Welcome one and all to episode 382 of Signals from Mars. This is Victor and for this episode
we bring you the April albums review. Jeremy Weltman and myself will be going over some
albums that stood out to us during the month of April and help you from not being a lazy
listener and understanding that yes there's still good music coming out every week.
So I just said it the lazy listener I don't remember what I was recently reading where
someone was hey dude they're back remember their last album and it was something from
1989 for example first thing that came to mind was lazy listener alert. Yeah that's right
okay so I will always remember this when someone is there was a an announcement that Docken
was releasing a new album and someone say hey man remember their last album back for
the attack. Where have you been all these years? You know a lot of people today they
shit too seriously or whatever but that honestly bugs me come on man I'm a huge fan man I love
your last album and back for the attack was the most man and can I get an autograph? It's
like their last good album what? Last good album with the classic lineup last good album
with Don's voice last good album from a songwriting standpoint oh the last album before they broke
up and all this shit with up from the ashes and getting back together again and doing
this and doing that. So yes Jeremy and I do these episodes for that so that you guys are
in touch yeah I don't hit on all the releases and I'm going to be honest with you what I
cater to are labels that actually play nice with me provide me with promos from those
promos I post a lot of that stuff on my Patreon for people to sample and check out and then
if there are other big bands I you know I name them obviously because it would be stupid
for me not to but this is kind of a cross section there's some months where I can listen
to a lot of music and there's others where I can't listen to hardly anything. For this
albums review I'm going to be honest it took me a long time to be able to put time aside
and do it and once I did I just started listening to album after album after album it was very
cathartic it was very fun it's awesome listening to new music and being turned on to stuff
that can just be added to that menu to that soundtrack of your life so that it's not you
know oh man I've got a case of the Mondays man it's back to the same old same old listen
I'm not looking for any of this stuff to replace my favorites but hey every now and then you
want to listen to something different you don't want to listen to comfortably numb for
the eight billionth time so whoo so yeah so we're trying to do homework for you these
are your cliff notes I do want to send a shout out to all my patrons thank you so much for
all of your support and putting up for my zaniness and nuttiness on Patreon from videos
to the VMR podcast to questions and different interactions that we do on there it is fun
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anyway thank you so much for listening to this share it with your friends let us know
what albums we missed what albums you enjoyed and which of these albums we turned you on
to it's all part of the deal thanks so much once again and let's get on with the show
welcome one and all to the May 17th edition of signals from Mars I am joined by the illustrious
Jeremy Weltman we are back for another monthly albums review this is the first time we've
been able to sync up to talk about April releases Jeremy how are you sir yeah I'm doing really
well Victor thank you really nice weather here in the UK at the moment so really enjoying
that how are you doing doing good our weather isn't as nice as it is a little rainy but
is what it is we'll have to live with it and just kind of power on anyway there's plenty
of good music to keep it bright and shiny on the inside so there you go all right so
for those that don't know we recap some releases that have come out in the past month the previous
month I should say Jeremy and I will discuss some highlights and some that stood out to
us and pick our favorites for the week going back to April 5th we had new releases from
the Black Keys with Ohio players Corpo Klani with something Finnish ingested blacktop mojo
Cobra page with her solo debut filth austere alpha wolf alpha wolf excuse me proto sequence
era disbelief the Neptune power federation temple of the fuzz which atomic dogs white
dog planet on a chain iron monkey friends of hell funeral leech EPs from Chief State
and Jason Blake featuring I can open this featuring Ralph Wenroth Brown reissues and
a reissue from five finger death punch it's essentially the afterlife deluxe edition all
right Jeremy what are some of the albums that you listen to and which one stood out
for you this week yeah so bear with me because April the fifth I had quite a chocker week
compared to the others so I had to listen to the debut album from atomic kings this
band is obviously from Phoenix Arizona they include the former Badlands bassist Greg Chasson
or Chasson however you want to pronounce it real sort of good time laid back rock and
roll this album sort of had tinges of Aerosmith black crows Stevie Ray Vaughan that sort of
stuff very much just 70s more than an 80s vibe on this and for the most part I thought
it was very good too you know very listenable effort it was nicely mixed it was produced
on you know fairly lean budget with all sort of 70s extras you'd expect there was even
a blues harp solo on there on the opening track and you know occasionally some harmonized
backing vocals on there so yeah I really I quite enjoyed that one I also tried out another
70s feel album double dog dare by white dog that was okay but it wasn't quite as good
as the the previous one the atomic king's one so I moved on and I listened to the punky
thrash sounds of culture of death by the fabulously titled band planet on a chain a lot of sort
of shouty angst on this it all sounded a bit samey but it you know it had its moments you
know band that would kind of fill a small pub with a big sound that's the sort of the
way I'd describe them and the same could be said as well for spleen and goad by the British
sludge metal band iron monkey some good songs on this I really like rat flag which was you
know quite an interesting song so yeah there was some good good music around and then I
moved on to the doom laden effort by temple of the fuzz which called apotheosis that was
on ripple music and apparently it's their third album so I went back and listened to
their earlier stuff as well and I noticed there's some real changes in production on
each one and for me I think they finally got it right with this one I think there was you
know they got the echo right on it they they had the brooding tones right on this lots
of sort of black Sabbath style riffing not least on the album closer ashes which I enjoyed
and there was a nice mix of the sort of clear and growly vocals on it so it all kind of
worked for me I you know I really liked it quite a bit and that was my album of the week
okay cool I listened to a bunch of different things I listened to the black keys album
which was all right it was pretty much in line with everything that they've released
in the past listen to the blacktop mojo album pollen which was kind of over polish kind
of too radio friendly for me kind of expecting something else alpha wolf which is kind of
in line with other stuff that they've released for me the album of the week though is the
very Genti era with cure I posted a few videos on on the patreon page and yeah I mean there's
aspects of this that are very in line with a lot of more modern metal bands but it's
got some melodies and different things that really stood out to me and had some earwormy
type courses there that got stuck in my head so that's my pick for April 5th so cool let's
move on to the second week of April April the 12th we had new releases from set your
sales vulture tear I guess well this is French tonnerie tonnerre I don't know how you pronounce
that I didn't take French um tarot eminence make sure king zebra blue oyster cult the
running gag riot v which you know did not come out this day about us Belmont the vision
bleak heavy temple Jacob castle I guess pronounced Necrot nest EPs from North lane grey haven
Tina Fey mutual mutually asserted destruction and let's see there's a reissue by I may have
this wrong I believe I do attacker the god particle I don't believe this is a reissue
be a new album folks yeah I think it is a new album it is a new album so I totally screwed
this up and had I realized this I would have listened to this album because the videos
that I have posted really kind of stood out to me let's see and there's a compilation
from Lincoln Park paper cuts singles collection 2002-2023 and a live album from Johnny thunders
cos cosanostra live at the mud club Gothenburg 1983 so Jeremy what did you listen to this
time around yeah this was an interesting week I mean I started listening to ghost stories
the the latest and probably the last album from bluest occult a collection of sort previously
unreleased material this one it even included a cover of kick out the jams it sounds a little
bit dated to be honest it's all begs the question as to why these tracks weren't released in
the first place you know they they released them much later in their career just as a
you know to bring out another album I mean it's not bad but it's sort of you know highlights
the variety of songs that the bands the band has done over the years but it'll only appeal
to the completist BoC fans are there I think and it's certainly not a patch on the symbol
remains which I thought was a really cracking album the new songs they brought out in 2020
so yeah I moved on to the riot v album mean streets the successor band to riot of course
and you know I haven't listened to much to riot since the 1980s I know that might sound
strange because if you know they've released a lot of albums so I came to this one with
fairly fresh ears and you know it's sort of it's got nice sort of power metal tones to
it a little bit at shades of man o' war on there notably on the opening track hail to
the warriors which I kind of liked I really like the mix and production on this you know
it's it's a sort of metal I like it you know the guitars really attack they drive the songs
along you know they've sort of got nice mix of melody in there as well they've even got
a Judas Priest style riff on love beyond the grave so overall I liked it you know quite
a bit even though it's a little bit tongue-in-cheek in parts but I didn't pick it's my album
of the week and I could have it was you know it was one that was in the running for it
but I picked the really great hard rocking album from the Swiss band King Zebra between
the shadows on on frontiers I mean there's maybe nothing very original on this and a
lot of bands are like that nowadays you know it's just a very good classic rock listen
it's very polished production you can hear all the instruments there's a really great
vocal from Eric St. Michael's you know this guy would have been a big star in the 80s
for sure you know he's got that sort of persona he's got that voice and there's some real
great riffs on here some really super youthful energy and it's topped off with a good deal
of class as well so you know King Zebra is my album of the week check it out.
Cool I want to send a quick hello to Chris Szynsak from Despo Geek who's joining us
in the chat saying for once available to watch happiest of Fridays to you and to you sir
glad that you're here with us and he seems to agree with the blacktop mojo assessment
all right cool so I listened to vultures sentinels that's out on metal blade if you're a fan
of merciful fate King Diamond that probably right up your alley the tear album battle
him or battle him yeah speaking of man o' war battle ballads yeah this takes me back
to listening to a band of this ilk and or hammer fall or anything like this and it just
makes me listen to some early Halloween I will say this this album is sounds great
the production sounds really good the guitars are thick heavy they're tuned flat so it's
got that to it which makes it sound really cool just not my thing.
It's a shame I would have listened to the attacker album I did get to listen to the
North Lane album because some of the North Lane stuff is although it's modern it does
have again similar what I mentioned about the era album it's got some melody and stuff
to it but this EP really did not.
My pick of the week is from an Australian band called Tarot the album is called the
glimpse of the dawn this is a band that had gone away for quite some time this is their
first album in quite a long time and it's a real throwback to early 80s new wave of
British heavy metal sounding music and it's produced in that vein so if you're into that
sort of hard rock heavy metal I would say check out glimpse of the dawn by Tarot so
cool let's see moving forward to the 19th listen to a lot of stuff from the 19th had
new albums that's good because I didn't saw new albums from Pearl Jam my dying bride high
on fire the Melvins no effects Billy Morrison praying mantis Don Jameson Vanden Plas the
ghost inside dune blaze of perdition blood bound actually listen to the blood bound I
didn't mark that off let's see light worker day seeker bounce of power adder tomorrow's
rain for Schwann's I guess this is pronounced Noctura Vera Calpa cloud nothing's see you
space cowboy thief dual quantum the outfit Johnny nasty boots Martin Haworth satanic
north a tray billis and EPs from unpeople and son of rah and actually compilation from
moon spell so you listen to two albums which two did you listen to and which was your pick
yeah I just like say that Johnny nasty boots I mean I really need to go back and listen
to that because I hope I like it because I'd love to have a t-shirt with that on yeah it
was that was well the reason the reason I didn't listen to very much I was on holiday
and I didn't take my headphones away I ended up sitting on the beach I have my phone and
I was flicking through and then I was looking around for my headphones and I realized I
left them at home and I was mad absolutely livid so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go
straight to the album of the week because it's a really good one it's defiance by the
UK band praying mantis and just like the Lionheart album which I reviewed the previous month
it's a really fine collection of melodic hard rock I've listened to this quite a few times
actually it's a long time since I've heard this band I mean I haven't really sort of
followed them you know over the years I pretty much ignored them since the 1980s when they
first came out and I remember them when they did and I think I need to hear some more of
their music because this is their 13th studio album and as with the Lionheart album they
really try to write sort of listener friendly pop rock sort of earworms they're very successful
at it as well but similar to Lionheart they they seem to get it right Dutch singer John
Kuypers you know has a really good voice for the band as well and if at times they sound
a little bit like Europe it's it's not to their detriment you know they they pull it
off quite well there's even a version of the Ross Ballard song I surrender which of course
you're familiar with from Rainbow I didn't realise but the band actually recorded I surrender
for the debut album but they were actually not allowed to release it back in the day
or there was presumably there's a lot of contractual obligations and Rainbow decided to go forwards
with it and they were stopped from doing that maybe you know if they had released it back
in the day maybe they'd have been a slightly bigger band than they were so I would suggest
just go and listen to it it's a really good melodic rock band and a good melodic rock
album Prey Mantis Defiance great album.
Cool. So I listened to quite a few albums on here or that came out this week I listened
to Pearl Jam's Dark Matter probably their best album best overall album since Versus
in my opinion more up my stream I would say or something that's up my alley or however
you want to say it but still just didn't didn't hit home for me my my Dying Bride was okay
Immortal Binding similar to what you said before with with a few other albums just kind
of same Z doom metal listen the first song is really really good which is one of the
singles that I posted on Patreon it's really cool but nothing else kind of equals it after
it's all kind of same Z High on Fire the Cometh Cometh the Storm High on Fire is a band that
I either really love or really bores me there's always one really great song off of the album
it's usually the first cut on the album and True to Form that's exactly how it was not
a bad album but if you've listened to them before you've heard it all before the Melvins
Tarantula Heart similar to what I just said about High on Fire I either absolutely love
their music or it loses me first song is great got some really cool melodies and then you're
14 minutes in and realize wait a second this is still the same song it's all over the place
as is the entire album I mean I know that they have a lot of diehard fans I don't want
to piss anyone off I can take it in small doses small doses Jesus tongue-tied Billy
Morrison the Morrison project was really looking forward to this this has to have the long
lost Ozzy tracks that Mark once talked to Steve Stevens about because there are several
tracks with Steve Stevens Billy Morrison there's at least one with Ozzy on here which the single
has already come out I like the album it is all over the place that's not a bad thing
there's a lot of different people contributing to this what else that I was to a list of
the blood bound details of Nosferatu it's power metal basically this is this is a hard
week for me to pick from there's a lot of stuff that I list to there's a lot of stuff
that came out man I'm gonna have to give the nod to the Billy Morrison because I think
it's gonna be what I'll end up listening to the most it's I mean there's nothing that's
really original but I could see myself listening to it more and more and wow I'm just realizing
that with the 26th I did the opposite of you Jeremy oh no not true I just didn't write
down what I did listen to all right here we go anyway new albums from except humanoid
deicide dark throne black tusk Lee Aaron enter Alma darkness not the darkness but darkness
something that you found out about oh you I don't know how it's pronounced they they're
a Chinese band part party cannon six by six Vesperian sorrow pentagram chili disbelief
Amy and so I don't know if I'm pronounced that correctly art microwave jolly Jackers
EP from wretched blessed live albums from transatlantic and tigers of pantang and reissues
from deaf leopard pyromaniac expanded edition I'm surprised that Phil Collins didn't have
them include songs off of hysteria on it disillusion and the compilation from wasted won't get
out alive wasted volume one eighty three through eighty six now before hold on before we jump
to going through this list how many years was wasted around not that many eighty three
to ninety maybe yeah I had a push yeah are we expecting a volume two which will cover
eighty seven through ninety the the Danny Vaughn years before we went and formed taiketa
the code even be a volume three there yeah wild all right I know that we both listened
to one of these albums but I don't want to put the cart before the horse here what did
you listen to Jeremy yeah I'm kind of wishing I listened to this way see because it you
know be quite interested to go back and listen to some of the old stuff and I did actually
give a quick listen to pyromania but then I found out there was exactly the same as
I remember it so there wasn't anything new really for me I mean obviously they put on
some extras but they hadn't really re-recorded or anything so it was the same old album but
it was it's it's a good album so I'm not knocking it but you know as far as new albums
are concerned I listened a little bit to the way forward by black tusk the American Sludge
Metal Act that really you know one or two songs in and I'm thinking well I've had enough
of this by now it's not my kind of thing to listen to that all the time it was okay but
a special mention goes to live blood by the you know the Whitley Bay born new album come
melodic rock stalwarts tigers are pantang you know I remember listening to them back
in the day as soon as they started obviously John Sykes was in there for a while where
is John Sykes we'd love to hear from him please phone in now on this number which see
yeah it what this album by them by the way is is is mostly sort of 1980s tigers tunes
which was quite interesting by the present lineup so you get some sort of updated old
songs and a bit of feel for what the tigers gigs are like now but playing all the old
tracks so I think it was good but I think it lost a little bit of what the original
magic of tigers of pantang was you know that that harder edge was not there this sort of
the enthusiasm that they had from the original the original band so I'm not sure it's an
album that I'd listen to you know a huge amount and I think that they were missing John Deverell
as well the old singer who you know used to sing Paris by air and do it good and love
potion number nine and his voice was really missing off those tracks so it was a really
easy choice this week for my pick I mean the album the week is gonna have to go to the
17th studio album from the Teutonic Rockers except they're six now with Mark Tornio on
vocals I mean what you get is you know it's a very typical except offering the usual riffs
you know the recognizable vocal sound the same quality production you know what you're
gonna get I mean probably overall it's a slightly better album than the previous one I think
and that's what I'll say to me today I quite enjoyed but I think I'm enjoying this one
a little bit more it's hardly breaking any new ground of course it's except what you
know you know what you're gonna get it's not on the level of stout Stalingrad but still
you know after a few listens it's consistency and you know it deserves to be album of the
week okay so I listened to humanoid as well and I think you summed it up very well I think
that it's probably their most solid album out of the last few that they've released
similar to what you said it's not as good as Stalingrad I think every album since Stalingrad
has kind of been a step behind Stalingrad but out of the last three four it's probably
their most consistent from beginning to end I'll say that the other album that I listened
to was six by six beyond shadow land it was a good album I even my younger son Adrian
says to me this isn't bad I like a few of the songs off of it so I'm sure that he's
already added them to one of his playlists but I think that this album has the yard metal
seal of approval more than likely just because of the vein that it's in this is a more or
less a supergroup with different components of people that have come from other frog bands
I believe one of the members is also I don't want to screw this up look up oh all right
so one of them you're pretty familiar with
why did I do that I had all the information in front of me all right this is right off
of their home page six by six feature featuring from saga guitarist Ian Critchton the Niall
Glocker powerhouse drummer for British metal masters saxon and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist
Robert Berry from three and alliance are pleased to announce the release of their sophomore
offering beyond shadowland so Robert Berry is the one that I'm thinking of working in
different progressive type outfits obviously Glocker is known for saxon the album runs
a lot of different gamuts of hard rock and has a real proggy feel to it it's on inside
out music so inside out specializes in prog rock you're listening to stuff that's very
much in line with other stuff that they're releasing on the label I wanted to mention
it just to give people another option to listen to but for me I will have to also say that
the accept is probably the album that sticks out to me the most for this week so cool Jeremy
and I do these shows to you know for as I say quote for the quote unquote lazy listeners
who say that there's no good music coming out there's always good music coming out and
this way when you put your year end pulled together and submit it to signals from Mars
we've helped you do some of the homework you can go back and listen to these individual
episodes they're listed right there on the home page and you can go month by month by
the end of the year you'll have 12 episodes to listen to and maybe even want to go back
further and say hey did I miss out on any albums from last year got you covered we've
got those there as well so we've also got you covered for the summer months Jeremy
is wearing a signals from Mars cap if you've been privy to me trying to sell our wares
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the Brad bucket hat last week in our household we have received the new distressed classic
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all of the design that mr. Anthony Mackie has put together for us we're still awaiting
the distressed women's premium v-neck t-shirt but if you're interested we've also got the
classic t-shirt we've got the classic hoodie I've got that one too that comes out in the
winter I've got the hoodie and the classic tea my wife did say about her hoodie that
it is quite warm so that is the going comment it is quite soft and quite warm yeah that's
nice nice quality yeah got the windbreaker jacket we've got the bomber jacket and we've
also got the beanie which hey maybe somebody wants to wear a beanie or maybe they're in
the southern half of the world where winter is approaching or winter is coming or just
bald or just bald I want one of these and you need a hat I've got a friend of mine who
he's never without his woolly hat for that reason and yeah there's a small kickback for
each one of these pieces of merch which helps fund stuff here and it all adds up anyway
we're gonna talk about some questions Jeremy's always great at coming up with different questions
and different things so we've got three things that he's thrown my way and I'm sure that
there are others that will come up along the way as well so number one we were just talking
about accept Wolf Hoffman responds to Peter Balz comments that accept albums started to
sound the same what do you think about that hmm well I think he's got a he's got a fair
point I think the last three four five albums by accept do sound very similar you know you
could put particularly the last three albums I think you could mix them up and you could
you could put various songs on each album and you're listening to pretty much the same
album that doesn't mean to say though that they're bad albums as we've already mentioned
you know the the current album we really like we think it's better than the previous album
so they they've got great songwriting but they just sound similar and I don't think
that's a huge problem and a lot of bands need their signature sound I think we'd all probably
be pleased if Iron Maiden went back to their 80s sound and played a lot of the music that
they used to play then on a new album right they have actually branched out and plays
sort of more proggy stuff and longer tracks and we're not so happy with that side of things
so you know it's not a bad thing that they sound the same and I think the argument in
the article was also that he has left the band so they often say that when they've left
the band it's a kind of passing remark and I guess there is a little bit of that to it
as well but he's got a point you know yeah I don't think that the blabbermouth server
is down once again I think Peter is being honest as you say there's there's nothing
wrong with with that but yeah the everything from Stahl and Gratt onwards has kind of
a connection they they all sound pretty much the same and listen they're catering to their
audience there are so many other bands that do the same thing so it's not unique to them
it works for them if that's what Wolf Hoffman chooses to do then so be it it's his band
number two man I forgot to wear my Def Leppard t-shirt I'm wearing an anthrax t-shirt a volume
eight t-shirt if anyone is interested anyway so Joe Elliott has come out and just to sum
up his quotes Def Leppard aren't metal and only two new wave of British heavy metal bands
made it take this in parts so he said this during his recent appearance with Rack and
Tours with Gary Kemp and Guy Fratt so he says I have an issue with the term heavy metal
because everybody outside of rock always thinks if you're a heavy metal band it's like bad
news you get this impression that everybody's a moron okay ACDC were a blues rock band UFO
and Thin Lizzy were not heavy metal Motorhead even they had a blues influence to them Queen
were never a heavy metal band but they had a few they had a couple of heavy metal songs
thanks to Brian May and I think we we were pretty much in the same way it was rock absolutely
heavy rock for sure okay if you listen to our first EP from 1979 there's a song called
Ride into the Sun which was a pop song then you have get your rocks off was a full-on
rock song if we're heavy metal then so are the Rolling Stones because it's two guitars
bass drums and the singer it's a silly silly term I like rock when you start pigeonholing
it gets on my tits and to be quite honest because can't we just all can't we just all
be just a rock band or a pop band or both now four years ago he mentioned where is this
when he was let's see address the fact that Def Leppard's debut single get your rocks
off on the band's own label helped kickstart the whole new wave British heavy metal movement
while a handful of new album or no album bands most notably Def Leppard and Iron Maiden achieved
global success most of the genre genre has been considered relatively obscure ironically
thrash the more extreme metal subgenre that was directly influenced by no album wound
up having more commercial appeal and staying power okay so he told you discover music even
after all these years the British media still try to lump us in with no album whereas the
American metal or the American media still try to pigeonhole us as a hair metal band
but none of that has ever stuck because we became established as a standalone band the
fact of the matter is only two bands of note survived in a wobble tag that's us and Iron
Maiden we're vastly different bands Def Leppard were where we are now playing stadiums and
beyond and inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame because of who we are rather
than because of we were part of a movement in 19 2005 he said we've had this argument
many times if you put Lemmy Scott Ian and Ronnie James Dio in a room and say heavy metal
Def Leppard discuss it all burst out laughing but at the same time you can take pink and
Christina Aguilera and say Def Leppard pop music they do the same thing I don't know
where we stand I don't think we ever believed we were metal band I think Iron Maiden were
a metal band and a very good one we're a rock band and it goes on to say lumping us with
Iron Maiden was as ridiculous as lumping us with Depeche Mode and we've spent 20 odd years
trying to tell the whole world that we're not a British heavy metal band now if people
finally hear the songs that influenced us they might finally get the picture anyway
all right needless to say they covered personal Jesus by Depeche Mode so his argument is beyond
stupid on various of these points the only asshole that seems to have a problem with
the word heavy metal is Robert Plant since because all of these people still look up
to Robert Plant and rightfully so to a certain extent Joe Elliott seems to think that heavy
metal is a bad term on through the night high and dry and power mania have more to do with
influencing bands like Armored Saint like Metallica I think if you ask Scotty and he's
gonna tell you that the first few Def Leppard albums maybe hard rock not heavy not full-on
metal could be considered heavy metal I think he would say that they were influential to
a lot of bands that were doing what they do or what they did in the early 80s to say that
John Sykes era thin Lizzy was not heavy metal is beyond stupid and it is showing how out
of touch he is did Def Leppard with hysteria not poof out their hair dye their hair blonde
wear eyeliner wear ripped jeans like all the bands from Hollywood were doing I mean so
much shit that they were doing can be thought up as hair metal things that they were doing
could be grouped in with new album to say that they were them and Iron Maiden are the
only ones to make it is having a huge set of balls having a tremendous ego and being
lost within your own ego is sax in a band that no one has heard of some people group
Priest and Motorhead in the new wave of British heavy metal are the did those bands not make
it I mean Joe Joe Elliott is has such a desire to be loved to be considered pop music and
for as much as he wants to say that no we're not pop no you're a pop rock band to say that
you group Pink and Christina Aguilera and ask them I don't know ask Taylor Swift you
recorded with her would she consider you more of a pop band or would she consider you more
of a metal band I would think she would lean more towards pop Jeremy what do you think
well just taking on the they're the only two bands that came out I'd agree with you about
sax and sax and were a big band around when they came out you know they had a lot of hit
singles then they had a bit of a lull they've never been as big as Leopard or Iron Maiden
but they've they've come back strongly and they're doing really well again and they've
got in the top 10 in the UK album charts recently with their latest album so I'd say that they've
been a big success from the new album era so to say just only two bands yeah okay on
you know record sales and you know seats in theatres yeah we know those two bands are
enormous but there's a lot of bands that have done well that Raven are doing quite well still
touring and producing albums and we all know the name Diamondhead did okay you know and
none of these bands were ever as big as Def Leopard but they all survived and they're all
well known and they're all producing great music so it's dissing even the smaller bands who are
you know still carving a trade out of it and doing well really because it can't all be you know mega
stars so that's a that's the first point and the the other point is I think Def Leopard have
changed you know they've changed a lot and they've carved out what they wanted to do they wanted to
become a commercial pop rock band they started off as a as a as an old school heavy metal band
because old school heavy metal was different to what heavy metal is now you know when we were
when we were kids in in the 1980s you know a lot of softer rock bands were called heavy metal
you know Iron Maiden were not as heavy as they could have been initially and Saxon and all these
bands they they produced commercial type music but it was all what we were classed as heavy metal
and I class Def Leopard in with them you know we all we all thought they were you know that they
were part of the new wave of British heavy metal and the albums that you mentioned are the ones
that you know you were classed as heavy metal High and Dry is a is a hard rocking heavy old school
heavy metal album there's no doubt about it but yes the band has changed and yes Joe Elliott's
completely right if he wants to say that they're not a metal band now that's fine we know they're
not they produce soft rock they produce a load of absolute shite if you're asking me but but they
used to be they used to be a really good band and they're still good live so I'm not knocking them
on two points but on the third point what they're producing on record is is terrible it's as bad as
Bon Jovi and you know those two bands were fantastic in their heyday so yeah that's fine
but he shouldn't diss heavy metal as a genre either because we all know there's one band out
there that is knocking Def Leopard off the planet at the moment it's Judas Priest they've just
released a fantastic album they're touring producing absolutely top-notch heavy metal British heavy
metal which is blowing away Def Leopard and I'm sorry there's a little bit of anger creeping in
here but it shouldn't be because you know I love the band I love all music and I love all bands but
you know you shouldn't really be dissing it you should be really associating with it in some way
he doesn't have to say that they are a you know a heavy metal band Def Leopard but he could be sort
of saying you know I appreciate that we were once and that you know we are lumped in with that sort
of group really. Yeah it's as if they're ashamed of that air of the band you know and it's dumb
because and it's what gets me all the time no Hysteria's are our most important album yeah
because it bought you cars and houses but which was the most influential which what's what are
people going to remember what are the you know and it's not that list of these aren't all of them but
I'll quickly go over this list on Wikipedia Black Rose Blitzkrieg Bronze Kromali Cloven Hoof Demon
who just released an album Diamondhead Deanna Dumpy's Rusty Nuts which I believe Mike Jones
brought up Girl Girl School Gog Magog Grand Prix Grim Reaper
Hell Holocaust Iron Maiden Jaguar Lionheart Mama's Boys
Motorhead is on here
Persian Risk Praying Mantis Quartz Raven
Samson Satan Savage Saxon Shy Sweet Savage Tank
Tokyo Blade Tigers of Pang Tang
Urchin
Tokyo Blade Tigers of Pang Tang Urchin Urchin is kind of underground but
Adrian Smith Band Vardis Venom White Spirit Witchfinder General
so yeah and there's and there's even more there's Fist and there's more and there's
Samson and there's you go on and on it's just yeah there's so many yeah so many of them.
So let's look at it this way who's sold more albums who's sold more tickets Iron Maiden or
Def Leppard and for him to say no we're playing stadiums yeah you're playing stadiums with three
or four other bands Def Leppard on their own is not playing stadiums they're playing amphitheaters
at the most so let's be honest they had the tour with Motley Crue and Poison to play stadiums last
year. Yeah there's a big reason for that as well is that the youngsters are into Iron Maiden but
they're not as into Def Leppard as they are Iron Maiden because they want that harder edge that's
why you see so many more kids going to to Iron Maiden concerts because it's edgy and it's got
that sort of you know independence feel that they like in a band and they like the imagery
and Def Leppard doesn't have that really so it's a bit Def Leppard really if you go to Def Leppard
concert over here in the UK it's all people my age you know it's a lot of a lot of 40 and 50
year old women going well and I'm assuming that in the states it's the same thing but at the end
at the end of the day you mentioned Priest there's another band out there that has no
issue saying that they're heavy metal Iron Maiden have no issue saying that they're heavy metal
Metallica have no issue saying that they're heavy metal
so who's selling more tickets who's who's selling more albums today
I've got my money on Metallica and they've they've never had an issue with saying that
they're heavy metal band they've never had to go out of their way to say we're not this we're not
that so and again if you're not a hair metal band well then Joe Elliott don't don't I mean
he's got the hairstyle of a grandmother I mean let's be honest you know yeah
the other thing is we know which Viv Campbell would rather be we really know
that surely I mean he he's he's playing on one string for Def Leppard surely and and for when
when he's playing you know when he's playing in the Dio stuff he's playing guitar he's he's
he's rocking out he's playing heavy metal he can't be enjoying it and Def Leppard
he's losing money he's paying to play as last in line he's just an employee in Def Leppard which
which allows him to do his hobby his love which is playing heavy metal
Steve Brown saved Def Leppard yes yes he saved Def Leppard he saved a single
Def Leppard he saved days and I'm sure he'll save Vinnie Vincent next
all right last point of the night new Deep Purple single and does the world still need Deep Purple
when my 11 year old comes rushing in the morning and says there's a new Deep Purple single out
they're coming out with a new album did you hear the song yet it's really good that's an 11 year
old saying it and I know that I am lucky to have that in my household all right I know that it's
far from the norm so it's exciting to me to see somebody so young want to hear new music from a
band like that and and I see him interpret things like he does ACDC like he does Iron Maiden like
he does other bands where maybe and with the ACDC I like the last album but there's other stuff that
maybe I'm not into but he's got fresh ears fresh eyes on it and it makes me appreciate some of it
more what did you think about the single yeah it's quite interesting because the last sort of
maybe 10 years worth of Deep Purple I couldn't name you a track that's a hit single there's no
commercial songs that they've released and not like the old era the smoke on the waters the woman
from Tokyo all that sort of stuff but they've they've done something that's very interesting
what they've done is and I remember reading about this I think Ian Gillan and maybe even Pace even
mentioned this they all come to the table and they've decided now that they'll just play what
they really enjoy playing and they'll see where it goes and you can really tell when you listen
to their albums the other thing is they seem to throw a lot of money into the production
and the production I think is really really good Ian Gillan's voice is sounding really good you
know it's really clear you've got that lovely keyboard sound very rich sound on the keyboards
I really like this single I think it's good I think it's very modern Deep Purple they've
gone in this new direction but they kept that sort of old set you know it's Deep Purple you've got
that the keyboards are there the vocal that is there it's got that sort of laid-back feel that
you know is a Deep Purple type track and they've obviously got a new new guitarist now Simon
McBride on this one and he seems to have knit into it and I'm really looking forward to listening
to the album because I think it's again like the Rolling Stones they you know the last album by
then was really good and I'm kind of thinking that they're so late in their career they're just
really enjoying playing music and coming up with you know classic sounding not classic sounding but
classy sounding tracks which you know and there'll be a nice mix on the album they
sort of do the odd bluesy one they do a little funky one it reminds me a little bit of do you
remember the album Future Shock by Gillan where he kind of went off on a tangent and he decided
to do what he wanted to do and it kind of worked the production on that wasn't very good but the
Bernie Tormey guitar in was fantastic and and he did all these really weird and odd sounding
tracks and they all came together and I think that's what Deep Purple are doing and if it
appeals to the young people I think that's brilliant you know if they all get into Deep
Purple and then they go back and listen to all the old stuff and say hey this is you know have
you heard Burn have you heard Stormbringer you know that that's fantastic for me so yeah they've got
a real place in music they're not going to be around forever could be another album or two
album and you know they're not going to last forever unfortunately but it's great to see them
and there's three original well not original members but three of the you know the members that go
back all the way one of them's an original so it's great and that's interesting because nobody is
saying oh they're just a tribute band have have you ever heard any Deep Purple fans say they're
just a tribute band no which is what so many people say about Judas Priest now oh they're
tribute band there's only one or Ian Hill is the only original yeah okay but
yeah okay but you know the the rest of the guys have done impressive things um Bob Ezrin has
produced this new album as well I'm wondering if Simon McBride being added to the mix has
added something in the studio with maybe there's a little bit more levity to it I don't know
uh but I think it's great that you know Priest, Deep Purple, The Stones as you mentioned some of
these bands so late in their career are just kind of saying fuck it we're just going to do what we
want to do and you know kind of don't care about that radio single or you know quite quite the
opposite of the Def Leppard mentality you know yeah um if if and I've said this a million times
they're never going to release another high and dry but if they sat down and just wrote a good
rock album they can't even claim to be a rock band because they're not releasing rock music
I mean it's to quote you utter shite yeah I mean yeah two or three songs on an album is okay
you know it's listenable but beyond that there's a lot of crap on it yeah um yeah we're we're
we're we're we're just a rock band yes sure you are um all right anyway I knew that the Def Leppard
uh portion of the show was going to get me going but uh yes just to remind everyone
Steve Brown saved Def Leppard he also wrote all of Ace's last album
don't let Ace know that uh anyway on that note I do want to thank you once again Jeremy for joining
me tonight I want to thank Mr. Synzac for joining us in the chat and anyone who's watching or
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