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PODCAST: Episode 764 - The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show 7-10-2025 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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None. What's up everybody, how you
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doing today? It's your boy Katie with another
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ghost called mag.com. Weekly ritual caught me eating a
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pre show jerky. Sorry about that.
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Mom always said it was rude to talk with your mouth full.
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Jim is here. That's some people already
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watching on the tube of you and the tick of the top.
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Thanks for being here. This is our weekly rocket Metal
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News Live stream, in case this is your first time here.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. We've been going live a lot this
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week, a lot on the mind, a lot on the brain in the world of
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metal. And this is where we sum up all
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the stuff of the week. So thanks for watching and being
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here. Who has been here?
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Oh, shouldn't, shouldn't be, shouldn't jerky live.
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I know. What's my name?
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David Ellison. Whoa.
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Gabe from Auntie Mosby's is here.
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We are experimenting with some new stuff, some new tricks and
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tips from Stream Yard, which is done very right by us for a very
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long time. And we got an action-packed show
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for you. But in the coming weeks, you're
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going to see some different stuff develop and I'm really
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stoked on it. Seems like TikTok is still on a
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YouTube is still not working. YouTube's working, TikTok is
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working. Instagram is buggy right now
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with Stream Yard. So, you know, we'll see what
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happens. The feedback, that hunger, bring
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that feedback. How's everybody doing?
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We're into July and it's wild out here.
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What a wild year. This is half a year this has
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been in rocket metal, so let's do this thing.
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I'm going to add this guy to the stage here.
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This is our deck for the week. Boom, boom goes the dynamite
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Pensive Ki pensive Ki. Super, super glad to be here
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with you all. So much has happened in the last
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week, including the holiday weekend.
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I hope everybody's holiday weekend was good, safe and happy
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as we go through the rest of the year.
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So tons of stuff to cover. As usual, we start with the
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announcements and just a little heads up, we do accept tips.
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We are launching memberships on YouTube so everybody should be
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paying attention for that. There's going to be some special
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perks for everybody that subscribes monthly.
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We did just pass 1.4 million views on our channel, which is
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no small feat. We have been in business for 13
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years. We've been hardcore on YouTube
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for the last five. Before that we were sort of
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figuring out our where we belonged.
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And a shout out to my partner and co-owner of Ghost called
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Omar Kordy for all his amazing contributions on that.
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This is everybody's victory. You're starting to see more and
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more people do interviews for us and all the things.
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So I think if you're on TikTok, you're seeing the cool lights on
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my ceiling. I got a cool light donated to me
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for karaoke by my awesome girlfriend.
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And Lakota Cordova is here. Thanks for all the hearts.
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I really appreciate you. If you follow us, we'll follow
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you back as long as your account is not nonsense like some
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people. But yeah, you can't really tell
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from the main view. The best experience for this
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show is Facebook, YouTube and Twitch.
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Sometimes Instagram. Not today, but I also hang in
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and answer questions for y'all on YouTube.
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And so here's our little just some announcements before we do
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the tip menu. Tim Cronin, the Co founder of
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Monster Magnet died this week. He hadn't been in the band for
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many years. I had seen Monster Magnet back
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in the day with Tim on drums and bass.
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He was actually also the original vocalist and you know
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by all accounts a really great guy in the music store for a
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long time. He had ALS.
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We brought that news to you not too long ago.
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Just trying to promote your band.
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So no nonsense, bro. I appreciate you.
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Stay tuned. There's an interesting
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opportunity for your band that we do here also this week.
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This was Kevin Riddles from Angel Witch, original new wave
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of British heavy metal band, a band that Lars and James of
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Metallica kind of, you know, built their friendship on and
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and covered and and loved. And this is it was an essential
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early band in new wave of British heavy metal.
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Very sad to hear Kevin passed away.
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Celebrate a birthday this week. Corpse grinder from cannibal
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Corpse. Many other people but
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specifically George. Lot of love on this.
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I think this was our #1 short of the week in terms of new
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content. So that's kind of cool and a lot
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of people show and love which is nice.
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This is a shot again by Omar Cordy the co-owner of Goes Home.
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Pretty bad ass picture of the neck.
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Respect the neck. Everybody you mean is here
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celebrating. I'm going to start highlighting
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this. I think, you know, one of the
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things we do is a little portal toward metal history is remind
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people of stuff you might have missed.
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So celebrating album anniversaries this week included
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Metal Church, Dream Theater, Images and Words Deceased, a
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classic from them, Whitechapel, one of their better albums.
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I think you saw the Instagram today, Goat whore, constricting
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rage of the merciless that is 11 years old between the Berry to
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me, not my most favorite band, despite the Prague dude that I
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am. But you know, coma ecliptic
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pretty solid record by them and and superior has an album that's
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almost 25 years old, 24 years old this week.
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Kind of Cray. Such an impressive band.
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But here's our tip menu and here's what we do.
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I'm just going to blow this up for a SEC so everybody can
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appreciate this. You and you see me.
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You can tip us $3 for some general support.
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You can buy us a coffee on Coffee for Six.
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You can become a real one for $25.
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I talk about my real ones all the time.
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I'm sure some of them will show up.
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Gabe is here. What's up, Gabe?
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And if you're interested, Lakota Cordova Bill is here.
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Sweltering Madness is also packed by as well as Adelise.
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I think I said that correctly. Adelisi, if you want to hang
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with us, Lakota Cordova and you join us on another channel,
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preferably YouTube and tip us. I will rate your song from your
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band live during the show. Doesn't have to be this week, it
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can be next week. And again, we're launching
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memberships on YouTube, which I'll talk about in another
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second. So here's the tip menu and
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here's again what we charge for. I also do music business
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consulting calls and not only am IA professional social media
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manager, but I've worked in the music industry for 15 years and
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so I do quite a bit of music teaching and mentoring about how
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to release your albums and how to do PR by yourself if you have
8:08
to, or how to hire a good publicist and know what that
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means and when to release your records in the year.
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So we accept cash, amp, Kofi, PayPal, Venmo, whatever you want
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to do. I'm pretty flexible there.
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I have done some consulting calls for some bands lately,
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which has been nice. And I just recently gave a
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social media management proposal to someone as well.
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So you can do it yourself. I can teach you how to do it, or
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you can pay me. Here's our Cash App if you want
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to pause, unfortunately not on TikTok, but everywhere else if
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you want to pause and Cash App us some dope.
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I appreciate you. All right, it's time for the
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features and coming soon, this part of the show will change
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slightly. Visually it'll be a lot cooler,
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but we're going to slowly transition to that.
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And again, I did not put this up on the didn't put that up on the
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screen. Here's how to support us and
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here's again the live stream menu and what we use.
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But yeah, come hang out with us over on YouTube, drop a song
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link, make a payment to us either in a super like super
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chat or one of the donation platforms.
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And you know, message me that you didn't, you paid and I'll
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see that. And then I can put your song up
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on YouTube or Spotify or wherever it is SoundCloud and
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listen to it here on the show. But again, before I actually
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jump into features, let me see if I can share this.
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Also, I want to we're going to start doing these memberships.
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So let me see if I can bust up an image file real quick.
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Where are you, Keith? He's great.
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He gives us chocolate cake. Yo, here we go.
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So if you're watching this, sorry again.
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Can you sing happy birthday for a follow?
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Is it your birthday? New York Queens 15.
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I wish you a happy birthday. I I do sing.
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I sing in a metal band, metal and hardcore band and I host
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karaoke here in San Francisco. So I love singing, but I got to
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get with the business of the show.
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Anywho, Babymetal heads. You can join the channel for 299
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a month. All those same things carry over
10:29
to follow us or die level people at $7.00 a month basically.
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And again, I'm going to be doing members only live chats and
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streams and maybe even I'm considering the Facebook
10:41
community privately for this. And then the classic we who are
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not as others platform for $25.00 a month.
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All the other previous platform levels and perks as well as some
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new things. So a lot of cool things are
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coming in the future from Ghost Cult.
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We're trying to bump this thing up.
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It, you know, it costs a lot of money to do this shit.
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I'm going to stop sharing that and then move on back to this.
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Hey, oh, there we go. Just a reminder, we got some
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features at the website. My partner again did this.
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Amazing. What are the top 20 metal movies
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or video games ever? There will be a Part 2, but go
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check that out. It's the one of the pin posts on
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our website, itgoescoldname.com. I think it's pretty rad.
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He did a great job and then you should check it out and comment
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if you disagree or agree with some of these.
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I think he did a great job. We did a big review of Back to
11:40
the Beginning here on the channel Monday with a bunch of
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luminaries from a cross metal journalism and a musical artist
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I respect a great deal. And we talked all about the show
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and broke it all down. I did another live stream last
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night where I talked about who got kicked off by Sharon.
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So go check those things out on the channel when you're done
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watching here. And maybe some of them I will
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remix into clips and share them on TikTok and you know,
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Instagram and stuff. Interviews this week here on our
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YouTube, in particular at podcast.
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I talked to Mike from concept cafes coffee.
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You've seen them popping up everywhere.
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They're doing branded coffees for bands like Iceland Hills,
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brand New Motörhead, Testament in the awesome coffee can, Soul
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Fly, Shutter Channel, special collabs, beautiful packaging and
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delicious coffee. I did a taste test of the
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ministry coffee they put out last year.
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And now you can check out my full interview with Mike about
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his journey to becoming a coffee metal legend.
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Check it out. And we don't usually promote
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anything that I don't love myself personally.
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Juggernaut is here. What up, brother?
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That's a ghost cultist right there.
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Tim lead in on to say that correctly.
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One of these fucking days. Nobody says my name, right.
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I should say everybody else's name, correct?
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I should, I should not, you know, I shouldn't have to be
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corrected. I should be on point.
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Do do, do, do, do, do. All right.
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So yeah. Mike from Concept Cafes.
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Also this week, our own Tom Osman, who's the managing editor
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of Ghost Cult. He leads the reviews team.
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We reviewed 1200 albums the last two years at least, and probably
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more still this year to come. Brand new album out now in the
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company is Serpent, sludgy doom metal from Denver.
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And Tom has an incredible interview with Grant, who's the
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leader of the band. Just such a killer band.
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And Denver in general has such a killer music scene that I'm
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super stoked to, you know, help promote that.
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Also, also, just to remember, if you're a guitar nerd, we
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interviewed Joe Stump for his new Joe Stumps Tower of Babel.
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And that is also a banger that's done by my buddy Don De Lamont,
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who also has his own YouTube channel and podcast talking to
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talk with Don. He wrote a book and has a blog
14:05
called Southeast of Heaven and you should check it out.
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Combat Ready is here. Julius has passed by.
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Don Aldo has passed by. Thank you so much for being
14:16
here. Also, because I don't have
14:18
enough to do, I am the Co host of the glacially musical poor to
14:21
cast beer metal and swearing. Look at this brand new fun
14:24
graphic that Don made. We are continuing a series,
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mostly metal, but we are continuing a series on Beastie
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Boys. We're going to do probably
14:34
nothing but metal bands the rest of the year, but we took a
14:36
little detour to do Beasties because, you know, one lonely
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Beastie IB, one of the greatest bands ever to do it.
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And we're really learning a lot about the group by deep diving
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these records. Vinyl community care.
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We teach you how to buy and take care of your vinyl.
14:52
We talk about craft beer. I'm not drinking that much
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lately, but you know, Nick and Don hold it down in that
14:58
department and yeah, just check us out and give us a sub.
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We are almost to 6000 Subs. Our ghost cult.
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We we're like a few away. So someone will be the six
15:08
thousandth subscriber. We maybe should do a giveaway
15:12
when we get there. And also we have a huge
15:15
announcement and giveaway coming soon.
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So stay tuned. I kind of can't look at this
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picture every time I see Sharon Osbourne.
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I see Lady Elaine from the land of Make believe from Mr. Roger's
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neighborhood. But anyway, I appreciate Sharon
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for everything she's done for Ozzy.
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And we'll talk about Ozzy and Sharon and Black Sabbath in a
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minute. As usual, we do the news rundown
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and after we talk about the features, we talk about metal
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festivals all over the world. So this is going to be a quick
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recap of some and you know, we're just trying to get there
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and do the damn thing on Hinge Festival out of nowhere,
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supposed to take place in two weeks.
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Cancelled. Completely fucking cancelled.
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No reason why refunds will be given to everybody.
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And you know, they all these bands that would have played
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both days of the festival, the majority of them are going to
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pop up in club shows around Denver.
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But absolutely boned all the people who bought tickets and to
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a lesser extent the bands. I'm not sure why, if it was low
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ticket sales or whatever. It was the debut of this
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festival. I don't know if that kills the
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festival. Oh, thanks so much.
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Yeah, I'm very metaled out today with my death metal, with my
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obituary hat, my SOFO shirt. I've re.
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Anybody else do this where you wear the same bunch of shirts?
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Thank you, Ryan. You wear the same bunch of
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shirts for a while and then you kind of wash them all and then
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recycle with new ones. I just change the rotation.
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I do so much live streaming and videos and stuff that I just
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want to kind of look cool every day and I just I don't really
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put that much thought into it. I have a whole collection of
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hats you can't see off camera, All these trucker hats and and
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stuff that I and these douche baggy hats.
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I don't know why I love these things so much, but thanks so
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much man. I love Sofho.
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Sofho has been like one of my favorite death metal bands ever.
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I'm from New York City originally so long got the New
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York connection. Oh my God, bro Pierced from
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within for sure for the favorite Sofho record.
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I also like the BTK album quite a bit.
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You know, I appreciate what they're doing.
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I like that they're carrying on the legacy.
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You know, Frank, the tank is forever with the chop.
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But like, you know man, you know, people's lives take them
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in different directions. It's nothing personal.
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It's just kind of like, you know, as a lucrative career and
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a family to provide for and definitely always pay the bills.
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So I'm super glad that SOFO. I saw them last year and they
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were crushing, crushing it with the new singer.
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So I'm not mad. Oh Despise the Sun EP is fucking
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fresh. Yeah.
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I also wish it was a full length.
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But you know, sometimes you care for what you wish for because
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sometimes bands catch lightning in a bottle and they have 4
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great songs and not ten. So sometimes an EP, I know, like
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what is an EP in the vinyl age, in the streaming age?
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But like sometimes an EP needs to just be an EP.
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But I feel you. So I want to hinge fast, shit
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the bed. You know, we had people go in
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there to cover it for Ghost Coal.
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I'm super disappointed. I'm disappointed for them.
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They're kind of taking a beating on the travel.
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But like, you know, hopefully they maybe rebound because it
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looked like a great idea. Knock Loose and Lamacon, I can't
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believe it didn't sell better. Maybe they needed like the side
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Knock Loose than Lamb of God, two more bands at that level to
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push it over the edge like a Mastodon and a Gojira or a
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Mastodon and a Trivia. So yeah, interesting.
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But I mean, the lineup was fierce.
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I would, I would have loved to go to this.
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So obviously we've been talking a lot about Back to the
18:53
Beginning and the Black Sabbath and Ozzie Farewell here on the
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channel on our website. We have all the set list and all
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the band configurations for the Super groups on our website, on
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the pin post, we did a big review.
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As I mentioned earlier on the channel here.
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I also did a lengthy video late last night about who got kicked
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off and why and who wasn't invited.
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That seems kind of mind blowing to me about some of the bands
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not invited. Got to be honest with you, I'm
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absolutely confused why some of these artists were not in.
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But anyway, you know, on the plus side, I know people are
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very cynical about this thing. Ben Self is here.
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Hey, Tim is here. Thanks for everybody passing by.
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Appreciate you so much. Supplication.
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Hey, so, you know, they raised like $200 million for charity,
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which is unbelievable. I know people want to be very
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cynical about a cash grab and this and that, but they really
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had their hearts in the right place and I was very pleased
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with how everything was done. And again, considering there
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were 5 million people minimum that watched this thing, not to
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mention people who bought commercial licenses for bars and
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viewing parties and things, this was wonderfully done.
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I hope there will be more. 70 tons of metal has moved.
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We talked about this last week a little bit.
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We got the early Intel that they moved their crews for 2026 from.
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Haiti to the Bahamas. There's a lot of stuff going on
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in Haiti right now, not just to mention weather and natural
20:23
disasters and things. So maybe they felt like, hey,
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again, we should not do this thing in Haiti.
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So and they've announced a bunch of bands, which the one of the
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criticisms of a lot of folks of 70 tons of metal is that they
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often don't announce all the bands to the end.
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They probably still won't announce all the bands to the
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end, but here's a quick rundown of who is on 70 tons of metal
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this year because this is fucking Red.
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Amorphous Beast in Black, Dark Tranquility, The Heimersgard,
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Elevati, Arab Alter, Firewind, Gamma Bomb, Rosa, Harry Curie
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for the Sky, my homies in Heathen when we just interviewed
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recently. High Raise highlights Power of
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Penance, Insomnium, Camelot, Ordinogan who we interviewed
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last year, Rhapsody of Fire, Saturnist 7 Spires who we
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interviewed not too long ago, Skeletal Remains, new album out,
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Tear Violence, Win Rose, Zandria and 33 more to be announced.
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I have never gone on 70 tons of metal.
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You'd cover it a couple of times.
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I would really. And we covered Shiprocked a
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couple of times. Shout out and rest in peace to
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my dude Rihanna. But I would really love to go on
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this one of these years. I know it's kind of like a lot
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and I'm getting too old to do. I can't do you know, 72 hours of
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non-stop bands. I'm going to have to sleep, I
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have to eat, I have to take care of myself.
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I'm very open about my mental and physical health problems on
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this show. But 70 tons of metal.
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Props to them for the pivot and I love this lineup so far.
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Love, love, love. Also coming up here in the Bay
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Area in a few weeks is the Moss Wood Meltdown headline by Devo
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and Bratmobile. Very, very cool.
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This is always a good time hosted by John Waters.
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That might be half the deal. And I love this cartoon poster
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where John Waters is wearing the Devo Dome energy Dome.
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Incredible. Just a reminder again, Release
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Fest Athens is ongoing in Athens, Greece where we have a
22:25
correspondent. We will be bringing you more
22:27
coverage of this festival as it develops.
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But an amazing looking summer in Greece Incarceration Festival is
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next weekend. We were going to be covering it.
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We shan't it now because one of my correspondents also became.
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I'll get well soon, Corey. But Incarceration looking pretty
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top tier with Knock Loose, Slipknot, Death Punch, Lamb of
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God, Three Days Grace with the Two singers, Acid Bath,
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Dillinger Escape Plan and a bunch more looking pretty tight
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I have to say. Also coming up soon, Fire in the
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Mountains headlined by Wardruna. Big Wardruna news coming soon
23:09
from Ghost Cult. I don't want to spoil it yet.
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The American debut of Old Man's Child, Chelsea Wolf, Converge,
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So many killer bands at the foot of the Grand Tetons on a Native
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American reservation sounds rad. I think it's going to be
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incredible. We will have some people there
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and we will get some coverage and news stories and a brief
23:30
recap of that festival as well. And that's all the festival news
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this week will bring you more next week.
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And now it's time for some concerts and you know, the
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ongoing 9 Inch Nails tour just looks amazing.
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I cheated and looked at some of the set lists.
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They look mind blowing and I am going in less than a month to go
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see them in Oakland and I'm really excited.
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Thank you again to my girlfriend Melissa for that.
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King Diamond came down with a case of strep throat.
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I don't know if anybody hears a singer or metal vocalist.
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I am very prone to strep throat so I'm very sensitive to this.
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King had to cancel 4 shows his doctors.
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Like you cannot go out and sing with the shredded, you know,
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pins and needles, back of the vocal cord feeling there, back
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of the throat pain. He usually says he rebounds in a
24:21
few days from this clearly and hopefully he is not virally sick
24:26
with anything else. But he apparently performed
24:28
today in Greece. So he took off the four shows
24:31
and he bounced back today. But I can only imagine after 40
24:35
something years of King Diamond and merciful fate, how hard it
24:39
is to maintain that instrument. I look forward to someday
24:41
interviewing King Diamond. That's on the bucket list.
24:43
I have very few left. Metallica.
24:46
King Diamond I don't know if I'm ever going to get there.
24:49
I don't know if I'm ever going to get to interview Slayer.
24:51
Andy Pallettiere is here. What's up?
24:53
What's up? So yeah, I don't know.
24:57
I'd love to interview the King again.
24:59
Black Braid Tour kicking off soon.
25:01
Black Braid 3 very anticipated here.
25:04
Ghost Colt Black Braid 2 was the album of the year 2 years ago
25:07
for Ghost Colt Again, A Day to Remember and Yellow Carter
25:11
teaming up for a tour. Yellow Carter dropped a new
25:13
single in video this week. Day to Remember Big big big like
25:17
an entire two months plus of touring.
25:20
Pretty, pretty solid. Again, the Adam Ramey Tribute
25:26
Festival by Dropout Kings is taking place or Tribute Memorial
25:29
Show is taking place July 13th this Sunday.
25:35
Again, very sad that Adam passed away suddenly this spring.
25:38
Very, very sad. A lot of AZ bands and people and
25:42
metal core people in the scene coming out for that one.
25:46
Pixel Grip new album out now. We've had an interview with them
25:49
last year at Riot Fest and they have announced 2 legs of a tour,
25:54
Part 1 and Part 2 of the Precipitous side tour.
25:58
I hope I said that correctly. That is part of the name of
26:00
their new album. If you need some sexy dance
26:03
industrial music done by radical awesome people who I love.
26:07
I've seen them a few times here in the Bay Area.
26:11
Coming up next weekend, Prongs 31 years of Cleansing concert at
26:16
Amityville Music Hall, presented by Loaded Concerts and probably
26:20
some openers. The only North American show
26:23
this year. I saw prong twice in the last
26:27
couple of years and I never had a bad time.
26:29
As you can go check out on our YouTube and podcast.
26:31
We have many interviews with Tommy Victor or Prom.
26:36
The Nocturnal Affairs kicking off a tour in just a couple of
26:39
weeks supporting Wednesday 13 and Drowning Pool across
26:42
different shows in Europe. I have an interview coming up
26:45
with Brandon of the Nocturnal Affairs soon.
26:49
Stay tuned. Ice Giants tour got underway
26:53
this week, Friends of the Show, Ice Giant, Malfast and Celestial
26:57
Wizard who also have a new album out and Troll War.
27:00
Ice Giant got into trouble before they even pulled in to
27:02
their first show in Wisconsin where one of their people, their
27:06
bass player, got arrested in a store.
27:09
Not sure why, but killer band if you like progressive power
27:13
metal. Pretty rad band.
27:16
I'm a huge fan. OK, In this Moment is kicking
27:20
off their Hal Hath No Fury tour this weekend.
27:25
So very exciting there next weekend.
27:27
Sorry, special guest orgasm. That's the UK orgasm, not the
27:32
thrash band orgasm. Kat Von D for some reason and
27:35
the Pretty Wild, pretty wild news coming up again soon, but a
27:38
very cool looking tour kicking off in Green Bay, WI.
27:43
Ponthifer has announced that they're going to do 2 special
27:47
performances on August 11th in LA at Exchange LA, which is a
27:51
venue space there and they're going to debut new music that is
27:56
yet to be released that is coming out next year, but they
27:59
will play there basically. I'm sure with Maynard it'll be a
28:02
complete phone free experience. So you know, so much for that.
28:07
But I think it'll be pretty cool that they will.
28:13
They'll do all the things. Moon Child is passing by.
28:17
Dylan's garage is here. Nice to see you.
28:20
Thank you. Sonata Arctica for some
28:23
progressive power medal is going to do a brief tour of North
28:27
America, the Clear cold Beyond world tour late September for a
28:32
week, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Boston, Baltimore, not too
28:36
shabby. I think it's going to be harder
28:39
and harder for bands to come here as I've talked about it as
28:41
it is harder and harder for bands to go overseas.
28:44
We have more content coming soon about concerts and tickets and
28:47
the Department of Justice investigating all of this.
28:50
We're going to talk real soon about all this year.
28:55
Let's see, Spirit Boxes announced Victoria.
28:57
You know, they just played on Jimmy Kimmel Live, which was
29:00
awesome. Periphery and Honey Revenge will
29:03
open Spirit Boxes next leg of their Tsunami C North American
29:08
headline tour Baronettes has announced Leg 2, Part 2 of the
29:13
Red and Blue Tour, with Weed Eater as the special guest on
29:17
most dates. Spoiler alert, they're playing
29:19
San Francisco on my birthday this year.
29:22
You can guarantee I'll be there for that.
29:25
I will be going also. Blacktop Mojo.
29:28
Friends of the show, friends of former interviewees multiple
29:32
times. Their new album is out now.
29:33
Texas Tailgate tour kicked off tomorrow in Lindale, TX.
29:37
Kind of a local tour for them. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska,
29:45
Minnesota again and Kansas along with Texas so not too shabby.
29:50
Love those guys, great band. The Dead S have a big western
29:55
U.S. tour they just announced and they are playing here in San
29:58
Francisco in early October. Angry Zeta is going to open for
30:04
them from Argentina. Biohazard.
30:12
Let the boys be boys SLAM. Biohazard has announced the
30:15
Judgement Night 2025 tour. Have you heard of that album?
30:20
You should. It's an amazing document of hip
30:22
hop and rap and metal and Onyx will be in direct support of
30:26
Biohazard. Surely they will do the Bionics
30:30
remix of SLAM every night. Who is excited for this?
30:34
I am this guy. I'm so pumped, so so pumped.
30:42
Also also on the tour is New Jersey's Bayway and Swollen
30:46
Teeth. So 2 bad ass hardcore bands as
30:48
well as Onyx Liquid. Chris has passed by Frog music
30:52
lover. What's up?
30:53
What's up Sly Bunny 183? What year is this?
30:58
Fear Factory hasn't finally announced the full routing for
31:02
their DE Manufacturer performances. 30 years of DE
31:05
Manufacturer this year. They're already on tour in
31:07
Europe right now playing metal festivals and headline shows.
31:10
Then they're going to kick off their own headline tour, sort of
31:14
a Co headline tour of North America with Cavallera who are
31:17
playing Chaos AD Max and Igor playing Chaos AD with their
31:21
band. Fear Factory going to play DE
31:23
Manufacturer at select dates when they're closing and not I
31:27
think when they're not opening because of time.
31:30
But I'm super excited for this. Just incredible.
31:35
Kicking off in Flagstaff, AZ and ending with the Headbangers boat
31:39
cruise on Halloween out of Miami.
31:43
Not too shabby. And Florida getting like 345
31:46
shows and the boat cruise really rad because Florida does not get
31:49
a lot of metal cruise, you know, like metal tours.
31:53
Just a reminder, I've had this lower down in the in the show
31:56
here order, but this technically is an ongoing exhibition.
31:59
So I decided to move it up higher in the show.
32:02
Please, if you're in New York City, go to the Bronx County
32:05
Historical Society and check out the Uptown Rumble, the history
32:09
of heavy music in the Bronx, which includes bands that I have
32:12
played in classics from heavy metal and and thrash metal that,
32:16
you know, like Anthrax and Aerosmith and Kiss, but also
32:19
like very essential underground bands from the 90s and beyond.
32:25
And I'm from that place, so I want to help support them.
32:29
The Sword has announced the Warp Riders 15th anniversary tour.
32:33
You know, Sword reunited earlier this year for some dates,
32:37
occasional festivals and things and now they're doing a full out
32:40
tour with direct support from Rickshaw Billy's Burger Control,
32:46
Great thrash Crossover Fun Band and Pink Fuzz Psychedelic Band.
32:53
What else? What else, What else?
32:54
All right, just a reminder, Death Angel has announced their
32:58
VIP packages for their Act Three U.S. tour.
33:01
They're also playing their annual Christmas shows here in
33:04
the Bay Area on stage, tour, meet and greet, photo OPS, VIP,
33:09
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33:13
Go check that out at deathangel.com and their
33:16
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33:22
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33:24
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33:32
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33:41
We haven't had a new affiliate partner in a minute.
33:43
We consider deals all the time for affiliate partners and I've
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And again, I appreciate everybody that's here.
39:53
All right, moving on with the rest of the show.
39:55
Let's blast through this. You know we're on Twitch.
39:57
Thanks for following. We'll follow you back if you're
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still there. We're on all the socials
40:02
threads. Blue sky.
40:04
Twitter is kind of a shit hole now but I still like Twitter X
40:08
whatever the fuck. How's everybody liking this view
40:15
of my room here with the Northern Lights on the ceiling
40:18
and some interestingly placed laser beam dots?
40:22
I feel like I'm going to rush show.
40:24
Woo. Neil was the greatest man.
40:28
Anyway, it's time for the rest of the show.
40:31
Let's do it. Biggest news happening, Remember
40:35
when we had to wait in line to buy concert tickets?
40:38
I will blow this up and we'll take advantage of this.
40:40
I think this was pretty a pretty great time.
40:42
I'd like to see it go back to this big story.
40:47
Red Alert mention that Spirit Box played on Kimmel Spirit Box
40:53
tour. You know, they're just taking
40:56
over everything. They're clearly one of the
40:57
rising bands out there. I talk very often on this show
41:00
and all our shows about what are the future bands like when
41:04
there's no more Metallica, Made in Sabbath soon now with no more
41:08
Sabbath or Ozzy Maiden, probably next.
41:11
Priest, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, these bands, these
41:14
bands are not forever. Even Slipknot, so you know and
41:20
Gloria Drummond is here Red alert y'all, the thing we've all
41:26
been waiting for and predicting and promoting Deftones just
41:29
before I went live dropped a brand new song.
41:32
Have you heard it? It's pretty damn amazing.
41:36
Big big Deftones energy Private music is the new album coming
41:39
out in late August. Pre-orders are live right now
41:42
and we have some very cool looking merch bundles and stuff.
41:45
And they just dropped a brand new song and I was really just
41:53
flabbergasted by how good it is. My Mind Is a Mountain is the
41:57
name of the single. We've got the track list, we've
41:59
got the artwork, this beautiful looking artwork here on the next
42:03
slide. That photo, of course, was by
42:05
Kim Hanson from Ghost Cult shot at Sickening World Fest.
42:09
But I love the green and the white snake and things.
42:12
I don't love snakes, but really cool, provocative artwork from
42:16
Deftones and the songs of banger.
42:18
Very white pony and self-titled Deftones of energy.
42:23
So I'm here for all that, you know, also also big news of the
42:28
week, Matt Cameron has stepped down from Pearl Jam after 27
42:32
years in the band. Thanks, Chad.
42:34
I appreciate you, pal. Elaine Project Shakes.
42:38
Nice. Thanks so much.
42:42
But yeah, Matt Cameron retired from Pearl Jam now.
42:45
I don't know if this means he's kind of taking a step from
42:47
drumming physically. Pearl Jam is yet to announce
42:50
another drummer. On the flip side, I know that
42:53
Soundgarden is supposed to resume work on their unfinished
42:56
final album with Chris Cornell. And I would love to see that.
43:00
Thanks so much, Chad. Again for all the likes and all
43:02
that. I appreciate you.
43:03
And if you follow us, we'll follow you back.
43:05
But yeah, Matt Cameron, what a big surprise.
43:07
Maybe it means because he's going to direct all his energy
43:10
to the Soundgarden. That would be rad.
43:11
But no news yet on who. Like this is a bloodbath year
43:15
for drummers to get fired or quit everywhere.
43:19
Just unbelievable. Moving on a little bit more
43:25
unpacking of the Black Sabbath stuff.
43:27
I don't know if you're tired of it yet.
43:28
I'm not tired of it yet. I'm still kind of an amazement
43:30
that this thing was even pulled off or happened.
43:32
And so back to the beginning happened.
43:37
And again, they raised all this money for charity and we still
43:41
don't know who was kicked off. But you can check our video
43:43
about this. One thing that I didn't want to
43:45
see. I know that geezer shared this.
43:47
What happened was you saw the lights go down on Ozzy, and then
43:50
they cut the feed to black and ended the stream.
43:54
But actually Ozzy stayed on stage and the rest of the
43:58
Sabbath return. They wanted him to have his
44:00
moment to take in the applause by himself.
44:02
And then they came back to some kids playing in the alley
44:06
outside my house, and the band came back on and gave Ozzy a
44:09
cake and they all took a bow together.
44:11
And nobody got to see this now. Maybe it was a surprise but you
44:15
got to tell somebody so they don't cut the feed on or put you
44:18
know like they don't cut the feed on it or maybe they could
44:20
have videoed it and put it back in later.
44:22
But I get it. They were like on a stream for 9
44:24
hours. I get it can be exhausting and
44:27
work, but Alex on fire 61 is here.
44:31
What up? What up?
44:33
Whoosh shit out is here. Whoo.
44:37
Lamb of God dropped the cover of Children of the Grave.
44:39
They performed it at the show and then it went live on
44:42
streaming everywhere which is pretty rad.
44:44
I hope they'll do like a professional music video from
44:47
it. I'm sure.
44:48
I personally liked it. I know Randy doesn't sing much
44:51
but it was cool to hear him try to sing and then do the
44:55
screaming. Screaming better wrap this kid
44:58
up. And a lot of related Black
44:59
Sabbath stuff happened. So in addition to a whole bunch
45:04
of merch and other things being launched for charity, one of the
45:08
shirts for Black Sabbath, the Super Not Back patch, was drawn
45:12
and created by Allen Robert, a wife.
45:14
Had any? You know, he's a legendary
45:15
artist, not just for that man, but his own comic books and
45:19
adult coloring books and everything.
45:21
So pretty rad. Also also imagine Tom Morello
45:26
and Adam Jones. Tom Morello from Raging as the
45:28
Machine was the musical director of this and Adam Jones of course
45:31
Tool played and shockingly was shown on the live stream.
45:34
I'm still can't believe they were shown.
45:36
But these two guys who grew up in the bedroom.
45:38
Like, you can see a Kiss poster behind them and some kind of
45:41
robot thing. And these guys were playing like
45:44
in a, it's playing together, learning to play guitar together
45:47
in high school in a small town outside of Chicago.
45:50
And then 40 years later, here they are at the farewell Black
45:54
Sabbath and Ozzy concert, both making major contributions.
45:57
Pretty incredible arc for those two guys.
46:00
And it's weird that their bands didn't work out together.
46:03
But hey, here's Sharon Osbourne. She looks like death work, you
46:08
know, worked over and warmed over.
46:10
And she has announced that she's retiring.
46:12
This is her pinnacle moment, that putting on this last
46:14
concert for Ozzy and Sabbath is her so-called crowning
46:18
achievement. And we still don't know who was
46:21
officially kicked off, but I'm pretty sure it was Mötley Crüe.
46:25
And yeah, thanks so much, Chad. I appreciate you.
46:27
I hope so. Me too.
46:28
We're trying to build this thing.
46:29
We've got almost 6000 Subs on YouTube.
46:34
So we're still still technically a small creator, but you know,
46:37
we've got about 80,000 almost on social all the way across
46:40
everything. So I'm pretty proud of that.
46:43
We've been around for 13 years. We started as as a Zine and then
46:47
I took it over and we became kind of a full-fledged website
46:49
every day. But Sharon taking a bow, she's
46:52
walking away. I think one of my lights went
46:54
out here. OK, no biggie.
46:57
Also big news this week, Foo Fighters.
47:00
Foo Fighters started posting last weekend, some, you know,
47:06
photographs and and things from the studio of them recording new
47:11
music, but very grainy, shitty on purpose Instagram photos, you
47:17
know, we'll see. Growl would have been a guy
47:19
would have thought would have been at that Black Sabbath
47:22
thing, but you know, he's been kind of laying low except for
47:25
the cover of Minor Threat the band put out recently.
47:29
Public Enemy dropped The Brand a surprise dropped the brand new
47:32
album on July 4th, Black Sky Over the projects, apt 2025 and
47:38
it's a banger. I listened to about half of it
47:39
last week and I thought it was rad.
47:41
So definitely check out the new Public Enemy album.
47:44
Cave In, who recently released Jupiter as a 25th anniversary
47:49
and they have had some touring canceled because Adam broke his
47:54
arm hiking in Vermont. But Cave In has announced 2 more
47:57
reissues this year on Relapse Records.
48:00
They're they're label Creative Eclipses and The Sacrifice
48:03
Poles, both in various vinyl configurations.
48:07
I'm all into these and all in on these Cave In reissues.
48:12
Vicious Rumors, 50 something years as a band, 45 years as one
48:17
of the first San Francisco heavy and thrash metal bands has put
48:20
out a new single and they have some touring coming up this
48:23
year. Very exciting.
48:24
Wendigo is here. What up, what up, what up.
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I feel so naked without my Instagram peeps.
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Agriculture is the self-described ecstatic black
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metal band from LA. One of the coolest bands.
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I saw them over from Baroness last year.
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They have announced their brand new album The Spiritual Sound.
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Here's the album cover and that's coming out on the
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excellent Flenser Air label here from the Bay Area.
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Blue Jean Baby is here. What up, What up Drop is A2
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music producers, guys who put out their own music and remix
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other artists. This is their charity lime green
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vinyl single of a remix by the band Oxen.
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Everybody's in a mutual admiration society for each
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other for over this and it's pretty cool.
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We shared the news on the site this week Of mice and men today
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announced a brand new album coming out soon.
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Another miracle brand new single out pre-orders out now go check
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that out. We've interviewed the band
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before We'll probably interview them again.
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Here is Dying Oath, not to be confused with Dying Wish, the
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band or the label, but Dying Oath new album out now.
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Killer man, killer man, killer killer man super into the This
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is Winona Fighter, who recently put out a new album and they're
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putting out a deluxe version of that album.
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And they released an unplugged version of their hit song.
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You look like a drunk Phoebe Bridgers Lions fan.
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What up? Lions should go all the way this
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year in football. That's just my prediction.
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We'll see. Marissa Nadler, I don't know if
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you were a big fan of dark folk and ethereal singer-songwriter
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stuff, but she's incredible and I'm a huge fan.
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And she dropped the new single this week from her upcoming new
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album. Be on the lookout from Marissa
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Nadler interview on our channels and podcasts.
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This blew my fucking mind. King Crimson is in the studio
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making a new album now. I'm going to be honest, I
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thought the band was over. Bill Rieflin died, the pandemic
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happened. They In the Court of the Crimson
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King documentary came out of which I interviewed the
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director, Toby Ames. You can see that.
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I'll link it here in the description.
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But King Crimson's in the studio making a new album.
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I don't know exactly. And we can kind of guess who's
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on the album. Jocko Josek and Tony Levin and
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Gavin Harrison. These people are regulars, but I
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don't know exactly if everyone patents the Leto, but we have to
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see who's in the band. But I'm a massive King Crimson
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fan, easily one of my top 15 bands ever.
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I love them so much. I grew up a huge fan and a lot
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of the music I have ever made is kind of King Crimson, you know,
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owes a little bit to King Crimson.
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Even when I was making hardcore advancement.
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This is moths from Puerto Rico. Their new album Septem is coming
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out in August and they dropped the new single in a video.
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This is a current photo of the band by Rafael Burgos.
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We've carried some of his photography in the past.
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Some very cool stuff on Moths. I will.
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I am going to get a new interview with Wesley who's also
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done some interviews on our YouTube or podcasts.
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This is the Pretty Wild from the UK.
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They are sort of a metal core sister duo.
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Doomsday Prophet is here. What up, what up?
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Welcome back. They dropped the new single.
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They're going on that aforementioned tour within this
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moment here in the States and more stuff coming soon.
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They've been dropping a series of singles.
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I imagine an EP or an album is forthcoming.
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This is Rain City Drive. They've got a brand new single
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out. Very killer band.
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Killer band. So definitely check them out.
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Who remembers unfolding the cassette insert to read the
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lyrics? I do.
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Let me know if you do too. And now it's time for some new
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music. Friday I am going to.
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There's so much music coming out.
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We have really a pretty packed day for 4th of July of new
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releases. But now we're into kind of like
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the post holiday summer jams. And I got to be honest, the
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summer used to be very quiet for new music, so it's very busy
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this summer. So I'm going to read the band
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name, the album, the label if they have one, and the genre.
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And you guys, you know, hopefully this will help educate
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you. Every week we create a video, we
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do a voice over and we plan this out once in advance and try to
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keep it as updated as possible. Review a lot of albums, it goes
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cold, so you can check that out. But also we promote underground
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bands specifically with this list.
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If you have a new album coming soon, not a single but an EP or
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an album, hit us in the link on YouTube for this and then you
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can get in our list. We can add you to our list.
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It's hard to do the week of, so most bands promote themselves
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after the fact. Not a good plan.
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Not a great plan as Tony Stark would say.
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Kicking off things this week, Anger on Sailpon on Redefining
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Darkness Records. Great, great label.
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There were apparently 7 drummers in this band.
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Ashes of Aries, the ex members of Iced Earth, their new
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Messiahs on War. RPM Records for some heavy power
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metal. Board of Osiris just talked
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about them a few weeks back. There were Shadows, some Marian
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Records for some progressive metal core music.
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That is the last album with Lee McKinney who has left the band.
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Bright Sunshine. Executive Power Supreme on
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Reptilian Records for some noisy punk rock.
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Calva Louise. Edge of the Abyss on Mascot
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Label Group for some Hard Rock and alternative rock.
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Celestial Wizard new album out now.
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Regenesis on Scarlet Records for some power metal.
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We mentioned they're on tour with our friends in Giant.
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Carlos Compulsion. Law Giver for some avant-garde
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metal. Death Doom on avant-garde music
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label. Dead 7.
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Love what you can while you still got something Left to Love
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on Shark Tongue Records for some metal core.
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Digital negative Intersect for self released for some
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electronic industrial metal Disembodiment.
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Spinal Crips, Everlasting Spew label.
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Filthy death metal. Double vision self-titled on
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Frontiers SRL. Melodic rock, The eternal idol
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behind a vision on Frontiers SRL.
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Also for symphonic power metal. The illustrious Rouge has passed
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by. We always like seeing you
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friend. Let's see what else?
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Floating Hesitating Lights on Transcendent Obscurity records.
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Great death metal, progressive death and post punk.
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Front row Warriors Running out of Time on Roar RPM for some
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heavy metal. Hell the band Submersis on
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Sentient Ruin for some US sludge and doom.
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Imperial Crystalline and Jubment Abominable.
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Astral Summoning album. Deborah Morty Productions
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records for some black metal in Puriza, Alcazar is on Season of
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Mist for some brutal death and Flamingo guitar for some reason.
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In the Company of Serpents we mentioned them.
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New interview with them on the channel on YouTube.
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A Crack in Everything self released for some sludge doom.
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Laguna, the ghost of Katrina on Frontiers.
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SRO for some Hard Rock. Madhouse Plead the 5th, I Please
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the 5th on Roar RPM again for some glam metal Midwife and Matt
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Gensick. Probably one of the best team
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UPS this year. Never Die collaborative album on
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Relapse records. Just avant-garde noise metal but
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very cool. Nathan James, Hollywood
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mortician on Crowd Kill Records for some new metal.
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You know Nathan James has been in and directed hip hop and rap
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videos and new metal videos and now he's making his own music.
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Pillars of the Twisted City, Brimstone Prophecy self released
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for some black and thrash goth metal.
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Velocophobia, The Constant Void on Sensory Records for some
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European Prague metal. Pygmy Lush Totem on Persistent
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Vision Records for some noise and hardcore.
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Split Chain Motion Blur on Epitaph Records for some
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alternative metal Starlet Pyre. Veins of Sulfur EP, Some melodic
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death metal, self released Symphobia, Hideously Traumatic
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Know All about That on Comatose Music for some Indonesian brutal
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death metal. Toxic Youth Still Hungry on Time
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to Kill records for some crossover hardcore bio
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aggression. Thalmatergic Veil self released
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for From Milwaukee for some death metal.
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And finally World's first cinema.
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Something of Wonder on Fearless Records for some weird ambient
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soundscapes. Fearless Records, mostly known
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for metal core, but very cool, very cool.
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Let me now put myself back in. Hey, it's me.
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Let me see if I can do something here and we're almost done with
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the show. I really appreciate you at a
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very manageable under an hour. So I appreciate you all here.
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Let's see if I can bust up the second camera angle today
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because I have it planned, but let's see.
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Oh, I might have got it. Let's see what happens.
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I'm sure what will happen here, but I'm going to give it a shot
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because I have a cool thing to share because it's time for the
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mailbag. And you know what I do in the
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mailbag? I show off stuff that I have and
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and bright and blindy here before I switch it all over
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fully and hey, it's me. Get the belly shoved here.
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Sorry about that everybody, any who there we go.
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Let's do this. I have for the mailbag this week
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this awesome book. You can swing it back to show
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you in a second. So I have this book here.
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This is Hail Murray the photography of Murray Bowles.
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For 40 years. Murray Bowles was a Bay Area
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photographer who was an just documenting the scene,
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especially the Gilman street punk scene, early thrash metal
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and crossover. So much killer stuff that Murray
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did. This book was actually sent to
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me a couple of months ago. I am trying desperately to catch
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up. I have book reviews coming on
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Guns and Roses books on Gary Holt's new book and this Hail
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Murray book. Sue, be patient, but I want to
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show the book here. I finally got the other camera
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angle open. So I want to show it to you
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guys. I'm going to put it over here
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like so so you can see the hail Murray book.
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Sorry, you guys on TikTok come over to YouTube and watch it
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here. So I've got the front cover and
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this came with a beautiful like a photograph inside, like a
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really high quality frameable photo here from the book.
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And this is Green Day at Gilman Street in 1992.
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So before Doogie, before they really made it, when they were
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still in Lookout Records. Look at this thing, man.
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This is beautiful, frameable, beautiful card stock.
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You know, I don't know if I would personally frame this, but
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I do love a lot of punk, as you can see by the Ramones banner
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over my head in the bedroom studio here.
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But just just a quick look at this beautiful Murray Bolzberg,
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man. Sorry about that microphone,
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man. Look at this.
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This is a gorgeous tabletop book if you love punk rock and you
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love live photography of bands and really a loving forward, you
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know, written by other people in the scene, posters and Flyers
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that used Murray's photos, album covers.
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He really shot like every single huge legendary band before they
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were famous. So, I mean, this is a pretty
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incredible book and you can buy it.
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From the publishing company as well as places like 1234 Go
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Records, which I sometimes patronize here.
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But this is the Hail Murray, the Bay Area photography of Murray
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bowls 1982 to 95 S really 13 years.
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Here's some of the quotes about the book.
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I'll turn the camera back to me so you can see me.
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But here's some quotes about the book that I thought were really
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interesting. So Larry Livermore from Lookout
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Records was the first label for many Bay Area punk bands,
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including The Green Day. Murray had a vision, and he
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shared it with the world. He showed us ourselves in ways
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we might never have seen on our own.
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The chronic color and maker of history.
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Here is Here's a good quote from Camille to Louie of the Yeasty
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Girls with AZ. She was a photographer.
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Murray was one-of-a-kind talent. He was the king of what we
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photographers called the Hail Murray.
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He would raise his camera above his head and bam, his flesh
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would go up and goddamn it, he would get such amazing shots of
1:01:24
whatever flailing high decibel hubbub surrounded him.
1:01:27
Jesse Michaels of Op Ivy, Bay Area legend Murray was a great
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observer, a great fan, and a great friend.
1:01:32
Everybody who met him, he loved bands, but I think above all, he
1:01:35
loved The Outsiders in general. This is from Last Gasp
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publishing. Again, hail Murray.
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Especially if you're a punk fan, this is indispensable and a
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definite bonus to your collection.
1:01:45
And that's the show. We did it in a manageable one
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hour and change. Put the deck back up for one
1:01:53
more second. Just the mailbag and there's the
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cover of the book and there's the final clip there of me.
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And you know, again, I say every week at this juncture, the show,
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you could take your time. You spend your time watching.
1:02:05
There's so many creators, there's so many people.
1:02:08
Mystery Meet is here. What up?
1:02:10
There's so many people do in music journalism and not doing
1:02:13
it well and doing a lot of YouTube stuff and Twitch stuff
1:02:16
and not doing it well in my personal opinion.
1:02:18
But I'm grateful for anyone who would take the time to hang out
1:02:20
with us and watch. Thank you so much for being
1:02:23
here. And as we say every week at this
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juncture of the show, it's a tough time in the world.
1:02:30
So please take care of yourselves.
1:02:31
Take care of each other. Somebody falls down the pit,
1:02:34
pick them up. Check on your friends, check on
1:02:36
yourself. Don't drink and drive and stay
1:02:39
as metal as humanly possible. And as always, I'm going to
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dance a jig on the way out to the theme song.
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And we'll see you next week. Stay tuned.
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And goes call for more news. Peace.