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Which 2026 Metal Albums Crashed the Hardest? · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, this is Rob Dukes of Exodus, and you're watching CMS TV.
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  SPEAKER_01: What we are talking about today, we are...
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  SPEAKER_01: Into the seventh month, almost done with the seventh month of the year.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I figured it's as good a time as any to look at kind of the first half of
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  SPEAKER_01: the year and go over the albums that we,
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  SPEAKER_01: and by we, I mean me, the, I'll just say it that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: The albums I was most anticipating in 2026 that have not lived up to what I wanted.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fair enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are definitely metal albums, metal, hard rock metal, mostly metal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I listen to metal.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love metal.
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  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, these are the ones that I have.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'll be curious to hear what you guys think.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure there's albums I'm missing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure there's things where you guys listen to,
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  SPEAKER_01: like as an example, the Demo Borgir record is not on here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure there are some of you that listen to nothing but black metal all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: They'll be like, well, that was nowhere near as good as their past stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: If that's you, that's you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right,
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  SPEAKER_01: so let's get to it here and list the top five disappointments,
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess, of 2026 when it comes to heavy metal, at least to my ears.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, coming in at number five.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's start with one that there was a lot of talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a ton of conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Could it be good?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was he going too far?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was this going to have any chance at all of succeeding?
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  SPEAKER_01: And the answer was a resounding no.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I'm talking about Jeff Tate's Operation Mindcrime 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: After so many years of waiting for this thing, we've heard about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've seen side projects from Jeff.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've seen lawsuits between him and Queensryche and the naming.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the band was called Operation Mindcrime for a while.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then it wasn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now it's Jeff Tate.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just an infinite amount of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: All to get to this point that we've been hearing about really since Operation Mindcrime 2.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that is the final chapter of Operation Mindcrime, Operation Mindcrime 3 or X.
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  SPEAKER_01: As Jeff told me,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's not listed that way anywhere,
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  SPEAKER_01: but X is what Jeff Tate told me the name of this is.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whatever you want to call it, Operation Mindcrime 3 or X.
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  SPEAKER_01: It came out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to lie.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was praying to God it was going to be good, and it was not.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just feels like a middle-aged concept musical that might have been thought
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  SPEAKER_01: to be heavy, but then just wasn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Production was super, super sterile.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think you could have brain surgery on these CDs.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so fucking sterile.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just not good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tate sounds fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will say that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He still sounds good.
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  SPEAKER_01: A little...
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  SPEAKER_01: A little processed in the mix.
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  SPEAKER_01: They definitely tweaked his voice a little bit, but he sounded pretty good.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the songs just stink.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, Silent Screams of the Machine is one of those songs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Six minutes, it's spoken wordy type thing over a soft piano.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's it doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where's it going?
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  SPEAKER_01: I get it's a concept and you're trying to fill pieces.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you didn't have anything to say for the story, don't use it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same with Mindcrime Reprise.
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  SPEAKER_01: So syrupy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just makes Silent Lucidity seem like a thrash anthem of some sort.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just not good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the final protocol.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's supposed to be the climax of the story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just, all right, it's over.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fade to black.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're done here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, did I hate it, hate it?
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: Will I ever listen to it again?
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  SPEAKER_01: Probably not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just did not live up to what I was hoping for.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the bar was low for me anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about for you, but I still remember Mindcrime 2 being just a bag of shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not that bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's certainly not even allowed in the same five-disc CD changer as Mindcrime 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just not that good.
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  SPEAKER_01: So number five, Jeff Tate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Operation Mindcrime 3.
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• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: Moving forward to number four,
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  SPEAKER_01: I know for a lot of you, you were not looking forward to this, and I get that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if this is you, you could skip forward to number three.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I was looking forward to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sepultura's The Cloud of Unknowing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, this was billed as the last recorded music we're going to get from Sepultura,
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  SPEAKER_01: I know there's so many of you that are out there that have just dismissed everything
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  SPEAKER_01: from the Derek Green era.
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  SPEAKER_01: I get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're Max guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: If it ain't Max, it ain't Sepultura.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've heard it a zillion times.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think you're all wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think you guys should really go back and venture to, I don't know, Dante, the Dante record.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kairos was really, really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mediator was really, really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most of them were really, really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: The only one that was really not good was Against.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was written, I think, for Max.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or maybe even by Max.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember at this point.
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  SPEAKER_01: But that was not very good.
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  SPEAKER_01: But most of the Derek stuff, I wish it was called anything else.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wish it was called, you know, Biotech is Godzilla.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because then we would have had a new band that everybody would have appreciated.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the love for Max Cavalera killed so many metal fans from listening and enjoying
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  SPEAKER_01: the Derek Green era of the band.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's your own fucking fault.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that being said, you don't need to listen to this one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Funny how that works, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_01: The Cloud of Unknowing is just not very good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I expected it to be kind of where they've been the last few records, like Quatra and whatnot.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's not.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just this meandering few songs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Got some of the tribal shit in there to remind you that it's Sepultura.
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  SPEAKER_01: But nothing that stands out at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Veil of Ash.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what that is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Noise, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just noisy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unknown Horizon.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's supposed to be an epic.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just doesn't build.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't go anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: It stays the same tempo, stays the same vibe.
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  SPEAKER_01: The whole time you're listening to it, you're waiting for it to kick in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it just doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's just done.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beneath the Cloud, kind of a groove track.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's probably the best on the record.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that being said, my God, is this repetitive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just not good.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Sepultura checking in number four,
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  SPEAKER_01: The Cloud of Unknowing on the top five list of disappointments for the first half
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  SPEAKER_01: of 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Moving on, number three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Billed is the great comeback, as a lot of these records do get billed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Failing to deliver is the great comeback, as almost every one of these records does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I'm talking about Rob Zombie, The Great Satan.
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  SPEAKER_01: This album was a major disappointment for me, personally.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really, for some stupid reason, and I'm guilty of this all the time, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's just me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I believe the hype.
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  SPEAKER_01: I listened to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, they couldn't be lying, especially when they reference the great records.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, this Rob Zombie thing they're talking about, this is as good as Hellbilly Deluxe.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, man, that's a big, big amount of praise.
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  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, and I wanted it to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really was like hoping that I was not going to get another one
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  SPEAKER_01: of these terrible records with the long,
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  SPEAKER_01: stupid name or, you know, The horse's record.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was hoping for Hellbelly Deluxe.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was hoping for Astro Creep 2000.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know that's not Rob Zombie, but that's what I wanted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nope, didn't get that.
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  SPEAKER_01: This just feels like the last three or four records in a row just recycled,
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  SPEAKER_01: mix in some bullshit to fill the spaces.
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  SPEAKER_01: Repetitive.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of it doesn't even sound like full songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just sounds like ideas that...
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe got worked on for a while and didn't go anywhere,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they had almost three minutes or right around three minutes.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Eh, good enough.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: Put it in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give it a title.
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  SPEAKER_01: Put it up there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a garbage release in my book.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hell's New Playground.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Is anybody looking for mid-tempo rock from Rob Zombie?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: You want something fast, right?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: We got our mid-tempos with Living Dead Girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're good.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want faster stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: That ain't it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Devil's Disco, Part 666.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that makes it scary, man, because it's Part 666.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stupid dance metal track.
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  SPEAKER_01: Feels like it's a parody of Rob Zombie more than an actual Rob Zombie song.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just not good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, the actual ballad attempt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rob, you're not a balladeer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't do ballads.
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  SPEAKER_01: Satan's favorite song.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, very scary with the Satan thing.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not telling people what to do with their music or how to express or any of that,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I think the satanic thing in metal is quite played.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think anybody is picking up a metal record anymore and going,
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: ooh, Upside Down Cross, Scary, or Pentagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I can't listen to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's 2026, folks.
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  SPEAKER_01: That day is done.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the 80s,
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  SPEAKER_01: when our parents grew up in church and they would see Shout at the Devil on a record
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  SPEAKER_01: from Motley Crue, of course, they were horrified by it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of what the cool factor was, was it was so against the She Loves You Beatles.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that was it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've had And I'm going to take this more to the world of movies for a minute.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've had so many more movies in the horror genre that have really shown us
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  SPEAKER_01: the absolute depravity of mankind that putting a devil worship sign on
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  SPEAKER_01: an album cover or writing a song with
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  SPEAKER_00: Satan salutation in it is not...
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  SPEAKER_00: It's definitely not cool, but it's not even...
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  SPEAKER_00: Shocking, entertaining, anything anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just doesn't hit home.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of the telltale of this record here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does not hit home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, Rob Zombie, The Great Satan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moving forward, number two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ahem.
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  SPEAKER_00: This should have been number one for me as far as,
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  SPEAKER_00: this was number one for me even more than my number one as far as the release
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  SPEAKER_00: that I was looking forward to the most.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, it's definitely not bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think if we were putting these in the order of good to bad,
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  SPEAKER_00: this would be probably number five,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's just a very big disappointment, a very big letdown.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: As you'll understand here in a minute, I'm talking about Goliath from Exodus.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Again, not a bad record by any stretch, but I am a first and foremost Rob Dukes guy.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: I love, I don't hate anything that Zetro did.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: I really don't.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I pretty much love Exodus just as a band in general.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bailoff, Zetro, Dukes, love it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the first incarnation of Rob Dukes It was so goddamn vicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that was thrash metal, almost to the level of death metal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It strayed just short,
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  SPEAKER_00: kind of like Lamb of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: whose album this year was not even good enough to list,
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: but that's all another story.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: As far as Exodus goes, with Rob Dukes coming back, I expected extreme, extreme amounts of metal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gary Holt just writing incredibly cool riffs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Duke's bringing the monstrosity of vocals to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just expected the greatness.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I did not get it.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: What I got was a 65 out of 100 standard.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Slower than I would like.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I expected it to be a lot faster than it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I expected the riffs to be a lot more ripping than they are.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Again, again, again, again.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to keep saying it because I know somebody in the comments is going
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: to be like, you just didn't listen to it.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: I listened to it.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: A hundred times I listened to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's lacking.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: You listen to even the last record or Blood In,
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: Blood Out, and I'm purposely not naming Duke's records.
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  SPEAKER_00: You listen to the last couple with Zet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Way more aggressive than this.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: This is just like Hate to say it, but this is like the thrash metal icons are getting old.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it slowed it down
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  SPEAKER_00: a little bit.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little mid-tempo.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a little too polished for my taste.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a few tracks that just stink.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Bonded by Mediocrity.
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  SPEAKER_00: That name alone.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Bonded by Mediocrity.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: It is Bonded by Mediocrity.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: The Mediocrity bonded itself to this song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a mid-tempo, boring, shitty song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feels like something that might have been written for Blood In,
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  SPEAKER_00: Blood Out, and Zetra was like, nope, not putting my voice to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just not good.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Thrash of the Titans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gee, let's reach back to the past and just totally write something that'll be like,
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was at that tour.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then people will just accept the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's a nostalgia bait if ever there was one.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not good.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Giants Fall, another one.
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  SPEAKER_00: The giant fell here.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a good record.
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  SPEAKER_00: So number two, Goliath by Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pretty, pretty average.
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  SPEAKER_03: New York's heavy metal titans are back.
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  SPEAKER_03: After 10 years, Anthrax unleashes their 12th studio album, Curse Em Perficio, September 18th.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: This is the sound of legends completing their journey.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: Curse Em Perficio, my journey is over.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: First single, It's For The Kids, is a buzz saw riff monster.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_03: Explosive drums, howling hooks, and pure Anthrax destruction.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: Scott Ian,
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  SPEAKER_03: Charlie Benanti,
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  SPEAKER_03: Frank Bello,
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  SPEAKER_03: Joey Belladonna,
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  SPEAKER_03: and Jonathan DeNice deliver the thrash masterpiece you've been waiting for.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: Get the two disc vinyl set right now, available at the bottom of your screen.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_03: Anthrax, Curse Em Perficia, September 18th.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: This is the one you've been waiting for.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: And number one for me, I would rate this below average for this band.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: I would rate this in the probably third worst in their career.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little better than two that I'll name in a second, but it's not real good.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: And this is another one.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're leaving.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're on our way out.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to hype it to death.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to do a movie about it,
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: for God's sakes, because it's so in need of extra explanation than just the songs.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, I'm talking about the self-titled Megadeth record.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: This Megadeth album,
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: honestly, since the movie came out, I've tried to listen to it three more times.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: I have not made it to the end once.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: It is a failure of Of epic proportions to me for a number of reasons.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, there's just not a lot of juice left in the lemon there, so to speak.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Mustaine sounds not very good.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they enhanced his voice or did something to his voice to get him
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: through it, but he's croaking it out.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: He's in that same world as like Jeff Keith from Tesla,
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: where you can still sort of tell it's the guy, but it's just not nearly as good.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: The big problem with this is that,
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there was so much going on between here,
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  SPEAKER_00: the lineup changes and the lineup drama and Mustaine talking it up.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: All the talk and everything was, you just expected something really good from them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what you got was better than risk.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: Better than Super Collider, probably not as good as The World Needs a Hero.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's kind of where I would slot it in there,
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: is right there, at the very bottom of the Megadeth list.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: The reaches back for nostalgia, the system that never was, rust in silence.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Peace sells again.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Does it?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: Does it really?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course...
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Ride the Lightning.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're covering it because you played on it or you wrote it or whatever.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: 40 years established with another band and not you, it's not your song anymore.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you did write it.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's not very good.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: And let me even take that back.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: It may very well be good.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: It might be good to somebody that does not like Metallica.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: But if you are any sort of level of a Metallica fan at all,
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: and you listen to the Ride the Lightning podcast, What do you hear?
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: You hear it not sounding like Ride the Lightning, the version you know.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: So it comes in with a fail clause built into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I almost wonder if Dave does that on purpose so
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: that no matter what anybody says, he can say, well, of course, but I wrote that.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know,
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: he's almost trying to glom on,
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  SPEAKER_00: as he's done for 40 years, glom on to Metallica's success.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he's not doing it with this album.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think anybody is going to go back to this thing in two years and be like, man, man.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: They went out with a bang.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Of course,
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: they'll still be on tour since the never-ending tour of five years
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: for going away will still be going on in two years.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I doubt very highly any of us will be listening to this record.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, number one, Megadeth, self-titled, most disappointing of 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's going to do it.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: Let me recap real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five, Jeff Tate, Operation Mindcrime 3.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Number four, Sepultura.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: The Cloud of Unknowing.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, Rob Zombie, The Great Satan.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, Goliath by Exodus.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, number one was Metallica.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: It was Megadeth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got me thinking about Metallica, damn it.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not going to lie, a couple years ago, 72 seasons might have been right here.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Being honest.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: But no, Megadeth, number one on the list of disappointments.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: How's that stacked for you guys?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do you guys got something that I missed?
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Where's my Lamb of God people?
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: I know that record was a big record that a lot of people were looking forward to.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I have not heard,
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: I've not even heard a note of it because whatever, you know, what's his name?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Randy Blath says, if you like this guy, don't vote for me or don't listen to my music.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Fair enough.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Save you the trouble.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't, so I don't know if it's good or bad.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: I do know this.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: I don't see anybody talking about it.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody, no forums, no comments, no nothing.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I assume that that record's not very good.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: The only reason it's not on my list here is because I literally have not listened
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: to it one time.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: But I'll be anxious to hear what you guys say.
• 22:19
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• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know your five most disappointing as we get a little bit past the halfway
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: of Maybe I'll do this again at the end of the year and see if these five are
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: the five or if two or three other records slide in there somewhere.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: So let me know what you guys think.
• 22:37
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• 23:11
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• 23:15
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• 23:19
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• 23:20
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