Hyperblasts: Watching Videodrome and Listening to Nonstop Feeling

On the single biggest release week of the year we head down to Ghost kicking off the Skeletour here in the UK, Charli XCX officially declares it a Turnstile Summer, the original Alice Cooper band reunites after 52 years, and there's important updates about last week's Weezer movie announcement.

Releases:
Superheaven - Superheaven
Melvins - Thunderball
Lik - Necro
Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
Tribunal - In Penitence and Ruin
Heaven’s Gate - Tales from a Blistering Paradise
Zeicrydeus - La Grande Heresie
Ungraven - Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks
XweaponX - Weapon X Demo 2
Employed to Serve - Fallen Star
Inhuman Nature - Greater Than Death
Ghost - Skeletá
Machine Head - Unatoned
Landmvrks - The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been
Caliban - Back From Hell
Wednesday 13 - Mid Death Crisis
H.E.A.T. - Welcome to the Future
Heart Attack Man - Joyride the Pale Horse
Eluveitie - Anv
Pagan Altar - Never Quite Dead
Conan - Violence Dimension
Sumac / Moor Mother - The Film
BRUIT < - The Age of Ephemerality
Cancer - Inverted World
Caustic Wound - Grinding Mechanism of Torment
Kardashev - Alunea
Phantom - Tyrants of Wrath
Venator - Psychodrome
Hyena - About Rock and Roll
Big Boy - Love Songs
Profanatica - Wreathed In Dead Angels
David Eugene Edwards & Al Cisneros - Pillar of Fire/Capernaum
Cirith Ungol - Live at the Roxy

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Hello everybody, Welcome back. So that's not metal. We are
your weekly rock and heavy metal podcast, and we are
here with another edition this Friday of Hyperblasts, our weekly
heavy metal news show where we let you know everything
that you need to know, all the releases need to know, Boyer,
there are a lot of those today, as you know,
that's coming up this this week. We are here a

(00:49):
little bit after last week's reviews show, where we spoke about,
you know, some big old albums reviewing and you death
have an album new Scowl album, some cool kind of
underground exciting stuff as well. I hope people have been
digging into. I had to upload that like a few
days later than usual because of a review embargo reasons.
So you know, if this has just kind of appeared

(01:09):
in your sub feed and you haven't heard that, please,
you know, go back and check that episode out, because
there were some quality reviews in there, of some quality albums.
But we are here just a few days later from
that upload, I guess, and we are going to talk
about some news and some shows and stuff like that.
My name is parenheish with me doing that for good reason.

(01:30):
As we'll get onto is Mark Sanderson. Hello, Mark, OHI captain,
how are you doing. I'm doing very very well. I'm
sailing the seas apparently very very well. Indeed, so this
is I'm sure everybody knows, the release day for the
new Ghost album, Skelet. That's one of the many, many
releases that I'll get to at the end of this episode.
But the tour for Skelet, the Perpetua Tour, whatever it

(01:53):
was called, started last week, and in a rare kind
of reversal considered you know, maybe about ten plus years ago, Mark,
we were at a stage in our friendship where I
was banging on them about Ghost all the time to you,
and you were kind of resistant for a little while.
In a rare reversal, I was not able to make
it to the Skeleton all this time, and I was

(02:13):
really really gutted about it because I wanted to, particularly
think the very first night of the entire tour was
the Manchester dates. That would have been, you know, my
date I was at. But you, Mark, after all this time,
you did go.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, it's funny that I'm sort of the correspondent from this. Yeah,
everyone in the da'stal metal world, because, like you say,
my relationship to Ghost is odd.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think these days you'd probably say you're in full flight.
It just took you a while to get there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
But also I started, like when they first emerged in
twenty ten, I liked them enough. I thought they looked cool,
so I bought I bought the record, I've bought the
bit debut, I bought infestedimm and I thought they were
just like a cool little band who weren't like my
favorite band. But it was particularly when Milliora came out

(03:07):
where I started.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
To resist, and that lasted about twelve months until Square
Hammer came out basicallyn't it yeah exactly, So on that
long at all.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
And now I fucking love them, Like, especially after seeing
this show, my first time seeing Ghost, I'm just like, oh,
that's the best band ever, I think.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah. So you know, I'm very excited to hear not
only your own, you know, your first Ghost live experience,
but also obviously everything to do with this being you know,
the opening little leg that we had here in the
UK of the currently now still ongoing Skeleton tour, what
that means for the show, what that means for the
set list, et cetera. But also I guess we're going

(03:49):
to start with There has been a little bit of
chatter around this tour around a particular kind of policy
that Ghost enforced around the banning of using phone basically
where they it's assigned essentially that you have to put
your phone in a little pouch, isn't it. So I guess,
you know, I'm just curious how exactly did this work,

(04:10):
because like, and they' having some headlines around like queues
and lines and that kind of thing, just generally like
how do you think the whole thing went off? And
you know, would you say it was worth it?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Glasgow was interesting because I still don't really know the
reason for this, but the line, like the queues outside
the hydro were fucked. I was outside. I didn't have
my phone only because I couldn't be bothered bringing it
if I was just going to put it away anyway.
So I have no concept of time. I think it
was out in the rain for an hour and a.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Half, right because I was want to work because they
didn't have a support act, did they, And that's very unusual.
And I was wondering because I guess, you know, maybe
they were factoring in this extra time of like getting
everyone into the venue. What would like the stage time,
like in terms of like when did they start and
finishing stuff, because my worry would be if you know,
coming at the other side, if I've got go and
collect my phone from you know somewhere or deep pouch

(05:03):
it or wherever it is, you know, getting out of
the venue very very late, and then you might have
to factor in you know, transport whatever boring logistical stuff,
but it's a factor.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Like I say, I add zero concept of time because
I didn't have my phone on. But they had to
delay when they went on stage because there was just
too many people outside while they were supposed to be starting.
There's there was rumors that like sound check over ran
and they can get the sound right. So that's why,
because when I saw the phone thing in action, it

(05:35):
literally was just an extra second I did, like I
can't imagine it was the phone thing that delayed them.
And at the end, I'm sure there was cues of
people trying to get their phones back, but on the
way in it was very simple, very quick. And do
we know the reason why they've done this? Just so
like new songs didn't leak or whatever. No.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think I think Tobias is, you know, he's had
it kind of put to him invarious interviews, and he
basically just said, like, I want to just kind of
have a more old school experience of you know, living
in the moment, as they like to say, and all
that kind of stuff, and you know, get your tiktoks
away during fucking Marion across and all of that stuff.
And you know, that's his kind of reasoning on it.
And there are lots of people who agree with him.
There are lots of people who, you know, will just

(06:17):
think it's kind of an extra bit of fath My
personal feeling is that I wouldn't be especially bothered by
like not being able to use my phone or whatever.
My main concern would again would be for things like
cues and getting out of a venue late and all
that kind of shit.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, I have to say I absolutely fucking loved it.
The fact that I could look at the stage and
there wasn't a single phone there. I'd really like, not
like a profoned moment, but a real sobering moment where
I realized, I don't think i've ever seen this.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's what a show would have looked like in nineteen
eighty five, you know, Yeah, particularly about like it was obviously,
oh shark you here.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I am a massive fan of arena metal from the
nineteen eighties, and I watched a lot of footage from
shows from the nineteen eighties, and that's what this ghost
show felt like, genuinely, and the no phone thing like
it meant. I started at the back because when I
got in there was five minutes before the lights went

(07:17):
off and they were on stage. So I started at
the back and then moved my way forward throughout the show.
But the no phone thing meant everyone, even like the
old fogies there with their daughters or whatever who would
be on their phone, stood at the back. It meant
they had to like, watch, like and engage with the show.

(07:38):
Even if they weren't singing and dancing, they were listening
and watching and engaging with it. And it just meant
that the atmosphere was just so everyone was having a
good time, you know, no one was distracted. It was
just I want this for every show.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, which again I'm sure that would have been the
intent in terms of what they wanted to achieve by it.
By doing it again, I know you said you didn't
actually have your phone on you to check times or whatever,
but you know, sort of roughly like what time they
like went on or finished or whatever. Did they finish
early to account for people going to have to collect
their phones or whatever?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I actually have no idea.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, all right, but yeah, so I guess that's the
phone thing covered. Let's talk about the show itself. We've
spoken about obviously, the roll up to Skeleton and the
unveiling of the Pappa and the Ghules and all of
that stuff, and the music videos and obviously the only
photos that I've seen of this are you know, the
official photography obviously through the proper channels because no one

(08:38):
was doing it on their phones. But seeing the Ghules
in like the crazy fucking you know, like steampunk batwings,
whatever kind of attire that you see in like the
the lachrym and music video or all that, it looked
as cool as I you know, hoped it would.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, And seeing them like they had the sparkly top hat,
had the light little gas mask or whatever. The ghouls
seeing them in motion are so fucking cool. They've got
all the power stances you would want on them. Rocks
out with a key tar, I mean not, you know,
they have rees and yeah, the whole aesthetic of it.

(09:24):
The show started with the first song on the new record,
and it was very simple, like just a black backdrop,
very little lights. They had like the big ghost like
upside down cross schigil thing made out of lights above them,
so that was really cool. But for the first song

(09:46):
there was like only little screens next to the stage
where you can see them. It was very simple, very minimalist.
And then as the show progressed, the background's got more elaborate,
the lights got brighter, the light sort of sequences got
more elaborate. They had flames, they had sparkles like. As

(10:07):
the set progressed, the more spectacular it got, the larger
the screens at the side of the stage got. It
just felt so well thought out. And I love Papa
such as like because obviously I've only ever interacted with
ghosts through the records, so I've never like seen him

(10:28):
in action. Fuck me, he's such a shureman.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Did you watch the the movie last year?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
No? I listened to the album though, right, I haven't
seen the movie yet. I'm desperate to see it now
because I just want any shred of this.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, the movie bit is a bit wank, but you know,
the actual the show is, you know, it's a great
ghost show. He's normally got you know, several cost change,
costume changes and stuff kind of across a set again,
like you know, the last time they were touring, basically,
by the time he reached the encore and it danced
for carb time and stuff, the venue turned into essentially
like a giant multi color a disco, which maybe they're
still doing at this point, but you know many cool

(11:05):
Papa fits or whatever to change it that night again.
I mainly want to know if he has the wings
that he's got in again the the lachroomy video and stuff,
because those look fucking sensational.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've seen pictures from mother shows were the Papa levitated
and annoyingly I didn't see that.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
So this is like when you entered the toilet and
missed the iron made an eddie gunfight on the last tour.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Luck just watch, I'll go to the toilet during this
maiden show and they'll be like Mark Sansen's the coolest
guy ever. Just want to give him a hair.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Or they're gonna play Holy smoke. Yeah. So so you know,
it sounds like a big old ghost spectacles as we
can kind of attest the main thing, and then I'm like,
that looks so awesome. For what I've seen are the
the Ghoule costumes and stuff. I just think they've got
to look for this particularly great. But looking at this
set list, which again I after, you know, the very

(11:56):
first night of the tour, I looked with great attention
at what it would be like, and there are things
in there which make me go, oh nice, and there
were things that made me go, that's really strange. First
of all, the fact you mentioned the open with a
new song, peace Field, which was the world premiere of it,
because they hadn't released that as a single. I believe
they've just released a haven't listen to it yet, but

(12:19):
you know, the opening with a new song that literally
no one's heard yet. It is bold, and then another
one it looks like at least or one or two
more later on in the set that hadn't been heard yet. Obviously,
we've got Satanized and Lachryma and stuff. Lachramer. We haven't
spoken on the show because we mainly do first singles,
but I fucking love that song. I might like it

(12:39):
even more than Satanized. Lachrama has been absolutely on lock
in my head the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Mate, I'm fucking obsessed with that song. It's like, I mean,
there's a Bond Jewelfry song basically, so I fuck I
adore it and putting that second that's when I lock in.
That's where I'm like, oh yeah, I'm I love ghosts.
This is the best night in my life. Like the
bit in Lachrama where the soul really locks in and

(13:07):
it does the chorus melody. That's like the best piece
of music I've heard in the years. I'm obsessed with it.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, we're gonna pop off so much more about Lakrema
and I guess other songs maybe as well when it
comes to you know, we review the album in a
a couple of weeks time, but you know that that
stands out looking down this setlist, though obviously there are
all the you know songs that you will have seen
for the first time because this is your first one.
But the usual songs that are in their you know
serese rituals always the one from Opus if they do

(13:38):
only one year zero he is whatever, and then that encore,
which I'll let you just gas about in a little while.
But there are there's quite a few songs here that
are being brought out for the first time in you know,
a number of years, and songs that are like notable
in their absence, mainly the fact that imperror the previous

(14:01):
album they played one song from it, and the song
that they played was a live debut Darkness at the
Heart of My Love, they played for the first time,
having not played that song on the actual Imperial Cycle,
and the rest of it's gone. And I guess that's
just got to be a case of I don't know,
I new era, time to mix things up, and I'm
sure that the likes of you know, Spill Ways and

(14:24):
call Me Little Sunshine and all that will kind of
resurface in time, just as some of these other songs have.
And He's just you know, decided to, you know, just
kind of keep things a little bit fresh and exciting.
But I don't remember Ghost on any album cycle doing
that where they've basically, you know, rotated the entire previous
album out.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, and it's like don't just had the Heart of
My Love. It's a single, long song, but it's not
a banger.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's the ballad on the album.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, it's a very odd choice to be the one
and you're playing I don't want to be salty because
obviously Emperor is my favorite ghost read good, I love it.
I went into the show hoping for a lot of that,
and then I was suddenly just faced with five Meleyover
songs in a row. This is what I get, This

(15:12):
is my karma.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Absolutely me those years ago. Certainly, I said, I'm sure
they will come back. They have to because it's Spillways, man,
like that. It's quite the it's quite ballsy to write.
It's always good as Spillways and as long again, there's
other great songs fing that record, And then a year
later be like, well we're gonna side like that for
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, even like Spillways in particular. Yeah, but even Hunter's Moon, Like,
how's that not in the set? And I guess like
they're making room for these melloy Over songs, which grudgingly
we're good. I hate, you know, I hate to admit
when I'm hate to admit when I'm wrong. But Spirit Rocks,

(15:57):
Pinnacle to the Pit rocks, especially live like Pinnacle to
the Pit is so heavy, yeah, and so imposing and
evil proper groove. Ah, I went with my mum and
she loves series, so she was really happy to see
Seres Like of all the Ghost songs.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but again, it's funny that you know songs like that,
and obviously you know Year's ear even longer or whatever.
They've never been you know, rotated out for too long.
It's just the Imperial ones. He's just suddenly decided out
for now. But yeah, some of those Meleura songs. Spirit
for the first time since twenty nineteen, Majesty for the
first time since twenty nineteen. Spirit. I didn't imagine they

(16:36):
never played Spirit again, to be honest, because that was
the opener of Meleura, and then a year later when
we've not got a good opener, we need square Hammer.
So I thought Spirit was just sort of I don't note,
like you know, out of the Cold, but that's a
wild pull to that. Magicy's a great song, really, I see
that one in there. We got the live debut of
the future as of foreign Land, which is the track,
the original track from the movie soundtrack. Obviously they hadn't

(16:57):
actually toured with that in the set. Great tune. That
was a good time.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I love that song so much. It's one of the songs.
I heard it probably once or twice when the live
album came out. When I was listening to the live album,
never really thought that much about it live with a
little bit more power behind it. Obviously. I love the
recorded version that sounds like nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, it's quite sort of jngly pop sort of song,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah? And I love that sound, but live it really
comes alive. It just sounds so big and dance like.
It was just like a big dance party and there
were so many people around me who were singing that
song as if it was you know, he Is or something.
And for what's ostensibly just like the song at the
end of a live album, the fact that it went

(17:44):
down with the crowd like it was spill ways says
a lot.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah. The thing on this set list that is the
most me coded, essentially is I have for several years
I've been thinking and saying, put Monster's Clock back in,
because that used to be the like before we had
you know, Square, Hammond, Rats and these mega hits that
used to be kind of the de facto ghost closer.
Most of their songs in you know, If Assist and

(18:10):
Mom and then the early Meliura kind of years and
stuff like that, and I love that song and I
loved it in the live environment, it was always such
like a ecstatic, you know kind of you know, people
always make the comment about ghost shows being like, you know,
like sermons and stuff like that, and most of time
it is like a party. But that's the song where
it almost felt the most like you know that kind

(18:31):
of along with here is that sort of like devil
Church type thing, and I love that. And seeing monstrance
Clock appear closing the main set for the first time
since twenty nineteen, that's the thing where I go, oh,
I wish I had, you know, seen that, and I
hope that it does stick around for long enough for
me to catch it again, because that's a that's a
beautiful pill.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
It was one of those things where I don't think
I'd thought about Monsteron's clock and so long, but in
ste of the early days of ghost that was the
song that everyone would point to. I never saw a
ghost life, but I knew that was the song they
closed with, like it was just a thing with ghost

(19:09):
and like the background the big screen behind them, there's
crazy shit happening, like a tentacle or some shit, a
big spider man crawling around behind behind the band, and
I was like, oh my, Like this is a song
from when they would have been playing relatively small venues

(19:31):
in an arena. That just it feels so suiting. It's
you know, it's threatening, it's satanic, but it's also so
catchy and so like, I mean, it feels like celebrating
the end of the world.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
To U cliche, did he bring back the old intro
of like this is a song about cunning and all
that kind of stuff that I used to say every
single time beome Monster's Clock.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
I don't think you did. By he made some allusions
to our souls before other.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Songs as ever, Yeah, obviously, you know, to talk about
the old stuff. I'm just so happy that Richie Will
has never gone away, because it feels like it could
at any point, but I'm so happy that it hasn't.
Now Monster's Clock is bat black. You've got to bring
back Elizabeth and Secular Hayes. I'm always amazed that Secular
Haze just is completely like a ghost footnote these days,
even though I swear that was like the lead single

(20:21):
from that record. Anyway, Yeah, Monstrous Clock, beautiful seeing that
back of all the things to have swapped back in
having lost the entirety Imperia. Basically, I'm cool with that one.
And you know, as said, it's your first go show,
it's your first time to appreciate how unbelievable the greats
hits is.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
When we've got a run towards the end of the mainset,
we've got rats and kissed the go Goat just straight
into each other, and then an encore of Mary on
a Cross dance per carb square Hammer. That's proper, isn't it.
That's why they are like the band.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
I mean, we've litigated this in the past, before Mary
on a Cross was ticked to, before I was validated
by the Internet. I always thought that's the best ghost
song and then you'd be like, nah, it's the B side,
blah blah blah. You were proven wrong. I don't want
to go on about it, but seeing that live, the

(21:14):
energy obviously is because it was a TikTok hit, but
the energy coming from the crowd was electric. It was like,
obviously no one was pulling their phones out, so all
that energy was directed towards just screaming every single word
and like dancing around. I love that song. I love

(21:36):
dance macab I mean basically they played my three favorite
ghost songs because I'm normally at the end there. Square
Hammer live is magical. It just Papa came out in
like a red sequined like suit jacket for square Hammer,

(21:57):
and he looked the business he was doing, you know,
is like his power moves, and he was grabbing his
fist and shit, he was air grabbing. And square Hammer
is basically like my favorite big metal song in the
last ten years. I think it's perfect. It's the perfect
like metal single. And even though I've loved that song

(22:22):
for almost ten years, seeing it live where it was
intended to be heard, where it was like it was
written to be a live song, it was like I
got it all over again. I was like, oh, this
isn't just the best song in the last ten years,
this is the best thing I've ever seen. Like I
was giddy. It was like no seeing entersand man, you know.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, obviously you're you're the wrong person to ask in
terms of like was this a a kind of a
you know, a building upon or an upgrade from previous
live shows or whatever, because it's your first one, But
in terms of just like a scale of show if
we're looking forward to, like you know, the general psych
of wares where it might go. Sounds like it was,

(23:08):
you know, a huge spectacle as well as a big,
old yeah bunch of hits.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Without being like overbearing or an embarrassment of riches. It
was quite like an old school you know. They had
one song where they had the sparks come down, They
had a couple songs where there was flames, but it
was just a big arena metal show like I grew
up watching on VHS's, you know, like watching Death Leopard

(23:37):
live videos from the eighties. It felt like that it
was just a traditional big arena show. It wasn't like,
I know, there wasn't a big zombie coming out, but
it was just a really tight live band, all of
whom are Shulman like, even the ones who aren't given names,

(24:00):
even the gruels in the back, all of them know
how to play to the crowd and it's just the
energy between band and crowd is correct and if it's amazing.
I just loved every second of it.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Basically, Yeah, the album is you know, it's out today
as this podcast goes out, so I'm sure that you're
all listening to it. We will review it obviously in
a couple of weeks time or something, and I really
hope that I do get my chance, you know, on
this cycle when they come around again to see it,
because looks bloody bloody Great. Let's move on to the
news for today, and we're going to start first of

(24:36):
all with a little disclaimer that, as said, the show
that we just put out of the review show recorded
a few days in advance of when it was released.
Crucial news. In there, we were speaking about the announcement
that Weezer seemingly had been making a movie. Right after
we had recorded that, before we'd uploaded it, more news

(24:57):
came that Keanu Reeves is apparent playing the villain in
the Weezer movie. And when this dropped, Mark, you were
seemingly unaware of the news in the first place that
Weeza were even making a movie, so you had all
of this kind of whiplash at once of like Weezer movie, Kean, who.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
I had no idea. I guess I'm more offline than
I realized. Yeah, one, have you put in the group
chat or the discord or something this headline villain. I'm sorry,
this is.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
The thing because we were theorizing last time about what
former Weezer movie could be and I was mentioning something
like the Weird Owl movie with Dad Daniel Radcliffe, and
that has now been kind of used the sort of
a reference one for the kind of tone, which is
again what I'm kind of expecting, But like villain who
it like thinking about, you know, covering the Weezer story
as we have done, thinking like who is the villain

(25:51):
in the Weezer story, I would argue it's Rivers Cuomo himself.
So maybe uh, Keanu is going to play some kind
of like the dark side of the soul Doppelgang, which
I would absolutely sign up for. He's probably gonna be
I don't know, some kind of like someone out of
kiss his imagination of like some guy who tries to
stop them rocking or something. But like, like, what is

(26:11):
a Weezer villain I had?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I had an idea he's the personification of Pitchfork.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now that actually if if he could be like some
kind of like you know, in an editorial office pounded
out headlines about Weezer being washed up or whatever, and
then if a climactic scene of the movie, like a
big moment is when Rivers writes that fucking tell me
what you want the song. Yeah, and there's the little

(26:41):
Pitchfork line. If that is almost like an like the
bit in the Robbie Williams Monkey Movie when he fights
all the different monkeys. If we can have a Rivers
versus Pitchfork equivalent with with Keanu doing his fucking matrix moves.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Or Keanu just like a keyboard typing five out of time.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Ah. The more we think about this, the more disappointed
I'm going to be when it doesn't include these wonderful
things that we've built up in our head. But that's
a brilliant idea. I love that.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
I mean, is this gonna be a train wreck? Maybe
I don't trust Wesa really, but it has become the
thing I'm most anticipating ever.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, I can't fucking wait. So that's a crucial update
on you know, last week news that we were talking
about the Weezer movie, something else that we were speaking
about was Coachella. I always forget that Coachella is bizarrely
meeted out over two different weekends, so we had more
Coachella and the rock based story that's come out of
Coachella this time, not including the fucking you know kneecap

(27:46):
Sharon Osborne nonsense, which I'm not even going to go into.
But Charlie XCX played and she has, you know, she's
ruled a lot of the last year in general pop culture. Obviously,
the Brat album was phenomenon. We had the nomenum of
Brat Summer, and I guess, you know, ahead of this summer,
she chose to kind of officially sort of like wind

(28:09):
down the album campaign for Bratt with a kind of
I don't know, a video slideshow behind saying that you know,
BRAT Summer is over, but maybe it's now time for
and in a pretty cool move, she just inserted lots
of other just shout outs to other artists flashing up
on the screen with you declaration that it's X summer,

(28:31):
and there's fucking loads of these things. I saw this,
and again I didn't watch the set. I just saw
all the different ones appearing on Twitter, and I thought
it was like a meme template and people were adding
in their own ones because I was like, I don't
believe that Cronenberg summer like like particularly because I mean, again,
this is you know, moving into T ANDM do's horror territory.
But like I'm a huge David Cronenberg fan. I cannot

(28:52):
wait to see his new movie. But the new movie
is about Cronenberg's dead wife. And it's not very summary, right,
it's not. It's not very brat summer to be looking
forward to David Cronaberg and the Shrouds. But all of
these like things inserted in and obviously the one that
has you know, taken the eye of the rock press
is Charlie XX. Officially again not in a mean capacity,

(29:13):
which I thought it was at first, but officially the
evidence is there declared it to be a turnstile summer.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Cool as fuck? Mad? Oh is it that Mad? I
don't know, Yeah, I don't toast really.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Moved things. Yeah, it's almost like a it was a
little bit of a surprise, but not a giant surprise.
It was more like a kind of what's the word,
like a solidification of kind of where terms ole are
that you know, someone like Charlie Sex, who is you know,
very plugged in, you know, kind of aware of her surroundings,
kind of artist, it's not surprising that they would be

(29:50):
the band of our world that you know, would come
onto her radar. But amidst all of this in a
huge coachell a set like in playing in front of
so many fucking thousands of people. Odd knows how many
more people watching on the internet or whatever, who generally
have nothing to do with even the most popular breakout
of hardcore. I'm not saying every single person seeing that
is going to go and google every single artist is

(30:10):
coming up, but you know who have chating on, like
Addison Ray or whatever, people like that. And then suddenly
Turnstile is in there.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's like, what, yeah, alongside pulp is it okay? Yeah,
like you say, not everyone's going to be watching videodrome
and listening to non stop feeling. But just the fact
that she's done it is really cool.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
What a good day that is?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh my god? Is it? In a way, it's funny
because I feel like Charlie XCX and Turnstile sort of
occupy the same space within rock and pop right because
they're just like cool artists to people in the underground,
really liked in the world, like the cool thing for years,
and now our reaching a level of mainstream success.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, bringing with it a little bit of BackFlash as well.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Sure, Yeah, I mean, turnstile need to start shouting out.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, But like I said, I saw it. I thought
it was like just a ship post dememe template that
people were putting in and then I saw the real thing.
Went now, Actually she did declare it a turnstile summer.
That's pretty sensational they have. And you know, and if
Charlie has said it, I guess who are we to argue?
So Turnstile Summer obviously incoming. We all knew, but now
someone else has said it. There was a headline that
came out of an interview this week with Mike Borden,

(31:25):
of course, the Faith No More Drummer, where he kind
of addressed the current status of Faith No More. Where
the last thing we you know, the last activity we
had was around the time the pandemic, wasn't it. There
were Faith No More shows that were planned then they
were pulled, with the reasoning being Mike Patten's mental well
being essentially, you know, kind of he wasn't ready for

(31:47):
whatever reason it may have been, to go out on
the road and play those shows. And everyone was like, cool,
we're going to you know, put the pin in that
hope everyone understands. It has now been several years, the
pandemic came and went, no sign of any Faith No
More activity. I had a ticket for one of those
Faith No More shows that you know, never happened. I
have seen Faith No More in the past, thankfully, but

(32:07):
you know, and I've just sort of I've looked at
that and I've gone it feels like Faith No More
are currently not a band, right, Like you know, he's
been doing Mister Bungle. The rest of them are, you know,
kind of largely at the limelight. I guess. Mike Borden
in this interview said that essentially Mike Patten doesn't really
want to talk to any of them at the moment,

(32:27):
and in his words, he's gone from being kind of
unable to play the shows as they were when they
pulled them, to just unwilling to play them because obviously
he's gone and done these other things like Mister Bungle
and all that. And the way that Mike Borden said this,
it kind of sounded like he wanted to get it
on the record, almost like if anyone out there is wondering, what,
you know, where is Faith No More? What are way
up to? He's kind of just wanted to make it

(32:49):
clear to everyone. There's just there isn't really communication going
on there. And I guess this is confirmation of like
I said, what I was sort of of what I
was sort of viewing, which is that faith name more
at least for the meantime, but you know, who knows,
maybe permanently. I feel like we've lost a few of
these kind of you know, reunited but then now gone again,

(33:11):
you know, ratings machine done. I think the Faith No
More reunion certainly for the meantime, but maybe permanently has
run its course.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, they were. It's nice to have this in a
way because they have just sort of been in a
limbo of like they sort of exist but also don't exist.
I don't want to, you know, speculate on what's going on.
But because they broke up before, I'm not too familiar with,
Like I don't know the behind the scenes of Faith

(33:42):
No More. But was there like a falling out originally
all those years ago?

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Like yeah, I'm not sure i'd have to go any.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Precedence or is it just all hearsay on our part?

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, I mean, maybe it's just a thing. Again. My
pattern being obviously a very creatively having things and a
lot of pies kind of guy has.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Just not had time.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well, I can say more found inspiration elsewhere and being
like I don't want to go and do Faith the
More right now, I am more interested in doing these
other things, and he doesn't want to. I don't know.
He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who forces
himself to go out on the road and play songs
that he's not currently interested in playing.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Right, Yeah, and the commercial appeal isn't your no appeal
to him either?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, I don't think he needs much to be honest,
He's kind of made his legacy, isn't he? So again
it is it's a it's a shame because Faith the
More obviously any live shows be well up for that.
Sign me up even more music? Right it's ten years
this year isn't Solen Victus, which is a crazy thought.
But you know, I guess some people may have wondered
if we'd ever get a follow up to that record,

(34:47):
but I maybe we'll get another reunion. But it seems
like right now he can just say Faith there more are,
for all intents and purposes are disbanded right now? Band?
So yeah, there's another kind of confirmation of something thing
that's at least, you know, come and gone. Something that
is coming is Alice Cooper, which is a really random
bit of news. Alice Cooper the Band, right, so if

(35:09):
you know you're Alice Cooper history, obviously he's a dude.
We know that guy. But the name originally referred to
a band who were together in the I guess the
late sixties and the early seventies, made a string of
some of the most classic Alice Cooper material, you know,
stuff like Schools Out and Billion Dollar Babies and Killer
and all those kind of records. Alice Cooper the Band

(35:31):
disbanded after an album in nineteen seventy three, and then
Alice Cooper the Guy went on and did everything else
at Alice Cooper have done. The Alice Cooper Band have
announced that they are reuniting for their first album since
nineteen seventy three. So that's fifty two years without that
line up. I guess put it together something, and that's

(35:52):
kind of crazy. There's an album called The Revenge of
Alice Cooper, which is going to be coming out in
I think July. There's a song from it out called
black Member, and I was like, I don't know what
the fuck you expect from fifty two years away from
for all intense purposes, this version of the band. You know,
how do you set expectations for that? It's it's mental,

(36:14):
I do you know. I like, you know, billion Dollar
Babies and Killer and those classic Alice Cooper records, But
how on earth could you expect that, you know, to
be picked up fifty two years later? I will say
the song where maybe I've got it in my head
that all like you know, kind of old hard rock
bands or whatever, they all sound like the Motley Crue
canceled EP. Now the song Black Member fits more into

(36:38):
that sort of classic seventies mold. Obviously it's not the
most fired up thing in the world, but it's got
the general sort of the slinky vibe or whatever. I'm
not saying it's the most exciting thing ever. But just
the news that the classic Alice Cooper band reuniting for
an album after fifty two years is fucking news, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
It's so mad. I don't even know how to comport
mental life this in my head. No, it's like that's
so fucking long, like unfathomably long. And like you said,
the song, the song is very comfy is lovely to
listen to, and it's exactly what you would think it

(37:18):
would sound like. I mean, no, I like schools Out,
I like killer this era of Alice Cooper's career, I
am less a fan of.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
You're a hairl guy, so I'm a hair metal guy.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
House on Fire is the best song of all time.
I think it's it's sort of it's not like a
novelty in the same way as like, I don't know,
necro gobble Coln or something, but it's almost a novelty
to be like, I'm sorry these guys reunited after how long?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah? So, the Aerosmith debut album was released in nineteen
seventy three, Fuck Me. The last album that this you
know band allis Coup put out came out the same
year as arasmith first one.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
How many farewell tours are fair of Smith?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
I know it's pretty insane, but yeah, I can't expect
it to be the most dangerous thing in the world. Like,
I think there's a romance around that era at Alice
Cooper being like I just completely quincidosely. I watched Wes
Craven's Last House on the Left a few days ago
and there's a whole thing in that clearly inspired by
the stories of Alice Cooper, like cutting heads off chickens

(38:27):
and stuff at the time, where like, you know, it
was like the most dangerous thing in the world. And
I can't expect this to be that after fifty two years.
You know, we have watta now. It can't be the same.
But you know, the song I thought was not bad,
and I guess just out of sheer curiosity. I'll check
out the record when it comes. We also have an

(38:48):
album announcement from Black Braid, who announced the Black Braid
three album, believe it or not, the third Black Braid
album in the sequence of them. No new music from
that yet, no single or anything, but the new Black
Braid three album is going to be out on August
the eighth. It's got a pretty cool It's got a
deer on the cover in me and you Mark, we
like an astral deer on the cover. I also like

(39:11):
that it's continuing considering how kind of visible Black Braid
is for a black metal band, continuing the streak of
getting kind of more and more underground black metal covers.
There's a Lord Butliol cover at the end of this
which is a you know, the last one a Bathory,
but this is a fucking niche pool and I'm here
for it. I'm excited for this because Black Braid two,

(39:31):
in particular, I thought from a couple of years ago,
is really fucking awesome. So signing in for a new
Black Braid. I'm going to be seeing Black Braid in
a I think next weekend at Incineration. So cool, exciting there.
Let's talk about a few live announcements. First of all,
over in the US, riot Fest has unveiled the lineup
for twenty twenty five. I guess it's headlined by Blink one,

(39:52):
Ey two, Weezer, and Green Day, which you could have
told me that every one of those bands headlined riot
First for the last ten years, and I probably would have,
I believe you, if I did not also know that
Slayer did it recently, which is I don't really understand,
maybe because I've not been right, I don't really understand
the audience at Riotfest. If anyone has been and kind
of I don't know, like has more of a first

(40:12):
time experience of what the vibe is like, I'd be
curious because again I view it almost as like alternative
rock leaning, but then they had fucking Slayer last year,
and that through things like what's they or is it
metal heads? Is it pop? Like this could be like
when we were a young lineup, you know, like I
don't really understand riot Fest.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
No, yeah, everyone I know who is like a riot
Fest goer I would charitably describe as Menzinger's fans, like
that's the only band I know. They are all like yeah, right, first,
It's so interesting because, like you say, Slayer can headline,
but it'salking like Elvis Costello. Yeah shit like that. I mean,

(40:53):
I guess what right Fest is for is for people
like me who like all of that stuff, who love
fucking Cobra Starship.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
The Academy is Cobra Starship and Jim Class heroes.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
I mean, fucking hell, ho have we reached this point?

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yeah? I mean the Weezer. Notably, they're listed on the
poster is Voyage to the Blue Planet, which I guess
is just a really jazzed up, fanciful language way of
saying they're playing the blue album again.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Oh yeah, they wasn't their last tour like the Voice
to the Blue Planet, And I had that promotional photo
of them in the blue album like Stance wearing astronaut costumes.
Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (41:39):
No, I don't. I mean again, I would rather have
it feed into the movie and have them kind of
have it be like, you know, twenty thousand leagues under
the sea, Weezer in a submarine. Maybe they go down
and fight the sea King.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I mean, if they're looking for a whole day destination
now here as all as sunny and bikini bottom.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Mad. If the Weezer movie was actually a secret SpongeBob movie,
I mean, it would be I beyond brat love it.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Five stars for me.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, I think that's enough Weezer for one week. Creeper
are going to be playing Sanguavore in its entirety at
London's Coco on the the thirtieth of May. I imagine
that's probably sold out by the time this episode has
gone out, and obviously it's just just in London, but
Sangavore they've been playing pretty much all of it. Anyway.
The only time I think I think I haven't seen

(42:27):
is more than Death, which would be a nice big,
you know, climactic end, but seeing it, you know, what's
the word kind of exhibited in that way with obviously
imagine a big stage show and stuff like that. Probably
gonna be a bloody by great time. So you know,
we are gonna have a little segment, which we seem
to be having more and more these days. And it
is the segment that I am most aware paints us

(42:50):
as being out of touch old fogies. But I feel
like the last couple of years has been more like, well,
hang on, that band are really big, and we have
to have a segment where every now and then we
come together and go, so where is this band at.
We did it very recently, just a couple weeks ago
with Ice nine Kills when they announced they were playing
the fucking huge arena here in Manchester and we had

(43:11):
to go our Ice nine Kills actually legit one of
our like megastars. Now this is not quite to that level,
but let's just touch base, I guess, and have a
little conference about the status of Motionless in White in
twenty twenty five, because Motionless in White have been a
band very for someone who does not give a shit

(43:32):
about their music at all, they've been a very interesting
band to observe for the last like ten years or whatever.
They have announced in the UK and in Europe a
you know, arena tour. They are doing some pretty you know,
pretty doable arenas I suppose they do, and Azada panis
in London, the AO Arena in Manchester which is now

(43:52):
the smaller of the two arenas Hydro and Glasgow, et cetera.
So nothing kind of too crazy. And this is actually
it's almost like catching up to where they are in America,
because they are much much bigger than that in America
and they will hand it play large venues over there.
I guess it's just an opportunity for us to again
confer about, like reminding ourselves that Motionless and White are

(44:16):
a big band, because this happened in a very strange
way where it's almost like when I, like I knew
Motionless and White from back then, and at some point
when I wasn't looking, they became as sif do you
feel the same.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yeah, you could have told me they're playing the Cocoa
and I'd be like, oh yeah, good for them, still
plugging away. Oh god, this I live under a rock.
I don't know. I listened to your old Alice Cooper
metal records. I'm not you know. I thought most of
us and White were on the way out. I thought

(44:53):
they were like hanging on for dear life, but now
suddenly the biggest band in the world.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Yeah, this is the thing. I remember a couple of year.
It was two years ago, I guess when the last
sleep Token album came out, and there was all of
that discourse, you know, but we per took the internet
generally partok in sleep Token discourse and about kind of
the new breed of metal, and there was an article
shared around a little bit. I thought it was a
good article. I can't remember. It was out on like
Stereogum or somewhere like that, some online site, and it

(45:21):
was about how the kind of the new breed of
metal is generally the least actually heavy metal as it's
ever been. And that's not the conversation I'm here to have.
I'm just have to bring up that article because I
remember in that article they listed they were like, here
are a bunch of like the like the enormous new
breed megastar metal bands that we have at the moment,
and it was sleep Token and bad Omens and spirit

(45:42):
Box and these bands, and it's like, yeah, obviously we
all know. And then they mentioned Motionless and White and
I thought that was weird at the time. I was like, what,
They're not in that category at all, They're like ten
years out of date, Like, where's this idea that's Motionless
and White art at all on the same level of
kind of like you know, cutting edge popularity as a
bad omens or a spirit box or whatever it might be.
And then in the last couple of years, I've kind

(46:03):
of realized that that guy who put that in was
actually a little bit more knowledgeable than maybe I was
about it, because Motionless and White have become really big,
and like we said, we I remember Mostless and White
as being, you know, the spooky kind of goth metalcore
band from in the early to mid twenty tens, right,
And the people who I like, I generally think Motions

(46:26):
White are a bad band. Like I don't think they
were particularly good back then. I think they've gotten much
much worse, as you know, time has gone on. But
the people in my life who like Motionless and White,
people like Sam Dignot for example, it's mainly that kind
of early to mid era, right. So it maybe it's
again the circle. You know, your your kind of curated

(46:50):
internet algorithm or whatever tuned Motionless and White out. But
I've just had to set the request right here. The
time that perhaps people our age or whatever kind of
tuned out of Most of and White is actually when
they got bigger. Because there's an album that we mainly
kind of we like to send each other the album
cover because it's such a shit album cover, The Disguise

(47:11):
album from twenty nineteen, with one of the most rubbish
album covers. I remember we reviewed that album on TNN
back in twenty nineteen, and I thought it was pretty
piss poor and you know, terrible production, all this kind
of stuff. But that's their biggest album. I think there's
a song on that album that has uh, what is
this two hundred and twenty million streams for a song

(47:33):
with Another Life from that album, and that's their biggest
song by a mile. So that point when I think again,
as you were saying, a lot of people probably went, oh,
you know, they're dropping off or whatever, that's actually when
they got big Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Why isn't the mercular misconception the biggest song. Firstly, it's
so mad because I liked the first couple of most
of some White records in the same way I like
the first few MISMAYI albums, and I always group them
together like Miss may I aren't headlining arenas, let's put

(48:07):
it like that. And I guess I was being a
bit smug, being a snob judging a book by its cover.
Motionless and White were waning a bit. I saw the
Disguise album cover and assumed everyone will look at that
and say, I'm not listening to that fucking rubbish, But
apparently people were. It's catnip for America.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Two hundred and twenty million streams on that that one
song from that one. Then obviously since then they've had
the slaughter House crossover with Not Loose and stuff like that.
But yeah, Motionless and White, I just think we have
to remind ourselves legitimately again. Who knows how well they'll
do on this particular UK arena t all compared to
the established, you know, kind of base in America or whatever,
but most of and White, not A has been actually

(48:54):
legitimately one of our bigger bands right now, and that's
a I just felt like I had drop that little
bit of knowledge on you mark about you know, thatarticular
song and some of this stuff, because some people might
not again be up to date on how actually seemingly
relevant mostly in my are I just don't.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
The last time I listened to Mrscalists and White, they
send a like modern escape the fate. How is this allowed?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I would not, I mean fair play to them. I
would not have put money on them being a band
from that like twenty twelve crop to still be relevant
in you know, this new baddie cour era or whatever.
But they have done it. There you go, And a
final tour announcement here a final tour Orange Goblin, who
we already know that they are going to be hanging

(49:36):
it up at the end of this year. They're doing
you know, festival dates and stuff, but they have announced
a final actual tour in the UK and Ireland as
well that it's going to be taking place in December.
And the bill brings along one of the great heavy
metal bands of the twenty first century, Grand Magas, and
one of the more kind of you know, positively you know,

(49:57):
well liked kind of up and coming metal band in
the UK as well. Opening it earn that Orange Goblin,
Grand Vegas and Urn together, which is a lot of riffs.
It's a lot of riffs on a bill in it.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
And a lot of different types of riff, which is great.
I'm so so glad because obviously they announced their breaking
up and it wasn't extremely clear whether the dates associated
with that, which was basically just a festival run.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Yeah, the last year of Bloodstock.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
You know, hm hmm, Yeah, it wasn't clear whether there
was going to be dates after that. They did sort
of set it up like those were the final shows.
I've never seen Orange Goblin. I love Orange Goblin. The
fact that I have one chance to salute them and
fucking Grand Vegas an owner there. I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
They're playing Manchester on my birthday. Do you want to
come down? Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:50):
You know what, Yeah, let's let's sort of that.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Let's let's make a plan and let's you know, salute,
salute the Goblin and then the Magas and then yeah. Nice.
I encourage everyone to go to that tour because Orange
Goblin one of the one of the greats in this country.
So there you go. That is the news this time.
Let's quickly little update people on what's going on on
the Patreon right now. The last thing that we have

(51:13):
is the first part of our poison, the Well special
that we undertook. We are currently in you know, the
middle portion of doing a special on one of the
most pivotal influential metalcore bands of all time, but certainly
that you know, turn of the Millennium era when metalcore
as we know it was really formed. We will pick
that story up in a little while with the next part.

(51:36):
The next thing that we are going to be doing
is the album Club Pack that we haven't to do
just yet, but it will be coming in a few
days time or something, and that is going to feature
the albums that I announced on the last show. If
you hadn't heard it, I'll just go through again here.
We're going to be doing Megadeth, Thrusting Peace, Killing Jokes
two thousand and three, self titled sunny Dale, real Estates Diary,

(51:56):
and gor Gut's Colored Sands, which is an album that
I've been listening to since twenty thirteen, but I'm going
to need these extra days to get my head around
it the time we get to the album Color Pats,
that's for certain. But yeah, that's going to be coming
in the you know, very very immediate future. I also
we had got to do a TNM does Horror at
some point in the next couple of weeks because that
new movie Sinners that everyone is absolutely raving about. You know,

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we've been to see it. It's gonna be a really
good chat once we actually get around to doing that
as well. But those are very much on the cards
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Let's end on releases. First of all, as is usually

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the case, there's a handful of records from last week
when we did the reviews show that we did not
mention that we should mention here. First of all, there's
the returning Super Heaven album. We weren't able to include
that one in our review show, but obviously one of
the more kind of I guess you know, semi revered
bands from the kind of old rock revival of the

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early twenty tens. They returned with their first album in
a long time, and from what I can tell, it
sounds like super Heaven, and you know, the it's kind
of pleasing the people who really need more of that
super heaven sound, so that's that's good. The South title
Toupe Heaven actually album is out from last week. There
was also a new Melvin's album called Fundable. There was
a new Lick album that's lik the Swedish death metal

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just kind of chainstory type shit album called Necro. Also
in death metal, the a's a band called Ancient Death
with an album called Ego Dissolution which is very much
kind of like Blood Incantation style, you know, kind of weirdo,
very technically minded, but proggy, strange, cosmic death metal. If
you like your stuff a little bit more doomy piece villy.

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Perhaps there's the band Tribunal with Impenitence and Ruin. There
was an album that was just kind of dropped out
of the blue from a new band called Heaven's Gate,
which features I believe it's Tony foresta from Nisper Waste
and all so Paul Mazurkerwitz, the drummer from Cannibal Corps,
and they just surprise drops like a nineteen minute album
called Tales from a Blistering Paradise which is just gnarly, fast, scuzzy,

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you know, crossovery punk type stuff. Nice to hear Paul
Maazerkerwitz drumming on something of such you know again brevity,
good stuff there underground cult epic is there's a band
called Zychridius with a RecA called legrand Heresy, which is
Phil what's his name, Phil Tugus I believe his name is,

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who is one of Canada's most hotly tipped. He's in
like every fucking band. He's in the Bandkatier List, He's
in the band Atramentous, He's in a load of bands,
and he has a lot of bands almost have like
a shared universe of law and stuff. This is his
one of his new bands. And this one is kind
of like basically hellenic black metal style. So it's a

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French Canadian doing an album that sounds like grease. Uh
sounds good, album covers awesome, that sounds like it's your thing.
If that sounds like it's your thing. Then we had
the band Ungraven I think this is like drone, like
really heavy going with their record called Hollows Made Homes
in their sunken cheeks. And then there was a demo
that was dropped from ex Weapon X, the Weapon X

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Demo two, which is a hardcore demo shockingly from that
name new band featuring members of Like Not Loose and
Harm's Way and stuff. So that's been a fair bit
of talk just around that demo, just because of the
personnel involved. I suppose let's move on to today, twenty
fifth of April, which might well be the most high
profile release date of the entire year. It's one of

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those where I go, why didn't some of you move
like you don't want to be releasing a metal album
on the same day as a bunch of these things,
You're gonna get lost. But let's go through them. First
of all, two albums that we covered in our reviews
episode which are now out and available for you to
listen to. Those are the new Employe to Serve album
Fallen Star, and then also the crossover thrash record we

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spoke about in Human Nature with Greater Than Death. Then,
as we've you know, well kind of trodden by now,
it's the release date for the new Ghost album called Skeleton. Then,
as if one like actual, like you know, kind of
blockbuster style metal band release on one day is not enough,
machine Head have decided to drop their album the same day,

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So Unatoned is out now, moving into kind of popular
metal core. There's the band Landmarks with the V land
Mooks with the darkest place I've ever been. Mark. This
is one of those metal core bands that I kind of,
you know, I pushed to the sides, but I know
that some people really like them. Have you listened to them? Little?

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Is this? This is not the Landmarks I know?

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Okay, I think.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
No, I don't know who the Oh my god, that's
a lot of followers.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Are you thinking. Were there like a Scottish like melodic
parco band or something.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Yeah, it sounds like Toucho More from the UK ten
years ago.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Yeah, this is the very different Landmarks with the V.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
They seem to be very popular, but it's not trash
by Alice Pooper, so I've not heard them.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
There you go. But the new Landmark album, not the
post hardcore one, is out there if you like your
metal court a little bit more from two thousand and two.
Then there's Caliban with Back from Hell. Wednesday thirteen has
got a new album called Mid Death Crisis. Because of
course it is Mark. I basically put this one in
the list just because I knew that you would be
here and I just wanted to say it to you.

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Heat have got a new album, Welcome to the Future.
This was one of those where I was like, oh
my god, Heat are still around.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
I mean, I'm very surprised that Heat are still around,
but I love to hear it.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Yeah, but the new Heat album got though some many
of those they have. There's a new Heart attack Man album,
so this is more your sort of emo punk type stuff.
Joy Ride the Pale Horse, the great folk metal band.
I'm a sizable fan of Elevating. I've got a record
called and Out. Then we've got a few things in
the world of doom. First of all, there is the

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kind of the great kind of trad doom band Pagan Alta,
with a record called Never Quite Dead. That is a
band who they very rarely release anything, so any kind
of an album from then and is like, oh, you know,
the once in a blue moon kind of thing that
that happens more regular but also very very reliable. Conan
are back with a new album called Violence Dimension. I

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will say every time they come up, literally one of
the heaviest bands in the world, and that album is
it is very very good. Then we have a co
lab album from Sumac and more Mother called The Film
I'm sure there'll be some very nightmarish, interesting kind of
art house sounds going on in there. Similarly, in that
regard there's the band Bruitt or Breach with the little
kind of more Than sign with it as well the

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Age of Ephemerality, which is again kind of strange, kind
of art house type fair then we're going to move
into the underground of death metal. There's the kind of
the old UK death metal band Cancer who reunited a
few years ago. They've got a record called Inverted World,
then one that I think is going to be very,
very blistering. Indeed, there's a death grind band called Caustic

(58:59):
who put our record a few yearsgo which was fucking heavy,
and they've got another one out today called Grinding Mechanism
of Torment, more kind of like proggy, atmospheric death metal.
Maybe there's the band Cardishev with a Lunia. It's also
quite a big day for like slightly zany, mad, wild
eyed heavy metal from places like Peru and Mexico. And

(59:20):
so we've got a Phantom with Tyrants of Wrath. I
think maybe more like a slightly thrash leaning band. There's
vena tour with Psychodrome, which the mustache of the man
on the album cover would lead me to believe it
probably is kind of like eighty Scorpions or something like that.
And then there's a band called Hyena with an album
called About rock and Roll and I would like to

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be taught. I want to know what a Hyena's you know,
perspective about rock and roll is. That sounds like a
sermon that I would be interested in hearing. So those
are out. Then we have a handful of EPs. Just
at the end of this. There is a hardcore band
called Big Boy who put an EP called Love Songs.
There is the legendary legendarily stupid but God I love them.

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Us black metal band Profanatica putting out I guess a
sort of mini album that's called Wreathed in Dead Angels.
I'm interested to hear this. I think this is like
a ten inch single or something. It's like two songs,
but a collab between David Eugene Edwards, who we spoke
about very recent on Album Club. He's the guy behind
sixteen Horsepower and then close to the present day Woven Hand,

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and he's put out a co lab you know, kind
of again record with Al Cisneros, who is the singer
from Sleep and On and those bands. So those two
you know wisened Western men putting out a little record
called Pillar of Fire slash Kapa Nown. And then there's
a live album from Kirathungal, which I guess is their
kind of documentation of like their hanging up Farewell run

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that they've been doing live at the Rock Sea. There
you go. Those are some releases to fucking tidy over
for many, many weeks I imagine. I mean just the
you know, the Ghost and the machine Head and the
Employer serve that as well, So there's gonna be a
lot of discussion about those for the entire rest of
the year. So fill your boots. Cheers everybody for filling

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your boots with us as well and joining us and
chiming in. We will be back. We back next week
with another hyperblost. As said, we'll get around to review
in some of these huge records and some smaller ones
as well again in a couple weeks or so. But
right now there is the previous reviews episode where we
spoke about I mentioned the big ones, but also funds
like Final Dose and Messa and stuff like that which
are really worth hearing. On the last episode, and we

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will be also hitting you on the Patreo with the
album club pack that I mentioned earlier. We will return
to the Poison the Well special there will, I imagine,
be as I said at T and M does Horror
coming pretty pretty soon as well about the movies that
everybody's talking about at the moment. So there's a lot
of exciting that's happening right now here in T and
M Land, so stay tuned for all of that. Otherwise,
Bye bye,