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PODCAST: Episode - 902 The Weekly Ritual - Rock and Metal News 1.15.2026 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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One of these turns it on. What's up everybody?
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How you doing today? It's another ghostcultmag.com
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weekly Ritual R rock and Metal news show everywhere on the web
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doing the damn thing. I don't know why I have all this
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blue on the screen. So strange.
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How's everybody doing out there tonight?
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I am not going to lie, I am burned out.
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I am feeling very burned out. Dillinger's compound is here.
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Southeast of Heaven is here. Gabe is here.
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What's up, Don? My love is here.
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What's up? What's up?
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What's up? All right, I'm this light is
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kind of bothering. I'm not going to lie.
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I'm. I'm on the struggle bus today.
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I had a long day of work and a very hard time in therapy, and I
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am trying to get out of town. So we're going to do all the
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things because that's what we do here.
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We do all the things, but Don goes Mendesa, I Can't Sing that
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high anymore. But we got a lot to get through.
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I'm determined to still do the show to my fullest capabilities,
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and yeah, that's better. Can I bring my volume up a
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little? I don't know.
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Let's see. I do have a brand new Yeti Blue
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microphone, so I didn't have to keep bringing them back and
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forth between the two places I do these recordings and
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interviews at. It'll just be that my system is
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rather low. I don't want to keep fucking
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with it like it went out the other day.
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Hopefully that's better, but probably not.
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Anyway, I try to be less low energy.
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It's not bad. Don't worry about it.
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All right, I appreciate you. There are lots of folks hanging
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out on the tube of you. I don't know if you know this.
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We recently launched a brand new YouTube channel called Ghost
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Cult Live, so you all should check that out.
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Subscribe there. But right now we're still
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streaming also on the main Ghost Cult channel.
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They look beautiful. Well, it's this beautiful
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lighting. And I have to give credit to
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Omar for the great lighting. Sure, with my what my story is
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here, but OK, all right, we'll just move on.
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Lots to cover in a short span of time.
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So let's do the damn thing. Look at this fun thumbnail of
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me. Boom, I'm doing like the
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Heaven's Gate guy now. It sounds great.
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RIP Bobby Weir. We're going to talk about that
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in a few minutes, buddy. Yeah, for real, for real, for
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real. So anyway, thanks to everybody
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who's here and watching Got some folks tuning in also on TikTok.
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The best experience for this is always via stream yard and we
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are streaming on Facebook, several YouTube channels,
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Twitch, several Instagrams. But I like hanging out with
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y'all on TikTok. We'll drop the tip menu in a
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little while in case people want to feel tipsy.
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And we always start with the announcements.
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And of course, we got some big giveaways.
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We have the big book giveaway still going on until the end of
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the month. Of course you agree.
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Beautiful. Thanks.
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Listen, Don also looks beautiful.
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We're giving away an Aussie memoir, 2 books on Slayer, and
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some metal life hack books that might help you out for 2026.
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And we're also doing another new giveaway with the grindcore
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death metal band at All for the Swamp Survivors tour with Truck
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Stop Truck Stop, Dick Pill and Squelcher.
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So these are incredible names I'm very hype about.
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And yeah, also we premiered the brand new video from my homies
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in Oxide. If you are an employee or a
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you cannot win. Enter to win.
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But anybody else can enter all over the world.
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And I didn't really make this like a publicized thing, but you
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can continue to revisit the giveaway over time and get more
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entries. So like that was kind of like a
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backup sort of backdoor. Oops.
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A backdoor bonus backdoor bonus that should be on a shirt, a
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backdoor bonus for the for the giveaway is that you could
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actually win by getting extra entries.
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So I think it's fun. I think it's fun again, we're
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here doing all the things people are tuning in, which I'm
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extremely excited about super nice.
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Appreciate you all for coming YouTube.
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You are a pain in the buttocks. All right, good shot in the
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buttocks. So we debuted the brand new
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video from Oxide today. Oxide is the sludge noise doom
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band from Oakland. My homeboy Kumjin Joshi is the
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vocalist and guitarist. They dropped a brand new single
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today. They have a new EP coming out
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and it was awesome. Grim is here.
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What's up, Grim? Good to see you.
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So we are on a little later than normal, starting off with the
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bad news. Of course, Bob Weir died.
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Don is on the in the chat and he's a huge dead head, as is his
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awesome wife. And you know, while I have never
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been a fan, I can respect the game that they put down for
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decades and decades. And their tremendous fan
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community and people from outside of their community also
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talked about the dead a lot and lovingly.
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So, you know, stuff is up in the air right now, but what's going
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to happen? They did have one of the most
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profitable tours ever. And apparently, Bob, I think
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maybe when he did those farewell final concerts in Golden Gate
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Park, I don't think it was, like, expressed or understood
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that it was going to be his last shows ever.
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But it's possible that he knew they were his last shows ever.
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So we'll see if John Mayer picks up the torch and continues.
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We're has the record for the most time spent on on stage.
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He did know. Is that a Guinness fact or is
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that something like they did they drop that information?
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I don't know how you would quantify such a thing, but I
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mean it seems legit. Also.
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Oh man, this was a tough one to read about.
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Omar sent this over to me. Coben Farr, who was a voice
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actor from the UK, appeared on classic Annihilator Record Q is
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here also. What's up?
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Q Good to see you. So Coben Farr passed away.
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Here's a picture of Jeff Waters with Coburn.
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Very sad. This is 1.
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I don't even know if Melissa, you might have sent this to me.
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Kenny Ian Thomas, the very first drummer of Susie and the
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Banshees, died. It was kind of sudden.
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I don't think there was quite a big fanfare made about it, but
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this guy was an incredible and influential drummer in the goth
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and post punk era. And obviously the lineage of
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players that have played with Susie are incredible and
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extremely influential. But yeah, Kenny E and Thomas
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passed away. This one was rough to read
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about. South Black MIDI is auk indie
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rock band. They've been around, you know,
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for quite a while. And one of their guitar players
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committed suicide. I want to make sure I get his
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name. Mike.
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It's not like a hyphen name. Matt Wanewski Kelvin, who is the
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guitar player of the black MIDI. And he had kind of left the band
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due to mental illness. And he did, in fact, take his
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own life. Yeah.
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I didn't know. I just saw it right before I
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went live. And I dropped that and the
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Coburn piece in the in the thing.
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I just in my efforts to try to get this show on the road, I
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needed to, you know, get it out there.
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I'm sorry I didn't send it to you first.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
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We are Susie fans here. So, yeah, rest and power to
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Matt. Check on your friends.
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A lot of people are struggling with their mental health right
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now. You may or may not know what
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people are going through. I was trying to say like, you
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know, look at what other people are going are going through and
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be sensitive to that because it's tough out there.
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It's tough. Other news this week, John
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Forte, Refugee All Stars and rapper and producer died
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suddenly at 50 years old this week.
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I have no information about that, but apparently was found
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dead at his home. Another one really sad, Fairly
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talented guy had some huge features and his debut solo
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album, Poli Sci, I think from 1998, had a tremendous amount of
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features for the time, like Fat Joe and a bunch of other rappers
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were on his debut. So very sad.
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Miracle Blood is here. What's up?
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What's up? Charles is here.
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Hi. Steven Howling is here.
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So rest in power, John Forte. On a lighter note, celebrating
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birthdays this week include Rob Zombie.
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Yeah, Zack Wylde, the Black Label Society, and we have some
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Black Label news coming soon. You love KP pep talks.
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Thank you. I love them too.
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And redesign this thing. The ageless wonder.
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Jinx Dawson of Coven had a birthday this week.
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Honestly, I think she's aging in reverse.
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No idea how old she is. I think 72, but also could be
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like 50. Melissa Wright suicide is
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spiking big time the last couple of months across North America.
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Dillinger com Thank you. Thanks, bro.
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I know it's crazy. People are at their wit's ends.
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Steve Perry of Journey celebrated your birthday this
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weekend. I didn't really.
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Home girl had a deal with Satan. She does have a deal with Satan.
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I didn't get to put this in the news, but pay close attention to
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the next week or two because I think we're going to find out
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that Journey is going to launch a new lineup and it's going to
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cause another series of lawsuits.
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I think Arnell Pineda is not going to be able to tour with
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Journey at least right now because of some domestic abuse
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stuff going on. A case against him by the
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government in the Philippines apparently takes even a vicious
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argument that causes unrest in your partner is considered
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domestic violence. So his wife filed some claim
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against him and the government is investigating or now and he
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may not be his visa might get revoked and he may not be a loop
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country. So Jonathan Kane and my man Sean
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are suing each other and Arnell can't come in the band and come
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into the country the tour. Steve Perry will not come back.
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So I think Dean Casanovo is going to be the surprise lead
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singer of Journey for the next little while with a revamped
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line up that does not include Jonathan Cain.
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Stay tuned, stay tuned, stay tuned.
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It's very possible. How do I feel about giving that
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their favorite band? You just Lavender knows I am not
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my favorite band. I hate Journey.
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Thank you. Mucus Lavender.
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Thanks for being here. Also would have celebrated a
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birthday this week. Oh, I think Arnell is
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incredible. Like I like I said, no, I'm not
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saying Journey's not a good band.
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I just personally dislike them. I don't want to listen to them.
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I don't want to hear their songs.
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I don't want to hear them done at karaoke.
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And as everybody knows, when I host karaoke, I charge anybody
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that wants to do a Journey song $50.
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That's the new law. Ronnie Van Sant would have
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celebrated a birthday this week. Yes, Tyler Bates has left Manson
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also. And I don't think I got the
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Manson Rob Zombie tour freaks on parade tour in there either, but
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whatever, Good for them, good for Manson.
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They, you know, they were like, I hate you and I hate you.
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And now suddenly they're going to go on tour again.
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You keep talking like they're going to have to go our separate
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ways. Not funny.
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Paul Stanley would celebrate their birthday this week.
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Keep on trucking. Dave Grohl celebrated a birthday
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yesterday. They also played a charity gig
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yesterday at the Kia Forum for his birthday.
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Moving on to the features, I'm going to try to breeze through
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this pretty quickly. Once again, our album of the
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year stuff is still live and pinned to the main post on the
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website. Ghost was our number one album
15:17
of the year. Even though our reviewer didn't
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absolutely go bananas for it, the majority of our staff voted
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for it. It was.
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It was very close until it wasn't.
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Also, I've got, you know, like I said, I started out like the
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last few weeks since the new year, I've been kind of burned
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out. I did a lot in December and then
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I kind of, I'm still trying to kind of clear the decks for 25.
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But we do have more live streams coming.
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I just haven't been able to get it together to do any.
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I did this unboxing of Smashing Pumpkins.
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That was my last one that I think that wasn't a live stream.
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I think Omar edited that expertly actually, and it's
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magical. I do have some live streams
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coming next week and back on kind of current topics and stuff
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soon, but I just haven't had my heart in it.
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Also, we have the the album of the year stuff.
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We have guest post Extravaganzas new interviews this week.
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If you've got a band or a small business or you're a solo
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artist, you need to check out this interview I did with Randy
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O'heda Esquire of Randy O'heda Law.
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He is also a music manager. He's worked in the music
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business for a long time and he is a invaluable resource for
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free information for bands and artists who are trying not to
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get screwed, especially when the whole system and systems are
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screwing guys all the time. Screw in band people, books.
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Great interview with Randy. Also, I interviewed Stefan from
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Psychonaut. They're the European post rock
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and post metal band. Maybe a little progressive
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metal, little bit of Tulle, little bit of, you know, a Cult
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of Luna. Really great, great, brilliant
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band. Check out that interview with
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him. Also, Don is here in the chat.
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We a glacially musical. We started our very first
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episode on our new series on Ronnie James Dio's solo band,
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Dio. Great artwork by Don there.
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Part 1 was Holy Diver. That's going to go up tonight.
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You can listen to it on YouTube and all the other streaming and
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podcast platforms tomorrow or Saturday.
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We'll be doing the next three Dio records with a chaser in
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there somewhere. All right, now it's time for the
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news rundown. And as you know, when we start
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the news rundown, we start talking about metal festivals,
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and we got some big ones today. Big, big ones.
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All right, First off, Bottle Rock Napa.
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This is one that I attended this year past, probably won't go
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this year. Foo Fighters or your headliners?
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Some pretty interesting artists on there.
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Jump Jet, Tom Morello, Chaka Khan.
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I will not be going this year, but it looks really rad.
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If you want an intimate but very cushy and fun festival that is
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not strictly rock or metal obviously, but has some rock.
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Great food, obviously fancy food in in wine country, in Napa,
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great drinks, beverages, cocktails, beers.
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Not a huge crowd, maybe 4050 thousand people tops, which is
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honestly small for most festivals now.
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Maybe it's less than that. Maybe it's 35.
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There is a curfew at 10:00 PM every night because the grounds
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are on people. People live on the vineyards
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where the the festival is. But it's really fun.
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One of the easier festivals I've ever done.
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This is really fun. This is the the Gore Gore Magon
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Festival with a bunch of illegible bands.
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I couldn't read them. Flash Chester featuring
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Onslaught is coming. Hop Smoker Fest is coming at the
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Widowmaker Brewery in South of Boston.
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And of course, Incarceration, which I accidentally deleted the
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flyer, but Incarceration got announced.
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Limp Bizkit, Bad Omens, tons of other bands.
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I think Machine Head is on there.
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Let's see if I can call it up. Maybe I can call it up.
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See if I can call up the file because I do have it here.
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That was a bummer. That was a mistake was made.
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Here it is, Papu. There we go.
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So let's just embigging this for a second.
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So we got Disturbed, Papa Roach, Cypress Hill, Hollywood Undead,
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Everywhere I Go, Star Set, Tec 9, Ginger, Memphis May, Fire
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Rev, Theory, Jukes Point North and Theos Snuffed on Sight.
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A few other bands, Acid Blood, Dead, Never Tell.
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These are solid bands. Dead is cool.
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I've interviewed them for bad omens Gojira.
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This seems like the best day of the festival.
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Bad omens Gojira the youth Sleeping With Sirens, poppy
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machine head, hate breed, Lacuna Coil, landmarks, caskets, spite,
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guilt trip, Wolves at the gate, enemy night Rider, Kane hill.
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And then Sunday closing it out with Limp Bizkit.
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A day to remember. Let's see motionless and white
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Iceland kills. I just feel like these are two
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very oh thanks for holding my ghost PJS juice all right you
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love them motionless and white ice 9 kills on the shore fit for
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a king get scared escape the fate Alien Ant Farm doing like a
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special anniversary set this may I Norma Jean silent planet Born
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Of Osiris. We're on tour right now in
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Europe. Archers, Static Dress, Silly
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Goose. That's the band that got
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arrested for playing at ABP Amico.
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So fun. You know something fun.
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Sometimes things are fun, Fun things are fun.
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All right now, let's put this back.
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Now it's time for the concerts. Let's see.
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Medal Allegiance is next week and I will be down in Anaheim,
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CA for this. I'm going to fly down, fly in to
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see the show and leave on Friday, but I'm super hyped.
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This looks amazing. Got some Metal Allegiance news
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about their new song coming up in a minute.
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That was phenomenal. But yeah, really cool.
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Basically the core of the band, Alex Skolnick, Mark Mengee, Mike
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Portnoy and David Ellefson with a tremendous amount of other
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talent. Troy Sanders, the Mastodon,
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Chuck, Billy, John Bush, William Duvall of Allison Chains.
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Like tremendous, tremendous lineup of people.
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And I think Chains State is one of the openers I've been wanting
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to see them. So Black Dahlia Murder finally
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announced their Spring Fling tour with the Casey Strain and
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some other bands. Looks cool.
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Sebastian Bach reminder, Sebastian Bach North American
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tour coming up soon. Avenged Sevenfold this on tour
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right now. I just want to shout out our
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homies and moths. You've seen our own Wesley
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Negron of the band Moths interview bands for us on Ghost
22:17
Cult. They just supported Avenged
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Sevenfold in Puerto Rico and then on to South America with
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Mr. Bungle. So these are the make up dates
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from the tour that did not happen.
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Should you go to the show? Which one?
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Metal allegiance? I don't know if you're up for a
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road trip. I'm coming in and I'm leaving.
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I'm not staying. But yeah, if you, I mean, if you
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feel like you want to Kryptopsy, 200 Stab Wounds and More are
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doing the All So Vile tour where they're playing Non So Vile in
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full. Non So Vile.
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One of my favorite death metal albums of all time and Extremity
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Retained is here. Hardcore Ron is here.
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Slay Zilla is here. What's up, What's up?
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What's up. Good to see you all.
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Good to see you. And I'm just clock clopping
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away. John Karabi is coming on tour
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doing a selection of his greatest hits, Mötley Crüe solo,
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The Dead Daisies and more. Oh, Bach.
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Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
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It's up to you. Para Wolf is going to be on tour
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in Europe soon. There's a bunch of European Tour
23:25
dates. Patriarch, who is a killer new
23:28
album coming out. They are on tour in Europe.
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Ginger is doing the tour. We saw Ginger with vended and
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textures. We saw Ginger's Tati, she get
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Tati gave up. Oh, Karabi.
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That's going to be a great show. Ginger Ginger's front woman
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Tatiana said. I'm tired of being called a
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female fronted artist. Thanks for catching up to the
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last 15 years of the band. We are is Kryptopsy the kings of
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slam not on none so vile when they were more like a black and
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death metal. But that is a great observation
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again, once again at Toll Swamp Survivors tour, we're giving
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away a pair of tickets. It's Florida, Louisiana,
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Georgia. Definitely check out that pin
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post on Instagram. Is the post with that giveaway?
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The book giveaway is through ghostcallman.com at the pin post
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there just randomly and not about music, but Indie Fest, the
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annual film fest of San Francisco, is coming to the
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Roxy, one of my favorite movie theaters in the Mission
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District, like 10 blocks from my house.
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I will probably check in and see some stuff there.
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Avatar's got a bunch of tours coming up.
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On the right hand flyer is North America, the left hand flyer is
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right before North America. In Western Europe.
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New Avatar record came out for Halloween.
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Amaranth and Epica. What a great Co headlining tour
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that is coming up soon. I think it was already underway
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in the UK and Europe. Hidden Fest with Korbaklani,
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basically all the folk metal bands, troll fest and stuff.
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They're coming soon. Hi Rays who the singer of Hi
25:10
Rays, Brigita is on the new creator album that fucking
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slays. Hi Rays has a short tour of
25:16
Germany, their home country. Witches and Kings where Burning
25:19
Witches and Hammer Kings are touring together.
25:21
That's fun. Alter Bridges kicked off their
25:24
tours supporting their brand new album with Daughtry and
25:26
Sevendust. Roddy Bottoms got more book
25:29
signings. None of them are near me but The
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Royal We Review coming soon. Great book.
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And again, Zetro taking over San Francisco in two weeks, a week
25:45
and a half to play all his greatest hits, We'll probably go
25:48
to that. And then just in some
25:50
cancellation news, Onslaught has been forced to cancel their
25:53
entire European Tour due to illness.
25:56
They are still playing Hell's Heroes Festival in March.
26:01
And I will also be at Mojave Experience in March.
26:05
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Today is not going to be that day.
26:13
I don't think today is going to be that day.
26:15
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Right. Now it's time.
28:08
It's time for the rest of the news.
28:09
I'm going to zip through this because I got some stuff to get
28:11
to. We're on all the socials.
28:13
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28:15
If you follow us, we'll follow you back.
28:17
Thanks for being here. Peter's here.
28:21
What's up? Lungs Ruin was just here.
28:23
Gene Hoagland was just here. We're on all the things big news
28:27
of the week. Lamb of God has announced their
28:29
brand new album Into Oblivion. They dropped a single and a
28:34
video for Into Oblivion sounded pretty killer.
28:37
This is a series of singles they've been releasing toward
28:40
the end of the year and now all these songs will be on the new
28:43
albums coming out in March. I already pre-ordered 1 and I
28:46
got to be honest with you, it was pretty cheap.
28:47
Records have been going up and up and up.
28:49
It's done and I talk about on the Glacial Musical podcast with
28:52
Nick Cameron and Dollars to get a brand new autographed
28:56
beautiful vinyl variant green of this Lamb of God album, so I'm
29:00
excited. Lamb of God is one of the most
29:03
anticipated albums of the year, along with Gojira and a bunch of
29:06
others. So pretty fucking cool.
29:10
Gore dropped a cover today of Chapel Rd's Pink Pony Club on
29:15
the AV Club's AV Undercover in their record-breaking 7th
29:19
appearance on their show. You know, they've done all kinds
29:23
of crazy covers, Kansas and a bunch of other pop songs and
29:28
other things. So just as you would imagine, it
29:30
is bonkers. It's actually pretty fun.
29:34
Pussifer. Has their new album coming out,
29:38
Normal Isn't, and their tour to follow in the spring, but they
29:42
also finally announced the Pussifer Verse.
29:46
The Pussifer Verse their new upcoming comic series yes,
29:56
definitely so yeah, the puzzle fur comic book series.
30:00
They had an animated video for their new single impetuous.
30:03
So I'm all about this. I cannot wait to get this.
30:07
Liquid death and elf cosmetics. Have teamed up once again for
30:11
lip embalms. So lip balms or embalms like
30:14
embalming. Pretty fun.
30:16
And you know, we had a collab with them last year where we did
30:20
the corpse paint, which sold out in like 10 minutes.
30:24
I think the lip balms are not quite sold out yet, but they
30:26
sent us some. There'll be some content around
30:29
that videos and social media stuff soon.
30:31
But really fun, really fun collab.
30:36
Much respect to liquid death and health.
30:38
Their marketing stuff is on point.
30:41
That was the thing. I couldn't remember.
30:43
Melissa Health cosmetics like founder was apparently a Nexium
30:47
person, maybe not like in the cult in person, but was like a a
30:54
follower of Keith Raineri, which is super interesting, right, But
30:58
I. Don't know if that's a.
30:59
Shame on Alf cosmetics or just kind of a curious thing to know
31:04
about. I don't know if they do you, you
31:06
know, if you're you buy products and the owner of the product or
31:09
the CEO of a company is shitty, do you not?
31:12
Or they like shitty things you just like, well, my morals won't
31:15
allow me to fuck with these people anymore.
31:18
Is that what you do? Because I don't know, maybe.
31:25
It's not hard to separate. The art from the artist, is it
31:28
hard to set separate the commerce from the commerce
31:30
makers? Speaking of metal allegiance,
31:33
they drop maybe the Best Song of the year already, Black
31:37
Horizons, William Duvall of Alice In Chains, Mark Menge,
31:41
Mike Portnoy and Alex Skolnik on lead guitar, They wrote this
31:45
song together. It is pretty incredible.
31:48
If you ever wanted to hear what William would sound like singing
31:51
over a Testament song, this is it.
31:53
But even beyond the Testament song, there's other elements of
31:56
rock and metal in this song that are incredible and I hope they
32:00
play it live. When I see the concert next
32:02
week, I'm super excited. Speaking of new albums also.
32:08
Black Label and I think that Metal Legion is going to have a
32:10
new album. They're working on the King
32:13
Ultra Mega stuff right now too. Similar players.
32:16
Black Lego Society announced their new album and I honestly
32:21
think this album artwork is horrible.
32:25
You see the a good example of the album artwork is the Lamb of
32:29
God, which looks like it was made and then photographed and
32:32
then Black Label Society. This thing looks like AI to me.
32:35
I don't know. It does not look good.
32:38
I sent it to the guys in the podcast and I was like, what
32:42
Engines of Demolition is the name of the album?
32:44
Let's just big this for a second.
32:46
You out there watching except on TikTok?
32:49
Give me your opinion and tell me is this a good album cover?
32:52
I don't think this is a good album cover.
32:54
Does it sum up Black Label Society?
32:57
I like the color scheme of the black, the Gray and the orange.
33:01
I like the swirly, which is like Zack Wylde's guitar pattern, you
33:05
know, iconic, iconic guitar pattern.
33:07
But this artwork is trash. It's really not good just to me.
33:12
If you think it's good, let me know.
33:13
Drop a comment. I think it sucks.
33:16
Don says I should have better album cover than this.
33:18
I agree. Snod is in the studio.
33:20
We told you last week they dropped off their South American
33:23
tour opening for Head PE, which is weird, but like SNOD is in
33:27
the studio making their first album in probably 25 years, so
33:33
27 years since Lynch straight time.
33:36
So that's kind of fun. So yeah.
33:43
Also, this kind of blew my mind. Not necessarily rock, metal, but
33:47
a couple of months ago we told you about just music industry
33:49
stuff or fandom stuff. We told you that the Mariah
33:53
Carey demo tape that she recorded as a backup singer of
33:57
Brenda Kay Starr got sold at auction for $54,000.
34:04
It was like hand delivered from Brenda Kay Starr to the original
34:07
producer, Mariah's demo producer Arthur Baker that led to her
34:11
record deal. And now they have the the pre
34:15
solo and pre Digital Underground recordings of Tupac Shakur from
34:21
his early hip hop thing, his early hip hop band, basically
34:27
originally I think in Baltimore, in Oakland before the world.
34:32
Tupac's earliest recordings from his pre fame rap group Born Busy
34:37
is going up for auction, a rare and historic cultural grail.
34:41
So this is like an original tape, one of the earliest known
34:46
recordings, original lyrics, archive photography and assigned
34:49
graduation banner from his high school from the personal archive
34:52
of his friend and fellow born Busy group member Geology
34:56
Geologies. Been out there as a rapper.
34:59
It's better than the Dark Angel cover.
35:00
Well, again, I think the album's actually really good.
35:03
But, you know, maybe the cover, I don't know.
35:05
Gene was in the comments before on on Instagram.
35:09
So yeah, I mean, if, if. Mariah Carey's demo went for
35:11
$54,000. I feel like.
35:18
I. Feel like.
35:19
This Tupac thing is going to go for 75 to 100K.
35:24
Recorded in 19. 88 at geology's parents home in Baltimore
35:28
cassette captures Tupac MC New York at the time alongside close
35:32
friends born busy members geology Derek K bass fast field
35:38
ace rocca and Dana mouse Smith slip D 16 years old rapping
35:43
acapella. The recording was made so
35:45
geology could lead to one of the verses and build beats around
35:48
them. And then, yeah, there's an
35:52
extensive stuff here. Wax Poetics is in charge of the
35:56
auction, so we'll keep you posted on how much this sells
35:59
for. I'll sell my Rachel's Dead demo
36:03
cassette for 5 bucks. That's fun.
36:06
Big news from the. Record label World Frontiers SRL
36:10
is an Italian record label specializing in heavy metal and
36:13
progressive rock. They have been encroaching into
36:16
more extreme metal and Hard Rock.
36:19
They have another sub label called FLG that had the stunk
36:22
and a nice record last year that was really great.
36:24
We gave that A8 or A9A10 and now they really kind of drilled down
36:29
into their black to black records or recordings and they
36:32
put out the Biohazard record in August.
36:34
In October they're putting out the new Megadeth record a week
36:37
from now. And so they signed our homie
36:39
Mike Get her. You probably know him.
36:41
He was a Zine guy, Triple X Zine covering punk in the 80s and
36:46
then he became a record label guy and A and a band manager And
36:49
gitter is has worked at Roadrunner, Century Media, most
36:53
recently all the big labels, Razor and Tie.
36:55
He signed all your favorite bands.
36:57
He put some of your bands on the map.
36:58
And so he is now the global head of AR for Frontiers and Black to
37:03
Black. And they signed forbidden, one
37:05
of my favorite bands ever, Pro mags nuns slaughter and more and
37:10
more to come. They have a whole bunch of
37:12
releases for this year now. Kevin Martin Free previous guest
37:18
of our show here. I've interviewed him a few
37:20
times. He was on a podcast this week
37:23
and was like, you know, I was felt like the band was ending.
37:26
We did a podcast interview where he was like, the band is ending
37:29
and that's it. I have a baby and I want to stay
37:31
home with my wife. And then they kept getting
37:33
offered tours and offered tours. They did a farewell album.
37:36
They did a farewell tour. And then it just kept getting
37:39
offers for festivals and tours. And Bush gave them an
37:41
opportunity to come out with them.
37:43
And he was like, his wife was like, yeah, you're not ready to
37:45
quit. Why don't you keep going until
37:47
you can't go anymore? So he's still Candle Box coming
37:51
out with a new album later this year.
37:53
I'm all for it. I like it.
37:55
It's for you. Field of Eternal has a new
38:00
album. Drop the new video and single.
38:02
The new album's coming soon on. Monarch heavy.
38:07
Which interestingly, Monarch heavy no longer has Black Label
38:10
Society they that was like one of their flagship artists and he
38:14
jumped to spine form very interesting once again.
38:17
Just a reminder next weekend is Megadeth's new documentary
38:21
series movie. You can watch it in movies and
38:24
then I think it'll be an on demand after it's in the movies
38:28
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday next week.
38:30
I'm going on Saturday after I get back from Anaheim.
38:33
Busy week also also I was. Really surprised by.
38:41
This one, I mean, not surprised, but surprised, like one of those
38:44
Poison the Well, one of the best bands in post hardcore and metal
38:48
core originators, is dropping a brand new album piece at last.
38:53
And so that's very exciting. They dropped the new single.
38:56
Kind of cool. Kind of cool.
38:58
Yeah, there's the actual double picture image with the album
39:01
cover. OK, when you clearly explained
39:04
everything in the e-mail and the reply says let's hop on a call.
39:09
It was my day today, but what are you going to do?
39:11
New music Friday. Let's run through the quick and
39:15
dirty new music Friday. I don't think I'm going to play
39:20
any music today, but because I'm concerned about my setup, but
39:25
let's just let's just see where we're at.
39:30
Obviously the. New creative record.
39:32
Is huge this week. That's the big, big bad one, the
39:35
big big daddy of it all. I'm I'm stoked for that creative
39:39
record. I haven't listened to it yet,
39:41
but I got to man, what a pain he is.
39:50
YouTube. You aren't a pain he is.
39:52
Oh well. News.
39:54
And Friday this week. Creator All right, I guess we're
39:57
not going to get the list, but anywho, anywho.
40:02
Could be a lot of new music, like at least like 100 new
40:06
records have come out in the first three weekends of the
40:08
year. So people will say to me like, I
40:11
can't find anything good to listen to.
40:12
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
40:15
I just don't know. I had some technical
40:16
difficulties with you. So yeah.
40:23
All right, I guess we're going to skip ahead to the mailbag.
40:27
Let's skip to the mailbag. And you know what I have in the
40:29
mailbag? I'm going to just get rid of
40:31
this. Just full screen me.
40:33
So I'm sitting on a lot of new music to share.
40:38
I have a bunch of trauma dumps to do and all kinds of things.
40:42
And I talked a couple weeks back that Super 7 was closing their
40:47
stores. They're closing.
40:48
They closed their two retail stores in San Francisco and San
40:53
Diego. There's still a brand, they're
40:54
still online. I think the tariffs hit them
40:57
pretty bad to start the year, so they did a sort of going out of
41:01
business sale and I got to pop in one last time, one of my
41:04
favorite places in San Francisco to get everything.
41:07
They were having a 60% off set sale.
41:09
A lot of stuff was picked through and gone, but I got a
41:12
bag of stuff and I want to share it with you right now.
41:18
It's like Christmas all over. First things first, little King
41:23
Diamond, King Diamond action figure.
41:24
This is the King Diamond. I think this is.
41:29
Give me your soul please. Oh, this is the yeah, Solo King
41:34
Diamond with the bone. Great.
41:39
Can figure back and kind of looks like the Kenner Star Wars
41:43
toys. You'll see some more of this
41:44
Kenner iconography in a second. Also also Cliff.
41:50
Burton. Second Wave.
41:53
Cliff Burton. Master of Puppets.
41:55
Cliff Burton with his base and his flannel shirt.
42:01
Pretty amazing. I love.
42:02
Metallica, as you know, my most listened to band last year,
42:06
another one of my first, my first crush in my first boner
42:09
Blondie. I don't think this actually
42:11
looks like her. Well, honestly is like one of
42:13
the few that I don't think looks too good.
42:15
Yeah, it was like 60% off on everything.
42:18
Nuns have no son, Brent. Brent Hines mural being created
42:21
right now in his hometown. That's awesome.
42:24
And it doesn't have like a microphone or anything.
42:25
It is the heart of glass like dress that is like literally a
42:29
napkin. She had a belt on in the music
42:31
video and the stripey Alice Cooper pants.
42:35
I think you were talking about painting one of our walls this
42:37
pattern in the bathroom, Willis. But anyway, yeah, so Blondie
42:44
reaction figure stands. I normally don't have these
42:47
things unboxed, but I think in a future place, I'm in a future
42:51
life, future me, I'm going to have like a little display area
42:55
for some of my figures and it's going to be red.
42:57
So I needed these. I do have some for my fun codes.
43:00
They're already gone, stores closed and the sale is over and
43:04
I got to run in there. I think like right before I went
43:07
back to Melissa's for New Year's or right yet.
43:12
This is cool. Thin Lizzy, Mark.
43:15
Two thin. Lizzy.
43:16
This is the infamous. I think this is the Thunder and
43:19
Lightning era Thin Lizzy. And I like the back cover.
43:26
I would have liked a little dossier jailbreak then Lizzie,
43:28
you should have asked me. They're not out of business.
43:31
They're just not having the Super sale anymore.
43:33
But I don't know. I was on there today looking at
43:36
some stuff and they were like, would you like a mystery Super 7
43:39
toy for 12 bucks? So they are having the sale.
43:42
They're just not going to have the physical store anymore.
43:46
And then also I had to kind of. Get this because everybody knows
43:49
how much I love Vincent Price. So this is a Vincent Price glow
43:52
in the dark. He's got a like a Raven on his
43:55
back on his shoulder and this glows in the dark to match my
43:59
couple of my other our stuff save.
44:04
This tag as a proof. Of purchase, this is also great.
44:07
Do you feel the hairs raising on the back of your neck?
44:10
That's from the chilling glow of Vincent Price.
44:15
Those are all $8. Each right and then normally
44:19
priced at like $65. They have one of these super
44:23
giant size Papa Emeritus 2. I don't think I had this one.
44:27
Maybe I do so if I have an extra, maybe I'll give it away.
44:30
But I have this Papa. Extra.
44:34
Ultimates reaction figure side with the crucifix on the back.
44:37
It's kind of beautiful, green, black, really good looking.
44:41
And then I got to end things up. I got a couple of shirts.
44:48
So let's see these shirts. I didn't have a lot of stuff in
44:51
my size also, but like this is kind of fun.
44:55
These were dirt cheap. This is a Rodin.
44:59
Just just a shirt that says Rodin the Godzilla villain.
45:04
Not, not the. The COO sculptor Rodin.
45:07
But Rodin. And then I thought this was kind
45:10
of fun. This is like a special.
45:15
Snoopy Apollo mission launch team shirt I have no idea why
45:21
this is a thing but I thought it was rad and it was like 10 bucks
45:23
so. Kind of fun, right?
45:28
Super 7, we love you. I hope you don't go out of
45:30
business. I'm really sorry that people
45:33
lost their jobs and went out of work, but they said they were
45:36
going to move people to the warehouse and other things.
45:39
They also had because again, Adam from Jawbreaker still lives
45:44
in the Bay Area. There was like a set list on the
45:48
wall at Super 7 for the longest time.
45:50
And I tried to buy it and they said it was 350 bucks.
45:52
And I was like, oh, I could have talked them down to 100.
45:55
I might have been, I might have pulled the trigger because I'm I
45:58
love that band. But anyway, that's our show in a
46:02
very manageable 45 minutes. I have to pack up my shit and
46:05
get on a bus to see my baby. Have a nice weekend.
46:09
Don't drink and drive go giants. They got John Harbaugh probably
46:13
to be their next head coach. I'm really excited about that.
46:17
And as we say every week at this juncture of the show, it's a
46:19
tough time in the world. So take care of yourselves, take
46:21
care of each other and stay as metal as humanly possible.
46:23
And I'm going to dance a jig on the way out and hopefully re
46:27
regenerate my my verve this weekend.
46:31
My my groove get my groove back. So I, you know, I'm not so
46:36
burned out on these things, but I'll be back next week with some
46:39
more live streams. Peace y'all, thank you.