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ed and i discuss so welcome one and all to the
um A first new episode of, I don't know, you
could consider this a new season or it's the
first live episode since when? Since I think
May or June, something like that. We've been
pre -recording episodes to fill in the summer
months. And it's good to be back live. I have
Ed and Jeremy joining me. And Edgar Winterson
has been in the chat going nuts already. Thank
you, Edgar, for joining us. And today's episode
will be the recap of the albums that we missed
this summer. So it's a July and August albums
review, which Jeremy and I usually do. And now
we're adding Ed to the mix because he can add
some insight to stuff that we don't want to skip.
It's just, it's just not our cup of tea as much
as it is Ed's cup of tea. And I want to make
this all encompassing so that as much as people
want me to do one style of hard rock or metal,
that's just not in me. There are so many facets
and so many things to, to get into. And I want
to make sure that we service everyone, regardless
what, what style they're into. Yes, that's what
we need to service some people. We need to service
some people, absolutely. Layer bone metal, that's
right. There you go. Wait, wait, I forgot. Where's
this? Oh, not working. I love having my Slayer
bone tickled. There we go. All right. We're going
to have to copyright that and sell that one.
We're going to make it a T -shirt. So instead
of having, you know, 55 or something like that,
we're going to have signals from Mars tickling
Slayer bone tickled from Mars. There you go.
So cool. So let's go all the way back to Independence
Day, July 4th. Whenever there's a holiday, there
aren't a lot of releases. But let's get on into
it. We had releases from Kitty's Resort, War
Kings, Witch Hazel, Joe Stump's Tower of Babel,
Angry Machine, Metal 6000, and an EP from Guapa.
Throw this to Jeremy first. So Jeremy, what did
you listen to this time around? Yeah, so I started
off with Joe Stump's Tower of Babel. The master
shredder, as we know. He set up a five -piece
classic rock band this time. So as you can imagine,
it's pretty good. It was to me anyway, not least
because Stump, you know, he's got a sort of really
listenable, heavy rock, sort of Richie Blackmore
-esque shredding style. You know, some fairly
nifty fretwork. The songs are pretty okay too.
Where it is a bit let down, in my opinion, though,
is the vocal quality. I really have no idea what
Joe Amore sings like normally, but in terms of
this project, I think he's found seriously wanting,
really, and it's a real shame because with a
better vocal, it would be more enjoyable because
Stump deserves a lot better. He's a great guitarist.
So I moved on to Human Error by Anger Machine.
It's a thrash band from the Netherlands. They
initially started as a five -piece in 2015, releasing
Trail of the Perished. They are now a four -piece
band with guitarist Timon Den Hartig also covering
the lead vocals. The album itself I thought was
quite well produced. There's plenty of hard sort
of hitting riffs on here. I guess you'd call
it fairly standard thrash metal. And in that
vein, though, you know, sort of a negative really,
I suppose, is that nothing truly stood out to
me. You know, it's fairly bog standard stuff.
But it was technically proficient, just wasn't
that memorable. So I moved on to my third pick,
next in line by Metal 6000. Metal who, I hear
you say? Well, Metal 6000, the band every metal
head should hear. In an age of overproduced,
tech -assisted, rehashed has -beens, Metal 6000
are an entire tornado of fresh air, in my opinion,
of course. It's an album I instantly took to.
Where these guys sort of lack a production budget,
they rudely make up for with songwriting ability
that combines a respectful homage to metal history
with a unique and magnetic ability to combine
heavy with melody, I'd say. It's bordering on
the amateurish, that's true. But therein lies
its charm. There's a reason why a new album is
so revered. It's back to the basics. It's club
style approach. And you've got to remember that
all bands started out like this. So that is my
album of the week. Next in line, Metal 6000.
Cool. What was the name of the thrash band you
mentioned? The thrash band was Anger Machine.
Human Era by Anger Machine. So I don't know if
I missed it in the spreadsheet you sent me, but
I didn't see releases for July. Okay. The ones
that I did were for August. Okay. I don't know
if I shared. So it only shared the August tab
as opposed to the entire. Either that or I did
not go searching enough to look at it. Maybe
you missed the July tab. So I'm going to listen.
to you guys as you go through these first few
weeks and then I'll let you know when, when I
got something to check in with there. All right.
So for me, I listened to, uh, War Kings, Armageddon,
uh, War Kings is a band who I thought their debut
album was entertaining, was very much in the
vein of Manowar, for example, had Melissa Boney
on, um, second vocals at the time. The band has
slowly become just paint -by -numbers vanilla
power metal. There's a few releases from July
and August that when I listened to them, the
first thing that came to mind was, man, do they
look for any originality at all? I mean, if they're
going to be playing... If they're not going to
be playing any of these songs live, I'd prefer
that they not even record them and release them
because they sound like a million other things.
And with this War Kings album is just, I don't
know. I think I can throw it on and throw a bunch
of other bands on at the same time and I wouldn't
be able to distinguish what's what as a result.
The second thing I listened to was Witch Hazel.
with, I guess it's called Five Lamentations.
And this was kind of interesting to me because
it was definitely retro sounding. It mixed a
lot of like 70s progressive rock elements of
80s heavy metal. and old school production so
it gave it kind of a retro feel and uh and then
i went on and listened to the joe stump tower
of babel days of thunder only because i interviewed
joe at least once and i've interchanged uh emails
with him over the years so i figured i'd i'd
listen to it jeremy when you said he sounds like
richie blackmore that's an understatement given
that There's one song that sounds exactly like
Gates of Babylon. The riff is kind of like a
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby to Queens Under Pressure,
where it's like one slight difference in a note
to differentiate the two. But yeah, I mean, if
you're looking again, I was listening to that.
And thinking, look, I'd take this over any recent
Deep Purple, to be honest. Because there's still
like a lot of fiery guitar playing to it, which
is what I miss with Deep Purple. I think that
Deep Purple's playing over the years. And I think
that they've got a fantastic guitarist now. And
not to say that Steve Morris isn't a great guitarist,
but in Deep Purple, he just became kind of boring
to me. My album of the week is going to be Witch
Hazel's Fifth Lamentations or Five Lamentations.
It just stood out to me, gave me something a
little different to enjoy. And that's how I'm
going to go with that one. All right. So let's
move on to the week of July 11th. We had new
releases from Calva Louise, Nathan James, Dead
Seven. Viagression, Double Vision, Laguna, Kronos
Compulsion, Madhouse, Celestial Wizard, Born
of Osiris, Eternal Idol, Sheev, and live albums
from Diamondhead Girl School and Steve Hackett.
All right, Jeremy, what did you listen to this
time around? Yeah, so I started off with Plead
the Fifth by Madhouse. Very much old -fashioned
hair metal, this one from the 80s and early 90s.
Very Skid Row, very Warrant, very Motley Crue,
all wrapped up in one. They take it seriously,
too. There's a vocalist who wears a slash hat.
There's a drummer called Mickey Sticks with two
Xs. There's an umlaut above the Madhouse name
to distinguish themselves from the 80s jazz fusion
outfit created by Prince. But I'll say something
about it. It might not be inventing anything,
but my God, does it rock. It really does. You
know, there are real, there's a lot of melodies
here, a lot of choruses, a plenty. It really
hits hard. I suppose, you know, someone has to
keep this type of music alive. And I think Madhouser
did a really good job of it. You know, there's
13 songs, there's 15 minutes. It's album number
four since post -COVID debut. And it's, yeah,
it was fine. It was good. So I went on to The
Ghost of Katrina by Laguna. This is fairly typical
Fair on Frontiers. It's a debut album by a five
-piece band from Mexico. They're offering fairly
sort of standard, hard, melodic rock. I realize
this won't be on Victor M. Roos' Christmas list
for sure, but there were some quite listenable
tunes on this. It's good ones to have on in the
background. It's a good high degree of professionalism.
in terms of the sort of songwriting and production.
A few soaring guitar solos on it as well. So
it kept me engaged for a little bit. So it was
fine. It was okay. But really for the album of
the week, I'm cheating a little bit because we
don't normally pick live albums when we go through
the end of the year stuff. But obviously I listened
to Live and Electric by Diamond Head. As you
know, it's a band I really like. They're on hiatus
at the moment due to obviously Brian Tatler's
exploits in Saxon. They haven't released much
live output as well from this version of the
band. And I actually saw this version of the
band at a live venue locally quite a few years
back, and this was recorded in 2022, this album.
So it's very similar to what I saw that night.
It's full of energy, old standards on there,
some newer tracks like The Messenger and Belly
of the Beast, which are really good tracks. Real
strength on the classics as well, In the Heat
of the Night's very good. And they've got the
Danish vocalist Rasmus Bonn. Anderson really
does the songs good justice, I think. So, yeah,
I'm hoping they'll come back as a band. And I
really enjoyed it, and it's my album of the week.
I guess it all depends on how Biff's health is,
huh? Yeah, there is that aspect of it as well.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. And maybe, you know,
he'll just want to do stuff with the band, play,
record some stuff, go out live and then maybe
fit in his live stuff with Diamondhead in between,
I guess. We shall see. Yeah. I'm going to be
honest. I only really got a chance to listen
to one album this week and it was Hollywood Mortician.
by, uh, Nathan James. And I listened to this
because I thought it was Nathan, Nathan James
from inglorious. I did as well. He just released
an album with inglorious and now he's releasing
a solo album. And then once I was in it, I'm
like, okay, I get it. So this is, um, uh, this
sounds like, um, like corn, like, uh, very, uh
typical new metal um and i like new metal i know
that a lot of people aren't into it i'm wearing
a primer 55 shirt today also which another new
metal band um but it's missing something you
know um you have stuff like for example um tetraarch
who were kind of the forerunners of modern uh
new metal And there's something different to
their music where they have guitar solos, where
they have cool melodies and the songs, the compositions
seem to be worked out in a different way. And
this, it's all right. I mean, it's not terrible,
but it's just missing something with it, with
the hook, something with the music that separates
it from just being a copycat. So being that it's
the only thing that I listened to this week that
I got a chance to listen to. It's my album of
the week. So, all right. And actually I missed,
there was a obituary compilation, Godly Beings
box set for that week also. All right. For the
week of July 18th, we had the Supergroup Nefarious
with Addicted to Power. We have One More Satellite,
which is a project from one of the DeLeo brothers
from Stone Temple Pilots. And yeah, it sounds
like Stone Temple Pilots. Phantom Spell. All
right, here we go with these damn spellings and
pronunciations. Ascarian. I don't know. But they
named their album Hollow Fang, so, you know.
Ramonda, Scar Dust, Drought, Throat Cut. Abigail
Williams, Bush, Scars on Broadway, Ashes of Ares,
Reign of Glory, and The Greed. Compilations from
Five Finger Death Punch and from Kicks were released
on the week of the 18th also. Jeremy, what did
you listen to this week? Yeah, I started off,
well, just two really. New Messiahs by Ashes
of Ares, which you just mentioned. You know,
the former Iced Earth members are back with another
sort of heavy metal power metal offering. It's
only their fourth full -length album since forming
in 2012. And if you kind of ignore the slight
vocal similarities, I think, to Sons of Apollo
a little bit. I think it's an excellent listen,
this. It combines some very heavy power with
great melody. The previous album I thought was
a little bit more frenetic than this one, but
there's plenty of hard -hitting metal as well,
sort of atmospheric overtones on it, some progressive
parts, and it's capped off with a really great
commercial song I think you featured on your
Patreon site as well, which was Keep On Walking,
which I really liked all of it. That was a good
album. And then I moved on to Slingshot by Reign
of Glory, the Mark Bowles mini super group. Interesting
album, this one. Melodic sort of heavy metal
that rocks and, you know, the singer's good on
this one. It's also a religious rock band, if
I'm not mistaken, sort of similar to Striper.
There's some very good hooks on it. It's heavier,
too, than the first album, All Will Bow, aided
by, you know, what I think is a superior production
technique. And I liked it because there's a sort
of generous helping of, you know, fairly melodic
stuff, but without the songs being very predictable.
So it kind of reached out to me, really. What
was that band name again? Yeah, it's Reign of
Glory. So when you first said Reign of Glory,
I thought I've heard that band because, you know,
I keep up with the Christian metal scene, too.
Yeah. So that is the same band. I haven't listened
to it yet. I'm going to add it to my list here.
Yeah, there we go. Take that down on your recommendation.
Yeah, I thought it was a good listen. So, you
know, of the two, that's my pick of the week,
I think. Yeah. Okay. A nice pick. I listened
to three different albums. I listened to three
different albums for this week. I listened to
Bush. And I beat Loneliness. Edgar Winterson
saying that he passed on the bush. The album
starts out strong. And as time goes by, or as
the tracks go by, it gets dull and boring for
me. So I beat Loneliness. If I want to be bored
and lonely, I would listen to this, to be honest.
Scars on Broadway, Scarred for Life. That is
Darian from System of a Down. And man, this album
was also kind of a letdown. Like, I'm not a huge
System of a Down fan, but it just feels like
he went in and just. recorded his version of
System of a Down. Whereas with other albums that
he's released or the other members where you
can pinpoint, oh yeah, okay, I get it. That's
the spice that he adds to the entire recipe.
But this to me feels like, with all the band's
fans clamoring for a new album, just feels to
me like he said, all right, screw it. We're not
releasing an album. So I'm going to do an album
in the vein of System of a Down. And it just...
Just comes off just kind of okay. My pick of
the week, though, is Addicted to Power by Nefarious.
It is the super group thrash band from San Francisco.
I've posted videos of theirs on Patreon. So this
band is made up of Caton Peña from the band Hyrax,
best known for that. Also has Rick Hunnell, best
known for Exodus. Will Carroll, who's best known
for Death Angel. Also Tom Gears, who's formerly
of Blind Illusion. And Doug Piercy, who is, let's
see, he's been in quite a lot. Also Blind Illusion,
Heathen. What else has he been in here? Inville
chorus. He's been around as well. Listen, they're
not inventing anything new, but different to
say the scars on Broadway or some of the other
releases that I've mentioned. There's different
things to the music that just makes it stand
out and makes it enjoyable where there's enough
there that makes me say, okay, I want to continue
to listen to this stuff instead of. Yeah, I've
kind of heard this before, and there's really
nothing special to it. So I would, for me, for
my money, Nefarious Addicted to Power is my pick
for July 18th. So we're going to stroll on in
here to the last week of July. And this final
week of July included new albums from Enough's
Enough, Honeymoon Suite, Cold Slither. Pulse
Gods, Pseudo Frame, Endless Dismal Moan, Azuri
Demote. Great, great band name. Roulette. Jord
Fast. Alice Cooper. Schvoren Schwanz. Gwar. Sweet.
Reissues from Bruce Dickinson. EP from The Violent
Hour, which is Carla Harvey from formerly of
Butcher Babies and her boyfriend, Charlie Benante
of Anthrax and Pantera doing pretty much all
the music. And a compilation from Deicide, Children
of the Underworld, a complete Roadrunner's Years
box set. So, Jeremy, what did you listen to this
week? Okay, so I began my week. Spending a lot
of time listening to Extra Cherries by Enough
Is Enough. And I've written down one word here
to describe this album, and it's terrible. It's
utterly terrible. I wasted my time. I wasted
my energy. I just can't understand what this
band's about. I don't understand them. They don't
play heavy metal, and they don't seem to rock
much. So I'm moving on. I'll leave you to comment
further if you did listen to it yourself. So
I listened to Go by Roulette. Easy listening,
classic rock, sort of AOR style, Swedish band.
I say it strictly for fans of Dare, FM, Journey,
that sort of stuff. So not necessarily your bag,
Victor. But there was a lot to enjoy on it, not
least the fact that... The band was fairly upfront
in the mix. You can hear every note, every cymbal
crash, every word of the lyrics. Very good, easy
listening. Has a bit of edge to it. Great melodies.
All sort of epitomized by the song Strangers,
which I liked. In what we describe as a very
troubled world at the moment, there's definitely
a place for this kind of music because it's kind
of calming and relaxing and nice sort of sounds,
really. It's performed well. So I liked that
one. But it wasn't my album of the week. I went
for The Revenge of Alice Cooper by, of course,
Alice Cooper. So, you know, the King of Audeville
is back. He's got his original band. It's a real
tour de force of 60s and 70s rock. It's a bit
of a parody of heavy metal, I'd say. I did read
an Amazon review of this by someone who was very
disappointed with it. My review, though, is that
it's a bit like the sort of latest Rolling Stones
album. It's old guys doing stuff well. I'm not
old enough to actually remember the original
Alice Cooper band, even though I am quite old.
But what we'll say is that they blow you away
with the most of the sort of modern bands. Sorry,
I've got a bit of a nut stuck. They write songs,
you know, with lyrics and melodies and choruses
and sort of, you know, sort of 70s rock riffs.
And we talked a lot about Ozzy recently. But,
you know, Alice Cooper's, what, 77? So you've
got, you know, bear that in mind. So he's a bit
of a legend. And it was a really fun listen.
So, you know, hail to Alice. It was good. Now
you know I don't eat any dried fruits before.
Yeah. That is a lesson that I think we've all
learned somewhere along the way. Yep. All right.
So I listened to the Enough's Enough album as
well. Half of it seems to be retreaded stuff
because Derek Frigo is playing on one of the
songs and he died sometime in the 90s from a
heroin overdose. Donny V is also on a track.
I don't know if that's something that was lying
around the studio or if they convinced them to
record on a track or not. Enough's Enough is
trying to do their best to be cheap trick, to
be a Beatles -esque sounding band. And a lot
of people consider it power pop. um, more so
than, um, than hard rock. And that's why I think,
uh, they got attention in the nineties from people
like Howard Stern, because they were a throwback
to the Beatles and cheap trick and stuff like
that. Um, I listened to the violent hour EP again,
Carla Harvey, formerly of butcher babies and
Charlie Benante on. The instrumentation, if you
listen to it, you can tell it's Charlie playing.
Just his phrasing and how he plays guitar and
how he drums. And it's kind of neat hearing him
playing outside of Anthrax, outside of what he's
usually known for. So you can tell it's him,
but it's doing something completely different.
It's doing straight up hard rock. One thing I
didn't listen to, which I'm scared to listen
to, is Bruce Dickinson's More Balls to Picasso.
I saw that Roy Z had an issue with what he did
with the new mix. I love this album when it came
out because it was so different. To be honest,
anything before Accident of Birth. to me, by
Bruce is kind of pedestrian at this point because
Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding are such
strong albums. No, that's not true. Skunk Works
is a really good album as well. It got a bad
rap because he cut his hair and because he changed
up his band. But Balls to Picasso, outside of
laughing in the hiding bush and listening to
Cyclops every now and then. I don't want to hear
Bruce doing Peter Gabriel. I don't want to hear
Tears of the Dragon, which as cool as that song
is, as cool as it was when it came out, you know,
30 years later, I don't want to hear Bruce singing
a ballad. So I don't want to hear him singing
Wasted Love for that matter either. You know,
so I don't want to hear him do any Maiden ballads
either. My pick of the week. kind of by default
is going to be the Alice Cooper as well. Listen,
I think that it harkens back to what those first
few Alice Cooper band albums are about. It's
got that feeling. It's got that, those melodies.
It's got that vibe where there was even a track
I was listening to today where Alice is singing
like out of the usual that you're used to hearing
from Alice. And I was hearing the song and I
was humming along to the melody and I was like,
what is this? You know, I got to hit it on my
car screen to figure out what this is. I'm like,
oh, wow, it's Alice Cooper. This sounds really
cool. So, yeah, as a result, The Revenge of Alice
Cooper is my pick of the week for July 25th.
So recapping July real quickly here, week one.
July 4th, Jeremy went with Metal 6000 and Next
in Line. I went with Witch Hazel and Five Lamentations.
I think I've pronounced the name of that title
differently every time I've mentioned it, but
oh well. For the week of July 11th, Jeremy went
with the Diamondhead Live and Electric live release.
I went with Nathan James, Hollywood Mortician.
Week three, July 18th, Jeremy went with Slingshots
by Reign of Glory. And I went with Addicted to
Power by Nefarious. And for July 25th, both Jeremy
and I agreed with The Revenge of Alice Cooper
by Alice Cooper. All right. So let's move on
to August. And hopefully now we can give Ed some
time to pontificate on some albums that he checked
out. Yeah, I got a few to recommend. Cool. For
all you metalheads. So first week of August,
we had new releases from Moths, Fox Lake, Gnosis,
I guess how you pronounce it, Rex Tycoon. Nuclear
Daisies and Loomy. Jeremy, what did you check
out for this week? Yeah, the first one was an
album called First Taste of Heaven by Nuclear
Daisies. I didn't know actually much about this
band, except that they hail from Texas. They
have a sound, though, that's probably... I guess,
as far removed from the state as you can imagine,
or at least as I can imagine. There's a sort
of kind of a laid -back feel to it, almost a
Manchester band feel to it, layered with keyboards.
There was techno drums on there, sort of a haunting,
wispy female vocal on there. So it wasn't really
rock or metal. It isn't my normal kind of listen,
but, you know, I enjoyed it. It was okay. But
the one I'm going to pick for the week, and I
only picked... I listened to two for this particular
week. It's an album called 667788 by Lomi. I
actually thought that was Iomi at first, but
I had to look at it again. And I don't know what
the numbers stand for. Another new band to me.
Apparently they're a Swedish three -piece. Maybe
even call them a power trio. They're sort of
crunchy, doomy. clutch -style riffs to the music.
It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's
a pretty good listen, to be fair. It's an album
that's taken a decade to make, apparently, and
it sort of captures the energy of their live
shows as well, which you can sort of definitely
understand when you listen to it. They seem to
have sort of carved out a bit of a unique style
with their sort of phrasing in what I would describe
as a bit of a homogenous genre. So, yeah, for
that reason alone. I'm going to pick that one
as my album of the week. Okay. Ed, did you get
a chance to listen to anything from this week?
I did listen to all of those. None of those were
ones that I picked. It seems like most of mine
are going to be from the next week. Okay. I did
find, I think I remember some of that band Gnosis.
I found that kind of interesting. Correct me
if I'm wrong, but I remember it being kind of
a new metal type band, but they were throwing
a lot of other, genre influences throughout their
songs keeping it interesting for someone like
me who's not very interested in new metal okay
cool i'll have to uh check that out um my album
of the week for this week and honestly the only
thing that i got a chance to listen to is from
the uh puerto rican band moths the album is called
septum uh this is a progressive metal band, which
mixes a lot of, you know, progressive overtones
from the last 20 to 30 years going in the direction
of a lot of Gen D type stuff. Nothing new, nothing,
no re reinventing the wheel, but interesting
enough for me to, after posting some videos of
theirs on Patreon to check the entire album out.
For me, Moth Septim is the pick for August 1st.
Moving on to August 8th, we had new releases
from Liv Sin, Volur, and Cares. I've never pronounced
this correctly. That's good, because I need help
saying that band's name. This was Joey from Slipknot.
Jordanson, yeah. Yeah, former band. Paralysis,
Attack, Attack, the purveyors of crab metal there.
Lord of the Lost, which I realized that I listened
to also. Firstborn, which is the band that features
Chris Adler, formerly of... Lamb of God and Garish
from Garish and the Chronicles. And we also had
a new release by Hailstorm called Everest. EPs
from Averasion's Crown and reissues from Edge
of Sanity and Sweet. So, Ed, you're saying that
you have something to discuss this week. Go ahead.
Yeah, well, yeah, I do have that one. And, you
know, you've invited a Kentucky boy onto your
podcast, so you are going to be having to help
me with some of these names along the way. But
Sensanum, or however you might say that, I found
that to be a good jam. Now, that's like, it's
technical death metal. Right. But it's got, you
know, some little bit of black and death metal
in there. You know, they call it a super group,
of course, with Joey Jordanson having been in
there before he died. But it's got a lot of fast,
tight, very, you know, it's clean playing with
a lot of changing riffs that keep things interesting.
And, you know, normally that stuff can get boring
to me pretty fast. But this record, one thing
that set it over the top for me was it has a
really nice production. It's not overproduced.
But still, it's got a nice thick sound. The instruments
are clear. They also add in some groove here
and there. So if you get a little tired of the
technical death metal riffs, like I said, they
come with buckets full of riffs. And they add
some grooves in there that'll get your head banging.
The vocals are kind of in between. It's not quite
metalcore, but not quite death metal. It's kind
of like on that shouting to death metal edge.
Someone like Jeremy might like that a little
bit. But yeah, it's got a nice, raw, electric
guitar tone. And also, one of the things that
always stands out to me in records, because I
like the jug. I like it when they let that palm
lay down on the strings and jug away. It gives
some heavy metal rumble to the song. So anyway,
for that week, that's the one for me. Check that
one out. Yeah, good jam. Okay, cool. Jeremy?
Yeah, I started off listening to Opus Noir Volume
1 by Lord of the Lost, of course. To be fair,
it's actually pretty good. I like the vocal,
which I do anyway. I like the haunting melodies
that they create with their sort of brand of
gothic metal. I actually bought Blood to Glitter,
I think it's the previous album, actually. I
enjoy that. I thought they were very good live
supporting Iron Maiden. This album is actually
a bit darker than Blood and Glitter, as you might
expect from the title. My only gripe, though,
is that I find a lot of their songs sound a little
bit similar. You know, they've got that sort
of mix of clean and growly vocals that go on.
And I think there's a lot, the keys are all the
same. I can listen to a lot of their stuff and
really enjoy it, but I just feel that they need
a little bit more variation at times. And even
going darker on this album doesn't really help
that. So I don't know what they need to do. So
yeah, it's fine. It was good. Spiral of Suffering
I listened to by Paralysis. This band hails from
a place called New Jersey, which I've never heard
of, Victor. I think it's a tiny island in the
Tasman Sea somewhere. But in any event, it's
album number three for the band. There's some
growly sort of angry thrash to sort of dig into.
Familiar themes that you get with thrash. Obviously,
there's typical thrash chord structures on there.
A little punkier, hardcore edge to it. that allows
them to maybe just peak their head above what
is a bit of a crowded field in Thrash. So not
bad overall. Quite enjoyed that one. I then moved
on to my pick of the week, Lucky by Firstborn.
This is a super group, of course, which is formed
by Chris Adler, Myron, and it's got Girish of
Girish and the Chronicles on vocals. I actually
can't remember very much of the previous album.
I think I did listen to it, but I think typically
there's some good sort of classic rock sounds
on here, good quality, a few sort of passing
references to the classics of old and the legacy
bands. Wake Up, very sort of good punky metal
number, reminds me of Velvet Revolver. There's
a little bit of flashy Van Halen here and there.
You know, there's a lot to interest me, really.
There was a little bit of lyrics, actually, a
snippet that was taken directly from The Trooper,
I think, by Iron Maiden. They actually quoted
it verbatim. Anyway, the whole thing I enjoyed
overall. I wanted to listen to it again, and
that's going to be my album of the week. Okay,
cool. So for me, I listened to Live Sin, Close
Your Eyes, much like what I mentioned before
with War Kings. This is just paint -by -numbers,
like 2000s Eurovision metal. Some growling over
top, some keyboards here and there, and it just...
I was listening to it, waiting in the line to
get my car inspected. And I was thinking, this
music is just making this wait longer. Because
there's really nothing, you know, that's lifting
me up here. And I was thinking, you know, are
they going to play any of these songs live? Like,
what's the purpose of recording this? I got to
listen to the new Hailstorm Everest. Man, I was
supposed to see them live. And I know that they're
a great band live. I've never seen them live
before. But I've always been on the fence about
their material. I either really enjoy it or I
don't. And I don't remember how many tracks are
on this album. I think it's nine or ten. And
there's... one track I think is good and the
rest is just utterly boring and samesy. It's
funny because they've talked about how liberating
the lyrics are and how she's pronouncing herself
with this and this and that. And I'm like, that's
awesome. I'm glad that she's got the courage
to do that. But just one mid -tempo song after
another, after another, after another. Another
ballad -y type song, blues -like song. And it's
like, man, I've been here. You know, I just kept
thinking the lyrics to Iron Maiden's Deja Vu.
Feels like I've been here before. Feels like
I've been here before. Over and over again. Because
that's what the album felt like. There's one
really good song towards the end called Killing.
And it's a faster song. I don't know. I definitely
don't think that they climbed to the top of Everest
with this one. Let me just put it to you that
way, to play off of the title. My album of the
week is Opus Noir Volume 1 by Lord of the Lost.
Jeremy mentioned it. If you're into their previous
material, you'll enjoy this. Yes, this album
is darker, and I enjoy it as a result. Has a
lot of gothic overtones, the usual from Chris
Harms and his vocals. And yeah, I enjoyed the
album. So that is my album of the week. Looks
like I missed the compilation, which was the
Dogs of Hope. And Edgar Winterson is saying,
did you mention the Choir Boys live album? I
did not, sir. I apologize. I don't even have
it listed. A lot of this, to be honest, it's
either sent to me or it's on sites that I usually
frequent. And if there's something that I didn't
pick up on that I think is quote -unquote big,
I'll post it. August 15th, we had new releases
from Insight. Wave. Catarator. Ori. Based. Matriarchs.
Black. Black. Unleashed. Let's see, there's a
reissue. And Jeremy, what did you listen to this
time around? Yeah, I actually forgot to listen
to the UFO album. I'll definitely go back and
listen to that one. But just a couple for this
week. The Edge by Blackwater Rising. The American
band is a few albums in now. Definitely something
interesting brewing on this one. Southern tinged
hard rock groove on this. Some songs that sort
of cut through, others that don't. They might
be a little bit boring. So, you know, it was
an average listen, I think. Nothing too special
on it. But the one I'm going to pick for the
week will be Unbreakable by Ellefson Soto. Whereas,
obviously, Smith and Cotsen have gone down the
blues path, this one has sort of stuck to metal.
For the most part, I'd say it's a fine effort.
It's their second album. despite the shield on
the cover sort of proving a little bit slightly
strange because it reminded me of the latest
Judas Priest album with a shield on there. But
yeah, the songs were good. I enjoyed it. It was
probably a bit of a lean week for me, but yeah,
I'm going to pick that one as a good listen album
of the week. Okay. Ed, how about you? What did
you listen to for the week of the 15th? Okay,
you're going to have to linger with me on this
week, because this week was awesome. This was
probably even the best week of the year for me
so far. Okay. But before I get into my favorites,
I'm interested, did you all listen to that, is
it based? You think that's how it's said? Did
not, no. No, I didn't. If not, both of you need
to listen to this. Okay. I remember hearing it
before, and I remember they were a death metal
band, and they've got the big kind of like sepulcher
-like vocals with, you know they you know kind
of big booming vocals but anyway listening to
this record you know and i have it randomly playing
in my itunes i swear there are riffs on this
record that could be on under lock and key by
docking oh wow and so there's i don't know if
they just did this on this record or if it's
something they've been doing for a while but
they have all kinds of these heavy metal riffs
from just basic heavy metal to you know Like
I said, docking type riffs. When I first heard
a couple of those songs, I thought I was about
to hear just a basic hard rock band, but then
it turns into their death metal. Very interesting.
You all should go listen to that and tell me
what you think later. But anyway, man, what a
dandy week this was. The band Unleashed, are
you all familiar with that band? Because they've
been around since 89, I think. Okay. And I guess
they're mainly considered death metal. But when
I was listening to these songs, I was getting
a lot of good old classic heavy metal vibes mixed
in with their death metal. It almost got some
flavors of Viking metal without it sounding like
Viking metal. And when I looked on the Metal
Encyclopedia, they do say that they're one of
the... first metal groups to start writing songs
about viking and scandinavian history i guess
instead of like death and gore right but yeah
this album had lots of classic heavy metal mixed
with speed metal thrash metal riffs mixed in
with their death metal um they kept the songs
interesting throughout the tunes with a lot of
mix of their riffs they're very uh their guitar
solos are great and interesting their vocals
you know even though they're death metal it's
not guttural. It's kind of more in that death,
gruesome range. It's vocals that I think would
make it more palatable to people like Jeremy
or Mike who don't care much for those. So check
that out. Now, the next one is going to be probably
in my top three records this year. It's Castrator.
It's Castrator, but if you're from Kentucky,
Castrator, I guess. And this is their second
album. I remember listening to their first record
when it came out. Of course, this is an all -female
death metal band. They are kind of a perfect
mix of death and black metal. But it's very thrashy,
very aggressive. The first record was, you know,
the songs were pretty good. The production was
pretty good. enough to keep listening to it for
too long. But man, they nailed it on this record.
I don't know if they had a new producer or what,
but the production of the instruments is great.
They got a nice, heavy, raw, clean guitar tone.
They've got a lot of that heavy metal jug that
I like. And also with the female vocalist, man,
she's got powerful voice. She's one of the first
death metal. that I think is starting to hang
out with the big boys. That's one thing about
death metal groups when it comes to male and
female vocals. There's females out there that
are doing great death metal, and sometimes they
even blow away with black metal vocals, what
the guys can do. But sometimes when it comes
to those death metal vocals, it's kind of hard
to match the power of Corpse Grinder and guys
like that. But man, this gal, she can hang with
them. It's heavy, heavy stuff. If you like, it's
mostly death metal. They don't put so much black
in there that I get tired of it. I'm excited
to listen to this record for a while. And this
would be the best record of all if it wasn't
for Insight. You all familiar with Insight? Which
was, it has Richie Cavallera in the band. And
they got, you know, a few records under their
belt. Man, they, again, they nailed it on this
record. Absolutely love it. If you heard them,
then you know that, you know, kind of in that
sepultura vein, with the vocals being a little
more on the maybe metalcore to death metal style.
But, man, these songs are an awesome mix of thrash
and groove metal. And so, you know, that's what
I love the most. I haven't been able to get into
it much, but, man, I'm so excited to be blasting
this one for Lexington all next week. The songs,
I mean, you'll be grooving along with the drums
banging your head, and then they just go crazy
and just pummel you to death with some blast
beats. It's chaotic, but it's contained. It's
kind of like with Sepultura and Slayer to where
it's not perfectly produced. They're not using
a metronome to record things, but they're all
in the pocket and grooving along together. It's
probably going to be my favorite record of the
year if someone doesn't come out soon with something
to top this. I think that covers it for that
week, doesn't it? Yeah, that's all of it for
that week. Insight is your album of the week.
Yeah, and it hurts me. It hurts me to put either
Cast Greater or Insight one over the other. Okay.
You death metal fans have to listen to both of
those records. Cool. So I got to listen to Home
by Patriarchs in Black, our good friend Dan Lorenzo
with Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative on drums.
I think each album that he's released under the
Patriarchs moniker has gotten better. And this
has some really cool riffs and really awesome
melodies, different things that I wasn't expecting
from Dan. Because of that, this is my album of
the week. Let's move on to August 25th. This
is a big release week. And I think that there
are things that I didn't write down that I list
to. All right. So we have new releases from Three
Days Grace, Dizzy Reed, Dinosaur Pileup, Vindicator,
Crop, Iron Savior, Old Machines, Reinforcer,
Black Briar. Burning Witches, Crown, Hunter Oliveri,
Jack the Joker, Mob Rules, Pandra Christ, Reinforced,
which I have on here twice, Rage and Rust, Pines
of the Swarm, Stranglers, Deftones, and Chevelle.
What did you listen to, Jeremy, for this week?
Yeah, I started off listening to Inquisition,
Burning Witches. I don't fully buy into this
band, to be fair. I don't really like the vocal
much, but there's some good songs to get your
teeth into. It's good heavy metal. Decent enough
listen, but nothing special for me personally.
So I moved on to Rise of the Ruler by Mob Rules,
obviously a title taken from a Black Sabbath
album that we know of. Studio album number 11,
this actually now from the German power metal
band. They sound sort of like Primal Fear, I
guess, which is a bit unsurprising because another
German power metal outfit. So it's all fairly
familiar riffs, fairly familiar melodies on it.
I don't think anything sort of extends the boundaries.
Maybe there's a bit of a Maiden -esque song called
Dawn of Second Sun, which I really liked. It's
pretty excellent, that one. And I was thinking
if Maiden actually covered it, it would be a
really good Iron Maiden song. And also the same
could be said of the next track, Back to Savage
Land, which is a similar sort of... song which
maiden could have done so yeah if you like maiden
you like heavy metal you like uh primal fear
and um that's the album for you but i the album
i'm gonna pick is uh songs of yesterday by rust
and rage um there's a lot of reasons why i shouldn't
be picking this one There's a bit of a dubious
mixing on it. There's the occasional sort of
slapdash production as well, which I thought.
And there's also the fact that there's an apostrophe
after the end, but not before it, which for an
editor is a no -no. But it's one of those sort
of new wave of classic rock bands that, you know,
be sort of amazing live. And I really like Hey
Jane, which was a, you know, class it as a hard
-rocking commercial masterpiece. It's an absolutely
amazing song. It would be a massive hit for any
80s hair metal outfit, like sort of Cinderella,
Poison or Warrant. It's an incredible song that
they've put on this album. And sometimes you
miss those kind of things if you don't listen
to, you know, stuff that you don't normally listen
to. So for that song alone, but also for some
other stuff on it, Rust and Rage is my pick of
the week. All right. Ed, what did you listen
to for this week? So a good recommendation for
those who like heavy black metal influence, Hanser
Christ. It's not, it's like good enough for me
to listen to once, but I just wanted to throw
that out there for people that like, it's kind
of like, it's mostly death metal, but very heavy
on the black metal vocal styles. Okay. But anyway,
the stuff that I liked the most was Vindicator
was good. It's just pure thrash metal. It's not
Metallica, Megadeth thrash metal where they're
mixing different styles. It's just pure thrash
metal. Not a ton of jugging and stuff like that,
but they have good songs. This album's really
well done. The production is good. The vocals
are kind of like Vector, which is another kind
of clean, technical thrash band. On the death
metal side, I don't know what this stands for.
It's KHNVM. I think I maybe have heard of them
in the past, but I don't know if I've listened
to them. But they've got this album now called
Cosmocrater. And that's one I'm going to listen
to some more over the next few weeks. It sounded
to me like just a good old classic death metal
sound. with some sludge and doom thrown in there.
The vocals are definitely more guttural, so some
of you guys would definitely not like this. But
it doesn't get to that point to where... Some
death metal vocals are so guttural, it sounds
like you've got a bucket on your head, and I
don't quite care for that. This was good, though.
Really well done. If you like good classic death
metal jams, that'll be good. One that's not really...
death metal that i found to be good that you
all might have liked too was vicious rumors are
you familiar with that band um that's next yeah
every time their songs come up yeah i was really
enjoying it i was gonna say wait i think that's
in the following week that's next week that's
yeah okay yeah we'll wait till the next week
there again but uh i've got the same date on
that one for some reason yeah did i do that too
with the cosmic crater that was the next week
uh let's see You can tell I'm a beginner on this
podcast. Yeah, yeah, that's next week as well.
I was looking at the list. I'm like, I don't
see that. Well, maybe Ed had something written
down, but that's fine. So, yeah, it would be
Vindicator, Whispers of Death. And if you like
your black metal stuff, try out Panzer Christ.
Those songs are well done. Okay. Let me note
both of those. Okay. Vindicator, interestingly
enough, I listened to that album. I don't know
if James LaRue, James J. LaRue, former guitarist
of White Wizard, was part of this album or not.
But when he left White Wizard and Holy Grail,
he moved out to Ohio to record with them. And
I have some of theirs from that time period.
I noticed they'd been around. Or no. Yeah, they've
been around. They put out a few records, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they've been around for
some time. So I did listen to The Vindicator.
I listened to Three Days Grace, Alienation, and
I had such high hopes. But again, they're a band
that I either really like their music or it just
kind of does nothing for me because it's ultra
generic a lot of times. I listen to Inspiration
by Burning Witches, and I can't help but think
that, you know, they try to go dark on these
albums, but they've always got, and thankfully
this album, they've kind of recouped a little,
but because I think they've allowed Courtney
Cox to write some of the tracks for the longest
time. Without having that extra input, there
was like zero melodies in any of their tracks.
So the albums kind of felt incomplete to me.
This finally sounds like a complete album again
by them instead of a song or two here that sticks
out. What else? Okay, I listened to... Bright
as Blasphemy by Chevelle. I've always been a
big Chevelle fan from back in the day. And yeah,
people can point out that, oh, you know, you
say this band is generic or that band is generic
when Chevelle has kind of found their sound and
kind of stuck to it. But again, it comes down
to melodies to me and their song structures and
stuff. With all that said, my album of the week
is Private Music by Deftones. I really enjoy
this band. And when they're good, they're great.
When they're mediocre, they're forgettable. But
I wasn't expecting much from this album because
usually they put out a really good album and
then it takes a few albums for them to come back
with something that's strong. Their last album,
Ohms, wasn't bad. But I think this is a lot better
than that. So it surprised me that they've released
three albums that are very strong back to back.
It took them a while for this one, but I'm glad
it did. It was worth the wait. So Ed went with
Vindicator and Whispers of Death for his album
of the week. Jeremy went with Rust and Rage with
Songs for Yesterday. And I went with Deftones
Private Music. The final week of August, August
25th. So our new albums from Halloween. I H L
O. I guess is how you pronounce that. Shadows.
I guess is how that's pronounced. H and that
V is pronounced like a U. I guess. Manigarm,
Sweet Freedom, Union, Vicious Rumors, Wuken,
Nova Twins, reissues from Deep Purple with their
20th anniversary of Rapture of the Deep. So kind
of weird. I don't know if Bob Ezrin remixed that
or whatever. I think he produced it or maybe
he didn't. Who knows? Anyway. Ed, what did you
listen to for this week? So that Cosmic Raider
and then the Vicious Rumors. That's kind of,
I was going to say, I've noticed that they've
been around since the early 80s. Vicious Rumors.
But I've never really listened to them much.
But in the last, I don't know if it was tracks
they pre -released from this record or tracks
from a previous record that you might have turned
me on to with your videos. And when their songs
come up in the car, listening to these tracks,
man, this is a good, good band. It's good heavy
metal, but they keep it really interesting. It's
like one of the best heavy metal bands that I've
heard in a while. And their guitar solos. We're
very well done. Just everything about this record
was great. I'm really getting into it, even though
it's a little bit more on just the basic heavy
metal side. Right. What do you all think of it?
Yeah, Victor, I'll just step in. I actually listened
to it as well. It's actually album number 14,
this, and I'm a bit like you, Ed. I sort of come
slowly into them over the, you know, just the
last few years, really. I like them a lot. On
this particular album, they've got a new guitarist
and a new vocalist. New guitarist is Denver Cooper,
new vocalist Brian Betterton. They joined in
2024. So it's a slightly different sound to the
last album, just slightly, which you'd expect.
And I think it's a little bit less thrash and
a little bit more power, which you were sort
of referring to, I guess. That's what I thought
too. Yeah, yeah. It's a band that doesn't get
mentioned a lot as well in this sort of genre.
I think that we sort of overlook them a lot.
I actually really like it as well. Yeah, it's
very, very well done. Yeah, this is an album
that I need to go back and revisit. Any video
that I posted is probably off of this album because
I think their previous album probably predates
the Patreon. Okay. I think their biggest issue
is that they've always had a revolving door of
musicians and they're from the Bay area. So they
were kind of part of the last wave, like with
Heathen and Hyrax and Forbidden and bands like
that, where they're good. But by the time that
they came out, like all the great was already
out there, you know, as good as some of the material
is, there's times where it doesn't, compared
to a lot of the the bigger bands um but this
album has a lot of everything there's thrash
there's heavy metal there's some grungy type
stuff on there as well um so i i definitely think
it's uh it's it's a really good listen um jeremy
what else did you listen to And this week? Yeah,
only one other album, which is obviously going
to be my pick. Strangely for me, I've picked
Giants and Monsters by Halloween. You know, I
didn't realize this is their 17th studio album.
38 years now since Keeper of the Seven Keys came
out. You know, I'll be fairly brutally honest
with you guys. I've never really got this band
at all. I never liked them. Listened to Seven
Keys, Sit List, Seven Keys 2. Many times over
the years, over those 38 years, still don't like
it. Can't get into it for some reason. Everyone
I know loves this band and I just can't get them.
And I've seen them at download as well and I
watched them for about two or three minutes.
No, don't like it. Walked off. Just the way it
is, I suppose. A lot of ferocious twiddling going
on and didn't like it. But this, I actually like
this. For some reason, I don't know whether it's
different to, you know, their early stuff. It
probably is a lot. Like, you know, there's a
little bit of Scorpions in there, which I thought,
you know, there's a ballads in there. There's
proper sort of classic rock in there. There is
a little bit of proggy element stuff, but yeah,
I like it. It's good. A lot of songs in there
are like, I read a review of it in one of the
heavy metal magazines. He gave it nine out of
10. And I thought, yeah, pretty much. Got it
spot on. It's good. Okay. So I listen to the
Vicious Rumors, as we mentioned. I listen to
the Nova Twins, which is something that's really
popular in the UK. It is, I mean, this is one
of these bands where they're listed as being
a metal band, but there are a lot of elements
that are included in their music, which has nothing
to do with metal. Very poppy at times, very 90s
sounding alternative at times. Not a bad album.
My album of the week is also Giants and Monsters
by Halloween. I was so scared going into this
because I thought that their last album was too
boring. It was them, like, imitating them. It
was, you know, and I just don't... Get that.
To me, like some of the Priest albums that they
released after Rob Halford came back, it was
them trying too hard to be Priest, where the
songs kind of fell flat to me. Whereas with the
last two albums, it's Priest sounding like Priest,
but with energy and with balls and with energy.
I think Halloween has done that with this. And
I think that they've infused stuff. within the
album that maybe on albums like chameleon or
i'm trying to think of what some of the other
albums are well even pink bubbles go ape where
the band was branching off and doing different
things which wasn't like prototypical uh power
medley type stuff or maiden or priest type stuff
they were dipping their toes into other things
And this to me feels like that, where it's a
continuation of stuff that they had done in the
past without leaning too much into the whole
Keepers DNA. And yeah, they always have ballads
on each of their albums, and they've always got
super long tracks on each of their albums that
lean towards being proggy. I think the album
is great because it touches upon a lot of different
things they've done throughout their career.
So that would be both Jeremy and my album of
the week for the 29th. And Ed, for you, it's...
I like that. Cosmic Crater album. That's easier
to say than the band name. K .N. I'm assuming
it's pronounced Canum. Something like that, yeah.
Canundro. Yeah. It's a Canundro. Let me go back
here real quick. Our albums of the week for the
first week here of August. August 1st, Jeremy
had Lomi. I had Moths. For August 8th, Ed had
Synesthesia in Devastation. Jeremy had Lucky
by Firstborn. And I had Opus Noir Volume 1 by
Lord of the Lost. August 15th, Ed went with Savage
New World from Insight. Jeremy went with Ellefson
Soto with Unbreakable. And I went with Patriarchs
in Black with Home. August 22nd, Ed went with
Vindicator and Whispers of Death. Jeremy went
with Rust and Rage with Songs of Yesterday. And
I went with Private Music by Deftones. The final
week of August. Saw Ed go with Canum with Cosmo
Crater and Jeremy and I going with Halloween
with Giants and Monsters. So cool. Ed, I do want
to thank you for joining us and adding an extra
wrinkle to what we do here. Thanks for letting
me give it a try. Hopefully it went okay for
you. Yeah, absolutely. I'm glad that you found
some releases that spoke to you and were interesting
and that there are things that you saw that we
should check out that maybe we, we didn't. So
I've noted. That's something else I'd like to
do is not just find things that the death metal
fans like, but stuff that you all might be able
to get into a little bit as well. If I hear it,
you know? Yeah. That's awesome. Jeremy, I want
to thank you as well. This is a concept that
the two of us have been running with for two
years now, if I'm not mistaken. So it's been
flying by. These are always fun. It's always
fun to check out new music. And it's funny because
I've been leaning heavily this entire summer
on my 2025 playlist. And it's cool to just have
different things to listen to. you know, it's
at the point where some of the songs are starting
to come up and I'm thinking, okay, I've already
heard that one quite a few times. Let's give
another song a try. So awesome. So hopefully
Ed will join us in future episodes of these and
hopefully you guys enjoy this. Edgar, thank you
for joining us in the chat. And that is pretty
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