Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to I ran that man over
in self defense. This is that's not metal. And welcome
to another edition of Hyperblast, our weekly news show where
we let you know as quickly as we can what
is going on in the world of rock and heavy
music this past week, and we let any of the
releases I'm gonna want to know about as well. Last
week was a you know, certainly a lesson hyper Hyperblast
in terms of the amount that we had to cover.
I know that there was some heavier stuff going on
there as well, but it feels like it's been quite
a heavy week in that regard. And yeah, you know,
a lot of I don't know, communal consideration of these
type of things. And I hope that everybody who is
you know, close to these things is you know, kind
of holding up and doing okay. But in you know,
trade off for all that, I suppose this week was
a little bit kinder to us. It is a pretty
small week, I would say, a pretty we can skidadle
through this news week. My name is Parenthish with me,
I was gonna solo it for those reasons. But appearing
out of the out of the crypt where the Queen
of the Dan lays it is Mark Sanderson. Hi.
Speaker 2: Mark, Look, if he didn't want to get run over,
he shouldn't have been on the road. That's all I'm
going to say.
Speaker 1: Yes, quite, how's your week been? Mark? Without I suppose
you know, we are going to reveal in a little
while towards the end of this episode what we are
working on right now. But we have both been knee
deep in prep for you know, some some T and
M shows. But how's you weep been? Aside from that, it's.
Speaker 2: Been basically just that I did like forty squats the
other day in so much pain.
Speaker 1: So that's what my week's you're considering taking that up
full time?
Speaker 2: I'm considering it. My legs are telling me to not
do that, but yeah, I mean, we're going to talk
about it, but I'm very excited about the thing we're doing.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Well, we have got basically all what's
happening news wise, as we have a good little handful here,
I shouldn't downplay it, a good little handful of album
announcements and some new singles to go with them as well.
The reason I was considering soloing it is it's basically
a bunch of stuff that I am the main person
who is going to want to talk about these, I
suppose and Mark a bunch of them. I think some
of them are you know, some things that you can
you know have yeah, have a bit of a handle off,
but a bit of an interesting, you know variety in
this regard. First up, we will say, you know, the
biggest band of the bunch who do not currently have
a piece of music that we are going to you know,
deliberate over intensely at first, but it has been announced
that next week, so the seventeenth of April, Nine inch
Nails are going to be releasing a record. It is
the nine Inch Noise Collab record. So this is nine
Inch Nails and Boys Noise, who is the kind of
electronic music you know, producer DJ who was supporting nine
inch Nails all along the Peel It Back tour, and Mark,
you were one of the people who was not at
this particular tour, so you might not know exactly what
was going on here. Myself and Sam we both went
to this tour, so we know exactly what it is basically.
So essentially he had like a DJ opening the set
for him by him I obviously meaning Trent Resid know
Nine Inch Nails more largely, but it segued like perfectly.
There was no like a gap between the shows. Basically,
you know, Boys Noise was playing doing his set, and
it directly transitions straight into Nine Inch Nails coming out
and starting, and then there was a section in the
middle of the show where they went to this like
the B stage that was in the middle, the Evil
Cube as we were calling it, and Boys Noise came
out and Nine Inch Nails and Boy's Noise together did
like almost like a little industrial like fucking techno club
type set in the middle on this stage with Boys Noise,
they're like remixing some Nine Inch Nail songs. So they
were doing like you know, I they didn't do this
my show, but they had like a big crazy remix
of Closer and these type songs. So when we are
getting a you know, a record with the two of
them together, that's kind of what we're thinking about here.
I don't haven't seen it listed anywhere. I don't know
right now if this is I suppose there are three options,
is what it could be. One is just a live
recording of those you know again, the Boy's Noise Nineag
Nails remixes they did together as they played on the tour.
One would be you know, studio recordings of said performed remix,
and the third kind of wildcard option I suppose would be, like,
I know, some kind of collaborative original material. Maybe they
hit it off so much working together that something original
comes out of it. I would anticipate it's one of
the first two out of those. I would be pretty
happy with either, to be honest, because just getting the
option to listen to those versions on you know, streaming
or whatever would be cool. It'd be nice if there was,
you know, official studio recordings of them, because I'm telling you, like,
you know, I know that you are sort of known
Nails ambivalent a lot of the time. But like when
I say that some of these were like fucking hard,
pumping techno remix versions of classic nine.
Speaker 3: Its Nails tunes, it was really cool, I was gonna say,
because you know, I'm very ambivalent to nanage Nails, like
you say, but you're seeing saying the word remix immediately
gets me excited.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I know there's lots of
different types of remix and it doesn't necessarily have to
be you know, a club hill Kate club remix or
an Asking Alexandria dubstep remix. But in general, I am
a big pumping beats for enjoyer, so that you know
that makes the hand that feeds or whatever into a
big throbber. I'm going to be into that.
Speaker 1: That is pretty much what was going on. Yeah, And
because NaN's Nails, you know, mix their set list up
so much like at the show that I was at,
for example, we got like, you know, three or four
songs or whatever in that particular portion of the set,
but at all these other dates of the tour they
swapped in doing other songs, giving them the same kind
of treatments. So you know, for if you've been to
one night of the tour for His Apple, like myself,
then there'll be a few on here that I experienced,
but then there'll be other songs that I didn't see
this treatment for. So yeah, whether it turns out to
be like a just a live recording of it or
a studio recording of those those remixes, it was like
it was a really memorable experience having that as part
of the set. So I'm looking forward to seeing them
turn up and we will be getting the official Night
in Inch Noise collab record coming next week. Let's move
on to the album announcements and singles that we do
have ready in front of us waiting to go, and
the big one of the bunch in terms of shall
we say stature and certainly you know, long awaitance, if
that's the correct way of putting. It doesn't sal like
it is, but there you go. It's going to come
from Warning and Warning, the legendary doom metal band fronted
by Patrick Walker who since the Warning years has gone
off and done forty What Sun and these other things.
Really fucking wild mental announcement when they got announced for
Damnation Festival last year when they were playing Watching from
a Distance as they did, and we went and did
the album club on that record and everything, but it
was a wild announcement. They're like, oh yeah, and also,
by the way, there's a new Warning album next year,
and everyone's like, what what do you mean? Because there's
only two Warning albums to begin with, the last one
being two thousand and six is Watching from a Distance,
which is, you know, twenty years on from its release.
Now it's in like the elite of the elite category
when it comes to legendary you know, still held up
as a landmark doom metal recordings like it's earned that
proper you know, the tier of just a handful of
your most legendary albums like your Dope Thrones and those
type things are kind of equally important and again still
sober loved to this day.
Speaker 2: And it's one of those albums that does sort of
grow in stature as the years go on, because yeah,
still talk about it's all misty eyed, and then that
gets the kids listening to it. Is an album that
continues to grow in sort of how classic and beloved.
Speaker 1: It is completely. But it was so crazy when they
were just like, oh yeah, and there's a new one coming,
because I don't think anyone considered that. I think it
was I sort of viewed Warning a little bit like
Emperor maybe where they come out and play, but because
Esan's doing Esan solo. I never am expecting at any
point Emperor to get back into the studio properly and
kind of you know, pick up where they left off
because creatively, in the hands of the other musicians, it's
gone all these other directions, you know, And that's where
I fully expected Warning to be and I expected Forty
what Son to be the active project, and I like
the first thing that you imagine when you hear, oh,
there's give me a new Warning album, is you go,
what's happened to Patrick Walker?
Speaker 3: Like? What what could?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Brought him back to that point where he wants to
go back and make what is generally perceived to be
like the saddest fucking music in heavy metal history. But
we do have now official news of the new Warning album.
It is called Rituals of Shame, which is making me
sad already and it's already upsetting. It's gonna be it
on June the nineteenth via Relapsed Records. There is a
single out from it called Stations with Mark. When I
was saying, you know things that you are, you know,
maybe sort of halfway in and out on whatever Warning,
I imagine it's a bit dreary for you maybe, right?
Is that the case? Yeah?
Speaker 2: When I heard the record for the first time now
a number of years ago, it was I didn't really
like it that much.
Speaker 3: But I do.
Speaker 2: I do like Patrick, I do like Forty Watson quite
a bit.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that's really stealthily drown on
me as I enter my thirties.
Speaker 1: So I start start more and more wanting to wear
nice jumpers, and you go, oh, that forty what Sun
records like my appealing right now?
Speaker 2: Oh, might get a flat cap, might start wearing tweets,
you know, forty squat Son more like No, But maybe
it's because I have that sort of fondness for forty
whatsn Now that when I listened to this new Warning
song without having to Warning in like five years, I'm like, oh,
I love that voice. I love that sort of warm
guitar tone. Even though it is so sorrowful and it
is so crushing, it just sounds lovely, you know, and
that aspect of it really does appeal to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I you know, I really love forty what
I mean, I've you know, I've had Footy what Son
records in my top twenty doing this show, you know,
like I'm a big fan of you know, Patrick's working
in general. So there was something that was really curious
to me about like, you know, having gone on that
journey with him, but kind of going back to the
Warning years, being like, how is this going to have
changed throughout of all that time? You know, and it's
kind of weird in that mindset hearing what clearly is warning,
like in the rift style, those rifts that almost just
hang like in the air, with this like air of
kind of you know, unresolvement to them. It feels so warning.
But with like twenty years of production, you know, advancement
in between this and watching from a distance, which does
have a very particular kind of you know, kind of
on the cheap two thousands dreary English day like sound
to it, and just hearing it so seamlessly appear in
front of me like this was like wow. And then
as you say that vocal and the vocal lines in
this that you know from the get go it's so
in rapturing what Patrick does. But the way warning songs
develop and the build the sort of bridge part here,
the build into the but tonight there's nothing that can
reach me. It it hurts in that good warning way,
you know, it really hit. And there's rifts in like
the last minute of this that are like yep, that's
where Paul Bearer is coming from, you know, and it
does it right again. You know, we'll have to see
how much this fucking you know is able to follow
on in the footsteps of a record that is so
absolutely beloved and legendary. Is watching from a distance, but
it does feel sonically like War have just immediately kind
of you know, tapped into what it was that made
them the band they were, I suppose, but twenty years later,
which if you are at all interested in any kind
of sorrowful, expressive heavy music, should be really enough to
get you super excited in the drabbist possible way. But
the new Warning record is coming in June, and then
I suppose it's a big week for that kind of
world of you know, sort of cleaner melodic doom, I suppose.
But one of the bands who I can very much
throw to on and know that you are a fan of, Kemmys,
are also back. It's about five years since their last album.
I was just thinking about them yesterday. This is a
weirder occurrence. I was like, wonder when Kemni's gonna come back,
and then here they are straight away. They have a
self titled album. It's coming out on June the twelfth,
so that's the week before the Warning album, and there
is a single out from it called Invocation of the
Dreamer and Kemys again they come from that, you know,
epic doom type world. But Keemys are one who have
sort of been able to It's been there from the beginning,
but they've kind of evolved in a way where they've
kind of drawn on quite a few areas of like
the metal spectrum. I suppose, like it's got epic heavy metal,
but with this like bit of almost it's kind of
more modern, like this sort of melodic death metal type edge,
bit of a Gnarlia edge. The production is like super
you know, very like crisp and really like fat with
a lot of low end as well. I was surprisedly
there's eight tracks on this album, so I'm imagining which
is quite a lot for chemists. So I think maybe
getting some punchier songs here. And this says the single
is like four and a half minutes long, you know,
and the first vocal you get is like a black
metal yeah, so they are they continue to go down
that realm of like there is doom detectable at the
heart of this, but it is kind of just like
a Schmorgas board of lots of metally things I suppose
like heavy metal for heavy metal people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that is why so many people
who wouldn't necessarily be into doing like myself, are drawn
to Chemists because the first sort of clean melodic line
on this song sort of shows this as well, which
is it's got that great heavy metal grandeur, whether it
be screaming for vengeance or the sin in the sentence,
that sort of immediate power and immediate like congregation. Come on,
gather around everyone, I'm about to tell an epic tale.
It's got that, and I really, I mean, I just
love this band a lot. I love their guitar tone,
I love their solo wing style. It's fucking so rad.
And yeah, I'm so excited for seven more songs of
this because you know, there's got to be at least
a couple epics in there.
Speaker 1: I would imagine. Sorry for sure this one again. If
you want proper metal riffs, that I mean, that's an
incredible little bit of that sort of quasi crab walking
around to it in the music video, you know, But
the main riff of the song is not really a
doom riff, but it's almost hard to say what subgenre
of metal it does. It's just like a big burly
hunker meat basically, with which I'm all right with.
Speaker 2: It did remind sort of, you know, a bit of
like Grand Magas when Grand Megas get a bit chuggier.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, But even when you mentioned Triviu, I've likened
bits of Chemists to Trivium Naturally in the past, and
like their last albums, I think that's a fair shout
as well. There's a great base tone with there's almost
like a solo bit when it comes in towards on
the second verses with the riff, which is fucking great.
I will say, like, you know, it all sounds great
for a four and a half minute lead single. It
is quite complicated still, and it's not necessarily got a
big immediate hook in the way that I think Desolation
for Me is this band's real stand up moment, And
there are choruses on that record for Days that I
don't think they've like quite necessarily like delivered a whole
career worth of those. But it has got you know,
a few months and some time to get his clause
more in me and it's sounding very nice. So the
new Chemist album is coming out June the twelfth. I
suppose let's throw over to a very different area of
the you know, the the just the general rock music spectrum.
This single was out by the time we were doing
our again hyper last last week. But we had so
much you know news hitting us last week that this one,
you know, fell through the cracks. But I thought I
would raise it again here because you know, it's been
a minute since we've actually spoken about this band. I
supp I was holding Absence again just before we went
to you know record last week they put out a
new single called Whisper of a Dream. It is the
first new song from them from their twenty since Sorry,
their twenty twenty three album The Noble Art of Self
Destruction and Holding Absence. I can't remember how many album
of theres we reviewed. We certainly reviewed their debut album.
I don't remember if we did the second one, and
I don't think we did the third one. But they
are like you know again I noticed when they were
dropping this song, and they've signed a Sumerian for this
as well, is that they are like the sort of
modern alternative radio adjacent brit rock band to be really popular,
you know at the moment, like they're thoroughly tapped into
you know, the bad omens type crowd and that whole
spectrum of you know the heavy music sphere, Holding Absence
are like, really their new music is quite you know,
anticipated right by that kind of crowd. So when there
was you know again New Scientist Samarian dropping a single,
people were like, well, okay, Holding Absence is coming back.
And I, as I guess, particularly as you're here, Mark,
curious to have this conversation a little bit because I mean,
not only does you know the singer of this band
currently front your favorite band is an interesting sort of
you know, tidbit there, but Holding Absence when they came
through it, and like I said, we did definitely review
their debut album, and I used to think that they
were like pretty decent, and I suppose I still do
to some degree or another. But when we reviewed that
first album, it was like twenty nineteen, right, and it
was like, I suppose we were still coming off the
back of you know, the UNI at six era and
all of that type stuff, and Holding Absence came through
that first album and I you know, it's that kind
of you know, melodic Brit rock thing that I tend
to generally despised, to be honest, but that album came
through it and I was like, there's a bit of
sonic depth to this, Like production wise, they are actually
going for something and there are some real choruses on
that album. So I was like, for this kind of
thing that I don't normally go for, and you know,
I haven't you been rinting that record over the years,
But I was like, this is a band who have
some They've got a stamp on it, right, they are
doing something with it. And the longer time has gone
on and the more and more polished what they do
has gotten. While basically writing the same thing over and over,
even though that is how they've also continued to just
get bigger and bigger and like I say, become this
really really popular zeit geisty band. My appetite for it
has long kind of ran out, and I don't think
they put out stuff that is particularly bad, right, But
when I hear a new song from their particularly if it's,
as we say, the first song in a handful of
the years, first song for a new projector something like that,
I kind of want to hear another string to their bow.
And then it is the holding Absence song, but this
time it has a little bit of like kind of
I suppose a little bit of a electro influence in
there very very lightly, but no one is actually going
to Holding Absence to listen to the band. They're coming
to listen to Lucas, so it's all very very minimal. Instrumentally,
I just thought, yeah, okay, that extratrame to the bow
is you've added a twig to the bow perhaps, but
not enough to really like. I don't know, Galvall, like,
is it? Do you feel where I'm coming from with
Holding Absence?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I feel my trajectory is pretty similar, but I
come from a different place where I do enjoy Mallory
Knocks and Young Guns and the dating Holding Absence album
reminded me.
Speaker 1: Of like, you know, not.
Speaker 2: A high budget, more thought out version of that you
know type of band. I grew up listening to the
second record the Greatest Mistake in my life at the time,
really really liked it.
Speaker 1: That's the way they really started about one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's got Beyond Belief, which is still as
a song like I listened to that earlier today just
to like double check and make sure of I still
love it. It could make me tear up. That song
is incredible. And there's some other like Loving Drugs in Afterlife,
there's some really really just incredible songs on it. And
at the point where Holding Absence where I'm sort of like,
I haven't liked a full album, but every album has
about three or four songs on it. Well, the first
two have at least three or four songs that I
really like. The last one had maybe two or three.
But every time I Hold an Absence, you know, announce
a new album, I'm gonna be interested, because, like you said,
they're the big zeitgeisty thing, and they have a very
zeitgeisty singer who I see more pictures of now than
I ever have because I followed Funeral four Friends account.
I feel like I this song, this song is just
drown right you're saying it's the Holding Absence song. It
sounds like Drone by bringing the horizon like.
Speaker 1: I could see we're cover. I think that's obviously a
very that moment of bringing me as a pretty clear
sort of template for generally what ballet holding absants are doing.
And even when I say there's a bit of like
the kind of increased electro influence on this song, you
can trace that to, you know, something like recent bring
Me Right, and I mean the fact that this single
they put out with they've got a music VideA for it,
and with the kind of you know, the way they
were it. They'd say, the music video also introduces our
robot mascot why for BB zero, a character you'll be
seeing more of in the coming years. And I just
think to when I saw Bringing the Horizon again on
the Post Human tour, and you know, many people who've
seen them elsewhere will concur with this. I just go,
I don't think we need more robot mascots in rock
music at the moment. I think Bring Me have milked
our appetite for speaking robot mascots over the past couple
of years, and I don't need another one.
Speaker 2: I don't know you say that. But then Iron Maiden
Wall knows the new Eddy is a robot again, and
we'll be like, oh, yes, let them speak.
Speaker 1: I want to hear it, like yeah, but not the
same vibe, right, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're both feeling the same even the way like
Lucas even hits the vocal fry on the verses in
the exact same place as the exact same way Ollie would.
And I'm just like this feels pistichi in a way
that holding Absence haven't before to me, but I don't.
I don't know. The song's fine. I don't like Drowned
that much, so, you know, there's only so much I
can like this song. But the chorus, it's propulsive enough,
but it's the type of chorus where, while I'm in
the state of listening to it, I'm like, oh, yeah,
that's that sounds sounds big. Yeah, sure, that's a chorus.
But the second it ends and it goes into a
different part of the song, I can't remember it. I
listened to the song five times earlier just because I
was like, I need it in my head. I don't
know what it sounds like. The interval sounds like drown Yeah.
Speaker 1: When the first Holding Absence alm came out, it kind
of sounded like the template of you know, though the
brick rock bands are twenty tens, but what these could
sound like in the future, right, and now Holy Absents
have gotten so again polish and everything that all of
their songs just sound like what these bands sound like
now on the radio, and it just it doesn't. I
don't know, it doesn't incite anything in me in the
same way. So I guess that's our check in on
what Holding Absents are doing right now. We also have
a new single from Health it's called Alone, and this
is I don't know if this is attached to Oh
I do. Actually it's attached to an EP that's called Adendum,
which is out on April the thirtieth, that's at the
end of the month. What struck me about this song?
And you know, speaking of things that I am a
big fan of, I don't know if you are in
the same way, Mark, probably not. Is they have described
this as the song that they wrote immediately after David
Lynch died, And again I don't know if you will
have at all the same reference point for this. But
this song sounds like the Twin Peaks theme, like the
intro of it, and that really can't kind of warm,
evocative sort of sound. It's not like exactly reworked as
the Twin Peaks theme, like it's not the same notes,
but sonically it's very very evocative of it, where it's
like it's not quite the theme, but I hear it
and I just immediately start imagining the little bird from
the intro and the log mills and all this kind
of stuff. And if anyone out there is also a
Twin Peaks fan and has watched that show, and you
know knows that title sequence. If you listen to this song,
you will have exactly the same reaction to it, and
by the sound of it, it's kind of the intentional nod.
And then they turn that into a big thumpin four
on the floor dance feet, which is imagine where you
mark then might start to tapping into it. But that
combination of things is it's very cozy for me right,
Like I'm not necessarily blown away by ever reason when
you Health single that comes out, but this one taps
into a again a particular spot for me, and I go, yes,
this is a nice one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ah, very funny you mentioned that because the
intro is where I'm like, I'm waiting for this to
get over.
Speaker 1: So I.
Speaker 2: But Health is the Health are Hm? Have I heard Health?
Probably They're They're one of the most popular bands that
I'm not sure I could tell you I've heard that
much of.
Speaker 1: But it's a lot of industrial and doom for you
this week, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was listening to the song and it's got
that sort of like you know, copenter brute, but less
you know, chaotic, that sort of synth wave thing. I
really liked this song. It was really great. It really
It's got great sort of walking pace to the beat.
I really enjoyed listening to it. But I gather this
isn't what a lot of health sounds like, by the
way you're talking.
Speaker 1: No, a lot of it does. Actually. The again, the
intro is very twin peaksy, but once the beat drops,
it sounds like health. So if you are someone who
accentually doesn't know much health and that's the bit that
you liked, then yeah, I kind of listen to their
records because that's kind of the vibe. Really. Yeah, it's
a very nice time. And again if you are a
David Lynch fan, and I think it will hit a
very particular again, we've got a memory bank moment for you,
and ending our gauntlet of new songs here, not really
a new song, a new recording of a song. Behemoth,
of course, the you know black and death metal, absolute
juggernaut band of the last however many years of course
you all know Behemoth. They have released a cover of
Bathary's iconic black metal song The Return of Darkness and Evil,
and this is marketed as the official anthem for Mystic
Festival twenty twenty six, which that's the festival in Poland
that I went to last year. It's the only festival
I know that does this. I'm sure there might be
some others out there, but for some reason every year
they release and they had it on like like vinyl
singles at the merch stands where you buy the festival shirts.
And when I was there last year, last year was
Vader who did it? Who are playing? So I don't
know if it's always a Polish band, but it's the
official anthem of Mystic Festival twenty twenty six. But you
can enjoy or listen to it at home. Beham of
the headlining it this year. But they've I said, cover
of the Return of Darkness and Evil by Bathory from
the seminal black metal album The Return. It's the second
Bathory album and arguably therefore the first or second black
metal album ever made. This song I obviously have a
long history with. It's one of my favorite Bathory songs.
I have long said, actually that every black metal band
should cover specifically the Return of Darkness and Evil, because
like WAT say, they've got a cover of it as well.
It's one of those songs, you know, where there are
songs that feel like they're kind of anthems for their genres,
you know, and like everyone wants to play it, like
you know, endless hardcore songs that people want to just
like you be happy watching any hardcore band cover that
sets selection of the big hard for ransoms, like you know,
the Mad bull Ones or whatever, because it just feels
like you're all celebrating being in on the same thing,
you know. And the Return of Darkness and Evil, specifically
when covered by other bands, really feels like that to me,
Like it's the return of darkness and Evil right Like,
it feels like it's just a song about celebrating how
sick and cool black metal is. And I think the
fact that both Watan and now Behemoth have covered it
speaks to that. Uh, it's a you know, it's a
raw eighties black metal song that, when played by Behemoth
sounds fucking hulking and massive and like a tank bludgeoning you,
which is awesome to hear. I'm sure some black metal
peers out there won't like to hear it that way,
but it's a nice new take. Mark as someone who
you might have heard that Bathoryism at some point. But
hearing it with this bludgeoning Behemoth production job onto it sounding,
you know, mighty as Behemoth always do. You got to
admit it's a fucking banger, isn't it. When he's doing
that chorus and that riff.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I I had never heard this Bathory song before,
but I put it on before the Behemoth version just
so I can do But I was going to listen
to But I do you know, I love Black Fire Death.
I bought Blood Fire Death on cassette.
Speaker 3: The other day that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is earlier about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a fine day to die. It's just,
you know, I hate to say it. It just reminds
you why Behemoth or the Daddies. It sounds so imperial
and so powerful. It is man that like Norgle, sounds
fucking so great on it sort of slowing down the
pace that little bit, not even the pace, just like
the rhythm of it get a bit more marching. Yeah,
it sounds amazing, like Unfortunately I do prefer the Behemoth
version to the version before. Yeah, I just you know,
I'm just such a big fan of Nurgle's tweets. But
no great song either version great, but the Behemoth version really,
like you say, it reinstates sort of theat and of
metal and how great extreme metal. Like it feels like
a cult in a good way, in the like you're
my brother, were a Brotherho do you know? I don't know.
I really enjoyed listening to this, and I will if
I'm going to listen to this song, it might be
the Beemouth version or the Latin version. I want to
hear that one man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was part of the there's a live
record where they just did an entire Bathory tribute set
basically is what that is. That was before like the
official blood Fire Death Bathory Tribute band started going out,
which Nurgles appeared with. I saw Nurgle appear with that
band at Mystic Festival last year, so it's all, you know,
everyone just loves covering Battery basically, It's what I'm saying.
But if you like Behemoth, check this out because it
absolutely rocks, and then go back and hear the Bathory
version because the production on this is obviously way bigger.
It might help you if you're not so af fae
with again the kind of raw eighties black metal type sound,
but then when you go and hear the original, the
raw energy of the song and the rift that's really
present in there, and that gad screeching chorus should be
you know, legible and recognized to you. It's a great time.
It's a great track of course, you know, forty plus
years of being an absolute classic. And speaking of big
black metal events, dmu Borgear, Satirra Coon and Enslaved have
announced what is being billed as the largest black metal
show yet on Norwegian soil at a venue called the
Oslo Spectrum on Halloween. So if anyone out there fancies
flying out to Norway for a night of imperial black
metal majesty with those three bands in a what is
essentially an arena show in you know, their home capital city,
then that's pretty fucking cool, isn't it. And final news
story of the bunch is there's a whole bunch of
background to this that I wasn't going to comment on
because it's not very interesting to be honest. Essentially. Kiko Larrero,
the former Megadeth guitarist, he posted an accusation at the
new Arch Enemy single that came out recently, the one
with the debut and their new singer accusing it of
copyright claim of like, you know, pinching some ideas from
one of his songs. Michael Ammett from Arch Enemy has
come back essentially with the receipts, with a video of
him demoing the song you know, several years ago before
that song was released. But the only reason I put
this in here is coming back with that video and
then firing back with good luck with your music. I
will continue to not listen to It is my favorite
burn in the metal world of the last few weeks.
And you know, it's like we were saying with Trivium
and Bullet last year, get the clause out when everyone's
so media train. Now, it's always nice when someone as
you know, professional as my clamate starts getting the clause out.
Great right, Patreon dot com slash that's not metal where
we do our big stuff, our in depth stuff. Most
recently we did our album club Pack. We led the
way with finally doing the the Dismemberment. I suppose we
could in a way the post mortem of Bullets my
Valanti's tenper Temper album, but we also followed that up
with Blue Oyster Cult and Gorilla Biscuits and Skinless Mark
you're not on those album club packs, but you don't
need an excuse to listen to Temper Temper at the
best of times. So I'm sure that that took you
down your memory lane of like, I don't know, last
week or whenever the last time you would have listened
to that normally, how.
Speaker 3: Dare are you?
Speaker 2: It's usually just Leach.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 2: The amount of times specifically with Sam that we've discussed Leach,
like that's Salmoni's like wedding song if we were ever
getting married. I I'd find Temper Temper so fascinating. And
for that reason, I really loved your album Club. It
was so like obviously all four I love him, hearing
Sam talk about brutal death metal with Skinless and you know,
and getting Salmon into Bloyers to Cull and just talking
about the pure grill vibes of that. But obviously the
headline for me is this Temper Temper album Club is
one of my favorite ones you've done, because you really,
it's over an hour long. You dedicates so much time
to it, but it is so it's not just a takedown,
you know, it's not just having a laugh. Although there
is a lot of that, it's more thoughtful and there's
so much more sort of cultural impact in cultural sort
of context that we can only really see decade on
that you pointed out and we're discussing. I find it
genuinely such a rividing chat and I really loved listening
to it.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I haven't just brought you on to
say nice things about that thing we did without you.
We are, as we have kind of alluding to, we
are deep in the works right now for our next
that's not metal band special. It's actually been quite a
long time since we've done a band special. Kind of
comparatively speaking. This is because we did things like the
ninety seven Special. At the end of last year, we
did the Nola Sludge Special, which was basically like you know,
four or five band specials on those bands kind of
crammed into one. But officially the last like dedicated one
band special we did was Poison the Well back in
like the first half of twenty twenty five. But we
are bringing it back, of course. It wouldn't go too
long without them. And the one we are diving into
this time is I think probably the most requested band
that we haven't yet done. It has been requested by
many listeners for many years at this point, and I'm
not ashamed to say that I have put it off
for a while in terms of both the length that
it will require. This is the most amount of parts
we've done for a band special in a good handful
of years since I think the halcyon days of Weezer
was when we went this long on one. But also
the specter of the band in question looms so almost
like ungraspably large over the entire metal and heavy landscape
that we have you know, currently been living in. But
because of course I said, it's been so requested, it's
one of our last proper mega bands that we have
yet to do. We couldn't go not doing it forever,
and so coming in the next week, pretty soon, we
are going to be starting our band Special on Corn.
As said, I know lots of you right now will
be going, oh my god, I've been asking for that
for fucking ever. Yeah, yeah, I know. Corn Band Special
is coming in the immediate future. Right up. The first
part that we're going to be doing this week, obviously,
we're jumping in in the in the shallow end by
talking about the invention of new metal and the Daytube
Corn album and the absolute game changing impact of that mark.
Earlier today, you've watched Queen of the Damned for the
first time.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I heard Dad sell by Papuro charlier and
I'm pumped up.
Speaker 1: Yep. But over the next however long it takes us
the next to you, a handful of weeks, a couple
of months, whatever it might be. As said, we have
a few parts laid out to be talking about everything
Corn from their first demo and their first album, the
funk metal band prior. That's what or where we've been
this week, but from the first core material to the
most recent core material and where they are in today
as well, which is an interesting place I think compared
to if we had them this special like two or
three years before.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: But if you want to join us on what is
sure to be, like I said, one of our most
brain melting in its stature band specials we have done
thus far, it is going to be coming to you
starting this week over at patreon dot com slash that's
not metal. I could do the obvious pun here, but
I'll save it for the show itself, I think. But yeah,
Corn Special come in right now let us end today
with that news, just doing the release round up for
this week, the tenth of April. I suppose in the
you know, the big popular metalsphere, the big one might
be Bill Murray has a new album called kind Of
Hard for everyone who just can't stop cranking their hogs
or whatever it is that he says, Lord of the
Lost are back again with Opus Noir Volume three. Every
time I open up a release thing and I say
that Lord the Lost are there again, I can't believe
they're back here. So frequently they're just always there, but
Lord the Lost continuing with this Opus Noir thing regularly back.
Like I said, truck Fighters, the stoner rock band, who
are one of those bands who I always see their
name on like you know, your desert fest style posters,
that type thing. But I did not realize that they
haven't actually released an album in ten years, because they
just seem like one of those real like part of
the furniture bands. But if you are a big Truck
Fighters fan, then is their first record in ten years? Masterflow?
As I say, stoner rock band. Then as we move
into kind of I suppose the modern alternative pop rock
sor sphere as everything unfolds have got did you ask
to be set Free? All in all caps like that.
The brit rock band kind of contemporary brit rock, Tiger
Cub have Got Nets to catch the wave. Then there's
some kind of you know, noodly mathy rock from Love
Rarely with Pain Travels. Moving into the really heavy sphere,
into the death cor weld. There's Body Snatcher, which is
one of the bands who Sam went to see with
that Death Care live report we did a couple of
weeks ago. Body Snatcher's album is called Hell Is Here,
Hell Is Home. That's out. If that's way too new
fangled for you, then you might be interested in the
new album from Metal Church called Dead to Rights. I
have been told that Spirit a Drift are surprise releasing
what is billed as their final album called Infinite Illumination today,
So you should it should be available to you right
now on your streaming services and everything. If it's not,
then you know something's gonna ry. But I have been
told that that's the case. Spirit Drifts album is out again.
Another of the great modern kind of contemporary heavy doom
metal type bands, the collab album of the Melvins with
Napalm Death, two of the noisiest bands of all time.
What will they cook up together? Savage Imperial Death March
is out. If you are looking for more tried and
tested legendary death metal fair, then the great band Immolation
have got their new album called Descent out in to
the really fast like the ultra fast tech death Sphere.
Archspire have got too fast to Die, that's how fast
they are. Vomitory another old school death metal band. This
band of playing Incineration Festival in a few weeks. Death
Throws uarda the American black metal band who I've brought
forward the show on several occasions. They have got a
acoustic release featuring a couple of covers like they've covered
Something in the Way by Nirvana, but also like acoustic
reinterpretations of a couple of their like you know, existing
black metal songs. So I'm curious to see how that
turns out. That's the Interwoven release. And then we move
into some EPs, a again kind of up and coming
band in the again kind of modern shoe Gays, the
alternative type World Blush Puppy have an EP called Here
You Dream The Return of Mela Kesh The first material
from the Sumerian black metal gods in like fucking eleven
years or something like that. That EP is out called
Sentinels of Shamash. If you are interested in kind of
Japanese black gume post hardcore type world, there's a man
called Sisine with an EP called Awake Children under the Moon.
And then there is a split release from JK Flesh,
that being justin broaderick of Godflesh. Goldflesh, of course, have
you know, recently announced their retirement, but I'm sure that
he will continue to do this his like hard industrial
electronic project JK Flesh for a long time. I imagine
JK Flesh doing a split with an artist called Monarella
called Shouting the Odds. There you go. Those are releases
for this time. Thank you very much for being with us.
We'll be back here with another hyperblast next week. But
also in between now and then, if you are over
on our Patreon, you will receive the first part of
our band special or motherfucking Corn, So get involved, be ready.
Cheers everyone,