WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:04.960 Welcome one and all to episode 413 of Signals 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:08.240 from Mars. I'm your host, Victor. In this episode, 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:12.160 we welcome Jeremy Weltman back. And we combine 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:15.779 the reviews of two months. We do March and April 00:00:15.779 --> 00:00:22.399 of 2025 all in this episode. We go over eight 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:30.829 weeks worth of album releases. Up next. I'm ready. 00:00:30.949 --> 00:01:04.200 Let's do it. one wrapped up episode. We may do 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.319 things this way a few other times during the 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.599 year. I didn't release any episodes in April, 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.359 not because I didn't want to, just couldn't. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:18.879 He didn't have a voice, was sick. Jeremy had, 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:22.219 he mentioned it during the 1989 episode that 00:01:22.219 --> 00:01:25.560 his father passed away. He also had some other 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.400 family issues come up. And as much as I would 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.939 love to make podcasting my full -time gig or 00:01:33.939 --> 00:01:39.299 something related with podcasting in 2025, after 00:01:39.299 --> 00:01:46.060 starting this in 2009, so it is going to be 16 00:01:46.060 --> 00:01:55.480 years in September, actually. Actually, June 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.469 is when I started. Podcasting on my own. It's 00:02:00.469 --> 00:02:05.230 cool to see that Mark Striegel is doing stuff 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:07.549 again with Talking Metal. He's releasing an episode 00:02:07.549 --> 00:02:12.110 once a month. I do appreciate immensely that 00:02:12.110 --> 00:02:15.330 he gave me a shout out during one of the episodes. 00:02:18.629 --> 00:02:21.569 Not going to lie to you guys, you know, for a 00:02:21.569 --> 00:02:24.319 long time. Did a lot of work for Mark behind 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:26.419 the scenes. Did a lot of stuff with his Patreon. 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:35.659 And, you know, the unseen, the ghost contributor 00:02:35.659 --> 00:02:40.680 behind the scenes and stuff. Wish some of that 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:44.400 could have carried over more here, but is what 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:46.740 it is. And I always have my ups and downs here 00:02:46.740 --> 00:02:49.280 where I talk about how, you know, it doesn't 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.150 bother me that this isn't bigger. Sometimes it 00:02:52.150 --> 00:02:54.909 does, sometimes it doesn't. I am appreciative 00:02:54.909 --> 00:03:00.050 that you right now are listening to this episode. 00:03:01.789 --> 00:03:05.789 There's millions of other shows out there. There's 00:03:05.789 --> 00:03:08.530 millions of other podcasts out there. There's 00:03:08.530 --> 00:03:10.870 millions of other forms of entertainment, but 00:03:10.870 --> 00:03:13.370 you're listening to this. Hopefully some of the 00:03:13.370 --> 00:03:16.150 albums that we discuss help turn you on to music 00:03:16.150 --> 00:03:19.349 that you like. I don't expect you to like everything. 00:03:20.189 --> 00:03:23.430 I know that for a lot of people that come here 00:03:23.430 --> 00:03:26.689 and listen to a lot of the same stuff that is 00:03:26.689 --> 00:03:30.909 featured on the show, especially my taste in 00:03:30.909 --> 00:03:34.150 music isn't always lined up with what Jeremy 00:03:34.150 --> 00:03:37.750 likes, for example, or what other people that 00:03:37.750 --> 00:03:41.229 come to this show or similar shows are into. 00:03:44.090 --> 00:03:48.060 It's all subjective. So, I mean. Whatever you 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:52.199 like, whatever you listen to that you enjoy out 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.960 of what we discuss, I'm glad that you take the 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:01.580 time to do so. I want to send, Jesus, tongue 00:04:01.580 --> 00:04:05.379 tied. I want to send a quick shout out to all 00:04:05.379 --> 00:04:10.949 of my patrons. I want to send a... Shout out 00:04:10.949 --> 00:04:13.689 to you guys, anyone that's sharing this, anyone 00:04:13.689 --> 00:04:16.490 that is passing this on to your friends, anyone 00:04:16.490 --> 00:04:19.670 that's saying, hey, you know, I found out about 00:04:19.670 --> 00:04:23.370 so -and -so on the Signals from Mars episode. 00:04:23.670 --> 00:04:27.310 And I don't know about that one host, but that 00:04:27.310 --> 00:04:30.069 Jeremy guy, he, you know, stuff he's picking 00:04:30.069 --> 00:04:34.470 is really the stuff that I'm into. So that's 00:04:34.470 --> 00:04:38.920 cool. I'm fine with however you guys. Take in 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:43.180 what we talk about and hope you enjoy most of 00:04:43.180 --> 00:04:46.139 it. How about that? In any event, I just want 00:04:46.139 --> 00:04:49.319 to say thanks again for listening. And we are 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:54.000 going to move along into the episode, folks. 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:59.079 Help share, help spread the word. See you. Here 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:19.639 we go. Welcome one and all to the latest episode 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.459 of Signals from Mars. I'm your host, Victor, 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.600 and joining me is Jeremy. Jeremy, how are you? 00:05:27.500 --> 00:05:30.480 Yeah, good. Thanks, Victor. We had a very lovely 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.439 day here, really sunny and warm here in the UK. 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:36.560 So, yeah, looking forward to talking about some 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.879 metal with you. Excellent. Just real quickly 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:49.000 here, the video just went black. So, uh, anyway, 00:05:49.139 --> 00:05:52.500 we will, uh, I don't know if you want to try 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:54.879 to reconnect. If not, we could just go for it 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.899 as is. Yeah. I don't know what's happened. I'll, 00:05:57.899 --> 00:06:00.819 I'll try and reconnect. You have a little chat 00:06:00.819 --> 00:06:03.079 for one second and I'll, I'll come back. Okay. 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:09.220 Sure. So, um, uh, we're going to be doing two 00:06:09.220 --> 00:06:12.560 months worth of, uh, album reviews here today. 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:18.029 Um, there was, Just a bunch of things going on 00:06:18.029 --> 00:06:23.589 due to illnesses and family issues that prevented 00:06:23.589 --> 00:06:29.949 us from doing these shows, the previously scheduled 00:06:29.949 --> 00:06:35.449 show anyway. And we're here to make it up with 00:06:35.449 --> 00:06:37.709 two months. We're going to be doing March and 00:06:37.709 --> 00:06:42.649 April today. So hopefully you guys do enjoy the 00:06:42.649 --> 00:06:46.459 episode. Jeremy is trying to work out some technical 00:06:46.459 --> 00:06:49.259 difficulties here, and hopefully we can get all 00:06:49.259 --> 00:06:55.040 that sorted out in a second. There we go. All 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:02.600 right. Jeremy is back. Awesome. Yeah. So as I 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.379 was mentioning. Not quite back in black, but 00:07:05.379 --> 00:07:09.860 just back. Not quite back in black. I want to 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:14.370 keep you still visible here. So we're going to 00:07:14.370 --> 00:07:25.410 go back to March here. And there was a lot of 00:07:25.410 --> 00:07:28.470 stuff that I listened to anyway. So let's go 00:07:28.470 --> 00:07:32.529 back to March 7th. We had new releases from Christian 00:07:32.529 --> 00:07:36.470 Mistress, Edge of Paradise, Mind Wars, Raging 00:07:36.470 --> 00:07:41.540 Speedhorn, The Wild Hearts, Cryptosis. Destruction, 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:48.300 Grey Mountain, Caballero, Void Chaser, Sacrosanct, 00:07:48.379 --> 00:07:53.279 Overdrivers, Sculpture, Amber Asylum, Deathless 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:59.220 Legacy, Rainbows Are Free, Spirit Box, White 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:09.589 Chapel, EP from Crown Magnetar. And Reconciler 00:08:09.589 --> 00:08:14.250 reissues from Disturbed and Alter Bridge. Jeremy, 00:08:14.350 --> 00:08:17.230 what did you listen to? Yeah, well, I started 00:08:17.230 --> 00:08:19.509 off listening to Glory or Nothing by the band 00:08:19.509 --> 00:08:23.449 Overdrivers, sort of an ACDC airborne type of 00:08:23.449 --> 00:08:26.529 band. Didn't take itself too seriously. They 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:29.850 also hail from Australia, as it happens. Perfectly 00:08:29.850 --> 00:08:32.129 acceptable hard rock. The production was good. 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:34.820 It's just that they don't really write very good 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:38.559 hooks or melodies. Not only does the songwriting 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:40.620 let them down a bit, but it's also a little bit 00:08:40.620 --> 00:08:42.700 pedestrian as well. So it's all a little bit 00:08:42.700 --> 00:08:45.259 of a shame because I was hoping it would be somewhat 00:08:45.259 --> 00:08:49.679 better than that. I listened to Nightwolf by 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.440 the British extreme metal band Raging Speedhorn. 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.279 That was a lot better. This is actually studio 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.570 album number seven for the band. I'm not always 00:08:59.570 --> 00:09:01.590 kind of won over by this type of music, to be 00:09:01.590 --> 00:09:04.149 honest, including the vocal style. But it did 00:09:04.149 --> 00:09:06.769 have, you know, a good edge to it. The rhythm 00:09:06.769 --> 00:09:09.309 kind of reminds me of bands like Clutch. The 00:09:09.309 --> 00:09:11.250 guitars sort of, you know, they bite down quite 00:09:11.250 --> 00:09:14.490 hard. And, you know, it was a considerable sort 00:09:14.490 --> 00:09:19.269 of effort made, really. Decent songs. Just let 00:09:19.269 --> 00:09:22.169 down a little bit as well by the sort of similar 00:09:22.169 --> 00:09:24.850 pace to the songs and the riffs on, you know, 00:09:24.850 --> 00:09:28.230 on some of the songs. So, again... I couldn't 00:09:28.230 --> 00:09:30.389 really pick it as my album of the week. I moved 00:09:30.389 --> 00:09:33.889 on to Silver and Gold by Rainbows of Free on 00:09:33.889 --> 00:09:36.509 the Ripple label. This is a heavy stoner band 00:09:36.509 --> 00:09:38.929 from Phoenix. You kind of know what you're going 00:09:38.929 --> 00:09:41.330 to get, you know, from that kind of band. It's 00:09:41.330 --> 00:09:44.629 a decent listen, but I did have a few misgivings 00:09:44.629 --> 00:09:47.610 about the vocalist's ability. So again, not going 00:09:47.610 --> 00:09:50.169 to choose that one. So I was kind of a little 00:09:50.169 --> 00:09:52.370 bit lost as to what I was going to choose, but 00:09:52.370 --> 00:09:56.269 then I... I kind of went for the deluxe edition 00:09:56.269 --> 00:09:58.549 of One Day Remains, the debut album by Alter 00:09:58.549 --> 00:10:01.049 Bridge. You know, I can't say I've ever been 00:10:01.049 --> 00:10:04.210 a big fan of the band. I did actually fall asleep 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:05.909 one afternoon watching them at Download Festival, 00:10:06.169 --> 00:10:09.370 as it happens. But I definitely think this album 00:10:09.370 --> 00:10:12.309 is worth a revisit. You know, some really good 00:10:12.309 --> 00:10:14.919 songs on it. It shows that the band, you know, 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:16.980 really sort of deserve to go on and get some 00:10:16.980 --> 00:10:18.980 success. You know, you can kind of tell that. 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.500 It's very polished. It has a nice balance to 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:24.620 it. It mixes up ballads and hard hitters. There's 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:26.399 some real sort of decent riffs there from Mark 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.960 Tremonti. And the other thing about it is that 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.460 Miles Kennedy is a younger man. So I think that 00:10:31.460 --> 00:10:34.139 he's not as nasally as he became sort of later 00:10:34.139 --> 00:10:37.080 on in his career as well. So, you know, the final 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:40.379 track as well really ends it nicely with, it's 00:10:40.379 --> 00:10:42.779 actually called The End Is Here. Very solid track. 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.600 Very solid album, and I'm afraid I'm just going 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.539 to have to pick that one as my album of the week. 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:54.120 Okay. That, to me, actually is their best album, 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:58.600 their first album, I think. I do think that after 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.679 that first album, a lot of what they released 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:08.500 just became very samesy, and there's just a lot 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:13.789 of stuff that was... like overly polished to 00:11:13.789 --> 00:11:18.289 kind of radio friendly. I don't know, but yeah. 00:11:19.710 --> 00:11:23.990 Anyway. Okay. So I listened to children of the 00:11:23.990 --> 00:11:29.509 earth from Christian mistress. Not bad. A throwback 00:11:29.509 --> 00:11:34.710 kind of new album type band. Uh, listen to mind 00:11:34.710 --> 00:11:41.200 wars, uh, V or five. That's a lot more modern 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:47.139 sounding. Listen to the wild hearts, satanic 00:11:47.139 --> 00:11:52.740 rights of the wild hearts. It's not a bad album. 00:11:53.259 --> 00:11:57.080 The problem for me with this album is it sounded 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:02.740 more like a ginger solo album. I have no problem 00:12:02.740 --> 00:12:06.940 with it being all over the place, but. There's 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:11.279 like two, three really strong songs and the rest 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.779 is kind of like scattered ideas where it's like, 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.240 you know what? Had he worked with someone else 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:22.960 on this or worked as a group effort, he probably 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.100 would have been able to get something stronger 00:12:26.100 --> 00:12:35.870 out of it. I don't know. And I also listened 00:12:35.870 --> 00:12:38.929 to Edge of Paradise Prophecy. They've switched 00:12:38.929 --> 00:12:42.110 over to Napalm. This is a little heavier than 00:12:42.110 --> 00:12:45.669 their last release, which was on Frontiers, but 00:12:45.669 --> 00:12:47.710 it's still along the lines of what you could 00:12:47.710 --> 00:12:51.990 expect from them. I really like the album. I 00:12:51.990 --> 00:12:55.690 really like a lot off of it. I will say that 00:12:55.690 --> 00:12:57.769 my album of the month, or album of the month, 00:12:57.789 --> 00:13:01.190 yeah, album of the week. His Spirit Box with 00:13:01.190 --> 00:13:06.750 Tsunami Sea on pale cord. I think it's a good 00:13:06.750 --> 00:13:10.590 progression by the band. There are a few songs 00:13:10.590 --> 00:13:14.370 off of this, specifically one of the, I think 00:13:14.370 --> 00:13:16.110 it was the first single they released off of 00:13:16.110 --> 00:13:18.009 this, Soft Spine, which is something that I've 00:13:18.009 --> 00:13:22.029 listened to quite a lot these last few months. 00:13:23.049 --> 00:13:27.759 So that kind of edges it out over the... uh, 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.080 edge of paradise album for me. Uh, but two very 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.039 strong albums, you know, I could have gone with 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:39.259 a, a favorite a and B for this week. So, um, 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:44.139 cool. Let's move on to the 14th here. We had, 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:51.039 um, new albums from, wow. I don't even know how 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:58.279 to pronounce this. This a Darium, I guess. Black 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:04.440 and Damned, Streetlight, Derision Cult, Thursome, 00:14:04.659 --> 00:14:09.700 Thursin, Thurnsin, Third Times a Charm, I guess, 00:14:09.899 --> 00:14:16.980 Soam, Warbringer, Dorothy, Ricky Warwick, Coheed 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:23.340 and Cambria, Envy of None, Night Stalker, Sanhedrin, 00:14:23.580 --> 00:14:28.500 Stephen Wilson, And Temperance reissues from 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:34.279 Camelot and Mad Season. Live albums from John 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:38.419 Anderson and the Band Geeks. Heathen, Jimmy Page, 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:43.960 and the Black Crows. And Metallica. Metallica 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:49.460 and Jimmy Page and Black Crows are really reissues. 00:14:49.460 --> 00:14:54.940 Metallica is just a... vinyl version of a DVD 00:14:54.940 --> 00:14:59.679 of theirs from years ago. Compilations from Simon 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:03.460 McBride, Red Fang, and the all -encompassing 00:15:03.460 --> 00:15:07.139 Ozzy Osbourne See You on the Other Side 2 .0, 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.139 which is essentially everything he's released, 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:17.639 but on vinyl. I listened to a lot of music for 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:24.549 this week. What did you listen to? Yeah, well, 00:15:24.649 --> 00:15:26.990 I didn't listen to Ricky Warwick, but actually 00:15:26.990 --> 00:15:29.750 I would have listened to Ricky Warwick. Warwick, 00:15:29.909 --> 00:15:33.509 okay, my bad. For you British listeners out there. 00:15:33.830 --> 00:15:37.029 Yes, yes, yes. No worries. No worries. Anyway, 00:15:37.169 --> 00:15:40.730 so my question is, have you ever wondered what 00:15:40.730 --> 00:15:42.830 it would be like if Ozzy and Black Sabbath decided 00:15:42.830 --> 00:15:46.470 to jam at his final gig at Villa Park? Because 00:15:46.470 --> 00:15:48.809 if you did, you know, not playing Black Sabbath 00:15:48.809 --> 00:15:52.350 songs, but just jamming. wonder no more because 00:15:52.350 --> 00:15:55.870 listen to return from the no point of no return 00:15:55.870 --> 00:15:59.629 by night stalker it's a stoner band from athens 00:15:59.629 --> 00:16:02.990 in greece and i think actually i might have heard 00:16:02.990 --> 00:16:05.389 them before a little bit in passing but it's 00:16:05.389 --> 00:16:07.309 definitely one that i'm going to do a deep dive 00:16:07.309 --> 00:16:10.409 into in their other albums because um you know 00:16:10.409 --> 00:16:13.110 i i would actually suggest play the title track 00:16:13.110 --> 00:16:15.929 first and you're immediately transported into 00:16:15.929 --> 00:16:18.429 a sabbath time machine possibly with zach wilde 00:16:18.429 --> 00:16:21.889 rather than um Tony Iommi. But in any event, 00:16:21.950 --> 00:16:24.509 sit back, enjoy some really top -notch stoner 00:16:24.509 --> 00:16:26.929 on this. It was really good. I'm not exaggerating 00:16:26.929 --> 00:16:30.009 to say this was probably the best stoner album 00:16:30.009 --> 00:16:33.909 I've heard in a very, very long time. Wow. There's 00:16:33.909 --> 00:16:36.590 some really good brooding songs on it. It's actually 00:16:36.590 --> 00:16:38.570 their ninth studio album. This is why I said 00:16:38.570 --> 00:16:40.889 I wanted to go back and listen to some of their 00:16:40.889 --> 00:16:42.690 earlier stuff, and I haven't done that yet, but 00:16:42.690 --> 00:16:45.279 I'm hoping to over the next few weeks. It gets 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:47.720 a really big thumbs up from me, that one. It 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:49.980 wasn't my album of the week, but it was very, 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.519 very close. I actually moved on to the traditional 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.299 thrash of Warbringer. I think possibly you've 00:16:55.299 --> 00:16:57.519 heard this one as well. Wrath and Ruin, their 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:00.480 seventh album. I enjoyed it as I would any similar 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:02.840 thrash band, but I couldn't help thinking it 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:04.980 sounded a little bit like a sort of poor death 00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:07.460 angel with slightly inferior production quality. 00:17:08.099 --> 00:17:12.240 It had its moments. The CD also comes with a 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.720 bonus disc of live tracks that, you know, fans 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.380 will enjoy, recorded across Central Europe in 00:17:17.380 --> 00:17:21.359 2023. It does sort of get over the power and 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.640 the strength of the band, the live stuff. You 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:25.279 know, I thought the live stuff was really good. 00:17:25.339 --> 00:17:27.920 So a very impressive live act was, you know, 00:17:27.940 --> 00:17:29.460 the album itself, I thought was a little bit 00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:33.740 so -so. But I guess really no surprise to you 00:17:33.740 --> 00:17:36.460 that my album of the week goes to Sanhedrin, 00:17:36.660 --> 00:17:39.140 the New York Three Piece. You know, it's their 00:17:39.140 --> 00:17:41.420 fourth album. I think it's possibly their best 00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:43.799 album. It's called Heat Lightning. You know, 00:17:43.819 --> 00:17:46.160 the bass player and singer Erica Stoltz gives 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.779 the band, you know, a real trademark sound with, 00:17:48.819 --> 00:17:52.960 you know, sort of unique vocals, really. Very 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.839 apt for this type of band. There's also, I think, 00:17:56.859 --> 00:17:58.839 a bit of an edge to this album that they haven't 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.680 had before. You know, it's sort of aptly illustrated 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:05.880 on the very fast tempo above the law, the brooding 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:09.809 King of Tides. and the metal stomp of High Threshold 00:18:09.809 --> 00:18:11.970 for Pain. So I just think, you know, it's another 00:18:11.970 --> 00:18:14.869 winner for me, and it's very easy for me to pick 00:18:14.869 --> 00:18:18.470 its album of the week. Okay, cool. Yeah, so I 00:18:18.470 --> 00:18:20.529 listened to a lot of stuff this week. I listened 00:18:20.529 --> 00:18:24.390 to The Warbringer, as you mentioned. Good album 00:18:24.390 --> 00:18:29.650 in line with what they normally put out, but 00:18:29.650 --> 00:18:33.269 I think gets kind of samesy after a while. I 00:18:33.269 --> 00:18:36.269 think what separates some of the albums... is 00:18:36.269 --> 00:18:38.829 that they've had more songs where they've switched 00:18:38.829 --> 00:18:41.289 up tempos and things where it's kind of kept 00:18:41.289 --> 00:18:43.150 me a little bit more engaged. It's not a bad 00:18:43.150 --> 00:18:46.190 album. And if you just want a full on thrash 00:18:46.190 --> 00:18:48.829 album, this is as good as you're going to get, 00:18:48.829 --> 00:18:51.269 you know, without looking at one of the classic 00:18:51.269 --> 00:18:56.910 bands. I listened to the Dorothy album. She's 00:18:56.910 --> 00:19:02.809 on Jay -Z's rock label. I don't remember it right 00:19:02.809 --> 00:19:05.670 now. what the name is. The album isn't bad. It's 00:19:05.670 --> 00:19:08.069 just a little too radio friendly for me. There's 00:19:08.069 --> 00:19:10.910 a track with Slash on it. She's got a great voice. 00:19:11.450 --> 00:19:17.809 I just wish that they would gear it more towards 00:19:17.809 --> 00:19:24.490 a hard rock audience as opposed to a radio rock 00:19:24.490 --> 00:19:27.809 audience. I think she's got, again, great vocals, 00:19:27.950 --> 00:19:33.430 but it kind of crosses over into like country 00:19:33.430 --> 00:19:37.490 and some pop rock in certain places. And I like 00:19:37.490 --> 00:19:41.109 pop rock, but I just wasn't expecting it from 00:19:41.109 --> 00:19:44.750 this. So it wasn't what I was looking for. The 00:19:44.750 --> 00:19:51.609 Ricky Warwick album. I'm a huge fan of the almighty, 00:19:51.869 --> 00:19:58.250 enormous fan of the almighty. I like something 00:19:58.250 --> 00:20:04.210 off of all of their albums. This album is a huge 00:20:04.210 --> 00:20:08.630 letdown to me. I could put this next to the Robin 00:20:08.630 --> 00:20:13.549 McCauley album with what I was expecting and 00:20:13.549 --> 00:20:20.670 what I got. God bless him. You know, he's doing 00:20:20.670 --> 00:20:24.750 what he wants to do. But again, an angry Ricky 00:20:24.750 --> 00:20:29.730 is what I want. I want an angry, angst -filled... 00:20:30.509 --> 00:20:33.309 you know, Ricky Warwick, which is what he was 00:20:33.309 --> 00:20:40.269 in, in the almighty, um, with this, it just kind 00:20:40.269 --> 00:20:45.950 of feels like black star writers light, you know, 00:20:45.950 --> 00:20:48.630 the, the, and there's some things on here that 00:20:48.630 --> 00:20:52.849 are just way too poppy for me, like way to the 00:20:52.849 --> 00:20:56.289 track that he does with Lita Ford. I listened 00:20:56.289 --> 00:20:59.210 to that. I was like, wow. You know, I'm not a 00:20:59.210 --> 00:21:02.609 huge Lita Ford fan. I'll admit that. And I was 00:21:02.609 --> 00:21:04.750 thinking, how's this going to pair up? I hope 00:21:04.750 --> 00:21:08.490 it isn't close my eyes forever part two. It wasn't, 00:21:08.490 --> 00:21:13.289 but it's still, you know, let's get a few plays 00:21:13.289 --> 00:21:16.309 on radio out of this one type of a deal. So it 00:21:16.309 --> 00:21:19.390 was kind of a letdown for me. Coheed and Cambria 00:21:19.390 --> 00:21:26.640 completely lost me as well. The Sanhedrin, I 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:31.140 think, is very good. Just to give you guys a 00:21:31.140 --> 00:21:34.819 little something different, I recommend the Sanhedrin 00:21:34.819 --> 00:21:38.519 as well. But I really like the new Envy of None 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:43.279 album called Stygian Waves. This is Alex Lifeson 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:49.180 from Rush, his new band, second album with a 00:21:49.180 --> 00:21:53.190 female singer. this is a little less experimental. 00:21:53.190 --> 00:21:55.730 It is experimental, but not as much as the first 00:21:55.730 --> 00:21:57.710 album. It seems like they've found more footing. 00:21:57.849 --> 00:22:01.509 There's a little more rock quote unquote to it. 00:22:01.609 --> 00:22:05.029 But by saying that I don't want to alienate anyone. 00:22:05.150 --> 00:22:08.970 This is geared more towards nineties alternative 00:22:08.970 --> 00:22:13.049 rock. It's geared more towards like what garbage 00:22:13.049 --> 00:22:16.109 was doing in the mid nineties, late nineties 00:22:16.109 --> 00:22:19.289 type of a deal. um if you're into that i would 00:22:19.289 --> 00:22:21.650 definitely recommend you check it out i think 00:22:21.650 --> 00:22:28.369 it's um a change up where listen you could hear 00:22:28.369 --> 00:22:31.549 me bitch about things being too poppy and you 00:22:31.549 --> 00:22:33.250 may listen to this and say well this is all full 00:22:33.250 --> 00:22:40.869 of pop uh okay i guess but it isn't a rock band 00:22:40.869 --> 00:22:43.549 trying to chase a fad in my opinion it's somebody 00:22:43.549 --> 00:22:48.259 trying to to Touch on something that was popular 00:22:48.259 --> 00:22:51.079 at one point as opposed to just putting out something 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.740 that was slick modern production to try to get 00:22:54.740 --> 00:22:58.259 on radio now. I think Alex Lifeson doesn't care 00:22:58.259 --> 00:23:01.240 about getting on the radio. And he's trying to 00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:04.000 write music based on the members that he has 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:07.579 in the band and trying to leverage them to the 00:23:07.579 --> 00:23:11.019 maximum of their ability personally. So if you're 00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:15.779 into that. You're into 90s alt -rock. You're 00:23:15.779 --> 00:23:22.019 into garbage. Check it out. March 21st. Again, 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:24.559 we're still recapping March. We'll get into April 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.279 in a second here. We've got two more weeks of 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:31.059 March to go. New albums from Imperial, Triumphant, 00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:38.160 Bloodywood, Dead Bars, Pop Evil. Pop Evil. Excuse 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:44.390 me. Evil. Um, Catla, Cradle of Filth, Disocia, 00:23:44.710 --> 00:23:50.549 Aversid, Cabal. Actually, Cabal came out this 00:23:50.549 --> 00:23:57.789 month. I just listened to it. Um, Orc, O period, 00:23:58.069 --> 00:24:00.970 R period, K period. Not sure what it stands for. 00:24:01.990 --> 00:24:10.099 Goddard, uh, Lordi, Withersake, Nidvind. Izzy 00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:15.220 Rain, Foxy Shazam, Gates of Hell, and Spirit 00:24:15.220 --> 00:24:19.900 World. EPs from Big Big Train, reissues from 00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:27.839 another release from Big Big Train, and a Finnish 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:35.019 band on Ripple. Viskard Sudden. And the Rush 00:24:35.019 --> 00:24:38.339 50 compilation. Well, we had Ozzy releasing absolutely 00:24:38.339 --> 00:24:41.299 everything on vinyl the previous week. We had 00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:47.619 Rush do it the following week. So, Jeremy, what 00:24:47.619 --> 00:24:51.339 did you listen to for this week? Yeah, it was 00:24:51.339 --> 00:24:53.500 a bit of a difficult week for me, this one. There 00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:55.920 weren't that many albums for me to personally 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.240 get my teeth into. I began with the self -titled 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:01.960 debut album on the independent label Fixed by 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.619 Izzy Rain or Kristen Matskoff, as she's otherwise 00:25:05.619 --> 00:25:08.819 known. A singer and producer with pink hair and 00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:11.640 a modern, if somewhat generic, sound mixing sort 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:13.940 of, you know, Madonna with Enter Shikari, I think, 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:17.380 among other bands. Actually, it wasn't a bad 00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:21.220 listen at all. I kind of enjoyed this. You know, 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:22.759 I could have done without some of the growly 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:25.480 add -ons that she does, but she has a decent 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:29.160 voice. She can write a good song or two. There 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:30.759 were definitely three or four on there that I 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:32.839 liked, possibly more. They sort of hooked me 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:35.700 in with a sort of mix of poppy metal, quite high 00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:39.680 quality. So, yeah, that was okay. I moved on 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:43.140 to Hell Dorado by Spirit World, the US metal 00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:45.759 band that was formed in 2017, described themselves 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.720 as sort of death western. a genre that i think 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:50.920 is very apt as it kind of captures what you get 00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:54.180 um it's a bit of an eclectic mix actually there 00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:56.420 are some sort of thrash elements on it as well 00:25:56.420 --> 00:25:58.839 you can sort of think maybe testament on the 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:02.019 tracks like no vacancy in heaven and oblivion 00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:04.700 uh there's sort of a kind of a rasping chuck 00:26:04.700 --> 00:26:08.059 billy type vocal on there very sort of pummeling 00:26:08.059 --> 00:26:11.119 guitar lines uh but then on songs like bird song 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:13.180 of death the band show you know sort of mellow 00:26:13.180 --> 00:26:15.299 and definitely sort of more of a western theme 00:26:15.869 --> 00:26:18.529 It's a very interesting type of album. I'm not 00:26:18.529 --> 00:26:22.210 totally sure I was really into it, but definitely 00:26:22.210 --> 00:26:24.849 one to give another listen to and definitely 00:26:24.849 --> 00:26:27.329 one for the listeners out there to maybe pick 00:26:27.329 --> 00:26:32.029 up and see for themselves. So really, for that 00:26:32.029 --> 00:26:34.609 reason, I've kind of opted for a safer choice 00:26:34.609 --> 00:26:36.869 as my album of the week. I've picked the Swedish 00:26:36.869 --> 00:26:41.049 band Gotthard with Stereo Crush, their 14th studio 00:26:41.049 --> 00:26:44.490 album since 1992. I mean, I wouldn't say this 00:26:44.490 --> 00:26:46.890 is a particularly favourite band of mine, but 00:26:46.890 --> 00:26:49.089 I guess they kind of do Bon Jovi and Def Leppard 00:26:49.089 --> 00:26:51.809 soft rock better than those two bands today. 00:26:52.470 --> 00:26:54.410 You know, with a sort of, you know, kind of a 00:26:54.410 --> 00:26:56.950 mix of hard rockers and whimsical ballads. But, 00:26:56.970 --> 00:26:59.009 you know, who doesn't do it better than Bon Jovi 00:26:59.009 --> 00:27:01.569 and Def Leppard? You know, what you get is you 00:27:01.569 --> 00:27:03.609 get a great singer, you get a fine air for melody 00:27:03.609 --> 00:27:06.089 and chorus. There's a decent reworking of the 00:27:06.089 --> 00:27:09.150 Beatles song Drive My Car. It's heavier than 00:27:09.150 --> 00:27:11.109 the original. It's kind of true to its roots, 00:27:11.190 --> 00:27:15.309 so it's well worth a listen. Clearly a band that's 00:27:15.309 --> 00:27:18.150 been influenced by the Beatles because there's 00:27:18.150 --> 00:27:20.170 another track on it about a student road trip 00:27:20.170 --> 00:27:24.130 called Liverpool. This won't obviously appeal 00:27:24.130 --> 00:27:26.210 to real metal fans out there, you know, the real 00:27:26.210 --> 00:27:28.849 Harden fans, but I thought it was a good listen 00:27:28.849 --> 00:27:31.390 and it's going to be my album of the week. Did 00:27:31.390 --> 00:27:36.230 you say Swedish or Swiss? I said Swedish. They're 00:27:36.230 --> 00:27:39.849 Swiss. They're Swiss. Okay. I got my Swiss, Swiss, 00:27:39.930 --> 00:27:44.789 Swedish mixed up. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. No problem. 00:27:44.970 --> 00:27:47.690 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're like, like you're 00:27:47.690 --> 00:27:50.549 saying they're in the vein of like, uh, heat 00:27:50.549 --> 00:27:55.430 or, um, eclipse or, or someone like that. Yeah. 00:27:55.490 --> 00:27:59.150 Yeah. All right. So I listened to a bunch of 00:27:59.150 --> 00:28:01.089 different things this week as well. Listen to 00:28:01.089 --> 00:28:06.420 the Imperial triumphant. Been wanting to get 00:28:06.420 --> 00:28:10.440 into that, but we've got enough bands with masks, 00:28:10.579 --> 00:28:19.380 folks. And not even in a Slipknot type of way. 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.400 I mean, I interviewed Sermon two years ago at 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:28.180 this point. Imperial Triumphant is a three -piece, 00:28:28.380 --> 00:28:34.279 very avant -garde, and a lot of, like, Noise 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:39.099 Rock. Let's see. What else? I listened to Pop 00:28:39.099 --> 00:28:43.319 Evil's What Remains. Very radio friendly. So 00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:47.619 really not my thing. Cradle of Filth. The Screaming 00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:51.019 of the Valkyries. I mentioned this when I posted 00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:53.859 one of the videos to Patreon a little while ago. 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:59.519 This is probably thrashier than some of their 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.809 previous releases. Uh, they're one black metal 00:29:03.809 --> 00:29:06.789 band that I've, that I listened to. I can't say 00:29:06.789 --> 00:29:10.049 quite frequently, but I like stuff off of each 00:29:10.049 --> 00:29:14.490 of their albums. Um, I do think that Danny Filth 00:29:14.490 --> 00:29:17.009 has a way of mixing in melodies and different 00:29:17.009 --> 00:29:20.289 things that, uh, others don't do. They're, they're 00:29:20.289 --> 00:29:22.549 working on a project with Ed Sheeran right now, 00:29:22.609 --> 00:29:26.690 actually, who's a longtime fan of theirs. Um, 00:29:28.780 --> 00:29:31.339 It's a cool listen. It's different from what 00:29:31.339 --> 00:29:34.019 they've done in the past. I listened to the Ork 00:29:34.019 --> 00:29:41.119 album as well. I would consider this a mix of 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:47.220 Led Zeppelin, Days of the New. I'm trying to 00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:55.200 remember... Oh man, a band that did a... They 00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:00.279 did a duet with Lizzy Hale last year, and they 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:07.940 were on that one music contest show that had 00:30:07.940 --> 00:30:10.819 Lizzy Hale and Gavin Rossdale and Alice Cooper 00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:14.400 and all these people picking different bands. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.039 They were the runners -up. Damn, I don't remember 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:23.160 the name of the band. I could actually look it 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:26.619 up real quick. This is the most exciting part 00:30:26.619 --> 00:30:37.059 of the show is having me search for things. Mercy. 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:40.599 It is the native howl. There you go. All right. 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:43.339 Native howl. It's kind of in that vein. Kind 00:30:43.339 --> 00:30:46.180 of sounds cool. It's got more electric stuff 00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:48.440 going on than native howl does. I listened to 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:55.980 the Izzy Rain as well. To me, she's trying to 00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:59.099 do what Poppy's doing. And like you said, it's 00:30:59.099 --> 00:31:02.720 not bad. It's just that I think Poppy does it 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:07.420 slightly better. So she kind of fills that gap 00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:13.680 for me. And also I listened to the Animality 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:18.640 Opera by Foxy Shazam, who's gotten back together. 00:31:19.299 --> 00:31:24.720 New York band, if I'm not mistaken. And it was 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:28.519 OK. I was expecting something a little bit more. 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:35.200 More rock. That's that's how I'll put it. This 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:37.420 is kind of bluesy. It's kind of experimental. 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.799 It's not. And I'm not a huge fan of theirs. So, 00:31:41.819 --> 00:31:44.119 you know, there could be some diehards that say, 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:46.160 you know, you don't know what you're talking 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.579 about. But my album of the week will be Bloodywood. 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:57.319 with New Delhi. They are the new metal band out 00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:04.059 of India. So it is New Delhi as in NU. It mixes 00:32:04.059 --> 00:32:10.099 a lot of new metal aspects from the late 90s, 00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:13.619 early 2000s. This is their second album, to my 00:32:13.619 --> 00:32:17.420 knowledge. A little bit more experimental. I 00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:20.650 do like the way that they... do mix in some of 00:32:20.650 --> 00:32:25.569 their native music from India. So that to me 00:32:25.569 --> 00:32:33.309 is always something that sells me on acts that 00:32:33.309 --> 00:32:39.069 experiment like that. So yeah, that's what I 00:32:39.069 --> 00:32:41.250 would recommend. I know that I'm all over the 00:32:41.250 --> 00:32:44.589 place with what I listen to here and what I'm 00:32:44.589 --> 00:32:46.710 recommending, but trying to give you guys different 00:32:46.710 --> 00:32:49.740 flavors and different things to listen to. All 00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:54.720 right. March 28th. We had new albums from Vigil 00:32:54.720 --> 00:33:03.160 Hunter, Alliance. Geneva. Phil X and the Drills. 00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:11.180 Wet. Broken Love. Flesh Spoil. Yeah. Severed 00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:19.009 Angel. Chiarosuko. Sick Puppies, Arch Enemy, 00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:23.849 Memphis Mayfire, Telepathy, Sixth Sense, Lauren 00:33:23.849 --> 00:33:32.009 Babic, Uzziel, Alien Weaponry, The Darkness, 00:33:32.750 --> 00:33:39.869 Death Haven, Donner. I already had... I will 00:33:39.869 --> 00:33:47.450 omit that. Delete. Masters of Reality. Returning 00:33:47.450 --> 00:33:50.849 after a bunch of years, Savage Master, reissues 00:33:50.849 --> 00:33:54.069 from Black Sabbath, Paranoid, High Fidelity Vinyl, 00:33:54.230 --> 00:33:58.250 compilations from Halloween with March of Times, 00:33:58.369 --> 00:34:02.650 The Best of 40 Years, and a new live album from 00:34:02.650 --> 00:34:06.589 New Model Army. Jeremy, what did you listen to 00:34:06.589 --> 00:34:10.869 this week? Well, yeah, I began the week on a 00:34:10.869 --> 00:34:12.750 good note. I checked out the latest solo album 00:34:12.750 --> 00:34:15.130 from the veteran keyboardist, Don Airy, Push 00:34:15.130 --> 00:34:18.079 to the Edge. A really great start to the week. 00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:20.719 It was a fine blend of keyboards, sort of embellishing 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.039 songs rather than sort of a seemingly annoying 00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:26.659 afterthought. You know, the Deep Purple Ivory 00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:30.039 Tinkler, he's going to be 77 in June. Just take 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.920 that in. But he shows no signs of slowing down. 00:34:33.099 --> 00:34:36.639 He's got that sort of, he's got a really good 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.519 backing with him. He's got Simon McBride on guitars. 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:42.239 He's got Carl Sentence and Mitchell M sharing 00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:46.860 the vocal duties. And he's also got the greatest 00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:49.679 gift to 70s hard rock. He's got the Hammond organ. 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:53.599 which he's pummeling away. It's actually an A100 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:56.199 for the purists out there. I have no idea what 00:34:56.199 --> 00:35:00.079 that means, but that's what he plays, and it 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:03.179 sounds fantastic. I mean, it's a solo album, 00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:05.960 and there's some variation on it. There's a little 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:08.519 prog here and there. There's some Arabian influence. 00:35:08.699 --> 00:35:11.219 There's a touch of keyboard, sort of Queensryche 00:35:11.219 --> 00:35:14.880 in there, and the song Rock the Melody. Not every 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.199 song will be to everyone's liking, of course, 00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:20.860 You know, no expense has been spared on the mixing, 00:35:20.900 --> 00:35:23.500 the production. Really fine listen. You know, 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:26.320 if you like old school sort of 70s rock, you're 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:29.679 going to enjoy it a lot. And I did. So then I 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:31.420 moved on. I checked out the new album by The 00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:34.239 Darkness called Dreams on Toast. A really nice 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.820 pun on that old British favorite. You know, I 00:35:37.820 --> 00:35:41.820 enjoyed the first two albums that they did. But 00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:44.239 I think, but like sort of Guns N' Roses, I think 00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.710 they faded a bit after that. The joke wore off, 00:35:47.750 --> 00:35:51.110 I guess. But I think there's a certain maturity 00:35:51.110 --> 00:35:54.030 on this album. If you can describe The Darkness 00:35:54.030 --> 00:35:56.710 as a maturing band, I mean, there's some more 00:35:56.710 --> 00:35:59.510 laid -back Queen influences, I'd say, than the 00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:02.369 hard -rocking ACDC on this one. And I don't think 00:36:02.369 --> 00:36:04.329 that's a bad thing. They're quite good at it, 00:36:04.389 --> 00:36:08.329 as it happens. It's just that The Darkness, for 00:36:08.329 --> 00:36:10.869 me, were a sort of a jokey band, sort of intended 00:36:10.869 --> 00:36:13.920 to make a bit of fun. and make rock fun. And 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:15.599 that's what they did when they sort of burst 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.360 on the scene about 20 years ago. And this album 00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:20.860 doesn't do that. So you've got to sort of get 00:36:20.860 --> 00:36:23.460 your mind around that. They do have the daff 00:36:23.460 --> 00:36:26.579 lyrics, of course, and they just aren't as ridiculous 00:36:26.579 --> 00:36:29.639 as they used to be. So, you know, if you really 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:31.340 want something more ridiculous, we'll all wait 00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:33.679 for the new Spinal Tap film that's coming out, 00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:38.469 you know, later this year. So that was OK. But 00:36:38.469 --> 00:36:40.650 I guess it was really a toss up for me whether 00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:42.889 to go for the Don Airy album as my album of the 00:36:42.889 --> 00:36:45.530 week or this one, which I'm going to pick. It's 00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:49.670 Dark and Dangerous by Savage Master. I must admit, 00:36:49.769 --> 00:36:52.269 this was a new band to me, but they'd actually 00:36:52.269 --> 00:36:56.349 formed in 2013 by Adam Neill on guitar and the 00:36:56.349 --> 00:37:00.030 vocalist Stacey Savage. And they come from Louisville 00:37:00.030 --> 00:37:03.380 in Kentucky. What you kind of get is a sort of 00:37:03.380 --> 00:37:06.079 evil and occult inspired metal, so very much 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.460 in the new wave of British heavy metal style. 00:37:08.860 --> 00:37:11.119 So there was a lot for me to like, at least. 00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:13.900 It was kind of paced quite right. It's heavy 00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:16.239 enough without being sort of over the top or 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:19.480 amateurish. And I kind of like the female vocalist 00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.360 as well in that style. So there's a lot of ticks 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.599 there. What are two songs a little bit pedestrian? 00:37:26.329 --> 00:37:29.369 uh, okay. I guess, but, um, good listen overall. 00:37:29.489 --> 00:37:31.769 And if you kind of like sort of Joan Jett, Susie 00:37:31.769 --> 00:37:34.710 Quatro, rock goddess, girl school, you know, 00:37:34.730 --> 00:37:36.869 that sort of sound with the, with the sort of 00:37:36.869 --> 00:37:39.670 heavy new album style that you're going to kind 00:37:39.670 --> 00:37:41.289 of dig this. So, um, yeah, I'm going to pick 00:37:41.289 --> 00:37:44.329 that one as my album of the week. Cool. Sounds 00:37:44.329 --> 00:37:47.369 interesting. Um, so I listened to a bunch of 00:37:47.369 --> 00:37:49.190 different things. I did listen to the Don Airy 00:37:49.190 --> 00:37:53.369 album. Um, similar to what you said. Album does 00:37:53.369 --> 00:37:55.730 not disappoint. It's heavier than what I expected 00:37:55.730 --> 00:37:58.849 as well. You know, I think it might actually 00:37:58.849 --> 00:38:00.789 be better than what he's releasing with Deep 00:38:00.789 --> 00:38:03.110 Purple, to be honest with you, because it's a 00:38:03.110 --> 00:38:06.030 little bit more in the vein of what I'm into. 00:38:08.949 --> 00:38:12.590 So, yeah, I listened to the Bon Jovi guitarist 00:38:12.590 --> 00:38:16.449 Phil X and the Drills album. This album has been 00:38:16.449 --> 00:38:21.030 written over the last, I believe, decade or so. 00:38:21.659 --> 00:38:24.500 There's some tracks off of this that are really 00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:29.320 good. And there are others that are just not 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.300 there. But I do like a lot of it. I listen to 00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:39.119 Sick Puppies, Wave the Bulls. A few tracks off 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:43.420 of it that I really enjoy. But for the most part 00:38:43.420 --> 00:38:49.780 is Radio Rock. Let's see. I listened to the Deaf 00:38:49.780 --> 00:38:54.519 Haven album, Lonely People with Power, in vain 00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:57.099 with what they've done in the past. Some melodies, 00:38:57.219 --> 00:39:02.679 a lot of noise rock going on. Let's see. I listened 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:05.780 to the Masters of Reality. I really like a lot 00:39:05.780 --> 00:39:08.039 of their earlier music. There's the first album 00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:12.039 that Chris Goss has released in a long time. 00:39:17.240 --> 00:39:20.840 He's teamed up with Alan Johannes on this one, 00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:25.480 but it's a lot mellower than what I wanted from 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.920 them personally. I like when they get into the 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:34.280 deep, heavy, thick Sabbath -like riffs because 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:38.800 I think that they do it well, but it's just not 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:47.300 present on this album. Let's see. I listened 00:39:47.300 --> 00:39:51.980 to Alien Weaponry's Tehran. It's a good return 00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:54.400 for them. I really enjoyed their debut album. 00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:57.420 I think the second album, maybe they rushed to 00:39:57.420 --> 00:40:00.860 put it out and it wasn't as strong. I do think 00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:04.159 that this album, not as good as their debut album, 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:10.059 but still has some really cool mix of new metal, 00:40:10.139 --> 00:40:16.329 some, again, tribal music from New Zealand. um, 00:40:16.329 --> 00:40:20.150 the, uh, Maori, uh, influence. I hope I'm pronouncing 00:40:20.150 --> 00:40:23.110 that correctly. Um, so I really enjoyed that, 00:40:23.190 --> 00:40:28.829 but, uh, my, my album of the week is going to 00:40:28.829 --> 00:40:32.469 go to a band that I kind of gave up on and said, 00:40:32.610 --> 00:40:39.670 you know, I'm, I'm done with their, um, with 00:40:39.670 --> 00:40:42.269 their heavy and growling. And then we get to 00:40:42.269 --> 00:40:46.070 the Eurovision -y. A happy chorus all of a sudden. 00:40:46.150 --> 00:40:50.130 It's Arch Enemy with Blood Dynasty. I really 00:40:50.130 --> 00:40:54.090 enjoyed this album. It's their first album without 00:40:54.090 --> 00:40:56.969 Jeff Loomis in some time. Joey Concepcion from 00:40:56.969 --> 00:41:00.570 Connecticut, who I interviewed a few years back, 00:41:00.789 --> 00:41:04.730 is now the second guitarist in the band. The 00:41:04.730 --> 00:41:09.909 musicianship is great. They've let Alicia Goose 00:41:09.909 --> 00:41:12.989 White. include some more harmonies this time 00:41:12.989 --> 00:41:16.849 around some more clean vocals which i think helps 00:41:16.849 --> 00:41:22.409 at least for me um brings more interest or interests 00:41:22.409 --> 00:41:25.989 me more in the album uh so that's why it's it's 00:41:25.989 --> 00:41:28.730 my pick you know i was thinking oh just another 00:41:28.730 --> 00:41:31.909 arch enemy album and i was like a lot of the 00:41:31.909 --> 00:41:34.489 songs really stood out to me and i really enjoyed 00:41:34.489 --> 00:41:38.789 it so uh before moving on to april I'm just going 00:41:38.789 --> 00:41:42.809 to recap here the albums that we picked for March 00:41:42.809 --> 00:41:47.630 7th. Jeremy picked the One Day Remains 20th anniversary 00:41:47.630 --> 00:41:53.289 from Alter Bridge. I picked Spirit Boxes, Tsunami 00:41:53.289 --> 00:42:00.110 Sea off of Pale Chord. For March 14th, Jeremy 00:42:00.110 --> 00:42:05.130 picked, I didn't write it down. Sanhedrin. Yeah, 00:42:05.190 --> 00:42:09.590 Sanhedrin. How did I not remember that? And I 00:42:09.590 --> 00:42:18.269 picked Envy of None. For March 21st, Jeremy picked 00:42:18.269 --> 00:42:24.969 Goddard's Stereo Crush. And I picked Bloody Wood's 00:42:24.969 --> 00:42:31.429 New Delhi. And for the final week in March, Jeremy 00:42:31.429 --> 00:42:34.670 picked Savage Master with Dark and Dangerous. 00:42:35.070 --> 00:42:40.829 And I went with Arch Enemy Blood Dynasty. So 00:42:40.829 --> 00:42:42.650 there's a lot of good music that came out that 00:42:42.650 --> 00:42:46.889 month. There's always good new music coming out 00:42:46.889 --> 00:42:49.550 all the time. Hopefully this helps turn you on 00:42:49.550 --> 00:42:51.670 to some things that maybe you didn't give a shot, 00:42:51.809 --> 00:42:54.429 didn't know came out. Whatever the case may be, 00:42:54.550 --> 00:42:58.230 the idea is to have you check these bands out 00:42:58.230 --> 00:43:01.550 and hopefully you drop some money and help some 00:43:01.550 --> 00:43:04.570 of these bands out as well. All right, let's 00:43:04.570 --> 00:43:07.989 move on to April. April 4th, we had new albums 00:43:07.989 --> 00:43:14.250 from L .A. Guns, Smith -Cotson, Elysian, Benediction, 00:43:14.650 --> 00:43:20.489 Lopan, Bleed From Within, Warfield, Frantic Amber, 00:43:21.010 --> 00:43:26.550 Buried Realm. Another one of these tongue twisters 00:43:26.550 --> 00:43:35.300 here. Kiritsis, I guess. Moon Destroys. Luna 00:43:35.300 --> 00:43:40.119 Kills. Wow. Interesting. Okay. Debt Neglector. 00:43:41.260 --> 00:43:45.639 Fractal Universe. Air Dawn Daggers. EPs from 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:53.539 Scal and Midnight Vice. Reissues from Meshuggah. 00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:59.820 Meshuggah. Live albums from I've got everything 00:43:59.820 --> 00:44:04.679 out of whack here. Live album from rotting christ 00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:13.500 okay so um damn it uh jeremy what did you listen 00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:16.699 to this week yeah so a bit of a whirlwind in 00:44:16.699 --> 00:44:19.000 april i'm going to probably offend you right 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:20.960 from the off because i listened to the la guns 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:24.730 album uh their new album Left me a bit cold, 00:44:24.829 --> 00:44:28.730 if I'm honest. I've never been that massive a 00:44:28.730 --> 00:44:31.610 fan of them. I always think that their songwriting 00:44:31.610 --> 00:44:35.650 is not really as good as it should be for me 00:44:35.650 --> 00:44:38.230 personally. But I did like the previous album. 00:44:38.329 --> 00:44:40.489 I think you remember we picked that in our top 00:44:40.489 --> 00:44:43.969 10 and I really liked that one. But I couldn't 00:44:43.969 --> 00:44:45.869 get into this one. I found it quite boring, if 00:44:45.869 --> 00:44:48.690 I'm honest. I'm sure you're going to be commenting 00:44:48.690 --> 00:44:53.309 on it in a minute. So I'll leave you to... elucidate 00:44:53.309 --> 00:44:58.050 on it and fill out the bits that I can't do because 00:44:58.050 --> 00:45:01.429 I really couldn't get into it at all. So I went 00:45:01.429 --> 00:45:04.289 into the Midnight Vice seven -track self -titled 00:45:04.289 --> 00:45:07.469 EP. It lasts about 28 minutes. I thought that 00:45:07.469 --> 00:45:10.710 was pretty good. It's a sort of fast -paced 80s 00:45:10.710 --> 00:45:13.010 new album -style homage by a band from Tampa, 00:45:13.170 --> 00:45:16.929 Florida. Nothing new on this, of course. It's 00:45:16.929 --> 00:45:21.099 very sort of a well -trodden path. usual rehash 00:45:21.099 --> 00:45:23.679 riffs, you know, a high -pitched singer, a band 00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:25.380 that's sort of guaranteed to give you an enjoyable 00:45:25.380 --> 00:45:28.619 night out in a pub or club. But it gets better 00:45:28.619 --> 00:45:30.199 as you go through the tracks, and I really like 00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:32.320 the track Mysteria. I don't know if that was 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.659 a bit of a mistake on Hysteria by Def Leppard. 00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:37.739 Particularly enjoyable, that one. The record 00:45:37.739 --> 00:45:40.260 close of White Witch I liked. Very classic new 00:45:40.260 --> 00:45:44.760 album. So that was very good. All Your Angels 00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:47.579 by Scowl is probably going to be my pick of this 00:45:47.579 --> 00:45:50.889 particular week. It's the second studio album 00:45:50.889 --> 00:45:53.730 from the Santa Cruz, California outfit. Has its 00:45:53.730 --> 00:45:56.489 roots, I guess, in sort of blondie, Nirvana, 00:45:56.510 --> 00:45:59.769 lots of old rock and punk, that kind of music. 00:46:00.050 --> 00:46:02.550 There's 11 songs on it. They don't outstay the 00:46:02.550 --> 00:46:04.369 welcome. I think you sort of described it as 00:46:04.369 --> 00:46:07.849 an EP. You're probably right. As you can imagine, 00:46:07.889 --> 00:46:10.369 it's a sort of fast -paced punky band. But what 00:46:10.369 --> 00:46:12.769 I like about this is the song construction. There's 00:46:12.769 --> 00:46:15.030 a real sort of variety to it, which you don't 00:46:15.030 --> 00:46:17.090 always get from these sort of punky short songs. 00:46:17.900 --> 00:46:20.880 I love the female vocalist Kat Moss throughout. 00:46:21.179 --> 00:46:23.480 I think she really sounds good, especially on 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.099 Not Hell, Not Heaven. Great tone to her voice, 00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:30.719 really sort of molds well into the music. And 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:33.260 so definitely gets my nod for Album of the Week. 00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:36.019 I enjoyed that one. Cool. I'm surprised you didn't 00:46:36.019 --> 00:46:41.380 check out the Smith's Carton album. No, I didn't. 00:46:41.980 --> 00:46:46.099 But it happens. There you go. Going to have to 00:46:46.099 --> 00:46:50.440 do some homework for the end of the year. Okay. 00:46:50.780 --> 00:46:59.019 So for me, I listened to the LA Guns. I think 00:46:59.019 --> 00:47:02.059 their last two albums are a bit weak, to be honest, 00:47:02.139 --> 00:47:05.239 and I'm a huge fan of theirs. This album has 00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:09.920 some good tracks on it, but there's just a lot 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:14.559 missing on this album personally. The new Allegiant 00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:20.500 album, The Ossuary Lens, came highly recommended. 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:25.320 It is a death metal album and just not up my 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:29.539 alley. Listened to Benediction, Ravage of Empires 00:47:29.539 --> 00:47:33.980 with John Setti, a .k .a. Giovanni Durst, formerly 00:47:33.980 --> 00:47:42.309 of White Wizard. And it's an okay album. Um, 00:47:42.510 --> 00:47:45.730 just gets kind of samesy after, after a while, 00:47:45.889 --> 00:47:49.610 uh, bleed from within their new album. They've 00:47:49.610 --> 00:47:53.130 they're back after a bunch of years, a mix of 00:47:53.130 --> 00:47:57.409 guttural vocals with some clean melodies and 00:47:57.409 --> 00:48:02.809 it's all right. Nothing new. Uh, Warfield with 00:48:02.809 --> 00:48:08.010 the old breed, um, classic thrash with a bit 00:48:08.010 --> 00:48:11.519 of a more like black metal type vocals to it. 00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:18.739 Um, and I will have to say that my album of the 00:48:18.739 --> 00:48:23.840 week is low pan get well soon. Low pan, uh, has 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:28.739 members of the original version of God smack. 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:33.300 Uh, it's got their original, uh, guitarist and 00:48:33.300 --> 00:48:35.820 drummer, if I'm not mistaken, at least they used 00:48:35.820 --> 00:48:41.789 to, um, The album, I mean, it doesn't sound anything 00:48:41.789 --> 00:48:46.530 like Godsmack. It's a little bit more in a stonery 00:48:46.530 --> 00:48:51.369 type vibe than Godsmack is. It's not bad. It's 00:48:51.369 --> 00:48:54.690 not anything revolutionary or anything new, but 00:48:54.690 --> 00:49:00.010 it's still my album of the week. April 11th, 00:49:00.010 --> 00:49:05.269 new albums from Epica, Cabal, Ye Brandish Privateers. 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.320 Celestial Sanctuary. I think I may have mentioned 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:14.059 that already. No. Some other Celestial stuff. 00:49:14.420 --> 00:49:20.980 Okay. Elven King. Messa. In the Woods. Tower. 00:49:21.699 --> 00:49:36.240 The Lord Weir. Sloth Fane. Samtar. Diabolizer. 00:49:36.240 --> 00:49:39.380 Rockout. Exiled Hope. You get a kick out of all 00:49:39.380 --> 00:49:50.619 these mispronunciations. Anisoke. Valahor. Black 00:49:50.619 --> 00:50:04.199 Map. Ryoji. Shinomoto. Teen Mortgage and Reissues 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:15.019 From. Ah, Terminality and Swallow the Sun. What 00:50:15.019 --> 00:50:17.559 did you listen to, Jeremy? That was a testing 00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:21.219 week, I think, the pronunciation, that one. Well, 00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:23.539 I'm going to give you a very easy one to pronounce. 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:26.920 The Swiss band Rock Out. was the first one I 00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:30.019 listened to. Let's call it Rock and Roll on Frontiers. 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:32.840 I mean, it was okay. It's a sort of well -trodden 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:35.500 path of Aussie -style stomping rock, very similar 00:50:35.500 --> 00:50:38.460 to Crocus. Sounded a little bit at times like 00:50:38.460 --> 00:50:40.940 the Dead Daisies, so you kind of know what you're 00:50:40.940 --> 00:50:43.239 getting on this one. You will hate the lyrics. 00:50:43.340 --> 00:50:45.639 I hated the lyrics as well, to be honest. But 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:48.440 it was good time stuff. It just sort of works, 00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:50.699 thanks to a professional edge, polished riffs, 00:50:50.900 --> 00:50:55.099 a decent singer, likeable choruses. Just, you 00:50:55.099 --> 00:50:57.800 know, was something we've heard before, I guess. 00:50:58.219 --> 00:51:02.019 By the way, they rose to fame in 2022 on national 00:51:02.019 --> 00:51:05.860 TV. And they're very popular on the local festival 00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:08.260 circuit as well. You can understand that because, 00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:10.300 you know, they're enjoyable to listen to, but 00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:14.840 it's nothing new. So I listened next to Shining 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:19.000 by Swallow the Sun, the Finnish Death Doom band. 00:51:20.030 --> 00:51:21.789 This one has sort of everything you might expect. 00:51:21.969 --> 00:51:24.130 It's very well crafted. I really like the haunting 00:51:24.130 --> 00:51:26.989 clean vocals and characteristic melodies. But 00:51:26.989 --> 00:51:29.570 before you mention it, I know it was originally 00:51:29.570 --> 00:51:32.429 released in October. I think I reviewed it back 00:51:32.429 --> 00:51:36.210 then as well, very favorably as well. But this 00:51:36.210 --> 00:51:40.269 is the deluxe version. And it was in a week where 00:51:40.269 --> 00:51:42.530 I didn't have too many to pick from. So I thought 00:51:42.530 --> 00:51:44.429 I'd give it another listen. And, you know, sometimes 00:51:44.429 --> 00:51:49.440 it's good to revisit an old record. Was I right 00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:51.480 the first time? And yeah, I think it was because 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:54.960 it's a good listen. So I'm glad I got to listen 00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:58.980 to it again. I then moved on to Beyond the Stars 00:51:58.980 --> 00:52:03.599 by Val Hallor. This one's a kind of melodic Eamon 00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:05.860 Amarth that is sort of described as symphonic 00:52:05.860 --> 00:52:10.260 folk metal from Brisbane in Australia. Whatever 00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:14.619 it is, it's actually not bad. Sort of really 00:52:14.619 --> 00:52:17.059 draws you in, even if it's not all that great. 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.780 uh you know some sort of quite heavy moments 00:52:19.780 --> 00:52:21.800 in there there's a nice folk ballad with sort 00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:25.099 of wishbone ash overtones called wayfinder um 00:52:25.099 --> 00:52:27.900 and overall you know i kind of listened to it 00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:30.039 all the way through and i thought yeah i'm quite 00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:33.739 enjoying it if you ask me to pick an album of 00:52:33.739 --> 00:52:36.130 the week i'm gonna struggle on this one because 00:52:36.130 --> 00:52:38.170 you know all three were not really up to the 00:52:38.170 --> 00:52:41.809 usual quality so um i may go back to the rock 00:52:41.809 --> 00:52:43.750 out one with you know let's call it rocker all 00:52:43.750 --> 00:52:46.710 simply because you know it's it was easy to like 00:52:46.710 --> 00:52:48.530 if you know what i mean so i'll pick that one 00:52:48.530 --> 00:52:54.989 a lesser of all evils yeah yeah uh okay so i 00:52:54.989 --> 00:52:59.289 listened to cabal everything rots death metal 00:52:59.289 --> 00:53:07.760 um This week inspired me to propose some things 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.159 to you earlier this week because death metal 00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:16.599 isn't my thing. Elvin King, kind of the same. 00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:23.500 And the Lord Weird Sloth Fang. Traveler Supplement 00:53:23.500 --> 00:53:30.469 1, the Imperial Glades. Listen to that. It sounds 00:53:30.469 --> 00:53:33.429 like straight up 80s heavy metal influenced by 00:53:33.429 --> 00:53:38.329 new Wabham stuff, stuff that was going on mid 00:53:38.329 --> 00:53:41.610 80s coming out of specifically England. Not bad. 00:53:42.110 --> 00:53:45.429 But I'm going to go with the Italian band Mesa 00:53:45.429 --> 00:53:50.630 with The Spin. It's a little mix of everything, 00:53:50.809 --> 00:54:00.579 kind of gothy, kind of hard rockish. maybe dipping 00:54:00.579 --> 00:54:05.260 its toes back in into like love from the cult, 00:54:05.380 --> 00:54:09.480 but with a female singer. So there's a lot of 00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:12.739 atmospheric stuff in there as well. It's a good 00:54:12.739 --> 00:54:16.239 listen. It surprised me. I posted a video on 00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:19.340 the Patreon to get the kind of wet everyone's 00:54:19.340 --> 00:54:21.639 whistle there. Get you guys to check it out. 00:54:22.340 --> 00:54:28.400 And yeah, that's my album of the week. uh, for 00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:34.639 the 11th of April. Okay. Moving on to, uh, April 00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:40.239 18th. We had, uh, albums from the Melvin's Melvin's 00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:44.940 1983. Um, I had this list that is coming out. 00:54:44.980 --> 00:54:47.500 I couldn't find it on streaming. So it's possible 00:54:47.500 --> 00:54:50.739 that this was just a vinyl only release or something 00:54:50.739 --> 00:54:53.900 like that. But, uh, I have to check out some 00:54:53.900 --> 00:54:57.380 of the, um, promos that were sent to me if in 00:54:57.380 --> 00:54:59.800 the event that I do have it there. All right. 00:54:59.860 --> 00:55:05.280 So, uh, what else? Uh, albums from, uh, Therion, 00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:12.900 Lick, Lauren, Lojimo, Sick and Beautiful, uh, 00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:21.760 X, Extraminitus, uh, Fractured Fairy Tales, Empyrean 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:31.079 Sanctum. Dormant Ordeal, Super Heaven, and Mayonique 00:55:31.079 --> 00:55:48.460 x Urosun. Okay, and reissues from... What is 00:55:48.460 --> 00:55:55.579 this? Okay. I've got this mixed up here. All 00:55:55.579 --> 00:55:59.059 right, so I do apologize. So it looks like that 00:55:59.059 --> 00:56:03.079 last one was an EP. All right, so reissues from 00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:08.880 The Quill and from Sweet. Compilations from Madball. 00:56:09.659 --> 00:56:13.880 True to the Game, The Roadrunner Years. Okay. 00:56:15.780 --> 00:56:19.260 Jeremy, what did you listen to for this week? 00:56:20.380 --> 00:56:22.519 Well, without wishing to sort of bring the tone 00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:25.460 down too much, this was a week in which my dad 00:56:25.460 --> 00:56:29.079 died, and so I didn't listen to anything at all 00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:32.440 in the week of it, you know, for obvious reasons. 00:56:32.539 --> 00:56:35.840 I didn't listen to any music at all. I'd written 00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:39.380 down that later on I did listen to the Superheaven 00:56:39.380 --> 00:56:43.639 album. It's an old rock band, you know, from 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:45.980 Daylight, apparently, in Pennsylvania. I didn't 00:56:45.980 --> 00:56:47.760 know there was a place called Daylight. It sounds 00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:50.809 really good. There's a lot of weird names in 00:56:50.809 --> 00:56:56.289 Pennsylvania. There we go. I never really went 00:56:56.289 --> 00:56:58.269 back to listen to much. And I think partly it 00:56:58.269 --> 00:57:00.750 was because I looked at the list of albums and 00:57:00.750 --> 00:57:03.269 band names and I didn't really, nothing really 00:57:03.269 --> 00:57:05.849 sort of shot out at me. And I'm kind of glad 00:57:05.849 --> 00:57:08.690 that that week is kind of empty. So I'm going 00:57:08.690 --> 00:57:11.349 to leave it empty for me personally. And I'm 00:57:11.349 --> 00:57:14.289 going to let you let you say what you thought 00:57:14.289 --> 00:57:17.190 was good. Yeah. So first of all, condolences 00:57:17.190 --> 00:57:20.440 to you for the. Passing of Your Father. Thanks. 00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:24.000 So that's, I mean, more than understandable. 00:57:25.300 --> 00:57:30.380 I listened to the Therion album, Beyond the Darkest 00:57:30.380 --> 00:57:33.940 Veil of Time, Not My Thing, Symphonic Metal, 00:57:34.179 --> 00:57:39.139 the Lauren Lojimo. This is another project that 00:57:39.139 --> 00:57:43.599 Frontiers has put together similar to what they've 00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:46.969 done in the past with Russell Allen. and with 00:57:46.969 --> 00:57:50.630 Bjorn, but this is their female version with 00:57:50.630 --> 00:57:55.769 the singer of Battle Beast and the singer of 00:57:55.769 --> 00:58:06.050 Smackbound. Again, just too melodic for me. It's 00:58:06.050 --> 00:58:11.030 Frontiers. It's your typical AOR Frontiers put 00:58:11.030 --> 00:58:12.889 -together project. There's plenty of people that 00:58:12.889 --> 00:58:18.150 love it. If you like it, check it out. Um, what 00:58:18.150 --> 00:58:22.269 else did I listen to here? Um, I listened to, 00:58:22.349 --> 00:58:26.630 Oh, I listened to lick necro. That is a death 00:58:26.630 --> 00:58:30.170 metal also. Uh, but my album of the week is the 00:58:30.170 --> 00:58:32.789 Italian band. I've picked two Italian bands straight 00:58:32.789 --> 00:58:40.989 sick and beautiful with horror. Um, or vacui, 00:58:41.070 --> 00:58:43.679 I guess is how you pronounce it. I guess it's 00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:46.920 Latin or Italian or, you know, a derivative thereof. 00:58:47.539 --> 00:58:52.519 But I dig this band. I really enjoyed their last 00:58:52.519 --> 00:59:00.659 release as well. It's a mix of industrial hard 00:59:00.659 --> 00:59:05.860 rock. If you like Rob Zombie with female vocals, 00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:10.460 it's kind of what you're getting here. without 00:59:10.460 --> 00:59:13.539 as much grunting and with a little bit more searing 00:59:13.539 --> 00:59:20.380 vocals. Now we come to the 25th of April, which 00:59:20.380 --> 00:59:25.000 by far to me is the strongest week in April. 00:59:25.500 --> 00:59:28.320 I'm going to be honest with you. I think when 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.599 I started listening to a lot of the releases 00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:36.579 for April, this month was kind of a letdown for 00:59:36.579 --> 00:59:39.420 me because I think every month previous to this, 00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:44.239 has been fairly strong where even with March, 00:59:44.340 --> 00:59:47.480 there's a few weeks there where I was like, damn, 00:59:47.579 --> 00:59:50.500 what do I pick? There's, there's several things 00:59:50.500 --> 00:59:55.159 here that are, that are, that are strong. So, 00:59:55.159 --> 01:00:02.300 um, yeah, so this is by far to me, the strongest 01:00:02.300 --> 01:00:08.179 week in April. I don't know if Edgar Winterson 01:00:08.179 --> 01:00:10.519 is telling us he's pregnant or just that he showed 01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:16.219 up late to the show. Edgar, welcome aboard, sir. 01:00:17.699 --> 01:00:20.739 All right, so we had, there's a lot of things 01:00:20.739 --> 01:00:23.480 that came out this week. We had the new album 01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:26.440 from Ghost, new album from Machine Head, new 01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:31.119 album from Wednesday 13, Russ Ballard, Liv Christine, 01:00:31.559 --> 01:00:40.079 Elevatia, Heat, Caliban. Trick or Treat, Harem 01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:51.780 Scaram, Kardashev, Cadaver, Conan, Game Over, 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:56.519 Tony Butler, Art Nation, Employed to Serve, Beholder, 01:00:56.840 --> 01:01:03.619 Cancer, Avenger of Blood, Deserted Fear, Landmarks, 01:01:08.010 --> 01:01:13.849 Akamkara, Coffin Feeder, Bark, Phantom, Sacred 01:01:13.849 --> 01:01:20.429 Steel, Teaser Suite, and Ghost Seeker. Live albums 01:01:20.429 --> 01:01:30.630 from Klaus, Schulze, and Sirith Ungle. The legendary 01:01:30.630 --> 01:01:36.679 LA band Sirith Ungle, which... My good friend 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:39.440 Bob Nalbandian, the late great Bob Nalbandian, 01:01:39.559 --> 01:01:45.659 used to talk them up all the time. All right, 01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:50.699 Jeremy, what did you listen to on the 26th? I 01:01:50.699 --> 01:01:52.559 remember listening to Sirith Ungold back in the 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:56.699 day as well, a long, long time ago. I, first 01:01:56.699 --> 01:01:59.159 of all, listened to Ritual Supremacy by Sacred 01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:02.320 Steel, the German band. It's a sort of mix of 01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:05.929 power metal, traditional old school. The riffing, 01:02:05.929 --> 01:02:08.030 I thought, was pretty good on the whole, but 01:02:08.030 --> 01:02:12.429 very much like other German bands who do that 01:02:12.429 --> 01:02:15.329 sort of stuff. But a little bit let down, I think, 01:02:15.329 --> 01:02:18.449 by the songwriting, especially the vocals, which 01:02:18.449 --> 01:02:21.750 was all a bit evident on a track like The Watcher 01:02:21.750 --> 01:02:25.389 Infernal. You know, great riffs, but let down 01:02:25.389 --> 01:02:29.650 by the vocals. Now, this is interesting because 01:02:29.650 --> 01:02:31.650 I don't think we've ever had this, Victor, but 01:02:31.650 --> 01:02:34.679 we have a dead heat. for album of the week. I've 01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:36.840 listened to these two albums I'm going to mention 01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:42.980 now for a good week or so and probably a couple 01:02:42.980 --> 01:02:45.559 of weeks. I've bought one of them. I've got the 01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:50.639 other one on order. I cannot split them. I have 01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:53.679 gone down to a granular level and I can tell 01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:58.860 you now that they both are 8 .93276 points out 01:02:58.860 --> 01:03:02.500 of 10. So there is no way you can split them. 01:03:03.380 --> 01:03:06.420 So the two albums, of course, one of them is 01:03:06.420 --> 01:03:09.599 Skeletor by Ghost, which is a really good album. 01:03:09.699 --> 01:03:11.440 I'll come to that again in a minute. I'm sure 01:03:11.440 --> 01:03:13.440 you're going to comment on it as well. And the 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:15.480 other one is Welcome to the Future by Heat, which, 01:03:15.539 --> 01:03:17.559 as you know, I really like Heat. I've liked their 01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:21.159 recent albums. And they're very different albums, 01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:23.940 both from the same country, of course, as well. 01:03:25.639 --> 01:03:28.239 I really like the Heat album because it's got 01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:31.280 all the same melodic stuff. It's got some... 01:03:31.710 --> 01:03:34.070 some killer songs on there. It's got ballads 01:03:34.070 --> 01:03:36.869 on there. You know, it's kind of what I would 01:03:36.869 --> 01:03:39.690 expect from a Def Leppard -y type, Bon Jovi type 01:03:39.690 --> 01:03:44.050 band. And they do it far better. And they even 01:03:44.050 --> 01:03:46.889 outdo Europe, I think, at times. So I really 01:03:46.889 --> 01:03:49.630 like that album. I bought it straight away. I've 01:03:49.630 --> 01:03:52.309 been playing it a lot. And, you know, I don't 01:03:52.309 --> 01:03:54.369 like every song, but then I don't like every 01:03:54.369 --> 01:03:57.219 song on the Ghost album either. But I do like 01:03:57.219 --> 01:04:00.519 the majority of both of those albums. Ghost album, 01:04:00.739 --> 01:04:03.400 I think, is not quite as good as Impera, the 01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:05.400 previous one, which I thought was their peak 01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:10.099 album for me. But I think there's some great 01:04:10.099 --> 01:04:12.679 songs on it. They've got great melodies. There's 01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:15.340 a reason why Ghost are very popular, and you 01:04:15.340 --> 01:04:17.579 only have to listen to their songs to understand 01:04:17.579 --> 01:04:21.360 it. They have a great commercial aspect to their 01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:24.219 music, but they... you know, the lyrics and the 01:04:24.219 --> 01:04:28.659 sort of the way they project those songs with 01:04:28.659 --> 01:04:30.460 that sort of mystique, you know, that sort of 01:04:30.460 --> 01:04:32.800 early Black Sabbath type mystique. They don't 01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:35.960 have to play it all very heavy, but they certainly 01:04:35.960 --> 01:04:39.420 know how to construct a song, construct a chorus. 01:04:39.679 --> 01:04:43.000 So, yeah, those two albums for me, I can't split 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:45.300 them. I'm not going to choose between my two 01:04:45.300 --> 01:04:47.380 daughters. I'm not going to choose between those 01:04:47.380 --> 01:04:51.019 two albums. They are the very first tie of the 01:04:51.019 --> 01:04:58.309 week. Okay. So I listened to Unatoned by Machine 01:04:58.309 --> 01:05:06.570 Head. This album is head scratching to me. What 01:05:06.570 --> 01:05:11.090 the hell is Machine Head doing in 2025? Machine 01:05:11.090 --> 01:05:13.170 Head has gone through different phases where 01:05:13.170 --> 01:05:15.889 they've put out albums where they've pissed their 01:05:15.889 --> 01:05:21.090 fan base off. A lot of people really liked the 01:05:21.090 --> 01:05:22.949 last album because it was super heavy. It was 01:05:22.949 --> 01:05:30.030 a return to them being super heavy. This album 01:05:30.030 --> 01:05:35.110 is them being heavy and then giving us that good 01:05:35.110 --> 01:05:39.130 old happy Eurovision chorus in the middle. They're 01:05:39.130 --> 01:05:43.469 copying bands like Architects and Bring Me the 01:05:43.469 --> 01:05:47.139 Horizon and stuff like that. to where they're 01:05:47.139 --> 01:05:52.280 trying to be hip and cool to the young kids is 01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:55.019 what they're doing. This album, to me, seems 01:05:55.019 --> 01:05:57.860 like for everything that people bitched about, 01:05:57.960 --> 01:06:00.940 the burning red with them pandering towards new 01:06:00.940 --> 01:06:04.340 metal and stuff like that, I find this to be 01:06:04.340 --> 01:06:11.239 worse. Because as much as they were trying to 01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:15.300 follow a fad there, some of those songs worked. 01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:19.559 These just don't work for me. There's a lot of 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:22.639 cutting and pasting where we've got this great 01:06:22.639 --> 01:06:27.699 riff, we've got this heavy part. Let's paste 01:06:27.699 --> 01:06:30.500 something catchy in here. You know, unlike the 01:06:30.500 --> 01:06:33.440 Arch Enemy, where it's worked out and it's meticulous 01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:36.179 and it's layered and there seems to be a blueprint 01:06:36.179 --> 01:06:38.679 behind it, Machine Head just kind of doesn't 01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:43.619 work for me. Just my opinion. Russ Ballard. Songs 01:06:43.619 --> 01:06:47.710 from the warehouse, the hits rewired. This is 01:06:47.710 --> 01:06:53.030 Russ Ballard. It's a two -album release. The 01:06:53.030 --> 01:06:56.889 first album is all new material, and the second 01:06:56.889 --> 01:07:02.369 album is reworkings of a good majority of hits 01:07:02.369 --> 01:07:04.469 that he's written for other people over the years. 01:07:06.909 --> 01:07:12.829 The album is just not for me. It's just too... 01:07:14.449 --> 01:07:20.429 80s commercial rock for me to kind of trying 01:07:20.429 --> 01:07:23.969 to fit in with Jackson Brown and Bruce Springsteen 01:07:23.969 --> 01:07:26.070 and stuff like that. And he's written a lot of 01:07:26.070 --> 01:07:32.110 good stuff over the years. But the reworks of 01:07:32.110 --> 01:07:34.710 some of these songs just don't work for me. He 01:07:34.710 --> 01:07:37.510 does Since You've Been Gone, of course. He does 01:07:37.510 --> 01:07:41.329 I Surrender, which was another hit for Rainbow. 01:07:42.159 --> 01:07:47.619 He does Voices, which was a song that made it 01:07:47.619 --> 01:07:50.340 on Miami Vice, which I really like. That's like 01:07:50.340 --> 01:07:53.639 one of his only like quote unquote hits that 01:07:53.639 --> 01:07:56.239 he only did. It's been covered by other people, 01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:59.599 but not like New York Groove, for example, or 01:07:59.599 --> 01:08:02.699 God Gave Rock and Roll to You, which Ace Frehley 01:08:02.699 --> 01:08:05.679 and then Kiss made those respective songs more 01:08:05.679 --> 01:08:11.480 popular. The album isn't bad. Bores me. It's 01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:19.279 just not my thing. What else? Caliban. Just full 01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:21.859 on death metal. Just not my thing either. This 01:08:21.859 --> 01:08:24.180 week does have a lot of other stuff in the vein 01:08:24.180 --> 01:08:28.399 of heat. Trick or Treat, Harem Scare Em, Conan, 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.199 which I didn't check out, but that's a little 01:08:30.199 --> 01:08:33.159 bit more of like stonery with death metal type 01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:35.119 vocals. I didn't get a chance to check that out. 01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:37.479 That's something that I'll check out. The Beholder 01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:42.220 album is something I'll check out as well. But 01:08:42.220 --> 01:08:46.520 for me, it's funny. I've been deliberating since 01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:50.340 checking these albums out. Damn, I'm going to 01:08:50.340 --> 01:08:55.140 have a tie. So when Jeremy just said that he 01:08:55.140 --> 01:09:00.880 was going to have a tie, I said, heck yeah, I'm 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:05.859 going to have a tie as well. So my tie, I'm going 01:09:05.859 --> 01:09:07.739 to go with the one that Jeremy already mentioned. 01:09:07.819 --> 01:09:11.489 It is Ghost with Skeletor. I think you're right 01:09:11.489 --> 01:09:15.689 on the money. The good tracks on here are great. 01:09:16.649 --> 01:09:20.029 The other tracks kind of remind me of their earlier 01:09:20.029 --> 01:09:22.949 material where it was more hit and miss for me, 01:09:23.010 --> 01:09:26.949 where Imperia was really good except for one 01:09:26.949 --> 01:09:31.829 track or two tracks. The album before that, I 01:09:31.829 --> 01:09:37.289 forget its name. Melioria. Yeah, so that one 01:09:37.289 --> 01:09:41.199 is similar. to Imperia as well in the sense that 01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:50.979 there's two tracks that I kind of wasn't into 01:09:50.979 --> 01:09:54.180 and I was really into the rest. There's still 01:09:54.180 --> 01:09:56.100 a lot of stuff off of those two albums that I 01:09:56.100 --> 01:10:01.619 listen to all the time. So Skeletor by Ghost 01:10:01.619 --> 01:10:07.859 is my one album of the week and my tie. Man, 01:10:07.859 --> 01:10:14.640 did this surprise me. It is Wednesday 13 with 01:10:14.640 --> 01:10:19.840 Mid -Death Crisis. I've liked stuff that Wednesday 01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:25.920 13 has released over the years. But this is probably 01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:28.279 my favorite album that he's released. It's just 01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:31.439 solid from beginning to end. It's one song after 01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:34.500 another, after another. And it's like, nope. 01:10:35.100 --> 01:10:37.439 That one's as good as the last one. Is this one 01:10:37.439 --> 01:10:40.939 a skipper? Nope, this one isn't either. I really 01:10:40.939 --> 01:10:44.279 enjoyed this album. It really harkens back to 01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:47.739 the stronger parts of what he's released that's 01:10:47.739 --> 01:10:53.180 kind of drawn me to his previous albums. So I 01:10:53.180 --> 01:10:56.479 don't think you can go wrong with either one 01:10:56.479 --> 01:11:01.039 of those albums. So let's recap our picks for 01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:08.060 April real quick here. April 4th, Jeremy did 01:11:08.060 --> 01:11:14.319 Scal with We Are All Angels. I did Lopan with 01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:26.100 Get Well Soon. Let's see, for the 11th, you went 01:11:26.100 --> 01:11:28.859 with Rock Out with Let's Call It Rock and Roll. 01:11:29.470 --> 01:11:34.350 And I went with Mesa with The Spin. That's Mesa, 01:11:34.390 --> 01:11:42.710 M -E -S -S -A. And for the 18th, I went with 01:11:42.710 --> 01:11:47.470 Sick and Beautiful with Horror Vacui. And then 01:11:47.470 --> 01:11:53.090 on the 25th, we both had two picks. We both went 01:11:53.090 --> 01:11:57.229 with Ghost and Skeletor. And Jeremy also went 01:11:57.229 --> 01:12:00.810 with Heat and Welcome to the Future. And my second 01:12:00.810 --> 01:12:06.069 pick was Wednesday 13 with Mid -Death Crisis. 01:12:08.810 --> 01:12:11.390 Do you want to touch on some of those topics 01:12:11.390 --> 01:12:13.369 that we went back and forth with real quickly? 01:12:13.649 --> 01:12:17.289 Yeah, sure. Okay, cool. So we usually just do 01:12:17.289 --> 01:12:21.470 one month at a time and we throw some topics 01:12:21.470 --> 01:12:25.729 back and forth at one another. And we had these 01:12:25.729 --> 01:12:28.569 way back in March. I do get that some of these 01:12:28.569 --> 01:12:34.210 may have maybe kind of old news at this point 01:12:34.210 --> 01:12:36.590 in time, but I think that they're still important 01:12:36.590 --> 01:12:41.210 enough to touch upon. So first up, we have a 01:12:41.210 --> 01:12:43.409 bunch of Judas Priest related things. Richie 01:12:43.409 --> 01:12:47.810 Faulkner let everyone know that he had to relearn 01:12:47.810 --> 01:12:50.229 to play guitar because he suffered a stroke. 01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:57.500 And he's also insinuated at the fact that there 01:12:57.500 --> 01:13:00.500 could be follow -ups to Invincible Shield and 01:13:00.500 --> 01:13:05.619 to Elegant Weapons sooner than later. The Elegant 01:13:05.619 --> 01:13:09.420 Weapons album may already be recorded, if I'm 01:13:09.420 --> 01:13:13.140 not mistaken. And the Judas Priest is something 01:13:13.140 --> 01:13:16.359 that's in the infant stage and they'll possibly 01:13:16.359 --> 01:13:19.779 work on it next year. So I would assume that 01:13:19.779 --> 01:13:23.899 we would be looking at a 2027 release for that. 01:13:24.439 --> 01:13:28.699 But man, Richie's been through a lot from heart 01:13:28.699 --> 01:13:34.859 issues to now stroke. And for anyone that's ever 01:13:34.859 --> 01:13:39.020 doubted his place in Priest, I think that people 01:13:39.020 --> 01:13:42.640 have kind of let up on that with all the things 01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:45.300 that he's gone through and come back to the band 01:13:45.300 --> 01:13:50.600 and help the band carry on. So, Jeremy, what 01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:54.100 are your thoughts on all this stuff? Yeah, it's 01:13:54.100 --> 01:13:57.020 quite interesting that Richie has said that he's 01:13:57.020 --> 01:13:59.100 struggling a little bit to play certain little 01:13:59.100 --> 01:14:01.699 bits because they've been on a massive tour, 01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:05.359 haven't they? They've played a lot of gigs. They're 01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:08.079 playing again a few festivals over the summer 01:14:08.079 --> 01:14:10.819 in the UK. They're playing a place in Scarborough, 01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:13.520 just an open -air gig. I think they're doing 01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:15.420 maybe one in London and then they're playing 01:14:15.420 --> 01:14:18.479 some other stuff around the world again. They're 01:14:18.479 --> 01:14:22.859 constantly touring, which for a man who has been 01:14:22.859 --> 01:14:25.920 so ill and possibly finds a little bit of a struggle 01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:28.300 playing certain bits, you do wonder whether he's 01:14:28.300 --> 01:14:32.000 getting a little bit of help technically, technologically. 01:14:34.539 --> 01:14:37.060 Full marks to Richie for keeping going because 01:14:37.060 --> 01:14:40.359 he's a great player, as we know. I really love 01:14:40.359 --> 01:14:43.100 his stuff. Talking about the albums, the two 01:14:43.100 --> 01:14:44.979 albums, it's going to be difficult to top those 01:14:44.979 --> 01:14:47.840 two because I really like those two albums. I 01:14:47.840 --> 01:14:49.680 think they're great. I've listened to Elegant 01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:51.920 Weapons a lot since it came out. I bought that 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:55.119 one. Really good album. Really good album. And 01:14:55.119 --> 01:14:57.680 so was The Judas Priest, as we know. I think 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.220 it was probably my top album of the year. Right. 01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:03.539 Me too. Yeah, I just wonder how they're going 01:15:03.539 --> 01:15:05.100 to top it. They're going to have to do something 01:15:05.100 --> 01:15:07.119 a little bit different rather than just copying 01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:09.979 the ones that have come out. And I just hope 01:15:09.979 --> 01:15:13.319 they don't. It's not a step back because, you 01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:15.079 know, you don't want to peek and then put out 01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:19.500 something that's not quite as good. But would 01:15:19.500 --> 01:15:21.619 be looking forward to hearing both. So, you know, 01:15:21.619 --> 01:15:23.760 if the Elegant Weapons comes first, maybe this 01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:26.539 year, later this year, that'll be great. As we 01:15:26.539 --> 01:15:28.539 know, Judas Priest probably won't be until next 01:15:28.539 --> 01:15:32.489 year. But listen. They're old guys. Richie's 01:15:32.489 --> 01:15:35.970 not as old as the rest of the band. Some of the 01:15:35.970 --> 01:15:39.109 older guys in the band. And we just have to be 01:15:39.109 --> 01:15:42.630 thankful that Richie and Judas Priest are playing, 01:15:42.810 --> 01:15:46.729 still playing together. And long may it continue. 01:15:47.010 --> 01:15:50.670 And I just hope Richie keeps well. Yeah, I agree. 01:15:50.810 --> 01:15:55.810 And much to your point, I've heard that Andy 01:15:55.810 --> 01:16:00.550 Sneap has said no to producing or mixing. other 01:16:00.550 --> 01:16:02.829 people's stuff at the moment. So that makes me 01:16:02.829 --> 01:16:05.149 think that he's just going to focus on the priest 01:16:05.149 --> 01:16:07.850 stuff. And maybe they're feeling that pressure, 01:16:07.909 --> 01:16:13.210 that invincible shield and firepower. When invincible 01:16:13.210 --> 01:16:16.729 shield came out, remember, I didn't like, um, 01:16:16.810 --> 01:16:20.949 panic attack initially because I was thinking, 01:16:21.050 --> 01:16:23.289 Oh, you know, that intro sounds like turbo. And 01:16:23.289 --> 01:16:25.090 then it sounds, you know, the course is kind 01:16:25.090 --> 01:16:28.449 of generic and this and that. And then that album. 01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:34.859 won me over big time. You could, damn, you could 01:16:34.859 --> 01:16:36.680 almost make like a greatest hits out of just 01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:39.439 those two albums, you know, because you could 01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:43.979 combine both and really be the, the twin turbo 01:16:43.979 --> 01:16:47.399 album that we were all kind of looking for, you 01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:52.500 know? But yeah, it's good. It scares me on the 01:16:52.500 --> 01:16:56.880 one hand that it's a letdown, but. After listening 01:16:56.880 --> 01:17:00.279 to Invincible Shield so much, it made me think, 01:17:00.300 --> 01:17:03.500 bring it on. If they're going in this trajectory, 01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:07.359 and I believe in Andy Sneap. I believe in what 01:17:07.359 --> 01:17:10.939 he can do. He's got the Midas touch, and I think 01:17:10.939 --> 01:17:16.260 he knows what bands need to do. And I think that 01:17:16.260 --> 01:17:23.579 it's not a mistake. That he's still in the band. 01:17:23.659 --> 01:17:25.699 I think that they've probably come to realize 01:17:25.699 --> 01:17:30.220 that, you know, he's he's more than just that 01:17:30.220 --> 01:17:34.159 guy helping us out on stage. He's now part of 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:38.399 what makes their music continue to grow and continue 01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:44.500 to be relevant. Yeah. OK, so at the time, also, 01:17:44.539 --> 01:17:47.380 there were some rumors about possible Black Sabbath 01:17:47.380 --> 01:17:51.750 avatars. And the possibility that the band could 01:17:51.750 --> 01:17:57.989 go virtual after this concert coming up this 01:17:57.989 --> 01:18:01.710 summer? Is Sabbath a band that could do that? 01:18:04.289 --> 01:18:08.850 I think you can't say no. You've seen it. We've 01:18:08.850 --> 01:18:12.630 seen ABBA avatars. We've seen KISS are going 01:18:12.630 --> 01:18:16.029 to be doing this sort of thing. Listen, if a 01:18:16.029 --> 01:18:18.590 band is going to be finished completely, They 01:18:18.590 --> 01:18:21.729 can't do it anymore. Sabbath are playing this 01:18:21.729 --> 01:18:24.010 final concert. They're going to play five songs. 01:18:24.289 --> 01:18:27.229 And Ozzy is really struggling even to play those 01:18:27.229 --> 01:18:31.310 five songs. If the audience wants to go and see 01:18:31.310 --> 01:18:35.489 it, then it's fine to do it. I mean, you have 01:18:35.489 --> 01:18:37.770 to decide yourself whether you want to go, whether 01:18:37.770 --> 01:18:40.710 you've seen Sabbath in their heyday, whether 01:18:40.710 --> 01:18:42.430 you've seen them live, whether you think it's 01:18:42.430 --> 01:18:47.109 worth it. As to questions as to whether Sabbath... 01:18:47.680 --> 01:18:49.600 should be doing it because they're popular enough 01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:51.859 to do it. I think they are. And I think there'll 01:18:51.859 --> 01:18:55.560 be an audience to see that kind of thing. I think 01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:57.479 there's other bands that could do it. I think, 01:18:57.479 --> 01:19:00.579 you know, maybe Motorhead. You could do one for 01:19:00.579 --> 01:19:06.140 them. So, yeah, I think just go ahead and do 01:19:06.140 --> 01:19:08.819 it. It's up to the audience as to whether it's 01:19:08.819 --> 01:19:10.760 a good thing. And I've heard great reports about 01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:13.000 the ABBA one. I'm sure the Kiss one is going 01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:15.680 to be fantastic, and I'm sure if Black Sabbath 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:18.920 did one, it would be amazing as well. And we 01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:21.260 just have to accept that the band is no longer, 01:19:21.319 --> 01:19:23.100 and that's the only way you can see the band. 01:19:24.819 --> 01:19:27.680 Do you think that these avatars would be just 01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:31.739 the Aussie era? Would there be a chance of them 01:19:31.739 --> 01:19:36.779 doing some Dio -related stuff as well? It's a 01:19:36.779 --> 01:19:38.579 very good question, and I think the answer is 01:19:38.579 --> 01:19:41.600 no, because I think that Sharon will be organizing 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:44.319 it. I think as long as she's in charge of it, 01:19:44.460 --> 01:19:48.079 it won't be Dio. But I think if somebody else 01:19:48.079 --> 01:19:51.260 had the rights to do it, I think, yes, they might 01:19:51.260 --> 01:19:53.260 do both eras, and it would be an interesting 01:19:53.260 --> 01:19:55.560 way of doing it. But I think she's only going 01:19:55.560 --> 01:20:01.399 to keep the Aussie band alive. Right. Okay. Bon 01:20:01.399 --> 01:20:06.369 Jovi has announced a new tour. Will the ticket 01:20:06.369 --> 01:20:11.470 prices break the bank? Yeah, they seem to be. 01:20:11.569 --> 01:20:13.770 Listen, the first thing to say is that Bon Jovi 01:20:13.770 --> 01:20:15.869 are nowhere near as good as what they were in 01:20:15.869 --> 01:20:19.869 the 80s, and many bands aren't. I'd love to see 01:20:19.869 --> 01:20:22.609 maybe a Bon Jovi with Richie playing because 01:20:22.609 --> 01:20:25.210 that's the only band that I'd want to see, but 01:20:25.210 --> 01:20:28.270 I've kind of seen what he can sing like live, 01:20:28.369 --> 01:20:33.539 and it seems pretty dire. I'm not a huge fan 01:20:33.539 --> 01:20:36.020 of Bon Jovi, but I can see you'd pay a certain 01:20:36.020 --> 01:20:40.659 price to see a top band. You'd pay $100 or 100 01:20:40.659 --> 01:20:45.560 quid. You'd pay 150 maybe. But come on, what 01:20:45.560 --> 01:20:48.520 are they charging for this? It was absolutely 01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:53.060 horrendous prices. I mean, there's some people 01:20:53.060 --> 01:20:54.960 out there that have got pockets. I mean, we've 01:20:54.960 --> 01:21:00.060 seen it recently with the Gene Simmons roadie. 01:21:00.490 --> 01:21:02.989 One guy paid, I don't know what it was. It was 01:21:02.989 --> 01:21:07.810 over $10 ,000, wasn't it? Over $12 ,000. It was 01:21:07.810 --> 01:21:11.949 over $12 ,000. I mean, listen, this guy doesn't 01:21:11.949 --> 01:21:13.649 care about the money. And so there's going to 01:21:13.649 --> 01:21:15.550 be a lot of people who go to a Bon Jovi gig. 01:21:15.689 --> 01:21:18.289 They'll pay whatever they want to pay because 01:21:18.289 --> 01:21:21.050 they've got the money. And that's what it is. 01:21:21.130 --> 01:21:26.239 But it's absolutely ridiculous. And I certainly 01:21:26.239 --> 01:21:30.220 wouldn't pay. I'd pay 40, 50 quid to see Bon 01:21:30.220 --> 01:21:31.979 Jovi, and I don't think I pay much more these 01:21:31.979 --> 01:21:38.039 days. Okay. I wouldn't even pay that. No. That's 01:21:38.039 --> 01:21:41.300 neither here nor there. Yeah. All right. And 01:21:41.300 --> 01:21:46.020 last topic here. David Lee Roth sees a reissue 01:21:46.020 --> 01:21:49.640 of his solo work. Does it hold up, in your opinion? 01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:53.899 You know what? Dave seems to be really enjoying 01:21:53.899 --> 01:21:55.699 himself. That's the first thing I would say. 01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:58.300 Every time I see him playing live and doing stuff 01:21:58.300 --> 01:21:59.579 at the moment, he seems to be really enjoying 01:21:59.579 --> 01:22:01.260 himself. And he's kind of reinventing himself. 01:22:01.359 --> 01:22:04.880 He kind of wants to play more gigs and play songs. 01:22:05.060 --> 01:22:08.659 And he's coming out with various songs and various 01:22:08.659 --> 01:22:11.920 stuff. And I think that's good because, you know, 01:22:11.939 --> 01:22:13.920 there's a lot of people out there who like Dave, 01:22:13.979 --> 01:22:16.020 a lot of people who like Van Halen. And, you 01:22:16.020 --> 01:22:21.649 know, as we know, Eddie's dead now. He's keeping 01:22:21.649 --> 01:22:25.189 the songs alive in terms of Van Halen. And he 01:22:25.189 --> 01:22:29.210 also has his own stuff as well. And I liked a 01:22:29.210 --> 01:22:33.050 lot of his early stuff. I thought his solo albums, 01:22:33.310 --> 01:22:35.569 the first couple of solo albums were great, but 01:22:35.569 --> 01:22:38.569 they have a bit of an 80s sort of sound to them, 01:22:38.590 --> 01:22:43.590 80s sort of 90s sound. And maybe today they sound 01:22:43.590 --> 01:22:49.180 a little bit old. That's what I'd say in terms 01:22:49.180 --> 01:22:52.939 of the production or whatever. I think Dave should 01:22:52.939 --> 01:22:55.000 just do what he wants to do. I think, again, 01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:58.399 the audience will determine. Does it appeal to 01:22:58.399 --> 01:23:01.039 me personally? No, I've had enough of Dave Lee 01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:02.800 Roth. I don't need to see him. I don't need to 01:23:02.800 --> 01:23:04.819 see him live and I don't need to see him again. 01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:08.079 I want to remember him playing in Van Halen or 01:23:08.079 --> 01:23:10.960 doing his first couple of solo albums. And I've 01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:13.159 got all that, you know, on vinyl. I've got it 01:23:13.159 --> 01:23:16.039 all on. I'll get those out now and again and 01:23:16.039 --> 01:23:18.079 really enjoy it because Dave was Dave in his 01:23:18.079 --> 01:23:20.319 heyday. I don't want to see an old Dave doing 01:23:20.319 --> 01:23:24.659 stuff now. So for me, he doesn't need to re -record. 01:23:24.739 --> 01:23:26.739 He doesn't need to re -release. He doesn't need 01:23:26.739 --> 01:23:28.979 to even issue anything. If he wants to play a 01:23:28.979 --> 01:23:34.399 few gigs, that's fine. Yeah, at M3, he was looking 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:39.289 like Elvis from one of his... reunion specials 01:23:39.289 --> 01:23:42.729 there all in black leather and with the uh handkerchief 01:23:42.729 --> 01:23:46.590 around the neck with the four backup singers 01:23:46.590 --> 01:23:50.510 as well handling the uh heavy lifting for a lot 01:23:50.510 --> 01:23:55.470 of the songs but um yeah i gotta say eat em and 01:23:55.470 --> 01:23:59.930 smile to me is on par with uh those classic van 01:23:59.930 --> 01:24:03.289 halen albums he was on i would personally take 01:24:03.289 --> 01:24:10.539 that over any of the uh van hagar albums um skyscraper 01:24:10.539 --> 01:24:13.479 i think is very strong as well i think it got 01:24:13.479 --> 01:24:19.920 a bad rap back in the day um a little ain't enough 01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:23.619 has its moments and your filthy little mouth 01:24:23.619 --> 01:24:25.760 which is the last one that's included in that 01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:29.000 box is i just did not i've never gotten into 01:24:29.000 --> 01:24:32.039 that album and that's your typical album that 01:24:33.420 --> 01:24:36.000 To me, you pull it out once a year and say, now, 01:24:36.020 --> 01:24:39.520 why didn't I get this album? You know, there's 01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:41.520 people that I know that like this. Let me check 01:24:41.520 --> 01:24:44.279 it out. And you start to listen to it. It's like, 01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:48.600 wow, this isn't good. You know, the lyrics aren't 01:24:48.600 --> 01:24:53.680 good. The guitar playing isn't as good as, let's 01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:57.180 be honest, Steve Vai, Jason Becker. You know, 01:24:57.199 --> 01:25:00.479 these are world -class guitars. Yeah. Especially 01:25:00.479 --> 01:25:06.239 when those albums are recorded. So in any event, 01:25:06.300 --> 01:25:13.140 we've covered a lot of material today. I do appreciate 01:25:13.140 --> 01:25:16.739 Jeremy coming on here and talking music. Like 01:25:16.739 --> 01:25:21.000 I said, it's important to get the word out for 01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:23.579 new music that's coming out, whether it's from 01:25:23.579 --> 01:25:26.560 bands that you love and don't know that they're 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:30.310 releasing new music. whether it's a band you've 01:25:30.310 --> 01:25:33.329 never heard of and we've described them and you 01:25:33.329 --> 01:25:37.630 want to give them a shot, or even if it's something 01:25:37.630 --> 01:25:41.649 that we mentioned but we didn't even talk about 01:25:41.649 --> 01:25:44.869 what they're about, sometimes you can check out 01:25:44.869 --> 01:25:47.409 the labels that they're on and kind of get an 01:25:47.409 --> 01:25:52.170 idea with what that label is signing. And there 01:25:52.170 --> 01:25:55.760 are other times where... It's a crapshoot. So 01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:58.340 thankfully with streaming, you can check out 01:25:58.340 --> 01:26:01.420 as much of this stuff as you want, but I stand 01:26:01.420 --> 01:26:03.380 by what I said before. If you like something 01:26:03.380 --> 01:26:07.460 enough, fork some money over, support the bands, 01:26:07.680 --> 01:26:12.300 you know, find out, go to their websites, find 01:26:12.300 --> 01:26:15.859 out where they're selling their albums. And maybe 01:26:15.859 --> 01:26:18.680 you can't pick up a vinyl, but you can pick up 01:26:18.680 --> 01:26:22.239 a CD or a t -shirt or, or something along those 01:26:22.239 --> 01:26:25.289 lines, help them out. the greatest thing that 01:26:25.289 --> 01:26:28.430 I hear all the time is my wife is going to kill 01:26:28.430 --> 01:26:31.369 me. Uh, I've spent way too much money on music 01:26:31.369 --> 01:26:35.989 this month and it's all your fault. So, uh, I 01:26:35.989 --> 01:26:40.010 like hearing that, uh, their wives may, uh, you 01:26:40.010 --> 01:26:43.689 know, put a brick in their, uh, pocketbook and 01:26:43.689 --> 01:26:45.789 hit me over the head one of these days, but, 01:26:45.789 --> 01:26:51.050 um, is what it is. Uh, in any event, folks, thanks 01:26:51.050 --> 01:26:54.069 for listening. Thank you, Jeremy. Uh, thank you, 01:26:54.069 --> 01:26:56.430 Edgar Winterson, even though, uh, you showed 01:26:56.430 --> 01:26:58.550 up late. Thank you to all the people that jumped 01:26:58.550 --> 01:27:01.689 in and watch this show live tonight. I do appreciate 01:27:01.689 --> 01:27:04.449 it. And thank you to anyone that's watching or 01:27:04.449 --> 01:27:08.229 listening to this show. 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