Welcome everyone to episode 437 of Signals From
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You know that I always talk about how important
it is to listen to new music and why you should
check out our monthly album reviews. And listen,
we don't always get them out on time, but the
music lasts forever. So, for example, a few episodes
ago, we released October, November of 2025. Yes,
I know we're in 2026, but it's still important
for that episode to come out. and hear us talk
about bands that we got turned on to, albums
that we think are worth your while, so on and
so forth, Struck Nerve is one of these bands.
And I'm lucky that I have a good, tight -knit
group of patrons, and a few of them like to come
on and talk about new music and discover new
music at the same time as I do. So Struck Nerve
was something that Jeremy and Ed both talked
about. It was an album that I honestly did not
check out initially, but after them talking the
album up, I figured I need to listen to this.
I've done a series of thrash bands in the last
few months where I've interviewed them, whether
that's Mezro, whether that's Condition Critical.
Well, Struck a Nerve, interestingly enough, from
England, Mezro from Sweden, and Condition Critical,
from New Jersey, from the US, all from different
parts of the world, but they all love metal.
They all love thrash. And it's so important to
keep this ball rolling, folks. So it just so
happened that at the time that I had finished
listening to the album, I received an email from
their PR, from Dustin Hartman, mentioning that
that they're available for interviews. So I do
have to thank Dustin for helping me set everything
up. So this is a real cool interview. I hope
that if nothing else, you check the album out,
you check out Nathan's other band, Shrapnel,
and decide, man, it's up to you guys. I put these
interviews together of things that I think that
you guys will enjoy and that I enjoy at the same
time. And I hope it's a worthwhile listen to
you guys. And in the end. If you enjoy the band,
if you enjoy the discussion, check them out.
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about that during every interview because it
is important to support these bands. Again, to
keep the ball rolling. It is so crucial to them
and for us. As lovers of this kind of music of
hard rock and metal, in this case, specifically
thrash to do our part to keep things going. And
yeah, as much as we love all the old school bands
and everything that they've done, I think it's
important to expand that soundtrack of our lives.
So without further ado, let's check out this
interview with Nathan. Welcome everyone to the
latest episode of Signals from Mars. Joining
me today is Nathan from Struckenerve. Nathan,
how are you, sir? I'm good, man. Rushed off my
feet, but we're good. We're patching holes up
here. Last minute crises over there. My phone
blowing up with mistakes. But apart from that,
we're good, man. Enjoying Christmas and how are
you? I'm doing well myself. Not in crisis mode
like you are at the moment, but hopefully you
guys can straighten everything all out. We're
good. Yeah, so when people talk about the big
four of thrash, they usually talk about four
American thrash bands. You guys are obviously
from England, from the UK. Who would you say
are the big four of UK thrash? Ooh. Good question.
It's a bit of an argument over here. So, yeah,
I mean, if you're talking old school, you've
got to include Zentrix. You've got Sabbat, Slammer.
We had some, you know, Lawmower Death. We had
some killer bands back in the day. That's missing
a whole bunch as well. I mean, you know, since
then, Evile have definitely staked the claim,
I think. They definitely, you know, early, well,
late 2000s were definitely, I think, instrumentally
popularizing thrash again, especially in the
UK. So for me, they have to be in there. I think
arguably they did end up doing more than a lot
of the old school bands did anyway. So yeah,
I think they're sort of, them and Zentrix for
me are like really, they're top of the pile for
UK thrash. I would say Gamma Bomb, but they don't
class themselves as being from the UK. So they're
Irish through and through. So, you know, they're
close. It was funny. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah,
we're lucky. We've had some great bands over
here. So we feel like we're, continuing a pretty
rich tradition in the UK. It was funny. I was
researching the band and saw that your drummer
had played in Gamma Bomb. And I was like, wait
a second. Are they from Northern Ireland or from
Ireland? I don't want to mess that up just in
case. We still do. We're really terrible for
it. They've shifted over time. I think they have
a mix of kind of British passport. I think some
of them lived close to Northern Ireland, but
I think more over time, their identity now is
very much, they're Irish. Yeah. Okay. Okay, cool.
How has being from Norwich influenced you guys
as a band? I mean, Norwich, you know, in our
old bands, I mean, still my current band, Shrapnel,
when we started, Norwich has always been, it's
not like a backwater, but it's really out of
the way compared to other places in the UK. When
thrash really re -emerged here in the 2000s,
it was very much a northern phenomena. I mean,
London is London, so it was certainly quite alive
there. But Norwich is a pretty sleepy city. I've
since moved away. I've been away from Norwich
here in Oxford for, what, like six years or something?
And since I've been away... Hey, actually Norwich
is now absolutely exploded. The scene there is
really is like amazing. Every time I go back
now, I'm really, I'm blown away with this, like
a new incredible band. They're all super young,
really enthusiastic. Every venue you go to is
like, feels really alive. And yes, it's been
really nice actually this time around to, to
sort of be inspired by the local scene. But yeah,
it's, it's absolutely incredible. I've got, you
know, a young band called Bird Witch who would
literally, I mean, they're like 19, 20 and, uh,
you know, they're packing out venues and it's
just, it feels really alive. So when we, when
we show us now, it, it really, you know, it puts,
puts the wind, winds to, yeah, it's a really
joy to drive forward and see sort of these young
bands coming through and up the arse a bit to
be fair. Yeah, that's, that's always good. I
mean, it makes sure that you're not comfortable
and just, kind of set in your ways makes you
kind of evolve and keep moving forward yeah exactly
it's really turned the shows that we do back
home into such a mixed crowd as well uh that's
lovely to see it's just it's been i think every
single show we've done in our hometown has been
amazing so it's been uh yeah we feel pretty fortunate
to sort of be part of it really okay so the self
-titled struck a nerve album came out last month
in november um but you guys have been releasing
singles since the spring of 2024. Um, is there
a specific reason why it took so long from the
first single to the actual full album coming
out? I think, I think in terms of like the, the
aims of the band have changed. Like when we,
when we started me and Chris, we were really
doing it for a bit of a bit of a laugh. Um, and
time, but with our other band and we were just
like, a bit bored so we started this new thrash
thing and uh we wanted to kind of soft launch
it so we just did a few shows to start with and
it just it picked up a lot of momentum like really
really quickly so coming into 2025 we had the
entirety of the drums already recorded for the
records so we had an album sat there and we were
just kind of working on it as and when in our
own time really um yeah and we kind of soft launch
things but as 2025 started we did a tour in early
2025 and it just went absolutely amazingly well
we dropped a new single and it did really really
well and just really yeah again it sort of put
the wind in our sails to be like oh this is this
is actually something us you know worth us doing
properly um and so we yeah we got the album done
and it was so it turned into something that we
were doing as a bit of a side thing to something
that we're putting a lot of time into and just
amazed at how well it's growing really Okay.
And you guys hooked up with Listenable to put
the album out. How important is Listenable to
Struck A Nerve? What do they help you guys with?
And what has it meant for you guys to sign with
a label like that with their reputation? Yeah,
we've been blown away. We were really, really
lucky. We were going to do everything DIY. We've
had this kind of strong kind of DIY sort of began
and we really had no intention of getting a record
label. And it wasn't until we were on tour with
our friends in Chemicide who, you know, they
just put a record out with Listenable as well.
Frankie was just saying to me on the road, he
was like, give them a try. You have to. It's
been going really well for us because he's always
been the same with Chemicide. They've always
been very, very, very DIY. And he was just, he
kept singing their praises. Our friends in Devastator,
are on the same label zentrix as well and they've
all said the same thing just you know really
good label check them out so yeah we got back
from this uk tour in summer um i was like okay
man i'll send them i'll send them the record
not really expecting to hear much back and literally
two days later after sending laurent uh our label
guy um literally two days later it came straight
back so right let's do this let's go um and he's
been incredible it's been you know just super
fast moving on getting all the vinyls produced
getting all the prs it's been really we've been
blown away uh we've not really had that experience
with a label before we've had kind of a bit of
a fractious history with with label stuff so
to see it working as you know i think it's supposed
to and being a smaller independent and sort of
they're a label who are quicker to react to things
they can get stuff done when it needs to be done
um So we were originally supposed to release
the album in November as we got signed. And then
they were able to turn it, sorry, we were supposed
to release it in October. And then we delayed.
They got everything printed, everything ready.
You know, our advance came through within like
a month and it was all done and in my hands already.
So yeah, it's been an incredible experience.
I think we're really, really excited to see what
we do with them next in 2026. Okay. Yeah, so.
You've also alluded to this. You're a member
of the band shrapnel as well. You're the, both
bands are still currently going. Um, yeah, yeah.
It's, it's made the balance, but both bands are
off, obviously sonically different. They're still
metal bands, but you know, uh, they're, they're
definitely differences between them. Um, you
mentioned before that struck a nerve kind of
came out of, you know, almost like a joke initially.
But obviously, in order to write this, you've
got other avenues that you're looking to travel
with the different types of music that you're
able to write, even though it started out that
way. Has there been, you know, a feeling along
the way for you? You know, I've got this other
side of me. I want to do something a little different.
I love this, but I also love this. Yeah, I mean,
that's been the case all the way along. you know
i got into metal in the late 90s and one of those
people who who i was a sponge with it when i
was growing up like i love everything doom metal
you know 70s rock 70s metal 80s i love him i'm
a punk fan i'm a cross punk fan so i'm always
and i'm a bit in general my personality is very
much i flick the thing between things all the
time so like how much since we started we've
been going I've always wanted to do something
different with it each time. So we started as
very much, you know, we were in that early wave
and each album we tried to make really different.
We were sort of inspired by death metal at one
point, heavy metal at one point. You know, the
newest stuff is much more sort of metalcore,
modern stuff. You know, Thrash has been my, you
know, Exodus, Slayer, all that stuff has been
my bread and butter since I was a kid. So it's
my, it's my, And me and Chris as well, the stuff
that we like to write together is very much,
you know, just struck an end with no external
pressure, no box ticking, no expectations, just
me and my friends writing the music that we love.
So I think in a way it's a bit of a return to
stuff I've done in the past and sort of a return
to like the core music that, you know, all four
of us, that's our... that we share we're all
slayer fans we're all sort of big four fans uh
we love our old school thrash and and death metal
and stuff so yeah i think it's just a return
to those sort of basic build and blocks of what
we love really okay and the songs that are on
the self -titled debut are they songs that you
started writing when you decided that you wanted
to put this project together or are they things
that you had yeah no they were all most of the
albums written within like three months really
um oh wow chris himself uh our drummer chris
is a good songwriter himself so he got um especially
during covid he got really little programming
drums and stuff so he was able to send me like
full full songs so something like raining death
on the album is you know he just sent me over
a full full drum track with kind of ideas of
you know how riffs should be highlighted and
things like that um so between me and him we
We wrote the vast majority, I think, in early...
I can't exactly... The timeline is really blurry
because we did it as a bit of a giggle, just
me and my mate. It's hard to remember the exact
timeline, but I remember we wrote this thing
really, really quickly and then maybe things
like Leviathan Wings came a little bit later
as we were booking in for a recording. But yeah,
it was done really quickly and what you hear
is what we wrote at the time. Okay. And you just
mentioned that with shrapnel, you've gone through
different phases of the band. So how did you
choose to keep these songs all struck a nerve
and not save any for shrapnel? I think that the
two things are sort of vastly different now when
it's two different mind spaces to be in, right?
So when we're doing struck a nerve stuff, it's
very much savage, short, sharp. thrash music
that we love and then i think you know the other
side of my mind with the shrapnel stuff more
lately has been this is something a year and
really sort of ponder over and and be a bit more
melodic and a bit more yeah just too too dependent
on the mood that we're in then so you know where
we're getting busy at the minute writing a follow
-up for for struck a nerve and it's very much
you know getting into the mind the mindset of
this is the mission we're doing these but brutal
short thrash songs. And that's, that's just one
avenue of the things that I love. So I don't
find it too difficult to flip between the two
things. Um, it's been, yeah, that's the, that's
the mode we're in at the minute. So we're, we're,
we're cracking on. Okay. You're writing album
number two. You're saying you pursue sitting
on the tracks for a little bit then. Yeah. I
think we're probably about halfway there to be
fair. Um, I think, We'll be doing a lot of writing
literally in the next week or so. We'll be trying
to get quite a bit done before everybody returns
to normality for the new year. But yeah, I think
we'll be trying to get into the studio. We might
be trying to get in a bit earlier than that to
do, there's an idea of maybe putting an EP out
before our next tour. But yeah, it will come
together pretty quick, I think. Especially, you
know, we've got Aaron and Lex sort of on board
right from the beginning of the process this
time as well. And Lex is an amazing songwriter,
absolutely incredible guitar player. So the stuff
he's been sending over is great as well. So I
think it's going to come together pretty quick
over the next couple of months. Okay. And outside
of the separation you just mentioned between
Shrapnel and Struck a Nerve, was there anything
else that you specifically wanted to do on this
album that you hadn't done in the past on any
of your previous work? Yeah, I think really keeping
things tight. We really wanted to aim for a half
an hour record. We really set that 32, 33 minutes.
It's like that's the maximum. We're not going
over that. Because I think it keeps us constrained.
We did an album with Aaron before with Shrapnel.
He was on our third record. And it ended up being
like an hour long. It's a cool album and stuff,
but I think it's overwritten and we didn't set
enough guardrails on. you know trying to prevent
ourselves from going too far and doing too much
so i think this time we were really much like
this is gonna be half an hour that's what we're
doing it's gonna be eight nine ten songs max
that's the rules and that's the only rules we've
got we're keeping it short so i think yeah that
was certainly in our minds um and we've never
really approached an album like that before we're
gonna keep this as energetic as possible and
if it's longer than 32 it's not it's not on there
I think it's really helped the record. I think
it's made the album really streamlined and catchy
and something that you want to put on. Definitely.
I would have to agree with that. It is 32 minutes
exact. And it's funny because I had this discussion
with another thrash band recently. I think the
music. lends itself to that as well and makes
it an easy listen, like you said, where you can
listen to it a bunch of times without an issue.
I think this happened back when the CDs started
becoming super popular, where bands could put
out albums that were 74 minutes long, but it
wasn't necessarily a good thing either, because
especially for, I think, thrash. Uh, for a lot
of bands, it got to a point where it was like,
okay, well I get it. The label asked for 60 minutes,
70 minutes or whatever. So these last five songs
just aren't as good as the rest of the album,
where if it was a tight, as you're saying, half
hour, you know, a lot of these, a lot of those
older albums would have been perfect because
you would have been able to cut away some of
the fat. And like you guys are doing, maybe it
would have lent itself so some of the songs that
were maybe half -baked at the time could have
had more time for seasoning or whatever and been
fleshed out a little better for a follow -up
album or an EP. Yeah, I think so. I think it
depends on the songwriting as well. You think
Marshall Proverbs is, what, 51 minutes long,
something like that, right? But the songwriting
is perfection, so they can get away with it,
right? Would I want a Slayer album that was 70
minutes long? Absolutely not. I don't want to
be pummeled by that same sound for that long.
This needs to be 40 minutes and we're out. You
know, you think of, it can work. So I think,
you know, Exodus, Exhibit A especially, I think...
It's pushing your patience a little bit, isn't
it? For like an hour 15 of face smashing. There's
a lot. I think B, the second album, that pushes
even my patience a little bit. But really well
written albums, to be fair. So it can be done.
I just don't think our particular, that kind
of shorter, like eight minute long songs, and
they're well written, great. You know, I'm jealous.
I wish I could do it. But I think if you're doing
these sort of three and a half, three minute
songs, you just can't. I think you there's only
so much of that before the idea of it gets dull.
Right. So, yeah, I think I think that's something
we're probably going to see. It feels right.
And I think if you're if you're starting to get
sort of that half an hour. mark and you start
to cut things that are also really good things
of like that's half an hour of solid well -written
music um so yeah i think that's going to be something
that we try to stick to in the future okay yeah
uh does your gear change between both bands it
will yeah shrapnel's just gone i'm a bit of i'm
terrible for change so shrapnel has just gone
fully kind of devil all the other guys have got
in -air monitors they've got all that my old
school dinosaur heads so it hasn't happened yet
um but i mean the sound of the two bands is remarkably
different now so i've gotten away with it so
far um but yeah we're now in the process of actually
me with the shrapnel stuff going a bit more a
bit more modern and i'm kicking and screaming
but it is happening um whereas you know the struck
stuff's very much lead head done wah pedal you're
good to go so um yeah there is there is definitely
a pretty massive difference forming um thankfully
we got uh the black star endorsement uh and they've
been absolutely unbelievably helpful they're
only their headquarters is about an hour away
from my house so they've been brilliant like
sort of kicked me out and getting me sorted so
yeah it is happening even if i don't like it
What about tuning between both bands? Are you
tuning the guitar different with each band? Because
it seemed like with Shrapnel, you were tuned
a little bit lower than you are with Struckenerv.
Yeah, recently. So Shrapnel was always E standard.
We were always standard tuning right up until
the newest album, and then we dropped right down
to C. But Struckenerv right flat has been the
slayer tuning to me. And I think just that half
a step down. It makes a huge difference. I mean,
it's probably spoken about a lot by guitar players,
but I think that even that minimal amount of
tuning change can make such a huge difference
to your, even to your songwriting and just the
sound of everything. There's a pretty big reason
to me why the Struck stuff sounds a lot different,
even to the early shrapnel stuff. If you compare
the first shrapnel record to the debut Struck
and Nerve, they're really quite different. And
a lot of it is just that semitone down. It just
makes you, I mean, for me, it just physically
makes me play a bit chunkier. It makes me, you
know, strings get a little bit looser. So you
just get that different feel when you're writing
stuff and playing stuff. So, yeah, I think it's
a really good way of just forcing yourself to
play differently and affects your songwriting
and stuff. Okay. Yeah, we've talked about that
on the show before, actually, with some of my
patrons, how when bands started, adapting and
using drop tuning and stuff, how just that slight,
you know, the, the E flat, uh, how it made it
hard for people to pick up on playing songs because,
you know, everyone was used to just E standard
and people were playing a lot of stuff just wrong.
And then, you know, your typical interview or
whatever, somebody says, Oh yeah, we tuned the
E flat and like, Oh, it makes sense now. Some
stuff is a disaster for, I mean, I love Megadeth.
They're one of my favorite things in the entire
world, but seeing Megadeth playing in like the
standard line. No. It takes away a huge chunk
of character. The guitars for me, I still love
them. I still go see it. Yeah, just that, you
know, it's one step, two note difference, but
it makes a huge, huge difference to the sort
of live experience, I think, and to the sort
of the bitey crunchiness that you expect. from
a thrash band. Right. I get that. It's interesting
because for years he talked about not changing
the tuning and then a few years back they started
to do it, I guess, because of his voice. Yeah,
sure. We'll see with this final album how that
all turns out. Yeah, I'm enjoying it, so I don't
care. Do you like the three tracks that they've
released? yeah I mean it's different though so
my I've got two kids who are now hugely into
Megadeth and Iron Maiden and for them it's their
their first right album cycle so you live a little
bit vicariously so yeah we all know what the
quality of it is we all know right you know it's
uh I wish that the lyrics were different they're
not um but my kids are jumping around the living
room loving it so vicariously Live free a little
bit as well. So I'm super excited about it. We
can't wait. Yeah, that's, that's interesting
because I have kids that my youngest just became
a teenager and listening to bands that I've listened
my entire life where, you know, you read things
online or people are hypercritical of bands,
but you see it through the eyes of somebody who
hasn't lived through all of that, where as you're
saying, it's their first new album by the band.
And to them, it's a big deal. For them, the combination
of Fortnite with Metallica or ACDC was huge for
them because they're like, wow, you know, we
listen to this music and then now we're seeing
it in video games. And, you know, they weren't
arguing about whether it was Bon Scott or Brian
Johnson or whether, you know, 72 Seasons is as
good as Master of Puppets. They were just loving
the music. Just the same. So it's awesome to
see that kind of through virgin eyes and ears,
you know, without some of that. Yeah, no, I agree.
Yeah. Yeah. I think the, the, the critiques are
fine. Like critique is healthy, I think. Yeah.
Yeah. We're, uh, these bands don't have long
left, so we're, we're enjoying what we've got
left. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so you mentioned
to me and you mentioned at the beginning of the,
of the show as well. that you've got a UK tour
lined up. The announcement just came out. Can
you fill us in on some of that? Yeah, we can't
wait. It's actually our label buddies, Devastator.
We've known these guys. Actually, Tom was going
to be our vocalist at one point. But yeah, they're
an amazing black and thrash band from here in
the UK. If you haven't heard them, check them
out. Really filthy. dirty black and thrash great
like if you like knife and bands like that they're
definitely well up there um but yeah so we're
super excited we're going out for one leg with
them in four or five dates yeah four dates i
think next week we're going uh just on our own
with our friends in exorcism who are again another
amazing young thrash bands who are up and coming
here uh doing some more dates with those guys
uh and then this really young thrash band called
bloodsore coming with us and uh to Slayer. That's
them, basically. They're absolutely amazing.
We've played with all of them before. So, yeah,
we're super excited about that. You know, it's
the first show. It's going to be great to sort
of see all the fans that we've picked up over
the last few months. And then, yeah, we're going
to be over in Europe in September. So a full
two -week European tour with our mates from Harlots
from Australia. which is going to be absolutely
mad because they're incredible as well. So, yeah,
and then we've got a lot of stuff happening in
between. It looks like we're going to places
like Bulgaria. We've got some shows in the Netherlands.
So, yeah, it's going to be forward to 2026. It's
going to be a mad one. And then with all of Chris's
commitments with Gamma Bob and my commitments
with Trap, it's going to be a pretty mad year,
I think. Great. Um, and you're saying that there's
possibly an EP that's going to drop. Yeah. We're
kind of debating what our next move is. Like
we're obviously not going to do a new record
straight away. Um, but at the same time, yeah,
we, we, you know, we're, we're really, we're
enjoying each other's company. Uh, we're loving,
we've absolutely loved this year. Um, and it's
been really nice for me to sort of be in the
bands again with some friends that I haven't
been in the band for a while. Um, You know, we
just, it's been just a bunch of mates having
an absolute blast for a year. So it's been super
productive. We've really been enjoying getting
into the studio and starting it. And I don't,
we don't want to be sitting on stuff for like
the next year. We've got these new few songs
that we started making and we're super excited
about them. So we're like, do we want to be sitting
on these for 18 months or something out a bit
sooner? But yeah, that's a conversation that
we're now having. i think i think thing um again
we need to speak to our later before we make
any promises but yeah i think we're just eager
to we're super enjoying it we're loving each
other's company we're loving just the experience
that we've been blown away with the response
we had no idea that the album would do as well
as it's been doing and the interest we've been
getting let alone getting signed and all that
stuff so yeah we've just been really eager to
write new music and we're we're sort of loving
it so yeah we're hopefully we'll have something
out What would the EP look like? Just original
songs? Would you throw a cover in there? Yeah,
I think so. Okay. Yeah, I think mostly our own
stuff. We've got a few covers that we like playing,
some Slayer stuff or whatever. But yeah, we're
not really sure, to be honest. We're really cracking
on hard with the new stuff. But obviously, we
want to tour this first album. One of the downsides
of doing a half an hour long album as your first
album is... what do you play so we're going out
on a headline tour and we've got half an hour
of stuff so we've got to be uh okay what are
we actually doing there so we've got to really
think about that um obviously we've got a sort
of back catalogue of shrapnel stuff and covers
we want to keep moving forward as well we really
enjoy it so that the stuff we've just been writing
over the last few weeks we just yeah we're super
buzzed about and it's it's that feeling of you
know do we really want to you know book a studio
for summer and then be sitting around waiting
for another six months to you know maybe look
at early 2027 before we um we're sort of enjoying
right now and we want to we want to keep yeah
sort of pushing things forward so yeah i'm really
hopeful that we'll we're ready to get into a
studio soon so Could you see doing any shrapnel
songs live like struck a nerve, like maybe revamping
them so they fit more of a struck a nerve style?
I mean, we, we have been. So, um, obviously,
like I say, Aaron was on one of our records,
um, I'll call pals for the insane back in 2020.
Um, so we, we were at one point pulling from
that stuff, but we've also, you know, we want
to keep these two things. They're their own things.
We don't really want any overlap. So we want
to, yeah we do want to reduce that um and we
do we do just want to do struck a nerve stuff
um so you know there's there's a big push stuff
out because you know we also need to right so
but it's uh yeah i think that combination of
like need but also just enjoying the process
it's been absolutely lovely to to sort of really
be desperate to get into the studio like we've
got these songs where you know i'm traveling
back to norwich quite often um Um, and it's just
been, it's been such a good blast. And I think
when you're in that really sort of happy space
with it and that really productive space, um,
yeah, we should, we should be thinking, getting,
getting new stuff out. But at the same time,
we don't want to overshadow the first album.
So an EP seems like somewhere next year might
be a fees. Okay. Uh, where should people go to
keep up with struck a nerve online? Uh, all the
normal. places so we're active on instagram facebook
um we're on our bandcamp page as well we're trying
to build a community over there um if you follow
our youtube page our youtube shorts we try and
keep we're really as we start this new um yeah
we're trying to get like the community involved
with it and really sort of show some of the process
of that so yeah i mean instagram youtube shorts
um yeah come follow us and then all our videos
are on the listenable records um youtube page
so go check go check all that stuff out okay
and where can people go to purchase the struck
a nerve uh debut album and ensure that the most
money gets back into your pockets so yeah thankfully
um listenable are pretty great with um so our
deal is it's it's very good um so i mean anywhere
really um probably the most direct is from our
band camp page, but again, it depends where you
live. Right. So, um, it's probably easier to
get it through listener book. If you're in the
UK, it's certainly easier to get from us. So
you avoid all the import stuff. Uh, but yeah,
we're, we're on band camp. You can pick, uh,
things, band camp, shrapnel, sorry, not shrapnel,
wrong bands, uh, struck a nerve UK. Um, yeah.
Uh, we've got all the vinyls. patches, CDs, everything,
all the merch over there. So yeah, that's probably
the best place, especially if you're in the UK.
Last question. You guys are one of the only bands
that have named the band, have a self -titled
album and have a song. Also struck a nerve by
struck a nerve off of struck a nerve. Was that
done on purpose? It definitely was. It's a bit
of a statement, isn't it? It's like, this is
a new thing. This is our sound. But yeah, Black
Sabbath are my favorite band. So Black Sabbath
on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. I was laughing
when my kids heard about this because they were
like, you've got to do the trio. You've got to
have all three. I can't believe Megadeth missed
this opportunity to not call a song Megadeth,
by the way. Inexcusable. but yeah for me Maiden
did it Black Sabbath did it so we're doing Exodus
did it so yeah no they didn't actually they didn't
but yeah we've got the trifecta so it's really
silly but yeah I think it's that's just kind
of fun but it's also yeah it's a bit of a statement
of yeah especially the song itself it was demoing
things it really stood out as like a this feels
like a proud song this one feels like you could
name a band after this song for us right uh yeah
and as we're writing it really felt like yeah
let's let's do it and then really no alternative
album title came up so we're like now it's the
trio cool well nathan i thank you for coming
on the show and uh hope you're able to fix all
of the uh stuff regarding the tour Hopefully
you were able to sort this out. Yeah, I'll find
out in a minute. My phone will be full here.
It's one of the things, we're doing everything,
we're trying to do as much DIY as we can. And
that includes, you know, this UK tour is all
we're doing ourselves. We're booking ourselves.
There's a lot of learning that goes on when you
do that kind of thing. So it's like, we've missed
what? Oh my God. Yeah. Especially when you're
working collaboratively with another band. So
that's some Devastator we're trying to, we're
figuring it out as we go. Right. Cool. So hopefully
you guys can sort all that out. Much luck to
you and the band in 2026. And that's pretty much
it. Thanks for your time, sir. Awesome. Cheers,
man. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Go to signalsfrommars
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