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Welcome everyone to episode 396 of Signals from Mars. I'm your host Victor and we continue

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with our album reviews. Man, catching up from over the summer and as a result at the end

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of September we are talking about August. But it's all good, it's all good music and

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me and Jeremy will be up next. I'm ready. Let's do it.

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So I was on Facebook and I don't remember if it was Classic Rock Magazine or Rock Candy

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or Brave Words or one of these groups that I follow. And the original post mentioned

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something to the effect of what I say here during these shows that there are a lot of

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lazy listeners out there and people have stopped listening to new music after they graduated

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high school. And there was somebody that pretty much agreed with the notion and said something

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to the effect of what I say here in that there's always good new music coming out. And then

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there was somebody that was incredible, responds with, no, the people that are lazier, those

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that will accept any form of music and not actually they don't have criteria to differentiate

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between good music and just anything. So this is your typical fan who is set in their ways

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and I will not try that hamburger because it is not as good a quality as the hamburger

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that I tried back in March of 87, that day after my football contest, where I so happened

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to savagely ravage the other team. And as a result, my performance has not been as good

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as what it was then. So I retired because I could never top that. It's just this idiotic

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notion that, oh, it's not as good as what it once was. Right. Nothing is ever going

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to emotionally connect. I've said this a million times with stuff that got you hooked on a

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form of music or on a band for the first time. Again, nothing is going to be as good as that

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time that you played with your best friend in front of the house. That first time that

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you know, your grandmother made you that dish, so on and so forth. But it does not mean that

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all of a sudden, no, it's not going to be as good. So I'm not even going to give it

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the opportunity because I am better than something new. Dude, that's how you feel. That's fine.

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Then maybe this isn't for you. But to constantly beat that dead horse and constantly beat that

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drum that nothing is as good or whatever nonsense you've formed, what opinion you formed doesn't

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mean that the rest of us have to live up to the same thing. So for those that want to

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check out new music, want to check out different things, Jeremy and I do these shows. Doesn't

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mean that we're right. There's nothing factual. It is just opinion. There are things that

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speak out to us and make us think, hey, maybe I should recommend this to people. And again,

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I've mentioned this a bunch of times. I try to pick different things so that we give you

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guys a dichotomy of things to choose from, not just one or two things. Sure, there are

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times that we agree on things, but there's kind of no reason to always just review the

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same things. We have different tastes and we hope that that shows through on the show.

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And it hopefully turns you people on to something that you may or may not enjoy. You may think

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that we're crazy and whatnot, but anyway, let's get on with the show.

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Welcome one and all to Signals from Mars. I am your host, Victor, and joining me for

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the second straight week is Mr. Jeremy Weltman. How are you, Jeremy?

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Yeah, doing well. Thanks, Victor. And I'm joining you on Friday the 13th, which of course

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is a really good time to be talking about metal, even though it will probably go out

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later.

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Yes, that's funny. And I'm glad that you mentioned that because it was something that I wanted

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to bring up as well. It is always like a quintessential day for metal, the whole horror tie in and

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all that. And I've recorded more than one show on Friday the 13th. So we are back for

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our monthly review of albums. We are doing August 2023 in the middle of September. August

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2024 in the middle of September 2024. How about that? Even screwing the year up.

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Yeah. So listen, folks, life gets in the way and we're getting to this as quickly as we

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can. Regardless, hope you enjoy this episode and it helps you with your year end polls.

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So August was an interesting month, at least with the stuff that I had to work with here,

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some of the albums that were sent my way. It seems to be a little leaner than other

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months, but still had some great music regardless. So we're going to talk about some of our

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favorite releases that came out this year. And then as usual, we're going to talk about

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some points that we've kind of thrown back at one another here. So anyway, on August

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2nd, we start out with a new Smashing Pumpkins album, a Forie Morie Mae, I guess is how you

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pronounce it. Blind Guardian, Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited, actually, that's a reissue.

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Well, it's actually a re-record of that album. Anyway, Ron Keele with Keele World, Blues

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Pills with Birthday, Mr. Misery with Self-Titled, Mr. Misery, Fourth Dominion with Diana's Day,

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Richie Newton with Moments, EPs from Hyrax, Faster Than Death, live albums from Lord of

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the Lost, live at Valken Open Air, two reissues from Steve Hackett and one from Three Inches

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of Blood. Jeremy, what stood out to you this week?

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Thought for a moment, my wife had actually done an album about me called Mr. Misery,

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but no, she hasn't. So I checked out Moments by Richie Newton. This was actually an EP

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of six songs and 24 minutes of music, despite him actually advertising it as an album. I

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don't know much about this guy really, except that he's German. He founded the band Hellfire,

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which I've kind of heard of, and that he now seems to front a rock show as well. In any

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event, this was, I thought, mostly sort of good time, classic hard rock fun. It was pretty

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enjoyable stuff, really. It was without breaking any barriers. It was underlined by the song

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titles Born to Rock, which has a chorus that could have been written by any band from the

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80s. But it was an enjoyable kind of listen. Talking of those sort of 80s bands, as you

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mentioned, Keel is back with a new album called Keel World. 13 new songs by his many bands.

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I couldn't quite grasp what was going on really, as he's sort of representing all the bands

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he's been in, like Keel, Steeler, Iron Horse, and even Black Sabbath in the guise of a group

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called Emerald Sabbath. But No Fair Game, which I believe he was also in, so that's

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not there. The pluses on this, well, you get a sort of bona fide, a Ron Keel voice. You

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get great production. You get sort of super clarity on it. But I'm afraid it really sort

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of falls down a bit, because the first four songs on it are all a little bit boring for

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me, until a song called Give Me Guitars or Give Me Death, the sort of Steeler effort

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kicks in, which just sort of cuts the mustard for me. The real problem, I think, is it needs

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a little bit more room. A younger man who can sort of inject more energy into it, to

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me, doesn't quite sort of know whether he's a rocker or a countryman, a country music

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man. And it sort of tends to slip into a bit of a Linus Skinner feel as the album progresses.

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So in the end, I went on to Spot Eye and I got the right to rock out and sort of enjoyed

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that instead. So it wasn't really me. Fortunately, the next album was very much better. It was

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the Swedish band's Blues Pills. I've not been very much of a fan previously, if I'm

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honest. But this one, it's called Birthday, and it got me really interested from the start.

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The title track itself gets off to a very sort of suitably groovy start, great hooks

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on it. And what follows are really sort of smatterings of soulful blues and rock and

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roll, you know, sort of all topped off with the very listenable larynx of Ellen Lange,

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the larynxist. And so if I'm going to pick one for the week, it's going to be Blues Pills.

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Okay. Real quickly there, the Emerald Sabbath is a tribute album that came out a few years

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ago and it was called Emerald Sabbath because the person behind it was Irish. So that's

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why it has that name. But on that he sings, I think, two Sabbath tracks on the original.

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I haven't checked the Kill World album out to see what ended up on that. But I listened

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to the Mr. Misery self-titled album. I've liked music by them in the past. This was

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kind of missing the hooks that led me to them, made me kind of really enjoy their music.

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It's not bad. It's just kind of same throughout. I listened to the Blues Pill album as well,

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Birthday, which I thought was okay. But by and far, this is something that I'm going

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to have to get on vinyl and it may end up on my year end list because Rob Halford once

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said, Rob Halford once said in an interview that when this band cooks, they're absolutely

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awesome. I know people don't like lead singer Billy Corgan's voice all the time, but the

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Smashing Pumpkins have brought the heavy riffs back into, I would say, more than half of

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this album. The last Smashing Pumpkins album that really caught my ear is Ziedgeist. I

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still listen to it today because of the heaviness and because of the riffs on it. This is the

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follow-up that I've been waiting for them to release ever since. We're talking about

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an album that came out, let's see here. Exciting, hearing me tap away. It came out in 2007,

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so I've been waiting 17 years for a follow-up to that album. Not bad. I'm also excited because

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they have Kiki Wango in the band, at least the touring lineup. I have to get a physical

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copy of this to find out if she actually plays anything on the album itself. If not, I hope

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she does play some stuff with the band in the future. That's my pick and I wasn't expecting

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to enjoy that as much as I did. I was actually playing it today. Let's move on to August

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9th. We have new releases from Hammerfall, Mushroom Head, King Gizzard and the Lizard

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Wizard. I watch you from afar. Siamese and a rising force. I wonder if Enve will be suing

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them for that. Three issues from Godsmack, Savatage, Dark Funeral, Fireball Ministry,

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Big Destroyer and two Rush-related issues. Victor album and Geddy Lee's My Favorite Headache,

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both solo albums, one from Alex Lifeson and one from Geddy Lee. The Smashing Pumpkins

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re-released The Rotten Apple and The Smashing Pumpkins. Greatest Hits, something I almost

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picked up in the States, but the difference in price wasn't all that different from what

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it was here. A live album from Blue Oyster Cult, the 50th anniversary show, Second Night,

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compilations from Jim Petrik and World Stage. Jeremy, what did you listen to this week?

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I kind of missed out on that Blue Oyster Cult live album, so I'm going to go back and probably

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give that a listen because I kind of like some of the Blue Oyster Cult stuff. I actually

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listened to Elements by the Danish rock band Siamese. This is their seventh studio release.

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It's kind of a full-on sort of modern melodic assault on the ears, I'd sort of describe

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it as. It's got those kind of generic sounds we sometimes rail against, but in its favor,

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it does have very solid production. It does have really good soaring melodies and mostly

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some solid sort of heavy guitar overtones as well. So it's a sort of band that would

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really sort of go down well at festivals, I believe. Even an old git like me quite enjoyed

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it if I'm honest. So yeah, that was a, you know, got a thumbs up. But I didn't listen

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to a lot in this particular week and the one that I'm going to go for is Truth by a Rising

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Force, which you just mentioned. Banned from Minnesota in the US, originally signed in

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2020, that seems to have had its fair share of travails along the way as well. They parted

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with their original singer. Apparently the record company president died of COVID, unfortunately,

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and that sort of forced them to reclaim their music rights and move to another label. So

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this is their third album and I like it a lot. It's very solid hard rock. It's old

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school heavy metal that hasn't been overly polished. Sort of band that you in particular,

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Victor, trump it on shows like this. It's one that will appeal to patrons and listeners

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alike, I think we can sort of describe it as. I like it because it kind of lures you in

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and makes you sort of want to play the songs again and again, which is always a good sign

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of an album. You don't have to really like it straight away, but you want to go and have

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a proper listen. They aren't also, you know, they're not very straightforward. And I think

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that, you know, there are some influences there. You can hear Dockin quite a bit, I

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think, and numerous other 80s bands, I would say as well. But yeah, it has a sound of its

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own and it's my pick of the week.

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Excellent. And do you remember what label they were on?

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I don't offhand, no, no.

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Okay, because I'm trying to think it wasn't Rat Pack. There was another label COVID that

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I was actually in touch with the owner. And I know that he and his wife were, I don't

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want to get into the political side of things, but they were deniers and they both passed

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away from it.

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Just looking up now. So they're currently on Dark Star Records.

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Right. Yeah, that's what I have written down as well. Okay, for me for this week, I listened

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to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. If you're looking for Southern rock in the vein

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of Black Crows, it's something that I would recommend. The album is called Flight V741.

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And the other thing that I listened to was Mushroomhead's Call the Devil out on Napalm.

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I would make that my pick of the week. I mean, they're not breaking any new ground if you're

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into Mushroomhead. It's more along the lines of what they've done. I will say that this

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is probably their best release out of their last few only because the album is a little

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bit more solid beginning to end.

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Some of the previous two albums just had a lot of tracks that I would skip over because

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I was like, okay, well, we've heard this before, they've done this before. And although that

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may be true with the new album, I think they've added enough entertaining elements to it that

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it's made my pick of the week. How about that?

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Cool. So let's move on to the 16th here. Not too much that I have listed here. I have Dark

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Tranquility, End Time Signals, I've Falling in Reverse, Popular Monster, Trench with Between

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Inverted Worlds, We Are Scorpio with Self-Titled Album, and Dead South Dealers, reissues from

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Creed Human Clay 25th Anniversary Edition, and Armored Saint Larazza and Revelation,

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both of which I have ordered and will be arriving as soon as the Alice in Chains Black Gives

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Way to Blue is reissued. I believe that may have even come out today. But I'll be getting

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that to some point later this month. Jeremy, how about you? What do you recommend for this

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I did have time to listen to albums and I tried out We Are Scorpio by, as you say, We

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Are Scorpio, Self-Titled, two really soulful black girls from Detroit. First thing to mention

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on this is that these girls can really sing. They've got very sort of 70s disco voices.

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Secondly, most of the songs are written with other artists, so there's plenty of collaborations

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on this album. And the third thing to say that this is real sort of rap and roll in

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a living color kind of way. So it's kind of got a little bit more soul and for the most

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part it works. So, you know, it does sound a little bit samey at times, something that

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I think Living Colour sort of avoid on their albums. And they kind of avoid going really

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metal as well on this album. They sort of lean more on the soulful rap most of the time,

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with the exception of the song Jim Crow, which is a really sort of nice, heavy, Beastie Boys

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style riff on it. So overall, you know, I kind of liked it in parts. I just wish they

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would have got a little bit more heavy at times. There wasn't a lot in this particular

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week, but I did try out The Noise, The Sky, The Melody by Dead South Dealers. And I'm

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very much glad I did. This is an album produced really on a limited budget, but it's really

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worth a listen, you know, worth your time. It's a band from Greece. They've been active

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for just over a decade, apparently, although they started recording after winning a Battle

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of the Bands competition in 2015. They had a new singer who took over in 2017. He isn't

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the greatest singer really over the full ranges, but you know, overall, I thought it wasn't

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bad. There's plenty of heavy rock, plenty of traditional metal. There's no cover tunes.

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It's all their own material. They sound a little like the sort of the new wave classic

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rock that's kind of sweeping across the UK at the moment. And they get a little bit heavier

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in parts as well as some really sort of chunky, thrashy riffs. So overall, yeah, it's a thumbs

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up for Dead South Dealers.

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Okay. I'm going to be honest here. I really only listened to one of the releases this

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week, which is Dark Tranquility's End Time Signals, mostly because the lead singer who

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is also in the Halo Effect and something that I discussed with you off air, Cemetery Skyline

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I was confusing whether some of the songs that I listened to were from that latter project

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that I mentioned or if it was from Dark Tranquility. So I gave this album a listen and excellent

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musicianship. It's just that the vocals are just something that just never do it for me

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with this band. The thing though is that his vocals for the Cemetery Skyline, which the

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album is called Nordic Gothic, it comes out a little later this month. The vocals are

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very like Gothic in flavor, very much like the Finnish band Hymn. So that's what caught

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my attention. This again, the End Time Signals, I really enjoy the musicianship, but I just

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can't get into the singing itself. Why is this doesn't? Okay. Yeah. So does Mikhail

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Stan, I guess? Yes. Yeah, that is correct. He was the original lead singer in Hammerfall,

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by the way. Nothing like what he did in that band. Yeah, I would check this album out and

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I'm noting which ones you listened to and set out to you so that I can go back and listen

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them as well. The 23rd saw albums from Zeal and Ardor, Nile, Flesh, God, Apocalypse, Mike

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Tramp, Simone Simmons, Aliviate, Aliviate, is that how you pronounce it? Me and my illiterate

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self, Nebula, Warlord, All 4 Metal, Rising Insane, Chained Saint, Perilidium, and the

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Georgia Thunderbolts. EP's from Wounded Touch and reissues from Miss May I, two from Virgin

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Steel and two from Zimmer's Hole. What did you listen to that stood out to you this week?

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Yeah, it's quite a varied mix for me this week. I began by listening to the album Universe

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Calls, which was the second full length release by Perilidium, the progressive metal band

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from Sweden, which hopefully I've pronounced right, which got delayed from earlier in the

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month. I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would. There were just sort of seven

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songs on it and 50 minutes of music, but it's all really well done. The vocalist Alexander

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Leike, or Lika, or Luka, I'm not sure how you pronounce it, is also a stage actor. He's

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really good. What do you expect from a Swedish singer? You're going to get a decent vocalist.

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The music is very melodic, it's expertly played. Think Dream Theater with the guitars really

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well layered over the keyboards, that sort of thing. The mix and production really add

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to this really. Even if there's a song called The Arcane Exploration Parts 1 and 2 on it,

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they perhaps over stay their welcome a little bit. They rack up a combined 25 minutes of

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music. You know what you're going to get. It's that kind of thing. It was pretty good.

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I moved on to Rise Above It All by the Georgia Thunderbolts, a band that hails from, yes,

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Georgia in the US. Of course, you may be able to guess from the title. It's very much a

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Black Crowes, Linus Skinner, Blackstone Cherry influenced band. It's all very well done.

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It's their second studio album. You may not be into that sort of southern sound, I don't

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know, but that type of band, it sort of hits the highs with this sort of music. They do

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the blues well, they rock well, the ballads are good, the production is good. They have

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the vocalist who has that southern lilt to his voice. It ticks all the boxes, that's

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what I'm trying to say. There's 13 songs to choose from. It's a very listenable album.

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You know what you're going to get with that type of music, but they do it very well. That

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was a good album. My pick of the week though is an album called Blindside. It's the debut

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album from a bunch of very young men calling themselves Chain Saint. In fact, this turns

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out that it's a student garage band from South Florida. They're clearly influenced by all

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the big thrash names, particularly Metallica. It's very raw, it's uncompromising, it's

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a real step back in time. It reminds you of the very, very beginnings of bands like Metallica

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and Overkill. It's very raw, very genuine, and you simply cannot ignore it. It's kind

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of one of those that you want to dismiss it and say, these guys are just playing early

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Metallica, what's the point? They don't even have the songs that Metallica have, but they're

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playing like them. Then you really get into it, you think, well, wait a minute, this is

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the band I'd really like to watch in a pub. It's great to hear a new generation playing

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that sort of stuff. We've said this before, there's a load of ACDC style bands out there

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that have made a living out of it. Why can't these guys? They're very, very talented for

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their age. Apparently, they're going to release it on vinyl very soon. I'm very tempted to

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buy it. It's my pick of the week.

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I got a chance to listen to Mike Tramp and Songs of White Lion, Volume 2. This is on

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Frontiers, I believe. Who's asking for this to be released? I mean, honestly, as much

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as I enjoy the White Lion albums, it seems like he's picked all the songs that I usually

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skip on all the albums. There's a few that I absolutely love that he redid, and some

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of them are really heartbreaking to hear this new rendition. I mean, what teen is running

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out to pick this up? What's the purpose? Because any of the die-hards or people that are in

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our age group or 10 or 20 years younger are going to be reaching for the original. There's

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really no reason to release this.

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My pick of the week is Zeal and Arter with Grief. This is the first album where I haven't

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found them doing something really kind of innovative or revolutionary or just different.

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Where in the past they've mixed gospel with really heavy elements of music, and it's been

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an interesting mix. This time around, it seems like they took a little less chances, and

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it's kind of same-sy throughout in places, which kind of surprised me, given how diverse

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their first two albums were. Still not a bad album, and that is why it is my pick of the

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week.

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Let's fast forward to the last week in the month, August 30th to be exact. We had new

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releases from Winter Sun, Throne, El Ende, Spanish Allende, Leprous, Nails, Oceano, Wunderhorse,

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Rosetta Stone, reissues from Lamb of God, and a live album from Elder. What did you

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listen to this week?

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I actually dipped into quite a few albums this week, including a very lot of death and

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black metal that really grated with me. I was struggling to pick out ones that I was

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going to recommend. I kind of like the 80s sound of Under the Weather by Rosetta Stone.

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It reminded me of my youth with those heavy new romantic drum and keyboard synths. It's

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quite a different one to the ones we normally recommend on here, but I think you'd probably

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like it, Victor. Again, a very different album is Time Two by Winter Sun. This one is just

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six songs spanning 48 minutes. I wasn't sure I'd like it at all, but it was the sort of

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prog metal stuff that you can expect. It's a Finnish band. They really kick up a storm

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with it. It's great production. It's nicely put together. You have to be in the mood.

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You have to sit through some fairly complex and expansive tunes, really, but it's very

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melodic. If you like Dream Theatre again or Sons of Apollo, it's worth your time. My Pick

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of the Week is a bit of a surprise, really, to me and probably will be to you as well.

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It's Midas by Wunderhorst. It's an alternative band, a laid-back sort of guitar sound. I

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think it sort of touches on Oasis and late Beatles influences at times. In that respect,

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it's nothing new, really, but the more a lesson to it, the more I kind of liked it. It's very

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different to the sort of traditional rock and metal we normally listen to and review

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here. They write really good songs. They do have those Oasis and John Lennon-style sort

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of melodies you might expect from a band that I've just mentioned like this. With all the

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attention on Oasis at the moment, it's a reminder, really. There are other talented and very

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listenable bands out there, much in the same vein, that aren't the big rock stars, but

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they're trying to cut it. Well worth a listen. I think they're making a bit of a wave out

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there with the fans. Again, different album, but it's my Pick of the Week.

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All right. Cool. For me, my pick is going to be the Wintersun album, Time Two. Just

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dovetailing on what you said. This album offers so many different things. There's a prog element

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to it. There's melodic death metal at times. There's even some symphonic metal elements

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as well. It's an interesting mix of different things. That's what really stood out to me

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for this week. That's what I'm going to go with.

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Real quickly here, August 2nd, I picked the Smashing Pumpkins and you picked the Blues

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Pills, correct? Yep, that's right.

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The following week on August 9th, I picked the Mushroom Head album, Call the Devil, and

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you picked A Rising Force with Truth. On the 16th, I picked Dark Tranquility with Endtime

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Signals and you picked Dead South Dealers with The Noise, The Skull, and The Melody.

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Yeah, even The Noise, The Sky, The Melody. The Noise, The Sky, The Melody. Okay.

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Let's see, on the 23rd, you went with the Georgia Thunderbolts, Rise Above It All, and

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I went with Grief from Zeal and Ardor. No, I went with Chainsaint.

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Oh, okay. Yeah, Blindside. Definitely Blindside. I

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blindsided you there. Yeah, you blindsided me. I wasn't expecting.

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And on the 30th, I went with Winter Sun x2 and you went with Vunderhorse Midas.

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That's it. All right. Finally tripped over one of those.

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Okay, excellent. As usual, if you've come to a list of these shows, you know that me

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and Jeremy like to throw topics back and forth and discuss them. So I'm going to be honest

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here. There's five. I offered up one and Jeremy did the other four. But yeah, I think we've

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got enough information to discuss this. The first point here, Remix Rockarola coming out

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from Judas Priest plus Remastered. I'll be interested to listen to this because there's

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plenty of classic priest on here that we've heard over the years where even though the

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band hasn't really touched upon some of the tracks off of this album, there's still special

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songs to a lot of us. Let's see. I'm going to look up the exact songs. Jeremy, what's

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your opinion on this? Yeah, I've listened to Rockarola a fair few

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times in the past and I've always thought it to be a very disappointing album, only

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because it's a very poorly produced album. So they're going to do that. I think it needs

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a bit of a better mix. They're going to do that. I would have liked it if they actually

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re-recorded them, which would have been even better. But I'm really interested to hear

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what they're going to do with it because I think you hear the bare bones of Priest on

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this very first album. There's some good songs on there, but they're not as well developed,

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let's say, as the ones that came later on the next few albums. So yeah, I'm really looking

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forward to hearing it. I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to buy it, but if it sounds so much

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better maybe it's going to be a must buy because it's an overdue thing. I think they've bought

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back this album and maybe the next one after. I think they were owned by somebody else and

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I think now Priest own them. Or a company's taken ownership and they've decided to release

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them and redo it and put out a better package. I don't know if there's going to be any extras

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with it. I haven't seen anything yet. I suppose if it's just a vinyl there wouldn't be, but

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if anyone was getting it on the CD then I suppose they might have something more with

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it.

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I'm looking to see...

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I always wondered whether they would get away with the rocker roller symbol on the front

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because it's very like Coca-Cola. I thought they would have got sued for that by now.

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I guess Coke figured that there wasn't enough money there. I don't know.

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Yeah. Well, possibly nobody at Coca-Cola has ever heard of Jesus Priest.

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I'm seeing that on Amazon they have a 2007 release which is like a splattered violet

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color.

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Yeah. When the remastered version came out, Diamonds and Russ was added on as an extra

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as a bonus track, presumably on a CD version. This album was originally released in 1974

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so it's really old. I got really into early versions of albums, 70s stuff. I kind of like

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it. It's good. I'm really looking forward to hearing this.

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All right. A limited edition powerslave and somewhere in time being released by Iron Maiden,

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a special vinyl and something that we were discussing off air because what's going to

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be released for somewhere in time is available in the States at Walmart. It is a yellow vinyl

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with a future past poster in it. As Jeremy and I were discussing off air, it was somewhere

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in the neighborhood of twenty seven ish dollars. The powerslave looks really cool. I've already

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tried to preorder that. You can't order yet because it's being released in November. I

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was told that as soon as preorders are available, I would be able to preorder one for myself.

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That said, I mean, I haven't heard anything to the contrary that I won't be able to get

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my hands on it. I originally saw it from an Irish site. I hope that it does that it ends

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up here. The Armored Saint albums that I mentioned apparently are import albums here in Spain.

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So we'll see. What are your thoughts on these two releases?

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I suppose the first thing is that they say it's a limited edition, but we don't know

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how many editions there are. That would be interesting to know because we're all scrambling

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to get it. I mean, there's going to be a lot of Iron Maiden fans out there who want

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to buy them. Just as we've had the ACDC releases recently, the gold versions of the albums.

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It's always great to have better and newer albums of the old stuff that we've had. They

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do look really good. They're both very good albums as well. We're not talking about

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Virtual Eleven here. We're talking some classic Maiden. There might be two or three

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couple of tracks across both of them that you're not so keen on. They've got some

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classic songs on as well. So they're real collectibles. Yeah, I think there's going

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to be big demand for them. I'd probably like copies myself. It's Maiden. It's always

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welcome. Probably more welcome than the new albums really. More listenable.

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The interesting thing though is one of the reasons why I didn't pick this up in the

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States is because here in Spain, they've re-released everything from the first album up to somewhere

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in time, up to Seven Son of a Seven Son. So my idea was, okay, I'm just going to pick this up when I get back to Spain.

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There's a local company that's selling it and they also sold all of the ACDC reissues.

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So I don't know. This is... Oh, get out of here. I'm trying to look up the prices for

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the Iron Maiden and I saw something. Sorry, not to get sidetracked.

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Speaking of limited edition, it has a Kiss Army logo on it. This is a limited edition

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to the brand Lids in the US. It says right there, Lids exclusive. But the neatest thing

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about this, I've never seen anything like it before. Under the brim.

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Oh, right. Yeah. That's pretty cool.

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Yeah. So, or yeah.

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Only you know it's there most of the time.

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I saw that. Wasn't going to get it. And then I went to our local Lids and they said,

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no, we don't have it. That's exclusive to specific stores only. So I thought crap. I need to go back

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to the place where I originally saw it. But luckily in New York City, I found it.

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It's marginally better. Well, possibly not even marginally better, but on a par with the hat I'm

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wearing, which is a signals from Mars cap, which you can buy. Where from, Victor? You tell us where

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we can get this cap from. You can go to this QR code right here. There we go. Yeah. That's the cap that I'm

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wearing now. Yes. And you're actually also wearing the signals from Mars hoodie. There we go.

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Why be cold this winter when you can have a hoodie just like that?

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Which we can both attest to the fact that they are extremely warm.

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So now I'm not going to be able to find the Iron Maiden vinyl that I was going to tell you about.

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I suppose one thing I'd like to interject with the Iron Maiden discussion really is whether I

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prefer a picture disc or the vinyl that they're releasing. I kind of like picture discs and

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thinking maybe if they brought out those, I might be more tempted. I don't know.

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Oh crap. All right. So the presale is

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on this site for the, it's called

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picture disc, Zotrope edition. It is 38.99 euros is what they're offering it for.

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And interestingly enough, the new Richie Cotson album is being offered up with Iron Maiden. Look

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at that. He puts out an album and an EP with Adrian Smith and it's being grouped together.

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Okay. Yeah. So it's actually not terribly priced. All the other vinyls are 22.98.

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Powerslave is 38.99.

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Now it makes me think I should have maybe picked up somewhere in time in the States. Oh well,

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it is what it is.

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Anyway, moving on. Motley Crue will be playing a small LA club tour. I kind of glanced over this

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on blabbermouth, but what information do you have about this? Yeah, I don't have a great amount of

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extra information really, apart from what you just mentioned that I sort of saw they're going out on a

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small club tour. They're going back to the clubs that they played originally, which you can understand

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why they want to do it. They find it fun. They probably think that they're going to fill it out.

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There'll be a small crowd there and they're going to have a, it'll be a good time for everyone.

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I don't think it's going to be particularly a good time because I think that if you want to see

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Motley Crue in a club, you wanted to see them when they first came out, when they were there originally,

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when they were, you know, they didn't give a shit. They were, you know, up all night. They were

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boozing, taking drugs. Not that we condone any of this stuff, but you know, they were wild

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and they would have been fantastic to watch. They would have had the makeup on. They would have had

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the clothes. And what you're going to get is a load of old men minus one old man who's not there.

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And they're not really much fun anymore, are they? Let's face it, you know, they're trying to

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recreate their youth, but they're struggling. They've done a cover version of a Beastie Boys track

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and they've released another song, which really wasn't Motley Crue at all.

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So, you know, I don't know, maybe I'm just being a little bit negative because I do go and watch

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old bands that, you know, are good. And maybe people are going to say, you know, I've got a

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close and personal with them and they played some of the hits and it was, it was a fun night out.

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I'm not going to diss that, but I'm not really running to see it. Obviously I'm living a long

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way from it.

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Yeah. Remember a few months back, I posted a video of them playing early on and I remember

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instantly, Johan said, Oh, thank you for posting this. You know, I'd never seen this footage and,

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you know, it was them playing in the clubs, hungry and really taking no shit from anyone.

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They were, you know, they lived up to that hype to being dangerous and really something that you

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needed to see. As you're saying, you touched on a great point. It's much like seeing Def Leppard at

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the whiskey. Okay, cool. You were there, but you wanted to be there, you know, during high and dry

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or pyromaniac or, you know, back then when the band was hungry and they were looking for a

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band, you know, they were looking to claim scalps, you know, it's not, it's not a bunch of 60 year

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old guys that, unless they're planting people in the crowd or paying people to go in, it's going

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to be people way older than us at this show. So cool idea, practicality. Yeah, I don't know.

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Next point here, Paul Diano remakes Raff Child with his EP, 3,

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Formula of Dragon Force and Skid Row. And apparently this is for his book,

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Book of the Beast or from upcoming Book of the Beast album. Wait, what? He just released an album.

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Yeah, we reviewed that album. Yeah. Yeah, that's Warhorse. So now, wait a second,

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he's releasing two albums in like the span of two months.

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He's obviously been writing a lot of shit material. It's easy when it's crap. You can check it out.

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Let's see here. Sorry, Paul, if you're listening.

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Sorry, not sorry.

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Paul Diano, okay. Oh my goodness.

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Yeah, it has nothing to do or Apple has nothing regarding this album. Let's see.

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What Google has to say. Okay.

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Well, it's not a cheap album.

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Because I'm seeing it's okay. So it's double album 2525.

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Yes. So this is just another greatest hits.

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So you have tracks from throughout his career, like the Living Dead, which is solo track Children of

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the Revolution, which he did with killers as he did feel my pain and I believe chemical imbalance.

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Children of Madness is from Battle Zone. Okay. So remember tomorrow with Tony Martin,

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Rats Child with ZP3, Black Metal, a cover of the Venom Classic, Dream Keeper, Euro Radio

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acoustic version. You know, that's going to be burning up the charts. The Serpent and the Shrew

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unreleased recording, Three Words, 1996 pre-tour rehearsal recording. The Beast is Back,

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2003 home demo. And then you're going to get a second disc, which is a bonus DVD,

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Murders in the Room Org Live, The Beast Arises Live, Protector Live. I originally read Protractor.

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I'm like, well, why is he singing about a tool of measurement? Singing about a tool of measurement.

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Sanctuary Live, Three Words Live, Children of the Revolution promo video, Die by the Gun promo video,

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Rats Child promo video, Rats Child acoustic. Remember Tomorrow acoustic, Dream Keeper acoustic,

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and Strange World acoustic. Interesting. Okay. This also comes with, if you get it here now,

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you get a free tarot card set. And that's a deal breaker for 23 euros more. You can pick up,

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you can add the best of the Beast t-shirt as well, featuring a young Paul on top,

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and an older bald Paul on the bottom. So let's get on to the matter at hand,

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because you asked me if I had listened to the remake. What's your opinion?

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My opinion is it's not terrible because it's the song, Rats Child. So Rats Child is a great song,

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which I remember. It's just totally pointless because you listen to the original,

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and the original is perfect. It's got those bouncy bass from Steve Harris. He's changed it.

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He's changed it slightly. I don't like the way his voice is projected even more forward on it

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in some ways. And I just think, why has he done it? He's done it because he's done it,

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because he's trying to keep all these old songs in the limelight. He's trying to pretend that

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he was a big, big part of Iron Maiden, which he kind of was for two albums. Let's face it, he was.

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But really, I had made him, left him behind, and there was a reason,

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and that's because he's not that good. He's certainly not that good now.

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You can argue the toss that he was pretty good at that time, but he's certainly not that good now.

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You can argue the toss that he was pretty good at the time because he had that punky voice for

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Maiden. I really don't like this version of Rats Child, and I really like the original version of

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Rats Child. I saw the original version on top of the Pops, actually. They played it live.

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They didn't mime to it. They played it live like a proper rock band should do. And of course,

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Iron Maiden were carrying it through, really, more than he was. So I just think, no, I don't

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want to hear it again. Yeah, the changes to the song drive me crazy. The change to the

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timing where he changes the bass and changes the drum part

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just doesn't make any sense to me. I listened to it, and instantly I said,

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what? And my kids like, what's wrong? I'm like, this shouldn't be there.

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I'm going to be charitable. I'm going to say that if you were to hear him in a pub,

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say he came down to a local bar or a local pub and he played it live, it might sound OK live just

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because he's doing his version of it live. And you're sitting there at the time and Iron Maiden

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aren't there. You're never going to hear Maiden sing it. Maybe it'd be OK. But I'm being very

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charitable. That's the only thing I would say. I would actually listen to it. I would never buy it

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and I'd never want to hear it again on the studio version. As much as I don't like the re-record with

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Bruce singing it, I prefer it to this. And I will say this, and this is a question to ponder,

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because we've gotten new albums from Bruce, Paul D'Ano, and Blaze Bailey this year.

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And unfortunate, but true for me, is that I think the Blaze Bailey album is the best of the lot.

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And that's not saying much because I think the War Horse album, we talked about it last episode,

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the Depeche Mode covers the best song off of it. And the Bruce album,

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I think watching paint dry could be a little bit more exciting.

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It's kind of like Iron Maiden throwaway songs, isn't it? That they didn't put on the book of souls.

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Absolutely. Real quickly here before we wrap things up, we're closely approaching the end of the hour

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here. Magnum has announced that they're continuing. They're saying that they're going to do this

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as a tribute. Jeremy, your thoughts?

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Yeah, I was really excited when I heard Bob wanted to go back out on the road.

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He's taking the original album, and he's going to be doing the same thing.

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I was really excited when I heard Bob wanted to go back out on the road. He's taking the original band out.

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Obviously, he's talked to Tony Clarkin's family about this, and they probably wanted to do it.

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They thought it was a good idea. They're all going to get a little bit of money out of it as well.

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I'm sure Tony Clarkin's family will get something out of it. The fans, I've noticed, are very much up

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for it. They want to hear the hits. They're going to do two hours. They're going to have a little break

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in between. They're only playing four dates. Fortunately for me, they're playing in Manchester,

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and I bought my ticket today with a friend of mine. I think it's a win-win because it's the

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last time we'll ever hear Magnum with Bob Catley singing those songs because I don't think they'll

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ever do it again. I don't think they'll do any new music. You never know. You can never say never.

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I've heard a little rumour that possibly they're bringing back a few old band members, so maybe

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Mark Stanway will be coming back just to have a little tinkle on the ivories. That'll be a nice

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way to finish off, to see some of the living members that are still around come back and

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play along. It'll be for old people like me who remember them. In some ways, it might even be a

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little bit of a better concert because you're going to hear a proper hits show, whereas you

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would have heard stuff off the new album or whatever and you might not have liked that one.

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It's going to be good. Is it true that the Magnum ticket is harder to get than the Oasis ticket in

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Manchester? Not quite, but amongst Magnum fans, you might hear that.

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Yeah. Excellent. Well, Jeremy, thank you as usual. It is always fun to catch up with you with these

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episodes. I hope you guys enjoyed this. We'll be back in a few weeks with our September episode.

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A lot of cool music coming out still between now and the end of the year. Jeremy and I will be here

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to help you guys keep up with all of it. On that note, we will see you next time right here on

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Signals from Mars. Bye folks.

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Bye.