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PODCAST: Episode 939 - The Weekly Ritual - Rock and Metal News 3.19.2026 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. What's up everybody?
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  Technically still Thursday Ghost call Kifi here with another live
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  stream. All you rocket metal news in one
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  place every week by hook or by crook.
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  I managed to go live tonight on Thursday.
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  Just making sure everybody can you hear me OK?
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  I don't have my typical stuff handy, so I just want to make
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  sure everybody can hear me. All right?
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  But any who, Yeah, I'm here. I'm back.
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  A little later than planned. But hopefully next week I get
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  back to the regular time slot. I had some travel today.
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  I didn't sleep too much last night, travelled all day.
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  I am in Joshua Tree, CA, about 8 hours South of where I live in
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  San Francisco, and I'm here to cover the Mojave experience.
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  If you follow Ghost Coat, you've seen a lot of our stuff where we
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  talk about that festival. We've been helping plug and
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  promote and sponsor that festival since November, which
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  I'm really stoked about. I'm trying to get a couple of my
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  other networks to come in. Mr. 43 US is here.
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  What's up? There we go.
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  Just making sure everybody is here on the Talk and the Gram
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  and all the things. I think Instagram is catching up
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  now, so let's see. All right.
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  Should be there now. Hey, what's up, everybody?
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  Again, late night, but we're going to go through this a
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  little quicker. I am shortened up some of this
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  show for the sake of brevity. I didn't sleep too well.
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  I went to the airport extra early and that thumbnail picture
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  is me at like the crack of sunrise at SFO airport in San
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  Francisco and I flew down to Joshua Tree.
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  I met up with Wayne Edwards of ghost cult, mastiff of Muppets.
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  What's up mate? Jessica Juarez is here, three O
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  4 is here. Robert is here.
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  So I flew down to Joshua Tree, got picked up by Wayne Edwards
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  of Ghost Cult as well as his own blog, the Flying Piddlesticks
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  blog and a whole bunch of other things.
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  Shardock Media. Wayne rules.
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  He picked me up in Ontario, CA and drove me out here to Joshua
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  Tree. Tomorrow night is the pre show
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  pre party night one at Mojave Gold, which looks awesome.
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  We drove by it today. Vicki, what's up?
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  And, and then Saturday all day is the festival.
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  It's definitely going to be a sell out.
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  I'm really excited about this. I was telling Wayne today, the
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  last time Wayne and I met in person, we worked together for
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  about 5 years. And the last time I saw Wayne in
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  person, we were covering Cycle Las Vegas together.
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  And so which is now defunct. So this isn't quite a Cycle Las
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  Vegas in scope, but it's super cool that this thing is
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  happening. Super cool Booking is the name
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  of Patrick Brink's booking company that founded and is
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  putting on the Mojave Experience.
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  Desert rock, psychedelic rock, stone of Doom.
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  It's going to be incredible. I'm really excited, excited to
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  kind of check out Joshua Tree National Park.
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  I took a walk earlier so I. Came in, I came in.
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  I'm in an Airbnb right near the park.
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  Right in the neighborhood, basically.
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  And I crashed out, took a long nap.
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  I had dinner. I took a walk gorgeous out like
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  the stars. This part of California other
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  than near the main. Strip with the traffic lights
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  and everything. It's just absolutely gorgeous
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  and peaceful. Everything is very mom and pop
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  shops and artists and things. It's still got that kind of
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  hippie culture without any of the negativity of the hippies,
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  so I am cool. As always, I'm feeling pretty
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  good. As always, the best experience
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  for this show is. YouTube you can.
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  of fans. Real journalism, real smart,
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  drama, not stupid shit. So once again, feel free to
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  watch us on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, bunch of
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  YouTube channels we have as well as I'm hanging out on the top.
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  What's up Vince, what's up Jenny, thanks for being here.
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  What's up Dustin? As I'm fond of saying, this is
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  also your show, so feel free to ask questions, jump in the chat,
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  drop comments. There's a little thumbnail of
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  me. We always start with the
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  announcements. It has been a rough week.
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  Thanks, Dustin. I appreciate you.
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  All righty, Carla's here. Lady Fox is here.
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  Any thanks for following Dustin. Anybody who does follow, we will
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  follow you back at the end of the show in most cases.
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  So, yeah, much appreciated. We are still giving away tickets
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  to Echo and the Bunnymen at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
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  This is not for travel, but basically if you can get to LA
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  for the May 17th show we still have about.
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  Not quite 8 weeks. Until the show, which means
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  about six weeks, 6 1/2 weeks of runway left to give away these
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  tickets, they're doing the career spanning set.
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  I'm a huge. Fan it's really cool.
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  Also, stay tuned Monday we're dropping a brand new.
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  Giveaway on our Instagram that we'll be talking.
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  About here on the show next week.
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  I think I got a little. Sunburn from the car ride.
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  Tri of Hell is back. What's up?
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  What's up? Appreciate you.
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  Thanks. For everybody with the likes and
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  the hearts. I really appreciate it.
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  Every little bit helps. If you want to subscribe to us
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  on YouTube or follow us on TikTok or listen to our podcast,
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  every little bit helps. We appreciate it.
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  But yeah, new giveaway. Much more metal than Echo and
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  the Bunnymen. Much more metal.
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  Stay tuned for that on Monday morning.
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  To all our socials, bad news right before we went to
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  broadcast tonight that Stevie Young of ACDC, who is the nephew
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  of Angus Young and the late Malcolm Young, was hospitalized
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  in Argentina. Under an abundance of caution,
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  you know, we've been talking about all these deaths and, and
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  elder rock stars passing away and.
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  Obviously we lost Malcolm a while back and Stevie's going to
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  be fine. Is does expect to play their
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  three shows coming up soon in Argentina.
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  But you know, this is probably the final hurrah for ACDCI.
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  Know they have the big U.S. tour coming soon and I have never
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  seen them. It's like one of the few bands
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  I've never seen. So I might very well want to see
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  them at some point before they're gone.
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  And also right after the show on Friday last week, we lost Phil
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  Campbell of Motörhead. Just very sad.
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  I met him once, I photographed Motörhead 3 times, I interviewed
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  him. I interviewed the band before
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  and loved Motörhead. Let me really was an icon of
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  rock and. Roll and metal and I've just
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  said Phil Campbell fit, you know not.
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  That old? Actually pretty young.
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  I don't know if you know the story.
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  He met Lemmy as a fan when he was. 12 years old.
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  And 13 years, 14 years later, he was in Motörhead as the guitar
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  player. And they briefly tried to do 2
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  guitar players, but quickly it ended up being just the 1.
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  So absolutely wild. Also, 44 years ago today, as
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  it's still today for a few more minutes, we lost Randy Rhodes in
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  that terrible plane crash. I highly recommend if you've
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  never seen the Aussie Behind the Music or the Into the Void
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  Aussie episode or the You know Randy Rhodes episode, you might.
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  Cry a bucket of tears if you love.
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  Rock music and heavy metal. Randy was incredible.
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  He should be considered and talked about as.
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  Great as Eddie Van Halen and anybody else that was his
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  contemporary Red Beach winger beat Oberata, you know, so many.
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  So yeah, very sad, Randy. You know, really a one-of-a-kind
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  person and talent. And a little.
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  Update on Jello B offers health condition.
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  We told you a couple of weeks ago he suffered a stroke.
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  He gave an update this week. Or his label Alternative
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  Tentacles through his Facebook page gave him an update this
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  week where he's got a long road of recovery.
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  He is going, he's got cognition, he can, he's got his mind,
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  luckily, because sometimes with a stroke you have like a big
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  neurological crash out and we still don't fully understand how
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  the brain works in some cases. But Jello's having some mobility
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  issues on the left side of his body, as does happen with the
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  stroke. So he's going to need some time
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  to make it back. From this I do not have a liquid
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  death because I'm not home. But I do have Gatorade 0 because
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  it was 101 degrees earlier today here in California, Southern
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  California and it's cooler now but I went out for a walk at
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  8:00. O'clock and it was 93° so I also
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  have the water with some electrolytes you need to
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  hydrate. Got to stay hydrated.
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  Thanks everybody watching on twitch and YouTube.
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  I appreciate you all. Let's see what else.
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  So tip menu once again, if you're feeling tipsy, we
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  appreciate it. Ghost Cult does have money we
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  make from advertising and some sponsorships.
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  But mostly we are a DIY enterprise, and I'm going to
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  talk a little bit about why a music website is like a DIY
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  you're feeling tipsy. Or again, come on to YouTube and
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  give us a super chat or a super thanks or super like, all right,
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  And then there's our cash. App if you're curious.
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  OK time for some features here at ghost cult.
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  This is always the big the big thing we talk about.
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  I win big in the screen again, you guys on TikTok unfortunately
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  don't get the benefit of the full experience from Stream Yard
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  that we'll talk about in a minute, but.
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  Features this week at Ghost Cult include and again I just want to
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  shout out Lamb of God so we. Reviewed Lamb of God.
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  I did a live stream last week where I reviewed Lamb of God.
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  Kind of ran out of runway this week with the trip and preparing
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  for the festival and packing and other things.
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  I was going to do some album reviews this week, but Lamb of
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  God dropped their new album last week into oblivion.
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  And they, you know, what happens is publicists round up all the
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  reviews and clip them and then they make them into press
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  releases and social media content and stuff like that to
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  help continue to promote the record.
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  And Lamb of God shouted us out in their thanks to people
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  checking out the record, fans and press.
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  And they quoted us, they tagged us on every social network,
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  sometimes really surprising me where and how we were mentioned
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  with Loudwire and Metal Hammer and Consequence, Humongous
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  websites, Sputnik Music, which doesn't strictly do metal, but
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  interesting. Revolver, of course, still a
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  physical magazine and a great website.
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  And metal sucks our peers. So really great and great
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  company. To to quote us and I'm really
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  humbled. By that last week we got shared
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  by Maynard James Keenan for the new Puscifer review and album
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  and now Lamb of God bands. If you're listening and you're
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  watching this now or in the future.
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  Hey, what's up Kisperia on Facebook we see you.
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  Thanks for being here. Absolutely.
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  If you are, if you have a band, if you are a publicist, if you
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  have a label and anybody writes about you, honestly, even if
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  it's not a great review, you should still share it.
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  I'll do a longer conversation about that some other time, but
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  absolutely, if a band shares a review or writes about you or
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  even just as news, you should try to share it and and help
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  them and DAP them up. I understand for Lamb of God,
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  even for them to. Shout us out is tremendous
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  because you know, that just doesn't happen that much, to be
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  honest. So I'm I'm really grateful
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  interviews this week again, Patrick Brink of super cool
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  booking and the band volume is the founder of the Mojave
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  experience. I'm going to meet him in person
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  tonight, tomorrow night. It's it is now Friday in
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  California. So tonight and I'm really pumped
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  for this great interview talked about the festival, what it
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  takes to book a festival, how long in advance you have to put
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  something together like this, all the bells and whistles that
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  need to come together, what his vision for it is.
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  And yeah, we're really proud to sponsor this.
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  We're we're a sponsor and a media partner.
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  I'll have a table at the festival.
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  If you're coming through, say what's up?
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  DAP me up and we'll have some free ghost cult merch you can
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  take with you. Also, I interviewed death metal
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  legend Lee Harrison. He's the drummer of Monstrosity,
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  original Florida death metal. Their new album screams.
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  Beneath the surface. Is out now and metal blade Lee
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  is great, really insightful, really smart if you are one I
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  don't do a lot of. These track by track.
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  Album breakdowns, but he was into it and it's an absolute
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  banger of an interview, I must say.
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  Check it out. Also just again recent
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  interviews I got to. Check, check a huge.
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  One off my teenage bucket list, Sebastian Bach.
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  He's on tour right now. I also talked to Todd Severin of
• 14:59
  Ripple Music for some more Stoner doom, heavy metal, psych
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  rock greatness from that label. And also the American black
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  metal band Necrifier. Their festival Hell's Heroes is
• 15:09
  already underway this weekend. Very excited for them.
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  We premiered a new song by Jake of the Horse this week.
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  Their new album, At Least It's Almost Over is out soon.
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  Really great pop punk, hardcore punk band, kind of.
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  Like a little bit alternative, a little bit hardcore super.
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  Fun and once again we get a big written feature on Morrissey.
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  Normally I I like The Smiths. I don't love Morrissey
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  personally, but his new album is actually really good and our
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  writer Will Suffer wrote a big deep dive on it, so definitely
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  maybe something you want to check out.
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  If you're a fan of the goth and the post punk.
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  So yeah, good times. Hi, Cheryl.
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  Hi, Will, by design, you've been here before.
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  Nice to see you guys. Appreciate you very much.
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  Jaroka is here. I hope I said that correctly.
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  Raven is here. Hi, Raven.
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  All right. Moving right along and again, I
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  do live streams usually every week.
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  I didn't get to do 1 this week. Thanks.
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  We'll appreciate the likes and love pal.
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  I did do a deep dive review of Lamb of God track by track style
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  on YouTube. I'll be doing more if you've got
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  some things you'd like to see. We get music in advance as as a
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  press outlet to. Review We have a whole team of
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  reviewers all over the world. And we don't get.
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  To everything but you know we also will take your submissions
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  from music at submissions at ghostcultman.com.
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  If you want to send us your music to maybe review and also
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  we have a podcast. This show will be a podcast.
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  Love the new Ghost Called podcast logo accentuated and
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  freshened up by Omar Cordy, our co-owner and my homie and new.
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  Lamb of God is a straight banger.
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  It sure is. It's definitely going to contend
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  for the album of the year. For me right now, it's one of
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  the strongest records of the early year.
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  We have a long way to go, clearly, but.
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  It rules and the show. Will also be a podcast and
• 17:13
  because I don't have enough to do I'm also the Co host of the
• 17:15
  glacially musical podcast Beer, metal and swearing.
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  We are continuing our series on Megadeth's first four albums and
• 17:23
  this week we. Tackle.
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  So far so good. So what?
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  Should be live. Tomorrow on the Glacially
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  Musical podcast, YouTube and podcasts over the weekend.
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  Check that out. So now it's time for the news
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  rundown. And as always, we talk about
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  metal festivals and and I Heil zeroes already started, so I
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  didn't really count them in, but you know, one of these years.
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  I'd like to get out there. Honestly, if this Festival
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  Mojave experience hadn't come up and I wasn't down here.
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  In Joshua Tree, I'd be in Houston for it.
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  Because I want to go. Check it out.
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  And one of my homies lives in Houston, now 5 from salted
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  wounds. So again Mojave experience this
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  weekend. Earthless Dead Meadow, John
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  Garcia band playing everything from across his career.
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  Acid king, Nick Oliveri solo death acoustic yawning man
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  hippie death cult rubber sneak Charmers featuring Sean Will
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  Wheeler ecstatic vision, howling giant early moods who I just saw
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  live the freaks, Arthur saying, the rift killers, barracho,
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  insomniac and salsa. I'm really.
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  Pumped for this. It's going to be a great time.
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  Just have to avoid heat stroke. That's my number one problem.
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  Fans Work Tour continues to roll out the announcement of all
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  their dates. As soon as they have their
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  complete line up of all the dates, I will share that we are
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  hoping to cover one of those ourselves.
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  Also see why Fest has been the source of controversy after
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  their booking agent Nacho, who also has other festivals and
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  shows that he books in the LA area, came under fire for some
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  allegations. He denies the allegations.
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  But people were boycotting the festival or making a big, you
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  know, attempt to cancel them on social media, which is super
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  interesting. Scotty from Tank Crimes is
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  invested with several, several of the bans on the bill and
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  tried to kind of inject himself into the conversation to help it
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  make sure it happened and he just wasn't able to.
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  So apparently the venues are still running the festival.
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  The the head promoter is not involved anymore as much and
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  we'll be it'll be. Interesting to see in the future
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  what this is. I always say there's no such
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  thing as. Cancel culture.
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  It's accountability culture. And I know not everybody likes
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  that and this is going to come up again in a couple of minutes,
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  but you know. It's a thing.
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  OK, moving right along, Piranha. Pit Fest 3 is coming up soon.
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  Macabre and Kings of Thrash featuring ex members of Megadeth
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  are your headliners. This thing looks fun.
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  Deceased, War Machine, Liar Age pessimists.
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  These are some hell of good bands.
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  Inferno Fest. Speaking of things, Inferno Fest
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  is week after next in Norway. Some.
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  We've covered it before, I'd love to get out there sometime.
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  Norway's on the bucket list, Mayhem decided.
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  Enslaved. What a top three that is.
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  Plus Old Man's Child, The Covenant featuring Sarah
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  Jezebel, Deva, Cannon Fever, Tormentor, Samael, Primordial
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  Incantation and many more. Looking real good.
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  Pelagic Fest has been announced. This is in the Netherlands in I
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  believe July. The ocean.
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  The Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz ensemble Wheel Great.
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  Band I interviewed before. Oh, Hiroshima, A Williams New
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  album coming soon, Psalm, Lost in Kiev, Predatory Void, Devil's
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  Trade. Many, many, many, many great
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  bands on that and more to be announced.
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  Also, this looks cool. Rage of marijuana is coming to
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  the Meadows in Brooklyn. Friends of ours, reeking Aura
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  are on that lineup as well as. South and us and a bunch of
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  others. Reeking Aura has a new music out
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  right now too that we shared. Sick Bay.
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  Mutant. I wonder.
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  It's probably not the Mutant the DJ industrial metal artist is
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  probably Mutant the metal band. But just, you know, curious.
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  All right, that's all the festivals.
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  Now let's do some concert coverage.
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  Ghost Cult covers concerts all over.
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  We're covering Gore tomorrow night in Albany.
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  We cover Gary Newman this week. We have the Amman Clock tour
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  coming up with Death Clock and Amana Marth.
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  Obviously a whole bunch of stuff on the docket for Ghost Cult.
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  We cover tours and festivals all over the world, every weekend,
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  every week. So LAMBA got on tour, now
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  supporting Into Oblivion. They had a. $15 show at the
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  Theatre of Living Arts. I remember seeing Limigod in a
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  tiny club and and I can't imagine seeing them in a tiny
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  club now and how absolutely batshit that would be, but
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  pretty great. Korn, who had been like hinting
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  at a hiatus, has announced the European Tour for this year.
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  Interesting about this press photo they put out that does not
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  feature Raw Diaz as a member. Don't know if don't know if it's
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  because he's not a full member. You know, a lot has been made
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  about Fieldy being out of the band now for a very long time
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  and maybe not coming back. You know, this happened before,
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  so you know, this has happened before with them.
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  But yeah, Corn tour day, it's coming.
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  Maybe they'll start working on some new music.
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  Good for them. X Order big news this week.
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  X Order has parted ways with Sasha Horne, their long time
• 23:13
  drummer of eight years. Our homie Corey Pierce of God
• 23:16
  Forbidden Disciples of Verity, you've seen him interviewed on
• 23:19
  the channel here and he's also done some special fun features
• 23:22
  with us before. Corey is going to take up the
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  drum throne on tour which is super cool.
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  And Skin Lab is the opening band.
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  This kicks off week in about a week and 1/2, so very excited
• 23:33
  we'll be covering that tour. Also, I believe Satanic Planet
• 23:38
  is doing a short tour of the USA along with some Satanic revivals
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  in Baltimore. Satanic Planet features Lucci
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  and Graves. Who is the?
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  Founder of Satanic Temple in the United States and they are
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  playing LA, San Diego, New York City, Baltimore and maybe some
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  other dates. TBD but there are different
• 24:03
  openers in every city, so New York City is April 30th I
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  believe. We've already had somebody
• 24:08
  request to cover that, so that looks cool.
• 24:11
  Crowbar announced European dates, a huge year for Crowbar.
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  They're on tour now with I Hate God and a Butt and Just a just
• 24:18
  killing it on tour. Crowbar so very confessed to
• 24:22
  nothing 2026 tremendous job. They have some festivals and
• 24:26
  headline dates in Europe all summer, including Rockstad
• 24:30
  Extreme Fest to Rock Fest. And Brutal Assault and a few
• 24:37
  others. Very cool.
• 24:40
  Sick New World is coming up in Vegas.
• 24:42
  We are already approved to cover.
• 24:43
  I'm very excited about this and they've announced some
• 24:47
  sideshows. Mastodon announced the side
• 24:49
  headline gig. Vegas a great place.
• 24:51
  I I went to sick New World two years ago or three years ago
• 24:55
  when they did first appeared, we covered it a little bit and I
• 24:58
  saw a couple of sideshows that were phenomenal standing
• 25:01
  westward and Mr. Bungle and Melvin's and spotlights.
• 25:05
  What a show that was, but Viva Thrash Vegas has been announced
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  at the Strat, which I didn't know they had a theater but
• 25:14
  Norma Jean, Kitty, Tsunami, Elijah and Roman Candle who also
• 25:19
  have a new album coming out. So pretty.
• 25:21
  Baller Kitty's got a bunch of tour dates all summer, very
• 25:24
  excited for them. Suffocation has announced some
• 25:28
  off dates with their Cradle Of Filth.
• 25:32
  Tour, so they have some headline dates across the US.
• 25:35
  Captain Rock says. I saw Mastodon 25 years ago, my
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  brother in metal. I saw Mastodon before Remission
• 25:43
  came out, when they were doing Call of the Mastodon and like
• 25:47
  the music that's on the Workhorse Chronicles, it was
• 25:51
  them and total fucking destruction at Castle Heights in
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  Queens. And I was like, what is
• 25:57
  happening? You could tell they were
• 25:58
  talented. And I went basically because two
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  of the guys, Bron and Bill, were in.
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  Today Is the Day. Oh yeah, bro, I've been seeing.
• 26:05
  Yeah, man, that's 20 years. That's, you know, they've been
• 26:08
  around 2526 years. Still very gutted about Brett
• 26:12
  Heinstein, but excited to hear the new Mastodon record
• 26:16
  eventually. Coming out soon.
• 26:19
  Very excited. Paul Barrett just announced a
• 26:22
  big headline tour with Noel, the great black and death metal
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  band. They're going to put perform all
• 26:27
  the foundations of Burden in full for the 10th anniversary.
• 26:30
  Don't know if you're fans of the doom metal, obviously.
• 26:33
  I'm here in Joshua Tree for a Stoner doom and psychedelic rock
• 26:36
  festival this weekend. Paul Bearer is amazing.
• 26:40
  Drain once again, No pressure, Haywire and Secret World tours
• 26:43
  kicking off this weekend kicked off tonight, actually.
• 26:48
  Mastodon and High On Fire, That's right.
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  And their first thing they ever did was they jammed a Melvin
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  song written in the stars, my friends.
• 26:56
  Written in the stars. Yes, that sounds incredible. 6
• 27:07
  Feet Under and Cataclysm have a headline tour.
• 27:09
  We know 6 Feet Under announced that new full length album
• 27:13
  coming out soon. Also Wormhole is on that tour.
• 27:17
  Oh yeah, High On Fire and Sleep. Yeah me too.
• 27:20
  I'm a huge High On Fire and Sleep fan.
• 27:23
  Sleeps one of my top 10 bands ever.
• 27:25
  High On Fire, probably top. 20 or 25?
• 27:28
  And I have my battle vest here. It's not out here, but it's
• 27:32
  hanging up in the other room here in the Airbnb.
• 27:34
  And the most compliments I get on my vest is my sleek patch.
• 27:38
  That's like right here where people see me.
• 27:40
  They see my dumb face and beard and then they see my patch.
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  You took a nap turn sleep. They're not for everybody, but I
• 27:47
  love them. Howling Giant, who will be at
• 27:51
  Mojave Experience, is soaring right now.
• 27:54
  So we'll see them Saturday. Very excited.
• 27:57
  Amon Clark's tour coming up soon with Monomark and Death Clark Co
• 28:01
  headlining and Castle Rat opening.
• 28:04
  I can't imagine you were a little stoned at the sleep show.
• 28:07
  Wow this looks killer. Black metal band on Merciful is
• 28:11
  doing the Infernal Conquering tour with a handful of dates.
• 28:15
  This looks really exciting. Unsane.
• 28:17
  One of the bands for my youth, my roots in the 80s and 90s in
• 28:22
  New York City. Occupational Hazard North
• 28:24
  American headline tour next fall, so that's kicking off in
• 28:28
  September. We'll talk more about.
• 28:29
  That as we get closer. Starting in San Antonio, Dallas,
• 28:33
  Louisville, Saint Louis and wrapping up on the back in Texas
• 28:37
  so. That looks kind of cool.
• 28:42
  Last week we told you about Marilyn Manson announcing 2
• 28:46
  Antichrist Superstar retrospective shows at the
• 28:48
  Wiltern in Los Angeles, Halloween night and November
• 28:52
  1st. Those are both completely sold
• 28:54
  out now. So I know a lot of people are,
• 28:57
  you know, we're not happy that we covered the new Manson album
• 29:01
  and, you know, guilty until proven innocent, as the, you
• 29:06
  know, court of public opinion goes.
• 29:09
  I'm sure he's probably got some very dark stories that are true
• 29:15
  things he has done. But like, you know, not
• 29:20
  convicted, never charged doesn't mean he's not a great or a bad
• 29:23
  person. But in the meantime, Marilyn
• 29:26
  Manson, Antichrist superstar retrospective shows, I suspect
• 29:30
  he's been apparently mostly sober or sober and performing
• 29:35
  great. And I know people who covered
• 29:37
  that whole tour with him and thought he was fantastic.
• 29:41
  Of all the things EMF who had a new song out not too long ago.
• 29:45
  That's right. The you're unbelievable.
• 29:48
  Those guys have announced the tour of the East Coast in
• 29:51
  Canada. It's a brief tour starting off
• 29:54
  in Philadelphia, hitting a few cities in Canada and then back
• 29:57
  down the East Coast. But like wow.
• 30:06
  Also, once again, crowbar I hate God tour dates happening soon.
• 30:11
  Fantastic Extinction AD who has a new single out?
• 30:14
  Couple of new songs lately have announced a handful of tour
• 30:18
  dates. Thanks for following Captain
• 30:19
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• 30:21
  the show. Extinction AD, Dead men running
• 30:24
  2026 and Amityville Music Hall. The OCNY vets and a looks like a
• 30:37
  local show in New Jersey. So really killer.
• 30:39
  I think X order and skin lab they're opening for them on two
• 30:43
  of those dates. So that's.
• 30:44
  Kind of fun yo. Carlos Crow cells, my homie.
• 30:49
  He just passed by. What's up, brother?
• 30:52
  Hope you're well once again. Sebastian Bach on tour right
• 30:57
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• 31:00
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• 31:01
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• 31:05
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• 31:09
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• 31:12
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  We ended up going on like 3 in the morning.
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  Oh, appreciate that. I understand.
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  What a good time to be a fan of heavy metal especially.
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  The classic heavy metal bands. So yeah, I'm very excited for
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  We got the trailer on our website if you want.
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  To see it. James Hetfield got engaged to
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  I would expect him to either do that on a hunt or water skiing
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  or motorcycling. Yeah.
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  Yeah. This is, you know, Kaspiria,
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  this is what we do. I'm the same dude I was back in
• 39:21
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  I started a new band last year in San Francisco, kind of
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• 39:39
  We wrote a. Gang of Killer songs.
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  I started a thing last week where I was reading my hate mail
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• 39:51
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• 39:59
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• 40:05
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  heads like ghost is not. They use satanic imagery.
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  I don't think Tobias is personally a satanic follower or
• 40:17
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  Like everybody. If you want to be faithful, be
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  You don't like what you're hearing?
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  Change it. But people just exploding in the
• 40:41
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• 40:45
  This is really cool. Poppy is going to be doing an
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• 40:54
  I was actually, you know, she Poppy's having a huge year, big
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  tours, new album, which is Fire, by the way, if you haven't heard
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  it. I'm a big fan of hers.
• 41:05
  It's not for everybody, sort of, you know, a little less heavy
• 41:09
  than Spirit Box, but pretty cool.
• 41:10
  Junito's in old records. So she's doing the narration.
• 41:14
  For this, this looks just absolutely amazing.
• 41:16
  Shout out to my partner. Oh, we, it's there.
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  It's not that original name angst SF on Instagram and
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  things. We were going to put out a
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  single late last year, but we got kind of derailed.
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  But I'm hoping eventually to, to get it back.
• 41:34
  We'll see what happens or I'll, you know, we'll see.
• 41:35
  Maybe I'll see how it goes. Once again, last week we told
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• 41:54
  emails from people who work at Live Nation were like, fans are
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  stupid and of course they weren't going to get anything.
• 42:02
  So again, this is how they see you.
• 42:04
  This is how they see you all. This is how they see us.
• 42:07
  They don't love us. You know, they hate us.
• 42:10
  And they make billions of dollars and they don't care.
• 42:13
  Trillions of dollars actually. Sinners.
• 42:17
  I don't know if you guys watched the Academy Awards on Sunday.
• 42:20
  I was hosting karaoke and doing a movie themed karaoke night at
• 42:24
  the. Bar.
• 42:25
  The Willows in San Francisco Sinners cleaned up.
• 42:28
  They didn't win best picture. That was 1 battle after another.
• 42:30
  Also also awesome. Sinners did win a tremendous
• 42:33
  amount of awards. Cinematography, screenplay for
• 42:38
  Ryan Coogler, best actor Michael B Jordan and the soundtrack by
• 42:41
  Ludwig Gordenson won for best soundtrack.
• 42:44
  And I just want to mention that in addition to Ludwig Gordenson
• 42:47
  and his wife who do all the composing together, that
• 42:50
  soundtrack featured Buddy Guy and Sol Williams and I forget
• 42:55
  the fellow's name who's the Co star of the movie and Jerry
• 42:57
  Cantrell of Alice In Chains. So Jerry Cantrell has now worked
• 43:00
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• 43:05
  I, I think it's very rare for people in rock and heavy metal
• 43:08
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• 43:11
  But most of Nine Inch Nails soundtrack work is not rock or
• 43:14
  heavy metal until Toronto, which was great.
• 43:18
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• 43:21
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• 43:23
  They're on on tour right now in Australia.
• 43:25
  We're just about to wrap it up and come home that their new
• 43:28
  album was supposed to come out in the spring.
• 43:30
  It is now delayed to September. Definitely coming out in
• 43:33
  September. Happy birthday to this guy in
• 43:35
  September to get a new Anthrax record.
• 43:37
  Anthrax once put out a couple of records in September.
• 43:40
  Before. They just wanted to fix it and
• 43:42
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• 43:45
  in May, so that's when we'll get the big announcement.
• 43:47
  The pre-orders will go all summer.
• 43:49
  They'll probably be a handful of singles and, you know, this is
• 43:54
  their first album in 10 years. And, and what Charlie was saying
• 43:57
  is like, we didn't expect to not be having a, you know, we
• 44:00
  expected to have a new record out by now.
• 44:02
  We didn't expect to not have a record at this point.
• 44:06
  And you know, so I'm very, I'm still very excited for the new
• 44:10
  Anthrax. I'm, I'm a fan of Tool.
• 44:12
  So I waited 13 years for a Tool record.
• 44:14
  I can wait a few more months for an Anthrax record, you know what
• 44:17
  I'm saying? Also also, Misfits is teaming up
• 44:22
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• 44:27
  They did one I think last year and it sold out immediately.
• 44:30
  This will probably also sell out immediately.
• 44:33
  Can't think of two more cool and iconic brands collabing
• 44:36
  together. Pretty damn fun.
• 44:42
  I can't believe I drank the whole Gatorade.
• 44:47
  Trioscapes is a progressive rock band.
• 44:50
  They have a new single out, new album coming soon.
• 44:53
  Very exciting. This is the this is the time for
• 44:56
  all the new albums and and bands in the studio for next year's
• 45:00
  records and bands getting ready to drop singles and put out new
• 45:03
  albums. Right now.
• 45:04
  Sabaton released a new single. They have a bunch of tours
• 45:08
  coming up and festivals. Dropkick Murphy's put out a
• 45:12
  music video for their anti Ice song.
• 45:15
  Their new split with Haywire is out now.
• 45:19
  Love the Dropkick Murphy's, one of the few bands honestly
• 45:22
  putting their money with their mouth this politically and I
• 45:26
  believe they're playing the No Kings protest festival in New
• 45:30
  York City soon. Julian's Auctions, kind of.
• 45:33
  The Sotheby's of the UK is doing a huge auction with guitars from
• 45:38
  this guy Kirk Hammett and Stevie Ray Vaughan and stage played
• 45:43
  guitars in studio. Used guitars by Ace Freely and
• 45:45
  many others. There's a preview coming up on
• 45:48
  Monday I believe Some of the stuff will be promoted and
• 45:53
  shared online. I'll try to share it.
• 45:57
  There's also been a week of a lot of live stuff coming to
• 46:00
  videos. Oh yeah, sure.
• 46:05
  I love Tool so much. That would have been insane.
• 46:08
  I mean, Tool in a small club. I didn't see them until I saw
• 46:12
  them at Roseland for the end of the Undertow tour.
• 46:16
  And then I saw them again for Enema.
• 46:17
  So my first, like, I thought Roseland was like my church,
• 46:21
  basically my temple. So to me, like that crowd was
• 46:25
  always like the litmus test for a band to come in in New York
• 46:28
  City and play Tools, one of my favorite bands.
• 46:30
  I love Maynard, He's on my bucket list.
• 46:33
  I doubt I'm ever going to get an interview.
• 46:34
  With him but. I may try.
• 46:35
  So this was the week for Live High pro shot video to come out.
• 46:39
  Machine Head had been sharing some videos from Resurrection
• 46:43
  Resurrection Fest a couple of years ago.
• 46:46
  The whole set from Resurrection Fest is now online.
• 46:49
  Deftones at Loopalooza 2 shows Lamba God full set from their
• 46:53
  kick off show Harry OTT. At the at.
• 46:56
  KXP and many more bands. I think a few more are on here.
• 47:01
  Exodus drop the brand new album. Promise you.
• 47:04
  New album coming out this week. We'll talk about that in a
• 47:07
  minute. We ran our review earlier.
• 47:10
  Yeah, so good. My favorite little venue in New
• 47:13
  York City, obviously, besides C DS that I went to countless
• 47:16
  times and played a few times. I got infamously screamed at by
• 47:20
  both Tommy Victor and Hilly Crystal at CBGVS.
• 47:24
  Watch one of my prong interviews for that for that story.
• 47:30
  New Exodus out this week. I'm pretty excited about it.
• 47:33
  It's kind of all over the place as a record to be honest, but
• 47:36
  I'm still pretty stoked. We have a review of it on our
• 47:38
  site. You can check out This is
• 47:41
  Gradients. This is a new artist on Metal
• 47:44
  Blade Records. They have a new single out.
• 47:46
  Very worth checking out. Very exciting new music.
• 47:49
  Honest and goofball Shit. Yeah, my favorite little venue
• 47:53
  was, besides C BS was Bond Street Cafe.
• 47:58
  I also loved, obviously, Coney Island, High Continental, SO BS
• 48:06
  Wetlands, although it wasn't that small.
• 48:08
  Lost one of my lights. That's fine.
• 48:11
  I toss and turn. I can't sleep at night.
• 48:13
  Yeah, definitely. Some of those little clubs were
• 48:15
  the shit. And I love Bowery Electric.
• 48:17
  I'm I'm a little sad that it's not going to be a regular venue
• 48:19
  anymore, but I'm happy. For Jesse Nalen.
• 48:22
  To do something new, but I work briefly for them doing social
• 48:25
  media management because I'm a digital marketer and social
• 48:27
  media strategist by trade. Benny Vincent, one of the
• 48:31
  biggest chuckle fucks of all time X Kiss guitarist Benny
• 48:34
  Vincent is selling his unreleased album Guitar
• 48:38
  Armageddon for $2,000,000. What dumb ass.
• 48:42
  Who is going to buy this thing? He was paid to make a record,
• 48:45
  he's refused to release it for 35 years, and he swears he's
• 48:48
  going to sell it to somebody. It's not quite Martin Shkreli
• 48:52
  and Wu Tang Clan bad, but holy shit, rock and metal showed up
• 49:01
  on Family Feud this week, making people angry.
• 49:04
  I don't know if you saw this or not, but they asked who are the
• 49:08
  greatest classic rock bands of all time.
• 49:12
  Beatles got the most votes, followed by The Rolling Stones,
• 49:15
  ACDC, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Kiss, Queen, and then Metallica of all
• 49:20
  things. Now, I will say that Metallica
• 49:22
  has definitely transcended metal into Hard Rock.
• 49:26
  But like, is Metallica a classic rock band?
• 49:30
  I guess maybe to a generation of people they are, I don't know,
• 49:35
  moving right along. Afroman, I had to talk about
• 49:38
  this. Afroman won his case against the
• 49:41
  police that they had raided his home and they were suing him for
• 49:46
  defamation and he used his freedom of speech to make a
• 49:49
  series of videos that went absolutely batshit bonkers
• 49:53
  viral. Good for him.
• 49:56
  I just saw the latest one. It's unbelievably funny and
• 49:59
  great. Afroman the because I got high
• 50:02
  dude. Yeah, CBG BS was the best.
• 50:08
  They did have the best demos, yes.
• 50:12
  Like I'm pretty sure we paid 10 bucks and we tipped the sound
• 50:15
  guy to make our live EP that didn't really get a release.
• 50:20
  We just kind of dubbed it and gave it to everybody.
• 50:22
  We should have sold it. It was so good.
• 50:24
  I wish I could find that tape. I don't think I have it anymore.
• 50:29
  Last week we told you Megadeth had the number one record in on
• 50:32
  the Billboard charts for Hard Rock and metal and they really,
• 50:35
  they received like their awards. They did a intimate show in
• 50:39
  Nashville and then they received their awards.
• 50:41
  I mean, that's coming back out on tour.
• 50:43
  Still waiting for North American tour dates for Megan F Very
• 50:47
  curious, but hopefully they're going to get announced soon.
• 50:51
  Tarja Tarreddon, former vocalist of Nightwish and long time solo
• 50:55
  artist, dropped the new single, Announced a new album and she's
• 50:58
  kind of dressed up here like Angelina Jolie in Melissa
• 51:04
  Maleficent. Sorry I can't say words, I am so
• 51:07
  tired. Anyway, I can't wait to take the
• 51:09
  gummy and go to sleep bands in the studio right now.
• 51:15
  This is going to be like a very frequent and current thing right
• 51:19
  now. Carla Harvey and her solo
• 51:21
  project The Violent Hour, which has recently announced a whole
• 51:24
  new lineup of players Co produced by her husband Charlie
• 51:28
  Benante, are working on her full length debut after putting out
• 51:31
  her EP last year. I'm pretty excited for this.
• 51:34
  I hope at some point to interview Carla.
• 51:35
  I've met her before, she was really nice.
• 51:38
  She left Butcher Babies to kind of go solo after 15 years and
• 51:42
  she's also the acid queen from. Lords of Acid, very.
• 51:45
  Exciting stuff. Steve Austin of Today's The Day
• 51:52
  has finally announced his full length country outlaw country
• 51:56
  record and dropped another song from that.
• 51:58
  I'm really excited about that. We have a great interview on our
• 52:00
  YouTube with Steve Austin. Huge fan of Today's The Day.
• 52:03
  I also interviewed Steve a while back before the pandemic.
• 52:08
  Also in the studio for the first time in I think since 2019.
• 52:13
  After the Burial is recording a new album.
• 52:16
  You know, they've been through the ringer as a band and I'm
• 52:19
  just rooting for them. That's the technical progressive
• 52:22
  death metal band. I would love for them to.
• 52:24
  You know, hopefully we have a new record out sometime.
• 52:27
  Cage fights got a new song featuring the singer of
• 52:29
  benediction killer and then I love this every group chat be
• 52:34
  like this. You know, just that, just that
• 52:43
  face, just that face. I think it's an Ibex there.
• 52:47
  I'm not sure a. Baby Ram maybe?
• 52:51
  Yeah, C BS was the best man. We didn't know how good we had
• 52:54
  it till it was gone. They should have really never
• 52:56
  let it like be taken down. Mad at Roseland, I'll be mad
• 52:59
  forever. Palladium also, I saw a little
• 53:01
  bit when I first started going to shows and my first show at
• 53:06
  the Ritz was SOD and Anthrax or Anthrax and SOD and Charlie did
• 53:13
  double duty. New music Friday.
• 53:15
  You know what time it is, We talk about the new music you
• 53:20
  need to pick up every week. Rocket Metal.
• 53:22
  We do a preview every week, usually comes out on Sunday and
• 53:27
  Monday. And then we update the post on
• 53:30
  our website with links where you can stream and buy the music
• 53:33
  because we are trying to help our friends make it.
• 53:37
  So let's pick out something that's coming out this week that
• 53:41
  maybe we want to listen to. I usually pick.
• 53:45
  Something out that is not going to get us Shit shit, shit it on.
• 53:54
  Sorry, one second. I usually have this ready.
• 54:07
  Here we go cultist. I'm going to share this.
• 54:34
  One more second. All right, I guess this thing
• 54:54
  doesn't want to cooperate tonight.
• 54:59
  Well, so much for that. I was trying to share Cultists
• 55:03
  Spiritual atrophy. Pretty great technical.
• 55:05
  Death metal, but. Anyway, let's redo the list.
• 55:09
  I will put back up the that. Was a fail.
• 55:12
  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
• 55:14
  Here's the the little title card.
• 55:17
  No worries, No worries. Limelight was also amazing.
• 55:20
  I played a showcase at Limelight on a Wednesday and we brought
• 55:23
  500 people. But yeah, no worries, Kasparian.
• 55:27
  Be safe getting home wherever you are.
• 55:30
  So the new music coming out this week, some vital rocket metal
• 55:33
  releases. Abrogation will deshine on
• 55:36
  Massacre Records from death Metal, Aerosmith's debut album
• 55:40
  box set, the legendary edition. It's like 350 bucks.
• 55:43
  Don't know if you need that Axel Rudy Pell the great guitarist
• 55:47
  Ghost Town on Steam Hammer Records.
• 55:51
  We have an interview coming up with Axel Bong Raw Esoteric on
• 55:55
  Dip. Emir Morty records Calvada
• 55:58
  Subgenis on Adirondack Black mass com self-titled debut Clock
• 56:05
  Towers. Genesis self released Crimson
• 56:08
  Riot Third time's the charm. Leg Lamp Records cultist again.
• 56:14
  Spiritual atrophy. Great from what I heard right
• 56:16
  there. Sorry you couldn't hear it.
• 56:17
  Decipher the Lima Transcending Obscurity records.
• 56:20
  A great label we love with a lot of death and black metal
• 56:22
  releases. Decipher Daimler Darkness Falls.
• 56:30
  Awakening Records diatribes degenerate brutal records drag
• 56:37
  Shalom from the bloodlines of Brahm.
• 56:39
  Faithless Records Egregore. It echoes in the wild for some
• 56:44
  black metal on 20 bucks bid. Got a review of that up on the
• 56:46
  site. Empire of Disease While
• 56:48
  everything collapses on Extreme Records.
• 56:51
  Engorgement. They rot beneath our floor on
• 56:54
  Comatose Records. Ever more More on Braid Scarlet
• 56:57
  Records. Exodus Goliath Previously
• 56:59
  discussed on Napalm Records. That's their first album for
• 57:02
  Napalm Records after signing there three years ago.
• 57:05
  Flat Wounds Chain of Command EP on Blue Grape.
• 57:08
  Records for some. Punchy punchy hardcore following
• 57:11
  the signs Evolve EP Guerrea loss on Century Media records.
• 57:17
  Interesting term for the black metal band going, dare I say not
• 57:20
  black metal anymore. Graufar via Necropolis, self
• 57:24
  released Gut void, Liminal shimmers, Liminal shrines.
• 57:27
  Excuse me on Profound Lore, Ignescent Eternal on Frontiers
• 57:32
  SRL for some Prague Lord of Confusion, The Weight of Life on
• 57:35
  Morbid and Miserable records. McCluskey.
• 57:37
  I sure am getting sick of this bowling alley EP on Epic Hack
• 57:40
  records, Let's see Necrogore ectoplasmic grape phenomenon on
• 57:46
  Awakening Records, let's see Persecutor Casualties of
• 57:50
  Violence. Great record.
• 57:51
  Poison the Welcome Back, Peace in Place, Sharp Tone Records.
• 57:54
  I saw that band I think at Coney Island.
• 57:56
  High Putrid Blestermal Dean Nak on Awakening Records A lot of
• 58:03
  Awakening Records releases this week radiate Radian Subterfuge.
• 58:08
  The Silver that's a psychedelic project from some death metal
• 58:13
  guys. Looking Glass Hymnal Blue on
• 58:16
  Gilead Media Stonis Space to dive on Ripple music for some
• 58:20
  doom metal. Tychetto Closer to the Sun on
• 58:23
  Silver Lining music for some heavy metal Vain Valkyries
• 58:26
  wonders via Dolores Guerre at pay on season and this and
• 58:31
  worsen all endless beginnings on Massacre Records.
• 58:36
  That is all the new music Friday.
• 58:38
  That means we're almost at the end of the show.
• 58:40
  Let's just quickly do the mailbag.
• 58:45
  Oh, dating a guy that doesn't listen to Bay Way.
• 58:47
  I hope I didn't make him pregnant.
• 58:49
  I got to give it up to Bay Way for the shit posting and it's
• 58:53
  oh, waiting for the E train. The good old days.
• 58:56
  Anyway, Killer New Jersey hardcore just dropped the new
• 58:58
  record. I'd like to try to get an
• 59:00
  interview with them. I talk to them a little bit
• 59:01
  about that. So normally I'm home and I have
• 59:04
  all manner of things for the mailbag, but I don't, but I'm
• 59:07
  traveling. But one thing I do have,
• 59:09
  there'll be a feature review of this product that was sent to me
• 59:12
  tomorrow on the site. This is the Zeus Arctic vape.
• 59:19
  This is gold plated. They have a gold plated outer
• 59:23
  one. This is.
• 59:24
  Black with gold plated on the inside.
• 59:25
  You can see like. Some of the tooling.
• 59:27
  There and this thing is amazing. I got into vaping, my partner
• 59:31
  vapes. I normally was like a occasional
• 59:34
  joint and a gummy enthusiast because I have a lot of sleep
• 59:38
  and anxiety issues that gummies help me with.
• 59:40
  I'm going to get wrecked on gummies at the festival at the
• 59:44
  end of the night when it cools. Off and I'm hydrated and I can
• 59:47
  watch the bands. And just not work anymore.
• 59:50
  But this vape's been amazing. I got a full review of it on the
• 59:52
  site at some point in the future.
• 59:54
  We'll do some video content on it later in the year.
• 59:57
  But like this is like the rolls. Royce of vaping or the.
• 1:00:00
  Patek Philippe of vaping. It's really great, very strong
• 1:00:05
  and I'm I wasn't a cigarette smoker, so I just love smoking
• 1:00:09
  up and getting blazed and not having like a nicotine burn in
• 1:00:12
  the back of my throat. I know that some people that's a
• 1:00:14
  plus for them. I didn't feel like this had too
• 1:00:17
  much of that. It's a super smart.
• 1:00:19
  Device. I'll get into it more and then
• 1:00:21
  review and when I eventually do a deep dive on it.
• 1:00:24
  Here, but it also. Sent me like a little cooling
• 1:00:27
  bong that goes with it that cools the device so like the
• 1:00:31
  device heats up the weed either dab gels or you know ground up
• 1:00:37
  cannabis or whatever and then it it heats it up it you know makes
• 1:00:42
  it smokeable and then it. Cools the unit so the hit is
• 1:00:45
  cleaner. Like we're living in the future,
• 1:00:48
  people. I was, I was promised jetpacks,
• 1:00:50
  but at least I got this really cool vape.
• 1:00:52
  This. You can check
• 1:00:53
  alltheirstuffout@tvape.com. I'll put a link in the
• 1:00:56
  description to that also. I just wanted to show it off.
• 1:00:59
  I didn't really have anything else to show.
• 1:01:01
  I'm probably not going to buy too much merch at the festival
• 1:01:03
  because I'm going to be carrying around some of my equipment
• 1:01:06
  tomorrow and but I definitely have some more stuff back at the
• 1:01:11
  house to show you guys in a future week.
• 1:01:14
  And that's our show in a very manageable exactly 1 hour.
• 1:01:17
  I seem to be pretty good at the one hour mark almost 1:00 AM on
• 1:01:22
  Friday morning in California. Thanks for watching everybody
• 1:01:26
  that's been on TikTok, everybody that's watched Kasparia,
• 1:01:30
  everybody that showed up on Instagram.
• 1:01:34
  I really appreciate you all. Thank you so much.
• 1:01:37
  Seemed like we. Had quite a bit of people.
• 1:01:39
  Coming through, coarse paint records came through at one
• 1:01:41
  point. Ken Kaltenbach was here, Sun
• 1:01:44
  Don't Shine, the band Master for Puppets, Wolf Crown, Sludge,
• 1:01:49
  great, great stuff, everybody. Property of the lost.
• 1:01:52
  I'm just thankful that after 13 years people still care about
• 1:01:56
  us. You be safe.
• 1:01:58
  I am going to the Mojave Experience, which is a debut
• 1:02:02
  psychedelic rock and Stoner doom festival here in Joshua Tree at
• 1:02:05
  Joshua Tree National Park. So we're going to be in the
• 1:02:08
  tomorrow night's, the Pre show at the Mojave Gold Club and then
• 1:02:13
  Saturday's the All Day Festival. We are a sponsor of the
• 1:02:15
  festival. We've only sponsored a handful
• 1:02:18
  of festivals in the past, but I'm really pumped to be part of
• 1:02:20
  this one. And I'll bring you all the
• 1:02:22
  coverage soon. Me and my partner Wayne Edwards,
• 1:02:24
  who's going to cover it with me? Here, he's here from the Midwest
• 1:02:27
  and I came down from. Nor Cal, thanks so much.
• 1:02:32
  As I say every week at the juncture the show, it's a tough
• 1:02:34
  time in the world. Please take care of yourselves,
• 1:02:37
  take care of each other. Stay as metal as humanly
• 1:02:39
  possible and I'm going to bop it out on the way out with the
• 1:02:43
  outro music. Be safe, don't drink a drive.
• 1:02:45
  Have a great weekend, peace.