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PODCAST: Episode 783 - The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show 8-7-2025 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. What's up everybody?
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  It's your boy Kefi, back once again with another ghost called
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  mag.com Weekly Ritual, your rocket Metal News.
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  Source on the web, everywhere else, source for media, all the
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  things. It is Thursday as usual for this
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  show. I'm happy to be back.
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  It's been a week, let me tell you.
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  Just making sure Spotify, I'm sorry, TikTok is on let's do the
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  damn thing and again, let me know how you're doing out there.
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  This is your show as much as it's mine.
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  Let me know what you want to talk about because that's what
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  we do here. Rocket metal news.
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  This is probably your first time seeing us.
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  We always have our everydayers and our real ones.
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  But just in case this is your first time here, feel free to
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  give us a like and sub if you like what you hear and see.
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  And if you don't, that's cool too.
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  Face my fair share of hit talking negative comments all
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  the time. And you know, it's just par for
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  the course when you are an online person.
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  Feel bad for the terminally online.
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  You got to get out and touch some grass and and live your
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  life a little bit. But here we are once again at
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  the end of another long week. So thanks for being here.
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  Let us do the damn thing. Time.
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  As usual, we start with the announcements.
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  Get a little slideshow here in the top corner, everybody.
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  The best experience for this show is always Facebook, Twitch,
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  YouTube and Instagram. We're also hanging out on
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  TikTok. Nerdorious KM is here.
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  Feel free to again drop a comment.
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  Royal Faith is also passed by. Hello.
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  Good stuff, good stuff. What a crazy time we're living
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  in. So as usual, we start with the
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  announcements and this is usually on a round up of some
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  current events, recent deaths and birthdays, historical metal
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  albums out at this time. It's, you know, metal
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  diversities, if you will. Yep.
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  Thanks so much, Royal Faith. What are you getting for dinner
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  or breakfast or wherever you are right now?
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  First meal of the day, last meal of the day, What do you get?
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  What are you having? Most people have come here
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  through YouTube. So we did hit some milestones
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  recently on the tube of You. 1.6 million views and 6000 Subs.
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  Nothing to sneeze at. We're not the biggest on the
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  web, but we're not the biggest of what we do, but that is what
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  we do. It's up.
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  Patricia's here also. Good to see you.
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  Good to see everybody tuning in. If you follow us, we'll follow
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  you back. So all y'all on YouTube and
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  Twitch and Facebook and Instagram, anybody.
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  It's gotten kind of a decent profile, but we can follow back.
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  We try to sad stuff this week. We did lose some great ones in
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  the world. Dave Roach of Junkyard, probably
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  one of the most underrated bands ever, passed away.
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  He was the lead vocalist, had been ill for some time,
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  apparently married his sweetheart last week and then
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  died. Very sad I didn't have a picture
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  handy, but I know people are mourning the loss of Dave
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  McKenna, who's better known as a podcaster now, but he was a
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  killer rock and metal drummer for a long time.
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  Super sad to hear about that also.
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  And then celebrating birthdays this week we had Max Cavallera,
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  Cavallera and founded Sepultura and go Ahead and Die and Kill or
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  Be Killed and eight, you know, Nail Bomb is back.
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  All these bands. Max is great.
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  We have interviewed Max the most times on our YouTube and podcast
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  than anybody else. Just burgers and fries.
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  Royal faith. Well, you know, you can't go
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  wrong with some good burgers and fries.
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  Jed is here. Enter Sandman is here.
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  Scratch your brain is here. D good to see you all.
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  Of course, Papa Hen's birthday was this week, James Hetfield
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  and Metallica. We have some Metallica news
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  later in the show. Always celebrating a birthday as
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  it should be for Papa Hat. Angry Anderson of Rose Tattoo
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  turned 78 this week. Jennifer Finchabel, 7,
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  celebrated a birthday this week. We saw her last year twice in
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  the last couple of years but last year at No Values Fest
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  which did not come back this year.
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  But that shot is by Omar Cordy the co-owner.
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  Ghost called my buddy also also Pat smear of Nirvana and Foo
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  Fighters fame and also the germs legendarily celebrated a
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  birthday this week. Bruce Dickinson's birthday is
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  today is a lot of birthdays for as we record this today, Jamie
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  Jost of Hatebreed and I guess now SOD Also Eddie Ojeda from
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  Twisted Sisters birthdays this week.
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  Who else? Who else?
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  So many, so many people celebrating births mentioned
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  Bruce. There's Bruce again.
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  Danny Schuler of Biohazard's birthday is also today.
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  He's kind of in the background of this photo.
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  Another OJC picks masterwork. Here's Aika Topenan of
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  Apocalyptica, who celebrated a birthday this week and also now
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  a rock singer. But Vera Formiga, you know her
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  best as an actress from The Departed and the Many Saints of
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  Newark and other things. She's got a new band called the
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  Yagas, where she does like sort of heavy rock.
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  And she celebrated her birthday this week.
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  So shout out to her. Of course, this week is the
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  anniversary of the passing of the great Adam Yok, MCA of the
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  Beastie Boys. Very sad.
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  Hard to believe that it is 13 years since he passed away.
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  Fuck, very sad. I'm from New York and I love the
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  beasties. And also celebrating.
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  Kind of a death adversary. I probably should do these all
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  at the beginning and then do the birthdays.
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  Elliot Smith would have had a birthday this week.
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  The great singer-songwriter, and of course one of my personal
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  heroes. Very complicated but brilliant.
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  Andy Warhol was born this week in history, so lots to unpack in
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  terms of some historical metal albums that came out at this
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  time. Testament practice what you
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  preach. There was some debate about what
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  the date actually is that the record came out, but I believe
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  it is actually August 8th, which will be tomorrow as we record
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  this on Thursday night. Fear Factory dropped the
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  Bangaroa record 4-5 years ago. This is their last record
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  technically now. Genesis Onslaught.
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  Good record here from them. Dismember at classic 30th
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  anniversary of this great Dismember death metal album.
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  Krypta's last record, Shades of Sorrow.
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  They're working on a new record now.
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  Very excited about that Carnifex slow death album.
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  This is almost 20 years old. Be 20 years old next year. 19
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  years old for this album. Dying Fetus.
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  Purification to violence, the killer, Always a killer time.
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  Dying Fetus. One of the best, most heaviest
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  bands ever. I'm a huge fan.
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  This is probably why I don't have more friends.
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  Black Sabbath's Tear is 35 years old this week.
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  Wow. And wow.
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  Not a great record. Meshuga's Nothing album,
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  arguably their best record. To some people it is pretty
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  unbelievable and great. You should go check it out.
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  Amana Mart's last album, The Great Heathen Army.
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  Amana Mart is on tour right now. We'll talk about them in a few
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  minutes. And that is all the
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  announcements. This is the part of the show
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  where we plug ourselves a little bit.
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  You know we sell some advertising and we have some
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  affiliate partners, but we are not corporate backed.
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  So if you want to give us a tip, we always appreciate it and I
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  always put up the price menu here whenever I do a live stream
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  or I do a any kind of a show. What's this up in the comments
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  here so you can see here's our tip menu.
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  I'm sorry for everybody on TikTok.
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  If you want to check this out, you got to come over to
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  Instagram or YouTube, but someday we'll get to TikTok in
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  here. Kombucha is here.
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  Bells ringing is here. System of a Down.
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  Super fan. We're super fans of System of a
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  Down too. A lot of wild and wooly stuff
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  going on with that band lately. Just just kind of wild you want
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  to check out. Every day we update our link
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  tree, which has all our current stories as well as, of course,
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  our website, postcodename.com. But here's where you can find
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  all our stuff and tip us as well.
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  And I'll just have the cash App square here if anybody wants to
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  make a donation. Gary is here.
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  What's up? Gary?
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  Good to see you. Jorge is here now.
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  Clay is here. What up?
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  What up? Thanks for being here.
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  Thanks for passing by. We appreciate you all see what
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  else? All right, so I'll bring it back
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  to me and then it's it's time for the features.
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  This is stuff that we did this week we would like to highlight
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  for you. I did a live stream last night.
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  The audio was kind of Foo bar. So I'm going to re record this
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  audio only for podcasts, but we were talking about Spotify being
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  at a tipping point for bands and fans of Wolves is here.
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  What's up? Whoops.
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  Nana's also here. So you know, a lot of bands are
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  leaving Spotify. They don't like Spotify in the
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  1st place and then they find the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Eck, to
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  be an objectionable cock knocker.
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  And so, you know, just super interesting and like, what other
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  options do bands and artists and labels have besides Spotify and
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  how to really view Spotify correctly, as well as what other
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  platforms are out there for listeners and fans.
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  I know of Nick from the Glacial Musical podcast.
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  He only listens to his vinyl collection and CDs in his car.
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  He really doesn't hear music other places except concerts.
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  I use a variety of things, including Spotify begrudgingly,
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  but I, I have to because the whole music industry is kind of
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  baked into Spotify now. So anyway, that was a fun topic.
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  We had a very lively live discussion about this and then,
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  you know, I'll re record it so people can get the whole thing
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  in in this audio is FUBAR, like the whole first half
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  unfortunately. Let's try to do a good job here.
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  Also. Also this week we ran our
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  interview with Barba Kennon of Umlaut.
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  Maybe you're not familiar with the band Umlaut, but Bar was a
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  Co founding member of Mr. Bungle and Umlaut is like the spiritual
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  successor to the 90s Mr. Bungle, Disco Volante and California and
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  stuff like that. So definitely worth checking out
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  that interview. Tom Osman, who's our managing
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  editor and runs our reviews team also chips in and does some
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  interviews and he was fantastic. This is a great interview worth
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  checking out. Also this week I interviewed and
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  ran our interview with Brendan from The Nocturnal Affair.
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  They're currently on tour supporting Drowning Pool and
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  Wednesday 13 across Europe. You definitely want to check
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  them out if you can. Sort of a Type O Negative, but
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  heavier and thrashier. Pretty cool.
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  Good band and I had a great chat with this guy.
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  Also. Recent interviews include the
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  band Failure. Their new documentary Every Time
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  You Lose Your Mind is out now. You can watch it on Disney and
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  Hulu, Disney Plus and Hulu. And I talked to Ken Andrews
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  about the band. They are working on a new album.
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  So I'm very excited about that for next year.
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  Other recent interviews were included Chris Caffrey, you know
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  him best from Sabotage, but also trans-siberian orchestra.
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  This interview surprised me with how many people checked it out
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  and commented on it and then blew it up, which I was really
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  happy about. Chris, I know for a long time we
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  see used to see each other a lot when I lived in New York and now
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  I live in California. But big crisp fan and he's been
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  celebrating his solo career, which is also full of bangers.
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  His original album, The Music Man came out 20 years ago and he
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  re released it with re recordings and extra stuff and
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  demos and cool things that you can also check out.
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  And and then also recently, if you were a huge fan of Guns and
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  Roses and 80s glam rock and hair metal, you want to check out my
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  interview with Alan Niven. Who is Alan Niven?
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  Alan Niven manage Guns and Roses through Appetite for Destruction
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  all the way up to oh the the usual Illusion albums.
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  He broke Great White as a big band.
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  The reason these bands are household names is Alan.
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  He's a songwriter, he's a producer, he was a video
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  director. He did everything and he kept
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  these guys alive even when they were like had a death wish with
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  drugs and alcohol and stuff. So Alan, super interesting.
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  His new book, Sound and Fury is out now.
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  You want to definitely pick that up from Simon and Schuster
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  books. Just to remind you, you know, we
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  have a podcast. This show will be a podcast
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  also. Also, I have the other podcast
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  that I'm part of, the Glacially Musical podcast.
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  We have a giveaway going on right now with that podcast
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  where we're giving away a bundle of vinyl or a bundle of CDs.
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  You got a couple more weeks to check that out before our next
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  giveaway kicks off. And usually at this point, we do
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  the news rundown and we're going to talk about festivals because
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  that's where we usually start metal festivals.
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  You 2's Bono's Doobie is here. I am not a fan of You 2.
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  I know that's not a hot take of any kind, I just have never been
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  a fan. Just honestly not like them
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  since the early 80s. Let's talk about metal festivals
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  because it's metal festival season.
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  Bloodstock Open Air kicks off this weekend.
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  Ghost Cult as they are covering for the We're thirteen years in
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  existence. This is our 12 blood stock and I
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  could not be more happy about it.
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  Trivium is headlining along with Machine Head and Gojira.
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  It usually sells out Saturday and Sunday are completely sold
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  out Friday night. Tickets are still available if
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  they're in the UK. This is the spiritual successor
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  to Donnington Castle. Donnington.
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  This is where this takes place in in Canton in the UK.
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  Other bands performing this weekend at Bloodstone include
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  Emperor Ministry, Mastodon, Lacuna Coil, Fear Factory, Lord
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  of the Lost, Orange, Goblin Creeper, Ferra, Swans, The Black
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  Dahlia, Murderer, Obituary, Cataclysm, Static Axe, Nail Bomb
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  Me and That Man. That's Nergal's side band.
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  It's kind of a dark folk rock band and so many more, so this
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  is just a banger of a lineup. Interestingly enough, Machine
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  Head was like a surprise band last year on one of the smaller
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  tent stages and then they ended up now a headliner.
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  So that's a good indication. If anybody shows up in as a
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  surprise this weekend, that's probably going to be a headliner
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  next year. Lalapalooza was this weekend.
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  And you know, they have other Lalapalooza's all over the world
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  at the same time. And it was interesting to talk
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  about Corn. So Corn who is, you know, one of
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  the biggest bands in the world. Maybe they're not as big as
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  Deftones, who were one of the headliners of Lalapalooza last
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  year. Lalapalooza not really such a
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  rock festival anymore, right? It's mostly pop and rap and
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  other kinds of artists. Bill Mosley's here.
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  We're just talking about Bloodstock.
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  Bill, great to see you have a good time this weekend.
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  Make sure you hydrate, Sir. So Corn played Lollapalooza, and
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  the fans seem to not care less, which is crazy.
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  Yeah, just absolutely bonkers that they would just kind of
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  stand in there like, it's not their crowd.
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  And I get that. And some people were going off
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  and I watched the video, and it made me like, reflect back.
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  The last time Corn played Lollapalooza was 1997 when it
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  was a much more rock and metal festival and the crowd went
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  ancient. They were when the headliners
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  along with Tool and Snoop Dogg that year and people were going
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  bananas. I watched a video of them and it
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  was pretty phenomenal. So Corn, they didn't comment on
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  this publicly but like the message boards and the fans took
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  to Reddit and others and other social medias and we're just
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  like, what is wrong with all these people?
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  This is one of the greatest bands in the world and then they
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  play blind and you know, it's always a lit song live and
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  people are just like whatever, I don't care about them.
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  So maybe not their environment, but at the same time there was
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  some fun things that happened at Lollapalooza.
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  Olivia Rodrigo has been, you know, playing big festivals this
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  summer all over the world. I could not name 1 Olivia
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  Rodrigo song. I'm sure she's just a fine pop
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  star or whatever, but I thought it was pretty funny.
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  She brought out Weezer for their her encore.
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  Her first concert ever was Weezer.
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  This is a picture of her as a little kid that she shared that
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  her parents took her to a Weezer show and she brought them out
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  and sang and played guitar with Rivers Cuomo, who is an
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  incredible guitar player by the way, And they played Buddy Holly
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  and and say it in so, which is pretty amazing and good for
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  them. So that was kind of cool.
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  On to more serious metal festivals.
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  Bakken just concluded this past weekend and they announced the
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  first bands for 2026. This always sells out.
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  I would like to go someday but it hasn't been in the cards for
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  me. One of the things that was
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  surprising to find out is this will be the first announced
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  chauffeur, Nevermore. The RE formed Nevermore with
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  this as yet unnamed singer and bassist.
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  So Def Leppard in flames. Powerwolf.
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  Sabotage, Emperor Sepultura, their final German show, Lamb of
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  God, Airborne Europe, Battery Tribute, Trypticon, The
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  Gathering, Never, Never More. As I mentioned, Mantar, Thunder,
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  Mother Gut, LAX, Fawn, Pig, Destroyer.
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  So a lot of bands still to come, but a lot of bands.
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  Orbit Culture, Luna Kills. So lots of things, lots of
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  things coming up. All right, Blades of Steel Metal
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  Fast is in the USA, in Wisconsin coming up at the end of the
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  month. War Bringer, Satan, Incantation
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  and many more will be there. I love going to see Satan live
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  just so I can say hail Satan as loud as possible.
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  That's what I do. Hell's Heroes announced their
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  first bands, including UDO Dirk Schneider's solo band playing
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  the hits of Accept. Sanctuary has been quiet for a
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  while so it's nice to see them. Another world name related band
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  boy VOD Tankard, Virgin Steel, 3 inches of Blood, Bulldozer,
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  Grand Magus who rarely tours the USA, White Wizard.
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  There's a bunch of white Wizards, but that one Bat
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  Phantom and many more. So that was the first
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  announcement of Hell's Humorous. We've interviewed Christian of
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  Necro Fire. He's the Booker of Hell's Heroes
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  and a pretty solid dude, I think.
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  And yeah, that looks like a great little festival taking
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  place in Houston next spring. Brutal Assault is this weekend
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  in a fortress in Czech Republic. And this is a huge lineup.
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  Huge just I think 170 bands this year playing Brutal Assault.
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  Also coming up soon is Furnace Fest.
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  I don't have the whole poster out here but I did notice the
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  news piece about the Tony Danza tap dance extravaganza reunited.
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  We brought that news to you a while back and they will have 3
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  guitar players for that reunion show because they need 3 guitar
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  players to pull off that shit. And more news about Furnace Fest
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  soon. Last year was supposed to be the
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  last Furnace Fest that clearly wasn't.
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  This year is probably not the last Furnace Fest, but you know
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  you should go to these things if you can.
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  Also, this weekend is Alcatraz Festival, so we know that in
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  Belgium. So we know that Machine Heads
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  going to headline Saturday night in England and then go to
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  Belgium because Europe is closed like that.
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  You can fly around and get everywhere.
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  Machine head will close Sunday night and Alcatraz Festival,
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  Extreme creator, Machine Head, Mastodon, WASP, Avatar, Doro,
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  Demu Borgier again, Fear Factory, Wolfmother, Nail bomb a
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  Pot, Emperor Ministry, Leprous, Static X Fu Manchu helmet,
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  Whiplash from New Jersey, one up helicopters and many more
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  incredible filters in there. Dynamo Fest is in a few weeks in
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  the Netherlands, also relatively close to Belgium.
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  Next door, Opath and Mastodon headlining with Fear Factory,
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  Paradise Lost, Nail Bomb, Within Temptation, Creator, Kujira, I
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  Prevail and more. Also Motor Culture.
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  Our festival is next weekend, also headlined by Machine Head
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  Trivium, Demu Borgier, Extreme I Prevail, Carrie King solo band
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  Mogwai Landmarks. That band is growing up Big
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  Blind Guardian Candle Mask Carpenter brood, Cult of Luna,
• 23:12
  Dark Angel Division Ivor who we just interviewed and slaves.
• 23:16
  Big big enslaved fan. I am envy and more Hey Just me
• 23:22
  is passing by. Just me is one of our regular
• 23:24
  and real ones. Good to see you.
• 23:27
  Della Darling is here every. This band is here.
• 23:34
  Shaky Knees once again is coming up in September and Ghost Cult
• 23:37
  will be there covering Deftones, My Chemical Romance, Blink 182
• 23:42
  and many others. That looks really fun down in a
• 23:45
  big park in Atlanta. I'm a fan.
• 23:49
  Aftershock again, I'm looking forward to this.
• 23:51
  I don't know if you're going to Aftershock, just me, but I will
• 23:54
  be there. I'll be there working and I'm
• 23:56
  looking forward to it, especially the middle 2 days.
• 24:01
  Definitely Deftones and corn turnstile, Gojira, knock loose,
• 24:05
  a perfect circle, bad omen, stream theater, powerwolf, acid
• 24:09
  bath. These are the bands I'm most
• 24:12
  interested in them. Alkaline Trio is always good.
• 24:14
  Knock loose, Dillinger escape plan yet again so should be fun.
• 24:22
  Oh, High On Fire, so bad, so bad.
• 24:27
  Just us. On the same note of some Danny
• 24:29
  Wermer festival stuff. Of course, Louder Than Life and
• 24:33
  Bourbon and Beyond are two more Danny Wermer festivals we should
• 24:36
  be covering. Louder Than Life in September,
• 24:39
  my man Jim is going to head out there and cover that.
• 24:41
  And Bourbon and Beyond we have covered in the past and they
• 24:43
  have upgraded. These festival experiences
• 24:46
  change the map a little bit. So if you are a frequent visitor
• 24:50
  to these festivals in Kentucky, you definitely want to
• 24:54
  familiarize yourself with the map before you go out to the
• 24:58
  show. They look pretty cool.
• 25:02
  Levitation fest is coming up this September.
• 25:05
  Oh my God. Mastodon, acid bath, the sword
• 25:07
  blood incantation, the armed secret chiefs 3 castle ride and
• 25:11
  more. What is this festival?
• 25:14
  This is crazy Levitation, I think was had another name a few
• 25:18
  years ago and they keep doing a very nice job with the festival.
• 25:24
  I know it's a little spread out. I've never been to Austin, but
• 25:27
  it's not all in This is the greatest of all
• 25:50
  tours worldwide tour. They played the West Coast last
• 25:56
  weekend and now they are crisscrossing the USA for
• 26:01
  Volbeat. So pretty cool.
• 26:03
  Good new album. A lot of things happening on
• 26:06
  that front. Dillinger Compound has arrived.
• 26:08
  Dillinger, good to see you. We're just talking about
• 26:11
  Dillinger Escape Plan playing it Aftershock.
• 26:14
  I did all the metal festivals. You didn't miss miss too much.
• 26:17
  Just heading talking about some tours.
• 26:19
  Now. We told you last week about
• 26:21
  Dying Wish's new album and dropping a bunch of new singles.
• 26:24
  They announced this killer killer tour Dying wish, Static
• 26:28
  dress, Gouge away, Orthodox and Bolt Cutter across different
• 26:33
  dates and as well as their Dying wish miss go.
• 26:37
  I love this poster more than you can possibly imagine.
• 26:40
  Like Santa stage diving, brown Santa stage diving with two
• 26:45
  doves into a crowd of mashers. And it's most of this tour.
• 26:49
  Dying Wish, Static dress, big boy Gridiron down to a orthodox
• 26:54
  bolt cutter. End of days.
• 26:58
  Pretty damn cool. I'm big on that band.
• 27:01
  I would like to see them live, they look really cool.
• 27:03
  It seems to never perform again. Terrible show in New York I
• 27:06
  know. Man, you really should stop
• 27:09
  trying. I can see like if you never saw
• 27:13
  crew right and I'm just going to kill off the ghost called Meg
• 27:16
  banner for a second and put the comments in.
• 27:18
  Like if you never saw crew I get it.
• 27:21
  But like man, there's no legacy to tarnish.
• 27:27
  Like just stop. I know the money is there and if
• 27:29
  you want to sing home sweet home with 10,000 other people I can
• 27:32
  drunkenly you warble that shit. You'd sing better than Vince, I
• 27:36
  get it. But just stop man.
• 27:38
  Like I don't have any desire to see them again.
• 27:40
  I saw them once for the first time in a long time 15 years ago
• 27:44
  and I was like fuck this, I have no interest.
• 27:47
  Stevie TV's fest is also coming up in September and there's a
• 27:50
  lot of hardcore and punk shows built around the festival so
• 27:53
  this is cool. This just got announced.
• 27:55
  My favorite New York hardcore band of all time.
• 27:58
  Gorilla Biscuits with orange 9mm, the reformed orange 9mm who
• 28:03
  dropped the new single recently, Knocked Down and more to be
• 28:06
  announced. Also Deadshot, it looks really
• 28:09
  cool. If I was back in New York, I'd
• 28:11
  be at that show where Druna is kicking off their tour in a
• 28:16
  little a little under a month where Druna and Chelsea Wolf is
• 28:21
  only about 18 or 19 days. Do not sleep on this tour.
• 28:25
  They are heavily touring behind their recent album Burn Out now
• 28:30
  on by Norse Recordings. 9 Inch Nails Peel it Back tour.
• 28:36
  I went last night in Oakland for the kickoff of the US tour.
• 28:39
  Unbelievably great. If you're a fan, you have to go
• 28:43
  see this if you can. The tickets were bought for me
• 28:47
  by my wonderful girlfriend you Melissa for enabling a good
• 28:51
  time. It was an incredible an
• 28:54
  incredible setlist. It was an incredible visual
• 28:58
  thing. I might come in and do an extra
• 29:00
  bonus live stream review of it because it was that good.
• 29:04
  Hopefully we'll get to cover the tour a little bit further out
• 29:08
  somewhere else. But you know, I went as a fan.
• 29:12
  I might write a review. I'll at least do an online
• 29:14
  review, but it was pretty amazing.
• 29:17
  The merch is a little costly and I didn't buy any, but I got some
• 29:21
  good video of all the merch stuff too so I'll share that
• 29:24
  tomorrow. But what a great tour, what a
• 29:26
  great show and Boys Noise was amazing as my boy Mike said they
• 29:30
  would be and just unbelievable show.
• 29:35
  Pantera continues to tour with Amanda Morris and other openers
• 29:39
  and we ran our review of this show this week in addition to
• 29:44
  Volbeat today. Pretty, pretty great Pantera.
• 29:48
  I got to appreciate that they are trying to change up the set
• 29:51
  list and do some different things, which is nice.
• 29:56
  Primus, this is a tour we're covering tonight in Sacramento.
• 29:58
  I don't know if you're going just me, but hey, Meg Jacobs is
• 30:03
  here. What's up, Meg?
• 30:04
  We've we've covered some of your stuff and hopefully we'll get to
• 30:08
  talk to you soon. I got to talk to your publicist.
• 30:10
  But Primus is on tour on the Onward and Upward tour with
• 30:13
  their new drummer John Hoffman, and they are playing the brand
• 30:16
  new Channel 24 club in Sacramento.
• 30:21
  I haven't been there. If Just Me is still floating
• 30:24
  around on TikTok, chime in and let us know how that venue is
• 30:31
  talking again about High On Fire this tour.
• 30:33
  This T's tickets are on sale now.
• 30:35
  Charger and Bastard. And not really a not really a
• 30:42
  whole North American tour. It's more like Western Canada
• 30:44
  and the Western USA, but not too shabby.
• 30:47
  Yeah. Shock narcotic, man.
• 30:49
  You know, we, I should, I should definitely.
• 30:53
  I think I'm also going to review.
• 30:55
  I've really been digging. I'm supposed to write a review
• 30:58
  tonight for Babymetal, which I actually really love that band
• 31:01
  and I love that album. And also got to say, the new
• 31:06
  Insight record, Richie Cavalier's band is crushing me.
• 31:10
  You know, I know every band says this is our best record, but
• 31:12
  this actually is their best record.
• 31:13
  It's fucking amazing. But yeah, man, shock necrotic.
• 31:17
  That's so you know, we you know, we we review about 500 records a
• 31:20
  year. That being said, we do miss a
• 31:23
  few things. So I don't think we got shock
• 31:25
  necrotic. I think we got the promo in time
• 31:28
  talked about this last week. Tickets are on sale now for John
• 31:31
  Bush doing just three shows of his Anthrax Era 90 stuff.
• 31:35
  I suspect there's going to be a tremendous amount of interest in
• 31:38
  this. I want to go Category 7 is going
• 31:42
  to also give a special performance.
• 31:44
  I suspect it will be his backing band for this because they're
• 31:47
  all killer musicians and they can all play the Anthrax stuff.
• 31:51
  So John Bush doing sound of White noise Stomp 442 volume 8.
• 31:55
  The threat is real and we've come for you all amazing.
• 31:58
  And I I was talking online with some people.
• 32:00
  I really would like to see Joey do some of the John Bush stuff.
• 32:03
  It's an entire 10 plus years of the band that they had John in
• 32:07
  and one of those records is a platinum record.
• 32:10
  Like you can't just ignore it and never play that stuff ever
• 32:13
  again. Those are huge songs and I think
• 32:15
  Joey could do a good job. I know he struggled a little to
• 32:17
  do only when he came back in, but I think he can do it.
• 32:20
  I think he can do it employed to serve a reminder.
• 32:24
  They have some dates coming up later in the year supporting
• 32:28
  their new album, which I quite like.
• 32:29
  Melvin's continue another leg of their European Tour played
• 32:34
  Cologne, Germany last night, tonight in Berlin, tomorrow
• 32:38
  Hamburg and then they come to the states at after a few more
• 32:43
  weeks of European dates and they're going to play
• 32:46
  Melbourne's and Red Cross. Stop your whining tour.
• 32:48
  So Steven McDonald will be doing double duty in Red Cross and
• 32:53
  Melbourne's love me some Melbourne's again nocturnal
• 32:57
  affair. We just ran our interview with
• 32:58
  them. They're on tour in Europe
• 33:00
  supporting Wednesday 13 and Drowning Pool.
• 33:03
  Very cool, very cool. Northern Destruction tour
• 33:06
  continues. Gorgatron casket robbery and
• 33:10
  frontal assault. What a cool name that is.
• 33:18
  I hate the click clacking, click clacking.
• 33:20
  But let's take a look, taking a look at things ahead of time,
• 33:26
  all right, Blood incantation. Unfortunately, because I saw, I
• 33:32
  got to see 9 Inch Nails blood incantation played in San
• 33:35
  Francisco at the same exact time.
• 33:38
  Fuck, why does this happen to me?
• 33:40
  But anyway, we covered that tour in Saint Louis and yeah,
• 33:47
  phenomenal stuff, phenomenal stuff.
• 33:51
  Strangled by the sun is also passed by.
• 33:52
  Hello hello been fun Torres Fear Factory we mentioned them in a
• 33:59
  bunch of festival no notes. They continue to tour 30 years
• 34:03
  of D manufacturer. They're coming up to the USA
• 34:06
  soon. Frail is on tour kicked off
• 34:10
  their new dates this week. Walking Wounded tour.
• 34:12
  They've got a new single out. I am a big fan of this band and
• 34:16
  I look forward to their new out. Acon Records Sublime dropped the
• 34:21
  new single, their first ever with Jacob Noel, and they are
• 34:27
  playing unplugged. They also dropped an unplugged
• 34:29
  version of their new single and they're going to play an
• 34:33
  unplugged concert an evening with, which is kind of cool.
• 34:39
  They've been great. They're one of my favorite bands
• 34:40
  that I've seen in the last couple of years from that era.
• 34:46
  Dropkick Murphys are also playing in a special acoustic
• 34:49
  show. Was already this week but very
• 34:52
  cool. Maybe they will do more of
• 34:53
  these. I could see it.
• 34:55
  KMFDM announced European Tour dates for early next year.
• 34:59
  Still rocking the Let's Go album.
• 35:01
  I know they're putting out some vinyl re issues of How Rock and
• 35:04
  a few other records so very excited about these things.
• 35:08
  I would love to see KKMFD M1 more time.
• 35:12
  What a week this has been for Green Jello.
• 35:14
  I'm a big green jello fan. I saw Green Cello last year and
• 35:17
  got on stage with them and probably got some kind of
• 35:21
  airborne illness from putting on one of those grungy unwashed
• 35:24
  masks. No sooner had they announced a
• 35:27
  big tour with 96 Bitter Beans, that's Darren Miller's band from
• 35:31
  CKY, The Bunny, The Bear, Convalescence and other bands.
• 35:36
  Their guitar, their bassist put up a pretty tasteless meme of
• 35:40
  Ozzy, like Ozzy's Dead, One Day sober, not funny, too soon, 100%
• 35:46
  and he was fired. I mean, Green Jello's entire
• 35:48
  career has been kind of flipping off and being irreverent and
• 35:52
  satirical, but you know, sometimes it's just too soon.
• 35:56
  Just too soon. I just like this meme here on
• 36:01
  YouTube. Black Sabbath.
• 36:04
  Black Sabbath debut album by Black Sabbath.
• 36:07
  Black Sabbath, the title track from the album Black Sabbath by
• 36:10
  Black Sabbath. Yeah, this is terrible, but this
• 36:12
  meme is forever. And then just again, just
• 36:16
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• 36:26
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• 36:36
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• 36:37
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• 36:42
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• 36:58
  And also our other affiliate partner is Lamb Goat.
• 37:02
  The much meaner version of Ghost called Lamb Goat is they have a
• 37:06
  media network. So we are one of the websites in
• 37:10
  their media network along with Metal Insider.
• 37:13
  This day in metal, new Metal Agenda, Metal Insider, I think I
• 37:18
  said them already and the Anthony Fantano, who I have a
• 37:22
  news story coming up about soon. I normally don't report on other
• 37:25
  people in my field, but I was compelled to.
• 37:27
  You know why? Also, if you're watching this
• 37:30
  except for y'all on Stream Yard, I'm deeply sorry.
• 37:33
  We stream with Stream Yard on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and
• 37:38
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  the link in the description and check it out.
• 37:44
  And we're on all the socials, which are increasingly terrible.
• 37:47
  And we restarted our newsletter. So if you want to sign up for
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  our newsletter and just skip all this shit and just get a feed
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  once a week of the stuff you missed, you can do that.
• 37:59
  We're on Blue Sky. We're on Threads.
• 38:02
  I like this meme too. Daddy, sing me a song from your
• 38:04
  generation. Fuck you.
• 38:05
  I won't do what you tell me. Perfect.
• 38:10
  All right, that was all the festivals and the concert tours
• 38:14
  and the one off things. One other bit of note.
• 38:17
  I don't think I had the story pulled up for the deck, but
• 38:21
  Jesus Lizard, who had an extensive year long tour plan,
• 38:26
  has canceled all their remaining tour dates due to a medical
• 38:29
  emergency. Now, I saw Jesus Lizard a couple
• 38:31
  of months ago. They were phenomenal.
• 38:33
  They recorded a live album at those shows.
• 38:36
  But I'm very sad to hear that somebody in the van is ill.
• 38:39
  I hopefully they can make a comeback soon.
• 38:43
  So here's the big thing that hit today.
• 38:46
  So apparently Ronnie Radke, I don't enjoy talking about this
• 38:49
  guy. I don't like Falling In Reverse.
• 38:51
  I know some people are huge fans and I just don't care for them
• 38:55
  or him. He tried to sue Anthony Fantano
• 38:59
  for making a video about him basically complaining about him
• 39:03
  as a person and an artist and his character.
• 39:06
  And that lawsuit was struck down and then Radke made another
• 39:12
  video, which is like backtracking some of the things
• 39:14
  he said about Fantano. And why am I talking about this
• 39:18
  when I don't like Ronnie Radke and I I like Fantano, I respect
• 39:22
  him. He's been around a long time.
• 39:23
  This is important. Like bands, let me give you 1 to
• 39:28
  grow on here. If you don't like something
• 39:30
  somebody said about you, you can do two things.
• 39:33
  Ignore the fuck out of it or lean into it and talk about it,
• 39:37
  but don't fit talk a journalist who is working usually for free.
• 39:41
  Fantano makes a lot of money. He's one of the most popular
• 39:45
  websites and and Youtubes in the world.
• 39:48
  But like, you know, you got to be able to take a little
• 39:50
  criticism of your your character.
• 39:52
  If you have a you know, you know, you like Ronnie Radke, you
• 39:55
  know why you are like this. You are a shit stirrer and you
• 39:58
  enjoy it. You like to troll people.
• 40:00
  You enjoy this shit. I wish the music was better, you
• 40:06
  know, but. Yeah, I don't know.
• 40:10
  You know, journalists need to be freedom of speech and and
• 40:15
  freedom of the press means we need to be able to criticize
• 40:18
  things. And you can't take it fucking
• 40:19
  personally and sue somebody who said something mean about you.
• 40:23
  Now, I think there's a lot of people out there that do what I
• 40:25
  do and do what Fantano does. I'm not necessarily equating
• 40:29
  what he does to what I do. But you know, I've been at this
• 40:32
  a very long time and you know, he's got hot takes.
• 40:37
  This is a low too. This is a high 8 or whatever.
• 40:41
  You can't, you know, you just can't be a bitch about it.
• 40:46
  I don't know how else to say it, Radke.
• 40:47
  You're a little bitch and you can't go sue everybody you don't
• 40:50
  like that's mean to you while you are horrendous to everybody
• 40:54
  else. You got, you want to dish it
• 40:55
  out, you got to be able to take it.
• 40:57
  And journalists need to be able to have the freedom to critique
• 41:01
  somebody they don't like or someone's music they don't like
• 41:04
  or some band they don't like or some artwork they they found
• 41:06
  objectionable. And you don't have to like it.
• 41:09
  Just like there's two knobs, 2 buttons, two things to tell you
• 41:13
  don't like what I have to say, swipe and check out somebody
• 41:16
  else. You like what I have to say,
• 41:17
  Please be in the community and drop a comment and tell me.
• 41:20
  But like, you can't sue your problems away like a child.
• 41:24
  Just money is not the fix for everything.
• 41:26
  And we live in a very litigious country and I don't fucking get
• 41:30
  it. So I wanted to talk about this
• 41:32
  because Fantano, that's our fraternity, man.
• 41:34
  And that's our, our, our family. You can't just sue the shit out
• 41:37
  of somebody who said some mean shit about you.
• 41:40
  That's fucking stupid. Anyway, Ozzy, here's another
• 41:45
  thing I wanted to talk about about us.
• 41:47
  Frankly, we got the cause of death of Ozzy this week, and I
• 41:53
  have taken this loss very hard, as I expected I would.
• 41:56
  I knew I was never going to be OK about this, but there's
• 41:59
  something I wanted to talk about.
• 42:01
  So everybody rushed to talk about like the cause of death of
• 42:05
  Mozzie. And I have never actually done
• 42:07
  one of these after the fact stories before.
• 42:10
  If someone dies, we write an obituary.
• 42:13
  We talked about it. I did a live stream, we did a
• 42:15
  whole retrospective about Ozzy on my other podcast, and we
• 42:19
  happen to be starting a series on Ozzy's solo career because we
• 42:23
  thought back to the beginning was a good place to kind of do
• 42:26
  some Ozzy stuff. We had planned it.
• 42:29
  We didn't know he was going to die.
• 42:31
  I'm very sad and heartbroken for his family and all his fans
• 42:34
  around the world. We all grieve together and a
• 42:37
  couple of people called me out and we're like, hey, I don't go
• 42:41
  to ghost cult for Dillinger. You would be a good person to
• 42:44
  chime in on this. You know, I don't go to ghost
• 42:47
  cult for this salacious bullshit that Loudwire and Blabbermouth
• 42:51
  in particular do and others and every, you know, it's kind of a
• 42:55
  thing in my mind where it just seems like you're going to see a
• 42:58
  lot of Aussie stuff because people want Aussie content right
• 43:01
  now. And like, I don't care that much
• 43:04
  about, yes, I would like to get clicks and yes, we're competing
• 43:07
  with other brands that do what I do.
• 43:11
  When I didn't feel good about it.
• 43:13
  When we got called out, I said, you know, fair game.
• 43:16
  Somebody commented on Instagram in particular, like, Hey, I
• 43:19
  don't come to you for this and please don't do this anymore.
• 43:22
  And I had never done one before. Never.
• 43:25
  And honestly, it was hard. It was hard.
• 43:28
  I, I really look at myself as a, as a journalist and be like, is
• 43:32
  this what I want to do with our website and our socials?
• 43:35
  So I don't know that I will do another one in the future when
• 43:38
  someone else pass away, unless it's something really
• 43:42
  newsworthy, you know, something unexpected.
• 43:47
  So I've never done that before. So if someone passes away, we
• 43:51
  write an obituary, we cover their death.
• 43:53
  Obviously Ozzy, this is like a 911 level event for metal heads
• 43:58
  and rockers and fans of his cross generations and
• 44:02
  transcended music and rock to just be a personality.
• 44:05
  So there's not going to be another Ozzy.
• 44:07
  There's not another person like Ozzy that will pass away that
• 44:10
  will have this kind of worldwide impact.
• 44:13
  I think in the future, man, I might refrain from doing these.
• 44:16
  I don't even like writing the obituaries.
• 44:18
  They're painful to write, honestly.
• 44:22
  They all kind of hurt a little bit, but I feel like if anybody
• 44:26
  wanted to call out our integrity, that was the spot to
• 44:28
  do it. Like other than that, I think
• 44:30
  we're pretty much above beyond reproach beyond except for that
• 44:34
  little moment. So, you know, I don't know
• 44:37
  entirely how I feel. Again, Drummer Wars, what is
• 44:44
  happening with drummers? Check your friends who are
• 44:46
  drummers because like, holy shit, right?
• 44:50
  So I saw the 9 Inch Nails tour last night with Josh, had one
• 44:53
  rehearsal and smashed A20 song set list and went so hard and he
• 44:59
  was so good and the whole place gave him like a two or three
• 45:02
  minute ovation. When Trent Reznor interviewed,
• 45:06
  you know, introduced the band. We still haven't heard why Elon
• 45:10
  Rubin quit 9 Inch Nails. He was on.
• 45:12
  I know that his wife's about to have a baby and maybe Foo
• 45:15
  Fighters and him were circling each other in general.
• 45:19
  I don't know when he could have auditioned or sent an audition
• 45:21
  tape because he's been on tour for all of Europe for two months
• 45:26
  with 9 Inch Nails. But you know, just fucking wild.
• 45:33
  And classically, no comments from from Josh Breeze.
• 45:38
  And you know, Variety is the one who reported that Elon is going
• 45:43
  to be the new drummer of Foo Fighters.
• 45:46
  They didn't actually make a formal announcement.
• 45:48
  I guess it's confirmed, but confirmed by a source close to
• 45:51
  the band. So I don't know.
• 45:54
  Metallica. Big week of Metallica news.
• 45:57
  So Lars Aldrich was on the now soon to be cancelled Howard
• 46:01
  Stern show on SiriusXM, and he talked, he admitted that they
• 46:05
  are discussing playing the Sphere next year at the end of
• 46:09
  the M72 tour for residency. He went to the apparently the
• 46:13
  very first show ever at the Sphere was U2.
• 46:16
  And he went there and he loved it and he thought about what was
• 46:19
  possible. They we sent our team out.
• 46:21
  We went and checked it out and maybe we'll play the Sphere.
• 46:25
  Pretty cool. He also said that he would never
• 46:27
  not rule out the Super Bowl. Now, I'm going to tell you, in
• 46:30
  the past, Metallica has said through interviews they would
• 46:33
  not be interested in doing the Super Bowl.
• 46:35
  We know from experience that when Metallica is not in control
• 46:39
  of a situation, they don't do well.
• 46:42
  I've seen them live a few times. This is why now when they tour
• 46:45
  or play, if somebody else's event or festival, they insist
• 46:48
  on having their own sound system because they don't trust anybody
• 46:52
  else's lights or sound. So it'd be very interesting to
• 46:54
  see them surrender the control to the sphere to let them do
• 46:58
  whatever they do. And you know, I mean, the 9 Inch
• 47:02
  Nails show seemed a little overwhelming to me.
• 47:04
  I would really love to go to the Sphere to see Metallica.
• 47:07
  But they don't do too well when it's not their managing, you
• 47:11
  know, when they can't manage a situation, they don't do as
• 47:14
  well. But Laura, same thing with the
• 47:15
  Super Bowl, he said, like, you know, I would never rule it out.
• 47:18
  It's the biggest thing in the world.
• 47:19
  We'd love to do it, but we've never been asked.
• 47:23
  Couple of things you don't know about the NFL and the Super
• 47:25
  Bowl. And I did a little live stream
• 47:27
  about this last year. I'll probably do another one
• 47:29
  this year. Yes, the Super Bowl this year is
• 47:31
  in San Francisco in my backyard. Metallica would be the obvious
• 47:35
  choice to do the halftime show. And if they're going to be, if
• 47:38
  they're going to do it, they should be getting asked soon,
• 47:40
  right? Because it's like 6 months away.
• 47:44
  But they haven't been asked. And again, you don't get paid to
• 47:48
  play the Super Bowl. You kind of pay the NFL, they're
• 47:51
  a non profit, so you have to make a charity donation with
• 47:53
  Metallica. It's a charitable arm.
• 47:55
  That makes sense. You have to pre record your
• 47:57
  performance and lip sync doesn't seem like something Metallica
• 47:59
  ever would want to do ever again after the debacle at the Grammys
• 48:03
  with Lady Gaga. They love Lady Gaga and they
• 48:05
  love jamming with her. But like that, that live
• 48:08
  performance was a mess. And it's also on a tape delay
• 48:11
  which can create issues for singers to be on beat and things
• 48:15
  like that. So just things to consider or
• 48:19
  Metallica if they ever do the Super Bowl and also announced
• 48:22
  this week because that's what Lars was on SiriusXM to promote
• 48:26
  the new Maximum Metallica channel, the new permanent
• 48:31
  channel for Metallica. Tom Petty has one Ozzy's
• 48:34
  Boneyard. Obviously everybody knows what
• 48:35
  Metallica is going to launch their own new channel on
• 48:40
  SiriusXM and they're going to play an intimate live
• 48:44
  performance in Long Island for like 100 people.
• 48:46
  You can donate to win a chance to go see it, and apparently
• 48:51
  it's going to be very exclusive and that's going to be the first
• 48:55
  ever thing broadcast on the Sirius Maximum Metallica
• 49:00
  channel, and I believe it is channel 28 on your dial.
• 49:04
  Also, Tool's been in the news a lot this week.
• 49:07
  Puscifer has some shows this weekend in LA.
• 49:09
  It's already sold out, so that's why I didn't talk about it.
• 49:12
  They're going to debut some new material there and play their
• 49:15
  greatest hits, apparently, because they just put a greatest
• 49:18
  hits thing out on Spotify. Maynard's been doing some press
• 49:22
  again talking about the no phones thing and really doubled
• 49:26
  and tripled down on people. This this shot is from our
• 49:30
  recent coverage of Tool and just really like you're an idiot for
• 49:35
  filming a whole show on your phone.
• 49:38
  Just to let you know, I took a few videos of Nine Inch Nails,
• 49:40
  but for the most part, I was on my phone off my phone and
• 49:43
  watching the show and absorbing the show did record one whole
• 49:48
  song. We'll see if I post it.
• 49:51
  I didn't. I do watch my videos from shows
• 49:53
  over and over, but like some people mostly don't.
• 49:56
  And why would you watch your whole show like this?
• 49:59
  Why would you? Why would you?
• 50:00
  I don't know why you would like it's unless you have a vision
• 50:03
  problems which maybe I can't see too well anymore so maybe that's
• 50:08
  a thing. But anyway, interesting stuff
• 50:10
  with Tool, New music coming soon from Puscifer and apparently a
• 50:15
  Perfect Circle is also working on new music too, as well as
• 50:18
  Tool. By the way, Tool put out a
• 50:23
  leather jacket this week with artwork inside the landing by
• 50:27
  Frank Frazetta. So they bought the rights to a
• 50:30
  classic Frank Frazetta painting. Frank Rizzetti used to do the
• 50:33
  Conan books and and all this fantasy and horror stuff.
• 50:37
  Heath is here. Bog Wizard is here.
• 50:41
  This jacket is $1300. I shit you not, $1300 for a
• 50:46
  leather jacket like Maynard Weir.
• 50:48
  It's like kind of a pilot's Air Force jacket.
• 50:51
  What the fuck? Anyway, I, I have no words.
• 50:56
  But anyway, tool. They will sell out of these
• 50:58
  things, I'm sure because they're tooled.
• 51:00
  Silly Goose, the new metal band on Blue.
• 51:03
  Great music. You know them from their What
• 51:05
  the Fuck is Up subway video. They did a show on a subway.
• 51:10
  They do a lot of guerrilla shows.
• 51:11
  They weren't arrested after doing a show at a gas station
• 51:15
  they claim they had the permission for.
• 51:17
  And then the singer was arrested and we have a bunch of pictures
• 51:19
  of him here getting arrested. And now they have launched A
• 51:22
  GoFundMe which you can donate to, to help the singer out his
• 51:25
  legal fee. Legal problems.
• 51:29
  Bad Omens has been teasing a new song.
• 51:30
  They're probably going to drop it this weekend.
• 51:32
  The video teaser features Ryan Hurst.
• 51:35
  You probably know him from the movie Remember the Titans.
• 51:38
  He was also Opie and Sons of Anarchy.
• 51:41
  And of course he was beta in The Walking Dead final seasons.
• 51:46
  So great actor. Yeah, I know he's got a new show
• 51:50
  also. That's pretty cool.
• 51:51
  So bad Almonds new video, new song probably dropping.
• 51:54
  New album announcement perhaps for next year or later this
• 51:57
  year. And Ryan Hurst will be in the
• 51:59
  video. We'll talk more about it next
• 52:01
  week. Black Braid's new album, Black
• 52:04
  Braid 3 is out this weekend. We'll talk about the new music
• 52:07
  out for new music Friday. Super stoked.
• 52:10
  I'm I'm just tickled pink for the success of of this person.
• 52:15
  Sagasa way is his actual name and Black braid is incredible.
• 52:20
  Black Braid 2 two years ago was the album of the year for Ghost
• 52:24
  Cult for 2023. So we shall see what this
• 52:29
  brings. Also Visitant, which is an
• 52:34
  incredible death metal band. They have a new album coming out
• 52:38
  on Exit Stratagem Records. They have a new video, Briars
• 52:44
  that came out today and a big tour, you know, visits in an
• 52:50
  incredible band. They're also playing the
• 52:52
  Michigan Metal Fest and I'm pretty stoked by this.
• 52:57
  Their singer is incredible. They have kind of an All Star
• 53:01
  band, members of Abiotic and Ladder, Math and Scale, The
• 53:06
  Summit and Unaligned and 4F. Chelsea is the singer of that
• 53:10
  band from 4F. Also so fucking killer.
• 53:13
  Definitely invest. If you love heavy, heavy music,
• 53:16
  brutal, technical, death metal, this is the band for you.
• 53:21
  Gore is having quite a time. They just released their new EP
• 53:25
  and multimedia release, Gore Gore, The Return of Gore Gore.
• 53:30
  They're doing a live stream on Veeps.
• 53:32
  There's a Gore museum in LA that's going to be happening
• 53:35
  now. Sledge Metal fuck yes here.
• 53:37
  What's up? Sledge Metal.
• 53:38
  Fuck yeah. I like a lot of Sledge metal.
• 53:41
  So Gore, a lot of cool things happening with them right now.
• 53:44
  I'm hopeful to get a new interview with Gore soon.
• 53:50
  Chelsea Wolf is celebrating 10 years of her Abyss record with a
• 53:53
  brand new vinyl pressing, limited edition vinyl pressing
• 53:57
  of Abyss, and a bunch of Abyss new merch.
• 54:00
  So you might want to check that out.
• 54:01
  I'm a big fan of Chelsea Wolf, this is Arcadia and this is a
• 54:07
  super group, if you will, of Atlanta musician and artist Core
• 54:11
  Adams and Bron Dollar of Mastodon.
• 54:13
  So if you like the Hunter and a lot of like psychedelic Mastodon
• 54:19
  stuff, just like a touch less heavy but just as weird and cool
• 54:22
  and very synthesizer and effects heavy.
• 54:27
  Psychedelic rock concept album. It's about outer space and
• 54:30
  society's billions of years in the future.
• 54:32
  This is for you. We have an interview coming up
• 54:34
  with Core Adams probably soon, about a month from now probably.
• 54:38
  And I'm really pumped for this release.
• 54:44
  Also, the Heavy Music Awards is going to not happen in person as
• 54:50
  it has the last bunch of years. This is a British heavy metal
• 54:52
  awards. They've been very cool.
• 54:55
  We have never been nominated. It would be nice if we were.
• 54:58
  We started in Europe as a as a place.
• 55:00
  Maybe we're considered American because the 2 owners are
• 55:02
  American now. But they will have sort of an
• 55:06
  online virtual awards ceremony. They're not going to be able to
• 55:10
  have it in person, but hopefully next year they will have it in
• 55:13
  person again. But still, I'm trying to support
• 55:15
  them. Bowling For Soup hit a billion
• 55:19
  streams across all of social media and spot and streaming, I
• 55:24
  guess on Spotify for 1985. You already know the song.
• 55:27
  I don't have to sing it to you. I'm a big fan of that band.
• 55:31
  Pretty fun. Great American Ghost, the
• 55:34
  Massachusetts hardcore post hardcore band, put out a cover
• 55:38
  of Deftones Hole in the Earth. That's pretty good.
• 55:41
  I've interviewed that band before.
• 55:42
  It'd be cool to reconnect with them and talk about them again
• 55:45
  soon. Alice Cooper's new album, The
• 55:48
  Revenge of Alice Cooper, with the majority of his classic band
• 55:52
  lineup, is topping the charts in 123456789 countries.
• 55:57
  Holy shit. Pretty good for Cooper is
• 56:00
  probably best charting performance in a long time.
• 56:03
  He's been doing a lot of garage rock.
• 56:04
  We ran a review of that this week at the site.
• 56:06
  Album's out a couple of weeks, Bill for Gore is signed to
• 56:10
  Raining Phoenix Music. They dropped a brand new single
• 56:12
  in video and they have a new album coming soon.
• 56:15
  I'm very excited for the Austrian black and death metal
• 56:19
  leaders. I'm a big fan.
• 56:22
  Bondage gold zombie. Who doesn't love that shit?
• 56:28
  This is Laura of hippie death cult.
• 56:32
  The band had made in a couple of announcements across social
• 56:35
  media that Laura has been suffered a medical emergency and
• 56:39
  needs to be off the road for a while to recuperate.
• 56:42
  That means their upcoming shows are canceled, but also they're
• 56:45
  going to refocus on recording their new album for next year.
• 56:49
  So best luck and get well soon. Laura, We met in person, she's
• 56:53
  lovely. Band is killer.
• 56:55
  I love this band, especially if you like the psychedelic rock
• 56:59
  and Stoner Stoner doom stuff, that's what they do.
• 57:03
  From Portland. Great band.
• 57:06
  Once again, just reminding you that worst is a new single.
• 57:10
  A new band that features members of Three Inches of Blood and
• 57:14
  Bison. From Vancouver, BC, Their new
• 57:16
  single, Misandrist. Not a fan of misanderests or
• 57:20
  misogynists, but just so you know, killer, killer doom sludge
• 57:24
  band. There you go.
• 57:25
  Fuck yeah. Sludge metal.
• 57:27
  Fuck yeah. You might like that band.
• 57:29
  Mark. Badgers passing by.
• 57:30
  What's up, Mark? Good to see you again.
• 57:39
  What else do we got? Michael Schenkner is putting out
• 57:43
  a new album, Michael Schenker Group.
• 57:46
  He's got a new single and a video out.
• 57:47
  He's doing kind of a retrospective of his UFO
• 57:50
  material. He did Scorpions already, so
• 57:53
  this is pretty cool. He's apparently puts on a great
• 57:55
  show live. I have not seen Michael
• 57:57
  Schenkner in a long, long time, probably like 30 years.
• 58:00
  So I probably should revisit him and maybe go see him live if he
• 58:03
  comes around because he is pushing like 80 at least in the
• 58:10
  high 70s. We're almost done with the show
• 58:14
  folks. AFI put out a new single and
• 58:20
  announced a new album this week. But what are the Kentucky Fried
• 58:23
  fuck is going on with this mustache?
• 58:28
  Oh my God. Davey Havoc this band looks like
• 58:33
  hits their dads in Brooklyn ordering a cappuccino coffee
• 58:37
  shop instead of making music. But it's a very cool gothy rock,
• 58:41
  like leaning into the Bauhaus influence of AFI and a little
• 58:45
  bit seemingly synth and punk. I like, I hope there's some punk
• 58:50
  bangers on the record, but you know, if I has been a different
• 58:53
  kind of band for a long time. Trivium dropped the new single
• 58:59
  in video today. As predicted.
• 59:02
  New EP coming soon. They will headline Blood Stock
• 59:05
  tomorrow and they will play their brand new song.
• 59:07
  So Bury Me with My Screams is the new single and very exciting
• 59:12
  stuff. I saw this this week.
• 59:15
  This was sent to me. Going to a concert every two
• 59:17
  weeks could add nine years to your life, a new study says.
• 59:20
  Well sign me the fuck up when you sign me up.
• 59:23
  I, I do go to a concert at like at least once a month, sometimes
• 59:26
  every two weeks. Hard Sick.
• 59:29
  This is a band that I interviewed a couple of years
• 59:31
  ago and it never kind of got out, but Hard Sick is a band
• 59:35
  from Michigan that was like the very first band to mix like trap
• 59:38
  beats and metal and deathcore and they're super cool band.
• 59:41
  They've announced a new album and their new single is out now,
• 59:45
  Stuck in the Ground, and you should check it out.
• 59:47
  They're a killer and great dudes.
• 59:52
  Not a great time for Slaughter to prevail, despite the fact
• 59:55
  that they're on the brand new BABYMETAL album last week.
• 59:59
  It was a beef with one of their former torn people that probably
• 1:00:02
  leaked some stuff they didn't like and then now their
• 1:00:06
  warehouse where their masks they sell collapsed with people
• 1:00:11
  inside. Terrible.
• 1:00:12
  I'm not making fun of this. I'm saddened by this.
• 1:00:18
  Alex Terrible of Slaughter Vale put out a statement, said We're
• 1:00:22
  trying to rebuild. The whole operation has been
• 1:00:24
  mostly based in Europe and it's all DIY and we're not.
• 1:00:28
  Commercially affiliated or whatever, but, you know, very
• 1:00:31
  sorry for the families that may have lost their lives.
• 1:00:35
  Just crazy. The building just collapsed.
• 1:00:37
  What the fuck? You know, kind of like that shit
• 1:00:39
  just happened out of nowhere. Apparently.
• 1:00:43
  We were talking about that Primus tour we're covering
• 1:00:45
  tonight, but absolutely wild in LA.
• 1:00:51
  This was joined by Danny Carey of Tool, Trey and Matt from
• 1:00:56
  South Park, as well as Bill Burr on the drums.
• 1:00:59
  Holy shit. Kind of cool.
• 1:01:02
  Kind of cool. Also author and Punisher, one of
• 1:01:06
  the coolest bands around, has announced a new album and drop
• 1:01:09
  the new single today. pre-orders are live now from Relapse
• 1:01:12
  Records. And that is all the news.
• 1:01:15
  That's all the news that's fit to print, all the news that's
• 1:01:18
  fit to talk about. And now we're going to do the
• 1:01:20
  New Music Friday, and I'm going to talk a little bit about it
• 1:01:24
  and tell you what new albums are kind of a the lightest week of
• 1:01:27
  the summer is this week in terms of what is out there and what is
• 1:01:34
  possible. So we do a preview every week
• 1:01:37
  and then we share and tag bands and labels.
• 1:01:40
  So here's some stuff coming out this week that you might need to
• 1:01:42
  know about. Ashes of Aries is the band
• 1:01:46
  featuring former members of Ice the Earth.
• 1:01:49
  New Messiahs on Rock of Angels Records for your progressive
• 1:01:52
  power metal attack. Attack the Stick Stickley Crab
• 1:01:54
  Corps guys are back with a new album, Attack Attack 2 on Oxide
• 1:01:58
  Records. A Virgin's Crown.
• 1:02:00
  This is out already, you can stream it right now.
• 1:02:02
  A voice from the Outer Dark EP for some Death metal on Nuclear
• 1:02:05
  Blast records. Baby metal metal 4th on Capitol
• 1:02:09
  Records. Killer star-studded event.
• 1:02:11
  Babymetal very very strong new album.
• 1:02:14
  Bale Fear empowered by Hatred EP Self released.
• 1:02:17
  Black Braid once again. Black Braid 3 out now.
• 1:02:22
  Baracho Aerobarous on Ripple music.
• 1:02:24
  I'm a big fan of those guys. Burnt Tapes.
• 1:02:27
  New Lungs on Wiretap Records. Cemetery.
• 1:02:30
  Thoughts on life and Death. Self released.
• 1:02:33
  Start going over amends on Braeburn records.
• 1:02:36
  Correct sermon. They had one of the big records
• 1:02:38
  of last year back already with a new EP Saturn.
• 1:02:40
  Saturn a Saturnian appendices EP.
• 1:02:48
  Sight of losses. Surge of cruelty on comatose
• 1:02:50
  records for some death metal. Dream Wake the lost years on
• 1:02:53
  UNFD Dusk cult folklore, discipline, self released.
• 1:02:58
  Edge of sanity for some power metal.
• 1:03:01
  Crimson 2RE release on century media.
• 1:03:04
  Fall and resist is dissolved in Mystery EP self released First
• 1:03:08
  Born that's a band that features Chris Adler, formerly of Lamb of
• 1:03:12
  God on drums. Lucky on them Theory recordings.
• 1:03:16
  IFA Timothy on Inverse records for some more death metal in
• 1:03:20
  this House of mourning and level mint Self released Libsyn.
• 1:03:24
  She is the singer of Sister Sin, former Victory Records boogie
• 1:03:29
  rock heavy rock artist in the vein of Motörhead. close your
• 1:03:32
  Eyes. New album on Seek and Strike
• 1:03:33
  Records. Lord of the Lost.
• 1:03:35
  Opus Noir. Volume one on Napalm Records for
• 1:03:38
  some progressive folk metal Malthusian.
• 1:03:42
  This is a great band on Relapse record.
• 1:03:44
  Summoning Bell or some sludgy doom.
• 1:03:47
  Mira Wester, Crown Dear Chopra, Fung, Self released The Nude
• 1:03:52
  Stand and be recognized on Epitronic Records.
• 1:03:54
  Paralysis, Spiral of Suffering self released There's a Death
• 1:03:58
  Metal Sensatum, the new album from death metal supergroup.
• 1:04:03
  This was Joey Jordison of Slipknot's band and then he
• 1:04:05
  passed away. This band is back now with Fred
• 1:04:08
  Leclerc. He's the main songwriter of this
• 1:04:10
  band and Sensatum. I can't barely say this name,
• 1:04:16
  but I interviewed Fred. That's going to come out soon
• 1:04:19
  also and also album features Sean Zatorski of Doth and Atela
• 1:04:25
  Shar of Mayhem on vocals. Holy Funk, Talicott self-titled
• 1:04:31
  temptress, Queen of Crows on Wormhole Death records, Thorn
• 1:04:34
  Nebulous Womb of eternity on transcending Obscurity records
• 1:04:38
  for some more death metal 1000. Below that is buried in jade for
• 1:04:42
  the metal core band on the Pale Chord label also known for
• 1:04:47
  spirit box trainer Oh Mandy self released UFO the misdemeanor
• 1:04:52
  tour live on HNE records for some live UFO Eddie Trunk's
• 1:04:55
  favorite band ever. Various artists, the Dogs of
• 1:04:59
  Hope, Iodine Recordings and Dogs of Hope I think is a
• 1:05:04
  compilation, charity compilation supporting No Kill Shelters and
• 1:05:07
  Voller and Cares followers have been, we followed for a long
• 1:05:11
  time, convinced doom metal band from Toronto that has electric
• 1:05:15
  violin instead of guitar. Reckless Spirit.
• 1:05:19
  This is a collab record. So that is all the new music out
• 1:05:23
  from New Music Friday. I'm going to go put myself back.
• 1:05:27
  Hey, it's me. I've been off camera for a
• 1:05:29
  minute and we're going to do the mailbag and then we're going to
• 1:05:31
  lock it up and go home. So here we go this week in the
• 1:05:38
  mailbag or slide or two there. I'm going the wrong way.
• 1:05:44
  One more thing in the mailbag this week.
• 1:05:46
  So first of all, I got this cool shirt in the mail from Hades.
• 1:05:49
  I interviewed Dan Lorenzo of Patriarchs in Black.
• 1:05:51
  That's the doom star of Rock Band.
• 1:05:54
  He has with Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative Sun Don't Shine.
• 1:05:58
  I am whatever they're called Quiet Riot.
• 1:06:01
  Johnny's awesome. I grew up watching this band
• 1:06:04
  Hades a lot in New York City, tri-state area.
• 1:06:07
  So he sent me this shirt as a thank you, which is super cool.
• 1:06:10
  And then I got another package in the mail last week.
• 1:06:13
  So the day this was sent out to me is the day Ozzy died and
• 1:06:17
  ghost cultist Chris Elliott, who moved from Seattle to Western
• 1:06:21
  Massachusetts, going to start covering a lot of stuff out
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  there for us. You might know him and have seen
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  his video stuff on YouTube that he has posted and shared a lot
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  of stuff out there of concerts. He's great at filming concerts.
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  So it's just kind of his passion to film underground metal
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  concerts and sometimes bigger ones.
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  So he sent me this thing. I took his address off
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  obviously, but the box says RIP Ozzy and then Ozzy rolls on the
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  back. So Chris sent me this and I
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  wanted to kind of share this stuff.
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  What he sent me do have a It's partially opened.
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  He sent me this pack and it's beautifully packed with bubble
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  wrap and other stuff. He sent me a gang of stuff.
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  So he sent me this Year of the Cobra, Into the Fray, The Black
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  Sun. I'm a big fan of Year of the
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  Cobra. I don't know if you are too.
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  Again, if you love sludge and do metal, this is a band I think
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  you would be into. Should definitely check them
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  out. He sent me acd of Some Noorie.
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  This is killer. I love this band from New York
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  City. We've interviewed them.
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  We've interviewed both you or the Cobra and Some Noorie here
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  is grown with their album Grovel.
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  I am not familiar with this band, but I'm going to check
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  them out. He clearly wanted me to check
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  them out and then he sent me some cool stickers.
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  Looks like some subversive stuff.
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  They ruin nature so that you must rely on them.
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  Very fun. Cool, some anti corporate stuff.
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  The dead shall feed the living here.
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  Something on mushrooms. Kind of want to shroom out now.
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  And soulless beasts. We find ourselves lost in new
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  jungles and it's like it's like a city.
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  Could be Seattle, could be New York City, could be Boston,
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  could be San Francisco, could be LA.
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  Thanks Chris for sending this along.
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  You are a homie and a true friend.
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  And and this is a picture of some Newry here.
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  And that's the show in a very manageable one hour and 8
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  minutes. Corey Pierce is passing by with
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  up homie. We'll be talking about some God
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  Forbid and Disciples of Verity stuff very soon.
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  And yeah, thanks to everybody for watching and tuning in and
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  chiming in. Dillinger Compound.
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  Thank you. Everybody else watching on
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  TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and Twitch and
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  everywhere else. Thank you.
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  And as we say every week at this juncture, the show is a tough
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  time in the world. So please take care of
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  yourselves, take care of each other and stay as metal as
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  humanly possible. Do not drink and drive.
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  Be safe out there this weekend and have a good time.
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  Keep it metal. We'll see you soon.
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  I'm going to dance a jig on the way out.
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  But you do this, junior. I'm going to dance a jig and.