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Metalhead Podcast, Metalhead Podcast, Go!

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Now, here is the podcast, Metalheads Podcast.

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Hello, and welcome to the Metalheads Podcast.

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My name is George.

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That's it, Jay.

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This is Will.

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This is John.

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This is Markisan.

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And Matt is not with us today because he is, let's just say, traveling the world right now.

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But we do have somebody else here with us today.

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And his name is Josh. Welcome, Josh.

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Hello. Thank you for having me on.

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No problem.

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So Josh was one of the people that actually listens to this podcast.

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And he wrote to us and said, hey, you know, I like the podcast.

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And I don't know. Did you ask whether you could come on or did I just invite you because I invite everybody?

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I subtly slipped it into the end of that email. Okay, cool. Well, that's good. That's good because, you know, some occasionally we ask people and only occasionally does anybody actually write us back and say, hey, yeah, I'd like to come on. So if you're listening and you want to come on to let us know. He said in his most game show like voice. Come on down. This is how we got stuck with Markisan, by the way. Yeah, I know.

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Except I wasn't subtle about it. I was like, I want to be on your podcast. Well, right now Josh is hiring somebody to take out Matt's plane so there's a vacancy. We interviewed Jay and Jay's like, I want to be on your podcast. I'm never leaving. Actually, that's kind of how everybody got here. Everybody showed up, nobody left. Alright, so anyway, here we are, episode 98. Getting close, fellas. Getting close. That's crazy.

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So, since Josh is here, we're going to pester him with some questions, learn a little bit about him, since we're always talking about us. So, Josh, tell us, just give us a general, who are you? Who am I? Well, I'm 24 years old. I live in St. Petersburg, Florida. Not for long, hopefully, though. Yeah, I just graduated college and basically lifelong metalhead.

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What did you graduate college in? Yeah. Oh, I graduated from Florida State University with my bachelor's and master's, and I work in geography. Geography. Oh, cool. Yeah, I make maps and do, like, spatial intelligence stuff. Smart stuff. The earth is pretty metal. Will, are you wearing a candy bracelet, Will? I am wearing a bracelet that my son made for

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I'm wearing a bracelet that my son made for me that's not made out of candy and I am wearing it proudly because my son made it for me make fun of me again and I will gouge out your eyes let's go fuck you you were gonna do that anyway so what's the point so you mentioned to me that your father got you into metal you and your sister as a matter of fact why don't you tell us about that yeah that's true my dad's a

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He's a metalhead, but he mostly, you know, he doesn't really check out much new stuff anymore. But, you know, as a kid, he introduced me to Metallica and Slayer and Judas Priest, Dio, you know, Black Sabbath, all the classic good shit, and pretty much snowballed from there. How old is he? How old is he? Yeah. He is 56, I believe. Yes, he's older than us. Maybe we should have him on. Even older than John. That's saying something. Yeah.

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Just waiting for like, oh yeah, my dad, he's like 45. That could be your dad. He could be. You notice that Will insultingly made his voice a little higher when he said that. You did a Josh impression like this. Yeah, my dad is there too. I'm sorry, Josh. There's people I know who literally like, I can be their father easily. Oh, I know. Nah, I hear you, man. So, back to Josh. Hey, yeah.

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So do you remember what the first metal record you purchased for yourself was? Or it could be the first one that was given to you. Or perhaps the first one that was meaningful to you. Or whatever. Go with it. The first ones that were given to me were Metallica's Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Of course. And also the ones you listen to on your own for the first time. But also an addendum to that was what was the format of those first Metallica records. What format were there?

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So they were on CD and I still have them both. Gotcha. Okay, John, I apologize. Please continue. No, not a problem. The reason I ask is because we all listen to music with somebody, either a friend or family, but what's the first one you were by yourself? Like what did you go out and discover on your own? Yeah, or even it was given to you that you listened to on your own, but that moment where you really realized this is fucking awesome. Yeah. By yourself though. It was both of those. I have memories of being, you know, a seven, eight year old kid with like my little,

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portable CD player walking around with master puppets going, you know, all day obsessively. So that was, that was definitely. Now that's a generation right there. That's a generational gap. You had your portable CD player. I had my portable tape deck. John, John has eight track. You had to crank. It was a book troller. My friend had an eight track. I did not. I had the tape deck. He had a tape deck and a number two pencil. I never owned an eight track.

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I did? I did? I've never even seen an 8-track. For those of you who don't, who didn't know the experience of 8-track, they were really weird the way they worked. And there were certain songs on every tape where it would stop in the middle of the song and start the song over because it had to go to the next track. It was really weird. So you had like half songs on it. Yeah, it was a royal pain in the ass listening to those things. Do you still have any of those, John? No, it was my buddy who had them. I never had one. And I do remember real for real. Lying.

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No, I really never had one. Well, that's the honest to God truth. I never had one. What was the first concert you got to go to, Josh? First concert was, I want to say 2008 Death Magnetic Tour of Metallica, Lamb of God, Gojira. That's a better lineup than I got for that tour. 2008, wow. So you got a Gojira song. Gojira show, and then did you walk out after that, or what happened? Yeah, so you're familiar.

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We actually saw Gojira, really enjoyed it. Lamb of God came on, wasn't that into it. I mean, I know they're popular. I'm still not that into them, though, to be honest. And then Metallica and B, I don't even know how old I was, but I was in shock the entire time. Didn't know what to do. I was just looking at it in amazement the entire time. Were you in shock? Because like, wow, this does not sound anything like Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning.

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Hey, that was a really good tour. Is this a cover band? What happened to them? I actually got to, you know, they were doing like the in the round thing for Death Magnetic. And it was in one of the arena where the Caps play here. And there was like general admission on the floor. But like everybody had seats. And so I was basically like front row, like just wandering around in front of the stage.

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The only dude wandered around in front of the stage in that whole big place. There was hardly anybody down on the floor. And I'm just like, this is pretty cool. So I'm like, just standing there, you know, watching, watching them from like 10 feet away. Do you know why that is, George? Because the Metallica in the round was not like the Def Leppard in the round for hysteria. That's why. Do you guys know? No, it was. You guys never saw the behind the music on Def Leppard. They're in the round. Oh, they're all under the stage getting blowjobs and stuff. Yeah. While they were doing a bass and drum solo, the rest of the band

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went down and literally had sex for like 10 minutes.

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The word, I think Ross health and he's the word Caligula.

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Okay. So let's talk more about your development though, Josh. So like somebody got you off and, well, your dad more specifically got you off and running, but where did you, where did your heart begin to lie? And it might just still be with those bands, but I mean, what was the, what was your next step? You know what I mean? Cause we all, as a kid start to look.

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And Josh, never mind that Jay just said, like, oh, I know it's your dad that got you off, but like. Yeah, yeah. Read through whatever he said and just articulate it, okay, please? No, I think that's. Where's this question going? It came across just as I meant it to. Please, continue. No, but you, what was your trajectory then after that? You know, you started. At some point, you must have gone, Dad, this is heavier and I like it and I know you don't, but, you know. Yeah, yeah.

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And from there it was the next thing that I can vividly remember is a friend of a friend, some kid that lived in the neighborhood growing up, showed me Children of Bodom and Cataclysm of all bands. Wow. I hope it was old Cataclysm. It was the song Let Them Burn off of In the Arms of Devastation, which I like that album. I know that they're pretty like, you know, hit or miss band for a lot of people. I like the first two albums. Yeah. I like them.

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I think a lot of people were waiting for it when they first started so it's not that. Like sorcery. Do not defend your choices here. Temple of Knowledge. Yeah I mean I still listen to both of those bands. Children of Bodom has you know Halo of Blood was pretty good but anything besides that in the last you know seven or eight years has been just not worth listening to but Follow the Reaper and Hay Breed were huge for me growing up. That was the first

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like real, you know, shred guitar that I ever heard. And that, you know, just good stuff. I play guitar and I was trying to, you know, trying to learn that stuff as a kid alongside trying to learn all the Metallica songs and everything was just, you know, huge for me as a guitar player and also just, you know, greatly influencing my taste in metal. Well, that is a wicked guitar player, you know, no matter what you think of that band. Let's fast forward to today, though, and say what were some of your favorite records last year since we just,

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crossed over into a new year. Oh, man. Two mold, definitely. Crip Sermon. I had cattle decap was on my list. Can we just replace Matt with this guy? He just said two mold, Crip Sermon, and cattle decapitation. Matt likes those too. What do we need this Matt guy for? Wait, who's Matt again? Exactly. Bitchy Matt. He's just too bitchy.

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Well, I'm about to disappoint you the hardest out of everyone when you start hearing my picks for some of these questions. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. So what are your favorite genres of metal? Are you really into death metal, doom? You know, I cycle through basically all of them. I will have a month or two where I am so just into death metal, and then I'll switch and just be really into black metal.

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and then do metal and it just it basically goes all over the place my favorite band if i had to pick a favorite band and i'm getting ready by the way i'm getting ready oh you should because you're gonna hate it you should just mute your microphone for a minute will no don't mute your microphone because it'll take us like a half an hour to get you back on yeah i'm not moving come on come on josh what's your favorite do it ansapherum ansapherum has been like my favorite band for the longest time i found them when i was in high

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and it just it hasn't stopped wait what's the name of it and so fair they're cool bless you you know that we need to see it on paper i know you all know them yeah i like them you know i just i didn't uh look at your name written down until um but i heard george pronounce it but i looked at it and you have the same last name as the doctor and the king diamond them album dr landau oh really i did not know that that's that's funny yeah my sister is a way

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I'm a bigger King Diamond fan than I am. To be honest. See, Will, now you like him more, don't you? Yeah, I apologize for being a King Diamond fan because, you know, if you don't like super high-pitched screaming vocals, you know, it's cool. Hey, if I could just interject real quick. This is just kind of funny. I got a message from TR. He's in America, Samoa, and he says hi. TR, the metal butler.

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What's he doing in America? Is he on his way to see? What's he doing there? He's like trying to find Markisan and he got lost. Wrong island, dude. You gotta go about another 2,000 miles. He's National Park in America, Samoa right now. Good lord. In two weeks, my wife will be in Huala Lula, by the way. Oh, okay. So watch out. She will not see you.

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Now what's she doing in Honolulu? She's going to Pearl Harbor for some Navy base thing. So, uh, so Josh, when did you hear about us? This is the most important question. When did you make that big mistake? And how? Were you just like, how did you search the internet for like worst podcast ever? Pretty much. You know, I, I was never into podcasts, but finding myself working a full time job.

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I just left me with a lot of time to just sit there in a quiet room with headphones on all day. So I figured I'd give it a try. And what better topic to look for a podcast about than metal. So I just basically searched that and you guys were somehow the only tolerable ones. I've listened to like every other one on Spotify. I literally cannot get through a single episode of any of them. Yeah, I've tried to listen to them too. Why is that? Why do you feel that way about this podcast? Yeah, I'm actually really curious about this. That was until

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Good night. Now I'm going back to all those podcasts. I, you know, I've never heard of, like, if you go through that list, I mean, there's the metal injection one, but besides that, none of them are exactly, none of them are, you know, any well-known site or anything like that. They're all small ones. And I mean, yeah, it's either just the hosts, you know, I don't get the humor or it's just, you know, the topics aren't that interesting.

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They upload once a year.

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Are they not making dick jokes?

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What's wrong?

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Maybe that's what it is.

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I don't know.

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Are they full of themselves?

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Will is feeling so validated right now.

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Well, I agree.

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That's why when I started listening to metal, it was the same thing.

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Because I was listening to a lot of metal podcasts because I don't have a lot of people to talk metal with.

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Who does?

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Right.

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So when I listened to it, it was because everybody on the cast just seemed like friends. And now they are my friends, which is great. I think you hit the nail on the head there, though. That's really true, because I think that was something that was lacking in my life. That's why I stuck around and had friends to talk to. And so we really are. We fill that role for whoever listens in that one. I mean, it's just what you guys sit around talking about metal. Underwater Audio. Without any super strong, without a really strict format. Yeah, well, because that's all it is. It's like, I think probably other podcasts are,

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maybe trying too hard.

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They're like, well, we need to do, we're making a podcast.

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We are being podcasters, blah, blah, blah.

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And we're just like, hey, let's talk about shit.

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Oh, wait, turn on the microphone.

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Yeah, or it's the opposite.

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And an hour goes by and no one's even mentioned music yet.

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And that's like, that's also not what I want.

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I have listened to a podcast.

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I used to listen to a Star Wars podcast.

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And they literally went for about an hour and they just talked about their weekend with their wives and stuff. I'm like, holy shit. Are you ever going to talk about Star Wars? Well, we haven't talked about music yet. We're like almost half an hour in. I mean, we have, we have, but not. Yeah, but we've had dick jokes and people are drinking beers. I mean, come on. Yeah. So we'll go to Josh. Josh, do you drink? Do you have a big penis? And do you have a big, do you drink? What are you drinking? I only have one of those things. And this beer is called the,

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Coppertail Free Dive IPA out of Tampa, Florida. Is there some good stuff down there? Are there a few brewers down there? Cigar City. Cigar City is the big one, yeah. Wait, Josh, are you in Tampa? I'm in St. Petersburg, which is like 20 minutes away from Tampa. So if I come down there, I'm going to look you up. This is the threat, by the way. I'm going to drag you to a Philly

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Philadelphia Phillies. What do they call it? Spring training. Spring training. Yeah. Clearwater. Where does that take place? If I can ask a question. Clearwater. Okay. Like a father and son. He is super like. He is such a metalhead. He's like, I don't give a shit about your baseball or your wife. Go fuck yourself.

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All right, well, what's everybody else doing? The tallest building in Clearwater is a giant Scientology center. Yeah, I've seen pictures of it, yeah. I watched the documentary, and I think they must have shown a lot of footage of it. The documentary was on HBO, which was really good, Going Free or Going Clear or whatever it was. Going Clear, yeah, saw that. You watched it, John? Oh, yeah. Yeah, and they show that town, and it is a town, man. I'm trying to get that shut down because it does not make us look good.

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Would you like to tell us about Freemus or whatever the fuck the name of the guy is? I'm a level five and listen I'm a level five and you can't deny what we're doing here I can't even keep straight facing Alright George, do the go around get the beers from everybody Yeah, well why don't we start with you then Fine, that's why I said it I'm drinking courtesy of the metal butler who's out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

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Lost Abbey. It's one of their track songs. They did like 12 tracks. This one is The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Will and I have enjoyed The Number of the Beast a few times. This is one of those beers they put out in that series. Cool. What about Marcosan? Well, I'm drinking mead. Of course you are. So I've got Brimminghorn, Mulatto, a Flower Honeydew Honeymead,

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Barrel's Three Months.

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Want to give us a review?

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It's really good.

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You know, I really like any of the Brimming Horn honey, like straight honey, not

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none of the berry ones.

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I don't like the berry fruit ones, but anytime they do the more traditional meads, I

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like them a lot.

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And this one's the barrel age, so it has a little bit different flavor, but it's sweet.

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It's strong.

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This one's really strong.

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I saw there were cans.

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that they're canning stuff now, A. And B. I just want you to know I'm wearing my Brimminghorn shirt. Oh, yeah. We should do t-shirt check. That's your thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Shirt check. All right, quick. Shirt check. We got to finish beers. Yeah, beers first. All right. Jay, you're not drinking anything right. Not till later. Okay. Will. Sorry. Sorry. No, go ahead. Sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. No, I have a... Oh, go ahead. No, that's no big deal. I'll find...

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Mine's at 10 o'clock when I start playing video games. Shit show. Nerd alert. Nerd alert. Well, I'm drinking the Imperial Porter Ale Ox Cart from Fort Monroe. What's the name of this? I'm sorry. Let me get my bar focus on. Oogle Finch. Oogle Finch. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You've heard of them, right?

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Yeah, I've had some other stuff. Cool. That's what I got. Nice. Do you like it, Will? I do. Good. I've got the Adroit Theory Obulus. Oh, the horrendous beer. Yes, it's not, though. Why is it not? It's not horrendous. You know, you guys always talk about all these metal beers, and I don't get any of them.

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in my area.

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Well,

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not a single one.

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You're near Cigar City.

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They have metal beers.

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They have the,

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what is it,

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the Guar beers.

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Oh,

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do they really actually?

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Yeah,

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they do.

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Yeah,

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the only ones I've tried are the Iron Maiden Trooper,

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and,

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never actually tried it,

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but I see the Megadeth one around,

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and that's all I get.

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So,

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the first one was alright that they did with,

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well,

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what was the brewery that,

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they did,

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the Le Fendemont,

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What was it? With the first Megadeth beer. Oh, the Unibrew. Unibrew. Unibrew. That one was all right. Maybe I'll check it out later. Unibrew makes some of my absolute favorite beers in the world. Yeah, they make good stuff. I will chime in, even though mine won't get cracked for another two or three hours. I went and bought a bunch of stuff the other day, and I got this almanac, just this coffee roast out, which looks good.

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I've got the Lagunita Stout. And then I always just have this 21st Amendment. I've always got like a 12-pack of that in the fridge. 21st Amendment Brew Fair or Die, which is like one of my favorite beers. Which is also why I don't put my stuff on untapped anymore because I'm always just buying 21st Amendment. Now that's stated, I had a new Russian River last night. I was just going to say, Jay, I saw the can online. I was younger. And I like... Oh, where? I was like, wow. You saw it online? Yeah, somebody had it. They posted a can online. I was like, what the fuck?

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and loaded up yesterday at a shop and it was at a shop that I'd hoped that has

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the elder and I was like you think you can get any and he was like nah dude and they're like and this is the

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hipsterest of all hipster beer stores so it's gonna be random I have uh there's a friend I have here in DC who was out in

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in the area and he actually went to the brewery and had it that's what you gotta do yeah you know yeah

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well I don't get any metal beers here you don't get anything metal at all no metal

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There's actually a metal show tonight for some local bands that I don't know if I'm going to go. I flew back from the Big Island and now I'm doing the cast. So I have to see if I have enough energy to go to the show. Got some Aloha metal tonight, huh? Yeah, what's the name of the band? Not Darkest Hour. It's like Darkest Pain or something. It's their first show they've ever played. The guy put out an album. It's one of those bands where the guy,

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He plays all the instruments, put out the album, and now he has a full band, and so they're going to be playing. Hey, Marcus, I'm speaking of Hawaii. Have you seen Lock and Key yet? The show? No. I've read the comics, though. I have not watched the show yet. There's a moment where the youngest son in the family says aloha to people that I thought of you when he did that. So if you watch it, let me know if you see that part. Oh, I'm definitely going to watch it because I love the graphic novel. Yeah. What's it on? Is it on Netflix?

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Speaking of people and Markisan, we had the TV on, it was on Food Network the other day, and it was the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and they were in Hawaii, and they were at a restaurant, and they were talking to this guy, and I wasn't really paying that much attention, but Barb was like, is that Markisan? And I was like, wait, and I rewound it, and it was uncanny. It was like older Markisan. It was like from like 2012 or something too, the episode?

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No, it was fairly recent, but he was grayer, but he had the same, like, sexy, silky voice. I was like, wow, that is uncanny. There's a lot of husky brown people out here, which is kind of odd. That's true. Chicago is pretty diverse, but not like this. That's called Polynesian, Marker's on, right? Yeah, exactly. You keep saying you're brown. I look at you, I just see you as olive. As in olive.

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I love you. I actually prefer mocha caramel. Oh, my God. All right, I'm going to interrupt this thread for shirt check. Mine is the Brimming Horn shirt. Yeah. What is Jean wearing? Cardigan. Pullover. Oh, sorry. No. Just give a look like I'm so out of here. What was I thinking coming in here? Very nicely making us something to eat.

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Yeah, mine's Temple of Void. This is a new design I just put out. That's badass. That's cool. I think I see Outer Heaven. I have Outer Heaven, yeah. And John? I have a big old grizzly bear with antlers, and it just says beer. Beer? Let's see it, John. It's the most metal out of all of them. That's way more than mine. It's like the

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John Belushi college. Yeah. College. And Josh, I'll just out you or by saying yours is just a blank green shirt. But there you go. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't need to wear a metal shirt. He has the metal hair. Look at his hair. There you go. You need a shirt. You just look at his hair. I can take it off if you want.

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Leave your glasses on.

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No.

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It's all or nothing.

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All or nothing.

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We're not negotiating here.

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Next subject.

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You guys do realize we're like 45 minutes into this, and we haven't gotten to a single subject yet.

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Hey, it's like we have an interview.

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But we have one other thing we got to do.

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Marcus, do you want to ask that?

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I told him about it and gave him a heads up, but do you want to ask him that question?

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Oh, yeah, right.

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So I came up with a new section called Metal Me. And it's a question for new people that come on. It could be for people from bands as well, musicians, but it's what three metal albums would help people better understand you as a person and why, Josh? Yeah, I just want to say that the first two, when George sent me this question, the first two of them popped into my mind immediately. And then the third one plagued me for like four or five days.

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and I could not decide what to pick. So anyway, first one is Metallica Ride the Lightning because that was without a doubt the most influential metal album of my life so far. Getting into it as a guitar player, just in general. Favorite song on that album? Probably Creeping Death. Okay. Yeah. Number two would be Enzapherum Iron because like I said,

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They've been my favorite band for a long time. I saw them live recently, probably about a year ago, and that was... I don't know. If you ever felt like you're just peaking, that's what I felt like at that show. It was the most fun I've ever had. I know that feeling. I've been peaking since 1999. Nice. And then the last one is actually just a feeling captured by...

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I chose three albums to represent what I wanted to pick for this one. And that is basically an album that is so cheesy and fun and ridiculous that you can't help but love it, even though it's probably terrible. Wait, is it, is it, is it, is it? Fuck, I can't think of the name now. The joke is gone. Never mind. What's that band we're always picking on? The one that's like super power metal cheesy? Oh, it's power metal. All three of them are super cheese, power metal.

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I love Glory Hammer. Glory Hammer, thank you. And if it's Glory Hammer, I'm sorry. It's not, but I love Glory Hammer. God, I know that none of you guys like this shit, and I don't blame you. I like power metal. Certain power metal. Can you unplug his microphone right now? Yeah. Wait, let's first hear these three albums. I want to hear these. Come on. Will, you should just hold on to something real quick. Yeah, so I take anything but that.

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So I picked the newest Twilight Force album, Pathfinder, Fifth Element, and Qantas, I think the name of the band, the Anastoria, which also came out last year. And all three of them are so ridiculously cheesy. I love it. You have to really not give a fuck to make music that cheesy. That's why I love it. Sounds like the lineup for the next Prog Power Festival, John. Oh, not even close.

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Oh, they had Galnerius last year, though. I love them. They're awesome. They're amazing. I would love to see them live. Just wasn't my thing, but they are great musicians. I totally get why it's not most people's thing, you know, but to me, it's just like, it's so silly and just dumb. Like, I don't know. I love it. Oh, dude. Hey, you know what? I'm not going to do, I'm not like saying like, Hey, wait till you get older. Cause I hate when people say shit like that. But there was a time when I used to apologize for stuff like Manowar. Fuck that dude.

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It's perfect though

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because it tells us that he's silly

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and fun and he's picked those

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albums because it kind of shows his personality

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off. So that's cool. Exactly

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and that's why I chose them. That's perfect

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for this question. I asked a couple people that are

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close to me what they think I should pick and

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my girlfriend said Twilight Force. My sister

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told me to pick Pathfinder. So there

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we go. You said that

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I thought for a second you were going to say like Aelstorm or

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something. So now

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we know you're lying. I've just never been able to get into them.

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Now we know you're full of shit. You said girlfriend. Look at us. Seriously, look at us. You think we have girlfriends? Come on. No, it's worse than that. Anyway. Okay, moving on. Good, George. Anyway. All right. Do we want to satisfy Will and start into the episode then? Yeah, let's do.

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And I think this will just be a continued way to get to know Josh. He can chime in as he feels appropriate. All right. So first up, we want to report from the last episode. We did the first Metal Thunderdome. Metal Thunderdome is where we pit two albums against each other. We all make our picks. And then after the episode posts, we posted on Facebook and let everybody else vote. And so it was Dio, Dio's Holy Diver specifically,

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Versus Merciful Fates Melissa. And the people have spoken. With a percentage of 55% to 45%, Dio's Holy Diver took it. A little closer than I thought it was going to be. Yeah. Yeah, closer. You said Dio won that. I cut out for a second. Yeah, Dio won the Thunderdome. Dio won among us 4-2, I think, and then 55-45.

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Yeah. For listeners. Pretty cool. Yeah. So next episode, when Matt is back, Matt will get to pick a couple of albums and we'll do it all over again. That was a good choice, though, because those both represent a very specific kind of niche. And yet they're very different from each other. I was still surprised Merciful Pate did as well as they did. And they also came out the same year, too, Jay. Weird. What is that? Is that 82, 83?

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What year is that? 83. 83. Yeah, it was fun, and I'm glad people voted. So thanks to everybody who put their two cents in on the versus poll there. So we'll do it again. Bitchy Mad is up next. All right. So one other thing before we get started. I was at work the other day, and I got a text message from a friend of mine, one of Barb's college friends.

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And she was like, hey, why the hell am I getting this? And she sent me a picture of a spam message that she got for a website called meetmetalheads.com, which is apparently a Metalheads dating site. Now, she does not listen to metal or anything of this nature. So I'm like, I'm like horrified that like somehow by knowing me, she has gotten this, this thing. And I'm just like, I have no idea.

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Yeah, I've never heard of this thing. I've never been there. I hope I didn't cause this. And she was just like, I don't care. It's kind of messed up. And she's like, you should talk about this on the podcast. So I thought I would put it on. If you could see all the other guys on here, they're all like, shut the fuck up and move on. No, no, I'm just wondering where this is going to go. Well, what I wanted to do was I created a, I didn't want to destroy my

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My own mailbox. So I created somewhere into like Madonna or Lady Gaga. Skip it. And next thing. I created a new email address called dating metal heads dating and metal heads podcast dot com so that I could sign up for this site. Nobody knows who that is. And fuck off. Well, I'm not going to go as far with it as I was going to.

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But seriously, have you not seen the spam emails about metalheaddating.com? No, not really. Not me. I haven't. So I wanted to look at this. What you should do is start listing the metal and you will get them. Yeah. So I went and I signed up, but you can't hardly see anything without paying for it, which I was not willing to go that far for the bit. But you can see some of the people.

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And it's, you know, I came on here wanting to, like, make fun of this. But then I'm looking at this. Well, no, I mean, they probably all are. But I started looking at the site and I was like, these are my people, though. You know, I was like, you know, I specifically went and looked at some of the guys because I wanted to see what these guys were putting on there. And it's pretty cheesy. And they're all like.

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I thought you said this was like a metalhead standing site not like Grindr for metalheads. Did you guys just literally listen to what he just said? Yeah. We did. I looked at the women first but I wanted to see what kind of guys were coming on this site and they're all like old dudes like us. He just said it again. He just said it again. Okay. I'm going to shut up. Actually Will if you're going to call him out I'd like to go back to I didn't want to destroy my own mailbox because that sounds like a euphemism for me so.

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But needless to say, it's a pretty scary sight.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, all right.

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This dumpster is on fire, and I'm just going to walk away from it.

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George, we're trying to put the dumpster out.

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George, thank you.

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Can I just ask you, though, if under religion they all said, you know,

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Hail Satan or something like that, I'd really love to believe that was true.

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Yeah.

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The one Striper fan?

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It would be good if one of us is actually single and then did the dating site and then could report the actual experience.

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Yeah.

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Well, initially I was going to ask Josh, as we now know, he has a girlfriend.

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I was going to be like, if you don't have a girlfriend, we need to sign you up for this site just for the for the episode.

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But you do.

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So you're off the hook.

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And besides that, it costs money, which is stupid anyway.

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But anyway, backing away. Hi, I'm Josh. I'm backing away slowly. This is the best band that's ever existed. If you do, then I don't even know what to tell you because you're fucking. Hey, George, you know, it might be a good idea to go to the news at this point. We got one more thing. And that is the Adroit Theory show last month. Will, tell us about that. Muted. Classic Will. Sorry.

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Oh, wow. So once upon a time, this guy named Mark Osborne, who owns a jewelry theory, said, hey, Will, can you put together a heavy metal show for my sixth anniversary party? And I said, sure, Mark, I can do that. So I did it. And so we collectively put our heads together.

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And I said, hey, let's get Inner Arma headline. Let's get Ilsa to direct support and then have Basilisk and then Sick Deer as the other direct support. Anyway, it was fuck tons of fun. George and John actually came out to the show. And we were at last year's also.

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Well, we've been to both. That is true, yeah. I'm obviously being a little bit facetious, but it was so much fun to have Jordan and John out there. Anytime I have a show at either Atlas or in this case that I put together a show as way outside my lane of the road, what I usually do, but I did it at Adroit Theory. It's just so much fun to have Jordan and John out there supporting the show.

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And then we actually got to interview Mark a little bit. We tried. We tried like fucking hell to get James from Decibel. And he was right there. Yes. He is like, no way. At some point, we'll get him. Oh, he's going to be on the mid-year. We've already bladgered him into it. He's going to be on the mid-year. He's doing it. Oh, yeah. It's okay. Why was he so standoffish?

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Well, he feels like he doesn't have anything to say, anything to contribute. You know, he says he doesn't want to ruin our podcast. He's so full of it. He is. Yeah. By the way, the reason why Will is kind of poking a little fun about George and I going out there is because the drive to a droid theory from, at least for Will and I, is quite far. It's about roughly, what, 45, 50 miles?

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an hour and 15 minutes. So I'm sure it took you, John, about an hour and five minutes. And I'm sure it took George about 30 minutes. Yeah. But it's a little bit of a hike for us out. It's in the D.C. metro area, but it's at the very edge of the western part of it. So it's near me. Middle of nowhere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we are fun. All right. We recorded a, I don't know, about 15 minutes or so worth of material.

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with me and Will and John and Mark and not James. And I'm going to put that at the end of this episode. So stick around to hear the rest of that. I think was Warren in for a second or two also? Yeah, actually, I think Warren was. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. It was fun. We had a good time. It was warm this year compared to last year. It was like 25 degrees. The beer was good. We had a good time. Yeah, it was good. It was good crowd. Yeah.

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Bands were good. And James would not talk to us. Yeah, at one point, Will and George were almost naked because they had such a good time watching Inner Arma. Yeah. You just described a Tuesday. They were almost naked. I'm talking about I'm naked every day. I just described every podcast going back like 50 of them. Wow. Tuesday. Thank you. It was a Saturday. Thank you.

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It's Tuesday, here's my nipples! We mentioned James a lot. It's just because he's a nice guy. He works for Decibel. We see him at every Decibel Fest, and the guy I see him at shows, since he's out there, we will pull him on. I've got his phone number now, so he's going to be badgered. What's his title at Decibel? It might be Jack of all trades. First of all, James is the ultimate nicest dude ever.

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His job is advertisement. So he tries to, he's an ad guy. He tries to get everyone to put ads in Declan Magazine. He, I'm pretty sure he religiously listens to this podcast. And just the absoluteless, looteless, God. He's cringing at all of this. The new band we'll be covering later.

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James listens all the time. He tells us he loves our dick jokes. I like dicks. Yeah. I like dicks. But he's a good guy, and you know he's metal. Yeah. And I'm sure he's got tons of interesting stories to tell. I mean, the guy's been at Decibel for a good few years. I mean, runs into people. He helps organize that show. I'm sure he ran into, you know, all the coolest bands backstage and stuff. Yeah.

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And handles certain things that they need done for them, meaning their own credentials to get in and out. Or who fucking knows. I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure he's got stories to tell. He just doesn't know. Yeah, and who knows? Maybe he's even done metal dating, Jay. See? Indeed. All right. Now we can move on to the news.

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Unfortunately, the first two items, in fact, are not particularly happy. They're not fresh news, though, so I'm sure everybody's already heard. First of all, Sean Reinhard of Cynic and Death passed away. And then Hot on the Heels, 2020 was like, no, fuck drummers. And Reed Mullen of Corrosion of Conformity also died. That was a pretty shitty kind of three weeks for all famous drummers.

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in a month. And I don't think there was any announcement yet on how those second two died. Obviously, the first one being Neil Peart. Yeah, man, it was terrible. How old was Reed Mullen? Do you remember? Was it 47 or something? No, he was older. He was older than Sean. Oh, maybe Sean was 48. Sean was, yeah. Yelp. It's sad, man. And as Markisan pointed out,

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to me. He sent me an article. As I assume everybody knows, Sean Reiner was gay. And he was apparently not allowed to donate his organs because he was a sexually active homosexual man. How fucked up is that shit? Biggest motherfucking shit ever in my life. Well, I'll be honest with you guys. I don't know if you did any research. That's not uncommon around the world, though. No, but the rest of the world is, you know.

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Well, meaning the rest of the world, meaning industrialized countries, have that in place. And it's a huge one-year ban on blood and tissue samples, apparently, in most industrial countries. And obviously this is an AIDS-based decision. Sure. The law was created in response to the AIDS crisis in the 80s. And there were these FDA regulations that deemed men ineligible from donating.

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if they had sex with another man in five years. And that was updated to like 12 months. Yeah. Yeah. Sean. Go ahead. I think it was based on a 2007 case where the markers got through on the blood tests is what happened. And they couldn't detect it. And that's when they put that's when it shrunk down to 12 months. Yeah. He was. Sean was. He wanted to be a donor. Was that how they started? Yeah. He wanted to. So his partner, that's what his partner posted on Twitter.

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Something like that. Saying that he wasn't able to do that. But apparently the office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Department of Health and Human Services is taking a public comment until the fall. So you can actually write because they're going to do revisions based on comments. So if you think it's fucked up, which you should, then maybe send a message or a note.

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Yeah. I mean, I understand. Obviously, you don't want to take something from someone if it's got a disease of some kind, but that's anybody. That's right. You know, you test. I mean, I don't know. Can you test organs and be like, hey, this is a bad organ? I don't know. Maybe you can't. You don't understand what is the full preference. Exactly. Because what is the full spectrum of shit then that you fucking test for? Well, we're talking definitional at this point then, because if you want to remove that,

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then it becomes for everyone.

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So, yeah.

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At the very least, perhaps somebody who receives an organ could opt out.

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I mean, I know for a fact all of us could donate, but 12 months at least, easy.

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, Desible is coming up, so.

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They better get them soon.

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Well, at least not your liver or kidneys.

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Yeah.

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You know what that is.

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You know what that is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, that is a very strange twist on that story, to say the least. Indeed. And sad to see, you know, drummers dropping off like flies here. This is terrible. Yeah. Hopefully we're done for a while. And according to Gary Holt, we could have lost a few more people. So apparently Exodus Testament and Death Angel were on a ferry from Sweden to Finland, which, by the way, I was supposed to take like two years ago during some sort of like crazy storm.

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And it was rocking the ferry quite badly. People were throwing up. And apparently a truck full of the band's equipment was tossed overboard by the storm. That's got to be pretty bad. And I'm like, could you imagine the news item? All of Exodus, Testament, and Death Angel wiped out in one go. Yeah, that's crazy, dude. I was on a scary ferry ride from England to Ireland once. And I also took a ferry ride not to just go off about me here.

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And it was a ferry ride in which I was on a train and they put the whole fucking train on the ferry. Is that crazy? Yeah, I think I feel like they do that somewhere else. It was from Denmark. Anytime you're on the water, anytime you're on the water, it could be an issue. I was on a boat once in Philadelphia late at night with a bunch of drunk assholes. And I swear I thought I was going over. I was just saying, were people bleeding on the couch?

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I'm just saying anytime you're on a boat anything can happen I was on a boat two days ago to do whale watching and the waves were pretty crazy and about three quarters of the people on the boat were puking I'm too tough for that but everybody else just puking their guts out you had your eyes closed Markisan because you're like don't watch you or no I don't I don't get affected by that you go out they have whales so it's seasonal so the whales come here

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to give birth because it's a little bit warmer. And so, like maybe three months or something. So there's a lot of activity out here. So they take the boat out there and they look for whales. And then you can see them. They'll come up, the humps, their tails. And they do like a cycle with like breathing too. So like every 12 minutes, 14 minutes, they'll surface again. So you kind of follow them around and then you get to see them. And it was a really good whale watch. It was my first one I've ever done, but it was a really good one because they came up right by the boat.

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Oh, that's awesome. Which is unusual. But yeah, the waves were pretty high. Not like Exodus's problem. They had like 25-foot waves, and it was like a Category 11, not a 12 storm. Can I kind of comment on that real quick, then, too, back to the original story? And first off, I go whale watching all the time. I love to do that. But it is surprising that there are not more transportation-related deaths amongst touring bands. I mean, knock on wood, and I'm not trying to jinx anybody, but I mean, these guys are from planes.

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to bus to train to cart. You know what I mean? Just like it never ends. These guys are on the move, and I'm surprised that that's not a more frequent thing. And they have to drive long distances. You know, they're usually doing it themselves. They're probably tired from playing all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Or the cars get shot up like yours, Jay. Who knows? Yeah, deep. But like, I mean, yeah, and you're right about that, too. Like, there's bands like, I mean, I know there's a million bands that do this, but like, I haven't seen Goat Whore a bunch of times.

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They get in the van and they drive that fucking van. I've seen them come and go before. And they come in and like the last time I saw them, it was in this hot fucking place. It was little. They saw sweat and their asses off. They all had too many drinks during the show. Then they get in that van and they go for another four hours or something overnight. That band Adrenaline Mob in Florida. That's right. They were on the side of the road. Oh, I didn't remember that. Is that how it happened? Yeah, and they lost two people from that. The guy, the lead singer from Symphony X was out of commission for a long time.

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Yeah, it was the drummer. You definitely hear about the accidents from time to time, but you actually hear more about the band's equipment getting stolen than you know about it. Well, that's all the time, man. Yeah, it's crazy. You'll remember, hey, what was the, Baron asked, remember, they had a bad accident once. Yeah, they went into a canal in England or something. Death Angel, decapitated. Oh, yeah, right. Not that Death Angel was decapitated, two separate incidents. It does get a little sketchy. Well, Mastodon, Mastodon had a

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Crazy accident too, didn't they? No, Brent Hines fell down and hit his head on the fucking pavement. Let me rephrase that. He got punched. He got punched from behind and fell down and hit his head on the pavement. And I want to say it was a dude in Clutch that did it. Am I wrong about that? I don't know. I don't know, but I think Clutch just went up a notch. Maybe Clutch is metal. Yeah, he was in a coma. Actually, he was in pretty bad shape from that. He was, yeah. And that's how he got the Crack This Guy album. That's true. He had to sit on his couch and

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not do anything for months because he was dizzy and he sat there and wrote all that music. But in any case, it's just, you know, knock on wood that we don't, that that doesn't happen as often as it could, man. You know what I mean? There's with Buddy Holly, you know, it only happens every so often. Cliff Burton. Otis Redding. I remember he went down. Yeah. Who are the other metal ones? Can you think of? Randy Rhoads. That'd be the obvious one. Anywho. Right. So this next item requires a brief musical interest.

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Wait, what about Sabbath? That's exactly where I'm going, John. Yeah, all right. So two days ago, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's first album. As far as I'm concerned, the 50th anniversary of heavy metal itself.

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Yes.

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Before we go too far with this, I'm telling you, you have got to go back and capture that soundbite because it's not it planned.

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When John said, wait, what about back Sabbath? And then the music came in. It was perfect.

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It was so perfectly timed.

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And so fucking loud. Sorry about that.

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No, no, no.

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It was in all its glory.

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Yeah.

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So, wow.

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Yeah.

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50 years.

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That old was younger than me.

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Ah.

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That's not even half of Josh.

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So that's kind of reassuring. You know, I saw this good tribute on what's the, can anybody call to mind the Candlemas guitar players, Leif or? Leif Adling. Yeah, Leif Adling. He did this, his little tribute is what is clearly his own personal collections and he owns what must be 150 copies of that album and they're all from, just like clearly when he goes to Japan or whatever and sees one he buys it, you know what I mean? And it's cool, he's just surrounded by it.

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Wow.

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It refers to it by the, as the beginning, ending, and all, you know, all that will ever truly matter kind of thing.

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I never would have guessed that Candlemas was into Black Sabbath.

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You know, what's funny about that is I bet that like, of the 150, he has like 75 of them have different tracks on them.

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Yeah.

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Because they completely change the track listing on an album all the time.

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Yeah.

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I bet you're right.

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Yeah.

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Well, I would say this, man.

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I wish, I wish, um, there's a lot of things I could remember hearing for the first time.

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And I remember hearing that for the first time. But what, I would give a lot to go back and hear it for the first time. You know, to be that hippie bullshit guy who put that shit on this fucking thing. And what was it, 70 or 69? When did it come out? 70. 70. So it came out in 70. And just that kind of thing just wasn't happening, man. I mean, I can imagine you might have gone on and turned all the lights on and be like, this is cool, dude. You know what I mean? Like, that fucking record would have been scary for its time. So.

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Happy Birthday. Indeed. I was on vacation to the Big Island with my wife this week and on Thursday I tried to explain to her how important that day was. And of course she rolled her eyes at me. Of course. But we shared a Golden Sabbath. So this Big Island Brewhouse they make a beer called Golden Sabbath which is really good. It's like a triple with honey in it. And that beer is so strong and she shared it with me that after a glass I got her to toast the birth of metal with me. Wow.

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Nice, dude. Can you guys, collectively, I wonder how many copies that we've all owned? Because I've probably owned five copies of it over the course of time, just from different formats and stuff like that. At least, yeah. At least three. I have a tape CD. I think I have three vinyl versions of it. See, I think I have a couple vinyl, too, because they're keeping out these goddamn remasters and stuff, and sometimes they have a nice package to them. I got a nice package for you. I don't have an 8-track, but maybe John does.

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Josh, do you do vinyl at all? Josh, vinyl? Yes or no? Don't own any vinyl. I have a bunch of CDs that I have not bought any new ones in a while. My living situation right now just doesn't really allow for having large quantities of hard copy music, but I have a ton of CDs that are stored away at my parents' house. Yeah, Black Sabbath's first album's in there.

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Awesome.

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What are your opinions on that particular album?

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Love it.

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Love it.

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There you go.

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What else is there to say?

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What else is there to say?

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The unholy tritone.

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I'll say one thing about it, and that is that I always wished they'd have gone back and made Sleeping Village into a slightly longer song, because that is the spookiest little piece of music, and it just comes and goes like that.

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So I put it on, you know, and I saw it was 50th anniversary.

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I said, well, I have to listen to this.

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And I put it on and what I didn't realize was when I heard the rain start, it was actually raining outside. And I was like, oh, this is really cool. That's perfect. It's like, sounds like it's actually hitting the roof. I feel like I'm there with the band right now. Fuck. Did anybody else put it on? I didn't just because I was on vacation or else I would have. I like that when you're on vacation from Hawaii, you go to Hawaii.

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You just said you went to the big island. Anybody else notice that Will's asleep? I was going to say he's in a trance, but... All right. All right. Hold up. There he is. All right. I'm not dead yet. Think I'm going for a walk. Shambling corpse of Will. Speaking of which, you know, we lost Terry Jones. Yeah. That sucked. It did suck. Not unexpected given his condition, but it still sucked.

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What was his condition? It wasn't Alzheimer's, but it was in the family of. It was some sort of dementia. Was it the Lewy body dementia thing? No. He wasn't able to talk at the end, I think. That's right. We only had a couple of those guys left. Three, I think. Four if you count Terry. Which he should. He should.

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All right, next item. So if you're not aware, the bands Gate Creeper and Spirit Adrift share various members, at least they used to. Now they do not. The two bands are separating and going their separate ways. Nate Garrett, his main band is Spirit Adrift, so he will no longer be in Gate Creeper, while Eric Wagner and Chase Mason,

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will no longer be in Spirit Adrift and will be focusing entirely on Gate Creeper. It's kind of a bummer, but it's an amicable kind of thing. They just realized it couldn't work. It makes sense because both bands are kind of taken off. Yeah, it might even have more to do with it. Yeah, it is. It's getting hard to pull it off. Yeah, they are. They will actually make the bands better because they're not dividing their time. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, so. And they're already really good bands, so. Indeed.

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Next up, Testament is going to be releasing a new album called Titans of Creation on April 3rd. Hoping to hear a promo for that soon. I hope so. Did you guys like that song? I actually liked the new song. I thought it was all right. I missed that there was a new song. Yeah. Night of the Witch, I think it's called. It's actually really good and kind of pretty heavy, too. Yeah, it is. Say what, that album cover is fucking badass.

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I wonder if they got the same guy that's been doing the last few I wonder. I feel like it looks like the same style. I feel like it. What do you think Will? Will thinks it's awesome. All right. Thumbs up from Will. I like the song and I you know I was one of those guys that not unlike Will liked the last record actually quite a bit minus it really just had bullshit lyrics on it I don't know. The Ted Nugent lyrics that they stole yeah. Well I wonder if Chuck or Chuck was like let me write some lyrics guys or I don't know who

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who was. But in any case, this new one also seems to possibly have a theme to it. We'll see. The song's cool, though. Yeah, it's good. I like it. Yeah, I agree. Another band releasing an album that probably has a song out that I haven't heard yet. The Black Dahlia Murder is going to release a new album, Verminous, on April 17th. Is it? Yeah. They released the title track. I listened to it today, actually, right before cast. But it didn't do that much for me. It was fine. I really like the cover to this one, though. It's by Juan.

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Castellano. And he's done some other things before, I think, that we've had on our top list for covers, but it's pretty awesome. I didn't think of a write-up, but it's kind of like a river of necroplasmic piss flowing down like an ancient barbarian ruins or something like that. It looks awesome. Yeah, I agree with that whole thing. The artwork's killer. I really like Black Dahlia Murder. I thought their last album was good, but this song,

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I mean it was good it was fine it didn't blow me away but I mean a lot of their a lot of their newer stuff kind of needs a few listens to grow on me is what I find because they're the last one didn't hit me right away either but then when the whole thing came out you know hearing it as a whole through like real speakers and not just through my computer or whatever changed my whole perception on it so I'm hoping this one's the same and it ends up being this sometimes the song just works better in the context of the entire album too just it depends yeah

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And also the production too can, you know, it can change your whole view on an album. Like the last one came out and I thought it sounded like shit. And then when the whole album was released, I listened to it, you know, through surround sound really loud. And that, that changed everything. Cause then I'm like, Oh, it's just meant to be super loud. And then it sounds awesome. Yeah. I've experienced that. Yeah. Um, next up napalm death have released a new seven inch, uh,

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Digital EP called Logic Ravaged by Brute Force. There's two songs on there. The title song, Logic Ravaged by Brute Force, as well as a cover of Sonic Youth's White Cross. I don't know if anybody else listened to this. I did. I'm a big Napalm Death fan, but this was meh. It was all right. You know, for something called Logic Ravaged by Brute Force, it was not that heavy.

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No Brutes or Ravaging. Didn't seem like it. I mean, there was like, I wouldn't say clean vocals, but they weren't Barney's usual. You know, I can't even do Barney, but so anyway, but they do have supposedly a new album coming out. Hopefully that will make me happier. Let's talk about this next one while Will's sleeping.

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I think Will shot his load earlier on. He did. Shot the load and had a cigarette already. Geez. Yeah. So I know he's not a fan, so we'll talk about it while he's sleeping. My Dying Bride. Which is really funny when you consider he listens to like super slow like funeral doom. Yeah. My Dying Bride released the video for one of their new songs called Tired of Tears from their forthcoming album The Ghost of Orion. I watched the

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the lyric video for it earlier. Apparently it has to do with singer Aaron, his five-year-old daughter who had cancer. That's, I think, the reason why they disappeared for a while because of that. This has been a long process for him. I'm glad to hear that she's apparently cancer-free. I thought it was all right. You know what you get with My Dying Bride. I think their newest

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Newer Releases for the newer sound, these last few ones are better than what the previous ones were. But, I mean, you know what you're getting with them. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I'm a little bit more excited about this new album that I have been on their last couple, I would say. I don't know. Their songs just seem a little bit... I like the last release a lot, actually. The last one and this one, I think, are better than the previous two or three before that. Right. Yeah, I'd agree with that. Last line of Deathless Kings is the last...

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One I liked a lot. That's what? Mid 2000s? Late 2000s? I think. It's been a while. So. We're going to have to wake Will up for this next one because he doesn't want to miss an opportunity to kick me in the balls. So. Or rub your balls. Well, afterward, yes. So, Smashing Pumpkins are going to be supporting Guns N' Roses on a summer stadium tour. And I've got tickets.

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Where are your seats? We're actually down on the field. It's at National Stadium and we got seats on the field. So not bad. You know, expensive. But if Smashing Pumpkins played all a gish as their set, that would be kind of cool. Didn't you have a bad experience? Oh, no, no. That was at JFK. RFK. Yeah. Wow. You remember that? Yeah, it was the Foo Fighters thing. Yeah. We left before they even came on because it was so horrible. Which has, you know, kept me from wanting to do.

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baseball stadium concerts since.

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Hopefully this will be better.

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Well, I mean, this is two pretty big bands.

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I mean, so you don't need to really have anybody else play, I guess.

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Right.

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Or is there other acts?

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I have no idea.

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I hope not.

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But I've never seen either of them.

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I mean, I'm not a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan, but I like a couple of albums.

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The earlier stuff I thought was better, personally.

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Yeah.

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You know.

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And then, you know, I never got to see GNR in the 80s or 90s.

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And I'm like, you know, I want to see Slash.

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And if nothing else, laugh at Axel. Yeah. I can't beat on Smashing Pumpkins too much because what's his name is a huge Rush fan. So. I mean, I love Smashing Pumpkins. Yeah. I don't know why this is a news item on the metal cast, but. Only because I, it was. It's because it was me. And I wanted to go in from there and say that we also got tickets to see Janet Jackson because Barb wants to go. Will is sleeping through all of this abuse.

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that I don't have to take. And then after that, we got Rolling Stones tickets. I can't believe that that Def Leppard Motley Crue thing is in stadiums. That's insane to me. And they sold like a million tickets in a day or something like that. I mean, I'm a huge 90s rock fan. Around the time when Josh was born, I was really into that kind of music. I heard that the Def Leppard Motley Crue thing was so popular with Will

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that he sold one of his testicles for a ticket.

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You made his last testicle.

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I did.

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One of them, yeah, the only one.

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He speaks.

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George, how good are your seats for the Stones?

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Not great.

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I didn't think so.

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Oh, my God, the cheapest seat with binocular size.

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Well, it's club level, so that's not bad.

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Can I just, the big concert's here.

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All right, I'm in Honolulu.

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This is like the hub.

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This is like the big action right here, right near.

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the concert venues. The biggest acts coming here, NSYNC and Mariah Carey. You gotta put all that stuff on a ship. Tool played there a few years ago. A few years ago, but all these big bands are announcing concerts. I would love to see Deftones again. They didn't announce a show here. Tool didn't do a show here the last couple years, and they've got that new album out. You got nothing, man.

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And I had to go to, for the Stones, I had to go to, that's just sad. I was like, go ahead, Josh. Yeah. For the Stones, I had to go to Pittsburgh because you have to go to the Midwest to get affordable concert tickets. This tour, it was, I don't know if this is the continuance of another tour, if this is a brand new tour, but I shit you not, the last tour was sponsored by like AARP or something like that. Wow. I'm not making that up. Yeah. Yeah. Some retirement fund thing. They're not a band. They're a corporation.

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Oh, yeah. I'm reading the Keith Richards book right now. I'm almost done. Will's a member. How is it, George? It's good. It's really good. It's not as messed up as you would think, and he's much more intelligent than one would possibly guess. Totally is. Yeah. You know, I saw, I have never seen them live, and I went through a pretty severe Rolling Stones phase years ago, but I saw him live with his band when his first solo record came out. Expensive Winos.

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Yeah, his first one was really good. I really liked that first album. I went and saw him. It was great. It was a fucking killer show. Nice. Here's a question since we're not talking. It was just 65 years old, a kid with a dream in his eye. Sorry. You just described yourself today, too. Yes, dude. For you guys, what is your favorite rock band? I don't know this about you. Well, see now, that's tough because... Is it Rush for you, John? Yeah, I don't think that's them as a rock band.

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I don't know because they're like a proto prog metal band but then they're a prog band but then they're they are rock band I mean they're a whole bunch of stuff so I don't right that's I know that's why I asked it I just watched the documentary again um just the other night the Sam Dunn thing by the way that's one of the best ones he did was really good yeah that's a tough that is a tough choice I would probably go so far as to say this I don't know that they're my favorite

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I do think the Rolling Stones are probably the greatest rock band of all time.

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Honestly, God. Second to the Beatles.

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I would actually put the Stones first because they're just more of a rock band.

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They're more of a rock band.

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People have a dirty band.

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The gritty thing.

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I mean, if you look at stuff like Let It Bleed and Beggar's Banquet and Sticky Fingers and stuff,

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those are gritty.

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And Exile Main Street.

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Exile Main Street.

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They were on fire for like...

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No, it was actually heroin, but...

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Even GoHead.

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It's the only rock and roll, right? No, that's got Heartbreaker on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's only rock and roll. It's on the album. Yeah, it's only a kid. Fair enough. Good point. Did you ever hear Twisted Sister do that, by the way? It's fucking badass. No. They used to do it live. If you go look at the Marquee Club show, George, online, you can download it anywhere. It's a live album.

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And this was back when they were just breaking in England and they were just out of their fucking minds. And they did this amazing version of I Know It's Only Rock and Roll, but I like it. It's so fucking good. Nice. All right. Well, let's take a quick break before we get into new releases so everybody can use the bathroom and such. We'll be back in a couple minutes. All right. You're listening to the Metalheads podcast. Just be glad you can't smell them.

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Seriously, what is that smell? It smells fucking horrible! What the fuck is that smell? Oh shit! It smells awful! The fucking smell is motherfucking horrible! I can't, I can't even believe this fucking smell is fucking terrible!

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Okay, so we're back, but before we get into the new releases, Josh wanted to talk about the rock band thing a little more. What is, what do you want to say? Yeah, well, I'm just curious about what you guys think about this band, because I absolutely love them, and they're easily my favorite rock band of all time, but the Grateful Dead. No! I'm a fan, you know, and I haven't listened to them in years, but I would be embarrassed for you to see.

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And I still use iTunes, but the amount of Grateful Dead albums I have on iTunes, just in between bootlegs and everything. And I would even tell you that when I was really learning to play guitar after years of just kind of playing guitar, Jerry Garcia was like a huge influence on how I played guitar. And I could really geek out with you and tell you what all my favorite weird bootleg shows are and all that stuff. But the truth is I probably haven't listened to him in five years, but there was like five years there where I listened to a lot.

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I live.

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They're one of those bands that I totally binge on.

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I won't touch it for, you know, a couple months or whatever,

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but then I'll have a week where they're literally the only thing I listen to.

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You know, I've had Ron doing like, you know,

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I went to college, you know, eight hours away from the town where I grew up.

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So going back and forth or whatever,

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eight hours of just, you know,

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only listening to the Grateful Dead and stuff.

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Yeah.

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I really, I really like Cherry Garcia ice cream.

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Yeah.

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That's about as far as I can get. I live out here where they all are from and where the band is from. Jay is a hippie. I lived literally three blocks from where they used to get high all the time. So, I mean. Are you a fan, John? I like a little bit. You know, I saw them. You can't be from the Bay Area and not see them at least once. And I saw them once and I was the only sober person there. Mr. Wizard was there handing out LSD, you know.

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So when I was in Lagunitas, I lived about three miles from where Jerry Garcia died, which was this rehab center real close to where I lived. But yeah, and there's just, there's of course grateful that landmarks all over the place here. Phil Lesh has a restaurant out here and he plays there like every Friday night. So I grew up like three blocks away from the hate. Their hangout was the hate, you know. So they lived there. They had that. Yeah. I really, I appreciate them. I'm not a huge fan of the

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But I really appreciate the way that they connect with their fans and how they're adored and how people just follow them all over the country. I really like that part. I like the community aspect of it. It's not something that I would do because I'm not a community. I'm like a lone wolf, black sheep type dude. I'm not a community dude. But I had a friend. He looked exactly like the traditional Jesus, you know, long blonde hair, beard down here. And he loved the Grateful Dead. And he would just smoke weed all the time.

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And I don't smoke weed now because I don't like, I like to be in control. And I feel like if I smoke it, then I'm nodding. I don't know what's happening. I can't remember what I said two seconds earlier. But no problem with mead. Mead doesn't take you out of control. No, no, no. And you guys smell like patchouli all the time on your free time. But just to add to that, go ahead. He would get really good weed. And so when I was in college around that time, I knew him in high school, but then he went to the same college I went to.

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And I would bring the beer and he would bring the weed. And he would be like, just listen to dead. Just listen to dead while you smoke. And so then I got to kind of, I guess, appreciate it a little bit more. Although some of that weed, I feel like it had to be laced with stuff because I felt like I was flying over clouds. And I don't think that's. Well, I, so just to kind of further drive that home, I will say this. I was driving around. There's a really good documentary about Bob Weir that I actually watched long ago. And for those of you who don't know, he's the guitar player, one of the guitar players in the dead.

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And I was driving around

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and it was in Mill Valley

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and I was like, this sure looks like where he was being interviewed

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and I shit you now that I pulled around a corner

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and there was Bob Weir and his Tesla coming right at me

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Bob Weir drives a Tesla?

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That is not surprising at all

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Well, because A, it's ecological

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B, it's expensive

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It's not weird to see a guy who looks like Bob Weir

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walking around in Mill Valley

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but you knew who it was driving the Tesla though

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It was Bob Weir

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Yeah, exactly. I have to share this quote from Bob Weir that I've always thought was funny. And if you guys will remember, they had a hit in the 90s called Touch of Grey. And it was like their first hit. That's the only one I like. Even though they always did well, they were suddenly very rich. People, they were suddenly, you know, the concerts were much more attended and everything. They were making tons of money. And they had this, he was being interviewed. And they said, now that you, like it was like press conference. And he said, now that you're making all this money,

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What has that changed about your life? And Bob Weir said, well, he says, you know when you're eating pistachios and you get one of those ones that are really hard to open, you feel like you're going to break your fingernail on it? Now I just throw those away. So Josh, is Grateful Dead your favorite rock band? Getting back to my original question. Yeah, absolutely. Jerry Garcia to me is an amazing, amazing guitarist. My dad is a huge

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I almost don't see them as a rock band either dude. I almost think they're like Rush to me. They're not a prog band, but I almost don't see them as a rock band. There's some whole other weird thing. They're like a jam band. They're a jam band. Them and the Allman Brothers are the two original jam bands on the rock side. I like the Allman Brothers a lot too. Yeah, I can get into that a little more, yeah. I saw Dead and Company, this revival of the Grateful Dead, I guess, where John Mayer replaces Jerry Garcin.

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see it on guitar. And I gotta say, I never really was that into John Mayer until this, but he does such a good job. He's a good guitar player. That was an amazing show. So I saw one of those last two ones they did out here. It was supposed to be the last hurrah. I went to one of those. It was at the 49ers stadium. And honestly, I wouldn't have gone, but a friend of mine gave me a ticket. But anywho. Cool. But that is too hard.

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Just to go back to the question, I don't know how to answer that question. If I was going to not say the Beatles or the Stones, which I would probably have to pick one of those, and they're not technically, I mean, I would call them rock, but they're also punk, the Ramones would be definitely. Then you've got to talk about ACDC a little bit too. I mean, I know they're a hard rock band, but they are quintessential rock music. It's fucking hard. Rock's a pretty generic term, I think you think.

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can encompass all those different bands. That's true. That's true. Yeah. Interesting. All right. Now we will move on to the new releases, of which we are plentiful this time. In fact, there were so many. I mean, there's probably twice as many as what I put down here. I keep finding new ones. February was a good month. Yeah. It really was.

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It's going to be a hard pick this month. It is. After January being kind of slow, so hopefully let's just keep ramping up. I actually thought January was pretty competitive and some really good releases for January. Better than usual. Yeah. For sure. All right, let's do it. All right, so first one is the new Blaze of Perdition album, The Heroine of Hearts. This is the fifth album from a Polish black metal band, and these guys just keep getting better, as far as I'm concerned. I thought that's how much I liked that one.

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Yeah, the production's a little better at this time, I think. Not that it hasn't been good before, but, you know, I think it's just that much better. This one's not on the list, but I wanted to pass it over to Marcasson because he seemed pretty keen on it, and that would be the new Envy album.

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Yes. Yeah. And I don't know. It's an interesting thing because I don't know if I classify them as metal. It's heavy. I listened to this because you were so into it and I have an opinion, but I'll let you talk. No, it's not bad. It's not bad. I have an opinion. I'm not going to tell you what it is until you say something. Well, the music is great. I will say the music is great. Some of the vocals are a little, but it's, it's, I want to listen to it more. Yeah. I mean, I wrote,

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I basically wrote a little mini-review for it on the Metal Fridays for our Facebook page, so I guess I could read that. They're one of my favorite bands of all time. Sometimes their songs make me want to kick explode walls and frenetic hardcore glee, because they really started out as a hardcore band. They're like Japanese post-hardcore or something like that? Yeah, it's all Japanese. I read all the lyrics in Japanese. But they have a fragile beauty to their songs that make me want to sob.

01:23:30.220 --> 01:24:00.040
and a blue lit room and there's songs that fill me with warmth and comfort. And sometimes there's songs that make me feel all those emotions in one song. So it's just a lot of emotional journeys. And I feel like every single record they do is really good. There's not a record that goes below good to me. And they've put out a lot because they've been around for over two decades. So three, it sounded like 30 years, they said.

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Yeah, I really look forward to their album. It's been a little while since the last one, but of course when the bands get older, they put out the releases further and further apart. I don't know how to categorize it because I don't know if I would categorize it as metal, but there's a lot of stuff that goes on metal lists that I don't think is metal. It's heavy. That's all that matters. We talked about fucking Guns N' Roses and Smashing Pumpkins. We can talk about these guys.

01:24:30.080 --> 01:24:59.900
Right, exactly. But I'm talking about for lists. Yeah, no, I don't know about a list, but. But they're hugely influential, you know. You wouldn't have, I know, especially Will, a lot of us, we're not really into like Death Heaven since like maybe the early stuff. But all those bands that do those kind of emotional black gay stuff, they wouldn't even be around without Envy. Envy is like the stuff that influenced that, even though I wouldn't say they're metal. All they took from Envy and bands,

01:25:00.080 --> 01:25:29.520
came after Envy to make that sound that has become more popular over the years. So they're hugely influential in heavy circles. So yeah, I love the album. The new album's fantastic. I keep listening to it. It's definitely the one I've listened to the most this year. Right on. So the next one, that is the new God Dethroned album, Illuminati. It's their 11th album. They're a death metal band from the Netherlands. I haven't listened to this yet. Has anyone else listened to it?

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I have.

01:25:30.040 --> 01:25:30.380
That's cool.

01:25:30.420 --> 01:25:30.640
It's heavy.

01:25:30.740 --> 01:25:31.160
I like it.

01:25:31.460 --> 01:25:36.000
You should listen to this because this is heavy.

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There you go.

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Will, God to Throne.

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I'm a big God to Throne fan, and my love for God to Throne has decreased year after year.

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But I think Illuminati has, I don't want to say revived my fan base for them.

01:25:59.300 --> 01:26:02.740
But it's a good album. It's

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a little too much

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keyboards, a little too much

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occasional clean singing for me.

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Shocking, I know.

01:26:10.930 --> 01:26:12.300
Clean singing, how dare they?

01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:13.680
Never heard that before.

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I know.

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You hear that, Trevor?

01:26:18.300 --> 01:26:18.860
That's weird.

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But with that said,

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it's a pretty good album.

01:26:25.720 --> 01:26:26.640
I bought it.

01:26:26.690 --> 01:26:27.300
I bought it.

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I know we got the promo for it super late. I guess. Or I noticed it super late. But I bought it. I like God of the Throne. It's not the best. I don't know. Fuck it. I like money. I want to have some more. I thought it was a good album too. I have to say. I thought it was pretty good. It was pretty catchy. And I like this one better than the last one. Yeah. I agree. Yeah.

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What Markisan said. All right. So next up, Esan released a new EP called Telemark. Yeah, I'm not too far off from you there. There's five songs. Am I supposed to mute this? I'm sorry. There's five songs on this EP. It's not bad, but it didn't really... To be perfectly honest, my favorite song on the album is the cover of Iron Maiden's Wrathchild.

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I didn't even know that was on there because I didn't make it that far through it. Yeah, it's the last one. I heard the there's like parts in it. I'm not I'm going to be just totally straightforward here. I didn't even make it through the first song, but I don't know what it is about Eson's solo music. It just hasn't clicked with me. I really like Emperor, but I know you guys all love Eson, but yeah, it's just there's like I don't says where he's like the riffs are cool, but there's this little accent going on.

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They accent the notes with saxophone or whatever it is. Well, that was interesting because... I feel like I was listening to the Pink Panther song or some shit like that. It's just, it doesn't work, you know? There were horns in Wrathchild. I was like, huh. But I liked it. I thought this was supposed to be some tribute to his black metal days. Did I misread that somewhere? Well, the vocals are pretty black. Okay. I mean, that was literally what I... Because I haven't listened to it yet, I meant. I don't understand why anyone would be even remotely annoyed by horns in this song.

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I guess the point I make is why would you cover a song just to sound like the band that played this song? Because you're cool? No. You're just filling space is all you're doing then. But I mean, he's had horns in his music going back like 10 years now. People are like, oh my god, there's fucking horns in Eson's music. Where the fuck have you been? It's not the fact that they're there that makes me not like it.

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I like keyboards.

01:28:59.480 --> 01:29:01.380
Yeah, you know, you really don't have much to say here.

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You're talking about power metal.

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So I like it.

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I just don't think it was.

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I don't think it was just that complimentary to the music on this, in my opinion.

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Yeah, I didn't really go to a lot of places, though.

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I mean, he I mean, we as as he's shown in the last however many years, he's he's willing to try a lot of different stuff.

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So it's flash to everyone.

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It's not emperor.

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Yeah.

01:29:22.760 --> 01:29:24.420
You know, the horns don't bother me.

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The horns don't bother me one way or another, but the first couple songs, there's nothing wrong with them. They just didn't do a whole lot for me. Now, granted, I only listened to it once. And I'm certainly not going to knock Isan because I would suck him off in an alley, no problem. I mean, I went all the way to Germany just to see his ass play Emperor.

01:29:58.360 --> 01:30:02.080
But yeah, no, I mean, first listen, I was just kind of, meh, all right.

01:30:03.300 --> 01:30:03.940
Oh, man.

01:30:04.150 --> 01:30:05.680
I dug the Rathchild, though.

01:30:06.700 --> 01:30:08.260
And even the Lenny Kravitz was kind of cool.

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I was listening to it right now, and I got to say, the Rathchild sounds awesome.

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I have to say, I was surprised.

01:30:15.250 --> 01:30:18.960
I thought the Rock and Roll is Dead was going to be bad, and it actually was a pretty good cover.

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It was.

01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:21.380
I actually was surprised by that.

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I haven't liked any of Ysan's solo stuff. All right, we're done with you. Yeah. Markison will be back next time. I woke up for what? I don't understand why people are so shocked by Ysan's solo career. Outside of the first album, he's got, what, eight now with this EP? Everything has been completely different then. Oh, yeah. He's all over the place. Yeah. Yeah, definitely all over the place. All right. Not from you. Not from you.

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Come back and listen to Envy already. Jeez, come on. Alright, let's move on. Let's move on to the... Let's move on to a... We're going to do a power metal album now. We'll get back to you in a second. Yeah. So next album is Iron Flame, Blood Red Victories. Their third album is Ohio Power Metal Band and I know Markisan likes them. I do. Yeah, I really like them. I do too. I bought it. Yeah, I mean, they're more... I don't like power metal that much. If it's a power metal band that does a lot of traditional metal in there,

01:31:22.180 --> 01:31:51.840
I like them more. So I dig this band. They play sword and sorcery songs that you could sing on the way to battle, basically. Are you often on the way to battle? Often, yes. It was a battle coming out of this cast, knowing Will was going to be here. Andrew DiCagno, who's the guy who, he does all the songs for the band. He plays all the instruments, and he wrote all the albums. He did it because his friend was really into this style of music, and he passed away. And Andrew wasn't really into that music,

01:31:51.920 --> 01:32:21.900
but he did it for his friend and then the band just kind of took off and it's like their third album in maybe three years I think yeah so they're really active and they're doing a lot of touring and they're just getting a lot of play I've seen a lot of reviews for this album and I did not see a lot of reviews for the last couple so I think that's really cool that they're they're taking off and he just has a wealth of songs clearly and so yeah I try to get him on the cast too so maybe in the future we'll be able to have him on and he can tell a story about

01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:51.200
that. But yeah, I like this. This style of music isn't my favorite style, but there's something about Iron Flame that speaks to me more than other bands in the genre. Yeah, I dig it. I think the mix on this one was done really well. It sounds really good to me. So, I mean, that was the main thing about it that stood out. I liked it. I mean, it's the first thing I've heard from this band. Cool, man. Go back to their back catalog, because I think you'll really like those albums as well.

01:32:51.300 --> 01:33:20.720
I like the last one. I haven't gotten back to the first one yet, but the second one was good. All right. Next up is the new Obsidian Tongue album three. This is a main black metal band. And if you didn't know, Brendan, the main guy on this band is also in a little band called Throssenblatt. Just saying. Ooh. I know Throssen George.

01:33:23.360 --> 01:33:51.100
I actually didn't know that until you told me that the other day. Yeah. Did you say it was a main as in there from Maine? Yes. As in he is he is lives in Maine. Yes. Maine based. Yeah. I love this album. I thought it was good. I liked it too. Ironically, I just picked it up today and haven't listened to it yet. I like I probably like this one the best of all the releases. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the other ones. Right. Yeah.

01:33:51.280 --> 01:34:21.260
I like this one it's it's terrific I've listened to this one a ton um John I feel like I I had this album before it came out did they release it last year and then re-release it so I'm confused no there was an issue with the release and I only got that on angry metal guy because they reviewed it like five months ago or four months ago yeah and they're usually pretty good about releasing reviews right around when albums are coming out roughly some of them and I say

01:34:21.280 --> 01:34:51.260
I said, George, did you see this come out? He's like, I can't find it anywhere. And then we found out it was a January release. I don't know what happened. So I don't know if he was going to like self-release it. And then it was, it was a bind room or the bind room. Um, or it could just be a bind room thing too. I know they have some issues sometimes. I mean, like that band Monolith released their album. It was, it came out in January, but they released it in December because it leaked. So they just said, fuck it. We'll release the digital. But I don't think that was the case in this album. I think

01:34:51.280 --> 01:35:20.800
Something happened with the release. I don't know what it was. So this is not it. But by the way, this is going to complicate some releases this year. And that's there was this record plant that burned down here in California recently. That's that they're worried is going to kind of disrupt vinyl production. Well, send them to our area, Jay, because we have a new plant here that's like churning out vinyl like it was candy. It's crazy. Like it was vinyl. Yeah. Did you know Metallica has their own vinyl pressing plant now?

01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:23.840
Of course they do

01:35:26.280 --> 01:35:27.720
I say that

01:35:28.100 --> 01:35:29.820
sarcastically as the like only

01:35:30.060 --> 01:35:31.840
Metallica fan on the show

01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:33.300
anymore but you know whatever

01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:35.500
You mean only current

01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:37.420
Metallica fan

01:35:37.800 --> 01:35:38.340
Big difference

01:35:40.620 --> 01:35:41.940
You're the only one with

01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:42.880
a load in his pants

01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:45.800
I have a load and a reload though I don't care for

01:35:46.160 --> 01:35:47.740
reloading on his load

01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:49.580
I like load don't like reload

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Except for like Memory Remains I think is on there. There's like one or two okay songs on there, but mostly no. I must have gotten up while we were doing t-shirt check, but I see now you're wearing a Pig Destroyer shirt. Yes, sir. Yeah, we kind of skipped over me. Oh, it's all right. I'm used to being forgotten. As long as everybody else is having a good time. Looking forward to seeing them again. I've been listening to Bruller in the Yard. Bruller in the Yard, man.

01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:49.560
I've been listening to it a lot too and I'm pleased to say my copy of it on vinyl was given to me by them but at the last decibel but anyway I'm excited for that set dude that really was a fucking shot in the head when that record came out and still it's still a shot in the head I mean it's brutal it's just so fucking heavy speaking of which Blake was there too at the adroit theory thing but I don't think he was on the recording so yeah but he was there he's everywhere

01:36:49.580 --> 01:37:19.560
Yeah. Oh, he's not on the recording. No, yeah, but he, Blake's the heavy metal ambassador for the East Coast. So. Decibel's coming up pretty soon. I know. It's only a little over a month. About that. Is that right? A month and a half. A week or two? A month and a week or two, yeah. Which, by the way, um. You going to Decibel, Josh? Going to make the trip? I actually didn't know it was that soon. I was kind of like, you know, I've checked out the lineup and the tickets and everything, and I've kind of been like, oh, yeah, we should go.

01:37:19.600 --> 01:37:49.420
I should totally go. Trying to convince my girlfriend to go with me. I didn't realize how soon it was. So you guys saying this is making me think I really need to get on my shit. Even if you don't like the bands, you need to go and just hang. Do a search for tickets just to see how cheap a plane ticket and you might get surprised. Maybe you get lucky and get a cheap ticket and come on up. We hang out with a bunch of people when we go up there. It's a good time. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely would like to. You're part of the Metalheads podcast family now. Yep. Indeed.

01:37:49.580 --> 01:38:18.860
Jeff Gresham is coming. John, John BT is coming. Yep. Amongst others. All right. So the next album long awaited psychotic waltz, the God shaped void is their fifth album. Their last album was like 20, 30 years ago. 24 years ago. John. So when Josh is born. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. 96.

01:38:19.580 --> 01:38:49.520
Yeah. Which came out first. Josh. So I know John is a fan. I listened to the new album and I thought it was pretty good. I'll be honest. I don't know how you guys feel when there's a band we like and they disappear for plus 10 years. You're always like, geez, I don't know if the sound is going to be there. And I was surprised. And I'm seeing this across the board. Everyone likes the album. No one's like saying it's the greatest thing.

01:38:50.040 --> 01:39:19.540
But everyone thinks it's a really good album. And that's a testament, I think, to it. If you like, you know, and they're one of the original prog metal bands. You know, they were back in the 80s when they started. But their first album came out in 90. Pre-Josh. Yeah. Were they, did they go off and do other bands, John? Or what was their deal? So the main guy who back then was Buddy Lackey, who's now Devin Graves, he left, the band kind of dissolved after four albums. And he started Dead Soul Tribe, which is, I don't want to call it.

01:39:30.380 --> 01:39:49.560
I don't know what the other guys did to be honest with you it sounds like they've been playing together the whole time they never stopped yeah so I'll give them that yeah that sounds good I mean when you come back after 24 years you don't have to make the greatest album of all time you know but it's solid

01:39:49.580 --> 01:40:19.560
really good album I thought it was I saw them last year at Prog Power so they weren't it wasn't all just cheesy power metal bands they were awesome and I think I made this joke to Jay they are the heavy metal they're the real heavy metal Jethro Tull because they'll be like doing this really cool Prog Metal heavy thing and then Devin Graves will whip out the flute and just kick off a flute solo and it's like yeah you can't see this everywhere this is only in our world we see shit like this you know so

01:40:19.600 --> 01:40:22.300
Josh, Jethro Tull, thumbs up, thumbs down.

01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:23.680
Yeah.

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All right.

01:40:24.740 --> 01:40:25.060
Yeah.

01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:26.000
All right.

01:40:26.060 --> 01:40:26.460
You can stay.

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Yeah.

01:40:27.960 --> 01:40:30.700
I was just listening to songs in the wood today.

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Just put that on my, on my albums, my record player today.

01:40:36.520 --> 01:40:36.720
Cool.

01:40:38.200 --> 01:40:40.060
Actually, I have to tell you, it was one of those unfortunate moments.

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I was like, God damn it.

01:40:41.060 --> 01:40:43.140
Now I can only listen to Jethro Tull for the next two weeks.

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I didn't see a comic because I just put it on for the fuck of it.

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And I was like, oh, fuck.

01:40:47.940 --> 01:40:48.740
I forgot how good this was.

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I fucked my whole week up.

01:40:50.230 --> 01:40:50.960
Yeah, I'm screwed.

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Somebody did a cover.

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Who was it?

01:40:57.440 --> 01:40:58.100
Of Jethro Tull?

01:40:58.420 --> 01:41:00.120
Yeah, somebody did Aqualung recently.

01:41:01.860 --> 01:41:03.020
Was it the Ron Burgundy?

01:41:03.980 --> 01:41:04.420
No.

01:41:05.060 --> 01:41:05.800
I always loved that.

01:41:06.080 --> 01:41:08.240
That's in, what's that movie?

01:41:09.200 --> 01:41:10.060
The Ron Burgundy thing.

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And he remember he does the jazz flute thing.

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At the very end of the jazz flute solo, he stops.

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Hey, Aqualung.

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And then he finishes up.

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Yeah, I don't know. Somebody just did a cover of Aqualung, and it was pretty good. I just can't remember. I got the Google machine. Yeah. All right, so we'll move on then. The next one is Serpent Noir and their third album, Death Clan. They're a Greek black metal band. I feel like Matt was into these guys. I think so. And I know I've listened to them before, but unfortunately, I did not get a chance to listen to this one before we started.

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I didn't get to it either. But Matt does like a lot of bands with snake or serpent in the name. Yeah, he loves the cock. I'm going to stop you there, George. It's Kirk, Kirk Winstein who did the Aqualung. Yes. Yes. There we go. Did you listen to it? I did. It was good. Okay. All right, moving on. Sorry, I was taking a drink. If you Google Aqualung cover, all you get is a bunch of images back of the Aqualung cover.

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But yes, that was the one. Yes, the Kirk Wingsteen. I haven't listened to a lot of... Did I even say his name right? I don't know if it was Kirk. I can't feel my lips. Sorry, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But yeah, no, I only listened to a little bit of the album and obviously I skipped straight to that because I was like, is this really the Aqualong? And I was like, yep, it is. Of all songs that play off that album too, I don't know.

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It's cool that he did it, but I'd rather hear like him 43 or Oh My God or something. Those are the two, which straight to the two best ones. Or the, what's the acoustic thing that's so good? I'll have to look it up. Yeah. I would love to hear somebody do Mother Goose. Mother Goose, that's what I was trying to say. If there are elephants and lions too and Piccadilly Circus. God, that's such a good stuff. All right. Well, since Matt isn't here, we will move on.

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The Spirit, Cosmic Terror. They're a German black death band. This is their second album. I was freaking over the moon for their first album because it was like dissection worship. Okay, dissection worship. We got it the first two times. Shut up. I thought this was okay. I've only listened to bits and pieces of this one as well because I started and I was like, this is good.

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I'm not in the mood right now, so I need to come back. And I just haven't. It seems like people like it. I haven't listened to it enough to judge yet. Right. I agree with that. Yeah, I haven't had enough time with that one. But it didn't wow me at first. It's a typical, you know, either band camp, you're getting a message at 12.01, hey, we released our album, 12.01 a.m., or you're getting a message four days later, yeah, we still haven't released our album yet.

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And this was, we still haven't released our album yet. I was like, oh, God, come on, guys. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten pissed off text messages from John going, God damn it, Ben Camp hasn't released my pre-order yet. Yeah, it's Friday morning. I'm up at five o'clock to go to work. Get this shit out there. Well, they are really bad about it, too. It does seem almost random, doesn't it? Well, I think it's based on a band-to-band basis, you know. Fair enough. I mean, some bands are like, oh, fuck it, we'll release it today early. Yeah, cool.

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Yeah, I think they have to literally get up, get on, and physically release it. And if they're like West Coast or something, they're like, oh yeah, I'm not up yet. Gotcha. Coffee. But, so this next one kind of took me by surprise. This is a band that I've never really cared for, although they had some interesting cover art. Yeah.

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I really like it a lot

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and this is

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Svart Crown and their new album

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Wolves Among the Ashes is their

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fifth album they are a French

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sort of death metal band

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but it's not as extreme as I used to think they

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were it's actually kind of

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I mean a little progressive

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in a way

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I would say it's

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a cousin

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to Behemoth or something like that

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the newer Behemoth stuff

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm digging this a lot. You know, this could be album of the month. Just saying. Oh, wow. It is good. I agree with George. This is the one that's on the list that I've been listening to the most. It's getting a lot of push right now, it seems like. So let's see. What are they on? Metal Blade or where the fuck are they? They're on Century Media. Okay. Oh, really? Wow. Yeah. Huh. That's strange. Wow. Yeah.

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Yeah, what's going on over there? What the hell happened over there? Yeah. All right. So our last new release is from Silosis. This is their fifth album called Cycle of Suffering. They're a UK melodic death album. I used to be really big on these guys. But. But. And there's not. I've only listened to about half this album.

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for what it is. But this is like at the gates, slaughter the soul worship right here. Oh, yeah. I'll list that at the gates. Yeah, that's the thing. It's good, but I've been there, done that. Yeah. Yeah, I liked it. Even though it doesn't break new ground, I enjoy spinning it up on. Yeah, yeah. No problem with it whatsoever other than been there, done that. Yeah. The only thing for this one about, for me, was the vocals. I don't know what it is about them, but I just couldn't really.

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I don't know. Couldn't go there. Didn't love them. I mean, I liked this band, you know, in the past. It's been a while between releases for them, hasn't it? Yes. I will tell you. I'll let you know. I'll look it up. I would say four or five years, probably, I'd guess. I think it was, well, it might even be longer than that. If the last record was 2008, which is, it looks like it. No, it's got to be one. There was one in 2012. I feel like there's been one since the podcast started.

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I think. I could be wrong. Yeah, was there one? I thought there was one a couple years ago. I got an easier way to do this. Hit the Google. Yeah. Your own Google machine. My little Google machine here. There was, no, it was 2011 according to this. Wow. Holy smokes. Okay, pre-podcast. Yeah, whatever. All right. I know I like that one a lot.

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I like this one. Yeah. I mean, my taste has definitely changed since then. Actually, there was a couple things, you know. Oh, no. Never mind. Hold on. Hold on. I don't want to get that wrong. There was one in 2015. Dorman. That's what I thought. Yeah. Yeah. That would have been first. Okay. Second year. Second year. Shit. I don't even know anymore. That's for first. I don't know either. First or second year. I thought it was 2014, but maybe it was 2015. I joined.

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If you listen to the podcast, let us know. When did we start? No, I think it was just a theme, George, because I remember that. Yeah. Because I was on that already. Yeah. All right, we are done with the new releases, and it is time to move on to our top five list.

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We made a list, man, we all made a list. We made a list, man, we all made a list. And we're gonna tell you all about it right now.

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Trilogy was awesome.

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Inve?

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Oh my god.

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I love Trilogy.

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I don't care what you say.

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Fuck you.

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Fuck you.

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Trilogy's awesome.

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Who was the, you know, if it was awesome, which I'm not agreeing it was, it was the last

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okay one.

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Who's, who's singing on that, George?

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Is that?

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That was Mark Bowles.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So it was after.

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Yes.

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Oh, okay.

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And that was his post.

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He's had an amazing, he's had an amazing set of musicians play with him.

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I just don't like him.

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Well, yeah, he's an asshole, but some of the stuff with Ripper Owens is actually pretty good, in my opinion. Yeah. Like, I don't know. Yeah, it's always funny to hear him have all these amazing singers, and he trashes a guy like Ripper Owens. Like, he can't sing for shit. I'm a better singer than him. I'm like, all right. He trashes them all. Just take your guitar and shove it up your ass, and just stick with that, all right? Okay, boomer. I'm not a boomer, so it doesn't apply to me, jackass.

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about Yngwie Malmsteen.

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Oh, okay.

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Jesus.

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I apologize.

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John is quick to take offense.

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You know, I have a theory about that.

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Give me a break, guys.

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I have a theory about Yngwie Malmsteen, though, and it's that, and I am kind of sincere about it, and it's that Richie Blackmore, who was his hero, who was his hero growing up, is the world-famous asshole, and I swear to God, I think he emulated that part of him, too.

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On purpose.

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To be this good, you've got to be, you've got to really not give a fuck. You've got to be just like, everybody else sucks, I'm the best. And I sometimes wonder if he pulled that off of Richie Blackmore. I swear to God. I sometimes wonder if he pulled off Richie Blackmore. I mean, Richie is only a bigger asshole every day, too, dude. There was this documentary that came out a little while ago, and I think he financed it, and God, he was such a prick in it. Oh, it was just awful. His documentary should be called Asshole. It should be. It should be.

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Yeah, it's a Gene Simmons thing. It's a Gene Simmons book, I think. Hey, isn't Ian Gillen still on record as saying, I see him, I'll kick his ass? Does he still say that? I think he wants to kill him still. Yeah, he's used the word murder before, I think. And after seeing Deep Purple recently, I don't, I mean, Ian Gillen is pretty fucking old. Well, I don't, those guys are going to be in wheelchairs with like sticks at each other, I mean, at this point, so. Yeah, and that wouldn't be much of a fight. No. Don't call Steve Morris.

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who's the young guy in the band at 65. But hey, they still sounded amazing. Oh, they were awesome. Yeah, they were great. By the way, they got together and made a new record in like two weeks or something. They got a record coming out this year. Really? Wow. Yeah, they all ended up in Nashville and they weren't expecting to make a record. Kudos to them. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, good for them. All right, so the top five that I mentioned, I don't know, like half an hour ago, is the top five albums we are looking forward to.

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in 2020.

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And as the guest,

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Josh gets to go first and I'm sure you know how this works.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know,

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I'm a professional here.

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So give us your number five.

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All right.

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I don't know if you guys also ran into this little thing,

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but a lot of the albums,

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four out of my five don't have titles yet.

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Yeah.

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I don't have any titles except for one. I have one title. Okay, cool. Yeah. Well, my number five is Gojira. I really like them. Their last one didn't quite do it for me, so I'm interested to see where they go with the next one. It's going to be a Lady Gaga album. Yeah, it's going to be a hip-hop album probably. The songs on the last album, though, are good live. Yeah, they were great. I agree. They're awesome live. Yeah.

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I think The Cell is a really great song. That drum pattern that he does at the beginning of it is like super creative and that's always been a strong point for them. But I don't know. I just haven't loved anything since The Art of Dying or whatever it was. I just there's nothing they put out since then that has just made me go crazy. And that might have been named one of the songs on it. But anyway. Isn't that like a Death Angel thing? No, no. They have a song called The Art of Dying. Yeah. No, an album. But I think Death Angel has an album called The Art of Dying.

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I don't know what's that the one that came out after the way of all flesh the elephant album yeah in any case well but I'll find choice by the way none of us being picking on your choice there but maybe not at all I considered it for my list my number five is a megaton

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I believe I mentioned this band in the last cast when we were talking about albums we missed in 2019. They had an EP. Right. They described themselves as 80s inspired true as steel heavy metal infused with over the top fantasy lyrics. In December they mentioned that they are crafting their first full length and they said it was nearly complete. So I love their EP near last year so I'm anxious to see what they come up with for an LP.

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Yeah, I'll check that out. Yeah, and Decimal actually gave them a nine recently in their magazine, which was cool because I had been listening to it for a while. Sweet. And I didn't even think it was on their radar. All right. What's that, Josh? I have to check them out. What you're describing is that kind of shit just cracks me up so much. I love it. Yeah, it sounds like something you might like. Just embracing your inner nerd to the fullest possible extent. Yeah, they have a song called Rage of the Vulva or something like that.

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All right. Well, John. So I did the opposite. I actually only went with albums that I know are being released, meaning they actually have a title and there's a release date. So only because, I mean, I could sit there and say, yeah, Trypticon is my number one. Maybe it comes out. Maybe it doesn't. You know, on that point, I think two of my list are actually from last year's list. I was going to say we should compare them.

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I mean like let's be honest everyone would love to say Kakas as their one but we don't know when that's

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although it is going to probably come out this year.

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That's coming.

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But Trippicon is a good example John we have no idea.

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Yeah I didn't even think of that.

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Yeah because it's been sanded for a while.

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And that's the reason why I didn't so all mine actually have been announced and they actually have titles so these are probably not my actual real ones I wanted but I just went with that so my number five I think is only George is probably the only person who probably likes this band

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I probably only likes the album that we saw them play live. It's Green Carnation. Leaves of yesteryear. Yeah. I had no idea they had an album coming out and it just got announced the other day. I was like, well, fuck, I'm down. I want to hear it. So yeah. Go ahead. No, I was just like, yeah, I just saw that the other day too. And that was cool seeing that at Broadbauer. Yeah. I mean, if you don't know Green Carnation, they're kind of like the pre in the woods and then they're the post in the woods, if that makes sense. They've had members in both bands and. And Emperor.

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Emperor, yeah, they've had this kind of eclectic from Doom to a little bit of black metal to Prog to like acoustic folk. They're all over the map, so. And they don't release albums that often, so. Yeah. So, yeah, I was kind of psyched to hear they're having an album coming out. Cool. Will? I got up to two. I didn't have a chance to do all five. Okay. What's your five? Do you want to save them for one or two or do five and one? Just skip me. I mean,

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Carcass and Temple of Void. They're my... Okay, so my five... Well, first off, I want to say my two honorable mentions first. One of them, because it already came out, but it was the Cavillari Tech album, which I only just realized it came out on Friday or whatever. I haven't listened to it yet, but it is downloaded. But I'm very much looking forward to it. The advanced tracks on that were just as good as the other stuff they do. I was a little worried about the change of singer, but it turned out okay. I mean, I've already heard the singer, so it's cool. I love the title, too. Split.

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Do you know what it means? I wonder. It must be a Norwegian award for something. My other honorable mention, because it could go either way as far as being a good record or not so good record, is Paul Bearer. I don't much care for the last one that much, personally. So we'll see where that goes. Now we'll get into my actual list. And number five, this one I do know is coming out this year, and it might have a title, I can't remember, but the Napalm Death record is coming out. And Apex part of it was really good. Yes. So I think I would look for them to do

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Well, I mean, hell, they've been around forever, but I would expect, I would love to see them tour with Cattle Decapitation, by the way. I think that'd be a perfect tour. Oh, yeah. Especially with like modern Napalm Death. But in any case, I fully expect that to be a record that catches my attention big time this year. So, and we're about to see them. Well, yeah, I mean, they're going to tour now, though. They're touring with Aborted and Tombs and. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll see them at Decibel. Yeah. Yeah. And we were wondering at Decibel. Obviously, they're going to be playing like two albums. Yeah.

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to back, but maybe they'll play new songs. Maybe they'll preview something. I don't know if you noticed this, but if you look at their tour days, they're listed as playing both nights. Yeah. I think they're playing one record one night and one record another night. Yeah. Nah, I mean, they're only like, they're pretty short. They're doing Harmony Corruption and Utopia Vanished. So maybe they'll add other stuff. We'll see, but, and maybe that, maybe what I, that listing was wrong. But I happened, I know George liked Apex Predator too. Oh yeah. But I expect a good, good, something good from him.

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I'm not sure. Definitely.

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That brings us back to you, sir. George, excuse me. Forgetting me again. God damn it. Honestly, you're the smallest picture on my thing. Oh, thank you. What shirt are you wearing, George? I'm wearing, fuck you. I'm not wearing a shirt. George, what shirt did you just put on for everybody? So my number five. Take off, John. He just said it was off.

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It's actually a split. It's like there's two because they're related. So I just heard about this band. This is a band I have heard nothing from. But it's a super group of sorts. At least in our world it is. This is a band called Black Curse. Featuring members of Blood Incantation, Spectral Voice, and Zach from Chemists.

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Wow. Oh yeah. I heard about that. And this is really, really funny. Cause the guys from spectral voice and blending

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can'tation are the same guys. Yeah. Well, it's not the same guy. The exact band or is there only like a few members that are in? No, it's like three of them are in both bands. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, um, but the, that's awesome. It's X doing that. The, the, the slash here is that there's also a chemist album supposedly coming out this year. Yeah, I know. So I know. Do you know, um, George, what the,

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the bent of the style will be? Or did they say? I don't recall. I'm just curious if we're going to hear Zach doing some more. It's power metal. It is not power metal. I can pretty much guarantee that. Now, you said that was, was that the whole answer to it? Or was there another band? No, it was Black Curse slash Chemist since Zach is in both. I'm down with, I'm down with checking that out. Yeah. All right. Back to,

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Josh for number four.

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All right.

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Well, this is a band that you just mentioned.

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Spectral Voice is supposed to.

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I almost thought that they're supposed to release a full length.

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I know they just released a split.

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Yep.

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But yeah, I really like their first full length, which name escapes me right now.

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But you guys know what I'm talking about.

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That's a really good album.

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So they definitely incantation was amazing last year, too.

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So, yeah, they definitely have something coming out because they're touring in this area.

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in about a month and a half. With Crips, right? That's an awesome tour. Yeah. Yeah. All right. My number four is also Spectral Voice. I absolutely loved their last album, Eroded Quarters of Unbeing. So I spin that a lot in facts. But here's a fun fact. So my parents actually bought me the vinyl, Spectral Voice vinyl, for Christmas. Wow. And they had no clue what it was.

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I doubt they even know what death metal actually is despite the fact that I tell them over and over that I love death metal. I wear death metal shirts. They're just like this looks like something he would like. Yes. So after I opened it at their house, I put on the album on my dad's turntable to let them listen to it. And about a minute in to the album, they asked me what they could have done better as parents when I was little. I think I like your parents. That's good. Marcus.

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But yeah, I'm really looking forward to Spectral Voice. I think there's just one of the best death metal acts out there. Really love that last one. My number four. We already mentioned Testament Titans of Creation. Nice. All right. So, Jay. That's a good one. That's my number three now. Okay, there we go. That's actually my number four, too. Awesome. Yeah. My number four is Insleeve.

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Yeah, that's not, I mean, some of mine are vaporware. Are we pretty sure that one's not vaporware, George? Pretty sure. They seem, yeah. George had to bring that up. What is vaporware? What the fuck does that mean? Something that is, go ahead. Well, it's a tech industry term for sort of like, it's like a patch that's going to be on the software that they keep talking about, but they haven't even started writing it yet. No, I think it's, they've already worked on it. Yeah.

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I think it's pretty done. Yeah, I think it's done. Yeah. Yeah. So it's forthcoming. So it's and it was when I considered I have vaporware on mine for sure. So that's that was not. Oh, I'm pretty hardcore for the first three. But whoa. And and by that, I mean, not really. But like that you believe they'll come out. I believe guys. I will give you guys each a million dollars. If you never say the word vaporware again, you fucked hearts. I take check or cash.

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We could all split it amongst the five of us and be happy. I woke up from this? Vaporware? What the fuck? You said it, not me. Give me my money. If Will is a million dollars, I'm kidnapping his wife when she comes out here to Honolulu. She'll be out there in two weeks. He will pay you to not send her back. Way more than I am. That was a bad joke. You do not know Will's weak spot, apparently. That's like ruthless people. Kidnap her, I don't give a shit.

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that movie, Ruthless People? Yeah, that's this. Exactly, yeah. George, take us to the four. George, gotta keep skipping George. No, no, I did mine. It was enslaved. So we're back to Josh for number three. Keep it moving. All right, number three is also, well, this is a split too. I don't know if someone else has split, but it's Mercognitum and Spectral Lore. Wanderers, Astrology of Nine is its title. It's the only one

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I have with a title. Cool. That's got a title. That's a good start. Yeah. It's real. They're both like space themed atmospheric black metal. I think you guys would probably all dig it if you listen to it. I like Mare. Yeah. Mare Cognitum is awesome. Yeah. I like them. Yeah. And they've the two of them have released a split together. Man, it was a couple of years ago, but it was it was really good. Absolutely. Hold my attention.

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it and I'm into that so yeah. Spectral lore. Too many spectrals. I think I might have that though. I'm going to look that shit up. My number three. This is the only one that I have that has a title and it's Temple Avoid the World That Was. So I'm a huge fan of the last album and I know they spent a lot of time crafting this follow up. They didn't tour and the first track they released is very good. So I'm looking forward

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to hearing the rest of this album.

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And I'm wearing the shirt.

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And the cover is kick-ass.

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Yeah, they always have good covers.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, that's definitely one looking forward to.

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And they may or may not be playing Atlas coming up soon.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Does anybody play Atlas anymore?

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I didn't know about that.

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Whoa.

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Is that a facetious remark?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Well, I take your facetious remark and agree with it, and it's not my call. I know. I know. But that's awesome. But maybe August. I will be. That's sweet. Well, as long as it's not August 14th through 17th, I will be there. It'll probably be exactly then. Fuck me. Hey, Will, I'll be there. And they're playing all four nights, George. Yeah. I'm doing the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky that weekend. Oh, well, that's no.

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Nothing to shake a stick at? I thought maybe you had NSYNC tickets and you were going to go to that. No, no, no. No, no, no. Because they overlap with Sidney Lauper Stadium. Shut up. Right. Nah, man. Me and the boys from high school, the OG crew, we were going to Kentucky and drinking our way through Kentucky on the bourbon trail. That's awesome. Yeah. That sounds fun. Yeah. My wife's from Kentucky. That sounds fun if it was true, but you're really just going to go see.

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Britney Spears. Oops, George did it again. You know it. Where are we here? We are. My number three. Yep. This will be on nobody's list, but that's cool. Our band's called White Stones. The album is called Kwa Rahi, I guess. It's a solo death metal project from Martin Mendes from Opeth. Oh, yeah, yeah. I heard about that.

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I read something about that. He's an amazing bass player, so for him to be... No, it's not. Is this the first non-Opeth thing he's done? I believe so, yes. Okay. Because I don't recall him... I don't even know how you can even cricket Martin Mendez if he's going to be doing death metal. No, no, no. Only because I'm not familiar with the band. Obviously, I know who that is. Literally, it's just they... I didn't know about it until, I guess, a month ago.

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But to be fair, George, in the most generalized way, not many people get excited in the bass player's side projects. You know what I mean? Like, even the other guys in the band are, like, big deal, dude. Yeah. In the broadest sense. Hey, it's worth checking out. Even Steve Harris's side projects suck. Yeah, British Lion. Honestly, it's not great, actually. I mean, I was just being facetious, as Will was saying. But, yeah, British Lion is no great shakes. Not at all. In fact, it's horrible. Yeah. Yeah.

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All right, Jay. What's Will's number three is? Temple of Void. Temple of Void, yeah. Oh, no, Testament. Testament is just number three. That was his new number three. He nodded. Yeah, he's good. My number one and number two are going to be one I know is coming out. The other one is questionable. This one, I have no idea if it's going to come out, but I think it might. What would you call that if you weren't sure if it was coming out? What would you say that would be? I, well. The non-million dollar.

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I want to see Will soon. I don't punch him. Punch me as soon as I get up the airplane. Um, I'll, but I know they started working on it as soon as the other one was out. Maybe even before that long story story sludge might put out a record this year. And I'm hopeful for that. Esoteric Malacology. I still spin. I, and I think honestly, one of the better metal elms, like the last 10 years, somewhere in the top 10. And, um, and he's posted,

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He posts whenever they're recording, so I know they're actively recording. I would not be surprised if we see something this year. Sweet. Definitely super excited to hear it if we do. All right. My number three. Pouring one out for Matt. Carcass. Yes. Matty. Was also on my list last year, but we never saw anything. Well, they finished recording it in December, if I remember right.

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They talked about it coming out. So it's done. It's coming. It'll come out this year. Look, it's not like it's a Tool album or anything. I mean, come on. We're giving them so much shit here for being two years late. You know what I mean? Come on. Indeed. All right, Josh, number two. All right. My number two is Warbringer. Ooh. They're my favorite of the new school thrash revival bands. I think they're fucking great. I love those guys. Yeah, they're so good. Have you,

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You need to get in culture because that's the best thrash band going right now. I think in culture. I'll check that out. Definitely from Norway. Fresh definitely fills its niche for me. Like it's evil thrash. Super evil. Cool. Awesome. That sounds good. All right. Mark is on me. My number two in honor of Mattie as well. Carcass.

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Yes, their last album, Surgical Steel, was one of the best and most brutal albums of the decade. And it's been like seven years since that dropped. So I was already pretty hungry from some fresh carcass. And we haven't mentioned, by the way, that the advanced track sounds great. So it's going to be its carcass. Yeah, well, we got the Decibel Fuxy single under the scalpel blade, but we don't know if it's going to be on the album, though, Jay. And it's usually not. It probably won't. Yeah, it's exclusive, yeah. With the mild... Do you have a cat in there?

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now? Yeah. The door just opened by itself, so I figured there might be a cat in there. It's happened like four times, which is more than okay. I just feel bad because my wife's out there, and I don't want to make her listen to me. But it could be a, well, it sounds better than a demo, but it could be a demo version because they do that sometimes, too. Like the possessed one was a demo version of something that ended up on the record. Anyway, if it's an example of what we've got coming to us, it's going to make us all happy.

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Cool. Yeah. My number two is Temple of Void, The World That Was. Nice. There's no reason for me to stall to say carcass because that was my number two. All right. My number two is the only one that I have a title for because I know what it's called because I went and saw him in November. And that is The Institute by King Diamond. Also on my list last year, didn't make it, but.

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Pretty sure it's coming out this year. Did we have a title last year, George? We didn't. Well, sort of, but not at the beginning of the year. Okay. Yeah. So, Josh, that makes me know you're number one. Number one. My number one, already been mentioned, someone else's number five, but it's, it's Call Bearer. I love Call Bearer and I actually really liked their last album. I love the last album for the record. I like all their albums.

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One has like the perfect doom guitar tone to me. The most recent one, you know, I get they changed their direction. And I think it did them justice. Honestly, I just think the songs kind of expanded on themselves. And that last one on there, what was it called? A Plea for Understanding or something like that. Beautiful song. Like the way that closes the album off is just perfect to me. So I'm really excited to see where they go next.

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I love it too. They did a signing song in Chicago, so I got to meet the band, take pictures of them, and they all signed that album. So I really enjoyed it. I like how they changed up their song a little bit. Fuck no, that last album sucked, dude. But you, Will, were the one who said this stuff sounded good live, though, I think. You're right. It sounded better live than on the album, but it's still, it's

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It is not

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I mean Sorrow and Extinction

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and Worlds Apart

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No what was the name of the second album?

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Worlds Apart was

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That's the second one

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Hold on

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What was the name of the second album?

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Sorrow and Extinction

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Yeah that's

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No no no no

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The one that has Worlds of Burden

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Yeah yeah

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Foundations of Burden

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Oh excuse me

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Holy

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Like Foundations of Burden was like a perfect

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record to me

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and then they came out with that

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Whatever that garbage was. I fucking hated it. I literally... I like Foundations of Burden a lot. I think it's great. I think it's their best record. But the irony is, I think their best song, period, is the first song off of the first one, Sorrow and Extinction, whatever it is, that song Foreigner. And so to me, there's this band that started like here and then has not gone downhill or anything like that. But it's just like they've never reached the greatness of that first moment. No, they've gone downhill. They have absolutely gone downhill.

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I wasn't a big fan of that single they released, The Atlantis. Yeah, I agree. I thought it was sad. It just didn't do that much for me. Wait, when was that? Last year. They did it last year. It was just one song they did. They just released it on Bandcamp. Did it come out? There was an EP that came out too, though. That was actually good. That was a while ago. Yeah, that was a couple years ago. AJ, rewind like 30 minutes.

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And that was my review of it. Well, I, but hey, there you go. They got us talking and it'd be interesting to see what they do this time. I mean, I, this, this, the thing is like, I absolutely fucking love Paul Bearer. Like my daughter and I try and like, like play Paul Bearer songs on the guitar. Cause I think some of their stuff is so absolutely amazing. But that last album, man, it just,

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It sucked

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This won't mean anything about the heaviness of it, Will, but have some hope

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in that one thing you may or may not have noticed

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is they were not present last year

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because they stayed home to work on this thing

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So they spent the year on this record

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So we'll see what they did with it

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Yeah, they spent

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But they were unapologetic when they

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and the last record came out

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and they realized that it was not

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Sorrowness and Extinction

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It was not

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How many bands actually put out an album

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and apologize for it.

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Well, they kind of did.

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Like, that's the whole point.

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They're like, well, we, you know, it was like the sword.

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They were sort of like, oh, you know, we.

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I was wondering if one of us was going to pull that in here.

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Yeah, they saw it.

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No, no, no.

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But it was almost the exact same thing.

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They said, oh, it's like that.

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We never envisioned ourselves as a heavy metal band.

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We never envisioned ourselves as a doom band.

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We never envisioned ourselves as a band that would make good music.

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We just envisioned ourselves as like, just put out this garb.

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We envision ourselves as Metallica the Black Album. That's basically what they said. For what it's worth, Metallica was going away from the term heavy metal when the black record came out. They used to sort of make fun of the metal thing. But hopefully they won't go the direction of the sword. Let's just say that. ZZ Thomas. No, but they did. No, hope they don't. They already did. I don't agree with that. I would say it was borderline. We'll see what happens next to you. We'll see what happens with this one. It's going to be a fun record to talk about at the end of the year.

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I'll fight you.

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What are you going to do? Bleed on me?

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What are you going to do? Sleep on me?

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I'm glad we brought up Paul Bearer because we all just woke up.

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Okay.

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I got something to say about this.

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Paul Bearer, what the fuck?

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What?

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You said Metallica?

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Oh, by the way, just I can't wait to like just some of you guys come over my house and meet my children and they will rip you to shreds.

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about the first four metallic albums and if you even mention anything after

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a justice for all though just like you're an asshole are they like a swarm of piranha at that

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point they just take they just dismantle people i'd be worried about that except that i've never been to

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will's house oh my god my they're both they both know martial arts too don't they my daughter is a black belt and

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like like literally lethal like i believe it yeah yeah my daughter is un-fucking-believable

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She'll fucking kick my ass. That's crazy. I don't think that's hard. That is very true. Did you guys see the Tarantino thing that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did anything? Yeah. I love that scene with Jackie. What's his name? The Kung Fu dude. Oh, no. Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee guy, yeah. And Bruce Lee's telling Brad Pitt, he's like saying, my hands are registered weapons, lethal weapons. If I kill somebody, accidentally kill somebody with them, you know, I could go

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of jail and Brad Pitt goes, anybody would. It's called manslaughter. I love that line. That was great. He just like throws him around. It was so good. And the way he just fucking destroys the Manson family. Yeah. Yeah. Spoilers. But yeah. If they haven't watched it yet, they don't deserve to fucking. Yeah. Marcus. Okay. I'm on number one. Okay. Well, I'll just say Paul Bearer and Trypticon, which both were mentioned, were on my honorable

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I have a couple more but if we get to those my number one is chemists took my number one spot without a fight and their debut is number 10 on my top 40 list before I was on this cast so they're without question my favorite metal band so I'm really excited to hear new material are they signed with nuclear blast records last year too after three albums of 20 bucks spin so I'm interested in seeing how

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How being part of one of the biggest metal labels in the world will affect their visibility. Did you see who Ben is on just did a guest spot on the Wake album, the new Wake album. That's right. He did a long solo on it. Yeah, that Wake album is killer. Yeah, he's kind of busy. Ben gets around a little bit. And I think there was some Glacial Tomb little tour thing that happened or something. Maybe not even little. They have a new member. Oh, do they? Yeah, Tomb's awesome. Yeah, no, we got the

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I've listened to it like maybe five times or something. It's really good. It would have been on this list, but I've already listened to it, so I don't usually pick an album I'm anticipating when I've already heard it. And I know Matt loves it too, so. John, what's your number one? My number one just got, I guess, its first official announcement the other day, but I've known about this album for a while, and that's the new Aranci Pazuzu. Oh, yeah.

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I believe they're on Nuclear Blast now, if I'm not mistaken, and I believe their management company is a friend of mine, Erin. She's their management company now, so I'm pretty happy about that. I believe the albums, I'm going to totally butcher this because I can't say any of their song titles or album titles. Anything finish. Just be like Yanni, Little Hell. I think it's like Mysterian Kinsey? I don't know. Anyway, I think it translates to the master's claw.

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The Little Bit.

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All right, well, since I already gave away my picks, but since we're on our number one, Temple of Void is going to be my number one. I mean, I think my number one should be on your list and you just don't know it yet. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I didn't know a chemist was coming out with something. God bless you. But like Temple of Void is my sweet spot of everything.

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that I love about Doom and Death Metal. It's literally just the sweet spot. It's not too fast. It's not too slow. You mean your G-spot, right? Yeah, absolutely. My G-spot, yeah. And Gene, by the way, is short for Goldilocks. Let us see what other bathroom talk transpires here on Metalhead's podcast. Sorry, I slipped there on the old button. I was going to say the G-spot on that should be the joy.

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George's bot just saying. Oh, that's good. Okay. I should have gone straight there. I don't know what I was thinking, George. I'm sorry. Anyway, I'm super psyched for Temple of Void. So I know I woke up and earlier on I said Temple of Void and Karkas, but Temple of Void by far number one. Temple of Void got reviewed in the latest decibel. Oh, did it? What'd they say? Eight.

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Yeah.

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Well,

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it wasn't it that they too were just like,

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um,

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just below.

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They were like,

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if there would,

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if this had been 41 or whatever it was that year,

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the last one came out,

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they would have made the list.

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Wasn't that,

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wasn't that the for the last album?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We talked about it in the interview.

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I remember.

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Yeah.

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So I think this new one is going to be awesome.

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So of course.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Uh,

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Jay.

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Okay.

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So no surprises here. And there's only reason. I am looking forward to that because I'll tell you this. If everybody loves a band, they need an arch nemesis. And so I'm really looking forward to that record. I'm going to trash this motherfucker. I didn't want to overreact when George said it, but it's the King Diamond record. That's my number one. But I also have to disappoint you slightly, George, and tell you that one of the things I was under the impression, as were all of us, that they that.

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what do you call masquerade of madness was kind of like this advanced track and it is indeed that but when i saw him live he said and i shit you not he said this he said we're we're getting ready to go into the studio and record a new album and we thought before we did it we'd just go in and do this one song so they haven't even started yet what and i yeah and i and and not only that but he made it clear they haven't even written it yet so i was like oh yeah so it's that word that i can't say for a million dollars yeah and so it's a little bit less existent

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than we thought it was.

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He literally said that.

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He said, this is like an inspiration to us, and we're getting ready to go in.

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And he has the concept, but he hasn't written it.

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It's this whole thing, so he hasn't even done it yet.

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Wow.

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So I thought it was more imminent than it was, but we'll see.

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And let us not forget that he's got a year ahead of him of Merciful Fate and King Diamond Tour dates and stuff.

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True that.

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Yeah, I hope he's working on it right now.

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I don't know what he's doing in Dallas, but he better be sitting at a fucking microphone.

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Yeah.

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Nevertheless makes my number one.

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And to everybody who's hopeful for a trip to Connacht,

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I say don't get your hopes up on that one.

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That one seems even less likely to me than the King Diamond.

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Yeah, even that didn't make my list this year.

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It did last year.

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It seems that unreal.

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Yeah.

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It seems that unreal.

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Yeah.

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But that brings us to you, George.

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My number one, which should have been on Will's list,

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but maybe he didn't know.

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I don't know.

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But that would be Cannibal Corpse.

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Yeah, if I wasn't asleep, I would have said that. I believe that's one that's also in the can, and I think we know where Kretan is on it, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's playing the part of Pat. On whom we still don't really have an update, I guess, huh? No, not really. Just continuing to wait his trial or whatever the hell it is. Yeah. I mean, I assume he's not in jail. I don't know. Yeah, I could be wrong. Yeah.

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Alright. You're listening to the Metalheads Podcast. So you're the one. We were wondering who it was. Alright, so what are we listening to?

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Let's start with Josh.

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All right.

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What am I listening to?

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My buddy showed me this album recently.

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I thought it was good.

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I have absolutely no idea how to describe it.

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It's a band called Kaleaker, I want to say, Heart of Lead.

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It's like this prog, death, black, doom kind of stuff. It's slow. How do you spell that? K-A-L-E-I-K-R. Hmm, okay. I've heard that. It's interesting stuff. It's their only album, I think. But, I mean, check it out. I like it. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Next, Convent with Puritan Masochism.

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That came out last month, I think. That's a Death Doom band. Really, really good. Probably my favorite thing of the year so far. Puritan Massacre. Yeah, that's a good album. It's good, but all the songs sound similar to me. But the riffs are fucking awesome on it. Yeah, you know, I kind of look at it as the songs might not stand alone in such a specific way, but it blends together as a really good whole. It's the kind of album I put on and it plays all the way through.

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Not really that concerned with the individual songs. It sounds good on the whole. Yeah. On your whole. On Preparation H, maybe. I don't think there's a maybe to that. You're talking about Local H, the band? 4-H. Well done, John. I bet nobody else knows what 4-H is. I bet nobody else knows what 4-H is. It's horses and cows and stuff. I know what 4-H is.

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All right. Sorry, Josh. Continue. All right. Obsidian Tongue, that new one. Really like it. There's also, I have no idea how to say this, but it's Zo Nga, D-Z-O hyphen S-G-A. They released a new album yesterday or whatever, and it's super good. It's this atmospheric, folky, epic black metal kind of stuff. It's the sweet spot for me. Also,

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It's an honorable mention for a new release, but this black metal band called Grift, I think is how you say it. I've been listening to their first album just to get myself in the mood for that one. Also, just some older ones that I've been listening to lately, Infrared Horizon by Artificial Brain and Reverend Bizarre in the Rectory of the Bizarre. Reverend Bizarre. Nice. That is such a good album. Yeah, I love those guys.

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Well, formerly those guys. Yeah, like the guitar tone on that is pure fucking evil. It's perfect. Oh, yeah. But they're like couple bands now. It's like what, Lord Vicar and somebody else now. Oh, yeah. That Lord Vicar record was pretty good, too. They have a new one coming out, too, apparently, I think. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Carry on, sir. That was it. That was it. All right.

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Markassan.

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Well, I mentioned Envy, The Fallen Crimson earlier on Temporary Residence Records.

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Been spinning that one a lot.

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Let's see.

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Vengeful Spectre, self-titled on Pest Productions.

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This is a thunder blast of black metal mixed with Chinese folk music.

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It's also a concept album about Eastern swordsmen dealing with war, conspiracy, betrayal, and revenge.

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It's unique.

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It's brutal.

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I really can't stop listening to this one. It was my album of the month for January. I really like Death White Grave Image on a season of Myst Records. Really potent stew of doom, goth, post-metal, alternative rock. Really like that one. I've been spinning that one a lot. Mare Eye on Lava Dome Productions. Bleak, shadow dissonant death metal.

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Midnight, Rebirth by Blasphemy on Metal Blade Records. This record gets a little repetitive for me, but it's still really a high-energy ripper. Really great production on it. Thrash, black metal, and punk tossed into a blender under a full moon. Eerie, Midnight Despair, self-released stoner sludge metal mixed with alternative rock. Then sprinkle a little bit of hot star sparks of space doom on it, and that's what you get with Eerie.

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Wake, I mentioned this a little bit before, Devouring Ruin, we got the promo on this, on Translation Loss. They've released four out of the, I think they have ten songs on the album, but like I said, we got the promo, so I've spun it a few times now, and it's a lister for me. The new stuff is really brutal, but it's also a complete upgrade in terms of the musical diversity and complexity of it, and I think George

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mentioned, we got a track with a really long solo from chemist guitarist Ben Hutcherson, which is really good. Apocryphetic through cruelty is our ascension to paradise on dead soul music. Their band camp page refers to their music as brutal medieval dungeon metal. So I'm not going to argue with that. It's pretty good. Godthrym Reflections, which I think just came out yesterday. Yes, that should have been on the list.

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Yes, on profound lore records. Man, this is great. This is fantastic, Doom album. It sounds like, I would say, mid-period My Dying Bride combined with maybe Icon era Paradise Lost. Well, that's kind of ironic since two of the three guys are mid-period My Dying Bride members. Oh, I didn't even know that, Josh. That works out great. No, the one-two was in My Dying Bride for years, the guitarist.

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Well, the Hamish guy was. Yeah, but it was still mid-period. I mean, mid-ish. Yeah, I mean, if you like My Dying Bride or Paradise Lost, you'll love this. I actually ordered this on Vinyl, and I didn't know anything about this band, but I just really love the tracks on it. So kind of a spontaneous order, because I had only heard maybe two or three tracks before it came out. Necro Wretch, the ones from Hell from Season of Mist.

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Shoutout to Metal Patches Vinyl for recommending this one on our Facebook page. I love this album. It's Black and Death with fucking killer riffs on it. I know that I'm going to spin this a lot in 2020. It's really good. It's Me, The Arrow of Our Ways. We got the promo for this, George, and I didn't even think twice about it, but I was like, ah, I got to spin all the promos because you never know. This is a great album. This is melodic black metal.

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It's got some post-metal in it. It's got some ambient parts in it. It just really surprised me. It grabbed me from the very beginning. And I can't stop listening to that one either. And a great cover as well. It's like some figure balled up shot with arrows in a forest. But it's all washed out in this crazy gold color. It's really cool. Plague Portraits of Mind. I know Will has been talking about this.

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our little Facebook messenger group and threatened to take away our metal credit if we didn't like this. But this is a great album. Apologies to my wife. But this debut album was the best Valentine I received because it came out on Valentine's Day. It's to me, I think it's the death metal benchmark this year. Good luck to all the death metal bands who try to top this in 2020, including Carcass. Like Cannibal Corpse. Yes.

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This album is really, really fucking good. I can't believe it's a debut album, but it's one of my favorites already this year. So that's it. All right. John. Yeah. So Markisan mentioned Goth, Goth Rim. Definitely. If you're a fan of early peaceful releases, then this is definitely in your, your wheelhouse. Cause they definitely have a, or I think it's more early. My dying bride, not mid dying bride.

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Definitely early Paradise Lost Sound. It sounds like gothic a lot on this. It has a little bit of anathema in there too. Early stuff. We mentioned Eson. A band that I mentioned to you guys, but I don't think anybody listened to them, but that's cool. That's par for the course. Is what? And I'm going to butcher this name because I can't say, but they're Finnish, so we can ask Yanni to come back on this. It's Mara... Jerking the penis. Sorry.

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Yeah, okay. Thanks. Yeah, the band's called Jerking the Penis. Fuck. No, what was it really called, John? Yeah, sorry. Yeah, see, it's going to take me a second here because it's, I'm not sure, Maras Melia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Between Land and Sky, it's a debut album there. I guess they call them pagan black metal. I don't know what the fuck that is. I just know it as folky black metal. It's a debut album. This is a debut album from this band, and they're way ahead of the curve.

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Yeah, it was pretty good.

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They got some chops, no doubt.

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We mentioned Obsidian Tongue.

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We mentioned Plague, Psychotic Waltz, and then a two-track split, which most people would give a crap about because it's only two tracks, but the Enhedinous and Spectral Voice split that just came out.

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Yes.

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Abject Darkness and The Fable Lins.

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Fuck, the new Spectral Voice song is awesome.

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So I'm looking forward to the release.

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And the other band, they're not a band anymore, I don't think. They're back again for the song, yeah. I wonder if it's an old song that they just never released and put it out, or if they're actually back or not, because I didn't heard anything about that band coming back. All I know is that, is his name Mark, I think, from Dark Descent, just said they had a new split, because they just re-released a bunch of stuff on vinyl. Yeah. So they got hit hard, and he said, we also have something new that's coming out.

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That's it. All right. Will, you have anything you've been listening to? Real quickly, the local guys from D.C., the Osedax, they came out with a brand new album called Meridians. This is like black and sludge metal. There's a lot of filler in it. Kind of like the new Inner Arm. If you take out a lot of filler, man, it's a great album.

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Worth of Blasphemy, which we mentioned, Convent, Puritan, Masochism, mentioned earlier, Vethrable, Abysmal Decay. Oh, Vethrable, yeah, that's a great album. God of the Throne, which we mentioned, and then Unbound Terror, Faith, and Chaos. Awesome. Thank you, sir.

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And Jay.

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I've been listening to the Midnight Album 2.

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That's kind of right up my alley because I love that old Venemy-type weird stuff.

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Not weird stuff, but Plague.

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I agree with what everybody said about that one.

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That was one of those ones where Will was sort of like, take note of this.

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And I try to do that when everybody says take note.

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I tend to go back through that old thread and do it all like on a Friday night.

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But that Plague record, I agree with you.

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That might be the benchmark right now.

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It's the benchmark.

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Yeah, it is.

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Which, by the way, I forgot to say, there's a new Necroc coming out this year, too. So they're recording it right now. And they're going to play Atlas. That was on my honorable mentions for our top five. Cool. And speaking of plague. And then I'm still kind of going through, I've spent kettle decapitation going under my skin, so I've been listening to the whole back catalog. As soon as they announced that the Parler in the Yard set was going to happen, I probably listened to that three times a week, so I'm still listening to Parler in the Yard.

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And I also... Which is Pig Destroyer.

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The Pig Destroyer. Which also leads to more Pig Destroyer.

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I did start to just get on the Jethro Tolkeck again.

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And then, as mentioned, that Covellar Talk came out.

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Don't expect everybody to love them the way that I do.

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But I'm really excited to... I'll probably listen to that a lot this week.

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What I've heard of it sounds great.

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So that's about it.

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And that is just everything that's on my Swamp Pod.

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Underwateraudio.com.

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Underwateraudio.com.

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Which is always the mission.

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Which by the way, I put Book of Souls on there the other day, George, because I felt like, did I maybe not give that record enough? You did. I would say I have a mixed reaction to it. There's some really good songs on it and some not so good songs on it. Empire on the Claws is a really good song. It is, thank you. There's another one. Well, in any case, and then, well, and there you go. And I'm always just digging through it. This time of year, I'm always digging through my old back catalog, and it's not weird for me to put an ACDC record on right now, so. Oh, hell yeah.

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Just listen to whatever old stuff I feel like listening to and still cleansing my palate from last year. Right on. That's about the size of it. The plague one though that's probably the release I've been most excited about this year that I've heard. That's probably the record where I've been like oh I'm fucking listening to this a bunch of times. And it's a surprise too. Yeah it's like one of those like who are you where'd you come from what's your deal. Yeah. But by the way everybody who's saying I honestly am not a spectral voice guy because I just don't know him but you guys have talked about it so much I'll obviously be looking into that. Oh yeah. So yeah.

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I have no excuse for that. Cool. That's me list. All right. Here we go. Settle in. Shut it. It's not that long. It's only like 12 maybe. First up, Blackwater Holy Light and their second album, Veils of Winter. This is an organ doom band. It's very fuzzy.

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Doomy kind of stuff. It's an all-female band. I hate to mention that, but I say it because the vocals are really cool. I don't even know what to say, but they just go really well with the fuzzy doom music. It's very chill, and I dig it. Next up is the band Butcher and their album 666 Goats Carry My Chariot.

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This is a Belgian speed metal band. It's their second album. Reminds me a lot of early Exciter. Oh, interesting. And it's, you know, I know Marcasson was not a fan, but I'm a little older than Marcasson. I'm a fan of the cover. I'm a fan of the cover. Which cover? To their album. Which one? The Goats thing. The 666 Goats Carrying My Chariot. I thought you were talking about Exciter, sorry. Take a look at it, because you should.

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considerate for your top covers.

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What is it?

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What's the name of it?

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The band is called Butcher.

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The album is called 666 Goats Carry My Chariot.

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Thanks.

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And it's not, you know, if you dig like old 80s exciter kind of stuff, you know,

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long live the loud era kind of stuff, it's kind of cool.

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Yeah, I like long live the loud.

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And that is, oh my God, that's awesome.

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They didn't, I'm counting those goats so there's not 666.

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There are not, but you know.

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There better be at least six. There are. There you go. Next up, I'm surprised we didn't hear this one because everybody's been talking about it, but Colosso and their EP Apocalypse. This is a Portuguese death metal band. They have four albums, but this is their third EP. Next up is a band called, not ELO, but ELR. And their album, it's their first album called Mained.

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They're a Swiss post-doom band. I know John dug this when I gave it to him. Yeah, it was cool. It's just kind of, I don't know, droney heavy. It's really kind of ethereal atmospheric, but then you get the whole post-metal thing too, so it's... Yeah, I've been digging it. Take it for what that is. Next up is a band called Faustian Pact, and this is a Finnish black metal band. It's their first album. Help me.

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because fuck if I know how to pronounce this. But let's butcher it anyway. Autogen Tornian Varjosa. I don't mean to scare you, but I think you might have just summoned a demon, dude. Yeah, no freaking idea. It's very Finnish, you know. Can't pronounce that stuff. Can't make that stuff up.

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God Thrim album Reflections, their first album. As mentioned, two of the three guys in this band are former My Dying Bright dudes. Next up is Gospel of Death, and the first album, We Are Only Here to Suffer. This is a Vancouver one-man project. It's listed on Metal Archives' Ambient Funeral Doom, or actually it's Funeral Doom. I call it Ambient. It's kind of doomy,

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but is really heavy on the ambient.

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And it was interesting.

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And after I bought it, the guy talked to me a little bit and said he was going to check out the podcast.

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So next up, my album of the month for January, Horned Almighty, to fathom the Masters Grand Design, sixth album from the Danish black metal band.

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Mentioned.

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That's a good one, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Mentioned Already Convent and Puritan Masochism. First album, Danish Death Doom. One I just discovered a couple days ago, Matterhorn. And their first album, Crass Cleansing. They're a couple of teenage dudes from Switzerland who kind of like Celtic Frost a little bit. As I mentioned to the guys, I was listening to this and it sounded to me like the guy singing his vocals forward sounded like the vocals were backwards.

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So, you know, you listen to this and it's like, like it's backwards. I'm going to have to ask you to be careful here. You're just filling the room with demons, dude. Come on. Sorry. But it was pretty cool for a first album. Next, also mentioned Necro Wretch, the ones from hell, fourth album, French Death Black. Good stuff. One that nobody here has heard and probably will hear, but a band called

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called October Burns Black. They are, I'm actually not entirely sure where they're from, probably England, but can't be sure. They're sort of a Sisters of Mercy kind of gothic rock band. I picked up both of their EPs, Fault Line and Reflections. Very Sisters of Mercy if you dig them. Of course, the Plague album, Portraits of Mind. And only two more. Yay. Fuck you.

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A band called Shaped in Dreams. I sent this to you guys today. It's called the album. It's the first album called Echoes of Eldren Deeds. It's a German one-man prog death band. The album cover art looks kind of perihelion ship-ish. Just saying. Good stuff. I'm surprised you guys haven't mentioned perihelion ship in like top five. You guys love that band. Aren't they supposed to put out an album?

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Yeah, probably.

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Maybe.

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Yeah, it's hard to say.

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That one's a little bit floaty.

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We'll see.

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Yeah, Andreas is working on stuff, but he wasn't entirely clear on when that was going to be done.

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Yeah.

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And my last one isn't even remotely metal, but I dig it.

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And there's a reason I mentioned it.

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It's a chick called Vera Sola and her first album called Shades.

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And it's kind of like a, it's listed on Bandcamp as like ghost country, ghost folk, something like that. It's really chill, pretty melodic music. But what I found completely interesting about this album was the fact that she is the daughter of two very famous people, Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon. Really? I was like, what? That's weird. Is he still with her? Are they married? Yeah, yeah, they are.

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And so her real name is like Danielle

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Ackroyd or something like that.

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Okay.

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But as people, famous children do, they, she changed her name to do something

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different.

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And it's, it's definitely, it's not remotely metal, but it's definitely chill.

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Dude, that's awesome.

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So.

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Yeah.

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That sounds like what I assume the new Miracurl record will be like, which I will not

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put on my list this year.

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But it might be good.

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It's gonna be like a cool folksy thing

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Especially the cover reminds me of Midsommar

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I don't know if any of you guys watched that yet

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Reminds me of Sound of

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Not Sound

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Sound of Music

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Sound of Music, yeah

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Did any of you guys watch Midsommar?

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It's fucking great, dude

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Oh no, no, I've wanted to

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I haven't seen it yet

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It's this horror film about

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These college kids who get

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Walk into the middle of a very paganistic

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Kind of Swedish cult

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And I'm not going to ruin it for you at all. I'll just tell you it gets fucked up, dude. I highly recommend it. It's by the guy who did, what was the last thing he did? Some other really pretty scary film. Anyway, continue on, George, and I'll get the name of that because I do want people to see that. Yeah, well, I'm done. We are done. Here we are at the end. Of course, I am about to go into the Adroit Theory footage, but for us,

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We are going to sign off. And I want to thank Josh for coming on. Any last words, sir? Yeah, just thanks for having me on. It was a good time. Cool, dude. Awesome. We may not get to do it this year. It doesn't sound like it, but I really suggest if you can get a cheap flight. But if you can't, maybe we'll see it next year. Or this year. I'll definitely look into it. I was wanting to go. Or maybe LA will have such an amazing bunch of people. No. No.

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It ain't happening. Hard no from George. Even though I have family out there, no. Fair enough. Fair enough. I mean, maybe. You never know. I'm just joking. It's good to have you. We love to have other Metalheads on, man. Yeah, it's great to meet you, Josh. Thanks for all your insights and sharing your story. Really appreciate it, man. Cool. Love to meet other Metalheads. All right, man. Well, we are out of here. We will see you next time. So, this is George, and I'm

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I am here with Will, John, Mark, Warren. And we are at Adroit Theory in Purcellville, Virginia for the 6th anniversary dawn of a dark day. Sorry, I've had too much beer. I have to read it off the paper. Holy shit, dude. Holy shit, dude. Or should we say unholy shit? Yeah. So for the uninitiated, if you've never listened to this podcast before,

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Let me hold the bush for you. Okay. So if you just say Mark and Warren, most people may know who they are who listen to our podcast, but in case they don't, Mark is the owner of a joint theory brewing company, and Warren is a gypsy brewer who every time I see him, he's brewing at a different brewery somewhere in Maryland. I get around. Yeah. I think the government might be looking for him. Yeah.

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So we are at the dawn of a dark day six, the sixth anniversary of a Joy Theory Brewing Company. The reason we are here is because the great Mark Osborne decided that for the second year in a row, he's going to have a heavy metal festival at the end of his anniversary beer festival. So Mark, are you not entertained? Dude, we've seen two bands so far. Both of them have been sick.

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And we've got two more bands to go. So it's all downhill from here. The first beer that I had when we got here was at least 18 percent. We say no less than. No less than 18 percent. What the fuck? What the fuck is right, dude. It's demons surround me. It's an 18 percent beer, but then we, you know, doctor it up a little bit after the fact. And it's basically bordering into cordial liqueur territory.

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The Coconut one, that was like a liquid samosa, the Girl Scout cookie. If you liquefy Girl Scouts, that's what they taste like. That was awesome. So the first two bands we had tonight was Sick Deer from Washington, D.C. Just, dare I say, sick black metal. Sick! Yeah, I mean, they played Atlas a couple times, and I just knew, like, I wanted a great black metal band to satisfy that black metal itch.

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They were great. Then the second band was Basilisk from Philadelphia, which is like a thrashy death metal band. Holy shit, they killed it. They killed it so bad that there was a mosh pit and some guy named Chris lost his wallet, lost his phone. It didn't even give a crap for like 25 minutes till after their set where I had to go up on stage and like, uh, somebody lost their phone, their wallet. Nice. It was intense. Like, so they are so good. And the singer has some serious hardcore

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Well, we leave that up to you, George, to notice that one. He did have his shirt off. He did. I've never seen the guy with his shirt on. That's it. He doesn't believe in shirts. It's winter. It's only January in Virginia. Yeah, make America shirtless again. Never get fat, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, actually, he can actually pull it off. None of us can. Nope. I would get pub. I'll tell you what I loved about Sick Deer is the guy is,

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Literally roaring into the microphone. And he's like, hold on a second. Grabs the drums and does like a drum solo in the middle of a sing. I was like, what the? What the? It was great. And that's what makes them sick. That deer is sick. All right. Much heavier in person than I think on the album. I mean, that was very listenable, but I was like, whoa.

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I think both you and I, George, have Basilic on our year-end. I mean, just our year-end, rear-end. Year-end and year-rear-end. Yeah. Actually, Sick Deer was on mine. They were my number 20. I think Basilic was somewhere around 15-ish or something. But, and actually, all the bands. What I love about Mark, he's like, we'll just book some bands. And not just some bands. He's like, book bands. So he kind of leaves it up to me. I run it by him. But he kind of trusts my judgment. And I actually. That's his first mistake. Yeah, definitely.

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That's the first mistake. But I did, so three of the four bands put out new albums this year, and the three bands that put out albums this year all made my list. Except for Ilsa did not put an album this year. If they did, it would have made my list. So it's sort of like, here's some of my favorite bands who live within a three-hour radius of here. Let's put them together. Let's make Mark happy. Let's make Adroit proud. So to be clear, the first band was Sick Deer. The second band was Basilisk.

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We are now waiting for Ilsa. And then after that, it's her armor. Oh, yeah. Now, if you listen to our last episode, or it's probably the last episode at this point, you learned that James from Decibel was the one that perpetrated the busted up elbow on Will at Decibel last year. The bloody elbow. Yes. Yes, the flap of skin. It's the one where Will bled all over the white leather couch.

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on the boat we were on. How 70s porn is that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We were on an Airbnb boat thanks to Jay and John BT. John BT did it, yeah. And the beauty of that, and I keep bringing this up because it was really one of the highlights the whole weekend, is that a half an hour into us recording, Will just stops and says, wait a minute, we're actually recording right now? He had been talking for like five minutes on the thing. Will was pretty fucked up. But you know, as bad as that,

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That elbow looked, he probably needed to be drinking. So, you know, as soon as we walk up today, first the person we see is James. And I walk up to James and I'm like, okay, so like on the last episode, we were talking, Will was talking about how James had told him, admitted to him that he thought he was the one that knocked Will down and busted up his elbow. So I walk up to James and I'm like, dude, what do I got to do to put a hit on Will's other elbow tonight? Because Inner Armor's playing and it's time.

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I literally just went up and threatened James with bodily harm if he did not come on this podcast. He does not want to come on. Why? I think he's a little drunk. He has had a lot of beer. He's like one of our best listeners. Well, he's our only listener. We've all got this checklist here of all the beers, and there's 25 of them on there. When we got here, he already had like a third of it checked off.

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It's the adroit theory effect. Indeed. So, yeah, well, we'll have to hunt him down at some point. So, Mark, two years in a row now, you've had a medal show at the end of your beer fest. What about Dawn of a Dark Day 7? Well, I have a better idea. Why don't we have Dawn of a Dark Day 6.66? I like that. So, we're thinking about throwing a half-year party for ourselves. Summer fest. Right? It'd be like maybe the first week of September.

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mathematically. Just an absolutely sick, sick,

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sick show. And better weather.

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Yeah, I was going to say that would be perfect weather for that.

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So just in case, you know, you want to have a heavy metal festival associated with that,

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do you know anybody who can help you out with that?

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Let's see.

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Let's see. Metal Podcast. George. John.

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Who's that one guy?

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Hey, Will! Let's do it with Will! Absolutely, man. We like both types of music. Black and deaf. That's right. Country and Western. And do, too. And thrash. I do have a running joke. Like, oh, I like all kinds of music. I like deaf metal. I like black metal. I like doom metal. I like black and deaf doom metal. I like all kinds of metal. I like all

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out of the equation, right?

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This year is much better than last year.

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We were freezing.

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This year, I'm like, wow, I might take my jacket off.

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This is kind of nice.

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You should have worn shorts.

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Last year, it was like in the 20s.

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And I was freezing my ass off.

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I do remember Alex from Horrendous.

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He got off stage after playing last year, and he's like, I couldn't feel my fingers the entire time.

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His fingers did not stop moving for the whole hour they played.

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That guy's a machine.

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So throwing a party in the middle of the winter, three Dawn of the Dark days ago, we got 39 inches of snow on the Saturday of our party. Wow. A little bit of a buzzkill. So yeah, so I'm thinking we'll just switch it to, you know, a mid-year party in the September. And I mean, who doesn't love a 666 party? None of us would deny that. Does not into that. I did tell Mark earlier.

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It just so happens that Atlas and Adroit have the same anniversary year. So Atlas' 6.66 anniversary will be coming up somewhere in the March time frame. I did tell Mark after he told me the idea, I may steal that idea. You should do it. And I've got to feel bad about it, but it's so good I think he should share. Just don't do apparently a 777 party. That would not be good. Get Stryper.

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Well, apparently 777 is some new neo-Nazi... Oh, really? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, apparently. Everybody knows neo-Nazis are not good for business. Let's squash that shit right now. Nazi punks fuck off. You can probably do an 888 party, but you just can't do 777. Well, Danzig could. Anyway, let's book some bands for next beer, and then let's brew a beer with them and release it at the festival. I think that would be a great idea. That is wonderful.

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I got to say last year was great but this year is even better. It's warmer. It's warmer. The beers I think are solid and we're looking forward to wrapping this event up and going to Philly where I presume I will see you fools. We will be there. Yeah. Fools? What are you talking about? Oh we are fools. Don't deny it. So a joint is pouring at the Decibel Metal Beer Fest Philadelphia in a couple months. In two months. In April. Oh wow that's actually two months away.

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It's a matter of weeks away. Yeah, maybe three months. But yeah. It's so scary that Decibel has to post that, oh, we only have 100 tickets left. Like, motherfucker, this is the best show ever. Sell out now. Buy your tickets. Speaking of selling out, you actually took the ticket link down tonight because you sold 150 tickets. And there's still people coming up to the door. Is that Kujira playing in the background? I think it is.

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BASIC GOJIR play? Is it the blackest metal in the universe of Manta? I think this is GOJIR. Anyway, sorry, tangent. Squirrel! Bacon! Bacon Squirrel! Squirrel wrapped their bacon! We have a good turnout. I mean, we're in the podunk western Loudoun County. There's a crap ton of metalheads here that are into beer and into music, and, you know, we appreciate their support, and hopefully they've had a great time, because I think

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I mean, we're halfway through the fest and it's pretty sick. We appreciate you guys doing this, man. Seriously. Yeah. So if you don't kind of like piggybacking on what you said, Mark, is that, I mean, we are an hour and 15 minutes outside of Washington, D.C. Half an hour from my house. Yeah. Northern, Northern, Northern Virginia, like literally bordering West Virginia, Maryland. I did traffic, so it was only 45 minutes for me and I live in Annandale, which is not that far. But the fact that to Mark's point, we are in kind of bumfuck nowhere.

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And there's still so many people. And what I love about it is there's so many people here that we know that I recognize. I know by name who come to Atlas who I see at other shows. Ariel photobombed us earlier. Ariel's here. Ariel Lopez, mi amor. Oh, que rico. But yeah, like just so many great people here that we know. Yeah. It is a testament to the beer. It's a testament to the festival that you put on, Mark, that there's

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There's so many people who are willing to drive to Bumfuck Nowhere, Percival, Virginia to see this and enjoy this and participate. It's great. There's a lot of people here. There's quite a bit. It's good. It's good. I'm glad they're having a good time. I'm sure the bands appreciate it because not only do they bring their own fans, but they gained some new fans tonight. I know I am.

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I was super fucking happy. I mean, like literally I and I every single band member that I took up to the green room upstairs with their behind the green door. Yeah. But like I almost apologize. I'm like because every single one of these bands have played Atlas multiple times. I'm like, look, I know you guys like playing Atlas. I almost feel ashamed to show you this because this is so much nicer. I mean, here's your private area with a couch. Here's a beer fridge full of beer.

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Oh, by the way, we're going to pay you a lot more money. Like, it's so... Will's handing out handies. Yeah. Not too much. Well, I was embarrassed because I had a huge bowl of... Yeah, somebody hit the button. That's it, last call. Last call, motherfucker. I had a whole bowl of blue M&Ms that took me like an hour and a half to pick them all out. And then one of my staff ate all of them. And I was so embarrassed. I was like, damn it. Somebody had that on their rider or something? Oh, I just kind of assumed.

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Wait, so I ate all the rest of the M&Ms for no reason? Is that what you're saying? That's how I love walking in like, oh, wow, we scored tonight. Oh, man. Gotta make sure these guys have a good time, man. They're working hard. They're working hard, not wearing a shirt. Yes. Mark, you are truly a gentleman for putting on the show you did and being so

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friendly to the bands. And to us. I mean, that's why I will jump in with both feet every year to help you out because you're super generous to the bands. You know how to put on a good show, a good stage, a good sound system, a good stage lighting. Treat the bands well. And every band that's ever walked away from here absolutely loved it. And the word will spread. That's a great thing. Nobody loved it more than horrendous last year. I can assure you that. They had a great time. The best guy.

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I hope they do. I mean, we're honored that they come and play our show because, I mean, we're a small brewery in the middle of nowhere. So to have these guys come and play is very exciting to us. I mean, Inner Armour is about to play at a joint theory. Like, seriously? Like, that's fucking awesome. I know. I have the same feeling when bands like that play at Atlas and Inner Armour's played twice. And I get giddy. I'm like, oh my god, they're playing my brewery. It's surreal. Yeah, it is. It's a little surreal.

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He's sitting at my desk that I run payroll on.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So we're kind of distracting.

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James Lewis from Decimal Magazine is standing right there.

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He's turning us down.

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And he's giving us the finger and hiding his face.

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I am going to go grab him physically.

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Come here, you fucker.

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Come here.

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Come. Come. Come. Come on. Wow. I have never been turned down such. Oh, my. Well, we're good for now. Yeah.

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