1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,520 Welcome one and all to episode 376 of signals from Mars. I'm your host Victor and for this episode 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:16,780 Jeremy Weltman is back for our February 2024 albums review. Oh yeah don't know 3 00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:22,400 about what albums may have come out this past month. Don't know what new music to 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:33,520 check out. We've got you covered. Up next me and Jeremy. I'm ready. Let's do it! 5 00:00:52,400 --> 00:01:04,560 There was a lot of good music that came out in February of 2024. This episode just 6 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:10,320 highlights some of that. We try to cover as much new music as possible. Obviously 7 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:16,000 there are things that escape us altogether. Me personally I try to sample 8 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,800 as much as possible. Some months I can listen to a lot of stuff, others I can't. 9 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:26,640 This time around I was able to at least sample almost everything that came out. 10 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:33,120 Usually I go by band name and then after that if I don't know what to check out 11 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,600 I'll look for labels that maybe have things that they've released in the past 12 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:46,080 that kind of jump out to me. And yeah I found quite a bit of music that I think 13 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:51,200 has been interesting and good. And now that we are in March I'm sure March will 14 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:56,120 be no different. I'm essentially half an hour away from the New Judas Priest 15 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:02,840 album which I will be checking out at the top of the hour. But yeah I'm sure 16 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,600 there's gonna be plenty of other things that we'll discuss that came out in 17 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:14,360 March. Discuss them in April. We wait till everything comes out and then we jump 18 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:19,360 on it and discuss it. December is the trickiest month because December has 19 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:26,560 usually has the least amount of new releases so we kind of do that a little 20 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,040 earlier. You can count on Lord of the Lost to release something every December. 21 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,720 At least they have the last few years. Which is kind of cool because they surprise us 22 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:43,080 with something new out of the blue. A band that has really gotten quite a few 23 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:48,480 my patrons to check them out as a result. I posted pretty much every video of 24 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,760 theirs to Patreon and at least the ones that have come out since I've started 25 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:58,040 the Patreon page. I have to think that they have the most amount of posts on 26 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:05,600 the site. Just based on the sheer volume of videos that they've released. But for 27 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:14,640 the most part it's usually good. We tend to enjoy it. And yeah again talking 28 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:22,080 about new music is where it's at. At least for us. Anyway let me just run down 29 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,720 our current list of patrons real quickly before we jump on into the episode. Sean 30 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:34,440 Richmond, Chrisin Zak from Despogeek Podcast, Tony Espin, Anthony Mackie the 31 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:41,400 wonderful graphic designer behind graphic artists behind our logos, Ed Schred 32 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:48,280 Ferguson, Johan in Sweden, Metal Dan, Jose in Connecticut, Gabriel in New Jersey, 33 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:56,920 Brad Doll, Mr. YargMetal himself, YargMetal.com, Mike Jones, Jeremy who joins me on 34 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,800 this episode, Mr. Twisted, Steven Hoker and Steven 35 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,520 Saylor. Thank you guys for all of your support. And thank you guys for listening 36 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,920 to the episode. Remember that you can go to signalsfrommars.com to pick up 37 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:17,000 merch, to check out all the platforms where the podcast is available, where the 38 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,360 live stream is available, where you can watch replays of the live stream, and all 39 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,120 the podcast episodes of course. So go there that's where you could find all of 40 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:34,040 the latest and greatest on Signals from Mars. Thanks again and I know that other 41 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,680 shows are kind of picking up on this theme and and kind of glomming this which 42 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,840 I've been saying for a long time but I do want to thank you for checking out 43 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:46,200 this episode. It means the world to me. There are a million other things you guys 44 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:52,240 can be or could be listening to or watching at the moment but you choose to 45 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,500 be here with me so that warms the the cockles and the inner cockles of my 46 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:01,800 heart to know that you're actually here. Yeah I'm stealing that from Dennis 47 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,160 Leary. Anyway thanks again for for listening to the episode and I hope you 48 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:27,080 enjoy and check out some of these new albums. 49 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:34,280 Welcome one and all to the March 1st edition of Signals from Mars. Joining me 50 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:41,560 tonight is Mr. Jeremy Weltman and we are both here to discuss new music that was 51 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:49,320 released during the month of February 2024. Jeremy how are you sir? Yeah doing 52 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:55,040 well thanks Victor. Just been watching Queen live in 1975 on the TV here in the 53 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,800 UK and that was quite interesting but we're here to talk about new music so 54 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:07,600 how are you? Doing good doing good not watching Queen previous to this was 55 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,880 getting tomorrow's game ready and was watching what was I watching watching 56 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:18,720 something on Amazon Prime I don't even remember what but anyway here we are 57 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:24,600 talking about music from February there's quite a few things that I got to 58 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:31,640 listen to or at least sample a little bit of and a few surprises along the way 59 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:37,960 this month any surprises for you this month Jeremy? Yeah there were one or two 60 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:43,720 I think we'll come to them a little bit later probably in the last week maybe an 61 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,600 album that I thought was much better than you know I was expecting and 62 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,920 probably another one that was a little bit worse than I was expecting but there 63 00:06:50,920 --> 00:07:01,720 you go. Okay cool so let's get on with it February 2nd we had new releases from 64 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:08,280 KMFDM with Let Go or Let's Go I believe 65 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:16,440 Marath with Karma being as an ocean with Death Can Wait, Enterprise Earth with 66 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:24,200 Death and Anthology, Barrett Barrett Wow 67 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:37,320 Baratro okay Big Science Nowhere, Meth Slope with Freak Dreams, Transit Method 68 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:44,080 with Other Void and the Death Tones with Universal Monsters, EPs from Level, 69 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:51,440 Persephone and Mean Streak and live album from Artillery. Jeremy what are 70 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:56,680 some of the things that stood out to you this week on February 2nd and what is 71 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:03,520 your pick for the week? Yeah well I started off actually listening to that 72 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:09,020 Baratro album that you had to pronounce just then it's apparently it's an 73 00:08:09,020 --> 00:08:14,040 Italian three-piece I didn't know much about them myself either because it's 74 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,440 their debut album The Sweet Smell of Unrest really nice album cover I thought 75 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,040 to this one and what you get is a sort of very sort of brooding rather 76 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:30,080 unforgiving death metal sound on this one but there were some good touches you 77 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:35,560 know very little stuff on it like the song Grotesque I quite like that one 78 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:41,360 kind of worked for me and certainly wasn't one I was gonna pick as my album 79 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:46,880 of the week I moved on to Big Scenic Nowhere with The Way Down which is their 80 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:52,000 third album there was quite a bit of contrast on here it was a seven song 81 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:57,120 39 minutes collection of sort of psychedelic stoner music it isn't my 82 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,040 favorite style of music if I'm really honest but after playing it a couple of 83 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,400 times I did sort of get my teeth into it a bit and I appreciated it 84 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:11,160 particularly the song BTOH I'm not sure what that actually stands for and of 85 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,800 course there was one classy song on there Sarah Smile which is the Hall and 86 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:21,720 Oates cover which did sort of fit rather uneasily on the album and I do to sort 87 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:26,220 of appreciate it if you if you view that song as rather nauseous but but there 88 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:32,680 you go but my pick of the week this week was a bit of a surprise it's a rather 89 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:38,280 sort of gothic influence seven song album that in reality is sort of little 90 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,520 more than an EP it's called Universal Monsters by the Death Tones it's a band 91 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:50,800 from Milford Pennsylvania apparently and look it was a very lean week so you know 92 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,000 we've got to bear that in mind but it did remind me a little bit of Sisters of 93 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,120 Mercy and other sort of goth style rock bands which you know I kind of liked 94 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:04,000 back in the day in the 80s and each one each of the songs was about a sort of 95 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,760 ghoulish fictional character like Dracula and the Invisible Man and 96 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,640 Frankenstein and that sort of thing so it was it was different it was fun and 97 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:16,000 you know that's what matters really sometimes so that was really my pick of 98 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,200 the week 99 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,480 excellent I know where Milford Pennsylvania is actually it's actually 100 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:29,600 very close to where Ace Frehley is currently living with his girlfriend 101 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:39,920 yeah it's it's right over the border from New Jersey into Pennsylvania cool so 102 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:45,320 I do want to send a quick shout out to Edgar Winterson who's joining us in the 103 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:54,680 chat Brad Dahl Sean Richmond and excellent glad to have all you guys here 104 00:10:54,680 --> 00:11:01,560 tonight so for me I listened to a lot of different things I listened to a little 105 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:07,680 bit of that death tones album that you mentioned I listened to the entire KMFDM 106 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:18,160 let's go album the Marath Karma album the transit method over void I was 107 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:23,440 listening to that and liked aspects of it and and thought you know this 108 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:33,080 possibly has elements that Jeremy would say ah they're they're a pub band but 109 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:39,160 yeah I really enjoyed the the KMFDM I really liked that one the Marath for 110 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:44,760 some reason they don't have the entire album up on Apple Music not sure if 111 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:49,840 that's because they want you to buy the album what I heard I enjoyed but the 112 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:57,440 album that stood out to me was freak dreams by slope a band that I've never 113 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:07,880 heard of before and essentially I mean they're crossover thrash metal with a 114 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:15,120 funk element to it think of Robert Trujillo era suicidal tendencies with 115 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:24,320 fishbone or something like Mordred or even elements of faith no more really 116 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:29,920 enjoyed it really really a mix of thrash and funk and a few other things mixed in 117 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:35,880 there and really throw back to stuff that I really listened to a lot during 118 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:41,800 the 90s so I really enjoyed this album I'm gonna look for a video to post on 119 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:54,200 patreon by the band so there you go and oh yeah did I just mention patreon let's 120 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,280 see here I should be ready for this stuff if you are not on patreon you can 121 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:04,880 join us for as little as two dollars a month and you have a great troll free 122 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:10,840 environment you have Jeremy who's joining me tonight you have Brad doll 123 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:16,640 you have Sean Richmond and you have a bunch of other people that have joined 124 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:25,200 us over the last few weeks from Johan to Ed to metal Dan Anthony Mackie has been 125 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:33,600 on on the show recently as well and speaking of patreon and have my patrons 126 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:38,440 on I do want to formally announce which I will be posting this that we will be 127 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:47,520 discussing 1987 during the month of March the 1987 special will be on the 128 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:56,200 15th of March the Ides of March could play some some Iron Maiden on that day 129 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:06,160 could say a tube route a as well but anyway so yeah if you want to vote on 130 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:11,800 your favorite albums of 1987 just send your top ten albums to signals from Mars 131 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:18,160 at signals from Mars calm so look at that right is saying Johan is worth five 132 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:29,320 dollars a month alone all right by the way you can pick up some great merch as 133 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:35,480 well don't forget the merch let's talk about the merch in the next break okay 134 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:48,880 February 9th we had new albums from infected rain revolution saints the last 135 00:14:48,880 --> 00:15:03,120 10 seconds of life morbid saint smoking snakes to Kida haystack the chisel 136 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:12,960 Derek stem bridge and Mike Petruna and scarefield we had reissue and we had a 137 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:19,720 reissue from five finger death punch at the afterlife deluxe album release 138 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:24,480 Jeremy what are some of the albums that stood out to you this week yeah well 139 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:29,640 obviously I delved into the the fifth album from revolution saints against the 140 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:35,440 winds featuring obviously Dean Castronovo Jeff Pilsen and on this one 141 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:41,800 Joel Hoekstra once again it fails to quite live up to expectations really you 142 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:47,080 know journey-esque melodic rock but you know I mean it's all very relaxing you 143 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,320 could put it on in the background and do the ironing to it but you know it just 144 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:57,360 it just sort of lacks umph you know there's I mean I don't know what what 145 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:02,880 everyone else thinks about this band but they it's a real shame it's a real shame 146 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,840 because you get to the sort of six song on the album will I see you again and 147 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,720 there's at least you know a bit of an attempt to show some energy you know 148 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,120 some some balls some energy and if they added a little bit more raw power it'd 149 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,200 be so much better so I mean you can't say it's terrible because it's 150 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,120 listenable but it's just not what you what you want from the those sort of 151 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,320 those chaps who are who are playing it so it certainly wasn't my album of the 152 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:33,240 week I didn't really listen to a lot in this particular week and so I I've 153 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:39,840 actually chosen danger zone by smoking snakes even though I you know the jury's 154 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,600 out on the vocalist in my opinion I'm not quite certain whether I like him or 155 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,240 not but it was a you know it's a sleaze heavy rock outfit from Sweden it's their 156 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:53,800 debut album on frontiers I gave them a fair chance and you know to be fair it 157 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:59,200 is a little heavier you know the much of the frontier stuff it's nothing new of 158 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,400 course but it you know it has kept a certain rawness that like and they 159 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:07,320 haven't ironed it out with terrible production either so that that was a 160 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:13,480 good sign is it the best album of the month no that will be clear as we go on 161 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:18,040 but it rocks it's a decent effort and it's a band that you know would make a 162 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:24,600 very enjoyable support act so you know that's that's my choice of the week 163 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:34,480 okay Revolution Saints like so many other super groups not so super after 164 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:43,240 all it just seems like the parts should be better than the than the whole sum 165 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,920 but it's it really isn't it just leaves you thinking you know with these players 166 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:57,080 you know what what could they've done and what were it used to be Casanova 167 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:04,160 Jack Bladen who was the guitarist the the original guitarist was it not sure 168 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:09,760 they had Doug Aldrich for a while but it was was it maybe someone before him 169 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:18,520 even no I think it's him like see 170 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:30,000 proud saying duck yeah Doug is yeah okay so Brad is saying Doug and yeah that 171 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,680 was that was my whole thing too is it a label thing that the label you know has 172 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:40,800 their writers and they want the album a certain way and that could be it because 173 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:48,320 I always mention this with Dean Dean's played with Ozzy Dean has played with 174 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:55,720 he used to be the the shrapnel records like labeled drummer so he's a he's a 175 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:01,280 real sick drummer he played on geezer Butler's first two solo albums and does 176 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:07,280 a lot of double bass and a lot of real heavy does a lot of metal drumming so 177 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:13,640 okay yes what's the label that insists I guess the case of the label saying we'll 178 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:21,200 give you the money but you got to do our music so shame let's see so for me for 179 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:30,320 this week I listened to infected rain album time and I listened to the chisel 180 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:37,000 what if I could what a fucking nightmare is the name of that one infected rain is 181 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,960 a band that I've really liked their last album I just didn't get into it and this 182 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:48,560 one just had like one or two songs that I really really liked the rest was kind 183 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:59,440 of just there you know just kind of generic modern metal for for my liking 184 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:04,360 anyway and it's a shame because it's a band that I really had high hopes for and 185 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:08,520 really really enjoyed early on and I don't know their last two release just 186 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:14,200 haven't done much there's a bunch of things that I listened to and couldn't 187 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,800 get all the way through but my pick of the week is the chisel with what a 188 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:30,280 fucking nightmare it is old school punk rock in the vein of not old school punk 189 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:36,640 rock I mean it's 90s punk rock without being pop punk it's you know more in the 190 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:45,080 vein of a bad religion or rancid without the sky or reggae overtones so there's 191 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:50,800 just a lot of cool fast music on it I enjoyed it it's another throwback for me 192 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:58,840 and I thought it was it was an awesome release let's see Brad is also saying 193 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,360 that Dean is incredible drummer saw him with bad English and he was brilliant 194 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:11,880 yeah so let's bring up something that Jeremy wanted to mention before and we 195 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:18,080 have a bunch of different March being shown off the past few weeks Jeremy this 196 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:29,720 week is wearing the the Jeremy cap as it is referred to last week Brad had the 197 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:36,960 Brad bucket hat all right for those of you that are in the colder extremities 198 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:44,840 of the world you've also got the beanie hat 199 00:21:48,280 --> 00:22:00,360 Jeremy is also styling the signals from Mars hoodie I've got the hoodie I've got 200 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:11,080 the t-shirt as well there's also a windbreaker jacket and a bomber jacket 201 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:18,880 you can scan any one of these QR codes and go directly to the store or you can 202 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:25,000 go to signals from Mars forward slash March and find it or just go to signals 203 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,560 from Mars and all the way to the top right hand side of any page on the site 204 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,680 you will find the merch the the hoodie so good by the way that actually comes 205 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:44,680 with a free hood so look at that there you go yeah and short Sean says he's 206 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,200 gonna get one there you go you got to get one because it's really warm Sean 207 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,960 especially in the the UK winter I'm really warming it now it's nicely lined 208 00:22:52,960 --> 00:23:02,000 it's great it's awesome Brad is wearing the hat now the Brad hat now it is fire 209 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:11,840 is what he is saying there you go and and and for that Brad I give you this 210 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:25,200 all right moving things along this this for me is the week that surprised me the 211 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:34,040 most February 16th we had each Sean releasing his self-titled album we have 212 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:39,480 crazy licks with two shots of glory it is a rerecord album honeymoon suite 213 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:46,720 alive James Durbin with screaming metal screaming steel excuse me Steve Hackett 214 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:56,680 with the circus and the nightmare a luma shade with another side of you 215 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:04,120 Electra storm power lords profiler a digital nowhere 216 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:15,120 Boca so with all out all out of dreams dark space which I think is a reissue 217 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:23,080 I'm gonna move that to the reissues live on the air because I saw that the album 218 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:36,420 originally came out in 2006 anyway the obsessed gilded sorrow Ponte del 219 00:24:36,420 --> 00:24:45,000 diavolo fire blades from the tomb bloom maybe in another life sujins save our 220 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:54,400 souls Leia I guess it's Leia or lay Lee maybe the glory of or the glory and the 221 00:24:54,400 --> 00:25:02,280 fallen EP from forfeit the untrue with guard with gather the broken reissues 222 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:07,360 from Slayer show no mercy the helicopters grand a rock yeah from us in 223 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:17,400 dark space Rick Wakeman with a live album and Samuel with passage live Sean 224 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:23,400 Richmond said I've been listening to the obsessed album this week like it all 225 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:32,440 right I'll have something to say about that in a moment Jeremy yeah well I I 226 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,720 didn't I didn't actually listen to the obsessed album so I'm looking forward to 227 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,120 actually hearing what you've got to say about that one I actually started the 228 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:43,920 week listening to a live by the Canadian band honeymoon sweet it's their eighth 229 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:49,320 studio release since 1981 and a band that I'm afraid doesn't really rock it 230 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:54,440 up enough for me it's fairly sort of sickly sweet modern death leopards style 231 00:25:54,440 --> 00:26:00,520 ballad II Brian Adams stuff and I mean I liked a few songs I just wish they 232 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,160 another band I wish they sort of unshackle themselves a bit more and 233 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,680 really rock out they don't really do it until the bonus track which is called 234 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:13,400 new girl now which is probably worth listening to although best of the bunch 235 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:18,320 is a song called done doing me which is a you know really good song that even 236 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:23,480 Def Leppard could have turned into a big hit so again it's that old adage you 237 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,440 know there's always a couple of songs on a on a on a bad album to listen to and 238 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,920 maybe so play up put on your playlist I've then moved on to screaming steel by 239 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,880 the American Idol winner Durbin which was a little bit better it was at least 240 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,760 metal but it just wasn't particularly convincing for me I thought the vocals 241 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,440 were dare I say a little dire on a number of tracks they weren't very well 242 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,920 mixed either and you know together and it sort of gave the impression the band 243 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,880 wasn't in the same room which it probably wasn't because I know a lot of 244 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,240 bands are dialing everything in these days I did though like the galloping 245 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:03,000 sort of song nature of Hallows there's a song called Hallows there which is good 246 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:08,400 and I like the downtune song the worshipper 1897 I thought that was okay 247 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,720 so you know I just think the band would succeed a little bit more if they just 248 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,720 went a little bit heavier and broodier and darker and you know went into that 249 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,520 area a little bit more there wasn't really much of a leap with power Lord's 250 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,160 the debut album by Electra Storm I listened all the way through I mean it's 251 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:31,360 young female fronted power metal that sort of lacks any real passion it it's 252 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:36,080 you know sort of four songs in I'd say it was even generic power shit if I'm 253 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:42,120 honest everything sort of played as fast as possible with no feeling but hey you 254 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:45,760 know they may be really nice people so I'm gonna not not I'm not gonna knock 255 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,160 them too much I mean that that's fine so my pick of the week was fairly easy for 256 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,920 me it was the 80s hard rock feel of two shots at glory by Sweden's crazy 257 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,760 licks of course you knew I'd select that one it's my sort of stuff I mean 258 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,520 there's nothing new here of course it's you know it's a well-worn path it's all 259 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,080 done with the best intentions there's none of the sort of pure our teenage 260 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:15,720 sex and swearing of steel panther it's just a band playing homage and you know 261 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,520 sometimes that's okay you know it's got it's got the right vocals got the right 262 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:24,280 guitars got the right production it may not be a band I'll play again and again 263 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:29,440 but you know it was a it was an enjoyable listening it's my pick of the week okay 264 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:37,520 and real quickly new girl now is honeymoon sweets only US hit was a hit 265 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:45,360 back in 83 or something like that and I guess frontiers wanted them to 266 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:52,880 rerecord the song right so and and the crazy licks I believe except for a few 267 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,000 tracks they're all re-records as well but you've been on that bonfire 268 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:06,320 re-record theme so that doesn't surprise me huh okay it's a new girl now is off 269 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:11,120 for their first time yeah I've aside from that song I can't say that I've 270 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:17,440 really listened to much by the band all right so for me 271 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:24,560 Eshaan Eshaan is somebody who a lot of people know him for being in the black 272 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:31,240 metal band Emperor he really caught me by surprise with the album after and 273 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,560 I've really enjoyed a lot of his solo music because it's eclectic it's weird 274 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:41,600 it does have black metal elements but then all of a sudden you have saxophone 275 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:49,160 in a lot of his songs which just kind of out of the left field his last album I 276 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:55,120 didn't didn't care for was just two black metal for me and just was not my 277 00:29:55,120 --> 00:30:08,160 thing this album has they've released a orchestra version and a metal version 278 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:15,360 and it caught me by surprise because unlike say Metallica's S&M where you 279 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:21,960 already knew the songs and instead of the orchestra stuff accentuating what 280 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:28,780 they had originally done release with the original S&M I always felt that it 281 00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:33,960 sounded like two different things were playing this with the Eshaan album 282 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,280 everything was composed at the same time and it sounds phenomenal it sounds 283 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:49,320 really good let's see but this is gonna be hard for me because there are two 284 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,760 albums as much as I enjoyed that one there are two albums that this this 285 00:30:53,760 --> 00:31:01,720 could quite possibly be a tie for me this week so Bokasa all out of dreams I 286 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:07,640 listened to today and I enjoyed one song after the other after the other the 287 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:19,680 entire album is strong it's a mix of prong propane mad ball sick of it all a 288 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:26,600 lot of different hardcore New York bands with some of the heavier edge stuff that 289 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:32,720 maybe prong brought out of that scene as well I really enjoyed this album and 290 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,200 it's something that I'm sure I'm gonna be revisiting as well and Sean brought it 291 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:42,320 up the obsessed I was thinking that it was just gonna be okay you know why no 292 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:48,160 with just another release by the obsessed or you know st. Vitus or 293 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,360 whatever he's whatever project he's releasing this time because I didn't 294 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:57,000 really care for the last album by them seems to be a common theme this time 295 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:02,000 around but I listened to this and I was like wow this is good this is really 296 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:08,600 good to the point where it's not just stoner metal yeah there's a lot of 297 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,800 stoner elements there but there's some songs that are just full-blown heavy 298 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,960 metal at times it sounds really cool it's a really cool mix I really think 299 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:24,920 that they've outdone themselves and I really think it is worth a listen so tie 300 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:32,680 for me Bokasa and and the obsessed I think that's maybe a first for us 301 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:40,200 all right so the 23rd and I will say this I've gone back and I've listened to 302 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:48,320 almost everything that that we've mentioned this week outside of the 303 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:56,240 the albums that that Jeremy has mentioned I wanted to try to cover some 304 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,480 of the other stuff also to see if there are things that really stood out to me 305 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,480 that maybe Jeremy hadn't hadn't listened to I mean if there are things here that 306 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:11,440 I would recommend to Jeremy maybe the the Transit Method album I think might 307 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,440 be something that you would like 308 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:23,000 Morbid Saint and Scarefield is probably something that our own Ed the Shred 309 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:34,080 Ferguson would like trying to see what else yeah that's that's about it for 310 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,800 this last week we kind of overlapped but only because I haven't had a chance to 311 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,840 listen to a lot of this stuff and my intention is to listen to a lot of the 312 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:46,040 things that came out on the 23rd that I didn't get a chance to listen to when 313 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:52,880 you connected you you got a sample of me listening to the Stygian Crown album but 314 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:59,880 all right so the 23rd was 10,000 volts by Ace Freely, Mcmars, The Other Side of 315 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:06,200 Mars, Job for a Cowboy, Moon Healer, Dustbolt, Sound and Fury, Lionheart, 316 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:12,420 Stygian Crown which I just mentioned, Monkey 3, Amaranth, Austrian Death 317 00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:23,400 Machine, Orknagar, Darkest Hour, Ectomorph, Hand of 318 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:32,720 the Sea, Calakatch, North Sea Echoes, Pat, Shoreline, He Was God and Drifting in 319 00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:40,640 Silence with Motorhead releasing the Lost Tapes volume 1 through 5 also. 320 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:48,360 Jeremy, your thoughts on February 23rd. February the 23rd was an amazing week I 321 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,440 mean I'm gonna be like Michael Schenken now and talk for two hours without 322 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:57,880 breaking for breath I'll try and keep it brief I mean the reason why we crossed 323 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,200 over of course is because a lot of the the famous names were releasing albums 324 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,840 in this week and so it's obvious that we'd listen to the same sort of stuff 325 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:11,600 and I did kick off with the Ace Freely album 10,000 volts I mean I've seen Ace 326 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,400 live he's very enjoyable mid-festival act and you know I enjoyed him when I 327 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,600 saw him live I'm not the best person to review this though because I'm not the 328 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:33,000 massive fan of his music sure you know I enjoyed the title track I enjoyed walking 329 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,240 on the moon there were some pretty good stuff on here but I thought overall it 330 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:42,960 was a little bit one-paced it's a little bit stodgy I'm sorry to you know to down 331 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,960 it a little bit I thought Cherry Medicine picked things up a little bit and 332 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,920 I liked blinded I thought that was a decent song I just don't like Ace's 333 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,520 voice I'm sorry it's not for me I felt that you know many of the songs could be 334 00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,480 improved with Paul Stanley singing on them because obviously you know he's one 335 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:07,200 element of kiss that is now defunct and even Gene chipping in as well so you 336 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,640 know I thought it wasn't bad it's not a bad album but I just don't think it's 337 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,000 good enough and it certainly wasn't good enough for me to pick as the you know 338 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,840 the album of the week so I moved on to the debut solo album from it Mars which 339 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,720 was really looking forward to for a long time I think we all were he obviously 340 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:28,080 missed a trick though he didn't call it signals from Mars he called it the other 341 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:33,520 side of Mars why he did that we have we on this show we have no idea but there 342 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:39,560 it there you go also a strike slightly strange decision he used to vocalists as 343 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:45,480 well he only gave one of them two songs which was a bit strange but aside from 344 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,560 that I thought it was fairly refreshing to hear his music you know that's 345 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:53,720 different from his motley crew days I've heard a few people on the internet sort 346 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:57,120 of slag it off a little bit but I thought it was you know I thought there 347 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:01,400 were some good songs that you'd go back to so you know it was a good listen I 348 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,960 really really like the concept album the grace of a dragonfly by Lionheart I 349 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:12,280 thought this was the best album they've released in probably in their entire 350 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:17,640 career as you know there are sort of a mini what's the word I'm looking for 351 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,760 where you get all the members of a band of the bands together sort of a mini 352 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:27,000 supergroup yeah mini supergroup and I actually remember buying their debut 353 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,160 album back in the day and not really listening to anything much since but 354 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,040 this is really good melodic rock it's great vocals great production I thought 355 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,660 they they'd written some really good songs they've been the war theme a 356 00:37:39,660 --> 00:37:42,960 little bit because this is a sort of concept album about the Second World War 357 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,880 I mean they even introduced a song about the FA Cup final which wasn't going 358 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,480 during the war they had a song about the Bermuda Triangle but anyway it doesn't 359 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,840 really spoil it really really worth a listen there's you know good four or five 360 00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:02,520 songs on there that are really truly excellent songs I could have picked 361 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,120 Mick Mars I could have picked Lionheart as my album of the week I could have 362 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,360 picked Blaze Bailey which I've only just listened to I liked quite a bit of that 363 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,360 actually it was quite a nice pleasant surprise but I need to go back to it 364 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,400 because I've only just heard it tonight and so you know it's a one-off listen I 365 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,720 really like the song Rage on that album so that's worth listening to but I 366 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:28,440 actually picked Sound and Fury by Dustbolt this is a band that I've really 367 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,520 morphed from a sort of what I call a traditional teenagers thrash band 368 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,960 complete with the cartoon album covers into a very modern grown-up sort of 369 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:41,280 downtune band they're sort of now adopting that you know a more sort of 370 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,600 grunge hardcore punky elements and they're you know they even sort of 371 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,480 rocking it out in white on the cover as well so they've really changed their 372 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,680 image a lot and I think it was a successful move as much as it was a 373 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,220 brave one I know others might disagree because they probably liked what they 374 00:38:58,220 --> 00:39:02,920 released before I thought it could have gone really horribly wrong but it didn't 375 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,840 and you know I thought there's some really good tracks on there like I 376 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,440 witness a new flame and it was a it was an album that I really went back to 377 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,840 turned it up and really enjoyed a lot of the songs on it so for me it's Dustbolt 378 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:28,960 okay yeah we overlapped with three of those so you don't like Ace Freely's 379 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:41,960 over enunciation he's he's become like an old lady from Long Island with how he 380 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:51,480 he pronounces a lot of things listen I love Ace for people that are saying this 381 00:39:51,480 --> 00:40:04,120 is his best album since since since the 78 solo album no it is not tis not I'm 382 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:14,680 sorry is it better than spaceman not difficult is it better than space invader 383 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:21,040 perhaps it's a better than anomaly don't think so is it better than the three 384 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:30,800 Freely's comet albums nope not by a long shot I like the album the songs are 385 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:38,120 catchy I get it he likes his he's in love with his new girlfriend I get it he 386 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:46,360 digs out an old demo that that he records properly for the first time songs 387 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:58,440 40 years old and but then we get towards the end of the album and to me it is 388 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:09,840 exasperating because it reminds me of the old ONA adage don't go don't come to us 389 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:16,000 for for serious news don't go to CNN for dick jokes I don't want to hear ace 390 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:28,280 freely talking about shooting down scientific facts I don't want to hear in 391 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:34,680 the next song ace freely or within that same song talking about empathy and shit 392 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,680 like that when it turns out that most people that are science deniers are the 393 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:47,680 ones that aren't empathetic also to hear him sing about God and how God has done 394 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:53,440 this and that and blah blah blah thankfully kiss has never done any of 395 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:59,680 that shit you know whether whether ace likes that or not I mean that's awesome I 396 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:05,400 love ace ace is the reason why I got into music to begin with but some of that 397 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:12,080 shit just kind of turns me off and for everyone that sees putting kiss to shame 398 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:19,600 with this album is he really because I mean I love kiss I love ace I'm gonna 399 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:25,400 listen to both I I don't give a fuck about one side or the other to be honest 400 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,800 I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it and I'm gonna listen to both monster and 401 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:39,360 10,000 volts how about that so the dust bowl I really like the dust bowl it was 402 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:45,440 a lot of different things going on with the album and I listened to quite a few 403 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,200 times it's one of the reasons why I didn't really kind of progress with some 404 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,480 of the other albums that I'm gonna listen to this weekend I dropped a ball 405 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,160 in the blaze Bailey I didn't realize that it came out on the 23rd if not I 406 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:03,160 would have checked it out because what videos I posted the patreon sound better 407 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:13,600 than some of his other solo releases the McMars would you believe it that he's 408 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:18,280 supposedly gonna put out a single and he'll have a third singer which will be 409 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:27,460 John Karabi on one of the beef sides of the Mick album where it's where it's 410 00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:37,040 strong it's great but it's got too many ballads for me too many slow tempo songs 411 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:43,240 is the only thing that that brings it down to me the ace the Mick and the dust 412 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:47,320 bowl is what I listen to over and over again if I have to choose between the 413 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:58,200 three this is difficult I'll go with the McMars only because I think the song 414 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:03,940 writing is slightly better the ace album is still very good regardless of what I 415 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:13,280 just bitched about that's just the the the the clown that I am and the the 416 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,360 dustbolt was really good as well so I don't think you can go wrong with any 417 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:23,240 one of those three albums but there's a strong week that's we don't we get that 418 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:30,140 occasionally it's been a strong month I mean like I said I've gone through a lot 419 00:44:30,140 --> 00:44:35,400 of these albums and listened to parts of them to see if anything else kind of 420 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:42,000 grabbed me and I've still got a few to listen to here but it's it's it's a 421 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:47,480 strong start to the to the year there's there's a lot of good stuff that's 422 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:52,400 already been going into my 2024 playlist so yeah if it carries on like this it's 423 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:59,360 gonna be a really good year definitely absolutely so yeah before we wrap things 424 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,900 up here there's a few topics that Jeremy and I've been talking about behind the 425 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:11,080 scenes a lot of interesting things that have come out in different articles and 426 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:17,920 interviews and when first off though I did want to talk about the new accept 427 00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:24,520 single humanoid which is the also the title track off of the album which will 428 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:30,240 drop next month Jeremy what did you think about this track I thought it was 429 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:35,440 very standard except stuff I thought it was there was nothing wrong with it I 430 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:40,280 just thought it was I feel that you know that the last few albums have been a 431 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:48,320 little bit samey looking for a you know topics to cover and nothing really jumps 432 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,800 out at me you know it's it's same old same old I mean they play great riffs 433 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:59,680 they they rock it out I played it three or four times and yet nothing really got 434 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:04,560 me inside you know it was something that I couldn't I wasn't shouting from the 435 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:14,360 rooftops put it that way but what about you yeah I thought it was it comes back 436 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,400 to something that we discussed a few months ago when we talked about last 437 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:27,600 year's albums when we talked about primal fear at this point in time who's 438 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,960 really except whose primal fear who's Judas Priest you know there seems to be 439 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:39,320 like a fine line between who's what at this point and the one thing that kind 440 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:45,680 of stood out to me on this track on humanoid was was the soloing on it I 441 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:51,360 thought that was kind of cool but I have to agree with the rest the rest is just 442 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:57,560 kind of paint by numbers except right now it's kind of what Peter Balz has has 443 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,120 mentioned in the recent interviews saying hey you know it just seems like 444 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,960 we're recording the same songs over and over again with just slightly different 445 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:10,300 lyrics so that kind of falls in line with what you're mentioning yeah I 446 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:13,600 prefer the undertaker by the way I thought off the previous album I thought 447 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:21,920 that was a really good song yeah clever and yeah this one's average yeah I think 448 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:28,440 that when they're good they're great you know but unfortunately it's what it's 449 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:34,760 what you mentioned there's just too much same Z material going on with the band 450 00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:43,440 so all right Jeff Tate also recently discussed the fact that he's singing 451 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:51,280 songs in a different key and the band is down tuning to kind of accommodate it 452 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:57,080 it's interesting that he's come out and said that you know kind of no bones 453 00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:02,200 about it saying hey you know this is where I am now and let's be honest a 454 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:08,240 lot of that old Queensryche is pretty challenging material so it really 455 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:17,000 doesn't surprise me that that that this is the case yeah I mean Todd gets up 456 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,640 there doesn't he I mean he says that he actually reaches the highs on and that's 457 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:25,800 how he got into the band in the first place but you know you got it you got to 458 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,920 think that you know Jeff's a certain age I mean as everyone ages their voice 459 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,840 changes I mean there are very few very few singers out there their voice 460 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:38,520 doesn't change and and do you really notice you know when you go to a show do 461 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:44,640 you actually notice that it's in a slightly different key sometimes you do 462 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,560 sometimes you're in the moment and you're singing along to the songs that 463 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:53,120 you love and you forget about it I mean I remember Europe saying for a 464 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:57,880 long time that they've played the final countdown at a much slower pace than is 465 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:02,300 on the the actual album you know because they can't they can't play it at the 466 00:49:02,300 --> 00:49:07,400 speed it's on and that I think they have it in a different key as well but if it 467 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:14,840 works for them it's fine you know what could we expect they're all aging yeah 468 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:23,560 yeah absolutely their time where it to me sounds pretty cool in the sense that 469 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:30,680 it kind of makes some of the songs sound heavier so at cuz at cuz demanding 470 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:39,400 his money back and you're all edger says I always notice and I go straight to the 471 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:45,760 ticket office and demand my money back how dare they do that to him yeah there 472 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:54,640 you go his question previous to this mention Jeremy he says are he says I 473 00:49:54,640 --> 00:50:00,320 wonder if Jeremy remembers stacker humanoid single from 1989 you know I 474 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:10,280 don't maybe I should but it doesn't ring a bell no no okay and the last topic 475 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:18,560 that we have here is KK downing talking about the fact that jugulator and 476 00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:28,680 demolition are not available on streaming services and yeah okay so 477 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:33,920 they're not half for albums I get that but similar to what we talked about 478 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:41,360 last week with the AC DC reissues why are they only reissuing nine out of 479 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:48,000 whatever 15 albums or 17 albums this is kind of the same why just why exclude 480 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:56,000 those two because Rob wasn't in the band let's not forget that Rob's the guy that 481 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:02,480 left the band and your says that he has jugulator I have demolition on CD still 482 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:10,800 so I have no problem myself but yeah this is and this is the question that I 483 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:17,720 asked you Jeremy chances that KK decides to rerecord both of these albums as a 484 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:24,920 result hmm well I guess that we've got to be clear as to whether KK can do that 485 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:30,680 on his own obviously there's gonna be fairly detailed contractual arrangements 486 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:35,440 with these sort of albums and that's why they're probably not on Spotify as well 487 00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:41,360 assuming he can rerecord them would he want to do it he sounds like he does 488 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:46,560 doesn't he because the way he's pitched it it sounds as if he's pushing that way 489 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:51,240 I mean he's done two of his own albums and they've been fairly similar in tone 490 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:56,720 and songwriting and then I'm thinking well it may be fancy is another challenge 491 00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:01,720 and rerecording them he's got the singer in place he's got you know he 492 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:06,560 could do it straight away and yeah may sound pretty good if they're 493 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:14,720 rerecorded to be to be fair we'll wait see what's down the line with it but 494 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:18,760 yeah I mean it's not just cake it's not just Judas Priest albums missing I mean 495 00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,480 Black Sabbath have got some missing albums from Spotify they you know they 496 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,240 right that sort of stuff the other bands are the same and it is a shame because 497 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:30,280 when you want to listen to all of the stuff and go it deeper into the 498 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:38,400 catalogs you know it's it's harder to do it either way you know obviously Black 499 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,800 Sabbath is going to be rerecorded well we're expecting the re-releases to come 500 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,800 out in May Tony Iommi said they're definitely coming out so hopefully we'll 501 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:56,120 hear we'll hear them again yeah he said may not sure what year though yeah I 502 00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:05,800 think that it's an easy way for KK to possibly fulfill his contract 503 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:14,080 because the songs are already written it would help bring the albums to the 504 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:20,720 attention of maybe people that are checking KK out at a festival and didn't 505 00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:25,680 know that those were Priest albums yeah I could also see Priest pull a dick move 506 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:32,240 and once he announces that he's releasing rerecords that they released 507 00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:40,360 the originals you know just just mess with KK maybe yeah because there doesn't 508 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:45,400 seem to be a good relationship there at all but surely Priest would get a they're 509 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:49,900 gonna get some revenue from anything that KK re-releases because they'll be 510 00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:56,440 they'll own the songs as well you would have thought so presumably they all gain 511 00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,780 from it you know and it would be a good move for them all I mean it raises the 512 00:54:00,780 --> 00:54:04,160 Judas Priest name at the same time unless he puts it all under his KK 513 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:08,000 Priest banner and just you know rerecords those songs I don't know who 514 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:13,400 actually owns them because I thought KK had actually sold his catalog at some 515 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:22,480 point could be yeah but also let's let's take this on what would stop him after 516 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:30,640 releasing those two albums to just do a rerecord of Judas Priest greatest hits 517 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:36,740 you know I could I could see I could see that's how this all unfolds where he 518 00:54:36,740 --> 00:54:44,360 does Ripper Era albums and then he does the Halford Era stuff just so that you 519 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:50,200 know again he can sell that stuff to the fans and you know the gullible 520 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:56,900 collectors that a lot of people our age happen to be they I would I don't think 521 00:54:56,900 --> 00:55:03,760 people would have an issue picking up whatever it is that he decides to do 522 00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:08,560 hmm yeah it makes sense and definitely the ones that he's written he's he's 523 00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:15,280 probably entitled to rerecord them right he's done you know variants on on his 524 00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:19,720 on his songs anyway so yeah maybe he can do that but yeah definitely 525 00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:25,200 rerecording the Ripper stuff you can see that it's definitely a logical step for 526 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:36,360 many yep yeah I agree 100% so cool another awesome show hope this helps you 527 00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:42,480 people listen to some new music some of the stuff you'll listen to and maybe not 528 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:47,520 care for other stuff hopefully will be a home run for you and you not only check 529 00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:52,480 it out and streaming services would maybe decide to pick it up so on that 530 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:58,440 note Jeremy any parting words no just keep rocking go out and see music and 531 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:03,440 of us obviously pick it up in your record store and listen to it there you 532 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:11,280 go folks thank you so much for checking the show out this week Edgar in the chat 533 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:16,480 Sean Richmond Brad doll as well it is greatly appreciated to have you guys 534 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:28,440 here and for all your support be on the lookout for this album I do hear that it 535 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:37,480 is a very important and of historical value but 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