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Welcome to episode 424 of Signals from Mars.

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I'm your host, Victor, and I'm back for the first

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episode of year 16 of Signals from Mars here.

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This is the first live stream that we did, actually

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being live in quite a few months. Joining me

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are Ed and Jeremy, and we're going to talk about

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some July and August 2025 releases. I'm ready.

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together. So on and so forth. I've had Mark on

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small but loyal audience. And folks, they're

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that sponsorship bit a few minutes ago. Anyway,

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speaking of... letting go of your money and sponsoring

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things let's check out the albums that jeremy

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ed and i discuss so welcome one and all to the

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um A first new episode of, I don't know, you

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could consider this a new season or it's the

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first live episode since when? Since I think

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May or June, something like that. We've been

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pre -recording episodes to fill in the summer

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months. And it's good to be back live. I have

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Ed and Jeremy joining me. And Edgar Winterson

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has been in the chat going nuts already. Thank

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you, Edgar, for joining us. And today's episode

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will be the recap of the albums that we missed

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this summer. So it's a July and August albums

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review, which Jeremy and I usually do. And now

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we're adding Ed to the mix because he can add

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some insight to stuff that we don't want to skip.

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It's just, it's just not our cup of tea as much

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as it is Ed's cup of tea. And I want to make

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this all encompassing so that as much as people

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want me to do one style of hard rock or metal,

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that's just not in me. There are so many facets

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and so many things to, to get into. And I want

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to make sure that we service everyone, regardless

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what, what style they're into. Yes, that's what

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we need to service some people. We need to service

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some people, absolutely. Layer bone metal, that's

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right. There you go. Wait, wait, I forgot. Where's

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this? Oh, not working. I love having my Slayer

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bone tickled. There we go. All right. We're going

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to have to copyright that and sell that one.

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We're going to make it a T -shirt. So instead

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of having, you know, 55 or something like that,

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we're going to have signals from Mars tickling

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Slayer bone tickled from Mars. There you go.

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So cool. So let's go all the way back to Independence

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Day, July 4th. Whenever there's a holiday, there

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aren't a lot of releases. But let's get on into

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it. We had releases from Kitty's Resort, War

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Kings, Witch Hazel, Joe Stump's Tower of Babel,

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Angry Machine, Metal 6000, and an EP from Guapa.

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Throw this to Jeremy first. So Jeremy, what did

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you listen to this time around? Yeah, so I started

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off with Joe Stump's Tower of Babel. The master

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shredder, as we know. He set up a five -piece

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classic rock band this time. So as you can imagine,

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it's pretty good. It was to me anyway, not least

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because Stump, you know, he's got a sort of really

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listenable, heavy rock, sort of Richie Blackmore

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-esque shredding style. You know, some fairly

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nifty fretwork. The songs are pretty okay too.

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Where it is a bit let down, in my opinion, though,

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is the vocal quality. I really have no idea what

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Joe Amore sings like normally, but in terms of

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this project, I think he's found seriously wanting,

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really, and it's a real shame because with a

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better vocal, it would be more enjoyable because

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Stump deserves a lot better. He's a great guitarist.

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So I moved on to Human Error by Anger Machine.

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It's a thrash band from the Netherlands. They

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initially started as a five -piece in 2015, releasing

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Trail of the Perished. They are now a four -piece

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band with guitarist Timon Den Hartig also covering

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the lead vocals. The album itself I thought was

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quite well produced. There's plenty of hard sort

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of hitting riffs on here. I guess you'd call

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it fairly standard thrash metal. And in that

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vein, though, you know, sort of a negative really,

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I suppose, is that nothing truly stood out to

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me. You know, it's fairly bog standard stuff.

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But it was technically proficient, just wasn't

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that memorable. So I moved on to my third pick,

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next in line by Metal 6000. Metal who, I hear

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you say? Well, Metal 6000, the band every metal

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head should hear. In an age of overproduced,

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tech -assisted, rehashed has -beens, Metal 6000

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are an entire tornado of fresh air, in my opinion,

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of course. It's an album I instantly took to.

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Where these guys sort of lack a production budget,

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they rudely make up for with songwriting ability

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that combines a respectful homage to metal history

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with a unique and magnetic ability to combine

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heavy with melody, I'd say. It's bordering on

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the amateurish, that's true. But therein lies

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its charm. There's a reason why a new album is

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so revered. It's back to the basics. It's club

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style approach. And you've got to remember that

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all bands started out like this. So that is my

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album of the week. Next in line, Metal 6000.

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Cool. What was the name of the thrash band you

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mentioned? The thrash band was Anger Machine.

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Human Era by Anger Machine. So I don't know if

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I missed it in the spreadsheet you sent me, but

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I didn't see releases for July. Okay. The ones

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that I did were for August. Okay. I don't know

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if I shared. So it only shared the August tab

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as opposed to the entire. Either that or I did

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not go searching enough to look at it. Maybe

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you missed the July tab. So I'm going to listen.

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to you guys as you go through these first few

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weeks and then I'll let you know when, when I

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got something to check in with there. All right.

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So for me, I listened to, uh, War Kings, Armageddon,

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uh, War Kings is a band who I thought their debut

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album was entertaining, was very much in the

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vein of Manowar, for example, had Melissa Boney

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on, um, second vocals at the time. The band has

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slowly become just paint -by -numbers vanilla

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power metal. There's a few releases from July

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and August that when I listened to them, the

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first thing that came to mind was, man, do they

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look for any originality at all? I mean, if they're

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going to be playing... If they're not going to

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be playing any of these songs live, I'd prefer

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that they not even record them and release them

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because they sound like a million other things.

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And with this War Kings album is just, I don't

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know. I think I can throw it on and throw a bunch

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of other bands on at the same time and I wouldn't

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be able to distinguish what's what as a result.

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The second thing I listened to was Witch Hazel.

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with, I guess it's called Five Lamentations.

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And this was kind of interesting to me because

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it was definitely retro sounding. It mixed a

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lot of like 70s progressive rock elements of

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80s heavy metal. and old school production so

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it gave it kind of a retro feel and uh and then

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i went on and listened to the joe stump tower

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of babel days of thunder only because i interviewed

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joe at least once and i've interchanged uh emails

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with him over the years so i figured i'd i'd

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listen to it jeremy when you said he sounds like

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richie blackmore that's an understatement given

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that There's one song that sounds exactly like

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Gates of Babylon. The riff is kind of like a

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Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby to Queens Under Pressure,

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where it's like one slight difference in a note

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to differentiate the two. But yeah, I mean, if

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you're looking again, I was listening to that.

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And thinking, look, I'd take this over any recent

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Deep Purple, to be honest. Because there's still

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like a lot of fiery guitar playing to it, which

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is what I miss with Deep Purple. I think that

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Deep Purple's playing over the years. And I think

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that they've got a fantastic guitarist now. And

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not to say that Steve Morris isn't a great guitarist,

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but in Deep Purple, he just became kind of boring

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to me. My album of the week is going to be Witch

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Hazel's Fifth Lamentations or Five Lamentations.

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It just stood out to me, gave me something a

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little different to enjoy. And that's how I'm

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going to go with that one. All right. So let's

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move on to the week of July 11th. We had new

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releases from Calva Louise, Nathan James, Dead

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Seven. Viagression, Double Vision, Laguna, Kronos

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Compulsion, Madhouse, Celestial Wizard, Born

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of Osiris, Eternal Idol, Sheev, and live albums

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from Diamondhead Girl School and Steve Hackett.

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All right, Jeremy, what did you listen to this

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time around? Yeah, so I started off with Plead

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the Fifth by Madhouse. Very much old -fashioned

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hair metal, this one from the 80s and early 90s.

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Very Skid Row, very Warrant, very Motley Crue,

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all wrapped up in one. They take it seriously,

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too. There's a vocalist who wears a slash hat.

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There's a drummer called Mickey Sticks with two

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Xs. There's an umlaut above the Madhouse name

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to distinguish themselves from the 80s jazz fusion

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outfit created by Prince. But I'll say something

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about it. It might not be inventing anything,

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but my God, does it rock. It really does. You

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know, there are real, there's a lot of melodies

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here, a lot of choruses, a plenty. It really

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hits hard. I suppose, you know, someone has to

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keep this type of music alive. And I think Madhouser

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did a really good job of it. You know, there's

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13 songs, there's 15 minutes. It's album number

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four since post -COVID debut. And it's, yeah,

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it was fine. It was good. So I went on to The

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Ghost of Katrina by Laguna. This is fairly typical

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Fair on Frontiers. It's a debut album by a five

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-piece band from Mexico. They're offering fairly

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sort of standard, hard, melodic rock. I realize

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this won't be on Victor M. Roos' Christmas list

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for sure, but there were some quite listenable

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tunes on this. It's good ones to have on in the

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background. It's a good high degree of professionalism.

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in terms of the sort of songwriting and production.

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A few soaring guitar solos on it as well. So

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it kept me engaged for a little bit. So it was

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fine. It was okay. But really for the album of

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the week, I'm cheating a little bit because we

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don't normally pick live albums when we go through

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the end of the year stuff. But obviously I listened

00:17:07.130 --> 00:17:09.130
to Live and Electric by Diamond Head. As you

00:17:09.130 --> 00:17:12.089
know, it's a band I really like. They're on hiatus

00:17:12.089 --> 00:17:14.109
at the moment due to obviously Brian Tatler's

00:17:14.109 --> 00:17:17.599
exploits in Saxon. They haven't released much

00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:21.160
live output as well from this version of the

00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:24.539
band. And I actually saw this version of the

00:17:24.539 --> 00:17:28.779
band at a live venue locally quite a few years

00:17:28.779 --> 00:17:31.700
back, and this was recorded in 2022, this album.

00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:35.099
So it's very similar to what I saw that night.

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It's full of energy, old standards on there,

00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.180
some newer tracks like The Messenger and Belly

00:17:41.180 --> 00:17:44.430
of the Beast, which are really good tracks. Real

00:17:44.430 --> 00:17:47.549
strength on the classics as well, In the Heat

00:17:47.549 --> 00:17:50.809
of the Night's very good. And they've got the

00:17:50.809 --> 00:17:53.730
Danish vocalist Rasmus Bonn. Anderson really

00:17:53.730 --> 00:17:58.269
does the songs good justice, I think. So, yeah,

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I'm hoping they'll come back as a band. And I

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really enjoyed it, and it's my album of the week.

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I guess it all depends on how Biff's health is,

00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:12.960
huh? Yeah, there is that aspect of it as well.

00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.900
Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. And maybe, you know,

00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:19.099
he'll just want to do stuff with the band, play,

00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.259
record some stuff, go out live and then maybe

00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:24.799
fit in his live stuff with Diamondhead in between,

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I guess. We shall see. Yeah. I'm going to be

00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:31.900
honest. I only really got a chance to listen

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to one album this week and it was Hollywood Mortician.

00:18:39.089 --> 00:18:42.890
by, uh, Nathan James. And I listened to this

00:18:42.890 --> 00:18:45.430
because I thought it was Nathan, Nathan James

00:18:45.430 --> 00:18:51.230
from inglorious. I did as well. He just released

00:18:51.230 --> 00:18:53.750
an album with inglorious and now he's releasing

00:18:53.750 --> 00:18:56.529
a solo album. And then once I was in it, I'm

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like, okay, I get it. So this is, um, uh, this

00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:07.250
sounds like, um, like corn, like, uh, very, uh

00:19:07.250 --> 00:19:11.430
typical new metal um and i like new metal i know

00:19:11.430 --> 00:19:13.529
that a lot of people aren't into it i'm wearing

00:19:13.529 --> 00:19:17.390
a primer 55 shirt today also which another new

00:19:17.390 --> 00:19:22.170
metal band um but it's missing something you

00:19:22.170 --> 00:19:26.890
know um you have stuff like for example um tetraarch

00:19:26.890 --> 00:19:32.410
who were kind of the forerunners of modern uh

00:19:32.410 --> 00:19:36.359
new metal And there's something different to

00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:38.640
their music where they have guitar solos, where

00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.440
they have cool melodies and the songs, the compositions

00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.480
seem to be worked out in a different way. And

00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:47.720
this, it's all right. I mean, it's not terrible,

00:19:47.819 --> 00:19:51.960
but it's just missing something with it, with

00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.220
the hook, something with the music that separates

00:19:55.220 --> 00:19:58.859
it from just being a copycat. So being that it's

00:19:58.859 --> 00:20:01.099
the only thing that I listened to this week that

00:20:01.099 --> 00:20:03.880
I got a chance to listen to. It's my album of

00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:08.900
the week. So, all right. And actually I missed,

00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:12.859
there was a obituary compilation, Godly Beings

00:20:12.859 --> 00:20:17.799
box set for that week also. All right. For the

00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:23.619
week of July 18th, we had the Supergroup Nefarious

00:20:23.619 --> 00:20:26.819
with Addicted to Power. We have One More Satellite,

00:20:26.859 --> 00:20:29.779
which is a project from one of the DeLeo brothers

00:20:29.779 --> 00:20:33.190
from Stone Temple Pilots. And yeah, it sounds

00:20:33.190 --> 00:20:39.750
like Stone Temple Pilots. Phantom Spell. All

00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:42.210
right, here we go with these damn spellings and

00:20:42.210 --> 00:20:49.910
pronunciations. Ascarian. I don't know. But they

00:20:49.910 --> 00:20:53.569
named their album Hollow Fang, so, you know.

00:20:57.029 --> 00:21:01.880
Ramonda, Scar Dust, Drought, Throat Cut. Abigail

00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:07.960
Williams, Bush, Scars on Broadway, Ashes of Ares,

00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:14.400
Reign of Glory, and The Greed. Compilations from

00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.579
Five Finger Death Punch and from Kicks were released

00:21:17.579 --> 00:21:23.829
on the week of the 18th also. Jeremy, what did

00:21:23.829 --> 00:21:26.289
you listen to this week? Yeah, I started off,

00:21:26.309 --> 00:21:29.130
well, just two really. New Messiahs by Ashes

00:21:29.130 --> 00:21:31.630
of Ares, which you just mentioned. You know,

00:21:31.630 --> 00:21:33.789
the former Iced Earth members are back with another

00:21:33.789 --> 00:21:37.329
sort of heavy metal power metal offering. It's

00:21:37.329 --> 00:21:40.130
only their fourth full -length album since forming

00:21:40.130 --> 00:21:43.690
in 2012. And if you kind of ignore the slight

00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:46.109
vocal similarities, I think, to Sons of Apollo

00:21:46.109 --> 00:21:49.250
a little bit. I think it's an excellent listen,

00:21:49.369 --> 00:21:52.190
this. It combines some very heavy power with

00:21:52.190 --> 00:21:55.509
great melody. The previous album I thought was

00:21:55.509 --> 00:21:58.089
a little bit more frenetic than this one, but

00:21:58.089 --> 00:22:00.150
there's plenty of hard -hitting metal as well,

00:22:00.349 --> 00:22:04.029
sort of atmospheric overtones on it, some progressive

00:22:04.029 --> 00:22:06.970
parts, and it's capped off with a really great

00:22:06.970 --> 00:22:09.190
commercial song I think you featured on your

00:22:09.190 --> 00:22:12.549
Patreon site as well, which was Keep On Walking,

00:22:12.730 --> 00:22:16.329
which I really liked all of it. That was a good

00:22:16.329 --> 00:22:19.960
album. And then I moved on to Slingshot by Reign

00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.480
of Glory, the Mark Bowles mini super group. Interesting

00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:26.220
album, this one. Melodic sort of heavy metal

00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:29.000
that rocks and, you know, the singer's good on

00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:32.220
this one. It's also a religious rock band, if

00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:34.339
I'm not mistaken, sort of similar to Striper.

00:22:35.259 --> 00:22:38.059
There's some very good hooks on it. It's heavier,

00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:42.099
too, than the first album, All Will Bow, aided

00:22:42.099 --> 00:22:44.579
by, you know, what I think is a superior production

00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:48.009
technique. And I liked it because there's a sort

00:22:48.009 --> 00:22:51.069
of generous helping of, you know, fairly melodic

00:22:51.069 --> 00:22:53.450
stuff, but without the songs being very predictable.

00:22:53.910 --> 00:22:58.210
So it kind of reached out to me, really. What

00:22:58.210 --> 00:23:00.869
was that band name again? Yeah, it's Reign of

00:23:00.869 --> 00:23:05.049
Glory. So when you first said Reign of Glory,

00:23:05.190 --> 00:23:07.069
I thought I've heard that band because, you know,

00:23:07.150 --> 00:23:10.150
I keep up with the Christian metal scene, too.

00:23:10.250 --> 00:23:13.369
Yeah. So that is the same band. I haven't listened

00:23:13.369 --> 00:23:16.039
to it yet. I'm going to add it to my list here.

00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:19.140
Yeah, there we go. Take that down on your recommendation.

00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:21.779
Yeah, I thought it was a good listen. So, you

00:23:21.779 --> 00:23:24.319
know, of the two, that's my pick of the week,

00:23:24.339 --> 00:23:30.720
I think. Yeah. Okay. A nice pick. I listened

00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:36.579
to three different albums. I listened to three

00:23:36.579 --> 00:23:41.180
different albums for this week. I listened to

00:23:41.180 --> 00:23:46.349
Bush. And I beat Loneliness. Edgar Winterson

00:23:46.349 --> 00:23:49.609
saying that he passed on the bush. The album

00:23:49.609 --> 00:23:58.250
starts out strong. And as time goes by, or as

00:23:58.250 --> 00:24:03.190
the tracks go by, it gets dull and boring for

00:24:03.190 --> 00:24:06.730
me. So I beat Loneliness. If I want to be bored

00:24:06.730 --> 00:24:09.349
and lonely, I would listen to this, to be honest.

00:24:12.049 --> 00:24:16.109
Scars on Broadway, Scarred for Life. That is

00:24:16.109 --> 00:24:25.630
Darian from System of a Down. And man, this album

00:24:25.630 --> 00:24:31.730
was also kind of a letdown. Like, I'm not a huge

00:24:31.730 --> 00:24:35.809
System of a Down fan, but it just feels like

00:24:35.809 --> 00:24:40.579
he went in and just. recorded his version of

00:24:40.579 --> 00:24:44.539
System of a Down. Whereas with other albums that

00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:47.279
he's released or the other members where you

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.759
can pinpoint, oh yeah, okay, I get it. That's

00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.420
the spice that he adds to the entire recipe.

00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:57.359
But this to me feels like, with all the band's

00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:59.680
fans clamoring for a new album, just feels to

00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:01.440
me like he said, all right, screw it. We're not

00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.960
releasing an album. So I'm going to do an album

00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:07.859
in the vein of System of a Down. And it just...

00:25:08.490 --> 00:25:13.210
Just comes off just kind of okay. My pick of

00:25:13.210 --> 00:25:15.710
the week, though, is Addicted to Power by Nefarious.

00:25:15.970 --> 00:25:21.950
It is the super group thrash band from San Francisco.

00:25:22.289 --> 00:25:26.990
I've posted videos of theirs on Patreon. So this

00:25:26.990 --> 00:25:34.269
band is made up of Caton Peña from the band Hyrax,

00:25:34.289 --> 00:25:39.660
best known for that. Also has Rick Hunnell, best

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:43.140
known for Exodus. Will Carroll, who's best known

00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:47.900
for Death Angel. Also Tom Gears, who's formerly

00:25:47.900 --> 00:25:53.740
of Blind Illusion. And Doug Piercy, who is, let's

00:25:53.740 --> 00:25:57.759
see, he's been in quite a lot. Also Blind Illusion,

00:25:57.859 --> 00:26:05.130
Heathen. What else has he been in here? Inville

00:26:05.130 --> 00:26:10.410
chorus. He's been around as well. Listen, they're

00:26:10.410 --> 00:26:15.430
not inventing anything new, but different to

00:26:15.430 --> 00:26:18.130
say the scars on Broadway or some of the other

00:26:18.130 --> 00:26:20.950
releases that I've mentioned. There's different

00:26:20.950 --> 00:26:23.670
things to the music that just makes it stand

00:26:23.670 --> 00:26:26.609
out and makes it enjoyable where there's enough

00:26:26.609 --> 00:26:29.730
there that makes me say, okay, I want to continue

00:26:29.730 --> 00:26:32.589
to listen to this stuff instead of. Yeah, I've

00:26:32.589 --> 00:26:34.470
kind of heard this before, and there's really

00:26:34.470 --> 00:26:37.369
nothing special to it. So I would, for me, for

00:26:37.369 --> 00:26:41.109
my money, Nefarious Addicted to Power is my pick

00:26:41.109 --> 00:26:47.990
for July 18th. So we're going to stroll on in

00:26:47.990 --> 00:26:53.410
here to the last week of July. And this final

00:26:53.410 --> 00:26:57.089
week of July included new albums from Enough's

00:26:57.089 --> 00:27:01.849
Enough, Honeymoon Suite, Cold Slither. Pulse

00:27:01.849 --> 00:27:07.210
Gods, Pseudo Frame, Endless Dismal Moan, Azuri

00:27:07.210 --> 00:27:13.690
Demote. Great, great band name. Roulette. Jord

00:27:13.690 --> 00:27:24.589
Fast. Alice Cooper. Schvoren Schwanz. Gwar. Sweet.

00:27:24.910 --> 00:27:28.880
Reissues from Bruce Dickinson. EP from The Violent

00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:32.359
Hour, which is Carla Harvey from formerly of

00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.180
Butcher Babies and her boyfriend, Charlie Benante

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:37.720
of Anthrax and Pantera doing pretty much all

00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.519
the music. And a compilation from Deicide, Children

00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.500
of the Underworld, a complete Roadrunner's Years

00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:52.339
box set. So, Jeremy, what did you listen to this

00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:56.990
week? Okay, so I began my week. Spending a lot

00:27:56.990 --> 00:27:59.369
of time listening to Extra Cherries by Enough

00:27:59.369 --> 00:28:02.089
Is Enough. And I've written down one word here

00:28:02.089 --> 00:28:06.569
to describe this album, and it's terrible. It's

00:28:06.569 --> 00:28:10.630
utterly terrible. I wasted my time. I wasted

00:28:10.630 --> 00:28:15.250
my energy. I just can't understand what this

00:28:15.250 --> 00:28:19.569
band's about. I don't understand them. They don't

00:28:19.569 --> 00:28:22.309
play heavy metal, and they don't seem to rock

00:28:22.309 --> 00:28:27.099
much. So I'm moving on. I'll leave you to comment

00:28:27.099 --> 00:28:29.720
further if you did listen to it yourself. So

00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:33.599
I listened to Go by Roulette. Easy listening,

00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:37.240
classic rock, sort of AOR style, Swedish band.

00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:41.539
I say it strictly for fans of Dare, FM, Journey,

00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.779
that sort of stuff. So not necessarily your bag,

00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:47.680
Victor. But there was a lot to enjoy on it, not

00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:50.400
least the fact that... The band was fairly upfront

00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:52.599
in the mix. You can hear every note, every cymbal

00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:57.640
crash, every word of the lyrics. Very good, easy

00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.619
listening. Has a bit of edge to it. Great melodies.

00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:04.859
All sort of epitomized by the song Strangers,

00:29:04.859 --> 00:29:09.619
which I liked. In what we describe as a very

00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:11.240
troubled world at the moment, there's definitely

00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:13.420
a place for this kind of music because it's kind

00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:17.160
of calming and relaxing and nice sort of sounds,

00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.819
really. It's performed well. So I liked that

00:29:19.819 --> 00:29:22.740
one. But it wasn't my album of the week. I went

00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:25.720
for The Revenge of Alice Cooper by, of course,

00:29:25.779 --> 00:29:29.240
Alice Cooper. So, you know, the King of Audeville

00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.680
is back. He's got his original band. It's a real

00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.720
tour de force of 60s and 70s rock. It's a bit

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:39.220
of a parody of heavy metal, I'd say. I did read

00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:41.400
an Amazon review of this by someone who was very

00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.170
disappointed with it. My review, though, is that

00:29:45.170 --> 00:29:47.549
it's a bit like the sort of latest Rolling Stones

00:29:47.549 --> 00:29:53.490
album. It's old guys doing stuff well. I'm not

00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:55.369
old enough to actually remember the original

00:29:55.369 --> 00:29:57.910
Alice Cooper band, even though I am quite old.

00:29:58.609 --> 00:30:03.930
But what we'll say is that they blow you away

00:30:03.930 --> 00:30:08.490
with the most of the sort of modern bands. Sorry,

00:30:08.589 --> 00:30:12.359
I've got a bit of a nut stuck. They write songs,

00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:14.359
you know, with lyrics and melodies and choruses

00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.420
and sort of, you know, sort of 70s rock riffs.

00:30:18.700 --> 00:30:22.359
And we talked a lot about Ozzy recently. But,

00:30:22.460 --> 00:30:25.619
you know, Alice Cooper's, what, 77? So you've

00:30:25.619 --> 00:30:28.839
got, you know, bear that in mind. So he's a bit

00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:32.000
of a legend. And it was a really fun listen.

00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:36.619
So, you know, hail to Alice. It was good. Now

00:30:36.619 --> 00:30:39.119
you know I don't eat any dried fruits before.

00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:46.079
Yeah. That is a lesson that I think we've all

00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:50.539
learned somewhere along the way. Yep. All right.

00:30:50.619 --> 00:30:54.140
So I listened to the Enough's Enough album as

00:30:54.140 --> 00:30:58.480
well. Half of it seems to be retreaded stuff

00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:00.779
because Derek Frigo is playing on one of the

00:31:00.779 --> 00:31:04.480
songs and he died sometime in the 90s from a

00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:08.000
heroin overdose. Donny V is also on a track.

00:31:08.059 --> 00:31:11.819
I don't know if that's something that was lying

00:31:11.819 --> 00:31:14.220
around the studio or if they convinced them to

00:31:14.220 --> 00:31:20.599
record on a track or not. Enough's Enough is

00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:28.700
trying to do their best to be cheap trick, to

00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:32.900
be a Beatles -esque sounding band. And a lot

00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:38.029
of people consider it power pop. um, more so

00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:41.930
than, um, than hard rock. And that's why I think,

00:31:41.950 --> 00:31:45.069
uh, they got attention in the nineties from people

00:31:45.069 --> 00:31:47.329
like Howard Stern, because they were a throwback

00:31:47.329 --> 00:31:50.750
to the Beatles and cheap trick and stuff like

00:31:50.750 --> 00:31:59.549
that. Um, I listened to the violent hour EP again,

00:31:59.630 --> 00:32:02.390
Carla Harvey, formerly of butcher babies and

00:32:02.390 --> 00:32:06.920
Charlie Benante on. The instrumentation, if you

00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.859
listen to it, you can tell it's Charlie playing.

00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:14.180
Just his phrasing and how he plays guitar and

00:32:14.180 --> 00:32:17.759
how he drums. And it's kind of neat hearing him

00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:22.940
playing outside of Anthrax, outside of what he's

00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:25.559
usually known for. So you can tell it's him,

00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:28.920
but it's doing something completely different.

00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:35.400
It's doing straight up hard rock. One thing I

00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:39.359
didn't listen to, which I'm scared to listen

00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:41.859
to, is Bruce Dickinson's More Balls to Picasso.

00:32:41.940 --> 00:32:45.960
I saw that Roy Z had an issue with what he did

00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:51.339
with the new mix. I love this album when it came

00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:55.400
out because it was so different. To be honest,

00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:01.509
anything before Accident of Birth. to me, by

00:33:01.509 --> 00:33:04.529
Bruce is kind of pedestrian at this point because

00:33:04.529 --> 00:33:07.569
Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding are such

00:33:07.569 --> 00:33:11.670
strong albums. No, that's not true. Skunk Works

00:33:11.670 --> 00:33:13.630
is a really good album as well. It got a bad

00:33:13.630 --> 00:33:16.089
rap because he cut his hair and because he changed

00:33:16.089 --> 00:33:22.109
up his band. But Balls to Picasso, outside of

00:33:22.109 --> 00:33:24.829
laughing in the hiding bush and listening to

00:33:24.829 --> 00:33:29.230
Cyclops every now and then. I don't want to hear

00:33:29.230 --> 00:33:32.109
Bruce doing Peter Gabriel. I don't want to hear

00:33:32.109 --> 00:33:34.849
Tears of the Dragon, which as cool as that song

00:33:34.849 --> 00:33:38.809
is, as cool as it was when it came out, you know,

00:33:38.809 --> 00:33:41.869
30 years later, I don't want to hear Bruce singing

00:33:41.869 --> 00:33:48.150
a ballad. So I don't want to hear him singing

00:33:48.150 --> 00:33:50.930
Wasted Love for that matter either. You know,

00:33:50.930 --> 00:33:53.309
so I don't want to hear him do any Maiden ballads

00:33:53.309 --> 00:33:57.579
either. My pick of the week. kind of by default

00:33:57.579 --> 00:34:01.720
is going to be the Alice Cooper as well. Listen,

00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:05.539
I think that it harkens back to what those first

00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:09.340
few Alice Cooper band albums are about. It's

00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:13.880
got that feeling. It's got that, those melodies.

00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.980
It's got that vibe where there was even a track

00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:19.500
I was listening to today where Alice is singing

00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:23.500
like out of the usual that you're used to hearing

00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:26.050
from Alice. And I was hearing the song and I

00:34:26.050 --> 00:34:28.210
was humming along to the melody and I was like,

00:34:28.289 --> 00:34:32.389
what is this? You know, I got to hit it on my

00:34:32.389 --> 00:34:36.090
car screen to figure out what this is. I'm like,

00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:38.230
oh, wow, it's Alice Cooper. This sounds really

00:34:38.230 --> 00:34:42.769
cool. So, yeah, as a result, The Revenge of Alice

00:34:42.769 --> 00:34:46.250
Cooper is my pick of the week for July 25th.

00:34:46.409 --> 00:34:52.409
So recapping July real quickly here, week one.

00:34:54.310 --> 00:34:59.150
July 4th, Jeremy went with Metal 6000 and Next

00:34:59.150 --> 00:35:04.289
in Line. I went with Witch Hazel and Five Lamentations.

00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:07.750
I think I've pronounced the name of that title

00:35:07.750 --> 00:35:10.130
differently every time I've mentioned it, but

00:35:10.130 --> 00:35:16.710
oh well. For the week of July 11th, Jeremy went

00:35:16.710 --> 00:35:21.010
with the Diamondhead Live and Electric live release.

00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.139
I went with Nathan James, Hollywood Mortician.

00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:32.960
Week three, July 18th, Jeremy went with Slingshots

00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:36.840
by Reign of Glory. And I went with Addicted to

00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:43.420
Power by Nefarious. And for July 25th, both Jeremy

00:35:43.420 --> 00:35:46.000
and I agreed with The Revenge of Alice Cooper

00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:51.260
by Alice Cooper. All right. So let's move on

00:35:51.260 --> 00:35:56.800
to August. And hopefully now we can give Ed some

00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:01.780
time to pontificate on some albums that he checked

00:36:01.780 --> 00:36:05.599
out. Yeah, I got a few to recommend. Cool. For

00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:09.699
all you metalheads. So first week of August,

00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:16.500
we had new releases from Moths, Fox Lake, Gnosis,

00:36:16.739 --> 00:36:20.579
I guess how you pronounce it, Rex Tycoon. Nuclear

00:36:20.579 --> 00:36:25.340
Daisies and Loomy. Jeremy, what did you check

00:36:25.340 --> 00:36:28.679
out for this week? Yeah, the first one was an

00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:31.199
album called First Taste of Heaven by Nuclear

00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:33.960
Daisies. I didn't know actually much about this

00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:37.219
band, except that they hail from Texas. They

00:36:37.219 --> 00:36:39.670
have a sound, though, that's probably... I guess,

00:36:39.670 --> 00:36:42.289
as far removed from the state as you can imagine,

00:36:42.449 --> 00:36:45.150
or at least as I can imagine. There's a sort

00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:47.789
of kind of a laid -back feel to it, almost a

00:36:47.789 --> 00:36:51.469
Manchester band feel to it, layered with keyboards.

00:36:51.590 --> 00:36:54.269
There was techno drums on there, sort of a haunting,

00:36:54.429 --> 00:36:57.670
wispy female vocal on there. So it wasn't really

00:36:57.670 --> 00:37:00.309
rock or metal. It isn't my normal kind of listen,

00:37:00.489 --> 00:37:04.130
but, you know, I enjoyed it. It was okay. But

00:37:04.130 --> 00:37:06.269
the one I'm going to pick for the week, and I

00:37:06.269 --> 00:37:09.010
only picked... I listened to two for this particular

00:37:09.010 --> 00:37:13.929
week. It's an album called 667788 by Lomi. I

00:37:13.929 --> 00:37:16.269
actually thought that was Iomi at first, but

00:37:16.269 --> 00:37:19.309
I had to look at it again. And I don't know what

00:37:19.309 --> 00:37:22.349
the numbers stand for. Another new band to me.

00:37:22.489 --> 00:37:25.750
Apparently they're a Swedish three -piece. Maybe

00:37:25.750 --> 00:37:28.030
even call them a power trio. They're sort of

00:37:28.030 --> 00:37:31.809
crunchy, doomy. clutch -style riffs to the music.

00:37:32.210 --> 00:37:34.530
It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's

00:37:34.530 --> 00:37:37.469
a pretty good listen, to be fair. It's an album

00:37:37.469 --> 00:37:40.210
that's taken a decade to make, apparently, and

00:37:40.210 --> 00:37:41.949
it sort of captures the energy of their live

00:37:41.949 --> 00:37:44.570
shows as well, which you can sort of definitely

00:37:44.570 --> 00:37:47.969
understand when you listen to it. They seem to

00:37:47.969 --> 00:37:49.989
have sort of carved out a bit of a unique style

00:37:49.989 --> 00:37:54.230
with their sort of phrasing in what I would describe

00:37:54.230 --> 00:37:57.650
as a bit of a homogenous genre. So, yeah, for

00:37:57.650 --> 00:37:59.820
that reason alone. I'm going to pick that one

00:37:59.820 --> 00:38:04.260
as my album of the week. Okay. Ed, did you get

00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:06.360
a chance to listen to anything from this week?

00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:10.920
I did listen to all of those. None of those were

00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:13.260
ones that I picked. It seems like most of mine

00:38:13.260 --> 00:38:15.679
are going to be from the next week. Okay. I did

00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.139
find, I think I remember some of that band Gnosis.

00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:21.639
I found that kind of interesting. Correct me

00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.639
if I'm wrong, but I remember it being kind of

00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:27.300
a new metal type band, but they were throwing

00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:30.679
a lot of other, genre influences throughout their

00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:33.760
songs keeping it interesting for someone like

00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:36.619
me who's not very interested in new metal okay

00:38:36.619 --> 00:38:43.059
cool i'll have to uh check that out um my album

00:38:43.059 --> 00:38:46.460
of the week for this week and honestly the only

00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:49.380
thing that i got a chance to listen to is from

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:53.280
the uh puerto rican band moths the album is called

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:59.539
septum uh this is a progressive metal band, which

00:38:59.539 --> 00:39:04.619
mixes a lot of, you know, progressive overtones

00:39:04.619 --> 00:39:09.139
from the last 20 to 30 years going in the direction

00:39:09.139 --> 00:39:14.599
of a lot of Gen D type stuff. Nothing new, nothing,

00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:19.099
no re reinventing the wheel, but interesting

00:39:19.099 --> 00:39:22.579
enough for me to, after posting some videos of

00:39:22.579 --> 00:39:25.559
theirs on Patreon to check the entire album out.

00:39:26.570 --> 00:39:32.309
For me, Moth Septim is the pick for August 1st.

00:39:35.010 --> 00:39:40.329
Moving on to August 8th, we had new releases

00:39:40.329 --> 00:39:48.969
from Liv Sin, Volur, and Cares. I've never pronounced

00:39:48.969 --> 00:39:51.349
this correctly. That's good, because I need help

00:39:51.349 --> 00:39:57.210
saying that band's name. This was Joey from Slipknot.

00:39:57.230 --> 00:40:00.889
Jordanson, yeah. Yeah, former band. Paralysis,

00:40:01.130 --> 00:40:05.369
Attack, Attack, the purveyors of crab metal there.

00:40:06.769 --> 00:40:12.590
Lord of the Lost, which I realized that I listened

00:40:12.590 --> 00:40:17.989
to also. Firstborn, which is the band that features

00:40:17.989 --> 00:40:23.030
Chris Adler, formerly of... Lamb of God and Garish

00:40:23.030 --> 00:40:28.889
from Garish and the Chronicles. And we also had

00:40:28.889 --> 00:40:32.630
a new release by Hailstorm called Everest. EPs

00:40:32.630 --> 00:40:38.650
from Averasion's Crown and reissues from Edge

00:40:38.650 --> 00:40:44.730
of Sanity and Sweet. So, Ed, you're saying that

00:40:44.730 --> 00:40:47.570
you have something to discuss this week. Go ahead.

00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:51.670
Yeah, well, yeah, I do have that one. And, you

00:40:51.670 --> 00:40:54.449
know, you've invited a Kentucky boy onto your

00:40:54.449 --> 00:40:56.730
podcast, so you are going to be having to help

00:40:56.730 --> 00:41:00.429
me with some of these names along the way. But

00:41:00.429 --> 00:41:06.170
Sensanum, or however you might say that, I found

00:41:06.170 --> 00:41:10.210
that to be a good jam. Now, that's like, it's

00:41:10.210 --> 00:41:14.269
technical death metal. Right. But it's got, you

00:41:14.269 --> 00:41:17.610
know, some little bit of black and death metal

00:41:17.610 --> 00:41:20.840
in there. You know, they call it a super group,

00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:23.480
of course, with Joey Jordanson having been in

00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:27.380
there before he died. But it's got a lot of fast,

00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:32.079
tight, very, you know, it's clean playing with

00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:34.300
a lot of changing riffs that keep things interesting.

00:41:35.059 --> 00:41:37.000
And, you know, normally that stuff can get boring

00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.219
to me pretty fast. But this record, one thing

00:41:40.219 --> 00:41:42.559
that set it over the top for me was it has a

00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:46.099
really nice production. It's not overproduced.

00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:49.719
But still, it's got a nice thick sound. The instruments

00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:53.639
are clear. They also add in some groove here

00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:56.619
and there. So if you get a little tired of the

00:41:56.619 --> 00:41:58.900
technical death metal riffs, like I said, they

00:41:58.900 --> 00:42:02.400
come with buckets full of riffs. And they add

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:04.239
some grooves in there that'll get your head banging.

00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:08.380
The vocals are kind of in between. It's not quite

00:42:08.380 --> 00:42:10.980
metalcore, but not quite death metal. It's kind

00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:13.179
of like on that shouting to death metal edge.

00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.559
Someone like Jeremy might like that a little

00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:20.360
bit. But yeah, it's got a nice, raw, electric

00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:23.440
guitar tone. And also, one of the things that

00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.940
always stands out to me in records, because I

00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:31.219
like the jug. I like it when they let that palm

00:42:31.219 --> 00:42:35.300
lay down on the strings and jug away. It gives

00:42:35.300 --> 00:42:39.199
some heavy metal rumble to the song. So anyway,

00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:41.639
for that week, that's the one for me. Check that

00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:47.289
one out. Yeah, good jam. Okay, cool. Jeremy?

00:42:48.369 --> 00:42:51.610
Yeah, I started off listening to Opus Noir Volume

00:42:51.610 --> 00:42:55.070
1 by Lord of the Lost, of course. To be fair,

00:42:55.150 --> 00:42:57.590
it's actually pretty good. I like the vocal,

00:42:57.670 --> 00:43:00.829
which I do anyway. I like the haunting melodies

00:43:00.829 --> 00:43:03.469
that they create with their sort of brand of

00:43:03.469 --> 00:43:06.469
gothic metal. I actually bought Blood to Glitter,

00:43:06.489 --> 00:43:09.869
I think it's the previous album, actually. I

00:43:09.869 --> 00:43:12.619
enjoy that. I thought they were very good live

00:43:12.619 --> 00:43:14.980
supporting Iron Maiden. This album is actually

00:43:14.980 --> 00:43:19.780
a bit darker than Blood and Glitter, as you might

00:43:19.780 --> 00:43:22.579
expect from the title. My only gripe, though,

00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:26.119
is that I find a lot of their songs sound a little

00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:28.679
bit similar. You know, they've got that sort

00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:31.559
of mix of clean and growly vocals that go on.

00:43:31.619 --> 00:43:33.320
And I think there's a lot, the keys are all the

00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:37.159
same. I can listen to a lot of their stuff and

00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:39.320
really enjoy it, but I just feel that they need

00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:41.900
a little bit more variation at times. And even

00:43:41.900 --> 00:43:44.280
going darker on this album doesn't really help

00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.239
that. So I don't know what they need to do. So

00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:51.800
yeah, it's fine. It was good. Spiral of Suffering

00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:54.860
I listened to by Paralysis. This band hails from

00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:57.039
a place called New Jersey, which I've never heard

00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.789
of, Victor. I think it's a tiny island in the

00:44:00.789 --> 00:44:05.130
Tasman Sea somewhere. But in any event, it's

00:44:05.130 --> 00:44:07.949
album number three for the band. There's some

00:44:07.949 --> 00:44:10.369
growly sort of angry thrash to sort of dig into.

00:44:11.949 --> 00:44:14.590
Familiar themes that you get with thrash. Obviously,

00:44:14.690 --> 00:44:17.610
there's typical thrash chord structures on there.

00:44:17.769 --> 00:44:23.389
A little punkier, hardcore edge to it. that allows

00:44:23.389 --> 00:44:25.449
them to maybe just peak their head above what

00:44:25.449 --> 00:44:30.650
is a bit of a crowded field in Thrash. So not

00:44:30.650 --> 00:44:33.630
bad overall. Quite enjoyed that one. I then moved

00:44:33.630 --> 00:44:37.110
on to my pick of the week, Lucky by Firstborn.

00:44:38.219 --> 00:44:41.179
This is a super group, of course, which is formed

00:44:41.179 --> 00:44:44.000
by Chris Adler, Myron, and it's got Girish of

00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.539
Girish and the Chronicles on vocals. I actually

00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:49.340
can't remember very much of the previous album.

00:44:49.380 --> 00:44:52.380
I think I did listen to it, but I think typically

00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:54.219
there's some good sort of classic rock sounds

00:44:54.219 --> 00:44:58.039
on here, good quality, a few sort of passing

00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.219
references to the classics of old and the legacy

00:45:01.219 --> 00:45:06.030
bands. Wake Up, very sort of good punky metal

00:45:06.030 --> 00:45:09.130
number, reminds me of Velvet Revolver. There's

00:45:09.130 --> 00:45:11.150
a little bit of flashy Van Halen here and there.

00:45:12.309 --> 00:45:14.150
You know, there's a lot to interest me, really.

00:45:15.510 --> 00:45:17.769
There was a little bit of lyrics, actually, a

00:45:17.769 --> 00:45:20.989
snippet that was taken directly from The Trooper,

00:45:21.010 --> 00:45:23.730
I think, by Iron Maiden. They actually quoted

00:45:23.730 --> 00:45:28.369
it verbatim. Anyway, the whole thing I enjoyed

00:45:28.369 --> 00:45:31.230
overall. I wanted to listen to it again, and

00:45:31.230 --> 00:45:33.659
that's going to be my album of the week. Okay,

00:45:33.659 --> 00:45:41.820
cool. So for me, I listened to Live Sin, Close

00:45:41.820 --> 00:45:45.079
Your Eyes, much like what I mentioned before

00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:49.340
with War Kings. This is just paint -by -numbers,

00:45:49.500 --> 00:45:57.480
like 2000s Eurovision metal. Some growling over

00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:01.739
top, some keyboards here and there, and it just...

00:46:02.490 --> 00:46:05.510
I was listening to it, waiting in the line to

00:46:05.510 --> 00:46:08.050
get my car inspected. And I was thinking, this

00:46:08.050 --> 00:46:12.730
music is just making this wait longer. Because

00:46:12.730 --> 00:46:16.670
there's really nothing, you know, that's lifting

00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:20.750
me up here. And I was thinking, you know, are

00:46:20.750 --> 00:46:22.929
they going to play any of these songs live? Like,

00:46:22.929 --> 00:46:30.039
what's the purpose of recording this? I got to

00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:35.760
listen to the new Hailstorm Everest. Man, I was

00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:38.400
supposed to see them live. And I know that they're

00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:40.599
a great band live. I've never seen them live

00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:43.519
before. But I've always been on the fence about

00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:47.500
their material. I either really enjoy it or I

00:46:47.500 --> 00:46:53.519
don't. And I don't remember how many tracks are

00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:57.539
on this album. I think it's nine or ten. And

00:46:57.539 --> 00:47:01.469
there's... one track I think is good and the

00:47:01.469 --> 00:47:07.590
rest is just utterly boring and samesy. It's

00:47:07.590 --> 00:47:10.949
funny because they've talked about how liberating

00:47:10.949 --> 00:47:13.670
the lyrics are and how she's pronouncing herself

00:47:13.670 --> 00:47:17.389
with this and this and that. And I'm like, that's

00:47:17.389 --> 00:47:19.550
awesome. I'm glad that she's got the courage

00:47:19.550 --> 00:47:25.309
to do that. But just one mid -tempo song after

00:47:25.309 --> 00:47:28.280
another, after another, after another. Another

00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:32.320
ballad -y type song, blues -like song. And it's

00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.320
like, man, I've been here. You know, I just kept

00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:39.539
thinking the lyrics to Iron Maiden's Deja Vu.

00:47:39.780 --> 00:47:41.940
Feels like I've been here before. Feels like

00:47:41.940 --> 00:47:44.500
I've been here before. Over and over again. Because

00:47:44.500 --> 00:47:46.699
that's what the album felt like. There's one

00:47:46.699 --> 00:47:49.420
really good song towards the end called Killing.

00:47:49.699 --> 00:47:58.949
And it's a faster song. I don't know. I definitely

00:47:58.949 --> 00:48:03.929
don't think that they climbed to the top of Everest

00:48:03.929 --> 00:48:06.590
with this one. Let me just put it to you that

00:48:06.590 --> 00:48:10.449
way, to play off of the title. My album of the

00:48:10.449 --> 00:48:14.889
week is Opus Noir Volume 1 by Lord of the Lost.

00:48:14.929 --> 00:48:18.469
Jeremy mentioned it. If you're into their previous

00:48:18.469 --> 00:48:21.349
material, you'll enjoy this. Yes, this album

00:48:21.349 --> 00:48:27.469
is darker, and I enjoy it as a result. Has a

00:48:27.469 --> 00:48:31.230
lot of gothic overtones, the usual from Chris

00:48:31.230 --> 00:48:35.389
Harms and his vocals. And yeah, I enjoyed the

00:48:35.389 --> 00:48:44.289
album. So that is my album of the week. Looks

00:48:44.289 --> 00:48:46.570
like I missed the compilation, which was the

00:48:46.570 --> 00:48:49.869
Dogs of Hope. And Edgar Winterson is saying,

00:48:49.989 --> 00:48:52.849
did you mention the Choir Boys live album? I

00:48:52.849 --> 00:48:57.900
did not, sir. I apologize. I don't even have

00:48:57.900 --> 00:49:02.659
it listed. A lot of this, to be honest, it's

00:49:02.659 --> 00:49:06.019
either sent to me or it's on sites that I usually

00:49:06.019 --> 00:49:09.079
frequent. And if there's something that I didn't

00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:12.880
pick up on that I think is quote -unquote big,

00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:21.800
I'll post it. August 15th, we had new releases

00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:36.559
from Insight. Wave. Catarator. Ori. Based. Matriarchs.

00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:54.050
Black. Black. Unleashed. Let's see, there's a

00:49:54.050 --> 00:49:59.090
reissue. And Jeremy, what did you listen to this

00:49:59.090 --> 00:50:01.909
time around? Yeah, I actually forgot to listen

00:50:01.909 --> 00:50:03.989
to the UFO album. I'll definitely go back and

00:50:03.989 --> 00:50:07.110
listen to that one. But just a couple for this

00:50:07.110 --> 00:50:11.409
week. The Edge by Blackwater Rising. The American

00:50:11.409 --> 00:50:13.909
band is a few albums in now. Definitely something

00:50:13.909 --> 00:50:17.269
interesting brewing on this one. Southern tinged

00:50:17.269 --> 00:50:21.849
hard rock groove on this. Some songs that sort

00:50:21.849 --> 00:50:24.630
of cut through, others that don't. They might

00:50:24.630 --> 00:50:26.769
be a little bit boring. So, you know, it was

00:50:26.769 --> 00:50:30.789
an average listen, I think. Nothing too special

00:50:30.789 --> 00:50:33.570
on it. But the one I'm going to pick for the

00:50:33.570 --> 00:50:38.550
week will be Unbreakable by Ellefson Soto. Whereas,

00:50:38.650 --> 00:50:40.550
obviously, Smith and Cotsen have gone down the

00:50:40.550 --> 00:50:44.409
blues path, this one has sort of stuck to metal.

00:50:45.349 --> 00:50:47.429
For the most part, I'd say it's a fine effort.

00:50:47.610 --> 00:50:51.309
It's their second album. despite the shield on

00:50:51.309 --> 00:50:53.309
the cover sort of proving a little bit slightly

00:50:53.309 --> 00:50:55.250
strange because it reminded me of the latest

00:50:55.250 --> 00:50:59.550
Judas Priest album with a shield on there. But

00:50:59.550 --> 00:51:03.210
yeah, the songs were good. I enjoyed it. It was

00:51:03.210 --> 00:51:06.070
probably a bit of a lean week for me, but yeah,

00:51:06.130 --> 00:51:09.889
I'm going to pick that one as a good listen album

00:51:09.889 --> 00:51:13.150
of the week. Okay. Ed, how about you? What did

00:51:13.150 --> 00:51:15.989
you listen to for the week of the 15th? Okay,

00:51:16.070 --> 00:51:17.570
you're going to have to linger with me on this

00:51:17.570 --> 00:51:20.510
week, because this week was awesome. This was

00:51:20.510 --> 00:51:23.269
probably even the best week of the year for me

00:51:23.269 --> 00:51:26.389
so far. Okay. But before I get into my favorites,

00:51:26.469 --> 00:51:28.710
I'm interested, did you all listen to that, is

00:51:28.710 --> 00:51:31.690
it based? You think that's how it's said? Did

00:51:31.690 --> 00:51:34.409
not, no. No, I didn't. If not, both of you need

00:51:34.409 --> 00:51:36.949
to listen to this. Okay. I remember hearing it

00:51:36.949 --> 00:51:40.289
before, and I remember they were a death metal

00:51:40.289 --> 00:51:43.170
band, and they've got the big kind of like sepulcher

00:51:43.170 --> 00:51:46.679
-like vocals with, you know they you know kind

00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:49.820
of big booming vocals but anyway listening to

00:51:49.820 --> 00:51:52.920
this record you know and i have it randomly playing

00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:56.280
in my itunes i swear there are riffs on this

00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:59.099
record that could be on under lock and key by

00:51:59.099 --> 00:52:02.380
docking oh wow and so there's i don't know if

00:52:02.380 --> 00:52:04.320
they just did this on this record or if it's

00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:07.079
something they've been doing for a while but

00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.679
they have all kinds of these heavy metal riffs

00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:13.809
from just basic heavy metal to you know Like

00:52:13.809 --> 00:52:16.889
I said, docking type riffs. When I first heard

00:52:16.889 --> 00:52:18.690
a couple of those songs, I thought I was about

00:52:18.690 --> 00:52:20.769
to hear just a basic hard rock band, but then

00:52:20.769 --> 00:52:24.150
it turns into their death metal. Very interesting.

00:52:24.389 --> 00:52:26.230
You all should go listen to that and tell me

00:52:26.230 --> 00:52:29.969
what you think later. But anyway, man, what a

00:52:29.969 --> 00:52:35.070
dandy week this was. The band Unleashed, are

00:52:35.070 --> 00:52:37.130
you all familiar with that band? Because they've

00:52:37.130 --> 00:52:44.719
been around since 89, I think. Okay. And I guess

00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:49.960
they're mainly considered death metal. But when

00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:51.719
I was listening to these songs, I was getting

00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:56.980
a lot of good old classic heavy metal vibes mixed

00:52:56.980 --> 00:53:00.739
in with their death metal. It almost got some

00:53:00.739 --> 00:53:04.980
flavors of Viking metal without it sounding like

00:53:04.980 --> 00:53:08.159
Viking metal. And when I looked on the Metal

00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:10.539
Encyclopedia, they do say that they're one of

00:53:10.539 --> 00:53:13.760
the... first metal groups to start writing songs

00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.579
about viking and scandinavian history i guess

00:53:16.579 --> 00:53:20.179
instead of like death and gore right but yeah

00:53:20.179 --> 00:53:23.059
this album had lots of classic heavy metal mixed

00:53:23.059 --> 00:53:26.300
with speed metal thrash metal riffs mixed in

00:53:26.300 --> 00:53:29.340
with their death metal um they kept the songs

00:53:29.340 --> 00:53:32.000
interesting throughout the tunes with a lot of

00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:35.199
mix of their riffs they're very uh their guitar

00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:37.980
solos are great and interesting their vocals

00:53:37.980 --> 00:53:40.340
you know even though they're death metal it's

00:53:40.340 --> 00:53:44.639
not guttural. It's kind of more in that death,

00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:51.199
gruesome range. It's vocals that I think would

00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:53.639
make it more palatable to people like Jeremy

00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:57.260
or Mike who don't care much for those. So check

00:53:57.260 --> 00:54:03.039
that out. Now, the next one is going to be probably

00:54:03.039 --> 00:54:05.599
in my top three records this year. It's Castrator.

00:54:06.139 --> 00:54:08.239
It's Castrator, but if you're from Kentucky,

00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:15.030
Castrator, I guess. And this is their second

00:54:15.030 --> 00:54:19.190
album. I remember listening to their first record

00:54:19.190 --> 00:54:21.369
when it came out. Of course, this is an all -female

00:54:21.369 --> 00:54:26.769
death metal band. They are kind of a perfect

00:54:26.769 --> 00:54:33.889
mix of death and black metal. But it's very thrashy,

00:54:33.889 --> 00:54:37.409
very aggressive. The first record was, you know,

00:54:37.409 --> 00:54:39.150
the songs were pretty good. The production was

00:54:39.150 --> 00:54:41.969
pretty good. enough to keep listening to it for

00:54:41.969 --> 00:54:45.110
too long. But man, they nailed it on this record.

00:54:45.570 --> 00:54:47.929
I don't know if they had a new producer or what,

00:54:48.050 --> 00:54:52.550
but the production of the instruments is great.

00:54:52.670 --> 00:54:55.570
They got a nice, heavy, raw, clean guitar tone.

00:54:56.130 --> 00:54:58.510
They've got a lot of that heavy metal jug that

00:54:58.510 --> 00:55:04.130
I like. And also with the female vocalist, man,

00:55:04.190 --> 00:55:07.610
she's got powerful voice. She's one of the first

00:55:07.610 --> 00:55:10.539
death metal. that I think is starting to hang

00:55:10.539 --> 00:55:15.139
out with the big boys. That's one thing about

00:55:15.139 --> 00:55:17.699
death metal groups when it comes to male and

00:55:17.699 --> 00:55:21.340
female vocals. There's females out there that

00:55:21.340 --> 00:55:23.880
are doing great death metal, and sometimes they

00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:27.820
even blow away with black metal vocals, what

00:55:27.820 --> 00:55:30.699
the guys can do. But sometimes when it comes

00:55:30.699 --> 00:55:33.280
to those death metal vocals, it's kind of hard

00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:37.099
to match the power of Corpse Grinder and guys

00:55:37.099 --> 00:55:40.389
like that. But man, this gal, she can hang with

00:55:40.389 --> 00:55:45.389
them. It's heavy, heavy stuff. If you like, it's

00:55:45.389 --> 00:55:47.989
mostly death metal. They don't put so much black

00:55:47.989 --> 00:55:51.409
in there that I get tired of it. I'm excited

00:55:51.409 --> 00:55:54.690
to listen to this record for a while. And this

00:55:54.690 --> 00:55:56.789
would be the best record of all if it wasn't

00:55:56.789 --> 00:56:01.989
for Insight. You all familiar with Insight? Which

00:56:01.989 --> 00:56:06.989
was, it has Richie Cavallera in the band. And

00:56:06.989 --> 00:56:08.750
they got, you know, a few records under their

00:56:08.750 --> 00:56:11.889
belt. Man, they, again, they nailed it on this

00:56:11.889 --> 00:56:16.610
record. Absolutely love it. If you heard them,

00:56:16.670 --> 00:56:19.550
then you know that, you know, kind of in that

00:56:19.550 --> 00:56:23.409
sepultura vein, with the vocals being a little

00:56:23.409 --> 00:56:26.329
more on the maybe metalcore to death metal style.

00:56:26.949 --> 00:56:30.309
But, man, these songs are an awesome mix of thrash

00:56:30.309 --> 00:56:33.489
and groove metal. And so, you know, that's what

00:56:33.489 --> 00:56:40.760
I love the most. I haven't been able to get into

00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:43.079
it much, but, man, I'm so excited to be blasting

00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:47.659
this one for Lexington all next week. The songs,

00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:51.440
I mean, you'll be grooving along with the drums

00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.659
banging your head, and then they just go crazy

00:56:53.659 --> 00:56:57.460
and just pummel you to death with some blast

00:56:57.460 --> 00:57:01.340
beats. It's chaotic, but it's contained. It's

00:57:01.340 --> 00:57:03.699
kind of like with Sepultura and Slayer to where

00:57:03.699 --> 00:57:07.739
it's not perfectly produced. They're not using

00:57:07.739 --> 00:57:12.000
a metronome to record things, but they're all

00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.679
in the pocket and grooving along together. It's

00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:19.139
probably going to be my favorite record of the

00:57:19.139 --> 00:57:21.559
year if someone doesn't come out soon with something

00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:24.659
to top this. I think that covers it for that

00:57:24.659 --> 00:57:27.460
week, doesn't it? Yeah, that's all of it for

00:57:27.460 --> 00:57:30.599
that week. Insight is your album of the week.

00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:35.329
Yeah, and it hurts me. It hurts me to put either

00:57:35.329 --> 00:57:38.909
Cast Greater or Insight one over the other. Okay.

00:57:39.369 --> 00:57:41.949
You death metal fans have to listen to both of

00:57:41.949 --> 00:57:47.969
those records. Cool. So I got to listen to Home

00:57:47.969 --> 00:57:51.230
by Patriarchs in Black, our good friend Dan Lorenzo

00:57:51.230 --> 00:57:59.349
with Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative on drums.

00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:06.000
I think each album that he's released under the

00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:12.719
Patriarchs moniker has gotten better. And this

00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.360
has some really cool riffs and really awesome

00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:17.880
melodies, different things that I wasn't expecting

00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:26.699
from Dan. Because of that, this is my album of

00:58:26.699 --> 00:58:33.090
the week. Let's move on to August 25th. This

00:58:33.090 --> 00:58:39.690
is a big release week. And I think that there

00:58:39.690 --> 00:58:41.730
are things that I didn't write down that I list

00:58:41.730 --> 00:58:47.170
to. All right. So we have new releases from Three

00:58:47.170 --> 00:58:52.130
Days Grace, Dizzy Reed, Dinosaur Pileup, Vindicator,

00:58:52.289 --> 00:58:57.889
Crop, Iron Savior, Old Machines, Reinforcer,

00:58:58.110 --> 00:59:03.429
Black Briar. Burning Witches, Crown, Hunter Oliveri,

00:59:03.530 --> 00:59:14.230
Jack the Joker, Mob Rules, Pandra Christ, Reinforced,

00:59:14.230 --> 00:59:23.409
which I have on here twice, Rage and Rust, Pines

00:59:23.409 --> 00:59:29.269
of the Swarm, Stranglers, Deftones, and Chevelle.

00:59:31.680 --> 00:59:34.880
What did you listen to, Jeremy, for this week?

00:59:35.579 --> 00:59:38.400
Yeah, I started off listening to Inquisition,

00:59:38.460 --> 00:59:44.079
Burning Witches. I don't fully buy into this

00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:46.760
band, to be fair. I don't really like the vocal

00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:49.760
much, but there's some good songs to get your

00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:54.780
teeth into. It's good heavy metal. Decent enough

00:59:54.780 --> 00:59:57.260
listen, but nothing special for me personally.

00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.619
So I moved on to Rise of the Ruler by Mob Rules,

01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:03.639
obviously a title taken from a Black Sabbath

01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:08.119
album that we know of. Studio album number 11,

01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:10.599
this actually now from the German power metal

01:00:10.599 --> 01:00:14.300
band. They sound sort of like Primal Fear, I

01:00:14.300 --> 01:00:17.840
guess, which is a bit unsurprising because another

01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:20.440
German power metal outfit. So it's all fairly

01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:23.260
familiar riffs, fairly familiar melodies on it.

01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:26.599
I don't think anything sort of extends the boundaries.

01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:30.840
Maybe there's a bit of a Maiden -esque song called

01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.219
Dawn of Second Sun, which I really liked. It's

01:00:34.219 --> 01:00:36.880
pretty excellent, that one. And I was thinking

01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:39.940
if Maiden actually covered it, it would be a

01:00:39.940 --> 01:00:43.800
really good Iron Maiden song. And also the same

01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:45.719
could be said of the next track, Back to Savage

01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:49.239
Land, which is a similar sort of... song which

01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.019
maiden could have done so yeah if you like maiden

01:00:52.019 --> 01:00:54.880
you like heavy metal you like uh primal fear

01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:59.039
and um that's the album for you but i the album

01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:02.320
i'm gonna pick is uh songs of yesterday by rust

01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:06.880
and rage um there's a lot of reasons why i shouldn't

01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:09.320
be picking this one There's a bit of a dubious

01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:11.579
mixing on it. There's the occasional sort of

01:01:11.579 --> 01:01:13.639
slapdash production as well, which I thought.

01:01:13.820 --> 01:01:16.400
And there's also the fact that there's an apostrophe

01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:20.559
after the end, but not before it, which for an

01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:24.960
editor is a no -no. But it's one of those sort

01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:27.659
of new wave of classic rock bands that, you know,

01:01:27.659 --> 01:01:32.360
be sort of amazing live. And I really like Hey

01:01:32.360 --> 01:01:35.949
Jane, which was a, you know, class it as a hard

01:01:35.949 --> 01:01:39.050
-rocking commercial masterpiece. It's an absolutely

01:01:39.050 --> 01:01:43.710
amazing song. It would be a massive hit for any

01:01:43.710 --> 01:01:45.949
80s hair metal outfit, like sort of Cinderella,

01:01:46.150 --> 01:01:49.869
Poison or Warrant. It's an incredible song that

01:01:49.869 --> 01:01:51.750
they've put on this album. And sometimes you

01:01:51.750 --> 01:01:53.889
miss those kind of things if you don't listen

01:01:53.889 --> 01:01:56.389
to, you know, stuff that you don't normally listen

01:01:56.389 --> 01:01:59.469
to. So for that song alone, but also for some

01:01:59.469 --> 01:02:02.489
other stuff on it, Rust and Rage is my pick of

01:02:02.489 --> 01:02:05.300
the week. All right. Ed, what did you listen

01:02:05.300 --> 01:02:10.619
to for this week? So a good recommendation for

01:02:10.619 --> 01:02:14.320
those who like heavy black metal influence, Hanser

01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:18.340
Christ. It's not, it's like good enough for me

01:02:18.340 --> 01:02:22.880
to listen to once, but I just wanted to throw

01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:25.300
that out there for people that like, it's kind

01:02:25.300 --> 01:02:27.599
of like, it's mostly death metal, but very heavy

01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:30.559
on the black metal vocal styles. Okay. But anyway,

01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:35.230
the stuff that I liked the most was Vindicator

01:02:35.230 --> 01:02:40.849
was good. It's just pure thrash metal. It's not

01:02:40.849 --> 01:02:43.409
Metallica, Megadeth thrash metal where they're

01:02:43.409 --> 01:02:45.949
mixing different styles. It's just pure thrash

01:02:45.949 --> 01:02:49.269
metal. Not a ton of jugging and stuff like that,

01:02:49.349 --> 01:02:54.469
but they have good songs. This album's really

01:02:54.469 --> 01:02:56.869
well done. The production is good. The vocals

01:02:56.869 --> 01:03:00.550
are kind of like Vector, which is another kind

01:03:00.550 --> 01:03:05.719
of clean, technical thrash band. On the death

01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:08.139
metal side, I don't know what this stands for.

01:03:08.699 --> 01:03:16.260
It's KHNVM. I think I maybe have heard of them

01:03:16.260 --> 01:03:18.900
in the past, but I don't know if I've listened

01:03:18.900 --> 01:03:21.179
to them. But they've got this album now called

01:03:21.179 --> 01:03:25.800
Cosmocrater. And that's one I'm going to listen

01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:29.260
to some more over the next few weeks. It sounded

01:03:29.260 --> 01:03:32.000
to me like just a good old classic death metal

01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:37.019
sound. with some sludge and doom thrown in there.

01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:41.019
The vocals are definitely more guttural, so some

01:03:41.019 --> 01:03:43.639
of you guys would definitely not like this. But

01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:46.780
it doesn't get to that point to where... Some

01:03:46.780 --> 01:03:49.760
death metal vocals are so guttural, it sounds

01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.360
like you've got a bucket on your head, and I

01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:55.219
don't quite care for that. This was good, though.

01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:58.159
Really well done. If you like good classic death

01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.460
metal jams, that'll be good. One that's not really...

01:04:03.559 --> 01:04:06.519
death metal that i found to be good that you

01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:09.239
all might have liked too was vicious rumors are

01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:13.900
you familiar with that band um that's next yeah

01:04:13.900 --> 01:04:15.960
every time their songs come up yeah i was really

01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:18.179
enjoying it i was gonna say wait i think that's

01:04:18.179 --> 01:04:19.820
in the following week that's next week that's

01:04:19.820 --> 01:04:22.539
yeah okay yeah we'll wait till the next week

01:04:22.539 --> 01:04:26.179
there again but uh i've got the same date on

01:04:26.179 --> 01:04:29.079
that one for some reason yeah did i do that too

01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:30.960
with the cosmic crater that was the next week

01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:35.400
uh let's see You can tell I'm a beginner on this

01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:39.679
podcast. Yeah, yeah, that's next week as well.

01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:41.159
I was looking at the list. I'm like, I don't

01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:43.380
see that. Well, maybe Ed had something written

01:04:43.380 --> 01:04:47.619
down, but that's fine. So, yeah, it would be

01:04:47.619 --> 01:04:49.679
Vindicator, Whispers of Death. And if you like

01:04:49.679 --> 01:04:52.460
your black metal stuff, try out Panzer Christ.

01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:59.320
Those songs are well done. Okay. Let me note

01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:03.940
both of those. Okay. Vindicator, interestingly

01:05:03.940 --> 01:05:06.440
enough, I listened to that album. I don't know

01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:12.639
if James LaRue, James J. LaRue, former guitarist

01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.559
of White Wizard, was part of this album or not.

01:05:15.659 --> 01:05:18.739
But when he left White Wizard and Holy Grail,

01:05:18.780 --> 01:05:23.119
he moved out to Ohio to record with them. And

01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:26.139
I have some of theirs from that time period.

01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:31.130
I noticed they'd been around. Or no. Yeah, they've

01:05:31.130 --> 01:05:33.909
been around. They put out a few records, yeah.

01:05:34.130 --> 01:05:36.809
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they've been around for

01:05:36.809 --> 01:05:40.309
some time. So I did listen to The Vindicator.

01:05:40.429 --> 01:05:43.349
I listened to Three Days Grace, Alienation, and

01:05:43.349 --> 01:05:47.010
I had such high hopes. But again, they're a band

01:05:47.010 --> 01:05:49.829
that I either really like their music or it just

01:05:49.829 --> 01:05:52.429
kind of does nothing for me because it's ultra

01:05:52.429 --> 01:05:58.780
generic a lot of times. I listen to Inspiration

01:05:58.780 --> 01:06:05.119
by Burning Witches, and I can't help but think

01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:09.579
that, you know, they try to go dark on these

01:06:09.579 --> 01:06:12.780
albums, but they've always got, and thankfully

01:06:12.780 --> 01:06:15.400
this album, they've kind of recouped a little,

01:06:15.500 --> 01:06:17.800
but because I think they've allowed Courtney

01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:24.219
Cox to write some of the tracks for the longest

01:06:24.219 --> 01:06:27.940
time. Without having that extra input, there

01:06:27.940 --> 01:06:30.619
was like zero melodies in any of their tracks.

01:06:30.980 --> 01:06:34.639
So the albums kind of felt incomplete to me.

01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:38.400
This finally sounds like a complete album again

01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:41.539
by them instead of a song or two here that sticks

01:06:41.539 --> 01:06:50.260
out. What else? Okay, I listened to... Bright

01:06:50.260 --> 01:06:52.719
as Blasphemy by Chevelle. I've always been a

01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:56.219
big Chevelle fan from back in the day. And yeah,

01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:58.219
people can point out that, oh, you know, you

01:06:58.219 --> 01:07:00.360
say this band is generic or that band is generic

01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:04.179
when Chevelle has kind of found their sound and

01:07:04.179 --> 01:07:07.500
kind of stuck to it. But again, it comes down

01:07:07.500 --> 01:07:09.920
to melodies to me and their song structures and

01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:14.579
stuff. With all that said, my album of the week

01:07:14.579 --> 01:07:18.949
is Private Music by Deftones. I really enjoy

01:07:18.949 --> 01:07:23.909
this band. And when they're good, they're great.

01:07:24.010 --> 01:07:27.510
When they're mediocre, they're forgettable. But

01:07:27.510 --> 01:07:31.449
I wasn't expecting much from this album because

01:07:31.449 --> 01:07:36.010
usually they put out a really good album and

01:07:36.010 --> 01:07:38.170
then it takes a few albums for them to come back

01:07:38.170 --> 01:07:41.610
with something that's strong. Their last album,

01:07:41.710 --> 01:07:46.030
Ohms, wasn't bad. But I think this is a lot better

01:07:46.030 --> 01:07:49.789
than that. So it surprised me that they've released

01:07:49.789 --> 01:07:52.349
three albums that are very strong back to back.

01:07:52.449 --> 01:07:54.929
It took them a while for this one, but I'm glad

01:07:54.929 --> 01:08:02.230
it did. It was worth the wait. So Ed went with

01:08:02.230 --> 01:08:05.010
Vindicator and Whispers of Death for his album

01:08:05.010 --> 01:08:08.809
of the week. Jeremy went with Rust and Rage with

01:08:08.809 --> 01:08:12.630
Songs for Yesterday. And I went with Deftones

01:08:12.630 --> 01:08:17.670
Private Music. The final week of August, August

01:08:17.670 --> 01:08:23.829
25th. So our new albums from Halloween. I H L

01:08:23.829 --> 01:08:27.149
O. I guess is how you pronounce that. Shadows.

01:08:28.270 --> 01:08:38.090
I guess is how that's pronounced. H and that

01:08:38.090 --> 01:08:44.029
V is pronounced like a U. I guess. Manigarm,

01:08:44.270 --> 01:08:51.390
Sweet Freedom, Union, Vicious Rumors, Wuken,

01:08:51.550 --> 01:08:57.949
Nova Twins, reissues from Deep Purple with their

01:08:57.949 --> 01:09:03.810
20th anniversary of Rapture of the Deep. So kind

01:09:03.810 --> 01:09:06.409
of weird. I don't know if Bob Ezrin remixed that

01:09:06.409 --> 01:09:09.029
or whatever. I think he produced it or maybe

01:09:09.029 --> 01:09:13.789
he didn't. Who knows? Anyway. Ed, what did you

01:09:13.789 --> 01:09:17.810
listen to for this week? So that Cosmic Raider

01:09:17.810 --> 01:09:21.210
and then the Vicious Rumors. That's kind of,

01:09:21.250 --> 01:09:23.149
I was going to say, I've noticed that they've

01:09:23.149 --> 01:09:25.949
been around since the early 80s. Vicious Rumors.

01:09:25.949 --> 01:09:27.930
But I've never really listened to them much.

01:09:28.270 --> 01:09:32.510
But in the last, I don't know if it was tracks

01:09:32.510 --> 01:09:35.590
they pre -released from this record or tracks

01:09:35.590 --> 01:09:39.909
from a previous record that you might have turned

01:09:39.909 --> 01:09:43.859
me on to with your videos. And when their songs

01:09:43.859 --> 01:09:47.880
come up in the car, listening to these tracks,

01:09:48.020 --> 01:09:51.039
man, this is a good, good band. It's good heavy

01:09:51.039 --> 01:09:53.199
metal, but they keep it really interesting. It's

01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.479
like one of the best heavy metal bands that I've

01:09:56.479 --> 01:10:02.789
heard in a while. And their guitar solos. We're

01:10:02.789 --> 01:10:05.890
very well done. Just everything about this record

01:10:05.890 --> 01:10:08.229
was great. I'm really getting into it, even though

01:10:08.229 --> 01:10:11.090
it's a little bit more on just the basic heavy

01:10:11.090 --> 01:10:13.729
metal side. Right. What do you all think of it?

01:10:15.810 --> 01:10:19.529
Yeah, Victor, I'll just step in. I actually listened

01:10:19.529 --> 01:10:23.029
to it as well. It's actually album number 14,

01:10:23.149 --> 01:10:26.590
this, and I'm a bit like you, Ed. I sort of come

01:10:26.590 --> 01:10:29.350
slowly into them over the, you know, just the

01:10:29.350 --> 01:10:33.899
last few years, really. I like them a lot. On

01:10:33.899 --> 01:10:36.359
this particular album, they've got a new guitarist

01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:40.539
and a new vocalist. New guitarist is Denver Cooper,

01:10:40.859 --> 01:10:43.939
new vocalist Brian Betterton. They joined in

01:10:43.939 --> 01:10:48.100
2024. So it's a slightly different sound to the

01:10:48.100 --> 01:10:50.840
last album, just slightly, which you'd expect.

01:10:51.159 --> 01:10:53.359
And I think it's a little bit less thrash and

01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:55.319
a little bit more power, which you were sort

01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:57.800
of referring to, I guess. That's what I thought

01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:02.109
too. Yeah, yeah. It's a band that doesn't get

01:11:02.109 --> 01:11:04.250
mentioned a lot as well in this sort of genre.

01:11:04.329 --> 01:11:06.270
I think that we sort of overlook them a lot.

01:11:06.369 --> 01:11:10.170
I actually really like it as well. Yeah, it's

01:11:10.170 --> 01:11:12.930
very, very well done. Yeah, this is an album

01:11:12.930 --> 01:11:17.890
that I need to go back and revisit. Any video

01:11:17.890 --> 01:11:20.050
that I posted is probably off of this album because

01:11:20.050 --> 01:11:23.750
I think their previous album probably predates

01:11:23.750 --> 01:11:28.479
the Patreon. Okay. I think their biggest issue

01:11:28.479 --> 01:11:31.180
is that they've always had a revolving door of

01:11:31.180 --> 01:11:35.800
musicians and they're from the Bay area. So they

01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:38.460
were kind of part of the last wave, like with

01:11:38.460 --> 01:11:43.020
Heathen and Hyrax and Forbidden and bands like

01:11:43.020 --> 01:11:46.340
that, where they're good. But by the time that

01:11:46.340 --> 01:11:48.840
they came out, like all the great was already

01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:52.539
out there, you know, as good as some of the material

01:11:52.539 --> 01:11:56.659
is, there's times where it doesn't, compared

01:11:56.659 --> 01:12:01.220
to a lot of the the bigger bands um but this

01:12:01.220 --> 01:12:03.220
album has a lot of everything there's thrash

01:12:03.220 --> 01:12:06.180
there's heavy metal there's some grungy type

01:12:06.180 --> 01:12:10.239
stuff on there as well um so i i definitely think

01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:15.460
it's uh it's it's a really good listen um jeremy

01:12:15.460 --> 01:12:18.890
what else did you listen to And this week? Yeah,

01:12:18.949 --> 01:12:20.989
only one other album, which is obviously going

01:12:20.989 --> 01:12:23.829
to be my pick. Strangely for me, I've picked

01:12:23.829 --> 01:12:27.590
Giants and Monsters by Halloween. You know, I

01:12:27.590 --> 01:12:30.250
didn't realize this is their 17th studio album.

01:12:30.909 --> 01:12:34.310
38 years now since Keeper of the Seven Keys came

01:12:34.310 --> 01:12:37.189
out. You know, I'll be fairly brutally honest

01:12:37.189 --> 01:12:40.189
with you guys. I've never really got this band

01:12:40.189 --> 01:12:43.630
at all. I never liked them. Listened to Seven

01:12:43.630 --> 01:12:47.989
Keys, Sit List, Seven Keys 2. Many times over

01:12:47.989 --> 01:12:51.670
the years, over those 38 years, still don't like

01:12:51.670 --> 01:12:54.949
it. Can't get into it for some reason. Everyone

01:12:54.949 --> 01:12:58.050
I know loves this band and I just can't get them.

01:12:59.170 --> 01:13:01.489
And I've seen them at download as well and I

01:13:01.489 --> 01:13:03.189
watched them for about two or three minutes.

01:13:04.130 --> 01:13:07.069
No, don't like it. Walked off. Just the way it

01:13:07.069 --> 01:13:09.949
is, I suppose. A lot of ferocious twiddling going

01:13:09.949 --> 01:13:14.390
on and didn't like it. But this, I actually like

01:13:14.390 --> 01:13:17.439
this. For some reason, I don't know whether it's

01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:20.239
different to, you know, their early stuff. It

01:13:20.239 --> 01:13:22.500
probably is a lot. Like, you know, there's a

01:13:22.500 --> 01:13:24.600
little bit of Scorpions in there, which I thought,

01:13:24.659 --> 01:13:26.939
you know, there's a ballads in there. There's

01:13:26.939 --> 01:13:31.039
proper sort of classic rock in there. There is

01:13:31.039 --> 01:13:33.260
a little bit of proggy element stuff, but yeah,

01:13:33.260 --> 01:13:36.420
I like it. It's good. A lot of songs in there

01:13:36.420 --> 01:13:38.840
are like, I read a review of it in one of the

01:13:38.840 --> 01:13:40.840
heavy metal magazines. He gave it nine out of

01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:45.000
10. And I thought, yeah, pretty much. Got it

01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:51.920
spot on. It's good. Okay. So I listen to the

01:13:51.920 --> 01:13:53.939
Vicious Rumors, as we mentioned. I listen to

01:13:53.939 --> 01:13:57.100
the Nova Twins, which is something that's really

01:13:57.100 --> 01:14:02.939
popular in the UK. It is, I mean, this is one

01:14:02.939 --> 01:14:06.000
of these bands where they're listed as being

01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:07.840
a metal band, but there are a lot of elements

01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:10.079
that are included in their music, which has nothing

01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:16.800
to do with metal. Very poppy at times, very 90s

01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:19.460
sounding alternative at times. Not a bad album.

01:14:22.119 --> 01:14:24.819
My album of the week is also Giants and Monsters

01:14:24.819 --> 01:14:29.000
by Halloween. I was so scared going into this

01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:34.060
because I thought that their last album was too

01:14:34.060 --> 01:14:38.319
boring. It was them, like, imitating them. It

01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:41.989
was, you know, and I just don't... Get that.

01:14:42.029 --> 01:14:47.630
To me, like some of the Priest albums that they

01:14:47.630 --> 01:14:49.909
released after Rob Halford came back, it was

01:14:49.909 --> 01:14:54.350
them trying too hard to be Priest, where the

01:14:54.350 --> 01:14:58.449
songs kind of fell flat to me. Whereas with the

01:14:58.449 --> 01:15:01.130
last two albums, it's Priest sounding like Priest,

01:15:01.250 --> 01:15:04.310
but with energy and with balls and with energy.

01:15:05.609 --> 01:15:08.010
I think Halloween has done that with this. And

01:15:08.010 --> 01:15:11.640
I think that they've infused stuff. within the

01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:17.640
album that maybe on albums like chameleon or

01:15:17.640 --> 01:15:22.600
i'm trying to think of what some of the other

01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:25.899
albums are well even pink bubbles go ape where

01:15:25.899 --> 01:15:28.699
the band was branching off and doing different

01:15:28.699 --> 01:15:32.899
things which wasn't like prototypical uh power

01:15:32.899 --> 01:15:35.760
medley type stuff or maiden or priest type stuff

01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:38.420
they were dipping their toes into other things

01:15:39.279 --> 01:15:42.600
And this to me feels like that, where it's a

01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:46.699
continuation of stuff that they had done in the

01:15:46.699 --> 01:15:50.979
past without leaning too much into the whole

01:15:50.979 --> 01:15:58.199
Keepers DNA. And yeah, they always have ballads

01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:00.739
on each of their albums, and they've always got

01:16:00.739 --> 01:16:03.180
super long tracks on each of their albums that

01:16:03.180 --> 01:16:08.020
lean towards being proggy. I think the album

01:16:08.020 --> 01:16:12.460
is great because it touches upon a lot of different

01:16:12.460 --> 01:16:13.939
things they've done throughout their career.

01:16:14.880 --> 01:16:18.439
So that would be both Jeremy and my album of

01:16:18.439 --> 01:16:22.840
the week for the 29th. And Ed, for you, it's...

01:16:22.840 --> 01:16:30.420
I like that. Cosmic Crater album. That's easier

01:16:30.420 --> 01:16:36.430
to say than the band name. K .N. I'm assuming

01:16:36.430 --> 01:16:41.609
it's pronounced Canum. Something like that, yeah.

01:16:42.590 --> 01:16:46.810
Canundro. Yeah. It's a Canundro. Let me go back

01:16:46.810 --> 01:16:52.850
here real quick. Our albums of the week for the

01:16:52.850 --> 01:17:01.529
first week here of August. August 1st, Jeremy

01:17:01.529 --> 01:17:09.000
had Lomi. I had Moths. For August 8th, Ed had

01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:18.300
Synesthesia in Devastation. Jeremy had Lucky

01:17:18.300 --> 01:17:24.060
by Firstborn. And I had Opus Noir Volume 1 by

01:17:24.060 --> 01:17:31.399
Lord of the Lost. August 15th, Ed went with Savage

01:17:31.399 --> 01:17:37.409
New World from Insight. Jeremy went with Ellefson

01:17:37.409 --> 01:17:42.489
Soto with Unbreakable. And I went with Patriarchs

01:17:42.489 --> 01:17:49.750
in Black with Home. August 22nd, Ed went with

01:17:49.750 --> 01:17:55.109
Vindicator and Whispers of Death. Jeremy went

01:17:55.109 --> 01:17:59.510
with Rust and Rage with Songs of Yesterday. And

01:17:59.510 --> 01:18:05.430
I went with Private Music by Deftones. The final

01:18:05.430 --> 01:18:15.329
week of August. Saw Ed go with Canum with Cosmo

01:18:15.329 --> 01:18:18.229
Crater and Jeremy and I going with Halloween

01:18:18.229 --> 01:18:24.369
with Giants and Monsters. So cool. Ed, I do want

01:18:24.369 --> 01:18:27.890
to thank you for joining us and adding an extra

01:18:27.890 --> 01:18:30.489
wrinkle to what we do here. Thanks for letting

01:18:30.489 --> 01:18:33.189
me give it a try. Hopefully it went okay for

01:18:33.189 --> 01:18:36.069
you. Yeah, absolutely. I'm glad that you found

01:18:36.069 --> 01:18:39.069
some releases that spoke to you and were interesting

01:18:39.069 --> 01:18:41.930
and that there are things that you saw that we

01:18:41.930 --> 01:18:44.989
should check out that maybe we, we didn't. So

01:18:44.989 --> 01:18:47.289
I've noted. That's something else I'd like to

01:18:47.289 --> 01:18:50.529
do is not just find things that the death metal

01:18:50.529 --> 01:18:53.510
fans like, but stuff that you all might be able

01:18:53.510 --> 01:18:55.829
to get into a little bit as well. If I hear it,

01:18:55.869 --> 01:19:00.289
you know? Yeah. That's awesome. Jeremy, I want

01:19:00.289 --> 01:19:04.779
to thank you as well. This is a concept that

01:19:04.779 --> 01:19:07.199
the two of us have been running with for two

01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:10.640
years now, if I'm not mistaken. So it's been

01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:13.180
flying by. These are always fun. It's always

01:19:13.180 --> 01:19:18.800
fun to check out new music. And it's funny because

01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:21.680
I've been leaning heavily this entire summer

01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:27.539
on my 2025 playlist. And it's cool to just have

01:19:27.539 --> 01:19:32.939
different things to listen to. you know, it's

01:19:32.939 --> 01:19:34.640
at the point where some of the songs are starting

01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:36.239
to come up and I'm thinking, okay, I've already

01:19:36.239 --> 01:19:39.060
heard that one quite a few times. Let's give

01:19:39.060 --> 01:19:43.960
another song a try. So awesome. So hopefully

01:19:43.960 --> 01:19:47.920
Ed will join us in future episodes of these and

01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:52.640
hopefully you guys enjoy this. Edgar, thank you

01:19:52.640 --> 01:19:57.100
for joining us in the chat. And that is pretty

01:19:57.100 --> 01:20:00.609
much it. Thanks, everyone, for checking this

01:20:00.609 --> 01:20:03.590
episode out, whether that be live or the replay.

01:20:04.149 --> 01:20:07.609
And we appreciate your support. And hopefully,

01:20:07.729 --> 01:20:11.310
if we didn't help you lighten your pockets a

01:20:11.310 --> 01:20:14.390
little, hopefully at least some of the things

01:20:14.390 --> 01:20:17.329
we mentioned has made its way into your headphones

01:20:17.329 --> 01:20:22.350
or speakers after checking the episode out. On

01:20:22.350 --> 01:20:25.770
that note, I do want to end the episode. Thanks

01:20:25.770 --> 01:20:29.819
again, guys. And we will see you next time right

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