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Welcome everyone to episode 392 of Signals from Mars. I'm your host Victor.

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And for this episode, welcome back Mr. Jeremy Weltman. This is the first half of

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2024 albums review. We're gonna touch upon a bunch of different albums that

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stood out to the two of us throughout the first half of the year, basically what I

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said from January to June. Check it out next.

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To quote William Bailey, better known as W. Axl Rose from 1991's Use Your Illusion,

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sometimes I feel like I'm beating a dead horse. But these episodes are done for

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people that haven't been checking out music and I get it, or haven't been

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checking out new music that's been coming out this year and I get it. Life

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gets in the way, every one of us has different things that's going on in our

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lives. We can't always do it. So that's why Jeremy and I are here to help out by

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pointing out some cool albums that we've been listening to throughout the year.

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Initially the idea was to just talk about a few, now we talked about a whole

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lot more. So I hope you guys enjoy this episode. It is always fun to talk music,

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talk rock, to talk metal. Can I say that? We were talking metal. It's fun to catch

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up and just talk about music that we love and help spread the word to others

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because there's so much out there and sometimes it's just difficult to sort

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out so much material. But it's there. Just have to find it. The episode is the

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episode again. I don't want to say it's great. I don't want to toot my own horn,

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but I think it is a good listen. It is a good listen, especially if you've

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missed out on any of these albums that we're mentioning. So I do want to remind

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some finagling, but that's fine. I'll see what I can do. I'll do my best. How

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about that? Hope you guys enjoy this episode. Hope you guys are having a

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great summer and we've got another episode next week which will be what if

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John Bush and in September hopefully I will be back with some cool interviews

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and other cool concepts to discuss with you guys. Alright, let's get on with the

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episode folks.

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Welcome one and all to episode. I can actually give this an episode number.

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This is gonna end up being episode 392 of the audio version. This is essentially

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our recap of the first half of 2024 when it comes to releases, when it comes to

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albums, EPs, compilations, live albums, but for the most part we always focus on

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new music and joining me as usual my trusted companion for these types of

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chats, Mr. Jeremy Weltman. Jeremy, how are you sir? Hi Victor, yeah doing really well.

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Thank you. Listening to a lot of rock and metal at the moment which is always a

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good thing with it being summertime it's time to play a lot more stuff than in

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the winter. Absolutely. You wake longer. You wake longer and also you can kind of

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interject music on walks and runs and bike rides and drives out on the

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weekend so there's a lot of different things as opposed to just I mean it's

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cool sitting at home and listening to music but if you can get out and kind of

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combine the two that's always neat as well. Yeah. So cool we're gonna go back

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and forth. I'm not sure what Jeremy has on his list and Jeremy's not sure what I

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have on my list. I'm sure there will be some sort of overlap but the initial

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idea is to discuss five different albums of our choosing and we're gonna go back

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and forth. I'm gonna let Jeremy start and we'll see where we go from there.

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Yeah you've limited everything by saying only five because as I sort of

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mentioned just off air just as we're about to start you know probably got

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about 19 different albums on this list because there was so much great music

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that's been released so far this year. I can't believe it to be honest. I didn't

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expect it. That was one thing. There's a lot of famous names on my list but

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there's also a few that you know haven't released albums for a while or they're

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slightly lesser names and I think that's good as well. I'm gonna mention for my

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number five an album by a British band Lionheart, The Grace of a Dragonfly

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which came out in February, February the 23rd I believe. As you know Lionheart

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been going for a long time. Dennis Stratton was in the band. There's a few

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other famous names who've been in and out the band over the years and

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they haven't released a lot of music you know all the time and to be honest I

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did remember them back in the day. I think I picked up an album by them you

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know in the 80s and then I kind of forgot all about them to be honest but

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this album is a really really good, it's a sort of concept album

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about war and you know around the sort of second world war really and

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it has some really great songwriting on it. It's very well produced and you know

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it's got great melodies to the music and you know listen to it several

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times. Really enjoy it. I think they made a really good job of it. So that

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would be my number five. There's not much more to say about it you know I just

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really enjoy it. I think it's a good old British sounding

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album as well you know if I can say that. There's quite a few this year you

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know that have a lot of melody to them and we may mention one or two others

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as we go on. I think it's been a great year for British metal probably better

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than some. So I'm going to keep things in the UK as since you started out

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there. I'm going to continue there and I'm gonna hit you up with Orange Goblin

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and Science not Fiction. There's gonna be a common theme here because a lot of the

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music that I've really dug this year is really in that vein of doom metal, stoner

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rock, stoner hard rock, stoner metal, however you want to call it. Drinking

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from the the well that was first

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Plenished Full of Water by Black Sabbath of Drinking from that Sabbath well I

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should say I've gotten to see Orange Goblin live. This is their first album in

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quite a few years and they've never disappointed. They're heavy punishing you

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know it's funny when a lot of people bring up high on fire and bands of that

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ilk not to besmirch them in any way shape or form but Orange Goblin is

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always one of my go-to bands when it comes to that style of heavy metal. So

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yeah for me the my fifth mention and and this isn't us saying this is our top five

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or whatever this is just us throwing out albums for you the listener to check out

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if you aren't aware of any of these but yeah so the first thing I want to mention

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is that Orange Goblin Science Not Fiction. Yes interesting Orange Goblin

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they were formed in the mid 90s and often when this bands formed around that

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time I've not really got into them very much because of just things going on in

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my family life you know I got married and we were having children all that

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sort of stuff and I didn't get into you know as much metal as I should have at

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that time and so they are on a band that I'm as familiar with as some other

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people and so you know you're recommending the so really going back

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into their back catalogue as well as listening to this album which yes you

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know I will plan to do and that could be that could be some good fun to you know

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to do that over the next few months. There you go some homework. Yeah.

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All right so what is the next album that you would like to discuss? So this is an

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interesting one for me at this stage because I've got my top three sort of

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bolted on but I'm really gonna make a decision live on air here or at

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least on the recording for when everyone listens to it because there are about

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five or six that I could put into the next slot which I think it's just a

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little bit above Lionheart in the quality and the listenability but I

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hadn't really made up a mind I'm gonna go for the Grand Slam album Wheel of

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Fortune that was released in June and by the way I could have mentioned others I'll

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probably just mention those now in passing it could have been Pray Mantis

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it could have been Witherfall it could have been one or two others we might

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mention others later so I'm gonna go for the Grand Slam album I didn't

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necessarily really like this when I first listened to it I thought it had a

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you know it's a little bit of a sort of poor thin Lizzy but when I listened to

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it again and again I really got into it I thought yeah this is just one of those

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really enjoyable listens you know I think again they got the melodies right

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the production was right and they've produced you know some songs that do

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sound a bit sort of Lizzy type as if you know if Lizzy were going now they might

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sort of do that kind of stuff and it was just great to hear Grand Slam again

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because you know they haven't been around producing music all the time and

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sometimes you know we welcome back into the metal fold the classic rock fold

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bands that haven't you know been around for a while and they want to produce

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music again and I think that's a really good thing so yeah I'm gonna go for

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gonna go for that Grand Slam effort okay for me I'm gonna kind of keep it in that

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same orange goblin type of vein this is a band that I've mentioned to my patrons

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several times turned I think quite a few you guys onto them they're a band out of

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Sweden the name of the album is wheel of illusion the band is the quill and

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similar type of vibe as orange goblin maybe a slightly more melodic and I

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would say the album is probably better than the album from orange goblin not

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to say that you know again that the orange goblin is bad because I mentioned

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it but I think off of the orange goblin there's like five songs that went into

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my 2024 playlist and for the quill was something like nine so it's really a

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fantastic album again it's in the doom stoner vibe really cool because you get

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that Swedish kind of side of things so there's some different ingredients going

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on there but it's definitely a worthwhile listen it's something that I would

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definitely recommend people checking out oh Jeremy what what do you pick next

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yeah so my number three on my list was quite easy really so we're sort of

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discarding a lot of stuff which was all super but I'm gonna go for the the dust

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ball album sound and fury which came out in February dust bolts are a band as

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you know that tend to do just basic thrash and you know they're good at it

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I've enjoyed a lot of their stuff in the past they came out with something

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quite different they even look different they they sort of wore from what I

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remember they wore clothes that were all white on the cover they decided to go

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you know in a more sort of modern progressive direction but they but they

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had some great songs on there and a lot of power they didn't discard the thrash

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completely you know it was there but they've they've crafted out a new sound

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for the band of course it raises the question as to whether they're gonna

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continue in that vein or whether this is just a one-off and they're going back to

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you know doing what they did before but I thought it was very brave I thought it

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worked I enjoyed the album I enjoyed listening to it again and it's you know

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as a super release very early in the year so yeah dust bolt brilliant okay

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awesome I just wrote down to check that album out again I completely forgot

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about revisiting that one let's see for my number three here this is hard yeah

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we may have to do quite a few honorable mentions definitely I'm gonna go with the

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Lucifer 5 album you know what you're getting when you hear Lucifer it's a

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throwback to the 70s again very very occult theme to it and that's really not

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what makes me gravitate to it but the melodies the female vocals on

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top of it's it's it's Sabbathy it's it's a bit deep purple sounding as well maybe

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without as much prog it feels like 60s pop at times as well there's a lot of

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different things going on and Lucifer always seems to deliver with the album

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there's there's always a few songs off of each album that that end up in a

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playlist somewhere and I definitely think it's one that people should go

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back and check out

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yeah certainly one I'd like to have a listen to as well it's amazing when we

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do these things how we're coming at these things from you know we're picking

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out completely different albums and that's a great thing and you know the

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listener out there's got so much choice really and we're just proving it by

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these are our top five as well they're not just any bands that we're talking

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about yeah okay go ahead what do you have number two number two is I think

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there's probably no surprise here and I know Brad Dahl will be listening to this

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at some future point and he'll be clapping his way through this because

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it's Saxon with Hell, Fire and Damination came out in January as you

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know I'm a big Saxon fan so that helps as you know they're one of the great

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British institutions so that helps it also helps that they've been producing

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some very consistent music over the last sort of three or four albums one or two

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of them are better than others some songs are better than others but they

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you know they get the production right on most of them they get that sort of

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Saxon feel throughout you know which is always there great live act and it's

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great to hear some of those well I did hear you know three three tracks off

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this album live this year I don't think it's you know they're very very best

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album but I do think it's you know good eight out of ten and it's a very

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listenable album it's one that you know I'll go back to and listen again and

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again and that's why I put it in second place it also features Brian Tatler on

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guitar now and he's you know had a little bit of an influence on the

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guitar but well on the on the songwriting a little bit and we'll

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probably get a bit more of that on the next album I guess so that was

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interesting and Biff's voice just sounds great and you know if you play a

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Saxon album really loud and you like Saxon this is gonna appeal to you it's

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a you know it's a great lesson and oh by the way one extra thing they did a song

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called 1066 and many Saxon fans were saying they can't believe that Saxon

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had never done a song called 1066 before which obviously you know the Battle of

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Hastings which is very important in British history and of course they do

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all these songs about all types of British history right through to the

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modern era and they've never done one on 1066 so that that was quite remarkable

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cool so um my second pick here one that hasn't gone over with everyone on

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patreon it is the latest album actually came out last month it is from the band

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Kitty the Canadian band the four-piece female band one possibly the only band

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no not the only band one of the only bands that I've actually interviewed all

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four members at one point in time so I'm thrilled that they're back with a new

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album I didn't expect to enjoy the album as much as I do I've been listening to

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it quite a bit these last few days the name of the album is fire I think I've

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posted four or five videos to patreon because they've released quite a few

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videos leading up to the release of the album and like I said I've interviewed

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them a bunch they've been I don't know if I want to say that they've been

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forgotten because with any of these bands they they have a they have a die

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hard audience and when I got to see them I've actually seen them live as well

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which is where I interviewed two of them the place was was relatively packed and

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they're a band that I think laid a lot of groundwork during the 90s did a lot

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of things that females at the time were not known for doing and even though you

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have your arch enemies and stuff like that where you had an Angela go so take

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over and and others afterwards or you started to see female vocalist and

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whatnot no this was email vote female singer guitarist sister drummer bass

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player and second guitarist so it's still to me I mean I think it's a big

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deal that this band came around when they did they should be more famous than

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they are but is what it is they are a metal band after all and not everyone is

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into the growling we know that so anyway so I would recommend checking out fire

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by Kitty if you're into again I wouldn't say it's extreme extreme metal because

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there's a lot of clean melodies as well there's there's a mix of of clean and

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guttural vocal so cool out check it out interesting yeah so we're at that number

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one stage what is our number one album of the half year and of course I'm gonna

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pick Judas Priest invincible shield came out in March it's beyond belief I've

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listened to this many times I've got the picture disc and I play it pretty

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regularly and I play it you know reasonably loud I think I think this is

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possibly and I'll stick my neck out here possibly their best album that they've

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ever made yeah yeah it's certainly the most enjoyable album at the moment that

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I'm listening to that may may change you know obviously I'm not dissing any of

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their back catalog I'm not dissing the old great songs that we've done in the

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past I just think for a band that's so late in their career to produce an album

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that is this good that is lasting in my ears and is better than firepower quite

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remarkably so I think it's it's really amazing that they could do that I think

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they've got the tempo right on this album whereas they didn't quite get it

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on the last two they did get it quite right on firepower yeah it was a much

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better effort than the previous one but I think this one it's got such an energy

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to it I don't know whether it's because you know the guitarist are knitting

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together now because they've been playing together a while or what it is

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whether you know because Rob Holford is now feeling much better you know we know

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he's had cancer in the past I don't know what it is but they've just got it right

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on this and I think the songs are amazing I haven't got a favorite song

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because I like it all I just like it all they all seem to get gel together they

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all have that essential Judas Priest melody that essential Judas Priest

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heaviness and you know as you know I love the band anyway but but this was a

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real step up a real rung on the ladder and if this is our last album they've

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gone out on the highest of highs that no other metal band has done I don't think

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yeah if this was the year-end definite list this would be my number one as well

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I think I'm like the songs off of firepower a little more okay but I will

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say this when revisiting the album because I haven't listed in a few months

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purposely because I didn't want to you know there was a point there where I was

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just listening to this over and over again and I said I'm gonna burn myself

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out on it I don't want to do that so so I kind of gave it a rest what I think

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they got right with this album was I think they were trying to do the same

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structure on Angel of Retribution and I'll explain why on Angel of Retribution

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they have a song that oh well we need a song that sounds like as if it came off

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a painkiller okay so there's this song oh we need another song that sounds if

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it was a British Steel song okay let's do that we need a ballad let's do that

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you know so it seemed as if they were picking and choosing and trying to

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create songs in the ilk of as opposed to just kind of letting things go I think

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with this album with invincible shield

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I think they and this is what Andy Sneap does to bands Andy Sneap will tell them

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listen to your music or listen to what influenced you at the time of when you

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were recording this or what you were doing with that the reason that I bring

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it up is because there's little nuances things where how Scott Travis is playing

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which is very reminiscent to Les Binks is playing in the in the 70s he's

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playing certain notes on the hi-hat he's doing certain syncopated beats that's

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similar to what they've done during stained class and and those albums in

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that period excuse me so I think that they've they went back to an idea that

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kind of didn't work and they made it work this time because I think much so

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what you're saying is they're more of a team now so yeah Andy is the producer

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but he's been on tour with them for how many years I have to check the songwriting

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credits to see what Andy Sneap wrote with the rest of the band if he wrote

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anything maybe he didn't but I think he's got a better feel for

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where the band should go definitely what you said there's no other band none that

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sounds remotely like they do with this album Maiden hasn't come close to this

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in a long time I mean you know because I've mentioned this to you I've

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mentioned to a lot of people since Halford has come back and Gangel of

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Retribution has one great song and the rest of it is just kind of okay it's not

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bad but it's not great it's not where I want priests to be

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Nostradamus was terrible Redeemer of Souls is for the most part terrible the

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sound is just so bad on that that album that album was a cry for what we talked

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about in the previous previously we recorded and we talked about the

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interview I did with Anvil with with Lips and the importance of a producer

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they self-produced Redeemer of Souls that guitar sound is terrible it is one

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of the worst guitar sounds not only for priests but for any band ever and it

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just makes you think well why are they doing this they can afford to have a

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producer come in and I get it it's a lot of it is ego to be able to be told you

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know hey you need to do this you need to do that and they haven't they didn't do

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it on that album I think Firepower righted the ship and this all comes down

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to opinion but I think this continues what they started to do I think maybe

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Sonic this panic again with with them phasing in different eras of of the band

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I think panic attack with those keyboards is definitely you know could

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have been on turbo or ram it down easily but yeah I'm I yeah I love panic attack

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I love the beginning of that it's it's great I agree with you on the Sonic the

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Sonic sound you know just think that it's it is a huge improvement on on all

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that you know they've gone better and better on the last couple of albums right

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and that's in the sound yeah credible yeah so I I purpose I I didn't want to

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rank these because I think that these will shift and because my number one I

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mean I kind of going in any sort of order to be honest with you the the last

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album that I want to mention and I've really really thought to myself no it

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sounds too generic in places it sounds too commercial but damn does it sound

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good when it's good it's great some people are gonna shit on me for

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this it is the other side of Mars from McMars okay yeah a lot of what he's

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doing on here is sorely missed with what Motley Crue has done for a long time the

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riffs are great the melodies are great like I said there's some stuff that's

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way commercial way radio-friendly way let's get on the radio let's get a hit

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which isn't indicative of the entire album but I think I think it's an album

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that really should be checked out person yeah I agree I agree I think yeah I

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really enjoyed that album when it came out it's not one I've played much since

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so that I probably haven't returned to it but I probably will and again you

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know could feature at my top ten for the whole year yeah because it was great and

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and you're right about it being better you know it's what Motley Crue should

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be doing that sort of putting more energy into the stuff and writing better

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songs and yeah that's what he does but he's also you know he's got a bit of

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freedom to do what he wants and he's done it yeah I I agree so I have a few

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other albums on here that I want to ask you about because I know that you've

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listened to them and I want to know if they're anywhere on that list of 19

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hmm there's two in particular so one is one is humanoid by except would that

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happen to be part of your 19 yeah it is yeah okay so I've listened to this a few

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times this last week more so that when it came out and it's helped to kind of

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change my opinion on this album okay I do think that similar to what we said

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with priest I think that we're seeing how some of the newer players have maybe

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influenced where they've gone with this album a little I mean not a whole lot

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because let's be honest priest is or not priest except is is one person after

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after and Peter Balz has even said that that during this last run that he was

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just a employee that he really didn't have much say so I'm thinking that

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Wolf Hoffman has decided to listen to some of the other people that are that

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are now part of the band because they've got three guitars if they've got

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obviously a new bass player as well this is funny on on Google it lists Michael

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Wagner who's who's a producer as a member of the band so he is not he is

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is produced the band this is interesting Google does not list the actual band so

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let's see what Wikipedia says okay so so there is a contingent so the band has

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two Germans one guy from New Jersey and three guys that are from the Nashville

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area I'm thinking that and especially Philip Schaus who is now the third

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guitarist in the band has had a lot to do with the songwriting because he's

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been involved with people like Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley and and others

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like that playing in their touring bands he's been known to play in a lot of

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other bands over the years does a lot of cover stuff in Nashville I have to look

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at the credits I don't know if he's credited or not but I also wouldn't be

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surprised if he's again just an employee so so he's not getting the full full

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songwriting credits but I think that the album is better than the last few and

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again not at priest level but but I do think that yeah so on this do you expect

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this to be part of your top ten at the end of the year that's a good question I

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think I need to listen to it more like you have because I'm like that with

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except you know I can put them put them down for a while and then I'll play them

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in fact I was playing Stalingrad this week because I just pulled it out and I

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thought you know that's a great album give it a listen I'm never overly won

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by except I think sometimes they grab me you know if I play them loud enough and

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I'm in the mood but what I would say is I really like the rise of chaos which I

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think was probably what about three albums ago and I really like that one I

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thought there's some good songs on it when I listened to this one I just

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thought well it was very samey I thought it was better than too mean to die the

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previous one which I thought was probably you know the the weakest of the

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of the current current lot right but I wasn't overly won over by this one I

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thought you know it's it's except it has that except sound the songs are all the

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same sort of riffs rehashed but you know I'm willing to give it another try it

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wasn't terrible it's nothing that I would you know I would toss out I mean if

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someone was to send me a free copy of it of course I'd be very happy to receive

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one and I'd play in the car or whatever it's just that I didn't think that they

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made the progress that I was expecting or they were doing something a little

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bit different and maybe I you know I shouldn't be expecting that of except

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that's the band that won't do you know much that's different so yeah okay I'm

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open to hearing it again and I'm not sure whether it's gonna feature in my

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top ten that's where I am at the moment okay all right so interesting because

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Andy Sneep produced this again and as I'm saying so Martin Motnik who is the

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bass player has co-written quite a few songs off of this our Torneo has

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co-written everything that the bass player hasn't co-written so that's so

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yeah so so there you go and even so what I said Phil Schaus has no writing

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credits on here so so it is the it is the bass player it is Martin Motnik who

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is the one that along with Torneo who who are the ones that have helped kind

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of evolve the sound look it's I'm not gonna say that it's not same Z because

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it is interesting so he was part of a band called the Rocks who's from

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Nashville from not mistaken and I remember seeing them

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on on headbangers ball the last iteration of it and enjoying some of

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what they released all right so the the second album that I wanted to mention to

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you is quantum phase by the end machine this is an album when it came out that

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grabbed me right away I've always loved the pairing of George

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Lynch and Jeff Pilsen they almost always come up with something really good I

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don't know why they waste their time with this rubbish of covering modern pop

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songs like they have recently with two releases because they're just so good

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together this album is the first one without Robert Mason with the end

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machine it has garish the chronicles on lead vocals it's much better than what I

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expected and this is kind of if you're wanting a classic docking album in the

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field of those original few docking albums this is what I would point you to

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Jeremy is this part of your 19 yes it is another one that's there so I did

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consider this one for the top five so it could end up again on in on the top ten

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we never know yet I agree with you I think Girish does a good job here

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replacing Mason I think you know I bought the previous album and I really

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like it I thought it had some good songs on it you know good sort of classic rock

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sounding to it we know the guitar works gonna be good I thought this one was a

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little harder for me to get into I don't know whether it's because I'd heard the

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previous one and in my mind I was thinking well that's probably enough for

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me from this band you know some bands you get you know you just want an album's

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worth of material and when they release another one which is fairly similar

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you're thinking well like that you know I'm not too bothered so I think I'm

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gonna put part that one in the same category as except where I'm gonna

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actually have to give it another listen because I don't think I've really

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listened to it properly since it first came out and that's that's the issue but

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I think you know giving it time giving a little bit of a lapse I might be really

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into it you know the second time okay because that happens okay let me ask you

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this out of those 19 which would you say kind of stands out for being really

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different from the rest where maybe even people would think wow I wouldn't expect

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Jeremy to be into this one or it's something completely different they kind

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of catch people off guard yeah there's probably there's probably quite a few

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but I'll try and limit it I quite enjoyed the witherfall album now people

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may sort of say well that's not unexpected because I picked that out as a

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you know their previous album as I think album of the year but they are a very

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different type of band aren't they the very sort of prog sound but they do it

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really well they have that unique unique vocal this one follows the previous

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album very much in a similar vein but there is you know probably about four or

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five songs on it that are excellent that the playing is superb you know I mean

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they can't off play their instruments and when they get the songs right as

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well you know they're on to a winner so that that would be one another one maybe

420
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because I've I've never really been into the band at all much since the very

421
00:42:54,440 --> 00:43:03,840
early days is riot V so you know I liked riots when they released Narita and one

422
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,520
of the album I can't remember what it is back in the day and I haven't really

423
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:13,560
listened to the band at all since then didn't know much about what they're

424
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,200
producing now and I listened to that one and I thought yeah that's that rocks

425
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:24,000
that's that's good good heavy heavy old-school metal rock it's great so yeah

426
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,120
I enjoyed that one and I think the third one if I could just mention the third

427
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:35,880
one that you may not again similar type of thing really is the Rod's album very

428
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:40,760
simplistic kind of metal rock but I think they do it really well they have

429
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:45,080
some really catchy songs on it and again it's a band that I only ever heard their

430
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:49,600
debut album I think back in the day and then sort of lost interest I guess you

431
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,480
know amongst all the famous bands and bands that sort of rose through the

432
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,880
ranks and I think the Rod's just faded away for me so yeah that'd be another

433
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:07,880
one if you had to reach for the new anvil album or the Rod's which one would

434
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:13,600
you go for oh that's a good question because I've heard the anvil one very

435
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,160
recently and the Rod's I haven't heard for a little while I think overall

436
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:25,720
probably the Rod's okay the reason the reason that I ask is because I would say

437
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:35,960
that they're both kind of in the same kind of I don't want to say category but

438
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,400
I think if you listen if you like the Rod's you would probably like anvil and

439
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:47,600
vice versa yeah so not to say that they're copies of one another I think

440
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:55,840
fans of the other so for me and and if you've listened to this show one of

441
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:03,020
these really isn't that far stretched it is from the I guess you could say

442
00:45:03,020 --> 00:45:09,120
German-American band now KMFDM let go they're an industrial metal band that

443
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:14,200
I've been into since the 90s to me they're they're hit or miss either I

444
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:20,720
absolutely love stuff that they release or I don't care for it there's there's

445
00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:25,600
kind of like no in between so I hadn't listened to this album in a while and

446
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,640
it's funny as soon as I turned it on I'm like oh yeah I remember this song I

447
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,880
remember the other song so it was cool they're they're great at heavy guitars

448
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:41,200
with you know a kind of dancey beat to it great vocals great melodies great

449
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:47,200
melodies sing-alongs that get stuck in your head and make you want to you know

450
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:56,480
sing over and over again that always it's great the the other one is a band

451
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,880
called slope I believe this is their third album third full-length name of

452
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:06,880
the album is freak dreams reminds me a lot of suicidal tendencies early red hot

453
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:13,120
chili peppers really funky and heavy guitars at the same time really cool

454
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:20,000
different sounding a real throwback and I appreciate what what this album is all

455
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,640
about it's it's completely different to anything that I usually listen to and

456
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:28,280
revisiting some of the tracks this week I was like wow this is this is cool this

457
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:33,240
is again a throwback and something you know kind of a refresher that will then

458
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:38,720
make you want to go back and listen to some of these other albums or songs

459
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:46,040
with you know a kind of different look so I'd recommend checking that out I

460
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:53,280
don't expect you to have either slope or came FDM on no no you're right

461
00:46:53,280 --> 00:47:02,240
you're completely right yeah okay and I have a dark horse album here okay okay

462
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:07,440
one that I thought initially it's gonna be a death metal band because the name

463
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:16,520
of the band is cryptos the name of the album is decimator and that to me had a

464
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:23,400
death metal written all over it and it couldn't sound more like new wave of

465
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:34,000
British heavy metal if it tried okay okay I don't want to say that it's it's

466
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,120
definitely not low-budget production it sounds like a throwback it's got modern

467
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:46,760
take on some things enough to make it still sound old-school and at the same

468
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:51,240
time there are some things that are thrown in there to kind of differentiate

469
00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:56,200
it from a band that's only trying to do retro heavy metal so there are some

470
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:01,520
thrashier things thrown in there and I think it's I think it's a cool album

471
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:07,360
that I think a lot of people like yourself may be interested in checking

472
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:12,200
out yeah I've actually written it down as you were speaking and I'm gonna check

473
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,160
it out that's that's where we are with that one yeah so you're gonna do that

474
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:22,320
and any sort of underdog pick for you any like lesser-known band that you

475
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,000
recommend people checking out yeah I mean I could mention a couple of the

476
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,440
bigger names as well that we haven't even touched on but I will pick one out

477
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:34,920
that's a bit of an underdog Demon the British New Wapham band actually were

478
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:39,160
new wave a British heavy metal band they were always a bit of a melodic outfit

479
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:43,440
they're probably not very well known now I wouldn't have thought you know by

480
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:48,640
everyone but they released an album called invincible in May I thought it

481
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:53,000
was really good I thought it was very melodic again great songwriting I think

482
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,360
this is a typical of the British albums that have been released this year the

483
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:03,720
songwriting has been good and they kept to sort of a nice pattern of melody you

484
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:07,960
know on those albums and I really liked it I thought the the lead singer who's

485
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:12,360
the original singer is getting on a bit now he sounds old I think I mentioned at

486
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,920
the time that I thought he might have even had a stroke because um okay he was

487
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,320
struggling a little bit with this with his vocal but actually listening to it

488
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,920
again and again I really like his gruff voice so you know it's good it's quite

489
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:28,440
kind of unique and I think you know that they put out a really good effort that

490
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:36,120
they could be proud of and it's worth a listen cool very very good on that note

491
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:42,800
I do want to bring something up that that kind of came to mind as you were

492
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:49,280
mentioning it the singer having some health issues we recently heard about

493
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:56,560
Jack Russell having to step down from being an active touring artist that's

494
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:01,440
known for Great White we knew that Andrew Freeman was going to be fronting

495
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:07,680
the band for a few dates there we talked about it a little while back there now

496
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:19,960
we know that he's got a the same disease that yeah is it Louie bodies yes yeah

497
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:26,520
yeah cuz I know my dad does that as well yeah it's I think it's a very

498
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:32,480
variant on the on Parkinson's or dementia variants on dementia I think so

499
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,640
you know it affects people in a similar way to those sort of illnesses right

500
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:43,440
yeah tends to come with age I guess don't know a huge amount about it because my

501
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:47,040
dad's only in the sort of early stages of it that kind of thing but I think it

502
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:54,300
can get worse yeah yeah from from the article that or from the information

503
00:50:54,300 --> 00:51:00,440
post posted on blabbermouth it mentioned that it's oftentimes misdiagnosed as

504
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:09,480
Alzheimer's or Parkinson's yeah a lot of the a lot of the symptoms are very

505
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:19,560
similar yeah they're all neurological diseases so it's unfortunate I'm

506
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:29,480
wondering if he's at a point where he could still record yeah can't tour but

507
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:35,560
maybe I don't know maybe frontier still has a four album deal left that he has

508
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:40,120
to shore up and and we're all of a sudden gonna see another Russell guns

509
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:46,520
album this year and something else you know to kind of tie up that contract I

510
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:51,360
don't know yeah it depends how far advanced it is a guess and but I would

511
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:57,680
imagine that he could sing certainly you know record quite easily because from my

512
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,320
experience of that in its early stages is that you know you might get some

513
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:05,920
shaking you might get some forgetfulness so you wouldn't be able to remember your

514
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,640
lyrics on stage without you know a prompt or whatever and you won't be able

515
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:14,480
to sort of stand very easily or whatever but you know in a studio I think you'd

516
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:19,560
be pretty reasonably fine I don't think it affects you your actual singing voice

517
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:28,180
from what yeah certainly not initially well we definitely wish him the best the

518
00:52:28,180 --> 00:52:37,560
other thing that I thought was kind of cool was that mark Kendall from great

519
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:43,760
white did come out and say you know even though we've had and this is the kind of

520
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:50,040
I'm paraphrasing it because I couldn't I should have prepared for this I didn't

521
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:58,120
know that I was gonna go on this tangent so the demon subject brought this up but

522
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:04,120
Mark Kendall said something to the effect of you know our differences are

523
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:10,560
business-related he's still a brother to me and I don't wish him any ill will and

524
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:16,640
stuff like that so I thought that was kind of cool to see that and you know I

525
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:25,200
hope that Jack can traverse life and the best way possible how about that yeah

526
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:32,800
absolutely second that yeah anything else that you would like to touch upon

527
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:38,360
before we wrap things up just say an honorary mention for Sebastian Bach's

528
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:42,560
album which we didn't mention an honorary mention for Sonic Universe

529
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,720
honorary mention for praying mantis there are so many everyone needs to go

530
00:53:46,720 --> 00:53:52,040
back and listen to the weekly episodes that we do as we do them on a monthly

531
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:59,600
basis and you know we review every single week yeah I agree it's it's

532
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,440
served up for you on the silver platter if you go to signals from ours our

533
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:09,000
comrade on the home page if you scroll down you'll find our album reviews our

534
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:14,480
monthly album reviews there and you can go back and check out the six that have

535
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:20,160
come out before this episode and then you can check this one out again to see

536
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:26,880
where we stand with some of these albums after six months and we'll see in a few

537
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:35,760
months how some of these stands where we actually have to decide our top ten

538
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:42,000
that should be exciting yeah I always look forward to that one excellent so on

539
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,360
that note I believe that we will be ending the episode I want to thank you

540
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:56,840
guys for joining us for watching this episode the episode will be released

541
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:03,520
you're watching this quote-unquote live this will be coming out on August 16th

542
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:08,680
and we are recording this on July 24th so there you go we're pulling back the

543
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:13,000
curtain there a little and letting you guys know some of the the secret sauce

544
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:18,080
ingredients but always fun to talk to Jeremy about music and hope that you

545
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:25,040
guys can appreciate the chemistry that we have talking about these albums and

546
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:29,280
hope that this serves for you guys to go back and check out some of this great

547
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,680
music so remember there's always some good music coming out you just have to

548
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:38,840
search it out do not be a lazy listener

549
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:47,160
absolutely awesome so on that note we bid you farewell everything is is ready

550
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:52,280
to go from here to September so we will see you back at the end of summer

551
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:57,720
beginning of fall thank you Jeremy for coming on and for everyone's support and

552
00:55:57,720 --> 00:56:11,240
we'll see you next time right here on signals from Mars see you folks

553
00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:15,200
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