WEBVTT 00:00:00.629 --> 00:00:04.769 Welcome one and all to episode 408 of Signals 00:00:04.769 --> 00:00:08.109 from Mars. I'm your host Victor. Jeremy Weltman 00:00:08.109 --> 00:00:13.310 joins me today for our monthly new releases recap. 00:00:13.710 --> 00:00:16.969 That's right, we're going to be going over new 00:00:16.969 --> 00:00:20.629 albums that were released in February of 2025. 00:00:21.890 --> 00:00:24.129 This is for all you people that want to keep 00:00:24.129 --> 00:00:27.429 up with what's new, what's fresh, what's up. 00:00:30.250 --> 00:01:01.500 I'm ready. Let's do it. redundant because you 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:03.939 already know that this is for all you people 00:01:03.939 --> 00:01:06.480 that say that there's no good new music coming 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.760 out. February was an exceptionally good month 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:14.959 for new hard rock and metal. Yeah, we don't cover 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.480 absolutely everything. We cover things that stick 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:21.159 out to us, things that jump out at us. And I'm 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.640 going to be honest, there are certain genres 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:25.780 or sub genres that I don't get into as much as 00:01:25.780 --> 00:01:29.959 others. If I see some, band that i know of or 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.000 a band that i've posted on patreon then i'll 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.120 check their album out especially if it's a song 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:39.980 that i enjoy if there's a label that kind of 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:44.340 stands out to me and they usually release things 00:01:44.340 --> 00:01:49.120 that are um in the neighborhood of what i enjoy 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.579 then i'll check that out as well it isn't a uh 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:55.620 and there are things that we miss, definitely. 00:01:55.739 --> 00:01:57.700 There are things that I see on other sites that 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:03.099 I go back and check out anyway. But I think it's 00:02:03.099 --> 00:02:08.259 a good start. And on the website, I do post a 00:02:08.259 --> 00:02:11.060 lot of the albums, or not a lot of the albums, 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.319 I post a list with all of the albums that we 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:20.240 do discuss, plus the additional albums that I 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.349 do mention. During the episode. So you can go 00:02:24.349 --> 00:02:28.689 there to check all that great stuff out. But 00:02:28.689 --> 00:02:31.270 I think we've, we've got you covered there. There 00:02:31.270 --> 00:02:35.990 really shouldn't be any type of confusion as 00:02:35.990 --> 00:02:39.389 to, Hey, is there anything cool that's come out? 00:02:39.430 --> 00:02:41.030 Is there anything, ah, there isn't anything, 00:02:41.169 --> 00:02:44.330 you know, there hasn't been anything since 89 00:02:44.330 --> 00:02:48.289 that I like, you know, I was living my best life 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:50.870 back then. I haven't progressed past high school. 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:57.039 So, whatever. 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And joining 00:05:21.230 --> 00:05:24.910 me tonight is Mr. Jeremy Weltman. Jeremy, how 00:05:24.910 --> 00:05:28.490 are you? Yeah, good. Thanks, Victor. I was really 00:05:28.490 --> 00:05:31.230 enjoying your music tonight. I always enjoy it. 00:05:31.250 --> 00:05:33.689 But, you know, the intro music, it's excellent. 00:05:33.850 --> 00:05:35.889 Just remind us who actually did that, because 00:05:35.889 --> 00:05:42.569 I can't remember. Was it you? That would be me. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.120 um i don't know sometimes i hear that and i'm 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.579 like wow this sounds so pedestrian this sounds 00:05:48.579 --> 00:05:51.180 so amateurish and there are other times i'm like 00:05:51.180 --> 00:05:55.800 yeah this is great you know so uh there's sometimes 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.819 mixed emotions about that stuff but still cool 00:05:59.819 --> 00:06:04.019 nonetheless um so yes we're back for another 00:06:06.430 --> 00:06:09.110 Albums countdown. Not albums countdown. This 00:06:09.110 --> 00:06:10.629 is what happens when you do two things at once. 00:06:10.709 --> 00:06:14.350 We're back for the review of new albums that 00:06:14.350 --> 00:06:19.629 were released in January. No, in February 2025. 00:06:21.110 --> 00:06:24.529 We are in March, and I am fumbling all over the 00:06:24.529 --> 00:06:30.310 place. Anyway, thank you for joining us. And 00:06:30.310 --> 00:06:32.930 there's a lot of excellent music to talk about 00:06:32.930 --> 00:06:37.740 tonight. which is what we shall be doing. And 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:45.759 on February 7th, we had a bunch of big name releases 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.120 here. So we had new albums from Dream Theater, 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:54.540 Ginger, Thundermother, Obscura, Marco, Hitala, 00:06:54.740 --> 00:06:57.519 who's best known for his work in Nightwish, and 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:59.139 I'm probably pronouncing his last name wrong, 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.389 sorry. Chris Harms, first solo album, singer 00:07:02.389 --> 00:07:05.790 of Lord of the Lost, who gets a lot of love here. 00:07:06.490 --> 00:07:12.610 Black 44, Days of Jupiter, Midlife Crisis, Saber, 00:07:12.670 --> 00:07:21.730 Pathogenic, Frenolith, Open Casket, Unrequited, 00:07:22.009 --> 00:07:30.029 The Defect, Fuzz, Populi. a reissue from Sabre, 00:07:30.069 --> 00:07:33.370 their album Without Warning, and a live album 00:07:33.370 --> 00:07:39.930 from Plush called Live USA 24. Jeremy, what did 00:07:39.930 --> 00:07:42.910 you listen to? Yeah, I thought it was a fairly 00:07:42.910 --> 00:07:45.430 interesting mix of releases, really, to kick 00:07:45.430 --> 00:07:48.430 off February. I really enjoyed the good time 00:07:48.430 --> 00:07:51.000 rock and roll of Thunder Mother. I described, 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:53.019 you know, it's really the Swedish girl school. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.259 Dirty and Divine, studio album number six now. 00:07:57.579 --> 00:08:00.220 And I guess you kind of know what, you know, 00:08:00.220 --> 00:08:02.459 what sort of music this band is. It doesn't really 00:08:02.459 --> 00:08:04.839 require a lot of analysis. It's very upfront. 00:08:04.939 --> 00:08:07.879 It's in your face, old school, hard rock, you 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:12.160 know, a fair few references to ACDC there. You 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.980 know, I would question, is it indispensable? 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.839 Is it a must pick? No. But of course, not everything 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.839 that, you know, you enjoy is. But what I would 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.680 say, you know, it's built on strong foundations. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.560 It's in that great hard rock tradition. It has 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.740 very good hooks to the music. Very decent singer, 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.460 very strong production. And if I might add, it's 00:08:34.460 --> 00:08:36.529 a band, you know, I'd be. really happy to see 00:08:36.529 --> 00:08:38.850 live for sure. So, you know, that was a really 00:08:38.850 --> 00:08:42.730 good start to the week, to the month. Thunder 00:08:42.730 --> 00:08:46.009 Mother, really good. I moved on to Black 44 with 00:08:46.009 --> 00:08:49.090 an album called Bloodlines. This time it's the, 00:08:49.090 --> 00:08:51.690 you know, the band from Finland playing stoner 00:08:51.690 --> 00:08:54.669 and southern influenced metal. It seems as if 00:08:54.669 --> 00:08:57.570 they sort of released an album, you know, a decade 00:08:57.570 --> 00:09:01.570 ago now, and now this one. You know, I'm not 00:09:01.570 --> 00:09:04.860 that familiar with the band. Maybe because, you 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:07.379 know, they don't release everything so often. 00:09:07.820 --> 00:09:10.600 So I can't really comment, you know, what's going 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:14.120 on in the band or, you know, why they spent so 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.799 long releasing stuff. But in any event, it was 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.419 a real enjoyable listen. Plenty of grooves from 00:09:20.419 --> 00:09:22.340 the off, you know, couched in sort of metal -y 00:09:22.340 --> 00:09:27.399 undertones, semi -growly vocals. Excuse me. You 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:30.940 can really hear what's being sung. There's also 00:09:30.940 --> 00:09:34.120 some very tight riffs on the song The Kingdom. 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.159 And, you know, it sort of morphs into a bit of 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.200 a sort of Guns N' Roses style epic, I thought, 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:41.500 that song. So, yeah, I enjoyed that one as well. 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.360 That was good. I also listened to the new Dream 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.940 Theater album, Parisomnia. As we know, it's a 00:09:47.940 --> 00:09:51.100 concept album about sleep and dreams. I've never 00:09:51.100 --> 00:09:54.159 really fully bought into this band, I must say. 00:09:54.259 --> 00:09:56.620 They're a little bit proggy at times for my liking, 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:00.480 but they are excellent musicians. I would admit 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:04.700 that. Often they desire to experiment. They play 00:10:04.700 --> 00:10:06.899 around various chord structures, as we know, 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:10.220 and scales that can leave the listener probably 00:10:10.220 --> 00:10:15.600 a little bit cold at times. Again, it was here 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:19.320 with the lengthier songs, Broken Man, Dead Asleep. 00:10:19.690 --> 00:10:22.830 the Shadow Man incident, none of which I must 00:10:22.830 --> 00:10:24.929 admit I can recall now. You know, they're so 00:10:24.929 --> 00:10:28.490 complex. But having said that, I did find some 00:10:28.490 --> 00:10:31.350 joy on the album. You know, the excellent song 00:10:31.350 --> 00:10:35.029 Midnight Messiah, Are We Dreaming, Bend the Clock. 00:10:35.509 --> 00:10:38.289 You know, so it was a real mixed bag, which is 00:10:38.289 --> 00:10:42.169 what I find with Dream Theater a lot. So I'll 00:10:42.169 --> 00:10:45.769 just leave that one there. So really, I guess 00:10:45.769 --> 00:10:47.950 my album of the week is The World Was Never Enough 00:10:47.950 --> 00:10:51.580 by Days of Jupiter. This is the Swedish melodic 00:10:51.580 --> 00:10:54.960 metal band. You know, it is a touch generic at 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.460 times, but it's a quality release. It's got very 00:10:58.460 --> 00:11:01.460 good production. I particularly like the ballad 00:11:01.460 --> 00:11:03.899 Desolation. I thought that was a real classic 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:06.360 song with sort of super guitar weaving in and 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:11.600 out. Amazing vocals from Jan or Jan Hilley, who 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.580 really adds something to the band, I think. The 00:11:14.580 --> 00:11:17.179 fix that follows is sort of more full on with 00:11:17.179 --> 00:11:20.720 sort of gothic overtones. There are lots of other 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.759 heavier songs that are quite multi -layered on 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.179 the album. And, you know, for sort of a modern 00:11:25.179 --> 00:11:27.559 sounding record, which to be honest, isn't always 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:29.200 my bag. I thought it was a really good listen. 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:33.139 So that's my album of the week. Okay, cool. I 00:11:33.139 --> 00:11:36.620 listened to a few different albums as well. I 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:38.580 did get a chance to listen to the Dream Theater. 00:11:38.779 --> 00:11:41.840 Midnight Messiah is by far my favorite song off 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.940 of the album. It is a really good song. And I 00:11:45.940 --> 00:11:49.870 think that the singles are all... Pretty good. 00:11:50.690 --> 00:11:56.509 The thing is that, much like you, I'm not a huge 00:11:56.509 --> 00:12:03.090 prog metal fan, so it just doesn't work for me 00:12:03.090 --> 00:12:08.690 after a while. I did get to listen to the new 00:12:08.690 --> 00:12:11.769 Ginger album, Duel, which I really like Ginger, 00:12:11.990 --> 00:12:14.750 but at this point, this is album four or five. 00:12:16.470 --> 00:12:20.120 It's just more of the same. where it started 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.299 wearing on me with their previous album. And 00:12:22.299 --> 00:12:25.559 now this album is, it doesn't suck, but I've 00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:28.899 heard all this already. You know, it would be 00:12:28.899 --> 00:12:34.080 as if Judas Priest put out British Steel five 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.779 straight albums. You know, you'd get kind of 00:12:36.779 --> 00:12:43.419 turned off by it. I did listen to the Chris Harms 00:12:43.419 --> 00:12:47.620 1980 album. It is okay. It is much more in the 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:54.100 vein of 80s synth wave. It is all right. It really 00:12:54.100 --> 00:12:56.419 has little to do with hard rock or metal. But 00:12:56.419 --> 00:12:58.679 I'm going to go with Lost in Flames from the 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:05.360 LA band Sabre. Sabre is a band that very lo -fi, 00:13:05.740 --> 00:13:12.059 80s -influenced heavy metal. And if you're into... 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:18.059 uh, mid eighties, like bordering between you 00:13:18.059 --> 00:13:21.679 wobble. And when glam metal became the thing, 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:24.700 that sort of pocket in the middle where bands 00:13:24.700 --> 00:13:26.799 were trying to figure things out, they were still 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.799 being a little high and dry deaf leopard. They 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.820 were still being a little priest, a little maiden 00:13:34.820 --> 00:13:39.299 without getting too far into the LA stuff. Um, 00:13:39.539 --> 00:13:46.280 that's kind of where saber resides to me. and 00:13:46.280 --> 00:13:48.480 there's nothing new on this album, but it is 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.860 entertaining, and I think for anyone that's into 00:13:50.860 --> 00:13:54.820 anything remotely close to that, I think that 00:13:54.820 --> 00:14:00.779 it's worth a listen, definitely. We have a few 00:14:00.779 --> 00:14:04.019 people in the chat tonight. We have Mr. Brad 00:14:04.019 --> 00:14:09.120 Dahl sending his cheers. Brad, glad that you 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.470 joined us. We have, joining us early on today, 00:14:13.570 --> 00:14:24.570 Mr. Edgar Winterson. Edgar's saying that Jeremy 00:14:24.570 --> 00:14:31.870 is a Dream Theater hater. And Brad actually just 00:14:31.870 --> 00:14:38.730 saw Dream Theater Live. Brad, what would be easier 00:14:38.730 --> 00:14:43.139 for you to step into? Playing with Kansas or 00:14:43.139 --> 00:14:46.440 playing with Dream Theater? Which of the two? 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:53.399 So, all right. So I'm going to throw in our first 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.519 question of the night. We started this with a 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:05.899 previous episode. All right. The question is, 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.240 what's the album that made you fall in love with 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.500 hard rock or metal? Was it a classic, a deep 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:19.259 cut, or something unexpected? All right. Chime 00:15:19.259 --> 00:15:25.320 in, folks, as Jeremy and I move on to the next 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:29.700 week here. If I can pull my Excel back up. Here 00:15:29.700 --> 00:15:36.019 we go. All right. February 14th. New albums by 00:15:36.019 --> 00:15:41.860 Lacuna Coil, Crazy Licks. Hangman's Chair, Dynasty, 00:15:43.580 --> 00:15:47.299 I guess how you pronounce it, Twisted, Scorpion 00:15:47.299 --> 00:15:53.720 Child, Mantar, Love is Noise, Spiders, Diamond 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:58.960 Dogs and Speeding Chris, I guess is the name, 00:15:59.139 --> 00:16:03.840 Lone Shark, Bleeding Through, Ginger Evil, Mantric 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:09.289 Moment, Savage Lands, Sixth Sense. War Lung, 00:16:09.370 --> 00:16:15.929 EP from Raven, and that's it for the 14th Valentine's 00:16:15.929 --> 00:16:18.649 Day. Jeremy, what did you listen to? Yeah, I 00:16:18.649 --> 00:16:21.389 actually did listen to the Raven EP, but I'm 00:16:21.389 --> 00:16:22.929 not going to review that because obviously we 00:16:22.929 --> 00:16:25.629 go through albums, but it was typical Raven. 00:16:26.049 --> 00:16:29.269 I went really fairly old school with the three 00:16:29.269 --> 00:16:31.570 albums that I'm going to mention now. First up, 00:16:31.649 --> 00:16:36.039 Game of Faces by... yeah dynasty it could be 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.279 dynasty or probably dynasty uh yeah swedish band 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:43.240 on the block there as always uh but definitely 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.860 not one of the best i'm afraid um you know there's 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:48.019 bags of melody on here they have a real decent 00:16:48.019 --> 00:16:51.799 singer also good production as normal but it's 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.539 all a bit like abber on speed it's um you know 00:16:54.539 --> 00:16:56.639 some of the songs do sound a little bit like 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.100 heat uh i guess but they're fairly poppy and 00:17:00.100 --> 00:17:02.659 you know nothing very memorable so you know i 00:17:02.659 --> 00:17:06.029 wasn't too too favoured by that one. But the 00:17:06.029 --> 00:17:09.329 better album really was No Sins to Confess by 00:17:09.329 --> 00:17:13.069 Lone Shark, which has a carefully placed umlat 00:17:13.069 --> 00:17:18.470 over the ow, over the o, not the ow. Yeah, for 00:17:18.470 --> 00:17:21.349 some strange reason. A band from Finland, but 00:17:21.349 --> 00:17:23.089 they might as well be from Newcastle, England, 00:17:23.170 --> 00:17:25.369 because they're a band steeped in New Auburn, 00:17:25.430 --> 00:17:27.650 really. And to be honest, that's what really 00:17:27.650 --> 00:17:30.720 makes them fairly appealing to me. Yeah, sure, 00:17:30.900 --> 00:17:33.420 they're fairly unrefined as a bag of unrefined 00:17:33.420 --> 00:17:36.240 sugar is, but they're just as sweet with guitars 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.680 that attack. The big letdown is really having 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:42.799 a singer that can only just sing, though. But 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:44.799 hey, you know, no one ever complained about Jess 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.000 Cox of Tigers of Pantang, the late Paul D 'Anno. 00:17:48.589 --> 00:17:50.970 or scores of other new album singers, you know, 00:17:50.990 --> 00:17:53.890 that could only just make it. So, yeah, sit back, 00:17:53.970 --> 00:17:56.589 transport yourself back to 1980 and enjoy the 00:17:56.589 --> 00:17:59.269 raw power of Loneshot. But it wasn't my pick 00:17:59.269 --> 00:18:02.630 of the week. I tried Thrill of the Bite by Swedish 00:18:02.630 --> 00:18:05.930 band Crazy Licks. They've been going, as you 00:18:05.930 --> 00:18:07.690 know, a little while now with their sort of, 00:18:07.690 --> 00:18:10.849 you know, pure 80s style sleaze, glam, hard rock 00:18:10.849 --> 00:18:13.230 crossover, whatever you want to call it. And 00:18:13.230 --> 00:18:14.930 to be honest, it isn't bad at all. You know, 00:18:14.970 --> 00:18:17.059 there's some great hooks on it. You can't help 00:18:17.059 --> 00:18:20.079 feeling, you know, they hadn't copied a style. 00:18:20.339 --> 00:18:22.460 And, you know, when they were young, they would 00:18:22.460 --> 00:18:25.220 have, you know, if they emerged in the 80s, it 00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:29.180 would have been a real big thing, probably. And 00:18:29.180 --> 00:18:31.099 I also reckon this band would be really good 00:18:31.099 --> 00:18:34.519 to see live. So, yeah, for me, Thrill of the 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.059 Bite by Crazy Licks is my album, Louis. All right. 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.559 One quick correction, Jeremy. Okay. Lone Shark 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.420 is from Spain. Right. Okay. I didn't realize 00:18:45.420 --> 00:18:47.710 that. I thought they were from Finland. Right. 00:18:47.829 --> 00:18:51.130 Okay. So there is a Finnish loan shark, but the 00:18:51.130 --> 00:18:55.569 one with the lots over the O is from Barcelona. 00:18:55.970 --> 00:19:00.769 Oh, right. Okay. Thanks for that. Yeah. So there 00:19:00.769 --> 00:19:05.950 you go. All right. So I listened to, let's see, 00:19:06.049 --> 00:19:10.589 I listened to Scorpion Child. I saw the end as 00:19:10.589 --> 00:19:14.089 it passed through me, which Brad has just mentioned 00:19:14.089 --> 00:19:20.569 that. that uh he actually purchased i listened 00:19:20.569 --> 00:19:26.549 to twisted's uh welcome to your funeral listen 00:19:26.549 --> 00:19:31.650 to hangman chair sedition uh i have to say actually 00:19:31.650 --> 00:19:34.490 real quickly here the scorpion child if you're 00:19:34.490 --> 00:19:36.809 looking for something that's new album influence 00:19:36.809 --> 00:19:43.539 i would recommend it the twisted is um More of 00:19:43.539 --> 00:19:48.960 modern hard rock, something that could border 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.500 on getting radio play. The one video that I posted 00:19:52.500 --> 00:19:58.240 on Patreon reminded me of one of the last two 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.319 Ozzy albums. Interesting note that Todd Latore 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:04.859 of Queensryche, the lead singer, plays drums 00:20:04.859 --> 00:20:10.559 on the album. So there is that. Hangman's Chair. 00:20:11.069 --> 00:20:13.190 There are songs of theirs from the French band 00:20:13.190 --> 00:20:16.130 that I've enjoyed in the past, but the album 00:20:16.130 --> 00:20:19.269 just gets kind of samesy to me. It just sounds 00:20:19.269 --> 00:20:23.150 like one long song, unfortunately. For me, Sleepless 00:20:23.150 --> 00:20:26.630 Empire by Lacuna Coyle is my pick of the week. 00:20:26.869 --> 00:20:30.670 I have had this album since about the beginning 00:20:30.670 --> 00:20:34.049 of the year. I know that not everyone that listens 00:20:34.049 --> 00:20:38.829 to what we do here. enjoys them. I've been a 00:20:38.829 --> 00:20:42.529 fan for quite a long time. And what I like about 00:20:42.529 --> 00:20:46.490 this album is that they get heavier and at the 00:20:46.490 --> 00:20:49.089 same time they reintroduce things that they've 00:20:49.089 --> 00:20:52.069 done in the past where they've tried certain 00:20:52.069 --> 00:20:55.930 melodies or maybe bringing in a more of a pop 00:20:55.930 --> 00:20:59.789 -ish element at times and here it works because 00:20:59.789 --> 00:21:03.349 it mixes with the heaviness. It isn't like in 00:21:03.349 --> 00:21:06.500 the past. with like shadow life i believe is 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:09.819 the name of the album it has the um glass grenade 00:21:09.819 --> 00:21:13.579 on the cover where it's just full -on pop almost 00:21:13.579 --> 00:21:16.579 where it's uh like anthony mackie would call 00:21:16.579 --> 00:21:22.460 the eurovision metal and um i don't think that 00:21:22.460 --> 00:21:26.099 this band needs to do that they are like i said 00:21:26.099 --> 00:21:27.759 they've gone in a heavier direction with the 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.359 album and at the same time added other elements 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:34.569 that kind of propel this in a different direction. 00:21:35.150 --> 00:21:40.009 So. All right. Brad is saying, let's see. Lone 00:21:40.009 --> 00:21:46.490 shark reminds me a bit of riot. Crazy licks also 00:21:46.490 --> 00:21:51.930 doesn't hit hard for me. And saw a bit of scorpion 00:21:51.930 --> 00:21:54.289 child last year, opening for Saxon in Austin, 00:21:54.430 --> 00:22:00.069 Texas. They were really good. All right. So let's 00:22:00.069 --> 00:22:05.640 see here. Real quickly, Jeremy, since no one 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.059 has chimed in in the chat, what's the album that 00:22:09.059 --> 00:22:11.119 made you fall in love with hard rock or metal? 00:22:11.579 --> 00:22:14.519 Yeah, it's a very easy one for me. It was Physical 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:18.059 Graffiti by Led Zeppelin because it was probably 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:21.440 in my time of dying in Kashmir, those sort of 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:24.059 songs were quite, you know, on the heavier side 00:22:24.059 --> 00:22:27.420 for Zeppelin. Uh, you know, I heard them very 00:22:27.420 --> 00:22:29.960 early before I even heard, you know, British 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:33.099 steel or wheels of steel. So yeah, that'd be 00:22:33.099 --> 00:22:44.019 for me. That's it. Yeah. And cashmere. Uh, I 00:22:44.019 --> 00:22:47.539 mean, that's my brother had Led Zeppelin four 00:22:47.539 --> 00:22:51.740 first, and then he got physical graffiti and 00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:56.740 Led Zeppelin four blew my mind. And when we got 00:22:56.740 --> 00:22:59.460 to physical graffiti, physical graffiti has a 00:22:59.460 --> 00:23:02.400 lot of music on it and it has varying music. 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:07.460 So there's a lot of different music. There's 00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:10.019 a big, long musical journey for you on that. 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:14.859 And at the end of side one is cashmere. And I 00:23:14.859 --> 00:23:18.619 remember the first time listening to that and 00:23:18.619 --> 00:23:23.619 being, what is, what is this? You know, with 00:23:23.619 --> 00:23:27.819 just the, Arabic feel to it and all that, that 00:23:27.819 --> 00:23:31.619 was all very new to me. Um, and that's why I 00:23:31.619 --> 00:23:36.059 think there's some like Arabic influenced music 00:23:36.059 --> 00:23:38.700 and stuff that I've always enjoyed because Zeppelin 00:23:38.700 --> 00:23:44.960 did a lot of that same stuff. And, um, and I, 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.079 and I remember people saying to me, Oh, you know, 00:23:47.099 --> 00:23:48.720 I can't get into this. You know, I don't like 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:51.880 this sort of music. I'm like right up my alley, 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:57.400 you know? Um, Oh, wow. Cashmere by far the worst. 00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:02.940 The worst Zeppelin song. We don't need strings 00:24:02.940 --> 00:24:06.279 in a Zeppelin song. So you're telling me, Edgar, 00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:11.019 that cashmere is worse than hot dog or carousel? 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:24.079 There we go. So Brad finally has jumped on in. 00:24:24.910 --> 00:24:27.710 Johnny Winner's second winner probably set me 00:24:27.710 --> 00:24:32.049 on my rock path. Edgar plays on it, plays a bit 00:24:32.049 --> 00:24:38.470 on it. There you go. I fucking love Hot Dog and 00:24:38.470 --> 00:24:46.890 Carousel. We all like different things. Hot Dog. 00:24:49.490 --> 00:24:52.750 One man's music is another man's noise. Yeah, 00:24:52.750 --> 00:24:56.849 there you go. One man's trash is another man's 00:24:56.849 --> 00:25:10.410 gold. Yeah, they only come out at night was great. 00:25:12.170 --> 00:25:23.210 Okay. For me, I remember touching. I was four. 00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:27.359 And that set me on my musical path that destroyed 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:35.700 me for life. So, all right, let's move on to 00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:40.279 February 21st. We had new albums from kill switch 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:44.099 engage scour, which is one of Philly and Salmo's 00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:47.740 side projects. That's his death metal side project. 00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:52.220 I would. Imagine that Ed Ferguson will be voting 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:57.859 for that on his top 10 albums of the year. Let's 00:25:57.859 --> 00:26:03.000 see. Jason Buehler and Baron Von Buehler's Orchestra. 00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:11.180 Manor Womb. Vulture Vengeance. Morax. Air Force. 00:26:11.339 --> 00:26:16.660 Abduction. Traitors. Katerina Nicole. Ellis Manoband. 00:26:16.859 --> 00:26:23.160 The 7th Guild. Twins Crew, Nachblut, I guess, 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:27.019 how do you pronounce that? Retromorphosis, Silos, 00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:32.059 Sacrifice, EPs from The Dark and God Complex, 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.940 and a new live album by Dirty Honey called Mayhem 00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:43.200 and Revelry. And we also got the Warner recordings, 00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:50.150 1985 through 1994, from David Lee Roth. So I 00:26:50.150 --> 00:26:52.750 actually have two copies of Edelman Smile on 00:26:52.750 --> 00:27:00.190 vinyl, have several copies on CD as well, English 00:27:00.190 --> 00:27:02.650 and Spanish, and also have it on cassette somewhere. 00:27:03.769 --> 00:27:11.710 So as interesting as that might be, I love Edelman 00:27:11.710 --> 00:27:14.690 Smile. I think Skyscraper. I think Skyscraper. 00:27:15.309 --> 00:27:17.690 is underrated because a lot of people get stuck 00:27:17.690 --> 00:27:22.309 on Just Like Paradise. But there's other really 00:27:22.309 --> 00:27:27.750 good songs off of that, like Hot Dog and a Shake 00:27:27.750 --> 00:27:37.269 and Stand Up and Knuckle Bones. I think it's 00:27:37.269 --> 00:27:40.609 a solid album. It gets a bad rap. The third album, 00:27:40.630 --> 00:27:44.170 A Little Ain't Enough, which features Jason Becker. 00:27:45.029 --> 00:27:47.589 Isn't bad either. The title track is really good. 00:27:48.549 --> 00:27:52.150 Hammerhead shark is good on fire and fire or 00:27:52.150 --> 00:27:54.950 babies on fire. Is that what it's called? I don't 00:27:54.950 --> 00:27:58.289 remember. There's a few good songs off of that. 00:27:58.349 --> 00:28:01.529 Showtime is actually on that as well. And after 00:28:01.529 --> 00:28:05.009 that, I mean, you're dirty little mouth. I'm 00:28:05.009 --> 00:28:08.970 not a fan of the funky monkey or whatever the 00:28:08.970 --> 00:28:11.630 hell the name of that song was just off to me 00:28:11.630 --> 00:28:16.559 anyway. Jeremy, what did you listen to for the 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:19.500 week of February 21st? Yeah, I agree with you, 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:21.819 by the way, on the early Dave albums. They're 00:28:21.819 --> 00:28:25.440 really great. Yeah, this week I delved into the 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:29.069 new Air Force album, Acts of Madness. It's a 00:28:29.069 --> 00:28:31.190 band that features the old -timer Doug Samson, 00:28:31.269 --> 00:28:33.549 of course, who trades on his brief spell in Iron 00:28:33.549 --> 00:28:36.950 Maiden. I saw these guys actually last year supporting 00:28:36.950 --> 00:28:39.470 Raven, Alcatraz and Girl School on a sort of 00:28:39.470 --> 00:28:42.309 New Auburn night, and they were very entertaining 00:28:42.309 --> 00:28:45.869 too. And the lead singer, Lino, he's a Portuguese 00:28:45.869 --> 00:28:49.309 guy. He sounds really like Bruce Dickinson. In 00:28:49.309 --> 00:28:51.210 fact, I actually mentioned to him in the toilets 00:28:51.210 --> 00:28:53.029 during the interval that he could actually get 00:28:53.029 --> 00:28:55.569 the Maiden job when Bruce retires, and he sort 00:28:55.569 --> 00:28:58.859 of laughed at me. But I actually honestly meant 00:28:58.859 --> 00:29:00.859 it because, you know, he does sound like him. 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:03.900 And in fact, the band, you know, as you know, 00:29:04.019 --> 00:29:06.140 they sound a little bit like Maiden as well, 00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:08.420 but probably with chunkier riffs. You know, they're 00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:11.779 not as, what's the word? They're not as refined 00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:14.759 as Maiden are. But, you know, even if they're 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:16.819 not the same quality, you know, they have some 00:29:16.819 --> 00:29:19.579 old school metal and it's a perfectly fine listen. 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:23.200 But I also thought this particular week I'd try 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:28.170 out some death metal thrash for Ed. And in this 00:29:28.170 --> 00:29:30.549 week, I enjoyed the sledgehammer riffing of the 00:29:30.549 --> 00:29:34.190 German band Traitor with the album Phobias. Sure, 00:29:34.309 --> 00:29:36.029 it wasn't something, you know, I'd listened to 00:29:36.029 --> 00:29:39.089 in its entirety, but it had its moments of angst 00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:41.950 and anguish. And I thought, you know, I'd mentioned 00:29:41.950 --> 00:29:44.890 it because, you know, you've got a varied group 00:29:44.890 --> 00:29:47.170 of listeners on these channels, Victor. So it's 00:29:47.170 --> 00:29:49.089 good to get something a bit different out there. 00:29:49.710 --> 00:29:52.210 And also, I'd had a bit of a heavy day with work, 00:29:52.230 --> 00:29:54.630 and it was really great to blast out something 00:29:54.630 --> 00:29:57.210 very noisy, which we like to do from time to 00:29:57.210 --> 00:30:03.369 time. So, yeah, it did the trick for a day. My 00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:05.509 pick of the week, though, was a real unexpected 00:30:05.509 --> 00:30:08.529 pleasure, really, for a power metal fan like 00:30:08.529 --> 00:30:11.369 me. I mean, Chapter 4 by the strangely named 00:30:11.369 --> 00:30:14.819 Twins Crew. I think I've got this one right. 00:30:14.900 --> 00:30:18.960 I'm sure they're from Sweden. It's actually really 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:23.180 good. Obviously, Chapter 4 means it's their fourth 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:26.619 full -length release, obviously, and I haven't 00:30:26.619 --> 00:30:29.240 heard them before, to be honest. But what they've 00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:31.940 done is they keep it fairly heavy enough to appeal 00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:35.180 to metal fans rather than go down the sort of 00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:38.400 pop route, which a lot of bands fall down that 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.400 sort of trap, really. I'll admit the singer struggles 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:46.019 a bit occasionally with some of it. And I know 00:30:46.019 --> 00:30:49.119 it's not your bag as well, Victor, but not everything 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:51.339 has to be a five -star album to be enjoyable. 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:54.180 And what I say is I enjoyed it, so I'm going 00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:58.799 to pick it as my album of the week. Okay. All 00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:03.880 right. So I listened to – it would be good if 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:06.960 I didn't close the Excel sheet on myself here. 00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:13.049 I listened to – The Amulet from Morox. It sounds 00:31:13.049 --> 00:31:17.930 like full -on 80s heavy metal. Listen to Vulture's 00:31:17.930 --> 00:31:22.609 Vengeance. Their album is called Dust Age. Starts 00:31:22.609 --> 00:31:27.269 off with a real thrashy song and then kind of 00:31:27.269 --> 00:31:29.950 goes back to just being full -on heavy metal. 00:31:30.390 --> 00:31:36.309 Listen to Jason Buehler and the Baron Von Bielski's 00:31:36.309 --> 00:31:39.950 Orchestra. The Escapologist is the name of the 00:31:39.950 --> 00:31:46.069 album. And it's not bad. It's proggy at times. 00:31:46.250 --> 00:31:49.390 It's poppy at times. It's a little of everything. 00:31:49.910 --> 00:31:54.410 It's okay. For me, though, my album of the week 00:31:54.410 --> 00:31:57.750 is This Consequence from Killswitch Engage, another 00:31:57.750 --> 00:32:00.089 album that I've had for quite some time now. 00:32:00.470 --> 00:32:05.259 I know that diehards are... annoyed at this album 00:32:05.259 --> 00:32:07.920 because they say it's too polished they say it's 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:11.220 too clean they say it's them selling out i think 00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:13.619 it sounds great i like a lot of the hooks that 00:32:13.619 --> 00:32:17.519 it has um i like the fact that adam d is singing 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:21.359 clean on the backing vocals on a lot of songs 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.240 i mean he usually does guttural backing vocals 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.920 and there's still plenty of that here but i like 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:34.390 the um the clean direction so All right, second 00:32:34.390 --> 00:32:40.690 question here of the night. Let me post it on 00:32:40.690 --> 00:32:46.049 here. All right, if you could bring back one 00:32:46.049 --> 00:32:49.690 metal musician for one more album or tour, who 00:32:49.690 --> 00:32:52.829 would it be and why? Would it be a legendary 00:32:52.829 --> 00:32:57.390 frontman, a guitar god, or an underrated icon? 00:32:58.490 --> 00:33:01.240 Jeremy, who would that be for you? Well, I guess 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:05.920 if we can include dead people, then I'm definitely 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:09.339 going to say Dio because I've seen him live several 00:33:09.339 --> 00:33:12.900 times, and I just want to see him again because 00:33:12.900 --> 00:33:17.960 he's a master. Yeah, and imagine if he was turning 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:21.880 up at Ozzy's gig in Villa Park, and he'd probably 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:25.819 steal the show, unfortunately. You imagine that 00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:28.440 they roll out the Dio hologram for that night? 00:33:28.779 --> 00:33:33.839 Yeah. Yeah, Sharon. Sharon going, no, no, it 00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:36.539 wasn't supposed to be like this. She'd have them 00:33:36.539 --> 00:33:42.359 throw eggs at it. I was going to say Dio as well. 00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:48.099 Oh, okay. But I would say this. I'd love to have 00:33:48.099 --> 00:33:53.500 him back to do another Sabbath album. Yeah, yeah. 00:33:53.579 --> 00:33:58.279 That would be my thing. Let's see. Ed is, Ed, 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.200 yeah. Brad is saying Eddie Van Halen, obvious 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:09.880 reasons. Makes me think. Should I have said Randy 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:11.980 Rhodes? No, should I have said Kevin Dubrow? 00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:19.960 How about that one, Brad? Yeah, Eddie is also. 00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:22.579 I don't think you could go wrong with that either. 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:28.489 All right. Let's move it along. This is the final 00:34:28.489 --> 00:34:32.289 week of February. This is the one that I've been 00:34:32.289 --> 00:34:38.449 waiting to discuss since January. So February 00:34:38.449 --> 00:34:42.170 28th, we had new albums from Robin McCauley, 00:34:42.389 --> 00:34:52.409 Dirk Snyder, Architects, Hyrax, Arion, Avantasia. 00:34:54.439 --> 00:34:58.699 Chemicide, Perfect Plan, Oversize, U -Infinite, 00:34:58.780 --> 00:35:11.659 Bronco, Year of the Cobra, Sepul... Sepul... 00:35:11.659 --> 00:35:16.139 Troll Curse? Wow, I don't know how to pronounce 00:35:16.139 --> 00:35:21.579 that. Grave Infestation, Brainstorm, Dark Chapel. 00:35:23.210 --> 00:35:30.570 Enemy Inside, Grima, The Residents, Vacuous, 00:35:31.010 --> 00:35:39.150 Venomorous, Reissues from Bon Jovi, Slippery 00:35:39.150 --> 00:35:42.210 When Wet, and Vision of Disorder with their self 00:35:42.210 --> 00:35:48.489 -titled debut album. Jeremy, what did you listen 00:35:48.489 --> 00:35:51.900 to? Yeah, I think metal bands need to come up 00:35:51.900 --> 00:35:54.480 with a name one day which doesn't have any vowels 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:56.500 in which you are not going to be able to pronounce. 00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.800 Oh, yeah, of course. I'm sure there's some death 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:03.579 metal band that already does it. It's going to 00:36:03.579 --> 00:36:06.219 happen, isn't it? So for the final week, yeah, 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.000 I listened to Dirk Schneider. I listened to the 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.440 revisiting Balls to the Wall. I mean, you know, 00:36:13.460 --> 00:36:15.119 it's going to be great. I'm going to see the 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:17.579 band performing it live, you know, on the Saxon 00:36:17.579 --> 00:36:20.340 tour in November. And it is an album, you know, 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.860 I mostly like, bar the odd sort of turgid song 00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:24.739 on it. I must admit, you know, not every song 00:36:24.739 --> 00:36:28.059 is fantastic on it. But really the re -records 00:36:28.059 --> 00:36:30.480 are not for me. I mean, I want to see it live, 00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:32.739 but I don't want to see, you know, bands making 00:36:32.739 --> 00:36:35.659 their original albums worse. And I think this 00:36:35.659 --> 00:36:38.260 is, you know. I don't like the fact they have 00:36:38.260 --> 00:36:40.960 a guest singer on every song. I just want to 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:45.079 hear Udo singing it. That's just me. It doesn't 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:49.119 work. Full stop. So I listen to Light That Burns 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:53.199 the Sky by Arion. We've mentioned the band before. 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.800 Symphonic style metal band from Finland. I have 00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:01.960 the last album, Vultures Die Alone. I think they 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:06.289 released it back in 2021, I think. You know, 00:37:06.309 --> 00:37:08.750 I enjoyed that album. I thought it was, you know, 00:37:08.769 --> 00:37:11.110 it's a decent listen, but it's not a band I want 00:37:11.110 --> 00:37:13.809 to listen to a lot of all the time. I think they're 00:37:13.809 --> 00:37:17.349 a bit samey. And, you know, this one has its 00:37:17.349 --> 00:37:19.769 moments, but again, overall, it's, you know, 00:37:19.769 --> 00:37:23.289 a little bit the same. So that's definitely not 00:37:23.289 --> 00:37:27.219 my album of the week. The same could be said 00:37:27.219 --> 00:37:29.239 of the melodic band Perfect Plan from Sweden, 00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:31.199 but I'm going to pick them as my album of the 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:33.320 week. And I'm going to go on to talk on about 00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:35.780 another album with you in a minute, Victor, because 00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:37.880 we're going to talk about probably Robin McCauley. 00:37:38.699 --> 00:37:41.940 But Perfect Plan is my pick of the week. You 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:44.400 know, good band, definitely more pop than rock. 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:46.719 You know, you've got to be in the mood for an 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:49.719 80s AOR band, very light Europe in their heyday. 00:37:50.179 --> 00:37:52.559 And, you know, I like Europe and there's a good 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:56.329 deal of that on this album. They do sort of rock 00:37:56.329 --> 00:37:59.230 out a little bit more on the odd tracks. And, 00:37:59.269 --> 00:38:02.590 you know, there's a song on there, At Your Stone, 00:38:02.769 --> 00:38:05.289 which really sort of illustrates that fact. And, 00:38:05.349 --> 00:38:07.110 you know, it's definitely good enough to be my 00:38:07.110 --> 00:38:08.510 album of the week, so I'm going to pick that 00:38:08.510 --> 00:38:11.090 one. So I'm going to come on to Robin McCauley, 00:38:11.190 --> 00:38:12.889 and I think you're going to mention it, so maybe 00:38:12.889 --> 00:38:14.650 I'll just wait until you get to that, and we 00:38:14.650 --> 00:38:21.050 can have a chat. Okay. So I listened to Venom 00:38:21.050 --> 00:38:25.710 by Enemy Inside. uh, pretty modern metal, um, 00:38:25.989 --> 00:38:28.650 was okay, but there's a million other bands doing 00:38:28.650 --> 00:38:31.869 the exact same thing. Listen to dark chapel, 00:38:31.949 --> 00:38:35.949 which is Dario from black label society. Uh, 00:38:36.090 --> 00:38:38.650 the album had its moments and it's funny as I 00:38:38.650 --> 00:38:41.230 was listening to it. I'm thinking a lot of people 00:38:41.230 --> 00:38:45.789 say that black label is almost Ozzy light where 00:38:45.789 --> 00:38:50.460 Zach is. sounding like Ozzy and doing a lot of 00:38:50.460 --> 00:38:54.079 stuff similar to Ozzy. And part of the reason 00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:56.099 why I think Ozzy works with Andrew Watt now to 00:38:56.099 --> 00:39:00.420 write a lot of stuff is to differentiate from 00:39:00.420 --> 00:39:08.320 what Zach is doing there. Absolutely. And Brad 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:11.679 is saying that from the, uh, the excellent podcast, 00:39:11.780 --> 00:39:15.570 the Hojo and Hunzi, uh, hard rock house. which 00:39:15.570 --> 00:39:18.369 he mentioned because they talk about AOR constantly. 00:39:20.789 --> 00:39:24.250 So Dark Chapel to me is kind of like BLS light 00:39:24.250 --> 00:39:30.150 at times. So it's a good album, has some really 00:39:30.150 --> 00:39:33.090 good songs on it, but I mean, it's not a bad 00:39:33.090 --> 00:39:37.429 start. Let's see. I listed the Arianne as well. 00:39:37.449 --> 00:39:41.869 I think you kind of summed that up. My album 00:39:41.869 --> 00:39:47.639 of the week though. is Plague of Rats by Brainstorm. 00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:55.900 This could possibly be, on my year -end top 10, 00:39:56.059 --> 00:40:03.000 the Brainstorm album. I've heard of them, but 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:04.639 this is the first time that I've actually listened 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:10.789 to them. I honestly think this is an album, Jeremy, 00:40:10.869 --> 00:40:12.789 that if you listen to it, I think you'll really 00:40:12.789 --> 00:40:19.250 like it. So, no, it isn't AOR black metal, Brad. 00:40:21.070 --> 00:40:27.829 So, but the album that we're going to talk about 00:40:27.829 --> 00:40:34.469 here now is Robin McCauley's Spellbound. What's 00:40:34.469 --> 00:40:38.469 your thoughts on this album? Yeah, well, my first 00:40:38.469 --> 00:40:41.710 thought is I'm very, very disappointed with it 00:40:41.710 --> 00:40:45.349 because I really liked Alive. I thought Alive 00:40:45.349 --> 00:40:50.090 was alive. It had a certain tempo on there. It 00:40:50.090 --> 00:40:52.969 was a heavy album. There was a lot of great tracks 00:40:52.969 --> 00:40:55.369 on it. If not every track was very listenable. 00:40:55.429 --> 00:40:58.369 I bought the album, still enjoy it. Perfect. 00:40:59.090 --> 00:41:03.090 This album. misses the point on many tracks um 00:41:03.090 --> 00:41:05.750 there were one or two that were okay i like the 00:41:05.750 --> 00:41:08.030 best of me i like one or two others they were 00:41:08.030 --> 00:41:12.530 okay um i felt that the songwriting was nowhere 00:41:12.530 --> 00:41:16.010 near as good i felt that it really didn't hit 00:41:16.010 --> 00:41:20.590 the heaviness of uh the previous album um so 00:41:20.590 --> 00:41:22.889 i think it missed it missed a lot of you know 00:41:22.889 --> 00:41:26.690 he really didn't push on and release an album 00:41:26.690 --> 00:41:29.519 that he could have released and so for me It's 00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.380 not a must -purchase, whereas the last album 00:41:32.380 --> 00:41:40.039 was a must -purchase. Okay, so I agree with you 00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:45.059 100%. This album is the biggest letdown for me 00:41:45.059 --> 00:41:49.559 this year. As the build -up towards the album, 00:41:49.820 --> 00:41:55.340 I kept hearing, this is my heaviest album, this 00:41:55.340 --> 00:42:00.760 is my deepest album. This is my best album. And 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:02.800 the first single, I thought, well, the guitars 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:09.260 sound kind of thin. Alive had a very metal sound, 00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:15.739 very heavy guitars, a lot of chugging. And I 00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:19.719 equated it to, and it made our top 10 for 2023, 00:42:20.019 --> 00:42:26.699 was it, or 2022? And I think that caught a lot 00:42:26.699 --> 00:42:29.280 of people off guard because it was so good. And 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:34.699 I said it was similar to the Dee Snider albums 00:42:34.699 --> 00:42:37.860 that he had released, the last few that were 00:42:37.860 --> 00:42:41.699 heavy with his vocals and whatnot. And I was 00:42:41.699 --> 00:42:44.260 like, wow, Robin is going to pick up the flag 00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:47.340 that Dee is leaving behind because he's no longer 00:42:47.340 --> 00:42:50.099 going to release any more solo music. So I was 00:42:50.099 --> 00:42:53.000 like, as much as I don't like that Dee's going 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:56.300 to stop, I can live with having Robin be the 00:42:56.300 --> 00:43:02.559 guy that can continue with this. And the album 00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:07.860 is a huge letdown. Again, it doesn't sound anywhere 00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:12.380 near as heavy. The guitars are super thin. The 00:43:12.380 --> 00:43:16.900 songs aren't as good. And today, as I was out 00:43:16.900 --> 00:43:18.900 for a walk, I listened to an interview that Chris 00:43:18.900 --> 00:43:23.179 Aiken did with Robin McCauley. And like a lot 00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:27.360 of other Frontiers projects, Robin was paired 00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.719 up with a songwriter who was writing songs for 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.019 the label and is presenting these songs to him. 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:36.960 And the first two albums were written with one 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:41.719 guy, with Alan Del Vecchio, I believe is his 00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:49.559 name. He's no longer with Frontiers. And they 00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:52.960 switched the songwriting partner up. So obviously 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:56.559 that guy's going to bring his style to the forefront. 00:43:57.579 --> 00:44:03.480 And it just, just did not work for me. I just, 00:44:03.659 --> 00:44:08.539 I, I, it's a shame because I was looking for 00:44:08.539 --> 00:44:12.539 a progression to what he had done. And listen, 00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:14.920 Chris Aiken during the interview says that it's 00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:20.590 his favorite album with. on it since one of the 00:44:20.590 --> 00:44:24.429 early Shanker albums. I think the previous two 00:44:24.429 --> 00:44:30.710 albums are better, personally. And I would even 00:44:30.710 --> 00:44:35.369 say the Black Swan albums are better. Yeah. So 00:44:35.369 --> 00:44:38.449 it's a shame. Yeah. It's definitely a shame. 00:44:41.389 --> 00:44:44.849 All right, third question here before we, actually, 00:44:44.969 --> 00:44:47.590 no, before we do that, let me just run down what 00:44:47.590 --> 00:44:52.909 our picks are. For February 7th, Jeremy picked 00:44:52.909 --> 00:44:56.130 Days of Jupiter, The World Was Never Enough. 00:44:56.210 --> 00:45:02.670 I picked Saber with Lost in Flames. For February 00:45:02.670 --> 00:45:07.829 14th, Jeremy picked Lone Shark. No Sins to Confess. 00:45:07.829 --> 00:45:13.070 I picked Lacuna Coil with Sleepless Empire. Sorry, 00:45:13.070 --> 00:45:16.030 just to stop you there, I actually picked Crazy 00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:28.610 Lakes. Oh, you did? Okay. Wait a second. All 00:45:28.610 --> 00:45:36.659 right, so let me take that back. February 14th, 00:45:36.659 --> 00:45:40.239 Jeremy picked Thrill of the Bite by Crazy Licks. 00:45:40.420 --> 00:45:47.320 All right. February 21st, Jeremy picked Twins 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:54.219 Crew Chapter 4 or Chapter... Yes. Yeah. And I 00:45:54.219 --> 00:45:58.460 picked Killswitch Engage, This Consequence. And 00:45:58.460 --> 00:46:02.099 for the final week of February, Jeremy picked... 00:46:03.150 --> 00:46:07.449 A perfect plan with Heart of a Lion. And I picked 00:46:07.449 --> 00:46:13.530 Brainstorm with Plague of Rats. Cool. So let's 00:46:13.530 --> 00:46:16.210 see here. Question number three of the night. 00:46:16.289 --> 00:46:20.070 My final question of the night. Brad, is Robin 00:46:20.070 --> 00:46:22.849 turning AOR? Yeah, that's closer to AOR than 00:46:22.849 --> 00:46:27.250 full -on heavy metal, I would say. And that's 00:46:27.250 --> 00:46:32.789 kind of the disappointing part. All right. My 00:46:32.789 --> 00:46:34.989 question is, what's the most underrated band 00:46:34.989 --> 00:46:38.170 in metal or hard rock? Who deserves more love, 00:46:38.210 --> 00:46:41.929 and why do they stand out to you? Jeremy, who 00:46:41.929 --> 00:46:45.050 would you say? Okay, so this is just obviously 00:46:45.050 --> 00:46:48.250 off the top of my head, but I think the most 00:46:48.250 --> 00:46:52.250 underrated would probably be UFO, because UFO 00:46:52.250 --> 00:46:55.349 have never really sort of, you can't imagine 00:46:55.349 --> 00:46:57.969 them ever headlining Download, that sort of thing. 00:46:58.090 --> 00:47:02.039 And yet, to me, You know, their material is incredible. 00:47:03.139 --> 00:47:05.920 You know, particularly under the Schenker era. 00:47:06.019 --> 00:47:09.900 So, yeah, I'd go for UFO. All right. Brad is 00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:23.059 saying 220 volt. Interesting. I guess I'll go 00:47:23.059 --> 00:47:30.690 with behind me over here. I have the first Fastway 00:47:30.690 --> 00:47:36.769 album sort of peeking in. Off the top of my head, 00:47:36.809 --> 00:47:39.889 I could say that because I do enjoy all the Dave 00:47:39.889 --> 00:47:43.429 King albums. They don't have the longevity that 00:47:43.429 --> 00:47:49.349 UFO had, unfortunately. Another band that popped 00:47:49.349 --> 00:47:51.389 into my head is Warrior Soul, who I absolutely 00:47:51.389 --> 00:47:54.389 love. And up until probably their last two albums, 00:47:54.449 --> 00:47:56.750 I think has released nothing but great music. 00:48:00.089 --> 00:48:03.349 And that's that. All right. So let's move on 00:48:03.349 --> 00:48:09.789 to some points that Jeremy and I have put together. 00:48:09.829 --> 00:48:11.929 Well, that Jeremy sent my way. I'm not going 00:48:11.929 --> 00:48:14.869 to lie to you folks. Brad is saying, listen to 00:48:14.869 --> 00:48:17.530 Eye to Eye. Great album. What, the Scorpions 00:48:17.530 --> 00:48:32.210 album? So Brad is saying I did get the Fastway 00:48:32.210 --> 00:48:36.670 album because of you. Cool. All right. So question 00:48:36.670 --> 00:48:42.210 number one or topic number one here. Do we want 00:48:42.210 --> 00:48:48.230 new Tesla music? They say no album. What do you 00:48:48.230 --> 00:48:51.420 say, Jeremy? What do you think? Well, yeah. I 00:48:51.420 --> 00:48:53.380 mean, the reason why, obviously, I raised it, 00:48:53.460 --> 00:48:56.380 they say that they are going to release some 00:48:56.380 --> 00:48:58.260 music, but they're not going to release a whole 00:48:58.260 --> 00:49:01.480 album. I can see why bands don't want to release 00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:08.360 whole albums anymore. In Tesla's case, the last 00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:12.780 album was basically Def Leppard. And I don't 00:49:12.780 --> 00:49:15.500 want to buy another Def Leppard album. I want 00:49:15.500 --> 00:49:18.920 to buy Tesla. I want to buy, you know, what Tesla 00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:22.480 were. I'd love to hear something from, you know, 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.780 the two albums that were released prior to that 00:49:25.780 --> 00:49:28.280 I thought were really good albums. You know, 00:49:28.300 --> 00:49:31.179 they were pretty rocky. They were typical Tesla 00:49:31.179 --> 00:49:36.219 -sounding albums. I'd love to hear that, but 00:49:36.219 --> 00:49:38.199 I don't want to hear the Def Leppard stuff because 00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:40.119 I thought it was a bit of a mistake for them. 00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:43.260 It sounded polished, but they'd lost a lot of 00:49:43.260 --> 00:49:46.510 their true identity playing those albums. playing 00:49:46.510 --> 00:49:50.469 that one album. It seems as if they've made up 00:49:50.469 --> 00:49:53.590 their mind. I think it's a bit of a shame because 00:49:53.590 --> 00:49:57.989 if they were to tour, still tour, it's good to 00:49:57.989 --> 00:50:00.429 get new music out there. It sounds as if they 00:50:00.429 --> 00:50:02.489 might release the odd thing here or there. They're 00:50:02.489 --> 00:50:04.909 releasing a live album, I think, coming up soon. 00:50:06.530 --> 00:50:09.829 But it would be a shame if we don't hear a really 00:50:09.829 --> 00:50:13.179 good, rocky album from Tesla again. But, you 00:50:13.179 --> 00:50:15.760 know, they've got a fair few in their back catalogue 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:18.920 and a bunch of stuff that listen to that. Yeah. 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:23.019 Much to your point, I love Into the Now, which 00:50:23.019 --> 00:50:25.920 was the last album with Tommy Skio. And we're 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:31.920 talking about early 2000s. That album came out. 00:50:32.139 --> 00:50:38.900 I mean, that came out around. Oh five, somewhere 00:50:38.900 --> 00:50:41.920 in that area. So we're talking about 20 years 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:46.659 forever more, which was the first album without 00:50:46.659 --> 00:50:51.960 Tommy to me, definitely Mrs. Tommy. It's much 00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:55.599 like Def Leppard missing Steve Clark. It was, 00:50:55.619 --> 00:50:59.340 it's, it misses the bite. But you know, there's 00:50:59.340 --> 00:51:02.599 tracks like breaking free, which I love that 00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:08.400 song. But after that, I mean, as you said, the 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:13.820 Def Tesla album shock, and then this latest single 00:51:13.820 --> 00:51:20.500 they put out just is not good. You know, to hear 00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:27.500 what grasped Tesla back in the day was their 00:51:27.500 --> 00:51:31.460 in -your -face rock. And for them to go back 00:51:31.460 --> 00:51:37.739 and just do like... Laurel Canyon, 70s rock, 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:43.300 some boogie rock stuff, which is like, this isn't 00:51:43.300 --> 00:51:46.260 what I wanted from me. Where's Coming At You 00:51:46.260 --> 00:51:52.519 Live? Where's Yesterday's Gone? Where's Lady 00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:56.139 Luck? Where's, you know, where's, and then I'm 00:51:56.139 --> 00:51:58.260 sure if I look at all these credits, probably 00:51:58.260 --> 00:52:00.900 Tommy Skio's the one that's behind a lot of these. 00:52:02.139 --> 00:52:09.969 So. To mention a very British quote, I think 00:52:09.969 --> 00:52:17.289 they've lost their plot. Record Store Day release 00:52:17.289 --> 00:52:21.750 next month is going to be them releasing Real 00:52:21.750 --> 00:52:27.230 to Real on vinyl, which is their covers album, 00:52:27.409 --> 00:52:31.929 which when that album came out, I remember people 00:52:31.929 --> 00:52:38.019 complaining and saying, this is great. But I 00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:41.900 want new Tesla. And for them to cover songs that 00:52:41.900 --> 00:52:43.719 we're already hearing a million times on the 00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:46.760 radio, what's the point? Why do we need Tesla 00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:50.099 covering space trucking by Deep Purple? Yeah. 00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:55.599 Why didn't they just do Smoke on the Water or 00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.760 Woman from Tokyo? You know, something else that's 00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:03.719 already on the radio a million times a day. All 00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:09.530 right. Other topic that you sent my way. This 00:53:09.530 --> 00:53:11.710 one's good. Not to say the other one wasn't. 00:53:15.429 --> 00:53:25.170 Has Tesla gone AOR? All depends. Vandenberg plays 00:53:25.170 --> 00:53:28.289 Whitesnake. Shanker plays UFO. Dirk Schneider 00:53:28.289 --> 00:53:39.130 plays Accept. Is that a good thing? Yeah, Brad, 00:53:39.230 --> 00:53:41.650 they did some decent covers. I'm not saying that 00:53:41.650 --> 00:53:45.409 they didn't do space trucking good. It's just 00:53:45.409 --> 00:53:49.170 that even Ace Frehley covered space trucking. 00:53:49.230 --> 00:53:52.710 It's like, again, someone else doing this song? 00:53:53.889 --> 00:53:58.329 At least they're not enunciating like Ace does 00:53:58.329 --> 00:54:04.769 it. But anyway, Jeremy, what do you think? Vandenberg, 00:54:05.010 --> 00:54:08.820 Schenker, Dirk Schneider? Is this a good or a 00:54:08.820 --> 00:54:12.340 bad thing? Okay. So I had a little think about 00:54:12.340 --> 00:54:15.380 this today and I came out on top saying this 00:54:15.380 --> 00:54:18.380 is a good thing. Okay. There's a few reasons 00:54:18.380 --> 00:54:22.559 why. One is I actually, I'm going to see all 00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:24.619 three of those. I'm actually going to see all 00:54:24.619 --> 00:54:28.820 three. I just realized only just now. Because 00:54:28.820 --> 00:54:31.320 Dirk Steiner is on the tour with Saxon, so he's 00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:34.219 going to play Balls to the Wall. I've got a ticket 00:54:34.219 --> 00:54:36.579 for Schenker playing UFO sometime this year. 00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:38.340 He's coming to Manchester, which is always a 00:54:38.340 --> 00:54:41.440 great thing. And also Vandenberg is coming to 00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:45.659 Manchester, I think, and he's playing Whitesnake. 00:54:45.780 --> 00:54:49.199 So I'm going to see all three. And it's not just 00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:53.480 for me, which is an enjoyment on its own. But 00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:55.500 I think it's really good for the young people 00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:58.500 who are getting into rock because the reason 00:54:58.500 --> 00:55:02.340 is a lot of these guys who get into rock, they're 00:55:02.340 --> 00:55:04.840 not like us. They don't remember this stuff. 00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:08.019 So they're all sort of listening to their dad's 00:55:08.019 --> 00:55:10.519 record collections and they want to go out and 00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:12.699 see live music and they want to see this old 00:55:12.699 --> 00:55:15.300 stuff perform live. And they're being performed 00:55:15.300 --> 00:55:21.119 by a member of that band. So they're not charlatans 00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:23.800 just sort of saying, well, we're playing anything. 00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:27.760 They were actually playing this music at some 00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:30.639 point. So they're seeing that particular person 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:34.659 of a particular time. And I think that's good. 00:55:34.739 --> 00:55:39.300 It keeps rock music rolling. So yeah, overall, 00:55:39.579 --> 00:55:42.159 I think that's a really good thing. It doesn't 00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.860 mean to say that those members who are playing 00:55:45.860 --> 00:55:50.179 those... things, Dirk Schneider, Schenker, Vandenberg, 00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:53.539 can't play their new music as well. They can 00:55:53.539 --> 00:55:55.420 go out on tour afterwards and play their new 00:55:55.420 --> 00:55:57.380 music and we'll go and watch it because we like 00:55:57.380 --> 00:56:01.420 to hear their new stuff as well. But it's really 00:56:01.420 --> 00:56:07.719 good for dads, sons, daughters, mothers to go 00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:10.480 and see, go out, go out and watch them, enjoy 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:13.199 the music and go and listen to the original albums. 00:56:14.300 --> 00:56:19.260 Okay. I think it's a good thing as well. I'm 00:56:19.260 --> 00:56:22.739 not a huge Whitesnake fan, but I'm cognizant 00:56:22.739 --> 00:56:28.099 of the fact that you're never getting Whitesnake 00:56:28.099 --> 00:56:33.659 live again. UFO is done, so it makes sense that 00:56:33.659 --> 00:56:37.699 Shanker would be kind of flying that torch. And 00:56:37.699 --> 00:56:41.679 Dirk Schneider actually has more original members 00:56:41.679 --> 00:56:46.199 of Accept than Accept does. So, sure, why not? 00:56:47.420 --> 00:56:50.420 I think it's a good thing. Listen, anything to 00:56:50.420 --> 00:56:55.239 keep hard rock and metal alive, I think is good. 00:56:55.300 --> 00:57:00.199 So long as they're not ruining these songs live, 00:57:00.460 --> 00:57:05.559 I'm good with it. And like Brad just said, you 00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:08.380 know, we don't need re -records of these songs. 00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:12.130 I think that Michael Shanker just did it. I think 00:57:12.130 --> 00:57:15.349 Shanker did a good job. It kind of confuses me 00:57:15.349 --> 00:57:19.130 that he had Slash and a few other guest players. 00:57:19.250 --> 00:57:22.650 I think Joe Hoekstra is on that as well. Because 00:57:22.650 --> 00:57:25.429 Michael is one of the most influential guitarists. 00:57:26.110 --> 00:57:30.530 However, I think he's at the stage and at the 00:57:30.530 --> 00:57:32.210 point where he can do whatever the hell he wants. 00:57:33.809 --> 00:57:37.250 I know a lot of people crapped on Axl Rose singing 00:57:37.250 --> 00:57:41.190 on Love to Love. I actually think that song sounds 00:57:41.190 --> 00:57:46.030 good. And only because that song is so influential 00:57:46.030 --> 00:57:49.989 on so many levels, it's influenced different 00:57:49.989 --> 00:57:52.510 people. I remember seeing Angelus Apatrida years 00:57:52.510 --> 00:57:56.349 ago and hearing them play a song, one of their 00:57:56.349 --> 00:58:00.429 originals. And instantly I said, you guys get 00:58:00.429 --> 00:58:02.469 that from Dave Mustaine, don't you? Yeah, that 00:58:02.469 --> 00:58:04.409 was influenced by this song. I'm like, well, 00:58:04.530 --> 00:58:09.980 that was influenced by UFO's Love to Love. That 00:58:09.980 --> 00:58:13.579 one chord progression that Michael is doing with 00:58:13.579 --> 00:58:17.860 an open chord in the middle of the song, which 00:58:17.860 --> 00:58:22.099 he later uses again on the Desert song on Built 00:58:22.099 --> 00:58:27.480 to Destroy, is what I was referring to. It's 00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:29.840 something that Megadeth used, a similar style, 00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:31.940 and then Angela Sepatrida also did something 00:58:31.940 --> 00:58:39.750 similar. So there's that. I found the Michael 00:58:39.750 --> 00:58:43.489 Shanker one enjoyable. I think there's a few 00:58:43.489 --> 00:58:46.289 tracks off it that are good. I think Joey Tempest 00:58:46.289 --> 00:58:50.610 did a phenomenal job on, did he do Too Hot to 00:58:50.610 --> 00:58:54.690 Handle, I believe? I thought that was great. 00:58:55.449 --> 00:58:57.690 Some of the other ones I wasn't keen on, but 00:58:57.690 --> 00:59:00.469 because I'm not keen on some of the guest vocalists 00:59:00.469 --> 00:59:05.340 he brought in. I'm not a big Jeff Scott Soto 00:59:05.340 --> 00:59:07.760 fan, so if you have him sing two tracks, then 00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:10.420 you give him a shot, and then you're like, okay, 00:59:10.500 --> 00:59:14.039 sounds like Jeff Scott Soto ruining a song that 00:59:14.039 --> 00:59:20.820 I like. Steven Piercy kind of did nothing for 00:59:20.820 --> 00:59:23.219 me on Shoot Shoot. It was one of these things 00:59:23.219 --> 00:59:26.440 where you're like, okay, well, let Steven sound 00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:30.019 like Steven, and Steven just kind of sounded 00:59:30.019 --> 00:59:36.110 generic, personally. He's got Eric Grunwald on 00:59:36.110 --> 00:59:38.989 the tour, I think, doing all the vocals. So I 00:59:38.989 --> 00:59:42.630 think that should be good. Short tour so he can 00:59:42.630 --> 00:59:48.090 do the whole thing. I think Robin McCauley is 00:59:48.090 --> 00:59:49.869 going to be doing some stuff with him as well 00:59:49.869 --> 00:59:52.829 on this tour, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know 00:59:52.829 --> 00:59:55.769 if he's going to be doing select dates or if 00:59:55.769 --> 01:00:01.250 they're doing like a... uh, tales of rock or 01:00:01.250 --> 01:00:04.449 shankers. What's the other name that he goes 01:00:04.449 --> 01:00:07.710 out by where he's got all the singers. Yeah. 01:00:08.710 --> 01:00:10.550 I don't, I don't remember. It doesn't matter. 01:00:11.010 --> 01:00:14.130 Uh, but anyway, yeah. So I don't know if Eric 01:00:14.130 --> 01:00:18.050 and Robin are going to be doing the shows that, 01:00:18.070 --> 01:00:21.090 that, that to me would be more interesting than, 01:00:21.170 --> 01:00:31.699 than, um, Graham Bonnet and Gary Barton. What's 01:00:31.699 --> 01:00:36.599 that? Gary Barton. Yeah. Doogie White is okay, 01:00:36.739 --> 01:00:39.760 but I mean, I think Doogie is great at what he 01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:42.840 does, but Doogie is just kind of generic to me. 01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:52.039 So anyway. All right. Well, Brad is saying Eric 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.170 is a great singer. Should be good. Absolutely. 01:00:55.889 --> 01:00:59.250 So anyway, we're going to be wrapping things 01:00:59.250 --> 01:01:02.110 up here. I do want to thank Jeremy, as usual, 01:01:02.110 --> 01:01:04.610 for joining me for these great shows. It is always 01:01:04.610 --> 01:01:07.429 fun to talk back and forth about these albums. 01:01:08.269 --> 01:01:12.550 I wasn't expecting you to agree with me on the 01:01:12.550 --> 01:01:17.530 Macaulay one, but it looks like you did. I thought 01:01:17.530 --> 01:01:19.869 we were going to have a little sparring match, 01:01:20.030 --> 01:01:25.219 but no. It was fine. We were both kind of on 01:01:25.219 --> 01:01:27.760 the same level of disappointment, seems like. 01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.460 I want to thank Brad for joining us in the chat. 01:01:32.539 --> 01:01:34.980 I want to thank Edgar Winterson, who was here 01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:38.559 as well for a little bit. And that's pretty much 01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:41.340 it, folks. Thanks again for listening. And we 01:01:41.340 --> 01:01:45.539 will see you next time right here on Signals 01:01:45.539 --> 01:02:00.880 from Mars. See you, folks. podcast you can subscribe 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.579 to the show on all your favorite podcast platforms 01:02:03.579 --> 01:02:07.400 like apple podcast spotify google podcast amazon 01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:10.920 and more go to signals from mars .com for more 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:12.820 information this concludes our show