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Now, here is the Podcast Metalheads Podcast.

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Go.

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Hello, and welcome to the Metalheads Podcast.

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My name is George.

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This is Jay.

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This is Brew Metal Will.

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This is John.

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This is Matt.

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This is Markisan.

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Markisan again!

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He's back!

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I'm back!

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So here we are December 15th, 2018. This is our year-end in your rear-end top 25 metal albums of 2018 episode. Welcome, gentlemen. Hello. What a brutal year. What a brutal year. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the theme of this year is definitely going to be, I can't believe that wasn't on my list or on your list or on whoever's list. But more on that later.

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Before we forget, let's talk about what we're drinking right now. Actually, I guess that's me. So back in October, as you may know, I went up to Canada to see Joel. Joel. Joel Throssenblatt. Joel Throssenblatt. And I brought back some beer for the year-end episode. You know, he's always talking about, well, he's not always talking about, but he mentions in an Oak Ash and Thorn song, Pickaroons.

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And that's just a cool sounding name for a beer. It's a very Canadian sounding name for a beer. I don't need to be smarter than you, George, but I believe it's Picayunes. That's the way Joe Violeta. Fair enough. So I came back with some beer for the year end. I don't know how much of it we'll drink because these guys brought some good beer too. But we're starting off with Picayunes or however you say it. Yippee IPA. So it's quite tasty. And I want to say that we are drinking.

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One of the long things that have annoyed me about coming to George's house is he has really shit glassware for drinking beer. And we have to always bring glassware. We literally have to bring our own glasses. I have tons of beer pint glasses. These guys just don't drink out of pint glasses. No, because it's a shit glass. It's a shaker glass. Wait, what does he normally drink out of? Sippy cups? I drink out of pint glasses like a normal person. No. So what I did is for the upcoming Yule Pagan holiday, I decided to get laser engravings.

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The Metalheads Podcast proper 16-ounce Belgian beer glasses for everyone. Boing. Thanks, sir. Gentlemen, you guys will all be getting them in the mail as soon as I can get to the post office and pack everything up with love and care. They really are beautiful, man. Skull. He also got us growlers. Yeah. Big-ass growlers. Sweet. Big-ass growlers. A place to put my beer. Okay. So,

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Now I just want to give a brief synopsis of what we're planning to do here. You know, year-end episode can go off the rails real easy, so I've made a very short script to hopefully keep us on track. But we're going to do three different lists. We're going to do our top five album covers. We're going to start with that. Then we'll move into our top 25 albums of the year. And then, if we're still cognizant enough to do it at the end, our top five, I can't believe that was not on my list.

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List.

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Can't.

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Yeah.

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Can't believe that wasn't on my list list.

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Exactly.

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We'll get it straight by, by hour eight.

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So.

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And then if we want to do honorable mentions, we're going to limit it to 10.

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Well, that's all I did.

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So I don't know about you guys, but.

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All right.

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I did 10.

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Cool.

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So before we get into all of that, though, as you may have noticed in our previous

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This episode, Jay was at the Decibel Metal and Beer Fist Fist LA a couple of weeks ago. Did you say Beer Fist? Beer Fist. That's a good name for a band, isn't it? What happened between you, John BT and Sergey? I don't want to know. And whatever became of Paul? He was there like in the first 10 seconds and then gone. He's slightly shy. This is his problem. And I think he was a little surprised that I threw the microphone in his face. He's a nice guy. So,

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So we're looking for a brief synopsis. Is that what we're doing? Yeah. I mean, just anything that maybe you wanted to add that you didn't say at the end of the other one. Yeah. Yeah. So it was a blast, you know, and as may have been apparent, I probably said it, but I had a cold going in, which I just completely forgot about and, you know, had the best time ever. Koreatown, by the way, is a cool place. The Wiltern is in Koreatown. There's lots of good food and a nice, safe part of town and all that. So there was that, but it was just, it was well-requited.

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I mentioned it on the pod already probably not the right venue for it they were not pleased to find out that people weren't buying beer so like there was a bunch of surly bartenders sitting there if you went up and bought a bottle of water they wanted to punch you in the face and kind of a shock considering it was a metal in beer festival I guess they didn't read the flyer man and and they really Albert was stressed from the get-go dude that's

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I just stated, just like Decibel East, all of the scheduling and stuff came off without a hitch. For the bands, you know, up and down in good time, good set changeovers. And the biggest thing to mention is Drifticon doing a Celtic Frost set was, that's like, you know, best thing that happened to me this year type stuff. Great set list, did stuff from Morbid Tales, did stuff from Tomega Therion, did stuff from Monotheist. I don't know.

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It was great, man. And I had fun with the boys who were able to come with me. I really, all of your presences were missed. Which is to say I didn't buy you any presents. Our presents wasn't there for Christmas. You know, I'll say this. Here's my thesis and or summary statement, which is this is kind of like the metal fest in America right now. And it's still not quite over discovered, you know, like it was crowded, man. But people had a lot to come out to this thing.

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So, you know, bring on, bring on decibel east. Yeah. And we should mention that tickets are available for that. Now we have our tickets. So if you want to go and meet up with us and have a beer or 12. Do we, do we need a bus for the amount of people now that we're going to be together? Are we up to like 14 hours? Something like that. Yeah. So we might actually want to inquire about a room block. You know, maybe we can get a deal.

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I'm really looking forward to going to that. That's going to be a blast. One thing I should mention was I did it much different this time. Like when I first got into the venue, I just decided I'm not going to stand in line at too many breweries. So I would like get the first one, drink it, and then just stand there and get the second one, which usually happened in pretty quick order. So it was a real Donnybrook, man. We had a good time. Parts of it I don't remember. Lots of good beer. That's never happened at the one in Philadelphia. I remember everything that happened.

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Oh, you know, actually, I will say this. That's why we record for posterity. For posterity, so we can remember. Posteriority. The only other thing I'll add is that the Army of Hops beer was awesome, man. That was probably one of my favorites. That's the pit destroyer beer from Three Fluids? Yeah. But it really was a standout. It's not just because of the name on the label. It was awesome. It was funny to hear Blake say, like, and I hate hops, but I love this beer. Whenever he comes to Atlas, he's like, you know what, don't give me that hoppy shit. Just give me a stout. He likes the silent.

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As much as he circles our periphery because of will, that's the first time I ever met him. So it was fun to meet him. You haven't been to a show on the East Coast, Ben. I can't tell you. He goes to everything. No matter what combination of us are at a show, we run into him, it seems like half the time. It's really funny. I consider him the East Coast ambassador of metal. Right on. He's everywhere. All right. Oh, should I tell my road rage story? You've only mentioned it like.

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I know. I know. It's not that big a deal, but I enjoyed it. I was coming home from dinner last night, and I was following my wife because the windshield of my car is completely fucked, and I can't see out of it when it's dark and raining. So I had to be able to see her taillights to get home. And we turn left at this intersection. There's two left-turn lanes, okay? But the left one has to get on the highway.

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And so people are always trying to get over. And there was somebody to the left of me. Didn't have a signal on. Wasn't in any way indicating to me that they were trying to get over. And I'm like right on her butt because I don't want anybody getting in between us. Well, apparently they wanted to get over and they were not happy that I was not letting them in despite them not indicating in any way that they wanted to get over. So then they pull in behind me and they start honking their horn and just laying on it. And I'm like, I look back and I'm like, what the hell is this all about?

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So then they turn on their brights. So I was like, well, I guess if you can see me, fuck you. And I flip up my finger in like a right angle there. And I'm just like holding it there so that I'm sure that they can see it. So they start like going back and forth. And then they start flipping the lights on and off and on and off and on and off. So I took the opportunity to pump my finger up in the air in time with the lights. And fuck them. You know, fuck people. I'm sorry. I, I, I, you know what? I really wanted it.

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to be Barb. Yeah, the end of the story is Barb was actually behind me. No, no. But man, what the hell? What is wrong with people? Yeah. You know, I used to do a lot of that. Then I heard the story about the Iceman, you know, the mafia hitman. I can't think of his name right now. There's stories of people flipping him off and him coming back and torturing and killing them. And I'm like, you know, there's going to be that one time I'm going to get pissed and I'm going to get run right off the road and killed. Yeah, I always think of my mom's always like, don't.

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You don't do anything to people. They might have a gun. And I'm like, yeah, if I was in Texas, I probably wouldn't have done that. Dude, I wouldn't do that in Baltimore. Yeah, no, that's true. You don't have to be in Texas. It's true. But yeah, I pushed my luck, I think. I mean, how much Will likes Baltimore. Yeah. Anyway. Hey, you pronounced balls wrong. Balls more. No, just balls. That'd be more. That'd be Balmer to you. Oh, Balmer actually. That's pretty good. Will likes balls more. Yes.

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But that's how they pronounce it, Balmer. Yeah, it's Balmer. Balmer. Yeah. I was in Baltimore for a comic book convention. I've never seen more homeless people on the street. Oh, dude, it's bad. I mean, they're right downtown in like the business district. Dude, you should come down to K Street where I work in DC or first in K and DC. Yeah, that's pretty bad, dude. It's epic almost. It's like a mini San Francisco down there. Jay knows what I mean by that. I do, yeah. Unfortunately. They counted them down in Los Angeles recently and there was 58,000 people in Los Angeles that are homeless. Wow.

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That's what they counted. Yeah, but to be fair, they move around, so some of them might have got counted. In Baltimore, though, all the homeless people, they look like they're on drugs or something. Oh, yeah. It looks bad. It's like the walking dead. It really does. Yeah, there's a homeless shelter really close to Atlas, and it's kind of a problem. Is it called the White House? It's pretty close, too.

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The White House is close to Atlas? No. Somewhat. I mean, I used to work in D.C. two blocks away from the largest homeless shelter in the U.S. right there on the Third Street Tunnel. Oh, yeah. By the Department of Labor. Oh, really? Because I worked there. Yeah, that's the biggest in the country. It's ironic that it's by the Department of Labor. Right. I saw a dead guy. The irony was not lost, Jay. Trust me. I came into work one day and there was a dead guy laying in the middle of the street with a blanket over him.

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Right outside my window is the tunnel under the 395 tunnel under the building. And they go between the courthouse and I guess wherever they keep inmates. And somebody, it was a bus, I think going to the courthouse, somebody managed to get out of line and get underneath the bus. He was trying to escape. And just as they were coming out of the tunnel, he fell off and got run over. So wait, did they hit a pothole? Because that would be pretty obvious there.

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Yeah, I don't know. But I was just like, sat down at my desk, looked out the window. Dead guy, bloody dead guy in the street. Nice. So you're actually in that building right above that. So I could actually be coming up right underneath you when I come in and out. Well, sample that one. Ten years ago. That happened to me once. I worked downtown Chicago for a few years in a high-rise building. And I looked out my window and somebody jumped and like splattered on the ground. So there was this dead body like right outside my office window, blood everywhere.

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And I'd watched as the cops came and put the blanket over. It was surreal.

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I've seen that too. There was a guy who got run over by George that knows the area where he used to work. I used to work in the same area. There's a lot of tourist bus over there. Homeless guy wasn't paying attention. He got run over by a bus, a big commercial liner. And I saw the aftermath. I was like, oh, man. So yeah, I know that seeing that sheet is kind of messed up.

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Well, this is quite the tangent we've taken, huh?

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I know. Why don't we get into some lists? Jesus.

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Maybe you should edit that part out. Less grim. Wrong kind of grim. Even though I'm surprised by this, I just made a change to my list. I made a couple just before we started, too. Mine's printed out. I am making no change. But I do want to say, it was very apparent to me when we interviewed Farrah Bruo the other day. It was actually like three days ago. But you won't hear that until after this episode. What was interesting is how

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because I think they listen to the podcast. We've all met them quite a few times. How much they think our podcast is homoerotic. I just want to say for the record, I will not hear any dick jokes. There will be no gay butt sex jokes. There will be absolutely no homoerotic nonsense in this episode whatsoever.

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What a line of bullshit. For at least the next moment of silence, because we're going to have a moment of silence for my pants, which are going to become missing at some point during this episode. So let's have a moment of silence. Perfect amount of length. Thank you. All right, let's go. See, he's saying this because we're only drinking IPAs. We haven't even hit the darker beers yet with the super ABVs. Yeah, so real quick, this is what we got. We got Hardywood Park Bourbon Barrel Baltic Sunrise Porter. We have,

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We have a Deschutes Abyss Rum Barrels. We have the Surly Darkness 2016. And yes, I did bring my Brutal Truth Guide to Extreme Beer. Rip that column. And the Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout. That's just what we brought. Then George has a boatload of beers. I got like 20 more bottles and cans of Canadian beer. So nobody leaves sober.

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I already started on the dark stuff. I got a three points alpha clause. Oh, nice. Oh, nice. I like the alpha clause. That's good. Yeah. I'm just IPA. I got a dangerous man. How's IPA? It's good for breakfast. Hey, Mark, Mark. I was going to say, Mark is on. You are drinking now because I think you and the dad of Northern darkness are in the same time zone. So you're good. Yeah. Clear. Jay, enjoy the water. Jay suck a couple hours. I don't get it.

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It's 10 a.m. there. I used to get up at 7 in the morning just real quick and just go into U Street to watch English Premier League football at like 8 in the morning and everyone was getting lit up at 8 in the morning. So by the time I left after my game and watched the next game, it was like 12. I'm like, fuck, I'm hammered. What am I going to do for the next eight hours? I do a podcast. I'll give you a top 25 now. Let's light the fires. Let's go. All right. We're going to do our

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Top 5 Album Covers for 2018. And like every other list, we're going to start with the guest, Markisan, and everybody else knows the drill after that. So, Markisan, your number 5 Album Cover of the Year. All right, number 5 for me is Sulfur Aeon, The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos album artwork by Ola Larson. It's awesome. It's a horrifying Cthulhu thing, who either escaped from Castlevania or is relaced

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from its dungeon to bring back victims for its master. It's a masterpiece. I just realized that we were going to put the names on there and I did not. I'm the one who I think the last episode bitched at everyone for not naming the artist and I completely should. I know one of the artists. I didn't do it. I don't know. Here's a hint. Write my list down and look it up later. Yeah. I didn't do it. Yeah, I put the artist because I mean we're talking about the art. Right. Yeah, of course. We should have. I just in my haste forgot.

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I think he did the previous one too by the way maybe even the first one I'm not sure of their albums. Matty Matt. My number five I'm a big Hitchcock fan so this really struck a lovely chord with me Sadist Spellbound. Oh Sadist the band okay gotcha. Sadist yep. I have not I never got a chance to listen to that. I have no clue who drew it so I apologize. All right. All right my number five I don't know what this

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is, but I thought it looked cool because there's a waterfall and like three dudes in robes.

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So.

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It's not where they're about to take the robes off.

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Wait a minute.

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Turkish bathhouse?

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That's a bathhouse.

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That's me.

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No.

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Hooded Menace.

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Ashi Arm Silhouettes Unhollowed.

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That's a good one.

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Yeah.

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Nice.

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Nice.

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My number five.

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You don't have to worry.

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I can't see it all without my glasses.

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I'll see you're good.

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Space Slug.

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Eye of the Tide.

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It's got this cool title. It was all black title wave and there's something really cool in the middle of it. Is that like a playoff on Eye of the Tiger from Survivor? My number five is I just looked at that Sadist one. Was it Sadist? That was cool.

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This one's actually in that same kind of thing. It's related to an author, but I also just like the cartoony nature of it. Pariah's Tales from the Eldritch Realm. Oh, yeah. Did you say a movie poster? Yeah. Or like a pulp fiction type thing. Jay, you and I are on that same Facebook page with all that old sci-fi and horror film artwork, aren't we? I have that too. I love that page too. I love it. Absolutely love it. Yeah. Cool stuff pops up from there all the time.

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Sample. Everything's going to be a sample today. We're not going to do episodes anymore. I'm just going to string together samples. And then insert bands that I want to talk about. Yeah. At some point you'll have Will saying, I love Opeth. You should do an outtakes cast. Yeah, really. Yeah, for sure. Just try to create a story from it. My number five is Ashes of Aries, Well of Souls. Yeah.

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It's pretty cool cover. It is. No idea who did it, but. It's cool. It's nice. I bet it's on the Bandcamp page. Yeah. Probably. It usually is. All right. Number four, Markeson. Number four for me is Gutter Instinct, Heirs of Sisyphus album artwork by David Glamba of Titan Arts. It has a naked creature in a hell cave carrying another creature on his back in some kind of a translucent sack. There's eyes everywhere. There's like.

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Yeah. Here's a tiny female creature pushing a miniaturized earth at the bottom. It's crazy. It has a very earthy feel to it. I really like that. The creature carrying the person is naked, but the person getting carried his clothes. Well, it's in a sack. I don't know. Sorry, I just broke my translucent sack. Oh, man, that's awesome. I got to see that now. Yeah, it's great.

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Sorry, Will's popping beers, and so George and I are slamming down our beer. Rinse out your glass. We're not heathens around here. Your bartender? Jeez. You're my goddamn bartender. All right, Matt, number four. Number four. I feel like this is actually a DNC grave. Burial Invocation, Abiogenesis. Oh, yeah. That was this one.

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I have to remember that.

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I could be wrong on that one.

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No, that was this year.

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But yeah, you're right.

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It kind of does look like something Dan Seagrave would have done.

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Is that like a floating dungeon or something?

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I can't.

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I kind of remember that cover.

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No, you got it.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's in the sea.

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It's not floating necessarily, but you got the right idea.

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Oh, this is yummy.

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We're drinking the Hardywood Park Rum Barrel Baltic Sunrise Porter.

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Which we always seem to have at least one Hardywood at this time of year.

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Yeah.

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Sorry, George.

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I thought you got that already.

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All right.

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How many beers do you guys usually drink on this cast, do you think? Too many. On this one? Yeah. Do you mean the end of year? Yes, this one in particular. At the year-end, rear-end, we bring out the big stuff that we've either been saving or the really good ones. So the ones that we rattled off at the beginning, they're all very... We'll just lick in the bottle right now. It was dripping down. I got some

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I got to break out when it starts getting real. Yeah. All right. So my next. All right. This Spanish band that I found out that's actually Greek. Ocean's the Grief, Night Falls Lament. I love that cover. It's simple, but it's pretty dark and dreary. And I love that album. I don't mean that guy must be tired hanging from that cliff like that. Yeah. My number

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4. Lago, Sea of Duress. I just tried to look this up on Bandcamp, who did the album art cover, and they failed to mention who did it. So Arizona-based death metal band that I like a lot. But the album's awesome. So I'll describe it. It's a, well, you know, Sea of Duress. It's got a ship. That pretty much covers it. It's got like this crazy-looking sun that looks like it has lightning coming out of it. And then like a big, there's a lot of ocean stuff going on.

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And there's a big wave come out and there's a there's a ship that looks like it's about to go down. Fuck that's good. On me. Yeah I was gonna say. You know metal archives you could go there and they might have. I know I just I looked at Bankhead real quick and failed. Epic. My number four is Satan Cruel Magic. It's a cool cover man and they feature the guy they always feature on the judge.

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as you'd call them. But it's kind of an old school painting and he's basically appears to sort of be dancing with somebody while drowning them. It's disturbing and very cool. My number four. Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands. Oh, that's a good one. Nice. It's got like an angel killing. Yeah, it's like a painting. It looks like an oil painting of some kind. It's like an angel or some sort of like biblical like Jesus figure. Killing someone like a giant stone or something like that. It was killing like goats or lambs or something.

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Oh, yeah. And vultures. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's badass. Good album, too. Yes. Markazan. Oh, number three. Glacial Tomb. Self-titled album cover by artwork or cover artwork by Nanda Dika of Violence Art. This one features a blood portal opening in the sky above a swampy monolith. With keys. With keys everywhere. And then there's these skeletal tree people.

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in the foreground who look like they really, really need a drink of water. Yeah. Or beer. Or beer. And they look thirsty. Yeah, and this beer is good, by the way. Just, you know, they're fine. Yeah, it is. Matt. Me. My number three, Carpe Noctum. I believe it's called Vitrun. It's a black and white cover. It looks like, actually, I think the main shape is an eyeball. It just has these spinning squares.

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Going backwards, almost kind of like kind of vertigo-esque. Cool. All right. My number three. I don't even know how to say this band's name. Somebody already said it. Parias. I'm guessing. Parias. Maybe. I don't know. The Eldritch Realm. I'll say that again. The Eldritch Realm. That is the dumbest ringtone I ever heard on someone's phone. Is that like some sort of Japanese anime dancing shit?

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Did you have baby metal as a ringtone? You know what? That was kids singing. In case I need to drown you out, Will. So you have the new Behemoth album on your phone? Was that the Behemoth album? Oh my god. Can I just say how fucking creepy that sounds in our earphones and this echo? At this point I'm figuring Children of the Corn just came right through the freaking back door. Whoa. Right through the back door. Oh, sorry.

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No homo erotic talk. Oh, you went there. Oh, I went there. Oh, yeah, sorry. It was a long drive up here. We didn't really stop for gas on the way up here. Stopped for some ass. What number are we on? We're on the second beer. That's what number we're on. But we're on the third one. Oh, it's mine. Sorry, it's my turn. Number three. Chemist. Desolation.

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I do it's Sam Turner who does all their stuff dude's awesome yeah yeah I didn't like that one as much as the last album really um I so good he was I like this one because there's more boobs yep I I met him at decibel he was he was there with somebody he was at decibel fest the um the first year because our booth was right next to true's booth and he was there oh he works for true yeah he does the artwork for true yeah yeah yeah uh my number three

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Simplicity is best though I suspect this is a very very old painting I'm not sure what it is uh Allfather and All Will Be Desolation that that that cover looks like that album sounds to me it was a well-chosen cover nice my number three is Rivers of Nile where owls know my name nice that's all I got to say about that all right that'll only be said now 47 more times what's like a tree guy

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Right. Yeah. Just like a big face. And he looks like a tree. There's no owls on it, though. I was really surprised by that. Which actually leads into number two perfectly for me, because my number two is Lurk Fringe album by the Al Mart works by Adam Burke. And it's a spooky painting of a forest merged with these skeleton fire wizards who seem to be conjuring bats from a campfire under the light of the moon. And then there's this huge owl, this huge owl head just looming over.

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the treetops or maybe lurking.

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And it looks like it's going to feast on the bats or perhaps drop some knowledge on the world.

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Man, your description of all these has been unsettling.

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It's like you do it for a living.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We should remind everybody that Markisan, if you were living under a rock or in Hades somewhere or below the fucking sea level.

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Your parents' basement.

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Yeah.

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Or my taint.

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Markisan is a comic book writer for Voracious. You had another one, but you said it didn't get picked up or what happened? Anyway, basically, he's a comic book writer. He's very verbose in his what? Descriptions. How does this talk? That was the perfect way to trail off there at the end. He's very good with what I am not good at.

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He's good with words and words. I am not. I'm glad you guys decided to do the album covers. I know you've done them before, but it's just cool because the album artwork is really important in metal. Oh, absolutely. How else are we supposed to know what to buy? Yeah, I mean, we've said this many times. We're all old enough that we used to buy albums based on album covers before they had streaming. He's looking at it like, that looks fucking cool. The name of this band is cool. Like Death. I bought Death Leprosy first time based on the album covers.

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the name of the band. I'm like, this is awesome. I did that too, but I also did it for books. I was a big sci-fi fan growing up. I was like, man, this is... Playboy, oh, wow, I got to buy this one. Come on, seriously. I just grabbed it out of the garbage can at the gas station down the street. What are you talking about? Pages were stuck together, but... You know, you can't take them all. This is called specially laminated. Matt, I think? All right, me, number two, Glacial Tomb, self-titled.

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Nice. Yes.

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That art's so perfect.

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I just want to use Markson's description as mine.

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He just sounds so much better.

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Cut and paste that, George.

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All right.

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All right.

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My number two.

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It's been mentioned already.

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Ashes of Aries.

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Well of Souls.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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I got to look at that one.

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I don't remember it.

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It's like this dude in a robe.

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He's like over like a pit and like all this blue shit.

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All this blue shit.

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Just for those of you who don't listen to this podcast, John does not write comic books. But he looks great in a robe. But nothing that I said is false. It's all true. No, you got it. That was the suburban kind of, I know that was the southern hillbilly description. I don't know, there's a bunch of blue shit on it. It's cool though. My number two, Yob R.

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My Number 2, Yob, Our Raw Heart. Let me not waste any time and say that my number 2 is not Yob. Well, I'll actually let Jay do his number 2. Sorry. No, that was it. That was my number 2. It really was. Oh, I didn't realize that. A little slow. I'm still stuck on that blue shit. You complete me. Well, that much is obvious.

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Number two is Chemist Desolation. Nice. Sam Turner. All right. Number one. Number one. My number one is Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay. Album artwork by Matthew Sticker. This is an amazing cover. It features an albino zombie on zombie battle on the surface of a craggy infected moon. There's lava everywhere, which makes the moon looks like it's bleeding.

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And there's a shower of meteors and a fucking planet exploding in the sky. It's crazy. It's not. It's so awesome. I actually have that. I have that vinyl. So I have like the big picture of it. You're right. It is awesome. I mean, there's it's just very kinetic. There's so much going on in it. You know, of all the covers, I think it has the most motion to it. I really, really enjoyed that. I'm willing to resign from the podcast to bring this guy on. He's way good at describing stuff.

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Let's just wait till we get to the music. That's true. You may suck. Actually, last time we had Markisan. I'm joking. Him and I connected a lot. He liked a lot of your picks. I like his picks. Hopefully you guys will. What I like about the puck is they have different tastes. We're going to find out about that. I'm looking at this. Did you buy this in a sex shop?

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No, it's Target. Wait, it is a sex shop. You have a plastic cock with a mouth wide open. Your dick could fit in there. Will, stop choking the chicken. This thing is fucking disturbing. That's why I bought it. It's disturbing. Oh my fucking god. And it's colorful. I get some color in here. Jeez. Where are we? It's disturbing, but it's not disturbed. That was Mark's on number one.

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Number one. You did your number one. Yeah. Outer heaven. Yeah. Right on. Remember the amino zombies and tumors and exploding planets. Meteorites and lava. You guys all forgot that so fast. I was choking a chicken over here, man. I forgot about everything. Matt. Number one. I do not know who drew this, but to me, this is, I don't know. I look at it and it says nothing but epic to me that is high on fire. Electric Messiah. Oh yeah.

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Like a fun house or something. All right. My number one. I'm guessing nobody has this, but I do like this cover a lot. The band is called Sojourner and the album is called The Shadowed Road. It I don't know how to describe it. It's like a old just run down castle. Very Lord of the Ring ish, I guess. John, you probably forgot the mid year. So you want to tell me what my number one is? Oh, man. Fuck yes. No, that's not actually it. Just read it. Oh, yeah. It's Sojourner.

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The Shadowed Rose. Yes! I'm not even the biggest fan of this band, but man, I love that album artwork. It's fucking great. Yes. All right. Oh, that was Will's? That was mine. Yeah. Kind of like when you... Okay, I'm on the opposite end of... Now you're on the receiving end. Yeah, yeah. Not so funny now. I'm backwards to Markisan his number five was my number one. Soul for Eon, The Scythe of Cosmic Gas.

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Jake could you say that again for me uh George's number one is sulfur eon the scythe of cosmic chaos that's right baby I like how we can beat each other and that guy's a real artist dude I mean like if you look at I mean well I mean that sounds silly to say but what I mean is that's fine art that guy are like people sleep with each other last night or something we're all like whispering in each other's ears I think my number one is gonna be

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It's a colluding. When you're the little spoon in the big spoon pile, you hear everything. It's whispered down the lane. I was wondering what was going on when I was sleeping last night. I was sneaking in my back window. Is that what you call it? Your back window? It's got a different name every week. Sometimes it's the doggy door. Depending on how you're situated. I forgot about that from the end of Wednesday. Sorry. What?

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What? Did I miss something? No, you'll hear about that on the episode with Inferit Brewer. Oh. Okay. Your question. All right. So that's our album covers for 2018. And why do we do that first? Because we'll forget if we don't. We'll get shit-faced to forget. All right. Hey, so do you want to bring up your whole metal sucks thing now since you forgot to do it? Yes. All right. Go. So before we go into the top 25,

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There is another one or two things I neglected to mention. I noticed online this morning that the readers of Metal Sucks voted the number one album of 2018 is Machine Head's Catharsis. So I just wanted to point out that all the readers of Metal Sucks

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They're damn fools! I mean, was that serious? Was that like a real thing? I think it was, because then they listed a couple other albums. It's not like some Russian troll fake news. I don't know, man. Website hacking. It's just gotta be so fake. But, you know... People really like white denim. I gotta say, you know, when the Decibel list came out, I was like, I don't necessarily agree with this. Hopefully there'll be some better lists, but...

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We were saying that last night, weren't we? The night before the dead realists. Is this also in the whisper down the spoon? It might have been. I don't know. I don't know. I already forgot. But man, there are some really bad metal lists out there. Bad. You said metal hammer blew, right? Yes, the metal hammer list was just as terrible as everybody else's. Oh, actually, one of the ones I thought was really good. Maybe it was No Clean Singing. Yeah, they have a thread for all the different lists. Yeah.

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I think No Clean Singing also did it by genre. Oh, I saw that. It wasn't a list. It was a write-up of all the bands in certain genres. Is that the one? Yeah, but I think it was their year-end. Like, hey, these are all the great albums by genre that came out. I thought that was really good. Yeah. Yeah, well. The lists are very varied. They're just very different, every one I see. But I'm with you on the decimal one. When I first saw it, I'm like, I don't know about this list. But looking at it now, after I've seen a bunch of other ones, there are some really great albums on there.

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At least it's a metal list. There are so many lists. Daughters isn't on there? Yeah, there is one on there. Is it Author and Punisher, which I don't understand? It's kind of metal. But that's on the decibel list, right? Maybe. I thought so. I'm going to say this, and anyone who knows me knows this is really hard. This is hard. Just stop. I can't, Jay. It's coming out. That was the greatest sample. It's true.

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I think I saw Will's tingle. Mine did. Rolling Stone's top list is looking better than some of these supposed metal site lists right now. They at least, they got a lot of the, I don't call them generic picks, but the popular picks, but at least their list looks better. And that's really hard for me to say. They had Ghost as number one too, didn't they? But they're all, yeah. That is the most frequent number one I've seen. And it ain't gonna be on this episode, I don't think.

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I did actually have Ghost on my list at the mid-year for album cover. That is a sick album. Yeah, that's a good album. But I had to take it off. I'm like, there's something better out there. Oh, like a thousand albums. Yeah, exactly. So I'm just going to take this opportunity to toot our own horn, if you will. But personally, I think our list is going to be the best one out there. Oh, yeah. All six of these plus our combined list. In terms of metal. Actual metal, not bullshit. Because we actually have metal on our list. Not Parkway Drive fucking bullshit.

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Sorry, Luch. None of that. Yeah, sorry, dude. So let's get into it. But before we get into it, everyone has to go around. Start with Markisan. Describe your list in three words. What? Describe your list. That's only one word, dude. You got two more left. Yeah, what the fuck? What the fuck? You just took mine. Is that really yours? That was going to be mine. Well, all right.

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I'm going to take a clip for a quote from the departed and say oh fucking what

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mine massive cluster fuck

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mine is conflicted do me pantsless

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and that's a description of how the rest of the day is going to go

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Yeah.

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Mine is similar to John's big

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shit show. I mean,

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this was hard. Yeah. Damn it, Jay.

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You just took my other one.

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I was just going to say,

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this was hard.

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All right.

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Oh, this was hard.

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How about this?

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This is hard.

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It was really hard.

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That should actually,

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that can be the conglomerated,

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like we do a conglomerated list.

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That can be concomical.

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The conglomerated title is this is hard.

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So at some point,

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Jay's going to have to go out for a second and he's going to come out and talk to his wife and say, they're fucking hammered. It's 10 o'clock in the morning here. Well, she's on Percocet. So she's better off than you are, actually. What the hell's going on around here today? Let's get to it. Let's get to it. Number 25. Number 25. There we go. Shit show commences now. Here it goes. Is there a drum roll or something? No, just.

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All right. Number 25 for me is Lago, Sea of Duress from Unique Leader Records. I love that album. Yeah, it's really good. Surprise find for me, a blackened approach to death metal, excellent deep crowd vocals, rolling drums. I like the clean guitar solos on this. I haven't listened to anything they've done before, but I hear that this is a significant step up for them. So I'm going to have to go back and listen to some of the older material.

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But I really like this album. Well done, sir. Well done. Cool. Matt. My number 25, Parkway Drive. Number 25? What? No. My number 25 was actually my number 25 at midyear. This is my sole folk metal pick from Russia on Napalm Records. The band is Arcona, and the album is called K-Ram or Krom, probably. I like K-Ram better. Krom.

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And if you don't listen, to hell with you. Conan, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women. This needs to be followed with Get to the Chopper. Get to the Chopper! Not a tumor. Stick around. I'm the potty pooper.

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Remember when I said I kill you last? I lied. Okay, I got one since everybody's doing one. You got what you want, now give the people the air. Yes! Total recall. Total recall. Is that before or after his eyes almost burnt out? It's before. Call Hagen. Johnny. George has been on me about getting into this. Johnny's been on me and getting in it?

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Right. My lightest of the metal albums. And it's a band fronted by a female. Because, you know. You don't want to say female frontal nudity. Sylvain. Adam's line coming undone. Actually, George kept on me about checking her out, and I did. And it's very cool, atmospheric, dream poppy. I don't want to say it, so I'll say post-Black

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Because Will won't lose his shit in two seconds. But I think it's a solid album. It is. It really is. Good choice. All right, my number 25. Parius, The Eldritch Realm. Yes, it's right. Yeah, it made it out of your list. Yes, it did. You'll see yourself digitally hugged. I like that record so much. John and I were really the Parius twins. It's got a lot going on in there. It's got little elements of all kinds of stuff.

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I've been listening to it a little more hardcore lately because they're playing Atlas in about two weeks. Yeah. January 6th. Oh, we can. We'll get them on. So Sunday. Quick question for you about this, Will. Jay and I both agreed on this. It's about length. Sorry. Perfect amount of length. Don't you think that the album is the perfect length in terms of time? It's just enough because there's so much going on. I said this when we interviewed Ben.

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I like the length.

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As it is, I prefer my albums.

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I prefer it shorter.

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I'm getting that way too.

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Rather than longer.

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40 minutes is like just perfect.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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40 inches is a little bit much.

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Well, yeah.

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You divide it up amongst four and you're all right.

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You know, one goes in different.

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Anyway.

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Jay, please take us somewhere else, Jay.

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Well, I'll only say this.

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It's 30 minutes wisely used.

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It reminds me in that way.

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Not quite this level, but of Leviathan, which is only 45 minutes. That's a short album. With one song being 11 minutes long. Yeah. Yeah. But when you go back and consider all that happens in the landscape of that Parade's record. I mean, it's. Yeah. All right. This one clung to the bottom of my list. It's the only kind of weird odd man out in that it's the only sort of EP or otherwise strange format. I was on my mid-year. I really do want to push people to listen to this band. This record is great. Death Spore, Salomoth.

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I meant to listen to that. It's so good, dude. It really is. And actually, I said it backwards. It's Selamoth, Death Spore. The band is Selamoth. But anyway, it's great. People should go out and give it a spin. Definitely. What kind of music is that, Jay? I don't think I've listened to that one. It's a deathy, thrashy, maybe a slightly better produced

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2-moled production value. Even though it's still pretty basement-y, it's just not as sludgy. Gotcha. But it definitely calls 2-moled to mine. I didn't recognize that. How did you say that? Thanks, Matt. I was just going to say that. I'm stuck 2-moled. Okay. I couldn't get it. I didn't know who he was talking about either. What the fuck? Oh, 2-moled. My number 20. Actually, I'm realizing I'm not only doing the allergies there,

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I'm doing Steve Martin and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Nice. Excuse me. May I go to the bathroom? Can I go to the bathroom? Thank you. Steve Martin. These cans are just exploding out of nowhere. He hates these cans! That's all I need. It's this chair and this lamp. Alright, my number 25 is Deceased Ghostly White. Why? You went with that.

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Oh, I didn't get a chance to listen that much. You were pumping that up a little bit at the end there. It's got some like old school Slayer in there. Cool. Cool. Wow, we did one pick. We're good. Yeah, 24 more to go. Thank you very much. Good night. Mark us on. All different. Yep. Number 24 for me is Mournful Congregation, the Incubus of Karma on Osmos and 20 bucks spin records. They're masters of funeral doom. Another terrific effort from them. It's slow.

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Atmospheric like you'd expect. Glorious guitar souls on this thing. Listening to this album will make you feel like you're crying in a spiked pit of sorrow, but in a good way. So you're describing it flawlessly again, and George is eating food, trying not to laugh. It is quite the scene. Chicken nuggets coming out of his nose. I'm laying down a food base so I don't get drunk in like 10 minutes. No, Jay, the food's all on his shirt right now.

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I beg to differ. Oh wait, he ate it off. Sorry. My bad. Matt, go. All right, me. My number 24. I just, I tried to get rid of this album and it just kept clinging to me and I could not stop with it. I feel like we could have an episode we just completely devote to debating genres and this would definitely be a good one if anybody cared. From Salt Lake City, the band is Cult Leader and the album is A Patient Man. Yeah.

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So what genre is that? I wrote down, you know, on Bandcamp I saw Progressive Crust and I kind of like that, but I would almost put it like a post-grancore, post-metal slash grindcore, and then maybe a little bit of folk. There's a little bit of Nick Cave on there. And there's a little industrial too, a little bit. It's two really distinct styles, you know, you can just break that album in half, it's very different from other albums. It's like a David Lynch film.

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Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. Glad you guys can't see us. All right, John. We were listening, trust me. All right, so keeping on the funeral doom, I guess, a little bit. I might get shit for this being so low. Evoking. Hypnagogia. Hypnagogia. Hypnagogia. Hypnagogia is correct. Thank you. Good album. I'll be happy that anybody has that. Yeah, no, I like the album. It's just, I think I can speak for every single one of us here.

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just too many albums to fit on a list of 25. There are a lot of albums that should be on this list that are not. There are a lot that don't even make the honorable mentions that should be there. Yeah. We probably should have talked about this a little more. That's why we're on top of it. We'll probably explain our three-word descriptions is that this year is very hard because there were just so many good albums and there's a lot of albums that we cannot believe did not make our list.

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So if you're on this list, even if you're 25, you beat some albums out.

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Oh, yeah.

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We were talking about how even our non-honorable mentions, the ones that got knocked off, could be on the list still.

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Yeah.

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It's just a really good year.

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Right.

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I mean, it's like, am I listening to a five or is this 4.99999?

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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Well, no, 4.93.

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And the list could switch up.

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On any given day, you could switch up.

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Oh, yeah.

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Absolutely.

00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:58.840
Will says on the drive, he says, how do you feel about a list? I said, I fucking hate it because on Monday it's going to be different. Can I just ask you guys, what is your top criteria for selecting albums on your list? Is it ingenuity, replayability, style? What do you guys think? What moves me? So after I was done watching, it's the joke from the mid-year, after I was done watching like umpteen number hours of soccer, football for the rest of the world,

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This year was just what did I listen to the most

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for the year end

00:53:04.850 --> 00:53:05.960
Yeah what did I listen to

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It was a visceral sort of thing

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What really like

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What moved me

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What made an impact on me

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What did I

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Obviously some of these it's just like

00:53:16.780 --> 00:53:17.780
Man I listen to this so much

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How could this not be on my list

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Because there's albums that did make my list

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That I think might actually be better in the end

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Like four or five years later

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In your end

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Well they better get in there

00:53:30.279 --> 00:53:30.640
Anyway

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I hear you deeply, Joan. But yeah, for real, I mean, honestly, there's like anything that's not in, let's say, the 25, then the 5, then the 10. I mean, there's still so much amazing shit that won't even get mentioned, you know? Yeah. It was hard. This was the hardest year we have done. Yeah, it is. I think so. I got harder this year than the year before. If a band's in my top 50 this year, I mean, you did a great album. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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I could have done the top 100 easy. Is it my 24? Tis. Yeah. Tis. Genocide Pact. Order of Torment. Nice. It was on my mid-year. It fell off, but I liked it. Thanks for the spoiler alert. Well, it fell off my list onto yours. Okay. Fell off the back of a truck. Genocide Pact is a fucking brutal death metal band out of right here in yours truly, Washington, D.C. Actually, we're in Frederick, Maryland right now.

00:54:30.640 --> 00:55:00.620
But they play Atlas a lot. And they come in to watch other shows and just super nice dudes. And they're blowing up very, very big. And I have to say that Angry Metal Guy gave them a shitty review because they said there's no hooks and no riffs. I'm like, there's fucking hooks and riffs for days on this album. Whoever wrote that is a fucking idiot. I've come to the conclusion that if you get reviewed on Angry Metal Guy, no matter if they give you a one to a five, that's a good thing because you're at least on there. Because if you go through the

00:55:00.660 --> 00:55:28.360
Just a shitstorm of comments. There's always going to be half the people saying, this album is fucking awesome. So you make out in the end. Just as a side. In your end. Boy, everyone wants to get in my end. What is wrong with you people? Have you seen your ass? It's hot. I don't have an ass. That is true. That's what you're talking about. So getting off of my ass. He has a rear access port. God, this is super homoerotic. Trust me, it's a dead end.

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Will brought us a super beer that for some reason we're getting all of a sudden all the time now. Will, would you care to describe this beer? Let's get through this one and then we'll talk about it. All right. Well, that's because he's pouring. I got excited. Sorry. Well, I'll get you there faster. You did yours, Will, 24? Yeah, yeah. You're number 24. Mine is Hooded Menace Ossiorian. Nice. Nice. It was good. Some of my lower ones on my list are ones that made it on because I listened to them so much. I mean, the top,

00:56:00.640 --> 00:56:30.620
ones are like stuff I was just like either deeply emotionally attached to or I got but I if I go back and look I this record went on quite a bit as the year went on so deserves there's deserves a spot and it's good yeah and it's good too agreed yeah so it's got that going for it my number 24 is obliteration cenotaph obscure nice that's a late one that is man and that could have headed this come out earlier it could have gotten higher because it is good is that almost a list buster when it come out it sort of is just forget like only a couple weeks ago

00:56:30.660 --> 00:57:00.040
I think. This is new. All right. So right now we at Metalheads Podcast Headquarters, Maryland, are drinking Canadian founders, Canadian breakfast stout, imperial stout brewed with chocolate and coffee aged in maple syrup bourbon barrels. This is only a mere 11.6% alcohol. The only thing missing is slabs of bacon just swirling in our beer. Yeah. It is. Delish. And maybe a waffle too on top of that. Yeah.

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Markasson.

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Number 23.

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Crawl Rituals for Transcending Obscurity Records.

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This is one of the biggest rippers of the year.

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There's no frills on this album.

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Just a short, straight-ahead, furious death punch to the face over and over for under 30 minutes.

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These guys are from Sweden, right?

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Correct.

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Jay, you were digging these guys earlier, right?

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I was.

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But not anymore.

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He had a pensive look like I was. He was like shit. He should be on my list. I'm going to keep my mouth shut for now. No. Please keep it open. We'll open it. Wow. We're not even three picks in. Wow. Three beers, three picks. Wow.

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All right.

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Dad.

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All right.

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Number 23.

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Out of Denver.

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Wayfair.

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World's blood.

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Nice.

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Was higher up on my mid-year.

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Fell back a little bit, but I still very much enjoy this.

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Atmospheric black slash folky black metal.

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Nice.

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Johnny.

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My pick.

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Jay said it all for me.

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23.

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Hooded Menace.

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I'll share him silhouettes on hallowed. Nice. Just one of those albums from earlier in the year that just stuck. It was off my list yesterday and jumped back on the last second. Couldn't decide if I wanted to stay or not. I said, get on board, brother. Let's go. Why are you looking at me right there? I'm sorry. I'm just thinking of Hooded Menace and that's a good name for an uncut wiener. I was thinking the same thing. Covered Wagon. Covered Wagon. Okay, so it's not just wool.

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I'm not today. Covered wagon sounds like it could be a wayfar. Yeah. Okay. Well, my number 23. I'm going to get some shit for this one, but here we go. King goat dead of aeons. I have listened to that quite extensively on vinyl though. I paid it. I think I could pay more for shipping on that vinyl. I think that was the first number.

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23? Yeah. Yeah. I love that album. But there's, like I said, it's a tough year. It's a tough year, man. That's the thing is we can't really give anybody shit this year because it's just been so tough. Yeah. Wait till you hear my 22. But now you're first going to hear my 23 and the reason for my tentativeness at the question, crawl rituals. Oh, yeah. Excellent. When people do it at the same number, you're supposed to. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's the closest of the picks. There it is right there. You took me back when you said, I thought, gosh, Marcus and I both believe this was the 23rd best record. What are the odds? Actually, we had like three around the same numbers. You complete me. Is that when you got naked last time? Yeah. That's why. Pantsless. Pantsless Will.

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I swear to fucking god. You were going to wear chaps? No, I was, well. You were going to go full Monty? No, but I was going to wear my sweatpants. There's no buckle, there's no zipper, and there's no button. I mean, there's no belt. Just drop them. But if I would have wore them, my wife would have been like, what are you doing? And if I had explained to her that at the mid-year, I got really happy and really drunk, that I dropped my pants, that she would be,

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What the fuck is wrong with you? It's alright. We can wait. I'm pretty sure she's already saying that. Yeah, that is true. Have you met her? Yes, she says that. Alright, my number 23. Yes. Iwata, Cult of a Dying Son. Nice. If you haven't heard it yet, Iwata. I think Jay made the same joke of the mid-year. Did I really?

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Yeah, that's a bad joke. At least you're predictable. But I'm glad to know I'm still as funny as I was there. Wait, are they playing Decimal Philly? Yes. That's the one I knew that Matt would super like. Oh, I super like it. Super like it. There you go. All right, Markisan. All right, number 22 for me, High on Fire Electric Messiah. 22? Entertainment One Records. Great album from them.

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I think Electric Masai has a fire in its belly like we haven't seen from the band in a while. It's more streamlined, has good energy to it, lots of big riffs. There's a reason for that. He broke up with his girlfriend. I'm not joking, and he credits that with the quality of this album. He had a lot of free time on his hands. Yeah, it's really good. I've actually been wondering where I'd rank it with the other High on Fire albums. I think it might stack up pretty well. It's number one for me, and I love them. It's number two for me. Snakes of the Vine is by far.

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So what's the next album going to be

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since you lost a toe?

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Yeah, I know.

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Yeah, we'll see.

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The Toeless Messiah!

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Yeah, it's one of those albums like,

01:02:44.300 --> 01:02:45.880
maybe I should put this higher.

01:02:45.910 --> 01:02:46.780
Yeah, you probably should.

01:02:47.539 --> 01:02:49.320
Well, listen, King Goat should be higher.

01:02:49.630 --> 01:02:51.000
No, that's true. Yeah, fair enough.

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Get on it, George. Come on, man.

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I'm on it.

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It's a great album.

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Oh, Jesus Christ.

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Okay, so whose turn is it? I have no idea. Is it me? I just came up so naturally. I think it's Matt. Yeah, it's Matt. Me. Number 22. I have not heard Dick about this band. I don't even remember where I heard about this band. From Australia on Rise Above. This was, I didn't get into a ton of stoner metal this year a little bit. This is one of the bands there called Witch Skull. Their album is called Coven's Will. Oh, I think I know them.

01:03:30.020 --> 01:03:59.940
Yeah, I've heard them before. I forgot about that one. I love all the sounds of recognition. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, right, right, right, right, right. It wasn't a very doom year for me. I mean, other than a couple. I think I'm getting a doom year as my years go on. It's been a more death-y year for me. Me too. There's a lot of death metal. All over the place, like usual. All right, speaking of death metal, jumping on George's bandwagon here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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There's plenty of room on there.

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Is it covered?

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No, no.

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It's not a cover.

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It's a uncovered wagon.

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It's a bareback wagon.

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Obliteration.

01:04:14.859 --> 01:04:15.580
Cenotaph Obscure.

01:04:15.720 --> 01:04:16.200
Yes.

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I do not know this album.

01:04:17.620 --> 01:04:19.040
How can you not know this album?

01:04:19.900 --> 01:04:20.940
I think we talked about it.

01:04:21.040 --> 01:04:23.180
This is totally your wheelhouse.

01:04:23.340 --> 01:04:23.940
Yeah, big time.

01:04:24.620 --> 01:04:25.260
My number 22.

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Gruesome.

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Twisted Prayers.

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I have dreaded this moment. 22. Chemist, desolation. What the fuck? Yep. That's where it lives. So Jay's taking the first sucker punch that we're all going to take at some point today. Wow. And let me just also point out that this is not why I did it, but that my low average is going to drag it down from its chances of being number one.

01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:29.120
Damn you, Jay. I totally have to keep my pants on. Hey, Jay, don't worry, because I'm sure I dragged some album down myself, too, so it still has the chance of jumping up there. I just dragged a King Goat album. You know, salt really hurts when it goes on your chapped ass. It does. Since we are such friends with those guys, I just want to at least just remind us all of what you said, which is if you made it into my 25 this year, you worked hard.

01:05:29.580 --> 01:05:57.760
Yeah. But yeah, I just, there's a lot of stuff I love. So fair enough. Surprising. Still surprising though. No, I would, I would tell you why I rate it there, but I would do it off the air. Okay. Cause we are, cause I do love those guys. All right. Oh, uh, me. Did one of them like sleep with your wife or something? Like what the fuck? What the fuck happened? No, no, no, no. It's, I mean, it has to do with music. It's just, yeah. Yeah. All right.

01:05:59.340 --> 01:06:26.840
I'm glad I got it over with. Like I got some off my chest. It's not over, buddy. It's like Jay come out of the closet. All right. It's like, shit. Actually, I can't believe I'm going to admit this to these guys. It's like you're in English class. You remember you had to recite some long thing and Jay's like the first guy I called. He sits there and goes, fuck, I'm done. Everybody else has to go through that now. My number 22 is Skeleton Witch Devouring Radiant Light.

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going to hear that. Probably not at all. It might not be at all. Actually, you might be right. All right. Well, I mean, it's a weird, it's a record of controversy this year. If you ask me, a lot of people fucking love it. And then those of us that fell off with. Actually, they canceled Atlas, right? So we should just scrub that from the list altogether. Oh, did they really? Well, the only reason they canceled Atlas is it's a long story, not a long story, but we, we had to reduce our capacity of, for,

01:06:59.560 --> 01:07:26.440
fan attendance. And so when we had to do that, then rightfully so. I absolutely do not blame the band, but they're like, sorry, we need to find a different venue. Fair enough. It's a good album. Too big, but they're too big for Will. Nobody's too big for Will. He's a size queen. I know I wasn't.

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Are you done? Moving on. Number 21. Think of our friends in a fairground. Slate the wheel on Van Records. Oh, bless your heart. I want more people to discover that band. They describe themselves as heavy metal with a blackened spirit. I can't get enough of the soaring melodic tones on the LP. It's really good when I'm in the mood for Uplifting Evil. This is the album I will reach out. Perfect. Perfect description. Uplifting Evil. Yeah. All right.

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My number 21, probably the weirdest album on my list, says me. I would call this like Death, Doom, Ambient Metal from Germany. The band is Owl, and the album is Nights in Distortion. Oh, yeah. Nice. Yeah, it's a cool album. You're wrong, though. Cult Leader is the weirdest album on your list. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I should tour. All right, John. This is one of my top fives that dropped all the way down.

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All right.

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It's not that I don't like this album.

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It's just it fell.

01:08:32.799 --> 01:08:34.200
Atlas Moth, Coming Noir.

01:08:34.620 --> 01:08:34.859
Yeah.

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Yeah, that was really hitting with you guys early on.

01:08:38.299 --> 01:08:41.839
I think I just kind of, the vocals wore me a little bit as the year went on.

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I saw them live.

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They were cool live.

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Yeah.

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It just, you know.

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Honestly, that was not why I couldn't connect to it, John.

01:08:47.160 --> 01:08:48.500
The vocals just didn't work for me.

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And the music on this, compared to previous albums, is way better, I think.

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Oh, for sure.

01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:53.880
Yeah.

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But still a solid album.

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All right, Will.

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My, what number are we? 21. 21. So I was telling John in the hour-long plus car ride up here. At the gas station. Who doesn't gas up ahead of time? Come on. At the gas station. It was funny. We were driving up here. I'm like, holy shit, I'm about out of gas. Wouldn't that suck? It was pouring down rainstorm and we run out of gas on the way there. Scalping from Gaithersburg. Yeah. But I was, so last night,

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I was listening to an album and I woke up at like two something in the morning. I was listening to this album for like five hours on a loop. Some really fucked up dreams. And they didn't that. The album is my number 21 D aside overtures of blasphemy. This easily if I would have spent more time with it awake. I probably listen to this album more asleep than I was awake.

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It's hard for DSI to do too much wrong, in my opinion. I fucking love this album. It probably should have been higher. But you didn't hear it, though, so how would you know? If you've been awake, it might have been. In my dreams, it's number one. My subconscious. So he's going to listen to it tomorrow and say, fuck, this is my number three. Come on. Or he's going to be like, I hate this. All right, Jay.

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and I both got into this particular record. I would expect to see it on his list at some point. I think we're the two biggest fans. Ghastly, Death Valor. Oh, nice. Oh, that was a good one. Yeah, nice. There's some stuff in there I love, especially the last two minutes of that album. The whole record's great, but are just two of my favorite minutes of the year. I thought I was the favorite two minutes of the year. You got to get to two minutes first. Yeah, I was going to say.

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I love that ghastly velour cover. It would be an honorable mention for me. I was considering that. Was it some sort of like cosmic skeleton or something like that? It was almost like Alice in Chains dirt on acid. Reverse. Or something. Yeah, it was weird. It's cool. It's a dead sea goddess being dragged through the ocean by faceless pallbearers. That's pretty awesome. I love what he said. What he said. Gosh. It just makes me so happy.

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All right.

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George,

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what's your number 20,

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whatever we're doing here?

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21.

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It is Ashes of Aries,

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Well of Souls.

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You put it on.

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You were telling me,

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I don't know,

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this thing got my fucking crack.

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Yeah.

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And then I was like,

01:11:40.620 --> 01:11:40.940
wait a minute.

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Let me listen to this again.

01:11:42.420 --> 01:11:43.040
Matt Barlow.

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Matt Barlow.

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I like a red bush in my face.

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Okay.

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All right.

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All right.

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We have done the first five.

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We are going to take a wee wee break.

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Oh,

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yeah.

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I'm dying.

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All right.

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We will be right back.

01:12:02.700 --> 01:12:05.600
I gotta get one of those metal head shirts. Yeah, we

01:12:07.540 --> 01:12:12.180
Looch wants some too. I got a couple I want to get to. Yeah, so we should probably

01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:19.680
get those orders taken. I think we're getting close to make it worth our time. Yeah, yeah. And maybe we should take some with us to

01:12:19.900 --> 01:12:25.460
decibel too, like we did for MDF and just give a few away. We should give one to Albert. That is a brilliant idea.

01:12:26.080 --> 01:12:55.940
Yeah, it is. Yeah, I better be like, what the fuck do I want this for? You're gonna wear it everywhere you go. Talking about t-shirts? Mm-hmm. Man, I am so stoked for that Decibel of Philly show. Yeah. I'm really stoked about it. I'm gonna... It's really awesome to meet you guys and hang out. I'm like, you know, other than Trypticon, I mean, there are plenty of bands that I like, but I'm like, I'm gonna skip bands just so I can hang out with people. Dude, we even got TR to go to this. Yeah. He likes metal, but he's not a super metal fan. And he was like, I'm going Sunday. I'm like, you realize who's playing?

01:12:56.100 --> 01:13:26.040
Sunday, right? Yeah. It's like enslaved crypticons. I'm going to go see this. All right. Yeah. Trevor from Ashenhor just got ahold of me last night and asked if we were going. I was like, hell yeah, we're going. So if he goes, he's now going to go. Yeah, man. Chris is already going. And I just want to listen to TR talk. Yeah. Radio voice. We are going to, there's not enough seats in that lobby. Do you think it'll be at the same? What's your name? Will? Do you know where they're putting people?

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I have one just to throw it in. I can cancel anytime I want, but I can't imagine they're going to stay anywhere else. No, it worked out perfect. It's close to the venue. I'm sure it'll be there. Jay, all I want to hear is this. Yeah, you guys can sit there, but you need to put my lobby back together when you're done. To be fair, we did. We did a good job. When he said that to you, I was just like, we got to put it back together. We dismantled it. What did you move again? Was it like some giant swan?

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some centerpiece thing or something.

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And they had huge pizza boxes.

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There was beer bottles everywhere.

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I mean, we had no regard for anybody but ourselves.

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We're just like, this was ours.

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Do you go to metal shows and redecorate?

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I don't understand.

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Yeah.

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It was the lobby.

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No, it was the lobby of the hotel.

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We just were like, yeah.

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We didn't.

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We just camped.

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Didn't plan on that.

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It's just where you guys say we're down in the lobby.

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Just come downstairs when I got there.

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And it was just us sitting there.

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And then Looch brings down like a caravan of beer.

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Yeah, and then Carcass stops by, Repulsion stops by, and there's no place else to go. You're just like, this is where we're sitting. That's awesome. All right, we are into the top 20 now. Shit's getting real now. Marcus, what's your 20? First, I got to tell you, I just opened this. This is really good. Big Bad Batista from Epic Brewing. Nice, from Salt Lake. Crazy. Yeah, it's good stuff. Real good. Number 20 for me is Glacial Tunes. Nice. Self-titled. Yes.

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I love the sound of this band. It's like an old school death metal, dirty with a modern brightness to it. Very good production for a death metal thing. Yes, very good. It has an unpredictable quality to the music too. I found myself surprised by the instrumentation and some of the vocal changes on each track. So I liked that it had those little surprises while still being brutal. You know, what's interesting is when I really just put some headphones on and got it on the flack and was listening to Glitch

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You have a style, sir.

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All right, Matt.

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All right.

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My number 20.

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From what I've read, and we've touched on it just a little bit, the concept of some people really hate this new record, some people are still a fan of this new record. Dude, not Machine Head. Machine Head. What? Do you want me to just go to number 19? Or 17. I've loved it. I love this band for so long. And I was, I had a really difficult time when they switched singers. I'm going to admit, I struggle with the EP they put out.

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And after listening to the South, I don't know, just to, the guitar player had a good quote in Decibel, and I can't remember what it was, but he said, you know, the contrast of the music you're listening to and then having a t-shirt that says eat some fucking pussy, you know, was kind of a contrasting world, and I don't know, I felt like that was a good quote that kind of encapsulated this new record, Skeleton Witch, Devouring Radiant Light.

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Yeah, I have to, the only thing I'll say there is I actually really like the EP a lot, but that's cool, yeah, that's cool.

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It needs to be represented here. I think I had. I said it. Yeah. Right. I think the deal for me with the EP was just like, I'm not dealing with this change right now. Like, I like Chance. What was it on your list? 22. Sorry. Yeah. Like, you guys have seen that. I totally love that guy. And, but no, I've embraced Adam as well. Yes. Well, and he's from this area, so I really have no fucking choice. Yeah. I did totally miss that, George.

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That's crazy. Has George said anything else? Because he has been really quiet. George fell from underneath the table. Get back up here. On a scale of one to ten, how did I kind of rebound from having to just like immediately rip the machine head off my list? I'm just like a panic skeleton. I'm going to go ahead and say, man, you're a professional. Machine head burning red.

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These guys are friends of the podcast. We all know them. One guy may have helped George in his darkest moments in life. Another one. Was that like when he was like a Twinkie or a Ho-Hop? Oh, okay. No, this is all right then. Another one is a Fates Warning fan. George and I saw them in a lodge. Sweating our balls off. Sweat lodge. It was. With the bathroom right behind the drummer.

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What was the other side of the room? It was like two feet over. Anyway, in Farrah Burrow, Saruman, I enjoyed this album. It's nice. Let me just hit this up. And it's not because we know them. I actually like this album. No, no. There's nothing on here just because I know them. Just by the way, what I learned at work is that if you use the word actually, it's a microaggression. Because it's like, well, I don't really think it's that. It's like, actually, wow. You know what I think? I thought they suck, but actually, it's good. It's a microaggression.

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Actually, fuck you! Here's a microaggression. Go fuck yourself. No! That's a macroaggression. Oh, good! So that's even more pronounced. Whenever Will takes out his penis, it's a microaggression. So we went from five to six dick jokes. Nicely done. My number 20.

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All Father. And all will be desolation. What? Yeah, I know. It's a little surprising it's that low, but there's... Yeah. You know what? It is what it is. All I gotta say is, that guy had chemists at like number 25, so... Deflecting. Nice. Reduce to that guy. I mean... Not just Jay. That guy. That guy with the big nose. No, not that guy with the big nose. The other guy with the big... The guy with the big nose with the glasses. That guy. Yeah. Holy...

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You know when you buy those Gacha Marks glasses and they have the nose on them and the mustache? I just buy the glasses. I don't need the nose. That's the thing. If I put my glasses on right now, y'all won't recognize me. You'd be like, who is that? It's Jay. I did see your glamour shots from high school. You used to be handsome. What happened? Me? Oh, I was? Yeah, I saw that too. I was like... That's quite the pose. I was sporting wood.

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I can redo that when I'm in Philly. I mean, I still have that shirt. You know what? Do that on the couch at the Sheridan and that would be pretty damn funny. I'll do it in the lobby. Anyway, the Allfather guys. I love when they send out the emails on Bandcamp like, all right, you lovely bastard. In fact, I got one today. You lovely bastard. So I hit them up when I went to London a couple months ago and I tried to link up with them. And then as I was landing at Heathrow, I

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I was messaging them like we're playing right now yeah like well literally right now on stage right now yeah we just got off stage I'm like mother fucker we're gonna try and get Tom on in January we've already talked about awesome so beards metal fuck you cool yeah all right Jay 20 didn't sit with George too well no that's not true but George gives me shit about because it's a compilation but it's a good compilation

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What are you talking about? Napalm Death. I can't bitch about Napalm Death. No, I know. It wasn't that. It's an odd format, but they're all like B-sides and Japanese releases and shit like that. But put together, it's a powerful piece of... And it's Napalm Death. And it's Napalm Death. Since I'm not the biggest Napalm Death fan. Are these songs that were recorded?

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or did they record them again for this release? No, it was previously. So this, it's kind of, I wouldn't say, I don't think it's career spanning, but it's not far off. Cool. All right. Yeah. That's more, a little bit more late era stuff, but I mean, there's like one of those things that was just like, how come these weren't on like an album? You know? Sorry, Will's opening some Surly. Plus I had to. I got a big bottle in my crotch and they're all, he's got a knife. That's not a knife.

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I got two lovely chubby bastards drooling on my crotch. You know what? All right. Sorry. You're not lovely. You're just chubby. It's my turn, isn't it? Yeah. My number 20 is cult leader, a patient man, but I'm getting impatient for that's early. Nice. George wants the darkness. Darkness. Imprisoning me. Oh, sorry. Wait, by the way, did you guys notice that the last song,

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The Pig Destroyer album was a riff off of Injustice for All. No. Yeah. It's the fade into or whatever that is. It's the fade into the last song. Dire's Eve? Dire's Eve. Where did they get off? That was like the last greatest song. Think about that. I think that was song number nine on off of Injustice for All. That was the last

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Good Song they've ever recorded ever. In 1989. And that little fucking five foot one motherfucker still won't put the bass back in the album. Sorry. Yeah, you're right. Why are you just not using the bottle opener? He wouldn't give it to me because he... Bullshit. He won't give it to me. All the extras are just so spectacular on this. Now he can use it. All right, here. You want to leave right here for you? Are you guys going to drink that?

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What's going on over there? Well, if somebody's knife would work. This is a Brutal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers beer, which we should mention. We should pour one out for it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Should we pour it down? Rip Adam's column. We just found out today. I found out today, or I guess we all found out today, that Adam, the great Adam Tepedelin, the author of the Bible, the Brutal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers.

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possibly all our favorite book in the world the guy who's been more

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responsible for destroying my liver and destroying my health how can you cancel the bible

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yeah so um we found out today via twitter that adam's column which is the brutal truth column in

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decimal magazine is no more when the february it's out i have it no no but i'm saying it's like

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The January issue is the last issue that you will see this column in the Decimal Magazine. It's because Deaf Heaven was on the cover and he's like, fuck it, I'm out. I'm out of here. For the record, I mean, I got the issue. We already know what the top 40 was they picked. I just didn't read because I was so busy with other stuff around the house. I had these bastards over last weekend. Thank you, sir.

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And I went back and I was like, how did I miss this? It was in Albert's editorial. Oh, really? I don't ever read those. Wait, wait. I mean, not because of Albert. Yes, it is. And I'm just guessing we were all so busy prepping for this. We all got shit going on right now. I don't. I mean, sometimes. I read his editorial. I always read it. It is in there. I skip editorials a lot. Not just Albert's, but anybody. I just, I skip to the stuff. Sometimes I read them. Yeah. I guess I should have read that. I think also, too, we knew it was a list. We already saw it because they released it early. So I was like, oh, yeah.

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I checked out the reviews real quick. Go get your copy. I want to see this editorial. I read the editorial. I don't remember seeing anything about the real truth. It's in the Deaf Heaven one. It is. I know, but in the editorial, Albert said we're killing his column. The whole thing is about it. Yeah. It's a photo of him and Adam, right? Yes. Oh, maybe I didn't read that. That's why I sent you in the car today. He started on issue 55 and I was like, I have to go back and see how many of them I'm missing because I started collecting them back in the 30s, I think. So what was the rationale? What was in the?

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I don't know. Matt, did you read? I mean, I skimmed through it. Did you? I was, I think I was more just bummed to read it that I didn't really absorb anything else. You took yours and burned yours right away. Where's your issue? Yeah. What are you doing? You're like, fuck this is bullshit. I read Neil's column and then. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bummer. I mean, if he's going to do more things like the stained class from Judas Priest. Okay. Fair enough. But still, I'd rather hear him.

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talk about beer and metal. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't understand. You've got Decibel, Metal, and Beer Fest. Why would you not continue to talk about beer in the magazine? I made a suggestion today that maybe we'll see Brittle Truth Guide 2.0, maybe now. It's time to concentrate on that. Was there any reasoning at all in the editorial? Because I also didn't read it. I get Decibel as well, but I didn't read the editorial. Let's call it Adam right now. I mean, next year is it going to be the Decibel, Metal, and Metal Fest?

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Yeah. And when we call him, just ask him for his top 25. Let's get those in real quick. I mean, coming from the publishing world, you know, when you're putting on a magazine, you always have to try to do something different. You know, you can't just stay stagnant. So I don't know what they're going to do in place of that. Or maybe he got tired of it. You want to do something else, got a better opportunity. You don't really know, but it sounds like he's going to be. That's a first.

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Hello?

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He's not gonna pick up.

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Ask him to call us back.

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He sees who it is.

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He's like, fuck that guy.

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Fuck that guy.

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He's like, there's some call from the U.S.

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Who is this asshole?

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I'm gonna be in the U.S.

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He's in the U.S.

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He's not in Canada.

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You have reached.

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Ask him to call us back.

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Okay, I forgot that out.

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Oh yeah, cut that out.

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We'll have to you as soon as we can. Thanks. Bye.

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I just read, I just...

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Hey, Adam, it's Will.

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We are discussing live on the podcast about the end of your column, The Brutal Truth column in Decibel.

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And we would love to hear from you.

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So give me a call back when you get a chance.

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Preferably in the next couple hours.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Like call me back in like the next hour. Later, man. Yeah. I hope he calls. Hey guys. So my number 23 is. Just so you know that there's no rationale in the editorial I just read. It's just a celebration of all he did, but it doesn't say he's moving on to bigger. No, I think from what I understand is I think hopefully he'll call back, but I think he is just going to do more music stuff and less beer stuff, but still stay with decibel. That's, that's the

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I emailed him the other day about something related but unrelated. Not related to the end of the con. Anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah. Maybe he'll call back. Maybe. He's still there, so that's a positive. Anybody else you want to call? Ghostbusters. All right. What number are you on? 19? 19. Yes, number 19. Piggybacking off of George's last selection, I have cult leader, a patient man. Yes. From Death Wish Records.

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This album threw me for a loop. I came for the aggressive sludgy crust death and I ended up staying for the sexy come hither Nick Cave tracks. That definitely is what piqued my interest. I was like listening to it going, yeah, it's pretty heavy and all right. But then when they did that, I was like, oh, okay, I got to pay attention now. Yeah, I mean, they're split in styles. It's like two very distinct styles on the record, but somehow it just works for me.

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I really enjoyed it. Yep, me too. Obviously. All right, Matt. My number 19, I would just like to echo what John said previously. Inferibruo. Yes. Cool. You're pretty cool, dude. Yeah, all right, man. We're going to keep you around. I think you guys are really great people. I think we said that last year. It's good to talk to you. Remember when I was on the podcast that last year?

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I'm the only one here that's actually hugged you.

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And multiple times.

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Yeah.

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April.

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April.

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It's going to be one big like.

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Has he cupped your ass?

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It's like a.

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It'll be like a huddle.

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And we're all going to be like jumping up and down at the same time going.

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Well, okay.

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I'm not going to tell you what we're going to be saying.

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But.

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I'm bringing a suitcase of beer and a suitcase of talcum powder because we're going to be blissful.

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Hey, it's got asbestos in it now.

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Just be careful.

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I heart thugs.

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I'm going to go ahead.

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Which, by the way, suitcase and talcum powder, real easy to get through airport security. I'm going to go ahead and say that's going to get sampled at some point. All right, my number 19. Ashes of Aries, Well of Souls. Yes. Love me some Matt Barlow. Matt Barlow. There is no clean singer other than Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford. That is probably better than him alive. I think we talked about it.

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Mount Rushmore of Metal Singers. In my opinion, he is. You guys have a thing for redheads, don't you? He sounds just as good live as he does on an album. He's so nice. He's a fucking cool dude. 19? 19. This one goes out to Dan Kloginjar and Mike Klasson up in

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Winnipeg.

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Winnipeg.

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Manitoba.

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Manitoba's wild kingdom, eh?

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Manitoba.

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You know that the abbreviation for Manitoba is man.

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Sweet.

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Wilt.

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Ruin.

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This is a...

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Wait, I've got one for this.

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It literally is what you said.

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Damn it.

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It is this epically beautiful symphony of black metal.

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That's what you said about that album. That's where I sampled that. I know. Nice. Yeah, it's inspired by the Cormac McCarthy's movie book of the book, The Ruin, which was a Viggo Morrison movie. That was The Road. The Road, sorry. The Road. The album is The Ruin. Anyway, fucking great album. I have that on vinyl. I played it. Even my kids like it. Your kids have really good taste for kids. My kids. That came off a little weird, but okay.

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Your kids taste really good. Okay. The other white meat. Jay, number 19. Another slightly controversial outing, I think, along the lines of Skeleton Witch, but very different. But they're back. Been gone for a while, so to speak. Took a while to put this one together. Pig Destroyer Headcage. Nice. It really is good. And Marcus made a really good comment about it.

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the mid-year-old, I think it was, or whenever we talked about it. And I couldn't agree with you more that the bass on that record is fucking heavy. The bass and the production is just glorious. It's definitely their best produced album without question, and they definitely went in a little bit longer format this time than some of the stuff they've done. As far as some of the individual songs go, it was great. And they killed it at the festival last two. So my number 19. Jay is going to both be like, number 19?

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I'm also going to be glad that it's on my list. Chapel of Disease and we have seen the storm. We have embraced the eye. One of the late ones. I could live with that. I could live with that. This could have been higher. Had you had more time? No. Had they mixed the vocals differently? The vocals themselves are good. The vocals are good. But they bury them. Take some of that reverb off. He's got a very nice like almost like a coroner kind of vocal style.

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And if it was really in your face more, this could have done higher. I think it's a very conscious choice on their part as a guest because of the reverb on there and stuff. I think they're giving a nod to kind of 80s death stuff a little bit. He sounds like the guy from Possessed to me that's mixed a little bit that way too. Anyway, no, that's a fine place to put it. I like it too. It's a good record. They're a band to watch. I think so.

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Yeah, because that last one was so good. This was definitely a step up from the last one, for sure. It is. Yeah, they're progressing, for sure. And it's German, so, you know. There's a lot of death and roll in this one, isn't there? I don't know if they play, if they're in the same town or something, but they play with Soul for Yellow a lot. And their albums are released almost the same day. I know, no, it is weird. It's the same band, just different names. Doctor? It could be. Doctor.

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All right, Mark is on. Number 18. All right, number 18. I know you guys are probably going to have this higher on your lists, but Rivers of Nile, where owls know my name on Metal Blade Records. Lovely. Really great progressive death metal album. A lot of cool experimentation in this one. I love the technicality, the acoustic guitars, the saxophone, the guitar souls are really good in it. Nice little wrinkle in the death metal scene.

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A. Refreshing album I felt this year. Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Where owls don't know your name. Oh, yeah. That's a good joke. I never thought of that. Who? Wait, is this an Abbott Costello? Who's on first? Yeah, I was starting to feel that way. What's on first? No, it sounds like a WWE. Who's that wrestling group? Does that all the time? I forget now. Whoop, whoop!

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Whoa.

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That really didn't resonate with anybody.

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We're like, you're on your own, pal.

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No, truth be told, some of my closest friends, their father was a professional wrestler for years.

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So I do know a little bit.

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But not anybody cares.

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I've heard that before.

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No one cares.

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All right.

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I'm full of care.

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The new day.

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I'm full of care.

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My number 18.

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God, this is, I mean, again, as we've talked.

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The Order of these lists, the people on these lists, the, I mean, just the constant inner turmoil. State your shame. The Ocean. Oh, nice. Phanerozoic One, Paleozoic. Matt, you have no idea. George was about to push a button. And then as soon as you said The Ocean, oh, back to his hand. It's on the list. It's on the list. I like it. You literally, you had to be here to see this. You got to reprieve. What button was it going to be? It was going to be like a.

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You don't have a toilet flushing or anything like that? There you go. You just recorded John peeing. That sounds like the ocean. I got some screaming. That sounds like the ocean. Your unhooded menace is streaming. I'm trying to talk and I'm like ready to just sneeze all through this mic right now. All right. Hey, Jay, you're off the snide right now. I'm going to jump on it. I'm going to replace you.

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Okay, I'm in. Let's hear it. My number 18. Wait. 18? Yes. Whoa. Preemptive. And I still like it. I love this album, but it just didn't get enough listens is what it boils down to. You should put it on headphones and fall asleep to it and listen to it six times in a row. Yeah, but then I hear like the first like it's like watching a television show that you keep watching that same scene over and over again because you keep falling asleep and you keep rewinding. Say it. Yob, our raw heart.

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Oh, wait. Yeah. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. You know, it's there. What was I listening to last night? Nope. It's Yop. All right. Yeah. I honestly think we're getting high enough in numbers here that nobody has to apologize anymore because as I look at the rest of my list, so much of this could have been in the top 10. No more apologies. No more apologies. Unless Slug is below 10 for anybody. Peace and love.

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Number 18.

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Why am I looking at my list, by the way?

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Well, when you scroll down, I looked at it.

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That's it.

01:39:16.700 --> 01:39:17.920
It's something I'm going to show to these guys now.

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I didn't announce it.

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Okay.

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Number 18.

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Glacial Tomb.

01:39:24.820 --> 01:39:24.940
Oh.

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Self-titled.

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Yes.

01:39:27.500 --> 01:39:27.640
Nice.

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I have to say, this is one of those times where the, when we talked to Ben for like six hours

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Over many glasses of wine and beer, I completely fell in love with the album. I like dicks. By the way, has anyone noticed the correlation between the episode being the longest ever and they're named after a glacier? That thing's been moving for the last 40,000 years. Yeah, the more I listen to it and then

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It's so good. What is it? Corrupted, sludge, black and death metal. But it's good. It is good. It is really good. And then they have a soft spot in my heart because I know you guys probably have seen it, but I actually wore a long sleeve glacial tomb when I scaled a glacier. I saw that on Instagram or something. Pretty much the most metal thing I've ever done. Insta dick pic or whatever it was.

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Mine is described by Markisan I thought very well. Uplifting Evil. Maybe that's the way he said it. They added some small aspect of Tribulation to their sound this year. I actually like the last record a little better, but this one's still great. Slate the Wheel. That's a good one. Really good. It is good. Yeah. That was more of a late addition for me. You know, I had to listen to it a few more times. I just hadn't given it

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enough chances and it made the list so yeah keeper i thought i was gonna take some crap for this one being my number 18 but it was somebody else's number 18 so i'm gonna feel good about this and there's no more apologies right the ocean fenny or paleozoic you know that album with the dinosaurs yeah nice i'm happy to see it's on two lists so far yeah i mean who the fuck would like take

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and use dinosaurs for their entire genre of their art. They don't really sing about it. That's a funny thing. There's just some song titles. I like Jurassic Park. You guys know I love me some dinosaurs. Medium rare. That was the joke. How did they come up with these names? Like, well, we got this thing we have in this rock. It looks like a fish. They went to the Natural History Museum and said,

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Let's write down some song titles. I guess so. I'm talking about those guys. How do they come up with the names? Yeah, the guys at the National History Museum. The dudes on the History Channel. The actual paleontologists. They're like, let's come up with some unpronounceable names so those dicks on that metal podcast have a hard time. Weirdly enough, a lot of those dinosaurs are named after the people who discover them. Yeah. Unpronounceable names like Markisan Nassau. I'm putting that on a dinosaur. Big Johnson-asaurus.

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You guys got it down now though

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Yeah

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We practiced a lot before you got here

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Did I ever

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Did I tell you guys the story of my name?

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No

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No

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Not to make the podcast longer

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Don't worry

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We always make it

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We're on that path right now

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So my name Mark San

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I'm named after my grandfather

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He's from Indonesia

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But his name was not Mark San

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When he was born

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It was Duhalem

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And he lived in the woods

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Just in the jungle

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You know, there was no running water. There's no technology or anything. It's the village in the middle of the jungle. And when he was young, he got sick a lot. And so they didn't have any doctors or anything. They had a medicine man there. So they took him to the medicine man and they said, the reason your child's so sick is because his name is too heavy. So they changed his name to Markasam, which is not an Indonesian name. And after that, he wasn't sick for a long time in his life. That's wild. How are you feeling? What? How are you feeling?

01:43:36.500 --> 01:44:04.740
Hey, man. He said it was the jungle. Way off. Wait, so your heritage is your grandfather or your father? Grandfather. Yeah, my grandfather's from Indonesia. My other grandfather is Italian, so I've got a lot of just a big man's stuff. Whoa, that's weird. Yeah, Italian. That's super weird. They have strange lasagna at their house. What is this?

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What is this? This is weird. That's a cool story, man. My last name is also made up, Naso, because in Indonesia they don't have last names. So when my grandfather immigrated to this country and met my grandmother and they decided they were going to get married, my grandmother said, well, I need a last name to take. And she said, well, what was your father's name? And my grandfather's father's name was NASA. But my grandmother didn't want to be named after the Space Center. So she changed the A to an O and that's all I got, NASA.

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That was a great story. That's crazy. Your name is a complete pile of storyhood bullshit. Wait, what? Well, I mean, everything's made up. No, no, I mean, like, it's all true stories, but it's all made up. Like, that's crazy. In a good way. I mean, all names are made up. Well, that's true. Yeah. Good point. Okay. Where are we? Jay, were you going to tell a story? I was just going to jokingly say how Jay came about, but I mean,

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Actually, Dickens is not your name either. Nor is Jay. It's Jason. I know. I found that out just recently. No, that really isn't an interesting story. Well, my name is my last name is my last name because I took my wife's last name when I got married. Yeah, John BT told us that. What? What was your last name before, Jay? Bernhardt. Which is way too close to Bernhardt. Nice and honest German name, Bernhardt. B-E-R-N-H-A-R-D.

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Yeah, that's it. Not very interesting. Do you have a sister named Sandra? Sarah. Close. Not bad, huh? Wait, so there's a Sarah Bernhardt? Yeah, she's a... No, I don't have a sister named Sarah. I'm saying there's a famous Sarah Bernhardt. She's like a dancer or something. I was thinking of the actress. By the way, there's a guy... I've been watching... A guy who plays for the Dallas Stars right now. There's a Jason Dickinson playing for the Dallas Stars. So whenever I watch it, I'm like, what? And Jason Dickinson, I'm like, okay, I like this.

01:46:04.660 --> 01:46:04.900
This guy.

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For no good reason.

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All right, let's move on.

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Whose turn is it?

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Matt?

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Is it me?

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I don't know.

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I think we did the one all the way around.

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Marcus, you did your 17?

01:46:17.450 --> 01:46:18.340
Well, of course I did 18.

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I haven't done 17 yet.

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Yeah, I think we are.

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Did you do yours?

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I did.

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It was the ocean.

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You were the ocean?

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Oh, yeah.

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So here we go.

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Get back in.

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All the way around.

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All right.

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Number 17 is Yashira Shrine from Good Fight Records.

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Just a fantastic mix of hardcore sludge, prog, death, post-metal, big chubby bass-driven riffs. I like this band because a lot of times I hear bands who put a variety of different sounds into their music, but they forget to be metal. So Shry never forgets to cave in your skull. And I really like this album a lot. Never forgets to cave in your skull. They probably have a note on their refrigerator. Cave in skull. They need that quote on their band camp page.

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We got one now. We forgot to be model. Sort of like machine head. Did I say that out loud? No, but I will if you need me to. Okay. Nice. All right. Number 2017. This is not a good example to say this, but up until right now, I realized I don't know how to pronounce this.

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name and that is probably the second most stressful thing about picking out a list is not fucking up the pronunciation of the band's name on while we're recording uh i i'm going to say this band is called sumac or is it sumac sumac i think it's sumac sumac is a uh it's like a poison ivy thing or something yeah good good good well here i've just learned something today a little bit cooler the album which name i can't fuck up is called love and shadow

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But it would have been funny if you did. Yeah, it's a good album. Really atmospheric. Just interesting. A lot different than other bands out there. I have it on vinyl. I'm a fan. And I have the digital copy of that. Thank you, Will. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm hoping. I always put the digital downloads in the messenger, hoping somebody will pick them up.

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Can they only be used once? Yes. First come, first serve. That's what that means. That's Will's tramp stamp, by the way. Yeah, but once you guys download it, you know you can just share the files. Yeah. Will is open 24 hours a day. File sharing? We never close. Will is 65 billion served. That's good. I like that, Marcus. I am.

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your debts are. Wait a second. Now explain this again. We could share the files. It's a foreign concept other than the box. I guess it's not so foreign. I think all of us are far into the box at this point, but very familiar with the rear end. Yes, we are. This is a box you speak of. All right. So, Jay, I'm going to stay on that hot seat a little longer. So you don't have to.

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Oh, okay, good. I was worried that it was something I love. King goat. Dead of bounds. What? Dropped for me, unfortunately. Christ on a crotch. Yeah. That I did not expect. Well, who expects Christ on a crotch? That's weird. There it is. Right there. 17. You used to be cool, man. Dude, that was never cool. What are you talking about? Come on, man.

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What's the thing? Almost famous. You can call me anytime. I'm so glad you were home when I called you. Of course I'm home. I'm not cool. I love that movie. Number 17. I'm sorry. You're going to keep going. No, coming in hot. No, I was like, oh, here we go. 17 coming. All right. 17. Viren X Hordium from Queensland, Australia.

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A lot of Gojira vibe on this back when like Gojira like Mars is a serious time frame. Yep. When they were super fucking heavy and just destroy your mind. Me like the heaviest material in the universe. Yes. Kind of like that. Anyway, these guys are brutal. They're awesome. A lot close to a lot close to Gojira. But man, they they pulled off. It's cool. Yeah. Do you pull it off?

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I would just let that float out there for a minute. Shit show. That was money well spent on that chicken. It was. The more I drink, that chicken looks more violated. I mean, it looks like a sex doll. Look at that. Its eyes are rolled in the back of its head. Its mouth is wide open. He's like, I wasn't thinking that, but okay. He's like,

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For those sitting at home, George just violated a rubber chicken by sticking his finger up his ass. Hey, Jay, can you save us here? Are you next? Yeah. Can I interrupt for one second? My kids said literally yesterday, we want to watch Moana this weekend. And this is all I'm going to think about now. Where are your kids right now? Upstairs. Go bring them down. No. Go bring them down. Actually, I think only one of them's home. Did you lose one?

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I like that you don't know where the other one is. This is an R-rated episode. We cannot have children. I don't know where my kids are. All right, I'm going to slip in here with my pick. Whoa! Slide it in! White snake to the top! The top! I am never going to stop. So, I think, George, you might be a little disappointed with me in this one. Just like you apologized to me for Chapel of Disease. George's finger is ready, by the way. He doesn't have a button to push.

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We'll see. I think I might be right about that. Do it, Jay. Do it. I didn't have enough time with this one yet, but I like it. Solfer Eon, The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos. Jay is my bitch. Perfect. I am shocked, sir. Shocked. I did think it would be. I have to say, I thought this would be a lot higher on your list. Me too. There's less variance on this album than the last one. It kind of picks a mood where it's got these long double basses.

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And then the snare is like not like a death snare. It's like, you know what I'm talking about? Those long, big drum up beats. It kind of does that for the whole record. And they pick some really cool grooves and they get into them, but it's not a complaint. I love it. I like the last one a little better. Let me ask you a question. Do you feel this album is a little more dense than the previous ones? It's a big wall of sound for me. Yeah, I'll buy that. And it's definitely better produced. I like it. I like this band a lot.

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I also I'm going to go with my initial comment. I haven't got enough listens yet. I listen to them a lot. I just like the previous one a lot more. And for the record, it has not been released yet. Technically. Not until next week. But it's showing up on a lot of lists though. Legitimate lists across the board. But that pleases me because I felt like they were not as visible the last one as they should have been.

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So at least they're being seen. None of that is to say I don't like it. I think it's great. Where's my completely disappointed button? It's right. It's your belly button, isn't it? That's what Barb calls it. That's just north of my completely disappointed button. It's a lot of disappointing buttons around there. All right, Georgie. 17?

01:54:29.820 --> 01:54:59.400
Yeah. Evoking hypnagogia. Nice. Good call. Thank you. Yeah. Markisan 16. All right. Piggybacking off of George again. Number 16. Evoking hypnagogia. We got this thing. We're going to find out. Great album. We're going to find out. He's like upstairs right now. He's like looking over my shoulder going. Yeah, it's a good pick. I'll go with that. Yeah. We should mention it's their first concept.

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And it's pretty cool. The story is about a mortally wounded soldier in World War I who makes a pact with an evil god to bind the darkness in his soul to a journal that records his dying moments. And then whoever reads the diary manifests those same emotions until they kill themselves. In other words, super happy, upbeat stuff from Revolta. Once again, Marcasson describes something better than we ever do. Yep. By far. It's almost like he does his homework and we don't. Exactly. We're just here for the beer.

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This is a good time to make a public service announcement. If you've been living under a rock or under Mordor's castle. Castle is not a castle. What is it? Wait. Mordor? Maybe it's a castle. It's a big thing sticking out of the ground. I don't know. I think it's a castle. Lord of the Rings. Yeah, whatever. Anyway. Carry on. Jesus. Titty fucking. My precious. Titty fucking.

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Yes. Evoken will be headlining the Decimal Metal Beer Fest kickoff party, which is happening at Atlas Brew Works here in Washington, D.C. On April 5th. April, Friday, April 5th. Fuck yeah. Evoken. My Atlas. Birthday week. Oh yeah, because your birthday is the day before 4-4. Party. Party. There's so many damn shows next year. I don't know if I bought tickets for this.

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or not? Oh, just get on and already. Well, I may have. That's the thing. I don't want to buy tickets again, but I... It's a brown paper bag. I think it's the adroit one I bought tickets for, so I don't think I bought tickets for this. I need to do that. Because they just announced this one the other day. Yeah, so yeah. Is that Hassan doing that one? Who else is playing? Yeah, so we recruited Hassan to promote it, but... And who else is playing? So I was going to say, is that Cribs Sermon? Boing. Boing, coming out with a new album. The album is finishing up any day.

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now releasing early next year and uh steve and enrique from crypt sermon were just at atlas because they played in uh deva and who played atlas and uh i got to talk to each one of them and the new album is supposed to be fucking amazing cool bring on the traditional doom definitely one of my most anticipated albums i would be surprised if is what i think

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The Crip Sermon album is going to be if it's not my number one next year. On the record now. Fucking bold ass on the record statement. Honorable mentions for 2019. Crip Sermon. And so the last band playing is Ilsa. Which, by the way, they were up in, on Thanksgiving Day, they were up in Portland or Seattle, somewhere up in some atrocious place in the Northwest where they just are grunge happy. They had all their shit stolen. So we were having a benefit

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The Atlus featuring Inter Arma. Nice. And we're going to raise money for Ilsa to recoup the cost of having all their shit stolen. You will be able to buy them a new distortion pedal. Well, that's the start. Yeah. Inter Arma is great. Oh, they are so good. And I thought they had a new record come out. They do. They are making a new record. So another band is having a new record coming out. Speaking of new albums, I just found out yesterday.

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Based on Trevor talking about Decibel, that Ash and Horde will likely have a new album out before Decibel Metal and Beer Fest. So definitely looking forward to that. It's going to be on a label too. Yes, it is. So that's awesome. I kind of wanted to break real quick just to say that in Marcus's description of it. Who's Marcus? Marcusons. Marcusons.

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I'm really I'm like I know we keep kind of jumping on you for this but I'm literally thinking there are people in the bands I'd be like yeah I never really thought of that way if you if you describe their stuff to them I mean like your description is really good dude and I just I'm literally here the guys in the book and we're like fuck yeah I want to hear that record oh wait that's ours yeah I really appreciate that yeah yeah I try my best yeah well you're you're nailing it cool man who whose turn is uh is that man I think so

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Is it Matt? All right. That's as far as we got. That's crazy. I have heard so much as probably everybody else about this album. Mostly people being like, wow, this is 16. Most people saying like how weird it is for the person. And honestly, the more I hear those comments, the more I love it. And I loved it already. But that is Eson. The album is called Imr. Imr. I'm pronouncing it Amr, like the British version of Hammer.

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I'm probably wrong about that. Nobody's going to complain about that. Nobody on this podcast. Nope. No complaints. Okay. No, sorry. I did not apologize. 16. Done with that. I didn't think that these guys were going to make my list because this is kind of a later in the year release. And there's like only one dude left in the band from the original band. But I kind of dig it. From Norway. In the woods.

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Seize the Day. Wow. Yeah. It is good. I'm, you know, after we saw them at MDF, I fucking hated them. I was bummed after that. Cause it was so bad. It seemed disorganized and not. Yeah. But this is not bad. Yeah. So I would like to see them again now. Yeah. A little more time under their belt. So, yeah. So this is what I love about your podcast is I have not heard that album. I've listened to about 150 albums this year, you know, but I have not heard that.

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So now I've got to go check this out. It's not the In the Woods from the 90s, though. No, but it's still good. It's more kind of a progressive black, I guess, with some doom aspect here and there. It's not very black because there's like, I don't know. Maybe the vocals are more than anything else. Not the music. Yeah. Willem. 16. To Mold. To Mold. To Mold. To Mold. To Mold. To Mold. To Mold. To

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I know this is really hard to believe. Playboy Manor of Infinite Penthouse Forums. Yes. All right. Two Mold. They're playing Decimal Metal and Beer Fest. They've played Atlas three times. I'm going to get to finally see them. Finally. Yeah, me too. I saw a picture. You know why? They played twice on Jen's birthday. I know. That's why you don't see them. I know. Trust me. When we were doing something for her birthday, I kept thinking, those guys are having so much fun right now. I'm having fun too, but they're having a different kind of fun. You know what?

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You know what's interesting and sad at the same time is that I think I know all your wives' birthdays more than your birthdays because I know there's days that you guys are cut out. I know Barb's birthday is around April-ish. March 31st. She's a few days for me. And Veterans Day is Jen's birthday because I know there's days that you guys are like, I can't go to do this or that. She says literally there's only two days a year I can't do anything. That's one of them. The rest of the year is open.

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That includes all holidays, everything. It's just, yeah. What's the other one? Yeah, what is the other one? Gay butt sex, eh? Is it Pearl Harbor Day? Is it like that? It has to do with her father. You all feel like shit, don't you? You're a fucking asshole. You had to go there. No. That's out of respect. Those are the two days we don't do anything. Jam.

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Chaplip disease as we have seen the start.

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Oh, again.

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They're a John BT, John TB.

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I don't like calling him that.

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It's TB.

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Tuberculosis?

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I had it the first.

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Yeah, he's got TB.

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That's sad.

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He looks great though, by the way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, he's doing it.

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He calls these guys a mix between death metal and.

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Pink Floyd?

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Leonard Skinner.

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That album reminds me of Wolverine Blues. It's Death and Roll. Okay. It's also, but I mean, it's God. They could have just as easily called this one, The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art, because they like to pick a chord structure and follow it for a long time, and then, you know, and they put a lot of highs and lows and stuff. Anyway, it's great. I like this. I like the previous, the repetitive ways of blah, blah. I like the previous album way more.

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When I heard this one, I could hear you saying that. That's the truth. They've wandered into some new territory, but yeah. It's good stuff, though. Another band, I think, deserves some visibility. And actually, I think they have it. I hear other people talking about them. So good stuff. My number 16 is High on Fire, Electric Messiah. And now, before we have done another five albums, we will take another break. We will get more beers.

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All right, I'll get food this time. Yeah, we'll be right back. Matt, bring your kids. I want to see them on camera. Man, that's just wrong. No. You want to see that I actually have kids? I actually believe you're making that up because you have William and Evelyn like I do, but I want to see them, and I want to see them. The horns? Yep. They're like, what is this you're making me do? That could be confusing, but I'll see if I can find an Evelyn. I'll see if I can find them.

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We'll be right back

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No, it's great

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I mean, I don't have a lot of people to talk metal with

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I have some friends from back home

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I'm from Syracuse, New York

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And so when I went to school and grew up there

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I had a lot of metal friends there

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But since I've moved to Chicago

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I just don't talk to them as much

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And we have a Yahoo message page

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Which nobody uses anymore

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But we started it way back in the day

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It makes it kind of cooler now because nobody else is using that

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Right, nobody uses it

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So we used to do like albums and talk about metal

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but they've all

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they've got families now

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they just they don't dedicate the time to metal

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and some of them are just falling out of metal completely

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So

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I fucking hate that excuse

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Talking with you guys is

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is awesome for me

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because I

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man

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metal's a huge part of my life

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it always will be

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I'm never gonna sacrifice it

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Hell yeah

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for domesticity

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So just so you know too when you tell people you're from Syracuse you don't have to include New York. It's like so I'm from Los Angeles, California. Jay you know what's funny about that is I have my mention earlier my friends their followers are wrestler they're from Akron, New York. They literally that whole eastern southeastern part of the state doesn't exist in New York or Long Island. They're like fuck them. They're not part of our country. It's like Northern California same thing. Above where you guys are.

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I think there is a Syracuse in Greece or something, isn't there? It does sound like a Greek word. Hey, Will, your request has been made, so get over here. You look like your mother. I've seen pictures of your mother on your dad's Facebook page, and you look a lot like your mom. Everybody says that, and her and I don't believe that. You look a lot like your mom. So Jay says you look like your mom. So there's Will. Will's daughter's name is Evelyn. So hey, Matt, come this way a little at your left.

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There you go. There you go. There we go. Hi. Is that? Hi, Evelyn. She doesn't have your phone. Hi. Is that a question? Yeah. Who's that weird dude in the background? I have a daughter who is seven whose name is Evelyn. How old are you? Eight. No, nine. You're nine. Wow. That just happened. Yeah. Literally, Jay, at that moment, she went from eight to nine. She just had a birthday.

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And now, Will, what's your son's name? My son's name is William. Well, what's Wyatt's middle name? My brother's name is William. What? Wait, an Evelyn and a William? And I have an Evelyn and a William? What the? We got a Wyatt William. Yeah. It's close enough. I have a William Swigart. This is some weird and wacky stuff. Yeah. Thank you for the donut, too. Thanks for coming on.

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Thank you, Evelyn. Bye. She's like, those guys are weird. Why did you... They kept shushing each other when they were swearing. She just sort of anchored us back to reality for a minute. That was good. Now we all kind of feel bad for what we're doing. No, I don't. You know what? I don't. My thought was this. Oh, there are good things in the world. Like our number 15. Yeah. From this abyss. But first, we are drinking here in Metalhead's

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This is another beer that I actually had this up in Canada with Joel Violette. This is called Hugh John Hops, which you could say is Hugh John Hops. It's an American IPA from Canada. Huge hard on hops. Yes. So cheers. Oh, yeah.

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Skull. Oh yeah.

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That's Jeff.

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Oh yeah.

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All right.

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Number 15.

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That's me.

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That's you.

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Kicking it off.

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Let's get it going.

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That's pretty.

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Number 15.

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All Father.

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All Will Be Desolation.

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Yes.

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Rotting Throne Records.

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Some of the best riffs all year.

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Agreed.

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All Will Be Desolation.

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It straddles the line perfectly between hardcore and metal.

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Get a neck brace because you will have serious whiplash after spitting this beast. I love the percussion on this record. The production is really good. If you need to get fired up like George for a job interview, this album will do the job. I think when you were going for your job interview about a year ago or six months ago. Wow, that just came out of nowhere. Yeah. Love it. It's like he listens and actually remembers what happened. I know.

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It happens all the time. Like, Chris was doing that when we were at Valken. He was like, remember in this one episode you said this? I'm like, no. I like dicks. There you go. Oh, Chris, I don't listen to the show. I especially like this one because we talked about this when I was on the first cast with you guys and I had not heard it. It was the first time.

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I loved it and went back in their back catalog. But this record

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is the best one they've done for sure.

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And it's just

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fun from start to start.

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They stepped into a new, more

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upscale zip code with this record.

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Yeah. But think about it. The special edition

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should come with a neck brace. Yeah.

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To quote you. Oh, nice. That's a good idea.

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Should have come on a neck.

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Would that not be genius and so that band?

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Like, we shipped it with a neck brace.

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Hey, Jay, wouldn't that be a postal

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code and not a zip code? Since they're

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Yes, okay. Just making sure. Or if it was in a whole new ball game, it would be a whole new pitch, I suppose. Well done, Chuck. I like that. Nice. Nice. That was George. Actually, it was a sound effect. But it was made of George. Matt. That's impressive.

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My number 15, I will not describe it as well as Markerson did, but we all know it's good. It is Yoshira, and the album is called Shrine. Everything he said should also ship with a neck brace. It's so good. Nice. That's what an album, I mean, I toyed with making it higher. I feel like it could go higher any time on my list. From 15 up, this is where we're getting into real trouble here, because everything could be.

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The thing of the albums that I have, I felt like minor in two camps, like ones that I kind of grew into and ones that just they tore my face off from the first note. And this was definitely it. And I respect and love both ways to get on my list, but this definitely tore my face off. I have some extra long shirts like that, like some I grew into and some just tore my face off. Exactly. Because they were too tight. Like metal, like barbed wire shirts or something? No, just because sometimes. It's funny that Will says that because I'm looking at you guys through this thing and Will,

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Bill's face is always covered by John. It's such a bummer. It's like that. It's like the. There it is. That's perfect. What's that painting? You know, go back behind the mic. The painting with the bowler hat and the apple over the guy's face. Yeah, the green thing. Now that chicken sounds beat down hard. Well, look at it. Its mouth has been violated over and over again. My turn for 15. I just bought it last night. Exactly. Fucking ease up.

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Jesus Christ. A cock can only take so much. We are so far off the rails. All right. I'm going to bring us back onto the rail. I'm moving seats. All right. Is that a donut? Yeah. Evelyn just said she brought him a donut. Oh. She brought me a donut. What kind of donut? You like the ones with the holes in the middle. Yes, I do. And the donut holes, too. Sorry, there's one you have to make your own hole. All right. Hey, I'll do 15 to get us back on track. Thank you. Yeah, good.

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I may have mentioned this before. I'll mention it again. From Finland. My number six album cover of the year. Ghastly. Death floor. Cool. All right. Yeah. You guys sound interested. Who's next? Jay sounds very interested. I will. Go ahead. Will, you do your pick. Will, we'll tell you how great it is. Oh, it's going to suck. I just had to move seats so they could see me. And so, again,

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John can get more room. He's at the head of the table. Fifteen? Yes, sir. Evokin. Yes. Hypnagogia. Here's the book. You know, it's much better when the microphone is like in the side of your mouth rather than directly the big black thing like directly in your mouth. Black and huge, black and huge.

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Is that because you're used to one on the right side

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and then one on the left side?

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That's right, yeah. I'm used to two, so when it's

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one right in the front, it's

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confusing. Yeah.

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It seems less intimate.

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Alright.

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You're on that Evokin album

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too, Owl on the cover. Owls were kind of

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the theme this year.

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Owl sitting on a fence.

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I'll have to look and see what they mean mythologically.

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Hopefully it's not the end of the world.

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My 15, I'm the first one to say it. I'm sure we're going to hear it more. I'm probably going to piss off at least one or two people. I have it at 15. I know, you're right. Horrendous. All right. That's the first one. Fair. You know, I'm going to say it might not be on some lists this year. Fair enough. I'm just going to say. Okay, cool. I'm just hazarding, yes. Insider trading. I was a big fan of the last one. Big fan of this one.

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I thought it was more of sound

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Because the songs are longer. I've got to fit this in somewhere. It's a very fine album, though. I would say this. Thank you for including it, Jay. There is something to be said with seeing a band live and then thinking about their album and processing the both together that makes you... Well, sometimes it can be the detriment, sometimes it can be the benefit. So I would say,

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for when horrendous played to see him live see him live yeah like i've said this a million times when i saw chemist live

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yeah it changed everything see horrendous live so the first time we saw horrendous live all of us uh mdf mdf and jay after the set we're all like what the fuck that was awesome and jay says that was incredible however i may have rethought the name afterwards who are you guys oh we're horrendous hi we're horrendous and i remember that because

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We all were kind of like, that was a fucking great way to open up MDF for us. Because we showed up on Friday. And this was back in the Edison lot when it was like 95 degrees already. But don't you miss the Edison lot now? Oh, God. I would kill to have it. Yep. We miss it. We spent more time drinking beer out of the back of your car than we did watching shows. And it was just unbelievable fun. But we don't need it now because we have decibel. That's right. Oh, yeah. Oh. Hey.

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By the way, Jay, just real quick side note about the Wiltern. I know people have had your experience at the Wiltern as well. That's a common theme there. I have a theory about it. Apparently it's on a Craigslist or something. I have a theory about it and it's just that there's so many famous people in Los Angeles that security is tighter at places like that. I'm going to go ahead and say, Jay, when you have triple A around your neck, you know, as my

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that still counts a little bit, I think.

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I think that's a very valid theory, Jay.

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I think you mentioned that actually on the recording.

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Shows in LA and New York fucking suck for that stuff.

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They're terrible.

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But you know what I mean?

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The reason I say that is that I think there's probably more people trying to meet people and trying to get backstage and all that kind of stuff.

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So they lock it down.

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Because Philly was so lax and laid back.

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Just real quick, I had backstage stuff for Opeth, and I couldn't go in LA, because Kenny G showed up with his fucking kid and all his friends. They took all the backstage that night, and meet and greet, whatever that shit was, and they left halfway through the show and didn't come back. So, Kenny G. Wow. Kenny G likes Opeth? No, his kid did. His kid did. You can don't show up again. Yet another reason to hate Kenny G. Yeah, fucker.

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Are we still on 16 somewhere? 15. Number 15. Voivod. The Wake. Wow, nice. Thank you the first one. What band is that? The band from Canada? Voivod. More commonly pronounced. Voivod. Hey, you know, when Galen did his list, I'm almost positive.

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I'm pretty sure as it's pronounced. No one in the fucking world says Voivod. Only everybody. It's the hill that joins the trial. Anybody that's like anybody says Voivod. I'm pretty sure Voivod pronounces their own bad Voivod because there's V-O-I. Space? Space? No, there's no space. It's Voivod. But it's an O-D, not an I-D. Voivod. It's not an I-U-D. But you don't stop and say Voivod.

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VOD. You see? It's like saying good. You know, you don't. It's Voivod. I don't say good. There you go. You understand. I don't know how it's pronounced. You're the only fucking person in the world who says it like that. No, I'm not. Wait, wait, wait. How do you say it again? Voivod. So we're on the pod what? Pitcast? Yeah. We're on the podcast. Pitcast? Screw you guys. I'm going home. Wait, I am home. Screw you guys. You're going home.

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These podcasts and television shows have these after things online. We just incorporate all that shit right when it happens. Exactly. You don't have to wait till afterwards. It's going to happen right then. The Reddit threat happens right here. You heard it here. It's Voivod. You guys spray perfume in here? George popped out a Yankee candle. Will told us that he ordered a candle for this episode. George said, don't bring that shit to my house. Yeah.

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After the mid-year, candles in the podcast room are prohibited. And for the record, the candle at the Decibel Fest in your room, Will, which was a nice gathering with Todd from Three Floyds. Power Man. And with Adam, I think he got a whiff at the Yankee candle at some point, didn't he? I can't remember. All right. Number 14. It's at this point in the podcast, I can tell the people.

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The other three guys on Skype are really annoyed with us. Yeah. The listeners are like, did we just cut that shit out? I'm thinking you're going to have to do a lot more editing. Oh, I'm not doing any. All right, 14. Markisan go. Number 14. The Ocean. Yes. Panerozoic 1. Paleozoic. That's three now. Logic Records. Dino Burgers. This record is a progressive juggernaut to me. I really love the soundscapes of the ocean paint.

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It's, their sound always feels open, expansive to me, which fits the ambition of the storytelling because they're, you know, they're telling stories of the earth. Really great riffs, progressive elements, keyboards, electronics, violin. They know how to fill spaces really well, I think, without overwhelming the songs with the instrumentation. And they never sound dated to me, which a lot of progressive bands do sound dated to me, but the ocean does not. It's a really well done album. Nice.

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I like it more and more every time I spit it.

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Mark us on rules.

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Yeah, it's really what he says.

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Look bad.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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My number 14.

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I'm I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to admit to you guys.

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I had never heard of this band until this album came out.

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And y'all are like, oh, yeah, the previous album, the previous album.

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I'm like, fuck, there's more stuff that I didn't know about.

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My number 14 is Sulphur Ann.

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The site.

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Cosmic chaos.

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Yes.

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For a band I never heard of, I mean, I was just completely blown away. I don't know if you've heard of the first one. You might want to check that out. It's so good. I love it. Yeah, people should know about them. Just a long way of saying that I suck, all right? I'm sorry. There, I said it. But listen, Matt, I mean, I haven't seen any lists with sulfur anion on it. I'm shocked by that. I'm really shocked. I don't understand it. That's because there aren't any good ones.

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Yeah, but not one that has it on there, even in the later levels. I just don't understand. It's really disturbing. We are the champions, my friend. Again. Arnold said it best. George and his queen going on. Yes. All right. Hey, Jay, I need you to help me with my number 14. I'm going to give you a hint. I have allergies. Thank you. My number 14.

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It's a good one. Tumult, Manor of Infinite Forms. Awesome. My number 14. No favorite. Everyone's favorite dick joke. Hooded Menace. Yeah. Osarium Silhouettos Unhallowed. I gotta say I'm happy to see that they're showing up on our list just because they're... They just peeked their head out. They're like... Yeah. Look at me. Turtle head poking out.

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Well, for one thing, it came out like in January. Yeah, it was early. So it's nice to see some of the early albums on our list. I just got it way late, but I got it on vinyl. You got it on vinyl? Just recently, yeah. I gotta get that. Yeah. I got it. I got it, too. Get that album cover. It's a good cover. Yeah. My number 14. Don't have to say too much about it. Everybody knows I love these guys. Monster Magnet. Nice. I was waiting for that. Mindfucka. I'm actually surprised it's 14.

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top five for you.

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Everything past this is a shit show, dude.

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I mean, it is.

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Absolutely.

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By the way.

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And actually, that's the best I can say.

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I mean, but yeah, it's great.

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Monster Maker is just really probably not capable of making a really bad record.

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By the way, Jay, for the record, I think you know, because you, me and Looch were standing together.

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They fucking slayed at Decibel Fest.

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They killed it.

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He's one of our last rock stars. They're kind of larger than life when they're on stage. He was. And I'm not a super fan, but I was a fan during that set. They were great. I agree. One of the most consistent bands of all time, and just they always bring it live. See? And more than any other classic rock type thing, his stuff is informed by the MC5 and the Stooges and stuff like that. Which is very cool to hear a band doing that still. Right?

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So there's more of that to him than, and yet he's also got this somewhat glittering rock god aspect to him. You know, he's just a cool looking motherfucker, man. Did you say glittering? Yeah. Now see, Jay, that's something they should put on their website. Just a cool looking motherfucker. I need unicorn. I'll give you that. It's probably not glittering, you're right, but I mean, there's just a shine to the man. But in any case. Jay, also, I think you should grow a mustache.

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I have a very weird picture of me that I'll show that I'll take a bar mustache. It's a handlebar mustache. It was like a corkscrew and it had like this brass mustache. I put it on and I had took a picture right there. I was like, you should totally grow that mustache. Hey, Jason. Whoa, that sounds so weird to me. It sounds weird. Do you shave every day? Yeah. Wow.

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I don't think I'm always so smooth yes oh you know what my thighs appreciate by the way I don't I don't shave every day but I have to tell you I was like we're doing the podcast today I gotta shave I swear to God hey Jay I took the opposite I look like some of my other people in the podcast I'm like I got my fucking playoff like little bit of stubble going like I've been stressing over this fucking list I can't shave I got eight more games to go yeah but I think yours looks like mine and that's probably why I shave is it's

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I mean, you don't even have any stubble. I mean, it's you can't see it. You have a velveteen. Baby's bottom. Crazy. No, I was like, when it grows out, I look like Cal Ripley. I don't like that. Great. I don't like that. Great. I'm not. Mine looks like shit. When I grow out, it looks like Matt's. Oh, what? Matt looks fine. What are you talking about? Like you've been growing it for 20 years. Matt's isn't great. So that's a good thing.

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It's fucking cool at a certain point. When you reach a certain age, you're like, hey, I actually have – I still have hair on my head somewhere. Silver Fox. There you go, man. The one and only time – the first, the one and the only time that ever tried to grow out my – what you could possibly think of as a beard on my face was when I was in Afghanistan in 2001, 2002. That worked well, right? Oh, my God. It was like – it came in like – it came in red, which is weird. I mean, Grant, this was 2001. How many years ago? 17 years ago.

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You were a baby back then. Oh yeah, I was. I was a twink. Still are. It was patchy. I looked like an Amish guy. I looked like shit. So what's changed? Exactly. Nothing. Fucking nothing. You should try it again. I have a glorious beard. It is glorious. It wouldn't grow in certain places before. Eventually I would try it again.

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And it just started connecting. So you never know what's going to happen. Your face will all connect. Yeah, you're right. You know, you know, who's completely gray, though, and doesn't look old, has the gray beard, the gray hair. Todd Haug, man. That guy, he still somehow looks young. Do we have all of these? Todd Haug from C.R.A. Three Floyds. But if I look like that. He's probably close to me. Yeah, he's close to me, I think. Yeah, like 75 or something like that. Dude, if we're 75, we're fucking killing it, man.

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That means I got at least another four years left. I'm just glad you can get an erection at 75. That's all I gotta say about that. Dude, I'll be the happiest dude on planet Earth. So for the new year, we need to see Jay and Will with facial hair. Yeah, because the rest of us are always sporting something. Just mustaches, though. I don't know if I can do that. Mustaches and lamb chops. Oh, yeah, that'd be good. Good call, John. Good call. But Will will have like one lamb chop. Yeah, it's gonna look

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You know, debut them at the decibel of metal. I look like if a burn victim tried to grow a beard, that's me. It's patchy. Whoa. Number 13. Let's go. That's sensitive where we live in now. Ooh, it tickles. I'm number 14 still, I think. Okay, go. Hands of Despair, Well of the Disquieted. George and I like this band.

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No. Not even fucking close. There is some clean singing, but it's Canadian, Quebecian, isn't it? Because there's some French in there. Yeah. So some people wouldn't listen to it, but... My bad. I wouldn't call them progressive death, but they have some death and progressive going black a little. Black a little, you know. They get a little opethian. This is why I don't grow it.

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It's completely whited out. You have no face at all. It's like a really bad sci-fi film on Netflix. Jay, tell you what, start now. We'll see you in April. All right. Markisan number 13. All right. Lucky 13. I don't think anybody's going to have this album on their list, but it is Light This City Terminal Bloom.

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from Creator Destructor Records. Really catchy, thrashy, melodic death with awesome screamed vocals. If you miss classic At The Gates like I do, then you will dig this album. It has that Slaughter Of The Soul vibe with a modern sound. This album flew very much under the radar in 2018, so I am correcting it here with my list. Awesome. Wow, Mark hasn't got his first crickets. Welcome.

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Hey, Marcus, welcome to the club. Oh, there it is. Whoa. That's awesome. Wait, show that again. I gotta put my glasses on for that. That was awesome. That was like Santa Claus's homeless brother or something. Wow. I like how he's got the brown just on the cheeks. He just needs to wipe that, but that's all. Literally, you can see I went gray from the chin.

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I think that wasn't that a picture of the old guy from Home Alone with the shovel on the sidewalk? That's why I don't grow a beard. And wouldn't you avoid that if you were me? You'd be like, nope, I'm kidding. Jay, I'm right with you, man. I can't pull it off. Yes, you can. Just do it. I think I'm all gray on my beard now completely. It's awesome, man. What is that? Who's next, Matt?

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Bring it. My number 13, Judas Priest. Fir-pur. Fir-pur. Fir-pur. Fir-pur. Fir-pur. Fir-pur. By the way, I'm psyched to see them again. Did you buy tickets? No, yeah, but I will. You will? Yeah. You're right, man. Jay's all big on that. Yeah. Right, Jay? Yeah, I got my ticket already. Can't wait. Well, yeah, now that you're actually going to see them on this tour, right? Yeah.

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I fucked up. No, you're right. You're going. No, no. I don't know how this... No, I'm going to the show. I was messing with my list and there's no Judas Priest on here and it's supposed to be in the top ten. But I can't change anything. Well, you know, you're going to have to think quick. I'm thinking. Wait, did you just admit that Judas Priest is not anywhere on your list? But it's not because... I fucked something up because it was... On mid-year, it was like really high with me and it was going to be there and I used...

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I worked off my mid-year list to do this. I'm just doing my 13th pick. You got time. Yeah, we're not even in the top 10 here. All right. I think so. All right. Maybe Matt might have this. Maybe. I don't know. Because this dude's from up in his neck of the woods. Anephrams, the bleakness of our consent. Constant, excuse me, not consent, constant. Constant. Yeah. I consent to your constants.

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Both.

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That's a gorgeous album.

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It is.

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And it's not so much blackmail anymore.

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It's a lot of stuff going on.

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Yeah.

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And I feel bad for the dude because all his equipment got ripped off and he's a one-man band.

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Right.

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Damn, that seems to be going around.

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Yeah, it does.

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It happened to them.

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Right.

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But he's put out some solid stuff.

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His three albums are all good, I think.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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We're at number 13?

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Yes, sir.

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El Tain. Conan. Existential Voord Guardian. Voord? Void. Voord. Voord. Voord, Voord, Voord, Voord, Voord, Voord. You might be the podcast Conan top fam. I think, I think so. The

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Because we saw them at MDF. Or you could have saw them in a very intimate setting where you can walk up and talk to them and shake their hand. You mean like MDF? I'm going to be at Atlas more this year than he's gone total. So you're going twice? No, dude. I've been more than that. Get your bitch ass down there on January 2nd, man. Why? What's happening on January 2nd? Nothing. I don't know. I've been drinking beers, hanging out.

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a podcast on it. All right. Whose turn is it? Jay? Jason. I fixed my problem. But, you know, I swear to God, that wasn't an omission by like, but it's not. No, it's not. We're on number 13. Yeah, sorry. Okay. That's a relief. No, it's not. And I'll tell you that when I dropped out when I get to it. But 13, this one was stayed strong with me all year long. I haven't listened to it a little while, but it's great. The Crown.

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I remember you talking about that a lot at the mid-year. Yeah, I love that. It's good, man. It's very good. It's just brutal, modern thrash, I guess you might call it, and well-written riffs. It's cool. Riffs for days. Riffs for days, for sure. That's another one that would be an honorable mention for album cover of the year. That's cool. I almost chose it. When I first saw it from a distance, I was like, why is the crown making a surf rock record?

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But then when you look at it closer, there's like this big-ass wave with bright blue, orange, and yellow colors, and there's this tidal wave of demon spirits in it. Intense detail. It's awesome. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, you can really get lost looking at that one. Yeah, it's a great record. Go, George. My number 13. Ben, Mike, and Connor. Glacier Tomb. Wow. That's pretty high.

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Good job. Yeah. It may be Ben. It may be Ben. Well, we're halfway through now. Wow. I'm impressed. Sort of halfway through. That glacial tomb just gets better with every spin, especially if you put it on headphones. I think somebody mentioned that where you really get. Oh, you're absolutely right. Yeah. All right. All right. On 12. It's my number 12. Little. Almost to the top. Not that serious, but a little more serious.

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Slightly Serious. Yahoo Serious. Slightly Stupid. Medium. Hotmail Serious. Number 12 for me is Uwata, Cult of a Dying Son. That's two. Bombastic blasts of melodic black metal with really memorable rolling riffs, menacing vocals. This is only their second album, but I don't think many bands are playing melodic black metal as well as Uwata is. Really, really great.

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I really enjoy it. You ought to listen to it. I stole Jay's joke. Is it wrong that I get sexually turned on when Markisan describes all his music? No. Yes. No, it is. It is actually. It's actually standard. It is what it is. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Don't ask me. Just go with it. If you like it, you'll like it. Dude, men, women, pets. Can you open your mouth just a little bit?

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Was that real? That was not real, but George knows just how to bring people back into the atmosphere. He knows how to kill a man. Hey, Matt, save us. I'd be happy to. Fucking plumpkin. What the fuck is wrong with you? You know, we don't know if it's real.

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They're not over here, by the way, guys. Same. Same. I mean, if you guys start, like, passing out, we can call the police at least from here. I just might. Yeah. We're in such a... I can't breathe. Skype friends, save. Someone make another 12 pick and save us. Number 12. Number 12. Mourn to the night unknown. That's a good one. Yes, it is.

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I did it a lot.

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So many albums you guys talk about.

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I'm like, ah, if they could just make the cut.

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If we could turn back time.

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Turn back time.

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It just underscores how difficult it was this year.

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Because, I mean, that is a great album.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Okay.

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I think I might be the first person bringing this one up.

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Uh-oh. Bring it. Yeah. The Moana soundtrack. No. Close. I'm just a demigai. You know it's okay to say you're welcome. Shut the fuck up. Okay. The Lobster song was probably my favorite. All right. So this album's got... Shut the fuck up. I'm going to give some hints. I think George will get this.

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had some progressive metal, some black metal, and some synth wave. It's a famous dude from Norway. Eson. You're not the first one to say it. Amor by Eson. Yes. I think somebody else put through it. I think I'm the first. No, someone else said it. Matt had it, right? I dropped it. When did you drop it? Like it was hot. I dropped it back at under 60. That was yesterday.

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This is today. Oh, I know. I wasn't here for that. Right. I was in the bathroom. Making a wee-wee. He was dropping a hot steamer. No, clay-von steamer. Oh, right. Number 12. Akhenaten. That's Akhenaten for anybody that fell asleep during that. Golden Serpent guys from

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Manitou Springs, Colorado. Wow. Just fucking love this album. It's a death metal band that incorporates a lot of the sort of Egypt. They kind of like, they kind of outdo Nile a little bit. I just wish they had the production like Nile. Yes. Then it would fucking slay. Yeah. Because I do like the album a lot. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of filler in there with a lot of the kind of like quasi what people imagine. Because no one knows what, like, ancient

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Egyptian tunes would sound like. But don't you think it would sound better even with the production? Yeah, of course. But I'll tell you this. I love it as it is. It is my number, what, 12? 12, 11? 12. My 12 is probably what my favorite discovery of the year. And almost every year, Cormorant, some bands like that, John is somehow the source of those things. He seems to look in the right nooks and crannies. Cormorant is awesome. There you go. Well, thank John.

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If you're me, because he's the one who told me about them. And they're from Jay's hood, too. Yeah, even though they're five miles from me. But it was John that turned me on to this one. And I had so much fun listening to this record this year. I think a lot of people should be listening to this record. I honest think if everybody had dipped into it, it'd be on every list here. But it's cool if you didn't. And I think we still don't know what to do. Parias, Parias. Yeah. I'm not sure which. It's so good, dude. These guys, I will be keeping my eye on these guys. And Jay was sold just on the album cover alone.

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Well, that's what got me in the door. But the, man, I'm telling you, it's so varied in all the little subgenres they do. They do great. You know, it's cool. And there's just a slight amount of humor. They're not to the Twilight Zone. Outer Limits is well appreciated. Yeah, for sure. Though I still say that the speaking sounds more like Zap Branton. It does, doesn't it? Yes. But still, it's great. Yeah.

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Yes. John is happy. Jorge. My number 12. I'm afraid this may be the only mention of this album, which is sad. Vreed, Life Hunger. Oh, wow. You might be right. Because we're kind of reaching that point. Yeah. Yeah. You're the first. Yeah. The first and the last. George, I really like that album. It is a good album. It was good. Very good. I think they're actually pronounced Vreed, though. Don't even. I think I heard.

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What comes first, the I or the E? E. So it's Wreid then. That's what I thought. The German pronunciation is you always, if it's an I and an E, you always pronounce the second letter. When there's an I and an E together, the second letter in German is what you pronounce. So this would be Wreid. I don't know what Will's talking about, but I think I've been here. You just confirmed him, not me. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Is this that? I love it.

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I picked it up on mine and like you know whenever I'm not sure because this is one I've never understood and I go on YouTube and look for interviews and they go this is so-and-so from VREID. Hey how do you spell this? V-R-E-I-D. So I'm going to tell you right now every time I see this I think this is like a Vernon Reed album from Living Color. He just doesn't put his first name on there. VREID. Save a little money. Save a little money on the phone. VREID, whatever it is. I keep thinking. Or Jerry only. One of life's great mysteries is the

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of this band name.

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Yeah, clearly.

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I think you just need to find an interview with one of the band members.

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I did.

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And that's what they said.

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They said, read.

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Really?

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We just, we need to have him on.

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Where are they from?

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Is it possible he was wrong?

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Norway.

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Who cares, really?

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It's a good album.

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Yeah, whatever it is, it's a good album.

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Well, I mean, I've had bands say their name one name one way.

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And it's different.

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And then they say it another way another time.

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So who knows?

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You know what band never said their name another way?

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Voivod.

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Shut the fuck up.

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Number 11, Marcuson.

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Shit's getting more serious.

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Number 11.

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Outer Heaven, Realms of Eternal Decrease.

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Is this the one with the zombies?

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From Relapse Records.

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This is the zombie one, yeah.

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Lava and the exploring.

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Zombies.

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It's not a tumor.

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It just misses my top 10.

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I feel like this album could go as high as number three for me depending on my mood it's thick and nasty as Will's taint it's got punishing grids some nasty taint just absolutely sick breakdowns on this on this album take the chicken that's good bit of a technical edge to this record which makes it stand apart for me and death metal just definitely one of the most promising new bands on my list now I really can't wait to see them at the decibel metal and beer festival Mike Tate thanks you

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By the way, I booked Outer Heavens played Alice a couple times. I booked Outer Heavens to play the Joy Theory 5 Anniversary show with Horrendous and the mighty local Faux Hammer. That's going to be a super show. Dude. For my number 11, it's been mentioned before. The one thing I will say is that this is good. The cool thing about this album is how

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much has lasted. Not everything we've listened to is, you know, and I'm sure it's the same is true for everybody, that we loved it in the first half and maybe the second half. Not so much. Not the case for this album. The band is called Hooded Men Ace, and the album is Osiarum Silhouettes Unhallowed. Osiarum, I guess it has to do with Bones, because isn't Osiarum a... Yes, yes. Yeah, that makes sense. All right. Can I just say, I really

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I really love Matt's French pronunciation of all the albums. And I'm Polish, so. Which makes it even more mysterious. I have many gifts. If we get through these 11s fast enough, you guys can stand up and get some air. Yep. Oh my god. And beer. Nobody else is going to have this. No comments. We've already commented on pass. You guys trashed me for it. I don't give a fuck. I kicked them off my list the other day. They jumped back on.

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The Cages. Will, go with your number 11. My number 11, Barrett. No, that's fucking bullshit. That would have been fucking suck. That would have been awesome. Machine Head. Yeah, that's a better album. Number 11, Un. Oh, wow. You're the first one. Sentiment. Unsentiment? It's unscented now. Good album.

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Oh, dude. Seattle, Washington. Funeral, Death, Doom. Weirdly enough, I probably listened to this album more than any other album because this is my album to put in my headphones when I'm drifting off to sleep. Even more than Deicide? Well, Deicide was just one night. I probably listened to that album over and over and over again more so. It's the most listened album. Yeah, but I love this album. I have it on vinyl.

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I played with my played it um penis I was gonna say my kids asshole my kids have looked I'll see now be careful there I played this album for my children kids what yeah and they played and what killed me is they played atlas uh recently I missed the show but I had Rachel the other director of heavy metal operations she bought she grabbed the vinyl for me so anyway Jay go

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Well, this is where I write it wrong. And I feel comfortable dropping the one I had to drop to get in what will now be my number 11 Judas Priest, Firepower. The one I dropped, though I do at least want to give it a shit. Firepower, by the way, I'm just so happy to put a Priest album on the list. And it deserves to be there. And what I dropped, I feel comfortable dropping because it's actually kind of a weird thing. It's a Black Friday release, Alice Cooper, original Alice Cooper band reunion show at a record.

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shop from a few years ago. It's only on vinyl. You can't hear it any other way. Well, I mean, you can probably find it somewhere. But and it's amazing. It's the original guys sounding like the original guys. And it's just such a good set. I'll have to. It will now go on to my honorable mentions. But I liked it so much. I put it at 11. But is that metal? That's why I took it off. I was like, you know what? If I'm going to pull it off, it's got to be there. It's just that it was such a I loved it so much that I wanted to.

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I'm going to put it on my list. But the universe has corrected that. I think you did a good thing. Yeah. It's a good choice. I do too. There was no way Judas Priest wasn't going to be. I still don't understand what happened there. But anyway, Judas Priest, Far Power. I'll tell you what happened. There's like 852 albums on your list that you're trying to figure out 25. Yeah. That's what it was. But I mean, no, it wasn't even that. I'm telling you, it was there when I was transcribing or moving something somewhere. I deleted it somehow. So it's where it deserves to be, actually. I wonder where it was in my mid-year. Hey, Jay. But in any case.

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Jay, at least it was an album from 2018 and not from 2017. Yeah. Or 2019 for that matter. Number 11. Who? Rivers of Nile. That's who. Where Owls Know My Name. And now we will take another break. And ponder this during the break. Our top 10 is fucked.

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It's all over the map. All right, we'll be right back after a message from these not sponsors. I'll be back. Do you have a problem with your penis? Penis, penis, penis. Dude, I got a problem with the glass you brought for us. There's a problem with the glass. I'm sorry. So all the beer we've had, it's leaving that film right around the metal.

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And now it looks like a different band name. Like, it looks like those fucked up dudes from the Metal Heads podcast on there. Which is a more apt name for it. Well, it's without question more accurate. Yes. So I'm pleased to say I had a priest as number 10 on my mid-year. So all that happened was it moved down one. All is right with the universe. You're trying to justify the fact that you forgot about it. Yes. I didn't forget it. Justified. You're good, Jay.

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That's a huge oversight, Jay. It wasn't an oversight! Well, clearly it was. It's not on your list until now. Well, I mean... I feel shamed. You should be. No shame you are something. Glass is shamed. Godmaster of puppets. Let's see if we can charge you some of these here. Or maybe you're going to talk about beer. God, man, Will is totally...

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The beer. Whoa. What the fuck? I didn't take that much. We got to talk about beer before top 10. Oh. Well, he was bitching like a little. Not good. Not good. Not good. You got your fucking beer, man. Jesus. Whoa. Whoa. Fuck. It's my fucking beer. No, you should give me George's. No, no, don't give me that much. Take some of his. No, no, no. Take some of his. I am not taking some. Yes, you are. I'm not putting that in my mouth. Whatever you say, I'm not doing it.

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Those are words I never thought I'd heard from last. He's not going to join as much as you. I know, but I am too. Wait, let me take a picture of it in my mouth. This has gone just so far off the rails. Good thing we're not recording. Okay. Number 10. The shit is kind of getting serious now. Number 10. Brought to you by Brimminghorn. Yes. How'd you get that?

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You get the way out there in Chicago. No, I get everything. I'm in Chicago. Wait, that is distributed in Chicago? And also, I'm in the club. So I am drinking some Castanilla, Chestnut Glossom, Honeymead. Yeah, there's a club where you can pay and they ship it to you. Wait, how the fuck do I not know this? This is a club exclusive. I talked to JR on the phone about getting him into Decibel. Tell him we need to be more in the club, all of us. I'm going to be there in December.

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In another week, I'm going to be there in Delaware and I'm hoping they'll be open because I got permission to stop by there. You need to talk to them. Yeah, I need to get permission. What the fuck does that mean? I make my own. Let's pause and go back. Mark us on. Go. Okay. Yeah. Go, go. What are we doing? No, no, no, no. Talk about the mead. I mean, so you get like, I think you get four of these at a time and then, you know, you, you pay

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for it. The shipping is free.

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And there's these small bottles like this.

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But you don't have to. You can order from them.

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You can order, but this is only for the club.

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These are club exclusive.

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Here's the thing, Jay.

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Oh, it's closed now, but they may be opening it because I've already got the meat.

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And then they renew it for the new season.

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And I got an email from them, I think actually today.

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I haven't looked at it, but they're probably talking.

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The biggest fans of the incantation.

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What is it?

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Ghostblood.

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Ghostblood.

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is there's three of them sitting right there. We are the super fans of that. It is the second most amazing thing I've ever put in my mouth. I'm the first. Thank you. I didn't get that one and that's why I'm on the Birmingham Horde now. I make my own meat. You do? Which is phenomenal. Maybe I'll bring some. Yeah. Goat's blood's the best meat of ever. Yes. Hands down. Markeson's stash is the second best. Yes, it will be. Yeah, it'll be a close second.

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Until you try it. Then it might be first. That's right. If you're not first, you're last. I really love Mead. It's made for battle. Philly is going to be like the apocalypse. That's why we're going up early Friday morning, man. Just get your affairs in order. I really wish I could go to that show at Atlas before him. You can stay at my house for free for a week. Bring this shit down, man. I already have a flight.

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You know what? You can fly to Philly, change your flight to Philly a little earlier, and then drive down. Or catch a train. And then you can stay at John's house. I'm coming in Thursday because I have a cousin who lives out there, so I'm staying with him. Friday's going to be a disaster. Yeah. And I travel. We don't even know who's playing. We don't care. Actually, we don't know who's playing yet. Here's what we know. We're going to be at Vintage Vinyl at some point. Yeah. Vinyl Alter. Vinyl Alter. Sorry. That's when we go to New York.

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Thank you. We're going to end up at Monk's at some point. And we're going to lay it up over there. And then we'll hit the couch at the Sheridan. Then we'll go to the show. Oh, wait. We got to eat first. We'll go to South Street. And then we'll head back over. Cheesesteaks? My God. I need all the cheesesteaks. What's the place on 4th? All our cheesesteaks are. I like gyms. Sorry. 4th and South Street is gyms. Just a block away from the TLA. Yep.

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I like Jim's personally. Personally. That's my favorite. I'm a Provolone guy. I like that the best. Oh, I love Provolone. It's a big deal for people who lived in that area for a while. All right. Where are we on? 10. Damn. Make this shit serious. We're in the top 10, gentlemen. This is amazing. Yeah. And this is an album that Will just mentioned, actually. Unsentiment. Nice. False records. Stunning sophomore album of classic.

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Atmospheric doom, slow depressing melodies that will make your heartache. I mean, I love the low growled vocals, the fat murky bass sound. And a lot of times it's overlaid with this like siren like lead guitar. There's a female vocals on I think it was pools of reflection, which I really enjoyed. It was beautiful song. We get a lot of mixed doom bands these days. So it's really nice to get this modern album with that old doom sound done this well. It's just I love it.

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I love it. I listen to it a lot. I love you. There you go. That came out. Let's duck penis. All right. My number 10. I talked about this a little bit on the last episode. More so the fact that I spun this album one day and I realized that these songs have been stuck in my head the entire year. And it was not on my mid-year. And I'm not happy about that.

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I was more so thinking about to to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold to mold deserves to be in top 10 sorry is this so good oh drinking the abyss so real quick we are drinking I have a bottle of the abyss it is oh from Deschutes I'm a super Deschutes fan for their specialty stuff well this is a Deschutes yes it is and this is the rum barrel variant

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And it seems like Will and I keep having all these different variants that keep popping out of my refrigerator for some reason or not. So, and it works out that we got to share them with George today. I wish we could share it with you guys. It is lovely. Man from East. I got a 2017 in my basement right here. I have the 2017 of that in my basement like right up here. So you should drink that. When I played Deschutes and Ladders. And your kids would be like, what's wrong with you? Yeah.

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Why do you fall asleep before I am?

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This is cool.

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I love you.

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I've been in some board games with my kids.

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I'm going to go back down the chute.

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I don't know.

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Make up the ladder.

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I don't know.

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I've been three to chutes to the wind sometimes when I play board games with my kids.

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Oh, wow.

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Look at you.

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Yeah.

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Uh-huh.

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All right.

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Is it my turn?

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It's how you cope.

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Is it me?

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Yes.

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George will be happy that I'm putting this in my top 10 from Canada.

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Good thing.

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They have a little Opethian thing going on.

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They might sing in the French here and there. Hands of despair will have the disquieted. I have hands of despair. I didn't know they were okay. They have hands of blisters. That's number nine. They're just despairing. Yes. My number ten. I would get either praise or backlash. I'm not sure which. Clutch. Nope. We're not at number one.

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It took me a while to love this album. And what I realized is you have to skip the first and third songs and then you just listen to the rest of the album. Oh. Behemoth. I love you at your darkest. Wow. That's the first one. Or did I miss something when I was in the bathroom? I think that was the first one. Is that the first one? I love you at your darkest. I think so. I have to say like I cannot overstate. I don't know what it is. It's like listening to those kids singing is like getting caught jerking off or something like that. It's like, whoa, what the fuck is this? Like, wow. So that will sing, that translates to

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I would be a serial killer at some point. I love you at your door, Chris Will. I'm really pleased to hear that. Because I thought you kind of hated that record. No, I don't hate it. I love Behemoth. The Satanist was one of my favorite. It still is one of my favorite albums ever. But that's been up your craw the whole time, though. But it has been. I have to say, and what I did is when I listened to the album, I skipped the first and third songs. I do. And I was like, wow.

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The other whatever, seven songs are fucking amazing. So. Cool. But it's kind of crazy, though, that you're going to cut two songs out and it still makes your top ten. Well, there's a couple other albums on my list that's like, there's like, so they Akhenaten. There's a lot of. You had to forgive. Yeah, there's a lot of filler on that. Like almost. There's a couple. There's several songs where it's just like Egyptian style.

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Oh, yeah. Arabic dance music. I wish you could abolish all these opening tracks. We just talked about this in the last episode. Which is the next episode. Dude, I'll sign that petition. My number 10 has been said a few times, but this is a guy who's uber talented. I purposely put this at 10 because I believe it should be in the top 10. Esam. There we go. That's great. And I almost, by the way,

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I almost considered that for one of my top five covers too. But because I love that album. Jake, could you say that again? That's my number 10. Oh, I love it. That's four. Isan's got four now. Well, I think that that'll be done at four. Even so, it's still the most of any album to this point. To this point.

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No, Glacial Tomb is in the right. Tomb will be number two. Hooded Menace? Yeah, Hooded Menace has been said a lot. Right, but those are all on the back end. That's two number ten. In the rear end of the episode. I will stay for the right. I will spoil it. There's no way Isan is on my list. That's okay. That's all right. You got your... Will, you have your own top ten. You know, I... I thought I would get some crap for this being

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I don't know what you saw yeah

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because I was like just that way up that's there's that many good albums yeah yep

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yeah but let's be honest it's not his best album it's his most adventurous album sure

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yeah it's adventurous but even the poppy stuff um kind of rings true with me there's nothing

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on there I don't like and then it's and it's dark I mean it it he makes it metal somehow in a

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I don't know. Actually, there's more black metal in this one than it has been in the last few. But he's also more synth wavy on this one. Would you like my cock? Will's playing with his cock again. Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. You know, you can't do a podcast without somebody playing with their cock. Oh, it's not really his. It's a shared cock? Is that what you're saying? It's a communal cock.

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All right. It's a hand-me-down. So now the shit's getting even crazier. Now we're in the top nine. Top nine. Has anybody broken a sweat? No, but I can't see or breathe. I do feel a little upset. You feel upset? We're putting it down a bit. Mark us on. Is it your turn? Go. It is my turn. I am going to be the first to mention this. I know you guys are going to have it higher on your list.

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Sludge Esoteric Malachal. Number nine. Number nine. It's in the top ten. It's the first one. Here we go. It's on there. It's on there. It's on there. Here we go. There's the first one. From Willow Tip Records, I was on board

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They are dominating lists. What I love about Mr. Moss is I've been following him on Twitter and even though he's agoraphobic, he is very active on social media and I follow his Twitter feed and you will see how often this album is on year-end lists. All over the place. It's that good. In varied types of lists. It's so good it's better than a top 10.

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By the way, it'd be top five. It's like top plus ten. It is. And it's dominating those two. I mean, it's coming up at the top of those. So it's fucking great. I'm not even a real tech death fan, but there's something about Sludge that just elevates beyond. But they're more than just tech deaths. You're right. There's a progressive thing going on. There's a death thing going on. They're all over the place, which is what I like about them. But they're also super accessible. I mean, they also just have good vocal melodies and stuff. I mean. Melodies.

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It's amazing how they can take all of that and put it into this one cohesive, just really catchy album. Fun, you know, very clear. The production's great on it, you know, and they just have an amazing feeling. I mean, it's hard to ram all that stuff in that little hole. Really amazing. I don't even know how they play that live. They don't. They don't. They don't at all? No, he's agoraphobic. I mean, the guy, they just record that stuff in this house.

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But they were talking about doing some live stuff. He said that, yeah. All I know is... Well, that's because they've got a drummer in the bass. All I know is I've been drinking and I know Will bought the vinyl, so I have to go home and buy the vinyl now. I did not. I don't have a vinyl. I thought you did. No, I don't. Jay did. No, no, he sent you guys a... But you just bought it, though. The pre-order is out for the new one. The pre-order is out for the repress. No, I bought... No, I actually... We got the... I'm sure we got the promo, but you just finally picked it up. But I finally...

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I bought it because I want the flak. I'm so into Kool-Aid. I drank the Kool-Aid. I want my flak. I saw on Bandcamp because all of us are Bandcamp junkies. Once you go flak, you never go back. Yes. And I thought you, because you sent us a message on Facebook the other day. Hey, fuckers, vinyl's out there. Oh, did I? Maybe I did buy a vinyl. Yeah, you did. You said vinyl was available.

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Jay is holding it up. Maybe I did. You got all of them. Great cover too. I think Jay has all of them, right? I think I do too. Oh, you do too? I think so. Georgie. All right. Whose turn is it? Who knows? Matt? I don't know shit for vinyl. All right. Number nine. Number 10? It's nine. We're getting fucking serious now. Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine. It was my number 10 at the mid-year. George, cue the crickets.

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is a band. I believe it's comprised of two dudes. One lives in Shanghai. One lives in Prague. The band is called Cosmo Guy or Cosmo Gear. Can't remember how to pronounce it. And the album is called Evertinity. No way. Of Eternity. I haven't heard that one. It's kind of like Deaf Black Mouth. You know, I put that on a list to listen to after you mentioned it last time and I still haven't listened to it. There's still time. We got to listen to it now. We're only at number nine.

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Number two. Look, number one's not going to be till tomorrow at some point, so you've got plenty of time to listen tonight. Go. All right. So I believe our friend Chris Neutrino mentioned this band from Poland. Poland seems to be kicking out boatloads of good music. Kick on the jams. And that. Boys are cold. But this is a death metal band that's, or a black metal band that's got tons of rhythm.

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Which is unusual.

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Craig's Machine.

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Apocalyptis.

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You haven't heard this?

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The Migwa people.

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Fuck.

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It's basically Migwa.

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It's all that it is.

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This is the original Migwa because this came before Migwa and Migwa took off.

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But fuck, I heard this yet.

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What?

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Three weeks ago.

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I think I asked you about this.

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Yeah.

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Because you're my resident somewhat black metal guy.

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I know everyone else listens to black metal, but I sent him a message and said, have you heard this?

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Fuck.

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No, that's crickets for me.

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But I'll check that out.

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If you like Migwa, but it's more rhythmic.

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The drummer alone makes it worth the purchase.

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He is just off the charts good.

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If you like rhythm with, I wouldn't call it black.

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It's not really black metal, even though it is black metal.

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You have to hear it.

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It's top flight good stuff.

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And I was glad when Neutrino said that.

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He's like, fuck yes.

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There's two of us out there. Spoiler alert. Geez. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for. Thanks for ruining my top 10, Chris. On Wednesday. See, I turned that around. I made it about me, not him. Yeah. Because nobody knows what you're talking about because they haven't heard it yet. That's okay. It's not going to ruin anything because it'll be like, what is he talking about? What's that band name again? From Poland? Read number nine. Number nine. Behemoth. Crescent. Order of Amenati.

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All the way from Egypt. Dude, I... This could have easily been my number two. Easily. Easily. But instead you made him number nine. Not two. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight. It could have easily been my number eight and a half. Or even your number seven. Death Metal from Egypt. Fucking love this album. You were big on it when it first came out. Oh, yeah. I love the... What drove me nuts... I remember what drove me nuts about when the first album came out is you can't PayPal Egypt.

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because there's too many terrorists in Egypt. But they're not in Egypt anymore. Right. Were they going to the Netherlands? And you got it from... That's where... The first album, somehow you got it. Yeah, they sent it to me. Yeah. But we couldn't actually pay for it. Melikash did that. Yeah, because we wanted to get it and they were like, yeah, you can't send money to Egypt, so just here's a download link. Yeah. But they moved somewhere and we could buy it. Yeah, they moved. Well, they're on a label now.

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I love it. Oh, so good. That's awesome. Kind of remind me a little bit, like, obviously they're from Egypt, so it's a little bit more authentic Atikamon. Like, they have a whole lot of, like, I spent a lot, let me just back up. I spent a lot of time in the Middle East on the last whatever, God knows how many, 18 years and all my various travels. So I do have a soft spot for Middle Eastern music, Middle Eastern music.

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And when you combine the two, I'm going to kind of like it. Yeah. That's me. That's me and Malakash. Same thing. Malakash. Oh, my God. Which they had to leave the Middle East for what? Netherlands, Belgium or something like that. Anybody in the Middle East that wants to actually do music needs to leave. Outside of Israel. If you're in Israel, you're fine. Yeah. You guys have watched Heavy Middle Baghdad? Yeah. Yeah, man. No. I think Will's in that one. Well, I was there.

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when all that stuff was happening. The problem with

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Anna Cruz Akata is that

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when they came to the United States, their music sucked.

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Yes. When they came here

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like, oh, we're going to make sucky music.

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When they were in Baghdad and all pissed off

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and escaping bombs and

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shrapnel.

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When they were escaping bombs and shrapnel

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and stuff, their music was way better.

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They were edgier at that time.

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Is this close enough, George?

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Yes. He's giving me

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shit because I told him to get closer to the microphone. Wow. I got a side note. This fucking beer is awesome. It is. Oh, it is very good. It's so good. Which beer is this? This is the Abyss by Deschutes. The Rum Barrels. Yeah. Always good. Can I just say we're in the top ten and I am fucked up. Yes. George, he's fucked up. George, we'll take it to number one.

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All right, I'm going to slip in with my number nine. David's slipping in a lot of numbers. Slip it in. Rock to the top. I think I'm the only one that has this. I think I'm the only one that had it mid-year. Fine. But it is good. Might have been over-reviewed in Bestable, but it's still a fine, fine album. Tribulation, Downval. I don't get that at all. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but Jay's been a big fan since, what, two albums ago, right? No, George turned me on to him with Children of the Night. I don't hate them.

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or anything, but this one I didn't get as much as the other one. Well, my take on it is, and I said this at mid-year, and I'm not joking, this really is the way I see them, is that it's the universal horror monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein, and I mean from the 50s and 30s, if they got together and made a band, this is what it would sound like. It's just that kind of creepy, kind of like cheesy creepy, but I don't know what works for me, man. It's not that I don't like it, it's just not,

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the style that I'm into this year. It's like you go through phases, and I'm more death metal this year. I can't knock anybody that likes it, but it's just not where I'm at. It rang true with me. It was one I still am listening to. I listened to it all year long, pretty much. Yeah, but highly recommend it. And I don't need to defend it to, and not to you guys, I mean to the world at large, because it's going to on a lot of us. Despo put it number two or something?

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No. Not that high. Was it that high? It was top five. Well, they gave it a ten. Are you high? They gave it a ten. Yeah, but you know what? It's in their top three. They gave a lot of bands really high marks that didn't make their top 40. Oh, is that right? Well, I would also point out that they gave slugged a seven. There you go. What the fuck? You just killed the cock. You didn't make the top 40 at all.

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Well, they almost broke my metal hat. Fucking cock died. He said the songs were too long, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sorry. Oh, I don't understand anything. Yeah, that record is just exactly the right length. Wait, wait, wait. I have a sound for that. Hold on a sec. I do like the length. Perfect amount of length. Oh, there it is. We're at your number nine, George. My number nine?

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fucking weirdos ever to get together. Well, not me. No, Marcus, not you, of course. Marcus, I was like, when is this episode over? I've been on twice and I get to walk away twice. I'm almost too cool for this podcast. It's really true. George, you're number nine. Sorry, I'm waiting for quiet because my number nine is a great album. Are you going to fart or something? No, it's a great album. I love these guys. We just talked to them.

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Mi número 9 es en Ferrobrero Ceremento. En la top 10. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Y, you know, again, we have to preference this with preface this because we're big fans because we've

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Excuse me. As I said when they were on, and you will hear later. Yeah, sorry. I ruined a pick. The production on this album is amazing. Much better, yeah. It is so good. And, I mean, it fucking beat Eson. It fucking beat Eson. Okay? That's saying something right there. So, Galen, Chris. And Chris saved George's life in Europe. Yes. But, amazing album.

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It is wonderful. I love you guys. That will be meaningful to them that it beat Isan, by the way. That will be meaningful to them specifically. When I was making this list, I was like, oh my god. Could this possibly be above Isan? And it is. It really is. I mean, Isan is amazing. No doubt about that. But as far as go-to black metal albums this year, this was it, man. I find it adorable that you guys are influenced by bands that you really like.

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that people like. Well, that's the thing. We're not. No, that's bullshit. No. Bullshit fucked both of you. We are. We are. I'll tell you why. We totally are. We are, and I'll tell you why. Because when we interview the band, and we know them. The band. The band. The band. The band. It

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I agree. But you cannot discount that. If you're not influenced by that, then you're... If you're not influenced by that. If you're not influenced by that. It gives you a greater emotion. It does. It gives you a better connection to an album and to a band. I don't disagree with you, but I try to at least be a little fair when I'm reviewing. I'm not going to put an album on there just because I like somebody. Right. But if there's an album that you like,

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And you've interviewed them a gazillion times. But not just interview them, but we, through you guys, through you, we know them. But the way I explain it is bands that we like come on the podcast, not the other way around. We like these people because we like their music and so we have them on the podcast. We already liked the music. Right, but my point being is that once you interview them, it does. It elevates.

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Yes, of course it does. Fake news. Actually, that depends on the person. You're glossing over the fact that we've had people on that we didn't like that much. And they didn't make lists. I can think of one band in particular. I'm not going to save it out. Hey, Jay, thank you for giving us some levity there. Thank you. Yes, but we have. And we don't talk about those bands anymore. But also, I would like to use my own artistic integrity, my journalistic integrity by saying, Canis is one of my favorite bands.

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But I'm talking about the guys. They're always... They're not as high for me as the rest of you guys. And I'm honest about that. But I also love that they all have me in their sights. They always are like... When we talk to them, they're going to be like, who rated it low? Is Jay right? Actually, Jay, they'll say, who's that fucking dick on the podcast? No, they'll be like, who's the guy that isn't sucking our dick? Yeah. And they'll be like, we got to get to him. They're awesome guys. I love them.

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Anyway, but where the hell are we? Next pick. Number eight. My number eight is Altars of Grief. Oh my god. Dropping a fucking bomb on us there. That is a good album. We're just all about getting together with you later. Gorgeously crafted Doom record. It's another concept record about a father who fails to connect with and care for his young daughter Iris who has fallen.

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The music conveys the anguish of the story really well. Haunting guitars, overall sadness in the atmosphere. I really like the vocal switches from clean singing to black and growls. It's a somber album, but it's one of the best albums for me. You said alters are great. Really good. Yeah. Yeah. So you missed the part. That's Canadian prairie metal. Am I correct in saying that? And that's important. That's right. They do call themselves, they call it prairie.

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Yes, Prairie Dew. Thank you. I like this album because it's very Woods of Epre. Okay. We got to talk about this beer. Sorry, we got to talk about this beer because it is yummy. Oh, you're talking about the beer? Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. We're drinking an Atlas beer. The Atlas Batch 500.

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Which will is associated with ounces. You don't know that. If you don't know that. It's our fifth anniversary beer. It is a Brett Barrel Age Barley Wine Ale. Wow. So Brett being Brett and Meise's yeast gives a little tiny hint of tart. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm a big barley wine fan as you know. You're a big something. That's for sure. See you don't have to go there. Fucking asshole. Yeah really. Jesus. Oh my god. Skinny fuck.

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Skinnier than us? Fuck. So here's what we do. We say one of our picks and then you guys all yell at each other for three minutes. We're just passing the four hour mark, by the way. We're actually doing all right. I don't even know. My number eight. Jay, I have you to thank because from the last podcast,

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Coverage of Decibel West, I learned the meaning of this band's name. That is Yob Ar-Rahart. Why don't I know the meaning of it? I was on that podcast. You were really drunk. You guys were talking about what the name meant. And what was it? Can you remind me? Fuck. The Slavic. Yeah, Slavic, word for fuck. Well, we'll get our chance to ask Mike that very question. And I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly

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I would have never guessed that it was a Slavic word and that's what it meant. Well, it helps to have a Ukrainian friend. Which, by the way... I have to say, so does Sergei really have that thick of an accent? Yes. He does. Okay. I frequently stand in as his translator when he talks to people. So, dude. So, the Albert Hamburger thing? Yeah. What was that? Albert Hamburger.

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What was it? Have you listened to the episode yet? Holy shit. I didn't understand half of what they were talking about. Something about Albert is a hamburger. Oh, you're talking about Albert from Decibel. Right, but he, anyway, listen to the episode and figure it out. So, John. So, I'm guessing nobody has this on their list and I really don't care. This is my only true

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90s style progressive metal stuff. He was in Symphony X. He still is. He is Symphony X. Mike? Romeo. Yes. I'm a big fan of him. Mike Romeo. The War of Worlds Part 1. It's probably the best Symphony X album that's not a Symphony X album in the last God knows how many years. Who sings on it? So, yeah, I tried to figure this out last night. It's a guy named Richie Castelloni or whatever.

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I don't know which is the same name as a guy named Rick Castelloni who plays for Blue Star Cult they both live in New York have similar names but they're not the same guy it's very strange but he has an all-star band minus this guy who's like an unknown if you're a Symphony X fan you would enjoy this John was that an album of the month on AMG it might have been yes I'm a big Symphony X fan I'm a big Mike Romeo fan it's his first

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Not his first solo, but his second solo, but his first true solo. George wants to cricket me, but he's like, you know, I know Symphony X. I like some of their stuff. He's just drunk. That is exactly. Will is right. I literally just took a sip. I know you like some Symphony X stuff. No, I do. I do. You do. I know you do. It has nothing to do with the music. I just literally passed from drunk into completely shit-faced. Anyway, this is my

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I'm fucked up. It's my first true. I'm the prog guy. I met dad and I get heat for it. But it's my first only true prog metal album on the list. Yeah. He's a fabulous guitar player. Probably the best guitar player on all our lists combined. Are we at number eight? I think so. So maybe he might get past the next seven picks. But up to this point, he's number one. What was his name? Mike Romeo. Michael Romeo. Romeo, Romeo. Don't fuck the Mike Romeo. You motherfuckers. Not on my list.

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My number eight, Oceans of Grief, Nightfalls Lament. Wow. From all the way from Spain all the way to Greece. Yes. My, no, not my worst moment on the podcast, but one of them. George just fell asleep. George, wake up. What is your number eight? Huh? Let's go to Jay first. Oh, Jay. I'm not that drunk. Oh, see, George is still unconscious. Jay's like, it's only noon.

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Do you guys need to yell at each other some more? Okay. It's a Riff Bomb album. I love it. I think I rated it probably the highest on the podcast. But I know we were all fans. All Father and All Will Be Desolation. I listen to that record a lot. Hey, Jay, I gotta say, you make this comment, do we have to yell at each other? If you were sitting here, like you were sitting with Will and I on the couch in Philadelphia, you fucker, you would be... Thank you.

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That's all I have to say.

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Because I remember Philadelphia.

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Remember the Philadelphia.

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Parts of it.

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Oh shit.

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You guys are going to be a mess in Philadelphia.

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Dude, you're going to be there.

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You're going to be there.

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Trust me.

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Hey, mark us on.

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I'll be pouring beer and interviewing.

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Yeah, you're going to be there.

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I can get the buzz and maintain it without going to.

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The apocalypse. You say that now. I'm disciplined. No. There's no fucking discipline. Take it from a group of guys who have already done this a few times. You're going to be shh. You'll be drunk before noon. You're at some point. And the show doesn't even start until four. At some point, Marcus, you're going to be a vinyl alter hammered with some dude from a band and buying vinyl like we were. I just saw Jonas.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of Jay's greatest moments. Hey, dude, you want to go with some vinyl with us? It's so funny because as they were playing, that's what I kept thinking. No, me too. I was going to try to say hi to him. I tried to say hi, but he was like, you know what? George, number eight. George, number eight. I just want to commemorate the fact that Will just farted. I'm the uncoolest guy here. SVD.

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But will. All right. Number eight. Cue the children. Behemoth. I love you at your darkest. I love him. All right. If you guys got to take a break, we'll do it here. Hey, Jay, it's only seven picks. That's going to take three hours. All right. Come on. All right. Let's go. Go, go, go, go. Marc Gasol, number seven. Honorable mentions. There's also the

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The Five Albums.

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And I got it. So I really, really like it. Came really late. Thank you, George, for sending it to me. Yes, we were like, oh my God, there's a Sulfur A&M album coming out. We need the promo. And we didn't get the promo. No, but you did get it. So I wrote to the goddamn record label. Not the goddamn record. Van Records. Very good label. They're very good. And they gave us the promo. So thank you. They made it right. You know, I'll remind you too.

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They put an amazing package together on that last vinyl. So I'm hoping they'll do something similar in this one. Cool that it's hitting so hard with everybody here. Yes. Yeah, I feel like it's missing a lot of lists just because it's coming so late. You know, it's going to be on a lot of 2019 lists. Even though it's coming out next week. Yep. Matt. Me. You ought to know my number seven. Oh, there you go.

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That's what I think of every time I say that, too. You ought to know! It's so ironic. Cult of a Dying Song. I like that. Alanis Momoroset. Datuato album is really good. Really good. Marcus and you summed up best talking about nobody that does melodic black metal better. I don't think so. Destiny Philly? Yeah.

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That will be there? I'd be like that. We would not be watching. Excuse me. We will not be drinking beer during that set. We might be. I will. But I'm going to drink beer and rock. Yes, yes. You're going to be like doing whatever. Who knows? Yeah, the cup stays full. My number seven. Skip two people, fuckface. What the hell? Oh, I'm sorry. Jay, I didn't mean to call you fuckface. Horseface.

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your child. No, no, no. Jay, I love you. That's Mr. Fuckface. Hey, Mr. Fuckface. I didn't go to Fuckface college just to be called Fuckface. Dr. Fuckface. You're only Fuckface when you have the beard. That's right. Anyway. John. So my number seven is a French band. I think they're pretty popular. Oui. Yes. Jeudas Paris.

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I know it's an old joke, but it just seems to still be pretty good. The fucking metal gods themselves. What number are we on? Seven. Judas motherfucking priest. Firepower. Best album since, what's that album in the 90s? Pain Turbo. Fuck, thank you, Will. Pain Killer.

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And this is the pick. John, how do you pronounce that? Juddus Pari. My number seven. John, say it. Juddus Pari. Firepower. Shit. And I will say, one of my highlights of the year is when George and my buddy Jeff and I saw them at Anthem. Yeah. It's a cover band. I'm here for a gang.

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It was a fucking great show. It was. We had a good time. We did. And George liked all the other bands. Saxon was awesome. Yeah, it was the first time seeing Saxon. And then George liked that Thin Lizzy cover band. Oh yeah, Blackstar Riders. Yeah, they were good too. It was a fun night. J7. It's been said a bunch of times. I think I held it in the highest regard. I listen to this record a lot. Two Moves. Two Moves. I thought you already did that one. I love that fucking record.

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Well, he's done it for everybody else. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I've been saying it for other people. Hey, Jay, you should, they play Atlas a lot. You should come over here. Yeah. So I've heard, I have to tell you, I'm so glad that they're going to be a decibel. I know you've seen them a million times. I like that record so much. I can't wait to see them a decibel in full form. Hey, Jay, did you get the latest EP release, which is only two songs? I did, and I almost was going to even just tack it on there and just put, you know, like a slash here and include that because

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That came out this year. 2018's been good for them. I do have a list of EPs. Good for you. A-Pays. Oh, good for you. All right, George, go with your number. Seven. Whatever, fucking seven. Here's one that will be on nobody else's list, but... Fratulence Buster by George. Infestus Thripsus. You would be correct. I like that one. Well, somebody's got them.

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More German metal. Yeah, is Germany dominating the US? It's German behemoth. Yes, it is. Wow. I remember it was the World War II image. Yeah, too soon. It was too soon. I mean, it's only been like 60-something years. It's way too soon, George, by the way. Sorry. Oh my God, dude. You can't. Still, good album. Cool. And it should be noted it's one higher on my list than behemoth. Wow.

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So Behemoth is your number six. No, Behemoth is my number eight. I already did it. Number seven is Infestus. Oh, sorry. I zoned out because you were talking. So wait, Behemoth? Marcus, what's your number six? Oh, man. We're already on that. I thought we were going to hear some kids. No. We're doing good. My number six is... Oh, there it is. By the way, it's super creepy. It's so fucking creepy, man. It's creepy.

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I just picture knives stabbing the neck. It's literally going from one headphone to the other and it's like super echoey and creepy. All right, Markisan. Six. Perfect cut. My number six is Agrimonia Awakened from Southern Lord. Nice. Outplays from start to finish with well-crafted heavy melodic tracks that roll over you like

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It's just it's effortlessly incorporates acoustic stuff.

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Prague crust.

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It's one of the most energetic and dynamic releases of 2018.

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I really enjoy this album.

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I've loved all agrimonious stuff, but I don't know.

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This might be my favorite one they've done.

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I really enjoy it.

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It guy's embarrassed as I am that when Markisan describes his records.

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Yeah, I just want to make sure that we're,

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We're as embarrassed. No. Oh, yeah. I'm not embarrassed because one, I'm taking notes. And two, I've been drinking all fucking afternoon. So why would I be embarrassed? Markison's helping me out. He like prepares. He's way more prepared. Hey, I'll tell you what. When we get together at Decibel Fest, if he's still spewing this out when he's hammered, then I will bow at the Markison temple. No, yes. I'm appreciating without question, Markison. Thank you.

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Yes.

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We all present something a little different.

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Yes.

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I'm stupid.

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We got it all.

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I'm the guest.

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I mean, I always prepare him as well.

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But I am the guest.

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I've got to say.

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I've got to put on my best.

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Of anyone on here.

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I got the same one on here.

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You're making this look bad, is what he's saying.

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I have more Markisan albums I have to go back and listen to than anybody else.

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Yeah, me too.

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Yeah, me too.

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That's the other thing is he's got.

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There's a few I've been like, God, that sounds awesome.

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He just described the greatest album ever. I'm in. I'm glad I could give you guys something you haven't heard. You're giving me something. Here's a test. That's the great part of it. We all listen to a lot of metal albums every year. There's always something that slips through the cracks. That's why you have this community. You can get informed about that. Here's a test. You need to go back and listen to Warrant and Poison and Nelson and all those other bands. I want you to describe them to us and convince us.

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These are fucking worthy albums to listen to. Hey, Markisan. If anybody can do it, he can do it. He can do it. I'm going to try to convince you to like White Lion. Wait. Wait. Hey, Markisan, I'm going to speak for the other crew and say, don't waste your time. It's cool. You're not going to convince me. But thank you. But he's so verbose. I don't fucking care. That almost sounds mean. I hate that shit.

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I'm concise and eloquent I think is the word you're saying yes I like that thank you stick to the death and black and the doom and the sludge and I'll buy every fucking thing you say speaking with you I don't know why I don't know why Will's talking yeah where are we I let me speak for Will because he's just a little drunk what he's trying to say is you speak so well and describe things so well that he's convinced that you could describe shit to us and would be like fuck yeah I'm checked out

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Nailed it, yes. That's actually, it's a compliment. It's either that or Will just realizes he has some justification for the shit he's been listening to for years. No, I just, I just really like Warren. It's awesome that Will has an interpreter. One day me speak pretty. Number six. Are we at number six yet? I don't know. Number six. Who is it? I will say. George, what was your number seven? Probably Marcus Sutton is like, you know, you have his description and then,

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Basically what I'm saying is written by a child with a crayon on a napkin. And I'm just reading it aloud. All right. My number six has been mentioned before. This band is called Glacial Tom B. Yes. Be nice. I've never heard of Glacial Tom B. Glacial Tom B. I think Tom is the singer. B is the A player. The B. Do you know what instrument the vocalist plays?

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G-I-T-A-R.

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G-I-T-A-R.

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Drummer is the vocalist.

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No, he's not.

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I'm sorry.

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Have you seen them play live?

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Who, Glacial Tomb?

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Glacial Tomb?

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I'm sorry.

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I thought you were talking about Tumult.

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You said Tumult.

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No.

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He said Tum, but with the glacial on.

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Glacial.

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You know that thing that's been moving for 40,000 years really slowly?

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I'm sorry.

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everything I've said. Yes. You're right. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Shut the fuck up. No. Tomb World, yes. Glacial Tomb, yes. You know what's weird to me about that band is that I love Ben's vocals on Glacial Tomb, and then you realize that, oh, it's the same guy who's doing stuff on Chemist. Yes. It elevates Chemist just because I love the vocals on Glacial Tomb and the playing on Glacial Tomb as well. And then I go back to the original band, you know, where it incorporates elements of that, but then other things as well.

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well. And it just elevates. Didn't that come up in our interview with him? He said that people thought that about the harsh vocals on the new album. He was either less or more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, you know, I've been doing these for every album or something like that. I can't remember. He's good. I really like his vocal. All right. Whose turn is it? Me? I mean, the big thing to take away here is that, I mean, are you telling me there's a dead body floating around in a piece of ice? Is that what this is about? Several dead bodies.

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What the fuck is going on? Well, it's funny because, you know, in places where they have these glaciers, because they're melting at such fast rates, they do find these bodies. And people just murder people up there because they know they can put them in there. But then eventually, a few years later, somebody will just find these bodies. Hold on. Is this Joshua Tree in California? Jake, I said joke. I did get that joke. Do you guys remember Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? Yes. Without question.

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His argument was always, his summary was always something like this. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just a caveman. I don't understand. When I'm driving down the road and my Mercedes Benz and my fax machine goes off, I think to myself, are there little gnomes in there that make it work? I don't know. And I want to pull over my car and run off into the hills or something. That's a Geico commercial, isn't it? But what I do know. Isn't that a Geico commercial? Used to be. Yeah, but this is the Phil Hartman bit.

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I'm just a caveman. Yeah, but I'm just a caveman. But what I do know is that when a man like my client slips on the stairs of the New York Public Library, he's entitled to no less than 4 million. I love it. Phil Hartman was a guy. And then there's my favorite frozen human who's de-thought in a modern age, Captain America. Yeah. Cheers. It wasn't us this time. Oh, sorry.

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Yeah, I took it right. Who is next? I'm next. We know these dudes. We've hung out with these dudes at Decibel Fest. They play Doom. They play heavy metal. They're okay. I think we've interviewed them a couple times. Chemists. Desolation. What number is that? Six.

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Why is this like the most anticlimactic pick ever? I think you just delivered it in such an NPR voice that we were all like, okay, that seems reasonable. The greatest fucking band ever in the history of television. I think you gotta get in the top three. They've been on the Metal Heads podcast umpteen number of times in several different variants of bands. Chemists. Desolation. Yeah. All right, fine. Fuck you guys.

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Yeah, hey, chemists guys, I tried to pump your shit up, but nobody else cared. That's because I got my number 22. Way to go, Jay. You killed my pick. I mean, let's be honest. The audience is waiting for me to talk about chemists. Because we want to hear. Well, they better be number one, motherfucker.

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Will, what is your number six? Make your six more climactic than mine. Six is good. My six will be Lago, Sea of Duress. Nice. Okay. Yeah, whatever. I've been waiting for that. I'm going to take my headphones off because there's a few people in this room I need to kill. I'm all about your pick. I've been waiting all day for that pick. That's the pick I

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I spent all day waiting for. Yeah. Yeah. The pick of the dick. Wait. All right. Fine. It was a dick. All right. All right. All the way from Phoenix, Arizona. Lago. I know you. You talked about them earlier. You love these guys. Dude. That's so fucking good. Cool. The longer we get to the list and the drunker Will gets, that's usually what he goes. Hold on. Let me tell you about these guys. And I go like that. They're so fucking good.

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I haven't listened to their, I think they had one album before that. What do you think of the new album? I have not listened to the old album. Because I don't want to, actually, weirdly enough, I don't want to ruin what I think about the new album. I just want to listen to the new album. I love it. Like, literally, one of my best, one of the best death albums.

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Death.

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Fillet for Mike.

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Your mics are big. Will's deep-throating in my head at any time. So Jay, go. I guess I'm probably going to be the only one who has this on here. I know I was the one connected with it best. But I understand the criticisms against this record. But I think it's great. Primordial exile. I'm actually surprised that has not come up yet. Jay, I struggled hard to get this in my top 25.

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because I like this album a lot. It's good. And I totally understand where people who are not connected to it, where they're coming from, I get it. But I don't know. There's just something about it that really worked for me. And I don't think we're going to hear it again. Well, you might in the top five that didn't make it. Understood. I completely agree with you. I'll spoil something here. It's definitely in my honorable mentions. I feel like it was a very divisive album. I don't get it. You know, I love Primordial. I think it's a solid effort. It's a little

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It's still an exceptional album

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It was on my mid-year and

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it dropped off because

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I just think that the first couple songs

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the first half of the album was

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unbelievable, the second half of the album was forgettable

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I think the best

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song on the album is the last song, personally

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I feel like

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it gets stronger as it goes

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I think that last track is so epic

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I think all of our

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descriptions of the album explains why it's not

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showing up. Yeah, it does. And that's so I'm personally cool with that. This record hit people in weird ways. I'm really glad you put it on your list. I had a struggle with that. It had been on my list and I took it off. I'm like Markisan I struggle too. It's right. But I would say this. I put it pretty high. So I held it high. You did. You did. By the way, Markisan Don't struggle with your sexuality. Just embrace it. No, I'm down. I'm good. Just embrace it. I'm good. It's okay. I don't know everything. Every decision I make is solid.

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There you go. That's right. Nailed it. George, give us your sex. You want my sex? Sex. I want your sex. Do it, George. I got to put a jean jacket on to do that. All right. My number six. There's some desolation involved. But, but, it's not the desolation you think. Different one. All father and there all and all will be desolation.

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Allfather, all will be desolation. Nice. That's a fucking amazing album. It is. How about a pee break? Top five. Get your shit together.

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We're now going to get serious. Super serious. Unbelievably serious. Hey, FYI, we're all going to be together in 160 years. It will be the greatest idea of the weekend ever. Feel it. Wait, have you guys all been together in one of those before? No. I've never met the Dead and Northern Darkness in person. The only time we came close.

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Remotely close was

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Death Fest.

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Gangbang?

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Yeah, well, minus a gangbang.

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Close Fest?

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Or Close Fest.

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Death Fest.

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Death Fest.

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Yeah, I think it's the closest we came.

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I have not seen Matt in this country.

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True.

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True story.

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And then we came...

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George is the only one who's met.

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And we came sort of partially close when we called George on Skype from the hotel couch

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at the Sheraton.

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Yeah, indecible.

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Which at that point, I think I might have been shit-faced. I don't know yet. But me, John, Will, and George have been in the same room. Yes. Everybody's going to be. Yes. I think the count is, what, 13 or 14 people? Trevor and, which is cool. I'm glad he's coming. Trevor's coming. Chris is coming. Galen's coming. TR just said he's coming. And TR is like the least metal guy of us all. Matt, Jay, Marc-Asan.

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John 2.0.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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B.T.

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This is going to be a party.

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Is that like a new way to introduce Coke into your nose or something?

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Is that why your nose is so goddamn big?

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No, it's just...

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What the fuck are you doing, dude?

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All right.

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All of us.

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It's like for if you're stuffed up.

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Let's roll this fucking fuck out.

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All right, we ready for the top five?

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Five.

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Five.

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Five.

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These are the greatest five albums ever for 2018. They might be, yeah. All right, my number five. Tomb Mold, Manor of Infinite Forms. Manor of Infinite Lists. Wow, I'm telling you, that might be number one now. No. No. Too many lows. Too many people have too low, but it's still on every... Classic death metal, modern flair. I love the grimy chubby riffs on this record.

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Whenever I listen to the album, the songs stay with me. You had me at Chubby. It's just a... Well, you'll love this then. It's a possible barrage of evil. Evil Chubby. And on constant rotation for me, and as Jay mentioned, they also released an EP called Cerulean Salvation, which only solidified the band's position on my list because they put out that great album and then they come out with this EP, which was also awesome. So yeah, number five. Get on it. Actually, what you said about it on Facebook, Markisan,

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I guess it's time to go back in the tube. All I can say is that if you had the opportunity to meet, have you seen them live? I have not seen Tuma live. You will let him out. No, what I can say about them is I've been spoiled. I've said this a million times. I've been spoiled. They played Atlas many times. The superhumanist nicest fucking guys in the world.

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I think you said great

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don't let chemists hear you say

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no I think

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I think Rol said this here he said dude they were the fucking greatest guys and they fucking ripped my face off on stage

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they did like it's the weirdest thing like literally the bass player and the guitar player Payson and the other guy I forget his name fucking name but like the night like

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it's almost hard for me to explain how fucking nice they are and then they go on stage and they just will

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That's awesome. I fucking love that. They just rip it on stage. I thank you for putting them so high on your list. It's unbelievable. I don't know. I mean, they probably played here in Chicago, but I might not have been around when they came. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of bands in the Decibel Festival that I've seen that I want to see again or bands that I have not seen that I can't wait. Like Trypticon. I mean, I love Trypticon.

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John's last album was my number one. Me too. Apparently, Two Moles is the only Canadian-based DC band because they play here all the time. They do. They play all the time. I almost feel like I can call them up like, hey, we need someone to headline the show. And they're like, we'll do it. We'll come from Toronto. We'll do it. Whatever. Jeff, I'm coming over right now and play in that basement. Just let them know they need to bring gas.

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Oh my god. No, they can play in the other room. I mean, we're good. Goddamn. So, Georgie brought us out a new beer. Yes, sir. Tell us about it real quick. This is another Canadian beer. Canadian. From across the border. Yeah. This is the Grim Ross Pugnaceous Porter. Hmm. Let's taste it. I have not tasted this before. Belgian-inspired maritime practice. I have to say. Maritime.

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I'm a big fan of porters because sometimes I don't want to steal. Green man from East Canada. Exactly. What's the alcohol? We've had more porters today than we've had probably in the last two years. I'm about to crack open a new beer myself. Happy new beer! What number who are you on? We need number five. Quickly, am I the only person that calls EPs Ept? Yes.

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What I do is I have a separate list for EPs. Are you bringing an EP on this? I like that. I literally have six EPs on a separate list that I will talk about. Matt, I call them A-Pass. A-Pass. Perfect. Perfect. All right. Short and sweet, my number five should come as no surprise to anyone. Panopticon. Yes. Scars of Man and the Wolf's Nameless Wilderness. Exactly. That's probably the shock, isn't it? Yeah. I'm really surprised.

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It did drop a piece on the one. I'm only shocked because it's not an EP. Wow. Was that you? Somebody's been drinking. Jesus. Jesus. Take that guy away from the. Microwave. Yeah, exactly. Wait, so is that. Was that an EP or that was. No, no. It's a double album. I know. That's what I was thinking. George was doing an EP for us. We were talking about the two mold EP. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow.

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So you have some big fours coming up. I'll do my number five. My number five, their album is twice as long as two Nails albums. All the way from Philadelphia. So 10 minutes. They have really cool artwork. It makes me think of my parents. Yes.

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with this cool artwork from these old sci-fi horror films. You can see them at my brewery on January 6th. They will be at Atlas Brew Works in Washington, D.C. on January 6th. I love you, man. I'll be there. We'll be there. I will do anything you want. That might be the third pronunciation of that in this very episode. Parias. Parias. The Eldritch Realm. I fucking love you.

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Love this album. I love you, man. 30 minutes of just great progressive death metal, whatever melodic death metal, whatever you want to call it. Add in all the voiceovers and the samples of horror films. Put your glasses back on because you're going to go on the face. I can't see. I just take my glasses off. Protect your eyes. I'm experienced. Jerking the penis. Jerking the penis. Jerking the penis. Thank you. Yanni made an appearance.

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But yes, I absolutely love this album. I know Jay and I talked about it a number of times. There's something about 30 minutes of just balls-out metal in its own right. And I love the voiceovers and the nod to Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. And the cover is just badass. Get on it. And be in DC on December 6th at Atlas Brew Works. January. January.

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I've been drinking, so don't ignore me, please. Thank you. Another one I have to check out that I have not heard. It's a sweet album. Number five? Yes. Yob. All. Raw. Heart. Nice. This is another one of those albums that I put on my iPod and I fall asleep to and I just listen to the first two albums. The first two songs of this album are some of my favorite two songs.

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of the year.

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And then the rest of it drops off a little bit for me,

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but the first two songs,

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A Blaze and The Screen.

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It's a solid album all the way.

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Holy fucking shit.

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And it's a gut-wrenching album, too.

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It is.

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I mean, you know the history of the band, yeah.

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But the first two songs,

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it was an EP.

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We went number one EP this year.

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By far.

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Or it was just being a number one album.

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Fuck the EP thing.

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But I have six EPs I'm going to list later.

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I have no EPs.

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My number five is a band who I say made an amazing comeback this year. I know there were some fans in the last couple here. The last one I wasn't thrilled with. The last one before that, I liked. Whatever. I think these guys came back and for my money made the best record of their career. High on Fire, Electric Messiah. Now that I know the band, say that again.

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I honestly didn't care much for the last one and I forget the title of the orange cover and the Aztec tomb on it or whatever I thought um Dave Orna's Mysterious was good but neither of them reached the heights of like Snakes for the Divine or um Death is this Communion Death is this Communion which is probably my favorite one after this one but this one I think pulls the best of the best in together and it's just great dude so this is your favorite Jay right it is

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Listen, I'm probably the biggest High on Fire fan of this. Well, you might. Maybe you can sword fight over this. And I will win. But. All right. Nothing worse than a break. Are you sword fighting with noses or dicks? Noses, he'll win. Dicks, I'll win. Let's just say you're both fans. Jay broke a hip, so I'm not sure. Jay brings the party is what you're saying.

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Sorry, man. It's pretty insensitive right now. Yes, it is. It's just way out of bounds. Way out of bounds. Cut it all out. Yeah. But Jay, hip cracker, dick and shit. Yeah, I like. No, I like. Jay is my bitch. Part of my resume now. Your wife doesn't. No, no, to be sure. But I got ahead. Jay is my bitch. Who's picking? George is number five. Who's picking next? Me already? George, take us to the top four. Already, he says. All right.

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My number five.

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Oh my God.

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Greatest pick ever.

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Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Here it comes.

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The wave you feared.

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Are you going to say anything about it?

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It's a good album.

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Yes.

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There's some yes in there.

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George is my best.

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It's on one fucking song.

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Get over it already. My God. Owner of a lonely boy. And then. George wins comedic value of the day right there. Nicely done. It's still the greatest album ever. Oh my God. Owner of a lonely boy.

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For those of us who were there during the 9 and 1, 2, 5 years. I was there. Also known as the dark years. The 80s. The 80s were a wonderful time. Well, Jay, I will say this. It still was a fun tour. I was very, very less at the Greek theater in Berkeley. I just can't do that song. That's the only song George knows by them, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

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of our podcast, the top four. There are only four records left, gentlemen. And my number four. Thank you, Jay. Yeah. My number four is King Goat, Dead of Aeons. Somebody dragged them back into the top ten. Thank you, Mark. Yeah. Yeah. I have a feeling that every time King Goat puts out an album, it will be in my top five. Dead of Aeons.

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Excellent and epic doom record with big hooks. Great song craft. Operatic vocals from trim. Some of the best. I just love his vocal. Some of the best in metal. If not the best. Got a ton of spins from me this year. Dead of Vans. I just everything they do is gold man. Yeah totally agree. And I agree with your take on his vocals. I honestly think he's one of the best. I agree. I'm still a Matt Barlow fan all the way but yes he is.

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Unbelievable.

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Unbelievable.

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He should be in the conversation.

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Well, and this one, I think it just takes it to another level too.

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Vocally.

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Agreed.

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We're making a call apparently again.

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I'm surprised we haven't heard from Adam.

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I'm not.

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Thank you, Jay.

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We'd love to message that's the problem.

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Well, it's in Canada.

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Did he get it yet?

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Hi.

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Our wife called me.

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She's like, are you coming over dinner? I thought it'd be funny to get her on, but not that funny. Anyway, go. I don't know about that, dude. Cut all that. Matt, go. Me? Oh, wait, wait, hold on. Wait, wait, wait. My number four. Hello? Hey, sorry. I literally had to vibrate and everyone's like, what's that noise? I'm like, I don't know. I'm hearing it. You're on vibrate? Well, because I had my call earlier today. I had the volume turn off, so.

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So, by the way, you're on live recording, by the way. Oh. Hi. Hi. Hello. I was texting to find out if you're going to be back for dinner. Well, yeah. At this point, we're on our top four or five. We're on four. We're on four. We have another five after that. And there's another five after that. And then another 10 after that, as I explained. We're working on it. We're running late.

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All the wives are wondering. Yes. You're not the only wife wondering. Okay. Well, then we're just going to press ahead. Sorry. But you're recording live on the podcast. All right. I'll let you go. All right. That's a wise choice. Bye. Bye. You're a dead man. You are so dead. You are so fucking dead.

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If you need to stay here tonight, you can. You just made it better for the rest of us. I know. You have no idea. I know that tone of voice. She was not happy to be on the air. That asshole fucking called me. The best part is Will tried to flirt with her a little bit in the beginning and she did. All right, let's take this sinking ship to the... She's like, you know what? You're gay.

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Cheers, man. Hey. Hey. Dead man walking. I'm going to ride home with him. Dead man walking. I'm dead. You know what? Will and I got an hour to drive. We'll figure it out on the way home. George, can you put some mournful congregation with some more to his rest? I gotta say. George made my night with that pick, man. What pick? What? His number five just made my night. What was it?

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What the fuck? You didn't think that was going to be on there? The Morbid Angel who does better Morbid Angel? Yeah, they're better Morbid Angel. Until they do all the other stuff. Oh, shut up. We're at me. Following that, I will be super anticlimactic. This is number four. Quattro. Him is Desolation. What? Number four?

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I can't take my pants off. I cannot take my pants off. 22 at best. That's pretty high. That's good. All right. I mean, that's my turn. Get out the salt shakers. Get out the magnifying glasses. Oh, wait, that's well. They live in the bushes. Sludge is my number four.

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I love this album. Thank you, Jay and George, for pushing this on us. I know you like them too. Well, I was the last on this party. Sorry, John, can you say your number four again? I can already tell this is going to be the number one. Take us to the next level. All right. Marcus is right about number four.

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to be King Goat and Sludge.

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Another one, Jay and I agree on perfectly.

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Nice.

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We both know what the fourth best record of the year is.

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It's a shame that everybody else got it wrong, but whatever.

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Let's see what George thinks.

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Jay, what was your number four?

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Oh my God.

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Oh, George, I love you so much.

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King Goat's going to rule the podcast.

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Nice.

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Are you kidding me?

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King Goat, Dad of Aeons.

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I don't think it's a rule of podcast. Does it? We shall see. I don't think so. I can tell you right now, as the person who will put this shit together, King Goat is ruling. That's three number fours. Three number fours, you're right. That's pretty devastating. What? Number three. I don't think anybody's going to have this on their list. I'm kind of sad about it because it is my favorite death metal album of the year. Machina.

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And it's of feather and bone. These two hints of her version. I've seen it on a few of those. This is the most vile and toughest of all the death metal albums on my list. It's exemplary. Breathless speed, murderous chainsaw riffs. The vocals are disgustingly awesome. When they do slow down the tracks, the breaks. Yeah, man, I love the breaks. It's like a sun peeking through clouds.

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for a second on a stormy day. There's no fad on this record. It's a pummeling massacre from start to finish, man. Wow. You're a pummeling massacre as well. Hey, Matt. But I would love to see this band live because I love playing Atlas. Just Chicago. Just bring beers with you when you come, by the way. Yeah, because listen, you come live in my house. Oh.

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Oh, by the way, I'm drinking smashed. Cannibal Corpse, which is crazy what's going on with a cannibal. Oh, isn't it? Pat O'Brien. Yeah, we didn't talk about that. Who looks like the dude from the Kardashians. Yeah, he looks like a lesbian. Yeah, he looks like a middle-aged fat lesbian. Oh, yeah, like what's his name? Can you bring us back to Earth with number three? You said I'm right. Wow.

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Sludge might be making a move. Yeah. George is like, maybe. Maybe, maybe. Maybe. Hey, so that means it's my pick. Yep. Have we heard this one yet? I don't know. I don't know. I'm wearing the shirt. Yeah, weird. It's from Philadelphia. I'm digging this album. It's bringing some serious progressive death to my life. Oh, yeah, John, I said it. Thank you. Okay.

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You know, Jay, it's been like nine days in here. And that was a while ago, dude. Trust me. Horrendous Idol. Number three. Horrendous Idol. Yes! Yes! Oh, there it is. Wow! And that says a lot because you're not the biggest prog dude in the world, but you like that album. No, well, I'm straight, so it's fine. Debatable. Thank you, Marcus. Thank you. That is very,

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I'm glad someone had the balls to say it. I love that horrendous item. You have no idea how happy that makes me. Okay, my number three, I agree with 90% of what Will says about this record and disagree with 10% of what Will says about this record. Behemoth, I loved you at the breakfast. You have to admit, you skipped the first or third song. It's an amazing record.

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Matt said it a couple episodes ago better than I ever could but I concur I think Nurgle is an artist and I like that I can pick out certain metal guys who are truly artists he's an artist he's got a vision he sees it through I feel his passion in that record I think it's true it's super blasphemous which I love so Jay what you're saying is that haircut went a real long way with you and the beer is too he gives me free beer let's not say haircut

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The shaping of the baldness. Jay's the only one on those podcasts that went to Poland and got a haircut from Nurgle's shop. We should just all shut the fuck up. Did you get your hair cut by a bunch of kids? Jay, are you also a big fan of the vocal intonations of children? Yeah, I'll tell you this. Here's the thing about that.

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But first of all, they're not singing. I don't give a shit if it bothers the fuck out of me. To bring Satan into the world. And I also think it's a very, very small portion of the album, but it doesn't bug me in any way. I totally get why he's doing it. He's literally trying to be so blasphemous that he's having a little kid to stay. I have to say. And a little bit creepy. Like the Shining style creepy. Yeah. And I think it works. I do not. But I think it's great. I think it's every bit as good as a Satanist. No, it's not. And I know a lot of people don't feel that way.

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Another polarizing record, by the way. This year, people are either hot about this or not. Hot or not. John put his picture on the website. Don't catfish us. It's not like that hasn't happened for the last 50 years. The audience is down with Brown.

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My number three. Oh my god. What is it? Sulfur Aeon. The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos. You had to say sulfur. I lost track. You had to go. I lost track. You were so disappointed in my choice. Holy smokes. You went all that crazy on it? All that way. Wow. Good for you. He was talking about it a lot. He was posting. I was. Well he was but I figured number three. Really? It was. George it was my number three.

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I just switched it like late last night.

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I reordered.

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It got his eyes on the 3.

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Is that going to rule our list without being released yet?

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No, but it'll probably be the top.

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Oh, without question.

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I think it's top five.

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Such a good album.

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It's good.

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It's good, but it just wasn't because of the last one.

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Yeah.

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Says some.

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So George liked it.

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Yeah, I don't know if it's like their version of Clue.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Mark, let's drop. Let's drop. Drop some bombs on number two. Ready? Ready for this? Go crazy. Crazy. Here it is. Here it is, boys. My number two. I think it's been mentioned. It is the Atlas Moth. Wow. Are you going to take your pants off? Usually. Wow. Mark, son. They're usually. Yeah, I mean, it's.

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I love this album it's a lot more it does the riffs the inventiveness the energetic upbeat quality of the album it's just amazing to hear I think it's a triumph album really like fuck the bears fuck the blackhawks fucking atlas moth makes me proud to live in Chicago I just saw them this is a great album I saw them when they which by the way the blackhawks are going to be proud of right now so right now but hey hey

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The Giants of the hockey world, they had their run in the early 2010 to 2014, I think, roughly. Oh, that wasn't like two years ago, but I mean, what happened this year? Hey, Marcus, you make me happy, man. I like the album. It's just so many other good ones for me, but I saw them live with Paradise Lost. They were amazing. They were great. Listen, I mean, this is just such a hard year. It's just what hits you the most. It's not that an album is

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is bad. There's so many good ones that we all didn't include on each other's list. I was surprised that this came in number two. I felt like number two was the hardest spot. Fair enough. I already knew my number one, but number two was very hard. What is the second best album? I just kept coming back to Atlas Moth. It's fantastic. Cool. Come to me, Maddie.

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Bring it home, it's real. Number two. When this album came out, I actually waited a while to actually listen to it because I just felt like it was going to be really good because I've loved their last two albums and I listened and there was nothing disappointing about this for me. In some ways, I don't feel like these guys play a bad note. The band is horrendous. The album is idle. Nice. Sorry, I was distracted because I think George wanted me to do Felicio on him or something.

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I love it. Nice. Number two is like my favorite spot so far. Even though my picks were later previously, I like number two so far. But I also don't think you can, I cannot statistically figure out who's going to be at the top. Jay, I got my work ahead of me. No. I think so, dude. I like it. All right. Well, I think Sludge and, you know, horrendous, I actually is starting

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to charge forward. It is, yeah. Jettus Pari did it right for a little bit. All right. So my number two includes dinosaurs. German dinosaurs, for that matter. Uh-huh. Okay. The Ocean. Panerozoic one. Paleozoic. Paleohozic? I've liked most of the stuff from these guys, but the last two albums are Pelagio I liked, but this one I love too. And nobody's mentioned,

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Jonas from Catatonius sings on the song, which is awesome. Really? Yes, really. That is a really good track. Thank you. So I'm a big fan of these guys. And I was very fortunate to see them play the Pleagial Tour at DC9, by the way, in DC. DC9? Right? Yes. It was like George's room here is bigger than DC9. Yeah. And we saw them play to a packed play. Metal Chris was literally going nuts in a nutshell.

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If Middle Chris and I agree on something, for music... That's pretty significant. I'm very happy. Well, he's a big metalhead, too. He's one of the big metalheads in this area. If we both were going nuts during the show for the same music, that's a good thing. So... Oh, shit. Number two. Number two. Oh, my God. High on fire! Fire! Electric Messiah!

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This boils on fire. Nice. By far, High on Fire's best album since Snakes of the Vine. But not better than Snakes of the Vine. But you and Jay both are on board on that. Nice. This is probably the second album in my list that I've fallen asleep to because I just listen to it. I listen to it when I'm going to sleep. And it just replays and replays and replays. And I'll listen to it

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I have seen them more than anyone in this podcast. Maybe minus Jay, I'm thinking. Like a gazillion times I've seen them. Never, ever, ever. And they're on all your lists. I'm like, yeah, they're cool. What's weird is I swear to God, and I have a whole life that no one in the podcast knows about me. Glory hole in South East, Desi. I mean, the glory hole takes

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A lot of times. I know because I've been there. So has George. I've been overseas so many times and I've bought tickets for High and Fire and missed them because I get deployed. When they toured with Opeth, I'll never forget, paraphrase saying, you got to check this band out. And I watched, I was like, who the fuck is this? That guy has no shirt on. Look at that gut. George. I just want to say that we just passed five hours and 50.

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15 minutes. Thank you. Yeah, but this is the urine. Number two. Damn it. Number two. This record struck a chord with a lot of people this year. It struck a chord with me. I think it's great. All of it. I love it. It's not too long. It's not too short. It's heavy as hell. And it's also beautiful and meaningful. Yob, our raw heart. Oh, number two. That moved down a slot. Yob is making a run for the top list. That's a few now.

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And they were great at Decibel Fest. That was the first time I've ever seen them. I wanted to see them. You met Mike. Mike says he was short. They played the night before. He's very cool. They played a headline show the night before here. But since they played night two at Decibel, that means I was in Los Angeles the night they played. But yeah. Fucking Andy and Mike committed to an interview with us. I hope that we can follow you on. Hey Jay, just real quick. I saw them when they played with Enslaved. Fucking great tour. Great tour.

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What album? What enslaved record was it? I would say it was in Times. So two albums. Yeah. Oh, great show. Great show. And I'm glad Mike's doing all right. Okay, George, since you're mentioning the time, go. My number two. What is my number two? My number two is Slugge.

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Esoteric melluska.

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Sludge.

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The slugs are taking over this podcast.

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I think I have to take my pants off soon.

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Yes, you do.

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Will's get naked.

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Praise Molluska.

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Pop that sucker.

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Oh my God.

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Molluska be praised.

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I got hit in the eye.

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Ow.

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Here it comes.

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Pants are already off.

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And George is grab-assing.

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I can't believe I get to do this first. My number one.

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is my only number one choice. It is chemists' desolation. Chemists might win the podcast. Take them pants off. Every once in a while. Damn it, Markison. Will's getting naked again. I got to unbuckle stuff. That's why I want to like... Shit has been knocked over and his pants are off.

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Oh, pick, pick, pick, pick. It's all in Jesus Christ. So when people say they want to see us on YouTube, no, you don' t. Pick that shit up. I can't hear anything. Oh, it's all. Every once in a while, wow, chemist. A man comes along that gets me excited the way I did when I was discovering new music for the first time. And so chemist is that man for me. Oh my goodness. My pants are on again. My pants are back on.

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Markisan you may have pushed chemists over the top into the top five

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you know when they first hit the scene you could classify them as vintage heavy metal but i feel

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like their sound has just expanded so much and matured so much in a short time and desolation to me

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is their most epic album it's darker it's better crafted than previous lps the riffs are killer i love

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the vocal harmonies on the record phil was already one of my um top metal singers before this record

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I feel like he got better on this record. I'm surprised by that. Yes. Yeah. Chemist is my favorite band. I have multiple copies of this album and their previous albums. I have eight Chemist shirts. I have more Chemist shirts than anybody. George was like nine when we saw them last time. Because Chemist keeps printing all these like triple XLs and like, well, no one else will buy them. Well, you know what? So go for it then. I mean, I'm like a 14 year old.

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That doesn't happen that often when you're

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high age 43. I just really love this band. Everything they do.

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And Desolation is by far my most played record.

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Come on, dude. You're a fucking baby.

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Is it safe to say Chemist is one of the top five podcast bands?

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Matt, go.

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Matt.

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Wow.

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That one.

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Number one.

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I honestly did not expect this band to be my number one when the album came out. George, I remember the day you texted us and said that their album was in the box. This experience has been cathartic. No. You did it. Smooth jazz. I got saxed up. I got saxed up and I liked it. Well, you were pretty faithful to that record all year.

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We jacked up our top five and it was Matt. Yeah. I did. Nice pick. Love it. It's a good pick. Love it. All right, man. John. It's a good album. The pick to rule all picks. If you don't know this already, you're just fools. Fools. From Germany. Super fucking band. Will calls them the ghost of progressive death metal. Will is wrong.

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No, I mean. George Menzim at number five. They're my number one. Oh, yeah. Still. Still your number one. Still my number one. It just slays. They go from yes to Morbid Angel. Oh. Alkaloid. Alkaloid. Liquid Anatomy to rule all albums. They do Morbid Angel better. Yeah. Because Morbid Angel isn't going to do Morbid Angel.

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Somebody's got to pick them and I'll be the guy. That last Morbid Angel album. It was. I didn't like the production of it that much, but it was good. They have good songs though, Jay. Yeah, I know. I agree. I think the drums would be good. But that was last year. I enjoyed it. Jay, bring us to the Asir. No, Will. I'm sorry. Will. Will, Jay, they get confused for like five years now.

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I know. It's a thing. Will. A lot of people make that mistake. My numero uno. Oh my god. By far. Hands down. I mean not like to me it's not even a close competition. I'll be honest. I had a number one album that was by far leaps and bound. The album that connected to me the most. And your kids? And my kids.

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Here it comes. George is going to mount will. Luckily, luckily, luckily. You are getting what you never thought you were going to get. I'm getting what I I'm getting what I. Hey, George, you can take your headphones off. Luckily, his headphones are tying him to a certain depth. Do it. But I will say this. My number one album by far. Not even. I mean, when I say

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Not even close. I mean, not even close. Chemist. To rule the podcast. Where's pants? George Down. John, save me. This is George Felt. Hi, Uber. Can I get a ride home tonight? I don't know if I feel good or really violating me. Hashtag me too. He just entailed. Hey, Will, just go with it, dude. It's good. I think we're safe.

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I don't know. Jay had it pretty low. Yeah, but that's how many top tens of that. So I just want to wait. Hold on. My one thing I want to finish is the one thing I love about this chemist album is that I think that Phil's vocals in a weird sort of way are more like

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High Spirits. Very well. Yeah. And it's like his vocal styles, it's a little bit higher. And it's almost like if you're not paying attention to what he's saying, the vocal stylings of his music is like, it's uplifting. It's like, yeah, man. Like, fucking yeah. He's way better in this album, I think, than the previous. Oh, absolutely. The confidence shows. And it's not a knock on him. He just sounds more confident. Oh, it's absolutely not a knock. There's just more going on in the album. I agree.

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I think singing on that album is just a lot harder and he nails it. He really spends time on it. He sounds so much more comfortable doing it. The band sounds more comfortable playing. Yeah. And so what I love about it is that when you listen to his vocal stylings and all that stuff, it's just like, wow, this makes me really happy. But at the same time, what I love about this album is if I want to flip a switch,

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and I want to listen to what he's saying. I will go to that dark place. Yeah. And it's it's it is the absolute perfect album where it's like if I want to be happy I will listen to the tonate the tonistic style. Is that is that even a word? We can't run with that. Yeah. We'll just pretend what I'm saying makes sense. Yes. But I was listening to it like this is awesome because it makes me lift up. If I want to like concentrate on what the actual lyrics are.

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You want to lick? Yeah, you still lick. He'll lick the lyrics. We got it. I'm going to lick some shit. But I will say, what I want to say is, this is by far my number one, and there's nothing even close. I mean, there's like... And you have something else going on here. You've got your kids who love Camas. They do. And you have it on a whole different level than the rest of us. Because of that.

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It's weird because my kids know how much I love this album and when I put it on

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my kids recognize I took a video and I sent it to the guys in Chemist and I you guys saw it too

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it was like my kids it's not like they love Chemist but they know it and they will recognize it from the first few like notes and what was interesting

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the last thing I'll say is that when my

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My kids like to do this game where like, you know, songs will come on the radio. I'm like, what is this band? Because I'm trying to get my kids to know the tonations of the bands and the singers and all this stuff. Like you have to, just don't guess it, but know the music and listen to the music and know the, like, give a good guess of what the band is. And my kids will confuse Chemist with,

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Iron Maiden. Because. And that's okay. Yeah. But because of the harmonized guitar tones. Yeah. Yeah. And that is a compliment. And I could say I've been at Will's house drinking beer, by the way. I've never been to Will's house. Oh, Will and I have drank beer before. We're little Will. Well, he lives like 15 minutes away. You live like an hour away. And that's only because of stoplights. I've been there when. I've only. I've been there when Will took.

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2.0 has showed up. That would be William Jr. And grabbed a chemist album and thrown it on your vinyl in seconds. And you're like, he does this like it's nothing. And thrown chemists on. So I know that you've got this whole other connection with chemists because of your kids too on top of that. I know it took a lot more time, but by and far, this is my number one. Hands down, not even close. Love it.

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is even close. I love when any of us have an album that means that much to us. It does. I fucking love it. I mean, I agree. It wasn't close to me. I knew my number one. It wasn't debatable for me. I love what it means. You know what? For what it's worth, like it was so far and away my number 22. No, I mean it like there was no other album that was even close to the end. And that's why I love Jay. I love Jay so much because Jay will come in and just drag us right back to reality.

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Thank you, Jay. Sorry, I rambled on. It was my number one. I rambled on. It was my number one. There's a lot of... I love the album so much. So, Jay, you've got five seconds to give us your number one go. Well, I'll say this. I'm kind of writing a wrong, and that was that... Judas Priest has two spots. Yav was my number one at mid-year, partially because it had just come out and I was really, really into it.

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my number two now so there's no harm done there but i have to say this there is and it's not um well just there wasn't a better record this year than slugged esoteric malacology there just wasn't that record is flawless i and i have listened to it so many times and there is no part of it that i'm tired of cannot disagree i love it the amount of i mean the amount of just killer killer killer riffs on it matt writes great

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and their lyrics are intelligent. These guys, man. Add in the real bass and drums. Oh, yeah. They were going somewhere, right? Yeah, I have to tell you, when I was at Decibel West, it only occurred to me afterwards that the guy who was playing drums for them on the next one is the Black Dahlia murder guy. I should have talked about. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I think he mentioned that twice, didn't he? Yeah. Yeah, I think he basically made it to be in the band.

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He kept saying he wanted to be in the band and I was like, nah, we never really want to drop. I mean, which I love because they're kind of a big band as much as I don't like them. Yeah, he's a great player, though. He's got chops. Oh, shit. And if you wanted to be in that band that bad, then he's also a smart guy. He's got chops. George. So, again, I'm not sorry it wasn't my number one at mid-year, but pound for pound for pound for the whole course of the year. Sludge and Chemex, I think, are ruled the podcast like the mid-year. I think they ruled the rear end year. They do.

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You're in your end. George, what do you got? Bring it. Wait, should I take my pants off now? My number one. Do I have to call Uber to get home? Initially, this was my number 22. But how could I not? Seriously, how could I not? This album, I've listened to this album more than anything this year. And that says a lot. Anything. At all. George listens to everything.

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George listens to everything. I listen to everything. So we don't have to listen to everything in this album. That is true. Bring it. I love these guys. Every single goddamn one of them. But this album is fucking amazing. And it is Chemist Desolation. Yeah! So I do have to get an Uber ride home tonight. Take your goddamn pants off! I think Chemist has won the podcast.

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Yes, it's not because we know them, because the album's really good. It's so good. It's so good. That's so interesting, though, too, because Sludge was number one and they were number two. So they're probably just going to switch places. We'll see. We'll see. Your 22 will bring them down. Yeah. No, but I... It might. It might. Because I was... Horrendous and Yob had a good showing on the cast, but they're not on my list at all. So that brings it down. That brings it down. But I'll say,

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We've all, at some level, been talking about those two albums, Sludge and... Can I just say, the only person ever to be on the list twice in the same year is Ben Hutcherson, Camas, and Glacial Tomb. He may be on it twice. He's on the list twice. Actually, well, on the... He might make, yeah. Glacial Tomb.

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On any list. I mean, nobody has been on this list. Magnus. But he might for this year, though. Because we got a lot. Hey, and we mentioned that to him. He couldn't have been any more appreciative of the fact that we kept saying that Glacial Tombs album was going to. Well, he threatened us if we didn't say. What? Did everybody have Glacial Tombs on their list? I mean, yeah. If you notice, Glacial Tombs number 18 on my list, because if I didn't put on my list, he would kill me. I honestly thought I was going to be the only one to have it on there.

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No. It is great. Four times. It is magnificent. We'll get to that part now. What I love about that is if this was 30 years ago, we all would have bought that album based on the album art cover. Of course. We would have. Holy shit. And they would have been in the top five then probably because of that. So Ben's basically on the list three times because we did the album. Thank you. Yes.

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I know no one else has this list. I'm going to do it really quick. My favorite EPs of the year. No one else has it. It's longer than all those. It's no particular order, but EPs. Nusrat, The Creeping Unknown, From the Void, Helen Valnosa, Dominant, The Summoning, Hellrad from Philadelphia, Counting Sins,

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And List Buster, sort of, I just literally downloaded this today, it was fucking amazing. And John had no idea that he was listening to this for the first half of the ride. Demon Breed, Haunting Heretics. A Hunting Heretics. Did you change the tags to say Metal Church? No, no, then we played Metal Church. And then... Will likes to always play songs that will show up on his list when we're driving up. Yeah, I do. And then I have to say that

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Weirdly enough, not weirdly enough, one of my favorite albums of the entire year. Not metal album, but fucking love this album. Catchy as fucking hell. Nope. Thrasenblatt. The great Brunswick forest. Hey, George. You know, and I was wondering if George- Congratulations to George sticking to the metal format. Yes. Thank you. I decided that

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I would not put up because of everybody else's opinion. No, it was not metal enough to make the list, but it's still your favorite album of the year, though. My all time favorite of the year genre. Unfair enough. Specific is definitely Thross and George. Great Brunswick Forest. Joel, an amazing person, an amazing musician. This album is so, so good. I cannot disagree. I cannot disagree.

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Can you convince Joel to come to DC? Maybe. He won't. No way. You never know. He wouldn't come back here. All right. So let's... You already heard from my wife. My wife is like fucking super annoyed. Nah, you're done. You're history. You're all right. You're done. Honorable mentions. The top five albums that did not... Sorry, you went... Yes. Yes. The list now. The top five albums. I can't believe it's not on my list. Are we doing all five each? Just run through. Let's run through them. Yeah, we'll do them. We'll do them.

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All at once, we'll start with Markisan. However, it's P. I gotta P. Yeah. The green man from East Toiletra. Okay. I have to say that my love for that chemist's album, I mean, my number two through 25 are not even close.

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Yeah, we got that.

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It's weird with that album because I loved Hunted so much.

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And this is a very different album.

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It's more metal.

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Especially that final track.

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I keep playing that final track over and over where it's like,

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I see him, he comes forth from darkness.

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I can't get enough of that.

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But this album, it just is a different level of chemist.

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It's crazy. I can't believe that they've been up to that level. I don't know if that album doesn't resonate as emotionally as Hunted did to me, but it still resonates on a very high level. I love the fact that my kids can hear three notes from that album and they know it's chemist. I took a video of it and I sent it

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I didn't send you weren't on it Markisan by sending to all the guys that are normal metalhead

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podcast which at some point we should just include you on but yeah like my son after three notes like this is

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chemist like like William and I play this game with my kids I literally do like they know

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Judas Priest they know the top like my son who's five could tell you oh the big threat big four thrash out

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Big 4 thrash bands are blah blah blah Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer. He knows that Megadeth, not Megadeth, but Metallica only has 4 good animals. It's sort of safe for Megadeth. Yeah, yeah. Get me my fucking second. Jesus. What are we doing? What are we doing? Alright, so we're about to do our top 5.

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I can't believe it wasn't on my list.

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Our What The Fuck albums.

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But before we do, we just have to mention that we opened another Canadian beer.

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Yes.

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Go Canada.

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From Big Axe Brewery.

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This is the Wrath of Putin double IPA.

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So they have a problem up there too then is what you're saying.

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Yeah.

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So this is 7.0 alcohol level. It will continue to. Hey, George, we passed that bridge a long time ago. Yes. Look at that. Look at that. I was just going to say. That ship sailed a long time ago. Oh. So my suggestion is this. Damn. To make this slightly faster. Just do our five.

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No, no particular order, just one through five. Bam. Go. Markeson, go. Wait, no talking? No, you can talk. I can't say why. I can't say anything. You can talk, but the point being is that we're not going to be... Point being is they got to get home, so... Yeah. You heard my wife. My wife called. She's like, where the fuck are we? Like an hour ago. I'll try to keep it short. I feel like I got to say something. No, no, no. You can say something, but we're not going to go... Like, John's not going to do his five. You're not going to do your five.

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Just do all my five together. Go. Top five. I can't believe this didn't make my list. Horrendous Idol. I really like Horrendous. This is a great return with all the excellent musicianship and creativity that you'd expect from Horrendous, but it's just missing big riffs for me. I gave Annaretta a high ranking a couple years back, but I had the same issue with that record, so

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I was actually hoping that they would be less technical this time around. So I'd get some fatter riffs to really sink my ears into. But they went more progressive on Idol. And I really appreciate the songs, but it's just not an album that I'm going to spin a lot. Mark Zahn, have you ever seen them live? I have not seen them. I will say this, that there's a few bands that when you see them live, it would change your mind. It's one of them. Okay.

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Oh, I'd love to see them live. It's not that I don't like that band, and they would definitely be on my 26th year. That's the point of this list. Second album is Yob, A-Raw Heart from Read Laps Records. I really like Yob. Mike Scheidt surviving death to make A-Raw Heart makes for a great story, and it also makes the record supremely special to him and to the fans, but I just can't

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get into this album. I have it on vinyl. I've listened to it a bunch. But it's just a chore to me. The guitar tone. I listen to it. The guitar tone is not good. The music is good. But the guitar tone is not. The music is good. I wait for the switch to turn on to enjoy it. There are certain tracks I like. I like Beauty and Falling Leaves and the title track. But the others leave me really cold. I hate the screen. Oh no, that's my favorite song.

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I love that chug chug. Oh my god. Folks are buried throughout the album. I just I don't I just I had to leave it off my list because I just don't enjoy it. I I've listened to it a lot more than I. Great. Let me ask you this is is the chug chug chug on job like kids singing on

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It's kind of like you whenever you talk. Mark us on for the win. FTW. I will be silent. You don't have to respond anymore. Just go to number three. Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy from C.C. You guys turned me on to this band when you discussed the previous album. I absolutely love

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all the heavy death metal parts on Liquid Anatomy, and I appreciate the technical wizardry of it, but the sung vocals on the LP do not work for me at all. I think they're terrible, and sometimes the album just gets weird for me to enjoy. Remember how I was talking about how some bands forget to be metal? I feel like Alkaloid is that way, and I just can't get into it as much. I like the previous album a lot better. Sorry, guys. I know you really

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We're all entitled to our opinion. Yes. Move to the tribulation down below from century media. This is an album that's on everybody's list. I think George kind of said it. I like this album, but there's nothing on down below that compels me to keep spinning the album. I've played it more times than the last week that I have when it first came out to try to give it a fair shake, but I just don't feel it. I it's like, it's like a hot topic album. I don't understand.

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I just don't know if anybody had this in their list actually

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but it's Amorphous Queen of Time from Nuclear Blast

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I love Amorphous

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and I just don't really have any honest good reason for leaving this off

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I'm surprised that didn't make any list

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it'll come

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that's right

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you know it's here you know no one sounds like Amorphous

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And this is a really good album. It's been 30 years of Amorphous. And their material is just really strong. But it just, for some reason, it didn't connect with me like other albums on my list. So those are the top five that I'm just like, I don't know. Can't believe I left these off my list. Because they're all great. They all produce good albums. Cool. Matt? My five, which I'm sure is true with everybody.

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or maybe not, but all five of these were on my list at one point. And again, the best, I mean, you guys summed it up best when we had the idea of like, how the fuck is this not on my list? Allfather, I Will Be Desolation, Evokin, I don't know how to say that word. Atlas Moth. Hypnagogia. Thank you. Atlas Moth, which was previously on my list, Cominoir, Slaked, and Behemoth. Behemoth, wow.

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Yeah, I know. It was on my list two days ago. Skip songs one and three. It's a whole different album. I'm telling you. I mean, that part never bothered me. I mean, like we talked about, it just kind of fit with the artistry of the album and creeped me out, which I like. For sure. John. So, Marcuson, I agree. Amorphous should have been on my list. That's surprising. They are victims of being consistent for the last, like,

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what 15-20 years of just putting out good albums. And unfortunately, I liked everything else this year. It's not a bad album. I like the album a lot. It's just everything else I like more. So, whatever. I was really shocked it was on this album. I love Amorphous, but it just happened that way. So anyway, the band from Spain via Greece. Ocean of the Grief. I love that album. It's just, I just didn't get enough listens in the second half of the year.

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You need to put that headphones on and fall asleep to it. I love it. It's a great album. Sleep like a baby. All these albums are albums I actually like during the year. I ran out of time. Jay will appreciate this. Primordial. The Exile Amongst the Ruins. I love the album. Again, just not enough listens. For me, the first three songs in the album were un-fucking-believable. And it kind of dropped off. I like the back half on that too.

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I think some people like this bit Rivers of Nile where the owls know my name again it's just another album that I liked a lot but I just again the second half of the year just not enough listens and yes I absolutely love this album but I didn't feel good enough putting it on my list

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The Sith of Cosmic Chaos. Yeah, yeah, that one. Yes, I like it. You didn't have a ton of time with that, John. Do you think maybe it would rank higher if you- Most likely. You know the album that kicked it off? And I think George will agree with me, Obliteration just kicked it right off the list. Yeah. I like, because at the end, there was about three or four albums that kind of snuck on, and Obliteration was the one I went with. Sure. But if I had a full year with it, it, without

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question would be on my list no no not even a doubt done my uh my five albums that i cannot believe is not on my list is uh no particular order outer heaven realms of eternal decay i cannot believe that was not on your list a little surprised by that yeah i can't believe that's not on everybody's list i think that's just a big it is um well there was just a lot of but that's a lot of metal this year burial in location

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Yes. Yes. Yes. It's a good album. A album that I wanted to love so much, but I was just sort of like, meh. Bloodbath, The Hour of Satan is Drone. Do you know I haven't listened to that yet? I'm so depressed. I want to give it a spin. It's crazy how many albums come out. It's almost overwhelming. There's a lot of stuff.

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Funeral Doom, Foehammer, Second Sight. Yeah, I was waiting for that, yeah. Love that. I love those guys. They play Atlas all the time. And then the one that, part of the album I struggle with the most, whether it's going to be on my top 25 or not, is Sleep, The Sciences. Wow. And I am actually shocked. No one mentioned that. You're the first one. No one mentioned this album, but I... By the way, they're showing up as number one or two on almost every list. I know.

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I probably listened to this album more times than some of the other albums on my top 25. I just there's just no connections for me. I just I didn't feel like the other ones like it's not Holy Mountain. It's not Holy Mountain. Yeah. Well, it's been a while, you know. Yeah. And you're probably jaded by seeing Mike Pike's gut. Yeah. Live. Although. And a lot of water is passed under the bridge, though. I mean, they were kind of the originators sort of the modern doom movement. A lot has come and gone since then. It's been a while since then. You know. Yeah.

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It's evolved.

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Jay.

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Yeah, I don't think it should be on the list.

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None of us have been on the list.

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I don't think it should make a top 25.

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Jay.

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No, no.

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And High on Fire is the guy from Mike Pike.

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Yeah.

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Agreed.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Mine are, I thought these guys made a great record this year, Satan, Cruel Magic.

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There's a couple issues I have with the production and a couple other little nags that would take me a much longer conversation.

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I really spun the skeletal remains a lot this year. It was on my mid-year. It was kind of hard to leave that one off, devouring mortality. I put sleep in the sciences as well just because I was so excited about it coming out. But Marcuson actually hit the nail on the head, which is Matt Pike. All my Matt Pike went to high and fire this year. The Voivod record, I liked a lot. I cannot believe that was not on your list. I know.

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I really wanted to sneak it in because I really liked the story. It's just weird. The music. It's great. But that's Voivod, though. I know. It is. Yeah, it is weird. Exactly. It's weird. I like weird. I'm the only one that had it. I know. You think I would have it. Well, actually, you didn't really even have it either. I did. Well, it was. I did. Yeah, it's Voivod. The band is probably by. Oh, yeah, right. Last but not least.

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No nod to you, John, which is to say I truly wanted it on there, but I just couldn't make it happen. It's good enough for me, Jay. It's a totally list-worthy record, just it was just other stuff that hit me hard. John, was that another one? Yeah, it was too much. And I honestly did connect a little bit better with the first Alkaloid album, though I liked this one pretty much. Really? Are you high? No. Number six. By the way, without my glasses,

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I can remember that.

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Yeah.

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I'd love to do that.

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Georgie, my top five, I can't believe it's not on my list.

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Thrasenblatt, Thrasenblatt, Thrasenblatt, Thrasenblatt, Thrasenblatt.

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By the way, George, I'm impressed

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Oh my god. Because fuck the rest of you. He did. He sent me a message. A messenger. And I'm very. You are. And I was like. All right, man. Everybody else. Here's the thing. George. Here's the thing. It doesn't take away. From how much you love it. Like you just said. It's your favorite record of the year. It just isn't quite metal. And that's okay. When you say that he sent you. Message about his long fellow.

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What did he send you? I love this album. I do. But I could not in good faith after having called Clutch not Metal say that Chemist is even... Sorry, Chemist. Chemist is Metal. I will gouge out your eyes and skull. Fuck you. Just get your first pick. Throssenblatt.

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The Newt. Great Brunswick Forest. Green Man, please. Canada. Even though after having discussed everything about this album with Joel, knowing that this is a very metal album despite the folk aspect. It's not metal. I bowed to Pop. It's okay. I said, you know what? If I'm going to be honest. It's a great album. It's just not metal. We like the album still. I love that album.

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This is not metal. So, I said, you know, I can compromise and leave it off the list, but say that this is my favorite album of the year. Fair enough. You're gorgeous. What do you want to fuck your other four? Okay, so, top five. I can't believe it's not on my list. Number five. Kiss it. Pig Destroyer Headcage. Okay. Number four.

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I just noticed. You just noticed. He dropped his hint at my house last week. I was like, you bastard. No beer for you. Number three. Not mentioned by anybody. Annalnith Rock, A New Kind of Horror. I'm surprised. I'm not surprised. I am not surprised. Number two. The Atlas Moth Coma Noir. I'm not surprised either. And the number one that I could

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I believe was not on my list. Panopticon, the scars of man on the once nameless wilderness. Okay. I couldn't believe that wasn't on my list. All right. That's the name of the list. Did only one person put that on their list? Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt's staying true before he's from. I have a contract. Matt wants to keep getting beers at.

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They're up there too, right? Seriously, though. Seriously, though. That was a great album. I was like, what? That was one of the last albums to drop off my list because I was just like, uh... Yes, it has to go. Here we go. Top 10. Top 10 honorable mentions. Go. I'm not doing all 10? No particular order. Just go. I don't have an order for it. So 10 honorable mentions for me. Gutter Instinct.

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Heirs of Sisyphus. This is black and death metal. Lots of great riffs and grooves on this one. I found myself spinning it a lot more than I thought I would. The Crown, Cobra Speed, Venom. I think Jay mentioned this. Unrelenting, Death Thrash, really high speed, high energy wave of bombastic heaviness. Just really good album. Vryde, properly said. Melodic, progressive black metal with a bit of a rock edge.

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Really good album. I was actually toying with putting this on my list. I just didn't get to it. Iron Flame, Tales of Splendor and Sorrow. I don't listen to a lot of powerish metal. There's something about this band that really speaks to me. And Tales is a very good second album, but it just didn't quite hit me the same way as their first record, Lightning Strikes the Crown, which came out last year. Skeletal Remains. Jay mentioned that one as well.

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This is kick-ass death metal with really great riffs. I'm shocked that it didn't make my list. But I have a lot of death metal albums on my list, so I'm okay with putting them in an honorable mention. Skeleton Witch, we've talked about that a little bit. Devouring Radiant Light. It's a very much needed and welcome new direction for the band. Terrific album of melodic black metal. Just didn't quite make my list. Primordial. This is probably

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I'm going to be my number 26 exile amongst the ruins.

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As we talked about very divisive album among metal heads,

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but not really for me.

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I'm a big premier primordial fan.

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And this LP is just another great mix of doom black metal.

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And I feel like this album just grows stronger with every listen.

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Nakash phantasmal try unity or try unity.

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This is a deathly brand of black metal. This album was recommended to me by a record store owner in Norway when I visited this summer. And I really like it. It has some very good riffs on it for being a black metal album. And in Norway, it's mostly black metal. So to get anything else, like even just a little bit of death metal in the album is pretty rare. We've also mentioned Obliteration.

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Senataph Obscure, another in Norway. When I went to Norway, I actually picked up one of their previous albums. I love the production on this album, and it's required for something that's this dense, just a massive slab of unrelenting brutality. I love obliteration, but I have to be in the mood for that kind of dense, punishing music, and that's why it doesn't make my list, but it is a terrific album.

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And then finally,

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finally,

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Lurk,

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Fringe.

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I mentioned them as one of the top album covers of the year.

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Transcending Obscurity Records put this out.

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It's a very creative,

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atmospheric sludge doom from Finland that mixes in some black metal and some death metal.

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It's a good release.

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I feel like Lurk is an apt name for the band because it kind of like you listen to it and you're like,

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oh,

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this is a good album.

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Then it's lurking.

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Lurks around your lips.

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It lurks around the list. It lurks on the album and it just gets stronger. Like the presence grows stronger on the album. There you go. All right. Band called The Secret. They have an album called Lux Tenebrous. Band called Decline of the Eye and their album Escape. We talked about this band briefly two episodes ago. They're the lion's daughter. One of those. It was just did not expect it to sound like that.

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Like Daughters or whatever? Lion's Daughters. Is that different than Daughters? Yes. Okay, all right. Yeah. Go with your game music. It's not. It's good. Yeah, it's weird, but it grew on me quite a bit. From my mid-year list, Unreal Overflows and their album Latent, that Nusrat EP is ridiculous. The Creeping Unknown. Can't get enough of it still.

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Allure. They're on my mid-year list. Erdve and the album is called Vito Himas. Band called Imperceptum and their album Heart of Darkness. The new Thou. I don't know if it's Magus or Magus. And lastly, Rebel Wizard, Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response. Nice. All right, John. My own inventions. I'm fucking dead.

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Well, he shouldn't have called. Well, she called me. Collapse of Light, each falling step. That was on my mid-year. Glacial Tomb. Glacial Tomb. I actually do like the new Gorod of Wraithra, I guess. From my number 25 mid-year. Hemforth. Hemsons Likeham, which is the dude from Barren Earth, the singer. King Crow, The Persistence. I'm a big fan.

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of theirs. They're probably the least metal band on my list for all the bands. Monolith, Nebula Septim. Oh, yeah. It was actually very good. Yes. I liked it. Death Doomy. You might like it well. Skeletal Remains of Immortality. Nobody mentioned these guys. The Skull. Oh, wow. The Endless Road Turns Dusk. It's a good album. I just didn't listen to enough. Another band that nobody mentioned that maybe only George might know. Solar Tempor.

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For Old Descent. Cool stuff. Kind of atmospheric blackmail. Black gaze will. Oh, I'm too tired. But they're not. They're more atmospheric. Way too tired. I saved that for the very end. We are way past six hours, by the way. I'm done. And then... Charge, are you going to edit this? No, fuck it. We'll see what we get. It's a week-long episode. And then my last one, Wolverhampton, The Monuments of Ash and Bone. Ah, yeah.

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I'm all done. All right. I'm out of here. My 10, absolutely no particular order. Demonical Chaos Manifesto. It was all my mid-year. Love this album. Just too many other good stuff. Bong Ripper, Terminal. It's two songs, Slow Death. If they just would have kind of like broken it up into like four songs, way better.

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I get 10 songs. Ilsa,

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Corp Fortress,

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Ilsa,

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based out of DC,

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Buddies of Mine,

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great album,

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just didn't make my list.

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Usnia,

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Portals into Futility.

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Usnia,

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yes.

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Yeah,

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they played Atlas.

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Actually,

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a couple of these bands played Atlas.

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They're good.

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They're good.

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So for Aeon,

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The Sith of the Cosmic Chaos.

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Scythe.

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Yeah, whatever. The Sith. The Sith. Dark Lord of the Sith. The Sith, right? Revenge of Scythe. Scythe? Yeah. What makes you think it's Scythe? May the force be with the will always. That's the way it's spelled. I know, but what is a Scythe versus Sith? Well, Sith is a Dark Lord of the Jedi. Set the fuck up. Just tell me what is a Scythe. A Scythe is a...

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The thing that you reap. Sickle. I'm going to fucking cut your head off. It's a giant stick with a curve laid on it. Then it's Scythe. Yeah. Just talk. Just run with it. For fuck's sake. It's a Scythe. You know the death logo? I know. Is a Scythe or is it a Sith? Who gives a shit? A Sith is a guy. Sith has a fucking red lightsaber. Yeah.

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By the way, this may be the most interesting part of this entire podcast. Okay. Outre, Hollowed Earth? It wasn't. Outre. Yeah. All right. That wasn't the most interesting. Would you like to correct me on this pronunciation? 1949. Wow. It's 1914. You got the wrong fucking decade. 1914.

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Listen, when Will gets killed after this podcast, if you need somebody to fill in. I just got to get home first. Yeah. You guys need to get home. All right. Just go. Are you done? I'm done. I'm just quit. Go. We'll quit. Go. Go. I'm done. Go. Just, it's you, George. Oh, it's me. All right. Jay's gone. All right. In no order. Altars of grief, Iris. Shining.

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X, 10. Varg Utenflock. I don't know that. Judas Priest, Firepower. That's just stupid. That's just stupid, it is. Haid Eternal, Upon Desolate Sands. One that nobody mentioned, A Storm of Light, Anthrocene. Another one nobody mentioned, Ingested, the Level Above Human. Another one nobody mentioned, Necros Christos. You see the pattern here? No, I'm not.

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Domodon, Doxamodon. Another one nobody mentioned, Aborted Fetus, The Ancient Spirits of Decay. No. And one that several people have mentioned, Yob, Our Raw Hearts. You were the big dick of the podcast. I was. The biggest dick. So, George, you left off Yob and Her. I did. I'm a fucking asshole. Yeah. They just, neither of those albums. No, not really. But they're so highly regarded.

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Well, they're regarded enough to put them on the honorables, but not enough to make the list. All right. There we are. We are at six minutes. Six, six minutes. Six hours and 13 minutes. Who knows what this let it down to? Six minutes and six hours and two minutes. Yeah. Yeah. But here we are. We are at the end. This is the end of the year. I want to thank all of you for coming on. I want to thank Jay.

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for being here, but he had to leave. I love you all. Yes. Some highlight of my fucking existence outside of Jen is you guys. Yes. And we will continue. Total lie, but well put. Oh, it's 100% the truth. Thank you very much, guys. We will continue shortly in 2019. With more metal. With more metal. Hint, hint, it probably has something to do with Inferroboro. Maybe.

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Thank you guys for having me on. I really appreciate it. Always good talking to you, bro. And Markson, just start counting down the days till April. We bring the fucking party to Philadelphia. I will be. Yes. So. And Will might take his pants off there, too. I might. Hey. This is my turn to take my pants off. Yeah, whatever. I did. 116 days and 19 hours, my flight leaves. So we're almost there. All right. Have a happy new day.

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New Year!

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And we will talk to you in 2019.

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Until then, we remain the Metalheads Podcast.

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Later.