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PODCAST: Episode 750 - The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show 6-19-25 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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Well, shit. Off to a flying start today.
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What's up, everybody? It's Kefi and you're watching
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another ghostcalledman.com weekly ritual.
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This is our weekly rocket metal news show, usually everywhere on
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the web and having some technical difficulties right out
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of the gate. Unreal.
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Oh, Wiley music is here. Incredible.
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Me. This is there.
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Jim is here. What's up, Slayers?
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Wine, the cat, Priscilla, we are everywhere on the web.
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Finally back on Instagram. It's been a minute since we were
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able to get that to go. I'm not sure what the shit is
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going on today. Hopefully everybody can hear me
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out there with all the technical boobery, but I'm doing my best,
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you know, I'm doing what I can with what I've got.
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And that's all we have ever been about here at Coast Codes.
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Seems like a Wi-Fi issue for some of my stuff, but if you can
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hear me, give me a comment and let me know.
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Otherwise I'll assume I'm good. Almost the end of the week,
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Almost the end of June somehow Seems kind of fucking crazy.
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Jerry is here. The sick of the talk.
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I'll try to include everybody as I can.
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What a day. It's been a time, it's been a
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time, it's been a time. So what do we do here?
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We bring you all the rock and metal news.
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That's what we do. That's why we do what we do.
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I've been experimenting a little bit with my setup here, so
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hopefully it's still all good. I still have tiny Dio here
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keeping me company. Look out, look out.
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Love me some Dio. I don't love me some fun.
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Those uncle pops for the win. Drumsteading is also here.
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Good to see you. This is actually the regular
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time we're on actual some kind of a schedule this week.
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I'm going to experiment with something else.
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Today I'm going to change, maybe change the layout.
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Let's see. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
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boom, boom, boom BDS. I don't like any of those.
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And let's see, maybe I'll put it in this corner here for a
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change. I do like things on the on the
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left of me and let's move the layer back and so insert a
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thing. Boom.
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Did it work? It did not work.
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I'm just clicking around and it's not hey there, I am.
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All right, it's me. It's me here instead of here.
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Oh, technology is a wonderful thing and I'm pointing.
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Your mother always said don't point, but I never listened.
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It's in a very good boy. Unfortunately, Brian's here.
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Guillermo is here. Glad to see you all.
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Another another week in the world of metal.
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I'm going to have a liquid death and joy.
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I don't know if any of you remember that we had prepped it
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to prepare to show today. I don't know if it's going to
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work, but when we were early affiliate partners and adopters
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of Liquid Death drone, let's go, LFG, let's go.
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We were early partners of Liquid death.
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So I don't know if this is going to work or not, but everybody
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except on TikTok. Let's see if this works real
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quick. If not, I'll try it next week
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and Nope, not working. All right, Boo Boo, this man
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drinking the same liquid death as we speak 'cause you love
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their copywriter. Me too.
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I love their marketing. They did a brilliant thing this
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week with Ozzy. We'll talk about that in a
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little bit. They're not making these
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anymore. They're not making the Tall Boys
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anymore, and they're not making the.
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I do not like the stevia. I like the agave nectar.
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So I'm buying up as many of these as possible, and then when
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they run out, I will just drink the regular spring water or the
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sparkling plain 'cause I don't like the stevia flavors already.
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All right, Melanie's also here. Let's get on with the the the
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dispense with the pleasantries. Yep.
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Oh, I don't know what's going on here.
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OK, I guess I have to abandon it.
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I thought it was working. Let's see if it is this.
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Nope. Now I'm blocked.
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Let's see if I can move this guy.
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Not going to let me. I'd like to wear ones.
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There it goes. It's going to let me do that.
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All right, cool. Hey, just a reminder, as much as
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coast code man.com, which is our website 24/7 365 metal news,
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rock news, interviews with bands, metal and rock concerts
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and festivals all over the world, as you will see and
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Yemen. Oh, thanks so much, man.
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I appreciate you, Jerome setting Thanks so much and again, if
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anybody that follows us, we will follow back.
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Thanks for sharing and giving all the likes and things.
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Just a reminder. If you want to give us a tip, we
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have a tip menu. The best experience for this is
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thanks to our friends at stream yard is YouTube, twitch,
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Instagram and Facebook, but also we hang out on TikTok.
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Feel free to ask your questions. If you want to give us a super
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for your needs for this live stream, we'll still answer
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charging to be here, but if you want to tip us, that's what we
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do. You can give us some general
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support for $3. You can buy us a coffee on
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coffee or otherwise for $6. You can be a real one for $25
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later. Mine is a real 1 and we'll rate
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your song maybe live. We don't charge for reviews.
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Here it goes call. We do about 500 album reviews a
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year and be cold this year. I am good to see you.
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Thanks for being here. Appreciate you And Shasty
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Mcnasty is here. What's up?
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I love that name. And then finally, I don't know
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if you know, this has worked in the music business a long time.
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I'm a social media marketing expert.
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I've also been a band dude forever.
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And I just recently got a new band after a very long stretch
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of not having a band. So we do music business
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consulting calls, whether it's your marketing plan, your
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release plan, social media, whatever.
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And I charge $75.00 for that call and anything else we can
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discuss, but feel free to help us out.
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And then we can take tips usually in the usual places
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again through the apps, but also Cash App, Kofi, PayPal, MO,
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whatever you want to do, anything is appreciated.
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Thanks. We are, we are.
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You're not sucking metal sucks. We are.
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You're not corporate metal injection or bladder mouth or
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others. So any who on with that, there's
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our cash app if you want to freeze the screen, pause and
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check this out. And oh, drones, Jerome has been
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in music marketing and management for 15 years.
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Knew I liked you. Nice one, nice one.
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Appreciate that. Feel free to get in the DMS
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Happy Juneteenth. If you don't know what
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Juneteenth is, look it up. It's an important day in
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American history kind of gets glossed over.
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It's pretty important. And as we've been doing for this
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is Pride month, we've been focusing on a pride centric and
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relevant artist. And last week we did Otep.
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And today we're going to talk a little bit about Neck of Kings
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X. I mean, this is a picture from
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back in 1994. Kings X is one of my favorite
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bands ever. I've been very fortunate to meet
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and interview the band I love, Doug.
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Doug was in the closet for a long time, finally came out.
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He was a Christian rock artist. He actually had a very long
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career in music besides King X and outside of Kings X, as well
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as the other guys in the band. And I think Doug is particularly
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brave. He made very sensitive and
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soulful deep, important rock music and metal music.
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They definitely, you know, were the pre Alice In Chains with a
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very similar sound, dark but melodic.
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And obviously nobody is lame. But Doug is a wonderful singer,
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an incredible bassist and songwriter.
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And I'm a huge fan of the band. And and again, Doug is very
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well, very comfortable. Now, talking about the balance
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of his sexuality versus his spirituality and his life is a
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fascinating dude. You can check out any of our
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content with Doug. And we always, you know, we do
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this because again, you shouldn't have to, but we have
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to. So that's why we highlighted
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these things. Next week, we'll have a final
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private artist. And again, look up your
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Juneteenth, all of you, if you don't know what it is.
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Celebrating a birthday this week was King Diamond.
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This is a great Photoshop from when we covered King Diamond
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last year. Late in the year, this is a shot
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by our friend Jamie Sherwood. Then King kicks ass.
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Yeah, I know we're getting new King Diamond and new Merciful
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Fate music in the next few years.
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So if you're an old school metalhead, you got to absolutely
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love that drone. Steady.
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Funny that you mentioned that. The metal community, it is more
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accepting, but there's definitely been times when it
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wasn't. I've had personal experiences
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when it wasn't. I have a really cool interview
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coming up. We're going to talk about later
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in the show where we highlight sort of fiefdoms and communities
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and gatekeeping and stuff like that, but a little bit more on
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that later on. Also, I have this story in here
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twice. But yeah, Wayne Wozniak or
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Hatebreed, they haven't announced the GoFundMe friend
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yet, but in case you didn't know, Gabe is here.
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What's up? Gabe, good to see you.
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I will kill off the banner for ghostcallmeg.com.
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Jump in the comments, Gabe. Thanks again.
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Seems like every week I, I owe you a message back, but I'll get
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you a little later on today. I have this in here twice.
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I just realized. But yeah, Wayne was diagnosed
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this week with a benign operable brain tumor.
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He's off the road for the time being while he's getting an
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emergency surgery. I had a little bit of personal
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experience with this. It's called the meningioma.
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It's when you get a tumor between the brain and the skull,
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which can cause all kinds of neurological and life
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threatening problems. Sometimes if the tumor is
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cancerous, it's it's a very difficult process to survive.
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But if it's they're more than not benign and sometimes
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operable and sometimes they can do also radiation, like a very
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specific type of radiation. It doesn't hurt the brain and
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the rest of the internal organs and and stuff that you need to
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live. So Wayne is going to make it.
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The prognosis is very good. He's getting surgery.
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And in the meantime, they had band has done a little hate
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Breed has done a little band Kung Fu to cover for him while
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they're on the road in Europe the rest of the summer and
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they're back in America on the summer slaughter tour very soon.
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So we hope Wayne gets well soon. Hate Breed's a band I've been a
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fan of and following for a very long time.
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Also this week, man, this is there's some tough ones this
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week Chuck Chuck Profis it was the drummer of Agent steel and
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obscene gesture passed away. This press release went out from
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our friends at adrenaline PR and hey El Dumaro Uno is here.
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Good to see you and unknown abandoned reactor is here.
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Good to see you too. Thank you so much Trump steady
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appreciate all the love me and Chuck Profis Agent Steele one of
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the best Hard Rock heavy metal bands ever historically old
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school and said that Chuck passed away.
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We're losing all our heroes. 61 way too young to be gone.
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And then this was a real tough one.
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I don't know if you guys are folks of Lilo and Stitch, but
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the actor who played in he was like actually the the character
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bassist for one of the main characters.
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It's a David the Killy Lumiu Bell.
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I hope I said that correctly. He passed it 57 Very sad.
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So just tough, just tough, just tough.
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And the whole world is going crazy.
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So I hope everybody's going to be OK.
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Speaking of crazy, this would be enough to make you crazy.
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Amigo the Devil. People who followed us for a
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long time know that we have supported Amigo the Devil.
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His real name is Danny Carano. So I've interviewed him a bunch
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of times in person and, you know, you know, over Zoom and
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stuff like that. Great artist.
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I've been a huge fan for almost 15 years of Danny.
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And he had a terrible house fire this week where he lost
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everything he owned except a few things.
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And then his partner were burned out of their home.
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I think he lost his pet as well was his roommate's dog that
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lived with them. And there's a GoFundMe and the
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GoFundMe raised enough money to to replace things.
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But like, you can't ever get back.
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You're recovering from a house fire is so painful and tough.
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I think we have some photos here of his burned house.
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I mean, this is horrifying, just absolutely horrifying, and we're
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deeply sorry to hear this. So even though they've met their
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goal, if you want to donate or stream Amigo the Devil's Musical
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by submerge. If you ever thought about it,
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now is a good time. Now's a good time.
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Thanks so much. So continuing on just for some
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fundies because you need to lighten the mood after we have
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some heavy stuff. We're trying to get our favorite
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dog in San Francisco, Django Sainthood from the Sisters of
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Perpetual Indulgence. Django's metalhead.
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He's a booster and supporter of the community.
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Here's a picture of Django with Nick or Butcher.
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They were on their way to kill Uranimus too, but they should
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have killed Barn anyway. We don't ask for money.
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We're just asking for signatures on the Change.org petition.
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Django rules not upset, and now it's time for some features.
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Let's do some features here at ghost cult, and this is usually
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our big things of the week or big interviews and such once
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again, in case you caught our live stream last week, we did
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the the worst deaths in rock and metal and maybe a few outside of
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heavy music. But check that out when you're
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done watching this video or listening to this podcast on the
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replay. And certainly check out our live
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stream conversation because it was very conversational, which I
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like the most with fans. And I'm always greatly
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appreciative when people, you know, people chime in.
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And again, if you've got a worst one you ever suffered, check it
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out. You know, yeah, Gabe, you would
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particularly like Amigo. The devil is like, you know,
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it's it's under the genre of dark folk or murder folk, but
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it's basically like singer-songwriter stuff about
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like could be death metal if it wasn't set to banjos and
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acoustic guitars and bands. Just very dark, but human
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realism, pretty realism. So pretty great.
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But yeah, time bag was up there at the top for me.
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Let me know who your worst death you experienced of a rock and
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metal musician. And also this week we ran our
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new interview with King Parrot. I was plugging this last week,
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Yogi from King Parrot, Matt Young new album out now, Young
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person's guide to King Parrot. They're going to be on tour all
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year long with this new album, brutal great crime court death
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metal adjacent album. They're opening for Pantera and
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a Monomark this summer, and I've been following this ban
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basically the entire history of ghost cult.
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And it was a really great conversation.
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And really, you know, it's a very long flight, but I wouldn't
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mind getting out there and getting out there and going to
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Australia someday. But it's a very long flight, all
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right. Also, I interviewed Ben
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Flanagan, a Black Map band, another band I've been a fan of
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for a long time. Their new album Hex is out now
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on Spine Farm Records, and Ben and I caught up and talked about
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the process of the band and his move from San Francisco to the
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burbs. Interestingly enough, Dillinger
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Compound has arrived now. We've got some everydayers in
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the chats and on YouTube and on the Gram and all the things.
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So thanks for being here. Thanks Dillinger.
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You haven't missed too much just talking about Migo, The Devil's
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House Fire and some of our big feature interviews this week
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like King Parrot and Black. Also case you missed it, Dry
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Kill Logics. Cliff Organo sat down with my
17:37
partner Omar to talk all about the new Dry Kill Logic singles
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and playing festivals and their comeback of that band.
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They just played in New York City.
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So I think everybody was in attendance at that show except
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me, because I don't live there anymore.
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And in case you missed it, we've got a bunch of interviews here
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on the channel. We interviewed.
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Yeah, man, I want to interview Squid Pisser so bad.
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I think we actually will get that interview soon.
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We just, we helped promote their new single and I'm a big fan of
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that label. They're all skin graft records.
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Also, recent interviews I've done include Sacrifice and Eric
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from Shinedown and a whole bunch of other big bands.
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And then just a reminder, this is a podcast only, but this is
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Ava. Maybe she's the daughter of Chad
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Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and also a former
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American Idol contestant 3-4 years back.
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And she's been releasing maybe 5-6 years back, but she's been
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releasing solo singles and now has a new EP out Orange Strive.
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And I got to interview her when I covered Bottle Rock recently.
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And there was a really cool thing that I put up on on all
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our channels. So if you followed us, you saw
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that basically I watched her show from from the festival.
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She was the first artist on the Saturday of the three day
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festival. And I stood next to two super
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fans and they had a friendship bracelet for her and she didn't
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like see them to get to get it from them.
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So I said, hey, listen, I'm going to interview Ava in an
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hour. Can I give her this bracelet for
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you? And then I'll send you a message
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when she has it. So I told this to Ava.
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I gave her the bracelet. She's like, Oh my God, let's
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make a video to send them. So I did that first and then I
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didn't share it right away. I honestly ran our interview
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with Ava and I wanted to make sure that the fans were OK with
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it and that they also had seen it first and shared it
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themselves first. Then I shared it this week.
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I thought it was a good like just if I can help a fan connect
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with an artist like that and give a gift or something like I
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can't always swear if you see me at a show, hey, you're going to
19:36
be able to get backstage and give this thing for to corpse
19:39
grinder. Probably not.
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But just this particular instance I was able to help and
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it felt really good. It felt really good.
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And we've been DM ING the fans and I and they were so thankful
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and appreciative and Ava was lovely.
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Her mom and her whole team were there and her mom is her manager
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and you know, she's a for a person that grew up in music and
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and has, you know, DIY, no record label, her own team of
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people not using her dad's fame to get her name out there.
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Super cool singer-songwriter, maybe not like heavy, but
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definitely rock and pop and even a little R&B soul influence.
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I'd really dig her kind of like Amy Winehouse or Adele or Nelly
20:23
Furtado or somebody like that. Super fun.
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And I'm really rooting for her and I hope to talk to her again
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sometime. So I wanted to share that story.
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I think that's kind of why I do what I do.
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I've been that fan. Just a reminder, we have a
20:35
podcast. This show will be a podcast, a
20:37
ghost cult magazine podcast where if you listen to podcast,
20:39
maybe you caught our kind of impromptu live stream last
20:43
night, similar to tonight with some technical problems, but we
20:48
did a live stream collab with glacially musical podcast.
20:51
You know that I'm a Co host there along with Don de Lamont,
20:54
the Hostess, Nick Cameron, and we are in the middle of a new
20:58
series on Beastie Boys. I know that our tagline is
21:00
rocket and metal and swearing and beer and all these things,
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but we decided to do our first hip hop full series.
21:06
We've done a couple of albums here and there and we're doing
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Beastie Boys and we did, you know, we did the, you know,
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license to I'll arguably one of the most, you know, huge and
21:19
important, huge and important albums of all time, but also
21:24
really interesting. And so we did a live stream.
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We almost always broadcast over glacially musicals channels, but
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we did that here as a collab. Don't know if you saw it.
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Go back and check it out. I'm on there every week.
21:36
We're talking about vinyl and how to care for vinyl and vinyl
21:39
buying and and care for your turntables and sound systems.
21:43
But also we deep dive bands. So we will go back to the metal
21:48
after we'll go back to the metal right after we're done with
21:53
Beastie Boys, but we're doing a very long series on Beastie
21:55
Boys. So if you like that checking out
21:57
Sun don't shine is here. I was going to talk all about
21:59
you all just in a little while. Good to see you, Sun don't
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shine. So again, that's that's all our
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things. And now it's time for the news.
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And as you know, every week we start the news metal festivals
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and have another sip of my drink and do the thing refreshing.
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So metal festivals work toward. Just played in DC last weekend.
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Don't know if you're interested. Don't know if you caught it.
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Apparently it was hugely successful and right after the
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weekend they announced 2026, probably to repeat in the same
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cities. Maybe they're going to add some
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new cities. So the DC area show will be at
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RFK Stadium bigger than this year.
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So they're already, you know, considered a success.
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Pre sale tickets for just the DC date for next year's Warped Tour
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go on sale tomorrow, or as you know, as you're watching this
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Friday, it's Thursday today as I'm recording this.
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And I, I expect at least a few more cities plus the other
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cities to do just as well. And from what I understand, the
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experiment went well. I hope to interview Kevin Lyman
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someday. I think it'd be really
23:06
interesting. And again, we have the posters
23:09
here for the upcoming 2 here. I'll just blow this up on the
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screen. You don't have to see my face
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that much. But yeah, Warp Tour, I expect
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they're going to add new artists.
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We have the next one coming up in Long Beach at the end of
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July. Gonna be hot down there as well
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as November for Orlando. Liquid Death for life Bikini.
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I wish I've said again yesterday, Dillinger, we were
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talking about Liquid Death and I tried to show my commercial.
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If you don't know, on our YouTube, there's a commercial.
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I'll link it in the description. We shot a 15 second commercial
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for Liquid Death with me dumping a liquid death all over myself.
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It was pretty rad. Shout out to my partner Omar for
23:47
his incredible editing and ideas, idea, factory skills and
23:53
we were a very early. We made money from them.
23:56
They sent us cases and cases of liquid death water and sparkling
23:59
water shirts that I still wear. I have a liquid Death chainsaw
24:04
hat here somewhere. So, you know, so much, man.
24:08
So much. I'm a big fan.
24:09
Yeah, man. I think New Jersey would be an
24:11
ideal place to have Warped or as well as Texas, despite the
24:15
weather and issues. And also Chicago is a natural,
24:17
even though they already have a bunch of punk festivals.
24:20
So. Yeah, Yeah.
24:22
Good stuff here. Well, man, again, I want to just
24:24
thank everybody that's just hanging in on the tick of the
24:27
top and watching. And thanks so much.
24:30
Moving on. Warp torn Jersey, right?
24:34
Oh, for sure. I saw Warp Torn Jersey,
24:36
Randall's Island and Boston, And it's funny, I go to metal
24:41
festivals and rock festivals and I interview bands.
24:44
And then they remember having met me at Warp Tour when I
24:46
didn't have this beard and I was maybe thinner or fatter.
24:50
I don't remember. We just had Download Festival.
24:52
Talk about that. A second Hell Fest is this
24:54
weekend. What a lineup.
24:55
Corn Muse, Scorpions, Linkin Park, Judas Priest, so many
25:01
killer vans, Exodus continuing the European Tour with Rob Nukes
25:06
back in the band. Good stuff there.
25:07
Health Fest always a banger of the time.
25:09
Once again this weekend starting tonight is the final Maryland
25:12
Dune Fest. Bummed about this but super
25:14
stoked for the bands playing. Thank you for everything you
25:17
have done. Maryland dune fest.
25:20
Also punk rock bowling just ended over Memorial Day weekend.
25:25
I did not come up for loud and heavy.
25:27
That's a shame that I didn't. I wish I had Frank Longoria is
25:30
here. What's up Frank?
25:32
So we just covered punk rock bowling.
25:33
You can read the full review and see a bunch of great photos of
25:36
classic and new punk bands on our site.
25:38
And they have their dates announced for next year.
25:41
Early bird tickets soon. So always a big fan.
25:44
This is a great shot of some aerial footage of of artist
25:48
jumping off a drum riser. As I said, download was just
25:51
this weekend with Korn's Sleep Token and Green Day Sleep
25:54
Tokens. First ever festival headline
25:56
gig. Expect more of those next year
25:59
supporting their new album and downloads.
26:01
Early bird tickets are on sale now.
26:03
We don't know who's playing, but they already have early bird
26:06
sales on them. There's a lot of festivals do
26:08
this release festivals, this series of concerts, sort of a
26:11
festival in pieces, a few bands at a time.
26:17
So oh Dillinger, I'll I'll fill that in for you in a second.
26:21
So we we won't be covering every single artist here, but there
26:25
are a lot of great artists here and we just covered Avenged
26:29
Sevenfold and Pelaye Royale. So that's on our site.
26:32
Also upcoming shows include Fontaine's DC Dream Theater,
26:38
Super Grass, Mastodon, While She Sleeps, Boy, Harsher, The
26:42
Damned, Lacuna, Coil, Hawkin, Bob Villain and much more.
26:47
And that's all in Athens, Greece, various venues.
26:51
So the Hellfest in New Jersey, that is a thing.
26:54
Hellfest used to be. So there's Hellfest France,
26:57
which is the longest running metal fest of metal and rock
27:01
festival in France and happens just outside of Paris in
27:05
Quisson. Piercing metal is here on the
27:07
Gram. What's up?
27:08
Piercing metal? Good to see you.
27:09
Not Bob Dylan, but Bob Dylan. I wish Bob Dylan, but Bob Dylan,
27:15
the great Parkour Pump band. So Hellfest used to be a
27:21
hardcore and straight edge festival in upstate New York,
27:25
closer to Syracuse and was very closely associated with like the
27:29
Earth Crisis Band dudes and bands like that.
27:32
And so that Hellfest is a thing and there's kind of a one day
27:36
Hellfest punk hardcore festival, sort of a big show matinee, but
27:41
not a full on festival. Would they bring that festival
27:45
back in America? Would be interesting.
27:47
Does Hellfest own the trademark on the words Hellfest?
27:50
Probably and probably difficult for them, but I would be rooting
27:55
for equal status for both if it was up to me.
27:58
Fire in the Mountains is coming up in late July, headlined by
28:00
Ward, Druna and Old Man's Child with their very first American
28:04
appearance I think ever. Chelsea, Wolf, Converge, Blood
28:09
Incantation, Steve until Sonia, and many more.
28:12
That looks super exciting. Desi Anthony is here and Nation
28:17
Festival's added a bunch of new artists.
28:18
We cover this every year in the UK.
28:20
This will take place this year in Manchester.
28:23
Corrosion, Conformity and Napalm Death are the Co headliners.
28:26
I believe the Coc show is the European exclusive for this
28:30
year. Also appearing Perturbator,
28:33
Death, Heaven, Amanra, Orbit, Culture, High On Fire, The
28:36
Haunted Pig Destroyer, Anil Nakhra.
28:39
We're broken up. We're not broken up, we're back
28:41
again. Good morning, not the warning,
28:43
but warning onslaught, Veget dude, worm, rock era, stamping
28:48
ground, author and Punisher, hell Ripper, Mesa mantar,
28:51
conjurer and more. What a great festival.
28:54
Hopefully can we continue to get to support them and go back
28:57
again? Drone, thanks for passing by.
29:00
Super super appreciative. Feel free to DM us.
29:03
Gathering of the Jungle Post is happening this summer and Gore
29:07
is one of the headliners. How fitting.
29:08
Gore should be down with the jellos.
29:10
Whoop whoop if you. Now I'm not super into ICP and
29:13
their related bands, but conflicts Dillinger.
29:21
I was convinced that the Dillinger escape him in a
29:24
headline damnation festival. Yeah, I think they're just not
29:27
quite big enough a name in Europe, but maybe that'll
29:31
change. I could see them being one of
29:33
the headliners of Roadburn. I could see them being one of
29:36
the headliners of Damnation. Prepare The Ground is a place I
29:40
think, you know, they should play.
29:43
It'd be very interesting to see. There's a lot of, and of course,
29:45
you know, Maryland Death Fest and things like that.
29:49
Lots of lots of reasons they can be here.
29:51
Fairy Ring is back. Harry doesn't mind his back
29:55
bells ringing this year. Hello, Hello, hello, hello.
30:02
This looks amazing. Actually.
30:03
Big Island Metal Bash 2 in Hawaii is taking place this
30:07
fall. This looks kind of sick.
30:09
There's a bunch of illegible logos and bands, but I see
30:13
Pessimist and Merciful on there. Incarceration Fest is coming up
30:17
this summer with Slipknot. This takes place in the prison
30:22
that Shawshank Redemption was filmed in, and they have.
30:25
It's also a tattoo convention headlined by Paul Booth who I
30:29
would love to get tattooed by someday.
30:33
We are three weeks away from this is either going to be one
30:36
of the most awesome things ever or a total disaster.
30:39
This is the back to the beginning final show.
30:41
I know Sharon tried to stir up some shit last week, Sharon
30:44
Osbourne about some band being kicked off.
30:46
We still don't know who it is. Makes me think it's a bullshit
30:48
story. But this is going to get live
30:51
streamed everywhere and the show itself is for charity which is
30:54
nice. Ozzie and Blacks have its
30:56
farewell and final show. We will see how it will be stay
30:59
tuned probably for some ghost code content right after that in
31:02
the form of reviews also also and Hinge Fest is coming up in
31:07
Denver, Knock loose and Lamb of God Co headline Dillinger is the
31:10
second headliner there on the first day, so that's pretty
31:12
good. Also Desert Fest has announced
31:15
as they always do a bunch of different festivals.
31:17
Antwerp in Belgium, graveyard, orange Goblin, yob bomb Ripper,
31:23
acid king from right here in the Bay Area, Massage reality, new
31:26
album out now. Isuzu and many more.
31:29
This looks rad. Also also coming up in LA.
31:33
These tickets are on sale now. Punk in the Park, Los Angeles,
31:36
taking place down in San Pedro where the final no effects show
31:41
took place last year. Della Mort Sky is here.
31:45
Hello. Thanks, Cage.
31:48
Thanks Auntie Mosby. Also on all the things.
31:52
And that was all the festivals. We'll do a more deep time next
31:55
week on some more things. Metallica, just Metallica
32:00
reminder, they're here in the Bay Area this week and I am not
32:03
going with other plans, but Metallica hits Santa Clara with
32:07
the 49ers play. Sure.
32:10
What's going on there? Garbage truck.
32:13
Anyway, Metallica's on tour. They continue to do all the
32:16
things. Their tickets for next year are
32:17
on sale now. And I just kind of wanted to
32:19
remind everybody that this was the 15th anniversary of the very
32:24
first big BIG4 show. So Cynosphere in Poland had the
32:30
very first Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, all on the
32:33
same day, all at the same in a row.
32:36
And that led us to the Bulgaria Home DVD.
32:40
And of course, the two Big Four concerts in both Yankee Stadium
32:44
that I attended in 2011, as well as Indio CA.
32:49
So those would be 15 years old next year.
32:52
I would love to see more of these.
32:54
We're we're running out of time here with Slayer back that
32:57
Anthrax new albums coming, maybe a new Metallica album coming.
33:00
Now is the time Lars, now is the time.
33:03
Let's do another BIG4 festival or tour aids or something.
33:07
Let's do it bro. And you can put a bunch of other
33:09
little bands on after or smaller.
33:11
Not little. 9 Inch Nails kicked off their Peel It Back world
33:16
tour, their first tour in a few years.
33:18
I got to be honest with you, I did some spying on the setlist.
33:21
The setlist are unbelievable deep cunts.
33:23
More recent stuff, unusual collabs.
33:27
Like very very cool. I am highly looking forward to
33:30
going to see the band in August here in the Bay Area.
33:33
Thanks to my awesome girlfriend getting us tickets.
33:37
She rules. I'm super happy she's the best.
33:41
I'm not just saying that because I know she's watching, but she's
33:44
the best. Caballera, Max and Igor have
33:49
announced they will play all of KSAD on a full U.S. tour this
33:53
fall. That also includes Louder Than
33:56
Life and Aftershock Festival, which I expect to be an
33:59
Aftershock. Fear Factory will be opening
34:02
every show. Unsure if there will be other
34:04
openers or no other openers but I am super excited about that
34:11
and I'll be going and we'll be covering it.
34:16
B50 twos in Devo, not always a topic of stuff we talk about
34:20
Here it goes called but I've Seen Devo live three years ago
34:23
was supposed to be their farewell tour.
34:25
B50 Twos have already reunited and were supposedly on a
34:28
farewell tour, but the two bands will team up for a short
34:31
headline tour starting in Toronto at the end of September
34:35
and running through early November in Houston, TX.
34:38
Not that many cities, but pretty damn bad ass.
34:42
I would love to see this show. I wonder if they will flip flop
34:45
the headline spots or I know Devo has like a lot of
34:48
production so I wonder if they will close some of the dates
34:51
because it's just easier for them.
34:53
Just easier for them to do it that way.
34:55
Trivium has announced the big headline tour and they're not
34:58
having any more touring with Bullet for My Valentine.
35:01
I knew they were going to immediately announce a tour for
35:04
the fall. Trivium, Ginger and Harriot.
35:06
Harriot is a killer band from the UK if you're not familiar
35:09
with them. Unbelievable bands.
35:10
Great 123 and this actually starts in Myrtle Beach.
35:14
They they don't get a lot of shows in Myrtle Beach or
35:15
Virginia Beach, but those are the first two dates.
35:19
Also also Revocation, in addition to announcing a new
35:22
album this week have announced a huge, huge tour of the US.
35:26
So I'm extremely excited about this acid bath.
35:30
They continue to roll on with their shows.
35:32
They play the Bay Area this last weekend to this weekend.
35:37
They will be playing in Seattle with High On Fire, YAB and Witch
35:41
Mountain. Probably the best 1234 of any of
35:44
these acid bath shows and I'm still hoping to see them either
35:48
at Aftershock or maybe one of their other shows.
35:51
But let's see. It would have been nice to get
35:54
away to go do this one, but kind of out of reach.
35:56
Turnstile, who we just had a live review of, continues to do
36:01
their European Tour followed by their upcoming U.S. tour.
36:04
So you can check out some Turnstile coverage, write ups
36:07
and photos, and our site right now.
36:10
Friends to the show Ice Giant are going on a brief tour,
36:14
kicking off in Wisconsin in a few weeks with support from Mel
36:19
Foss and Celestial Wizard, with Troll war on several shows.
36:24
I saw a troll war. Not troll fest, but troll war.
36:27
Come to Toronto for Ant Man. I would love to.
36:29
I still need to renew my passport by the way.
36:31
It's lapsed, but maybe, maybe we'll see.
36:35
I think they're going to announce more stuff for next
36:36
year too. So yeah, Ice Giant, some
36:39
progressive death metal, power metal, all at the same time.
36:42
Good Friends of Us and Theos announced a new headline tour
36:47
with Fallujah, who has a new album out, and Theos I believe
36:50
has another new album in the pipeline.
36:52
That's super exciting. Savage Master is currently on
36:55
tour right now with Night. They're playing tonight in
36:57
Boston. Probably right now they're
36:59
getting ready for that show. Very cool being Savage Master.
37:03
Also with the new album out as well as Night, Brad is on tour
37:07
right now in Europe. Brad is the called themselves
37:10
Cheerleader Grind quarter, Cheerleader Quarter.
37:13
But they are amazing and fun. Great band.
37:16
I hope to interview them eventually.
37:20
Opeth has added a few more dates to their Last Will and Testament
37:23
European Tour by popular demand, and then they're going to
37:27
Australia and New Zealand later in the fall.
37:31
Riff Haven is here, Macy is here, Harry is back, saw some
37:36
footage. Nice.
37:40
I hear you, man. Kings of Thrash.
37:44
Just a reminder, I believe they're going to add more dates
37:47
to this. They have a brief We're really
37:49
in tour in the fall and I believe we're going to get some
37:53
new Kings of Thrash music and tour date soon as Kings of
37:57
Thrash, featuring former Megadeth bassist David Ellison
38:02
and former Megadeth shredder Jeff Young.
38:05
We have interviewed both those guys.
38:06
Great killer band. And they're doing euthanasia for
38:11
the 30th anniversary of that album this year, which is fun.
38:14
I think that was last year. Technically.
38:17
Dumb Craft or Dune Craft is on tour with Howling Giant.
38:20
I might go to this July 1st at the bottom of the hill, it's
38:26
Fire Electric. I might just go.
38:27
They have a new album coming out too.
38:29
A reminder again about Forbidden's Big 40th anniversary
38:33
of of twisted into form with Nasty Savage and Hellfire and
38:38
Void taking place in late July that Sabbath on tour continues
38:43
to add dates. Tetrarch, currently in Europe,
38:46
just kicked off their door. They're they're on their 4th
38:49
date tonight, or was tonight in Europe.
38:51
So very cool for them to check out our recent interview with
38:54
the band, Halfway Point of the show.
38:57
Just one more reminder if you feel like throwing us a tip, We
39:00
appreciate it. You know, not if you're one of
39:02
the real ones or regular contributors.
39:05
Mustang and Ellison have not mended their ways.
39:08
Actually, Dave has been talking about how much he misses.
39:12
David has been talking about how much he misses Mustang.
39:15
And, you know, I think the friendship was gone a long time
39:21
ago and Mustang was just looking for an excuse to get rid of
39:23
Ellison, which makes me very sad.
39:25
Very sad, but you know that's life.
39:28
What are you going to do? I I think Allison is a much
39:31
better and perfect fit for Megan.
39:33
Then what's his face? James was in Zack Wylde's band.
39:41
Why am I drawing a blank on his name suddenly?
39:46
James Limenzo right? Good bassist, people know him
39:53
best from White Lion. But yeah, I think I prefer David
39:57
in the band, but that's just me. And just a reminder, our
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And again, we're on all the things, we're on Twitch, we're
40:44
on threads. I don't know if you're on these
40:47
things. So this was like a slow Newsday
40:50
on Friday and I guess Nuclear Blast announced that they were
40:53
leaving X. And I guess it's a good
40:57
opportunity to say like, hey, you should be following us in
41:00
other places because we aren't going to post here anymore.
41:03
Are you still on X? Have you given up on social
41:06
media? It's such a fucking chore and a
41:09
pain in the balls to be honest with you or whatever parts you
41:12
have. He, she, they, them's.
41:15
It sucks for everybody. I don't know why this guy must
41:20
ruined, absolutely ruined it, but he did.
41:24
We'll continue to be there. I don't love being here to
41:27
support him, but I just feel like we have a lot of traction
41:29
there and I just think like we are posting there because we get
41:34
if we weren't getting the traction there, I wouldn't post
41:36
there anymore. But OK, nuclear blast, no shade
41:39
on you. They're leaving.
41:41
Let me know if you're still on X.
41:42
Where do you find your metal news?
41:44
Tell us where do you get your news from?
41:47
Hopefully it's from us, but also other places.
41:49
Our wizard is here. Snowflake is here.
41:53
Thanks for being here. So we're also on all the things
41:56
threads and discord, and you can find us on Blue Sky and Reddit.
42:00
But anyway, on to the rest of the metal news.
42:02
Let's do the rest of the metal news.
42:04
Let me put myself back in here. Hey, I'm back.
42:06
Let's do this. Now you can see me and they see
42:09
me. Now you don't.
42:10
Again, we're talking about Wayne.
42:12
If a GoFundMe is launched for Wayne, I hope he has some health
42:15
insurance. That being that hate breed is
42:17
still a very DIY band. Hopefully they have insurance,
42:20
but you know, just I wish the best for him.
42:23
It's a tough, you know, we're getting older and and guys,
42:26
don't ignore your problems or your medical problems.
42:30
I say that as a person that hasn't always taken care of
42:32
myself, but I'm trying the last two years to take care of my
42:36
physical and mental well-being. And if you start to feel funny
42:39
or weird, go to the urgent care. Go to the ERI know people don't
42:44
have a lot of money for things, but believe me when I tell you,
42:46
if you ignore your problems, you're going to be very sick and
42:49
it's going to be too late to save you.
42:51
Wayne spoke up immediately, and they got him the medical care he
42:54
needed. Ozzy, you can have some Ozzy's
42:58
DNA inside of you. I don't even know what to do
43:01
with that and how that sounds, but liquid death, here we go.
43:04
Liquid Death, the brain, we Rep sold cans that Ozzy took a sip
43:09
from so you could have Ozzy's DNA and maybe clone him.
43:13
And they're selling these at $450 a can.
43:16
I'm pretty sure they already sold out immediately because
43:18
Liquid Death is brilliant at marketing and geniuses and great
43:22
at their tag lines and amazing at their campaigns and their
43:24
merch. And for a while they paid us
43:28
very well for plugging the products.
43:30
And people used to use our links and get money off on their cases
43:34
and we used to get money back. It was dope and we appreciated
43:38
them. But anyway, own a piece of
43:39
Aussie. As we get closer and closer to
43:41
these final shows, I think we're going to get a blitzkrieg of
43:44
Aussie news. It was also the Aussie coloring
43:46
book, like the Where's Waldo find Aussie books.
43:49
That's that's new too. So that's kind of fun.
43:53
Also also this week, big stories of the week Biohazard from
43:57
Brooklyn, NY, New York City, my hometown biohazard, one of my
44:01
favorite bands of all time. Step to the rhythm of the
44:03
Brooklyn beat. It's time new biohazard music.
44:07
They dropped the new single forsaken.
44:09
They announced a new record deal.
44:10
They had kind of previously gently announced on the Black to
44:14
Black label, which is going to be the rock and metal label in
44:17
America from Frontiers Music SRL more primarily known for
44:21
progressive rock and power metal, but love the new songs
44:25
like the classic line of a biohazard sounds like the
44:27
classic band, like absolutely killer.
44:32
Also also, this is Meg Jacobs. She's got a new album out, kind
44:38
of a metal core artist in the vein of poppy and spirit box.
44:42
New album coming soon. Very cool new single coming this
44:46
week. AII was talking about this last
44:50
week. We have a major problem with AI.
44:52
Rick Rubin today gave an interview where he's like
44:55
geeking over AI and using AI and like years ago used to just go
45:01
to Conservatory to learn music for years and news, bro.
45:04
And now the AI can help you overcome all those years.
45:08
Nah and I called this out last week talking about Timberland,
45:11
the hip hop producer, talking about maybe, you know, going
45:16
away from natural stuff and and doing more things with AI.
45:21
And I really fucking wish he would, you know, I really wish
45:25
he wouldn't move this down here and see if this is any better.
45:28
Probably anyway. So yeah.
45:34
Nope. No better at all.
45:35
But OK. Yeah.
45:37
I just unbaffled as to why these, like, supposed legends of
45:40
music are doubling and tripling down on on AII don't understand.
45:45
You know, I don't. I don't get it at all.
45:47
But OK. OK.
45:50
Rick, small bar. We told you a few weeks ago that
45:54
the band is calling it quits and announced its farewell tour
45:57
later this year. And I normally don't plug other
46:00
websites stuff course paint records is jumped on TikTok.
46:03
We've got some news coming up with you all very soon.
46:06
Good to see you Course Paint Records.
46:09
So small board. I saw an article, there's a very
46:13
few other writers that I actually read on.
46:15
I have to edit everybody's stuff on the site and things like that
46:18
in my homework, so I don't enjoy reading a lot of other people's
46:22
coverage, but when I observe bad or good coverage, I observe it.
46:25
So Metal Hammer had an article about bands, especially UK
46:28
bands, that are breaking up this year and how difficult they
46:31
found the music industry the last few years.
46:34
Small Board was talking about their recent tour to support
46:37
their new album last year. They were like 25 grand in the
46:41
whole USD when they got back from the tour, which is
46:45
devastating. And Orange Goblin is breaking up
46:49
at the end of this year. They've announced their farewell
46:51
final shows and I think the band Ithika from the UK is breaking
46:55
up soon. They had some other issues too.
46:57
So I think, I mean, I expect them to all make music in some
47:01
other way or shape or form. We have an interview coming up
47:04
with Harry Osbourne from Orange Goblin about his band Noise
47:09
Picker and his future prospects with his new music.
47:12
So you'll be able to check that out next week.
47:14
But yeah, I thought it was just very interesting to call out.
47:16
Shout out to Matt Mills. He's a writer for Metal Hammer
47:19
from the UKI tried to work with that guy.
47:20
I was like, come work for Ghost Cult, but I lost out to Metal
47:24
Hammer. But and louder sound, but just
47:27
fascinating. If you come across that article,
47:29
if you read other people's stuff that isn't Ghost Cult, I thought
47:32
that was worthwhile. Also also the praise and album
47:38
titles and sales continue to come in for Rivers of Niles new
47:42
self-titled album again, top 10 rock and metal album in the
47:46
world, which is crazy impressive.
47:48
We've been talking about the new guard slowly taking over an
47:52
infiltrating metal and also the mainstreaming of metal and maybe
47:56
a little less underground than it used to be, but still might
47:58
be bad ass. So I'm not opposed to at all to
48:02
bands being successful. Here's a fun story this week.
48:06
Not red red jumpsuit apparatus. I don't know if you guys are
48:10
familiar with this band, kind of a three tier metal core rock
48:15
band, right? And from the very beginning they
48:19
were like a dis at new metal. Their first album cover has like
48:23
a claymation Jonathan Davis like person in a tracksuit with tuba
48:29
whack ass tuba riff or something was the name of that first
48:31
album. And I was like, don't punch
48:34
down, uplift yourself. Why don't you put some more
48:37
thought into things than what you're mad about?
48:39
So be a positive force. Get people to appreciate you
48:42
because you're awesome, not because someone else sucks.
48:46
So he called out, he made a a very brash political statement
48:51
that he didn't want Trump fans coming to his show.
48:54
And then it turned into kind of like the reason he did that was
48:59
some clever ruse to get people talking about Christianity
49:03
because he's a Christian. He sees the difference between
49:05
bad Christians and good Christians.
49:07
And maybe he shouldn't have, you know, necessarily called out
49:11
Trump fans. That would be half his fan base,
49:13
by the way. So, you know, again, don't if
49:18
politics is not your thing, you don't have to talk about
49:20
politics. Just don't talk about politics.
49:22
If you, you know, if you've got reactionary views but you want
49:25
to succeed in music, just don't talk about it Unless politics is
49:30
in your brand of music and lyrics, then talk about it.
49:33
But like, understand that you're going to alienate people and say
49:36
dumb shit. And people called this guy out.
49:38
And I've never really thought too much about the band, so I
49:41
don't understand why he did this.
49:44
But it isn't smart. We live in a very politicized
49:47
and reactionary climate. Speaking of climate, Halloween.
49:52
Does it feel fucking frosty? Because Halloween is about to
49:55
fucking bring it. They announced a brand new
49:57
album, they've got a brand new single video out and I am
50:02
pumped. Halloween always a good time.
50:04
This is the full Halloween Pumpkins United lineup of all
50:08
the singers. It's pretty fucking stellar.
50:11
I'm into it. Also, with a new album out soon,
50:15
is Fishbone riding high? Last Call on America is the name
50:20
of that album. Wonder if it's political.
50:22
It might be, but we saw a Fishbone last summer and they
50:26
were fucking absolutely red, so I'm very excited for new
50:29
Fishbone music. Static Inks have an announcement
50:33
this week that like a year after the original debut single they
50:36
had push it went gold. They have finally decided to pay
50:40
attention and say something about it.
50:42
I think last year they were in the middle of the tour when it
50:44
happened so they didn't stop to acknowledge it.
50:47
Princeton Wax is here. What up?
50:48
What up? What up?
50:50
So, yeah, Static X continues to book and add more tour dates and
50:54
festivals this fall with Mudvane.
50:56
I have still not seen Mudvane for the reunion.
50:59
I really would like to. Did I get that?
51:05
Berber Dane. Berber Dane.
51:10
Wild, wild shit. All right, We're we're plowing
51:14
through this. We're almost done a Walking
51:16
Bombs is a musical project from a ghost called collaborator
51:19
Morgan Y Evans. Brand new album Blessings.
51:22
Bestrun Part 1 is out this week. News soon about Part 2.
51:29
The album features a ton of guest appearances.
51:31
It's pretty rad. Mostly This album releases
51:35
mostly psychedelic rock and some avant-garde music and.
51:39
And again, always very Speaking of politics, politics is
51:42
Morgan's brand in a lot of ways. And Morgan does interviews for
51:46
Ghost Cult and used to do album reviews.
51:47
So we're proud to support our people.
51:51
Here we go. Sun Don't Shine.
51:53
And if you're still hiding around out there, course Paint
51:57
Records. Sun Don't Shine is in the studio
52:00
right now in New Orleans finishing the finishing songs
52:04
and finishing touches on their debut album coming out this fall
52:08
on course paint records and the band has been doing a lot of
52:11
cool stuff on social media and so Johnny Kelly this is members
52:15
of Type O Negative and down all together and pro bar all
52:18
together in one band and I saw how cool picture of it 1/2 empty
52:22
beer on Johnny Kelly's snare drum.
52:26
That was really cool and it was very nice of Sundown trying to
52:29
shout us out on the in their social media posts about like
52:34
what we said about the band. So I'm super excited.
52:36
We've had interviews both in the last year or two with Johnny
52:40
Kelly and with Kenny Hickey, and I expect that we will talk to
52:44
them again as we get the run up to the new album.
52:47
Also with the new album coming soon that I'm super stoked about
52:51
is Mojave Phone Booth. Maybe you're not familiar with
52:53
Mojave Phone Booth, but you do know Snake River Conspiracy,
52:57
which has two featured members from Mojave Pho Booth in that
53:01
band. So they Mojave Pho Booth is
53:03
coming back with a new record. Drop the new single in a video.
53:06
I do believe we're going to get eventually some new Snake River
53:11
Conspiracy performances, maybe music, I don't know.
53:14
I would love to hear also also former ghost cult associate,
53:20
maybe future ghost cult associate Moths led by Wes
53:24
Leslie. Negron on Bass Moth has a new
53:26
album coming out in August. Or he dropped another new
53:29
single, Barry Killer. Sort of progressive deathy
53:34
Stoner rock. Very good band so check out that
53:38
here. Psychonaut also announced the
53:40
new album and drop the new single in video.
53:42
Very cool band from Europe. On the Stoner doom tip, this is
53:45
super cool. Louisiana's Music Factory to
53:48
reopen on its 33rd and a third anniversary with a day long free
53:53
concert. So that is a very cool location
53:55
in New Orleans. I would like to get down there
53:57
sometime. I'm sure Cross Paint Records has
53:59
been there or will be the going there.
54:05
Oh, what else do we have to talk about?
54:07
This is a fun one. Paradise Lost announced their
54:09
new album. If you've been listening to my
54:11
other podcast, we joked about how many albums Paradise Lost
54:14
put out in the 90s, like 100 albums, $1.00.
54:19
Southeast of Heaven is here just talking about the new Paradise
54:24
Lost record Time. And they made another one a
54:26
second later, and another one. It's too funny.
54:30
I know that no one else is laughing but you.
54:32
Paradise Lost. Oh God, come on, they're so
54:34
good. We kind of need to do a series.
54:37
We need to come up with a metal band for the next series.
54:40
We'll see if Nick allows you to have some input because he's not
54:44
watching. You are.
54:45
So again, sun don't shine, new Paradise Lost.
54:49
This looks hella cool. This is a new album coming soon.
54:54
Also, I was like, yo, there are so many good bands right now
54:59
and, and this is really the time.
55:01
This is one of the busiest times of the year for new albums.
55:04
And so, you know, it's very hard for bands to kind of
55:07
breakthrough, but I want people to, you know, just kind of
55:11
understand that, you know, it's not easy to put new music out.
55:17
It's it's very tough to breakthrough and and cut through
55:19
the noise. As somebody watching this knows,
55:21
this is the first of 13 times that release this year.
55:24
I fucking hope not, bro. Burton C Bell dropped the new
55:27
single like a week or so ago. I don't know if you saw it,
55:30
Savages. We covered the very first Burton
55:33
C Bell solo show under his own name.
55:36
He's done other musical projects and concerts before, but he's
55:42
got a new single coming. He hasn't said he's going to put
55:45
a record out. He said he's going to put out a
55:47
series of singles. Tank Gibson is here and Rich
55:49
McKinney is here. Which hound pass by?
55:52
You know, Don, I don't know. We've been trying to do hit
55:55
fishing for 2025 and I think they're too small a man to do.
55:59
But we'll see. Let's we'll bring it up for a
56:02
debate with Nick And again, thanks again.
56:06
Course paint records for the shout out.
56:09
The only ice we need is iced tea or ice cube everybody.
56:13
That's just a must. Let's talk about new music
56:16
Friday. I'll blow this up for a second
56:18
before I put my face out. New music coming out this week.
56:22
And this is such a big heavy couple of weeks of the music
56:26
industry. And we used to the summers used
56:29
to be quiet, but not anymore. New albums coming out this week.
56:32
I will do the album title, the band name, album title, record
56:37
label and genre. Hopefully that helps.
56:41
So here's some records you need to be picking up.
56:43
Angel Damnation, Ethereal Blasphemy on Dying Victims
56:48
productions versus do metal great label, Black Majesty,
56:52
Oceans of Black on Scarlet Records for some power metal.
56:55
Death pill. Sologamy on New Heavy Sounds for
56:59
some hardcore punk run. Death Blow Open season EP on
57:03
Sewer Mouth Records for some thrash and crossover thrash.
57:07
Freeze the Fall just posted this review online.
57:09
The Red Garden EP for some heavy rock and modern metal and a
57:14
little bit of skirt. Boxy Gent I guess.
57:17
Destination Extinction on Tank Crimes Records for some
57:20
California. They call it Mint Score.
57:22
I don't know what that means. Helms Deep March to Helms Deep
57:27
Chasing the Dragon on Nameless Grey Records for some
57:29
traditional power metal. What a shock Hero.
57:33
Wheeled on Pelagic Records for some instrumental rock.
57:36
Imha Tariqat Confessing Darkness or some black metal on Prophecy
57:41
Productions. Jamie's Elsewhere.
57:43
Where is Jamie Jamie's Elsewhere?
57:46
Alchemical EP on Sharp Tone Records for some metal core.
57:50
Joliet Perdidas Variables, Persistent Vision Records for
57:55
some post hardcore leverage Gravity on frontiers Music SRL
58:00
for some Finnish Hard Rock. Lucille, Dawn of destruction
58:04
Again. Dying Victims Productions with
58:05
two releases at least this week post The Rash Metal Malevolence.
58:09
The great Death Metal ban from the UK where only the truth is
58:11
spoken on nuclear blast. The Medea project.
58:15
Caron in self released Gothic Dune or Baida Under the spell,
58:20
also Dying Victims for some black and speed metal Mug shot
58:24
for some punchy punchy hardcore and metal core.
58:27
All Devils are here on Pure Noise Records, Mere Hell and
58:31
again self released for some Scandinavian black metal.
58:34
Just Me is here. Hey, just me, a real 1 is here.
58:37
Just me. You are the real estate and it's
58:39
great to see you. Thanks for tuning in.
58:40
We're just doing the albums coming out this week and then
58:43
we're ending the show with the Mail bag right after the
58:46
mailbag. Patrasitic kid.
58:50
Patrick Kiss on Willow Tip Records for some black demo.
58:53
Prisoner Killed the King for some classic and heavy rock self
58:56
released Ravine. Chaos and Catastrophes out on
59:00
Ripple Music for some sludge metal reflection.
59:02
The battles I have won on Pitch Black Records for some epic
59:05
heavy metal rock gut. 24 Rounds Can't Trip Self released for
59:10
some crust punk. Scrackin that goes from the void
59:13
again. Dying Victims Productions for
59:15
some hardcore and Hard Rock. Tropical Fuck Storm Definitely
59:19
the best name of a band this week.
59:21
Tropical fuck Storm. Fairy Land Codex On Fire Records
59:24
for some alternative rocks. Varhara the First Breath after
59:29
it on These Hands. Melt Records for some black
59:32
gays. That's a good band by the way.
59:34
Walking Bombs once again, Morgan Y Evans, A Ghost Called
59:37
blessings Bistroon Part 1 for some solo Monty multi
59:41
instrumentalist stuff and let's see a couple last ones that are
59:47
coming out. Sort of.
59:48
I don't know why, but Saturday Phobia effect.
59:51
Phobia Effect presents Time machines also on Moon Serpent
59:55
Europa for some electronic EBM music.
59:59
And then finally, last and never least, Puppet Magnetic.
1:00:03
Loudon's Dam. We ran that review yesterday
1:00:05
also on Rune Secret. Also industrial and ambient
1:00:09
music. That is all the stuff coming out
1:00:11
this week for new music Friday. Kryptopsies in there.
1:00:16
So much exciting stuff. Dillinger.
1:00:22
Oh, the Sabbath live stream. Yeah.
1:00:23
I mean, for 20 bucks, go balls deep.
1:00:26
You're crazy, Don. You're crazy.
1:00:28
I love seeing you, though. Thanks for popping in my show.
1:00:31
And now it's time for the mailbag.
1:00:32
But first, why does Phil Collins in the 70s look like he would
1:00:35
have been the hottest indie pop artist in 2024?
1:00:38
Definitely looks like he should have a rap mix tape in this
1:00:40
photo on on YouTube and Twitch. Get out of here Don read more
1:00:50
paradise plus records coming out.
1:00:52
That's right. All right, it's time for the
1:00:53
mailbag. And last week we had a cool book
1:00:56
that was sent to me about a new cool book sent to me about Guns
1:01:02
N' Roses. Let's actually put my face back
1:01:04
on the screen because boom, you won't be able to see the book
1:01:07
which I have behind me. So American Hardcore, you might
1:01:12
be familiar with the documentary that celebrated a 15 year
1:01:15
anniversary this week. The book is now out in second in
1:01:19
additional printings in different languages and other
1:01:21
things. If you are not an English
1:01:23
reader, but I was sent the new revised version of American
1:01:27
Hardcore. This is by Steve Blush.
1:01:29
The documentary is now 15 years old.
1:01:31
The book is 20 something years old, 25 years old almost.
1:01:35
I had a recent interview with Steve that's going to go live
1:01:38
soon and he's got events next week that we're going to help
1:01:42
plug with some news stories in the podcast interview I did with
1:01:45
him. And then eventually it'll pop up
1:01:47
on YouTube, but I wanted to not only plug American Hardcore,
1:01:51
which this is a soft cover and expanded with new chapters and
1:01:54
everything that's amazing, but also he's got a series of other
1:01:57
books, including the trilogy he's finishing this year.
1:02:00
So his next book is actually coming out, which is when rock
1:02:03
met hard hip hop. He's done a whole series of
1:02:06
these and they're not about hip hop.
1:02:08
It's more about rock artists and rock artists adopting hip hop
1:02:11
and rap, metal and new metal and rap, rock and hardcore and metal
1:02:15
and metallic hardcore and basically everybody that raps.
1:02:19
Steve Blush is one of the preeminent writers.
1:02:21
He used to write for. I read him in the Village Voice.
1:02:25
He also used to write for Paste Magazine.
1:02:27
He had his own scene that he wrote, used to book shows in DC.
1:02:31
So he was there living it. He's about my age and he was
1:02:34
like in DC as a teenager watching like Rollins come on
1:02:38
stage with Black Flag for the first time.
1:02:40
So our interview is very extensive.
1:02:42
You should check that out again. Plug with those called Magazine
1:02:45
Podcast. Eventually it'll make it to
1:02:46
YouTube. But yeah, just absolutely
1:02:49
tickled that they sent me this new book out and I'm going to
1:02:52
refresh myself with it because my original copy is back east in
1:02:55
storage. Thanks, Omar.
1:02:57
And once again, and yeah, just stoked to have another thing on
1:03:02
my bookshelf. I have so much stuff I'm
1:03:04
finishing. I'm just about finished the Gary
1:03:06
Holt book. So that review will be coming
1:03:09
hopefully soon. And his book is an eye opener.
1:03:12
Wow. And that's the show.
1:03:14
That is the show with a very manageable one hour and 3
1:03:17
minutes. Thank you so much for being
1:03:19
here. I greatly appreciate you all.
1:03:21
I am kefi of Ghost goldman.com. If you're going to hang out and
1:03:24
celebrate a party this weekend, please don't drink and drive.
1:03:27
Give somebody else the keys. As we say every week at this
1:03:31
juncture, the show is a tough time in the world.
1:03:33
So please take care of yourselves, take care of each
1:03:35
other. Stay as metal as humanly
1:03:37
possible. And I'm going to dance a jig on
1:03:39
the way out if the final outro music and let's see if it works.
1:03:43
I don't know. Nope.
1:03:44
No sound. I don't hear it.
1:03:46
It's not playing. OK, well, I guess we're going to
1:03:50
just end the show abruptly with nothing.
1:03:51
Thanks for being here. Appreciate everybody that tuned
1:03:54
in. We'll see you next week.
1:03:56
Peace.