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Welcome one and all to the latest episode of

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Signals from Mars, episode 442. And we begin

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2026's album reviews. This is Ed, this is Jeremy,

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this is myself, discussing albums that have come

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out in January of 2026 to help you guys keep

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track of albums that jump out at us. I'm ready.

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in 2021. A few in 2022. And the latest is Sean

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Richmond all the way back in January of 2023.

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five years that he's been supporting me here

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about what albums should have been higher, what

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albums are not there, so on and so forth. So

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send me your 10 favorite albums that came out

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in 1980. And if you can only send me three, if

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you can only send me five, if you can only send

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me one, I'll work with whatever you send me.

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are points that are assigned to each. one of

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your albums. And if you send it to me and say

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something to the effect of in no particular order,

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whatever appears first is going to be your number

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one. So in no particular order, that's your number

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one going all the way down to 10. So if you do

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stuff. Thank you for taking the time out of your

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busy day. to listen or watch this episode. Welcome

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everyone to the latest episode of Signals from

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Mars. I'm your host, Victor. Joining me is Jeremy.

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Good evening. In the UK. And Ed. See, that's

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easy. I can just point down and get that right.

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Ed in Kentucky. So awesome to have the band back

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together here. We have Edgar Winterson in the

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chat. We are talking January 2025. albums so

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as usual there's good music coming out all the

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time can't say that every week had good music

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but uh um still music has come out all the same

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hey sean richmond how are you sir uh all right

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so um In your opinion, what do you guys think?

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Have we started the year out good? Are there

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albums here that you guys will be listening to

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throughout the year? Well, there's definitely

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at least one that I'm going to be listening to

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through the rest of the year. I think it's pretty

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typical of any year. It's a slow start in some

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weeks, and in other weeks it's really good for

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me. Yeah. You, Ed? Yes. I have several things

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already that I'll listen to all year long. Okay.

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So, yeah, first couple of weeks, I wasn't so

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sure, but we ended this month or last month really

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well. Awesome. So, yeah, Sean, we started a little

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late because we were discussing things off air.

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So, anyway. So let's get things started here.

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January 2nd, we had releases from Chris Emmert

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and Aurelia and Cohen. They both released their

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separate Magnolia sessions. This is kind of a

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bluegrass, western type of feel with the music.

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I actually thought that... that Ed might be able

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to pontificate upon this, but seems, I don't

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know if this has caught his attention or not.

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We'll see. There was another album by Allende

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and Oliver who released Neverland. And depending

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on what list you look at, that was either released

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in December or was released in January. So I

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don't know if maybe in December the digital copy

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was released and maybe the physical came out

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in January. Whenever I notice that kind of stuff,

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I usually list the physical copy as a reissue.

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But anyway, there were those full lengths. There

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was an EP from Gravity Chasm and a reissue of

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the Queen of the Damned movie soundtrack. Jeremy,

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you pointed out that there was really nothing

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that stood out for you this first week. Yeah.

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Yeah. I mean, this is probably, you know, the

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worst week for me of the whole year, I would

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think, because there really wasn't anything that

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stood out to me at all. So I, you know, I didn't

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really want to even listen to anything, to be

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honest. It's a very, you know, it's a very short

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list. And, you know, I'm going to talk about

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other things another week. So, yeah, absolutely

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zilch. Okay. Ed, anything that stood out to you

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for this week? Nope. This was a nothing week.

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That's for me. All the way up through the 10th,

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right? Yeah. Yeah. Nothing. January 2nd. I'm

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looking at... It's kind of to be expected because

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it's so close to the holidays, I think. Yeah.

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And that's basically what... What happens both

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in December and January, a week before the holidays

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and a week after is pretty slow. That's right.

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We've already got our good spammers in the chat.

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Let's make you popular. All right. So for me,

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the only thing that I'm going to say stands out

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to me is the reissue, the Queen of the Damned

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soundtrack, which I've had that on CD for years.

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This was just released on vinyl for the first

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time. And if you don't know what this is about,

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this was a soundtrack that Jonathan Davis of

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Korn put together, wrote everything. And then

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it turned out that lawyers got involved and basically

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said, hey, wait a second, you're on, I forget

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what label they were on at the time, and he wasn't

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allowed to put it out. So what he did was he

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got other artists to record his songs for the

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soundtrack and then had a few others add their

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own music. Let's see. Ed Ferguson here is throwing

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out names of albums. I don't know if these are

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real or not. Zoo with Ferrum Ciderium. Okay.

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And Gumshoes. Happy New Year. Best of album.

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January 1st. Okay. Let's make a word for it.

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All right. So anyway. Yeah. So that's all I'm

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going to say about January 2nd. January 9th,

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still kind of a light week here. We had, although

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there are some big name artists here, we had

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the self -titled album by Alter Bridge. We had

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albums by Orchard Thorn. I don't know how you

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pronounce that. They're a Mongolian band. Lionheart.

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Redriver. Bullet, Beyond the Black, Wretched.

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Those are all full lengths. And then there's

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an EP from Nano War of Steel, Terror Garden,

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and Deadwood. There's a live album from Iotun

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as well. Jeremy, anything that sparked your interest

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here? Yeah, actually quite a lot. I listen to

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four and recommend all four. So Kickstarter by

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Bullet. Really enjoyed that one. Sort of an ACDC

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except kind of bastard child from Sweden. It's

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hard actually not to imagine Udo Dirkschneider

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hasn't joined ACDC on this album because that's

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the kind of thing you got on the vocal. The riffing

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is fairly similar as well. That aside, it's actually

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all really good fun as well and it's a good listen.

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I really enjoyed it, but I couldn't help thinking

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that it was those sources on it. I listened to

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the Alter Bridge album. I'm a bit like you, Victor.

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I listen to Alter Bridge and I'm hoping for more

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every time and they don't quite deliver it. I

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really liked the first song on it, Silent Divide.

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I thought it was a very good riff -heavy stomper

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to start off the album, and I was really hoping

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the rest of the album would be in that kind of

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vein, but it didn't really shine through the

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whole album. It was good enough to recommend

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someone to go away and have a listen to, and

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maybe it's something that I'll listen to again.

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probably get a little bit more from but i know

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that you know miles kennedy can be a little bit

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sort of nasally a bit graty uh and you know that

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that can be a bit of a problem the terra garden

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ep is a really good recommendation this is a

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really good superb new york band very like sanhedrin

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the band that i've sort of mentioned a few times

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they're kind of chunkier they're a bit heavier

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They have a real good sort of mix of power and

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energy, really sort of kind of what you really

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want Guns N' Roses to sound like, but they don't

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sort of deliver that. So, yeah, it's kind of

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on the sort of Welcome to the Jungle sort of

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feel initially on this. So really, really sort

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of cool driving choruses on it. There's only

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six songs on this because it's an EP and there's

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only about 22 minutes of music. And it's not

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the band's only output because obviously it's

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called Terror Garden by Terror Garden, but you

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can go back and listen to some of the older stuff

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as well. I really recommend the first track,

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Supermodel Virus. It's probably one of the best

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songs I've heard in over a year. So not just

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this year, obviously, we're right at the beginning

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of the year, but in a good 12 months, it's amazing.

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It's so loose and it's so raw and it's so...

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It's just something that you can get your teeth

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into. Really love that song. Really like the

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song Hollow as well on that. So really good EP

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by Terra Garden. Really recommend it. Might well

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try and get, you know, some sort of hard copy

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of that if I can. And then the final one, I don't

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think you mentioned this, is by a band called

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Venger. Actually, some people might suggest it's

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Venger, but I read an article about them and

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it's called Venger. They're actually, it's a

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new project featuring Doug Scarrett of Saxon.

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So, you know, you know all about him. It's a

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very melodic offering. He's got a collaborator

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on there called James Fogarty, who comes from

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a sort of proggier, darker background. So it's

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a nice mix of the two. And it focuses on sort

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of fantasy sci -fi themes, that sort of stuff.

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It had a really good tempo to it. Again, it's

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an album that, you know, you want to listen to

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probably again and again. So that was good. I

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was tempted. I might sort of suggest my album

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of the week might be Bullet. It might be Venger,

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but I'm going to go for the Terra Garden EP.

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Okay. Yeah. Like I just mentioned in the chat,

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I mentioned it to Edgar because he's naming albums

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that I don't have. When I put our Excel list

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together, it is based on what PR people send

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me or labels. And then from there, I still check

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out other websites and pull. Stuff that kind

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of sticks out to me depending on the label that

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they're on, depending on who the artist is. I

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honestly don't have time to add everything. I

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know Metal Storm, for example, has an expansive

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list week after week. I'd never be able to post

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all that stuff. Thank God for the filter that

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helps me whittle that down. Yeah. And even with

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that, I go to a few different places. I go to

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like four different sites. This week I worked

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on updating our Excel sheet and there's releases

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going up to April is pretty solid. May has a

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few things. June has a few things. Even July

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has something and there's. I forget when the

00:18:21.019 --> 00:18:22.880
master plan comes out, but there's something

00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.059
that's really late in the year. So there's stuff

00:18:26.059 --> 00:18:30.140
already that's coming out late this year. So

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Edgar can't reveal his sources. Well, you can't

00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:35.819
reveal to us who you are, Edgar. So I guess,

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Ed, what are some of the things that you listen

00:18:41.099 --> 00:18:47.200
to? Nothing this week again, either. Now, I do

00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.440
remember kind of, like I said, I still put everything

00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.339
in there and listened to whatever you got on

00:18:52.339 --> 00:18:54.700
the spreadsheet. I remember that Alter Bridge

00:18:54.700 --> 00:18:59.480
sounding very well. It's produced really well.

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Yes. Remind me, am I correct about that? Yeah,

00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:07.619
absolutely. So even though it's not my kind of

00:19:07.619 --> 00:19:12.240
band, I really enjoyed listening to that band

00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.630
for... A couple of songs. Anyway, listening to

00:19:14.630 --> 00:19:17.750
Miles playing his guitar tone, I like a lot.

00:19:18.690 --> 00:19:24.349
And then I did listen to the folk albums that

00:19:24.349 --> 00:19:29.710
you mentioned earlier. Okay. One was more interesting

00:19:29.710 --> 00:19:31.809
than the other, and you probably know which one.

00:19:31.950 --> 00:19:34.069
I can't remember the names of it. I think it

00:19:34.069 --> 00:19:37.609
had a female singer. Okay. A lot of different

00:19:37.609 --> 00:19:42.140
eclectic. Yeah. Types of sounds in all of our

00:19:42.140 --> 00:19:44.680
songs. You know, living in Kentucky, I'm surrounded

00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:50.400
by tons of music like that. Yeah. So I do listen

00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.640
to bluegrass and folk and old -time country and

00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:59.039
old blues artists and old jazz. But I'm 98 %

00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:02.859
of the time a metalhead, and I kind of have to

00:20:02.859 --> 00:20:05.579
be in the mood to listen to some of those other

00:20:05.579 --> 00:20:09.349
genres. So I listened to that stuff, and it was

00:20:09.349 --> 00:20:12.009
good, but I didn't really spend a lot of time

00:20:12.009 --> 00:20:15.289
with it. And I can't really think of anything

00:20:15.289 --> 00:20:18.329
else that grabbed my attention up until the week

00:20:18.329 --> 00:20:25.730
that we're about to go into. Okay. So, Jeremy,

00:20:25.930 --> 00:20:29.650
if Ed were to reference the boot scoot boogie

00:20:29.650 --> 00:20:32.890
or anything like that, would you be privy as

00:20:32.890 --> 00:20:37.059
to what that would be? The boot scoop boogie.

00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:46.819
Yes. I have no idea. Oh man. All right. I listened

00:20:46.819 --> 00:20:50.599
to almost everything that I mentioned. All right.

00:20:50.660 --> 00:20:59.240
I listened to the altar bridge and it's the same

00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.920
as usual for me. I mean, at this point they're

00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.319
just releasing the same album over and over again.

00:21:04.750 --> 00:21:06.869
There's maybe one song, as you said, Jeremy,

00:21:06.950 --> 00:21:10.809
that first song was really cool. And everything

00:21:10.809 --> 00:21:13.750
else just sounds like a watered down version

00:21:13.750 --> 00:21:18.930
of that to me. There's one or two songs that

00:21:18.930 --> 00:21:22.910
go into my Alter Bridge playlist. And even by

00:21:22.910 --> 00:21:25.190
putting that on shuffle, similar to what you

00:21:25.190 --> 00:21:31.930
said, I get a few songs in and I'm done. They're

00:21:31.930 --> 00:21:37.509
really nice guys. But it's just, you know, I

00:21:37.509 --> 00:21:40.529
wish they would do something different at this

00:21:40.529 --> 00:21:46.670
point. What else kind of stood out to me? The

00:21:46.670 --> 00:21:52.150
Lionheart album, Valley of Death 2. That's a

00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:55.690
more new metal -ish type album. So if you're

00:21:55.690 --> 00:21:59.029
into that, that's something you may want to check

00:21:59.029 --> 00:22:03.740
out. The Bullet album is exactly what you said.

00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.180
I was listening to that and I'm like, this is

00:22:07.180 --> 00:22:16.920
Udo or Mark Staracci fronting ACDC. I remember

00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:21.079
that too, guys. Now that you're sparking my memory,

00:22:21.220 --> 00:22:23.380
I remember that same thing. Some guy that sounded

00:22:23.380 --> 00:22:31.460
so much like Udo. Yeah. Surprisingly enough,

00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:36.200
and I can't believe I'm going to say this, but

00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:40.079
my album of the week is Beyond the Black, Break

00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:46.299
the Silence. And this is a band that historically,

00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:52.339
they're a symphonic metal band, which isn't something

00:22:52.339 --> 00:22:56.309
that I tend to like. When they stray from that,

00:22:56.390 --> 00:22:59.470
it's usually more of a Eurovision type metal

00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:04.710
thing. But they've done something a little different

00:23:04.710 --> 00:23:07.890
on this album where they've added some more heavier

00:23:07.890 --> 00:23:10.670
elements to some of the songs. They've added

00:23:10.670 --> 00:23:14.009
some proggier things to the songs. So it kind

00:23:14.009 --> 00:23:17.470
of stood out to me. There's like three or four

00:23:17.470 --> 00:23:19.750
songs that I actually enjoyed off of the album.

00:23:19.950 --> 00:23:23.190
So that's why I'm going to go with it because

00:23:23.190 --> 00:23:25.599
it, It caught me off guard. It wasn't what I

00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:28.579
expected from them. So it's going to be beyond

00:23:28.579 --> 00:23:32.839
the black for me. All right. So let's move on

00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:40.779
to January 16th. We had new albums from Kid Capici,

00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:47.839
Carry On Veil, Creator, David Boring, Grey Wind,

00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:55.190
Vessels, Viserion, Of Sulfur. Glucifer, Eden

00:23:55.190 --> 00:24:01.309
Bridge, and so on. EPs from Anti -Sapien and

00:24:01.309 --> 00:24:05.069
The Eternal, reissues from Demons, My Friends,

00:24:05.390 --> 00:24:09.789
Gazillionaire, Paul D 'Anno's War Horse, Warning,

00:24:10.089 --> 00:24:14.269
and a live album from Death Cult, who is essentially

00:24:14.269 --> 00:24:19.250
the cult, just recording their earlier material

00:24:19.250 --> 00:24:26.269
live. All right, Ed. This week finally does it

00:24:26.269 --> 00:24:32.450
for you. So, Ed, let us have it. Well, first

00:24:32.450 --> 00:24:36.309
of all, I kind of want to go last on this one

00:24:36.309 --> 00:24:40.329
in case one of you all pick. Okay, all right.

00:24:40.390 --> 00:24:42.630
But I can give an alternate in case you all pick

00:24:42.630 --> 00:24:45.329
the other one. Okay, all right, fine. Jeremy,

00:24:45.369 --> 00:24:47.769
go ahead. I've got two very good picks. That's

00:24:47.769 --> 00:24:50.450
okay, because I've only got one. for this week

00:24:50.450 --> 00:24:54.029
and it's creator crushes of the world so you

00:24:54.029 --> 00:24:56.630
may want to talk about that later as well obviously

00:24:56.630 --> 00:24:59.349
it's their 16th studio album the german thrashers

00:24:59.349 --> 00:25:02.250
um and we all know they're not inventing the

00:25:02.250 --> 00:25:05.589
wheel on these these kind of albums now um it's

00:25:05.589 --> 00:25:08.089
definitely what i call a thrash comfort blanket

00:25:08.089 --> 00:25:13.250
very familiar themes the riffs um But to its

00:25:13.250 --> 00:25:15.369
credit, I would say that they do have a bit of

00:25:15.369 --> 00:25:19.549
a melodic edge to their music now, which sort

00:25:19.549 --> 00:25:21.710
of distinguishes them from what, you know, I

00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:25.089
would say was a less polished and almost slightly

00:25:25.089 --> 00:25:28.990
amateurish start. So, you know, it's got more

00:25:28.990 --> 00:25:33.000
polished in that respect. And I would say also,

00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.339
you know, check out these songs and compare them

00:25:35.339 --> 00:25:37.640
to the Testament album, because I think it stands

00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:40.440
up very well against a band like Testament. And

00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:42.460
I think that, you know, they don't get as much

00:25:42.460 --> 00:25:45.640
publicity over this music that they're releasing

00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:47.720
compared to, you know, a band like Testament.

00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:50.680
So, yeah, for me, that was definitely album of

00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:52.400
the week. It was kind of the only one that I

00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:54.240
listened to, but I really enjoyed it. I thought

00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:58.630
it was good. Yeah, I think that. they may not

00:25:58.630 --> 00:26:03.710
be held in the same esteem as Testament. Probably.

00:26:03.710 --> 00:26:07.950
I would say two reasons. One is because they

00:26:07.950 --> 00:26:10.509
came a little after Testament, like Testament

00:26:10.509 --> 00:26:14.930
was like the second wave of thrash and creator

00:26:14.930 --> 00:26:18.329
was more of, I mean, obviously the first wave

00:26:18.329 --> 00:26:22.549
of European thrash probably. But it was like

00:26:22.549 --> 00:26:27.690
the third wave of thrash that. became popular

00:26:27.690 --> 00:26:31.990
so by that time you are you know in that same

00:26:31.990 --> 00:26:36.029
wave you had sacred reich you had sepulchra you

00:26:36.029 --> 00:26:40.410
had other bands that became really big um also

00:26:40.410 --> 00:26:43.730
creator did something else creator experimented

00:26:43.730 --> 00:26:50.069
a lot in the 90s early 2000s so they've got albums

00:26:50.069 --> 00:26:52.450
where they're adding electronic elements where

00:26:52.450 --> 00:26:55.819
they're doing like new medley where they're really

00:26:55.819 --> 00:26:59.380
down -tuned and stuff like that. So that is also

00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:06.319
kind of, you know, maybe pushed people away also.

00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.700
I mean, I don't know that there's another European

00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:15.000
thrash band, though, that's bigger than them.

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:17.200
I mean, just off the top of my head, I don't,

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:20.640
you know, is there, when you think of thrash

00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:25.059
that comes out of any place of Europe, Is there

00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:27.359
any other band that you think before Creator,

00:27:27.579 --> 00:27:30.099
like for as much as Sodom and Destruction and

00:27:30.099 --> 00:27:32.420
all these other bands are there? I think Creator

00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:36.460
is kind of at the forefront. Yeah, they're king

00:27:36.460 --> 00:27:42.460
of the hill over there. Yeah. So, all right.

00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:48.579
So I listened to the Kid Capicci, which I've

00:27:48.579 --> 00:27:51.200
liked their first two albums. They've had two

00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.720
members of the band leave. So there is a noticeable

00:27:54.720 --> 00:28:00.819
difference with the music. This album is maybe

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:06.000
a little bit more rock oriented. There's less

00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.980
like samples and less maybe experimenting on

00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:12.160
this album than others in the past. It's got

00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:15.720
some cool stuff on it. I have to sit with it

00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:19.680
a little more, to be honest. But it's not a bad

00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.500
album. The Creator, I liked a lot. I think the

00:28:22.500 --> 00:28:27.579
Creator album is probably their most solid album

00:28:27.579 --> 00:28:30.700
beginning to end in a really long time. There's

00:28:30.700 --> 00:28:34.940
some really good stuff on there. What else did

00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:37.460
I listen to? I listened to the Soin album. I

00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:39.420
don't like it as much as their previous album.

00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:42.180
Like their previous album really jumped out at

00:28:42.180 --> 00:28:44.680
me. There were tracks that they were releasing

00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:49.289
before the album came out. And this one, the

00:28:49.289 --> 00:28:54.509
first single that they released was okay, but

00:28:54.509 --> 00:29:00.549
it just didn't grab me. For me, my album of the

00:29:00.549 --> 00:29:03.029
week, and Sean Richmond has already mentioned

00:29:03.029 --> 00:29:07.910
it in the chat, is Glucifer's. Same drug, new

00:29:07.910 --> 00:29:10.750
high. Glucifer's a band out of Sweden, which

00:29:10.750 --> 00:29:14.319
had gone away for a really long time. just gotten

00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:17.859
back together again and put out this album. And

00:29:17.859 --> 00:29:22.259
this was a band that in the early 2000s, a lot

00:29:22.259 --> 00:29:24.640
of people talked about them. Lars Ulrich talked

00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.720
about them. A lot of big name people saying,

00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.619
oh, these guys are going to be like them and

00:29:29.619 --> 00:29:32.640
backyard babies. And there was this whole Scandinavian

00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.859
rock movement, helicopters, stuff like that.

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:39.579
And people were saying how they were going to

00:29:39.579 --> 00:29:44.559
be one of the next big things. And all of these

00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.579
bands kind of all went away and they've all sort

00:29:47.579 --> 00:29:50.920
of started coming back little by little. This

00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:54.500
album is really good. It's energetic. It's exciting.

00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:59.000
They're songs with catchy hooks. There's, there's

00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.339
a lot to like off of it. This is an album that

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:06.220
I'm going to be listening to a lot. And I posted

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:10.980
one single on Patreon, which I really enjoyed.

00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.180
And I really like, There's song after song after

00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:18.039
this, off of this that I listened to. And I'm

00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:19.819
like, wow, I like that one. I like this one.

00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:24.220
So it's, it's definitely something to, to check

00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:27.079
out. If you're into the hives, for example, I

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:28.859
mean, obviously this isn't straight up metal.

00:30:29.019 --> 00:30:34.180
This is more rock. This is the kind of rock that

00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:37.099
I like, you know, when people talk about, oh,

00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.220
well, you know, rock to me is born in the USA,

00:30:40.299 --> 00:30:43.710
Bruce Springsteen. That's cool and all. But this

00:30:43.710 --> 00:30:45.890
is what I look for, something that kind of kicks

00:30:45.890 --> 00:30:48.230
you in the ass, something that makes you want

00:30:48.230 --> 00:30:51.109
to move, something that gets you going. It isn't

00:30:51.109 --> 00:30:56.950
exactly ACDC. It isn't exactly, you know, over

00:30:56.950 --> 00:30:59.470
-the -top metal either. It's somewhere in between

00:30:59.470 --> 00:31:02.089
like the hives is. It's a little rock. It's a

00:31:02.089 --> 00:31:04.609
little hard rock. So that's my recommendation.

00:31:07.670 --> 00:31:13.789
All right. Ed, go ahead. Since Jeremy picked

00:31:13.789 --> 00:31:17.309
Creator, I'm not going to pick that one. But

00:31:17.309 --> 00:31:21.329
I agree with everything that he said. I was very

00:31:21.329 --> 00:31:24.130
well pleased with this album. I wasn't a big

00:31:24.130 --> 00:31:29.369
fan of the last one. For some reason, the songs

00:31:29.369 --> 00:31:33.890
and the production, just nothing hooked into

00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:37.930
me listening to that last record. So wasn't sure

00:31:37.930 --> 00:31:41.259
what to expect with this one. But it was pleasantly

00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:45.619
surprised. I feel like the songwriting was a

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:49.339
lot more creative. Do you feel that way, Jeremy?

00:31:50.140 --> 00:31:55.279
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, he was, I don't know,

00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:57.220
it's almost like he spent more time with these

00:31:57.220 --> 00:31:59.160
songs than he did on the last record, making

00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:03.460
them more interesting. He's also got new people

00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:07.599
in the band. So what I thought also... Yeah.

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:16.779
Is if he's getting new input. Yeah. One of the

00:32:16.779 --> 00:32:19.519
songs even had like a female guest vocal on it.

00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:23.880
Yeah. Yeah. So I get every song that I kept listening

00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:26.180
to single wise. I was really enjoying. So one

00:32:26.180 --> 00:32:28.079
night I sat down and listened to the whole thing

00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.339
and I favorited four or five tunes that I thought

00:32:31.339 --> 00:32:34.279
were really good. And like Jeremy said, I feel

00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:36.500
like there's some melodies in there that you

00:32:36.500 --> 00:32:39.759
may not have heard before. So just overall, it

00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.940
was good enough to sit down and listen to start

00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:48.799
to end with good songs placed throughout the

00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:53.539
record. But since he chose that one, I'm going

00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:57.400
to take you around the world today, beginning

00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.460
in Romania. There's a death metal band called...

00:33:03.639 --> 00:33:06.440
I'll spell that for you for your list. So it's

00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:13.859
C -A -D -A -V -R -U -L. Cadaveral. Spell that

00:33:13.859 --> 00:33:20.660
again. C -A -D -A -V -R -U -L. R -U -L. They've

00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:23.599
got an album called Necrotic Savagery. And as

00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:25.559
you can tell from that title, they're kind of

00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:31.519
like a gore death metal band. I really have been

00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:34.500
enjoying this record because it's got a kind

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:38.039
of an old school sound. It's got a nice production.

00:33:38.140 --> 00:33:40.380
You know, like in the car, I can get some volume

00:33:40.380 --> 00:33:43.339
that I like out of my death metal. But it also

00:33:43.339 --> 00:33:45.839
kind of sounds like you're hanging out in the

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.059
garage listening to these guys play. It sounds

00:33:50.059 --> 00:33:53.180
like something that was made back in the early

00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:57.420
90s. It's got some hardcore influences to it.

00:33:58.700 --> 00:34:01.619
got a mix of kind of extreme death and hardcore

00:34:01.619 --> 00:34:04.519
sounds and one of the things that i found more

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.740
interesting about this band to tell all my death

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:10.420
metal friends about out there are the vocals

00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:13.420
so you know how in bands a lot of death core

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:17.139
bands like black dahlia how they'll switch back

00:34:17.139 --> 00:34:20.320
and forth between a like a death vocal and a

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:23.659
black metal style vocal so you'll kind of have

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:26.340
a guttural sound and then this witchy sound and

00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:29.510
they go back and forth This band has both those

00:34:29.510 --> 00:34:34.090
kinds of vocals. The main vocal is a guttural

00:34:34.090 --> 00:34:39.130
death metal, but they also have that other witchy

00:34:39.130 --> 00:34:41.590
-sounding black metal vocal, but instead of going

00:34:41.590 --> 00:34:45.289
back and forth, they mirror them together. Now,

00:34:45.409 --> 00:34:47.849
he doesn't do that the entire time, but there

00:34:47.849 --> 00:34:50.389
are songs where there's a lot of verses and choruses

00:34:50.389 --> 00:34:53.130
where both of those vocals are going together.

00:34:54.029 --> 00:34:57.449
And I like that better than the going back and

00:34:57.449 --> 00:35:02.050
forth. Because to me, adding that black metal

00:35:02.050 --> 00:35:04.889
vocal on top of it, layering the two together,

00:35:04.989 --> 00:35:07.269
it kind of adds to the intensity to the vocal

00:35:07.269 --> 00:35:10.550
a bit. And kind of just adds a little more hardcore

00:35:10.550 --> 00:35:15.210
feeling to the death metal song as it is. So

00:35:15.210 --> 00:35:19.570
I'm having a lot of fun with that record. So

00:35:19.570 --> 00:35:24.380
Creator was a great pick. That's going to be

00:35:24.380 --> 00:35:26.719
my pick of the week to give you something different.

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:38.619
All right. Cool. All right. So moving on to January

00:35:38.619 --> 00:35:45.139
23rd, we had new albums from Gavial, Death Dealer,

00:35:45.300 --> 00:35:49.179
Crystal Lake, Textures, New Miserable Experience,

00:35:50.219 --> 00:35:54.960
Coronauts. Coronaldus, excuse me, The Damned,

00:35:54.960 --> 00:36:00.440
Helix, Megadeth, Poppy, Ritual, Arcana, Rotting

00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:05.400
Christ, Sky Valley Mistress, an EP from Pelican.

00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:11.500
And yeah, that's it for the 23rd. So Sean, you

00:36:11.500 --> 00:36:14.679
mentioned Sky Valley Mistress. You mentioned

00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:22.369
that twice. Okay, cool. He's saying... Check

00:36:22.369 --> 00:36:26.170
out the too many ghosts video on YouTube. Excellent.

00:36:26.289 --> 00:36:29.949
So I'll post that on, on Patreon. I've actually

00:36:29.949 --> 00:36:34.449
got videos posted out all the way up to early

00:36:34.449 --> 00:36:41.230
March. So I may squeeze that in, give you, give

00:36:41.230 --> 00:36:46.190
you three videos someday. But yeah, Sean, the,

00:36:46.289 --> 00:36:49.949
a lot of times the dates vary depending on the

00:36:49.949 --> 00:36:52.929
source where you, Find the information. Sometimes

00:36:52.929 --> 00:36:54.909
it was supposed to come out a certain week, and

00:36:54.909 --> 00:36:58.510
then it's pushed back, and some sites don't even

00:36:58.510 --> 00:37:03.650
bother changing that. But anyway, Jeremy, go

00:37:03.650 --> 00:37:06.230
ahead. What did you listen to this week? Yeah,

00:37:06.309 --> 00:37:08.570
I listened to a few this week. I listened to

00:37:08.570 --> 00:37:12.250
Death Dealer, Reign of Steel. This is album number

00:37:12.250 --> 00:37:14.329
four for the band, as you know, former Man O'

00:37:14.409 --> 00:37:17.320
War members. It's kind of more of the same. It's

00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:19.960
a mix of kind of traditional metal. It's a bit

00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.199
of power metal. There's a little bit of thrash

00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.179
elements in there, little parts in there that

00:37:25.179 --> 00:37:28.059
sounds a little bit like KK's Priest. So it's,

00:37:28.059 --> 00:37:30.019
you know, there's nothing new. There's nothing

00:37:30.019 --> 00:37:32.340
fancy, but it's kind of, you know, it's good

00:37:32.340 --> 00:37:35.179
metal. It sounds pretty good. There's some quite

00:37:35.179 --> 00:37:37.639
nifty guitar work on there. So it's, you know,

00:37:37.659 --> 00:37:39.900
it's quite an enjoyable listening. It's something

00:37:39.900 --> 00:37:41.659
that I might go back to and listen to again.

00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:47.039
I also listen to Helix, or maybe you say Helix.

00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:51.500
I don't know. I see Helix. Scrap metal. What's

00:37:51.500 --> 00:37:53.980
that? Yeah, we say Helix as well. Okay, Helix.

00:37:54.019 --> 00:37:56.460
That's good. So, yeah, it's kind of, as you know,

00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:58.440
it's kind of sort of blue -collar standard rock,

00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.320
you know, from the Canadian band. They've been

00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:03.099
around the block. I mean, we kind of remember

00:38:03.099 --> 00:38:07.019
these guys from when we were teenagers. I don't

00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:08.659
think I listen to them much, but I remember the

00:38:08.659 --> 00:38:12.030
name. And I don't think they were ever really

00:38:12.030 --> 00:38:17.510
front stage for me at all, but they rock. They

00:38:17.510 --> 00:38:21.110
do a bit like the Rods. You'll listen to a Rods

00:38:21.110 --> 00:38:23.610
album now and it's kind of blue collar. It's

00:38:23.610 --> 00:38:28.329
kind of pub metal, pub rock. And I guess this

00:38:28.329 --> 00:38:30.889
does the same sort of stuff. Probably wouldn't

00:38:30.889 --> 00:38:33.309
be one that I'll listen to again and again, but

00:38:33.309 --> 00:38:36.889
hey, they're filling a little niche there and

00:38:36.889 --> 00:38:40.860
they're doing something. Good luck to him. And

00:38:40.860 --> 00:38:43.219
then, of course, the third album of the week

00:38:43.219 --> 00:38:46.860
is my album of the week, and it's obviously Megadeth.

00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.519
So I won't say what I think of it just now. I

00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:51.360
think maybe we'll have a little joint discussion

00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:56.739
about it. Okay. Ed, you want me to go or do you

00:38:56.739 --> 00:39:00.039
want to go? Is that the week we're on? We're

00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:04.579
on the 19th through the 23rd? 23rd, yeah. Okay.

00:39:09.589 --> 00:39:12.489
What do you want to do now? You want to go or

00:39:12.489 --> 00:39:16.949
you want me to go? So this is the week of Megadeth,

00:39:17.030 --> 00:39:20.230
right? Because we're going to have to nerd out

00:39:20.230 --> 00:39:23.110
on this one for a little bit. Yeah, go ahead.

00:39:23.150 --> 00:39:25.610
Let me hear your thoughts on it. Okay, hold on.

00:39:26.869 --> 00:39:32.710
I was able to listen to the Gavial album called

00:39:32.710 --> 00:39:39.019
Thanks, I Hate It. This was a mix of... Psychedelic

00:39:39.019 --> 00:39:44.260
stoner and blues all mixed into one. Um, the

00:39:44.260 --> 00:39:49.179
death dealer album, um, shout out to Ross, the

00:39:49.179 --> 00:39:52.699
boss who's just been diagnosed with, uh, ALS

00:39:52.699 --> 00:39:58.679
disease, which is terrible. Yeah. Um, textures

00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.400
with genotype. I listened to that a long time

00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.710
ago. because I was supposed to have an interview

00:40:05.710 --> 00:40:08.849
with their keyboard player, which never materialized.

00:40:09.110 --> 00:40:11.730
I thought the album was pretty cool. It was heavier

00:40:11.730 --> 00:40:15.829
than what I expected. I listened to the Poppy

00:40:15.829 --> 00:40:21.309
Empty Hands album, which was good, was in line

00:40:21.309 --> 00:40:26.389
with what Poppy has done in the past. And I listened

00:40:26.389 --> 00:40:31.539
to the Megadeth album. Ed, is there anything

00:40:31.539 --> 00:40:35.000
else you want to talk about before discussing

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.800
the Megadeth? Just that I enjoyed some of the

00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:45.639
Damned. I thought that was sounding good. When

00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:48.579
it gets around to the holidays and winter, I

00:40:48.579 --> 00:40:52.280
get in the mood a lot for some of those older

00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:56.300
rock and new wave bands and tunes, and that kind

00:40:56.300 --> 00:40:58.159
of fit right into the kind of things I've been

00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:01.880
listening to. And I listened to Poppy, I think,

00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.559
for the first time. And really, it reminded me

00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:09.760
a lot of some of the chaotic metalcore bands

00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:13.619
that I've heard throughout the years, like Norma

00:41:13.619 --> 00:41:16.280
Jean. And he used to be called Ludacris. And

00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:19.280
they changed their name to Norma Jean and Chariot

00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:24.210
and a lot of those bands. Just kind of like a

00:41:24.210 --> 00:41:27.949
real cleaned up modern day version of that with,

00:41:28.030 --> 00:41:31.750
of course, the female vocal. And I think she

00:41:31.750 --> 00:41:34.750
adds some more character, of course, I think.

00:41:35.349 --> 00:41:40.329
But yeah, Megadeth, of course, that's on top

00:41:40.329 --> 00:41:46.929
this week, I think, for everybody. Yes. So I

00:41:46.929 --> 00:41:50.889
have nothing bad to say about it. I like it a

00:41:50.889 --> 00:41:55.280
whole lot better than... 72 seasons. I don't

00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.659
quite like it better than the sick, the dying

00:41:57.659 --> 00:42:00.099
and the dead. And, you know, it's funny. I kind

00:42:00.099 --> 00:42:02.380
of knew I was going to end up feeling that way

00:42:02.380 --> 00:42:05.260
the day it came out. And I started hearing how

00:42:05.260 --> 00:42:08.239
much all of you guys were loving it. Right. Because

00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:10.900
remember, you all weren't talking about the last

00:42:10.900 --> 00:42:14.619
album as excitedly as I was. Yeah. And so when

00:42:14.619 --> 00:42:16.780
I heard how excited the whole group of you guys

00:42:16.780 --> 00:42:19.460
were, I started thinking, yeah, this might end

00:42:19.460 --> 00:42:22.550
up being more of a heavy metal record. than a

00:42:22.550 --> 00:42:27.329
thrash metal. And, uh, I think the, to me, I

00:42:27.329 --> 00:42:31.989
think this was a, it's a really good, even awesome

00:42:31.989 --> 00:42:39.170
heavy metal slash speed metal record with some

00:42:39.170 --> 00:42:44.730
dashes of thrash. Um, I really hear a lot of

00:42:44.730 --> 00:42:47.769
just classic speed metal and this record and

00:42:47.769 --> 00:42:50.929
I like it. That's one of the things that's helping

00:42:50.929 --> 00:42:57.030
me enjoy it. If what you're just wanting is a

00:42:57.030 --> 00:42:58.929
thrash metal record, you'll be disappointed.

00:42:59.250 --> 00:43:01.429
And I think that's why I hear a lot of negative

00:43:01.429 --> 00:43:04.949
comments about the record, like on TikTok, coming

00:43:04.949 --> 00:43:10.110
from a lot of metalheads. But I still enjoyed

00:43:10.110 --> 00:43:14.969
it a lot. What do you all think about what I

00:43:14.969 --> 00:43:17.750
just said there about the record? I think you're

00:43:17.750 --> 00:43:22.570
right in many respects. I think that, yeah, there's

00:43:22.570 --> 00:43:24.650
not a huge amount of thrash on it. It is more

00:43:24.650 --> 00:43:28.389
of a sort of standard metal album, you know,

00:43:28.389 --> 00:43:32.030
a little bit speed and standard metal. And I

00:43:32.030 --> 00:43:36.090
think that they've done that recently on probably

00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:38.590
the last three or four albums, maybe the last

00:43:38.590 --> 00:43:42.690
three albums. So I think they've moved. away

00:43:42.690 --> 00:43:45.010
you know he's moved away and he's he's done some

00:43:45.010 --> 00:43:49.230
more commercial stuff on the last at least the

00:43:49.230 --> 00:43:51.030
last couple of albums and i agree with you also

00:43:51.030 --> 00:43:53.070
that the sick the dying the dead is probably

00:43:53.070 --> 00:43:55.730
a slightly better album for me because i've now

00:43:55.730 --> 00:43:57.969
listened to this you know in its entirety i've

00:43:57.969 --> 00:44:00.650
listened to it a few times and i really like

00:44:00.650 --> 00:44:03.409
it there's nothing wrong with it and i think

00:44:03.409 --> 00:44:05.730
also it's a little bit almost like the scorpions

00:44:05.730 --> 00:44:08.050
when they did their last album it's a little

00:44:08.050 --> 00:44:12.599
bit of a pot potpourri of um of all the stuff

00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.739
going back because he's kind of fitting in stories

00:44:15.739 --> 00:44:20.840
about the various things, the shred and how he

00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:23.079
got into music and various things that are happening

00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:26.099
to him. And so it's kind of like he's rounding

00:44:26.099 --> 00:44:30.079
things off. So it's one of those kind of albums.

00:44:30.940 --> 00:44:33.320
There's lots of different songs on there and

00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:37.280
it's a bit like the previous album. But yeah,

00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:39.000
I think The Sick, The Dying and The Dead had

00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:41.110
a little bit more edge to it. Just a little bit

00:44:41.110 --> 00:44:44.690
more edge. This album was more in that countdown

00:44:44.690 --> 00:44:49.489
to extinction, euthanasia. But I think this album

00:44:49.489 --> 00:44:53.889
has a production that if Countdown had had this

00:44:53.889 --> 00:44:56.210
kind of production, I might have been more hooked

00:44:56.210 --> 00:45:02.590
into those older records. And all these songs,

00:45:02.690 --> 00:45:05.570
too, are very well written. He's got some nice

00:45:05.570 --> 00:45:08.679
melodies. you know just listening to them sometimes

00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:11.019
just jamming on those riffs and they're being

00:45:11.019 --> 00:45:13.300
creative with the riffs they're not they're not

00:45:13.300 --> 00:45:16.360
just basic heavy metal riffs they're doing things

00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:19.000
to keep them interesting they got you know groove

00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.800
they got uh jug and and melodies and all the

00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:26.460
right places uh and like and when i'm talking

00:45:26.460 --> 00:45:29.260
about like that speed metal sound i'm hearing

00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:32.760
a lot of that you know the years before thrash

00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:37.909
metal with um raven and motorhead And Judas Priest

00:45:37.909 --> 00:45:44.230
and Accept. Man, there was one song on here that

00:45:44.230 --> 00:45:49.809
as soon as it starts, it makes you think of Judas

00:45:49.809 --> 00:45:52.610
Priest right away. It sounded like Judas Priest

00:45:52.610 --> 00:45:57.250
from the early 80s. And then it goes right into

00:45:57.250 --> 00:46:01.050
a riff that sounds like Accept, like off of Restless

00:46:01.050 --> 00:46:06.110
and Wild. I've got it all in my notes here. forgetting

00:46:06.110 --> 00:46:11.670
what song it was um and then also like uh that

00:46:11.670 --> 00:46:15.969
song let there be shred that sounded totally

00:46:15.969 --> 00:46:19.130
metallica to me it sounded like metallica covering

00:46:19.130 --> 00:46:27.150
a budgie song um so uh and of course you had

00:46:27.150 --> 00:46:29.250
a couple of good thrashers like tipping point

00:46:29.250 --> 00:46:34.500
one thing that i i bugged me a little bit about

00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:36.960
tipping point you know at the very end they do

00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.159
this little like two second thrash bit and then

00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:43.039
the song ends and man that's like my favorite

00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:46.179
part of the song and i wish that had i was hoping

00:46:46.179 --> 00:46:48.360
that was the intro to the next song the first

00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:50.940
time i heard it and that they continued with

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:55.380
that one um but yeah going along you got a lot

00:46:55.380 --> 00:46:59.699
of kind of basic heavy metal songs but i'm enjoying

00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:02.900
them And when I'm in the mood for more of a,

00:47:02.900 --> 00:47:05.480
you know, heavy metal, classic heavy metal, which

00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:08.679
I get into, I'm enjoying this. What about you,

00:47:08.699 --> 00:47:12.500
Victor? What do you think about? I, to me, I

00:47:12.500 --> 00:47:14.880
mentioned it the last time. I think it's my favorite

00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:18.360
album by the band since United Abominations.

00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:26.260
And I love my thrash metal. But there's just

00:47:26.260 --> 00:47:28.239
something about this album that speaks to me

00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:34.599
more than some of the previous few. It's definitely

00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.559
my album of the week. I bought two copies of

00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:41.119
this already. I mentioned that last time. It's

00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:45.360
far beyond what I expected from the band. Better

00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:48.280
than 72 Seasons. I have to go back and listen

00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.639
to 72 Seasons because I haven't listened to that

00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:58.380
in a while to kind of refresh my memory. But

00:47:58.380 --> 00:48:01.480
Sean Richmond is asking what our favorite track

00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:05.860
is off of the album. Ed, what's your favorite

00:48:05.860 --> 00:48:10.699
track off of this album? I've really been enjoying

00:48:10.699 --> 00:48:15.320
Obey the Call, which is right before I Am War.

00:48:15.579 --> 00:48:18.079
Now, I Am War is the one that has that Judas

00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:20.599
Priest and Accept sound. Obey the Call, though,

00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.760
actually, that song started off slow, and I was...

00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:25.780
A little disappointed, thinking I've got another

00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:29.199
slow tune. But right in the middle of the song,

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:33.000
he gives us a good thrasher to end the song.

00:48:33.179 --> 00:48:36.039
And the riffs in that part of the song are some

00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:38.500
of my favorite Megadeth song riffs I've ever

00:48:38.500 --> 00:48:40.820
heard. That was what I was jamming on the stereo

00:48:40.820 --> 00:48:43.659
when you guys joined the video. I was playing

00:48:43.659 --> 00:48:46.340
that part of the song because it was so good.

00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:50.599
So yeah, check out Obey the Call. It's got another

00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:53.340
thing about this record, too. And Obey the Call

00:48:53.340 --> 00:48:56.800
is one of them. And Hey God is another one. There's

00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:00.159
some earworms on this record for me. For some

00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:02.960
reason, Hey God keeps getting stuck in my brain.

00:49:03.179 --> 00:49:07.159
I'm not like particularly love that song, but

00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.400
there's something about, you know, that I think

00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:12.599
both the lyrics and just the way the song goes

00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:16.000
that I keep getting that stuck in my brain. Obey

00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.780
the Call has something where he's kind of trying

00:49:18.780 --> 00:49:21.650
to sing some kind of melody that. It's easy to

00:49:21.650 --> 00:49:26.289
get stuck in your head. But anyway, yeah, check

00:49:26.289 --> 00:49:30.449
out Obey the Call. And you know what? I listened

00:49:30.449 --> 00:49:34.829
to all nine songs and was excited that we had

00:49:34.829 --> 00:49:42.610
a whole album with no Dave talking parts. That's

00:49:42.610 --> 00:49:47.170
true. The last song began. But actually, it wasn't

00:49:47.170 --> 00:49:51.110
as bad as it usually is for me. what he had to

00:49:51.110 --> 00:49:53.429
say on that last song he did a talking bit at

00:49:53.429 --> 00:49:57.449
the beginning and at the end um i don't know

00:49:57.449 --> 00:49:59.510
if i cared much for that acoustic guitar solo

00:49:59.510 --> 00:50:01.610
i mean it's kind of like maybe cool to listen

00:50:01.610 --> 00:50:04.349
to once but if i'm going to listen to it over

00:50:04.349 --> 00:50:07.329
and over again i i'm not so sure how much i like

00:50:07.329 --> 00:50:09.789
that but the message of that song was really

00:50:09.789 --> 00:50:14.230
cool and also have you any of you heard the that

00:50:14.230 --> 00:50:16.570
hidden track that's supposed to be on the target

00:50:16.570 --> 00:50:22.269
cd I listened to it on YouTube, yeah. No. So

00:50:22.269 --> 00:50:24.250
do you know if that was a thrash metal tune or

00:50:24.250 --> 00:50:28.809
not? Or was it another one in the heavy metal?

00:50:29.010 --> 00:50:31.489
I would say it was more of a heavy metal song.

00:50:32.550 --> 00:50:36.449
So that would mean that Made to Kill was probably

00:50:36.449 --> 00:50:39.570
the last speed metal, thrash metal song that

00:50:39.570 --> 00:50:43.110
he's given us. And then Obey the Call has like

00:50:43.110 --> 00:50:46.110
a one -minute thrash section that's a really

00:50:46.110 --> 00:50:49.900
cool bit. But yeah, most of it's kind of like

00:50:49.900 --> 00:50:52.440
a countdown to Extinction record with a really

00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.239
great production. The only thing I do wish, if

00:50:55.239 --> 00:50:58.000
I had a negative comment, where it would be that

00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.780
I wish that the rhythm guitars were pushed up

00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:03.260
a little more in the mix. I've noticed, you know,

00:51:03.260 --> 00:51:05.739
because I put my headphones on and sit down with

00:51:05.739 --> 00:51:10.460
the guitar, that I had to adjust my volume a

00:51:10.460 --> 00:51:13.420
little bit differently because the guitars aren't

00:51:13.420 --> 00:51:15.500
quite as loud as they were on the last few records.

00:51:16.539 --> 00:51:21.400
It's still really well produced. Jeremy, what's

00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:23.920
your favorite track off? Yeah, just to echo what

00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:26.079
Ed said, the production is amazing on it. I mean,

00:51:26.099 --> 00:51:28.980
I'm sort of torn between the first track because

00:51:28.980 --> 00:51:31.119
it just kind of opens up nicely with Tipping

00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:33.579
Point. And also the last track, the last note,

00:51:33.659 --> 00:51:36.400
because it's the sentiments of the song. You

00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.619
know, for me, it's all about the lyrics and about

00:51:38.619 --> 00:51:41.300
what he's trying to portray. It's the last song

00:51:41.300 --> 00:51:43.679
on the last album that Megadeth have ever done.

00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:47.800
So, you know, I can't really. um i can't dismiss

00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:50.500
that one i think that for me is going to be you

00:51:50.500 --> 00:51:53.880
know in my head uh and i'll always remember it

00:51:53.880 --> 00:52:01.019
so yeah okay um for me um it's a song i don't

00:52:01.019 --> 00:52:05.199
care because for me the there's are you doing

00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:08.320
it's playing on the track and there's there's

00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:11.360
just something about metal with instead of the

00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:14.500
drummer instead of playing the ride or the hi

00:52:14.500 --> 00:52:17.429
-hat where he's Going Along on the Floor, Tom.

00:52:17.610 --> 00:52:20.190
I've always loved that. Charlie Benante does

00:52:20.190 --> 00:52:25.130
that a lot as well. There's just that, and there's

00:52:25.130 --> 00:52:27.090
just something about Dave's voice in that song

00:52:27.090 --> 00:52:29.590
that I really like, and I know that people have

00:52:29.590 --> 00:52:32.230
come out and said, well, it's a dumb song because

00:52:32.230 --> 00:52:34.309
he really does care, because all these years

00:52:34.309 --> 00:52:36.650
he's cared about what Metallica said about him

00:52:36.650 --> 00:52:39.170
and this and that, and I'm like, fuck it. I like

00:52:39.170 --> 00:52:41.469
the attitude of the song. I like what he's saying.

00:52:41.829 --> 00:52:46.130
It's perfect. So what? Let people talk. I'm going

00:52:46.130 --> 00:52:52.429
to be me. So to me, that's my favorite song.

00:52:52.570 --> 00:52:56.230
But I'm sure that will change because any great

00:52:56.230 --> 00:52:58.690
album like this that has so much good material,

00:52:58.809 --> 00:53:01.469
you get tired of listening to one song and you

00:53:01.469 --> 00:53:04.449
move on to another. And real quickly, what did

00:53:04.449 --> 00:53:06.809
you guys think of the Ride the Lightning cover?

00:53:08.710 --> 00:53:12.090
I could have done without it. I mean, I like

00:53:12.090 --> 00:53:14.579
the music to it. but I wasn't so keen on the

00:53:14.579 --> 00:53:16.840
vocal, just because I'm used to the Metallica

00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:20.539
sound. So, I mean, listen, at the end of the

00:53:20.539 --> 00:53:23.179
day, he did it because he wanted to do it. That's

00:53:23.179 --> 00:53:26.420
fine. I don't have to listen to it a lot if I

00:53:26.420 --> 00:53:29.579
don't want to. And, you know, I'm not that keen

00:53:29.579 --> 00:53:32.420
on covers anyway by big bands, so I just think

00:53:32.420 --> 00:53:35.219
it could have done without it. But I see why

00:53:35.219 --> 00:53:38.699
he did it. Yeah. Like Maiden covering Cross -Eyed

00:53:38.699 --> 00:53:49.289
Mary? I like it. I have no problem with his voice.

00:53:49.349 --> 00:53:57.190
It's Dave being Dave. I like the fact that, yes,

00:53:57.250 --> 00:54:00.730
they've detuned for this, but they're pretty

00:54:00.730 --> 00:54:05.369
faithful to the original outside of that. Like,

00:54:05.369 --> 00:54:10.260
Dirk's playing is like Lars. Lars is playing

00:54:10.260 --> 00:54:13.119
perfect. You know, I know that some people have

00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:15.340
said that where it's kind of eerie how perfect

00:54:15.340 --> 00:54:18.579
he is with his playing, but it's a classic song.

00:54:18.780 --> 00:54:21.119
It's a song that so many people have grown up

00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:28.139
with listening to it. And other people have pointed

00:54:28.139 --> 00:54:31.420
out that it's weird that Dave bitched about Kirk

00:54:31.420 --> 00:54:34.679
playing his solos note for note on the first

00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:38.429
album. And now Dave is playing. Kirk's solo,

00:54:38.650 --> 00:54:44.969
Note for Note, on this album. There's a lot of

00:54:44.969 --> 00:54:48.610
different interesting things. Out of all the

00:54:48.610 --> 00:54:53.570
songs that he was involved in, because he's saying

00:54:53.570 --> 00:54:57.670
that he wrote some of the riffs. I don't remember

00:54:57.670 --> 00:55:00.889
if he's credited or not on the original. I think

00:55:00.889 --> 00:55:06.760
he is. He is? Okay. I think it's neat because

00:55:06.760 --> 00:55:13.659
to me, for everyone that loves Master of Puppets,

00:55:13.659 --> 00:55:17.500
to me this and Master of Puppets is a great song

00:55:17.500 --> 00:55:23.199
and album. But to me, Ride the Lightning, there's

00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:26.400
just something to this album. It's got a mystique.

00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:29.619
It's got a sound to it. There's just something

00:55:29.619 --> 00:55:33.679
to every time you hear that. that chord at the

00:55:33.679 --> 00:55:37.579
beginning I don't I mean how they start the song

00:55:37.579 --> 00:55:41.079
off or it almost well well no I've heard plenty

00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:43.400
of bootlegs of Metallica playing it where they're

00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:45.780
completely out of tune when they when they start

00:55:45.780 --> 00:55:48.500
the song because it sounds like a dissident note

00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:50.800
at the beginning where it sounds like it's a

00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:57.980
little off but it really isn't so um I think

00:55:57.980 --> 00:56:00.360
it's cool that he went for it I don't mind the

00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:03.039
singing I like what they've done. I think it's

00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:07.940
a cool cherry on top. And once I get my hand

00:56:07.940 --> 00:56:11.840
on the CD this summer, I'll pass that missing

00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:18.380
song on to you guys. How about that? Cool. So

00:56:18.380 --> 00:56:22.260
let's move on to the 30th of January, the final

00:56:22.260 --> 00:56:25.300
week of January. So we had a lot of releases

00:56:25.300 --> 00:56:33.190
here. We had albums from Profane. Profane Eulogy,

00:56:33.250 --> 00:56:34.809
I guess is how you pronounce that. The Hirsch

00:56:34.809 --> 00:56:39.530
Effect. Shields. Francis Rossi of Status Quo

00:56:39.530 --> 00:56:54.750
fame. Mull. Kosuki. Hashida. Exaperitus. I don't

00:56:54.750 --> 00:56:58.340
know how you pronounce that. Shine. Raven Fire,

00:56:58.780 --> 00:57:03.179
Lone Wanderer, Red Sands, Our Mirage, Jagged

00:57:03.179 --> 00:57:08.880
City, Earn, Red Vox, Buzzcocks, Lord Elephant,

00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:14.539
Stabbing, live albums from Therion, and reissues

00:57:14.539 --> 00:57:18.199
from Alice in Chains and Quicksilver, and a compilation

00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:23.420
from the Macaulay Shanker Group, Bad Boys, Macaulay

00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:30.739
Shanker Group, 87 through 92. Who wants to go

00:57:30.739 --> 00:57:35.960
first? Yeah, I'm happy to go first. I've only

00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:39.699
got one. So for me, it was Earned, Setting Fire

00:57:39.699 --> 00:57:43.900
to the Sky. The band I really had very little

00:57:43.900 --> 00:57:46.099
knowledge of before. I think I probably have

00:57:46.099 --> 00:57:49.420
heard something by them. They've been active

00:57:49.420 --> 00:57:52.360
for a decade now, as you probably know. I didn't

00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:54.119
realize that they hailed from London as well.

00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:57.079
I could have sworn they were probably a Scandinavian

00:57:57.079 --> 00:58:01.139
band, but no, they're British. Heavy sort of

00:58:01.139 --> 00:58:04.780
modern metal sound, as you would know if you've

00:58:04.780 --> 00:58:07.639
listened to it. Lots of other influences in there,

00:58:07.780 --> 00:58:11.219
a mix of the growly and the clear vocals. The

00:58:11.219 --> 00:58:13.880
added bonus for me on this is the mix. I really

00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:16.139
like it. I think you can pick out a lot of what's

00:58:16.139 --> 00:58:18.980
being played all individually, including the

00:58:18.980 --> 00:58:20.699
drumming. I think the drumming comes across.

00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:24.500
And as Victor knows, I'm not a drummer. I very

00:58:24.500 --> 00:58:27.719
rarely say about the drumming on albums, but

00:58:27.719 --> 00:58:30.219
I really liked it on this. It doesn't get lost

00:58:30.219 --> 00:58:33.000
in sort of an overly polished production. The

00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.150
songwriting is good on it. It's not really my

00:58:36.150 --> 00:58:39.010
bag, you know, it's not in my ballpark, but it's

00:58:39.010 --> 00:58:41.170
something that I've moved over to and think,

00:58:41.349 --> 00:58:44.469
hey, you know, I can get into this and something

00:58:44.469 --> 00:58:47.750
I could probably play again. So, yeah, the only

00:58:47.750 --> 00:58:49.510
thing I listen to, but it's definitely going

00:58:49.510 --> 00:58:55.110
to be Pick of My Week is Aaron. Cool. Ed? So

00:58:55.110 --> 00:58:58.409
I have six things. So I'm just going to go quickly

00:58:58.409 --> 00:59:02.849
through the first, like, four. So for all you

00:59:02.849 --> 00:59:08.150
thrash metal heads, From Germany, we have Teutonic

00:59:08.150 --> 00:59:11.670
Slaughter. They have an album called Cheap Food,

00:59:11.889 --> 00:59:15.010
and it's just straight up thrash metal, every

00:59:15.010 --> 00:59:21.570
song, the entire record. The next thing is Back

00:59:21.570 --> 00:59:25.750
to the U .S. That's just some good old classic,

00:59:25.809 --> 00:59:28.110
brutal death metal for you death metal fans.

00:59:28.389 --> 00:59:32.760
A band called Stabbing. They have a new record

00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:36.820
called Eon of Obscenity. So just another good

00:59:36.820 --> 00:59:39.480
old death metal band, if anybody wants. I also

00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:44.940
enjoyed this kind of black gaze, shoegaze band

00:59:44.940 --> 00:59:50.340
from Denmark. They have an album called Dream

00:59:50.340 --> 00:59:52.699
Crush. And the name of the band, you may have

00:59:52.699 --> 00:59:58.820
to help me. They spell it M -0 -L. And so I'm

00:59:58.820 --> 01:00:01.940
not too sure how to pronounce that. Yeah, I pronounced

01:00:01.940 --> 01:00:07.300
it as mole. That's a letter in their alphabet.

01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.679
And I don't know how that would be pronounced

01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:13.440
either. So I just went for it with mole. I thought

01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:16.420
the songwriting on that's very good, very creative.

01:00:18.139 --> 01:00:21.139
You know, songs like that, they either hook you

01:00:21.139 --> 01:00:25.480
in quickly or lose you quickly. And I've enjoyed.

01:00:26.730 --> 01:00:29.090
Pretty much every song I've heard on that record.

01:00:29.210 --> 01:00:32.469
Just something different for everybody. But my

01:00:32.469 --> 01:00:39.570
top three that I really want to talk about. So

01:00:39.570 --> 01:00:45.210
I was going to choose Earn before Jeremy picked

01:00:45.210 --> 01:00:51.750
that. And so that was a great pick. You know,

01:00:51.750 --> 01:00:53.849
I listened to that last Earn record a couple

01:00:53.849 --> 01:00:56.619
of years ago. That was one of my favorites. top

01:00:56.619 --> 01:01:03.460
10 of the year, 2024, they're described as a

01:01:03.460 --> 01:01:08.679
sledge metal band. But they're very heavy. You

01:01:08.679 --> 01:01:13.539
can tell they cross over into some classic heavy

01:01:13.539 --> 01:01:16.820
metal sounds added on top of that, I think, which

01:01:16.820 --> 01:01:21.079
is why I ended up liking it so much. And this

01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:25.840
record still has that very heavy sound. But to

01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:28.059
me, it seems like they've gotten much more creative

01:01:28.059 --> 01:01:30.639
with their songs. I haven't had time to go back

01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:32.300
and just listen to the old one to compare it.

01:01:32.420 --> 01:01:37.079
But I find that these songs are very creative.

01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:43.019
It's like they're a sludge metal band, but they

01:01:43.019 --> 01:01:46.639
have many layers of other genres of metal that

01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:50.039
they're adding to it. And so with almost every

01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.780
song, there's something interesting in there

01:01:52.780 --> 01:01:55.280
that you'll end up enjoying. So even if it's

01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:58.840
a tune that it's not catching you at first, if

01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:01.219
you listen to it for a minute, there'll be something

01:02:01.219 --> 01:02:05.420
that they add to the song or they'll go in another

01:02:05.420 --> 01:02:11.539
direction. And everything that I've heard on

01:02:11.539 --> 01:02:13.780
that entire record has been great so far. So

01:02:13.780 --> 01:02:17.840
great pick, Jeremy. There's a band in Brazil

01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:24.079
called Death Razor. They've got an album called

01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:26.880
Forged in Hatred, and they're a thrash metal

01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:30.320
band. And they at first made me kind of think

01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:33.340
of Noisium. You may have heard me talk about

01:02:33.340 --> 01:02:37.320
them before. They're a band from a few years

01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.420
ago that kind of had a possessed type thrash

01:02:40.420 --> 01:02:45.000
metal sound. And this band, Death Raiser, reminds

01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.900
me kind of of them, but the more I listen to

01:02:47.900 --> 01:02:49.820
them, the more they actually remind me of some

01:02:49.820 --> 01:02:53.039
old school creator. So if you're a fan of like

01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:56.260
mid to late 80s creator, you should check this

01:02:56.260 --> 01:03:01.960
band out. If you like any of that Sodom, Destruction,

01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:06.300
or Creator in their early days, check this band

01:03:06.300 --> 01:03:09.199
out. You'll really like it. And I think the band

01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:11.420
that I'm going to be my pick of the week is,

01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:17.059
uh from poland tech death metal band called banisher

01:03:17.059 --> 01:03:21.840
and they have an album called metamorphosis okay

01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:28.300
and i sent you a track of that and to me they're

01:03:28.300 --> 01:03:31.260
labeled as a tech death metal band but the first

01:03:31.260 --> 01:03:33.239
song that i heard which is the one that i sent

01:03:33.239 --> 01:03:37.099
you actually sounded like a new metal song to

01:03:37.099 --> 01:03:39.500
me or something kind of in the vein of slipknot

01:03:39.500 --> 01:03:43.519
right When I listen to their songs, I keep hearing

01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:46.659
Slipknot sounds or other kind of new metal sounds

01:03:46.659 --> 01:03:51.360
from bands of the past. And that one song that

01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.519
I sent you in particular, when it gets to the

01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:57.739
chorus, man, they have this incredible sounding,

01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:01.199
heavy, juggy tone. It almost sounds like they

01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.300
went to the local music store and rented every

01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:07.900
single amp in the building, took it to the studio

01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:11.030
and put them all around the walls. And when you

01:04:11.030 --> 01:04:14.090
get to the chorus, you get this incredibly heavy,

01:04:14.190 --> 01:04:16.690
juggy sound that'll make your hair stand up on

01:04:16.690 --> 01:04:20.289
your arms. It sounded so cool. That's why I sent

01:04:20.289 --> 01:04:24.010
it to you. But looking into this band, it seems

01:04:24.010 --> 01:04:26.750
like they, in the past, have been more of a straight

01:04:26.750 --> 01:04:31.329
-up kind of tech death metal band. And I'm wondering

01:04:31.329 --> 01:04:33.730
if they're kind of experimenting on this record.

01:04:35.670 --> 01:04:38.619
Anyway. I think that's the one I enjoyed the

01:04:38.619 --> 01:04:41.059
most, so that'll be my pick of the week. Okay.

01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:43.760
And what was the name of that band again? Vanisher.

01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:49.679
With a B? Vanisher? And it was Metamorphosis.

01:04:50.539 --> 01:04:59.650
Metamorphosis. Hmm. All right. Just pulled it

01:04:59.650 --> 01:05:02.429
up. It's got a great album cover as well. We

01:05:02.429 --> 01:05:05.090
should mention covers because it's great to have

01:05:05.090 --> 01:05:08.969
artwork as well. Yeah. So we went to Romania,

01:05:09.230 --> 01:05:12.349
Germany, Poland, Brazil, Denmark, and the U .S.

01:05:12.349 --> 01:05:16.090
and the U .K. It is all over the place. The world

01:05:16.090 --> 01:05:20.010
of metal. So I listened to a bunch of different

01:05:20.010 --> 01:05:23.610
things. I listened to the Maul album, which I

01:05:23.610 --> 01:05:27.090
thought was pretty cool, the Dream Crush as well.

01:05:27.739 --> 01:05:33.880
Listen to Lone Wanderer. I don't even know how

01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:36.460
you pronounce the name of that album. I'm not

01:05:36.460 --> 01:05:39.420
even going to try it. That was OK. That was a

01:05:39.420 --> 01:05:46.000
little and it was death metal, which for me at

01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:49.000
times is OK. It just seemed kind of same as he

01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:51.800
threw out. Listen to the new Buzzcocks album.

01:05:52.380 --> 01:05:57.420
Attitude Adjustment was OK. I listened to Lord

01:05:57.420 --> 01:06:06.820
Elephant, Ultrasound. That is instrumental doom

01:06:06.820 --> 01:06:12.119
metal, basically. There was an Alice in Chains

01:06:12.119 --> 01:06:14.760
reissue. Obviously, I've listed that a ton. I've

01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:18.000
listened to what I'm assuming is a lot of that

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:24.090
Michael Shanker, Macaulay Shanker reissue. I'm

01:06:24.090 --> 01:06:27.610
going to coincide with Jeremy. I really like

01:06:27.610 --> 01:06:32.469
this Earn album. There were a lot of surprise

01:06:32.469 --> 01:06:35.809
hooks in there, surprising in that, you know,

01:06:35.829 --> 01:06:38.550
what I know from them in the past. I think this

01:06:38.550 --> 01:06:41.989
is the first time that they've mixed so much

01:06:41.989 --> 01:06:45.969
melody within their music. And in the PR release,

01:06:46.030 --> 01:06:49.210
it talks about how they've consciously evolved

01:06:49.210 --> 01:06:51.969
their sound to try to go other places where they

01:06:51.969 --> 01:06:55.010
haven't in the past. 33 -piece out of London,

01:06:55.150 --> 01:07:00.090
as Jeremy mentioned. And Earns' Setting Fire

01:07:00.090 --> 01:07:06.769
to the Sky is my album of the week. I'm also

01:07:06.769 --> 01:07:08.949
becoming really impressed with the guitar player

01:07:08.949 --> 01:07:11.210
in that band when I listen to his solos. He's

01:07:11.210 --> 01:07:14.030
quite the shredder. Yeah, the whole thing. It

01:07:14.030 --> 01:07:18.849
kind of reminded me of a heavier version of Mastodon.

01:07:19.570 --> 01:07:22.590
in the sense with how intricate a lot of the

01:07:22.590 --> 01:07:25.769
songs are and just the mixing of the vocals.

01:07:27.030 --> 01:07:35.670
All right. So let's see here. Let's just start

01:07:35.670 --> 01:07:40.309
out with the 9th of January where Jeremy went

01:07:40.309 --> 01:07:45.269
with the Terra Garden EP. I went with Beyond

01:07:45.269 --> 01:07:49.909
the Black and Break the Silence. The week of

01:07:49.909 --> 01:07:56.969
the 16th, Jeremy went with, okay, Jeremy went

01:07:56.969 --> 01:08:02.429
with Creator and Crushers of the World. Ed went

01:08:02.429 --> 01:08:08.590
with Cat of Rule. Is that how you pronounce that?

01:08:10.170 --> 01:08:15.090
Cat of Rule, Necrotic Savagery. And that was

01:08:15.090 --> 01:08:18.399
Ed's album of the week. I went with Glucifer,

01:08:18.659 --> 01:08:25.279
Same Drug, New High. On the 23rd, we all went

01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:30.560
with Megadeth with their self -titled number

01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:33.359
one album. Dave was finally able to get his number

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one album that he always wanted. I thought that

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was interesting. And then for the last week,

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which is the 30th of January, Ed went with Banisher

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and Metamorphosis. and Jeremy and I went with

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Earn and setting fire to the sky. The chat was

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very active today. I do want to thank Sean Richmond

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and Edgar Winterson for all of your comments

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and all the various vagrants who are in and out

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of the chat with some of their scamming comments.

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I want to thank them as well. for driving up

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my viewer points there on the various platforms.

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I want to thank Jeremy and Ed, obviously, for

01:09:22.810 --> 01:09:25.670
joining me as usual. These episodes are always

01:09:25.670 --> 01:09:29.909
a lot of fun, and look at that. An hour, over

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an hour worth of content, and it flew by as if

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it was five minutes. So thank you guys for making

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this fun and making it a great episode as usual.

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I've got homework. I've got songs that... or

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albums that I want to check out. And there's

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one thing that Anthony Mackie brought up that

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I'm looking into, which is the possibility of

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doing a playlist where we add songs from the

01:09:57.140 --> 01:09:59.899
albums that we pick so that people can keep up

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with them. That's something that we may end up

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doing. I got to look further into how we can

01:10:05.500 --> 01:10:09.100
make a branded playlist up with the signals from

01:10:09.100 --> 01:10:11.729
Mars brand on it. If not. It's just got to be

01:10:11.729 --> 01:10:14.050
a personal one, but we'll see. I just haven't

01:10:14.050 --> 01:10:16.970
had time to look into it yet. Hopefully in the

01:10:16.970 --> 01:10:21.850
next few days. But anyway, thanks everyone for

01:10:21.850 --> 01:10:25.250
checking this episode out. The audio version

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will be out this Tuesday. There will be a video

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interview that I conducted with Kat from Hoaxed.

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Hopefully... you guys um enjoy at least her part

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of the interview which you can hear perfectly

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mine kind of comes and goes it kind of sucks

01:10:44.979 --> 01:10:47.939
but is what it is there's worse shit out there

01:10:47.939 --> 01:10:52.920
on the internet so uh anyway on that note thank

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you guys once again for joining us here and we'll

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see you next time right here on signals from

01:10:58.720 --> 01:11:14.569
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