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Happy New Year, and welcome to episode 434 of

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Signals from Mars. We are in 2026, but this episode

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we're going over albums from October, November

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of 2025, playing a bit of catch -up here, but

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I will let you guys know exactly why in a little

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bit. So let's get ready for the episode. Quick

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.com to learn more. October, November 2025. We're

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also going to be doing an episode this month,

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which is December 2025. It is super important

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to me to continue to talk about new music because

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I think it helps keep this music that we love

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alive. If we just sit back and listen to the

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quote -unquote classics, this is going to go

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the way that blues, jazz, bebop, the Andrew sisters,

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so on and so forth. They're classics. People

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love all of the big hits, but not too many people

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know about any of the deeper cuts, deeper acts

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outside of the bigger artists. So imagine we

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stop pushing or promoting newer bands. And the

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only thing we're left with is enter Sandman by

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Metallica run to the hills by Iron Maiden, Living

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After Midnight by Judas Priest, Crazy Train by

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Ozzy. And that's the only thing that people know

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about metal, hard rock or metal. So this is part

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of the reason why it's important that we continue

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to listen to new artists, that we continue to

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follow the bands that we love and listen to their

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new music and support whichever way we can, because

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it helps keep music alive. These episodes, this

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episode and another episode, 435, which I'll

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be releasing on the same day or the day after,

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have taken longer to come out just because I

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was in the emergency room. Folks, turn your damn

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lights on when you're going down the stairs.

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And yeah, don't look at your cell phone at the

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same time. I ended up in the emergency room after

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taking a fall, flying through the air. I am bruised

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to all hell. I've got a pretty major sprained

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ankle and it'll be sprained. I've been told that

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it's going to take me at least a month of rehab.

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Considering, all things considered, what could

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have happened? I know a specific space ace that

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took a fall and didn't get off as easy as I did.

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I'm glad that I only sprained my ankle. I'm an

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idiot for doing what I did. So I'm the first

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person to admit that. And I'm pissed that this

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ended up happening. And because I'm hardheaded,

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I really haven't deviated much from things that

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I had planned. So yes, these episodes are coming

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out delayed. It's something had to kind of give

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away and podcasting has. Anyway, thank you for

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checking the episode out. I hope this episode

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turns you on to something new. Let's get on with

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things. Welcome everyone to the latest episode

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of Signals from Mars. I am your host, Victor.

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Joining me are Ed and Jeremy. How are you guys

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doing? Doing good, sir. Thank you. Yeah, also

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doing good. Thanks. Excellent. So we're here

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to catch up on new releases. We're going to do

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the months of October and April and April. Yeah.

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Okay. October and November together. And plenty

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of good stuff. I've been catching up and listening

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to a lot of different things. And so we're going

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to start off with October 3rd here. We had new

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albums from AFI, Dirk Snyder and the Old Gang,

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Vernon Reed, Thrice, Michael Shanker Group, Cathedral,

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Arson Charge, Supreme Mystic, Valdor, Orbit Culture.

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Ryan Woods, Heath, VsaurX, Long After Midnight,

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and Times Forgotten, an EP from Gore and reissue

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from Coheed and Cambria. Jeremy, what did you

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listen to this week? Yep, so obviously I listened

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to Don't Sell Your Soul by the Michael Schenker

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Group. As you're aware, it's got... Quite a few

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different vocalists on this one, again. I mean,

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he's done this before, hasn't he? Michael Voss,

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Eric Grunewald, Robin McCauley, Dimitri Liapakis,

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all sharing the vocal duties, which I don't like,

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to be honest. I prefer just having one vocalist,

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but there you go. This is what he's chosen. The

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title track I really liked. It's very classic

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Schenker. It had a sort of great riff, trademark

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solo, great song. There are a few other good

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songs on this too. There were a few others that

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I've really got into listening to them a few

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times. But what I would say is that there's not

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any of those sort of killer tunes that Schenker's

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known for. And I think that a lot of his stuff

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that he's doing now is a bit like that. It's

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kind of just... just doing stuff by rote, really.

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I mean, we all know how good a player he is.

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He's a great guitarist. But anyway, it was a

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decent listen. I'll say it was enjoyable. I also

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listened to songs of Awakening by Times Forgotten.

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This is probably something that you won't like,

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you two guys. It's very proggy metal. But as,

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you know, with all sort of proggy metal stuff,

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there's really great musicians involved, and

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that's the main thing about this. It's actually

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a Costa Rican band, which I wasn't aware of.

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What genre of metal? Like heavy metal proggy

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or thrash metal? Yeah, it's more heavy, more

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proggy heavy metal, I would say, yeah. They've

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got a female singer as well. But the other thing

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I was going to say is that they've, they also

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got quite a bit of sort of folky stuff to it.

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So there's sort of folky elements in there. They've

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got this sort of echoey haunting stuff going

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on with keyboards. So, you know, there's a lot

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of different stuff going on on this, this album,

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but it has a really good sound to it. And, you

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know, you've got to sort of congratulate the

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producer for that. I think he's really, He or

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she has done a very good job on it. I'd say the

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last three songs on it are not so great. So,

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you know, it's sort of it's. it's good up to

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a certain point and then you know it it tails

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off which you know as we know quite a few other

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albums are like that so yeah that was okay it

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was it was good uh in parts um and i also listened

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to silver bleeds the black sun by afi uh this

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one was a sort of goth uh sounding album it was

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you two meet simple minds uh that sort of stuff

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um Yeah, I was going to say, for that reason

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alone, it's actually quite a good listen, really,

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in the end. Remind me of that one later. Yeah,

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sure. Yeah, so that one was actually quite good.

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If I had to choose an album of the week, I'd

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probably go for Michael Ciancarone because, you

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know, he's such a great player. And there were,

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you know, three, four, maybe five songs on there

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that I would play again. All right, Ed, your

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turn. So for, let me look on my calendar here

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so I know where we're at. For this week, I didn't

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have anything. So I'm going to make an announcement

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instead for one of my favorite heavy metal bands,

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Living Sacrifice. You've heard me talk about

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them before. They're on Solid State Records.

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So this is their third album called Inhabit.

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It came out in 93. And it was a kind of a guttural,

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brutal death metal album. And but again, kind

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of suffered from production because they didn't

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have a lot of money to put into it. So they've

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been remixing and remastering some of their albums.

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And this is one that they just did this autumn.

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So they've got a new remastered version of Inhabit

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for anybody that knows this band. I haven't listened

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to it yet because I've got another album on the

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way and I'm waiting until they both get here

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to open them up and wash them. So I haven't heard

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it yet, but really stoked too. And everything

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I've heard is it sounds great. The other albums

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that they've remastered have been just given

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a whole new life to the sound of those albums.

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So people that like that, you better grab a copy

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before they're gone. You'll have to special order

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them from their website. And did you just say

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that you wash the vinyls? Yeah, you got to clean

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them before you put them on your player because

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they come with all kinds of crap on them from

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the factory. So how do you clean it? Well, I

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have a, I'm forgetting the name of it, but, you

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know, a thing you put the record in with your

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solution water and solution. I have to manually

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crank mine. I'm not wealthy enough to buy some

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of the ones that do the automatic. Or let's say

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I spend too much money on other stuff, but they

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have some really cool ultrasonic ones that will

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use sound waves and such, which one day I want

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to get those, and then I'll go through them all

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over again. That'd be fun, but yeah. You've got

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to wash them, or you're supposed to, if you want

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to take good care of your needles. You're putting

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me to shame because I've got the liquid. I've

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actually got the liquid and a cloth, and I don't

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use it, and I should use it, shouldn't I, really?

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Yeah, that's right. You should. That music's

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a good investment. You've got to take care of

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it. Yeah. All right. See that? You learn something

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new every day. Yeah. So, Ed, you went with Living

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Sacrifice. What was the name of the album? Inhabit.

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I'm guessing most all of my picks are going to

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be things that aren't on your spreadsheet. It

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doesn't matter. It's all music. You are welcome

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to add whatever you'd like to the spreadsheet

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as well. That's not a problem. I do that sometimes

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as well. All right. For me, I listened to the

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Michael Schenker. I listened to the new Cathedral

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album, Society's Packed with Satan. It's six

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songs, but it's almost an hour long, if I'm not

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mistaken. I listened to the new Thrice, Horizons

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West. And this week I listened to also Silver

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Bleeds the Black Sun by A Fire Within, also known

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as AFI. The California band has actually been

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around since 1988. They are a chameleon of sorts

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and they've changed their sound, especially the

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last 20, 25 years. Every album they sound a little

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different. which is cool. They remind me a lot

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of the cult in that sense. And some of the different

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influences that you mentioned, Jeremy, you could

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almost overlap with, you know, the cult or, you

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know, because they're really doing that goth

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rock style of music from the early to mid 80s.

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If you're into that, I'd recommend you checking

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the album out. So cool. Move on to October 10th.

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And I can never pronounce the name of this band.

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It's Angus Scubab. I don't know. They're a death

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metal band. Incubus supposedly released Something

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in the Water. On the 10th, I haven't been able

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to find that, so no idea. John 5 released an

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album, All Hell, Silly Goose, Living Dead Girl,

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Grey Haven, Heavy Hitter, Dead Heat, Frail Testament,

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Scold, Warrant, and not the California Warrant,

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but their German band, if I'm not mistaken, who's...

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Used the name way before the Glam Metal Band

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did. And Bluetot. There were reissues from Letters

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Sent Home, Arch Enemy, Cold, Dark Chapel, and

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Ghost. Ghost released the 10th anniversary of

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Meliora. And two of these reissues are... Deluxe

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issues. You had Dark Chapel, which has Dario

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from Black Label Society releasing the deluxe

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version of Spirit in the Glass. And Arch Enemy,

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which is the weirdest thing in the world. They

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released that deluxe edition and part ways with

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their singer. So when I first saw that, I was

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like, wait a second. They just re -released their

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last album in a few days. Do you think they saw

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that coming? Maybe it was she left them. Yeah,

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I don't know. We'll see within the coming years

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what they say. What a lot of people don't know

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is that Angela Goso, their previous singer, is

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Michael Lamott's partner. And when she left the

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band, well, previous to leaving the band, she

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was already managing them. So she just moved

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over to do the management thing full time. Also,

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Alicia had this solo album in the can for years.

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So that's why, you know, the day after the, or

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not even the day after, the night that it was

00:18:16.420 --> 00:18:18.400
announced that they had split, she released that

00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.599
first single. Which also she's playing a Michael

00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:26.619
Amat Dean guitar in the video. And also that

00:18:26.619 --> 00:18:28.880
video came out just like right after she left.

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It was that night. Both press releases. So I

00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:37.059
guess it was no surprise. So I'm guessing this

00:18:37.059 --> 00:18:43.000
was in the works for some time. So we'll see

00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:47.829
in which direction. It'll be interesting to hear

00:18:47.829 --> 00:18:49.829
the interviews in about two or three years when

00:18:49.829 --> 00:18:52.390
they get a little more loosely. Well, Arch Enemy

00:18:52.390 --> 00:18:55.890
has already said that 2026 is around the corner

00:18:55.890 --> 00:19:00.349
and that they're excited about the next phase

00:19:00.349 --> 00:19:05.230
of the band. So they have to have a new singer

00:19:05.230 --> 00:19:07.390
in the wings if they've got tour dates and stuff

00:19:07.390 --> 00:19:11.529
lined up. Their original singer has said that

00:19:11.529 --> 00:19:15.009
he's not involved. Does Angela come back? Do

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they bring somebody completely new into the mix?

00:19:18.309 --> 00:19:23.289
We'll see. I think next month we'll find all

00:19:23.289 --> 00:19:29.190
of this out. So, Ed, what did you listen to this

00:19:29.190 --> 00:19:36.890
week? So, on the 8th, there was a band that I've

00:19:36.890 --> 00:19:39.970
not heard of before from Poland called Pandemic

00:19:39.970 --> 00:19:44.079
Outbreak. They've got an album called Torment

00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.759
Beyond Comprehension, which is a good mix of

00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:54.420
death and thrash metal. I'm still enjoying that

00:19:54.420 --> 00:19:57.900
one because the songs are so good. You had on

00:19:57.900 --> 00:20:02.660
your list All Hell, the Sunsetter album. That's

00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:05.099
very good. That's a band from Asheville, North

00:20:05.099 --> 00:20:08.539
Carolina, apparently. And they call their...

00:20:08.890 --> 00:20:11.289
It seems they describe their music as thrashing

00:20:11.289 --> 00:20:13.730
black and roll, and that's a good way to describe

00:20:13.730 --> 00:20:18.150
it. It's kind of a mix of black, death, crust

00:20:18.150 --> 00:20:21.670
punk, and the songs are really good. I've enjoyed

00:20:21.670 --> 00:20:25.690
that. There's another good album for people that

00:20:25.690 --> 00:20:29.049
like Power Trip from a band called Dead Heat,

00:20:29.410 --> 00:20:34.690
Process of Elimination. It's just a classic crossover

00:20:34.690 --> 00:20:38.319
thrash metal. And it has the same kind of vocals

00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:40.500
as Power Trip, you know, with a lot of reverb.

00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.640
And the guitar tones are kind of the same. And

00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:47.359
the songs are really good. That's another reason

00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:49.660
I'm recommending it. It's not one to throw away.

00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:56.359
Another good death metal band, which was good

00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.440
for October and Halloween, Heads for the Dead.

00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.740
They're kind of like a horror death metal band,

00:21:03.859 --> 00:21:06.349
I guess. Let's see, they put out an album called

00:21:06.349 --> 00:21:08.890
Never Ending Night of Terror. That was good.

00:21:09.569 --> 00:21:13.650
But my pick for the week just freaking blew me

00:21:13.650 --> 00:21:18.289
away. Surely you guys have heard it, the New

00:21:18.289 --> 00:21:23.650
Testament album. Because I was... What? You haven't?

00:21:23.970 --> 00:21:27.910
Yeah, I was joking. Yeah, I know. I was telling

00:21:27.910 --> 00:21:30.269
you all about it on Patreon when I was first

00:21:30.269 --> 00:21:34.089
listening to it. I couldn't believe it, what

00:21:34.089 --> 00:21:37.490
I heard. They got a new drummer. Maybe that's

00:21:37.490 --> 00:21:38.970
making a difference. That's what they're saying.

00:21:39.809 --> 00:21:42.210
It's either him or maybe Eric Peterson, too.

00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:44.990
They've been listening to black metal bands for

00:21:44.990 --> 00:21:50.769
a few years now, you can tell. Because even in

00:21:50.769 --> 00:21:55.789
the first song, the production's great, although

00:21:55.789 --> 00:21:58.430
it sounds a little bit different than some of

00:21:58.430 --> 00:22:00.940
the... previous records, but it's still a great,

00:22:01.019 --> 00:22:04.000
I actually might like it a little bit more the

00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:08.099
way this record's produced. The vocals, you know,

00:22:08.099 --> 00:22:11.579
Chuck Billy's doing different things. He's hardcore

00:22:11.579 --> 00:22:15.160
and then goes to growly vocals. And he's even

00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.539
adding a tens of black metal vocal. And in that

00:22:19.539 --> 00:22:22.000
first song, it starts off, you get some death

00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.880
core jug even. And then it just all of a sudden

00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:28.410
turns into a full on black metal song. and i

00:22:28.410 --> 00:22:30.589
just couldn't believe what i was hearing as a

00:22:30.589 --> 00:22:32.609
matter of fact i'm sitting here working in my

00:22:32.609 --> 00:22:35.089
office listening to that and during a couple

00:22:35.089 --> 00:22:37.069
of these songs i forgot i was listening to testament

00:22:37.069 --> 00:22:42.890
i had to remind myself that it was um and track

00:22:42.890 --> 00:22:46.309
after track was great uh you know after you get

00:22:46.309 --> 00:22:49.450
to two or three songs of that album and i mean

00:22:49.450 --> 00:22:52.950
they're just changing up all these genres um

00:22:54.630 --> 00:22:57.849
Alex, who is always just the expert guitarist,

00:22:57.869 --> 00:23:01.910
you'll notice that no matter what style they're

00:23:01.910 --> 00:23:04.210
playing, he comes up with a marvelous guitar

00:23:04.210 --> 00:23:08.670
solo. I mean, that guy is just beyond gifted

00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:12.009
in being able to not only play well, but to craft

00:23:12.009 --> 00:23:15.109
a guitar solo that you really enjoy listening

00:23:15.109 --> 00:23:19.279
to. And he's so versatile. And a lot of that,

00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:21.259
too, is because I think he's jumped in and out

00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:22.900
of different genres because, you know, he had

00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:24.779
his jazz band for a while. Yeah, he still does.

00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:30.079
I think whatever he gained in talent doing that,

00:23:30.220 --> 00:23:33.759
you can really tell it's helping him craft guitar

00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:38.579
solos, no matter how extreme the metal is, to

00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:44.789
elite level guitar solos. And you'll continue

00:23:44.789 --> 00:23:48.210
to hear these death and black metal sounds all

00:23:48.210 --> 00:23:51.589
throughout the record. And now at the end of

00:23:51.589 --> 00:23:53.150
the record, it starts to sound a little more

00:23:53.150 --> 00:23:58.650
like your normal Testament to me. But every single

00:23:58.650 --> 00:24:02.210
song is good. Well, hold on. They put a ballad

00:24:02.210 --> 00:24:05.549
on there. And I've told you before, I don't care

00:24:05.549 --> 00:24:10.069
too much about Chuck Billy and ballads. Although

00:24:10.069 --> 00:24:14.960
I think it's a song that, It's a good ballad

00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:19.880
when I'm in the mood for it, I think. And I like

00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:21.579
it better than some of the other ballads I've

00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:25.200
heard. But every other song is great. I mean,

00:24:25.220 --> 00:24:28.119
you've got sounds of even Iron Maiden and other

00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:32.119
bands in their music. The last song is a classic

00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:36.119
track, too. They just did... An awesome job.

00:24:36.339 --> 00:24:38.640
They just really throw everything at you, especially

00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.920
in that last song. They threw everything at you.

00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:42.900
It's black and it's doomy and it's hardcore.

00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:45.500
And then it kind of ends with like this little

00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:48.119
clean Metallica sounding bit to kind of quiet

00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.680
the album and finish you off there. But anyway,

00:24:51.779 --> 00:24:53.940
if you heard it, I'd love to hear what you all

00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:56.099
thought about it. And that's my pick for the

00:24:56.099 --> 00:25:03.359
week. Jeremy, go ahead. Yeah, I mean, I agree

00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.220
with you for the most part, Ed. And what I think

00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:09.740
about this album is that it's got such a variation

00:25:09.740 --> 00:25:13.000
on it. And I think that we've talked before about

00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:15.579
bands that are producing great stuff in their

00:25:15.579 --> 00:25:17.900
later periods as opposed to the earlier stuff.

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:20.539
We've talked about Judas Priest, you know, with

00:25:20.539 --> 00:25:22.859
their latest album, which is just an absolute

00:25:22.859 --> 00:25:25.380
killer album compared to their very first album,

00:25:25.460 --> 00:25:29.349
which, you know, there's no comparison. Testament

00:25:29.349 --> 00:25:31.549
are producing really great stuff on here, and

00:25:31.549 --> 00:25:34.150
I think it's better than the last couple of albums

00:25:34.150 --> 00:25:38.809
they've done. I take issue with you slightly

00:25:38.809 --> 00:25:42.900
in that I love this. the soft song meant to be.

00:25:43.059 --> 00:25:45.940
I just think it's, it's amazing. It's amazing.

00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:48.759
And I do love a ballad. You know, I'm a, I come

00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:51.619
from a classic rock background, so I love a classic

00:25:51.619 --> 00:25:53.880
rock ballad. It sounds a bit Metallica -ish,

00:25:54.019 --> 00:25:56.759
but I, I think it's amazing what they've done

00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:59.380
with that song. And I love the, the last few

00:25:59.380 --> 00:26:02.539
songs on there, Nature of the Beast, Room 117

00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:05.450
and Havana Syndrome. They're all for me. They're

00:26:05.450 --> 00:26:08.329
often made to a Testament fan, whereas some Testament

00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:10.950
fans like all the very, very thrashy black metal

00:26:10.950 --> 00:26:13.569
stuff, death metal stuff, you know, there's very

00:26:13.569 --> 00:26:17.109
hardcore stuff. I'm not into that as much, but

00:26:17.109 --> 00:26:19.029
I think there's something here for everyone.

00:26:19.269 --> 00:26:21.269
And that's what they've done with this album.

00:26:21.369 --> 00:26:26.490
And it's very, very good. Very good. As you say,

00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:30.079
it's well produced. So for me, it's also my album

00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.359
of the week. But I'll just mention a couple of

00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:35.599
others if I can just quickly before Victor is

00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:37.759
going to come in on Testament here as well. But

00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.000
Process of Elimination by Dead Heat. It's a sort

00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.400
of crossover hardcore. It really works for me.

00:26:46.650 --> 00:26:49.309
Really good stuff. It's kind of like a pub band

00:26:49.309 --> 00:26:51.569
with a lot of energy. So I really like that one.

00:26:51.730 --> 00:26:54.569
I also listened to Legions of Metal by Blutgott.

00:26:55.170 --> 00:26:58.670
This is a project of the guitarist Thomas Gurath.

00:26:59.130 --> 00:27:01.910
He sort of brought all his bands together in

00:27:01.910 --> 00:27:05.250
this one, including Debauchery. It also features

00:27:05.250 --> 00:27:08.289
Tim Ripper at Owens on it. So that's interesting

00:27:08.289 --> 00:27:11.250
as well. Sort of a pre -style epic on there.

00:27:12.230 --> 00:27:15.430
And so, yeah, that's got good rhythm. Good heavy

00:27:15.430 --> 00:27:18.069
metal record. But yeah, going back to Testament,

00:27:18.410 --> 00:27:23.190
got to be album of the week. All right. So for

00:27:23.190 --> 00:27:29.069
me, I listened to a bunch of things this week.

00:27:29.170 --> 00:27:34.589
I listened to Conspiracy by Living Dead Girl.

00:27:35.029 --> 00:27:40.869
That's electronic rock going into like an industrial

00:27:40.869 --> 00:27:44.680
realm. A bit too polished, a bit too... poppy

00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:50.200
for me um it's a little and not poppy so much

00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:54.400
um probably the better word or the better description

00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:57.880
is that it sounds like a lot of other things

00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:01.359
and it isn't as good as other things that sound

00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:08.640
like that so um also listen to scold uh with

00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:12.349
caught in the throes For those that don't know,

00:28:12.490 --> 00:28:15.650
that's Tim Skuld, who started his career way

00:28:15.650 --> 00:28:18.990
back when in a band that was known as Kingpin

00:28:18.990 --> 00:28:21.569
that had to legally change their name to Shotgun

00:28:21.569 --> 00:28:25.329
Messiah. He was originally their bass player,

00:28:25.450 --> 00:28:29.269
switched over to vocals. And then the last Shotgun

00:28:29.269 --> 00:28:33.609
Messiah album was an industrial album. The band

00:28:33.609 --> 00:28:38.430
split. He ended up doing some solo work. Working

00:28:38.430 --> 00:28:44.190
with Marilyn Manson, working with KMFDM and put

00:28:44.190 --> 00:28:50.529
a new band together called MDFMK. And then has

00:28:50.529 --> 00:28:53.809
always been putting out solo music throughout

00:28:53.809 --> 00:28:58.069
the years. And it's kind of more of the same

00:28:58.069 --> 00:29:00.569
industrial stuff that he's put out over the years.

00:29:00.690 --> 00:29:03.450
It doesn't suck, but you're really not hearing

00:29:03.450 --> 00:29:07.259
anything new. If you like Tim Scold. or you like

00:29:07.259 --> 00:29:12.000
any of his scold work, check the album out. My

00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.079
album of the week is Parabellum by Testament.

00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:24.700
I mean, you guys described it fairly well. They

00:29:24.700 --> 00:29:27.000
mentioned that this was going to be a throwback

00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:31.640
to The Gathering and Demonic and stuff of that

00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:36.940
ilk. Chuck Billy and Eric Peterson did produce

00:29:36.940 --> 00:29:42.279
this one as they did Titans of Creation. I will

00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:44.559
agree with you, Ed, that it does sound a little

00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:49.460
different than Titans of Creation. And that they

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:52.619
credit their new drummer, Chris Dovas, I believe

00:29:52.619 --> 00:29:57.319
is his name, as really kicking the band's ass

00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:00.559
and allowing them to do some stuff that maybe

00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:02.960
they hadn't been able to do. to do in the past,

00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.599
which is weird because it's not as if they didn't

00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:10.980
have some kick -ass drummers along the way because,

00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:13.960
you know, Gene Hoagland was the drummer for the

00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:21.160
last few albums and Paul Bostoff as well, going

00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:26.099
back to Formation of Damnation. So it isn't as

00:30:26.099 --> 00:30:31.559
if they've had slouches. I don't know how old

00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:35.500
Christovas is. Maybe he's just younger. I was

00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:37.140
about to bring that up. Maybe it's because he's

00:30:37.140 --> 00:30:39.700
a younger guy. He's a young guy and maybe can

00:30:39.700 --> 00:30:42.400
do certain things that these older cats can't

00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.759
do. But yeah, when I got to listen to the track

00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:52.200
Parabellum, my first thought was there's a reason

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:55.400
why they named the album after this track because

00:30:56.589 --> 00:30:59.430
As you said, it's got everything. I think it's

00:30:59.430 --> 00:31:02.549
my favorite track off of the album. But Havana

00:31:02.549 --> 00:31:06.190
Syndrome is great. I get to that song and I'm

00:31:06.190 --> 00:31:08.730
like, what the fuck is this? This is just a full

00:31:08.730 --> 00:31:14.250
on like 80s classic heavy metal song, you know?

00:31:14.509 --> 00:31:17.750
And I wasn't expecting it, but it was refreshing

00:31:17.750 --> 00:31:21.430
to hear it because that's what I like. I like

00:31:21.430 --> 00:31:23.049
when you're listening to an album and then all

00:31:23.049 --> 00:31:25.589
of a sudden a band. throws you a curve ball that

00:31:25.589 --> 00:31:28.750
you're not expecting and it still sounds good.

00:31:30.109 --> 00:31:33.930
You know, I've, I've had somebody recommended

00:31:33.930 --> 00:31:39.990
a bunch of hardcore albums last night. And because

00:31:39.990 --> 00:31:43.250
our conversation was that a local, the local

00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:47.430
press mentioned that a band had, had released

00:31:47.430 --> 00:31:51.210
the best hardcore album of the year. And this

00:31:51.210 --> 00:31:53.990
person had posted on his Instagram. You know,

00:31:53.990 --> 00:31:57.789
what a sham. They're just going with the popular

00:31:57.789 --> 00:32:04.190
band as opposed to, you know, the really good

00:32:04.190 --> 00:32:05.890
hardcore albums that have come out this year.

00:32:06.769 --> 00:32:11.269
And I wrote him right away and I said, the album

00:32:11.269 --> 00:32:15.670
sounds like an 80s pop album. It's got, you know,

00:32:15.670 --> 00:32:18.769
a lot of dark wave and synth wave stuff that's

00:32:18.769 --> 00:32:23.019
popular right now. But there's really like only

00:32:23.019 --> 00:32:25.940
one or two hardcore songs on the entire album.

00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:28.720
How could this be the hardcore album of the year?

00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:31.519
I get it. They're known for hardcore, but the

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.299
album isn't a hardcore album. So long story short,

00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:39.440
he recommends a bunch of albums for me to check

00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:43.579
out. And I listened to all of them within the

00:32:43.579 --> 00:32:48.460
last 24 hours because they're all like the longest

00:32:48.460 --> 00:32:52.519
album is like 27 minutes long. So I was able

00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:54.619
to listen to them and the songs that really stood

00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:58.220
out to me are those curve ball songs that don't

00:32:58.220 --> 00:33:01.200
sound like your typical hardcore. It's where

00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:03.799
they're mixing something in out of the ordinary.

00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.240
You're like, wait a second. They're actually

00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:08.740
going for that on this album. They're actually

00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:13.160
throwing in like some like stoner type riffs

00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.160
in here all of a sudden. Like, wow, that's, that's

00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:21.190
cool. So, um, So, yeah, so that's what I like

00:33:21.190 --> 00:33:23.509
about the Testament. It has a little of everything.

00:33:23.690 --> 00:33:26.829
It's like almost them saying, you know, we're

00:33:26.829 --> 00:33:32.089
here. We're still here. This is us. You know,

00:33:32.089 --> 00:33:34.730
we don't have to hide behind just doing this

00:33:34.730 --> 00:33:36.589
on this album, this other thing on the other

00:33:36.589 --> 00:33:40.130
album. This is everything. You know, if we don't

00:33:40.130 --> 00:33:43.329
release another album, we've kind of thrown everything

00:33:43.329 --> 00:33:47.950
together. And unlike other bands, Judas Priest,

00:33:49.950 --> 00:33:52.849
They don't sound like carbon copies of things

00:33:52.849 --> 00:33:56.750
that they've done in the past, like what Judas

00:33:56.750 --> 00:33:59.069
Priest did when they got back together with Halford,

00:33:59.130 --> 00:34:02.130
you know, until I'll continue to say it until

00:34:02.130 --> 00:34:06.150
they got with Andy Sneap. That's when they took

00:34:06.150 --> 00:34:08.409
their last two albums are at a different level

00:34:08.409 --> 00:34:12.590
because of that. Between Halford coming back

00:34:12.590 --> 00:34:16.849
and Firepower, there's a lot of potential there,

00:34:16.929 --> 00:34:22.650
but there's. awful sound on the albums. And it's

00:34:22.650 --> 00:34:25.750
them, in my opinion, just copying themselves.

00:34:27.570 --> 00:34:30.590
And it's not to say that the last two albums

00:34:30.590 --> 00:34:35.590
from Priest are 100 % original because with Invincible

00:34:35.590 --> 00:34:37.849
Shield, there's stuff that you say, oh yeah,

00:34:37.949 --> 00:34:39.989
this could be on Stained Class. This could be

00:34:39.989 --> 00:34:43.010
on this album. But they're all songs that are

00:34:43.010 --> 00:34:46.869
great. So that's to me what Testament has done

00:34:46.869 --> 00:34:50.079
with Parabellum. Got out of their way to say,

00:34:50.179 --> 00:34:54.340
listen, we like all kinds of music. We can write

00:34:54.340 --> 00:34:58.780
all kinds of metal. This is our calling card.

00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:04.679
Yeah. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. Go ahead. That

00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:08.019
ending track, Parabellum, that's a good track

00:35:08.019 --> 00:35:11.980
to highlight, especially I think that the best

00:35:11.980 --> 00:35:15.260
guitar solo is in that song. Any guitar players

00:35:15.260 --> 00:35:18.940
listening, go check that out. He was channeling

00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:22.019
Bach and Vivaldi, I think, in that. It was so

00:35:22.019 --> 00:35:25.719
beautiful. Yeah, that song right there is the

00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:27.739
recommended song, I think, for anybody who wants

00:35:27.739 --> 00:35:30.239
to see what they did across that entire record.

00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.340
Yeah. I think this album's actually finishing

00:35:34.340 --> 00:35:36.760
a lot stronger than any album they've done in

00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.760
the recent past. I think their albums have been

00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.960
great early on, and then they tail off. The last

00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.639
couple of albums they've tailed off, and it's

00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:47.539
been sort of, you know, just... general thrash,

00:35:47.579 --> 00:35:50.360
but they've thought about this a bit more and

00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:53.639
it's much better for it. Yeah, way to go, Testament.

00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:57.800
Do it again. Absolutely. If you're still around.

00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.659
Interestingly enough, it's the first album in

00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:05.239
some time where they haven't released a cover.

00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:14.820
I hope that Anthrax is taking note of how high

00:36:14.820 --> 00:36:17.579
the bar has been set. before they release that

00:36:17.579 --> 00:36:19.659
next one? Well, Charlie's saying that a lot of

00:36:19.659 --> 00:36:22.019
people are going to be surprised because they've

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:26.099
taken a lot of chances with this album. Yeah.

00:36:26.179 --> 00:36:29.599
Does that mean it's breathing lightning chances?

00:36:30.860 --> 00:36:38.000
Does it mean that him playing with Pantera has

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.940
awoken another side? Also... He released that

00:36:41.940 --> 00:36:45.500
album with his now wife, Carla Harvey, the Violent...

00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:50.280
Oh, damn it. Why can't I remember the name of

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.800
the band? I apologize. Violent Hour, I believe.

00:37:00.699 --> 00:37:04.440
Is that it? Yeah, the Violent Hour. So if you

00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:08.199
check that EP out, it's Carla Harvey with Charlie

00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:11.429
Benanti. I think John five plays on one song,

00:37:11.489 --> 00:37:14.369
but Charlie does the drums. He does the bass.

00:37:14.389 --> 00:37:20.010
He does the guitar on every song. So yeah, that's

00:37:20.010 --> 00:37:23.030
kind of important too. I think because one of

00:37:23.030 --> 00:37:26.630
the things that we've spoken to or spoken about

00:37:26.630 --> 00:37:33.449
in the past is how, um, during certain areas

00:37:33.449 --> 00:37:36.650
of the band, they took more risks with what they

00:37:36.650 --> 00:37:39.570
were doing. Because they were writing different

00:37:39.570 --> 00:37:41.750
things because different things were influencing

00:37:41.750 --> 00:37:50.789
them at that time. Yeah. I listen, I'm a huge

00:37:50.789 --> 00:37:54.869
fan of, of the John Bush era of the band. I know

00:37:54.869 --> 00:38:00.349
that not everyone is. There are some songs that

00:38:00.349 --> 00:38:05.469
I think are. Among my favorite songs by any bands

00:38:05.469 --> 00:38:07.869
during that period. But there are others that

00:38:07.869 --> 00:38:12.650
fall short. But that's not exclusive to that

00:38:12.650 --> 00:38:17.929
period either. Because I think that them and

00:38:17.929 --> 00:38:25.510
pretty much every band has that. Yeah. We'll

00:38:25.510 --> 00:38:30.710
see. I guess we're supposedly supposed to get

00:38:30.710 --> 00:38:34.619
a single this month. There isn't a lot more time

00:38:34.619 --> 00:38:39.559
left. There are 20 days left in this month. Yeah.

00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:44.019
So is it going to be an oh shit moment where

00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:47.980
we're like, oh my God, we're blown away? Or is

00:38:47.980 --> 00:38:51.860
it going to be something that's, you know, to

00:38:51.860 --> 00:38:56.800
me, the last two albums have grown on me, both

00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.800
of those albums. But the lead singles for both

00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.909
of those albums, We're like, okay, that's cool.

00:39:06.329 --> 00:39:10.409
Sounds like anthrax, but it wasn't what I was

00:39:10.409 --> 00:39:13.170
expecting. And I think a lot of that has to do

00:39:13.170 --> 00:39:16.090
with the fact that the last album with John Bush,

00:39:16.210 --> 00:39:21.869
We've Come For You All, is similar to what we've

00:39:21.869 --> 00:39:24.969
just mentioned with Parabellum in the sense that

00:39:24.969 --> 00:39:28.809
almost every song is a different style of music

00:39:28.809 --> 00:39:33.309
to the point where For example, the song Black

00:39:33.309 --> 00:39:37.570
Dahlia has portions of it that's black metal.

00:39:39.510 --> 00:39:43.730
So coming out of that, coming out of something

00:39:43.730 --> 00:39:46.550
so strong, the other two albums have been difficult

00:39:46.550 --> 00:39:49.389
for me to grab a hold of, but I'm trying to be

00:39:49.389 --> 00:39:53.809
optimistic. Me too. All right. So moving on to

00:39:53.809 --> 00:39:57.409
October 17th, we had new albums from Battle Beast,

00:39:57.550 --> 00:40:01.869
Biohazard. An abstract illusion. Now I've done

00:40:01.869 --> 00:40:08.289
it. Age of Ruin. Eternia, I guess is how that

00:40:08.289 --> 00:40:16.989
would be pronounced. Tribal Gaze. Sintage. Grave

00:40:16.989 --> 00:40:28.869
Ripper. Cowpe. Daredrick. Coroner. Human Fortress,

00:40:28.889 --> 00:40:35.750
Sabaton, Wretched, Tombs, Wings of Steel, and

00:40:35.750 --> 00:40:41.809
Hellbearer. Wow. So I, last few weeks really

00:40:41.809 --> 00:40:44.570
weren't that difficult. Those, that week had

00:40:44.570 --> 00:40:47.670
a few that were challenging for me. Reissues

00:40:47.670 --> 00:40:52.630
from Crematory, Two by the Cult, The Red Cord,

00:40:52.909 --> 00:40:59.530
and Queen. So Queen has re -released A Night

00:40:59.530 --> 00:41:07.170
at the Opera on vinyl yet again. All right. So,

00:41:07.170 --> 00:41:10.769
Jeremy, what did you listen to this time around?

00:41:11.769 --> 00:41:14.909
Yeah, Steelbound by Battle Beast, album number

00:41:14.909 --> 00:41:17.190
seven for the band from Finland. Of course, I'd

00:41:17.190 --> 00:41:19.570
listen to this. It's mostly power metal with

00:41:19.570 --> 00:41:23.170
fairly pop tendencies, as you'd expect. They've

00:41:23.170 --> 00:41:24.909
got a good vocalist, as you know. They write

00:41:24.909 --> 00:41:28.199
good songs. Sometimes, of course, it's a bit

00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.500
cheesy. I'm tempted to say, though, this would

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:34.460
probably sound quite good live. And funnily enough,

00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:37.260
I'm going to see them next summer at a festival

00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:42.489
by chance. So I'll get to see them live. I probably

00:41:42.489 --> 00:41:44.550
wouldn't buy this kind of album, but it does

00:41:44.550 --> 00:41:47.369
have something about it. They keep it heavy.

00:41:48.230 --> 00:41:51.150
And there is a very good sort of surefire hit

00:41:51.150 --> 00:41:53.969
in Angel of Midnight. So if anybody likes a sort

00:41:53.969 --> 00:41:57.929
of a hit song nowadays that should have been

00:41:57.929 --> 00:42:02.409
a hit in the 1980s, then that's the one. Darker

00:42:02.409 --> 00:42:05.909
Fates by Hellbearer. This is one of those sort

00:42:05.909 --> 00:42:09.949
of raw, unreconstructed thrash albums. Uh, it's

00:42:09.949 --> 00:42:12.789
sort of heavy on the very basic, uh, and it's

00:42:12.789 --> 00:42:14.849
probably all the better for it really. It's the,

00:42:15.010 --> 00:42:17.050
um, apparently it's the band's second album.

00:42:17.429 --> 00:42:19.650
Uh, and what I didn't realize was they're actually,

00:42:19.670 --> 00:42:21.389
they actually hail from Manchester very close

00:42:21.389 --> 00:42:24.429
to me. Um, and they played the new blood stage

00:42:24.429 --> 00:42:28.090
at bloodstock, uh, this year. So, um, yeah, that's

00:42:28.090 --> 00:42:31.630
good. Uh, that it's very energetic stuff. It's,

00:42:31.630 --> 00:42:35.030
um, you know, sort of very young metal thrash

00:42:35.030 --> 00:42:37.960
sort of beats hardcore, I guess. with a very

00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:41.039
angry sort of shouty singer. But it's, you know,

00:42:41.059 --> 00:42:43.380
it's really great. Yeah, it's worth a listen.

00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:46.900
And then the final one, Winds of Time by Wings

00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:50.739
of Steel, the LA band sort of thing I sort of

00:42:50.739 --> 00:42:53.940
loved in the 80s. You know, real sort of powerful

00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:58.059
traditional metal band, this one. Flashy old

00:42:58.059 --> 00:43:02.139
sort of school guitar playing. The high -pitched

00:43:02.139 --> 00:43:05.360
vocals were there. The drumming that sort of

00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.619
involves really smashing the skins with a pair

00:43:07.619 --> 00:43:13.679
of anvils. It lacks the superior sort of songwriting

00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:17.519
quality of the 80s bands, but it's still an enjoyable

00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:20.539
listen. And apparently they're on tour with Sabaton

00:43:20.539 --> 00:43:22.420
next year if anybody wants to go and see them.

00:43:23.869 --> 00:43:26.929
If you had to choose one out of the three, oh,

00:43:27.110 --> 00:43:29.269
I don't know. They're all fairly much for a muchness.

00:43:30.050 --> 00:43:33.210
Yeah, maybe go for Wings of Steel. Why not? Ed?

00:43:37.389 --> 00:43:42.670
One that was on your list was Grave Ripper. They're

00:43:42.670 --> 00:43:45.289
from Indianapolis, not too far away from me.

00:43:45.369 --> 00:43:49.889
Kind of a black thrash speed metal band. And

00:43:49.889 --> 00:43:52.489
the songs were good enough that I've left it

00:43:52.489 --> 00:44:00.050
in my music library for a couple of months. I

00:44:00.050 --> 00:44:05.010
really had a lot of fun playing that Cavalera

00:44:05.010 --> 00:44:08.489
Conspiracy track off of the Street Fighter 6

00:44:08.489 --> 00:44:13.309
soundtrack. Actually, I didn't even write down

00:44:13.309 --> 00:44:16.440
what the name of that single was. But I think

00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:18.639
you posted a video of it one day. Yeah, I believe

00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:22.920
so. Didn't you on Patreon? And, man, when you

00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:24.800
want to hear something fun, that's a great tune.

00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:28.460
Now, getting back to what we were talking about

00:44:28.460 --> 00:44:32.239
earlier, here's a band that's an example of this.

00:44:32.460 --> 00:44:35.300
This is a death metal band called Internal Bleeding.

00:44:36.699 --> 00:44:39.639
And they put out an album called Settle All Scores.

00:44:42.849 --> 00:44:47.309
When I was looking up info on them, I learned

00:44:47.309 --> 00:44:51.170
that they've been around since 91. But they're

00:44:51.170 --> 00:44:54.489
kind of a new band for me. And I think what I'm

00:44:54.489 --> 00:44:57.590
realizing is, you know, back in the early 90s,

00:44:57.590 --> 00:45:00.530
when death metal was really taking off, there

00:45:00.530 --> 00:45:02.750
was, you know, just there became a whole bunch

00:45:02.750 --> 00:45:06.829
of it. A whole bunch of bands doing what they

00:45:06.829 --> 00:45:09.090
were inspired to do by death and Morbid Angel.

00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:12.739
And Deicide and Cannibal Corpse just became an

00:45:12.739 --> 00:45:16.639
explosion of bands. And we have a local college

00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:22.880
radio station, too, that had a metal slot on

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:24.960
Monday nights, like two or three hours worth

00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:27.480
of metal. And there was one point where there

00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:32.280
was this metal chick that was the DJ, and she

00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:35.780
loved that. And she would play three solid hours

00:45:35.780 --> 00:45:38.699
of nothing but that. uh, all those death metal

00:45:38.699 --> 00:45:41.480
bands. And it got, it would get old to me really

00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:45.380
fast because, you know, I need to hear you mix

00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:47.380
it up with some other styles to keep me interested.

00:45:48.380 --> 00:45:51.400
And so I'm re but I'm realizing that especially

00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:54.500
even this year, uh, like benediction, they put

00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:56.400
out an album that I've loved and listened to

00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:57.860
all year. It's probably going to be on my top

00:45:57.860 --> 00:46:00.960
10. Uh, this is another great, just good old

00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.780
classic death metal album. And, but these guys,

00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:06.519
and I've never heard of them, but they apparently,

00:46:07.469 --> 00:46:11.550
are pioneered slam death metal brutal death metal

00:46:11.550 --> 00:46:14.829
along with bands like suffocation and such but

00:46:14.829 --> 00:46:16.369
it's like we're getting to a point now to where

00:46:16.369 --> 00:46:18.409
you know these bands have they've had these careers

00:46:18.409 --> 00:46:21.670
and they're starting to be able to produce albums

00:46:21.670 --> 00:46:24.469
and write songs that i'm enjoying the heck out

00:46:24.469 --> 00:46:27.630
of so you know before it was kind of boring nothing

00:46:27.630 --> 00:46:29.769
really caught my attention unless they were a

00:46:29.769 --> 00:46:32.650
really good band like obituary or you know all

00:46:32.650 --> 00:46:35.639
the all the big dogs But now I'm starting to

00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:38.260
add a lot of these death metal bands to my collection

00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:40.579
because, man, they're writing some awesome stuff.

00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:43.699
That's kind of what I meant when you were bringing

00:46:43.699 --> 00:46:48.760
up Halloween before the show. Oh, yeah, and then

00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:52.099
I've got to finish my picks here. The best one.

00:46:52.260 --> 00:46:58.559
Now, this is a surprise. Coroner. And I've got

00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:01.000
the date. It was October 17th. They released

00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:04.750
Dissonance Theory. Now, I know who Corner is,

00:47:04.949 --> 00:47:07.809
and I've listened to their stuff in the past,

00:47:07.849 --> 00:47:10.090
but I've never been that into them. It's been

00:47:10.090 --> 00:47:14.989
a little bit too proggy for me. You know, they're

00:47:14.989 --> 00:47:16.909
kind of considered a progressive thrash metal

00:47:16.909 --> 00:47:21.929
band. And I can like that kind of stuff if it

00:47:21.929 --> 00:47:25.170
has a really good production. Another band that

00:47:25.170 --> 00:47:28.070
they remind me of is Believer, which was the

00:47:28.070 --> 00:47:30.329
same thing, kind of a technical progressive thrash

00:47:30.329 --> 00:47:33.179
metal band. they had a production to their albums

00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:36.320
that I like that a whole lot more than Corner.

00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.260
The Corner is, you know, a band you hear people

00:47:42.260 --> 00:47:45.519
talk about a lot. A lot of people revere Corner.

00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.460
And then I put this album in my library, expecting

00:47:49.460 --> 00:47:54.460
it to be something similar. But I think, and

00:47:54.460 --> 00:47:57.659
I'm probably not the best guy to... hear a review

00:47:57.659 --> 00:47:59.920
on this record, you might want to get a Coroner

00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:04.860
fan to give you the best details on the differences.

00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:08.199
I think some Coroner fans are maybe upset at

00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:10.619
some of the liberties that they've taken on this

00:48:10.619 --> 00:48:14.000
new record. But whatever they've done, I loved

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:17.179
it. And as I started listening to this record,

00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.920
instead of kind of hitting that next button in

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.900
the middle of a song, I was listening to it all

00:48:21.900 --> 00:48:24.119
the way through. There was even songs that I

00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:27.320
enjoyed so much, I started repeating them. And

00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:29.679
then I sat down and listened to the whole album

00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.659
straight through and just determined, yeah, that's

00:48:32.659 --> 00:48:35.119
definitely my pick of the week. It's a marvelous

00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:38.599
record. And I feel sorry for the corner fans

00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:42.440
that maybe are, like I said, I can't give you

00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:44.440
the details on what's so different that maybe

00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:47.420
someone doesn't like it. But I think it's a superb

00:48:47.420 --> 00:48:51.019
album. And that's my pick of the week. Yeah,

00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:53.380
I was reading a positive review about that album

00:48:53.380 --> 00:48:56.079
only this week, and it made me want to actually

00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:58.760
listen to it. So now you've mentioned it, I'm

00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:01.199
going to check it out. I think you'll like it.

00:49:01.340 --> 00:49:07.880
Yeah. Yeah, I got a chance to listen to it. I've

00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.420
always heard the name but never really checked

00:49:10.420 --> 00:49:14.320
them out before. A lot of people are comparing

00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:18.619
it to the Testament album. I do think that the

00:49:18.619 --> 00:49:22.880
Testament album is stronger than The Corner.

00:49:23.860 --> 00:49:32.360
So I checked out The Corner album. I checked

00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:41.900
out, I think I wrote this wrong. Fear Darkness,

00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:47.460
is that the name of the album? By Tombs. Did

00:49:47.460 --> 00:49:53.079
you get a chance to listen to that, Ed? I don't

00:49:53.079 --> 00:50:01.179
think so. Tombs. Yeah. Yeah. They are a. Did

00:50:01.179 --> 00:50:03.440
you tell me to listen to that? I did not. I thought

00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.760
you would have listened to it. If not, I would

00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:11.800
have mentioned it to you. They are a death metal

00:50:11.800 --> 00:50:21.719
band. What is the name of the new album? Ah,

00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:27.619
wonderful. I've got it up here on Metal Storm.

00:50:30.820 --> 00:50:35.719
Discography. They've been around since 2008.

00:50:36.739 --> 00:50:39.920
Feral Darkness. Feral Darkness. Okay, there you

00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:43.639
go. So I wrote, I had the L in the wrong spot.

00:50:45.380 --> 00:50:48.420
The L and the R. And it seems to be their maybe

00:50:48.420 --> 00:50:51.300
second highest rated record or something. Yeah.

00:50:51.579 --> 00:50:53.800
But yeah, I don't think I've heard this one.

00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:57.260
Yeah, I listened to a previous album of theirs,

00:50:57.320 --> 00:50:59.800
if I'm not mistaken, and really enjoyed it because

00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:03.360
yes, there's black and some death metal elements,

00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:06.360
but there were other things along the way that

00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:13.079
made it kind of stand out to me as well. I see

00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:15.539
why I didn't. Because, you know, they list all

00:51:15.539 --> 00:51:18.440
this stuff on Metal Storm. But they're described

00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:22.420
as black metal, sludge metal. So I probably did

00:51:22.420 --> 00:51:25.880
not put that in my list to listen to. So when

00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:28.199
you do see something like that, that you think

00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:30.559
I might like to check out, yeah, do point it

00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.440
out. I will. I also got to listen to Battle Beast,

00:51:34.699 --> 00:51:39.639
Steelbound. And Jeremy, you described it. To

00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:44.559
a T, it is, you know, what we've heard in the

00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:50.300
last 20 years, the Eurovision medal, as Anthony

00:51:50.300 --> 00:51:54.059
Mackie has coined it, where it's just happy,

00:51:54.159 --> 00:52:01.360
poppy and whatnot, which is, to me, kind of,

00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.119
not that it sucks, but I think that their singer,

00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:08.179
she's got an amazing voice. I'd love to hear

00:52:08.179 --> 00:52:14.139
her in a different setting. And I know she does

00:52:14.139 --> 00:52:18.139
stuff for frontiers with the singer of smack

00:52:18.139 --> 00:52:22.079
bound and, and she's done collabs over the years,

00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:27.739
but for her to do something that's like straight

00:52:27.739 --> 00:52:33.159
up heavy metal or even thrashy where it takes

00:52:33.159 --> 00:52:37.000
advantage of of the aggressiveness in her voice.

00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:42.579
Um, so yeah, I mean, and there've been several

00:52:42.579 --> 00:52:46.460
examples of singers, uh, to do that. For example,

00:52:46.460 --> 00:52:50.099
you've been a big proponent of, uh, Sanhedrin

00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:53.920
for some time, something along those lines. I

00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:58.719
think she would great. Yeah. Um, just to be a

00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:02.920
little different, uh, I'm going to give you guys,

00:53:04.150 --> 00:53:07.909
Biohazard with Divided We Fall as my album of

00:53:07.909 --> 00:53:12.329
the week. I'm just in a hardcore mood for some

00:53:12.329 --> 00:53:17.110
reason and it's happened over the last two months

00:53:17.110 --> 00:53:24.210
or so and this really fits the bill for me. They're

00:53:24.210 --> 00:53:28.860
not doing anything new. It is classic Biohazard.

00:53:28.860 --> 00:53:33.280
It's classic sing -along choruses where it gets

00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:37.380
you really pumped up. And if you're a classic

00:53:37.380 --> 00:53:41.900
fan of the band or of hardcore metal, I would

00:53:41.900 --> 00:53:47.239
recommend that you check it out. All right, moving

00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:54.179
on to the 24th here. We had new albums from Soulfly,

00:53:54.500 --> 00:54:01.219
Wino. Ronnie Romero, Doro, Mammoth. The band

00:54:01.219 --> 00:54:08.679
is now called Mammoth as opposed to Mammoth WVH.

00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:12.800
I guess he got the licensing for the name. Shiraz

00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:17.460
Lane, Psychonaut, The Acacia Strain, Dayseeker,

00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:26.519
Downswing, Tyson, Matzenbacher. Valetta, Century

00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:33.159
Moon, Reveria, Scorched Tomb, Electra Storm,

00:54:33.900 --> 00:54:42.239
Glossia, Leah Martin Brown, Centrix, Our Ocean,

00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:49.079
Them, Jet Jaguar, or Jet Jaguar for those in

00:54:49.079 --> 00:54:58.809
the UK, Bird Freed. Nine, Nine Reassures, Surge

00:54:58.809 --> 00:55:04.309
Tankian, Sumo Psycho, and something that Ed recommended

00:55:04.309 --> 00:55:09.869
to me, Bonginator. Two reissues from The Gathering,

00:55:09.969 --> 00:55:13.530
a live album from Moe's Generator, and a compilation

00:55:13.530 --> 00:55:18.610
from Five Finger Death Punch. Ed, what did you

00:55:18.610 --> 00:55:24.019
listen to this month? Bonginator, man. That album

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:27.019
was so fun. The name is fun to say, Bonginator.

00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.679
I've got a new heavy metal friend that I met

00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:34.460
at a local head shop in town. He's like in his

00:55:34.460 --> 00:55:40.559
30s. He's a disabled Marine, I think. And so

00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:43.980
I walked in the shop one day and I told him that

00:55:43.980 --> 00:55:46.059
he kind of looked like the lead singer from E

00:55:46.059 --> 00:55:48.059
-Vile. And we got into a big discussion about

00:55:48.059 --> 00:55:51.059
metal and now we're good friends. I mean, I listened

00:55:51.059 --> 00:55:54.719
to this Bonginator and I, sent him a text with

00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:56.639
this video. And I said, you got to listen to

00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:58.679
bonginator. And he said, I was listening to bonginator

00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:00.780
on the way to work. And we were like, Bill and

00:56:00.780 --> 00:56:09.059
Ted. Okay. So there, how do I explain this? They're

00:56:09.059 --> 00:56:13.500
death metal at the core, but they have a lot

00:56:13.500 --> 00:56:18.539
of fun with their death metal. Um, I, I, they,

00:56:18.639 --> 00:56:21.219
you could call them a stoner death metal band.

00:56:24.590 --> 00:56:28.170
So it's death metal, but the vocalist changes

00:56:28.170 --> 00:56:34.710
his styles a lot. He'll go from kind of metalcore

00:56:34.710 --> 00:56:37.550
to hardcore to death metal vocals, black metal

00:56:37.550 --> 00:56:43.710
vocals. He throws it all in there. And it's also

00:56:43.710 --> 00:56:47.869
super kind of low -end bassy death metal. Like

00:56:47.869 --> 00:56:50.710
it's kind of hard to turn it up to hear the guitars

00:56:50.710 --> 00:56:53.210
without everything starting to fall off the shelf

00:56:53.210 --> 00:56:57.369
because of how loud they have the bass and the

00:56:57.369 --> 00:57:00.949
music. But and especially if you're someone our

00:57:00.949 --> 00:57:04.610
age, if you go back to the 80s and 90s, you'll

00:57:04.610 --> 00:57:06.750
have a lot of fun with this record, even if you

00:57:06.750 --> 00:57:10.289
don't like the music so much because of all the

00:57:10.289 --> 00:57:12.849
stuff that they throw in there. Hence the title

00:57:12.849 --> 00:57:16.289
Retro Death. And I mean, they throw in all kinds

00:57:16.289 --> 00:57:19.340
of. Movie clips that take you back to the past.

00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:26.960
Industrial metal sounds. There's some new wave,

00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:30.500
synth wave sounds in there. Things that take

00:57:30.500 --> 00:57:32.699
me back to, you know, like 81 and the beginning

00:57:32.699 --> 00:57:35.960
years of U2 and some alternative things. And

00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.340
they keep switching it up over and over and over,

00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:41.119
keeping you interested. Like the first four or

00:57:41.119 --> 00:57:44.119
five songs, you don't get tired at all listening

00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:48.699
to it. The first song, too. Has this real intense

00:57:48.699 --> 00:57:51.820
groove. It makes you feel happy. You almost feel

00:57:51.820 --> 00:57:57.599
like dancing around the kitchen. And I don't

00:57:57.599 --> 00:57:59.179
know, I just had so much fun with this record

00:57:59.179 --> 00:58:01.119
that I kind of wish everybody listened to it

00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:04.199
and enjoy it with me. So did you get a chance

00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:08.260
to hear it? Oh, I did. I listened to it. I didn't

00:58:08.260 --> 00:58:10.300
think you would love it, but I thought you might

00:58:10.300 --> 00:58:12.920
appreciate some of the industrial and other sounds

00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.460
that they were throwing in there. It's a fun

00:58:15.460 --> 00:58:18.340
album because you've got those movie samples.

00:58:18.539 --> 00:58:22.760
Each song is based on a different movie. They've

00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.099
got samples from each of those movies. They've

00:58:25.099 --> 00:58:30.119
got all those 80s synthwave elements that you

00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:34.860
mentioned. Yeah. Plus with the industrial aspects

00:58:34.860 --> 00:58:38.159
and with the death metal aspects as well. So

00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:42.280
it's an interesting mix. It's fun to listen to.

00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.599
And like you mentioned, you know, you're listening

00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:51.039
to it and all of a sudden you hear, you know,

00:58:51.059 --> 00:58:53.760
Rowdy Roddy Piper or Arnold Schwarzenegger or

00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:57.239
stuff or, you know, RoboCop. I forget the actor's

00:58:57.239 --> 00:59:00.559
name. And you're like, wow. You know, and it's.

00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:02.800
It's classic stuff that you've heard a million

00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:08.619
times, but within these settings, it's fun. They

00:59:08.619 --> 00:59:10.480
must have had a lot of fun putting that together.

00:59:11.179 --> 00:59:13.119
That's the only one that I like for the week,

00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:19.760
though, so that's my pick. Jeremy? Yeah, so for

00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:24.380
this particular week, I'm just pulling up my…

00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:28.000
notes for a sec oh yeah jet jaguar yeah that

00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:31.800
was the first one listened to severance um actually

00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:35.420
a four piece from mexico this one um it's their

00:59:35.420 --> 00:59:38.199
second album it's all pretty lively stuff for

00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:40.360
for yeah for memory because obviously it's a

00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:42.280
little little while ago since i listened to this

00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:44.519
they're all sort of youngsters playing this stuff

00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:47.719
and it reminded me a lot of um you know sort

00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:50.300
of keel and vandenberg and all that sort of 80s

00:59:50.300 --> 00:59:54.480
stuff yeah so that for me was great because I

00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:56.019
like the fact that there's all these youngsters

00:59:56.019 --> 00:59:58.059
who are doing that sort of stuff that we got

00:59:58.059 --> 01:00:01.559
into back then. So it doesn't matter that I've

01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:04.550
heard it before. it's it's for them isn't it

01:00:04.550 --> 01:00:07.510
it's it's these guys doing it so yeah that was

01:00:07.510 --> 01:00:10.429
good um that's that's good modern production

01:00:10.429 --> 01:00:12.610
on it as well which obviously a lot of the 80s

01:00:12.610 --> 01:00:14.349
stuff that we listened to didn't always have

01:00:14.349 --> 01:00:16.989
so you know that they've got that added advantage

01:00:16.989 --> 01:00:20.210
coming in and um yeah quite an enjoyable album

01:00:20.210 --> 01:00:23.309
um the only other one i really listened to was

01:00:23.309 --> 01:00:27.630
the ronnie romero album backbone um when i first

01:00:27.630 --> 01:00:30.420
heard it I was a little bit disappointed because

01:00:30.420 --> 01:00:33.739
I'd bought Too Many Lies, Too Many Masters, which

01:00:33.739 --> 01:00:37.820
was quite a metal -y, quite a strong album by

01:00:37.820 --> 01:00:39.880
Ronnie. I thought it was his best one that he's

01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:43.400
done of any sort of stuff that he's done, because

01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:46.300
it obviously hasn't done many solo things, but

01:00:46.300 --> 01:00:50.199
he's done a lot of other projects. But this is...

01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:53.179
This is kind of a sort of old school classic

01:00:53.179 --> 01:00:57.599
rock album, sort of a homage to Rainbow and to,

01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:01.280
you know, various bands of that kind of ilk.

01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:04.380
As you know, there's even a song by Russ Ballard

01:01:04.380 --> 01:01:07.159
on there, which I think you put up on your Patreon

01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:12.280
site, Victor. And it's got a cover of Devil and

01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:14.260
Daughter on there, although it's not kind of

01:01:14.260 --> 01:01:17.670
listed on the... um the listings on the album

01:01:17.670 --> 01:01:19.889
but if you get the cd i think it's on it's on

01:01:19.889 --> 01:01:22.929
there as an extra but yeah there's a good quality

01:01:22.929 --> 01:01:25.909
in there and if you like hard rock which is what

01:01:25.909 --> 01:01:29.070
i do you know old school old -fashioned 70s sort

01:01:29.070 --> 01:01:32.190
of hard rock it's uh it's really good and i think

01:01:32.190 --> 01:01:35.070
he's good at this kind of thing so yeah for me

01:01:35.070 --> 01:01:36.849
that's definitely album of the week i really

01:01:36.849 --> 01:01:41.469
enjoyed it okay um so i listened to a lot of

01:01:41.469 --> 01:01:43.980
different things This week, I listened to the

01:01:43.980 --> 01:01:46.300
Soulfly, listened to the Wino, listened to the

01:01:46.300 --> 01:01:49.320
Ronnie Romero, listened to the Doro, listened

01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:55.619
to the Mammoth album, listened to the Dayseeker

01:01:55.619 --> 01:02:04.760
album, listened to the Sumo Psycho and the Bonginator

01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:11.750
album as well. A mix of a bunch of different

01:02:11.750 --> 01:02:21.329
things. I can't help but think that Max Cavallaro

01:02:21.329 --> 01:02:29.190
without a good writing partner is lost. Again,

01:02:29.409 --> 01:02:32.869
the album isn't bad, but when he doesn't have

01:02:32.869 --> 01:02:37.530
an Andreas Kisser, a Mark Rizzo with him, someone

01:02:37.530 --> 01:02:41.960
like that to help. craft some of these songs

01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:45.800
for him they're always missing something it's

01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.780
I absolutely agree that's a perfect way yeah

01:02:49.780 --> 01:02:54.820
there's there's no there's like maybe one song

01:02:54.820 --> 01:02:58.500
that I really like off of this album to say okay

01:02:58.500 --> 01:03:01.239
that'll go in my soul fly playlist but the rest

01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:04.420
reminds me of soul fly 3 which is I think is

01:03:04.420 --> 01:03:08.670
their worst album because again he worked as

01:03:08.670 --> 01:03:11.809
a three -piece, if I'm not mistaken, and really

01:03:11.809 --> 01:03:16.989
didn't have a good lead guitarist, someone to

01:03:16.989 --> 01:03:19.929
kind of noodle in between the rhythmic stuff

01:03:19.929 --> 01:03:22.550
that he does, and that's what I want to hear.

01:03:23.949 --> 01:03:26.030
He's always kind of laying a good foundation

01:03:26.030 --> 01:03:28.329
for something that could be incredible if he

01:03:28.329 --> 01:03:31.349
had the right people to work with him and kind

01:03:31.349 --> 01:03:33.789
of pull out what they did when they worked together

01:03:33.789 --> 01:03:37.869
in Sepultura. You know, yeah, that's a good way

01:03:37.869 --> 01:03:40.909
to describe it. Yeah. The Wino album isn't bad.

01:03:41.110 --> 01:03:45.150
A lot of acoustic stuff in between the songs.

01:03:45.230 --> 01:03:48.489
The Doro album has the one single that she's

01:03:48.489 --> 01:03:53.190
released and then a bunch of live tracks. The

01:03:53.190 --> 01:03:57.670
Mammoth album has like two really good songs

01:03:57.670 --> 01:04:03.010
off of it. The rest is, listen. Wolfgang has

01:04:03.010 --> 01:04:05.969
put out the best Foo Fighters album to be released

01:04:05.969 --> 01:04:11.269
in like 10 years. So that's the best way I can

01:04:11.269 --> 01:04:15.429
put that. The Day Seeker album is a little generic

01:04:15.429 --> 01:04:25.329
for me. I think my album of the week is going

01:04:25.329 --> 01:04:29.360
to be the Sumo Psycho album. give people something

01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:31.260
different, but it comes down to that and the

01:04:31.260 --> 01:04:33.920
bonginator album, to be honest with you, both

01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:38.099
albums are fun. They're both, uh, they're both

01:04:38.099 --> 01:04:44.280
very different. Um, but you know, having, having

01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:46.679
that I've interviewed the band in the past, having

01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:49.480
that I dig a lot of their previous music, um,

01:04:49.659 --> 01:04:53.139
I was, I didn't like the album initially listened

01:04:53.139 --> 01:04:57.059
to it a few more times. And there's some songs

01:04:57.059 --> 01:04:58.980
that have really grown on me and that I've listened

01:04:58.980 --> 01:05:03.619
to quite a bit since. But I don't think you can

01:05:03.619 --> 01:05:07.940
go wrong with either of those two albums. All

01:05:07.940 --> 01:05:12.559
right. Last week of October here. It's a lot

01:05:12.559 --> 01:05:15.659
of music. A lot of music put out in October only

01:05:15.659 --> 01:05:20.300
because... November is really when the holiday

01:05:20.300 --> 01:05:22.739
albums start coming out, the greatest hits, the

01:05:22.739 --> 01:05:27.760
live albums, the box sets, stuff like that. So

01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:33.820
let's see here. Halloween saw new albums from

01:05:33.820 --> 01:05:38.800
Desperate Icon, Avatar, Bastard Cross, Stillbirth,

01:05:39.179 --> 01:05:44.699
Outlaw, Chemican, I believe is how that's pronounced.

01:05:45.910 --> 01:05:49.050
Mystic Circle, which I think I previously mentioned.

01:05:49.130 --> 01:05:55.829
So it's one of the two weeks. Akalina. Archaic

01:05:55.829 --> 01:06:01.789
Thorn. Red Shark. Thrawn. Starlight Ritual. Creeper.

01:06:01.809 --> 01:06:06.269
Laura Cox. Smash Into Pieces. Howling Giant.

01:06:07.389 --> 01:06:14.179
Oh wait, I listened to that. Burn. Burned in

01:06:14.179 --> 01:06:20.039
Effigy, Barren Path. I interviewed this band

01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:25.300
and I still can't pronounce the name right. That

01:06:25.300 --> 01:06:27.360
makes me, this Kentucky boy feel better if you

01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:30.219
can't pronounce something. A Phenomer, I believe

01:06:30.219 --> 01:06:32.039
it's pronounced. They're a French death metal

01:06:32.039 --> 01:06:39.079
band. Moonspell. No, St. Agnes has been moved

01:06:39.079 --> 01:06:46.530
to 2026. My bad. These Nuts, Gum, which is one

01:06:46.530 --> 01:06:48.590
of the hardcore albums that was recommended to

01:06:48.590 --> 01:06:53.349
me last night, EPs from Trivium and Envy of None,

01:06:53.650 --> 01:06:57.730
reissues from The Who, live album from Duff McKagan,

01:06:57.909 --> 01:07:03.769
and two compilations were released, both various

01:07:03.769 --> 01:07:06.530
artists. One is Killed by Death, a punk tribute

01:07:06.530 --> 01:07:11.010
to Motorhead, and Spaceship Landing, a tribute

01:07:11.010 --> 01:07:18.280
to... um jeremy what did you listen to this week

01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:21.679
yeah i'll be fairly brief i think we're sort

01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:23.760
of running a little bit out of time and we won't

01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:26.280
need to move on to november don't we but uh yeah

01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:28.519
crucible of ruin by howling giant i listened

01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:30.679
to that one i listened to sudden impact by red

01:07:30.679 --> 01:07:33.539
shark and i also listened to rogue angels by

01:07:33.539 --> 01:07:37.539
starlight ritual all um worthy of my time but

01:07:37.539 --> 01:07:40.780
my album of this particular week was definitely

01:07:40.780 --> 01:07:45.670
creeper Creeper are amazing. Listen to that word

01:07:45.670 --> 01:07:48.929
again, amazing. You need to listen to Creeper.

01:07:48.929 --> 01:07:52.889
They are unbelievable. I saw them live. They

01:07:52.889 --> 01:07:55.090
were supporting Alice Cooper over here in Manchester.

01:07:55.530 --> 01:07:58.469
And I thought, yeah, this is a good band, you

01:07:58.469 --> 01:08:02.110
know, really dig their stuff. Really good, hard

01:08:02.110 --> 01:08:04.949
-rocking goth band, British band, obviously.

01:08:05.980 --> 01:08:08.639
Really making waves over here, selling out places.

01:08:08.780 --> 01:08:12.340
Not arenas yet, obviously, but smaller places.

01:08:13.619 --> 01:08:18.060
Great production. Really great sort of goth metal

01:08:18.060 --> 01:08:23.060
stuff, goth rock. Great songs. They write good

01:08:23.060 --> 01:08:25.800
songs. And they've made me want to go back and

01:08:25.800 --> 01:08:28.420
listen to their earlier stuff. So without a doubt,

01:08:28.579 --> 01:08:31.220
Creeper, listen to them. Would you say that the

01:08:31.220 --> 01:08:35.079
album also has like a meatloaf type of a feel

01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:38.340
to it, like a battle? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There

01:08:38.340 --> 01:08:40.859
is that. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah. The two

01:08:40.859 --> 01:08:43.399
things that kind of stood out to me were that

01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:47.619
and like My Chemical Romance's Black Parade type

01:08:47.619 --> 01:08:50.380
of a thing where I could definitely see them

01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:53.279
going out and playing this album in its entirety.

01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:58.060
It is a continuation of a previous story that.

01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:01.239
you know, they've been writing upon in the past.

01:09:01.699 --> 01:09:07.020
I checked the album out as well. And it's funny

01:09:07.020 --> 01:09:10.340
as I was listening to it, I'm thinking, is this

01:09:10.340 --> 01:09:13.020
an album that Jeremy can listen to with his wife?

01:09:15.460 --> 01:09:18.439
Absolutely. Yeah. Because my wife loves meatloaf.

01:09:18.500 --> 01:09:23.300
So yeah, definitely. There you go. All right.

01:09:23.300 --> 01:09:29.600
Ed, what did you listen to this week? Okay. I'll

01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:31.699
tell you what. Remember I told you I was going

01:09:31.699 --> 01:09:36.359
to introduce a new band to you? Maybe we'll put

01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:38.960
that off because there's a story behind that.

01:09:39.020 --> 01:09:41.180
The album that I ordered hasn't come in yet.

01:09:41.659 --> 01:09:45.640
I'll wait maybe for the December show. Hopefully

01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:47.439
I'll have the album. I can show you and tell

01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:49.720
you the history behind it. But real quickly,

01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:53.819
that band is called Hope Deferred. They put out

01:09:53.819 --> 01:09:56.720
a record on the 31st called Darkness Remains.

01:09:57.899 --> 01:10:04.439
And the main man of this band, the lead guitarist,

01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:08.420
was in a band on Solid State Records called Embodiment.

01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:12.920
And they started off as like a brutal death metal

01:10:12.920 --> 01:10:16.039
band. Then they got signed to Solid State Records.

01:10:16.279 --> 01:10:19.079
They re -recorded their music in a more of what

01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:23.439
people consider one of the pioneering deathcore

01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:28.979
metal albums. Because they changed their vocal

01:10:28.979 --> 01:10:32.220
style, not to just a hardcore sound, but it almost

01:10:32.220 --> 01:10:35.560
had like a black metal vocal. Very similar to

01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:38.760
what you'll hear in Zayo or Zao, if you are familiar

01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:44.600
with that band. And then they only put out that

01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:47.220
one album. They completely changed their sound.

01:10:47.579 --> 01:10:50.939
And then that lead guitarist, his name is Andrew,

01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:55.640
started another band in the 2000s called The

01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:59.560
Famine. which was back to the embodiment style,

01:10:59.659 --> 01:11:02.460
except even heavier. They did a couple albums

01:11:02.460 --> 01:11:08.640
and then went away. And so anyway, that guitarist

01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:10.840
has started a new band called Hope Deferred.

01:11:10.899 --> 01:11:14.840
So it's a continuing of that embodiment. And

01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:20.539
it's excellent, as always. The guy has got awesome

01:11:20.539 --> 01:11:24.350
tone, writes great songs. Tell you more about

01:11:24.350 --> 01:11:26.270
it when that record comes in. But I want to let

01:11:26.270 --> 01:11:28.989
everybody know it's out there to buy. My pick

01:11:28.989 --> 01:11:31.329
of the week, and I'm a little bit confused about

01:11:31.329 --> 01:11:35.210
this band, is called Voorhees. I sent you a link

01:11:35.210 --> 01:11:40.170
to one of their songs. They got this album called

01:11:40.170 --> 01:11:45.649
Four. And the album cover has a Friday the 13th

01:11:45.649 --> 01:11:49.170
type album cover. And apparently all their albums

01:11:49.170 --> 01:11:52.210
have themes that have to do with Friday the 13th.

01:11:53.100 --> 01:11:55.659
And when I look on their band camp page, it says

01:11:55.659 --> 01:11:58.640
they're from France. Okay. An old school death

01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:02.380
metal band. And so I'm just learning about them.

01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.640
And I love this entire record. It's death metal,

01:12:06.819 --> 01:12:10.100
old school, but it's got tons of groove, tons

01:12:10.100 --> 01:12:13.279
of great headbanging music to it. But when I'm

01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:15.840
looking at Voorhees the band, I also see another

01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:21.020
band that was from Durham, England. A hard port.

01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:26.159
hardcore punk band started in 91 have kind of

01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:28.319
been in and out of the scene and they as well

01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:35.199
have some Friday the 13th themed albums so I

01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:38.899
haven't had enough time to research like if there's

01:12:38.899 --> 01:12:41.779
any of the same members or just completely two

01:12:41.779 --> 01:12:44.199
different bands that had the same ideas or what

01:12:44.199 --> 01:12:49.939
but On October 31st, a band named Voorhees that

01:12:49.939 --> 01:12:52.520
plays old school death metal with an album just

01:12:52.520 --> 01:12:55.159
called Number Four. It's just the number, numeral

01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:58.979
four. If you like death metal and you like death

01:12:58.979 --> 01:13:02.699
metal that'll get you, you know, banging your

01:13:02.699 --> 01:13:04.920
head and enjoying the groove. It's kind of got

01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:07.659
a little bit of that death and roll feel to it.

01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:10.840
Check that one out. It's actually probably one

01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:13.020
of my favorite death metal albums I've heard

01:13:13.020 --> 01:13:16.079
in the last few years. It's really good. All

01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:19.720
right. Cool. So I listened to a lot of different

01:13:19.720 --> 01:13:22.399
things that came out this week. I listened to

01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:26.600
the Avatar album. If you like Avatar, it sounds

01:13:26.600 --> 01:13:30.840
like Avatar. I listened to The Creeper, as you

01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:36.760
guys could tell. I listened to the Boston band

01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:42.939
Deez Nuts. Saudied, I guess is how you pronounce

01:13:42.939 --> 01:13:45.279
the name of the album. I'm probably pronouncing

01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:53.539
that wrong. Hardcore band. No surprises on this

01:13:53.539 --> 01:13:57.180
one. Also listen to Gum, which is another hardcore

01:13:57.180 --> 01:14:01.060
band. They released Beneath the Wheel, which

01:14:01.060 --> 01:14:04.619
was the person that I alluded to yesterday or

01:14:04.619 --> 01:14:06.779
before that I spoke to yesterday and said that

01:14:06.779 --> 01:14:09.939
that was his hardcore album of the year. Listen

01:14:09.939 --> 01:14:13.960
to the Trivium EP and Alex Lifeson's Envy of

01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:19.500
None EP. But for me, Howling Giants, Crucible

01:14:19.500 --> 01:14:23.340
and Ruin is my album of the week. Check out the

01:14:23.340 --> 01:14:28.779
interview that I did recently with Tom and Sebastian

01:14:28.779 --> 01:14:36.520
Boltz, the son of Accept's Peter Boltz, former

01:14:36.520 --> 01:14:41.520
Accept bass player. Really cool album, in my

01:14:41.520 --> 01:14:43.960
opinion. I've been a fan of the band for a while.

01:14:44.670 --> 01:14:46.850
I was lucky enough to be able to interview them

01:14:46.850 --> 01:14:52.430
recently. So we'll hold off to the end to mention

01:14:52.430 --> 01:14:56.270
all of the albums that we picked. Let's start

01:14:56.270 --> 01:15:01.430
up with November. Good thing November is a shorter

01:15:01.430 --> 01:15:08.109
month. Yeah. All right. So November 11th or excuse

01:15:08.109 --> 01:15:12.859
me, November 7th, we have new albums from. Agnostic

01:15:12.859 --> 01:15:19.539
Front, November. Some Finnish band, I can't pronounce

01:15:19.539 --> 01:15:29.460
that. Armor for Sleep, Cold Steel. Drain. Finger

01:15:29.460 --> 01:15:40.000
Eleven, Hell in the Club. Jesus. Omnium Gatherum.

01:15:40.619 --> 01:15:44.460
Paul Bear and Alcatraz. While there's a few albums

01:15:44.460 --> 01:15:46.920
that I didn't listen to that I wanted to from

01:15:46.920 --> 01:15:49.260
there. So I'll have to check them out. And there

01:15:49.260 --> 01:15:54.500
was a new live album from Slash. Ed, what did

01:15:54.500 --> 01:15:58.840
you listen to for this week? This was the best

01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:04.060
week in November. Discovered a new death metal

01:16:04.060 --> 01:16:07.260
band called Glorious Depravity. They have an

01:16:07.260 --> 01:16:09.300
album called Death Never Sleeps. It's just good

01:16:09.300 --> 01:16:13.220
old classic death metal, really good songs. I

01:16:13.220 --> 01:16:15.600
think they've been around for maybe 10 years

01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:22.859
or so. That band from Argentina that I told you

01:16:22.859 --> 01:16:26.680
about, Avernal. Man, that's an excellent record.

01:16:26.899 --> 01:16:29.260
They're described as death metal and death and

01:16:29.260 --> 01:16:31.359
roll. So in other words, they've got a lot of

01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:35.420
groove in their music. To me, it's a lot like

01:16:35.420 --> 01:16:38.880
Sepultura, if they were more on the death metal

01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:44.100
side. And his vocals are not even quite death

01:16:44.100 --> 01:16:49.060
metal. It's a little more hardcore with some

01:16:49.060 --> 01:16:53.420
growl added to it. Kind of in that Sepultura

01:16:53.420 --> 01:16:58.340
vein. Then I listened to something different,

01:16:58.420 --> 01:17:05.649
a band called Bliss of Flesh. Metapsychosis.

01:17:05.970 --> 01:17:08.670
And they're described as a black and death metal

01:17:08.670 --> 01:17:11.829
band. To me, though, listening to them, they

01:17:11.829 --> 01:17:15.270
sound more like post -black metal. I was listening

01:17:15.270 --> 01:17:19.449
to them in my room here while I was doing work.

01:17:20.130 --> 01:17:24.250
And, you know, it's basically black metal, but

01:17:24.250 --> 01:17:27.310
they are adding all kinds of other elements from

01:17:27.310 --> 01:17:32.390
other genres. Everything from piano to old new

01:17:32.390 --> 01:17:36.069
wave sounds. Just some good old juggy heavy metal

01:17:36.069 --> 01:17:38.989
parts. They even have a song on there that I

01:17:38.989 --> 01:17:41.710
might send to you one day that reminds me a lot

01:17:41.710 --> 01:17:45.189
of Killin' Joke that I know you'll like just

01:17:45.189 --> 01:17:47.710
because I know you, like me, you really like

01:17:47.710 --> 01:17:52.189
Killin' Joke. This is my kind of black metal,

01:17:52.289 --> 01:17:55.350
actually. It's hard for me to listen to the mainstream

01:17:55.350 --> 01:18:00.270
black metal bands. It gets kind of old. boring

01:18:00.270 --> 01:18:02.170
to me after a while just like you know a whole

01:18:02.170 --> 01:18:04.050
bunch of death metal would without shaking it

01:18:04.050 --> 01:18:08.130
up when people take you know a foundation of

01:18:08.130 --> 01:18:09.909
black metal though and then start adding other

01:18:09.909 --> 01:18:13.090
things to it i really enjoy that and there were

01:18:13.090 --> 01:18:15.529
several times on this record where the music

01:18:15.529 --> 01:18:19.649
was so beautiful and impacting and grabbed me

01:18:19.649 --> 01:18:22.670
so much that i just i had to stop and just do

01:18:22.670 --> 01:18:24.869
nothing but listen to the music and soak it in

01:18:26.090 --> 01:18:28.449
But my pick for the week, and I'm so proud of

01:18:28.449 --> 01:18:32.109
these guys, Agnostic Front. Man, they have just

01:18:32.109 --> 01:18:33.949
put out one of the best records of their career.

01:18:35.590 --> 01:18:38.250
Absolutely, to me, it's one of their best. Every

01:18:38.250 --> 01:18:40.649
single song I've just about hit the favorite

01:18:40.649 --> 01:18:44.270
button on. You know, to me, Agnostic Front, they're

01:18:44.270 --> 01:18:47.550
the ultimate crossover band. If someone wants

01:18:47.550 --> 01:18:50.510
to know what crossover sounds like, I would give

01:18:50.510 --> 01:18:54.409
them an Agnostic Front album. They were the first.

01:18:55.400 --> 01:18:57.619
band of this genre that I think that I heard.

01:18:57.720 --> 01:18:59.960
I can't quite remember if I heard DRI first or

01:18:59.960 --> 01:19:03.779
this, but I remember buying this song, one of

01:19:03.779 --> 01:19:06.479
Agnostic Front's Cause for Alarm back in 86,

01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:09.060
just because of the album cover. Took it home

01:19:09.060 --> 01:19:12.039
and I discovered Hardcore Crossover for the first

01:19:12.039 --> 01:19:14.739
time. Loved it. And you know, with each album,

01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:17.100
they've become a little bit heavier, a little

01:19:17.100 --> 01:19:22.479
bit more metal. And they made a perfect mix of

01:19:22.990 --> 01:19:27.409
metal and hardcore on this album uh hence perfect

01:19:27.409 --> 01:19:32.250
crossover um they have you know lots it's hardcore

01:19:32.250 --> 01:19:36.810
and i i like the way he's doing you know there

01:19:36.810 --> 01:19:38.989
was a time in gnostic front's career where his

01:19:38.989 --> 01:19:41.109
vocals got kind of funny to where he was kind

01:19:41.109 --> 01:19:43.529
of adding a little extra almost like he's about

01:19:43.529 --> 01:19:46.369
to throw up sound before he before he says a

01:19:46.369 --> 01:19:48.470
couple of words and then after a couple albums

01:19:48.470 --> 01:19:51.119
he kind of calmed that back down I think he's

01:19:51.119 --> 01:19:54.680
got a good style now that works and it works

01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:56.680
good with both, you know, the hardcore sounds,

01:19:56.800 --> 01:19:59.140
but then when they have the kind of more metal

01:19:59.140 --> 01:20:03.039
riffy breakdown parts, his voice works really

01:20:03.039 --> 01:20:07.420
well for that too. Yeah. If you're a fan of agnostic

01:20:07.420 --> 01:20:11.359
front, this is one to spend your money on. It's

01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:13.260
my pick of the week for sure. Pick of the month

01:20:13.260 --> 01:20:19.729
probably. Okay. Jeremy. Yeah, just a couple to

01:20:19.729 --> 01:20:22.390
tell you about. Joker in the Pack by Hell in

01:20:22.390 --> 01:20:26.069
the Club. This is a Frontiers offering. Very

01:20:26.069 --> 01:20:29.029
sort of solid, heavy rock. They've got apparently

01:20:29.029 --> 01:20:32.189
a new female vocalist called Tetsy after having

01:20:32.189 --> 01:20:35.029
a male vocalist previously. So quite a different

01:20:35.029 --> 01:20:38.020
sort of sound for them. which I didn't realize

01:20:38.020 --> 01:20:39.699
because obviously I was just listening to this

01:20:39.699 --> 01:20:42.739
album. Very listenable, sort of hard -rocky,

01:20:42.739 --> 01:20:45.939
melodic type of stuff, which is what I like,

01:20:45.939 --> 01:20:48.359
obviously. And apparently it's album number seven,

01:20:48.420 --> 01:20:51.920
so the band itself is very polished at this stage.

01:20:53.200 --> 01:20:56.520
They've also toured a lot. I guess if you're

01:20:56.520 --> 01:20:59.800
looking for what they sound like, there's a little

01:20:59.800 --> 01:21:01.739
bit of Hailstorm in there. There's a little bit

01:21:01.739 --> 01:21:04.020
of Pretty Reckless. There's a dose of sort of

01:21:04.020 --> 01:21:07.819
Leather Leone in there. So you kind of get what

01:21:07.819 --> 01:21:10.680
it sounds like from that. Good melodies, good

01:21:10.680 --> 01:21:13.560
choruses, but they also keep it heavy enough,

01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:16.859
which is what I like. I don't like it too soft

01:21:16.859 --> 01:21:19.340
and poppy. So overall, it was a very good listen.

01:21:20.779 --> 01:21:23.420
My album of the week, though, would probably

01:21:23.420 --> 01:21:27.359
go to Prior Convictions by Alcatraz. Now, this

01:21:27.359 --> 01:21:29.420
one's actually an album of sort of re -recorded

01:21:29.420 --> 01:21:33.199
old songs with two new ones to sort of, I guess,

01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:36.439
fill a gap in the scheduling because I think

01:21:36.439 --> 01:21:38.279
they've mentioned they're writing a new album

01:21:38.279 --> 01:21:41.439
at the moment. It's also a chance for the new

01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:45.479
vocalist, Giles Lavery, to sort of sing some

01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:47.359
of the old material, which obviously he's going

01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:51.029
to do on tour. And I think he does an okay job.

01:21:51.810 --> 01:21:54.350
I think he's a bit weaker than Graham Bonnet

01:21:54.350 --> 01:21:59.289
and Doogie White overall. But, you know, there's

01:21:59.289 --> 01:22:00.649
nothing you can do about it. They've picked him

01:22:00.649 --> 01:22:03.630
now. But for the most part, it works because

01:22:03.630 --> 01:22:07.390
Joe Stump is, you know, he's all over it, really.

01:22:08.569 --> 01:22:11.649
And I think he's made some of these songs better.

01:22:14.490 --> 01:22:17.250
The original production on some of the songs

01:22:17.250 --> 01:22:19.369
as well was a bit so -so. And I think obviously

01:22:19.369 --> 01:22:21.350
you've got this more modern production sound.

01:22:21.630 --> 01:22:24.829
You've got Joe Stomp on there. And so all that

01:22:24.829 --> 01:22:27.609
together makes it a better listen. Plus the fact,

01:22:27.789 --> 01:22:29.350
you know, I haven't really listened to a lot

01:22:29.350 --> 01:22:31.430
of these songs for a long, long time. So, you

01:22:31.430 --> 01:22:34.310
know, it's, yeah, it's album of the week for

01:22:34.310 --> 01:22:38.529
me. Pride Convictions. Okay. I got a chance to

01:22:38.529 --> 01:22:41.689
check out the Agnostic Front. really strong album

01:22:41.689 --> 01:22:46.590
as, uh, as mentioned. Uh, but for me, uh, my

01:22:46.590 --> 01:22:51.869
album of the week is, is your friend from drain.

01:22:52.069 --> 01:22:57.350
This is a, another hardcore album, and this has

01:22:57.350 --> 01:22:59.609
some twists and turns and some different things

01:22:59.609 --> 01:23:03.229
that I mentioned before that really, uh, stood

01:23:03.229 --> 01:23:10.079
out to me. Um, and, and I just, Again, there's

01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:12.060
some times where I don't want to pick the same

01:23:12.060 --> 01:23:14.720
things that other people are picking. I mean,

01:23:14.739 --> 01:23:18.880
The Testament was an obvious choice, but just

01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:22.880
the ability to pinpoint another album and have

01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:27.560
someone else check the album out is also why

01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:31.399
we do this. That's right. It could have gone

01:23:31.399 --> 01:23:33.979
either way, Agnostic Front or Drain. And since

01:23:33.979 --> 01:23:36.220
you mentioned the Agnostic Front, I'm going with

01:23:36.220 --> 01:23:39.859
the Drain album. Sounds good. All right. So November

01:23:39.859 --> 01:23:43.779
14th, we had new albums from Cheap Trick, the

01:23:43.779 --> 01:23:46.539
French band Rise of the North Star, Withering

01:23:46.539 --> 01:23:51.859
Soul, Stellar Circuits of Mice and Men, NYC,

01:23:51.979 --> 01:23:59.880
Piledriver, Skull and Crossbones. Skull and Crossbones.

01:24:00.180 --> 01:24:06.529
Can't speak. And the Swedish thrash band. Mesro,

01:24:06.729 --> 01:24:09.430
who I recently interviewed their lead singer,

01:24:09.590 --> 01:24:18.029
Ufa. EPs from The Hanna and Fimble Winner. Live

01:24:18.029 --> 01:24:22.229
album from Scorpions, Coming Home Live. And compilations

01:24:22.229 --> 01:24:27.310
from various artists, No Life Till Leather. A

01:24:27.310 --> 01:24:29.869
tribute to Metallica's Kill Em All, which is

01:24:29.869 --> 01:24:34.229
where we got that Testament Metallica cover recently.

01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:41.000
And there was a Rammstein box set that was released

01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:46.739
for, what is that, 33. All right, Ed, what did

01:24:46.739 --> 01:24:53.140
you check out this week? I really loved those

01:24:53.140 --> 01:24:57.399
two singles. The first one by the New Metal Church.

01:25:00.579 --> 01:25:03.159
Man, that New Metal Church is sounding like.

01:25:03.390 --> 01:25:05.949
some good old classic metal church stuff. Again,

01:25:06.029 --> 01:25:09.170
that was just a single, but man, that's exciting

01:25:09.170 --> 01:25:12.109
me for what's to come. That singer they have,

01:25:12.149 --> 01:25:16.050
man, he sounds as much as the original as I think

01:25:16.050 --> 01:25:20.409
he could have, as he could. But yeah, that was

01:25:20.409 --> 01:25:23.010
good songwriting and nice headbanger. I also

01:25:23.010 --> 01:25:26.909
really, I know this is just a single, but that

01:25:26.909 --> 01:25:31.170
Raven cover or metal. Man, that's awesome. I

01:25:31.170 --> 01:25:33.590
can't get enough of that. I'd like to hear Raven

01:25:33.590 --> 01:25:37.149
do some more Metallica covers. They did a superb

01:25:37.149 --> 01:25:40.409
job on that. And that Testament one was good,

01:25:40.510 --> 01:25:44.710
too. But man, this one just is out of this world

01:25:44.710 --> 01:25:47.510
good. My pick for the week, though, would be

01:25:47.510 --> 01:25:50.989
the Mezro, which was just a nice, you know, just

01:25:50.989 --> 01:25:54.609
a good old classic thrash metal album slash or

01:25:54.609 --> 01:25:57.329
heavy metal slash thrash metal. They're really

01:25:57.329 --> 01:26:01.569
good at. you don't get bored of the thrash because

01:26:01.569 --> 01:26:04.109
of the other heavy metal elements that they add

01:26:04.109 --> 01:26:07.470
to it. And, and, and it's, it's all fresh sounding

01:26:07.470 --> 01:26:12.770
stuff, but it, you hear metal church and anthrax

01:26:12.770 --> 01:26:15.430
and Metallica and Megadeth in their riffs. You

01:26:15.430 --> 01:26:17.390
know, I'm also starting to realize that, man,

01:26:17.430 --> 01:26:20.130
we all need to get back to listening to music

01:26:20.130 --> 01:26:25.869
on home stereos. You know, I've finally got some.

01:26:26.520 --> 01:26:29.300
a home stereo again over the last few years,

01:26:29.380 --> 01:26:31.279
you know, put the parts and pieces together and

01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:33.979
got big speakers. And I'm noticing that there's

01:26:33.979 --> 01:26:37.520
a lot of records that I may listen to in the

01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:41.560
car or especially on my headphones. And it's,

01:26:41.560 --> 01:26:44.319
yeah, it's good, but it's not doing that much

01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:46.779
for me. But then I put it on on the stereo in

01:26:46.779 --> 01:26:49.720
here and it sounds completely different. And

01:26:49.720 --> 01:26:52.619
that Mezro did that for me. I think I listened

01:26:52.619 --> 01:26:55.619
to that Mezro sound before. And I didn't think

01:26:55.619 --> 01:26:57.659
that much of it until you brought it up again.

01:26:58.100 --> 01:27:00.439
And then I put it on the stereo here in my office

01:27:00.439 --> 01:27:03.279
and just heard it in a whole different way. And

01:27:03.279 --> 01:27:05.100
it makes me want to just listen to everything

01:27:05.100 --> 01:27:10.979
in here on my stereo in my room. But if I did

01:27:10.979 --> 01:27:13.819
that, then I'd probably have way more to talk

01:27:13.819 --> 01:27:17.140
about than you'd want me to shut up a bit. No,

01:27:17.199 --> 01:27:22.130
it's fine. So, yeah, the Masrow. My pick of the

01:27:22.130 --> 01:27:24.289
week. And a very good interview that you did.

01:27:24.430 --> 01:27:29.689
Oh, cool. Glad you enjoyed it. Jeremy, for the

01:27:29.689 --> 01:27:32.449
week of November 14th, what did you check out?

01:27:33.470 --> 01:27:38.130
Yeah, so First Nations Rock by Piledriver. These

01:27:38.130 --> 01:27:41.449
are the German rockers. Fifth studio album for

01:27:41.449 --> 01:27:44.210
them. The first in seven years, though, with

01:27:44.210 --> 01:27:46.869
apparently a live release in the intervening

01:27:46.869 --> 01:27:49.090
period. It's all sort of good times, slightly

01:27:49.090 --> 01:27:51.989
amateurish pub rock, I think you'd describe it

01:27:51.989 --> 01:27:55.109
as, in that sort of German style with a good

01:27:55.109 --> 01:27:57.810
sort of dose of crocus as well, you know, and

01:27:57.810 --> 01:28:01.470
even airborne in there mixed in. Uh, it's not

01:28:01.470 --> 01:28:03.970
all mixed perfectly, but it's kind of got the

01:28:03.970 --> 01:28:05.689
riffs there that, you know, you just want to

01:28:05.689 --> 01:28:08.329
turn it up and play it and just enjoy it for

01:28:08.329 --> 01:28:12.489
what it is. So yeah, that was okay. Um, but time

01:28:12.489 --> 01:28:16.029
by skull and crossbones. Wow. Another band from

01:28:16.029 --> 01:28:18.930
Germany, this one. And as a regular listeners

01:28:18.930 --> 01:28:21.449
will know, and you guys know, I'm a bit partial

01:28:21.449 --> 01:28:24.970
to a little power metal. Um, this is absolutely

01:28:24.970 --> 01:28:27.829
tremendous. I mean, these are three members of,

01:28:27.909 --> 01:28:30.989
uh, former members of storm, which. It's their

01:28:30.989 --> 01:28:35.909
second album. And I can only say the guitars

01:28:35.909 --> 01:28:38.350
just really, really rock on this. The bass is

01:28:38.350 --> 01:28:41.670
pounding. It's very bombastic. It's very Halloween.

01:28:42.289 --> 01:28:44.789
It's really amazing. There's loads of soaring

01:28:44.789 --> 01:28:48.529
melodies on it, great choruses. You've got a

01:28:48.529 --> 01:28:50.850
great high -pitched vocalist, Tobias Hubner.

01:28:52.270 --> 01:28:55.510
It's a heavy metal band first, so make no mistake

01:28:55.510 --> 01:28:59.489
about it. They're not a poppy type of band. power

01:28:59.489 --> 01:29:03.489
metal band uh but whatever they do they do it

01:29:03.489 --> 01:29:07.550
really great and and really loved it so yes but

01:29:07.550 --> 01:29:10.170
it's one of that is on my uh purchase list so

01:29:10.170 --> 01:29:14.229
time by skull and crossbones all right cool somehow

01:29:14.229 --> 01:29:17.529
or another after listening to a million things

01:29:17.529 --> 01:29:21.489
from the month of october um i kind of dropped

01:29:21.489 --> 01:29:26.859
the ball with this week So I'm going to be honest

01:29:26.859 --> 01:29:29.300
with you guys. The only thing that I really listened

01:29:29.300 --> 01:29:33.420
to was the Mesro album. So that's going to be

01:29:33.420 --> 01:29:37.479
my pick of the week. Ed described it perfectly.

01:29:37.560 --> 01:29:43.760
A good mix of good old 80s heavy metal with some

01:29:43.760 --> 01:29:47.539
thrash with a modern sound as well. It's a strong

01:29:47.539 --> 01:29:52.060
sounding album sonically. So, I mean, as you're

01:29:52.060 --> 01:29:54.159
describing the whole thing about... needing to

01:29:54.159 --> 01:29:56.760
listen to it through big speakers. I get it.

01:29:56.800 --> 01:30:00.119
I understand. So that makes a big difference.

01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:06.939
That's my pick of the week for the 14th. 21st

01:30:06.939 --> 01:30:10.159
saw new albums from Beast Eagle, Danko Jones,

01:30:10.859 --> 01:30:16.960
El Muerto, Bloodbound, Cassidy Paris, Treat,

01:30:17.119 --> 01:30:22.489
Striper, and Wolf Tooth. We saw that EP from

01:30:22.489 --> 01:30:27.529
Aerosmith and Youngblood and reissues from Creed

01:30:27.529 --> 01:30:33.109
and Korn. Jeremy, what did you listen to this

01:30:33.109 --> 01:30:36.350
week? Yeah, I listened to Field of Swords by

01:30:36.350 --> 01:30:39.430
Bloodbound. You know, really good power metal

01:30:39.430 --> 01:30:42.250
sort of thrashy, well, mainly power metal band,

01:30:42.350 --> 01:30:45.569
I guess. Great singer. But, I mean, what do you

01:30:45.569 --> 01:30:47.270
expect? They're Swedish, so they're going to

01:30:47.270 --> 01:30:50.850
produce some great music with good harmonies.

01:30:52.149 --> 01:30:54.350
There's some keyboards on the songs, but they

01:30:54.350 --> 01:30:58.470
keep it fairly heavy. I think the song themes

01:30:58.470 --> 01:31:01.670
are a little bit overplayed, though. They produce

01:31:01.670 --> 01:31:05.310
album after album of the same sort of song themes,

01:31:05.649 --> 01:31:08.329
all sort of warrior and battle references and

01:31:08.329 --> 01:31:10.289
all that kind of stuff. But, you know, it's a

01:31:10.289 --> 01:31:14.680
good listen. So, yeah. I like that one. And I

01:31:14.680 --> 01:31:16.859
also listened to the Def Leppard live album,

01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:19.420
which is going to be my album of the week, simply

01:31:19.420 --> 01:31:21.539
because Def Leppard, I think, is still a great

01:31:21.539 --> 01:31:24.300
live act. Even if you don't like a lot of their

01:31:24.300 --> 01:31:25.979
new stuff, you know, you're going to hear all

01:31:25.979 --> 01:31:28.560
the hits. And we all love the hits by Def Leppard.

01:31:28.659 --> 01:31:31.439
So that's the one I'm going to pick. How many

01:31:31.439 --> 01:31:38.199
of the new tracks are on that album? Off the

01:31:38.199 --> 01:31:41.100
top of my head, I can't remember now. Oh, I don't

01:31:41.100 --> 01:31:43.569
know. I don't know. I don't think there's many.

01:31:44.529 --> 01:31:47.930
I don't think there's many. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

01:31:49.069 --> 01:31:54.250
Ed, what did you listen to this week? I only

01:31:54.250 --> 01:31:58.869
have one thing for you this week. Just a classical

01:31:58.869 --> 01:32:03.569
death metal band called Slaughter Day. They are

01:32:03.569 --> 01:32:06.949
a band from Germany. This is my first time hearing

01:32:06.949 --> 01:32:13.180
them. But yeah, there's... I don't have a whole

01:32:13.180 --> 01:32:16.159
lot to say about it because it's just, you know,

01:32:16.159 --> 01:32:18.739
basic death metal. It's a little bit different.

01:32:18.840 --> 01:32:21.079
It's got kind of a grungy death metal sound.

01:32:21.460 --> 01:32:27.000
Sometimes a touch of crossover. The vocals. The

01:32:27.000 --> 01:32:28.560
vocals were a little bit funny because they're

01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:33.600
kind of like. They're almost hardcore, but not

01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:35.899
quite. Instead, it's more like he's talking to

01:32:35.899 --> 01:32:39.039
you with and then. It's like if someone came

01:32:39.039 --> 01:32:40.640
up and started talking to you, but they added

01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:43.539
a little growl to it. It'd be weird if they did.

01:32:43.939 --> 01:32:46.880
It kind of like, it's almost like if Oscar the

01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:50.840
Grouch joined the band. You know, it's just got

01:32:50.840 --> 01:32:53.800
that little kind of grumpy, growly sound to it,

01:32:53.800 --> 01:32:55.859
but he's still talking to you. That's kind of,

01:32:55.859 --> 01:32:59.380
it actually kind of, if you like Six Feet Deep,

01:32:59.479 --> 01:33:01.720
you know, with Chris Barnes and some of his funny

01:33:01.720 --> 01:33:04.520
vocals. He does some wacky stuff. Six Feet Down

01:33:04.520 --> 01:33:08.460
There. If you like that, you'll like this band

01:33:08.460 --> 01:33:12.079
too. I'm not trying to say that this guy sounds

01:33:12.079 --> 01:33:15.220
like Chris Barnes because Chris Barnes, he does

01:33:15.220 --> 01:33:19.100
some wacky stuff, like I said. Yeah, if you're

01:33:19.100 --> 01:33:20.779
just looking for another good death metal band

01:33:20.779 --> 01:33:24.180
to add to your collection, Slaughter Day, Terrified

01:33:24.180 --> 01:33:26.479
is the name of the album. That's your album of

01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:30.079
the week then. That's right, yeah. Only one I

01:33:30.079 --> 01:33:36.020
got. All right, Slaughter Day. Terrified is the

01:33:36.020 --> 01:33:41.539
name? Yes. Got to make sure that I got the right

01:33:41.539 --> 01:33:55.619
thing here. All right. So I listened to three

01:33:55.619 --> 01:34:00.119
things here. I listened to the Aerosmith with

01:34:00.119 --> 01:34:05.250
Youngblood EP, which. A lot of people are ranting

01:34:05.250 --> 01:34:09.449
and raving about and calling it, you know, saving

01:34:09.449 --> 01:34:13.149
rock in 2025. And I'm thinking, man, there's

01:34:13.149 --> 01:34:16.789
stuff that's so much better than this. And I

01:34:16.789 --> 01:34:20.130
think it's great that Youngblood is helping turn

01:34:20.130 --> 01:34:24.229
a lot of people's attention to Sabbath and Aerosmith

01:34:24.229 --> 01:34:29.560
and other more rock -related stuff. From the

01:34:29.560 --> 01:34:31.739
rock side of things, I know a lot of people are

01:34:31.739 --> 01:34:34.100
calling him a poser because he comes from the

01:34:34.100 --> 01:34:38.060
Disney side of things. And I think Mark has always

01:34:38.060 --> 01:34:40.460
said it. If you've got a young person that's

01:34:40.460 --> 01:34:44.300
trying to do something that's roughly related

01:34:44.300 --> 01:34:48.300
to rock, you should applaud them and you should

01:34:48.300 --> 01:34:55.239
try to support them. I have more issues with

01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:59.039
the Aerosmith side than I do the Youngblood side

01:34:59.039 --> 01:35:05.859
of things. Because, wow, is this polished and

01:35:05.859 --> 01:35:09.619
wow, is it poppy. And no, that's not Youngblood's

01:35:09.619 --> 01:35:15.199
fault because the perennial guys here that are

01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:18.399
swinging their junk are Aerosmith. They're the

01:35:18.399 --> 01:35:24.840
bigger name of the two. You know, I also, I kind

01:35:24.840 --> 01:35:28.680
of hate it when people start saying things like

01:35:28.680 --> 01:35:33.439
that, that he's the next Ozzy or the next, when

01:35:33.439 --> 01:35:36.739
people do that about anybody, I feel like you

01:35:36.739 --> 01:35:40.060
automatically jinx it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

01:35:40.060 --> 01:35:45.520
yeah. And because to really be the next, like

01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:48.180
I've heard people say that, you know, about singer

01:35:48.180 --> 01:35:50.739
songwriters sometimes about he's the next Johnny

01:35:50.739 --> 01:35:53.869
Cash. You would never know that until the end

01:35:53.869 --> 01:35:55.989
of their career, whether they really were that

01:35:55.989 --> 01:35:58.890
next person or not. And you're kind of trying

01:35:58.890 --> 01:36:03.109
to force it on someone. And like I said, you

01:36:03.109 --> 01:36:05.029
just kind of jinx the whole thing. And it takes

01:36:05.029 --> 01:36:07.590
away from the authenticity of that person doing

01:36:07.590 --> 01:36:10.510
it on their own without people making those claims.

01:36:10.590 --> 01:36:15.130
Yeah. Why can't Youngblood be the first Youngblood

01:36:15.130 --> 01:36:18.300
as opposed to being the next? Let him earn his

01:36:18.300 --> 01:36:21.840
own thing. That's right. And if after 20 to 30

01:36:21.840 --> 01:36:25.239
years, he's got staying power and he's put out

01:36:25.239 --> 01:36:27.579
a body of work that a lot of people are into,

01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:31.180
then great. You know, that's, that's. Yeah. Then

01:36:31.180 --> 01:36:35.060
you can make some comparisons. So, um, so I listened

01:36:35.060 --> 01:36:38.840
to that. I listened to Danko Jones, Leo rising.

01:36:39.420 --> 01:36:42.039
Obviously I had a rich Knox, the drummer of the

01:36:42.039 --> 01:36:45.920
band on the show recently. I also listened to

01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:51.159
Wolf Tooth's Wizard's Light on Ripple Music.

01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:55.619
Also got to interview three members of the band,

01:36:55.779 --> 01:36:58.899
Chris Sullivan, Terry McDonald, and Jeff Cole,

01:36:59.140 --> 01:37:05.979
which was the previous episode, 433. And because

01:37:05.979 --> 01:37:08.119
this is my show, damn it, it's going to be a

01:37:08.119 --> 01:37:10.560
tie between the Wolf Blood and the Danko Jones.

01:37:11.799 --> 01:37:17.680
only because I greatly appreciate both bands

01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:22.819
coming on the show. And I mean, I really like

01:37:22.819 --> 01:37:25.380
the Wolf Tooth. I ordered the vinyl version of

01:37:25.380 --> 01:37:28.960
that. Once they mentioned that Band Camp Friday

01:37:28.960 --> 01:37:32.460
was last Friday, I'm like, aha, I'm ordering

01:37:32.460 --> 01:37:37.819
it. And I think that Danko Jones is solid. I

01:37:37.819 --> 01:37:40.399
mean, if you're a fan of Danko Jones, you know

01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:44.039
that every album is going to have songs with

01:37:44.039 --> 01:37:48.220
rocking attitude, cool melodies, and stuff that

01:37:48.220 --> 01:37:50.840
you can throw into that Danko Jones playlist.

01:37:51.319 --> 01:37:54.619
And that fits the bill. So I think Leo Rising

01:37:54.619 --> 01:37:57.100
is really strong. A lot of people are really

01:37:57.100 --> 01:37:59.239
loving the album as well from what I've read

01:37:59.239 --> 01:38:06.840
online. That's going to be my pick. And then

01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:11.180
the week of the 28th, which was the week of Thanksgiving,

01:38:11.279 --> 01:38:14.939
so there was hardly anything that came out. Let's

01:38:14.939 --> 01:38:18.500
see. There was Pale Horse Ritual, 1349, Struck

01:38:18.500 --> 01:38:24.800
a Nerve, Steel, Arctis, Reissues from Mad Max,

01:38:25.159 --> 01:38:30.619
Live Album from Dream Theater, and two... Compilations

01:38:30.619 --> 01:38:34.340
from the Magnetic Eye, I believe it's called.

01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:37.619
They put out all these Redux albums. So what

01:38:37.619 --> 01:38:41.939
they did was a Downward Spiral Redux and Best

01:38:41.939 --> 01:38:47.840
of Nine Inch Nails Redux. And they're interesting

01:38:47.840 --> 01:38:50.699
compilations if you get a chance to listen to

01:38:50.699 --> 01:38:54.119
them. All of the Redux, and I'm not just saying

01:38:54.119 --> 01:38:56.920
that for the Nine Inch Nails. They've had Ramones.

01:38:57.500 --> 01:38:59.619
It's come out recently, and Alice in Chains won,

01:38:59.859 --> 01:39:02.819
and there's a few others. Just check out that

01:39:02.819 --> 01:39:05.260
interview with Howling Giant. They talk about

01:39:05.260 --> 01:39:08.180
it at length because they've done several covers

01:39:08.180 --> 01:39:12.600
for them over the years. Jeremy, what did you

01:39:12.600 --> 01:39:16.699
listen to this month? So Ed's going to fall off

01:39:16.699 --> 01:39:18.560
his seat in a minute because I'm just going to

01:39:18.560 --> 01:39:20.840
tell him that I listened to Winter Mass Live

01:39:20.840 --> 01:39:25.829
by 1349. This is a glorious mass of black metal,

01:39:25.890 --> 01:39:28.449
which I think he'd probably like more than me

01:39:28.449 --> 01:39:31.029
normally. It really takes me back to the days

01:39:31.029 --> 01:39:36.250
of Venom, you know, and to hear a live band as

01:39:36.250 --> 01:39:38.829
well playing this sort of stuff live, it sounds

01:39:38.829 --> 01:39:42.489
so much better than on normal recorded stuff.

01:39:42.869 --> 01:39:45.649
It's really lustful. It's blood -curdling. It's

01:39:45.649 --> 01:39:49.609
sort of stuff not for the faint -hearted, but

01:39:49.609 --> 01:39:52.590
there was a lot of... underneath it there was

01:39:52.590 --> 01:39:55.069
a lot of melody it was weird there was you know

01:39:55.069 --> 01:39:56.710
there's something in there that you can grasp

01:39:56.710 --> 01:40:00.470
onto so i kind of really enjoyed it and um just

01:40:00.470 --> 01:40:03.130
sort of jumped into it by accident so that was

01:40:03.130 --> 01:40:06.529
good uh i also listened to the um struck a nerve

01:40:06.529 --> 01:40:11.329
album the eponymous album uh by them um it's

01:40:11.329 --> 01:40:14.949
a debut album from a british band uh they sort

01:40:14.949 --> 01:40:17.109
of described themselves as thrash but i'd say

01:40:17.109 --> 01:40:19.149
they're kind of like a bit of a thrash hardcore

01:40:19.149 --> 01:40:23.600
crossover which I kind of like. They're also

01:40:23.600 --> 01:40:25.979
from Norfolk, which I don't know if you know,

01:40:26.060 --> 01:40:29.479
but it's the home of the darkness. So not many

01:40:29.479 --> 01:40:32.100
bands come from Norfolk, but yeah, there's two

01:40:32.100 --> 01:40:35.479
now. And they're really kind of good. They're

01:40:35.479 --> 01:40:39.600
good. Nothing new, but add a real sort of US

01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:43.060
feel to it as well, which I kind of liked. So

01:40:43.060 --> 01:40:46.119
that was good. But the band I'm going to pick

01:40:46.119 --> 01:40:49.140
as the album of the week is Steel Arctus with

01:40:49.140 --> 01:40:53.130
Dream Ruler. This was really good. This is sort

01:40:53.130 --> 01:40:56.029
of epic power, trad metal, you know, all mixed

01:40:56.029 --> 01:41:00.470
in, very epic stuff. They're a Greek band, and

01:41:00.470 --> 01:41:03.090
I thought they sounded a little bit like Firewind,

01:41:03.170 --> 01:41:04.789
but I thought they were better than Firewind

01:41:04.789 --> 01:41:08.170
because they just really screech and soar, you

01:41:08.170 --> 01:41:12.909
know, the guitars very much so. The singer is

01:41:12.909 --> 01:41:17.130
a guy called Tazos Lazarus, and he's a real sort

01:41:17.130 --> 01:41:20.979
of 80s. sort of Man O' War meets Kiel kind of

01:41:20.979 --> 01:41:24.260
vocalist. He's got some really high -pitched

01:41:24.260 --> 01:41:26.760
Rob Halford coming in there as well, which he

01:41:26.760 --> 01:41:30.979
does really well. He doesn't sound too amateurish.

01:41:30.979 --> 01:41:33.779
It just sounds really good. This was a really,

01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:36.500
really fun album. I've got it on my to -buy list

01:41:36.500 --> 01:41:39.779
as well because I went back and listened to some

01:41:39.779 --> 01:41:41.899
of the release stuff as well at the same time.

01:41:42.159 --> 01:41:45.260
So I really like it. It's the holiday season.

01:41:45.439 --> 01:41:48.279
It's fun. It's with a capital F. Let's go for

01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:53.640
it. It's Steel Arctis, Dream Ruler. Cool. To

01:41:53.640 --> 01:41:55.579
be honest, this is a week where I kind of dropped

01:41:55.579 --> 01:41:59.979
the ball as well. And the only thing that I listened

01:41:59.979 --> 01:42:02.880
to were the two Redux compilations that came

01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:06.100
out. My album of the week is going to be the

01:42:06.100 --> 01:42:12.789
best of Nine Inch Nails Redux only because. It's

01:42:12.789 --> 01:42:15.869
got more songs that I was into than just the

01:42:15.869 --> 01:42:18.510
Downward Spiral. The Downward Spiral has some

01:42:18.510 --> 01:42:23.569
neat covers on there. Just to give you an idea,

01:42:23.609 --> 01:42:27.569
if you're a fan of Nine Inch Snails, there's

01:42:27.569 --> 01:42:31.529
hardly anything that's electronic or industrial

01:42:31.529 --> 01:42:35.109
on either one of these two. For the most part,

01:42:35.289 --> 01:42:38.930
you've got sludge bands, you've got doom bands,

01:42:39.210 --> 01:42:43.840
you've got... different types of metal interpreting

01:42:43.840 --> 01:42:46.979
Nine Inch Nails. I think there's two tracks that

01:42:46.979 --> 01:42:51.359
have any type of keyboard or synth on it, and

01:42:51.359 --> 01:42:56.239
that's about it. So that's my album of the week

01:42:56.239 --> 01:43:00.039
there. Let me just recap all of our albums of

01:43:00.039 --> 01:43:03.380
the week real quick. Do you want mine for that

01:43:03.380 --> 01:43:07.479
week? Oh, I didn't say that. I'm trying to rush

01:43:07.479 --> 01:43:13.659
out the door here. We do, Ed. We definitely do.

01:43:13.899 --> 01:43:16.340
I can keep this quick because Jeremy already

01:43:16.340 --> 01:43:19.180
brought it up, but my pick is that struck a nerve.

01:43:20.359 --> 01:43:23.560
When I heard the first song, it was just typical,

01:43:23.640 --> 01:43:26.939
and I almost got rid of it, but I decided to

01:43:26.939 --> 01:43:31.720
leave it around a bit more, and I really started

01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:35.460
to enjoy it. You know, I'm noticing, I think,

01:43:35.619 --> 01:43:39.060
that the... There's newer thrash bands coming

01:43:39.060 --> 01:43:41.760
around or thrash bands that maybe have been around

01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:44.460
for a few years and they're really starting to

01:43:44.460 --> 01:43:49.159
come into their element. You know, in the first

01:43:49.159 --> 01:43:51.399
wave of thrash metal, you had a lot of thrash

01:43:51.399 --> 01:43:53.300
metal bands that, you know, they're fast and

01:43:53.300 --> 01:43:55.840
lots of riffs and they kind of sound the same

01:43:55.840 --> 01:44:00.520
one band to the next. And that can become a problem

01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:04.319
with thrash metal, I think. But now, just like

01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:07.159
with a lot of death metal bands. some of these

01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.039
newer bands are adding some new things that are

01:44:10.039 --> 01:44:12.680
keeping it interesting. And I think what I'm

01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:15.279
learning is that when you have just a good old

01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:18.060
pure thrash metal band like this, or like Jeremy

01:44:18.060 --> 01:44:21.199
said, crossover, thrash, that kind of thing,

01:44:21.819 --> 01:44:26.239
bands like Crysic, Warbringer, with the Shally

01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:29.800
vocals, just lots of speed, lots of fast riffs.

01:44:30.920 --> 01:44:33.899
I'm starting to realize that a lot of what keeps

01:44:33.899 --> 01:44:37.350
it interesting are the drummers. And I'm noticing

01:44:37.350 --> 01:44:39.409
that with this struck a nerve. This drummer,

01:44:39.489 --> 01:44:42.970
just like Condition Critical, I feel like they're

01:44:42.970 --> 01:44:45.770
not afraid to show that they're fans of Dave

01:44:45.770 --> 01:44:49.270
Lombardo or Charlie Benate. And they're allowing

01:44:49.270 --> 01:44:53.670
those influences into their songs and making

01:44:53.670 --> 01:44:56.789
those songs more interesting than a lot of the

01:44:56.789 --> 01:44:59.689
first wave thrash metal bands, I think. And this

01:44:59.689 --> 01:45:02.170
drummer, too, in Struck a Nerve, he keeps doing...

01:45:02.430 --> 01:45:05.470
As soon as I start to get a little bored, he

01:45:05.470 --> 01:45:09.470
throws in some blast beats and just kind of raises

01:45:09.470 --> 01:45:11.829
the intensity of the music a bit. Or he does

01:45:11.829 --> 01:45:13.689
some work on the snare drums. That makes you

01:45:13.689 --> 01:45:16.050
think, man, that reminds me of old Dave Lombardo.

01:45:16.090 --> 01:45:20.210
They were having fun. So if you like thrash metal

01:45:20.210 --> 01:45:25.750
and it's, like I said, a better than average

01:45:25.750 --> 01:45:31.739
band, you said this is your debut? Yeah. On their

01:45:31.739 --> 01:45:33.520
debut, they're already a better than average

01:45:33.520 --> 01:45:37.720
thrash band, I think. I haven't had enough time

01:45:37.720 --> 01:45:40.140
to spend with it to say a whole lot about what

01:45:40.140 --> 01:45:43.500
songs are best, but I'm going to be enjoying

01:45:43.500 --> 01:45:47.739
this one for a few months, I think. Cool. So

01:45:47.739 --> 01:45:51.279
let's just recap real quickly the albums that

01:45:51.279 --> 01:45:57.640
we picked. For October 3rd, Jeremy went with

01:45:57.640 --> 01:46:02.020
Michael Shanker, Don't Sell Your Soul. And Ed

01:46:02.020 --> 01:46:07.760
went with Living Sacrifice Inhibit Reissue. I

01:46:07.760 --> 01:46:12.739
went with AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun for

01:46:12.739 --> 01:46:18.479
October 10th. All three of us went with Testament

01:46:18.479 --> 01:46:26.140
Parabellum October 17th. Ed went with Coroner

01:46:26.140 --> 01:46:30.970
and Dissonance Theory. Jeremy went with Wings

01:46:30.970 --> 01:46:34.829
of Steel, Winds of Time. And I went with Biohazard,

01:46:34.829 --> 01:46:42.750
Divided We Fall. October 24th, Jeremy went with

01:46:42.750 --> 01:46:48.310
Ronnie Romero and Backbone. Ed went with Bonginator

01:46:48.310 --> 01:46:51.930
with Retro Death. And I went with Sumo Psycho,

01:46:51.930 --> 01:47:00.199
Neon Void. Halloween. Jeremy went with Creeper,

01:47:00.260 --> 01:47:06.899
Sanguinovor, Sanguivor 2, Mistress of Death.

01:47:07.840 --> 01:47:13.779
And Ed went with Voorhees and 4. I went with,

01:47:13.899 --> 01:47:18.359
what did I go with? Howling Giant, Crucible and

01:47:18.359 --> 01:47:24.260
Ruin. And then for November, Novemba. Ed went

01:47:24.260 --> 01:47:27.819
with Agnostic Front, Echoes in Eternity. That's

01:47:27.819 --> 01:47:32.939
November 7th. Jeremy went with Alcatraz and Prior

01:47:32.939 --> 01:47:36.979
Convictions. And I went with Train and Is Your

01:47:36.979 --> 01:47:44.680
Friend. November 14th. Both Ed and I coincided

01:47:44.680 --> 01:47:49.079
with Mesro and Embrace the Awakening. And Jeremy

01:47:49.079 --> 01:47:56.149
went with Skull and Crossbones, Time. November

01:47:56.149 --> 01:48:01.470
21st, Ed went with Slaughter Day and Terrified.

01:48:02.090 --> 01:48:05.430
Jeremy went with Def Leppard and Diamond Star

01:48:05.430 --> 01:48:10.289
Halo live from Sheffield. And I had a tie with

01:48:10.289 --> 01:48:13.449
Danko Jones' Leo Rising and Wolf Tooth Wizard's

01:48:13.449 --> 01:48:19.630
Light. And for the following week and the final

01:48:19.630 --> 01:48:26.479
week in November, November 28th, Jeremy went

01:48:26.479 --> 01:48:33.220
with Steel Artist Dream Ruler. Ed went with Struck

01:48:33.220 --> 01:48:36.600
a Nerve and their self -titled debut. And I went

01:48:36.600 --> 01:48:39.479
with various artists, the best of Nine Inch Nails.

01:48:40.399 --> 01:48:48.079
Redux. Boom. It is done. An hour and 43 minutes,

01:48:48.159 --> 01:48:50.920
folks. Hopefully we can keep this in one solid

01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:53.300
show. If not, we'll just break it up into two.

01:48:53.850 --> 01:48:56.149
And that way we get two weeks of content out

01:48:56.149 --> 01:48:58.609
of it, depending on what you can do that. Yeah.

01:48:58.729 --> 01:49:01.890
Yeah. Let's see what the platform allows me to

01:49:01.890 --> 01:49:07.829
do. So awesome. I want to thank both Jeremy and

01:49:07.829 --> 01:49:12.470
Ed for joining me today. These episodes are so

01:49:12.470 --> 01:49:16.029
much fun. Ed, I do have to ask you one question

01:49:16.029 --> 01:49:22.260
though. Yeah. As being welcomed into doing these

01:49:22.260 --> 01:49:24.880
shows, has this turned you on to listening to

01:49:24.880 --> 01:49:29.060
more new music as a habit as opposed to before?

01:49:31.060 --> 01:49:34.060
Yes. I mean, it's always been a habit, but now

01:49:34.060 --> 01:49:36.600
I feel like I have an assignment, so that helps.

01:49:38.579 --> 01:49:43.500
Go ahead. This year has turned out to be one

01:49:43.500 --> 01:49:46.260
of the best years for heavy metal, I think, in

01:49:46.260 --> 01:49:49.000
the last few years. There are some excellent

01:49:49.000 --> 01:49:50.960
albums. I'm going to really have a hard time

01:49:50.960 --> 01:49:54.579
putting together that top 10 list that you're

01:49:54.579 --> 01:49:57.000
wanting by the 17th. Yeah, that is correct, sir.

01:49:57.500 --> 01:50:00.340
So did we not usually do that in January so that

01:50:00.340 --> 01:50:02.659
you have the December albums? I can't remember.

01:50:02.840 --> 01:50:06.840
We did that a long time ago. And the thing is,

01:50:06.840 --> 01:50:11.960
since December is technically a really light

01:50:11.960 --> 01:50:14.520
month with releases, there's a whole lot of death

01:50:14.520 --> 01:50:16.600
metal that comes out that month. death metal

01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:18.840
and black metal, but there's little else. Yeah.

01:50:18.899 --> 01:50:20.420
See, that's going to be a problem for me. Yeah.

01:50:21.380 --> 01:50:26.560
Um, I mean, we can do something else. We could

01:50:26.560 --> 01:50:33.140
also do a recap of, um, in January, we can talk

01:50:33.140 --> 01:50:37.939
about your death metal, um, yeah. Releases. Well,

01:50:38.000 --> 01:50:39.640
you'll probably hear about it when we do an album.

01:50:39.699 --> 01:50:42.539
Yeah. Yeah. It'll give us a reason for doing

01:50:42.539 --> 01:50:45.660
a December review for the first time ever. Because

01:50:45.660 --> 01:50:49.420
previous to this, we've taken December off. I

01:50:49.420 --> 01:50:53.640
do have one album on there already. Cool. Hopefully

01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:56.479
we can add a few more. Awesome. But yeah, I'm

01:50:56.479 --> 01:50:58.779
on the ball, man. Every morning listening to

01:50:58.779 --> 01:51:02.100
those jams. And like I said, when I hear an especially

01:51:02.100 --> 01:51:05.420
good tune here and there, I'll hit that share

01:51:05.420 --> 01:51:07.619
button and send it your way so that Patreons

01:51:07.619 --> 01:51:09.500
can hear it and they'll have a little better

01:51:09.500 --> 01:51:11.180
idea of some of the bands that I'm talking about.

01:51:11.840 --> 01:51:14.079
So even if they don't like it, they at least

01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:16.890
go. Kind of have an idea of what I'm trying to

01:51:16.890 --> 01:51:18.529
say here. Yeah, at least they get something new

01:51:18.529 --> 01:51:23.470
to listen to. And again, this month doesn't have

01:51:23.470 --> 01:51:28.850
a lot of stuff coming out. So I only post one

01:51:28.850 --> 01:51:33.130
video a day usually because if not, there's no

01:51:33.130 --> 01:51:37.409
way to post two. But any new music that you can

01:51:37.409 --> 01:51:40.149
share with us is greatly appreciated. It helps

01:51:40.149 --> 01:51:43.520
me out tremendously. We'll have to give everybody

01:51:43.520 --> 01:51:47.359
a bongonade or something. There you go. Awesome.

01:51:47.779 --> 01:51:51.460
On that note, I want to thank anyone who's checked

01:51:51.460 --> 01:51:56.180
the episode out, whether live or recorded. We're

01:51:56.180 --> 01:51:58.319
recording this beforehand, but when it debuts

01:51:58.319 --> 01:52:03.699
on Friday the 12th, I should say. Jeremy and

01:52:03.699 --> 01:52:06.119
Ed, thank you so much. And we'll catch you all

01:52:06.119 --> 01:52:09.579
next time right here on Signals from Mars. See

01:52:09.579 --> 01:52:35.369
you, folks. This concludes our show.