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Now, here is the podcast, Metal Heads Podcast.

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Hello and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast.

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My name is George.

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This is Jay.

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This is Will.

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This is John.

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This is Matt.

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This is Markisan.

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And welcome to the 2021 magnificent fantabulous year and episode, episode, episode. So we finally made it here. It feels like we just did the last one. And I don't mean the mid-year. I mean, the last year end, because this year went by really, really fast. But here we are anyway. And without further ado, let's go ahead and do our T-shirt and beer check before we get into lists. Well, we're off to a really exciting start.

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I feel like this is the soonest. Well, nobody was saying anything, so I was like, fuck it. Hey, man, it's 8 o'clock for me. It's going to be a crescendo to a shit show. 8 a.m. for Markasson. Yeah. Maybe we're just nervous. Have you opened the beer yet, Markasson, or are you still on coffee? No, I'm drinking coffee. I got the beer over here chilling. We know when you open that double shot, double black. That's going to be second, I think. I love that you have other cans of beer.

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with it. Like if I drink that bottle of double shot, which I have, like I'm done like for the day. So yeah, got the rope. And I've had that for like two years, I think. I think it's from two years ago. So and the other beers I have, the Pipeworks ones are even stronger. Like the one I have now is, or we were doing this now anyway. So this one is 14.7%. Beautiful. That's from Pipeworks. Yeah. It's called intrinsic duality. They just released

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I think just in Chicago. It's barrel-aged beer with cocoa nibs, lactose, and vanilla aged for 36 months. Wow. And it looks like this. I like the light pipe. What I liked about this too is that it's number three. They did three of these. So I'm doing them in reverse, counting them down, baby. So I'm going to have this to start. I'll have some other beers in between and hopefully get down to two and one. No idea what it tastes like. And what are you wearing?

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I am wearing my new high on fire shirt. Behold it. Behold its greatness. Nice. Yeah. Lift the beard. Yeah. Yeah. Just because we had that, uh, the Matt Pike news that came out that he's got a solo record in February, I believe. Everything's in February, I believe. Yeah. And, um, um, got his book of lyrics illustrated. I got that signed. So.

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So that was pretty cool to get that in the mail before Christmas. You get the head on the Pike t-shirt. He has the sloppiest handwriting I've ever seen for his signature. Like if your signature is bad, you have bad handwriting. Right, right, right. I just got the regular one, Will. I didn't get the slip case and the shirt and everything like that. I just got the regular book. I just got the book and the shirt. I didn't get it. There's no slip case with it, but it is signed. Yeah, I think Jay got the deluxe. No, no. I mean, I did the Will package. I got the book and the shirt. I did the Will package.

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Extra, extra, extra large. Now we're starting this shit off, right? So it's a super deluxe package. Shits in one of those long tubes. Yeah, the box. Yeah, I came out with the Blu-ray, the extra vinyl. I'll just say if I gave you my package, somebody's going to be super jealous. Yeah, hey, one other comment about that book, though. Man, the writing is small in that motherfucker. Yeah. And for somebody whose eyes are getting worse and worse. I was going to say, we're just really getting old now, Jay. Yeah.

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So we moved, we had storage. We had a lot of stuff in the storage. So we emptied the storage out, just me and Tracy. And my whole body hurts because it took all day to do it. And, you know, I have a lot of willpower. So I just power it through it. But the body can tell it's already starting to break down. All right, Matt. All right. I am wearing a Tempo Void. Sweet.

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One of my favorites, both shirt and band. And so my wife got me a, it's a German beer advent calendar from Costco. So I've been working on that one, but the last few days I had to skip. Wait, how do you have a German beer advent calendar? Like explain this. So it's a massive counter that literally has beer cans in it. So it's a box and it has 24 of these 16.9 ounce tall boys and it's all German breweries. And so, so 24 different breweries.

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24 different cans and uh that's a stack i mean it was heavy as shit

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uh that sounds awesome but today i'm drinking the blauweiser

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holler tower craft beer and this is good i mean german beer is fine you know it's uh

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you know it's not the most amazing thing but uh it's been good to try all these brews and i

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definitely dig this one so um i speak a little german and i can translate blauweiser for you it's blow will

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I was thinking, I think it is actually blue-white. Yeah, like half a bison. It's a blue-white, yeah. Cool. All right, Gian. All right, I don't need to show my shirt. You guys know it. It's the craft beer and metal alliance shirt. I dug it out. I haven't worn it in a while, in case you forgot it. It's this one. Oh, yeah, yes. From Decimal Weekend. I think I wore that.

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Yeah, I mean, we've had it for a while. My beer, nothing out of the ordinary, because I might drink some more later tonight when I leave the house. But it's Von Trapp, Kohl style. It's a German beer, but you know, I can't say very well. It's a little one. I like how John said might, but there's like 100% guarantee he's going to drink later. Verschendo, Marcus, we're starting low. Oh, by the way, Marcus, just a hint.

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If you're starting out with a 14% beer, we should probably do your picks 21 through 25 for the 25th pick. And when we get to 24, you could do 16 to 20. That's way too much math, John. I can't even follow that. Just do your whole list and then start drinking. I haven't strapped in yet either. Is Tracy going to tie you up? She's going out. She's smart this time. Is your floor padded around you? I got a carpet immediately.

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behind me and I usually fall backwards throw pillows all around those aren't pillows yeah I'll be shocked if I get through those just those three beers because they're all like 14 percent and then I have the double paddle so you're glutton for punishment I'm excited though boys all right well will what you got is recording yeah I am drinking the Atlas giant flaming zombie

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That's a good one. The gift that keeps on giving. And I'm wearing my

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Immolation

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Immolation Atonement shirt

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that I bought

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at Decibel Fest

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just back in September.

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And I bought it from Heather Lilliker,

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Danny Lilliker's wife, who her

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and her friend were working the Immolation booth.

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Remember that. I got to see her again

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and say hi and bought a

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t-shirt. And the good thing about it, it's

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a large and not an extra

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I'm more belt now.

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You never know what you're going to get, man.

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I ordered two large shirts from some band recently,

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and they were so radically different in size

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because they were like different companies or something.

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But congratulations for getting into a large.

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We're all proud of you.

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It's really tight, but I'm in it.

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That's what she said.

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I don't know if that's what he said.

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As long as the lower half isn't reduced. Somebody said it. I got up at nine. Not that that changes much about what I was going to be doing anyway, but I'm still drinking coffee. And I just got revealed recently. Exodus persona and Angarada t-shirt. Oh, nice. Nice. I don't think I've ever had an Exodus shirt. That's a spoiler. I was talking to somebody the other day. Oh, my buddy Chop came over. He listens to the podcast, Mad Raving Metalhead.

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He was in town. He lives in Central America right now. He was saying that he sells some of his really super old t-shirts for hundreds of dollars. I got tons of those too. Like the 80s ones. Exactly. I have one of those FedExodus shirts. It's like the FedEx symbol but it says FedExodus. I guess they got a cease and desist from FedEx. I'm curious to see how much that shirt is.

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Yeah, just continued old shirt. Wow. Yeah. Like cease and desist. Like if you didn't, cause I think I got it at, I don't remember where I got it. Anyway. You know, a lot of people don't know this, but Dave Mustaine wrote cease and desist. Just so you know. Come on. We're not that quick. It's early. Is this thing on? All right, Georgie.

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So, hey guys.

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The check-in.

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I am, as per usual, starting with a Brooming Horn Mead.

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This time it's the Black Flower Mead with Vanilla and Oak.

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And I don't remember which one it is, but after that I'll move on.

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I have a couple of Nepenthe double IPAs in the cooler.

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I don't remember which ones.

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They have a couple of different double IPAs, so I don't remember the name of it.

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But, yeah.

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Oh, and I'm wearing the little black dress of metal T-shirts, the Death logo. Nice. You can wear it with anything. A strapless number. Yes. All right. So before we get into our lists, we are going to take some guesses. If you've heard some of our previous lists, then you may know about the Wilson Award, which is named after the volleyball from Castaway. And you get a Wilson Award if you have an album on

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your list that nobody else has. Mm-hmm. And so we're each going to give a number of our guess of how many Wilsons we might have on our list. And we're going to start with Markisan. Yeah, I'm going to say six. Going conservative. Cool. All right. Yeah. Matt. I'm in that camp as well. I'm going to say seven. All right.

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Working our way up. This isn't the prices right. You don't have to like, you know, bid one more. Give me seven notes. All right, John. For my showcase, I'm going to say 12. Okay. Yeah. Will got the showcase joke too, which is nice. Thank you. You're the guy, Adam from Kill Switch Engage was on the Prices Right ones.

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That's awesome. That doesn't surprise me. I'm going with 16. Jesus. What? 16. Classic overbid. Who's going to go 17? Well, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon here, but I say with confidence, I think, 6. Okay. Well, I'm hitching my wagon to John and going with 12. All right. Oh.

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It'll probably be more like 11

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because one of these,

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there's a good chance nobody'll have it,

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but there's also a reasonable possibility

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that one person might.

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So, yeah.

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I added a couple just in case

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so that I don't feel stupid

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if somebody did name it like,

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damn, I could have had the number.

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Yeah.

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And I marked mine on my list in yellow

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so that I would remember them

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and like be able to come back to it after.

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So, all right.

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Let's get into the main...

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Are you sure you tell the listeners

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what's about to happen?

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I was just going to say,

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Let's get into the main event and do our top 25 albums of 2021. All right. Mark's on number 25. Holy shit. Here we go. All right. Number 25 for me. I think this will be one of the albums that's of my six hellish form remains from translation loss records.

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It's a very unique mixture of funeral doom, sludge, and synth. And I love how this album has heavy doom passages and they descend into these glistening electronic movements. So it's harrowing, but it's also achingly emotional. Yeah, this band just kind of floods your heart with dread and pricks these little pinholes of hope and light in the darkness. Like just to let you know there's a chance you might not die alone somewhere in a crevasse.

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at the end of the world. I'm going to go ahead and certify that one. Well done. What was that? That was Wilson. Oh, got it, got it. Okay. There we go. All right. Off to a good start. Let's get this Wilson ball rolling. Yeah. All right, Matt. All right. My number 25. I would describe this album as definitely encapsulating my mood all the time. So whenever I was bitchy, I'd put this on.

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and it just grew on me and grew on me. This is a band from England. It's her third album. Mastiff, Leave Me the Ashes of Earth. Kind of sludgy hardcore, super aggressive. For whatever reason, I really latched onto the drums. They're super forward in the mix. And what's funny, because I never pay attention to the mix. Like you guys talk about production and I'm like, what's production? But like, I mean, they're not like anything overly intricate or anything like that, but they're just really forward in the mix and they make me really happy. So Mastiff.

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Leave Me the Ashes. I thought you were going to say I never pay attention to drums for a second there, Matt. Oh, God, no. No, just production. Right, right, right. I don't know. That might be a Wilson, but we'll see, I guess. I have it marked as one. All right. I'll hold off just in case. John. All right. Number 25. So just a quick disclaimer. I blew up my mid-year, so there aren't many survivors. I think I have like six.

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This is one of them, and this one fell hard, but I think it is a testament to how good the second half of this year really was. So my number 25 is Cryptosis, Bionic Swarm on Century Media. They are a Dutch technical thrash band with some progressive leanings loaded with killer riffs. It's an unrelenting listen. I like technical thrash that's on the progress side, but I don't listen to it enough to be an authoritarian on the

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but this is definitely one that I thought was top notch for the year. It was my number three at the mid-year so it fell far but it still stayed on the list. Should I do it? Go for it. Wilson! That's interesting because that is on my list. It's on your Wilson list? It's on my Wilson list. Check. Got one. That's potentially three Wilsons out of three picks. But you're so right though John.

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that's now your 25 that was number three that makes perfect sense because we could have easily done a top 40 this year or just top 50 i think yeah i was saying and i think jay you commented just real quick i think my like 13 through 25 could be anywhere and i've got like seven i have a ton of honorable mentions but seven that stood out that could easily be in my top 25 so anything from like 13 to like 33 could be in and out so yeah it's a crazy year it's in and out john in and out it's long

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It's less than.

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Will, son, it's your turn. I got two things to say about my overall list is this is the hardest year to put together a list. So I embrace pandemics now because bands just like get pulled up and write great music because I got nothing else to do. So bring on, bring on the coronavirus. It's good for music. Not for good for live music, but good for music. Two is that because there was so much good stuff, my one and two,

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are definitely my one and two and my three through 25. I could just mix it up in a bingo ball and just come out with a number and throw it on the list somewhere. So with that said, my number 25 is Spectral Wound, a diabolical twist from Montreal on Profound Lore, just filthy ass black metal. And what I love about these guys is the first one,

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First song in the album. Do you know what it's called? Anybody have the album? I was not counting this as Mo Wilson, but it's called Imperial Cezanne Noir. Oh, nice. And they're coming to Atlas to play next year, and we're going to make for that band an Imperial Cezanne Noir. Nice. Which we already did, kind of, because it's called Hasawodo, Hail Satan Worship Dune, but we'll mix it up. It'll be different and

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Make it a little more imperial. Yep. Cool. Jay? Yeah, so I'm going to kind of just kind of piggyback on you guys and say it was, I think my top five or my most solid five, everything else is interchangeable in a way that wouldn't hurt my feelings. Like there's nothing I feel like they're all great, but there's nothing I feel like, oh shit, that should have been 17 or whatever. So it's, so I can live with that. It was a strangely good year. In the end, it sort of pieced itself together, I thought kind of slowly.

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Also, we're living through a pandemic. And if you'll just allow me quickly to say that, like, here we are, there's Omicron is coming, so things are going to get tough again for a while. And I'm just so glad I have you guys, you know, to go through this with. Truly. I, like, your friendship matters to me, and our constant conversation on text sometimes we're quiet for a day or two, but you guys are really the best friends I have, so I just want to tell you. Likewise. Likewise. Dudo. We love you, Jay. Love you.

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I love you all.

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Now that's stated.

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I'm going to,

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my first pick,

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my 25,

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I'm going to J an album without question.

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Cause I'm,

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everybody who has this is going to have it a lot higher than me.

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I'm not as big a fan of this band as everybody else,

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but I did listen to this record quite a bit this year and have to give it the nod for the quality album.

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I have like four guesses in my head.

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Oh,

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no,

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let's give me your first guess.

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It's either going to be.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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It's not that one.

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It's not your first guess.

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Okay.

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That's number 24.

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Panopticon, and again, Into the Light.

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So there you go.

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That's definitely, I think, Jay in a pick.

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But ultimately, Jay in a pick is to leave it off your list.

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But Panopticon for me at number 25.

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Jay is my bitch.

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Yanni making his return to the podcast.

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Never gets old.

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We keep him on the line, by the way. That's not a sound bite. Have you heard from Perihelion Ship? Are they doing anything new? It's been a long time. You know, Andreas just sent out an invite to a new app called Discord. And I signed up for that, but I haven't seen anything on it yet. I gotta do the same. It's just a chat app. What does he want? It's like so bands can talk to their fans kind of thing.

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I just haven't looked at it yet. I mean, it was funny because I looked at the little chat room and two of the people in there, one was from Maryland and one was from Virginia. How unlikely is that for a band from Finland? I think they are actually working on stuff right now, though. I thought I saw that somewhere that they were either going to go in the studio or they were preparing some songs to eventually go in. I'm not sure. I thought I saw something.

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Well, that would be cool. Yeah. That brings us to Georgia's pick. My number 25, and I hate to put this at 25, but it is relevant. My number 25 is hate. And I'll be damned if I know how to pronounce it. Ruggia? I think it's Ruggia, yeah. I looked on the internet, I heard Ruggia, I heard Ruggia, and I heard Ruggia. So I don't know. It's probably the Ruggia. Yeah, they're Polish. And on Metal Blade,

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So, yeah, it was a pretty cool album. All right, back to Markisan for number one spoiler. That's probably my number one honorable mention. Oh, then I do probably have Wilson on that one. That was, that was, that was not on my favorite. Their last album was better. And I listened to this one so much. And I just felt like I just compare. It's almost like when South of heaven came out, and everyone's comparing South of heaven to rain and blood. And you're kind of like, ah, no,

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It's like, you know, it's good, but it's like, you just compare it to the last one. So that's what I felt about hate this time. But it's probably like my number one. That's why it's 25. Yep. Or 26 in what's case. Yes. Or 52. Cause it could be anything from 26 to 50. Fair enough. And it's Markisan his pick. And he just left. That's a massive roll of toilet paper. Oh, is that what that was? Yeah. There was a thud and a disappointment.

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I thought he was doing something like slapping a bug or something. I already spilled. Like I just started. Do you save some of it? I'm going to put this in here. You got to tie your beard out in the chair, not you. I was like, you know what I forgot? Paper towels. That's a good idea. Yeah. I need a fucking sippy cup, boys. Can we get, can we make metalhead sippy cups? Because that's great. Cause I would, I would use it. I'm not kidding. You know, what's funny is when I bought my first

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back in 2003,

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I bought a kid's plastic sippy cup because I was doing so much construction.

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If I wanted to drink a beer or glass of wine,

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when I was doing construction,

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I would put in a sippy cup,

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had these little tiny,

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three little tiny holes in it.

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Like,

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cause it's literally meant for like babies,

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but no dust would get in it.

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I could still drink in drywall.

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Yeah.

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Nice.

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Which is not a legal buy.

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Drinking in drywall.

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Call a friend.

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It's super dusty when you're sanding drywall.

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Oh,

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I know.

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He just drywalled the doorframe.

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How do I get out of here?

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Whoa, what happened here?

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I can't believe I already spilled a beer.

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This is bad news.

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Well, you're up, man, whenever you're ready.

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I know.

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Just let me clean my area.

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Oh, yeah.

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Give me stuff a little higher.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, my gosh.

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I'm going to put my beer over here.

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That's better.

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Okay.

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I just said your name is Will's Package.

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That's beautiful.

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I took a picture of that. I took a picture of my package. Good job. All right. So wide angle. Will, you had a wide angle lens on me? Yeah. So we're number 24. This was my number 11 at menu. I don't keep finding more. Sorry. That was my number 11. So it dropped down quite a bit. Like John was saying for his number 20.

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I don't know if people are going to still have this one. I think maybe. But it is The Crown, Royal Destroyer on Metal Blade Records. This record's an absolute fucking dog, man. It never stops coming after you. It never lets up. It's just song after song of relentless chopper sick balls death metal. That's been just a joy for me to spin all year. So I'm glad it hung on because, you know, when you're doing that,

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That list at the end, like everybody says, it's like musical chairs. What's going to make it? Especially the very, the last like two or three, like what's going to just get on the list at the very end? So, um, yeah, I love the crown. It came out early and, um, it hangs on. I think that was really like, that may have been my number two at mid year. Yeah. It was high for a bunch of us. Yeah. Dude, that's a great album. It really is. I think it's their best album actually. And they've been around a long time. What was the last one? Cobra, Cobra speed venom. Yeah.

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Yeah. And that listed with us a bunch too. Yeah. But nice to see a band that's been around for that long making these kind of career defining albums really. Yeah. Matt. My number 24, Der Weg, Einer Freiheit, which in German means the way of freedom. They are a German post-metal band with some kind of black metal influences. This is their fifth album. You know, I don't have much else to say other than it is kind of your typical German.

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German post-metal. Aggressive, artistic, good. I like it. Yeah. It's good stuff. Could be a Wilson. Could be. I do have it marked for that. Feels like a Wilson. Wilson! That's awesome, George. See how many times we get sued. Somebody has to listen to the podcast first. I'm feeling pretty good.

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Oh, boy. Yeah. All right. My number 24. Yep. This one just made it in. I think we probably all like this band. I'm not sure how many people are going to have it on their list because we didn't really talk much about it. And that is a second album from Sunless, Elam on Willow Tip. They are a up from Matt's hood, the technical death avant-garde band, avant-garde metal, similar to, I guess, Gore Guts. I think they sound a little more

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polished than Gorguts. Gorguts has a little more kind of dissonant sound, even though it's dissonant music that even the actual tones sound that way. Some was a little more polished, but it's a very good album. But as much as I like them, I got to be in the mood to listen to them because you just don't throw Gorguts on, you know, like obscure, like, yeah, I'm going to run this thing. You know, you got to be in the mood for it. And the same with Sonless. But I think I might like it more than the debut. They're a solid band and they're unique because not many bands

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playing this style of music.

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Well, I agree. I love song lists, but spoiler, it's not on my list. It's on my honorable mentions in my top 40.

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But you're right, John, you have to be in the right mood for it. But what I like about that band is that they play that kind of just crazy, just so much, so many notes in that music. But it's still accessible. So I like that. It's kind of chaotic, but accessible. You still have to be in the right.

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the right mind frame for it. So I think that's why I didn't make my list because when I started listening to it again and again, I was like, oh, I'm not feeling this today. And then another day I'd feel it. Yeah. It seems like a lot of people like this album, but it's been kind of quietly, even if it's a newer release, quietly just prodding along amongst the trees of other big albums that came out. So we bid the basis. Mitch was a decibel. He's hard to miss because he has like dreads down to his feet, but we had a chance to talk with him a little bit.

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Before it came out, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Will. I just poured myself a mead from Brimminghorn. Wolves of the Ironwood. Nice. I was going to, I almost did that one. And I can't read anything else because my glasses are upstairs. And you're old. I'm old and my glasses are upstairs. This is, I think, this says,

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the club. Cool. No, you know, I think most of us are in the club or we're in the club or are in a club at some point. And I'm still like, still my favorite by far was the goat's blood. Oh yeah. Oh my God. I want that so bad. They kept teasing that it's going to come back and it hasn't yet. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Well, all right. My number 24, this one did hold over from mid year. If you remember, they're from Germany, complete,

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The Obituary Worship, Temple of Dread. The name of the album is Hades Unleashed on Testimony Records. It is just, it is obituary. Like I've never, John Tardy from Obituary, the vocalist, has a very, very unique vocal style. And no one's ever been able to kind of match it, but this guy kind of, I shouldn't say kind of does, does. And so anyway, that's my number 24. Nice. Where was that on your mid-year?

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I will. Remember?

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He's like,

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I'm trying to unmute my mic.

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Like my mic. Well, I think I have the same mic that I got the blue,

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the blue snowball or whatever, not the snowball, the blue Yeti.

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Yes. Right. Right.

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And it's like, you have to push the unmute button just right to get it done.

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Anyway, my daughter, my daughter, Evelyn just came in because her friend is over and just said, okay, she opened the door and said, Lucy's here. No swearing because they're right outside this door. Fuck that. We can swear if we want to. So you can. Well, what's funny about that is you'll, you'll be sitting here and not swearing. And all of a sudden you're here. Oh, this is bullshit from the other room. Yeah. They're going to be the ones swearing out. So first time ever will censored on the metalheads podcast.

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He's on the second bear. Come on. Give the guy a chance. Anyway, Temple of Dread. It is great. I love it. And I struggle. I do struggle with this because they are such an obituary worship band. Like, is it original to put on my list? But I'm like, it's just so fucking good. I think if you like it a lot, it doesn't matter. You know, that's what it is. It's what you like. I just like it. Where was it on your mid-year? You remember? You know what? Come back to me.

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I kind of have to go and actually I could probably tell you about on my mid-year it was in the top 25. You know what I don't think it came out yet so I lied it was not on mid-year because I don't think it was out yet. I should probably see if it even came out this year because

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That's happened before. That one might be a Wilson, too, actually. Yeah, I kind of was Wilson. I was thinking that. And oh, by the way, I'm going to mean it. The crown was my number two. Ooh. Ooh. Number two. Ooh, or my number two. Who is number one? I, uh, so I'm just going to grab the mic. And, um, I think this might be a Wilson. I don't remember anybody talking about this record, but it's good. And I feel like you guys must have

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about it. So we shall see. And you don't have to reveal that because you'll want to save the surprise if it's on your list. But anyway, this is New Orleans black metal. No, not Goat Whore. A little more traditional black metal than one. No, Goat Whore is more traditional than these guys. It's more modern black metal. No way I'm going to pronounce this right. Mahinet? Mahinet? Does anybody know how to pronounce this? Do you guys even know it? Spell it. No. M-E-H-E-N-E-T. And the album is even worse.

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which is N-Ambu. N-G slash A-M-B. Is it French? No. Mahane. They are from New Orleans. Okay. But this is a black metal band that you guys are going to want to check out. This record is really fucking cool. And it mixes in sort of Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Which comes from some sort of voodoo tradition from Brazil that's practiced in New Orleans. So this is voodoo black metal.

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Which doesn't know justice. It's a really well-written black metal album. It's not my only black metal album. I'm kind of surprised you guys don't know about it, to be honest with you. No, no, that deserves Wilson, crickets, and cicadas. Trust me, this is going to be, this will be on a couple of regret lists, I think. Regret lists. I love that I know one you don't know. All right. So. Well, we love it too, because now I got to check this fucking record out. I'm going to go with, with,

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It's probably French. In any case. I mean, yeah. And it rhymes with Benet, which now I want that. Since you're talking, you might as well keep talking. I think I got my first Wilson last time, though it was not marked as one because I thought Will might have it. But I'm pretty sure, almost positive, this is going to be a Wilson. And that is

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The band is called Domination Campaign. The album is called Onward to Glory. They're an Australian death metal band. Two of the guys from Cycroptic are in this. It's good. Is all their songs military themed? I don't think so. There was some Australian band that somebody posted that I checked out that

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Every single song. It was like, you know, all the kind of military. Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah. Onward to Gloria's Daylight Breaks, The Sniper's Gaze, The Modern Age of War. Yeah. Yeah. I checked it out. I did like it. I just didn't follow up with it much. Right. It's a newer release, isn't it? Yeah. It was like in the last month or so. Yeah. Or the last month or so that someone posted it. That was me. That was me. Yeah. Wow. All right. G'day, sir.

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G'day. My name's Wilson. I've been floating off your beautiful island for a while now. Permission to come ashore. I always wanted to start a restaurant called the Marsupial Kitchen where I just served animals with pockets. Nice. By the way, I just called Australia an island and it's probably going to piss some people off. It's a continent. They do eat kangaroo in Australia. Not often.

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I've had it at some point, like pie and a meat pie. They love meat pies down there. Yeah. I can't distinctly remember if I had it, but I'm sure I did. I lived there for a while. So have you had camel? Cause you were in the desert. Camel is disgusting. We've had that discussion. I don't, I've had a lot of other weird stuff like warthog, crocodile, alligator, kudu, oryx.

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Yeah, all kinds of, and when I was in Angola one time, I had some super crazy mystery meat. I think it was just like a giant rat kind of thing. Oh, God. Donner's driving some podcasts. All right, so we're on to number 23. There's another one from my mid-year. Most of mine did not carry over, but this one did. Not sure if it's going to be on people's lists. It was in my top 10. It was my number 10, and it is at mid-year, but it's number 23.

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here and it's ghastly mercurial passages on 20 bucks spin. This album is a is fucking psychedelic death dynamite. It's just big menacing death with a with a dose of atmospheric. I'd say meditative strangeness that offers a little something different than any other death releases this year. I always like that about this band. You know, it's death metal.

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with a twist.

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That's kind of par for the course with them.

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They are a little left of center or something.

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Yep.

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It's their version of death metal.

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Yeah.

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The last one was really good too.

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I'm sure you remember.

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Oh yeah.

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Death Velour was very good.

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Yeah.

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Death Velour.

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That's right.

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No, I have the album and I think I just kind of forgot about it.

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I feel like I forgot about, I had a busy, busy summer at work and, uh, yeah, I just feel

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like there's so many albums.

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I just kind of forgot about.

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Yeah.

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It's easy to do.

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That one fell off my list, by the way.

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That was a mid-year for me, but didn't make it. But great. And like we're saying, even if it doesn't make the list, doesn't mean it's not a great album, because it easily can make a top 50. My honorable mentions this year is longer than any other year. Agreed. Agreed. All right, number 23 was on my mid-year. I don't remember where it was. The band is Enigmatum.

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The Albums on 20 Bucks Spoon. This is their second album. I don't know if y'all remember me talking about it, but the first single came out and I literally fell in love with the Rototoms. I don't know who falls in love with Rototoms with me. What is this this year that I'm carrying? I'm completely into drums or something. Nobody gives a shit about Rototoms. I heard those Rototoms and I'm like, this is magic. Rototoms, good. Production, bad.

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Fuck the vocals, Barry. Give me those rototoms up front. It's a solid album. It's super aggressive. It's black metal with a little bit of death in there. I dig it. I like that album a lot. I have it on vinyl. Didn't make my list, though. Wow, God! I have that one marked as well. All right, John. You're knocking off all your welses pretty fast there, Matt. I know. Yeah, Matt.

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in the back half.

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Yeah.

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So before my pick, I've moved on to Fat Orange Cat Brewing.

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I don't know which one it is.

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It just says Fat Orange Cat, and it's Box of Raining Cats.

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It's like a demon cat.

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Let's see it.

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Raining cats!

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Someone just'll do the sky!

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And while it's low, it's not too cloudy a little bit.

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It's hard to see with the light.

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I could not pass up a beer that had like a demon cat on it.

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I had a good friend who

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hooked me up with two four packs of it. Is it still good, though? No, it's good. It's good. I almost just want to drink out of the can because when I visualize it, I'm just like, oh. Yeah, it's funny that you say that, dude, because I got the favorite that comes out every year is the Anchor Steam Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Oh, yeah. It's a dark, it's like a porter this year, and so it's got this lingering aftertaste that I don't taste if I don't look at it.

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So I'm drinking that one out of the bottle. That's always a fun beer to get though, Jay, every year. It's always good. They always put this little Saison kind of peppermint thing in it. Everything else about it is very beer-y. It's good this year, but a little porter-y with almost like a sediment to it. Did you say very beer-y? You said porter-y. Oh, okay. Yeah, that got lost in translation going across the ocean there. I guess so, yeah.

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I don't know I probably will be recording from here next month as well but I installed internet and it's like lightning fast the Chicago house I downloaded a 1.3 gigabyte file took four seconds so it's gonna be pretty crazy nice all right my number 23 so this was the last time that snuck onto my list

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And it's probably going to be the lowest of everyone if you have it on your list. So this was almost a J album, but it wormed its way onto my list. Chemist? That is Worm. Well, you know what, Mark? Yeah, let's, no. It was Worm Forever Glade off a 20-buck spin. I like this album, but I'm not a super Funeral Doom fan. So the Funeral Doom they have on it, I like it, but it kind of detracts.

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from me a little bit because the death doom stuff is awesome and i kind of dig and

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somebody can correct me if i'm wrong here it feel like some of the guitar solos and some of the

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riffs have an 80s vibe to them a little bit in in tonal yes sound in the sound it just feels that

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way a little bit and it's kind of cool that they don't do these typical death metal or death doom

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solos the solos are a little melodic amongst the death doom and i think that's kind of cool

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And the more I listened to it, the more I thought, yeah, it's really hard to keep this off my list. So it just, and again, I don't mind some funeral doom, but it just kind of hurts. It's funny you say that, John, because I don't see this as funeral, I just see this as death doom. I literally listened to the entire album when I was raking leaves about two hours ago. Yeah, so they just, they get, it's not traditional death or funeral doom, but they do slow it down a lot though in some parts. And I know that's new for them on this album from,

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I haven't listened to any of the previous ones.

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But it's a very good album.

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And I'm sure I'll listen to it more as time goes on.

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And I expect that everyone else will have it much higher.

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I will say it's not on my list.

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I like that album quite a bit.

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And it didn't make my list.

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I don't know what it is.

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It's almost like, I don't know, too familiar.

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I just liked other death albums better.

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But when you said 80s, this is weird.

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The first thing that popped in my head is that song Take On Me. Take On Me. Obviously referring to 80s metal. Right, right. I know. That's what's weird about it, right, John? Well, weird for you. Take On Me, John. It's only weird if you don't like it. They're Norwegian. That's cool. That song is like one of the biggest songs ever outside of the United States. It's like huge all around the world.

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to this day. Do you remember that black and white

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cartoon video they made?

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It was just picturing it in my head. It's almost like

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it's animated.

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Pencil-drawn animation kind of.

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Yeah, it's like pencil-drawn animation

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over live action.

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The time that came out, that was pretty

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well regarded as cutting-edge

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type video. I was like,

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I'm not that big on the song, but then as he yelled, they're like,

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yeah, okay, it's a pretty cool song.

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Welcome to the 80s pop music.

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That's one of Barb's

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favorite songs, so every time it comes on,

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we crank it. So I'm well acquainted with it. Yeah. All right. Well, my number 23. This is a band that I like, kind of like, not Temple of Drive, but kind of like, I forget who we're talking about, where I like their last album better. Yes. Yes. So this is another one where I still love this album. I just like the last one better, but this is,

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and the album is called where fear and weapons meet they're from ukraine on napalm records

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i'm a sucker for any kind of band that just does historical like all the songs are about

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historical stuff so 1914 is obviously about war one kind of like um you know xdo does everything

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about the roman empire uh for a while god to throne did everything about war one as well so

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So 1914, yeah, they did. All the lyrics, everything is about World War I. And that has a super special place in my heart. You're not just singing about traditional death metal or black metal or Satan or whatever, Christianity, whatever it is. We're going to focus on historical time and warfare. And so I think it's really cool. And I do like the last one better, but this one's still really good. And it lands on my number 23.

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Hey, Will.

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Well done!

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I think Jay might have it on this list.

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I'm going to have 16 Wilson's.

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I think Jay might have it, actually, because he likes that band a lot.

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We'll see.

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Will, I know you probably don't like the band Sabaton, but a lot of their stuff is all historical, military-driven lyrics.

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Is Sabaton the guys from Trans-Siberian Orchic Store?

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Oh, no, that's Sabaton.

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Sabaton.

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I think they're hot.

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They're Swedish, right, George, I think?

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They are.

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They're a power metal band, but later on... I know of Sabaton. I just don't know. Remind me to tell you this story about them. I told George's story. They met with, I think, one of the last remaining people who knew the pilot, Charlie Brown. Do you know his story about how he was in a dogfight with one of the famous German pilots? Are you talking about the Red Baron? I thought this was World War II. Wait, are you talking about the Peanuts? No, his name is Charlie... No, I'm not joking. His name is Charlie Brown. He's a former pilot.

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that was one of the famous dog fighters in World War II. But the whole Snoopy thing is probably based on that. Snoopy, so that's all based on World War I. The Red Baron, that's all in World War I. No, this is World War II. No, no, like the actual P.S. comics. Yeah, right. It was World War I. Anyway, real quick, just a quick, they were in a fight and the German pilot would not attack the plane that Charlie Brown was flying because it was, I guess, damaged and he could see the smoke coming from the plane.

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And they were, you could see the other guys working in the bottom of the plane, you know, because those World War II jets were a lot bigger. And so, you know, they'd have to be down below in some of the cockpits where they could shoot or whatever, the gun turret areas. Anyway, he escorted them back over outside of mainland Europe because he wouldn't fire on them. And he threatened anyone that was flying with him for Germany that if they shot at him, they'd shoot them down himself. Anyway, these two guys at some point after the war became best friends.

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Wow. And so the guy they were in, they met with, I think it was in Denver was one of the last remaining people from that crew that was on that plane. And so I'm not a Sabaton fan. I was like, this is bad-ass. Cause they were all just like literally sitting with this 90 something year old guy listening to him. Tell the story about flying with. And Sabaton wrote a song about this. No, no, I was just saying that when you were talking about, you like bands that, that did stuff, it reminded me of that story. I just heard of them. They were very big on military history also. Yeah. Okay.

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I hear John's reference point is important. He's right about the thing. They're on the heavier end of power metal, though. They're not like, you know, they've got more grit to them. It is cool that bands write about real things, though. I like that because a lot of most bands don't, you know. So like I've been listening to Primordial a ton lately, and they do a lot of songs about real events. What the fuck's going on with them? When is there going to be?

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Well, he's got a podcast. I just started listening to it. He may have mentioned

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them working on it. I don't know yet because I'm trying to catch up on the podcast. Listen to the old episodes. That dude's fucking super smart.

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He's Irish. He's had that for a while. They're all smart. He has, John. Yeah, it's a couple of years now. He started in the pandemic, so it's been a couple of years.

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That's a sad statement. It started in the pandemic, so it's been a couple of years.

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Two years, right?

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Hey, Marcus, he and I stood next to each other in Atlanta after they played at Prog Power and ordered beers together at the bar. Nice, John. He was still all painted up. His face was still all painted up. And I was like, he's a little intense for me. You know, so I just walked on. Yeah, you should check out his podcast. I'm like cherry picking the ones that look most interesting to me, but he'll interview different bands and people from bands on there. He talks about all different kinds of subjects, you know, from the pandemic to music.

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to politics. He talks about the making of the primordial albums. It's really cool. I didn't know that even existed, but I just started listening to it. So I've been enjoying that one. It's one of my top 10 Prog Power shows. That was by far the most intense they'd ever had there. So they were awesome. Cool. Seems an odd choice for Prog Power. He, well, they, they, they're not proggy, but they, they are not traditional.

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They're folky a little bit in some of their sound. They have a Celtic vibe going there. So Glenn likes to expand out to bring in a different band every year now that kind of opens the eyes of the, you know, power metal guys that love to sing about, you know, being on a ship sailing on the sea of G. John, I've never seen the band and they're like one of my favorite bands. So they're at MDF. Good. I saw them in Germany. We do an MDF. What the heck?

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- I don't know. We should do it. Alright, who's next? Me. Will? So here's the weird thing. Oh, Jack, yeah. And you know, let's just call this universal conflagration or whatever the word is. I happen to have two records on my list that are centered on World War One. Markison has a good memory and Will knows exactly how good this record because it was, is the 23rd best record of this year, 1914.

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I retract your Wilson. It was hard for me not to make a face when you said it. No, I knew you had on your list because you had the most deadpan face ever. You didn't make any emotional like tweak to your face at all. Don't you take that volleyball back right now? I am taking it back. So Jay, did you like the last one a little bit better? I actually like this one better to be honest with you. I don't know why to say that is, but this also kind of fits into one of my favorite eras of metal too. I mean, this really is kind of

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like dirty, maybe late 80s, you know, kind of deathy blacky stuff, so to speak. I mean, it's almost got a weird slight Celtic frost vibe to it, really. Like, yeah. Yeah. In any case, right up my alley. And I also like, I think they do the World War thing, World War One thing in a cool, like that's the spookiest fight war. You know what I mean? Like, those barren landscapes and all that. I mean, the chemical warfare, like everything.

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everything like the trench warfare like it was just i mean that's where the term shell shock came from which is really just ptsd yeah um well there's a great there's a great documentary called the great war that i would highly recommend you watch sometimes it's a big long one but it has you guys might have seen this it has these uh films of french officers who had ptsd or french soldiers who had shell shock and they are fucked up dude like one of them every time he sees a colonel's helmet or something or hat he hides under a table and they have like

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actual footage of this shit. In any case. There's another good documentary on World War I. It was called Downton Abbey. That's actually World War II. No, that's one. It's right after the Titanic, I think, and then World War I and everything. Yeah. Well, can we talk about how I know Jay better than George? Yeah, I'm actually done, dude. Fine, fine, fine. Let's see if that holds up, Marcus. So I now have 15 volleyballs instead of 16. It's funny because that was

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That was one of mine. Oh, really? Yeah, that was one of my Wilsons. I was like, I don't know who's going to have this. Hey, Will, your balls are shrinking. They're down to size large. It's still extra. We've got big balls, and he's got big balls. So my 23 for my next volleyball. Sticking to Australia and also prosthetic records, We're Wolves. What a time to be alive. Oh, that held.

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Wow. Barely. Just barely. I was looking at our albums of the month and I saw that George and I was like, I wonder if you'll keep this because that was so that was like what four years ago that came out. Yeah. It was like January. I think. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I that one stood out when I looked at everyone's list. Was that high on your list George? I don't. It was maybe. It was higher than this. That was for sure. But yeah, I don't remember where. Probably.

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I think it came out in either January or February. There was three albums that came out. You said Werewolves, right? Yep. I was like Werewolves. And there's two other ones. And I let my kids pick because I couldn't decide. They picked something different. Maybe they did pick that. There was hardly anything in January this year. Nice. Nice to see an old holdover on one of our lists. That's good. Yeah, that's nice. And probably a Will.

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It's marked as a Wilson. We'll see. It's definitely a Wilson. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Wilson! All right, Markisan. Let's see here. Number 22. Another holdover. I hate putting it here, to be honest with you, because I do love this album, but this is where it goes. Hey, you know what? The amount of albums that we listen to, if it makes a list, it's awesome. I agree. I agree. I agree. But you know how it is in this bottom

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and you're like oh man i love this album why is it so low and it is a project roan wolf edge of saturn on dive mom records just a triumphant u.s power metal beasts monstrous hooks infectious songwriting i would say this thing is roared to life by a twin turbo 6.5 liter v12 thrash motor that's what i like about uh this band that has

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Really thrashy power metal. And whenever I want to like feel good, I throw this fucker on. I think you just described the greatest advertisement for a woman's vibrator ever. So it's fast. I like how Will probably has that for some reason. What the vibrator? Yeah. Do you know they're all called Bob? Bob.

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I learned all kinds of things I learned. Oh boy. Yeah. Remember the daughters are in the next room. That's why I said, yeah. All right. Man, I'll be really curious to see what everybody else has with us.

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I think a big reason this is on my list. A, I love this album, but I'm also reading Bruce's book and that could have like some, some undertones for me. Iron Maiden, the writing's on the wall. You mean Senjitsu? Oh shit, sorry. Senjitsu. That's a great song. That's a great song, Matt. What's the album? Top 25 singles. I'm just going with one song for each. Yeah, I might have eight Iron Maidens on his list this year. Oh boy. How drunk are you, Matt?

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Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. My speech is actually still pretty good. So once it slows down, probably by like 18. Dude, you never change. You just, you get hidden because you're in a blanket for like half a hour. You just disappear off the screen lower and lower. And then pretty soon we're like, is that just a bed? You just see a bunch of wool and then two eyeballs. It's Matt, then the ghost of Matt. Yeah, whereas Markisan just exits the screen quickly. Matt just slowly fades. I'm a lot more dramatic.

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I'm wearing shorts man it's hot in here I have shorts on too but not helping I love doing this cast so much I feel I know we do it monthly I feel like it's too long in between episodes to be honest oh yeah we'll be doing this you know when I started this the intent was to do it weekly oh yeah that might be too much yeah and that quickly turned into twice a month and then you know eventually once a month because it's just too hard to schedule

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Each episode is a full month's worth of episodes. Yeah, I mean, I could break each episode into four parts and just parts of the week. Or we could do several shorter episodes. We don't do short. We only do long. We only do long, Will, in honor of you. I know. Long and thick. Crazy. We could have so many more guests if we just do them short. If we had guests, they wouldn't be short. That's an hour right there to shorten it.

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Get rid of guests. Just do guests. And that's it. Interview period. Done. Done. That's not the part I care about. Yeah. George's OCD. I actually really thought we were going to just not do guests, but then it always happens because we want to talk to people. Well, you know, it's a new year coming up and I'm still on the fence. So we'll see. Really? Okay. You got to do at least one if I can secure it. Well, I know. I was like worried that you'd kill me if I said that and then you got what you were talking to. We'll stop after that one. Well, we have to do two.

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because I talked to Trevor and he really wants to come on. And Warren. Yeah. Well, yeah. Okay. Fuck it. I know. I know. I know. Guests is different than bands. Yeah. And Trevor is family. So that doesn't count. Yeah. Right. Right. Friends. Cause he's not in family. He is in a band, but if you're in a band and family, then it's okay. But if he comes on, can we only talk about Abhoria? Cause there's no clean setting. I'm sure. I'm sure you'll, you'll.

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I'm going to rip him apart.

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He's the nicest guy and he's super handsome and hot.

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However, I'm going to rip his ass apart.

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I hope he rips you apart.

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I don't want to talk to that guy in the far left of my screen.

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He's short and skinny.

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He's not going to rip you.

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He's not short.

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He's tall.

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He's tall.

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He's like six, seven foot.

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He's tall.

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You're super old, Will.

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You might underestimate your skills at this point.

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I think he's like six four.

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I have one son.

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He's six four.

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He's pretty tall.

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I have to share my thoughts on Trevor really quick. And it's just that my wife and I like to, we go hiking and do a lot of stuff. This is getting good. No, no, but Trevor's life exhausts me. I don't know if you guys see how often they are. Oh yeah. Alicia. Yeah. Every fucking weekend. They're going axes or riding horses or sailing. They going to Hawaii. Well, I think, you know, I, we do a lot here. I just don't post that much. I'm not a social media. Like Alicia loves.

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posting about every single thing.

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And she's good at it.

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She's good at it.

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And I love them.

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They came to Hawaii and we did the hike and everything.

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That was really fun.

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But yeah,

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they do do a lot of shit.

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Guess how many kids they have?

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Yeah.

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0.0.0.

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I don't know if anybody feeds their dogs.

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They're never home.

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I like how Jay's thinking about, how are you doing all this?

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What are the ins and outs?

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Well, it's funny.

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I feel like we do a lot.

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And just looking at her feed is exhausting to me.

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But yeah.

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Oh, man.

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We got a dog now.

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So now it's like having a third kid.

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Nice.

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What kind of dog do you have?

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It's a mutt.

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Perfect.

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Yeah, it is.

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What's his name?

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What's his name? Waffles. Waffles. Yeah. I'll tell you this. I will tell you this. It's a girl dog. And if it was a boy dog, the... Pancakes. It is funny because my kids love to eat waffles. Yeah. And so it's weird. What do you want for breakfast this morning? Waffles? You're going to eat the dog? Waffles. You're going to eat the dog? That's such a fucking dad joke right there. I know.

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No, it was going to be Dio. If I was so against getting a dog, if we're going to get a dog, I'm like, the only way I'm going to get a dog is if, if we have a boy dog named Dio and that's it. Period. Done. End discussion. Girl dog, Wendy. And then we got, it was a foster. It's called, and it was a foster fail, which means you didn't foster a dog. You ended up adopting it. And it's our dog now. And his name is Waffles. Cause it's the only thing that we could agree on. Sure. Named it Dia. I,

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I thought of everything except for know what I didn't think about waffles. I'm in the same boat like if we get another dog which we will once our we have a chihuahua that's on his way out and we would want to get another dog to get with the one we have. I want a boy and his fucking name will be deal. There is no choice. That's the only option. Like I mean you got it. You got a William and Evelyn. I have a William and Evelyn. You should have a DO dog and we're not going to get another dog. But if we have a dog.

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If it happened to get a boy dog, it will be Dio. Matt's right to get a Chihuahua and named him Dio since Dio is such a fucking tiny guy. So that's a perfect name for a Chihuahua. Well, this one would be a pit bull, but maybe that. Oh, you already know the dog you want. Wow. You need to call that guy obituary. Tracy wants a dog, but I just don't want to. I would end up taking care of the dog most of the time because I'm home all the time and it's a lot of work. She just wants to like run with her.

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with it and play with it and I'd have to do all the work.

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That's my kids, but I have to say that I was very adamant.

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I do not want a dog and I was very adamant.

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Like I'm not going to be the sole caretaker of this dog.

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And so far we've had this dog for,

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and it's only been a couple of months or like a month and a half,

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but I have very little responsibility for this dog.

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So that's good.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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Cause I'm like, it's, cause I didn't want it.

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So it's falling a lot on the wife and the kids.

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Yeah.

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That's great.

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Welcome to the Metal Dogs Podcast. Dogs are good for kids. That is part of it. Getting that responsibility of taking care of it. That's a really good point. It's a lot of responsibility. My son cries every time he has to pick up its poop. I still have nightmares about forgetting to feed my freaking hamster. I go to my parents' house, even though it's not in the same state. I go to my parents' house, and there's this

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this hamster cage with this desiccated hamster carcass because I forgot to feed it. Because I didn't take care of my pets for shit. I still have this dream of like, oh shit, I forgot to feed you. Yeah, anyway. Alright, enough about pets. Where are we? No idea. I think Markison was the last to go. No, I haven't gone. I did my Iron Maiden singles. Okay, alright, so that means, yeah. Yeah, I feel like we didn't address this enough.

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- Iron Maiden?

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- No, I don't fucking know.

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- Just go.

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- I'm actually really curious to see if Iron Maiden's gonna make a lot less or not.

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- Right.

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- It's gonna make a few.

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- I don't think it's gonna be a...

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- Well, it's not gonna be a Wilson award.

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- Yeah, it won't be a Wilson.

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- I did not mark this as one of those.

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- Does that mean, is it John's turn?

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- Yes.

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- I can go whenever you guys are done.

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- Go Johnny.

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All right. My number 22 is a holdover from the mid-year. It's Suffering Hour, The Sickly Reckoning, Brown Lorde record. Another band from my neck of the woods. They are a kind of death, black, avant-garde metal band. They have a very unique sound, especially in their guitar tones. It's almost abrasive, but it's a pretty cool album. I think I like it more than their debut, which I'm new to this band, so I kind of checked

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everything from them.

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But this is a good album.

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It starts out on a high end.

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I think it kind of tails off a little bit towards the end for me.

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But if you want something that's different,

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but still has death and black vibes to it and is very avant-garde-ish,

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then I would check this out.

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I find this album is just relentless.

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Just fucking relentless.

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It is.

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The opening song is like that.

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Then you get to the second song, which is a little slower,

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but it's the sound.

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It's almost.

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It is avant-garde.

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Yeah.

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It almost sounds like an elephant in the guitar. And I only said it because it reminds me of a King Crimson song from the early 80s, which I've only ever heard two bands ever do that sound. You have to hear it, but it's very relentless and good stuff. And it survived. So from the eye of a deer. Okay. Will. My number 22, Creeping Death. Their album name,

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is the edge of existence they're from texas on e1 records uh this is just uh you know i have to say these guys played atlas before i did not see the show because i think it was like the day after decibel fest um which usually means like i'm a complete fucking wreck um this is a couple years ago this is probably like 2018 or 19 or something like that um and i obviously the the the name comes from the metallica

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I was not super, super impressed with the first album, but this second album is amazing to me. Like this is like, you kind of like one of those things, like you hit your stride, like you found your groove, you've formed as a band, you went out in the world, you've toured, you play with all these other bands, and then now like you've hit your stride, and I think this album is really good, Creeping Death, check it out.

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It is, you know, I hate saying this word, old school death metal. I almost feel like it's new school. New school death metal to me is like the two mold sound. It's slightly buried vocals. It's just like relentless. Everything is kind of mixed together at the same volume, except the vocals are kind of buried. Sludgy. Yeah, it has a sludgy caveman kind of, or cave, like mixed in a cave kind of thing.

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But anyway, Creeping Death. I missed Toombo. Toombo needs to put something out. Now, that's stated just along the lines of the Creeping Death thing. This is the big 40th year of Metallica here in San Francisco. They declared it Metallica Day yesterday, blah, blah, blah. I tell you only because a friend of mine went to the show last night and they played Trapped in Rice. That would have been fun and cool too. Trapped in Rice? Did their bone fall in the water? A lot of Asian people here, you know that well. Chinatown.

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What did you think of that set list, Jay? Because it was supposed to be a career spanning. I was like, ah. It was one from every album. It was one from every album and it got uncool right where their career gets uncool. Four songs in order. Four songs in order. They went Hit the Lights, Trapped Under Eyes, Orion. I don't know what they did off the next one. It kind of falls apart. Honestly,

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Then I have to place left and a whole new crowd came in. I was listening to James Hepto was on, I guess I was hitting through the satellite radio, Sirius XM and, and, and they played, they had on, I don't know if it was on channel 40 or 38 or whatever. They, they played like all nightmare long. Is that as like a newer song? That's death magnetic. That's my favorite song on that album. I love that song. Yeah. They, they played that. And then James Hepto came on and I literally,

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He was like, oh, well, we could change channels, kids, because who cares? You actually heard what he said? It wasn't just like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. After, like, I hate to say it, but I do not give a shit what James Hetfield says anymore. Yeah. It's still pretty cool that they at least gave the fans that wanted to go see it a full retrospective. I just don't like most of it. That's all. And they're selling a 40-anniversary ring that's just as,

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Like 40 with like a. Four X's. And it's like $300. Yeah. Wait, you're, is that what you're wearing now? No. It's a cock ring. The, uh, well, they, um, they, uh, they've got the Chase Center all weekend, John, so they're like playing. Wow. Yeah. Uh, any who. That brings us to me. That brings us to me. This, um, I was, I have my old list in front of me and it's ironic what happens from mid-year to end of year and that this was my fourth highest

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on the mid-year. And it is now fourth from the bottom. So there you go. Doesn't mean it's not a great record. And I point that comment at Will. I do like it better than the last one, but I like the last one a lot too. Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined. I thought they put a really solid fucking record together this year. That's definitely a Wilson. Don't they ever? Yeah, yeah. No one's having that on their list. Yeah. Not a lot of comments need to be made about them. But I enjoyed this record and I put it on quite a bit this year. So Cannibal Corpse,

01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:28.780
continues to put out a very consistent output. Indeed. Cool. So my number 22 is also one of my albums marked as a Wilson. And this is a band called Malignant Altar, Realms of Exquisite Morbidity on Dark Descent Records from the United States of America. Fuck yeah. That just came out, didn't it? It did. America.

01:13:29.300 --> 01:13:59.280
Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. I told John I'm shooting for the American. My balls America. I'm shooting for the America fuck yeah word this time. You know it's funny that you that quite your question too John because I'm thinking maybe at some point it could be next episode but I'm curious to know what everybody's latest release was. I like that. I think we probably all have some late stuff. I almost had one that came on came out yesterday. I was telling John you know I almost

01:13:59.320 --> 01:14:29.280
I almost always know this is probably the only time we've done a list where I didn't make a change today and I tried to make a change this morning I there's something to force it in I tried to shoehorn it in it came out yesterday and I was like oh I like this and I'm like all right and I'm like comparing it and I'm like okay this one versus this one I'm like no no no I got to keep that on there about this one I got to keep it on there and eventually I was like fuck

01:14:29.400 --> 01:14:58.040
Literally you guys at the like late at night were like, oh, I had to put it on my list. Yeah. Morbid angel. It was, that was, yeah. I couldn't remember which one it was. I remember you guys like, Sam's list is at like 10 o'clock last night. Honestly, John, for a second there, it's like, what creator released a record last night? No one. You see Jay like typing like this off to the side real quick, changing his list. I haven't heard it, but I'm sure it's good. It was, it was morbid angel. George and I had it on our kingdom.

01:14:59.360 --> 01:15:27.880
or whatever. Yeah, I remember that because that was before I was on the cast and I was listening to that one. Yeah. I definitely have a very, very recent release. Oh, boy. I shouldn't even talk. Me, too. I have a couple. December 30th is my latest one. I think November is my latest and one of my Novembers is very high, too. Oh, I got December like two weeks ago, maybe one or two weeks ago.

01:15:28.700 --> 01:15:58.040
I think Malignant Alder was only like a week ago. Yeah. But that's, I think two of those songs have been out for a while. People have been talking about it for a long time. Yeah. I think Matt, I feel like you mentioned it a while ago that you were, you were digging it. Yeah. You were digging it? What the fuck, man? Well, digging it, digging it, same thing. You're burrowing in somewhere. Did you say digging or digging? Exactly. It's shaped like a shovel. Markisan, let's do you. If you know what I'm saying. Markisan, you do you.

01:15:58.680 --> 01:16:03.100
I always do number 21 number 21 Q Wilson

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this is I don't think it was at mid-year actually yeah it must have come out after it is a

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felled the intimate earth on transcending

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oh it had a weird

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swallowed a little ocean there

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I'll put Doppler effect on that one. Did that come out right after the mid-year? I think it did, yeah. Yeah. Because it would have been on my mid-year for sure. It's sorrowful, wintry black metal with gorgeous violin work. It instantly transports me to a dark tundra on some outer rim world where the snow never stops falling.

01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:53.980
that kind of the ambiance.

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So I haven't, well, we get a lot of new bands that have different instrumentation on it, but this one is just violin.

01:17:01.510 --> 01:17:08.840
And for the longest time, you know, there was a lot of doom bands that, that put that violin in, but I hadn't heard it as much.

01:17:09.390 --> 01:17:11.620
And I think Phil just does it really, really well.

01:17:12.500 --> 01:17:13.100
Violin for.

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Yeah.

01:17:14.690 --> 01:17:22.180
I mean, I just, I love the record when it first came out, but it had been a while since I spun it.

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So I revisited it and I'm supposed to get the vinyl, but you know how vinyl is these days. Like it's coming out like 2023. So yeah, I love it. Really like it. Nice. Matt. Okay. For me, it's going to be Withered, Fair Lauren. This is her fifth album, US, kind of black and death metal. But I dig this album because it has a little bit of a stoner sludge influence in there at times.

01:17:52.160 --> 01:18:22.020
It reminds me of that band Vol, V-H-O-L, or super early Mastodon. You know, just black metal with a little bit of moodiness to it. Good stuff. Mastodon. That's right. It's kind of bitchy. Exactly. Mastodon might have been the biggest. I wonder how many people have Hush and Grimmed on their list, George. You know, what was it? If it is your number one, I may have to gouge.

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On Bandcamp,

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it is better than anything in a long time,

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but it's not that good.

01:18:30.810 --> 01:18:31.120
You know,

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Bandcamp,

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you know,

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if you look in your feed,

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they have like recommendations.

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Yesterday,

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Bandcamp recommended in grind core,

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Mastodon.

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I don't know which one it was.

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It was like Leviathan or something.

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Oh,

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got mentioned.

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It can be.

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Yeah.

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I was like,

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this is not grind core.

01:18:49.700 --> 01:18:49.760
Yeah.

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They do that a lot.

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It's like having your mom buy a metal record for you. Do you like these guys? I like metal. I like slipknot. My wife, bless her heart, because we live in San Francisco, there's frequently there's stories in the newspaper about Metallica. They do something around here. And my wife, she'll be like, oh, listen to this. And she'll want to read me the item from the paper. I'm like, please, God, just stop.

01:19:21.240 --> 01:19:51.180
I mean, like, it's like having your mom be like, honey, don't you like? And then Jay, she'll drop you like a Y&T story and you'll be like, oh, my day was made. Yeah, well, yeah, well, I would just say this, Jay, the fact that she even cares enough. Exactly. To read you the article. Yeah, Jay. Shame on you, Jay. You're right. You're right. I'm a terrible person and a bad husband. Yeah. And Will,

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I'm going to hold onto my eyes today. Thank you. All right. Who's shouting things next? Me. My turn. My number 21. Marcus, you said something earlier that I was glad to hear. You mentioned U.S. power metal, and I'm so glad to hear the differentiation because there is a difference between U.S. power metal and European power metal. Absolutely. Big time difference. And this band has some U.S. power metal, and they also have some progressive metal, and they remind me of a former

01:20:21.240 --> 01:20:51.200
a band that I know Jay and I talk about a lot and I believe other people on the podcast like them a this album is silver talon decadence and decay from M-theor audio they're US like I said prog slash US power metal band and they have a never more vibe to them that is absolutely unmistakable but they still have their own sound this album wasn't going to make it on my list but then I gave another spin I was like it's just there's too many hooks

01:20:51.200 --> 01:21:20.460
on this album for me not to want to include this. It's uncanny how much he sounds like War O'Dayne. And he's got War O'Dayne's power. So I hope that these guys are able to do some more stuff like that because I do miss Nevermore a lot. Anyway, it was my number seven at mid-year and it survived. It dropped, but I still like it a lot. It's a very good album. And if you like Nevermore-esque type kind of proggy, US powery, thrashy sound, then give these guys a spin.

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That's a good, I mean, obviously a good comparison, you know, love Nevermore. But the band, you know, has completely has its own sound to an energy, I think, too, which I like about that band. But yeah, cool. Glad to see it survive, John. Yeah. Did I miss Jay's pick? No, it's Will Stern and then Jay. Oh, shit. But they get they get they've been getting confused for like six years. You know, Will will be Jay, Jay will be Will. So that's right. We haven't done that in a long time. Well, John is the real Jay.

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I'm glad somebody finally saw that

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I mean come on

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I recused myself since it was

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me you know it's gonna happen

01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:03.640
this year oh there it is

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there it is

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what year is that one Markisan

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let's see

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2019 I think it has to be

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I've got

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I've got every year

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oh no you know what this is

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2017 dude

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I've got one bottle of each year. Goodbye. Don't worry, he's going to spill it most of it. Can you start getting the rope out? Oh, shit. Is that a rainbow? You know, I have all the blinds closed. I don't think there's any fucking rainbows. You better open the blinds. It's way too sunny. What does it mean? Awesome pick, John. Thank you. Maybe a Wilson? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. No. Oh, yes. It survived.

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My number 21. This will be a Wilson. Cue it. This was on my mid-year list. And it was on my mid-year list as some number. I'm not going to bother with you. But Horndall. That's a good album. I forgot about that album. Krusty Metal from Stockholm. We know on Prosthetic Records. This is one of the ones that stuck with me throughout the year.

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I was.

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That's fucking January, isn't it?

01:23:25.380 --> 01:23:26.780
It's early. Yeah, it's early.

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I just, I love that kind of music.

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Like I love like doom death metal and doom metal are my favorites.

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And then there's death doom, which you combine the two, which is my super, super favorite.

01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:40.080
It's like my price is right.

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Wonder twin powers.

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Okay.

01:23:42.320 --> 01:23:44.180
Showdown one of twins power activate.

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Are you okay?

01:23:46.620 --> 01:23:47.120
Markisan.

01:23:49.220 --> 01:23:49.600
Sorry.

01:23:49.660 --> 01:23:50.620
I'm just...

01:23:50.700 --> 01:23:51.660
Gargling stout?

01:23:53.200 --> 01:23:55.240
Sometimes a beer hits you and you're just like,

01:23:55.510 --> 01:23:57.900
I need to sit back, relax, and feel the orgasm inside my body.

01:23:57.920 --> 01:23:59.680
Ease to sit back between my legs.

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You look like you're having an orgasmatron.

01:24:02.190 --> 01:24:02.680
I am.

01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:04.880
There's an orgasmatron in my mouth.

01:24:05.220 --> 01:24:09.920
He looked like he was tilting his head back like a sword swaller waiting for Will.

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Jay and I are having a David Lee Roth moment together.

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I'm sorry to interrupt you with my antics.

01:24:17.220 --> 01:24:17.620
No, no, no.

01:24:18.280 --> 01:24:19.380
Horndall, lake drinker.

01:24:20.300 --> 01:24:49.340
great, great, great, like kind of just Swedish. You know, there's two countries that do metal the best, United States and Sweden. Yeah. It is good, but. England's pretty good. Wilson! That is one of my ones. I have 16 Wilson's, well, not 15. That's one of them. I think that will definitely be a Wilson for sure. Yes, it will be. But it is good. I acknowledge that. I don't think everybody even had that in mid-year.

01:24:49.420 --> 01:24:50.300
I didn't know.

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Well,

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so moving forward to me,

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I did have it on my mid-year,

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but yeah,

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you got Wilson done that one.

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I liked it.

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It was my 25 mid-year,

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so I just,

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it just didn't survive,

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but it was early in the year.

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It was something I was listening to quite a bit.

01:25:06.440 --> 01:25:07.160
My 20,

01:25:07.540 --> 01:25:08.460
whatever the fuck this is,

01:25:08.730 --> 01:25:08.820
uh,

01:25:09.440 --> 01:25:10.160
thank you.

01:25:10.510 --> 01:25:10.600
Um,

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is the first time I've ever had a record by this band.

01:25:14.410 --> 01:25:14.500
Um,

01:25:14.900 --> 01:25:18.380
they've been around for a good long time on my first time.

01:25:18.440 --> 01:25:19.220
I've had them on my list.

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It's not because I even know their discography enough to know that this is a particularly good record for them. It's just one I got. I was like, oh, if I could really dig the shit out of this and listen to it a lot this year. I also know there's some other fans on the podcast, but I wonder if this could be a Wilson. Should we have fans? Holy shit. Hell yeah. No, I mean some of you guys might be fans of this band. Oh, right, right. We don't have fans. 21 for me is Skepticism Companion. Oh, nice. That's on George's list for sure. I say again,

01:25:49.280 --> 01:26:19.260
I've never put these guys on my list before but for whatever reason right place right time struck a chord with me this year and was in pretty regular rotation for a while so hey did you ever listen to their last album ordeal no I'll get it because I do like this one I will say this get our deal because that was completely one take live live in front of a studio audience I remember hearing about that from you guys okay ordeal is amazing it's amazing because you do have

01:26:19.280 --> 01:26:48.540
that studio audience reaction and just like how tight they are. They played the whole album all the way through. One take. I'm assuming one take. It was a record and they just put it out. Here's our record. We'll put it out. By the way, we're going to record this in front of a live studio audience. One take, we're done. I'm assuming one take. I'm sure they mixed it down.

01:26:50.140 --> 01:26:52.480
It was probably a small studio, but it was

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ordeal.

01:26:55.050 --> 01:26:55.420
Awesome, dude.

01:26:56.200 --> 01:26:58.420
I remember you discussing that

01:26:58.420 --> 01:27:00.360
when it happened, so maybe it was on your list, whatever

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year that was. It was on my list.

01:27:01.990 --> 01:27:04.100
It was probably four years ago or something.

01:27:05.060 --> 01:27:05.960
One of my all-time

01:27:06.130 --> 01:27:06.820
favorite live shows.

01:27:08.600 --> 01:27:10.000
It's a live show, live album,

01:27:10.140 --> 01:27:11.980
but it's not a live album. It's a new album.

01:27:13.380 --> 01:27:13.760
Cool.

01:27:15.660 --> 01:27:16.260
George, I pass

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the baton to you.

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All right, number 21. Thinking this is probably another Wilson. From the United States of America, not Manowar. It is Imperialist Zenith on Transcending Obscurity Records. This one kind of surprised me. Huh? Great record. Yeah, yeah, it surprised me. I pre-ordered this like on a Bandcamp Friday. I was just like, oh, okay.

01:27:47.520 --> 01:28:15.040
go ahead and get this. I don't normally pre-order because I get the fuck you at the pre-order on band campus is really like to say because you pre-order it and then the day comes and they don't release it until like the next day. But they're pretty that label is pretty good about that though. I think aren't they? Yeah. But I pre-ordered it anyway and I like it a lot. So that's some of the best looking final this year too was was on that album. I thought cover and all the variants. Yeah.

01:28:17.520 --> 01:28:47.460
Yeah, I spun that a bit on the plane. It did not make my list, but I really, really liked that record. So it could be a Wilson, huh? It threatened. George's. It just came out, that one. So that's another one that we can talk about because that one. I think that was like two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. It took, I mean, they had a single out there quite a while. Yeah. Long time. It felt like it took forever. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So top 20 shit's getting real. We're in it. We're in it.

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No, I haven't seen it. Now I need you. Greatest moment ever. Did you see that? You just made me spit beer all over myself. Marcus, if you haven't seen it, just real quick, go watch the whole induction speech when Rush speaks, and you have to watch everyone in the band, and it gets to him. It's the greatest fuck ever. I mean, I hate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so that's why I haven't done it, but I will watch. I'm sure there's a clip of just that speech, so I'll try to watch it.

01:29:47.520 --> 01:29:49.560
There's everything about that for them out there.

01:29:50.440 --> 01:29:51.960
I'm going to need a shower now.

01:29:54.100 --> 01:29:59.060
My number 20 is Ex Imperatu Saharatu on Willowtip Records.

01:30:00.080 --> 01:30:02.900
I believe this was on my mid-year.

01:30:03.360 --> 01:30:03.720
I think so.

01:30:03.770 --> 01:30:04.420
Let me take a look.

01:30:05.010 --> 01:30:05.480
Let me see.

01:30:05.670 --> 01:30:06.680
I don't know if it came out.

01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:10.200
Why am I not?

01:30:10.440 --> 01:30:10.680
Oh, yeah.

01:30:10.750 --> 01:30:11.560
It was number 16.

01:30:11.930 --> 01:30:15.000
So not too far of a drop for this one.

01:30:16.360 --> 01:30:45.340
I think there's a lot of celebrated death metal bands out there. I think the death metal albums that are on my list are not the ones that are on everybody else's list. I think this is just colossal old school death. It has slow bone pulverizing riffs, unfathomable deep vocals. But what I really like, it has this kind of a mystic feel to the tracks. It makes me feel like I'm being absorbed into the folds of the anti-universe, which apparently,

01:30:46.360 --> 01:31:15.220
is where the name comes from. Some kind of anti-universe type something. So I really love this album and I thought it might drop off my list, but when I listen to it, it's just a thumper, man. It just fucking rips from start to finish. So Ex Imperatus, Saw Hararatu, number 20. Sweet. Nice. All right, my number 20.

01:31:15.820 --> 01:31:45.780
I honestly feel like this was the first made up band that I ever made up. Because they had an album. How do you remember? Well, I know their album that I made up was on my 2018 list, I think. Liquid yummy. The beautiful thing was what I learned when you make up a band name, it doesn't even have to be a word. So this band is aired by E-R-D-V-E. I don't know what the fuck that is. The album is Savangalia. It is their second album.

01:31:47.080 --> 01:32:14.680
What'd you call me? Exactly. Actually, Airve in space means, or I'm sorry, in Lithuanian means space, but it is a super intense post-metal album. I like it better than their previous. Yeah, that's my number 20. Nice. That will be a Wilson, I think. I'm betting, yeah. I have it marked. That's a big volleyball. Yeah, it is. That's a beach ball, dude.

01:32:17.860 --> 01:32:45.600
He's got big balls. I'm feeling pretty cool in here. Oh my god. Dude, this double black. Holy fuck. Yeah. I can't believe he's four years old. So many double encontras from this episode. It's unreal. It's true. This thing's called double shot, double black. I mean, that's enough just for the whole podcast. Yeah, I've got like six bottles here. The first time I had it, it was like 2018 and I was having the 2014 at a beer fest.

01:32:45.820 --> 01:33:15.660
My buddy and I were there and we're like, whoa, stop traffic. We need to figure this out. Oh my god. Everyone just stop. I can't wait till I'm in Chicago and we get to hang out and go to shows. It's going to be ridiculous, dude. What's that, like an eight-hour drive? Seven hours. I mean, I was... It's nothing. I barely drive an hour to Baltimore. Yeah, you guys will see each other before we meet up at... John's ten minutes away. I haven't seen that fucker.

01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:45.780
What? You guys are ridiculous. Fucking life. If I live 10 minutes away, I would see John all the time, even if he didn't want me to. I'd be at his house. I'd be holding up a boombox. John! In your eyes. All of a sudden, he gets a call. I do have beer. All right, you can come in. Come in. Take on me. All right, close the door. He's singing that song again. All right. My turn? Yep. All right.

01:33:46.520 --> 01:34:15.800
I'm gonna say that this will be on maybe a few lists it's by far the dirtiest album up to this point Matt you'll be happy though it's fucking dirty it's grimy what could it be Mordiferum preserved in torment oh it is I mean from the very opening seconds it just sounds fucking dirty as fuck like you gotta shout

01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:45.640
after you listen. Get their mouth and soap. Yeah. John, did you see them when they played Atlas a couple years ago? Yeah. George and I were there for that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Great show. They're a very good band. I don't know how much I like this one more than the first one. I think they're kind of companion albums almost a little bit. I agree. And so I'm actually more interested to see what they do on their third album to see if they expand or change things up. But it's a solid. Solid's a bad word to use. Solid makes it sound average.

01:34:45.820 --> 01:35:15.520
It's not average. It's a very good album of just nasty death, doom. And it's a perfect balance of the death and doom, I think, in there. Because they get very death-y in some moments, and then they kind of slow it down in others. I just got the vinyl in the mail last night when I came home. Crazy. I got it from the mail. Yeah, that's cool. It's either you got it right when it came out, or you're still waiting, which is nuts. I mean, I'm always waiting because I'm in Hawaii. Good stuff if you like death, doom. Yeah.

01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:42.620
Random Vinyl Story inserted here, because I don't buy vinyl anymore. This is one of your more boring stories so far. Yeah. No. John told me the other day about a pre-order for a sentenced box set vinyl. Order alert for George. Yeah. What? Did you get it, George? Yeah. Every single sentenced album reissued on vinyl. What?

01:35:45.840 --> 01:36:15.740
The Trooper EP, which is like their Iron Maiden cover thing. Everything. The really early stuff. It was like 10, 11 vinyls. Yeah, I had to get that. How much did that cost? Like $250, $300. That's actually not bad, actually. That's not bad. That wasn't bad. Yeah. And it comes with, I think, a shirt and something else. I don't know. Maybe a bag or something. A tote bag? Yeah, it was like a tote bag or something. It was like Sunday.

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your Sunday baseball game, you know, getaway game is a tote bag. Yeah. I got one with a recent carcass. Uh, they put out a surgical or surgical steel. No, it's a heart work. Yeah. And it's a heart work box set. And it's the weirdest box set. It came with the remastered album plus demos for every song and two covers. Like, and so it's, you got, um, a gatefold album with two albums in it and then an empty gatefold album. That's a different color. So you can,

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It's like the dumbest box that I've ever bought. I mean, it's got a tote bag in it. So that's fun. Nice. All right. Who is it, Will? Will. That's you, buddy. Yeah, sorry. What number? We're on 20. Hellslave from the Sulfur Gas, Death Metal from Rome, Italy. This is one of my Wilson Awards, I was assuming. Wilson! Definitely a Wilson Award, yeah. Not bad, though.

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I think this was a holdover from my mid-year because at mid-year it was my number six. Yeah. So we all seem to have a dropper at the bottom of our list, from the top of our list, from the mid-year. Yeah. Yeah. Check them out. It's super great album. John, you got your work cut out for you for stats. It's going to get weird, yeah.

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because that takes the longest time for me. Because we're going to have like 150 albums, I think. That's going to be a lot. What do we got? 25? Have we had any repeats yet? Just one. 1914. Just 1914. That's right, right, right. I was just thinking that, Marcus. I was like, I called that bitch. I called it. This is going to be rough. We've only had one so far. Sorry, John. You know you love it, though. Wilson's for everybody. We're going to get into some, though, I think pretty soon. We're going to start getting some doubles.

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One from me for sure. I think so too. Will has the one I'm thinking of, but that's not this one. So I'll throw out my number 20 quick. This is the first one from my mid-year that actually climbed two measly spaces, but nonetheless it climbed into the top 20. And I can't help but wonder if it has to do with a certain Mosher picture that came out this year. I'll go ahead and stick with my original. There it is. Stick with that pronunciation. Divni. It's a man Anka. Probably. Who knows? Nobody knows. Somebody.

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Dune. I still like this record. I say again, that movie was fucking awesome. It was. I couldn't believe it. Especially for only half the book. I love the movie. Best sci-fi film in the last five, ten years. Easy. In any case, this record still holds with me. I still like it. I moved it up a couple spots. Nice. That was just dropped off recently for me. So it might be Wilson, to be blunt. It could be Wilson.

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It's a really good album. I think me and John were really into it and it's also not on my list and it was very close. Like I had it on my list. It's like number 10 and it dropped off. Just so you know, that damn worm knocked it out of the list. That actually warms my heart because it might keep my Wilson prediction accurate. I'm glad it's not on your list. I don't think anybody else would have that except me or John. So yeah, I think you're pretty safe.

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It was my 14 at midyear. It hath doneeth, droppeth. Oh, it droppeth, awayeth. George, 20. My number 20. From Canada, Hands of Despair, The Crimson Bows, and Other Short Tales. This is an independent release. Also a very recent release. Yeah, like a week and a half, two weeks ago. Yeah, but a band that I've been a fan of for a while.

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And so it was like, of course it's going to be on here. Yeah. Yeah. Just so in case nobody is wondering, but I sent George a message and I said, okay, so when did this come out? Yeah. Literally it was like that day. Yeah. I was like, I think I got, I said, I think my response was, Oh, good. I actually have a December album of the month now. Oh shit. We got to pick that. Don't we? Yeah. We got time. Okay. No, no.

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Oh, good pick, George. It's a really good album. Yeah. Might be on John's list. That's why I haven't Wilsoned it yet. Maybe. Maybe not. Okay. Possibly. Possibly. Maybe. I don't know. It's a little new. All right. Well, entering further into the 20s, rather out of the 20s into the teens. 19. 19? Yes. And my number 19 is a Daily Double.

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and decay from Salem Rooms Music and M Theory Audio. This is power metal that I think just goes a step beyond. Boys, this is a fucking, this is fucking triumph metal. It's huge, maiden-esque, three guitar attack, technical skill at level 12, phenomenal tempo shifts, and lead vocals that will swell your chest with so much pride, there's a good chance you'll lift off the couch like a human hot air balloon.

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Silver Talon, Decadence and Decay. And tons of hooks. Yes! It's so good. I hate putting it here. There's just so many good albums. I hate it. I love this record. Was that a mid-year record or no, John? I can't remember. Yes. I think you and I had it really high for mid-year. I think we had it in the top ten. I have my list up. Let me see here. It was seven, I think, for me. It was number nine for me. What was it for you, Matt? Six. Yeah, so three top tens. Six is good.

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Maybe Matt's going to have it too. That would be nice. I'd like to see Silver Tavern represented on our ultimate final Metalheads list, if possible. Well, right now it is. Now it is. That's true. Good point. But these are low picks, though. When we get to the higher picks, we may all have them. I don't know. I'm going to say maybe not. I'm going to say maybe not too, John. Maybe not. I'm starting to wonder. I'm starting to wonder. We'll see.

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For right now, though, I'm just happy that John and I share an album. We shared a silver talent together. Shared a talent. Yeah. He's just such a good singer, that guy. He really is. He's so good. I mean, the whole band is fucking amazing. I haven't shared anything with anyone. Oh, you will. I will eventually. I know that much for sure. That's it, because we all seem to have our own lists this year. Yeah, it's true. One, two, three, four, five. At least five. Probably six of mine will be.

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Maybe Matt is going to share something with us right now. Go Matt. Share Matt. I am indeed going to share something with you. I want my world to have less sun. I went with sunless. Daily double. I would agree with everything that John said. It is very reminiscent of Gorguts, but not exactly Gorguts. It is definitely something you do need to be in the mood for, but it is just beautifully well-constructed tech death.

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Out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. And that's my number 20. Nice. So is that three now albums that we've got at least two of? I think that's the third one. Yeah, it has to be. Yep, because 1914, Sunless, and Silver Town. Yep. You know what? Let's keep it going for 19 and make it another Daily Double. I'm 19. Ghastly, Mercurial Passages, 20 book spin.

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I like this bit. I love the first two albums. I'm not so big on the first one, but their last two albums have been just outstanding and they do their own style of death metal. But I agree with what I was you, Markisan, right? You had it before. Yep. Yep. Yep. They create this just ominous, massive sound because I think they give more room in the songs that develop. They're still death metal, but they have these moments where they allow everything to sound just larger and bigger and more ominous and dark.

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I would say the space they create I think that really makes a difference in their records

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especially this one yeah and I people might mistakenly say they're progressive they're not but

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they have a progressive mentality of allowing open space for things to happen and their songs are

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recognizable meaning I think Jay and I had said this when the death floor came out we liked how the

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the sound the the riffs were recognizable you always knew what the songs were from them sometimes I

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I get lost on some death metal bands because it's just a run from the first second to the 40th minute. So all sounds the same sometimes. Every one of their songs kind of stands out, which I like about them. So, and it's a good one. But I also agree with what Will said. It's hard to remember some of these ones. They kind of disappear because so many albums have come out this year. Actually, the last two years, it's hard to remember what's come out. And this is, I think, one that got a lot of praise early on. And then it kind of just flows.

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It came out pretty early too, John. I'm trying to remember. Yeah, I think what, March, April? Maybe? It was early enough for mid-year. I can't remember. Yeah. I'll check. I mean, it was, yeah, I'm not sure. It was, I mean, it had to be. Actually, it was the end of May. That still seems like it was a long time ago. It was a ways, yeah. Believe it or not, it came out the same day as Silvertown.

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How about that? I'll be damned. Yeah, I love that Ghastly record. Yeah, that is the problem sometimes when there's a lot of releases. If you release early, you know, you're going to be on to the new thing and you've got to go back and listen to it unless it really, really struck you. Ghastly struck me. So it was something that was always on my list. It wasn't something I had to rediscover again. You know what I mean? Right. So that's kudos to them for that. Hey, listen, no woman wants you to release early. That's all I got to say.

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And no woman is satisfied by Will's package. Let's get this thing done. That's not always true. Sometimes it's like, hurry up. Yeah, that's what I mean. Let's just go. Finish up. I got a movie to go for. Right, right, right. All right. Gilmore Girls is on. Hurry the fuck up. Gilmore Girls. Yeah, we just binge watched that whole thing. All right, Will. Did I say that out loud?

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We're on 19, right? Yeah, give us another Daily Devil. Let's go for it. So this is another one of those albums where I like the last one better, but this one is damn good. XDO Caligula from Montreal on Napalm Records. This is the band. I kind of alluded to this earlier. They just sang all about the Holy Roman Empire, and I love it. I'm a sucker. I'm a total sucker for band like 1914. Just talks about the World War I.

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God the throne and talked about war one and XDO just talks about the Holy Roman Empire and it's kind of like it kind of reminds me of um you know what what Iron Maiden used to do like I literally remember when I was in um I don't know what grade it was but you know um Rami the Ancient Mariner like I listened to the Iron Maiden song and passed some sort of test uh it was like a verbal test like they're like oh did you read the poem like oh yeah I sure I did it and they're like

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You know, like some sort about albatross and this and that. And like, yeah. So XDO, they talk about the Roman Empire. And I think it's awesome. They have all these little clips and stuff. It's cool. Did I put that meme to you guys, the Iron Maiden meme? Yeah, about yesterday or today. Yeah, yeah. I dig that XDO album. Have you seen them live? Well, because they're very good live. I'm very impressed. I've seen them a couple times actually live and they're very good.

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No, I have not. I would love to. Do they do all the samples and stuff? I can't remember samples. I don't remember samples. There's all these samples about like, you know, like it's almost like a speech by the Roman Emperor and kind of like 1914. I think they did. I think they did do that because I kind of remember an introduction like that in the beginning. I'm trying to remember if they actually dressed up and I can't remember if they did or not because it's been a while since I've seen them last.

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But I do remember their performance being really good. Because I went to a festival almost in Chicago. And that band I had not seen before. I mean, you're a little closer to Montreal in Chicago than we are. Yeah. Well, I like the idea that they talk about the Roman Empire and everything like that. And I didn't know the band. And when I went to see them, I was like, wow, this is a really good performance. So that stuck with me. But the details are a little fuzzy. Yeah. Incidentally, I highly recommend HBO Rome.

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series if you haven't watched it. Oh yeah, it's great. It's only two seasons. Yeah, that was like 10 years ago, wasn't it? It was good. You can watch it with a commentary where they actually talk about the historical stuff that they get right in the show. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I'm going to re-watch it. I'm fascinated by the Roman Empire. I mean, just like... Sure. You can sum up my fascination with the Roman Empire by watching Life of Brian in that one scene where they're like, what are the Romans done for us? Well, they gave us Rose,

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They gave us aqueducts and they gave us this. Always look on the bright side of this life. From the roads. Kill Jesus. Yeah. You know, like, I mean, yeah, it doesn't get more metal. Kill Jesus with the fucking spear of destiny. All right. Jay, your turn. We're getting, we are getting into daily devil territory here. This doesn't require a lot of description. I think we're going to hear it at least one more time.

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was the one who mentioned it thus far. Count me as a fan of this band at this point. The Crown, Royal Destroyer. I think it was, was it mid-year? I think some of us had it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But in any case, I think it moved down for me as well. But in any case, The Crown, Royal Destroyer. Really dug it. Just good times, thrashy in your face. No let-ups. Fucking good stuff, man. It's funny for a band like this to be around this long, and I'm only really aware of them.

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for the last two albums. So happy that it's on your list, Jay. Because I thought, you know, that was one of those albums from early in the mid-year. It was very early on. Didn't know if it was going to drop off. But, you know, spinning it again, you know, just to listen to all the albums, just had a great time again. Every time I spin it, I have a great time with it. And I think that's the perfect, it's a good time. It is. It's a weird, good time. They remind me a little bit of like Loud Night and Midnight. Like, it's just like, it's that like,

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Superfast, thrashy, punk, death kind of influence. And it's just, it's fun. It's just really fun. But it's also got a higher production value, for instance, than that. And so it kind of, they're slick, you know, in their way. But anyway, it's good stuff. Just modern thrash is really what it is. So, you know, good stuff. Fudge Doops. Giorgio. So my number 19, all the way up through my number 13, are all listed as Wilsons on my list. Oh, Jesus.

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So we're in the dead zone of my list. I feel like your whole list has been a Wilson so far. Well, after 13, there's only two. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. My number 19, I am positive. Let me just cue this motherfucker up. That this is a Wilson because, frankly, I'm surprised it's on my list. Oh, it's not that decibel pick, is it? No. Well, I think it is on the decibel list.

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No, no, no, not that bad. But this is a band that I have kind of mildly ripped on in the past. But this album is really interesting. It's, what did I say? It's too weird to live, too rare not to be on my list. It's a unique kind of album. Oh, yeah. Just give it to us, George, because I have to pee. It's The Ruins of Beverast, The Thule Grimoires. Nice.

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I thought it was gonna be Mastodon 2. No, Mastodon is not on my list. Oh, it didn't make your list. It did not. I mean, it started on my list. It just didn't make my list. Honestly, I don't want to go on a Mastodon tangent. I actually, of their last four albums, I like this one the most. Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I don't dislike the album, but it's just been a tough year, you know? In a different year, it could have stayed on, but it did not. This is crazy, George. You have the Runes of Bed-Rest. I expected that this album would have

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more of a chord with some of us on here.

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But it seems like either it does or it doesn't.

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On all the lists I've looked at, it's strange.

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Well, it drove three people to leave.

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There's only you, me, and Matt now.

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Well, obviously it's not on any of those lists.

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Well done!

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Yeah, no, I actually came back to this.

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It came out and I listened to it, I don't know, maybe halfway through,

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And I was just like, okay, I don't hate this. It's not, it didn't connect with me yet, but I was like, there's something about this. And so, I don't know, somewhere October, November, I said, well, let me just listen to this again. And I listened to it all the way through. And I said, okay, there's something going on here. I mean, it's, there's a lot of droney stuff and just like, you know, kind of boring doomy stuff, but it's got character and it's, it's just interesting. And, and,

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I don't know anything quite like it so I was like alright I'm gonna do this I mean we saw them at MDF or at least I saw them at MDF and I was like this is boring I'm leaving you know so interesting your your description of the album is what I've heard from other people say about the album and how they either they're super fans so they loved it or they had to go through the process you went through of having to to listen to it and then give it a full once listen through without stopping before it started to

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It's before everything was put in context. Yeah, it's just, it's cool. It's kind of epic and, you know, it's very doomy. Yeah. But, yeah, it's, I like it. Man, we are spreading the wealth this year. Yeah. Well, like we've been saying, there's just a ridiculous number of great albums. We're going to have like a top seven. That's it. And that's fine because we're like, yeah, everything from

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to 253 could be anywhere on our list. All right. Nice. Number 18, Moccasan. Yes. Definitely Wilson on this one for sure. No way. This band has... Limp Bizkit reference there? Oh, God. That was for Matt, yes. Oh, God. Fuck that bad. Received.

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It's a Russian name that's unpronounceable. So I got the translation for it. And the name of the band is Rye. And the name of the album is Eternal. And it's on Reflection Nebula Records. And this is a late night listen of haunting, monstrous, blackened doom and post-metal. Kind of wraps around you like a tentacled beast rubbing your belly in a low-lit room.

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I like Will. Exactly Will. Exactly Will. But, you know. A few more tentacles. Less close. One big tentacle. Just one big one. This one stuck with me. You know, I know it's one of those records that falls way under the radar. But it definitely stuck with me. And another one I'm waiting for the vinyl on. Love it. Here's your volleyball. Well done!

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Matt.

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Right.

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I'm going to assume that this is not a Wilson.

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And my number 19 is The Silver,

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Lord of Roses via Gilead Media.

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This is the first album,

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the U.S. post-black metal band featuring the brothers Knox of Horrendous,

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as well as Enrique from Crip Sermon.

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This is just a really solid, solid post-black metal album. The one thing that stood out to me is listening to it at times. The contrast in voices reminds me of the contrast in voices you get with Enslaved. You have the growls, and then you have when the keyboardist comes in and his clean vocals. Totally reminds me of that, but really do this record. Yeah. It's got a super gothic vibe to it, too. I agree, yeah. That's what I was going to say. As soon as I heard this album, I was like, well, that's going to be a lister.

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But little did I know it was 2021

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While I really like this album, it didn't make it

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There's members from

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Horrendous, right?

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And Brothers Knox

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And then the other guy

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is from Bantu

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I don't remember what it is

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I can tell you you're not an island, Matt, with that one

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Night's Blood, I didn't feel island-ish

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More of a peninsula, really

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A bit of a pig. Nice. It's good. Like Florida. 18, John. Okay, I thought you said 19. Sorry. So my turn? Yep. Maybe this is a Wilson. I don't know. I think some people like this. Not sure. But anyway, my number 18 is Dream Unending. Tide turns eternal in 20 bucks spin. Death, Doom, Metal, sort of.

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I hear some people saying it's psychedelic. There's no psychedelic music in this whatsoever. But it is very spacey atmospheric passages with some crushing death doom. It has a very peaceful three sound, especially early Anathema. If you like albums like Serenades and the Silent Enigma from Anathema, this is right up your alley. Features a member from Tumult and a member from innumerable forms. Cool stuff.

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I like it's a good album. I'm a big fan of that early Anathema sound, especially the Silent Enigma. It's one of my favorite Doom albums ever. And it's got a little bit of that vibe to it. This one, I mean, it flirted with my list. I ordered the vinyl on it. It's a little too, I wouldn't call it psychedelic either, John, but it's a little too meandering for me, I would say. They focus heavily on the atmospheric side, great. And I wish when they do get Death, Doom, and get heavy,

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It's some of the best you'll hear all year. It's just not enough. Right. And that's why I didn't make my list because it just meanders a little too much for me to put it on the list. If they would have tightened it up a little bit, it would have made my list for sure. But I had a hard time because I do really like when they hit with those songs. Holy fuck, they're great. But it's only the first album for that band. So I expect great things in the next one. But I actually appreciated that they did not do something like their other bands.

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and they went in a complete opposite direction, which was nice. So it was a cool album. And I have to say, and I'm not dissing on decibel, but man, they just talked this album up and it doesn't make our top 40. That was weird because they put out the vinyl. Like you must have liked it a lot. It's the greatest thing ever. I heard that it was just maybe a little too late in the year to get enough votes. I guess. Listen, I don't agree with that. It's number two on their list.

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Yeah.

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And they get albums super early, dude.

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So, I mean.

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I know.

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I'm just poking fun at them.

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I'm glad that they talked it up.

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So, I'm just having a cool thing.

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And here's the thing.

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They got that dream unending album super early because they put out the vinyl.

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I know.

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And we know that vinyl takes a long time to press.

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So, those bastards got that shit like in January.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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I know.

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They helped produce the damn thing.

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I mean.

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Yeah.

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I'm just poking fun at them.

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I'm glad.

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You know, I'm using that symbol.

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Yeah.

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Too bad I only had like three albums on your list this year. Anyway. Will. My turn. My 18. My number 18. This I did not count as a Wilson Award because maybe Jay has this on his list. Still somewhere. Oryx Lamenting a Dead World, Black and Death Crust from Denver.

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on translation lost.

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Lost, not lost.

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Translation lost, not translation lost.

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Sorry, carry on.

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You just said the same thing twice.

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He did, he did, but it's L-O-S-S, lost.

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You said lost.

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You said translation lost.

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When you tried to correct him, though, it sounded like you said lost and lost.

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It did.

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It's not translation lost, it's translation lost.

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Paradise lost.

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Who cares?

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I shall shut the fucketh up now. It's George's go fuck yourself. This is Will. Go fuck yourself. Fuck you, asshole. The children. Fuck you, asshole. One of the things that what made me think, well, made me listen to this album the first time, as I've said this before on the mid-year, is that Oryx is a

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I've ever eaten in Africa, in Namibia, in Southern Africa, which is probably the most delicious meat I've ever eaten in my life. And you can find them in the white sands of New Mexico. But no one really, like, I have no idea why. It's almost like deer. Like, deer meat is great. Even though, like, we have deer everywhere in the United States. Like, there's, you know, you don't go to a restaurant and find venison. Like, you should go to a restaurant in the United States. Any steakhouse should have orcs on the menu.

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Anyway, I'm going on tangent to say that this album is also awesome, but the meat is also awesome. What do you like better, the meat or the album? It's the best thing I ever put in my mouth, ever. That's not what you told me. Liar. I should say it's the second best thing I ever put in my mouth. Thank you. Nice.

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Nice. Nice. Nice. All right. Jay, what's the best thing you ever put on your list? Well, you know, it's funny. Or your 18th best. We're not at number one. Oh, yeah. I know. To the best of my knowledge, and I'll really have to look closely here, I think this is the only record that I had that is in the exact same spot that it was at mid-year, which is weird. I'm going to totally look closely at my list. The immovable object. Well, I am not fucking with you here.

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I swear to God. Oryx.

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Nice.

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I don't know what's going on here.

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Whoa.

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It's the same.

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Did Jamie have it on his list?

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Exactly in the same spot.

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That's the second time that's happened to us.

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That's twice.

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I can't believe that's going to happen again.

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You guys are getting married after the episode.

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I know.

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That's fucking weird, dude.

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But it was 18 and it stayed 18.

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Things moved around it, but it's just stuck in its spot.

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So totally fucking weird.

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Like a blackout just sitting.

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We're earlier.

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There's no way that's happening again.

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It was 13. It was 13. It was 13. It was my mid-year. So it slipped for you a little bit. Fair enough. Wow, that's bizarre, dude. It's like one of those videos where it's like fast motion stuff and there's somebody standing completely still in the middle and everything's moving around them. That's that album. It's like that one dude in the pit that stands in the middle and everyone just keeps going around him and he just stands there like this, his arms raised, and then somebody drops his ass. It's like the Take On Me video. At some point.

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the ground and bloodies your face or your elbow during an inner armistice. Cuts off a piece of your elbow. Next thing you know, the next day, Jay's cutting your arm off. Bleeding all over the white leather couch. It's rare that we have an album in the exact same spot. That's fucked up. That's twice for Jay and I. Jay and I have done it too in the past. We may see some higher. We'll see. By the way, I love that album cover too. It's one of my favorite

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of the year. The artwork is just fun. Oh, it is. It is amazing. I think it's unusual because it's down this far in the list. It's not in the top five, but you expect more of it. Super fucking weird. Yeah. I can't believe it's going to happen again. I know it's not happening for at least eight albums. George, you need to pick the same album to make it a trifecta. Yeah. Bring it on home. Well, as a matter of fact, my 18 is Oryx. No, it's not. Fuck you.

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Possibly another Wilson though is Yoth Eurya. Oh, that's a good one. As the flame withers. Yoretha? What? Yoretha Franklin. I believe I had that mid-year. This was one of the albums that took a lot of friendly fire. This was the album that everybody was trying to kick out and couldn't do.

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When you say everybody, you mean just the voices in your head? No, like all the other albums from like 26 to 60, 65. The voices in his head, yes. That's correct. This was one of the albums where I was like, all right, this could, you know, even though it's at 18, it could get kicked out, but it didn't. Because every time I compared it to something, it stood its ground. It's a fun record.

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It's like that one person on The Walking Dead that's been in every season, but they have like three lines every year. Yeah. It just keeps showing up. That guy's still alive? Hasn't been eating yet? Who fought it? Yeah. Oh, wait. I've got a song for that. I like that record a lot, Josh. Nice. Yeah, it's good. It's good. All right. Number 17, Marcasson. Oh, shit. Yeah, got to keep it.

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I am feeling good boys and my number 17 is I'm actually surprised this is this low because I really really like this record probably my favorite record from this band but it is Lakai Shroud the gold flesh of the sun and it's a galactic meld of progressive metal death and doom with touches of electronica and lyrics inspired by science fiction books video games

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and movies. I think I mentioned this in an episode, but they did a song based on Sunshine, which is a really underrated sci-fi film, but a great one. So I've enjoyed all the releases from Makai Shroud. I may even had some of the other releases higher on my list in previous, maybe last year, actually. Yeah. Well, it releases something like every month. So. Yeah, exactly. But this is my favorite one, but it just, it drops here because the year is so,

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So, so, so, so strong. Yeah. And, but yeah, I'm really impressed by the output. So, Marcus, I have a question. This is, again, what he did is he, because it's pretty much a one-man band, right? Yes, yes. So, he drops, like, two songs, and then, like, a couple months later, two songs, and then the album will be complete. Is that what he did again? That was just the one album. That was just the one, yeah. Just the one. He announces the album and usually puts a song out,

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like most bands do. And then he, this one, he put the album out, but sometimes he does a surprise release. I can't remember if he did that. Cause he'll announce when it's going to come out. And then he's like, fuck it. I'm just going to put the album out. He's actually done that the last two. Yeah. I always find, um, and I, and I love this band and I found, uh, I guess this year with everything that was coming out, I was just kind of like confused. Yeah. I'm just always confused. Cause you're like, didn't he just put something out? He put two albums out this year. So what was the, was the first album, the one that happened?

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I love that was last year last year yeah well the no this year he put out other cosmic divinations too oh two earlier in the year and then this album so other cosmic divinations I did not like as much as this and I didn't I loved the first one that was the one where you had the uh it was like one of your top covers actually yeah yeah because it had the I think it was it was like the figure with a cape and everything like a Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars concept I love that and

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The second one didn't hit me as much, but then this one came out not too long ago, and I think this one might be their best. Yeah, to be honest, for me, I think it was just more of like confusion and maybe over-saturation. Yeah, it may have been a little bit of saturation. I'm like, oh, you just put out something. I love this one, but you drop a song, and I don't know what's going on. Is this an album? I just kind of checked out.

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So he did other cosmic divinations. He put out a redone version of an old album. Oh, something. The Lion's Daughter or something. That's right. And it's way better this time, but it's an old album that he redid and it's great, but that's an old album. And then he did this one, the gold flesh of the sun. So he does put out a lot of things, but the two new albums are other cosmic divinations too and gold flesh of the sun. So.

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Well, also, you're also probably factoring in, he's also in, what's the other band name? Other Mass or something? I can't remember the name of the band he's in. Soul Mass. Soul Mass, thank you. And that came out a couple years ago, so he's been very busy. I think that was two years ago. He's prolific. He's not Devin Townsend. No, nobody is. I'd love to have him on the cast just because he has so much music. I would love to have that guy because just the fascination behind,

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He takes the time to read all these books and to make the music behind all the books. He reviews things on Bandcamp too. I just picked up an album the other day that I was like, oh look, Lakai's Shroud. I don't remember which one it was. It's Brett Wendell. I apologize. I can't remember. Do we like his reviews on Angry Metal?

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No, but I mean, literally on Bandcamp, it was reviewed as La Calle's Shroud was the Bandcamp name. And he was like talking about another album going, this was freaking awesome, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. I'm pretty sure I bought it, whatever it was, but I don't remember what it was. Yeah, he's involved a lot in Bandcamp. Yeah, yeah. And I bought this album. Honestly, I don't think I really listened to it yet, though, because of the oversaturation thing. But I dig the band, and I

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I want to go back and check it out but thank you for bringing up Markisan because I do I I love what the guy does yeah and like I said this is my favorite he's done I I made the last album was probably higher my list but that's because this year's just stronger so yeah I I really like this record so give it a listen will I will I definitely will will will will will will listen all right

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All right, number 17. I feel like these days the term atmospherical black metal just encompasses so much. But this band that I have for number 17 was probably the first quote-unquote atmospherical black metal band I ever heard. Their Cascadian black metal just struck a chord with me, and I've kind of latched on since then. And in this new release, the one thing I wrote is there's something about hearing the X-Files theme song blended.

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with black metal that makes me less bitchy. The band is Wolves in the Throne Room and the album is Primordial Arcana. The one thing I've thought about this band is that I don't know if a Wolves in the Throne Room album will ever be my number one, but I don't know that a year has gone by that I haven't had. Like if they've had an album out that it hasn't been in my list. I feel like there was one album that came out a bit ago that was kind of a departure for them that did not make it. They released a Dark Gambit album. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. Which, I mean, it was, I totally dug the album, but it definitely did. Wasn't that a companion piece though? It's, it is. They took the previous album and turned it into a dark campaign album. Yeah. But hey, and Galen's on this one. So, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, totally. And I mean, and don't get me wrong, if they want, like their whole process is like, I have nothing bad to say about it. You know, even that album included, but it just didn't make my list for the lack of metal. But I don't know, this, this, but Wolves in the Throne was a band who just consistently

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delivers me what I want from black metal. Number 17. Nice. Yeah. I really liked that record too. There's a lot of ambient on it. Did you guys see that blood incantation is releasing an ambient album next year? Yeah. That's cool, man. He's been, he actually, the guy from blood incantation that is behind most of that has been releasing ambient music for a long time. Yeah. Yep. I think they've been talking about doing the blood incantation ambient album. So yeah.

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Remember that time at Decibel when we saw them play that 18-minute song? Yeah, that was cool. Oh my god, I loved it. They're so good. George, remember the other time we saw the MDF and they played a 20-minute song? Yeah. At one time at Decibel? Yeah. Raise your hand if you're going to Decibel next year. What? Oh, just Will. It's MDF this year. Fuck it, I'm going. I don't give a shit. Yeah. That isn't a lot. Baking the sun.

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I'm going to the rain. I'm going. Hey, man, it sounds like they're going to have more coverage and seating and stuff for us old fucks. So I'm down with that. They're putting a new off ramp in the parking lot. I wish they would. It's called me park here. Are we talking to MDF or talking to decibel? I'm not going to decibel. I can't wait. Wait, wait. Sorry. Sorry. I'm completely lost. Decibel Philadelphia. Yeah.

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It's on my anniversary. Wait, when did they announce it? They did. They put out the date. I saved the date. Also called an STD for... I'm going to... Wait, wait, wait, wait. When is it? June 10th. 11th, yeah. Oh, okay. I'm going to New York because I'm going to... The Boxing Hall of Fame is inducting the last three years worth of boxers. I've always wanted to go. I've never been there. And I'm going there with my dad. And I haven't done a...

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I had a trip with my dad in a long time. He's the one who got me into boxing. Nice. It's that same year. As in like when you were five years old, like go box. Sugar Ray Leonard. That's like Christmas in England. Sugar Ray Leonard is actually his favorite boxer of all time. You just did the sweetest thing because you were like telling a story about your dad and you told it like you were a little kid. I'm going to the boxing thing and I'm going with my dad and I haven't gone with my dad in a long time. You literally reverted to a child as you spoke about your father. How many times do you just go and do something with your father?

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I haven't done that since I was a child. You know what I mean? You're listening to the Metal Heads podcast. And if you don't listen, then the hell with you. My number 17. Cue it up, George. Let's hear that. Wilson. Wilson! And you can give me another one after I'm done, too. I don't think anyone knows this album, and that's quite all right, because this is another one of those albums that we all have that we like that just fell beside itself because there's so much coming out. Existent Void is the name of the album.

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the band and the album is Anatman from Gruesome Records. They're a Portuguese kind of black metal band with some avant-garde-ish proggy leanings. It's one of the few black metal albums I like this year. It's a killer album, but I think it just kind of got lost in the mix of everything else in the end. And it's got a weird name, Existence colon Void. And it's all one word, which is, I don't know what that's all about. We're going to need a bigger cricket.

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Yeah. I mean, you know it, but yeah, I don't, I, that might not be on anybody else's list. It's not. Oh, I know for a fact, it's not because nobody talked about it. Um, and I haven't seen many people talking about it, but I caught off a band camp and I was like, wow, this is some really cool stuff. So nine, number 17. Yeah. Definitely going to have one volleyball on my list. Oh, and I got a new beer, um, from

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Partywood, our holiday season beer that, well, George and I have enjoyed in the past, but this is a little different. It's a gingerbread beer. Is that the Christmas morning? Pancakes? Hold on. The gingerbread porter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw that. Is it good? You like it? Is it portery? Hold it up. Oh, it's portery. Look at the little guy there. Oh, I don't know that one. Oh, why am I scratching that part? Wait, are you tickling his ding dong? He doesn't have a ding dong.

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He's part of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. They can't all be trans. I think that refers to a train there, Will, but anyway. So it's an imperial porter with ginger. Gingerbread porter, obviously. Vanilla, cinnamon, and honey. And Will, it's a big porter. 9.2%. Huge. That porter's huge.

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We had a little circle.

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I was like, I'm not going there. Anyway, Matt, you were saying. I keep saying so many good things about it. Oh, yeah. You want us to ship you some. If you would, I would reciprocate. It's funny, we're talking about bands and albums getting kind of forgotten. Will, do you feel that way a little bit about Hardywood in Virginia? You know what it is? It's because they started mass producing it and it's not the white whale anymore.

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You remember Gingerbread Stout got like 100 points on Beer Advocate and lost their shit. And then they said like, oh, well, let's make more of it. And so now that they make more of it and I can buy in every grocery store, including Safeway, it's not the big deal anymore. Still really good stuff. I actually have a Guinness Gingerbread Stout in the fridge. I wanted to try that. Pretty good. It was made actually not I won't talk much longer.

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I mentioned earlier today, I would listen to this entire album when I was raking leaves about an hour and a half before we started this podcast. And I just love it. That's good. I like it more. It has the best titled song of the year, by the way. Centuries of Ooze. You almost made me do it again, goddammit. Oh my god. I need to not be drinking beer when you speak. Jay, go. Yeah, I will be quick with mine, though it's the first time it's been said. Probably,

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I'm sure not the last time because I know I have two compatriots here who like it as well and I like it twice as much because of the track I sent you guys the other night which you must have known about I didn't which was their cover of Turbo Lover the Lion's Daughter skin show this record started strong with me this year and stayed around and by the way that's the way Turbo was meant to be played that's fucking bitch it dude we've talked about it a lot in mid-year kind of 80s horror

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Soundtracky.

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With, you know, a death metal slash post metal influence.

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Super fun to listen to.

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Super atmospheric.

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Not atmospheric metal, but has an atmosphere to it.

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Good stuff.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I mean, me and Matt really like Lion's Daughter.

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All right.

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My number 17.

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I think this is pronounced beast, but it's B A E S T, but, but A E like, like Aegis. Yeah. Um, so beast, necro sapiens, one of my holdovers and also probably also probably a Wilson. Probably. I don't think anybody had that album on mid-year except you. That's a double. F you guys. That was my number three. Really?

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No Wilson here. It's so good. Still can show up. F all y'all. It could happen. You never know. All right, then. Micahson number 16. Micahson's getting into it. My number 16 is Stormkeep Tales of Other Time on Van Records. This is Black Metal meets Lord of the Rings. This album evokes mythical landscapes and dragon battles from a legendary

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realm of blood, magic, and chaos. So if you're into sinister, second wave. Hey, Jay, you can mute your mic when you're in. Blowing his horn. I'm in the middle of talking here. What the fuck?

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What is that noise? I thought that was like charge, you know, with a bunch of guys on close. Welcome to fucking schnozcast. I mean, come on, man. What the fuck? Jesus Christ, dude. Shit's getting real. Fuck. Smoking coffee. Keep that nose under fucking wraps, dude. What is happening? Jesus Christ.

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Put your beak away. I'm trying to speak. It noise awesome. Nose blow. Whatever. Nose blow. Oh my god. It's fucking Sam Eagle over here. Alright. So. That album Markisan Ghost. Dude my face hurts from laughing. I was sure I was muted. You were not. You were not. Everybody heard that. Everybody is now fucking eardom.

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for life. Dear listeners, if you have not started drinking yet, this is the time when you should crack a beer. If you're into sinister second wave black metal and sexy elven archers, then you're going to love this grand, dark fantasy chronicles, I would say on tales of other time. It's a really great record. Another one that came out late in the year that I was really looking forward to. And it definitely did not disappoint. It's fucking fantastic.

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And I love their EP that came out. I think it was last year actually, but this one production wise is on another fucking level. It's really great. Okay, Matt. We're 16. As I said with my previous number, my previous pick, I don't know that this band will ever have a number one album on my list, but I don't know that I'll ever have a list year to year without this band on it. The band is called Hooded Men Ace.

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The Tritonis Bell. The thing that really hit me the most is I kept thinking about this album. It's like for a Death Doom band. I don't know that there are any other Death Doom bands that actually make me happier or literally want to dance. I literally want to party when I listen to Hooded Menace. You can dance if you want to. Dance. Baby dance. Do you want to put on a hoodie as well, Matt? Definitely. I'm not that cold yet, but I'm getting there. Sometimes it's called George the Hooded Menace.

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Oh, did menace?

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Or a whole legend.

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There's also a track on here that literally makes me feel like I'm playing an 8-bit Nintendo game,

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which actually just adds to my love of it.

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I can't think of it.

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It's like probably within the first four tracks.

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But yeah, love this album, Hooded Menace.

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I think it's the quality of the riffs, Matt.

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They just, they're so catchy.

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Like there's no way you could not get hooked on them.

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Yeah.

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I mean, they're Sabbath-sized, really.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a great comparison. Yeah. And I think Will's hooded menace joke is a reference to circumcision. Pretty sure. So. Perhaps. Perhaps. The covered wagon perhaps. Perhaps. Hopefully Will's wagon is covered. I'm just saying I got no hood. No. No. Weirdly enough. Good Catholic boy. My parents like. Right off. It's common.

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You can't tell us from Jews anymore because of that. Trust me. I said you got to take the skin off your peanuts. Welcome to the Circumcision Cat Podcast. All right, John. All right, John. I don't know how I'm going to top that. All right, so my number 16 is a holdover from the mid-year. There's no point in delaying it. It was one of our favorite interviews of the year.

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My sixth scene is Kiefer Sutherland to where the light retreat. Damn it. Han, Hannes Grossman. Oh, treats. He was our Kiefer Sutherland expert. This is the Hannes Grossman podcast. Fucking treat to have on. I absolutely love this album. It's my favorite of his four. It has all the things I like about his solo work and it reminds me of alkaloid. And then he dropped a little nugget on us during the interview that, oh yeah, we're working on another alkaloid.

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So just a super album. It's my number 11 on the mid-year list. I don't know if anyone else is going to have it, so it could end up being a Wilson, but we'll see. I think it's a good possibility of a Wilson there. Yeah. Wilson! Yeah, I like Hannes a lot. I was sad that the rest of the boys, it was just you, John, me, and Matt, right, on that one. Yeah. I was at the beach. Literally on the beach while you did that.

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Yeah, it was fun. He was a fun talk. He was actually more fun to talk about non-metal things than metal. And that's what he wanted to talk about, so it worked out. And he's going to be at MDF with Trypticon. Fuck, I got to get tickets for the MDF because it sounds like at least four of us are going. I need to get tickets too, yeah. You know, I'll get tickets and then we'll see what happens. If y'all get tickets, I'll get tickets. We usually travel that weekend, but let me see what I can do. Fuck it, just move it a week.

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Another week. Just move in a different week. We gotta do MDF. There's a lot of good bands on that. Omicron happens. Yeah, Friday and Saturday. Amazing. If for some reason I can't go because I'm not going to get a plane ticket, that's fucking cool. I don't mind supporting the bands. Yeah, me either. So, yeah, that should be our trip. That's some fucking great lineup. Gonna have to be since Albert is like, oh, when can't George go? Okay. Every other year, it's either Barb's birthday,

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Yeah. Damn it. Well, number 16. Yes. My number 16 cerebral rot. The name of the album is excretion of mortality. They're from Seattle on 20 bucks bin. Filthy, filthy, filthy caveman type death. Do it, Matt. The only person who can say filthy is Matt. He did it. He did it. Yeah. Well, he says dirty. I say filthy.

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Filthy, filthy, filthy, filthy. Oh, that was stereo. That was pretty cool, actually. Yeah. You should get a soundbite of them doing filthy together, because that was actually pretty good. When you say dirty, I say filthy, filthy, filthy, filthy, filthy. There was like a barbershop quartet doing fucking filthy together. That was really good. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Nice. So first off, I am absolutely fucking buying tickets to this. I'll leave it at that. Well, I won't leave it at that, because

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I saw a trip to come, but I didn't realize Hellhammer's doing a set, so you gotta be there. That's on Sunday, though. Also, I don't give a fuck. I'll be there Sunday. I'll be there Sunday, too, as well. If you guys are there, I'll be there, too. I'll stay there for a while. I'll be there for you. Mine can be done pretty quickly here because we're getting, again, into albums that have been spoken about, and I don't think I have to say anything that Matt didn't say except I don't think I've ever had this band.

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on my list before.

02:32:27.660 --> 02:32:28.060
Oh,

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a couple of times this year.

02:32:29.940 --> 02:32:30.040
Well,

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that stated wolves in the throne room,

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primordial arcana.

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Yeah.

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Dove into this one pretty hard this year.

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I don't know if you guys feel this way,

02:32:39.890 --> 02:32:40.800
but for like five years,

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they were on every fucking tour.

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So I saw them at like 8 million times opening for God.

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No,

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they were on every decibel tour and everything else.

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But any,

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any case I've listened to them just from a distance for a long time.

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I decided to take a deep dive this year.

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Fucking dig this.

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Yeah,

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it's good.

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is the list.

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It's a good album.

02:32:58.280 --> 02:32:58.460
Yeah.

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I dig it.

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All right.

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Continuing my Wilson binge.

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Number 16.

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Not from Australia, but actually from Switzerland.

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Another one I'm not entirely sure of the pronunciation, but I'm going to go with

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Born.

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B-O-R-G-N-E.

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And Temps Mort.

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Oh.

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It's a, uh.

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I don't know what you'd call it like blackened electronic to me yes sir that's why I said you know night 20 no 19 through 13 all Wilson's so no more needs to be said moving on back to Markisan for number 15 shit is getting even more real wait wait what was your number 16 born George went so fast you can talk about it

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Well, this is a mid-year holdover, so what's to say? I feel like this, what's the album cover on this one? It's like a building? It's like industrial with fire and stuff. It was on my album cover list, I think. Yeah, I remember this. Nice. It's like blackened industrial, kind of. I mean, more on the blackened than industrial, but you know. All right, back to Markisan

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We need some cicadas on that one, George. Oh, okay. We need a better cicada sound than that. Man, that was the best one I could find. I went through a lot. Okay. Went through a lot. All right, so I'm on number 15. All right, so like I mentioned earlier, the death metal albums on my list are, I feel like they're the ones that are least celebrated, and I'm so surprised because the ones that I think they're on are

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Die, was für mich, ist das.

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Kaiju Space Demons from their ancient cosmological slumber. I think this is a record that should be on a lot more fucking lists. It pummels me. It enchants me just so much more than the other talked about death metal acts this year. And I just haven't seen enough on it. But I think this is just a tremendous effort. What's the name of the band again? Had It. I don't know how to pronounce it actually, but it's H-A-D-I-T.

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Okay. And hate it or had it. I'm not really sure how you pronounce it. Had it. Let me see. Let me see where it was on my Alice. It was number seven on my mid-year. So it dropped a little bit. But I think it's one of the best death metal releases of the year. So I wish more people would give it a spin. All right. Well, what's Matt think? He deserves. My number 15 is a carryover from mid-year.

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It is Cannibal Corpse and Violence Unimagined. They are a death metal band from the United States. This is their 14th album via Metal Blade Records. Why haven't I heard of them before? I heard you can buy their album at Target. Extremely edited. They are accessible. And you can get a discount with your red card. Basically in Virginia it's tax free. I'm just saying. I have one.

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Well, let's move on to John then.

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So, George, you're talking about how you're going through your run. Wait, what number are we on? 15. Can I back up five seconds? Number 15? Right, right, right. That's why I'm right. So, George, you're talking about being on this run of volleyballs. Yes, I have a couple more. I am too right now. This will be my

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third one in a row and that's kind of cool because there's a lot for our listeners to listen to if they choose to listen to our stuff at all if you choose to accept this mission yeah this this is going to be a big one this year anyway my number 15 is an album that i could not leave off my list no matter what it was this year uh it's an album i waited a while for snuggle and what's that you know devon snuggle i'm joking

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No, I haven't even listened to those. I haven't either. I'm not going to. Little Spoon, maybe? Maybe something like that? No. This is by far the most emotional album to listen to because of the context behind it. Adele 30. No. Just let me talk, would you please? Seriously, let John talk. Come on. All right, Jay, do you want to blow your nose? I might do it on somebody's number one after, like,

02:38:26.581 --> 02:38:53.760
I'm going to have to blow my nose. Anyway, my number 15 is Cynic Ascension Codes. There's just no way I was not going to include this on my list. It is the latest from only one actual band member left. That's Paul Mastavall. The only one alive. Good grief. Yes, sadly. And it's a hard listen if you're a fan of the band because it still sounds like Cynic, but you realize it's only one guy left.

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Sean Reiner actually left in 2015. But still, it is kind of weird to have a release without Sean Reiner and Sean Malone. I think it's a solid album. It's a mix of progressive metal and progressive rock. There's a lot of ambient on it. But when they do their metal parts, they still are reminiscent of the kind of Traceon era of the band, which was, God, 2008 now? It's hard to believe. Anyway, if this is the final release,

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Some people seem to think it is. It's a fitting way to go out, especially the last song, Diamond Light Body, really is kind of a tough listen. And there's a nice little memoriam in the album to both the Shons. Nice. I love it. I just don't think it's metal. I mean, it's fine that you put it on your list, of course, John. But there is metal on it. I think there's enough metal. There's more metal than some albums we've had on our list. That's true. That's true. Very true. I love Sinek, though.

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If I did a rock album, it would definitely be my top 10. Much is metal, by the way. No, there's metal on this album. It's not just a rock album. I think there's plenty of metal on this album, but I agree there is plenty of progressive rock, too. I think what hurts the album a little bit, and Marcus, you probably agree with this, there's no punch on the production a little bit. It seems like it's lacking a little, even though there's some very technical parts. I don't feel like they stand out as much on the album.

02:40:22.120 --> 02:40:49.740
Yeah, because it's not a very aggressive album. So you want to make up for that with the production a little bit. And I think it lacks a little bit. Yeah, it's very serene, I would say. Yes, I agree a thousand percent with you on that. Yeah, and it's, I think the atmospheric bits, there's, so there's an atmospheric bit, then a song atmospheric bit, and they do that for 18 songs. So it's nine actual songs and nine instrumental atmospheric parts. They kind of, I think, drags the album down a little, unfortunately.

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To the Wilson list. My list. My balls. The only other person who would have that is me. And I do not have it on my list. So it should be a Wilson. Oh, it is. My balls are getting close to your balls, Will. Oh, dear. Touching sacks. Speaking of Will's balls, what's your number 15? My number 15 skepticism companion. Not a Wilson.

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I thought for sure all the people would be on your list. I did too. I did too. He's about to fall out of his chair. Somebody get Markisan some rope. Oh, wait, he's got some. I have my own rope. I do not. I do like ordeal better because I like the idea that they do. I talked about this recording in front of a live studio audience whole thing. I like this album. Maybe not as much as ordeal. And if ordeal was.

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came out this year it'd be higher on my list but um yeah skepticism i mean just funeral doom

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i don't know if you can if you can make an album and you're from finland that you're gonna make

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anything bad i mean yeah i mean tell me tell me an album of a band that record an album and

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they're from finland and it's bad night wish everything but um that's just me i actually like one night

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wish album but jay agree with all the other ones yeah see i don't even know what there's only one

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Oh, I got one. What about that? What about that him, dude? That him? I didn't know that. Yeah, he disappeared. Didn't he? Yeah. Viral, viral. He's got a weird name. Val. Yeah. Your turn. Go. Yeah. I believe it was my I know it was my album of the month and I want to say it was October, maybe September. It's already been said a couple of times, which I love because I can

02:43:22.100 --> 02:43:51.540
I'll spare you the description. Sunless. Oh, you'll. Oh, you'll. Nice. Is that the first? That was definitely. That was definitely your Mr. October. Mr. October. Yes, it was October. I was your Reggie Jackson. That's right. Again, I'll keep no description needed. Sorry, I talked about a couple of times. I'll spare that for the ones my Wilsons. So that's you, Joe. Yeah, sorry. My mouse just died. So.

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Luckily, my list is visible because I cannot change anything on my screen. I'm not going to share how I'm going to stop the recording. But anyway, number 15, yeah? Yeah. From the country of Germany on Nepal Malaquids, Thucondra, A Dying Wish. Oh, Thucondra, yeah, that's a good album. Nice.

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Hey, what album is not a Wilson this year besides Sunless and a few others? Exactly. They're all Wilsons. All right, well. Well, what about it? Well, it's, as I believe I said perhaps last episode, Thulchondra is like dissection without the guilt. It's dissection, worship, black metal, but without the guilt of all that comes with.

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So no baggage. No baggage. Just goodness. That simple statement says a lot. It does. So what happened with dissection? Did he like went shoplifting or something? Nah, John from dissection and somebody else. I'm sorry. I'm just joking. Bad dude. He's dead now. I don't know, but I'm assuming they're Norwegian or Finnish and they killed somebody. Swedish and he killed somebody. But he's dead now, so

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You know, whatever.

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Yeah, it doesn't.

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Yeah.

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I still like dissection.

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Dissection is probably one of the only bands that are canceled that I still listen to because he's dead.

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Fuck him.

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You know.

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So.

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All right.

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Mark's on number 14.

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Number 14.

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Okay.

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You need to expel a lot of air there for this one.

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Yeah.

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Hold on.

02:45:49.180 --> 02:45:50.400
Let me get a clearance for this.

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I blow my nose.

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That's Jay's nose.

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If you guys didn't know.

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Number 14 for me.

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Is a Wilson.

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Well.

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Well Matt may have it.

02:46:08.720 --> 02:46:10.360
But I don't know that he will.

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If it's not made up.

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He doesn't have it.

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That's true.

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It's a number 14 for me is glassing.

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Twin dream.

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Brutal.

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Ponda.

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Brutal Panda, which is the greatest name for a record company ever. This band plays a really dynamic mix of post-metal, sludge, black metal, noise rock, and then somehow is able to like emerge all of that stuff into a very cohesive, very satisfying, and just like upbeat, great record.

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The first half is really strong, like very metal, like a lot of guitars. Second half is more of a more ambiance, I would say, more post-metal, I would think. But there's still some great moments. I mean, I like that part of it, too. I think it's the most cohesive album they've done, even though it seems like it breaks up into halves. But the way it flows from start to finish is really good. I've liked their last album. I like their last album.

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a lot. It didn't make my list. It was very close. But this one, I think they really put it all together. And I really would like to get this one on vinyl, actually. So it's on my list for that. But it's number 14 on my top 2021 list. So spoiler alert, it did not make my list, but it barely did not make my list. That album is fucking incredible. It's really good. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm keeping, I think my Wilson,

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And my six picks is still doing well. You're on target? This was on it, yeah. Nice. Stay on target. Stay on target. All right, number 14. This for me is a carryover from mid-year. The band is Bosk. The album is Migration. Right. I would still go back to what I said initially. Like, this album is definitely an experience. It's a bit trippy. It's a bit ambient. At times, I feel like I'm listening to,

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Oh, son of a bitch. Why can't I think of the band's name? There's Minsk, and then there is Mesotak. And also just a really incredibly intense sludge metal band, all kind of wrapped into one. And that is Bosk. Jay was really big on that band, I think, at Midyear, right? Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. See? Yep, yep, yep. Matt, trivia question. What kind of species is Bosk?

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In Star Wars.

02:48:51.720 --> 02:48:52.380
It's for Matt.

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No interruptions.

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Well, it wasn't a species anyway.

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Didn't know this at one point.

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I mean, it is a species, fuckface.

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No, I mean what I said.

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Slipping my mind.

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What'd you say?

02:49:04.110 --> 02:49:05.400
I said Bounty Hunter.

02:49:06.300 --> 02:49:06.580
No.

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Trandoshan.

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Trandoshan.

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Mosque in the Bounty Hunter Mosque is a Trandoshan in Star Wars.

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Anyway.

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Is that Star Wars for trans?

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Perfect.

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He's in Trans-Siberian, I was good, sir.

02:49:23.640 --> 02:49:25.080
You keep making fun of them, Will.

02:49:25.300 --> 02:49:26.540
They make hand over fist.

02:49:27.180 --> 02:49:27.580
Oh, no, no.

02:49:28.040 --> 02:49:28.620
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

02:49:28.740 --> 02:49:28.880
Hold on.

02:49:28.980 --> 02:49:30.320
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Slow your roll, John.

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I went.

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I went.

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I went to see them live.

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I went to see them live.

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So did I.

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I'm backing it up.

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I went to see them live.

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Did you like it?

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No.

02:49:44.919 --> 02:49:48.020
The religious overtones were a surprise to me.

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Oh, maybe you were shocked that you went to a Christmas show? That talked about Jesus? Oh my God. That's been that way for how long? I know, but all I knew was the music. The music is instrumental. There is no lyrics. But when you go to the actual show at the Capital One Center in Washington, D.C., and then you see them talking about all the Christmas stuff and the Christian stuff, and I was like, oh, okay.

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And when you look at the audience, yeah, I knew I was in the wrong spot. Oh, God. Give it a rest. You went, you saw the show. No, but the music was good. Marcus, are you okay? I'm buying tickets from Maryland Death Fest. I thought you pulled a wheel and you're resting your forehead on your microphone. No, I sometimes... I get tired.

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when you talk.

02:50:50.239 --> 02:50:51.260
Here's my question.

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Fair enough.

02:50:55.500 --> 02:50:57.680
So Marcus, on which days are you buying tickets for?

02:50:57.880 --> 02:50:59.360
I'm going to buy tickets for all three days.

02:50:59.900 --> 02:51:02.460
If I'm going to make the trip from Chicago, I'm going to do all three days.

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Do that too, Matt.

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All right.

02:51:05.500 --> 02:51:05.600
Yeah.

02:51:05.860 --> 02:51:07.060
So we need hotels as well.

02:51:07.680 --> 02:51:07.780
Yeah.

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I mean, I mean, I think George said he wanted to do a Friday, Saturday, but fuck it.

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Now I'll just go all three days.

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Oh, Sunday's got triumph of death.

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So I'm in.

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Yeah.

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All three days.

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I'm going to do it. Let's do it. And this is their fucking fest. Especially if the bands suck, I get to cuddle with you guys. Fuck this. I'm doing Maryland death fest because at least four of us are going to be there. Now sounds like Matt's going to try to do it too. So I, I'm not, I haven't committed to anything. I told you guys I'm not committed to it yet. Except Saturday. Maybe, maybe Saturday, Saturday, me, maybe. But John, what's the deal with Thursday? You love us, John. There is no Edison on Thursdays.

02:51:47.160 --> 02:52:16.100
The only day I would do would be Saturday. Just so you know. At least that's one day. I'd buy tickets if my mouse worked. Maybe. This is a sick group of bands, dude. I'm kind of shocked. Friday is amazing. I mean, obituary, suffocation, atheist. I forget what else, but it's like, holy shit. Kelly Schaefer. Well, I'll just start showing things. Carcass, Morbid Angel, Trypticon, Hellhammer, obituary, bloodbath, suffocation. Yeah. Monstrosity.

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I mean, it's ridiculous. Maybe I can even stay with somebody out there because you guys are really close to this, right? Well, I was going to suggest that, but it's like an hour away. It's better to stay at a hotel. I'm not going back and forth. No way. I'm getting away from everything. Yeah. Well, it's just we don't have four hours a day to sit in traffic. Yeah, that's true. How is it before everyone in my pick?

02:52:47.160 --> 02:53:16.760
We only got an hour and a half and like 15 to go. Come on. Go, John. Go. George, you don't have the only list of string of volleyballs together here, but this one is really deep. He just had a G string full of balls. Yeah, that's a really thick G string. So this band comes from the eastern most point of the Americas.

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in Brazil. That doesn't mean anything. It just means how far deep this is. They are a sludge metal, progressive rock, avant-garde metal, and a Zool band. I don't even know what Zool is other than the fact that it's tied to the band Magma. Are you a god? Dana, only Zool. Only Zool. I don't know this genre, but anyway. The band's name, I'm going to try to pronounce it as well as I can because I don't speak Portuguese.

02:53:47.060 --> 02:54:16.140
I'm guessing Brazil must be in Portuguese. Pop and Goo. P-A-P-A-N-G-U. And the album is called Halasino. What'd you call Matt? Halasino. That's what I called it. Thank you. I call it. Wow, God! Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't know how I found this. And I looked it up on, I guess it was Rate Your Music. And it had like a shit ton of reviews, like 1,500 reviews.

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And I'm like, that's a lot on rate your music for now. That's most of the popular metal bands we listen to. Anyway, give it a spin. It's just an unusual combination of genres that you don't think would work together on paper. But performance wise, it's outstanding. I don't even know how to describe the music other than the fact that you might listen to the first couple songs and say there's no metal whatsoever in this and I would agree and then the next few songs it gets real sludgy and there's harsh vocals and it's sort of

02:54:47.060 --> 02:55:17.020
all over the place, but it all flows really well. So, and I have spun this album so much this year. It's a very cool, unique album. Pop and Goo is the name of the band. P-A-P-A-N-G-U. Holocino is the album. Add that to the volleyballs that are collecting in my pants. You have so many balls in your face, it's ridiculous. It's like a glory bowl gone crazy. I'll be waiting for the

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the list on the website to check out that one. We're going to have like four albums where we all matched on. It's so fun. It's another year of finding a real rarity that we all have found, it seems like. All right. Number 14, Thong Appropriate. Speaking of volleyball is in your face, my number 14 is Crescent, Carving the Fires of Akhat. A band from Germany, a band from Egypt, now

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Germany,

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and the summer records.

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This is an actual real band from Egypt,

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death metal band from Egypt,

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who actually talks about Egyptian,

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like historical themes.

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Not quite as good as Niall.

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And I say that as an understatement,

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but however,

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Crescent is amazing.

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I actually kind of,

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yeah,

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I kind of like,

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this is a kind of current theme for me.

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Like I liked their last album better than this one,

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but this one is still amazing.

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So carving the fires of Akat. Will, did they have to leave Egypt? Yeah, it was one. No, I don't know. I'm sure. Remember, Malakash, I think, had to leave Israel then to go to Egypt? Well, Israel is different than Egypt. I imagine they probably had to leave, but I don't have nothing to back that up on. Because they wanted to live? There was a brief period of time after the Arab Spring where the, oh, shit. What's the name?

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The Muslim Brotherhood actually took over and was elected as the rulers. And then they had Al-Sisi, who was the military, like the chief of the military staff, had a coup and he took over and he became president because it's like, well, you don't, it's like kind of like having Al-Qaeda or Hamas, which actually took over the Gaza, the Gaza Strip. Yeah. When you have a terrorist group take over and, and is elected, the, the, the,

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the ruling party of your country or your territory, yeah, it usually ends up bad. You don't want to be a metal band in that country. I just remember Crescent and Malakash were the two bigger names from the Middle East that had to move to Western Europe. There was another one. Ana Cruzicata. Yeah. And they moved to Buffalo and then they caught on the metal core and then they sucked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they got out. Good movie, though. Yeah.

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Yes, for sure. Yeah. Heavy metal bag, dad. All right. Jay. 14 us. I was wrong that I had only one album that did not move its spot. This one was 14 on my mid-year, which is super weird. I don't know how this happened. You've done it again. Well, I made this up from scratch, by the way. I didn't, you know, so that's fucking weird. Right, right. But the even slightly weirder thing is, no, it's not Will's album, but it is Matt's album for this exact same number.

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BOSC migration. Oh, wow. Nice. You know, it's funny, too, because when I started to build this list, I kept not working that one in for some reason, and this would be like a month ago, and then I listened to it again like maybe three weeks ago, and I was like, no, you're an idiot, dude. So I guess I just put it right back where it was. BOSC migration. All right. And I agree with all Matt's very kind words about it. And it's also just heavier than a two-ton heavy thing or whatever that is. You know what I mean? It's fucking heavy. Heavy is a heavy thing.

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There you go. So it's heavier than a Chevy 115. Yeah. And I'm stealing Jay from Will. So. Yeah. Sorry about that. Oh. Really. It was nice while it lasted. I am always the big spoon. Ooh. The biggest of spoons. Bigger than a soup spoon. More of a serving spoon. 30. Large. My number 14 from Sweden on the sensory.

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This is unanimated victory in blood. Wait. Wait for it. What the hell is up with those cicadas? There are very many of them. There's so many. What was that sound effect? Is that cicadas? Cicadas, yeah. It's supposed to be crickets? It's supposed to be crickets times ten. It's sped up so fast it doesn't sound any better. Because it was a cicada year. Hello?

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Yeah, oh, we know. Some of us do. But holy shit, you know, unanimated. I mean, early 90s death metal gods. And it's been like 11, 12 years since their last album. And yeah, it's pretty good. So just saying. It's kind of nice when a band doesn't put some out for a long time like that. And they come out with a killer album. The name of the band is Unanimated? Yeah, check out Ancient God of Evil. You will be like,

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It's like 92, 93, like old school death model. Weirdly enough, when I never heard of a band that came out in that era, I'm like, ooh. Dude, you will, I don't know what you'll think about the new one, but Ancient God of Evil you will like. Okay. Wait, is that not the new one? No, Ancient God of Evil is the classic album. Victory in Blood is the new one. That's your number? 14. 14.

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Yeah.

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Markisan.

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I don't.

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He's got the road.

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He's got the rope.

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Tie yourself in.

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Tie yourself up and give us your number 13.

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He's driving that sports car.

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I thought I'd have a seatbelt.

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Number 13.

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I believe Matt had this on his list.

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And it is the silver word of roses on Gilead media.

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It's a romantic and heartfelt tale of black metal, goth, death, post-metal. Just a lot of stuff thrown into it. What a great debut. Obviously, it's from members of bands that we all love, but that doesn't always work out, right? This one really works out. I hope they do more records in the future because I really like this.

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The goth element, and John pointed this out too when Matt was talking about it, is very strong in this album. And I like that part of it. I'm the only goth dude here. I'm surprised by that. You are the very goth. I'm very goth. We all like it, but George is definitely the main goth. Sisters of Mercy, baby. I have that. I love it. I'm trans-Siberian goth. I like goth, but there has to be more to it than that. And this album does that.

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I'm really glad that this is on two lists. Like I said, I thought this was going to be on my list, so I'm glad that it is. It's one of my last ones, Knocked Off 2. I love this album. Oh, it's not on your list, George. Oh, fuck. I'm shocked. I am too. As soon as I heard it, I was like, this is going to be on my list. I'm the goth guy, because I have it on the highest. I am the goth guy. You're no longer the goth guy. Oh, no, I am. Where's your black outfit and black eyeliner? Goodbye. But it's a great record.

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I ordered this one on vinyl just because the strength of a few songs I had heard and yeah man I love when you get a debut like this I like that these bands especially in the pandemic they seem to be forming other bands and doing something different trying something new because they have the time and I think it's yielded some great results you know they have their bands that we all love and adore and then they put out something else that's completely different than what they've been doing before and I really like that creative energy.

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And I think this is one of those records that really captures that. So the silver ward of roses, number 13. If you're a fan of horrendous and you follow them on any social media, you'll know that those guys never wear metal T-shirts. They're always wearing stuff like King Crimson T-shirts and all these bands that you wouldn't think that they like. And that's, I love when bands do that. You'll see, like, I think, well, didn't we see one of the guys there at an Atlas show? He's in there like a scream for vengeance shirt or something like that. They were like all traditional.

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It's pretty cool

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Yes, that is true

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However, I will

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I'm confused because you said you never see them wearing

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metal t-shirts

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I said if you follow them on social media, you never see them in metal t-shirts

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They're always wearing t-shirts from other bands

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that aren't metal

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You're saying Judas Priest is not metal?

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Or King

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King Crimson's not metal, dude

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Well, I know it's not, but like, sorry, I'm super confused

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Anyway, keep moving on

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Yeah. Okay. They, I've never seen them in metal t-shirts. I don't know what's confusing about that, but apparently it is. It's, it's well being drunk. When you held up the rope, I thought it was gonna be a Soundgarden album. Spoon man. Oh, they're metal, but I mean, they're traditional metal. They're all of a sudden becoming part of that group of metal albums that people say are hard rock, which is weird, but yeah. No, I'm surprised. I'm surprised nobody took me up in the too soon, Joe.

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there. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have so many too soon moments on this podcast. We can be tasteless. I like it. We're always tasteless. Matty. Number 13. This is a career for mid-year as well. I think before mid-year, John, you and I had a conversation about how much good tech death was out this year. And I don't gravitate towards tech death that much anymore. But this year was just like tech death, tech death, tech death. That's crazy.

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The one I latched onto the most was this band. They're Canadian. They're Technical Death. This is their second album on Willow Tip. The band is Intonate and it's called Severed Within. They're definitely on the more brutal side of Tech Death, but it's a very solid release. I was hoping for Art Spire. That's a very good one. I fucking forgot about that record, to be honest with you. It's a good record. I don't think it would have made my list, but there's just so many good records. I really like that.

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one, but it kind of fell off my radar. Thanks for reminding me of it, Matt. Totally. Gian? Number 13. This is not Tech Death, and it's not goth metal. It's not Trans-Siberian Orchestra. But it's a band we've mentioned a few times, and we actually know one of the guys in the band. Well, at least he played on the album. That's Wolves in the Throne Room, Primordial Arcana. I love this album. This is my favorite album from them since

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I think it's because they sound better on this album. I can actually hear what they're playing.

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Some of those early ones, it was a little more varied. Better production for sure.

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Yes, and it's a complete DIY, isn't it, this album? They did everything, I think.

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Yes, it is. I read that very same thing in the review.

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In-house. And Galen's on it, which adds to it a little bit.

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Fuck yeah, it does. Which is cool. And Galen from Inferroboro,

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If you're wondering who we're talking about. Yeah, we love Galen. We do. Yeah, because he's a huge Fates Warning fan. So I was every time I see him, we talk Fates a little bit. And just one of the nicest guys you're ever going to meet. Fuck yeah. But I think now this is our second album that's got three selections. Is that correct? What was the first one? I can't remember. Matt had it for sure. Well said. Jay had it for me. Jay had it for me. Matt, me.

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Yeah, it's winning. There's one other one. I thought we had that had three picks already, too, but I can't. Stay on target. Yeah. So we're almost done with 13 picks and we've only had two albums that have been selected three times. That's a lot of albums this year. Good stuff. Keep it coming. Yeah. Will. This is another one of my Wilson Awards. It was my Wilson Award at the mid-year.

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The band name is Portal of Pazuzu. It's a self-titled album. Death Metal from Detroit. Independent label. This is what I love about this band. It's Haran, who is one of the guitar players from Battle Cross, a friend of mine. And he flew out to the East Coast. I met up with him at Old Oxbury with

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Dr. Lang had a great time just BSing talking about music beer and but this album he he's a like a kind of a secondary secondary guitar player guitar player on it and you know he didn't write a lot of the music but holy crap like you can hear his guitar playing on that on the album it is it is a great great

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Death Metal album. I love it. It's phenomenal. Will, I just noticed the name of this cast is thong appropriate. Can you please put on a thong and showcase it for us? I don't have a thong, but I probably have some underwear that I can thong up. There you go. I'll wear some thong if you do it right. Are you going to wedgie yourself? I may have to wedgie myself, yeah. Just wait for number one, okay? Yeah. I mean, luckily I shaved my

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A little bit so it looks okay. Oh god I heard it's very patchy. Well it's under Brazilians. Hey who doesn't like a good Brazilian wax you know. It's nice it's so nice. I've never been waxed. It feels so good when they do it to me. Wait wait wait are you talking about someone else? Listen I waxed one nipple just for you guys just so you know. Okay. Let's move on to

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Jay, shall we? Yeah. This will be my definitive Wilson without question. But if you follow this guy like I do and did a lot of his great work, there you go, Michael Shanker. I was going to say Michael Shanker. I mean, you know, he... Do I know Jay or what? Come on. He's doing some of his best work right now. He's making some of his best records. It's in a pretty light on the realm of things that we listen to, though metal it most definitely is. And I love, like, all of the records he's done since he started this.

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whole let's get 12 vocalists problem thing uh and this is another fine example michael shanker group

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you know dude tiara loves loves shanker yeah yeah you know i i at one point in this year i was going to be

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totally oh i'm so with jay on this album i really like this album i was like oh this is totally

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gonna be on my list and then you know lists happened and it didn't make it but

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Lists Happen. We need a t-shirt for that. Metalhead's Podcast back Lists Happen. But no, I love this album. It's great. And he's just a world-class musician, the guy. But yeah, George did a Shanker deep dive this year. You love him or you don't. But he's definitely got my number. And when somebody you love for a long time puts out something. Wait, he has your number? Like, can he send you pics and I can't? Like, he's got your name. He's got your number. My number is blocked. He's got a line on you.

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John, you may have to do stats on is this year where we have the most difference in albums? No, I can tell you John's stats right now. I think it is. John's stats this year are going to be... That's the shrug emoji. It's going to be a decibels review of the Machine Head album. Exactly.

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I like your shirt idea list happens but we should have like a bunch of volleyballs below where it says list happens and like just bouncing everywhere yeah one of them bouncing and then a couple just kind of dribbling off that yeah Matt oh Matt's not here that's the graphic designer we have we have to present this idea to him no Jay I expected Shanker to be on your list yeah me too I expected it to be on my list I really did but well did Jay didn't you get a shirt recently of Shanker because

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I kind of remember you.

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Yeah, I got a few.

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I got a couple.

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Like when this came out, they suddenly sort of rebranded to Nuclear Blast.

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And so there was a big outpour.

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Yeah.

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It's a good album.

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It's not my speed.

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But of course, you know, whenever you mention an album that you love so much, I have to listen to it.

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So I've spun it a bunch of times and it's very good.

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He's almost pop metal in a weird sort of way.

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But he also gets kind of deep and, you know, sort of minor chords and things and stuff.

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So it's not all poppy, but yeah. I mean, I totally get it for people who aren't into it, but yeah. Yeah. I dig it. I appreciate it is what I'm trying to tell you, you know, even though it's not on my list. Yeah. My number 13. Yeah. Go ahead. All right. Cue up the Wilson. This was on my previous list and it remains so, although I think it might be a little lower. Ancient wisdom, a celebration in honor of death. I completely forgot about that. There's just so much out, but I remember when

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came out. That was right before the mid-year, wasn't it? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I probably would have forgotten about it had it not already been on my list. And I was like, oh yeah, I gotta listen to this. What did I have on my list? And this was one of the albums that I was like, all right, let me listen, compare. Nope, staying on there. And it held fast at 13. I think a new stat, Marcus, you made me think of something. A new stat would go, and George, you made me think of it.

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How many survivors did we have from our previous list? We have a whole list. We'll call that list the Jason Neustad. Didn't you do that last year? I thought you did it last year, John. No, no, meaning how many actually survived the mid-year to the year end? Right. I thought we did that last year, but maybe not. I don't know. I actually, so when I do my list on a spreadsheet, I actually highlight the ones in blue that I had in my mid-year. Yeah. So it's, it's actually pretty, I actually have 11. Wow.

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Midyear, which is pretty high, I think. I think so, too. Yeah. I think I have 10. Mine's pretty high, too. Yeah. Surprisingly. 7, 8, 9, 10. Yeah, I have 11. Yep. Marcus, I think you're starting to hold the notes a little longer. Just saying. What? You like maybe beer? I don't know. Just saying. Oh, am I getting, you're saying I'm getting drunk. Yes, yes. Not judgmentally at all.

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I'll just point it out. Maybe. That's fine, dude. You know what he's saying? I'm almost through the double black, so I mean, that's... You know, that first beer was 50%. Yeah. No judgment at all, man. Just point it out. I'm doing good. I'm doing good, dude. It's my turn. My time is getting limited. Yeah, number 12. Number 12. Yeah, I don't know if this is going to be on the list. I think people like this album, but it's their first album from this band, and it's Noltom. Ah, I did

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from transcending obscurity records. This is just phenomenal atmospheric black metal that goes from serene melodies to gut-wrenching fury and has progressive and even psychedelic parts mixed into the mix. I was very, very impressed by this debut and it's something I've spun a ton. And obviously it's number 12.

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So I expect great things from this band, but this album in particular really spoke to me. Very strong debut from from Nolton. And it has gotten a lot of accolades. But, you know, I hope to see it on on more or less, but probably Wilson. Not sure. Maybe the year of the Wilson. Yeah. That label is killing it this year.

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They have so many new albums out this year. Damn it, I keep trying to move my mouse to see my list. I can't see. I can see band, album, label, and that's it. Everything else is underneath the Zoom and I can't. My mouse doesn't work, so I can't move it. Shit, do better, George. I don't know what it is. I changed the battery. I don't know why the mouse isn't working. Fuck that mouse. Fuck that mouse. You need a cat. Yeah. I'm so close to the top. Matt. I'm going to get me a cat. Matty, what do you got? Bovey.

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I already mentioned carryover from midyear for me dropped about four four places ghastly

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fucking ghastly yes good showing the only I mean the only thing I would add to it is that I I felt like

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they're definitely like dirty dirty death but they're like classy dirty dirty death there's just

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there's some polish to it which I totally love I mean I love unpolished as well but um that polish I really dig so yeah ghastly number 12

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Nice. So the other one's got three now. We're starting to get a little top three. There's a little similarity there. All right, John. All right, my number 12. I haven't heard this yet, so I'm guessing nobody else will have it this time. And that's cool, because I think it was on a couple lists for the mid-year. This is a holdover. It was my number two. That's Moral Collapse, with their self-titled album Moral Collapse on Subcontinental Records. They're a technical death metal band from,

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India. With Hannes. Featuring our friend Hannes. And also Kevin Huffnagle from Dysrhythmia and Gorguts and other assorted musicians along with it. But I still listen to it, still love it. There's crazy violin on it, but they're in the instrumentals. I wish there were more actual songs and not these kind of frenetic pieces that they have on it, but it's a solid album.

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It's actually better than solid because it's 12, but it's one of my holdovers and I really enjoy it a lot. That's good. That's it. All right, Will. My number, we're on 12, right? Yep. 12. Yep. Iron Maiden, Senjutsu. Boom. There we go. This is by far not my favorite Iron Maiden album.

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But it is after the Book of Souls, which I absolutely fucking hated. I hated the Book of Souls with such a passion. How much did you hate it? I hated it so much that after we recorded a podcast, after watching that, I... What? Not my favorite moment in podcast history. Well, that was still one of the strangest nights of my life was with you after that.

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I feel like I have this on my list just because the last one Book of Souls was so horrible. It was good. And this one was so much better. Empire in the Clouds, dude. Come on. Yeah, that was the worst song Iron Man has ever done in my life. No, the worst song ever is I don't know, but not that one.

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Yeah. I'm with you, Marcus. Empire in the Clouds is a badass fucking song. No, no. It was a useless, long piano song about a Zeppelin that burned up. Who gives shit? Yeah, moving on. Too long. Anyway. That's what she said. Jay. Oh, yeah. Nice. Nice. John. Nice. This could easily be a Wilson or, and I'm

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I'm thinking it's Wilson because I've got it as high as I do and I haven't heard it yet or could be coming up later we'll see but in any case I know some of us liked it at mid-year I still like it climbed I think for me Volconis Odyssey oh nice yeah it's a badass record dude and it like it's it took some of the I don't know why but some of the later parts of the album to kind of made it to grow on me and then I was like oh no this is just fucking consistently good throughout so definitely like a good driver you want to put it on when you're driving or whatever or swimming

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If you like, I don't know if anybody does that. Underwateraudio.com. All-star band of sorts. Very nice outing, as mentioned, I think previously by others. Different than their previous releases, but a very solid record. Good album. Yeah, for sure. By the way, do you guys all just see, like, Markisan slipped in with pizza? Yeah, I was like, you motherfucker with the pizza. Must be lunchtime in Hawaii. When Jay was making a cheese sandwich, I crafted a pizza

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I waited for the oven to heat up and then I put it in. So. Oh, you. I forgot some sauce. You actually forgot sauce. Well, it has sauce, but I like to put sauce on the top of it. That's called foreplay. I got your sauce. No, foreplay is this entire cast. That is true. I am Will's package, by the way. I am now thong appropriate.

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You've been a thong appropriate. You don't have a thong on. We haven't seen it. So I don't like this fucking name. I will change it. I will change it. I can't change mine because my mouse doesn't work. You're a fucking un-thong. All right. So I have no idea who just went. It's your turn. It's me. Number 12. Yes. Yes. That's right. George. All right. Number 12. Finally, we have moved out

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out of the Wilson zone and into a more socially acceptable zone. And from the United States of America on relapse records, this is Wolves in the Throne Room, Primordial Arcana. Wow, I am actually surprised how much this album has been on the list. I like the album a lot, but I'm really surprised. I don't know why. Because it's good? It's good. Yes, very good. I agree.

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Well, let's go to number 11. Four list or three lists at least? Three or four, yeah. True. Four. I think it's four. Number 11. That's me. That's you. So I believe this one was on my mid-year list. Let me see. I need to look at it. Look at it. Touch it. Touch it. It was number four on my mid-year list. It drops a little bit, but

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Of course, we understand because there's so many good albums. And it is number 11 on my list. We all. Preserved. Oh, yeah. Not about them. I don't, I re-listened to it and I was like, fuck, this could go as high as like three, four, but it lands at 11 for me, you know, just going over the list and over it. But if you're disappointed in bands like Paul Bear or Spirit Adrift,

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have largely abandoned their doom roots and that's fine they're trying to do

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something else but if you thought they had a promise of doing something new with doom

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this is the band that you want this is the band you want to put on yeah wheel this is an epic

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fucking doom record with crooning emotional vocals and thick gloom powered guitar gravy

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all throughout this fucking thing. This is your fucking Thanksgiving of doom. Yeah. It is amazing. And I loved it. It was number four on my list. And again, like I said, it could go higher on my list because I think it's a phenomenal record. Just happens to land here because we have to make picks at the end of the day. But as far as that traditional doom goes, you know, that second coming of doom that we,

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we had promised with certain bands. I think that Wheel fulfills it. And this might be the best of all of them. So Preserve in Time from Wheel. If you want that doom, I think this record is pretty flawless in that genre. Markz, I have to say this was probably my hardest cut. It's not on my list. It's on my honorable mentions, but it was on my mid-year. I will tell you, it was on my mid-year.

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No, no, no, not on your mid-year. Number 11. It wasn't my mid-year, number 11. Number 11 at my final at the end of the year. I love this record. It's really good. It is really good. I've been a fan of these guys for a couple albums now. I've got like the last, I didn't get this one, but like the two albums previous to this, I think I've on vinyl.

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But this one is, this is their fucking... This is like nipple tickle. Yeah, this is their best record. And I'm really, it's heavier, it's doomier, and I'm just really excited to see what they do in the future. But I mean, this could be their best album that they ever make because it's almost perfect. Yeah, it's one of those bands you see that they have something and you're like, well, I gotta listen to that. Yeah.

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I don't know. I don't know. I, I, this is one of the albums that I wasn't sure if it's going to be on other people's lists or not when I picked that six. So I guess we'll see. It doesn't sound like I, it sounds like I may be a man on an Island for this one, but that's unfortunate. Well, what's Matt got to say about number 11? What I have to say about number 11 is a, another mention of worm forever. Glade. Oh, worm. Who? You know, the, the only thing I will add is that.

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I think John you were mentioning it felt there someone mentioned it sounded like almost 80s metal I will say there are times where it felt like to me latter era death you know something off of sound of perseverance sound of perseverance I can't think of the one before that but symbolic no individual thought patterns thank you no that was yep that was before symbolic yeah

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Oh, was that really? Yeah, so early 90s. Okay. But it definitely felt like the more proggy side of death. Really liked that release. It's her third album on 20 bucks spin. Yeah, that's what I don't know. I don't know that much to say also. Empire of the Necromancer, the song that stood out to me the most on that one. Right. Yeah. So you like it. Doesn't suck.

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I've heard worse. I've heard worse. Yeah. John. My number 11. It's been mentioned, I think, only once so far. A little surprised, but it is the menace with a hood. Hooded menace, the Tritonus Bell. Ironically, Will's not here. Yeah, exactly. Wait, he's not hooded. Why do we know that? Because we do. It's, as we talked,

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about death doom metal but they have a traditional metal element to them in 80s style but a polished sound they just write really cool killer riffs with loads of hooks uh they added some a little bit of melodic choruses to this album and i what i like about them is that each album while it's death doom they kind of divvy it up a little different each album they've done funeral doom in the past they've done just straight all death doom they've done doom i know it sounds like i'm splitting hairs there but

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They do tweak their sound up each album. And then this album, I thought they added a little more of a traditional metal sound to it. So there's a lot more hooks on it. It's a good album. And it's a killer album cover. And this was in my top 10, but an album snuck in at the very end and bounced a few down a rung. Oh, shit. Yeah. So it just bounced out of my top 10. But I love this album a lot. So probably my favorite from them. The last two albums, I think, are great. So.

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I think it's a good band. I was a little disappointed in this album. It didn't make my list. Spoiler. But I think it was a little disappointing in the album. I think I want a little bit more energy to it. But still a very good album. Very good album. Very good. Very good. All right, well. We're on number 11? Yes, we are. 11.

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So this is my list goes to 11. And this is one that I think George mentioned already based Necro Sabia. Death metal from Denmark on Central Media. I give back the volleyball. Yeah. George mentions that. I think this was like pretty high on my mid-year list. Mine too. Look, this was my number three on mid-year list. And I will. This is a purely logistical issue where.

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Central Media does not put anything on Bandcamp, as far as I can tell.

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Yes.

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So I listened to almost everything exclusively on Bandcamp.

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And because anything on iTunes, I just got a new computer and it completely messed up my iTunes, like my playlist and all this stuff.

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It just wreaked absolutely havoc on my list because there's a couple albums that I could only get on iTunes and not on Bandcamp and they're both Central Media. So anyway, but I still do like this album a lot. Yes. Well, that's because Central Media is owned by Sonny Music. Who are dicks. They could suck it. They do suck bad. Yes, they suck really bad. All right.

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My number from this one. 11. 11 is probably one of my favorite thrashy, blacky, deathy releases of the year. I thought it was on my mid-year, but now I'm guessing it must have been one of my albums of the month post-mid-year. That's just a wild guess. Actually, let's see what the release date was real quick. Just curious. And it came out in July. Craven Idol, Fork Tongues. It's funny, a lot of people really... This is for Jay.

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Amateur. Jesus. That was pathetic, dude. Hold on. You got some on your pizza, dude. Yeah, you were. It's better that way. I remember the guys from... That band? Who the fuck? Yeah. The world that was. Who the fuck are they? Temple of Void. Temple of Void. I remember they were all crazy about the previous Craven Idol record, and that was like the first time they were.

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First time they got on my radar. That might have been their first record for all I know. This one is different than that one, for lack of a better way of putting it, except to say that it's just this furious, rooted a little bit in the old school thrash death black metal album that I honestly can't recommend highly enough. Super fucking heavy. Cool. Oh, hey me. Number 11. Almost and possibly Wilson, but maybe not. We'll see.

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None but a pure heart can sing. So hideous. Wow. Yeah. Mark sounds like chewing on pizza going, what? Fuck yeah, dude. That's a fucking great record. He's like, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. There's no way that album's coming up again. I don't know. Unless Markison has it, it's definitely not. I'm joking. I know he's going to have it. That's a surprise pick from you, George. Oh, dude, this album's fucking amazing.

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I'm surprised that you liked it that it showed up so high. No, yeah. It's a phenomenal record. Yeah, I mean, I hated the last album. Hated it. But this one is really fucking good. So they really improved. So nice. That's cool. All right. Markisan back to you for number 10. Shit is in the top 10. Yo real crazy. Fucking crazy.

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Swallow. Chew swallow. You mute your mic when you're chewing that loud. He's about 65% through that pizza at this point. Sounds like someone's devouring a unicorn right now. Yeah, I did mute it. Hold on. He's fucked up. Winner of the most fucked up so far is Margassan. No, I'm not fucked up. Yes, you are. Just eating.

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Okay.

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We're in top 10.

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We are.

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You are.

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Let's do it.

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Let's go.

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Hold over from mid-year.

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I smell that.

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Jesus.

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I smell that all the way from Hawaii.

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I don't smell it.

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It's fucking good.

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Hold over mid-year.

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I love this record.

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And I don't know where I headed in mid-year, but let's see. I'm going to fucking look. It's number five in my mid-year. Drops number 10. Woad. I was waiting to hear this. I was like, nobody has this. This is a fucking great record. 20 bucks spin. This album is a ferocious and memorable, memorable detonation of black metal, metal death,

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It's just fun. Incredibly fun. Catchy. Vibrant. It always puts me in a good mood when I spin it. And yeah, it was, you know, this is something that came out, I guess, pretty early on when we had it on the mid-year. And so, like you said, George, it was one of those records where you have to fucking dethrone this bitch to get it out of the top 10. And nobody could do that. And it, it, it, it,

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It makes it in the top 10 cut. So really, really happy. I love the last album. I think this album is probably my favorite of woads. And I've seen reviews that say that they're like all over the place. I don't fucking understand that. You know, I feel like this is a really good, strong record from start to finish. So somebody's got to say it. Woad to you. Woad to fucking angry metal guy fucking sucks. Yeah.

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Many Mirrors, number 10. Wow. He pointed at us, too, when he says, like, fucking listen to Woe. That's right. That's a great record. All right, Matt. It is. I keep moving my mouse as if it's going to work, but Matt, number 10. All right. Already mentioned, Noltom, Illusions. Yes! I didn't know if anybody else would have it. Yes, Matt. I love this album. I love this album. This is another album. Big virtual hug. This is another album where, like, a song came out, and I felt like a

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It took like six years for the actual album to come out. It was just weighted so much. It definitely has a moodiness to it, which I'm super into moodiness. Almost reminds me of the band Walsh Fluster. But the vocals at times, I felt like reminded me of Uwara, which obviously I love that band. But this is just such a solid, atmospheric black metal album. And that last track, and I believe Marcason alluded to it, it legit sounds like straight up prog metal. And I loved it. I mean, it was so good.

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And this is their first album. I believe the drummer

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has a band called March Dweller.

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And I think that's it.

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That I know. But this is their first album, Transcending Obscurity.

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If you haven't listened to it, check it out.

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Yes. If you don't like it, we're not friends.

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That's cool.

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You and I are definitely friends.

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We are. We are besties.

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I actually didn't think.

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I wasn't sure anybody else would have this on there.

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So I think it's obviously.

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I think it's one of the best albums this year. No Wilson for you. Awesome, Matt. It's sick. All right. John. So my number 10 might be Wilson. I don't know. It was sort of during the mid-year. I have Will to thank for this one. Thank you, Will. I can't tell you enough because I love this album. Whoa. My number 10 is Seeming Emptiness, Bliss, Intuned. Oh, wow. Wait, wait, wait. I thought I had you to thank for that one. No, no, it was you. You.

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So I saw it, but I didn't pay attention. You're like, dude, if you're a fan of Opeth, check this out. I was like, John, you complete me. Seaman what? Hey, well, as a thank you, George will give you a reach around later. As soon as I see you. And I'll give you a beer. So you're getting the best of both worlds there. No, I love this album. I've heard the strangest descriptions of what this album is. I guess the first two albums are kind of post-Rocky.

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And this is the first one with some singing on it, which it actually includes the two brothers from In Mourning. The Netzel brothers, I guess, is their last name. It's a melodic death metal. It's doomy. It's got some progressive metal. Just a little bit of the post rock from the previous albums. But like Will said, if you're a fan of Opeth, I think if you're a fan of Catatonia, you know, they're good period, not they're kind of boring, same shit, the last four albums period.

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which is really depressing because I like catatonia. And if you like it morning, you'll probably dig this. They were my number five and they fell to ten, but they still stayed in my top ten. Seeming, emptiness, bliss, and tube. Empty semen. Got it. Yeah. Wilson. All right. That's cool. I remember that from mid-year when John was like, oh. Wow, God. It was like, wow. This is something that really climbed up the charts for me. Yeah, it was good.

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It's in the top ten. Yeah. All right, Will. There's not much that stayed after this point. Come on, Eileen. Will. Wipe it off, please. I've had that song stuck in my head for a while. I have no idea why. I'm like, come on, Eileen. I have no idea what other lyrics come after that. I just know, come on, Eileen.

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to get somebody to do it that doesn't want. It's basically a date rape song. Is it really? Yeah, basically. Are you sure it's not like a pearl necklace song? Is it literally about coming on somebody named I? No, it's basically a dude trying to get a chick to do it when she doesn't want to. Do what? It. It. The dirty. Sex? Yeah. You can say sex. We are in a... Yes, it's basically a dude trying to get sex from a chick who doesn't want to give it up. Oh.

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And her name is Eileen. Yeah. He's like, come on, Eileen. Let's do it. Come on, baby. That's what the song's about. And her name is Eileen. All right. I'm going to change that. I don't know. Something happened that was. Yeah. No, no, no. Let me change this. Dude, that song is so canceled. Oh, is it really? No. You're okay. But yeah, it's not like, you know, Burzum or something, but. It's not like Bill Cosby canceled. It's not Bill Cosby canceled. But it's questionable.

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Come on, George. Yeah, there you go. That's fine. Load me up. Load me up. I don't care. Number 10. I have no idea how to pronounce this. I think it's... Iron Maiden? You already did that. My number 11. My number 12. Ex Imperatus. Yeah. Fuwako Faltuo Obsidian Catabasis. It's Italian atmospheric

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Funeral Doom on Profound Lore. I think I'm gonna... Wilson! Oh, this... I had 16 Wilson's. I'm down to 15. I think I'm still at 15. This is one of the ones that Dan Clanchar. Clanchar, Clanchar, Clanchar, Clanchar, told me about her. He reviewed it on, I think, on the Vox and Hops podcast, which he does. I don't get... Is that him or is that him with

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people that aren't him. I think it's him with the main guy from Cryptopsy. Okay, well, I can't knock that. Yeah, it's Canadian. You know, they may talk about poutine and hockey and Cryptopsy, but whatever. But he posted this, that he reviewed this album, and then Decibel reviewed it. And this is one of those albums that, like, it could be a bright, bright, shiny day. You could

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You can have like Muppets singing. You can have the Sesame Street character singing. It could be like the best day ever in your life. And you listen to this album. It's like, oh, my God, you're going to kill yourself. This is like just unbelievably phenomenal, depressive funeral doom. So I need to hear this. Phenomenal. It's F-U-O-C-O. Fuoco. Oh, I know this. The second word is F-F-A-T.

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F-A-T-U-O. F-A-T-U-O-F-A-T-C-O-C-K. Yeah. Fat cock. Anyway. Check it out. Will's band. And Jay is on his number 10. Welcome to number 10. Number 10 is a threshold because we're talking top 10, as you know. And Marcus, you couldn't have said it better. I wish I was a little bit earlier.

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in the list here because when I say mine, it always sounds like I'm just fucking making it up as I go along. And I am not. I had to get this into the top ten. This was as high as I could get it. But it deserved to be there. Woad, Bernard. Yes. Same position. Nice. I've got that four times now, I guess. But I love Woad. The last record I loved. I know John loved the last one. I know I think John loves this one, too. I do. This is a band to watch, man. They changed

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They change it up a little bit with every record. But everything they do is super intriguing and interesting and just great. And spoiler alert, some of the guys in Woad are responsible for my next pick, which we will get to in here tonight. What? I think that's a group of musicians I really like. Go for it, George. My number 10, we haven't heard this yet, but we may hear it again. It's not listed as one of my Wilson Awards. And this is...

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Much like a backstage pass, it is Access All Worlds. Yoten. Yes! This is a fucking awesome great album. What the fuck? Exactly. I was shocked this was on Decibel's list. Fuck Decibel. Fuck them gently, like, you know, Tenacious D. Oh yeah, I said for that. You know, I love Decibel, but that's ridiculous it's not on that list to me. Yeah. It's a great album. They keep releasing new

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New Variant after New Variant. I'm like, damn it, I want them all, but I can't. They just released another new one the other day. Of course they did. Nice. All right, number nine, Marcus. Wait, you don't have any more things to say about fucking Jotun? Jotun. I think it's possible that there may be more things said about Jotun. I fucking hope so. I'm just saying we got nine more to do and we got 40 minutes to do it, so let's get on it. Fuck, Jesus Christ. Fucking constrained. Roll and roll and roll.

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I have to take my wife out to dinner tonight. Okay. I get it. I got a wife too. Markisan number nine. Number nine for me for sure is not anybody else's list and it's anti-God hand wretch. I've talked about this many times. It's on American decline records. Brooding bleak cosmic black metal wrapped in razor wire layers of progressiveness and atmosphere.

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with cascading guitars and sinister wraith-like vocals. I can't get enough. I've had this as high as number two on my list, but it falls here to number nine. I love it. They've been putting out a lot of releases. They had this as a full length because it's over 30 minutes, but they've also done some EPs, and I feel like they just keep getting better in all the EPs as well.

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do online.

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The two anti-God hand releases for EPs would be in my number one and two.

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So I love this band.

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I can't wait to hear more because they seem to be very prolific in the last year or so.

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So I'm left-handed.

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This is my left hand.

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This is my right hand.

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This is my anti-God hand.

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Nice, George.

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All right.

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Matt, number nine. Number nine has already been mentioned. Lion's Daughter, Skin Show. Yes. I mean, I don't have much to add on to what Jay said other than that. I mean, I love that 70s horror vibe. You know, they were a great band without the electronics, but, you know, having it added on to the last two albums just, to me, just enhances that sound. And, yeah, it's crazy shit and all that. This album, I feel like they perfected that merge. Yep. And I like the last

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But this one,

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if they're going to keep going with that sound,

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this is a really good way to do it.

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I'm curious to see what they're going to do next,

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but I think they tapped into the right song for the band.

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Yeah.

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Well,

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definitely.

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John.

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Well,

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my number nine,

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it's been mentioned.

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I'm not going to say much about it because it's so good.

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It doesn't have to be discussed.

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Yoten,

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Access All Worlds.

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My number six in the mid-year.

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It's a super great album. If you like progressive metal, melodic death metal mixed together, give it a spin with some good vocals. So good. Yes. All right. You need to tonight. 16% death doom. There's a reason why that's up there. Somebody says we're 80% death doom. I'm just saying I'm only 16%. That's fucking James. I'm surprised that album is not on every list because it's just phenomenal.

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Phenomenally crafted. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's a long album, but it's good. It's long. Yeah, it's true. Just like Will, who's up next? So long. So long, so right. Are we on number nine? Nine. We are. I mean, we are. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth. Egyptian slash German death metal from all the way from Colorado.

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These guys are from Colorado. They're the Egyptian death metal from Colorado on Satanath. Satanath. Satanath. Satanath. They who release a free album every day. Yeah. What I do like about, so I have a, like, this goes back, this goes back to my ex-Dio, my 1914. Like, if you were going to release

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release albums or talk about like some sort of period in time, whether it's Egyptian, World War I, World War II, whatever it is. The Roman Empire, I dig it. I'm a history buff. I love history. I like to get nude in the buff and talk about history. You can see that's my podcast. We need to study group next week. That's my other podcast. Says Will as he's shirtless. Wait, so what band is this? Akhenaten. Okay, gotcha. Sorry, I missed that part.

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From Colorado? Yeah, no. Everything sounded familiar, but I missed that part. I like Akhenaten. I do. These guys are amazing. One of the things that I missed about Crescent this year, which I already talked about, is that even though they are from Egypt and now they live in Germany, they kind of dial back on their kind of like the Egyptian instrumentation of their death metal.

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And having spent a ridiculous amount of time in Middle East, I actually really enjoy Middle Eastern music with some of the sitars and stuff like that. I love that sound and that Crescent got away from that and Akhenaten kept with it. Almost Nile. But Nile doesn't really do much with that. A very, very small amount of that. It's all in their lyrics. It's not really about their music. It's more in their lyrics.

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where Crescent used to do it in their music and their lyrics. And Akanon definitely holds on to that. Okay. We'll get that man a beer. Moving forward, my number nine is definitely Wilson. But it's, as mentioned, some of the guys from WOD are in this band. It is probably the best tribute to the wave of British heavy metal that I think I've ever heard, at least up to this point.

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and life even the cover is kind of stupid in the best kind of new wave of british heavy metal way

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like the the parts of new wave of british heavy metal that had no money i fucking love this record dude

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and it is catchy and it's also the last comment i'll make about it is it's sort of like

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if you really go back to like shown a mercy by slayer that really is like they were trying to do new wave of

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british heavy metal and that's really where this record falls it's almost like a super early thrash

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Superlate New Way of the British heavy metal record. Heavy Sentence, Bang to Rights. If you guys haven't heard this, you need to dial this one in, dude. It's so fucking good. Heavy Sentence. Don't know it. The name of the band is Heavy Sentence. So fucking cool, man. I'll check it out. It's just great. If you're like a Paul D'Eno era maiden guy with maybe a slightly more lemmy-ish shouting voice and songs are crafted so well,

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that it should have come out in 1980. It would have been fucking, we'd all love these guys today if it did, trust me. Good stuff. And it's two of the guys from Woad and I can't remember who the other bands are from. Yeah, it's fucking great. Cool. My number nine, thus far not mentioned, from the United States of America, going for that Fuck Yeah America Award, on Redefining Darkness Records,

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Tombstoner, victims of vile torture. What? I don't know. I don't know that one. I like Tombstoner. You don't know Tombstoner? Come on. What was Jay's pick? I know it, George. Heavy Sentence. It's a new of a British heavy metal style band with some of the guys from Lode in it, and it's fucking badass. Oh, okay. Heavy Sentence album called Beg the Rights.

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What's your number eight? No, he asked me what it was. Come down. I'm on number two. The Pipeworks Intrinsic Duality number two. Oh, yeah. Bourbon Barrel Aged Harley Wine. Yeah, that's crazy. Aged for 36 months. Yeah. With Zane and Howard and Henry. Will Mute. Evelyn Brick.

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Is there okay? We'll mute. Walker from your old baseball team? Yeah. Yeah, in Jack Hand, yeah. Yeah. Dear Dad, my friend has COVID. I just want to let you know. Thank you. Sorry. I thought I was muted. You weren't. That's cool. You're good. You're good. William, close the door. It would have been funny if it was like, look, I'm almost finished with these douchebags.

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Just give me a minute. I got rid of these fucking losers. Guys, guys. Holy shit. I'm so sorry. I thought it was. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. It's fine. No, it's not bad. It's just I'm talking to my son about his. I know it was cute. Yeah, it was. I'm sorry. Do we need to rewind and. No, I don't know. I mean, Marcus son was talking, but. I'm sorry. I know I'm going. I seriously apologize. I thought I was. George takes something very obscure and nobody knew what it was. And we moved on. And.

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Okay.

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He moved on because he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

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And I have not given my pick yet because I poured a beer.

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Do it.

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Do it now.

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Number,

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number two of my intrinsic duality countdown,

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but I'm on number eight for our countdown.

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The top 25 metalheads podcast albums of the year.

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And my number eight is.

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Phrenolith Chimera on nuclear winter records.

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I don't know why this record is not on more lists. I know it came out late. This is one of the ones that we were talking about that just came out recently, like in the last two weeks. Like its name, this album is a ferocious fire breathing beast. The riffs are brutal and surprisingly catchy. I find myself just fucking bopping to the music. The drumming on this fucking album is so

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So fantastic. It's it really propels the record. It doesn't have roto toms. I don't think so. You need them. But what I really like about this record, it has this dark magic atmosphere that washes over the album. Like there's the dread mist rolling over a moor. So I like that part of it because it's death metal, but it has this slower foreboding atmosphere.

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to it.

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And that's not something I always see in death metal.

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This album,

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I've bounced back and forth between eight and two,

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but it ultimately falls here.

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And.

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Yeah.

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I love the last record,

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but this one is probably my favorite of theirs.

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Right on.

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I've,

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I've dug them in the past.

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I didn't give this enough a listen to,

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to decide, but I... You know, there's only so many hours in a day, but I do like the band. I've liked them in the past, so I will accept your... Accept it, George. I will accept it. Take it into your heart. All right. Matt. That was weird. That was like Klingon, man. Come on. It was. It was. It felt good, and that was a nice segue into my number eight. It was my number six.

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at mid-year. So it dropped two spots, but in my heart, it did not drop at all. And I'll be honest, when I first saw this band, and by that I mean like in reading, I thought, this is a joke, but my number eight is Silver Talon. I love this album. Like nothing makes me happier this year than this album. Except for seven other things. Well, you know, the happiness level might not be as high with them.

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But that doesn't mean they didn't earn their spot. But I mean, man, this is such a good album. And this is definitely, I do not gravitate towards just straight up heavy metal that often. But this is a winner for me. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Thank you. All right, John. All right. I'm doing it. I'll be the first one to mention them. Bound to happen. Oh, no. Yep.

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At least they're on my list. All right. My number eight. Chemist Deceiver. Who? Oh. Yeah. What? I love this album. I tend to agree with Will a little bit on this album, though. I think I might like the previous album a little more, but it's still a very good album. I just could not place it any higher than eight. So. You got to do what you got to do. I mean, eight is pretty fucking high. Yes, it is.

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But it won't be like in my top two or three like I'm suspecting it will be for a number of people. If you think about the number of albums that you listened to this year, John. Yeah, it's still really good. It's awesome. I love the album. Number eight. I absolutely love the album. It's kind of crazy. I mean, you still suck dick, but like that's crazy. It'd be awesome if my vinyl showed up. But way less dick than J-Sucks. Holy shit. Can I just say, did I say that right? A flag, a bunch of t-shirts, the vinyl from Night Shift merch.

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I feel like months ago.

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Yeah, I know.

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And this is a Christmas present forever.

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I know.

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I know.

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I'm like, what the fuck?

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And I understand it.

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But it's the supply chain thing.

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It's both dope.

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But you still suck, Dick John, by the way.

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You should know.

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This year, I think it's a great album.

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I think this year, it's completely understandable because there's so many great albums.

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And you're talking about degrees of separation.

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Yeah.

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Especially now that we're in the top 10.

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Yeah.

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So I understand that completely.

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Well.

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Oh, shit.

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We are number eight.

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Genocide Pact, self-titled.

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Knew that was coming.

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Yeah.

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I love these guys.

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They are number one, the nicest human beings in the world.

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They play Atlas all the time.

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They are a phenomenal death metal band.

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They're on relapse.

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I don't know what else to say about these guys except that they hit me right in the fields. And Genocide Pack is my number eight. And I was weirdly shocked that I put them at number eight because I probably should have been higher. But there's some other stuff coming up. Lots of good albums. It is great. It's going to happen. Yeah. If you listen to this record, they were actually just featured in the newest decibel.

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And if you look in when you when you read that article

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where they said like, oh, we're trying to do a rock and roll album. And when you listen to their past

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albums and listen to this one, you can see how they're trying to do like more like like chorus bridge riff kind of thing. Like, yeah, they're trying to do like a first chorus verse. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway, that's my that's my number. Eight. Eight. Jay. With the fact that we're trying to save time.

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And I do have some things I'm going to talk about. Again, I can just say a title here. It's already been spoken about. Here is its highest placement. Hooded Menace, The Tretanus Bell. Nice. Awesome. Really fucking love that record this year. Good stuff. And another band was very consistent out, but Georgie. Dick sucks, John. What? Yeah, you got to follow the whole thing. I know. I know. Everyone's got something to say.

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All right. My number eight for my possibly last, but possibly second to last Wilson. Let me cue that shit up. From England on Church Road Records. Who? Voices Breaking the Trauma Bond. Oh. Oh, I hate that record. Well.

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Fuck you then. A couple of the guys from Acker Cocker. Two current guys, one former guy. And I'm moving my mouse as if it's going to work. And yeah, no, it's a really cool album. It's metal. It's I don't even know what to say. I mean, it's got, I told John, I feel like it's got a little catatonia in there.

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And I don't know.

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It's all over the place.

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It is.

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It is.

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Just listen to it.

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It's fucking awesome.

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Or not if you like what Marcus says.

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I listen to it because, you know, I like that kind of avant-garde kind of take on records,

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but there's no cohesion to it for me.

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But you know what?

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Maybe that's what you like about it, you know?

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So the chaotic nature of it.

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It is chaotic.

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I get that. I get how people would really respond to it. For me, it wasn't something that I liked as much. It's like it goes extreme metal, but then it goes kind of like gothy, which of course we mentioned that I dig that. I don't know. Who fucking cares what any of us say? Just listen to shit. Just make your own fucking opinion. No, man. I mean, it's definitely a unique album for sure. That's cool. I can get where people would put it on their list.

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why you put it on your list.

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Because it's eclectic, you know, and they're good at all those different styles.

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It just doesn't come together for me, but awesome.

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All right.

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Well, back to you for number seven.

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Number seven.

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It's funny.

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I didn't intend this.

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My number seven is Seven Sisters, Shadow of a Falling Star Part One on Cherry Red Records.

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This sounds, this album sounds like it could have been part of a new wave of a British heavy metal if they formed fucking outer space. It's extraordinary, catchy songs driven by glorious guitar leads and passionate vocals that I think both soar and sear like a collision of hydrogen and helium inside me. It's a glorious album.

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I haven't stopped spinning it since it came out. And it's not something that was on my radar before. I've listened to the other albums and they don't approach this one. So they've definitely leveled up in terms of their musicianship and just being able to put an album together. So I'm obvious this is part one. I'm looking forward to part two. Hopefully it's a continuation of this because this is stellar. All right, Matt. Hood is on.

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My Number 7, I'll be honest, I have not listened to this band prior to this album. I've only seen their name, I think, probably on a show with Panopticon, which is why I would describe them as Yellow Eyes meets Panopticon with sprinkles of blue dove snored. The band is Woman is the Earth, and the album is Dust Forever, yet Enid Records. It's their fifth album of the U.S. Atmospheric Black Metal Band.

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Super Solid. I would definitely check them out. Yeah, I mean, the Yellow Eyes and Panopticon with the Bluto Snort is probably the best way I can describe them. Other than, you know. Oh, it's more than Super Solid, dude. This is your fucking number seven. This is pretty high. It was lower and it really jumped up. And that's, you know, that's the thing. I feel like when you make your list and then you start going back to listening to everything, everything just like it just shuffles everything. And this for them was for the better because obviously they, you know, they would want

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be high on my list. I know because they care what I think. High on fire. That's a Wilson for sure. I haven't marked as one. All right. My number seven. Probably my last non-Wilson pick here because I think my top six are all Wilsons, which is cool. It's been mentioned once. It's the latest album or most recent album on my list. Just came out a couple weeks ago. Hands of Despair, The Crimson Bows, and Other Short Tales.

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This is a killer fucking album. I mean, I like their, I think, George, you and I had them with their last album on our top 25. Yeah. When it came out a couple of years ago, I didn't know this was coming out until the last minute. And I've been spending this a lot the last two weeks. And there's no doubt it would have been on my list, whether it came out in January or December. So a really nice mix of progressive death and melodic death and black metal. So killer, harsh vocals.

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and they add some new atmospherics to their sound, which give the songs a little bit different textures along with the, they add a little technical also too. So it kind of has this new mix in there while still maintaining their kind of progressive death metal sound. So. I knew you weren't going to Wilson me on this one. No way. That was awesome. I will say one last thing about it real quick. It, the album cover reminds me of Wayfarer from last, was it last year? The right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it reminds me of that a little bit.

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You know that the Wayfarer song number one, which is I think it's called Clementine or something, which is like the old time piano. That's my ringtone. Wake up. That's my alarm clock. Who uses alarm clocks anymore? We just wake up when we wake up. Hell no. Okay. Yes. Said the guy with no kids. Or cats. Number seven, Will. I mean, that is true for me. Or cats.

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My number seven. I think somebody may have said this earlier, but way too low on their list. Suffering Hour. The Cyclic Reckoning. Yes. Awesome. Glad you have it on there. Who said it earlier? Nobody. John did. I did. You did? Yeah, dude. This is a relentless death metal avant-garde. I fucking love this album. That's good to hear.

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Yeah. Yeah. And a really weird, unique sound, too. No, I love it. I love it. That's all I'm going to say. That's all I got to say about it. Nice. Cool. So, Jay, I mean, Matt, I mean, Jay, I mean, what? Marty Feldman. Don't tell me it's that cold in California. Come on. Deterioration, John. Yeah. Jay, did you see that they make an action figure?

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of you, right? No.

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I put it, I put it.

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Yes.

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They make it.

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I was going to say, we're the nihilists from Big Lebowski.

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Have you seen it in stores in your area?

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No, but I'll look it up.

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Maybe you posted it.

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I will literally buy it and send it to you.

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It is you.

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It is so you.

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Just fuck it.

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I'm going to buy it.

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I'm going to send you.

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Oh, yeah, baby.

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Just for people that can't see, which is everybody, both Matt and Jay have hoodies on, black hoodies, and so they look like twinsies.

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It's so cold in my house, man.

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It's freezing in here.

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In Northern California.

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Come on.

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It's cold in Northern California.

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One's in Minnesota.

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Acceptable.

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One's in Northern California.

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Yeah, teepee for my bonghole.

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But you know what it is?

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Teepee for my bonghole.

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Bonghole, yo.

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In a house like mine, we don't have any central heating because this is northern California. So when it's called, it's called. Jay, are you drinking beer yet? No. No, it's time, but it's okay. It's my time. Jay will never drink beer on the podcast ever again. He should have one for us for this, though. No, no, we've gone down this road. He will not. Ever. He saves it for his anonymous. But this is special.

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I drink alone. It's not special. With nobody else. You're not helping me here, Will. No, no. I've gone through this. I'm just... Anyway, go ahead. Jay, go. My number seven is Wilson, so enough about that, but I'll just read you the review because I can't really review it that well, but a very brief description for Bandcamp. It was on my mid-year, too. Great fusion of soothing folk metal with clean vocals and

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Soaring, atmospheric, melodic, black metal with harsh vocals. Okay, so there you go. And this is Imperium, Uber, Den Sternen. Again, I highly recommend this record. For anybody who hasn't checked it out, it's kind of like Dead Can Dance smashed into a metal band. It's fucking great. And I've listened to this record a whole lot this year. It's really fucking good. Nice. It's a good one. Georgie? Number seven. Local to the area.

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Yeah, like apparently within half an hour from here. Oops, I totally wait. No. Okay. Sorry, I can't read. But number seven, fetid zombie transmutations. What? Really good record. Really good record. It's good. He's from Leesburg, is he? Yeah. Like I said, he's like within a half an hour of me.

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That's like a half an hour from Will and I, but it takes us an hour and a half to get there. Yes. I definitely consider that. It's the artist. George, follow up. Come on. I said fetid zombie. No, he's an artist for a ton of stuff. He's an artist. Oh, yeah. I didn't write that down. I know he's an artist. I didn't write it down. So tell me. Huh?

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Riddick. His last name is Riddick. I don't know his name. I didn't write it down. Oh my god. You're such a fucked vice. Right. Anyway, let's go on. These aren't the droids you're looking for. He does all the pen and pencil drawing, black and white stuff for all the heavy metal bands. I don't know this. Tell me. Oh my god.

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I like the music. Sometimes I say you don't get a box of chocolates. Moving on to number six. It's my choice. And I believe I am the first one to have this album. And I know it's going to be on other lists. But number six for me. And it is Matt's way of saying it is Carcass. Torn arteries on nuclear blast records. I do not need to say anything else. Because if you're listening to this cast.

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You should already know who Carcass is. It's a great record. It may be my favorite Carcass record, to be honest with you, of all time. It's really good from start to finish. I mean, I love a lot of Carcass records, but that's a testament to this year because it's so strong that it's number six. Testament did not release an album. No, they did not. But yeah, Carcass, Torn Arteries is my number six. Matt.

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My number six, carryover from mid-year. It dropped two spots. It is Isacrillium, Dith Requiem for the Serpent Telepath. Probably the most bizarre sounding record on my list, and that is why I love it so much. It's the sixth album from a French avant-garde black metal one-man project via I Avoid Hanger Records. The best way I can describe their sound is if you were in hell and you wanted to get a massage, that this is the music that would be playing in the background. It has like some of that

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New Age vibe to it, but also just like straight up brutal black metal. So you will recommend this to me on a Tuesday. Correct. Okay, thank you. Hot rock massage. John. All right, my number six, Holdover also from the mid-year. It's an EP, but it's longer than half the albums we've mentioned so far. My number six, Colta Luna, The Raging River.

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It's a holdover from my last mid-year list, number four. And they always show up always in my top five or six every single year because I'm a big fan of them. So that's all I'm going to say. You guys know who they are. If you don't, if you don't. Then you're a fucking idiot. Everybody knows. But that may be the only one. I'm pretty sure it might be. It was on my list, but it fell off. Are you saying? Well done!

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I mean, I knew it would be on John's list, but I don't, I don't have the same affection for that band that John does. I like them, but it's hard for them to make my list. I think, I don't know why, but all right. Well, we are number six. True that. Exodus PNG persona non grata. There it is. This is the absolute best Exodus album ever.

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Period. Hands down. I don't care what you say about Pleasure of the Flesh. Blonded by Blood. Come on. No, no. I do not give a rat's fucking ass what you say about Bonded by Blood. This is the best Exodus album ever. Period. Done. Except for Bonded by Blood. Nope. Nope. It's better. It is better. It is better.

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I had two World War I albums, themed albums on my list. This is the second one. This was my number one of the mid-year. So it's, of course, Carryover. Oh, the Koff. Koff. There it is. Kanan and Fiber, Mentioned Mule, which is cannon fodder. I still don't remember what Mentioned Mule means. Yeah. Super cool World War I kind of death metal. Old school. And it's with lots of cool, weird interludes that are really well written.

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That was number one at mid-year for you, right, Jay? It was. It was. My top five is pretty fucking strong. So honestly, I thought it would fall farther than that, but I put it on. Jay, I've noticed you have not mentioned Chemist. I know. It's like, I can't believe Chemist is in your top five. That's awesome. We don't know that for sure. He could completely Jay it. So this is either like brand new Jay or it's got to be number five. There's no way he puts it higher than five. It's not on his list at all.

04:17:28.160 --> 04:17:57.680
Come on. No, it's not at all. It's probably number 28. Anyway, go. It's on his list. There's no way Jay doesn't put it on his list after that interview with Phil. His issue is with the lyrics. He's not going to. He's not going to do it. He's going to put it on. I think this is the time. John has a timeline. All right. All right. My number six. Somehow do five picks in five minutes. We can do it. Jesus Christ. Number six. Unto others' strength.

04:17:58.140 --> 04:18:27.440
Wow. Nice. Fucking love that album. I know. I know at least. All right. Markison, go. Yep. Fuck. No, it's fine. Go. Okay. Sorry, George. I was joking. I was joking. No, I mean, it's awesome. I love it. It's kind of sort of barely. I mean, this is much more metal than the last album. There's even some harsh vocals. It's a great album. I fucking love it. And I know Markison likes it.

04:18:28.160 --> 04:18:58.080
It's not on my list, but I do like it a lot. I listed this as one of my Wilsons because I was like, I know you like it, but I don't think they're going to list it. So. No, it's just not metal enough for me, I think. That's fair. But I do really like it a lot. All right. Number five. Number five. I'm Jay and I'm picking Chemist Deceiver as number five, which is probably a surprise. Top five is okay. Again, super strong year on nuclear blast records. I mean,

04:18:58.160 --> 04:19:28.020
And there's not really much to say about this band that we haven't already said. You can just listen to the five-hour episode with Phil from Chemist. You know, what we think about Chemist and what went into the album is on that episode. So it's a really good album. I think it goes down a little bit because it's all about like struggling with the pandemic and mental health. And that's not really something I identify with. That's something that totally I related to, though. I know. And I, and, and, and I,

04:19:28.140 --> 04:19:57.260
I appreciate that and I have a lot of friends who deal with like mental health and stuff but for me that's not something I struggle with so the lyrics I don't quite identify with it but the music is really strong of course because it's chemists and the lyrics are strong as well because it's about something but I just listen to some more albums a little bit more and identify with a little bit stronger but you know nothing to sneeze at when you're in the fucking top five especially this year that's right

04:19:58.699 --> 04:20:27.700
Matt. Number five. Another carryover throughout four spots. Panopticon. I remember when we were talking to Daniel and we asked him what his favorite Panopticon album was and we had not heard it yet. He's like, hey, it's this album. I mean, I think that said a lot. And I mean, this is an amazing album. It's definitely a, you know, kind of a step in the forward evolution for them.

04:20:28.160 --> 04:20:29.680
And yeah,

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it's awesome.

04:20:32.060 --> 04:20:32.320
Awesome.

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All right.

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John.

04:20:35.860 --> 04:20:36.360
Good one.

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My number five,

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Matt,

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bring on the sax score,

04:20:41.460 --> 04:20:41.560
brother,

04:20:42.020 --> 04:20:42.360
please.

04:20:42.540 --> 04:20:43.520
I was waiting for this.

04:20:44.160 --> 04:20:44.280
Yeah.

04:20:44.380 --> 04:20:45.060
My number five,

04:20:45.720 --> 04:20:46.380
Rivers of Nile,

04:20:46.380 --> 04:20:46.840
the work.

04:20:47.240 --> 04:20:48.520
I just love this album.

04:20:49.090 --> 04:20:52.400
And I think it's my favorite of theirs because it's their most

04:20:52.700 --> 04:20:53.120
experimental.

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If you want only tech depth from them,

04:20:57.880 --> 04:21:27.760
Stick to the older albums because this is a mix of Tech Death and Progressive Metal and Atmospheric. Big fan of them now, especially after this one. I like the last one, but this one I like a lot more. So that's my number five. It's our Queens Rack album. Yeah, okay. I don't say that insultingly. No, no. I mean, I like that. I didn't think of Queens Rack, but you do have to listen to this from start to finish to appreciate all the songs. There are no songs that you can listen to individually and say, oh, yeah,

04:21:27.900 --> 04:21:57.860
That's awesome. Without listening to all of them together, I think they all flow a certain way. It's a tough one. I had a hard time getting into that one. Well, I like it a lot. So cool. All right, then. So and here we go in my number five. I kind of want my daughter to come down here to announce this one. It's not what you're thinking. It's not what you're thinking. Because I

04:21:57.880 --> 04:22:27.860
I let my kids sneak at my list and Ellen looked at this one and she said car cast that sounds like a car company I'm like no it's a carcass and it's torn arteries from nuclear blast my number five is carcass and so anyway I had a sweet I had a very very sweet moment with my daughter where she's like car cast and I just immediately thought of of of

04:22:27.900 --> 04:22:57.820
Of course. Yes. Yes. Anyway. Carcass. No, it's funny. I have it as one of my passwords and I was relaying it to my wife because she was plugging into our Apple TV and she's like, carcass? And I was like, exactly. Well, that's two so far. I know it's going to be higher on other people's lists. I was like, it sounds like a car company. Carcass? What is it? Yes. It's a car company. Like, wait, what? I mean, she knows. It runs on meat. Runs on ass.

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All right. Soyl and green is people. Exactly. I would just say, I would just say with the carcass is that, um, I love it. It's obviously my number five, but I, you know, surgical steel, like there's other ones that are better. That's all. That's my point. I don't know. Go ahead. A lot of people share that opinion. Um, I think it might be the best carcass I'll bend to be honest with you. A lot of people share that opinion with you.

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Number five,

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a band that did not register with me last year,

04:23:33.380 --> 04:23:33.800
the year before,

04:23:34.000 --> 04:23:35.020
whenever the hell it was.

04:23:36.560 --> 04:23:39.100
But I think there'll be two other people pleased to hear it.

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Rivers of Nile,

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the work.

04:23:41.060 --> 04:23:42.440
I fucking love this record.

04:23:43.340 --> 04:23:44.860
You love saxophone.

04:23:45.360 --> 04:23:45.660
Oh,

04:23:45.880 --> 04:23:45.960
dude,

04:23:46.080 --> 04:23:47.560
this is such a fucking solid record.

04:23:47.610 --> 04:23:49.120
And it's like one of those things where it's like,

04:23:49.130 --> 04:23:52.320
all of a sudden my focus just changed a little bit and I could see the 3d

04:23:52.530 --> 04:23:53.000
picture thing.

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And I was like,

04:23:53.460 --> 04:23:53.560
Oh,

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okay,

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this is fucking great.

04:23:54.810 --> 04:23:55.040
You know,

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and it's also just obviously good on the face of it.

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You know, John and I have been going back and forth about funny made-up names for bands that aren't on our list. Like, as mentioned previously on our text, Panopticon. Well, mine was Rivers of Knot on my list. Yeah, I actually just don't get that album, to be honest with you. I like the last one a lot better. Panopticon or Rivers of Knot?

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of Nile. I liked the last one a lot better. This one I've tried and tried to get into it and I just can't. Have we only had one Rivers of Nile? No, that's two. John had it. Penopticon. Yes, I believe Matt is the only one who had it. I'm not positive though. I thought that was John. Somebody had it. Matt and Jay had it. That's two. Obviously it's one we're probably going to hear some more.

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Not gonna hear from me again. George, five. Jay, you're not gonna say it again. Rivers of the work. Number five, number four, number three, number two, number one. Okay, my number five. Carnival corpse, violence, unimagined. Cool. My number one at mid-year. Well, we know Camus is gonna be up there.

04:25:27.220 --> 04:25:47.060
Do we? Do we really? Well, Marcus, why don't you take us to the new thross and blot? Of course, it's going to be number one for George. Of course, but you have to caveat chemists with an asterisk, like not, not floss and blah, not.

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Watch George, what he was doing? I don't know what he's doing over there, but it's disturbing. We'll stop you in tracks from saying anything. All right, number four, Marcus. Marty Feldman over here, Igor. You also pronounced it Fro-Drink. Well, my number four is another one that's a Wilson for sure. It was my number two.

04:26:27.220 --> 04:26:27.820
on Midyear.

04:26:29.220 --> 04:26:31.060
And it drops just a couple spots.

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Number four.

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And that's Sepulchros Vazio on Transcending Obscurity Records.

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Just a hypnotic, enthralling funeral death zoom record that just creates this devastating primeval atmosphere that I get lost in every single time I spin it.

04:26:51.140 --> 04:27:20.560
I feel like Sepulchros pushes the funeral doom genre into sinister new places that I haven't heard before. And, you know, it's one of those things that it's one of those records that kind of falls under the radar. I think they're doing something that will have an impact on the genre for years to come. So it's too bad. I think that people haven't really given its due, but it's, uh,

04:27:21.140 --> 04:27:50.740
It's a tremendous record in that genre. It's the best record in that genre. It's not even close. So, uh, Sepulcro Svasio, uh, number four for me. This is funny every time. It really is. It is. It really is. Yeah. All right, Matt. My number four has been mentioned once. I don't anticipate it will be mentioned more. Um, I would describe this band as the quintessential black and thrash metal band.

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There's times where they sound old school, but they are actually modern. They're relevant. At times, I feel like I'm listening to a Venom record, but better produced and more polished. Not that Venom should ever sound anything other than what they sound like now, but if you're that person who, if you're a gripe with black metalists that it's just too stripped down, then this is definitely a band you want to check out. I'm talking about Craven Idol, and the album is Fork Tongues, Dark Descent Records.

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It is their third album. They are from the UK. Like I said, this is just like straight up killer black and thrash. Good stuff. I was going to get listened on that one. That's awesome. Jay liked that one a lot. Yeah, I mean, I thought I was going to be the only one who had it, but that's awesome. Yeah. Cool. It was, you know, when it started, it was lower and I just, I listened to it again the other day. I was like, fuck, this album is brilliant. Great writing, dude. Yeah, totally. Super engaging throughout, you know, just there's no wasted riffs on there. No. Awesome. All right.

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John. My number four. It's a holdover from the mid-year. It's my former number one, Tara Odium. An A-plus Ultra from Frontier Records. They are Spiral Architect Part 2 or 2.0, but more pericardial, not as technical as Spiral Architect. This is a killer progressive metal album with some technical leanings and some symphonic leanings on it, but not overbearing on the symphonic stuff, which I'm really happy of.

04:29:20.220 --> 04:29:49.700
I like it. I think it's a good album. I do too. I think it's a really solid album. And if that's what we're going to get, if you're a Spyro Architect fan and that's what you're going to get 20 years later, hey, I'll take it. Just hope the next album doesn't come out 20 years later. Yeah. So. All right. Will. The Crown. Royal. Yes. Royer. Comes back. Yeah. Anyone who said this was like drop down, you're an idiot. Oh, thanks.

04:29:50.240 --> 04:30:20.180
That's a phenomenal great album. That's all I got to say. Fight me. Fight me. I will fucking kill you. Fight me. Me not speak good. My number four, a few people have said this is their best record since Brave New World, and I agree with them. Senjutsu. Whoa. I truly fucking love this record. There's a couple of places that are honestly a little long-winded, but

04:30:20.200 --> 04:30:24.100
I said this earlier it reminds me more of Bruce's better solo

04:30:24.370 --> 04:30:26.280
outfit than the more recent

04:30:26.490 --> 04:30:28.200
major records easily the best record since

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Brave New World and

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my hat is off to him for being this old

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and this far in the careers put something this solid

04:30:34.580 --> 04:30:36.160
and non-commercially viable

04:30:36.490 --> 04:30:38.240
together I will tell you this

04:30:38.400 --> 04:30:39.500
is better than

04:30:41.180 --> 04:30:42.480
Book of Souls Book of Chess

04:30:42.530 --> 04:30:42.660
yeah

04:30:44.520 --> 04:30:46.240
I mean I agree with Jay I think

04:30:46.240 --> 04:30:48.280
it's the best album since Brave New World I do

04:30:48.961 --> 04:31:18.260
It's in my top 40. It just doesn't make my top 25. Yeah, but Brave New World was so much better than this album. In my opinion, you cannot compare this. This is Iron Maiden when they're super fucking old. This is Brave New World when they're almost sort of kind of old. I don't think anything compares to Brave New World. Brave New World is so good. And anything after that is just

04:31:18.300 --> 04:31:19.140
It's garbage. It is.

04:31:19.140 --> 04:31:19.280
It is.

04:31:19.819 --> 04:31:22.300
No, this album is not garbage, dude.

04:31:22.660 --> 04:31:24.560
No, no, this is not garbage, but this is the best.

04:31:24.580 --> 04:31:26.740
You just said anything after Brave New World is garbage.

04:31:26.980 --> 04:31:28.520
Well, it's not garbage.

04:31:28.700 --> 04:31:29.220
It's a good album.

04:31:30.340 --> 04:31:34.620
You know, I have to, I felt pressure to put this on my list because it's Iron Maiden.

04:31:34.930 --> 04:31:35.020
Yeah.

04:31:35.180 --> 04:31:38.160
It did not suck as much as Book of Souls.

04:31:38.659 --> 04:31:39.520
Book of Souls.

04:31:39.960 --> 04:31:48.220
However, your point, your point is well taken because I'll say this, like, I was like, am I phoning it in by putting on the list?

04:31:48.280 --> 04:32:17.220
But the truth is, is I kept going back to it and listened to it so many times this year. And so did I. I feel somewhat apologetic for having it, as I do with at least one of the other records I have yet to say. But in any case, it's really, it really. I mean, it's very high on our list, Jay. But, you know, if that's how you feel about it, if you've spun it that much, then that's where it goes. But that's where I was. I spun it a lot. And to me, it was, this is not Book of Souls. So I'm happy.

04:32:20.739 --> 04:32:47.480
I don't know how to describe this. I like the album a lot. I spun it a lot. And I think a lot of the reason I spun it a lot is because I wanted Iron Maiden to have a great record every single time out because you don't know how many records you're going to get. And so I spin those albums a lot because I'm like, is this like their final album? Are they putting a final statement on their fucking amazing career? And yet you didn't put it on your list.

04:32:47.480 --> 04:33:17.461
I didn't because I don't think it deserves to be in the top 25 for me you know it's in the top 40 I always do a top 40 and that's pretty high anyways for this year yeah you know it's just really long you know I think like well some of those songs and it would it probably would have made the list if it was a little bit shorter oh so like yeah yeah okay their legacy their legacy demands that we debated at this level could be of course that's just it and people

04:33:17.500 --> 04:33:47.301
I got to go back and forth on it. And it doesn't fucking matter because it's Iron Maiden. So even if you don't have it in your top 25, like you still love Iron Maiden, you're going to go see them play whenever they come around. Fuck yeah, it's Iron Maiden. I liked it enough that I ordered a Sinjitsu shirt. Let's move on to George. Really? Was that your number four? Yeah. Okay. My number four is a little known,

04:33:47.961 --> 04:33:48.721
from England.

04:33:50.230 --> 04:33:51.279
You may not have heard of.

04:33:53.699 --> 04:33:55.061
They're called Carcass.

04:33:55.900 --> 04:33:58.320
And this is their album called Torn Arteries.

04:33:58.471 --> 04:34:02.939
If you haven't, you probably haven't heard of it, but if you haven't, you should check it out.

04:34:05.221 --> 04:34:06.119
It's such a good album.

04:34:06.381 --> 04:34:07.641
It's so weird in this year.

04:34:07.770 --> 04:34:10.699
Like, I think Carcass put out a phenomenal record.

04:34:11.939 --> 04:34:16.641
You know, I mean, it sounds like Carcass, but, you know, they still have a few new tricks in them.

04:34:17.240 --> 04:34:46.680
But there's so many good records out there. I don't know. I think it's their best record. I really feel like it's their best record. I haven't considered that option. I just like it for what I like it. Yeah, it's so good. But I mean, you know. Another band, by the way, that this late in their career, this many years on, should they be making records this fucking good? Exactly. Not that they shouldn't, but you know,

04:34:46.721 --> 04:35:15.859
You know what I mean? That's just still, especially with this kind of demanding, honestly, extreme, you know. They shouldn't be. I mean, to put out something that is identifiably carcass, but then still does something a little bit different than what they've done before. And as always, lives completely in their own weird little world, by the way. There's just this in a van that kind of like, they don't give a fuck what anybody else is doing. This is what we're doing. Yeah. I mean, I know it's in your top three somewhere, Jay. So we'll see. Yeah, it's going to be there.

04:35:16.359 --> 04:35:45.760
It'll be there. All right. Number three, Markisan. Shit's getting real. Wilson. I mean, I talked about this band a ton, but I feel like I'm the only one who was really into this band and it's unrequited, beautiful ghosts on prophecy productions. I don't know how to describe this album, but it's just really, it's a breathtakingly gorgeous, transcended album.

04:35:48.281 --> 04:36:12.641
It's almost mostly instrumental. There is a lot of black metal vocals on it, you know, in the background, but they're not forward. And I don't even know if they're real lyrics to it. But they really focus on the beauty, on the emotional quality of the band, which is different than the last record. Every single record they do is a little bit different, even though it's recognizably unrequited.

04:36:13.520 --> 04:36:41.920
But this one just hit all the emotions, you know. It's rare that you get an album where you just feel something from start to finish, you know, except for like, I want to fucking punch shit. And so there's a real beauty and there's a savagery to their music, but there's just so much beauty in that music and it feels hopeful to me.

04:36:43.539 --> 04:37:11.100
But at the same time fills that kind of like a metal niche that I require almost every day. So this album had been like number one. It's bounced around quite a bit, but it ends at number three. All their albums seem to be really high on my list, and I kind of feel bad that they don't put it at number one because it was a number one for a long time. But musical chairs, man.

04:37:12.340 --> 04:37:12.980
Number three,

04:37:13.359 --> 04:37:13.721
unrequited,

04:37:14.221 --> 04:37:14.939
beautiful ghosts.

04:37:15.439 --> 04:37:16.439
It's not high on fire.

04:37:16.539 --> 04:37:18.461
It's high on Markisan's list.

04:37:18.961 --> 04:37:19.359
That's right.

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All right,

04:37:20.760 --> 04:37:21.000
Matt.

04:37:22.221 --> 04:37:22.420
All right.

04:37:22.461 --> 04:37:25.240
My number three was another carryover.

04:37:25.340 --> 04:37:26.779
It's actually up two spots.

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And it is crypts of despair.

04:37:28.500 --> 04:37:29.199
All lights swallow.

04:37:31.539 --> 04:37:32.900
Transcending obscurity records.

04:37:33.080 --> 04:37:37.061
This is a second album of death metal from a Lithuanian band.

04:37:38.779 --> 04:37:39.340
During the mid year,

04:37:39.359 --> 04:37:39.699
I said,

04:37:39.740 --> 04:37:41.301
this is my breakup end of the year.

04:37:41.381 --> 04:38:10.961
and they live up to those words. This is like death metal magic XXL. It's super aggressive. It's got some really catchy melodies. You know, there's a couple spots where I was like, man, I feel like if The Cure were a death metal band, this is what they would sound like. But totally killer. Definitely check it out. No, I dig them. I do. Not on my list, but I do dig them. John. My number three. And yes,

04:38:11.000 --> 04:38:40.500
I'm actually saying this. I didn't think this was going to happen. I'm going to take a ton of shit from TR. Number three, Between the Buried and Me, Colors 2. What? Fucking love this album. What? I became a fan because of this album. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I've said in the past, and I know Markisan you agree with me, and I know George, you've tried to get me to listen to certain albums. Oh, I like some of their stuff, but not this one. No, I'm just saying. You're worried about TR?

04:38:41.000 --> 04:39:07.039
No, TR and I have this long-running joke that this is one of those bands. We've all got these bands on our concert list that we've seen a thousand times. And you're like, I just don't understand why this band's on every tour I go to. This is one of those bands. And I just never got into them because they're not a band you get into live. You have to really spend time with them. Their albums are a lot of work. And this is no different. So I'm like a fan now.

04:39:07.160 --> 04:39:36.820
It's a great album. I have to say it is really great. I'm surprised it's on your list, but it's a very good album. And I'm not a fan still of that kind of hardcore vocals and metal. It just never worked for me as much, but I'm getting it. And by the way, it's funny, my top four picks, all four of these have been number one at some point. And they all are going in order. All right. Interesting. Let's cue up a super, I mean a super volleyball for this one.

04:39:36.881 --> 04:40:06.580
Super Wilson. I mean, I gotta go out in the cosmos. Spike it, John. Spike it. I want to mention, The Chemist is not on your list, right? Oh, it is. Number eight. Oh, was it number eight? Yeah, remember you said I sucked dick for that one. Well, yeah, I mean, you suck dick no matter what, but... All right. Will. Will, number three? Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Nice. My number three album, The Surprise,

04:40:06.900 --> 04:40:07.060
to me,

04:40:08.020 --> 04:40:09.580
alchemy of flesh.

04:40:10.190 --> 04:40:13.460
An album is ageless abominations from Athens,

04:40:13.820 --> 04:40:15.560
Georgia on redefining darkness.

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This is,

04:40:18.310 --> 04:40:18.560
um,

04:40:21.120 --> 04:40:23.060
a Wilson morbid angel worship.

04:40:23.950 --> 04:40:24.220
Yeah.

04:40:24.400 --> 04:40:25.120
To the end degree.

04:40:25.630 --> 04:40:26.760
And it is done really,

04:40:28.040 --> 04:40:28.580
really well.

04:40:28.720 --> 04:40:30.720
Like having been a,

04:40:31.260 --> 04:40:31.380
an,

04:40:31.700 --> 04:40:36.180
a young lad growing up in the,

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uh,

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early, late 80s, early 90s, and hearing this album, and this is just like, this is what I want to hear. How did you hear this in the 80s that time? What? But you're saying this is a nostalgic vibe for you, in other words, right? It has, yes. I don't know what George, whatever the fuck George was saying, but this has a nostalgic, nostalgic. Yes.

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It's nostalgic. It's nostalgic. It's nostalgic for me to hear these guys. Oh my God. Jay, your eyes are green. Can you look at your screen? Can you see your eyes are green right now? What? The Marty Feldman thing is coming through like super hard. Anyway, go. Go next. I'm going to be a flash. It's fucking awesome. It is a good album. Yeah. I like it. Go. My number three was the Lisposter

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I didn't know really much about this band. But one of the things I always do is check out all of your albums of the month. So this was one of your picks recently. And I've already let him know privately so he could have a boner about it. But no joke, I wasn't as excited as a band about this style since like Opeth, early records. In Morning, The Bleeding Veil.

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Oh, wow.

04:42:07.080 --> 04:42:08.020
So fucking good, dude.

04:42:08.320 --> 04:42:09.700
It's as good as John says it is, man.

04:42:09.720 --> 04:42:14.100
That record is super well-written and immaculately produced.

04:42:15.840 --> 04:42:17.560
I hope people will check these guys out.

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I mean, you guys will in your own time or won't, or maybe you already did,

04:42:20.900 --> 04:42:23.020
but this is a band that needs to get some attention.

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Fucking great, great record.

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Easy number three for me.

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Georgie Boy.

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My number three is a little-known band from the Bay Area called Ex Odis Persona Non Grata. Nice. Yeah, I'm sure you've never heard of them before, but they're a good band. I mean, what am I going to say? Come on. It's Exodus. Come on. It's fucking awesome. It's brilliant.

04:42:58.140 --> 04:43:28.060
yourself is if you're going to like it. I'm so lost right now. Like, did you get, uh, Exodus was my number six. Did you guys hear that? Yeah. You heard that, right? I wasn't insulting you, Will. I was just saying in general terms. He just doesn't know where we're at. That was like, I'm literally like, I'm so fucking tired right now. You have two picks left. You have your one. I know, I know, I know. Yeah. All right. Is fucking Jay going to put chemist at number two? He's not putting it on there at all. Come on.

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He is number zero. He is two. Exodus is probably number one for him. I would think. I don't get Exodus because I don't like the vocals, but I know you guys like it. So I knew it was going to be high. I think Jay is at Exodus zero. No, Exodus. No, I don't think he will. I don't think he will. He will. However, however, we can let him speak for himself. Yes, we can. But first we need Mark to give us his number two.

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I'm at number two. I mean, this band has already been mentioned. I feel like it should be in all the lists. I don't understand why it's not, but it's Jotun, Access All Worlds. I think this album is a perfect flight of progressive sci-fi death metal. Every song is gorgeously crafted and star charged with hooks, emotion, and just a deep sense of cosmic wonderment.

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And John Aldara,

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he turns in an extraordinary performance on both clean and growled vocals.

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I think this is almost just spectacular.

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It was my number one at mid-year and drops one place to number two.

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I was happy to see it on some other lists,

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but it's called what?

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Yo,

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why ain't it on your list?

04:44:53.720 --> 04:44:53.980
Damn.

04:44:54.120 --> 04:44:54.720
That's a good album.

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All right,

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cool.

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Matt, your number two.

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My number two is

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Chemist, Deceiver.

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This is probably the highest

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Chemist album is ranked for me.

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Before I was on the podcast,

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12 years ago,

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yeah, 12 years ago, Absolution was definitely,

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I think it was in my top five.

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And I really got into that album.

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And I love the albums after that,

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but I feel like I really got into Deceiver.

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And I think, you know,

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based on what we've been able to read about

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and talking to Phil, you know, I mean, there is definitely a journey in making this album. And you can feel that and what, what, what has, what, you know, what they've, what they've made, the good and the bad. And, um, yeah, exactly. And I mean, this album just completely struck a chord for me, even like, I mean, the moment we got the promo and I put it on, I was like, holy shit. I mean, I wasn't even one song into it. And like my jaw was on the floor and, uh, yeah, this is a killer record.

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And my number two. Nice. Chemist. All right, John. My number two. I don't know if anyone knows this. Maybe George is the only one I think who actually might have listened to it. Cognos. Self-titled Cognos on Willow Tip. Their whereabouts are unknown. Nobody knows who they are or where they're from. Although they apparently did not disappear after they released our album like another band we know from Iceland via Brazil.

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It's progressive death metal again. It's a little hard to describe because it's kind of spacey and it's sound kind of deviates a little bit here and there, but I love that I get hooked on by some of the riffs. I mentioned this, I think, a while back when we talked, Darren, what we're listening to on one of the episodes. There's a song called Hierarch where it lasts like 90 seconds to remind me of the end of Deliverance.

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If you're a fan of that song from Opeth, the last three minutes of that song is just a killer instrumental piece. I was thinking of the movie. Squeal for me! What was Burt Reynolds supposed to do? Why is everyone mad at him still? I know, right? I'm sorry, what was he supposed to do? Trying to figure out what the hell the number one's going to be for the whole group. Will, your number two. Oh, my number two? Chemist. What?

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I thought he would have it number one but he doesn't

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I know

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still

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Jay

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number two

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that's all you're gonna say Will come on

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you know what there was a guy

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who preceded me who talked

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a lot about it there was

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an interview

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that my daughter was on

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who talked a lot

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and there may be more people

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to talk about it

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Yeah, my number two is Karkis.

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Yeah, I agree. It would be hard for me to say what I think the best Karkis record is. I do think. Ah, okay. Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment Limited is probably the best fucking song I've ever recorded. I just fucking love that song. Everything else I love on here, too. The only thing that that record actually had going against it was that there were as many as three advanced tracks were there,

04:48:26.160 --> 04:48:56.000
and we had them for such a long period of time. Yeah, no, you're totally right. It kicks the continuity out from under your feet just a little bit. Having really obsessively listened to it when it came out and then now revisiting it as many as a month or two later, you know, or when we had the promo, I guess. It's, I say again, there's no reason a bunch of old fucks who are at least getting in the neighborhood of 60 should be able to make a record like this. George, number two. George, number two. My number two.

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is a band from England you might have heard of, but maybe not. I don't know. They're called Iron Maidan. Senjute Su. Motherfucker. That was some shitty pronunciation. Wow, that's high. That is fucking high. I thought George would go higher than anybody else. And he barely beat me. He does like the Maiden. I love the Maiden. You gotta love the Maiden.

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A Fine Choice. All right. Well, back to Marcasson for number one. Holy shit. This shit is ultimately real now. This is all those fucking marbles right here, right? No chance to change my pick, I think, at this point, because I'm too drunk for it. So I did not expect this album to top my list. I had not even heard of this band before December. Whoops.

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wasn't even on my fucking radar. And yet, it's my number one. Limp Bizkit? What? Keep guessing. My number one album of 2021 has been on a list. And it is So Hideous. None but a Pure Heart can sing. I was waiting for that. I love this record. What's the name of the band? So Hideous.

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It's on silent pendulum records. It's a orchestral progressive post black metal infused with various instrument instrumentation like violins trumpets saxophones. There's a flood of movie soundtrack like epicness to it. There's jazz on it. There's Afro beat on this record. There's heavy black and parts that kind of channel post hardcore bands like envy which is one of my favorite

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My Favorite Post Hardcore Bands, because I grew up with that. This album has a lot going on in it. It features complex arrangements, and yet, somehow, everything flows seamlessly from start to finish on this record. It never feels disjointed at all. It never feels forced. It's avant-garde metal that's actually fucking enjoyable to live.

04:51:26.160 --> 04:51:55.980
listen to you. Yeah. Which I know is not typical. Yeah. I expected this to be on your list, but I didn't think number one. Me either. Every song on none but a pure heart can sing feels essential. It feels glorious. It's emotionally satisfying to me. I think this album is, is stunning. It's a, it's just a phenomenal piece of work that isn't like anything else out there. But the, the, the cohesive,

04:51:56.240 --> 04:52:26.140
of the album with all of those instruments and all of these influences on it is just phenomenal to me. I don't think I've ever heard an album that brings it. I don't even like saxophone on records, to be honest with you. This album makes it work in a way I've never heard before. And it's like a 32-minute record, maybe, which I like as well. Yeah, I think it's just...

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It's phenomenal. I've never heard of any of the other records. I've never even listened. I haven't even listened to any of the records since I've listened to this record. Because this record to me is so perfect that I don't want to listen to what happened before. You don't. I mean, I didn't like the last one at all. Honestly. But I like this one a lot. It's on your list. It's on my list. And, you know, had I had it earlier in the year, it might have been higher. But I agree.

04:52:55.700 --> 04:52:56.560
It's an amazing album

04:52:57.660 --> 04:52:59.140
Yeah, it's like the Owls album

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They have like saxophone and stuff

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But it feels like they throw it in there

04:53:03.340 --> 04:53:05.380
This album feels like every part is essential

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Like you needed that instrument for that song

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And that's what I like about it

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Like there's a lot of bands that throw in that kind of instrumentation

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And it's cool

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But it feels like an addition

04:53:16.060 --> 04:53:20.080
This feels like it had to be there in every single song

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And that's not something I've ever experienced ever in metal

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You know

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that extra instrumentation in metal until I listen to this album. So I would encourage everybody to listen to it if you haven't spun it. I know George has on his list, but wow, it's just, and I've listened to it a ton since it came out because I'm like, fuck, this is going to be my number one album. I haven't even heard of this band before. You know, but yeah, without a doubt, my number one. Nice. All right. Well done. Matt, what you got?

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Do I really need to say it? No. But do it anyway. My number one is a band called Cease and Desist. Oh, shit. Yeah, you got to move. Wait, wait. There it is. There it is. Enjoy Carcass. Carcass. Torn arteries. We've been talking about it. Is it my favorite Carcass album? Asking me my favorite Carcass album is like asking me my favorite child. I don't know that. You should say it's the boy.

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It's one of my favorites, but I don't know. But it's been my number one now for probably the last seven years, and it's nice to actually be able to say that this is it. Yes. Finally. Are we on number one? Yeah. Yep. Yep. Oh, boy. We're those drunk as fuck. No, we are all. Actually, not. Except for Jay. Not remotely. We still have to do honorable mentions as well, so get,

04:54:55.400 --> 04:54:55.900
Geared Up.

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Anyway, Matt.

04:55:01.560 --> 04:55:01.660
Yeah.

04:55:01.920 --> 04:55:02.400
Carcass.

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Carcass.

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Torn Aris.

04:55:05.260 --> 04:55:05.920
Numero Uno.

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Love it.

04:55:06.700 --> 04:55:07.740
It's such a good record, dude.

04:55:08.160 --> 04:55:08.660
Holy shit.

04:55:09.340 --> 04:55:09.540
Yeah.

04:55:10.160 --> 04:55:14.060
Matt, where do you think, where would you rank it as far as Carcass albums go?

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There are only two that I would put above it glaringly, and that would be Heartwork or Surgical Steel.

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So the last two great ones. Yeah, but this one could get in there. I mean, no, this is like, so starting with necroticism, anything after that. And I would even include swan song in it. Cause I just love carcass so much. Like swan song was fucking garbage. I hate to say it. No, it was great. I love swan song. It was fucking garbage. It's my kid with the blue hair. I still love him. Oh my God. Nice. Oh my God. That's like you saying like limp biscuit was great. You're premature.

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I'm just going all in. I like Matt's way of thinking. We're going banders. So it's number three, but it could rise higher is what you're saying. Yeah, totally. Totally. It depends on the day. It definitely has the potential. John. All right. So my number one, there's a reason why Chemist was not my album of the month in November. And that's because my number one is in morning.

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I absolutely love this album I got hooked right from the very beginning and I've been a fan of these guys but this is the first one I've really liked a ton from first listen like I did when I first heard Monument in 2010 so that's awesome yeah I mean it would be on your list but I didn't know it'd be that high John I didn't either yeah yeah so they the two first songs they released from it I had to listen to on Spotify because apparently they're on a Swedish

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label.

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So they're hard to find.

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They finally put it on Banecamp,

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but just got hooked.

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And I was like,

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man,

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I'm jonesing for this album.

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But I was like,

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what?

04:57:02.600 --> 04:57:03.980
The chemist is coming out this month,

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but it just blew chemist.

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I'm sorry,

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chemist.

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I love your album,

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but this one got me from the very beginning.

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There's,

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I think that they upped it from the last two albums,

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big time.

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It's not riffs.

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A lot of progressive death.

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Well,

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number one.

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Did I do my number two? Yeah, you did. I sure hope you fucking did. What is your number two on your list? Well, I can't. Yeah, you did it. All right. Number one, Camel Corps. Camel Corps. What the fuck? What? Who's that band? We don't understand. Tell us about that band. You know what? I have to say that it didn't suck. I like it.

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If you want me to say, this is a band that just puts out consistent records no matter what, year after year after year. This year. But this year, this year they put out, the addition of Eric Rutan this year was just icing on the cake for me. For me.

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And it was magical. It was just effing magical. I'm not going to take more time. Jay, you go. It's your turn. You're number one, but anyway, go. I didn't try to hide it there in the end. It wasn't kind of Exodus, Persona Non Grata. This is, that's what I called it, their career-defining album. I totally agree. This is the best record. It was. It was. It was their best album ever, period. It is.

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And it's not kind of persona non grata. It's got hooks all over the place. And honestly, this one in Blood In Blood Out, the previous one, which was now seven years ago, Gary Holt and Lee Altus, I think his name is this, their guitar. It's like they're trying to beat each other with their creative solos. Everything about this record is so good. Great hooks, cool vocal parts. It's a fucking thrash classic. And it's a shame that that is.

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It's a genre that is not necessarily

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kind of like the hot genre really

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these days. Exodus are seen as legends

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but they're not like cool.

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Well this album fucking rocks.

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This album fucking rocks.

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It's good and it's I'm going to admit

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that compared to a lot of the avant-garde

04:59:38.960 --> 04:59:39.200
or whatever.

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It was my number six

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and I had a hard time putting it that low.

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Put it that low.

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Yeah.

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I felt funny putting it as my number one

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because there are more

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like I said more avant-garde

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and more intellectual

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Undertakings that we get into. Jay, you can dismiss all that avant-garde intellectual. It is the heaviest record. There is the most brutal record that those guys have ever. I don't give a shit about avant-garde. I mean, Will Pit Cannibal Corpse. It's not like they're doing something and they're reinventing the wheel. You like what you like. But you know what this is? Jay, but the point being is that they're making something.

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Brutal and awesome. And quintessential heavy metal. It's fucking metal as fuck. So I love it. It was definitely, there isn't a record I listened to more this year. And I know my expectations were going in were high and that can cause your judgment. But no, this record blew my expectations out of the water. It's awesome. I love it, Jay. I do too. I love it. I mean, it was my number three. Yeah, I love this one as well. Especially, by the way, after the year they had.

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I'm hunting the cancer the other thing and they still came out. Wait, wait, wait. We're burying a lead. So Jay actually Jade Camas. Totally, completely. He's never done that before. He's always had Camas on his list. He doesn't have them on his list at all this year. And I can't say how much. It was not unnoticed. I can't say how much I enjoyed our interview with Phil and stuff. You can't. They just don't have my number. They don't have your name.

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and recognize you as Igor. We got one more number one. Do we? I think so. Oh, yeah. It's you, George. We already know what it is, George. Yeah. I'm a little lost. I forgot. It could be. It's Chemist for sure. Who? He already said it's his throssenblot this year. Yeah. Yeah. You got to know it. I can't believe I'm the only one, but my number one is Chemist.

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Deceiver. That probably puts it at number one for the pod. Of course. Probably. Yeah, it should be number one. Carcass will be way, way up there. Exodus is going to fare pretty well. Exodus is going to be high. I think Cannibal will be in there based on George. George. Everyone stop. George, explain your love for chemistry. Absolutely. You got to say something. It's your number one. You got to say something. All you have to do is listen to the last episode. Come on.

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You're the only one who picked it, number one. You need to reiterate. All right. So, I mean, I've loved Chemist since the first album, you know? And it blows my mind how, like, huge they have become because when the first album came out, I was like, oh, it's this quaint little, you know, doom metal band and I dig this and I like this and I would tell anybody that, hey, you should listen to Chemist. And they've grown so much and, of course, we've come to know them.

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which makes it even better.

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But regardless of knowing them, this album is just fucking amazing.

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And as mentioned in the last episode, the content of this album, the lyrical content around the depression and dealing with depression and things of that nature,

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really struck a chord with me. And as I told Phil, I was like, this is one of my favorite albums of all time. There's absolutely no way this couldn't be my number one. And it is what it is, you know. I fucking love this album. It's not necessarily the style of music that I listen to on a daily basis. I mean, I like Doom. You know, but lately I'm more of a death metal guy, but.

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You know, it resonates with me.

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You identified with this album in a way that you didn't with any other album, and that's special.

05:04:02.638 --> 05:04:03.040
Exactly.

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You know, I mean, you know, you guys joke about Thrasenblatt, but I get Thrasenblatt because it resonates with me.

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It means something to me, and that's what this album does for me.

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Fucking Chemist.

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Love you guys.

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Awesome, dude.

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That was a good speech.

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Good speech.

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Honorable mentions?

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Also a US band. Yes. American. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. I would love to. I would love to be able to do my honorable mentions, but like half of them are off the screen and I, my fucking mouse doesn't work. What? But I'll do what I can. If we do. Every woman loves it when you double click the mouse. I mean, I'll do mine since I'm first and you know, maybe you can fix your shit, George. No, it doesn't work. I have no idea.

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I mean, I got like 25 of them on there. We need to have more people go to the website. What a perfect way to go to the website. I'll do what I can. Fuck you guys. I'm going home. Fuck you guys. You are home, Will. All right, Markisan, what are your honorable mentions? Well, I mean, I always do a top 40. So my number 26

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is Amon Ra, which George doesn't understand. I fucking hate him, but I love you. So go for it. Number 26. My number 27 is Aramit, bearer of many names. I believe they're on my mid-year list. My number 28 is Rapture, Malevolent, Demise, Incarnation. Love that. That's a great thrash record. Iron Maiden goes to 29 for me, Sunjutsu.

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I know it's on a bunch of lists, but said you were top 40. It's a little bit easier because I didn't quite feel like Iron Man can make my top 25, but it's nice to put it in the top 40. Number 30 for me is Underdark. Our bodies burn bright on reentry. I believe that was my album of the month. One of those months. Number 31, Sunless. Yalem. So that was mentioned twice or maybe two or three times on the podcast actually this year. So that's my

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Number 32 will mention this one, Crescent, carving the fires of Akhet. You know, it's that Nile style like, you know, Mesopotamian Egyptian death metal. And I think they've done it really, really well. It floated with my top 25. I believe Matt's the only one who had this one on his list. And it's Panopticon. And again, into the light, it dropped a

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I think it's still one of the best albums but it's

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in my top 40 now I talk 25

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25 so it's good I think those are the only two

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okay two so yeah so

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good showing

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Kining is my number 34

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Aene

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I really like that record

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just big fucking

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you know like

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rocky vocals to it

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just big hooks

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Dune. What the hell is going on here? Dune or Divni, as Jay likes to call it. Etimen Ankna? I don't remember. That's a great album. It flirted with my top 25, but ultimately ended here at 36. Oh, I missed one. Lion's Daughter was actually number 35.

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I had in his list and number 37 wolves in the throne room also represented on our top 25 list by a couple people primordial arcana number 38 was dungeon serpent world of sorrows I believe that was on the decibel list I really like that record as well just not as not as high for me and number 39 I think Matt likes this one too ours magna umbrai

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Thrown Between Worlds. I really like that record. Just didn't quite make it for the top 25. And then the final one is Atre Bilis. Ape Sapien? I don't know how to pronounce it. I bought this one in vinyl and I really enjoyed spinning that one. So that rounded out my top 40. I actually did a top 50 because there was so many fucking good ones.

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records, but I'll leave it there. That's 15 extra ones. So get less than listeners. Yeah. Maddie. I don't have the album name on any of these because I was just like, this is my list and like how I work and putting everything together. But I would go with Ars Magda Ombre, as Mark's on mentioned, Rivers of the Hile, which has been mentioned numerous times, Somnuri. That album title is Nefarious Wave. That was on my mid-year, Burial in the Sky.

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which was mentioned, ad nauseum, some really quality tech death, LLNN, Mistras, Vertebra Atlantis, Fulci, Decline of the Eye, that album was titled Johannes, another tech death band, Inoculation, a band called Succumb, Genocide Pact, 1914, Ghost Bath, a band called Akari, a band called The Temple, their album was a self-titled release, a band called Secret Revealed,

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A Band Called Iceburn very much reminded me of Clutch Dream Unending which has been mentioned Mora Collapse which has been mentioned Forest which is the members of Blue Dough Snored it was on it was on the mid-year for me but it kind of dropped off the list Band Marcos on Mention an album is so fucking good Glassing definitely check that out You're No Light instrumental French band really like that album but it did not make my list I don't know that I like

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as much as some of their prior release. And then something from My Mid-Year That Dropped Off, which is Universally Estranged. Oh, yeah. John really likes that record, too. I do, too. Yeah. John. This will be fast. Matt, Saxcore 2.0, Burial in the Sky, The Consumed Self. Love that album. I gotta say, I'm shocked. This is my favorite Dream Theater album in 20 years. Dream Theater. It's so good. From the top of the world. So much better than everything they've done since.

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It's a train of thought. Jay, let's get on that Tiffany train. And Edelman Anka. I love that album. It's a really good album. It's good. It's such a good album. Yes, I love it. I mean, we talked about maybe it would make our list, but there's just the last half of the year was so strong. It's my last album out, by the way. Worm Knocked Out. Maricocneedum, we haven't mentioned them yet. Solar Paraxysm. I like that album. It's solid. It's a really good black album. The Silver, Ward of Roses,

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I like the new Swallow the Sun, Moonflowers. I think it's better than the last few albums. Still not as good as, what is it, George? Songs from the North? Yeah, yeah. And to follow up on something Jay said earlier, I do really still like Volconis Odyssey a lot. Really cool mix of Stoner, Doom, and Prague. And it features Pierre Wieberg, formerly of

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who's also part of spiritual bakers right right that's all i got well it continues to point out how hard this year did sort of turn out to be in the end um a lot of things have been mentioned already but i'll mention a few that i was really sorry i could not squeeze in uh ghastly was one of them i would have liked to have found room for that yeah horndall uh agree with will was a really cool record of this and all that uh yuff uh area was on my mid-year i didn't put that on i totally agree with uh

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the assessments of Jotun, but I just didn't have room for it. Sorry, Essictrillion. Likewise, I like everything that they've done over the last couple of years or whatever, but couldn't fit it. Cult of Luna was a very late drop off of my list, and I think those are probably the ones really most worth mentioning. Yeah. There are obviously a lot of records. Oh, I had the ending made them on mine,

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There was a record I really like called Papangu Holosino. That was a John one. I actually liked John Shozit. Was it on his list? Yeah. I actually liked the new Dark Throat record. I kind of wanted to put that on, but there was just no fucking room for that. Oh, Colton. Noice. I really liked that when it came out, and I was really sure that it was actually going to be pretty high on my list, but it just got blown out of the water by other things.

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Yeah, I think that covers it for me. Last but not least, that Grey Ripper record that I mentioned earlier in the year, which was kind of straight-forth grindy death metal stuff. That was really fun. But on the whole, I have to say, I always have regrets on my list, but I'm also really comfortable with my list this year. I think everything there deserves to be there, is well-represented, some movable parts. I could maybe regret some of these not being a little higher as time goes on, but for the most part, I'm feeling good about my top five, top ten.

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Yeah. It's a little shaky after that. But I mean, shaky as to like, you know, but it was a really outstanding year. And it's funny because that had said on our text threads a lot. And I was like, yeah, no, it's been pretty good. And that, but I always jot down a record as I listen to it. And I'm like, this is probably into consideration. And when I stopped to look at my list, when I really started to build my list, there was like 50 albums on there too. And I was like, oh, well, okay. So that happened. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's a really good year. Next year is shaping up to be pretty good already. It's nuts. It's looking that way. Because there's a lot of bands that were in the pandemic that maybe didn't release an album, but been working on it during the pandemic. And now all of a sudden it's going to come out. So. Yeah. And there's a few things, obviously on the, we'll, we'll talk about that later, what we're excited about, but I do want to throw out too. I agree with what this was mentioned earlier and also a product of getting together with people during the band.

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I can't wait to hear that Matt Pike record. Obviously a bunch of cool stuff coming down the pike. The pike. I get it. Wink, wink. Zero deal. I have a ton of stuff that was honorable I mentioned. This is like George, what I've been listening to list. So I will go through it. The old George anyways. Exactly. I will go through it quickly. Dream Unending. Swallow the Sun. Aeon.

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Mordiferum, Archspire, Worm, The Silver, Esauctrillium, Laceration, Craven Idol, Sallow Moth, Vincent Crowley, Cerebral Rot, Mesartheme, Skepticism, Mastodon, Memorial,

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That might be on your list, actually, George. No, it was for a while. Spectral Lore, In Morning, Mere Cognitum, Miasmata. Remember that one? Yes. Moral Collapse from John's List, Rapture, Condra. I love Rapture. Crypta, Dordeda, Paranorm. Remember them? Yes. Wheel, Ghastly,

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Vaconis. Grief Collector. Who? The Crown? What? What? Project Rowan Wolf. Yes. Hooded Menace. Who? What? And some band called Rivers of Nile. So. Right. You had a bunch that were on people's lists for sure. So. So there you are. That is the end of 2021.

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Holy shit, we did it. Awesome lists. Awesome lists. It was fun to do dudes. It was fun to do. I, um, you know, and I, I mentioned that I was kind of sappy at the beginning telling you guys, I was so glad we're all friends and stuff. And that's true. And you know, and I am this Omicron thing is here. So we've got more of this to do more of this fucking nonsense ahead of us. And it's going to affect touring schedules and it's going to affect this and that and stuff. But you know, as long as we keep our eyes on the prize, maybe we'll get another cool,

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I purchased my ticket for MDF.

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But they actually gave me Thursday through Sunday.

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So if you purchase three-day, you actually get a Thursday.

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Even though there's no Thursday.

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I don't know what that means.

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I don't either because Edison's only Friday through Sunday.

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Yeah, there's only Edison available, but that's the best.

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Anyway, so.

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Yeah, it is.

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So I'm down.

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I purchased the ticket today.

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So hopefully everybody gets to go. I will purchase my tickets after this. Yeah, I will soon as soon as I get off. Yeah. You know, obviously if something happens with COVID and you can't travel, I get it. 45 minutes from here. I think that's our trip for Metalheads this year because we just can't go to Decibel. Sorry, Decibel. We love you, but... The MDF lineup is sick, dude. It's sick. No, it is. He's going to have a heart attack.

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a lot of time beating that so we'll see and i honestly that's supposed to let me down with

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the lineup a couple of times so we'll see what happens maybe he'll come out all guns blazing we'll be like

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well okay there's no fucking way we can't go on the other hand we're all about to see carcass so we'll see carcass

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about six to eight carcass we really like yeah a bunch of others so all right have yourself a merry little christmas

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Although by the time you hear this, it may be after Christmas. In that case, have a happy fucking New Year, and we will see you in January. We fucking love you. We love you all. Thanks for listening to the cast. We really appreciate it. And let us know what your picks are for the top metal albums of the 2021. We really want to know. Tell us how wrong we were. I'm sure we were.

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See you next year. Love you guys. Bye. Peace out. Bye brothers. See ya. Out.

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I've just sucked one year of your life away.

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I might one day go as high as five, but I really don't know what that would do to you. So let's just start with what we have. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest. How do you feel? Interesting.