Hyperblasts: Quizzing with Megadave

We're drowning in news with Oathbreaker and Rush both coming back, Alex Bent stepping out of Trivium, Bleeding Through & Darkest Hour hitting the UK, and a slew of new metal songs from Lamb of God, Ice Nine Kills, and Megadeth revealing their favourite game show.

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Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
50 Lions - New Reality
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
Today is the Day - Never Give In
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Wode - Uncrossing the Keys
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
Impure - The Devil Sees My Dreams
Ephemeral - Envisaged Human Collapse
Cathedral - Society’s Pact With Satan
Suffering Hour - Impelling Rebirth
Corpse Pile - In the Beginning…
Yellowcard - Better Days
Perturbator - Age of Aquarius
Testament - Para Bellum
Dead Heat - Process of Elimination
Greyhaven - Keep It Quiet
Soul Blind - Red Sky Mourning
God Alone - The Beep Test
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies
Terjiz de Horde - Our Breath is Not Ours Alone

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Hello everybody, and welcome to That's Not Metal. We are
your weekly rock and heavy metal podcast, and we are
here with an addition of Hyperblast, which is our weekly
news show where we let you know everything that's going on.
We've got a whole bunch of releases at the end
of the day show to talk about as well. My
name is Parnhish. Across from me is Sam Dignon. Hello Sam,
how you doing? Hello?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Films like it's been like high bloss two weeks in
it felms like in that two weeks, a load of stuff,
live gigs we've been at. The news has been mental
with reunions and show announcements and the like.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
So yeah, I think we've got a lot to go of,
like get up to speed on.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah. So last week's show over on the weekly feed
if you've been with us every week, was our kind
of Damnation album club preview with the Damnation sort of
crossovers we do throw out on the main feed for everyone.
So it's you know, time time relevance. So we didn't
do a Hyperblast last week, And as you say, that
doesn't mean we've got two week's worth of releases to
go through, but also it's mainly been this week that's

(01:23):
been mad news wise, but adding the last few things
from last week as well do turn this into a
hell of a gauntlet of announcements and stuff we've got
to go through. And as you say, we've also been
busy ourselves as well. I've had a jam packed few
days of seeing the Park We Drive tour that came through,
the Blood and Candidation tour that came through. What I'm

(01:45):
going to do is next week I'm going to have
Mark on the show, who was with me at both
those shows, and we'll talk about those there. What I
want to do now, Sam, is I want you to
make me jealous by talking about something that happened just
before last week's show, which was you going to see
the Arcist Hour and Bleeding Through tour through the UK,
which I was not able to go through to this

(02:06):
time because it did not come precisely to to my area,
which means I have unfortunately broken my streak of seeing
Bleeding Through every time they've been in the UK since
their reunion. But you've maintained that how the fuck was it?
It looked done real?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
What it was such a good night. It was one
of those shows. It's like, you know, packed her underworld
dark stabbling through this swimming but as well for me,
Shi Hallud were a massive drawer on this one as well,
and kind of rounding out this kind of like early
Naughty like Late Night is early naughties metallic hardcore like yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
But in that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It was kind of like shi Halud bleeding through Ducks.
All bands who are kind of like of that era
but doing different things. Shihlud are one of the bands
from that era who first albums are like properly cult
beloved awns by like the sort of proper metalcore crew.
They're a band who are hilarious if you again you
look at their lineup, had like the amount of members
who have come and gone through that band. Chad Gilbert
was in them at one point, Like they're one of

(03:02):
those but I've never seen them before that they're.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
They're quite a rare appearance.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
They're they're you know, they're quite a sort of part
time band, but on the kind of slightly more melodic
hardcore leaning end of like metal corps.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I think Shihood are great. I love those first two albums.
Is that real?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
All kind of like fist in the air, kind of
like motivational hardcore, but from a sort of metalcore lens.
They were really cool, really sort of fun opening, and
again a smaller portion of.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
The audience, but definitely a hanful of people there.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
They were the big draw just because of how rare
an appearance they are, and you could you could really
see a bunch of people who were clearly cherishing their
chance to see Shyhood, likely for the first time myself included.
Was a good way to sort of set the mood.
But and I felt bad for Darkest Hour because Dark
Sound were great. They were fucking brilliant, Like I said that,
like I would say nothing away from Darkstour in the show,

(03:50):
they were really good. But my fucking god, Bleeding Through
were unbelievable. Might be the best I've ever seen them.
They were to hear ferocious, like they come on and
as you're coming here.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
This was the fucking bomb.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah that, And I was obviously we've seen them open
with that before at when they when we were you know,
they were doing the this is Love kind of like
not in full set but celebration set.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
But yeah, so we knew that would happened then.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
But I wasn't necessarily expecting it here at the Underworld
when it was like by the time Bleeding Through on
it was rammed and the place went fucking unglued for
them opening with Love Lost in the Hair of Gunfire,
Brendan he's come on like face painted up with like
the war paint sort of stuff. He's done by then
that song it's gone already because he has just been

(04:38):
going absolutely ape.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Shit on stage. Like they sounded huge in the Underworld.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
It was like it was one of those moments of like,
this shouldn't be co headlining at the Underworld.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
This like in an ideal in like an ideal universe.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
This is in somewhere much bigger, like but at the
same time, I'm almost like, you know what, fuck Newt care?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Because I could sit in this.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Packed out, batshit tiny shows and if them opening with
Love Lost in the Head of Gunfire wasn't crazy enough,
They're rip into Orange County, blonde and blue, and I
was gonna like Jesus Christ, lads.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like this Bleeding Through set list, I've got it up
is fucking insane. Like if you want, I don't know
how long this equate s fifty minutes, if you want
any metal band like that to pack a fifteen minute
set with as much gold. And that's you know, older
material and new material, because there's a couple of songs

(05:35):
from their great new album that's on there as well.
But fucking that opening pair that you said, We've got Revenge,
I Seek still in the first like few songs for
love and Failing Rise, Sister Charlotte, and Kill to Believe
on Wings of Lead, Like that is the definition of
all killer no feller.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Honestly that not every metical band has, you know, jam.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Packed not a moment of dead air like Dead with
soul Ife third, which is maybe my like joint favorite
song off the new album. That chorus is still what
I was like fully belting that out, and that was
when we could really hear like Martyr start to like
really command on some of the vocal stuff, and then
brendand Lexbie is like that song means a lot to
us for people who've like stuck with our band, you know,
we've been kind of like we made our comeback and

(06:18):
then had to kind of hit the brakes on it
because of the world shitting down, and but this one
was kind of like birth from that Rise was one
of those moments I was like, ah, man, I just
want to like two foot someone right now, and that
time to rise bit Iron Resistance, Martin did the whole
Andrew newfelt bit on that, which is really cool.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
And then like Iron Resistance into Sister Charlatan, which I
shouldn't be getting goosebumps at the Underworld and but Sister
Sarlson has that grandeur when it really sweeps into that
like closing passage and it sounds unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I was like, this is so fucking good.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
And then you know, just wrapping up on on wings
of Lead, I hope this is kind of started blooing
through starting to be a little bit more active over
here again, because again Devian's been a little.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Stop start because of the world and all that. But
now they've got an Aurmount.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I would like to see a proper headline tour just
them on this album rather than sort of the co
headline with Darkstour.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
But it was for fifty minutes just unbeatable, and I.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Was kind of like, man, Darkstour a hiding and you
know what, Darkstou were fucking brilliant, Like they came out
and they it was a different vibe, but because they
they're quite a different banding th there again they're from
the same scene, you know, Darkstouurs a lot more kind
of like showy and flashy with the guitar melodies and
solo ing, and then that's what they kind of played
up to isind of like we're gonn to have this

(07:30):
on virtual so shreading with solo bits. But again, they
just sort of picked enough songs off the new album
and enough of the sort of classics. They did some
like melodies of like real early deep cuts, which is cool,
and they just seem to be like really having a
great time on stage, and I think that was like
one of the things. All the bad thing was like, oh,
this is kind of like our midlife crisis tour of

(07:50):
like we're all kind of like bands from like popular
over twenty years ago, and now we'll just kind of
coming together to just like pack up these small venues
and go mental blue through mads some of the jokes
and they just did like it's just great to be
on to your mates, and that was just the vibe.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'm in Darkstour at their best. I fucking amazing. They've
been maybe a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Patchy than Blue from their output, but their best albums
like are fucking brilliant, and it was like live they
always just fucking bring it by just sounding ferocious, sounding
rabbin and just having good vibes, and it was kind
of just like, ah, man, come on, metical bands, step up.
These are bands from twenty years are schooling you in
the live environment right now, just in terms of hunger

(08:28):
and energy, and I almost feel like it shouldn't be
that way. But it was just cool to see Darkstoule
blaieing the finished I heard show up and be like,
this is how it's done, and I just had the
best night watching it.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, sounds sick. Onto the news, which as said, We've
got a bunch of happens this week, a little bit
that happened last week, and that comm ofation of things
I didn't even know, like which story do we begin
with here? There's so much. I'm gonna put this one
first because it happened first, and also the rest of
the world is talking about this other one. This is
one we can talk about and it does fallow up

(09:00):
on general you know TNM interest. Roadburn at the end
of last week announced their twenty twenty six lineup, and
it's a very Roadburn lineup right Like, it's full of
the kind of very you know, sort of left field
experimental heavy bands. Roadburn over the years has gotten much

(09:20):
much less sort of the stoner and the doom and
the kind of stuff it used to be, and it
is now very like esoteric. Yeah, you know, is very
chin striking now. But it's a lineup like that you
would expect. Krallis are the artist in residence, which is cool.
They don't come around to the European continent very often.
Agriculture are there playing their new album Crippling Alcoholism. Coalesce

(09:41):
actually make it to Europe for that Heaven in Her Arms.
They're very good Japanese sort of post plot metal band
doing a couple of different sets. A band called Kiss
the Amous of a Black Cat, which was the thing
I saw highlighted the second most amount of times on
this poster after the story we're going to talk about.
But it also features oath Breaker performing Rayer for the

(10:01):
album's tenth anniversary. Soak that in everyone but oath Breaker
returning to play a show. Whether it is more than
that is up for debate. We would discuss that in
just a moment. But this really took me off guard
because it's twenty twenty three. I think it was like

(10:22):
January twenty three that we did our oath Breaker but
like fully comprehensive band special on the TNM Patreon, And
when we did that, we were three years I guess
passed oath Breaker's reunion announcement, which was at arch tangent
here in the UK falling through because of COVID and
a few years past, and this sort of promise of

(10:44):
an oath Breaker revival seemed to die away again and
I for the past few years have thought that was it.
I like did not I genuly didn't believe this was happening.
I don't want to be I don't want to be
sort of parasocial or anything, but like when if you're
following certain band member on social media or whatever, I
get the impression that the band thing you know of

(11:06):
some members are in other bands much more sort of
more of the time now, like you Woildiet Dudes, etc.
Other members like Carrow seemed to have kind of retreated
from the music seem a lot. The only notable thing
that she's done in the last few years was that
brief little collaboration with Armen Rah that she did, and
for those reasons, I thought this was just done. And

(11:32):
we're talking a second about how done it may or
may not be, but it was an announcement that did
kind of bowl me over a little bit.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I always will need to hold out hope that
might be more. But I thought it felt almost like, well,
because of the last re unions kind of fell through
that almost a lot. I was like, are they going
to take that as the universe telling them.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
To leave it be?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And because of how intensive being and performing an Oathbreaker
would have been, members and how you say carry did
kind of largely retreat from the scene.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It felt like it had been.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
So silent on like an actual oath Breaker front, the
oth break of account kind of only popping up to
kind of highlight what would you do?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Or other projects that the bands whatever promoted.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, like Fromong the other bands as kind of that
just feels like that's what the Oathbreaker project is now.
I was just kind of like, oh fuck, because this
is a tenth anniversary of Rayer, like a monumental kind
of like genuine modern classic album by every sense, Like

(12:36):
I don't want to start looking beyond that yet, but
I'm still just kind of like, I mean, yeah, of
course this.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Album should be given the celebration treatment.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, I mean. I have said on several occasions that
Rayer is, in my opinion, the best album of the
TNM eras the era that TNM has been a functional podcast,
which obviously, with just passed the ten year anniversary to
the present day, I have said that Rayer is the
best album, and obviously the more years you add on
to that, the more impressive a stat that is. And

(13:08):
here we are right now to approaching the end of
twent twenty five. I still think that is the case.
So yeah, wow, you should do it. Is this more
than just this? I don't want to I don't know
crush hopes or anything. If they want to follow through
with more, then I would of course welcome it. I

(13:29):
right now do not believe there is more to this.
I don't even necessarily believe right now there will be
more than just this roadburn date. Yeah, Like, if we're
holding it, for example, for them to announce a UK
show or anything, I would even though I was surprised
to see them return for this, I would be even
more surprised actually to see them add more than this
the way they have kind of just the wording of

(13:50):
the statements they've made about like announcing this Rodburn show.
For some reason, in my head, I'm interpreting it right
now as it is this one roadburn show. And then
I don't think, you know, Caro et cetera are at
a point where they're one thing to kind of fully
commit to the touring band life, even if it's just

(14:10):
for like a year or so of being you know,
touring as a kind of reunited Oathbreaker. So right now,
my interpretation is, if you want to see Oathbreaker do
a tenth anniversary version of as I have just said,
in my opinion, the best album of the last ten years,
then you've got to get to the Netherlands next year.

(14:33):
If there is more than that, would it would be something.
But right now that's how I'm interpreting it. But it's
still news that very much, you know, kind of blew
my mind a little bit, and it is has said,
you know, it's been nearly three years now since we
were doing an oath Breaker you feature length podcast just
talking about the almost the escaping the net that the

(14:56):
oath Breaker Reunion did of like appearing and then never
actually manifesting. So this is even if it does turn
out just be for one not only this is the
the actualization of that idea.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
If I can't get the livents, hopefully you know, Roadburn
stuff gets recorded, and like if we can get some
like raya live like Roadburn thing from this, I'll take
that at this point because it's something. But yeah, like
I mean, I said, this is one of my favorite
albums ever. I comment with exactly where places in my like,
but it is, you know, I think.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
It might be our joint favorite album we both love
the most, like yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Like yeah, yeah, And it is just it's a body
of work that you want to see in for and
immerse yourself in, and it's going to be like a
challenging thing to perform for again a carriage from what
she has to embody on that record. So that's where
I think, like this may just be a one and
done kind of like let's cement this Alms legacy with

(15:56):
like a legendary kind of like you had to be
the live performance. I am praying we do get a
UK show and I will lose my mind if we do,
and I will be very happy, but I'm not holding
my breath for it.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, And the other thing I like about this is
that Oathbreaker are directly above quest Master on the Roburn poster,
which is the Dungeon Synth Project, and so that is
so very good. Indeed, the other little reunion that you
might have heard people talking about more recently in the
last few days is fucking Rush, who have announced there
it's labeled the fifty something Tour because it is going

(16:30):
to be honoring fifty and a bit plus years of
Rush the band. Obviously, Rush have not they haven't played
live together in about a decade at this point. Obviously
it's five six years now since Neil put passed away,
which I think formerly you know, kind of ended certainly,

(16:52):
you know, yeah, Rush, the classic lineup Rush that we
knew that completely, you know, he took that with him.
But there have been I don't know, lingering questions as
to whether Geddy Lee and Alex Lifson would ever go
and do something again, whether that would be Rush, whether
that would be just simply performing some music, making some

(17:14):
music together, but as something else, I don't know, but
Rush as a band in the past tense firmly at
least again for a possible temporary moment, which is the
similarity between this and the earth Breaker one. But Russia
officially for the meantime back they are doing a big
arena run in the United States and probably Canada as well.

(17:37):
Surely they're from there. Yes, there we go. There's a
couple of dates in Toronto, and since that first tour
announcement they have added a shit ton more dates in
those cities because of the high demand. So there's like
there's about four nights at Madison Square Garden. Now they
haven't added more cities, I don't think, but they've added
like four or five nights in every fucking one that
they're doing. This is about seven or eight cities across America. Again,

(18:01):
it is just that right now. So this one whether
maybe I would say, possibly more likely to come to
at least Europe than oath Breaker are to escape from
just roadburn. But right now we know we don't have this.
But yeah, Sam Rush, we're an interesting pair to be
talking about this. I know that Elliot, for example, who

(18:24):
I has said, don't we quote me on this for him?
But I think Elliott has said at times that Rush
are like a contender for his favorite band, and so
obviously when this news broke and in our TNM group
chat we were talking and Elliott was like, oh, my
fucking god, if you know, whatever chance there is of
seeing this, I want to be able to get as
close to it as I can. You're the more recent

(18:45):
maybe Rush convert, but yeah, what what's your take on
Rush is reappearance here?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I mean, this has happened in the wake of me,
like in the last or twelve or so month becoming
a Rush fan, Like I am all in a rushtive.
You know, I've listened to the of the eighty stuff,
done a bunch of the seventies stuff like the Real.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Like Progsy, and I'm like, yeah, no, Rush Russia are sick.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
I'm gonna you know, I'm saving the nineties Rush that
I've always heard, like you and Mark speak so funly.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Like, but yeah, this I went is really cool.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I think, you know, they're a band whose legacy deserves
kind of like a big celebratory kind of moment. I think,
as you say, with this, you know, they announced these cities.
I was like, the way reunion and nostalgia tours and
all that are now, there's always more because this is
where the money is, and I don't want to I
don't wan to pent a cynical thing of like Rush

(19:35):
doing this for the money, like I think they are
clearly you know, they've decided the time is right for
those two to get back together and perform live, which
I think is really cool.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
And because do they ever do.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Like a farewell tour before they stopped playing, or what I.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Believe they did around the fortieth anniversary of the band
was when they did like the you know, the last
Rush tour and then a few years later, Yeah died
and because I.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Could but again being again a reason, I won't sure
how much it was of a builders like this is
the final Rush tour or if it was kind of
like they just kind of like wound down and just
sort of stopped touring and then when your died, that
just kind of put a line under it all. That's
one thing I wasn't sure of. But I think this is,
you know, a really exciting thing. I think this is

(20:21):
for fans. I think I'm just gonna like jump at
the opportunity to this. I mean, you can see by
the dates selling out and all the extra shows being added.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
There is the demand to see.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Rush, and I think it's just you know, like celebrate
a great band.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I think obviously, you know, this tour will be incredibly profitable.
I imagine you can see that with the amount of as said,
shows have already sold out and dates they're adding whatever.
But I also feel like Geddy, Lee and Alex Lison
probably don't necessarily need to tour ever again, you know,
for their own personal comfort or whatever. I imagine all of

(20:59):
those fucking Tom Sawyer royalties and you know, fifty years
of being Rush will have kind of set them up
in their you know, older age now quite quite comfortably.
So the vibe I get, I mean there's you know,
they've kind of put out sort of explanations and stuff
and basically just talking about you know, Geddy and alets

(21:19):
get together and being like we just love playing together,
right like we which you know, there are two guys
who played together. The thing with Rush is, obviously once
Neil joined the band on the second album that yeah,
that was those those three guys for forty years, and
the friendship and the chemistry and everything that you develop
over forty years must be unlike you know, most relationships

(21:43):
that could exist in the world, and so I can
totally imagine Geddy and Alex just being like, I just
want to play in my bud, you know, in terms
of obviously calling it rush that kind of thing. Their
drummer who they've kind of announced being part of this,
which this is the thing right beyond any other band
maybe ever to exist, the idea of going, who can

(22:06):
we get to do Neil Pertz bits.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yes, like one of the most legendary drummers ever, Like
maybe most legendary is.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Like fucking beyond. I have not watched any footage necessarily,
so they've announced a drummer who is called Anaka Niels,
who is a German drummer, and she apparently has been
playing with Jeff Beck for a while. That's that's not
my realm, So I'm not familiar with with this lady's work,
but I have to imagine in order to get the

(22:35):
thumbs up from Gedi, Lee and Alex Leisen to play
Neil Pertz bits, I have faith that she's fucking amazing,
right that you probably would assume imagine if they announced
this whole thing and then they got like Bruce Dickinson
for it, did for a solo band, the drummer from
Puddle of Mud or something like that. The vetting here
has to be extreme, so I trust that Anaka will

(22:57):
will smash it. As said, some people might be like, oh,
it's not necessarily Rush. Yeah, it's not the Rush kind
of you know, core trio that we knew. I think
maybe if they were to go into the studio and
put another album as Rush, that would be a different prospect,
you know, that would be a very dramatic thing unto

(23:17):
itself in terms of going out and doing a fifty
year anniversary celebration, which does not you know, I don't
think Russia are a full time band anymore. I don't
have a personal problem with it. Apparently Neil per family
have given it their full blessing and you know, given
Anaka the blessing and everything. So it's as far as

(23:38):
these things can be. It seems pretty wholesome and pretty
you know, tasteful. Yeah. Yeah, And giving people the chance
to see Rush music. I mean, I've never seen Rush.
I don't know if I will see Rush because like
I said, we don't know right now where this will go.
But it's Rush of the fucking best, you know, it's pretty,

(23:59):
it's exciting, and it's no worthy unto itself. So we'll
see where the Rush reunion goes, how long it runs,
where it goes, but the fact that it's happening is
like wow. And obviously as soon as this was announced,
Elliott was in the group chat being like, so does
this make me? Does this need to do a Rush
special next year? And I went, oh my god, ask

(24:21):
me after we've done these immediate ones that we are clearing,
because that would be a lot. But twenty twenty six
promises to be a big year for Rush. Right, this
is our third news story and for you know, our
close to home bands, this is fucking huge. Alex Bent
very very suddenly was announced to be out of Trivian

(24:43):
And it's the way that all camps have spoken so
Trivia themselves, Alex, I've seen again the way he's been
talking on social media everything. They all seem as fucking
cozy and friendly as they ever was. This seems to
be completely undramatic. But the suddenness with which but where
it was like right before they played a show, I
think you're playing like like after Shock Festival in the

(25:04):
US or something. Everyone's like, Hey, what but it does
seem to be all kind of above board. Alex Spent,
who joined just before the Similar Sentence album, I think
it said nine years he was in Trivium in total,
and Trivium's you know, kind of resurgence in those nine years.
Much has been said about Alex Spent's role in that,

(25:26):
and I think a lot of us probably thought that
Alex was going to be Trivium's forever drummer, not just
in terms of the musicality, which again he completely you know,
he owned that. I think most people, if you ask
them now, who is Trivium's sort of definitive drummer, even
though a lot of their definitive albums are the early
ones with Travis Smith on or whatever. Most people, I

(25:47):
think we'll probably say Alex Spent now. But on a
personal level as well, that's sort of like, oh though,
that jokey demeanor and the sort of like slightly tongue
in cheek, just the spirit of Trivium that seems to
be where it's like, oh, that's the lads, you know.
He seemed to be fully in on that, and he
just he's like he was on the same wavelengths as
everything they were doing. So I was really surprised by

(26:10):
this announcement. Apparently, again I don't want to go digging
up too much stuff there, maybe just kind of like
him wanting to basically you know leader, you know leader
family life and kind of do stuff there whatever. But yeah,
really like shocking news when I think most of us
assumed that he was just going to be their guy forever.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, it felt like this was the kind of like
the iconic Trivium unit now like yeah, with him as
the drummer, Like he's the drummer I'm most associated with
Trim now because like the majority of times i've similar
last years, like it's been him behind the kit.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
He was such a like great addition to the band.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I mean, you know, it's quite forture that he came
in around the time their fortunes turned after a wobbly
few years, and I think like it just meant Evon
could immediately get on board of him. Also just an
insane drummer to watch live where he's doing like the
most mental shit and barely break.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Your sweat and you're watching when you're watching him befom.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Like, but it was all those kind of like chucking
one's boss are like well fair enough if it's all
if there's no bad blood, if it's all just kind
of like this is right, Its course he's off to do.
I think whether they may be fair enough to all
parties involved. It's a shame to him go because again,
like he felt like such a great kind of part
of that unit. But if it is, you know, no

(27:22):
bad blood, I don't see the point in trying to
sort of like turn this into a story that it
isn't really Oh.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think anyone is doing that to
give you know, rare credit to people for once, but
I think it is. I mean, it is a shame,
you know, because you do you come to know people,
you know, not personally, but kind of you come to
know people when you're a fan of a man watching
them on stage, and those are the four guys that
you know. And like I said, at Alex is the

(27:48):
most any drummer has ever been that for Trivium, and
I think we all just wanted him to stay there forever.
You can't blame him for whatever personal reasons there may
be for him to decide to step back and go
do something else, But it is your back down to
Triviam being the core three and you know are currently
revolving cast of drummers, which is you know, in itself

(28:10):
a bit of a shame. And you know this is
obviously this will now be a very concrete era of
those three albums that Alex was on. As said, this
was announced right before they were going to play a show.
For that show, and playing for the foreseeable is the drummer.
I was amazed when I saw this. Dudes, Grayson Necrutman
perhaps the second name, but Grayson basically is the like

(28:34):
very young, he's like in his early twenties drummer who
has been recently playing for Sepultura on their farewell tour
after they lost Eloy to slip Knots. SEPULTURER have stepped
in here and made a big clarification saying Grayson is
still in Sepulturer. Sepulture, I guess right now end of
twenty twenty five, are you know, kind of that their

(28:54):
off season. I suppose their very long farewell tour will
pick up in twenty six. They're playing like Bloodstock for example,
and they've said Grayson will be back on the kit
for that, So whether that means Grayson is just playing
like these immediate Trivium shows. Maybe he could join the
band full time oncet sepulturer have finished. Yeah, I don't know, bizarre,

(29:16):
but it was just very funny to have Sepultura always
at the scene of the crime when it comes to drmer,
when it comes to drummer loaning and revolving fucking stalls.
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, I mean I was like, well, yeah, you know,
when I saw Sepultura last year, I was like, yeah,
that dude's a drummer.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
He's like, like really young and insane on the kits.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
So I was like, well, at the very least you
haven't got to worry about Triviam not having a drummer
who can.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Kind of like match up to what Alex could do
on the kids. That's cool, But it was just yeah,
I was like, to me, I took this at.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
I took this at he's probably stepping in now whilst
they say off season, and then he probably I wouldn't
be shocked if he does become the full time sort
of drummer once the Sepulturiers like Farewell finishes, which I'm assuming.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Is happening in twenty years. I don't save.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
It must happen eventually.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
I don't know when in.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Paine twenty six because I thought it was I thought
it was this year. It was finishing, yeah, and then
Bloodstorm going out, so I was kind of like, okay,
so the sepultariy Rate train keeps on a roll in.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
But I mean it was cool that so Trivium from
you know, years back, they already have a pre existing
cover of Slave New World by Sepulcherer, and at this
first show with Grayson, they bust it out right because
you might as well do it when you've got the
guy who's been playing that song with them on the field.
To one, it was cool being like, oh man, you
know there's still there are already these kind of It's
the thing with a scene like Thatt, there are sinews

(30:34):
that kind of connect every band, and this does play
for that band. This bird had covered this song, whatever
it might be, So it's nice to have that sort
of consolidated. So immediately, yeah, like Grayson, he is, He's great.
I think he is. When you even just see sort
of like on social media ever, you see what kind
of drummers get buzz around them in terms of like
just them uploading footage of them playing a certain set
or something, and you'll see everyone being like, this guy's

(30:56):
fucking crazy, you know. And Grayson, again, kind of young
as he is, he has got a little bit maybe
of what sort of eloy maybe had when he was
first coming up with Secretary and he was really young,
so he like, he's obviously he's doing brilliantly. But yeah,
we'll see what Trivin's permanent drummer situation turns out to be.
I'm sure they will be fine, and we wish, of

(31:18):
course Alex, you know, the best of luck in whatever
he is doing. It just is a bit of a shame,
I think, undeniably, you know, necessarily in a super negative way,
but in a just a bittersweet way. It was a
golden era having Alex went on the drums for Trivium,
and I think there is naturally going to be some
sadness that that comes to an end. Right in this
Mammoth News episode, Let's get onto a few new songs

(31:40):
that have emerged over the last week or so, and
let's just kind of fire through them as quickly as
we can. I suppose first up, we're gonna go to
Lamba God who have released a new single called Sepsis.
I suppose I should eat my words a little bit
because when they were announced for headlining Bloodstock next year,
I sort of assumed. I think I said something like,
it's probably it's gonna be the end of the same
you know, omen cycle that they darted when they headlined

(32:00):
the last time. But it does look like we are
I'm probably going to get a Lamb of God record
early next year or something. It's not been announced yet,
but we do have a song here called Sepsis. And
from what I saw when this song was released online
last week, it got quite uh, you know, by contemporary
Lamb of God's standards, got quite a positive reaction from people.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I think because it's it's something a bit different. It's
not Omens was a good album, but it was the
most kind of like, this is just what Lamb of
God or veteran Lamb of God are going to be now.
It's kind of just like them doing the thing they
do to a good standard without many surprises.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
And then you know, they come up.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
With the Sepsis, which is like really dark, menacing, kind of
like slow burn of a track that kind of goes
really hard when it actually does kind of let loose,
and I was kind of like, oh, I wasn't. I
was expecting to kind of be caught off guard by
a Lamb of God lead single, and it's as lead singles.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Guy, I think it's one of the most interesting ones
they've put out there.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, it is different because I mean, maybe it's because
I've got my I Nola hat on because of what
we're doing on the Patreon right now. But the way
the first half of the song starts in this you know,
sort of slowly ramping up way. And I read a
little thing they put out with this saying this song
was kind of inspired by a bunch of like the
really small local bands that we would play with in

(33:20):
Virginia when we were burned the Priest, right, So it's
kind of like a you know, throwback to the early
underground punk kind of days of where Lambagod were coming.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
From at the nineties.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah. Yeah, and again that's sort of that dark sludge
kind of thing that existed there as well. It's cool
to hear that, and it's cool to hear that kind
of I mean, we all know that Randy Blythe is
like a huge, fucking like hardcore kid at heart essentially,
and it's cool to hear that kind of attitude swinging
out with a Lamb of God song, and the way
that it builds into the faster second half. Most Lamb

(33:51):
of God songs, certainly, the more sort of stock lammer
God songs, they'll hit you with their main sort of
groove riff immediately, yeah, yeah, and then it will be
sort of chorus. It will be a natural kind of metal,
you know, banger, whereas this lurking and being kind of
nasty the way it is and then ramping up to
like a burst of speed at the end of it.
It's not structured the way a Lamb of God's song
is normally structure. So this does sound at the very least,

(34:14):
you wouldn't accuse this of being a cut and paste
Lamb of God song. This sounds like a song that
has sort of organically emerged from some kind of you know,
session somewhere. And so again I liked Omens. I liked
the self title record for what it was, but this
does You've nailed it. It sounds the most kind of
Oh that's something a little bit just a different flavor, yeah,

(34:37):
which is you know, encouraging and intriguing at this stage
for Lamb of God. Megadeth have announced their first single
from their upcoming final album. Of course, another band who
are going on a farewell tour over the next couple
of years. Megadeth's final album, I believe It's gonna be
a self titled album come in next year, and we've
got a first song from it here called Tipping Point.

(34:59):
And again, Sam, here we are me and you doing
the news. Not necessarily the perfect pair to be talking
about any Megadeth song, because I know we had such
a lovely conversation about rest in Peace earlier this year,
but when it comes to newer Megadeth, you're you're not
the person to be enthusing about. I don't know if
you really even listened. Yeah, yeah, it sounds like Megadeth.
I think this song is pretty good by you know,

(35:21):
the standards of the last ten years of Megadeth, which
I largely think. I think every lead single, the Sick
of the Sick, the Dying, whatever. It was a weaker
album than Dystopia, which I know that you think is
just flat outshit anyway, But the first single from it,
Will be Back did rock and that was fun life.
So I kind of expect even if it's a weaker
Megadeth album, I trust they've got at least one banger

(35:43):
on them, and I think this song set foot the
standards of contemporary Megadeth. I don't think it's necessarily like
above kind of what they've been doing, but I certainly
don't think it's one of the weaker ones. I've listened
to it a couple of times now, and both times
I was like, yeah, agreeable, this is good. Dave doesn't
even sound that terrible on it. It's got fast riffs,
pretty pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I was gonna say this isn't like the best Daves
sounded on a modern Megadeth I could think of, Like,
I thought this was again as someone who is can
admit the classic Mega material is classic and outside of
like one album does not care for modern Megadeth, and
by modern megad If I mean Megadeth from the year

(36:23):
two thousand through to now. But I thought this song
maybe I'm just softening the fact it's their final album
and I'm kind of like I'm done with I'll be
done with them soon. I thought like, yeah, if this
is the legal on the final MegaDEF album, I think
it's perfectly agreeable, and I'm happy for fans if they're
gonna I'm happy for fans if they're gonna get to

(36:44):
end on an album that is not a game change
and not a classic, but not not an.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Embarrassing kind of like Damp Flat Way to end.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
They clearly have a bit of firing them for this
final album.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
I find that respectable.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, And even if this turns out to be like
what We Will Be back was to the last album,
which is just a one really strong lead single, I
would take that, you know, because that's it's always just
any bonus, good mega songs we can have are good.
My one thing with this song, and this Dave Mistain
will have never thought of. But for anyone out there
who also has spent a terrible amount of time watching

(37:21):
rubbish Dayta TV TV quiz shows in the UK, I
cannot hear him sing I'm at my tipping point without
thinking of Ben Shephard asking him what drops over he
wants to place his fucking special coined or whatever, and
I just hear him going, I'm on tipping point and
I think I've already ruined this song for every person

(37:42):
listening here in the UK.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
But I did have a similar thought. Yeah, whatever, like
tipper Point is just Daytime UK TV if we will.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
If we have the next song on the album, It's
like this is pointless, have a string of golden balls.
I wouldn't put it past him, but yeah, Meganeth Tipping
Point song actually thought quite good. Ice nine Kills we
now go to, who have released a new song this

(38:14):
week after a little teaser campaign as Iceland Kills are
always going to do, featuring Spencer Charnis dressed up as
the Joker, and obviously they are now releasing They've been
on a little run recently of releasing sort of not
exactly horror theme song but sort of horror peripheral ones,
like they did a song about the Matrix recently. I
think obviously Batman not strictly horror, but of the superheroes.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
It has horror elements.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, yeah, so it sort of counts as part of
the Iceland Kills universe. I think anything to do with
the Joker for the past at least ten years now
has just been like memurfied to the point of making
everyone cy immediately. So seeing Spencer Charner's doing is like
girning face thing dressed up as a joker. I think

(39:01):
everyone's just the really went off for fuck's sake. But
this song I think is the best single that they
have released since the last album, because we've had that run.
Like I said, the Mental the Matrix song that was
the Terrifier three song, which was kind of like this
is a lot you know, maximalist they could be, yeah,
in terms of like maybe just bashing the song apart

(39:21):
in terms of the garish bits. I put this one
and it kind of reminded me what I like too
much about Eystein Kills on like the most recent album
for example. So as as loath as I am to
praise the Joker song, I think it's actually, certainly for
the last of twelve months or so, I think it's
the best song that Icen Kills have released.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
I think this is, again, is what I like ice
Stone Kills on my coworker band.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
They're my octane call. Yeah, they're there ones I've kind
of embraced.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
But this has got those fucking it's got like a
brass band and stuff, and it's like it's.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Got the interpolation of the the Tim Burton era, the
Danny Elfman Batman scoring that which thinks that really fun
how they when they do that.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
I I think it's got a really big chorus. I
do agree the joker in general is quite eye rolling.
But I here's the thing. I think a lot of
people who are could of going.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
To bash this probably would have been fine with it
if it had been on either of the silver Skin albums.
I think I think Kills have just got so big
in the last sort of year or so that that
it's kind of become quite cool to bash them.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Man.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
And I think like the Terrifier song, I think is
one of their weakest songs they've done in the time
of them being a good band, I think this is
actually a very good kind of just like radio metalcors
song that has again the scope and scalon drama that
I look to ice thank Kills, whilst having that spark
of creativity.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
I think this is actually very good. I just it's
just yeah joker beaming.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Okay, sure, yeah, I agree, But like I said, for me,
it's it's my favorite song that they've released since the
latest actual full length album. Yeah. And so you know,
if they've got that tour coming up at the end
of the year, and I'm presuming they're gonna play a
bunch of these you know singles. They can put it out.
This is one of the better ones, so yeah good.
And finally, on the new songs front, Spanish Love Songs
have put out a couple of news songs and that

(41:01):
has said that they are going to be part of
an EP that's coming out later in the year called
a Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time and Spanish
Love Songs. I've gotta give them this. They're very productive,
aren't they. They are always I have lost county amount of
times that I've been, you know, putting the news together
for this and it's got new Spanish love song here
or there whatever, and I sometimes it's hard to tell
what is actually like a new single of real note

(41:22):
are what is are kind of like leaked out through
some Patreon whatever it you know, kind of bonus or
whatever it might be. But a new Spanish song toll
EP is here and a couple of songs. So sam, uh,
what do you make of these new spanis of soft
the tracks? Are you excited for the EP? On the
strength of then yes of course?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
And mix up for the EP. I think that there's
a very kind of like Chill Vibe Spanish Love songs.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Of these two songs that they're definitely on the more
kind of like reserved kind of thing, building on some
of the the softer elements of the last album. It
feels kind of like an extension of that. I'm not
taking this as much as a kind of like a
direct of where they're going forward and more maybe just
kind of like further sort of experiment on some of
the ideas they had on the last album. But I
think both these songs are really nice. There's the one

(42:05):
that's the Tyler's Jaw clab, isn't it that, which then
fills very sort of LinkedIn with the common Fred store
that's happening at the end of this month.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
But yeah, no, I think two songs both very good.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yes, let's move on to the new show announcements section
of the news and we're going to start with Bloodstock,
who in the past sort of week in a bit
have added body Count, Black Glabal Society, and Fit for
an Autopsy to their bill. And overall, I would say that,
you know, the comments that we have made about the
Bloodstot lineup this year still stand, But of these editions,

(42:37):
I would say that body Count is a really cool
addition because I know that body Count is one that
they have been trying to get for ages, but Iced
Tea is normally filming Law and Order and can't come
out and do it, so actually nabbing body Count is like,
you know, a pretty cool sort of exclusive for them.
And I think they're subbing to Judas Priest, which is
a hilarious combo, but BodyCount into Judas Priest would be

(42:59):
one of the bits of this bloods Dot bill that
would be most appealing. But a bit like that's.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Probably the highlight of the festival as a combo of
kind of like you're gonna get, you know, across two
and a bit hours, nearly three hours of just kind
of the music. You're gonna get the most condensed amount
of like great songs, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I mean, two incredible front men on such different ends
of that spectrum, but lots of showmanship between them. Yeah,
body Count good addition there to Bloodstock. This is interesting.
Opeth have announced one exclusive UK show for next year,
taking place at Halifax's Peace Hall, so in Yorkshire, and

(43:35):
I'm not really familiar with this venue. Trying to gauge
from the pictures of it. It looks like it could
be a kind of outdoor show, but as part of
this sort of like very you know, theatrical Victorian looking
surrounding building. I've never been to Hall of Fact, I'm
not familiar with it, but this looks really really cool.
I don't know exactly where I'm going to be on
the date next year it's on the first of August

(43:56):
twenty twenty six, but particularly with a supporting bill due
to be announced as well, which I'd be very curious
about this. I mean, the combination of the venue Opeth
doing one big kind of show for the year in
the UK, hopefully with some great support bands as well.
Looks like I'd be keeping my eyes on this. It

(44:17):
looks like a really interesting addition to the calendar next year.
Big Opeth show in Halifax next year. Here's one for you, Sam,
I imagine you were on this straight away. The Wonder
Years have announced a tenth anniversary tour for that album
No Closer to Heaven, and they've done tenth anniversary tours
for their last several albums, haven't they obviously the greatest generation,

(44:38):
the one before this being their widely regarded classic one.
But I know that you have a particular favorite spot
for no Closer to Heaven, so this is the one
for you.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Annoyingly, tickets went on sale the same day as another
big golf show that I had to get a ticket for,
so I've had to kind of hit pause on this one.
But hopefully it will kind of tickets still and in
a couple of weeks I will be going to this
because I want to see you know, close teven and four.
They're going to do the album all the B sides.
I love a lot of those B sides. It means
I'm gonna get see some of my favorite deep cuts
off the album that they never play live. I'm gonna

(45:08):
see stained Glass Ceilings, which I've wanted to see them
play live forever. Find a way to get Jason over
to do that. Guess what, like you can do it.
I'm sure, like whatever, But yeah, this is the you know,
the the connoisseur's choice for like the best Wonder Year's
album then not the basic pick, but yeah, like that
they are clearly kind of they're at that stage now,

(45:29):
they're a little bit of a legacy about the Wonders. Now,
this does feel kind of like they're mentioning out of
the kind of like era of popun bands they're from
that they've been out for a while now, that like,
clearly the nostalgia is what people are going to more.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
But I'm also like, a don't care some of my
favorite albums.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Ever, I'll let them do the nostalgia mining for this
and hopefully I will get a ticket.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, I mean, presumably this is the last album they
do a tenth anniversary show.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Four, it's the last of the classic albums.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Yeah, yeah, and then they can start doing twenties. But
there you go. Yeah, bring me the Horizon. Next year
in April and particularly May are going to be doing
a big American tour if you wanted to see them
over there. This includes a date at Madison Square Garden,
which is a quarter as many as Rush currently have
at Madison Square Garden. All Points East announced their lineup

(46:15):
for next year, and on the rock front, it's very
very hip hop heavy. Tyler the Creator is headlining it.
But obviously who would you imagine will turn up there?
Oh yeah, it's Turnstile southing to Tyler the Creator, which
is a nice combination for again putting them kind of
in another environment with a bunch of other fans. So yeah,

(46:37):
all points east with Turnstile next year. You may remember
a while ago we reported about nine Inch Nails announcing
a festival in America that was entirely for kind of
film soundtracks and composers and what not to air you know,
live performances of this. It's called Future Ruins Festival. Unfortunately,
this has been canceled. They've not really said why, but

(47:00):
due to a number of logistical challenges and complications, also
saying we are choosing to rethink and reevaluate. So I
wonder if you know it could possibly surface again in
a new form. I mean, it looks like Sick New
World might be coming back, and god knows what happened
to them this year. But yeah, just that's the where
we're at with the Night Snales Future Ruins Festival. But

(47:21):
something that is happening that you might be interested out
if you are in Toronto or in the sort of
surrounding North American area. I wanted to shout out Prepare
the Ground Festival, which is happening in May of next year,
which just has a really cool, good experimental underground bill.
It almost looks a bit like a sort of a

(47:41):
road burn but up up in Canada and over there.
It features a Rancy pazuzu. It features Paul Bearer performing
Foundations of Burden, their second album, which is my favorite
Paul There album, and they're doing some kind of anniversary
of stuff for that at the moment. It features arm
and Rah playing two sets, one of which is an
acoustic set and one is a heavier set. And you
will know us by the Trail of the Dead are there.

(48:03):
Spoubard are playing their first and last American show there,
which is mad for us, in't it? Because we see
Svalbard fucking you know, they've played every event in the
UK for the last like ten years, but they never
made it out to North America, and obviously with them
hanging it up now, I'm happy for them that they're
going to have one, you know, nice to take this off,

(48:23):
like yeah, yeah, I mean, obviously, it's an enormous fucking continent.
So if you're a Svalbard fan in California or Texas
or something, then you've got a way to trek to
see it. But I'm sure this will be a really
big special show for them, playing, you know, one show
in America and the poster art for this festival, which
is what kind of struck me because it appeared on
my Facebook. It's really wonderful art and it's because it's

(48:45):
done by the very talented artist Stephen Wilson sp with
a pH, so not that Stephen Wilson, but he did
my band's demo art back in the day, so shout
out Stephen doing great work. Poster looks fucking sick. Also
very very fucking sick. Hate Breed next week. Hate Breed
currently are in the UK supporting Killswitch Engage on their

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tour and they are adding next week a show at
the Star and Gartera in Manchester. Sam, you're pulling a
face of pure jealousy. For the record, this is happening
while I'm on holiday in Budapest, so I'm not even

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I mean the fucking the rigmarole for getting tickets for
this must be intense, because the Star and Gartera, if
you are not in Manchester, it's my favorite kind of
dingy venue in Manchester, and it is a venuere case.
It's almost our equivalent of like the New Cross in
or something where very occasionally someone will play a tiny
show that like I saw Creeper do one there a
few years ago. There are going to be so many

(49:51):
people who are going to be wanting to see fucking
Hate Breed playing what is like a two hundred cap
room above a pub. Right as said, I'm out of
the country. I'm not on the cards for this. I
would be very cute like if anyone if only looks
the usual the hardcore crew who are filming these type shows,
if they're there doing something like this, I would definitely

(50:12):
be watching the footage because fucking Hate Breed playing the
Star and gartera sounds deadly. I think that place I
don't know if it will survive. I think the roof
might cave in after this.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
The form Hate Breed have been on live, just the
combination of them in a tiny venue also worth mentioning.
I have a speculation this vent has been put on
by Outbreakfast, So I do wonder if this is a
kind of like wink wink, nudge, nudge, give me that
dream set of wanted of hate reading that car park.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
But yeah, insanely jealous.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
I'm seeing Hate Breed next week with Killswitch in Wembley,
which I'm sure will be fucking amazing, But it's not
Hate reading a two hundred capacity from above a pub
where I'm guessing they will probably I wouldn't be shocked
if they kind of go, here's you know, a bunch
of like than Knife and actually definitely desire songs. They
wind the clock back to the hardcore years, like if

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you're going it should have happened to me, I hate
you but have a good.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Time exactly that. But yeah, this sounds fucking insane. And
Tessa Act have announced that they are going to be
releasing a sort of concert film and live album in December,
which is called Radar so Names because it is from
their performance at Radar Festival last year. Apparently they were
joined with a choir at that show, so it seemed

(51:29):
like a particularly cool, interesting show for them. I do
think this is cool that again, I don't know what
distribution for this will be like in terms of like
how wide a the concert film part of this. You
know they're not going to have ghost or you know,
Depeche Mode have got one out that kind of you
know they're all the odiens, like yeah, whatever. But I
just think it's cool that, you know, a band like

(51:50):
tessaat to have you know, been a hard working, you
know sort of a still I guess to some sense
a cult band in terms of the appeal to it niche,
but they have you know, they're a giant of that scene.
I do think it's cool that a long running, respectable
band but that can have a concert film. So there
you go. Good good for testa rat on that front.

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That is the end of the news Core. Blimey, what
an incredible amount as that was so bloody big. We're
going to skip over the questions and stuff this time.
I will say you may have caught this little tidbit
on last week's album club episode we did for Damnation
because we mentioned the fact that Croachtial Conformity are playing.
We are right now working on the next special coming

(52:34):
to T ANDM. We're trying to figure out what day
we're going to do it, but it's going to be
coming within the next week or so. I would imagine.
We are doing a scene subgenre type special, the first
that that's not metal has done in years and years
and years. I think maybe about seven or eight years
was the last time. Probably longer than that. Actually, the
last time a like scene report sub genre tore through

(52:58):
the band in names of a particular st has been done,
and I've be wanting to bring it back for ages
and I had this one in mind of like, this
is what we're going to do. It's finally here. We
are doing our sub genre scene special on the New
Orleans sludge scene. We are going full Nola. We have
been for the last however many weeks, absolutely knee deep

(53:21):
in sludge, the Thickest Variety, the I Hate God, Crowbar,
Acid bath Down Variety, and many other names from that.
We are going to be giving you the as said,
if you are new to this scene, if you know
the names, if you maybe know the big album you've
heard Doan's Nola whatever it might be, but you're you
don't know where to start with an I Hate God

(53:41):
or a Crowbar. We are going to be giving you
the punters on which albums are, what where you should go,
how each of these bands interacts and differs with each other,
and what it is that makes that very particular special
scene tick. So that is what will be coming to
patron dot com Slash That's Not Metal very soon. In
recent months and weeks there we have, of course, are

(54:04):
Insane Trial special that went down so well of metal
core and new metal and hair metal. We have all
the various album clubs we've done. We have the T
and M does Horrors. The most recent one was Sam
and I went on in depth on Weapons, didn't we.
We will of course pick that series up as well soon,
but right now it is sludge time. It is no
other time. Get involved if you want to get in

(54:25):
and all of that and help support this podcast and
keep it afloat. So cheers to everybody. Let's end the
Hyperblast with the releases. As said, last week was kind
of a special different episode, so we are going to
pick up with October the third's releases, and we start
with AFI, who released their album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun.
I don't need to say anything about it right now.
It's AFI. We will be reviewing it very very soon,

(54:48):
but yeah, it was the one that I was very
happy to be having thrust into my arms. And the
same day and what turn out to be a very
good day for bands of that general who are still
kind of interesting. Thrice. We're also back with Horizons West.
Then Orbit Culture, the continually more and more popular Swedish

(55:12):
metal band, release their album Death Above Life. We're figuring
out what we're going to review in the next review show.
I don't know if we do the Orbit Culture or not,
because I have problems with how they sound and everything.
And I've got no beef with Orbit Culture personally. They
do seem to be doing everything the right kind of way.
But my god, their production sound and their drum sound
does my fucking head like one of the singles from

(55:35):
this and I've bought ten seconds, I like this. This
has got to stop. We have to stop making drums
sound like this. But the new Orbit Culture is out there.
Australian hardcore, if that is the order of the day,
you might be interested in Fifty Lions who released their
record called New Reality. That's a lot of lions in it.
I don't know if you could fight off that many lions.

(55:56):
This is as an Australian hardcore band. The singer in
this band, I believe I'm writing saying, is Winston McCall's
brother A. There is a connection there, and I know
that because the single from this that I heard has
a Winston McCall guest feature audit of the McCall brothers together.
And if you like just mosh swingy hardcore of an

(56:16):
Australian variety, maybe with a cheeky feature like that here
or they're across it. Then I think you would enjoy this.
I think you would like it sound.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
I'm not aware of this. I'm gonna have to check
this out.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
This will be one of my things to check up
for the stuff from tomorrow's releases.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Yeah, and I'm sure in hardcore fashion the record probably
isn't very long, so probably about twenty minutes in it. Yeah,
that's definitely one for you. There. So they're fifty Lions
New Reality. Then Author and Punisher, the hard industrial band
who are playing Damnation Festival soon. Nocturnal Birding. Today is
the day, the long form experimental sludge band legendary from

(56:51):
the nineties. They released their new album called Never Give In.
Then there is Agriculture, who released The Spiritual Sound. And
I mentioned this band earlier because they're on that road
burn bill. This is one I'm thinking maybe we might
have to review this one because Agriculture are buzzy, like
you may have heard their name being spread around quite
a lot. They are, I guess a post black metal band,
but it's black metal of a experimental not your kind

(57:14):
of standard second wave style black metal, and they're getting
a lot of a lot of buzz at the moment.
So yeah, I've listened to a bit of this. I
need to you know, go and assess it further. The
spiritual sound by agriculture much more in my sort of
home area of black metal maybe is the great UK
black metal band Wode, who released Uncrossing the Keys, their

(57:36):
last album from twenty twenty one, was one of my
favorite albums of this year. I love this band. They're
one of my favorite contemporary certainly in the UK black
metal bands, and this one is also great. I need
to spend more time with it to see if it
hits me on the level that the previous record is.
But if you like, you know, cult black metal, but
with lots of like you know, lashings of kind of
like traditional heavy metal and stuff like that, and then

(57:57):
they have more gothic songs. There are some songs on
this kind of like a peace fill flavor to them
that their previous record didn't have. So they are a
pretty diverse and creative band on their own right as well.
So I would definitely recommend Woad and Uncrossing the Keys.
Then Hooded Menace, the Scandinavian death doom band but who
on their most recent albums have also brought in a
helping of like trad heavy metal, and this album has

(58:18):
a Juran Duran cover on it. If you want to
hear a finished death doom band doing a bit of
that really filthy, violent kind of blackened death metal, the
band Impure returned with the Devil See My Dreams. This
is like a really horrible sort of brutal death metal
thing that got thrown onto my aeras from again the

(58:40):
hardcore side of the world. Who is really obsessed with
slam and brutal death metal at the moment, aren't they?

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Like?

Speaker 1 (58:45):
There's loads of those type bands popping up, But one
that seemed quite cool is this band called Ephemeral a
record called in visis Human Collapse. And then there were
three EPs from last week that I think are worth
shouting out as well. One came from Cathedral, which I
mentioned in the news a while ago because Cathedral the
absolutely legendary one of the most important doom band to
ever exist, having broken up for over a decade at

(59:06):
this point, but they unearthed the track from their last
sessions when they were doing their last album, and it
is a half hour long track and it is like
a extended Cathedral at their most dreary and oppressive, like
Black Mass of a track called Society's Packed with Satan.
Then the kind of black and death metal band Suffering Hour,

(59:26):
a very cool, good noteworthy band. They released an EP
called Impelling Rebirth, and I know that that band have
have faced kind of various sort of health problems and
stuff within their ranks in recent years. Of this EP
as they're kind of, you know, rowing back into life
a little bit. So good for them and on that
subject of brutal death metal, slammy, nasty, pingy snare stuff

(59:48):
that the hardcore world is kind of like pushing through.
There's another one of that came up with an EP
called Corpse Pile, with a record called in the Beginning
Dot Dot Dot. We move on to today, the tenth
of October. First up Yellow Card, back with Better Days.
Sam yellow Card, who's producing this album.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
I know this is one of those I'm excited because
it's a new Yellow Card aut I love Yellow Card.
But you know how you get about like drum sounds
on like middle records now, like I have that, but
Travis Barker drum sound production is a different kind of nightmare,
still a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
So little nervous, but maybe it'll be good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Yes, But we also have if that doesn't float your boat,
we have Perturbator, the king of Gothic synth wave back
with a record called Age of Aquarius Testament, the legendary
of course. Eighty Thrash band are back with their first
record in a couple of years called Parabellum and on
that thrash kick. But if you want to go to
a younger band on that side of the spectrum, out
of metal Blade, I think as this band Dead Heat

(01:00:47):
with a record called Process of Elimination. Gray Haven have
got a record called Keep It Quiet. This is a
band who they're supporting Better Lovers on their UK tour soon,
aren't they? And they are hardcore of that kind of
every time I dieve variety? Is that right? Are you
kind of plugging into the gray heaven at all?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
I saw Grecomans What Better Lovers earlier this year as well.
They're clearly quite quite linked in with them at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
They're cool of that sort of at Red Podcord.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
They haven't quite the staying power for me, But if
you if you want to just taste that, I'm going
to check this out about and see how it's kind
of developed that they're they're cool.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Yes, also on that you know, heavy moshy kind of kick.
Soul Blind released a record called Red Sky Morning, and
then this is more on the kind of sort of
technical math rock kind of area maybe, But a band
called God Alone released a record called The Beep Test
As we go into death metal, a pretty big notable
death metal record. Sangue Sugar Bog are back with I

(01:01:41):
think is this there, like third full length album Sanguy
Sugar Bog you probably know them by now. Hideous Aftermath
is the name of that Over in doom, we have
Frail spelled with the y where the record Heretics and Lullabies.
This is the band who they recently they kind of
got some headlines because they released a cover of Lana
del Ray's Summertime Sadness and they are like sort of

(01:02:01):
you know, Chelsea Wolf kingwoman style ethereal gothic vocal kind
of doom. I've heard this album. I don't get Frail,
and if you were to listen to this album you
might pick up on what I'm saying. It kind of
feels to me like that sound. But if it was
marketed to like your big US rock festivals, you know,

(01:02:23):
like it's kind of like a more It's like it's
like they're in this moment of Chelsea Wolf's. It's a
very to me, it's a strange conglomeration that I don't
think really works. So I have formed an opinion on
Frail now and that is it. But that record, if
you're interested, is out there. And then back in kind

(01:02:43):
of post black metal areas. This is out on Church Road.
The band Turgis, the Horde have Got Our Breath is
not ours alone, So that should keep you stated for
a little while. Thank you very much for listening everybody.
We will be back next week with another hyperblast. Like
I said, I'm gonna try get Mark on and we
will talk about how fucking crazy our week was with

(01:03:04):
the Parkway Drive extravaganza that came through the UK and
the Bloody Cantation and Friends extravaganza that came through, and
of course whatever else happens in the news next week.
Then after that we will have reviews when we will
talk about records from AFI and so on. But also
some records are coming up in the next couple of weeks.
But right now, we have got to go hop aboard

(01:03:27):
our little rowing boat and we have got to take
a trip to the swamp. So to everybody who's joining
us for that, we will see you there. Cheers everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Bye bye,