1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,440 Welcome everyone to episode 383 of Signals from Mars. 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,880 This is our May albums review. 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:17,160 This is where Jeremy Weltman and myself discuss new releases from the month of May 2024 that 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:23,940 stood out to us as things that were memorable, things that could make our year endless, things 5 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:26,640 to help the lazy listener. 6 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,680 Check out some new music. 7 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,800 These episodes are so much fun to do because Jeremy and I sit back and discuss various 8 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,280 albums that we've enjoyed and there are some months that are tough. 9 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:11,600 I mentioned this during the episode so I kind of don't want to repeat myself, but yeah, 10 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,200 there are some months like April. 11 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:15,560 April was difficult. 12 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:21,720 Some weeks there just was nothing there, you know. 13 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:28,760 So to have a month like May that had so many really, really good things to listen to, a 14 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:37,520 lot of things that meander between different styles of hard rock and metal, was just so 15 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,320 cool because there are so many different things that you can be turned on to, so many different 16 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:48,360 things that I could help turn you guys on to when it comes to music. 17 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,440 Jeremy and myself turn you guys on to. 18 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,680 How about that? 19 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,880 Because I try to approach this in a different way. 20 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,760 I try to not overlap with Jeremy. 21 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:04,000 Yeah, there are some things that I check out because it's bigger name things and I want 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,640 to give you my opinion as well. 23 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,440 And also I try to search out things that are kind of different. 24 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:17,440 We don't all like the same things and I think it just helps make the show, make our playlist, 25 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:25,480 make everything better if we're able to expand what we're both listening to. 26 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:30,960 I'm scheduling a bunch of different shows with patrons, with other people in the coming 27 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:31,960 weeks. 28 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:37,720 And so there are going to be a few shows where you're going to be hearing things that are 29 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,440 going to be prerecorded. 30 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,480 Not only interviews, but other subjects. 31 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,840 I hope that what I have in store for you guys for this summer will be something that you 32 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:56,440 guys enjoy, will be something that will cultivate music discussion with you, with your friends. 33 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,400 I understand that Patreon isn't for everyone. 34 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,000 I do want to send a shout out to my patrons. 35 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:11,920 I will name them all in a second, but I don't think it hurts anyone to go out and share 36 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:16,720 the episodes, talk about the subject matter that we're discussing. 37 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:18,280 That's what these shows are all about. 38 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,640 So thank you for listening. 39 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,440 And real quickly here, I just want to thank my patrons. 40 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,720 You can get into Patreon for as little as two bucks a month. 41 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,420 You could also do a PayPal donation or pick up merch. 42 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:37,200 But anyway, real quickly here, thank you goes out to Sean Richmond, Chris Sinczak of Despo 43 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:47,920 Geek podcast, Tony Espin, Anthony Mackey, Ed Ferguson, Johan Edestrom, Metal Dan, Jose 44 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:55,160 in Connecticut, Chris Vaglio from the Song Swap Showdown podcast, the Metal Dentist Gabriel, 45 00:03:55,160 --> 00:04:03,080 Dr. Poison himself, Brad Dahl from yargmetal.com, our Mike Jones who just celebrated a birthday. 46 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,880 Happy birthday, sir. 47 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:11,560 Here's to Jeremy Weltman who is featured on this episode, Steve Hoker and Stephen Saylor. 48 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,320 Guys, thank you so much for listening to this episode. 49 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,040 I know a lot of big name shows have started saying this, but I've been saying this for 50 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:20,160 a while. 51 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,760 I do appreciate all the support. 52 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,500 I do appreciate anyone that listens to this. 53 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:30,760 And I understand that there are a million other things you can be doing right now. 54 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,360 Other shows you can be listening to, other things you could be watching. 55 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,920 But you choose to spend some time with me and in this case with Jeremy. 56 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,920 And I appreciate that one million percent. 57 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,200 All right. 58 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,960 Thank you so much. 59 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,240 And this is a fun one. 60 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,760 It's a lot of music. 61 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:54,460 Hopefully it's going to put a dent in some people's wallets as you guys support some 62 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:56,840 of these bands. 63 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:57,840 Thanks again. 64 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,640 And here we go. 65 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:06,640 Let's get on with the episode. 66 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:36,080 Welcome, everyone, to the June 7th edition of Signals for Mars. 67 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,600 I'm your host, Victor. 68 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,680 Joining me is Jeremy. 69 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:40,680 How are you, sir? 70 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,680 Yeah, I think they're doing well. 71 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:45,680 Thanks. 72 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,000 As you can see, it's fairly sunny here. 73 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Still in the UK. 74 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,040 Don't know if you can still hear me because it's gone all black at my end. 75 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,920 Oh, it has. 76 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:56,920 OK. 77 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,000 Yeah, I can hear you perfectly. 78 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,560 It is just so you guys know, it is quarter to 11 at night on my end. 79 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,560 There's still some sunlight out, but not as much as on Jeremy's end. 80 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,280 He is an hour behind me. 81 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:16,360 We're going to talk about new releases from May 2024. 82 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:21,880 And the first thing I have to say is, man, what a month for music. 83 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,560 There was a lot of good music that came out this month. 84 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:32,900 And although maybe there were stronger releases that came out earlier this year, probably 85 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:39,560 top to bottom, this may be the most stacked month when it comes to music, because there's 86 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,800 just so much of it. 87 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:49,200 And as you pointed out to me off the air, there are five weeks worth of music to discuss 88 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,400 here. 89 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:58,200 So it's interesting because in April, I feel like maybe it was kind of a lull where some 90 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,560 weeks just really didn't have stuff that really jumped out. 91 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:09,400 And this every week, I think, has something that really stands out. 92 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:16,720 So it really made me want to listen to more and more until I kind of ran out of time getting 93 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,840 ready for the show. 94 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,160 All right. 95 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:30,440 So May 3rd, it's interesting because we're going to run into holidays in Europe and in 96 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:35,920 the US, which is going to give us some shorter, shorter weeks for releases. 97 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:45,960 May 3rd was one of them where we had new albums from Sound of Thunder FM, Doth, Hirschwanz, 98 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:55,200 Frank Turner, Goth Minister, POD, Wheel, Keith Wallen, Broom and Speed Limit. 99 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:04,760 We had a reissue from Imperial Triumphant and compilations from Mob Rules Celebration 100 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,920 Day 30 years of Mob Rules. 101 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:14,720 That's an interesting title for me because a lot of bands give you the, would have given 102 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,160 you Mob Rules greatest hits. 103 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,240 And you would think, well, you know, where are the hits? 104 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:27,560 Or you get a band that has volume one and it's like, wait a second. 105 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:38,560 By saying volume one, it makes you think that there may be more volumes coming. 106 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:46,280 Anyway, what stood out for you this first week? 107 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,280 Yeah. 108 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,080 So, well, I began the month listening to the Charismatic Leaders album by the prog metal 109 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,720 band Wheel from Finland. 110 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,040 Quite a short seven track offering that one. 111 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:02,080 I admit, I kind of knew nothing about them before, to be honest, but I quite enjoyed 112 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,080 it. 113 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,800 This is their third album apparently and since they sort of started in 2017 and overall, 114 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,520 I thought it was a fairly powerful album. 115 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,520 I think you need to sort of think sort of its ever grey in parts, but with a sort of 116 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:22,200 nice rich sound, lots of melody, very good production on it, very clear sound. 117 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,680 The only drawback is that these kind of songs can kind of overstay their welcome a bit. 118 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:32,000 And that's true, I think, on the nine and a half minutes track submission as it is on 119 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,720 the follow up saboteur racking up another nine minutes. 120 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,080 So I toss that one aside a little, it's not my album of the week. 121 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,320 I followed that with Thunderhood by Sons of Thunder. 122 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Very much a tongue in cheek ACDC copyist band, nothing to do with the 1970s Christian band 123 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,040 with the same name. 124 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,760 There isn't much available about this band, although I did discover they hail from Italy, 125 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,400 which explains the accent on the vocals. 126 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,120 Of course, you're going to get great riffs, sort of, you know, grey ACDC style riffs, 127 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,280 but it isn't quite matched by the lyrics, which are quite laughable at times, I think. 128 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:12,920 There's even a song entitled, wait for it, I don't piss from my knees. 129 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,120 Wow, there you go. 130 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,360 Just take that in for a second. 131 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,680 I'll say it again. 132 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,320 The song is titled, I don't piss from my knees. 133 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:23,320 Interesting. 134 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:24,320 Yeah, yeah. 135 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:31,120 So anyway, we'll move on to the sensible world of soft, radio-friendly AOR, which was the 136 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,680 new album from the British Star Wars FM. 137 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:39,680 They're always quite a really good live act, I think, and becoming a bit of an institution, 138 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,680 a bit like Thunder. 139 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:47,920 Old Habits Die Hard is their band's 14th album now, the studio album, since they came out 140 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:54,440 in 1986 with Indiscreet, as well as reforming in 2010 after a 15-year break. 141 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,600 This won't appeal to the metalheads, of course. 142 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,680 It's soft rock for aging adults who are about to sort of rustle up a cock of ham for dinner. 143 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,960 But turn it up loud on a summer's evening, and you really start to understand, well, 144 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,920 I do anyway, why FM are a cut above Bon Jovi and other, you know, other sort of poppier 145 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,080 acts out there. 146 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:18,040 I think vocalist Steve Overland is losing none of his appeal, really, as he ages, and 147 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:19,920 they write decent songs. 148 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:24,960 And in what was, I think, a lean week to start with, it's definitely my choice. 149 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:39,320 Well, just so you know, FM will be on their 40th anniversary tour about 20 minutes from 150 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:40,320 my home. 151 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,440 Whoa, there you go. 152 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,480 But are you tempted, Victor, because we know this might not appeal to this kind of rock 153 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:48,480 music. 154 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,480 Right. 155 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:50,480 So that's the thing. 156 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:56,360 They were advertising their show during the Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg show that we went 157 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:57,920 to. 158 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:04,340 And the first person that came to mind was you when I saw that being advertised. 159 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:06,040 So I don't know. 160 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,040 I don't know. 161 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,040 That's the thing. 162 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,520 It's really not something that I would go out of my way to see. 163 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:21,040 But playing so close to home, if the ticket's right, maybe a gun played not that long ago. 164 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,040 Same same venue. 165 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,160 Yeah. 166 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,360 But they were asking like 40 euros ahead. 167 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:33,800 And I was like, yeah, that's kind of steep for a band that I like two songs from. 168 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:34,800 Yeah. 169 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:35,800 Yeah. 170 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:41,120 So I we sidestepped it. 171 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:47,360 I know that people loved it, but just kind of wasn't my thing. 172 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,840 One of the things that me and Jeremy do when we do these shows is that we do keep a list 173 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,180 of what we've been listening to. 174 00:12:55,180 --> 00:13:00,960 So I purposely try to listen to different things so that there's more to offer you guys 175 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,000 with these shows. 176 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,240 There's going to be things that we're going to overlap with during this episode. 177 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,880 But for example, I listened to three different albums this week. 178 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:20,000 Earlier today, I was listening to Undefeated by Frank Turner, which is something that sounds 179 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:26,800 if you're into flogging Molly, there are some aspects of that, like Irish punk or however 180 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,640 you want Irish folk punk, however you want to classify that. 181 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:37,440 There are other things that are straight up a little bit more commercial on there as well. 182 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,680 So it's not terribly bad. 183 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:44,000 It's not something that I would probably listen to more than a few times. 184 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:49,360 The Norwegian Act Goth minister who tend to have a song or two on each album that I enjoy. 185 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:55,240 The name of the album is Pandemonium 2 Battle of the Underworlds. 186 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,360 This is probably their weakest of their last few albums. 187 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,480 I have to give it a few more listens to there. 188 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:07,360 There really hasn't been a track that's jumped out at me like some of the other ones right 189 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,440 away. 190 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:17,280 My pick of this week though is POD, Pable on Death with Veritas, a band that man I loved 191 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,720 early on in their career, but there's been a big stretch there where they've just haven't 192 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,720 done it for me. 193 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:32,800 It's probably their best album that they've released in 20 years. 194 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,520 It's shorter than some of their other albums that they've released in recent memory, but 195 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:44,920 I think they've been good with kind of cutting off some of the fat and giving you more or 196 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,520 less what you want from them. 197 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:51,100 There's some cool duets and special appearances. 198 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:58,680 For example, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God appears on a track and it's heavier than what I expected. 199 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,100 So I really enjoy it. 200 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:04,080 It's my pick for May the 3rd. 201 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,840 All right, May the 10th. 202 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,640 A lot of different things that have come out as well. 203 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:21,440 The new album from Warlord, Sebastian Bach, Annette Olsen, former lead singer of Nightwish, 204 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:28,720 Crown Shift, Knock Loose, Power Man 5000, Six Feet Under, Sonic Universe, The Tangent 205 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:36,840 for One, The Treatment, Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats, Unleash the Archers, Stretch Armstrong, 206 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:43,600 Like Moths to Flames, Belushi Speedball, Caldwell and Big Special. 207 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:58,080 EPs from, and this seems to be a split from Lanzerath and Shroud of Despondency. 208 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:59,520 All right. 209 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,940 Compilations, something I'm very envious about Jeremy having. 210 00:16:03,940 --> 00:16:15,160 It is Black Sabbath and O'Dominey 1989 through 1975 box set with all of the IRS records. 211 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:20,300 See they're calling it the Tony Martin stuff or the Tony Martin years, but it is missing 212 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:24,420 the Eternal Idol and it's because the Eternal Idol was on Warner Brothers and everything 213 00:16:24,420 --> 00:16:26,320 else is on IRS. 214 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,960 The Eternal Idol was just re-released a few years ago. 215 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:36,220 So they decided not to push for having that included in this release and that makes sense 216 00:16:36,220 --> 00:16:37,220 to me. 217 00:16:37,220 --> 00:16:42,040 I already have the Eternal Idol, so it would kind of annoy me that the price would go up 218 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,160 a little just to have that included again anyway. 219 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:51,920 So Jeremy, what did you listen to during this week? 220 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:58,000 Yeah, so I began the week listening to Wake Up the Neighborhood by The Treatment. 221 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,280 This is a band from Cambridge in the UK which I was amazed to find out, I've actually been 222 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,160 active now for 16 years. 223 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,680 I wish I didn't realize. 224 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,680 I mean I really liked them when they broke out on the scene in the first place. 225 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:16,560 They've got nice hard riffs, melodic tunes, good old sort of classic rock and to be fair 226 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,160 that's the sort of the template here too on which is their sixth studio album. 227 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,960 But I was left pretty empty by this release. 228 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:29,360 I thought the band didn't really listen back to many of the songs which if I'm brutally 229 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:33,520 honest they were somewhat boring, you know, so paint by numbers, rock and roll which is 230 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:34,520 a real shame. 231 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,440 I felt they could have done better with that one. 232 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:42,800 So that led me on to two albums which were really sort of vying for album of the week. 233 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,920 The first didn't quite make it but it was really, really good nevertheless. 234 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:52,420 It's Chow Within the Man by the former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach. 235 00:17:52,420 --> 00:17:54,680 This is what I really wanted to hear from him to be honest. 236 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,480 It's great sounding hard rock. 237 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:03,000 It's a man who's still putting real energy into his vocal delivery. 238 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,720 You know we got a good taste of this from the sort of couple of tracks that you posted 239 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:12,260 on the Patreon group which by the way is only a couple of pounds, dollars or euros folks. 240 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:16,240 So you get to hear all the latest music and more so please join. 241 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,240 Advert over. 242 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,360 I have to say the quality on this is really kept up throughout. 243 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:23,960 I mean it's a really good album. 244 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:29,360 It's really heavy, it's very melodic, it's definitely one that I'll put on repeat and 245 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,760 although it's only May I'm gonna hedge my bets there. 246 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,860 I'm gonna say this is a very worthy contender for my end of year top ten. 247 00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:37,920 So really good album. 248 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,200 I really recommend everybody listen to it. 249 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:41,200 Listen to it all the way through. 250 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,600 It's a good hard rocking album that. 251 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:49,240 But talking of the top ten for the year, this week's choice which I've gone for has actually 252 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:54,880 gone into my top three for the year and I'll be very very surprised if it gets kicked out. 253 00:18:54,880 --> 00:19:00,600 I've backed it up by purchasing a copy so I've put my money where my mouth is. 254 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:05,240 It's the new project called Sonic Universe from the Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover 255 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:09,680 and the Adrenaline Mob guitarist Mike Orlando. 256 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,960 The album's actually called It Is What It Is. 257 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,160 It's basically a sort of rockier version of Living Colour. 258 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:21,680 It's heavy funk, it's very good, so it's laden with hooks, sort of testosterone fuelled 259 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,680 acts playing. 260 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,880 I mean I really wondered if there was a bit of a rivalry building here between Orlando 261 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:32,920 and Nuno Bettencourt to play the very fastest craziest guitar solos because if you listen 262 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,200 to some of the tracks on it there's some really crazy playing on there. 263 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,320 But that aside, it's really good. 264 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:45,800 Glover's vocals haven't aged at all, really suited to this type of music as well. 265 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,760 Every one of the ten songs is really expertly crafted. 266 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:54,040 We're taking on a real journey with this one, real craftsmanship on offer here. 267 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,600 Orlando's brilliant, Glover's brilliant. 268 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,240 I call it musical expertise. 269 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,460 I'm really raving about this album. 270 00:20:01,460 --> 00:20:07,240 It's a really richly rewarding listen and of course it's my album of the week. 271 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:13,200 Oh man, this is going to be one of these times this year where we're going to have differing 272 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,000 opinions on an album. 273 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,240 Right, okay, that's great. 274 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:24,760 So okay, so let me handle this this way. 275 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:29,320 Sebastian Bach, I listened to The Child Within the Man, one of the ones where we overlap 276 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,320 on. 277 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:40,440 I thought that the album was good, but kind of towards the end it got kind of too formulaic, 278 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,600 kind of too like nothing new. 279 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,040 And that's not a bad thing because you're getting probably exactly what you want. 280 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:54,860 But I wanted something a little more like you look at someone like a Stephen Pearce 281 00:20:54,860 --> 00:20:56,640 with his last few albums. 282 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:57,640 Sure. 283 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:03,000 He's not doing anything really out of his wheelhouse, but every album has like four 284 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,680 or five songs where you think, yeah, that's going in my playlist. 285 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,240 No, that's going to be one of those songs that I'm going to remember this year by. 286 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,280 You know, one of those things. 287 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:21,320 And although the songs are good, I can't find to me, it just kind of didn't sit that way 288 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,440 with me. 289 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:25,560 What else did I listen to here? 290 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,400 Uncle acid and the dead beats. 291 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:34,660 This is the album is Nellora Blue. 292 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:39,880 If you're Italian, you'll understand a lot of this album because it's a lot of it's 19 293 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,040 tracks, a lot of instrumental music. 294 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:49,380 I recall there being only one track with actual vocals. 295 00:21:49,380 --> 00:21:55,200 There are interludes with people speaking Italian. 296 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,440 So I bring up the Italian aspect. 297 00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:59,440 Unleash the archers. 298 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,440 Fantoma. 299 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,180 I listened to that solid release. 300 00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:11,280 It's really much on par with what to expect from that band. 301 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,000 Sonic universe for me. 302 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Was a letdown. 303 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Why? 304 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:24,640 Yeah, I'm interested. 305 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:29,040 Because what label is this on? 306 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,560 This is on ear music. 307 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:40,920 OK, this felt like a frontiers project where to me where somebody paid Corey Glover and 308 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:49,120 said, OK, we can't get living color, but I want you to make a living color album. 309 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:58,240 Michael Orlando does the Vernon Reed part excellently, but there's just something missing 310 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:04,440 that just doesn't quite get it to living color level for me. 311 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:12,240 And I kept thinking about the ultraphonic album that Corey Glover did with George Lynch 312 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,720 where Corey listened. 313 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,880 Corey's vocals are excellent on this. 314 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:23,320 But again, it's I listen to this and I instantly want to turn on living color. 315 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:33,080 It's almost like when Rob Halford and Judas Priest are separate. 316 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:39,280 And it made you with some of his release, some of his solo releases made me want to 317 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:40,560 listen to that. 318 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,200 Also made me want to listen to the priest. 319 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:47,600 But there are other albums that made me want to listen to older priest because it just 320 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,520 didn't reach where I wanted it to go. 321 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,440 That second fight album, for example. 322 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:59,240 This is kind of the same thing for me where Sonic Universe just makes me want a new living 323 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,240 color album is what it does. 324 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,280 That's just my strange taste. 325 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,360 And I'm not going to dissuade anyone from listening to Jeremy's opinion and checking 326 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:16,520 the album out and then they can decide what they think about it themselves. 327 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:21,720 My selection this for this week is similar to what I said with the POV for the previous 328 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:22,720 month. 329 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,080 It is Power Man 5000 with Abandoned Ship. 330 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,400 Power Man 5000 when they're on. 331 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,480 They're great for me. 332 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:33,480 I love them. 333 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:43,280 I love their mix of riffs and industrial hard rock and metal and melodies. 334 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,840 And it just does it for me. 335 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:54,020 And again, this is probably their best album since the late 90s only because it's you know, 336 00:24:54,020 --> 00:24:59,880 you can listen to it front to back and each song is good as opposed to there just being 337 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:08,000 one or two tracks that are great and then everything else is just kind of just there. 338 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000 So cool. 339 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 All right. 340 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,480 So real quickly here, your take on the Black Sabbath box. 341 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,680 Have you gotten a chance to listen to it yet? 342 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,040 No, because it hasn't arrived yet. 343 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:26,080 Of course, I ordered it from one of the biggest online retailers in the universe. 344 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,480 And of course, they tell me it's going to come either between now and early July. 345 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,560 So I'm going to wait around for it. 346 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:35,880 But you know, who cares? 347 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,240 I got it at a decent price for the vinyl. 348 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,600 And I've tried to avoid listening to it online as well until I get it. 349 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:47,520 So I want to put the records on and give them a good spin. 350 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,680 It's not on Apple Music, so I haven't been able to listen to it yet. 351 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:56,240 I know it's on Spotify, but I haven't looked for it. 352 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,160 So the price that you sent me was for the vinyl? 353 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,240 It was for the vinyl and that was free delivery. 354 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,240 Wow. 355 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,720 Yeah, that's really good, isn't it? 356 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,720 Yeah. 357 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,240 I don't know whether that's because there's a delay on it or because we're in the UK, 358 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,080 you know, and it's a British sort of release. 359 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,160 Maybe that could be. 360 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,040 But yeah, we're doing well with that because I thought that was pretty good. 361 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:23,320 Just to tell the viewers, it was 89.99, which I paid for it. 362 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,560 I think that's the cheapest you can get the vinyl anywhere. 363 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,120 That's the cheapest price that I've seen it on the mainland in Europe. 364 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:35,560 It's 120 euros, which I don't know with the exchange. 365 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:41,040 I think it'd be more in pounds, definitely more than 90 pounds, I think. 366 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,040 Yeah. 367 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,680 Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought. 368 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:44,680 Let me see. 369 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,680 Yeah. 370 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,880 So let's ask the board people, let's see what the exchange rate is. 371 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,040 OK, 120 euros is 102 pounds. 372 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,360 Yeah. 373 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:57,720 So let's flip this around. 374 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,920 You paid roughly 90. 375 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:01,880 Yeah. 376 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,600 So it is 105 euros. 377 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,080 There you go. 378 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:11,800 What is 21 percent on that? 379 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,640 And great to get it free delivery as well. 380 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:19,280 I mean, I didn't have to be a member of this international organization, which we all know 381 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:30,880 about and I'm not going to give them free advertising, but I'm not a P.R.I.M.E member. 382 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,440 But so, yeah, I was pleased with, you know, you don't have to pay for the packaging as 383 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,880 well for the delivery. 384 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:37,880 So, yeah. 385 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:45,280 Well, from that same service here, it's listed as the vinyl not being delivered until July. 386 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,280 Right. 387 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:47,280 Yeah. 388 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,760 So they've obviously got some delays on it, but I'm happy with that because, you know, 389 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,000 I don't need to hear it straight away. 390 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,000 It's not a new release. 391 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,000 It's all old stuff. 392 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,160 And, you know, I'm going to be around for a long time, so I'm going to listen to it 393 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,160 at my will. 394 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,160 So it's fine. 395 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:06,440 The only thing that I've heard is they released Enno Mundi. 396 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,360 Yeah. 397 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,360 Evil Eye. 398 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:10,360 Yeah. 399 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,760 And Get a Grip. 400 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,440 And I know people are making a big deal out of, oh my God, this sounds so much more like 401 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:24,160 Sabbath to me now because the guitars are all, excuse me, the guitars are all the way 402 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,160 up in the front. 403 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,160 And it's this and it's that. 404 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,120 There was just a misconception with Forbidden, I think, from the start. 405 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:38,760 I've said this many times that there are songs off of there that had Ronnie James Dio or 406 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,720 Ozzy recorded that have been considered classics. 407 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,760 So that's just my opinion. 408 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:55,960 Anyway, moving on here, May 17th, we had new albums from Pain, Intervals, Babylon AD, 409 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:11,720 Bat, Cage the Elephant, Cognitive, Combi Christ, Demon, Elvalon, Gate Creeper, Jasta, Kerry 410 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:25,320 King, Marty Friedman, Paul Bear, Slash, Zombiest, Suck Brick Kid, Striknos, Trail of Anguish, 411 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:37,720 Botanist, Freedom, I felt like I almost said it like, oh my God, I like Christopher Walken. 412 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,000 He's a botanist. 413 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,000 I don't know. 414 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,280 That's my poor attempt at a Christopher Walken impression. 415 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:56,800 Freedom, Godin, Duft, Ancient Settlers, Settlers, Settlers, live albums from Ginger and Shark 416 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:57,800 Island. 417 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:03,680 All right, Jeremy, what was your fancy for this week? 418 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,520 You know, I pray to God that there isn't a month where you actually send me a message 419 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:08,880 to say I can't do this. 420 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,720 You're going to have to read out all the names. 421 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:18,240 I've got a sore throat or something and then I've got that job of pronouncing them all. 422 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,320 Anyway, this week I gave the new Slash album the once over. 423 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,840 Of course I did. 424 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,400 This is his blues offering. 425 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,280 He's gone back to having a guest star on every song, much like the eponymous solo he released 426 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,600 in 2010, which was a rockier version. 427 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,200 This one's called All You The Damned. 428 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,560 It has a really good cover on it. 429 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,640 Of course the guitar playing is expert and the guests all help out in one way or another 430 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,320 with the vocals. 431 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,880 But for me there's something very missing from this. 432 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:53,440 Slash to me doesn't have the feel of a real blues man or even a rocker who turns to the 433 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:54,440 blues. 434 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:55,960 I mean, he's no Gary Moore. 435 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,520 He's certainly no Buddy Guy or Albert King. 436 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,080 It's fine though, you know, he's Slash. 437 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,560 But it's just somewhat soulless for me. 438 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:09,840 And anyone who really gets the blues know it comes from the soul and it just isn't on 439 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,840 this. 440 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,680 And I didn't really want to go back to listen to it very much. 441 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:19,680 So in what I would class as a bit of a lean week for me personally, I've opted for the 442 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,300 new album by the British stalwarts, Demon. 443 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:23,300 It's called Invincible. 444 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:28,520 It's their 14th studio release, but only the second in a decade. 445 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,080 And this is a band I remember actually back in the day, 1981. 446 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,120 They released Night of the Demon. 447 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:40,800 They were a sort of a melodic old school metal band that on reflection were actually okay. 448 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,360 But I probably didn't give them as much time then. 449 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,480 They were sort of dealt a bad hand, I guess, by the rise of the new Wobham. 450 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,200 They lacked the punch of the other bands. 451 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:57,040 But this album sort of follows other great releases this year from old school British 452 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,540 acts, Lionheart, Prey and Mantis. 453 00:31:59,540 --> 00:32:04,040 And it shows the power of really good songwriting and good production as well. 454 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,400 And dare I say it, it marks a little bit of a renaissance for sort of UK hard rock that 455 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:17,420 I'm guessing will be capped off by Deep Purple's new album later this year. 456 00:32:17,420 --> 00:32:22,040 So I must admit, at first I was put off slightly by the original vocalist, Dave Hill's Aging 457 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,600 Voice. 458 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,720 It even sounds, and I don't wish this to mean sort of bad on him, but it does sound 459 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:33,800 as if he's had a stroke or something because he's sort of slurring his words a bit. 460 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:39,360 But I couldn't help turning up the songs like Face the Master and Break the Spell. 461 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,320 This was a really enjoyable listen. 462 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,040 I really dig this album and it was a really worthy album of the week. 463 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,040 Okay. 464 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:52,040 I'm going to give you some homework because there's something that came out this week 465 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,320 that I'm surprised you didn't jump on. 466 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,880 And I'll mention it in a second. 467 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,880 Okay. 468 00:32:58,880 --> 00:32:59,880 All right. 469 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:05,720 So I listened to I Am Out by Pain. 470 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,720 It's okay. 471 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,440 The album is kind of samezy all the way through. 472 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:17,220 The album Under the Crooked Claw by Bat is the side project from a few of the members 473 00:33:17,220 --> 00:33:19,720 of Municipal Waste. 474 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:20,720 Not bad. 475 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,520 I know that on Patreon people weren't into the vocals. 476 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:35,360 It is kind of vocals are somewhere between guttural and lemmy-ish. 477 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,400 The music is pretty cool. 478 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:49,920 Combi Christ released a double album, which is CMB CRST, which is pretty much pronounced 479 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,400 Combi Christ. 480 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,920 Again, okay, just a bit long for it being a double album. 481 00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:04,120 The second album is more or less instrumental. 482 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,120 Let's see. 483 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,960 Paul Bearer, Mindburns Alive. 484 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:11,160 I believe this only has seven tracks and it's close to an hour long. 485 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,760 It is what you would expect from Paul Bearer. 486 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,600 It's got some pretty interesting stuff on it. 487 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:23,360 I posted one of the singles on Patreon and people seemed to enjoy it. 488 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,880 It was different than what they expected. 489 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:34,120 If you haven't heard them before, they mix melodies with Doomy Sludge Metal. 490 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,920 It's an interesting mix. 491 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,520 You have to be in for the long haul though. 492 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:44,240 Like I said, it's seven songs, I believe, and it's like 50 some odd minutes. 493 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:47,080 Each track is really long. 494 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,240 A lot of instrumentation going on there. 495 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:57,160 I didn't get a chance to listen to the Slash yet, but I think based on the singles, you 496 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,840 used a specific phrase, no soul. 497 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,240 It's kind of what I got out of it. 498 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:11,400 I'm not the hugest blues guy, but when you hear blues done right, you feel it, as you 499 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:16,640 mentioned, even with rock bands that do the blues. 500 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:23,840 Blues to me is just, I mentioned on Patreon, it's just very homogenized, very overproduced 501 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:29,000 and compressed and not taking anything away from the musicians. 502 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:35,140 But I think had they produced it in an old feel, it would have gone over better. 503 00:35:35,140 --> 00:35:39,560 And there's just some songs that the originals are timeless and there's no reason to cover 504 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:40,720 them. 505 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:42,640 So there's that. 506 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,680 Papa was a Rolling Stone, for example. 507 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:47,680 Let's see. 508 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:55,960 So there were three excellent albums that came out this week and they're all three of 509 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,000 them are completely different. 510 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,280 So I'm just going to give you a quick rundown of them. 511 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,600 Josta and Josta for All. 512 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:11,120 It is from the team that put together, that has done the last few Jamie Jost albums. 513 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:17,280 They did the Corpse Grinder album and they've done the D Snider solo albums. 514 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:25,000 It is Jamie Jost and mixing his brand of of hardcore metal with thrash metal. 515 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,560 And it sounds really cool. 516 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:33,760 So if you're a thrash metal person and want to listen to something different, check this 517 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:34,760 out. 518 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,640 I know a lot of people are probably listening to the Kerry King. 519 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:37,640 Sure. 520 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,080 But we know that Ed Ferguson is listening to that and he's going to give us a review 521 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,460 of that shortly. 522 00:36:44,460 --> 00:36:46,560 My homework to you. 523 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:55,000 Rome wasn't built in a day by Babylon A.D. Babylon A.D. is a band that was that kind 524 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:02,080 of came out, got MTV Airplay like Little Caesar, like a few other bands towards the tail end 525 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,880 of the original run of Headbangers Ball. 526 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:13,120 I started listening to this one of the last things that I listened to today and was thoroughly 527 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,620 impressed. 528 00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:22,200 If you're looking for something in the vein of L.A. guns, guns and roses. 529 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:27,120 Dirty sleazy hard rock from late 80s, early 90s. 530 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,760 Check this album out. 531 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,720 I'm sure if you listen to this, Jeremy, I could be wrong here. 532 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,440 You could listen to it and say, oh, it's a stinker. 533 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,280 But I do think it's worth your while to check out. 534 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,440 I think that it's got a lot of you'll probably enjoy. 535 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,520 I'm going to listen to that definitely. 536 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:44,520 Yeah. 537 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:54,320 But my album of this week is Heart of Darkness by Zombies. 538 00:37:54,320 --> 00:38:00,040 It's funny because I kept thinking of a comment that Anthony Mackie made when I posted the 539 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:05,760 either the first or second single off of this because the vocals are very reminiscent of 540 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,000 Glenn Danzig's vocals. 541 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,160 And he said some of the extent of. 542 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,680 Oh, OK, he's doing the dancing thing. 543 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,680 He's going to stick with that. 544 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,080 And he sticks with it throughout the entire album. 545 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,320 This is their first album in over a decade. 546 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,320 And I'm into those styles of vocals. 547 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:35,040 I'm into the dark, gothic, over the top, heavy or doominess of the album. 548 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,200 And I really enjoyed it. 549 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,680 I was surprised. 550 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:39,680 I think it's great. 551 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,480 I mean, it could end up on my top 10 at the end of the year. 552 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,480 I'm that convinced. 553 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,480 So. 554 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,480 All right. 555 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:57,960 On the 24th of May, this is Memorial Day weekend for a lot of people. 556 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,000 And let's see, it's a short week. 557 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:08,440 I had the albums from Caspian, Rotting Christ, Summoner's Circle, Veil of Nath. 558 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:16,280 I'm assuming that first P is Silent, Mortal Wound, Sound and Shape, TeraMaze. 559 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:21,120 Evil Dead and Night Laser. 560 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,800 So there were only a few things that were released and we overlapped with a bunch of 561 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,160 them here. 562 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:31,680 Jeremy, what was you know, what poison did you pick this week? 563 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:37,080 I'm going to shock you in a minute, but let's start off with called me what you want by 564 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,640 a night laser, the heavy glam act from Germany. 565 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,320 Actually quite a fun 80s style hair metal offering this one. 566 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,960 Some production techniques on it and enjoyed it quite a bit. 567 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,760 It seems to be their third album. 568 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:54,760 And if at times it seems sort of old fashioned, old school rock, it does have some good hooks 569 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,440 and it keeps you listening throughout. 570 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,720 It definitely for fans of Skid Row, Doc and Keele, you know, the sort of thing you're 571 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:01,960 going to get on that. 572 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,000 So yeah, that was a that was a fun listen. 573 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:10,020 My second pick was the L.A. Thresh Act, Evil Dead, their new album called Toxic Grace. 574 00:40:10,020 --> 00:40:14,000 If you haven't heard of them before, and I'm sort of appealing here to people who aren't 575 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,160 in the US, it's because they've only ever released four studio albums, I believe two 576 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:25,040 in the 80s, two since reforming and a second reunion, in fact, that occurred in 2016. 577 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,040 No surprises here, really. 578 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,560 You just get sort of great traditional riff heavy thrash. 579 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:35,400 The songwriting, I think Epson flows a little bit, but you know, there's some good elements 580 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,880 on here. 581 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,800 Good songs like Raising Fresh Hell. 582 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,940 I like the closer is called Fear Porn. 583 00:40:43,940 --> 00:40:46,200 But it doesn't quite extend to the whole album. 584 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,780 So I didn't pick that as my album of the week. 585 00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:51,400 So I'm really going to shock you, Victor, here. 586 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,200 I hope you are sitting down. 587 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,640 I want you to brace yourself because wait for it. 588 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:04,240 Pro Christu by the Greek black metal purveyors Rotting Christ is my album of the week. 589 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,240 Let's just bear. 590 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:10,520 Let's just take a couple of seconds to take all that in, because it's not a band that 591 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,680 I would normally turn to, as you know, but it's very approachable black metal. 592 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,280 This one is really brooding. 593 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,100 It's full of obviously the death and religious imagery, of course. 594 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:25,080 But it's not so brutal as to really exclude the mainstream metal crowd. 595 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,440 And I think that's really good. 596 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,200 You really need to sort of think more of Eamonn Amarth and Meshuggah on this one. 597 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:36,120 It's an album that left me satisfied by its sort of imagination and atmosphere. 598 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:41,280 It wasn't obviously a week where there wasn't so much sort of classic heavy rock that came 599 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,280 out. 600 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,160 I could have picked Night Laser, but I didn't. 601 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,520 I like this album better. 602 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,480 So Rotting Christ really turned me this week. 603 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,480 OK, cool. 604 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:56,400 So for me, it's actually Evil Dead with Toxic Grace. 605 00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:03,280 The band also features Juan Garcia, who in the last few years has been a part of Body 606 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:11,480 Count and interesting because the Apple Music Closer is a cover of the Killing Joke Song 607 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,560 Death and Resurrection show. 608 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,560 So it was funny. 609 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:23,120 I got out of practice the other day and the way that my car radio is, you don't see the 610 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:30,360 act, you just see the name pop up on whatever's on the Bluetooth. 611 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:36,240 And I hear the riff come on and I start to think I wasn't listening to Killing Joke before 612 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:37,240 I went to practice. 613 00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:38,240 What is it? 614 00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:39,920 I'm like, oh, shit, it's a cover. 615 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:40,920 Oh, wow. 616 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,720 So this is kind of cool. 617 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:48,840 Yeah, I enjoyed it and I think you formed it up well. 618 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,240 Cool Thrash album at Ebs and Flows. 619 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:57,200 And if you're a thrash fan, I would recommend you check it out. 620 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,760 Cool. 621 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:06,940 The final week of May brought us a lot of releases. 622 00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:13,520 We had releases from Bad Omens, Bloodbound, Four Stroke Baron, Hell Butcher, High Desert 623 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:24,760 Queen, Low Lives, Nestor, who Johan is seeing at the Sweden Rock, Rhapsody of Fire, Witherfall, 624 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:37,360 Dusk, Adversarial, Carry on Throne, Cobra the Impaler, My Diligence, Clovenhoof, D-Arma, 625 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:46,880 Woodwork, Supermodel Taxidermy, live albums from Exodus, and a compilation from Tier. 626 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,520 Again, best of the napalm years. 627 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:55,760 Jeremy, what did you listen to this week? 628 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,600 So you may say huff, but we say hoof. 629 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,600 And it's Clovenhoof. 630 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,600 Yeah. 631 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:09,320 Another British band to start the week off, the album Heathen Cross by Clovenhoof. 632 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,040 New Wobbam Starwarts from the West Midlands. 633 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,800 They really sort of over egged their contribution to the genre, I think. 634 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,920 Maybe really sort of think of Clovenhoof as one of the biggies from that time. 635 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,640 But nevertheless, this was a really welcome listen for this particular week. 636 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,880 This is their studio album number nine, and it's their third since the 2000s actually 637 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,440 began. 638 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,680 The last album actually really annoyed me for ripping off bands like Maiden. 639 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:41,120 And that kind of makes a bit of a return here occasionally, too, on songs like Sort of Darkest 640 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,560 Before the Dawn. 641 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:47,800 But I guess there are lots of bands out there sticking to the template, and it also reminds 642 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,680 me a little bit of Times of Judas Priest's album. 643 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,280 But it's all fairly fun stuff, to be honest. 644 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:54,400 It's got giant riffs. 645 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,320 It's occasionally down tuned. 646 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:02,680 It's got a very tight rhythm section and solid production, and it's a really good listen. 647 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:10,400 That sort of brings me to two albums that are vying for first place. 648 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,800 The first, which could have been first this week, is Sounds of the Forgotten by Witherfall. 649 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,920 I mean, this is a band that we've talked about previously. 650 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:25,240 In fact, we had it, I think it won album of the year last time they released Curse of 651 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:26,240 Autumn. 652 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:27,720 I think it was number one. 653 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:33,360 And in my opinion, they seem to go from strength to strength, actually. 654 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:38,000 You've got a very technically gifted band that's really carving out its own sound. 655 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:43,440 You've got some very rapid prog music with classical influence guitar playing and that 656 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:48,080 sort of soaring falsetto vocalist, Joseph Michael. 657 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:53,240 As with the previous releases, a good fine mix of music here, very sort of heavier stuff, 658 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:56,880 proggy tracks, and some really fine ballads on it as well. 659 00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:01,560 I think you need a lot of time with a full album to sort of take in the majesty of it. 660 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,680 It's definitely worth it, though. 661 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,160 And it was almost album of the week. 662 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,520 And I did fight between this one and the next one. 663 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,800 So don't take it that it's second because it's probably equal first. 664 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:20,560 But I did give the accolade rather surprisingly to an album called At What Cost by the incredibly 665 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,700 named supermodel Taxidermy. 666 00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:29,040 This is actually a metal thrash hardcore fusion act from Canada. 667 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:35,720 And to my ears, it's a very appealing mashup of Anthrax and the Beastie Boys. 668 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:39,840 So immediately, I know you're an Anthrax fan, Victor, so I'm guessing you'll kind of dig 669 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,400 this. 670 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:46,240 What you get is sort of a melodic, in your face, punky rap thrash based tunes with large 671 00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:50,640 doses of social comments, of course, on this sort of type of music, all knitted together 672 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,140 with very rhythmic riffs. 673 00:46:53,140 --> 00:46:57,920 So it's not all unique, but it does have a sort of super urban edge to it. 674 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,080 It's sort of like it's being recorded live on the streets of a rough neighborhood. 675 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:08,560 It's a very engaging album, and I didn't expect it to be album of the week, but it is. 676 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:09,560 Wow. 677 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:10,560 OK. 678 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:16,560 So that's definitely something that I will write down in my homework column for myself. 679 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:24,280 It's funny because going over this list with you, there's definitely a lot of things that 680 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:30,760 stood out to me where I didn't get a chance to listen to, which I will listen to. 681 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:35,600 But for me, I checked out the Four Stroke Baron album, Dada Diamond. 682 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:47,320 I would say that if you're a fan of Last Crack, maybe Early Faith No More, Mordred, stuff 683 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:53,560 like that, you may want to check this out. 684 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:54,960 Let's see what else there was to hear. 685 00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:00,720 Cobra the Impaler, if you're into Mastodon, I think they're right up your alley. 686 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:04,360 The Cloven Hoof I listened to as well. 687 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,480 Don't want to offend anyone. 688 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,560 The Witherfall, I think you summed it up. 689 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,280 I think it's a really good album. 690 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:18,760 It's really along the lines of what we expect from them. 691 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:29,320 So maybe it isn't so much that the album is bad in any way. 692 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,520 It's just that there were no surprises with it. 693 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:40,220 Whereas for me, when I listened to the Palm Reader from High Desert Queen, it stood out 694 00:48:40,220 --> 00:48:41,600 to me and it surprised me. 695 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:47,200 So that kind of captured my interest this week. 696 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:56,920 It is a great stoner rock, doom rock, doom medley type album with a lot of cool riffs, 697 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,080 with a lot of cool melodies. 698 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,320 And I do think that it's worth checking out. 699 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:08,400 I've made it a point to mention several albums each week because of what you're saying. 700 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:15,040 There are a lot of things that have been close to a first, a close second where it was one 701 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:21,360 nudged out the other one by an eyelash, basically. 702 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:22,360 So yeah, cool. 703 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:27,520 I mean, it definitely gives us a lot of stuff to check out. 704 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:37,480 All of you lazy listeners that come here to check out what we recommend. 705 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,320 Quickly here, let's just go over these. 706 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,720 On the third, what was your recommendation, Jeremy? 707 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:45,360 Oh, now you're asking me to go back and have a look. 708 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,360 I can't remember. 709 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,680 May the third, I went for FM. 710 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,080 Oh, OK, that's right. 711 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,880 FM and I went with POD on the 10th. 712 00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,720 So that was Sonic Universe for me. 713 00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:04,320 OK, it was Power Man 5000 Abandoned Ship for me on the 17th. 714 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,000 Yeah, so I went for Demon, didn't I, in that week? 715 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,000 Yeah. 716 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,540 OK, for me, it was Heart of Darkness from Zombies. 717 00:50:12,540 --> 00:50:17,680 On the 24th, Rotting Christ with Pro Christu. 718 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:22,400 OK, I went with Toxic Grace from Evil Dead. 719 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,600 And the last week on the 31st of May. 720 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,040 At what cost by Supermodel Taxidermy? 721 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,960 And for me, it was Palm Reader by High Desert Queen. 722 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:38,000 Folks, a lot of great music that came out this month, as I mentioned early on in the 723 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,000 episode. 724 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:45,280 I think this may be the most stacked month so far in music because there were so many 725 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:50,280 good new albums that were released during this month. 726 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:56,120 So definitely a lot of a lot of homework for all you listeners out there. 727 00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:04,200 So there's a few topics that we did want to touch upon before wrapping this up. 728 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:13,160 And a little over a week ago, there were rumors that started to come out that Mali Crew may 729 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,480 actually not be satisfied with John 5. 730 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:21,420 I've heard other rumors where John 5 wasn't happy with the band, that he wasn't happy 731 00:51:21,420 --> 00:51:30,580 with their shenanigans, so on and so forth, and that they've reached out to McMars. 732 00:51:30,580 --> 00:51:33,400 To come back to the band. 733 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,120 This is a rumor. 734 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:41,340 And I know that Chris Aiken from the Classic Metal Show, amongst other shows, he's part 735 00:51:41,340 --> 00:51:48,000 of a few different shows, has stressed that he mentioned this on one of his shows and 736 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:55,760 that it's strictly a rumor, but it comes from a reliable source within Mali Crew's camp, 737 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:56,760 apparently. 738 00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:10,600 So I personally think that unless they're not getting offers for shows or not getting 739 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:20,000 the big money that they were before, that I can't see that this being I can't see the 740 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,600 validity of this rumor. 741 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:28,920 That's the only thing that I think would make them want to go back to Mick, is that promoters 742 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:35,400 are saying, yeah, John 5 is cool within the band, but we're not selling the same amount 743 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,560 of tickets, so we want Mick back. 744 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:43,960 Honestly, I would see them probably go for a DJ Ashba or somebody like that before they 745 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,000 would go back to Mick, honestly. 746 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,760 Someone else that's younger that they're going to have, that they're not going to have the 747 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,320 same types of issues that they may have had with Mick. 748 00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,720 Jeremy, what do you think? 749 00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:03,480 I think you've picked up on probably the main thing there. 750 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,560 I think there's another little thing that I'd like to add in that they've just released 751 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,120 some new music, Mali Crew, and it's a bit weird. 752 00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:12,880 It's a bit non-Mali Crew. 753 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:18,120 And I'm just wondering whether the band are thinking, this isn't quite what we want. 754 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:22,720 This isn't what we're aiming for, and maybe they're thinking, well, Mick comes in and 755 00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:30,640 gives us these riffs, and we go back to producing a little bit of the old Mali Crew type output. 756 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:35,440 That's another reason that he might want to be brought back into the fold. 757 00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:41,400 Let's face it, Mick's brought out his own album this year, and it's pretty decent. 758 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,240 Mali Crew's single, do you think that's on the same level? 759 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:45,240 I'm not so sure. 760 00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:50,320 There's a lot of people who like it, and it's a bit different, which isn't too bad. 761 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,160 But for me, it wasn't Mali Crew. 762 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:54,160 So that's one reason. 763 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:55,840 And I guess I agree with you. 764 00:53:55,840 --> 00:54:00,260 I think it's his name, and he's a guy who sort of links it all together. 765 00:54:00,260 --> 00:54:05,840 When I saw them live, he was doing a lot of the donkey work on stage, obviously being 766 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:06,840 the guitarist. 767 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:11,280 And I just feel that they're a better band with him in. 768 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,440 Whether he'll want to do it again, I don't know. 769 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,560 Apart from all the illnesses that he's got with his back and what have you, where he 770 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:25,920 can't necessarily perform on stage regularly, that's a big issue, I think, for him. 771 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:30,920 So we're not dealing with an ordinary guy who's well. 772 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:31,920 Difficult thing. 773 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,920 It's probably just a rumor, but hey, there may be something to it. 774 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:35,920 Yeah. 775 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:42,040 The other thing to consider too is that he's come out and said that I believe that outside 776 00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:50,720 of New Tattoo that he really hadn't played on an album beginning to end since the self-titled 777 00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:52,780 album with John Karabi. 778 00:54:52,780 --> 00:55:04,440 So that means that Generation Swine and New Tattoo, Saints of Los Angeles, Dirt Soundtrack, 779 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:08,640 the new songs off of that, that the majority of that isn't him. 780 00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:13,920 That he plays on some of the songs and that's it. 781 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:20,080 And I mean, for all accounts with the new stuff off the dirt, that was already John 782 00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,400 5 anyway. 783 00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,480 So I mean, I don't know. 784 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:31,160 It's just odd that this soon after the member change that they would go back. 785 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,280 But stranger things have happened. 786 00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:38,280 Listen, if you don't get on with each other, that's the thing. 787 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,960 They might be great players, but do they actually get on with each other? 788 00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,560 Is that sort of, you know, you're on the road together. 789 00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,440 You've got to get on with the people you're playing with, really. 790 00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,280 Here's the other thing to consider. 791 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:57,040 There have been rumors that they've been wanting to get rid of Vince for years. 792 00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:09,120 Does Motley Crue sell tickets with just Tommy and Nicky as opposed to Mick coming back and 793 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,640 instead them switching singers? 794 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:17,600 Does that get them more money than just two of them? 795 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:24,560 Yeah, definitely need him back for that sort of situation, I think. 796 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,160 And of course, he's not been in it forever, as we know. 797 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,680 So they could play with a different vocalist. 798 00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:32,680 They've done it before. 799 00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:34,680 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 800 00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,040 All right. 801 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:43,360 And the last topic here that we wanted to touch upon is we've all been seeing videos 802 00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:51,560 of ACDC playing, for example, the two shows that they played here in Seville, Spain. 803 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:55,560 And you recently got to see an ACDC cover band. 804 00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:59,480 The tickets for the show in Spain were just ridiculous in price. 805 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:04,200 Plus, one of the shows was on a Thursday, the other one on a Saturday. 806 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:13,240 Again, very prohibitive to go and, you know, I don't know, to sit all the way back at the 807 00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:20,560 top of a stadium that holds 60 some odd thousand people really isn't appealing to me. 808 00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:33,440 Does seeing a tribute band that probably does the songs better than they do nowadays anyway, 809 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:39,360 does it make sense just to go see that as opposed to shelling out the big bucks traveling 810 00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:47,960 ten hours by car to see the hey, excuse me, the actual thing? 811 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,240 Go ahead. 812 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,240 Yeah. 813 00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:59,240 Yeah, I think in ACDC's case, it's a no brainer now. 814 00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:00,240 I agree with you. 815 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:05,200 I nearly pulled the trigger on tickets to go and see them in the UK. 816 00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,520 And then I thought better of it was going to, you know, I was working out the travel there 817 00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,840 and everything else that goes with it. 818 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,920 And then I paid 25 quid and watched a tribute band. 819 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:19,880 I'll tell you why I think it's no good seeing ACDC anymore. 820 00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,880 There's only two members in there. 821 00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:27,480 You know, they're basically, you know, you know, members are dying and they've left and 822 00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,760 etc, etc. 823 00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,880 You're not really seeing an ACDC that made back in black. 824 00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,200 Yeah, sure. 825 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,080 You've got Brian Johnson back. 826 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:41,760 You've got Angus Young, who's, you know, he's looking very old now, not saying he can't 827 00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:42,760 play. 828 00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:43,760 Of course he can play. 829 00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:44,760 He's Angus Young. 830 00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:45,760 He's a hero. 831 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,240 And people will go and just see him. 832 00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:55,640 But I saw a tribute band and they were they were exactly like ACDC were in their heyday. 833 00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,680 And I think they sounded better than the real ACDC. 834 00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:04,640 Obviously, the real ACDC have got, you know, a lot of help, a lot of technical help. 835 00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:05,960 It's going to be a great show. 836 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,120 They've got all the screens. 837 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:16,280 But why would you pay all that money to see, you know, the old ACDC as it is now when you 838 00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:21,080 can just go and see a tribute band and we know how good ACDC songs are and how they 839 00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:25,120 sound great when people play them really well. 840 00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,600 So it's it's a no brainer for me. 841 00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,560 It's the it's the tribute band all the way. 842 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:31,560 Yeah. 843 00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:42,200 I think you're lucky in the where at least the bands are are going to. 844 00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:49,880 The tribute bands are going to have decent vocalists who will sound very similar, whereas 845 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:58,360 here a lot of those vocalists just are not good where. 846 00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:04,240 They enunciate close, but they're not pronouncing the actual words. 847 01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:11,520 I remember seeing a Michael Schenker tribute being advertised. 848 01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,640 The musicians were just fantastic. 849 01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:21,360 And then I paid attention to the vocalist and he wasn't enunciating any of the words. 850 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:26,160 He was just doing it was imitating English. 851 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:30,160 And it was one of these things where like those are like scratch vocals. 852 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:31,600 They're not even like real vocals. 853 01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:39,320 He's not pronouncing an actual word that I know just felt like you were getting hoodwinked 854 01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,800 from. 855 01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:43,800 I don't know. 856 01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:44,800 It's funny now. 857 01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:54,000 It just dawned on me that Chris Cheney isn't in Jane's Addiction right now. 858 01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:55,920 And I'm thinking, where's he? 859 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:57,560 Why isn't he part of this new tour? 860 01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,880 Oh, yeah, he's touring with ACDC. 861 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,200 So there's that. 862 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:10,080 Yeah, I was lucky when I saw the tribute band, like you say, because the guy who was doing 863 01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:14,440 the Brian Johnson looks like him and sounded like him. 864 01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,840 And he had even sounded as if he was from Newcastle. 865 01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:21,400 I don't know if he was putting all that on, but in between the songs, he was talking in 866 01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:22,640 a Geordie accent. 867 01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,200 So he was he was to me. 868 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,480 I was looking at Brian Johnson. 869 01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,720 It was just so, so like him. 870 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:37,960 So for for those ignorant people in the US like myself, what would the Geordie accent 871 01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:38,960 sound like? 872 01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:44,080 The Geordie accent is for like Newcastle, man. 873 01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,080 Your castle. 874 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:49,160 That's how it sounds. 875 01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:57,480 Yeah, if you listen to any ACDC live album and you listen to a Brian Johnson talk, that's 876 01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:07,280 more or less outside of his hey, that's more or less what he sounds like. 877 01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:11,040 So awesome. 878 01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,400 This was a blast to do this with you, Jeremy. 879 01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:18,320 Hope you guys enjoyed listening to our suggestions. 880 01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,920 Keep new music alive. 881 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:25,360 Listen to some of these and let us know whether you think we're fools, whether you like some 882 01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:29,480 of this stuff, whether you agree with us or if we missed one, if there's one that we should 883 01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,080 check out. 884 01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:38,240 So on that note, Jeremy, thanks for joining me and we will catch you next time right here 885 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,320 on Signals from Mars. 886 01:02:41,320 --> 01:03:06,360 See you folks.