Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to That's Not Metal, your
weekly rock, heavy metal hardcore podcast. Last week we had
a wee little tiny hyperblasting I just dipped into quickly
drop in the essentials before we went and did something else.
But this time we are back with a full length
proper I guess slightly less hyper than last time hyperblasts
obviously you know what that's meaning. Fuck the terminology. We're
here for the news show, and we've got quite a
lot of like pretty exciting news this time up. My
name is Paren Haish. With me returning, we've got Sam
Digno on. Hello Sam, Hello, welcome.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm back.
Speaker 3: I had, you know, a pretty excating reason to miss
last week's and as much as it was seemed to
miss out on that Roulette, like, I couldn't pass up
the opportunity to go and see the best live actor
I've ever seen again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, last week, which if you've been paying attention
to our you know, podcast feeds, you will have seen
pop up you know yesterday on the main feed, we
recorded an album Roulette, which I'll I'll talk a little
bit more out a little bit later. But Sam did
not appear on that album. Roulette because Sam, I cannot
believe that you chose to go and see Bruce Springsteen
over the opportunity to talk about some like jazz and
avant garde sort of noise. I cannot believe that that
is the way you went.
Speaker 3: How shameful, totally against my character to do something like that.
But yeah, some of the things because I was going
to miss out on this Springsteen to this one because
I was already doing a lot of other big show
was this summer, but like the week before when I
saw there was like a Reselle standing to get that
for Kualo miles, like quite a lot less than what
face value was. I was like, you know what, it's
a sign I gotta I gotta go do it. And god,
I'm glad I did because I said last year when
I saw Springsteen for the first time, it's the best
show I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: This was that again, but better.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Like, I think maybe there's some setless choices of
this time around that were like more interesting, bit more exciting,
But I don't know if it was the crowd was
like way more up for it.
Speaker 2: But there is.
Speaker 3: Just something about Springsteen live like like it's still like
I say, it's the best sho I've ever seen again
either way like that, that's the sort of the simple
way to put it.
Speaker 2: But Springsteen live is just a magic experience.
Speaker 3: I think, like the amount of people who were at
that and came away saying like, oh my god, that's
the best I've ever seen is like everyone is just
saying it because he's just He's that damn good.
Speaker 1: I guess what other you know, because obviously you spoke
at length about Springsteen last year. I guess what were
the key differences? I suppose, you know, changes, things that
were a little bit kind of you know, knew this
time out for him from last.
Speaker 3: Time, Well, just he just mixed up the setus fit.
I think the big thing this time was the middle
section of the set where it gets a little bit
e street band jamming, throwing out a cover, doing some
like slower deeper cuts and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: That was bet.
Speaker 3: There was a better selection of songs I think this
time than there was when I saw him last year.
Stuff like Youngstown, which was like like full on, like dramatic,
like protest song that sounded like incredible, So like Racing
in the Streets was just like this really like wonderful
sort of like ballad deep cut to play, Like those
are the things I think that like really like made
the show just a bit more as a whole enjoyable.
Speaker 2: And then you still got to that second half of
the set.
Speaker 3: When he kicks it, so be like, yeah, like the
first half the sets, we've ended him doing this like
really beautiful acoustic version of Last Man Standing off his
last album, which he talked about probably played it him
being the last member of his original band. Everyone else
in that band has now passed on, so like that
added a real kind of weight to it. And that
was like this real great sort of cap on the
first half the set, and then he comes back out
they start playing Backstreets and the same as again last year.
Speaker 2: This second half of the set was just like here
after hit and it's just.
Speaker 3: The best thing I've ever seen again, like when he's
doing like the rising bad bands thunder Rode, I'm just
like nothing else can even come close that. But even
like I say, in the first after like massive songs
like Hungry Heart like they didn't play last time, that
that got like pulled out this time after the Promised Land,
which was like just a great pairing, but he's as
the thing is is again it's him as a showman.
He is just electric on stage. The EA Street Band
sound incredible, all seventeen members of them, like like when
you've got the full choir, the holes or brass quartet
at the back, like four guitarists, however many it is
to two guys on keys, it sounds like huge massive
even again in like a like huge vast karna space
like Wembley Arena, Wembley Stadium. Sorry, they sound incredible that
none of that power is lost even during those sort
of intimate moments where again he can make this stadium
feel like you're like he's speaking directly to you in
some of these songs.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. Born to Run like that live.
Speaker 3: Is still like the happiest I will ever be I
think at this point seeing that song live. They even
did a cover near the end of the set of
Twist and Shout, which was a really fun and him
just at playing up like that was just a really fun,
crowd pleasing moment. Like again, this sort of run of
things has been on since last year, this this tour
that he's been doing now for like I say, two years,
nearly or like a year and a bit within terms,
it's just been such a sort of showcase of why
he is the greace. You are getting a three hour,
thirty song set list of just some of the best rock.
Speaker 2: Songs you're ever going to hear.
Speaker 3: I mean there was no Born in the USA this
time like that, like sive, like anthems that are like
mainstays for him not getting played this time because he's
mixing up the sellist and that that's a good way.
It felt like really exciting and different than it wasn't
just the same on stuff, but like I saw Bricebans
last year Souse, I was like, I don't know if
I'll ever get se him again. I've got see him again,
and I'm like every time he comes around now, I's
gonna be like if I can get to it, like
times see Bring Springs, scene might be running out, but
none of that magic has lost.
Speaker 2: It is the best show.
Speaker 1: In the world. Yeah, it sounds very similar to what
you're saying there about you know when we saw Depeche Mode, Yeah,
and I was like, oh shit, I got the chance
to Mode again like six months later and then yeah, exactly,
it was.
Speaker 3: Exactly that sort of thing of like, but I think
I was gonna do it because of the cost of
tickets and all that, and doing ac DC and all that.
But when there's the week of the show, the opportunity
fell in my lap. I was like, I can't, I
can't not do this. Yeah, I'm so glad I didn't have.
Speaker 1: You got any more like big stadium shows now? Or
is that the end of your like you know, mad
summer that you've been on wrestling count like I mean,
if you wanted to count I suppose it's not.
Speaker 2: The life wrestling at Wembley Stay.
Speaker 3: But but there's no more like you know, cat off
my like I'm not doing the Taylor Swift return run
to Wembley.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, who knows what may happen.
Speaker 3: But this is the cap off to my big summer shows,
the perfect the perfect show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not as good as talking about alter of plagues though.
Is it something that happened that you will all have
now seen and been aware of? But this of course happened,
you know, right after we put out last week's episode
that we are now going to get around to talking
about before we then kick off a really large rundown
of other bits of news but a massively significant event
happened in metal last weekend. I you know, probably the
metal story of the year. You know, I don't know
how hyperbolic people want to get with this, but you know,
there's arguments to be made that it's larger than just
you know that, but certainly it will be looked at
as like, wow, that was a moment that happened in
twenty twenty four. The Olympics opening ceremony in Paris happened Friday,
wasn't it. And a little I guess you know, something
that was at when we or at least I recorded
that last week hyper last was a really random bit
of news kind of trickled in that Gajeira were going
to be playing the Olympics opening ceremony. And I looked
at that and again it was quite you know late
announced that was like you know, I don't know, a
few days before they actually I think.
Speaker 3: It was like some French news side picked and then
some other like places kind of caught wind events started
to publish like links to this French side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like and I looked at that and
I was like, hey, I don't I don't know the
validity of that but also, you know, I couldn't quite
visualize in what context, like are they just going to
like appear as like part of the fucking clip show?
Like I don't know what was going on there, but
it obviously happened the Olympics, I think Centary last Friday,
and the internet is still talking about what went down
with Gajera, which is quite incredible. And I know I
didn't get to see this live. I was at a
wedding either. Yeah, I was at a wedding last weekend,
and so like I you know, I watched the you know,
the clip of this after the fact, after like a
few hours of seeing people on Twitter being like, oh
my god, you know, Gajea, Mary Antoinette, Guillotine or a
river like all this mad shit, Like but what the hell?
But how, you know, I kind of wish I had
because how I might have like reacted to just seeing
them pop up doing what they did completely you know blind,
I don't know, Uh, this was fucking mental.
Speaker 3: This was the realist ship, Like this was the best
possible outcome for Gadjeara playing the Olympics was what we
got in front of us. So I don't see how
this could have been better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless they dedicated like four more minutes for them
to play the entirely of heaviest matter of the universe.
But like the kind of realism, it was pretty good
and I couldn't stop thinking about it for like the
next like a couple of days. Every time like the
clip came back up, even like you know that the
next morning, right, so, the day after the Olympics, like
I turned on like BBC News on the TV at
like you know, ten am or whatever, and there was
like the recap of the ceremony and the like. Then
then like in the clip show there they just pop
up Gajeerra with flames bursting and it's like it's like
ten am on fucking BBC News in the morning, and
it's like and they didn't even name them, but it
was like, you know, French death metal at the it's
like what how what timeline has that ended up in?
Speaker 3: And then the city it was it was actually like
obviously they were they weren't playing one of their songs,
but the presentation of it was Gajeerra.
Speaker 2: We were getting the gad jeera kind of experience.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I mean that was the thing because I was wondering
what they're just going to be kind of like nebulous
backing band kind of treatment. Yeah, the initial kind of worry,
but no, they are like again, like so it's all
part of the whole bit about the French Revolution and
all that, and like so when the first thing you
see is a beheaded Mary Antoinette sort of like speaking,
and it's like, oh okay, cool Gnarley first in look
like like.
Speaker 1: A fucking attraction at the London Dungeon, you know, And.
Speaker 3: Then you suddenly get to that this castle set up
well good year on platforms hanging off the edge of
the castle, crushing out these rifts, and.
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh shit, this is real.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sometimes you know, you just get a victory, you
know where this is that this is a win.
Speaker 2: You can't take anything away from it.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, and you know, I saw some people being like, oh,
you know, I thought we were all mad at the
Olympics for you know, displacing homeless people or whatever. It
kind of goes on in terms of creating you know,
the Olympics. And yeah, obviously you can you could talk
about all the thing with the event itself, but simply,
you know, everyone kind of coming together in the It
reminded me of like, you know, again ten years ago
now Metallic at Glass Unburry, when everybody who I knew
on like my you know, my timeline who was into
heavy metal, we all kind of got together and were like,
fuck yeah Metallica opening with Creeping Death at Glastonbury. Sometimes
you just get a kind of communal victory, and that
what this has been. It was every single but I mean,
you know, loads of people who are not into metals
still being like, whoa, what the hell is this? The
French you know, metal band playing is like the coolest
thing you'll ever see. But obviously for all of us
who know Gajeira all coming together and be like holy
fuck to the point that you know, obviously like even
you know, people in kind of the circles that I'm
in were who are you know, maybe more underground and
more into kind of you know, extreme less mainstream metal,
for whom Kajeira aren't really their band anymore. Even those
people were just being like, yeah, I might not be
a huge fan of Kagera these days, but that's fucking cool.
That is unbelievably sick, Like just everyone just absolutely just
you know, high fiving fist pumping, celebrating what is for
me again, it's the presentation for me because it was.
Speaker 3: Like say, it wasn't a compromised version of Gajera and
that that is what like made it that everyone could
get behind it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know people saying like, you know, oh,
you know, I'm glad they like didn't water down Kajira
or whatever. And obviously it depends on how far your
definition of watering down would because it's not like they
came out and played Wisdom Comes, you know. And and vocally,
you know, Joe was not really the lead vocalist in
that particular section, so it's not like a big growled
vocal lead you know, death metal track or something. But
he did do some vocals and he wasn't you know,
doing his silvera singing thing. He was, you know, like
roaring over this like huge wall of riffs. And it's
again the details of the presentation for me, where as
you say, you know, introduced by a headless you know,
full on a horror attraction Marie Antoinette going past, you
know that the singer on the boat, the opera singer
going on a boat past the actual like palace slash
you know, converted into a prison building where the you
know Marrintoinette and the other kind of you know, people
who execute you in the French Revolution were held there.
So that's like you know, legit history. That's the that's
the location where those things. For our equivalent would be
like the Tower of London or something. Right, and then
you look into that again you they're doing a song
because then not playing a Kajira song, but if they're
gonna perform anything else, it might as well be.
Speaker 2: A revolutionary French song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like an eighteenth century song about the guillotine.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's cool, that's cool like that if you're
gonna get them to do a song that is in
their own pick, something like that that again has historic significance,
has like cultural significance, and it's something that you can
make sound imposing and metal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again I love that. Whoever the French organizers were,
they were going clearly, you know, we're doing this big
French cultural tour around Paris. For the opening ceremony, we're
gonna do a bit about the French Revolution, which is
a you know, interesting choice to include in itself, because
you know, it's it's obviously it's very famous and significant
and why you know, I think it should be included.
But it's quite a dark moment, yes, right Again, our
equivalent will be like, oh look the Tower of London,
here's Henry eighth, like you know, cutting the head of
an or whatever. Yeah, like quite dark, fucking horrible history stuff, right,
but they've gone, yeah, okay, so that moment we're gonna
do a French revolution thing, the moment when we chuck
the heads off of all our you know, royalty. The
best music to represent that moment of our history. That
was pretty metal, wasn't it. Let's get a metal band,
And obviously France are in the position where they go like, yeah, okay,
we have one really really prominent, internationally popular French metal band, Gajira.
They'll be up for it. Let's do it. Obviously, you know,
particularly as as English people in our context of Royalty
and everything, you look over the channel at that it's
like Jesus Christ. And then as you say, they're like
hanging off of the castle on like little draw bridges, which,
like the meme people making of that have been absolutely incredible.
It wasn't cringe, you know, it like it struck a
particular balance, which is it leaned into the metalness. But
sometimes when you know the mainstream institutions through that, you
don't really want them to lead into the metalness because
it comes off they make it look cheesy. Yeah, this
is lean into the metalness, but in a legit cool way,
not a kind of way.
Speaker 2: All that pyrore, the sort of red streamers launching out.
Speaker 1: Oh that was the part for me when again the
blood red streamers, like I fired out like the fucking
entrails of all the executed people, and they cope the
palace and they go down over like the Lotsinger on
the boat. Just yeah, wa fucking incredible, And I think,
like could you themselves?
Speaker 3: They looked cool, like when you're watching them play, like
obviously the bassis and like trench going.
Speaker 1: Big black coats like they're in an eighteenth century version
of the Make Trix. For some reason, Joe's got like
the power stance going on, but.
Speaker 3: Like and you watch marriage I wanning say drumming, and
it like again he is a drummer, just looks cool
behind the kick because he looks like he is going
like he's trying to destroy that cat and all those
aspects again they just make them look like it didn't
look like all your dad's metal band up there, Like
everything about it just was like, this is how metal
can look cool.
Speaker 2: And again, could you have always been on the bands
that kind of can lean to sort of.
Speaker 3: When people say all metals creams, its like fucking Gajira
right there, and even again someone who's no maybe as
loves as much they once did.
Speaker 2: It was everything about what was gonna that.
Speaker 3: No, man, this is why good are one of our
special bands that we will cherish and celebrate.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other performers at the event were like Lady
Gaga and Sali And again it's it's quite nice that
it's Goodjeerra because obviously Kajera are you know, for us
right now, they're like one of our biggest most popular
metal bands. No one in metal, you know, questions Gadjera
being like up there on a pedestal, but you know,
in the mainstream, obviously an awful lot of people have
not heard of Gajea And it's not like you know
Metallica or you know, Sabbath or one of the small
handful of metal bands that the actual proper.
Speaker 2: Like you know mainstream.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, your BBC News mainstream are aware of
and it was nice that that struck that balance of like, yeah,
this is a band that we all know are totally
equipped to go up there and do that kind of thing,
but they are, like you know, they're pushing it for
you know, in total, just like average people on the streets.
And the fact that they were to do that, obviously
the significance is it's the first time it's ever happened
for at Obviously when we had it in in London,
we had you know, Frank Turner and Muse played as well,
and I remember that mus ports was really fucking cool.
But like there's a there's a level of difference between
that and this isn't there.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, like you know Frank Turner in his like
twee little English country side village and was playing and
the mus like obviously the Grandeur, butate like this is
Mews on the second Law.
Speaker 1: They did Survival from that, which I remember is really
fucking cool. They had like a big choir and stuff.
But yeah, gajeera firing blood red streamers out of the
palace where Mary Antoinette was kept before they cut her
head off with the guild.
Speaker 2: That's just yeah, it's just like, yeah, it's just a
cooler thing to just present.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I said, I you know, I didn't
see it going out live, but like my mum immediately
messaged me and she was like, I've just seen Gajeera
on the TV. And you know, obviously my mum has
heard of Gajeera before because she is my mum. But
how yeah, but like you know Mum's messages and people
be like, oh, who is this supposing he asked that
I interviewed years go on the TV. I was kinda
was like I hated to do. Could you have been
on this podcast Gadea on TNM years ago so we
can say that, you know, former T and M guests
open the Olympic ceremony.
Speaker 2: However you like to say, in just just a victory,
just so you've got to celebrate and enjoy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, if the stat I've got here
in front of me is to be believed and it
is correct, twenty nine million people around the world tuned
in to watch that Olympics opening ceremony, which means obviously
know they weren't all watching Kadjeira, But technically I think
you know, it's been kind of banded out there. Is
that the most watched metal performance of all time? I
guess it has to be. I can't think of one
of like yeah something yeah up there, and I know
it's you know, but a minute and a half sort
of two minute clip or whatever. I again have watched
several times now, but that's the largest expot osia a
metal band has ever had. And again it's not Metallica
or whatever. It's a band who we see now as
a being a very popular mainstream metal band, but it's
still a band who like have Gorgut's influence in the
early musage.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you go back and like I was like,
oh man, this is a thing where I'm like, could
this be what you know, really tips and solidifies them
as a rena festival headliner sort of material. That's the
thing why I'm now looking at this on is like
how does this convert into the future for which you
know is like jumping ahead and kind of like not
enjoying the moment, but it is something I'm like, fingers,
like you let this momentum carry on for good year
and you know, really stamp their position as like one
of the top bands yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can play the opening Cereena then
picks for twenty nine million people, but you can't like
even sub headline download festival, then some things need be
switching out. But like, yeah, just unbelievably memorable. Cool again,
considering it was something that I feel like there should
have been more built up, you know, I feel like, yeah,
we should have known for money, you.
Speaker 2: Know, every melfan could have been ready. They're glued.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it it just sort of like just pissed
itself out onto the internet like two days before and
like any Kajira play any Olympics, and then it happened. Everyone,
Oh my god, what a story, and then even the
fucking the like you know, all out.
Speaker 3: Because you know I've mentioned I mean, it wasn't this
wasn't just there were there were various bits. Yeah, I
don't think they were like a bunch over.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's specific to Kajira, because I've said
before several times, for the last few years we've been
in something a kind of renewed satanic panic. But you know,
people like sucking Andrew Tait and like the idiot piece
of ship from Skillet, like this is satanic it's like, motherfucker,
what doesn't scare you? Why are you scared of everything?
I thought you were manly men but wonderful. Why not?
It was that cool lap up a bit of like, yeah,
upset some people in the process and and you know,
get some knickers in a twist. Absolutely which obviously because
it's Kajira, we know, just how like lovely climate. But
they are.
Speaker 2: Going to like and all the albums are about trees
and ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just undeniably like the victory, you know, feel good
for the entire community of heavy metal. Story of the Year,
absolutely sensationally done. We again, I don't want to over
exaggerate this significance of it, because I don't think it's
like suddenly, uh you know, I know people, oh yeah,
Kadeer have got some tops in hn M or whatever.
But I don't think it's suddenly going to mean that like,
oh yeah, you know they're going to be hanging out
with Billie Eilish at the fucking you know vm A
Awards like Christina regular A. Yeah. I'm not saying it's
gonna get metal back on top or anything, but I
do think that we're clearly going to be talking about
it as a moment for years and years, you know,
maybe for the rest of like heavy metal being a
thing on this planet. So in that sense, it is significant,
and it's really wonderful that it was just that cool
as well, because it would be significant even if it
was just like, you know, oh, there's Gajira in the background,
but it wasn't. It was that so massive. Applaud to
everybody involved in, like, you know, setting that up and
getting that on twenty nine million screens around the world.
So yeah, fucking incredible. Let's move on through the rest
of the news. A really random bit of news that
I feel like I don't quite have the context to
understand what is involved before I actually see it. But
King Diamond has announced a US tour, to which I say, please, God, sir,
the album. It has been so many years since you
put out the first single from the album. We had
a pandemic in between now and then, please pandemic, please
release the album that you keep saying is like nearly done.
But he's doing a big US tour. Looks like a
good old time who's supporting on it? Overkiller Night Demon,
Night Demon supporting every like old heavy metal band until
the end of time. But Mirka Amili of course from
Mierka is gonna be joining King Diamond's band as a
backup live vocalist, which is just like a really random headline. Again,
it's not happened yet, so I have not got any
you know, oh there she is singing X part or whatever.
But at the very least that's kind of cool and
novel and interesting.
Speaker 2: What's going to be in the Grandma costume?
Speaker 1: Oh maybe Grandma. Let's talk now about music, because we
are reaching the point. I had, you know, a couple
of them last week with the two share More I
album and stuff, which I'm sure you're you're ant for,
oh very much, so yees to talk about that. But
we are now reaching the point where, you know, approaching
the sort of halfway to the end point of summer autumn.
Albums are streaming in and we've got so many of
some kind of significance announced like this week in the
last few days even that we are just gonna have
a gauntlet here of going through. Some have got like
singles out that we are gonna gonna talk about. And
the way you know, normally I organize these things kind
of vaguely by like you know, size or popularity or whatever.
There are so many albums here to talk about that
I've actually just put it in like chronological order of
their release dates, so you can imagine in you know, sequence,
when these albums will be coming out. So the first
of those technically is coming out in September. Most of
them are August babies, but on September the twentieth, Vended
are going to be releasing their full length debut album,
which is fucking weird because I feel like Vended should
have a debut for Ages.
Speaker 3: It feels like now or I'm not Ages, but it
feels like they've been in a long enough they should
have a debut album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, they've been in a hot minute, and I
know that obviously they've been put in a certain position
because of you know, surnames and so forth, So that
explains it. But I did just go, what the fuck
do you mean? Vended don't have a debut album yet,
but that will be arriving in September. Moving on to August,
as said, the first week in August October, and yeah, sorry,
first week in October is when we're going to receive
the new album from Undeath, which is called Rather brilliantly.
The album is called More Insane, which the last one
was just Insane. I guess this one's more insane. Uh.
It's the follow up to its time Dot Dot Dot too,
right from the grave. It's gonna be out on October
the fourth. Like I said, there is a single from
it called Brandish the Blade. The cover art is fucking great.
It's like they've done this thing with their album covers
where each one like zooms out and like reveals more
of like the scenery, and this one has now gone Yeah,
so like those tombstones and shit are actually inside the
skull of a splitting open head. Cool. I guess, Narlie,
I guess that is more Insane. They didn't lie. But
as said, we've got a track, Brandish the Blade. The
album's produced by Mark Lewis, who I feel like in
terms of Undeath's touch points, the most relevant thing is
that he is the only person other than Eric Rutan,
who have produced a Cannibal Corps album in the last
like twenty years. He did the Eskeletal Domain album and
this track is really fucking good.
Speaker 2: This track is amazing. I really like Undeath. I think
this might be my favorite un death song or just on.
Speaker 1: I'm really fond of its time to rise from the grave,
but this is like not there as well.
Speaker 3: Again, the thing is is this is that rollicking death
metal party that I like, I come to Undeath for
like again, like there's no bad people who have more
in common with about it.
Speaker 2: But it's got that kind of runaway every time I.
Speaker 3: Die, just charged up energy where it's just like the
risk of firing out. There's almost like there's like an
actual chorus hook kind of bit. The breakdown is just
like skull crashing. It's got this amazing solo. It's just
it's so charged up all the time. I'm full of
so much energy, but it's so fun and sort of
free wheeling and cutting loose, like I was just first
player the Remember that opening riff kicked in. I was like,
oh yeah, come on, and it like and then that
energy just ups and up and up. I like legitimately
think of the new crop of like cool modern death
meal bands, Undeath by far become my favorite. There was
just something about them that just hits a note for me,
and this song kind of like captures all the best
of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think of that particular. Obviously we were talking
about the two hundred Dad Winds album a couple of
weeks ago, but I think, you know, on death are
kind of more so as time goes on, kind of
revealing themselves to maybe be like, you know, one of
if not the best one, because I agree that kind
of like the rolling double bass in that verse where
it is like, yeah, that's what I want. I want
the feel of being on like a gore train made
out of like strewn bits of blood and bone, just
sort of rollicking down.
Speaker 2: A hill everything in its path.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, that breakdown part the build up made me
just hooped with that eye am brandishing the fucking blame.
Speaker 2: Yep, that was it.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, yeah, so cool. And it's like
it's technically adept, but it's very clearly song based, where
again it has like an actual chorus and everything in
a way that minded me of Black Dahlia.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that's probably the more acts or of
death metal comparison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's the same kind of energy, right, and
it's got so many rifts in it. But it's also like, yeah,
that's obviously lead single territory because it's how they all
are pieced together and flow together. There's so many cool
little moments and bits of flare like that. Even that
there's one little riff in that breakdown part where they
play a second time and in my head, I just
thought it'd be sweet to have like a little like
hammer on or something in that second part, and then
they did it. It's like, oh yeah, cool. It's really
natural songwriting instincts vocally as well, like you know, for
a kind of you know, death metal growler, I feel
like there's character. Yeah, there's character.
Speaker 3: There's like you can kind of pick out like the
hooks and stuff like that, and it I like, I
can't say enough good things about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like Alex is maybe exploring how to
do that a little bit. You know, our friend Joe
from Nuclear Blast, he puts something up whereas like the
vocals are giving nightmares made flesh from blood Bath and
I can I can hear that. Yeah, this kind of
connection and yeah, like wicked track sure to be a
great album and uh yeah October the fourth from Undeath
moving for actually they do also have I should say
live and that's a big old US tour as well
in support of that album, where they've got Cruelty Gates
to Hell and Tribal Gaze out with them, which is
a very good kind of you know, combination of that
kind of breed of the you know, sort of modern
particular obviously with Cruelty and Travel Gay is kind of
the hardcore leaning side. Yeah, hard co leaning death death metal.
But if you're in the US and you like that
kind of death metal, and that's definitely going to be
a tour for you. Moving forward the following week, in
the middle of October the eleventh, we have the new
Ransy Pazuzu album, which is going to be cooled. Here
we go Munta Toja, which is a shape shifter in English.
It's a shame because I feel like I've gotten at
least marginally good at pronouncing a couple of the last
directed Prozer albums, but that one's going to need some practice.
But yeah, that's out on October's Actually there's like I
think there's two songs out from this one now. They're
a released a couple of singles, but my god, are
they freaky.
Speaker 2: I wasn't listen and when you said you're gonna running
slightly like I listened to.
Speaker 1: It's more upsetting than usual from them.
Speaker 3: It's like we are the winds of getting me to
go for the avant garde, black and definite old ship
that you normally go for. Like there's been a couple
of the ones that like I'm gonna come mon on, like,
I don't think you're gonna have the same success with
our Anti Persus is all I'm going to say.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe not on this album, because this album
is sounding fucking absolutely nightmarish and absolutely hellish. But one
of the most genius heavy bands in the world right now.
I'm very excited for that one. The following week we
got the news on the High Viz album. They've also
announced a big old like you know, UK and European
tour and everything. It's really sad. They're playing a skate
shop in Liverpool next weekend, the Sunday that I am
at Bloodstock, but that will be fucking crazy. But their
new album it's called Guided Tour. Uh, It's on October
the eighteenth. We did speak about a single that I
guess again is the lead single from from this a
couple of weeks ago, which I think is wicked. I
revisited that song very good. This track you know more
out there though, because.
Speaker 3: I was really surprised at how this when it's that
with that kind of like female vocal as well as
like eight This is a little bit different, but I
think it's kind of give me an interesting idea of
where like some of the ideas of Hives might pull
on on this record and where they want to see
themselves going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's got you know, a major use of
electronics in there, but also even like kind of pop
music sounds yeah and slightly you know, it's not like
they've gone for Katy Perry. It's kind of you know,
sort of slightly artsy pop music maybe, but you know,
I'm not against it. It's a it's an interesting experiment.
It's got a cool grouve. I like the you know,
it's still got like slightly gothy like post punk bass
and then these like bright you know, stone rosy zy
or whatever kind of old still nineties as far yeah,
guitars and everything, but it's alongside those more you know,
twenty first century kind of chopped up vocal samples and
stuff like that, which is a cool mix of kind
of cultural elements. And I like that This is the
second single as well, because obviously we had that first one.
I was like cool, yeah, and now this is clearly
signposting like this album gonna have a diversity of sound.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the rest of the album might not lean into
any one of these things in particular, but we're gonna
have like a wide palette of stuff. So I think
that's cool in that particular regard from high Viz. Also,
I think that same week we have a new Grand
Magas album which is called Sun Raven. It's their first
album in a fair few years, a bit of a
break from them. It's a concept album. I think I
read about the Viking Saga of Beowulf, so completely on
brand for a Grand Magas it is. It's a heavy
metal song, it's got a great riff, it's got a
chorus that will feel good at Bloodstock in a week's time.
Good stuff there. We also then have the new Jerry
Cantrell album which is called I Want Blood. We had
a little bit of teasing from Jerry Cantrell ahead of
this where we're like always you know, Iras and Chains
coming back. I presume, I guess it would be so
loocuse the teasing was coming from like Jerry Cantrell kind
of accounts rather than Alison changes, and obviously we spoke
about a lot of Alison Chains. Last year, I really
had a renaissance with the Rainier Fog album and I
was still listening to it. So I'm because it's been
like six years now, I'm really like, I want new
Alison Chains, particularly so that then means they'll tour it.
But as well as having that, doing that special we
did also reminded me that the last Jerry Contrell album, Brighton,
was really fucking good as well. And I just I
just want a constant supply of music from this guy,
you know, like whe whether it's I just need Jerry
ConTroll sounds around me because it's very homely and.
Speaker 2: That's it's been a hit.
Speaker 3: Play on this single and it was just kind of like,
oh yeah, this is that that really like psychedelic, kind
of weirder side of Jerry Control, but like just like
that his character just feeling so because after this, the
voice of Jerry Control, the character of me is just
so comforting to me. And after like how much that'special
we did and and I just got those vibes immediate
from this song and I think it's a really good
sort of first single.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The album is produced by Joe Brezi and he said,
you know, this album sounds sounds different to Brighton, and
listening to this, it's like, yeah, the more kind of
trually kind of stonier even bits that are there on
like rainier fog like tracks like Red Giant and Drone
and that stuff, and less To kind of it's a
bit darker, yeah, less To kind of like sevenies, you know,
slightly acoustic leaning outlaw rock of Brighton to the point
where I hear this someone like, oh, yeah, where are
the rest of Allison changed? You know, like what are
you guys doing? But you know, I like those kind
of riffs, the stuttery rhythm, good stuff going there. Then
the following week, October the twenty fifth, we have the
one that I would I imagine is probably the most
exciting album for announcement for like a number of people.
Better Lovers have detailed their debut full length album that
people have been waiting for for a little while. It's
called Highly Irresponsible, which is quite funny. And this is
curious because I, you know, I was following the last
Better Lover singles had the first EP last year, wasn't it.
And then we had a couple of singles like there
was that one Flowering which had that like a little
shop of horrors like music video and stuff, and there
was another one too Alive Amongst the Dead, and I
assumed I was like, okay, so they've done the thing
where they've released a couple singles before announcing the album,
but looking at the track list, those songs don't appear
to be on it, so this is uh, I guess
you know, this track, which is called a White Horse
Covered in Blood, is actually the first track that we've
heard from the album. So the album. Yeah, I guess
if you like those other two songs, they are just
sort of you know, stray standalone singles before the album arrived.
But we have this track as the lead single. Sam
as said in terms of exciting announcements, so this is
probably the one for you where you're immediately yeah, I
gotta cue that one up first of all. So what
do you make of the lead single for the Better
Lovers album?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty much everything I want from a
lead single from a Better Lovers album. That obviously, this
is gonna just hit the spot for me, right A well,
I've liked every better the song so far loads.
Speaker 2: This is more of that. They've got to be more
of the chorus going on. But you know, Jordan Buckley's riffing.
I hear him. I hear that dude riff and I
like it.
Speaker 3: And Greg Priciatto like his clean vocals, He's got all
of his character going on the whole that the you
gave some for line and you repeat it kind of
hook that they build off towards the end, gives that
kind of big like rousing closing moment just goes really fast,
really hard.
Speaker 2: It like, yeah, it's I don't think this is going
to shock anyone when they hit play on what this is.
Speaker 3: This isn't like a kind of like big dramatic swing
of a lead single, but in terms of just the chaotic,
high energy sound that Better Lovers have kind of demonstrated
on those on that first DP and those singles, this
is more of that, but with a bit more of,
like I say, a chorus, a hook that you can
really sing along with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know it starts with that like just
kind of snared, just hitting it repeatedly, and Greg's kind
of slur and that like cat got your tongue kind
of things. That's a bit like Tim Armstrong for a
second there, but it is, it's one of them more
like kind of driving, kind of rocky rifts, Like it
really slots into the like, you know, obviously something there.
Every time I Die helped spawn that kind of punk
and roll thing of like the kind of you know,
Turn of the twenty ten seven sort of. Yeah, that's
a nice sort of rythm to slit into. And I
kind of I felt the same about the kind of
repeating refrains jumped out at me more in this song
than previous Better Lothers tracks that taught us out yourself
a lie that you repeated part the Catholi tongue part. Like,
I can't say for myself that there has been a
Better Lover song so far. Well, I mean, I've not
seen them live, and it feels like every other person
seems to have seen them four or five times right now,
so everybody is like they've been pre active. Yeah, so
everybody is used to the songs. I don't have that,
but you know, so just listen to the records. There
hasn't been like a Better Love track so far that
has genuinely jammed its way into my head and stuck
with me the way their best songs from obviously their
prior bands have. It's all been like, you know, an
enjoyable combination of sounds and elements, but it hasn't really
had the song power of for me so far. I
can't say yet if this one will be, you know, again,
one of those higher songs or whatever, but I think
it's maybe the closest to people like, oh yeah, cool,
like a hook I've heard from a Better Lover song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's I mean the EPM particular, those
songs are really wet sothing like Fairy under thirty particularly live,
that song feels like the sort of the moment in
their set. But this is definitely one of the more
kind of just like immediately sort of grasp of all, like, yep, cal,
there's a hook there.
Speaker 2: Let's let's build off that. So, I mean, like I I,
of course I was gonna love this, and it is
hitting what I want.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm like, I say, it's got me excited
for the album, Like I love the album cover of
a guy blowing his face off of a firework.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's at the Cateria show at the Olympics and
then leaving October going into the last month of autumn
in November. The first of November. In fact, Tribulation have
got their new album coming out. It's called sub Rosa
in a Turnum. It has a single out from it now,
which is called Tainted Skies. There was another Tribulation single,
it's another one of those. They released a single a
few weeks ago that I loved because it's really it's
like the most goth rock song they've ever done, like
a full on, like an actual like cleanly you know,
kind of barraitonely song, like goth rock chorus type Tribulation song,
And I thought, oh, you know, that's an interesting kind
of development of them leaning to that side. This one
maybe feels slightly more classic Tribulation, but it does still
have again, you know, like clean vocals in there, and
I think you can still hear they're leaning into a
slightly more like analogue seventies old school driving rock thing.
Like even the fact that they've like in the promo
pictures they're not wearing any corpse paint and it's just
like Yahanna's wearing some like shades and stuff. It's like,
is this the beginning of tribulation kind of you know,
turning into dads. Maybe it is, but I do like
the tunes, and that is a huge old stream of
albums that are coming out in the autumn of twenty
twenty four. There is one more piece of you know,
new music announcement as well, which is that Ginger are back,
and they have not fully detailed an album announcement, but
they've said that one will arrive in Win twenty twenty five,
which I guess means you know, January or February of
obviously early next year. But we do have a lead
single from that album, which is called Someone's Daughter. And
in terms of like our discussion of Ginger, we don't
talk about them super often. We reviewed an album in
twenty twenty one, and this is their first music since then,
which for like a you know, hypie one of the
most prominent sort of you know, current mainstream metal bands around.
That does feel like a bit of a quiet period,
Like it feels like Ginger have kind of gone quiet
for a little bit and been off people's lips. So
it feels like the right moment to kind of check
in again with like a you know, first single off
a new project, but you know, we haven't really been fans. Sam,
do you have any thoughts about the Ginger track?
Speaker 2: I just winding it around to listening to the Okay,
because of work, I didn't have a chance.
Speaker 1: To get right. Well, I guess for me, I had
kind of a I listened to track and I didn't
really like it right for the same reasons I don't
really like any Ginger, but I feel like I listened
to this and I had a slight like, uh, something
clicked about some of the reasons why I don't really
like Ginger that much, and I like, for me, I've
always found Ginger's music really like inert and really stagnant,
and it's like they're, you know, seemingly on an objective level,
They're they're heavy, you know, they have like you know,
down tune guitars and a screamy vocalist and all that
kind of stuff, But I never feel it's actually like
purposed and aggressive and it doesn't actually hit me on
any kind of prime or like want to run round
of the circle with anything type level. And I was
listing this and I was like, yeah, it's like technically busy,
but it doesn't have that kind of power or that
crucially momentum that that kind of music should have for me.
And the chorus of the song kind of made me
realize something about that, because it's it's Tattyana doing that
kind of big, you know, slightly Anastasia ish kind of
like R and B influenced clean vocal that she does,
and she's doing it over this like weird like kind
of rolling over itself, technic shifting kind of gent riff,
and then she you know, continues to you know, sing
those melodies over the following verses and everything, and it's
like you know those videos where someone on YouTube has
taken like the isolated vocal track from like a famous
pop song or something right like a Lady Garb Yeah,
and they've made up like a metal metal instrumental track
to go under it, and you watch them and you go, oh,
that's kind of funny, But very rarely do you go,
oh yeah, that that like you know, busy guitar part
actually complements that song more than like the original pop
production that that song had. That's what this song sounds like.
It's like an isolated chorus that doesn't go very well
with the metal track. That's that's underneath it, but it's
been like originally written that way, and you know, resultingly,
even though it's the main hook of the song when
it arrives, there is no of like that swell you
want of like ah fit, punch the air, the lift
of a metal chorus that's meant to like grab you
on first go whatever, it doesn't happen because it's like
this weird melody over this like other rift that doesn't
really you know, compliment it in any way, and it's
this kind of snaking melody that subsequently goes nowhere because
the arrangement of the song just isn't very good and
it just feels kind of sour to me as a result,
and I don't really enjoy listening to it. And I
just thought, listen to this track that you know, that's
my updated twenty twenty four thoughts and take on Ginger
and we'll see you in a few years again. But
that is that. A couple of really exciting live announcements
as well. Obviously we have some for you in the
US with the Undeath and everything, but a couple of
shows I'm really you know, excited about coming up. Green
Lung have announced their biggest ever. Headline shows in the
UK are coming up in February of next year, and
just again on their own merits right, Green Lung are
a band that we have described as being kind of,
you know, on the up, and we've kind of been
curious about like how far they could go, what is
their ceiling whatever. They're going to be headlining the Rits
in Manchester, and the say they're gonna be headlining the
Kentish Town Forum in London, and I don't say Green
Lung at this stage right now without any like prominent
mainstream backing yet really playing the forum. I learned to
that and went, I hope that's not too capacity, but like, yeah,
that's that's that's cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm seeing Green Lung player Tiny Pub tomorrow,
which I'm very excited about. But yeah, and this is
this feels like a real kind of like big moment
for them, as kind of like they're like moment of
like saying we're a big metal band.
Speaker 2: And I think, like, I think based on the moment
and they still took from that from that new.
Speaker 3: Album, I think they can do it, especially with the
package they're bringing along by those things, it looks like
it if you're into that sort of thing, You're gonna
have a very good night when.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope it goes well for them. I hope
that that it sells well and everything. The package that
you mentioned is that they're gonna be supported by unto
others and also Satan Satyrs, which for me as a
trio is just so won of the well I Satan
Saty's obviously the band that we've never really spoken about
extensively on the show. I've thought about it a couple
of times. It's weird to me that they're like the
oldest band on that bill now, because I remember their
debut album was like a really big thing for me,
and now I'm like, oh my god, you're the old
guard of those three bands. But they're really really cool.
They're more like a kind of seven e's like psych
rock type band, like with bits of that kind of
electric was a doom me kind of element in there
as well, Like really, you know, I really like that
band in that kind of realm. But obviously unto others
along with them as well as main support, I hope
that does bring in a few more kind of tickets
as well. Green Lung and unto others, as a pairing
feels like really exciting, and I feel like, compared to
other support shows that unto others have done over here,
I feel like there's maybe more chance of Green Lung
fans like already knowing them as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even the ones who don't well vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I hope, I really hope obviously it benefits
onto others because I feel like more of the kind
of older classic heavy metal crowd have like twigged onto
Green Lung than they have unto others yet. But I
also feel, like I said, in terms of like people
turning up and maybe are actually really knowing if you
and two other songs and giving them a good response,
I feel like that's more likely at this Green Lung
show then you know, a Behemoth arch Jemy show or
anything else they've kind of done. So that is a
trio particularly obviously got you know, one show in London,
one show in the North that's an unmissible fucking show.
That's brilliant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that to me, I was like, because I was
seeing Green Lung twiles, I don't need him on the
next one.
Speaker 2: We're like, oh they got onto others, Maybe I probably
do need to see him. On the next tour. Yeah,
because I've not seen onto others.
Speaker 1: Yet and you want to be there for that big
green lung show.
Speaker 2: What I was going to say as.
Speaker 3: Well, like them in the forum they're gonna put because
you said, like you used them in quite a small
venue and they were packing a bit of a shit
that like how many big heads are they like in
the film stage and like drum circles and all that
shit like gold.
Speaker 1: Yeah, erect an entire stone circle in the middle of
the Kentish Down Forum. And then we also have a
tour that's gonna be happening in April going around Europe,
which is Behemoth headlining what they've titled the Unholy Trinity
Tour twenty twenty five, bringing Satiric On and Rotten Christ
around with them. And it looks like it is primarily
sort of one show in like each you know, European
country and in a normally obviously one of the capitals,
which means they are playing the Bricks and Academy in
London and that's it for the UK shows. I think
for myself it means I probably won't be attending this
one because I've got other things that I'm doing. Around
that time, which I would be really gutted about if
I wasn't seeing Satirical on and Rotten Christ both next
week at Bloodstock, both of whom I haven't seen in
a long time. And really those are like the two
bands I'm most looking forward to at Bloodstock. So that slightly,
you know, lessens the blow of not being able to
do this one. But if you are in London or
in any of these other you know, European capitals where
that's coming round, my god, if you like grand fucking
black metal, Bohemo, Satirical and Rotten Christ are literally three
of the greatest to ever do it, and that is
in terms of that unholy Trinity billing they've given it.
It lives up to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm about to go to this because
again after that Rotten Christ album kind of really got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you enjoyed the Satirical album Club we did, Like
I've been.
Speaker 2: Vying with Sterical for a while since you did that
album Club.
Speaker 3: So that is a package again, just like Grand Majestic
epic black metal that has so much like power and presence,
those three bands of the package like perfect kind of
like like synergy between them that's gonna be a hell
of any Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's also even like a perfect black metal
bill for people who aren't that into black metal, because
all of those bands, despite all being you know, kind
of aesthetically and spiritually very black metal, It's not like
you know, Death Heaven or something. It's like, clearly those
are like uber black metal in their presentation bands, but
all of them have that flavor where like you don't
have to be like a biscuit tin lover to really
vibe with those bands. So that canna be a hell
of a show, and you know, everybody goes to that
is gonna have a really, really wonderful time. Poison the
Well announced that they have got a seven LP career
spanning box set of all of their albums coming out
on vinyl, which I must say I believe, you know,
since I've kind of looked at this, I don't know
how clickly this went. At least the link I am
looking at in the UK it says sold out. So
it looked looked tasty, you know, it looked looked tempting
if you had one hundred and sixty pounds to drop
on seven Poison the Well Records. I guess that's not
terrible terrible value, quite at tempting item. If you are
one of the handful of what was it say, a
thousand copies people who have ordered one of those, I'm
sure you'll treasure. It looks like a very fucking sweet deal,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3: I'm just crossing my fingers that they that they do
give someone like the actual individually a proper individual repress now,
because I do need opposite of December and Tear from
the Red on vinyl.
Speaker 1: Very very cool and a really quite heartwarming piece of
news is the street in Chicago where Steve Albini's recording
studio was located is apparently it's going to be renamed
as Steve Albini Way by you know, the city, which,
in terms of recognizing someone's contributions to the music not
it has to come out that city obviously. Of course,
you know the world of alternaive music in general. We
spoke at length when he passed about kind of what
an icon of our culture he was. It's really nice
that there's going to be a Steve Albinie Way over there.
So that is the big news round up for this
particular news episode. Quickly to talk about some of the
other things we've got going on with T and M.
As mentioned up at the top, the reason that Sam
cowarded out of here and went to see Bruce Springsteen
is we were recording an album, Roulette with none other
than Alistair Alistair Dune from ashen Spire, whose album Hostile
Architecture in twenty twenty two. Myself and Elliot particularly were
like massively keen on and they have become really I
think they're one of the best bands in the country,
but also in general, they've become quite respected, you know,
in those kind of experimental, avant garde kind of heavy
music circles, and I think there will be a fair
few eyes on them when they get round to making
another record. So it was really nice to have Alistair
on the show talking about a bunch of records that
he chose, and he chose some like left field records.
I think it was probably for the best that you
weren't there something, to be honest, But.
Speaker 3: I just, like I said, I've listened to the first
part of it, and when he talk about the things
he could have brought on and yeah, so.
Speaker 1: At the moment he goes, yeah, I'm really into Visigartha,
Eternal Chapping. I was like, motherfucker, you're telling me I
could be talking about Visigartha right now and we're not.
Speaker 2: I did enjoy that, but yeah, no, like it sounds
like interesting albums at the very least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really, you know, really I loved havingim on the show.
Is really really friendly, nice guy, really visibly passionate about
the music he was talking about, which is exactly what
you want from a guest who's doing that. Very eloquent
about them as well, and the reasons they kind of
resonate with him. He chose, you know, he choose at
least one album that I fucking adore, and I really
loved talking about that as well. But in general, like
if you are into, you know, I feel interested in
when we go outside of the usual that's not a
bubble and talk about I think, you know, all the
things he was talking about are like you know, different
and left field or whatever. We were talking about how
they then filter into you know, a band as like
you know, extreme and metal and so on, as Ash
and Spire are. So it's really if you're interested in
those kind of chats and how we draw those kind
of connections. I think it's one of the most kind of,
you know, interesting episodes that we've done in that particular
regard and loved having Alistair on the show. If he
ever hears this, you know, thank you once again for
coming on. And as said, you know that is currently
you can now hear it for everybody. If you just
hop back on the podcast prior to this one you're
listening to right now on this feed, you will see
it right there. And it was really really wonderful to do.
Fans of you know, noisy shit and you know, abstract
hip hop and one of the weirdest queen covers you'll
ever hear, all sorts of good stuff, So check that
one out. Coming up this weekend, myself and Sam we
are going to do another Tear and Does Horror. We've
not too long ago, we did one on the Quiet
Plays franchise, but we've got more horror movies to talk about,
so we are going to do an episode this cop weekend,
doubling up the conclusion of the ex trilogy Maxine that
came out at the start of July with the far
and away most kind of raved about horror movie of
this year's.
Speaker 2: Sort of the runaway success in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fucking In terms of numbers, yeah, crazy long legs.
We're going to double those two up, which is kind
of convenient because they you know, there are two movies
that came out around the single time, we can kind
of wipe off the slate. But also I think there
are actually a number of sort of links and parallels between,
you know, kind of unexpected connections maybe, so that is
gonna be really interesting and fun to do. Like I said,
we are going to be doing that this weekend, and
that will go up to the Patreon for you know,
everyone who who kind of who supports and wants to
listen to that, that higher tier of where we do
those podcasts. So thank you very much for everybody does that.
You can find all that stuff at patreon dot com
slash that's not metal. So that's kinds up the hyper
of last with the releases for this week, where we
are beginning to one eyed fucking Obviously we spake about
it so recently I didn't quite internalize just how soon
it would be. Apparently the Smashing Pumpkins album Agora Maury May,
which they announced very very recently, is out today. My god,
they like properly turn that one around. But the new
Smashing Pumpkins album is out today, so I'll be fascinated
to hear. I guess where the prevailing winds go on
that one, how into it people are and what kind
of shape it takes. That's obviously the massive release of
the week, unless you were, of course, an an Berlin fan.
Where we have the new album Vega isout? Any exciting
for that one, Sam? Not really, No, Well, there you go.
Blues Pills, the kind of you know, quite long running
now but fairly dependable sort of you know blues like
rock band. They've got an album called Birthday. If you're
into you know UK dirtiness, UK's ludge Barbarian hermit, great
band name. I've got a record called Mean Sugar out
Shadownell have got a self titled album I think is
a debut out on Relapsed Records. This is It features
members of Poison Ruin and stuff kind of funny luck
and during the week. But I think this is just
like a dungeon synth record from white people doing other stuff,
which it makes sense that someone in Poison Ruin would
do dungeons in that albums out. Blind Guardian are releasing
Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited, which is a re recording of
their now more than thirty year old not even like
their biggest album, but kind of one of their classic albums.
It's good album. It's a fucking great album. I'm not
quite sure why they've re recorded it, but it's it's
it's there and it's out.
Speaker 2: We'll find out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we have a handful of EPs. Old
rock football Head is the name of the band who
have released a band an EP call Before I Die,
I mentioned Poison Ruin. They have a new EP out
on the same day as the Dungeon synth project called Confreirera.
But Poison Ruin are really fucking good, so I will
be get your battle axes out there. Yeah, we'll be
checking that one out. And you know, for some raw
probably also enjoys a Dungeon black metal colder room. I
have got an EP called Desecration of the Bastile. If
you are for more like no French blasphemy, if you
know the GOODEA thing wasn't enough for you, or maybe
you're like Andrew Tait who knows. Thank you very much
for listening. Next week we'll be back with probably a
you know, slightly shorter again, hyperblast, because next week I'm
gonna be going off to the Bloodstot Festival and we're
gonna be covering that. That's really what fucking snuck up
on me. I still have to buy like things for it,
but yeah, I'm very excited for that. Uh So that
will becoming next week Petroon, like I said, is where
we're gonna have the very next episode we do, which
will be that tea and does Horror long Legs and
Maxine thing and then on the other side of Bloodstock
obviously I'll be talking about that, but then we'll see
what else comes in in August. So thank you very
much for being here and listening. Go and watch the
good Year video again. I'm sure that I probably will
at some point. And yeah, cheers By