Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome to That's not Mettal. We are
Speaker 1: your weekly rock and heavy music podcast, and welcome here.
Speaker 1: Every Friday, we are here with you for an edition
Speaker 1: of Hyperblasts, which is our shorter form news and release
Speaker 1: round up show where we let you know everything that
Speaker 1: you need to know that's happened in the last seven
Speaker 1: days or so. On that front. A few years ago,
Speaker 1: we have the Turnstile pitpooper. He's struck again. He seems
Speaker 1: to have moved to New Zealand this time, but there
Speaker 1: is pit pooping still a foot out there in this terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible world of ours, isn't that right? Sam?
Speaker 2: The size of a.
Speaker 3: Shre Apparently, like other reports that it was like it
Speaker 3: was like big poop this time, and people were throwing
Speaker 3: up and it feels like this was like a real
Speaker 3: like nightmare scenario for everyone involved.
Speaker 1: But yeah, how do you how do you go on?
Speaker 1: You know, like, how do you as the person who's
Speaker 1: done the pit poop? How do you pick yourself up
Speaker 1: and move forward from that?
Speaker 2: Again? Like was it one way?
Speaker 3: He was like you know what, like I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: poop for laugh? Or like was it like a oh shit,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to make it to the toilet. Oh no,
Speaker 3: oh no, oh no, here it goes.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine it's the latter. And if that
Speaker 1: is true, then that's a terrible scenario to be in. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you come back from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like there's.
Speaker 3: Gotta be Warner says, you must know your stomach feeling
Speaker 3: a bit funky and you need to get out of there.
Speaker 2: But like, if the gig's that good, I like, you're
Speaker 2: going to make the sacrifice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that didn't even happen where I was at the weekend,
Speaker 1: which you'd think were given the name the prime environment
Speaker 1: for it. I'm gonna talk out that in just a moment.
Speaker 1: My name is parent. Here that Sam ticking on. You
Speaker 1: can hear a cross from me, Like I said, this
Speaker 1: is hyperblast. Let's get into all of this, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to start off by talking about I want to
Speaker 1: speak a little bit about where I was at the weekend.
Speaker 1: There was no pit pooping around. I was at a
Speaker 1: little festival that's appeared in Manchester here in the UK
Speaker 1: in the last few years called Awful Fest. And we
Speaker 1: have I don't know we've I think we might have
Speaker 1: jokingly referred to it a handful of times just because
Speaker 1: the name of the place right it paints such a
Speaker 1: vivid picture. Doesn't it like they have done an absolute
Speaker 1: worldy of a marketing job in terms of like subbing
Speaker 1: up what the musical vibe of their event is with
Speaker 1: you know, a name like awful Fest where if you
Speaker 1: can picture the most diabolically nasty, dingy you know, death
Speaker 1: metal festival, you could imagine you could call it something
Speaker 1: like aful Fest.
Speaker 2: It could only be a post where you can't read
Speaker 2: the band names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that.
Speaker 3: If you've got an awful Fest, if you like, if
Speaker 3: I can read more than half the band names on
Speaker 3: that line up poster, you've you've failed at your booking
Speaker 3: awful Fest right there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I can tell you right now they have
Speaker 1: never failed in that, like, they have absolutely lived up
Speaker 1: to what that is. This is the fourth year this
Speaker 1: festival has run, so the first one. Mathematically that works
Speaker 1: out to twenty twenty two or three, doesn't it. I
Speaker 1: can't even do my mast straight off the top my
Speaker 1: head there, but I have you know again, it's in
Speaker 1: a city that is, you know, somewhat adjacent in the
Speaker 1: region of the country. Where I live. So I remember,
Speaker 1: I think the first year it popped up, I saw
Speaker 1: the poster and I did exactly what we just did, right.
Speaker 1: I laughed at the name. I saw a poster full
Speaker 1: of just like what could only be you know, slam
Speaker 1: and brittle death metal bands, right, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was the very first one that had guttural
Speaker 1: slug headlining who I would talk about a little bit
Speaker 1: more later on, but I took notice of a couple
Speaker 1: names that are on there, and I was like, oh cool,
Speaker 1: you know, a brutal death metal all day a thing
Speaker 1: popping up in It was originally in Rebellion in Manchester,
Speaker 1: which is the exact venue basical the way you'd imagine
Speaker 1: like something like that would exist, right. I think Rebellion
Speaker 1: is something like three hundred cap It's where I go
Speaker 1: to a lot of my you know, small underground type
Speaker 1: shows in Manchester, and I kind of I've watched it
Speaker 1: from afar the last few years, and something that's happened
Speaker 1: with it where I had to really start checking in
Speaker 1: and paying attention because in a pretty small amount of time,
Speaker 1: right again, the fourth year of the event running this year,
Speaker 1: it has grown far far more than I think you
Speaker 1: would have put money on a small startup brutal death
Speaker 1: metal event based in Manchester would do right. So I
Speaker 1: got invited to attend this year and I was like, again,
Speaker 1: I've been watching this from afar. I am genuinely curious
Speaker 1: and impressed by what they're starting to build over there.
Speaker 1: So I came along. It's now in a venue I
Speaker 1: think it was upgraded. It was so I was like
Speaker 1: I said, started in Rebellion, then it was going to
Speaker 1: move to the Breadshed. It's ended up going in a
Speaker 1: venue which I'd never been to in my life before,
Speaker 1: but a ven you called Boundary in Manchester, which I
Speaker 1: believe if anyone has been to the Manchester Punk Festival
Speaker 1: that I know bands like Mensingers and so and have
Speaker 1: played that event in the part. Again, I've never been there,
Speaker 1: but I was told that it's the same venue where
Speaker 1: that takes place, which I went in and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could imagine Manchester Punk Festival taken here for a
Speaker 1: brutal death metal event, which is this is what awful
Speaker 1: Fest is, right, alfle Fest is. It doesn't even summit
Speaker 1: up to say it's a death metal festival because it's
Speaker 1: not a death metal festival where you're getting Cannibal Corpse
Speaker 1: and Obituary and you know, newer bands like Blood Incantation
Speaker 1: or two Mold or whatever to that playing. This is
Speaker 1: specifically brutal death metal and slam event, like we said,
Speaker 1: one of those events where every band's name ends in
Speaker 1: ectomy or toe me Me or idity like something like that,
Speaker 1: and they all have you know, again that style, you know,
Speaker 1: slam logo that we're we're talking about. This is a
Speaker 1: niche within a niche within a niche, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that is what made it so impressive to me
Speaker 1: that they actually do seem to be building something and
Speaker 1: having gone and attended it, that's genuinely the vibe I
Speaker 1: picked up. It's the venue again, I'm not sure of
Speaker 1: the exact capacity, but it's somewhere in the region of
Speaker 1: perhaps a thousand or a bit under now boundary, which
Speaker 1: four a full on like the absolute that. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the headliners of the festival. One of them was
Speaker 1: meant to be Development, who unfortunately had to pull out,
Speaker 1: which I'll talk about in a little bit, but one
Speaker 1: of them is meant to Development. The other day was
Speaker 1: I think a co headline between a band called Regurgitation
Speaker 1: and another band who people may have heard of if
Speaker 1: they're just outside of that niche as a band called Faultcy.
Speaker 1: And again those are like the peak of the what
Speaker 1: this vent, what this festival has currently been able to
Speaker 1: you know, book in a like in a pipe dream world.
Speaker 1: Basically the absolute biggest band in the specific style of
Speaker 1: death metal that they you know, function in would be
Speaker 1: if they booked Suffocation or Dying Fetus or perhaps perhaps
Speaker 1: of Catalty Capitation or something like that they have like
Speaker 1: Skinless last Yeah, skin Skinless have headlined it in the past, right,
Speaker 1: So again the biggest bands that you can pull from
Speaker 1: the specifically brutal death metal you know, sub category and
Speaker 1: subniche of it. So like I'm saying, a niche within
Speaker 1: a niche, but getting that to a point where it's
Speaker 1: now in a you know, approaching something like a thousand
Speaker 1: capacity venue is pretty crazy. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: been done before, at least in this country in terms
Speaker 1: of again catering this specific kind of music to something
Speaker 1: like that, and it is starting to Like I said,
Speaker 1: when it's first started up, it was like a you know,
Speaker 1: an all day thing in Manchester. Now it has grown
Speaker 1: to I guess technically three days. I went along for
Speaker 1: the Saturday and Sunday because the Friday we were sort
Speaker 1: of like you know, labeled as like a pre show
Speaker 1: type day. But it's still a three day event really,
Speaker 1: and people are you know, traveling in from at least
Speaker 1: across the country for it, and it's starting to position
Speaker 1: itself as like, yeah, if you if this is your niche,
Speaker 1: then this is the event that you're upon hear, that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be wanting to go into. So I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: and like thoroughly impressed really, Like I'm always impressed by that.
Speaker 1: I've said that's about events like Fortress at anytime, you know,
Speaker 1: an event starts up catering to something that no one
Speaker 1: would tell you is commercially viable, and they succeeds with
Speaker 1: it and they managed to make it work and they
Speaker 1: do it the right way, which again you know, community
Speaker 1: organized and all this kind of stuff, Like I am,
Speaker 1: I'm always like buoyed by that. So I guess I
Speaker 1: wanted to again just talk a little bit about this
Speaker 1: sort of thing appearing that has been going around, you know,
Speaker 1: long enough at this point to start saying like you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a legitimate staple in the calendar at this
Speaker 1: point in time if that is your niche. And again
Speaker 1: if you are observing from kind of outside it and
Speaker 1: you didn't realize how large a draw because again basically,
Speaker 1: all the bands on this festival, a couple of them aside,
Speaker 1: aren't bands that we've ever spoken about in a you know,
Speaker 1: reviewing capacity or you know, in our clerbal or anything
Speaker 1: like that. So if you were to look at this
Speaker 1: festival poster and you're not in that niche, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: know anyone. So to go, this is like again actually
Speaker 1: like pulling into numbers, right, I think is again a
Speaker 1: great testament to what it's doing. And again immersing myself
Speaker 1: in the the vibe of awful fest For the weekend,
Speaker 1: they had you know, their their own festival brewed original beer,
Speaker 1: right as many festivals do, the kind of you know,
Speaker 1: partnership thing. It was called cavity fluid, and I was
Speaker 1: drinking a couple of pips of that stuff going around
Speaker 1: and just again fully immersing myself in the you know,
Speaker 1: the specific again niche brutal death metal culture. I love
Speaker 1: observing things like at any again kind of boutique festival
Speaker 1: that I go to, whether it be the black metal
Speaker 1: side like a Fortress, or you know, the hardcore side
Speaker 1: like an Outbreak, even a straight up more old school
Speaker 1: classic death metal festival, I would be expecting to see
Speaker 1: vinyl everywhere. Slam and brutal death metal is not a
Speaker 1: vinyl culture. I saw maybe one for sale the entire weekend. Instead,
Speaker 1: ced bins everywhere, mounds and mounds and mounds of brutal
Speaker 1: death metal and slam CDs, like that's the medium for
Speaker 1: that specific thing, and everyone's like going buy your CDs.
Speaker 1: It's like it's the genuine again, the medium of choice
Speaker 1: for this specific subculture. And when I was looking around
Speaker 1: again the area it did feel like this, you know,
Speaker 1: built by brutal death metal people for brutal death metal people,
Speaker 1: their own sort of mini you know city, if you like,
Speaker 1: of a mecha of all of this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through and review every single
Speaker 1: band I saw, because with something like off the Fest,
Speaker 1: it is it is a musically monotonous festival, Like you
Speaker 1: have to very much get that in mind. We are
Speaker 1: talking such a specific subcategory of brittle death metal that
Speaker 1: obviously people who are going to this love that thing
Speaker 1: and lap it up and are very excited about all
Speaker 1: these different bands who are playing. But to describe again
Speaker 1: how every single band kind of played, it's a real,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, an endurance test, but it's
Speaker 1: like you have to put yourself in the mindset of,
Speaker 1: you know, appreciating just gutta or blasting violence for you know,
Speaker 1: two to three days straight.
Speaker 3: No. Yeah, it's a more extreme version when I go
Speaker 3: to like my pure hardcore festivals and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a hardcore band.
Speaker 2: That's a hard band, that's a hog band.
Speaker 3: But this is like draining version of that, because you
Speaker 3: are just going to be like ahead by just the
Speaker 3: most relentless blasts and like toilet vocals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know if you're if you like relentless
Speaker 1: blast and toilet vocals, then there was certainly more than
Speaker 1: a healthy yeah, more than a healthy healthy of them.
Speaker 1: And you know, the majority of the bands that I
Speaker 1: saw were you know, pretty pretty great and pretty reliable
Speaker 1: you know, providing that thing. The very first band I
Speaker 1: saw all weekend was a band called strangle Wire, and
Speaker 1: they were actually maybe one of the more slightly classic
Speaker 1: death metal leaning out of all the bands who were
Speaker 1: on the bill, and from there it just got again
Speaker 1: like more, more and more blasty and gutta role and
Speaker 1: you know, sloppy and all that kind of stuff. Lots
Speaker 1: and lots of like this song's from an EP called
Speaker 1: repeatedly over the weekend. It's like, yeah, cool, I'll look
Speaker 1: that one up later, I'll check it out. But it
Speaker 1: was a really really fun time again being there the
Speaker 1: whole weekend, whole environment. I saw some of the bandshe
Speaker 1: I do want to kind of specifically call out my
Speaker 1: favorite band on the Saturday. So the first day that
Speaker 1: I was there was a band called Butcher EBC who
Speaker 1: were a gorgrind band who had come over from Japan
Speaker 1: for it, which is the other thing, like they're not
Speaker 1: just booking local bands, they're flying bands in right and there.
Speaker 1: I think there was at least two or three bands
Speaker 1: coming from Asia and Butcher ABC coming from Japan. Having
Speaker 1: that gor grind edge there again, they were surrounded by
Speaker 1: a lot of like you know, brutal death metal bands
Speaker 1: who were pretty relentlessly you know, blasting that kind of affair,
Speaker 1: having that gorgrind edge where there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: punk and a little bit of crust it like it
Speaker 1: gave their riffing like a different kind of feel. I
Speaker 1: particularly want to point out that, you know that a
Speaker 1: Japanese gorgrind band, the Japanese, they're gonna they're gonna put
Speaker 1: some effort in to a little bit crazy with it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And they're just going to
Speaker 1: have this like, you know, fucking maniac vibe coming off
Speaker 1: of it. And a band called Butcher ABC is absolutely
Speaker 1: the band that you would go to see with that
Speaker 1: and the front man he had a gas mask on.
Speaker 2: That was this band.
Speaker 1: One of the sickest things. They had a gas mask on.
Speaker 1: But if you imagine the sort of you know, the
Speaker 1: mouth whole vent thing that you have on a gas mask,
Speaker 1: this guy's microphone he didn't have a mic stand. His
Speaker 1: microphone was just connected plugged directly into the mouthpiece of
Speaker 1: the gas mark. So as he was walking around, he
Speaker 1: just had his his mic permanently attached to the front
Speaker 1: of his face. And this is crazy work. This is
Speaker 1: unbelievable that such a sitting visual. It was awesome. And
Speaker 1: he also he was wearing a bloody like Butcher's apron
Speaker 1: as obviously Butcher ABC is going to do and on
Speaker 1: his blood the butcher's apron. He had the slayer shon
Speaker 1: o mercy goat sewn into his apron. This is this
Speaker 1: is exemplary form.
Speaker 4: Like, this is exactly how its to be done. This
Speaker 4: is perfect the Butcher's like apron. And the gust was
Speaker 4: that that's so like Japanese splatterpunk and all. Yeah thing
Speaker 4: it's given that exact vibe. I mean, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: So they were wicked Ford and Again my favorite band
Speaker 1: I saw on the first day. The first day was
Speaker 1: the day that Development were meant to headline, who were
Speaker 1: certainly the band who I most wanted to see because
Speaker 1: development of the again, the niche and the type of
Speaker 1: death metal, the offul first book. Development are one.
Speaker 2: Of the transcended.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they're one of the pioneers. They're, you know,
Speaker 1: arguably the pioneering band of like slam there's like a
Speaker 1: sub sub you know, niche genre. They're one of the
Speaker 1: most legendary bands, and they just put out that EP
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, which is fucking sick as anything.
Speaker 1: So I was really excited to see them. Unfortunately, like
Speaker 1: maybe twenty four hours before the Friday, the first day
Speaker 1: of the event. They had to pull out because they
Speaker 1: had like visa rejection stuff, which was a real shame.
Speaker 1: And they have said that going to try and get
Speaker 1: development back for next year, which would be great, but
Speaker 1: just in terms of again giving the festival, it's props
Speaker 1: any scenario like that were suddenly organizers having lost the
Speaker 1: biggest band on their lineup twenty four hours where it's
Speaker 1: meant to begin, have to like you know, pull something
Speaker 1: out of the bag. I have massive respect for that.
Speaker 1: And they ended up I know that they you know,
Speaker 1: they said that they have like went around and asked
Speaker 1: various bands if they could do be a replacement headline
Speaker 1: at this kind of thing, you know, twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: No one was really available to them to do it.
Speaker 1: But they end up getting Regurgitation, who, like I said,
Speaker 1: were I think, you know, they're a band from America,
Speaker 1: so they'd flown in. They're also one of the older
Speaker 1: bands on the lineup like that. Their first record is
Speaker 1: in like the late nineties, so they are more of
Speaker 1: a heritage band compared to you know, newer upstarts. But
Speaker 1: they were playing on the Sunday. They basically got them
Speaker 1: to play sets on both days, so they were around
Speaker 1: and they filled in playing on the Saturday as well,
Speaker 1: And like I said, just you know, any scenario like
Speaker 1: that where you have to go to you know, panic stations,
Speaker 1: I'm always you know impressed, and I think it's worthy of,
Speaker 1: you know, tipping the hat for when something like that
Speaker 1: is produced. So and you know, fair play of Regurgitation
Speaker 1: as well for playing double sets on both days. Again.
Speaker 1: Their album is called Tales of Necrophilia from the late nineties,
Speaker 1: and it's got this proper like I always like when
Speaker 1: you look at a brutal death miericle from that era,
Speaker 1: and it's got some really grotty hand drawn cover art
Speaker 1: as opposed to like the more digitally painted sort of
Speaker 1: stuff you get in the twenty first century. I think
Speaker 1: it looks cooler, and they've got one of those. Bizarrely,
Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna do they have a Suffocation
Speaker 1: cover on one of their one of their releases, and
Speaker 1: I thought they might do that. Instead they went nowhere
Speaker 1: in England, we're gonna cover Black Sabbath for you, and
Speaker 1: they ended their set with a cover of Into the Void,
Speaker 1: but I cannot tell you which obviously, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: my favorite Sabath song. I'm having a good time to it.
Speaker 1: But I always find specifically brutal death metal bands covering
Speaker 1: something like Sabbath or even you know Priest or anything
Speaker 1: old like that is such a hilarious switch of their
Speaker 1: vibe because they don't swing in the way that bill
Speaker 1: Ward swings. I mean, so you suddenly again you've got
Speaker 1: non stop, relentless blasting and Gutta Rules and then you've
Speaker 1: got that band going. But you know, sure it was
Speaker 1: a fun way to in the first day. The second
Speaker 1: day had a good handful of you know worthy bands.
Speaker 1: I want to mention gutter All Slug, who, like I said,
Speaker 1: were one of the headliners of one of the first
Speaker 1: like either the first year or the second year of
Speaker 1: Awful Fest. And that was the thirstie that I paid
Speaker 1: attention to because Gutta All Slug. Myke like this again
Speaker 1: the slam scene and this kind of again really undergradar
Speaker 1: aple death metal scene. It is something that I enjoy.
Speaker 1: I like it the best bands in the genre. I
Speaker 1: will always have a place for my time of like again,
Speaker 1: listening to every single new band I came across in
Speaker 1: this kind of style, I sort of really peaked with
Speaker 1: it around like twenty thirteen ish, and then again I
Speaker 1: went and found more like, you know, the more the
Speaker 1: other side of underground death metal. That's maybe more where
Speaker 1: I live, you know today. But around that point in time,
Speaker 1: around twenty thirteen ish, there was a handful of albums
Speaker 1: that came out that have kind of gone on to
Speaker 1: be like some of the you know, kind of scene
Speaker 1: cult classics. So you had like the the Abominable Putridity
Speaker 1: album that came out around there, and you had like
Speaker 1: the first Catalepsy album, and you had Megalodon by Guttural Slug,
Speaker 1: which is a nineteen minute it's like this label as
Speaker 1: an album, but it's nineteen minutes long, and one of
Speaker 1: the songs on it is a cover, so it's basically
Speaker 1: like a you know, a mini album EP type thing.
Speaker 1: But when I was again sort of you know, sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen years old and I was this his bands, that
Speaker 1: was one of the things that you know, came out
Speaker 1: around that time, and it made its mark with me,
Speaker 1: and I used to listen to this like again utterly putrid,
Speaker 1: stinky but vocal slam record that's again it's like nineteen
Speaker 1: minutes long, so you can play it all the time.
Speaker 1: I used this dot a lot, and when I saw
Speaker 1: that gutural slug we're headlining one of those early editions
Speaker 1: of off of Fest, I couldn't believe it because A,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that whatever that show was was their
Speaker 1: live debut, like basically like ten years part of a
Speaker 1: real galibrat situation, right, like basically ten years past the
Speaker 1: Megalodon record coming out. I was like, ten years later,
Speaker 1: what do you mean there's so much demand and love
Speaker 1: for that ratty ass album that I used to listen
Speaker 1: to that you're coming back and you know, making your
Speaker 1: live debut headlining again like a slam all day type
Speaker 1: of event. I was like, this is awesome, Like I
Speaker 1: love that they're still around and people have, you know,
Speaker 1: you still like you know, have a place in their
Speaker 1: heart for this and that, and then you know, coming
Speaker 1: back again for this one. They had some tech issues
Speaker 1: and stuff, so they only got to play like a
Speaker 1: twenty five minute set, but they were fucking great because
Speaker 1: they gen I'm gonna say they had like riz compared
Speaker 1: to most of the bands who were playing, Like the
Speaker 1: stage presence of these guys, YEA, you know it's not
Speaker 1: fucking David Lee Roth, right, but like you know, they
Speaker 1: were you know, throwing themselves around and getting people to move,
Speaker 1: and the singer was getting people to you know, bouncing
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. And when they played one
Speaker 1: of the songs, they played Hack Saw Surgery, which is
Speaker 1: one of the songs from the Megalodon EP. I don't
Speaker 1: know if these were band provided.
Speaker 2: I want to ask about this when I saw the
Speaker 2: video as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if these were band provided, like
Speaker 1: I know, hate Breeds balls or whatever, or if people
Speaker 1: or people have brought them specially for it. But as
Speaker 1: soon as they started playing a song for the Megalodon record,
Speaker 1: all over the crowd, these inflatable sharks started getting thrown
Speaker 1: and flying around, and like, either way, I I hope,
Speaker 1: you know, it's fun either way, but I do hope
Speaker 1: that the people just brought it because if it's again,
Speaker 1: the idea that the Megalodon record has in this like
Speaker 1: cult cult scene garnered such a beloved and there were
Speaker 1: people singing along to fucking Hack Saw Surgery around me.
Speaker 1: The idea is garnered such a reputation that people know
Speaker 1: when to whip out the inflatable plastic sharks for where
Speaker 1: they're playing it and they had like Megalodon hot sauce
Speaker 1: at their merchstad as well. This is amazing, this is
Speaker 1: so great. I'm annoy This guy played a little bit
Speaker 1: earlier before I managed to get there, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to see as well. There was an artist called Lympho Edema,
Speaker 1: which is a one man Irish gore noise project, so
Speaker 1: literally one bloke on stage, not playing an instrument, just
Speaker 1: you know, jumping around doing doing gurgly toilet vocals with
Speaker 1: a really fucking noisy, you know, musical backing trap thing
Speaker 1: going on. And I saw some videos of him and
Speaker 1: he had like a severed foot on a chain that
Speaker 1: he was just dragging around the stage, swinging around his head.
Speaker 1: Apparently he covered break stuff as well. Would have been
Speaker 1: a lot of.
Speaker 3: Songs you could have pulled out.
Speaker 1: I wish i'd have seen that. That sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. But I was talking to one of
Speaker 1: the organizers at the festival afterwards and they said like,
Speaker 1: apparently that's the largest venue a gore noise artist has
Speaker 1: ever played in, and I was like, you know what, again,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not Wembley Arena, but I can believe it,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty incredible that like, you know, something like
Speaker 1: that that is the most again like silly, obscene, extreme
Speaker 1: kind of vibes. You can imagine it's been able to
Speaker 1: brought forward to this. I mean like similarly, during Gutterall Slug,
Speaker 1: there was a in sort of you know the other
Speaker 1: front of the stage where there's like a sort of
Speaker 1: disabled you know, there are a beep of people with
Speaker 1: a wheelchairs quatching from the side. It was a great
Speaker 1: bit when an amputee was just waving his prosthetic leg
Speaker 1: around during during Gutterall Slug. I was like, these people
Speaker 1: they know have to to you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like they know that the occasion demands. There was a
Speaker 1: brittle up a band called Epicardiectomy. There. Singer had one
Speaker 1: of the craziest mullets I've ever seen, but again full on,
Speaker 1: full of mullets, lamb vibes. He looked like an electric
Speaker 1: core boy. But if he wasn't wearing a wig, you know,
Speaker 1: like that's the exact picture that was that was going
Speaker 1: on there. But I also want to mention, of course
Speaker 1: the bandy closed the festival. The head line they're on
Speaker 1: the Sunday it was Faultchy who are I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: of all the bands I've just listed, maybe the band
Speaker 1: who if you have a casual interest in death metal,
Speaker 1: you might recognize that name somewhere around there, and not
Speaker 1: just because it is also the name of Italian horror
Speaker 1: film director. Of course, all of their you know, songs
Speaker 1: in subject matter is all based around that kind of realm.
Speaker 1: They are Italian and they have like I don't think
Speaker 1: we've spoken about them on the show, weirdly, but they've
Speaker 1: become like pretty popular. They're probably the most like the
Speaker 1: breakout brutal death metal band.
Speaker 2: They've crossed over to my like again, even beyond me being.
Speaker 3: A fan of Faulty's movies, Like they kind of came
Speaker 3: onto my raid and I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: This is cool death metal. I like, yeah. I think
Speaker 1: that they're more on the level of bands like, you know,
Speaker 1: the Maggot Stump bands like two hundred, Stab Wounds and
Speaker 1: Frozen Soul and these kind of bands who are kind
Speaker 1: of yeah yeah, and they do have a bit more
Speaker 1: in common with that sonically as well. Which again, after
Speaker 1: a weekend of like full on again real brutal death metal,
Speaker 1: it was cool hearing a band like go a little
Speaker 1: bit more mid pace a little bit more stompy, getting
Speaker 1: a bit more groove in it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But they were also the band who having you know,
Speaker 1: played some larger tours and stuff like that. You could
Speaker 1: tell that was a bit more going on with like
Speaker 1: the stage presentation and stuff like that because they intro
Speaker 1: their set with a I think they have some kind
Speaker 1: of like short film or something that's been produced like
Speaker 1: for them, which is basically an original like faultchy style
Speaker 1: horror movie. Like it's like it's it's you know, made
Speaker 1: and released now, but like visually and I was watching
Speaker 1: it and I was like, all the hallmarks there. You've
Speaker 1: got like the CPR toned flashback at the beginning with
Speaker 1: people like knocking a hole in a wall and looking
Speaker 1: at what like horrible putrid things being you know, found
Speaker 1: behind it. You've got like the the eyebel gore and
Speaker 1: all these kind of like you know, the kind of
Speaker 1: you know, the film stock that it's that it's done on.
Speaker 1: It made me smile a lot, and this was the
Speaker 1: set that you know, as a like a huge fan
Speaker 1: of both death metal and not just horror movies, but
Speaker 1: specifically like, Yeah, is one of my favorite directors It's
Speaker 1: a perfect cross breeding of my you know, my interests,
Speaker 1: and this was the set that, at the very end
Speaker 1: the weekend just had me going like I love this shit.
Speaker 1: I love death metal, I love horror, I love seeing
Speaker 1: a band do. They've released a record called duck Face Killings,
Speaker 1: which is all based around the New York Ripper movie.
Speaker 1: I like again on the screens the video showing like
Speaker 1: really nasty scenes from the New York Ripper, which is
Speaker 1: like one of the again most upsetting, fulchy movies, but
Speaker 1: doing that with like fucking lyrics coming up on the
Speaker 1: screen as well, and doing like really uh heavy, sadistic
Speaker 1: kind of death metal with this. It all worked together
Speaker 1: and they were a very fine end to the occasion.
Speaker 1: So a really good time off of first and like
Speaker 1: I said, I mainly come away impressed with They announced
Speaker 1: a whole lot of bands for next year's event as well.
Speaker 1: I haven't got the full list of them in front
Speaker 1: of me, but it was like a full on you know,
Speaker 1: like when you go Toloodstock or Fortress or something and
Speaker 1: they have the video screen where they're like after a
Speaker 1: certain band. They announced loads of things for next year
Speaker 1: and that's like, you know, ten or twelve bands or
Speaker 1: something like that, and there is a level of I
Speaker 1: imagine compared to when you know, the first of this ran,
Speaker 1: there was a level of sort of professionalism to how
Speaker 1: this you know ran and appeared and everything that I watched,
Speaker 1: The thought, you know, fucking good for you, Like, you're
Speaker 1: making a really good go of this, of turning this
Speaker 1: like very niche, extreme substyle of music into like a
Speaker 1: gathering for people, you know. And I came away impressed
Speaker 1: with the again the sort of the scale of what
Speaker 1: they're doing, how it's being run and carving out that
Speaker 1: niche for themselves. So obviously it won't be for anyone,
Speaker 1: but if you are at all interested in, you know,
Speaker 1: the world of the absolute sloppiest toilet slam that you
Speaker 1: could want to want to hear, the novelfess is becoming
Speaker 1: you know, a real like hub of it. And I
Speaker 1: think it's a very good thing that we've got something
Speaker 1: like that. It's always good when again, a niche like that,
Speaker 1: whatever the niche is, is having something of you know
Speaker 1: that again level of professionalism kind of catering to it.
Speaker 1: So perhaps off to him. Good stuff. Let us go
Speaker 1: into the news for the rest of this show now,
Speaker 1: and we have to obviously shift hones quite drastically because
Speaker 1: last Friday, as last week's shows UH went out, we
Speaker 1: got hit with a piece of news that I think
Speaker 1: all of us were hoping we wouldn't have to get
Speaker 1: this soon, because we obviously knew that Luke Colla from
Speaker 1: Sick of it All was ill and he had been
Speaker 1: for you know, a year, eighteen months something like that.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say
Speaker 1: that we were so hoping that he would pull through
Speaker 1: and that he would would would beat the cancer that
Speaker 1: he was suffering with. But last Friday we got the
Speaker 1: news that he had passed away. And this is the
Speaker 1: loss of a truly global icon for the world of
Speaker 1: hardcore and even beyond that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's Sick of it All did to put hardcore
Speaker 3: on the map in the nineties, like like cannot be overstated.
Speaker 3: And Lou Colla just I said, like the discord when
Speaker 3: this happened, like maybe the greatest hardcore from man ever,
Speaker 3: Like what like everything you would want the guy front
Speaker 3: of a hard fan to be Lou Colla was that
Speaker 3: I saw sick for a few times and always just
Speaker 3: untouchable lives bringing the best vibes but just sounding so
Speaker 3: intense and like like like hardcore sort of like swagger
Speaker 3: and aggression, but positive vibes. And and I said, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: when we were all hoping, you know, Paul through and
Speaker 3: all that, and when it when the news sort here,
Speaker 3: I was just like this one, this one crushes, Like really,
Speaker 3: this one really hurts because just when the guys and
Speaker 3: again you see all the outpoms of tributes and everyone
Speaker 3: has a good story to tell about Luke, and again
Speaker 3: it's so it's something we have to do this again
Speaker 3: when we talk about these these legends that were just
Speaker 3: so beloved that everyone has some story about how.
Speaker 1: You haven't heard a bad word about Luke Colla ever, Yeah.
Speaker 3: But everyone has got their story about how Luke Colla
Speaker 3: basically gave their band a leg up and put and
Speaker 3: helped establish them and he was just sort of advocate
Speaker 3: for everything I love.
Speaker 2: About hardcore and the community around it.
Speaker 3: I mean again, like the step Down music video and
Speaker 3: how that changed the game and how that kind of
Speaker 3: opened the world of mo washing to so many people,
Speaker 3: where you had this video highlighting these specific hardcore nis
Speaker 3: and washing, but it actually like got people going, oh shit,
Speaker 3: that's what this is it And I say it changed
Speaker 3: the profile of hardcore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like we we love sick of it
Speaker 1: all right, Like we were speaking earlier this year on
Speaker 1: the nine in ninety seven special we did about Built
Speaker 1: to Last, What a great what a great record that
Speaker 1: is like their first you know, four at least albums
Speaker 1: are all time classics of hardcore punk. You have Built
Speaker 1: the Last that we said that we have Scratched the Surface,
Speaker 1: which is their you know, biggest breakthrough moment before that,
Speaker 1: you have just look around and you know, Blood, Sweat
Speaker 1: and Notice, which is the one of the finest hardcore
Speaker 1: albums of the late eighties, one of the defining albums
Speaker 1: of New York hardcore as a movement, you know, and
Speaker 1: then again they make several more on top of that.
Speaker 1: And this is the extent that you know, when when
Speaker 1: Luke Cola was first you know, announced that he was sick,
Speaker 1: they pulled off of the Damnation lineup that they were
Speaker 1: going to be on and they were going to be
Speaker 1: performing you know, the thirtith anniversary of Scratch the Surface,
Speaker 1: and we got Discharge in that slot instead, and we
Speaker 1: do our like Damnation kind of album club thing often
Speaker 1: before Damnation's rolling around, and I had ear marked Scratch
Speaker 1: the Surface, like I'd held off on Scratch the Surface
Speaker 1: for two years past that point because we were so
Speaker 1: hoping that we could get that return show of them,
Speaker 1: you know, once he's better coming and filling that slot
Speaker 1: that they were meant to do and giving us set
Speaker 1: like that, And you know, I'd reserved to Scratch the
Speaker 1: Surface album club for when Sick of it All were
Speaker 1: able to return to the stages where they belong. And
Speaker 1: it fucking sucks so bad that, you know, we've not
Speaker 1: been able to do that in that way, But I
Speaker 1: would argue that, or at least imagine that throughout the
Speaker 1: decade of the nineties, no band and no one person
Speaker 1: as the voice of that band introduced more people to
Speaker 1: hardcore than Lou Collar and Sick of it All, whether
Speaker 1: that is being arguably the first, certainly the most to
Speaker 1: that degree hardcore band riding out outside of just their
Speaker 1: local clubs and their local niche to fly the flag
Speaker 1: for that music on the biggest stages that they feasibly could,
Speaker 1: like being one of the first hardcore bands to play
Speaker 1: major rock festivals, and you hear like stories.
Speaker 2: Of their like legendary reading like nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they played it a load of times. Yeah, but like.
Speaker 2: Then a real legendary on work, and they were like replaced.
Speaker 3: They were like stepping in because limb Biscuit pulled out
Speaker 3: or something, and it like.
Speaker 2: That, holy shit, this band.
Speaker 1: And you can there are There's no better way in
Speaker 1: that moment in time, in that era to be to
Speaker 1: have your eyes open to the world of hardcore than
Speaker 1: by seeing a sick of it all set right who
Speaker 1: all throughout their entire career were a legendarily brilliant live band.
Speaker 1: And then of course there are you know again things
Speaker 1: like you're saying, like the step Down video and they're
Speaker 1: punching through into you know, like again mainstream media to
Speaker 1: some degree. And one of the things that I love
Speaker 1: about step Down as that kind of again as their
Speaker 1: biggest song, it's like you say, it's got the video
Speaker 1: that is for many people basically their first introduction to
Speaker 1: what a hardcore show looks like, yeah, and what are
Speaker 1: the practice of a show like that? But also it's
Speaker 1: their biggest song, it's their breakthrough into the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: And the chorus is in the ununderground integrity lies within,
Speaker 1: like it's just it's it's an anthem for the scene
Speaker 1: where they've came from, and for not courting the mainstream
Speaker 1: in any way that would at least be you know,
Speaker 1: trading your own values, you know, like you only go
Speaker 1: there if you can be the you that you always
Speaker 1: would be anyway. And there is something so brilliantly, you know,
Speaker 1: empowering and truthful about those kind of lyrics, and that's
Speaker 1: true for basically every song Luke Collar ever wrote lyrics for,
Speaker 1: you know, those lyrics of unity and community, and you know,
Speaker 1: all those things were him for him, were true because
Speaker 1: he lived it right again, these these ideas of treating
Speaker 1: everyone respectfully, of uplifting your community, all these kind of things,
Speaker 1: these are all the things that come through in every
Speaker 1: story that we've heard about Blue Collar for the last week,
Speaker 1: and certainly you know before that as well. So none
Speaker 1: of that you know idea in the lyrics when you
Speaker 1: hear them, is in any way inauthentic, right, Like, it's
Speaker 1: it's absolutely true to who he was and who they
Speaker 1: were as a band, and you because of that, on
Speaker 1: top of the quality of the music they made, you
Speaker 1: could not ask for a better band to be the
Speaker 1: get the head of the battering ram for hardcore and
Speaker 1: that the representatives for that entire subculture.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: Again, it was just like it's that whole thing like
Speaker 3: being as real as it gets from the culture but
Speaker 3: avoiding the kind of like negative sort of things that
Speaker 3: come with thatt as well, and always kind of uplifted
Speaker 3: despite being true to the underground of ideals of hardcore.
Speaker 3: And it just like meant like whenever you saw like
Speaker 3: civil there was no elitism, there was none of that
Speaker 3: kind of vibe to them, but it was just kind
Speaker 3: of like, we're all in this together, let's.
Speaker 2: Fucking take on the world.
Speaker 3: And it just meant it was just such a like
Speaker 3: joyous sort of thing, like Sick of All shows like
Speaker 3: the Times of Some was just some of the most
Speaker 3: joyous hardcore shows to go to because it was just
Speaker 3: everyone going absolutely mental, jumping on each other's head, swinging
Speaker 3: fists like well like when when when they drop its
Speaker 3: clobbering time. The fists are flying, but it's still all
Speaker 3: in unity and that's what I love a hardcore and
Speaker 3: Sick of All well just the best at showing that
Speaker 3: no matter what venue size they were playing, where they were,
Speaker 3: it was always just the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw Sick of it All a few months
Speaker 1: before Lou Colla announced that he was sick and came
Speaker 1: off the road, right. This was that sort of May
Speaker 1: ish of twenty twenty four, And by the end of
Speaker 1: that year they again they were not on the road,
Speaker 1: and I had not seen Sick of it All at
Speaker 1: that point in time. And it was the the thirtieth
Speaker 1: anniversary Scratch the Surface tour. They played you know, most
Speaker 1: of that record and then a bunch of other songs
Speaker 1: as well, and they were fucking fantastic, as I'm sure
Speaker 1: they were at every single show they played, you know,
Speaker 1: prior to that date. This was just my chance to be, like,
Speaker 1: they're there in my vicinity, I'll do it. And I
Speaker 1: feel so so happy that I did, right, that I
Speaker 1: took that opportunity when they were near me to go
Speaker 1: and see them, because that was the last opportunity that
Speaker 1: I was going to get to see Sick of it All.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, there's a lesson there when
Speaker 1: you see some of these bands who are you know
Speaker 1: that maybe their bands who even if you've not seen
Speaker 1: them before, they might always seem to be around, right,
Speaker 1: So you go, oh, I miss them this time, I'll
Speaker 1: catch them the time after. Sometimes you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to. And if I had passed up on
Speaker 1: that Sick of it All show, then I would be
Speaker 1: here right now saying, oh I never got to see
Speaker 1: Sick of All. I wish I had, And I will
Speaker 1: hold onto that one show that I got at the
Speaker 1: last possible moment where it was available to me as
Speaker 1: just a brilliant testament to not only Sick of It
Speaker 1: All's powers, but just that idea, you know, in theory,
Speaker 1: you know that you should shouldn't take these bands for granted,
Speaker 1: that you should go out and see these artists when
Speaker 1: you know, are able to. Because I'm so so glad
Speaker 1: that I did. But yeah, I tremendous loss to the
Speaker 1: heavy music community and Blue Collar a legend, absolutely like
Speaker 1: one of the not just a hardcore legend, but I
Speaker 1: think because of the way Sick of it All we're
Speaker 1: able to bring that to so many people an all round,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, TNM, tapestry, heavy music, guitar music, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, one of the one of
Speaker 1: the greats. So rest in peace, Luke Collar, an absolute
Speaker 1: hero for and through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't really adny More that that just sums
Speaker 3: up and is just a huge loss of Yeah, rest
Speaker 3: in peace.
Speaker 1: Yeah absolutely, And if you don't know sick of it
Speaker 1: all and you've never heard those records any of that,
Speaker 1: like again that that run of records they made from
Speaker 1: the ladies and.
Speaker 3: Going to the mid noughties, Death to Tyrants. That is
Speaker 3: such a good naughties hardcore record, Take the Night Off.
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite sick of All songs.
Speaker 2: Like that song has got fucking tracks on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great band, great guy, lu collar, Rest in peace.
Speaker 1: This should raise our spirits at the very least, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be on to new mus and what can we
Speaker 1: do to do that? We can talk about Ben Sevenfold,
Speaker 1: who surprise dropped an EP this week called statica following
Speaker 1: up of course, the Life Is But a Dream album
Speaker 1: released three years ago in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Eight only been three years.
Speaker 1: A four track EP, it's about eighteen minutes long. This
Speaker 1: band have lost the fucking plot. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: This is like I mean, like I was a hater
Speaker 3: of Life Is But a Dream, So I like at
Speaker 3: this stage, you know, I've not liked an Avenged Sevenfold record,
Speaker 3: not loved one since like the early twenty tens, I've
Speaker 3: not liked like housinging is decent, but I've been off
Speaker 3: on Avenge for a good while, and so I'm kind of,
Speaker 3: I guess a bit predisposed to be more negative to
Speaker 3: what they do.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I think this might be the worst thing they've ever done.
Speaker 3: I think this is abysmal in so many ways. And like,
Speaker 3: here's the thing, right, I'm gonna go off on a tangent,
Speaker 3: but I've seen no some of the defense of this
Speaker 3: record is like, oh, it's experimental, Oh it's different, all that,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, we've got to have higher standards because
Speaker 3: for a lot of mil bands, being experimental is doing
Speaker 3: electronical pop music terribly and then they get praised for it,
Speaker 3: and it's like, you've got if.
Speaker 2: You've gotta do it, do it well, like completely, Like.
Speaker 3: The Charlie XCX album that came out the same day, right,
Speaker 3: that's her doing something a bit different for her. It's
Speaker 3: her experimenting, but she's doing it well, and I'm like
Speaker 3: that should be praised. We shouldn't just praise bands experimenting
Speaker 3: when they're rubbish at it. We've got to have higher standards.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I can't get on board with some of
Speaker 3: the defenses I've seen thrown out.
Speaker 2: For this EP. I think it is unlistenable.
Speaker 3: I mean, like again X compaisons act because they both
Speaker 3: like drowned in auto tune.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking more about the strokes, So we're
Speaker 1: not a bad I care about at all. But I've
Speaker 1: just observed some discourse at the strokes of RS's reason,
Speaker 1: and everyone's complaining that Julne Casablancas basically sings the entire
Speaker 1: thing with like warbly autotune on. It's just a bizarre
Speaker 1: sensations going around, And for me with avenge Is, I
Speaker 1: to a degree, like a part of me finds immense
Speaker 1: joy that this is what they're doing because it's so funny,
Speaker 1: like this ep.
Speaker 2: It is funny.
Speaker 3: There are things about this I have found hilarious and
Speaker 3: kind of like I can get behind that for a laugh,
Speaker 3: like some of the things we're gonna get onto and
Speaker 3: the sort of follow.
Speaker 1: Up this ep made me howl at various points. Matt
Speaker 1: is fucking terrible throughout the entirety of this, and you
Speaker 1: can't tell if that's even you know, because of his
Speaker 1: vocals or just what you know it's it's coming through,
Speaker 1: but Matt being autotuned for the entirety of this basically
Speaker 1: is so funny. And there's a it's the third song Rejoice,
Speaker 1: which has got this. I'll give them this one. That
Speaker 1: song is catchy because it's so funny. This all around
Speaker 1: our people of the world, you drawers with this awful
Speaker 1: like kind of you know, curmudgeingly rock griff going on,
Speaker 1: with this auto tune balling going on. Is like, that's
Speaker 1: the song on the EP that's trying to at least
Speaker 1: be kind of funky and danceable compared to the rest,
Speaker 1: which I don't know what they're trying to do, but
Speaker 1: it's so funny to me, it's so rubbish. It's like
Speaker 1: when you hear the absolute worst of the worst Megadeth song,
Speaker 1: for example, and you're howling at a song like super
Speaker 1: Collider or whatever because it.
Speaker 2: Super Clyder sounds like good compared to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but just that at least that one song. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's some kind of ironic appreciation of me because it
Speaker 1: just it makes me laugh so much. But this is
Speaker 1: a calamity of an EP that even you know, life
Speaker 1: is but a dream. I know, obviously, a very divisive record.
Speaker 1: There are people who love that record, we certainly know
Speaker 1: at least one of them. But there are there are
Speaker 1: people who love that record just as strongly as the
Speaker 1: people who don't love it, you know, dislike it. But
Speaker 1: I think even those people are struggling to come up
Speaker 1: with the defense for this. Because Life's But a Dream.
Speaker 1: I can at least vaguely appreciate the the tapestry of
Speaker 1: it and what they're trying to go for this. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that I, you know, didn't like
Speaker 1: about that record is the idea that events unfold. They
Speaker 1: seem absolutely fucking fixated for some reason or like they
Speaker 1: want to be daft punk so bad, like of all
Speaker 1: the experiments that are on Life Is But a Dream
Speaker 1: that to me sounded really fucking like, you know, already
Speaker 1: out of date and hackneyed. Was some of the you know,
Speaker 1: auto tuned, fucking French house like dart punk impersonation stuff.
Speaker 1: The fact that that's the thing that they have like
Speaker 1: decided to continue chasing right on the follow up EP
Speaker 1: and go even further with it's so rubbish and it's
Speaker 1: so rubbish at it, But the idea that they have
Speaker 1: of like this is how they you know, write the
Speaker 1: future right like by by chasing that particular rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: As funny as I find this ep, and I do
Speaker 1: find it to be funny, and as a continuation of
Speaker 1: Vice But a Dream, you can tell that, you know,
Speaker 1: in some sense I do. I can applaud how little
Speaker 1: shits they give about what people are wanting them to do. Right.
Speaker 1: But it has been considering there was so many years
Speaker 1: before Life's But a Dream where they were working on music.
Speaker 1: That record took a long time to arrive. Right. The
Speaker 1: Stage turns ten years old this year, as we discussed
Speaker 1: one episode not long ago, and I do like the
Speaker 1: Stage obviously, that is the proggiest of their records that
Speaker 1: they had made up to that point. So they were
Speaker 1: already moving away from balls to the wall hard rock
Speaker 1: heavy metal, right it's still got like songs, Yeah, well
Speaker 1: there are moments on that like songs like Goddamn and
Speaker 1: stuff where they are Those were essentially the last time
Speaker 1: that Avenged wrote rock songs. And it being ten years
Speaker 1: since Avenged have written a song that is at least
Speaker 1: id identifiable as being you know, classic Avenge sevenfold. I
Speaker 1: think the song Nobody from Life Buttuy and that was
Speaker 1: the only song I liked on that record because it, again,
Speaker 1: it sounded like Avenge To me, it sounded like a
Speaker 1: continuation of the stage. But it been ten years since
Speaker 1: they've essentially been a rock band like this. They to
Speaker 1: me sound like they are so bored of being rock
Speaker 1: band of N sevenfold, right, And on one hand, you
Speaker 1: could maybe applaud that of being like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not doing something just because that's what they are
Speaker 1: expected to do. They're following their creative passions or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I think there also comes a point where it's like,
Speaker 1: if you are, you know, multimillionaire rock band of N Sevenfold,
Speaker 1: and you are one of the biggest metal bands of
Speaker 1: your generation, your festival headliners to all of your rock
Speaker 1: fans and stuff, and you sound like you would rather
Speaker 1: be anywhere else but playing rock music to rock fans.
Speaker 1: It's like they what they've done with this is they've
Speaker 1: already they're on a tour right now with Good Charlotte
Speaker 1: co headlining, which I don't know how the fuck that again,
Speaker 1: considering what I've just said, how is that a match?
Speaker 1: This was already funny when it was just that they
Speaker 1: were touring. Life is but a dream they were playing
Speaker 1: with Good Charlotte.
Speaker 2: But they've got that one song together that's a banger.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, but they have also now on this on
Speaker 1: this tour, they've come out and done opening set for
Speaker 1: themselves as STATICA, And.
Speaker 2: I quite like this.
Speaker 3: I think this is like the one highlight I can
Speaker 3: draw from this whole thing is making Good Charlotte fans
Speaker 3: watch this live.
Speaker 2: Is genuinely quite funny.
Speaker 1: It is funny because you know, the Good Charlotte fans
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. The event seven Fall fans
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that alone, the Good Charlotte ones.
Speaker 1: But I just I don't know why they're there in
Speaker 1: the first place. Like if it has been ten years
Speaker 1: since you have been interested in releasing a record that
Speaker 1: plays with at least the you know, the attitude and
Speaker 1: the groove of a rock band, and you would rather
Speaker 1: be doing anything else to the point that you are
Speaker 1: releasing fucking god awful sort of again house inspired, I
Speaker 1: don't know, prog electronics or whatever, instead of being a
Speaker 1: rock band. Why are you even like you go and
Speaker 1: do this as Statica. You know, like it sounds like
Speaker 1: they are so done with the functions of right riff
Speaker 1: based guitar music whatever you might want to call that,
Speaker 1: And it just sounds to me like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's a weird fine line between like following your inhibitions
Speaker 1: and being a faith no more or someone and you know,
Speaker 1: like breaking open the boundaries and then also just sounding
Speaker 1: like you're fucking fed up with like and tired of
Speaker 1: having to do anything like that and somehow avenged to
Speaker 1: meet They sound so tired of having to be anything
Speaker 1: but whatever the fuck they decided to do.
Speaker 3: Now I sort agree that the most, Like I don't
Speaker 3: understand how certain members of evenge can actually kind of
Speaker 3: be enjoying this creator as well, because like musically, for
Speaker 3: like you have a guitar vertress one like the sort
Speaker 3: of modern legendary guitar players since the Gates, and he
Speaker 3: is completely just like wasted on these z pieces and
Speaker 3: maybe he is just fed up off, you know, ripping
Speaker 3: out these like insane solos all like that. But like,
Speaker 3: I don't understand how like the rest ofman can kind
Speaker 3: of be creatively satisfied like like this to me feels
Speaker 3: like Match is his like brain child. He is like
Speaker 3: the what like the mad scientists behind this or like,
Speaker 3: and again I could be wrong, the whole band could
Speaker 3: be all in on this.
Speaker 2: Together, but again I just wonder.
Speaker 3: I was like, what do you get sort of creatively
Speaker 3: fulfilled from doing this at the.
Speaker 2: Same time, because musically it's not like interesting electronics.
Speaker 3: The the small sort of shreds of like rock bands
Speaker 3: ort of DNA still haven't there. The riffs are really
Speaker 3: lumpen and like kind of like static and not interesting.
Speaker 1: That Rejoice riff is hilariously crap.
Speaker 3: Like and they don't gel with the electronics side of
Speaker 3: things at all. So I'm like, do you are you
Speaker 3: doing this because you just want to do different? Or like,
Speaker 3: are you happy that you are like one of the
Speaker 3: like sort of the one great guitar players who can
Speaker 3: be just completely phoning it in on some of the
Speaker 3: worst rifts you're gonna hear this year.
Speaker 2: The whole thing just confused me.
Speaker 3: And again I do think there is there is fun
Speaker 3: to be had with like the idea of them playing. Also,
Speaker 3: they're behind a screen so you can't properly see them,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of like trying to be like weird
Speaker 3: and that being in front of like a good tile
Speaker 3: at Evention World co headline that that's just a funny image.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I think it's such a
Speaker 3: one and done, like you've heard it now and like
Speaker 3: I've listened to the CV twice and on second now
Speaker 3: because I get nothing from going back to this. It
Speaker 3: like the novelty wears off before you finish your first listen.
Speaker 3: And again that's why I just think this defense of
Speaker 3: it's experimental just it just doesn't hold hold hold any
Speaker 3: war to me, it's one of the worst things I've
Speaker 3: heard here, maybe the worst it, like I think is abysmal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's one of those amazing things that
Speaker 1: when you say, you know, multiple members of the band
Speaker 1: to evolve with this, it amazes me that they all
Speaker 1: left to get out in this state, I suppose, because
Speaker 1: you would think at least one person in this very talented,
Speaker 1: you know, professionally seasoned group of studio musicians would go,
Speaker 1: are we sure about this? This sounds like bollocks exactly,
Speaker 1: like are we sure we're going to put that autoto
Speaker 1: vocal out there? And this production mess and all of this,
Speaker 1: and it's it staggers me the again, the lowering of
Speaker 1: the standards that seem to have happened at the same
Speaker 1: time that the you know, the freethinking this or whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it in the music that's being
Speaker 1: made has kind of, you know, gone the other way.
Speaker 1: But I, like I said, it's all well and good
Speaker 1: to be, you know, chasing your creative dream and doing
Speaker 1: whatever you want. And I would never say not to
Speaker 1: do that, but I think it has reached a state
Speaker 1: other end where they so clearly do not care about
Speaker 1: us as rock fans and as a rock community. I
Speaker 1: suppose because they're not interested in making that kind of
Speaker 1: music that why should we especially care about them? Right?
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that two way relationship of them
Speaker 1: having gotten bored with us and severed the ties, I
Speaker 1: salute them, and I laugh at what they're doing and
Speaker 1: go you. Mainly, I listened to Trashed and Scattered the
Speaker 1: other day because it just came on and I was like,
Speaker 1: fucking hell, what an amazing song. This band used to
Speaker 1: be so great. And the idea that like the biggest
Speaker 1: metal band of their era basically has ended up at
Speaker 1: this state utterly adrift where only the most mental people
Speaker 1: in their family still like them is you could never
Speaker 1: have written it like it, truly has surprised us all.
Speaker 1: But like I said, if they care so little about
Speaker 1: appealing to what we think, right, that's fine, But also
Speaker 1: why should I care to follow them? Right? So that's
Speaker 1: I think with this, maybe they'll fucking shut me up
Speaker 1: next time, and I sure hope they do. But with
Speaker 1: this following the last album, that's kind of where I'm
Speaker 1: at with Avenge. So there you go, other new music.
Speaker 1: I guess you could be excited by a Tuniaomi solo
Speaker 1: album if you're not interested in whatever the hell Avenger
Speaker 1: they're doing. He has got it's his first solo album
Speaker 1: in like twenty years. Right, We've had a you know,
Speaker 1: Black Sabbath albums in that time, two of them if
Speaker 1: you count the Heaven and Hell record as a Black
Speaker 1: Sabbath album. His last one's in two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: This one is called from the Dark and it is
Speaker 1: going to be coming out later this year October the
Speaker 1: twenty third. There's a song out from it as well,
Speaker 1: called World Alone. And I will say this song where
Speaker 1: obviously it's a you know, it's an aging, you know,
Speaker 1: solo you know rock record from you know, a star
Speaker 1: of Obviously, obviously we're never going to be not interested
Speaker 1: in not applaud Tony Iomi. But you know what I mean, right,
Speaker 1: this isn't you know it's a It's a solo record,
Speaker 1: is what it is. Yeah, I will say this song
Speaker 1: is better than some of the ones that I checked
Speaker 1: out when we did our Sabbath special and you'll be
Speaker 1: doing like weird post grunge records with Glenn Hughes and stuff.
Speaker 1: This song is better than that. But the lineup on
Speaker 1: this he's joined by across the album the Norwegian vocalist
Speaker 1: Yan Lander, who is one of those guys who he
Speaker 1: sings on everything like he's never There's no album that
Speaker 1: I could name or even a project where I go like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of that with Yorn Lander on it,
Speaker 1: but he's just everywhere, Like he's one of those like
Speaker 1: for higher rock guys who's just always around. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he suits it well enough, so he's the singer on it.
Speaker 1: There's also Becky Baldwin on the bass, who has been
Speaker 1: playing with the you know, the most recent touring incarnation
Speaker 1: of Merciful Fate. Right, she's a younger, younger player, but
Speaker 1: she's been Merciful Fates recent bassist and a drummer called
Speaker 1: Carl Brazil who was played with Feeder, James Blunt and
Speaker 1: Robbie Williams. Tony Iomi has gotten the first procedurally generated
Speaker 1: album lineup. How do we get those people the game?
Speaker 3: Can he hooks up with that drummer when he did
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 2: That I didn't imagine that you imagine that song.
Speaker 1: He was a song with Robbi Williams, You having a
Speaker 1: Mayde hit the nail on the head. That that is
Speaker 1: a good shout. And Becky Baldwin is you know, again
Speaker 1: a talented metal for higher player who can be evolved
Speaker 1: with this kind of stuff. But there is now one
Speaker 1: degree of separation between the Robbie Williams band in Merciful Fate.
Speaker 1: Somehow through this, like I said, the first randomly generated
Speaker 1: album line up of players, and one of them is
Speaker 1: called Carl Brazil.
Speaker 2: What a name.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable, but yeah fits as well though just having this
Speaker 3: when when we do through the store of those save
Speaker 3: of lineups and yeah, that special.
Speaker 2: This just feels so unbrand.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Bev Bevan will have some symbol
Speaker 1: overdubs somewhere on this record. I can guarantee that. And
Speaker 1: there was also on the US it front, What a
Speaker 1: week for it? A debut single released by one Sherry
Speaker 1: Moon Zombie, wife of Rob Zombie, met because she was
Speaker 1: a dancer in you know his you know stage show
Speaker 1: in the late nineties. Most commonly known to Rob Zombie
Speaker 1: fans through his movies because she has starred in some
Speaker 1: role or another in basically every movie he's ever made.
Speaker 1: And I can speak as against someone who has seen
Speaker 1: the majority of Rob Zombies' movies, if not all of them,
Speaker 1: and follows that again that kind of horror culture and everything.
Speaker 1: A lot of people fucking hate Sherry Moon Zombie like
Speaker 1: they treat her like NEPO wife essentially, right. You know,
Speaker 1: Rob Zombie loves his wife.
Speaker 2: He's a wife guy.
Speaker 1: He is sure that he puts his wife in everything
Speaker 1: he's ever made. And people go, oh, she's absolutely talentles
Speaker 1: she's a terrible actor. I can't believe I have to
Speaker 1: watch Scherry Moon Zombie and another Rob Zombie film whatever,
Speaker 1: and there's always, you know, some trace of misogyny going
Speaker 1: on with that, I find. But I can just imagine
Speaker 1: what those people are saying or thinking when they saw
Speaker 1: this headline of Shery Moon Zombie's song. I am always
Speaker 1: quite endeared to Sherry Moon Zombie because I mean, I
Speaker 1: think she's genuinely good in the Lords of Salem. I
Speaker 1: think that in you know, I like her in the
Speaker 1: Firefly Family movies, where again, her mad kind of cackling
Speaker 1: demeanor that she brings. That is one of the things
Speaker 1: about those movies that has become iconic and you wouldn't
Speaker 1: imagine it without them. Is she always good in everything? No?
Speaker 1: Not really, but again, you're signing up for a rob
Speaker 1: Zombie movie. You're signing up with the whole cast of
Speaker 1: characters in the family right that you go into. So
Speaker 1: I'm always again and I like that they just are
Speaker 1: creative partners in this way, like it. So I think
Speaker 1: it's just very wholesome and very endearing. But this song
Speaker 1: I called I Love My My Zombie. No, sorry, I
Speaker 1: Love my Robot. Yeah, I have just put zombiere because
Speaker 1: he name Zombe, isn't it. But no, I Love My
Speaker 1: Robot is a It's an anti AI song. The chorus
Speaker 1: is like, a I don't need that wherever the fuck
Speaker 1: she says, and it's all about her being like I
Speaker 1: write my own lyrics all this kind of stuff, and
Speaker 1: I support the sentiment. I don't know if this song
Speaker 1: is a good argument in favor of human creativity. The
Speaker 1: song to really put it to the robots how much
Speaker 1: he can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I am sympathetic, like and I get behind
Speaker 2: the sentiment.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, like the idea of like this
Speaker 3: can like kitchy, Like that's a thing with the chill
Speaker 3: in the channel that they're hitting with what like robs
Speaker 3: On shiming somebody's.
Speaker 2: Kind of whole brand is so I can I can
Speaker 2: get behind that. It just is really bad. It's not good,
Speaker 2: like that's for trying. Like it's clear that like be
Speaker 2: that again. I think there is that there is like
Speaker 2: passion as going into this.
Speaker 3: I don't think this is kind of like a throne
Speaker 3: to thing that that they're just doing it like that
Speaker 3: they like she clearly wants to have a music cred
Speaker 3: to go along with some like he think he shot
Speaker 3: the video and for her and all.
Speaker 2: That like fair enough, Like there is a definitely cleverative effort.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just gotta, you know, say, when something is terrible,
Speaker 3: and this song is terrible.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you just have to have a laugh at
Speaker 1: a very silly piece of a beauty which is what
Speaker 1: we are doing here, not so sillily. Let's get onto
Speaker 1: something a little bit more serious. Neurosis their first show
Speaker 1: back since their entire you know, sort of re getting together,
Speaker 1: you know story that they've gone on this year. Fire
Speaker 1: in the Mountains Festival was this past weekend, which included
Speaker 1: the live debut of the New Look Neurosis. I watched
Speaker 1: you know, someone had filmed the whole set and they
Speaker 1: looked fucking great, like Aaron bringing this, He brings this
Speaker 1: really violent physical presence into the center of the stage,
Speaker 1: which I think is, you know, something that they needed
Speaker 1: to have. It's you know, someone bringing that in the
Speaker 1: band in this incarnation, and it looks fucking brilliant. They
Speaker 1: played the setless consisting of most of the new album
Speaker 1: and also the Tide from a Sun That Never Sets
Speaker 1: Lost from Enemy of the Sun, Distill watching the Swarm
Speaker 1: from Given to the Rizon and Ends of the Harvest
Speaker 1: and Times of Grace both from the Times of Grace album.
Speaker 1: Fucking great show looked like from again the New Look Neurosis.
Speaker 1: So we can only dream that they will know they
Speaker 1: have announce obviously a couple more shows in the US,
Speaker 1: but we can continue to dream that they will spread
Speaker 1: their black wings across the rest of the planet. But
Speaker 1: they go Neurosis have fully fully arrived into gear. Faith
Speaker 1: No More's first showbacks have been announced. They are going
Speaker 1: to be happening in Australia alongside System of a Down,
Speaker 1: which is a bit strange because I can't imagine the
Speaker 1: faith they More, even in their returning form, are as
Speaker 1: big as System of Down, because System of Down are
Speaker 1: one of like the genuine mega superstars of like you know,
Speaker 1: they play stadiums wherever they go. Right again here in
Speaker 1: the UK, they brought out Queens of the Stone Age
Speaker 1: download festival head binding band themselves as their hour set
Speaker 1: support band. You know, so I maybe they're gonna out
Speaker 1: of pure reverence and you know, probably a topic of
Speaker 1: the hat for again, what faith they More did to
Speaker 1: maybe allow a band that System Down and you know,
Speaker 1: noting the significance of their return everything, maybe it will
Speaker 1: be Builds the co headline, but in actual pure number ways,
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine this being an equal co headline.
Speaker 1: But there you go. In January and February they are
Speaker 1: playing four dates Faith in Them All with System of
Speaker 1: a Down And just as I said, for neurosis. We
Speaker 1: keep our eyes peel to see where they will go next.
Speaker 1: Across the world. Ministry are winding down. They are doing
Speaker 1: one last album called Hate to Go, Takeout or Delivery,
Speaker 1: and a farewell tour that has included some UK dates
Speaker 1: announced as well in April of twenty twenty seven. So
Speaker 1: if you've not yet seen Ministry, I saw them at
Speaker 1: a bloodstock last year and I think that's probably my
Speaker 1: Ministry fixed. I don't necessarily feel grand need after that
Speaker 1: to go out and you know, see more. But if
Speaker 1: you haven't yet had that fix, just one fix, which
Speaker 1: I would recommend, lease you do it once, then April
Speaker 1: is the time to do it. Nails they say this
Speaker 1: year when they were trying Creator, they said we're going
Speaker 1: to be back later in the year, and they are
Speaker 1: back in the UK. They are doing a October tour,
Speaker 1: bringing Rotten Sound and Invunch with them, and they are
Speaker 1: playing in the UK two dates in London. The first
Speaker 1: one in the New Cross Inn is already long sold out,
Speaker 1: but there is so quickly yeah, but there is now
Speaker 1: another London date added in the larger venue of the Scala.
Speaker 1: They're also playing Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham, and I'm
Speaker 1: annoyed about this because they're playing Manchester and I will go.
Speaker 1: Of course, this is fucking great, but I'm annoyed that
Speaker 1: that extra London date of the Scala has fucking Wolf
Speaker 1: Brigade added onto that bill and none of the rest
Speaker 1: of the UK dates do, because that would be a
Speaker 1: perfect pairing for me. That's ideal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good time.
Speaker 3: And I'm putting I missed on getting for the Nu
Speaker 3: Cross INChO because he just sold out like I was
Speaker 3: that Fanny thing and then sort of like I'm probably gonna.
Speaker 2: Have to go to that Scala show. But so Wolf
Speaker 2: we gave would be a fun time as well.
Speaker 1: Wolf again and Rotten Sound and Advunch as well.
Speaker 2: That's a good that's a good package.
Speaker 1: That's gnarly time. So I am very jealous of the
Speaker 1: whole Wolf Brigrade thing. But Nail's UK tour come around anyway.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. And we're gonna end off the news with
Speaker 1: two stories of member departures from bands, and I think
Speaker 1: both of them are quite interesting for different reasons. The
Speaker 1: first one is the one that I am more fucking
Speaker 1: disgruntled about. Andy La Roche, the longtime legendary league guitarist
Speaker 1: of King Diamond's band, has played with many many artists
Speaker 1: over the year as well. He is generally one of
Speaker 1: the all time great metal lead guitarists. Like he's one
Speaker 1: of those people where if anyone taps him for a
Speaker 1: guest solo, they fucking sing to the heavens about it
Speaker 1: because it's the perfect thing that you could, you know,
Speaker 1: imagine to nab. He again played on all of the
Speaker 1: classic King Diamond records from you know, the eighties and
Speaker 1: so on. He has announced that he has departed the
Speaker 1: King Diamond band. He is going to be continued playing
Speaker 1: with his other projects that he has, but he is
Speaker 1: no longer in King Diamond's band. He has been replaced
Speaker 1: by an old acquaintance of my mister Gus g former
Speaker 1: guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne's band, also of the power metal
Speaker 1: band fire Wind. He is now in the band with
Speaker 1: King Diamond, which he's a very fine guitarist. But losing
Speaker 1: Andy la Roche. Not only is this momentous in terms
Speaker 1: of like this is generally when you think of the
Speaker 1: classic great you know, frontman and lead guitarist pairings in band,
Speaker 1: obviously it's a very heavy metal equivalent. It's not exactly
Speaker 1: fucking Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But Angela Rock and King Diamond, who have done all
Speaker 1: those records together, is one of those perfect pairings that
Speaker 1: produced so much great work. And I thought it was
Speaker 1: still a great thing that when you go to see
Speaker 1: King Diamond live, you get to see aler Ope there standing,
Speaker 1: you know, right hand man doing those fantastic lead guitar
Speaker 1: parts that he does on this thing, and I think
Speaker 1: it's sad that that's no longer the case. But the
Speaker 1: thing that really gets my goat about this is the
Speaker 1: fact that that long awaited it has now been at
Speaker 1: least six years or so since it was announced King
Speaker 1: Diamond album has still not surfaced, and it's gone for
Speaker 1: so long that Andy La Roak is now no longer
Speaker 1: in the band. And when they have announced gus Gee's appointment,
Speaker 1: the statement is like, we can't wait to hear you
Speaker 1: know what gus Gie is going to bring creatively to
Speaker 1: new music and all this kind of stuff. And there
Speaker 1: were two songs that have been released King Diamond singles,
Speaker 1: both great songs. Which is annoying about this because I
Speaker 1: wanted to actually hear the fucking album, right. But if
Speaker 1: this album has taken so long, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are theorized maybe Andy's gotten fed and up of you know,
Speaker 1: fucking not actually releasing any music or whatever, so he's
Speaker 1: gone through his projects that do release music. But if
Speaker 1: this album has been so long in the making that
Speaker 1: they end up not even using, it ends up not
Speaker 1: being a fully andula roque, you know, written and performed record.
Speaker 1: It ends up being either entirely overwritten or some weird
Speaker 1: half and half mishmash of like old Angela Ropue material
Speaker 1: and then the new gust g material. I wanted this album,
Speaker 1: and I long accepted by this point because it's been
Speaker 1: a few years. I was like, Okay, when it comes,
Speaker 1: it comes. But now, having lost the legendary guitarist where
Speaker 1: I wanted to be on that fucking album, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why couldn't you put that album out before and left
Speaker 1: the band? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah again, I'm not as in depth into the whole
Speaker 3: king diamond.
Speaker 1: I'm more invested in this than you.
Speaker 2: I don't, I know.
Speaker 3: He's obviously been like the iconic tach so long, and
Speaker 3: it is it is frustrating when like this, it feels
Speaker 3: like it might be tied to this album situation, and
Speaker 3: now the createstal prose to the album is even more
Speaker 3: fragmented that you don't know, are you going to get
Speaker 3: the definitive version of what that album was intended to
Speaker 3: be or this like sort of Frank and Sione, I
Speaker 3: can see if you are deepen on the Kingdom of thing.
Speaker 3: This is a real like frustrating, like frustrating kind of
Speaker 3: like twist in the event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it presumably postpones the album even further, so
Speaker 1: it's it's probably never going to come out, That's what
Speaker 1: I think, Like, I think it's probably come out. That's
Speaker 1: such a fucking boner killer. But there you go. Andela Roquat,
Speaker 1: King Diamond, Gus gi In and very weirdly, Viaters Murder
Speaker 1: have appeared on stage with another new front man, their
Speaker 1: vocalist of the last three years, Tyler Miller, the guy
Speaker 1: they got to replace c J. McMartin at the end
Speaker 1: of still one of the craziest stories and sagas that
Speaker 1: we've watched unfold during the course of this decade. But
Speaker 1: he has been there for three years now. Unbelievably, I
Speaker 1: saw VIA's Murder live on the Parkway Drive tour that
Speaker 1: they did with him at the front. And while the
Speaker 1: last album got I think completely subsumed really by all
Speaker 1: of the drama that surrounded it. I thought the show
Speaker 1: was good when I saw them with him, right, But
Speaker 1: no statement or anything has been made here. It seems
Speaker 1: to have you know, you can only assume looking at
Speaker 1: some of the behind the scenes stuff and you know,
Speaker 1: people un following people on Instagram, and it was kind
Speaker 1: of shit that people have to you know, drag out
Speaker 1: to make judgments on anything that it doesn't look especially
Speaker 1: friendly right now, but that guy Tyler Miller has not
Speaker 1: appeared with them, and instead they have another new frontman,
Speaker 1: a guy called Jerry Grimefeld, who is an Australian rapper
Speaker 1: as well as a death metal vocalist. I presume that
Speaker 1: he's not going to be rapping so much in in
Speaker 1: Thiot's Murder, although of course rhythmic control at high speed
Speaker 1: is important. But yeah, weird that they have gone through
Speaker 1: another frontman here and Thyat's Murder, and maybe maybe they
Speaker 1: put out a great album at some point that writes everything.
Speaker 1: But as much as we applauded how that entire CJ
Speaker 1: situation kind of went down and how they ended up
Speaker 1: handling like fucking the heist of the century, right, what
Speaker 1: they managed to do it was ununbelievable, and they managed
Speaker 1: to maintain their kind of you know, personal standards while
Speaker 1: while doing so. It does feel like momentum has taken
Speaker 1: a knock, isn't it with this kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: Just I mean, it feels that the deaf core landscape
Speaker 3: has changed so much in the last couple of years
Speaker 3: as well, where that kind of like twenty ten's Guard
Speaker 3: of Bands have kind of like fallen by the way
Speaker 3: so a little bit. And again, mate, like just because
Speaker 3: the kids want the symphonic Death Corps stuff now or
Speaker 3: like the real like myspaces or throwback stuff, Lars Murder
Speaker 3: kind of sitting between, and so I wonder just if,
Speaker 3: like where they actually fit in the kind of current
Speaker 3: landscape of what death core is. And perhaps this is
Speaker 3: just kind of like a good opportunity for them to reset,
Speaker 3: to kind of like draw a line under everything that's
Speaker 3: happened before and be this new bias.
Speaker 2: Murder and they're gonna come back with a really good aldpotentition.
Speaker 3: But is it does just feel like for the last
Speaker 3: couple of years, they've kind of they felt just weirdly
Speaker 3: absent from the sort of like death core discussion and
Speaker 3: general like world of that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yes they have done, but there you go. That is
Speaker 1: the week in news. Over on the last Patreon, I
Speaker 1: would just use this opportunity to remind you, as I
Speaker 1: announced on last week's show, this upcoming week, we have
Speaker 1: got our album club pack, where we are going to
Speaker 1: be looking at space of the likes of Faith No
Speaker 1: More and their Angel Dust album. We are going to
Speaker 1: be looking at Social Distortion, We're going to be looking
Speaker 1: at Dead Can Dance, and we are going to be
Speaker 1: looking at a crazy mid noughties record from Ulva as well.
Speaker 1: Blood Inside are really again eclectic, mad cat bunch of
Speaker 1: albums going down in album Club pac Land. So you
Speaker 1: can hear that when that comes out this week over
Speaker 1: on the That's Not Fault Metal Patreon, we will be
Speaker 1: after that bringing you back to and M Does Horror.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about some of the mad
Speaker 1: shit that's happened in the last few months since we've
Speaker 1: not been doing these A little movie you might have
Speaker 1: heard of Record Obsession. We're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: the the latest Evil Dead movie that came out touching
Speaker 1: based on a couple other things as well, and the
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Speaker 1: Let's ent today's show with the release round up two
Speaker 1: weeks worth, because last week was our reviews bag where
Speaker 1: we spoke about the likes of Loathe and the excerpts
Speaker 1: and Muse quite divisive again, you know, interesting to maybe
Speaker 1: dissect some of the places where we're not entirely seeing
Speaker 1: eye to eye with the creative vision. I suppose of
Speaker 1: some of these records. I hope that everyone's taking that. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe some people haven't, But there you go. That is
Speaker 1: all again in last week's episode. But we have some
Speaker 1: releases from last week that we didn't talk about to
Speaker 1: mention here as well. Where would we be if we
Speaker 1: weren't mentioning the fact that Water Parks have a new album,
Speaker 1: Their album Jinx is out of last week we also
Speaker 1: had speaking of I Guess Better pop punk No Pressure.
Speaker 1: That is the more hardcore gess of potpunk band fronted
Speaker 1: by Parker Cannon, isn't it from Yes? Yeah story he's
Speaker 1: a pretty good thing about this record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like it's one of the few good
Speaker 3: pop punk hams. It was surprise drop, so I like
Speaker 3: it kind of just came out of nowhere. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: there's a good thing where all the good pop punk
Speaker 3: bands are kind of like hardcore Jason somewhere at the moment,
Speaker 3: and yeah, this is just more actual good pop punk
Speaker 3: and not the wet water Park shite.
Speaker 1: Yes, album is called NP Style. Then there is the
Speaker 1: you know, sort of Mongolian you know, folky metal flash
Speaker 1: rock band The Who. Then an album called hun Mad
Speaker 1: Ball New York hardcore legends. We may have lost sick
Speaker 1: of it all, of course, but there are still some
Speaker 1: of these bands out there, these legendary names, still holding
Speaker 1: it down. The new mad Ball record called Not Your Kingdom.
Speaker 1: I haven't checked out the mad Ball record yet, but
Speaker 1: any good sure like it.
Speaker 2: Is reliably like it's a mad Ball record.
Speaker 3: There's no surprises on but it also it just kind
Speaker 3: of hits the spot exactly how I want a mad
Speaker 3: On record too.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of fun with it.
Speaker 1: Yes. Then in more kind of psychedelic doom territories out
Speaker 1: on Sergent House, I believe there is resin that's ore
Speaker 1: e z n with an album called Cycles in the
Speaker 1: Infinite Dream. Also in mad Scandinavian progue, I suppose there's
Speaker 1: a band called Yord Sioux with Pest Kroniker. Sure Norwegian progue.
Speaker 1: Like I said, there is a band from the underground
Speaker 1: called Sallow Moth who put out a record called Hydrophillis Brood,
Speaker 1: And I would recommend this to fans of, you know,
Speaker 1: progressively minded stuff coming out of the Death Underground. I
Speaker 1: would say, if you are a two mold fan, then
Speaker 1: salow Moth is another name that you might be getting
Speaker 1: something out of and also a kind of surprise dropped EP.
Speaker 1: At some point in the last couple of weeks. Linnea Olsen,
Speaker 1: who is the front woman of the fantastic post metallic
Speaker 1: post punk band Maggot Hut, who we've raved about on
Speaker 1: this show before. Maggot Heart, seemed to be on something
Speaker 1: of a hiatus right now, but she did put out
Speaker 1: a kind of a solo EP under her own name,
Speaker 1: Lennea R. K Olsen called Perfect Wave, which again kind
Speaker 1: of raucous rock basically as how you would look at
Speaker 1: that this week the thirty first, can you believe it sound?
Speaker 1: There's a five Finger Death Punch album out this week
Speaker 1: called Legacy. Once upon a time we could not move.
Speaker 1: When there was a five Finger Death Punch album campaign,
Speaker 1: you would know about it. It's mad that there's a
Speaker 1: five Finger Death Punch album out on Friday and not
Speaker 1: a soul has mentioned it.
Speaker 3: It's just like it's the same thing when they announced
Speaker 3: it doing the O two arena on that too, and
Speaker 3: it's like a are there enough people who not named
Speaker 3: Mark who care about five Finger Death Punch out there
Speaker 3: these days? Yeah, I'm sure I wonder what it will
Speaker 3: sound like. Like, I'm sure will be full of surprises.
Speaker 2: Why bother?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean even the fact that it's called Legacy.
Speaker 1: I had to be like, is this like another Greatest Hits?
Speaker 2: It was a great hittering when I saw but like
Speaker 2: it's got be that in it. Oh no, no, this is
Speaker 2: a new album.
Speaker 1: As far as I can tell us a new album.
Speaker 1: They go five finger death punch if you still care
Speaker 1: disfiguring the Goddess in our stupid death core electronically enhanced,
Speaker 1: I put that Bloom is the name of that record.
Speaker 1: More in the death metal underground, I would say that's
Speaker 1: where the stuff that I'm most interested in this week
Speaker 1: comes up from. There is a band called Nothingness who
Speaker 1: released a pretty good album a few years ago, again
Speaker 1: slimy underground death metal. This is the follow up to that.
Speaker 1: It's called god Slaughter. In the really avant garde, dissonant
Speaker 1: kind of end of underground death metal, there's a band
Speaker 1: called Altage, who have you know again really several good
Speaker 1: records in the past. Cogwheel is the name of their
Speaker 1: new one. Lipe Homer, the crazy gorgrind band, who we
Speaker 1: were speaking about just at the end of last year
Speaker 1: because we were speaking around them, Elliott brought them onto
Speaker 1: the whole end of the year season we were doing.
Speaker 1: They work quick, apparently because they have another new album
Speaker 1: out today called Infernal Wounds of Raven Flash. And the
Speaker 1: last live Pomer album that we spoke about was so
Speaker 1: full of fun, creative surprises for a gore grind record.
Speaker 1: I genuinely enjoyed that so much. I will be checking
Speaker 1: out the new one as well. I hope they play
Speaker 1: Awful Fest soon. I think if the any festival around
Speaker 1: was going to book lip Pomer in the UK, I
Speaker 1: saw a few shirts, Awful Festip be the place to
Speaker 1: do it. That would be on my my dream, you know,
Speaker 1: booking wish list for that festival. So there you go,
Speaker 1: book lip Homer. And also in the gore grind world,
Speaker 1: there is a band who I have seen, a band
Speaker 1: called Jigy.
Speaker 2: Have I seen Do we see these at London death
Speaker 2: they played?
Speaker 1: They played the UK death Fest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen these. I recognize that. Have I seen
Speaker 2: this live? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Daft gorgrind stuff. We did see them together. Their album
Speaker 1: Jigoku is out. From the black metal world, there is
Speaker 1: the long gooing controversial artist Tucker. His new album is
Speaker 1: called enskog av Nidstang. Then two EPs to mention. One
Speaker 1: is a metallic hark or EP from a UK band
Speaker 1: called Long Goodbye, called a whispered promise of Failure. They
Speaker 1: are one of these bands who again, if you looking
Speaker 1: around hardcore bills in the UK, you'll see they're brilliantly
Speaker 1: scrawled early two thousands type metal core logo that screams, hey,
Speaker 1: these guys probably enjoy a bit of normal gy or
Speaker 1: early converge or whatever. I would probably enjoy that as well,
Speaker 1: and you know, listen to a bit of this, I
Speaker 1: can confirm I think they're pretty good at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're another one there.
Speaker 3: I put them in sort of the crow Quel level,
Speaker 3: like these are doing the sort of thing that like
Speaker 3: lots of mans are doing it out. But I think
Speaker 3: longer I have a bit more going on in terms
Speaker 3: of like the song capacity that they're supporting like Guilt Trip.
Speaker 3: I think later this year like that that they're definitely
Speaker 3: getting their name out there in terms of these metallic
Speaker 3: carc bands. But yeah, on the UK saw more promising ones.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then also the experimental rock band Shieling, who
Speaker 1: have put out an EP called Don't look at me
Speaker 1: the way a dog might look at your leg.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: That is the release round up for this time. If
Speaker 1: you were one of the other people who was attending
Speaker 1: Awful fift weekend, I hope you had fun and enjoyed yourself,
Speaker 1: as I'm sure sure you did if you did attend.
Speaker 1: We will be back next week with another hyperblast, as
Speaker 1: I said. In the meantime, we'll be having our Arab
Speaker 1: Club pack. We're gonna have Horror coming after that. We
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Speaker 1: so cheers for listening. We'll see then. Rest in peace, Loue.
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