1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,680 Welcome one and all to episode 378 of Signals From Mars. 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:15,080 Jeremy is back and we are back talking about new releases from new bands, from old bands, 3 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,640 from bands you love, from bands you hate, from bands you may not even know exist. 4 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:31,720 In any event, this is our dive into new releases from March 2024. 5 00:00:49,640 --> 00:01:00,600 Alright, so most of you guys know the drill. 6 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,240 If anyone is new to this show, you know what this episode is all about. 7 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:10,600 Jeremy and me discuss new releases from March of 2024. 8 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,040 We don't touch upon everything because there are some things that slip through the cracks 9 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:24,560 and honestly, I first add things from labels and PR people that send me stuff. 10 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,040 Then I add bigger name artists if I don't have them. 11 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Most of the times I don't. 12 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,580 And we take it from there. 13 00:01:33,580 --> 00:01:36,520 We listen to as much as we possibly can. 14 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,560 Some months I get to listen to a lot of stuff, other months it's just impossible to do and 15 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:47,200 I just stick to things that kind of stick out to me or labels that kind of usually have 16 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,000 something that I'm into. 17 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:57,100 There are certain labels that only put out certain sub genres of hard rock and metal, 18 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:03,720 so I know what to expect more or less or I'll give something a quick listen and it just 19 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,280 doesn't work for me so I'll skip it and move on to other things. 20 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,020 There are other albums that do surprise me along the way. 21 00:02:11,020 --> 00:02:17,880 So we do talk about some of those every month as well. 22 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:23,400 And there are times this month you'll see that for me there are things that I really 23 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,760 like and there are other months where things are just there are other weeks I should say 24 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:35,160 where things are just kind of a lot or they don't really do much for me. 25 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,040 Anyway, this is a fun chat with Jeremy. 26 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:44,240 We also talk some music news type stuff. 27 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,900 Jeremy's great at coming up with different topics to talk about and similar to what we're 28 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:56,220 doing tonight with some of my other patrons, we are going to be talking about some topics 29 00:02:56,220 --> 00:02:59,600 that I think are kind of cool to discuss. 30 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:07,620 If you check any of these hour one episodes out, you'll know that it's just music fans 31 00:03:07,620 --> 00:03:08,980 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--> 00:03:58,340 What else? 43 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:04,300 There is also the value for value podcasting apps as well where you can make donations 44 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:05,680 through that. 45 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:12,440 So had a few, haven't had much, but it's cool when all that stuff comes about because you 46 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,740 see that people are paying attention and usually on those platforms, it's new people. 47 00:04:16,740 --> 00:04:24,000 So that's awesome that people are taking the time out to check this show out almost 14 48 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,480 years into this. 49 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:32,480 So almost since 2009, almost 15 years into this. 50 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,120 What am I talking about? 51 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,200 So in September of 2009, the show started up. 52 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,660 It's going to be 15 years in a few months. 53 00:04:42,660 --> 00:04:49,280 So anyway, I do want to send a quick overall shout out to my Patreon supporters, to my 54 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:51,040 patrons for supporting. 55 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,640 I do want to thank all of you for listening to this show. 56 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,680 Those of you that do share it, it means the world to me. 57 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,720 It means a lot that you listen to this all these years in when there's a million other 58 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,480 big name shows that you can be listening to, but you do come back and listen to us. 59 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,080 So that is awesome. 60 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:29,320 Thanks and let's get on with the show. 61 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,160 Welcome one and all to the April 5th edition of Signals from Mars. 62 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,520 I am Victor. 63 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:43,280 Joining me is Jeremy for another monthly recap of new releases this time around, as you saw 64 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,600 in the intro piece there. 65 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,960 It is March 2024, which we will be talking about. 66 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:51,720 It is April 2024. 67 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,920 But anyway, Jeremy, how are you, sir? 68 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,600 Yeah, doing well, Victor. 69 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,560 Obviously, since we last spoke, I've seen Judas Priest live and we might be mentioning 70 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,120 Judas Priest a little later on, I think, with the album reviews. 71 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,480 But how are you doing yourself? 72 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,480 Not bad. 73 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,760 I will say that I had a small kerfuffle when it comes to Judas Priest. 74 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:19,320 We were supposed to see them in June, but over the course of these holidays, the tickets 75 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:25,600 seem to have sold out, so we will not be seeing Judas Priest as we previously thought. 76 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:33,680 But anyway, hopefully there will be around sometime in the future, but we'll see. 77 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,600 I've seen them twice already. 78 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:36,600 Yeah, yeah. 79 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,160 Well, yeah, hopefully you'll see them again. 80 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,160 Yeah. 81 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:51,200 Anyway, so March, big theme for me for this month. 82 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:52,200 I always say this. 83 00:06:52,200 --> 00:07:00,040 There's a lot of great new music that comes out on a weekly basis. 84 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,000 But sometimes we found that with some weeks we don't find something that really jumps 85 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,200 out. 86 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:18,200 I will say that this month has some tremendous new releases and has quite a few letdowns 87 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,960 for me personally. 88 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,040 But all right, so let's get into this. 89 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:31,360 March 1st, we saw new releases from Bruce Dickinson, the Mandrake project ministry with 90 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:38,360 the Hopium for the Masses, Zack Sabbath with Doomed Forever, Forever Doomed, Firewinds 91 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:46,760 Stand United, Suicidal Angels, Profane Prayer, also new albums from New Year's Day, Big Big 92 00:07:46,760 --> 00:08:01,320 Train, TSOL, Defocus, Mannequin Pussy, Devastator, Souldusk, Dreams of Grey, Blazar, a few more 93 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:09,640 I guess this is French, J'est un Etre, I guess that's my best attempt at French there, Hands 94 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:20,920 of Goro, Alienist, Saturnalia Temple, Messiah, Sentry, Blind Channel, Unsufferable, reissues 95 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:29,920 from Enslaved and Live Christine and Compilations, various artists, New Wave Donut from the label 96 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:31,520 New Wave Donut. 97 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:36,080 Jeremy, what are some of the things that you listened to and what stood out to you this 98 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,080 week? 99 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:42,960 Well, obviously I started out listening to the Mandrake project, the seventh solo album 100 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:43,960 from Bruce Dickinson. 101 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,720 I mean, there were some songs on here that were very Iron Maiden for me. 102 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,320 I mean, Rain on the Graves was Iron Maiden. 103 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,120 It could have been on the Final Frontier or the Book of Souls. 104 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:56,120 It was that kind of song. 105 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:01,960 It was the very classic sounding Shadow of the Gods, which again, you know, was a similar 106 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:02,960 sort of thing. 107 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,200 And then of course we have another version of If Eternity Should Fail called Eternity 108 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,200 Has Failed. 109 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,400 I'm not sure why he did that. 110 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:15,040 He obviously hated the fact Steve Harris persuaded him to use it in the first place and he wanted 111 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:21,200 to put out an original version of it, which he kind of envisaged in his mind in the first 112 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,200 place. 113 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,280 But I thought it all worked very well on a song Mistress of Mercy. 114 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,000 I thought that was a really good song, chunky rolling riff. 115 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I like that. 116 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,360 I like Shadow of the Gods, you know, when the main riff comes in and then it sort of 117 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,000 does really kind of distinguish itself from Iron Maiden. 118 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,920 Overall, I didn't dislike that album. 119 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,400 I thought, you know, it was a good album, but I just didn't think there was enough on 120 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,360 there for me to buy it. 121 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:51,320 And I just thought, you know, I wish he hadn't done it so much like in the sort of Maiden 122 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,040 style. 123 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,560 So that's what I thought of that one. 124 00:09:55,560 --> 00:10:00,440 So I moved swiftly onto the Greek thrash band Suicide Angels. 125 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:01,440 This is their eighth album. 126 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,400 In fact, it's Profane Prayer. 127 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,680 Not a band that I've kept much focus on, if I'm being really honest, but there were some 128 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:13,240 real sort of genuine thrash elements here, you know, with some very melodic overtones, 129 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,240 which I liked. 130 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,160 So it was all a nice, decent listen. 131 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,080 It wasn't my album of the week. 132 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,080 My album of the week, and by the way, this is a marginal choice as well. 133 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,160 It was the one by Firewind, Stand United. 134 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,920 I don't suppose there's any shock there for you. 135 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:32,920 I like Firewind. 136 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,040 It's their tenth studio album in 22 years now. 137 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:42,680 And I wouldn't say, you know, I like all power metal bands, but I definitely love Firewind. 138 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:45,240 It's my go-to power metal band. 139 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,040 I love Gus G on guitars. 140 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,240 I like Herbie Langans on vocals. 141 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,920 I think he adds something to it. 142 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,440 And I don't think it was their best offering at all. 143 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:00,000 But, you know, I find the songs always grow on me on a Firewind album. 144 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,000 And there's enough solid tunes on there to, you know, to keep me returning to it. 145 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,480 And, you know, I'd like to see the band one day. 146 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,280 I'd like to see them live. 147 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:14,000 And that just was my pick of the week. 148 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,080 OK. 149 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,280 You touched upon exactly what I was going to say with the Bruce Dickinson. 150 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,280 OK. 151 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:26,960 Mistress of Mercy to me is the best song off of the album. 152 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:33,340 For the most part, I find the album very boring. 153 00:11:33,340 --> 00:11:40,160 It was a huge letdown for me because to me, Accident of Birth, Chemical Wedding, even 154 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:45,680 Skunk Works, three tremendous albums in a row. 155 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:49,680 There are aspects of Balls to Picasso that I really like, and there are aspects that 156 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:54,760 also bore me. 157 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,040 What I loved about his solo work and Tyranny of Souls I really loved as well. 158 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:04,240 So those four straight solo albums, I think, are great. 159 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,140 He tried to make another Maiden album with this. 160 00:12:08,140 --> 00:12:13,480 What made those other albums stand out to me is that they were Bruce doing modern metal 161 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:24,800 at that time and doing a great job bringing in the right songwriters and putting some 162 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,040 great compositions together with him. 163 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:33,760 And when I mean songwriters, he isn't reaching out to Desmond Child or anything like that. 164 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,840 It's Adrian Smith. 165 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:35,840 It's Roy Z. 166 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:42,720 It's people that have history with him. 167 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,080 I so wanted to like this. 168 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:53,040 And the first two singles that he put out, I think we were both kind of like saying, OK, 169 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:54,680 this is all right. 170 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:56,600 Let's hope that there's more on the album. 171 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,280 And there really isn't. 172 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:04,160 There's only a few select albums that are tracks that are OK. 173 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,200 And the rest just really bore me. 174 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:12,680 When I saw that Roy Z wasn't going to be touring this album after touring every other album, 175 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:20,640 basically with him, except for one, I thought, that's weird. 176 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,680 And you're right. 177 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:27,480 It sounds like Shinjitsu Book of Souls. 178 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:28,660 He didn't need to do this. 179 00:13:28,660 --> 00:13:32,600 And now with him declaring this week that he's got some songs left over, that there 180 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,960 may be a Mandrake Project Part two that's released in a few months to coincide with 181 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:44,040 the last comic that's going to be released, it worried me. 182 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:52,640 I mean, Bruce and Maiden as a whole, they've got too many yes men around them. 183 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,080 And it kind of. 184 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,040 I've seen other people online say, wow, this is so great. 185 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:01,580 And look, this is all opinion. 186 00:14:01,580 --> 00:14:06,640 This is all objective, subjective to what everyone's opinion is like. 187 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:11,320 But seeing people say that this is the best album that's come out this year, his best 188 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,200 solo album that he's released, stuff like that. 189 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:18,840 I'm thinking they're either going to have him on their show. 190 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,640 They're pandering to him some way. 191 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,160 They don't want to piss him off. 192 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:25,640 I don't understand that. 193 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,480 I don't get it. 194 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,560 I listen to the Ministry album, Hopium for the Masses. 195 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:39,440 It's got some cool tracks off of it, but like Mike Jones has said on Patreon, it's ministry 196 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:40,440 being ministry. 197 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,800 There's really nothing different that you can expect from them. 198 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:51,240 I like Monty Pittman's playing on this is so long as great as usual. 199 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,440 And the Fire Wind, I had a feeling this was going to be your number one. 200 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,960 I thought or you know, your pick. 201 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,680 I was thinking, OK, it's either going to be this or the Bruce. 202 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,920 Let's see how much how much he likes the Bruce or not. 203 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,680 The Fire Wind is exactly what you said as well is really kind of par for the course 204 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,160 for what they do. 205 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,800 Gus's soloing is obviously the star of this album. 206 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,160 The vocals are good, as you said as well. 207 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,160 There's really no reinventing the wheel here. 208 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:30,920 You know what you're getting with Fire Wind. 209 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,760 I'll just echo what you said. 210 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:38,640 I'll go with Fire Wind for for my pick for this week as well. 211 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:44,840 I just think that, you know, the to me, it could be a toss up between the Fire Wind and 212 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:45,840 the Ministry. 213 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,760 But again, both bands are doing exactly what you would expect from them. 214 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,760 All right. 215 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:53,560 March 8th. 216 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:59,160 We had the Afferment and Judas Priest with Invincible Shield. 217 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,920 Midnight with Hellish Expectations. 218 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:10,760 Ghost, not the ghost that people are, you know, not not with Tobias. 219 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:18,000 This is another band that goes to does more of Darkwave type metal. 220 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,320 So they release Prophecy and it's G.O.S.T. 221 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,800 Yeah, G.O.S.T. 222 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,040 Excuse me. 223 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:31,080 New albums from Sonata, Artika as well, Clear Cold Beyond, the End Machine with the Quantum 224 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,600 Phase, Jesus and Mary Chain are back. 225 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:44,160 Kim Gordon, the Neptune Power Federation Turbulence, Kill the Lights, Linda Fahela and Dave Farn, 226 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,000 I guess how you pronounce it. 227 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:57,840 Altarium, Long the Night, Floja, Goat Major, EPs from just one from Before the Dawn, reissues 228 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:05,400 from Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies and Warbringer released, we released three albums 229 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,680 Waking into Nightmares, World Torn Asunder and Four, Empires Collapse. 230 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:18,160 And we had a new album from the Rolling Stones live at Wiltern. 231 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,280 So Jeremy, what stood out to you this time around? 232 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:29,360 Yeah, so this week I only had a time for a few selections and one that stood out to me 233 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:31,880 was the Quantum Phase by the M Machine. 234 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,080 Obviously, I wanted to listen to that one, the George Lynch and Jeff Pilsen project that 235 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,080 we know about. 236 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:42,840 It's now their third album since 2019 and their first with Girish Pradhan on vocals 237 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:48,640 as well, who seems to really do it justice, I think, with a fairly seamless transition 238 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,160 from Robert Mason. 239 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:56,920 As with the previous album, which I still think the previous album is the best of the 240 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,040 three to be honest. 241 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,840 This is a sort of similar mix of classic rock sounds. 242 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:07,760 It's got sort of that Dock and Over tones, it's got very classic rock stuff, isn't it? 243 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:12,960 But maybe, you know, I just feel that the band could push itself a little bit more. 244 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,320 I just feel that it wasn't my album of the week. 245 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:21,960 I felt sort of there was something missing from this album and I don't know what it is. 246 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,080 I think the previous one was slightly better, but maybe it just needs to bed in a little 247 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,000 bit and I need to listen to it a bit more and maybe turn it up a bit. 248 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,760 But I'd certainly recommend someone to have a listen to it if you've not heard it before. 249 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:41,640 But I moved very swiftly on to the big album of the week, which of course is the 19th studio 250 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:50,480 album by Judas Priest, Invincible Shield, released four years after The Mighty Firepower. 251 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,760 And I just thought this was a really great album in my opinion. 252 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,520 It has really super production. 253 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,800 It has really solid vocals from the Septuagenarian Rob Halford now. 254 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:06,480 I mean, if you think of his age, he's still doing it and he's doing it live as well. 255 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,000 Very exciting riffs and solos from Richie Faulkner, who bear in mind, you know, nearly 256 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,920 died on the treatment table a few years back as well. 257 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,520 In many ways, it's a bit like the latest Scorpions album, I think. 258 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,400 It's paying homage to the past glories. 259 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:30,240 There's a lot of songs on there that have a bit of a touch on their previous career, 260 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:35,440 whether it's on Sin After Sin or Stain Class or Painkiller, the songs there that remind 261 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,920 me of those albums. 262 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,560 I saw them live. 263 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,080 They played three tracks live. 264 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:44,760 They played Panic Attack, they played Crown of Horns and they played the title track and 265 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:50,560 they seemed to really gel into the existing set list really well. 266 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,360 I think it would be a big surprise if this doesn't feature in the top 10 at the end of 267 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,360 the year. 268 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,640 We kind of know it probably will. 269 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:03,440 And I just feel that there's, you know, I was leaping from track to track to sort of 270 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,560 think about which was my favourite and I think that's always a good thing as well. 271 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:12,760 So I think it's up there with Firepower and I think it's a really solid album and obviously 272 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,720 my album of the week. 273 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,400 Do you think it's better than Firepower? 274 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,720 I personally do, yeah. 275 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,360 In my opinion, at the moment I'm enjoying it more than Firepower. 276 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:27,520 Whether that will always be the case, I don't know. 277 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:33,240 I think Firepower had a nice mix of songs, you know, it was a broader range of songs, 278 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,800 but I think there's some tracks on here that I think are better than on Firepower and that 279 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,480 have really sort of got me, you know, in a sort of, I think it's a little bit heavier 280 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,800 in some ways, a little bit faster, a little bit heavier and a little bit more together. 281 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:54,920 But I think, you know, it's you sort of choosing between family members. 282 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,440 It's one of those, you know, it's it's I like Firepower as well. 283 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,600 I don't want to diss that one either. 284 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:07,640 How many bands can you recall this far into their career that have released a Firepower 285 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,840 and Invincible Shield back to back? 286 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,080 Because I can't really think of any this late. 287 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,560 These two albums to me. 288 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:24,160 Kill anything Maiden has done since Brave New World. 289 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,600 You look at other contemporaries like Ozzy. 290 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,680 As much as I like his solo output. 291 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:39,880 I think this trumps anything that Ozzy's released in decades. 292 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,240 What other bands can we kind of compare it to? 293 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,080 You know, you're a huge Saxon fan. 294 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:54,440 Do you think that Saxon's releases compare to these two? 295 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,480 To be honest, I don't think they do. 296 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,560 And I really like a lot of the recent Saxon stuff. 297 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:04,160 I think they've had a renaissance in recent years and they've produced some very solid 298 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:10,600 albums but they've not produced quite the quality that Judas Priest have got on these 299 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:11,600 two albums. 300 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,600 No, I agree. 301 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,200 And the same with ACDC. 302 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,600 We know that the last ACDC album was a really solid effort. 303 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:18,760 We really enjoyed it. 304 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,200 But the one before wasn't quite up to that mark. 305 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,040 Yeah, exactly. 306 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,280 Yeah. 307 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:36,960 So real quickly here, I listened to the Midnight album, which is, I mean, if you like Midnight, 308 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:47,560 if you like the whole Black and Roll, I guess it's called, they're probably the best band 309 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,000 that does that type of metal. 310 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,640 So if you like their previous releases, I would check it out. 311 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,520 I didn't get a chance to listen to the Exhorter, which I wanted to. 312 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,560 I wonder if Ed Ferguson got a chance to listen to that. 313 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,240 The N Machine, I felt, was better than what I expected. 314 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,120 I think you really summed it up. 315 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,520 Very doccony sounding. 316 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:21,200 It really reminded me of the one Lynch Pilsen album that I really like from around the year 317 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:31,080 2000, which is just called LP, which really gave you a taste of what makes that duo special 318 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,680 and so great. 319 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:39,240 I think Arish did a lot better than what I expected as well on this album. 320 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:44,000 I have to go back and listen to the second album to see if I feel the same way that you 321 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,560 do. 322 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,480 But I really enjoyed this album a lot more than what I expected. 323 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:53,640 But Judas Priest is a monster. 324 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,520 It's everything that you said, I think, with Firepower. 325 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,920 And I think Priest has done this to an extent with every album since Agile of Retribution, 326 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:08,120 where they've hearkened back to different periods of time in their career. 327 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:15,080 But I think to your point, songs like Devil in the Skies, which is probably my favorite 328 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:20,720 off the album, Either That or Giants in the Sky, and even the title track really hearken 329 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:27,560 back to 70s era Judas Priest, which I don't think they've done in a really long time. 330 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,480 Everything has been, okay, let's touch upon Painkiller. 331 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,480 Let's touch upon British Steel. 332 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,040 Let's touch upon Defenders and Screaming for Vengeance. 333 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,320 I think they've tried to key in on those four albums. 334 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:48,520 And not that they haven't here with this, but I think that they've expanded a lot of 335 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,720 the quote unquote beat tracks to look back at stained glass, to look back at Killing 336 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,840 Machine or Hellbent for Leather, however you want to call it. 337 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:06,120 So I think that they've done a terrific job in extending what they did with Firepower. 338 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:13,720 I think that this is the effect of what they were looking for with Turbo and Ram It Down, 339 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,880 where they wanted it to be a continuation, one from the other. 340 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,660 I think a lot of people have said this as well. 341 00:25:21,660 --> 00:25:27,280 It's kind of like Defenders and Screaming, where they were two really good albums back 342 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,700 to back. 343 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:31,880 So I get that correlation. 344 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:37,480 And to me, until something else comes along, this is probably going to be my number one 345 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:47,960 for the year unless something else can surprisingly come along and kind of dethrone it. 346 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,440 And I mentioned this panic attack has kind of grown on me. 347 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,400 I don't love the song. 348 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:00,680 Crown of Horns has a really good hook to it. 349 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,320 That riff is just so nasty and so good. 350 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,360 It took a little while to convince me as well. 351 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:12,560 But a lot of it had to do with me liking Firepower so much. 352 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,920 And it's funny because with Firepower, I don't tend to listen to the singles that they released 353 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,120 off of that. 354 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:22,980 Not to say that the title track and Lightning Strikes aren't good, but other tracks off 355 00:26:22,980 --> 00:26:27,680 of that are just so strong that it makes me skip over those tracks. 356 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,680 So to me, I think that's kind of going to be the same thing with this. 357 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,840 The title track, I think, is just great. 358 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,280 And they released that on the day that the album was released. 359 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,800 But it wasn't like one of these songs to kind of whet your whistle. 360 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:53,040 And even the video is kind of a real throwback, again, to me, as a 70s sounding song from 361 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,040 them. 362 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,920 And the way that Scott Travis plays, where he's playing sixteenth notes on the hi-hats, 363 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:09,960 he's doing certain little things, percussive things that Dave Holland did, things that 364 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,640 Les Binks did. 365 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:19,060 So I think that they've really tried to kind of open up the toolbox this time around. 366 00:27:19,060 --> 00:27:22,400 So great album. 367 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,920 All right. 368 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:31,320 The 15th saw new albums from the Black Crows with Happiness Bastards, Scott Stapp with 369 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:39,240 Higher Power, Kid Kiapucci with There Goes the Neighborhood, Dragon Force, Dragon Force, 370 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:49,000 excuse me, pronouncing it like Mike Tyson, Warp Speed Warriors 4, Aborted with Vault 371 00:27:49,000 --> 00:28:02,480 of Horrors, Mike Tramp with an album in Danish, Lords of Black with Mechanics of Predicy, 372 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,160 I guess that's how you pronounce it. 373 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:14,120 Also albums from Non Exister, Pyrrho, Wyberg, Thorn of Exile, The Pocket Gods, Atrophy, 374 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:23,240 Shock Withdrawal, Lips, Leather Lung, not to be confused with Liver Lips, Udad and an 375 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:29,520 EP by the Thousands, the band. 376 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,040 What did you get to listen to for the 15th, Jeremy? 377 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,000 Yeah, I actually started out listening to the Mike Tramp album, but it didn't get very 378 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,000 far to be honest. 379 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,520 I mean, it was OK. 380 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,440 It didn't really grab me, especially with it being all sung in his native Danish. 381 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,560 That wasn't the real problem, though. 382 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,080 I think it was just the music really didn't grab me at all. 383 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,360 It wasn't very rocky. 384 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:54,520 So I quickly moved on to the Black Crowes album, Happiness Bastards, which was very 385 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,680 much better and surprisingly so, I thought. 386 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:03,080 I know you aren't a big fan, Victor, yourself, but I quite like this. 387 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,840 It was a real sort of mix of laid back sort of bluesy, folky ballads and some hardest 388 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,400 Rolling Stones style, Southern drawl rock music. 389 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,080 You know, the sort of typical thing you expect from the Black Crowes. 390 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,720 I mean, I saw them live back in the day and I was very keen on their debut album at the 391 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,120 time, but then I sort of lost interest in them quite a bit. 392 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,960 But I was I think I was just in the mood for this one and maybe because I've got older 393 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,680 and it was a nice laid back listen. 394 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,000 And I thought it wasn't a bad effort at all. 395 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,280 And I've seen some reviews on it that have been very positive as well. 396 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,120 And I think they're fairly fair. 397 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,640 So overall, I was quite happy with that one. 398 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,080 But then I dived into the mechanics of what is it? 399 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,080 Predacity. 400 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,680 I've never heard of predacity as a word, but Lord's a Black Album. 401 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,840 Don't know what it means. 402 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:54,800 Someone will write in to us and tell us, I'm sure, the natural home for the roving Ronnie 403 00:29:54,800 --> 00:30:02,520 Romero, of course, you know, where he's best off with his day job, should we say. 404 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,560 Very typical album for them. 405 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,520 Nothing new. 406 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,320 You know, it's really what got you into the band in the first place, this sort of stuff. 407 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,200 You won't be disappointed. 408 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,200 It's heavy. 409 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,680 It's full of all the minor keys. 410 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,160 It's classical intros. 411 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,440 It's power chord progressions. 412 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:25,320 It's the usual metal lyrics about darkness and nightmares, sort of stuff you expect from 413 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:26,320 Lord's a Black. 414 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:27,320 I'm a fan. 415 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:33,320 You know, I've listened to a lot of their stuff since they started and I've liked it. 416 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,720 I will say that I'm not totally won over by it because it's so similar to what came before. 417 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:45,200 You know, they are sort of treading the familiar path, but they do it well. 418 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:50,920 And I do enjoy listening to them, a bit like an accept, you know, where you're going to 419 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,880 get the same sort of music, but that's what they do. 420 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,120 And it was good. 421 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,080 And so, you know, I'll say that's my album of the week. 422 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:08,440 So, I listened to the Black Rose album. 423 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:13,160 I've never, as you said, never been a huge fan, but I thought that this album was really 424 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:14,160 good. 425 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:20,600 Again, you did a perfect job of explaining it. 426 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,800 When it's good, it's great. 427 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,800 It's very stone sounding. 428 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,480 I'm not keen on the ballads, but there's plenty to like off of this album. 429 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:37,120 I listened to the Scott Stapp album, Higher Power, because previous albums of his have 430 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,440 caught my attention. 431 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:45,120 This album, the singles are OK. 432 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:51,440 And it just feels like the entire album is just those singles or songs that sound like 433 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,440 them and ballads. 434 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,160 The Kid Kiapuchi, really like the previous album. 435 00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,740 This album is OK. 436 00:31:59,740 --> 00:32:01,560 The singles are great. 437 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,540 There's one or two other album tracks that are fine, but the rest just kind of fell short 438 00:32:06,540 --> 00:32:08,960 for me. 439 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:14,640 And the Lords of Black, I thought was the Lords of Black have has two really, really 440 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:15,640 good songs off it. 441 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:26,180 And the rest is, as you've already said, very similar to what they've done in the past. 442 00:32:26,180 --> 00:32:30,480 I'm going to surprise you for my pick of the week is Black Rose. 443 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,440 Oh, what a shocker. 444 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,400 I thought it was good. 445 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,360 And I've never really been a huge fan, but I think the album is solid. 446 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,920 It's a good return for them. 447 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:49,680 And also, even though it sounds like the Stones, the production feel is pretty modern. 448 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,600 So it sounds it's got a good, clear, modern sound to it as well. 449 00:32:54,600 --> 00:33:01,200 All right, so let's move forward to the 22nd. 450 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:10,920 We had releases from Leaves Eyes, Aylstrom, Hammer God, Ghost Kid, Hamfred. 451 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,440 I don't know how you pronounce that. 452 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:30,800 Polar, Fer Galac, Galico, Thornbridge, Cruise, Kijen Church, Avralese, Critical Defiance, 453 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,600 Mastiff, Thor and Zombie. 454 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,720 Jeremy, what did you get a chance to listen to here? 455 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:43,200 Yeah, so I sort of seemed to have very little time this week. 456 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,760 And it wasn't very much released either in the run up to Easter holidays as we gathered 457 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,760 from the list. 458 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,720 You know, my pick of the week is the sort of classic rock sounds of the Jungle Revolution 459 00:33:53,720 --> 00:34:00,280 by a band called Crush, spelled C-R-U-Z-H, if anyone's looking them up. 460 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,880 I don't know a lot about these guys, to be honest, except they're from Sweden. 461 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,760 And this seems to be their third release. 462 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:11,440 I don't recall listening to the previous ones, but it rocks pretty well. 463 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:18,560 It has a Def Leppard style opening track and then some really hard-hitting songs like Angel 464 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,840 Dust, which I really liked on the album. 465 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,200 There's a lot of Bon Jovi on there too, as well. 466 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,920 But it's that sort of good rocking Bon Jovi, not the sort of the care home pat band that 467 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,120 we got used to very recently. 468 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,120 And overall, you know, I really liked it. 469 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,040 I could easily see myself sort of playing it on a road trip and, you know, put it in 470 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,960 the car for a long time. 471 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:46,360 So I recommend it for anyone who likes their metal played in the sort of classic 80s style. 472 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,360 You know, why not? 473 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,280 That we all like a band like that. 474 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,320 And then, yeah, it was good. 475 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:58,960 Yeah, so I got to listen to the album from Ghost Kid called Hollywood Suicide. 476 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:06,080 And I've enjoyed tracks from them in the past, but this album is just way generic. 477 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:11,480 It's not bad, but there's even though we're saying with a lot of these other albums, you 478 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,200 know, they're not doing anything new. 479 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:20,280 It's you know, they're not reinventing the wheel, but this is just way over just radio 480 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,280 friendly. 481 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,560 I'm trying to get on the radio. 482 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:28,680 It's just tries too hard and falls short because it sounds like too many other things. 483 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:38,600 I listen to Mastiff, how do you pronounce this? 484 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:45,040 The precipice, I guess, is pronounced. 485 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,880 It's OK. 486 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,080 Heavy riffage, thick riffs. 487 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,080 The vocals just don't do it for me. 488 00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:02,160 And honestly, I really didn't find anything else that really stood out to me this week. 489 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,320 So for me, no, no pick for this week. 490 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,320 That happens occasionally. 491 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,080 Yeah. 492 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,680 Let's move on to the 29th of March. 493 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:21,800 And we had what's supposed to be the last release from Sum 41 called Heaven Times Hell, 494 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:29,920 I guess, the quill with Wheel of Illusion rage with after lifelines while she sleeps 495 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:44,080 alchemia, the rocky Valentine's suffer, coffin storm on Earth or in hell stoned again, heavy 496 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:53,400 rain and an EP, it's actually a split between Pussifer, the perfect circle and Primus and 497 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:59,040 a compilation from Lily and Axe called the Box Volume two, the quickening. 498 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:09,220 It's the quickening always reminds me of Sean Connery, Sean Connery in Highlander as he's 499 00:37:09,220 --> 00:37:12,080 telling Christopher Lambert. 500 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,600 It's the quickening. 501 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,960 Jeremy, what did you listen to this week and what's your pick? 502 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:19,960 Yeah. 503 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,160 So I tried out first of all, the album Heavy Rain by the German progressive metal band 504 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,600 Ivory Tower on Massacre record label. 505 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,840 Somehow I didn't think the production was quite right on this one. 506 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,600 It was a little titty to my ears. 507 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,560 I mean, maybe I did not buy if headphones on for that one. 508 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,520 And sometimes it can sound a bit like that when you're playing it through, you know, 509 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,400 normal speakers. 510 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,800 I mean, there were some quite powerful songs on the album and it was a worthy listen, but 511 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,000 it just wasn't enough to make me sort of go wow. 512 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:56,560 So I moved quickly on to On Earth or in Hell by Black Abbasynth, three piece Canadian heavy 513 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,400 metal outfit from Toronto. 514 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,720 This band really kick up a fabulous storm. 515 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:03,480 I really like this. 516 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:08,920 They look like the British band Venom a little bit, you know, to look at, but have no fear. 517 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,560 There's no black metal outfit. 518 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,640 There's clear vocals for one thing. 519 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,760 And they have a sort of traditional doom style metal sound that, you know, maybe they lack 520 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,920 a little bit on the songs a little bit. 521 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,600 But you know, it was a real enjoyable listen and I quite like that one. 522 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:32,320 But it wasn't my pick of the week, which I moved on to one that really surprised even 523 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,320 me to be honest. 524 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,680 I went for Stoned Again by Max Boogie Overdrive. 525 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:44,880 New album this from an LA outfit that reminded me a lot of Clutch in a good way too as well. 526 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:49,480 They had some sort of frenetic stoner music on there that seemed to click with me right 527 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,480 from the off. 528 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:55,880 A nice cartoony album cover too, which had a vehicle that was very similar to the Scooby 529 00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,160 Doo mystery van on it, which obviously is always a good thing. 530 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:05,200 A very listenable album, really good songs on there. 531 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,680 And you know, it was an album that I'd like to go back to and listen to again. 532 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,520 So it was a worthy pick of the week for me. 533 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:12,800 Cool. 534 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,480 So I got to listen to the Sum 41 album. 535 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:23,840 I was a big fan of them early on, kind of lost track of them halfway through their career. 536 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:29,240 An enjoyable album if you're a fan of their early work. 537 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:34,360 Again, nothing really new from them, but a respectable album where I think some of their 538 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:39,440 previous albums have kind of fallen short. 539 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:45,920 But my pick of the week, and this could quite possibly be in my top 10 at the end of the 540 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:51,400 year as well, it is Wheel of Illusion from The Quill. 541 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,920 The Quill always seemed to have three, four, five songs on each of their albums that really 542 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,440 stand out. 543 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,080 This album is strong, top to bottom. 544 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,840 It surprised me how strong it is. 545 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:10,080 And I really enjoyed it from the opening track to the end. 546 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,480 And heavy riffs, cool melodies. 547 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,580 If you're remotely a fan of anything that they've done in the past, if you're remotely 548 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:22,640 a fan of doom metal or any stone or rock, check this out. 549 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,160 It'll be right up your alley. 550 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:31,600 So The Quill with Wheel of Illusion for me. 551 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:32,600 So awesome. 552 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:39,360 Like I said, even though they're not every week had stuff that really jumped out at me, 553 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,140 there were some really big releases that were released this month. 554 00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:47,380 So I'm happy overall with March. 555 00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:49,820 And don't be a lazy listener. 556 00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:52,180 Check out these albums that we're talking about. 557 00:40:52,180 --> 00:40:53,180 Maybe you agree with us. 558 00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:54,600 Maybe you think we're crazy. 559 00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:00,840 But either way, give them a shot and see what you think. 560 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:10,640 Before we wrap things up here, we do have a few different topics that. 561 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,240 That we did want to touch upon here. 562 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,560 There's always some hot button topics to to discuss. 563 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,240 And Jeremy's always good at sending me some of these topics as well. 564 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:27,000 So real quickly, let's go through some of these. 565 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,880 We have Sebastian Bach saying that he's got a good feeling that he's going to be back 566 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,880 in Skid Row. 567 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,880 Shortly now. 568 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:44,100 Lizzy Hale has been announced as their fill in singer for now. 569 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:51,240 Let's talk real quickly about Eric Gronewall stepping away from the band. 570 00:41:51,240 --> 00:42:00,320 Let's talk about what Sebastian said, and let's talk about Lizzy. 571 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,800 A lot of people are not buying. 572 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,600 That it's Eric's health. 573 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,360 The reason why. 574 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,680 He's out of the band. 575 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:11,680 What do you think? 576 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,880 It's a difficult one. 577 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,480 I mean, I have to sort of accept what he's saying that he is ill and needs to move away. 578 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,600 I mean, he's only done one album with them. 579 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,760 Everything seemed to be hunky dory. 580 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,040 Everything was happy in the Skid Row camp. 581 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,760 They did a really good album with him. 582 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,920 It seems an odd thing to say, doesn't it? 583 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,080 If you're not ill, why didn't he just sort of say, well, we've separated ways. 584 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,920 We've decided to ditch it. 585 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,680 I'm not getting on with the other band members. 586 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,040 You could easily just be very honest about it. 587 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:53,680 I don't see why you would say anything else if you're not ill. 588 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,400 So I can't really comment on it. 589 00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:00,680 I mean, we'll know in, I think, over time, won't we, whether that's the truth. 590 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:05,920 But as you say, Lizzy Hale has stepped in just as a temporary replacement because obviously 591 00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,960 they need someone immediately. 592 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,000 And then they're going to have to look for a permanent singer. 593 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:20,960 And as we know, Sebastian sort of stirring things up a little bit and saying that he's 594 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,600 the perfect singer for the band, but then he's fallen out with them before. 595 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,360 So you think that's a bit of a non-starter as well. 596 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,520 I mean, what do you think, Victor? 597 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:39,140 I think honestly, with Eric, I think Skid Row wants to do more touring than what he wants 598 00:43:39,140 --> 00:43:42,040 to tour. 599 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:47,560 Let's remember he really I mean, he was in. 600 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:48,560 In what band? 601 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,960 He was in Heat and. 602 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,960 How much does Heat tour? 603 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,480 Maybe a month a year, maybe two months a year. 604 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:03,540 Skid Row's a band that's probably looking to tour 10 months out of the year. 605 00:44:03,540 --> 00:44:07,340 And I'm not saying that it isn't because of his health. 606 00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:12,760 But I think that he probably doesn't want to tour as much. 607 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,280 Also his videos have been taking off online. 608 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,560 How much money is he making for those doing those covers online? 609 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,880 Maybe he's making as much money as he is within Skid Row. 610 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:30,160 And he's saying, why am I going to tour if I can record this at home and make as much 611 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,160 money? 612 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:39,680 Also, I can see him having a deal with the frontiers or somebody like that in place. 613 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:44,200 Where he isn't going to have to tour. 614 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:50,400 And he could become the next Ronnie Romero and be the voice of like seven projects a 615 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,400 year. 616 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,720 I don't know. 617 00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:55,320 I'm speculating there. 618 00:44:55,320 --> 00:45:00,040 I don't see Sebastian coming back at all. 619 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,080 I think that he's burnt too many bridges. 620 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,080 It doesn't. 621 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:06,080 I've said this. 622 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,840 There are people that are delusional saying, oh, they'll start playing stadiums. 623 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,080 Yeah. 624 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:12,080 Opening for what? 625 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,000 For Motley Crue and Def Leppard. 626 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:21,040 Them on their own or not, Sebastian coming back to Skid Row is not moving the needle 627 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:25,120 for the casual fan. 628 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:32,600 They're an opening act on a stadium tour. 629 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:39,360 Mid card, maybe they're touring theaters on their own. 630 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,520 They're part of a package deal for summer festivals. 631 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:44,800 They're not. 632 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:50,760 I mean, and let's be honest, did the album with Eric sell a lot? 633 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,880 Probably not. 634 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:59,080 Their producer on that album was Nick Rascalinix, if I'm not mistaken, who has worked a lot 635 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,760 with Hailstorm. 636 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:06,520 That's one of the things that that's been talked about that he's he's not doing this 637 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,480 new album that they're working on. 638 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:19,160 But I still think that he somehow is the connection that got Lizzie into that band. 639 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:25,720 She's come out and said that she's not singing with Skid Row just to do four shows, that 640 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:30,360 she's going to do a lot more shows than that. 641 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,760 OK. 642 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:37,120 Does that mean that she records an album with them? 643 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:45,720 Does that mean that she's got no problem doing double duty with both bands? 644 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:53,640 Hailstorm is probably a bigger band at the moment than Skid Row is. 645 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,280 But is this something that she's saying that she's a huge fan? 646 00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,720 So does that play into it? 647 00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:06,440 And that makes her want to do, you know, maybe not do 10 months of touring with Skid Row. 648 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:11,520 But maybe Skid Row is good with her doing four months of touring. 649 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,520 I don't know. 650 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:14,680 That's something we'll have to see. 651 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,760 I don't see Sebastian ever going back to that band. 652 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,120 No, I can't say it really. 653 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:26,640 He's said too much stupid shit over the years and every time that they've come close. 654 00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,560 He's given the band another reason to not. 655 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,160 Want to have him come back. 656 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,760 So I just can't see it. 657 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:45,720 A new single from Accept and we've we've heard what, three songs off of this new album so 658 00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:48,640 far? 659 00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:49,640 I think two. 660 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:50,640 I've heard two anyway. 661 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:51,640 But yeah, OK. 662 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:52,640 Yeah. 663 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:56,920 What are your impressions so far? 664 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,320 Sounds like Accept. 665 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,600 It sounds like everything they've done in the last six, seven, eight years or whatever. 666 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:10,720 Listen, Accept are a great band, they come up with great riffs, they keep a solid level 667 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:13,760 of performance, but we know what they're going to do. 668 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:19,520 They're not going to change the rules. 669 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,480 They stick to the script and it's a good song. 670 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,320 It's a good song. 671 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:28,320 Is it a fantastic song? 672 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,320 I don't know yet. 673 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,280 I'll have to, you know, I need to hear the whole album in its entirety. 674 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,560 But the last few albums I've really liked, they're very listenable. 675 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:42,240 I play them, but I don't think they're, you know, the greatest albums I've ever heard. 676 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:48,000 And maybe, yeah, they keep up the level of performance that you expect from the band 677 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,000 like that. 678 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:54,240 And that's as good as you can expect to this part of their career, I guess. 679 00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:58,760 Yeah, it's good. 680 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:04,560 Is there anything that they've released compared to Firepower and Invincible Shield? 681 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,280 Oh, yeah, well, exactly. 682 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:14,120 I mean, yeah, I think the new Judas Priest is better, definitely, for me. 683 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,600 You know, I'd rather listen to Priest more. 684 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,040 But that shouldn't detract from a band like Accept because they have a different style 685 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:25,640 of music as well, the way they play and what they do. 686 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,440 And I think they do it, they still do it well. 687 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:28,880 They produce it well. 688 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,160 They don't make stinkers, you know, they don't make something you think, oh, my God, what 689 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,160 have they done? 690 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,880 You know, it's always a seven out of ten. 691 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,120 And I think there's always room for that. 692 00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,680 I mean, Udo does the same, really. 693 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:47,520 I mean, he's split away from Accept and is still doing the same sort of stuff. 694 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:48,840 And you know, it's all listenable. 695 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,480 And we've got, you know, there are fans out there. 696 00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:57,000 We know certain fans out there who like Udo, so we don't want to upset them. 697 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:01,120 But yeah, it's. 698 00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:02,120 They're a good band. 699 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:03,120 I'd like to see Accept live. 700 00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,160 I'd like to see them play this sort of stuff live. 701 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:09,880 And I'd like to hear the whole album because you do need to hear everything. 702 00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,560 Yeah, agreed. 703 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,720 My biggest thing, and we talked about this a few months ago when talking about Primal 704 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:22,120 Fear. 705 00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:28,560 And I think the last Primal Fear album was OK, whereas I think the previous two were 706 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,360 really, really strong. 707 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:36,520 I think Accept has kind of found that as well, where some of the albums with Mark on vocals 708 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,960 are really good and others are OK. 709 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,340 It's kind of more of the same. 710 00:50:40,340 --> 00:50:41,340 It's not bad. 711 00:50:41,340 --> 00:50:46,600 It's not a stinker, as you mentioned, but it's kind of not up to par with some of the 712 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,720 stronger ones that they've released with him. 713 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:55,800 So, yeah, I want to hear the whole thing and I'm holding out hope that it'll be good. 714 00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:00,760 Let's see Leonard Skinner kicking around possibly a new album. 715 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:07,360 Ricky Medlock has has said this, and it's interesting because aren't they hanging it 716 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:08,360 up? 717 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:09,360 Aren't they going to stop touring? 718 00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:16,840 And, you know, the remaining Vans and has kind of said he's he's done with everything. 719 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,280 So it's it'll be interesting to see. 720 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:25,040 Well, you know, do you want another album from them? 721 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,720 Strange thing is, they released an album and I can't remember when they released it now. 722 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:33,320 I think it's quite a number of years ago and I really, really enjoyed that album. 723 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,720 I thought it was good. 724 00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:39,440 I can't remember the name of it and I can't remember the year it was produced. 725 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,160 We'll think of it in a minute. 726 00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:47,400 But when I played it, I actually really liked it, I thought it was great. 727 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:52,280 And so, yeah, I'm kind of looking forward to a new album by them because I think if 728 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:56,760 they keep up that, you know, what they did then and produce something similar, I think 729 00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:57,760 it'd be good. 730 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,880 I've always liked a bit that, you know, like their music, regardless of who's in the band, 731 00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:06,960 obviously, it's a very different band to what it's set out in the first place. 732 00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:11,480 But I thought, yeah, it was a sort of nice, rocky, southern rock band, you know, rock 733 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,800 music that I really, really enjoyed. 734 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:17,360 You got the name of it there? 735 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:18,360 Yeah. 736 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:19,360 Last of a Dying Breed. 737 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:20,360 It came out in August of 2012. 738 00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:21,360 Well, there you go. 739 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:22,360 That's why I can't remember it. 740 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:23,360 It's a long time ago, that. 741 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:24,360 A long time. 742 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:25,360 Yeah, yeah. 743 00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:26,360 Excellent album. 744 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,360 If you've never heard it, really good. 745 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,360 I like it a lot. 746 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:35,360 But the first, the opening track was really good on it from what I remember. 747 00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,760 That was really good on it from what I remember as well. 748 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,440 Yeah, I liked it. 749 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,600 So yeah, the answer to your question is I would like to hear new music by them if they 750 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,120 want to do it, because I think it's worth a listen. 751 00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,840 They've got a little place in rock music, you know, that's their own, isn't it? 752 00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,200 They've got that little niche. 753 00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,800 And I like Ricky Medlock, you know, I always like Blackfoot. 754 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,360 So yeah, let's hear it. 755 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:00,360 Excellent. 756 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:07,000 Last question that you sent me was regarding bands farewell, specifically the Foreigner 757 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,000 Farewell. 758 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:14,960 The interesting thing with this, similar to Scorpions and many other bands that have said 759 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:20,640 that, this farewell tour supposed to last like three or four years. 760 00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:28,120 Because Jeff Pilsen had some knee issue and he's playing on a stool on stage and he's 761 00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:32,720 pretty much said, oh, you know, for the remainder of this year, I'm going to be sitting. 762 00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:35,520 But the tour still has like another three years left on it. 763 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,320 So by next year, I'll be standing again. 764 00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:45,080 Yeah, I mean, we've seen this many times with bands, but I mean, you know, some bands are 765 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,080 finishing and we've seen it with Kiss recently. 766 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,160 I think they sold all their music today, didn't they? 767 00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:55,240 There's a big splash on it for so many hundreds of millions of dollars or pounds. 768 00:53:55,240 --> 00:54:01,720 Yeah, I mean, Foreigner, obviously, you know, Mick can't play much anymore. 769 00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:04,320 I think he's got Parkinson's or something as well. 770 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,000 And, you know, he's clocking on 80 years old. 771 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:12,440 I saw him, you know, several years ago and he could only play three or four songs of 772 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,600 an encore. 773 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,760 Whether bands will carry on without their original members is another question. 774 00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,640 But a lot of these bands now are going to fade away. 775 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:26,840 You know, eventually we're going to have to get used to Iron Maiden fading away in Metallica. 776 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,120 But, you know, Metallica are a little bit younger. 777 00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:34,000 Obviously they're our age as opposed to 70 or 80. 778 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,840 And it's just a sad matter of fact, they're all going to have to eventually end. 779 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:44,600 I mean, fortunately, if you like Motley Crue, you know, they've carried on beyond the time 780 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,600 they said they would finish. 781 00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,560 But you know, the band splitting, all these bands split apart. 782 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,280 You know, some of the members don't want to play. 783 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,600 They're final tours or carry on. 784 00:54:54,600 --> 00:55:00,400 And that's the way the world I've seen for in a live, they're fantastic live. 785 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,400 I really like them. 786 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,440 And it's sad, but they're going to have to go. 787 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,640 You know, they're going to have to go eventually. 788 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,560 I think the thing with Metallica, though, and if you listen to their Metallica Report 789 00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:19,600 podcast, they talk about this, that they put a lot of money into restructuring how they 790 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,360 tour. 791 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:30,720 So they're only playing two shows a week and they're resting the rest of the rest of the 792 00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:32,360 week from from playing there. 793 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,440 I mean, there have been a few things here and there where they've strayed from that. 794 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,180 For the most part, they're only doing two shows a week. 795 00:55:40,180 --> 00:55:45,600 They're flying in and out on their own private jets. 796 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,560 They have doctors and masseuses on staff. 797 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,120 They you know, they have they've got the money. 798 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:58,360 They've got all these different accoutrements to make sure that their tour continues to 799 00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,360 go. 800 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,840 I don't know how much longer they can do that. 801 00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:07,680 I think this has helped kind of extend their their career. 802 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:11,320 But that's the question, isn't it? 803 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:12,880 Because how old are they? 804 00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,200 They'll be about late 50, 60. 805 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:21,400 I think they're roughly around our age. 806 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:28,160 I think they're 60. 807 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,520 We shall find out the exact ages. 808 00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,160 Yeah, I just turned 50. 809 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:34,160 So they're OK. 810 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,480 So yeah, you're younger. 811 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,680 You can you can replace them. 812 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:44,360 But yeah, I think, you know, James is James is 60. 813 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:45,360 Yeah. 814 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,360 Yeah. 815 00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:47,360 Ours is 60. 816 00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:48,360 60. 817 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,360 Kirk is 61. 818 00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:52,920 OK. 819 00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:54,920 Yeah. 820 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,440 And Robert is 59. 821 00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:02,920 OK, so they're just turning 60, which is an age where you feel you can still do it when 822 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,280 they get to 70. 823 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:10,480 They're going to be struggling to play that sort of music fast. 824 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,360 Really struggling because it's not where they can slow it down to a just a general rock 825 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:22,080 band, a deep purple where they can play a little bit slower. 826 00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,840 Metallica are full on, aren't they? 827 00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,640 And that's going to be very, very difficult. 828 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:33,040 Very, very difficult at a later age, I think. 829 00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,720 What do you think the shelf life is? 830 00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,200 So 10 years, you think, Max? 831 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,280 For a band like them, yes. 832 00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:45,960 They aren't going to go on to the ages that the Rolling Stones are playing. 833 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,040 There's no way. 834 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,440 Not the physicality of what they do live on stage. 835 00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,080 They couldn't do it. 836 00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,600 So yeah, I think 10 years maximum. 837 00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:58,600 Yeah. 838 00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,360 And that's even taken into account the rest days that you're saying, because I know a 839 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:03,600 lot of bands are having rest days. 840 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,720 I've seen Judas Priest do rest days and in between that they do two nights on and one 841 00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,240 off, that sort of thing. 842 00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:19,040 Yeah, I think what will be interesting is because they also do tend to take time off 843 00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,120 between albums and tours. 844 00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:28,440 So they release albums every five, six years, if not. 845 00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:30,040 Yeah. 846 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:37,040 More space than that. 847 00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:46,240 Because that ultimately, you know, after after they're done with the 72 Seasons Tour, they've 848 00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:52,960 been off the road since November at the moment. 849 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:57,640 I think they're starting back up next month, not mistaken. 850 00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:58,640 So they have taken. 851 00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:05,340 I mean, if you look at that, they've taken half a year off already. 852 00:59:05,340 --> 00:59:09,040 I know that they've got things scheduled until the end of the year. 853 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:16,680 So they're really six months, so 20 some odd weeks. 854 00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:23,560 So they're doing 40 shows for all this year, whereas this band was doing like 300 shows 855 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:24,560 a year previously. 856 00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:29,480 You know, that's a huge change. 857 00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,520 You got to also bear in mind, it's a lot to do with people's health as well. 858 00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:39,840 And we know James has fallen out with a band many times over the years and has wanted to 859 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,080 do other things. 860 00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:45,360 He's got to be a different guy when he's 70 years old to what he is when he's 60 as well. 861 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:50,160 And I just feel that, you know, eventually either bands keep it going because it's a 862 00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:55,240 money spinner and they but you have to enjoy it. 863 00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:58,880 And we've heard Steve Harris and Iron Maiden saying, you know, he's not sure how long you'll 864 00:59:58,880 --> 00:59:59,880 be able to keep going. 865 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:04,160 I mean, at the moment he's keeping going. 866 01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:08,440 He's in his 60s now and, you know, maybe they'll have one more album in them. 867 01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:15,360 But is he going to want to tour the world, you know, when he's 70 years old and put in 868 01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,800 all that effort, you know, I don't know. 869 01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:23,800 We're talking about the most energetic metal bands, aren't we? 870 01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:27,360 We're not talking about the sort of rock bands that sort of, you know, can do a little bit 871 01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:34,800 of acoustic and a little bit of walking off the stage and, you know, nice and gentle. 872 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:40,660 Because I think we're going to see Hetfield. 873 01:00:40,660 --> 01:00:48,320 I think we'll see Hetfield eventually do some type of solo album and maybe an acoustic solo 874 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:49,320 album. 875 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:59,200 You know, so I could see something like that happening where Metallica goes away for like 876 01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:08,680 five years and James does a run as an acoustic artist, you know, or James and friends where 877 01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:14,560 it's James and Jerry Cantrell and, you know, some other like big name players going out 878 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:22,680 and doing, you know, sitting on a bunch of stools and playing acoustic versions of some 879 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:23,680 of their songs. 880 01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:29,800 I mean, he reworked Blackened to do like an acoustic version of that during COVID, if 881 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,200 you remember. 882 01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:38,120 I could see stuff like that where he's releasing an album that's more of in like a Johnny Cash 883 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,160 vein, you know. 884 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:46,720 So, I don't know, we'll have to see, but to your point, I would think Lars is the first 885 01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:53,240 one to kind of drop out because of the physicality of his playing, although he's saying, much 886 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:58,600 to some people, chagrin that for the last two years, he's been practicing a lot to try 887 01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,080 to keep up physically. 888 01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,160 So, so we'll see. 889 01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:09,520 We'll see how long that roller coaster, how long that ride keeps going. 890 01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:10,520 Yeah. 891 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,600 Enjoying while they're here, folks, because that's what you need to do. 892 01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:15,600 Awesome. 893 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:21,720 Jeremy, I do want to thank you for joining me once again for this review. 894 01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:32,080 And let's talk about April sometime in May. 895 01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:37,020 Thank you to everyone who's watching this or listening to this. 896 01:02:37,020 --> 01:02:38,240 Thank you a bunch. 897 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:43,800 Go to signalsfromars.com for all your one stop 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