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PODCAST: Episode 967 - The Weekly Ritual - Rock and Metal News 5.8.2026 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. What's up everybody?
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  Late night Kifi here at ghostcoldman.com headquarters
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  here in the Bay Area. Unmute.
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  OK now I'm good. Holy shit.
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  Off the rails ready. Late Night Live stream here.
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  Nothing really I could do about it, but I am here.
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  I missed last week. I didn't want to miss this week.
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  I technically have some plans tomorrow that would have
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  preclude me from doing the show any other time.
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  Let me make sure I'm live on all the other things.
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  Looks like we're live on the TikTok here.
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  And a few other things. Anybody tuning in late?
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  I appreciate you night owls like myself.
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  My fiance just posted an adorable little thing.
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  We're doing kind of a countdown to our wedding this summer. 73
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  days, 74 days, 73 days, holy cow.
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  But she just posted this thing about taking naps together and
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  I'm a night owl and she isn't. So shit is wild.
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  But I'm here. I'm making an effort.
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  I appreciate anybody that's tuned in late to watch.
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  If you're watching this on the replay, welcome.
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  Ghost Cult is your 24/7 365 rock and metal news source and we do
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  music news, interviews, music album reviews, festival and
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  concert reviews all over the world.
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  We have upcoming coverage of Rd. Burn Festival, Sick New World,
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  and a bunch of other things. Yep, I'm having a liquid death
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  in midnight. Awesome.
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  Liquid Death just came out with this brand new flavor.
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  I have this one from my fiance. Death Island.
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  Like a tropical iced tea, which I gotta say is really good.
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  We have a lot to get through. Melissa's here watching.
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  Love you baby. Looking forward to some
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  adventures with you this weekend and for the rest of our life.
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  So missed May the 4th. I did do a live stream that
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  night. I have my Millennium Falcon,
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  Metallica ride, the lightning mash up shirt and some other.
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  Our thumbnail was my Star Wars thumbnail for the week.
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  But yeah, I'll drop the tip menu in a bit.
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  But you know, basically we're here building a music community
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  for metal fans, real metal fans, not people who see the garbage
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  on social media. These click farm, click bait
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  things. We had our biggest interview of
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  the year is with Neurosis, which is amazing.
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  We have a bunch of other things coming up that honestly are
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  blowing my mind. Barney Greenway of Napalm Death
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  and Braun from Mastodon, along with Mark Menge of King Ultra
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  mega undead 6991 is here. I am.
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  I always here. What's up?
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  What's up. Ghost in me, West Virginia.
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  What up? What up?
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  Good to see you. Thanks for watching.
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  We're just doing some late night rock and metal news drum cast TV
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  welcome. I'm I'm known to love a drummer
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  or two. So yeah, let's get right into it
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  and we have a lot of show to cover and then I'm going to
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  collapse and go to sleep. We always start the show with
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  the announcements and we'll we'll just in big in this for
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  the second. We just hit almost 2 million
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  views on YouTube. This is 1314 years of ghost
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  coat, soon to be 15 years and we got 1901 million 900,000 views
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  and my partner in ghost cult, my co-owner Omar said to me, well,
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  like a million of those are mine.
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  And I thought that was pretty funny because a million of those
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  I think are almost a million of those are mine.
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  But yay us. This is all the hard work.
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  We were also on all the other socials.
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  We'll tell you about that in a minute.
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  But thanks if you're watching here on YouTube, looks like a
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  lot of you are here on the tube of you.
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  Thank you again. Monday was May, the 4th
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  Mandalorian and Grogu movie is coming out.
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  Star Wars Mandalorian and Grogu. I really hope it restarts the
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  franchise. I am clearly a huge Star Wars
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  nerd. I was doing putting away some
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  laundry today and I was like, man, I got a lot of Star Wars
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  shirts to pick from. And I still love the original
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  trilogy the most, but I'm very excited for this Star Wars
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  movie. And to my fiance, I'm trying
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  really hard not to just overwhelm you with nerd shit on
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  a daily basis. I'm really restraining myself
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  and I'm hoping you enjoy being along for the ride.
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  But if you don't, you can tell me and I won't be mad.
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  Just some things that we've been doing here at the site the last
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  couple of weeks. We brought you the news that New
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  York City's sludge and doom band Guts is going to make a new
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  record or has made a new record and is putting it out through
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  the very excellent Silent Pendulum Records.
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  This is the record label of So Hideous and Cryptodaira and
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  Seven Sons, friends of ours. Guts is a band we are very
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  passionate about supporting like most bands just hard working,
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  doing everything right, making really true to themselves music
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  and I'm very much looking forward to their new album and
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  hopefully doing an interview with them again.
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  Oh you're it's fun and you're enjoying it.
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  Thanks babe, I appreciate you. Also we premiered my own Hells
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  new music and video that was kind of fun.
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  Their album is out. Their EP is coming out now.
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  Today we premiered the new video for Kurt Dymer.
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  Kurt Dymer is is a horror movie, horror movie actor breaking into
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  rock music and he's pretty phenomenal at it.
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  Really great Hard Rock band, catchy but heavy, not soft and
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  not just like butt rock, octane butt rock.
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  It's like really good music. A grog is born.
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  His new album comes out tomorrow.
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  We premiered the new single and video for True and you can check
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  that out on our site. He was awesome about sharing it.
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  Also, we are still the media partners of many festivals, but
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  Vodkin, Metal Battle Canada, the East Coast Finals is coming up
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  soon and our own Omar Khoury will be there as a host as well
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  as a judge. And again, you have just a few
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  days left if you are anywhere near the LA area or you can make
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  it to LA, definitely go ahead and check out our giveaway on
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  our website on our homepage to win Echo and the Bunnymen
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  tickets for their show at the Greek Theater.
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  They're doing a career spanning set.
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  I don't know how many more tours some of these bands have in in
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  themselves. What's up Bean?
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  Hello to you too. Sandra's here, Mags is here.
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  What up? What up?
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  And Yep, Beard Woodworks is here.
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  Appreciate you all. Late night metal talk.
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  Let's talk about rock and metal news.
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  So yeah, we're giving away echoing the Bunnymen tickets.
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  More giveaways and stuff coming soon.
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  You know, we've just had a phenomenal year in terms of
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  support from fans. And I want to give a little
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  shout out. You know, from time to time we
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  drop little, you know, we do free music promotion to bands.
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  If you subscribe to us on YouTube and you screenshot it
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  and DM us on one of our platforms, we give bands little
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  mentions in our YouTube interview videos.
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  Some of the, you know, our our Neurosis video has 5300 views.
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  We're a small channel. We're still a small channel.
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  But I do want to say that like, you know, we do try to help
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  underground bands. We don't just talk about the
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  butt rock bands. And I want to give a little
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  shout out to the Anarchist Closet in Stroudsburg, PA.
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  I have been a fan of many local businesses in that town.
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  It's just a cool, you know, Pennsylvania's got its ups and
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  downs. It's not just Philly or Jersey S
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  Philadel. You know, Pennsylvania's a cool
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  state. It's got a lot of things going
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  for it, especially culture. And they have great music venues
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  where we're lucky enough to cover bands at Mr. Small's and
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  the, you know, the Sherman Theater and, and the Wind Creek,
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  Wind River Creek Creek Casino, you know, theater.
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  And I want to shout out the Anarchist Closet on Main Street
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  in Stroudsburg, PA. Punk and metal culture,
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  clothing, like just fun things that really throw it back for me
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  to my time growing up in New York City, like the East
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  Village. Very bohemian, very pure of
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  heart. They inspire and help a lot of
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  artists in their community to produce works that end up at the
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  store, but they're just, you know, anything you need.
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  I'm looking forward to going through there again.
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  One of my favorite record stores is on the same St.
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  Main St. jukebox. You've heard me talk about them
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  and shout them out before, so anarchist The Anarchist Closet
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  on Facebook and on Instagram. Give them a follow.
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  Check out some of their cool content and stuff about the
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  stuff in the store. I don't know if they sell stuff
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  online. I thought at one point they
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  might have, maybe they have an eBay store and we will go back
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  and link that in at some other point.
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  But I'm looking forward to getting back east at some point
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  this year or next and visiting that town and checking out the
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  Anarchist Closet. So thanks for listening.
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  I appreciate you. I I'm just trying to help little
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  businesses. If you got a small business or
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  an underground band or a small record label or clothing brand
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  that does punk and metal things or goth things, hit us up.
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  We'll, we'll promote you free, no strings attached.
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  We just like people to follow us.
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  It just shows a mutual respect. We wrote a big feature last week
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  on the anniversary of the passing of Jeff Hanneman of
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  Slayer, an iconic figure in thrash metal history.
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  I was fortunate to see Jeff many times, some of his best and
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  worst performances, but he really is, he was and still is
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  in many ways the lynchpin of Slayer, even though they're back
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  doing shows and Gary was his hand picked.
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  Gary Holt of Exodus was his hand picked replacement if he
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  couldn't go on, which is really nice.
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  But you know, love, love Jeff Hanneman and I love Slayer and
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  I'm hoping to maybe catch them at some point again sometime
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  soon. But I was very happy when they
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  retired and I had felt satisfied by seeing them three times in
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  the last couple of years. And I had seen Slayer like
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  actually some of the most times I've ever seen.
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  I've seen Metallica the most like 45 times.
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  I've seen anthrax and seven dust 30 something times each.
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  I think it's 30 three times each and Slayer about 30.
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  So also passed away this week. I can't believe it's so long ago
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  now, but it's MCA Adam Yok of Beastie Boys, a huge band in my
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  formative years and still to this day.
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  And, you know, just a legend. And he did so much for the music
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  industry and the film industry and his fingerprints are still
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  all over a lot of things in hip hop and movie making and indie
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  film and everything. Also, David Allen Coe, very
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  controversial figure, probably best known to our audience for
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  doing a whole album with the 3/4 of Pantera.
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  David Allen Coe and the Cowboys from Hell outlaw country artist.
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  You see him here with his dime bag guitar.
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  More on dime bag guitars in a little bit.
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  He died this week. You know, he was trying to be
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  very edgy and outlaw the outlaw guys.
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  He wanted to like out outlaw people.
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  I know that's not proper English, but and he made a
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  record that was extremely, like, he felt it was satire, but it
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  was extremely in poor taste and, and racist and no ways around
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  it. And even just a few years ago,
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  he said, like, I know I'm never going to live down those, those
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  racist songs and that racist album.
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  And I really shouldn't have done that.
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  I thought I was being funny. And I don't know what I was
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  thinking. And, you know, the New York
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  Times even interviewed him to talk about it.
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  Like, hey, you know, at what point as a society do we ever
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  forgive people? If people fuck up and they're
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  just unforgivable, What is unforgivable?
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  Murder. You know, we've forgiven a lot
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  of murderers, you know, pedophiles.
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  We have a pedophile in the White House doing nothing about him.
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  So, you know, while I liked David Allen Coe's music, I
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  acknowledge that he's extremely, you know, had some extremely
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  shitty takes and views and some music at different points.
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  And he's a very complicated guy. And I'm sure there's a lot of
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  other people out there where people like, I love Varg
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  Veerkens, who's horrible. He's on, they're on TikTok, he's
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  on TikTok. He's like one of the stars of
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  fucking TikTok. It's mind break.
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  It breaks my mind. He's a complete piece of shit.
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  He's not that brilliant either. But OK, David Allencoe, rest in
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  peace despite everything. We had a 78th birthday from Bill
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  Ward of Black Sabbath. You know, we just lost Ozzy less
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  than a year ago and Bill wrote a really lovely letter.
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  I'll read part of it here. Hi everyone, I am celebrating my
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  78th birthday today. To be honest, I never thought
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  I'd see the day. Sometimes I felt I've LED
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  multiple lives and upon reflection for a moment, perhaps
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  I have. Today, upon writing this letter
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  to you, my biggest task was to just adjust perfectly in a story
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  to our youngest grandchild about how the moonlight dancing to and
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  fro across the lakes ripples. Sometimes life can be more than
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  extraordinary, and paying it forward is to say at the least,
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  an ambitious task. Lovely writing.
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  Go check it out on his socials. Bill Ward, may you rain for many
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  years. My friend Jello Biafra has a
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  health update. Again, one of my goals in life
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  is to run into Jello Biafra here in San Francisco.
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  Not physically hurt him, run into him like, but like actually
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  just meet him. He's hugely inspirational to me.
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  Jello's progressing nicely. His speech has mostly come back
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  in full and cognitively it's like the stroke never happened
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  in a very debilitating stroke just a couple of months ago.
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  The left side is still weak, but it's doing much better.
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  He has been living with me so I could care for him, but he is so
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  much more self-sufficient than he was.
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  He will most likely go home this coming week.
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  So that's this week and I hope it.
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  I hope so in metal history. Just a few bone mows about metal
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  history if you're a fan. This week we had Blessed Are the
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  Sick from Morbid Angel come out in iconic classic Mount Rushmore
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  of death metal albums in my opinion.
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  Testament. Incredible album.
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  We have some more Testament news coming up later.
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  The New Order. I just got this 2026 reissue
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  from Nuclear Blast. Sherry as fuck I love it.
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  Amana Marth Berserker, solid album, wasn't my favorite by
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  them. I really don't re listen to
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  Alana Marth as much as I used to but I do love John's Viking and
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  the records before that. OK.
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  Queen's ranks classic operation mind crime.
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  A recent a recent podcast topic for for one of my podcasts.
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  Super cool. Also Pantera, the great southern
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  trend kill more Pantera news coming up soon or Pantera
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  related news. This was a tremendous album for
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  me in the mid 90s at the gates. I mean, you know, what can you
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  say? I know we just lost Tomba and we
• 17:14
  just got, I have, you know, we just lost Tomba and I just got
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  my new At the Gates record. It took a lot to listen to it
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  just one time. I really need to spend more time
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  with this record. It's it's great.
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  But this is their throwback to their debut, Exodus Atrocity
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  Exhibition B Exhibit B. This is probably the best of the
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  Rob Dukes era albums so far, including the current one,
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  Goliath that just came out. But I love this record.
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  Absolutely brutal and brilliant. And also On this date in
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  history, Hotel California was the number one song in 20
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  countries, back at a time when there was only vinyl and 8
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  tracks and cassettes and radio. I don't know why people hate the
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  Eagles so much. There was a writer a couple of
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  years ago who wrote a whole expose about why he hates the
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  Eagles. It was pretty crazy, but here's
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  Don Henley. I'm probably going to get sued
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  out of existence just for showing this photo of Don Henley
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  from the video of them playing Hotel California like the, you
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  know, music video. So please don't sue me, Don and
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  we let's do the live stream tip menu.
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  I'm a huge fan. All right, time for some
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  features. These are some major things we
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  did the last week. Beside all those other things.
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  Once again, we have an exclusive interview on our website with
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  Zoe and Ashok Schmerda, formerly of Cradle Of Filth.
• 19:31
  We just we had some Cradle Of Filth tour news coming up with
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  Suffocation. But yeah, Zoe and Ashok gave a
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  lengthy lawyer approved Q&A about their experience leaving
• 19:43
  Cradle and the new music they're working on now, especially Zo's
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  new album Catalyst Crime, which is quite good symphonic metal if
• 19:52
  that's your thing. Also, I did a live stream this
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  last week. Jason Newstead gave a new
• 19:58
  interview to Dean Delray. You should check out the Let
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  There Be Talk podcast. He's brilliant for a guy who
• 20:04
  wasn't a. Journalist in the 1st place
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  phantom cadavers here what up what up D2 Nicole Dyer sorry
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  Neil Dyer Austin so Jason two major takeaways and you can go
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  watch or check out our website story or watch my live stream
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  but the two major things is Jason had cancer and he beat it
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  he's free and clear thank goodness we don't want to lose
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  any more rock soldiers. I talk about this all the time.
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  And then, you know, I think Metallica has been spinning the
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  narrative about how he was kicked out around sound some
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  kind of monster 20, you know, 24 years ago, 23 years ago.
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  He quit 25 years ago. So now he's feeling free to talk
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  about it. And I think they've been
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  spinning a narrative that is not true about why he left
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  Metallica. And to me, I was even more mad,
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  forget about the base not being heard, I was mad about other
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  things. But anyway, we love Jason here.
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  I'd love to interview him sometime.
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  He is coming on tour soon. We have his tour dates to share
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  with you soon. Also, we talked about Slayer and
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  their headline shows and how they sold out just like
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  Metallica's things sold out very quickly.
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  But hoping we'll add some more Slayer shows.
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  I do believe Riot Fest is going to get announced either tomorrow
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  or early next week and I wonder if Slayer is not one of the
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  headliners there. Big interviews this week here on
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  our podcast and YouTube, we interviewed Cryptic Shift.
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  Anytime you start an interview talking about how great Cynic
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  and death are and progressive metal and technical death metal,
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  you know it's going to be a good interview.
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  I chatted with them, phenomenal, their new albums out now and
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  also my partner Omar talked to Frozen Chad of Frozen Soul.
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  They're on tour right now with Avatar and a bunch of other
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  bands, which is really killer. Great band.
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  I'm I'm they have a new EP out now.
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  They have a new song with Rob Flynn.
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  Rob Flynn is everywhere. Rob Flynn is my favorite DJ,
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  which is a a shirt that I'd like to get from the Martyr store.
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  Jamie Josta, just some other things you might have missed.
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  I interviewed Chris Naughton of Winter Phyliff, their new album
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  and Undying Season is one of the best black metal albums of this
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  year, out now on Napalm Records. Also, my new interview with
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  Ultrasun is out, you can check that out.
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  They have some tour dates we'll talk about in a bit.
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  And of course, this show is a podcast.
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  Our podcast is wherever you listen to podcasts.
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  If you don't have time to find me once a week and watch this
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  show live, I wish you could. But if you can't and you prefer
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  to do your chores or you don't get ready for school or work or
• 22:50
  drive or commute, you can listen to our podcast.
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  We have a lot of exclusive stuff over on the podcast, not just
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  rehashes of everything. And because I don't have enough
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  to do, I am the Co host of the Glacially Musical podcast Beer
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  Medal and Swearing. We are back as a trio with Don
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  de Lamont and we are continuing our series on the Bon Scott era
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  of ACDC. It sure is an eye opener, I'll
• 23:16
  say that. And now it's time for the news
• 23:19
  rundown. And as always, we talk about
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  metal festivals and we have just a bit of festival news to share.
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  Like I said, we have festival reviews coming in the next week
• 23:29
  to the site. I just love this thing.
• 23:32
  Anyway, this is I'm going to tell my kids this picture of
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  Erica Kirk was Mortis. Anyway, funny things make me
• 23:39
  laugh. Metal festivals.
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  Let's Go Shiprock got announced for 2027.
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  One of these years I'd like to go to this festival.
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  You know this cruise. I'd like to go on a cruise in
• 23:49
  general. I used to work in the luxury
• 23:50
  cruise industry and I got laid off before I was able to go on a
• 23:54
  cruise after I made $10 million for my boss in 1/4.
• 23:58
  Hard to believe but Papa Roach Ice 9 kills, nothing more.
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  Fuck them. Highly suspect, Bad Flower, Set
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  it off and a bunch of other bands.
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  The Stowaways All Star crew, a Shiprock sells out every year.
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  It's one of the best run things in music and vacations.
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  Pretty damn cool. Rockville already kicked off
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  today with Guns and Roses and unfortunately 5 Finger, Death
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  Punch and Ice, 9 Kills and awesomely Death Clock.
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  The rest of the weekend has Foo Fighters, Turnstile, Bring Me
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  the Horizon, My Chemical Romance and Day to Remember, Breaking
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  Benjamin, A Simple Plan Avatar and more architects around
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  there. Wild Zach Wylde has announced a
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  new version of his Berserkis fest.
• 24:51
  This is actually looks really great.
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  Co headlined by Lamb of God and Black Label Society on two
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  dates, August 28th at Montage Mountain again in Scranton,
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  Wilkes Barre, PA area and August 29th at Jones Beach Theatre.
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  Down, Suicidal, Tennessee, Zack Sabbath and Dark Chapel will all
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  support with the more bands adding soon a ride for dime hot
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  sauce eating contest car show cover band.
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  You know tribute bands coming up this weekend on tomorrow,
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  Saturday, Sublime and slightly stupid are playing the Sublime
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  Festival Meguta Sublime Megusta festival.
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  It's interestingly named taking place Guess where in Fort Worth,
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  TX. Sublime new album out.
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  I'm I'm pumped for it. Sun's up.
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  Proxy is here. Metal Forever is here.
• 25:56
  Bubba's here. Anthony, what's up?
• 25:58
  What's up? What's up?
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  Sonic Temple, this is next weekend.
• 26:05
  We are pretty excited for this. The Fall of Adam is here.
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  Chucky Brown Hood TV. What up, son?
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  Good to see you. PMF is here.
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  Also. Good to see you.
• 26:19
  I'll try to pop back in on the gram.
• 26:21
  If anybody's still watching, feel free to join the combo.
• 26:26
  Always free to support. Ghost called Sonic Temple is
• 26:29
  next weekend. My Chem Shinedown bring me the
• 26:32
  Rising tool, Breaking Benjamin, offspring, Marilyn Manson,
• 26:35
  Megadeth simple plan story so far.
• 26:39
  Architects day seeker behemoth Zach Sabbath looks like fun.
• 26:46
  Also just announced Riot on Fremont Street May 22nd and
• 26:50
  23rd. I was talking to my fiance about
• 26:52
  this earlier. I don't believe.
• 26:54
  I do believe punk rock bowling is not happening this year.
• 26:57
  Supposed to come back for next year.
• 26:59
  So there's kind of a fun little punk punk event happening in a
• 27:05
  couple of weeks. Memorial Day weekend.
• 27:14
  Milwaukee Metal Fest has announced their pre party on
• 27:18
  Thursday, June the 4th. Co headline by Amir and Jasta
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  and friends featuring an All Star cast of metal heroes and
• 27:28
  probably many more. I'm really stoked for this.
• 27:31
  We're coming out to cover this. I've never been.
• 27:33
  I've been to Wisconsin, I've never been to Milwaukee.
• 27:35
  So I'm finally going to see Acid Bath again after like 20 years.
• 27:41
  Killswitch Engage, one of my favorite bands.
• 27:42
  Ministry, Napalm death, John Bush doing anthrax, obituary,
• 27:47
  suicidal power trip, machine head, Agalac doing multiple
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  sets, death Angel, incantation, psycho Mico solo which he rarely
• 27:57
  does, pallbearer just unbelievable.
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  I'm finally going to see macabre which has been like a bucket
• 28:03
  list death metal old school death metal band for me.
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  I've never seen macabre even back in the back in the
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  Milwaukee Metal Fest days. Chucky, what up brother?
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  Great to see you. I hope you're well.
• 28:16
  Once again, as I said the last time you popped into our feed,
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  if you got anything going on, shows you want to promote,
• 28:22
  friends, bands, putting out records, just DM me, you know,
• 28:25
  or Omar Holler at us and we will help promote them.
• 28:29
  And you always brother, always a pleasure.
• 28:33
  All right, what else? We just had the decibel medal in
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  beer fast. The new the next one is Denver
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  at the Fillmore down in Suicidal Tendencies and more to be
• 28:46
  announced. Those are your two headliners.
• 28:48
  That looks hella cool. I don't know about Denver.
• 28:51
  Denver in December. It seems really cold and snowy,
• 28:55
  but it's tempting. Never been only been through
• 28:59
  Denver at the airport. Maryland Deaf Fest is a couple
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  of weeks away. It is the 21st anniversary of
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  the festival and it is just stacked with talent.
• 29:10
  Oh my God, Whiplash is playing God, the Crown, the Tushka,
• 29:15
  whichever one that is. Destruction.
• 29:17
  Old man's child. First North American show ever.
• 29:20
  Second will be at Fire in the Mountains.
• 29:22
  Satan Fest. Someday I will go to Iceland,
• 29:26
  perhaps for Satan Fest in a future year.
• 29:29
  Sign Dima strip show. Hanford, the Haunted Voivod,
• 29:36
  just, you know, unbelievable talent in the black metal scene,
• 29:40
  both locally to Iceland and regionally in Scandinavia.
• 29:45
  All right, that's all the festivals.
• 29:47
  Let's quickly go through the concerts.
• 29:49
  There are many to talk about concert tours.
• 29:52
  Again, the Slayer shows are all sold out.
• 29:54
  I believe Slayer will probably get added to Riot Fest or at
• 29:56
  least one more thing between September and the fall, The end
• 30:02
  of the fall, those November shows.
• 30:06
  A Mon Clock tour continues. Coverage is up on our site right
• 30:09
  now. A pretty incredible tour.
• 30:11
  I'm really happy for Castle Rat, whatever it looks like, for them
• 30:15
  to, you know, open that tour and have success in Yorkshire.
• 30:18
  Explorer is here always Chucky, always.
• 30:22
  You are a bro. Also, Pussifer's Normal isn't
• 30:28
  tour continues with opening support from comedian and
• 30:32
  musician Dave Hill. I am going on Monday with my
• 30:35
  fiance. I cannot wait.
• 30:36
  It's going to be an awesome time at the Golden Gate Theatre in
• 30:40
  San Francisco. The Godless 4 tour continues.
• 30:44
  Behemoth, the Aside Rod and Christ Immolation.
• 30:46
  Our review is live on the site right now.
• 30:49
  I also saw this tour, it was incredible.
• 30:53
  Gore announced another big tour. They're just going hard.
• 30:56
  Gore Gore Must Die is the new Gore tour.
• 30:58
  Hopefully we will cover yet another Gore experience and
• 31:01
  tour. Looking to get an interview soon
• 31:03
  with someone from the band. Arch Meyer is headed to their
• 31:08
  European vacation tour. The brutal technical death metal
• 31:11
  band is getting back overseas this summer.
• 31:15
  Fozzie has announced the Twisted Faith tour with Spine Shank Flaw
• 31:20
  and I can't make out who that is but looks like Florida for
• 31:26
  walking to Rockville was today Charlotte and a bunch of other
• 31:32
  southeastern cities so good for them.
• 31:34
  I hope they I'd love to go see spine Shank.
• 31:36
  I haven't seen them in so long. 25 years possibly Wednesday 13
• 31:42
  the Shocktober blood tour with dead on Sunday We've we love
• 31:48
  Wednesday 13 here it goes called interviewed him before it's one
• 31:51
  of our most watched videos on YouTube is my interview with
• 31:55
  Wednesday. He is a killer artist.
• 31:58
  Dying fetus and Sangusa Gabog say that 10 times fast.
• 32:02
  I've announced a Co headline tour with crowbar and a bunch of
• 32:05
  the legible named bands. I can't read these logos but
• 32:08
  that looks like a crowbar is just fucking everywhere right
• 32:12
  now and I'm here for it. I'm so happy All That Remains
• 32:16
  kicked off their tour with Born Of Osiris and you know they've
• 32:20
  had some lineup issues. They have a fill in drummer from
• 32:24
  Elegion on drums and Mike Martin had to step out for a torso.
• 32:28
  Emma Worsler, formerly of Doth and Kamira is now on tour with
• 32:35
  All That Remains. Never really got their mojo back
• 32:39
  after Ali Herbert died. A guy I loved and interviewed
• 32:43
  before, but you know, best of luck again, guts.
• 32:47
  We talked about their new album deal with Silent Pendulum
• 32:50
  Records from New York City and now they are kicking off a tour
• 32:54
  this June with Rosie and the Rat Dogs.
• 32:58
  Upper Darby, PA. Richmond, Greenville, Athens,
• 33:01
  Birmingham, AL, Chattanooga, Louisville, Cincinnati, Indy,
• 33:06
  Chicago and Pittsburgh. And by the way, I know I'm
• 33:09
  American but I'm always going to say Birmingham like Birmingham
• 33:12
  like England because that's what I do.
• 33:15
  Alabama, you should be honored. Napalm Death just announced an
• 33:19
  early 2027 tour. Somewhat disappointing with
• 33:23
  Master, even though they're great, maybe who they tour with
• 33:27
  is not always great. And Brat, who recently had their
• 33:31
  guitarist and Co vocalist and their vocalist wet blacktop mojo
• 33:37
  is in the middle of their Texas checkmate leg one of their tour
• 33:41
  and they just announced some more dates this summer.
• 33:44
  So they are Rd. dogging it all through Texas and the whole SE
• 33:51
  and looks like a little bit of the Midwest.
• 33:54
  So that's cool. Love those guys.
• 33:58
  Body Count. We have some more Body Count
• 34:00
  news coming up soon, but Body Count is playing Sonic Temple
• 34:03
  next week, headlining Camp Pennsylvania, playing at Rock
• 34:07
  Fest Wisconsin, Brutal Assault in Czech Republic, Alcatraz
• 34:11
  festival in Belgium, headline date in Tilburg, Bloodstock
• 34:19
  festival which we always cover and I expect we'll cover again.
• 34:22
  A headline show in France, a festival in Prague.
• 34:29
  Oh no, sorry, Portugal, boy, I really can't read this flyer.
• 34:32
  And Aftershock in Sacramento, which I made return to again
• 34:35
  with shall see. I got to move and I'm getting
• 34:39
  married this summer. Elder, whose new album is coming
• 34:42
  soon, is announced a European and UK tour.
• 34:46
  We will hopefully get out and cover them.
• 34:48
  We are looking to nail down an Elder interview soon.
• 34:51
  I'm a big fan of the band This is Floyd Nation sitting outside
• 34:56
  of Abbey Road Studios. They just put the finishing
• 35:00
  touches on their new album. They've been releasing some
• 35:02
  original music and their new upcoming album also has a
• 35:05
  complete album performance of Wish You Were Here by Pink
• 35:09
  Floyd. We have some stuff going on with
• 35:11
  them soon. Stay tuned.
• 35:14
  Not just a an ordinary tribute, Panda, an exceptional 1.
• 35:18
  Murloc is here. What's up Murloc The Crosses is
• 35:22
  a band, basically a tribute band to D Crutzen.
• 35:26
  We just reviewed their new album and they are playing a bunch of
• 35:30
  dates including some Midwest and West Coast dates with the
• 35:33
  Dazzling Kill Men, who I think are on their label.
• 35:36
  They are playing Milwaukee Metal Fest.
• 35:38
  I will do my best to see them. I'm stoked.
• 35:43
  There's the Jason Newstead tour dates.
• 35:45
  We were talking about Jason Newstead and the Chophouse Band.
• 35:47
  They are doing some headline dates starting July 1st as well
• 35:51
  as opening for BlackBerry Smoke. That is super cool.
• 35:54
  Good for Jason Love. I would love for him to bring
• 35:57
  back the thrash metal band Newstead.
• 36:00
  That was the shit. But you know he's got to follow
• 36:03
  his heart right? Moving along 7 Dust and Theory
• 36:08
  of a Dead Man have announced a Co headline tour.
• 36:11
  I think this is the first time they're going to tour together.
• 36:13
  The theory of a dead man was broken up for a long time, but
• 36:16
  seven dust and theory of a dead man have toured together maybe
• 36:19
  in like 2002 and now again killer young band returned to
• 36:24
  dust, returned to dust, who we've interviewed is opening.
• 36:27
  So that's a a fun tour. They just got done touring with
• 36:31
  the Trey You New 7 Dust album. One out now.
• 36:35
  I have my copy. Ricky Rackman is doing his one
• 36:38
  foot in the gutter an evening with spoken word storytelling
• 36:42
  thing. It's not really getting out to
• 36:45
  Northern Cali, but I do believe he's getting to the West Coast
• 36:49
  this summer. He's getting in the van I'm in.
• 36:52
  I'm here for it. Or he's going to ride on his
• 36:54
  motorcycle. I'm not sure.
• 36:56
  Today Is the Day announced a killer tour this spring and
• 36:59
  summer. New Today is the Day album is
• 37:02
  awesome. Also Steve Austin of Today is
• 37:04
  the Day has his outlaw Country album out now.
• 37:09
  Booze Wah, the sludge band from outside of Philly that I'm a
• 37:11
  huge fan of. You might sometimes see my hat
• 37:14
  that says maybe I'm a bird. I don't know what the
• 37:17
  significant. I mean.
• 37:17
  Next time I interviewed them I have to ask about that.
• 37:19
  What the fuck is this hat about? Maybe I'll have them autograph
• 37:23
  it. So they're kicking off a West
• 37:25
  Coast tour and they are playing San Francisco the week after my
• 37:29
  wedding on a, on a Sunday matinee.
• 37:32
  I don't know. Maybe we'll go do it.
• 37:37
  They're playing a kilowatt bar, a fun punk rock bar.
• 37:42
  All right. Ginger's tour is already, I
• 37:45
  believe, coming soon with Crystal Lake and Anthios.
• 37:48
  And Anthios has a bunch of other tour dates, too.
• 37:52
  Ultra Sun already added new dates, Another US run later this
• 37:56
  year. Allison Parker.
• 37:57
  What's up? Roberto Duran, do you have Monos
• 38:00
  di Piedra, Hands of Stone, but Ultra Sun?
• 38:04
  Go check out my interview with them on the channel on YouTube.
• 38:06
  Lot of fun. Uncle Aston and the Deadbeats
• 38:10
  announced a whole bunch of tours and festivals.
• 38:14
  I'm really stoked about this. They also have new music coming
• 38:16
  out. Therefore they put out a new
• 38:18
  single that was like their first new song in 10 years and almost
• 38:23
  10 years. And the single 7 Inch sold out
• 38:26
  in like a minute. I was so mad, already had that
• 38:30
  pup flyer. Did these did these medal for
• 38:32
  the masses Grand finale is coming everywhere again.
• 38:36
  This is the the medal for the masses to battle for Bloodstock.
• 38:39
  These festivals and battles of the bands happen all across
• 38:43
  England. This one is for Scotland.
• 38:47
  May 23rd Solar Suns and Nothing Speaks 2 great bands are
• 38:52
  competing along with the guest headliners and the finalists.
• 38:56
  So those bands are not those other bands.
• 38:58
  King Nobody and Chekhov's Gun I know and Lupine Rain.
• 39:05
  I know. Also Boba Freak is here.
• 39:07
  What's up? Boba Freak day secret tour with
• 39:10
  N Lane. We got some N Lane news coming
• 39:12
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  again, my homie Craig Caruso keeps all the behind the scenes
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  stuff running and lucky for me. So let's see Stream Yard.
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  We're also here for we're on all the socials.
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• 40:25
  Nobody appreciates my love for Def Leppard like my four sons.
• 40:29
  Glinted Gleben gloppen. Bloopen.
• 40:32
  That's not what it how the words go.
• 40:34
  But that's just what I like saying.
• 40:35
  Kinetic Pernerge, welcome back. We haven't seen you in a while,
• 40:38
  and the Falconer PDX is here. What's up?
• 40:46
  Not too bad. 40 minutes. Let's blast through the rest of
• 40:48
  this show. Time for the news rundown.
• 40:51
  This was a bit of a surprise. Dean Guitars has been in a
• 40:56
  lawsuit with the estate of Dimebag Daryl, and a judge in
• 41:02
  Florida ruled that Dean can continue to use two of the
• 41:06
  Dimebag Daryl designs basically so far in perpetuity, the
• 41:13
  Razorback, the very popular Razorback and the Stealth guitar
• 41:16
  designs. And it's intellectual property.
• 41:19
  There are two other claims of trademark infringement and fraud
• 41:23
  that are still going, but the original claims are covered
• 41:27
  under the ruling. And you know, it's interesting,
• 41:37
  you know, we're pretty friendly with Rita Haney, Dimebag's
• 41:42
  partner and the caretaker of part of the Pantera legacy.
• 41:47
  And I know they were hoping for a different ruling in this.
• 41:50
  So I wish them luck. We'll see what happens.
• 41:52
  There's more court stuff to come as a result of all of us.
• 41:58
  Super interesting, though. Also also Bush, if you want to
• 42:03
  feel old, Bush is putting his celebrating the 30th anniversary
• 42:11
  of their second album, Razor Blade Suitcase, with a deluxe
• 42:15
  vinyl edition as well as a remix remastered versions of all those
• 42:19
  songs, and they put out a single and visualizer for Swallowed.
• 42:23
  The big hit song you may remember was the first song
• 42:26
  played at Woodstock 99 after shit went sideways during Limp
• 42:31
  Bizkit. Anyway, Live Nation, we've been
• 42:37
  covering this story off and on for weeks.
• 42:39
  A jury found Live Nation absolutely guilty of shitting
• 42:43
  the bed in the music concert ticket industry and misleading
• 42:48
  and mischarging, you know, overcharging fans and creating
• 42:51
  these false markets. I don't think anything's going
• 42:54
  to happen to them. I'm still loving on that.
• 42:56
  But the ruling was interesting, to say the least.
• 42:58
  It does open up. Other states are going to have
• 43:02
  trials. I don't think you know.
• 43:04
  Again, getting vouchers doesn't do it for me.
• 43:07
  I want real change in the business.
• 43:09
  I don't care about $2 off on my concert tickets.
• 43:14
  In case you missed it if you were living under a rock King,
• 43:17
  Ultra Mega is the Chris Cornell Soundgarden Temple of the Dog
• 43:21
  tribute group that is working on a series of covers that will
• 43:25
  eventually be released as one full album on Raining Phoenix
• 43:28
  Music. It is spearheaded by Mark Menge
• 43:31
  of Medal Allegiance and a couple of other bands and they put out
• 43:34
  an incredible cover of the solo Chris Cornell song Dead Wishes
• 43:39
  sung by Bron Dollar of Mastodon. I got to interview them.
• 43:44
  That's coming soon. Stay tuned in the next few
• 43:45
  weeks. It was mind blowing how good
• 43:49
  that interview was and how much fun it was and how deep it was
• 43:54
  and how sensitive those guys are about paying tribute to Chris.
• 44:00
  The Burning Ambition documentary about Iron Maiden is out today.
• 44:05
  It's already had its world premiere.
• 44:07
  It was globally, you know, watched in movie theaters today.
• 44:11
  I am going on Saturday. I'm dragging my fiance to see
• 44:15
  the Iron Maiden documentary. She likes Iron Maiden a bit.
• 44:18
  We'll, it should be a fun time. Anytime I've seen some of these
• 44:21
  things, when they do the music, the fans go nuts, sing along,
• 44:24
  head bang, it's going to be a crowd.
• 44:26
  It's going to be fun. And then we're going to run
• 44:28
  around San Francisco and have some fun.
• 44:30
  But yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing that.
• 44:33
  Alisa White Glutes is in the news quite a lot lately.
• 44:38
  You know, late last year she departed Arch Enemy after 14
• 44:42
  years, replaced by Lauren Hart, formerly of Once Human.
• 44:48
  She launched her own band called Blue Medusa after putting out a
• 44:52
  solo single under her own name. She just last week joined Savage
• 44:56
  Lands, which is the thrash and metal collective led by Dirk
• 45:00
  Verburen of Megadeth and is meant to save the Costa Rican
• 45:05
  land, the rainforest. And she's very passionate about
• 45:08
  the environment and animal ethical Treatment of Animals and
• 45:11
  such. And now she has joined
• 45:13
  Dragonforce as the Co lead vocalist.
• 45:16
  I'll be honest with you, the press release wasn't great.
• 45:19
  It didn't really emphasize that the existing singer is still in
• 45:22
  the band. But it does highlight that she
• 45:25
  has joined that band. You know, she's brilliantly
• 45:28
  talented. I've said some true and not
• 45:31
  great things in the past about my interactions with her, but
• 45:35
  she's brilliant, right? There's no way around that.
• 45:38
  I just don't know if Dragon Force is going to be for her
• 45:41
  specifically. I was kind of over that band
• 45:44
  10-15 years ago, but you know, I can't imagine being on stage
• 45:48
  every night and having to sing those songs.
• 45:50
  I'd be irritated as bug. Thanks.
• 45:52
  For those watching on the Ghost Called main channel, we also
• 45:55
  have a Ghost Called live channel on YouTube as well as my channel
• 45:58
  Ghost Called Kefi TuneIn and check it out.
• 46:02
  What else? What else?
• 46:03
  Corn dropped the music video for their song off the Diablo
• 46:09
  Immortal. What are they up to?
• 46:10
  I used to play Diablo 1-2 and three religiously and if I
• 46:15
  didn't stop gaming, I would never leave the house.
• 46:17
  But super cool for corn to put out their first new music in a
• 46:20
  long time. And we did get a bit of a
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  revelation. I don't think I got to talk
• 46:23
  about this, that field. He did an interview with Rock
• 46:27
  Feed and they're at Welcome to Rockville because I think that
• 46:31
  guy is based in Florida and you know, I, I like their stuff.
• 46:34
  I like him. He talked to Fielding and
• 46:37
  Fielding admitted for the first time ever that the reason he
• 46:40
  left Corn the first time is they were going to come back too soon
• 46:44
  from COVID and he didn't want to get vaccinated.
• 46:47
  So that's disappointing, but his prerogative.
• 46:50
  I don't want a tour. These guys are going out there.
• 46:53
  I don't believe in the virus, but I also don't want to get
• 46:55
  vaccinated and I don't want to go on tour anymore because this
• 46:58
  virus, OK. And he has not even talked to
• 47:02
  them except through lawyers since then.
• 47:03
  That sucks because they were best friends, right?
• 47:06
  They all grew up together, at least some of those guys.
• 47:08
  And then Fieldy said, you know, I would never close the door.
• 47:12
  I'm coming back. I'm very proud of my time in
• 47:14
  corn. But also I've never talked to
• 47:17
  them again. And it's going on 6-7 years now.
• 47:20
  So that's fucked, but OK. Also also in the news, Alonzo
• 47:27
  and Jetsam is coming out with a new album this summer.
• 47:29
  Hey, Snake River Conspiracy is here, I'm a huge fan.
• 47:33
  Let's do an interview about Mojave Film Booth and Snake
• 47:36
  River Conspiracy. If this is the band themselves,
• 47:40
  I'm such a fan. I will talk to your publicist.
• 47:44
  Maybe this is just randomly interesting.
• 47:46
  Mel Brooks at like 99 years old is making a sequel to Spaceballs
• 47:50
  and Dom Deluise's son Peter Deluise.
• 47:54
  You might remember him if you were a Gen.
• 47:56
  X kid from 21 Jump St. as the Co lead with Johnny Depp.
• 48:02
  And he is going to play Pizza the Hut in place of his dad that
• 48:07
  passed away. So I think that's adorable.
• 48:11
  Ice T One of these pictures is Ice T's the artwork for his
• 48:15
  upcoming album Criminal Migraine.
• 48:16
  And the other picture is me with Ice T right before the pandemic
• 48:20
  at the Carnivore listening party at Sony headquarters in New York
• 48:24
  City. What a time to be alive.
• 48:27
  I got to talk to him for a couple of minutes and talk about
• 48:29
  hip hop and talk about the Bronx and the and the contrast between
• 48:33
  the Bronx and Compton and South Bronx rappers and his opinion on
• 48:36
  who his favorite rappers are. He asked me who my favorite
• 48:39
  rapper it was. I said, well, beside you KRS
• 48:43
  what? And he was like word word.
• 48:46
  And I also met Coco that night. She was really nice.
• 48:49
  And they had the baby with them. At the time.
• 48:50
  She was a lot younger than now, obviously.
• 48:52
  But boy, 2000 was like 20/20/20 was like a lifetime though in
• 48:56
  2000 seems like ancient history, but new Ice T solo rap album,
• 49:02
  hip hop album, I'm here for it. He hasn't had a proper solo hip
• 49:05
  hop album in 20 years. And also Body Count continues to
• 49:09
  tour. We talked about their festivals
• 49:10
  and headline tours. Just a little shout out to Craig
• 49:13
  Worden of Shudder to Think. Shudder to Think is a band that
• 49:16
  I was hugely into in my college days and I met them once back in
• 49:22
  the day. I was a big fan, really the
• 49:25
  progenitors of post hardcore, pre emo kind of musical theater
• 49:30
  inspired hardcore if you will, and able to write soundtracks
• 49:34
  and scores. They were on the Velvet Goldmine
• 49:37
  soundtrack for two songs that you might well know, music fans
• 49:41
  and musical fans and glam rock fans.
• 49:44
  And he has a new solo album, which is the deluxe version of
• 49:47
  his recent solo album. And we have an interview coming
• 49:51
  up with Craig I'm really proud of and he was really a great
• 49:53
  guy. This is just wow.
• 49:57
  This picture, I'm going to blow this up for a minute.
• 49:58
  This this image has been exploding the Internet with
• 50:02
  anger. Horny metal night this is.
• 50:07
  I can't remember where this is taking place but this is the
• 50:10
  picture of sleep token and it sounds like bad omens day
• 50:15
  seeker, type O, negative hem, acid bath, sleep token, spirit
• 50:21
  box and Deftones. I mean it's definitely an
• 50:26
  attention getting flyer if you wanted to piss people off and
• 50:30
  get them to check you out. Hey Tito, what up brother?
• 50:33
  How was sick new world Velez plague 213 is here.
• 50:39
  JMC 2022 is here. But yeah, like this flyer
• 50:45
  fucking up pissed the whole Internet off man TikTok Twitter
• 50:50
  threads, blue sky wherever this thing popped up, people were
• 50:54
  fuming like acid bath. All right type of negatives you
• 51:00
  could claim this is extremely you know, baby making music and
• 51:03
  horny and sad and him is very romantic.
• 51:07
  I don't think of him as overtly sexual, but like very romantic
• 51:11
  and and mood music. But as advanced a lot of songs
• 51:15
  about necrophilia and betrayal and murder, not really romance
• 51:20
  and you know, sleep token clearly horny spirit box.
• 51:25
  A lot of music about overcoming personal problems and emotional
• 51:29
  issues and, and misogyny and things like that.
• 51:32
  Not really. I mean, you know, yes, there's
• 51:34
  definitely some beautiful parts to their songs.
• 51:37
  I don't think of them as horny music.
• 51:39
  You definitely could have come up with some other bands.
• 51:43
  And Deftones, of course, are the horniest band ever, maybe ever.
• 51:47
  Like these guys need to jerk off much more than they have been
• 51:51
  because hey, Chino, All right, system of a down headline sick
• 51:57
  New world Co headline sick new world with corn last weekend.
• 52:00
  We have coverage of that coming soon.
• 52:03
  Darren Mel County in from the stage made us like one of the
• 52:07
  lamest fucking speeches ever. On one hand, he's like, don't
• 52:10
  let the government decide you like divide you If you want to
• 52:14
  be left or you want to be right or you want to be in the middle.
• 52:16
  It's cool. It's like mine like don't talk
• 52:20
  anymore about politics, bro. Let it leave it to surge and
• 52:23
  maybe you know, Shavo is into gaming and weed and his other
• 52:27
  bands and like dude, no one likes a centrist.
• 52:33
  You're just a bitch. There's good people on both
• 52:35
  sides. Stop being you know, if you've
• 52:37
  sold out your ideals and you don't want to be politically
• 52:41
  motivated anymore or stick to your original ideals.
• 52:45
  Just be quiet bro. You have nothing to say.
• 52:48
  You have nothing I want to hear basically.
• 52:51
  It's too bad because you know, I really have come around on that
• 52:54
  band. I really I should do a whole
• 52:56
  live stream on bands I used to hate, that I like and bands that
• 52:59
  I still hate. That would be a fun couple of
• 53:01
  live stream topics. Hey Spearing and Drift, just a
• 53:06
  reminder, they jumped on the Kryptopsy LED Decibel magazine
• 53:11
  tour. The band is disbanding after
• 53:13
  their upcoming new and farewell album.
• 53:17
  I pre-ordered mine. I love Nate from that band and I
• 53:22
  might have to just go see. I keep missing Kryptopsy anyway
• 53:26
  and it's a killer tour, but I especially just to make sure I
• 53:29
  catch what probably is the farewell tour for Spirit Drift.
• 53:34
  This book is coming out soon. Chuck Billy's debut memoir, I
• 53:40
  will. I'm here, I'm here for this man.
• 53:41
  I love the Gary Holt memoir. Chuck is a contemporary of Gary.
• 53:47
  You know, we really don't have any memoirs for.
• 53:49
  We have biographies of Metallica, but we don't have any
• 53:53
  history books on them. And, you know, Chuck has a very
• 53:56
  unique and interesting experience based on growing up
• 54:00
  as a Native American in the Bay Area and the thrash metal scene.
• 54:05
  So holding my breath. The two testaments of Chuck,
• 54:08
  Billy Co written with Dave Erickson.
• 54:11
  They. Yeah.
• 54:12
  So that's coming out soon. The forward is by Rob Halford of
• 54:15
  Judas Priest and the afterword is by Randy Bly of Lamb of God.
• 54:20
  Very killer stuff. I'm looking forward to reading
• 54:22
  that. Also a lot of books coming out
• 54:26
  soon. Let's see what else is coming
• 54:28
  out soon. This is super interesting.
• 54:31
  Omar did this story. The Ghost Inside was profiled by
• 54:37
  Pearl Drums. You know that The Ghost Inside
• 54:40
  had a horrible van accident about 7 years ago that almost
• 54:46
  killed the band and their drummer lost his leg.
• 54:50
  My former drummer of one of my bands is in the thread there on
• 54:54
  the Gram Tito. And so Pearl developed this
• 54:58
  technology, this new kind of drum pedal with him so he could
• 55:04
  continue to play fast double bass and punk rock and and and
• 55:08
  kind of thrashy punk rock. So it's called the Hammer and
• 55:12
  Andrew Tazik is the drummer. Hope I said that correctly.
• 55:17
  The 2015 bus at and so it's now 11 years ago and one of the most
• 55:22
  remarkable stories of resilience in modern heavy music.
• 55:25
  How they developed the hammer pedal to work with his
• 55:28
  prosthesis. He does not have an actual
• 55:31
  prosthetic leg. He has kind of like a nub.
• 55:33
  I don't know if he also walks with a leg, but it's a single.
• 55:37
  You know, it's kind of like the double beater and it's very
• 55:41
  innovative. You should check it out.
• 55:42
  You can watch them play. There's tons of videos online of
• 55:45
  him testing it out and showing it and what a remarkable person.
• 55:49
  I'm so glad they're OK and he you know, they survived their
• 55:52
  injuries and continue to play another book.
• 55:55
  I'm super I I really need to like bear down on my reading
• 56:00
  list, but also Eugene Hunts of Google.
• 56:06
  Bordello is putting out his debut book and memoir, Forward
• 56:09
  by Thurston Moore, Lost Innocent World, Chronicles of Ukrainian
• 56:14
  punk rocker in the free world. Very interesting stuff.
• 56:17
  I'm sure he's going to be brilliant.
• 56:20
  He's always a very smart and brilliant guy.
• 56:24
  Speaking of books, one of our mentors here at Ghost Cult is
• 56:27
  Michael Anthony Alago. You might know him as the guy
• 56:31
  who signed Metallica to Electra Records in 1984, who discovered
• 56:36
  White Zombie. I'm going to tell you that I saw
• 56:38
  a White Zombie in the Continental Club in 1989, and
• 56:42
  they were not good at all. And then two years, three years
• 56:45
  later, moving in the surface of premonition of a land erupting.
• 56:50
  Yeah, you know, so fuck it, this guy deserves a medal.
• 56:55
  He is, again, wonderful. We've got many interviews with
• 56:58
  him, exclusive content he shared with us about Metallica, and
• 57:03
  photos nobody else has seen Polaroids.
• 57:04
  He has. He is coming out with his new
• 57:06
  book. Michael Has, in addition to his
• 57:09
  lengthy year career in the music industry as an A&R Rep, has his
• 57:14
  new his fourth monograph, Polaroid Encounters 1998 to
• 57:19
  2009, now available from Shining Life Press.
• 57:22
  If you like pictures of shirtless men in New York City,
• 57:26
  this is for you. Michael is a brilliant
• 57:29
  photographer and still is a great year for metal.
• 57:32
  And, you know, we should talk to him about that soon.
• 57:35
  I'm wondering if he'll come to San Francisco for like a book
• 57:37
  signing or something and I can go meet up with him.
• 57:39
  Nuns Slaughter dropped the new single.
• 57:41
  We know their new album is coming out from their new deal
• 57:43
  with Black to Black. Nuns Slaughter.
• 57:45
  Kind of a side band, like a similar band to Midnight from
• 57:49
  the same area. Killer band motor, heady metal,
• 57:53
  basically heavier Motörhead. I'm a big fan of vinyl reissues.
• 58:00
  There's already been a bunch of banger ones this year.
• 58:02
  Last year you know I was talking about the Danzig ones every
• 58:04
  other week. December Underground.
• 58:07
  Probably the best album by AFI. A Fire Inside is getting the 20
• 58:11
  year Oh my God we're sold the 20 year reissue treatment.
• 58:20
  I have not decided if I'm going to buy this yet, but I might.
• 58:23
  I do have the Halloween EP Down Speaking of reissues is also
• 58:28
  putting out their reissue of Down 3A Bustle in your In your
• 58:33
  Hedgerow, The quote Stairway to Heaven remix remastered for 26
• 58:42
  pre-orders are up now also. Also.
• 58:45
  This was another interesting month.
• 58:47
  I mean like so many bands have announced new albums.
• 58:51
  This is what is it? It's Swim the Current with our
• 58:57
  friend George Pond. And so this is a really
• 59:01
  interesting story. They've just put out a new song
• 59:05
  called Already Dead and their Day Out debut album is coming
• 59:08
  out, Lone Star Empire. And they were on tour in Japan
• 59:13
  and George had a heart attack in Japan and I believe he is still
• 59:22
  recovering. He might even still be in Japan.
• 59:25
  I don't know if he's made it back yet, but if there's ever,
• 59:29
  if there's a GoFundMe or anything, we'll let you know.
• 59:33
  Swim the Current is mostly made of Texas rockers Market.
• 59:38
  Marcos Leo, formerly of Shadowed Shattered, Shattered Son and El
• 59:42
  Nino is the vocalist. George on bass, Joe Geary on the
• 59:47
  guitar, Greg Antin on rhythm guitar, Chris Moore from George
• 59:52
  Lynch and Ultra Phonics on drums.
• 59:55
  So we're looking forward to that debut album.
• 59:59
  But I'm a big George fan and I I'm rooting for you buddy.
• 1:00:02
  Please get well soon. He's also part of Disciples of
• 1:00:06
  Verity with Corey Glover and Corey Pierce of God Forbid.
• 1:00:10
  Other bands with New Into Eternity has a reissue coming
• 1:00:14
  out their 20th anniversary. Vinyl reissue of their album
• 1:00:20
  Timeless Winter, but they're also working on a brand new
• 1:00:23
  album. Of course, you know our man Stu
• 1:00:27
  Blockers, the vocalist and and originally came from into
• 1:00:30
  eternity and you know that he used to be he used to be in Iced
• 1:00:38
  Earth, which, you know, fuck that noise.
• 1:00:41
  But anyway, so let's see what else?
• 1:00:45
  What else? What else?
• 1:00:49
  We're at the one hour mark. I'm going to try to finish this
• 1:00:51
  up soon. N Lane released a brand new
• 1:00:54
  single, Avion. They're on that tour with Day
• 1:00:56
  Seeker, big fans of North Lane, the Australian metal core band.
• 1:01:00
  I've interviewed them a few times.
• 1:01:01
  Oliver Bridges is the front man, comic book collector, horror
• 1:01:05
  movie nerd and great vocalist and screamer.
• 1:01:09
  And they're looking forward to a whole new N Lane album.
• 1:01:11
  They've kind of taken their band DIY an indie, which is super
• 1:01:15
  interesting in this day and age. Speaking of reissues, Carrie
• 1:01:20
  King is putting out his debut album yet again a year and a
• 1:01:25
  half later, from Hell I rise with demos and things.
• 1:01:28
  If you ever wanted to hear Carrie King's vocals on demo
• 1:01:31
  versions of songs, this is your chance.
• 1:01:35
  I'm believe I might be getting this sent to me to unbox and
• 1:01:40
  share. So I will make a video when that
• 1:01:42
  happens. Also, this is another book I
• 1:01:46
  need to get. This is technically a 2025 book,
• 1:01:51
  but this is no New York, a memoir of the of no wave and the
• 1:01:56
  women that shaped the scene by Adele Berte.
• 1:01:59
  And I'm very interested in in checking this thing out.
• 1:02:03
  So I do love my music history books and I'm I'm a I'm a sucker
• 1:02:08
  for music history because I had studied musicology in college.
• 1:02:14
  Just a reminder, this is always a good time to punch a Nazi.
• 1:02:17
  Just in case you were not sure this is your reminder.
• 1:02:21
  OK, New Music Friday and I fail at this section of the show just
• 1:02:27
  about every week, but let's see. Let's see what?
• 1:02:31
  Let's see what's happening here. Hold on one second.
• 1:02:35
  I'll try to play some music from new Music Friday.
• 1:02:38
  I do sometimes fail. It doesn't always work, but
• 1:02:43
  we're going to give it a shot in one second.
• 1:02:48
  Every week we preview the new rock and metal albums coming
• 1:02:51
  out. It's up to you to apply
• 1:02:54
  yourself. People tell me they don't hear
• 1:02:56
  any good new bands or anything. I don't know what the fuck
• 1:02:59
  you're talking about. This is just not possible at
• 1:03:03
  all. Let's check this out.
• 1:03:08
  I don't. I don't think I'm going to get
• 1:03:11
  flagged for this band, but you never know.
• 1:03:14
  It's it's a puzzlement. It's an absolute fucking
• 1:03:19
  puzzlement. But here we go.
• 1:03:20
  I'm going to do it. I'm going to play some of this
• 1:03:24
  stuff. All right, here we go.
• 1:03:35
  Cyborg 0 is the band with their new albums coming out.
• 1:03:40
  Mean New World is the official video.
• 1:03:43
  No, that's not a new one. Let's see, Do we have new music
• 1:03:49
  online? Did I pick wrong?
• 1:03:51
  I might have picked wrong. Well, here's the trailer for
• 1:03:54
  their album. Oh yeah.
• 1:03:56
  Here we go. Cyborg 0 School official music
• 1:03:59
  video Episode one, Part 1. This looks like a fun animated
• 1:04:03
  video. Let's see if it's any good.
• 1:04:08
  I'm going to find out. All right, let's
• 1:04:33
  listen to this for a minute. Fun and funky go down records.
• 1:04:56
  Erika Erante Barfualdi directed this fun well.
• 1:05:16
  That video was definitely fun. I think this reminds me a lot of
• 1:05:22
  James Gang. All right, I'm going to now read
• 1:05:25
  the new music Friday list and tell you what to pick up.
• 1:05:30
  But you can go to ghost called site and get all your records
• 1:05:34
  really quick. Just run through things to again
• 1:05:36
  coins, currency tokens and other related objects.
• 1:05:38
  EP on Day's records for some punchy, punchy hardcore.
• 1:05:42
  Randall Patton. What up What up abuser Blood
• 1:05:44
  Marks on Extreme Music for some death metal.
• 1:05:47
  Barato no Comply on Supernatural Cats records that's the record
• 1:05:50
  label owned by UFO Malut. Beyond the Styx Divid.
• 1:05:54
  Inner Strength records for some death metal.
• 1:05:56
  Black Orchid Empire Lore on Year of the Rat Records for some
• 1:05:59
  progressive metal. Black Veil Brides new album
• 1:06:02
  Vindicate on Spine Farm records featuring a lot of guest
• 1:06:05
  appearances including Rob Flynn of Machine Head Cyborg 00 on go
• 1:06:10
  down records. Fun Dark Thrones new album,
• 1:06:13
  Prehistoric metal on peaceful records.
• 1:06:16
  Maybe I'll do a review of that for Monday if I can get to
• 1:06:19
  listen to it over the weekend. Endless floods, passages,
• 1:06:22
  permafrost records, exploding head syndrome, deathbeds.
• 1:06:26
  This is records. The Family Men Co, Determination
• 1:06:31
  on Welfare Sounds Records. The Flatliners.
• 1:06:34
  Great punk rock band Cold World on Equal Vision and Dine Alone
• 1:06:37
  Records. A Forest of Stars, The great UK
• 1:06:40
  black metal band. Black metal folk band Stack
• 1:06:43
  Overflow in course Pile Interface on Prophecy
• 1:06:46
  Productions. The new EP from Frozen Soul.
• 1:06:50
  No Place of Warmth on Century Media Records.
• 1:06:52
  Gadget for some more hardcore coerced EP on Denial Records.
• 1:06:59
  Harms Rebirth of the cold on Time to Kill records.
• 1:07:02
  Cute cute cute haggard cat. The pain that orbits life on
• 1:07:05
  Church Road Records for some black metal eot.
• 1:07:08
  Etheric Realms of the Night on Black Lion Music for some black
• 1:07:11
  metal ingested with their new lineup.
• 1:07:13
  Denigration on metal Blade records.
• 1:07:15
  Kurt Dimer. We premiered the video today,
• 1:07:17
  but the album a grog is born in on his own.
• 1:07:20
  Bald man records. Lauren Lacus Dead lights on
• 1:07:24
  riding easy records, Old moon home to nowhere on M theory
• 1:07:28
  recordings. Panopticon band I loved
• 1:07:30
  tremendously from West Virginia. De Hezema de hirjatte in ruin
• 1:07:36
  recordings. Hope I said that right.
• 1:07:37
  Restless spirit self-titled on magnetic eye records.
• 1:07:40
  They're doing a Co headline tour with our friends in Gozu Sasa 6.
• 1:07:45
  Brutalist on Sumerian records, Scarab, Transmutation of fate EP
• 1:07:51
  on brutal records. The new album by Social
• 1:07:53
  Distortion. Born to kill, Epitamp records,
• 1:07:55
  Telak Voven for some extreme black metal from New York
• 1:07:58
  Towards the inevitable and Eastern temple record Terra
• 1:08:02
  maze. The silent architect on wells
• 1:08:04
  music Trick billon from New York dos seeing red records.
• 1:08:08
  Tortia. They are born under the rules of
• 1:08:10
  darkness on rock shots records of void thrown.
• 1:08:12
  Dreaming rat self released Who on earth?
• 1:08:16
  The rock band It Takes a Village, Yoth IRA, Gone with the
• 1:08:20
  Devil on Metal, Blade Records and Zazara and you will remember
• 1:08:23
  this winter EP self released. OK, and now it's time for the
• 1:08:29
  mailbag. Let's see the mailbag.
• 1:08:34
  I have quite a lot to get through, so I'm going to just do
• 1:08:37
  this pretty quickly. Last weekend was Comic Book Day,
• 1:08:42
  Free comic Book Day in the US and I attended an awesome comic
• 1:08:45
  book store, my favorite comic book store, Waterfront Comics in
• 1:08:49
  Sassoon City, California, in the North East Bay Area.
• 1:08:56
  And I saw my good friend John, who is the proprietor of that
• 1:09:00
  store and I bought, I got a bunch of free comics and I
• 1:09:03
  bought some Funkos Silent Bob here with the camera because
• 1:09:07
  kind of I am silent Bob in a lot of ways.
• 1:09:10
  I love Kevin Smith and Kevin Smith movies that mean a lot to
• 1:09:12
  me. And this he they had kind of a
• 1:09:15
  table outside with these slightly damaged boxes.
• 1:09:18
  But here's Jaws from the James Bond movies, Richard Keel, the
• 1:09:21
  great James Bond villain. So I picked these Funkos up to
• 1:09:25
  add to my voluminous Funko collection.
• 1:09:28
  Now on to some other things. Oh, I lost my key light.
• 1:09:32
  Good timing, but not really. I knew it was going to go out
• 1:09:36
  sooner or later. I'll just bring this guy right
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  over here so you can see me unbox these things.
• 1:09:43
  I got the new Sepultura farewell EP, The Unknowing, so got a
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  T-shirt and vinyl EP deal here. Pretty reasonable price in my
• 1:09:58
  size. Might wear this tomorrow right
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  out the box. So here's the Sepultura.
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  It's not opened yet, but it's the strictly limited edition red
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  transparent vinyl, The Cloud of the Unknowing.
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  We reviewed this very highly on our site.
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  Maybe I'll unbox it on my other show.
• 1:10:24
  I got this since the new Elder is about to come out.
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  I got this previous Elder album, Reflections of a Floating World
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  double LP. Absolutely killer.
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  This is from Retroactive Records, also in Sassoon, right
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  down the block from the comic shop.
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  Love those guys. And then a couple of weeks ago
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  on the news I told you a story about 20 Watt Tombstone having
• 1:10:46
  to cancel some of their tour stuff, so I bought this vinyl.
• 1:10:50
  This is their last record, The Chosen Few, and I'm just a huge
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  fan of that band. It came with this insert and
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  handwritten lyrics because you can't really make them out too
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  good because the light is out, but handwritten lyrics to one of
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  the songs on The Chosen Few. And then last and not least one
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  more vinyl. Sorry I didn't get to open these
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  but this is the brand new album from Failure Location Lost and
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  this is out now and I am a huge Failure fan.
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  I don't know if my fiance is still awake but maybe heard me
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  singing, possibly at the top of my lungs to sing the nurse who
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  loved me while I was getting ready to do the show.
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  And that is the show in a very reasonable hour and 11 minutes
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  late at night here on a Friday morning.
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  Have a good weekend everybody. Thanks for tuning in, I really
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  appreciate you all. And don't drink and drive.
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  Be safe this weekend if you're going out to festivals or shows,
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  Help people be a good citizen of metal and the world.
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  Show people that metal heads are not assholes.
• 1:12:01
  There's a lot of people think we're just crazy.
• 1:12:03
  Guys, this light is just fucked. All right?
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  Anyway, I'm going to see myself out.
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  Have a great weekend. More ghosts called tomorrow.
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  Peace.