 185 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.159 great testament to what it's doing. And again immersing myself 186 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:20.639 in the the vibe of awful fest For the weekend, 187 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.799 they had you know, their their own festival brewed original beer, 188 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.080 right as many festivals do, the kind of you know, 189 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.519 partnership thing. It was called cavity fluid, and I was 190 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.519 drinking a couple of pips of that stuff going around 191 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.799 and just again fully immersing myself in the you know, 192 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.000 the specific again niche brutal death metal culture. I love 193 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.600 observing things like at any again kind of boutique festival 194 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.480 that I go to, whether it be the black metal 195 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.840 side like a Fortress, or you know, the hardcore side 196 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:56.600 like an Outbreak, even a straight up more old school 197 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.240 classic death metal festival, I would be expecting to see 198 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.559 vinyl everywhere. Slam and brutal death metal is not a 199 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:06.840 vinyl culture. I saw maybe one for sale the entire weekend. Instead, 200 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:13.840 ced bins everywhere, mounds and mounds and mounds of brutal 201 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:17.960 death metal and slam CDs, like that's the medium for 202 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.200 that specific thing, and everyone's like going buy your CDs. 203 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.159 It's like it's the genuine again, the medium of choice 204 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.519 for this specific subculture. And when I was looking around 205 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.480 again the area it did feel like this, you know, 206 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.559 built by brutal death metal people for brutal death metal people, 207 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.320 their own sort of mini you know city, if you like, 208 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.480 of a mecha of all of this kind of stuff. 209 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.200 I'm not going to go through and review every single 210 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.440 band I saw, because with something like off the Fest, 211 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.320 it is it is a musically monotonous festival, Like you 212 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.440 have to very much get that in mind. We are 213 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.600 talking such a specific subcategory of brittle death metal that 214 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.679 obviously people who are going to this love that thing 215 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:58.960 and lap it up and are very excited about all 216 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:02.080 these different bands who are playing. But to describe again 217 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.679 how every single band kind of played, it's a real, 218 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:06.840 I don't want to say, an endurance test, but it's 219 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.039 like you have to put yourself in the mindset of, 220 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:14.039 you know, appreciating just gutta or blasting violence for you know, 221 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:14.919 two to three days straight. 222 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.360 No. Yeah, it's a more extreme version when I go 223 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.639 to like my pure hardcore festivals and it's like, yeah, 224 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:19.480 that's a hardcore band. 225 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.440 That's a hard band, that's a hog band. 226 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.600 But this is like draining version of that, because you 227 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:27.039 are just going to be like ahead by just the 228 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.840 most relentless blasts and like toilet vocals. 229 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:32.240 Yeah, but you know if you're if you like relentless 230 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.519 blast and toilet vocals, then there was certainly more than 231 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:37.240 a healthy yeah, more than a healthy healthy of them. 232 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.120 And you know, the majority of the bands that I 233 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.519 saw were you know, pretty pretty great and pretty reliable 234 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.240 you know, providing that thing. The very first band I 235 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.519 saw all weekend was a band called strangle Wire, and 236 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:49.679 they were actually maybe one of the more slightly classic 237 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:51.559 death metal leaning out of all the bands who were 238 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:53.120 on the bill, and from there it just got again 239 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.399 like more, more and more blasty and gutta role and 240 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.600 you know, sloppy and all that kind of stuff. Lots 241 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.840 and lots of like this song's from an EP called 242 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.559 repeatedly over the weekend. It's like, yeah, cool, I'll look 243 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:10.039 that one up later, I'll check it out. But it 244 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.279 was a really really fun time again being there the 245 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:16.799 whole weekend, whole environment. I saw some of the bandshe 246 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.919 I do want to kind of specifically call out my 247 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.919 favorite band on the Saturday. So the first day that 248 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.879 I was there was a band called Butcher EBC who 249 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.559 were a gorgrind band who had come over from Japan 250 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:30.360 for it, which is the other thing, like they're not 251 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:34.399 just booking local bands, they're flying bands in right and there. 252 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.320 I think there was at least two or three bands 253 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.559 coming from Asia and Butcher ABC coming from Japan. Having 254 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:41.919 that gor grind edge there again, they were surrounded by 255 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.919 a lot of like you know, brutal death metal bands 256 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.320 who were pretty relentlessly you know, blasting that kind of affair, 257 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.159 having that gorgrind edge where there's a little bit of 258 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.200 punk and a little bit of crust it like it 259 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.320 gave their riffing like a different kind of feel. I 260 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:55.360 particularly want to point out that, you know that a 261 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.039 Japanese gorgrind band, the Japanese, they're gonna they're gonna put 262 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.240 some effort in to a little bit crazy with it, 263 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:03.639 you know what I mean, And they're just going to 264 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:06.519 have this like, you know, fucking maniac vibe coming off 265 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.720 of it. And a band called Butcher ABC is absolutely 266 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:11.639 the band that you would go to see with that 267 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.159 and the front man he had a gas mask on. 268 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.399 That was this band. 269 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:21.840 One of the sickest things. They had a gas mask on. 270 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.399 But if you imagine the sort of you know, the 271 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.360 mouth whole vent thing that you have on a gas mask, 272 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:32.200 this guy's microphone he didn't have a mic stand. His 273 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:38.600 microphone was just connected plugged directly into the mouthpiece of 274 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.600 the gas mark. So as he was walking around, he 275 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.879 just had his his mic permanently attached to the front 276 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.879 of his face. And this is crazy work. This is 277 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:52.799 unbelievable that such a sitting visual. It was awesome. And 278 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.519 he also he was wearing a bloody like Butcher's apron 279 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:59.480 as obviously Butcher ABC is going to do and on 280 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:03.440 his blood the butcher's apron. He had the slayer shon 281 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.720 o mercy goat sewn into his apron. This is this 282 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.200 is exemplary form. 283 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.799 Like, this is exactly how its to be done. This 284 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.080 is perfect the Butcher's like apron. And the gust was 285 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.960 that that's so like Japanese splatterpunk and all. Yeah thing 286 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.080 it's given that exact vibe. I mean, that's really cool. 287 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.519 So they were wicked Ford and Again my favorite band 288 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.559 I saw on the first day. The first day was 289 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.360 the day that Development were meant to headline, who were 290 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:28.960 certainly the band who I most wanted to see because 291 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.799 development of the again, the niche and the type of 292 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.159 death metal, the offul first book. Development are one. 293 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:35.039 Of the transcended. 294 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.360 Yeah, well, they're one of the pioneers. They're, you know, 295 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.559 arguably the pioneering band of like slam there's like a 296 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:42.679 sub sub you know, niche genre. They're one of the 297 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:44.840 most legendary bands, and they just put out that EP 298 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:48.039 a couple of weeks ago, which is fucking sick as anything. 299 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.159 So I was really excited to see them. Unfortunately, like 300 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.919 maybe twenty four hours before the Friday, the first day 301 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:55.919 of the event. They had to pull out because they 302 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:59.279 had like visa rejection stuff, which was a real shame. 303 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:00.600 And they have said that going to try and get 304 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.320 development back for next year, which would be great, but 305 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.519 just in terms of again giving the festival, it's props 306 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.440 any scenario like that were suddenly organizers having lost the 307 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.279 biggest band on their lineup twenty four hours where it's 308 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.480 meant to begin, have to like you know, pull something 309 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:18.320 out of the bag. I have massive respect for that. 310 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:19.639 And they ended up I know that they you know, 311 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.080 they said that they have like went around and asked 312 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.559 various bands if they could do be a replacement headline 313 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.200 at this kind of thing, you know, twenty four hours. 314 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.759 No one was really available to them to do it. 315 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.080 But they end up getting Regurgitation, who, like I said, 316 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:32.440 were I think, you know, they're a band from America, 317 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.039 so they'd flown in. They're also one of the older 318 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.279 bands on the lineup like that. Their first record is 319 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:38.799 in like the late nineties, so they are more of 320 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.360 a heritage band compared to you know, newer upstarts. But 321 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.679 they were playing on the Sunday. They basically got them 322 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:47.000 to play sets on both days, so they were around 323 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.120 and they filled in playing on the Saturday as well, 324 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.399 And like I said, just you know, any scenario like 325 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.440 that where you have to go to you know, panic stations, 326 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.799 I'm always you know impressed, and I think it's worthy of, 327 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:00.840 you know, tipping the hat for when something like that 328 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.960 is produced. So and you know, fair play of Regurgitation 329 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.799 as well for playing double sets on both days. Again. 330 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:13.360 Their album is called Tales of Necrophilia from the late nineties, 331 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:15.840 and it's got this proper like I always like when 332 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.159 you look at a brutal death miericle from that era, 333 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.159 and it's got some really grotty hand drawn cover art 334 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.519 as opposed to like the more digitally painted sort of 335 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:26.320 stuff you get in the twenty first century. I think 336 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.120 it looks cooler, and they've got one of those. Bizarrely, 337 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:30.840 I thought they were gonna do they have a Suffocation 338 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.600 cover on one of their one of their releases, and 339 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.399 I thought they might do that. Instead they went nowhere 340 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.480 in England, we're gonna cover Black Sabbath for you, and 341 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:40.679 they ended their set with a cover of Into the Void, 342 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:43.759 but I cannot tell you which obviously, I mean, that's 343 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:45.600 my favorite Sabath song. I'm having a good time to it. 344 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.480 But I always find specifically brutal death metal bands covering 345 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.759 something like Sabbath or even you know Priest or anything 346 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.600 old like that is such a hilarious switch of their 347 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:59.039 vibe because they don't swing in the way that bill 348 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:01.919 Ward swings. I mean, so you suddenly again you've got 349 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.319 non stop, relentless blasting and Gutta Rules and then you've 350 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:11.160 got that band going. But you know, sure it was 351 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.880 a fun way to in the first day. The second 352 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:19.799 day had a good handful of you know worthy bands. 353 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.839 I want to mention gutter All Slug, who, like I said, 354 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.000 were one of the headliners of one of the first 355 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.240 like either the first year or the second year of 356 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.400 Awful Fest. And that was the thirstie that I paid 357 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.880 attention to because Gutta All Slug. Myke like this again 358 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.720 the slam scene and this kind of again really undergradar 359 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:38.839 aple death metal scene. It is something that I enjoy. 360 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:40.759 I like it the best bands in the genre. I 361 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:44.240 will always have a place for my time of like again, 362 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:46.559 listening to every single new band I came across in 363 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:48.519 this kind of style, I sort of really peaked with 364 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:53.039 it around like twenty thirteen ish, and then again I 365 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.720 went and found more like, you know, the more the 366 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.920 other side of underground death metal. That's maybe more where 367 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.279 I live, you know today. But around that point in time, 368 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.000 around twenty thirteen ish, there was a handful of albums 369 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:08.400 that came out that have kind of gone on to 370 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.279 be like some of the you know, kind of scene 371 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:14.079 cult classics. So you had like the the Abominable Putridity 372 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:15.599 album that came out around there, and you had like 373 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:20.160 the first Catalepsy album, and you had Megalodon by Guttural Slug, 374 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:24.839 which is a nineteen minute it's like this label as 375 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:26.920 an album, but it's nineteen minutes long, and one of 376 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:28.680 the songs on it is a cover, so it's basically 377 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.720 like a you know, a mini album EP type thing. 378 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.279 But when I was again sort of you know, sixteen 379 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:35.839 seventeen years old and I was this his bands, that 380 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:37.440 was one of the things that you know, came out 381 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.279 around that time, and it made its mark with me, 382 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.799 and I used to listen to this like again utterly putrid, 383 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.400 stinky but vocal slam record that's again it's like nineteen 384 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:50.680 minutes long, so you can play it all the time. 385 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:53.039 I used this dot a lot, and when I saw 386 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:55.160 that gutural slug we're headlining one of those early editions 387 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.799 of off of Fest, I couldn't believe it because A, 388 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:01.160 I'm pretty sure that whatever that show was was their 389 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.160 live debut, like basically like ten years part of a 390 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:08.519 real galibrat situation, right, like basically ten years past the 391 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:12.400 Megalodon record coming out. I was like, ten years later, 392 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:15.200 what do you mean there's so much demand and love 393 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.920 for that ratty ass album that I used to listen 394 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.799 to that you're coming back and you know, making your 395 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:26.200 live debut headlining again like a slam all day type 396 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.960 of event. I was like, this is awesome, Like I 397 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.039 love that they're still around and people have, you know, 398 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:31.960 you still like you know, have a place in their 399 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.079 heart for this and that, and then you know, coming 400 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.559 back again for this one. They had some tech issues 401 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:38.759