WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:04.759 Welcome everyone to episode 437 of Signals From 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:07.599 Mars. I'm your host Victor and for this episode 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:12.839 we bring you an interview with guitarist Nathan 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:17.019 Sadd of the band. It's actually of two bands, 00:00:17.219 --> 00:00:20.660 Struck A Nerve and Shrapnel. We're here to talk, 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:22.839 we talk about both bands, but we mostly talk 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:25.440 about Struck A Nerve who released their debut 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:58.960 album in late November. I'm ready. Quick reminder 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:01.359 that in addition to hosting Signals from Mars, 00:01:01.619 --> 00:01:04.060 I've also worked behind the scenes helping other 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:07.200 podcasters. 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Yes, 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:06.400 I know we're in 2026, but it's still important 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.150 for that episode to come out. and hear us talk 00:03:09.150 --> 00:03:12.330 about bands that we got turned on to, albums 00:03:12.330 --> 00:03:14.490 that we think are worth your while, so on and 00:03:14.490 --> 00:03:17.210 so forth, Struck Nerve is one of these bands. 00:03:17.550 --> 00:03:22.030 And I'm lucky that I have a good, tight -knit 00:03:22.030 --> 00:03:26.030 group of patrons, and a few of them like to come 00:03:26.030 --> 00:03:29.270 on and talk about new music and discover new 00:03:29.270 --> 00:03:32.710 music at the same time as I do. So Struck Nerve 00:03:32.710 --> 00:03:35.370 was something that Jeremy and Ed both talked 00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:39.139 about. It was an album that I honestly did not 00:03:39.139 --> 00:03:42.240 check out initially, but after them talking the 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:47.479 album up, I figured I need to listen to this. 00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:52.000 I've done a series of thrash bands in the last 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.680 few months where I've interviewed them, whether 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.240 that's Mezro, whether that's Condition Critical. 00:03:57.580 --> 00:04:01.780 Well, Struck a Nerve, interestingly enough, from 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:05.419 England, Mezro from Sweden, and Condition Critical, 00:04:05.979 --> 00:04:10.000 from New Jersey, from the US, all from different 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.139 parts of the world, but they all love metal. 00:04:13.259 --> 00:04:16.660 They all love thrash. And it's so important to 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:20.819 keep this ball rolling, folks. So it just so 00:04:20.819 --> 00:04:23.620 happened that at the time that I had finished 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:27.459 listening to the album, I received an email from 00:04:27.459 --> 00:04:32.980 their PR, from Dustin Hartman, mentioning that 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:35.680 that they're available for interviews. So I do 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:38.139 have to thank Dustin for helping me set everything 00:04:38.139 --> 00:04:40.819 up. So this is a real cool interview. I hope 00:04:40.819 --> 00:04:43.139 that if nothing else, you check the album out, 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:47.199 you check out Nathan's other band, Shrapnel, 00:04:47.259 --> 00:04:50.959 and decide, man, it's up to you guys. I put these 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.639 interviews together of things that I think that 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.100 you guys will enjoy and that I enjoy at the same 00:04:56.100 --> 00:04:59.720 time. And I hope it's a worthwhile listen to 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.779 you guys. And in the end. If you enjoy the band, 00:05:02.899 --> 00:05:05.720 if you enjoy the discussion, check them out. 00:05:05.779 --> 00:05:10.779 If you're not into Apple Music or Spotify, go 00:05:10.779 --> 00:05:15.600 to Bandcamp. And if you like what you hear, support 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.660 the band. Pick up the physical media. We talk 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:20.360 about that during every interview because it 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.259 is important to support these bands. Again, to 00:05:23.259 --> 00:05:27.339 keep the ball rolling. It is so crucial to them 00:05:27.339 --> 00:05:31.160 and for us. As lovers of this kind of music of 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.339 hard rock and metal, in this case, specifically 00:05:33.339 --> 00:05:37.879 thrash to do our part to keep things going. And 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.839 yeah, as much as we love all the old school bands 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.779 and everything that they've done, I think it's 00:05:43.779 --> 00:05:46.720 important to expand that soundtrack of our lives. 00:05:47.060 --> 00:05:50.879 So without further ado, let's check out this 00:05:50.879 --> 00:06:12.170 interview with Nathan. Welcome everyone to the 00:06:12.170 --> 00:06:14.949 latest episode of Signals from Mars. Joining 00:06:14.949 --> 00:06:18.829 me today is Nathan from Struckenerve. Nathan, 00:06:19.029 --> 00:06:21.490 how are you, sir? I'm good, man. Rushed off my 00:06:21.490 --> 00:06:24.970 feet, but we're good. We're patching holes up 00:06:24.970 --> 00:06:29.389 here. Last minute crises over there. My phone 00:06:29.389 --> 00:06:32.949 blowing up with mistakes. But apart from that, 00:06:32.990 --> 00:06:36.529 we're good, man. Enjoying Christmas and how are 00:06:36.529 --> 00:06:41.230 you? I'm doing well myself. Not in crisis mode 00:06:41.230 --> 00:06:43.110 like you are at the moment, but hopefully you 00:06:43.110 --> 00:06:47.509 guys can straighten everything all out. We're 00:06:47.509 --> 00:06:52.269 good. Yeah, so when people talk about the big 00:06:52.269 --> 00:06:56.050 four of thrash, they usually talk about four 00:06:56.050 --> 00:06:59.550 American thrash bands. You guys are obviously 00:06:59.550 --> 00:07:02.870 from England, from the UK. Who would you say 00:07:02.870 --> 00:07:09.899 are the big four of UK thrash? Ooh. Good question. 00:07:10.220 --> 00:07:11.980 It's a bit of an argument over here. So, yeah, 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:13.399 I mean, if you're talking old school, you've 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:17.800 got to include Zentrix. You've got Sabbat, Slammer. 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:19.879 We had some, you know, Lawmower Death. We had 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.399 some killer bands back in the day. That's missing 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.620 a whole bunch as well. I mean, you know, since 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:29.040 then, Evile have definitely staked the claim, 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.439 I think. They definitely, you know, early, well, 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:34.839 late 2000s were definitely, I think, instrumentally 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:36.519 popularizing thrash again, especially in the 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.839 UK. So for me, they have to be in there. I think 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.180 arguably they did end up doing more than a lot 00:07:43.180 --> 00:07:45.180 of the old school bands did anyway. So yeah, 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.540 I think they're sort of, them and Zentrix for 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:49.540 me are like really, they're top of the pile for 00:07:49.540 --> 00:07:52.360 UK thrash. I would say Gamma Bomb, but they don't 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:54.620 class themselves as being from the UK. So they're 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:58.759 Irish through and through. So, you know, they're 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:04.819 close. It was funny. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah, 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:06.379 we're lucky. We've had some great bands over 00:08:06.379 --> 00:08:09.139 here. So we feel like we're, continuing a pretty 00:08:09.139 --> 00:08:12.000 rich tradition in the UK. It was funny. I was 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.339 researching the band and saw that your drummer 00:08:14.339 --> 00:08:19.639 had played in Gamma Bomb. And I was like, wait 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.300 a second. Are they from Northern Ireland or from 00:08:22.300 --> 00:08:24.500 Ireland? I don't want to mess that up just in 00:08:24.500 --> 00:08:27.420 case. We still do. We're really terrible for 00:08:27.420 --> 00:08:31.579 it. They've shifted over time. I think they have 00:08:31.579 --> 00:08:33.659 a mix of kind of British passport. I think some 00:08:33.659 --> 00:08:35.960 of them lived close to Northern Ireland, but 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:37.840 I think more over time, their identity now is 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:44.720 very much, they're Irish. Yeah. Okay. Okay, cool. 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:50.820 How has being from Norwich influenced you guys 00:08:50.820 --> 00:08:54.440 as a band? I mean, Norwich, you know, in our 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.320 old bands, I mean, still my current band, Shrapnel, 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:00.259 when we started, Norwich has always been, it's 00:09:00.259 --> 00:09:02.200 not like a backwater, but it's really out of 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.059 the way compared to other places in the UK. When 00:09:05.059 --> 00:09:07.620 thrash really re -emerged here in the 2000s, 00:09:07.620 --> 00:09:10.440 it was very much a northern phenomena. I mean, 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.639 London is London, so it was certainly quite alive 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:17.519 there. But Norwich is a pretty sleepy city. I've 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.179 since moved away. I've been away from Norwich 00:09:19.179 --> 00:09:22.919 here in Oxford for, what, like six years or something? 00:09:23.539 --> 00:09:26.399 And since I've been away... Hey, actually Norwich 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.980 is now absolutely exploded. The scene there is 00:09:28.980 --> 00:09:31.259 really is like amazing. Every time I go back 00:09:31.259 --> 00:09:33.360 now, I'm really, I'm blown away with this, like 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.580 a new incredible band. They're all super young, 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:40.039 really enthusiastic. Every venue you go to is 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.139 like, feels really alive. And yes, it's been 00:09:43.139 --> 00:09:45.779 really nice actually this time around to, to 00:09:45.779 --> 00:09:49.389 sort of be inspired by the local scene. But yeah, 00:09:49.490 --> 00:09:50.730 it's, it's absolutely incredible. I've got, you 00:09:50.730 --> 00:09:52.669 know, a young band called Bird Witch who would 00:09:52.669 --> 00:09:55.110 literally, I mean, they're like 19, 20 and, uh, 00:09:55.129 --> 00:09:57.409 you know, they're packing out venues and it's 00:09:57.409 --> 00:09:59.950 just, it feels really alive. So when we, when 00:09:59.950 --> 00:10:03.009 we show us now, it, it really, you know, it puts, 00:10:03.009 --> 00:10:05.850 puts the wind, winds to, yeah, it's a really 00:10:05.850 --> 00:10:08.289 joy to drive forward and see sort of these young 00:10:08.289 --> 00:10:10.289 bands coming through and up the arse a bit to 00:10:10.289 --> 00:10:14.850 be fair. Yeah, that's, that's always good. I 00:10:14.850 --> 00:10:16.629 mean, it makes sure that you're not comfortable 00:10:16.629 --> 00:10:19.929 and just, kind of set in your ways makes you 00:10:19.929 --> 00:10:23.029 kind of evolve and keep moving forward yeah exactly 00:10:23.029 --> 00:10:25.110 it's really turned the shows that we do back 00:10:25.110 --> 00:10:28.830 home into such a mixed crowd as well uh that's 00:10:28.830 --> 00:10:31.269 lovely to see it's just it's been i think every 00:10:31.269 --> 00:10:32.769 single show we've done in our hometown has been 00:10:32.769 --> 00:10:35.649 amazing so it's been uh yeah we feel pretty fortunate 00:10:35.649 --> 00:10:39.950 to sort of be part of it really okay so the self 00:10:39.950 --> 00:10:43.750 -titled struck a nerve album came out last month 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:47.799 in november um but you guys have been releasing 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:54.000 singles since the spring of 2024. Um, is there 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.759 a specific reason why it took so long from the 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.500 first single to the actual full album coming 00:10:59.500 --> 00:11:02.980 out? I think, I think in terms of like the, the 00:11:02.980 --> 00:11:05.179 aims of the band have changed. Like when we, 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.399 when we started me and Chris, we were really 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:13.500 doing it for a bit of a bit of a laugh. Um, and 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:15.620 time, but with our other band and we were just 00:11:15.620 --> 00:11:18.450 like, a bit bored so we started this new thrash 00:11:18.450 --> 00:11:22.029 thing and uh we wanted to kind of soft launch 00:11:22.029 --> 00:11:25.309 it so we just did a few shows to start with and 00:11:25.309 --> 00:11:28.049 it just it picked up a lot of momentum like really 00:11:28.049 --> 00:11:31.950 really quickly so coming into 2025 we had the 00:11:31.950 --> 00:11:34.370 entirety of the drums already recorded for the 00:11:34.370 --> 00:11:37.330 records so we had an album sat there and we were 00:11:37.330 --> 00:11:39.389 just kind of working on it as and when in our 00:11:39.389 --> 00:11:42.279 own time really um yeah and we kind of soft launch 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.179 things but as 2025 started we did a tour in early 00:11:45.179 --> 00:11:48.159 2025 and it just went absolutely amazingly well 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:49.919 we dropped a new single and it did really really 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.700 well and just really yeah again it sort of put 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:54.580 the wind in our sails to be like oh this is this 00:11:54.580 --> 00:11:57.580 is actually something us you know worth us doing 00:11:57.580 --> 00:12:01.700 properly um and so we yeah we got the album done 00:12:01.700 --> 00:12:03.159 and it was so it turned into something that we 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.919 were doing as a bit of a side thing to something 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.500 that we're putting a lot of time into and just 00:12:07.500 --> 00:12:11.510 amazed at how well it's growing really Okay. 00:12:11.510 --> 00:12:15.049 And you guys hooked up with Listenable to put 00:12:15.049 --> 00:12:19.990 the album out. How important is Listenable to 00:12:19.990 --> 00:12:22.389 Struck A Nerve? What do they help you guys with? 00:12:22.509 --> 00:12:26.009 And what has it meant for you guys to sign with 00:12:26.009 --> 00:12:30.269 a label like that with their reputation? Yeah, 00:12:30.330 --> 00:12:32.549 we've been blown away. We were really, really 00:12:32.549 --> 00:12:36.440 lucky. We were going to do everything DIY. We've 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.399 had this kind of strong kind of DIY sort of began 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.200 and we really had no intention of getting a record 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.059 label. And it wasn't until we were on tour with 00:12:45.059 --> 00:12:47.600 our friends in Chemicide who, you know, they 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.379 just put a record out with Listenable as well. 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:52.080 Frankie was just saying to me on the road, he 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:53.679 was like, give them a try. You have to. It's 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.600 been going really well for us because he's always 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.960 been the same with Chemicide. They've always 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.240 been very, very, very DIY. And he was just, he 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.759 kept singing their praises. Our friends in Devastator, 00:13:05.070 --> 00:13:07.370 are on the same label zentrix as well and they've 00:13:07.370 --> 00:13:10.250 all said the same thing just you know really 00:13:10.250 --> 00:13:12.669 good label check them out so yeah we got back 00:13:12.669 --> 00:13:15.590 from this uk tour in summer um i was like okay 00:13:15.590 --> 00:13:17.169 man i'll send them i'll send them the record 00:13:17.169 --> 00:13:19.970 not really expecting to hear much back and literally 00:13:19.970 --> 00:13:22.909 two days later after sending laurent uh our label 00:13:22.909 --> 00:13:25.809 guy um literally two days later it came straight 00:13:25.809 --> 00:13:28.730 back so right let's do this let's go um and he's 00:13:28.730 --> 00:13:32.460 been incredible it's been you know just super 00:13:32.460 --> 00:13:34.460 fast moving on getting all the vinyls produced 00:13:34.460 --> 00:13:37.120 getting all the prs it's been really we've been 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.059 blown away uh we've not really had that experience 00:13:39.059 --> 00:13:42.100 with a label before we've had kind of a bit of 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:44.519 a fractious history with with label stuff so 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:48.539 to see it working as you know i think it's supposed 00:13:48.539 --> 00:13:50.960 to and being a smaller independent and sort of 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.379 they're a label who are quicker to react to things 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:57.059 they can get stuff done when it needs to be done 00:13:57.059 --> 00:13:59.659 um So we were originally supposed to release 00:13:59.659 --> 00:14:01.440 the album in November as we got signed. And then 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.580 they were able to turn it, sorry, we were supposed 00:14:03.580 --> 00:14:06.679 to release it in October. And then we delayed. 00:14:07.059 --> 00:14:09.100 They got everything printed, everything ready. 00:14:09.340 --> 00:14:11.779 You know, our advance came through within like 00:14:11.779 --> 00:14:14.740 a month and it was all done and in my hands already. 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.659 So yeah, it's been an incredible experience. 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:20.639 I think we're really, really excited to see what 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.639 we do with them next in 2026. Okay. Yeah, so. 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.120 You've also alluded to this. You're a member 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.620 of the band shrapnel as well. You're the, both 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:36.559 bands are still currently going. Um, yeah, yeah. 00:14:36.659 --> 00:14:40.399 It's, it's made the balance, but both bands are 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.500 off, obviously sonically different. They're still 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:47.279 metal bands, but you know, uh, they're, they're 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:51.200 definitely differences between them. Um, you 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.220 mentioned before that struck a nerve kind of 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:56.379 came out of, you know, almost like a joke initially. 00:14:58.500 --> 00:15:01.279 But obviously, in order to write this, you've 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:04.019 got other avenues that you're looking to travel 00:15:04.019 --> 00:15:06.840 with the different types of music that you're 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.320 able to write, even though it started out that 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:14.799 way. Has there been, you know, a feeling along 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.519 the way for you? You know, I've got this other 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.120 side of me. I want to do something a little different. 00:15:20.179 --> 00:15:24.919 I love this, but I also love this. Yeah, I mean, 00:15:24.940 --> 00:15:27.190 that's been the case all the way along. you know 00:15:27.190 --> 00:15:31.029 i got into metal in the late 90s and one of those 00:15:31.029 --> 00:15:33.850 people who who i was a sponge with it when i 00:15:33.850 --> 00:15:36.389 was growing up like i love everything doom metal 00:15:36.389 --> 00:15:40.070 you know 70s rock 70s metal 80s i love him i'm 00:15:40.070 --> 00:15:42.929 a punk fan i'm a cross punk fan so i'm always 00:15:42.929 --> 00:15:45.169 and i'm a bit in general my personality is very 00:15:45.169 --> 00:15:49.330 much i flick the thing between things all the 00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:52.309 time so like how much since we started we've 00:15:52.309 --> 00:15:56.230 been going I've always wanted to do something 00:15:56.230 --> 00:15:59.549 different with it each time. So we started as 00:15:59.549 --> 00:16:02.009 very much, you know, we were in that early wave 00:16:02.009 --> 00:16:04.769 and each album we tried to make really different. 00:16:04.850 --> 00:16:06.450 We were sort of inspired by death metal at one 00:16:06.450 --> 00:16:09.610 point, heavy metal at one point. You know, the 00:16:09.610 --> 00:16:11.210 newest stuff is much more sort of metalcore, 00:16:11.250 --> 00:16:15.529 modern stuff. You know, Thrash has been my, you 00:16:15.529 --> 00:16:17.649 know, Exodus, Slayer, all that stuff has been 00:16:17.649 --> 00:16:21.870 my bread and butter since I was a kid. So it's 00:16:21.870 --> 00:16:26.649 my, it's my, And me and Chris as well, the stuff 00:16:26.649 --> 00:16:29.490 that we like to write together is very much, 00:16:29.570 --> 00:16:33.309 you know, just struck an end with no external 00:16:33.309 --> 00:16:37.070 pressure, no box ticking, no expectations, just 00:16:37.070 --> 00:16:40.509 me and my friends writing the music that we love. 00:16:41.330 --> 00:16:43.809 So I think in a way it's a bit of a return to 00:16:43.809 --> 00:16:46.769 stuff I've done in the past and sort of a return 00:16:46.769 --> 00:16:49.970 to like the core music that, you know, all four 00:16:49.970 --> 00:16:53.080 of us, that's our... that we share we're all 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:55.720 slayer fans we're all sort of big four fans uh 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:57.960 we love our old school thrash and and death metal 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.120 and stuff so yeah i think it's just a return 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.799 to those sort of basic build and blocks of what 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:08.140 we love really okay and the songs that are on 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:12.319 the self -titled debut are they songs that you 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:17.220 started writing when you decided that you wanted 00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:19.700 to put this project together or are they things 00:17:19.700 --> 00:17:23.680 that you had yeah no they were all most of the 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:25.420 albums written within like three months really 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:28.420 um oh wow chris himself uh our drummer chris 00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:32.460 is a good songwriter himself so he got um especially 00:17:32.460 --> 00:17:33.960 during covid he got really little programming 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:36.480 drums and stuff so he was able to send me like 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:38.859 full full songs so something like raining death 00:17:38.859 --> 00:17:42.579 on the album is you know he just sent me over 00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:45.400 a full full drum track with kind of ideas of 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:47.660 you know how riffs should be highlighted and 00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:50.119 things like that um so between me and him we 00:17:50.730 --> 00:17:55.069 We wrote the vast majority, I think, in early... 00:17:55.069 --> 00:17:57.009 I can't exactly... The timeline is really blurry 00:17:57.009 --> 00:17:59.690 because we did it as a bit of a giggle, just 00:17:59.690 --> 00:18:03.029 me and my mate. It's hard to remember the exact 00:18:03.029 --> 00:18:05.049 timeline, but I remember we wrote this thing 00:18:05.049 --> 00:18:07.589 really, really quickly and then maybe things 00:18:07.589 --> 00:18:09.890 like Leviathan Wings came a little bit later 00:18:09.890 --> 00:18:14.609 as we were booking in for a recording. But yeah, 00:18:14.630 --> 00:18:16.769 it was done really quickly and what you hear 00:18:16.769 --> 00:18:22.880 is what we wrote at the time. Okay. And you just 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.640 mentioned that with shrapnel, you've gone through 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.759 different phases of the band. So how did you 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.480 choose to keep these songs all struck a nerve 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.500 and not save any for shrapnel? I think that the 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:39.839 two things are sort of vastly different now when 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:41.440 it's two different mind spaces to be in, right? 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.660 So when we're doing struck a nerve stuff, it's 00:18:44.660 --> 00:18:48.720 very much savage, short, sharp. thrash music 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.480 that we love and then i think you know the other 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.660 side of my mind with the shrapnel stuff more 00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:56.740 lately has been this is something a year and 00:18:56.740 --> 00:19:00.079 really sort of ponder over and and be a bit more 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:05.099 melodic and a bit more yeah just too too dependent 00:19:05.099 --> 00:19:07.339 on the mood that we're in then so you know where 00:19:07.339 --> 00:19:08.980 we're getting busy at the minute writing a follow 00:19:08.980 --> 00:19:11.180 -up for for struck a nerve and it's very much 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:15.099 you know getting into the mind the mindset of 00:19:15.099 --> 00:19:17.970 this is the mission we're doing these but brutal 00:19:17.970 --> 00:19:21.289 short thrash songs. And that's, that's just one 00:19:21.289 --> 00:19:23.589 avenue of the things that I love. So I don't 00:19:23.589 --> 00:19:25.930 find it too difficult to flip between the two 00:19:25.930 --> 00:19:29.150 things. Um, it's been, yeah, that's the, that's 00:19:29.150 --> 00:19:31.589 the mode we're in at the minute. So we're, we're, 00:19:31.589 --> 00:19:35.569 we're cracking on. Okay. You're writing album 00:19:35.569 --> 00:19:38.109 number two. You're saying you pursue sitting 00:19:38.109 --> 00:19:41.630 on the tracks for a little bit then. Yeah. I 00:19:41.630 --> 00:19:43.630 think we're probably about halfway there to be 00:19:43.630 --> 00:19:48.220 fair. Um, I think, We'll be doing a lot of writing 00:19:48.220 --> 00:19:51.240 literally in the next week or so. We'll be trying 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.960 to get quite a bit done before everybody returns 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.819 to normality for the new year. But yeah, I think 00:19:57.819 --> 00:20:00.180 we'll be trying to get into the studio. We might 00:20:00.180 --> 00:20:01.819 be trying to get in a bit earlier than that to 00:20:01.819 --> 00:20:04.519 do, there's an idea of maybe putting an EP out 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:09.140 before our next tour. But yeah, it will come 00:20:09.140 --> 00:20:11.160 together pretty quick, I think. Especially, you 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.960 know, we've got Aaron and Lex sort of on board 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:15.599 right from the beginning of the process this 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.549 time as well. And Lex is an amazing songwriter, 00:20:18.569 --> 00:20:21.069 absolutely incredible guitar player. So the stuff 00:20:21.069 --> 00:20:23.789 he's been sending over is great as well. So I 00:20:23.789 --> 00:20:26.069 think it's going to come together pretty quick 00:20:26.069 --> 00:20:29.329 over the next couple of months. Okay. And outside 00:20:29.329 --> 00:20:32.589 of the separation you just mentioned between 00:20:32.589 --> 00:20:38.230 Shrapnel and Struck a Nerve, was there anything 00:20:38.230 --> 00:20:41.069 else that you specifically wanted to do on this 00:20:41.069 --> 00:20:44.069 album that you hadn't done in the past on any 00:20:44.069 --> 00:20:47.839 of your previous work? Yeah, I think really keeping 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.400 things tight. We really wanted to aim for a half 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.140 an hour record. We really set that 32, 33 minutes. 00:20:55.220 --> 00:20:56.859 It's like that's the maximum. We're not going 00:20:56.859 --> 00:21:00.960 over that. Because I think it keeps us constrained. 00:21:01.779 --> 00:21:04.779 We did an album with Aaron before with Shrapnel. 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:08.559 He was on our third record. And it ended up being 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.000 like an hour long. It's a cool album and stuff, 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.740 but I think it's overwritten and we didn't set 00:21:13.740 --> 00:21:17.400 enough guardrails on. you know trying to prevent 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:19.460 ourselves from going too far and doing too much 00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:21.660 so i think this time we were really much like 00:21:21.660 --> 00:21:23.180 this is gonna be half an hour that's what we're 00:21:23.180 --> 00:21:25.299 doing it's gonna be eight nine ten songs max 00:21:25.299 --> 00:21:28.819 that's the rules and that's the only rules we've 00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:31.319 got we're keeping it short so i think yeah that 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.099 was certainly in our minds um and we've never 00:21:34.099 --> 00:21:36.299 really approached an album like that before we're 00:21:36.299 --> 00:21:38.579 gonna keep this as energetic as possible and 00:21:38.579 --> 00:21:41.779 if it's longer than 32 it's not it's not on there 00:21:42.339 --> 00:21:44.700 I think it's really helped the record. I think 00:21:44.700 --> 00:21:49.079 it's made the album really streamlined and catchy 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:53.240 and something that you want to put on. Definitely. 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:56.720 I would have to agree with that. It is 32 minutes 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.880 exact. And it's funny because I had this discussion 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.960 with another thrash band recently. I think the 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.019 music. lends itself to that as well and makes 00:22:08.019 --> 00:22:10.700 it an easy listen, like you said, where you can 00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:14.279 listen to it a bunch of times without an issue. 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:19.799 I think this happened back when the CDs started 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:24.180 becoming super popular, where bands could put 00:22:24.180 --> 00:22:27.160 out albums that were 74 minutes long, but it 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.240 wasn't necessarily a good thing either, because 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.029 especially for, I think, thrash. Uh, for a lot 00:22:34.029 --> 00:22:35.990 of bands, it got to a point where it was like, 00:22:36.069 --> 00:22:39.769 okay, well I get it. The label asked for 60 minutes, 00:22:39.809 --> 00:22:43.690 70 minutes or whatever. So these last five songs 00:22:43.690 --> 00:22:46.529 just aren't as good as the rest of the album, 00:22:46.549 --> 00:22:49.029 where if it was a tight, as you're saying, half 00:22:49.029 --> 00:22:53.769 hour, you know, a lot of these, a lot of those 00:22:53.769 --> 00:22:56.150 older albums would have been perfect because 00:22:56.150 --> 00:22:57.549 you would have been able to cut away some of 00:22:57.549 --> 00:23:00.180 the fat. And like you guys are doing, maybe it 00:23:00.180 --> 00:23:02.799 would have lent itself so some of the songs that 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:05.559 were maybe half -baked at the time could have 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:09.019 had more time for seasoning or whatever and been 00:23:09.019 --> 00:23:11.380 fleshed out a little better for a follow -up 00:23:11.380 --> 00:23:16.240 album or an EP. Yeah, I think so. I think it 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.740 depends on the songwriting as well. You think 00:23:19.740 --> 00:23:22.160 Marshall Proverbs is, what, 51 minutes long, 00:23:22.259 --> 00:23:24.210 something like that, right? But the songwriting 00:23:24.210 --> 00:23:26.470 is perfection, so they can get away with it, 00:23:26.529 --> 00:23:31.450 right? Would I want a Slayer album that was 70 00:23:31.450 --> 00:23:34.109 minutes long? Absolutely not. I don't want to 00:23:34.109 --> 00:23:37.470 be pummeled by that same sound for that long. 00:23:37.589 --> 00:23:40.809 This needs to be 40 minutes and we're out. You 00:23:40.809 --> 00:23:43.670 know, you think of, it can work. So I think, 00:23:43.690 --> 00:23:48.130 you know, Exodus, Exhibit A especially, I think... 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.140 It's pushing your patience a little bit, isn't 00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:55.180 it? For like an hour 15 of face smashing. There's 00:23:55.180 --> 00:24:00.140 a lot. I think B, the second album, that pushes 00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:03.740 even my patience a little bit. But really well 00:24:03.740 --> 00:24:05.720 written albums, to be fair. So it can be done. 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:10.259 I just don't think our particular, that kind 00:24:10.259 --> 00:24:14.640 of shorter, like eight minute long songs, and 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.059 they're well written, great. You know, I'm jealous. 00:24:17.259 --> 00:24:20.839 I wish I could do it. But I think if you're doing 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:22.400 these sort of three and a half, three minute 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.319 songs, you just can't. I think you there's only 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:28.900 so much of that before the idea of it gets dull. 00:24:29.019 --> 00:24:32.339 Right. So, yeah, I think I think that's something 00:24:32.339 --> 00:24:34.819 we're probably going to see. It feels right. 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:38.099 And I think if you're if you're starting to get 00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:42.200 sort of that half an hour. mark and you start 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:44.839 to cut things that are also really good things 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.680 of like that's half an hour of solid well -written 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:50.359 music um so yeah i think that's going to be something 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:54.480 that we try to stick to in the future okay yeah 00:24:54.480 --> 00:25:01.279 uh does your gear change between both bands it 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:05.359 will yeah shrapnel's just gone i'm a bit of i'm 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.019 terrible for change so shrapnel has just gone 00:25:08.019 --> 00:25:12.359 fully kind of devil all the other guys have got 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:15.279 in -air monitors they've got all that my old 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:17.980 school dinosaur heads so it hasn't happened yet 00:25:17.980 --> 00:25:23.180 um but i mean the sound of the two bands is remarkably 00:25:23.180 --> 00:25:25.720 different now so i've gotten away with it so 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:28.960 far um but yeah we're now in the process of actually 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:31.640 me with the shrapnel stuff going a bit more a 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:33.980 bit more modern and i'm kicking and screaming 00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:37.539 but it is happening um whereas you know the struck 00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:42.619 stuff's very much lead head done wah pedal you're 00:25:42.619 --> 00:25:45.680 good to go so um yeah there is there is definitely 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.240 a pretty massive difference forming um thankfully 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.380 we got uh the black star endorsement uh and they've 00:25:52.380 --> 00:25:55.559 been absolutely unbelievably helpful they're 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:58.200 only their headquarters is about an hour away 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:00.819 from my house so they've been brilliant like 00:26:00.819 --> 00:26:02.519 sort of kicked me out and getting me sorted so 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:05.819 yeah it is happening even if i don't like it 00:26:08.109 --> 00:26:12.289 What about tuning between both bands? Are you 00:26:12.289 --> 00:26:15.289 tuning the guitar different with each band? Because 00:26:15.289 --> 00:26:17.769 it seemed like with Shrapnel, you were tuned 00:26:17.769 --> 00:26:20.289 a little bit lower than you are with Struckenerv. 00:26:21.509 --> 00:26:24.670 Yeah, recently. So Shrapnel was always E standard. 00:26:25.230 --> 00:26:27.170 We were always standard tuning right up until 00:26:27.170 --> 00:26:28.690 the newest album, and then we dropped right down 00:26:28.690 --> 00:26:32.890 to C. But Struckenerv right flat has been the 00:26:32.890 --> 00:26:36.569 slayer tuning to me. And I think just that half 00:26:36.569 --> 00:26:41.819 a step down. It makes a huge difference. I mean, 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:44.579 it's probably spoken about a lot by guitar players, 00:26:44.660 --> 00:26:47.099 but I think that even that minimal amount of 00:26:47.099 --> 00:26:49.119 tuning change can make such a huge difference 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.920 to your, even to your songwriting and just the 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:54.460 sound of everything. There's a pretty big reason 00:26:54.460 --> 00:26:58.059 to me why the Struck stuff sounds a lot different, 00:26:58.119 --> 00:26:59.940 even to the early shrapnel stuff. If you compare 00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:03.140 the first shrapnel record to the debut Struck 00:27:03.140 --> 00:27:06.200 and Nerve, they're really quite different. And 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:08.160 a lot of it is just that semitone down. It just 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.140 makes you, I mean, for me, it just physically 00:27:11.140 --> 00:27:15.319 makes me play a bit chunkier. It makes me, you 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:17.759 know, strings get a little bit looser. So you 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:20.180 just get that different feel when you're writing 00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:22.460 stuff and playing stuff. So, yeah, I think it's 00:27:22.460 --> 00:27:24.200 a really good way of just forcing yourself to 00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:26.700 play differently and affects your songwriting 00:27:26.700 --> 00:27:29.079 and stuff. Okay. Yeah, we've talked about that 00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:31.900 on the show before, actually, with some of my 00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:35.910 patrons, how when bands started, adapting and 00:27:35.910 --> 00:27:40.029 using drop tuning and stuff, how just that slight, 00:27:40.289 --> 00:27:44.109 you know, the, the E flat, uh, how it made it 00:27:44.109 --> 00:27:47.609 hard for people to pick up on playing songs because, 00:27:47.690 --> 00:27:50.710 you know, everyone was used to just E standard 00:27:50.710 --> 00:27:53.930 and people were playing a lot of stuff just wrong. 00:27:54.170 --> 00:27:56.970 And then, you know, your typical interview or 00:27:56.970 --> 00:27:58.809 whatever, somebody says, Oh yeah, we tuned the 00:27:58.809 --> 00:28:01.950 E flat and like, Oh, it makes sense now. Some 00:28:01.950 --> 00:28:05.269 stuff is a disaster for, I mean, I love Megadeth. 00:28:05.470 --> 00:28:08.009 They're one of my favorite things in the entire 00:28:08.009 --> 00:28:10.349 world, but seeing Megadeth playing in like the 00:28:10.349 --> 00:28:15.170 standard line. No. It takes away a huge chunk 00:28:15.170 --> 00:28:19.890 of character. The guitars for me, I still love 00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.049 them. I still go see it. Yeah, just that, you 00:28:22.049 --> 00:28:24.509 know, it's one step, two note difference, but 00:28:24.509 --> 00:28:28.690 it makes a huge, huge difference to the sort 00:28:28.690 --> 00:28:30.210 of live experience, I think, and to the sort 00:28:30.210 --> 00:28:33.440 of the bitey crunchiness that you expect. from 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.859 a thrash band. Right. I get that. It's interesting 00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:41.440 because for years he talked about not changing 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:44.400 the tuning and then a few years back they started 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:47.559 to do it, I guess, because of his voice. Yeah, 00:28:47.700 --> 00:28:51.920 sure. We'll see with this final album how that 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:56.039 all turns out. Yeah, I'm enjoying it, so I don't 00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:58.819 care. Do you like the three tracks that they've 00:28:58.819 --> 00:29:01.849 released? yeah I mean it's different though so 00:29:01.849 --> 00:29:04.630 my I've got two kids who are now hugely into 00:29:04.630 --> 00:29:07.430 Megadeth and Iron Maiden and for them it's their 00:29:07.430 --> 00:29:11.769 their first right album cycle so you live a little 00:29:11.769 --> 00:29:14.630 bit vicariously so yeah we all know what the 00:29:14.630 --> 00:29:17.609 quality of it is we all know right you know it's 00:29:17.609 --> 00:29:20.170 uh I wish that the lyrics were different they're 00:29:20.170 --> 00:29:23.690 not um but my kids are jumping around the living 00:29:23.690 --> 00:29:29.049 room loving it so vicariously Live free a little 00:29:29.049 --> 00:29:32.430 bit as well. So I'm super excited about it. We 00:29:32.430 --> 00:29:35.990 can't wait. Yeah, that's, that's interesting 00:29:35.990 --> 00:29:39.069 because I have kids that my youngest just became 00:29:39.069 --> 00:29:42.029 a teenager and listening to bands that I've listened 00:29:42.029 --> 00:29:45.589 my entire life where, you know, you read things 00:29:45.589 --> 00:29:49.190 online or people are hypercritical of bands, 00:29:49.450 --> 00:29:52.369 but you see it through the eyes of somebody who 00:29:52.369 --> 00:29:54.930 hasn't lived through all of that, where as you're 00:29:54.930 --> 00:29:57.150 saying, it's their first new album by the band. 00:29:57.609 --> 00:30:04.789 And to them, it's a big deal. For them, the combination 00:30:04.789 --> 00:30:09.529 of Fortnite with Metallica or ACDC was huge for 00:30:09.529 --> 00:30:11.150 them because they're like, wow, you know, we 00:30:11.150 --> 00:30:13.230 listen to this music and then now we're seeing 00:30:13.230 --> 00:30:16.430 it in video games. And, you know, they weren't 00:30:16.430 --> 00:30:19.950 arguing about whether it was Bon Scott or Brian 00:30:19.950 --> 00:30:24.009 Johnson or whether, you know, 72 Seasons is as 00:30:24.009 --> 00:30:26.329 good as Master of Puppets. They were just loving 00:30:26.329 --> 00:30:29.230 the music. Just the same. So it's awesome to 00:30:29.230 --> 00:30:32.650 see that kind of through virgin eyes and ears, 00:30:32.730 --> 00:30:35.349 you know, without some of that. Yeah, no, I agree. 00:30:35.549 --> 00:30:38.869 Yeah. Yeah. I think the, the, the critiques are 00:30:38.869 --> 00:30:42.250 fine. Like critique is healthy, I think. Yeah. 00:30:42.589 --> 00:30:44.769 Yeah. We're, uh, these bands don't have long 00:30:44.769 --> 00:30:47.410 left, so we're, we're enjoying what we've got 00:30:47.410 --> 00:30:51.190 left. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so you mentioned 00:30:51.190 --> 00:30:53.329 to me and you mentioned at the beginning of the, 00:30:53.349 --> 00:30:57.799 of the show as well. that you've got a UK tour 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:01.299 lined up. The announcement just came out. Can 00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:05.680 you fill us in on some of that? Yeah, we can't 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.079 wait. It's actually our label buddies, Devastator. 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:10.440 We've known these guys. Actually, Tom was going 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:14.839 to be our vocalist at one point. But yeah, they're 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:17.000 an amazing black and thrash band from here in 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.940 the UK. If you haven't heard them, check them 00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:24.630 out. Really filthy. dirty black and thrash great 00:31:24.630 --> 00:31:27.809 like if you like knife and bands like that they're 00:31:27.809 --> 00:31:30.789 definitely well up there um but yeah so we're 00:31:30.789 --> 00:31:33.029 super excited we're going out for one leg with 00:31:33.029 --> 00:31:36.109 them in four or five dates yeah four dates i 00:31:36.109 --> 00:31:39.069 think next week we're going uh just on our own 00:31:39.069 --> 00:31:41.890 with our friends in exorcism who are again another 00:31:41.890 --> 00:31:44.009 amazing young thrash bands who are up and coming 00:31:44.009 --> 00:31:46.869 here uh doing some more dates with those guys 00:31:46.869 --> 00:31:49.809 uh and then this really young thrash band called 00:31:49.809 --> 00:31:54.000 bloodsore coming with us and uh to Slayer. That's 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.579 them, basically. They're absolutely amazing. 00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.059 We've played with all of them before. So, yeah, 00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:03.559 we're super excited about that. You know, it's 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:07.119 the first show. It's going to be great to sort 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:09.200 of see all the fans that we've picked up over 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:11.740 the last few months. And then, yeah, we're going 00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:14.920 to be over in Europe in September. So a full 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.880 two -week European tour with our mates from Harlots 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:21.839 from Australia. which is going to be absolutely 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:26.039 mad because they're incredible as well. So, yeah, 00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:27.119 and then we've got a lot of stuff happening in 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.819 between. It looks like we're going to places 00:32:28.819 --> 00:32:33.359 like Bulgaria. We've got some shows in the Netherlands. 00:32:34.140 --> 00:32:36.240 So, yeah, it's going to be forward to 2026. It's 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:40.000 going to be a mad one. And then with all of Chris's 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.579 commitments with Gamma Bob and my commitments 00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:44.920 with Trap, it's going to be a pretty mad year, 00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:51.990 I think. Great. Um, and you're saying that there's 00:32:51.990 --> 00:32:54.890 possibly an EP that's going to drop. Yeah. We're 00:32:54.890 --> 00:32:56.430 kind of debating what our next move is. Like 00:32:56.430 --> 00:32:57.670 we're obviously not going to do a new record 00:32:57.670 --> 00:33:03.230 straight away. Um, but at the same time, yeah, 00:33:03.329 --> 00:33:07.049 we, we, you know, we're, we're really, we're 00:33:07.049 --> 00:33:09.329 enjoying each other's company. Uh, we're loving, 00:33:09.349 --> 00:33:11.809 we've absolutely loved this year. Um, and it's 00:33:11.809 --> 00:33:13.450 been really nice for me to sort of be in the 00:33:13.450 --> 00:33:16.369 bands again with some friends that I haven't 00:33:16.369 --> 00:33:19.059 been in the band for a while. Um, You know, we 00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:20.980 just, it's been just a bunch of mates having 00:33:20.980 --> 00:33:24.059 an absolute blast for a year. So it's been super 00:33:24.059 --> 00:33:27.299 productive. We've really been enjoying getting 00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:29.500 into the studio and starting it. And I don't, 00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:32.160 we don't want to be sitting on stuff for like 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:36.400 the next year. We've got these new few songs 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.759 that we started making and we're super excited 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.359 about them. So we're like, do we want to be sitting 00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:42.839 on these for 18 months or something out a bit 00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.559 sooner? But yeah, that's a conversation that 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:50.880 we're now having. i think i think thing um again 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.779 we need to speak to our later before we make 00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:55.019 any promises but yeah i think we're just eager 00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:58.259 to we're super enjoying it we're loving each 00:33:58.259 --> 00:34:00.240 other's company we're loving just the experience 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:01.819 that we've been blown away with the response 00:34:01.819 --> 00:34:04.599 we had no idea that the album would do as well 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:07.299 as it's been doing and the interest we've been 00:34:07.299 --> 00:34:09.000 getting let alone getting signed and all that 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:11.440 stuff so yeah we've just been really eager to 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:13.440 write new music and we're we're sort of loving 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.380 it so yeah we're hopefully we'll have something 00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:20.829 out What would the EP look like? Just original 00:34:20.829 --> 00:34:23.309 songs? Would you throw a cover in there? Yeah, 00:34:23.329 --> 00:34:26.989 I think so. Okay. Yeah, I think mostly our own 00:34:26.989 --> 00:34:30.150 stuff. We've got a few covers that we like playing, 00:34:30.210 --> 00:34:31.730 some Slayer stuff or whatever. But yeah, we're 00:34:31.730 --> 00:34:35.289 not really sure, to be honest. We're really cracking 00:34:35.289 --> 00:34:37.050 on hard with the new stuff. But obviously, we 00:34:37.050 --> 00:34:40.630 want to tour this first album. One of the downsides 00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:43.030 of doing a half an hour long album as your first 00:34:43.030 --> 00:34:47.039 album is... what do you play so we're going out 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:48.599 on a headline tour and we've got half an hour 00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:50.539 of stuff so we've got to be uh okay what are 00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:51.840 we actually doing there so we've got to really 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.840 think about that um obviously we've got a sort 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:57.559 of back catalogue of shrapnel stuff and covers 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.239 we want to keep moving forward as well we really 00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:02.179 enjoy it so that the stuff we've just been writing 00:35:02.179 --> 00:35:06.679 over the last few weeks we just yeah we're super 00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:08.719 buzzed about and it's it's that feeling of you 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.690 know do we really want to you know book a studio 00:35:11.690 --> 00:35:13.909 for summer and then be sitting around waiting 00:35:13.909 --> 00:35:16.090 for another six months to you know maybe look 00:35:16.090 --> 00:35:20.309 at early 2027 before we um we're sort of enjoying 00:35:20.309 --> 00:35:23.630 right now and we want to we want to keep yeah 00:35:23.630 --> 00:35:28.030 sort of pushing things forward so yeah i'm really 00:35:28.030 --> 00:35:31.309 hopeful that we'll we're ready to get into a 00:35:31.309 --> 00:35:37.519 studio soon so Could you see doing any shrapnel 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:41.860 songs live like struck a nerve, like maybe revamping 00:35:41.860 --> 00:35:44.280 them so they fit more of a struck a nerve style? 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:48.539 I mean, we, we have been. So, um, obviously, 00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:51.039 like I say, Aaron was on one of our records, 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:53.920 um, I'll call pals for the insane back in 2020. 00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:57.099 Um, so we, we were at one point pulling from 00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:59.199 that stuff, but we've also, you know, we want 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:01.280 to keep these two things. They're their own things. 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:04.199 We don't really want any overlap. So we want 00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:09.090 to, yeah we do want to reduce that um and we 00:36:09.090 --> 00:36:10.949 do we do just want to do struck a nerve stuff 00:36:10.949 --> 00:36:13.969 um so you know there's there's a big push stuff 00:36:13.969 --> 00:36:16.670 out because you know we also need to right so 00:36:16.670 --> 00:36:19.989 but it's uh yeah i think that combination of 00:36:19.989 --> 00:36:23.210 like need but also just enjoying the process 00:36:23.210 --> 00:36:26.269 it's been absolutely lovely to to sort of really 00:36:26.269 --> 00:36:28.250 be desperate to get into the studio like we've 00:36:28.250 --> 00:36:30.429 got these songs where you know i'm traveling 00:36:30.429 --> 00:36:33.360 back to norwich quite often um Um, and it's just 00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:34.920 been, it's been such a good blast. And I think 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:36.300 when you're in that really sort of happy space 00:36:36.300 --> 00:36:38.500 with it and that really productive space, um, 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:42.800 yeah, we should, we should be thinking, getting, 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:44.400 getting new stuff out. But at the same time, 00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.280 we don't want to overshadow the first album. 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:50.440 So an EP seems like somewhere next year might 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:55.000 be a fees. Okay. Uh, where should people go to 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.039 keep up with struck a nerve online? Uh, all the 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.639 normal. places so we're active on instagram facebook 00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:04.440 um we're on our bandcamp page as well we're trying 00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.360 to build a community over there um if you follow 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:09.920 our youtube page our youtube shorts we try and 00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.719 keep we're really as we start this new um yeah 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.760 we're trying to get like the community involved 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:19.159 with it and really sort of show some of the process 00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:23.420 of that so yeah i mean instagram youtube shorts 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:26.860 um yeah come follow us and then all our videos 00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:30.360 are on the listenable records um youtube page 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:33.559 so go check go check all that stuff out okay 00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:37.940 and where can people go to purchase the struck 00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:41.940 a nerve uh debut album and ensure that the most 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:47.380 money gets back into your pockets so yeah thankfully 00:37:47.380 --> 00:37:50.699 um listenable are pretty great with um so our 00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:54.519 deal is it's it's very good um so i mean anywhere 00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:57.889 really um probably the most direct is from our 00:37:57.889 --> 00:37:59.769 band camp page, but again, it depends where you 00:37:59.769 --> 00:38:03.690 live. Right. So, um, it's probably easier to 00:38:03.690 --> 00:38:05.809 get it through listener book. If you're in the 00:38:05.809 --> 00:38:08.329 UK, it's certainly easier to get from us. So 00:38:08.329 --> 00:38:10.750 you avoid all the import stuff. Uh, but yeah, 00:38:10.809 --> 00:38:12.650 we're, we're on band camp. You can pick, uh, 00:38:12.929 --> 00:38:16.429 things, band camp, shrapnel, sorry, not shrapnel, 00:38:16.429 --> 00:38:20.190 wrong bands, uh, struck a nerve UK. Um, yeah. 00:38:20.369 --> 00:38:24.380 Uh, we've got all the vinyls. patches, CDs, everything, 00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:26.960 all the merch over there. So yeah, that's probably 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:28.340 the best place, especially if you're in the UK. 00:38:30.059 --> 00:38:35.639 Last question. You guys are one of the only bands 00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:40.239 that have named the band, have a self -titled 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:46.119 album and have a song. Also struck a nerve by 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:51.119 struck a nerve off of struck a nerve. Was that 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:56.199 done on purpose? It definitely was. It's a bit 00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:58.800 of a statement, isn't it? It's like, this is 00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:02.199 a new thing. This is our sound. But yeah, Black 00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:04.360 Sabbath are my favorite band. So Black Sabbath 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.980 on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. I was laughing 00:39:06.980 --> 00:39:09.219 when my kids heard about this because they were 00:39:09.219 --> 00:39:11.380 like, you've got to do the trio. You've got to 00:39:11.380 --> 00:39:14.519 have all three. I can't believe Megadeth missed 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:16.539 this opportunity to not call a song Megadeth, 00:39:16.579 --> 00:39:21.369 by the way. Inexcusable. but yeah for me Maiden 00:39:21.369 --> 00:39:24.909 did it Black Sabbath did it so we're doing Exodus 00:39:24.909 --> 00:39:28.889 did it so yeah no they didn't actually they didn't 00:39:28.889 --> 00:39:32.909 but yeah we've got the trifecta so it's really 00:39:32.909 --> 00:39:36.170 silly but yeah I think it's that's just kind 00:39:36.170 --> 00:39:38.130 of fun but it's also yeah it's a bit of a statement 00:39:38.130 --> 00:39:43.309 of yeah especially the song itself it was demoing 00:39:43.309 --> 00:39:46.869 things it really stood out as like a this feels 00:39:46.869 --> 00:39:51.260 like a proud song this one feels like you could 00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:54.360 name a band after this song for us right uh yeah 00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:56.420 and as we're writing it really felt like yeah 00:39:56.420 --> 00:39:59.679 let's let's do it and then really no alternative 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.800 album title came up so we're like now it's the 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:10.980 trio cool well nathan i thank you for coming 00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:14.860 on the show and uh hope you're able to fix all 00:40:14.860 --> 00:40:18.260 of the uh stuff regarding the tour Hopefully 00:40:18.260 --> 00:40:19.599 you were able to sort this out. Yeah, I'll find 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:21.199 out in a minute. My phone will be full here. 00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:26.400 It's one of the things, we're doing everything, 00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:28.719 we're trying to do as much DIY as we can. And 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:31.239 that includes, you know, this UK tour is all 00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:32.719 we're doing ourselves. We're booking ourselves. 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:36.079 There's a lot of learning that goes on when you 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.260 do that kind of thing. So it's like, we've missed 00:40:38.260 --> 00:40:43.940 what? Oh my God. Yeah. Especially when you're 00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:46.019 working collaboratively with another band. So 00:40:46.019 --> 00:40:47.420 that's some Devastator we're trying to, we're 00:40:47.420 --> 00:40:50.780 figuring it out as we go. Right. Cool. So hopefully 00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:53.000 you guys can sort all that out. Much luck to 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:58.900 you and the band in 2026. And that's pretty much 00:40:58.900 --> 00:41:02.159 it. Thanks for your time, sir. Awesome. Cheers, 00:41:02.260 --> 00:41:26.480 man. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Go to signalsfrommars 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:29.139 .com for more information. This concludes our 00:41:29.139 --> 00:41:29.360 show.