1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Welcome everyone to episode 400 of Signals from Mars. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,280 I'm your host Victor. 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,280 And once again we're back with another October, 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,260 with another monthly albums review this time around 5 00:00:14,260 --> 00:00:17,600 that is for October 2024. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,600 Jeremy Weltman is back with his insight. 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,100 I'm here to give you some of my opinion. 8 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:30,100 And here we go. 9 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,040 So episode 400. 10 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,040 I tried to book a guest, 11 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,040 reached out to a bunch of different people, 12 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,040 got multiple different things. 13 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,040 We're working on this, can't do it. 14 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,040 We're out on tour, can't do it. 15 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,040 Going out on tour. 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,040 That one I figured I would wait until they came back from tour. 17 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,040 I don't know, just so many things that come up 18 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,040 while people are away from home, 19 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,040 where the internet is shoddy and you end up 20 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,040 fighting to get something decent out of what they provide you. 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,040 Anyway, so I figured I'd hold off on that 22 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,040 and that interview will be scheduled soon. 23 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,040 I do have something scheduled tonight. 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,040 And it should be cool. 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:51,040 Focus on Metal just released episode 600. 26 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,040 And it was funny because 27 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,040 they were talking about 28 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,040 how for this number episode, 29 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,040 they had Joe Perry on and they had this other person for this one 30 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,040 and another episode. 31 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,040 And for 600, it was just the two of them talking. 32 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,040 It was Scott and Richie just talking. 33 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,040 And I could totally empathize with that 34 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,040 because it's a lot of what I've done recently 35 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,040 and I know there are people that tell me 36 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,040 you need to get guests. 37 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,040 That's how you're going to get people to catch 38 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,040 or people to post about your show 39 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,040 and get more people interested and this and that. 40 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,040 And yeah, they're probably right. 41 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,040 But time. 42 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,040 Time is the biggest factor, man. 43 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,040 Just being able to fit everything in. 44 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,040 I'm sure. 45 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,040 I know that there are a lot of you that don't follow me on Patreon 46 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,040 where I do my other podcast, the Victor Amarouas podcast, 47 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,040 where I talk about behind the scenes stuff, 48 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,040 talk about shit that's going on in my life. 49 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,040 Basketball, which is, you know, 50 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,040 last few years I've become a basketball coach. 51 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:14,040 And yeah, so I probably bite off more than I could chew a lot of times. 52 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,040 I try to straighten things out and try to get the right mix in there. 53 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,040 But sometimes I just can't do everything that I want to do. 54 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,040 And I'd love to do more interviews. 55 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,040 And going forward for 2025, I do want to try to get more interviews in there. 56 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,040 But man, I look at somebody like Chris Aiken 57 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,040 from the Classic Metal Show and he's doing all of these different interviews. 58 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,040 And I'm super envious, to be honest. 59 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,040 But anyway, I'm going to do something that I haven't done a long time. 60 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:49,040 And that is a shout out to my patrons because they are great. 61 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,040 They help support and quote unquote, keep the lights on, 62 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,040 help certain things keep going here on the show. 63 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,040 And they're a big part of, for example, 401. 64 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,040 They're going to be a big part of that episode, 65 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,040 which will be coming out in the next few days. 66 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,040 Technical issues have prevented me from getting this out sooner. 67 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:16,040 But anyway, real quickly here, I want to send a shout out to Pascal Schumacher, 68 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,040 who's my latest patron, Patron, excuse me, 69 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,040 Sean Richmond, Chris Szynszak of Despo Geek, 70 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:29,040 Tony Espin, Anthony Mackie, Ed Ferguson, Johan Eddestrom, 71 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:36,040 Metal Dan, Jose Ruiz, Chris Vaglio, Gabriel Ruiz, 72 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:43,040 Brad Doll, Mike Jones, Jeremy Weltman, Stephen Hoker, and Stephen Saylor. 73 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,040 Thank you guys so much for your support. 74 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,040 You guys know it. I say it all the time. 75 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,040 It means the world to me that you guys are supporting me. 76 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,040 And it means the world to me that people are listening to this episode, 77 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,040 episode 400, where there's a million other things that you could be listening to. 78 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:19,040 You're still here. Anyway, let's get on with the show. 79 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,040 Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of Signals from Mars. 80 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:28,040 I'm your host, Victor, and joining me today is Mr. Jeremy Weltman. 81 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,040 Jeremy, how are you, sir? 82 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,040 Yeah, I'm really good. Thank you, Victor. 83 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,040 It's getting really cold here in the UK at the moment, 84 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,040 but we're going to cope with it for the winter months, 85 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:45,040 getting to some Nordic death metal or similar, I reckon. 86 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,040 What about yourself? How are you? 87 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:53,040 Yeah, it's the temperatures have dropped quite a bit here as well. 88 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,040 So it snowed up in the mountains, looks like. 89 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,040 You can feel that when you step outside the house. 90 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:11,040 And yeah, either way, we'll have a hot plate of piping metal 91 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:16,040 to go and warm us up during these winter months, for sure. 92 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:23,040 So we're back for our October 2024 albums review. 93 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,040 This is always fun. 94 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:30,040 This is for you lazy listeners who haven't checked out new music recently. 95 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,040 And we're coming towards the end of the year. 96 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,040 If you want to go back and check out some of the stuff that you've missed, 97 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,040 just check out all of these shows that Jeremy and I have done throughout the year. 98 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:48,040 And you can get caught up on some cool music that's come out this year. 99 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:53,040 So again, this is October. 100 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,040 Quite a few things that I listen to that we both listen to, actually. 101 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:02,040 I think we overlap quite a bit this time around. 102 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,040 But starting out with October 4th, 103 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:13,040 we had new releases from Blood Incantation, DAD, Disneyland After Dark, 104 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:19,040 The New Roses, Windrose, Mammoth Caravan, 105 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:26,040 Hermano, or Hairmono, if you want to pronounce it completely in English, 106 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:31,040 The Native Howl, Texas Hippie Coalition, 107 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,040 Texas Hippie Coalition, excuse me. 108 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:39,040 Hippie is from Motley Crue and Lords of Trident and reissued from Mastodon. 109 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,040 It is the 15th anniversary edition of Crack the Sky. 110 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:51,040 Jeremy, what did you listen to for October 4th? 111 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:57,040 Yeah, so I began the month checking out a couple of releases on Napalm Records. 112 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,040 The first one was a sort of unabashed open from the Italian band Leia. 113 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:08,040 This stood off really on a sort of a bad note, really, and it sadly got quite worse. 114 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:14,040 As you know, I'm a real power metal fan, but this is away from Firewind, believe me. 115 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,040 It has its sort of dated references to Norse mythology. 116 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,040 Bands that sort of do that well tend to be quite heavy, I think. 117 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,040 And this was sort of prancey dancy keyboard influenced drivel. 118 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,040 Sorry, guys, but I've no idea, you know, 119 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:33,040 who you're appealing to beyond a few teenage adolescents. 120 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,040 Just don't spend all of the album sales on a round of drinks. 121 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,040 Sorry, it's not personal. 122 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:44,040 The second Napalm offering, I think, was much better. 123 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,040 It was attracted to Danger by the New Roses. 124 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,040 It contains good time melodic rock and roll, 125 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,040 and it's apparently the band's sixth studio album to date. 126 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,040 Strangely, they do sound a bit like a US band, I think, 127 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,040 but they are in fact from Wiesbaden in Germany, 128 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,040 which Michael Schenker would be able to pronounce better than me, I think. 129 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,040 I suspect the singer Timmy Ruff might not be from Germany 130 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,040 because he doesn't sing with any accented vocals. 131 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,040 But whatever, they can write a good song or three, 132 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,040 and while they aren't tearing down any houses, 133 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,040 they're a band I'd sort of enjoy seeing live, I think. 134 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,040 There's some really sort of good choruses on the album 135 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,040 to get the crowd singing along a bit. 136 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,040 The title track has a sort of whiff of FM about it, 137 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,040 and if it's heavier after, Four Wheels has a riff that really sort of hits the spot. 138 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,040 So, yeah, that was pretty good. 139 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,040 I followed that up with the six-song EP, Frostbitten Galaxy, 140 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,040 and Mammoth Caravan, which is on Bladesetter Records. 141 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,040 This is a Sludged Doom band from Arkansas, 142 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,040 and you'll notice I'm saying that because when I was a kid, 143 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,040 I actually did a little bit of marketing and said, 144 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:09,040 Arkansas, by accident. So apologies early on there. 145 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,040 There's some variation on this sort of album, 146 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,040 it has some proggy elements, a fair share of sort of brooding intros. 147 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,040 It's got a very heavy, sort of groovy backline, 148 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,040 so people listen on board for most of it. 149 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,040 It's a hard listen, though, really. 150 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,040 It's got some sort of growly vocals on there, 151 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:32,040 you know, really growly as well, which, you know, sort of grates a little bit. 152 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,040 But, you know, the music shows a lot of promise. 153 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:39,040 I just think if they could get a stronger metal singer in to actually sing the songs, 154 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,040 maybe sort of mix it up a bit, you know, 155 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,040 with the growls and the non-growls, the clear vocals, 156 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,040 you know, it would be a winner, really. 157 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:53,040 But as it is, I guess that's the new roses as Mike of the week. 158 00:10:54,040 --> 00:11:03,040 OK. And since I was lucky enough to interview Tim Ruff from The New Roses a few years back, 159 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:09,040 he is German. The thing is, Wiesbaden has a very, yeah, 160 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,040 they have a very big military base, US military base there. 161 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:21,040 So he spoke English early on in life and learned it directly from soldiers 162 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,040 and people that were stationed there. 163 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:31,040 So that's why he speaks with speaks and sings with very little accent. 164 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:40,040 So I listened to the DAD album Speed of Darkness. 165 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:45,040 I listened to the New Roses album Four Wheels is, I think, the best track off of that. 166 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:53,040 You mentioned that. And real quickly, I do want to mention that the album is called Troll Slayer, 167 00:11:53,040 --> 00:12:03,040 but the band is Windrose. So just OK. OK. Yeah. 168 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:08,040 Just a quick correction there. Have you seen what they look like? Yeah. 169 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,040 No. OK. No. OK. 170 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:19,040 Because they look. Yeah, they look like characters out of He-Man, basically. 171 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:32,040 What else? I listened to the Ermano album, also the Native Howl and Texas Hippie Coalition. 172 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:38,040 I can't say that there's any album that I didn't like. 173 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,040 The Native Howl was more or less what I figured it would be, 174 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:51,040 being that the duet with Lizzy Hale was the leading single and obviously has Lizzy Hale, who's who's a big name. 175 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:58,040 It makes sense for them to release it with her because it's going to draw a certain audience there. 176 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:05,040 Texas Hippie Coalition was OK. The Ermano was stoner rock. 177 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,040 It was half live, half new track. 178 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:13,040 So it was what you would expect from them and people that have been in and out of Caius 179 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,040 and that extended family. 180 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:30,040 The New Roses is probably the. Out of everything that I've heard from them, probably the most polished album by them, probably the most radio friendly. 181 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:37,040 I understand completely why you would pick that one, because it's right up your alley. 182 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:47,040 The D.A.D. album, Speed of Darkness. 183 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,040 I think I think it's a good album. 184 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,040 I think it's again, they're not inventing anything new. 185 00:13:52,040 --> 00:14:00,040 If you like D.A.D., you're going to like this like Metal Dan, who was looking to order this from overseas. 186 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:10,040 I'm going to give my tip of the hat to the Native How since you went with New Roses just to give people something different to listen to. 187 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:16,040 If you're not familiar with the band, it is acoustic. 188 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:21,040 It has fiddles. It actually has some electric elements to it. 189 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,040 It's a little different. And yeah, I think it's a little different. 190 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:31,040 And yeah, just to give them a shout out and have people check out both New Roses and the Native How. 191 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,040 How about that? All right. 192 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,040 So let's move on to the 11th of October. 193 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:51,040 We had new releases from the Offspring, Miles Kennedy, Jelly Roll 1349, Vomit Fourth, 194 00:14:51,040 --> 00:15:04,040 Dance of the Dark, Seven Hours After Violet, the new side projects from Shavo from System of a Down. 195 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:11,040 That's one that I forgot to check out, which I will write down to to listen to. 196 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:24,040 Add Infinitum, actually Clean Break, The Crown, House of Lords, Linda Lindas, Master Boot Record, 197 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:34,040 Aransi's Pizzuzu, Radioactive, Seven Hours After Violet on here twice. 198 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:42,040 Seven Hours After Violet on here twice. So let me remove that. 199 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:48,040 Century Cemetery Skyline. 200 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:53,040 Shit, I really wanted a list of that and I didn't or did I listen to that? 201 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:59,040 I think I may have. And Touché Amore. 202 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:03,040 Jeremy, what did you listen to for this week? 203 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:09,040 Yeah, this particular week I started off listening to Full Tilt Overdrive by House of Lords, 204 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:14,040 the band from Connecticut, of course, formed by Greg Yuffier. 205 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:20,040 It began way back in the 1980s and reformed in 2000. 206 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:28,040 This one is on the Frontiers label and it's what I class as decent hard rock with strong guitar, 207 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:33,040 the perfectly adequate vocals from James Christian. 208 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:40,040 I'd say not all of the tracks are truly great songs on this album, but the guitars are pretty strong. 209 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,040 It's a pleasant listen overall. 210 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:48,040 The best tracks for me on that were Cry of the Wicked, the single Bad Karma, 211 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:52,040 and the extended album Closer Castle's High. 212 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:58,040 So I just kind of class that as fairly solid without being too into it. 213 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:03,040 Also on Frontiers was the album Video by Fans of the Dark. 214 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,040 This band was formed in 2020 in all places, of course, of Sweden, 215 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:12,040 where just about every other band seems to come from these days. 216 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:18,040 This is all sort of fun, poppy, early Europe, AOR style rock, 217 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,040 just the sort of thing you might imagine from Swedish pretenders. 218 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:29,040 And it will get slated for being very dated and it's kind of far too safe. 219 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,040 Those would be sort of fair criticisms, I guess. 220 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:43,040 I can almost hear the vomit gurgling up, Victor, when I tell you that one of the songs is called Let's Go to Rent a Video. 221 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:50,040 But let me put it out there, sickening as it might be, 222 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,040 the band can really sort of write a decent commercial song or two, 223 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,040 even if they sound a bit of a throwback from Top of the Pops in 1982. 224 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,040 So I'm not dismissing it. It's there for someone. 225 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,040 And I quite enjoyed it. 226 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:09,040 So talking of 80s influences, it brings me on to the Nordic Gothic, 227 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:13,040 the debut album from the supergroup Cemetery Skyline. 228 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:18,040 This has really sort of more than a passing reference to Sisters of Mercy 229 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,040 and other sort of similar indie goth bands of old. 230 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,040 It's really sort of described as a gothic death metal band and album, 231 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:34,040 and a meeting of minds really with some various well-known band members from the Nordic mellow death scene. 232 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,040 It's a real super list in this one. 233 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,040 I mean, you could criticise it for sounding a little bit samey, 234 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:46,040 but I think they're sort of very well-written songs, they're expertly performed. 235 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:54,040 It'll really appeal to that sort of niche of hard rockers that sort of veer into gothic, sort of alternative indie music sometimes. 236 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:59,040 It has sort of sizzling keyboards, very textured echoes on it, topped off with, you know, 237 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:04,040 what I say is really sort of truly brilliant vocals of Michael Stanner. 238 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:11,040 It's an album, you know, I've put on my purchase list already, and it's very easily my album of the week. 239 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:19,040 Okay. So I listened to a few different things here. 240 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:25,040 I listened to the new album by Offspring, Supercharged. 241 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:31,040 I really liked the singles that they released before the album came out. 242 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:37,040 I have to say, folks, probably the strongest songs off the album. 243 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:54,040 So when people give kids a hard time for streaming, it's your perfect example as to why I don't, because this saved me a lot of money. 244 00:19:54,040 --> 00:20:04,040 I ended up with three songs in my 2024 playlist off of this album, Light It Up, Come to Brazil, which were leading singles, and then Hanging By a Thread. 245 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:14,040 There's really nothing else off of it that I felt worthy enough to either get my 2024 playlist or in my Offspring playlist. 246 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:25,040 So they've come a long way from their last great album, which to me was Splinter, and that was 20 years ago, if I'm not mistaken. 247 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:30,040 I listened to Crown of Thorns by The Crown. 248 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:41,040 I really, I like the album, but it starts to sound pretty same-sy after a while. 249 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:50,040 And it's still good, but I wish it was a little bit more diverse. 250 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:58,040 The Touche Amore spiral in a straight line. 251 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:09,040 It's not bad. Very punk feeling to it. Very 80s British feel to it. 252 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:16,040 But my album of the week is going to be the same as yours, Nordic Gothic by Cemetery Skylines. 253 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:24,040 I did listen to this. I thought so. I didn't have it crossed off on the list, but I'm like, I'm pretty sure I listened to it. 254 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:32,040 The singles were great leading up to it, and everything that I've heard off of the album, I really enjoyed. 255 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:43,040 The interesting thing here is that the lead singer who you mentioned before is in, I don't know how many bands at the moment. 256 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,040 And he sings completely differently in every band. 257 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:52,040 He's also in the halo effect with all these former members of In Flames. 258 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:58,040 And if he's sung the way that he does on Cemetery Skylines, I would like that music even more. 259 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,040 But anyway, definitely an album to check out. 260 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:14,040 Oh, I forgot to mention that there were EPs from One Line Drawing, Ten Years, and live albums from Def Leppard and Stoner. 261 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:21,040 Again, part of that whole Caius family tree. 262 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:44,040 October 18th, we had new releases from Jerry Cantrell, Encepharum, Escuela Grind, MC5, Cortez, Grand Magus, Fate, Frost, DGM, and Swallow, The Sun. 263 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,040 Jeremy, what did you listen to this week? 264 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:53,040 So I started off listening to Thieves and Charlatans by Cortez on the Ripple label. 265 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,040 I thought that was quite a decent listen. 266 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,040 It's a five-piece heavy Stoner band from Boston. 267 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,040 It's kind of varied its style a bit on this particular album. 268 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:14,040 And that's sort of obvious when you compare the opening of Gimmie Danger, which is sort of a lively, classic rock song, the very sludgy second-track, Leaders of Nobody. 269 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:27,040 And then they kind of follow that up with a very sort of bouncy, almost Black Sabbath-style riff on Stove Up, which has a – then it changes again with a sort of choppy chorus that sounds a little bit like Vandenberg's Moon Kings. 270 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:33,040 So it all makes for a great song, and there's a good variation of songs as well, so that's good. 271 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:38,040 But they also have their own sound, so they keep to their own sound. 272 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:43,040 So it's one of those albums that has something for everyone, kind of deserves a few listens. 273 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,040 So I quite enjoyed that. 274 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:50,040 I moved on to Sunraven by the Swedish three-piece Grand Magus. 275 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:56,040 I think it's Magus, is it? Or Magus? I don't know how the Swedes pronounce it, but anyway, it's on nuclear blast. 276 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:01,040 And I know it's one that you've also listened to, Victor, so you'll probably chip in in a minute. 277 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,040 I can't say I've listened a lot to this band before. 278 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:10,040 I hadn't listened to a lot of their – the back catalogue, but I have gone back and listened to it since. 279 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:16,040 I'm not entirely certain if I'm fully on board with the vocals of Yanni Kristofferson, 280 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:22,040 but I'm not saying I dislike his voice. I just haven't made up my mind on it yet. It's one of those. 281 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:30,040 But I do like the album a lot. It has those classic rock and metal elements and sort of melds them together into a great listen. 282 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,040 It has a nice bouncy feel to it. It has a solid mix. It's good production on it. 283 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:43,040 It has that sort of quality of a new Wobben band sometimes as well. It's got that rawness, but it has heaps of melody as well. 284 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:50,040 They managed to carve out a sound all of their own as well, which I kind of applaud. I did enjoy it. It was great. 285 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:56,040 So I moved on to Shining by Swallow the Sun on Century Media. 286 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:02,040 This is a Death Doom band from Finland, a genre I kind of seem to be warming to. 287 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:09,040 I think it's maybe The Dark Nights going on here in the UK. It's making me listen to that sort of stuff. 288 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:18,040 Harking back to that Indie Goth sound of old, I kind of liked as well. Whatever it is, it's a good listen. 289 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:28,040 The band's got a wealth of albums behind it now. I think they're a little bit more accessible than bands like Ayrton or Witherfall. 290 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:35,040 I think they've got some good melodies. I liked Melancholy, which I thought was almost like a ghost song. 291 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:43,040 I think they'd certainly cover that one really well. Very brooding, a nice eerie sort of... 292 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:52,040 There's even a bit of modern Queensryche on the song called Cold with a K. Had a bit of a growly twist on there as well. 293 00:25:52,040 --> 00:26:00,040 I think there's twists and turns on this album. I think it's quite exceptional in its artistry. It sort of draws you in. 294 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:06,040 You kind of enjoy it without any interruptions. It's one of those you just want to listen to from start to finish. 295 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:18,040 I liked it a lot, but I think if I'm really honest, I will go for the Grand Makers album as my album of the week, but that one came a close second. 296 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:33,040 Okay, so I listened to the Escuela Grind, which is a full on mix of hardcore punk and some noise rock to it. 297 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:45,040 Not bad. I mean, there's a few tracks that I enjoyed. Not something that I would reach to all the time, but I did enjoy the release. 298 00:26:45,040 --> 00:27:01,040 I really enjoyed Sun Raven by Grand Magus. I don't know if it's Magus or Magus either. I used to say Magus until Mark corrected me one time. 299 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:16,040 Interestingly enough, I believe the current singer of Firewind used to be in this band, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong. 300 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:25,040 I know that if it's not the current singer of Firewind, that was one of their previous singers anyway. 301 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:34,040 But man, I want Blood from Jerry Cantrell. Love this album. 302 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:41,040 For everyone that sits here and says, I don't know, without Lane, they're not this, they're not that. 303 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:57,040 I listened to Cantrell on the new Metallica podcast, him and Robert Trujillo, who also appears on this album, talk in depth about it, which was a really cool listen. 304 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:04,040 If you haven't heard that, I do recommend it. I did preorder this on vinyl. We'll be picking it up shortly. 305 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:15,040 It is my album of the week and it is Jerry being Jerry without being full on Alice in Chains, if that's a way of describing it. 306 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:26,040 I mean, obviously his voice is his own, but it's doing stuff that he really doesn't do all that often or if ever in Alice in Chains. 307 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:42,040 And my number two would have been the Grand Magus. So we've got all bases covered there. 308 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:56,040 And then the final week of October, the 25th, had new releases from Artreu, Loud Blast, 311, which that date may have been moved because I can't find that album. 309 00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:05,040 Devin Townsend, Annihilator, but not the Annihilator from Canada. This is Annihilator with one N. 310 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:31,040 Underdogs, Trucker Diablo, Ares Descendant, Cassandra's Crossing, Doug Pinnock, Fit for an Autopsy, Iotan, League of Distortion, Mindless Sinner, Pixies, Turmoin, Catalot, Kings of Mercia, 311 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:58,040 EPs from Enthios, Dance with Dead, Asking Alexandria, and Enforced, reissues from Green Day and Rat, live album from Bohemoth and compilations from him, Motorhead, and various artists with the American Psycho comic series soundtrack. 312 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:04,040 So Jeremy, what did you listen to for the final week of October? 313 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:12,040 Yeah, I should have listened to the Rat album. I don't know whether that's a remaster. Hopefully it is a remaster and I'm going to have a listen to that in due course. 314 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:19,040 We all know how good that album is anyway, so we didn't need to listen to it as sort of new music goes. 315 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:30,040 I started out the week listening to the thrash album Death is Calling from Annihilator, which as you mentioned is a different band, it's a different spelling to the Canadian band Annihilator. 316 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:40,040 This is the one from Texas that started out 37 years ago apparently and returned in 2015 after disbanding for many years. 317 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:50,040 It's actually a seven song album of just 33 minutes of music, but as you've often mentioned sometimes, less is more. 318 00:30:50,040 --> 00:31:01,040 So more of an EP than an LP I guess, but it's all very typical melding of all the various thrash elements you'd expect, brutal riffs, fast bass drumming. 319 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:07,040 There's even a sort of priest-like metronomic blast of iron grinder to get your teeth into. 320 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:15,040 It's unrelenting, it's unreconstructed, it's powerful anvil grinding, bone crushing metal I'd say, and it truly hits the spot. 321 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:21,040 I really enjoyed it and I suggest the listener goes out and have a listen to it, it's good. 322 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:33,040 Next up I listened to Power Nerd by the prolific Devin Townsend, his 12th studio release now under his own name, because he's done other stuff as well as we know. 323 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:42,040 I can't say I'm much of an expert in his music and I've not been that much of a particular fan in the past either, so I'll be honest with you. 324 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:52,040 It's a really nice listen, it's got quite a bit of variation in styles, it keeps you sort of hanging in for a longer listen which I like about albums sometimes. 325 00:31:52,040 --> 00:32:02,040 I like the song Gratitude, it has parts that are very Pink Floyd, interspersed with a great stadium friendly chorus I think. 326 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:16,040 That was one of the highlights for me and it didn't overstay its welcome as well, sometimes bands or artists like that can go on a little bit and that's a perfect song. 327 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:28,040 The opening title track adds a bit of pace, I like that, and I like Glacier, I thought there was a brooding atmospheric sort of combining of acoustic and electric guitars so it's a very good effect. 328 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:33,040 There are some fine melodies on that and a good crescendo as well. 329 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:40,040 It was a decent listen, not normally my sort of thing but very enjoyable. 330 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:50,040 A big shout out to Nine Ties by the Italian Stoner Rock Band Underdogs, they seem to be back after a decade break, well worth a listen. 331 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:58,040 But it wasn't my album of the week, that goes to Social Hand Grenade by the Irish New Wave of classic rock band Trucker Diablo. 332 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:13,040 They've now released six studio albums since 2010, this is all sort of heavy hitting riffs, solid production, it's good time rock and roll, very much in the style I'd say of Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, that sort of music. 333 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:25,040 Apparently they've spent quite a long time going over this album, producing it and coming up with the songs and for the most part that shows as well. 334 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:33,040 Occasionally they dial it down, sometimes they do sound a little bit like every other band out there but they certainly know how to write a decent rock song as well. 335 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:52,040 I'd very much like to see them live and hey presto, they're headlining Rock Witch Festival next August in my hometown. So there you go, there's a great opportunity for me, I've got no excuse, I should go and see them. Solid stuff, album of the week, Trucker Diablo. 336 00:33:52,040 --> 00:34:10,040 Alright, cool. For me, let's see, I listened to the IOTN album, Kinship. I really enjoyed their previous release but I have to be honest, this release bored me. 337 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:16,040 It was just very long drawn out and kind of samezy. 338 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:29,040 I listened to Doug Pinnick's latest solo album, Thingamajigger, and it was okay, respectable, has some pretty cool tracks off of it. 339 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:36,040 Also listened to the Devin Townsend Power Nerd. 340 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:46,040 With Devin I either really like what he releases or I really don't care for it. 341 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:59,040 This has a few good songs on it but the rest is, we've kind of been here before, we've heard all this before so there's really not much more for me to kind of enjoy with it. 342 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:10,040 I'm going to go with Cassandra's Crossing and Garden of Earthly Delights. This is a George Lynch project with a female singer. 343 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:20,040 And I should have been better prepared for this. 344 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:29,040 Let's see if this comes up here. I guess that was the name of a movie as well from the 70s. 345 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:35,040 Look at that. 346 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:44,040 Okay, so when you're not looking for a video, a bunch of videos pop up. 347 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,040 Cassandra Carson is her name. 348 00:35:47,040 --> 00:36:02,040 Anyway, if by any chance you're missing, George really doing Dockin' like material. 349 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:21,040 This is the album for you because it's George really playing in that style with a singer that has an upper registry and can pull off a lot of that stuff. I don't know if he's going to tour behind this or not. 350 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:30,040 But if he does, he's got a singer that can do that early Dockin' without really struggling. 351 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:36,040 So it'd be interesting to see if he does anything with her or not. 352 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:44,040 Anyway, so yeah, so those are our recommendations. Let's just run down Jeremy and my recommendations real quickly. 353 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:54,040 For October 10th, Jeremy did say the new roses with Attracted to Danger. I said 354 00:36:54,040 --> 00:37:06,040 the native house Sons of Destruction for December. For December. Yeah, for October 11th. 355 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:13,040 Let's see, Jeremy did say Cemetery Skyline, which I agreed with. 356 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:29,040 For the 18th, Jeremy said Grand Magus with Sunraven and I said Jerry Cantrell, I want blood. And for the final week of October, the 25th. 357 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:47,040 Let's see here, Jeremy went with Trucker Diablo and Social Hand Grenade. And let's see here, I mentioned Cassandra's Crossing with Garden of Earthly Delights. 358 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:57,040 And as usual, Jeremy and I love discussing music, love discussing different topics. So there are a few other things that we are going to discuss now. 359 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:06,040 Jeremy, you wanted to talk about the 1988 show, since you were not present. 360 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:19,040 What did you think of the countdown when you listened to it? Did you get that emoji losing its mind when you find out what the number one was? 361 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:36,040 Yeah, well of course, you're expecting a variation on these kind of shows. It's not going to be the one that you sent in, it's going to be an aggregate of everybody. 362 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:49,040 And when I reflect on it, I was kind of shocked that Iron Maiden were not number one. But then I thought number one was Metallica. 363 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:59,040 Hey, it's going to be Metallica, Iron Maiden or Queensryche, I guess. As I've said to you, I'm not a huge fan of that particular Queensryche album. 364 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:12,040 I prefer Empire myself. But I get that everybody loves it and I get that it's so popular amongst Queensryche fans and the broad metal church of fans. 365 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:24,040 I was quite surprised that Iron Maiden didn't get to number one because I agree with you, you mentioned this on the show, that it really is probably their best album. 366 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:34,040 If you think about it, there aren't any fillers on that album, whereas if you go through most of their catalogue, there's great songs on every album. 367 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:45,040 We love Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden have got five, six brilliant songs on every album, but they never really did an album that sounded so complete. 368 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:58,040 And this was a peak in their career. And what's happened is that on previous years that you've done these, they've been number one every time. 369 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:12,040 And this is the first time they've not been when probably they've released their best album. So that was probably something I was shouting from the rooftops. 370 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:32,040 Yeah, I was surprised as I mentioned, when I saw early on that they weren't going to be number one, I was like, whoa, either something turns around real quickly or the streak is broken. 371 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:45,040 And I thought to myself, I'm like, well, there's, you know, there's still enough time to go where people could vote for it. But then I started to see that people were leaving this album off their lists altogether. 372 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:59,040 And I was like, hmm, that's interesting. I know that we talked about the fact, for example, Ed and Anthony Mackie talked about the fact that. 373 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:10,040 Some of these bands really started to drop off quality wise around this point in time. 374 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:25,040 I can see how after somewhere in time, some people would jump off the bandwagon because. 375 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:38,040 That's I mean, out of Bruce and Adrian's original run with the band, Number of the Beast, Peace of Mind, Power Slaves, Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son. 376 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:49,040 I think somewhere in time is easily their weakest album out of all of those, in my opinion anyway. 377 00:41:49,040 --> 00:42:14,040 Seventh Son is, as you said, it's strong beginning to end Moonchild, Infinite Dreams, Can I Play with Madness, The Evil That Men Do, Seven Son of a Seven Son, The Prophecy, The Clairvoyant and Only the Good Die Young. 378 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:28,040 This this album, even though it's got some monstrously long songs, the album is done before you know it because it just goes down so easy. 379 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:34,040 I was rooting for Queensryche to come in number two. 380 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:44,040 Because I thought I was like, well, it's a foregone conclusion. You know, this fan base is going to vote for Maiden and then I'm hoping that Queensryche is too. 381 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:51,040 And then for the longest time, Maiden and Queensryche were going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. 382 00:42:51,040 --> 00:43:04,040 And I was like, well, you know, it might be kind of cool if a Queensryche album perseveres. 383 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:22,040 But then on the last day, I received like four different people's votes and it was apparent at that time that 384 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,040 Queensryche was not going to get number two. 385 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:31,040 I don't know why, but this isn't loading for me. 386 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:37,040 I'm just thinking there's two ways to judge an album. 387 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:47,040 You're judging an album now as you've listened to it in the past week again, after a long time where you probably haven't listened to the album. 388 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:53,040 Or you're judging the album as you received it back in that particular year. 389 00:43:53,040 --> 00:44:04,040 Right. And there's two ways to think about these things, because I think sometimes a particular album can make a massive hit on you in the year that it was released. 390 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:11,040 Or you'll listen to it again and you think, fuck me, that album is so good. 391 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:17,040 And it's got to wear well, hasn't it? Because an 80s album will have 80s production. 392 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:23,040 But if you listen to Seventh Son, I think it's worn so well. 393 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:28,040 I mean, it sounds so good today as it did back then. 394 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:37,040 Whereas some of the albums that you went through on that particular show, the production on them probably sounds quite 80s. 395 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:45,040 Right, right. They sound dated also. 396 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,040 There's certain albums that are kind of the opposite for me. 397 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:57,040 And I mentioned this on the air and on my Patreon show, where Second Sighting by Fraley's Comment loved back in the day. 398 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:04,040 And now it's an album that I hardly listen to anything off of because I just don't think it's that good. 399 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,040 I don't think it's aged well. Yeah. 400 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:20,040 There's so much material there, though, that that did. I think that there's a lot of good music that came out. 401 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:24,040 That easily. 402 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,040 Is is is. 403 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:34,040 You know, you. 404 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:40,040 You see some of these albums and you realize, like, oh, yeah, yeah, there's a reason why that is included. 405 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,040 There's a reason, you know, there are others. 406 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:50,040 I mean, personally, I didn't get. 407 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,040 Why so many people voted for. 408 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:59,040 Bon Jovi's New Jersey, but I get it. 409 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:06,040 Well, it was a big, big seller, huge seller, and it had so many hits. 410 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:13,040 I guess so. 411 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:18,040 But I am. Yeah, for some reason, the OK, so here it goes. 412 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:22,040 It's loading up for me now. 413 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,040 What's the difference here? 414 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:40,040 A similar type of album that I voted on, which didn't even feature in the top 10, I didn't expect it to was the Europe album out of this world, which is an absolute super AOR soft rock album. 415 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:48,040 I mean, I think it's probably better than the final countdown overall because there's so many great songs on it. 416 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,040 But I understand it because it's not a hard hitting. 417 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,040 It's not a heavy metal album. 418 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:57,040 It's not really a classic rock album in many respects. 419 00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,040 But it's still, you know, it's it means something to me. 420 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,040 And I like it. 421 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,040 I can pick it up, listen to it. 422 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,040 And it's very easy. It's got an 80 sound to it. 423 00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:13,040 You know, and it's it does sound a little dated, but the song amazing on it. 424 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:20,040 And again, you know, David Lee Roth, I think me and you agree that we like that album, but not everyone sort of considers it. 425 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:26,040 It's one of those that passes people by. But we like the, you know, the David Lee Roth solo stuff. 426 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:31,040 It had something about it. 427 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:35,040 Yeah, I think that that album gets a bad rap. 428 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,040 Like I said, I meant to sound the Patreon show. 429 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:46,040 It's it's pretty solid. You know, a lot of people would say, oh, no, he was trying to go too commercial and it sounds kind of disco. 430 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:57,040 And outside of the song, just like paradise and. 431 00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:05,040 Oh, the the acoustic ballad. 432 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:15,040 Good times is a call. I don't remember, but it's it's the end of side one, if I'm not mistaken. 433 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:23,040 Those are the two singles off of it. And those are the only two kind of commercial songs off of that album, I think. 434 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:28,040 So I've always thought it was better. I think it's better than the than, oh, you wait one, too. 435 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:34,040 I think it's a lot better than you wait one, too. But, you know, hey, everyone. 436 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:46,040 Votes for what they think is right. The the Europe album ended up being number 26 out of this world. 437 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:53,040 I have a few albums that made the top 10. I voted for the Metallica, the Iron Maiden, the Queens, right? 438 00:48:53,040 --> 00:49:01,040 The Ozzy, the Halloween, the Anthrax. 439 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:05,040 The Scorpions. Yeah. Living Color. Interesting. 440 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:13,040 Yeah. Just pick up on that Scorpions album because, you know, Scorpions, as we know, have really released so many great albums before that album. 441 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:23,040 So I think it might put some people off. I think if you listen to it in isolation and pretend that Scorpions never released any other albums before that, 442 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:28,040 you'd probably think that that's a damn good album. Imagine if that was their debut album. 443 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:36,040 It just came out that year. It'd probably be, you know, probably in the top three because you'd think, wow, this band, where they come from. 444 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:43,040 But it's simply because you're comparing it to the old stuff and you're thinking, well, Blackout was better. Love Drive was better. 445 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:49,040 And, yeah, they probably were. But it's still on its own a super album, Savage Amusement. Really good. 446 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:59,040 And it shows, you know, they had a run of a string of great albums all one after the other at that time in the 80s and late 70s. 447 00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:07,040 And going into the 90s, I think Face the Heat isn't a bad album either. It's got some pretty good stuff on there. 448 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:23,040 Crazy World is the one where to me they were trying to do Love at First Thing Part Two. They were trying to get too radio friendly. 449 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:30,040 They were trying to force, you know, they had gone like almost like in a slightly heavier direction. 450 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:40,040 And then they came back with this, which was just straight up. Some of the songs like the song Tease Me, Please Me, which I've always thought was horrible. 451 00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,040 It was I was like, they don't need to be recording Poison. 452 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:57,040 They, you know, they've done enough on their own that they don't need to glom off of what others are doing. 453 00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:05,040 Yeah. So I mean, that album is I think is still really good. 454 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:21,040 It's also an interesting time, wasn't it? Interesting time because you've got you've got Thrash Metal coming in at the time where we're still listening to all that sort of solid classic rock, melodic, you know, classic rock and poppy rock even. 455 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:30,040 And then you've got Metallica still quite early in their career. They're coming out with an album that is hit number one because people love it. 456 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:35,040 They love the songs on it. The production, as we know, you know, leaves a bit to be desired, I think. 457 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:41,040 But they've got some solid songs on there that appear still in their live act today. 458 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:51,040 And they were, you know, forging their their sort of forging their way, weren't they? What they do, you know, what they do best. 459 00:51:51,040 --> 00:52:03,040 So although it still surprises me that it hit number one, you know, on the other side, I can see because a lot of people love the fact that Thrash came in at that time and, you know, was taking over. 460 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:11,040 We got overkill as well that were doing it at the time and that they were they were high up on the list, I think, as well. 461 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:27,040 Yeah. Well, Thrash related bands, Metallica was number one, Megadeth was four, Slayer was five, Testament was seven, Anthrax is nine, Suicidal Tendencies is ten. 462 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:42,040 Halloween, who's known more for their power metal, I guess. I mean, what always appealed to me about those albums is that it was kind of a mix between Thrash metal and new album metal. 463 00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:58,040 So it was to me, it was Anthrax or Megadeth meets Maiden or Judas Priest, where, sure, both of those bands influenced the Thrash bands we're talking about. 464 00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:13,040 But it was adding double bass elements, certain synchronized guitar playing that lent itself to Thrash metal more so than Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. 465 00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:29,040 Yeah. Some interesting comments from your patrons as well. I think it was Erd who said about the Testament album that he's looking forward to hearing the remastered version. I think that will really be good on a remastered issue. 466 00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:35,040 And I think it's out now, isn't it? And I need to really get hold of that because I like that album a lot. 467 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:47,040 But it's just the production and the way it's recorded that puts you off a little bit. I think if they've done a remastered version, I'm hoping it'll sound a lot better. 468 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:59,040 It's supposed to. I don't know if it ends up doing the job or not, but it's supposed to sound better. I know that that was a gripe that the band had. 469 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:15,040 At least when I interviewed Chuck Billy back in the day, he just did not like how their first few albums sounded and the label appointed a producer and the producer basically said, you know, hey, it's my way or else. 470 00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:32,040 And they couldn't do anything else. And Chuck Billy, when I interviewed him, mentioned how they could listen to the Metallica album or other albums from their contemporaries. 471 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:42,040 And the album sounded timeless where you listen to their album and it sounded dated in very 80s. 472 00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:47,040 Yeah. Yeah. 473 00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,040 So it'll be interesting. Yeah. 474 00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:55,040 I think that's a vinyl only release as well. 475 00:54:55,040 --> 00:55:00,040 So that that should be interesting to hear. 476 00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,040 Yeah, definitely. 477 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:12,040 Yeah. Anything else that you want to discuss before we wrap things up here? 478 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:19,040 I think that was it really. I mean, it kind of got me on to what we just mentioned really with the Testament album. 479 00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:30,040 I think there's a lot of albums that came out in the 80s and not just that particular year that are ripe for remastering and in some cases, re-recording as well. 480 00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:37,040 I like, you know, I know some people sort of say, why are they re-recording an album with the new band? 481 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:49,040 Because we want to hear that particular album sounding great today as it's recorded with the instruments and the recording equipment today, because we know that that sounds better. 482 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,040 Technology has moved on. 483 00:55:51,040 --> 00:56:01,040 So I think there's a lot of, you know, a lot of call for remastering and we've seen it with Judas Priest with the very first album Rock a Roller that just came out recently. 484 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,040 A lot of the fans are saying, you know, it's great that that's been remastered. 485 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,040 They like some of the songs on it. 486 00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:16,040 They know it's, you know, a band in its sort of formation and its early days, you know, just sort of stepping their toes in the water. 487 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:23,040 But it's better to have a better sounding album than the original, you know, if you can do it well. 488 00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:29,040 And I listened to the Queen album recently and Queen won and it's fantastic what they've done to it. 489 00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,040 Really good sound. 490 00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,040 And, you know, I think they could do it more really. 491 00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:39,040 I know, you know, a lot of people don't want to fork out money for albums like that. 492 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:47,040 But if you like a particular album and you want a new copy of it and something that sounds good, you're going to pay for it. 493 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,040 Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. 494 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:51,040 And the labels know that. 495 00:56:51,040 --> 00:57:03,040 That's why, as we were talking about Off Air, that's why vinyl stores keep creeping up and popping up in different cities and places around the world. 496 00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:06,040 Yeah, yeah, indeed. 497 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:10,040 And Long Live the Vinyl as well, I think, but, you know, you've got to move with the times. 498 00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,040 You've got to record new stuff for people. 499 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,040 And don't forget there's a new generation of fans. 500 00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:22,040 So if they're going to listen to something, they don't want to listen to something that sounds tinny, you know, it was recorded in 1980, whatever. 501 00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:26,040 And it was great, great songs, but it didn't have a great sound. 502 00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:30,040 They want to hear a great sound as well because they used to, good technology. 503 00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:35,040 And why not re-record it, get young fans into it and keep rock and roll alive. 504 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:38,040 Keep it going beyond me and you, Victor. 505 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:43,040 We need our kids to be into rock and metal forevermore. 506 00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,040 There you go. 507 00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,040 I couldn't have said that better myself. 508 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:52,040 And I think. 509 00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:53,040 Uh oh. 510 00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,040 Uh oh. 511 00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,040 What just happened? 512 00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:06,040 I should have had that ready. 513 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:11,040 Anyway, Jeremy, I do want to thank you for joining me tonight. 514 00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,040 It's always fun. 515 00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:19,040 Please check out all of the other monthly album reviews that Jeremy and I have done. 516 00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,040 They're a worthy listen. 517 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:28,040 It'll help you get up to speed when casting your votes for the end of the year. 518 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,040 We've got one more month to go. 519 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:35,040 December usually doesn't have too many new releases. 520 00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:46,040 So once December rolls around, we'll do a list of releases for probably just the first half of November, because the second half is usually dead. 521 00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:52,040 Unless an ACDC or Metallica or somebody like that releases a surprise album. 522 00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,040 But I think Lincoln Park has just done that. 523 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:59,040 I think they've released something on Monday. 524 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,040 So we'll see. 525 00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,040 I'll have to look into that. 526 00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,040 In any event, thank you guys for checking this episode out. 527 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:09,040 Thank you once again to Jeremy for joining me. 528 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,040 And we hope you enjoy the episode. 529 00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:17,040 We will see you next time right here on Signals from Mars. 530 00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:43,040 See you, folks. 531 00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,040 Bye.