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PODCAST: Episode 288 - The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show Dec.24.2025 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

• 0:55
  What's up everybody, It's Santa's favorite Little Helper
• 0:58
  TV Back with another weekly Ritual Goes cold man dot coms.
• 1:03
  Weekly Rocket Metal news show where I run down all the drama
• 1:07
  and news you missed, as well as concert tours being announced,
• 1:10
  metal festivals to cover stuff we did here at the site, all
• 1:13
  that jazz. This is your first time here.
• 1:15
  Check us out at goescoldman.com. Feel free to like and subscribe,
• 1:19
  but it's not necessary. Check out my fun bearded
• 1:23
  ornaments. And yeah, so much fun stuff to
• 1:27
  cover today. I'm actually missing one of
• 1:29
  these. I lost one right before the
• 1:31
  recording, so I don't know what's going on.
• 1:33
  I'm missing one. But anyway, thanks for being
• 1:35
  here. We this is our next to last live
• 1:38
  stream of the year. We might do one more additional
• 1:42
  one on Monday. I have a few things I want to
• 1:46
  get out the way, including my personal rock and metal pics for
• 1:51
  the year. Ghost Call already ran our list.
• 1:53
  We'll talk about that in a SEC. If you're new here again, please
• 1:57
  check us out at ghostcodeman.com.
• 2:00
  That's what we do. That's what we're here to do
• 2:02
  Boom, boom, boom. I think I have a little deck
• 2:05
  here, not at the home studio. I am at the backup studio.
• 2:11
  Skull Basher is here. What up, what up?
• 2:14
  Let's make sure we're live everywhere.
• 2:16
  I feel like Instagram is lagging.
• 2:19
  OK, now we are live. The best experience to watch
• 2:22
  this is Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and I'm also
• 2:27
  hanging out on TikTok. What's up Max, Thanks for being
• 2:31
  here. If you love rock and metal, this
• 2:33
  is the place to be. It is Christmas Eve.
• 2:35
  I know a lot of people are fighting the Blues or dealing
• 2:39
  with their family or preparing girding their loins for family
• 2:43
  drama. You know, I know this can be a
• 2:45
  very difficult and tough time of the year, so hang in there and
• 2:50
  smoke weed if you need to. I'm rather parched.
• 2:55
  Hey, Q, what's up? Happy holidays.
• 2:57
  Thanks so much. Dillinger compound has arrived.
• 3:03
  Several of our everydays are in the gym.
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  I'm so glad you're here. Thank you.
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  Happy Christmas Eve if you're celebrating.
• 3:10
  If you're not celebrating, that's OK too.
• 3:12
  I grew up Jewish. Like a little Jewish.
• 3:17
  I don't have a problem saying Merry Christmas.
• 3:19
  I love the holidays. I know again, they're hard for
• 3:22
  some people, but I always enjoy them.
• 3:24
  Flat spot record this year, what's up, what's up?
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  All good in the hood. We are not.
• 3:30
  We're not done for the year. We have new stories going up,
• 3:34
  interviews to run next week, festival coverage coming.
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  That's happened recently. I just posted a new review, an
• 3:40
  interview and a festival review all this afternoon.
• 3:43
  So lots to do in the ghost cult world.
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  And Annette is here. Hello, Annette, and Merry
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  Christmas to you and great to see you here.
• 3:53
  Thanks so much for being a supporter all day long, Scott.
• 3:56
  Dave is here, Julie is here, and my punk rock life is here.
• 4:01
  Always fun with the context. Jenna Hayes and Greg Pusciotto,
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  Please don't say that. Please, Please, Greg, please
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  don't. Please don't put your penis in
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  crazy. I don't care how great it is.
• 4:14
  Oh my God, Greg, what? Fuck, Maybe he's got that Jerry
• 4:17
  Cantrell money now and he doesn't care, but it's
• 4:19
  definitely not the better lovers money.
• 4:21
  No one's picked up on it yet. Well, I mean, you know, it's
• 4:24
  been a tough week. There's a lot to talk about, so
• 4:26
  let's get into it. Again, as usual, the
• 4:29
  announcements and you know, again, these are, it just seems
• 4:34
  like at the end of every year there were just some
• 4:36
  heartbreaking, heartbreaking announcements.
• 4:46
  You know, there's just so much stuff that happened this week
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  and obviously we're still reeling from a lot of crazy
• 4:51
  losses this year. I will likely do the biggest
• 4:58
  stories of the year on our website, but let's just get into
• 5:03
  a little bit of the things that have happened.
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  I'm scared Dillinger. I'm scared just once again, I
• 5:11
  recently got diagnosed with ADHD and my brain is like a chicken
• 5:14
  inside of a computer CPU. They don't tell you Ritalin is
• 5:19
  actual meth. It's not like doing a whole
• 5:21
  bunch of meth like blue. I'm doing Blue Sky with Jesse
• 5:25
  Pinkman, but you know, it's like tiny doses of stimulant.
• 5:28
  So I'm still adjusting to it. I haven't been sleeping too
• 5:32
  well, but actually I'm not doing bad.
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  I'm heading into this holiday with a full heart and open eyes.
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  So, you know, it's been quite a year.
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  A lot of people are doing a lot worse off than me, so I'm just
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  grateful that's something you hear.
• 5:45
  Miss Asta's here. What's up?
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  What's up? Gary Riddle, fish boy.
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  We've got some regulars on the old TikTok.
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  And Danny 2 ounce. Danny 2 oz is here.
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  We've been here before. But yeah, so anyway, I'm still
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  trying to figure out how all this works.
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  And again, we just a little pre announcement.
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  We did one last giveaway to celebrate the year.
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  Check out TMZ. All right, all right, thanks,
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  man. I don't know.
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  It's really not ghost cult style.
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  There's so much salacious stuff out there.
• 6:22
  I can leave it to lamb, go to metal.
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  Sucks to do, but you're not. We're doing a giveaway.
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  I have amassed a bunch of books. I even bought some to support my
• 6:31
  favorite underground authors. But we're doing the book
• 6:33
  giveaway. Hit the pen post at
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  ghostcalledman.com. I'll link it in the description
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  here as well during the show and sign up to our newsletter.
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  And there's a bunch of other ways for additional entries.
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  We're giving away the Ozzie memoir because I have two.
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  We're giving away 2 Slayer books that you know, DX Ferris just
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  put out a new edition of his massive Slayer biography that
• 6:57
  would include the reunion and and stuff as well as his amazing
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  33 in the third book on Rain and blood, hopeful future ghost cult
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  and relationally musical podcast interviewee DX Ferris.
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  Also two other books by friends of the friends of ours as well
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  as, you know, allies and supporters and people I wanted
• 7:17
  to support in my circle. Jessie Mae of Turkey Vulture and
• 7:21
  Owl Maker who's also a Blogger and and author.
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  Metal metal head money money hacks for millennials and metal
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  musicians, as well as mosh pit productivity by Mark Morris.
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  You know him from Mark's Metal minute.
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  He's been on the channel before. Jesse's been interviewed on the
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  channel before and also been a guest.
• 7:42
  Pretty damn cool. Enter at the site to win some
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  other tough ones this year, man. Just again, just your own big in
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  this for effect Mcabrams a long time guitar player Jethro Tull
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  passed away. I don't think he'd been touring
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  with the band, you know, on all their iconic records.
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  He's been a long time guitarist for the band.
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  And you know, Ian Anderson has said recently like, yeah, Manson
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  type shit. Possibly big music news
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  incoming. Well, there's, there's Manson
• 8:18
  news in the show tonight. And I think, you know, again,
• 8:21
  release the Epstein files, actually, not just the redacted
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  ones. Some crazy shit is about to
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  happen. You know, we're going to have
• 8:28
  another music industry. Me too.
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  And there's all kinds of stuff happening in the music business.
• 8:35
  Not all great to talk about. But D Boone, the legendary punk
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  front man of the Minutemen, died 40 years ago this week.
• 8:47
  Minutemen is unbelievable. Mike Watt is, you know,
• 8:50
  obviously his fame has grown beyond that band, but such a
• 8:54
  good and unique and special punk rock band.
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  Jimmy is here, Horse Torso is here.
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  Good to see you. Good to see you, D Boone.
• 9:02
  I'm a big Minutemen fan, kind of like the Germs, very for like
• 9:06
  not forgotten, but just kind of not loved enough to me.
• 9:09
  That's my own two cents. Also, Betty Reed Saskin, who was
• 9:13
  the longest serving park Ranger in U.S. history, passed away at
• 9:18
  104 this week. She was a treasure by everyone
• 9:22
  that she came into contact with. And also this one hurts.
• 9:26
  James Ransom, you know him best from The Wire, but he's been
• 9:31
  there. A bunch of other stuff.
• 9:32
  He unfortunately took his own life.
• 9:34
  Again, I said this at the top Hollywood, music industry and
• 9:39
  every single person out there watching and, and on my team and
• 9:42
  everybody I work with, mental health, we are not exempt from
• 9:46
  mental health problems. I have my own and I've made some
• 9:50
  good progress this year. Yeah, Ransom, sorry, Boo, Boo.
• 9:55
  Thanks for the comment. So, yeah, just a tough one.
• 10:00
  If you watch The Wire, he was unforgettable.
• 10:02
  And then roll. And yeah, Lemmy's birthday would
• 10:06
  have been today. He would have turned 80, I'm
• 10:08
  sure. We no doubt would have been
• 10:09
  celebrating him. It's kind of hard to believe
• 10:11
  that he died 10 years ago in a couple of days.
• 10:15
  This is a photo if you're watching anywhere but TikTok
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  that I took at Mayhem Festival when Motörhead was the second
• 10:22
  stage headliner under Slayer. It was an incredible time.
• 10:27
  And this is one of my favorite photos I've ever taken when I
• 10:30
  was a concert photographer. I am no longer and just, you
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  know, life sucks since we lost Lemmy and Prince and George
• 10:39
  Michael and Bowie all in a row basically.
• 10:43
  Also Mike Siaka of rigor mortis would have had a birthday this
• 10:47
  week. Very sad.
• 10:49
  Also of ministry. People know him probably better
• 10:52
  from ministry than rigor mortis, but surely the rips that he put
• 10:55
  down and rigor mortis led him to get into ministry when I'll move
• 11:00
  from Chicago to Texas. Peter Chris celebrated her
• 11:04
  birthday this week. We had some crazy shit going on
• 11:07
  with KISS and Peter Chris to talk about.
• 11:10
  I wish Gene Simmons would stop talking about Ace Frehley or
• 11:13
  anything. Bro, stop.
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  Just fucking stop. OK, so let's see what else?
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  Chris Robinson of the Black Crow celebrated her birthday this
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  week. Storm Morgan of Seether
• 11:30
  celebrated a birthday this week. Also Rick Nielsen the guitar
• 11:36
  riff Lord of Cheap Trick, Great guitar player.
• 11:39
  He celebrates a birthday this week.
• 11:42
  Dave Murray of Iron Maiden This is a great Photo by Omar Cordy,
• 11:45
  the co-owner of Ghost Cult when he shot Iron Maiden last year.
• 11:48
  Great shit. Rare Smile from Talis Jalapenan
• 11:53
  of Nightwish. I always stand Nightwish and Tom
• 11:57
  Thomas as long as he's not talking or playing his horrible
• 12:01
  Christmas theme Scrooge Mcduck album.
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  Look it up, it's a real thing. It's horrifying.
• 12:06
  It's one of the one of the worst things I've ever heard in my
• 12:09
  whole fucking life. Like I absolutely can't.
• 12:15
  So anyway, happy birthday Thomas.
• 12:19
  Sudden Jared Lido. Jared Leto has a birthday this
• 12:23
  week. Speaking of horrifying people in
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  Hollywood. But I did love Tron Eris and he
• 12:27
  was great. The only person I want playing
• 12:29
  in a motionless simulation or or alien or something is either
• 12:35
  Jared Leto or Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves 100 times the guy
• 12:40
  that Jared is. But anyway, Sudden Jared Leto's
• 12:43
  face. Lars Ulrich has a birthday the
• 12:45
  day after Christmas. Also, Chris Daughtry of Daughtry
• 12:50
  celebrates her birthday this week.
• 12:51
  We got more for next week, of course.
• 12:54
  Once again, a quick reminder, if you're feeling tipsy, feel free
• 12:58
  to drop a tip in the tip menu. Not our everydayers or our
• 13:00
  staff, but anybody else. If you're feeling good, I know
• 13:03
  it's the holidays and you spent a lot of money probably on
• 13:06
  presents. Shaka.
• 13:08
  So completely underrated. The Shredmaster, dude.
• 13:10
  Yeah, no one talks about him. And you know, obviously in
• 13:13
  ministry didn't really have many guitar solos, so he really, but
• 13:18
  he really helped like develop their sound that absolutely, you
• 13:22
  know, inspired and helped push bands like 9 Inch Nails and
• 13:28
  standing westward in a heavier, less pop direction.
• 13:31
  There's just no question that was the influence.
• 13:33
  But if you feel like dropping a tip and a tip, then you we
• 13:36
  appreciate it. Ghost Cult is not corporate
• 13:38
  sponsored. We do make some money from
• 13:40
  advertising it ghostcoltand.com and we don't monetize on
• 13:43
  Facebook. So you might be seeing, I'm
• 13:46
  sorry, monetize on on YouTube. You might be seeing some ads.
• 13:51
  Anywho, there's our cash app. There's all the things.
• 13:53
  Let's talk about some features this week.
• 13:55
  It goes coal and it's ladies to the front.
• 13:58
  Time to talk about like we've done quite a lot of interviews
• 14:02
  this year and pleased to say we've got more and more coming,
• 14:07
  not just weird lame white dudes. But anyway, if you're looking
• 14:11
  for a somehow last minute gift at almost 11:00 Eastern Time on
• 14:17
  Christmas Eve, you might be one of those people at last minute
• 14:20
  Buy stuff. Our holiday gift guide has all
• 14:24
  kinds of links and stuff to buy stuff online.
• 14:26
  You can e-mail gifts, gift cards and gift subscriptions and
• 14:30
  ticket discounts and things like that.
• 14:33
  So check that out. It's still good for the holidays
• 14:36
  this year. Also also, we ran our 2025 album
• 14:41
  of the year. Countdown is voted on by the
• 14:43
  staff of Ghost Called Ghost. Skeletal was the album of the
• 14:46
  year. I don't know a little Mystic
• 14:47
  Recordings, but check out the rest of our list.
• 14:49
  Let us know who we missed. Let us know in the comments who
• 14:52
  your favorite records were this year.
• 14:54
  Who were the best bands? What records are you looking
• 14:56
  forward to next year? We're probably going to have
• 14:58
  some content around a preview of the best music coming out next
• 15:04
  year and what bands are doing. We did a whole thing last year
• 15:07
  where I did like 100 band countdown of what like what
• 15:10
  every major band is doing or did or what's going on with them.
• 15:15
  So maybe we'll do that again. Also, we ran an interview with
• 15:20
  Brocardi. Brocardi is an up and coming
• 15:23
  rock artist from the UK, your own Justice Peterson, who is now
• 15:27
  stepped down from Ghost Coat. You can catch her work other
• 15:29
  places like New Noise and Mladic Magazine, but she interviewed
• 15:33
  Brocardi. It's super interesting to hear
• 15:35
  about Brocardi's artistic process and all the stuff that
• 15:38
  they're into. Also this week I ran my
• 15:42
  interview with Kate of Pupil Slicer, probably one of the best
• 15:45
  black and death metal math rock albums of the year.
• 15:49
  I'm sure Dillinger is a fan of Pupil Slicer.
• 15:52
  Oh Dylan, you didn't have to give us a tip, man.
• 15:54
  You're an everyday or shame shame.
• 15:56
  Yeah. Preview Nude may pop nice and
• 15:59
  Amigo the Devil dropped the new song this week.
• 16:01
  I think might be going even more DIY with his upcoming music, but
• 16:05
  I didn't have the story up yet. So.
• 16:07
  But amigo the Devil new music coming soon, Perhaps a whole new
• 16:10
  album. But Kate pupil slicer flesh work
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  also strangely or not strangely, much more inspired by industrial
• 16:18
  metal like 9 Inch Nails and even Dillinger Escape Plan she
• 16:22
  mentioned. So it's a pretty good interview
• 16:24
  with Kate. And then just some more recent
• 16:26
  interviews are on. Don de Lamont interviewed Frail
• 16:29
  Gwen and Sean Killer new album out by them.
• 16:33
  Also Tom Osman, our managing editor of our reviews team
• 16:37
  interviewed Primitive Man. Primitive Man is like one of the
• 16:39
  OG essential girls called artists that we've always
• 16:43
  covered and I'm a huge fan. I often refer to them as the
• 16:46
  heaviest band in the world, and they just might be, if such a
• 16:50
  thing interest you. Some people don't want heavy
• 16:52
  music. What else?
• 16:54
  What else? Glacially musical broadcast with
• 16:56
  this Cowboys From Hell inspired cover of Me, Don and Nick
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  Cameron who turned shout out to Nick for turning 50.
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  This week. We continue our series on
• 17:08
  finally our final episode. Then Nick will be praising
• 17:12
  Yeshua on Queen's Right. He has not enjoyed this series
• 17:16
  whatsoever. I have rather enjoyed it a lot
• 17:18
  because Queen's Right was a very important band to high school
• 17:20
  and junior high school Kefi. Especially high school Kefi
• 17:23
  loves Operation line climate empire.
• 17:26
  I don't remember liking promised Land because I was already like
• 17:29
  into Alice In Chains and Soundgarden and other things and
• 17:33
  black metal was starting to happen for me and I seem to
• 17:36
  remember not loving that record. But I'm going to give it a fair
• 17:39
  shot and check it out also also. So check that out.
• 17:44
  Give us a sub over there. Commented on the Lamb of God
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  post Nice work. Thanks, Tom.
• 17:49
  Appreciate you. Appreciate you checking in.
• 17:52
  Yeah, that's absurd. We're going to talk about that
• 17:54
  in one second, man. Just absolutely bananas.
• 17:56
  If you subscribe to us on TikTok or Instagram or YouTube or any
• 18:00
  of these platforms where you have a public profile, I'll be
• 18:03
  happy to support you. If you've got a band, DM me some
• 18:06
  music. We'll check it out and so forth
• 18:09
  and so forth. All right, here we go.
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  It's time for the news rundown. I'll take another sip.
• 18:13
  I drank so much coffee today. And the Zoomies, so much coffee.
• 18:22
  I need to temper it down with some liquid time to talk about
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  metal festivals. I will then begin this again.
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  Let's just take a take a quick stroll through metal festivals
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  once again. I'm hoping Metal meeting has
• 18:34
  announced their first big bands for next year.
• 18:37
  Our reviews are running this week coming Blood Fire, Death,
• 18:41
  the Tribute to Bathory, Flocks with Jets and Death Angel, who
• 18:43
  just wrapped up a tour, the Crown farewell tour, Shamash,
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  Darbaza, Fordaris, I mean, so many killer bands.
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  Hey, King, what's up, brother? Merry Christmas.
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  I appreciate you being here. Thanks for checking this out.
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  One of these days, King, we're going to run into you at a show.
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  We're going to run into you. I'm going to let you know what,
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  once again, Mojave Experience is coming up this March, March 20th
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  and 21st. We did a huge extensive rundown
• 19:12
  of the whole lineup. After the holidays.
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  I'm going to catch up with Patrick, who's also the front
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  man of volume. They just wrapped up a tour.
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  And thanks again, Dillinger. Much appreciated, man.
• 19:24
  And thanks again, King. Much appreciated for checking
• 19:26
  in. So yeah, Mojave experience.
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  I'm going to catch up with Patrick to a big interview with
• 19:30
  him, talk about booking shows and bands and how great this
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  festival is going to be. And we will also be there also
• 19:38
  also Milwaukee Meadowfest added bands like Suicidal Tendencies
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  and Pallbearer. They also drop their whole
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  lineup daytime splits, but there's more bands coming.
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  Yup. DNA Lounge.
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  I have that coming up there with a Parabellum.
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  Sick, bro. Sick, sick, sick.
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  I might make it. We'll see.
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  I think I will probably still be in a town, but we'll see.
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  I would like to see Nefarious with the new singer and we'll
• 20:04
  talk about that. Desert Fast London has announced
• 20:07
  their whole lineup. Clutch Green Lum Hermano the
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  Sword Face Face Face, face, face, face.
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  Earth Lifts, Truck Fighters. This is a lot of bands I've
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  interviewed before. Church of the Cosmic Skull,
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  Noam, Blackwater, Holy Light, Love them.
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  Rubber snake charmers, Witch Hazel steak in human waste,
• 20:24
  zigzags, Howling giant, Death Club.
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  Many many many many more. That looks rad.
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  Maybe we'll get to cover another desert Fest.
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  Also another festival we've covered quite a few times is
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  Radar Festival in the UK, Thy Artist Murdered, Chelsea, Grand
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  Skindrid, Northland, Protest, the Hero, Heart of a Coward,
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  Animals As Leaders, Voyager, Pineapple Thief, Employed to
• 20:46
  Serve and many more that looks killer for early July in the UK.
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  Also Frontiers at Sorella is an Italian label.
• 20:57
  We've covered a lot of stuff from them, done a lot of
• 20:59
  interviews with their artists. They usually have a lot of
• 21:01
  progressive rock and metal people as well as heavy metal
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  and power metal. But they have their own festival
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  taking place in Italy and Mickey Thomas's Starship, AKA Jefferson
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  Starship featuring Mickey Thomas.
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  They can't call it Jefferson anymore because they want the
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  original people. They are headlining the festival
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  along with Striper. And we know that Michael Sweet
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  of Striper is battling a form of cancer again, but he believes
• 21:27
  he's going to make a full comeback.
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  But yeah, I was like, I pride myself on knowing a lot of
• 21:32
  minutiae about music and stuff. And I was like, Mickey Thomas,
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  why do I know who that guy is? And he's been there for, like,
• 21:38
  you know, 30 years, 35 years. But Mickey Thomas is the guy who
• 21:42
  used to be an Elvin Bishop. So the song you hear is like,
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  hey, child songs of the 70s, a fooled around and fell in love.
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  That's Mickey Thomas, who went on to join Starship.
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  And he did. We built this city and
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  everything. Crazy shit.
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  Craig Caruso is passing by. What's up Craig?
• 22:02
  I'm going to give you a shout out in a few minutes because you
• 22:04
  are my homie. You are my ace.
• 22:07
  That's all the festival news for now.
• 22:08
  It's going to be a ton of festival stuff getting announced
• 22:11
  soon. For 2026, Foo Fighters have
• 22:15
  announced the one off show at the Kia Forum.
• 22:17
  The the comeback and the the the cleaning clean slating of David
• 22:21
  Grohl continues with their upcoming new album.
• 22:24
  They're doing the benefit Hope United for the Hope Mission, the
• 22:29
  Hope Mission in LA Mission, but Kia Forum, Foo Fighters, I'm
• 22:34
  pretty sure it's a Dave's birthday show and good times for
• 22:38
  a good cause. Dave often comes out in
• 22:40
  barbecues for first responders and homeless, donates profits
• 22:46
  for things he doesn't give away to Hope United.
• 22:48
  So that's his big charity again. Summer in 99 and beyond,
• 22:53
  Festival, Creed, Limp Bizkit, Cypress Hill, Bush.
• 22:59
  What fucking year is this? I don't want to go to this.
• 23:02
  This is in July and Seven Dust is on the bill.
• 23:05
  Also with Kitty and Puddle of Mudda.
• 23:08
  We'll see what Puddle of Mudda does.
• 23:10
  Also Mammoth the Wolf in Halen Candle Box still out there doing
• 23:17
  the farewell tour for two years. Hoobastank.
• 23:20
  Fun stuff, fun stuff. Anyway, holiday and fire is also
• 23:25
  this weekend. It's kind of like a one off
• 23:27
  macabre and bones at Reggie's in Texas.
• 23:30
  If you're in the I'm sorry in Chicago.
• 23:32
  If you're in the Chicago area at Reggie's, get down there.
• 23:37
  Also this fall, this winter is the US and Canada.
• 23:41
  So North American tour of Lord of the Lost, The Birthday
• 23:45
  Massacre and indescribably Wednesday 13 is under the
• 23:48
  Birthday Massacre. Decent band live.
• 23:51
  Never understood their appeal beyond the kind of industrial
• 23:54
  metal people. So this is a very bizarre bill.
• 23:57
  I know Wednesday 13 and Laura Veloster on the same label and
• 24:01
  had the same touring booking agent and Birthday Massacre
• 24:04
  again, don't think that fans of either of the other two bands
• 24:07
  are going to like them much, but you know, they're solid live.
• 24:10
  Good for them. But yeah, we should be covering
• 24:12
  this tour coming soon. Also.
• 24:15
  Also Lacuna Coil tickets are on. I mean, Wednesday is so much
• 24:18
  better dude. And honestly Lord of the Lost is
• 24:20
  fun but I think they haven't really peaked yet in the USI
• 24:25
  kind of feel like they're the folk metal version of Electric
• 24:28
  Callboy where the kite is outliving the I don't want to
• 24:32
  say the talent, but the music so far for me.
• 24:35
  But they're fun. Live Lacuna Coil tickets on sale
• 24:38
  now we know they have a very varied and interesting bill that
• 24:43
  starts in March and goes all the way through the through the
• 24:45
  beginning of May again, here's that show.
• 24:49
  King Nefarious, Nukem Trencher and Parabellum at DNA Lounge,
• 24:54
  which is officially around the corner from my house, but if I'm
• 24:57
  not home, I cannot get there with Buds Podcast this year.
• 25:00
  Oxide, another homie of mine. I think I gave Melissa my Oxide
• 25:06
  shirt. Fishy Boy is here.
• 25:09
  That's fun. That's a fun name.
• 25:10
  You got a fun name. You got a fun name and Wednesday
• 25:12
  is so much better. But you know what?
• 25:14
  I don't want to bash on bands that just don't do it for me.
• 25:17
  They're not bad, they just don't do it for me.
• 25:18
  Maybe I'm missing something. There's the more Manson dates
• 25:22
  got added here with Vows. Good for Vows to get on such a
• 25:25
  big tour. Sonic Temple is one of them.
• 25:28
  I think for Manson, he's going to add even more dates.
• 25:32
  I believe we're going to get news soon about that one.
• 25:35
  Assassination Under God volume to album coming soon from
• 25:39
  Nuclear Blast. So Wednesday during the Murder
• 25:42
  Dolls cover tour was awesome. Yeah man shout out to Wednesday
• 25:45
  for keeping that flag flying. A lot of Joey Love this last
• 25:48
  year from Sensanum and Murder Dolls type stuff on tour like a
• 25:54
  Murder doll set and Wednesday set and a few other things.
• 26:00
  Or can you smell the numerous in the dark?
• 26:02
  Holy Junior High School Kifi Summer of hits one off show and
• 26:06
  perhaps there will be more taking place in the UK with
• 26:10
  Peter Hook and the Light somehow opening for OMD and a certain
• 26:14
  ratio. That's insane.
• 26:17
  We've covered Peter Hook and the Light and a certain ratio.
• 26:19
  I would love to cover OMD so parents will get out there.
• 26:22
  I don't know what this photo is with like a tiger and the OMD
• 26:25
  guys. I don't know what it's is it a
• 26:28
  British lion? Is that what it is?
• 26:29
  I don't know, I'm confused. I see Big Ben behind them.
• 26:33
  Like who made this? What fever dream that gave us
• 26:35
  this poster. Holy shit bro bird again.
• 26:44
  Your mom? Clock tours on single now in
• 26:46
  Monmouth and Def Clock with Castle Rat opening.
• 26:49
  Holy shit. I could see some Castle Rat fans
• 26:53
  leaving after Castle Rat but it should be fun.
• 26:57
  Like I said, we did many interviews the last few years
• 27:00
  with Brendan Small and Gene Hoagland of Def Clock talking a
• 27:05
  lot about those tours. War On Women, which is one of
• 27:08
  the best punk rock bands around right now, is doing a Time Under
• 27:12
  Tension tour in March with Oceanator opening almost every
• 27:16
  show except for a big sort of festival type things.
• 27:21
  They're doing War on Women incredible band live and we'd
• 27:24
  love to see more of them. All right, we are like at the
• 27:28
  halfway point of the show. I'm getting angry again, even
• 27:32
  though I had a pizza earlier. So I really need to hook it
• 27:36
  through the rest of this before I cancel.
• 27:39
  But you know, let's talk about Fable Beard for a second.
• 27:42
  So, you know, people have been commenting about how awesome my
• 27:45
  beard is and all the credit kind of goes to Fable Beard and my
• 27:48
  awesome girlfriend Melissa for turning me on to it.
• 27:51
  And I'm going to show off some new Fable Beard products I have
• 27:56
  in time for the holiday. I think people have seen me talk
• 27:59
  about the beard washes. This is the fit the beard bomb,
• 28:03
  the wizard, which is my favorite scent.
• 28:06
  I probably have all of them, but I wanted to try some new ones
• 28:09
  and and Melissa wanted to have some new ones for me.
• 28:11
  I also have the barkeep, which is unscented because you know, I
• 28:15
  don't want to offend people who are sensitive to smells if they
• 28:18
  have to hug me, which this stuff is really good, but also I got
• 28:22
  some some of their beard oils finally, and I do believe I have
• 28:25
  a bearded comb here. So I believe which one is this?
• 28:31
  This is the villager and the other one is the how the
• 28:35
  Christmas scent right, the wreath Wrangler.
• 28:39
  So let's try one of these and I think I like both of them.
• 28:42
  The smell of both is pretty good.
• 28:44
  Let's see that's a good one. The villager.
• 28:50
  So let's do the wreath Wrangler since we're in the Christmas
• 28:52
  spirit on Christmas Eve. That's really nice.
• 28:58
  So my beard routine, I will wash my face obviously everyday.
• 29:04
  I use the Co wash with my, you know, sometimes I used to do
• 29:08
  like a Trader Joe's tea tree shampoo in my beard, which was
• 29:13
  nice for a while to keep it smooth and soft, but it's
• 29:15
  getting just very full and nice looking.
• 29:17
  I don't know that I can ever grow like an absolute long
• 29:21
  banger beard, but you know, it's pretty fun.
• 29:25
  Rather than coat my hands with the bomb the beard oil, I'm
• 29:28
  going to put it on my my beard and brush it in.
• 29:34
  It's real nice. I smell like a candle shop right
• 29:36
  now, like a Yankee Candle at Christmas time.
• 29:41
  Very nice. If you want to hook your beard
• 29:43
  up the way I just did, you can check out our link in the
• 29:46
  description for $10 off your next order and we get free.
• 29:52
  They will be of merch with every order you make.
• 29:54
  So that's ran for us. Affiliate deals for the win.
• 29:58
  Hopefully some more money and affiliate deals next year.
• 30:01
  Also, if you see ads at ghostcalledman.com, that's
• 30:03
  because of Lamb Goat. Lamb Goat is the much meaner
• 30:06
  version of ghost cult. They will definitely post the
• 30:09
  TMZ Jenna Hayes, Greg Pucciano information, Jesus.
• 30:15
  But yeah, Lamb goat, whenever you see ads, that's yeah, that's
• 30:21
  right. I I still have the screen in big
• 30:24
  end, so I didn't do this. Boom, there I am.
• 30:28
  Hey, so I just brushed in the beard oil into my face.
• 30:31
  I'm going to do some like stand alone videos of the beard tests.
• 30:35
  But yes, lamb goat, I always forget.
• 30:38
  Look at my awesome beard if you want to have an awesome beard
• 30:40
  like I do. Thanks, Melissa for being like
• 30:42
  no one can see you dumb ass. No, she wasn't.
• 30:44
  But yeah, lamb goat, check out our ads there.
• 30:48
  Also again, Caruso apps stopped by on TikTok a little earlier.
• 30:51
  If you've gotten a professional business and you need an app or
• 30:55
  you need website care or hosting or break under glass emergency,
• 30:59
  I would not have a business if it was not for Craig.
• 31:02
  Craig Caruso is like my Jiminy Cricket for a business that
• 31:07
  depends on the Internet and a website so much.
• 31:09
  And I feel extremely lucky to work with him and he's very
• 31:14
  reasonable actually. So he has helped me out more
• 31:16
  times than I can get. And then again, you're watching
• 31:20
  this. I don't know how much longer
• 31:21
  we're going to be partnered up with Stream Yard, but as of now
• 31:24
  we're still using Stream Yard. I'm exploring some other things
• 31:27
  for 2026. But in the meantime, if you want
• 31:31
  to stream to all your locations except TikTok at the same time,
• 31:35
  check out Stream Yard. The link in our bio description
• 31:39
  and we're on all the social things.
• 31:41
  And you know, if you're watching this on YouTube, which most of
• 31:43
  you are, go over and hit up Ghost called Kifi 666.
• 31:47
  That's going to become our second channel.
• 31:50
  That was originally my personal channel, which it will have some
• 31:52
  personal and different content there.
• 31:54
  But I think we're going to move the live streams only there in
• 31:56
  26 because YouTube doesn't understand yet any skull bashers
• 32:01
  pass by. YouTube still doesn't understand
• 32:04
  how like live streams are not the same as long form videos.
• 32:07
  So if you're really good at one, they penalize you for the other.
• 32:10
  It's it's kind of dumb. I'm going to be honest.
• 32:12
  I love being on YouTube and I really appreciate the platform,
• 32:15
  but what a pain in the ass. OK, here we go on to the rest of
• 32:24
  the news and so much drama. So much drama this week.
• 32:29
  First things first, Spotify was hit.
• 32:34
  I mean, this has been such a black eye year for Spotify.
• 32:37
  I still appreciate the platform, but you know, they have just
• 32:41
  been taking a beating and now they were hacked.
• 32:44
  I don't know if you know about this.
• 32:46
  They were 100% hacked by Anna. Anna's archive, which is like an
• 32:54
  Internet piracy group has scraped 300 terabytes of data
• 32:59
  and music from the platform, like 90% of all the music and
• 33:05
  they're going to just upload it. Spotify confirm to text tech
• 33:09
  crunch that they identified and disabled the accounts involved
• 33:12
  in the scraping, but it's done. It's already too late.
• 33:16
  It's kind of stupid that it's so late.
• 33:19
  Like they didn't catch it. So supposedly text based media
• 33:25
  such as books and papers is what NS archive usually does.
• 33:29
  You know, they could have hacked all of your user info,
• 33:32
  including, you know, your accounts.
• 33:34
  They also, but like if they're going to release all the music,
• 33:37
  I don't know that that hurts Spotify as much as it hurts the
• 33:40
  artist, but I guess you're not getting paid anyway.
• 33:44
  So people who would never use Spotify will have an opportunity
• 33:46
  to have a complete clone of up to a certain point of all the
• 33:50
  Spotify music that has ever existed.
• 33:52
  But again, Spotify, I think there's something like 100,000
• 33:55
  new songs a week put on Spotify by bands and independent artists
• 33:59
  and everything, and they really don't pay.
• 34:01
  So maybe this will make Spotify bend to some new powers, but I
• 34:07
  doubt it. Highly pirating is making a
• 34:10
  comeback. I know King, I know.
• 34:13
  I never thought it would happen again.
• 34:16
  Let me tell you one more time for those in the back of the
• 34:19
  room. I know it's Lars's birthday the
• 34:22
  day after Christmas, and we just talked about that.
• 34:24
  But Lars was 100% right about what was going to happen because
• 34:28
  of Master. The wrong thing was chasing
• 34:30
  after loyal Metallica fans. But he was right.
• 34:34
  He was 100% right. And I did a video on this not
• 34:37
  that long ago if you want to reference it.
• 34:40
  Also, StubHub mistakenly uploaded a photo of Lamb of God
• 34:45
  and promoted a Christian event in Spartanburg, SC as a Lamb of
• 34:49
  God event. Missed the Limewire days.
• 34:54
  Yeah, I hear you. Remember when you used to like
• 34:57
  to ask for the new Pearl Jam and you got 7 married?
• 34:59
  Three. I don't miss that.
• 35:02
  But yeah, there was there was something about those days.
• 35:04
  And Dillinger, I support that. I'm telling you, fuck Spotify.
• 35:08
  So Dylan, Lamb of God, like I understand that they chose that
• 35:12
  name. Their previous name was Burn the
• 35:14
  Priest. There's no way they would have
• 35:16
  become as big a successful band with the name Burn the Priest.
• 35:20
  So they changed their name to Lamb of God because it was
• 35:22
  equally subversive and not as horrible sounding.
• 35:25
  And this has happened before, like 10 years ago, Five years
• 35:27
  ago, every few years, someone takes the Lamb of God logo and
• 35:31
  puts it on a Christian flyer for a church event.
• 35:35
  And so StubHub had a post, an apology to both Lamb of God and
• 35:40
  this Christian event for the confusion.
• 35:43
  There's one bunch of balloon heads.
• 35:45
  You know what a bunch of dummies, I don't know.
• 35:49
  Anyway, the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium complex, the
• 35:53
  Spartanburg is, you know, it's where South Carolina State is.
• 35:56
  It's like the third or fourth largest city in South Carolina.
• 36:00
  And they do, they did have a metal club there for a long
• 36:03
  time. And I think Niall is from that,
• 36:06
  that area of the band Nile, who I love a lot.
• 36:09
  But yeah, just so fucking weird. Spotify keeps raising the art,
• 36:13
  the prices, and they don't even pay the artist shit.
• 36:16
  I mean, there's so there's so much to unpack about Spotify.
• 36:20
  I did a thing on this a couple of weeks ago.
• 36:22
  I'll just say one last thing about it.
• 36:24
  Yes, UK ban dynamic pricing. We had that last week on the
• 36:27
  show Dillinger. We'll see if it happens here.
• 36:30
  Live Nation, of course, says the right thing that you need to,
• 36:33
  you know, we support them. But just came just to go back
• 36:36
  for a second on your thing about Spotify.
• 36:38
  I did a whole thing on this. Spotify has a sub stack where
• 36:42
  they release all their data and blogs every year and they do,
• 36:47
  they have like year to year data.
• 36:48
  They don't have 2025 because they're still compiling the
• 36:51
  data, but also they had all the 2024 data and Spotify like threw
• 36:55
  their balls on the table, took their unzip, they're flying,
• 36:59
  laid it all out and said not only did Spotify pay more than
• 37:02
  anyone else, the other streaming services are afraid to tell you
• 37:06
  how little they pay because they don't pay shit.
• 37:08
  Now again, why did the music industry collude with Spotify
• 37:12
  and Apple to shut out artists when only the top 3 or 4% of
• 37:18
  artists really make a living, could make a living off of their
• 37:21
  streaming and the artists that do get paid off the streaming
• 37:23
  don't need it. Metallica sells enough music
• 37:26
  themselves on metallica.com and concert tickets and merch that
• 37:29
  they don't need Spotify. That's an extra revenue stream
• 37:32
  for them. You know, if you want to take it
• 37:35
  in terms of rock and metal. So I did a whole thing on this
• 37:38
  where Rick Biano talked about how metal is dead or metal heads
• 37:42
  are leaving metal because they're not streaming.
• 37:44
  Numbers are not big for metal bands outside of the big legacy
• 37:47
  bands that used to sell physical records.
• 37:49
  And I was like, no, Rick Biano is dumb because measuring
• 37:52
  underground music mostly against Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift is
• 37:57
  moronic and stupid because I love Rick but he's a goddamn
• 38:00
  boomer. Anyway, there we go.
• 38:04
  And then so also also, I posted this story on TikTok and on
• 38:11
  Instagram and I love this. I got an auto response from
• 38:17
  StubHub about the story. Now I want to tell you I am by
• 38:20
  trade a social media manager and strategist so I know when
• 38:24
  bullshit is up, you know? So so OK, it's a canned
• 38:28
  response. Hello there.
• 38:30
  We regret the trouble this is causing you.
• 38:32
  You are welcome to send us Adm and we'll talk discuss it
• 38:36
  further about them. They must be getting in and
• 38:39
  inundated by either Christian people mad at Lamb of God or
• 38:43
  Lamb of God fans pissed. This is hilarious.
• 38:46
  I don't, you know, I don't expect, you know, I just tagged
• 38:50
  StubHub because I want people who follow StubHub to see this
• 38:53
  story and people follow Lamb of God to see this story.
• 38:57
  And I don't care who is mad about it, but like just what it
• 39:01
  is. What?
• 39:02
  OK, Anyway, enough about that. More, more stories.
• 39:07
  This is an interesting one too. Here's another one.
• 39:11
  Mastodon has their own studio in Atlanta, West End Recording,
• 39:14
  where they rehearse and record it and make their albums.
• 39:17
  They made Hutched and Grimm, their last album with Brett
• 39:20
  Hynes, who died over the summer in July, very sad.
• 39:22
  And they made their new ads of yet unannounced unreleased album
• 39:27
  on this old on this board. And they are selling their DDA
• 39:30
  profiler recording studio desk for $7000.
• 39:34
  I think you have to pick it up from them in Atlanta in little 5
• 39:39
  points and super interesting. Literally Bill Kelly here posted
• 39:45
  the posted the postings. That's kind of interesting,
• 39:48
  right? In Atlanta, you know, you could
• 39:50
  own a piece of Mastodon history. I don't think Brent worked at
• 39:55
  all on their new record. That's why the announcement was
• 39:57
  when he was leaving. Which sucks, but, you know,
• 40:01
  there you go. IQ in the Black Label.
• 40:04
  Somebody poke or commented on one of our posts.
• 40:06
  That's amazing. So, yeah, very fun.
• 40:08
  Andrex you. I've been talking about this for
• 40:10
  years, years and years. Where is the new Anthrax?
• 40:13
  Anthrax new record is done. Anthrax new record has a release
• 40:16
  date. Anthrax has recorded a music
• 40:19
  video for their upcoming new single.
• 40:23
  And I could not be more stoked. I know John Bush played in New
• 40:26
  York City last weekend, and Frank Bello was there and my
• 40:29
  partner was there, and Charlie Benante came out in Chicago.
• 40:33
  And the Anthrax guys, I believe record, you know, shot their new
• 40:38
  music video on the East Coast because it was something about
• 40:40
  breaking the cold and snow. So Midwest or East Coast Chicago
• 40:43
  or, you know, PA or New York. I know Frankie Bello still lives
• 40:47
  in the New York area. So fun times Insane Clown Posse
• 40:52
  took on Gore on Hot Ones. I'm sure you're a fan of the Hot
• 40:57
  Ones competition wing eating show.
• 41:00
  We've done hot sauce taste tests on the channel and and his
• 41:04
  podcasts and it was a lot of fun watching them grill each other
• 41:08
  and they seem to like each other, which was kind of funny.
• 41:15
  Great job everybody. Gore's had a banger of the year.
• 41:19
  Shout out to my man John Freeman, who's their publicist.
• 41:21
  We're buddies. Gorgeous, had a phenomenal,
• 41:24
  phenomenal year. Tours and they got more touring
• 41:27
  coming up next year. The big new record, new, you
• 41:34
  know, a new multimedia release, a graphic novel, a coffee table
• 41:37
  book, an art exhibition. Don is here Talking the talk
• 41:42
  with Don is here. What's up Don?
• 41:44
  I talked about your Frail interview earlier and about I
• 41:47
  showed the new glacially Cowboys from Helicopter.
• 41:50
  Melissa and I were listening to Pantera later.
• 41:52
  I was learning my lady on the magic of Pantera CP.
• 42:02
  You know there. It's weird.
• 42:04
  In terms of fandoms, ICP fans and and their band are less
• 42:07
  bizarre than you think. I saw them a little bit for the
• 42:11
  second time only ever riot fix 2023.
• 42:14
  I don't think Osborn's grandson was the one day Aston Villa
• 42:18
  mascot for the slaughter that they took of beating versus Man
• 42:24
  U. And just to talk for a second
• 42:26
  about, I mean, he really looks like Kelly and and obviously
• 42:29
  looks like Ozzy a little bit and that's her her son with Sid from
• 42:33
  Slipknot. I want to talk for a second
• 42:35
  about skillet fans make ICP look, well, evangelists in
• 42:40
  general, bro, like evangelicals are crazy.
• 42:44
  You know, Kelly Osbourne had a go to social media this week.
• 42:47
  People are just dogging her, just absolutely dogging her.
• 42:51
  Like, you don't look good, You don't look well.
• 42:53
  And she's like, I am not well. My father died.
• 42:55
  He was my whole world. He was my best friend.
• 42:57
  And he's dead. And I have to get up every day
• 42:59
  and be a mom and a daughter and a sister and a wife and figure
• 43:04
  out my place in the world where my dad is not alive anymore.
• 43:07
  They were not ready. They were not prepared.
• 43:09
  They did not think this like, this could happen despite his,
• 43:12
  you know, lack of well-being the last few years.
• 43:15
  And I just think, like, again, man, be gentle on social media.
• 43:18
  Kelly Osbourne may be in the spotlight.
• 43:20
  She might be an international, internationally known celebrity,
• 43:24
  but like, she's also a human being.
• 43:27
  And we've been watching the BTK, the daughter of the BTK on
• 43:33
  Netflix. Brilliant and unbelievable.
• 43:36
  And this guy was much more evil than you can even imagine.
• 43:39
  Murders are only part of the fact that this guy's an evil son
• 43:42
  of a bitch. What's up, Rob?
• 43:44
  Merko is here. We just followed you back
• 43:46
  recently, Rob. And she, her life is literally
• 43:50
  ruined by social media piercing. Not always here.
• 43:53
  Sup, buddy. Just literally just ruined by
• 44:00
  just ruined by, you know, her life is ruined by social media
• 44:05
  and people hounding telling her she should die.
• 44:08
  Dylan, there is a Man U fan. That was a terrible match.
• 44:11
  Yeah. You know, I've never been a
• 44:13
  soccer fan. I can't lie.
• 44:14
  I like American football. My team is horrible.
• 44:18
  Giants will probably win and not even get the number one pick
• 44:20
  versus the Raiders. I would love to see them hire
• 44:22
  the former Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce, but my team
• 44:25
  sucks. Waiting for, you know, hockey
• 44:27
  season. Knicks jury's out.
• 44:31
  I'm very slow to believe in them and baseball season is four
• 44:35
  months away. All right, last week as we last
• 44:41
  week as we went to press live Fishbone dropped their cover of
• 44:47
  them bones one take live cover and video of them bones, bias
• 44:52
  and chains. Just a super fun job of doing
• 44:57
  that cover. That was for the MO Pop Awards.
• 44:59
  Back in 2021, the Nelson Chase was honored with the MO Pop
• 45:03
  Founders Award. King says.
• 45:06
  The Bears. The Bears.
• 45:09
  But yeah, Fishbone, man, what a great job.
• 45:11
  Yeah, we had a recent interview where Omar interviewed Angela
• 45:14
  Moore. Great new album out now.
• 45:16
  Stockholm Syndrome. Another band having a banner of
• 45:20
  the year. And I'm looking forward to more
• 45:21
  Fishbone jams next year. The this story continues to get
• 45:26
  weird. Wayne Static and Turner Ray were
• 45:29
  making a documentary about their life and their love life when
• 45:32
  Wayne died and then Tara died. Matt Zane of Society 1, the porn
• 45:37
  actor, director and sort of quasi metal singer is in
• 45:41
  possession of this stuff, this material, this these this
• 45:45
  archival footage he helped make and shoot.
• 45:47
  And he was like, oh, I'm putting this documentary out.
• 45:50
  And he's been like leaking stuff over time.
• 45:52
  And nobody, I think, took it very seriously that this was
• 45:54
  going to happen. And then the family filed the
• 45:59
  cease and desist and what Matt did.
• 46:02
  And I'm not knocking Matt because Matt, Matt as a defense
• 46:06
  of himself, put out a statement from terrorist former roommate
• 46:09
  and best friend, who I think is also an ex adult actress.
• 46:12
  Well, it's all coming back to porn in this episode, isn't it,
• 46:14
  Dave? And Dillinger and Tim, Dave and
• 46:19
  and Don, her friend said like, oh, they wanted this thing to be
• 46:24
  made and come out. That's not a defense of I don't
• 46:27
  own this material that was recorded.
• 46:29
  And the family absolutely has intellectual rights of, of
• 46:33
  static X and Wayne solo stuff. And you need to cooperate with
• 46:37
  them to get this thing made. You can't just be like, I'm
• 46:40
  putting it out. It seems very self-serving and
• 46:43
  very sad. Dillinger compound says slayed
• 46:47
  the fishbone. Slayed the cover fishbone hidden
• 46:50
  out of the park. I agree they absolutely did.
• 46:52
  Ebenezer that is passing by. It's nice to see all all the
• 46:55
  homies passing through. Super nice close enemies.
• 47:01
  Which is the Rock Super group featuring Tom Hamilton of AR
• 47:04
  Smith and members of Barry Manilow's band and Rod Stewart's
• 47:08
  band and a bunch of other rockers, will release their
• 47:10
  debut album in the spring. They've already booked a couple
• 47:13
  of shows and it looks like they're going to be doing some
• 47:15
  more touring. You know, Jury is still out.
• 47:18
  If Aerosmith will ever play a farewell show or tour or
• 47:22
  residency, I really don't see it.
• 47:24
  But Tom is in good health. And I used to see Tom all the
• 47:28
  time, used to take his sons to black metal and death metal
• 47:31
  shows when I lived in Boston. Did you know I lived in Boston?
• 47:34
  Don does. And now for some more Peter
• 47:38
  Chris news. So not only did Peter Chris
• 47:40
  celebrate a birthday this week, Peter Chris has been has invited
• 47:43
  some controversy. Here's what happened with Peter.
• 47:48
  Peter's new album came out last week.
• 47:50
  I've heard a little of it. I like what I heard.
• 47:52
  He's 80, you know, whatever have high expectations for Peter
• 47:59
  Chris solo album at 80 years old.
• 48:01
  The last record was like 10 years ago.
• 48:03
  The record before that was 13 years ago or something.
• 48:06
  And his record label, he put this out with the band Camp Page
• 48:12
  where they were asking like the album was not really available
• 48:15
  for streaming and it was for $1000 for digital.
• 48:20
  Now they was it really $1000? They took that down.
• 48:23
  Peter then had to make a statement saying please don't
• 48:26
  buy the record off of band camp or even listen to it on Band
• 48:28
  Camp. They had no right to do that.
• 48:31
  All the, you know, you can stream it here and there.
• 48:34
  It's not, it's not on certain things like Apple Music, but
• 48:37
  it's certainly not $1000 to get a digital.
• 48:39
  Every CD or vinyl bot will come with a free digital download.
• 48:44
  But just like, what the fuck? We saw this happen this year
• 48:48
  with Dark Angel, who I love, and I actually really love that
• 48:52
  record and I don't know what everybody was talking about that
• 48:54
  it was bad because they didn't hear it because it's not on
• 48:56
  streaming except the one song. So they heard the one song and
• 48:59
  they judged the whole album on one song.
• 49:02
  I have my copy at home and I've listened to it.
• 49:04
  It's awesome. It has some disadvantages.
• 49:08
  We've seen this where not the recent Zakwob Live album, but
• 49:12
  the one before that that they did with Magnetic Eye Records
• 49:15
  Live was like only available on vinyl, limited edition on CD and
• 49:20
  a big bundle and then not digitally originally was like
• 49:24
  $1000 and then it was like $666 and then it's still not on
• 49:29
  streaming. But like, you know, Zach has
• 49:31
  diehard fans who will pay any amount of money to get their
• 49:34
  Zach bill. I wonder if he was talking to
• 49:37
  Vinnie Vincent. I know that $225 one song CD
• 49:42
  that's a glacially musical podcast topic there.
• 49:44
  King if you want to subscribe to that Channel if you're not
• 49:46
  already, just a reminder because part of our book giveaway is the
• 49:51
  Slayer book, the 266 and two third of metal band Murphy by
• 49:56
  our friend and yours DX Ferris. But that audio book is out now
• 49:59
  on band Cam for a lot cheaper than $1000 and you can win a
• 50:04
  copy of that book. Both the 1st and 2nd place prize
• 50:08
  winners will could get a copy of that book if you win that
• 50:11
  contest. Giveaway is going to go until
• 50:13
  the end of January. I didn't want to talk about
• 50:17
  this. So Coalesce is a band I have
• 50:19
  liked for a long time. Really, you know, saw them live,
• 50:22
  really appreciated them. They reunited.
• 50:24
  And so their long running band, their, their guitar player, Jess
• 50:28
  Stenninger, who was a college professor, was accused of an
• 50:32
  inappropriate relationship with a student.
• 50:34
  And the band made a statement. And the Long story short of it,
• 50:38
  our friends at Lamb Goat, actually, this is what they do.
• 50:40
  They posted this thing and they defended Jess and defended the
• 50:46
  same, defended their guy. And apparently then the victim
• 50:50
  was getting like harassed on Reddit and Instagram and docs
• 50:54
  and all these things and they were like backing they back
• 50:58
  their guy. There's nothing he did wrong and
• 51:00
  we're going to release like 2 weeks worth of emails.
• 51:03
  And then there the victim came out and said it's a lot more
• 51:07
  than two weeks of emails. It's months and months of
• 51:10
  emails. And they're going to take this
• 51:11
  approach and I'm still getting slaughtered by fans and people
• 51:14
  coming for me. I'm going to release all the
• 51:16
  emails. And you can make up your own
• 51:17
  mind about how inappropriate this is.
• 51:19
  So this is gross. They're not kicking them out of
• 51:22
  the band. That's fine.
• 51:24
  But like, you know, it doesn't seem like he's been completely
• 51:27
  honest and they don't have all the facts to make a
• 51:30
  determination about this. So what a mess.
• 51:35
  You know, just what a mess. Anyway, I tend to believe all
• 51:40
  victims, but that's me. And that's all the news.
• 51:43
  And there's no news on Friday for another couple of weeks.
• 51:46
  But in the meantime, it's time for the mailbag.
• 51:48
  So I'm going to bust out a couple of things from my mailbag
• 51:51
  before we end the show in a very reasonable amount of time.
• 51:54
  I did quite a bit of spending on myself.
• 51:56
  I treated myself treat, yo. So let's put the let's put me
• 52:00
  back on the screen here. Hey yo, I can't even get rid of
• 52:03
  this all together. Boom.
• 52:06
  For Black Friday, there were a lot of fantastic sales and in
• 52:11
  between Black Friday and the last Band Camp Friday of the
• 52:14
  year, maybe the last Band Camp Friday ever.
• 52:16
  I wanted to support artists I like, not just mainstream ones.
• 52:20
  Some I did and a lot of underground labels that I like
• 52:24
  and we work with and and do stuff and I do get a lot of
• 52:27
  music sent to me for free. It's just like Almost Famous.
• 52:30
  You'll never make a lot of money, but you will get free
• 52:32
  records from the record industry and it's usually not a physical
• 52:34
  record. It's hard to get physical
• 52:36
  records sent to you. I did get that Smashing Pumpkins
• 52:39
  box set which that content is coming soon.
• 52:42
  So I got 2 awesome records for sort of a Small Business
• 52:48
  Saturday. I'm going to pull up my order
• 52:51
  here. Hang on one second because I
• 52:54
  want to make sure I get it right, buddy.
• 52:57
  We have, we have more stuff, more things to post and review
• 53:04
  and all kinds of content coming. Still, I know that word is equal
• 53:10
  to some people. But yeah, you know, if you got
• 53:19
  something cool and you want to talk about it or there's you
• 53:22
  have a band, feel free to drop a link to your music or DMSA link
• 53:26
  to your music and let us know. But a rowing wins is a store
• 53:33
  from the owned by the former, the the current owners of Gilead
• 53:37
  Media. That record is kind of gold that
• 53:39
  labels kind of not putting up new music anymore.
• 53:43
  But I wanted to make sure I I talked about this in the show.
• 53:47
  So I got these two records for Small Business Saturday and
• 53:51
  rowing wins is rad. They sent me the these awesome
• 53:55
  things. And so the first one is Foreign
• 53:59
  and Hatreds, Ancient Tongues and process.
• 54:04
  So it's a split single. It's beautiful artwork and
• 54:08
  everything, which I think you like.
• 54:09
  And then it's on a fun. I think this was like $7.00 on
• 54:13
  this fun. I'm not sure what color this is.
• 54:15
  I guess it's candy apple red vinyl.
• 54:19
  Hatreds on one side, foreign on the back.
• 54:21
  Nice. And then I think the other one
• 54:24
  is Yellow eyes. I was looking at a lot of stuff
• 54:27
  in my cart and I just wanted to kind of spread the love around
• 54:30
  as much as I possibly could. I think this is like comes with
• 54:34
  a sleeve and artwork and all kinds of fun things.
• 54:37
  So let's take a look at this kind of like a fun card.
• 54:41
  Stop here. It comes with a whole art book
• 54:50
  of photography, almost like a Zine, like time lapse and other
• 54:56
  types of photography, which is fun.
• 55:01
  And then, yeah, I think this is yellow eyes on a white one.
• 55:06
  Very nice with the label. So very cool, very cool.
• 55:13
  I wanted to support them then in terms of the mainstream stuff.
• 55:16
  And we have some content coming soon about my favorite vinyl
• 55:21
  reissues of the year. And here's the one that probably
• 55:24
  the most coveted thing I had on my wish list forever and I was
• 55:28
  reluctant. I don't want to buy.
• 55:30
  I do buy some bootlegs, but what I really want is the original.
• 55:35
  I want the original repress of the thing by the band Emily.
• 55:39
  So Danzig has not had the rights to his first four records for
• 55:44
  the longest time. And I have been on a Danzig cake
• 55:46
  basically all year because I saw Danzig in March in Vegas and he
• 55:50
  was phenomenal and he did stuff off the 1st 4 records with a few
• 55:53
  more recent things. So Universal Music, who has the
• 55:56
  rights? Because they bought American
• 55:58
  Records from Rick Rubin and they will not negotiate with Danzig.
• 56:01
  Finally decided to repress the first four Danzig records this
• 56:04
  year. And I tried to buy them all at
• 56:07
  once and they had two, which is my favorite Danzig record.
• 56:10
  All sold out. Danzig 2 Lucifuge.
• 56:13
  And I have it now because they re put another thing here.
• 56:16
  Yeah, Andrew, I saw you there. We took a selfie, we hugged.
• 56:20
  You know, I was one of the highlights of the whole year,
• 56:22
  buddy. I'm so glad I got to see you,
• 56:24
  what with my drummer from my being Abe and I had a magical
• 56:28
  time in Vegas for a few days, but I got this Danzig Lucifuge.
• 56:32
  Now I know after I've made the orders both at different times,
• 56:36
  when they finally put out another batch of these, they
• 56:39
  will be in stores, in record stores in 2026.
• 56:42
  In the spring, they're going to do an indie exclusive, maybe
• 56:46
  Record Store Day, maybe not, but they will be in the You will be
• 56:49
  able to buy these in stores in 26.
• 56:52
  You just couldn't before now. But after I made all the orders,
• 56:58
  I did read on Reddit that some of these were coming with errors
• 57:01
  and they were getting refunds for bad records or whatever.
• 57:04
  And listen like when you get something pressed out, whether
• 57:07
  from the smallest to the biggest labels to the smallest to the
• 57:10
  biggest bands, there will be errors sometimes on your bottom
• 57:14
  and a good partner or a good store will gladly refund you.
• 57:20
  So hopefully this doesn't suck. I will be doing my favorite
• 57:25
  reissues countdown probably the first week of January.
• 57:29
  I think next week if I do an additional live stream, as long
• 57:32
  as nothing crazy happens, I will do my personal talk top 20 or 30
• 57:36
  records of the year and most of them on vinyl.
• 57:39
  But I love this is my favorite Danzig record still and always,
• 57:42
  absolutely. The music holds up.
• 57:44
  Hopefully the sound is good. And yeah, that's the show.
• 57:50
  I'm in a very manageable 58 minutes.
• 57:54
  So thank you for all watching. If you're celebrating Christmas,
• 57:57
  Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
• 57:59
  I'll be back at least one time or two times next week with a
• 58:02
  couple of streams. But thanks, everybody for
• 58:04
  supporting. Thanks, Dillinger, for the
• 58:06
  donation. You know, thank you, Andrew, for
• 58:08
  popping in to the end here. Love seeing you brother.
• 58:11
  Hopefully I'll see you out there with either Sun Don't Shine or
• 58:15
  Down or something next year or maybe at a punk show since we
• 58:18
  both love the punk rock. And you know, again, just one
• 58:23
  last time, Merry Christmas, man, Merry Christmas to everybody.
• 58:27
  Thanks for being here and thanks for watching.
• 58:29
  And you know, I will say one more time, this is a hard time
• 58:33
  of the year for people. So please check on your friends.
• 58:37
  Check on people. Don't take it for granted that
• 58:39
  they're OK because they're being quiet.
• 58:42
  Check your friends love you, Don.
• 58:45
  I'll talk to you Friday for sure.
• 58:47
  I'll sure I'll text you before then.
• 58:48
  But I'll see you Friday for the new glaciers report cast the
• 58:51
  final episode Queens York series.
• 58:54
  And as we say every week at this jumps for the show.
• 58:56
  It's a tough time in the world. So please take care of
• 58:58
  yourselves. Take care of each other.
• 59:00
  Stay as metal as humanly possible.
• 59:02
  Don't drink and drive and I'm going to dance a jig on the way
• 59:05
  out like Joe Hollenbeck in the movie Boy Scout.
• 59:09
  Peace and Merry Christmas.