WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:05.300 Metalhead Podcast, Metalhead Podcast, Go! 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:28.000 You must listen. 00:00:29.020 --> 00:00:30.200 You must listen. 00:00:31.419 --> 00:00:32.599 You must listen. 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:40.020 Now, here is the podcast, Metalheads Podcast. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.420 Hello, and welcome to the Metalheads Podcast. 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:43.280 My name is George. 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:44.460 This is Jay. 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:45.700 This is Will. 00:00:46.180 --> 00:00:46.800 This is John. 00:00:47.220 --> 00:00:47.620 This is Matt. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.560 And we are joined today by my friend and co-worker, Z. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:51.240 Say hello, Z. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:51.940 Hello. 00:00:52.740 --> 00:00:54.180 Wait, is that a girl? 00:00:55.619 --> 00:00:56.100 God. 00:00:57.160 --> 00:01:25.540 Sorry, is this better? Does this sound more appropriate? You know what? This reminds me of, I saw this outtake from that movie, I Love You Man, the other day. You guys know that movie? Yeah, with Paul Rudd. Yeah, and they go to a Rush concert in that. Dude, they eat Neil Peart's sandwich at that. Come on. You saw that, yes. Well, do you remember, as they're walking back to the backstage room, Neil Peart says, there were 17 girls out there. That's got to be a record. All right, well, 00:01:26.759 --> 00:01:55.140 So, you know, I kind of wanted to do a little backstory on why I brought Z here. Oh, to be embarrassed by everybody else. Yeah. No, no, no. Just about how, like, you know, we were at work and I must have said something about music. No, you actually had Metal Heads podcast on Facebook. Oh, that's right. That's right. So I was like, okay. You were like, you like metal or something? Yeah, or something. I'm paraphrasing there. Yeah. 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:25.080 Actually, shouldn't the appropriate question have been, George, shouldn't you be doing some work? Well, none of us were really doing work, so I was like, all right, fellow, you know, least person, that's good. Yeah. Some of us have security at work. We're not allowed to get on Facebook. Oh. Wait, I work at home. I'm on it all the time. What am I talking about? Yeah. It turned out that she liked metal, and that was probably one of the biggest mistakes she ever had telling me about that, because then I just... Yeah, I'm repping here already. 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:56.080 I just started inundating her with like, well, do you like this? Do you like this? What about this? Yeah, I would call that harassment. I mean, I was getting like a recommendation every five minutes. And she's like, you know, I only listen to like one album like a month. Yeah, yeah. I absorb it. I take my time. I enjoy it. You know, yeah, the way you do it is like the hair versus the tortoise. Yeah. And so she knows you so well already. I know. It's 00:02:56.100 --> 00:03:26.080 It's funny. It's like every time I meet somebody that's like, you like metal? And I sent her the video. You guys seen that video of the guy who he's like, hey, you're wearing a Lamb of God shirt. That's pretty cool. And he's like running around chasing him everywhere. Wanted to talk about music. You haven't seen that? That's pretty funny. I'll have to send it to you. It's a Lamb of God shirt, so I probably didn't watch. Yeah. But so, yeah, she probably regrets having said anything, especially now that she's sitting here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'd like to know what you like, Z, since you obviously have 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:54.920 I've had some conversations. What kind of metal do you like? As far as categories go, I'm still pretty new to that. I really started mostly with Gojira. Made my way from there. Nobody's going to have a problem with that here. Like Amanomarth. Insomnium. That band that I can't pronounce right. Which one? Aluvati. Right on. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:23.520 She doesn't like Chemist, though. You just have to bring that up now. Just save it to later. I tried so hard. I know. Let's talk about this in private. Recently added to West Coast Decibel Chemist. Yeah, they're playing everything now. It's crazy. They're playing in Pittsburgh next weekend. Yeah, that's why I wanted to go to Migration Fest. 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:55.580 I'm out again. Likewise. Wait, you're going to Migration Fest? No. We talked about it. We talked. Because it was like in the middle, you know, between us. I don't know if it's quite in the middle. Yeah, it might be a little middle-ish. It was a metaphor. Migration. Why is it called Migration Fest? Because it moves every year. Oh, there you go. Yeah, it was in like Washington last year, I think. I think it's going to stay in Pittsburgh, though, because isn't 20 bucks spent now in Pittsburgh? 00:04:56.100 --> 00:05:26.080 Maybe that's why it is. I think they moved from Washington to Pittsburgh as far as I know. Hey, I got a box of records from 20 bucks in the mail this week. Two mold included, by the way. And they always throw some weird shit in the box. Do you guys ever get that from them? Yeah, like wrestling cards? Yeah. I got a Yo MTV Raps card. I got like a Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy. So what we're experiencing is somebody's got a boatload of shit that was dumped on them and they're just looking to get rid of it. 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.280 of it. So I figured just throw a few in each person's package. 00:05:28.980 --> 00:05:31.460 I love it. I love that kind of stuff, too. 00:05:31.900 --> 00:05:32.000 Yeah. 00:05:33.460 --> 00:05:40.900 So another reason I wanted to bring Z on was because she had some interesting comments about our mid-year episode. 00:05:41.740 --> 00:05:42.180 Oh, my God. 00:05:42.380 --> 00:05:45.340 I actually listened to the whole damn thing. 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:47.460 Which nobody else in the world did. 00:05:47.880 --> 00:05:51.760 So we just learned one thing about Z. She has absolutely no life whatsoever. 00:05:52.820 --> 00:06:20.140 I actually cleaned my whole house from like a whole Sunday. It took me a whole Sunday to listen to the stupid thing. It was like I would take a break, an hour, break, another hour, another hour. Yeah, so. Yeah. It's like the Lawrence Arabia podcast. I'm the only person that sits down and listens to it from front to back because I'm editing it and I'm like, I gotta get it done today. Yeah, no. The penis jokes were especially illuminating. I really like those. Sorry about that. Yeah, well, I'll tell you this. Did you say sorry about that? 00:06:22.820 --> 00:06:51.780 If you wasted a whole Sunday on it, then you had pretty much the same experience we did. No, it was good. It was really funny. Yeah, she kept sending me texts like, oh my god, this or that thing. Yeah, when someone says the mid-year, the first thing I think of is Will shedding his pants. So that was very notable. Shedding, not shitting. Either way. Did you send a text to George that said, let me ask you something, is this Will guy retarded? 00:06:54.260 --> 00:07:22.760 You know, you could have been there when it happened, and you could have watched it live to the horror of the rest of us sitting there. When I remember, I had my underwear on. Yeah. Just for the record, I did not helicopter my penis behind George, okay? I wanted to. Yeah, of course you did. Sorry, I had to open my... Wait, hold on, check this out. Oh, no. 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:23.920 Ooh. 00:07:24.380 --> 00:07:24.720 Coop. 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:26.620 Super duper. 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:30.120 Were you like teasing us that you're going down to your crotch or you want to see your shirt? 00:07:30.960 --> 00:07:32.240 What was the camera angle? 00:07:32.270 --> 00:07:33.000 Just went down, 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:33.260 down, 00:07:33.320 --> 00:07:34.280 down to his crotch. 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:35.640 My old scooper shirt. 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:36.500 How you doing? 00:07:37.380 --> 00:07:37.780 I'm scooper. 00:07:38.280 --> 00:07:38.740 Larger than life. 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:41.460 All right. 00:07:42.460 --> 00:07:50.100 So we're going to do things slightly different today because I had the realization that people don't listen to the end of the episode. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:08:20.000 And some of the announcements that we want to make, I do at the end. And people probably don't hear them. That's what I'd like to believe. So we're going to do a few things at the beginning that we usually do at the end, like telling you to make sure to check us out on Facebook. Please like us there. Metalheads Podcast. Yeah, and you just changed it recently, right? So it actually says Metalheads Podcast? Yeah, it used to be just Metalheads. I changed it to Metalheads Podcast because we don't really do anything but the podcast anymore. Also, check us out on Twitter. 00:08:20.280 --> 00:08:49.320 One thing that we never say when we talk about Twitter is that there's actually Metalhead's Pod, at Metalhead's Pod Twitter account. So you can follow that or get a hold of us there. As well as all of our individual accounts, I am at DiscipleOVMetal. At CatatonicJ. At BrewMetalWill, all one word. At WhiteCluster69. I am at DadOfNorthernDarkness with possibly some vowels missing. 00:08:49.960 --> 00:09:17.840 I spent most of my time on Instagram though, Dead in Northern Darkness. I'm out there. All right. And if you like how Uncomfortable Z sounds, you too could come on here. Thanks. I thought I was doing pretty well. I'm just kidding. I know. Then let us know if you'd like to come on as a guest and just talk metal with us. You can email us or, you know, the aforementioned Twitter or through Facebook, whatever. 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:49.940 If you're shy and you don't want to come on but you'd like to tell us why we suck, you could just send us an email and we can read it on the show if you'd like. So, you know, we're looking to have some interaction with the listeners here. So, please get a hold of us and tell us what you think or whatever. Get a lot of hate mail? Not yet, but we keep hoping to get some hate mail. Hate mail, at least someone's listening. On Bandcamp, you choose to follow somebody on Bandcamp, but it's the same thing as 00:09:51.740 --> 00:10:19.700 I love seeing records in the feed. I like seeing what everybody else is buying. So I learned a lot of stuff. I agree with you 100% Jay. I love that. Oh yeah. So if you can look for us there that'd be cool because the more people the merrier. Yeah. Yeah. Can you isolate that when John said I love that and Jay said more people the merrier. No because I only do samples of you. Yeah. Also. Sorry go ahead. 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:21.600 I was going to say, 00:10:21.900 --> 00:10:22.840 so I can, 00:10:23.260 --> 00:10:24.800 if I minimize the Skype, 00:10:25.060 --> 00:10:27.040 I can actually see you and Z there. 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:28.060 Z, 00:10:28.340 --> 00:10:29.620 are you like three feet tall? 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:32.900 Are you like sitting really far behind George? 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:35.680 Because you look like I'm leaning forward more. 00:10:35.880 --> 00:10:37.300 So if I'm like minuscule, 00:10:39.140 --> 00:10:41.080 you look minuscule compared to that large man. 00:10:41.920 --> 00:10:44.480 He's just going to slowly just fade right off the screen. 00:10:49.420 --> 00:11:18.540 You guys did a good bit of visual comedy there. I like you already, Z. You guys both looked like you were lowriders or something. Yeah. She's got a good sense of humor. She is short, too. One other bit of business. We are considering making some more t-shirts. If you're interested in a Metal Heads podcast t-shirt, also please contact us. Let us know what size you might be interested in. There's no obligation to buy at this point. We're just trying to get a handle on 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:48.540 how many people want shirts because the more people want shirts the cheaper the shirts get so please let us know how should they let you know i just said i think they can email me they can get all of us on facebook or through twitter have you said what your email is george at metalheads podcast.com thank you okay and uh yeah so uh we're gonna go into a band interview now this is one that we conducted uh back in may but we 00:11:48.580 --> 00:12:18.440 We haven't had a regular episode to tack it on to yet. So this is for a band that plays pretty highly on our mid-year list. This is King Goat out of the UK. And give that a listen, and then we'll be back in a little while. So we are joined now by Petros from King Goat, which I'm going to just go ahead and call a podcast favorite. They've got a new record out called Debt of Eons, which we all like very much. And we all like the last one, Conduit. 00:12:22.540 --> 00:12:31.940 So maybe we could just start by you talking about yourself, what you do in the band, and maybe get those other band members' names out there, and then we'll get going from there. 00:12:34.180 --> 00:12:46.600 I'm the lead guitarist, I mean, sort of a head songwriter, really. Trim is the vocalist. John Wingrove is the drummer, we've got Joe Parson on the second guitar, and Reza the bassist. 00:12:48.020 --> 00:13:16.420 That's us five at the moment. It's been us five for six, I mean, minus with a change in vocalist four years ago, I think. For the last six years, it's been us. Well, I got a lot of questions to ask you, and a lot of them you kind of touched on already. But I'm going to start with the fact that we talked before we started here, and you are actually Greek. But you're in Britain. How long have you been in Britain? 00:13:17.300 --> 00:13:21.980 8 years. I moved in 2010. That's quite some time now. 00:13:22.740 --> 00:13:24.100 Was that for musical reasons? 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:46.260 Well, I was here in Greek, but I was raised in a place called Luxembourg, which is between Belgium, France and Germany. It's a very cool, chill place, but nothing really happens. It's one of those places, you know, it's very stable, it's organized, it's clean, but you can't really, you know, if you're a metal musician, there's nothing for you there, basically. 00:13:46.880 --> 00:14:16.540 So I first moved into Brighton because I was told it's a very nice musical city, very artsy, bohemian alternative. So I went there to study music at university and at the same time play music. So that's where I started eight years ago. What was the inception of King Goat? How did you guys come together? I think at very first it was just university mates being like, hey, want to play in a band? Yeah, man, let's play in a band. 00:14:18.060 --> 00:14:46.580 No higher perspective or anything like that. Just a bunch of friends were like, "Hey, that'd be pretty cool. Let's form a Doom band." Yeah, man, let's form a Doom band. That's cool. And I think we very first started with the first time we got together, we just covered a Reverend Bizarre. You know Reverend Bizarre? Oh yeah, sure. Yes, we absolutely. Over the world. That's kind of what actually kind of started with a sort of very almost jokey, borderline 00:14:47.019 --> 00:15:16.580 "Doomy" feel. And a few years down the line, there was clearly a change in mind. It was kind of like, "Well, this is actually kind of cool. Maybe we should take it more seriously." So yeah, I think the joke fell up pretty quickly in Terminator. Maybe after a year and a half or two? Some of that. It seems to me you refer to yourselves, at least on Bandcamp, as a sort of progressive Doom band, which I think is an accurate title. There's a lot of old 00:15:18.420 --> 00:15:44.100 Do you guys all have similar influences? No, not really. There's a common ground, definitely. But everybody likes their own thing. Trem, personally, he was really into traditional power metal kind of stuff, which you can probably hear in his vocals. But he also likes prog. Me, I was always a big prog fan. 00:15:46.600 --> 00:16:16.580 All the other guys, I mean everybody likes basically all sorts of like prog things and you know we like so many things it's almost hard to describe because it's like you know I can't just say like oh yeah we like everything because that doesn't mean anything and we definitely don't like everything. But it's just just a really wide range of influence from black metal to prog to like traditional prog I mean traditional signing prog like you know not not you know when they say prog sometimes you think very technical stuff like dream theater not on that in the old school way which kind of 00:16:16.620 --> 00:16:43.760 They had long songs, big compositions, things like that. What's some band names? We have some prog fans here on the podcast. So what are some of the bands that you hold close to your heart? Opeth, Ashan, Leprous. Who else? I guess Mastodon were a bit proggy somewhere in the middle in the Crack the Sky era. 00:16:48.340 --> 00:17:16.160 I mean, that's definitely a start there. There's a few other things. I probably need to open my Spotify playlist and look at my name. I mean, Leprous and Sean and Opeth was definitely a start, even though we probably don't sound like none of them. Have you heard the new pronounce it Eshan, which is different than our pronunciation? I'm only pointing that out because I might say Eshan. Everybody pronounces it different. Have you heard the new record? 00:17:16.600 --> 00:17:46.560 Not yet, not yet. I've been delaying, which I'm actually letting you remind me. That's exactly what I was meant to be doing. Oh, damn it. That's what it reminded me of. It's kind of all over the map. I think we're all still deciding where we stand on it, though I think positive reviews thus far. Oh, yeah, it's good. I'll be honest, Arctis, the one before, that wasn't such a big fond of. I really liked Remira, the 2012 one, but then like Arctis 2016, that kind of, I don't know, he had a bit of almost like a, I don't know, 00:17:46.600 --> 00:18:16.580 I don't know I just know I's dark I guess maybe he's happier now so he doesn't write dark music well then you're gonna want to brace yourself for the new one then it's way more positive it's like he's on ecstasy or something yeah but he pulls from a lot of his albums don't want it though too so you know you'll still get some of the traditional stuff he does but yeah you'll definitely get a few that you'll be like huh I didn't see that one coming yeah and I don't want to 00:18:16.600 --> 00:18:46.360 It's never gonna be bad. I'm sure it's good. I'm sure gonna enjoy it. But just like for me, Eremita was basically like, it was really good. It was, what was it? Adversary Angle after then Eremita is amazing in a row. Then the one with a strange name that I won't even bother to pronounce. Das something. Yeah, 2013 album Das. 00:18:51.020 --> 00:19:16.560 That one was kind of 50/50 on Arctis, so it was like, yeah, some really good tracks, but not the whole thing. And I've not heard the 2018 one, but I'm just going to listen to it. I'm sure it'll be amazing. So I'm going to kind of dive into some more King Goat stuff here, which I say again, we all really like the new record. And I'm glad we got you since it sounds like you're the primary song. 00:19:18.020 --> 00:19:45.780 Can you talk about the concept of the record a little bit? And also, are you writing the lyrics as well, Petrus? I can't help you that much with the lyrics, because I don't deal with that. That's all true. I can tell you quickly that basically his lyrics are quite personal, so they reflect things that are going on in general. Not just his life, but the darker lyrics, because I guess they're stranger times. 00:19:46.600 --> 00:20:16.400 here in the UK especially. But as far as the music goes, so what do you know more? So the concept of the album, you say, there's not like a main concept yet. I'm not going to call it a concept album. I don't think it is one. Or a theme? A theme? I don't know. It's heavy. I think you got it. Well, that's great. We can talk about your writing because one of the things I really like about you guys, 00:20:19.600 --> 00:20:44.180 is that you kind of build up these themes and then you return to those themes with like thunder at the end in certain instances. So I am interested to hear what your process is. When you start writing a song, do you just have a bunch of riffs sitting around or do you start on a little journey and you kind of know where you're going or how does that work out for you? What usually happens is I'll have some core ideas and I'll bring them to the room. Then we'll elaborate on all of them together. 00:20:46.260 --> 00:21:16.020 So it's not like just 100% me. So we work together on the arrangements and the overall structure of things. But generally, there seems to be some sort of larger cyclical pattern to our songs. Like you said, there's a theme. It goes something, it explores all the sides, and then it comes back to it bigger or heavier or slower or whatever. It's a little bit almost... 00:21:16.040 --> 00:21:43.520 I don't want to say film music, but I quite like film music, and film music does a lot of that. They will get a motif and explore it and see where that can go and bring it back in a different form. It kind of inspires a bit from that, I think. Subconsciously, I guess, not necessarily actively. But generally, the exploration of themes is something that I'm quite keen on, and we're all quite keen on, I think. 00:21:44.460 --> 00:22:13.700 And it's one of the reasons I find the record really interesting. And also it just really draws your attention. There are times where, okay, so you'll go through the introduction of the song, et cetera. And then as you say, you wander a lot. And then sometimes the themes come back and I don't even realize we're there right away because it's slightly different. And then I think, holy shit, this is just like that thing at the beginning. I guess really what I mean to say is I think it's very cleverly written. And also it feels very rooted to me in, 00:22:13.820 --> 00:22:43.800 big, blocky, kind of Sabbath-y sounds instead of uber-prog. There's a prog thing to it, for sure, because of the way you write. Yeah, I really like the... It's obviously Doom with progressive elements, like you said, but it really stands out from the crowd of rehashed Sabbath Doom bands that are out there right now. It definitely stands out in a big way. That's, I think, what I'd... 00:22:43.820 --> 00:22:44.780 like so much about it. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:45.740 Well, I think that's what it is. 00:22:45.740 --> 00:22:47.400 It uses those basic building blocks. 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:50.640 And there's nothing, I mean, people don't understand. 00:22:50.840 --> 00:22:51.400 That's okay to do. 00:22:51.560 --> 00:22:54.720 Like, those are the things that can be the most pleasing to the ear, the things 00:22:54.820 --> 00:22:55.460 that draw you in. 00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:56.580 But you guys do it with your own. 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.520 It advances the style as opposed to just rehashing it. 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:00.320 There you go. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:00.800 There you go. 00:23:00.940 --> 00:23:03.420 Can we, let's talk about the singer for a minute, because we all love your singer. 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:09.700 So, was he singing in other bands before, or was this like a? 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:11.100 He's had quite a few bands. 00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:41.640 I'd be able to rename them all back to you. I mean, they were all kind of like local English bands. I think that the biggest one was, was it Gloryhammer? I think they still, I don't know if they still exist, I'm not sure. I actually never remember these details. He was actually in Gloryhammer. Yes, I think so. Yeah, Gloryhammer, yeah. Another band that incidentally kind of started with some humor. I hope there's a joke in there somewhere. Jay, they haven't stopped, Jay. They haven't stopped, yeah. 00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:51.740 I think he was in the band in these very early days. I'm not quite sure what the full story is. But anyway, he's clearly not in them anymore. 00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:52.760 Was he singing? 00:23:53.740 --> 00:24:09.720 Yeah, I think so. But I don't know if there was recordings of him singing or if there was any... He was in them ages ago. I think that was many years ago. Even before he joined us. So that must have been over six years ago. So I'm not quite sure of the full details. 00:24:12.100 --> 00:24:38.560 He's definitely been around for loads of bands. I think he's been gigging since he was a teenager, basically. He plays bass as well. He's in a black metal band called Bandment at the moment, where he plays bass in those BVs. One of the things that stands out about his vocals to me is that I think they're very strong. I honestly think he's, to pick out of the younger crowd right now, I assume he's a younger guy, 00:24:40.060 --> 00:25:09.460 in the forefront right now. He's honestly one of the better metal vocalists that I personally know of. I mean, there's a million of them I know. But also, he sings for such a long, extended time on any given song. I mean, that sounds like he's part of almost every musical passage. And I find that impressive, because he seems to sing for four to six minutes at a time. And maybe that's true about all metal bands, but do you know what I mean? It's this sort of unbroken monologue that keeps going. And I always just think, man, this guy's got a strong set of lungs. 00:25:12.419 --> 00:25:38.260 I wanted to say that I really like, you know, he's got this strong, powerful, clean voice. But then as the song progresses, rather than going straight into a harsh vocal, it just sort of builds in intensity until it's a rougher voice. But it's not necessarily a harsh vocal, you know? Not like a death metal vocal. But it's got this intensity that just is crazy. 00:25:38.400 --> 00:26:07.579 I think what he does really well, which I really appreciate, is like the same way you know a guitar or any other instrument will go like you know clean, crunchy, distorted kind of thing. He can do that sort of thing vocally which is really quite unique so he'll always put the right kind of vocal in the right kind of section so he's not gonna put you know like he's not gonna put like a he's not gonna growl in a place where it can be like a growl doesn't fit here. You want something clean. Always follow dynamically like 00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:35.960 in terms of timbre as well. This kind of harsh powerful vocal or straight up harsh vocal or a very more peaceful kind of clean vocal. It always fits. It's almost like a narrating. And I appreciate that because I feel like there's a lot of vocalists out there that have a range. They can do death metal vocals, they can do clean vocals. Sometimes they can do one better than the other. 00:26:37.580 --> 00:27:07.540 they feel like, oh, I just want to experiment with this. And the shift from a clean to a harsh or harsh to a clean is not in the right place, but they feel like they're doing it just to do it, to show that they can do it. And I don't think your singer is doing that at all, like you were saying. I'm sure you'd be pleased to hear that, too. Yeah, yeah, by all means pass our compliments on. Go ahead, John. I was going to say, since this came up, now, is this something he's doing when you guys wrote the new album? Or did you guys kind of adapt to him? 00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:37.560 I am doing this, you know, going from this clean to this kind of, not harsh, like we said, but this little bit rougher style vocals, because it seems to me like you both are playing off each other, because the songs on this album, in my opinion, there are heavier moments, you know, and you've incorporated a lot more atmospherics, I think, on this album, and I agree with what everyone said, I really do enjoy when he goes from his clean, kind of almost, not traditional tune, but in that vain singing, to this just, it's almost like thunderous when he comes out with this harsh 00:27:37.600 --> 00:28:07.560 vocals, but it almost seems like maybe he kind of led you guys down that path a little too with the style change, you know, or incorporating it, or did you guys kind of... how did that develop? I think it's kind of like both developed together. Because, I mean, as you notice, this album is heavier than Conjuve, isn't it? There's a lot of harsher parts and he just pulled it out. It's almost like... sometimes I feel like we throw at him like a vocal obstacle 00:28:10.220 --> 00:28:36.800 And he's like, okay, and he just goes for it. And he just knows what to do at the right moment. And there's parts that clearly sound a bit more black-medally, and he pulls out this sort of grimy black-medally kind of vocal, and then there's parts which are straight up more traditional, doomy, and maybe bands like Camelmas, and here we go. 00:28:38.680 --> 00:29:06.900 And I agree with Jay. I think you can see that progression between the two albums. I think you guys are doing a lot more on this album. And I think that's why I probably, I mean, I love the first album, but I think this one for me is much better. And that's saying a lot because I really like the first album. So I love that you guys are doing that. Going back to what you said a couple minutes ago, Petrus, that you will throw this musical obstacle course at him. So does that mean you guys write the music first and then 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:36.900 He writes the lyrics afterwards to go to the music? I mean, obviously nothing's created in a vacuum, but it may be going on at the same time. How's the songwriting process go? Usually music comes first a lot of the times. I think some of the songs were pretty much fully completed before any vocals were laid in. Sometimes he has input. He's not always there in the songwriting sessions. So sometimes he comes and he has some input and structure and things like that, but there has been a lot of 00:29:37.200 --> 00:30:06.400 Which one was it? Was it Doldrum Seniors? I think there's definitely one of the Doldrum Seniors, the one that we have the lyric video for. I think it was basically completed. He heard it a little bit, like snippets of the beginning. We went away and finished it off. And I was like, here's a song. And he basically did his thing. Yeah. Do you guys live all close to each other that you can get together and practice with each other? We're all locals to Brighton. 00:30:13.380 --> 00:30:20.280 "I'm gonna be here" but yeah we're all locals to Brighton so we're basically on a weekly rehearsal basis. 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:33.820 It's interesting as you talk I could hear some of the UK accent has latched onto you so you've got this kind of Greek-British hybrid going on. 00:30:34.480 --> 00:31:03.380 I'm trying to figure it out. It's a mess. If you didn't tell us and we couldn't see you, I would have no idea where you were from. There's no question about that. I do want to interrupt and ask you one thing, Petros. Do you like Darth Vader? What? I see it in the background. Maybe those two would just like to talk for a minute. Do you want to put them on? I'm your father. No, I am your father. 00:31:04.700 --> 00:31:33.800 Well, I don't know if he would say it like he was from Virginia or something. I do appreciate it. Because sometimes we'll have a guest and mine's always in the background. People are like, is that a Darth Vader back there? I'm like, yes. Yes, it is. Actually, Will, tell the truth. He's always over your shoulder. Like a parrot. Well, I'm impressed that just for the little bit you saw it, you could tell what it was. Yeah, it's so dark in the corner there. Well, I mean, it's the exact same thing I have. 00:31:33.920 --> 00:32:03.440 Yeah, it's like two foot tall. Yeah, something like that. It's like somewhere above my knee or something like that. Yeah, that's awesome. You know, I used to teach in this room when I was teaching from home and I would always joke with the younger ones like, you see Darth Vader is not happy, like do your regular size. I'm really well with the kids, you know, just love it. Darth Vader guitar lessons, like whatever works, you know. So maybe we could talk a little bit about the professional side of the business side of things. 00:32:03.520 --> 00:32:30.980 And the reason, what I mean is, how was it that you started to... The new record, it's on a label, correct? I mean, it's not something you just printed up under. Oral music. Oral music, Italian label, yeah. And they approached you, or how did you end up with them? They approached us, they sent us an email... I guess it was definitely over a year ago now, I think. It was after Conduit then? It was after Conduit. 00:32:33.520 --> 00:32:34.600 PR and you know, like, 00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:35.580 Kony 00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:33.180 We have not signed all the rights away, it's just the one before, how do you call it? A distribution deal? License deal. Distribution and license, but no rights. So it's not the kind of thing where you basically sign your life away. So that was quite nice. And the oral music, basically they have so many cool bands on their mind, we weren't aware of them. A lot of bands that I like, like Hail Spirit Noir, or Aeonon, I don't know how they pronounce it. 00:33:41.300 --> 00:34:03.400 They have all these bands that are kind of like a slightly weirder version of their genre. So I think we fit it in quite well because we're doomed but not really. We kind of have these prog influences and then Hail Spirit Noir is like black metal with some weird prog influences and A-Anon again is some other kind of black metal. Fenn is some more atmospheric proggy black metal. All these things. 00:34:03.520 --> 00:34:09.639 They have all these bands that have a slightly weirder version of the genre. We're very happy to be part of it. 00:34:33.540 --> 00:34:36.080 The original is something distinct with a different cover. 00:34:37.879 --> 00:34:45.240 It's a small separation. It works nicely because it's a double vinyl as well, so it's a bigger piece of art that goes across. 00:34:45.780 --> 00:34:50.679 Whereas the other one was just front, back, inside, more simple. 00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:54.040 We thought, "Let's change it." 00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:59.300 There was no much thought behind it. I just thought it looked cooler. 00:35:00.180 --> 00:35:29.420 kind of separates the copies from the original copies of Conjured that we self-released and pressed like privately to the ones that oral music does. Yeah, I got a copy of it when you originally put it out. And so then when the reissue came out, I got a promo and it said, New King Goat. I'm like, yes! And I was like, wait, that's the one I already have. Which cover do you have, George? Well, I got it digital. 00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:59.880 I didn't get that. Although, did you do a vinyl before Oral? Yeah, it was a vinyl. I might have that, actually. They do this really nice color prints on the vinyl. For Conduit, it's blue and black. Yeah, I've got that one. For Dead of Eons, it's orangey marbles. They look pretty cool. I've seen one of them before. It's pretty cool to just have your own record. 00:36:00.160 --> 00:36:02.620 that printed was like vinyl, I think it was nice. 00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:04.020 Yeah. 00:36:04.979 --> 00:36:07.760 Yeah, here's the Dead of Eons. 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:08.780 Oh, there you go. 00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:09.400 Yeah. 00:36:10.060 --> 00:36:11.320 And I've got the conduit one, too. 00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:13.900 And I've got the colored one, not the original. 00:36:15.059 --> 00:36:16.160 We're all vinyl collectors. 00:36:16.330 --> 00:36:19.260 And by the way, you're kind of the perfect band for vinyl. 00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:26.040 You know, I mean, it's really because I think one of the things I like about your band is there's not a lot of white noise. 00:36:26.520 --> 00:36:29.100 And so what I mean is there's some separation between the instruments. 00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:30.960 You can really appreciate everything that's going on. 00:36:31.540 --> 00:36:34.700 Man, and when you put a vinyl on like that, you get the speaker set just right. 00:36:35.050 --> 00:36:36.640 You got yourself a nice afternoon right there. 00:36:37.130 --> 00:36:41.160 And by the way, they did a good job mastering that for vinyl as well. 00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:42.320 They both sound great. 00:36:42.550 --> 00:36:42.640 So. 00:36:43.150 --> 00:36:43.280 Yeah. 00:36:43.720 --> 00:36:44.820 I think it's, what's his name? 00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.500 Hell yeah. 00:36:45.660 --> 00:36:45.920 Master. 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:47.620 I don't even know where he is. 00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:48.320 Never met the guy. 00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:51.560 We just sent them to him and he just knows what he's doing. 00:36:52.020 --> 00:36:55.080 Did he specifically master a copy for vinyl? 00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:56.020 Yeah. 00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:59.860 Digital Master and Vinyl Master. 00:37:00.900 --> 00:37:02.440 Is Oral, are they in England? 00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:03.820 Oral? 00:37:04.180 --> 00:37:04.320 Italy. 00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:06.360 Italy, excuse me. 00:37:06.600 --> 00:37:07.920 You guys, I don't know them. 00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:10.460 You guys, I think of some of the other guys here on the pod, no Oral. 00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:11.520 I've heard of them, yeah. 00:37:11.600 --> 00:37:13.240 I've got a few things from them before in the past. 00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:14.220 So I see. 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:15.860 Fen, didn't you say Fen was on there? 00:37:15.860 --> 00:37:16.480 Yeah, Fen, yeah. 00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:17.700 You got Oral from them? 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:18.940 What? 00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:20.580 No, I didn't talk to them well. 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:23.540 And now we take a doubt. 00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:24.140 Yeah. 00:37:24.900 --> 00:37:26.660 That's what I'm here for, caller commentary. 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:56.720 I was just gonna ask where you recorded the new album was across two studios here in Brighton once Brian Electric which is like a big rehearsal center with recording rooms and a live room and everything and small poem studios so basically our producer sound engineer fella he the he doesn't have his own premise anymore because whatever his landlords decided to be dicks for whatever reason and they 00:37:56.740 --> 00:38:25.220 So we still wanted to work with him because he's the kind of member that we're like, yeah, he gets what we want to do. And he's like, you know, the ghost extra member, the invisible member, whatever you want to call it. So he's, again, he's local to Brighton. So we just said like, yeah, fuck it. We'll go to like the studios that we have available here. And yeah, we did the drums in one studio, the bigger one, it's time to go to the rest in another studio. And then he mixed it at home because he has all his equipment and everything. 00:38:27.299 --> 00:38:55.940 So you guys are doing some live stuff. I know you've got one show listed right now. How often are you guys able to get out and play live? Sorry? How often are you able to get out and play live? You just did some shows with Paradise Lost, right? Yeah, we did that. Whenever we get the shows, really. I mean, obviously, real life per meeting as well. But, you know, if we get the kind of shows that we want to play, we play them. There's no question. We're trying to organize some extra things. 00:38:56.540 --> 00:39:24.800 The only one booked is RIFMAS, which is our little mini festival. I mean, it's a one-day festival with 10 or 11 bands on that we do every year for three years now. So we haven't got that one booked, obviously it sounds. But there's a few more things. The Paradise Lost was amazing. It was like a big step up for us, like every night, like a big stage, very organized. We've played with big bands before. We've played with Grand Magus before. 00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:54.860 It was a one-off thing. It was the first time we actually went on tour with a support band. It was great. It was a great atmosphere and great organization. It was definitely a really nice experience. We met the guys. The other band was Outshires and Swedish. Kind of more of a gothy side of things. Yeah, they were great fun as well. We're going to try to hopefully cooperate with Sweden with them. 00:39:54.980 --> 00:40:22.440 play them, bring them over here, you know, the sort of relationships that build up out of these tours. And it's amazing, really. It's kind of what we're doing, I think. Have you had... We'd love to have you over here. We'd love to have you over here, yeah, we would. I just so happen to work at a beer brewery that has a lot of live shows. In fact, I'm wearing a Conan shirt. From the Washington, D.C. area. In Washington, D.C., so Conan plays at our brewery. So feel free, you know. 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:53.680 We absolutely love it. We get more merch orders from the States than we get from anywhere in Europe. So, I mean, again, the United States being a much bigger country than anywhere in Europe. Doom is kind of big here right now. There's two crowds into it. One is the guys like us, the old metalheads, and then there's the hipster crowd that's a little attest itself to the Doom. So it's super 00:40:53.720 --> 00:41:23.680 here right now, at least as far as, you know, as visible as metal ever gets. Well, don't you, I would, I think everyone would probably agree, of all the sub-genres of metal, it just seems like there's a lot of stoner, there's Doom, there's sludgy bands, there seems to be a lot of them in the States, more so than a lot of other genres, at least that people like a lot, so. Yeah, Doom and Stoner are pretty big now in the UK as well, Doom, Slodger, a lot of stuff. I mean, just here on our podcast, if you could have, of all the 00:41:24.540 --> 00:41:53.660 The one that we all 100% agree on is Doom. Or the subgenres of Doom. Traditional Doom. I was going to ask you about the t-shirt. Do you know his project? What is it? The thing? This old cult. They did a record. Two records now. What is it called? I'll look it up. But anyway, I know Jack Soth very well. And he's played at Maryland Death Fighters. 00:41:58.240 --> 00:42:23.600 We played with Jack Stothmore in Brighton as well. It was really cool. We were big fans of the band. She's amazing. She's the singer and the whole band. They bring the actual organ and a cork and everything so they got all the nice and fitting sounds. It's really cool. What is the name of that record? The record is called Sabbath Assembly. 00:42:23.700 --> 00:42:53.680 Is that who you is that have you do know Sabbath assembly? That's something that Jack Sloth is involved in that and what it is really I can't I cannot you know suggested enough and there was this old hippie cult in the 60s and they kind of held God and the devil and equal esteem and they wrote like all these songs and they used to use them in their worship services and stuff. Jack Sloth and a bunch of others went and found all these old songs and made two records now. The first one is amazing. It's called 00:42:56.940 --> 00:43:23.480 It's such a good record, man. It's mostly like acoustic-y stuff. It's worth your time, man. And honestly, you guys remind me of them a little bit. I hope that doesn't sound insulting when you finally hear it. Because it's very different. But it's got this kind of really strange vibe to it. One of the things I like about your lyrics is I think they're well-informed. They're well-written. 00:43:26.080 --> 00:43:29.480 And I think Sabbath Assembly will find some connection. 00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:39.300 Amazing, yeah. Trim writes pretty well-written lyrics that go a bit longer. It's not like verse, chorus, verse, chorus. 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:45.600 Again, he follows the sort of format of the song where the song progresses and the song, his lyrics tell a story. 00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:52.400 And he likes his literature. So he's got this style which is a bit more narrative. 00:43:53.280 --> 00:44:22.680 Well, and it's just his metaphors are so strong. I mean, not to keep bringing him and his lyrics up, it's just I'm really, I think it's one of the better lyrical records of the year, in all honesty, let alone being one of the better records. Anybody else? I've got some more questions. I have just a fun question for a second, because it's somewhat related to you, Jay. And just, I want to confirm this. I think I talked with George about this. You guys recently did an interview with 00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:30.440 Soundscape, that was in February, but they released a few weeks back. 00:44:30.940 --> 00:44:47.580 Right. So they asked you a question, which I thought was interesting, and I know Will and George would appreciate this, but you guys were asked if you'd become a world-famous band, what would you do for a writer? What would you guys want, really, on the writer? And I believe Raisa said, you know, I'd like more burritos. 00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:54.740 We just eat Mexican food. 00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:06.880 It's interesting because Jay, we give him a lot of grief, although I am on board with him because I've eaten at the place. But Jay always likes to enjoy a burrito every so often while we're doing it. 00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:13.760 Yeah, so frequently I'll whip a burrito out while we're doing an interview, just like I'm a big Mexican. Do you get good Mexican food over there in the UK? 00:45:15.220 --> 00:45:19.180 No, everywhere. In Brighton we've got some really good Mexican joints here. 00:45:22.700 --> 00:45:48.360 We keep jokingly that we will actually start a blog. So wherever we go, we always get Mexican food and then we view the Mexican food. I'm down with that. I know Jay is too. Absolutely. It's funny if we actually do it one day. Yeah, I think that'd be great. And on tour, it would be even better. And there's got to be a funny title for that blog in there somewhere with King Goat. Somehow, I don't know how, but we'll figure it out. We'll help you with that. 00:45:49.320 --> 00:46:18.800 The touring burrito brothers. The other guys, the British guys of the band are all very good at puns, as you might imagine, so I'm sure they'll come up with something. So let's talk guitar stuff for a minute, since you are the lead guitarist. Hey, I'd kind of like to know what kind of equipment you're using, maybe particularly on the record. Maybe start with amplifiers, or singular, if that's the case. Amplifiers. On the record specifically, 00:46:21.460 --> 00:46:29.340 I mean I've got an angle you know German company an angle invader it's just they're 00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:49.300 amazing they do they do everything they do the crystal clean they do the heavy overdrive they do the sort of good sort of meat rich leads they do everything they just it's like one arm to rule them all for me that kind of deal so I use that but on the record it's it's 00:46:49.320 --> 00:47:18.220 It's an England invader, bi-amped with a Marshall Plexi. So on the one side we've got the modern distortion and on the other hand you've got the sort of more old school, you know, classic Marshall distortion. And I think Joe, the other guitarist, he has an EVH, another pretty good brand of ampers. And again, on the record, he bi-amped EVH with an orange. So again, you get a fuzzy or old school tone on the one side and then a modern distortion on the other side. 00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:48.160 and then you get a blend of the two, which is really cool. So yeah, that's... I mean, live, we obviously don't buy AMP because that'd be a bit ridiculous. You play like 150, 250 cap venue, then you have 200 watts up on stage. I mean, I'd be a big city, I think. So you bring the angle live then, or is that the one you're playing out live? Is the Plexi like a reissue Plexi, or is it like Plexi Plexi? I don't know. I actually don't remember. It was used in the studio. He's not one of mine. 00:47:48.260 --> 00:48:15.920 So he just grabbed himself and he was like, "We'll use this thing." I think, I don't know if it was one of those sort of vintage reissues or an actual vintage one, you see what I mean? Every studio has a couple of those. That's like standard. It's standard for the Cleans and a Vox Amp and a Marshall and an Orange. No matter what thing you do, there's always going to be one of the four classic sounds that are going to be involved in the process somehow. To be sure, yeah, for sure. 00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:48.020 And what kind of guitars are you playing? I see some back there. One of them is this one. It's an ESP. I'm sure the guys who will be listening to the podcast will not be able to understand what I'm showing you now. I'll just tell our listeners it's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen and you're really missing out. And it's covered with diamonds. Oh my god. We're actually secretly a funk bum. We have diamond crust and everything. 00:48:48.280 --> 00:49:14.960 It's all I've changed the pickups. All my guitars have bare knuckle pickups, which is like a British custom company that makes them like handmade and everything in hand round is pretty cool. The other guitar is Halo, an American brand actually. It's got one of those wacky fret boards, you know the fan frets one. 00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:20.860 More mysterious sounds for the listeners. 00:49:21.640 --> 00:49:25.220 But how... So how hard is it to play with... I do play guitar. 00:49:26.820 --> 00:49:30.200 How much of an adjustment is it to pay those fan threats like that? 00:49:30.600 --> 00:49:31.900 No difference, really. 00:49:32.420 --> 00:49:33.060 Really? Okay. 00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:40.200 I remember before choosing to get one, I was like a bit... I was trying to find reviews and see what people think. 00:49:40.500 --> 00:49:44.260 And it was either people going like, "Oh my God, salvation, this is the future." 00:49:45.070 --> 00:49:48.240 Or people going, "This is horrible, I hate it." 00:49:48.240 --> 00:50:18.060 sort of sensible opinion somewhere in the middle. And for me, it was kind of like I picked one up in a shop. I was like, oh, this was kind of cool. And it makes... What's the purpose of that? I mean, I've seen them before, but I've not known why they're made that way. Supposedly, they help with the intonation of the instrument. Depending on the build of the instrument, this will be the case, or it won't be the case, but usually in a well-built instrument, it should have good intonation either ways. But also, they give you a hybrid scale length, 00:50:18.100 --> 00:50:47.820 which means your thinner strings are shorter and your thicker strings are longer, just like a piano. So it's not really you have thicker and thinner strings, so you have brighter highs and lower lows, so it kind of accentuates the instrument's natural in the queue a little bit. It does that. I mean, some people say it changes a lot in playing. For me, it's maybe a little bit on the lower positions, like if you play a bar, like an F minor or something, that'd be slightly easier. But nothing like groundbreaking. 00:50:48.080 --> 00:51:18.060 I mostly got one because I thought it looked cool. That's always the most important thing. I'm like, it just looks cool. You know, speaking of your tones, your guitar tones too, one of the things I appreciate, and I think this is one of the things that helps define your sound, is you don't have that overdrive knob turned all the way over. You know what I mean? That's a big sin, I think, sometimes in metal these days, is to just drive that amp as hard and 00:51:19.579 --> 00:51:23.540 I'm assuming you're not, based on the tones that I hear on the record. I could be wrong. 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:39.200 I mean, the amp was on the overdrive channel, the high game mode, but it's not the very sort of, I think, it's not that sort of the heavy, very compressed, very clinical sort of, it's not like the sound of a Kemper or something like that, or... 00:51:39.579 --> 00:51:43.600 But I guess I mean to say you don't have the knob turned all the way, you know, like... 00:51:47.359 --> 00:52:11.960 Yeah, and there are some sweet spots in there you can find that help with, I mean, there's a clarity to your tone along with the distortion that really works, is I guess what I'm getting at. Amazing. Are you in the process of, and believe me, we're still enjoying the new one, but are you starting to look towards the next one, writing a little bit or anything? Yeah, it's been a jump. It's been a couple of jumps. 00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:38.780 This is going to be hopefully something cool to announce soon. I'm not going to say anything yet because I'm not sure if it's happening yet. But something might change quite drastically, which is really exciting actually for me as a songwriter. I will hopefully be on the social media as soon as we figure it out. But we did have a jam and some new things going on. We have some new ideas. We have to, again, experiment with more things. 00:52:43.619 --> 00:53:12.760 I find sometimes that the more I... the longer the breaks I take between songwriting sessions, the more different the results. So if I get there, if I sort of sit down and write constantly back to back, things starting to sound a little bit like they're reiterating themselves. But if I take some breaks, those sort of things come back, listen to some different music, come back with a fresh mind, then different music is the output, which I'm hoping to, like, again, I mean, it's still going to be King Gold. 00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:41.260 But you know, with something changing, like a 3.0 as opposed to a 2.1. Let me see what I mean. Which is what I'm hoping for. You know, correct me if I'm wrong, is Electric Wizard also from Brighton? No idea. They're from the UK, but I don't know where from. I thought they were from like some swamp up in the Midlands or something. Wait, isn't that the entirety of the UK? I just remember I was sort of surprised when I heard where they were from. 00:53:42.940 --> 00:54:11.540 There's a bit of a scene there in Brighton, which is great. I'm glad to hear that. There are, I take it, a few bands around that you can play with and that you know in Brighton, in the Brighton area. Oh, yes, you know. They started in Bournemouth, Dorset, which is kind of the best of here. Bournemouth is on the south coast, but way more to the west from where we are. I think it stuck out because it was a coastal city, and I was surprised by that somehow. 00:54:14.140 --> 00:54:42.840 But you had said earlier that the scene in Brighton is actually pretty good, or at least it was something that drew you there. I mean, are there a lot of musicians, a lot of bands that you're able to play with? Brighton is in general outside of heavy metal, not just in the genre. It's a very musical city. You can go to 10 different shows every night. It's not a very big city. It's quite small, especially considering we're next to London, and London is enormous. But it's just very artsy, very bohemian, big scene. Every second pub has a stage. 00:55:05.220 --> 00:55:06.700 There's one playing right there. 00:55:07.500 --> 00:55:09.600 Yeah, the band just wandered by the window. 00:55:12.600 --> 00:55:14.100 Is that an ice cream truck? What was that? 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:19.760 Actually, I noticed you have a Greek instrument behind you, and I forget the name of that instrument. 00:55:20.500 --> 00:55:21.020 What is that? 00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:26.100 That's actually an oud. It's no Greek at all. It's ceramic. It's Greek. 00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:27.700 Way to screw up, Jay. 00:55:28.900 --> 00:55:30.100 It's a bazooki, yeah. 00:55:31.580 --> 00:55:34.860 It's a fabulous one as well. It's like a custom border as well. 00:55:35.300 --> 00:55:36.620 But yeah, that's a great instrument. 00:55:37.080 --> 00:56:06.420 But the other one behind that's an Egyptian or a Turkish one. That looks like that. We're gonna play it because it's completely out of tune. And also I'll make it full of myself. Does the Bazooki make any appearances on any Kingo records? I'm trying to think. Not only the VMs, but Conduit it does. Specifically on the track Conduit you can hear it. Right on. So yeah, next time you put Conduit on, 00:56:06.780 --> 00:56:36.620 the truck on it as well. You should be able to hear it on the clean part. I used to bring a little bit more of that and create some different textures for the manure stuff once they happen. I don't really have too many more questions, guys. If anybody else has questions, I'm... I got one. Yeah. And I've read that... I think I know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway in case any of our listeners aren't too familiar. 00:56:36.780 --> 00:57:06.740 the name of the band, which I'm sure you get asked in every interview, is are you guys still kind of keeping that close to the vest and keeping the mystery still alive and letting people kind of try to figure it out? Enjoying that? Yep. Nice try, John. Are you ready to fill the beans or not? Nice. I'm sure some people must have figured it out by now. Yeah, let's just say it's nobody's gonna... 00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:35.720 All time? Nope, he does not. Okay. I was quite confused when I was getting all these NBA memes tagging things, God King God, and we're like, what? And I was like, oh, okay, great. Because the greatest of all time is not as G-O-A-T, is not as used as much in the UK. Obviously, now we know what it means, but... Oh, here's the basis. There we go. Sorry, I wasn't going to be here, but then I just lost the track of the song. 00:57:36.780 --> 00:58:04.820 You're here now. We've got some questions we could ask you for sure. Can you introduce yourself to tell everybody who you are? Well, I'm Reza. You can call me Reza. The basis. And yeah, that's who I am. And I think Petra said you were Iranian? Yes, I am Iranian. Yes. How long have you been in the UK? Trump doesn't like me. 00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:09.720 I'm probably not going to be able to come with the bands to play in the US. 00:58:09.940 --> 00:58:11.220 I'm sorry about that man. 00:58:12.140 --> 00:58:13.280 We would welcome you. 00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:17.640 We might see us at the airport security. 00:58:19.620 --> 00:58:22.280 So I can probably settle this quick. Are you a British citizen? 00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:25.820 No, well I will be getting my citizenship in a year. 00:58:26.580 --> 00:58:27.840 But you're still an Iranian citizen? 00:58:28.700 --> 00:58:29.740 Yes, I am. 00:58:29.890 --> 00:58:30.820 Yeah, you're fucked. 00:58:30.850 --> 00:58:31.260 The CIA. 00:58:34.360 --> 00:59:03.440 When you acquire the citizenship of any country, it will still mention in your password where you're from originally. So I will be a British citizen, for example. But it will still mention in my password that I'm Iranian. So still Iranian British citizen. As soon as we're going to hit the airport, the FBI or CIA. Oh, forget it. Yeah, sorry. And our apologies in advance for that if you ever try to win. It's crazy world. It's no one's fault. 00:59:03.460 --> 00:59:33.080 So it's interesting, but where in Iran are you originally from and when did you come to Britain? I'm from Tehran, the capital. I just came to the UK like normal, like other people with a student visa for education about eight years and two months ago. Okay. Were you into metal in Iran? Were you a metal fan in Iran? Yeah, yeah. 00:59:33.220 --> 01:00:02.500 Yeah, it is a big community of metal fans. And we have gigs and everything. It's all on the ground. It's pretty much an underground thing because I know the Ayatollah and the Supreme Council and everything, they kind of don't like it. I guess unless they're praising the Ayatollah and the Supreme Council. Well, to be honest, in the middle of the least, it's just not welcome. 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:33.200 You'll see more than Dubai or Saudi Arabia, which are a bit more... Liberal. Yeah, you're allies. Yeah, we love those guys. So basically, the Middle East attitude about heavy metal is sort of like my... 01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:38.940 It's all about money. 01:00:39.680 --> 01:00:42.620 Still, yeah. With all your money. With all your tax money. 01:00:43.640 --> 01:00:46.420 But still, there's no gig. 01:00:47.190 --> 01:00:53.380 And they tried to put a few festivals which stopped about 2014. I think I went to two of them. 01:00:54.050 --> 01:01:01.100 And I think Saxon played once. Apparently Saxon has a song about religion and stuff. 01:01:02.020 --> 01:01:04.440 I think it would probably be Crusader would be the problem. 01:01:04.770 --> 01:01:05.940 Do you know that song Crusader? 01:01:07.240 --> 01:01:13.180 The Al-Saxon you know to not be able to play those songs which are very popular songs as well. 01:01:13.660 --> 01:01:16.740 So yeah, they happened to have been filmed twice. 01:01:17.180 --> 01:01:20.100 They're called Desert Fest in what it was in actual desert. 01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:20.960 You know, it's pretty cool. 01:01:22.700 --> 01:01:29.580 So it's not just Iran but yeah, I mean there's a big underground community and everything. 01:01:29.620 --> 01:01:59.140 and very good musicians, very talented, but there's no chance to show or to improve or stuff. But there are so many bands now. It's better because of social media. There are so many Iranian bands that put the music on social media and stuff. Great stuff. It's just really difficult for them to be heard. One of the issues is PayPal. If we see a band on Bandcamp, 01:01:59.580 --> 01:02:29.340 We had this with Crescent in Egypt. Egypt is technically sort of an ally of the United States, but we can't buy Crescent's music because they're from Egypt because I can't send a PayPal account to Egypt. So I can guarantee there's no way in hell that I can buy, if an Iranian band was on Bandcamp, I cannot buy their music because just the PayPal won't allow it. I have to say that that's not exactly true because I just bought an album. Oh yeah? What is it? What did you buy, George? I don't think so. 01:02:30.460 --> 01:02:59.240 I think you need an address or postcode and stuff and you're running from one of the countries that can be registered on the website. It's like all other websites, you know, like Apple or any other websites, any computer software, anything, Microsoft, anything. I mean, which everything is actually computer-based. It's very American. 01:02:59.720 --> 01:03:28.220 You know, so is Apple, Microsoft, and every computer-based stuff is American, so they can't buy even those stuff, you know, because the country is not listed on the website, so you can't go buy a product or register or anything. Yeah, everybody hates you. Yeah, the artist, it's called Akvan, A-K-V-A-N, says all tracks performed, written, 01:03:29.600 --> 01:03:38.340 various locations in Tehran, Iran, another one I'm not going to even try to pronounce, but whether he, maybe he put it up from somewhere else. 01:03:38.580 --> 01:03:58.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, if you have a friend abroad, they can just register you. But from, you know, inside the country, this stuff is really difficult to get. Yeah, well, there's so many good bands. And actually, recently, I've been listening to this Palestinian band, a black metal Palestinian band called, 01:03:58.940 --> 01:04:01.880 A-Y-A-Y-A-T. 01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:04.040 They're really good. Check them out. 01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:05.080 They actually don't have to. 01:04:06.940 --> 01:04:08.080 Yeah, I just got back. 01:04:08.160 --> 01:04:11.000 I was in Israel about two months ago. 01:04:12.540 --> 01:04:17.220 And I checked out all the various music that they have there. 01:04:18.520 --> 01:04:20.540 And there's some pretty decent bands. 01:04:20.660 --> 01:04:23.880 And I'm not talking about Orphan Land, the kind of more known ones. 01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:26.120 And there's some pretty good Palestinian bands. 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:57.380 What I love about music is it transcends every social, economic, religious, cultural sort of thing. Like heavy metal is heavy metal. And if you talk about it in your lyrics, more power to you. It's awesome. That's what I love about heavy metal. It's a close community. Do you mind if we ask what you guys do? And you don't have to share it if you don't. And what I mean is outside the band. This is from me trying to classify. What do we do? I'm sure you can 01:05:05.859 --> 01:05:08.300 He's trapped in here with a lot of instruments. 01:05:08.690 --> 01:05:09.760 Well, you mentioned teaching. 01:05:09.940 --> 01:05:11.540 He's definitely doing something music related. 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:16.800 I've got my own studio where we teach, we do we hold rehearsals, we teach. 01:05:17.900 --> 01:05:22.180 I write soundtracks for games and videos and things like that. 01:05:22.420 --> 01:05:51.900 Actually, John, the drummer of the band, he's a computer programmer, he makes games, a game developer, and I also wrote the soundtrack for his game. He sounds nothing like King Goat, as you might imagine, it's all all casual. Evan from Wilderun does that too, doesn't he, John? Yeah, I think Evan, right? Yeah, from Wilderun. He does game soundtracks and stuff. Yeah, game soundtracks is just a really cool thing to do, and everybody plays games, games are made all the time. Yeah, so we make games, 01:05:52.420 --> 01:06:21.500 the soundtrack. How cool is that? We want to reproduce another goat simulator again. A king goat simulator. Oh hell yeah. With a better soundtrack, maybe more epic, dramatic soundtrack. That was actually kind of funny when that game goat simulator was a thing two or three years ago. We actually got a lot of clicks. 01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:23.860 Files and websites. 01:06:25.740 --> 01:06:29.500 People were looking for all the things that I get. 01:06:30.070 --> 01:06:32.120 And I think specifically there's something you can do. 01:06:32.240 --> 01:06:36.240 Like you get a power and then you become a demon goat and you become a king goat or whatever. 01:06:36.720 --> 01:06:39.900 And people were looking like how to activate that and then they found us, which is a... 01:06:40.140 --> 01:06:40.960 It wasn't our favorite. 01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:43.980 Did you just slip up and tell us the meaning of king goat? 01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:46.180 No, I don't think he did. 01:06:46.520 --> 01:06:47.860 No? Okay. 01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:52.120 Nice try. I like that you guys are really focused on trying to get that out of him. 01:06:54.640 --> 01:06:56.940 That was the whole purpose of the interview. Every five minutes. 01:06:57.560 --> 01:06:57.700 So! 01:06:59.060 --> 01:07:06.840 So you teach music. That's why I asked. You mentioned before you dealt with some students online before and things like that. Do you teach guitar? 01:07:07.900 --> 01:07:14.020 Guitar, music theory, music production, performance, all sorts of things like that. 01:07:14.080 --> 01:07:44.060 Did you go to school to learn music theory or anything? Or you just picked it up? I had lessons. I went to a private music school when I was a teenager. Then I went to music university. I got a BA and a master's degree and I got a teaching qualification. I'm actually a qualified teacher, believe it or not. So yeah, that's what I've been doing really in the last five to... So five years after I finished my first 01:07:44.160 --> 01:07:45.720 I've been building up over. 01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:51.020 There's a tattoo artist in Brighton who's making a lot of money off of you guys. 01:07:51.860 --> 01:07:53.540 Actually, none of these were made in Brighton. 01:07:53.970 --> 01:07:55.040 Oh, none from Brighton? 01:07:55.160 --> 01:07:57.200 In Brighton, I know they're actually in the UK. 01:07:58.140 --> 01:08:01.700 They're way too expensive over here because here they charge by the hour. 01:08:02.130 --> 01:08:05.440 And if a good tattoo artist will charge a hefty amount by the hour. 01:08:06.940 --> 01:08:14.060 So if we go to Greece, I mean, flights included, it's cheaper for us to get tattooed in Greece because, you know, in Greece, it's like... 01:08:14.080 --> 01:08:43.940 How much? How much? From here to there? Okay, 300 euros. It's still my piece. Okay, this much? Like that? Okay, that much. And also it's a holiday for us. Yeah, I was going to say you take a holiday. So we usually go to Greece and we get tattooed. We hang out, have fun, and just go back. And still, it would be less than what you would do. Petros, how is Greece getting along right now, Petros? Is it starting to recover a little bit? 01:08:44.720 --> 01:09:11.220 Are they just still in that terrible financial doldrums? There's social progress from the point of view that we've had a leftist government which allowed things like gay marriage and improved trans rights and all of that. But financially speaking, it's just... The pensions are killing you. It's not as bad as it was, but it's not really improved either. It's just a bit of a status quo and everything's a bit flat. 01:09:14.080 --> 01:09:17.299 in control with everything and the IMF so basically it doesn't matter how left your 01:09:17.500 --> 01:09:44.040 government is as long as you have on top of your ass telling you what to do you can't really do anything and we hear a lot about it over here by the way I mean you can turn on the BBC and and think gosh they talk about completely different news stories than they do here in America but we but Greece is a story everywhere we hear a lot about it do you still have family there yeah family yes well that's nice that you guys can go go get a tattoo and see your family and have some good good good 01:09:45.000 --> 01:10:14.040 So you're from Greece and Luxembourg, you're from Iran. Is anybody from the United Kingdom? Yeah, the three guys are. I'm just joking. I assumed that you guys were all from different... Trim is such a funny name. Is that his name, Trim the singer? It's not his real name. It's not his real name. It's kind of. It's half his surname. Half of his middle name. No, that's his surname. No, that's the whole surname. No, half of his surname 01:10:14.060 --> 01:10:15.280 So it's short. 01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:16.240 Since you. 01:10:16.920 --> 01:10:17.240 Oh, yeah. 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:21.620 Mr. Giant 8 syllable surname. 01:10:22.040 --> 01:10:22.720 It's more than anything. 01:10:23.500 --> 01:10:27.680 So, Rez, were you one of the -- we didn't get to ask you something earlier -- King Goat questions. 01:10:27.820 --> 01:10:29.840 Were you one of the founding members of King Goat? 01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.440 You were one of the people who met Petros at school and you guys formed a band. 01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:34.740 Have you been around since the beginning? 01:10:35.240 --> 01:10:35.880 Yes, yes. 01:10:36.160 --> 01:10:36.560 Well, yeah. 01:10:37.160 --> 01:10:43.360 Me and Petros, we met at university and we were always jamming together. 01:10:43.380 --> 01:11:12.600 It's funny because we were always thinking of like one day we're gonna have like an oriental kick up Middle Eastern sound like a death metal band. We were always dreaming about it, you know, like jamming, you know, like thinking and stuff. But it was just randomly we started the Dune band. I don't know why. Which, by the way, is sort of quintessentially English. I mean, you're... Are you... I forgot what I was going to ask. Is it written on the wall? 01:11:13.360 --> 01:11:33.540 I don't know. Is it on the ceiling? Jay has crib notes on the wall. He's looking for a burrito. Somebody else jump in because I have another question. So, Rez, you're wearing a Macedon shirt. So, what's your feeling on old Macedon, new Macedon? 01:11:43.380 --> 01:12:13.340 I mean as a musician I understand you know that when people don't you know like something new stuff or they always like so critical about everything you know I mean the artist always you know they try their best you know they try to be creative they try to see what market needs and stuff but then at the end people were like oh no the old one was better this one I mean I kind of try not to do that myself you know I just listen to artists you know I just put on Spotify you know I just listen to 01:12:15.060 --> 01:12:25.260 I just like one album more than the other one, but I'm not really that critical or not that hard on bands. Because I know how it feels, you know. 01:12:26.620 --> 01:12:30.820 So you're a fan of Macedon's and you celebrate your entire catalog. 01:12:32.260 --> 01:12:35.300 Actually, let's get more focused. Do you listen to the... 01:12:39.280 --> 01:12:43.320 Will, you did remind me of my question, which was just what are some of your primary influences? 01:12:43.320 --> 01:12:50.520 What bands do you like? It could be now or when you started, but what bands are you into that you admire these days? 01:12:54.000 --> 01:13:06.300 It's a very difficult question, because I listen to a lot of music every day. I think one that would pop up in my head too, actually, straight away, would be Death and Primordial. 01:13:07.000 --> 01:13:10.080 Wow. So what do you think about the new Primordial? 01:13:11.160 --> 01:13:39.660 We've discussed this quite at length on the podcast. Yeah, what's your opinion of it? I love it. I don't think there's anything like promodial I don't like. Or I say, well, man, I like everything. It's just really good. Yeah, this is the first album that I really sunk my teeth into, and I'm really enjoying it. But sometimes I do feel like you're just kind of meandering a little bit too much. But other than that, I'm digging this. 01:13:40.600 --> 01:14:10.100 I like it. I'm a big fan. Actually, I would just share one anecdote with you guys. I forget to share this with bands, but I swim for exercise and I have a waterproof iPod. Two of the records on my iPod right now are the new King Goat and the Primorio. I want you to know that your music has been listened to underwater. I share that with every band. It sounds great, by the way. It's great down there. The lower you go, the 01:14:10.660 --> 01:14:13.100 I'm under five feet of water and I'm listening to Kinga. 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:16.440 Wow. Is that how you scuba diving? 01:14:17.580 --> 01:14:20.000 No, I just swim. We have YMCA here. 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:20.340 It's called. 01:14:21.620 --> 01:14:22.940 Y-M-C-A. 01:14:24.280 --> 01:14:26.040 He actually does that when he's there. 01:14:27.040 --> 01:14:27.240 I do. 01:14:28.340 --> 01:14:29.240 Those are the swimming moves. 01:14:29.280 --> 01:14:29.880 That's how you get in the door. 01:14:31.200 --> 01:14:32.720 No, it's like an Olympic-sized pool. 01:14:32.820 --> 01:14:37.220 So I do laps and I have this waterproof iPod that allows you to listen to music. 01:14:37.300 --> 01:14:38.460 So I listen to metal while I swim. 01:14:38.780 --> 01:15:04.280 That's the honest, true story is that I listen to King Goat a lot underwater right now. Is YMCA Young Catholic Men's Catholic Association? I don't think it's Catholic. I thought it was just Christian. I think I stayed at the YMCA in London. So you guys have YMCA, don't you? Or maybe I stayed at a hostel, I forget. Oh, we have YMCA. You do? Okay. Yeah, I think I stayed at a hostel. You did a hostile YMCA. 01:15:08.780 --> 01:15:37.280 I did a personal training course a few months ago and graduated from that. But it was with YMCA and they're good, they're really good in what they do. They do a lot of stuff, educational, in everything. They just do something. Same with YMCA? Yeah, same. It's just an umbrella now, project, and we do have a lot of branches. 01:15:42.600 --> 01:16:06.060 Yeah, the official acronym is Young Men's Christian Association. Wow, I did not know that. I've been swimming at the YMCA for years. I had no idea. You really had no idea? I swear to God, nobody's ever tried to sell me anything there, you know what I mean? I mean, it sounds like some sort of like pedophile trap for kids, but... Well, it was famous in the United States in the 70s. I can only train Christians, I'm sorry. 01:16:14.280 --> 01:16:38.740 I don't think there's a single one of us on this podcast who are actually Christian. Certainly not. I don't think you'll look at them and go like, oh my God, Satan! I think they might. I think you might have that right. You know, King Goat, when I think of your name, I think of the, did you see the movie The Witch? The Witch? Very famous movie. And it had this goat in it called 01:16:38.760 --> 01:17:08.300 Oh, yeah, it came out. Isn't it the recent one? Yeah. And there's a goat, I think, that's prominent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very good film. I actually have the poster of that film. It's great. It's really good. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it. Speaking of goats and people giving you funny looks, I was wearing my Bathory goat shirt into the grocery store yesterday, and this woman was giving me the stare down. She was just, like, shaking her head and, like, looking. I was like, 01:17:08.780 --> 01:17:38.740 What got you into heavy metal, both of you individually? What records that you first heard and you thought, "Okay, this is it"? For me, like, you know, family was always in shock, you know, old school rock, my dad's into the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones. So there's a heritage of rock and roll going on in the family. So, you know, as you grow up, I mean, you eventually start listening to heavier things automatically. But I think... 01:17:40.840 --> 01:18:08.700 I don't know, I think it was in my cousin that he probably showed me something like a... I was shown some Black Sabbath, I don't remember which one, and then later on by a friend of mine I was shown some System of a Down. So I think that kind of like maybe, oh this is really cool, so System of a Down got me really excited, but there's definitely some Black Sabbath in the very early days for me. And I think, yeah, it was either Black Sabbath and Metallica or something when I was like 13, 14, I think my cousin showed it. 01:18:09.640 --> 01:18:36.700 We ask that question a lot and I think those are probably the two most common bands mentioned. What about you, Rez? Do you remember the first metal stuff you heard that you learned? Yeah, especially because I'm an 80s kid, so when I was a kid it was really difficult to find stuff like that because it was a bit closer to after the revolution. So it was more strict and there was no internet, obviously in the 80s. 01:18:38.800 --> 01:19:08.460 So they were like cassettes randomly. I think I went through my cousin's cassettes and stuff and was playing whatever he had. I think it was the Slayer. I started with the Slayer. Because in your eyes it's weird. You could see a lot of graphics, Metallica, Slayer, you know. It's just typical heavy metal bands. 01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:33.460 So Raz, I'm fascinated by this. Were you in Tehran at the time when you were fighting this? Did you have to get it underground or could you go to a store and buy it? Yeah, were they bootlegs? 01:19:38.760 --> 01:20:07.920 and giving it to everyone else. So it's kind of like an underground tape training thing? Yeah. I mean, it's so much better now. I mean, you can find anything you want on internet and everything. Obviously, nothing original, you know, because there's no way you can get original. Which, by the way, was the way it was in the States in the 80s, for what it's worth. It's not like we couldn't get it. But you're talking to four guys who all had probably eighth generation recordings of any number of things. 01:20:11.080 --> 01:20:38.000 Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, we were just copying and copying. I mean, I remember we had dealers, you know? You know, as you have drug dealers. Back home, we had alcohol dealers and movie dealers and music dealers. So these guys were coming to your home with a massive backpack, you know, and they were showing you whatever they had that you were going through with music or film or whatever, and they were choosing and you were paying for it. 01:20:38.860 --> 01:21:07.560 That's awesome. I could spend three hours talking to you, Rez, about all this stuff. This is fascinating to me. It is fascinating. No, it really is. Oh, yeah. We got through shit. Finding music and stuff, it was difficult. It was really tough. You didn't have a choice. It was just whatever you could find. Sometimes, yeah, you could find some people that had an archive. 01:21:07.840 --> 01:21:36.060 So they were giving you pages, names that you could go through and choose and stuff. And then he was going to go copy them and write them and come back next week. So it was like you ordered them. You would be like, I like these. He goes on and he makes it like, wow. Wow. That's cool. That's interesting. I mean, because my 80s experience was reading the backs of magazines. 01:21:36.300 --> 01:22:06.260 And so the way, like when Thrash and all that really started to happen, that was, there were tape traders and that's what we did. So I would have, you would have some pen pal from Europe or wherever and you would trade him a death album for an Exodus album. All again, 10th, you know, generation. We're all in our mid forties to John 50. So we're older guys. And so we went through the rigmarole of exactly what Jay was doing. 01:22:06.320 --> 01:22:36.140 saying is like tape trading and all that stuff. So it was almost like what you had to go through 20 years later. Yeah. But yeah. But also with that. And by no means do I need to downplay the difference in your experience to ours. No, no, no, no. Yeah. Yours was essentially legislated against whereas we would just pour kids out in the middle of nowhere. If you got lucky in my hometown, you could go to a local record shop. They'd have everything. Remember, 01:22:36.300 --> 01:23:05.280 It used to be just on stapled paper. And you would just go through the list. And it was all European releases. And you would just say, can you get me this? There'd be a price on it. And they'd order it from you. But you'd order it from just like a sheet of paper. Kind of like what they stick in some of the albums. You know, when you get a CD or a vinyl, they have that little slip in there to still buy an album that way. That's how we used to do it in my town. Get it six to eight weeks later. Eight weeks later, always. Yeah. Are you guys vinyl guys at all? You like vinyl? Yeah, we've got some vinyls. 01:23:13.020 --> 01:23:17.020 I'm assuming you have copies of your records on vinyl, at least in the collection. 01:23:17.160 --> 01:23:19.140 So many. If you want some extra people, you know. 01:23:21.320 --> 01:23:23.540 I already have debt of eons. 01:23:24.260 --> 01:23:26.580 I'm just King Gold merchandise falling in my head. 01:23:30.340 --> 01:23:32.560 Do you have the vinyl? Do you have stickers? 01:23:33.500 --> 01:23:34.260 We do have stickers. 01:23:35.180 --> 01:23:36.520 Do you have valid passports? 01:23:38.300 --> 01:23:40.300 Yeah, I've got valid passports. 01:23:40.300 --> 01:23:40.900 You got valid. 01:23:42.699 --> 01:23:50.440 Actually, all my documents are expired. I actually don't have any valid documentation at the moment. 01:23:50.500 --> 01:23:51.680 So I have to apply it. 01:23:51.680 --> 01:23:52.360 I'm actually a refugee. 01:23:53.600 --> 01:24:05.160 So actually, that's an interesting question because with your, I'm assuming you're a legal resident 01:24:05.160 --> 01:24:05.700 of the UK. 01:24:06.520 --> 01:24:06.780 Yeah. 01:24:07.080 --> 01:24:13.320 But with Brexit and Schengen, can you go, can you just, like, get a ferry and go to France? 01:24:13.660 --> 01:24:14.360 Or you can't? 01:24:14.360 --> 01:24:15.280 You just said the B word, man. 01:24:15.350 --> 01:24:16.240 You said the B word, man. 01:24:16.300 --> 01:24:17.080 That's just real cool. 01:24:18.640 --> 01:24:23.300 I'm just curious because, well, I'm, we're being selfish because we're just figuring 01:24:23.330 --> 01:24:28.340 out, like, what are the chances of you guys as a band, as a whole, coming to the United 01:24:28.580 --> 01:24:28.740 States? 01:24:31.180 --> 01:24:32.660 Slim, slim right now, I'd say. 01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:33.440 I guess, yeah. 01:24:35.340 --> 01:25:03.680 That's what we call them here, yeah, unfortunately. Sorry about the B word, too, but we have the T word, so we're living our own. Ours trumps yours. The UK was never part of the Schengen area. It was just part of the EU. Oh, so you guys weren't Schengen. Okay, all right. Schengen is the European Union. If you get into one European Union country, 01:25:03.900 --> 01:25:05.360 Then you can go to all of them. 01:25:05.640 --> 01:25:06.960 Maybe there's a security zone. 01:25:07.390 --> 01:25:08.640 So between France and Belgium, 01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:09.540 France and Spain, 01:25:09.630 --> 01:25:10.580 there are no border control. 01:25:11.120 --> 01:25:11.180 Right. 01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:13.820 But between England and the rest of the EU, 01:25:14.090 --> 01:25:14.880 there are border control. 01:25:15.020 --> 01:25:15.180 Okay. 01:25:15.320 --> 01:25:15.520 Yeah, 01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:17.780 I guess I didn't understand that because we're not in Schengen. 01:25:18.320 --> 01:25:18.840 Here's the thing, 01:25:18.940 --> 01:25:19.060 though. 01:25:19.760 --> 01:25:22.180 As an American guy who's been to Europe quite a few times, 01:25:23.700 --> 01:25:28.800 I don't like the EU thing because I want as many stamps in my passport as like badges of honor as I can get. 01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:29.440 Now you land, 01:25:29.540 --> 01:25:31.240 you get one stamp and that's it, 01:25:31.670 --> 01:25:31.860 you know, 01:25:32.020 --> 01:25:32.820 depending on where you go. 01:25:34.060 --> 01:26:02.460 Our beautiful advice to avoid World War III will ruin your passport. I did it. I traveled all backpacked around Europe. It was a typical American, Canadian, Australian thing. You go backpack around Europe. Back then, they didn't have the European common currency thing. You had to go change your money wherever you went. Now everything is the euro. 01:26:02.560 --> 01:26:30.860 except for Britain. Well, Britain and I think Sweden and Denmark still have the crown or corona. Yep. Yeah. Poland still has their own money. I can't remember. I was just over there and I had to change a couple of times. Do you guys get to travel a little bit? You like to get out? I mean, you said you've gone to Greece a few times and I always imagine Europeans is able to just go to all these wonderful places with ease. Do you guys get a chance to travel? 01:26:38.280 --> 01:27:00.760 I love travelling, I've always travelled. Actually I was in Belgium before I came to the UK. I was living in Belgium. Before that I lived in Russia, I lived in India, been to Turkey, Dubai and China. 01:27:05.260 --> 01:27:32.520 Where did you live in Russia? It was Moscow. Moscow. I've actually been. I was there some years ago. I went to Moscow and St. Petersburg. I liked it. I felt completely helpless, though. My wife speaks Russian and I don't. There's a few European countries where I thought I cannot do anything here by myself because I didn't run into a lot of English speakers. Jay, this is the only thing you need to know when you're in Russia. There's two things, right? Good Metro, which means where's the metro, and 01:27:33.940 --> 01:27:35.380 which means I love you. 01:27:36.500 --> 01:27:39.180 How do you say please? Can I just keep the credit cards? 01:27:42.360 --> 01:27:43.640 Placebo. Placebo is please. 01:27:44.190 --> 01:27:50.360 So let's bring this back to the band a little bit and just wrap up a little here. 01:27:50.390 --> 01:27:55.060 But also just ask you guys, what are your coming plans for King Goat? 01:27:55.170 --> 01:27:57.380 Other than writing out the new record a little bit. 01:27:58.160 --> 01:27:59.500 What do you see coming down the horizon? 01:27:59.510 --> 01:28:01.980 I know you said a couple of shows coming up, things like that. 01:28:02.160 --> 01:28:31.400 There's a few shows, we're just buying some more shows and we're just hoping basically from 2019 onwards to just start leaving the UK more often really and you know we gotta kinda have to hit Europe first, continental Europe I mean. Have you seen a lot of reviews on the record coming out? I feel like your visibility is rising a little bit. Have you seen a lot of reviews on the record? Yeah, there's been a lot of reviews. Yeah, so many reviews. Quite a bit of PR and then we've done some PR and then the label itself done some PR. 01:28:32.140 --> 01:29:01.620 So there's just reviews coming right, left, and center. So it's pretty cool. I mean, it's quite funny. You get, like, these people tagging us and be like, hey, here's a review. And we're like, it's in Finnish. I can't read it. Yeah. Those are the ones you just assume are just glowing reviews that you just tell people. You can scroll all the way down and try to find a rating or something. You're like, okay, thanks. You put them in Google Translate and then you get this. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Yeah. You get, like, really funny translations through Google. 01:29:05.460 --> 01:29:32.120 We had some Finnish, Danish we had, and then Dutch. Yeah, it just turns out like a really funny interview. There's a thing on The Tonight Show that they do where they take song lyrics and they pop it into Google Translate. They translate it into another language, and then they translate it 01:29:32.140 --> 01:29:35.500 back and they sing the lyrics and they're locked all fucked up 01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:39.860 i've done that myself specifically with japanese it's just hilarious 01:29:40.220 --> 01:29:44.540 oh sure my text from a small text translated to japanese and then from japanese back to english 01:29:45.040 --> 01:29:51.580 it just sounds hilarious yeah this is just pretty stupid it's hilarious yeah it doesn't help on 01:29:51.580 --> 01:29:56.640 those finishing or those finish reviews too if you do scroll down to look at the rating and it's like two and a half 01:29:56.840 --> 01:29:58.280 reindeers and you're like i don't fucking know 01:30:01.280 --> 01:30:27.540 What were you going to say, Will? I was actually going to ask Rez. Is there a Kingo following in Iran? Because you're Iranian? Is there a presence? Is there a Kingo following in the scene? They tell everyone about bands and stuff. But there are some followings outside of that circle. 01:30:28.660 --> 01:30:58.260 that they've been following. Actually, something funny happened. There was a group of friends, Iranians, they really comment on everything and they tag each other, like, "Oh, check this out, check that out," and they're typing faster as well. And something's just really funny because I obviously understand what they're saying. So one of these guys just messaged us on Instagram 01:30:58.280 --> 01:31:26.960 And because I mainly check Instagram and stuff, he was just saying how much he loved the band. He was like, "Oh, when I take acid, I listen to Kingo." And I knew he was the Iranian guy because of the name and all that. So I asked him back in Farsi, even in Farsi letters and everything, 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:56.740 He started swearing at me, he was like "what the fuck, why would you do that?" and I was like "dude, what's wrong with you?" and he thought that the account was fake, so he couldn't believe that there was actually an Iranian in the band and they just answered him back in Farsi. So I had to explain to him that it's not fake, I'm just an Iranian member of the band. 01:31:58.280 --> 01:32:27.240 He didn't know there was an Iranian member you're saying? No, because he's a reviewer and he always introduces lots of music to people and he has a lot of following himself on Instagram and social media and a lot of people, not a lot of people, just some of his friends, they make fake accounts and they troll him apparently. Oh, right, right, right. It's happened before. That's why he doesn't trust when people speak for him. Have you stayed in touch with him? 01:32:28.280 --> 01:32:30.040 Have you stayed in touch with him? 01:32:30.260 --> 01:32:33.340 I mean, he messages sometimes, you know, when he just says, 01:32:33.500 --> 01:32:42.020 "I'm from the band and stuff," but not as, you know, adding each other, you know, and sending hearts. 01:32:43.940 --> 01:32:47.120 This is two interviews in a row we say dick pics. 01:32:47.460 --> 01:32:48.880 Yeah, it always comes out to it. 01:32:48.880 --> 01:32:49.560 Well, it's 2018. 01:32:50.580 --> 01:32:50.920 That's one. 01:32:51.320 --> 01:32:52.440 It's a fact of life. 01:32:53.420 --> 01:32:54.860 It's actually just the eggplant. 01:32:55.660 --> 01:32:56.500 You don't send dick pics. 01:32:58.820 --> 01:33:25.420 It's the same to you, Petros. Is there a little bit bigger following in Luxembourg or Greece for you guys? We have in Greece. I mean, there's a lot of Greek people on our Facebook. I don't know them. And like what I said, we're not all cousins. So, yeah, I mean, I think it's not because of me. 01:33:27.360 --> 01:33:46.840 I think we do have some Luxembourgish fans because a friend of mine in Luxembourg who has a review sort of website, reviewing website and he just likes us so he just carries on pushing it and all his Luxembourgish mates and Luxembourgish people are all cousins and like groups. 01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:52.280 What is Luxembourg? Like 10 square miles or something? 01:33:52.280 --> 01:33:54.660 Yeah, so you're going to run into a cousin sooner or later. 01:33:56.620 --> 01:34:24.860 Luxembourg is small in the entirety of London. Yeah, sure. So yeah, it's like half a million people total. So it's really small. Hey, trivia question. Not for you, but trivia question for the rest of the guy. What is the capital of Luxembourg? I used to know that. For me, it's... Luxembourg City? Luxembourg City. Oh, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. It's Luxembourg City of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Yeah. 01:34:26.040 --> 01:34:31.600 I can mistake it with Lichtenstein because I was I drove through that's a different set of rich 01:34:31.660 --> 01:34:38.960 bastards yeah I think that's even smaller yeah Lichtenstein is a city-state like 01:34:39.350 --> 01:34:48.580 one of these great sheathals yeah they don't even have a sign you drive through and you don't know you're in Lichtenstein that's how fast it happens and that's not jail I drove through and you're just like you got licked 01:34:51.620 --> 01:34:55.260 Lichtenstein uh any any uh thing here to wrap it up fellas 01:34:55.280 --> 01:35:23.600 I have a final question if you guys are done. It's the most metal question ever. Is it my burritos? No. Yeah. But it's just because I'm getting hungry. I wanted to know if you guys watched the royal wedding because we sure did. I'm turning this off by. Wait, wait, wait. When George says we, he means he. Yeah. 01:35:25.280 --> 01:35:52.240 When I met we, I met my wife. No. Yeah, I didn't think so. It was just a joke. I will say this, that the few minutes that I saw of the rural wedding coverage on CNN was all about, they didn't even mention Harry's name once. It was all about her and being half black. That's all they talked about. American media, it's fine. Oh, yeah. Yeah. 01:35:56.000 --> 01:36:23.940 I don't know what she is. Basically, she's not royal. She's not from the usual thing that the royals would normally accept. So there was a bit of controversy by royal white conservative standards. So, you know, there's a bit of like, oh my god, the white royal kid is marrying a lady that's not even a Minglation. She's not ethnically white. I find the whole thing funny too, because isn't it like the worst kept secret in the world that Harry's not Charles's son? 01:36:24.700 --> 01:36:54.680 Yeah, none of them are English. They're half German. I mean, the other guy is like, he's called something something of Denmark and Greece. And he's not really Danish and he's not even Greek. But the royal family in Europe in general have been inbreeding. It's all incest. Yeah, it's inbreeding incest. Yeah. Hundreds of years. Spanish ones with English ones with German ones. Except Greek. They don't want any Greeks in there. I'm kidding. Whatever his name is, is Denmark and Greece. Yeah, there you go. The thing that... 01:36:54.700 --> 01:37:24.600 Yeah, the old guy. He is old, too, man. He's like 90-something. He looks like he should die. They're propping him up with some chemical we don't know about, I'm sure. We're going to burn him. So, you know what? We're going to wrap it up, I think, and let you guys go on your way. I want to ask you a favor, though. I already own one of your Debt of Ion's vinyls. If I order another one, will you sign it for me before you send it? Sure. 01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:54.120 Yeah, I will. I'll make a note on it. I'll say, hey, it's Jay from the podcast. I'll do the same thing. Make a note and actually you might even be able to figure out the name if you pay close attention. In fact, I want you to sign it in Greek, English, Luxembourg and Farsi, please. Guys, we really are. Didn't catch what you said in Greek, Farsi, Luxembourg. 01:37:54.700 --> 01:38:23.780 If I order a vinyl, sign it in your name, in English, in Greek letters, the Greek alphabet, in Luxembourg, in Farsi. He's joking. I'm not joking. I was going to say, his handwriting, anything you write, it would look the same. Nobody knows what this says. 01:38:28.360 --> 01:38:30.880 I've traveled the world. I may know the difference. 01:38:32.840 --> 01:38:36.860 I'm going to order it. I'll do that today and I'll put a little note on it so you know who it is. 01:38:37.540 --> 01:38:49.540 Guys, I really want you to know we really are fans of the band. I cannot say enough how world class I think the new record is. And Conduit was great too. It's really cool of you to spend some time with us. 01:38:50.940 --> 01:39:19.980 Yeah, we're going to be doing our best of mid-year lists in a couple weeks, and I expect that you will be on most, if not all, of the lists. And probably well-placed. Yeah, very well-placed. We'll send you a link when we do that. Have an awesome. Thank you for listening to the record and supporting us. Yeah, thank you for your time and for nice words. And yeah, we're happy that you like them. That's where it matters, and that's what we really ask for people to listen to our stuff. 01:39:20.140 --> 01:39:22.000 and just enjoy. 01:39:23.200 --> 01:39:25.120 Well, you're passionate about it and it shows. 01:39:25.300 --> 01:39:26.560 They're passionate records, man. They're great. 01:39:26.730 --> 01:39:29.280 And we do want to kind of push the plug for you. 01:39:29.460 --> 01:39:32.900 Our listeners need to go out and they can find you guys on Bandcamp. 01:39:33.010 --> 01:39:34.300 They can find you guys on Facebook. 01:39:34.840 --> 01:39:38.980 What are some of the other outlets where you are outside Bandcamp? 01:39:39.540 --> 01:39:39.900 Spotify. 01:39:40.340 --> 01:39:41.160 Spotify or Spotify? 01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:42.680 I'm sure you're on iTunes. 01:39:43.340 --> 01:39:43.500 Okay. 01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:46.760 And as usual, just Google can go. 01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:47.120 Amazon. 01:39:49.100 --> 01:39:49.720 I don't know. 01:39:49.900 --> 01:40:18.480 Yeah, all the digital distribution platforms. Yeah. Cool. You can't throw a digital rock without hitting King Goat. So you're in good shape. You're out there. Seriously, guys, badass stuff. You know what? We'll just tell you right now. This was fun to talk to you. So maybe when the next record comes out, we'll have you on again if you're down. Nice to meet you guys, too. It's funny. Cool. Awesome. We'll let you go on your way. Thank you so much, gentlemen. Enjoyed talking to you. Thanks, guys. 01:40:19.920 --> 01:40:48.900 Talk to you later. Thank you. Bye. All right. That was our interview with King Goat. Thank you again to Petros and Reza for joining us. Sorry it took us a while to get it out there, but now it's out in the world. So I made a couple of script changes at the last minute that I didn't tell anybody about. Shocking. Yeah, really. Yeah. Even though I sent an update, there's a few more things. And so I added something that I've been wanting to do for a couple episodes. 01:40:49.920 --> 01:41:18.660 that I didn't tell anybody about. It's the top 10 countries that listen to the podcast. Oh, awesome. Yeah, I go through the stats a lot and see, you know, who's listening and where they're from. And I just wanted to run through quick the top 10 countries outside of the U.S. U.S. is obviously the number one. But the top 10 countries that listen to the podcast and give a shout out to those countries and thank the people there for listening. Number 10, Japan. 01:41:19.360 --> 01:41:46.840 Number nine, France. Number eight, South Korea. Number seven, not bringing their A game, apparently, Canada. Number six, beating out those silly Canadians, Indonesia. Number five, Brazil. Number four, Germany. Number three, Ukraine. Thanks to Sergey for uniting his people. 01:41:49.360 --> 01:42:18.640 The number two, the UK. And the number one, Matt? That would be Russia. Russia. No, seriously, my website, the only traction I got was either a family member or someone from Russia. Yeah. I think Putin's a big fan. Yeah. And by extension, Donald Trump. Well, actually, those were all metal countries, too. I mean, really, like Indonesia, it's huge in Indonesia right now and UK. So that made a kind of sense to it. Yeah. 01:42:18.700 --> 01:42:48.480 So I guess my question is, is it like Russia has like five and the other ones have like one? No, no, no. There's like thousands. Yeah. You know, it's funny because we've gotten in like the last month, like 1400 listens. And you're like, well, you know, we've only had like 600 on the or 500 or whatever it is on the mid-year. But like all the other episodes are also getting lessons. And I only ever look at like the last episode. 01:42:49.140 --> 01:43:18.660 Oh, I hope no one's listening to Iron Man Lost Tapes one. Well, they are now, dude. Yeah. And so, yeah, like our all-time total is at like 44,000. No way. Wow. Yeah. 44,000? Yeah. And that's just since we went on SoundCloud. We're not rich. Yeah. How are we not rich? Anyway, moving on. I'm not going to pass. I'm not going to pass, but if we had a dollar for every 44,000 listens, what would that be? 01:43:18.700 --> 01:43:47.400 That would be a dollar total for 44,000. Yeah, that's the Spotify. Actually, it probably wouldn't even be a dollar for Spotify for 44,000. Exactly. But all right. So there is actually a new segment. I put this on the list and didn't really tell anybody about it. Usually I will discuss it with the guys first. But I thought of this the other day and I was like, ah, fuck it. I'm just going to put it on there. 01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:53.060 They don't really have to do anything this episode, so I figured I could 01:43:53.540 --> 01:43:54.620 forgo explaining it to them. 01:43:55.140 --> 01:43:56.200 But what I want to call this 01:43:57.440 --> 01:43:59.220 segment, assuming we continue doing it, 01:43:59.980 --> 01:44:01.540 is my greatest song ever. 01:44:02.660 --> 01:44:03.300 And basically, 01:44:04.000 --> 01:44:06.180 I wanted to get granular 01:44:06.680 --> 01:44:08.080 with a single song. 01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:09.720 Like, each episode, 01:44:10.320 --> 01:44:12.760 one person would do it, just like we do with Skullcrushers. 01:44:13.280 --> 01:44:14.500 And you just pick a song 01:44:14.840 --> 01:44:16.680 that, like, has some kind 01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:17.920 of special meaning to you. 01:44:18.520 --> 01:44:47.900 Talk about the song a little bit, maybe pull out some of the lyrics and shine some light on them, and just kind of talk about it. I mean, what do you guys think about that? Before you go any further, is this where you're going to tell us that your greatest song ever is Dope Smoker? I think that's John's way of trying to get you to edit out this whole segment, which is fine. Yeah, I'm down for it. 01:44:47.960 --> 01:45:13.420 I'm totally down with this. Yeah. Yeah. I'm wondering if you chose a Manowar song. I didn't. Although I'm sure there will be one eventually. I'm actually kind of torn because the song that inspired it was a Sentenced song. And I know I'm pretty sure none of you guys listen to Sentenced. Is that correct? By the way, I'm kind of torn. I'm kind of torn is one of mine from the top five this week. So well done. 01:45:19.980 --> 01:45:46.360 That'll make more sense at the end of the episode. But I was like, you know, Sentenced songs are pretty cathartic for me, and that's a big part of why I listen to music, is to work through shit through music. But Sentenced, for anybody that doesn't know, is a pretty depressing band. I mean, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more downtrodden set of fins. 01:45:51.060 --> 01:45:52.900 Yeah, it was good that you isolated it. 01:45:52.980 --> 01:45:55.720 The Finns, man, they're just depressed. They drink a lot. They commit suicide. 01:45:56.880 --> 01:45:59.600 And technically, they call it the band Suicide Metal. 01:45:59.980 --> 01:46:03.000 And so it's not the cheeriest of stuff. 01:46:03.020 --> 01:46:07.480 And I didn't want to give the impression that woe is me, poor George. 01:46:08.360 --> 01:46:12.580 Nor did I want Z to go and talk about boring man pain. 01:46:13.240 --> 01:46:15.380 Yeah, yeah, I can't stand that. Sorry, guys. 01:46:17.040 --> 01:46:46.740 No, thanks for chiming in. That's the perspective you're here for. That's another story. And so I started to think, well, maybe I'll do a different song. And I picked another one. And for the last three days, I've been going back and forth on... There's a sentence song, and there's a Judas Priest song. So I'm going to put it to you guys. I'm going to put it to you guys. And which one do you want? Well, wait, hold on. Which Judas Priest album is it from? It's not going to be one. 01:46:49.560 --> 01:46:52.620 Well, Jay, if it's Jawbreaker, then I'm going with sentence. 01:46:58.180 --> 01:47:00.940 No, actually, if it is Jawbreaker, I won't hear that. 01:47:03.360 --> 01:47:04.400 I vote you as priest. 01:47:06.100 --> 01:47:06.240 Priest. 01:47:07.020 --> 01:47:09.000 I'll vote priest any day over sentence. 01:47:10.140 --> 01:47:10.820 I'm going to go with sentence. 01:47:11.920 --> 01:47:14.120 Well, I'm sorry, Matt, but you've been outvoted. 01:47:15.480 --> 01:47:16.160 Damn it. 01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:17.720 Maybe on another episode. 01:47:19.220 --> 01:47:19.480 Son of a bitch. 01:47:19.480 --> 01:47:19.820 You know what? 01:47:19.820 --> 01:47:22.020 How pissed would we have done it if it would have been like, okay. 01:47:22.340 --> 01:47:25.280 Actually, I should have done that just to be like, fuck you guys. 01:47:26.300 --> 01:47:27.140 But yeah, all right. 01:47:27.200 --> 01:47:29.460 So the Judas Priest song is Blood Red Skies. 01:47:30.960 --> 01:47:36.780 And I've actually written an article that nobody in the world read years ago about this song. 01:47:38.020 --> 01:47:43.460 Because to me, it really embodies the spirit of heavy metal for me. 01:47:44.340 --> 01:48:13.980 That defiant, fuck you, you can't tell me what to do, I'm going to do what I'm going to do, and I don't care what you say kind of song. And yeah, it's on kind of a crappy album, and actually a good part of the song is electronic drums and synthesizers and things that you don't normally attribute to Judas Priest. But the lyrics, they mean a lot to me. And every time I hear this song, I get fired up. 01:48:13.980 --> 01:48:42.100 And that's when I listen to this song. When I am in need of doing some ass kicking of some kind, you know, a job interview, an exam, something like that. It's the same things that I would listen to Man at War for, frankly. That's when I turn to this song. And there's a shit ton of lyrics for it. I'm not going to read them all because most of them are dumb. But. Way to advertise your favorite song. I mean. 01:48:46.820 --> 01:48:48.940 It's really about the chorus 01:48:49.940 --> 01:48:52.960 and the bridge for me. 01:48:54.000 --> 01:48:56.160 Which I shall recite them for you now. 01:48:57.140 --> 01:48:59.120 Where's the halo effect that's saintly? 01:48:59.900 --> 01:49:00.800 Oh yes, thank you. 01:49:05.340 --> 01:49:07.640 All right, so leading into the chorus, 01:49:08.000 --> 01:49:10.640 it says, not begging you, I'm telling you. 01:49:11.300 --> 01:49:41.260 You won't break me. You won't make me. You won't take me under blood-red skies. You won't break me. You won't take me. I'll fight you under blood-red skies. And then the bridge. As the end is drawing near, standing proud, I won't give in to fear. As I die, a legend will be born. I will stand. I will fight. You'll never take me alive. I'll stand my ground. I won't go down. I mean... 01:49:41.300 --> 01:50:11.060 you fucked up job. Yeah. And why won't you go down? That's a good one. Nice. But I'm picturing you walking into the interview room going like, you motherfuckers can't break me. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm not the most, uh, fired up kind of guy. I'm pretty laid back most of the time. And just sometimes you need a little kick in the ass to, to, you know, motivate you. And, and, uh, so, you know, 01:50:11.340 --> 01:50:40.720 I didn't see you fighting Travis when you had your interview. No, no. The door was closed. Oh, okay. I thought maybe Z was present in your interview. She was outside the door. Listening and taking notes. This guy's a real asshole. There's a lot of noise in there. What's all that smashing? He's just talking about metal and nothing else. Why is this guy singing a Judas Priest song? Yeah, that's how you got it. Yeah. I know it's from Ramadar. 01:50:41.280 --> 01:51:06.440 Oh, is it Ramadan? Yeah, see, I don't know. Maybe this isn't a really great segment because it's basically just me talking shit and getting crap. Not that I mind. I don't mind you giving me crap. But the point being that it doesn't really inspire a lot of back and forth other than, you know, jokes. I don't know. What do you think? Well, we like mocking. Well, we do. And that's fine. I'm not offended or anything. I'm just, I'm not sure. 01:51:08.160 --> 01:51:38.140 Well, it's nothing wrong with your choice, but there will also be days when one of us will say something like, Die over Madman, and everybody will be like, yeah, fuck yeah, dude, here's why I love that. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I'm picking a song that I know nobody else likes, which is the majority of what I listen to. But... All right, well, you know, just the first time, whatever. Why don't we try it a few more times before we decide to kill it? Yeah, no, that's fine. And... 01:51:38.180 --> 01:52:08.140 I'm sure had I prepared a little more I probably could have talked more about it and possibly sounded slightly more intelligent but it possibly I let me say I everybody has experiences with songs like that things that are meaningful to them that touched on certain points so I think I can connect to that just that and it has to be about the song so what I mean is I think it is interesting let's hear what people care about so let's keep doing it Jay will like this gets me fired up about the Dewey Duster 01:52:11.820 --> 01:52:37.520 Mostly, I just wanted to tell people about songs that they should listen to if they haven't heard it. I'm sure a lot of people haven't heard that one. And I don't know, just share experiences with things and connect and share what about these songs is important to us and blah, blah, blah, boring man pain. 01:52:40.980 --> 01:53:06.500 No, I actually like that. It's like a check and balance kind of thing for me. I'm like, oh yeah, boring man pain. Okay, never mind. No. I think we're all on board. And I think I can speak for Matt. I also have never heard the term man pain, and I'm going to be using that a lot more. I feel good about this. It's like emo, but I'm not going to in any way associate emo with myself. 01:53:09.020 --> 01:53:31.860 Also, Jay, thank you for speaking for me. He's going to just text you things to say. Hey, dude, could you say this? All right, let's move past the awkward and into more common ground that we understand and can do well. That'd be a list of people who died. We're going to get into the news. 01:53:45.140 --> 01:54:03.840 Both of these are a few weeks old now, but I figured we ought to at least mention it. Ralph Santola, formerly of Deicide, Obituary, Death, and Iced Earth, died after having a heart attack. He was in a coma for a bit. In fact, when I originally wrote this on the script, he was still alive. And then shortly thereafter, he passed away. 01:54:04.320 --> 01:54:34.240 Actually, I have to add one to the list, George, before you get to the next one. Because Eddie, the rock and roll beer guy, was a friend of him. The guy who was the director. Yeah, the Metalocalypse guy. Metalocalypse director. I'm sorry to say I don't remember his name. But he was a friend of Eddie's. And he had a massive stroke and then died a few days later. Yeah, that sucks. And the other death, as I'm sure everybody that listens to this has probably heard, Vinnie Paul, formerly of Pantera, and Damage Plant. 01:54:34.300 --> 01:55:04.020 And I don't mean to say that sarcastically like it was bad that Vinnie Paul died. But I just don't like hell yeah. You know what's sad is we're getting to that age now. We're all in our mid-40s except for you Z that you look like you're like in your early 20s. That's a compliment. Yeah, that's safe. See, he guesses well. Unlike some people. We know. My son, who's four and a half, when he hears a band on the radio, 01:55:04.100 --> 01:55:33.400 and I talk about the band. I try and educate my kids about it. And the first thing my son asks is, is he dead? Is he still alive? No, because like, you know, Dio's dead and, you know, we have a Lemmy bobblehead and like, and he's like, well, Lemmy's dead. Yeah, exactly. He's like, all these ACDC that comes on Ozzy's boneyard and you're like, half those guys are dead now. And did you guys see, I don't think it's on here. This, the Dio, um, 01:55:34.380 --> 01:56:01.740 coming out? No. I'll send you a link. And there's something like all kinds of shit like the leather shirt he's wearing on the live album cover and stuff. And that's predicted to go for like a thousand bucks. There's not a bunch of his personal shit. That's not bad. No. I'll send you the link. Yeah, I may have to jump on some of that. Well, we could team up and buy something for the studio or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, find me stuff. 01:56:01.840 --> 01:56:30.780 Yeah. I mean, yeah, I'm the curator. I take care of it. All right. Next up. I only put this one on you here for you, Jay. Caveller Tech, their singer, Quit. How does that affect you, Jay? I'll tell you, it bothers me for only one reason, and that is that I liked his visual. I like his voice, but I like his visual presentation. So like here, they had this kind of weird punk thing going on, sort of punky. 01:56:31.380 --> 01:56:35.620 but with this viking at the fucking mast, you know what I mean? And so 01:56:36.620 --> 01:56:42.540 even stranger than that quick announcement is the fact that they already, like last night, played a show with a new singer. 01:56:43.480 --> 01:56:46.260 Wow. Yeah. And he just kind of looks like the rest of them. 01:56:47.140 --> 01:56:50.440 But I'm going to hold off my anti-judgment until 01:56:51.020 --> 01:56:54.660 the record comes out because I'm pretty sure the guitar players 01:56:55.500 --> 01:56:58.679 probably the writers in that band, that stated 01:56:58.700 --> 01:57:27.820 They're actually, if you guys know how it is, like, I mean, one of these are sort of, you know, harsh vocals, but he's still kind of, he has a special little knack that worked for me. Yeah, I was starting to hear it. Long story short. Yeah. So we'll see what, and I'll reserve judgment for now. Fair enough. So we have a shit ton of upcoming album releases to talk about. The first one is The Skull, you know, members from Trouble, will release their second album, The Endless Road Turns Dark, on September 7th. 01:57:28.700 --> 01:57:57.660 Any thoughts? I'm super excited. Yeah. Sure. They played Super Bowl night. The Skull played Atlas. That's right. Yeah. None of you fuckers were there. Oh, that's right. Because you guys never come. I'll be there next Friday. Okay. Okay. So I got to put this out there. I know. You're an hour away, man. I don't blame you. Yeah, it still takes me an hour, though, and I'm closer. 01:58:00.480 --> 01:58:28.660 But next week, next Friday, next Friday is Temple of Void. Hell yeah. Oh, yeah, I did see you guys talking about that. Damn. That'll be the first, I assume, for anybody in the pod seeing them, right? Yeah, I believe so. Yeah. Will, is this going to be their first venture into the kind of Virginia, D.C. area? I think this, if I'm not mistaken, this may 01:58:28.700 --> 01:58:58.600 their first venture to the east coast. That's what I thought. As Temple of Void. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. So they're coming in Thursday. I'm going to take off Friday and I'm going to play DC Tour Guide and hang out all day. Nice, dude. Are you the one setting those up? Are you reaching out to bands? Well, if you remember on this podcast, when we interviewed them... First of all, I don't listen to this podcast. Well, it's because you're not from Russia, that's why. 01:59:01.380 --> 01:59:28.660 If you were way up in the Ural Mountains, you'd be listening. When I told them, when we were on the podcast, I said, if you guys ever come to the East Coast, play Atlas. So now we can play Atlas. Well, that actually worked, too, when you said that. I know. Yeah, so they're going to come play. No, but Hassan from Ripping Headaches is the promoter of the show. And he's the one putting on the not-to-be-mentioned 01:59:29.480 --> 01:59:31.160 show and yet in November. 01:59:33.080 --> 01:59:33.780 This on is a great guy. 01:59:35.120 --> 01:59:36.500 So and anyway. 01:59:37.660 --> 01:59:37.900 All right. 01:59:38.100 --> 01:59:38.460 Moving on. 01:59:40.220 --> 01:59:45.240 Deicide is getting ready to release overtures of blasphemy on September 14th. 01:59:46.100 --> 01:59:50.640 They've released a new song called excommunicated and I kind of dig it. 01:59:51.260 --> 01:59:53.600 I haven't really been a deicide fan for a while. 01:59:53.700 --> 01:59:55.360 I really only liked the first couple albums 01:59:56.820 --> 01:59:57.860 because Glenn 01:59:58.320 --> 01:59:59.880 really changed sound 02:00:00.500 --> 02:00:01.420 after the first couple albums. 02:00:01.820 --> 02:00:03.920 I think probably his voice got fucked up 02:00:04.240 --> 02:00:05.640 and he had to sing deeper. 02:00:07.580 --> 02:00:07.840 But 02:00:08.320 --> 02:00:09.980 I've been going back and checking out 02:00:10.010 --> 02:00:11.540 some of that stuff again and it's not bad. 02:00:13.740 --> 02:00:15.860 Yeah, I watched and listened to the lyric 02:00:16.160 --> 02:00:17.960 video and I mean, I love the way 02:00:18.680 --> 02:00:19.920 I'm a Deicide fan 02:00:20.050 --> 02:00:20.600 through and through. 02:00:22.080 --> 02:00:50.460 And the one thing I did notice when you watch the lyric video and you can see what they're saying, like, you know, like in real time when they're saying it, it's like, it's not that the lyrics are weird. I mean, they're anti-God lyrics, which I'm all about. That's cool. It's just like, it's almost like they were just lazy with the lyrics in a weird way. Oh yeah. The lyrics are pretty dumb. No, it's just like, I don't know. It's almost like the lyrical structure of the song was sort of super lazy. I'm like, Hey, you could have kind of done a little bit better than that. 02:00:52.080 --> 02:01:18.300 You could write down 90% of metal lyrics and on paper they look like a fucking monkey wrote them, dude. I mean, you know, it works okay with the music. It's just that you read it and you're like, what? Yeah, it's just sort of like repeating the same thing. It was like a lot of repetition, the same chorus over and over, which I know is a very metal thing. That's all heavy metal is, is a bunch of noise repeated over and over again. Smartass. 02:01:22.100 --> 02:01:22.540 of this book. 02:01:22.740 --> 02:01:25.240 That's the history of heavy metal. 02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:27.220 One page. 02:01:27.680 --> 02:01:28.880 I mean, it sounded good. 02:01:28.930 --> 02:01:29.400 I liked it. 02:01:29.430 --> 02:01:31.620 I liked the, I liked the, I liked the lyrical content. 02:01:32.240 --> 02:01:34.640 The lyrical structure was a little weird, but the song sounded good. 02:01:34.820 --> 02:01:36.740 So I'm, I'm, I'm looking forward to it. 02:01:37.420 --> 02:01:37.700 I agree. 02:01:38.100 --> 02:01:43.120 I also, I also dig like how much effort Glenn Benton puts into being sinister. 02:01:44.320 --> 02:01:45.380 Do you guys recognize my voice? 02:01:45.860 --> 02:01:46.040 Yeah. 02:01:46.480 --> 02:01:48.080 I'm actually running it through a filter. 02:01:48.600 --> 02:01:49.420 These are just emojis. 02:01:52.660 --> 02:02:19.440 I've always loved how much effort Glenn Benton puts into being sinister, and for some reason I dig that about him. I, too, agree. I remember, I think probably Servants of the Light I kind of faded a little bit, or maybe it was one after that. They did phone it in for a little while, to be fair. Yeah. Didn't they also just lose Jack Owen? Did he go back to six feet under? Or back to six feet under? 02:02:20.120 --> 02:02:23.540 I was in similar, because it was going with Chris Barnes, hence the back two. 02:02:24.620 --> 02:02:28.940 Yeah, he's kind of got a... That's a revolving door band there for sure, man. 02:02:29.090 --> 02:02:31.040 Right, because there was the Brothers, and then they left. 02:02:31.460 --> 02:02:33.840 Yeah, what, did they do something else? Did they start another band or something? 02:02:33.980 --> 02:02:35.620 They did, and I can't remember the name of it. 02:02:35.690 --> 02:02:36.340 It was Amon. 02:02:36.780 --> 02:02:37.760 Oh, yeah, there you go. 02:02:38.100 --> 02:02:38.780 Was there a record up? 02:02:39.960 --> 02:02:40.260 I think so. 02:02:40.690 --> 02:02:42.720 Okay, because I think I remember hearing it and thinking, oh, that's pretty good. 02:02:43.200 --> 02:02:44.060 Yeah, quite a while ago. 02:02:44.800 --> 02:02:44.920 Yeah. 02:02:46.660 --> 02:02:48.320 Sorry, that was my quota for words. I'm done. 02:02:48.940 --> 02:03:17.180 No, well, good. You don't even have to be on the next episode now. You can just... Sorry. Next, the new Voivod album, which I'm very excited for, called The Wake. Voivod. Voivod. Not Voivod. Anyway, their new album, The Wake, is out on September 21st, and they've released a track off that called Obsolete Beans. Sounds pretty good to me. 02:03:18.400 --> 02:03:48.340 He's singing a little more, which, well, you know, I mean, Snake doesn't sing real well. So that was sort of like the, you know, they started off early Voivet, good stuff. And then he started trying to sing more and things started becoming more, maybe not. And then he left the band and the other guy came in and then he came back and he was singing cool again. And now he's, he's getting up at you again. I don't know, but we'll see how it is. That, you know, that's why I actually like it, but it's one of the reasons the Newstead thing didn't, 02:03:48.400 --> 02:04:16.520 Totally, totally, totally work. Though I actually like that record. I'm looking forward to the new one, though, and I thought the track was good, too. I mean, the last one, Target Earth, that was really good. It was. It was good. And that guy does such a good job of kind of hanging out in the same kind of keys in the guitar. They found a good replacement guitar player. Yeah, it's for Figgie. It's very Voivod-ish. Or Voivod-ish. Voivod-ish. Voivod-ish. Yes. 02:04:18.400 --> 02:04:45.880 Did you say what that was? Is it a French word or something? Did you know what it was? They made it up. It was like a science fiction thing. The race of the Voivod. Like some outer space war tribe. The Voivods. Which they pronounce Voivod. If they say Voivod, that's just because they're stupid French. Just like King Goat doesn't know they have a concept record. I hear you, George. Bands need to be told what's what sometimes. 02:04:48.420 --> 02:05:18.340 What the fuck? It's King Guat. Guat. Oh, well, speaking of pronunciation. Oh, the next one? Yeah. Yeah. It's not anal. It's Annal. Annal Nathrak. And they're getting ready to release their new album, A New King of Horror, on September 28th. See, this is just every week there's something new coming out. You know, I have to say, George, I want to correct something that I, 02:05:18.400 --> 02:05:48.220 did wrong about two years ago, and that is that I once said that was... You did anal? Was... Hey, Will, if that's wrong, I don't want to be right, you know what I'm saying? No judgment, man. No, it was... Annal Mothraque I had once said was from the movie Willow, and it's not. It's from Excalibur. Yes. Yeah. I don't think anybody corrected me on that, but it's the... I think that what they call it... None of us knew. Oh, it's not Tolkien? Two whole years ago? No, it's from Excalibur, the movie where... Merlin. Merlin. 02:05:51.980 --> 02:05:53.940 I do not say blah blah blah. 02:05:57.040 --> 02:05:59.200 Yes, I did. It was terrible. Did you say it? 02:05:59.780 --> 02:06:00.240 No, not yet. 02:06:00.820 --> 02:06:01.280 Don't bother. 02:06:02.320 --> 02:06:03.500 Even my kids didn't like it. 02:06:04.200 --> 02:06:05.000 Hotel Transylvania. 02:06:05.820 --> 02:06:06.100 Oh, no. 02:06:07.020 --> 02:06:08.340 I don't say blah blah blah. 02:06:09.900 --> 02:06:12.400 Did they feel like one and two left a lot of unanswered questions? 02:06:14.760 --> 02:06:17.120 There was no need for that number three, and it's pretty bad. 02:06:18.280 --> 02:06:45.100 Anyway. All right. Vreed is releasing their new album, Life Hunger, on September 28th as well. The title track is now streaming. And I don't know if you guys know these guys, but they're pretty cool. They're the remaining band members from Vendor, when the guy whose name I don't remember died. And the last two albums have kind of not been so good, but this one sounds like it might be improving. So, fingers crossed. 02:06:45.300 --> 02:07:13.560 I started listening on, did they have an album that was just V5? Yes, that was an amazing album. That's where I started. I really enjoyed that. Yes. And I don't think I've touched base with them in some time. I think that's Z's cousin. Nice. V. It's a V. Yeah, we're all a little slow. It's just the right way. It sounds the same. V, Z. Close. Well played, George. Or J, by the way. J. Wow, it's like Men in Black now. 02:07:16.160 --> 02:07:16.220 Euer 02:07:46.240 --> 02:08:13.920 I put them and Metal Church in the same category. It's like they just keep going and it's like, eh, it's not that good. Though to be fair, Metal Church went away for a long time. Flotsam never went away. Those guys are all working real jobs and have still managed to make 10 or 12 or 13 records or whatever it is. The Cold was a good album when they put that out a while back and it was probably longer than I think it is. But David Wayne is dead, so Metal Church is never going to be good again. 02:08:13.960 --> 02:08:43.840 I like Mike Howe. Okay. I like Mike Howe. Some good stuff. But David Wayne was Metal Church for me. There was a couple songs on that last one I really liked actually, George. And just like you guys, I saw them. I saw them with Megadeth. They were great. With Mike Howe. Yeah, I think Metal Church has put out some more quality stuff than Flotsam at this point. But old Flotsam is great though. But they were always a second tier band to be fair. Yeah, I mean No Place for Disgrace was great. I really like that one. 02:08:43.980 --> 02:09:11.680 Who covers Elton John and does it awesome? That had to be pressure from the record company, though, dude. I think it was. You know what I mean? I just... Anyway. Rodding Christ, also working on a new album for early 2019 release. Sweet. Yep. Should be interesting. Yep. Yeah, especially since they took that weird turn last time, which you all know I was very fond of, which I don't expect in this next one. 02:09:14.880 --> 02:09:43.660 What's that? I said hopefully they'll find their way back. Well, I'm sure they will. I'm sure that had to be an experiment. And it was an experiment that agreed with me, but you know. Yeah. The band Hate has signed with Metal Blade and plans to release a new album in mid-2019. Their last one was last year. That was Tremendum. Was that what it was, Will? Yeah, I really liked that one. Yeah, it was really good. So looking forward to that. Did you hear that track, the single they released? Hmm? 02:09:43.960 --> 02:10:13.660 I think it's called Path to Arkham. Really? I can't read my writing. Like a new one? Yeah, I think to me it sounded like, you know, typical hate, you know, some good Polish death. Myself being Polish, I know my Polish death. Yes. All right. Yeah, I can't wait to hear that. Polarizing band Opeth are working on a complex and energetic new album, according to Frederick. John, what do you think of that? I'll just let you guys talk, 02:10:13.740 --> 02:10:42.880 because whatever I say, you'll say the opposite. Oh, come on. I can't wait for this. It's going to be the greatest album ever. See, this is why I'm not saying anything because I'm just going to get mocked by you fucking assholes. Where's that sample? Jesus. Okay, well, we better move on. Well, you let in so beautifully, you know, with your little smirk. Like, what do you have to say about it, John? 02:10:45.080 --> 02:11:12.840 I just said that because you're our resident Opeth guy. It's not even worth talking about anymore because I'll get drowned out in like three seconds. So we'll just try. That makes you an OG. Let's see. Just try. I'm not going to say anything. Actually, I feel like we've already got our money's worth just from what's happened so far. So you don't have to. Meaning that that was a pretty good dialogue right there. You'll just put it on. 02:11:14.100 --> 02:11:40.200 Yeah, exactly. There's no negativity to start. Then a single will come out and we'll say, well, I listened to three seconds and it's the worst song I've ever heard in my life. And then we'll just go down the same path we go down every time. I don't know why. And I love you, John, but I'm just enjoying the shit out of this for some reason. But God forbid I say anything about a shitty death metal band from the middle of fucking Alaska. Alaska? 02:11:47.020 --> 02:12:13.500 We need an Opeth Cannibal Corpse deathmatch. I don't even give a fuck about Cannibal Corpse anymore. Damn. Speaking of which, those fuckers are doing a tour and they're not even coming here, so what the hell? Not there either, huh? Nope. Is Will not in town that weekend for them to play his basement? Oh, man. Alright, we are moving on now. Hey, did you see the sweet setup I got in this basement, by the way? 02:12:13.740 --> 02:12:15.720 That is actually to be fair that was yeah 02:12:16.000 --> 02:12:17.780 I got some orange amps I got 02:12:19.820 --> 02:12:20.360 Locked up 02:12:22.280 --> 02:12:23.240 Karma man 02:12:23.500 --> 02:12:25.340 Very smart look on his face there he is 02:12:26.400 --> 02:12:27.800 Well as soon as you move the camera this 02:12:28.100 --> 02:12:28.180 Happened 02:12:31.420 --> 02:12:33.080 He froze up dude it was awesome 02:12:34.460 --> 02:12:35.660 Alright last news item 02:12:35.720 --> 02:12:36.680 And then we can move on 02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:39.840 And this one is a last minute 02:12:40.020 --> 02:12:41.900 Edition actually it's probably not even on your 02:12:42.000 --> 02:13:11.880 list. And Farrah Brew, our buddies from Boston, have signed with Prosthetic Records. They're releasing their new album, Seremon, in September. And you can stream the first song, Shroud Enigma. Good for them, dude. Can you give a clap button or something, George? There's got to be one here somewhere. Let me see. George, you got the clap, right? Yeah, yeah, sure. You know, the true friends of the show, I would say that two of the bands that we have kept in touch with the most have been 02:13:13.460 --> 02:13:41.860 I mean, I freaking went to Vaken with Chris. Yeah, and he came out and went to Death Fest with us. Is Chris Neutrino? Yes. Yeah, good for that, dude. Yeah, I'm trying to convince them to come to Decibel next year as well. Like, expand the circle so that there's so many of us that, like, it'll just be ridiculous. Heart emoji. Oh, it's likely, I already told you that, but it's likely that John's coming to. 02:13:42.680 --> 02:13:43.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 02:13:44.370 --> 02:13:45.700 Oh, your buddy from Texas? 02:13:46.340 --> 02:13:46.440 Yeah. 02:13:46.720 --> 02:13:47.520 He's in Nashville now. 02:13:48.160 --> 02:13:48.800 Just moved. 02:13:48.980 --> 02:13:51.600 But he might come to West Coast, too. 02:13:51.600 --> 02:13:52.600 He reached out to me the other day. 02:13:53.180 --> 02:14:01.440 By the way, John, if you're listening, which I'm sure you will be at some point, I still have the beer that you sent. 02:14:02.920 --> 02:14:05.800 And it was the Pantera beer, a vulgar display of something. 02:14:06.300 --> 02:14:06.540 Yeah. 02:14:07.180 --> 02:14:08.660 I thought you guys opened it into your head. 02:14:08.740 --> 02:14:09.080 No, we did. 02:14:09.200 --> 02:14:09.940 We got two. 02:14:10.020 --> 02:14:39.540 So we opened one like a year-end, and it was really hot. Hot as in like still high-fusil alcohols in it. So I've been sitting on it, and I will open it up at some point and review it. So if you're wondering, John, I'm sitting on it to let it even out a little bit. Yeah, I think he was hoping for a review. No, no, I will. I will. But he can only do like one or two brew heads a year, so. Well, I'm sorry. All the content you guys are putting on. He's got us there. But, you know, it's funny. 02:14:40.040 --> 02:15:10.000 I asked John to try to find black metal for Luce because as you know Luce hasn't had that the beer and John and then of course John just left Texas and then I was in New Orleans and that's where Luce just was and I found a place in New Orleans that had it when I told him he bought fucking shit dude because he you know he didn't get to have it and I couldn't it wasn't they weren't selling it to go you had to have it to the bar did you see that stuff that he was drinking the other day that snake bite or whatever 67% that's ridiculous outrageous 02:15:10.740 --> 02:15:40.000 That's stronger than liquor. I got a bottle of tequila in my, which by the way, you'd love this tequila, George. 40% in tequila. 67% fucking percent. That's insane. Have you ever had that well? No. Tequila? Yes. No, the beer? No. I've never even heard of it and definitely not had it. Did you notice it had like a warning sticker on it? I didn't pay attention, but I'm sure it does. 67%. 02:15:42.500 --> 02:15:46.920 La verdad es que el provecho es que es el alcohol. 02:15:47.700 --> 02:16:17.500 It's like Celsius and Fahrenheit. Well done. If it's 40% alcohol, it's 80 proof. Do you know the Celsius Fahrenheit thing? A cab driver in Ireland taught me how to convert those. It's pretty easy. If it's Celsius, double it and add 30. As weird as that sounds. Yeah. My sister taught me that. 80 degrees Fahrenheit. You're welcome, motherfucker. You would think a marine would know that, but whatever. We have thermometers for shit. 02:16:17.700 --> 02:16:43.500 Is it hot? I have no idea, sir. We got a bunch of grumpy fuckers on here tonight. I love you guys. I was perfectly fine until you came out with the guns blazing on Opeth. Jesus. A little joking. Jesus. He's just dwelling on that shit. It's pretty much every episode. What do you mean dwelling on? It happens every episode. Shut the fuck up. Let's all be bro pets. 02:17:17.700 --> 02:17:47.599 Treehouse Julius. Oh, yeah. It's named after Orange Julius. Oh, I wondered if it was. Yeah, it was. Matt? Got a Looch beer here, too. Barrel-aged premeditated murder. Oh, nice. Looch, providing the alcohol for two episodes. Matt, did you have the... I did. Yeah, you did. I saw you logged it. Utopia. Or is it Utopias? Or what the fuck is it? Utopias. It was Utopic. 02:17:49.619 --> 02:18:13.559 Yeah, I mean, I've had my fair share of barrel-aged stuff, but the barrel-aged of that tasted different than any of the stuff I've had. I liked it. It was good. The one we had in Philly was like sherry. I mean, it's not even beer anymore. It's a whole other thing. Yeah, actually, you're right. It tastes a lot like sherry. It's got a good joke in there somewhere. 02:18:18.679 --> 02:18:19.160 Sherry. 02:18:19.820 --> 02:18:21.000 This tastes like Sherry. 02:18:24.079 --> 02:18:25.059 I got the, 02:18:26.659 --> 02:18:36.880 I took my son to a five-year-old birthday party today and I convinced two other families to follow me to my penultimate brewery that I helped start Fairwinds. 02:18:37.760 --> 02:18:40.960 And I'm drinking the aptly named Sessions in the Abyss. 02:18:42.620 --> 02:18:42.800 Which, 02:18:43.340 --> 02:18:43.860 when I was there, 02:18:43.860 --> 02:18:46.719 we named it after the Slayer album Seasons in the Abyss. 02:18:46.900 --> 02:19:14.860 So it's a session IPA. And your legacy lives on because they still call it that. They still call it that somehow. Well, the head brewer, Charlie, is a Slayer fan. So we came up with it kind of together. Cool. I should say one of us mentioned it and we both are like, yes, we're calling it that. And then we convinced the owner to call it that. And that's what it's called. All right. Let's move on to new releases. 02:19:24.320 --> 02:19:45.380 First up is Blackfast, Specter of Ruin, their third album. They're a St. Louis black thrash band. Did anybody give this a listen? I think a few songs and I stopped. Yeah. It sounds a little different than their last song. I agree. Yeah. 02:19:46.900 --> 02:20:16.860 I was never a big fan. I felt like you guys were a bigger fan than I was. Not really. I felt it was listenable, but not great. It just kind of sounded like every song started almost exactly the same way, but that might have been just me and Thrash. No, I think you got that one. I remember their first and last album, and I feel like I was much more into the shredding aspect of it, whereas this time I wasn't really being pulled in by a whole lot. I mean, it was fine, but... 02:20:16.900 --> 02:20:46.540 I assume we're talking about Blackfast. Yes, sir. Yeah, no, I thought the same way. It's super clean or something, isn't it? Like, I mean, maybe that's not the word for it, but it's anyway, it did anything for me with all due respect. Yeah, I haven't listened to it too much, but it sounded just, I don't know, more accessible or something this time around. Sell out! That might have been the word I was looking for, Will. I need a sell out button. You record yourself, you know? You did. 02:20:46.600 --> 02:20:52.920 You just did. Sell out! There you go. Next up, 02:20:53.460 --> 02:20:57.040 Jay, do you know these guys? Yeah. The band is called Extremity 02:20:57.240 --> 02:20:58.840 and the album is called 02:20:58.960 --> 02:21:00.340 Cough and Birth. They're from Oakland. 02:21:01.280 --> 02:21:03.740 Oh, I don't know the person. They're a death metal band. 02:21:04.120 --> 02:21:07.020 You don't know them? No. Not personally, but it's funny 02:21:07.080 --> 02:21:08.700 because I listened to the record last night. It's pretty good. 02:21:09.440 --> 02:21:10.020 Yeah, it's not bad. 02:21:12.999 --> 02:21:14.160 Will, death metal 02:21:14.920 --> 02:21:44.040 I did not have a chance to listen to this. There's a couple of them that actually of all of them on this list. That's the only one I did not get a chance to peruse briefly. Well, then let's skip right past that motherfucker. I will make a note and I will check it out. You agree that you didn't listen to it? I do too. I'll almost show you. Yeah. That was all right. Not your cup of tea. It was. I moved on. Moved on. 02:21:45.000 --> 02:22:12.840 Z, you're not a death metal fan? I have no idea. I still can't get the genre straight. Fair enough. Not yet. That means you could really screw up with some bad facts, George, if you want to. Do not give him ideas. He has enough of those. Hand her leprosy and then just let her go. Is that your favorite one, Will? Yeah. Be on your way, child. 02:22:16.319 --> 02:22:44.120 Next up, Immortal and Northern Chaos Gods. It's their ninth album and their first without Abbott. Personally, I thought this was going to be really, really bad. I laughed when I heard that they were going to put this out. It's actually kind of good. Yeah, but isn't the guy who wrote a lot of their stuff for their first, what, three or four albums back to writing their stuff again? Yes. So he already is part of Immortal, isn't he? 02:22:45.120 --> 02:22:45.740 Yeah, no. 02:22:46.979 --> 02:22:48.740 It's, um, I'll say this about it. 02:22:49.040 --> 02:22:49.800 It's more than mortal. 02:22:50.919 --> 02:22:52.480 And I'm totally with George on that. 02:22:52.510 --> 02:22:57.000 Like, that's, this is a, it's a tough, I don't know what to say about it, except that I like the record. 02:22:57.540 --> 02:22:58.680 Yeah, I thought it was fun. 02:22:58.750 --> 02:22:59.920 It's more like a normal thing the Bass record was like. 02:23:00.680 --> 02:23:04.860 But, um, it's a little bit, and I liked it coming out of the box. 02:23:04.980 --> 02:23:08.380 There's a couple songs that kind of could use a couple, maybe a little time change or something. 02:23:08.560 --> 02:23:10.460 Could just, they just, they're all pretty repetitive. 02:23:11.080 --> 02:23:12.740 But that said, a couple of those songs are super strong. 02:23:13.160 --> 02:23:42.100 And I like his voice, by the way. I think you mentioned this last time, or at one point, Jay, but I did read the article on Decibel, and I felt like that was kind of a nice aspect that went with listening to the album, and kind of seeing DiMenez's perspective on what was going on kind of gave a little bit more life to see enjoyment of that record so far. No, not one of them, or neither of them, I should say, said one bad word about it. Exactly, exactly. 02:23:42.180 --> 02:24:12.160 I think and you I remember that was what I remember you saying and I would agree they were they were totally like you know he's doing his thing and we're doing our thing but I mean they even like praised they were like you know one thing I liked so much about immortal was his vocals and stuff you know what I mean like they didn't try to brush anything under their own I'll say this it's a it's a it's not an embarrassment it's a good record yeah yeah see anything I didn't like it no probably should have given it more chance but ah no it's either in your wheelhouse it isn't I mean you know yeah 02:24:12.180 --> 02:24:42.060 So, Z, do you not like black metal then? She's still getting the... Yeah, I'm still getting there, but I mean, doesn't Miracle count as black metal too? I like her. That doesn't even count as music. Oh, thanks. Okay, you know what? Jay and I are fans. That's right, Z. We'll go see Miracle with you. I've seen her a couple times. No, it's funny. I'm jealous. She doesn't come here. At Atlas the other night, I was... There was a... God. 02:24:42.180 --> 02:25:10.580 I'm trying to figure out who was playing. But there was a guy who was McCure's drummer and he was playing at Atlas in another band. And we were talking about McCure and I was just like, I just don't get it. And I was saying how Jay and a couple of the guys like they just love it. And he goes, it's something you have to see live. When you see it live, then it's a little bit different. And I can't for the life of me remember the guy's name. I think it was Sean or something like that. He was the drummer for McCure when they were on the Decibel tour. 02:25:11.060 --> 02:25:40.560 I saw her with Behemoth. I saw her with Behemoth as well. That was the first time I saw her. She's great, man. The cure from you, Will, is you need to go see her live, right? Apparently. You got a venue. Hey, it worked for Chemist. You got part of the band in there. You get the rest. And also, I mean, her last two records are on my end of year list. I have no good records. I love them. Metal or not. Okay, let's go. There you go. You know what? I don't care. 02:25:40.620 --> 02:26:10.100 If she goes total folk, dead can dance, I'm still putting it. I mean, I don't care how far she gets away. I want to keep. I still like it. I still like it. It just doesn't mean it gets metal. But you know, anywho. So this next one, I had no idea this was coming out. And so it was a last minute edition. But Jungle Rot just released their self-titled ninth album. And I like it. It sounds like Jungle Rot. Did they not just release an EP? 02:26:10.620 --> 02:26:40.260 Not that long ago? They did like a... Or like a one song? It was like a reissue or a compilation or something. Okay. And I was like, oh yeah, a new album. And they're like, wait, no, it's not. And then they turned it around on me and did release a new album, but I didn't know it was coming. I agree, though. It sounds like Jungle Rock. Yeah. That first song was really good. I don't remember what it's called. Something Toward of Bolivian or something. 02:26:40.620 --> 02:27:10.580 Sure, that sounds medley. Yeah. Did you get a chance to listen to the Z? Yeah, I... Not as much of the first few songs, and I feel like if I listen to them more, it might be a good thing. I liked the tight guitar drum parts. Yeah. That was keeping me. Yeah. The first song is called Send Forth Oblivion. Yeah. I knew there was oblivion in there. I really... 02:27:10.620 --> 02:27:39.620 That just grabbed me right away and I was like, oh yeah. Got a pretty cool album cover. This may be a contender. Yeah, that's right. It's different than their usual, you know, jungle rotty kind of covers. And, you know, I mentioned them on the Facebook post, John's New Music Friday and they liked the post, so yay. Really? Oh, they did that. That's cool. Nice. 02:27:40.620 --> 02:28:07.840 I like when bands do that. Yeah, we got like three or four. We got Jungle Rot and... I think Phantom was the other one. Yeah, Phantom. You got a couple guys from Phantom and then Farrah Baru. I thought there was another one. I'll look real quick. I can't remember. I think there was one more. Yeah. Anyway, we got four. Next, the fifth album from Obscura, Deluvium, German Tech Death. 02:28:10.620 --> 02:28:11.520 that one? Yeah. 02:28:12.780 --> 02:28:13.140 It's alright. 02:28:13.140 --> 02:28:13.360 It's alright. 02:28:13.690 --> 02:28:14.040 I mean. 02:28:15.500 --> 02:28:19.240 Because this was exactly the way our conversation went via text message on this album. 02:28:19.420 --> 02:28:19.900 Yeah. 02:28:20.440 --> 02:28:21.560 It was sort of like, hello? 02:28:21.600 --> 02:28:22.160 Has it changed. 02:28:23.520 --> 02:28:24.760 George was like, did anybody listen to this? 02:28:24.820 --> 02:28:26.500 And it was just like dead crickets, man. 02:28:29.100 --> 02:28:29.800 There it is. 02:28:30.720 --> 02:28:32.060 Alright, well, we're just going to move on then. 02:28:32.900 --> 02:28:33.760 We just mentioned them. 02:28:33.860 --> 02:28:34.300 Phantom. 02:28:35.080 --> 02:28:35.580 Death Epic. 02:28:36.150 --> 02:28:37.000 It's their second album. 02:28:37.200 --> 02:28:39.120 They're a Black Doom band from Denmark. 02:28:40.180 --> 02:29:09.000 And the more I listen to this one, the more I really like it. I listened to it once, but I agree. I would like to spend some more time with it. Yeah, me too. They vary. I mean, there's a lot of harsh vocals, but there's some clean vocals. You guys talking dirty while I'm talking? Is it Phantom Planet? Or just Phantom? Sorry. Not Phantom Planet. You know, that's that one actor's band. 02:29:10.180 --> 02:29:10.460 Sportsman. 02:29:11.040 --> 02:29:11.160 Tyler. 02:29:11.360 --> 02:29:11.740 Right. 02:29:12.640 --> 02:29:12.880 Tyler. 02:29:13.340 --> 02:29:13.700 Tyler. 02:29:13.940 --> 02:29:14.160 Tyler. 02:29:14.260 --> 02:29:14.320 Tyler. 02:29:14.330 --> 02:29:14.440 Tyler. 02:29:14.440 --> 02:29:15.380 Tyler's kid. 02:29:17.480 --> 02:29:18.100 Anything for random. 02:29:18.560 --> 02:29:18.780 Tyler. 02:29:21.319 --> 02:29:22.600 I haven't heard it either. 02:29:22.740 --> 02:29:23.060 Oh, yeah. 02:29:23.160 --> 02:29:23.960 It just came up. 02:29:24.540 --> 02:29:24.780 All right. 02:29:25.080 --> 02:29:25.700 Power Wolf. 02:29:26.190 --> 02:29:27.600 The sacrament of sin. 02:29:29.460 --> 02:29:32.020 Matt and I just saw these guys last year at Valken. 02:29:32.600 --> 02:29:34.000 That was a high point for me. 02:29:34.530 --> 02:29:38.520 I mean, I like power metal is definitely not in my wheelhouse, 02:29:38.660 --> 02:30:08.640 But I love everything about Power Wolf. Because they have been at Valken every time I've been there. And when I listen to them, that's what it reminds me of. And they are good. I mean... Yeah, German Power Metal is not as lame as all other Power Metal. Sure. I mean... I do too. But I like German Power Metal better. I mean, like Blind Guardian is a really good Power Metal. Wait. Are they German? Not so big on that guy, though. No, I thought... 02:30:08.680 --> 02:30:37.720 I thought they were Swedish or something. They're German. Yeah, they're German. Yep. Yeah, and Halloween and Gamma Ray and Grave Digger. And yeah, so Germany does power metal right. Actually, you didn't name the one. Maybe you don't quite consider them power metal. Oh, Running Wild. Yeah. The one that I need to go back to Vaughan and Catch. They're playing there in what, a week? Oh, don't remind me. A week? Two weeks? 02:30:38.680 --> 02:31:05.120 I was talking to Matt about that. After having been to Valken and now seeing them post all these pictures leading up to it, A, I'm sadly nostalgic, and B, I'm... I recognize all the places in there, and I'm like, oh yeah, that's over by the Blah, and that's over there. It's an interesting perspective to have now. 02:31:08.700 --> 02:31:15.960 back there and not almost kill yourself almost almost have my leg cut off yeah it's it's like that tv show 02:31:16.140 --> 02:31:20.840 loss that was on i don't remember at what point during the the show where they're just like we got to go 02:31:20.880 --> 02:31:28.860 back yeah and honestly like i go and then it's like you know i'm fine never going again and then the 02:31:28.980 --> 02:31:33.540 summer hits the following year and like all that just rushes back and it's like i gotta talk my life 02:31:33.560 --> 02:32:02.320 They kind of let me go every year. Damn it. Yeah. Anywho. All right. And then a very, very last minute addition. Rune Magic. Evoked. These guys, they're Swedish. They don't handle the language very well. Evoked from Abysmal Sleep. Gage from Naramarth turned me on to this one. And I mean, I've heard of the band, obviously, but I didn't notice that this was out. This is their first album in like 11 years. 02:32:03.200 --> 02:32:33.160 And it's death doom. And I like it surprisingly more than I thought I would. Did anybody else get a chance to listen to this? I know I only put it on here a couple hours ago. No, sir. Yeah, I took a listen. I kind of liked it. Yeah? Yeah. Cool. And our last new release, Skeleton Witch, Devouring Radiant Light. I like it. I think I'm the only one who's really liked it so far. I'll say this. They're not all gems. There's a couple clunkers on there, but 02:32:33.200 --> 02:33:01.540 The first song alone is really fucking cool. And if you can kind of get through that and like find out, get into its groove a little bit, at the very least. Because, well, we were talking about it this week. And like I've always been like Skeleton Witches. They're like an also-ran band. You know what I mean? They're sort of like, yeah, they're there. They're there. Like you go to a show and you'd be like, let's see, I saw these guys, these guys. Who else was there? Oh, yeah, Skeleton Witches. Who gives a shit? Did you see my emoji, Jay? Or my meme? No. From Anchorman? 02:33:02.960 --> 02:33:31.580 Yeah, yeah, the... The boner scene? I'll have to go look. It's in the thread. I mean, I have to admit, I loved Skeletive Witch, and I had a very difficult time when they fired the singer. I think his name's Chance. I mean, he was one of the few metal musicians I've met. I had my photo with him. It looked like I didn't have a chin in the photo, but I loved it so much. Because your nose was so big? Well, I feel like it made my nose even bigger and more prominent, which I loved. 02:33:31.580 --> 02:34:01.540 But I just I really dug their black and thrash element. And I loved him as a front man. And so when he was, you know, fired, I was super bummed. And so was it Apothic Gloom? Was there EP? I was kind of like, oh, man, I don't know. And that's funny, because that's the first one where I got excited. Sure. And I feel like if I went back, I'd probably feel that way. Because I mean, I had nothing against Adam. Adam, I believe is a Minnesota person. So he's got that same blood. But I started listening to this. And he's almost just like, oh, yeah, 02:34:01.600 --> 02:34:31.240 Yeah, totally. And the funny thing is, I saw Wolfhammer not that, like, probably a month ago, and he, it was actually the guy from Abigail Williams singing, because the whole time I'm like, where's Adam? But no, he's probably busy with Skeleton, which... Yeah, John and I saw him without him, too. I guess he... Well, they were there. I didn't see them. But they were in the venue. There's so much frickin' fog in that place. I'm dying to see if Matt actually likes this, because I do like it. It was kind of like the point where I was like, yes, everything is going to be okay. I really like it. I really do. 02:34:31.580 --> 02:35:01.220 I feel like it's a continuation. You touched on this in one of your messages. It's like a continuation of their sound, but just, I don't know, more mature and more solid. But still having kind of that, I think I equate them to the soundtrack of an outlaw motorcycle gang. They stepped into a zip code with this one, though, too. A slightly ritzy-er neighborhood. I'm going to say something else about it. I've forgotten. In any case, 02:35:02.199 --> 02:35:29.280 It's in contention to get on my list. Let's put it that way for the end of the year. I really do like it. Did someone's dog just die or something? No, she's stuck in this room with me. I need to let her out. Oh, okay. Same thing with Zimper. I know what I was going to say. Decibel's rage about it. Not that you're a dog, mind you. Just stuck in the room. Here's another word for it. No! God, no! That's not what I meant at all. 02:35:31.280 --> 02:36:01.140 Did you guys see the Decibel review of it? No, no. Or maybe. They like it. Did you see the Decibel review, Matt? Yeah, I mean, it was, you're muted. It was, they raved about it. Yes, yep. And I know they just lost the drummer quit, and so I think they have a new one, but it's still, it's been the two, like, the Nate Feet Under, who was the brother of the singer, and then I can't think of the other guy's name, or kind of the two consonants that have been there. But again, I feel like Adam has done a really great job coming in, and I feel like I really, 02:36:01.280 --> 02:36:30.500 I appreciate his vocals more on this release versus the last one. But again, I was probably in a different state of mind, you know, trying to come to terms with the separation. But and again, this that kind of stuff usually doesn't bother me. But for some reason, I was just bummed about it. But again, now I'm everything. Okay. Well, I and I have a picture of me with guitar players. We'll trade off sometime. Like trading cards. I always kind of liked Skeleton Witch. I like the music, but I was never a big fan of Chance. Not. 02:36:31.260 --> 02:37:01.240 to not give him a chance. But his vocals were always buried. And I freaking hate that. And so I was always like, if they bring up the vocals on the next album, then I'll dig it. And it did get better, but it wasn't until Adam and this album that I think they really, everything clicked. I thought the Apophic Gloom, though, weren't there a forward on that one, too, weren't there? Yeah, yeah. But I mean, it's not, it's an EP. It's dead to me. And by the way, it is not, it's good. It was like the first Kelton, which thing I was going to do with. 02:37:01.280 --> 02:37:26.080 I was like, hey, this is kind of cool. But it's not as good as this one. I mean, this really is. I'll say this, and you can take it or leave it, but Decibel calls it their Master of Puppets moment. That's what I said about the Kemba's album. Right. And they're not saying it's as good as Master of Puppets. They're just saying this is their fourth album, so to speak. This is the one where everything clicks. I'll buy that. Didn't listen to it. Didn't listen to it. 02:37:31.779 --> 02:38:01.240 I mean, I know you said you like power metal, but what did you think of that? Power metal was actually a surprise. And I did not expect to like Power Wolf at all. I was looking at the list. I was like, yeah, I'm probably not going to like that. It was a dumb name. I listened to five songs. I was like, okay, this is good. Yeah, yeah. I've read about those guys. You should check out Blood of the Saints album. That's my favorite one. This is actually their first one in the last couple that I've liked. The previous couple, I was like, it's all right. It sounded like they were phoning it in, but 02:38:01.859 --> 02:38:03.000 This one's definitely better. 02:38:04.620 --> 02:38:04.900 All right. 02:38:04.900 --> 02:38:06.640 Well, that's it for the new releases. 02:38:07.300 --> 02:38:08.060 Let's beat up on Will. 02:38:08.680 --> 02:38:10.060 Yeah, it's time to beat up on Will. 02:38:10.400 --> 02:38:11.960 Let's beat Will to death. 02:38:13.820 --> 02:38:14.040 Nice. 02:38:14.700 --> 02:38:18.220 This is Skullcrushers, and Will is taking on death. 02:38:18.860 --> 02:38:20.760 You can't win against death, Will. 02:38:21.020 --> 02:38:26.220 So I'm wearing my death baseball three-quarter sleeve shirt, 02:38:26.280 --> 02:38:56.240 And I realized that when I'm looking at Skype at my own image, it's backwards. That's good, because my first question was going to be spell death. No, I got you. H-T. It's not backwards for us. Wrong. Yeah, I don't know why. I mean, I love death, and I felt like after I started thinking about this, this is a really bad idea, because so many trivia 02:38:56.280 --> 02:39:26.240 questions can come up about lineup changes and boy they've had a lineup change every five minutes so i think i'm gonna be this is gonna be some some epic failure on my part and i usually do pretty good even even when i did the cannibal corpse one was by the last one i did and i was half in the bag i did okay and i think this one i'm it's okay i think you got one question wrong yeah i even remember jay saying like oh he's junk he's not gonna get this you were all you were fucking off the fucking charts that night dude 02:39:26.280 --> 02:39:56.240 Yeah, so bring it on, but I'm not. Matt, you want to go? We all know how this starts. Will, what was the first death album I ever heard? Well, since you are younger than us, I'm going to think that I'm going to go with human. Symbolic. Even later. Yep. All right. Just a 02:39:57.119 --> 02:39:58.000 All right. 02:39:58.740 --> 02:39:58.960 Um, 02:40:00.100 --> 02:40:01.560 so I read a ton of shit. 02:40:02.120 --> 02:40:02.200 I, 02:40:02.360 --> 02:40:03.620 I have not had a chance to, 02:40:03.690 --> 02:40:03.840 uh, 02:40:04.040 --> 02:40:05.680 disverify that it's all true, 02:40:07.040 --> 02:40:07.320 but, 02:40:08.340 --> 02:40:08.580 um, 02:40:09.160 --> 02:40:10.300 we don't care about facts here. 02:40:14.620 --> 02:40:14.720 What, 02:40:15.100 --> 02:40:15.300 um, 02:40:15.770 --> 02:40:16.240 what led, 02:40:16.350 --> 02:40:16.460 uh, 02:40:16.760 --> 02:40:17.780 Chuck to start playing the guitar? 02:40:19.440 --> 02:40:20.120 The death. 02:40:20.380 --> 02:40:20.540 Well, 02:40:20.700 --> 02:40:20.880 his, 02:40:21.380 --> 02:40:22.180 the death of his brother. 02:40:22.340 --> 02:40:22.580 Yep. 02:40:23.160 --> 02:40:23.220 Yep. 02:40:24.439 --> 02:40:24.880 Yeah. 02:40:25.340 --> 02:40:25.640 Or else, 02:40:25.860 --> 02:40:53.600 I'll just stop there because apparently I got it. I was going to say, with one word, you answered that question. All right, two more. Three more, sorry. The original name of the band Death and the original members. So, well, Chuck originally had the band Mantis. Yep. Original members. Oh, man. 02:40:56.900 --> 02:41:24.660 I'm really looking for two names. A guitarist and a drummer. So... Drummer... Cam Lee? Yep. Okay. And a guitarist? Yep. I mean, Rick Roz? Boom. Is that a yes or no? That was a yes. That's a Minnesotian, yes. 02:41:25.880 --> 02:41:55.840 Yes. I see a little bit of smoke behind you, Will, because you were on fire with my man. Also, Will, in Minnesota, these things mean, yes, boom, oofta. What else you got there? Oofta. And oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay, then. Okay, then. I 02:41:55.880 --> 02:42:25.840 that pertain to death, the band in which you're talking about, except for one. The titles are Death by Metal, A Band Called Death, Death, and Death to All. Which one of those four does not pertain to the death in which you're talking about? Boom. Oh, yeah. Which one of these things is not like the other? Who is that about? That's a real thing. Yep. Netflix and show. I'm thinking you've heard 02:42:25.860 --> 02:42:55.240 of it because you do. Wait, wait, are you asking me something? Yeah. Bonus point. There is actually a documentary called The Band Called Death. Who's it about? A band called? I don't know. It's about a band called death. It was a punk slash hard rock band of all black guys in Detroit in the 60s. It was around the time of the MC5 and all that. They were. It's heavy stuff, dude. Literally, the name of the band was Death? 02:42:56.520 --> 02:43:24.960 Yeah, the documentary is called Death. But I am picturing you bringing it up on Netflix accidentally a few weeks ago. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Well, when I was looking for the new Death by Metal documentary that I ordered from Amazon, I think when I Googled or whatever I searched, that came up. Death by Metal is a good name for a documentary, but there'll never be a better one than... What's the name of the Anvil one? It says Anvil in it twice. 02:43:25.080 --> 02:43:29.520 Anvil the story of Anvil. 02:43:29.640 --> 02:43:31.780 It's painful to watch. 02:43:32.360 --> 02:43:33.560 It's so funny. 02:43:33.920 --> 02:43:35.320 I like Super Duper Alice Cooper. 02:43:36.421 --> 02:43:38.420 Super Duper Alice Cooper. 02:43:38.620 --> 02:43:38.840 Okay. 02:43:40.120 --> 02:43:42.300 I've got my Anvil shrine right over there. 02:43:43.860 --> 02:43:44.420 I lied. 02:43:44.420 --> 02:43:45.080 I have one more question. 02:43:45.580 --> 02:43:45.920 Okay. 02:43:46.300 --> 02:43:46.500 All right. 02:43:46.560 --> 02:43:53.380 So after which album did Death become more about Chuck working with studio musicians 02:43:53.860 --> 02:43:54.500 versus a band? 02:43:55.279 --> 02:44:24.140 Like a full-time thing. Oh, yes, sir. You got them all, except for that first one. What was the first one? First one was which one? That was a softball, dude. I know, man. I didn't get that one. God damn it. I should have calculated the years. You're like 10 years younger than me. My first one was leprosy. I should have did some math. 02:44:24.540 --> 02:44:54.240 Yeah, liberal arts major. Wow. Sorry. You didn't have time to bleed. No. I ain't got time to bleed. I ain't got time to bleed. Alright. Ja? Alright. Well, I got some softballs in here, so I'll continue your good streak here. Please, please. First question, is it true or false? If there was a Mount Rushmore of metal, would death be included? Yes. Correct answer. 02:44:54.540 --> 02:45:23.000 Yes. You're off to a good start. Yes. Thank you. All right. I'll be the first to give you a lineup question. Oh, goddammit. Fucker. Count on down. No, actually, no. You can get this one. You can get this one. All right. On the album Human, which two members that played on the album would become part of a famous band later? What are the two members and what's the band? 02:45:25.279 --> 02:45:26.160 On Human. 02:45:27.620 --> 02:45:28.140 Come on. 02:45:28.360 --> 02:45:28.860 This is easy. 02:45:32.440 --> 02:45:33.920 Is that Giorgio? 02:45:35.100 --> 02:45:37.060 He's on the album, but he's not the one. 02:45:37.060 --> 02:45:37.980 It's the other two guys. 02:45:41.280 --> 02:45:42.380 Yes, I believe 02:45:42.670 --> 02:45:43.680 if you can get some. 02:45:43.940 --> 02:45:44.240 Scenic? 02:45:45.120 --> 02:45:45.660 You got it. 02:45:46.240 --> 02:45:46.480 Oh. 02:45:48.860 --> 02:45:50.700 The guys from Scenic are 02:45:51.220 --> 02:45:51.360 Chris. 02:45:52.180 --> 02:45:52.400 Wait, wait. 02:45:52.410 --> 02:45:52.880 No, no, no, no. 02:45:53.380 --> 02:45:53.500 Sean? 02:45:53.840 --> 02:46:23.460 Sean. The drummer Sean Reinhardt? Yep, you got that. Sandoval? Close. Paul Mastavall. Mastavall. See, I knew you'd get it. They're killing it. That's how crazy that scene was back then. You had dudes that would go on to do stuff themselves afterwards. Seeing his door. Okay. There was a couple times, like Chuck basically took over Sinek at one point, took over Massacre at one point. Yeah. All right. You should. 02:46:23.860 --> 02:46:29.480 you get this one because i remember this but which two music critics panned the video for the 02:46:29.700 --> 02:46:36.840 philosopher from individual thought patterns and and in their review mistakenly thought that the boy was 02:46:37.030 --> 02:46:43.040 the boy from the video jeremy by pearl jam uh where's tr when i need him 02:46:45.721 --> 02:46:52.780 oh yeah very good see these are easy oh yeah and uh you should get this and if you don't i'll be 02:46:53.260 --> 02:47:21.460 I have lyrics. Oh my god. Fuck. Yeah. I have lyrics for you too because you know what? Fuck you. You've always given us lyrics. That's reasonable. That's reasonable. Come on. You're like a super death fan. If you don't get this, I'll be disappointed. All right. And I picked this one specifically for you. Once I had full control of my life, I now behold a machine decides my fate. End it now. It's all too late. 02:47:22.380 --> 02:47:22.860 SUICIDE MACHINE! 02:47:22.860 --> 02:47:24.420 SUICIDE MACHINE! 02:47:25.470 --> 02:47:25.580 NO! 02:47:26.319 --> 02:47:27.200 *AHHHHHH* 02:47:27.330 --> 02:47:27.460 Oh! 02:47:27.820 --> 02:47:29.360 Wait, wait, wait, wait, um... 02:47:30.960 --> 02:47:31.280 Cool the block. 02:47:31.850 --> 02:47:33.780 I was gonna say, you were trying harder than you needed to. 02:47:33.850 --> 02:47:34.940 Yeah, you tried harder than you had to. 02:47:35.130 --> 02:47:35.820 You had it right there. 02:47:36.760 --> 02:47:37.860 Cool the block. 02:47:38.550 --> 02:47:39.340 Four for four. 02:47:40.040 --> 02:47:40.360 Good job. 02:47:40.880 --> 02:47:41.620 Yeah, not bad. 02:47:43.280 --> 02:47:45.740 My questions, Will, are all about the album Scream Bloody Gar. 02:47:46.959 --> 02:47:47.840 I figured... 02:47:47.860 --> 02:47:48.380 No, no, no, no, wait. 02:47:48.400 --> 02:48:18.100 I have one that's not about Scream Bloody Gore. I lied. Scream Bloody Gore was originally recorded in one state, or it would begun recording in one state, but due to a terrible sounding recording, the combat record sent them to another state to actually record the record. Can you name those two states? It's not as hard as you might think. California and Florida. Which was the first one? California. Florida. Nice. But yeah. 02:48:21.221 --> 02:48:44.800 So California was the second one? Yeah. What instruments does Chuck play on Scream Bloody Gore? Bass and guitar. And vocals. That's not new. If you're an idiot and you live on the internet and you like death metal, you like to argue about what the first true death metal record was. Seven churches. 02:48:51.399 --> 02:49:17.380 So there's three albums that came out right around the same time. So Possessed, Seven Churches. Is this where you're going with this? It is. I was going to say Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore. And there's another one. Which one came out first was the question. Possessed. Do you know by how much? And then there was Necrophagia, too, that came out right around the same time. I think it was like months. Yeah, it was less than a year. 02:49:18.400 --> 02:49:48.180 Which also, by the way, I'm in the Possessed camp. It actually has a song called Death Metal. Yeah, but it's not very Death Metal. It's like Black and Death. Or I mean, Black and Thrash. Death was really kind of the first Death Metal. I don't know. Yeah, I think you're splitting hairs. I mean, Possessed had a song called Death Metal on it. And Venom had a song called Black Metal, but it wasn't all that Black Metal. Fair enough. But, you know, 02:49:48.380 --> 02:49:54.360 that possessed man that record though dude i just i'm not saying it's a bad album i'm just 02:49:54.470 --> 02:50:01.000 saying i don't consider it to be full-on death metal i think it's much more thrash but i think he was one of 02:50:01.000 --> 02:50:06.400 the first that's one of the first death metal vocals if you ask me yeah there's nothing black about 02:50:06.540 --> 02:50:12.140 his vocals no no no oh which reminds me i didn't i don't get the flexi this version did you guys 02:50:12.820 --> 02:50:18.360 yeah there was a possessed flexi in there did you listen to it yeah yeah i liked it i mean 02:50:18.380 --> 02:50:48.180 I heard it on the SoundCloud. All right, well, that was all my questions to save one. Since you claim Leprosy, well, and I assume you're being honest with me, is your favorite album, can you name those every song on Leprosy in order? God damn, fuck you, man. Oh, man. Can I even name? So the first one is Leprosy? Halfway Home. I mean, I'm not going to get these in order, so there's no way. 02:50:49.979 --> 02:51:18.060 I don't think I'm going to get them all, but pull the plug. Yeah. Left to die. Yeah. Born dead. Yeah. Yeah. Got four. And for what it's worth, you've done the whole first. Choke on it. Choke on it. Yeah. Bye. You're getting close. You're going to be mad when you're. I'm sure. I'm sure going to miss like how many more do I got? You can't forget any here. Let's see. 02:51:19.580 --> 02:51:47.040 Forgotten past? Yeah. That's a little bit of help. At least I didn't answer for him, George. Noted. I think you've got just one more here. Two more. Oh, shit. I'm hoping the answers are written on my ceiling up here. You're accessing the part of your brain. Actually, you know what? I got the LP sitting right there, but it's face up. I wish it was face down. It's a shame. That's too bad. 02:51:54.239 --> 02:52:17.300 I said Born Dead, Choke On It, Forgotten Past, Leprosy. You've got two more, Will. I'm looking at the album right now. Starts with an L. Yeah, Jeopardy timer. It starts with an L? O. O is an Oscar. Open Casket? No. Open Casket, yeah. 02:52:19.560 --> 02:52:47.560 And then you got one more. Gas, gas. What does it start with? P, I think. I don't know if he said that one or not, John. No, he didn't. He didn't say it. It starts with a P. And it's not pulled the plug, obviously. It's one word? Two words. Two words. You're doing great, man. I know it's in there. That head of yours, I mean. Second letter is R. P-R. Second. 02:52:48.380 --> 02:53:17.920 The second word starts with a W. Go ahead, just flip the album cover over and look and just tell us. Yeah. I'm going to edit out like five minutes of dead air there. You know that is? Yeah, now it's going to sound like Will got them all. No, no, no. I did all right. I got them all except for one. I got a couple hints. You did great, man. I feel like you're fucking performing great. By the way, Will, you've gotten just about every question right so far. You said you're going to miss all of them, so. I thought you guys were going to hit me like, 02:53:20.379 --> 02:53:46.640 I was going to do that. I know. You said that on Messenger. I was like, oh, fuck. All right. My turn. Oh, we got one more? God damn it. Yeah, yeah. What artist did the cover art for Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy, and Spiritual Healing? Repka. All right. Ed. Ed Repka, who also did the Megadeth. 02:53:48.100 --> 02:54:17.360 stuff and what toxic holocaust and municipal waste i think too anyway what is cited as the main reason for chuck forming control denied i thought this was interesting well i mean i could tell you i mean he just he just he was tired of the death metal vocals i know that's the answer okay that he was he was tired of it and wanted to do something with actual singing 02:54:17.380 --> 02:54:47.020 I said, wow. All right. Uh, what did Chuck say he would have done if he hadn't become a musician? This was from an interview that he did. Veterinarian was one. That was the one that I thought would have been harder. Okay. Well, I'll just stop there. He also said he would be a cook. Yeah. Really? I remember the veterinary one. Yeah. Wow. That's not spooky that those were the two things he was thinking about. 02:54:48.520 --> 02:55:16.920 I'll try and save the animals, but if not, I'm gonna cook them. Well, that would be a weird storefront. Oh, no, this is just my day job. I gotta do something different at night. All right, well, my last one is a lyrics one. Oh, goddammit. Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore. Taste the zombie's drug. Now you want more. Drifting from the living, 02:55:17.140 --> 02:55:46.320 Joining with the dead, zombie-dwelling maggots now infest your head. Is this a softball? Yeah, it is. Zombie ritual. I didn't know, because that was off of Scream-Bloody Gore. Well, I mean, I could see it behind Jay's head, but on my desk at work is the Scream-Bloody Gore bobblehead. And people come up to me. And actually, weirdly enough, I don't know, well, probably not. 02:55:53.959 --> 02:56:13.300 I have a bonus question for you. What would Chuck be doing if he was alive today? Breathing. And I actually know the answer to this question. If Chuck was alive, listening to this podcast. No, the answer is desperately clawing at the lid of his coffin. 02:56:17.060 --> 02:56:44.320 It sounds like an actual song title. I think I did alright. Oh my god. You did great, dude. Dude, you've killed the last two skull crushers, Will. You really have, dude. You crushed the skulls. So no more of this whole fucking, like, I'm gonna fuck this up thing. No, I thought you guys were just gonna, like, impale me with line of questions. That was my biggest fear, is this line of questions. I don't think those were all softballs, not by a long shot, dude. Speaking of impalement, why don't we move on to our top five? 02:56:50.360 --> 02:56:53.160 Wir sind. 02:57:17.080 --> 02:57:46.780 Do you listen to this with your kids? People do, right? Well, my kids have listened to this podcast. They've been on the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. So this is our top five most fucked up death metal song titles. I'm not looking forward to this. Yeah, I am. You know, we were talking about this over the Facebook messenger and Matt was talking about needing to take a shower afterwards. Yeah. Sounds about right. Yeah. 02:57:47.060 --> 02:58:16.960 Yeah, I'm pretty sure we're all on the list now if we're looking at this online. So I got a question. I only looked at stuff that was in my personal collection. No, no. No, I went far and wide, man. I went deep. All right. I was just curious because, I mean, yeah, I could have probably Googled most fucked up song, breath metal song. It doesn't actually, it doesn't help provide you much. Oh, no? Not really. Actually, if you did most messed up, it did. There was some Reddit threads and stuff. Yeah, I saw that. It gave me a couple of choice things. 02:58:18.159 --> 02:58:45.900 All right, so the way we normally do this is the guest goes first, so that's you, Z. Oh, cool. Do you want me to start with five? Yes, what we'll do is we'll go, we'll start with you. We have our own order that we go through, so it'll be you, Matt, John, Will, J, me. Start with your five, do your five, and then we'll all do our fives, and then you'll do you four, and we'll all do our fours, and so on and so forth, down to one. 02:58:45.980 --> 02:59:15.920 Does anybody have honorable mentions? No. It was too hard to just get to five for this one. I got two. Okay. So I hate to shove you out in front on this one. That's fine. I'd rather get it over with. And let's be honest, Google was my friend for this one because my library is kind of tame. So number five. Maybe it's not really fucked up. It's kind of funny. By Malignant Germ Infestation. 02:59:16.400 --> 02:59:45.500 once the scorpion was inserted into the anus dot dot dot. That's the song title? Yeah, apparently. By who? Malignant Germ Infestation. Not even sure it's a real band, but I'll check that later. Setting the tone. All right, Matt. Make me cry. In full disclosure, this is probably not the top five most fucked up stuff I saw, 02:59:45.520 --> 03:00:15.420 Because honestly, what I found out is that I could think the worst thing possible, and there's something 10 times worse out there that's an actual song. And so of what I, because I looked at it for about two hours, basically become desensitized to life. Like I said, I'm pretty sure there's probably agents outside my home waiting to arrest me. We need to talk to you about your search history. You looked up some pretty messed up stuff, so we're going to file a restraining order against you, against your family. Anyways, 03:00:15.700 --> 03:00:43.660 I picked five that either made me laugh or kind of, for whatever reason, they kind of struck a chord with me. So my number five is Extruding Testicles Through Garlic Press. Are you fucking kidding me? I believe the band is called Jig-A-I, which I believe is, in a language, it's a way in which women commit suicide. The name of the band is. Self-titled release. All right, we're off to a running start here. Extruding Testicles Through Garlic Press. 03:00:48.420 --> 03:00:50.840 That sounds pretty painful. 03:00:53.480 --> 03:00:54.540 I think 03:00:55.610 --> 03:00:57.720 the anus is going to be kind of a popular topic. 03:01:01.120 --> 03:01:04.160 So my first one is from a band I've never listened to before 03:01:05.280 --> 03:01:06.280 called Garotid. 03:01:08.340 --> 03:01:10.200 It sounds called Fuck Your Arse 03:01:10.200 --> 03:01:11.120 with Broken Glass. 03:01:13.900 --> 03:01:43.500 I don't know why you do that. Sounds like a throwaway Cannibal Corpse song. Well. I do have two honorable mentions. I'll just do them real quick. My first honorable mention is Meat Hook Sodomy from Cannibal Corpse off Butchered at Birth. For some reason, if you're going to sodomize somebody with a meat hook, that sounds pretty fucked up. And then the other one is Vomiting Liquified Innards. 03:01:44.120 --> 03:01:50.180 by the Australian-based band Brood and Canned off their album Execute the Innocent. 03:01:51.520 --> 03:01:55.500 And my fifth one is just one that I think is just fucking funny. 03:01:56.100 --> 03:01:56.580 I love it. 03:01:56.740 --> 03:02:04.040 It's Erection in the House of God by the band Funeral Fuck. 03:02:04.700 --> 03:02:05.220 Of course. 03:02:07.050 --> 03:02:12.260 And their album Lacherius Liturgies. 03:02:12.780 --> 03:02:13.600 Lacherius? 03:02:14.539 --> 03:02:42.600 I have a theory about this whole run of lists here. Everybody has, at least in my years in high school, you have this experience once where somebody's like, hey, come over to my house. We're going to watch this show Faces to Death. And you go, and five minutes in, you're like, does anybody want my chicken McNuggets? And I'm starting to think, we're not even going to make it through this, but it'll be interesting to see. We're all laughing, but at the end we're going to be like, I hate myself. So that's my number five. Go ahead. 03:02:42.940 --> 03:03:11.940 No, it's like when I went to the movie 8mm in the theater, and I'm pretty sure I didn't have a sexual thought for about a week after that. Wow, that was dark. Yeah. So my number five is by a band called Torso Fuck, and the song is called Raped by Elephants. I saw that! Wow! And mind you, that's my number five! Yeah. 03:03:12.940 --> 03:03:42.200 You know, there's a theme in death metal. It's all about being raped, killed, something that'll come up later. And I don't know. Death metal songs are very sticky. It tends to be. A lot of bodily fluids involved. So possibly some anal leakage. Are you just setting us up for your number five, George? 03:03:42.360 --> 03:04:10.020 No, my number five's not, well, I wouldn't want to try it myself, but Aborted Fetus and their song Genital Torture by the Alligator Tongs. You know, there is actually a death metal song generator on the web, by the way. Yeah, I saw that. Z. Okay. By the Locust, it is 23 lubed up schizophrenics with delusions of grandeur. Just very entertaining. 03:04:12.360 --> 03:04:40.260 The most messed up are the longest ones that are messed up. I don't mind them pretty long. You need a lot of words to get really messed up. I guess there's one coming up, so don't worry. Yeah. All right. Me. From Brazil. Off of the album We're With All The Ball. The band is called The Human Meat Grinder, and the song is called Cadaver of a Dead Defunct Already Passed Away, Found in a Place Where Even the Terrible Diseases Catch Terrible Diseases. 03:04:42.360 --> 03:05:11.740 It could have been so graphic and horrible, but it's the place for even the terrible diseases. He asked him how he found it, Will, but he was on for two hours. He was in the deep, but it's on. Two hours of my life. My eyes are so dark. I literally just went through my iTunes library and like, oh, what do I got on here? You had some honorable mentions, which none of us did. Yeah, that's the most messed up thing is most of us probably don't own the songs that we're talking about. 03:05:11.820 --> 03:05:40.120 I'm like you. I own every single one of the songs I'm talking about, by the way. Oh, yeah. Well, actually, I have the Aborted Fetus one. Yeah, I have a couple, too, of mine. All right. Mine. Another band I've never listened to before. Guttural Secrete, I think is how you say it. The song is called Gluttonous Portions of Intestinal Seepage. Oh, God. Sounds like anal leakage. 03:05:41.800 --> 03:05:43.860 I don't know that's any worse or better. 03:05:43.930 --> 03:05:44.580 Well, to be honest with you. 03:05:47.220 --> 03:05:50.120 My number four, George, you'll like this one. 03:05:50.700 --> 03:05:53.380 Genital Torture by Alligator Tongs by Abortifetus. 03:05:53.620 --> 03:05:53.760 Nice. 03:05:53.960 --> 03:05:57.320 Off their album, The Ancient Spirits of Decay. 03:05:57.800 --> 03:05:59.800 I'm really surprised we have duplicates. 03:06:01.119 --> 03:06:04.440 I think there's one I think we're going to probably all have in common. 03:06:04.530 --> 03:06:10.820 Yeah, my number one is if you don't have this on your list, I'm not surprised. 03:06:12.920 --> 03:06:40.660 My number four is by the charmingly named Anal Cunt. And they have a song called I Became a Counselor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It. I thought Anal Cunt was off limits. No, for me. I just don't. I'm not a fan. Oh, well, I'm not. I didn't know. Z, can we say the C word in front of you? Crayon. 03:06:41.400 --> 03:06:45.240 I can smell your guns. 03:06:48.880 --> 03:06:52.600 Was that somebody's number four? 03:06:55.561 --> 03:06:57.900 Where are we here? George, bring it up. 03:06:58.380 --> 03:06:58.940 Number four. 03:07:03.000 --> 03:07:03.760 Regurgitate. 03:07:04.480 --> 03:07:06.800 Frenetic chainsaw slaughter of a crippled infant. 03:07:07.560 --> 03:07:08.500 Oh my god. 03:07:13.080 --> 03:07:39.440 You know what? I have to say, how many listeners are we losing because we're laughing at this time? You should have a disclaimer before the session. I did. I did. No, no, like more than one. Don't listen to this if you like us. I just brushed my teeth because I felt dirty. We should all be taking showers right now. All right, so we are up to number three, Z. Okay, this is not a long one this time. 03:07:41.020 --> 03:08:10.960 is Rotten Cadaver Execration. And the song is called Cock Splatter Roach Fuck. The band name was longer than that. Wow. Did you say that song title one more time? Cock Splatter Roach Fuck. Interesting. All right. Matt. Off of the album Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy. From the band Torsofuck. 03:08:11.020 --> 03:08:40.920 I also have raped by elephants. I almost put that on there. Jay, you're muted. No, he's not. He's just not talking. No, I was muted. It was just a shame because I was trying to put my cat next to the microphone. She purrs so loud. Tarso, fuck. Fuck yeah, man. We'll catch you the next time on your time, man. John. All right. From a band, I hope I say their name right. Sodomator. What? Why? Who cares if you say that right? 03:08:43.101 --> 03:08:45.020 Again with the butt. 03:08:48.820 --> 03:08:50.860 This one kind of caught me by surprise when I saw it. 03:08:51.540 --> 03:08:53.880 Maggots erupted from goat's rectum. 03:08:55.140 --> 03:08:56.740 Oh my fucking god. 03:08:59.700 --> 03:09:00.500 Say that again. 03:09:02.181 --> 03:09:06.360 Maggots erupted from goat's rectum. 03:09:10.760 --> 03:09:11.160 Ouch. 03:09:11.660 --> 03:09:12.760 You had a button for that? 03:09:13.780 --> 03:09:15.800 I think Noah's going to get kicked out of this one, Will. 03:09:16.160 --> 03:09:17.500 Jay, that was real, Jay. 03:09:23.220 --> 03:09:28.900 I'm just like, like some farmer, some guy who's like an abandoned farmer, like, man, 03:09:29.280 --> 03:09:33.780 shit on this fucking shit that Millie the Goat did today, like, fucking maggots shooting out of her ass. 03:09:34.280 --> 03:09:35.300 I don't write a song about that. 03:09:36.381 --> 03:10:05.320 Yeah, these all are based on reality, Will, for sure. My number three, we're on three? Yes. Vomited anal tract by Carcass off reek of... Putrification. Putrification, yes. The first Carcass one. I have two cannibal corpses online, and this one is not that disturbing, but it was one of the song titles I heard early on. 03:10:05.380 --> 03:10:34.480 in comparison to anything we've said here, but hammer smashed face is always kind of fucked with my head a little bit. That's a fucked up concept. So cannibal corpse, hammer smashed face. Jay, have you ever seen the YouTube video where it's like this bunch of people from like the 70s or something, 60s or 70s are dancing around a field in like Indian, like American Indian, weird native costumes and are dancing to hammer smashed face. It's, it's. 03:10:35.920 --> 03:11:05.200 Oh, I'm sold, dude. All right, I'll look for it. Wait, is that, Will, is that Burning Man? No, no, no. It's just like, it's like this weird 60s hippie shit and someone just put Hammer Smash face to it and like cut it up so that they're dancing in beat to it. It's brilliant. That's crazy. George? Me? I think so. Oh, that's right. You just did yours. All right. Mine's actually a repeat of Matt. Jig-Eye extruding testicles through garlic grass. 03:11:08.799 --> 03:11:10.640 I wanted one for the gents, you know? 03:11:12.220 --> 03:11:13.300 I love the Elf Garden. 03:11:17.479 --> 03:11:18.280 Say when. 03:11:23.440 --> 03:11:25.360 George, by the way, this is a brilliant idea. 03:11:25.480 --> 03:11:26.140 This is the funniest. 03:11:27.960 --> 03:11:33.080 Yeah, but like in this like super villain evil sort of way, like I feel like George did this to us somehow. 03:11:34.620 --> 03:11:35.580 This is awesome. 03:11:36.210 --> 03:11:37.960 Well, you know, I initially came up with this 03:11:39.880 --> 03:11:41.880 when we were talking about doing death 03:11:42.360 --> 03:11:43.860 as the Skull Crusher, you know, like 03:11:44.640 --> 03:11:45.880 prior to the mid-year. 03:11:47.380 --> 03:11:48.580 I just thought it would be fun. 03:11:49.110 --> 03:11:51.440 But then when Z was coming on, I was like, 03:11:51.440 --> 03:11:52.740 oh, this is going to be even more fun because 03:11:53.200 --> 03:11:53.400 Great. 03:11:53.920 --> 03:11:54.000 Great. 03:11:55.060 --> 03:11:56.280 I don't think so. 03:11:56.420 --> 03:11:58.300 I'm going to make her say all these nasty things. 03:11:58.360 --> 03:11:58.640 Fuck you. 03:11:59.880 --> 03:12:00.460 That's rough. 03:12:01.520 --> 03:12:01.800 Damn. 03:12:03.460 --> 03:12:04.060 Speaking of Z, 03:12:04.120 --> 03:12:05.560 Number two. 03:12:06.340 --> 03:12:06.680 Okay. 03:12:07.860 --> 03:12:10.200 This is like paragraph, so get ready. 03:12:11.560 --> 03:12:13.960 I don't even know if this band exists, but we're going to go with it. 03:12:13.960 --> 03:12:18.280 So name of the band is supposedly wide open thoraco abdominal tract. 03:12:18.740 --> 03:12:32.520 And the name of the song is the scraping and blowtorch incineration of a metastatic rampant gynecologic tumor in the colon uterine wall causing retrovaginal expelling of glory, gory sewage. 03:12:32.960 --> 03:12:33.180 Hmm. 03:12:33.520 --> 03:12:33.900 What? 03:12:36.399 --> 03:12:36.960 I'm out. 03:12:38.200 --> 03:12:40.180 Are you sure you didn't end up on some sort of 03:12:41.280 --> 03:12:42.200 medical page or something? 03:12:42.900 --> 03:12:43.500 It could have been. 03:12:43.640 --> 03:12:44.440 It really could have been. 03:12:45.400 --> 03:12:46.500 Is that someone's prognosis? 03:12:46.860 --> 03:12:47.100 No. 03:12:47.879 --> 03:12:49.260 The DSM or whatever it is. 03:12:49.280 --> 03:12:50.180 Prognosis is death. 03:12:53.720 --> 03:12:54.260 All right, Matt. 03:12:55.080 --> 03:12:55.680 Another one. 03:12:55.960 --> 03:12:57.040 I feel like I need to go to 03:13:03.140 --> 03:13:03.940 another repeat 03:13:03.960 --> 03:13:33.320 Once the scorpion was inserted into the anus. My favorite part about this, though, is the album it's on is called Fields of Forever, Lasting Love and Joy. Is that right? Yeah. That's awesome, dude. And you know what? That could be, somebody could accidentally be like, well, that sounds nice. You know what? We'll just play it down at the church group. It sounds perfect for them. What? John, horrify us all. 03:13:36.221 --> 03:13:53.540 There's only three words total, and that includes the band name here. And yeah, this one got me. The band is called Skinless. The song is called Tampon Lollipops. 03:14:08.240 --> 03:14:33.560 I saw that and that just was not going to not be included on my list. Oh dear. Yikes. My number two. So this is the absolute first song that I thought of when this was proposed for the top five. The song is force fed. 03:14:37.161 --> 03:15:01.920 And it is by the tech death band Brain Drill off their album Apocalyptic Feasting. You know, I almost went with Cannibal Corpse's force-fed broken glass, but that's a little worse. Force-fed human shit. Yeah. Wow. Well, you can just run right through me, skinless tampon lollipops. That was my number two, so nice job. 03:15:05.800 --> 03:15:09.240 I just feel like there's an ugly film on my body right now. 03:15:09.330 --> 03:15:09.940 Yeah, I know. 03:15:12.180 --> 03:15:13.360 Taking Garden House to yourself. 03:15:14.590 --> 03:15:17.740 My number two is actually the one that horrified me the most. 03:15:18.900 --> 03:15:22.620 But my number one, I just, it is so epic that I had to make that my number one. 03:15:22.630 --> 03:15:27.840 But my number two, in all its horror, the band Flesh Hoarder. 03:15:29.960 --> 03:15:31.880 From their Homicidal Necrophile album. 03:15:35.280 --> 03:16:02.020 Ejaculating on the faces of the aborted. I saw that. Whoa. Whoa. Talk about insult to injury. You've been aborted, but... I don't know if you guys, like, visualize what is said in your mind. How can you not? My God. My God. I've heard so far, that was a new level, dude. That was. That was actually the song that inspired 03:16:02.360 --> 03:16:03.000 me to do this. 03:16:03.520 --> 03:16:04.260 Because I bought that. 03:16:04.280 --> 03:16:04.960 I own that one. 03:16:05.480 --> 03:16:10.400 I was like, and I wasn't really, I don't always listen to the song titles on death metal albums. 03:16:10.520 --> 03:16:13.380 Cause you know, I just put it on and I'm listening to it. 03:16:13.380 --> 03:16:16.220 And then I just happen to look down and I go, Oh my God. 03:16:19.340 --> 03:16:19.940 Wasn't it a good song? 03:16:24.180 --> 03:16:24.820 Titles better. 03:16:28.040 --> 03:16:29.080 Let's fucking end this. 03:16:29.400 --> 03:16:29.480 Please. 03:16:30.080 --> 03:16:30.280 Yeah. 03:16:30.980 --> 03:16:31.680 Z, number one. 03:16:31.760 --> 03:17:01.540 All right. This is by Prosthetic Cunt. And it's called Fucking Your Daughter with a Frozen Vomit Fuck Stick. Really enjoyed that one. Oh, my God. One, two, three, four, five, six. We had to listen to fucking 30 of these motherfuckers. This is killing. All right. Go, Matt. All right. My number one is by a band called Urine Festival. Wait. 03:17:03.121 --> 03:17:31.620 The band is called Urine Festival. And I came across a song, and so I went to the metal archives because I wanted to validate that it actually was true, and I came across an even better song by them. And the best part is it's just the intro to the album. And it is called A Desired Surgical Procedure That Interferes With The Change of Sex By Reconnecting the Urinary System as a Result That the Prostate Releases the Feated Secretion of Gonorrhea, 03:17:31.760 --> 03:18:01.720 caused by insufficient genital hygiene. Jesus. What? That is brutal, dude. That's just the intro. Oh my god. Yeah. Matt, did the Red Sparrows become like a brutal tech death band or something? Yeah, pretty much. If you know anything about the Red Sparrows, all their song titles are like books. Super long. Yeah. Wow. All right, John. Well, this one's really boring, this one. I saved this one in honor of Will because I 03:18:01.740 --> 03:18:31.580 He likes Cannibal Corp so much, and it's not the one you're probably thinking of. You mean the Matt one? I expected to hear that from... I know, I know. Yeah. I did not go with that. Your wife's favorite song. Exactly. It brought us together. For some reason, Butts had a theme on my list. And so it's kind of a drag here, because Will's already mentioned it. Meek, Hook, Sodomy. Because it just doesn't sound right. 03:18:31.720 --> 03:19:01.700 You think? Just a little bit outside. I can't remember what Matt's wife's favorite song is. But it may be this one. My number one is Entrails Ripped from Aversion's Cunt from Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated. You want to enlighten him, Matt? That is not it, but I've always felt that that one trumps it. The one that was 03:19:01.740 --> 03:19:29.760 First Saw on my laptop. You might want to wait, because I'm about to say mine. Okay, fair. Just because it could be the one you're going to say. Yeah, it'll be an honorable mention for me. I've always been disturbed by this song title. Still. I mean, even after all that's happened tonight. This is still one of the originals. And it's Cannibal Corpse, I Come Blood. I've always thought that was a fucked up title. That is. Yeah. Need to get that checked out. 03:19:32.439 --> 03:20:01.640 Yeah, you might have a bra. Okay, well, then I do want to hear yours, Matt. I just was afraid it was that one. It was Addicted to Vaginal Skin. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew something about vagina. Vagina. Of all of the 20,000 songs on my laptop, that was the one that had to come up. Hurry up, children's birthday party. It's on Rando. Run for your lives. All right, we me now? 03:20:02.319 --> 03:20:31.440 Yeah, please end this nightmare. All right. Well, it's going to take me a while. This isn't even a song title. This is a band name. Yes. Yes. Hold on. Deep breath. This is the band known as a little bit, George. Me, me, me, me, me. Red, leather, yellow, leather, leather, yellow. Okay. Acidic vaginal liquid explosion generated by mass amounts of filthy fecal, 03:20:31.500 --> 03:20:50.500 and sadistic septic cephalic sodomy inside the infected maggot infested womb of a molested nun dying under the roof of a burning church while a priest watches and ejaculates an immense perverse pleasure over his first fresh fetus it's just the fucking band name 03:21:01.500 --> 03:21:30.040 The band name is listed as the first letter of each word. Is there a character? And does that make something really disgusting? Send that on messenger. No, it's Bell's Rainbow, Jay. You know, there was some alliteration in there that was really nice, though. Yeah, definitely. You had me at priest ejaculating on nun corpses. Yeah. 03:21:31.480 --> 03:22:00.180 That was something. Well, does anybody need to take a nap now or anything like that? What's the name of the song, George? I don't even, I didn't even, actually their song title's very tame compared to the band name. It's like Rainbow Unicorn Happy Tears. Yeah. I do technically have one honorable mention because it was my original number five and I changed it because I didn't find it offensive enough, but it is disturbing. 03:22:01.480 --> 03:22:30.300 Yeah, you literally texted me that. Such a whatever. It's Cattle Decapitation's Forced Gender Reassignment. Oh, yeah, yeah. I forgot that one. Yeah. So, hey, George, did you want to welcome back our listeners now? Yes. Oh, no. Earmuffs. Earmuffs off. No, actually, now we have a bunch of real fucked up listeners. Like, everybody else is gone, and now we've got, like, all the pedophiles and everything else. Yeah. 03:22:31.520 --> 03:22:46.740 Wow, this is my last one. Elon Musk is really going to love this episode. Topical. Well done, Will. All right. Well, we're getting into the home stretch here. What are we listening to lately? 03:23:10.659 --> 03:23:11.060 Z? 03:23:11.960 --> 03:23:12.820 Why do I have to go first? 03:23:13.540 --> 03:23:14.880 It's the way we do it. 03:23:15.340 --> 03:23:17.140 Does it have to be like recent stuff? 03:23:17.400 --> 03:23:20.100 No, it can be anything you've been listening to at all. 03:23:20.620 --> 03:23:21.960 It doesn't even have to be metal, technically. 03:23:22.520 --> 03:23:23.360 Oh, that's cute. 03:23:23.740 --> 03:23:24.940 Um, let's see. 03:23:27.479 --> 03:23:30.880 Um, the latest I'm on a Marthwan Yomsviking? 03:23:31.000 --> 03:23:58.820 Yes, a little bit of that new sluggish album. Some Trees of Eternity. I don't know if that counts. Oh, yeah, that's good stuff. And I've been going backwards through Gojira because I started with Magma. So I've been taking the albums one at a time backwards. And I'm on the way of All Flesh right now. Oh, wow. You haven't even gotten to Mars from Mars. My favorite was the L'Enfant Sauvage one. So I've spent a lot of time on that one. The Savage Elephant. 03:24:00.920 --> 03:24:30.000 Or as George calls it the Frenchie one. Hey, Z, check out Vyron. Yeah, actually. Well, she's going in order. I was listening to them because specifically, I remember Matt saying that they sounded like Gojira. So that is the only reason I went straight to them. They're pretty good so far. I felt like there was something else I was going to mention. That Jay just like ran away? Yeah. 03:24:32.680 --> 03:24:33.120 Oh, 03:24:33.640 --> 03:24:33.700 uh, 03:24:34.840 --> 03:24:35.920 what did you think of the sludge? 03:24:37.060 --> 03:24:38.180 I thought it was interesting. 03:24:38.360 --> 03:24:39.000 I haven't finished. 03:24:39.360 --> 03:24:39.520 Oh, 03:24:39.810 --> 03:24:39.960 okay. 03:24:40.540 --> 03:24:40.620 Yeah. 03:24:40.650 --> 03:24:42.300 I haven't finished listening to the entire thing, 03:24:42.460 --> 03:24:46.820 but like every single song is like something different. 03:24:47.540 --> 03:24:49.340 It's the podcast favorite for sure. 03:24:49.660 --> 03:24:50.020 Yeah. 03:24:50.400 --> 03:24:51.120 I can see why. 03:24:51.290 --> 03:24:51.800 So it's, 03:24:52.050 --> 03:24:54.440 I never know what I'm getting into every time I plus, 03:24:54.600 --> 03:24:54.700 you know, 03:24:54.800 --> 03:24:55.220 like next. 03:24:55.380 --> 03:24:56.600 It's like a box of chocolates. 03:24:56.630 --> 03:24:57.080 It was fun. 03:24:57.400 --> 03:24:58.520 It was definitely fun listening to him. 03:24:58.650 --> 03:24:58.780 Oh, 03:24:59.640 --> 03:24:59.900 excellent. 03:25:00.641 --> 03:25:29.980 All right, Matt? The new immortal Northern Chaos Gods, pardon me, Secret Cutter, their album Quantum Eraser. I've heard one song by Seer Bliss called Letters from the Edge. I'd like to check out more of that, as well as Rune Spell, Order of Vengeance. A band called Anacon and their album Entropy Mantra. And then as we talked about LLNN, I don't know if that stands for anything else, and their album 03:25:33.159 --> 03:25:35.640 The Consortium. 03:26:04.100 --> 03:26:27.500 I've been listening to Wormroth's catalog, which is like two albums. I finally got into Control. Yeah, so it takes about 20 minutes to listen to. I finally listened to Control Denied, and interestingly enough, because I'm a moron and don't know shit about shit, I thought Control Denied was the precursor to death, and I started listening to it and thinking, like, this sounds like latter-era death, and realizing that it kind of came about towards the end of death. 03:26:29.279 --> 03:26:56.720 Now I don't know. I still know shit from shit, but at least I've heard that album and I like it. I spent some time with what I call my Prog Life playlist, something that John procured for me. It's about 10 albums. Good stuff. The New Skeleton Witch, a band called Void Omnia, who played with Wolfhammer and Uwada the other night. And then the name I'm going to fuck up, I believe it's, my guess is they're called Wobliet. 03:26:59.100 --> 03:27:27.520 their album The Passage, and then Spirit, and then a band called Adzalon, and their album's called Into Vermillion Mirrors. And that's it. Excellent. Death Grave is coming to Atlas as well. Nice. I like them. Damn. They're starting to be a real fucking stop, man, on the tours. You know? He's not going to have time for us anymore. It's literally, Jay, the only place metal bands play in DC now. It's either there 03:27:27.560 --> 03:27:57.200 Baltimore. That's something, man. It's crazy. We're making a name for ourselves. That's great. My list is not as long because George and I were talking about this the other day. Burned out on metal from the mid-year, so I'm catching up on a lot of other stuff. But here's a short list of metal to listen to. Obviously, The Immortal, like everybody else. Debut from a band from Turkey, death metal band called Burial Invocation. 03:27:57.540 --> 03:28:26.800 Oh, yes. I believe it's Abiogenesis, how you say it? The Oubliette, the Passage, atmospheric black metal band from Tennessee. George, you asked what the other band was that commented or liked us on Facebook yesterday, and that was Furtin, I think is the name. And it's Okinas, I think is how you say the name. A band I missed last year, which may have made my list had I heard it, and that's Euclidean, I think is the name. 03:28:26.860 --> 03:28:54.900 And finally, the new song, Shroud Enigma, off of the album. I believe it's Cerement, from Inferra Brewer, which I liked a lot. I thought it was a cool tune. That's it. That's all I got. That's all I got to say about that. That's all I have to say about that. My list, Barrel Limitcation, from Turkey, just like John said. I bought that based off one of you guys' recommendation. 03:28:56.860 --> 03:29:04.080 a lot of the new bong ripper uh two song 30 minute whatever uh album terminal 03:29:04.960 --> 03:29:12.600 because bong ripper is playing atlas in two days on monday cool and then also uh playing on friday 03:29:12.840 --> 03:29:19.760 this coming week temple of void whole lot of temple of void i'm excited for that one and then also 03:29:20.120 --> 03:29:24.221 playing atlas the day before temple of void is gateway to hell which if you guys remember when we were at 03:29:24.720 --> 03:29:53.520 They open up Death Fest. And so they're going to play Atlas. And then after reading Deathbull's Hall of Fame for Exhorder, Slaughter at the Vatican. I've been listening to that. And then I picked up, I think I read it in Deathbull or somewhere. Maybe it was Angry Metal Guy. It was probably Angry Metal Guy. It was a Gareya, Unsettling Whispers. Black Metal. Yeah, I picked that up. I like that. 03:29:54.240 --> 03:29:57.240 And then there's a band that sounds a lot like 03:30:00.521 --> 03:30:01.120 Suffocation 03:30:01.700 --> 03:30:02.040 called 03:30:03.301 --> 03:30:03.900 Atme 03:30:04.160 --> 03:30:07.140 A-H-T-M-E 03:30:07.410 --> 03:30:08.720 And the album Sewerborn 03:30:09.360 --> 03:30:10.700 Sound a lot like Suffocation 03:30:10.940 --> 03:30:11.420 And I dig it 03:30:12.240 --> 03:30:15.020 The new Skeleton Witch, Devouring Radiant Light 03:30:15.640 --> 03:30:17.900 The new Hoth, Astral Necromancy 03:30:18.740 --> 03:30:20.640 Listening to a shitload of death 03:30:23.001 --> 03:30:24.200 Specifically Leprosy 03:30:24.200 --> 03:30:53.320 It just came a couple days ago. And then also my buddies who are local DC and they play a lot at Atlas Fohammer and their album Second Site. I got that on vinyl. I pre-ordered that like a couple months ago and it finally came in. So that is what I've been listening to. That, as they say, is that. Well, I have been listening to, I like the new Marduk record, by the way. I don't know if anybody, I think Matt was. I like it. Do you like it? Yeah. 03:30:54.240 --> 03:31:22.200 The Immortal. I've been listening to The Skeleton Witch. There's a Swedish band called Kral that ended up in the box. I had actually pre-ordered the album when I heard it. And that's Swedish death metal stuff. I think they're Swedish. Gurria, I have also been spinning. A band called Pyre, a record called Human Hecatomb. And then one we were all talking about a little bit, I put on a couple times and I can't pronounce it for the life of me. Hosts Eagled. Oh yeah, I like that one. That was a good one. 03:31:23.080 --> 03:31:51.660 It's got a little dope lord in it, doesn't it? Wouldn't you say, Will? Yep, it does. It needs a couple more riff changes, and sometimes they get into a zone and just stay there forever, whatever. And then last, but sort of not least, we haven't done vinyl hauls. We don't really do that anymore, but I bought a bunch of vinyl recently, so I'm just going to name those, which is I got the Yab Atma, I got Ghastly Death Velour, I got Two Mold, Manor of Infinite Forms, Two Mold, 03:31:53.100 --> 03:32:23.060 Rainbow Longwood Rock and Roll, Rainbow Live in Munich 1977, Rainbow on Stage, and finally, because every time I see a good release of this, I buy it, which is to say I still don't have the original release, which I owned when I was a kid, but I got a really cool re-release of Seven Churches. Oh, nice. Yeah, and I have some other releases, but it's embossed like the original one was, and it came with a shit ton of 03:32:23.080 --> 03:32:51.820 of stuff, man. Like, there's a poster in here, and then there's, like, these little photo cards and the original, all the original artwork stuff. So that was a totally worthy purchase, and it's, like, 180-gram gold vinyl. Did anybody else have the old Combat cassette? No, I had the, I bought it on vinyl when I first bought it, but it, and I bought that record just based on the cover, you know, I was like, okay, this is for me. And it was, and I think it might have had a sticker on it that said, if you, like, 03:32:53.380 --> 03:33:21.900 I don't remember what it said but and I bought it on Christmas on a Christmas trip with my family the year it came out came out November I bought it in December I took it home and I was like this is it there's nothing else now this is all there is so every time that every time a good a good release of that comes out I purchase it but but yeah I think you have the original release don't you George no I don't think so I think mine's a reissue okay yeah sorry so anyway 03:33:21.940 --> 03:33:51.760 All right. Should have saved the bathroom break. Because I'm back to my old ways. Fair enough. Do, do, do, do, do, do. I don't know if you can get up and leave now. Yes, they do. They do that to me. They get up and leave. It's rather rude. You know what? Don't judge. You may be leaving in a few seconds yourself here. A couple minutes is more accurate. Let her rip, George. So, first off. I'm out of here. 03:33:52.841 --> 03:34:21.880 First off, the Inferibru, new song, Shroud Enigma, from their new forthcoming album, Seremit. The Antichrist Imperium. There's more on the other page. The Antichrist Imperium, Volume 2, Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan. That's like most of those guys, if not all of them, are in Acker Cocker, which is why I picked that up. Antlers Beneath, Below, Beholding, 03:34:21.940 --> 03:34:48.740 It's the second album from a German black metal band. I listened to that because when Slug shared our lists, we got a ton of traffic based on that. And I went and looked at the post and read through all the comments and somebody was like, I completely reject these lists because none of them have antlers on there. So I was like, I guess I got to check this out. And it's pretty good. 03:34:50.640 --> 03:35:18.800 Barren Altar Entrenched in the Faults of the Earth. It's the first album of California Black Doom. I think the promo is in the box, and I gave it a cursory listen. And then I decided to buy it for my beach trip and then didn't listen to it on my beach trip. But it is actually really good. So check that out. I picked up Beast Makers 8 EPs. 03:35:20.200 --> 03:35:50.160 Unfortunately, Jay's not here because I know he did too. No, I'm listening. I'm just putting my records back. I'm just... I'm down to the basement, George. It's cool. I'm not dead yet. He'd be stoned dead in a moment. Yeah, Beastmaker... Go for a walk. They're like a doom band from Fresno. And they released what amounts to a triple album. They released eight four-song EPs. And... 03:35:50.200 --> 03:36:20.060 come out since then, George. Really? Yeah, they haven't stopped. There's more than that now. Go ahead. Jesus. Every time I look at my band camp feed, it's like Beastmaker, Beastmaker, Beastmaker, Beastmaker. Yeah, they're good, though. Yeah, they're surprisingly good. I don't know what they're doing. Maybe they're on a crystal meth and just cranking out songs daily. They're from Sacramento. Fresno. It's definitely crystal meth, yeah. Blutweil, Mysteries of Earth, third album of UK, 03:36:20.200 --> 03:36:20.720 Black Metal. 03:36:21.680 --> 03:36:22.860 Are you with the B's? 03:36:23.340 --> 03:36:23.440 Huh? 03:36:24.000 --> 03:36:24.680 We're in the B's, yeah. 03:36:25.320 --> 03:36:28.520 Last B, Burial Invocation, Biogenesis. 03:36:29.359 --> 03:36:31.300 First album, Turkish Death Metal. 03:36:32.720 --> 03:36:34.000 I don't know how to say this one. 03:36:36.319 --> 03:36:37.940 Karatuke, Deranged Serenades. 03:36:38.860 --> 03:36:41.240 It's the first album from a German prog death band. 03:36:41.460 --> 03:36:42.620 I really liked that one. 03:36:42.620 --> 03:36:44.920 That was another beach one that I didn't listen to on the beach. 03:36:46.520 --> 03:36:48.340 Craft, White Noise and Black Metal. 03:36:48.660 --> 03:37:18.620 Fifth Album of Swedish Black Metal. It's good stuff. This next one is not metal, although the guy that does it is in a metal band. The band is called Del Judas, and the album is called Deity. And this is Charlie Schmid, the drummer for Tombs. And it's very like clean vocals and like drums and like 03:37:18.660 --> 03:37:47.540 the jangly, echoey, like, surf guitar slash... Yeah, I don't know. It's very, like, sounds like out in the middle of the desert music. It's really relaxing. And as part of my being kind of burned out from the mid-year, I found this to be an enjoyable listen. Well, thank you, George, for spending the most amount of time explaining an album that's not metal. 03:37:51.579 --> 03:37:52.660 Hold on, hold on. 03:37:54.320 --> 03:37:54.720 Shut up. 03:37:57.360 --> 03:37:57.720 Shut up. 03:37:58.340 --> 03:38:00.880 Well, in that case, I'm going to give you another one that's not metal. 03:38:01.580 --> 03:38:01.840 Damn. 03:38:02.220 --> 03:38:05.700 This is Great Northern Mist, and it's the first album. 03:38:06.200 --> 03:38:07.840 This is Joel, my friends. 03:38:08.200 --> 03:38:10.380 Joel from Thrasenblatt's Ambient Project. 03:38:12.380 --> 03:38:15.060 If you haven't picked this up, you should, just because it's fucking Joel. 03:38:17.159 --> 03:38:17.640 Violeta. 03:38:18.500 --> 03:38:18.620 Violeta. 03:38:19.620 --> 03:38:20.140 Yes. 03:38:21.500 --> 03:38:24.560 He's been working on this stuff that didn't really fit in the 03:38:24.600 --> 03:38:25.460 Throssenblatt mold. 03:38:28.681 --> 03:38:30.860 Would it fit in the Toon mold? 03:38:31.080 --> 03:38:31.420 Toon mold. 03:38:36.160 --> 03:38:38.060 But yeah, it's good, chill music. 03:38:40.101 --> 03:38:41.620 Hated Breathless Art. 03:38:41.830 --> 03:38:44.720 It's the first album from this Russian prog death band. 03:38:45.940 --> 03:39:09.940 I didn't think I was going to like this at all. I just gave it a quick listen and it turned out I do like it. That story had a real surprise ending. I didn't think I was going to like it. It seemed very generic to look at, but it was surprisingly good for... Again, a fucking roller coaster. Shut up! 03:39:16.699 --> 03:39:17.320 Damn you. 03:39:20.780 --> 03:39:22.180 So earlier we mentioned 03:39:23.230 --> 03:39:23.900 the band 03:39:24.190 --> 03:39:25.640 that I can't remember the name of. 03:39:26.100 --> 03:39:26.400 Rune Magic. 03:39:26.680 --> 03:39:27.000 Rune Magic. 03:39:28.739 --> 03:39:30.520 The dude that does that band 03:39:30.680 --> 03:39:31.520 has another band 03:39:32.160 --> 03:39:32.920 called Heavy Death. 03:39:33.420 --> 03:39:34.420 Can you guess what that is? 03:39:36.360 --> 03:39:39.000 It's a death doom band. 03:39:40.320 --> 03:39:41.120 The album is called 03:39:41.320 --> 03:39:42.340 Sarcophagus in the Sky. 03:39:42.740 --> 03:39:43.420 It's their third album. 03:39:43.520 --> 03:39:44.400 They're a Swedish band. 03:39:45.360 --> 03:40:13.500 And I just listened to that today and thought that was pretty cool. We're still on H. We're in H. And the last H is not metal either. Jesus Christ. Who's a TR? Hold on. You know what? If we had not included these metal albums or non-metal albums, we would be in J. There isn't even a J. But who would want to be in J? We've had enough of that from our top five. 03:40:17.540 --> 03:40:45.260 That's it, by the way, fucked up death metal song title. I wouldn't want to be in K, but yeah, go with it. Vomited J anal track. So this is a band called Hecati with a K, not a C. And the album's called Totenkons. It's a German dark folk band. It's kind of Nick Cave-like, which is awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw it on your feed. I listened to it. It was interesting. Yeah, it's good stuff. Next, we're going to skip J altogether. Sorry, J. 03:40:46.199 --> 03:41:12.960 We're going to go to K. Continuum with a K. No need to reason. This is an Icelandic post-black metal band. I am obviously confusing these guys with somebody else because I thought this was a really bad death metal album, but it's not. Speaking of Jay, I just realized this. Hey, Jay, is your real name given name Jason? It is. 03:41:15.360 --> 03:41:45.140 Just like Jason Mews. Move along. Move along. I feel like you're stealing my credit now or something. What the fuck? Let me ask you this. No, I'm kidding. But it's weird because nobody ever calls me that. I have a lifelong friend, Jason Climber. Sometimes I call him Jason. Sometimes I call him Jay. Do me a favor. Tell him I said hi. I will. 03:41:46.261 --> 03:41:51.700 Thanks, bro. So Matt mentioned this one, LLNN, 03:41:52.240 --> 03:41:55.900 Deads. It's like a Danish synth sludge. I don't even know what to call it. 03:41:56.560 --> 03:41:59.760 But it was interesting. The Marduk album, Victoria. 03:42:01.180 --> 03:42:03.160 Very good. Better than expected. 03:42:03.780 --> 03:42:05.460 As is the trend, apparently. 03:42:06.920 --> 03:42:09.800 Mordent Rapture, The Abnegation. It's an EP. 03:42:10.240 --> 03:42:12.500 They're a symphonic death band from San Jose. 03:42:15.300 --> 03:42:44.200 I thought you took a break from metal why are you giving me a list of 100%? a lot of these a bunch of these are between the episodes but prior to the mid-year so I wanted to give them did you add any during this episode? I'm still adding I'm still adding is he handing you notes? yeah see she's on her phone she's giving me names to add right now George did you go for a bathroom break he was scouring band camp 03:42:44.240 --> 03:43:13.960 It's a real band. Just say this one. Toad Rectum Explosion. There was Seer Bliss, Letters from the Edge. They're a Hungarian black metal band. And I like them a lot. Four more. Shile Magonar, Transients. These guys are really cool. Prog Death Band from the Netherlands. They were featured in an early episode of the podcast. 03:43:20.999 --> 03:43:44.160 It took me a while to get the pronunciation of that right. Shile Magonar. Are you sure you have a raise? No, I talked to the guys in the band and they were like, yeah, you got it. So, yeah, it's good stuff. Next is Slider. It's spelled S-L-I-D-H-R. The Futile Fires of Man, an Irish blackmail band. Yeah, I bought that. 03:43:44.240 --> 03:44:14.140 one based on you too. Yeah. I don't know why you think they sound like you too, but... I don't. They're Irish, but they don't sound like you too. That was such a good laugh, dude. It was almost this. It was like a Dr. Evil, bro. Snively whiplash guy or whatever. Oh yeah, it was so good. Two more. Thank you, Matt, for mentioning this. 03:44:14.240 --> 03:44:41.000 because you're the only one that took my recommendation to heart. The band called The Spirit and their album Sounds from the Vortex. Technically, I don't think this is out yet. We got the promo for it. And this album is freaking amazing. It sounds like Dissection, which I have a big fan of Dissection. It's a cross between black metal and death metal. It's like the bastard baby that united the tribes. 03:44:44.240 --> 03:45:14.020 It sounds like what should have been the prison album between Storm of the Lightsbane and Rain Chaos. This sounds like the natural extension of the Storm of the Lightsbane sound prior to evolving in what was the Rain Chaos sound. And as such. Yes. So must be listened to. So you've convinced me I need to put it on. Maybe even tonight. 03:45:14.240 --> 03:45:43.560 I listened to it. It was alright. Okay, well, John just changed my mind. And finally, the greatest album ever. God damn it, I'm getting confused. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I have something for that. I think it's one of the greatest albums I ever listened to. Jay just purchased it right now. No, actually, I downloaded it because I think it's in the box, but I'm super confused now. I can't decide who might wear my allegiance slice. 03:45:43.700 --> 03:46:13.620 I'm going to listen to half of it. George. All right. My last one is a self-titled album from a band called Under Siege. They're an Italian folk death band. Okay. And that brings us to the end, which I did all our end stuff at the beginning, and I'm not exactly sure what to do here at the end now. Penis jokes? Penis jokes. Do you have any penis jokes? No, not really. I was waiting for you guys to offer up. I saw a good joke the other day on the interwebs, and it was like, 03:46:13.680 --> 03:46:43.300 It was like a meme, but it was just like two people talking, but just the script. You know what I mean? Like, and it says doctor and the doctor is staring at a doctor and says examining x-rays. And he says, oh my God, this is just what I was worried. This is just what I was afraid of. And then it says patient. The patient says, oh my God, what is it? And the doctor says skeletons. That's a funny joke, dude. It is. Thanks. So, uh, yeah, let's get the fuck out of here, dude. Yeah, it is getting late. I feel like we all learned. 03:46:43.700 --> 03:46:44.560 on the east coast here. 03:46:45.010 --> 03:46:47.840 To be honest with you, this was a real learning experience. 03:46:48.000 --> 03:46:49.740 It's like we went through something together with this. 03:46:49.920 --> 03:46:53.880 Yeah, we all learned about tattoos like Lord of the Rings did. 03:46:55.379 --> 03:46:56.960 Yeah, some sort of weird fellowship. 03:46:57.979 --> 03:46:58.340 Fuck. 03:46:58.760 --> 03:46:59.700 It's all about man pain. 03:47:00.480 --> 03:47:01.420 Yeah, man pain. 03:47:02.120 --> 03:47:02.960 And rectal pain. 03:47:04.200 --> 03:47:04.760 Anal leakage. 03:47:05.140 --> 03:47:05.700 Genital pain. 03:47:06.420 --> 03:47:06.920 All that. 03:47:07.440 --> 03:47:08.580 It was nice of you to join us, Z. 03:47:08.980 --> 03:47:09.720 Yeah, thanks for having me. 03:47:10.340 --> 03:47:11.540 Hopefully you're not too traumatized. 03:47:11.880 --> 03:47:13.460 No, I have to pre-leave my head so much. 03:47:16.119 --> 03:47:43.440 I thought you held your own there. Actually, I felt like you might have sort of embarrassed the rest of us. I thought I was going to be tame. You definitely used the Google machine to punish the shame. I have some music at the rate of a turtle, so I don't have that much to offer it. You and George are going to form some sort of reverse vortex over there if you stand too close to 03:47:43.460 --> 03:47:46.000 because he listens to everything and apparently you listen to... 03:47:46.000 --> 03:47:46.960 Walk you eventually, George. 03:47:48.400 --> 03:47:48.640 Yeah. 03:47:49.120 --> 03:47:53.780 Spend more time with George talking about music at work and then we could be done with his list in like one album. 03:47:54.180 --> 03:47:54.540 Yeah. 03:47:54.780 --> 03:47:55.320 That'd be awesome. 03:47:55.800 --> 03:48:01.580 Well, you know, because I kept having all these ideas of things that I wanted to play for her. 03:48:02.900 --> 03:48:03.180 Yeah. 03:48:03.460 --> 03:48:05.880 You even made like an entire humongous ass playlist. 03:48:06.180 --> 03:48:06.240 Yeah. 03:48:06.380 --> 03:48:13.060 So I made her a Spotify playlist so that I could, when I had these ideas, I would just shove them on there and be like, you can listen to this later when you have time. 03:48:13.180 --> 03:48:41.220 Yeah, when I have time, I still have like 300 songs in my to-listen metal playlist, okay? That's going to take me three years. Yeah, it is. I bet. George was like, I'm being such a good guy right now. George is a jerk. Strangling. I know, I know. I'm a little, I don't want to say intense, but intense? Just go with it. You're a completist. 03:48:42.600 --> 03:49:12.120 I'm obsessed with metal. What can I say? Well, Z, you've made history. You were the first woman in studio guest. I'm a woman? What? Girl. Don't scare me like that. Just don't call her a lady. Can I call you a chick? Is that better? Yeah. No, I'm kidding. Really? I'm surprised you didn't have any, like, I don't know, female-fronted. We had an episode of female-fronted. I know, that's why I said it. 03:49:12.580 --> 03:49:41.800 We did have an episode that featured music from female fronted bands. But we didn't have, and I talked about getting one of them on for an interview, but then they got signed to a big label and didn't want, you know, just didn't happen. Plus look at us. I mean, I'm not joking. Take a look around the room. It's no mystery. 03:49:45.460 --> 03:50:06.820 Yeah, it's like a rush. They run away. Well, I have a way that we can end this. How's that? Goodbye. Good night. Goodbye. Good night and go away. All right. We'll talk to you next time. See ya. See ya. Bye. Peace.