Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome. So that's not metal our first
show for the year where we are back four. As
the band Satan once said on their album Life Sentence
back in twenty thirteen, when it felt like it was
a long time away holy men and Kings would die
in the year twenty twenty five, we are back for
twenty twenty five. That's a deep cut for you everyone.
This is Hyperblasts where so we're just hopping back in
for you know, a little new show of whatever's been
going on for these first nine days of January. California
is on fire again like clockwork, which you know, if
anyone listening to us is over there, we sincerely hope
that you're doing okay, stark contrast to here, where it
has been icy black metal snow season for for a
little while, enjoying that particular vibe. My name is Perenhish,
Sam Dignon and Mark Sanderson are also here for this
first Hyperblast of twenty twenty five. How are we all?
How was her New Year's how's your first week of
January been?
Speaker 2: I mean I saw us fer our two, which we
will get onto.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That that that that was the event of like the
first week of like New Year's Day, everyone all the
all the goths off to the cinema to go watch
the Vampire movie.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I had a nice New Year. How how
is it all for you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I've just been wandering about. The snow We've
had lots of we're snowed in. Actually, oh boy, we
can't go You're you're way up that am in the mountains. Yeah.
I can't get to the co Op, not that I
was bloody co Op, but Chips.
Speaker 2: Can you Like you've got to get like a forty
minute bus ride to get Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I can't get on the random bus the King
you see, just to get Chips. Yeah, I mean. Other
than that, I've just been wandering about listening to Avantasia.
Speaker 1: It's been nice, very good, big big Magician's hat on. Yeah,
I mean. I had to fly up back from Cornwall
where I was at my family's for Christmas and New Year,
and icy delays and shit. So I had about like
four hours of flight delays sitting about. But I am
now all firmly set up again, once at home and
ready to commit to the year of that's not metal ahead.
Everybody you know has been getting their I vibrator listens
in since our Award show the aftermath cursed us.
Speaker 2: That is like you have cursed us and the listeners
being aware of the existence of Vibrator Yeah, Christ both.
Speaker 1: Putting it to you guys and then seeing the episode
then go live, I felt like I'd like dropped a
bomb in everybody's toilets or something like I really off
a ripper. Then this is your Manhattan Project, absolutely looking
out like Killian Murphy at the end of op on Homer.
There we go. Okay, so we have got a little
bit of news to start us off as we ease
into January. We've got a few singles, We've got a
few kind of you know, big the beginning of the
year's live announcements and stuff like that, and we have
the first couple of weeks of you know, January releases.
If you're wanting to immediately jump onto new music, we
are going to start with something that we after on
the Award show. Me and I guess particularly me and
Elliott spent so much time just trying to list all
the mad reunions that happened in twenty twenty four, and
I think the first news of this one did come
out on sort of the last Dying Days of twenty
twenty four, so you could add that one to that pile.
But never More have announced that they are going to
be looking into doing a kind of reunion. It's not
I guess fully active right now, because there are holding
auditions for you know, some of the positions that need filling.
But the news that Nevermore are coming back is I
don't know if it feels like something that most of
my time as a music fan, as a metal fan,
I kind of caught never More at like the very
end of their career. Basically, like the last couple never
More records were the ones where WI you know, kind
of really got me, and then you know, they went
away and then you know, unfortunately Warrel Daine, they're a
classic era vocalist, passed away. So it's not one that
we really saw happening. But they have announced that Jeff Loomis,
who has spent the last decade in our jeenemy and
recently you know, recommitting to this. I suppose, and I
believe Van Williams, the drummer, are those two are getting
together to put a new never More lineup together and hopefully,
you know, get something out of that going forward. Never
More are very much a cult band. I think, you know,
the people who are in on it will be like
totally like wow, my god, I can't believe never are
coming back, And there'll be a lot of people right
now who are like ow, which you know, I've certainly
I've seen reunions go that way where I feel that
way about whatever the band is in question. I think
the only time that we've done them on T and
M was in the early days of kind of us
doing this.
Speaker 2: Sam Yeah, yeah, we did Alum Club, which I wasn't
super fond of firing correction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder because over the you know what, like
four years or so we've been doing this now.
Speaker 3: If you like chipped away my defenses, Yeah, you've become more.
Speaker 1: And more heavy metal pills, So maybe you'd enjoy that
more now. Who knows, but I you know, that record
and you know, get the records around it and stuff
really like quite a special unique uh. They're you know,
sort of covertly influential, but also just kind of one
of the kind that they were holding down a thing
for a period of time and it wasn't necessarily the
coolest one of the best at it. Mark, I don't
know if you've ever listened to much never More, I
bet you would be well into, like again, the last
couple never More records if you actually heard them.
Speaker 4: It's like, I know, one song, whatever the big one
is don't stop No not don't.
Speaker 3: Stop believing for.
Speaker 4: The books is the one who believe in the name,
you know, the one believe in nothing. Yeah, I know
that song. I really really like it. And really this
should be the catalyst for me checking them out properly,
I guess, because like I say, I really like that song.
Speaker 1: Dude, as a fan of Widdy guitar solos, if you
were to put on this godless Endeavor record, you would
be melting in a puddle after about ten minutes. I
promise you. It's totally that kind of shit. But yeah,
like again, really surprising news that never More are going
to be looking into coming back because as said, you know,
they ended on I guess kind of bad terms and
then you know, a very unique voice they had in
worl Dain you know, cannot be part of this going forward.
So it'd be very interesting to see if they managed
to get someone to you know, you know, appropriately fill
those boots. But I will say that, you know again,
Jeff Loomis has said he'd spent a while in Arch Jenemy,
and I think, you know, he obviously he had fun
in Arch Jenemy and I like those records that they
did together. But he is someone who feels like just
the idea of Jeff Loomis getting back to, you know,
really a band that he is kind of guiding, feels
like kind of where he should be because a really
you know, distinct songwriter and guitarist. So yeah, I would
hope that this never more thing, you know, eventually when
it sees like a day after they fill these positions,
has something good to offer. But that is our last
twenty twenty four reunion, you know a bit of news
right at the end there that will hopefully kind of,
you know, blossom as we go forward. I guess something
else to just wrap up some of last year's coverage.
The honeymoon period is officially over because on New Year's
Yari Main of Winter Sun took to social media, the
Winter Sun Facebook page, and he posted, you know, thanks
everybody for support in twenty twenty four, the release of
the Time two album wasn't that amazing? Our next work
continues on the upcoming Winter Sun album, which is about
eighty percent complete. Now does this mean that he will
start another album and he will get that to thirty
percent complete before finishing the remaining twenty percent? Who knows,
But I just love that, like, ah, we're back to
the grind now we've had a nice little time to experience.
Speaker 2: We continue on like I didn't even I don't even
know tours for time during that?
Speaker 1: No, I would love to say a tour come on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, a Winter some like complete time experience tour
would be very very nice.
Speaker 3: Even I'd go to that.
Speaker 2: I do love he's for like eighty percent complete, Like
imagine he has like grafts and spreadsheets where he's like
measuring exactly, like but how much.
Speaker 3: Of this has actually been like done?
Speaker 2: And you know he's hard drive, blowing up all the samples.
Speaker 3: And shit like how he's measurable like fascinating.
Speaker 2: I do do wonder like if abcent, if a Winter
album is abe and complete, how many years is.
Speaker 3: That left to go? Yeah, like, how many years is
that twenty percent going to take?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I imagine they must take less time
than the time things would surely, But yeah, I said
new year. The grind never stops. The work continues lies
on whenever the Fuck Winner Sun release new material again. Okay,
a little gauntlet of some of the early singles. We're
getting here in again the first week of twenty twenty four.
We are going to start with the biggest one of all,
which is of course Angus mc six returning for a
track which I had to put this in just based
on when I saw the track title, which is six
six six six three sixes is not enough? We need four? Now?
Speaker 3: Did it first as one under saying they did five sixes?
Speaker 1: So sure? But angusmok six, I mean it's not surprised
what it sounds like. I have mainly put this in
here for just the jokes factor. But Mark, you're here
with us, are our head Angus mok six correspondent, I
guess refer to you as what are you getting from
the continuing you know, adventures of mister mc six.
Speaker 4: I mean he's taking a dip from the adventure, isn't he.
It's it's his brother taken over in the Lord.
Speaker 3: It's some strange.
Speaker 1: Stuff going on in the video, which is one of
the Wanki's videos I've seen a while. How do you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Angus six continuing without angers is a choice.
Speaker 1: Do you know about this, mate? I've watched the video,
I've heard the song. As far as I can tell,
he's singing on it. Yes, there's some character play going on,
but what are you referring to?
Speaker 4: Well, the main bloke he's like had a child and stuff,
so he's stepping away from the band and they've got
another guy.
Speaker 5: But who was singing in the video then? I mean,
does he does he have a twig like him?
Speaker 4: I think he's singing on this song, but he's handing
the torch off to this other guy.
Speaker 1: This is far more than I fucking signed up for
when I put this in the news, I.
Speaker 4: Just wanted to keep going ship a THESU six please.
Just like every new song and new person disappears and
gets replaced and they're still singing about the glory Hammer stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't understand this at all. I guess we'll
see what the fuck happens.
Speaker 2: I just I've never felt more vindicated and thinking Glory
Hammer always ship and every that's spun off from the
memorison and have been equally as shit. This is like
the song is rubbish. It sounds terrible, the video is awful.
I'm just like, come on, what are we doing? Like
Scotland's You're better than this, but he's Swiss.
Speaker 3: I don't fake Scotland.
Speaker 4: Now. He's part of the gang. Honorary Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm awarding him right now. Anyway, there you go, moving on.
I guess some of you might be more affressing in
the fact that Pup have got new material. Pup have
released a single called Paranoid. They've also announced along with
it a tour. There are UK dates in May. I
guess this is probably going to be attached to an album.
No news on that as far as I can see
right now. But New Pup I was like, okay, cool,
you know, throwing back to the last time we had
New Pup was the The Unraveling of Pup, the band album,
which is kind of their like, I think intentionally self
styled as one, but their mess album. The third three
Pup albums are all like truly excellent in the sphere
that they you know, are in, and then the fourth
one they just kind of like splashed like the album cover,
you know, just rainbow colors all over it.
Speaker 2: So it's completely like mental breakdown album in sort of
like Pup fashion.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Grew on me, even though it took a while.
Speaker 1: I think it was cool and you know, I liked
you know, seeing them live on that cycle and stuff
like that. I think it's definitely the worst of the
first four, I think, undoubted. Yeah, but I was like curious.
I was like, Okay, so what does new Pup sound
like after that? And I think this song is It's
on one hand, it's more in line with just like
the Pup that I know and love from the first
three albums, but they are also there are still there
are new and kind of distinct, like you know, flavors
on this song that I've not heard them do before,
which I thought were cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think this is in a way this
is kind of yeah, like pub going back to you,
just that kind of really like scrappy, super melogic like
punk sort of thing they're so good at.
Speaker 3: But again gets weirdly heavier.
Speaker 2: Points is that that kind of ending breakdown bit is
like really mean in a way that like Pup can
go heavy, but they never they never quite kind of
like lurching and mean as they are on that point,
it's so it's always a bit more like spiky and angular.
But I think this is great. I'm really down for
like wherever pub goes. Yes, but this does do a
little bit more in line with the first on.
Speaker 1: What I was really struck by. Primarily throughout it, there's
what like a really classic two thousands post hardcore kind
of core progression, like a kind of you know, guitar
riff that you could hear on you know, like sing
the Sour Era AFI or like you know, an Alexus
on Fire or a Boy Sets Fire song or something
like that. And then it also has these sort of
bluesy stonery touches to it at a time, which I like.
But like, just hearing that like full on again two
thousands post hardcore style guitar in a pop song was new,
but I thought it suited them and they still like
the vocal melodies and everything still felt very much them
over that kind of thing, and I was like, damn,
that's a really that's an interesting combination that again you
won't find on like the three Pup records.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice. I don't know, I've never been the book.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 1: Surely that that guitar riff because it's like, if there's
a pop song that makes me think of Thursday.
Speaker 4: Surely, Yeah, I like, I do like this song. I
like how like fuzzy it is. It sounds like, I
don't know, something fucked up in the recording. It sounds awesome. Yeah,
it's not a breezy hook. Like I feel like, I
really enjoyed seeing pop live and revisiting the albums I
sort of like them. Basically, I just want to see
this song live. Yeah, well, I reckon it'd be great.
Speaker 1: I've heard this song once so far, and I reckon,
you know, once I've given it a whole bunch of
more spins and seen it live or whatever, it would
be firmly in there because the hook immediately jumps out
as like, yeah, that's classic PUP stuff. As I said,
some of the guitar touches really interesting distinct on it.
So yeah, curious definitely to see where more Pup goes
after this. And then we also have a new single
from Warbringer with a single is called a Better World.
It's from a new album called Rath and Ruin, which
is gonna be on March fourteenth. Warbringer. I don't think
we've ever you know, musically discussed on TNM. But they are,
you know, a thrash band who first broke out during
that late two thousands going into the early tens kind
of era of like the thrash revival. And I was
like a really big fan, like particularly around like twenty
eleven or twenty twelve or whatever. They were like, you know,
after Muni Waste and so on, Warburing like one of
my very very favorites of that thrash wave. I really
really rated them, and I just thought it was like,
this is coming out after I guess Warbringer been on
our minds a little bit more because Carlos Cruz, the
drummer and Warbringer you may remember, is now the drummer
in Nails. And also this record is produced by Mark Lewis,
who has been having a nice little run of you
know with the Undeath record sound. It is so great
and everything. And so I was like, okay, cool, you
know I've always liked Warbringer. Let me see what you
got here. And I put this on and I think
this song rips like something proper for a newer thrash brand.
That again, because they predate it. They aren't just going
down the kind of post power Trip enforced kind of
sound or whatever, but for a thrash band sounding like
on it in twenty twenty five, I was really struck
by this song.
Speaker 2: This is when me go, I need to check out
Warbinger more than I have because I've always I've like
heard a few songs fore and I've kind of given
them like kind of like Curtory listens and they've never
properly grabbed me. Again, I've only given this one listener shiparb,
but as a kind of just immediate like oh shit,
this this goes off like like I say, this ripped
I was. I was really impressed by this, and I
feel like, yeah, I should you know, give warming.
Speaker 3: Of the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're a band I forgot existed. Like I don't
think I was ever the biggest fan of them. I
was more into the Evils, the Gamma Bombs, h whatever,
But they're a band I remember from that time. So
seeing their name pop up for this, I got I
like a nice warm pang of oh, a thrashband from
when I was a young man. Yeah, it just sounds big, nasty,
it's sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing with that is I think they're more comparable
to like they don't sound like them at all, but
I think in terms of a band from that time
who have just sort of stuck it out over the ears,
they are a bit like Minis for Waste, where they
never went away, and I think like someone like the Minsisboat,
they're at a stage now where it's like the whole
the up and down and up again kind of curve
of like that thrash revival and stuff. They've just kind
of outlasted most of it and they could just sort
of sit in their own corner doing their own thing
and hearing this. It's like I've always thought John the vocalist,
he is one of the best of his generation at
doing that kind of tom a raa thing of like
you can kind of understand everything he says, but delivering
it with like so much bite, just like a full
on yell essentially, but with a real like screaming kind
of edge to it that isn't like, you know, kind
of blurring that line between cleaning, harsh vocal but sounding
super angry. And he sounds great on it. And this
song it has this like kind of melo death edge
in the guitar riff and stuff that uh it. It
feels like something that would have been, I know, a
kind of song that could have been released in like
the mid to late two thousands. But now it's kind
of come round and sounds cool again, you know what
I mean, particularly where again that like really crisp, like
Mark Lewis production on it. So I thought, this again,
really like strong because I've always liked war Bringer the
last couple of records. Maybe I haven't given as much
time as the ones that came out again during my
prime with them, but I be like, if there's more
in line that it's of the quality of this, I'd
be well up for, like, you know, a really strong
war Bringer record, kind of bringing the thrash into twenty
twenty five. So definitely again, particularly again if you are
you know, if you like Nails or whatever. Obviously it
doesn't sound like Nails, but they've got the same dramma
and that kind of engine, you know. I think war
Bring a pretty well primed at the moment to be like, yeah, cool,
go and go and get something for yourself. So that
is exciting, And that record is out on March the fourteenth.
We also have a few other records also all that
announced for March fourteenth. One of those weeks, Clipping have
got their new album, the kind of you know, experimental
I guess, you know, kind of rock and heavy adjacent
hip hop act. Their new record Dead Channel Sky. I
think that was called out on March fourteenth. We have
Stephen Wilson's new album. It's going to be out on
March the fourteenth. It's called The Overview, which is apparently
two sort of eighteen to twenty something minute tracks. So
Stephen Wilson, after you know, the Porcupone Tree reunion has
now come to a close. I really liked that Porcupine
Tree record, but he seems to now be going back
to like full on out there progue. I suppose Mark
you excited forerding Stephen Wilson of that variety.
Speaker 4: I am, because the last few Stephen Wilson projects have
been like not that prog gy poppy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at least like a pop album. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And if he's gone this far with it doing the
two tracks, shit, I don't know, it might it might
be pretty cool. Like like you said, that Porcupine Tree
album is really good.
Speaker 2: I fear I'm primed to like this more than maybe
any other Steve Wilson, Like the last year has thrown
at me like I don't know, Like the Prog Wolves
again have crumbled like fully Rush peeled the Blooding the
Das album was like really getting a lot of the
plug for so I'm like, I kind of whin's it
like a two track for everything? One more was like
I could maybe go with this. We shall see.
Speaker 1: I've never really actually gotten into Stephen Wilson solo, so
I mean, I don't necessarily know if this would be
kind of, you know, the one to break that streak
too much or whatever, but you know, big Stephen Wills
fans out there that is of course coming. The Wonder
Years have announced a kind of off date from their
toural Neck Deep. Aren't they a kind of off date
headline show at the Underworld, which is much smaller and
more into it thing. I guess they would normally do.
That's on February the first, Sam, you're appearing sad about it.
Speaker 3: I'm the big two thousand and five nostalgia show that.
Speaker 1: Night, Jane. Yeah, speaking of two thousand and five nostalgia though,
Comeback Kid have announced for the US a Wake the
Dead an Adversary tour, so you know, if you're over there.
Speaker 3: Look, please bring that to the UK.
Speaker 1: Lovely stuff, but certainly you know, eyes on if that
goes anywhere else. Weather Systems, which is the band launched
by Is it Daniel Kavanaugh or is it Vincent Daniel
Daniel Kabanah from Anathema who launched his you know daily
record with that new project last year. If you wanted
to see that live, they have an out a UK
and European tour. If you are interested, you can go
and find those dates. And Mickey D unfortunately over you know,
the kind of Christmas period he did actually nearly die.
He contracted sepsis. I am very pleased to say that
Mickey D is still alive and is still with us.
I feel like we should maybe retire that running joke
in case we kind of, I don't know, summon some
kind of horrible plague upon this matter who does not
deserve it. But genuinely like very pleased to learn that
Mickey D, after a brush with death, is still.
Speaker 3: I felt bad reading this.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, God, like, because there's a bit,
like a running comedian bit for on and then this happens.
Speaker 1: I was like, if if we had to start this
year with a Mickey de obituary. I I don't know
how I would have handled it because like obviously legend
and that would be you know, as sad as any
other thing we do, but the timing of it would
have been so terrible for us. So there you go.
Vicky d still alive and long may that continue. Our
first round of questions from the That's Not Metal Focus
Group for twenty twenty five. They are all very light
and breezy, just looking at the year ahead twenty twenty
five stuff. Paul Terry kicks us off with what are
your TNM related New Year's resolutions? Eg Go see a
certain band, dig deep into a band's discography, et cetera.
So the nature of doing this is when I was
thinking about twenty twenty five, the year ahead and something
like this, I was thinking in terms of, like, you know,
the content we were going to make, that kind of thing.
So there are several like specials, you know, primarily that
I have had in my head for like a couple
of years where I'm like, we need to really fit
that one in this year. So, and I guess I
won't say them all me. I mean, we're going to
talk about one that's coming up in just a little minute.
But you know, there are there are several specials that
I am like, twenty twenty five is the year that
that gets ticked off. So you know, if you want
to see what those are, then stick with us throughout
the year. Otherwise, I'm gonna finally see death Tones for
the first time. I'm gonna see Agaloc is another nice
one as well, and I guess also you know, I've
seen them before, but like particularly I've been waiting for
like the Maiden like Hits tour for a very long time,
so that is a big one as well. Otherwise, I
don't know, I mean, maybe uh like get into more
Pink Floyd. I think would be one where I'm like,
there are several Pink Floyd records that I still haven't heard, like,
you know, aside from the biggest one. So I'm like,
maybe I should this this is the year I go
and ventor into like the full catalog and dig up
those parts. Similarly, uh, you know, fucking Johnny Cash has
got a million records, isn't he. But I like, you know,
I like stuff like that in town Vans antwers, like
I like the vibe. Maybe I should go and dedicate
them more time to specific records that kind of outlaw
country thing. Maybe those are a couple of veins I
can mine in twenty twenty five. But yeah, I said,
primarily I was thinking in terms of special ideas that
are we were gonna get ticked off. How about you guys,
any goals or things that you want to do in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I mean one for me is like I've kind of
had the sort of get like I love hardcore, but
get back into kind of like the kind of like
grassroots d I y kind of like upcoming hardres seeing
that I feel like I've neglected a bit for the
last years and kind of I've done my like you know,
tripped outbreak roll go. Then I've going to see some
of the bigger Harfle bands, but get back more into
kind of the local show. Yeah that I really want
to get back into that, particularly in hardcore. Listen to
even more Rush. That's kind of carry over from the
end of last year, but like very late last year,
I kind of went, oh, actually, I really like more
than the two Rush holurms we covered, like the one
Rush and were covered in the other hour. I've listened
to and I've now got like loads of Rush alms
I probably should listen to, so uh plan to do that.
Speaker 3: And there are.
Speaker 2: Again nothing that's been to mind the media, but there
are like legendary sort of bands. Actually I'm like, I,
you know, really give them the time of day and
actually check.
Speaker 3: Out more of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: And again there probably will be ones I'll think of
winne Go there, but I'm like, I'm kind of trying
Russia at my pick for that of Like, so I've
listened to some of the eighties records, I've avoided the
seventies stuff mostly right now and the sort of stuff
beyond the eighties. So I've got two directions to go
in to sort of like find out where where Rush
take me.
Speaker 3: But that that's that.
Speaker 1: That's your twenty twenty five resolution. Is the same thing
you were doing in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: At the very end of four with the Rush thing.
Speaker 1: This is cont I respected the continuation mark.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I would like to listen to
more new music, because twenty twenty four was the year
where I listened to the least amount of new albums
since about twenty thirteen. Not that I didn't listen to lots,
but I just listened to less and spent more time no.
Speaker 1: In the past. That's nice to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I don't know. I've found myself retreating
to my beloved Twisted Sister Records more last year, so
I thought, fuck, you know, this year, listen to more things.
Stick with albums more. You know, there's a lot of
albums I only listen to once and sort of well,
it doesn't sound like skid Row, so I'm not going
to listen to that right now. Yeah, listen to more stuff.
I'd like to go to more extreme metal shows, yeah,
because I've barely been to any, which is mad considering
how much I like a lot of extreme metal.
Speaker 1: And I don't know.
Speaker 4: Spearhead the Poison Band Special resolution for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Michael Thomas asks if you could only go
to one festival this year, based entirely on the lineups
already announced, which one would it be and why?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: We are you know on the This will be out
on the tenth of January twenty twenty five. I know
that there are some big festial anounces to come by
the end of this month for some of the other
you know festivals you would you would imagine here in
the UK, but based on what we already have, what
would you say is like I gotta go there?
Speaker 3: For me, it's two thousand Trees.
Speaker 2: Like again, like it's not the way I'm watching it
for Yeat like and like outbreak would be an obvious
one to shout out, but for me, I look at
that two thousand Trees line up. I look at the
like three of the five headliners in particular and the
Undercaranna are like that for me is the most kind
of like I would be having a consistently like great
time and it's got you know, Alex on Fire headlining.
Speaker 3: Cod and Cambria to take MaxEnt as a co headliner.
That to me is like that Codelin of those year.
They'll play like ninety minute seats.
Speaker 2: That's that's like two to three hours of just like
nothing but like amazing banging tunes for me. So yeah,
I would say right now, two thousand Trees and you
know this is going for what's what's there? There's more
to come, so hopefully they could you know, pull out
even more cool shit that I want to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark, you're not really a big festival goer, but
have you seen any posters floating around the next two way,
but like that would be the good one to go to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this question question is funny because like I'm not
gonna go to any festivals, but I'm gonna take this
as someone's offering me the chance to tell report and
Trees does look really good, Like, I mean, hey, I'm
never going to turn down the festival with taking back
Sunday Coheed and thelexis on fire and imployed to serve. Yeah,
looks fucking sick Road Vern has a lot of cool
stuff at it, two exclusive Envy sets, the Times Guard
doing oh yeah, Black Medium Current, which would be good.
I don't even know who's playing. But there's a some
festival on Denmark called epic Fest or something whatever year
A look at that, like, yep, that looks fun. I
think this year they've got uh whatever the old Rhapsody
singer is. I'm sure he's headlining it or something. Fuck it,
I'll go there.
Speaker 1: Brilliant, Yeah, I think for me. Again, there's there's two
that jump out where I'm like, you can't steal that
away from me, and they are you know, Fortress Festival,
which are goin to mentioned the whole bill is great,
but like seeing Aglock in the UK finally is a
big one. But I guess if I had to choose
just like only one Incineration right now, which has you know,
the Celtic Frost set, but also Blood Incantation doing their
one yeah absolutely Elsewhere in full show on top of
like you know what is a great bill otherwise also
on I think just today they added Underdark on there,
which is always nice, like Lampa Murma are playing the
lots of great stuff there, but like, you can't take
the one that has a Celtic Frost set and an
Absolute Elsewhere set away from me, So I guess that
go into my head that will be the one I
picked right now. But Fortress as well. In terms of
like the big camping ones, two Huntry does look great obviously,
Bloodstock looks like it's have a really really big year.
But yeah, those are the ones that immediately jump to mind.
And Pete Ship asks what band would you most like
to release a new album this year? So not ones
that we like know are coming, like definitely, and let's
also say not ones that are like extremely unlikely like
to come just magic something that doesn't exist into the air,
but bands who you know, you would really be really
pleased if they released an album this year.
Speaker 3: I want Loath to get off their ass and release
an album. Yeah, ages they have been they have been
seen on that pages.
Speaker 2: The moment you said not magically something that can happen,
I was like, well, there goes my shout for against Me,
Like I don't mind the law of solo stuff, but
I'm also just like it is missing so much that,
like what against Me had to get that lineup back together,
sort your shit out and release an amazing punk record. Please,
trying to think any other one is that sort of Turnstile,
I would really like it. Turns off feels quite likely
given you know, yeah, they're they're getting into like live
gear again over the summer, but a new Turnstile record
would be very nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was thinking earlier, I think I'm ready for
new Weezer. I think I've recovered enough.
Speaker 2: Ask me again in the summer when I've seen them
sporting deatones. Yeah, and then I'll tell you if I'm
ready for new Weezer.
Speaker 1: I think I would like to go into that Deathtone
show just seeing Weezer without having the fear of new
material hanging over it and then they can do what
they like after that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can surprise drop an album the day after
you've seen them. Yeah yeah, I think we know what's coming,
but Thursday the actual confirmation the Thursday album's coming. I
would like that. I don't know, just any of my
favorite bands, and you know, it'd be nice to have
a new Jimmy World Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a while they've been doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty nineteen that yeah, yeah, give me that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Mandatory. I have to say every single
fucking time trip to con where every year he has gone,
it's nearly done, it's gonna come, and then you know,
the next year I say the same thing. But if
that was to come this year, finally, that would be lovely. Otherwise,
I really want there to be an Electric Wizard album
this year. Like it's been a lot. It's been it'll
be eight years since their last studio album, which is
an unheard of amount of time for them. But they've
been gearing up slightly.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: They put out the live recording at the end of
you know, last month, which I've just been in today
and it's fucking brilliant. It sounds so great. But like
you know, in that like eight year period they've released
like one random song, I would really i'd be listening
to a lot of Electric Wizard, which I mean I
always I always do, but just like you know, I
have been enjoying them of late, and I would really
like there to be an Electric Wizard album in twenty
twenty five. I think maybe Pete Detroyer as well would
also be like, you know, they're seeing you know, they're
coming back to the UK at some point, aren't they.
And it's been quite a while now since they release
the head Cage album, and I don't even know if
they're like creatively active. But that Battle Ruins band who
I got like obsessed with at the start of last
year and I brought onto the T and M swap
thing we did that, I know that they around that
time they played like a show around the time they
did that, So I feel like, after again I was
listening to them all through last year. A Battle Ruins
album just showing up one day in twenty twenty five
would also like make my year to the max absolutely,
So there are a few shouts.
Speaker 4: I'd like a two review album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that'd be that would be good. I think
obviously they do an ascendency run for most of this year,
but if one snuck out at the end of twenty
twenty five, yeah, I would wouldn't turn that down at all.
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many years now has supported us over there. Twenty twenty five.
As I was saying before, got resolutions, got specials planned
all throughout the year of stuff that we want to
tick off and get done. We like to hit the
ground running here in January with something of substance, something meaty,
although we did do the substance just just just before
during the New Year period. But looking into the immediate future,
our next special, which we are going to start next week,
is going to be on a band that every single
one of you has heard, and if you know what's
good for you, you love and worship them beyond most bands.
But do you actually know their back catalog? That is
the question we are going to pose when we embark
on our Black Sabbath special that has a twist, a
certain specific way we are doing this. Black Sabbath are
the most important metal band of all time, right, Like,
at the very least, you could argue they share that
podium with Metallica, but it's it's Sabbath. They're the ogs
and those like you know, cream of the crop bands,
the ones that you know, everyone's mum can name whatever.
Like I'm sure most everybody listening could name every Metallica
album in sequence, and I'm sure a lot of people
could do that with, like, you know, every Iron Maiden
album in sequence, and that's quite a lot of albums,
you know, And that's including the ones that are generally
seen as the bad ones. Are saying with Slayer, think
to yourself, right now, can you do that with Black Sabbath.
I have long been fascinated by the fact that Black
Sabbath are like the most famous, most iconic band, and
yet there are like full decad of their career that
have dwelled in absolute obscurity. And that is the concept
and the drive behind this special The lost years of
Black Sabbath can be confounding, they can be very entertaining,
They can be great. Did you know that the Stonehenge
joke from spinal tap was inspired by a real event
that happened to Black Sabbath during one of the most
bewildering touring cycles of their career, with a certain guy
on vocals who was not Ossie Ordeo. Did you know
that their final album before reuniting for thirteen was produced
by Ernie c from body Count and has iced Tea
guest vocals on it. Do you know who Bev Bevan is?
It's a wild West out there in the underdiscussed Sabbath years.
So we are going to be embarking on a journey
to uncover all of these things, and we have you know,
we've weighed up for years now. Again, where would be
the best place to start this particular trajectory? Do we
start from? You know, like the the last couple of
Aussie records? Do we start from the moment? You know?
Do o, Lisa ban whatever? The main impetus for doing
this special, in my mind is those most obscure years.
It's the parts that your average person you might have
seen Black Sabbath at download has no idea exists. But
I guess in order for the story to be really
told most coherently the special, it has to basically be
Black Sabbath without Ossie, and in order to start at
the ground zero of Black Sabbath after Ossie, that does
mean at this first part we are going to be
talking about bona fide classics and some of the most
beloved heavy metal of all time. We will go and
get into the obscurero stuff, but we start with the
do O years of Black Sabbath and the marriage made
in Heaven and Hell that was for a brief few
years at the start of the nineteen eighties, which tchnically
they've actually spoken about Deo Black Sabbath like ever on
this show. You know, we've done do solo whatever. But
it's high time we do that, and so that is
where we start in our first part next week. It
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Let's close the first hype of last of twenty twenty
five with the release round up. Now, the first Friday
of the year was on the third of January. There
wasn't a lot that came out, but there was a
couple of titles I suppose that might be of note
to you. First up, there was the Patriarch album, which
is called prophet Ilia. Patriarch is the basically if you were,
you know, following the outcome of the Buttushka Wars when
the one that was you know, kind of not approvingly
called Fake Tushka was forced to change their name after
the other Buttushka won the rights of the name. Therefore,
that version of the band is now Patriarch and they
have their own album out now called profit Ilia. If
you are interested in it, you know, it's fine. There
you go, there you go. The Patriot album is out
elsewhere more kind of you know, beefy grewvy netal core
whatever type stuff, pale Face Swiss or a band who
released an album called Cursed UK dingy death metal. A
band called Mutagenic Host put an album out for the
called The Disease Machine if you're just wanting some you know,
just a straight up no not death metal to start
off your year in releases, and then we also moved
to a release that is fascinating in the world right now,
which is the new Ethel Kane album which is called Perverts,
which is a great title threat off the bat. Ethel
Kane has I don't know, carved out of a very
weird place, little corner in the current musical zeitgeist. We
haven't really spoken about her before because I guess she's
to some degree of pop artist.
Speaker 3: She's pap adjacent. She's kind of like in that like
you look at like.
Speaker 2: Associated acts on Spotify and she knows boy genius and
that kind of like sing a songwriter side of pop
music that's quite trendy and well regarded.
Speaker 3: But that's not what we're getting here, is it. Like
it's a bizarre Like.
Speaker 1: I guess I've heard bits of e Flkane before, and
I would guess it's kind of like it's sort of
in the Chelsea Wolf sort of equivalent for like the
pop girlies, right, but she is like.
Speaker 3: The indie Chelsea Wolf forms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she has released a near ninety minute drone
album for the second project, and seeing you know, the
pop sphere having to dissect that and people being like,
this is a twelve minute song with no vocals, What
the fuck is.
Speaker 2: I listened to it earlier, stand I was like, Jesus,
I weren't ready for like exactly what she's gone for,
because I quite like the last k record and this
is like, yeah, caught me off guard.
Speaker 3: This one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely given given the you know, give them the
linguering note treatment. I am. I'm very here for the
act of doing it, but you know, that's a very
fun little link between you know, our corner and what
the zeitguy's mainstream if I guess you could call her that,
or I don't think you would really, but you know,
you know what I mean between world's kind of link.
A move to have made. So that's out Perverts by
ethel Kine this Friday out today, Stick to your Guns.
I've got a new album called Keep Planting Flowers. Another
Stick to your Guns album for the you know, long
running hardcore fans out there. Lambrini Girls, the kind of
punk band. I've got a record out called who Let
the Dogs Out? Tremonte Mark Tremonti, of course of Creed fame,
but his you know solo project where he does slightly
slightly rickier stuff. He's got a new sellar record out
called The End will show us how. The Halo Effect
have got their second album, the follow up to the
quite well received Deaby record a couple of years ago.
Their album is called Marked the Unheard. That one's out
a new band, a band called the Samerian like the
you know, the the Barbarians from Cone of the Barbarian.
They have got a daibut record out called an Age
Undreamed Of and that's for fans of kind of like
high on fire, sludgy, you know, kind of battering ram
type stuff like that. If you want really noisy, you know,
kind of distressing fair if the Perverts album wasn't enough
for you. There's a back called Haunted Horses with a
record called Dweller and a couple of EPs that have
come out. Xdo, which is the front man from Cataclysm's
Roman Empire themed kind of gladiator death metal project thing.
They are back with an EP called Year of the
Four Emperors, and there's also an EP I heard from
a band in Europe somewhere called Yota with a j
you know, Yota Haven, which for me sounds like kind
of like, you know, for fans of like early oath Breaker,
that kind of like scream owey, you know, kind of nasty,
post hardcore kind of edge of things. It's like three
songs long. If you just want a blast of that
kind of thing, then there you go. So they have it.
Thanks very much for joining us here. As said on
this first show of the year, we will be back
with another hyperblast next week when the releases will keep
on coming. But as said, we will also be back
next week beginning our you know, sort of non Assie
Black Sabbath years by taking on you know, the biggest
and most infamous and you know, celebrated records in that
little run. So if you want to get involved with that,
as said, the patren is the place to go. But
otherwise we will see here next week for more of
these kind of antics. Thank you very much for being
with us. Happy new everybody. Let's make it a good one. Cheers,