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Now, here is the Podcast Metalhead's Podcast Go.

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Welcome to the 2020 Mid-Year Episode.

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Due to the length of the episode, our host wouldn't let us post the whole thing.

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So I've split it into two parts.

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This first part covers our introduction of James Lewis from Decibel Magazine,

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our top five album covers, and our top five EPs and shorter releases at mid-year.

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Part two will include our top 25 albums at mid-year. Enjoy.

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Hello and welcome to the Metalheads Podcast. My name is George.

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This is Jay. This is Will. This is John. This is Matt. This is Marcuson.

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And we are joined today by James Lewis of Decibel Magazine. How you doing, buddy? Good. How you guys doing? Excellent. Doing excellent. So we were just talking right before we started recording about how difficult it has been for us to get you on here. Because, Will, do you want to take that one? Well, I think technically James has been on before, whether we're at Decibel or something. We may have harangued you someplace at some point, Death Fest or something.

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Maryland Death Fest. I know when a couple years ago, but have you been on before? No, I don't. I don't think so. I think there was a time that you were trying to get me to talk and I saw Nick Green walk in the door and I went to run and try and grab him. And he went the other direction and then I got lost and didn't return. So sorry. I don't think I don't think my voice is officially ever made it on here. Yeah. Well, your name has been on a million times. I'm sure you know. And there was the famous show at a

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which is probably one of the last live music shows we've all been to. But when we did the Adroit anniversary show and you were there and we were begging you to come on and talk to us and you would not at all. He just stood there with the middle finger up being like, I am too cool for you. Yeah. I do that. I don't remember doing that. I mean, it sounds like something I would do, but no, I don't remember that. And there was a bit and we were recording and I was like, Hey, hold on a second. I'm gonna go get James. And then I had to like walk of shame back and like,

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He won't come on. Wow. Jesus. James, what made you soften your stance on the Metalheads podcast? Plague. No, no. The real explanation to that would be George talking me into it and me agreeing to it after I had not agreed to say anything. And then him saying, you'll do it, right? And I guess I'd had just enough high ABV droid theory beers to say, yeah, sure, okay, I'll do it. It took a while.

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What he convinced me? And then I think like the next day he texted me. He's like, just so you remember, you said this. And he did not respond to me for two months. Yeah, for months. I was like, okay, I guess I'm going to go fuck myself now. He just said that to get rid of me and now he's not going to come on. I thought we were friends, man. This has nothing to do with the show or anything. I'm a huge fan, but it was more to do with my own buffoonery and the concern of bringing down the podcast.

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You have listened to this. You know, we're just a bunch of sick buffoons. I mean, buffoonery is exactly what we do. Yeah, if anything, James, you're the ricochet at us going back up. Yeah. I don't know about that. I don't know about any of that, but my concern when I, and George will account to this, that when I was saying, no, I don't want to do that, I was like, oh, I'm just going to make an idiot of myself. I'm going to say something stupid. And he's like, you'll be fine. That's perfect. There are plenty of dumb things said by somebody else. You'll be fine. I was like, oh.

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Well, so far the dumbest thing you've said is, I don't want to make a buffoon out of myself. But we're all buffoons. That's what we're here to do. This is what brings us together today. Malage. Hopefully not. I already think you're the best guest we've ever had. You're knocking it out of the park, man, as far as I'm concerned. We should just wrap this up right now. It can't get any better. Oh, no, we got a long way to go. I'll go out on a high note then in comparison to all of the interesting guests who you have, like,

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saying, you know, in-depth things about records and music and, you know, making them. Nah, I don't mean to express any of those ideas. So for the audience who is listening, this is obviously the mid-year podcast. So this is our best 25 albums mid-year. But before we get into that, obviously, James, just tell us a little bit what you do at Decibel.

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So a lot of people think that the company's a bigger one than it is. We have this nice facade of being a very large company and we're not. So everybody wears a lot of hats. And I handle a handful of other things for it, like say the digital issues or handling things at Metal and Beer Fest. So if anyone has a problem with digital magazines or their issues not showing up, I can get you in touch with the right person. But for the most part, my day mostly can't be a big fan of the right person.

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of handling stuff with advertising. Would you say that Albert values your opinion on music? I say that jokingly because you say he gives you a lot of shit. I think I can answer this for him, George. No. I'd say that for the whole staff, he'll run ideas by us and think like, hey, what do you think of this as a headliner? What do you think of this as a upcoming cover? And we'll come back to him with ideas and say,

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I think this is a great idea. Maybe this arrangement that you have in mind might not work out. Maybe this is a cool thing. Or if you know maybe it's a record that he's not that excited about but someone's pitching something saying he'll say you know hey is this a big deal to people and you know maybe somebody else on staff will say yes this is a big deal you know this is something to reconsider. So I would say that he considers things and values input in terms of the records that I listen to. I think he frequently says that's terrible.

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That's awesome. Well, you may have six other people saying the same thing for the next seven hours. Or you may have just found a safe haven. Or a lot of crickets. I think a couple of these are definitely going to be crickets. Dude, I'm going to have so many crickets. I think this year is interesting because I think this year there's not going to be like a clear number one. I think it's going to be sort of all over the place.

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But I think we're all going to have a lot of the same titles. And also I have a record actually called Crickets. So I'm looking forward to it. I thought one of my picks though was going to be a huge Crickets. And this is like a top tenor for me. And then at the end of the episode, the last episode you guys recorded, everybody was like, well, not everybody, a bunch of people were like, oh yeah, that band's good. Oh yeah, I liked that. I remember that. I was like, oh, well, not Crickets at all then. Well, we listen to a lot of metal. Chances are we've probably heard it.

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but there is just so much that comes out that there's a possibility of us missing it so we actually we really embrace when people give us recommendations that we haven't heard so we're looking forward to whatever you whatever you got there buddy likewise i always enjoy checking in and especially when it's something that um maybe you would have missed otherwise um i remember the one uh ukiaru yeah i might be saying that one wrong nope i remember after hearing that on the show i was like oh yeah i'd seen that name before and

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checking it out and being like, oh, I am all in on this. Well, that makes six of us because Jay is not. I like to be the outlier. Yeah. So who will win the Jay Awards today? Find out on the Mid-Year Metal Heads Podcast. So that means we actually have to have a consensus minus one person, which I don't know if we're going to have many of those. Yeah, I think it's going to be very, very scattered. I mean, I,

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I wouldn't be surprised if half my albums aren't on anybody's list.

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Does anyone take a running total as this is going?

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So you're seeing, okay, this has this many boats as it's happening?

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No, we just count on our brains, which doesn't help much.

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The more you drink, at least notice, hey, a bunch of people have said that one.

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We send our lists to John, and then he totals it.

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Yeah, afterward, but not in real time.

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I think we know if albums come up at least three or four times, but I think we can kind of get lost at five or six because at that point, there's like maybe two of us that are still functioning. At the end, we're like, hey, did you say that one too? Wait, that was your number 15, I thought. And there's the point system. So sometimes a lot of albums come up quite a bit on the cast, but we're not quite sure where they're going to fall in our overall rankings until John does the calculations. It's pretty cool.

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So raise your hand if you're not kidding. Don't raise your hand because that doesn't do us any good. Who all made changes to their list today? I did. Oh, absolutely. I did. I made a change like five minutes ago. Yeah, I did. And I expect some baby change at least one during actively. There's one I'm kind of wrestling with and I'll wrestle with more after that. Yeah, I did too. I'm not going to add anything new, but I'm moving things up and down. Did anyone not make changes today? Did I ruin everything locked in? I made mine. I think.

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Last night, my last one. Yeah. I had my stuff locked in, I thought, like four days ago. And then last night, I took two out and then shifted it a little bit. Yeah, I figured out that one of mine, which I thought was this year, actually was released after Christmas last year. I mean, who fucking does that? I'm like, whoa, this is technically December 27, 2019. It was midway through my list. I was like, I gotta take this out.

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I feel like we need to do something after the year end to talk about all those albums that we missed those last two or three weeks that for whatever reasons are coming out and they're like fuck that would have made my list for sure you know so I felt like I was gonna have to pull one off my list because one source was telling me it came out in 2018 but the band camp says 2020 and another source says 2020 so I'm going to play it and unless someone calls bullshit

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It's going to go in the books.

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I will call bullshit.

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Does anybody have a reserve list like we've had happen in the past?

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We're like, huh, that was last year.

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Well, I'll just go with this one then.

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Well, that's called the Honorable Mentions.

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You mean that list of 70 records that are the Honorable Mentions fight?

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Yeah.

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I certainly don't have that many.

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I only have nine.

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I've got like 25, so get ready for that shit.

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I mean, I did a top 40.

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I just cut it at 25.

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See that poster behind me?

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Yeah, yeah. I put that up just for you. Hey, Will. I think we should think of that 70 as like when you're listening on the radio, like if you have Sirius XM and you hear like the only Opeth song that ever plays Deliverance and it's like 14 minutes long and I'm like, well, somebody had to take a shit so I threw that off. You know? Said a former DJ. Well, yeah, and I've done a little DJ and that's exactly

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what I've done in the past.

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That's funny, John, because I was taking a shit today, and I was thinking, I've got to change one of these albums on my list, and then I did it after that.

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I've got to get a sample of I've just taken a shit today.

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So you're saying you were being proactive, Marcus.

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I was.

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I think about metal no matter where I am.

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Probiotic and proactive.

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So now when somebody says a band I don't like, I can just say, I was taking a shit today.

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All right.

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Okay, so not only do we have our top 25, but we're also doing our top five album covers and our top five releases that are less than album length. Let's just call it that. It could be an EP. It could be a grindcore album. You never know. I didn't make that list. It could be a double grindcore album. But I can make it fast. I honestly didn't know that. That one went right through me. Jay, I literally barely made it for this.

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Well, we're going to do the covers first, so you got some time. Yeah, I got time. And I know a few, so that shouldn't be too hard. Now, usually we do the covers, we do them all at once, right? Like we don't go round robin with us. Yeah, it's faster that way, yeah. Yeah. So that being the case, James, do you have a top five album covers for us? I am setting a wonderful precedence of dropping the ball here. No, I don't. All right.

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I thought that was just phenomenal. I'm sure that there would be other ones that I would think of had I prepared things which I meant to and then didn't. So I'll just go with Temple of Void at five through one. If that's an acceptable vote. Do you know who is the artist? Yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry. You just named it. Yeah, I said yeah, yeah. Okay. Sorry. We bust. We bust.

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George's balls because he'll tell us the album covers but he's like I don't know who did it yeah as per usual you have just reminded me that and I do not have any artists for my album covers hey I like master puppets but I have no idea when the name of the band like no but I did know that one yes um and I can partially I can owe it to knowing it most recently from the episode two weeks ago you guys had them on which was awesome

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Incidentally, in my background is an original Adam Burke painting that I bought. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. How much was it? If you care to say, I think I bought it for $500. Jeez. And that was on sale. I thought about, um, it's actually not that bad. No, it really isn't. It really, cause it's not for painted work. Yeah. Original. I, I, I briefly Vincent Locke, who does all the Campbell corpse covers. I briefly thought about buying the original painting he did for the

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Amber Smash Face Three Fluids beer bottle, which is like a culmination of like all 13 albums they had at the time. It's amazing. Yeah. And it was it was around that was like $500. I'm like, oh, like it wasn't the money. It was just more of like, where am I going to hang this in my house? And how mad is my wife going to be? You know, I'm trying to I'm trying to find my my office upstairs where my computer and where I spend a great majority of my time is completely unadorned in on the walls.

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I mean, I have shelves and I have, you know, dolls, nothing quite as extravagant as J's, but, but I have nothing on the walls. And twice now I have gone online looking to find like some cool posters. I'm like, I want like a holy diver poster that I can frame and put up there. You know, nobody fucking makes posters anymore. It's all flags. Yeah, that's kind of true. I don't think I remember really seeing posts, all the, all these little posters, either show posters from Atlas or that sleep one,

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or I got another one over there, the onslaught power from hell. You can find them though. If you do, they're little, they're like 20 by 20. They're no like actual poster. I mean, not for what I'm looking for. Anyway, I have not found anything except for like on eBay and it's all sketchy looking and looks, do you want an album or like concerts? What are you looking for? I want like, you know, I, I was like, I wanted a holy diver. Cause I've been like, that's bad-ass. I don't buy for a second. That's not out there. I'm going to find. I could not find, if you can find it in like a

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30 by 30 kind of poster. Good luck. Also, like something, you know, Iron Maiden, you know, like power slave or peace of mind or. I remember as a kid, you guys probably had one, too. I was guaranteeing one of you had one. You had the velvet black light number of the beast poster. No, but I did have a somewhere in time door poster that was the whole door. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. No. Well, the coolest thing I had was it was one of the huge flags, not like the current flags that are not.

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more than a person, but it took up my whole ceiling completely. And it was just a Rolling Stone tongue. That's all it was. I put that on my ceiling and every night I was just like, that's a really big tongue. I do have a velvet, black light, cradle of filth, principle of evil made flesh with the chick with the blood and the nipple, which is not hanging, of course. For newer albums, I don't know about some of those older albums from bands, but some newer albums,

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If you go to the artist page, a lot of times they offer the covers as prints or you could just ask them and they do print on demand. I know that for a fact. Yeah, the other thing you can do is like all these show posters I have from Atlas is you just go print them. You go to Staples or FedEx Kinko's or something and here's the JPEG and make it a poster. And they don't stop you. Is this copyrighted? Because anytime I go to print anything, they're like, is this copyrighted? You know, when I make shirts and stuff.

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Probably not with metal. They're not going to know anything about that. If it's like the Mona Lisa, they might be like, I suspect this is not yours. You say, oh, it's copyrighted, but I own the copyright. Don't you know who I am? My name is Derek fucking Riggs, man. Just print it. Chances are the dude working at Kinkos might like that band. How big does Kinkos print? Well, they do like 40 by 30? Oh, yeah, yeah. I've gotten here. Hold on one second. Holding.

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I think all the posters now come with your vinyl if you get anything. Yeah, but then they're folded up and you've got lines and I can't have lines. On those creases, no. No creases. Can't do it. Can't do it. Oh yeah, I remember that. He can't hear me. But it's the yesterday's Sands. Sands mic. So I don't know if you can, how well you can hear me, but this is a giant,

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I used to get printed when I worked at the different breweries and when we had

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like beer releases for metal bands, we would print up these like giant 40. I don't know.

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I guess this is more of like a 24 by 30, 24 by 36 or something.

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Which one is that? Is that the King Giant one?

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No, that's the yesterday.

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Oh, it is yesterday. I was right the first time.

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Season of Annihilation, the black Kolsch beer.

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Cool.

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I was cleaning out the closet, well not the closet, the attic recently,

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and I have like all these giant foam board posters. Yeah. And I don't know what to do with them. Anyway. From beer releases, you said? The foam board ones? Yeah, yeah. I would get them printed up at FedEx Kinko's or Staples or something. And we would just come up with art artwork for all of them, either me or the band or somebody, and then we would get them just giant printed up. I was thinking about getting a giant podcast logo, either the logo or the, you know, the shirt skull guy.

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like a giant banner like made that I could like hang behind me here but I'm like why you know who cares I can just I can just do this yeah yeah that's true beautiful the zoom background yeah that's me it's all right so mark us on album covers yeah you know last year we definitely did a countdown where it was where everybody did five and four and stuff but you guys just want to do all of them at once

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Yeah, it's probably fast. I mean, yeah, it's too late to turn back now. I think. Okay. Well, I'm all right. One, so right. That's why I mentioned it. I like, I like the fact that I'm happy to do it. Number five for me is midnight rebirth by blasphemy cover art by David Thierry. I love the watercolor paints on this very disturbing image of a nude girl falling from a black ink splattered sky.

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a bloody knife in one hand and rubs her stomach with the other and the lower half of her may or may not be genetically merged with an entire dead goat you're turning me on man it's a really cool cover number four for me is a temple avoid the world that was uh i did a long description when they were on um so i guess i won't do that now unless you want me to hey you had the same number four as james

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That's weird. Number three for me was Devangelic Ersetu cover art by Nick Keller. This is a really phenomenal image. It's a picture in otherworldly Egypt with four giant sphinx-like statues, possibly the oracles from The NeverEnding Story, looming over a crowd of wanderers who have no idea what to make of them. And above this crowd,

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High on a ridge,

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there's three alien architects who proudly survey their impending conquest as their gigantic armored ship descends slowly upon the capital city in the background.

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You should you should get a JPEG of that and put it on as as we say them change your zoom background.

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I was just looking it up because I was like, oh, I don't know what that is.

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Let's see. Sounds cool.

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In a world where.

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I actually have that cover saved, but let me see here. I have them in my spreadsheet. I got to go to my Google Drive quick. And you won't be able to see the whole thing, unfortunately. I know WebEx, you can share your screen. Oh, you can share your screen. Let's see this one. So you can't really see it. You can only see part of it. It's not very good. All right.

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So, let's see. Number two. At the altar of the horned god through doors of moonlight. Cover art by Oriale Defenestrate Bast Kiyule. I don't, I probably didn't pronounce that right. But this is a mesmerizing. God bless you. Dark fantasy action scene in which a nude ginger elf is fighting for her life against the powerful thrall of a humanoid.

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Chimera Sorcerer. The heinous creature, who has wrapped itself in his own venomous snake tail, like a 666 Snuggie, shout out to Matt, has clearly called forth the devil's power by using all four of his arms to whip up a blood moon incantation tornado. And it appears that our poor ginger elf is about to be severely under the weather. I have an idea for a fun game, and it's that none of us look at these covers, and he describes them, and we try

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I'd draw them. That would be so great. And see what we come up with. I'm starting to see a new ginger theme here. Yeah, screw cards against humanity. Let's do that weird charades game. That would actually be a really funny idea. It would be fun. Oops. Oh, yeah, I forgot. Well, you guys just have to look at them. I can't keep putting up new images. And then my number one is Perdition Temple, Sacraments of Dissension,

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by Daniel Kokuera. And this cover looks like it's inside the temple of void because it's a sinister scene that takes place under the same strange orange glow that you see on that cover. And that's really oddly satisfying when you think about it because both bands use temple in their names. The scene itself is of an axe-wielding wizard who is paying tribute to a craggly-faced goat demon master.

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who sees fit to bestow upon him a necklace that will allow him to descend to the dark dimensions. Beside the goat lord is a hideous winged demon banshee enforcer, probably there to ensure the wizard doesn't do anything unseemly. And then all around our subjects are disturbing nightmare babies, skulls, and tortured mutated souls that seem to flow through the chamber like lava smoke. Right on. There you go.

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All right. I like how James didn't do any covers and then I actually went the extra mile and wrote descriptions out. Well, that's what you do, man. That's what you do. Poor Matt. Every time we do this, I think I should have sent this to Markerson and paid him to write some shit out. It's boring. It's kind of funny because he kind of does that for a living. Yeah, I know. A little bit. All right. Number five.

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Necrovault. Totensug, Festering, Herringranation. Totensug, I believe in German means death train, which kind of works with the cover. You have like this, well, like a line of people, and we'll call that dead people, so it's kind of a train walking towards the tower. I assume some messed up shit's going to happen. Number four, I'm going to butcher the name, but the band is Esau Trillium, Eternity of Choke. I really wish it was Butcher when you said,

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I thought I'll please let it be butcher. That'd be good. Sorry number five the artist was just a misanthropic which I believe is either someone's name or someone's company. This one the title of it is called the Dracula of Mars. The artist is Alan Lee Brown who's done a number of their covers before. Literally is like he has two horns coming out of his head. He's got like Vulcan ears. He kind of looks like a werewolf that's demented. It's pretty cool. Let's see.

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And the three cryptic ship visitations from Inclimatus, I think is how that's pronounced. The artist is Asai Nagamasa. It's a cool one. Well, and to be honest, it's when I first saw it, I was like, that's weird. And then I kept looking at it thinking like, what is going on in this thing? And it literally, it like drew me in to actually want to listen to the album more. I feel like there probably is an actual story that goes along with it.

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I haven't actually used it up.

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You know what's cool about that, Matt, is that they actually have a different cover for the CD than they do for the vinyl, which is pretty neat.

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So what's funny is when I was looking for it, I did see that.

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And what's even funnier is that I somehow started to play the album, and then I was like, God, there's a lot of delay on this. Holy shit.

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Well, I'd actually played the album like a split second later on two separate windows.

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So I was hearing it like one second off as it was going.

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I'm like, am I on drugs right now?

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Because this is amazing.

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But anyways,

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I take this to mean,

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I mean,

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this could be like a deleted scene from interstellar,

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like Matthew McConaughey is like in deep water.

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He's in a space suit.

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He's holding up something,

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looking at a tower.

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Yeah.

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That's all I have.

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Just a quick shout out.

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I just watched that again for the second time recently.

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That's a great fucking movie.

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Yeah,

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it is.

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Yeah,

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it is.

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All right.

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Okay.

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Number two,

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temple of void,

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the world that was artist Attenberg.

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It's been described.

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I'm not going to butcher it. It is also not the band butcher. Fabulous cover. Number one, I feel like the title of it is a really good description. Chopping mall mauled by a magical bear. It's called a hot liquid cheese spraying from its eye sockets. Artist Timbu Keanu. Keanu. Keanu. I love Keanu. I love this guy too. By far and away, that's the most amazing thing I've seen in the last few years.

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because it is awesome. Yes. Shout out to Keith D. Yo. Heck yeah. All right. My turn. So apparently Matt and I have similar lists. So I'll be able to go through these quick. He's probably over at my house watching soccer. That's why. So I like your basement. It is nice. I have a basement. That was somebody else's house.

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So my number five already mentioned cryptic shift visitations from Enceladus and the artist is like Matt said, Sai Nagamasa, which I could not find anything on this person other than the fact that his origin or place of origin is in Russia, according to the metal encyclopedia. So if you're a fan of old kind of 50s, 60s, 70s sci-fi or fantasy book covers, this would probably fall into the middle.

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that and like Matt said, it's got this kind of, to kind of quote their name, it is kind of a cryptic picture of a guy standing in the middle of like a blood red lake on a frozen planet, which would actually be Enceladus because that's the frozen moon of Saturn. It's either a tower or a spaceship that he's trying to signal. It's kind of a cool image. And like Markisan said, there's multiple covers. Although I do believe Markisan that the CD cover is the inside

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of the final,

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which I'm still waiting to arrive from Sweden two months now.

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Oh yeah.

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I have a couple albums that are like that too,

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John.

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It's probably quarantine Sweden.

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No,

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it's just them because I had something from Poland.

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They ordered last week.

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It's already,

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I think in the States.

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So,

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yeah,

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you know,

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that cover kind of reminds me of a,

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in the movie Superman where he has the crystal and he throws it.

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And then the,

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the fortress of solitude comes up.

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Yeah.

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Every time I look at it,

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it just reminds me of that.

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That's really cool. My number four, Psychotic Waltz, The God-Shaped Void. The artist is Travis Smith. He doesn't need any introduction whatsoever. He's done a ton of album covers from a lot of big-name bands. Cover's kind of interesting. It looks like there's a tear or a rip in the universe, and it looks like there's parallel universes, and the tear universe is sucking the one that's the main one on the album cover itself into the void.

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So it's pretty cool. And I like Travis Smith. I like most of his stuff. I actually got a chance to meet him a few years back and he was a pretty cool dude. So number three, it's been mentioned already a few times. And oddly enough, Matt James with his number three, Temple of Void, the world that was by Adam Burke. It's weird, but it's cool. We all know that the story behind this, Markisan did a great description of it. I kind of wanted to do it again, but I don't know how many times.

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I can do it. But I'll say, I don't know if anyone else is a big fan of the old 60s Planet of the Apes films. I absolutely love them. And I couldn't help but think that this was when Beneath the Planet of the Apes, when they were going to the underground portion in New York City. I just feel like I just thought of that for some reason when I look at this cover. But Marcasson's description is way better than my Beneath the Planet of the Apes. My number two, an album that I hardly even listened to this year, but I thought the cover was great.

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I'm a big fan of this cover it just kind of has this feel of the makings of a planet or a solar system or whatever and you're looking at the Titans put it together on their little sphere as they hammer down on it throwing it looks like a DNA strand is what they've got as the main portion of the picture so I don't know about the album though because I hardly listen to it so which is kind of a bummer.

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because it's a really cool album cover. I'll get to it at some point this year. And my number one has fire. It's got trees. It's got bloody guts just melted with cheese. Dude just mauled without even being touched by a bear. That's chopping malls. Mauled by a magical bear with scalding hot liquid cheese spraying from its eye sockets. Every time I look at that,

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I see something new in that image. I noticed, like, did he actually get mauled? Because there's some claw marks in the guy. So maybe the bear attacked him at some point and then sprayed him with liquid cheese. I don't know. So you say that, Mark Asana, as I was looking at it when Matt was talking about it, I'm like, hey, is that like a little green-blue dude kind of like alien guy in the bottom? Oh, that's the flashlight. Shit. Literally picked up on something new. So I don't know this artist, like Matt said, Timbo, Keanu,

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or whatever,

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AKA bull metal art.

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Yes.

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I've actually talked to him.

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Yeah.

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Because I,

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I got him as a recommendation from Keith and I was talking to him about doing

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art for us and he,

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we were back and forth and then it didn't work out.

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Maybe something to do in the future.

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So yeah.

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And so then when,

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when Keith was like,

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Hey man,

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I'm totally getting this artwork done by that guy.

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And when I saw it, I was like, oh man, we fucked up. We gotta get something from this guy. By we, I mean me. You guys didn't do anything. It's all on me. But so that may yet happen. We may talk to you. Yeah, it's not too late, George. Sweet. I want to just add one thing to mine I forgot. I'm sorry. The artist for the Testament album cover is Ilron Cantor is the name. Nice. Who's done a bunch of their stuff in the past too, so. All right, Will.

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Yeah, who is?

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Was that?

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That was Evelyn.

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Yeah, that was Evelyn.

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So, let me see.

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My number five is, hold on, Chemist, Doomed Heavy Metal.

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The artist is Cameron Hinojosa.

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Hinojosa?

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Cameron Hinojosa?

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If it's Spanish, or Hinojasa, or Hinojasa, something like that. But when I was doing my research for artists for the album cover, I realized that Chemist had an entire YouTube video just about this album art. I'm like, thank you. Thank you so much. And if you look at the album cover, there's two distinct, because it's doomed heavy metal. And when they talk about this, kind of like, I guess it's

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EP or covers or kind of something, you know, they do the rainbow in the dark and the, uh, Oh, death and the three live songs. Um, they talk about that. They wanted some of the heavy metal stuff and then some of the doom stuff. And so the album cover is you look at the right side. It's definitely like the, I guess it's the heavy metal portion with the Reaper and it's all like blacks and dark grays. And then the left side is a woman who has a scythe in her hand.

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Not a Sith, apparently. Scythe? We're not getting into that again. She's got the curved sharp blade in her hand used to cut down wheat. A sickle. Yeah, I guess so. Scythe is good. I like it. So that is my number five. My number four is Mammon's Throne Fjord Unto Flame by Apocalyptic Nuke.

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which there's an Instagram. I guess this is like the nickname of the guy or something. But a lot of his stuff is very similar. So this is kind of close to the Temple of Void cover. So you got like the what's the guy I mean, when we did the Temple of Void interview, I knew all about this stuff. But it's the reaper, the guy with the pole and the boat crossing the river.

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Oh, going across Hades. Charon? Yep. Yeah, yeah. So he's got that guy. That's not Charon, by the way. It's not K-A-R-E-N. It's hard C-H. Charon. But there's a distinct name of the river and everything. Sticks. That's right, the river Sticks. And then, so anyway, but he's got a volcano in the background. It's gushing out orange lava, and then the sky is blue with a black lightning bolt. And it's just really cool. And you can tell,

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The Guy uses, I think in Matt, tell me if I'm wrong, but I think it's called an ape in graphic design where you kind of throw something over top of it. A mask? Yeah, like a mask, but he uses a lot of that stuff. So he uses like real photos, I think, and then kind of interplaced. Anyway, it's really cool. And a lot of his artwork is the same thing. Composite. Yeah. And my number three following up on that is Temple of Void, The World That Was. John's number three as well.

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And James' as well. He's got his bases covered. Yeah. What I do like about this album cover, and I mentioned on that other episode when we had Temple of Void on, is that this is the album cover is basically the, I think it's the third or fourth song, a fourth song on the album, which is Leave the Light Behind, which is about crossing the river sticks and the whole thing. And then,

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My number two, Barishi, Old Smoke, by a guy named Buka Sokolinski. I can read, but not Polish. He's from Warsaw. It's just a really cool album cover. Barishi is from Vermont, so they got this nine-eyed moose coming out of the world.

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out of a tree, like a tree that's split. And it's like, there's smoke coming out of the tree. And there's a nine eyed blue moose coming out of the tree with like smoke. And there's a fire at the bottom with like, sure. That's not like a local syrup company ad. Should be a metal band. Anyway, it's, it's, it's really cool. And I just got this, uh, I got the record in the mail today. And one of the reasons why I needed to order another record is I need the record.

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So I had that same problem. Also stoner metal, yeah. Yeah. Can't wait. And then my number one, I'm kind of surprised no one's mentioned this, but maybe no one really knows this, but it's Lachelle's Shroud, Other Cosmic. Oh, Lakai's Shroud, yeah. Lakai, okay, yeah. Other Cosmic Divinations 1. And I literally could not find the artist for this.

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I can't give you too much shit George but

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it literally looks to me

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like this was Star Wars

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the New Hope episode 4 concept art

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with Luke Skywalker on

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Tatooine looking out

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at like this giant

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sun planet

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in the background and you have like these

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moisture evaporators but they're like

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skyscraper moisture evaporators

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it's just

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it's like all these oranges and

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reds and some

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The Hints of Blue and Green. It's actually just striking to me. As soon as I saw it. Yeah. As soon as I saw it, I was like, this is my number one by far. I know the cover artist. Oh, you do? The artist. Yeah. Because this one's on my honorable mentions. How did you find it? I'm really good. Google machine? Just so good. Tithy Luad Thong. Okay. I can send you the spelling if you want to. I completely missed. I read that.

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I was like wow you know that guy

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yeah that's that's what I thought too dude I was

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like oh it must be like an you know a

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comic thing

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I don't well I mean I can't tell from

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the name if it's a man or a woman so I'm

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not really sure

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all right so now we are on to Jay

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Jay that's me okay so I didn't write down

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artists so you know well get with it man

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Dude, you had all this time. I went and looked all mine up now, so now you're the asshole. Necrovault Tottenstag was also my number five. Interesting that Matt shows that. I thought it was very cool. Matt described it as good as it needs to be described, except to say that those people are definitely dead in that picture. Number four is Ulthar Providence. I just love all the mishmash that's going into that. Even just looking at it right now,

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It's just something Lovecraftian about it. Everything's melting together. It seems to be this sort of like tree natural scene, but it's full of all kinds of vivid rotting corpses and whatnot being sucked into this thing. Number three was, and I'll never pronounce this right, S. S. Grochilla Hum, Eternity of Show, which is an album Matt turned me on to, and it's such a weird, blocky, almost crappy picture that,

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But I'm kind of like really intrigued with it. And I can't figure out if it's supposed to be a demon or an alien or whatever. But I like it. There's something about it. If you guys know the cover, I can't explain it too well. A record I wanted to like but didn't like, but I thought it had a pretty great classic cover was Butcher. 666 goats carry my chariot. That's about as old school as it gets right there. Dude riding on a chariot. He's not actually being pulled by 666 goats, but they seem to be going around him in a sort of maelstrom.

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That's more like the horsepower of the engine as opposed to the actual number. There you go. The artist for that is Chris Verwimp. Thank you. Whoa, hard P there. Nicely done. I know, that was awesome. I didn't know I could do that. Had some pop on it. And then lastly. And he's got a pop screen too, so. Yeah. Last is a photograph for another record I didn't really much care about, but it's a photograph, not a painting, but it's one of those ones that should be the cover of a novel because there's just this great story.

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here and it's the catatonia city burials this sort of king this old uh kingly type figure with a very mysterious possibly ice laden crown or something like that i can't even tell what it is and his eyes are just completely in black shadows uh that's that's the special edition cover right jay oh is it it may well be sir yeah because then there's there's um it's almost like a wraith in a red robe on the regular edition let's look that up so the one we got the special edition has a completely different cover

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I did. Gotcha. Okay. Uh, but a cover I left and, um, and there you go. So those are the ones I, I, nothing really, there was no like bell witches this year, you know, like a mirror, whatever that is, that one, which blew us all the way, but we'll see what happens before the year. Mirror Reaper. Mirror Reaper. Thank you. All right. So I had to do a little reshuffling of my list here real quick based on certain things that were said. Um, so I, I'm going to just start with an

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Mentioned by former number five.

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And that is Svart Crown Wolves Among the Ashes.

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This is an interesting cover.

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It's like a Borg cube that's like covered in skeletons and like dead things having some sort of orgy on the outside of this Borg cube as it levitates in the clouds over some sort of landscape.

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And it was your background for a few minutes and were you like, oh, whoops, I should have done that.

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Yeah, I did go and download all the covers real quick. And where'd it go? Yeah, it's gone now. But I have the others, or some of the others. All right, so my number five then, if I am correct, yes. So my number five now is, you can't see it, but the band is called Antipope,

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called Apostle of Infinite Joy. And to continue the semi-nude firebush

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theme, it's like Kali, maybe. There's this long, red-haired, mostly naked woman with six arms,

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and in one hand she's holding a fiery staff, and in another there's a knife, and in one there's a bleeding heart, and the one I can't quite make out what it is.

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And she's standing on a pile of bodies. And it's just, it's very colorful. It's very striking. There you go. Number four. Firelink. Their self-titled album. It looks like there's some sort of witch standing within the flaming lava-filled remains of this large tree with roots and like, I don't know.

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like rock and more lava in the background and stuff. And it's just very, I thought it was pretty cool. It's great. I love that one. Uh, so number three, of course is butcher six, six, six goats carry my chariot. I mean, it doesn't get any more eighties metal than that. I mean, you can't go wrong with a goat native. Yeah, exactly. Goat native. This should have been a bath recovery cover. I mean, come on. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. It would have been a perfect bath recovery.

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Good point. Venom. Yeah. Venom too. My number two. You know, I looked up all these names and I didn't even fucking say them. Damn it. Oh, well, anyway. Number two. Temple of Void. The World That Was. How can you not love this one? I think this would obviously be the podcast favorite based on everybody's choices. Did anyone not have that one on their list?

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The first J-word. Oh, man. James had it five times, so it makes up for you. I was just saying, I didn't do it. Oh, this votes well for the rest of the episode. Oh, boy. Great start. Living up to the moniker and the award. I can't wait till you say Slipknot is your number one. And rocketing straight up my list to number one because I forgot all about it. Chopping Mall and

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Malded by a magical bear with scalding hot liquid cheese spraying from its eye sockets. How could you just it's by far the craziest most insane album cover of the year so far. I say so far. So there we go. Awesome. Before we get into the next five list why don't we talk about I mean we could do shirt check if you want I don't know but definitely what we're drinking. Wait what's the next five list?

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The EP's issue. Are we going to just rattle them off? I kind of like this rattle off thing. Yeah, yeah. I figured we'd do that as well. All right. Well, I'm not drinking because it's early here and I haven't eaten supper, so I'm going to use the restroom. All right. Well, James, what are you wearing? What are you drinking? I haven't seen you drink anything yet. So you drink the slushy beer. Actually, he's looking kind of locked up. He's frozen. Oh, no. Oh. Into the unknown.

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I just want to know how long he's been like that it just happened I think well I sent you a link to that the artist from Lakia's shroud so you could check out our work cool thank you sir feels a little bit like weekend at Bernie's yeah I just want to nudge him I did some serious googling of this you know trying to find

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All I had to go with is the album and then, you know, cover artists, cover art, album art, and I could not find anything anywhere. So. Yeah, I'm pretty relentless for that stuff. So because it actually is a cover for a book as well, I believe. And I think that's how this guy stuff I'm looking at now. This guy stuff is really cool. Yeah. Oh, there's this one where it's like, it's like somebody floating in a kayak. And then they're going toward like, instead of a waterfall, it's like a giant pinwheel.

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of a vortex to another dimension or something. Really? Yeah, the website's good. This guy does a lot of ask. In case you wanted to get a print or another poster, like we were talking about. Yeah. I really liked that cover. It was on my list for a while and then just got bumped. And if I did a top 10, it would be on there, though, for sure. Marcus, and I knew that you were relentless, but would you also describe yourself as repentless? Yes, I would, actually. Good. Thank you. I knew that, too, but I just wanted to

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especially because it makes me think of Slayer.

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Oh, James still frozen. James, I don't know if he could hear us, but I might have to restart that, buddy.

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Yeah, I'm trying to see if... I love his pose, though.

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Of all the frozen screens I've seen in the last three months, that's the most chill.

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James, lead back.

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It's relaxed and condescending at the same time.

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With my mind on the metal and the metal on my mind. Everything will be just fine. Don't worry about it. Kind of looks like he's getting a blowjob. Sorry, were we supposed to take a break or something? I forgot. Jay left and we're trying to get James back here. He's been hung up. And I just tried calling him, but I went to voicemail.

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So I don't know if maybe Cleveland got nuked. It's turning into that movie unfriended. Yeah. I swear he's been sitting like that for like half an hour. I think it was pretty recent, George, because I saw him moving around. You know, because he's like, fuck this. You guys talk too much. This is my way out. Well, he's hardwired because we did a test.

00:52:17.200 --> 00:52:47.000
Top 5 Metal Album Covers. Maybe he's like, shit, I didn't do any EPs. And that's actually just his virtual background. He took a picture of himself. He's like, I'm going to go research some EPs real quick. It'd be hilarious if you could hear us. We did a test earlier to make sure everything worked. I can't hear you, John. I'm on. I'm kind of hoping he just moves out of nowhere and just starts talking. He's gone now. Maybe he's pulling a wheel and he fell asleep. Maybe he's pulling a wheel.

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Probably had to go out and buy some more rolling rock. Yeah, you know, it's funny right when Jay walked in he looks a lot like Mike from Toons. Yeah, that's typical. Why would you why would you buy rolling rock when you could just take the empty bottle and go to the kitchen sink? Fair point, John. There he is. He looks intense. He does. He looks he looks confused like he's looking like what is this computer?

00:53:17.220 --> 00:53:47.140
Is this a camera? And we can't hear you. You're muted, Jim. There we go. There he is. Oh, man. I wish you would have changed your shirt. I thought about running and grabbing beers, but I was... You got a lot of time, man. Don't worry. If you didn't prepare, you've got hours. It's important. So... We haven't even gotten to the albums yet. You could probably go to the store and come back and we'd be two picks in. Yeah. No problem.

00:53:47.800 --> 00:54:17.100
So I don't know what the last thing you heard was. I heard you introing Chopping Mall for album art. Okay. So that was, I lost as soon as it had switched to the, your background to the Chopping Mall art. Okay. I will pick up from there. Did we, I'm noticing one, oh, wait a minute. Hold on. I have everybody here. Am I just don't know what I'm doing? Yeah. There's an arrow. Yeah. Sometimes the person who, the person who talks,

00:54:17.200 --> 00:54:47.160
The least or the last gets pushed out of the screen eventually. All right. So I was thinking now we would do what are you wearing and what are you drinking? So what are you wearing, James? Shirt wise. Got some pig destroyer here. And what are you drinking? I just finished a, let's see, we got this working class brewery, which is a Cleveland brewery. I ran around to a few different shops around here trying to find

00:54:47.180 --> 00:55:16.720
some interesting stuff. And I kept walking past all these Ohio beers, trying to find, I don't know, some interesting things that have been, you know, things that you look for, you get excited about. And I felt like I just kept walking past the obvious choices. So after a while, I was like, you know what, I give up after the third shop. And I went and grabbed some different ones. I had moved out of Cleveland a few years ago. And when I left, you pretty much had, for the most part, two breweries to choose from in terms of what would be around in different places. You had Great Lakes.

00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:46.660
They've got some good stuff. Yeah, they do. They have a lot of great beers. And then there was another company called Thirsty Dog that was in the greater area. But it was kind of hard to find too many different beers. And then now that I'm back here, you know, for this stay, all of a sudden there's tons of different Cleveland breweries. They just blew up out of the woodwinds. You should try some fatheads. Yeah, that's one of the ones that I've been hearing lots of good stuff about.

00:55:46.720 --> 00:56:16.660
and they didn't really package or at least distribute too much. But now I know that you can get in a little more place. I picked a couple of those up and they were good. Yeah, they're you can get them in Cleveland. I mean, they're from just outside Cleveland, the original brewery. So they make some great IPAs. Headhunter. Before you even identified the location of that brewery, you said working class. And I was like, oh, Cleveland. Well, yeah, it just sounded very Cleveland. The I guess this will go.

00:56:16.740 --> 00:56:46.640
with our recent album art discussion. But it's kind of a cool can too. It's got this skeleton guy riding on a motorcycle through the middle of the town. And it's kind of cool art. It probably doesn't come across too well. It does come across. It's very cool. It's something that catches the eye a little bit more than your standard Coors can. There's a lot of cans like that now. When I go into my beer store, I'm like, it's like rainbow color overload of all the different craft beer cans. I'm like, I can't.

00:56:46.740 --> 00:57:16.480
Yeah. James, would you say the taste was similar to Rolling Rock? Here, hold on. I got one of those. Here, I'll check. Oh, yeah. Not quite as skunky. All right. Markisan. Shirt drinking. Yeah, I got an incantation shirt. Oh, I like that one. Ibex Moon. And I'm drinking Remi Horn because I always start with mead.

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And drinking the thunder oak.

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It won't show up.

00:57:21.060 --> 00:57:21.380
Oh!

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We have a man down.

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I said it again.

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We have a man down.

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That was beautiful, dude.

00:57:29.640 --> 00:57:32.000
The sound that made on the way down was glorious.

00:57:32.160 --> 00:57:33.680
That is the sound of thunder oak.

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And the look on his face.

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Oh, my God.

00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:39.400
That was so good.

00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:40.260
He's already drunk.

00:57:40.350 --> 00:57:41.520
It's like clanking sounds.

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Do we want to wait for Marcus to get his next drink now that he lost the other one?

00:57:47.819 --> 00:58:15.580
No, that wasn't the drink. That was actually my mouse. Oh, okay. I was gonna say, wow. When I drink, I put all of my stuff on a separate place, like a separate surface away from me. I wish I could do that. Oh, yeah, definitely. No, I do the same thing. I set my setup here exactly the same way with that exact thought in my mind. I was like, you know, I'm gonna put the beers over here and everything else over here. I'm a quarter Italian, so I'm always using my hands and I hit the cord and then the mouse.

00:58:15.640 --> 00:58:45.140
I gotta find the battery but you know the only the only way that cascade of sounds could have been better is if it ended with a cat going rawr. Cat's locked out unfortunately. Party foul yes. All right Matt in honor of getting the trypticon live at Roadburn I'm wearing my trypticon shirt from Bespo Fest. Well show it off sweetheart.

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I like how I just noticed that I'm like, I'm going like, I'm reaching up to see if I can actually see it. Nice. I love that. I think I might do the podcast just like this. That's a much better view than my face. A view of your crotch will make George very happy.

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I think of that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where the guy drinks out of the wrong grail. I'm about halfway through the process where he's dying. My face looks like. I'm also drinking a Three Floyds Robert the Bruce. It is a scotch ale. I love scotch ales. It's such an underappreciated style. I like McEwins. Anyway.

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All right, my shirt, print to order. Opeth, still life. Yes. Noise. Can't see because my monitor is, or my camera's at the bottom of my laptop, not at the top, so it's hard to see. Artist is Travis Smith. We mentioned him earlier. And what I'm drinking, bear with me. It's called 1-800-double-double-extra-extra-fruity-fruity-biggy-biggy-juicy-juicy triple IPA from Who Farted?

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Wow.

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I've got a hoof hearted on deck.

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It's got this awesome.

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Like.

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Dude who looks like he's a dad.

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And you'll know what I mean when I show you guys,

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but what do you guys call the standup?

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Are they baritone saxes?

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The ones that,

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that literally are as big as a human being.

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Baritone.

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There you go.

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That's like Matt trying to handle.

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Well,

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It's like any of us trying to handle Will. So us. It's like Will trying to handle himself. There is no try. What is it? What's the yodel? Do or do not. I am wearing my Lago t-shirt death metal band out of Arizona. Yeah, I have that shirt. That's right. Yeah, I remember at the

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I think you messaged somebody in the band. Yeah, I can text Cole Jacobson, who I guess is the leader of the band. And we met up through like Twitter or something, I don't know, like something, but he was a Marine, I was a Marine. And then we started chatting and, and then he's like, I'm like, man, this band is awesome. I mean, I really, I can't wait till they put out something new. And then to start the podcast off, I eased into it with an Atlas Ponzi, our,

01:01:43.780 --> 01:01:45.320
Flagship IPA.

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And then now, compliments of The Looch.

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Because we are not doing this together.

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And I was planning on sharing these with at least, well, maybe not James, but James.

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Had you not been in Cleveland.

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Yeah, not been in Cleveland.

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But I'm drinking the Surly 8th anniversary beer, which is a oat wine style aged in whiskey barrels. I bet Matt's had that one. I'm about to take my first sip. I'll let you know if I come. Jesus. It's a whiteout. We're all waiting in suspense. That's his old face.

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Picture Peter North. Should have wore pants. Arking ropes. No, when you sent that picture, I was going to say, I don't remember any Surly anniversary beer except for I had Surly one that had been aged for 10 years. It was on their 10 year anniversary. My wife and I went to this dinner and had it. Holy shit. It was amazing. Sweet. Well, I'm just getting ready to eat supper here pretty soon. Probably that door is going to open. My very nice wife who's taking care of me is going to take care of me.

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So no beer going on here. And we're wearing the carcass shirt today. It's a great one. Yeah. I ordered a bunch of carcass shirts for some reason. I was just like, you know, I don't have enough carcass shirts. So now I got like five. I know what I got in the mail today. Aside from my Barishi vinyl album is I got my Temple of Void hat and I got the Temple of Void the world that was long sleeve t-shirt that they were having. I got the pictures of all off five, five, five guys on the back.

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Yeah.

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The hamburger place.

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Perfect for summer.

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Yeah, I know.

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It was like, do I really need a black long sleeve shirt in June?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes, I do.

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Because this one is epically awesome.

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You know, I just finally figured out what to do with my two mold shirt that you got me that's like tan.

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Because Will picked me up some two mold merch when I couldn't make the show.

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And he got me this tan two mold shirt.

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I'm like, I don't, I don't, I don't. That's the only one that's in like. I know. In Super Fat Guy. I know. Yeah. And I was like, what am I going to do with this? I figured out today. It's a beach shirt. It's light in color. I can wear it to the beach. If the beach ever opens. I'm going to the beach tomorrow. What was the name of that band again? Which band? The shirt. Oh, Tomb Mold. Oh, man. I've been waiting for years to hear someone say Tomb Mold. No, I'm on my iPod.

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Oh, man.

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You let it down.

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Well, I'll handle it for you.

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It's too bold.

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Too bold.

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Yes!

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I want it.

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I've been waiting years.

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Not years, but a long time.

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It's too bad they don't have a release for us to put up this year because you'd hear about 10 more times.

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That's a shame.

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Always a good time.

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There's the stand-in tumult that I'm sure that people will be mentioning.

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You know, I was, as I was going through my list today, and there's a lot of bands out there that I don't know if they sound like Tumult or Tumult sounds like someone else, but there's a lot of bands that have that Tumult sound, and I'm trying to figure out who originated that sort of. Dirty, dirty, dirty death. It's tough. Tumult just does it the best. I know. That's right. Yeah, so as far as the origin, who knows, but I agree with you. It sort of feels like, if you listen close enough, that they took over the world and everybody's copying them. I agree with you, Will.

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There's a lot of Tumult style bands now. But the thing about Tumult is it's the drummer that's kicking up the Vokes. And I mean, I think that's... Max, yeah. Just like Phil Collins, man. They also just have better riffs. Planetary Clairvorents are number one album from last year. I know. And I'm still a little upset because I tried like hell to get those guys come on the podcast and it took them forever to get back to me. And I know those guys because they play Atlas like all the fucking time. And they're the nicest human beings in the world.

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I didn't get them to come on the podcast.

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Is it just a scheduling thing?

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Or what?

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It was just like barely responsive.

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No, their moms wouldn't let them do it.

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Cause they're all like 12.

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It was like a school night.

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I know.

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Yeah.

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I have almost the next best thing.

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Well, cause I've been talking to the artist.

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Cause I bought one of his, his paintings, Jesse Jacoby.

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And so he, I asked him if you might be interested in coming on the cast.

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So he said he would.

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Oh, that's cool.

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Get a mom.

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We can talk about the art.

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And I'd be really cool.

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And we can be like, Hey, what's Tumult like?

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Which, by the way, that wasn't as an insult. Those guys are really young. Their guitar player especially is like, he's a very young guitar. Yeah, I think Derek is his name. He does look especially young. Like Payson and the other Macs and the other guys, they're probably in their 20s. Compared to us, they're young. Good boys. James, I assume you like that band. Oh, no. I don't listen to that. No, I was just going to ask if I can mail in a

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If you do have the artists who were just talking about on the show. I thought you were going to mail in a question to us right now. Yes. Can I do that too? Of course. It's funny, James. Yes, you can. Because that's how I kind of started on this podcast is that George would send out on Twitter. Anybody got questions for X-Band and I would respond on Twitter, ask them this. And that's how I started on this whole chaotic journey. Yeah. Everybody, everybody's here, Scott.

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I'm raising my hand for the mail and that's me. That's what I want to do. Yeah. From Cleveland. What's your question? Well, I mean, if we have him on James, I'll send you a message and you can send whatever questions you want. Yeah. Also, I thought you were doing the team America. No, we've been doing this section so long. I actually opened another beer. I still have

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I haven't even done mine yet. Hey, George, you're going to have to come back around. That's just going to be the rest of the podcast is looping through what everybody's drinking. So for the next four hours, I'm wearing my Valken 2017 shirt that finally fits. And I started with some Viking blood mead, just a glass of that before moving on to a 2019 Bourbon County bourbon barrel aged stout.

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That's what I am currently imbibing. And more to come. I have a variety. I didn't know you liked Budweiser. That's cruel. I mean, okay, it's Goose Island officially. It's Goose Island, right? But I mean, is that a sub-genre or sub-title? I mean, is it just called Bourbon County? Is there a little sub-rater there? It says Goose Island Bourbon, the original county brand stout. Stout aged in bourbon barrels. Yeah, so I think... Period. Stop. Yeah, so...

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Goose Island is obviously based out of Chicago. And when I went to brewing school, their original brew pub was literally right across the street from the brewing school. I've been there. Probably. Yeah. And I don't remember you from brewing school. No, no, not brewing school. I've been to the Goose Island in Chicago. So anyway, this is what happens when you sell out the Budweiser is that Budweiser tells you all the stuff like, no, no, no, you don't have to change the thing. You don't have to change the thing. And then, you know, and I don't fault anybody. I mean, no one's ever come to me and go like,

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here's $20 million if I can buy something from you. I would probably say yes. You mean like Ballast Will when they got offered a billion dollars? Right. Yeah, exactly. It's like, you know. Anyway, the point being is that so what they said is like you can still keep your Fulton Street Brewery in Chicago and still brew there and then nothing will change, nothing will change. And then eventually all the flagships started getting like the Goose, the IPA and the 312 or 321.

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They're all brewed now at Budweiser factories, but I don't know if they're still the Fulton Street factory, but if there is, I bet that's where they're making like their sours and stuff. Yeah. I thought they were doing just the barrel age stuff at one place. Yeah. It's probably the Fulton Street breweries. It is. Cause I lived in Chicago for 20 years. So yeah, you can still get really great beers from that. No. Yeah. They, I mean, they still do. Obviously they make great stuff. There's a reason why Budweiser bottle. Yeah. And there's just a lot of limit. If you go to the brewery,

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get a lot of limited edition beers that you don't hear about from Budweiser or anything like that. You know what you're still operating as a craft brewer even though. You know what you can't get for them anymore? Per Jacques. Yeah. Fuckers killed that one and it pissed me off. So they which one was that? Per Jacques. It was their double. Belgian double they had. You know. They had a series of them that was like like Sophie. Yes. The Sophie and something else. Was that in the series? Matilda.

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It's all part of that series. Yeah. So I had the Sophie and the Matilda and I thought both of those were quite good. I remember enjoying those. They are good. Yeah. Well, speaking of the selling things for $20 million though, like you say, nobody's ever, if I, like if I was George Lucas and I own Star Wars and I sold it for a billion dollars, I'd be like, do whatever you want. Kill Luke. I don't care if I can go crazy. Well, they did. I'm just going to go with my life now. Cut his other hand off. Who fucking cares? Yeah. Yeah. And they're all gay. Every last character is gay. It's totally fine. But you know, he gave away.

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like all of it.

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Well, I thought it was a billion.

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He got paid big time.

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He did, but he gave away most of it.

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Oh, the money.

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Yeah.

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He like donated most of it.

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I mean, he already had a shit ton.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How much did he sell for?

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Was it a billion dollars?

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I think it was like four.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I think it is harder than.

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And they've got it all back.

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Yeah.

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So I just wanted to point out that we are an hour and 19 minutes in and we haven't

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even hit our EPs list yet.

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Let's do it.

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Let's roll.

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Let's roll.

01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:29.600
But before we do that, I want to ask what beer John's drinking. Oh, well, let's do ours. Round and round we go. Have you done yours? You're done, George? Yeah, I'm done. All right. So my next beer I'm drinking Telstar seven. It's another double IPA from Charlestown Firmatory from South Carolina. They make some outstanding beers. Wow. Awesome. And I'm on the Eclipse barrel aged imperial south of Manhattan. Cherry rye. And it's fucking awesome. I love this stuff.

01:12:30.200 --> 01:12:59.540
So good. And they're from Tahoe, which is even better. I thought it would be more cherry. The cherry is not forward, which is good for me because I like a more traditional stout style. But if you put a little bit of extra, I don't want it to be too sweet. I don't want it to be too berry. This is. They've only got like 30 different versions of it. It's so good. Yeah. They're all, all those are good. What you got there, Matt? I too. Open one. It's a surf wax India pale ale from burial or burial, or we like to say it.

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Burrell.

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I'm a big fan of that brewery.

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Yeah.

01:13:03.710 --> 01:13:04.060
Good stuff.

01:13:04.140 --> 01:13:05.680
They do come to Decibel every year, don't they?

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And I'll say this real quick.

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I've been to the brewery several times in Asheville.

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And every time I mentioned that they've been at Decibel, when I'm sitting there ordering my beers, they were like, huh?

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Never heard of it.

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And I'm like, another brewery proves our point.

01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:25.080
All right, Josh, now you may move on.

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So real quick though, for anybody that's been to Goose Island, if I go to the brewery, can I get Bud Light Lime? No, the lime's a little too racy. Nice try though. Yeah, I think James might be able to hook you up with that. So it was mentioned, and I didn't want to forget about it, but it was mentioned about people wanting to show off their masks, pandemic masks. Did anybody bother to bring theirs along to do that? No, mine's downstairs. It's downstairs. I'm wearing the incantation mask that I wear.

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All right. Well, then I have to at least point this out because I would be the winner of the lamest mask. Oh, no, no, no. I have a Thomas the Train mask. No, no, no, no. This is the lamest. He's got a rolling rock mask. No, even lamest. So I normally wear a mask made for me by my work friend, Lauren. She made us masks early on. Very awesome. It's just a nice black. You've seen it.

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But in hoping to get something for this episode, because it was mentioned, I ordered a Metalheads podcast mask. Oh. Well, that's not lame at all. From Etsy. Etsy. Etsy. Oh, nice. No, no. If you could see it, you would see that this is either a sticker or an iron-on. Oh. Yeah. And when you sweat on it, it melts and runs.

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So this is the absolute

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worst mask ever.

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That seems somehow appropriate.

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Run away!

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There you go.

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There you go.

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Oh, it is a sticker.

01:15:03.420 --> 01:15:04.400
It's a fucking ucker on.

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Oh my god.

01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:07.020
And I'm going to try and peel it off

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and just use the mask,

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but I wanted to...

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So George, wait,

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you have a black mask

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and you're saying it's lame?

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That's a spinal tap mask.

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Oh, look, there it comes.

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Here it comes.

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And I just want to know

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why you didn't order one

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for the rest of us.

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Everyone ever gets that joke, by the way. Listen, listen. George, I don't mean to embarrass you, but that's actually a thong, my friend. This is the sound of me pulling it off. And it is gone. What is it, Velcro? No, it's literally a stick on. Now I have another black mask. So, fucking lame.

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Follow them on Instagram or whatever.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So now,

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now let's get into our less than album length albums list.

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James,

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did you do this one?

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Yeah,

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but I dropped the ball and left my notebook upstairs.

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I got to get a beer anyway,

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so I'll be back in just a second.

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All right.

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Until then,

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we shall vamp.

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Hi guys.

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So what do you think of James so far?

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Huh?

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Let's talk about him while he's gone.

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Wow.

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Markisan just disappeared into flaming lava. That is the coolest thing I ever saw. For people listening, he's got a background up, as previously mentioned. And when you get far enough away from the camera, you disappear. And it looked like he was walking into the flaming lava cliff face crack thing. The field of dreams was in hell. Yes, exactly.

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That makes total sense. You're listening to the Metalheads podcast. They're too sexy for this podcast. Too sexy for this podcast. Too sexy by far. Do I really have to say this? I love beer. So James. I love a gross schvanz. I love beer. What about a gross schlong? I love a gross schvanz. Oh, you want the schvanz? I have no idea what you said. I feel like I came in at a weird time here.

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Yes. Let's just go ahead and get to James and his top five. Let's do this. Are we doing like a five in a row? It's better if you can mash them into one big long title. Yeah. But that might take longer than Jake's. It's hard to do. We have to stay on long enough so you can drink. I guarantee you Jay does not have a single beer during this whole thing. That all starts when I get on the Xbox.

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I get better the drunker I get when I'm playing. It's really something to see. Yeah. Oh, get it on Twitch. Okay. All right, James, do it. Good. First EP, come to grief, pray for the end. This is your number five, of course. Yes, that is number five. Okay. Come to grief. No, nothing. All right. I know it. I might be saying this one wrong. Sorge. Sorge.

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DC band. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just picked that up. Yeah. It's like doom stuff, right? Yeah. It's like kind of psychedelic. Yeah. Yeah. Stoner doom. It's, I don't know. I like that kind of stuff. Um, and an EP is the ideal length for that kind of thing. I get lost when it's like an 80 minute record of that. Um, and then, uh, the next three, two and one are all clutch. Um, you think I'm kidding, but I'm not.

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They did three EPs this year? They did singles. And I was told there's no rules. So we're going with each of these singles as a different entry in here. Nice. So we had Smoke Banshee was the first one. And then Willie Nelson and the last was Space Grasp. Because they're amazing. Wow. So it's the Weathermaker Vault series. And they did re-recordings of each of

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of these individual tracks. And the different versions of them are phenomenal. They did a couple of them last year, too, with Electric Worry. And I can't remember the other one, but they're just awesome. Where did you get it? So they originally, I think the plan with them was they put them on digital distribution to see how they would do, because they were saying that they were trying some different things. So you can get them on any of the streaming platforms. But I was able to find this website.

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I think it's called Cobuz. Does anyone use that? It offers, you can pay like a couple of bucks a track to get a high quality download on stuff. So I was able to get, you can get like flack files of those individual clutch songs and I can't find them released in any other downloadable. How do you spell that? I think it's Q O B U Z. Oh yeah, I know them. And I've used, I had never used them before and I,

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I really wanted these songs and I didn't want to have to stream them every time. So I went and coughed up the two or three dollars or whatever it was to get them in high quality formats. So you're a flak man. I use an ALAC file right now because I'm still on an old school iPod classic and it won't play the flak files. So similar. Close enough. There's a lack in it. Yes, there's a lack in it. It's the same.

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Fair enough. Will is like, nobody made fun of him. What's going on? He said clutch three times. Three. Three picks. Three of them. I thought I was clutch talking earlier. It's a new era, man. No, no, no. He's the guest in our house. If Will says clutch, all the gloves are coming off. Yeah. I just do want to reiterate that's all the clutch haters. It's three in a row. Three, two, and one. Anyone? Anyone? Come on. Anyone? Anyone?

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Is Clutch your favorite band, James? I use a music service called Last FM. It tracks all you play and you can go through and look at your charts and stuff. Yeah, Clutch is my number one played artist. I'm very proud of that. Here we thought you were a metal fan. I don't know. I like that they have that one of their songs was Willie Nelson and one is Spacecraft. That should have been the A-side and the B-side for sure. Yeah.

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Space Grass Mother Mother.

01:21:54.120 --> 01:21:55.160
I love that song.

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Nice monster magnet pull.

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That was a good monster magnet pull.

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All right, Markisan.

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All right.

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Top five metal EP is for mid-year.

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Number five for me is Wretched Empire's Bloom.

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Self-released.

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It's a great little black metal EP with some folk thrown in from our friend Tom from Allfather and Friends.

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Number four is Spotlights. We are all atomic from Blues Funeral Recordings. A really moody mix of shoegaze and doom metal on this one. I feel like I've heard about this band, but I can't really remember any ever listening to them. Yeah, I've had them on my list twice. Oh, okay. And I like them too. I'm going to have to listen to more of their stuff because it's quite good. I actually like the first album the best of everything they've released. Okay, John. Yeah.

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They call it like Doomgaze, I guess, or whatever. Which kind of makes sense. I think you'll like it if you like the EP. I did, I really liked it. Cool. Number three is Throssenblot Insula, self-release. I'm not going to say that much about this because George will be gushing all over it pretty soon. He'll be gushing all over it as his number one because the whole reason we're not calling this thing's EPs is because George won

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to make sure a Thrasenblatt can be an album.

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That's why we're doing this.

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So it can be his number one.

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This is why we're doing it.

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Yeah.

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Spoiler alert.

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But this was all about Grindcore.

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It was not about anything else.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Right, yeah.

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Even I find that hard to believe.

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But seriously, this is my favorite Thrasenblatt release.

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It feels like the band really hit its groove on this EP for me.

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Oh, it's so good.

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Did you say EP?

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Sorry, did you say EP?

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I did either.

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Except on this release.

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We're going to do this all night.

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Number two for me is Uriel.

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In retrospect, self-released.

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This is a razor whip of vibrant progressive metal from the country of Estonia.

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I'm big in Estonia.

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It kind of sounds like a combination of Nevermore and System of a Doubt,

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but it still manages to be its own thing.

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I like the Nevermore part. Yeah. Don't know if I need that. Yeah. The System of the Down is bringing it down for me. This singer really sounds like System of the Down, but not quite as wild, I guess. This was my number one for a while. And then I discovered Fur DeLance, Colossus from Cruz del Sur Records. This is a heroic doom hammer of metal dripping with Celtic folk blood.

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If this release was like five minutes longer, it would be in my top 25. And this is a fun fact. So I had no idea what Ferdiland meant. I thought it was just some weird French flower nonsense. But I looked it up and I discovered that it's a highly venomous pit viper from South America. And the venom has an anticoagulant in it, causes hemorrhaging and kills tissue, turning it black. And apparently a single bite from the Ferdiland has the power to kill at least 32 people.

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So that's insane and also makes for a pretty badass band name. How do you spell that? I'm going to try and check that band out. F-E-R and then D-E and then Lance, L-A-N-C-E. Colossus is the name of the record. Cruz del Sur. It's fucking good. That label puts out a lot of great stuff. Yes. There you go. All right, Matt. All right, my number five, a band Colossus.

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My number four is Panopticon, Beast Rider. Number three is Throssenblot with Insula. Number two is... Number three. You're damn right. Number two, Serpent Column, Endless Detainment. And my number one is Tombs, Monarchy of Shadows. Wrong list, buddy. Wrong list. Oh, it's an EP, baby.

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You said we can do whatever we want. Yeah, you can do whatever you want, man. I don't care if I can put... This original discussion about EPs or albums was because of tunes. Yes. And then it was convenient when Thrasenblatt came out with an EP. I mean, a full album. No, there's no question that Thrasenblatt is an EP. It's four songs in 20 some odd minutes. It's no question. Deciding with Mike Hill, aka

01:26:46.060 --> 01:26:46.420
Jay Dickinson.

01:26:47.530 --> 01:26:47.620
Yes.

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Who is not present.

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All right,

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John.

01:26:53.320 --> 01:26:54.140
He's got to pee a lot.

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Cause you know,

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he's not getting beer real quick.

01:26:56.370 --> 01:26:57.860
I want to say that tombstone is cool too.

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Yeah.

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That's really good.

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Yeah.

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So I struggled hard to even come up with five,

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but oddly enough,

01:27:06.890 --> 01:27:07.380
my five,

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four and three are all clutch,

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clutch,

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clutch single songs.

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No,

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they're not.

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Sorry, they're not. John, for a second, would you call it the struggle with him? Oh, God. 11 more to go. Let's escape from this prison planet and get John's real top five. Yeah, so like I said, I really... Wait, hold on. Is the struggle within a Black Island song? Yes. Number 12. It is? Yes. Yeah. Number 12. So I really did struggle with five. 11 to go. So until we enter Sandman. Nice.

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So my number five is Canvas Doomed Heavy Metal because I needed an EP for my list. I forgot about that. And it's fine. I enjoy what it is for what it is. That's great. Yeah. I love it. My number four has five songs on it, but I dumped two of them off and made it a three-song EP. That's Eson's Telmark. Nice. Because sometimes I'm just not thinking. Is there kids singing or something? What happened? No, that's the Behemoth EP. No.

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It's just their cover songs. I'm not a huge cover

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song fan. Although

01:28:19.900 --> 01:28:21.460
we all agree that the

01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:23.780
cover of Dio on

01:28:23.780 --> 01:28:25.660
the Chemist album is great.

01:28:26.420 --> 01:28:27.740
Almost all of us agree about that.

01:28:27.860 --> 01:28:28.380
I'm just joking.

01:28:30.220 --> 01:28:31.720
I do actually like that cover.

01:28:31.980 --> 01:28:33.640
I'm just really picky about bands doing

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covers because a lot of times I think they either

01:28:36.420 --> 01:28:37.740
literally copied the cover

01:28:38.420 --> 01:28:39.720
exactly or their version

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sucks.

01:28:41.900 --> 01:28:43.700
This next band, we don't have to go at any

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discussion because it was quite vibrant last time and i needed a fucking ep and that's lore's edge of eternity and will by the way we saw lore when they played with pariahs at atlas and it was like three degrees at atlas do you remember that show oh yeah yes no i definitely remember when pariahs but now that you say lure i'm like oh yeah yes and they were i remember because we were hanging out with them a little bit and they were pretty cool so yeah yeah this is funny because i just heard the episode when you guys were debating this

01:29:13.680 --> 01:29:42.560
this morning. So hearing that. It was basically me and John. A resolution from just a few hours ago. Like, it's like, oh yeah, the thing we were talking about, this is the answer. Well, it's funny because it's like over 30 minutes, but I was like, wait a minute, I need another EP. Sorry, dude, you're going to the EP pile this week. So, number two. It's George's album, Thrust and Blot, Insula, whatever. It's not bad, it's alright.

01:29:45.120 --> 01:30:13.040
And then my number one is, I'm guessing nobody's heard this, it's called Svingali, Nightmares of Our Own Design. It's Alex Webster from the band Exist. It's his first solo release or his own release. If you know anything about Exist. Alex Webster from Cannibal Corpse. That's what I was going to say. Exactly what I thought. Different Alex Webster. And I may have his name wrong, I'm sorry I thought it was that, but he's the bassist from Exist. If you know anything about Exist.

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is also in Death to All. I think I have his last name wrong, but anyway, his first name is Alex the Bassist from the band. It's a very cool EP. I'm with you on the covers. I'm actually, but I am looking forward to the Inter Arma covers album. So far, the songs released are decent. I think that's because Inter Arma is just generally better than a lot of bands. So, you know, you can do it. Speaking of Inter Arma, James is here. He's the one that

01:30:43.120 --> 01:31:12.500
It caused Will to have Jay cut skin off of him. Really? We only talk about it every other episode. Hold on. I got to get his name right. Alex Weber. Like the grill. Let's talk about Alex Weber. Let's go back to that. Let's talk about Exist. Let's talk about Will's skin. What's funny is I had no idea I was even bleeding for hours.

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We were on the boat and I had this moment of clarity that we were recording a podcast. People talking about blood everywhere. I had no idea I was even bleeding. I was sitting on a white couch, by the way. We were in the cab and I was like, Will, you're bleeding all over the place. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was bleeding all over the place. I'd like to go back to the part about the boat because I've heard this story like two or three times and I never remember why there's a boat. Why? John BT. John Burkholder Travis rented an Airbnb

01:31:43.120 --> 01:31:45.000
B boat in the Philadelphia

01:31:45.380 --> 01:31:47.440
Marina right off Columbus Boulevard.

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And by the way, John B.C.

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has the number to this meeting. He might

01:31:51.320 --> 01:31:52.880
crash it for a few minutes later on.

01:31:53.200 --> 01:31:54.840
Oh, no. How terrible.

01:31:57.380 --> 01:31:58.580
I had no idea.

01:31:58.760 --> 01:31:59.920
I had no idea.

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But I mean, after the bloody couch night, did we not see John

01:32:03.060 --> 01:32:05.160
the next day? Yeah, we did.

01:32:06.120 --> 01:32:07.360
No, no, John had a hangover

01:32:07.360 --> 01:32:08.860
the next day. Well, yeah.

01:32:09.380 --> 01:32:09.860
Who didn't?

01:32:10.880 --> 01:32:38.340
No, but he had a bad hangover. He made it to the show late. Yeah. But he didn't leave the boat. He said he couldn't hold water down. Yeah, I remember that. That's bad. Will, the bleeding has stopped, right? Yeah, please. I think so, yeah. I don't know what I'm looking at there. I do good work. Is that Frank or Beans? I did circumcise him while we were doing that, too. You're welcome. I remember that.

01:32:41.220 --> 01:33:10.700
I have no idea where we are. No, but it's just funny since James is here that I had no idea. Like I was in a mosh pit. It was inner armor. We were, I was buying a lot of beer. You were much I was consuming, but I was buying a lot, but I was probably consuming a lot too. But, uh, I don't remember. I remember falling down, but you know, you always, when you're 47 years old and you're in a mosh pit, you're, you're expected to get hurt. But it was like a year later that James, like, who apparently has been avoiding,

01:33:10.880 --> 01:33:16.260
me because he felt so bad about he's the one who apparently knocked me down which i would have no recollection of

01:33:17.240 --> 01:33:20.400
and will where did he drop that to you again because i remember that night

01:33:21.840 --> 01:33:26.800
do you remember it must have been an adroit or something it was right yeah i was like i felt so bad i'm

01:33:26.820 --> 01:33:32.940
like what are you talking about dude i felt bad about that all of the time for months every time that

01:33:33.100 --> 01:33:36.880
like every time i think about inner armor full of hell played that night too every time i think of full of

01:33:37.000 --> 01:33:40.840
hell i'd like go to listen to the record and be like oh i still feel bad about oh

01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:42.520
It was the highlight of everybody else's.

01:33:42.620 --> 01:33:44.780
That's my favorite album ever.

01:33:45.180 --> 01:33:46.060
You're legendary.

01:33:48.060 --> 01:33:48.420
Great.

01:33:49.100 --> 01:33:54.160
We do have a picture of Jay, because I had this piece of skin just like literally hanging off my elbow.

01:33:54.800 --> 01:33:58.340
And the next day, I just whipped out my little bench made pocket knife.

01:33:58.380 --> 01:34:00.080
I'm like, Jay, cut this off.

01:34:00.580 --> 01:34:01.420
What do you mean next day?

01:34:01.560 --> 01:34:02.340
It was that night.

01:34:03.160 --> 01:34:04.260
That was the next morning.

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And I also point out that we did that in the lobby of the hotel.

01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:37.400
We were off to the side in the lobby. Wait, wait, wait. The next day, that second day, then I remember seeing Will and he had, you know, a bandage or a covering on his arm or something. And I was just like, oh, that was totally my fault. And like, I think I made some kind of like, I don't know, small comments about or something about like, oh, you know, what happened to your arm? And I just like felt too dumb to say anything. I think I ran off away from him.

01:34:37.460 --> 01:35:05.580
You have to carry it as a badge of honor. Oh, totally. And he loves it. I do. I do. I love it. It's great. It's one of the funnest stories we have all of us together. Yep. I know what you did last summer. No, by the way, on like two episodes ago, when we had Dan Clancher on, we did our favorite set list. And that show,

01:35:12.880 --> 01:35:15.180
I had InnerArma on mine, but it was when

01:35:15.440 --> 01:35:31.620
InnerArma played Atlas. James, don't bring this down because give Will credit, he popped right back up after getting dropped. That's what drunk people do. Pop right back up. I was like, holy shit. And he bought like three more rounds of beer.

01:35:31.620 --> 01:35:32.260
And he bought three more beers.

01:35:34.400 --> 01:35:36.460
I did not buy a beer this single night.

01:35:36.860 --> 01:35:39.880
Will is the original Chumbawamba.

01:35:41.300 --> 01:35:42.700
He gets knocked down.

01:35:43.660 --> 01:35:44.560
But he gets up again.

01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:50.160
Can I change my nickname from Beef Stick the Mighty to Chumbawamba, please?

01:35:52.120 --> 01:35:53.200
Yes, you can, actually.

01:35:53.740 --> 01:35:58.400
That same show I got clocked right above the eyebrow and it just like split open.

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Well, yeah, after you push me down, I'm going to punch the shit out of you asshole.

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That makes sense.

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I mean, yeah, I probably, that would actually make me feel a lot better about it.

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No, that was not me.

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I got taken over to talk to somebody at the venue to make sure that I didn't have a concussion or whatever. And this person just would not leave me alone that I must have been on drugs. And this guy asked me like nine times if I'd taken any drugs. He's like, no judgment. Like, what if, you know, have you taken anything? What have you taken tonight? And I was like, no. I was like, only thing that I have taken would be those cans of beers at the bar. Like, nothing.

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And this guy just would not. There's 87 cans of beer over there. They should have just said Rolling Rock. It's not even beer. It's not. I'm sinking water. It's hydrating. No, I'm just sad. I took a chunk out of a man's arm tonight. I'm so sad. I'm on Will's elbow. That chasing you down like that, that's code for, hey, man, will you sell me some drugs? You know what I mean? He's just like, come on, I know you got some. And this is all the buildup to Will's top five EPs.

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Yeah, hour and 45 minutes, still not on our list yet. Oh my god. I'm going to try to do this quick. I did not know we were only doing five, so I have eight listed. Okay, I got a couple honorables. And they're not really in any particular order, so I'm assuming we're not going to publish this anywhere. So in no particular order, Toomes, Moniker, Shadows. Another one is Zamplanli,

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I mean, it's death metal. It's fucking awesome. You having a stroke? Thrasenblah Insula. I'm surprised no one's mentioned this. I'm going to mention this, and this is going to shock one particular friend, handsome friend we have in California, Ashen Horde, Tint Regan. That was this year? Damn. Sorry, Trevor.

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No, because I remember talking about this because I was like, I bought it. I'm like, it's Ashen Horde. I'm going to buy it. Oh, yeah, of course. And then I was surprised that, you know, you get to like, it's not until you get to like song, the last song on the EP that there's clean singing. And I was like, that motherfucker, he still did it. He tricked me. But the other, the other, the other, it's phenomenal black metal. It's great. It is. And then a new band out of DC,

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Disrotter put out a plague demo 2020 EP and it's really great definitely check it out and then the I won't say the first name I'll let Markisan do it again because I totally mispronounced it but it's like Lascali Shroud other cosmic Lakaes Lakaes yeah do you know someone in the band here because I've been saying that name wrong for probably like seven eight years then I mean I just looked it up I had no idea

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It's the idea. It's French. So I just looked up the pronunciation for it. It's called Google, dude. Max Google Translate. Will, you know what's funny? Zach could be on your EP list now. And at the end of the year, it could be on your finals list. At least the rest of the album. Well, aren't those songs long enough for a full length right now, though, John? It's like 30 minutes, I think. Or 32 minutes, 33 minutes. Yeah, it's real close. I love that. It's like a one-man band and he's like, hey, the pandemic happened. I'm just going to release these songs and the rest will come out later. It's the guy from Soulman.

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Oh, that's right. I knew that. Yeah. This is his solo project. And he's got, I know Markisan picked up a few of them, right? Are you, you book, you saved them. I pre-ordered it. Yes. Yeah. He's got like, I think five albums with this project. Yeah. Yeah. But I think this one is by far the best. It's really good. It's very, it's like progressive doom death kind of stuff. It's really good. I mean, I'll, I'll just be upfront. It's not on my list, but if those two songs come out, yes, it would be. Yes. Could be, it would be,

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probably is going to be on my top 40 list for sure. And I think I remember the reason why I looked into this in the first place was the album cover. Yeah. Yeah. Back to the old school days where you bought albums based on the album cover. It's kind of what I did. Fuck yeah. The next one, if you like death metal, you have to get this one. Torture Tomb. Killing to see how it feels. EP is so good. And then I'm surprised no one said this one yet. Warp Chamber implements of excruciation.

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That's an album. It's like 30 minutes though. Oh, see, this is where I get lost in the sauce, where it's like lost in the sauce. Because we don't have any definitions. There's no more rules. The label calls it an album. It's hard to tell what the labels are doing with it. But that was in my randomness of it was in my number one slot. That's one of those two mold clones. Not that they're a clone, but it's in that style.

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I'm going with a rain and blood rule. So that's what I go. What's the rule? There is no rule. There is no rule. For me, you know, it's like 20, I think it's 28 minutes, 29 minutes. Anything that's 29 minutes. If you can fit both the same album on both sides of the tape, then it's. Yeah. Well, no, but I think Marcus Sun was going the other way because he, Marcus Sun wants rain and blood to be an album. Therefore that. That's right.

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That's what I go with. That's just basic for me. That's metal 101. I mean, come on. Are you guys saying length matters? Sometimes. Whip also. Depends on the label. It only matters if you use it. Perfect amount of length. I like how James' whole screen just went dark. Dude, Scott, he just went black metal. Did you turn the lights out or something? It's dark in Cleveland. Do you have a Snuggie and a ball of scotch or what's going on?

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for all these black metal records that are not on my list. All right. So can we go to J now? Make it quick. No order whatsoever. Devil with no name. That Spaghetti Western EP thing. Did you guys listen to that? It was kind of fun. Candlemask, The Pendulum. Lore, Edge of Eternity. Nice. Isan, Telemark. I don't mind the cover tunes.

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I'd be able to say it once. It is an EP, but it is in metal. Witchcraft, black metal. Black, not metal. It would have been. You got it in there at least once. And I wouldn't even tried for what it's worth if we weren't doing that. So I would have just left it out because I'm not going to say Miracle today outside of just having said it now. It's not metal. Hey, Jay, what's the name of that? What's the name of that lore album? EP? Edge of Eternity, I think. Hold on.

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Yeah, sounds right.

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Yeah, or is that just a bad Iron Maiden song?

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No, is that Edge of Eternity?

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No, that's...

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It's Edge of Eternity.

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Yeah.

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Is it?

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Okay.

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Is it?

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No.

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Actually, no, I like that song.

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It's off New Frontier.

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All right.

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That's how quick it was for me, George.

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You go.

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All right.

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So I've got my five plus three honorables.

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Number five, Heathen Beast.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But It Will Be Heard. This is a grindcore band from India. Just checked this out the other day. I dig it. Great band. I didn't hear that one, but they're really cool in general. Yeah. Every one of their songs starts with fuck. It's like, fuck this, fuck that, fuck the other thing, fuck them too. It's kind of cool. There's a lot of Indian news TV samples. Anyway, number four, Worms.

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which is spelled W-V-R-M. And that is Colony Collapses, another Grindcore album. Moving on to my number three, more Grindcore. ACDC, Antichrist Demon Core. And their, whatever you want to call it, Satan is King. My number two, which I cannot believe nobody else had on their list. The Exhumed Gruesome Split, Twisted Horror.

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Oh, yeah. That was actually on my list, but because it's a split, I'm like, I don't know what the rules are. It's four songs. It doesn't matter. It's, you know. There are no rules. Do what you want, man. I like the length. Yeah. And number one, I don't know what that might be, but. Throstenblad, Insula. I am embarrassed I forgot the Exhum thing. I totally would have put that on.

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Wait a minute. So you actually just put this on your EP list with all that nonsense about... What do you mean nonsense? It's like 20 minutes long. It's an EP. But I thought you were hardcore going so you could put that in. No, this wasn't even about me. This was... I mean, it started with two. It's always about you. It's never about me. It's not about me. How about you, George? It's not about me. I learned about watching you. No, no, no. This was all about... I remember that commercial well when I was a kid. Who taught you the length of an EP? Nope. It really was about two.

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It's about tombs, yeah. But I do have three honorable mentions. First of all, it's been mentioned Tombstoner, Descent to Madness. Pretty cool. Meth Leopard and another grindcore album. Their album's called Woke. It's a creative name. And one that I really want to listen to more called Task Force Beer. And their album, their grindcore album, Blast Beat Hangover Commando. I'm sure I'll be checking that out tomorrow.

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That sounds like a South Park album. This Tombstone or album cover is pretty awesome. I'm surprised. Did anyone mention this for album artwork? I don't think so. I don't remember that one. Yeah, I don't remember the art. I didn't look at it. I have a few honorable mentions. I didn't know we were going to do that. I just want to say quick. Arctic Sleep, Derelict, a homemade acoustic retrospective. I didn't put this on my list because it's all acoustic renditions of old Arctic Sleep songs. So it isn't really metal and the material is not new.

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but I mean I think it deserves a mention because we love Keith and I feel like Arctic Sleep is really good totally Changeling 3 this is like mysterious atmospheric blanket of black metal from Minneapolis so Matt should get into this one I really like Changeling two really good death metal bands that are coming up Sidorak simultaneous invocation of apocalyptic harbingers that's a good name yeah and conjureth foul formations both of those are

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really good death metal bands are coming up and then the last one i had was pale mare uh pale mare 2 is the name of the album and this band kind of sounds like a punk rock version of high on fire so really heavy good riffs on it sounds cool yeah all right what could it be are we getting ready to do some lists here i know we've done some but i mean i need a break it's only been two hours yeah i gotta get rid of my dirty dishes i gotta get a beer five i think it's my bedtime now at the moment

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I have to call it here. Can I just remind you, James, that you injured Will, so you need to stand as long as possible? We will reconvene in... Please don't pretend. James do anything for forever. Oh, yes. Repent! We will reconvene in like two minutes, so make it quick.

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I can't even if you're not a woman.

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I can't hurt a woman.

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Tread me to fade away.