Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome to That's Not Metal. We are your
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Will we come here every Friday and we let you
know what has been going on, what releases you want
I'm gonna want to hear on this Friday, and yeah,
recap the week in rock. My name is Paren hairsh
with me is Sam Dignon. Hello Sam. I would say
it's been a you know, a pretty decent week for
even just you know, our interests outside of music. Aunt
Gladys is now an Oscar winning character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of I tuned out of the Oscars
this year because the discourse around it was just so
like tiresome, Like again, I love a lot of these movies,
aren't for it And I was just see people arguing
about like this, that and the other one Bay Luff
for another and Sinners was like, I ain't paying attention now,
aw Revolutions are at the same time, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 3: Watching that, but aren't Gladas one on.
Speaker 2: Oscar Great Sinners did well like happy to see that
one bat laugh another like Dad were like like good
stuff one and you know, horror Icon, Aren't Gladys Oscar Winner?
Speaker 3: We love to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I liked many of the movies that
were up for you know, big stuff and that. But
I think there's just a certain level of disbelief around
Aunt Gladys being an Oscar winning role because well, you know,
you've got to have like when Timothy Shallamay is doing
Markey Supreme, he's got it in his head that he's
gonna be in the Oscar Race. People like, you know,
a dramatic role, like yeah, everyone involved with one bat
luck another or whatever. All these films even sinners to
a degree, and maybe like you know that they're they're
aware there might be some you know, awards consideration. At
what point did Amy Madigan, who has been you know,
working for like forty years, she gets sent this script
for a movie with this crazy you know character in
the mix of it, and she goes, okay, yeah, I'll
go for this one. At what point does she start
to twig, oh, wait, this one, this is good one,
And I just think that's that's such a such a
beautiful thing. So that was a fun touch of you know,
the wider T and M universe happened this week. I
went to Somerset for the weekend for Mother's Day and
I was walking round Glastonbury Abbey and I swear I
could hear a faint voice on the winds asking me
to place my hands on its hope it was. It
was really weird. Sam, you have had a pretty decent
week as well. I imagine you went to was it
Body Snatcher?
Speaker 3: Yes, big stinky death course show in London?
Speaker 2: So yeah, Body Snatcher ingested, Psycho Frame and Big Ass Truck.
Speaker 1: Like that's that's three bands who go together. And the
opener well, like it was, there was very much.
Speaker 2: It was like quite like split gigging away. I'm going
to go into it, but yeah, Body snatchal us death
core band. They've been like kicking about a couple of
years now, and it last album they started to obviously
a bit more of a surge and kind of like
a wave of kind of like popularity kind of picked
up a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I like they're one of.
Speaker 1: The again the sort of the archetypal new wave death
core bands. I don't remember if you've ever reviewed a
record of this. Obviously we did review the Psycho Frame
record that came out last year because had a lot
of buzz around as well, ingested you know, very old
hands at this sort of thing. But yeah, sort of
a I say, a sort of a new wave, up
and coming crop of death core kind of experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so like I've been accused of sort of
like Seabody Snatch and kind of find out where they
actually sit in the kind of this like wave of
death corps. I will say I got to the Garazondon
a bit before Doors or like bound Doors, and it's
the biggest cue I've seen outside that venue in quite
some time. The people want to see big ass truck,
like I.
Speaker 1: Was, like explained big ass truck for anyone who is
not at all familiar.
Speaker 2: So this is the thing that this was the band
I was most curiously on this line up because they
have been making waves in the sort of the hardcore
and like metalcore scene, and like they are essentially they
are a beatdown band, like they are early knock Loose
that kind of like first album not Loose where it's
just lump and beat downs, but they've got they've become
the so of a meme band in the same time.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you're called big ass Truck. It kind
of lends itself to that.
Speaker 2: But musically and this is this is my thing with
Big Truck because I was, like, I quite like them
on record, but there is so much buzz around them.
But like you know, where they've been appearing, like all
of the US hardcore festivals kind of getting like people
really talking there.
Speaker 3: People don't listen to hardcore, like who like and.
Speaker 2: And that sort of stuff, are like going to Big
Ass Truck, Like the octane core metal core kids are
like Big Ass Truck on the bands they're kind of
getting on board with and and again the menification of
like the name and you know, and they've got songs
called big Ass Beer and and like when they're in.
Speaker 1: The very Bill Murray adjacent in that way, isn't it right?
Speaker 3: It is? But the songs are actually legit.
Speaker 2: And this is what I've got seeing them live like
they are actually just like hard, meaty, beatdown songs. The
basis wearing a Cannibal Holocaust t shirt, which you know,
doesn't deear them. I'm like these guys, they like they
are like legitimate, like the singers wearing a Foundation hoodie,
which is like deep Pool, like twenty ten straight at
hardcore like they are in on that scene. They've just
kind of found a way to sort of sell it
to as you say, the Bill Murray crowd by having
the kind of like American redneck, big ash truck Nascar
kind of like branding on it. I would be a
bit iffy if the songs were just really fun moss
Ready like hardcore like bruises and seeing them play live
and they sound really like in your face live, the vocals,
they've kind of got good stage banter, Like there's a
song where the Moscow is, you know, big ass truck
and the choruses get fucked by the big ash truck,
like and like that is the stuffing that a lot
of people going for. But at the same time, the
just kind of like Moss Ready hardcore stuff they are.
They are hitting the right spot, and so I'm kind
of like willing to let them have that slight silly
edge in the kind of the naming and the branding
because they aren't They aren't silly comedy goofy songs. They
actually do gives you about hardcore. They've just kind of
found a branding thing around it. But seeing it live,
I was like, you know what you are like probably legit,
So I'm willing to sort of let you sort of
be think, and I think this is the You're not
going to see them opening bills like this much longer.
Speaker 3: They're going to be on the headline runs and.
Speaker 2: Like doing bigger and bet things going by how many
people like got down there at twenty past seven on
to catch them. Band of the Night though, Psycho Frame,
like I've seen. This is my second time seeing Psycho Frame.
I saw them with Malevolence last year, where they were good,
but they were also swallowed up by the opening band
of Bricks and Academy Sound Gremlins, so all you could
hear was the low end and the sort of the meat,
the beat downy moss parts and none of the kind
of like wild technical stuff that kind of actually gives
Psycho f Roim a bit more character as well.
Speaker 3: None of those issues tonight.
Speaker 2: They are like in terms of the modern crop of
Deaf Court, they are by far my favorite band because
they have that kind of old school MySpace era kind
of like nastiness with that wicked technical edge. You've got
two vocalists, which kind of always just gives me despised
diacon vibes and I'm always just down for that. Having
two vocalists on stage with a death cul band, but like,
you know, one is doing the highest skis, ones are
on the lower gut rules. When one of them is
not screaming, he's just two step in and moshing.
Speaker 3: On stage.
Speaker 2: You've got a drummer who is like barely breaking a sweat,
doing like the maddest or of technical shit. It's one
of those drums where he's so just like reserving coma
and you can just watch it, but he's playing like
insanely well. And they again, the crowd was going off
for them. They really felt like that. Again, the sort
of the death Cult crowd right now are all in
on psycho frame. They they look cool on stage. They
have that again hard core adjacent background. In the pits
are like hardcore washing pits. And I think I'm hoping,
you know, going forward, they kind of can get a
few more like legitimate, really good songs under their belt,
because I think the album was good and the songs,
you know, you're kind of just delivering that nasty death coving.
Speaker 3: And we liked the album, we reviewed it, but we
were kind of just like that.
Speaker 1: That's my problem with almost basically that entire this entire
generation of new wave death core bands. I thought the
album was fine is because it does a nasty thing
with no songs at all, and that is I have
yet to really hear of the crop of Psycho Frame,
Body Snatcher, Killing of a Sacred Deer, whatever, all of
those type bands who have come through. I've yet to
hear one who pack songs as good as the bands
they want to be from two thousand and seven, you know,
So I'm waiting for an MVP. Yeah, I'm waiting for
any one of those bands really to step up and
actually start delivering that.
Speaker 3: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: I think that big ass truck like you had people
singing along to choruses with them. They they've kind of
got like stuff in there, so that's one of the
things they had. But I think just into like as
a live band, just kind of like hit me with
that thrill of what I want from these kind of
death court shows. I mean, they are really great live
and I think they have the song potential win them.
That would be what kind of takes up to the
next level for me. Yeah, but I'm right now on
debut album. I'm cool with where they're at and I
can't wait to obviou see what comes next Ingested. There's
a bit of a funny one on this one, because
I've been tuned out.
Speaker 3: Of Ingested for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: I really have a soft spot for like mid twenty
tens in jest that I think you know they like
if you're going to like death metal and death corn
slam gigs in the UK and that sort of time,
chance you would have seen jest.
Speaker 1: They're the real old hands on this bill, like they are.
They are like from the generation of bands that bands
like Psycho Frame are trying to be.
Speaker 3: Yes exactly and I kind of not paying attention.
Speaker 2: I know that, like quite recently they've been in a
bit of hot water with their now ex vocalist with
respect to the guy they had Paul come in who
took the tour like nine days in advance and kind
of learned the set in that sort of time. I
think he is actually vocalist of like of again, a
one of this sort of newer crop of like us
death Go bands who probably he probably is quite influenced
by Ingested. I would guess he did a very good
job the character that kind of always made Ingested really
fun to see live. It is missing now because again,
like the vocals they had that time, he is now
two vocalists, Yeah exactly, and I'm singing just live and
you know he'd always be making slam puns and just
was like and to be injected a sense of fun
into the kind of like the brutal death metal slam
stuff they did. This Ingested set was just very po faced,
deaf core, and so I was kind of like, yeah,
like it was, it was totally fine. I just was
kind of a bit like it felt a bit of
like a lull and a slowing down after how kind
of like Live Wire, Big Ash Truck and Psycho Frame
were and then Body Snatcher kind of drew the short
straw of going on at ten pm on a Sunday
in London. And I think like after how like everyone
was kind of really jazzed on the opening two bands,
it had cleared out noticeably. I mean like it started
to come out after Cycho Frame, like Biggest and Side
Frame were like a big draw for a lot of people,
and there was still you know, a heavy chunk of
the room were there for Body Snatcher and were well
into the songs and again, I think Body Snatching they're
kind of like on this newest album.
Speaker 3: They're a bit more kind of like some more metal corey.
Speaker 2: I think on this newest album it's kind of like
softened some of the death courages a little bit. But
I did enjoy single live like again, nothing groundbreaking in
terms of like the modern death golfront And again I
think they they none of the songs again, not being
massive familiar of them kind of immediately jumped out to me,
but at the same time still pretty hard, still good
moss parts. Kind of crowd who were there were still
really into it, and I was kind I can see
why they have, you know, kind of like risen up
obviously on these new songs, which have a slight again
just a bit of a cleaner edge where people who
might not go for Psycho Frame or Killing of a
Sacred Deer, those sort of bands that maybe a little
bit too icky for some body snatch a kind of
like bridge the gap nicely, where you can see that
they're kind of looking to the grandiose side of Lorna Shore,
but without the sort of symphonic embellishment where they're trying
to go.
Speaker 3: Can we write those kind of like songs of that
sort of scale. They were good, though.
Speaker 2: I think they were like a solid headliner, but I
do think they would kind of like suffered from maybe
picking two really hot supports as an opening act and
then a kind of like a veteran hand who kind
of killed the momentum a little bit. If you kind
of just had a free band bill where they weren't
going on stage at ten pm on a Sunday, that
momentum would have kind of ridden through into their sound
if and they maybe would have made more of a
lasting impact.
Speaker 3: But they were.
Speaker 2: They were like solid, good death court stuff. I can
sort of see why people like it, but it was
again for someone who had like doesn't kind of rive
death as much as I once did. I had a
nice kind of just like stinky mosh night.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I would like to open up the news
as we move into that, first of all, by paying
tribute to the great Phil Campbell, who we got the
really sad news that he passed away this week. Phil Campbell,
of course, the long time guitarist of none other than
Motorhead for the past you know, ten plus years now,
since Head have obviously not been you know, but part
of our world anymore. It's been over ten years since
we've had you know, let me passing away in no Motorhead.
Phil Campbell's own band, you know, the Bastard Sons a
very frequent appearance at you know, rock festivals and metal festivals,
you know, up and down the country, all over the place.
So I'm sure even if you never, for example, saw Motorhead,
you might well have you know, cross Paths with Phil
Campbell playing, you know that those songs at some point
in a live environment quite you know, sudden. And that's
really just like really sad news about the guitarist of Motorhead,
who I think so many of us I suppose new
as the guitarist of Motorhead, because Motorhead obviously that's Lemmy's band.
Like as soon as Lemmy was gone, then there was
no more motor Head. That was just you know, at
the question, and when you look at the different ears
of Motorhead, obviously Lemmy is the one through line throughout it.
And now that again we have been in the world
without Motorhead for ten years, the immediate image you have
of Motorhead does tend to be the peak classic years
up for the Ace of Spades, lineup, that kind of
thing with fast Eddite on guitars, Philthy Animal Taylor on
the drums, that great three pieces lineup. But if you,
you know, came of age and became a metal fan
throughout the twenty first century, then there was another lineup
of Motorhead that you would have seen everywhere. You would
have seen in magazines, releasing albums every every two years
as they always would do, and touring every year as
they always would do. And that was the Phil Campbell
on guitar and Mickey D on the drums lineup either
side of Lemmy and Sam. I don't know if you
are you know, you necessarily strike me as the kind
of a metal fan who will have been, like, you know,
going see Mohead every year, that kind of thing. Did
you ever see Motohead life?
Speaker 2: Yes, Sonosphere twenty eleven, Okay, right when they were main
support to Slip No. Third from the Top of four
Limbiscuit and Slipknot so like as the one time I
saw Motorhead and it was kind of like, that's fucking Motorhead,
that's Lemmy and like Phil Campbell on stage like he
seemed I could do New is fucking just loving rocking
on stage. And again like because he's obviously like the
longest serving motor Head guitar, so if he's not part
of it, he's the.
Speaker 1: Single longest serving Motorhead member ever outside of Lemmy himself.
Speaker 2: Lemmy, Yeah, exactly, Like and so I think that's where
you kind of get like he was such a vital
part of the fabric of that band. And yeah, like
I said, I just remember seeing Moheads on his fifth
twenty eleven and like just be like these songs rock
like shatter Lemmy, but like Phil camp was up there
doing his things.
Speaker 3: And and again he's kind of then just presence over the.
Speaker 2: Past or of decade at various festivals just seems like
he just was just like doing it for the love
of the game. He's kind of struck me as that
at that point was like, I mean, you know, still
play these mo Head songs with like Felk the bust
Center and that they would just pop up a bloodstalk
on like the little stages and and somef like that
just to kind of like crack out the jams and
have a good time. And he just kind of made
him a very endearing kind of character to have around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in a lot of ways, for the
past ten years he has been almost the guy sort
of carrying on the motor Head legacy, I suppose, and
like waving the flag you know sands the great band
themselves actually still existing, and you can for years when
I ou ahead, he was just like the cool Welsh
dued with the hat and the cigarette hanging out of
his mouth, riffing away on the corner of stage, not
you know, taking up too much of the limelight, but
clearly just exuding an aura of cool. And you can
absolutely envision him being just part of that rock and
roll life of fabric that Motorhead so like seemed to
embody essentially more than any other band ever. He made
sixteen albums with Motorhead, and considering that is, you know,
obviously he comes into the band a good you know,
handful of albums into Motorheads catalog overall, to have made
sixteen albums with them, it's unbelievable. His first one was Orgasmatron,
and you speak about the you know, the classic line
of Motorhead and the peak run of albums you think
of again overkill bombit as of spades whatever. As far
as I'm Concerned or Gasmatron is still a classic album.
Speaker 2: And I was going to say, like, that's a great
sort of first statement from him, you know, that's what
you know Sepultury coverage exactly.
Speaker 3: It's got its iconic statusas for sure.
Speaker 1: And then album right after that is the album rock
and Roll, which I think is really underrated one. It's
one of my underrated favorites, and there are some fantastic
riffs on that. And then you go through to again
the twenty first century and maybe the albums that you,
if you're a slightly younger Motorhead fan might have remembered
coming out and getting and some of the great highlights
of you know, all of that later period of Motorhead,
whether it be Inferno in the sort of early to
mid two thousands, Motorizer in the late two thousands, records
like Aftershock and Bad Magic, which were the final Moorhead albums,
and the the guitar personality motor Head did change, like
with Phil Campbell and eventually him being the band. It
kind of gets you to, you know, the twenty first
centuries sound, the motead, which does have this kind of
slightly burlier, more downtuned like really creasy kind of type
of riffing that you get on those Motorhead records. So
he was like just such obviously a key part considering
the you know, the rate of turnover which some of
these bands went through members, including Moorhead obviously for you know,
a few years sort of in the middle there two
have been there for that longer period of time and
you know, being part of that fabric and given so
much that band for that period of time is it's
just an incredible, you know, thing to look back on,
just specifically looking at you know, Phil Campbell's time in
that band and his part of it with it and
obviously now you look at you know, the the great
note Heead names and Lenny Filthy Animal, Worzel Fast Eddie,
now Phil Campbell or all gone. It is as we say,
you know, Mickey D from that final lineup, is the
guy really out there? But to you know, to say
you are the newer guitarist to boat Heead or like
the Morten guitarist of Motorhead, and you go, hang on, No,
he was there from nineteen eighty three. That's Metallica's debut
album nineteen eighty three, you know, like three decades of
Motorhead and then a decade after that of shows you
know in his own name. Just an incredible career and
a rightful, you know legend to so many, So absolutely,
you know, all of the eternal respect and you know,
rest in peace to to Phill Campbell. Let's go to
some new music and new us if you.
Speaker 3: Like new album announcements.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with none other than News of course,
who They have announced that their their tenth album, tenth
studio album from mus obviously not including you know, B
size collections and stuff like that they have over the years.
It's called the Wow Signal with Wow all caps exclamation
mark at the end of it. This if you are
not aware, the Wow signal is an actual thing. It
refers to a sort of a stray signal I suppose
that was detected. It's a scientific term in the seventies. Essentially,
it is a sort of like a signal that was
picked up that may or may not indicate extra terrestrial life.
It was an unexplained you know, transmission out there that
was picked up. And it's so named because the scientist
who picked up said signal, like you know, wrote it down,
recorded it highlighted it and wrote a big wow because
he couldn't bel what he was doing, so you know
it and it is very very muse I suppose. Unfortunately,
in a rock music context, I see wow exclamation mark
and I just think of Royal Republic. Wow. Wow Wow.
Speaker 3: I just saw the Wow signal and that NAP album covering.
I was like, ah, fux sake music back.
Speaker 1: They're back in space obviously. I mean you can say
the album cover it's you know, a sort of a spacecraft,
isn't it. So we're getting a space one. Even the
launch of this album itself, you know, there's things where
it's just like this is just made to be put
in a pr email essentially to be sent out. They've
it's like Mews have launched their album from space and
there was you know, a video live stream that you
could watch which had like a fifty five minute waiting
screen countdown only to then cut to a like little
camera with like a drone that flew up into the area,
went up into space and then just revealed the Wow
signal and then get us the track that has now
been released from it as well. But new mews album's
coming out at the end of June, the Wow signal this.
I was actually I was thinking about this a little
bit before I knew that this was coming, because Mew's
put out a single last year. We spoke about it.
It's called Unraveling, and I just like, you know, unrelated
to this, just by chance. I was listening to Origin
and Symmetry this week as weekend. And if you are
you know, a long time T and M listener, you
might know that that that is like one of my
like absolute upper upper tier, like elite tier favorite albums
of all time. I genuinely think that that and that
run of records is some of the greatest rock music
ever made. Like that's just how I feel one of
my favorite album runs of all time, that period of
Origin Symmetry and Absolution and Black Horns and Revelations. And
I was, you know, thinking about, you know, revisiting that,
and it reminded me that Muse had released a single
last year that I had otherwise completely forgotten about.
Speaker 3: Uh God, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Realize the second song on the on this on the
single one to play on it. There were the two
songs and they I was like, God, we had discussed
that other song. I was like, yeah, I've completely memory.
Speaker 1: So then I look back to it and that song Unraveling,
the first one came out in June of last year,
so it's been what like nine months, like I got
a fucking pregnancy gestation period between the first you know,
single from it coming out and actually getting the ABB announment.
So and I wonder, I've forgotten about it. But I
was thinking, you know, it's just about you know, obviously,
how intense a relationship I had with this band. I
suppose like when I was younger and you know, with
those those those classic records, and I remembered essentially that
Unraveling existed prior to this like announcement coming, and I went, just,
isn't it a shame that Muse released a single and
I completely forgot about it, and that I essentially, like,
you know, for years, I was just so you know,
actively looking forward to everything news did, and I'm now
at the point where I sort of don't really care
one way or another if like a news record is coming,
and and that, you know, that just sort of thought
cross my mind. I suppose just at the weekend, as
I was listening to an old classic record and remember
they put out a song last year. Clearly they you know,
felt the need to remind me because here we are
now with the Wow signal coming out and as well
as Unraveling, we've got a second single called Be with
You Unraveling again. I revisited it along with this as
I Know you did. I think it's a perfectly fine song.
It has, you know, a riff in it. Eventually, it's
got a mosh part breakdown. They're still doing the kind
of you know, gent seven or eight string thing that
they have adopted doing on the last couple of records.
You might remember there was a I Think It It
Won't Stand Down, the lead single from the Will of
the People album that had a similar people like, oh,
it was kind of going for a almost metalcore style,
you know, bouncy.
Speaker 3: It's the Mick Gordon Yeah soundtrack riff.
Speaker 1: Is that? Like for sure, it's you know, Matt Bellamy's
spin on it, but that is definitely where it comes from.
I think Unraveling is an okay song. It just kind
of lacks that momentum that for me as a marker
of so many of these new songs now it's like
you go, oh, there's a riff in there. Somewhere. It
just doesn't seem to sort of pick up steam be
with you. I guess they've gone with the approach of like, oh,
we've put out a heavy riffer from the album already,
so well, you know, go something different here. This one
is like, Oh, we're gonna beam up and we're gonna
have a religious experience meeting the alien.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this song is so naff. I was like like, oh,
and joke pretty much.
Speaker 2: Who's sounding a little bit husky now he can't quite
hit those high notes like he once did. He like
like he's definitely straining tips of those high notes now
compared to how he wants did it kind of like
so I was off fine enough for it, and then
you know, the sort of like the electronics properly come
in and I was kind of like, oh Jesus is
doing this, and then it kind of goes like when
like the guitar is probably kicking in the second half
and it's trying to get all like stone and it's like,
oh my god, how big something. It's like it's just
a bit like Killers B side like went towards the end,
I just was like, none of the individual parts and
this none of it kind of fits together to be
a conducive, interesting song to me, and then the individual
parts kind of stand out as particular, kind of like stirring.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing, right, Those like Original Symmetry.
Speaker 2: Absolution and Black Cars and Revelations are incredible albums. I will, like,
I do want to ever say like those albums are amazing.
When I say I hate News, those three albums are
immune to the hatred, and like my New News is,
I'm like, at this stage, I want New News to
be so daft that I laugh at.
Speaker 3: I want the Will of the People. I want you
make me feel like it's Halloween.
Speaker 1: The song from the Will of that, like the Will
of the People is the News album that I have
revisited as an album the least ever, because it's, you know,
the latest one that came in that kind of you
know me sort of you know, losing track of I suppose,
you know, really being that into what they were doing.
The song that I have heard the most times is
you make me feel like It's Halloween, because I'll slap
it all on Halloween and it's and it's a load
of fun.
Speaker 3: It's that's song is so much fun.
Speaker 2: That is my favorite MWS song since like any like
probably since you know, Uprising off the Resistance and like
like the couple of the Havelo decent songs on that album.
Like if I'm gonna go for MWS now, I want
them to be as stupid as possible. I don't want
boring MWS and this is boring News And I'm just
kind of like, is this how I'm gonna be like
really self serious kind of like we're off to meet
the aliens where, you know, adventuring into space. We are
like the most mind altering epic band possible. And I'm
just I was like, all right, cool, like muse fine,
but I'm checked out already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Matt Bellamy. The way that Matt sings is
like emotionally for the past sort of you know, at
least ten years. Matt just sings differently to how like
you know, classic Matt does, Like you can put Origin
Symptory Absolution on and then put any record like from
your post Drones on and like just the tone of
his voice. I don't know he obviously yeah, he took
some kind of vocal lessons. He changes his approach or something,
but just if he sings like a different guy. And
you then add the fact that this song is essentially
gospel for a lot of it, like he's doing this
again gospel s as I say, religious experience when beaming
up and meeting the aliens. When you say that he's
almost training, I think it's more that just like a
Matt Bellamy high note and how he approaches them and
the emotional effect of them is completely different to what
that means so well.
Speaker 3: Old high notes were like unlike any other vote.
Speaker 2: They felt so like distinct him, and now it's just
gonna sounds like he's just kind of pushing for it
and it's not hitting the same way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a completely different planet to like microcuts, right,
and so it's gospel that you know, that kind of Matt.
Then with this electronic underpinning on it, that is like
again it's it's perfectly finely produced or whatever, but it's
not beyond what they were doing in this lane like
fifteen years ago, you know. And I don't think this
is not the worst new song. It's not like something human, right,
but it's just it's not remarkable, And I do think again,
I've immediately pretty much forgotten most of what it is
and I do. I predict based on the the art,
the title, the vibe of these singles, even though we
have one heavy and one so heavy, I predict of
an album of like cosmic yearning. Essentially. I predict, you know,
the music's equivalent of the ending scene of Close Encounters
of the Third Kind, where it's just like we are
gonna We're gonna go up there and you know, meet
fucking the Little South part alien or whatever. And I
think the album it will be ridiculous at points because
mus are I hope we got some daft ship, but
I think the album is going to take it so
very seriously. And I don't think we're gonna get much
in the way of Halloween songs or whatever in that
regard as well. And yeah, so we'll be back here
in June for our sort of you know, every handful.
Speaker 3: Of years, I'll be back is is that?
Speaker 1: When?
Speaker 3: When is that about?
Speaker 1: In June twenty sixth of June, So we'll be back
for the reviews for this one. Yeah, so we'll be
back in June for I say, you know, every now
and then we keep up with where where mus are at.
But the wowl signal is beaming into our ears very
very soon. We also have a new album announcement from
keeping our you know, our absolute favorite bands coming thick
and fast. Black Felt Bright have got a new album announcement.
It's called Vindicate. There is a track out from it
to the title track. It is out on maybe the
eighth and Blackveld Bride, you know, you know, maybe sometimes
they announce an album, we might not even necessarily even
put it in the news, right, but it just popped up.
And Blackveld Brides, I think are I know that they
have been a punchline ever since they started, primarily initially
because of you know, appearance and esthetic and that kind
of thing. I think Blackveil Brides have consistently been a
all right band, Like I don't think they have not
the most terrible metalcore band of that generation by any means.
And I think they have had various moments where you go,
that's all right, Like that's a decent tune. And they
have always been particularly like baby of then Sevenfold, and
they're not going to go and make their fucking life
is a Bird Dream and ever record. They are going
to stick to doing baby versions of you know, the
radio fodder e then Sevenfold there's an album cover for
this that I don't know what's going on with the
album cover. It looks like it's not finished rendering. It's
very very strange. But I put on a whim. I
put on the Blackfir Bride single. I was like, okay,
you know, put it on, and I would say it's
a kind of for their standards, sort of heavy single,
Like it has a bit of a riff going. There's
even like little stray bits of like blast beats or
whatever in it. And because blackfair Brides have not moved
from their typical mode of being baby even sevenfold, which
means that they have things like actual guitar harmonies and
guitar events overfold and that again rock style. I think
it is sort of classic rock and heavy metal based
and stuff. Because they have that and they haven't moved
from that. They still sound like when they were doing that,
you know, in the mid twenty tens. I put this
on and it's an okay song, But I went on,
there's some lead guitar playing in this. This is more
an actual heavy metal song than the majority of what
metalcore has been for a long time. And again, I
don't think this is a spectacular song or any thing
by any means. But uh, I think it's all right.
I think it is an actual heavy metal single from
a popular commercial band which did hit my ears in
a good kind of way. I think this is even
better than some historically good bands are right now.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a similar kind of thing. I
was just like New York because they haven't moved.
Speaker 2: But it's like, but they have at least, you know,
it's nice to hear a modern kind of metal band
or just man just actually kind of tip the hat
to heavy metal and classic.
Speaker 3: For that because it's no guitars, aren't you know?
Speaker 2: They don't sound like you've pressed a button on a
laptop and it's just like programmed guitar sound.
Speaker 1: It's like Blackveld Brides By Not Moving are better than
Architects Buried Tomorrow and While She Sleeps are in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3: Isn't that insane? You're right in the strength of this song.
It's hard to.
Speaker 1: Argue and it but it's all right in it stacent. Yeah,
totally fine, Yeah, totally fine. Don't know if we review
the record, but it's coming in May, and so good
for them. Do you single that I am a little
bit maybe more looking forward to the future about I
suppose is will end our new single Gauntlet with most
gauntletsy of them all. I suppose a storm Keep they
are back. There is a single from storm Keeper out
called Carnal Tapestries of Nail Torn Flesh. There is an
album announcement right now, but I imagine this will be
coming hot on its heels. If you don't know storm Keep.
The mind behind this band is Isaac, who is the
drummer of both Blooding Cantation and Wayfarer, and storm Keep
is again one of that large family of projects I
suppose all these guys have. Stormkeep is Isac from Blakenation
and the Wayfarer. His sort of it's not necessarily quite
symphonic black metal. It's not as like, yeah, you know,
slathered in that stuff in the production, as like that
kind of demi borg he or whatever thing is. But
it's that kind of like you know, wind sweat, epic, icy,
mountain wizard stuff, that that vision of blood Do you
like the Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 2: Do you like that?
Speaker 3: Because that's what that's the vibe I get from it, exactly.
Speaker 1: And the first album from twenty twenty one, I think
it was called Tales of Other Time is kind of
it sort of went down as maybe a sort of
minor modern classic for this sort of thing. Like people
love that record and like the artwork is really like
you know, it gets shared around all the time. The
thing you need to blue album art work exactly the
thing I think you really need to know, and you've
rereadly said it is Isaac from Again these Bands is
the biggest Emperor fan in the world, and this project
is where he just like gets all of the Emperor
love out. So it has been, you know, sort of
in the works for a while. They've been New Stormkeep
and I think, you know a lot of people in
the underground are looking forward to that. As I said,
this is the first taste of an album. The single
artwork for this has been again if you are in
your black metal chords of the Internet. It's started a
little bit of discussion because it does not look like
your lovely icy Blue Mountain album artwork that the first
one has, And I sort of see where it's coming
from in that it's going for this like almost kind
of cheap nath digital sort of turn of the naughties
symphonic black thing like, you know, sort of mid period
Cradle esthetics, that kind of thing. It it does look
a bit like mid period Cradle mixed with like early
Escape the Fates. So I've seen a lot of people
like this art was fucking rubbish. I think it's just
the single art rather than the album. So that's that's
that's good.
Speaker 3: I will say.
Speaker 1: The promo picture is fantastic. If you've not seen that,
go check Isa's Instagram. It looks fucking so cool because
you know, you see isaacin Blooding Hantation and he's a
long haired prog metal guy, like they all look right,
but here the Isan circa nineteen ninety seven look that
he's going for with the spiped shoulder pads, the corpse paint,
the blood coming out of his mouth standing in the
snow is fucking great.
Speaker 3: But even even just.
Speaker 1: Again the artwork being what it is, it sort of
feels like it's going for a less like it's less
night Side this time and more, as you say, a
bit anthems and a bit you know, Equilibrium Emperor, and
sonically it's a little or sort of moving in that
direction as well, a little bit kind of aggressive in
the production and that kind of thing, but obviously I
enjoyed the hell A list. Did you check out the
storm Keep single?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really like this Again, That's why I just
mean it was like, yeah, this is because obviously, for
the reasons I've listened to anthems a fair bit recently,
I've kind of got back into like Vine with Emperor again,
and this hit I was like, yeah, this is this
is really cool.
Speaker 3: I come over, I've listened to much storm GYP.
Speaker 2: I know that I see the first album outwork around
all the time, and I'm like, I think I probably
had a few songs, but I think this song is
is really cool.
Speaker 3: And that kind of like grandiose, kind of like.
Speaker 2: Very sophisticated, epic but still kind of evil black metal
sort of thing that you just said you were like
anth and all that. It's nailing that I assume even
about the art that doesn't really suckle, but the song itself,
I think it's just really fucking good.
Speaker 1: It is good, and I think just obviously this is notable,
not only because it's you know, a good band and
a musician News plays and lots of good bands and stuff,
but like coming right after the Worm album that we
reviewed on last month show. I think you can see
that like in the Underground, and there are other bands
doing it as well. This is kind of in vogue now,
like the sort of specifically when you look at Worm,
it's that sort of like late nineties kind of kitchy,
sort of kind of you know, dated, but in a
way that people really love that sort of era of
like the symphonic black metal thing is kind of being
you know, revived a lot right now. This track I
think is like compared to start of the Worm, it's
a little bit more sort of high tech fidelity maybe,
but yeah, it's a really good, good track. It's got
great guitars on it.
Speaker 2: And then the Worm stuff is. But yeah, it unds
a bit more, a bit more kind of like sophisticating.
Speaker 1: Stately, I'd say, yeah, maybe again like if if Worm
are like you know, Cradle or Dimu, then Storm keep
obvious a little bit more emperoring, as you say, a
little bit more has that sort of sophistication to it.
I'm just it's it's made me annoyed that they're not
playing Fortress in a couple months where I can see
them alongside old Band's child. You know, that's exactly the vibe.
But when we get you know, news on a storm
Keep album, then that will be good news as well. Right,
some live news based here in the UK. Let's start
off with Corn, who have announced there. This is the
bit that blew my mind. It's Corn's first like full
UK to or Europe as well in almost a decade. Right,
I'm guessing that has to be the Corn limp Biscuit
mad Ball run that they did at the end of
twenty sixteen. And obviously I don't think it's felt necessarily
that Corn have been you know away, because they have
you know, done some high profile shows here in the
UK in the last handful of years. But I guess
it has been centered on those individual high profile shows
things like obviously headlining Download Festival and the sort of
standalone park shows that they did, yeah leading up to that,
And like, I haven't seen Corn in about ten years
since that Corn olymp Biscuit mad Ball show, and I
was thinking, like, why haven't I seen Corn in so
fucking long? And I guess it just makes sense because
I don't go to Download or whatever, so I haven't
been to those big ones. But it's kind of crazy
that Corn, despite being they never felt like they went
away and they obvious they've they've done huge things, have
not actually done an actual US tour in ten calendar years.
Speaker 3: That is nuts.
Speaker 1: Bringing along with them for this tour is going to
be Architects as main support and Youth Code as well. Opening.
I think the UK dates is Youth Cod. There's also
a band Pixel Grip, who are appearing on some of
these dates as well. And I think the obviously the
other surprise there for some people maybe is that architects
who have done you know, arena runs in their own
right and I'm sure have played some of the same
venues that Corner playing here, have you know, taken on
the main support role for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean obviously architects did the O Too Arena,
which was where Corner doing on this in London.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say it was a like and again
is huge no matter how you.
Speaker 2: Try and swing it, but it was a like half
shot off Too Arena like the Architects one night, Yeah,
the top tier, So like there's still I'm not I
don't want to knock out. I've knocked architects with so
many things. Twenty thousand se.
Speaker 1: If your architects and Corn come call and game. Want
you want to come out of us?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, can take that because again I don't think
going to climb because that's also going to put them
in front of a lot of normous We're going to
go to their one metal show every in her it is.
It's the same sort of thing we're talking about.
Speaker 2: So, like I was saying to some thing about like
the link of parks where you know, spirit Box and
whoever been on them, and people who don't go to
metal shows but are going to go see Lincoln Park
or Corn or Limp Biscuit, those sort of bands from
their childhood that they might still go and see every
now and then, Keets's gonna get in front of them
and it might kind of just sort of bolster their
position and show them up so that they can then
have another go at these big arenas off the back
of this. But you know, as a package, I think
that that's you know, a big two big bands or
like which again for audiences, concer mean how much fucking
arena shows cost? Now actually know more bang for your bucket.
But Corn, you know, they are like riding that wave.
Speaker 3: They they are you know, just a massive band on
them and Deftones.
Speaker 2: They are the big boys in the sort of the
modern new metal sort of thing, so it makes sense
that you know, they get in this full UK arena run.
Imagine it will sell really well on Corn, who are
always fantastic live, will be brilliant.
Speaker 1: And youth code as well as an opener is It's
like that's a bit of a pivot going from that
into you know what follows. But yeah, good, Like I said,
I haven't seen Corn in like ten years, essentially since
the last I actually did a proper tour, and I
would be you know, I would want to go to this,
I think, certainly knowing you know, some some of what
we are going to be doing, you know, I'll be
in a Corn mindset and I'll want to go and
see it. I suppose, you know, I'm not necessarily going
to jump right on and drop nay quid on it
this distance this weekend. I'll I'll stick around and see
what happens. But yeah, big news in terms of the
Corn camp. Also, Marmazettes have announced another UK tour. They've
literally only just done a UK tour leading up to
their new album that's coming out in May. They've announced
more dates kind of off the back of it. So
if you are in Sheffield, Oxford, Northampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, London
or Leicester, then I think they're also going to be
playing Tooth and Trees around that time as well, and
they're also playing Biffy Cleiro's big Finsbury parture. They're around
a lot, which is good to see, isn't it that
Marmosettes are around a lot? Clearly. I think they just
you know, they did that tour that they've just done,
enjoyed it so much, got anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're just trying to like rebuild as
much momentum as possible going into this new alan kind
of like showing.
Speaker 3: About that they are, that they are active again.
Speaker 1: Yes, And back on the black metal front, we've had
some news that Noctool, which is Serena Cherryson Stoubard's solo
black metal project, they put a first album a few
years ago and there is going to be a second
one you know, coming I would imagine probably this year.
They have joined onto the UK dates of Spectral Wounds
UK and European tour. That also includes the dates in
Scotland that Wolves and The Throne Room are playing with
both of those bands. So if you are a black
metal fan, particularly obviously the Scottish dates with Wolves in
the Throne Room on, but even just the you know,
the the English dates with Spectral Wound and Noctall, then
that has become one of the tastier looking black metal
packages this year, I think, So you know, go forth
and get necro with it. And just last piece of
news here for this Friday's come from the Wildhearts camp.
Ginger Wildheart has you know, kind of put out there
that he has been diagnosed with with what he describes
as an aggressive form of cancer. He's still going to
be touring and making new music and everything. There is
a tour coming up in April that is, you know,
immediately straight off the back of this that he's committed
to doing. So definitely, you know, if you are a
Wildhart's fan, then I'm sure you'll be going out and
hitting up these hitting up these shows. Just yeah, like
you know, absolute best wishes of course to mister Wildheart. Right,
what have we done this week? We just on the
Patreon you and I Sam, we put out another latest episode.
It's like episode forty I saw of our horror series
that we've been doing for like five years now. Yeah,
nice big round number on one of the goats because
we spoke about Sam Rainey because we wanted to check
in with his latest film that came out aout a
month ago, called Send Help.
Speaker 3: We paired it with.
Speaker 1: Of He Is perfect pairing that also just meant it
was an excuse for us to talk about the absolute
twenty first century masterpiece that he has dragged me to. Hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was This was just fun.
Speaker 2: This was one of those like you know, you know what,
we've done some of these tins and we've gone deep
and we've gone too like that really like hefty conversations.
Speaker 3: This one was just like Sam Raimi's the guy.
Speaker 2: And obviously we still kind of dung in some sort
of like deeper things on this, but just talking about
Sam ray being the fucking guy and drag me tell
being an absolute right out of a movie that I'd
kind of forgotten just how wonderful and riot to that
movie is of all gags and all like and then
again like just Parry was sent out, just two great
fun goofy horrors from the King of that shit.
Speaker 3: This was This was just such a really just fun,
good vibes episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very very fun. Indeed, the Tinando's Horror series, it's
a little extra that we do for the people who
you know, choose to give the highest amount over on
the Patreon and support us because that is so so
appreciated elsewhere on the Patriots that we have completed now
are Mega Mega nineteen ninety seven special that we started
like the first couple of months of this year doing
as we look to the future, We've got other specials planned,
band specials, list specials to like we are going to
because we know we did not have not done them
so far this year because we got so deep in
the week and seven. Yeah, but we are going to
be bring about album Club is going to be the
next thing that is going to be happening over there
in the next half of weeks. So yeah, look to
that and get involved as you see fit cheers everybody.
Let's end this this hyperblast with the releases for today
twentieth of March, and there is one release in particular
that we start with that I think is one of
the ones that we have been most looking forward to
all year, really Poison the Wells new album is out.
It's called Peace and Place. One of these single most
important metalcore bands has ever ever been subject of a
T and M band special last year. Obviously, this is
right at the top of our list of things to
be excited about and be checking out, So we will
be back to you with our thoughts on Poison the
Well's new album. There's also the new album from Exodus
called Goliath. This is the first album that the Thrash
Titans have released with the return of one of their vocalist,
Rob Dukes. Their two thousands ear at vocalist Rob Dukes
returns to the band for this album. There's also Gearrhea,
the black metal band from Portugal, with an album called
Loss and it's one of the releases that I am
most I've been most sort of curious and fascinated by,
I suppose heading into this year. So we are going
to be of course, you know, reviewing that one as
well and updating you with what the take is, I suppose,
with what is going on there. Then there is a
band called Filth Is Eternal. You might remember them. They
used to be called Fucked and Bound. They were more
of like a really like nasty, d beat hardcore sort
of band. They changed their name to Filth of Eternal
and what I checked out from this record is more
sort of like grungey olt rock. So that's kind of
the pipeline I suppose it's going on there but a
few like a mixture of those kind of worlds. Then
there's a band for you. Over from the like punk
side of the spectrum. There's a band called Glady with
a record called No Needs to Be Lonely. That album
is being produce by Jeff Rosenstocks. So I think that
gives you the world.
Speaker 3: Of punk that you know. I don't recoize that name,
but I do know this band. Cool band.
Speaker 1: Okay, well there you go. If that's your world of punk,
then that's your your pick of the week this time.
Then if you are into nineteen eighties sleeze sunset strip
style heavy metal, then there's a band, a new band
called Stainless. I think this is a daily record. Record
calls Lady of Lust and Steel and it's absolutely as
I say, those like sunset Strip sort of vibes in
a you know, a modern context.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Into the underground. There is a band called Eggry Gore
with a record called it Echoes in the Wild, which
is like a cult black death metal Then there is
also a band called The Silver with looking Glass Hymnal Blue.
This is a band that features members of some of
the great mon underground bands like Horrendous and crypt Sermon.
This is them doing some kind of like experimental black
metally sort of fair more straightforward death metal, as you
probably tell from the name gut Void with liminal shrines.
And then when it comes to sort of EPs and
mini albums, I suppose this time there's McCluskey, you know,
a quite well you know, regarded historically, I guess alternative
rock band. Their mini album is called I Sure, I'm
getting sick of this Bowling Alley if you are into
your post punk dark wave kind of stuff, you know,
Batcave vibes. Then there's another release from a band called
Arnul Noir called Inexistence and dropped sort of in the
middle of the week, but I thought we'd put it here.
I suppose there was a split release from the two
bands from New England, because it's called New England Forever.
It's the drop Kick Murphy's and Hey Wire. So that's
kind of a you know, obviously an old very associated
with you know, Boston in New England, you know, kind
of a legend band who would agree with the drop
Kit Murphy's with as we have spoken about recently, one
of the real like you know, hype popular new bands
coming from particularly hardcore in that kind of corner of
the world, New England forever that sounds like something that
you'd be into. Sound.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is really good.
Speaker 2: It's you know, I think they dropped as part of
like in from of like Saint Patrick's there I like
a boss.
Speaker 3: New yeh Irish Americans of thing like Dranger's identity. But
this is really cool.
Speaker 2: So it's two collaborative songs, two individual original songs from
each band, and then they're covering each other as well
as like the last songs on their sides of the split.
Speaker 3: But like drop Kick Murphy's it's I think it's a really.
Speaker 2: Cool sort of thing for them sort of sort of
put themselves alongside one of the buzzier newer hardcore bands
or obviously from their area, but kind of like it's
sort of showing that they can sort of hang with
the new bands but also kind of lift them up.
The drop Ky Murphy songs are really good that they're
dron Kink Murphy's playing Hard on this, like it's.
Speaker 1: A really cool Yeah, one of them, I checked out
the split and one of them is called Citizen Ice,
and it is a reworking of an older you know,
drop Kit Murphy's on called Citizens Cia, and they've just
like that's the really hard that's a collaborative one, like yeah, yeah,
and they've just like you know, obviously they've they've altered
the lyrics to modernize it, which you know, very appropriate.
There's also that the Haywire cover of drop Kit murphy
song called the Boys Are Bad and like, bizarrely that
that drop Kick Murphy's albums like twenty twenty, twenty twelve,
that bizarrely is like one of the moments where I
have sort of, you know, just me and the drop
Kit Murphy's are paths crossed, I suppose. And I really
liked that record when it came out. So I remember
that song and I was like, oh, like, you know,
it's not you know, it's not shipping up to Boston, right.
It's sort of a slightly late this drop Kink.
Speaker 2: Murphy's either though the late noughties into the early twenty ten. Yeah,
I really like those drop King Murphy's albums, but.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it's Haywire covering that like sort
of like slightly forgotten rock kit Murphy song that I
really liked when it came out so great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, like the funny one is like one
of the most joyous songs in the album is the
drop Kink Murphy's covering Haywire. They kind of take one
of the haywar like thing is Haywire for hug about
that there are hark Man who like punk. They right,
they like they haven't really like tough guy hargle songs,
but they also have like really upbeat, catchy, kind of
like celebratory punk songs. So that's why again they kind
of sync up really nicely with dron Kink Murphy, so
you can again be a bit tough, but can also
have that kind of real good vibes hargles. Yeah, I've
been spinning this split all week and just having a
great time with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I suppose you don't necessarily expect it, but
Drocket Murphy's considering how again, still politically on it they are,
I suppose like still you know, they speak about the
ship that currently matters, you know, and then when they
you know, they they because they're doing that they chime
with a contemporary band like a Haywire or something. Trocket
Murphy's are I mean a very sort of plain way
of saying it is that maybe Dorocky Mefis are kind
of cool again. I know that they never went away,
but in terms of like bands who you know are
sort of in vogue at the moment and people look
to the Rocky Murphys have you know, they've they've stood
the test of time and they're still about and still
don't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think I think the last like a
few years have been pretty good for Drocking Murphy's.
Speaker 2: Like there's sort of like late twenty ten, twenty twenties
out put a bit right, but the bit n aft,
but the album last year was really good.
Speaker 3: They've kind of been like, you know, quite outspoken when
they're talk about stuff on shows and calling shot out.
Speaker 2: Really now there's all of colors to sort of being
outspoken and being a proper punk band again. And I
think because it's given them like link up Haywies, so
we're going to give them a bit like a kick
to like it up even further.
Speaker 3: And like I say, do Citizen Icee and stuff like that. Yeah,
and maybe at me.
Speaker 1: Again, I've not seen them, so I can't speak to
maybe they're already there, but maybe it means that Haywire
shows you're start going to see loads of people in
flat caps, swamp in the underneath the bridge, whatever it
was you saw them. So yeah, I think that's a
good place to end off our release round up for
this week. Cheers everybody for being with us and listening.
Let's know your thoughts on everything we have discussed. Next
week we'll be back with another reviews show and it's
a pretty big bunch considering we'll be getting our thoughts
on you know, new Poison, the Well, new Lamb of God,
some we have some you know, lesser known names to
pull out from the underground and give to you as well.
So be back with us next week and we will
be here with all of that. So yeah, cheers everybody,
Bye bye,