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PODCAST: Episode 933 - The Weekly Ritual - Rock and Metal News 3.6.2026 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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None. What's up everybody?
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It's Old man Kefi on a Friday night with another ghost called
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mag.com. Weekly ritual news show your
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one. Stop shop for Rocket Metal News.
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All over the web. The best experience for this
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show is always YouTube, but also we're on Twitch, Facebook,
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Instagram. Hanging out on the tick of.
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The talk down here. Thanks for being here.
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You could spend your time anywhere you might be spending
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it. With us, we appreciate you.
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It's been a busy week, let me freaking tell you.
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March has come in like a lion, as usual, with the rock and
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metal news, not just a cliche about the weather.
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And I've had a week, man. I've been poked and prodded.
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I had a bunch of doctor's appointments this week.
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I'm trying to take care of myself.
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In case you missed. It last week.
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I'm engaged. I'm getting married later this
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year so I'm really excited. I'm trying to take care of all.
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This I did not maintain this temple properly for the first.
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53 years of my life, maybe I can do better.
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Going forward, let's pop open an ice cold liquid death convicted
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melon still rocking the tall boys with agave.
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Nectar and not stevia. The Missio Show.
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I love those. All right, as usual, we have a
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little. Deck to help us get started with
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the show. First, we start with the
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announcements. Let's do the damn thing.
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Hey, look at this fun little picture of me.
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If you know what this photo of me with a paying homage and what
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I'm paying homage to, drop it in the comments I may send you.
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A free T-shirt. Just for shiggles.
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That's shits and giggles as one word.
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Shiggles. Harold is here.
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J Chavez. Is here.
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What's up? What's up?
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Let's see if any of our people are joining yet.
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On the gram is a little slow to catch up.
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Let's see. And why so serious?
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All right, Looks like the gram's a little bit behind, but we'll
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see who is joining in. OK.
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Time waits for no min hurtin that liquid death.
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That's it. OG.
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Forever. Oh, Melissa.
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My fiance's in the chat. What's up?
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What's up So with? The announcements, we've got a
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few I. Feel like I'm very washed out
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here. This light's very bright.
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On me. But OK, let's see, you know.
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Every week we we tend. Hey, one out to weed is here.
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What's up? What's up?
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You know, we tend to do a lot of minutiae and I'm trying to
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change that around. And just get the details.
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Out of the way. We are still.
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Giving away tickets if you're in the LA area.
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Or you can. Get to LA in mid-May.
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You. Possibly could see what might be
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the very well last tour from Echo and the Bunnymen playing
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all their hits 45. Years of hits at the Greek
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Theatre. The legendary Greek Theatre in
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LA. I'd love to catch that tour.
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I don't. Know if it's possible but going
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to try. Going to give it a try, let's
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see who. Is on the gram.
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What's up, Yoda? Your cherry Yoda, my high school
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buddy and metalhead. Great to see you, bro.
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Chrissy Fox is here. What's up?
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What's up? Great to see you all.
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Thanks, Ben. Congrats on your new.
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York Times feature with your parents I.
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Was so stoked I showed it to a bunch of people.
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Proud of you and looking forward to more.
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Art and music from you in the. Future.
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Also also, you know, I'm not going to do an extensive section
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on this today, but just for a second, I'm going to talk about
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this Joseph Satter. Who is the?
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Co founder of the Middle East nightclub in Boston.
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This is Seminole punk rock and metal club and other kinds of
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music too. He operated multiple venues at
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the place in Cambridge and just an epicenter of art and music
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and also Middle Eastern food. They opened the Sonia when TT
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Bears closed. So just you know what you know,
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sad that he passed away. He had been back up.
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North after moving to Florida. He had visited.
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Back NA few months back and I guess some people saw him.
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And yeah, just so sad. I I have so many fond and
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wonderful memories of the Middle East, including some fundraiser
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shows. I saw ghosts there for the first
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time in on their first American. Tour so many great punk bands at
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all the different places. There, upstairs and down.
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And just, yeah, just super sad. We're not going to do a huge
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section this week on all this stuff, but I'll try to bring it
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back next week proper. And also Jeff of the band Liars.
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I don't know if the instrument Liars sort of a garage rock band
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and and also his earlier 80s garage rock punk the Liars and
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then DMZ, which was sort of his earlier.
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Group had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and is undergoing
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chemo. He's already. $10,000 in the
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hole. In debt and raise money through
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a GoFundMe which we will link in the description after.
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I should. Have linked it in the
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description. Before.
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But you know, all these things are a work in progress.
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My dog, yeah, I just dropped it in the.
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That's me clack clacking one of my least.
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Favorite fucking exercises, but here we are.
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But I wanted to make sure I shared that and we did the Neil
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Jameson GoFundMe for his. Wife and daughter in the last
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few weeks. Also, I'm going to drop the tip
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menu if you're feeling tipsy. Not my regular real ones, not
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anybody on staff. But.
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If you're feeling tipsy and you want to drop us a tip, I'm
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grateful we do get some money from advertising.
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Not a whole. Lot some.
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I do believe that's going to be changing in the future, but
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still just like being in a band running an independent music
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journalism enterprise is basically a, you know, just like
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a band, a struggle. Well, we are building a
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community here. I'm a real big believer in the
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power of the Free Press. And a lot of stuff that's out
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there is just trash, like a lot of trash information.
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And I have an interesting one to talk about.
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But like, you see them popping up constantly.
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If, if a social media or a website doesn't look like it
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really covers rocket metal, don't go there, you know, just
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like don't believe what they have to say, you know, So, But
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yeah, all right. Again, if you're feeling tipsy,
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we appreciate it. If not, we understand righty.
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That's our Cash App in. Case you're curious, now it's
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time to talk about the features I'll put myself.
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Embigging myself again. It's me again.
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That's a better view. That's a better view looking in
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view. All right, so on with the
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features brand new interviews this week on our YouTube and
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podcast. I talked to Joe Nollie of Earn
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Earns Brand new albums out now via Spine Farm Records.
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You know that Earn are kind of the proteges of Cogira.
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Joe Duplanti is on their record. He produced their last.
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Record. And, you know, I just feel
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really fortunate to have that mutual respect and friendship
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going with some of these bands. So we're not close friends, but
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like, you know, when we get to talking about music.
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It's like talking. To an old friend and it feels
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real good. Also this week, a brand new
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interview with Baca of Necro Fire.
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Baca's his black metal name, Christian Larson of the band
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Necro Fire. New album out now on Metal Blade
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Records. Incredible.
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One of the best black metal albums of the early year so far.
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Along with a few others that I'm fond of great interviewing.
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He also books the Hell's Heroes Festival, which is coming up
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next weekend or the weekend after next.
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Excuse me. And we'll be talking more about
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that festival next week and during this week.
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But check out my interview with Christian one more time.
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Also just recently, we interviewed Warren Haynes.
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You know him best from Government Mule and The Allman
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Brothers. He's got a reimagining of his
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debut solo out Mount Now and our own Don De Lamont.
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Talk to him. You know, Don is also my Co host
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the Glacial Musical podcast. Don has his own show here on
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YouTube and podcasts called Talking the Talk with Don and
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his own blog Southeast of Heaven.
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So yeah, really fantastic stuff. So, all right, Noah Vilhan is
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here. Harold is here.
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Good to see you again. Father of Butter Bear is here
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and Liquid Bean is here. Liquid Bean?
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Yeah, man. Yoda.
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Thank you so much, Brother I. Appreciate you, it's always
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great to see you pop up in my feeds and DMS.
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So Warren Haynes interview is pretty major for us on our
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podcast. We have some more exclusive
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stuff coming to our podcast. I don't know, a live stream last
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night where I or Wednesday night where I broke down Louder than
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Life and Aftershock. Louder than Life line up
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probably a little bit better, and unexpectedly great
10:31
Aftershock a little mixed. If you're a die hard hardcore
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metal person is probably not for you as much as it used to be.
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It's a lot of metal core and Gen.
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Z bands, but I think you have to have those Gen.
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Z and younger bands. To sort of bolster the older
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scene because let's face it man, a lot of us are not going out
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there for a four day. Festival and we're covering sick
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new world in April and I've been hearing some rumblings that
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people aren't happy about it and maybe these other festivals have
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come out and they're cheaper from one more day, you know, the
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same price for more days but. Like I have to say, as an
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attendee of Sick New World, it was fantastic.
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I know Vegas is really hard to be affordable, right?
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Now we're going to talk about Vegas and the whole Metallica of
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everything, but really. You know, I, I think.
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Sickney World is a tremendous show.
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And has things other things don't have.
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So we do live streams all the time.
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Last week I reviewed the brand new Rob Zombie album.
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Surprisingly excellent. I was very surprised.
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This is going to be the first Rob.
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Zombie album in a long time. I listened to well after it came
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out and next week I'll be review We will have on our website a
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full review of the new Lamb of God.
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I will have a. Lamb of God video up Monday or
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Tuesday. I'm hoping for Monday and I do
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have a lot going on on Monday. And what's up again, Harold,
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thanks for being here. Huggy Bear is here.
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You know, I always say this show is your show also.
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Just like I say at every interview, this is your
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interview also, so you know, feel free if you've got
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questions about what's. Going on in the world of music.
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I may be able to. Answer some of them, but I'm
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going to try to do at least one live stream next week.
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At least the Lamb of God review, if not a few more.
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There's quite a bunch of stuff going on.
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Record store. Day is coming soon.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their thing, so we'll
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talk all about that. Also did Metallica, the Sphere,
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and it is wild. And I asked the question, can
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you afford it? And the answer is probably not.
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Probably not, but we'll find out.
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We'll find out. We also have a podcast.
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This show will be a podcast. Check out my brand.
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Oh, thanks so much Harold for sharing the live I.
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Appreciate you. You know this show's a podcast.
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Check out the brand new podcast logo.
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Sort of. Refashioned by my co-owner Omar
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Cordy. And yeah we we do pop.
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We have podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts.
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And because I don't have enough to do, I am the Co host of the
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Glacially musical podcast Beer, Metal and Swearing.
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We started a new series last week on Megadeth.
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Our new episode is out now reviewing Deep dive review of P
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Sells and who's Buying. Does it still hold up?
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Is it still as great as it was back then?
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Is 1986 the best year ever in metal?
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It's possible. We talk about all the things.
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We have a chaser next week. We usually do the series, the
13:20
drink and then the chaser and the chaser next week is going to
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be on. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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on that show, but I may do my own part on it as well.
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Because I have many thoughts. OK, now it's time for the news
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rundown. And as usual, we start the news
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rundown. We talk about metal festivals.
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Let's talk about festivals. Oz Fest is definitely coming
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back according to Sharon Osbourne, and she has said now
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confirmed Oz Fest will have at least two shows in Birmingham,
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England, followed by a multiple date US run.
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Now I think their plan is to look at what Warped Tour did
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when they came back, started with three, now it's going to 5
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or 6 next year, maybe 8 to 10 and just build it that way
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instead of a full tour. Make it a little more regional
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focused. I think you could see more UK
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and European bands in Europe. It's very expensive to come over
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here, but clearly the Oz. Fest would be, you know, a huge
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comeback if it does. I went to many of the Oz fest
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and I love. Them Mayhem Fest was
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occasionally touching. The greatness of Oz Fest had its
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moments when it was great. I wasn't 100% thrilled with the
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Mayhem Fest that we had in 24, did not come back for 25 or is
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supposed to rebrand as Miss Mayhem Fest and then I never
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heard about it. Maybe it'll happen for the next
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year they took. A year off.
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But Osfest is coming back. What do you think?
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Osfest gave us so many things. Battle for, You know, we because
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we got Ozfest, we got the. Osbournes we would not have had.
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One without the other, so, you know, always remember that
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aftershock. As I mentioned, announced their
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lineup My Chemical Romance. Limp Bizkit.
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Pierced the veil for the first time ever headlining in American
15:06
Festival and Tool. Are your headliners along with
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Offspring? Suicide Boys the day to.
15:14
Remember and Queens of the Stone Age who have a brief tour coming
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up soon. Excited about them.
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Otherwise maybe not a strong a line up.
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Two years ago they had Pantera and Slayer and.
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Judas Priest that I made and I had to miss that one due to
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illness. That sucked, but.
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Do tell. Maybe it's.
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Going to Rocklahoma Slayer. Headlining Harold, that rules.
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We did talk about Rocklahoma last week.
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I think it may still be in the deck here today and I believe
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we'll get some more tour dates from Slayer, either festivals
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that pop up or they're going to do like that, that test run in
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Pennsylvania, that one day Slayer concert.
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I think you could see that happening in a few places.
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Maybe Slayer get their own festival.
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But Rocklahoma looks pretty damn good.
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So, you know, absolutely, you know, absolutely a doable thing.
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Planet Rock'n'roll is here. What's up?
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What's up? Yeah.
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Rocklahoma looks good. We we did that last week.
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OK. Also 2000 trees in the UK pre
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day with pup and Sprints alkaline.
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Trio funeral for. A friend and neck deep.
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It's usually more punk rock and post metal, you know, metal core
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and you know post hardcore but kind of a good looking line up.
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I love seeing Mariachi L Bronx and the Bronx there.
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Sunny day Real estate, Come Back is legit, Mallory Knox, Glass
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Jaw High, Biz Marmosets, great bands, all Outside Lands.
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Not a real big thing for me personally, but fun to see.
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Turnstile have, you know, be one of the headliners of Outside
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Lands here in the Bay Area with a handful of artists I know and
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a majority of artists I do not know anything about.
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So you know some of these bands, you know the Stroke's fine,
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Charlie XEX fine. If you like pop music, you know
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Empire of the Sun Labyrinth, so pretty interesting.
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Geese is a blowing up a lot. So we'll see.
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We shall see This looks. Cool The Mountain Music
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festival. I had a bunch of jokes ready for
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this. So the Mountain Music Festival,
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Brett Michaels, 38 Special Night Ranger, Sebastian Bach, Warrant
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Jackal, Lita, Ford Lynch, Mom, John Waite and Vixen along with
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White Lion, Dangerous Toys and a bunch of others.
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Definitely divorced dad energy for the Mountain music festival,
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which I believe is in Gatlinburg, TN.
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Gatlinburg. I believe the Gatlin gun.
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Comes from there. Also in the festival news,
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Shamrock Slaughter fest with a bunch of illegible bands except
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for Sanguisa Goboggan. Incantation.
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Definitely in sell neckbeard energy for this festival.
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But it still. Looks cool, not necessarily
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another festival I would go to but one in also similar to
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Outside Lands in my backyard. Petaluma music festival.
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Keeping music in school so this is tied to the school districts
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here in California. 10,000 Maniacs, The Smithereens, Chuck
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Profit and the Mission Express. Alejandro Escovedo.
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Cherry Pop and Daddy's. Spike Sykes and his awesome
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hotcakes. Van Gogh and others.
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This is definitely people trying to relive the, you know, hippies
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trying to relive the 90s and 80s.
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A lot of hacky sack energy here. A lot of vegan and tofu energy
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for the Petaluma music festival. But I did love The Smithereens
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in High. School and I always liked 10,000
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maniacs and their Unplugged is particularly great because they
18:59
covered Patti Smith, who's the greatest.
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Warp Tour continues to add more bands.
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Like I said, once this Warp Tour ad is done rolling out their
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lineup, which you know, always is subject to change.
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I will do a big. Breakdown on the whole Warp
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tour. All the dates, all the bands.
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But we're just not there yet. Dillinger has arrived, just like
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7 dust has arrived. Dillinger, we missed you last
19:20
week when I was talking about the Greg and Better Lovers
19:23
split. If you've got any inside track
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on who you would like to see. Or who you think will be the
19:29
new. Singer It will not be Keith
19:30
Buckley, but I don't know who could do the job.
19:36
Because Greg is a singular talent and I don't know that
19:38
anybody can sing or scream as well as him.
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That Paddy cover, that's right, Melissa, but yes, thanks.
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For being here and Dillinger, I appreciate you.
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I. Hope it's not.
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Too late where you are. I'm going on at this unusual
19:51
time. You got the new Tail Gunner.
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Good album, good band. We were trying to interview that
19:56
band because they were on Napalm Records, that label we like a
19:58
lot and I think it didn't work out, but I wouldn't rule out
20:03
that we will still get into them.
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I I like Tail Gunner has energy that kind of reminds me of
20:09
Enforcer from Sweden or Lost Society from Finland.
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Like up and coming heavy metal crossover thrash and heavy metal
20:18
loving dudes. So I'm always down with that.
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People texting me all right, but you work to on more news to
20:35
come. Also again, I am confirmed to be
20:38
going to the Mojave experience going to be joined by my homeboy
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and ghost called Co conspirator cultist Wayne Edwards.
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He's done a lot of stuff for us. Milwaukee metal fest.
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I'm psycho Las Vegas we did together or at least we're both
20:54
attending. So I'll be at this.
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I'm really stoked. I've never been to Joshua Tree.
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I am flying into Ontario, CA. We're going to drive out
21:02
together. We're going to drive back
21:03
together. So I'm going to have a little
21:05
adventure. Hoping to go to Milwaukee Metal
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Fest. Also, I had mentioned that
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that's coming up in a few slides.
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Also here is Milwaukee metal. Fest, Acid bath, Kill switch,
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Engage, ministry, Obituary, suicidal machine, Head, Napalm
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Death. It's like all my favorite bands.
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Death Angel playing all of that three violence.
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Pallbearer looks really cool nails.
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And we were bringing you news the last few weeks about the
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Punk in the Park touring festival and bands dropping off
21:36
because they didn't like the politics of the founder of the
21:39
fest. And now the the all the bands
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had dropped off and they cancelled the tour.
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So I think they can. Pull off the punk in the parks.
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When they're stand alone little fests.
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I think the idea of this touring thing is it's very unpopular.
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I mean, I don't know if it's fair or not.
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If somebody was very liberal and you didn't like their stance on
21:58
things, you might not want to deal with them.
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You know, I can understand it, I really do.
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But here we are. Also, Youngblood has his own
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festival and I know some people were like, who are these bands?
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Youngblood has his third annual Blood Fest in Chechiya, former
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Czech Republic. It's now called Chechiya
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Youngblood. Biffy Cleroe.
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Much bigger in Europe than here, but great band.
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A festival and arena headliner in Europe, especially England
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and just not known here in America.
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Primal Scream, great band from about 30 years ago, still
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kicking it. Pelaye Royale.
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I mean they've been around 10 plus years.
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Great band and then some more underground bands.
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Destroyed Lonely Leap, Pale Waves, Jesse to Stark, Bambi
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Thug we know about and Nieve Ella and Pam damn rabbit Pam
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rabbit. I can't tell what this fun but
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anyway this is coming up this summer.
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Youngblood is just riding. A wave of.
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Success, whether you dig it or not, whether you like him or
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not. He is getting Co signed by.
23:01
Everybody all right, that was. All the festivals.
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Now it's time to talk about the rest of it.
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The concerts and one offs. Man Metallica.
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I went on a complete tirade about this.
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If you go listen to this. Week's Glacially Musical
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podcast. Look man, I love Metallica.
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I've seen Metallica more than any other band ever and the real
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cold hard reality is they. According to Consequence of
23:28
Sound, the entire sphere run is now sold out.
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Even though the pre sales were not all over, there was
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definitely supposed to be ticket on sales this week and next week
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they're all sold out. They've sold out twenty of
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these. They only had 20 something shows
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booked this whole year until the sphere was announced.
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So I get it. It's extremely.
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Lucrative. They're going to make a.
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Bundle of money when Metallica doesn't have to move from city
23:52
to city to city, it's super, you know, cost effective for them
23:57
because they have multiple sets of stages and rigs on call and
24:02
they can have just one. Crew.
24:04
They can fly in and out every weekend and they're taking off
24:07
most of November and December. Just a couple of shows each
24:09
month, probably family time, hopefully to write some new
24:12
music. But you know, I'm just very
24:14
disappointed. Not surprised because it's a
24:16
business. It's the music business, man.
24:18
It's not the music friendship. Metallica has given me so much
24:20
and they asked for very little from me.
24:23
But I would say that I'm very disappointed that they didn't at
24:25
least make it remotely. Affordable for the average fan
24:29
and honestly their fan base is not so economically.
24:33
You know you. Could make a case that
24:34
Metallica's fans are younger and therefore not as economically
24:38
stable as let's say Dead fans who've been doing this for
24:40
decades where they follow the band out.
24:42
They're Dead, sold out every show at about 1/3 of the cost or
24:46
1/4 of the cost. I do know some people who got in
24:48
luckily managed to get cheap tickets for this, but for the
24:52
most part they were $1000 a ticket.
24:54
For the worst. Seats.
24:56
So I just don't know. I just don't know.
24:58
I do know the sphere did a thing.
25:00
I don't know if it's still applicable because the tickets
25:03
are gone, but they had a thing where.
25:05
Hey, trust Mantosis here. What's up again?
25:08
Thanks for being here pal. There was a thing with this fear
25:11
where if you bought their package ticket for the year
25:14
calendar year, you can go to 1 show of everything.
25:17
At this fear. So that's kind of cool.
25:19
For 2600 bucks, if you are live in Vegas or California, go to
25:23
Vegas a lot. Maybe it'd be worthwhile.
25:25
But right this second I resigned myself that I'm not going to get
25:28
to go. And I'm not sour grapes.
25:31
I'm just pissed and disappointed that they didn't really consider
25:33
the fans. We're in the like the one of the
25:35
worst economic crisis of all time, of all time recessions and
25:41
depressions. Are you?
25:41
I don't. Know how much you know you want
25:43
to lecture on. Finance during the Rocket Metal
25:45
news show, but recessions and depressions are usually graded
25:48
later. But all indications are that we
25:50
are sucking ass and a war we didn't want isn't going to help.
25:53
Soapbox over Metallica the sphere.
25:57
So lots of luck, I'm sure they'll.
25:59
Find a way to put it out on DVD or Blu-ray, or monetize it
26:02
somehow, or edit it and put those videos out on YouTube or
26:04
wherever they do. Also, the second biggest news of
26:08
the week, somehow Twisted Sister and Sebastian Bach are teaming
26:12
up for Ford. No one saw this coming.
26:14
No one saw this coming. Sebastian Bach and Twisted
26:17
Sister, you know, Dee Snyder has Dee Snyder have, you know, has
26:25
basically stepped down from the band because of his health.
26:28
It seemed pretty like not great or pleasant or, you know,
26:31
possibly acrimonious. And so, you know, I wish the
26:37
best for Dee. This is a great photo of Dee
26:39
taken by Orono Marcordi. I just interviewed Baz for his
26:43
solo stuff and he if he knew about it, he didn't let on
26:46
because you know, I kind of brought it up in his interview
26:50
about. Dee, who is a hero of his.
26:52
He had a Twisted Sister patch. On his high school battle
26:55
jacket. And I think actually Baz will do
26:57
a great job. He'll be professional.
26:59
If the band can keep it together and do more, they will.
27:03
Angel is Snow Angels here. Manuel in 427 is here.
27:09
Jack Cinco is here. Art, what up?
27:13
The fools who purchased the Snake Pit tickets are about to
27:15
get a real big shocker. This fear is an unconventional
27:18
venue. Being in the nosebleeds gets the
27:20
better deal. Good to know.
27:21
Good to know. I've never been.
27:24
Guns and Roses announced tornadoes.
27:26
People always complain online. Who come?
27:28
Nobody ever plays my town. Well, Guns and Roses, Australia,
27:32
New Zealand, Tasmania, it's your turn.
27:36
They have added dates for the current world tour about to kick
27:41
off and Guns and Roses thanks for all the.
27:43
Love, Carol. I appreciate you.
27:45
You're awesome. They're about to add those
27:49
dates. Airborne.
27:50
Former Ghost Co interviewees and festival friends are going to
27:53
open Airborne IF. You love Bon Scott ACDC you will
27:56
love. Airborne with a little more
27:58
heavy metal. Carissa Sage is here.
28:01
What's up? What's up?
28:02
Fairy Rain this year, we've been here before.
28:04
Things for stopping by. This is a bit of a surprise.
28:07
Killswick Engage headline tour with Machine Head, Iron Reagan
28:12
and Havoc opening SO2 surprises here.
28:15
Machine Head has been doing most, you know, kind of went
28:18
back and started doing tours again, Headline tours.
28:20
Are Co headline tours. And then they were, you know,
28:24
they done went back and did a little bit of an evening with.
28:28
And now they're going to open for kill switch.
28:30
Which is interesting that they will be an opening.
28:31
Band but actually might help them because they're it should
28:34
be crossover between the fans. They did have a song together on
28:37
Machine Heads record. 2 records. Ago so you know it might
28:42
actually be amazing Iron Reagan then also headlining over you
28:46
know, not headlining but on the bill over havoc.
28:48
It would have been around quite a long time, but I think there's
28:50
a lot of excitement for the return of.
28:51
Iron Reagan Municipal waste on hiatus maybe?
28:54
Riding a new record, I know Cannabis Corpse, another
28:57
municipal waste side band, is sort of defunct now.
29:01
And so Iron Reagan is back. So this is a fun tour.
29:04
I would like to catch this. This is happening in late.
29:06
June. I'm moving around late June.
29:10
There's a lot going on. We'll see Gorillas have the
29:13
number one song in most of the world this weekend, the number
29:15
one album, and they have just announced The Mountain, which is
29:18
their new album, The Mountain Tour 2026 starting late fall or
29:22
in September. Excuse me of the.
29:24
US and Canada so. North American tour not too
29:28
shabby. Seven dust in addition.
29:32
To tour dates opening for Alter Bridge that just ended.
29:35
Had their own headline tour with Atreyu, Fire from the Gods and
29:40
American adrenaline. OK, all righty then.
29:47
That's kicking off in about 5 weeks, metalheads.
29:51
Sasquatch is here. Daisy Dillon is here.
29:54
What up? What up?
29:55
Black asteroid? Welcome back, Cat Wood.
29:57
What's up? I owe you an e-mail.
29:59
The extreme metal analyst is here.
30:01
It's good to see people. I appreciate you.
30:04
All for stopping by. So good to see you all.
30:11
On Earth, who just resigned to metal Blade Records, has
30:14
announced some European summer tour and metal.
30:18
Blade is the. Record label that put on Earth
30:20
on out in the first place. The oncoming coming Storm is
30:23
like what are the pinnacle records of the metal core genre?
30:27
And I'm hyped for them to come back and and make a big comeback
30:30
with that band. So it's kind of fun.
30:32
I'm into it. And they have headline shows and
30:35
festivals pallbearers on tour right now going through the end
30:43
of May or through the end of April.
30:44
Excuse me, with the death metal band Death and black metal band
30:48
Knoll opening for them. Playing all of their Foundations
30:51
of Burden album. In.
30:52
Full, which is exciting. Hoping to catch that somewhere
30:56
soon. And you know, again, like I
30:58
said, I say this all the time to people like you got a really,
31:02
Nobody is a casual metal. Head you got to.
31:04
Love your bands, go see your bands.
31:07
I understand time. I got to really pick and choose
31:09
my battles. It's really expensive.
31:12
I don't know quite what to do, but like, you know, where am I,
31:17
you know, be judicious, man. But go see your favorite bands
31:22
on tour because I think like you're seeing a lot of tours get
31:27
cancelled, You're seeing bands drop off tours, you're seeing
31:30
festivals cancelled because there's just not a lot of.
31:34
There, there. This is Slo Mosa by the way.
31:38
They are doing their first headline tour of America ever.
31:41
Great Stoner doom band new album out.
31:42
Last year, Grilly. Killer.
31:44
Fishbone is putting out the in your face 40 year anniversary.
31:49
Album play tour where they're going to do an album in.
31:52
Full all the opening. Bands on the tour over
31:54
different. Legs have played on their new
31:56
covers album where people reinterpreted Fishbone songs,
32:00
metal and punk interpretations of of their music, which is rad.
32:06
We had an interview with Angela Moore last year.
32:08
New Fishbone album out recently, Stockholm Syndrome, which came
32:13
out last year. So they're just striking while
32:14
the iron is hot. I'm really excited for them.
32:17
And again, thanks and shout out to everybody watching if you
32:20
like and subscribe or give us a super thanks or a super chat.
32:23
I will talk about whatever you. Want to You can hijack the show
32:26
if you tip us well. This is an interesting band.
32:31
All the ex members of Mushroom Head got together and they're
32:33
going to go play Mushroom Head songs on tour as the X the EX.
32:38
Faces and I thought this is hilarious, super interesting J
32:46
man gravy pig Venus, you know just insane, insane.
32:54
Stitch des Rocks is so a rock artist from New York City and
33:01
they are going on tour soon. Very exciting stuff.
33:04
Many haps. Will cover the tour Margarita.
33:07
Villa is here, Ashley is here. Chapina, what's up?
33:11
What's up? What's up, What's up, What's up?
33:14
All right. Witchcraft.
33:15
Just saw this tour. On the kick off date on Tuesday
33:18
at Bottom of the Hill, along with Early Moods and the local
33:22
opener's Psychic. Hit who?
33:23
I've raved. About In the past, Witchcraft
33:25
was wonderful. Their new EP comes out next week
33:28
and. They were just marvelous and I
33:30
was home in my house by like 11:00 PM or before.
33:35
It was fantastic. That's the energy I need.
33:39
Also, I talked about this a little bit a few months ago.
33:42
Emerson, Lincoln, Palmer, obviously two members defunct,
33:46
doesn't really matter. Carl Palmer still alive, still
33:48
kicking ass on drums. An evening with Emerson Lake and
33:52
Palmer, or what passes for the music of Emerson Lake and
33:54
Palmer. Carl is brilliant, one of the
33:57
best drummers I've ever seen live.
33:58
I haven't seen the band in about 35 years.
34:01
Don't know if I would go again if Yochiro is still.
34:03
Here he might. Go.
34:05
I wonder, But like, yeah, I don't know.
34:08
I don't know how I feel about going, but it's tempting.
34:12
They are playing up here in the wine country.
34:17
You have to be. Super nerdy to want to go.
34:19
I don't know if my partner will want to go.
34:21
A Mon Clock tour is coming soon. Stay tuned soon for my new
34:25
interview with Brendan Small between me and Omar of Ghosts
34:29
Called. We have interviewed Brendan
34:32
Small about Galacticon and Death Clock and Metalocalypse.
34:36
And Army of the Doom. Star and all these things and
34:39
Brendan is always super nice. He loves goes cult and I just.
34:44
Feel very, you know, he's really appreciative.
34:46
It's a very good relationship. So Monmouth and Death Clock.
34:49
Co headlining. With Castle Rat.
34:51
Opening SO. Really killer and I see Death
34:54
Clock already booked for some festivals and stuff in the fall
34:58
so I think that. Means we will get more death
35:02
clock tour. Dates in the fall.
35:05
Here's Ultra Sudden, who had a new album out last year.
35:08
They just dropped the Killer News single, a video from that
35:12
album and they're putting out a series of EPS is going to be put
35:17
out on vinyl. Soon and they're coming on tour.
35:19
They're actually playing tonight in Germany.
35:22
As I record this so they have already played but I'm a big
35:24
fan. Check out this band if you like
35:26
Vows and Adults and Youth Code and Kylin Mikla.
35:32
They're on the same label as Kylin Mikla.
35:35
Captain Sleppy is here. Padilla Mandari is here.
35:38
What's up? What's up?
35:39
What's up? Thanks for being here.
35:41
We appreciate you. Yo, Mana Mora, the most fun I've
35:45
ever had in recent years. Rowing.
35:46
That's right man, rowing. It's wild.
35:49
How do you feel about bands with like no original members?
35:52
Yochiro, how do you? Feel about You'd be a person to
35:55
know. We both share a love of Def
35:57
Leppard and Miss Steve Clark. A lot of bands are out there
36:00
with no original members. Man Foreigner, No original
36:03
members. Anymore just kind of out there
36:06
touring. Playing the music I want to play
36:07
and I want to know what love is, which I I love some foreigner.
36:11
Songs, but Yikes. Kitty is going on tour to
36:14
celebrate 25 years of Kitty. You can get some commemorative
36:19
re releases of their albums now. I just love this.
36:23
I'm just a po boy and nobody loves me.
36:25
He's just a po boy from a po family.
36:28
I have to stop singing on these live.
36:30
Streams because I'm getting demonetized.
36:32
Am I going to see the black queen?
36:35
TBD my friend TBD It's hard I know a lot of.
36:38
People who are getting. Literally turned inside out
36:41
because of the Greg situation and you know this is what
36:46
happens. When our heroes fail us.
36:48
You know, I remember being a little kid in the 80s, a
36:51
teenager and my dad, I would get mad if like, you know, lost the
36:57
light there. I'd get mad if one of my heroes
37:00
let me down. And you know, my dad was like,
37:03
you know, you shouldn't worship any of these bands.
37:06
They're not your people. You know, they're not your
37:11
people. You just like artists.
37:14
And musicians. My mom took me to all these
37:16
great jazz shows. Everybody was on fucking drugs.
37:20
You know, and I didn't question it.
37:21
I was. Just like, oh, that's what
37:22
they're supposed to do is do drugs, you know, so wacky.
37:27
Shit. But anyway.
37:30
All right, halfway through the show, I'll.
37:32
I'll remove this for a minute. Halfway through the show, again,
37:37
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41:26
That's so interesting. I did not know that is a
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41:33
We do have an airport. Nearby.
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42:46
Oh, Cat. Nice.
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Thank you. Nice to meet you.
42:49
We're just doing some rock and metal news.
42:51
Here it's the midway point of the.
42:52
Show and I plug some things and then I go on with.
42:55
The big news of the week This week was the anniversary of the.
42:59
Debut of X. Files March the 3rd 1993
43:03
probably changed my whole life. My favorite show of all time.
43:06
All the things tickles all the things.
43:08
They predicted so much also. Time for the news.
43:13
Let's go. There's a report out this is.
43:17
Super. Interesting to me that.
43:19
Gen. Z is driving physical media.
43:21
Sales for the first. Time ever sort of young, you
43:26
know, Maybe they're in the gig. Economy, maybe they have a
43:28
degree, maybe they have a high, a decent income, but for
43:31
whatever reason they are buying physical CE and DVD's more than
43:36
even more that that segment of people, even more than records,
43:42
which I love and I collect, but like you know, maybe I'm not
43:45
those. People, but anyway.
43:48
I thought that was a super interesting.
43:49
Factoid to kick things off with this week.
43:51
OMG Fugazi has finally teamed up with Discord to release their
43:57
demos recorded with Steve Albini.
43:59
We've seen the trend of this recently where Killing Joke put
44:02
out there, Steve. Albini Records or someone who
44:05
had the rights? To them did if they didn't, but
44:09
super interesting that that came out.
44:10
I didn't get a chance to listen to it today.
44:11
Big Fugazi. Fan.
44:13
I should check that out. All righty, this was also super
44:18
interesting to me. You know, again things come to
44:23
me. People send me tips if you got
44:26
some tips just. E-mail us at submissions at
44:28
ghostcultman.com or DM me, but people send me stuff all the
44:33
time. This is really sad.
44:35
Two years ago I saw the final what is now the final God Flesh
44:39
tour of America ever. Apparently, Justin K Broderick
44:44
posted this week he'd been reluctant to post.
44:46
Because he hates social. Media and the negativity that
44:48
comes with it. He recently had a major
44:51
operation he will recover from, but it needs a lot of care and
44:56
he's not going to be touring anymore, certainly not with God
44:58
Flesh. That doesn't mean God Flesh is
45:00
over. He qualified in a second post
45:03
that he's going to continue to put out music and remixes and
45:07
archival things and remasters and other projects, maybe even a
45:10
brand new project. But he's probably not going to
45:12
tour. Ever again.
45:13
And he's. Certainly not going to tour
45:14
ricotta flesh, so that's a bummer.
45:18
Also also this is really cool, Adam Steiner has a series of
45:23
book author and he wrote this series of books including this
45:27
one on Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death.
45:31
I love this illustration. I may be chatting with the
45:33
author soon after I get a copy of the.
45:34
Book to read he's also. Got a Nine Inch Nails book out?
45:37
So I'm all about it. Let's see also also this is.
45:45
Portrayal of Guilt has a new single out and a new album
45:48
coming up. So you should check.
45:50
That out, that's pretty. Rad Allen Robert of Life of
45:55
Agony, one of my heroes on bass, has a brand new bass fuzz pedal
46:00
his bass playing is integral to. The Life of.
46:03
Agony Sound. He's one of their chief
46:04
songwriters. I know they were just on tour in
46:07
Europe and they. Put out a live version of their
46:10
amazing cover of. Don't you?
46:13
Forget about me from The Breakfast Club.
46:16
Pretty, pretty bad. Ass I love it.
46:20
Also also venom. There are three venoms now.
46:25
What's behind door #1 Venom. What's behind door #2?
46:29
Other Venom, What's behind door #3 Venom Inc, who just toured
46:32
South America. Well, Venom with Kronos is back.
46:36
And he has put his kind of long running backup guy.
46:40
He's been many years in the making since 2018.
46:42
New Venom single, new Venom album coming soon.
46:45
New Venom visualizer I thought was a very AI looking thing but
46:49
you know. It's cool.
46:52
Oh, no way, Cat. When were you?
46:56
Are you a New York native? Because I am a New York native.
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I lived there for most of my life so far, but I now live in
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California. And I was.
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Just a little bit late to the hardcore.
47:05
I'm more of a was more of a metal kid and crossed over the
47:08
rash kid and a prog nerd but I went to a bunch of foundational.
47:12
Shows at CBG, BS and Matinees and things like that.
47:16
Bond Street Cafe, SO BS, Wetlands, The Tunnel, Limelight,
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and then I played in metal bands and and sort of metally hardcore
47:25
bands. I miss it sometimes but they say
47:29
you can't go home again. This pisses me the fuck off.
47:33
So here's things that are pissing me off this week.
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I've been talking a lot about AI and I'm not one of these.
47:39
Boomers AI, you're going to ruin everything I.
47:41
Have seen the Terminator movies like 100 times.
47:43
All of them, even the bad ones, so.
47:47
Dylan should Chaos theory. OK, is that your new name?
47:54
So yeah. Man this pisses me the fuck off.
47:56
A couple of like a few months back, I was talking about
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American Head Charge, right? As a band that's kind of fallen
48:02
off the radar, you can't get their records anywhere.
48:04
Only some of their music is on streaming.
48:06
And Soft White Underbelly, the documentary series, did a
48:10
feature on Cam, who was their lead singer.
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And you know, he's fucked up on drugs and living in Skid Row
48:16
homeless. It's terrible.
48:18
But he is hopefully can get his life back together.
48:20
And then nice old school New York word up.
48:23
And then I saw in the new Music Radar bullshit on Spotify today
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this song. Won't.
48:29
Break under American Head Charge.
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This is some trap mumble rap bullshit and I was just so
48:35
fucking incensed. And of course Spotify doesn't
48:38
have any way to report this shit or get them to.
48:41
Stop. So, you know, I reported it as,
48:44
you know, mislabeled. But that's the best.
48:46
You can do they won't take it down and nobody's looking after
48:48
that band's interest. And this is happening.
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It happened with nothing faced a couple of months ago it was
48:53
reversed. So fucking so fucking angry.
48:57
I also can. I just used.
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To go to the pyramid a lot and the bank those are.
49:01
Two of my favorite. Places ever you know who doesn't
49:03
suck and what doesn't suck is Raymond Watts of Pig.
49:06
Pig is back with a new single today.
49:09
We listen to it here at the HQ and it was amazing.
49:13
I'm all about it. Hopefully he will tour Raymond
49:17
is life. I need to interview.
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Him. He's on the bucket list.
49:21
I've interviewed almost everybody I ever wanted to, but
49:24
I haven't interviewed him. It would be a thrill.
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Oh, Tool. Sorry man Yeah, Tool are hinting
49:29
at their residency in this in 27.
49:32
I mean, as a Tool fan, I also know that Tool fans are the
49:36
worst. I am not the worst.
49:38
I'm awesome. But like I do understand.
49:39
That a lot of tool fans are horrible.
49:41
And stupid. And Dream Theater.
49:43
Fans laugh at Tool, fans and other fans laugh at Dream
49:47
Theater and, you know, slam brutal death metal bands with a
49:51
little bit of Prague in them. Laugh at everybody so I I would
49:56
you know we'll start saving now for a tool at this fear but.
49:59
I feel like I said this on the podcast with the fellas.
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This. Week on Glacier Musical.
50:04
That I think Metallica has gone so overboard with the.
50:06
Pricing for this that they have set the.
50:08
Bar abnormally high now for every.
50:11
Band which it just sucks. It just sucks.
50:13
All my enjoyment out of it. Maybe I I hyped myself up.
50:17
Nice work. Maybe I hyped myself up too
50:19
much. Maybe I hyped myself.
50:22
Up too much? I don't know.
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Nice work. Oh, excuse me.
50:34
Whoa. I got a frog in my throat there.
50:39
What else? What else?
50:40
And so much stuff just coming at you, like left and right.
50:48
I think this week was also the the anniversary of the first
50:51
show ever Cliff played with Metallica.
50:53
This is he is legend. They're putting out an
50:55
anniversary vinyl. They've been touring a lot.
50:57
I always felt like he is legend is right in between.
50:59
Like they kind of want to be down and COC but they also.
51:03
Want to be like Underoath and Thursday?
51:07
So there's a. Strange dichotomy of musics.
51:09
That they put out but. Great band live.
51:12
I know their singer had some health problems a while back.
51:15
And it seems to be cleared up now.
51:20
What else? So so many things.
51:26
All the things. Frozen Soul is putting out a new
51:29
album We a Frozen Soul interview soon.
51:32
I hope Omar is pretty tight with some of the members of the band
51:34
having done some shows with them.
51:37
Where they? Where they?
51:38
Were opening for a band he was checking for so we hope to get a
51:43
Frozen Soul interview. Some great brutal death metal
51:45
band from Texas and then in another, this is awesome.
51:51
You know I didn't. I did not.
51:53
Have talking about Ke$ha on my bucket list today.
51:57
Thank you Ke$ha. Ke$ha was made aware that a
52:01
White House video promoting ice on TikTok had been using the
52:07
song Tik. T.O.K and some of her other.
52:09
Music. So, she wrote.
52:11
Stop using my music. Perverts.
52:13
At White House, I mean, you know, Ke$ha doesn't need
52:19
attention. She's got gazillions of streams.
52:22
She's she's pretty great as far as singing pop artist.
52:26
Goes It's come to my attention that the White House has used.
52:29
Some of my songs on TikTok to. Incite violence and threaten
52:32
war. Trying to make light of war is
52:34
disgusting and inhumane. I absolutely do not approve of
52:37
my music being used to promote violence of any kind.
52:39
Love is always. Trump's hate.
52:41
Please stop using the word Trump for everything.
52:43
Please love yourself and each other in times like.
52:45
This the show of blatant disregard for human life and
52:48
quite frankly, the attack on all our nervous.
52:50
Systems is the opposite of what I stand for and so for that
52:54
Ke$ha, you are an honorary metalhead.
52:58
Castle Heights was like my second home.
53:00
I met Omar from ghosts called at Castle Heights.
53:03
We played a show together. We didn't know each other
53:05
personally. We knew each other from the
53:07
scene. I played Castle Heights many
53:09
times. I was at the next to last ever
53:12
Castle Heights show I saw. Mastodon Play.
53:14
Castle Heights. Before they decided to relapse.
53:17
I mean, I saw Hatebreed play there.
53:19
Irate Billy club. Sandwich go to mentis all the
53:23
old school New York hardcore and metal bands and Bronx deathcore.
53:27
Before a swoopy haired Orange County deathcore was a thing,
53:29
New York City had its own. Hardcore and death metal music
53:32
called. Bronx Deathcore.
53:35
And BDC was a great fucking time to be alive.
53:39
And I had my thrash heavy metal band at the time too.
53:42
Love Castle Heights played CBD BS, I played Continental, I
53:45
played Limelight, wild shit. But Ke$ha, you are now an
53:49
honorary metal head. Lamb of God is one week away
53:52
from putting out their new album Into Oblivion, and I've already.
53:55
Heard it and I want to tell you something.
53:56
Listen, get close, besties. You're not ready for how much
54:00
this record kicks ass. Thank you.
54:02
That's my secret. For tonight you are not ready
54:05
for how hard this record goes, but I will save the rest for my
54:09
review next week in our review with Ghost Cult Monday morning.
54:12
But Lamb of God, new single video, a lot of stuff going on
54:15
with them. Also also I mean it's just all
54:20
the things gate. Creeper is going on tour.
54:22
We know they don't over tour too much because all their members
54:25
are in different. Bands, but Gate Creeper, maybe
54:27
they have a new record on the way.
54:28
I know they put one sort of surprise release records from
54:32
time to time, so I believe they have a new record coming soon.
54:36
Probably. Probably also not a huge thing.
54:40
Second home, I'm telling you. Second thing for me.
54:43
Maybe you know our co-owner there, Omar Cordy.
54:47
OJ He was the drummer in my band.
54:49
We we played in in not rival bands, but sister bands and then
54:53
in the same band. And then we have this.
54:55
Website. So who knows?
54:56
Social Distortion announced a new single and thing I know for
55:00
a lot of punks, Social D is like a huge, huge touchstone band.
55:04
They're not for me. I have seen them live a bunch of
55:07
times. I.
55:07
Appreciate Mike and the career they've had as the O GS of
55:11
California punk, but. Not a huge band for me, but some
55:15
of you may be stoked. I think some of you will be
55:18
stoked. Courtney Love posted a picture
55:21
this week of her and Kristen Oftamar, who has her memoir
55:25
coming out soon. We know that Courtney is working
55:27
on her memoir, new whole album and probably a tour.
55:30
And Courtney says whole. Tour soon with Kristen.
55:35
You know, with Melissa. Excuse me?
55:37
And I'm so pumped because I love that line of a hole and I will
55:40
put hole up against anybody. We have some.
55:42
Feature stuff coming on hold soon.
55:44
I would love to interview Courtney, you know, justice for
55:49
Courtney and then I just love this little meme thing here if
55:56
metal. Is the devil's music then he has
55:58
a very good taste. So he's, yeah, definitely.
56:02
I like this little grinning goat.
56:05
All right, it's time. For New music Friday, let's
56:09
listen to some new music Friday that came out today.
56:12
Let me know if there's any records that came out today you
56:15
particularly were hyped for to listen to.
56:18
I will find one one something that came out today and play
56:22
something for you. I did get flagged pretty bad.
56:27
Oh, this is cool. So before I read through the
56:30
whole list, this is a cool band. Grave Mass.
56:36
I don't know if you know who they are.
56:37
I believe they're a black metal band.
56:41
Let's see. Let's see.
56:49
Thanks for being patient. Grave Mass.
56:52
All right, this is the way. Grave Mass.
57:03
They would put out their debut album, Let's see.
57:15
Ready. So like, OK, sort of a
57:35
progressive. Black metal.
57:40
I don't know if I love the counting in
57:56
the Taurus there, but. This.
58:02
Is the way. Oh cool, this video.
58:06
Shot at Armstrong Metal Fest in 2025 where we are a media
58:11
sponsor. That's pretty cool.
58:12
Little bit of grave mass there for you and all right, let's now
58:16
read the list. Let's read the list.
58:20
Pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
58:21
Very heavy. Very, very heavy.
58:23
Very heavy. Why so heavy?
58:26
So angry, So heavy. Oh yeah.
58:31
Melissa off tomorrow at the Strand, March 17.
58:33
Did I see? Bruce when he played CBGB's in
58:36
9797 was like a very bad year for me and I didn't go to many
58:40
shows and I just. I don't remember much of 97,
58:43
maybe I saw Metallica. I definitely I saw Bruce on one
58:49
of those solo tours, but I'm going to say it's the earlier
58:51
one. Not Tattooed Millionaire, but
58:56
the other one. But thanks for asking all right,
58:59
new music Friday music that came out today.
59:01
Tell me which ones you are Stoked, stoked about Axe dragger
59:04
self-titled on ripple music for some Stoner doom.
59:07
Ashkan Azuzi Infermua on Argonauta records, probably also
59:12
some Stoner doom bitter branches, which is kind of like
59:14
a hardcore super group. Let's give the.
59:16
Land back to the animals on Equal Vision Records.
59:19
Black Lung for some more Stoner psychedelic rock.
59:22
Forever beyond the magnetic eye records Boston probably my most
59:26
excited for record today. Hidden fires burn the hottest on
59:29
the Flenser Oakland record label of Flenser Clouds taste satanic.
59:34
Friend of the show Berlin 2023 live album on kind of like music
59:38
their own label Kodak Kingmaker self released.
59:42
Dark Throne. Box set The first in the Face of
59:45
the God box set. I think it's like 6.
59:47
Vinyl L PS I have most of the Dark Throne on LPI, think
59:51
there's some demos and obviously no live stuff because the band
59:54
has barely. Ever played live the darts?
59:56
Halloween love songs on Adrenaline.
59:58
And fix records desert Collider Collider excuse me Generation
1:00:02
ship endless drift through Infinity small stone records
1:00:05
Desert storm buried under the weight of reason on heavy psych
1:00:07
sounds evil born the ascension. EP Self released Phil.
1:00:11
The brutal hardcore band I've interviewed done before Hardcore
1:00:14
defcore. Band Welcome to Shell Town EP.
1:00:18
Full house brew crew. Glasgow grin on RPM war funeral
1:00:22
Pi are summoning again. That was grave man graven grave
1:00:27
mass. This is the way.
1:00:28
End game. Records Hybrnaught and Face.
1:00:32
Pulp have a split release that's cool.
1:00:35
Leaves' Eyes, the great progressive.
1:00:38
Symphonic metal band Songs of Darkness EP out on Raining
1:00:42
Phoenix music, which I believe is their new label Light Lauren.
1:00:45
The ebb and flow of Galactic Ties on Rogue Plan Records.
1:00:49
Lords of Salem supersonic vampire pussy on Echo's own.
1:00:54
Records. Lost Society fun band from
1:00:56
Finland I mentioned earlier. I've interviewed them before.
1:00:58
Hell is the state of mind out on Nuclear Blast records?
1:01:01
Mega Colossus? Watch out on Cruzdale Sir.
1:01:05
Music they might like Dio Watch out, look out.
1:01:10
Let's see, what else. Prong.
1:01:12
Live and uncleansed waiting for that to show up in the mail.
1:01:15
Shout out to Tommy Prong Nailed shut from Mass Promise made a
1:01:19
Promise Kept EP for some punchy punchy hardcore more.
1:01:23
Destructor on warhead records for some metal.
1:01:26
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus XS for Eyes deluxe edition.
1:01:29
That's their record from last year.
1:01:30
Rainbow The Temple of the King box set 75 to 76.
1:01:33
Maybe one for you. Yochiro Rosa Fanskop for some
1:01:37
skaldic folk music engine and fortibitter on physics format.
1:01:44
The Set, which is the band that used to include the former
1:01:47
member of Turnstile, Brady Ebert. self-evident Truth EP on
1:01:50
Flat Spot Records. You can just bet.
1:01:52
That most anything that comes out on flat spots the shit.
1:01:55
Temple of Void the. Crawl.
1:01:57
On Relimps records for some death metal, Void Live 1982 on
1:02:03
Outer Battery Records, and fraid my other favorite record of
1:02:06
today, The skies turn black on indie recordings.
1:02:11
So that leaves us with one section in the show left, and
1:02:15
it's usually what it is. Is the.
1:02:16
Male. Bad, but I have a problem.
1:02:19
I got a vinyl in the mail. I was really excited to show you
1:02:22
all and didn't bring anything out.
1:02:24
I used to hang out with Metallica Music music.
1:02:26
Building. Sick you go all the way back.
1:02:27
So I had I had gotten this record from.
1:02:30
Bored music but not this record. I I got a different record.
1:02:33
Sent to me so this is together. Pangea, the 10 year anniversary
1:02:37
punk rock band. I mean, looks really cool.
1:02:40
I have to message the label. Why I got this?
1:02:42
No no nothing, just the wrong record.
1:02:44
The slip has the right. Record so.
1:02:47
Instead, since I don't have that, what I do have is because
1:02:52
Bottom of the Hill is closing at the end of this year, or at
1:02:54
least being sold because the original owners don't want to
1:02:56
own it anymore. The Parkside is also going out
1:02:59
of business, and I'm very sad about this.
1:03:02
So San Francisco is losing two of its awesome.
1:03:04
Venues they already lost slims. Here's a red.
1:03:07
Bottom of the hill shirt that I got with the dark blue.
1:03:10
Bottom of the hill, sort of the the royal blue with the dark
1:03:13
blue. I like it like their sign, and
1:03:16
you can look for my review coming up soon of Witchcraft
1:03:20
from Bottom and Hell, and I hope to get back there soon.
1:03:22
I did, kind of. Try to sneak over to the.
1:03:23
Parkside and get a chicken sando, but that's it.
1:03:27
I don't have my record to show you.
1:03:28
So I have I don't have it. But you know, I appreciate you
1:03:33
all very much. And that's that's it.
1:03:37
Usually for the for us, that's the show.
1:03:40
Shout out to my fiance Melissa for taking that.
1:03:43
Photo of me again. If you're watching Maybe You
1:03:46
Can't or Dillinger understand the reference.
1:03:48
That that photo. That.
1:03:49
Photo of me is making. If you do, I'll send you a free
1:03:52
shirt. DM me, you can look you can.
1:03:55
Stare longingly at the thumbnail later.
1:03:58
And as we usually say at this juncture, the show thanks for.
1:04:01
Watching us, this is a very manageable one hour and 3
1:04:03
minutes. I really appreciate you all.
1:04:05
You can spend your time anywhere, but you're spending it
1:04:07
with us. We are trying to build a
1:04:09
community for metal heads. Legitimate news.
1:04:13
Thanks for being part of this, Yochiro and all my real ones.
1:04:16
Dillinger. Welcome, Cat, anybody.
1:04:18
Else that's new here, if you subscribe to us, I will
1:04:21
subscribe. And follow you back on all our
1:04:23
things. So as we say every week at this
1:04:25
juncture, the. Show is a tough time in the
1:04:27
world. So please take care of each
1:04:28
other. Take care of yourselves and stay
1:04:30
as. Metal as humanly possible.
1:04:32
I am going to dance a jig like Detective Joe Hollenbeck on the
1:04:36
way out. Peace and have a great weekend.
1:04:38
Please don't drink and drive.