1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Welcome one and all to episode 373 of Signals from Mars. I'm your host Victor and for this episode I bring you the return of our monthly albums review where Mr. Jeremy Weltman and myself discuss the previous month's releases and a lot of good stuff came out in January of 2024. We'll get into that next. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:57,000 I'm ready. Let's do it. 3 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:17,000 This is your first step in not becoming a lazy listener. There was more than one person that reached out to me and said, Hey, I didn't check anything out last year. Seriously, we went through the pains taking task of listening to I don't know how many albums throughout the year. 4 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Jeremy and myself and presenting them to you guys on a silver platter. Hey, this is what we recommend. 5 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:48,000 So let's turn the page. Let's start anew in 2024 and let's do this. Let's make this a habit. So even if you even if you don't like listening on a weekly basis and have some time to kill here and there and want to go back and throw on some of these album reviews or monthly album reviews. 6 00:01:48,000 --> 00:02:05,000 You can go to the bottom of signals from ours.com and you'll find all of the last few episodes that we've done like this group together. And from there you can click on them and check out the entire run of them to be honest. 7 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:21,000 And listen, I say this a million times. I love talking about new music, whether it's from bands that we love, whether it's from bands that we know of, but maybe have never checked out or newer bands. 8 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And there are some bands that that may be a little off the beaten track for some of you guys. 9 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:49,000 There's for example, Jeremy and I made a conscious effort of trying not to kind of step on each other's picks. We were now we now set up a sheet where we're a spreadsheet, an Excel sheet where where we keep track of what we've listened to. 10 00:02:49,000 --> 00:03:05,000 And for me it helps me because I try to pick stuff that he hasn't listened to. And then once I'm done listening to stuff that I'm interested in listening to, I'll go back and listen to some of the bigger releases out of the ones that he's enjoyed or some of the ones that he's listened to. 11 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:20,000 So I think we've got you guys pretty well covered. And this January was a little atypical in the sense that there were a lot of different new albums where in the past, January tends to be a slower month. 12 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 So anyway, I hope that this helps you guys out. 13 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Regardless, let me thank my patrons haven't done this in a few episodes and let's go with what's listed oldest to newest on my end here. 14 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I have Stephen Saylor, Stephen Hoeker, Jeremy Weltman who's on this episode, Mike Jones, Brad Doll, Gabriel Ruiz, Jose Ruiz, Metal Dan, Johan in Sweden, Ed Strum, I believe is how you pronounce it. Sure he's laughing and saying no it is wrong Victor. 15 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Ed Ferguson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Espin, Chris Szynsak and Sean Richman. I do want to thank all of you guys for your support. 16 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:33,000 And yeah, I hope you guys enjoy this episode. I hope that it's worth your while and that it helps you kind of get into the habit of checking out things. Hopefully there are some things that we mentioned that makes you guys say oh yeah that's a cool one I got to check that out or maybe that one slipped through the cracks or wow that album sucked. 17 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 What were they thinking of? 18 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:41,000 There's there's a bunch of different ways to look at this. 19 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:57,000 In any event, guys I do want to thank you once again for all of your support. I know that there's a million things that you guys could be listening to but you choose to listen to this when you could be listening to other things doing other things. 20 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Hopefully this helps bring a smile to your face or helps you pass the time, whatever. Anyway, thanks again for listening. 21 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Enough of me yammering and let's get on with the episode. Here we go. 22 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Welcome one and all to the February 2nd 2024 episode of signals from Mars. I am Victor. He is Jeremy. How are you sir? 23 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Very well thanks. How are you Victor? 24 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I'm doing good myself. 25 00:05:46,000 --> 00:06:01,000 This time around Jeremy is back for one of our new music discussions where we recap the music that has come out the previous month. This time we're going to be talking about January 2024. 26 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:22,000 And man January usually starts out as a slow month for music. But there were quite a few new releases that came out this month. I think the only week where there wasn't a lot going on was the first week, January 5th. 27 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:47,000 And man I'm just realizing that I missed out on a big release that I wanted to listen to. My son brought up which wasn't, I forgot when it came out, but it was in January. Neither one of us listed it. It was the Riley's LA Guns album. 28 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Yes you're right. Yeah, yeah we both missed out on that one. Maybe we should, we'll have a listen and we'll give our verdict on it in February. 29 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 There you go. 30 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:11,000 So anyway on January 5th, you listed two albums that you listened to. I kind of glossed over these. I didn't have enough time to really listen to either one. 31 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 But I'll let you be the one that discusses January 5th. 32 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Yeah, I mean, like you say, it's a very slow start to the year sometimes and this was no different. January 5th, there weren't many really that were out and I was probably forcing the issue a little bit. 33 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:42,000 But you know, listen to Beautiful Illusion by Last World. I thought it was a melodic sort of AOR style rock album, sort of thing that would probably accompany a film. 34 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:57,000 It all starts off, you know, a little bit bland to be honest, but it does improve. There's some hard hisses on there. A few good songs like I Will Find My Way, A Step Beyond Death, and there was a sort of rocky number, Better Of Me, which I quite enjoyed. 35 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:04,000 There was a bit of a low production budget on it, but you know, it was okay. It was, you know, listenable. 36 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:19,000 But my pick of the week was an album called Darkness by The Odd Even on Eclipse Records. It was a fairly sort of downtuned hard rock act. Well, they are a downtuned hard rock act from Baltimore. 37 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:28,000 I would say it was definitely for the, you know, Zach Wild fans. It's sort of, you know, sort of riff heavy grunge influenced on metal, that sort of stuff. 38 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Good songs, decent vocalist too, Chris Foltz, and I thought the production was right on it as well. 39 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:49,000 They've been going since 2020, and it was, you know, that was a pretty decent good start to the year. So a surprising hit from the off. Give it a listen. I think you'll probably like it, Victor. 40 00:08:49,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Okay, awesome. Yeah, I listened to a little bit of it, and I think you're probably right with the Zach Wild comparison. It reminded me of a little bit of John Petrucci from Dream Theater as well with some of the downtunes playing also. 41 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I'll give that one an extended listen. 42 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Like I said, it isn't that I didn't want to listen to it. I just ran out of time. 43 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Okay, so January 12, we start to pick things up again. 44 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:36,000 And we have new releases from Magnum, Emil Bowles, Russell Guns, Jim Petrucci and World Stage, the Grandmaster, 45 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Ryogen, I guess that's pronounced, Exit Eden, we had EPs from Greg Pucciato, Alluvial, Escuela Grind, and yeah, those are the main albums that came out. And look, these aren't all the albums that came out. There's a lot of other stuff that came out. 46 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:05,000 These are just kind of the ones that stood out to us. We got a chance to listen to a lot of these. 47 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Jeremy, what are some of your picks for the 12th? 48 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Yeah, I mean, this week I delved into Black Sun by the Grandmaster. That was a Frontiers album. Very sort of pleasant power metal stuff, strong production again, soaring vocals, you know, the sort of thing you're going to get. 49 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:29,000 So I quite enjoyed that. I thought Soul Sacrifice had all these sort of elements of a very commercial piece of metal. 50 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,000 And there were some other, you know, good nice listens on it as well. 51 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:44,000 I listened to Medusa by Jack Russell and Tracy Guns. I liked a few songs on this, but it seemed to lack something. I couldn't put my finger on it. You know, I played it a couple of times. 52 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:56,000 It didn't persuade me to, you know, play it a third time. So I just, I don't know what it was. Maybe you'll chip in on that one in a minute, I'm sure, and put me right on that. I don't know what it was. 53 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:09,000 But I suppose there's no surprise that the week belonged to the Birmingham Pump Rock Star Wars Magnum for me. It wasn't really so much the album Here Comes the Rain, which, you know, it's released. 54 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:24,000 It's their 23rd studio release, I believe. So, you know, they've released a lot of albums. Unfortunately, it was released in the week that the chief songwriter and guitarist, Tony Clarkin, died at the age of 77, 55 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:37,000 which was very sad. I've seen them a lot over the years. And, you know, I gave this album a good listen. I felt the quality has dropped off quite a bit in the last few years, but, you know, they're aging guys. 56 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:53,000 But there were some good songs on there. And, you know, I liked the song After the Silence. I liked the closing song Borderline, which I thought, you know, highlighted Clarkin's obsession with war themes, which sort of resonated throughout many of their albums over the years. 57 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:05,000 So, you know, there's a lot there that I'm sort of giving it the album of the week because of the, because Clarkin has passed away. But there you go. Magnum is my album of the week. 58 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Okay, the Russell Guns. Absolutely. I got to listen to that. I'm a huge Tracy Guns fan. 59 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I think that this album, similar to what you said, there's a few really cool tracks on it. 60 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:36,000 And there's a lot that just does nothing for me because when they go back to the 70s Hammond, Oregon thing, it's it's boring to me. 61 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 I have every LA Guns release. 62 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:56,000 As much as I like Hollywood vampires, it has very little distortion and it doesn't put Tracy's skills on display the way that they could be or the way that I like them to be. 63 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:21,000 And I think that the songs where the distortion is kicked up and the keyboards are kind of brought to the to the back end of the tracker, you know, pushed to the background kind of are the ones where they shine, you know, because Tracy and Jack Russell are the stars. 64 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 I don't know who the keyboard player is. 65 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:33,000 He shouldn't be who I'm hearing over top of these two monster legendary artists. 66 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:47,000 And some of those songs, it just feels like they're foisted on us with okay, we're going to give you a 70s feel but there's really kind of nothing kind of organic about it in places. 67 00:13:47,000 --> 00:14:01,000 The album isn't bad, but and when they're cooking one it's good it's really good. But like you're saying it's it's missing something for a lot of the album. 68 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,000 My pick for this week is the German band a meal bowls with level fix it. 69 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,000 It is a band that I've been hearing about for a long time. 70 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:27,000 I never really checked them out. And there was a single that I posted which not a lot of people liked on Patreon but I really like the, the chorus because I thought it was melodic and it got stuck in my head and there's a few. 71 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:34,000 I mean, I'm not going to say that this is, you know, the greatest thing since sliced bread. 72 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:50,000 But there's some pretty cool tracks on this album. And because it's, you know, something different and I like talking about different things when it comes to music if it helps some people check it out and whether that means that they check it out and say oh you're crazy, 73 00:14:50,000 --> 00:15:00,000 or wow you know yeah there are a few really cool songs off of this and I think I've done my work. So that's why I'm going to go with the meal bowls album. 74 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Trying to look at what else I listened to here I listed the Greg Pucci auto EP and that was, it was cool. I mean it's what you could expect from from Greg it's eclectic. 75 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 So, anyway, moving on to January 19. 76 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:31,000 We had probably the biggest release of the week and one of the private biggest release of January is the new Green Day album saviors. We had new albums from Saxon hellfire and damnation, the rods with rattled the cage. 77 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Also go to this metal life Cobra kill sovereign grand abora Lord dying reissue from to share more a kind of compilations from Nick Oliveri there's there's Nick Oliveri hits at all. 78 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Volume eight and nine were released. 79 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:01,000 We both got to listen to a bunch of different albums here. 80 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Jeremy, what are some of your picks for this week for the 19th. 81 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Yeah, I mean I listened to serpents kiss by Cobra kill, and I listened to expedition one by metal light. Both of those were okay to a fine albums that were listenable, you know, sort of thing you put on in the background, then not necessarily a, you know, an album or would play 82 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:30,000 again and again but you know they were quite enjoyable and so you know I'd recommend anyone to pick them up and listen to them. 83 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,000 I've moved on to rattle the cage the rods album. 84 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 There's something about this I mean I remember them obviously from back in the day. 85 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:54,000 So, I think that sort of, you know, made me listen to them. And, you know, I don't know what it was it's fairly simple rock and roll you know which which works. And I did play this several times and I thought you know, there's some songs on here that are really 86 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:02,000 annoying me and yeah, I'm listening to them again and again, what is going on. It's one of those albums that it's almost like an anvil album. 87 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:16,000 You know, you know, you know that it's, it's a little bit tongue in cheek you know it's a little bit raw it's a little bit old fashioned. It's a little bit this it's a little bit that and yet you know you're singing along to the choruses, and you kind of enjoying it, 88 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:28,000 and sometimes you just think well metal albums are supposed to be fun. And this was a fun listen. And so I thought, you know, good on them. They've done something that that made me listen to them. 89 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,000 And that's all they needed to do. So I like that but it wasn't my pick of the week. 90 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:42,000 And of course there's no surprises that it's going to be Hellfire and Damnation, the Barnsley Stormtroopers, the Barnstormers, Saxon. 91 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,000 I got this one on Red Vinyl I played a lot. 92 00:17:46,000 --> 00:18:02,000 It's their 24th studio album since 1979. And it's in my, in my opinion it sort of continues a good run of form that they've had in recent years you know they've never produced an album that you would say is absolutely amazing you know 10 out of 10. 93 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:10,000 But I think they keep the, they keep the sort of level up you know it's a seven or an eight out of 10 every time and there's always good songs on there to listen to. 94 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:17,000 This time of course we got Brian Tatler of Diamondhead helping them out. It seems to be sort of like a full time member now. 95 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:25,000 And I think it's better for that too. I think it's you know he's got good tunes, nice riffs, good lyrics, and all these historical themes. 96 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I know there's some people in the chat group, the Patreon group who thought you know they didn't like the lyrics and they thought the songs were okayish. 97 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:44,000 But you know, turn it up, play it loud. It's saxophone for God's sake. No, it's great. It's new open. 98 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Yeah, that's interesting because with last week's show a few people mentioned that but Brad was 100% behind the album and actually felt that it's probably their best album that they've released in some time. 99 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Would you feel that that it's their most cohesive album. 100 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:10,000 In comparison to the last few? I think it's better than the last two. I think the best album they've released in their sort of recent run of form has been Sacrifice. 101 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:17,000 But the production on Sacrifice was far too in your face. You know it's very overproduced. This one I think they've got the production right. 102 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:28,000 And I think it's a nice balance of songs. You know it's short and sweet. There's probably only about nine tracks on there really if you take out you know the opener, which is just a minute long or a couple of minutes or whatever. 103 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:38,000 And I think that they have a nice sort of balance of themes and balance of their. It's kind of like a sort of potpourri of sax and over the years. 104 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:44,000 You know they do the same sort of stuff. They do stuff about history. They do stuff about transport. 105 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:53,000 They do stuff about you know those sort of things that Biff likes to write about. And the riffs are there and you know the good tunes that stay in your head. 106 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:07,000 1066 is a good song on there. So is Madame Guillotine. So is the one about Roswell. And it's just you know it's a very enjoyable seven and a half, eight, eight, ten album. 107 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Yeah. 108 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:22,000 To echo what you said about the Rods and Saxon I would. I mean I can't argue with either of the things that you mentioned with the Rods mentioning Anvil I think is very apropos because it is that you know what to expect from them. 109 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:39,000 I'm not the hugest Saxon fan. But I do think that this album is a solid album. I was listening to it today. And for a Saxon album. I mean I can't complain. 110 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:54,000 You know I can think of contemporaries of theirs that are putting out worse music at the moment. Stuff that would probably bore me a little more. 111 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,000 And the moral of this story is this is what not to do if your bird shits on you. 112 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 For example. 113 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,000 So yeah so kudos to them. 114 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:23,000 I do want to point out the Green Day album Saviors. I know it's a little bit off the beaten track for people that are in Patreon or listen to the podcast. But I do think that this is them kind of going full circle to what they were like in their early years. 115 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:44,000 It's a lot closer to something like Dookie with some of the political message that they've that they've brought about over the years kind of mixed in. And yes they've been a political band for some time. So any Yahoo that say stick to the music and forget about the political stuff. 116 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Kind of been doing that for almost 30 years now anyway. So again just to pick something off the beaten track and something that wasn't mentioned. I bring that up. 117 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Real quickly here I do want to say hello to Tony who is in the chat who's saying hello to both Jeremy and myself. Also want to remind you guys that you can help the show out by going to Amazon. You have that Amazon link up there. 118 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:28,000 I get a small kickback for you purchasing anything from that. That is the US store. 119 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,000 The UK store. 120 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Canadian store. 121 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,000 You can also 122 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:48,000 go to Patreon. 123 00:22:48,000 --> 00:23:14,000 And you can also this is I guess the buy me a coffee. What else I have here. Well, you can go to signals from ours.com to check out all these links that I'm mentioning and oh by the way, Jeremy is wearing a few different items here. 124 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:24,000 It's showing up backwards actually on my end. 125 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:31,000 All right. I don't know what's going on here. Okay. So we've got the T shirt. 126 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 We have got the hoodie which 127 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Jeremy is wearing got a windbreaker jacket. 128 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,000 We've got a bomber jacket. 129 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:58,000 We've got the signals from Mars Jeremy cap. 130 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:05,000 We've got the beanie. 131 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:11,000 And we've got the signals from Mars Brad bucket hat. 132 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 So there you go. 133 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Anyone that so chooses to pick any one of these up. 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So good thing it isn't the same old same old he has to show off. 137 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 All right. 138 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Anyway, getting back to the discussion here. 139 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:19,000 We move things forward and also January really only had three weeks of new releases so moving on to the last week of new releases here on January 26. 140 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:37,000 We had static acts with project regeneration volume to Lucifer with Lucifer five alkaline trio of Frank Carter and the rattlesnakes new model army. 141 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Eddie, Demetri, any given day, high risk mega colossal Caligula's horse kill the thrill live albums from thunder oh yeah to live albums from thunder is live at Islington. 142 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Am I saying that right. 143 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Islington is LinkedIn Academy. 144 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:16,000 So live at Leeds that one's a little easier for me. Whitechapel with live in the valley and then compilations from Alcatraz and another various artists mesmerize attribute to Celtic frost. 145 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Jeremy, what are some of the things that you listen to that came out on the 26th. Yeah, it's a trickier week for me this one I think I mean I started out with a sort of brief dip into live in the valley by Whitechapel. 146 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:40,000 And that's a shocker to you know, I couldn't stand, I couldn't stand the incessant growling to be fair, but it was, you know, better when we did some proper singing the song Hickory Creek was good. 147 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:56,000 And it gave a you know good powerful impression of what a Whitechapel gig is so it's worthy of a listen. Not my favorite band, but Phoenix by the female trio the gems was much better they're sort of up tempo old style rock and roll. 148 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:03,000 I didn't really like the pop really with me and despite you know the vocals being a little bit too forward in the mix which can happen now and again. 149 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:10,000 So I kind of like that. I also kind of enjoyed limitless by a band called Any Given Day. 150 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:19,000 I thought again this is a band that relied too much on growling, and there was a little bit of a sort of fairly generic style to it. 151 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:35,000 It was good. It was something you could put on while I was working for the week and that was okay. My album of the week is one of those live albums by Thunder I didn't listen to both, because for obvious reasons I thought that maybe the setlist would be pretty similar. 152 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:48,000 And I'm guessing that people were just going to buy the one that they went to in that year, or that you know, I listened to the one live at Leeds obviously it was up north and I nearly went to the gig actually in 2015. 153 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:56,000 And so, the reason why I gave this, the album of the week because I don't normally do it for a live album. 154 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:01,000 It's a real sort of true reflection of a Thunder gig. I mean I've been to several of them. 155 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 And it's a band that actually plays live. 156 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Now just listen to what I just said then a band that actually plays live. 157 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Yeah, I mean, you know, that's what you're getting on on that and it's brilliant. It sounds a little tinier. It sounds you know it sounds as if the band has separate instruments that the only instruments that playing are the ones that are in front of them. 158 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:43,000 And it's great. You know that's that's what a band should sound like, you know that it's, it's fantastic and it goes through all the showcases all these sort of catalog of the band. And, you know, thunder have got some great songs and there isn't a filler amongst it. 159 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 So yeah, worthy, worthy album of the week for me. 160 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Maybe I'll even purchase it one day. 161 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,000 I've got a lot of thunder albums already. 162 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:07,000 So, I listened to a lot of different things. I listened to the static X, which is a combination of a compilation and some new stuff thrown in there as well someone released stuff. 163 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Listen to the Lucifer five album, which is along the lines of what you could expect from a Lucifer album, it is a throwback to a 70s feel. 164 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000 There is some 80s influence thrown in there as well. 165 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:44,000 The Frank Carter and the rattlesnakes, which is kind of all over the place some of the things on there sounds like Queens of the Stone Age. Some of it is very radio friendly as well some ballad II also dead poet society dead poet society's new album. 166 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Fission is kind of 167 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 borders or saddles 168 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:01,000 kind of pop radio friendly rock at times royal blood ish. 169 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,000 And I mean it's an okay album. 170 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:24,000 The HeLa's Horse is a band that I reviewed way back when they're on inside out records, which is an album or which is a label which is known to put out progressive stuff and yeah this is kind of a mix between Prague metal and some sludgy do me metal. 171 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:45,000 And the last thing that I checked out was mega colossus the album is showdown it is on. If you pronounce in Spanish it is crude that should, which is Southern Cross and very, very, very 172 00:30:45,000 --> 00:31:04,000 trash influenced very new wave of British heavy metal influence. It was a really cool album because it was like mixing rust and peace rust and peace mega death with Iron Maiden. 173 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:10,000 And, and it was an interesting mix they're not reinventing anything. 174 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:33,000 But it is a cool album to listen to. This is a hard pick for me because I really enjoyed the Lucifer album as well because I think that they've kind of turned it up a notch and the interesting thing is, is that I don't know if she's still with the guy from the helicopters 175 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:48,000 because I haven't seen him featured in any of the images, but it seems as if they've kind of like I said it seems like it's still a retro sound but they've kind of moved it forward another decade. 176 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:58,000 So, for me it's kind of going to be a tie between the Lucifer and the mega colossus album so checking out both of them. 177 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:07,000 We've never had a time showing that had a time, but we've got a week where we've had no pics. So why not. 178 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000 We kind of set these rules as we go as well. 179 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:18,000 We're, we're, we're, we're kids playing in the park saying next goal wins. 180 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000 There's that. 181 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 Yeah, at the end of the day, listen. 182 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Me and Jeremy have been doing this for a year now. 183 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:47,000 There is no excuse for you guys at the end of the year now because on the homepage, I have these episodes separated from the other episodes you have all the newest episodes together, then you have interviews, then you have just straight up music discussions. 184 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,000 And then you have our monthly album reviews. 185 00:32:52,000 --> 00:33:13,000 And when it comes to the end of the year, and if any of you says, I didn't really get to listen to anything well when it, when you get to October, November start listening back to these episodes and say what did I miss out on what oh yeah wow okay so Jeremy has recommended 186 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000 this album from the odd even. 187 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:25,000 What's that album all about let me check it out. What's that Magnum album all about how about that saxon album. 188 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:31,000 You know what about that thunder live out. I like thunder but I'm not sure if I really really like them. 189 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:46,000 Oh wow this live album is really what I needed by the band it's got everything that I love by them. And it's introduced me some to some additional stuff so guys we do these episodes for you to check music out. 190 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:59,000 New and old kind of mix things up there and give you kind of a cross section of different things to check out so hopefully you guys enjoy this. 191 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000 We do have some other topics to talk about as well. 192 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:10,000 So we don't want to leave you guys here just at the 30 minute mark there there are a few other things that we can discuss. 193 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 The first thing that Jeremy you brought up. 194 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:21,000 You brought to my attention is the whole thing with Ozzy doing two more shows. 195 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 Which is what Sharon has said. 196 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000 What are your thoughts on this. 197 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:32,000 Yeah, so two shows at Villa Park, Aston Villa's home ground. 198 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Apparently, we don't know when yet but we would imagine it's going to be over in the summertime, because it's out it's going to be outdoors and you know on the pitch. 199 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:52,000 I think it's well it's his way of saying farewell apparently obviously he's always wanted to play live and he's been unable to because he's been so unwell. 200 00:34:52,000 --> 00:35:09,000 And he doesn't really want to tour either so you know to do a couple of shows in Birmingham you know we can he can settle around there for a while before he does the two shows are probably be one one day after the other or the night be a day in between I guess for a rest day. 201 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:18,000 I mean, you know, he's not a well man let's put it that way. You know we know what we're going to get with it, there's going to be a lot of help. 202 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:24,000 He's going to be helped to stand up in some way, his voice is going to be helped a lot. 203 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:33,000 But it's the last chance we're ever going to see Ozzy live and you know I'm tempted to go myself because it's not too far away from me. 204 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:41,000 And you know getting a ticket should be okay because you know it's just what 40,000 50,000 each night. 205 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:48,000 So yeah, it should be able to get there there'll be a good bill it probably put on some good support acts as well. 206 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000 He wants to do it. Obviously Sharon wants him to do it. 207 00:35:52,000 --> 00:36:00,000 I also think that there's a good chance that Tony I only is going to turn up, because it's also his own patch us to you know Aston Villa. 208 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:08,000 You may even see Giza Butler turning up. You never know. But definitely Tony, because we know Tony's played live with him recently. 209 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:14,000 They've done a bit of Black Sabbath together. So there's no reason why they wouldn't want to do it again. 210 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:20,000 Just maybe come on for a couple of songs near the end, play Paranoid, play another one. 211 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000 And that's it. You know, nice hug at the end, sign off. 212 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:31,000 And I think Tony would really appreciate that as well, you know, because he's never played really at Villa Parve, which again, as I say, is where they're from. 213 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:37,000 It's their home. So in many respects, you know, I know what I'm going to get with this. 214 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000 I think it's going to be I wouldn't say it's not going to be a car crash at all. 215 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:47,000 I think it's going to be very much helped. It's going to be a slightly artificial show, but it's going to be okay. 216 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:55,000 You'll get a good band on. I'm very much in favor of it overall, I think. 217 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:12,000 With that in mind, because that's the intro to Bark at the Moon 218 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,000 from a bootleg from Japan that I have. 219 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Do they invite Jakey Lee to play with him? 220 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Well, is that a rhetorical question? 221 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 I'm asking you. 222 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Do you think that happens? 223 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:45,000 Do we see and asking the people in the chat, do we see Jakey Lee play with Ozzy during his final two shows? 224 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000 Well, it's a good question. 225 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:54,000 We've seen many of these bands before and artists who they play their final shows and whether they invite people back. 226 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,000 I mean, we've seen I mean, the Scorpions have been on their final shows now for a long time. 227 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:04,000 They're not really final, but they have they did invite back early John Roth to play with them. 228 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 So, you know, it's always possible. 229 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Whoever Ozzy gets on with, whoever Sharon can probably pay half the price that she wants to pay for them. 230 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,000 And they accept it because they want to play in the last show. 231 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,000 It's going to happen. So, you know, there could be a few guest appearances. 232 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,000 This is this is what I'm saying. You know, I think there's a very high chance of Tony playing. 233 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Yeah. Whether whether there's anyone else we shall see. 234 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:39,000 But, yeah, it's possible. And, you know, will it be all the better for it? 235 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:47,000 It will be, won't it? You know, the more the more stars are out there and the more, you know, his old band members are there, the better, really. 236 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,000 OK, so let me let me throw this out to you this way. 237 00:38:50,000 --> 00:39:01,000 I'm going to name people and you're going to give me from one to five probability of them being on either one of these final two shows. 238 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:09,000 Tony Iommi. Tony Iommi, I think is a five. I think it's almost certain he'll be there. OK, Gieser Butler. 239 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:17,000 I think that's more of a three, two or three, because I'm not sure whether Gieser actually wants to play live anymore himself. 240 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:23,000 OK, Bill Ward. Oh, well, they are friends, aren't they? 241 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,000 Yeah, that's a good question. Good question. 242 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Oh, I can't answer that one. I'm going to have to go plump down the middle and say maybe a three, maybe a two. OK. 243 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000 Yeah. Slash. 244 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:48,000 Well, Slash is a guest appearance could. Yeah, I mean, he would do it. He would do it later than in the past. 245 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000 Yeah, you would say it's a four if he's asked. Yeah. OK. 246 00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:01,000 Gus G. Gus G. Gus G. Gus G does play over here in the UK. 247 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Whether he wants to. Yeah, a three. OK. 248 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,000 Oh, shit, I forgot his name now. 249 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:21,000 And I was thinking of it a second ago. I was about to say Bobby Rondinelli, but that's not right. 250 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,000 A bass player of the first two Ozzy and a bass player of a bunch of different Ozzy albums and lyric writer. 251 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 I can see him in my head as well. 252 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:41,000 Blizzard of Oz. Of course, we don't know who's actually going to be in the band on the day as well. 253 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:47,000 That's the other thing. Right. That's well. Are we assuming Zed Wiles? 254 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:54,000 Bob Daisley. Oh, Bob Daisley. Is Bob Daisley still actually playing anything? 255 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:00,000 Yeah, but he's in Australia. He's in Australia. 256 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:06,000 I think that's a low one. I don't know. I mean, there was some falling out, wasn't there? 257 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,000 I'd say that's a two. OK. 258 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:16,000 Rudy Sarzo. Oh, Rudy Sarzo. That's a good question. 259 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000 We'll have to go down the middle for that one. We'll say that's a three. 260 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,000 Tommy Aldridge. Well, Tommy Aldridge would be a high probability. 261 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:31,000 We know Tommy plays around a bit with a lot of bands and he loves playing. 262 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000 I think that's a higher one. I'd go for a four. OK. 263 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,000 Here's one that a lot of people don't remember were in his band. 264 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Dean Castronovo. Yeah. 265 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,000 Are they going to have time to play all these songs? 266 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:56,000 No, I think Dean said no. He's got other things on. He's not interested. 267 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000 So we're going to go. I wonder if Dean can leave the country. 268 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000 Yeah, that's a good point. We're going to have to put him down as a one there. 269 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,000 OK. Joe Holmes. Joe Holmes. 270 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,000 Surely that's a one. What do you think? 271 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Yeah, we've been waiting for the longest time for him to release a solo album for like two years now. 272 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:26,000 And all the clips that we've heard have sounded great. His Pharmacose album was awesome. 273 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:35,000 I love that album. There's still stuff off of that that I that I listen to. 274 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:42,000 Yeah, but I would say that's a one. He's kind of a recluse, you know. 275 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Yeah, I think so. One. OK. 276 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:55,000 And I'm assuming and although we've been seeing members of his band, we've been seeing Zach announcing a festival of his own. 277 00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:01,000 We've seen that Blasco is now going back to Rob Zombie as well. 278 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000 I'm assuming that those two are probably still going to be there. 279 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:18,000 I'm assuming that his backing band will probably be Tommy Clu Fettis on drums, Blasco on bass and Zach on guitar. 280 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:23,000 Yeah, I think you're probably right. It's going to be. 281 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:30,000 Will we see John Sykes? No. Zero. 282 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:38,000 So I think I think the biggest question out of anybody, I mean, Bob Daisley aside, I think Bob Daisley would be the other. 283 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000 I mean, just for us music nerds, not so much for the casual fan. 284 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:53,000 But I think the big get that a lot of people would really, really, really dig would be Jakey Lee. 285 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,000 What do you think? Probability one to five. 286 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:06,000 I think that's I'm not sure whether he's going to be asked, but if he was asked, I think that he probably would play things. 287 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,000 It's his farewell. So we're looking at maybe a three stroke for. 288 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,000 Yeah, I agree with you. 289 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:33,000 I think that Jake has said that when Gus came into the band, he was asked to join and he you know, he asked just to not get paid, but to be recognized for his writing contribution for Bark at the Moon. 290 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,000 And with the last Red Dragon cartel. 291 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:47,000 Brad, that's just Tom Foolery now. You're being too cavalier on us. 292 00:44:47,000 --> 00:45:00,000 With the last Red Dragon cartel tour, he flat out said, I'm no longer going to play any Ozzy material unless it's with Ozzy. 293 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,000 Right. Yeah. 294 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:10,000 So does that make Jake say, you know, it's screw it. I don't care about the you know, I don't care about that anymore. 295 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:16,000 I just want to do these last two shows with Ozzy. I want to go out there. I want to play Bark at the Moon. 296 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:23,000 I want to play shot in the dark or whatever else they could possibly play from that era. 297 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:32,000 You know, two big hits, two big staples. So I'm assuming it would be those. 298 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:39,000 Yeah, that'd be great if there's a you know, a selection of guests on each show. And yeah, that would make it a big thing. 299 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:45,000 And don't forget that, you know, Ozzy's not going to be able to sing a lot of songs himself and be up there on his own. 300 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:54,000 He's going to need a fair few soloists up there who are going to be happy to take over and play and, you know, fill in a little bit for him. 301 00:45:54,000 --> 00:46:03,000 So, you know, I think there's going to be there's definitely going to be some extensive two guitar at least two or three guitar solo slots. 302 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000 And there's going to be a drum solo. 303 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:18,000 So so here is my setup for this. And I do want to say hello to Sean, who I don't think I mentioned he is in here as well. 304 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:23,000 This is what I would do. And I know this is never going to happen, but. 305 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:30,000 I would have Red Dragon Cartel play. I would have Black Label Society play. 306 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:38,000 I would have Ozzy solo come out and do some songs. 307 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,000 And I would close the night with Sabbath. 308 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:47,000 I think that is is exactly what will happen. 309 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:55,000 Because it's so perfect. It's it's you're thinking along the exact same lines as everyone should be thinking. 310 00:46:55,000 --> 00:47:06,000 Right. It's perfect. Yeah. You get Sabbath to do Paranoid, Iron Man. 311 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,000 War Pigs. Yeah. 312 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:15,000 You get Sabbath to do five songs tops. 313 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,000 What else can we throw in there? Sweet Leaf. 314 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:30,000 Yeah, that's what you need. Just a few. And yeah. And you just know as well, you know, Crazy Train will be on the backdrop will be Randy Rhodes shown all the time. 315 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,000 If they're thinking about it the right way, they can make this a really good show. 316 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,000 It'd be show of the year, really. Yeah. 317 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,000 And at the end of the night, you know, it's going to close the show actually is going to be the Ozzy Avatar. 318 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:48,000 And they will say coming in two years, we're still working on it. 319 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,000 Yeah, it's possible. 320 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,000 And you'll all walk out with a free bat. 321 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:58,000 There you go. 322 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000 Other thing that you wanted to discuss. 323 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:07,000 Looks like Testament all of a sudden are in a rush to release a new album. 324 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:17,000 If you checked out my latest episode, episode 145 of the Victor Amorou's podcast, I read the story. 325 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:29,000 Or read the excerpts of the interview that Chuck Billy did recently where he says that they want to have the album out or at least done by July. 326 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:35,000 They're going to be touring Europe after that with Anthrax and Death Angel if I'm not mistaken. 327 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:41,000 No, Create. Yeah. Okay. 328 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:48,000 They've been waiting what six years since since the other album or has it been less than that? 329 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000 Yeah, it seems less. 330 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:55,000 I can't remember now. 331 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:03,000 But here's here's the other odd thing that kind of there's two things that are kind of catching me off guard here. 332 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,000 One Titans of Creation. It's going to be four years. 333 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,000 So, okay. 334 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:19,000 Yeah, they seem to go every every four years. They've they've gone since Formation of Damnation 2008 Dark Roots of Earth. 335 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:28,000 2012 Brotherhood of the Snake 2016 Titans of Creation 2020. 336 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:36,000 But so here's the thing that's kind of throwing me off here. 337 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:47,000 So they released first strike still deadly in 2001, which is essentially all the stuff off of their first two albums. 338 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:54,000 When I had Chuck Billy on he mentioned that they didn't like the production on those first two albums. 339 00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:02,000 So they went back in and recorded them to sound like they did at that time how they were playing them at that time. 340 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:09,000 They're now going to go in and rerecord those two albums for Nuclear Blast. 341 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:15,000 It will essentially be the third time they're recording some of these songs. 342 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:20,000 And this is something that we've discussed within the last few months. 343 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,000 This is a topic that you've brought up several times. 344 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:33,000 But I don't know. It just seems like they're going to be flooding the market with material. And is this something that the label wants? 345 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:41,000 Because that was released on Megaforce and Atlantic and Nuclear Blast kind of doesn't have the licensing for that. 346 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,000 Is that why they want to do that? 347 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:56,000 I can't imagine a lot of diehards running out and picking that up. I don't know. I could be wrong. 348 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:06,000 But they're going to be releasing that plus the new album. Doesn't that kind of dilute the market for what people are going to be spending on Testament this year? 349 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:12,000 Or is it something where they're saying, you know what? Fuck it. This is only going to be for streaming purposes. 350 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:18,000 People are going to love this on streaming. And I don't know. Maybe the songs aren't available on streaming. 351 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:23,000 Maybe First Strike Still Deadly isn't available on streaming. And that's why they're doing this. 352 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:29,000 So that Nuclear Blast has it and they'll maintain it on the streaming services. I'm not sure. 353 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:36,000 I mean, I'm not sure what the ins and outs are about this. But what do you think about both of those items? 354 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:48,000 Yeah, well, I think rerecording stuff is useful if first of all, if you haven't got copies of them or secondly, if you thought that the originals were great songs, but they were very well produced. 355 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:55,000 Right. I bought the three Bonfire albums that were rerecorded and I think they're fantastic. 356 00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:04,000 They've got great sound, great energy, and I didn't get them the first time around. Now with the Testament album, I've got it on CD, the first album. 357 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:15,000 But I really do want that reproduced, redone by the band now because I think that that could be an absolute killer album if they really get it right with the production. 358 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:21,000 So I'm going to think about buying a physical copy of it because of that, obviously vinyl. 359 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,000 But there will be a lot of people out there, like you say, will want to download stuff. 360 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:35,000 And if they can't get a good sounding copy, then it'd be great to download that because it's not going to cost someone that much to do it. 361 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:42,000 And like you say, maybe the band themselves have been asked to do it or they're sort of they have to do it. 362 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:49,000 They're contractually obliged to do it. So there's all that sort of issue in the background going on. 363 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:57,000 Whether they're flooding the market with a new album and old albums. Well, a lot of bands kind of flooding the market at the moment anyway, 364 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,000 because you know there's a lot of people out there who want to buy stuff, want to listen to stuff. 365 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:08,000 We've got quite a renaissance with metal and rock. And it's up to the listener really what you want to buy. 366 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:13,000 You're going to buy your favorite band and your favorite albums. 367 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:27,000 Coming on to the new album, they seem to be sort of rushing their way through it a little bit because I heard that they want to find a bit of a space to do some recording and get the songs in the right way they want them. 368 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:36,000 And I felt that the last album had five songs on there were absolute killer. And there were four or five on there that I thought were terrible. 369 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,000 They're very boring. So they're a bit like that testament. 370 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:47,000 They can come out with killer tunes, but they can also come out with stuff that you just think I don't really want to listen to that again. 371 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:52,000 It's just, you know, thrash for thrash sake without going anywhere. There's no direction. 372 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:59,000 So sometimes they just need to think about it. You know, what put the best stuff out and even just release a smaller album. 373 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:09,000 They don't need to release an album that's got, you know, 12, 13 tracks on or whatever. Just release an album with seven tracks on and just buy out the very best. 374 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:20,000 Yeah, I think out of the album, since Alex Skolnick has come out, come back, I should say, Titans of Creation is probably my least favorite. 375 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:34,000 Formation of Damnation, I listened to a lot and for the subsequent years after that, Dark Roots of the Earth, which I actually have behind me over here. 376 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,000 That's my favorite. 377 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:43,000 Hard to see. It's got some really good stuff on it. Even Brotherhood of the Snake has stuff that I listen to a lot. 378 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:50,000 Those those three albums have listened to a ton. So when Titans of Creation came out, 379 00:54:50,000 --> 00:55:02,000 the kind of think of what the lead off single was. Children of the Next Level. I was like, oh, wow. Yeah, this they're back. 380 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:15,000 But I think Dream Deceivers are really good song off of that. Star's Gate is really good. But similar to what you're saying, I think that it's probably 381 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:23,000 out of all of them, possibly the one that caught my attention the least. How about that? 382 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:34,000 I think the problem is that Peterson does most of the songwriting, doesn't he? You know, all the guitar stuff. And he is an absolute heavy metal nerd. 383 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:39,000 You know, he's what he is. I mean, he's one of these guys who will just sit in there. 384 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:47,000 He's probably a guy in his teenage who sat in his bedroom through, you know, all day, all night just playing a guitar. 385 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:54,000 And he doesn't really sort of distance himself from what he's doing. He's absolutely fantastic at playing and he comes up with fantastic stuff. 386 00:55:54,000 --> 00:56:02,000 But, you know, sometimes you just you just need someone just to shake him a little bit and say, you know, that song that you've done that is is unbelievably good. 387 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:09,000 That song, it's sticking in the bin and do another one. And that's the problem with Testament, I find sometimes. 388 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:17,000 But, you know, going back to the original thing, you know, if they want to rerecord the first couple of albums, yeah, go ahead and do it as well at the same time. 389 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:25,000 Because, you know, how long are these bands going to be going on for? This is the thing that Brad mentions a lot. I mean, Tesmo a bit younger. 390 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:37,000 But how long do they want to do it for? You know, they're doing an album every four years. So, you know, it's a long time before, you know, it's only a couple of albums and you've almost got another decade down the line. 391 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:41,000 Yeah, you're saying they're a little younger, but I don't know how much. 392 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:46,000 Don't be in the back. Yeah, maybe what the 50s, maybe come out 60. 393 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:54,000 I'm thinking that they're all close to 60. Eric Peterson is 59. 394 00:56:54,000 --> 00:57:01,000 Yeah. So, you know, another couple of albums and he's going to be set. He's going to be 69, isn't it? Yeah. 395 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:14,000 Clocking on 70. I mean, who wants to thrash at 70? Chuck Billy's 61. Yeah. 396 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:25,000 And it's not just wanting to thrash. It's being able to do it. It's a it's a it's a quite a skill to be able to do when you're young, never mind when you're approaching old age. 397 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:36,000 Alex Skolnick is 55. Steve DiGiorgio is 56. Their new drummer, I think, is in his 30s. 398 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:43,000 Not mistaken. Yeah. 399 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:56,000 So cool. Great discussion tonight. Do want to thank Jeremy for coming on once again. I do want to thank Brad and Tony and Sean for joining us in the chat. 400 00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:02,000 I want to thank anyone who's checking out the replay of this, whether it's just the audio or the video version. 401 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:14,000 Please go to signals from ours dot com. Follow us on any of these platforms where the show is broadcasted, either audio or video. Share it with your friends. 402 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:40,000 Like it. Join us in Patreon. Whatever you can do is greatly appreciated. On that note, we will end tonight's show and we will see you next time right here on signals from ours. See you folks. 403 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:54,000 Thank you for listening to the signals from Mars podcast. 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