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And we get into 00:04:53.269 --> 00:04:55.750 some stuff that isn't exactly hard rock or metal. 00:04:55.790 --> 00:04:57.870 We get into some stuff that would be categorized 00:04:57.870 --> 00:05:01.170 more as indie rock or maybe alternative rock, 00:05:01.389 --> 00:05:06.250 which to me is fine because I have a wide palette 00:05:06.250 --> 00:05:10.250 of music that I enjoy listening to. And sometimes 00:05:10.250 --> 00:05:12.850 you need to take a break from the heavy stuff. 00:05:13.529 --> 00:05:16.649 And it's funny because you hear people talk about, 00:05:16.730 --> 00:05:18.670 well, you know, I need to hear a ballad here 00:05:18.670 --> 00:05:20.370 and there. And you guys know if you've been listening 00:05:20.370 --> 00:05:22.870 to this long enough. Yeah, I'm not a ballad guy. 00:05:23.949 --> 00:05:26.970 But there are other forms of music that I'll 00:05:26.970 --> 00:05:30.670 listen to to kind of get away from certain things 00:05:30.670 --> 00:05:35.699 and then come back to it. Um, at the end of the 00:05:35.699 --> 00:05:38.379 day, you like what you like, uh, it connects 00:05:38.379 --> 00:05:42.699 with you. However, music connects with you and, 00:05:42.740 --> 00:05:45.980 and that's it, man. Whatever sounds good to you, 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.620 go for it. If you don't like it, there's always 00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:52.279 other shit you can listen to. So anyway, let's 00:05:52.279 --> 00:06:16.269 get on with the episode. Welcome one and all 00:06:16.269 --> 00:06:19.870 to the latest episode of Signals from Mars. I'm 00:06:19.870 --> 00:06:25.069 your host, Victor, and joining me for the recap 00:06:25.069 --> 00:06:30.310 of albums that were released in February of 2026, 00:06:30.470 --> 00:06:36.069 as usual, in the UK, Jeremy Weltman, and in bourbon 00:06:36.069 --> 00:06:40.110 country, we have Ed Ferguson. How are you guys 00:06:40.110 --> 00:06:42.430 doing tonight? Yeah, good. Thanks. Really good. 00:06:43.939 --> 00:06:48.860 Hanging in there. No snow or any type of freezing 00:06:48.860 --> 00:06:53.680 weather right now? Where, here or there? Either 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.839 place. Well, it's cold here, but there's no snow. 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:00.600 What about you, Ed? Well, we had our first spring, 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.980 and then now we're back to winter weather, and 00:07:04.980 --> 00:07:08.959 we've got apparently extremely bad weather coming 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.329 over the weekend that might blow us away. You 00:07:12.329 --> 00:07:15.470 got high winds out there, so, yeah, it might 00:07:15.470 --> 00:07:21.389 be time for tornadoes. Oh, boy. You're in Tornado 00:07:21.389 --> 00:07:25.410 Alley, correct? That's correct, yeah. I've never 00:07:25.410 --> 00:07:29.790 had to experience one, thank God. But, actually, 00:07:29.889 --> 00:07:33.410 the house that I'm in I know was damaged once 00:07:33.410 --> 00:07:36.990 by high winds to the point that she had to replace, 00:07:37.189 --> 00:07:41.509 like, the HVAC and everything upstairs. Yeah, 00:07:41.550 --> 00:07:43.870 you never know, man. That win can be something 00:07:43.870 --> 00:07:48.189 else. Well, let's hope that lightning does not 00:07:48.189 --> 00:07:52.689 strike twice. Yeah, that's right. Oh, boy. Edgar 00:07:52.689 --> 00:07:55.750 is being positive at the beginning of the show. 00:07:57.009 --> 00:08:06.910 No, we hope for many appearances more. So anyway. 00:08:07.850 --> 00:08:11.649 We are here to do our monthly review of albums. 00:08:12.269 --> 00:08:17.250 A lot of stuff has come out. And there will be 00:08:17.250 --> 00:08:21.110 a lot more even in March and April. There's a 00:08:21.110 --> 00:08:22.550 lot of stuff that I've been listening to already. 00:08:22.769 --> 00:08:25.629 But anyway, let's focus on February, which is 00:08:25.629 --> 00:08:29.230 the task at hand here. On the 6th, we had new 00:08:29.230 --> 00:08:32.850 albums from Tail Gunner, Full House Brew Crew. 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:37.559 All the Damn Vampires. Jack Harlan and the Dead 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:43.399 Crows. Tardigrade Inferno. Aginbite Mystery. 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:47.940 Probably butchered that. Mayhem, which Edgar 00:08:47.940 --> 00:08:53.679 Winterson already mentioned. Induction. Blazoner. 00:08:54.460 --> 00:08:59.620 Big Big Train. Assignment. Carnival. Pussifer. 00:09:00.750 --> 00:09:05.669 Silver Sun Pickups, KMFDM. The debut solo album 00:09:05.669 --> 00:09:12.029 from Rival Sons frontman Jay Buchanan. Fendrina, 00:09:12.269 --> 00:09:15.309 I guess is how you pronounce that. EPs from Cyclone 00:09:15.309 --> 00:09:19.970 and Capsize. Reissues from Earthless. And live 00:09:19.970 --> 00:09:25.889 albums from Hermano, you would say in English. 00:09:26.129 --> 00:09:29.129 Hermano is how you would say it in Spanish. That's 00:09:29.129 --> 00:09:32.370 kind of a... Arrested Development joke as well. 00:09:32.889 --> 00:09:38.610 Hermano. Anyway. And Visions of Atlantis also 00:09:38.610 --> 00:09:45.970 released a live album. Ed, let's pick things 00:09:45.970 --> 00:09:49.330 up with you. What did you listen to this month? 00:09:50.789 --> 00:09:54.230 Or this week? I'm sorry. That would be a big 00:09:54.230 --> 00:10:00.600 chore there. Okay. The only thing that. I enjoyed, 00:10:00.620 --> 00:10:04.179 and I'm happy that I did, was the new Silver 00:10:04.179 --> 00:10:08.840 Sun pickups. Okay. So that's an indie rock alternative, 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:14.799 post -grunge kind of pick for you. Right. So 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:21.279 I remember I bought their record from back in 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:27.419 2009, was it? Swoon? That had probably, no, no, 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:32.659 no, no. Back in 2006, they had Carnivus. That's 00:10:32.659 --> 00:10:36.279 probably their best record, which has some hits 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:41.279 on it, like Lazy Eye. And they have an EP before 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:44.399 that that was really good. But then when they 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.200 came out with Swoon, I kind of lost interest. 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:51.620 I listened to maybe the next album after that. 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:55.840 Still wasn't very exciting. So I kind of gave 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:01.740 up on listening to them. But put this in my iTunes 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:05.600 to listen to. And I noticed that from the notes 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.159 that they're working with Butch Vig. Okay. It's 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:11.019 a great producer who's worked with a lot of good 00:11:11.019 --> 00:11:13.139 alternative acts, I believe like Sonic Youth 00:11:13.139 --> 00:11:16.500 and maybe Nirvana and different acts like that. 00:11:16.940 --> 00:11:19.980 And I think that's helped because this record 00:11:19.980 --> 00:11:24.139 seems to have much better songs, much better 00:11:24.139 --> 00:11:27.769 melodies, more like they did on that first. record 00:11:27.769 --> 00:11:37.990 that they produced um and uh what else i haven't 00:11:37.990 --> 00:11:41.269 today when i had some time i went back and i 00:11:41.269 --> 00:11:43.330 listened to the last couple of records that i 00:11:43.330 --> 00:11:47.309 had not heard and they they both seem kind of 00:11:47.309 --> 00:11:49.710 dull to me as well so whatever they've done here 00:11:49.710 --> 00:11:53.950 they've really kind of brought it back together 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:56.539 And I bet you it has to do with working with 00:11:56.539 --> 00:11:59.019 Butch. And I thought the songs were just a lot 00:11:59.019 --> 00:12:01.480 better. And I'm looking forward to listening 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.519 to it throughout the year. Did you have a chance 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.399 to listen to any of it? Yeah, I listened to it 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:09.299 because you had pointed it out. I didn't know 00:12:09.299 --> 00:12:12.620 that Butch worked with them on the album. I mean, 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.100 obviously, he's also worked with Foo Fighters 00:12:15.100 --> 00:12:17.600 and coincidentally, the last Foo Fighters album 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:21.779 that I actually like he produced. He's also the 00:12:21.779 --> 00:12:27.700 drummer in Garbage as well. So I, he's always 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:36.460 good for providing clean sounding albums. Like 00:12:36.460 --> 00:12:40.320 even the Nirvana isn't nevermind. Isn't a muddy 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:44.379 album. You know, that's maybe one of the kind 00:12:44.379 --> 00:12:47.960 of knocks on that album from the diehards is 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:52.049 that that album is a big sounding album. Uh, 00:12:52.269 --> 00:12:54.690 that has a lot of melodies and different things. 00:12:55.149 --> 00:12:58.730 Um, to be honest, this is the first time that 00:12:58.730 --> 00:13:02.289 I recall listening to silver sun pickups. Uh, 00:13:02.429 --> 00:13:05.289 there are songs that I really enjoyed and there 00:13:05.289 --> 00:13:09.929 are other ones that, um, just weren't my cup 00:13:09.929 --> 00:13:12.850 of tea, but it's just because, you know, I've 00:13:12.850 --> 00:13:15.730 always said this, I'm not a ballady slow song 00:13:15.730 --> 00:13:18.769 type of a person. And there's quite a few on 00:13:18.769 --> 00:13:20.750 there, but that doesn't mean that they're not. 00:13:21.340 --> 00:13:25.539 good sounding or that they're not put together 00:13:25.539 --> 00:13:28.899 well. It's just that it's not my thing. So you 00:13:28.899 --> 00:13:32.500 haven't heard their first record? No. I'm surprised. 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:37.379 So you're a Smashing Pumpkins fan. Yes. Listen 00:13:37.379 --> 00:13:41.120 to that. You'll enjoy it. To me, the Silver Sun 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.639 pickups, when they're writing good songs, it's 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:47.299 almost a better version of the Smashing Pumpkins 00:13:47.299 --> 00:13:49.220 because it's very similar. you know, with the 00:13:49.220 --> 00:13:52.279 melodies and the sound and the production, but 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:54.899 their vocals are a little less whiny sounding 00:13:54.899 --> 00:13:58.700 than, you know, as smashing can be sometimes. 00:13:58.860 --> 00:14:02.580 So yeah, that one and their first EP both have 00:14:02.580 --> 00:14:05.100 really great songs that you'll enjoy the whole 00:14:05.100 --> 00:14:09.000 record. Okay. So I take that as a tip and going 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:13.960 back on their discography. Okay. Jeremy, what 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.899 did you get a chance to listen to that stood 00:14:15.899 --> 00:14:19.139 out? Yeah, so the first album was the Tail Gunner 00:14:19.139 --> 00:14:22.620 album, Midnight Blitz. Obviously, it's the British 00:14:22.620 --> 00:14:24.980 new wave band that everyone's kind of talking 00:14:24.980 --> 00:14:28.500 about, I guess. It's out on Napalm Records. It's 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:32.259 produced by KK Downing, as you know, of course. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:35.379 So it's got a little bit of a touch of KK Priest 00:14:35.379 --> 00:14:39.929 about it, I think. I know you... You had an interview 00:14:39.929 --> 00:14:42.490 with them as well, Victor, which everyone should 00:14:42.490 --> 00:14:45.549 check out. I think in the interview you mentioned 00:14:45.549 --> 00:14:48.429 there's a lot of Halloween in the band. And I 00:14:48.429 --> 00:14:50.549 think you're right. They do have that sort of 00:14:50.549 --> 00:14:55.090 fast -paced power metal kind of riffing. The 00:14:55.090 --> 00:14:59.250 tempo is kind of Halloween. So, yeah, what I 00:14:59.250 --> 00:15:01.470 like about the guys is that they've got a lot 00:15:01.470 --> 00:15:04.789 of enthusiasm. They really make me want to see 00:15:04.789 --> 00:15:08.029 them live. And it's the kind of album that... 00:15:08.350 --> 00:15:11.049 you know, I sort of got into in the 1980s. So 00:15:11.049 --> 00:15:13.149 I reckon if they'd have come out in that era, 00:15:13.330 --> 00:15:15.850 you know, I'd still be talking about them because, 00:15:15.909 --> 00:15:18.250 you know, you kind of got into them then and 00:15:18.250 --> 00:15:21.190 you kind of followed their career path through 00:15:21.190 --> 00:15:24.990 to now. So, yeah, I reckon they would have been 00:15:24.990 --> 00:15:27.409 fairly big stars now if they'd have come out 00:15:27.409 --> 00:15:29.750 then. But, you know, obviously they're just sort 00:15:29.750 --> 00:15:32.549 of recreating what we went through at the time. 00:15:32.610 --> 00:15:35.490 And it's just enjoyable stuff. Definitely want 00:15:35.490 --> 00:15:37.490 to see them live because I just think that, you 00:15:37.490 --> 00:15:42.009 know, Good act. And I also listened to Jay Buchanan, 00:15:42.309 --> 00:15:46.149 Weapons of Beauty, a solo album from the Rival 00:15:46.149 --> 00:15:49.809 Sons singer. It could have gone horribly wrong, 00:15:49.850 --> 00:15:52.909 this kind of album, but it doesn't, fortunately. 00:15:53.149 --> 00:15:55.529 It kind of begins with a very hauntingly beautiful 00:15:55.529 --> 00:15:58.389 track called Caroline, and then I realized what 00:15:58.389 --> 00:16:03.309 it was all about. It was going to be sort of 00:16:03.309 --> 00:16:05.129 an album that brings out the best of his voice, 00:16:05.289 --> 00:16:08.860 which is what I really wanted. You know, there's 00:16:08.860 --> 00:16:13.159 very folky elements to it, soul, country, that 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:17.000 kind of thing. And apparently he spent a bit 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.120 of time in the desert writing the songs and thinking 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:21.980 about what he wanted to put on the album. So 00:16:21.980 --> 00:16:25.299 you kind of get the gist of what it's all about. 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:28.220 I mentioned this album to a friend of mine and 00:16:28.220 --> 00:16:31.840 he spread this one more widely as well. And everyone 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.740 seems to like it. It's not a metal album. It's 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:37.259 not really, you know. a rock album of sorts, 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.500 but it's just very, very good. And it really 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:42.740 showcases his voice. Um, which one of the two 00:16:42.740 --> 00:16:45.860 I'd pick as my album of the week, I probably 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:48.039 picked tail gunner just because, you know, they're, 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.879 they're, they're pushing what we like. I thought 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:55.659 that was a pretty good album too. The tail gunner 00:16:55.659 --> 00:16:58.519 album you're saying. Yeah. I listened to that 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:05.380 some and I enjoyed it. Okay. Um, I listened to 00:17:05.380 --> 00:17:08.880 a bunch of different things. I did get to listen 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.480 to the J .B. Cannon, and much like you said, 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.180 I mean, a lot of the album is an acoustic album. 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:24.400 It's probably closer to a Mark Lanigan solo album 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:30.019 than it is to a Rival Sons album. And it makes 00:17:30.019 --> 00:17:33.450 sense that... that he recorded it in the desert 00:17:33.450 --> 00:17:35.289 because that's where Mark Lanigan did a lot of 00:17:35.289 --> 00:17:38.829 his stuff as well. What else did I listen to? 00:17:38.890 --> 00:17:42.509 I listened to the new KMFTM. I'm a big fan of 00:17:42.509 --> 00:17:47.049 theirs from way back when, but this album kind 00:17:47.049 --> 00:17:50.130 of left, it's the first album that I've listened 00:17:50.130 --> 00:17:52.869 to in a long time by them where there wasn't 00:17:52.869 --> 00:17:55.809 like at least one track that stood out to me 00:17:55.809 --> 00:17:59.589 to say, ah, that one's going into my KMFTM playlist. 00:18:00.380 --> 00:18:03.160 The album is OK, but it's kind of like we've 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.579 already been there already. You know, the kind 00:18:06.579 --> 00:18:09.259 of nothing new, no melodies or anything that 00:18:09.259 --> 00:18:12.920 really stood out to me with this one. Listen 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:16.039 to the Pussifer album, which was OK as well. 00:18:16.099 --> 00:18:19.059 That's Maynard James Keenan from Tool. That's 00:18:19.059 --> 00:18:23.160 one of his bands. And also listen to the Jack 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:29.890 Harlan and the Dead Crows, which is a. A doom 00:18:29.890 --> 00:18:34.410 metal stonery type album. And of course, since 00:18:34.410 --> 00:18:37.990 I got to interview Bones and Rhea from Tailgunner, 00:18:38.069 --> 00:18:41.390 as Jeremy alluded to, I listened to Midnight 00:18:41.390 --> 00:18:45.029 Blitz from Tailgunner. I'd listened to that a 00:18:45.029 --> 00:18:49.349 few months back because I received the promo 00:18:49.349 --> 00:18:55.960 quite a while back. I listened to it quite a 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:58.480 bit before I did the interview and the interview 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.799 has been out for over a month now. So I interviewed 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:08.920 them in early January. I'm not mistaken. And 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.599 I hadn't listened to the album in a while. And 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:16.859 when readying myself for this program, I went 00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:21.740 back and I listened to it. And I think I enjoyed 00:19:21.740 --> 00:19:26.819 it more now than I did. And maybe because I wasn't 00:19:26.819 --> 00:19:29.160 in a rush to listen to it like I was before the 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:33.079 interview. And because I had read a lot of comparisons 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.200 and, oh, they're obviously the next Judas Priest. 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:39.660 This is Judas Priest all over it. And I listened 00:19:39.660 --> 00:19:43.559 to it and I'm like, man, there's some galloping 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.420 Halloween parts all over this. There's stuff 00:19:46.420 --> 00:19:49.700 that, yeah, it sounds like Priest, but there's 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:53.859 other stuff there as well. The ballad that they 00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:56.759 do reminds me more of Crocus than it does Judas 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:04.160 Priest. It's my pick of the week as well. For 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.880 anyone that, you know, is looking for something 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:14.000 to listen to that's a lot more modern, that's 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.299 in that Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Halloween 00:20:16.299 --> 00:20:19.910 vein, without being... way over the top because 00:20:19.910 --> 00:20:22.009 there's a lot of bands that are doing the power 00:20:22.009 --> 00:20:26.029 metal thing, but they kind of have no brakes 00:20:26.029 --> 00:20:29.210 on them. So like the choruses are way over the 00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:32.490 top. The soloing is way over the top and doesn't 00:20:32.490 --> 00:20:37.670 fit with a lot of the songs. This, I think if 00:20:37.670 --> 00:20:41.250 this band can stay together and continue to put 00:20:41.250 --> 00:20:45.450 out music like this, they should have a long 00:20:45.450 --> 00:20:48.779 career ahead of them. They could easily be like 00:20:48.779 --> 00:20:52.519 what a Trivium was at the turn of the century, 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:55.380 where they were a young band that was, even though 00:20:55.380 --> 00:20:58.660 they were playing things that we'd heard before, 00:20:58.940 --> 00:21:02.619 they were still writing quality material. I think 00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:07.259 Tailgunner can be a band like that, that in 2026, 00:21:07.619 --> 00:21:11.539 you know, when we look back in 15, 20 years, 00:21:11.740 --> 00:21:14.619 if they're still together putting out music like 00:21:14.619 --> 00:21:17.980 this. You know, we could easily say, wow, you 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:19.960 know, we were lucky to be there at the start. 00:21:20.059 --> 00:21:22.740 We were you know, we caught them when they first 00:21:22.740 --> 00:21:25.660 started coming out. So I think they're a band 00:21:25.660 --> 00:21:30.039 that will make noise moving forward, making good 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.839 noise for us. So. So do you think there's a revival 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:37.619 kind of of some of those classic heavy metal 00:21:37.619 --> 00:21:42.759 bands and sounds? Or is it that there it's always 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:46.099 been there and I just don't. know about it as 00:21:46.099 --> 00:21:49.400 much until i'm doing like these album reviews 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:51.420 and listening to everything that's coming out 00:21:51.420 --> 00:21:56.160 yeah it's it's always been there really specifically 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.859 from sweden there have always been swedish power 00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:06.700 metal bands doing this type of thing but sometimes 00:22:06.700 --> 00:22:09.839 it's the lyrics are just kind of wonky and you 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:12.859 know because of the language difference sometimes 00:22:13.930 --> 00:22:16.029 And even this has happened with Halloween where 00:22:16.029 --> 00:22:19.789 some of the lyrics are kind of nonsense because 00:22:19.789 --> 00:22:25.170 they don't, they're, they're proficient in English, 00:22:25.349 --> 00:22:28.890 but they're not perfect. You know, so there are 00:22:28.890 --> 00:22:31.529 some things that maybe aren't as good as they 00:22:31.529 --> 00:22:36.490 could be. I think that there are a lot of, a 00:22:36.490 --> 00:22:39.269 lot of Swedish power metal bands that just, and 00:22:39.269 --> 00:22:43.779 Scandinavian in general, and even German. Because 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:48.019 there's Primal Fear, there's Hammer's Fall, there's 00:22:48.019 --> 00:22:51.400 a lot of other bands that have been kind of waving 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:55.619 the flag of power metal. And the difference between 00:22:55.619 --> 00:22:59.759 them and Priest or a Maiden or even a Halloween 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:04.279 is that each one of those bands, for the most 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:06.440 part, know how to dial it back. Maybe Maiden 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:10.079 not so much on these last two albums, but there's... 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:13.519 Just some bands that, you know, their choruses 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:16.359 are just like two words and it's over and over 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:20.319 again. You know, it just they're regurgitating 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:24.880 things. Tailgunner, again, not original, but 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:26.859 they're doing it in a way that it's entertaining, 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.740 I think. Yeah, they're still doing something 00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:34.809 fresh. Yeah. Yeah. And they're getting a lot 00:23:34.809 --> 00:23:37.509 of marketing because they look the part as well. 00:23:37.630 --> 00:23:40.650 Some of the bands out there don't look the part, 00:23:40.730 --> 00:23:43.029 but they kind of got the image as well, which 00:23:43.029 --> 00:23:46.589 has helped. And that's funny because when I interviewed 00:23:46.589 --> 00:23:50.470 them, Bones looked more like Kurt Cobain with 00:23:50.470 --> 00:23:55.910 his ripped up sweater and Ria the guitarist had 00:23:55.910 --> 00:24:01.690 a surfing sweatshirt on. And then you see like 00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:03.890 all of their promo pictures and they're all in 00:24:03.890 --> 00:24:08.210 leather and this. Yeah. And, and I follow them 00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:13.990 on Instagram and even Ria posted something yesterday. 00:24:14.069 --> 00:24:16.109 I think it was, and she's wearing an Alice in 00:24:16.109 --> 00:24:22.809 Chains dirt t -shirt. So it was, um, so, so, 00:24:22.869 --> 00:24:27.299 so it was funny that, uh, You know, you get them 00:24:27.299 --> 00:24:29.579 one way in an interview and then, you know, all 00:24:29.579 --> 00:24:32.799 the PR stuff is is a little different, but that's 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:35.779 fine. So as long as the music is there, that's 00:24:35.779 --> 00:24:40.460 that's what's important. So. All right. So let's 00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:44.160 move on to February 13th. So this next week, 00:24:44.180 --> 00:24:47.640 this next week has a band that I want you to 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:53.839 interview. Oh, OK. So go on your list here. OK. 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:57.599 And when you get to it. There you go. I found 00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:59.700 that you got to interview these guys and ask 00:24:59.700 --> 00:25:01.500 them questions. You got to interview him, Victor. 00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:04.319 We don't know who he is yet. I've already interviewed 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.180 two bands. You're going to know which one it 00:25:06.180 --> 00:25:10.460 is when you say it. This week. But yeah, so we 00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:13.039 have Greyhawk with Warriors of Greyhawk, who 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.420 I interviewed Darren from the band. Space of 00:25:16.420 --> 00:25:19.960 Variation, Hoaxed, where I interviewed Cat from 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:25.859 the band. Malefic, I guess how you pronounce 00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:31.880 that. Austin Star, Blood Red, The Browning, Converge, 00:25:32.059 --> 00:25:37.339 Worm, Slaughter Day, Temple Balls. There you 00:25:37.339 --> 00:25:41.200 go. Whoa. You want me to interview the Finnish 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:44.740 band Temple Balls? And ask them how they got 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:48.480 that name, how they came up with that name. We've 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.599 always asked that question. It's one of the most 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:52.599 interesting band names I've ever come across. 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:56.890 Yeah. How'd you get the name Temple Balls? Oh, 00:25:57.109 --> 00:25:59.150 well, this happened. All right. Thanks for the 00:25:59.150 --> 00:26:03.329 interview. No, obviously there'll be more, but. 00:26:05.390 --> 00:26:09.289 I reckon it's Indiana Jones. He had those big 00:26:09.289 --> 00:26:14.990 balls coming out. Could be. Could be, but I think 00:26:14.990 --> 00:26:18.089 that they're more along the lines of big brass 00:26:18.089 --> 00:26:22.210 balls. But anyway. We won't know until you do 00:26:22.210 --> 00:26:28.480 the interview. I have Blazender on here as well. 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:30.940 So they either released their album on the 6th 00:26:30.940 --> 00:26:36.059 or the 13th. Let's see. Leatherhead with Violent 00:26:36.059 --> 00:26:38.859 Horror Stories. We had a reissue from Enough's 00:26:38.859 --> 00:26:42.660 Enough and a compilation from The Helicopters. 00:26:45.339 --> 00:26:49.359 Ed, what did you take a listen to this week that 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:55.849 stood out to you? This week, the only thing besides 00:26:55.849 --> 00:27:02.309 the name of that band, that's just funny. Slaughter 00:27:02.309 --> 00:27:07.410 Day, that's a death metal suggestion for anybody 00:27:07.410 --> 00:27:10.789 that is wanting an extreme metal suggestion. 00:27:10.869 --> 00:27:16.509 I still didn't really have a whole lot that caught 00:27:16.509 --> 00:27:21.319 my attention this week except for Converge. And 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:23.640 this is kind of the first time that I've been 00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:26.140 so impressed with Converge. I've checked them 00:27:26.140 --> 00:27:29.539 out in the past, and they're kind of basically 00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:32.900 a metalcore band. But they shake it up some. 00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:38.539 They get kind of chaotic at times. Or sometimes 00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:42.519 they'll go in a more heavy direction. This album, 00:27:42.579 --> 00:27:48.500 though, is super heavy. The album's called Love 00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:53.940 Is Not Enough. And it kind of starts off reminding 00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:58.000 me of one of my favorite bands, Zayo, who's been 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:01.359 around since the 90s on Solid State Records. 00:28:02.259 --> 00:28:08.160 And for Zayo fans, if you're listening, if you 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:11.180 like the Funeral of God album, this kind of reminded 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:13.859 me of that, the way it starts off. But they're 00:28:13.859 --> 00:28:16.079 very diverse with their songs. When you get to 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.519 the second track, Bad Faith, everybody needs 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.079 to check that out. The way they produce that 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:24.579 song, I even told you guys one day about it to 00:28:24.579 --> 00:28:27.960 listen to it. When I heard it in my car, it just 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:30.920 had a massive, massive hardcore metalcore sound. 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:34.640 And it's not like they've got their gain turned 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:36.759 way up. When you listen to their songs, they 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:40.279 don't have tons of gain, but it's still very 00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:44.279 loud, very heavy. It's got some sludge and doom 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.799 and some parts that kind of drone. They'll slow 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.259 it down and give you some kind of droning tunes 00:28:51.259 --> 00:28:55.019 that build some intensity for them to jack it 00:28:55.019 --> 00:28:58.400 back up. There's even a couple of songs that 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:03.539 even sounded like Grindcore in the middle. So 00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:07.359 all throughout the record from the first to the 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.880 last track, they're kind of shaking it up. It's 00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:14.420 got a good production. Everyone that I'm seeing 00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:16.880 out there that's a Converge fan thinks it's an 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:21.119 excellent record. I'm reading most people say 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.420 it's one of their favorites, you know, from that 00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:27.539 fan group. So, yeah, if you're a, you know, metalcore 00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:31.220 is something that I listened to a ton of in the 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:33.619 90s when thrash started getting kind of boring. 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.420 Right. But now I'm to the point to where metalcore 00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:40.740 kind of bores me unless I hear something extra 00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:44.259 good. Yeah. And this will be a record that I'm 00:29:44.259 --> 00:29:50.250 looking forward to exploring a lot more. Okay. 00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:53.250 Jeremy, how about you? Yeah, I mean, this entire 00:29:53.250 --> 00:29:55.490 month was a really good one for me. And I've 00:29:55.490 --> 00:29:58.210 got four, so I'll just kind of flick through 00:29:58.210 --> 00:30:00.589 them fairly quickly. First one was the hoaxed 00:30:00.589 --> 00:30:04.069 album, Death Knocks. Obviously a band from Portland 00:30:04.069 --> 00:30:07.750 that you featured in an episode, Victor, an interview, 00:30:07.890 --> 00:30:11.150 should I say. Sort of, I guess it's a bit of 00:30:11.150 --> 00:30:14.670 a sort of haunting ethereal sound. They describe 00:30:14.670 --> 00:30:17.900 it as dark rock. quite stripped back at times 00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:21.460 definite sort of 60s folky influences lurking 00:30:21.460 --> 00:30:24.259 underneath I found it with it my big issue though 00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:26.299 is that many of the songs sounded quite similar 00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:28.259 I mean you could say that about many bands I 00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:31.079 guess but I was hoping they'd shake it up a little 00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.259 bit so I'm hoping for a bit more on the next 00:30:33.259 --> 00:30:36.079 one but it was okay it was listenable and I enjoyed 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:39.299 it Greyhawk I also listened to another band you 00:30:39.299 --> 00:30:42.900 interviewed Victor Warriors of Greyhawk power 00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:46.779 metal band from Seattle Very frenetic, fast -paced 00:30:46.779 --> 00:30:50.400 guitars, had some good solos on there, had very 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:53.900 high -pitched vocals. It's all very well produced. 00:30:54.220 --> 00:30:57.579 And from start to finish, I enjoyed it because 00:30:57.579 --> 00:31:01.660 it's the kind of music I like. Again, was there 00:31:01.660 --> 00:31:06.019 enough variation? Maybe not quite, but that doesn't 00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:08.200 detract too much from it because I enjoyed it. 00:31:08.380 --> 00:31:11.220 I did listen to the Temple Balls album as well, 00:31:11.259 --> 00:31:14.369 Ed. Um, as we know, it's very oddly named band 00:31:14.369 --> 00:31:18.589 from Finland, very melodic, hard rock. So obviously 00:31:18.589 --> 00:31:23.049 it's, yeah. Yeah. Um, they did it in the wake 00:31:23.049 --> 00:31:25.769 of the death of their guitarist, Nico Varela. 00:31:26.150 --> 00:31:29.269 Um, apparently he's had cancer. He features on 00:31:29.269 --> 00:31:32.009 the album, but he's died since, uh, before they 00:31:32.009 --> 00:31:35.470 even released it. So, um, it's kind of sad really, 00:31:35.569 --> 00:31:38.549 but, um, you know, they, uh, they've released 00:31:38.549 --> 00:31:41.700 it as sort of, you know, a tribute to him. And 00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:43.980 the only thing is it sounded a little bit like 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:47.839 Heat, the band Heat from Sweden, but a little 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:51.880 bit harder, a little bit heavier. And to be honest, 00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:54.160 Heat have got the earworm songs. You know, they've 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.920 got those very well produced melodic tracks that, 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.140 you know, very, very good songs. This didn't 00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:04.319 quite have it. So not quite there. So really, 00:32:04.380 --> 00:32:06.460 I'm going to go for Leatherhead, Violent Horror 00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:09.779 Stories. This is an album I think that you guys 00:32:09.779 --> 00:32:11.799 are going to kind of like in parts, which is 00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:14.019 kind of what I did. I didn't like every song 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:17.599 on it, but it's thrash metal. It's got sort of 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:20.700 speed metal stuff on there as well. Very similar 00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:23.759 to sort of Overkill, touches of the Queensryche 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.200 debut album, the very first one that they ever 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:29.119 did. So it's got a high -pitched singer. It's 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.619 a little bit Halloween style. It's got some of 00:32:32.619 --> 00:32:34.859 that sort of amateur dramatics you get from sort 00:32:34.859 --> 00:32:37.920 of very youthful newcomers on the scene. It's 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:40.880 their second album, and they're Greek, by the 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:44.400 way. Oh, wow. But that's kind of immaterial. 00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:48.480 It's a great sound, and I liked a lot of the 00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:50.420 songs on there, so it's very well worth a listen. 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:52.680 So I'm going to go for Leatherhead, Violent Horror 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.460 Stories. Yeah, you described that pretty well. 00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.519 I remember hearing some of that too. Okay. Cool. 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.940 So I got to listen to a bunch of different things. 00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.700 Uh, I listened to the, uh, new album from worm, 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:12.180 which is a death metal band. Uh, got to listen 00:33:12.180 --> 00:33:16.180 to the converge, uh, which Ed talked about. And, 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:18.859 uh, converge for me has always been a band that's 00:33:18.859 --> 00:33:21.640 been hit or miss either. I really like a track. 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:26.019 As you said, it just sounds like another metal 00:33:26.019 --> 00:33:29.559 core band or another metal core song from, from 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:34.000 the pile. You know, um, they've always had massive. 00:33:34.589 --> 00:33:36.789 a massive following, especially in the press. 00:33:37.410 --> 00:33:42.049 Um, so it was cool to listen to this album and, 00:33:42.089 --> 00:33:45.130 and find things that I really enjoyed off of 00:33:45.130 --> 00:33:49.670 it. Um, what else? I listened to the blood red, 00:33:49.730 --> 00:33:54.009 which was extreme metal as well. And then the, 00:33:54.089 --> 00:33:58.250 um, the two bands that I interviewed, the hoaxed 00:33:58.250 --> 00:34:01.690 and, uh, gray Hawk. Obviously I listened to both 00:34:01.690 --> 00:34:06.240 preparing for, the interview, there are two completely 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:10.420 different things. Uh, as you mentioned the, um, 00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:15.360 um, a hoax that's, uh, yeah, uh, it is hoaxed. 00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:19.000 I don't know why. Um, before doing the interview, 00:34:19.059 --> 00:34:20.920 I was scared that I was going to call it, call 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:24.539 the band hexed instead of hope. But anyway, um, 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:29.699 it's definitely a goth rock feel. Uh, it really, 00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:34.800 you know, uh, feels like onto others, which is 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.719 also from Portland, Oregon. Like they are feels 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:41.400 like, um, like there's inspiration from like 00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:44.380 joy division and sisters of mercy and stuff like 00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:50.780 that. Um, there's some like kind of horror themes 00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:53.840 to some of the, the songs as well. The album 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.099 is called death knocks. Um, I really liked the 00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:02.820 album, uh, the gray Hawk. has, as you mentioned, 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.260 a lot of stuff that, you know, they're from Seattle. 00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:11.420 They sound like a Fates Warning. They sound like 00:35:11.420 --> 00:35:15.400 a Queensryche. They sound like a Sanctuary. You 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:18.039 know, they're a mix of a bunch of different things 00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:26.099 from the area. I like both albums a lot, but 00:35:26.099 --> 00:35:29.260 I think I'm going to go with the Hoaxed album. 00:35:30.769 --> 00:35:36.389 only because I do think it is a little bit more 00:35:36.389 --> 00:35:39.429 original than the other one is, and they're honestly 00:35:39.429 --> 00:35:44.630 not reinventing the wheel. But that said, I've 00:35:44.630 --> 00:35:46.789 really enjoyed the album. I've listened to it 00:35:46.789 --> 00:35:54.829 quite a bit since. So let's see here. The 20th. 00:35:54.869 --> 00:35:59.139 Edgar, you're getting ahead of us here. He's 00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:01.260 listening to a lot of music. Yeah, he's listening 00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:04.440 to a lot of music as well. He needs to come on 00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:08.559 Patreon. I'm the fourth guy talking about new 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:14.559 releases here. Anyway, so February 20th, we have 00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:18.900 new albums from Psilosis, Veer Union, Horseman, 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:28.219 Eon Gods, Clawfinger. Necronomicon, Ex Mortis, 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:35.059 Transatlantic Radio, Eye of Million, Michael 00:36:35.059 --> 00:36:47.260 Monroe, Suplex, Rectify, Newfound Glory. What 00:36:47.260 --> 00:36:53.860 else? Hellstead, Love Bites, Exhumed, Zepter, 00:36:54.079 --> 00:37:00.309 Nightlin. Lead Injector, Serpent Gates, Lightning 00:37:00.309 --> 00:37:10.809 Strikes, and Deeper Graves. EPs from Descentience, 00:37:11.050 --> 00:37:14.630 I guess is how you pronounce that. Reissues from 00:37:14.630 --> 00:37:18.610 Game Over. Two reissues from Six Feet Under, 00:37:18.949 --> 00:37:24.530 Candaria, Dangerous Toys, and a live album from... 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.780 Ed, what did you listen to that stood out to 00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:39.659 you? Well, I started with Exhumed. It's good, 00:37:39.739 --> 00:37:43.079 but there's nothing that's that catchy to me. 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:48.420 They have an album, Necrocracy, I think from 00:37:48.420 --> 00:37:52.639 2013 that I love. One of my favorite death metal 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:56.440 records. But from what I understand, they experimented 00:37:56.440 --> 00:38:00.539 some with their riffs on that record. That album, 00:38:00.579 --> 00:38:05.179 different from the others in a sense that, or 00:38:05.179 --> 00:38:08.159 in a way that it has more like maybe breakdown 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:11.500 parts and some, you know, parts that add a groove 00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:15.340 that, you know, carries you along or just more 00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:18.019 dynamics to it. This record doesn't have a lot 00:38:18.019 --> 00:38:21.119 of that. So it was like less fun to listen to 00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:24.860 in the car. But it was it's good enough for me 00:38:24.860 --> 00:38:27.099 to put on in my office and listen to while I'm 00:38:27.099 --> 00:38:29.880 working and still enjoy it. You know, it's got 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:34.019 a Exhumed always has a pretty cool old school 00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:38.960 sound to their production. They only have like 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:44.960 one original member, though. But from what I've 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.400 listened to throughout their discography, most 00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:49.679 of that, their production usually seems to be 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:55.500 about the same. So they kind of, Exhumed is a 00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:59.800 good band that they fall well in between old 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:01.980 school death metal and some of the modern stuff. 00:39:02.260 --> 00:39:05.679 It's got a modern sound to it, but without the 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:11.340 modern production. So someone that likes Exhumed, 00:39:11.340 --> 00:39:13.219 you might want to know that that one's out and 00:39:13.219 --> 00:39:15.840 check it out. Red Asphalt's the name of the album. 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.639 My next pick is kind of funny. I got a pop punk. 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.860 band for you all uh newfound glory have we ever 00:39:27.860 --> 00:39:31.780 had any pop punk discussions on signals from 00:39:31.780 --> 00:39:35.320 mars in our groups before i can't i was trying 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:39.860 to recall if we had yeah we haven't posted videos 00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:43.619 from newfound glory um previous to the release 00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:46.619 of this album because if i'm not mistaken they 00:39:46.619 --> 00:39:49.820 covered ace of spades for a motorhead tribute 00:39:49.820 --> 00:39:53.429 album And it's because leading into that, I was 00:39:53.429 --> 00:39:56.690 like, yeah, who, this is going to suck. You know, 00:39:56.730 --> 00:39:58.550 who's going to want to listen to this? And I 00:39:58.550 --> 00:39:59.969 listened to the cover and it was actually pretty 00:39:59.969 --> 00:40:02.650 cool the way that they did it. Okay. I haven't 00:40:02.650 --> 00:40:04.610 heard that, but you know, I'm interested to check 00:40:04.610 --> 00:40:07.210 it out because apparently they, they do lean 00:40:07.210 --> 00:40:09.610 into some, you know, they dip their toes in metal 00:40:09.610 --> 00:40:12.050 here and there with some of their riffs. They, 00:40:12.130 --> 00:40:16.110 man, they got like 14 records too. Yes. And it's 00:40:16.110 --> 00:40:18.730 all pop punk. You know, when it comes to pop 00:40:18.730 --> 00:40:21.289 punk, it's like there's never a new song that 00:40:21.289 --> 00:40:24.510 I feel like I haven't heard before. Right. But 00:40:24.510 --> 00:40:26.710 with that genre, I think we just forgive that. 00:40:28.849 --> 00:40:31.849 You know, we don't give that as hard of a time 00:40:31.849 --> 00:40:34.349 as we would our metal band sounding that much 00:40:34.349 --> 00:40:40.150 the same. But one of the reasons why when I heard 00:40:40.150 --> 00:40:41.949 the songs on this record that I kept listening 00:40:41.949 --> 00:40:44.309 to it, a lot of it's kind of taken me back to 00:40:44.309 --> 00:40:47.199 when my daughter was a teenager. Pop punk was 00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.480 such a big deal during that time. So a lot of 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:52.599 that's kind of sounding like a soundtrack to 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.860 when I was raising her. And but what I liked 00:40:55.860 --> 00:40:59.000 about this album and this and this kind of gives 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:03.539 me some hope for a pop punk revival that I know 00:41:03.539 --> 00:41:06.559 will be coming probably after the new metals 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:11.380 revival. Right. One thing, you know, I think 00:41:11.380 --> 00:41:13.760 that their songwriting is maturing a lot. They're 00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:16.559 learning what's good and what's not. to put on 00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:19.739 a record and what i'm most excited about and 00:41:19.739 --> 00:41:21.920 i hear that in this record because i went back 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:23.739 and i listened to like the first song off all 00:41:23.739 --> 00:41:29.440 the records throughout their 14 catalog and the 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.820 vocals don't sound as whiny as they did when 00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:34.500 they were younger right you know a lot of that 00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:37.739 music back when my daughter was that age you 00:41:37.739 --> 00:41:40.000 know it's i like the music but the vocals kick 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.000 in it's just too it's just whiny teenage too 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.130 much of that And it's hard to listen to it. But 00:41:47.130 --> 00:41:50.030 now these guys are growing up. You know, their 00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:53.550 songwriting is maturing. And also their lyrics 00:41:53.550 --> 00:41:58.750 are applying to, you know, middle -aged folks 00:41:58.750 --> 00:42:00.369 now, the things they're having to write about. 00:42:01.130 --> 00:42:05.449 So I was surprisingly impressed with that. But 00:42:05.449 --> 00:42:08.730 my favorite thing, I think, and I'm hoping you 00:42:08.730 --> 00:42:12.409 guys, I think you posted a video by Zepter. Okay. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.539 Didn't you post a video by them the other day? 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:21.019 I may have, yeah. Did you hear that, Jeremy Zepter? 00:42:21.099 --> 00:42:23.420 Did you listen to that? You got to listen to 00:42:23.420 --> 00:42:29.079 it. You go back to like 84 or 85, and you're 00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.800 a teenager, and you're just sitting in your room 00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:35.360 writing classic heavy metal songs, whatever pops 00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:38.340 out of your head. You're not straining too hard 00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:41.340 to write good melodies or anything. One riff 00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:42.900 after another and you're putting them together. 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.340 You got your heavy metal band and then you go 00:42:46.340 --> 00:42:49.260 play at the Battle of the Bands at your school. 00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:52.239 And you're in that auditorium with the reverb 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:55.300 turned way up on the vocals. That's what this 00:42:55.300 --> 00:42:59.579 sounds like. It's like when I first heard it, 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:05.900 it sounded so much like, you know, a DIY production 00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:11.380 that I started to remove it. But it sounded so, 00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:14.719 I don't know, I couldn't stop listening to it. 00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:18.280 It sounded so interesting. And the more I listened 00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:20.219 to it, the more I felt like I was watching my 00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:22.619 friends who had a heavy metal band back in high 00:43:22.619 --> 00:43:24.960 school. They played in the Battle of the Bands. 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:27.619 And they also made a demo tape in somebody's 00:43:27.619 --> 00:43:30.300 basement. It sounds like this. Although this 00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:33.380 sounds more better produced than that, of course. 00:43:33.460 --> 00:43:36.539 But just the way it sounds, man, it will take 00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:39.900 you back to being a teenager. In the mid -80s, 00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:42.719 just trying to have a heavy metal band. So that's 00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:46.099 called Zepter? Yeah, Zepter. You're going to 00:43:46.099 --> 00:43:48.940 like that, Jeremy. It's fun to listen to. Z -E 00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:54.360 -P -T -E -R? Z -E -P -T -E -R. T -E -R. So two 00:43:54.360 --> 00:44:02.440 E's. Yeah. And they're from Austria. Okay. And 00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:07.039 the vocals... He must be intentionally making 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:09.880 them sound that way to kind of get that, you 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:12.900 know, that feel to the music. Because, yeah, 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:20.320 he really lays on the reverb big time. Jeremy, 00:44:20.460 --> 00:44:23.059 what did you listen to this week? Yeah, so, I 00:44:23.059 --> 00:44:24.679 mean, this is the month that keeps on giving. 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:27.300 If we're going to carry on this way, Victor, 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:29.039 we're going to be ending up at the end of the 00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.800 year. struggling to pick our top 10 for the end 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.219 of the year because I thought this month was 00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.960 amazing. I listened to Lightning Strikes, The 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.699 King is Victorious. I don't know if you guys 00:44:39.699 --> 00:44:41.920 have heard this one. It starts off, I mean, the 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:43.900 very first song starts off with a very little 00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:47.059 sort of choral sound. Then that sort of slightly 00:44:47.059 --> 00:44:49.800 down -tuned riff kicks in. Then there's some 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:54.320 1970s bass. It sounds a little like Free. There's 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:57.400 a keyboard solo, a really, really good vocalist. 00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.840 It's wonderful. And that's just the first of 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:03.960 seven songs on an LP of 37 minutes that kind 00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:07.119 of peaks with the nine -minute title track, Epic. 00:45:07.539 --> 00:45:10.320 It's kind of Iron Maiden proportions. It features 00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:14.639 a 45 -piece Moscow Symphony Orchestra. So, you 00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:17.760 know, you're kind of getting what's going on 00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:20.559 here. I delved into it. I discovered that the 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:23.360 band actually released a debut album in 2016, 00:45:23.579 --> 00:45:26.949 which I... Maybe I heard it at the time, but 00:45:26.949 --> 00:45:29.329 I don't remember it. And the band actually used 00:45:29.329 --> 00:45:33.769 to feature Tony Martin. Okay. So there's something. 00:45:34.010 --> 00:45:37.670 They now have a newish sort of Argentinian vocalist. 00:45:37.889 --> 00:45:42.550 They've got a Japanese guy, a guitar whiz. And 00:45:42.550 --> 00:45:46.449 wait for it, the ivory tinkler is Derek Sherinian. 00:45:46.670 --> 00:45:50.289 Oh, wow. So, you know, you get into a little 00:45:50.289 --> 00:45:52.150 flavor of what's going on here. There's a lot 00:45:52.150 --> 00:45:55.869 of stuff all mixed in, and it's a very interesting 00:45:55.869 --> 00:45:59.190 listen. Yeah, I kind of liked it. So the other 00:45:59.190 --> 00:46:01.849 album I listened to was Serpent Gates, The Veil 00:46:01.849 --> 00:46:05.070 of Darkness. This kind of will appeal to both 00:46:05.070 --> 00:46:08.489 of you, I think, as well. It's kind of if you 00:46:08.489 --> 00:46:11.429 mix Bruce Dickinson with Judas Priest. Imagine 00:46:11.429 --> 00:46:14.590 Bruce joins Judas, which isn't a bad thing, of 00:46:14.590 --> 00:46:17.389 course. It's kind of a weird mixture, but it's 00:46:17.389 --> 00:46:20.050 never been done. It's a debut album from a Finnish 00:46:20.050 --> 00:46:23.969 band, kind of on fussy, heavy riffs, very clear, 00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:28.309 very powerful vocalist in Bruce's style. And 00:46:28.309 --> 00:46:30.349 if you don't like what Maiden have kind of become 00:46:30.349 --> 00:46:33.429 now, which I know Victor is on this one because 00:46:33.429 --> 00:46:36.010 he doesn't like the latest couple of albums. 00:46:37.289 --> 00:46:39.829 The first track, Metamorphosis, is kind of what 00:46:39.829 --> 00:46:43.250 Maiden might have become. So, you know what I 00:46:43.250 --> 00:46:45.510 mean? It's kind of like, you remember Maiden 00:46:45.510 --> 00:46:47.210 in the early days, they played that sort of more 00:46:47.210 --> 00:46:49.750 metal -y stuff. Imagine if they brought it forward 00:46:49.750 --> 00:46:53.130 and sort of refined it and given it a little 00:46:53.130 --> 00:46:55.050 bit more of a polish and this, that and the other. 00:46:55.210 --> 00:46:57.349 And it's kind of like that. There's also a song 00:46:57.349 --> 00:46:59.530 on there called Down the Cross, which is kind 00:46:59.530 --> 00:47:02.289 of more priest -y. And I kind of imagine Rob 00:47:02.289 --> 00:47:04.769 Halford singing it. And if he did sing on it... 00:47:04.969 --> 00:47:07.250 it would be an amazing song. So it's kind of, 00:47:07.250 --> 00:47:10.809 it's an album where not every song is amazing. 00:47:10.929 --> 00:47:12.710 You know, there's three or four songs you can 00:47:12.710 --> 00:47:14.889 go through and you think, oh, it's much for a 00:47:14.889 --> 00:47:17.309 muchness. But then you get to that kind of killer 00:47:17.309 --> 00:47:20.710 song on it and you think, yeah, turn it up. It's, 00:47:20.789 --> 00:47:23.349 yeah, it's a good listen. So just for that reason, 00:47:23.369 --> 00:47:25.550 I'm going to pick that one as my album of the 00:47:25.550 --> 00:47:33.230 week. All right. So I listened to a bunch of 00:47:33.230 --> 00:47:39.460 different things. This week, I listened to the 00:47:39.460 --> 00:47:43.340 Psilosis and my opinion of the band continues 00:47:43.340 --> 00:47:46.420 to be the same in that I think that they released 00:47:46.420 --> 00:47:50.059 a brilliant first album, changed singers, and 00:47:50.059 --> 00:47:53.639 then they became just another metalcore band. 00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:59.539 What else did I listen to here? The Clawfinger. 00:48:00.190 --> 00:48:03.809 Which is, as Ed alluded to before, a new metal 00:48:03.809 --> 00:48:06.829 band that gotten back together again. New metal 00:48:06.829 --> 00:48:11.869 in 90s. Hard rock and metal is having a resurgence. 00:48:11.929 --> 00:48:15.690 So what you said, Ed, about having a pop punk 00:48:15.690 --> 00:48:19.329 resurgence afterwards makes complete sense because 00:48:19.329 --> 00:48:23.130 in chronological order, that's kind of what happened. 00:48:23.489 --> 00:48:26.550 That's what's going to happen. Yeah. Yeah. I've 00:48:26.550 --> 00:48:28.670 been watching it ever since, you know, I turned 00:48:28.670 --> 00:48:32.960 30. you've been seeing that happen. Yeah. Um, 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:37.599 the claw finger album was, was okay. It was kind 00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:41.000 of goofy in spots. I don't know if they purposely 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:43.639 wanted to do that or not. I listened to the new 00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:48.139 found glory, which, which is on par with what 00:48:48.139 --> 00:48:50.639 I've heard from them in the past. And very much 00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:54.420 in that, as you're saying, uh, like one of the 00:48:54.420 --> 00:48:58.139 bands that sprouted up after blink one 82. Kind 00:48:58.139 --> 00:48:59.900 of did because, I mean, there were a bunch of 00:48:59.900 --> 00:49:03.900 different like pop punk bands that that came 00:49:03.900 --> 00:49:07.239 out of that era. But I think a lot of people 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:11.880 don't realize how much Blink 182 actually influenced 00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:15.239 a big majority of them. I think you could probably 00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.880 say because the the biggest bands to kind of 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:25.989 do that was Green Day, them. And there's a few 00:49:25.989 --> 00:49:29.469 others that are probably like a tier below them. 00:49:29.710 --> 00:49:33.929 But I think Blink -182 probably doesn't get the 00:49:33.929 --> 00:49:36.670 notoriety that they should receive for actually 00:49:36.670 --> 00:49:39.929 having so many bands come on after them. And 00:49:39.929 --> 00:49:43.789 you mentioned it with the whiny vocals, with 00:49:43.789 --> 00:49:49.809 the simple songs, with the sing -along choruses 00:49:49.809 --> 00:49:56.620 and stuff like that. That's very much them. What 00:49:56.620 --> 00:50:01.599 else? I listened to Love Bites, Outstanding Power, 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.659 a Japanese band that's been around for quite 00:50:04.659 --> 00:50:09.019 some time. They just signed to Napalm and released 00:50:09.019 --> 00:50:14.360 this album. They're fantastic musicians. They're 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:19.639 ridiculous musicians, but the music is just a 00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:23.099 little too cliched for me. Once I start to hear 00:50:23.099 --> 00:50:31.900 the symphonic keyboards and the melodrone or 00:50:31.900 --> 00:50:36.559 whatever that's called, or the specific keyboard 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:40.599 that sounds like it, but it just kills me. They're 00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:45.460 great musicians, but there are too many things 00:50:45.460 --> 00:50:48.420 in the album that just make it sound like just... 00:50:48.619 --> 00:50:51.440 another band trying to play fast and proficient. 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:54.159 Nothing wrong with it, but just something that 00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:57.360 doesn't hold my attention very long. I listened 00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.480 to The Exhumed, and I have to say that, much 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:03.619 like you said, Ed, I prefer some other albums 00:51:03.619 --> 00:51:06.199 that they've released over the years to this 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:08.320 one. I think you summed it up great. The album 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:11.199 doesn't sound bad, but there's really nothing 00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:15.260 to say, oh, wow, that track's great. Yeah. that's 00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:17.219 the one that's going to stick out. It's, it's 00:51:17.219 --> 00:51:21.320 all like kind of an even plane without anything 00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:25.059 like really stepping forward and being the, the 00:51:25.059 --> 00:51:28.539 big, um, you know, I read like a three or four 00:51:28.539 --> 00:51:31.119 interviews, uh, reviews on that record today. 00:51:31.179 --> 00:51:33.940 And it was interesting that every single interview 00:51:33.940 --> 00:51:38.559 focus more on how they like the lyrics, uh, as 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:42.119 opposed to the music. Um, and one guy even said 00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:45.070 that he, praised the lyrics but felt like the 00:51:45.070 --> 00:51:47.989 music didn't really hold up to the level of the 00:51:47.989 --> 00:51:51.750 lyrics so um yeah i think every i think most 00:51:51.750 --> 00:51:54.329 people are kind of feeling the same that it's 00:51:54.329 --> 00:51:57.150 it's a good record but there's nothing too creative 00:51:57.150 --> 00:52:04.250 going on yeah and so um my album of the week 00:52:04.250 --> 00:52:10.159 is going to coincide with A band that you'll 00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:13.019 be hearing an interview from shortly. It is Deeper 00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:16.159 Graves, and the album is called Pulled Me Towards 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:21.099 the Dark. Interestingly enough, two straight 00:52:21.099 --> 00:52:24.980 weeks, I'm picking something that's in a goth 00:52:24.980 --> 00:52:32.420 rock kind of a vein. This is a one -man band, 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:36.440 basically. The name of the guy that's behind 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:39.539 everything is Jeff Phillips, if I'm not mistaken. 00:52:40.539 --> 00:52:42.380 Let me just make sure I got that right. Yeah, 00:52:42.420 --> 00:52:45.599 Jeff Phillips. He's in a bunch of different bands, 00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:50.239 but this really stood out to me for its sound. 00:52:50.260 --> 00:52:52.920 Again, if you like On to Others, if you like 00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:56.079 some of the heavier side of The Cure, if you 00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:59.360 like Joy Division, stuff like that, Sisters of 00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:03.539 Mercy, this is something that's right up your 00:53:03.539 --> 00:53:06.960 alley. And this is one of five albums that he's 00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:11.559 releasing this year. So it's good to own your 00:53:11.559 --> 00:53:18.019 own label. That is... Yeah, that's a lot. Album 00:53:18.019 --> 00:53:21.179 of the week. What's that, Ed? That's a lot. Yeah. 00:53:23.340 --> 00:53:28.860 Yeah, the interview touches upon this band, Deeper 00:53:28.860 --> 00:53:31.780 Graves, and also touches upon a death metal band. 00:53:32.650 --> 00:53:36.150 that he's a part of, which is called bringers 00:53:36.150 --> 00:53:38.610 of death. Who's releasing an album called sulfur 00:53:38.610 --> 00:53:44.989 in April, actually. So we'll have to talk about 00:53:44.989 --> 00:53:49.590 that then. And, and we'll see, uh, uh, if Ed 00:53:49.590 --> 00:53:55.050 enjoys that album, we'll see, um, how he rates 00:53:55.050 --> 00:54:00.170 that on his extreme metal, um, charts. Glad to. 00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:06.440 Cool, so February 27th, we had new albums from 00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:12.480 Black Swan, A Wilhelm Scream, It's a Lie, Joel 00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:21.039 Hoekstra's 13, Locus Noir, Necrophire, NMB, which 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:23.519 is Neil Morris Band, which is what they're called 00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:31.739 now, Rob Zombie, Weedpecker, The Sheepdogs. Kevin 00:54:31.739 --> 00:54:41.699 Steele. The Gloom in the Corner. Burials. Unbarrier. 00:54:43.340 --> 00:54:51.619 Slagmore. Cryptic Shift. Nerve Star. EPs from 00:54:51.619 --> 00:54:58.579 Philip Schaus. And Jonathan Cain from Journey 00:54:58.579 --> 00:55:06.460 Fame reissues from Psy, Autumn, and The Ultimate 00:55:06.460 --> 00:55:10.440 Tribute to Rush. That's reissued. And there was 00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:19.179 a compilation from Killing Joke called... The 00:55:19.179 --> 00:55:24.239 Etromites, the Albini Demos, and Live Beginnings 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:31.380 88. So, Jeremy, let's go with you this time around. 00:55:31.539 --> 00:55:33.960 What did you listen to this week? Yeah, it's 00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:36.059 right up my ballpark this week. I mean, I started 00:55:36.059 --> 00:55:40.190 off with Joel Hoekstra's 13 from The Fade. This 00:55:40.190 --> 00:55:43.429 one, again, has Girish Pradhan on vocals, who's 00:55:43.429 --> 00:55:46.630 kind of trying to outdo Ronnie Romero for being 00:55:46.630 --> 00:55:49.150 Ronnie Romero, and he's doing a good job at it 00:55:49.150 --> 00:55:52.989 because he's in a lot of bands, as we know. You 00:55:52.989 --> 00:55:56.510 know, Hoekstra, obviously, ex -Whitesteak and 00:55:56.510 --> 00:55:59.630 other stuff, undeniably sort of melodic edge 00:55:59.630 --> 00:56:03.800 to his hard -rocking stuff. I always find I'm 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:06.579 comparing his albums now to Running Games, which 00:56:06.579 --> 00:56:08.880 I thought was a really, really good solo album 00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:13.599 by him. I thought he did two other albums, apart 00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:16.039 from this one, which are a bit hit and miss and 00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:18.519 I didn't like as much. But I think this one is 00:56:18.519 --> 00:56:20.659 a pretty decent workout. I think he's back up 00:56:20.659 --> 00:56:24.769 to form on this. You know, some really good songs 00:56:24.769 --> 00:56:26.710 on here. There's a half -decent ballad, which, 00:56:26.769 --> 00:56:28.570 you know, won't appeal to you, Victor, because 00:56:28.570 --> 00:56:30.389 I know you don't like ballads, but, you know, 00:56:30.389 --> 00:56:32.489 a lot of us rockers like the odd ballad here 00:56:32.489 --> 00:56:36.050 and there. And there's a lot of proficient guitar 00:56:36.050 --> 00:56:40.349 work on there, you know, which is to be expected 00:56:40.349 --> 00:56:43.769 from a guy, you know, at his stage of his career, 00:56:43.889 --> 00:56:47.150 really. One of the songs I like, Start to Fight, 00:56:47.369 --> 00:56:50.989 very good. uh has sort of some of the songs like 00:56:50.989 --> 00:56:53.349 that have sort of a few little key changes in 00:56:53.349 --> 00:56:55.869 there and so they add a little bit of interest 00:56:55.869 --> 00:56:59.929 so yeah it was a very very uh enjoyable album 00:56:59.929 --> 00:57:01.929 you know it's a good sort of hard rocking album 00:57:01.929 --> 00:57:05.349 which is nothing out of the ordinary but it was 00:57:05.349 --> 00:57:07.869 good i also listened to black swan paralyzed 00:57:07.869 --> 00:57:11.590 we've got uh we're going from one ex white snake 00:57:11.590 --> 00:57:13.829 man to another here because obviously red beach 00:57:14.809 --> 00:57:17.909 who's been in other bands as well. And you've 00:57:17.909 --> 00:57:19.710 got Jeff Pilsen on there and you've got Matt 00:57:19.710 --> 00:57:21.590 Starr and you've got Robbie McCauley on vocals, 00:57:21.730 --> 00:57:25.849 of course, which we all kind of like. More of 00:57:25.849 --> 00:57:28.030 the sort of the same classic rock that the band 00:57:28.030 --> 00:57:30.849 has been crafting over, I think now three albums. 00:57:31.769 --> 00:57:36.130 So it's probably a little bit harder edge than 00:57:36.130 --> 00:57:38.030 the Hoekstra album. So if you're looking for 00:57:38.030 --> 00:57:40.750 a little bit more harder guitar, it's on this 00:57:40.750 --> 00:57:44.199 album rather than that one. You know, it had 00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:46.880 some really good melodies. They're writing some 00:57:46.880 --> 00:57:48.940 good songs. They're really creating their own 00:57:48.940 --> 00:57:51.460 sound as well, which I kind of like because although 00:57:51.460 --> 00:57:55.039 I wouldn't say it's all memorable stuff, at least 00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:56.900 it's, you know, you listen to a Black Swan album 00:57:56.900 --> 00:57:58.980 now and you kind of know it's Black Swan rather 00:57:58.980 --> 00:58:02.019 than being, you know, just a collection of artists 00:58:02.019 --> 00:58:05.860 from other bands doing something. So, yeah, it's 00:58:05.860 --> 00:58:09.280 kind of they're creating something that's a little 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:11.679 bit more unique. So, you know, I liked it. It 00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:14.929 was fine. But my album of the week is going to 00:58:14.929 --> 00:58:18.849 NerveStar with an album called White Hot. This 00:58:18.849 --> 00:58:21.090 is a kind of new wave of British heavy metal 00:58:21.090 --> 00:58:24.849 style type of album. It's by a band that's a 00:58:24.849 --> 00:58:28.789 mixture of British and Swedish elements. I think 00:58:28.789 --> 00:58:30.710 they started off as a British band and then they 00:58:30.710 --> 00:58:34.130 got a Swedish guitarist in. The reason why I 00:58:34.130 --> 00:58:35.949 got into it, they included a cover of one of 00:58:35.949 --> 00:58:38.989 my very favorite new album singles, Black Ice 00:58:38.989 --> 00:58:42.610 by Aragorn. which I actually bought back in 1980. 00:58:42.849 --> 00:58:45.250 And I've still got, I play it quite a bit. It's 00:58:45.250 --> 00:58:47.730 a really, really good song. But I discovered 00:58:47.730 --> 00:58:50.929 later on, after listening to the whole album 00:58:50.929 --> 00:58:53.750 and then digging a little deeper, that apart 00:58:53.750 --> 00:58:56.210 from the two short instrumentals, every song 00:58:56.210 --> 00:58:59.010 on this album is a cover. But they're covers 00:58:59.010 --> 00:59:01.550 by bands that you've probably never heard of. 00:59:01.690 --> 00:59:04.949 Right. Which makes it interesting. I don't know 00:59:04.949 --> 00:59:06.889 how they've done it or why they've done it. And 00:59:06.889 --> 00:59:09.150 I don't know much about, you know, the band itself 00:59:09.150 --> 00:59:11.130 or why they've not sort of written their own 00:59:11.130 --> 00:59:13.650 stuff, but it's kind of good because it's bringing 00:59:13.650 --> 00:59:16.190 forward a lot of songs that you've kind of either 00:59:16.190 --> 00:59:18.869 never heard before, or you might've heard once 00:59:18.869 --> 00:59:22.269 in the past, maybe 1980, 81 or whatever. And 00:59:22.269 --> 00:59:24.530 it's all that sort of early made and it's all 00:59:24.530 --> 00:59:27.210 leopard. It's all that sort of influences all 00:59:27.210 --> 00:59:31.769 mixed in. So it's kind of really fun and it kind 00:59:31.769 --> 00:59:36.539 of feels new. Yeah, it is a really good idea, 00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:39.039 yeah. There's a really sort of funkier track 00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:40.659 on there called Black Jack that sounds a little 00:59:40.659 --> 00:59:44.460 bit more Vandenberg Moon Kings as well. But also 00:59:44.460 --> 00:59:47.820 one of the, I think it's the last, yeah, it's 00:59:47.820 --> 00:59:49.860 the last song on the album. It's called Richard 00:59:49.860 --> 00:59:54.199 III, and it's by Tony Borgia of Budgie. And he 00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:56.960 had a band called, I think it was Tredega. He 00:59:56.960 --> 00:59:59.639 went on and went into another band. So it's a 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.679 song from Tredega, which he wrote, but he's actually 01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:04.960 playing on it as well. So he's doing the guitar 01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:07.199 soloing on there. So yeah, like you say, Ed, 01:00:07.219 --> 01:00:09.900 it's, it's just an interesting concept. It sounds 01:00:09.900 --> 01:00:13.199 good. It's, it's well, you know, it's well sort 01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:17.119 of produced and I enjoyed it. So I'm going to 01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:20.539 pick that as my album of the week. Okay. It's 01:00:20.539 --> 01:00:22.380 interesting. Cause that's kind of what Metallica 01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:25.980 did initially with a lot of their covers, like 01:00:25.980 --> 01:00:31.380 with the diamond head stuff and, and. Tweet Savage 01:00:31.380 --> 01:00:34.639 and stuff like that. They were bands that were 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:38.619 obviously known commodities in the UK, but not 01:00:38.619 --> 01:00:40.940 so much in the US. So they were covering a lot 01:00:40.940 --> 01:00:44.019 of these bands and people thought that they were 01:00:44.019 --> 01:00:47.000 Metallica's own music because they weren't aware 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.420 of the fact that they were covered. So it's an 01:00:50.420 --> 01:00:58.820 interesting concept, no doubt. Ed, what did you 01:00:58.820 --> 01:01:00.900 get a chance to listen to this week and what 01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:05.320 stood out? Well, I listened to pretty much everything 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:10.320 and not a whole lot stood out. Again, the Wilhelm 01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:17.099 Scream that you interviewed, that was good. I 01:01:17.099 --> 01:01:19.539 got another funny pick for you probably this 01:01:19.539 --> 01:01:25.659 week. I was in a mellow mood one day. I guess 01:01:25.659 --> 01:01:29.920 it was, you know, late afternoon, sunny evening 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:34.280 with spring coming in. And that song by the Sheepdogs 01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:38.679 came on. OK. And I really enjoyed that. But the 01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:41.400 funny thing about that band is, I mean, it's 01:01:41.400 --> 01:01:44.619 not metal at all. It is. It sounds exactly like 01:01:44.619 --> 01:01:48.559 a band from the 1970s. Yeah. This is a pick for 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.280 Brad Dahl. I think he would like this band a 01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.590 lot. And apparently they're from Canada. from 01:01:54.590 --> 01:01:57.929 what i saw on their band camp page right uh but 01:01:57.929 --> 01:02:01.190 boy they they sound like uh just a good old down 01:02:01.190 --> 01:02:06.969 home you know southern you know american 70s 01:02:06.969 --> 01:02:11.130 band and uh just kind of you know laid back uh 01:02:11.130 --> 01:02:15.050 rock you know with just enough pop you know to 01:02:15.050 --> 01:02:18.969 keep it interesting um that was fun hey do you 01:02:18.969 --> 01:02:23.610 mind if i break the rules a bit here um i completely 01:02:24.380 --> 01:02:27.800 forgot a record from the beginning of the month. 01:02:28.300 --> 01:02:31.739 Okay. That I don't want to overlook. I actually 01:02:31.739 --> 01:02:34.019 think I had it as my pick for this last week 01:02:34.019 --> 01:02:38.239 and I got my dates wrong. Okay. But there's this 01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:41.059 band called it's this one was not on your list. 01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:44.400 I don't think, well, no, it was night of the 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:49.000 vampire. Did you, do you remember if that was 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:55.139 on our list? Vampire. No, it was. There was something 01:02:55.139 --> 01:03:00.280 else. So there's this band called Night of the 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:06.420 Vampire. And I think they're from Texas. They 01:03:06.420 --> 01:03:08.559 don't sound like they're from Texas, but that's 01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:12.039 what it says on their band camp page. You may 01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:15.320 have to copy and paste this title into your notes. 01:03:15.780 --> 01:03:18.380 The album is called The Enchanting Winds of the 01:03:18.380 --> 01:03:23.320 Dreamweaving Masquerade. And we're not only getting 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:26.519 into a subgenre, it's more like a micro subgenre. 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:30.820 And you would like this one a lot, Victor, because 01:03:30.820 --> 01:03:35.699 this one is taking you back to the early to mid 01:03:35.699 --> 01:03:40.440 80s synth wave dark. It's mostly like dark wave. 01:03:40.820 --> 01:03:43.760 OK. And then they and then they add and layer 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:47.920 other sounds. You know, it's goth. It's post 01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:52.059 -punk. Um, it's got all of those, you know, dark 01:03:52.059 --> 01:03:55.840 descent wave foundations with other things added 01:03:55.840 --> 01:04:00.519 to it. And, um, you know, I'm, I'm, it probably 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.360 got into my list from the metal encyclopedia 01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:06.699 page because I will look for post black metal 01:04:06.699 --> 01:04:12.219 bands to listen to. And, um, this one has kind 01:04:12.219 --> 01:04:15.239 of a post black metal flavor to it in that the 01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:19.769 vocals are Much of the time, a black metal vocal. 01:04:20.630 --> 01:04:23.510 So he's kind of merging, you know, dark wave 01:04:23.510 --> 01:04:26.590 and some, you know, post -punk sounds and such 01:04:26.590 --> 01:04:31.230 with some black metal vocals. Although it's not 01:04:31.230 --> 01:04:33.710 so black metal that it would turn you off if 01:04:33.710 --> 01:04:36.650 you don't like that kind of thing. It's not like 01:04:36.650 --> 01:04:40.510 the witchy demon sounding. It's just kind of 01:04:40.510 --> 01:04:45.980 going in that black metal direction. And, of 01:04:45.980 --> 01:04:47.820 course, he's got the whole vampire thing going, 01:04:47.900 --> 01:04:50.539 too. On their band camp page, there was one guy 01:04:50.539 --> 01:04:53.639 that made this comment that I thought describes 01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:57.239 it perfectly. He says, you get synthwave, goth 01:04:57.239 --> 01:05:01.360 pop, post -punk, and 80s VHS -bound heavy metal 01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:04.460 all blackened with a strangely joyful approach 01:05:04.460 --> 01:05:06.960 to the darkness that they seek to explore. I 01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:08.940 like that because it points out the contrast 01:05:08.940 --> 01:05:12.219 between the themes of their music and the sounds. 01:05:12.559 --> 01:05:16.269 Right. So I meant for this to be my pick of the 01:05:16.269 --> 01:05:18.630 week for one of the weeks, and I totally left 01:05:18.630 --> 01:05:24.269 that out. Well, that's fine. I can still include 01:05:24.269 --> 01:05:26.409 that. That one came out at the beginning of the 01:05:26.409 --> 01:05:33.389 month, actually. Okay. But since I don't really 01:05:33.389 --> 01:05:35.269 have anything as a pick for the week on that 01:05:35.269 --> 01:05:37.349 last week, you could use that one if you don't 01:05:37.349 --> 01:05:40.630 mind. I can include more than one. That's fine. 01:05:40.849 --> 01:05:46.969 Okay, cool. Um, okay. So I listened to, I listened 01:05:46.969 --> 01:05:51.369 to the black Swan. I listened to, I thought the 01:05:51.369 --> 01:05:54.130 black Swan was okay. Where I liked the album 01:05:54.130 --> 01:05:58.690 the most is where they swerve from kind of the 01:05:58.690 --> 01:06:04.309 norm. Um, to me, I just felt like a lot of the 01:06:04.309 --> 01:06:08.889 album, like there's a lot of been here, done 01:06:08.889 --> 01:06:13.190 that, you know, where, where I want, Yeah, I 01:06:13.190 --> 01:06:17.530 get these players are going to do certain things 01:06:17.530 --> 01:06:20.929 that are close to where they hung their hats 01:06:20.929 --> 01:06:25.789 on previously. But I think that there's a point 01:06:25.789 --> 01:06:29.650 where some of the songs where they're just imitating 01:06:29.650 --> 01:06:33.030 themselves, where they're kind of cheap copies 01:06:33.030 --> 01:06:34.929 of like other things that they've done in the 01:06:34.929 --> 01:06:37.909 past, which is fine. I mean, and I get it because 01:06:37.909 --> 01:06:42.059 there's a big pocket of their audience. which 01:06:42.059 --> 01:06:46.519 is that there's nothing after 89 that's worth 01:06:46.519 --> 01:06:50.099 listening to. So this is kind of right up there 01:06:50.099 --> 01:06:54.119 alley. And, um, you know, that's just kind of 01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:56.320 my opinion. No disrespect, Jeremy. I know that 01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:59.960 you like it and that's, that's quite fine. I've, 01:06:59.960 --> 01:07:02.920 I have no problem with anyone disagreeing with 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:05.219 my opinion and liking things, even though I don't. 01:07:05.219 --> 01:07:10.820 So that's cool. Um, I do have to say, Wait, let 01:07:10.820 --> 01:07:17.219 me find what I'm looking for here. No, that's 01:07:17.219 --> 01:07:24.800 not the one. The new Rob Zombie, Great Satan, 01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:36.360 is boring and extremely bad. I've been a fan 01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:39.199 of Rob Zombies for the longest time. And it's 01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:42.579 funny because people have, as always, asked him 01:07:42.579 --> 01:07:45.639 if he's ever going to revisit White Zombie. And 01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:48.000 he said something to the effect of, no, I've 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:49.940 already done that. There's no need for me to 01:07:49.940 --> 01:07:54.920 go back. I've moved on. And so one of the appeal 01:07:54.920 --> 01:08:00.059 of mine to his music was having John 5 on his 01:08:00.059 --> 01:08:03.880 albums for a long time because John 5 was doing 01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:08.699 just. some outrageous shit on his guitar and 01:08:08.699 --> 01:08:12.119 working on some really unique melodies. And you're 01:08:12.119 --> 01:08:15.659 like, wow, this shouldn't work. But this damn 01:08:15.659 --> 01:08:20.039 song is now stuck in my head. I listened to this 01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:23.819 album. He's brought Riggs back. He's brought 01:08:23.819 --> 01:08:27.819 Belasco back. And I think he's still got Ginger 01:08:27.819 --> 01:08:33.319 Fisk on the drums. And there is zero originality 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:36.359 on this album. It just sounds like he's trying 01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:40.039 to regurgitate Hellbilly Deluxe. It feels to 01:08:40.039 --> 01:08:43.619 me like Riggs hasn't written a new riff since. 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:48.180 As much as I've given Rob Zombie a pass and talked 01:08:48.180 --> 01:08:52.600 up his albums in the past, this just ain't it, 01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:58.560 folks. If you want to cleanse your palate, listen 01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.289 to those first few Rob Zombie albums. those first 01:09:01.289 --> 01:09:06.109 few solo albums, listen to the last, to the last 01:09:06.109 --> 01:09:08.850 white zombie album, because this is him retreading 01:09:08.850 --> 01:09:13.310 those waters and not doing it very well at all. 01:09:13.430 --> 01:09:16.949 I mean, this stuff is just predictable and boring. 01:09:17.050 --> 01:09:20.130 It's like, okay, I've heard this riff. I've heard 01:09:20.130 --> 01:09:24.250 this melody. I've heard this chorus before. It's 01:09:24.250 --> 01:09:27.029 like, really? We've waited like five years for 01:09:27.029 --> 01:09:31.489 this. You know, it doesn't make a whole heck 01:09:31.489 --> 01:09:34.310 of a lot of sense. And it's funny because he's 01:09:34.310 --> 01:09:39.229 been out on tour playing one of, if not the first, 01:09:39.310 --> 01:09:44.350 the second solo album that he released. Because 01:09:44.350 --> 01:09:46.869 they're popular, but honestly, they're not that 01:09:46.869 --> 01:09:51.010 good. You know, he's got songs off of them that 01:09:51.010 --> 01:09:54.029 are really good, but the rest of the albums are 01:09:54.029 --> 01:10:01.539 just kind of boring for me. Yeah, when that one 01:10:01.539 --> 01:10:04.960 came up in my iTunes, I didn't last long with 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:08.659 that one. A couple of minutes and I was done. 01:10:09.060 --> 01:10:15.300 You guys get the CD or the vinyl? The 8 -track. 01:10:15.779 --> 01:10:22.149 I pre -ordered the 8 -track. Yeah, and it sucks 01:10:22.149 --> 01:10:24.750 because I've really wanted to like this. And 01:10:24.750 --> 01:10:27.289 it's funny because there's so much comparison 01:10:27.289 --> 01:10:30.750 between Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson because 01:10:30.750 --> 01:10:34.250 of the shock rock value. But I do think that 01:10:34.250 --> 01:10:38.090 Marilyn Manson has continuously put out good 01:10:38.090 --> 01:10:42.289 music over the years. He's almost become like 01:10:42.289 --> 01:10:47.649 a... like a David Bowie to an extent and I'm 01:10:47.649 --> 01:10:50.489 not saying he's like as big or talented or anything 01:10:50.489 --> 01:10:53.529 like that but in the sense that every album sounds 01:10:53.529 --> 01:10:56.770 different the singles that he releases sounds 01:10:56.770 --> 01:10:59.789 different he sometimes leans into the persona 01:10:59.789 --> 01:11:03.270 sometimes doesn't so he's doing a lot of different 01:11:03.270 --> 01:11:06.390 things that I think has kept his music entertaining 01:11:06.390 --> 01:11:12.550 and relevant to me this to me is like The Rob 01:11:12.550 --> 01:11:15.810 Zombie is like a band that got a hit single years 01:11:15.810 --> 01:11:21.949 ago, and they're trying to retread and redo and 01:11:21.949 --> 01:11:25.989 get back on radio. But to each their own. If 01:11:25.989 --> 01:11:29.229 it works, and he's still popular as hell. If 01:11:29.229 --> 01:11:35.550 it works for him, good on him. What else did 01:11:35.550 --> 01:11:38.850 I listen to? Yeah, I listened to the Philip Schaus. 01:11:39.550 --> 01:11:44.449 uh, side one EP. I interviewed Philip. Uh, this 01:11:44.449 --> 01:11:47.770 is a really cool album. It's, um, it's just four 01:11:47.770 --> 01:11:52.210 songs. It's an EP. It really shows how the stones 01:11:52.210 --> 01:11:56.350 and Beatles were a huge influence on him. Um, 01:11:56.689 --> 01:12:02.170 if you're into seventies rock, if you're into 01:12:02.170 --> 01:12:05.449 late sixties rock, this is an album you should 01:12:05.449 --> 01:12:11.670 check out. Um, It has those influences without 01:12:11.670 --> 01:12:15.789 ripping them off too much. You know, it's got 01:12:15.789 --> 01:12:18.750 the flavors there, but it's not where you say, 01:12:18.829 --> 01:12:21.109 oh yeah, that sounds like wild horses. Oh yeah. 01:12:21.149 --> 01:12:25.409 This sounds like, you know, whatever, like Blackbird 01:12:25.409 --> 01:12:30.369 or whatnot. It's there. It's upbeat music. And 01:12:30.369 --> 01:12:32.630 I think it works. I think it sounds really cool. 01:12:32.729 --> 01:12:34.310 I'm interested to see what he's going to do. 01:12:34.369 --> 01:12:38.439 He's out on tour in Scandinavia right now. And 01:12:38.439 --> 01:12:41.000 he's got some well -known musicians playing with 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:42.939 him that are supposedly going to work on new 01:12:42.939 --> 01:12:47.300 music with him. And that's exciting in and of 01:12:47.300 --> 01:12:50.159 itself. So I'm excited to see what he's going 01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:55.159 to do next. My pick of the week, though, is a 01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:58.720 Wilhelm scream with cheap heat. This is one of 01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:02.460 my favorite interviews that I've done ever in 01:13:02.460 --> 01:13:05.439 the 17 years that I've been podcasting. It was 01:13:05.439 --> 01:13:09.090 really a lot of fun. The album is a lot of fun 01:13:09.090 --> 01:13:12.229 as well. We've talked about this ad nauseum this 01:13:12.229 --> 01:13:15.829 year where the album is, I think, 32 minutes 01:13:15.829 --> 01:13:21.989 long. Before you realize it, if you've got the 01:13:21.989 --> 01:13:24.229 album on repeat or whatever, you're already listening 01:13:24.229 --> 01:13:27.989 to it a second, third, fourth time all the way 01:13:27.989 --> 01:13:31.649 through. Catchy choruses, really cool riffs. 01:13:31.810 --> 01:13:34.329 There are some things that border on metal. There 01:13:34.329 --> 01:13:36.479 are other things that are just straight up. punk 01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:42.039 rock on here. I really enjoy it. You know, when 01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:45.539 there's, when there's a good, when there's good 01:13:45.539 --> 01:13:49.100 punk rock to be heard, I'm, I'm always usually 01:13:49.100 --> 01:13:51.520 a fan of it. So that's, that's my pick of the 01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:55.420 week. I was, I was thrilled that even, you know, 01:13:55.420 --> 01:13:59.140 what originally got me to, to listen to them 01:13:59.140 --> 01:14:03.960 was the fact that the, the, the title of the 01:14:03.960 --> 01:14:06.640 album is a wrestling reference. And I was like, 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:10.039 wait a second. Are they wrestling fans or are 01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:11.899 they not? And when I started listening to the 01:14:11.899 --> 01:14:14.300 music, I was like, oh yeah, they are because 01:14:14.300 --> 01:14:16.279 of just some of the lyrical content. I mentioned 01:14:16.279 --> 01:14:19.840 that in the interview. But Really Good Guys is 01:14:19.840 --> 01:14:23.960 what I got from the interview and a fun album 01:14:23.960 --> 01:14:29.899 to listen to. So let's just recap the albums 01:14:29.899 --> 01:14:35.000 that we picked here. Um, for the week of February 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:39.600 6th, um, Ed actually picked two things here. 01:14:39.659 --> 01:14:43.699 He picked the silver sun pickups with, uh, tenterhooks. 01:14:44.319 --> 01:14:47.420 And, um, is that right? Or did I spell it wrong? 01:14:47.819 --> 01:14:52.260 That's right. No. Okay. Um, and then he also 01:14:52.260 --> 01:14:55.739 picked night of the vampire with the enchanting 01:14:55.739 --> 01:15:01.220 winds of the dream weaving masquerade. And then 01:15:01.220 --> 01:15:04.159 Jeremy and I both picked Midnight Blitz by Tail 01:15:04.159 --> 01:15:10.619 Gunner. For the week of February 13th, Ed picked 01:15:10.619 --> 01:15:15.340 Converge with Love Is Not Enough. And Jeremy 01:15:15.340 --> 01:15:19.060 went with Leatherhead Violent Horror Stories. 01:15:19.340 --> 01:15:25.899 And I went with Hoax and Death Knocks. For the 01:15:25.899 --> 01:15:32.029 week of February 20th, Ed pointed out the self 01:15:32.029 --> 01:15:37.970 -titled album by Zepter. And Jeremy went with 01:15:37.970 --> 01:15:43.470 Serpent Gates and the Veil of Darkness. And I 01:15:43.470 --> 01:15:45.810 went with Deeper Graves, Pull Me Towards the 01:15:45.810 --> 01:15:52.350 Dark. And for the final week in February, Ed 01:15:52.350 --> 01:15:57.689 went with, he pointed out the Sheepdogs with 01:15:57.689 --> 01:16:02.640 Keep Out. of the storm. Jeremy went with nerve 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:06.600 star and white hot. And I went with a Wilhelm 01:16:06.600 --> 01:16:12.500 scream and cheap heat. So, um, there's plenty 01:16:12.500 --> 01:16:15.840 of stuff for you guys to listen to for those 01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:20.460 that are watching, um, this episode or listening 01:16:20.460 --> 01:16:27.890 to it. Um, we will be putting out a, uh playlist 01:16:27.890 --> 01:16:32.050 shortly where we um where we're going to feature 01:16:32.050 --> 01:16:35.729 tracks by bands that we're talking about to kind 01:16:35.729 --> 01:16:40.569 of keep the conversation going and um for those 01:16:40.569 --> 01:16:44.149 that uh listen to this show but don't have the 01:16:44.149 --> 01:16:46.250 time maybe to search some of these albums out 01:16:46.250 --> 01:16:48.449 hopefully if they listen to some of the tracks 01:16:48.449 --> 01:16:52.010 off of it it will kind of ignite that spark for 01:16:52.010 --> 01:16:57.340 them to check the album out um as well Edgar 01:16:57.340 --> 01:17:02.819 posted here. And I believe this is from the Night 01:17:02.819 --> 01:17:06.460 of Vampire comment. That was the comment that 01:17:06.460 --> 01:17:12.140 I was reading to you all earlier. Gotcha. Gotcha. 01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:19.760 He's fast. He's very fast. And we have FireDog99 01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:26.000 saying hello. Well, hello there, FireDog99. Love 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:35.960 dogs around. Yeah. So, yeah, so it was a fruitful 01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:39.840 month. March is shaping up to be a good month 01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:41.899 as well. I've already started listening to some 01:17:41.899 --> 01:17:48.800 of the things that have come out. And Edgar's 01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:51.140 asking you, Ed, what's your favorite Kiss album? 01:17:58.919 --> 01:18:03.020 Usually it's the first one. Usually it's the 01:18:03.020 --> 01:18:06.460 first one, but there's so many to love there. 01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:12.199 You know, Creatures and Destroyer. It's hard 01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:15.079 to pick. A lot of times with Kiss, they can depend 01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:17.279 on what mood I'm in, though, because they have 01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:20.500 different sounds. If I'm on a Saturday morning, 01:18:20.659 --> 01:18:25.399 I'm usually in the 80s mood. Play Lick It Up 01:18:25.399 --> 01:18:30.340 and Animal Eyes and Asylum. Oh, wow. I didn't 01:18:30.340 --> 01:18:34.180 realize that you like those albums. I like them 01:18:34.180 --> 01:18:38.260 up to Asylum. Okay. That's how far I hung with 01:18:38.260 --> 01:18:40.760 them as a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. After that, 01:18:40.859 --> 01:18:48.220 it was Slayer all the way. Yeah, I couldn't get 01:18:48.220 --> 01:18:53.779 on board of Crazy Nights myself. So I hear you. 01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:56.140 I'd like to hear what I thought about the Testament 01:18:56.140 --> 01:19:00.079 remaster. Yeah. Yeah. Let's let's give that a 01:19:00.079 --> 01:19:06.720 quick shout out. So I went to the store. You 01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:11.680 can see there's nothing different. So it was 01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:13.960 hard to tell because it doesn't say remastered. 01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:17.319 OK, I had to look up the code and go to the. 01:19:19.060 --> 01:19:21.399 Front and have the guy front, you know, look 01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:24.890 it up and make sure. But the one that I got here, 01:19:25.029 --> 01:19:29.289 it's kind of got a. Yeah, I don't know how well 01:19:29.289 --> 01:19:31.529 you can see the colors, but yeah, it's cool. 01:19:31.989 --> 01:19:36.869 I like it. It's it's purple and blue and red 01:19:36.869 --> 01:19:40.590 with a little bit of white in there. But I didn't 01:19:40.590 --> 01:19:44.689 get the I have the original original copy and 01:19:44.689 --> 01:19:47.010 I didn't get that out and listen to it side by 01:19:47.010 --> 01:19:50.149 side yet. But I can't really tell a big difference. 01:19:51.359 --> 01:19:53.979 I'm sure there will probably be some more volume 01:19:53.979 --> 01:19:57.819 and clarity to some of this, but unlike a lot 01:19:57.819 --> 01:20:01.659 of remasters where they might crank up the vocals 01:20:01.659 --> 01:20:04.579 some more or the bass too much, they didn't do 01:20:04.579 --> 01:20:07.819 any of that stuff. So you can't tell anything 01:20:07.819 --> 01:20:14.500 too apparently different. I spent $30 on this, 01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:22.100 so that wasn't too bad. You know, it's not so 01:20:22.100 --> 01:20:24.600 different in sound that that's the reason to 01:20:24.600 --> 01:20:27.939 run out and buy it. It might be something to 01:20:27.939 --> 01:20:30.720 buy if you just need a new copy now. Because 01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:32.520 I'm pretty sure anything they put out from this 01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:35.020 point on is going to be that remastered sound. 01:20:36.100 --> 01:20:38.260 And I think I'm probably going to go buy the 01:20:38.260 --> 01:20:42.119 new order one, too, when I see it. Because I've 01:20:42.119 --> 01:20:44.939 got to have both. And then I also saw today they 01:20:44.939 --> 01:20:46.340 announced they're going to do practice what you 01:20:46.340 --> 01:20:49.789 preach pretty soon. Yeah. And Souls of Black 01:20:49.789 --> 01:20:56.270 as well. Yeah. So, yeah, it's one day I'll do 01:20:56.270 --> 01:20:58.310 a side by side just to see what the difference 01:20:58.310 --> 01:21:00.869 is. But and also when I've read other people 01:21:00.869 --> 01:21:03.369 talking about it, I don't think anybody really 01:21:03.369 --> 01:21:07.750 sees a huge difference. But man, this happens 01:21:07.750 --> 01:21:12.729 so good. And the songs are so excellent. That 01:21:12.729 --> 01:21:17.010 to me is surprising. I mean, I get it. For the 01:21:17.010 --> 01:21:21.569 reasons that you mentioned, if people have worn 01:21:21.569 --> 01:21:25.630 out copies of the album, also Brian Slagle on 01:21:25.630 --> 01:21:30.750 his podcast on 100 Songs That Define Heavy Metal, 01:21:30.810 --> 01:21:33.569 he talks about the fact that with Metal Blade, 01:21:33.750 --> 01:21:37.689 they've released a bunch of remixes and remasters. 01:21:37.949 --> 01:21:41.210 And what gets streamed the most and still bought 01:21:41.210 --> 01:21:43.810 the most are the original mixes because that's 01:21:43.810 --> 01:21:48.340 what people are... most used to. Now, the reason 01:21:48.340 --> 01:21:51.539 that I bring this up is because when I interviewed 01:21:51.539 --> 01:21:54.979 Chuck Billy years ago, he said that they hate 01:21:54.979 --> 01:21:59.180 the sound of their first few albums because he 01:21:59.180 --> 01:22:04.220 feels that, you know, they had, I think, Alex 01:22:04.220 --> 01:22:07.380 Perialis did the first few albums. Is that who 01:22:07.380 --> 01:22:13.430 produced that? The Legacy? I would look. It's 01:22:13.430 --> 01:22:22.630 either Alex Perialis, Max Norman. Let's see. 01:22:27.270 --> 01:22:31.909 Alex. Alex Perialis. Okay. Perialis, yeah. And 01:22:31.909 --> 01:22:36.930 executive producers, the Zuzulas. Okay. So during 01:22:36.930 --> 01:22:40.149 that interview, he mentioned the fact that they 01:22:40.149 --> 01:22:44.130 had him foisted on them. that they didn't want 01:22:44.130 --> 01:22:50.189 him as a producer. And they've always felt that 01:22:50.189 --> 01:22:54.630 albums from Metallica and Megadeth and Slayer 01:22:54.630 --> 01:23:00.750 and other thrash bands have aged a lot better 01:23:00.750 --> 01:23:04.310 than the Testament albums because they feel that 01:23:04.310 --> 01:23:07.250 it isn't representative of what the band sounded 01:23:07.250 --> 01:23:11.989 like live. Right. And when they did the First 01:23:11.989 --> 01:23:19.090 Strike Still Deadly, they felt that that's the 01:23:19.090 --> 01:23:22.930 sound that the band has always had. And that's 01:23:22.930 --> 01:23:24.930 the sound that they wanted on those first few 01:23:24.930 --> 01:23:32.409 albums. So it's interesting that they're re -releasing 01:23:32.409 --> 01:23:35.050 them, but I get it. The label is going to do 01:23:35.050 --> 01:23:37.289 that regardless whether the band wants to or 01:23:37.289 --> 01:23:45.210 not. For anyone that's bitched about Kiss or 01:23:45.210 --> 01:23:51.449 Judas Priest or Ozzy or Maiden or Motley Crue 01:23:51.449 --> 01:23:55.430 for re -releasing things or for putting out Crazy 01:23:55.430 --> 01:23:58.689 Tits albums or live albums, a lot of times it's 01:23:58.689 --> 01:24:01.630 not the band. It's the label wanting to make 01:24:01.630 --> 01:24:05.180 more money off of the band. The band, for the 01:24:05.180 --> 01:24:08.659 most part, says more money for us as well. OK, 01:24:09.640 --> 01:24:12.039 you know, they go along with it. So I'm not saying 01:24:12.039 --> 01:24:15.720 that's the case with the Testament, but I'm guessing 01:24:15.720 --> 01:24:19.060 that the label probably has a bigger to do with 01:24:19.060 --> 01:24:21.659 them releasing that than the band actually actively 01:24:21.659 --> 01:24:25.840 looking to have that released. And that's a really 01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:30.380 touchy thing is most remasters. I don't. Or when 01:24:30.380 --> 01:24:32.539 they do remasters where they do, like I said 01:24:32.539 --> 01:24:35.000 earlier, if they make the vocals louder than 01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:41.020 you remember them, that annoys me. Or like Dave 01:24:41.020 --> 01:24:44.520 Mustaine did with the bass on some of those remixes. 01:24:44.539 --> 01:24:48.640 I thought that was just overboard. So I like 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:51.520 it if you can add some more volume, but still 01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:53.840 keep everything at those volumes that are in 01:24:53.840 --> 01:24:57.920 your memory. Or, and here's a great example. 01:24:58.729 --> 01:25:01.810 A band that I used to listen to called The Crucified. 01:25:01.989 --> 01:25:08.390 Okay. They have an album they released in 91. 01:25:09.170 --> 01:25:14.869 And around 2008 or so, they got the tapes and 01:25:14.869 --> 01:25:18.829 they baked them and saved the music and remastered 01:25:18.829 --> 01:25:23.670 them. Okay. And it's amazing how much more clear 01:25:23.670 --> 01:25:27.189 they made every single instrument. And I was 01:25:27.189 --> 01:25:29.470 able to hear the guitar riffs in a way that I 01:25:29.470 --> 01:25:33.529 never could on that first mix. But they still 01:25:33.529 --> 01:25:36.909 kept the volume levels as far as the relationship 01:25:36.909 --> 01:25:43.989 to each instrument was intact. So I like a remaster 01:25:43.989 --> 01:25:47.869 that way. But yeah, most of the time, I want 01:25:47.869 --> 01:25:51.510 just what I remember growing up on. I don't want 01:25:51.510 --> 01:25:53.789 them to change it. I have all these KISS and 01:25:53.789 --> 01:25:57.680 ACDC remasters. But they didn't change any volumes 01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:01.539 on things or make it sound different in that 01:26:01.539 --> 01:26:05.659 way. Well, with the Kiss they did, I wouldn't 01:26:05.659 --> 01:26:08.359 like it at all. Yeah, with the Kiss, for example, 01:26:08.500 --> 01:26:13.960 with Creatures, they kind of went back to the 01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:16.239 original sound because they did release another 01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:20.220 version of Creatures where they toned all the 01:26:20.220 --> 01:26:24.010 drums down and like... kind of tried to mix it 01:26:24.010 --> 01:26:27.789 more like a mid eighties album and it kind of 01:26:27.789 --> 01:26:29.909 killed that whole sound. I used to have that 01:26:29.909 --> 01:26:34.989 on CD and I got rid of it. Um, now I wish I still 01:26:34.989 --> 01:26:37.989 had it. Yeah. It's probably worth $500 now. Yeah. 01:26:38.069 --> 01:26:41.770 Who knows? But, um, and then it's funny because 01:26:41.770 --> 01:26:44.829 that cover has Bruce Kulik on and people will 01:26:44.829 --> 01:26:49.229 say both albums of creatures, the both covers, 01:26:49.329 --> 01:26:53.970 neither one has, uh, the actual band that plays 01:26:53.970 --> 01:26:59.569 on it on the cover. But, um, uh, the, the one 01:26:59.569 --> 01:27:01.989 that's kind of a sticking point for a lot of 01:27:01.989 --> 01:27:06.970 kiss fans is, uh, Bob Ezrin going back and remastering 01:27:06.970 --> 01:27:10.770 destroyer and doing destroyer resurrected. And 01:27:10.770 --> 01:27:13.569 not listen to that one. Yeah. Okay. I actually 01:27:13.569 --> 01:27:19.149 really liked that variation of the album. Because 01:27:19.149 --> 01:27:21.970 there are certain things that are there in the 01:27:21.970 --> 01:27:26.310 music that are hard to decipher with the original 01:27:26.310 --> 01:27:28.949 mix, like some of the layerings that were done 01:27:28.949 --> 01:27:32.550 with the instruments. So I think that's cool. 01:27:32.630 --> 01:27:35.710 I think that he made the album louder and made 01:27:35.710 --> 01:27:41.369 it clearer at the same time. Where I think the 01:27:41.369 --> 01:27:46.170 vocals are in the same spot. raise the volume 01:27:46.170 --> 01:27:49.350 on everything. So everything is in the same place, 01:27:49.350 --> 01:27:54.029 but at the same time, he's separated a lot of 01:27:54.029 --> 01:27:56.210 the instrumentation where the guitars, where 01:27:56.210 --> 01:27:59.869 you can hear all the various guitar parts, you 01:27:59.869 --> 01:28:03.130 know, I think that sounds cool. And to your point 01:28:03.130 --> 01:28:05.430 with the Megadeth, the Megadeth is just overkill 01:28:05.430 --> 01:28:10.069 because I mean, if, if you listen to, for example, 01:28:10.069 --> 01:28:14.409 a Holy Wars on something that, has, you know, 01:28:14.409 --> 01:28:19.029 a good low end on it. The sub will turn all that 01:28:19.029 --> 01:28:24.609 down going crazy because of all of the, um, the 01:28:24.609 --> 01:28:27.670 base and the, uh, and the double bass that Nick 01:28:27.670 --> 01:28:31.130 Menza is playing. Yeah. And that's without even 01:28:31.130 --> 01:28:33.550 touching upon all the stuff that he re -recorded 01:28:33.550 --> 01:28:37.390 on there, you know? So you remember that band, 01:28:37.430 --> 01:28:40.170 uh, POD payable on death. Yeah. Yeah. Uh -huh. 01:28:40.479 --> 01:28:43.500 I like their first couple of records and they 01:28:43.500 --> 01:28:47.899 remastered South Town or something like that. 01:28:48.020 --> 01:28:51.359 And yeah, they ruined it for me by making the 01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:55.119 vocals too loud. And I've, you know, seen that 01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:58.819 happen more than once. And yeah, just it's annoying 01:28:58.819 --> 01:29:03.060 that that album. See, that would ruin it because 01:29:03.060 --> 01:29:08.810 that album is very. like satellite which is the 01:29:08.810 --> 01:29:12.770 next album is very clean very polished very loud 01:29:12.770 --> 01:29:17.729 whereas that album is hails from the from the 01:29:17.729 --> 01:29:19.609 south town or something like that i think is 01:29:19.609 --> 01:29:21.989 the title remember actually the one that i'm 01:29:21.989 --> 01:29:24.310 thinking of is probably the one their first debut 01:29:24.310 --> 01:29:27.930 album which was had probably some of my favorite 01:29:27.930 --> 01:29:33.550 my favorite style of pod and um I listened to 01:29:33.550 --> 01:29:35.890 that record a lot about the remaster. The vocals 01:29:35.890 --> 01:29:37.729 were so high that it just kind of ruined the 01:29:37.729 --> 01:29:41.050 music behind it. They may have done the same 01:29:41.050 --> 01:29:45.489 with the next one, Southtown. Yeah, the album 01:29:45.489 --> 01:29:48.750 with Southtown is where I kind of jumped on with 01:29:48.750 --> 01:29:53.689 them. And it's got a certain feel to that album 01:29:53.689 --> 01:29:56.369 where I get it. If they've altered the sound 01:29:56.369 --> 01:29:59.750 too much, it kind of loses kind of the essence 01:29:59.750 --> 01:30:02.859 because they were a hungry. poor band at the 01:30:02.859 --> 01:30:06.960 time that was trying to make it. And, and that 01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:11.739 song South town and, um, and their cover of U2's 01:30:11.739 --> 01:30:15.079 bullet, the blue sky really kind of broke them 01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:18.399 out at that time. Yeah. That was a good, yeah. 01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:23.739 If you're a POD fan, what my favorite, I think 01:30:23.739 --> 01:30:29.859 is an EP, the warriors EP. Okay. 98. Yeah. Yeah. 01:30:29.880 --> 01:30:33.619 It's the debut. The Fundamental Elements of Southtown. 01:30:34.300 --> 01:30:37.079 That's the album. Yeah, that's their second full 01:30:37.079 --> 01:30:42.380 length, and that came out after the EP. Yeah, 01:30:42.380 --> 01:30:44.359 I don't know if they remastered that one yet 01:30:44.359 --> 01:30:47.699 or not. They probably have by now. Could be. 01:30:49.279 --> 01:30:51.340 Jeremy, anything you want to add to the whole 01:30:51.340 --> 01:30:56.220 remix -remaster conversation here? Well, I actually 01:30:56.220 --> 01:30:59.890 do get... the remastering and i do get a few 01:30:59.890 --> 01:31:01.949 of the albums that have been remastered and i 01:31:01.949 --> 01:31:04.109 think that you know that the sound quality can 01:31:04.109 --> 01:31:07.810 be overall better but i get what you know ed's 01:31:07.810 --> 01:31:09.789 saying you know some you've got to compare the 01:31:09.789 --> 01:31:14.050 two which i don't always do um but yeah i've 01:31:14.050 --> 01:31:16.550 bought a few remastered copies i was just looking 01:31:16.550 --> 01:31:19.189 at the testament stuff now while you you guys 01:31:19.189 --> 01:31:22.229 were talking and thinking I'd like to get one 01:31:22.229 --> 01:31:24.229 or two of those, but sometimes you just wonder 01:31:24.229 --> 01:31:26.229 whether you kind of get it because the vinyl 01:31:26.229 --> 01:31:29.590 looks amazing and you kind of just want to get 01:31:29.590 --> 01:31:32.390 an upgraded copy, but you're not sure whether 01:31:32.390 --> 01:31:36.069 the sound is that amazing. Sometimes the original 01:31:36.069 --> 01:31:38.850 versions of albums just sound great, don't they? 01:31:39.050 --> 01:31:43.529 Yeah. That's how they should sound. Yeah. There's 01:31:43.529 --> 01:31:47.229 also the whole factor of, especially the albums 01:31:47.229 --> 01:31:50.130 that came out in the 90s where vinyl wasn't coming 01:31:50.130 --> 01:31:53.789 out. for some of those albums where now they're 01:31:53.789 --> 01:31:58.569 repressing them on vinyl and you're wanting to 01:31:58.569 --> 01:32:01.470 get a copy of that on vinyl because it was an 01:32:01.470 --> 01:32:03.350 album that you listened to quite a bit at the 01:32:03.350 --> 01:32:05.810 time. You know, we're talking about Testament. 01:32:05.909 --> 01:32:09.550 I'd really love to get the low album on vinyl, 01:32:09.670 --> 01:32:12.770 which I think is a really good album. And I don't 01:32:12.770 --> 01:32:16.109 think that was ever released on vinyl. So it'll 01:32:16.109 --> 01:32:23.489 be interesting. As the band moves forward with 01:32:23.489 --> 01:32:27.750 releasing the remasters and reissues of these 01:32:27.750 --> 01:32:31.409 albums to see how far they go. Because also for 01:32:31.409 --> 01:32:35.510 a lot of bands, the 90s was a low point and maybe 01:32:35.510 --> 01:32:39.430 some of the albums didn't do as well as they 01:32:39.430 --> 01:32:42.090 wanted. I was surprised when The Cult released 01:32:42.090 --> 01:32:44.350 Beyond Good and Evil last year because for the 01:32:44.350 --> 01:32:48.289 longest time they had no... um, ability to get 01:32:48.289 --> 01:32:50.729 their hands on that. And once I knew that was 01:32:50.729 --> 01:32:54.529 coming out, I knew I had to get, um, cause again, 01:32:54.630 --> 01:32:57.829 the band's sign, whatever deals at the time, 01:32:57.850 --> 01:33:00.630 and maybe they aren't able to hold onto their 01:33:00.630 --> 01:33:03.550 music because of that. You know, they're just 01:33:03.550 --> 01:33:06.069 trying to put that album out at that time and 01:33:06.069 --> 01:33:09.569 sign some crappy deal and it just doesn't work. 01:33:10.189 --> 01:33:16.699 But, um, regardless. We're hoping that you guys 01:33:16.699 --> 01:33:20.119 have enjoyed this episode. We hope that some 01:33:20.119 --> 01:33:23.840 of the albums that we talked about will, will 01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:26.779 turn you on to some new bands. We'll make you 01:33:26.779 --> 01:33:29.640 think about some of these bands and maybe some 01:33:29.640 --> 01:33:33.060 that we didn't speak as highly of speaking of 01:33:33.060 --> 01:33:36.199 myself. Maybe even you listen to some of those 01:33:36.199 --> 01:33:38.300 and think, what the hell is he talking about? 01:33:38.380 --> 01:33:42.300 I love this album. So the whole idea here is 01:33:42.300 --> 01:33:46.850 to, get the discussion going, get you to check 01:33:46.850 --> 01:33:50.069 out new music, keep the ball going, you know, 01:33:50.069 --> 01:33:53.130 keep the ball rolling and keep interest in this 01:33:53.130 --> 01:33:59.210 music that we all love. So on that note, I do 01:33:59.210 --> 01:34:03.069 want to thank both Jeremy and Ed. I want to thank 01:34:03.069 --> 01:34:08.689 Edgar. I should say Edgar Winterson, who's in 01:34:08.689 --> 01:34:12.619 the chat for the most part of the episode. And 01:34:12.619 --> 01:34:14.500 anyone else that's here that didn't pronounce 01:34:14.500 --> 01:34:18.399 themselves. And that is pretty much it, folks. 01:34:18.520 --> 01:34:21.060 Thank you so much for joining us tonight. And 01:34:21.060 --> 01:34:25.479 we will see you next time right here on Signals 01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:38.119 from Mars. See you, folks. 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