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PODCAST: Episode 742 - The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show 6-12-25 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. All right, what's up everybody?
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  Can you hear me out there? It's Kefi.
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  Sorry about that for a rocky start.
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  Seem to be having some issues with my microphone today, so
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  hopefully the backup mic is working well.
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  Looks like we're live on a few channels.
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  Still can't get the IG worked out.
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  I'll have to fix it over the weekend.
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  Oops. Still got the specs on because I
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  was like trying to read what I'm doing here Thursday night.
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  What's up everybody? It's Kefi at ghostcoltman.com
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  and you are watching the weekly Ritual Ghost Colts Rock and
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  Metal news show everywhere on the web.
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  Ish. Thanks to the magic of Stream
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  Yard. It's been a weird week.
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  It's been a weird day, but I am glad to be here with you.
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  You could spend your time with anyone anywhere, but you're
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  spending it here with me and I appreciate you.
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  We are going to bring you all the rock and metal news
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  momentarily. Just kind of bites that I can't
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  quite hear myself too well. But I think you're all hearing
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  me. Give me a what's up If you're
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  hearing me OK in the comments as always, this is your show.
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  Also, I usually answer comments and things for free.
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  But also also, you know, a little tip goes a long way.
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  We'll happily, happily answer your questions about anything in
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  the realm of rock and metal and see if I've got the homies cute
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  in here or maybe they can help me out.
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  If anybody out there is listening, Mike or anybody, let
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  me know if you hear me, OK? Oh, you got some commenters and
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  it looks like Dillinger Compound has arrived.
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  Dillinger, can you hear me? OK?
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  I am having some technical problems, but anyway, I'm kefi
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  of Go Sculpt mag.com. I'm super stoked to be back
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  doing the thing I love to do, which is Rocket Metal News and
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  other stuff. Let's bring in the deck that
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  actually worked this time. And yeah, thanks for being here.
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  It is 716 on Thursday night on the West Coast.
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  The West Coast is under siege like the old Sepultura song.
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  And thanks, man, I appreciate that.
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  I'm using the backup mic. My my Yeti Blue is defunct.
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  But first I'm going to refresh and wet my whistle with a liquid
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  death, and then I'm going to get on with the show.
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  I wonder if I can move this guy. Oh, that's actually kind of a
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  cool thing. How do we like this layout?
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  Kind of like Matt better. Yeah, that's better.
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  Adjust myself with my Selena Slayer shirt.
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  Keeping it very California cool here.
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  Thanks, Dylan. Sure.
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  Thanks for being here. You're a real 1.
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  As always, we do like to get tips, so here's our live stream
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  menu once again and again, tips are just optional.
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  If you're a real 1, you know, you could become a real one if
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  you're not one. And Jello Biafra was right.
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  He was right about everything. This is our live stream menu.
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  You know, we'll just let's see custom layout three.
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  There we go. I put myself in the upper right
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  hand corner now let's see how that works.
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  It's a little bit better. So yeah, feel free to drop us a
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  tip. I am going to work this weekend
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  on figuring out I what do you what do you think about I Star
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  Forever 1/9/1979 this year. We've talked to you before.
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  Thanks for being here. Mike says I'm also good.
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  Thanks Mike. You good too, bro?
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  I'm thinking about doing subscriptions for the channel
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  and I don't know on YouTube. I don't know how they would go
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  but you know I I'd like to start doing like you know, even just a
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  handful or a couple of dozen subscriptions a month.
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  Maybe I'll do a extra live stream a week if you subscribe
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  monthly, maybe like talk about anything you want private time
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  with Kifi. Maybe people would like
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  appreciate that. I'd I'd like to think so.
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  So thanks if you're here. And yeah, that's our live stream
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  menu. Little rocky start, but I'm
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  going to recover quickly. So that's our live stream menu.
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  There's our cash app if you want to just drop us a cash app, but
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  we also take Kofi. We also have to take PayPal.
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  We also take all the things. Check out our link tree Saint
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  Louis Butter is here. Fernwood Folk is here at
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  Fernwood in Pennsylvania. Clayton Bixby, Thomas Scott,
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  head toe turbo, the trick, all the all Roman tree of hell.
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  I used to have a song called Tree of Life that I wrote back
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  in the 90s. But anyway, thanks for being
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  here. If you're here on anything and
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  you subscribe to us, we will subscribe back as long as you
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  got an interesting profile. Moving on, it is Pride month.
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  I gave a big tirade last week about why we have to have a
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  Pride month, why there has to be a Juneteenth, why there has to
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  be a Black History Month, why there needs to because this is
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  the world we live in. Dillinger compound here.
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  I'll kill the ticker for ghostcoltman.com, where you
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  should be checking our website out every day.
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  But Dillinger says he's got tickets for King Parent and
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  Squid Pisser. Dude, Squid Pisser is so fucking
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  good. And King Parrot.
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  We have an interview coming up soon with Yungi, probably next
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  week, so stay tuned for that. But yes, we're going to
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  highlight a member of the community every week.
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  And although she is retiring and perhaps launching a new
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  political podcast, Otep is featured this week.
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  I had a long history with Otep. I know people are divided about
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  her. What's not debatable is her
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  immense amount of talent and ability to rhyme.
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  And really one of the leaders of the second wave of new metal and
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  and also adjacent to death metal at times and punk rock and all
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  these different things, theatrical art rock that she was
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  able to bring together. What's up Dustin?
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  What's up, Super mom, what's up? Scratch your brain, let's get
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  some likes and hearts going there on the TikTok and feel
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  free to follow us if you love rock and metal news.
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  We are. You're not sucky metal sucks.
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  We are. You're not shitty blabbermouth.
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  That's how we frame ourselves and we have done so for 13 years
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  without corporate sponsorship and just very little advertising
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  and money. So feel free to drop us a super
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  like or a super thanks or something.
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  But shout out to Otep. I'm sad she's retiring, but you
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  know if you had to go up against ass wipes every single day on
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  the Internet then you also would want to quit your job.
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  Fully understandable. I saw Hotep a couple years ago
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  live. Glad I went was phenomenal.
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  Her last record was killer. A lot of covers and a couple of
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  fresh originals. The covers were unbelievable.
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  Slipknot and oh ha ha you can hear the smoke detector.
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  I'm so sad because my mic is not working great.
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  You can hear that my smoke detector is chirping.
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  Motherfucker. It's actually like the other
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  smoke detector. That's not my smoke detector.
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  It's hard to explain. Hold on a second.
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  Forgive my bum. You had ALC right there.
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  Let's just back this camera, back it up.
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  Back it up, back it up. All right.
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  So anyway, there we go. That's better.
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  So, yeah, Otep is retiring, and I'm sad about it, but she's
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  going to do some other creative awesome stuff in the world.
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  And that I'm Pub 4. And thank you Otep for
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  everything more next week on pride month and and pride
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  deserving people who deserve recognition.
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  Thanks for hey, tales from the riff is here.
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  We've we've talked to you before.
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  All right, moving on just a terrible week in the in the
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  world for deaths. Sly Stone died Monday, very
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  tragic case, but an incredibly monumentally talented guy from
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  right here in the Bay Area, from Vallejo, not too far from where
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  I live and where I used to live when I first moved to California
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  four years ago. Almost in three weeks and just
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  unbelievable. If you want to, you know, listen
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  to great music and, and really be amazed, go check out the
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  early Sly Stone stuff. Stole the show at Woodstock
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  almost from everybody. Just a terrible loss.
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  I was. I think a lot of people even
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  expected that he had already passed some time ago, which is
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  really sad. Also, you know, just the other
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  day, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys died.
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  He had just performed last weekend.
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  He'd been on tour and died also at 82.
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  The family asked for privacy. We don't know what it was.
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  And maybe he was dealing with some health issues and just kind
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  of slipped away or passed him to sleep.
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  It's hard to know sometimes how these things happen.
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  But Brian, a true king, a real king of music.
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  Beach Boys. I highly recommend if you're not
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  familiar with The Beach Boys. Maybe it's not your music if you
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  like modern current metal and rock, but just the ability that
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  this guy had to write songs to sing to, to arrange music.
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  I highly recommend the Hulu documentary on The Beach Boys
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  that's out there right now from a couple of months back, from
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  the beginning of the year, they actually had like a rivalry with
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  The Beatles. Unbelievable stuff.
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  So please check that out also also, I mean, this one is just a
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  just a, just a heartbreaker man. Nitzer ebbs.
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  Douglas John McCarthy died yesterday.
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  He had been suffering from cirrhosis of the liver from
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  alcoholism. He had been off the road for a
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  couple of years, not singing anymore with the band and just
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  very sad. One of the pinnacle bands of
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  industrial metal and you know, just really a phenomenal talent
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  and very sad. Also also, people of a certain
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  age will remember Ananda Lewis from MTV in the 90s, especially
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  her run on TRL. She is part of both Woodstock
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  documentaries, 2 of the three Woodstock documentaries.
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  They interviewed her 'cause she was there and just a real
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  wonderful, amazing person she was, could report news.
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  She was empathetic and sensitive.
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  She was hanging out with bands. She was very well poised.
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  She never seemed like, you know, out of her own element and died
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  of breast cancer. I will say it's not my business
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  because everybody's medical thing is personal.
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  And she said that it was a personal choice that she made.
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  She went against the advice of her doctors for her medical care
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  and did mostly holistic health methods to try to beat the
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  cancer, like juicing and stuff like that.
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  And she already maybe if she had started out with stage 1 cancer,
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  she could have did that. But when they discovered her
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  breast cancer, which is what it was, is that it was already
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  stage 3 and eventually to stage 4.
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  And this was during originally the pandemic.
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  So I am very sad that she passed.
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  Women, go get your mammograms and get your check UPS.
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  Men of my age and younger get your check UPS.
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  Don't don't be a douche and be like, I don't.
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  And then you get very sick and you know this country is not
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  going to take care of you if you get sick, especially Americans.
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  But I'm sure I'm talking to everybody all over the world.
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  Also on a plus that side, we're still trying to get signatures
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  to get our favorite San Francisco metal loving pooch
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  Django sainthood from the Sisters of Perpetual indulgence.
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  Feel free to sign the petition to Change.org in the link in our
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  description cause fun things are fun.
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  Here's Django with Nicker Butcher.
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  They were on their way to kill Uranimus.
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  I suggest that they kill Varg instead.
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  I I would suggest that everyone try to kill Varg anyway features
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  this week it goes cult and thanks for everybody again
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  that's watching. I really appreciate you.
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  Diane Chick is here. Ghost Pipe is here.
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  Patrick Bork is here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So I did a live stream overnight last night after I swore last
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  week, Dillinger, I wasn't going to do any more of these late
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  night things, but I did. I don't know.
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  Again, these deaths have been weighing on me, and I take death
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  very hard. I've had a lot of personal loss
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  in my life, including the staff of Ghost Cult has lost some of
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  its rock soldiers out there in the world.
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  So I did a live stream. You can check it out now on
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  YouTube or as a podcast. What are the worst deaths in
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  rock and metal? With a few others for good
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  measure. And you know, mine personally is
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  Dybag and Lemmy Dio and Jeff Hanneman, Cornell, Reince Daley,
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  things like that. But you know, we're about to
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  lose a whole generation of artists.
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  And I am not ready. I am so not ready.
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  I'm not ready. Are you ready?
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  I'm not ready. I'm not ready to live without
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  Ozzy. I'm not ready for our heroes to
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  leave us. So tell me what if you check
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  this out, drop a comment and tell me what you think your
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  worst celebrity death was. Gabe is here.
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  What's up man? I owe you a message.
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  I'm sorry I've been very busy and just going crazy this week,
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  but I much appreciate you, pal. We'll catch up next week.
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  Last week, as we did, this was International Slayer Day.
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  So say it with me. 123 Slayer. Doesn't that feel good?
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  I feel good now. I feel so much better.
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  Slayer forever man. So 666 next year will be 6626
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  Slayer. Didn't announce or do anything
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  for Slayer day, but just in general was a good day to listen
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  to Slayer and do stuff Mike says.
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  Jim Morrison, Jeff Hanneman, Elvis.
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  No thanks. Biggie and Big Pun.
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  Interesting. I don't hear a lot of people
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  talk about Big Pun. Willy Wonka.
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  Dinga Doo is here. Miller fan is here.
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  Yeah, man, let's see. Oh, Bourdain.
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  Yeah, Bourdain for sure, bro. Bennington and Cornell murder
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  conspiracy. Nope, not going to do it.
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  Just a bunch of BS, but I hear you.
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  Like, deaths are hard enough, you know what I'm saying?
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  We'll have some interesting news, interesting conspiracy
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  related stuff next week about some stuff, but I don't want to
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  go public with it yet until I have a little more evidence in
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  journalistic evidence gathering. But yeah, no, there's no
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  Pizzagate, there's no fucking child porn ring, child abuse
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  ring. No, just no, no, no.
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  I want to make sure I don't mispronounce this band.
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  We did 1 premiere this week and this was a Piliquit and Les
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  Exocrenes. I hope I said that correctly
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  because My French Is Fucking Rotten released a live single
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  and New Split is out right now. Pili Coit is a French
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  avant-garde band along with the French punk band Yowie and we
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  premiered their live performance video that's out now on Skin
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  Graft Records, home of Squid Pisser and a bunch of other
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  banging bands. So you might be interested in
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  this noise rock avant-garde thing, Dillinger Compound.
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  Check them out and some interviews this week here at
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  Ghost Cult. Last Friday, we ran our new
• 17:13
  interview with Cliff Rogano of Dry Kill Logic.
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  Speaking of bans reunited, Dry Kill Logic has kind of returned
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  to active service the last few years.
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  They're playing Welcome to Rockville and things like that.
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  And Cliff works in the music industry.
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  And our old partner here, Omar Cordy, sat down with Cliff and
• 17:32
  talked all about new Dry Kill Logic singles and maybe what the
• 17:34
  future of that looks like. Pumpkin Jack is here.
• 17:38
  What up, what up, what up? Also also over the weekend we
• 17:42
  ran an interview that we were kind of holding on to for a
• 17:45
  minute from the New York hardcore and boogie rock band
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  back from Zero. Fun interview there with Austin
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  of that band. Check that interview out on the
• 17:54
  channel. Really fun thing for that band.
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  They have a video that's inspired by the movie The
• 18:00
  Warriors that takes place in Coney Island and on the the
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  train down there. It's real fun.
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  I interviewed Gus from sacrifice.
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  Anybody that's seen me wear my sacrifice metal thrash metal
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  shirt, Canadian thrash metal at its finest and you know, just
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  amazing. Anarchy face says greetings and
• 18:24
  salutations for Miss M's friend. Saw you and thought you'd just
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  pop in before another French stream.
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  Thanks for being here. I appreciate you.
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  If you give us a a follow, we'll follow back.
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  We'll sub back. So yeah, I interviewed Gus from
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  Sacrifice. Pretty killer.
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  Also. Also my interview with Gottard
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  ran last week, the Swedish heavy rock band.
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  Really fun interview and chat about them.
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  They have a new album out right now on Rainy Phoenix Music.
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  Also also from the beginning of the year, Living Gate or the end
• 18:57
  of last year? Living Gate is a super group of
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  death metal players from different bands.
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  Aman Raw and Veggie Dude from Belgium and Yah from America.
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  These guys came together in their spare time and made
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  several death metal releases and a new one that came out earlier
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  in the year. So I think that's pretty cool.
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  And I interviewed Levy from that band and also also come check
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  out my interview with Ava maybe on our podcast.
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  Ava maybe is the daughter of Chad Smith and a former American
• 19:30
  Idol runner up. And she has a new solo EP out
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  her debut release after about 11 singles.
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  And then she put out AEP with about half of those singles.
• 19:40
  And she's so killer. I interviewed her at Bottle
• 19:43
  Rock. My review of Bottle Rock should
• 19:45
  run tomorrow finally and got that out of the way and very
• 19:50
  excited to share my interview with Ava with you and a very
• 19:53
  special Instagram video Ava shot with me that I'm going to share
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  that I think is a lot of fun, kind of like a Nelly Furtado I
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  compared her to. Once again, we have a podcast.
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  This show will be a podcast where if you listen to podcasts,
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  the already the video from last night is up as a podcast, even
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  though I did that video at like 1:00 and 2:32 and 1:00 and 1:30
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  and 2:00 in the morning. Thanks for being here.
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  Val Cleary is here. Shaney Dore is here.
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  El Gonzalez is here. Ron Busby.
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  What up? What up?
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  Thanks Ron. Appreciate you following us.
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  What else? What else?
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  What else? Let's get through this.
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  Also, because I don't have enough to do, I am the Co host
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  of the glacially musical porn cast beer, metal swearing.
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  Sometimes not metal, sometimes rock, sometimes hip hop.
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  We are starting a brand new series on the BEAST i.e.
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  Boys, Beastie Boys, one of my favorite groups of all time and
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  kind of a group that has a rock rock fans and metal fans
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  crossover. And we are going back, back,
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  back in the day to the original punk rock Beastie Boys, to their
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  first rap single, to their kind of breakout singles.
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  And then we're going to move on to the albums.
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  You all know this is actually the Glacier the Musical Podcast
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  logo along with the Cookie Plus album artwork single Anarchy
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  Faye says. My best friend Bean referred to
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  me and said you had a great taste in music, so you followed
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  Always up for supporting other streamers and music, especially
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  folks who promote and discuss good music.
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  Thanks Anarchy Faye, I appreciate you.
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  Tell me what your favorite bands are.
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  Maybe they're bands I have interviewed or we've discussed
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  in the past, even though we're well known for rock and metal,
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  and I'm clearly a bearded metal fellow here with my Iron Maiden
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  flag behind me. I love all kinds of music.
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  I was trained in classical music and opera.
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  My parents raised me to be a jazz nerd.
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  I have a minor in musicology where I studied jazz a lot in
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  college. Let me know what you like.
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  I'm and I love a lot of pop music, as I talked about last
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  night on the live stream about Prince and Amy Winehouse and
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  Biggie and Tupac and anybody else.
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  And now it's time for the news rundown.
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  You wouldn't believe this, but back 30 years ago, Oh my God, 30
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  years ago, I was in College in New York City.
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  And I used to be like, and now the news on Wall Street today,
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  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the show after my show was
• 22:25
  the hip hop show, the nighttime hip hop show, which had like all
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  them before they were famous and as they were becoming famous
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  rappers would come in 939495 when I was in City College in
• 22:37
  New York. Fun times.
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  There's a whole YouTube video about that.
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  Maybe I'll link it after the video shows.
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  So we always start this section of the show with metal festivals
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  and it's metal festival season. And even though it's technically
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  not a tour and it is a sort of festival ish thing, Warped Tour
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  is back this weekend. Warped Tour is back.
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  Who is excited? I'm interested to see how well
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  they do. It's already sold out.
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  They've added a bunch of bands including some metal bands like
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  War, and I'm very excited to see how it goes and what the reports
• 23:16
  are and what the videos look like and how people take it.
• 23:20
  They will. They launched an app.
• 23:22
  There's a comic book crossover with Z2.
• 23:26
  It's going to be live streamed on Amazon Music.
• 23:29
  I might watch some of it. Also there's the road to warp
• 23:33
  tour mini shows. Memphis May Fire St.
• 23:38
  Osan armor for sleep. Our friends the suicide puppets
• 23:41
  escape the fate. Miss May I recent interviewee of
• 23:44
  ghosts called So cool so cool. I'm happy warp tours back.
• 23:48
  Still on the fence if I really want to go to Long Beach or not.
• 23:52
  In the city they call it Long Beach.
• 23:53
  But we shall see. We shall see, we shall see.
• 23:58
  Also this weekend download fest, the granddaddy of them all the
• 24:02
  you know, one of the greatest. Oh, here we go.
• 24:05
  Well, Depeche Mode, Arazier, Smiths cure, KMFDM you also.
• 24:09
  I also love ghosts, Slipknot, but also Jack and St. kids.
• 24:12
  Very diverse, big Depeche Mode eraser fan.
• 24:17
  I like The Smiths. I don't love Morrissey sure is
• 24:20
  awesome. KMFDM is great.
• 24:22
  We've interviewed some adjacent fans and now we had the news.
• 24:27
  Top of the show right before you joined Anarchy.
• 24:30
  Unless you caught that that we were talking about.
• 24:34
  We were talking about the loss of Douglas John McCarthy of
• 24:38
  Mitzrad. Very sad that he died finally.
• 24:42
  Yep, love the music, love the man.
• 24:44
  That's Morrissey. I wish I could go see him in
• 24:45
  concert. Apparently when he played Riot
• 24:48
  Fest a while back they threw hot dogs at him, which I think is
• 24:51
  fucking rad. Just absolutely red.
• 24:56
  Love the love the music, love the man That's it.
• 25:00
  Download this weekend here. I'll blow these up.
• 25:02
  You don't need to see my face for some of these just so I can
• 25:05
  read off some of these posters. Green Day Sleep Token in their
• 25:08
  very first festival headline slide exclusive to the UK.
• 25:11
  They're going to play new music. People are going to lose their
• 25:14
  shit. Korn, Weezer, Bullet for My
• 25:16
  Valentine, Jimmy World, Don Bracco, Spirit Box, Sex Pistols
• 25:21
  with Frank Carter with Indentation, Darkness, Steel
• 25:24
  Panther, Apocalyptica, Cradle Of Filth, Seek Airborne, who have
• 25:31
  interviewed before, Great Band, Alien Ant Farm, Belief and we
• 25:34
  then interviewed them before Boston Manor, CKY, Ginger,
• 25:38
  Mallory, Knox, Poppy, Star Set, Turbonegro, Whitechapel, Alcest
• 25:44
  and so many more. It is in the UK.
• 25:47
  That is correct. I'll shout out where these
• 25:49
  festivals are. Warp tours here in DC this
• 25:52
  weekend for the first Warp tour back.
• 25:55
  Weezer's husband's favorite band.
• 25:56
  Oh that's awesome. He actually played Warp tour in
• 25:59
  2010. That's awesome.
• 26:00
  What band was he in? Let us know maybe.
• 26:03
  I know that band. I covered a bunch of Warp tours
• 26:06
  back in the day and it's kind of funny now to go to like Danny
• 26:08
  Wilmer festivals and meet some of those artists and then like I
• 26:11
  remember you did. You always had that beer and I
• 26:13
  was like, I did not Incarceration Fest is coming up
• 26:18
  in July at the Oh, batten down your heart.
• 26:22
  Yep, I've heard of them. Incarceration Fest is coming up
• 26:27
  soon. Knocked loose, unfortunately
• 26:29
  Falling In Reverse. Not a fan here.
• 26:31
  Parkway Drive. I Prevail.
• 26:32
  Kill Switch Enemy Affliction Drain, Slipknot, Anson Acid
• 26:37
  Bath. Dillinger Escape Plan for our
• 26:39
  friend Dillinger. Compound Day Seeker August
• 26:42
  Burns, Red Kubla Khan, Punchy, punchy in the mosh pit.
• 26:45
  Three days, grace times two, Death punch, Lamb of God in This
• 26:49
  Moment, Architects, Bill Murray, We Came as Romans and Kitty and
• 26:55
  a bunch more. Pretty fucking bad ass.
• 26:56
  I'm into it. Snot is on there with Doc Coyle
• 26:59
  filling in. Very cool, very cool.
• 27:02
  Warp Tour was great. Warp Tour gave journalists and
• 27:06
  young bands a chance to, you know, come up.
• 27:09
  All anyone can talk about this week is Sharon Osbourne.
• 27:12
  No, no surprise Sharon, who is wonderful at stirring up the
• 27:16
  shit. She's a great marketer and
• 27:19
  promoter of herself and Ozzy. Oh dear.
• 27:22
  And Gray, I'm dying to see them again.
• 27:24
  I haven't seen that band in probably 10 years.
• 27:26
  I love them so much. We did an interview with them
• 27:29
  once too. So Sharon Osbourne said this
• 27:32
  week, without naming names yet, that she had to kick one band
• 27:36
  off the show for the Back to the Beginning show, which is in
• 27:38
  three weeks. We already know it's streaming
• 27:41
  all over the world. There was kind of a complication
• 27:44
  where Tool's name was taken off of the live stream.
• 27:47
  So just to clarify, just to clarify, Tool is participating
• 27:56
  in this, but they do not let themselves be live streamed or
• 27:59
  videoed, as you know. And what I predict is going to
• 28:02
  happen is Tool will play a couple of songs and maybe an
• 28:05
  Aussie or Sabbath cover their way, their own unique way.
• 28:10
  And then Maynard will sing a song with Black Sabbath or with
• 28:13
  the Aussie solo band, as he did at Aussie's induction into the
• 28:16
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And then that part of the show,
• 28:24
  when Maynard sings with other other people, he will that will
• 28:27
  be broadcast to everyone but Tool's actual performance.
• 28:31
  If they perform themselves of Tool music, they will not
• 28:35
  participate in being live streamed.
• 28:37
  They will not release a live album or allow live videos to
• 28:41
  come out about them until the band is done toward Bonnaroo.
• 28:48
  That was the last show ever by the way.
• 28:51
  Bonnaroo's last show ever for was the Beastie Boys.
• 28:54
  Bonnaroo, Beastie Boys last show ever as a band before Adam died
• 28:59
  was Adam Yok was Bonnaroo 2011. I think really sad.
• 29:04
  But anyway we we will find out soon who Sharon is mad at.
• 29:08
  I'm going to guess it's G&R. Just a hunch.
• 29:12
  It'll be Axel, that's who's manager.
• 29:15
  She was mad, but I don't think it's another band that would
• 29:18
  have been so demanding. I really just don't see it.
• 29:21
  Unhinged festivals coming up in July in Denver, Co Not Loose
• 29:26
  Lamb of God, Dillinger Escape plan in this moment, The Garden
• 29:32
  Health who we love and have interviewed before Converge or
• 29:35
  have interview. Terror, tsunami gate Creeper,
• 29:37
  power trip, body count. Lisa Gabog, Jesus Peace, tennis,
• 29:42
  Angel dust. Catch your breath, Castle rat.
• 29:44
  That's some castle rat news coming up soon.
• 29:46
  Yeah, man, Sharon, she's just just like her dad.
• 29:50
  I hate to say it. She's exactly like her dad.
• 29:52
  She's a bully and a gangster. And I mean, I love that she made
• 29:55
  Ozzy a billionaire because he grew up in extreme poverty and
• 29:59
  Black Sabbath never got paid for their work.
• 30:01
  But you know what, man? I want.
• 30:04
  I'm glad Ozzy is rich and very well off, but Sharon is
• 30:08
  detestable. Moving along, just a reminder
• 30:11
  coming up this summer, Bloodstock Open Air is almost
• 30:14
  sold out. Single day tickets for Saturday
• 30:17
  and Sunday are sold out. Headline by Machine Head and
• 30:19
  Gojira. Friday night with Trivium,
• 30:21
  Emperor and Lacuna Coil is not yet fully sold out.
• 30:25
  Hoping that Trivium and Emperor team up and do some of that
• 30:28
  stuff together. They did both Matt Heaphy on
• 30:32
  Emperor's Stuff and also Matt's solo black progressive black
• 30:37
  metal band. Ibaraki includes Nissan, so that
• 30:42
  would be fucking sick. Ah, I see, I see, I see.
• 30:48
  Also again, the last Never Maryland Tune Fest is next
• 30:51
  weekend, headlined by the Skull. Please go out and support that
• 30:56
  if you are in the Baltimore or Philadelphia area.
• 30:58
  No worries, no worries. Ah, all right, Punk in the Park
• 31:02
  LA got announced this week and Bad Religion, Descendants,
• 31:07
  Pennywise Interrupters, we should be covering Punk in the
• 31:11
  park Denver, I believe, but pretty great Punk in the park
• 31:14
  here. I did not go to the one in San
• 31:16
  Francisco. Timmy Tea Bags this year.
• 31:18
  Brewers is here. Tales from the Riff is back.
• 31:22
  Daniel is here, looks pretty great though and similar to
• 31:28
  Denver, it's the big big one. So like some of these pumpkin,
• 31:31
  the parks are lesser, like a lesser line up of bands with
• 31:33
  more locals and this is more of the bigger, bigger bands.
• 31:36
  So I think that's cool. Also, Brutal Assault is coming
• 31:42
  up later this summer in a fortress in Czech Republic.
• 31:46
  Always the great Brutal Assault. Usually 140 to 160 bands
• 31:52
  Wednesday through Saturday. Oh my God.
• 31:56
  Like you might die after four days of this.
• 31:58
  And I think there's a pre party on Tuesday so you just have to
• 32:01
  spend a whole week in a fortress.
• 32:02
  C metal bands from, I don't know, early midday till 1-2 in
• 32:10
  the morning. Crap.
• 32:12
  I don't know if I can do it but it seems awesome.
• 32:15
  Rock Fest is coming up this summer.
• 32:17
  This is a series of festivals and shows over a bunch of
• 32:21
  weekends, but there's always a rock and metal weekend or a
• 32:24
  couple of weekends. Rob Zombie, 5 finger Death
• 32:27
  Punch, Bad Omens, back on tour, Bad Omens, Good Band, seen them
• 32:31
  before they Tear it up live, and a bunch of other killer bands.
• 32:35
  So if you're in the Midwest, especially Wisconsin presented
• 32:40
  by Bud Light, that sounds like Wisconsin.
• 32:42
  Wisconsin is much better beer than Bud Light.
• 32:46
  Thanks FUBU for this. Corona Capital Festival is
• 32:52
  taking place. This looks pretty damn cool in
• 32:57
  November. Foo Fighters.
• 32:59
  This will be their second announced show since firing Josh
• 33:03
  Freeze and since Dave Rolls. Personal problems.
• 33:06
  Chapel run and Linkin Park, very diverse.
• 33:09
  Also on this lake. Deftones.
• 33:11
  Weezer Vampire Weekend a Luna garbage.
• 33:18
  So kind of a cool anything is possible type of band line up
• 33:23
  pop metal, Hard Rock dance. Jerry Cantrell's in there.
• 33:28
  I see Peach pit in there. TV on the radio, Mogwai OMD
• 33:34
  Jenny Beth. That's a for Reznor's protege.
• 33:37
  That's pretty cool. Cherry Obituary.
• 33:45
  Liquid death. Why are you getting rid of
• 33:46
  these? Furnace fest coming up in
• 33:49
  October. Maybe the last furnace fest,
• 33:52
  maybe, probably not. The last furnace fest last year
• 33:54
  was supposed to be the last one. Jimmy World Dropkick Murphy's
• 33:57
  knock loose. Motherfucker.
• 34:00
  This looks killer. That's in the foundries in
• 34:04
  Birmingham, AL, not Birmingham, England, and that was all the
• 34:10
  festivals and there's so many in Europe, so many European
• 34:13
  festivals taking place this month in June and July and
• 34:18
  August. It's just crazy.
• 34:19
  I kind of kind of jealous. Never had enough time and money
• 34:24
  at the same time. Speaking of concerts and tours,
• 34:27
  as you know, Metallica tickets are on sale now for 2026.
• 34:30
  They are continuing to run out the string on their touring.
• 34:35
  The Metallica No repeats weekends continues.
• 34:38
  Last weekend they played in Tampa.
• 34:40
  Very cool job of them shouting out death on Sunday by playing a
• 34:44
  little bit of pull the plug. Kirk and Rob, really much
• 34:47
  respect and you know Metallica all the time.
• 34:52
  Tune into Metallica's YouTube channel for more live videos
• 34:56
  from the past as well as this current tour.
• 34:59
  And of course, we'll talk more about Load, the remastered box
• 35:03
  set coming out this weekend in the New Music Friday section of
• 35:08
  the show. And that's the world tour for
• 35:12
  2026. Hopefully more dates will get
• 35:14
  added. There are no American dates yet.
• 35:16
  I suspect they will play some festivals here.
• 35:18
  Aftershock, I'm looking at you. Seether and Daughtry have
• 35:22
  announced a tour along with POD and rising singer Kenny Kehoe.
• 35:31
  Kind of interesting that POD will open for bands that used to
• 35:34
  open for them, but much respect to them.
• 35:37
  Got a really cool interview with Sonny a few years ago and we did
• 35:40
  another one with him last year at Louder Than Life.
• 35:42
  Opeth, who is on tour right now in Europe, will be back in
• 35:46
  Europe this fall on a European headline tour with a special
• 35:50
  guest to be announced. They are definitely playing
• 35:54
  Australia and New Zealand as well on the last Will and
• 35:58
  Testament tour. So very cool for Opeth.
• 36:01
  One of my favorite bands ever. Kings of Thrash.
• 36:06
  That's the band featuring former members of Megadeth, David
• 36:10
  Ellefson, Jeff Young and others, Chaz Leon and Fred Aking or
• 36:16
  Action Guys, an incredible drummer from LA.
• 36:18
  They are going to be celebrating the 30th anniversary of
• 36:20
  Euthanasia and other classics on a short Florida tour I'm sure.
• 36:25
  More dates will be announced soon.
• 36:29
  Something stupid is here. What's up, Dom?
• 36:31
  I would rather have one Metallica show with all the
• 36:33
  songs instead of yeah, I got you, man.
• 36:36
  I think they did it when? So I live here in San Francisco.
• 36:39
  And so when the touring came back, Metallica was one of the
• 36:42
  first bands to do like live stream, socially distanced live
• 36:47
  stream at a drive in or a winery or some shit.
• 36:50
  And they did. For the 40th anniversary, they
• 36:54
  had this idea. This is the end of 2021 for the
• 36:57
  40 years of Metallica concerts to do Friday and Sunday with a
• 37:01
  Saturday in between when they can do events and different
• 37:03
  things. And I think it works.
• 37:05
  The band literally can only like they can just do 2 hours, a
• 37:09
  little over two hours each night.
• 37:12
  Lars has changed his whole lifestyle to just be able to
• 37:14
  barely play these songs. He has been some of the best
• 37:18
  things about Metallica the last bunch of times I saw saw them.
• 37:21
  I do like the two shows they are now incorporating 1 offs and
• 37:26
  festivals where they just play one set list.
• 37:29
  So I don't know if you, you know, I could go all the rest of
• 37:32
  my life and never hear Anders Sandman ever again.
• 37:34
  But maybe you want to hear Anders Sandman.
• 37:36
  You know what I'm saying? Brody Lowry is here.
• 37:39
  What's up? Brody Maiden fan is here.
• 37:44
  We're just doing some Rocket Metal news.
• 37:45
  We're talking about concerts and tourists.
• 37:49
  This is pretty bad. Crown Magneter, which is a
• 37:52
  killer band, is doing a brief run of headline shows in the
• 37:56
  Midwest and heading West. Wichita, Evansville, Toledo at
• 38:00
  Toledo Dev Fest, Louisville, Milwaukee, Davenport, IA, and
• 38:05
  Denver at the marquee that is sponsored by Sound Talent Group.
• 38:09
  Great, great group of people there.
• 38:11
  What a sick poster this is, by the way.
• 38:13
  I would kind of like an autographed poster to this.
• 38:15
  This is just unbelievably crazy. Skunk and Antsy has a new.
• 38:18
  Album out. It's kind of a pop indie rock
• 38:21
  record. Oh sorry, a crown Magneteer,
• 38:23
  Death metal if you are in the Indiana area.
• 38:27
  So Skunk and Antsy is on tour right now in Europe.
• 38:31
  They're playing a bunch of festivals and then they have
• 38:33
  festival activity all through the summer.
• 38:35
  Oh man, so good. One of the most underrated and
• 38:38
  great singers of all time. Skin.
• 38:40
  I really like to interview her. They weren't doing too much
• 38:42
  press, I was under the impression, but I'm hopeful that
• 38:46
  eventually I will get to also also Black Flag.
• 38:50
  So Black Flag is on tour right now in Europe and Oh my God, I
• 38:54
  watch video of this new lineup Greg Ginn has put out for Black
• 38:58
  Flag and it's like basically a bunch of kids and 60 something
• 39:01
  year old Greg. And listen man, like we saw
• 39:04
  Black Flag last summer, Omar and I at the no Values Fest in
• 39:08
  Pomona. It's kind of very interesting.
• 39:09
  I think because of Black Flag and because no Values Fest would
• 39:13
  have happened this weekend and didn't happen.
• 39:15
  It's not happening and there was no announcement.
• 39:17
  People are finding our review of the show now, which is kind of
• 39:20
  fun, like 203 hundred hits on it this week.
• 39:23
  We're randomly of a year old festival review.
• 39:25
  Cool, thanks. Appreciate it.
• 39:27
  And I thought that line up of Black Flag with Greg and Mike
• 39:30
  Valeli on vocals because Mike sounds just like Rollins and I
• 39:34
  respect Greg. Greg is allowed to have his band
• 39:37
  and have Black Flag and he picked the Chick singer and
• 39:40
  she's really good but they're not good as Black Flag.
• 39:44
  I hope that makes sense. They do not have Keith Morris.
• 39:47
  Keith Morris is in Circle Jerks and he has been in Off, which is
• 39:51
  kind of retiring and he still plays with Flag.
• 39:54
  So Keith is not back in, you know he is not back in.
• 40:03
  Absolutely not back. I lost my I lost myself here.
• 40:08
  Sorry. Sorry.
• 40:08
  TikTok here. I'm back.
• 40:11
  No, Keith Morris has long been out of Black Flag, and I don't
• 40:13
  think he would ever reunite with Greg.
• 40:15
  That would be awesome. I think there was a period of
• 40:16
  time where they thought about it.
• 40:18
  It's just like Dead Kennedys are not playing with jello.
• 40:21
  And a lot of venues are, you know, like, oh.
• 40:28
  A lot of venues. Are like, oh, I love, I love
• 40:31
  Henry, but you know, he's been retired for such a long time and
• 40:35
  I don't think he's ever coming back to music because he feels
• 40:37
  like he did it already and he doesn't want to go out there and
• 40:39
  renew the hits. That's boring him.
• 40:41
  I was hoping that he would put back out Rollins Rollins Band at
• 40:44
  some point. I love them so much.
• 40:46
  You're also biased. Oh, I mean, Henry is the
• 40:48
  greatest and I love Dez as well, but yeah, this Black Flag is I
• 40:54
  watched like I tried to watch like 3-4 songs and it was just
• 40:57
  not I I think the kids are cool. It'll be it's a great thing to
• 41:00
  have on their resume, but. This new black.
• 41:04
  I mean like this Black Flag now is like Black Flag karaoke but
• 41:08
  bad. And it's not.
• 41:09
  I'm not knocking the players or the singer.
• 41:11
  She's very good, has stage presence, is doing justice to
• 41:15
  the material. But this is not good.
• 41:17
  You should have picked some veteran punks to fill out a
• 41:20
  Black Flag lineup, you know? But Greg, do what you want to
• 41:24
  do, bro. Sumac and Warm Mother are
• 41:28
  kicking off some dates coming up next month for their live
• 41:31
  performances of their new release, The Film.
• 41:36
  Forbidden I kind. OF would love to go to this, but
• 41:39
  again, I just don't think I'm getting down to LA this summer.
• 41:41
  It also seems like LA in the summertime is hell he got.
• 41:46
  Them so he can play less I. Don't know did you see that
• 41:48
  line? Oh, you're not on.
• 41:49
  You're here on TikTok. If you go re watch this or you
• 41:51
  go look up the Black Flag tour dates there.
• 41:53
  You have like 50 eights in the next two months in Europe.
• 41:58
  So cool to stay over in Europe and these kids are probably
• 42:00
  going to Europe for the first time ever.
• 42:02
  But I think I'll payless. Absolutely he can pay them less.
• 42:05
  I mean you know Greg is notorious for that.
• 42:08
  Forbidden is going to play 40 Years of Twisted Metal.
• 42:11
  I assume they mean Twisted into form.
• 42:14
  They're playing in LA at the Tetragram Ballroom July 25th
• 42:17
  with Nasty Savage, Hellfire and Void.
• 42:21
  This is a sick line up and I would love to go see it.
• 42:25
  Huge Forbidden fan here. Waiting for that new music.
• 42:27
  I hope you will get a new single eventually just in case you like
• 42:32
  hip hop. This.
• 42:33
  This impeached my interest. Not that I would go but the
• 42:36
  Thuggish Ruggish Mafia tour with Three 6 Mafia Co headlining with
• 42:41
  Bone Thugs N Harmony and all five members will be there with
• 42:46
  Tech 9 we've covered before and talked to before and DJ Quick
• 42:50
  and also special guests. So this is probably like Tech 9
• 42:53
  DJ Quick and a bunch of buy on people.
• 42:58
  But maybe this is interesting to you.
• 42:59
  If you have nostalgia for like bone bugs and Harmony, I told
• 43:03
  this story a while back. I host karaoke on Sundays here
• 43:06
  in San Francisco. And then I attended karaoke on
• 43:09
  Monday for enjoyment. And I, I worked a birthday party
• 43:13
  a couple of months ago and it was this white guy with Karen
• 43:15
  hair, always a bad sign, a straight white guy in San
• 43:18
  Francisco with like fucking terrible Karen hair.
• 43:21
  And he had like a phone list of obscure shit.
• 43:23
  And I was like, you keep asking for like very obscure shit.
• 43:26
  He's like, could you, could you meet me at the crossroads?
• 43:28
  And I was like, cool, I'll back you up and like the sixth line,
• 43:32
  you know, meeting at the crossroads is like a straight up
• 43:35
  N bomb. And my dude, a white, slender
• 43:41
  straight guy from San Francisco is like hit it like it was his
• 43:45
  job to hit that N bomb. And I was like, I just was like
• 43:49
  word, wow. I'm I made him tip me, tip me
• 43:55
  extra for that trauma I had to suffer.
• 43:58
  What a fucking clown. But anyway, Carl name for
• 44:04
  Superman's dad, has a new album out right now, and they've
• 44:06
  announced an Astral Voyaging 2025 tour with support from
• 44:11
  Insomniac. This is going to take place in
• 44:13
  the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest all through the fall.
• 44:18
  So that's fucking cool. From mid-october until the
• 44:21
  beginning of. The beginning of Oh, Hey Scott.
• 44:25
  Is here and Riff Haven is here. Queens of the Stone anger on.
• 44:32
  Tour right now making updates. They cancelled last year when
• 44:35
  Josh Ham or Hammy was ill. I don't know if you guys are
• 44:37
  fans of Marc Maron's What the Fuck Podcast, but absolutely a
• 44:43
  great new interview with Josh and Mark.
• 44:47
  Mark is winding down his podcast.
• 44:49
  Thank you to my girlfriend for telling me about this.
• 44:51
  So I need to catch up on some older episodes.
• 44:54
  Something stupid with Don says my dad got a black tune with him
• 44:56
  to do karaoke. Biggie Smalls.
• 44:58
  He would do everything but the other.
• 45:00
  Of course man, I got you. I always replace troublesome
• 45:04
  triggering words with bitch because I feel like guys are
• 45:07
  bitches, females are bitches. They them's can be bitches.
• 45:11
  Everybody can be a bitch like 7 does said bitches and not just
• 45:14
  women can be everybody. This weekend here in Oakland,
• 45:18
  Acid Bath and High On Fire with other special guests is playing
• 45:22
  the Fox Theater. I mean to see Acid Bath while
• 45:25
  they're on this reunion. I believe I will see them in
• 45:27
  Aftershock. It's going to be hot as fuck.
• 45:30
  I do. I would prefer a full show.
• 45:32
  Maybe I'll get to 1 of the fall shows somewhere else in the
• 45:35
  country. We shall see.
• 45:36
  But very 16 is the other band on the show.
• 45:39
  We just recently interviewed Bobby Ferry of 16.
• 45:42
  New album out now. Guides for the Misguided is
• 45:45
  their new album on Relapse. Matt Sabbath is on tour and.
• 45:49
  Continues to say this is their last tour, but they also
• 45:51
  continue to add more tour dates and festivals.
• 45:55
  Dude and say the word I got. You brother.
• 45:58
  Oh and your dad also works with the singer Advance Advance
• 46:00
  Brother as Dax Riggs. Word up.
• 46:02
  That's awesome. Dax is cool.
• 46:04
  I know he hates the music industry so I will never get
• 46:06
  that interview but I would really love to.
• 46:09
  We got the news. A few weeks ago that's fall
• 46:11
  barred. They've been saying since 2000
• 46:15
  this is their last tour. Absolutely so true.
• 46:19
  They have been saying that. Small Board announced they're
• 46:22
  breaking up at the end of this year to do other things.
• 46:26
  I'm sure Serena Cherry will do her solo band.
• 46:31
  Her black metal solo project Cage Fight will be one of the
• 46:35
  openers. Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle.
• 46:41
  Bristol and London hopefully. We'll cover the Manchester show
• 46:44
  at Rebellion Miracle. Blood is here.
• 46:46
  What up? What up?
• 46:48
  Ted Sharks, we were talking about our interview with the
• 46:50
  band last week, Josh Fiore and and Diamond Row.
• 46:53
  Now they are finally coming back to England next weekend to the
• 46:57
  the UK and Europe for the first time since before the pandemic.
• 47:01
  Very cool for them once again. We're more than halfway through
• 47:07
  with the show. I'm almost done here.
• 47:09
  I got to get out of Dodge soon, but if you feel like giving us a
• 47:12
  tip, we appreciate it. You can tip us at the links in
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  the description. I'll drop it in the comments one
• 47:18
  last time. Feel free to tip us because you
• 47:20
  know it's work to put this show together.
• 47:23
  We used to shoot these like on video and then my partner would
• 47:27
  edit them and then we would run them on Friday morning and now
• 47:31
  live stream became a thing and here we are.
• 47:36
  All right, just a quick note for our affiliate partners, Lamb
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  Whenever you see ads on our website at Ghost cult man that
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  Ghost cult, Lamb goat, obviously metal insider this day and metal
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  new metal agenda and Anthony Fantano the needle drop I have
• 47:58
  been checking out. He finally launched a website to
• 48:00
  go with his YouTube and podcast stuff and he has a story about
• 48:05
  how AI music is evil. And I'm not the biggest
• 48:08
  Timberland fan or expert, but apparently Timberland is.
• 48:13
  Who is, you know, one of the biggest hit making producers of
• 48:16
  all time is like going all in on AI music, which to me seems
• 48:21
  fucking dumb if you're that talented and good on your own or
• 48:24
  not that talented and good on your own.
• 48:25
  I guess lazy, trying to just make money and do less work?
• 48:29
  I don't fucking know. Or am I actually wearing my
• 48:31
  Aftershock hat? That's pretty funny and stream
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  OK, we're also on Twitch. As you can see, I love that
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  picture of me. We're on all the things.
• 48:54
  We've got a newsletter I need to restart.
• 48:57
  Check us out. This meme continues to be on
• 49:00
  point until it is not on point anymore.
• 49:02
  I will keep running this meme. It's time for the the rest of
• 49:05
  the news. So here we go, we're going to go
• 49:07
  rapid fire Nirvana. Smells Like Teen Spirit has
• 49:17
  passed 2 billion streams on YouTube and they already have
• 49:21
  over a a billion plus streams on all streaming platforms beside
• 49:26
  YouTube. They passed the 1 billion mark
• 49:30
  in late 2019, so it'd be interesting to see if this song
• 49:34
  continues to, you know, rack up billions.
• 49:36
  It probably will long before we're while we're all dust and
• 49:39
  gone, they will continue to stream all their stuff.
• 49:43
  Hoffman is here. Melvin is here, Randall is here
• 49:46
  and Cali is here. And Justin, nice to see you all.
• 49:49
  Thanks for being here. I appreciate you and.
• 49:52
  Everybody watching on the tube. Of you.
• 49:55
  Rivers of Nile we've been. Talking a lot lately, I I don't
• 49:58
  really pay close attention to the charts, but when it matters
• 50:01
  for rock and metal, I do Rivers of Nile put out their
• 50:03
  self-titled album recently. We have a great interview here
• 50:06
  on the channel Brody Utley and they're in the Hard Rock, metal
• 50:12
  and independent label charts way at the top.
• 50:15
  So congratulations to their whole team and just metal blade
• 50:20
  and their whole worldwide team. Just phenomenal.
• 50:22
  Phenomenal. Phenomenal job by the band. #2
• 50:27
  on the Hard Rock charts behind Sleep token, which again is
• 50:31
  incredible. Orange 9mm red.
• 50:35
  Alert Orange 9mm is not just back, they're back with their
• 50:39
  first new song in 26 years. Turn It Up is out now with their
• 50:43
  new line up. I assume they're going to be
• 50:46
  recording their new album for release in 2026.
• 50:50
  Station. Big fan here.
• 50:54
  My first hardcore show ever. Was monkey pup and burn Burn
• 50:57
  became orange 9mm and monkey pup kind of morphed into doggie dog.
• 51:01
  So you have a little time context for me.
• 51:04
  Alice Winner and Keanu Reeves are going to be on Broadway.
• 51:09
  That's the Bill and Ted actors from Waiting for the Doe and
• 51:13
  there is talk about maybe a Bill and Ted 4 and not taking 20
• 51:18
  years to make it anarchy. Faye's brother-in-law played
• 51:22
  with dog star. That's killer.
• 51:25
  I've never seen. Dog Star.
• 51:26
  I heard that Keanu is like the most rudimentary basic bassist
• 51:30
  ever, but like, fucking cool. Cool that he's still trying to
• 51:33
  help his friends get their band out there.
• 51:36
  I need this to be a band. Here's a picture, for no
• 51:39
  particular reason, of Joey Belladonna, Chuck Billy, and
• 51:43
  Blitz from Overkill. While Chuck Billy is wearing the
• 51:46
  classic Overkill Ramon style shirt.
• 51:50
  Testament is working on their new album Now I know that Steve
• 51:54
  Souza is working with Chuck on Lyrics Day.
• 51:57
  Steve has been part of the lyric writing for Testament a lot in
• 52:01
  the past. We are supposed to get a new
• 52:03
  Anthrax record next year or late this year.
• 52:06
  Overkill still on tour around the world.
• 52:09
  Pretty damn killer. Anarchy Faces, Electromotive
• 52:13
  Electric Butterfly, Echo of Souls to change your name
• 52:16
  multiple times to key. Honestly, it's very nice, but
• 52:18
  shy. That is accurate.
• 52:20
  Our own photographer, Isabel, who's category, who is nursing a
• 52:26
  knee injury right now, she met piano at the airport one time
• 52:31
  when going to cover a festival for Ghost cult.
• 52:35
  And he was very, they met at 5:00 in the morning and she has
• 52:38
  to take a selfie with him and he like fixed his hair and then
• 52:40
  took a photo. So I think that was really nice.
• 52:42
  He is apparently very shy. Yeah.
• 52:44
  New Testament, probably next year.
• 52:46
  I'm, I'm pumped. The White Stripes have action
• 52:49
  figures, reaction figures from Super 7.
• 52:51
  We've been talking a lot about Super 7 and Funko and all the
• 52:55
  toys and comic book stuff that we love and the new Rock and
• 53:00
  Roll Hall of Fame. White Stripes, as I predicted
• 53:02
  that they would get in and now they have reaction figures just
• 53:05
  in time. So celebrate.
• 53:09
  Anarchy, Fay says I. Love that after the show he said
• 53:11
  quietly in the corner to read a book that is super killer.
• 53:14
  All the killing Testament were awesome when you saw them.
• 53:16
  Not surprising. Two of the most consistent and
• 53:18
  killer live bands ever. It was that Pete Weber is.
• 53:23
  Drumming for Testament now. He used to be in Havoc.
• 53:26
  Guys killer. Unfortunately for Havoc, all
• 53:28
  their guys get pillaged by other bands.
• 53:30
  Machine Heads took their lead guitarist and Testaments took
• 53:33
  their drummer. And I think also Jason Bittner
• 53:38
  popped up on my Instagram this week.
• 53:40
  Who is he playing drums for? That surprised me.
• 53:45
  Another thrash band. I can't remember.
• 53:48
  I'll have it next week. You got to plug a new band
• 53:53
  called Bianna Tops. I feel like I know that band.
• 53:55
  Yeah, I know that band. So Billy Rymer and Joe Spiller.
• 53:58
  I know. I know Joe.
• 53:59
  I think he was live with the boarded Joe's band, his
• 54:02
  caricature. We were friends at one point.
• 54:04
  Not friends anymore, but Joe is very talented.
• 54:07
  A new song called Adventures of the Swamp Dog and Stelly Bee
• 54:10
  best describes Mudvayne meets Early Private.
• 54:12
  It's not a surprise. Reimer's incredible.
• 54:14
  Joseph is very talented. I will.
• 54:18
  I will not share the rest of the story.
• 54:21
  Hang Havoc singer did a part of war as my shepherd.
• 54:23
  Yeah man, Havoc is great and David is hella underrated.
• 54:28
  We interviewed him at Osfest meets Notfest back in 2018.
• 54:34
  All right. Moving on, Volby's new album is
• 54:37
  out now and they have a new video out.
• 54:42
  They have some dope vinyl. You know, Volby is on the
• 54:46
  biggest record label in the world, along with a bunch of
• 54:48
  other bands, so. Kind of kind of cool for them
• 54:52
  to. Be able to tackle the world.
• 54:54
  They're going to be on tour everywhere this summer and fall
• 54:58
  and next year. Billy Idol's documentary Billy
• 55:00
  Idol Should Be Dead debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival this
• 55:03
  week, followed by a Little Unplugged show by Steve Stevens
• 55:07
  and Billy Idol. Very cool.
• 55:09
  I'm looking forward to seeing this and bringing you my review
• 55:11
  of it soon. I had to share this.
• 55:16
  If you get it, you get it. I have been to Randy's Donuts in
• 55:19
  Englewood. By the way, these cops like Karl
• 55:23
  Marx. Karl Marx compatal.
• 55:25
  That's compatal Volume 1. You know, what's going on is
• 55:30
  nothing short of a Wag the Dog situation.
• 55:32
  America was founded on protest. Not always peaceful, but
• 55:38
  absolutely your right. Your freedom of speech and
• 55:41
  freedom of demonstration is your American rights.
• 55:45
  And honestly, I have friends that are in LA and they're
• 55:48
  reporting back to me and telling me what's going on there.
• 55:51
  And it is not what you've been told, just so you know.
• 55:56
  All right, it's time for New Music Friday.
• 55:59
  Let's get on with the show. New Music Friday out this week
• 56:02
  for June 13th. I'm going to and then I'll put
• 56:05
  myself back on the screen and you can enjoy my face for a few
• 56:07
  more minutes. Album's out this week.
• 56:10
  I'm going to do album name, band name, album name, label, genre.
• 56:15
  So you know what to go pick up. Get your pens and pencils out or
• 56:18
  pause this, or go back and watch this later.
• 56:23
  We spent a lot of time. Shout out again to my partner
• 56:26
  Omar Kordy for editing these. A lot of work goes into these
• 56:30
  because we are trying to uplift unsigned and underground bands.
• 56:36
  OK? Albums out this week include the
• 56:40
  new Pixel Grip Arfagong which is some on their album titles
• 56:48
  called Andevac by Norse Music. Progressive Black Metal
• 56:52
  archivist Waving at the Sky on Inside Out Century Media for
• 56:56
  some progressive metal boot blacks.
• 56:58
  The album name is Paradise on Artifact Records.
• 57:01
  The great Artifact Records for some post punk, modern post punk
• 57:05
  Buckcherry, Oh you come again, Roar like Thunder.
• 57:11
  Very original title there. Round Hill Records for some Hard
• 57:14
  Rock. Bio noise generator.
• 57:17
  Subnormal dives on the great transcending obscurity records
• 57:22
  for some jazz grind. The probably my favorite or
• 57:26
  second favorite record coming out tomorrow, Byzantine
• 57:29
  Harbingers on Metal Blade Records.
• 57:31
  Our writer gave this a 9:50. We do not give out a lot of 10
• 57:35
  of 10s. That is a 9:50 and I back that.
• 57:38
  That's a Richard Reynolds giving us a 9:50 there for some modern
• 57:42
  metal. Basically Mastodon meets Lamb of
• 57:45
  God meets Testament Byzantine. Check them out from West
• 57:49
  Virginia. Dolven in my grave Silence.
• 57:53
  That's a self released album for some acoustic doom.
• 57:56
  Fairy Land, the story. Remains on Frontiers SRL for
• 57:59
  some French symphonic metal. My favorite release of this week
• 58:03
  beside Byzantine is Goya in the dawn of November.
• 58:06
  The Phoenix Band on Blues Funeral Recordings for some doom
• 58:10
  metal. Hex Vessel Killer band.
• 58:12
  Nocturne on Prophecy production for some black metal.
• 58:15
  Hollow Leg Dust and Echoes self release for some heavy rock and
• 58:18
  sludge. King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard
• 58:20
  under 18,000,000 records a year. Phantom Island on their own
• 58:24
  record label for King Gizzard music.
• 58:26
  I don't know what else to call it.
• 58:27
  Have I heard the album Underground Forever by Dusk
• 58:30
  Walker? I don't think I have.
• 58:32
  I'll have to check that out. I'll make a mental note.
• 58:36
  Also also. See what else Kings have A to
• 58:40
  speak in Tongues on Rottweiler Records for some death metal.
• 58:43
  Lights of Vimana Neopolis on Dusk Tone recordings.
• 58:48
  Malvada self-titled on Frontiers SRL for some more Brazilian Hard
• 58:52
  Rock. Night Bearer Defiance Testimony
• 58:57
  records for some death metal. Row of Ashes Tied into Ruin on
• 59:02
  Road to Masochist Records for some post hardcore and sludge
• 59:06
  metal. Shrink Wrap Killers This is a
• 59:09
  killer album. Feed the Cones Part 2 on
• 59:11
  Carbonized Records for some low wave synth punk.
• 59:14
  I love this band. One of the best bands I have
• 59:17
  ever seen in the whole world. Sigh.
• 59:19
  I saw The World's End The Peaceful records.
• 59:21
  I saw them in Europe for some more black metal.
• 59:24
  Signeri self-titled and Vicky Solon production for some
• 59:27
  Swedish dark and black metal. Star Circus from The Wreckage on
• 59:32
  Renaissance Records for some tempo Hard Rock and Sun After
• 59:37
  Dark. Topcroft on Hammerhart Records
• 59:41
  for some atmospheric black metal.
• 59:43
  And there's a few things coming out this weekend again.
• 59:47
  Pixel Grip, who I love for some synthy punk, rocky industrial
• 59:52
  metal, Deathblow, Machete and other bands.
• 59:56
  And then next week. So we're almost done with June,
• 59:58
  halfway through June 1 of the busiest months of the year.
• 1:00:02
  And that means it's time for the mailbag.
• 1:00:05
  And hey, it's me, I'm back. So here's what I got in the
• 1:00:08
  mailbag this week that I wanted to share with you all.
• 1:00:13
  This is a brand new. Retrospective book, 40 years of
• 1:00:17
  Guns and Roses out on quartel books.
• 1:00:20
  This is written by perhaps the Dean of Metal writers.
• 1:00:24
  There's about four or five writers that I really love that
• 1:00:28
  write and I don't want to read anybody, anybody else's stuff
• 1:00:33
  too much because I don't want to influence my writing.
• 1:00:36
  But Martin Popoff, you've seen him on Banger TV and things like
• 1:00:39
  that, and he's very prolific. He puts out four or five books a
• 1:00:42
  year, but then he does, he's like giant books sometimes.
• 1:00:45
  And so this Quanto Press sent me this book.
• 1:00:47
  This is absolutely a banger. It is unbelievably beautiful.
• 1:00:52
  I should have my second camera out, but just take a look at
• 1:00:54
  some of the details here. Every single thing songs talked
• 1:00:58
  about history of the band, live photography, exclusive stuff you
• 1:01:03
  won't get anywhere else. This is not a cheap book.
• 1:01:06
  This is a coffee table book. This is a conversation piece you
• 1:01:08
  want to have. We've reviewed and talked about
• 1:01:11
  some of these books before. The band that drove a stake
• 1:01:15
  through the heart of hair metal. I had a debate today on a
• 1:01:18
  podcast about hair metal. I like using the word hair metal
• 1:01:22
  in glam metal because I think of people like Steve Rachel of
• 1:01:27
  Tough getting like a pain in his balls like a voodoo doll from me
• 1:01:30
  saying hair metal because I like a lot of that stuff.
• 1:01:32
  And to me a lot of the glam rock and hair metal is just good 80's
• 1:01:36
  pop rock. Dom says this week in the solo
• 1:01:39
  project, Ralia is releasing a new single in there.
• 1:01:42
  Like avant-garde black metal word.
• 1:01:44
  I know the band with your with the Lovecraftian themes and
• 1:01:49
  names. So I'm into it.
• 1:01:51
  And so, yeah, check out that guns and.
• 1:01:53
  Roses book. There'll be a review soon.
• 1:01:54
  I am trying to get like dig out from under all my reviews and
• 1:01:57
  things. I have Vinnie Paul cooking book
• 1:02:00
  to review. I was sent this book.
• 1:02:02
  I have another couple of books I need to get through.
• 1:02:04
  I'm doing the Gary Hulk book right now.
• 1:02:08
  No, a different one. OK, cool.
• 1:02:10
  I understand. I'll check that out.
• 1:02:11
  Tom. Thank you for those pics and
• 1:02:13
  hits and thank you Dillinger and thank you Anarchy Faye and
• 1:02:16
  thanks for my real ones and thanks for everybody else
• 1:02:18
  watching. I hope to get Instagram UN
• 1:02:20
  fucked by next week. There's just a picture of GNR at
• 1:02:23
  Tone slash. Thanks for checking out the
• 1:02:26
  show. That is it this week.
• 1:02:28
  Thanks for watching I'm I'm hitting the road.
• 1:02:32
  But I say every week at this juncture of the show, it's a
• 1:02:34
  tough time in the world. You can spend your time watching
• 1:02:37
  any other content. You hung out with me and I'm
• 1:02:40
  really grateful and appreciative.
• 1:02:41
  Every single person that follows us.
• 1:02:43
  I try to follow back or comment or acknowledge you, and if I
• 1:02:47
  didn't just DM me and let me know.
• 1:02:49
  Thanks Anarchy Faye, I appreciate you and tell us more
• 1:02:55
  than anything else. Tell us what you liked.
• 1:02:56
  Tell us what you did not like. Tell us what you want to hear
• 1:02:59
  and see more of. This is your show as much as
• 1:03:02
  it's my show. And finally, as we say, every
• 1:03:05
  week at the juncture of the show is a tough time in the world.
• 1:03:08
  So please take care of yourselves, take care of each
• 1:03:10
  other and stay as metal as humanly possible.
• 1:03:12
  Don't drink and drive. Don't let the bastards grind you
• 1:03:15
  down. Don't let the fascists win.
• 1:03:17
  And I'm going to dance a jig on the way out.
• 1:03:19
  I'll see you next week. Everybody.
• 1:03:20
  Peace out. And Novak?
• 1:03:26
  Because I don't have. Oh well, I will dance a jig
• 1:03:28
  anyway. Just imagine the.
• 1:03:36
  Thanks everybody, take care.