WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:05.220 Metalhead podcast, metalhead podcast, go! 00:00:26.260 --> 00:00:27.980 You must listen. 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:30.140 You must listen. 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:32.560 You must listen. 00:00:36.579 --> 00:00:38.740 Now, here is the podcast. 00:00:39.110 --> 00:00:39.980 Metal Heads Podcast. 00:00:40.980 --> 00:00:42.680 Hello, and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast. 00:00:42.930 --> 00:00:43.740 My name is George. 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:44.880 This is Will. 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:46.020 Oh, shit. 00:00:46.260 --> 00:00:46.680 Oh, shit. 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:47.680 Oh, shit. 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:47.940 Damn it. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:48.420 I'm just sitting. 00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:48.800 Let's do it that way. 00:00:49.220 --> 00:00:50.180 No, no, no, no, no. 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:50.780 Starting over. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:52.480 No, let's cheers first. 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:54.280 Let's clink the glasses, then start. 00:00:56.060 --> 00:01:24.300 And by the way, I think you should include all of this. No, we're going to click the glasses again and then we're going to start. Hold it from the bottom so it actually chings, not like a thud, like we're a bunch of Neanderthal. Oh, we are. Just leave it in. That's the fucking same. That sounded like someone's cooking. They're too full. That's the problem. All right. Anyway, hello and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast. My name is George. This is Will. 00:01:24.860 --> 00:01:51.840 This is John. This is Matt. This is Markisan. And Will is in studio today for the first time in a year and a half. Hello, hello. He is nearest. He's less than six feet away from George right now. That's right. Oh, man, that didn't take long for the chicken to show up. I'm going to keep this away from you. So this is our mid-year episode. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:02:24.180 year, where twice a year, we get to do a t-shirt and beer check first. So before we get into our top 25, let's do a t-shirt and beer check and start with Markisan. All right. Well, I'm wearing a Silver Talon shirt I just got in the mail. So baseball jersey style. I am drinking coffee right now, but I am going, 00:02:24.540 --> 00:02:53.520 It is 9 a.m. in Hawaii right now. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. It's 8. Sorry. But I'm about to crack open the doors to nowhere by modern times because it is a coffee stout with cocoa, toasted almonds, vanilla, and it's 14%, so I'm going to start this bitch off. Not really crossing over to coffee, coffee, beer, coffee, strong-ass beer. 00:02:54.380 --> 00:03:24.300 Yes. All right. Congratulations to the listeners. Be prepared. There's a rainbow coming. Double rainbow time. I thought we agreed. Marcus, you should just literally somehow start doing ads for Skittles. Taste the rainbow. I think George did that already. Anyway, so Matt, I am Rocky. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:54.360 I have a sleeveless cryptopsy shirt and I just poured a by bent paddle some venture pills pills and a lager starting it off light and working my way up to Karkness day but we'll save that for later all right John me all right so horrendous you see the guys drinking that was that was the first decibel that we went to and they put out this shirt with three 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:22.540 Skulls, you know, because everyone likes skulls, but it's three dudes that are wearing robes with skulls and they're drinking together. So I figured it'd be appropriate for today. And what I'm drinking is now beer number two. I started off with my primer, the zombie dust. Oh, nice. And now I'm drinking something called Torrent. We'll like these three little words. West coast double IPA. Oh, 00:04:24.380 --> 00:04:54.020 And it's from Front Royal. Oh, nice. Oh. Oh, I never even heard of that brewery. They are in Front Royal, Virginia. I believe, Will, there's an Ocelot connection with them. I'm not mistaken. Somebody left Ocelot and went to Front Royal. Oh. Well, Mike McCarthy left. He was the head brewer who was doing all those amazing IPAs at Ocelot. But he went out that direction. I thought maybe it was over almost in West Virginia, which Front Royal was almost in West Virginia. But I thought it was like benchtop brewing or something like that. I can't believe. 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:24.140 Anyone would live in Front Royal, Virginia. Anyway, it's a West Coast IPA, and well knows I'm agreeing with him about drinking West Coast IPAs. Yes. I am wearing my newly discovered, but had it for a long time because I forgot I had it, is my white Temple of Void T-shirt, and I am drinking a Who Farted Brewing Company. All my friends are dead. Imperial Coffee Stout with Who Farted Coffee. 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:51.400 Vanilla, hazelnut, and milk sugar added. It's 13.5%. And what's shocking to me, if you guys know that Who Farted is out of the Columbus area of Ohio, they're north of Columbus, but this says Who Farted in North Haven, Connecticut. That's weird. They've got sirens going off in their background. They're not contracting, are they, Will? I like that it's Who Farted in North Haven, Connecticut. That's a reasonable question. 00:05:54.380 --> 00:06:23.820 All right, Jay, go. Ice cold water in my Judas Priest cup right now and Michael Schenker group t-shirt. Weird. You're like the only person I know that likes Michael Schenker. Oh, wait, TR does too. Jay, are you actually going to drink a beer today or are you going to wait for your online date with BigGamer69 later tonight? I'm waiting for my online date because I'm going swimming after this and it's hard to swim drunk. Have you tried? Yeah. 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:54.360 I'll tell you this I've swung hungover many times but you can float Jay yeah it is better for kayaking though I'm wearing my true brewing t-shirt and my first beer was Lone Pine Brewing's Chaos Emeralds double IPA and now I am on to Dewey Beer Company out of Dewey Delaware's heavily meditated 00:06:57.060 --> 00:07:21.020 IPA, I guess. It doesn't say. It's kind of hazy. Yeah, yeah. I went to the beer store and I was like, well, I'm getting some IPAs. And I was like, Will's going to be here. So in case he wants any of these, I'm going to get stuff that specifically does not say that it is New England or hazy. I got three different beers that do not say either of that. And so far, actually, no, I've had all three. They're all hazy. 00:07:23.259 --> 00:07:24.020 That's a new thing. 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:54.060 is the default at this point. I know. Exactly. We heard the crushing disappointment in Will's voice. You have to actually look for it to say West Coast IPA. Yep. Yep. All right. Well, then. Oh, I also wanted to say happy Juneteenth Day to everybody. You know, the federal government two days ago sprung on us that it is now a federal holiday. And anybody that works federal jobs suddenly had their schedule. 00:07:54.140 --> 00:08:23.800 impacted by that. But I am, I'm really glad that, uh, that they did that. Cause I think that's a pretty cool thing to do. Yeah. I was telling my kids, like of all the holidays, it's actually a pretty big one. Like the, the, uh, emancipation. No, I was going to say the abolition, abolition, abolition, abolition. Yeah. That word of slavery. And I say, it's like, that's a pretty big effing deal. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, Memorial day is a big deal, but like fricking, and you know, like president's day, who gives a shit? Yeah. 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:54.040 You know, something like this matters. And so I'm really happy. I would think President's Day does matter when you consider that this holiday is tied to President's Day. You know what I mean? A little guy named Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, yeah. All right. Let me come up with something else. If he was a girl, he'd be Abraham Lincoln. Christmas, for instance. Who gives a shit? You know, by accident, I actually rewatched, meaning I purposely watched it, but I didn't think it was June, thinking about Juneteenth. I watched the Steven Spielberg. 00:08:54.820 --> 00:09:23.460 That's such a good fucking movie. Oh, yeah. That was great. And also, living in a progressive town. Well, I actually don't live in a progressive town, but I work in one. And literally Friday, the city of Berkeley declared this coming Monday as our June night. So I have a three-day weekend. I didn't know it was coming, and here it is. So literally, I found that out. I went home, too, and somebody texted me. They were like, we're off Monday, dude. And I was like, fuck that. Yeah, nice. Nah, we had to work it, but you know, maybe next time. Yeah, next time. Yeah. Maybe next time. 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:53.460 They won't spring it on everyone at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon the day before the holiday. I know because everyone's running around like, oh, do you see what OPM tweeted? I'm like, really? Everyone's taking the day off of work because OPM tweeted something? Granted, it is OPM, the office of... Well, they do the same thing with snow days. No, it has to still come from. Still OPM. To be fair. I like that George is like, why don't we plan the snow days in advance? It's so funny. Neither holiday 00:09:53.520 --> 00:10:23.460 holidays nor snow days have any effect on my work at all. Yeah. Yeah. Well, every day is a holiday. Every day is Marcus Sunday. Yeah. Some of the some of the schools around here in the D.C. area, like because federal holidays usually don't have school. So like, all right, school's canceled. But like my kids still had to go to school. Really? All the schools around here like finished on Thursday. So it kind of wrapped up neatly. They're like, ha ha holiday right after you're done. My kids finished. You know what? How appropriate really that they did this 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:50.380 I'm seeing the genius of this all of a sudden. They declared it at the last minute so that some of us would be free on Monday and some of us wouldn't. So it's like it's going back to the old days when part of us were put upon in shackles. Next year we'll all be free. Too soon, man. Too soon. No, no, no. It's a good thing. What kind of pizza are you eating, George? Papa John's. All right. There's not a lot of choices around here. 00:10:54.560 --> 00:10:55.120 Sorry. 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:56.600 All right. 00:10:56.640 --> 00:11:03.380 So let's let's get into our top 25 albums of 2021 mid-year. 00:11:03.880 --> 00:11:04.240 What? 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:06.020 Start us off, Marcus. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:07.800 All right. 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:08.560 Here we go. 00:11:08.820 --> 00:11:11.700 Number 25 for me is Maroque. 00:11:12.020 --> 00:11:13.960 All the darkness looks alive. 00:11:14.820 --> 00:11:15.440 Self-released. 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.200 And this is a galloping thunder black banger. 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:22.260 It's got hardcore elements tossed into it. 00:11:22.760 --> 00:11:48.720 It was one of those surprise band finds for me. And it's the first of several new discoveries that made my list. But I really like this one. It's fun. Thanks. I just realized that all that talk about notes earlier, you know, I didn't write down what any styles of my music are. So you're just going to have to fucking figure it out. Figure it out, eh? I tried to be a little better about it this time myself. At least you did EPs, George. I did EPs, not that we're doing them. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:12:21.280 All right, Matt. All right, my number 25, Snet, S-N-E-T. The album is called Mokvani V Okavec. This is on Blood Harvest. This is a Czech death metal band, their first album. I would call this a mix of kind of between Dirty Death and Dirty Dirty Death. More than kind of the two mold zone. Snet in Czech means mildew. The title in Czech is Soaking in Shackles. 00:12:22.760 --> 00:12:52.640 But yeah, that's good. Good dirty death. Dirty, dirty death. All right. Halfway to dirty, dirty death. Gian. Hey, Matt, you could just say dirty death squared and that might save you some time. Okay. Perfect. I like that. Before I get into mine, I just had a couple observations from my list this year that I thought was interesting because it's been kind of a crazy two years for album buying, given the, 00:12:52.760 --> 00:12:58.800 world we're in uh my list i have 19 bands i had never bought anything from 00:12:59.220 --> 00:13:05.800 before or that i had never listened to before which i find kind of strange that there's that 00:13:06.020 --> 00:13:11.280 much or that many new albums come out from so many different bands so yeah it's awesome that's why i 00:13:11.280 --> 00:13:17.380 was saying all these new discoveries on my list too yeah john just crazy how many um let's make that 00:13:17.400 --> 00:13:47.360 There's a lot more bands coming into metal. Yeah, and I listen to a lot of bands that are playing technical music. I don't know why. Just one of those years. John, I got 16. New ones? New albums or new bands or stuff that just is new to you. Kind of a little mixture of both, yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. That's awesome. That's good to hear. So it also means it's going to be a shitstorm when we try to put together any kind of compilation of, we might have to just go top 10 to the mid-year and just leave it at 00:13:49.799 --> 00:14:14.280 I just wanted to mention that I told Will this before we started that this is probably my most diverse list I've ever had in terms of like styles. Me too. I think this is for me too. So okay so since we're all saying this I'll tell you something I sprung on George earlier and might as well just bring it up. Come on get with the sound effects man. I'm throwing out I'm lobbing him out here. Come on. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:47.020 Yeah. I feel like the Blues Brothers in the elevator at the end, you know, listening to the girl from Ipanema. So we always do the J Awards. At some point, I think we might have to do the Wilson Awards, which is, you know, you're on your own island out there. Remember Wilson? Yep. Wilson the ball. Yeah. So somebody's going to get that. But it sounds like we're all going to be competing for that, which is kind of cool. Anyway. All right. So thought about this. He's really thought about this already. I love it. Yeah. Because I looked at my list. I was like, there's absolutely no way anyone's going to have any of these albums. 00:14:47.140 --> 00:15:17.100 Maybe one. So, which also makes it challenging for me who makes it all up. There's more out there. That's less for me to choose from. How's that going to match to most people when he makes up every album? Stressful. Oh my God. All right. So my number 25 is universally estranged, reared up in spectral. And I feel like I'm missing a word there, but I don't know. Okay. You can 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:47.100 I haven't heard of it. Okay. Just trying to be funny, John. Don't take it personally. Too soon. Too soon. Can we at least get through my first pick? Yeah, yeah. My God, I got 24 more of these to do. It's a lot of crickets. It's a U.S. band that plays a progressive technical death metal. You guys may have seen this. It's at least the album cover in your feed. It's got some guys 00:15:47.120 --> 00:16:15.740 whose head's blowing up with cosmic shit coming out of it. It's a lot of colors. But anyway, I know Matt knows this one because he asked me about it. We actually did talk about it on one of the episodes, so you just weren't listening, George. I'm old and forgetful. It's their debut album. It's basically cosmic death metal. It's great. If you're a fan of Blood Incantation and Tumult, you might like this. It's got the cavernous vocals. It's a little angular in the style. 00:16:16.760 --> 00:16:46.660 It would have been higher. What's the name of it again? Universally estranged. Is that a dating app? Yeah. Yeah, you just swipe down on that one. The only thing about it is the vocals are a little too buried, even for cavernous ones. Otherwise, it might be a little higher on my list. But cool album. Good album. Oh, see? Sounds like everybody knows it except for George. 00:16:46.780 --> 00:17:16.420 Yeah, this blows out your whole theory. I mean, maybe everyone's got your stuff on their list. One person apparently doesn't. Get off my list! Exactly. Go on your own list, you sumbitch! All right, so I will say one thing about my list is I've been working crazy hours lately, and I have not had a lot of time to really put too much thought on my list. All these albums I'm about to say I like, you could kind of throw the order out, except for maybe like, 00:17:16.760 --> 00:17:46.500 My Number One. My Number One is my Number One. Everything else, you know, depending upon the day of the week, maybe a different place. So with all that said, my Number 25, Seeming Emptiness. The album is called Bliss Entombed. German, Swedish, very Opethian-like album. This could have been like five times higher on my list. There's a lot of clean singing in it that, 00:17:47.600 --> 00:18:16.320 As I was driving to the 15 hours of George's house through the backcountry and past all the dispensaries. I know, right? You should see this dispensary that I passed. They have a massive three-lane drive-through. I'm like, oh my God, is everyone in Maryland high all the time? Yes. It is like the most crazy busy dispensary I've ever seen. But I was listening to this album as I was driving up here and I was like, you know what would make this album perfect? 00:18:16.760 --> 00:18:46.740 if they just played instruments and didn't do the clean singing. The clean singing is not bad, but the growling vocals, it's very Opethian-like, but they don't... Michael... Man, I've only had a beer and a half. Michael... The lead singer from Opeth. He does such a better... Michael Ackerfeld. Yes. He does such a better job at the clean singing, where these guys kind of do like chorus-y kind of stuff, but the music is awesome. The growling vocals... 00:18:46.800 --> 00:18:47.520 is awesome. 00:18:48.540 --> 00:18:48.880 But man, 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.840 if they could just cut back on the clean singing a little bit, 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:51.140 man, 00:18:51.280 --> 00:18:51.920 this would be amazing. 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:52.220 Anyway, 00:18:52.600 --> 00:18:54.040 that needs to be a little bumper sticker. 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:54.580 I know. 00:18:55.380 --> 00:18:56.020 Less clean vocals. 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.300 Funny about that band actually, 00:18:57.560 --> 00:18:57.640 well, 00:18:57.740 --> 00:18:59.060 they were an instrumental band, 00:18:59.220 --> 00:18:59.700 I think before. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:00.320 Well, 00:19:00.340 --> 00:19:01.860 it's just one guy before until now. 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:02.600 Yeah. 00:19:03.020 --> 00:19:03.100 Yeah. 00:19:05.320 --> 00:19:05.500 Jay. 00:19:06.520 --> 00:19:07.380 My number 25, 00:19:08.980 --> 00:19:11.200 I won't be telling you the origin of all of these, 00:19:11.340 --> 00:19:12.540 but one of, 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:13.000 one of, 00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:13.900 which is to say I, 00:19:14.420 --> 00:19:15.660 how I gather my stuff. 00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:42.820 Some of it is I find it on my own, but one of the things I always pay attention to is your albums of the month, your various feeds on Bandcamp and whatnot. This is a hats off to George for this one. It's called Horndall Lake Drinker. This is a cool fucking record. Am I wrong, George, that this guy kind of approximates a modern Tom G in his singing style? He really sounds like Tom G on some of the Tripticon stuff. 00:19:45.840 --> 00:20:15.060 a lot. Everyone's a lot of phrase comes in. I'd have to listen to it again, but it is a good album. It is. It's kind of old school-y sludge and old school tones. I should say like guitar tones, sludgy do me. That could be what subconsciously turned me on to it. It might well be, sir. But entertaining. It's not like a thrash album or anything like that. It's a pretty straightforward mid-paced sludge metal. It's good. It's good. I really enjoyed it. I like that one a lot. It's good. At a medium pace, just like Tenacious D. Yeah, that's right. 00:20:16.380 --> 00:20:44.140 My number 25 is my most recent addition. Henceforth, it has knocked off the slowest of the herd and climbed into the pack. I just put this one on here today, and that is Grief Collector and Delirium. Yeah, so Robert Lowe of Candlemas. I thought he, Rob Lowe, he was the Solitude Eternus. Thank you. Yeah, I know, Rob Lowe. Robert Lowe, yeah. 00:20:44.280 --> 00:21:14.220 Anyway, that's my number 25. I listened to the EP that came out like 50 years ago, so I knew who they were, but John getting into it made me say, you know, I really should listen to this and check it out beforehand. It's a solid album. I haven't listened to it enough myself, but it's pretty cool. Yeah. All right, back to Mark for number 24. Number 24 for me is Perennial Isolation Portraits on 9th. 00:21:16.060 --> 00:21:43.360 This is an excellent atmospheric black metal album. It's eerie. It's majestic. Its core is traditional black metal, but the band kind of effortlessly shifts to massive tech metal riffs. Sometimes they slow things down and it's more of a mournful, reflective crawl. It's a really good dynamics in this album throughout. So love it. That's interesting. You said they shift into tech metal riffs. 00:21:44.360 --> 00:22:11.640 What is it with this year? There seems to be tons of bands throwing that stuff in. You're right. You're right. It's just, yeah, one of those years. You said that, John, and then I look at my list, I'm like, John's totally right, and I don't normally listen to tech stuff either, but here it is. I do some, but I feel like I'm listening to way more now. Right. Yeah. I think this is just more overt. Maybe there was bands that threw a little bit in there, but now it's more prominent in the music, I guess. Sure seems like it, yeah. 00:22:15.679 --> 00:22:43.660 Number 24 for me, Vorvan, Awakened, The Darkened Days. This is the second album from a Russian, I would call them grindcore. They are super intense and they are all over the place. I mean, I hear thrash, I hear grind, I hear hardcore, sludge, and then, I mean, even just some traditional heavy metal. I remember their first track came out and I really dug it and once the rest of the album came out, I wasn't as into it at that point. 00:22:43.820 --> 00:23:13.700 But still really dig it. Intensity reminds me a lot of Wake, which I think is what drew me to it in the beginning. Cool. I like that, Matt. You had me at Wake. I mean, Matt had you long before that, but. That is true. We've all had him long before that. Wake up and smell the Matt. But I've had it most recently. Fine then. John. All right. Bye. 00:23:13.800 --> 00:23:43.700 My number 24 is from a prominent metal artist, and I have no idea why he released an album under a new name, because it still sounds like everything he's done. Sort of. Anyway, my number 24 is the artist named Forrest, but not spelled like Forrest, and the album is Forrest from Debur Morty from France. If anyone doesn't know who this is, this is from the main man from Bluthaus Nord. 00:23:44.760 --> 00:24:13.780 It's a straight-ahead black metal album with some little bit of atmospherics. It's just kind of strange. It's just not a Bluthaus Nord album, but it's a solid album. Nothing earth-shattering, but it's good. I like it. You might dig it if you're just looking for him doing straight-ahead black metal. Yeah, well, maybe it's because Bluthaus Nord, I mean, they really changed their sound, so maybe he wanted to do it under a different name because of that. Well, he's done literally every style of black metal he could possibly do. 00:24:16.520 --> 00:24:41.980 It just caught me by surprise. I mean, cause it would have been a cool follow up to the, to the last album. My number 24. I don't know if I'm going to get a massive amount of shit for this pick because it's either it's even on my list or it's so low on my list. I can't, I don't know how, I don't know how this is going to happen, but, uh, Gojira fortitude. Um, 00:24:49.300 --> 00:25:09.640 Again, George? My God, we did this before we started recording. That was accidental. I know, the whip sound should be safe for later. Before you say any more, I considered it back into my list, too. And I listened to the entire album, all the three hours it takes me to get here. It's actually only an hour. 00:25:13.800 --> 00:25:43.760 I think John said it or maybe it was George. It was probably George, but John related. John, George said it first, John related. So I'm just going to give it credit to John. But they need to fire the producer on this album. They really need to fire the producer because I feel like half this album was produced by the Imagine Dragons. There are, there are, there are just, there's areas of this is like, it's like the Imagine Dragons threw the song out and, and you're like, we'll do this song. And, but if you just change the production of it, the production, 00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:44.680 of it. 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:46.560 Like there's, 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.420 there's like three songs I can think of a particular aside from like the, 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:50.840 the chant and fortitude, 00:25:50.980 --> 00:25:51.540 which is just like, 00:25:51.580 --> 00:25:52.240 just throw them out. 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:53.960 Yeah. 00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:54.620 But I mean, 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:56.020 there's some amazing songs on this. 00:25:56.320 --> 00:25:58.560 If they just would like cut the first part off, 00:25:59.060 --> 00:26:00.140 cut the back end off. 00:26:00.740 --> 00:26:01.020 And just, 00:26:01.140 --> 00:26:01.220 uh, 00:26:01.320 --> 00:26:02.960 I feel like the Saturday night live skit, 00:26:03.040 --> 00:26:04.860 like where Christopher Walker comes and goes, 00:26:05.020 --> 00:26:05.580 I got a fever. 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:06.520 I need more cowbell. 00:26:06.620 --> 00:26:06.800 The only, 00:26:06.820 --> 00:26:08.080 the only cure is more cowbell. 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:09.360 And the only thing I think of is like, 00:26:09.780 --> 00:26:11.900 the only cure for this is more brutal. 00:26:12.300 --> 00:26:13.060 Make it more brutal. 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:42.940 Yeah, I felt like they deadened the sound on this album. It took away some of their heaviness because there are some really heavy songs on here, but you wouldn't know unless you really paid attention. Yeah. So I like it more now that I listen to it, but I'm picking out the flaws. Like, you know, it's sort of like, so it's like, God, it's a great song. Just, I wish they just need to make their, just go back to Mars is serious, make their sound more raw, cut all this, like imagine dragging gang singing, pop, 00:26:43.180 --> 00:27:13.080 that they do in the beginning and the end of some of the songs. It's just like, just get back to basics. And move the fuck out of Brooklyn. Don't hold back, man. Tell us what you think. Anyway, it still made my list. Well, yeah, they're going to do anything. They should just like go to Manhattan. That would make them infinitely tougher, right? Yes, that's right. Actually, Will, believe it or not, if you guys listen to Cirrus XM on Liquid Metal, they've had, what's his name on there? I guess Joe's been on there numerous times talking about the album. And he mentions that one of the songs, 00:27:13.140 --> 00:27:43.120 I think it's end of the storm. It could have come off of from Mars to Sirius. And I'm like, yeah, that's true. It sounds like it. It would have been nice had it sounded like it came off of Mars to Sirius. You know, they have stepped into that kind of unpleasant space that is occupied by bands like Metallica and Mastodon, where they did some some some of what they did in the beginning was so good that you have to consider everything that comes down the pike. And it's not that they're making bad records per se, but they're 00:27:43.160 --> 00:28:13.000 They're just... I mean, I would say the same thing about Metallica. I mean, they belong to, like, you know, every stupid kid who's on a football team in a high school now or whatever, but that's stated. They're still riding the fucking wave for Master of Puppets. I mean, if you make something that good, then every year we gotta at least pay attention, and every year we gotta go, I wish it was more like blah. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Only difference, Jay, is that their guitar, 00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:43.120 didn't admit that he doesn't listen to metal and hates metal. I think they actually still like metal, I think. And I will at least give them this allowance. Of the bands I just mentioned, Gojera is the one who did not wander quite as far from the script, so they're at least still have a little more respect. But they're still making it hard on us. Yeah. There's some great songs there. They're just not making music for us anymore. They're making music for fans like Will of Imagine Dragons. I mean, I swear to God, some 00:28:43.140 --> 00:29:11.000 Aspects of them. Like, did, what's that guy's name? The Oz, uh, moment, not momad, not Drake. It's like a one name guy with all type, post Malone. I always feel like the post Malone produced this album. Like what? Fuck. Anyway. Interesting. You almost said Ozzy when you went there too. Well, cause Ozzy did a song with post Malone. Did two songs with him actually. That would be fair. I think it'd be better to say post Malone did a song with Ozzy, but I hear what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:17.640 came out there like oh it's so sweet that post malone's given this ozzy guy a chance 00:29:21.060 --> 00:29:24.980 i do i do find it interesting this comparison keeps coming up with gojira and with 00:29:25.100 --> 00:29:29.800 mastodon i think we are all just so heartbroken about where things have gone yep yeah you know since 00:29:30.150 --> 00:29:35.120 what they were to your point jay like it was like the stuff they did prior was so fucking good that 00:29:35.260 --> 00:29:41.820 now it's just like is it is it and then you open it and it's like oh fuck all right and now we wait the first 00:29:41.820 --> 00:30:11.800 Those two songs they put out, I actually, I liked them quite a bit. And I was jazzed for it. I actually bought the album on vinyl. But I didn't know what the whole thing was going to sound like. And, you know, it's fine. I like it fine. But yeah, it's not, I don't think they're recapturing the glory days anytime soon. Yeah. All right. My number 24 is a band who has made my list before. I think this is their second record, but I could be wrong. And to be perfectly honest, I don't like it quite as much as the last 00:30:11.820 --> 00:30:12.360 first one. 00:30:12.980 --> 00:30:13.840 If it was the first one. 00:30:14.320 --> 00:30:16.100 I know Matt's a fan as well, but I did like it. 00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:16.780 It's good. 00:30:16.900 --> 00:30:18.380 I don't know if it'll survive the year. 00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:18.760 We'll see. 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:22.520 But I keep putting it on to, to, well, it's good. 00:30:22.760 --> 00:30:24.280 Let's put it that way and we'll see how long it lasts. 00:30:24.620 --> 00:30:24.940 Ghastly. 00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:26.380 Mercurial passages. 00:30:28.060 --> 00:30:31.640 I don't like as much as, what was the, what was the name of the last one, Matt? 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:33.440 Oh, gosh. 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:35.740 It had a weird name that we used to make fun of. 00:30:35.760 --> 00:30:36.880 We pronounced it wrong every time. 00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:37.360 It was blue. 00:30:38.280 --> 00:30:38.820 Yeah, it was blue. 00:30:39.820 --> 00:31:09.740 Well, in any case, I don't have a lot of comments to make on it. This is a band that's out there doing, you know, consistently average or above average albums so far. So totally worth checking out. I dig it, but it's not a game changer or anything. I actually thought it would be higher on your list. So did I. It's called Death of Allure. Death of Allure. Yeah, Death of Allure. I thought it would be a lot higher on Jay's. Because it was your album of the month or something too. It was, and Death of Allure was pretty high on my list. 00:31:09.840 --> 00:31:38.820 when that happened, but I felt like it was a little fall off from, from the last one. Not, not a go Jero fall off, but a fall off. Yeah. Uh, Georgie. So, uh, I just want to point out that, uh, every time we do a list, John makes us this awesome spreadsheet that we can use to put our choices into. It's got the band name and the album title column. And then it's got like a dropdown for countries and a dropdown for record labels. And I used to this. 00:31:39.360 --> 00:32:08.980 And then because I couldn't put it up on the screen because Will is standing here, I have it on my phone. And on my phone, it cuts off the last two columns. And so all I can see is the album and the band and the album title. So I'm sorry. I wrote them down, but I have no fucking idea what country these people are from or what label they're on. So try, try turning it portrait style. I did. It's actually further down the page, but because it's not next to it, I have no, I can't, I can't relate the two. So, 00:32:09.360 --> 00:32:38.500 But anyway, my number 24 is Voconis and their album Odyssey. Nice. Which, you know, was a shock to me when I heard this. I was like, I don't listen to this stuff, but I like it. And there was a lot of that going on this year. I think that'll make a few of our lists, too. I think we were all... Potentially, yes. Potentially, yeah. I kiss Voconis and I like you. And that is on the Sign Records. 00:32:39.380 --> 00:33:09.080 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. They're from Sweden. Yeah, just if you call it out if you know them because I can't read it. I'm not stopping you from putting your list up there. I'm not making notes. I'm not going to steal your stuff. My number 15 is also. What spank? It's funny because I put my list together so last minute and then I asked George, can you go get me a pen? Because mine's on a piece of paper. 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:39.300 And I said, go get me a pen because I know I'm going to forget stuff. And I just made a change. Oh, yeah, sure. Fuck yeah. I will say this. I haven't changed much, but this is a mid-year to change your list at the last minute because there's a lot of stuff of similar quality out there. Yeah. Jay, I would say you've changed a lot. I've seen you with a mustache. So that's very. And a scarf. Those were the days. You used to have a hump on your back, too. 00:33:39.360 --> 00:34:07.980 at one point. I'm glad you got rid of that. Wasn't that on the other side? He's got a strange hoodie. Every time I saw Jay, he was in black and white. Monochrome Jay. Horse. Right now we need a horse to make a sound. Right, Jay? Yeah, probably good. Oh my God, it's a chicken. And even that, I... Horse? Nobody gets the... Does anyone get the horse? I did. 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:09.620 Thank you. 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:09.940 Thank you. 00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:11.659 That's the Frabluca joke. 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.200 Yes, and we all have to kind of just look off in the distance every time we hear it. 00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:23.060 By the way, I have a topical joke to tell briefly, and it would be better if I could slip it in when we were talking about this band. 00:34:23.300 --> 00:34:24.399 Slide it in. 00:34:26.060 --> 00:34:26.879 That's the joke right there. 00:34:27.220 --> 00:34:28.720 It would be better if I could just slip it in. 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:35.080 I don't know if you heard, but Dave Ellison managed to jerk himself all the way off a record. 00:34:38.879 --> 00:34:39.879 Wait, wait, wait. 00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:47.440 You're thinking that's like from the newlywed game too, that version. 00:34:47.540 --> 00:34:48.300 It's a little bit, yeah. 00:34:48.350 --> 00:34:49.639 That feels newlywed-ish. 00:34:51.060 --> 00:34:51.620 All right. 00:34:52.700 --> 00:34:53.639 23, mark us on. 00:34:55.240 --> 00:34:58.120 23 is a celestial sanctuary. 00:34:58.910 --> 00:35:03.280 So diminished from redefining darkness records and church road records. 00:35:04.260 --> 00:35:34.200 I love the menacing mid-tempo stomp of this death metal record. And this album also tells a weird concept story about a soul trapped in a body whose fate has been predetermined and sealed by a faceless entity. So it's about being caged inside something horrid that it can't break free from, which can be applied to many situations. That's how I feel like in the studio right now. I know. Exactly. See? I mean, I'm a sucker for those. 00:35:34.260 --> 00:36:04.220 those odd sci-fi horror tales so that scored a lot of points for me and of course i'm also a sucker for good metal music and this and cat eyes i know john digs this one too i think you got the vinyl i got the vinyl it's it's really it's great it's a solid really i like it yeah yeah all right matt sweet 23 is a band called crust and the album is stoic this is on r-u-m-f productions i don't want to actually 00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:34.200 Say Rumpf out loud. Rumpf makes me feel weird. Give that man a harumph. Give the governor a harumph. I didn't get a harumph out of that guy. Oh, harumph. Strangely enough, when I listened to this album, I was so channeling that show Chernobyl. I was just getting like post-apocalyptic nuclear accident. Nuclear breakdown, all that sort of thing. Lo and behold, this band is from Russia. They remind me of a band I haven't listened to in a while. The band's name was spelled KYPC. 00:36:35.940 --> 00:37:04.220 They're a Finnish band who sang all in Russian. Anyways, I would describe this as some sludgy, doomy death. A lot of atmosphere. Atmosphere AF. Good stuff. I just rewatched Chernobyl in the last few weeks. It was really good. Totally worth watching again. John. All right. You are more than welcome to use your crickets for this one, George, because I know nobody 00:37:04.260 --> 00:37:32.400 We will have this on their list. My number 23 is As Eola Cry. The album is The Ironic Divide. Go ahead. Let it rip. I did. Oh, I didn't hear it. Anyway, it's Instrumental Progressive Metal Band. They are from the U.S. It's their first album since 2007, or first release, I should say. I don't think anyone knows who this band is, to be honest with you, because they haven't been around for a long time. 00:37:34.040 --> 00:38:04.000 I don't have any other instrumental artists on my list this year but this album is outstanding if you're a fan of mid-period King Crimson when Bill Bruford and John Whetton were in the band and you like Cynic merge those two together and you've got their sound it is heavy as fuck but it's very Crimson-y type progressive for that mid-period and it's by far it's not even any question in my mind the best sounding out of the way it's not even any question in my mind the best sounding out of the way it's not even any question in my mind the best sounding 00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:33.040 I've got in my collection from this year. Sensory Records is part of Laser's Edge, which I have been a ardent supporter for 20 plus years. It's an independent vendor out of New Jersey. I know the guy who runs it. I've bought from him for a million years, and this is one of his bands on the label. So if you're interested in that, the three people who like this stuff that listen to our podcast. Well, I'm interested in it, John. I haven't heard of this one. 00:38:33.100 --> 00:39:02.820 Wait, are you talking about the three people who like that band or the three people who like our podcast? You know, it could possibly be the same three for both groups. Did you see Ivar from Enslaved did his top ten most impactful albums growing up? I did. And so I'm sure you noticed one of them was Court of the Crimson King. He also, I think, did he have Lark's Aspic in there or Red also, I think? No, I don't think so. Not another thing. Maybe. 00:39:03.100 --> 00:39:33.060 I don't think so I thought there was only one King Crimson yeah but he's a huge fan of them I know that so anyway yeah Markisan if you think you might be interested check it out if you want it I'll give it to you I don't really care I mean but it's also it's 24 bit which really made a huge difference when I listened to it especially when I bought my new amp for my headphones so what's the name of the band again John Aziolla Cry A-Z-I-O-L-A Cry C-R-Y all right yeah I'll check it out I'm gonna 00:39:33.100 --> 00:39:34.500 make a soundbite for you. 00:39:35.300 --> 00:39:36.780 And it's just going to be Tom Hanks going, 00:39:37.220 --> 00:39:37.620 Wilson! 00:39:41.560 --> 00:39:44.360 We should do that before we do the awards if we do them. 00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:46.940 And only one person could win that because, remember, 00:39:47.020 --> 00:39:48.020 it's just one person on an island. 00:39:48.220 --> 00:39:50.920 It would be nice if during our Zoom session, 00:39:51.020 --> 00:39:54.020 if the ball would just go across the screen of that person. 00:39:56.160 --> 00:39:57.420 Actually, get a volleyball, George. 00:39:57.580 --> 00:39:59.920 You and Will can play it and take your shirts off. 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:31.720 Well, I just want to say it's cool that you have an instrumental album on there, John, because I haven't heard a really great instrumental album this year. I've got tons of them this year. I've got a few. Okay. Yeah. So, but this one was the top of all of them. Okay. Well, my number 23. I debated putting this on my list, but I really enjoyed and had some fun, nostalgic memories of high school. Listen to this album. That was, 00:40:31.860 --> 00:41:01.460 It's a brand new band that just released their first album, Go Ahead and Die, self-titled. There is a lot of punk aspects to this album that just kind of harken back to high school. So Go Ahead and Die is a trio, Max Cavalera, his son. Does he have a bunch of sons? Yeah, this one's Igor. Yeah, who plays bass. And I think somebody is right. There's way too much bass. There's way too much bass on there. That was me. It's louder than the guitar. 00:41:01.520 --> 00:41:30.600 But Zach Coleman, the head brewer of True Brewing Company that George is representing today, and the drummer for Chemist, he's the drummer for this. So I think it was kind of like a nuclear blast kind of like, hey, you're on nuclear blast now. Get together with these guys. I don't know how it happened, but I enjoyed this. This is just good fun. I mean, it's very socially kind of like punk. It's very socially minded in all their lyrics and stuff like that. 00:41:30.680 --> 00:41:59.140 But I just enjoyed listening to it. It was fun. It's kind of like it's metal, but there's a lot of punky aspects to it. I like it better than most things I've heard from Max since his leaving Sepultura. I do wish they would turn the bass down so you could hear the rest of the mix better, but it's still pretty good. Did Jason Newstead produce it? Whoever did Imagine Dragons, I believe. Well, we know it wasn't Lars. Yeah. 00:42:03.160 --> 00:42:06.900 I really like the album. I think it's really fun and it rips and it has 00:42:07.600 --> 00:42:10.760 punk elements but just a whole punk aesthetic to it but it's still metal. 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.500 No, it is metal. It's more a crossover thing. Do you like Nail Bomb? 00:42:15.180 --> 00:42:15.980 I do, yeah. Cool. 00:42:18.620 --> 00:42:19.300 All right, Jay. 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.680 I'm a sucker for kind of old school 00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:28.119 German thrash even though I think they suck now. I love bands 00:42:28.140 --> 00:42:58.100 like Destruction back in the day, obviously Creator. I'm sure I'm leaving some things out there. Creator does not suck now. No, no, Creator does not suck now, and I'm very much looking forward to that record, which we should get the second half of the year, I'm assuming. But this harkens back to the old days. Kind of prototypical German thrash done really well with catchy hooks. Grave Ripper, Radiated Remains. Highly recommended if you haven't heard it. It's just a straightforward thrash record. Nothing adventurous about it, but 00:42:58.140 --> 00:43:28.060 Since they have good riffs and good hooks, it's a good time. That one is right up your alley. I just wrote it down. Because George gave me a pen to change my list and write things down. What a great name for a band, too. Yeah, I mean, and even the cover is like so cliche in the best kind of way. So it's, you get what you pay for in this one, and it's good, though. You know, it's an EP, right? Hold on, let's test that theory. 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:57.980 It has six songs. Okay. How long is it, Jay? Okay, yeah, let's work on that. Three, six, nine, eleven, fifteen. Oh, yeah, it's not going to make 30 minutes. Not even close, bud. Well, that's my EP list. Is Grave Ripper one word or two? Dude, you're the one that told us about it. No, no, no. I posted it. I just assumed it was probably Will. Okay. 00:43:58.120 --> 00:44:27.760 Is it one word or two? It's one. But I think the R is capitalized, even though it's squished together. AJ, you've got like about five hours to find an album if you want to swap it out. So they should really be called Shallow Grave. Yeah. Actually, I will say this. It's good enough that I'll stick to my guns on the EP thing. But also clearly, I wonder how many other EPs I have on here. Wait, so you do have an EP? Possibly five. 00:44:28.140 --> 00:44:57.560 in your list. Oh, yeah. So they're from. I mean, you did say you could put anything you wanted on your man. Of course. Yeah. I'll leave it there with no guilt, with no guilty feelings. Anything that's like nine minutes, fuck you. Everything else is fair game as far as I'm concerned. Wait, so did you just say, you didn't say they were from Germany, just to remind you of German thrash? Because they're from Indianapolis. Yeah, yeah. No, it's totally, I mean, it doesn't remind me of German thrash. It's fucking German thrash. 00:44:57.600 --> 00:45:25.940 It's German Thresh worship, but well done. Well done, Will. I just put it on my wish list for EPs. Will's got one. I got my first EP to put on my list. My number 23. This is our first repeat, I believe, and that would be Ghastly Mercurial Passages. That's all I got to say about that. 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:57.040 Except to say that it's interesting. It's kind of hovering down the lower portion of your list, not unlike me. So we'll see if it shows up in some other places. I like it when things hang around around my lower portion. Will's been doing that all day. All right. Do we want to refill? Let's do it because it's kind of lunchtime here. I want to at least grab a snack real quick. I won't take that long. Okay. Can they deliver Jay at the burrito place? You're listening to the Middle Heads Podcast. 00:45:57.600 --> 00:46:27.560 And if you don't listen, then the hell with you. Number 22. Number 22. Although I got a... Acacia Avenue. Yeah, indeed. But before we talk about that, Will, what are we drinking? Abraxas. What is this nectar of the gods? It needs no introduction. Okay. Everyone else, I'm sure, over there, maybe except for Jay, because he's waiting for Abraxas 69 gamer tonight. But... Booyah! George, we've had Abraxas when I've been up with Will. I know. I'm just... 00:46:28.140 --> 00:46:57.560 It's a perennial brewing. It's their imperial style made in the Mexican chocolate style. So it's got like chocolate and chilies and cinnamon in it. It's an imperial style. It's extremely expensive. And I got the cheap version because there's like the versions with vanilla and coffee in it. They're like another 10 bucks. No, they had a half empty one. He was like, I'll take it. I have to quickly tell you a very brief and funny story because 00:46:57.580 --> 00:47:27.500 Will just broke into 22 Acacia Avenue. And with God as my witness, I was at in Marin about two weeks ago. And I was on Acacia Avenue at Dominican University, which we just went there to just have a picnic because it's a quiet campus. And I was like, and I was like, you know what, I'll look up on my map app and see if there's a 22 Acacia Avenue here because I was going to take a picture of it and send it to you guys. And there was, and I drove there and there was no street sign, so I didn't have to take a picture. But with God as my witness, 00:47:28.100 --> 00:47:29.260 It was a nunnery 00:47:32.740 --> 00:47:34.080 Well Jay you're a Dominican 00:47:34.350 --> 00:47:35.000 What did you expect 00:47:36.020 --> 00:47:38.960 But I mean that they should have ended up at 22 Acacia Avenue 00:47:39.050 --> 00:47:39.820 It was just perfect 00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:43.060 As soon as you started the story I kept thinking 00:47:43.130 --> 00:47:44.840 Okay they're Dominican I know where this is 00:47:44.850 --> 00:47:46.240 I know exactly what's coming up 00:47:46.630 --> 00:47:48.100 Oh yeah you know that campus it's nice 00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:50.380 And you confirmed it for me 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.240 Part of me wants to back up and explain 00:47:53.350 --> 00:47:55.080 What that means and then I'm like 00:47:55.290 --> 00:47:57.560 You know what if you're listening to this podcast you know what that means 00:47:57.560 --> 00:48:26.180 You should be listening to this podcast. Get the Googles out and figure it out. Figure it out. Start with the first album first and then move on to it and then you'll get the full story. Go tug on your balls. Charlotte the Harlem. Markisan. Well, first I have cracked open the mead. I drank that stout so fast and it was 14%. Now I'm onto the mead. Thunder Oak. 00:48:27.580 --> 00:48:57.440 Honeywine aged in oak barrels. Yes. You know, last time I feel like you had Thunder Oak. And drinking the Thunder Oak. Oh, Sean. You guys are waiting for it. Hold to that, gentlemen. So just wait for it. 00:49:00.100 --> 00:49:26.200 By the way, I gotta say, still the best moment of the whole thing is, you think he's okay? Hey, he's fine. Don't worry about it. He just fell on the floor. We'll see him in a little bit. The best part is me coming back to finish the cast. Yeah. He rallied. Yes. I didn't even, I forgot that it was the Thunder Oak. 00:49:28.640 --> 00:49:55.920 It's like you forgot you had no idea what was going on. See, that sample's labeled, Thunderfuck. Oh my god, that's the funniest thing. So, number 22. We could just get you to do that in studio with all of us, Marcus, and then our lives would be made. That's possible, because, you know, anytime we get together, it's fucking on. 00:49:57.680 --> 00:50:27.280 What's happening? Just no poutine beforehand. Oh, God. God, that made me laugh harder than black gays. No, that was funny. Oh, it's black metal. All right, so yeah, number 22. So this is mentioned before, and I got to credit Will. He's the one who mentioned it, but I also got to credit him because I didn't know about this band before he said something. He said no one ever. Death Doom? 00:50:28.500 --> 00:50:31.640 And the same wheelhouse is enslaved. So I was surprised that Will 00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:35.600 like this because it has the mix of clean and growled vocals, which we know he hates. 00:50:35.940 --> 00:50:39.420 And it is Seeming Emptiness, Bliss Entombed. 00:50:40.260 --> 00:50:47.860 So I think it's a really well-crafted album. It has a great mix of heaviness, melancholy, and melody. 00:50:48.240 --> 00:50:55.140 And again, I can't believe Will recommended this, but I can't wait for you to recommend a children's choir album. 00:50:58.119 --> 00:50:58.440 Yeah. 00:50:59.420 --> 00:50:59.740 Anyway, go ahead. 00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:02.100 No, I was just saying I was pretty surprised when you recommended it too. 00:51:02.680 --> 00:51:05.460 No, I mean, but the good parts are so good. 00:51:05.560 --> 00:51:10.280 Like it's got, what was, um, there's a band, there's a band that. 00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:11.420 I got to clarify. 00:51:11.580 --> 00:51:11.860 I'm sorry. 00:51:12.060 --> 00:51:13.240 I don't mean to cut you off. 00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:16.000 I have to clarify something to anyone out there listening. 00:51:16.240 --> 00:51:18.620 Listen, the clean vocals are actually very good on this album. 00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:22.820 It's just Will's trying really hard to make it seem like he hates them or not that he hates them. 00:51:22.940 --> 00:51:23.900 They're just not his cup of tea. 00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:24.320 Yeah. 00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:54.340 Yeah, yeah. But they are actually very good. No, they're done well. I mean, they're not terrible. It's not like somebody with like- It's not his preference. Yes, yes. It's not like I was singing. I think the fact that he recommended it shows that they work really well on the album or else he would not have read it. John, what's the name of that band that you love that we said does Morbid Angel better than Morbid Angel? I think it starts at an A. Ackloid. Ackloid, yes. It kind of reminds me of that. The parts of Ackloid that 00:51:54.380 --> 00:52:24.340 I love are so, so amazing. And like I said, they do Morbid Angel better than Morbid Angel does. And like this, like there's aspects of this, dare I say, they do Opeth better than Opeth. But it's like, it's the, like, not the, it's not constant, but the clean singing sometimes like, ah, you know, it's not bad. It's just, I'd just rather you didn't do that. I think, because this will come up again, I'm sure. And I don't want to give away too much, but I think maybe this will help. It's not that his 00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:52.400 I think maybe there's some parts he shouldn't have used clean singing he should went to the harsh vocals in those parts I do acknowledge there's some parts I'm like oh man he could have really just knocked us out of the park with with harsher vocals because this guy who he's actually from in morning he's the lead singer from in morning his harsh vocals are the best on this album he's ever done yeah they're amazing the harsh vocals are amazing the music is amazing yeah yeah reminds me a lot of Trevor you know just don't do clean singing and it's amazing 00:52:54.220 --> 00:52:54.620 Okay. 00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:57.540 Matt. 00:52:58.700 --> 00:52:59.360 Okey doke. 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.760 Deuce Deuce is the band is Sumnuri. 00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:05.400 The album is Nefarious Wave. 00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:09.040 This is the second album from a U.S. sludge metal band. 00:53:09.860 --> 00:53:11.740 I came across them in a recent issue of Decibel. 00:53:13.700 --> 00:53:18.580 And God, and I hate to go back to this, but when I listen to this album, I feel like, 00:53:18.680 --> 00:53:21.140 and I know we all fell off the Mastodon train at different points. 00:53:21.540 --> 00:53:50.380 I fell off after Crack the Sky. I feel like if this is what Mastodon would have sounded like on the next album, we would be talking much differently about them. It's definitely sludgy, but it's a little bit progressive and definitely would check it out. Cool. That's great. I really like that. I considered it for the list. Right on. Gian. All right. I'm going to give my beer first because I cracked open another one. 00:53:52.700 --> 00:53:53.100 Unani. 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:55.120 It's our quad. 00:53:55.740 --> 00:53:56.040 Unani? 00:53:56.200 --> 00:53:56.540 Yes. 00:53:57.060 --> 00:53:58.280 I know Marcus knows that. 00:53:58.920 --> 00:53:59.220 I do. 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:00.200 I love that brewery. 00:54:00.580 --> 00:54:03.800 Yeah, we've been fortunate to get them, and so I've been enjoying them. 00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:06.160 John, we need to get together and drink some Belgians, man. 00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:09.020 I'm down, man. 00:54:09.680 --> 00:54:14.300 All right, so I'm going to get absolutely eviscerated for this pick. 00:54:14.660 --> 00:54:14.900 Uh-oh. 00:54:15.860 --> 00:54:45.340 Not because it's Gojira, but because of me picking this band and putting them so low. I mentioned this to Will earlier. Will, here it is. My number 22 is Panopticon, and again, Into the Light. Let me have it. Go on. One of us might have changed that record, just so you know, John. Oh, wow. I like this album a lot. I actually really do, and there are a couple songs on here like A Snowless Winter and Moth Eatin' Soul that I think are outstanding. 00:54:46.060 --> 00:55:13.000 It is just a fucking wall of sound for me of blast beats. And there's moments where I'm like, you don't need blast beats here. One song after Moth Eatin' Soul, where he, it's not an acoustic song, but it's a clean vocals and it's a very folky song. It's outstanding. And then towards the end, he just comes in with the blast beats. I'm like, fuck, you're killing me. I do like this album. Let me repeat. 00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:42.600 That's a great choice, John. 00:55:43.740 --> 00:56:11.120 I'm sure it's going to be higher than other people's. Oh, I know it well. It's, you know, it's what you like, John. No, I listen to it and, you know, whatever. John. I'm going to give a spoiler. I'm going to put you at ease and give you a spoiler alert. It's all my honorable mentions. I actually bought the album. Which means a lot. No, I just. It's not on my list, though. I think it's funny because it's a reverse will. He's like, it's all this nice clean stuff. And then they mess it up with these blast beats. 00:56:13.040 --> 00:56:42.420 Well, no, because I think he has a very unique ability to create Americana in his music. Yeah. I love that aspect of it. And I love it. Yes. And I felt like that one song, it killed it on it. It could have come as a new song, but I just felt like that one song, and I wish I had the title of it off the top of my head. I don't. I just feel like he kind of, I don't know, went a little too far with it there. Just my own opinion. But I do like, yeah, let me repeat. I like the album. Take about 20% off that, okay? 00:56:42.520 --> 00:56:43.380 We like you, John. 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:48.680 I mean, it's not like you picked Gojira. 00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:52.460 They were close to being my number 25. 00:56:53.230 --> 00:56:53.580 They were. 00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:58.540 It's not on my list at all, so we have that in common. 00:56:59.500 --> 00:57:00.700 Really? Jay, I thought you liked it. 00:57:01.240 --> 00:57:01.740 I liked it. 00:57:02.490 --> 00:57:03.840 And then I kind of fell out of love with it. 00:57:05.220 --> 00:57:06.780 I'm not going to be too critical of it, 00:57:06.780 --> 00:57:09.020 but there's something about it very specifically I don't like. 00:57:09.660 --> 00:57:10.180 Oh, okay. 00:57:10.330 --> 00:57:11.020 Tell us off air then. 00:57:11.100 --> 00:57:41.060 And it's not insulting to him, it's insulting to those of you who hold this so near and dear to your heart that I don't want to crap on it. I mean, it's not going to change. No, it won't. Okay. All right. Now I really want to hear it. I feel like the lyrics, the Americana stuff, I feel like the lyrics are fairly random. I don't feel any emotional attachment to him, to those lyrics. I feel like he's trying to kind of reach out and do 00:57:41.080 --> 00:57:49.460 I guess I guess I guess that's the insulting part to me it's 00:57:49.580 --> 00:57:52.680 empty it's empty I hear and I'm just like I hear what you're trying to do dude but I feel like 00:57:52.860 --> 00:57:57.360 it'S manufactured it's not generally you're a you're a big Leonard Cohen fan though right Jay 00:57:57.830 --> 00:58:04.140 yeah yeah yeah and um and and I just and I think that's it it's that's the adjacent but others there's 00:58:04.220 --> 00:58:08.140 some other great songwriters I love like that tooand I'm not going to get into the lists or anything 00:58:08.140 --> 00:58:08.800 But I'll just say 00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:11.320 I get it 00:58:11.380 --> 00:58:11.840 I get it 00:58:11.900 --> 00:58:12.620 But I think he's just 00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:13.960 He's really good at 00:58:14.550 --> 00:58:15.900 Doing that style of thing 00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:16.720 But I don't think it's 00:58:16.900 --> 00:58:18.000 It comes from the center of 00:58:18.600 --> 00:58:18.920 His soul 00:58:19.040 --> 00:58:20.220 Like I hear in some other musicians 00:58:20.350 --> 00:58:20.640 I like 00:58:20.980 --> 00:58:22.000 You guys might hear it otherwise 00:58:22.130 --> 00:58:22.720 But I just don't 00:58:22.720 --> 00:58:23.280 For the record 00:58:23.540 --> 00:58:26.060 I like the Americana music aspect of it 00:58:26.380 --> 00:58:26.900 Better yeah 00:58:27.180 --> 00:58:27.380 Yes 00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:28.340 And I also don't think 00:58:28.420 --> 00:58:29.400 He's a particularly good singer 00:58:29.590 --> 00:58:29.940 To be blunt 00:58:30.120 --> 00:58:31.040 But it's just 00:58:31.080 --> 00:58:31.900 There's an X factor 00:58:32.080 --> 00:58:32.620 That's missing there 00:58:32.720 --> 00:58:34.860 And everything about it 00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:35.900 It's like it's designed 00:58:36.010 --> 00:58:36.660 For me to like it 00:58:36.700 --> 00:58:37.360 Let's put it that way 00:58:37.360 --> 00:59:07.060 But I just can't connect to it. I mean, I didn't even listen to the lyrics. I mean, I didn't read the lyrics. It's the emotional quality of the music that I like. Fair enough. Yeah. And I get that. I get that. And it's funny because that has long been my comments on this guy. And I withhold it just because some of you guys love him so much, you know. I'll be honest with you. I'm going to be blind with you and tell you that's what I don't like about Kevin C. There. The X Factor is just not there for me. I feel like Matt's going to come through the back door behind Jay right now. Matt has been chomping at the bit to say something. 00:59:08.860 --> 00:59:37.340 I tell you the thing that the thing that I love the most about what we do is that we are six guys who have fucking phenomenal taste in music and yet we disagree on stuff for different reasons that's the beauty like I mean how often do you read something and people like this is the most amazing fucking album ever and then you put it on you're like holy fuck yeah all right that's cool I get it you know so I mean that's that's well and I by the way I don't I haven't withheld my opinion because I think it has any 00:59:37.380 --> 01:00:07.320 and that it will be insulting to people. It's just there are things I love so much and when somebody's dismissive I just sort of feel like it's a little heartbreaking and I don't want to be like that. So I mean it's this this is literally he's literally Jane the shit out of this. I mean it's no different I mean it's a different trait but it's no different than like the conversation about clean vocals like the better you sing the less interested I am just. Yeah. I'm finding that to be true. I'm 01:00:08.160 --> 01:00:37.320 What I love about this is that there are certain bands that I hear and I'm like, I am just, I'm like gangbusters over the clean singing. I'm looking myself in the mirror like, you love this, Matt. What is going on? You know? And so. I like the comment you just made though, because I have to tell you, there are people who I think there are a lot of people. I just listen to so much music and I know you guys do too, but there are people who I think are, who have amazing voices and there are people with shitty voices who are better singers than they are. And that's just a 01:00:37.380 --> 01:01:05.940 I have. It's because it feels real to me. Like they're really whatever it is. I don't know how to explain that. But. Hey Jay I bet you David Lee Roth is one of them. I do think he's a better singer than you do. But I but that's I just. On the first four albums yes. Live he's a clown. Oh yeah no totally. Yes. Yeah. But in any case I didn't want to crap on it. Yeah. I mean. I didn't want to crap on it. But you did. Man I feel so good about my pick now. 01:01:07.340 --> 01:01:07.940 Yes! 01:01:09.340 --> 01:01:14.160 Well, it's interesting because I know you probably like bands whose lyrics aren't very good still. 01:01:14.620 --> 01:01:14.920 Absolutely. 01:01:15.240 --> 01:01:15.600 Oh, dude. 01:01:15.740 --> 01:01:20.600 It's interesting how this is what you single out for this album as opposed to something else. 01:01:21.180 --> 01:01:22.540 Yeah, Jay, are you a Whitesnake fan? 01:01:23.860 --> 01:01:26.440 Well, I am. Old school. Old school Whitesnake. 01:01:26.620 --> 01:01:30.060 Well, the lyrics haven't changed in any album. It's all about Whitesnake. 01:01:30.060 --> 01:01:31.240 Slot it in! 01:01:31.640 --> 01:01:32.760 Wait, they did change one of them. 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:33.320 Good job. 01:01:33.700 --> 01:01:36.180 They did change one of them, John, from Hobo to Drifter. 01:01:36.460 --> 01:01:36.560 Yeah. 01:01:38.540 --> 01:02:05.600 Here I go again on my own. Change the lyrics. Two different albums. But you're right, Marcus. Manowar has terrible lyrics, you know, and I like some of that. Oh, man, where's that punch? I was going to, you know, say a specific band that you like, but there's lots of bands that have to. Let's dick punch each other. Alice Cooper. All right. So it seems like I feel like if we were in the same room, we'd be wrestling by now. Yeah. 01:02:06.660 --> 01:02:08.500 And then like wrestling turns into kissing and 01:02:09.300 --> 01:02:17.460 Well, so here's the thing. Anybody who feels like a pariah anywhere during this list and just say, well, you know, let's Jay. What do you think about that one? 01:02:20.100 --> 01:02:35.920 Well, we are only on 22 and I know it's been it's hard to say, but I'm guessing like an hour and a half. It's been it's been an hour and 23 minutes. We're on pick 22. So, okay. Well, let's go to Will. It's better than a regular episode, by the way. We'd still have beyond have the guest on. 01:02:38.040 --> 01:03:05.660 Is it on me? 22, yeah. It is, sir. Okay. So this is my first pen whip change because somehow I just completely forgot to put this on my list. And it's Ghastly Mercurial Passages because it was my, I think it was my album of the month. And then I completely forgot to put it on my list. So I had to cross one out and put this one in. Wait, who'd you dump? Memoriam. Aww. Oh, no, that's such a shit. 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:33.700 I mean, we're at 22. It's not like we're at number four. You could literally flip your list. I know. It's the mid-year. You should all pay attention to what we're doing right now. Actually, you should. You definitely should. Because the big box sites suck ass. Some of us put a lot of effort into this. Some of us do covers and we're ready to go. J, go. Let's speed this up. 01:03:36.540 --> 01:03:38.740 possibly Dune, but it's Dune. 01:03:39.650 --> 01:03:40.260 Yeah, it's Dune. 01:03:40.700 --> 01:03:41.420 It's Dune. 01:03:41.560 --> 01:03:42.020 It is Dune. 01:03:42.250 --> 01:03:42.780 Okay, wow. 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:45.000 I figured that all by myself. 01:03:45.080 --> 01:03:46.880 All their music is about Dune. 01:03:47.540 --> 01:03:48.380 Oh, well, there you go. 01:03:49.020 --> 01:03:50.320 You should read the lyrics, Jay. 01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:51.040 Yeah. 01:03:51.220 --> 01:03:52.200 Jay, just read the lyrics. 01:03:53.180 --> 01:03:53.540 Yeah. 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.860 If you cared about such things so much, maybe you would. 01:03:56.950 --> 01:03:58.980 You only read the lyrics to shit that you hate. 01:03:59.640 --> 01:03:59.820 Yeah. 01:03:59.950 --> 01:04:00.360 Oh, my God. 01:04:00.660 --> 01:04:03.020 Jay, just pretend they're like a band from Roman times. 01:04:03.220 --> 01:04:04.460 That's you and not a fee. 01:04:04.900 --> 01:04:34.240 Yeah, exactly. So, but help. Well, then, okay. You guys are so smart with your lyrics. Name this song. Name this album. This song. It's the land that's rich in spice, the Sand Riders and the Mice. That they call the Muad Div. I just read Dune and the second one, Dune Messiah. So, what fucking song is that, you fucking posers? Well, the only song I know that's about Dune is the Iron Maiden one. Well, you got it right by default then, yet. But you didn't know the lyrics. 01:04:35.720 --> 01:05:04.380 I don't remember the mice part. It's been a while since I read the lyrics, but it did sound like... I don't know how Bruce remembers those lyrics. Yeah. This is a kind of... It's more to it than this. It's funny. I will say this. My list is pretty varied, but there's a little more post-metal on here than I'm used to having. And I would call this squarely in the post-metal camp. There's a little ISIS fix here and some other things as well. It sounds to me like we'll probably hear it again. So a solid record. I'll listen to this one a bunch this year. 01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:33.620 It is good. Yeah. And I actually assumed by the cover that it was probably about Dune, or at least I thought it was sci-fi. Yeah, but you didn't bother to read the lyrics. I don't even think you've seen it. He just read the Panopticon lyrics. After that, he's like, I'm not reading any more lyrics. I love how Jay torpedoed his own argument against The Last Hour. He just completely crushed his argument on Panopticon. He memorized more Panopticon and chemist lyrics than anyone here. For his own pick. Just not for me. 01:05:34.020 --> 01:06:03.360 You know what? I'll add to my argument then, and that is that you have to be a good salesman. You can sell me the worst fucking lyrics in history if you can sell them. You know what I mean? But no, I didn't write these fucking lyrics. Literally. George, take us out of number 22. Jay Dickinson, the librarian who cannot read. No, who would not. Yeah. That's a Twilight Zone episode. 01:06:04.500 --> 01:06:33.520 All the time in the world and my glasses are broken. By the way, I couldn't go find another fucking pair of glasses. He couldn't see him. Figure it out. Figure it out. Sorry. He got all the time in the world. All right. My number 22 is Preserved in Time by Wheel. Oh, nice. I'm going to hear that a few more times, I bet. You know what's interesting about Wheel? 01:06:34.000 --> 01:07:03.420 Aspects of their lyrics every now and again. Jay, what do you know? I should say, not the lyrics, vocals. The vocals that remind me a lot of Halloween. That's a name that's coming up a lot right now, too. Yeah, didn't they just release something? Yeah, it's like yesterday or something. I haven't listened to it at all. That's interesting you say that, Will, because that album just came out yesterday. I haven't listened to them in a very long time. Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, man. That was the last one I liked. That was the only one. 01:07:04.040 --> 01:07:33.280 This one is very good from a lot of different places. I like one and Walls of Jericho, like the early stuff. Yeah, Walls of Jericho and then the Keepers. I prefer one. I didn't care for two all that much, but it's all right. Tell us about Wheel. It's Doom. Yeah, okay. I don't have anything else written down anymore. I don't do nothing. I remember their first album came out in 2010. I have it on vinyl. 01:07:36.739 --> 01:08:03.900 And then like, I know in 2013, they put out their second album, Icarus. And so it's been like eight years since their last album. And it was like, hey, new album. Cool. Check it out. It's on my list. I feel like there's two bands named Wheel. There is. There was another band called Wheel that also put out an album this year. And that's confused me. I got confused about it, too. I was like, oh, cool. New wheel. And I was like, that's the wheel I'm thinking. That was that other wheel. The third wheel. Don't be the third wheel. 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:33.440 All right. All right. Awesome. But yeah, just take us out of the show. Oh, Jesus. Yes. 21. So number 21 for me is the flight of Sleipnir on Eisenwald records. So the last flight album from several years ago made my top 40. I think it was before. Yeah, definitely before I was on the metal heads. So I was really looking forward to this follow up. And I love that they doubled down on the black metal for this one. 01:08:34.000 --> 01:09:03.000 It's more focused to me. It's more dangerous to me than their previous releases, but it still incorporates the doom and folk elements that work for the band that make it stand out for me. So I dig this album. I don't know if I like it as much as the last one, but enough that it's number 21. Right on. I started listening to that and I forgot to come back to it. I've listened to stuff from them in the past, though. Right on. 01:09:04.020 --> 01:09:33.960 All their stuff's good. It's really good. This one just seems more focused to me and heavier. More black metal for sure. Lyrics aren't as dumb. The lyrics are phenomenal. They make sense. They're genuine. They're a little muddy, but good. Sorry, Jay. No, I will never share another opinion. I know how you feel. No, I will share all my opinions, especially about your opinions. 01:09:34.020 --> 01:10:03.460 Thank you. Please shit on me at your leisure. I said mine. Scheisse. Scheisse. It's great because I'm going to go back. Every pick that Jay makes, I'm going to read all the lyrics. I like that now it's like obviously the central thing I like or dislike about music. That's good. There can only be one thing. That's right. You cannot be multifaceted. All right, Matt. 01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:33.220 All right, my 21. First off, I did switch to Zombie Dust by Thrice Floyds. A lovely pale ale. I saw all my peeps on Untap drinking it, and it made me thirsty. Picked it up. Love it. My number 21, Stonehealer, Conquistador. Conquistador. This is the first album from a progressive U.S. black metal band. Yeah, I really dig this album. It's all over the place. It's aggressive. It's got good melodies, really good songwriting. Yeah, it's good shit. Right on. 01:10:34.480 --> 01:11:03.640 Right on, right on. All right, all right, all right. George McConaughey, everybody. Indeed. John, then. All right. We're starting to cross-pollinate our list here a little bit. Jay, you're more than welcome to shit on the lyrics from this band if you want to. What's your life, buddy? My number 21 is Diffney. Or as some people know it. 01:11:07.700 --> 01:11:08.100 Yes. 01:11:09.300 --> 01:11:09.500 Edmund 01:11:10.900 --> 01:11:12.000 from Metal Blade Records. 01:11:12.380 --> 01:11:12.980 They're Scottish. 01:11:14.320 --> 01:11:16.240 And Jay mentioned them as a 01:11:16.700 --> 01:11:17.540 post-metal band. 01:11:18.860 --> 01:11:20.260 The lines between post-metal 01:11:20.260 --> 01:11:22.020 and sludge metal are literally blurred. 01:11:22.320 --> 01:11:24.040 But yes, I agree. But they have a progressive 01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:25.640 slant to their sound. 01:11:26.860 --> 01:11:28.120 Jay, since you're the only one who's mentioned 01:11:28.220 --> 01:11:30.120 so far, do you feel that this album could have been 01:11:30.280 --> 01:11:32.080 trimmed down a little? Because it feels like it got a little 01:11:32.420 --> 01:11:33.580 long in the tooth in a few parts. 01:11:33.700 --> 01:12:03.620 Yep. I don't mind if you're going to get in a groove and stay there, you know, and that's all very well. In fact, I love that. But yeah, it just a little bit. It's a little longer in the tooth in a few places. Yeah. But I think this is an album that if I go back and listen some more, I'll either dismiss it for the rest of the year or I will probably place higher on my list. There's a lot of quality on this album, I think. And I actually love the kind of Art Deco album cover. Yeah, they have, which is kind of cool. It's also heavy as fuck. 01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:33.680 by the way it's a really heavy record i just this is now i think you have to kind of sit down and listen to one time and then the second time start to dissect it a little because they're doing a lot on this so uh number 21 divny dune yeah i really like some i have it on vinyl and it's one of those that um i agree with you john i didn't know you know where it should go on the list it's not on my list it's an honorable mention for me but i just didn't know where it would go i don't know how i feel about it each time 01:12:33.700 --> 01:12:36.620 I listen to it. I like it, but I just don't know where it slots. 01:12:37.120 --> 01:13:03.680 Do you feel it's an album that has a potential to come back? Cause I feel like that's an album that has a chance to just blow right up my list or literally disappear into the fucking heap of albums we listened to all year. No, I definitely agree. It's my number one honorable mention. Yeah. So, and I feel like he could have popped up there anytime. And I had it in the top 10 for a while. Yeah. Actually, I'll back you up to John and tell you that I listened to it. 01:13:03.720 --> 01:13:33.620 it a lot when it first came out, which was some months ago. And then I didn't listen and I put it back on like this in the last three weeks when I really started to work on my list. So I had kind of forgot about it in a weird sort of way. So I think that goes right with what you're saying about it. Yeah. Yeah. Plus the June movie is coming out and I'm going to be like, oh, I got, I want to listen to that album. Yeah. We'll listen to like, fuck, that's the soundtrack is from that album. Yep. Is this a Divni movie? Yeah. There you go. Nice. Yeah. All right. 01:13:33.720 --> 01:14:01.860 Will. Oh, shit. I put my glasses on. Oh, boy. Look. Oh, boy. I really wanted to put this lower on my list so I'd be super drunk when I had to say this. I'm going to attempt to say the entire name of this band. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I know who this must be. Exemper... Exemperitus. 01:14:05.420 --> 01:14:23.000 que se le ha hecho. 01:14:33.720 --> 01:15:03.680 The album name is Saratu is the name of the album. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Saratu. Yeah, they're from Minsk, which is the capital of White Russia or Belarus. Belarus. Yeah. It's kind of like this cool, on Willow Tip Records, it's kind of like this cool deathy doom thing. I don't know. I'm just going to keep going because I'm 01:15:10.180 --> 01:15:11.380 I'm tired from life. 01:15:11.440 --> 01:15:12.580 We were tired from hearing that. 01:15:13.020 --> 01:15:13.220 I know. 01:15:14.160 --> 01:15:14.960 Just go check it out. 01:15:15.480 --> 01:15:15.900 It's great. 01:15:17.300 --> 01:15:20.460 Kind of like mid-paced, lower-paced death metal. 01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:21.380 At a medium pace. 01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:23.240 And that's early in the year that came out, right? 01:15:23.740 --> 01:15:24.000 What's that? 01:15:24.400 --> 01:15:25.380 Didn't that come out early in the year? 01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:25.980 Yeah, it did. 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:28.480 Yeah, I feel like it was like February, I think. 01:15:28.620 --> 01:15:29.880 That's my February album. 01:15:30.120 --> 01:15:30.340 It was. 01:15:31.120 --> 01:15:32.260 I just remember that coming out a lot. 01:15:32.400 --> 01:15:33.480 It just seems like forever. 01:15:33.540 --> 01:16:03.520 I think it was February because I think I literally had my daughter pick between werewolves that one and thundering hooves and she picked the one that she could pronounce or read the easiest which is werewolves and I forgot about werewolves and thundering hooves yeah a long year that's where the wolf my number 21 is for those of you who need a goat whore fix when there's not a new goat whore record which I think there is one of the 01:16:04.080 --> 01:16:04.940 I think so too. 01:16:05.580 --> 01:16:06.880 Well, they should take it out of the bathroom. 01:16:07.100 --> 01:16:08.660 Put it somewhere else. 01:16:09.420 --> 01:16:12.080 Which just might be a little dismissive of this because it's good on its own. 01:16:12.440 --> 01:16:14.860 Mia's Mata, Sunlight, Songs of Earth, and Atrophy. 01:16:15.980 --> 01:16:19.960 Cool, thrashy, slightly old school, Blackie Death, thrash. 01:16:20.190 --> 01:16:20.540 Good stuff. 01:16:21.220 --> 01:16:22.360 And a very cool cover, by the way. 01:16:22.360 --> 01:16:24.740 I did put it on my covers list that we're not doing. 01:16:26.180 --> 01:16:26.760 Spoiler alert. 01:16:28.340 --> 01:16:29.860 You'll forget, and I don't blame you. 01:16:30.260 --> 01:16:30.500 All right. 01:16:31.180 --> 01:17:00.940 Everyone just push pause and stop. They're not doing covers. I'm not listening anymore. We're doing it next month. We're doing it next month. It's going to be great. George. My number 21. The band is called Paranorm. The album is Empyrean. Some thrashy thrashiness. I don't know why it sounded funny. Thrashy thrashiness. Thrashy that you love a long time. We like to flash you. 01:17:01.860 --> 01:17:31.100 The Thras and Blast. Thras and Blast. I like it. That's what Joel should do. Joel should go pure thrash. Well, you know, you know, that's. Thras and Blast. You know that Dave Gold of Woods of Epre came up with the name Thras and Blast, and it is the Scandinavian pronunciation of thrash and blast. Nice. Thras and Blast. Thras and Blast. Yeah. George, did I tell you? 01:17:31.180 --> 01:18:01.140 that I put a throst and blot in the by the horns as a place on the map did you I did they actually go to throst and blot nice they get high in the woods it's in the woods you should have totally fucked it up Markisan a made it like a fucking beach town or something like that I'll blow Joel's mind that would have been good we don't have trees in this town I bought two 01:18:05.140 --> 01:18:30.740 I bought two issues of each one, but the second one I bought two issues so Evelyn can have her own version. Evelyn appears. Yeah, Evelyn appears. First appearance. Yeah. But anyway, I was letting her know, like, oh, you see the name of this animal, Zoso, right? That's the name of this cat. Yeah. Or the unicorn. What's the other unicorn name for? 01:18:31.860 --> 01:18:58.940 Well, both of the unicorns are named after our cat. So my cat and Jason's cat, his cat's name is Rigby. Oh, okay. In issue three, which comes out soon, in the back, we actually explain that. He talks about designing the unicorns and we have pictures of our cats back there. Nice. But yeah, but so, so I think, I feel like this might've been the first cast I was on where we did, what was it called? Brain Busters or something? We did trivia and it was on. 01:18:58.980 --> 01:19:25.580 The Mind or Something Crushers. Skull Crushers. Skull Crushers, yeah. I think he's talking about something completely different. Skull Crushers, right. But all of the band members had different sigils or something for it. Cool. Sigil for Saturn or something like that. Right. 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:58.960 20. Yeah, that was me, right? So back to you for 20. My turn. I think this came out. Oh, yeah. George mentioned this one. Volconis Odyssey from the Sign Records. Just progressive Stoner Doom album. Molten hot mix of just super heavy parts, fun riffs. It's got slower meditative passages. I think the record has a lot of great songwriting and arrangements on it. It's catchy as hell. And it's just it's just teaming with 01:19:58.980 --> 01:20:28.400 That's what really stands out the most for me about this album. I don't know if this is a kind of band that I listen to a lot. I think George said that too. It just sounds vital. When I listen to it, I always think, man, this band must have had a blast making this record. Because it just has that quality to it. It's really good. I purchased it on vinyl too just because I want to hear it on that format. And you wanted that album cover on vinyl. Oh my God, it's glorious. Isn't it? 01:20:28.460 --> 01:20:58.440 That crazy bird on it. Oh man. So good. Yeah. Awesome. That's a good pick. Yeah. All right, Matt. Number 20. I went with the crowned Royal Destroyer. Not to be confused with the popular Netflix program. I love these guys. I mean, this is thrash intensity. I remember back at the last time I went to Valken. The talk was, did you guys go see Angels or 01:20:58.480 --> 01:21:28.180 Demons and Wizards. That's what everybody went and saw. They either went to Opeth or they went to Demons and Wizards. I went and saw The Crown in the smallest stage that exists, and it was amazing. And the thing is, like, their albums have that same intensity that they do live. So I really dig this one. You know, that makes me wonder, with the whole album title Royal Destroyer, if they are, like, making a sort of a joke about the show. Right. I never thought of that. I didn't either until just now. I'm like, oh, yeah. I mean, the show's The Crown. 01:21:30.040 --> 01:21:58.140 And there's another band that has two albums out by the same name of a band, right? Is there another band out called Crown right now? There is a band. It's not The Crown, though. It's just Crown. Crown, but every letter has a space in between, doesn't it, I think? Yeah, yeah. They've been around for a while. I really like them, and that would have made my list, but it wasn't metal enough. It's kind of wild how at some point, it's like if you play guitar, you can only play so many. 01:21:58.320 --> 01:22:03.660 notes or at some point you run into the same name bands after a while. 01:22:04.260 --> 01:22:09.980 Yeah, and they always do things to differentiate, like put X's between the letters. 01:22:11.060 --> 01:22:11.780 Yeah, exactly. 01:22:13.140 --> 01:22:13.660 Stuff. 01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:15.300 Stuff. 01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:16.080 Stuff. 01:22:17.080 --> 01:22:17.740 Stuff and stuff. 01:22:17.980 --> 01:22:18.300 All right. 01:22:18.760 --> 01:22:18.980 John. 01:22:19.100 --> 01:22:19.980 All right, my turn. 01:22:20.660 --> 01:22:21.440 My number 20. 01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:25.600 Some people might call this band Healer of the Stone. 01:22:25.900 --> 01:22:27.340 I call it Stone Healer. 01:22:31.920 --> 01:22:57.620 He's a man. The man with the stone touch. Wow. So, yeah, no one else got that besides you and me, George? I guess not. Goldfinger. Which is the best James Bond theme song ever, by the way. They have some really good theme songs. Yeah, I know. Anyway, Stonehealer is my number 20. Conquistador, we had Dave Kaminsky on. He has my last name, but it's spelled differently. 01:22:58.000 --> 01:23:27.840 He has an N. You don't have an N. And an A. But it's still pretty close. Like it's already been said, a unique mix of progressive metal and some black metal. If you listen to that episode, you know how cathartic and heartfelt the lyrics were. So it's an interesting listen. It's a unique listen because they do some things that are a little different than other bands. And they have the greatest fuck you moment ever, which is the I Need More. 01:23:28.020 --> 01:23:54.860 Cowbell intro to the opening track One Whisper. And it was confirmed that yes, it's a fuck you moment. So my number 20. You heard it here. It's a fuck you moment. Fuck you. All right, we'll fuck you moment. I mean, it's your moment. But fuck you. But fuck you. Later. George, get on your knees. Black serpent. 01:23:58.020 --> 01:24:25.660 That is the name of this. They're lyrics from a song. My number 20 pick is Sunata is the name of the band. Their album is Burning in Heaven, Melting on Earth, an independent release from Warsaw, Poland. It's kind of a definitely the doom genre. I don't know. It's kind of atmospheric, doom, sludgy kind of. 01:24:25.720 --> 01:24:55.640 But Tsunata is just... It's one of those things that you just put on... Not in the background. You just put on and you just listen to it and you're like, yes! I like this. I like this a lot. It took me a minute to figure that out because when you said Tsunata, the way you would say Sue makes me think like Tsunami and it had a T at the beginning. And then I'm like, wait, no. I do know this band. S-U-N-N-A-T-A. That's correct. Yeah, I like these guys. Yeah. You should burn your list, asshole. But anyway. I forgot about it. But I've got some of their older stuff. Come on. 01:24:55.720 --> 01:25:24.620 There's a song called Black Serpent. The lyrics are, get on your knees, Black Serpent. I thought you of all people would be like, yes, I want to get on my knees for the Black Serpent. Get on your knees, Black Serpent. Genius. I mean, are you feeling how much he wants him on his knees? Yeah, I am, dude. It's like there's Shakespeare and then there's this guy. 01:25:56.020 --> 01:25:57.260 a couple episodes ago. 01:25:57.940 --> 01:25:58.040 Yeah. 01:25:58.240 --> 01:26:00.220 And I kind of missed part of the conversation or something. 01:26:00.220 --> 01:26:01.280 I was like, oh, everybody's talking about it. 01:26:01.300 --> 01:26:01.860 I better check it out. 01:26:02.360 --> 01:26:03.380 So I checked out the wrong record. 01:26:03.780 --> 01:26:04.520 And I was like, hey, this is great. 01:26:05.540 --> 01:26:07.480 Yoth Iria as The Flame Withers. 01:26:07.580 --> 01:26:11.820 This is a cool Greek thrashy death Egyptian themed blah, blah, blah. 01:26:11.980 --> 01:26:15.360 Very well produced, really proficient musicians. 01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:20.020 It's not exactly techie, but it's slick and fast and goes to some crazy places. 01:26:20.500 --> 01:26:23.160 I really fucking had a blast listening to this record this year. 01:26:23.380 --> 01:26:23.440 Yeah. 01:26:23.580 --> 01:26:24.660 Akhenaten was the other one. 01:26:25.340 --> 01:26:54.620 Yeah, which I did figure that out in the end. I think I went back and listened to the cast or something. That album rips. That's a really good record. Yeah. The Yatharia or the Akhenaten? The Yatharia. The other one, I'm not as big a fan as some other people, but the Yatharia I really like. Yeah, highly recommended. All right, my number 20. I mean, I know you're going to go ha ha ha, but it's Dordeda, so it's har. Nice. 01:26:55.360 --> 01:27:24.700 I wasn't going to do any of that, but okay. Wow. That's a surprise. I didn't think you were digging that up. You didn't say anything about it. Dude, I knew who they were before you even born. That's just interesting because... Literally, unless you've got a time machine... Maybe I do. Oh, fuck. Can I borrow it? No. After this, Will and I are going back to... Where were we going again? 01:27:25.380 --> 01:27:55.080 to pick 25 so Will could redo his list. There you go. Oh, wow. I know. I need to read the lyrics. Just kidding. Come on. But yeah, no, I mean, I know these guys. And the Nagura Bungit, Bunghole people. Or Bungit, yeah. Yeah, Bungit. We'll have you on set. But yes. Cool. I think it's a great album, personally. It is. It is good. It's a lot of work. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's definitely one you got to spend time with. 01:27:55.360 --> 01:28:25.180 Yeah. It was one of those, oh, there's no way this isn't going to be on my list kind of moments. You're like, this is too good. I got the whole big old fucking thing. It's not even vinyl. It's just a ton of CDs. Wow. Oh, really? Yeah. Prophecy loves to put out those digibooks and the digi things or whatever they call them. Damn. Yeah, it's pretty cool. If you're going to put an album out every 10 years, you might as well go all the way out. Yeah. Well, I like, I mean, I like vinyl, 01:28:25.360 --> 01:28:54.920 because it has that nice format. You can see all the imagery and everything, but I like that they do that with the CD because it makes more of a collector's item than just that little thing. Yeah, it's not the digi-book. There's an art book, it's called. So you get like 50 pages of artwork and stuff like that. Nice. Yeah. 19. Not to me, yeah. Number 19 for me is Mayor Cognitum, Solar Paroxysm from I. 01:28:56.300 --> 01:29:25.140 This is a gorgeously detailed and complex cosmic black metal album. It shifts and swirls like solar flares, moving between depressing cerebral passages to outright melodic bangers. There's just a greater galactic scope on this album than previous efforts. I think it's a monumental work. This one has definitely moved around on my list more than any other album. So it had been in my top 10. 01:29:25.340 --> 01:29:54.380 a while and is in the mid-range and now it drops here to number 19. But it is another one like Devivni that could be in a different spot by the end of the year. But it is a great, great record. I just made up a joke on the spot. What do you call a band from the United Kingdom that plays Black Sludge? Bangers and MASH? 01:30:01.360 --> 01:30:25.220 I'm going to the first thing that popped into my head. And trust me, it has not popped into my head at all in the time I've been listening to it. But it was like, run, Boris, run. I thought, oh, God, how could I even think that about this album? It is Forrest, self-titled. I would agree with everything you said, John. I think it's higher up on my list because I'm still kicking myself because I totally, 01:30:26.480 --> 01:30:55.180 I kind of came back to it, you know, after the year was done thinking, oh my God, this sounds amazing. And I don't think that this is as good as that, but I really dig it. But also wondering why it's not just a bleed off snort. But is it bad? Do you feel some way? It almost feels like it should be a natural follow up to hallucinogen, but at the same time, it's nothing, anything like it. Yes, exactly. It's weird. Yeah. Well, it's like he has phases, like there's the memoria vitusta, you know, 01:30:56.580 --> 01:31:24.640 And then there's the 777 trilogy. And then there's, you know. Which, yeah, the trilogy is where I came into it. And that's the stuff I really dig, which it helped me understand, like when people say industrial metal, because at first I think like Nine Inch Nails or something or like Ministry. And I'm like, eh, not really. But then when I listen to that, I hear it. And I hear that in other bands and then I really dig it. But with Budo Snort, I've kind of been part of that as it's transgressed into what it is now and actually enjoyed all of it. 01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:25.920 You know, so. 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:28.120 It's a cold office, real. 01:31:28.420 --> 01:31:28.500 Yeah. 01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:34.960 I think the one thing I will say about them is, like, they're really good at their brands. 01:31:35.090 --> 01:31:46.820 I mean, even, like, you look at something like Jerusalem or Blue Dust Nord or this forest stuff, like, the time and energy they put into, like, the design of the album, the photography they use. 01:31:47.940 --> 01:31:48.780 I mean, it's just crazy. 01:31:49.070 --> 01:31:51.780 And, of course, to just keep himself hidden so well. 01:31:52.240 --> 01:31:53.340 But, yeah. 01:31:53.700 --> 01:32:23.420 It's funny because back in the day when I used to write reviews, like 18 years ago, I got a promo of the work which transforms God. And I gave it one of the most scathing, horrible fucking reviews I've ever said about anything. And as I should have learned, anytime I talk shit about something, 10 years later, it's my favorite. 01:32:26.980 --> 01:32:53.440 So, yeah, I did learn that lesson that I need to watch what I say about certain bands because it'll come back and bite me in the ass later. Anyway, Gian? All right, minor 19. I don't think anyone else knows or has talked about this band, and that's cool because I came into them after the fact, meaning this would have been my January album of the month. 01:32:53.480 --> 01:33:23.460 that I'd known about it in January, but I found out about it a lot later. And that is, the name is Mephitis. I think that's how you pronounce it, are Mephitis. Mephitis, and the album is Offscarings. Jay, they're from your hood, or sort of your hood. I think they're from Oakland. They are a death metal band with progressive tendencies and some black metal going on in there. I think they're more progressive than their death, to be honest with you. They describe themselves as just dark metal, which, to be 01:33:23.480 --> 01:33:53.460 that's probably easier to do that now because then you can do whatever the fuck you want yeah it's kind of like enslaved calls themselves oh we're just extreme metal they can do whatever you want now so because it's all extreme metal um anyway solid album uh it probably would have taken my january top album because there wasn't much out back then in january this january was pretty barren i thought what did you pick for january thundering hoops which i like i just re-listened to it and i like that album it's a really good album but i think 01:33:53.480 --> 01:34:23.020 I like this style of music more. But nonetheless, that's my 19. Cool. I don't think I've heard that one. That's weird. It's got this kind of copy image of like Jay had mentioned King Crimson. When I talked about them, they have this kind of album cover of Red and it has a Queen type album cover where it's just their four faces in a triangle. Remember, Queen's got the infamous or famous, whatever you want to call it, video. 01:34:23.480 --> 01:34:53.340 for Bohemian Rhapsody, where it has all their heads. Their album cover's kind of like that. And you're kind of like, oh, should you be doing this? That's already been done once, and it can only be done once kind of thing. But at the same time, it kind of works. If it works, it works. I liked it. Cool. Hey. My number 19, Culted. The album name is either Noose or Naus, N-O-U-S. 01:34:54.300 --> 01:35:23.360 Well, I pronounce it noise. Noise. Noise. Go with that. That sounds great, Jake. Somewhere Dan Clanchard is doing a little happy dance. Yeah, well, him and Mike Classen, who is one of the members of the band, Dan's friend, who's friends with him on Facebook. But yeah, it's like a black and doom band, very avant-garde in places, but just hits me in my happy place. 01:35:23.460 --> 01:35:25.120 I like this a lot. 01:35:27.040 --> 01:35:28.560 That's like a hit in a happy place, right? 01:35:28.740 --> 01:35:29.360 No, no, no. 01:35:29.980 --> 01:35:30.100 Yeah. 01:35:30.900 --> 01:35:36.160 By the way, one thing worth noting about them is they've never met each other. 01:35:36.560 --> 01:35:37.320 So that's interesting. 01:35:37.940 --> 01:35:38.340 Yeah. 01:35:38.640 --> 01:35:42.840 It's a cross digital across the world band or whatever. 01:35:43.320 --> 01:35:43.700 Yeah. 01:35:44.900 --> 01:35:45.880 I believe we're on 19. 01:35:46.160 --> 01:35:53.140 My 19, I think, could be a bit of a J situation in which I'm sure there are some of us who have this a lot higher. 01:35:54.780 --> 01:36:23.200 But with its terrible lyrics, I just couldn't be that nice to it. Just kidding. I don't know the lyrics. I owe a ton. Access All Worlds. I did like this a lot. It didn't quite smash me in the face like it did everybody else, but it's really quality outing by these guys. I think it's their first record. Is that not so? It is the first full length. Okay. Well, I will say this. For their first full length, it's their, in the best kind of way, batting outside 01:36:23.240 --> 01:36:53.140 of their fucking comfort zone, meaning this is a very pro-record. It's really progressive, really cool. Anyway, I can't say anything else about it, and somebody else probably will. IOTUN, access all worlds. Yeah, you know, and John found the pronunciation, because I was pronouncing IOTUN. It's actually YOTUN. YOTUN. I told you the guys that. I was like, it's YOTUN. Yes, he did. And you're like, no, it's IOTUN. There goes my joke. Nobody fought with you that hard, George. I remember that. 01:36:53.220 --> 01:37:23.160 That moment. Because we didn't know. We were like, we have no idea how this is pronounced. It's Jotun. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to Jotun powder. It's funny. I know Marcus has watched the video. When he says it the first time, I'm like, oh, okay. I don't know what he just said. And he says, oh, but if you want to say it more like, you know, English should be Jotun. And I'm like, but is that what you just said? But it's not. Apparently it's like just so slightly different. That's the way. Talking to my brother-in-law, who's Norwegian, 01:37:23.620 --> 01:37:53.180 And like, as I've probably said on here before, my nephew's name is Ragnar. But if I say Ragnar, he's like, no, Ragnar. I'm like, yeah, exactly. Ragnar. He's like, no, Ragnar. I'm like, ah! It's impossible 01:37:53.200 --> 01:37:54.100 so many videos, 01:37:54.380 --> 01:37:55.700 watch them do these playthroughs. 01:37:55.790 --> 01:37:57.260 They never mentioned it once. 01:37:57.680 --> 01:37:57.840 I'm like, 01:37:58.080 --> 01:37:58.360 come on, 01:37:58.640 --> 01:37:58.880 fuck, 01:37:59.000 --> 01:37:59.820 say your name one time. 01:38:00.320 --> 01:38:03.660 It was just a review video and they don't bother to say the name. 01:38:03.820 --> 01:38:04.360 They're just like, 01:38:04.440 --> 01:38:04.580 Hey, 01:38:04.780 --> 01:38:05.880 this is this guy. 01:38:06.110 --> 01:38:07.020 And the guy's really funny. 01:38:07.080 --> 01:38:07.280 He's like, 01:38:07.360 --> 01:38:08.760 I really don't know how to say your name. 01:38:08.810 --> 01:38:10.600 And he pronounces like five different ways. 01:38:10.610 --> 01:38:10.860 I'm like, 01:38:10.980 --> 01:38:11.340 Oh dude, 01:38:11.390 --> 01:38:14.200 you are the greatest guy on planet earth right now for doing this. 01:38:16.500 --> 01:38:17.500 Good pick by the way, 01:38:17.620 --> 01:38:17.680 Jay, 01:38:17.940 --> 01:38:18.100 it's a, 01:38:18.150 --> 01:38:21.180 it is a very professional sounding album in terms, 01:38:21.370 --> 01:38:23.140 meaning they sound like they've been in the business. 01:38:24.620 --> 01:38:52.860 They really do. Me? Yeah, you. My number 19 is Crypta Echoes of the Soul. That's a new album. Yeah. It's pretty banging. Last week. Yeah. Liquid Metal had that on just now. I was like, oh, really? It's getting a lot of traction. Yeah, no. I mean, I heard like a pre, you know, pre-release track a while back and I was like, ooh, because it's like X Nervosa. It says, 01:38:53.220 --> 01:39:20.960 Yeah, and there's a new Nervosa album out this year, but I don't think it's as good as this. And that's the one she's not on, right? She got bounced or left or whatever. Yeah, this is way better. Jose Magna likes this a lot. Fuck, taking it off my list. Dude, fuck, we got so high after the show. Why you gotta ruin everything? I literally heard it on Liquid Metal earlier today. Give me a beer, bitch. 01:39:23.200 --> 01:39:51.280 I have more Ian Christie on liquid metal. All the time. All the time. Just repeat all his shows. Yeah. Fuck. Can we just pause for a moment and say that Will is showing some leg? That's my dick. He's just airing it out. It's getting a little steamy. Mark a sign. You will learn one day. George and I just say, yeah, I've seen that before. You haven't really done decibel until you've done decibel. 01:39:54.380 --> 01:40:22.880 I cannot wait for decimal. I'm so stoked. That's going to be so awesome. And there's so many people coming. You know. Oh, sorry. I mean, Stephanie confirmed. Yeah. Aside from us, Jeff and Steph. Sounds like John BT is coming too, right? And Stacy's coming and Metalheads Butler will be there. Metalheads Butler is going to be there. Metalheads Butler. Actually, I believe he's actually coming the day before also. 01:40:23.200 --> 01:40:52.920 Oh, well, is he showing up at your house? I have a joke to slip in here, a joke movie reference. I hope it's better than mine. Oh, we're going to need a bigger boat. Yeah. True that. Best ad-libbed scene ever. Is that an ad-lib? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that. Yes. The shark came up and he looks and he just backs it and says, we're going to need a bigger boat. Completely honest. Only bested by possibly Indiana Jones when he shoots the guy in the bazaar. 01:40:53.200 --> 01:41:22.860 because he was apparently really sick. He had the flu or something. He's like, fuck this. Boom. And the guy, like a professional, dropped like a bag of dirt. I think they'd done the scene a bunch of times. And he was just like, fuck this. I don't want to do it anymore. I'm done with this. Yeah. Harrison Ford had the flu or something. Anytime I hear that quote, I'm just like, yes. I love it. It's just a great scene. All right. George wants another beer. 01:41:23.200 --> 01:41:52.440 You should probably take a break. Or at least. Yeah. Sure. Go for it for a hot sec. You're listening to the Metalheads podcast. Do I smell burritos? So anyone that was concerned about me from the last mid-year cast, I'm doing better. And I hope to be upright for the entirety of this cast, where I will share with you the very best metal albums. 01:41:52.540 --> 01:42:22.300 The other guys, their picks are okay. But mine, mine are the ones that you really want to pay attention to. The stars, if you will, of the show. John's feeding his cat. Jay's probably crafting a burrito. Will's taking a huge dump and George is probably in there with him. Matt is probably doing something bitchy because that's just what he does. So they're indisposed. 01:42:22.540 --> 01:42:22.960 at the moment. 01:42:23.240 --> 01:42:28.460 And I guess I can say that I love these guys. 01:42:28.980 --> 01:42:30.900 I am really happy to be on this cast. 01:42:31.340 --> 01:42:33.600 And I love doing mid-year. 01:42:34.320 --> 01:42:35.400 I know it's super long. 01:42:36.760 --> 01:42:38.440 I have to get up at the ass crack of dawn. 01:42:39.040 --> 01:42:41.840 But does it get better than this cast? 01:42:42.020 --> 01:42:42.820 I don't think so. 01:42:43.540 --> 01:42:46.400 You see other lists out there and they're terrible. 01:42:47.620 --> 01:42:50.740 We really put our heart and souls into these lists. 01:42:50.740 --> 01:42:52.120 Except for Will, clearly. 01:42:55.620 --> 01:43:20.680 So, you know, hopefully you're getting a lot out of these lists. You're finding new music. You're engaging with metal the way you should. You know, not through like Revolver or some garbage pop matters, some shit like that that names their top albums, but, you know, they don't really understand metal or really listen to real metal. This is the real deal, man. 01:43:22.180 --> 01:43:51.460 So, man, these guys are gone a long time. I don't need this many breaks. I'm very vital. I'm very, very strong. And I have most of my beer and mead here. So, you know, I don't know what else to say. I can't wait to go to the decibel, mental beer festival. Hopefully some of you will be coming out to it because we love meeting people listening. All right. We are back and ready to do number 18. And how is it only 18? 01:43:53.020 --> 01:44:21.900 We're having fun, dude. Hey, we just got through the first or second news item on a regular episode. Yeah, yeah. Let's be positive about this. Come on. All right. I mean, I'm happy to do this long. We didn't even do EPs. I know. This is great. Or album covers. Yeah. Some of us did EPs. Yeah. So we're working on our EPs right now if we're doing this. All right, Markisan number 18. Number 18. Well, this is a unique. 01:44:23.080 --> 01:44:51.520 Progressive Metal Band powered by Horror Cinema of the 70s and Night Drives to Neon Lit Strip Joins. I'm talking about the Lion's Daughter skin show on Season of Mist. They started moving into this seedy synth metal on their last album, and I like that direction, but it didn't quite work for me on the last one. But with the skin show, I think they perfected that union. And I really, really enjoy this. It's very different. 01:44:52.160 --> 01:45:21.340 It's still heavy, but lots of just interesting elements. Like I said, just very neon lit metal. It's fun. It's interesting. It's unique. So number 18, Leinstar. I'd say they're leading the kind of neon metal chart. Right. Are they the only neon metal? Well, there's a lot of these kind of neon synth wave bands right now. Yeah. But they're the first one I think that's added the metal aspect to it. 01:45:21.960 --> 01:45:51.940 You know, it's funny to mention that. Yeah, one that comes to mind, and I wanted to like this more than I did, was that Genghis Tron album. I don't know if you guys listen to that. Yeah, because there are some moments that are full, and some are like, eh. Just not. Not working. And it's funny, because when I listened to that, it reminded me of the last Freedhammer album, which all of a sudden, in the middle of a song, goes off into a synth thing, and then it comes back. It's totally bizarre, and it's like a fast 120-bit 01:45:51.980 --> 01:46:21.920 Beats Per Minute Synthing. So this is kind of creeping its way in, is I guess what I'm saying. Yeah, the Genghis Tron was... I wanted to like it, dude. I don't know why, but there was... John hit it right. Some of the parts were really cool, and then other parts I was just like, I just can't do this. I'm the same way. It started out good, and I was like, yeah. I was like, I'm not buying this. Knowing the band's earlier material, which was very grindcore, it was disappointing in that aspect. But as a fan of like Synthwave and electronic-type music, 01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:24.840 I like the album for what it is 01:46:25.500 --> 01:46:27.700 and I dislike it for what it isn't 01:46:28.420 --> 01:46:29.500 but maybe it's transitional 01:46:29.780 --> 01:46:31.860 maybe it's like with Markisan 01:46:31.860 --> 01:46:33.040 the last lion's daughter album 01:46:33.130 --> 01:46:34.880 that they'll settle into something 01:46:35.080 --> 01:46:36.760 well I mean they have a new singer 01:46:37.160 --> 01:46:39.760 and it's different and it's been a long time 01:46:39.800 --> 01:46:41.600 I mean they were just gone for a long time 01:46:41.620 --> 01:46:42.300 I think 01:46:43.320 --> 01:46:45.640 when you move into something new 01:46:45.740 --> 01:46:46.840 it's going to take a little time 01:46:46.950 --> 01:46:47.960 especially something that new 01:46:48.480 --> 01:46:51.940 that's why I like the last lion's daughter album 01:46:51.940 --> 01:47:21.820 But it didn't work on a level like this one does. So hopefully... Well, you always need that transition album, right, Marcus? Yeah. For sure. You really always do. Sometimes the transition albums end up being better than the final album. I agree. Usually not. Usually not. And I think with Lion's Daughter, to me, this is perfect. Like, I hope they don't go further with the synth. Like, keep this still metal, but with synth. I hope they don't go all the way. So you don't want a Stranger Things soundtrack is what you're saying. I mean, I do. 01:47:21.960 --> 01:47:51.920 But not in my life. Well, from Stranger Things, you want it from them. Yeah. Yeah, those transition albums, though. I mean, like, you know, when Metallica went from, like, Injustice for All and they transitioned to the Black album, that was pretty good. But then when they made their way to Load, you were kind of like, oh, man. Actually, the one I left off my list of the guys who are kind of going to this way. I'm literally ready to jump over this desk and beat the shit out of you. I thought that might be true. Esan comes to mind, too, by the way, with not the last one, but the one before that, which also had some 01:47:51.940 --> 01:47:53.160 very stranger things on it. 01:47:54.000 --> 01:47:54.440 Yeah. 01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:58.260 The thing with the transition albums is they're experimenting. 01:47:58.390 --> 01:48:02.280 So sometimes, you know, when they're doing that, they just stumble on something really awesome. 01:48:03.880 --> 01:48:07.560 But most of the time you get flashes of what it could be. 01:48:07.690 --> 01:48:09.860 And then the next album, they really refine that. 01:48:10.460 --> 01:48:10.560 Yeah. 01:48:11.060 --> 01:48:13.520 But, you know, every once in a while they do it. 01:48:13.530 --> 01:48:20.640 And it's just it's just it's so unique and so experimental, that transition album that you just you can't you can't stop listening to it. 01:48:21.320 --> 01:48:50.080 I don't remember one like that in a while. This is the product of instant access to releasing your own material. We don't have any editors anymore to keep us from hearing every last moment. Oh, I edit, believe me. I'm sure you do. Yeah, yeah. We know. You edit us. And myself, mostly. Good pick. All right, number 18, Bosque Migration. 01:48:50.540 --> 01:49:20.180 This came out yesterday. Shit. I don't know if it'd be higher on my list later on in the year. So far, I really dig it. The first track came out, and it was just heavy as fuck. I don't remember which one it was. And then the next track came out, and I felt like it was a little bit, well, quite a bit different than the first one. And so listening to the full album, you kind of see where that, you know, what that path looks like, what the culture of the album is. I mean, it starts out, I felt like I was listening to this, 01:49:20.540 --> 01:49:50.180 Massive Attack from years ago. Whoa, nice drop. Another one. At one point, I was harking back to another band, which I could not think of the name of, but then Will said it. Limp Bizkit? Minsk, the city in Russia, Crash in the Draw. Close. My favorite albums. Yeah, oh man, good stuff. So all that kind of intertwined in there. But I do realize you have to listen to this album in its entirety because it kind of goes all over the place, which I've only been able to do once because it's just like, 01:49:50.520 --> 01:50:19.200 You know, 10 minutes here, 5 minutes there. But yeah, Bossk, Migration. I dig it. I listened to it once, but now you make me want to listen to it again because you just name drop all the shit that I love. I don't know if I got that much into it. Now I'm going to have to go back. John. All right, man, I'm assuming you're referring to Mezzanine by Massive Attack. I certainly am. Of course. Fucking good album. Oh, man. All right. 01:50:21.140 --> 01:50:50.500 I mentioned earlier that I was listening to a lot of technical music and this would be my first technical thrash on the list which technical thrash is not really that big of a genre it never has been to be honest but I think the late 80s early 90s saw the the classic bands but this band released an album they have connections to the band Sunless as in Lucas Scott is from Sunless this is up in Matt's hood up there the band is obsolete in 01:50:50.540 --> 01:51:20.500 The album is Animate Isolate from Unspeakable Axe Records. This is just a very cool, technical thrash, technical death album that kind of merge both together. If you're into that, you would dig this. Like I said, there's not many out there. I think I spent a lot of time on Radio Music. I think there's like literally five or six albums total this year. And they're all cool albums. You know, they all make the cut, but it's a very sorely, understatement. 01:51:21.780 --> 01:51:49.280 I think personally so if you're a fan of any of those early bands like Watchtower or uh what's the one you just helped me out with George that I've been trying to get for years oh Oblivion Oblivion I mean if you like any of that stuff you you probably would like this and if you like Sunless which it's not like Sunless Sunless is more like the modern Gorguts uh this is still it's very cool stuff excellent 01:51:49.940 --> 01:52:19.260 I feel like thrash is there's a lot more going on in thrash the last couple years well thrash in itself yeah I'm talking more the bands that go technical so they get a little more they're not as catchy little more progressive little more not virtuoso playing but they they kind of go that direction but yes I agree thrash seems to be making it's a great comeback yeah just the variety of it just the 01:52:20.300 --> 01:52:48.700 There's more nuance in Thrash. They're just trying different things with Thrash. It's not just straight ahead, you know, kind of like Slayer-esque Thrash. There's more going on in it. I like that. I like that they're expanding the genre. I feel like he just referenced Slayer not being a good thing. No, no. Don't copy Slayer. Just checking. Why would I do that? George, what the heck? 01:52:49.280 --> 01:53:19.240 I'm just stirring the pot, baby. Come on, jeez. All right. Willem. My number 18, my brother from another mother, Dan Clankar, sent me this personally on Messenger. Creeping Fear, Hate God Triumph, Death Metal from France on Deloitte. 01:53:19.360 --> 01:53:49.260 records. Just pure, awesome death metal. That's all I got to say about it. Thank you, Dan, for sharing this with me because I love this album. Dan's been great on our Friday new music. Always throwing tons of great suggestions out there for everyone. He does different stuff than what we usually talk about, which is cool. I feel like, I mean, we listen to this so much, but every once in a while he'll throw something 01:53:49.300 --> 01:54:18.820 out and like, oh, I haven't really listened to that one yet. Yeah. Actually, everyone who posts on the New Music Friday is great. So thank you to everyone. Yeah, no, we really appreciate it. It's awesome to have that interaction with all the listeners. Yeah. Plus, they're going to hear about stuff. And in fact, one of those listeners is going to be a guest in the near future. So stay tuned for that. We haven't done that in a while, right? Yeah, at least a month or two. I was a listener. I was a listener. 01:54:20.180 --> 01:54:21.600 Exactly. Exactly. 01:54:23.340 --> 01:54:23.700 Jay. 01:54:25.420 --> 01:54:26.020 Did you do your pick? 01:54:26.630 --> 01:54:27.620 18. I did not. 01:54:28.560 --> 01:54:30.220 This, I gotta believe that this is, 01:54:32.020 --> 01:54:33.520 that Marcus undugged this one. 01:54:33.600 --> 01:54:34.500 This is kind of, 01:54:35.080 --> 01:54:37.720 I would call this an incantation-esque. 01:54:39.040 --> 01:54:40.100 Probably shitty lyrics. 01:54:40.960 --> 01:54:42.200 But you can't understand them, 01:54:42.300 --> 01:54:42.720 so it's perfect. 01:54:44.040 --> 01:54:44.940 It was right up my alley. 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:47.100 Oryx, Lamenting a Dead World. 01:54:47.500 --> 01:54:48.420 This was a cool record. 01:54:48.460 --> 01:55:18.220 I've got this record a bunch this year. Especially since I had such a big incantation kind of deep dive last year. So this just now when I hear something like this, it just strikes me right away. Plus this is well written. So highly recommended. That's a good one, Jay. Yeah. And you, Nick, do you guys now know what it works really is? Uh, do tell. It's, it's an African desert antelope basically. And it tastes fucking amazing. Literally. Is that an Ivex? 01:55:19.220 --> 01:55:47.600 No, it's different than Ibex. It's an oryx or a hemsbach is the other name for it. Ibex. It's like chicken jack. No, this, I don't know how. Oh, I see them. Cute little bastards. I have no idea how it tastes so good because it's a desert. It's like a camel of the antelope. It's like an antelope that's like a cannibal. Cannibal. A cannibal camel. A camel. A camel. A camel. 01:55:50.920 --> 01:56:17.780 It is the best tasting meat I've ever had in my life. It's amazing. Well, here it is. Well, hang on a minute. He said meat, George. I decided to look it up so I could see these oryxes. And I found a chart called Know Your Oryx. So I'll send it off to you, Will. I've tasted them. They're great. Have you ever had camel? Have you eaten camel? 01:56:18.480 --> 01:56:48.380 No, no, no. I've eaten a lot. I've eaten zebra, warthog, crocodile, some mystery meat in Angola at one time. It literally looked like a giant rat. Mystery meat in college? Yeah. Well, camel's really bad. It's like gristly hump chunks. It's just, it's horrid. Where did you eat camel? I live in Chicago. You can get anything. Big city, man. 01:56:48.460 --> 01:57:17.140 I didn't fry anything. Anything for money. We got camel like burgers. And I didn't cook them. And that was probably was the mistake. The captain got him. I was like, listen, captain, it's fucking camel. It's probably not going to be good. You got to marinate that. Do something with it. He didn't do any of that. He just, I don't know. Now you know what the true, not now you know what it truly tastes like though. It's horrid. I'll never eat that. Well, have you had, have you tried any Soylent Green? It's people. 01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:21.660 We probably taste amazing. 01:57:22.440 --> 01:57:23.100 So I've heard. 01:57:24.720 --> 01:57:29.700 I just always feel like every time Charlton Heston comes up, I should be yelling at some dirty ape. 01:57:35.220 --> 01:57:41.300 My favorite Charlton Heston thing was when he was the head of the NRA, he famously did the from my cold dead hands thing. 01:57:41.480 --> 01:57:42.280 Say what, man? 01:57:42.340 --> 01:57:44.140 Got a lot of cachet on that thing. 01:57:44.180 --> 01:57:44.600 No, I did. 01:57:44.740 --> 01:57:46.680 But when he died, I was like, let's go get his gun. 01:57:47.500 --> 01:58:17.440 I bet you couldn't get it. No, yeah, I couldn't find him. Come on, I was the Omega Man. He fought off apes that talked. I mean, come on. Yeah. He parted the Red Sea. What didn't he do? It's been her. Georgie. No, actually. Oh, wait. That's right. You did just go. Sorry. My number 18 is Chondra, All Occupied by Soul Death. You guys were just talking about that album recently. 01:58:17.520 --> 01:58:21.080 I feel like it just came up like the last couple weeks 01:58:22.340 --> 01:58:23.300 yeah I can't remember the 01:58:23.700 --> 01:58:24.180 context but 01:58:24.880 --> 01:58:25.560 let me get the promo 01:58:26.260 --> 01:58:28.420 that might be why yeah I think 01:58:29.140 --> 01:58:29.240 nice 01:58:30.220 --> 01:58:32.140 what type of I don't know what it is actually what is it 01:58:32.700 --> 01:58:33.700 it's all occupied by death 01:58:36.340 --> 01:58:37.120 it's a great 01:58:39.820 --> 01:58:41.660 but I think it's actually a little more black 01:58:44.980 --> 01:58:45.780 it's a 01:58:46.220 --> 01:58:47.480 cannibal camel album 01:58:47.500 --> 01:59:17.460 Yeah, it's like a camelope. Subgenre. Camelope. That brings us back around to the banding order. Yeah, then Microsoft number 17. Yeah, leading off, my number 17 is Project Rowan Wolf, Edge of Saturn. That was coming, I knew that. Yeah, man, we were just talking about thrash. I love the titanic guitars on this power thrash beast. And it has some really great vocals and 01:59:17.500 --> 01:59:46.420 progressive moments on this album. There's a little bit of Nevermore in there, a little bit of Fate's Warning early on, but its heart is pumped by Bay Area thrash motor. It is. I just love the riffs on this thing. It moves. I've been listening to it a lot. And I actually thought this might be a little bit higher on my list, but I thought it would be too. Mid-year. Yep. I mean, there's so many good albums this year. Yeah. And because I mean, I always make a top 40. 01:59:46.500 --> 02:00:16.320 So it helps a little bit, but yeah, it lands at number 17, which is very good. So project war row and wolf. I hate the name. I wish they would just call themselves row and wolf project row and wolf edge of Saturn. Right on Matt. Right on, right on, right on, right on, right on. 17. I feel like I was probably the last person. That was amazing. By the way, the last person on the cast actually get into this. I mean, I liked it, but it didn't really click for me until recently. 02:00:17.060 --> 02:00:46.060 And that is Woad, Burn, In Many Mears. Be a 20-book spin. UK black metal, third album. Woad, woad to you, Omar, Casey. You know, it's funny. That position on your list. I felt like they tried. I thought, John, they tried to, and I like that record. I thought that they kind of tried to redo that riff we like so much from the previous album. I'll have to figure out which song it was. But they kind of, 02:00:46.500 --> 02:01:16.460 If nothing else, they were like, hey, that groove really worked. Let's do it again. And then they slightly changed it. I'll look it up. But anyway, a fine choice. Fine choice. I love it. John, do you have a fine choice? Did you say while I fart? It sounded like while I fart. While I fart. So let's steal daggers. Oh, I just stabbed myself in the nipple. I'm getting drunk. Wait. You know the best part, Mark? 02:01:16.940 --> 02:01:45.560 We'll get done. You can pass out for a while. Wake up, go down and get some tacos down at the beach or something, man. I know. You know what's crazy? It's 1030 here. I was like, man, I'm kind of getting hungry. I did have two breakfast sandwiches because from the last minute here, I was like, man, I got to eat something or else I'm really going to be fucked. I mean, there's so many rainbows. It's only 1030. Can you send us Tracy's number just in case? We weren't concerned last night. I literally said like, is anyone on Tracy's number? Yeah. So we check on him. 02:01:46.500 --> 02:02:16.480 That's right. You guys said that in the last cast. That's right. Boy, I totally misread that. I heard this. Like, hey, if anything happens to you, can I get Tracy's number? Asking for a friend, you know. Nervous laughter. Nervous laughter. Nervous laughter. Just a real quick story. Marcus, on 02:02:17.140 --> 02:02:45.780 The one time I went to Hawaii, I went to the main island. I was 18 and I was the last year you could drink at the age of 18. You could buy alcohol at 18 before they switched. And I had one of my worst ever in my life. Just got obliterated, threw up all over the place, woke up the next morning. I just felt like I was dead. And believe it or not, we went to Waikiki. We went out at least, it felt like a mile, but it was probably like a half a mile out. It was still only to our waist. 02:02:46.260 --> 02:02:49.120 is the greatest thing you do when you're hungover is get in the ocean. 02:02:50.180 --> 02:02:54.920 That salt water hits your body and man, party's so fucking hard that night. 02:02:55.700 --> 02:02:57.780 Anyway, so I know I agree. 02:02:58.300 --> 02:03:03.020 You made me think you could get lit up, pass out, head down to the beach, go in the water for a few minutes. 02:03:03.200 --> 02:03:04.440 You'll be fine, man. You'll be good. 02:03:04.700 --> 02:03:06.980 Just don't stay in the water and, you know, drown. 02:03:07.790 --> 02:03:11.720 Well, Waikiki, it's shallow for a good part of the beach. 02:03:11.860 --> 02:03:12.880 At least when I was there, it was. 02:03:13.380 --> 02:03:14.820 You can drown in like a foot of water. 02:03:15.440 --> 02:03:45.400 That was so long ago, John. It was when PBR, before they won the Blue Ribbon. Dude, no. You know what got me there? It was fucking Mai Tais, man. Because I never drank that shit. It's so good. Yeah, we were 18. We're like, woo, what's party? It's like drinking candy. Well, John, I'm right near Waikiki. I'm in Kaka'ako. It's right on the border of Waikiki. So I'm actually looking at Waikiki. And to be out that far, and then to look at the 02:03:45.420 --> 02:04:15.080 The Rim, you know, of the beach. It's just gorgeous there. Yeah, we'll probably, usually on the weekends, we'll go down to the beach because it takes like, I don't know, five, six minutes to walk to the beach. That was fun. So we'll watch the sunset or something like that. I just, this is crazy. I bought a skateboard. I haven't skateboarded in forever, but everybody has skateboards because they have a lot of beachfront parks. So, you know, they have like a paved walkway where you can walk around the beach. 02:04:15.440 --> 02:04:45.380 I was like, man, I think I want a skateboard. So I just bought one. It hasn't come yet. But it's just weird because I'm, you know, I'm going to be 46, I think. They still skate all over California. Old man skating. Hey, Marcus, I will give you a bit of warning because both my kids had skateboards and I used to be a skate rat. Like 14, 15, 16. I was a skate rat. All I did was skateboard. And I will tell you this, when you're in your late 40s and you fall off a skateboard, 02:04:46.120 --> 02:05:15.020 Holy shit, it hurts. Yeah. Helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads, my friend. Maybe a spare mattress. I got a cruiser. So it's, you know, the longer ones. Yeah. It's a little bit longer, long wide board. They call it the wheel board. It's not a long board. It's a cruiser. So it's in between like a regular skateboard and a long board. So you could do tricks on if you want to has a, you know, kick board on it. But, um, 02:05:15.420 --> 02:05:45.120 It's more for long distances. So hopefully it'll be better. I haven't done it in a while, but I am an elite level athlete. So we'll see how it goes. Well, in Marcos, were you guys big board riders, big skaters? I was, yeah, absolutely. I was. I wasn't. I dabbled in it. I had friends who were skaters. I was more of the metalhead, not one of the skater kind of burnout guys. We were metalhead skaters. Fuck you, man. Suicide of Tendencies. 02:05:46.400 --> 02:06:14.960 So you guys were scared. Did you guys ever see the movie Lords of Dogtown? I've heard of it. I have not. Fucking one of the best documentaries ever. It really is just so fucking good. There's another one too that he made about the Bones Brigade which is totally worth watching too which is the Tony Hawk era. Yeah. But if you really want to, I mean everyone's like oh yeah California skater so you really want to know about how this whole thing started? Yeah. It's just on those little tiny boards with the big wheels and people's like poles and shit. Yeah. 02:06:15.420 --> 02:06:45.120 Yeah. And the soundtrack just matched every moment of that. Anyway. All right. So my turn. Number 17 as we. Well, just the other thing quick. I'll say the reason I got skateboard two is because I want to try surfing before I leave here. And that's a good way to practice on it. You know, I've never done surfing ever in my life. Dude, I've been, I've snowboarded, skied and skateboarded. And I feel like surfing is none of those. Dude, I've tried shark bait, man. I've tried. 02:06:47.400 --> 02:06:50.640 I have so much respect for anybody who can surf. 02:06:50.840 --> 02:06:54.140 I want to get the skateboard because I'm like, man, I can't just get up on a freaking surfboard. 02:06:54.500 --> 02:06:56.640 I don't know if it's going to help you. 02:06:57.260 --> 02:06:58.900 It'll help with balance for sure. 02:07:00.140 --> 02:07:01.360 Less drinking will help with balance. 02:07:01.540 --> 02:07:04.820 Are you body surfing at least with the small board? 02:07:05.180 --> 02:07:06.240 I have, yes. 02:07:06.440 --> 02:07:07.060 I have done that. 02:07:07.140 --> 02:07:07.860 It's fun. 02:07:08.220 --> 02:07:08.740 You're good. 02:07:09.080 --> 02:07:12.880 But even that, you have to be pretty skilled out here. 02:07:14.880 --> 02:07:42.420 But you know, also channel surfing is helpful. That's what I find. So, this next, my number 17, every time I see this name, I want to say Mare of Easttown. If any of you watch H.I.E.L.D. I just finished it, dude. That was amazing. It's so good. It has to be one of the best series they've ever had. It's not there. Will, have you watched Mare of Easttown yet? No. Dude, you're from Philadelphia. Get fucking on this, man. Yeah, it's about a horse from Philly. No. 02:07:47.380 --> 02:07:48.520 It's like the wire 02:07:49.620 --> 02:07:50.500 No, no, no 02:07:51.640 --> 02:07:52.340 It's like 02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:55.440 Well, go ahead and do your thing, John 02:07:55.540 --> 02:07:59.140 It actually is highly reminiscent of a recent HBO series 02:07:59.380 --> 02:08:02.140 I was going to say, it follows the same formula as some of their recent series 02:08:02.700 --> 02:08:04.240 But this one definitely stood out to me 02:08:05.460 --> 02:08:06.780 Put it this way, Will 02:08:06.980 --> 02:08:09.300 It has the feel of Chester 02:08:09.500 --> 02:08:10.560 The people of Chester 02:08:11.880 --> 02:08:12.780 Which is funny 02:08:12.920 --> 02:08:42.620 because it has a small town feel even though they're just outside of Philadelphia in the show. So I did think of what I was thinking of though and it has a similar detective right? I know the outsider believe it or not. Oh yeah. Yeah. No in terms of the basing of the show yeah. The missing persons the plot twists and the destroy and families destroyed by this terrible act. I was thinking the Hugh Grant one too. I can't think of the name of it. Four Weddings and a Funeral? No. My favorite. But. 02:08:42.780 --> 02:08:44.980 My second favorite would be Inexile Process 2. 02:08:45.060 --> 02:08:45.860 The Unraveling? 02:08:46.080 --> 02:08:47.340 I think it was like The Unraveling. 02:08:47.500 --> 02:08:48.260 The Undoing. 02:08:48.880 --> 02:08:49.400 Undoing, yeah. 02:08:49.620 --> 02:08:50.380 Is that an HBO thing? 02:08:50.420 --> 02:08:50.900 Oh, I saw that. 02:08:51.340 --> 02:08:51.800 That was good. 02:08:51.880 --> 02:08:52.560 Oh, I haven't watched it. 02:08:52.600 --> 02:08:58.060 But like the formula of the structure of the story is kind of similar, but I- 02:08:58.100 --> 02:08:58.900 Well, I will say this. 02:08:58.940 --> 02:09:00.660 I agree, John. 02:09:00.660 --> 02:09:02.600 Mayor of Easttown is one of the best they've ever had. 02:09:02.600 --> 02:09:03.880 It was so fucking good. 02:09:03.880 --> 02:09:04.940 Yeah. 02:09:05.140 --> 02:09:06.240 Kate Winslet is phenomenal. 02:09:06.240 --> 02:09:07.860 She just knocks it out of the park. 02:09:07.860 --> 02:09:10.080 Actually, everyone on the show knocked it out of her. 02:09:10.080 --> 02:09:10.340 Everybody. 02:09:11.140 --> 02:09:11.620 But she was- 02:09:11.620 --> 02:09:12.060 Trucks aligned. 02:09:12.060 --> 02:09:12.520 Everyone's going to always think of her like this. 02:09:13.440 --> 02:09:13.920 Yeah. 02:09:15.480 --> 02:09:18.620 This is her watershed moment, I think, in terms of her abilities. 02:09:18.820 --> 02:09:19.580 It's on HBO. 02:09:20.200 --> 02:09:20.360 Yeah. 02:09:20.740 --> 02:09:30.920 Well, I mentioned you because it's in the greater Philadelphia area, and it is on spot for the neighborhoods and the people and the mentality, the whole thing. 02:09:31.540 --> 02:09:32.580 If I only had HBO. 02:09:33.220 --> 02:09:38.200 And I think they filmed actually down there, and I think actually they're at the soccer stadium out there. 02:09:39.080 --> 02:09:39.980 Where did they build that? 02:09:40.900 --> 02:10:10.540 The Lower Bridge, just before you get to Delaware, out that way. We'll download HBO Max. Yeah, I was going to say. Exactly. Just get HBO Max. You can watch it in like three days. I'll also send you the password for the app. Not just an email. Mare's like, what's an app? It was an app? Do I have to swipe right? All right. So my number 17. Mare is in the title. It's Mare Cognitum. Solar Paraxism. I avoid hanging wringers. We've talked about it. Wringers. 02:10:11.500 --> 02:10:40.860 We've talked about this enough. This is my, I chose this one over Panopticon. I just connected with this album a lot more. I thought it's a lot shorter, only about like 10 minutes. It's not short. It's not short. But I agree with Markisan set. I think this is the high point for Americognita, which has been building every album, I think, up to this point. But this is the first one I've picked up from the band, and I do believe that 02:10:40.900 --> 02:11:10.740 this is the watershed. So far, yeah. Just some great riffs on there, too, man. Holy shit. Yeah. Especially in the first half of the island. Yeah. And unlike the Panopticon, I got a little tired on this one. It wasn't as much because it's long. Not long, but it's longer. Right. We're just some men are longer than others. Yeah. You've been talking to your mother again. I bitch about it all the time. And I find that. 02:11:10.880 --> 02:11:40.340 Come on. 40 minutes. I'm happy. Give me what I need and I can move to the next album. Give me 75 minutes. I'm like, oh, fuck. So anyway. That and then there's the tracks that are just nonsense. Drive me crazy. Yeah. She drives me crazy. If you want two atmosphere black metal albums, we've named them. Maricon Needham and Panopticon are the ones that go with this year. George just named fine young cannibals. I did. Cannibal cannibals. Yeah, man. It's got cannibals in the name. It's metal. 02:11:40.380 --> 02:12:08.880 He didn't really do the voice though so it was okay. He didn't get that kind of high. George, I want to ask you to roll back a few minutes if you can when you do the editing and I need you to save a soundbite of you saying I'll put that in her ear. I don't recall saying that. You might have said I'll put something in her ear but either way. 02:12:10.400 --> 02:12:40.340 You said it, sir. Somebody just... The editing will reveal. Did I say that? Well... Matt, what was your 17? My 17 was... Woe to you, O earth and sea. For the devil brings his peace with wrath. Because he knows the time is short. Let him who hath understanding. I'm reckoning the number of the woe to many mirrors. That's my number 17. All right. Wow. Matchy, matchy. 02:12:41.020 --> 02:13:10.180 Acapella. Matchy Matty. First time for everything, right? Yeah. And I didn't make the name up. It's actually a real band. Yeah. Nice. Good job. Yeah. I'm going to laugh if Wode shows up on a lot of lists because Wode took a little bit of a beating on one of our episodes. Did. I don't want to name names. Former guest. But just saying. Yeah. Well, from. 02:13:10.380 --> 02:13:40.260 One Person. Yeah. Which was okay. I didn't have a problem with that, but it just was an interesting take. It affected me on that person. Why don't I remember this? I don't know if you were there. Drunk. Might not have been there. Anyway. Jack is there, but maybe not mentally. Not unlike Gastly. This is a, well, this is probably not the second record, but this is a band whose last album, I really, really liked it. And they took kind of a weird right-hand turn. 02:13:41.040 --> 02:14:09.660 and went for a different vibe, though they're still recognizable as a band. But I still dig the sound. I did like the last one a little better, but still enjoyed this one. A subtrilium myth requiem for the serpent telepath. They got into these passages where they just kind of get into a groove and stay there, and that's very different from the absolutely all over the place of the last of Eternity of Shout, but good stuff. This is the band, and it's clear that they don't have a guiding narrative. They're going to just go where their hearts lead them, I think. 02:14:09.680 --> 02:14:39.600 So that'll keep me following for a while. Oh, is it? Yeah, I think so. All right, fair enough. No other comments by me. All right, 17 then. Sorry. Rapture, Malevolent Demise Incarnation. Very nice. More thrashy thrash. Yeah. Thrash has taken over our list so far, it seems like, this year. It does seem that way. More so than before. Oh, my God, I love that. 02:14:39.700 --> 02:15:06.440 Yeah, so that's why I listen to it. Oh, really? Awesome. Give you credit for that one. Well, you know, credit, George. I'm giving you credit. Although, you know, what made my ears perk up at first is because there was another band called Rapture, and I think they're Finnish. That's like a death doom band that I like. And I was like, is this the same band? And I was like, no, it is not the same band. But if they're Finnish, it's definitely not pronounced Rapture, though. 02:15:09.700 --> 02:15:39.600 The Finish version? Rapture? Yes, exactly. Maybe. I thought you were going to say they were like a gothic band. Well, I know Matt likes the real Rapture as well. I do. Number 16, Marcuson. Number 16. Will butchered this name for what felt like the length of a Panopticon album. It is Eximperitus. What are you, suddenly French? Eximperitus. 02:15:40.200 --> 02:16:09.660 Oh, oui, oui, senor. Monsieur. This is out of Willow Tip Records. This is bone disintegrating old school death with an injection of technicality to it, as John was mentioning. A lot of technical stuff. This one definitely has that on it. There's almost a mystic occult feel to the tracks, which I really like. There's tons of double bass on this. Vocals deeper than Thanos' Infinity Well and a colossal, crunch-punchy 02:16:09.700 --> 02:16:11.680 that never fail to get my blood 02:16:12.060 --> 02:16:13.860 bubbling. I really like this record. 02:16:14.460 --> 02:16:16.020 Came out early in the year as we mentioned 02:16:16.640 --> 02:16:18.040 but it has stuck with me. 02:16:19.160 --> 02:16:19.940 So number 16 02:16:20.260 --> 02:16:21.480 Ex Imperatus 02:16:22.960 --> 02:16:23.880 Spiritus Sanctus 02:16:24.740 --> 02:16:25.280 Yes 02:16:28.219 --> 02:16:29.440 The sacred blue 02:16:31.940 --> 02:16:33.139 Montreal Canadiens 02:16:34.360 --> 02:16:34.960 Poutine 02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:38.040 You know I was gonna text Joel 02:16:38.619 --> 02:17:07.679 Last night I was thinking about this. I was going to text Joel and be like, dude, dude, I'm going to start a Canadian rap group called Poutine Clan. You know, like Wu-Tang, Poutine. No, no, we get it, we get it. His response of just no would have been perfectly awesome. He just would have ignored it. I hope you did not send that. I didn't, but I still plan to. Okay. I'm already drinking way, way more than I thought I was going to drink. Sorry, Joel. We tried. 02:17:14.799 --> 02:17:37.500 Anyway, 16, universally estranged, reared up in spectral predation. Yeah, John, I harassed you like nobody's business once you mentioned that they... He sent me a message, hey dude, what's that album? That's him harassing me. You're like, they don't sound exactly like blood incantation, but they remind me of blood incantation and I totally understand what you meant. 02:17:37.540 --> 02:18:07.420 All you had to do was say Blood Incantation and I was in. Really dig this album. Yeah, it's a cool album. I sent that to you earlier today. You might like it too. Yeah, I have my pen and that's one of the ones I wrote down. You said Blood Incantation? I'm going to write this down. Nice. Cool. All right. No, it's a really good record. John, then. Hey, George, your free album just came out if you want to get that real quick. Oh, shit. Yeah. Your what? Sataneth Records. 02:18:07.540 --> 02:18:37.480 has been giving away a free album for like weeks. George just got like 97 in the last like two weeks. I always get every one of them. I know. Yesterday I kept. Where are these being? It's on Bandcamp. Yeah, it's on Bandcamp. They send like a bunch of codes in and. They send all these codes and. There's like 200 of them. You got to claim the code. Yeah. Yeah. It just came up and I was like, he hasn't gotten it yet. I don't know if you guys seen this, but Pelagic Records is doing like by. I saw that. Whatever you want. For every third. 02:18:37.540 --> 02:19:07.099 their whole catalog for labor. So if you want something from Paladjic, that's a good time to do it. Yeah. I noticed that. I knew you would, John, because what do they have? Like the ocean? Well, that's the guy. What's his name? The main guy from the ocean. That's his label, isn't it? Yeah. Yep. I saw Mark. Cause I check everybody minus Jay. Cause Jay doesn't have a wishlist and I'm not taking a shot. I'm just saying, you know, a wishlist. But I check everyone's wishlist and Mark's son had every ocean. 02:19:07.519 --> 02:19:37.460 in there. And I was like, and my first thought was, you don't have all these yet. I, you know, it's weird. Cause with band camp, it's weird. It's like, I have the albums, but I don't have all of them on band camp. You know what I mean? Like I might have in vinyl, but sometimes they don't give you a code or plus it's flack too, you know? And if you're an audiophile, you want the flack. Exactly. Especially ocean. I want the flack. So I'm like, I don't have this. I got it. I did that with incantation. Um, a couple of years back where I just, I bought, I had all of them, but I want them all on digital. 02:19:37.540 --> 02:19:39.200 on FLAC. 02:19:40.000 --> 02:19:40.080 Yeah. 02:19:40.519 --> 02:19:41.179 That's the way to go. 02:19:41.460 --> 02:19:44.880 And some bands, they'll give you a code, but it's not for Bandcamp. 02:19:45.920 --> 02:19:46.200 You know? 02:19:46.480 --> 02:19:47.440 Some stupid place. 02:19:47.559 --> 02:19:47.880 It's a digital download. 02:19:47.880 --> 02:19:48.880 And it's all MP3s. 02:19:49.020 --> 02:19:49.120 Yeah. 02:19:49.380 --> 02:19:53.040 So I like it on Bandcamp because I'm on Bandcamp every day. 02:19:53.600 --> 02:19:53.820 Metal. 02:19:54.380 --> 02:19:54.920 I got it, John. 02:19:55.220 --> 02:19:55.480 Thank you. 02:19:56.100 --> 02:19:56.300 Good. 02:19:56.580 --> 02:19:57.900 What time I stuck in flute, my pussy? 02:19:59.260 --> 02:19:59.840 At Bandcamp? 02:20:03.119 --> 02:20:05.760 That's definitely going to get used going forward. 02:20:05.900 --> 02:20:35.620 That was the joke at my house when I used the term Bandcamp. Everybody looked at me like, you mean like from American Pie? Yeah. This one time on Bandcamp. All right. All right. So George got his free album. So my number 16. All I'm going to say about this album is speed, speed, and more speed. They based their whole album on high velocity technical thrash with a touch of progressive direction. This is Terminalist. 02:20:35.660 --> 02:21:04.960 The Great Acceleration from Interdisciplinarian, right at Denmark. Another technical thrash album that is just full-on revved-up engines all the way. Yeah, I like that one, too. I forgot about that, but I remember listening to that and picking that up because of you. Yeah, I just, what got me on this is that the album cover looks very similar to Will's Dissolve Echoes. It's the same kind of wormhole-ish idea, 02:21:05.660 --> 02:21:35.620 and space vessels or ships or whatever you want to call them getting sucked in or traveling to it and i was like this looks familiar what the fuck then i listening i was like i don't care this album rocks so uh as i said as i said earlier this is just this strange year there's so many technical thrash albums out if you are into that give them spins because they're they're all good whether we have them all on our list or not there's about five or six that are just excellent this year so no i agree there's a lot of albums you've mentioned john that are on like the top of my honorable 02:21:36.100 --> 02:22:03.180 And this is one of them. Yeah. So I feel like, oh, no, we're not going to line up again because I like these albums a lot. They just didn't quite make my list. But who knows? I don't care about the mid-year. Mid-year is a throw. As much as effort we put into it, we do. Yeah. It could just flip on a dime for the end of the year. So it's like a scrimmage. It's a warm up. Yeah. It's preseason. Shirts. Yeah. What is it? Shirts and skins? Yeah. Or skins and skins. I mean, whatever. 02:22:05.680 --> 02:22:34.380 I mean, skin on skin, let the love begin. I will bet a lot of these albums we're talking about today are still going to show up on the mid-year or the year end. Well, and here's the thing. You know, you make your mid-year list. Now we're talking and you're talking about albums you really love. So what I'll do, and I always do this, is I'll go back and listen. Same here. Yeah. That's what I do when I'm editing. Awesome. Yeah. Will? 02:22:50.341 --> 02:22:52.240 Are they thundering? 02:22:52.930 --> 02:22:58.380 It is I, Arthur, son of Ulzapen Dragon from the castle of Camelot, king of the Britain. 02:22:58.910 --> 02:23:00.940 Yeah. Nice. 02:23:01.860 --> 02:23:03.920 So based upon that sound clip, 02:23:04.100 --> 02:23:06.060 can anyone guess what my next pick is? 02:23:06.380 --> 02:23:06.940 Thundering Hooves? 02:23:07.420 --> 02:23:07.820 Yes! 02:23:08.560 --> 02:23:09.220 Animal Corps. 02:23:13.420 --> 02:23:14.740 They weren't very thundering, though. 02:23:14.900 --> 02:23:15.960 They sounded more like coconuts. 02:23:16.160 --> 02:23:17.680 You're banging two coconuts together. 02:23:18.540 --> 02:23:20.480 No, I got Thundering Hooves. 02:23:20.720 --> 02:23:21.980 Another new album of vestiges. 02:23:23.120 --> 02:23:23.800 That's a good album. 02:23:24.080 --> 02:23:24.440 It is. 02:23:24.440 --> 02:23:25.020 I like that album. 02:23:25.140 --> 02:23:25.540 No, John. 02:23:26.260 --> 02:23:28.060 Well, I'm going to go out on a limb here. 02:23:28.680 --> 02:23:31.180 I'm going to go out on a hoove and say that John, 02:23:31.360 --> 02:24:00.780 I remember this was the February picks. January. Was it January? Yeah, I had nothing for January. And I heard this. I was like, oh, I can run with this. Yeah, yeah. And I think, yeah, I think it was John. I was like, oh, but I like Thundering Hooves. But like, I like this Imperatus. But then my daughter picked werewolves. And I said like, oh, you could pick it. She's like, and she's like, oh, this is the easiest one to pronounce. So. Well, now we know how Will picks his monthly picks. Yes, yes, that is true. But Thundering Hooves are out of the United Kingdom. 02:24:01.380 --> 02:24:31.340 It's kind of like a mid-paced, death-ish. At a medium pace. At a medium pace. But it's really good. I like it a lot. Yeah, it's a solid album. Hey, do we need to zoom her in here for the rest of her list? I'd like to get her number one at some point. You know, I got a dartboard out there. I'm just going to start putting band names up on there and just throwing darts at it and going, there's my list. I think her favorite album ever of all time is Chemist's Doomed Heavy 02:24:31.420 --> 02:25:01.280 She listens to that. Really? Yeah. She loves Rainbow the Dark. It's almost like Dio who gives a shit about Dio. Listen to this version of it. Well, that's I hate covers and that's by far one of the best covers I've ever heard. Yeah, that and the O-Death. Yeah. By the way, well, us asking her to come on the podcast is without question a compliment to you. Oh, I know. I know. You've done your job. Yeah. 02:25:01.360 --> 02:25:30.860 Well, I mean, he handcrafted her. He's done her job. He did his job, and apparently now she does his job. As every parent will tell you, that's exactly what I'm striving for. You do my job better than I do. All right. You can pick up the slack because I'm retiring. I can't wait for you. I'm totally jealous, but we are still in the classic rock phase at my house. That's okay. You know what? 02:25:30.900 --> 02:26:00.780 It's rock. I'll take it any day. But you're building, Matt. You're building. You'll still take classic rock. You'll still take it. Trust me. Oh, yeah. Trust me. You want a whack? Or you want a classic rock? They're like, oh, can we play this song by this person that has a song on some Disney Plus show? They're like, fuck you, Dad. We want Imagine Dragons. Yeah, exactly. I'm trying to meet them halfway. We're not going to go to the satanic stuff, but we're going to do some fucking classic rock. Basically, we measure it. To get from our house to school, 02:26:00.900 --> 02:26:30.700 is the length of Freebird. And the fact that they know that. That's awesome. You're in good shape. You're good too. I've gotten the, so I asked my dad a couple, like two Christmas ago, like he's like, wish I get the kids. Like, no, just send a bunch of, send a bunch of classic rock albums that you love on vinyl. He said, I'm like ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin. And like, and these are like, I don't know where either he had them in his collection or he found them in a cheap yard sale, but they're all like original pressings of some of this stuff. I was like, whoa, 02:26:30.900 --> 02:27:00.840 Like, did you just spend like $1,000 on this? Or? $1.50. Yeah, exactly. Right, right. But, yeah, my daughter, like, I'm trying to really get my daughter into, like, the guitar legends, like Jimmy Page and, you know, telling her about Eddie Van Halen and stuff like that. My son is, like, he, weirdly enough, my son could care less. He doesn't care. But we do occasionally, you know, it's like, I'm going to listen to Chemist, but now I really want to listen to Katy Perry. 02:27:00.940 --> 02:27:30.860 Yeah. There is this. Like, just the fact that my kids know what Back in Black sounds like. Like, oh, I know this song. I like this song. Like, I have to pull over and just be like, fuck yeah. Actually, I listen to Adele. I have never listened to that stuff normally, but I listen to Adele. I actually really like Adele. Oh, she's awesome. She is amazing. Didn't she do James Bond too? Yes. Skyfall. Skyfall. That was a fucking really good song. 02:27:30.920 --> 02:28:00.840 I'm not a fan, but she's definitely talented. She's talented. I like her voice. Well, if you like Adele, let me tell you about Lady Gaga. No, I don't want to go there because I don't want to put a meat suit on. What's wrong with a meat suit? I like the Lady Gaga movie that she did. Yeah, it was great. What's that fucking actor? I don't remember. The guy who's from Philly. Oh, no, don't go there. I fucking hate a Star is Born. Rocket Raccoon. Oh, okay. Is it Star is Born? 02:28:03.821 --> 02:28:30.880 I like the movie was fine but I thought the music was pretty good in it like them performing the music John he he was the guy he played the American Sniper yeah I'll tell you why Marcus from wedding Bradley Cooper I'm old enough to remember the Chris Christopherson Barbra Streisand and fuck Barbra Streisand you know and so I just can't get past oh John you take that back oh yeah I'm not that old so it doesn't affect me yeah you 02:28:30.920 --> 02:29:00.720 All I can think of is South Park and their Mecca to Streisand. If anyone watched South Park years ago. So Adele, Gaga, Streisand podcast. You're welcome. What are we doing? We're definitely drunk. We need to move on. No, I'm fine, man. Come on. Well, then if you're fine, why are you talking about this shit? Let's go. And whose turn is it? I don't know. I think it was Matt. Because I miss you fuckers. That's why. I miss you too, John. I think it's your turn, John. I don't know who's going. 02:29:00.900 --> 02:29:30.600 It's me. It's Jay. No, it's 16, dude. 17. 16. 16. You're on 16. I just did that. She's on 17. 16. You read my mind. 16. I mentioned this earlier, but we all gather information in different ways, but one of my sources of information is you guys, and so I do always pay attention to everybody's album of the month, especially if it's something I don't know, which is frequently. But this was John's album of the month for, I don't know, 02:29:30.900 --> 02:30:00.880 I don't remember what moral collapse this is a cool record dude old school kind of sounding death metal with like nevermore style musicianship I mean it's like and it's fucking heavy and in your fucking face this is a great record so it was a worthy album of the month by uh John's choosing and kind of kept it on the down low that that was one that really rang like killer possessed saxophones and violins it's so fucking cool dude it's good stuff that might come up again I thought it might oh I 02:30:00.900 --> 02:30:30.500 I knew it would be in John's. Yeah, it might come up again. I really like that record. All right, George. Jay, what was your 16 again? It was... Moral Collapse. Moral Collapse, yeah. Yeah, that's mine too. I was like, I wasn't that long ago, George. Is that the first time? I just didn't want to work for it. I wanted you to do the heavy lifting, you know? Just living the life, man. It's our second matchy-matchy. Matchy-matchy. No, we've had a couple. 02:30:30.880 --> 02:30:59.480 No, Matt and I matched on 17. I'm woad and you guys match on 16. Who did I match on Maricognitum? Nobody. 0.0. Maricognitum has come up twice, but not at the same number. Oh, same number. Gotcha. Roger that. That's what I meant. Same number. Got it. Yup. More collapse. Speaking for myself, we're starting, even though we're not at 10 yet, we're starting now to get more into the meat of the, of what I feel like. Should I do it, Jay? 02:31:02.119 --> 02:31:30.840 Now this shit's getting fucking serious. It's getting real. Now it's getting real. Now it's just getting real. Because we're moving in the top 15. We've gotten through a whole 10. Yeah, true. But even though I liked everything on my list, that was the first record where I was just like, wow, this is fucking good. It has to be on my list. And pretty much everything else is now from this point. Into the silent green of the podcast. Hey, Jay, off air, I'll tell you why I say that. Now we're getting serious? Yeah, I'll tell you. 02:31:31.520 --> 02:32:00.460 She's only 17 stuck in my head now. Thank you. Is she good enough for me? Yeah, but Christine, 16. You can go younger. You can go a little younger. How misogynistic is it to say she's only 17, but she's good enough for me? Like somehow that's some shortcoming of her that she's underage. Yeah, I don't understand why they even still play these songs. Also, I also think the Bee Gees is the same way. That song, More Than a Woman, that's insulting as fuck, isn't it? 02:32:00.460 --> 02:32:03.540 You're like a man. 02:32:04.320 --> 02:32:05.620 Is she like a super woman? 02:32:06.740 --> 02:32:07.860 Maybe two times a woman? 02:32:08.319 --> 02:32:09.900 It's a little rough. Three times. 02:32:10.460 --> 02:32:11.500 It was the 70s. It was okay. 02:32:12.580 --> 02:32:15.400 Dude, everything in the 70s was fine. Then we went off the rails somewhere. 02:32:15.680 --> 02:32:16.620 Yeah, you're right. 02:32:17.460 --> 02:32:19.840 Everybody seemed to be happy for like five years. 02:32:20.400 --> 02:32:21.760 Yeah, it was the cocaine, Jen. 02:32:22.920 --> 02:32:23.440 That's a good point. 02:32:23.460 --> 02:32:25.400 Now you made me think of that clown on Metalocalypse. 02:32:26.720 --> 02:32:28.140 I like cocaine. 02:32:28.500 --> 02:32:29.660 I like cocaine. 02:32:30.300 --> 02:32:59.880 You know he's supposed to be David Lee Roth, right? Yeah. And that is literally their way of saying that they think he's a fucking clown. Sure. And apparently he did. He is kind of a clown. I like cocaine. Yeah, but those first words, I do cocaine. And he gets up and he's just like, seriously, a lot of cocaine. All right, Markisan, take us into the top 15. Oh shit. We're already in 15. Okay. It's getting serious. All right, Sean. It's getting real. 02:33:00.280 --> 02:33:30.160 15 for me is Kining. This is self-release. This album was a surprise find for me this year. It's thunderous stoner grunge metal with a bluesy doom heart. The riffs on this album are pretty monstrous. And they have raspy crooning from the frontman, Johan Vogel. And that just mesmerizes me. I really dig this album. I don't know how this band's not signed yet. What's the name? 02:33:32.020 --> 02:33:59.160 K-Y-N-I-N-G. Talked about these guys a few times. Yeah. I have. They were really in the running. I don't remember what month the album came out, but they were in the running for my album of the month. I really like this. And then some of the listeners listened to it and really dug it as well. I was going to say, we talked about it a lot on the New Music Friday. Yeah, New Music Friday. When I mentioned it, people were listening to it and they really, really dug it. So that made me happy because I just found this thing out of the blue. 02:34:00.260 --> 02:34:30.100 But yeah, it's really good. Yeah. This thing, another one, man, it's so hard for mid-year. I find that the end of the year is easier actually to make the list. Mid-year is a little bit tougher. Yep. Because you don't have all of the albums that are just like, they must be on there. Yeah, 100% agree. Hey, you don't feel guilty cutting someone off at the end, year-end. You're like, no, fuck, this is your end. Oh, yeah, I feel like, well, maybe I like them more, I don't know. Oh, yeah, I feel really good. Every time you mention a band, 02:34:35.640 --> 02:34:59.920 So yeah, but this one, you know, this is one that I hope people listen to because they are, they're not signed. They're putting it out themselves. It's not something that's going to pop up. It's a true, like underground kind of band. And I think they're one of the best newer bands that, you know, don't have a label. So yeah, kind of awesome. I just want to like pimp for a second, something you mentioned, which was the new music Friday. 02:35:00.260 --> 02:35:29.920 which there's definitely a lot more listeners than there are people interacting with us on Facebook. So you say. So I say. So I just wanted to put this out there that, you know, every Friday, John puts a post up on our Facebook page. And Marcus does it on Instagram. And talking about, you know, what's new this week. And it's a chance for us and the listeners to interact and talk about stuff. So if you have not checked us out on Facebook, get on there and be part of the conversation. 02:35:30.000 --> 02:35:59.240 and interact with us. You never know. Maybe you'll end up on here one day. Maybe even be a fucking, you know, part of the team. Okay, maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe not. But I guess this little fool right now. But, you know, it's happened. But seriously, you know, get a hold of us and, you know, chat us up. We pass along a lot of albums to each other, so it's fun. Yeah. All right, Matt. Okie doke. 02:36:01.939 --> 02:36:29.240 I pronounce this Altarage. The album is Succumb via Season of Mist, but it's like a sub-label Season of Mist. I wrote down UNA. I can't remember what it stands for. This is the fourth album from a Spanish black and death metal band. What I love about Altarage is they literally sound like they're from hell. Like if a man could sound like that, it would be Altarage. Altarage. I like my, you know. No, I do it. 02:36:29.320 --> 02:36:57.960 I pronounce it your way too. I'm just. But the range is applicable, right? Yeah. Another band I would compare to them would be Portal, but I feel like Alter, Alter, is much more aggressive. And the other thing is, I feel like if I listen to it and I don't put it on my list, I would probably die in seven days, you know? Yeah. Might be a movie. I don't know. I'd love working with you guys. Did you look in the mirror when you said it though? Maybe once, maybe twice. Oh, all right. Sorry, dude. Some weird woman crawling across the ceiling. 02:37:02.100 --> 02:37:29.220 That's a good record, Matt. Yeah. And I'm glad that you put it on your list so you don't die, because we like you. Yeah. And I like you guys a lot. We're going to see you at Nassau, Mollie, Mollie! Yeah. I mean, literally everything is booked, so I just need to find some pants and I'll be there. Jesus. Will is now streaming a baseball game, presumably a Phillies game. Oh, God. On his phone. 02:37:30.680 --> 02:37:31.760 Because we're too boring. 02:37:32.360 --> 02:37:33.480 Should be making an EP list. 02:37:35.140 --> 02:37:35.340 Yeah. 02:37:36.020 --> 02:37:36.640 Yeah, what are you doing? 02:37:41.040 --> 02:37:41.440 Entertaining. 02:37:41.580 --> 02:37:42.300 Where are we, 15? 02:37:43.220 --> 02:37:43.760 My 15. 02:37:44.300 --> 02:37:45.900 Hey, Will, I need you to help me with this one. 02:37:46.920 --> 02:37:47.260 Are you ready? 02:37:47.420 --> 02:37:48.520 I'll say the first word. 02:37:48.680 --> 02:37:49.760 You follow up after that. 02:37:49.920 --> 02:37:50.220 You ready? 02:37:50.760 --> 02:37:51.040 Yes. 02:37:52.319 --> 02:37:52.720 Woad. 02:37:52.940 --> 02:37:55.320 To you, O Earth and many mirrors. 02:37:56.640 --> 02:37:57.160 There you go. 02:37:57.360 --> 02:37:57.740 Woad. 02:37:58.040 --> 02:38:27.980 Burn in Many Marres, 20-buck spin. We've already mentioned it's their third album. It's a mix of black and thrash. There's a little bit of melodic black in there. To me, this is a transition album for them. They've kind of, each album, gotten a little away from their traditional black on the first album. And I agree with Jay. They're kind of latching onto that Celestial Dagger riff a little bit, but they're kind of moving in a different way. 02:38:28.120 --> 02:38:57.960 direction. So I would not be surprised if the next album is even further out. But it's a very good album. I'm not, I don't agree with a former guest, Dave Kaminsky. Same last name as me, but with a K-A-N-N in his name. So sort of like, but completely not at all. It sounds the same, but it's not spelled the same. Yes. It rhymes. Respect is a penny. I actually think this album is better than he thought it was. 02:38:58.060 --> 02:39:00.860 But I think we all probably felt that way when he said that. 02:39:02.020 --> 02:39:04.540 Yeah, I think we were pretty quiet when he was talking about it. 02:39:05.060 --> 02:39:06.640 Actually, I think you actually said, what? 02:39:07.999 --> 02:39:08.800 Yeah, because... 02:39:08.800 --> 02:39:10.600 But it's a very good album. 02:39:10.680 --> 02:39:13.140 I don't know if I like this better than the last album yet. 02:39:13.380 --> 02:39:13.780 I'm not sure. 02:39:14.220 --> 02:39:15.500 I don't, but I like it. 02:39:16.020 --> 02:39:16.780 But I don't like it. 02:39:16.800 --> 02:39:19.060 Yeah, and I think that's because it's a transitional album. 02:39:19.340 --> 02:39:23.260 And I think maybe we might feel differently when the next album comes out about this album. 02:39:24.380 --> 02:39:27.060 Yeah, because look how different the first and second one were. 02:39:27.100 --> 02:39:57.080 And this is not that different from the second one. Meaning it's starting to walk in another. Oh, it's great, but it's not. Yeah, I agree, Jay. They're taking a walk elsewhere. They're just not quite there yet. Marcus brought up a really good point about these transitional albums. There's very few where you get the old and the new on an album where it works. Yes. Where you say, what the fuck? They got it going. And I think that only happens maybe five or six years later. You look back on that album, you say, I didn't 02:39:57.140 --> 02:40:26.840 I didn't think of this the way I should have. I do think for this one it works on this one. It's good. There's a lot. It feels differently about these things. It's also making pretty much everybody's list though so that speaks highly. Hopefully maybe one day we'll get them here at a Decimal Fester MDF to see them. Where are they from? They are from England as far as I know. Yeah. That's right Sean. Sodom. 02:40:28.721 --> 02:40:57.080 Well, my next one, Throne Hammer Incantation Writes. Give me the Wilson Award, because I'm always a man alone on an island with a volleyball. Sorry. Wow, Jay just basically said, stop your fucking whining over your Throne Hammer. No, he was doing the I'm 02:40:57.120 --> 02:41:26.640 I'm sorry. I think actually a number of people like this album, don't they? I bet it makes no one's list. When we were doing albums of the month, that one came up and I actually mentioned it. I was like, I was surprised you didn't mention this as your album of the month because you liked the last one so much. And this one is a lot better than the last one. I like the last album. I kind of like the last one more though. Well, mine is my 15. 02:41:27.100 --> 02:41:56.800 is mentioned before. I don't have to say a lot about it, but I think it was one that caught us all by surprise because the band that kind of went slightly new direction, Vaconis Odyssey. Is that two or three? Three. That's three. So three. And once we get into these ones where it's up there a few times, I really don't have that many comments on it. But I dug it. What? And dig it. Right on. I mean, a few of us have spoken on it already, so no comments. 02:41:57.180 --> 02:42:26.280 You like your comments, Jay. Yeah, comment. Say something. Yeah, we enjoyed when you talked about Panopticon. You know what? The first track, there's a lot more to it than the first track, and this is probably the only thing I've ever mentioned to you guys, but it was that first track is kind of blood and thundery, which is, that's surprising. That first track is what I wish Mastodon was still doing. But then it goes on, and to consider the source, that's odd, you know, but yeah. 02:42:26.360 --> 02:42:56.340 See, Jay, I figured you would go on about the kind of 70s, deep purplish, John Lord-ish type keyboards that were added to the album for the first time that gave it a whole new dimension. I don't want to give away my pick because it'll come up at some point. No, no, no. I figured you'd be all over that part. And I was. I was. This was a record I put on a lot. So there you go. John said it better than I ever could. I mean, the Mastodon comparisons are really good because we've spent a lot of time 02:42:56.380 --> 02:43:26.340 talking about that band about how they fucked up yeah i mean they can do what they want to do but what we what we like you know i think vaconus is kind of picking up the baton there there you go that's really cool and that's kind of my point and and and it's it's cool that you can scratch that itch somewhere you know yes yeah but there's a lot more to it than that and john did rightly point out the layers of the 70s deep purple stuff and there's so much going on in that can't be the ham and organ you know 02:43:26.360 --> 02:43:56.320 Well, that's the thing with the album. There's a lot of stuff in there, and they do it in a way that's just fun and cohesive. And I was surprised by that because... The cohesive part is key, because it could feel like this is random, dude. It's not. You've got all these different influences and these sounds that you want to put in one album, and a lot of times that'll fall apart for a band. But Oponus is able to do that and make it their own sound while still giving you hints of these other albums that you like, or other genres that you like. 02:43:56.360 --> 02:44:26.040 that you really like. For sure. And it's nice that it's on a few of our lists. Yeah. Just flashback to that movie Kingpin where the guy's name was Roy Munson. And so they created that term called he got Munson. And so now I feel like we're going to have a term called, man, they totally got mastodoned. My favorite line from that movie is, oh, man, you're on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. I prefer the term you got bar rocked. 02:44:27.640 --> 02:44:56.200 Oh, man, that is fucking awesome. Biscuit wheels. Yeah, that's Bill Murray. You don't want to bet that money, man. You're on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. When they're trying to cheat those other guys out of their money. That's awesome. All right. George. Number 15. Yes. From New Zealand. Ooh. Mia's Mata, Unlight, Songs of Earth, and Atrophy. 02:44:57.060 --> 02:45:26.140 Spoken Previously by Jay. Like a black speed kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I, I think I bought this early and then forgot all about it. And then I think I saw Jay get it. And I was like, oh yeah. And so then I had to go back and listen to it again. And I was like, yeah, that's why I bought it. It's awesome. And it's funny too, George, because it's one of those ones that I would do this anyway, but I think we had the promo. 02:45:26.360 --> 02:45:56.320 I think so yeah yeah and then I bought it and I'm like oh I already have this but whatever yeah anyway it's a great album it is it is oh that's two 14 14 we're getting there number 14 yes I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who will have this one on here the the band is Isgard Morth and the album is called Heller Duke from Repose Records 02:45:56.360 --> 02:46:26.320 This is just fantastically odd and innovative avant-garde black metal. It's got some post-rock shifts in it, some quirky hooks. I think it's one of the most interesting and absorbing black metal albums I've heard this year. And I know that it's kind of underground, but this album has definitely flirted with the top for me. I really, really dig it. And it's short. A lot of these black metal albums, like we've just 02:46:26.340 --> 02:46:28.540 been discussing are super long. 02:46:29.240 --> 02:46:30.520 This one is a lot shorter. 02:46:30.720 --> 02:46:35.640 And so I think the impact is greater on the album and they're just doing different things. 02:46:36.500 --> 02:46:38.880 So definitely urge people to check this one out. 02:46:39.460 --> 02:46:40.080 It's under the radar. 02:46:40.880 --> 02:46:41.060 Cool. 02:46:41.700 --> 02:46:41.940 Matt. 02:46:42.480 --> 02:46:43.100 Number 14. 02:46:43.740 --> 02:46:44.920 Divny Edeman. 02:46:46.840 --> 02:46:47.060 Wow. 02:46:47.460 --> 02:46:49.160 She's never going to live that down. 02:46:49.680 --> 02:46:49.820 No. 02:46:50.800 --> 02:46:55.660 Hey, before you say anything, Matt, I listened to a review of the album yesterday and somebody 02:46:55.680 --> 02:47:22.140 He said, there's no vowels in this. It's Diffney. I was like, dude, it's fucking Dune. There's a vowel. Do you guys remember? And an E is a vowel, by the way. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. I did get that. I was like, oh. Do you guys remember? It was like last year or two years ago where it was, you guys were saying like, oh, I like this band, Vutamas. I'm like, no, it's Ultamas. Ultamas. Ultamas. Yeah. 02:47:26.140 --> 02:47:27.800 You know they were called Romans 02:47:28.820 --> 02:47:28.900 Geez 02:47:29.980 --> 02:47:31.440 Anyway let Matt talk about it 02:47:31.920 --> 02:47:33.160 Well I mean we've talked about it 02:47:33.650 --> 02:47:34.500 A lot has been said 02:47:35.800 --> 02:47:36.820 I love post metal 02:47:36.950 --> 02:47:38.260 I spend a lot of time with post metal 02:47:38.540 --> 02:47:40.320 Obviously post metal has a huge 02:47:40.860 --> 02:47:41.980 You know spectrum of everything 02:47:43.700 --> 02:47:44.180 This on my 02:47:44.380 --> 02:47:46.040 Like their sound I relate more 02:47:46.340 --> 02:47:47.840 Towards like the ocean side of the spectrum 02:47:48.220 --> 02:47:48.660 Which I love 02:47:49.240 --> 02:47:51.540 And so that is why it is in this position right now 02:47:52.020 --> 02:47:53.180 You know could it change 02:47:53.460 --> 02:47:54.040 Maybe but 02:47:54.580 --> 02:47:55.640 So it's on the spectrum 02:47:55.640 --> 02:48:25.600 It is on the spectrum. And I dig it. And it is their second album. And they're from the UK. That's really all I know. This one's hurting me because it's not on my list. And I do really like this album a lot. Likewise. It fell into that category of, excuse me, getting a track, falling in love with it. And then I felt like there's so many albums this year that we got a track of or two tracks of and then we had to wait forever to actually hear the whole thing. And it was either like, God, this is amazing. 02:48:25.640 --> 02:48:26.260 are like, 02:48:26.600 --> 02:48:26.920 ah, 02:48:27.320 --> 02:48:27.440 man, 02:48:27.440 --> 02:48:28.280 I don't know how I feel about this. 02:48:28.420 --> 02:48:29.100 This is definitely like, 02:48:29.540 --> 02:48:29.680 man, 02:48:29.700 --> 02:48:30.480 I really dig this. 02:48:31.140 --> 02:48:31.440 So yeah. 02:48:32.640 --> 02:48:32.720 Yeah. 02:48:33.720 --> 02:48:35.240 The curse of the lead track. 02:48:35.560 --> 02:48:35.720 Yes. 02:48:35.860 --> 02:48:36.420 The lead release. 02:48:36.540 --> 02:48:36.620 Yeah. 02:48:36.780 --> 02:48:36.980 Yes. 02:48:38.460 --> 02:48:38.600 All right. 02:48:38.800 --> 02:48:38.900 God, 02:48:39.140 --> 02:48:39.640 we're all familiar. 02:48:39.880 --> 02:48:40.820 Are we with the, 02:48:40.820 --> 02:48:42.000 under the scalpel blade at this point? 02:48:42.700 --> 02:48:42.780 Right. 02:48:42.840 --> 02:48:45.080 That record's still not out till August. 02:48:45.979 --> 02:48:47.620 I didn't think that album was going to come out. 02:48:47.620 --> 02:48:48.840 It was taking forever for them. 02:48:48.980 --> 02:48:49.860 It was taking forever. 02:48:50.260 --> 02:48:50.340 Yeah. 02:48:51.280 --> 02:48:52.320 Did everybody order that? 02:48:52.540 --> 02:48:53.180 Cause I did too. 02:48:53.420 --> 02:48:53.620 Is that, 02:48:53.900 --> 02:48:55.520 are you guys talking about the new tool album or, 02:48:55.580 --> 02:49:23.920 What are you talking about? Carcass. No, it only comes out like the cicadas, like once every 17 years. Oh, man. So true. Sorry, that was a joke. I know, but I had to get a cicada joke in there, you know, because we've been dealing with them. You know, what's funny is we never heard them, never saw them. But then like a week ago, we started seeing dead cicada parts, like a head here, a wing there. But we never like saw them, never heard of them. 02:49:25.600 --> 02:49:55.400 Oh my god. Yeah. It's like they gotta be dropping pieces. I've never seen a live one. Yeah. I have on my basement stairs down to my basement. There's a little drain down there. It is literally I don't know what it is. I don't know if dead cicadas attract other dead cicadas but it is covered in cicada carcasses. It's insane. Like I had to sweep them away to get away from the drain when it rains. You saw ours. 02:49:55.580 --> 02:49:57.300 So metal though. 02:49:58.160 --> 02:50:01.300 Well, I think we're done now because it's quiet here. 02:50:01.360 --> 02:50:01.560 Yeah, yeah. 02:50:01.680 --> 02:50:03.500 I think it's definitely slowing down. 02:50:03.740 --> 02:50:04.340 They're all dead now. 02:50:05.120 --> 02:50:05.240 Yeah. 02:50:05.540 --> 02:50:06.720 We're going to go for a walk. 02:50:07.400 --> 02:50:08.460 They had sex. 02:50:08.720 --> 02:50:09.120 They're dead. 02:50:09.280 --> 02:50:10.540 They just drop. 02:50:10.700 --> 02:50:11.680 No, this is true. 02:50:11.780 --> 02:50:12.780 They drop into the soil. 02:50:13.280 --> 02:50:13.860 We'll see them. 02:50:14.200 --> 02:50:16.760 We'll see the first wave in nine years, then the next one in 17. 02:50:19.120 --> 02:50:19.500 All right. 02:50:19.840 --> 02:50:20.220 All right. 02:50:20.280 --> 02:50:22.180 It's about the same time the next Tool album comes out. 02:50:23.760 --> 02:50:24.120 Sorry. 02:50:24.300 --> 02:50:25.140 I just can't resist. 02:50:26.119 --> 02:50:54.580 All right. Is it my turn for 14? I think so. I can't pronounce this album. I can't pronounce this band's name. I don't know where this band is from. They've disappeared. Apparently they pissed everyone off in Iceland and they're not even from Iceland. I know it's relevant. I know. I know. I'm just as confused as you. Markisan and I had a conversation. Is this band hanky or not? We don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 02:50:55.200 --> 02:51:25.180 This album is so fucking good. And I felt like I couldn't put it any higher because I don't know who they are, what they're doing, or what they believe in. Did you just scribble on your list and you can't read it until you're making it up? No, I'm not going to even attempt to do the name because it's supposedly in Icelandic, but I'm not going to pronounce it in Icelandic if they're not from Iceland. That's just not cool. So this is the current day Ghostbath from China, but from Iceland. So I'm going to give the English translation. I know Marcus knows this because we've had a long 02:51:26.699 --> 02:51:54.820 It translates to Primordial Darkness. The album translates to Darkness of Death. I don't know who these guys are. We don't either. No, I know. No, this is true. This album is literally on Bandcamp for what, Marcus, like two or three weeks? Maybe a month? Yeah. And then it disappeared. It was less than a month, John. Apparently the former drummer from Soul Saphir got really pissed off when he found out his band was not from Iceland and he just pitched a shit fit over this. 02:51:55.220 --> 02:52:24.960 This is all anecdotal, by the way. But I would not doubt that this is true because I've heard that this guy is like this. Anyway, this band apparently is from Brazil. They named everything from Iceland in terms of who they are, their album title, the band name. It's a killer progressive black Viking metal. If you like Enslaved, you'll love this band. Nobody knows where the fuck they're from or who they are. Weird. That sounds like Lords of Salem. 02:52:25.260 --> 02:52:55.180 type situation. Yeah, so I think it translates to like Fumicrid or something like that. I don't know. I can't pronounce this stuff, so just look for our list when they come out if you're interested. Okay, perfect. We'll bless you, by the way. It looks like from Miracrio. Yeah. From Miracrio. F-R-U-M-M-Y-R-K-R-K-R-K-R-K-R-K 02:52:58.020 --> 02:53:25.000 Now, Jay, I'm going to say you're pretty close, probably. I call him from Recreo. I just remember I heard this album, and I think Markisan listen to it, and he's like, dude, this album is fucking awesome. I'm like, I don't know where these guys came from. I don't know who they are. And they pulled it down because they got so much shit because they're actually not from Iceland. So I really hope they kind of come back and rebrand themselves of where they're from and re-release the album because it is really that good. 02:53:25.200 --> 02:53:55.180 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. A lot of bands have done that before. Yeah, they're not the first. Just say where you are. Right. You're playing Icelandic black metal. Who cares where you're from? But I guess when you're from Brazil and you're out on the beach and everything, you're like, hey, it's not that cold here. I mean, to be honest, I feel like you have more legitimacy saying you're from Brazil than Iceland. Don't get me wrong. I think Iceland is amazing. Yeah. I know the drummer definitely is from Argentina because he's in the notes that I saw about who the 02:53:55.200 --> 02:54:25.180 who guests as drums is from Argentina. But it's the most bizarre thing I've seen in a long time. I want to believe it's like a bunch of world leaders or something that just didn't want wanted to get out who they are. You know what I mean? Like some really important people. I'm almost I would even be happy if it was fucking Dave Mustaine who was involved with this somehow. You know, after all this. Oh, go ahead, Matt. I'm sorry. No, you go ahead, Mark. So I just looked up the band camp thing and it actually has a D, not a D, 02:54:25.220 --> 02:54:28.640 Oh, so it's from Miracrid. 02:54:29.580 --> 02:54:34.580 Oh, it's pronounced like, I think it's pronounced like a TH because that's like the hamfrith band. 02:54:35.040 --> 02:54:39.520 Yeah, I don't know how it's pronounced, but I'm saying the band camp when you look at it and you go to the link. 02:54:39.890 --> 02:54:40.520 I didn't know this. 02:54:40.550 --> 02:54:43.360 F-R-U-M-M-Y-R-K-R-U. 02:54:43.360 --> 02:54:45.900 That's because you own it, though, but that band camp link is gone now. 02:54:46.840 --> 02:54:47.840 Yeah, it's gone now. 02:54:48.020 --> 02:54:48.700 It's because you own it. 02:54:48.820 --> 02:54:49.640 That's why you can get to it. 02:54:50.060 --> 02:54:51.660 But it's been taken off a band camp. 02:54:51.710 --> 02:54:53.380 The only place you can hear this now is on YouTube. 02:54:54.880 --> 02:55:24.740 So just to step back, you mentioned the drummer from Solstafir. Yeah, he apparently got really pissed that they weren't Icelandic. This is what I've read now. That's why I said his anecdote. I read this from other people making comments about it. Okay. Yeah. He has since been, I don't know what happened, but he's no longer in Solstafir. Well, so, and that's where I kind of latched on because I feel like, didn't they just, they got rid of the bass player? Five or six years ago? 02:55:24.900 --> 02:55:54.600 four or five years ago. Because I was thinking it was the drummer, but then I remember like, no. No, the drummer, there was a, I don't know the story. Yep. I know someone who's attached to the band. Okay. I haven't talked to her in a while, but I just know that there was a problem with him. Okay. The band and him did not get along. Okay. So. Rock and roll. That's all I know about it. I don't know anything else. All right. Conflict of interest. It's down to the singer and the guy who I would associate with Snoopy's cousin from the Peanuts. All I know is they wear cowboy hats. 02:55:56.699 --> 02:56:24.860 They're really good live. Oh, they're amazing live. The guitar player, not the singer, but the other guy, reminds me of Snoopy's cousin from The Peanuts. He's the guy who lives in the desert. That could be taken so much. That guy who lives in the desert. You know. Remember, he's got a mustache and everything, right? But don't they have a song like 78 Days in the Desert or something? Yeah, he's got the leather skin and he's like 37, you know. But John, that's a really 02:56:24.880 --> 02:56:54.860 It didn't make my list. I think the controversy actually affected me. That's why it's so low on my list. I would have been higher. I could not put it on my list. It's a really good record. I think if they get their shit together and release it, I might revisit it for the end of the year, but it is a very good record. I think it's going to disappear in the annals of time, I think, is what's going to happen. It probably will, John. But we have it. We download it. If you guys want it, we'll 02:56:55.960 --> 02:57:24.580 Once they just googled their location, I think we should be okay. Yeah, apparently on Metal Archives, it lists Brazil. So nice. Right. All right. All right. Moving on to number who fucking knows. Moving on up. Will, 14? George and I just muted you. We're like, I don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Let's go to the brewery and come back. I don't even know who's doing. Yeah, let's go to the brewery and come back and they'll start talking. Number 14, Suffering Hour, the cyclic reckoning. 02:57:24.880 --> 02:57:54.840 Black and Death Metal from Forest Hills, Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota. And Colorado on Profound Lore. There's a lot I love about this. And there's some weird, not avant-garde, avant-garde dissident guitar stuff that they do on the high-pitch end that just makes this awesome and spiritual. 02:57:54.900 --> 02:58:24.860 I love it suffering hour right on right on I can do mine fest too and that is my god I got up early this morning to listen to two records that were released yesterday today and I had reserved a place on my list rightfully so this one actually moved up a few notches I think once you get into the groove Matt you'll agree Bosk migration for fans of old man 02:58:24.880 --> 02:58:54.420 meets, and there's a little Inter-Arma in there, and some avant-garde, so on and so forth, but it's really good, heavy stuff. Dig it. So I'm glad you said that, Jay, because then as I listened to it, I was on Spotify, and then it kicked me into Bosque Radio, and then it was like Sumac, Old Man Gloom. Oh, really? I'm not surprised. I was like, okay, this, now I get it. Like, perfect. Cool. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, but it lived up to my hopes. I dig it. And it may climb higher before the year closes. 02:58:54.880 --> 02:59:23.840 Yeah, because you haven't had much time. Yeah, very little time. I got up and listened to two full records, though. They both made my list. The other one's higher. Cool. George, do you want to do your 14 quick so these guys, so everybody can take a lead? All right, George, do yours. Come on. I got to pee. All right, my number 14 is all Greek to me, or at least the album title is, but it's a black metal band from Greece called Spectral Lore. It's the first time, yeah. 02:59:24.880 --> 02:59:54.180 Whatever the fuck the name of that album is. In letters that are. Google translate that. Probably. But it's probably something weird. That is probably not what he intended. Like. It probably says wipe your ass farty pants. Or banana or something like that. So yeah. I don't know. But you know. It's pretty cool. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. And we'll be back. We'll be back. You're listening to the. Oh. Oh. 02:59:54.900 --> 03:00:24.840 - Seriously, couldn't you do that somewhere else? Sorry, dude. Hey, what is that pink thing that Will is drinking? That's a beer. Zombie dust. This is zombie dust. I don't know. Oh, okay. I just... That's not pink. That was excellent. You know, I saw the pink documentary. It was really good. Oh, shut the fuck up. So, where are we on? Who's next? Who's next? The 13th. I think we're starting at the top. Yes, number 13, Markison. So, this was mentioned before, much to 03:00:24.860 --> 03:00:52.020 My Happiness, My Glee, and it is Rapture, Malevolent Demise, Incarnation on FDA Records. This is some brutally dark and wicked thrash. If you drop Slayer and mid-80s Sodom into a combine harvester, then resurrected the resulting metal mess with old demon magic, you'd get Rapture. And I am here for it. It is fucking awesome. Nice. 03:00:52.700 --> 03:01:21.280 My goal today is to make sure nobody gets a Wilson. By, you know, by having that on there as well. Yeah, no, I really like. Sorry, Matt, by the way. No worries. And John. Oh, yeah. Anyway. Matty. Okie doke 13. Decline of the Eye. Johannes via Igonia Record. This is the fourth album from a friendship. 03:01:22.860 --> 03:01:52.280 metal band. The first three albums were part of a trilogy. I'm assuming this fourth one starts a new trilogy. I would call them Opera Core. It's super dynamic. A lot of people compare them to Mephraash, who I usually confuse with Melikesh. And so I take that for what it's worth. Isn't Mephraash, wasn't that your number one album last year, George? Or some year. I don't know if it was last year. It was like two years ago. Abergore was last year. But it was, 03:01:52.300 --> 03:02:22.200 It was like probably two years ago. Okay. But yeah, it's super solid and you should listen to it. Yes. Sounds like it. I beg you. We will. We will. Once, twice, three times. Lady. That's right. All right, then, John. Oh, no. Hey, Wilson, what's up? Oh, no, Wilson. Just thought it would go. 03:02:23.119 --> 03:02:52.240 All right. I think this album has been mentioned once already. It is a death metal album from England. Celestial Sanctuary, Soul Diminished from Redefining Darkness Records. And I know Marcus mentioned the other label that they're on also. I think you marched in, Marcus. Something about this album, it just got in my ear. It's like Plague last year. I heard it early on in the year and it's just stuck with me all year. And I believe Plague is also on Redefining Darkness. So it was my morning. 03:02:52.300 --> 03:03:21.820 March album of the month. It's just a solid death metal album. It's got a lot of memorable moments. I don't know if they're breaking any new ground, but I like it. And I think Decibel featured them on one of their Friday or weekly posts, you know, where they feature bands for new albums. So. Yeah. I think they have a more of a modern sound. They've mentioned that they're like leaving the charge for like England's death metal, like newer death metal. England is like a hot spot for all metal right now. 03:03:21.880 --> 03:03:25.480 New Wave of English Death Metal. 03:03:25.480 --> 03:03:25.740 There you go. 03:03:26.060 --> 03:03:26.140 Yeah. 03:03:26.520 --> 03:03:28.560 But it's all genres, though. 03:03:28.620 --> 03:03:32.280 I mean, there's a huge black metal surge there, death metal, post metal. 03:03:32.450 --> 03:03:32.860 So it's cool. 03:03:33.280 --> 03:03:36.460 So yeah, I definitely want to keep an eye on that because I really like that album. 03:03:36.860 --> 03:03:41.720 And it's definitely old school, but it has a little bit of a modern flair to it. 03:03:41.900 --> 03:03:42.820 So cool. 03:03:43.380 --> 03:03:43.580 Cool. 03:03:43.660 --> 03:03:44.280 That's on your list, John. 03:03:44.580 --> 03:03:44.700 Yeah. 03:03:45.130 --> 03:03:48.420 So that acronym, again, would be New Wodum. 03:03:50.460 --> 03:03:50.820 No. 03:03:52.080 --> 03:04:20.800 Just trying it out. I feel good, dudes. I feel good, dudes. I gotta talk about beer in the next one. My number 13 has been mentioned by, I think, maybe Jay? Maybe. Maybe. Oryx, Lamenting a Dead World. Black and Death Crust from Denver, Colorado on Translation Lost. Aside from being 03:04:20.840 --> 03:04:49.260 the most tasty dead animal to ever enter my mouth. I feel like these guys could either be my number two, three album. I just needed more time. No, we got the promo for it and I listened to it. I'm like, oh, Oryx, I know that. I just know the animal. I'm like, this must be cool. And then I listened to it a little bit and then I kind of backed off a little bit and I listened to it again and then I actually downloaded it on Flack. I bought it. 03:04:50.180 --> 03:05:20.120 Like yesterday, I'm like, how did I buy this yet? And I saw this on the flack. I'm like, oh, this is good. And then it went like way up on my list. And I feel like it could go way higher. So Oryx, lamenting a dead world. So little time. I know. As mentioned by two people, I think now, a lot of us liked this band's last record. They've been around forever. But I think they came out fucking firing hard this year. I'm convinced they were pissed about the pandemic. 03:05:20.360 --> 03:05:49.340 or something. So I will throw in my hat for the crown, Royal Destroyer, number 13. And when we got it, I can't remember if we got the promo or if I bought it. We got the promo. I must have listened to it for two weeks. Almost every day, I think I put it on for two weeks. It was one of those ones that's just a good time. You can take a walk or take a swim or whatever you're doing with this and it just gets you right around the block, man. Underwater Audio. Underwater Audio.com. Voidware. 03:05:50.880 --> 03:06:19.340 It's void. You were big on this when it came out. I avoid. It's funny because my introduction to them was the last one. As long as they've been around, I didn't ever listen to them until Cobra Speed Venom. So I was hoping that this would be cool and it sure as fuck was, man. Do you remember my comment to you when you put that on your list last time? I said, is this like a stoner doom band? Because the name, everything about it. It's a desert animal. Everyone was like, this is a fucking death metal band. I was like, man, I feel stupid. 03:06:19.980 --> 03:06:49.840 No, no, no, that's a total fucking sludgy name for sure. Yeah. So. But it's nice that they, I wouldn't say they've become podcast darlings, but they've made a couple good records and we've taken notes. So, you know, more power to them. Between years talking about, this is like their 11th album, right? Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's insane. It's totally insane. And apparently. In the membrane. I think they get, they're getting better. They just get better every album, which is not typical. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. Though I'm told, 03:06:49.980 --> 03:07:19.680 I'm told I've read that their output is consistent, but I just haven't done a deep dive or anything. I've had some of their older albums. Actually, a buddy of mine I call it Chop. A guy I deployed with Iraq. I've heard of Chop before. Yeah, yeah. You probably met him. I've met him a couple times. Yeah, he's a great guy. Anyway, he downloaded a whole bunch of Crown stuff for me. I mean, this is like 10 years ago. I'm like, oh, this is pretty good. 03:07:20.000 --> 03:07:49.880 this. But I think their newest stuff is, I don't know, it speaks to me more. I like it. I like it a lot. A lot. Even though they were not as known, it speaks to, I think, like, there's a lot of bands like that now. Like Exodus, I think, is putting out great records. I think Overkill's still putting out good records. So a lot of these, like, old school guys, I don't know if 10 years makes them old school. But they're just getting into their groove, I guess. You know, good for them. I was just thinking about Overkill the other day, and it's like, 03:07:50.601 --> 03:08:17.680 They just put out consistently good stuff. You think about Megadeth put out some shit stuff. Obviously Metallica most of their career has been shit at this point. I always think about Slayer, Metallica, Slayer and Overkill. Just consistent. Just putting out some pretty good stuff when you think about all the other contemporaries. 03:08:19.980 --> 03:08:49.580 I put in that category, like, always put out good stuff until, like, the end of their career. And I'm like, maybe you should stop now. I think they're still doing pretty all right. Some of the middle stuff I didn't like as much. Yeah. But I agree. They've always been a second echelon band to me anyway. Saxon's been like that, too. That's right. They have. And they haven't really put out a bad album since 2000, you know, since 1990, really. But whatever. Oh, you mean Saxon? Yeah. 03:08:50.000 --> 03:08:50.320 Sorry. 03:08:50.320 --> 03:08:50.720 I don't believe it. 03:08:51.360 --> 03:08:53.460 Sounds like who's Zach's son. 03:08:54.760 --> 03:08:58.920 Zach's son was a game on the ColecoVision console back in the late 80s. 03:08:58.920 --> 03:08:59.700 Yes, I remember that. 03:09:01.380 --> 03:09:02.120 Zach's son. 03:09:03.819 --> 03:09:04.520 With the J. 03:09:04.760 --> 03:09:07.560 Zach's son has been so consistent since like 79. 03:09:08.820 --> 03:09:09.020 Yeah. 03:09:09.220 --> 03:09:10.220 And you don't have to buy them all. 03:09:10.440 --> 03:09:12.580 Just check in every once in a while and you'll probably like what they're doing. 03:09:12.940 --> 03:09:13.400 You'll be happy. 03:09:13.540 --> 03:09:14.200 You're not missing much. 03:09:14.740 --> 03:09:15.020 Yeah. 03:09:15.160 --> 03:09:16.120 You're not missing anything either. 03:09:16.320 --> 03:09:16.820 That's a good point. 03:09:45.960 --> 03:09:46.820 Yeah. 03:09:46.840 --> 03:10:16.700 Keep the whirlwind. You'll be swingers by one, don't worry. All right. Number 12. Number 12 for me is Aramit, bearer of many names on transcending obscurity records. We'll just pick one. What's that? Bearer of many names. This is Mammoth, Doom Moody Sludge. I love the slow atmospherics and the songwriting execution on this record because Aramit uses very, 03:10:16.820 --> 03:10:46.800 simple pummeling riffs and then builds off of them both musically and emotionally so it's a hypnotic it's almost like an artist painting this primordial world where each brushstroke adds color and clarity to awaken it so i really like this i don't think this is an album for everybody because it's a long album and it's a slow build but i really like it especially as a writer because i can listen 03:10:46.820 --> 03:11:16.160 to it and just get kind of lost and do it while I'm doing something else. And then it just hits me and then I have to pay attention to it. So I've played this record a lot. I really dig it. And I love all their back catalogs. I wasn't really into Aramit before this record. I've listened to a couple tracks from this and then I was like, man, I got to go back and listen to the rest of this, the catalog. So this is another album I feel like I could have put higher as well. 03:11:16.220 --> 03:11:44.800 But yeah, Aramit, bearer of many names, number 12. Nice. Matt. Swolf, off Deutsch. I feel like this is not how it's pronounced, but it's, I'm going to pronounce it like this so you know what I'm saying. Wesson Willa, to a material god. Wessonville, yeah. Do you do the V, John, or W? I do the V. Yeah. But I have no idea who's corrected on it. 03:11:46.240 --> 03:12:14.600 So this is the second album by a Dutch black metal band. I always get anytime anybody sounds like Eson when they sing, I'm totally enamored. By that I mean they sound like they have a piece of broken glass in their throat. But to me this is good black metal for people who, if someone doesn't like black metal because of the lo-fi shitty production, this would be the band to check out because it's a little bit more warm, a little bit more better produced. 03:12:14.680 --> 03:12:42.740 A little, what do I want to say? Smoother around the edges. So, yeah. Number 12. Nice. Interesting. They had an album cover that somebody else had this year, too. Two bands had a similar album cover. It's a famous picture from the 20s. Yeah. No shit. Yeah. And I was like, whoa. Which band is which? So. Oh, or woad? Whoa. All right. So my turn, 12. Yep. 03:12:45.640 --> 03:12:48.140 I don't know if we will going forward but 03:12:49.360 --> 03:12:53.620 they seem to be garnering a lot of attention right now I don't know how to describe their sound 03:12:54.560 --> 03:13:01.600 but my number 12 is Suffering Hour the cyclic reckoning from I must have been in the bathroom did you mention that well 03:13:02.420 --> 03:13:08.520 he did okay let me put my glasses on and say that I I it was my number 14 03:13:09.100 --> 03:13:14.660 oh John was out I'm sorry I had to uh make a wee wee I'm old I don't want to be in continent I got to go to 03:13:19.180 --> 03:13:20.880 I'm not wearing diapers yet. 03:13:21.060 --> 03:13:21.560 So. 03:13:24.120 --> 03:13:30.940 No, good. I'm glad you mentioned that. I don't know how to describe their sound. It's like black metal. It's death metal. It's avant-garde. 03:13:31.120 --> 03:13:36.180 Yeah, avant-garde black metal. That's why they have just just amazing sound. 03:13:37.700 --> 03:13:44.460 If you really want to know how crazy their sound is, is give their second song in the album a listen, which is transcending. 03:13:44.520 --> 03:13:46.500 and Descent Visions. 03:13:47.040 --> 03:13:50.240 It sounds like a charging warrior elephant, the guitar sounds they're using. 03:13:50.340 --> 03:13:54.200 I know it sounds crazy, but it is wild what they do. 03:13:54.480 --> 03:13:57.460 They are not your traditional sounding metal band. 03:13:58.360 --> 03:14:03.480 And they were very high on my list and only fell because it is so avant-garde-ish. 03:14:03.580 --> 03:14:05.780 And I love avant-garde type bands. 03:14:07.120 --> 03:14:09.580 But for some reason, it just kind of dropped for me a little bit. 03:14:09.800 --> 03:14:12.060 But I suspect it'll be on my year end also. 03:14:12.840 --> 03:14:13.900 Pretty high still, though, John. 03:14:14.200 --> 03:14:14.320 Yeah. 03:14:14.420 --> 03:14:43.520 Yeah, it is. It is an interesting listen. I ended up buying two more releases from them and they're both great. They're different. They're hard to explain. I think, well, you probably know what to put, but they're just, you can't classify them. Yeah. So I actually, I saw them live a few years ago. It was like five bands, like five black metal bands here. Are they up from your neck of the woods too? I think they're from a town called Forest Lake, which is like 30 minutes north of me. They're kids too, I think. Yeah. 03:14:44.979 --> 03:15:11.580 Yeah, they were very young. And I would have been like, ah, Forest Lake, yeah, total black metal haven. No. But yes, definitely. They definitely stood out with their sound among that set of five black metal bands. Hard to describe. Got to listen to them to understand what it means because it's very angular, their sound, without the music being angular. But it isn't. It's hard. You got to listen to them. Give them a spin. 03:15:14.180 --> 03:15:43.000 All right. Well, John, then. John just did his. So my number 12 is suffering hour. Oh, sorry. Stop talking. Oh, boy. That was weird, George. It was like a long conversation, and then you come back with like Ed Howard. Well, Matt was talking. I was like, hey, Matt's done. On to John. John said the last word. It's like you just ignored everything John said. Yeah. All right. So my number 12 is. I was busy flipping off Bryce Harper. Sorry. Oh, my God. 03:15:46.341 --> 03:16:13.680 Well, well, well, Becky, um, you guys ever follow the person on Instagram? Clit Burton? No. I'm interested. Actually, it does sound familiar, though. Clit Burton is the bassist and lead singer of heavy temple. Uh, that's really, and their new album, loopy amorous came out yesterday. Same time as the promo. Yeah. Yes. 03:16:14.200 --> 03:16:43.200 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that promo. Yeah. At the same time. Next time. Yeah. Like some good just imagine if Cliff Burton had a clit. His Instagram follow was Cliff Burton and just played in like a stoner doom band. It was just like the most phenomenal bass ever. And that you have heavy temple. It's just awesome. They played at decibel. They were supposed to play at. 03:16:44.200 --> 03:17:12.940 I tried to get him an atlas a couple times. It never worked out. I don't know. I'm just enamored. I'm enamored with this band. Lupi and Morris. It just came out. I'm very familiar with the band. I had the first song. As soon as it came out, I listened to it nonstop. I was like, this is going on my list. List busters. I think there's more than one good singer in that band. The guitar player does sing too. He sounds very similar to the other guy. 03:17:14.200 --> 03:17:43.840 These really cool harmonies. Yeah, it's... The other singer's not a guy. I was going to say, isn't there a girl in that band? Yeah, yeah. So, Clint Burton is a woman. Yeah. Can you start over? We'll... We'll edit this out. Holy Jesus. Hey, George, is that the band with the bassist had the Bootsy Collins bass? Yes, yes. Yeah. She did, yes. Dude looks like a lady. We watched them at this one. No, it's actually... We watched for like five minutes and then left. Oh, my God. 03:17:44.200 --> 03:18:13.920 It's so good! Wasn't it boring though? Weren't we bored? Yeah, I was like, okay, this sucks, I'm leaving. Oh, you guys suck. I wasn't that harsh. I was like, I want to get a beer. Yeah. Well, same thing. Well, anyway. I will say, I listened to the new album. I mean, we just got it. So I listened to it once. I think it's definitely the best offering they've put out. Yeah. Isn't it their first album? No. All right. Their full length album. Jay, what's your number? 03:18:15.040 --> 03:18:43.520 Well, just to prove that I could have easily done an EP's list if I tried, apparently I did do one. The Cult of Luna, The Raging River. I thought this was really fucking good. That's not even like a question. That's definitely an EP. No, it is. It's not an EP. It's like 40 minutes long. But it's labeled as an EP. Don't give a shit. It's not an EP. John, I want you to stand next to me whenever. Sure. 03:18:44.200 --> 03:19:14.160 I need John standing next to me whenever people pick on me because it'll be like yeah yeah yeah you know like that little dog and the big dog and the yeah tunes I don't care that's that album is like a third longer than brain and blood there you go so I'll tell I'll take it on that I'll take it on that well then presumably it's on your list maybe another band that I said I think is if not a podcast darling 03:19:14.180 --> 03:19:43.340 Definitely on everybody's radar, and I think we all like them at this point. I was one of the late adopters or adapters or whatever it was, the last record I think was the first one that made my list. But anyway, this is fucking great, dude. I probably listened to this thing a bunch this year. It came out pretty early in the year, if I'm not mistaken. Very early. Yeah, like February or something, yeah. But it had to be on there. But I will accept both arguments. It's not an EP. It is an EP. I mean, it depends on what you go with, you know. I'm going to go with the 40 minutes. 03:19:43.840 --> 03:20:13.620 Brain and Blood is my standard. So if it's 28 minutes or longer, it's a fucking album. It's an album. It's not nine minutes. It's an album. I mean, 10 minutes is definitely an EP to me, but whatever you want, Sean. I just want to make a public. Why do eight minute abs when you can do seven minute abs? I don't want to do any abs. I just want to make a public service announcement that, hey, John, the Phillies are playing the Giants right now. 03:20:13.840 --> 03:20:43.540 And the Phillies pitcher is Ranger Suarez. And the one time I think all year that he walked up to actually bat was against the Nationals. And it was a holy diver. Yeah, I know. Well, I'm also following the game right now, too. Nah. Nah. Nah. I hope he's... Well, I got it on video, fuckface. Look at that. Bitches. 03:20:43.840 --> 03:21:13.800 I get all the highlights I need later on from the giant's feet so I'm good. Georgie. All right Jay what was your number 12? Shut the fuck up. What? Well it's not that. Are you guys sleeping on? It's not that. Whatever it is it's not that. No I know it. I just had to fuck with you a little bit. No my number 12 is werewolves as chosen by Will's daughter. I fucking hate you. What a time to be a 03:21:16.060 --> 03:21:41.260 I think they're Australian death metal. And their first album was good. Their second album fucking rips. I love, I think literally the first lyrics of the album was like, I fucking hate you. Yeah, that first song just cements it right there. That song is so badass. It's good. That sounds like something Jay would like. I really want the name of their album to be Their Wolf, Their Castle, but fine. 03:21:43.840 --> 03:22:13.600 I'll take it. All right. Mr. Markison. All right. Well, I just wanted to mention I have started a new beer. Actually, it's got a big one, too. We Heavy Strong Ale. Oh, no. 11% from Maui Brewing. I've never had this one before. Maui's good. I like Maui. Anyways, I get a lot of the great Maui ones that I think they just come out here. I mean, obviously, it goes around the country, but since I'm here in Hawaii, we get some of these. 03:22:13.700 --> 03:22:43.220 I don't think we get, well we don't get any Maui back here do we? No I don't think we do. I think Jay would get them. We get Kona. Yeah. Well yeah because that's part of the whole distribution chain. Yeah. Well based on the look of that bottle coming soon to a microphone near you. This, I mean, Maui's probably my favorite Hawaiian beer. Oh Maui's got good stuff. They do a lot of really good stouts. Their porter is just off the charts good. Yeah yeah yeah it's true. Coconut porter. 03:22:44.641 --> 03:23:13.640 All right. So my number 11, it's been mentioned, I think twice already, which is cool. And it is the crown Royal destroyer on metal blade records, just a relentless hammer truck of death thrash. And it's been in very heavy rotations since we got the promo in February, January. I don't even remember, but it's not, there's not a lot of frills on this fucking thing. It's just killer metal track after track. It is my favorite. 03:23:17.260 --> 03:23:19.720 They've been around a long time. So I think that's saying 03:23:20.360 --> 03:23:23.600 something for a band that's been in the game that long. 03:23:24.080 --> 03:23:34.040 That they can put out an album that, you know, speaks to me even more than the earlier stuff, which I really like as well, especially the last album, which was Cobra Speed Venom. 03:23:34.420 --> 03:23:35.860 Fucking that was an awesome album, too. 03:23:38.040 --> 03:23:43.300 Yeah, I've been playing this one a lot. I expect to be spinning at it quite a bit. 03:23:43.380 --> 03:24:12.100 on vinyl throughout the year. Excellent. Nice. Matt Sith. Beer check. If it sounds like my speech is slurring, it's because I polish off a bottle of darkness. I saw that. That's why the hood's up. He's a dark Sith Lord now. The way I would describe myself is wharm and also a Sith. My number 11 is a man called Inoculation. 03:24:13.380 --> 03:24:42.980 She bought her to Trinity via Maggot Stomp. This is the second album from a U.S. death metal band. It's like straight up Mean Potatoes old school death metal. I love it very much. They do have the best tag I've ever seen on Bandcamp and that tag is alien caveman shit. Nice. In my notes, the only thing I had was like there was a little bit of almost like Primus style bass on there somewhere and a little bit of techie. 03:24:43.800 --> 03:24:46.400 I felt like I was listening to Wormed at one point. 03:24:46.440 --> 03:24:47.020 Who am I love? 03:24:47.340 --> 03:24:48.120 But yeah. 03:24:50.140 --> 03:24:51.720 Inoculation, Celestial Putritity. 03:24:52.020 --> 03:24:53.060 I forgot about that one. 03:24:54.260 --> 03:24:54.820 I've got that. 03:24:55.180 --> 03:24:55.540 I've got that. 03:24:55.980 --> 03:24:57.960 I mean, how many albums have we listened to, George? 03:24:58.100 --> 03:24:58.500 Holy fuck. 03:24:59.640 --> 03:25:00.040 Millions. 03:25:00.540 --> 03:25:01.380 A fuck ton. 03:25:01.820 --> 03:25:04.020 Oh my God, it's full of stars. 03:25:05.399 --> 03:25:05.800 Oh. 03:25:06.239 --> 03:25:07.220 Dude, Dave. 03:25:08.199 --> 03:25:09.920 I guess I've got to take a moment and say, 03:25:10.000 --> 03:25:39.100 I'm so happy that you and Will are together in the same room. It's really nice to see. So are we. So, John. All right. My number 11 is one band to rule all, one album to rule all. New Alkaloid to Where the Lights Retreats. Fuck, sorry. New Hannes Grossman to Where the Lights Retreats. I swear this is an Alkaloid album, but it says Hannes Grossman on it. He's just like bullying them going, no, we're putting my name on it. 03:25:40.380 --> 03:25:41.200 I'm telling you, 03:25:41.240 --> 03:25:44.800 you list this album and half the songs sound like it could be an Alkalate album. 03:25:46.320 --> 03:25:49.280 But it's his fourth album from drummer extraordinaire, 03:25:49.640 --> 03:25:50.380 Honest Grossman. 03:25:50.560 --> 03:25:51.440 I have to keep saying that. 03:25:51.620 --> 03:25:51.680 So, 03:25:53.380 --> 03:25:55.000 and everyone knows I'm a big fan of his. 03:25:56.160 --> 03:25:56.380 Really? 03:25:56.500 --> 03:25:56.820 I'd never, 03:25:57.280 --> 03:25:57.800 never heard that. 03:25:57.940 --> 03:25:59.120 Have we ever tried to get him on? 03:25:59.260 --> 03:25:59.560 Cause it would. 03:25:59.860 --> 03:26:00.100 No, 03:26:00.260 --> 03:26:00.780 we should. 03:26:01.000 --> 03:26:06.860 He'd be awesome to have one because he's played with like literally fucking everyone minus maybe Metallica. 03:26:06.980 --> 03:26:08.160 We would have so many questions. 03:26:08.580 --> 03:26:09.900 I'm going to fucking try to get him on. 03:26:09.940 --> 03:26:39.740 Get him on. Because I'm sure Lars thinks he's better than Hanneson. But the album features members of Alkaloid, Dark Fortress, Trypticon, Obscura. I mean, it's which is the same guys that play together. Alkaloid, Trypticon, Dark Fortress, same guy. No, it's like four guys. They all play in the same bands together. Well, the one guy is in all three bands. I know that. Can I also mention how he plays on Moral Collapse, which has been mentioned as well. Oh, fuck up, Marcus. 03:26:39.940 --> 03:27:07.640 Oh, he's on that too? I was bringing that up. He's dealing with thunder. He's dealing with thunder. Sorry, sorry. I say the only guy to make my list twice. Yes, Markisan brings up a good point. No, George, what is it? His name is V Santora, isn't it? From Tripticon? Yeah. He's also on the album too. He's also in Dark Fortress. Wow, that's weird. They're all from Dark Fortress too. Yeah. Is it Dark Fortress or Dork-Fartress? Yeah. 03:27:09.940 --> 03:27:39.700 Throwback. That's a different band actually. Well, different band. Oh man. Dark Fortress is a Dark Fortress cover band. If you're a fan of Honest Grossman or Alkaloid or Alkaloid. That's just Grossman. If you're a fan of drumming. Yes. No. It's another. I like to sound a lot. It might be my favorite of his four so far. And Honest Please. Release a fucking Alkaloid. I was wondering if this is going to make your list, John. 03:27:39.960 --> 03:27:41.800 So I have three list busters 03:27:42.220 --> 03:27:45.140 And while this album has been on my radar for a while 03:27:45.360 --> 03:27:47.100 It's a list buster because this morning 03:27:47.160 --> 03:27:48.560 I was like god damn it I made a change 03:27:48.720 --> 03:27:49.920 And this one moved up considerably 03:27:50.380 --> 03:27:51.160 Oh nice 03:27:51.960 --> 03:27:54.080 But I have two list busters coming up soon 03:27:54.140 --> 03:27:55.080 So well 03:27:55.899 --> 03:27:56.960 What's your number 11? 03:27:57.400 --> 03:27:58.540 This has been mentioned before 03:27:58.720 --> 03:28:00.480 I think maybe my marker's on 03:28:00.720 --> 03:28:01.760 Wheel Preserved in Time 03:28:02.060 --> 03:28:02.880 I've mentioned it 03:28:03.320 --> 03:28:04.720 I haven't mentioned we've talked about it 03:28:04.820 --> 03:28:05.820 Oh is that three times now? 03:28:06.100 --> 03:28:06.840 But George is on 03:28:06.880 --> 03:28:07.380 I have not 03:28:07.740 --> 03:28:07.960 No 03:28:08.100 --> 03:28:08.200 Okay 03:28:08.800 --> 03:28:09.100 Yet 03:28:09.520 --> 03:28:09.920 Yet 03:28:09.920 --> 03:28:39.840 Oh, oh, oh. So it will be three times. Doom metal from Germany on Cruz de la Sur, the Southern Cross music. It's like traditional triad doom, I guess. But some of the, I mentioned this earlier when someone, god damn, it's like I have like. We understand your brain's not going to work. No, no. We're all shutting down. He's got allergies. No, no. 03:28:39.940 --> 03:29:09.800 Oh, it's hard to talk with this. Yeah, we know. Yeah. Oh, God. As Matt needs to report to Maryland. Yeah. Anyway, that's my number 11. I'm not going to finish. Jake, I'll articulate it better later. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, Will, just text me the rest of your picks. My number 11 is, I had thought for some reason there was a little more, 03:29:35.320 --> 03:29:36.900 I don't know what I'm doing. 03:29:39.940 --> 03:30:09.440 Maybe we had a promo or something. I don't know why I've had it for one. It's like Dune, honestly. It's that kind of thing. So I don't need to over-descript it, but it's good. It's fun. I've enjoyed this record this year. Whenever we mention Moana, though, I need Will to do his bit. Yeah, it's a... Moana. Talking about that or... Because I'm just a demigod. You say it's okay to say you're welcome. That's the one, yeah. 03:30:10.960 --> 03:30:11.360 Yeah. 03:30:11.920 --> 03:30:14.960 It's funny, as my daughter gets older, she's 10 now, she's embarrassed 03:30:15.500 --> 03:30:17.620 to ever like Frozen or Moana. 03:30:18.159 --> 03:30:18.560 Yeah. 03:30:19.580 --> 03:30:21.540 She's got to like makeup now and stuff like that. 03:30:21.820 --> 03:30:22.820 Well, she's pretty metal. 03:30:23.480 --> 03:30:25.800 After what they probably put you through with that stuff, 03:30:25.920 --> 03:30:28.480 I think you have every right to say what you want to say about that now. 03:30:28.660 --> 03:30:28.860 Yeah. 03:30:29.400 --> 03:30:29.560 I don't know. 03:30:30.279 --> 03:30:31.880 Will, quick question. 03:30:32.160 --> 03:30:34.240 Are your kids getting into High School Musical at all? 03:30:35.260 --> 03:30:35.540 No. 03:30:36.140 --> 03:30:36.240 Okay. 03:30:36.440 --> 03:31:05.980 But there's a lot of other live action, like pre-teen, teen stuff that they're watching now, and my son kind of goes along with it. And yeah, I would almost just rather go back to Frozen and Moana and cartoons than the silliness and the bad script writing of some of these shows that they watch now. So if you really want to be a good father, Will, you wait until she brings her teen friends over 13, 14 and say, honey, should we watch Frozen like you did last night? 03:31:08.399 --> 03:31:35.820 Oh my god. Dad! No! I'm trying to keep it like, you know, going from cartoons to like Marvel or those kinds of movies, but now we're getting lost in these like pre-teenie shows. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys are killing me. Bunk is on. I almost texted the group one night like, if I stick something sharp in my ears because my family's watching High School Musical, the musical, the series, just know that I love you guys. 03:31:40.261 --> 03:32:05.560 There's always texting. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hey, fillies up. Oh, wow. Somebody hit a home run because they got the home run hat on. Number 11. Fuck's sake. Number 11. So like a tank rolling over my first 14 picks, crushing their bones to the end. It's memoriam. Oh, nice. 03:32:06.420 --> 03:32:36.160 The band that Will casually dropped from his list. He did this trick. You know, I may be a pariah for saying this, and god damn it, if a memorial ever comes to the United States and wants to play Atlas, but like, I just think Bolt Thrower was so much better. I know, but Memorial does get better with every album, but it's just, it's not Bolt Thrower. It's not Bolt Thrower, but it's pretty damn good. 03:32:36.939 --> 03:33:06.200 Yeah, I agree with Will. It's really good. It just... They do get better. It's just not enough for me. It's not on my list. I like the album a lot. I don't know what it is. They just can't make that switch. They can't go over that hump to be like, oh, man, this is going to be one of the top albums for me. It's good. It's fine. But it's not like a bolt thrower kind of, I need to have this. This is going to be in a top five album for me. I don't know what it is about it. 03:33:06.440 --> 03:33:35.740 They just can't seem to do that for me. And the lyrics are fucking terrible. I have no idea about this. I need to read them. Fuck that. Fuck that. Well, screw you guys. I'm already home. We got back to our lead banner here. Top 10. Is now the shit really getting serious? Are we need a break or anything? 03:33:36.420 --> 03:34:06.400 I don't know what we're doing. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Go. Go. Dumb and Dumber. Just go, man. Just do it. Just go, man. Say there's a chance. I believe it's been mentioned a couple times. And obviously I feel more strongly about this one in his ghastly and mercurial passages. This album is a vicious, psychedelic dreamquake of death metal. I really love the approach that ghastly takes 03:34:06.420 --> 03:34:35.660 here. I think they have that little something extra, that wrinkle that separates their stuff from other death metal bands out there. The psychedelic strangeness was present on their last album, Death Velour. But I feel that Mercurial Passages refines that sound in a way that's more immediate, it's more powerful this time around. I feel this is a great record. I love the last one, but this one takes it to another level for me. 03:34:35.720 --> 03:35:05.600 It's vastly ghastly. That's enough for me to make sure I pay more careful attention as we move forward. It's on my list, but it was pretty low, so I'll make sure I kind of really turn my ears off. I see how it is, Jay. He gives this eloquent speech and actually defines it very well, and when we mention it, you're like, oh yeah, I just like this album. You're like, oh, whatever. The lyrics are really dumb. That's how I ended up selling Amway, man. I was like, that sounds like a really good... That's such a... You guys talk fine about the albums. Very good. 03:35:07.260 --> 03:35:12.040 I really thought this was going to be higher on Jay's list because I thought he was really into this band. 03:35:12.080 --> 03:35:12.480 But you know. 03:35:13.100 --> 03:35:14.020 I'm questioning my own. 03:35:14.800 --> 03:35:17.640 There's still a lot of room for Hollywood vampires and Rammstein. 03:35:18.920 --> 03:35:20.760 Some Alice Cooper live album. 03:35:22.100 --> 03:35:23.420 Let's do it again, Jay. 03:35:23.640 --> 03:35:24.380 Listen to it again. 03:35:24.780 --> 03:35:25.900 Maybe listen to Death Belure. 03:35:25.960 --> 03:35:29.360 I think that they've progressed a lot in it. 03:35:30.020 --> 03:35:31.420 They've really refined that sound. 03:35:31.880 --> 03:35:32.300 No, no, no. 03:35:32.320 --> 03:35:34.900 You've convinced me that I might have dropped the ball here. 03:35:34.940 --> 03:36:04.860 So I'm going to be paying special attention. What number is this now for them? I think it's just two. Oh, Joe has had it two. Yeah. I think it's the third. Yeah. I had it. Well, you had it too, didn't you? Yeah, I had it. I had to scratch Memorial Mountain. That's right. That's four now. Wow. That's the most so far, bud. Still a good showing. Yeah. Yeah. Come up here. Matt. You talking to us, Matt? Who are you talking to? By the way, you were unmuted and now you're muted. Sorry, Matt. 03:36:08.341 --> 03:36:34.820 So with my number 10, I'm going to enter that. We keep talking about as technical death metal. I don't want to be a dick and approved, but it's actually called technical death metal. It's a CH, right? It's Lasham. It's Tech Death. You know. Touch me, I'm dick. Exactly. The band is Ad Nauseam. 03:36:34.960 --> 03:37:04.061 The Album is Imperative, Imperceptible, Impulse via Avant-Garde Music. It is the second album from an Italian Tec Death Band. That's really all I can tell you about. I mean, I put the reason I and so, John, it's interesting that you said that because I was like, oh, fuck, man. And that's exactly how I feel. You know, when you said like I'm listening to a lot more technical death metal. Personally, I feel like I'm going through withdrawals from 03:37:04.840 --> 03:37:33.600 Ulcerate. Because yes, they're brutal, but they're also very technical. And I honestly fell in love with them so much last year. It was kind of like a, kind of like a, you know, I love them back in 2007. Forgot about them. And then it was like a, I can't think of the word anyways. So yeah, check this out. Ad nauseum, imperative, imperceptible impulse. It hasn't like tech metal been done to death. You know what I mean? Yeah. And so, God damn it. That's an ad nauseum joke. Motherfuckers. It's great. 03:37:34.080 --> 03:38:02.180 But it's great. So the tech death, I, so I always associated tech death with like jazz bass, but there's also like really brutal tech death. And so I'm probably more interested in the brutal side versus the jazz bass. I can't stand the jazz bass. I'm not coming to your show, buddy. Exactly. Right. Fucking Christ. I felt like that was a pretty advanced joke. 03:38:04.060 --> 03:38:05.200 With number 10. 03:38:06.159 --> 03:38:06.780 Hey, quick. 03:38:07.000 --> 03:38:07.440 Hold on. 03:38:08.000 --> 03:38:08.420 Quick question. 03:38:08.740 --> 03:38:11.040 So I was driving somewhere today and I heard. 03:38:11.720 --> 03:38:11.920 Here? 03:38:12.520 --> 03:38:12.900 No, no, no. 03:38:12.990 --> 03:38:13.620 I was there. 03:38:16.020 --> 03:38:21.160 I was driving my daughter to Taekwondo today and job for a cowboy came on. 03:38:21.170 --> 03:38:22.960 I'm like, oh, I kind of like job for a cowboy. 03:38:22.990 --> 03:38:23.580 I remember that. 03:38:23.660 --> 03:38:24.940 Like ruination, stuff like that. 03:38:25.440 --> 03:38:26.840 And I'm like, what happened to them? 03:38:27.620 --> 03:38:28.040 I don't know. 03:38:28.240 --> 03:38:29.220 It says they're still active. 03:38:29.270 --> 03:38:32.140 I looked like within the last year, I was like, whatever happened to these guys? 03:38:32.480 --> 03:38:33.520 It says they're still active. 03:38:33.620 --> 03:39:02.480 But yeah, they haven't done anything. I think they're sort of like that band, and I'm sorry I'm not trying to insult them, but it's like Dragon Force. They were this thing that for a minute they were like this darling thing, and they're still out there, but nobody talks about them anymore. Their last album was the best I think they've done, actually, because I didn't really like Job for a Cowboy until the last one. Their last one was very doomy. I haven't tried any of them. I listened for two seconds when they first were crazy big. I don't remember where it came out, though. I mean, it's for years ago, I guess. 03:39:03.260 --> 03:39:32.840 It's been a while. Anyway. Now that you bring them up, I do feel like I did see a story about somebody in their band. Oh, that guy played drums. The drummer played drums in the last Behemoth tour. Which I only know. Did they buy him because he has a flock of kids or something? Was it Hannes Grossman? Yes, yes. Everywhere. There you go. There we go. I like that. Sun Eater was their last, and that was seven years ago. 03:39:33.360 --> 03:40:02.920 Oh shit. That was a while ago. Uh, where are we again? John. That's an interesting cowboy talk. Yippee-ki-yay, Johnny. Motherfucker. Motherfucker. All right. My number 10, Volcanist Odyssey. Oh, there it is again. Bring on the fucking Swedish donor metal meets progressive 70s deep purple mix. Uh, they just find a way to capture your attention and really end. 03:40:03.240 --> 03:40:31.120 I'm not big on stoner metal or stoner rock really to be honest with you. I like some but most of it I find just to be boring. And these guys kind of not reinvented themselves they added more to the mix. They added the harsh vocals in this album. And they added something that no one has mentioned yet. And I'm a little surprised and that is special guest keyboardist. Oh yeah yeah that's right. 03:40:33.260 --> 03:41:03.140 He is, like Derek Shranian, who has played with a million people, but most notably was in Dream Theater for a while. They are the only two death organists out there. They are, I swear they're disciples of John Lord, but they add the metal to it. And he just brings a just amazing sound to them. He has this incredible solo at the end of the last song on the album. And it just goes on and on. And you're like, is this going to end? You're like, I don't fucking care because it sounds so good. 03:41:03.260 --> 03:41:31.360 It just keeps going, but it's awesome. Yeah. And they just do a very good job of reeling you in into their little world that they have. And so I listened to some of their earlier stuff and I just was like, ah, stoner metal, what the fuck? And it's Swedish too. And they love that David Coverdale version of Deep Purple and they love Yngwie and all that shit. And I'm like, I'm done with this. These guys decided, let's mix it up a little. 03:41:31.460 --> 03:41:33.940 and they brought in some nice keyboards and 03:41:34.660 --> 03:41:38.520 not all harsh just a little bit they brought it in and like you guys said they they kind of have 03:41:38.560 --> 03:41:45.240 that mass on itch on some of the shorter faster songs yeah it's good stuff they do love those 03:41:45.400 --> 03:41:49.260 guys though too jen like i think um jillian turner like lives in sweden now and it's probably because 03:41:49.280 --> 03:41:53.941 he can make an honest living there if you're a swedish musician you are undoubtedly a ronnie james 03:41:53.940 --> 03:42:02.360 a uh engve fan and you love david coverdale but she's still gonna like uh richie blackmore a 03:42:02.360 --> 03:42:09.220 little bit you know it's just it's they all love that stuff yeah so that's one of those albums john i think 03:42:09.350 --> 03:42:14.840 we were talking about it before it's a transition album because they've changed things up but it works 03:42:15.100 --> 03:42:20.461 perfectly for this album yes you know what i mean like they don't need to another album to get where 03:42:20.480 --> 03:42:24.300 they're going. I feel like they nailed it with this one. They changed things up and it 03:42:24.490 --> 03:42:26.600 fucking works really well on that record. 03:42:26.600 --> 03:42:28.520 Yeah. While still keeping in 03:42:28.900 --> 03:42:30.620 the realm of the Vulcanus Umbrella. 03:42:31.140 --> 03:42:31.420 Absolutely. 03:42:32.580 --> 03:42:34.540 And for whatever reason, it's just one of the few 03:42:34.640 --> 03:42:36.700 where the album cover matches the music 03:42:36.850 --> 03:42:38.420 it seems like. I don't know. 03:42:39.280 --> 03:42:40.780 Maybe it just works for me, but 03:42:41.479 --> 03:42:43.900 That must come up a few times now. I don't know how many. 03:42:44.270 --> 03:42:45.660 Three or four. Three or four, yeah. 03:42:46.430 --> 03:42:47.520 Three or four. Me, George, 03:42:48.320 --> 03:42:49.500 John, maybe one more. 03:42:49.960 --> 03:43:19.380 There you go. So far. Oh, co ness. Three syllables. Excellent. Well, number 10, 10. I maybe someone mentioned this, but I'm not. I'm not sure. I don't think so. Conclave. Nope. Dawn of Dawn of Days. Filthy Doom from Massachusetts. Independent released. I'm sorry. George is pointing me that I need to speak more into the big black thing in front of my face. 03:43:19.960 --> 03:43:47.860 My number 10 is Conclave Dawn of Days. It is released independently by their own label, and they are from Massachusetts. They are a doom band. They are filthy. I mean, just filthy. Why is Will talking so sexy? It's like NPR. NPR, yeah. NPR. It's beautiful. For sure. 03:43:50.860 --> 03:44:15.740 Listen, when George grabs your balls and whispers in your ears to speak into the mic, you will speak into the mic, okay? Figured your voice would be a little higher if he was grabbing your balls. Speak into the mic. Conclave. I don't know if I like this breathy will. Obey. Obey. 03:44:19.980 --> 03:44:49.080 I mentioned only one time. I think it might still come up, but I'm surprised if it gets too high on anybody's list. But I was sold on this. I fucking loved it. And talk about an album, by the way, whose cover looks like it sounds. I got into the whole spooky 80s horror theme, blah, blah, blah. The Lion's Daughter, the skin show. It was a lot of fun, dude. This record I did not hesitate to put on when I wasn't sure what else to put on when it was rotating with me. I was like, ah, fuck it. I was just listening to The Lion's Daughter again. It's good walking music, too, by the way. 03:44:49.120 --> 03:45:18.260 But yeah, I dig that one. I'm actually surprised. I'm surprised it's on here. I thought maybe Matt will have it on his list. I don't know. We shall see. Matt's eating again. I think Matt's in the beginning. He's eating sushi. Oh, it's sushi time. Sushi time. Yeah, I think it's a great record. I think it's one that might get a little bit overlooked because they're trying something different. Yeah. I just like how unique it is, though. It's so unique sounding. 03:45:20.060 --> 03:45:20.520 And effective. 03:45:21.100 --> 03:45:22.400 And even the repetitive. 03:45:24.280 --> 03:45:25.420 Like even the names of the songs. 03:45:25.780 --> 03:45:26.440 I'd have to go look at them. 03:45:26.540 --> 03:45:28.060 But they all sound like 80s horror films. 03:45:28.100 --> 03:45:28.540 You know what I mean? 03:45:28.660 --> 03:45:28.940 Yeah. 03:45:29.919 --> 03:45:32.920 And then they just rely on these really simple phrases. 03:45:33.280 --> 03:45:33.740 And the lyrics. 03:45:34.800 --> 03:45:37.000 That sound like something you might see in an 80s horror film. 03:45:37.060 --> 03:45:38.460 I don't know how to say it except to say that. 03:45:38.760 --> 03:45:40.280 It's a really effective package overall. 03:45:40.460 --> 03:45:40.860 And it's heavy. 03:45:41.100 --> 03:45:41.420 And it's cool. 03:45:41.540 --> 03:45:43.160 And I don't mind the keyboard thing at all. 03:45:45.500 --> 03:45:47.380 To me the closest relative is. 03:45:48.760 --> 03:46:18.400 Probably Eson to me. But I could be wrong about that. To me, it really brought to mind the, what is it, Artica? What was the Eson? Oh, yeah. Arctis. Arctis, thank you. Hey, Matt, is that filthy neon? Very filthy neon. Filthy squared. The dirtiest neon you can have. Hey, George. Pass me the volleyball. 03:46:18.760 --> 03:46:48.680 Well, my number 10 is one that nobody else is going to have. Perfect. Ancient Wisdom, a celebration in honor of death. So this is like the first album from Ancient Wisdom in like 17 years, I think. Which is different than the other Ancient Wisdom. Yes, the Ancient Wisdom you might know is the one that spells wisdom with two Vs instead of a W, and that's a doom band. This is not that band. 03:46:49.520 --> 03:47:18.100 This is like the original like snow covered the Northland or whatever the fuck it was called. I forget the name. So were they used to be did they used to be called wisdom and because they haven't put an album out in 17 years. They're like let's change the ancient wisdom. Another ancient wisdom. Good point. But no. He's in other bands too like Nagelfar and what you call me. Exactly. Nagelfar. I also like that. 03:47:18.160 --> 03:47:48.120 The other band spells the word wisdom wrong in their title, which is nice. Ancient wisdom. It's wisdom. The other one. Wisdom. Yeah. This is the band that George got really fired up about. I was like, just fucking release the album on Big Camp Brody. Yeah. Yeah. It was one of those I pre-ordered and they didn't release it on time and I was pissed. Well, it sounds like it didn't let you down. Oh, yeah. It was good. I think it's great. It's it's it's kind of simple in a 03:47:48.659 --> 03:48:18.120 but not like epic symphonic just like it has some a few symphonic elements of and and like a black but also kind of death sort of way i don't know i actually kind of thought some people might like this one but apparently nobody did i haven't heard it so you've prompted me to check it out i listened to a couple songs and i liked what i heard but i just never went back to it so it takes it's one of those grower albums it's like if you just listen to the first song you're kind of like yeah whatever but then by the time you get to the 03:48:18.160 --> 03:48:47.480 The Third Song, you're kind of like, oh, I see what's going on here. But you usually skip the first song, right? Well, usually. Not in this case. Well, that's where I fucked up. Shit. Now I know. I'll go to Song 4 and I'll start there. Right. But yeah, nah, it's pretty cool. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Coming back around again. Number 9. Number 9. We're doing it. How many hours have we done? About 4 and a half and change. 03:48:48.140 --> 03:49:17.640 It's not bad. It's not bad. All right. Well, I am wearing the T-shirt. So it was a good bet that Silver Talon would be on my list. Silver Talon, Decadence and Decay from Salem Rose Music and M Theory Audio. This album blows me away, man. Maidensk, Three Guitar, Onslaught. I love the technical skill, the glorious tempo shifts on this album, the mighty lead vocals, 03:49:17.800 --> 03:49:47.500 the fucking drumming. This record to me is a progressive power metal triumph. It's really good. It could be higher on my list too. Who knows what's going to happen at the end of the year. But I really like this album a lot. I've spun it quite a bit. And yeah, I mean, power metal has made, it definitely made more of a comeback, I feel like, in recent years. Or just maybe it's gotten better, especially American. 03:49:47.800 --> 03:50:17.760 Power Metal. US Power Metal. Yes. I think this is right at the fucking top of it, man. I hope that we see more like this, because Silver Town is just fucking phenomenal. Good pick. Yep. Thanks, John. Good pick. All right, Matt. Sorry, there's still stuff on my face here. I know. I enjoyed 03:50:17.800 --> 03:50:46.980 you out when I could see you were chewing. Good times. Continuing with the Tech Death. The band is Intonate. The album is Sepulothian. The Willow Tip is the second album from a Canadian Tech Death band. What did I write? Honestly, I would compare them to Gore Guts. That's not a bad thing. That's a good one. No, no, for sure. 03:50:47.780 --> 03:51:17.620 I honestly, at one point I heard a little bit of Gojira in there, but mostly Gorguts. Definitely check it out. And again, I am not a tech death person, sorry, tech death person, but it's just been that year where it's like, I'm just getting rained on by tech death. So that's a great record. It's not on my list, but it is, it's high in my honorable mentions again. So I really liked that record a lot. Mark Disson's got like 47 albums on his honorable mentions. I have 40 albums, John, total. 03:51:18.359 --> 03:51:47.500 That's so funny. But a lot of it you've mentioned and now Matt's got this one on the honorable mentions. All right, John, number nine. All right. I'm going to join George on this one. Won't spend too much time on it. Three syllables. We know what that means. Door, day, duh. Door, day, duh. It's har. From Prophecy Productions. From Romania, atmospheric black metal folk. 03:51:47.820 --> 03:51:50.580 and a Romanian twist on it and progressive 03:51:50.860 --> 03:51:51.660 metal if you don't know them. 03:51:52.820 --> 03:51:54.220 A Romanian twist, I like that. 03:51:54.400 --> 03:51:56.280 That's a dance move. 03:51:56.970 --> 03:51:58.460 Well, no, no, I like to have one for breakfast, 03:51:58.800 --> 03:51:59.480 but they're just a filling. 03:52:01.580 --> 03:52:05.380 Yeah, I love this album, and I'm happy with the return 03:52:05.770 --> 03:52:08.860 after, what, nine years, I think, since their debut album came out. 03:52:09.460 --> 03:52:13.440 It's just really a continuation of Om from Nagura. 03:52:14.120 --> 03:52:14.800 How do you say it, George? 03:52:15.579 --> 03:52:16.020 Bunghole. 03:52:16.939 --> 03:52:19.640 Okay, I wasn't going to go up on the hole, but I'll say bunge it. 03:52:20.220 --> 03:52:20.800 Bunge it, yeah. 03:52:22.619 --> 03:52:27.700 And fuck these guys. It's all in Romanian. No, it doesn't bother me. I just like saying that. 03:52:28.060 --> 03:52:28.220 Yeah. 03:52:28.740 --> 03:52:34.340 It's a very cool album, but it takes a lot of lessons and requires your attention. 03:52:36.720 --> 03:52:43.540 I agree. I think it's a great, it's a really well-crafted album. I just, I still don't know how I feel about it. 03:52:43.680 --> 03:52:46.180 I'm like I've listened to it a ton and I don't know how I feel about it 03:52:47.841 --> 03:52:50.520 and also my colorist on By the Horns 03:52:50.820 --> 03:52:52.020 and Voracious from Romania 03:52:52.160 --> 03:52:54.400 so I really have a desire to go to Romania 03:52:54.760 --> 03:52:55.500 just to check it out 03:52:55.500 --> 03:52:57.760 dude Romania is awesome by the way 03:52:58.320 --> 03:53:00.120 I remember I went to 03:53:00.960 --> 03:53:01.520 Shigesuara 03:53:02.520 --> 03:53:04.320 Romania which is the 03:53:05.361 --> 03:53:06.480 the original 03:53:06.760 --> 03:53:08.240 birthplace of Vlad Dracul 03:53:08.480 --> 03:53:10.320 isn't that like Transylvania area 03:53:10.480 --> 03:53:11.481 it's in Transylvania yeah 03:53:11.480 --> 03:53:40.800 And I remember I went, there's this little, I mean, there's a little house, a tiny, tiny house on this corner. And they turned it into a bar. And this is the, supposedly the original birthplace of Vlad Dracul. You go there. And I remember in 1998, I could get four beers and a pizza for four bucks, four beers and a pizza for $4. Year end in Romania. Yeah. 03:53:42.279 --> 03:54:11.440 We're all getting four beers and a pizza. It's going to cost us 30 bucks to go there. But I would just warn you, gypsies are real. And they will try and steal everything you have. Yeah, I remember that when I lived in Spain. That brings us to you in any case, Will, I believe. My, are we on number 10? Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. 03:54:13.540 --> 03:54:41.460 Who's got the Wilson ball? Here you go. Thank you. I love it. We're all past the Wilson ball around. I love it. Portal of Pazuzu. Self-titled album. Death Metal from Detroit. Independent. Another from Detroit. My buddy Haran from Battlecross is the guitarist in this album where I have his guitar sitting at my house when Battlecross came to play Atlas and they had the 03:54:41.480 --> 03:55:11.460 The Whip Black. If you guys remember Whip Black from R.I.P. from Mississippi Saints. Anyway, dude, this is just filthy, phenomenal death metal, and I love it. Filthy. Yeah, Portal Pazuzu. Check it out. Completely independent, not signed, self-titled album. Check it out. I love it. I love we have so many different albums on our list. This is awesome. It's going to be an interesting 03:55:12.680 --> 03:55:41.060 We only have like six albums are going to make it. So don't. Yes. We're not going to have a list. It's going to be really weird, John. We're not having a list. Trust me. You're going to have like a seven megabyte Excel file. We got Vulcanus. That's one. There's a few albums. There's a few. Yeah, but you're right. Six might be it. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. It's a mid-year. Ghastly. Ghastly, Crown. Yeah. So. But, you know, we're getting into the, 03:55:41.100 --> 03:56:10.800 in the top. So I think we may see more. Starting to get serious. Yeah. John says really serious now with Jason for nine. Well, I mentioned that I got up earlier this morning to listen to two records all the way through because they were both released yesterday. One of those was Bosque. We will be most pleased to hear that the other one of those is my number nine. Heavy Temple, Lupi Amoris. I fucking really like this record, dude, a lot. Like, I love the way they, it's big. 03:56:10.940 --> 03:56:40.860 It's big and huge and fuzzy, but it's also kind of like every song is like a deep track, and they have these soaring vocals that I just fucking love. The juxtaposition of those two things. This is good stuff, dude. You should all be giving this at least one listen to make sure. I'll go back and try it again. I got like halfway through one song, and I was like, meh. Just couldn't do it. I think it's relevant for that genre. That particular style of music doesn't speak to me as well. 03:56:40.920 --> 03:57:10.880 But I think it's well done for that. And I think it's the best that they've done. Fair enough. I'll buy that. Yeah, it's not a style of music that's for everybody. I mean, it's definitely in the stoner, doom kind of genre, desert rock, whatever you want to call it, which I love. I am probably, out of the 500 of us on this podcast, I'm probably the biggest fan of that. Yeah. Yeah. It's really, I love the album cover. I think. The cover is really fucking cool, isn't it? It's a cool cover. 03:57:10.980 --> 03:57:40.780 The songs are really well crafted. It's just not a style I prefer, I guess. But I will listen to it some more because it just came out. It's not your cup of tea. Indeed, yeah. That's cool. George. Number nine. I'm surprised that I have this one so high and other certain people had it lower. But we're going to the edge of Saturn with Project Rowan Wolf. 03:57:40.940 --> 03:57:41.280 Yes! 03:57:42.020 --> 03:57:42.120 Whoa! 03:57:43.880 --> 03:57:45.640 Dude, I am really happy you got it on your list. 03:57:45.860 --> 03:57:47.160 Yeah, man, this is really good. 03:57:47.340 --> 03:57:51.320 I mean, I know I kind of busted on a little bit by calling it Project Nevermore, 03:57:51.400 --> 03:57:53.940 but it's really good. 03:57:55.200 --> 03:57:56.080 I dig it a lot. 03:57:56.960 --> 03:58:01.880 I think the riffs on this might be the best riffs on any album this year. 03:58:02.080 --> 03:58:03.140 They're really good. 03:58:03.520 --> 03:58:03.680 Yeah. 03:58:05.739 --> 03:58:06.540 So, yeah. 03:58:06.680 --> 03:58:06.800 There. 03:58:07.180 --> 03:58:07.380 Awesome. 03:58:07.380 --> 03:58:07.640 There you go. 03:58:08.320 --> 03:58:09.140 Cool to hear it, George. 03:58:09.880 --> 03:58:10.260 Right on. 03:58:10.340 --> 03:58:40.280 Higher than mine. I know. I was like, what? How would you have it so long I have it so high? I must be high. You know how tough it is to make these lists. Yeah. Mark's on. Holy shit. Number eight. My number eight is Noctule, Wretched Abyss, Church Road Records, Translation, Lost Records. This is a black... False alarm. Sorry. This is a black metal solo project. 03:58:40.360 --> 03:59:10.280 from Serena Cherry of the post-hardcore band Svalbard. I really like Svalbard and Serena, but this record, it surprised me because it's black metal, but it's big, catchy, battle-swept black metal inspired by the video game Skyrim. So it has some of the most gorgeous atmospheric leads I've heard this year. I think it just sounds great. 03:59:10.360 --> 03:59:40.320 It moves, and it makes me picture swords slow-dripping blood on a snowy mountain cliff whenever I spin it. I really dig this record. I hesitate to say it's happy, but it makes me uplifting, I guess, is the words that I would like. So I really like spinning it. I need that, I think, in metal at least once or twice a year. I think Woad is one of those. This is the other one that really 03:59:40.360 --> 04:00:10.100 It makes me feel good whenever I listen to it. So. Noctool, Wretched Abyss. What's going on over there? Sorry, we're talking about Mike Schmidt. Does he coach the Phillies now? He's a commentator now. Okay. That's cool. I love Mike Schmidt. He's the best. You're up, Matty. My number eight is Ghastly. Ghastly? Is it Ghastly or is it Ghastly? It's Ghastly with an H. 04:00:10.360 --> 04:00:40.020 So this is what I'll say about Gaslight. I was listening to them. I spent a lot of time listening to death metal, but I probably spent more time thinking about death. Genres and nuances and all that bullshit. And when I listened to Gaslight, I thought, man, when I'm listening to Gaslight, I actually would like a glass of bourbon and I might put a suit on. If I was going to go see them live, I would probably wear like a nice suit and again, drink a fine bourbon. 04:00:40.020 --> 04:01:09.960 Versus like a shitty beer and like smash shit. So as opposed to dirty death, I would call them classy death. Exactly. If Ron Burgundy was good to listen to death metal, it would be ghastly and he would drink scotch. With his pinky out. Is anyone else disappointed that Matt didn't wear a suit to this fucking cast? I know. Now I am. If I could fit in my suit, I would have worn it. But I'll make note of that. 04:01:10.040 --> 04:01:39.980 For the year end. Or Decibel. I'm really happy to see. Should we all show up to Decibel in suits, by the way? We should. If we all showed up in suits with sunglasses on, we would be the talk of the fucking show, you know? Matt, you're wearing your metal suit right now. What's wrong? I'm wearing my TOV Snuggie. I'm really happy, Matt, that you got it on your list here because I know Ghastly came up in the beginning of this cast and I feel like it's an album that should rank high. 04:01:40.040 --> 04:02:09.560 So I think that's Mark's on his way of saying it's high on my list and all you guys are fools. I already mentioned it. But because everybody's mentioned it, it's going to go higher. I think it's going to get it's going to. No, I'm happy about that. I'm glad everybody's mentioning it. But, you know, I feel it's a really good fucking great album, actually. So cool. John. Let's take it a little higher. Oh, no. Ghastly. 04:02:12.619 --> 04:02:13.580 Oh, twinsies! 04:02:14.380 --> 04:02:14.860 Twinsies! 04:02:15.820 --> 04:02:16.720 Matchy, matchy. 04:02:17.140 --> 04:02:21.160 Let's just push this album up and make it our seventh album that will make our top list. 04:02:21.940 --> 04:02:23.300 Because we don't have shit this year. 04:02:24.239 --> 04:02:25.860 Gasly's leading it for sure. 04:02:26.060 --> 04:02:27.420 It almost has to be, yeah. 04:02:27.660 --> 04:02:27.920 Yeah. 04:02:28.800 --> 04:02:29.940 I love this album. 04:02:30.580 --> 04:02:33.900 I don't know how I feel about it with regards to Death Floor yet. 04:02:34.440 --> 04:02:35.720 Because I love Death Floor. 04:02:35.720 --> 04:02:37.142 I mean, that was... 04:02:37.160 --> 04:03:07.120 But I don't know if I need to compare it to Death Lord because they're two different beasts altogether. Sure. And that enough, that alone says something special about this band, by the way. Yeah. And I will say this. It is not even remotely close to a progressive Death Manon, but they're very progressive in their sound. They create this weird, psychedelic kind of space. And Jay, you probably know what I mean because you play in a band. They create space. They allow things to happen within what's 04:03:07.140 --> 04:03:37.120 they're doing in the structure and they go places that most death metal bands don't go they're not a traditional death metal band at all they have fast moments but that's not their forte they're a mid-pace level death metal band and they like to allow things to happen uh and i think that's what i dig about them so ghastly miracle passages mercurial yeah no i mean yeah i think that's the thing i mean we've talked about this before there's a lot of death metal 04:03:37.120 --> 04:04:06.960 Bands out there. You've got to have something that separates you from the crowd. And I feel like Ghastly does something that no other death metal bands do right now with that kind of a psychedelic fucking sound. Yeah. Everyone keeps saying psychedelic and I agree with that. But don't think they sound like some 60s psychedelic band. Not even remotely close. No. It's more modern for sure. Yeah. So. Good shit. Wow. Good shit, man. Good shit. Is that? 04:04:07.140 --> 04:04:36.500 Five now? Five on the list? Yeah, I love how I was like, Matt, I'm glad you put it on your list this high, and then John fucking does it. Okay, so who hasn't said? Oh, one step higher. Nice. Who hasn't said? Raise your hand if you have not said Ghastly. Have we all said Ghastly? Yeah. We all have? I'm a ghast. Do we all have Ghastly? Yeah, that could be number one right there, just because everybody has it. Well, it's just going to be number one just on sheer number of picks. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think it's the first one that swept the room. 04:04:37.140 --> 04:05:07.100 I think a panopticon is going to win it because you guys haven't mentioned them yet. So. What? Let's just keep going. Let's find out. Shall we? Get it going. Will. Is it to me? I think so. Yeah. You said keep it going. So keep it going. Let's go, bitches. Number eight. Are we on eight? Yeah. Yeah. Deception. The Mire. Ooh. Ironically, I think I put their last album as 04:05:07.120 --> 04:05:37.100 I love this album. I think it was Markisan. I was like, hey, asshole. That was last year. And by the way, they have a new one out. Asshole called The Meyer. Yeah, and after you guys mentioned it. I don't think I said those profanities, but okay. After you guys mentioned it, it came up on Facebook and the guitar player Einar reached out to me and we had a little chatty chat and we friended up on Facebook. Yeah, he friended me as well. Yeah, he seemed pretty cool. We did not have a chatty chat. 04:05:37.600 --> 04:06:07.080 Yeah, well, we did. We didn't get a friendly friend over here. Yeah. I mean, I was hoping for a rub and tug or something, but whatever they call it in Norway. Hold on. $80, Will. Yeah. Wow. It's Kroners over there. Maybe it's Euros. I don't know. No, it's Kroners in Norway. Yeah, they're on Mob Rule Records. This is just like straight up like, it's kind of like, yeah, it's kind of like a little bit more like highly produced death metal. It's not like filthy, filthy. 04:06:08.561 --> 04:06:13.120 I can't do that. Let Matt do that. Dirty, dirty, 04:06:14.000 --> 04:06:16.760 not filthy. Dirty, classy death. 04:06:18.400 --> 04:06:19.220 God, it's good. 04:06:21.100 --> 04:06:24.520 I'm kind of disappointed now that I did not know these guys earlier. 04:06:25.660 --> 04:06:27.160 Deception the Mire, my number eight. 04:06:27.160 --> 04:06:27.520 Good album. 04:06:29.800 --> 04:06:35.480 My number eight, I don't dislike folk metal, but I don't stick my hand in that ring too often. 04:06:35.700 --> 04:07:05.640 Well, no, that's not true. There are some things I like. I tend to think of those Finnish bands when I say folk metal, and those are the ones I'm not that crazy about. But this record I found earlier this year, and it might be one that might get some laughs. I don't know. But it really got its hooks into me, and it's super atmospheric, folky, black metal, too. Big, soaring kind of baritone vocals in certain places. Long cut to the chase here. It's a band called Imperium. Uber Den Sturman is the name of the album. 04:07:09.180 --> 04:07:10.800 I fucking love this record man 04:07:11.300 --> 04:07:11.920 it's just 04:07:12.600 --> 04:07:14.440 you can put this one on when you're laying down on the couch 04:07:14.550 --> 04:07:16.640 and you had a couple too many beers just close your eyes 04:07:16.650 --> 04:07:17.360 and just go somewhere 04:07:17.730 --> 04:07:18.460 so after the pod 04:07:20.460 --> 04:07:21.740 we're all going to listen to this tonight 04:07:22.100 --> 04:07:23.340 after he goes for a swim 04:07:24.120 --> 04:07:26.760 and I'm willing to admit that I need albums like that 04:07:26.840 --> 04:07:29.160 and sometimes it's not even about the musicianship 04:07:29.340 --> 04:07:30.820 necessarily like this one is just like 04:07:31.100 --> 04:07:32.880 it's this holistic thing that is it's own thing 04:07:33.040 --> 04:07:35.101 it's a story or whatever however you want to put it 04:07:35.120 --> 04:08:02.200 I love it. It's just so good. Check it out. I don't know that one. Definitely going to listen to this after Big Gamer 69 is the big spoon and you're just like, I'm worn out. And I should just add that the melodies and things are just so fucking legit. Like it's pretty. It's not cheap. It's not fucking, I don't know how to explain it except to say that it's just, it's got a little more beauty than your average metal folk album. It's too legit to quit. 04:08:08.199 --> 04:08:34.880 I don't think I've listened to that. Yeah, I don't know it. I recommend it highly. Well, I'm going to listen to it because it's pretty high on your list. I'm definitely going to fucking spin that shit. Where the hell are we here? George. So I'm going to swipe my pass card so that I may access all worlds with Yoten. Pronounced Yoten. Yeah. Well, you're the one who first passed this. 04:08:35.120 --> 04:09:04.740 That's what I'm saying. Listen to the podfather when he tells you how you pronounce things. If you pronunciate it correctly. That's a really bad northeast accent, so let's just stop. All right. Just go with your Jotun. You had me at Jotun. All right. Jotun. Jotun ought to do the next one. Jotun at number eight? Yeah. Wow. Is money production going to bring your son back? 04:09:08.600 --> 04:09:34.820 On this, the day of my daughter's podcast. That's right. Look what they did to my boy. George is the podfather, but I'm thinking about revoking that fucking name. What? Why? George, you need to go get an orange and put your mouth. Those little cotton things they put in your mouth at the dentist. I think he really does have cotton in his mouth, I think. I think he does, yeah. 04:09:35.120 --> 04:10:03.300 Yeah, he does. Yeah. Right then, well. Good pitch. Number seven. Mr. Micasson, give us your number seven. Number seven. I don't think anybody's going to have this on their list. I'm sad about that. At least one of us is. You. Sorry. That is true, Jay. It is had it with joy and ardor through the incommensurable path. 04:10:05.100 --> 04:10:34.860 Ruin Laboratories. This is a massive ritual dark death metal album. Fit for summoning beasts from the netherworld from atop a gut-splattered altar of cosmological oblivion. It's one of my favorite death metal albums in the last few years. So, like I said, I haven't heard anybody really talk about this. I hope you guys maybe go back and spin this if you haven't or if you have. 04:10:35.120 --> 04:11:04.280 Because holy fuck, this is a great death metal album. As I've said many times before, I like death metal that does something a little bit different, and this definitely does that. It really blows me away, this album. Had it. H-A-D-I-T. Get it. G-E-T-I-T? Yes. Nice. 04:11:05.800 --> 04:11:33.580 That took me a second to figure out what you're doing there. I almost forgot how to spell that. All right. Number seven for me. There's about 46 bands that have the word spectral in their name. I landed on was spectral lore. And George, I'm glad you cannot pronounce any of the album because I cannot either. This is off of I Avoid Hanger Records, the fourth album from a Greek black metal band. I think what I dug most about this band or person, I believe it's a one man project. It is. 04:11:35.120 --> 04:12:03.860 It's a nice blend of more of an atmospherical black metal, but also like a more traditional Norwegian black metal. My only criticism would be it's coming in at like an hour and 16 minutes, which is a bit long. But all you got to do is cut that last track, which is just nonsense. Yeah, exactly. And it doesn't really affect the length because it's still like an hour long when you cut that track. Yeah, it's awesome. It is a great album. I'm happy to see it is not on my list. I love the album. I have it on vinyl. 04:12:05.120 --> 04:12:30.860 It didn't make my list, but I think it is phenomenal. So, well done. John, did you mention that one before? I think George did. George did? Okay. I know it came up once before, at least. There's another one called Spectral Wound, which is, I think, the one you were probably referencing of all these spectral bands. The more traditional black metal? Yeah. Si. Bueno. 04:12:37.720 --> 04:13:04.140 12 to 6, John. Suck it. Hey, hey, don't tell them the score. Oh, sorry. You know, it's really funny to talk shit in June when it comes to baseball. Hey, it's neither of my teams. I don't have a fucking horse in this fucking carnival. You seem to love to twist a knife when it's my teams, George. No, I'd just do that to anybody. John, John, John, I love you. I love you. Oh, Jesus. I don't know about that. 04:13:05.100 --> 04:13:05.460 Yeah. 04:13:06.199 --> 04:13:06.760 Fuck you. 04:13:07.280 --> 04:13:07.780 Oh, Jesus. 04:13:08.080 --> 04:13:10.560 John, why don't you twist the knife into George and give us your neck? 04:13:10.640 --> 04:13:12.840 As deep as the knife will go. 04:13:14.800 --> 04:13:17.240 As deep as the knife will go. 04:13:17.360 --> 04:13:17.820 Fuck yeah. 04:13:18.460 --> 04:13:21.580 If it was going the other way, I would be saying this to Will. 04:13:21.780 --> 04:13:23.080 Oh, no, you would. 04:13:23.280 --> 04:13:26.720 I would because I love digging into the Phillies. 04:13:26.940 --> 04:13:28.100 I don't care about the Giants. 04:13:28.680 --> 04:13:29.620 I don't care about the Giants. 04:13:29.660 --> 04:13:30.360 Yeah, it's obvious. 04:13:30.900 --> 04:13:33.440 Yeah, but as a... 04:13:34.700 --> 04:14:03.460 I mean, I'm kind of a Phillies fan, but I'm also an ex-Phillies fan. No one is a Phillies fan unless you're from Philadelphia. I was born in Pennsylvania, bitch. My grandparents are from Malvern, Pennsylvania, which is just outside of Philadelphia. I am a Phillies fan, born and bred. Yeah, you're also a New England fan and a Michigan fan. I have, well, we decided, George. That was a burp, wasn't it? 04:14:03.880 --> 04:14:33.340 And a Taylor Swift fan. Hey George. Lady Gaga fan. You're a whore. Music and sports whore. That's what you are. I am. Thank you. Just figuring that out. I have way more respect for Will Give Me Shit because I know he's a real Phillies fan. That's all I'm saying. Hey. Now I'm forcing. I have the game on while we're talking. Podcasting. And I turn the screen toward George to brag about. Listen I don't got much to brag about with the Phillies or anything. They're second place. 04:14:33.900 --> 04:15:02.300 Well, yeah, there's second place of a mediocre shitty division. Shitty division, yeah. But who's got a letter personally from Mike Schmidt upstairs? Me. Me. That's actually what I'm going to say. I'm going to try and see if I can find that before you leave. Does that letter start like this, George? Cease and desist, please. Nah, man. Why does this shit always happen to my pet? Nah, see, back in the mid-80s, 04:15:03.880 --> 04:15:33.540 You could still do things like write to baseball players. And I had a book that was, it was literally a book of baseball players' home addresses. And... They were getting back into cease and desist territory. Yeah, I know. And I was hanging out of Mike Schmitz. But I used to, I used to write... When I was young, I was a stalker. I used to write to all these baseball players and I would send them a self-addressed stamped envelope and a baseball card, most of them, if I could afford to send them a baseball card. It's like Hall of Famers, you couldn't afford to do that. 04:15:33.620 --> 04:16:01.940 You just be like, hey, could you sign this, you know, three by five card or whatever? And I would write to them. And, you know, I would just, I would send out like dozens of these things. And you only get like a third of them back. But you'd get like a third of them back. And they would write back and be like, hey, thanks for the interest, blah, blah, blah. Here's your signed thing, blah, blah, blah. And Mike Schmidt actually typed a fucking letter and signed it and sent it back to me. And I have that shit framed. 04:16:02.800 --> 04:16:31.620 I've got like Hall of Fame people. Well, I had a binder full of Hall of Fame, like Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, like stuff like that. And I fucking lost it in the move to this house. I don't know where the binder is. How the fuck did you lose that shit, dude? It was a binder that was probably worth like at least $10,000 of baseball cards and autographs. That's cause for divorce. Oh my God. It wasn't her fault. I'm pretty sure. Are you sure? Nah, man. 04:16:31.680 --> 04:17:01.640 I don't know. I feel like I might have left it in the top of a closet at the last house or something. No, you did not. I don't know. There's no way something that valuable you just leave behind. I can't find it. I've been searching for eight years and I cannot find it. You know what, George? We'll see it on Antiques Roadshow someday. It's a million dollars. I mean, it had two Willie McCovey rookie cards. They're worth $5,000 each right there. Listen, all y'all, it's a sabotage. George, what are you doing? We're on 04:17:01.680 --> 04:17:31.600 No offense to anybody, but we're on. We're still on seven. John's pick, I believe. Thank you for remembering. John's like, oh, yeah, I guess I'll do this thing. Do we want to say anything more about? No, I'm good. Sorry. Any updates in the game? It's 12 to six. Any more stories of incompetence? 04:17:31.680 --> 04:18:01.400 on George's part. Oh, please. There's plenty. Bottom of the seventh one out. No, I think you're good, John. Go. Number seven. Run with it while you can. I'll wait another second just in case something else comes up. In case somebody gets a bass hitter and strikes out. Get the fucking sand out of your clit and just fucking make your pit. Actually, to amuse you while you're waiting, John, I'll do my George imitation. I think I got a moon rock around here somewhere. Ah, shit. 04:18:02.920 --> 04:18:31.200 There's no sand in my clit. I'm just not talking shit like some people are right now. But that's okay. You enjoy your June swoon. Anyway, my number seven. Since we've spent now like 40 minutes on my pick and I haven't said a word about it yet. My number seven. Put some Nevermore into your life. Little progressive U.S. power metal. Silver talent. Decadence and decay. Can we get an update in the Phillies? 04:18:31.340 --> 04:18:32.180 Giants came now. 04:18:33.920 --> 04:18:35.080 My May album of the month. 04:18:35.260 --> 04:18:35.960 Let's move on. 04:18:36.260 --> 04:18:36.540 Will. 04:18:36.920 --> 04:18:37.520 So good. 04:18:38.720 --> 04:18:42.460 I think maybe Jay mentioned this. 04:18:45.800 --> 04:18:48.300 My number seven is Horndall, Lake Drinker. 04:18:48.460 --> 04:18:48.680 Yeah. 04:18:49.400 --> 04:18:49.740 Oh, yeah. 04:18:49.780 --> 04:18:51.280 He mentioned that a long time ago. 04:18:51.430 --> 04:18:51.540 Yeah. 04:18:51.930 --> 04:18:52.740 I think that was yesterday. 04:18:52.900 --> 04:18:53.460 I know. 04:18:53.590 --> 04:18:54.840 It was too long ago. 04:18:55.420 --> 04:18:56.360 Such a cool title. 04:18:56.620 --> 04:18:58.360 Lake Drinker, Lake Drinker. 04:18:58.360 --> 04:18:59.280 And there's like a skull. 04:18:59.470 --> 04:18:59.780 Like just. 04:19:00.280 --> 04:19:29.280 Dude, that album cover is phenomenal. It is. And they're on prosthetic records, but they're from Sweden. Just crusty. You know, you don't have to push my head all the time over. Give me some cortisone. There you go. Just Lake Drinker from Horndall. That's my number seven. Seven. My number seven was mentioned by Will, and I don't think anybody else. 04:19:30.280 --> 04:19:59.160 More or less, but maybe it will. Maybe somebody else mentioned it. And I'm not afraid to admit this was my number one at first when it first came out. This moved down a little bit. It probably went down some more by the end of the year, but it's still a pretty complete package. That's well. Visually and sonically culted. Nice. Nice. Oh, I like this record. It was really cool. That's all we got to say about that? Yeah. 04:20:00.899 --> 04:20:26.180 Big and crunchy. I'm sure Will said something really intelligent about it, so I'll just refer you to it. No, probably not, but I did like it a lot. My number seven has been mentioned. It is mea cognitum solar paroxysm. Oh, that's crept up. I'm surprised that that one makes me. That's very, very nice. I like it very much. Very good. Sexy time. Sexy time. 04:20:30.260 --> 04:21:00.200 It's enough. Number six. We've talked about this. We've primarily discussed lyrics, but I'm going to talk about it a little bit more. Panopticon. And again, into the light from Bind Rune recordings. I think that the musicianship and the song craft on this record is stunning, but it's the emotional quality. 04:21:00.340 --> 04:21:29.180 that really grabs me on this record. It has a deep sense of melancholy throughout, but there's a real beauty, I think, to this record and the way it creates layers of warmth in each song. So listening to this record, it makes me feel like I'm being pulled up from the darkness and into the sunlight. I feel the tug and the promise of something brighter and more hopeful. 04:21:31.341 --> 04:21:58.680 So I think Panopticon really moved me with this record. It wasn't something that I expected with it. I know people might have had some issues with the production of it where like the vocals are kind of in the background, but I like that because of the theme of the record, you know, where it's someone trying to find hope in a desolate world. 04:21:59.640 --> 04:22:27.520 So I really like the choices of the production on this record. And like I said, it just really speaks to me emotionally in a way that I've always liked the Panopticon records, but this one, it hit me a little bit more than the other ones before it. In the feels? Yes. You should probably go to your doctor, get your feels checked just in case too. Right in my cell. Anyways, I mean, people have talked about Panopticon before. 04:22:29.120 --> 04:22:58.740 I think this album is just tremendous. I think it's my favorite one as well. Maybe John said that? I do think it's his best one, yeah. Yeah, I think it's my favorite as well, just because of the emotional weight of the album. So, number six. Right on. Panopticon. Matthew. Oh, man, my number six. Honestly, the first song off this album I heard was On Metal Sucks, and I read the blurb about them before. 04:22:59.140 --> 04:23:28.541 I listened to it and I'm like oh man this feels like another uh who's that 80s wannabe band that you hate John Steel Panther I was like oh god I hope this is and so I played the track and I'm like okay great great great and by the time the track was done I was like oh fuck that's actually pretty good and there's a lot of clean singing and that sounds like heavy metal oh my god I'm having a midlife crisis oh my god the second track came out and I was like oh man this is really good 04:23:30.359 --> 04:23:58.220 This album gets my air guitar award of the year so far. And that is Silver Talon, Decadence, and Decay. There's a little bit of nostalgia to it in the terms of how it sounds. And some of that is like, you know, we just finished watching Cobra Kai. There's a shitload of nostalgia in that. And I was listening to this and I just had all these good nostalgic things going on in my life. And honestly, I could play this all day long. 04:23:58.560 --> 04:24:28.520 Silver Talon, Decadence and Decay. They're just phenomenal players. Oh my God. If I'm not mistaken. I'm sorry, go ahead. The lyrical content is so close to... I discovered something new about that record and I like that part of it. So I was reading up on it today and so I feel like one of the guys was from Idle Hands, which actually has a different name now. Unto Others. Thank you. Okay, cool. I was completely oblivious to that because they're like, oh yeah, they used to be called Idle Hands and they opened from... 04:24:28.560 --> 04:24:58.060 for King Diamond. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. That was such a great set. Yeah, it was awesome. So, yeah. I think I read somewhere that Silver Talent, when they first started, was a Nevermore tribute band. I could be wrong about that, but I thought I read that. I mean, he sounds like Moral Day at times. He does. You know, I really don't. I haven't listened to this, so I'm obviously going to because it's on so many lists, but I'm just like looking at it. And not one of you has mentioned that Andy Laroque has a fucking guest spot on this. 04:24:58.220 --> 04:25:27.780 Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Jay, because I sent this to you a long time ago. I said, you might dig this. You're like, yeah, yeah, cool, dude. That sounds like me. So that's why I didn't say anything, because I've been waiting for you to say something. I'm a moron. Yeah, he's on the second or third song, yeah. Yeah, it's clearly going to, it will clearly be on my next list. Andy LaRock is on the second tune, by the way. Yeah. I've been waiting for you to say something about that. I'm a moron. He's going to love this. Andy LaRock's on here. Right over my head. 04:25:28.120 --> 04:25:55.400 And here's the thing, that's really cool. I didn't mention it because I feel like just the band by themselves is amazing. You don't even need to mention that they have like guest people on it. I think just even in the other songs are just tremendously good. But I will say this though, if you're going to get, and not that I ignored John's advice or anything. And I'm just giving you a hard time. No, no, not at all. But if, but if, if there, there are probably five musicians that'd be like, well, I'll fucking check it out. 04:25:58.120 --> 04:26:27.580 Well, and I have to say, I was completely obliqued to Lorac until I did the VIP package for King Diamond. And like, you know, I was shaking everybody's hand and like, Andy, literally, he didn't just reach out and shake my hand. Like he made the point to like step around and face, like go face to face and shake. Like he did the shake, but then his hand on the outside. And I was like, I love you guys. Do you really need to play tonight? Can we just hang out? No. Okay, cool. I'll get out of here. Sorry. Big spoon, little spoon. A lot of stuff I love. All right. Well, fuck, this is obviously what I'm listening to tonight. 04:26:27.640 --> 04:26:56.480 Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't listen to this one, Jay. I feel like it would be on your list if you did listen to it. I'm really happy that it's made so many lists because it's a phenomenal record. Okay, all right. Well, let's see what we can do for the end of the year. Yep. I always miss something important. Fuck. So, are we on six? My turn? Uh-huh. George is responsible for this pick. Sorry. I do mean that sincerely. I'm not just giving him a hard time. I saw this in his wish list. 04:26:57.640 --> 04:27:27.500 It also led me to another band called Sunless Dawn, who I absolutely love. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. I just added that. So there's not much to say about this. We've all mentioned this already. Iotun. Or as George likes to say, Jotun. Jotun. Jotun. Jotun. Access All Worlds. Mm-hmm. This one's got off the list. Mm-hmm. We've heard enough about it, so we'll move on. 04:27:30.899 --> 04:27:57.600 I like French fried taters. That boy, he lives in his heart, and that's a big place for a boy to live. Like funny, ha ha. Bible says two fellers ought not lay together, but I guess he couldn't send that in like you to Hades. Will. Talk into the mic, Will. Do it. I was just waiting for Jay to 04:27:57.640 --> 04:28:27.400 take the foot out of his mouth. Sorry. Sorry. Number six. Hellslave from Sulfur Desk. Old school death metal from Rome, Italy on Pulverized Records. Holy shit. There's like an old school like thrash element to this. There's also death metal element to this. It reminds me of is it Hellripper from Scotland? Yeah. Maybe I'm making that. Jay mentioned that earlier. Yeah. No, that was. No, 04:28:27.620 --> 04:28:57.600 It was from last year. Yeah, Grave Ripper. Hell Ripper. Hell Ripper is a different one. So many Rippers. Anyway, check it out. Hell Slave from Italy. It's awesome. Do it. Do it now. If I like death metal and this is my number six, you should look it up. Now! Get to the band camp. Speaking of George being responsible 04:28:57.920 --> 04:29:27.260 or somebody else on the podcast being responsible for our lists or something on your list. I have two left that are very deeply because of people on this podcast. And this is the first of them. It's number six. This is a relentless, heavy as hell, vaguely Nile-like techish death, but not that much tech. It's almost tech just because it's so fast. But it never gets into grind territory. 04:29:27.300 --> 04:29:57.220 It remains stoutly a death metal album. And this is from Markisan Cambion. Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium. Holy Jesus, dude. This might be the most relentless record of the year. Just starts and pummels you from start to finish. And it's entertaining along the way. So it's super cool. Can you spell that, Jay? C-A-M-B-I-O-N. Oh, Cambion. Yeah, Cambion. Can one person spell it at a time? 04:29:57.999 --> 04:30:25.660 C-A-M-B-I-O-N. That's crazy. It's not on my list, but I know I had it on the Metal Friday, so I'm glad that you dug it, Jay. That's cool. I think it, and I'm not always looking, it's not like I have to fill certain voids every year, but this is, Niall didn't have a record this year. This is Niall's record this year. It's really fucking good. I picked it up, too. I love that you're so into Niall, you're like, I need to find shit that fucking knows. Yeah, apparently, I didn't know. Before you come back. 04:30:27.300 --> 04:30:30.480 I didn't know I was looking but there was and I was like fuck this is great dude 04:30:31.480 --> 04:30:34.900 yeah it is a really good record and I do think you'll dig it well since you're writing it down 04:30:35.230 --> 04:30:37.200 I'm sure we'll definitely like it yeah yeah 04:30:39.000 --> 04:30:42.980 see and when you bring that stuff up I'm like oh yeah man I listened to that and I loved it 04:30:43.160 --> 04:30:45.800 oh man why is that on my list yeah it's behind me now yeah 04:30:47.520 --> 04:30:54.241 uh Georgie my number six is Conquistador by Stonehella 04:30:55.600 --> 04:31:24.220 You know, Dave was on a couple episodes ago. It was a really good album. I don't have any notes. I'm going to fucking add them. I'm going to wing this shit. I'm going to fart and burp and make facial expressions. I like Dave. He came on the show. Nah, you know, I think it's a pretty unique album. And as John mentioned previously, it's a very cathartic album. And it just, I don't know, it hit me 04:31:24.260 --> 04:31:53.600 Me and The Feels, and it stuck out to me. So there it is, number six. It's a good album. It is good, yep. Top five, getting really, really real. Top five, are we taking a break? Are we just doing this shit? Let's just do this shit. Let's do it. All right, number five, it has been spoken before. I feel like it was a little low on people's lists, but I'm going to make up for that, 04:31:53.740 --> 04:32:00.220 because my number five album is woad burn in many mirrors but how many mirrors 04:32:01.080 --> 04:32:09.600 whoa many to you 72 mirrors okay that's all i needed to know that's a lot of mirrors i think this is an 04:32:10.000 --> 04:32:19.480 absolute firecracker of a record it's catchy it's a whippersnapper explosion of black metal it's lit with 04:32:19.480 --> 04:32:49.380 Mellow Death and Krusty Thrash. That's ferocious. It's fun. It's just incredibly memorable from start to finish. If it's a transition record, to me, they nailed it with this one. I feel this record is an absolute joy to spin since we got it. So I really like this. I hope they continue in this vein. I don't think they need to progress. 04:32:57.079 --> 04:33:18.539 I don't like the word progressed. 04:33:18.580 --> 04:33:48.561 I like the word regress. Nobody does that. Ingress also is another word. What is it we're going to do? Matt. Oh my. Number five. Number five. This has definitely been my sleeper album of the year so far and it's Crypts of Despair, All Light Swallowed on Transcending Obscurity. This is the second album from a Lithuanian death metal band. I feel like, you know, I was just randomly doing my new music for 04:33:48.619 --> 04:34:17.900 on a Friday afternoon listening to the new music. I put this one on and literally had my face torn off. It's dirty. I mean, you look good. I mean, I actually kind of needed a facelift. Yeah, you look better. Yeah, honestly, you do. I didn't want to say anything before, but this is better. No, I appreciate you holding back. Can you give those albums to Jay, by the way? He could use another one. For sure. 04:34:18.600 --> 04:34:48.561 You look lovely my dear At 50 I have noticed my face is slowly melting but there it is It's all good Oh Gonna keep melting Jay Yeah I know I know We're talking about getting older How does John kept his hairline for this? What GM? I know right? Look at that Look at that You know I wake up in the morning screaming Yeah Yeah and then I'm gonna wake up one day and be like 04:34:48.600 --> 04:34:49.961 It's all fucking gone. 04:34:51.539 --> 04:34:53.539 Well, I guess I'm just shaving it all off now. 04:34:53.660 --> 04:34:56.400 I mean, I think at this point, John, you're good. 04:34:57.000 --> 04:34:58.859 Yeah, it ain't going nowhere. 04:34:59.619 --> 04:35:00.461 Thank you, Grandpa. 04:35:01.199 --> 04:35:03.340 Because you're like 75 years old at this point. 04:35:05.480 --> 04:35:06.600 Hey, it won't be around much longer. 04:35:07.760 --> 04:35:11.900 And there's Markisan who chooses to shave most of the hair off his head. 04:35:12.461 --> 04:35:16.680 It just leaves the part that the rest of us are missing. 04:35:16.760 --> 04:35:46.279 He just leaves a landing strip on his head for dudes to lick. Wow, that was some tongue there. Either what John or Marcus is doing, I'd take either one of them happily. You know, well, I'm stuck with the Adolf Hitler, you know what I mean? Better than my Phil Collins. Jake could use a mustache again, but other than that, you guys look good. As long as it's not a tiny one. 04:35:48.541 --> 04:35:52.221 I'm starting to ask myself am I dressing too young 04:35:53.561 --> 04:35:55.779 I love when George did 04:35:56.359 --> 04:35:58.199 sent those pictures where he was 04:35:58.670 --> 04:36:00.260 under Barb's hair and it looked like 04:36:00.330 --> 04:36:02.141 yeah that was freaky dude 04:36:02.461 --> 04:36:03.561 that was unsettling 04:36:04.500 --> 04:36:06.221 George with hair what's that about 04:36:07.439 --> 04:36:08.381 Matt I cut off your 04:36:08.510 --> 04:36:09.859 comments were you complete or 04:36:10.270 --> 04:36:11.180 perhaps you had more to say 04:36:11.949 --> 04:36:14.000 very complete thank you for checking 04:36:14.359 --> 04:36:16.162 let's move down to John 04:36:16.160 --> 04:36:45.420 Or up to John is the case maybe. Or over the jungle. Johnny good hair. Johnny good hair. Little locks. Flowing locks. Flowing locks. So my number five I give 100% credit to Will. What? What? He mentioned his band and he equated them to Opeth and I thought oh okay he's just being a dick and he's trashing the new Opeth albums. No no no no. 04:36:46.180 --> 04:37:16.141 And I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. And I was right. My number five is Seeming Emptiness, Bliss Intuned. I love this album. I will take it a step further than what Will said in saying that it's opeth, opethian-like. I also think there's a lot of mid-period Catatonia in this. I think it's a mix of both. It's before Catatonia got to become... 04:37:16.779 --> 04:37:45.961 where I just really don't want to listen anymore. I know it's heresy amongst some Catatonia fans, but I can't stand the last few albums. I also think there's a little bit of in mourning in this because of the vocals. I think that the guy they brought, they brought in the main singer and guitarist from in mourning. And I think there's a little bit of melodic death in this also. I hear people saying Death Doom. I don't get it as much, but it doesn't mean it's not there. So thank you, Will, for, 04:37:46.180 --> 04:37:47.699 for bringing this to my attention. 04:37:48.381 --> 04:37:51.600 And I'm glad I trusted you on your suggestion. 04:37:51.779 --> 04:37:52.359 So thank you. 04:37:54.221 --> 04:37:55.320 Just needs less clean singing. 04:37:55.920 --> 04:37:56.320 Wow. 04:37:56.461 --> 04:37:57.961 That is a, 04:37:58.039 --> 04:38:00.039 that is a amazing recommendation. 04:38:00.359 --> 04:38:01.820 Cause Will puts it out there. 04:38:01.939 --> 04:38:03.199 It's not really in his wheelhouse. 04:38:03.381 --> 04:38:04.221 And then for John, 04:38:04.600 --> 04:38:06.281 it's his number five. 04:38:07.100 --> 04:38:07.180 Well, 04:38:07.180 --> 04:38:08.100 I immediately was like, 04:38:08.580 --> 04:38:08.859 you know, 04:38:08.980 --> 04:38:09.900 he's going to fuck with me. 04:38:10.039 --> 04:38:10.600 Still about Opeth. 04:38:10.680 --> 04:38:10.961 And I was like, 04:38:11.061 --> 04:38:11.221 no, 04:38:11.461 --> 04:38:11.881 don't go there. 04:38:12.779 --> 04:38:13.180 Just listen. 04:38:15.320 --> 04:38:45.279 I will say this it has a distinctive sound for the natural walk production type albums they all have a similar sound it seems like because it almost has a doesn't sound like X Genesis but the production kind of comes off a little bit like X Genesis a little bit so which I believe actually somebody in the band is from X Genesis believe it or not really yeah yeah the drummer who is also in the morning also and is also the brother of the singer 04:38:47.400 --> 04:39:15.260 But they didn't know this until they met online. And yeah, okay, never mind. Swipe break. George's story fizzles. Yeah, I thought I could, you know, ad-lib that one and it just went nowhere. No, maybe it would have been good. Will, number five. My number five. You gotta finish because I'm getting hungry. Yeah. I give all credit to this one to 04:39:15.301 --> 04:39:45.040 Dan, Clancher, Clanker, because he, I don't know if he sent this to me, or he may have just posted this on Facebook, and I think he went on some podcast, blog site, and talked about this album. The album, the band name is Fuoco Fatuo. Oh, yeah. I've heard of this. The album name is Obsidian Catabasis, or Catabasis. It's Italian, 04:39:46.480 --> 04:40:14.180 Atmospheric Funeral Doom from Profound Lore. And ironically, I was just looking back at my latest decibel and they gave this a review of like, it could be a bright, bright, bright sunny day. It could be a magical day. You could be at Disney World and you listen to this album and you're going to be like, fuck, the world is ending. It is just like, it is. It's extremely atmospheric and it's, 04:40:15.280 --> 04:40:45.020 I don't know. I just loved it. I thought it was awesome. Check it out. It's cool. I mean, Dan always has some really good recommendations that I haven't listened to. I, I, a lot of the stuff that he recommends is more of like a B side stuff to me, but I like that. He recommends stuff that I haven't heard, which is weird because we listen to so much fucking metal. So I don't know where he's finding this shit because I feel like I've maybe because I, 04:40:45.280 --> 04:40:48.600 I feel like I'm in touch with like all these different record labels and 04:40:48.700 --> 04:40:53.560 everything and then Dan busts out this record like what the fuck I never heard of this but that's 04:40:53.560 --> 04:40:58.620 cool that it made it up your list yeah yeah I loved it I think I went on the was it hops and box that 04:40:58.920 --> 04:41:04.440 podcast I think that's what it was yep yeah that's the singer from cryptopsy yep yep which is cool 04:41:05.400 --> 04:41:08.978 mm-hmm I think I had a phone I think it was it's cryptopsy from Montreal 04:41:12.600 --> 04:41:14.740 I probably told the story one night, but 04:41:15.940 --> 04:41:17.340 he called me one night. 04:41:19.720 --> 04:41:22.280 He got my number. The singer? Yeah. 04:41:23.880 --> 04:41:26.820 Which singer? I think it's the new one. I think his name's 04:41:27.500 --> 04:41:28.620 Matt. Yeah, okay. 04:41:31.298 --> 04:41:32.740 But Bill from 04:41:36.200 --> 04:41:38.520 Shit, I'm blanking on a whole bunch of shit. 04:41:39.200 --> 04:42:07.860 Marcus? No, no, no, local band. Oh, Gloom. Yeah, Bill from Gloom, the lead singer of Gloom, was doing a tour with Cryptopsy, and then out of the blue, they called me, and they're like, hey, let's do a beer, and I was explaining all this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but I had this really awesome conversation with Must Be Matt from Cryptopsy, who does Vox and Hops, anyway, about beer and metal. It was awesome. I loved it. 04:42:09.260 --> 04:42:09.840 That's cool. 04:42:10.240 --> 04:42:12.420 All right. 04:42:12.500 --> 04:42:14.680 My number five is just total J stuff. 04:42:14.940 --> 04:42:16.260 So I'm not going to waste too much time on it, 04:42:16.380 --> 04:42:17.360 except to say that it was, 04:42:17.520 --> 04:42:22.700 it's cool because this guy's made a string of really good records in the last five years or so, 04:42:22.760 --> 04:42:23.340 maybe six years, 04:42:24.050 --> 04:42:24.140 whatever. 04:42:24.320 --> 04:42:25.920 There's four of them and they're all really good. 04:42:25.980 --> 04:42:27.540 And they all have multiple lead singers on them. 04:42:27.620 --> 04:42:29.380 This one has a Jolen Turner on it. 04:42:29.520 --> 04:42:29.680 And, 04:42:29.780 --> 04:42:29.920 um, 04:42:31.480 --> 04:42:32.600 the dude who was the, 04:42:32.960 --> 04:42:35.060 who was for Richie Blackmore's comeback, 04:42:35.340 --> 04:42:36.980 that Romero dude and some other people, 04:42:37.460 --> 04:42:37.820 but it's great. 04:42:37.940 --> 04:43:07.860 And he's just been writing good sort of, let's call it, um, Brave New World era type maiden type metal, but you know, with a softer edge, uh, Michael Schenker, immortal. I fucking love it. All of his last records have been great. That's a total me thing. Don't expect anybody to get on a board, but it's as good as my number five. Here's your volleyball. I mean, you knew that was going to come on your list, Jay. I mean, I've listened to, I think it's really, really solid. So it's, um, I think you're like, you're on, 04:43:09.360 --> 04:43:37.380 Well, I am on an island, but I can see you in the distance going by. Hey, man, what's up? Don't worry, TR's on that island with you. I know, I know, and he and I can cry in each other's beer at the decibel. Or make out as fans of Michael Schenker. Why cry when you get out of fun? Did we just become best friends? Yep. Yep. Let's go to bed. George. 04:43:37.960 --> 04:44:07.820 George. Number five. Dith Requiem for the Serpent Telepath. Esau Trillium. Wow. I mean. It's going to come out Matt's list too soon. You know I just. I didn't. I mean I've like listened to the last. I don't know however many. And you know it's like it's good. But. And so I did not expect this to even list honestly. And then I. 04:44:07.940 --> 04:44:37.280 It's different than their previous stuff, though. It really is. And I put it on, and this was another one of those half-listening, doing something else, got to restart it over and go. Yeah, because it's long. Yeah, and then you're like, wait a minute, I got to start this over and pay attention. And you're like, damn! Damn! Did he just do that? You know, it's pretty fucking good, so. I mean, I agree with you, George. I feel I really wasn't on the Sachtrillium train. I know how much Matt liked it. I think Jay had it on his list. 04:44:37.560 --> 04:45:07.180 from last year or two years ago. It wasn't something that really affected me as much. But then I listened to this one and I think I feel like I got the band more on this one. It is not on my list, but again, it's high on my honorable mentions. I've got like 5,000 honorable mentions. I think it's a really great album. And who knows, the more you listen to it, that is definitely one that you have to spend some fucking time with. It's so long. There's so much going on in it. 04:45:07.580 --> 04:45:37.140 But I feel like I understand the band a little bit more than I did before. And I would not. It's less esoteric than their last one. Yeah. Like it doesn't draw from as many weird places and take as many strange left and right turns. So it's more accessible, but not. I mean, but it's hardly accessible. I wouldn't say that. No, I wouldn't say it's super accessible. I think it's more cohesive. I think that's what it is. That's a good word. I feel like the tunes like go into each other a little bit better than the last one. 04:45:37.180 --> 04:46:07.040 for me, you know. So here's a weird comment for you, and you guys will all be like, what? But it's got, and I just mean by the way, this sort of, it's got more of a new auto vibe than they did before. What? Like, it's got these, yeah, these long stretched out passages that, where they just kind of hook onto a melody and go for a while, you know, and I don't know, it's different. I like it though. All right, then, let's move on to number four. Holy shit, number four. We've, we've mentioned this band before, 04:46:07.180 --> 04:46:36.240 But I don't I'm not sure that anybody has had on their list yet. They've mentioned it or they haven't mentioned it. I don't know. They might have mentioned it. I don't know. Because drunk. Number four for me is Wheel Preserved in Time. Twice. You are number three. Twice. I am number one. I mentioned it. That's cool. He is number two. That's great because it's from a record. This album made a massive late charge on my list. 04:46:36.840 --> 04:47:06.820 Because when new records come out, I sample them, and then I kind of put them in general categories. So basically it's love it, fuck off, or maybe listen to some more of this later. That's how I usually do it. Yeah, that's pretty much it. So this album somehow got shelved into the listen later slot. But as I was finishing up my list and I went back and I revisited my dusty drawer of me 04:47:07.600 --> 04:47:12.700 I was kind of horrified to find that this record was in there because I think Preserved 04:47:12.720 --> 04:47:16.460 in Time is a phenomenal epic heavy doom record. 04:47:16.900 --> 04:47:18.020 This should be preserved in time. 04:47:18.940 --> 04:47:19.580 It should be. 04:47:20.960 --> 04:47:26.520 It's got rich emotional vocals and thick as fog gloom heavy guitars. 04:47:27.020 --> 04:47:32.520 And I mentioned this in the chat yesterday, I think, because Jay was talking about heavy temple. 04:47:33.040 --> 04:47:34.740 But I think it's worth saying here, too. 04:47:35.000 --> 04:48:04.080 For me, this album brings back that epic doom promise that I felt with early Paul Bearer. It seemed like that kind of classic heavy doom was making a comeback a few years ago. And Paul Bearer was leading that charge. And then that band kind of changed directions. And maybe some other bands kind of changed directions. That movement died down a little bit and there was a void. But then this album came along. Exactly. 04:48:05.000 --> 04:48:34.340 The Album Came Along, and I feel like it completely filled that void for me of early Paul Bear. And I just think this is just... I love this record. I'm surprised it's not a little bit higher, even though number four is pretty fucking high. But I've been listening to this one a lot, and I think that this is the best that you can get from Doom right now. It's pretty good. Number four, Wheel, Preserved in Time. 04:48:36.958 --> 04:48:37.440 Matt. 04:48:39.520 --> 04:48:43.180 For number four, imagine you found yourself in hell. 04:48:43.960 --> 04:48:45.840 You thought, you know what, I would like to get a massage. 04:48:48.020 --> 04:48:49.380 You don't have to be in hell for that, baby. 04:48:49.660 --> 04:48:50.500 Oh, this is great. 04:48:50.920 --> 04:48:51.800 Minus the happy ending. 04:48:52.280 --> 04:48:58.320 The music that would be playing in the background would be a band called Esau Trillium. 04:48:59.080 --> 04:48:59.400 Yes. 04:48:59.880 --> 04:49:03.020 And that album would be Dithe Requiem for the Serpent Telepath. 04:49:03.320 --> 04:49:33.160 There are moments on this album and other albums that I think like, God, this is like when I've had a massage, like kind of that new agey shit. That's what that is playing. But when it's done in a black metal, folky kind of just way out their way, like it works for me. Definitely. It's a little bit long. I really like I have a super short attention span. So when we're coming at, we're coming in at like an hour and 15 minutes, I struggle with that. But I just, the music is so unique to me. 04:49:33.320 --> 04:50:02.680 and so crazy and so cool. I dig it. You know, we aren't ones to complain about long. I mean, an hour and 15 minutes is our fucking intro. We should never complain about long albums. All right. We have a guest. Here we go. Yeah, we are. We are ones to look at our podcast and like take a real hard look at it and go, no, we really can't lose any of this. Six hours worth of. That's me. 04:50:03.320 --> 04:50:32.680 No, that's mostly on me, but yeah. I try. I really do try to cut shit. But anyway, thank you. Awesome. John. All right. In the effort to cut time, my number four. It's an EP. I don't really care. It's 39 minutes long, and it's longer than eight other albums on my list. Colta Luna, The Raging River. 04:50:33.320 --> 04:51:02.480 Red Creek is the label. They're from Sweden. If you don't know them, they play atmospheric sludge metal. They are knocking them out of the park every album as far as I'm concerned. Probably my favorite of the kind of atmospheric sludgy metal bands. I know it's heresy to say that. I like them more than Isis, but I do. Yeah, Isis isn't around. You can say whatever you want. Yeah. And also, 39 Minutes is not an EP. I don't know why they're billing at that. Because all their albums are like 99 minutes long. 04:51:03.320 --> 04:51:30.920 I mean, their last album I think was close to 80 minutes long. Yeah, that's true. I like that they did this length. So do I. It's better for them, actually. Yeah, and I'm happy to have them on my list because they were the very last live show I saw before the whole shitstorm started. Yeah. A lot of live shows going on now, John. Here they come. Come on. Yeah. Anyway. Cool. Willem. 04:51:33.840 --> 04:52:03.080 Let me put my glasses on. Let me look at my list. Number four. Akhenatum. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth. Egyptian death metal from Colorado on Santanath Records. I'm pretty sure that they made up that record label. That's probably not real. No, George has got like 45 albums from them in the last two weeks. We've talked about this on previous podcasts. 04:52:03.300 --> 04:52:32.260 I just think that Akhenatum is in that vein of Egyptian death metal like Nile and Crescent, which is actually from Egypt. We talked about this before. Yeah, Crescent's cool. Yeah, but I mean, I complained about a little bit of extra filler on this album, but when they actually get to what they're trying to do, God, it's magical to me. It is just pure magic. I've spent a lot of time in the Middle East, and I've heard a lot of Middle Eastern music. 04:52:33.320 --> 04:53:03.080 And like to incorporate that into death metal, which I love, like it just gives me the happy feels. So I can add them on number four. Happy feels today. Happy feels. I was trying to get a happy feel, but everyone's feels are happy. Yeah. My number four is a gift to no one, which is to say I chose it because I dig it. It's still going to make at least one person pretty happy. They might say number four cannibal corpse, violence, 04:53:04.000 --> 04:53:33.160 I like this better than Red Before Black. This is a cool hooky album. A lot of cool stuff on this record. And it's super exciting all the way through. Eric Rutan was on the last one too, right? No. Okay, so this was his first one? Rutan. He is the producer slash engineer of their last several albums. But this is the first one he played on and wrote music for. Well, it does feel like it's got a little extra pepper on it. 04:53:33.320 --> 04:54:02.060 me. So over the last one, which I enjoyed too. So I don't have to describe Cannibal Corpse to the world, but a deserving album. Is that like power metal? What is that? Another, another, let's call them another longstanding band who's consistent, by the way. Speaking of that conversation, Will. I'd be surprised if it wasn't Will's number one, but I guess we'll find out. I'm sure it is. Will can just go home now. We all know what it is. He doesn't want to go home. He wants to be the Georgian. 04:54:03.140 --> 04:54:33.100 He's my pet. You guys don't notice that there's a shackle around my ankle. Oh, that's a bummer. You dirty bird. And the butt plug's getting really uncomfortable right now. That was a, was that a reference for it to the dirty bird? That was a, the Stephen King thing. Yeah. I don't know why it would be uncomfortable since if you used it. Stephen King, what do you call it? Misery? Misery, thank you. Misery, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's Joel's 04:54:33.940 --> 04:54:36.120 So that means George is getting ready to hobble you. 04:54:36.820 --> 04:54:40.740 Yeah, you don't like the wood in the sledgehammer. 04:54:40.880 --> 04:54:42.320 I'm going to break my ankles. 04:54:43.440 --> 04:54:44.660 All right, where are we? Number four? 04:54:45.280 --> 04:54:45.520 Four. 04:54:47.080 --> 04:54:50.180 Okay, so pass me the volleyball. 04:54:53.540 --> 04:54:58.620 And this one is, I forget where they're from because I can't see that column. 04:55:00.420 --> 04:55:27.360 Borg, or Borden, Temps Mort. It's sort of an industrial black metal, and it's very cool. I like it a lot. But I'm sure none of you have listened to it. I like your vagine. Yeah, vagine. I don't even know if I've heard of it, to be honest. They've been around a while. They generally make a list or two. 04:55:29.120 --> 04:55:58.980 You brought it up though, George. You'll have to check it out. Will's playing with buttons. Go away, Will. He's just mashing buttons. He's looking for the crickets. But yeah, no, if you haven't listened to this, check it out. It's really cool. I mean, it's like number four cool. Like, totally. Number four cool. Not number three cool, but number four cool. Everything has its limits, John. It's quad cool. No, that's awesome that we all have so many picks. 04:55:59.120 --> 04:56:28.620 that none of us have on our list. It just expands the pool even more. Just don't pee in the pool. I mean, I think my next two picks, nobody's going to have on that list for sure. Well, let's find out. I know at least one of my next picks is not going to be on the new one. Okay. We're on to number three here. Number three. I'm taking Wilson back from George. Here you go. And my number three is anti-Godhand wretch from American. 04:56:29.660 --> 04:56:58.380 Decline Records. This is another surprise find for me that turned out to be a standout. And this band, imagine brooding cosmic black metal layered with progressive technical precision, mournful guitar bursts, and nuanced atmospheric depth. Then wrap that sum of bitch in a double layer of razor wire, and you'll have some idea. 04:56:59.100 --> 04:57:29.080 How bad it smells in here? To me. So this album, it delivers something I haven't quite heard in black metal before. I just love the guitar tone. I love the vocalist. It's kind of like an ice scraper whale. It has been dominating my headphones for the last month, and I expect that I'll be listening and revisiting this album a lot throughout the year. But I love 04:57:29.120 --> 04:57:30.240 Anti-God Hand. 04:57:32.220 --> 04:57:33.240 Going to have to check that one out. 04:57:33.640 --> 04:57:33.900 Wretch. 04:57:35.880 --> 04:57:36.220 Number three. 04:57:36.820 --> 04:57:37.080 All right. 04:57:37.820 --> 04:57:38.100 Matt? 04:57:39.300 --> 04:57:44.340 Again, I don't want to be a stickler, and I know they broke up, but Isis does prefer to be called Isis. 04:57:44.680 --> 04:57:45.380 Isis the best. 04:57:45.400 --> 04:57:45.720 Isis? 04:57:46.420 --> 04:57:46.820 Isis. 04:57:47.260 --> 04:57:48.920 Or 1515 is good, too, if you like. 04:57:51.080 --> 04:57:58.060 So my number three, as already mentioned, I love 70s and 80s horror movies, and by no means am I an expert on them, 04:57:58.080 --> 04:58:28.000 But it is the sound of a lot of those movies. It really draws me in. And I find myself connecting with that, usually with like 70s lo-fi black metal. But when you take a band like Lion's Daughter, who is actually incorporating some of those synths and that electronic sound into their music, like, I'm done. Like, you have me. And we kind of talked earlier on about how, you know, I was more on the future cult side of it. And while, yes, that was my first experience with it, and I loved it a lot, 04:58:29.058 --> 04:58:56.420 You're absolutely right, Markisan, with Skinshot. It feels like such a natural progression and such a natural integration of those electronic sounds. The electronics complement their sound versus they don't stand out as their sound. That infusion is just so much greater. That is why it is number three. That cover, by the way, reminds me of... What the fuck is the name of that movie? 04:58:58.958 --> 04:59:27.440 I saw used to be one of my favorite fucking movies and it's where all the monsters live in this place and this guy is being accused of being a serial killer and the monsters all you know I'm talking about. Nightbreed. Nightbreed. And the serial killer guy vaguely resembles the guy in the cover of Skinshow which is even more powerful for me because of the 80s and 70s thing and that's an 80s horror film which if you haven't seen you need to see a fucking Nightbreed. I fucking love Nightbreed. 04:59:27.480 --> 04:59:36.720 I like wrote a song about that once. Oh man. I'm really excited that lion's daughters been on a couple lists 04:59:36.820 --> 04:59:57.440 here because yeah, the last album was cool because they tried something different. You're like, holy fuck. What are they? What are they doing here? They're just fucking with their formula and it was super intriguing and I liked it. But this album, it just brings it all together. It's a really awesome way. And like before future cults, I felt like I was just getting into lion's 04:59:57.520 --> 05:00:25.200 And that's why when I listened to Future Cults, I was like, what the fuck is this? I was taken aback. And then I followed up later on in the year being like, okay, this is actually pretty rad. All right, let's, you know, I'm cool with this. Yeah, man, I love it. I have it in vinyl and I spin it quite a bit. It's fun. It's different. I really like the merging of those two different musical genres. You know, you just don't hear it and anything else. 05:00:29.942 --> 05:00:57.420 All right. I'm taking Wilson. I'm taking my ball and I'm going home. Grab it, John. Grab that shit. I'm not letting anyone else have it. Oh, my God. The rest of the pod. Oh, shit. My number three. This band at one point held the top spot for a while. Only recently. I absolutely do not like this album cover and it turned me off to the album because I thought it was just stupid. And then I decided, you know, I'm on a 05:00:57.460 --> 05:01:27.340 a technical thrash kick lately, like a lot. So maybe I should go back and listen to this album. And I listened and I was like, man, you are one dumb asshole because this album is awesome. I mean, I would say that about myself anyway, but this was just another added on layer to that. Yeah. Anyway, the album is Cryptosis, Bionic Swarm from Century Media from the Netherlands. No one has mentioned them the whole year, so I'm guessing nobody really knows about this band. They're flying under the radar. 05:01:27.440 --> 05:01:57.420 But this is, in my opinion, by far the best thrash album of the year. I'm not familiar. Yeah. Like I said, I absolutely hate the cover because I just think it's stupid. But anyway, it's very sci-fi-ish. If you like technical thrash. It's a stupid cover, all right. Yeah, it's just kind of lame. But the music is amazing. They used to be called Distillator, I think, or Distillator. 05:01:58.060 --> 05:02:02.140 And they were just kind of a more traditional thrash band. And they added this kind of progressive 05:02:02.500 --> 05:02:26.800 technical bit to themselves. And I think they're taking off. They're just, yeah, it was fucking killer. So that's my number three. Wilson and I are locking it down. Here on out. All right. Wilhelm. Yeah, Wilhelm, not Wilson. Who's got the Wilson? 05:02:27.460 --> 05:02:57.380 It's my turn. It's Willem. Now it's Willem. You're not taking it back. Trust me. George told me about this. I thought this may be on his list unless it's still to come, but I kind of doubt it. Beast. Necrosapiens. Death Metal from Denmark on Century Media. Or based. Or based. B-A-E-S-T. It's probably in Danish. Beast. Or Bay East. Bay East. That's like we're Janice. Necrosapiens. 05:02:57.880 --> 05:02:59.100 I mean, you're like dead people. 05:02:59.580 --> 05:03:00.420 Maybe just be best. 05:03:03.280 --> 05:03:04.320 This is just death metal. 05:03:04.460 --> 05:03:05.440 It's just like, it's one. 05:03:05.600 --> 05:03:10.160 I actually haven't listened to this album all that much because the first two times I listened to it, I'm like, this is awesome. 05:03:10.300 --> 05:03:10.680 I love it. 05:03:11.580 --> 05:03:12.660 And so you didn't listen to it. 05:03:13.200 --> 05:03:14.000 No, no, I listened to it. 05:03:14.020 --> 05:03:15.000 I actually listened to it. 05:03:15.940 --> 05:03:21.080 But it's one of those things like I don't need to listen to it a whole bunch of times because I loved it so much the first two times. 05:03:21.120 --> 05:03:25.360 I'm like, I can put down the shelf, put it high on my list and move on to all the other garbage. 05:03:25.800 --> 05:03:26.060 Yeah. 05:03:26.220 --> 05:03:55.800 I mean, my other number, my other 22 albums that I like. I listened to it at number three. I'm moving on. Yeah. Fair enough. All right. I probably threw you off my trail here a little bit, Marcus, because I was a little slightly critical of this record saying I didn't like it as much as the last one. Panopticon? That doesn't mean I don't like it. I think it's really fucking good. Woad, Burning Many Mirrors. Oh. Yeah, fuck yeah, dude. I think Woad is just, they're a premier band right now, dude. 05:03:57.102 --> 05:04:25.500 And I in no way mean to imply that somehow I thought they took a drop off or something like that. I think they're fucking great. They're such a fucking consistent good band right now. And they've changed so much from album to album. So I'm excited to see where they'll go from here. And I listened to this a lot this year. I think this is their best album by far. You know, it's funny because I said it's better than the last one and I'm going to stand by that for now. But the truth is that since this came out, this is the only one I've listened to. So I need to go back and listen to the last one again some more. 05:04:26.220 --> 05:04:55.720 Since I liked it so much when it came out. Yeah, Service to the Counter Cosmos is awesome. I love that album. Yeah, I actually have that one on vinyl, but I don't have this one yet. Any case, Wode. Wode. Awesome. Wode. I didn't expect to hear that one again, but I thought that was all we threw. I'm excited. That's going to place well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to definitely do that. George. All right, my number three has come up once a long, long time ago. 05:04:56.220 --> 05:05:25.920 I'm surprised it was like so low on a list. And a podcast far, far away. Indeed. And that it hasn't come up again since. But I believe Will was the one that brought it up. But I could be wrong. Might be somebody else. Might have been Mark. I don't know. Too much beer. Yoth Eria. Was that Will? Jay. All right. Yeah. Yoth Eria. As the flame withers. But I can understand and confuse you because he introduced himself as Will and I introduced myself as Will. 05:05:26.220 --> 05:05:55.540 That's what it is. That's what it is. Also beer. You know, happens. So yeah. Stupid beer. Very good. Tasty. Good. Very good. Very good. Super solid record. Really well produced, which I probably mentioned when I said it, but that goes a long way with me these days. It's better than just a well produced record. I decided this was going to be on my list back in like February, January, February, while I was, I was shoveling snow listening to this album going, fuck, this is good. Fuck yeah. 05:05:56.220 --> 05:06:24.180 Nice. Yeah. I only discovered it two or three months ago or whenever. It has been that long since I discovered it. But yeah, I fucking love it. Maryland. Fuck yeah. Yeah. This is a Greek band, right? Yeah. Is there somebody big in this band, though? Not that I know. Why don't I feel like there's someone in the band that is a well-known name? I could be wrong about that. Let's look at it real quick. Let's all just take a quick gander. We've got time because we lost a couple people. 05:06:26.200 --> 05:06:53.580 I just feel like there's somebody in this band that I could be wrong about that. Well, they make reference to... Tori Iris. Oh, he was in Running Christ. The dude from Running Christ, and he's on the first two albums, it looks like. I give up. And another guy was from a band called Necromancia. Oh, yeah, I know them. 05:06:56.220 --> 05:07:24.760 And that dude was also involved in writing Christ, Thou Art Lord, NAOS. Thou Art Lord. Yeah, so no, you got it. Interesting. Wow, that's interesting then. That kind of even changes my view on this a little bit. Not for the better or for the worse, but I didn't understand. Yeah, I can't see it, but I'm pretty sure it's a Greek band. Yeah, no, they are definitely Greek. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to hold on to your number two. I'd say two seconds. 05:07:26.200 --> 05:07:56.180 Somebody's knocking on my door. They're knocking on his back door. It's probably Mormons. Don't answer. Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door. Oh, man. Deep Purple. Knocking on your back door. Because that's what Will does. He's knocking on your back door. No, no, no. He's knocking that door down. He's like, boom. Boom. Well, if we're going to wait a second, I'm going to go pee. I'm Astrogai. Astrogai. Oh, fucking D. I guess we're all peeing in different stages here. Yeah. Can we synchronize this? Are we synchronicity? 05:07:56.220 --> 05:08:26.180 Is that on EPs? Are we doing that after this? I don't think so. How are you feeling, Will? I'm fine. I stopped drinking a while ago. I have to drive like an hour home. Yeah, that's true. And tomorrow is Father's Day and we got a pretty big day. I got to take my daughter to baseball practice for two hours at 8 a.m. And then we're going to Atlas for lunch and then we're going to a 05:08:27.300 --> 05:08:54.820 Mets Nationals game. Not that I like the Mets or the Nationals, but it's just a baseball game. So, fuck it. Yeah, game's a game, man. Yeah, game's a game. We're going to root for the Nats because the Mets are in first place ahead of the Phillies. So, it's like, I'll root for the Nats as long as they're not playing the Phillies. Why not? So, yeah. You are a busy dude. Yep. Metalhead, father, coach. Yeah. 05:08:56.220 --> 05:09:26.140 You put metalhead first. I'll tell you what. It's been a rough couple months because, rough relatively speaking, because my kids had, both are baseball coaches. My son was also in soccer, and they're both in taekwondo and swimming. So it's like every single day of the week was something. I get home from work, and it's like a snatch and grab operation. I drive up, and my wife, who works at home, 05:09:26.220 --> 05:09:55.740 because of COVID, the kids come out the front door. I leave work at the last minute, snatch my kids up, and I take them to coach them to do something. Luckily, my son has stepped up like a fucking rock star. He's been playing on his older sister's baseball team. When I say older sister's baseball team, it's all boys. She's the only girl in the league. She's one of two girls in the league. This is a great video I have of my son. There's boys on her team. 05:09:56.200 --> 05:10:24.880 who have not hit a ball all year. My son gets up there and knocks it. Hits two balls. Knocks an RB. I'm playing with 10, 11 year olds. It's really cool that you're so involved in all that. As soon as all that stuff ended two weeks ago, but then things at work turned to shit. We're working weekends. I'm getting overtime. 05:10:26.220 --> 05:10:56.180 I got money bitches. We are just working like crazy. I'm grateful that you're so busy because I don't think I would be on the podcast if you weren't so busy. The whole point of me being on the podcast is to fill in for your ass. We gave up on that a long time ago. I think it's awesome that you are participating so 05:10:56.200 --> 05:11:26.140 much in your kids' activities and just being such an awesome father and just doing all these things that really matter to their lives. Awesome job. I live for that stuff. Everything is secondary to your kids. Matt knows this. Unless you choose not to have kids. Just like half of us, oddly. I'm lucky. I've got one in softball and one in soccer, but it's four nights a week. 05:11:26.220 --> 05:11:56.040 Yeah, exactly. More than half of us. Anyway. Let's move on to number two. Number two. Number two. Number two. So, yes, this is another Wilson volleyball pick for me. I don't know why. I think this record's just phenomenal. But it is Sepulchros Vazio from Transcending Obscurity Records. Sepulchros plays Hypnotic. 05:11:56.200 --> 05:12:26.180 and frightening funeral death doom that sounds like it was excavated from an ancient tomb for a fallen god inside the cracked core of a savage earth so it's like mournful congregation but with a devastating primeval atmosphere to it i think this album really takes funeral doom to a different and monstrous new place so i'm really excited to see where this band 05:12:26.180 --> 05:12:27.980 goes from here. 05:12:28.580 --> 05:12:29.680 This is their first record. 05:12:30.020 --> 05:12:33.600 So I have not stopped listening to this since it came out. 05:12:33.760 --> 05:12:34.240 I just, 05:12:34.980 --> 05:12:36.000 I like funeral doom, 05:12:37.040 --> 05:12:41.540 but this album is what I've always wanted funeral doom to be. 05:12:41.920 --> 05:12:42.340 I guess. 05:12:43.300 --> 05:12:43.440 Marcus, 05:12:43.660 --> 05:12:44.320 what's the name again? 05:12:45.120 --> 05:12:45.798 It's called sepulcro. 05:12:46.420 --> 05:12:49.798 So it's S E P U L C R U S. 05:12:51.000 --> 05:12:53.880 And the album's called Vazio V A C I O. 05:12:55.040 --> 05:13:25.000 This was one of your albums of the month, wasn't it? It was. And it's always been high on my list. It's always been... Number one and two have been decided for me for a long time. There's nothing that's really cracked those two. And I'm still waiting on the vinyl for this. But I think this is phenomenal. I hope that more people listen to this because, like I said, it's Funeral Doom. And even if you don't like Funeral Doom, you might dig this because it just has a different kind of... 05:13:25.040 --> 05:13:28.840 of a feel to it. The atmosphere is just very 05:13:29.862 --> 05:13:32.860 savage. Man, it's just frightening 05:13:33.680 --> 05:13:34.940 compared to other Funeral Doom. 05:13:36.520 --> 05:13:37.740 I'd like that formula 05:13:38.730 --> 05:13:40.860 and I think this band has got 05:13:41.150 --> 05:13:42.340 a very bright future. 05:13:43.160 --> 05:13:44.560 Pretty sure I picked this up. 05:13:45.340 --> 05:13:47.540 I love this record so much. 05:13:47.590 --> 05:13:49.060 I was really into Funeral Doom 05:13:49.200 --> 05:13:50.060 a couple years ago 05:13:50.830 --> 05:13:52.600 and they just sort of missed the boat for me 05:13:52.620 --> 05:14:22.320 because, you know, I was all like skepticism and fucking, you know, shit like that. Skepticism ordeal. They played, they recorded that live and it was so perfect. It is hard to bypass that. Yeah. Well, when, when I saw them at MDF, it was like daylight, but it was still, it was like fucking a solar eclipse when they came on because it was so like nothing I've ever seen before. Right. It was like, well, and here's the thing with funeral. I mean, it's usually really long. 05:14:22.640 --> 05:14:47.300 You know, this is like 40 minutes. It's got a lot of death in it. And like I said, it just has a more sinister vibe to it. So it's different than other funeral doom that you have listened to before. So I feel like if you like death metal, if you've dabbled in doom and funeral doom, this is something that you might really gravitate to if you'd listen to it. 05:14:47.560 --> 05:14:49.400 Yeah. This is not your father's funeral doom. 05:14:50.280 --> 05:15:20.100 I feel like this is taking Funeral Dome in a different direction. I think it's a better direction. It's not the traditional kind of Funeral Dome. There's something more going on here. Something just more sinister, evil, just better rifts. So yeah, give it a shot if you're listening to this and you like any of those. If you have a passing interest in Funeral Dome. There you go. And Matt. 05:15:21.640 --> 05:15:49.380 Number dos. After surviving the shit show, dumpster fire, gloveless, chapped handed proctal exam that was 2020, I needed to hear music. Two different bands. And strangely enough, they both started with a C. Obviously, I'm talking about Coldplay. But if there was a third and a fourth band, the third would be Carcass, which we heard about. I knew all my Friday. Number four would be Cannibal Corpse. 05:15:50.080 --> 05:16:19.180 And their album, Violence Unimagined. Is it my favorite album of theirs? No. But is it their consistently brutal sound? Yes. I mean, and they could have done a fucking tribute to Limp Bizkit and I would still feel the same way. No, you may actually like that more. I did it all for the nookie. Limp Bizkit is the fucking worst. Right, right. Yeah, but they're going to be at fucking fucking next year. Oh, God. Yeah, wait. 05:16:20.080 --> 05:16:49.960 As I Lay Dying. And Slipknot. Oh wait, no, I think Slipknot may not be. I mean... Can you tell me which bands are actually going to be there that are worth seeing? Well, I'm seeing conflicting things because Slipknot was listed as next year, but Slipknot also said something about postponing all their shows until 2022, so maybe they're not. God. Well, no, it would be 2022 when we go... Oh, fuck. Yeah. Like, honestly, I... So... 2023, I meant. If you remove Slipknot, Olympus Kid, 05:16:50.080 --> 05:17:20.000 And as I lay dying, I'm happy to see everybody else. Wolves in the Throne Room. I would love to see Gwar at Valken. Yeah. Be like, hey, I could drive a couple hours south or go to Germany. Why not see them there? Yeah. Gwar is so fun live. They're doing a 30th anniversary Scum Dogs tour. They're coming to both Baltimore and D.C. I'm hoping to hit one of those. Where are they going in D.C.? D.C. is 930. Oh, they are? Yeah. I saw the Baltimore. I saw Gwar. It was the last Slayer show. 05:17:20.080 --> 05:17:49.740 in Chicago. It was a big festival. Yeah, they're doing like Riot Fest, I guess, in Chicago this year. It is definitely not the same without Dave Brockie, I'll admit. It's still pretty cool. Yeah, it's still fun. John? I got stuck there on my volume. My number two, I think, has been mentioned at least once, but somebody may have mentioned it when I was in the bathroom, but I don't think so. 05:17:50.180 --> 05:18:20.040 My Number 2 held the top spot for a long time for me, ever since it came out. But it got bounced to number 2. And it's Moral Collapse with their album, self-debut Moral Collapse on Subcontinental Records. Two of us mentioned it already. I heard one. That's why I said I didn't know of another person mentioned it when I was in the bathroom. I did and somebody else. Was that my list? Yeah. Cool. That's awesome. I'm glad to hear that. Maybe I heard them. I just don't remember. I mean, I could have been 05:18:20.100 --> 05:18:24.640 Yesterday when somebody said it. So, um, people just walk up to you and say it on the street. 05:18:25.120 --> 05:18:25.480 More class. 05:18:26.130 --> 05:18:29.960 No, didn't we start this episode yesterday? 05:18:30.660 --> 05:18:30.820 Yeah. 05:18:31.140 --> 05:18:31.320 Yeah. 05:18:31.450 --> 05:18:31.560 Yeah. 05:18:32.280 --> 05:18:38.280 I actually, so I bought, um, that the, the signed test pressing of that, which is funny 05:18:38.290 --> 05:18:41.720 because it's not on my list, but I do love that album quite a bit. 05:18:42.050 --> 05:18:45.420 It is again, honorable mentions. 05:18:46.260 --> 05:18:46.460 Yeah. 05:18:47.000 --> 05:18:47.720 As is everything. 05:18:48.240 --> 05:18:48.360 Yeah. 05:18:48.600 --> 05:18:49.060 Apparently. 05:18:49.680 --> 05:19:19.240 Everything John mentions is on my animal list. Yeah, it's on a list. That's all matters. Somewhere. It's on a list. A list. It's on a list. Matt likes to say, what is it? Touch. Touch Death. Touch Death. A avant-garde metal out of India. Featuring members of Dysprhythmia, Gore Guts, Death, and superstar extraordinaire drummer, as Marcus I mentioned earlier, Hannes Grossman. Yeah. 05:19:19.880 --> 05:19:49.240 I think the album is fantastic. The only thing that stopped me from putting on my list, that last song, is just nonsense, noise. It's like an EP to me without that, you know what I mean, John? So that's why I kind of hesitated to put it on my list. Still longer than Slayer. Yeah, they do this crazy thing with these kind of frenetic saxophones and violins on the opening track. 05:19:49.680 --> 05:20:19.600 And the last track. So that's fine. I don't care. This album fucking slays. There is an amazing instrumental in the middle, though. That's not one of those that were Hannes Grossman just goes fucking off. So what I like is the saxophone and all that stuff. It's not like, hey, let's showcase this fucking saxophone. It works really well with the music. Yeah. It's not some like crazy avant-garde jazz player, you know? Yeah. Let's go drive over a saxophone. 05:20:19.680 --> 05:20:48.980 Yeah, it's like the bass and drums are doing one thing, and it's like the sax is like, I'm going to just scrape your brain with my playing. Yeah, I can't stand that. It's just perfectly with the music. I like that a lot. It just felt like it belonged with the music, and that's not the case usually when you bring that kind of instrumentation in. I was happy to see that I have a band from a country that I don't think I have much from, only a couple albums from, so it was nice to branch out somewhere different. 05:20:49.680 --> 05:20:49.820 Yeah. 05:20:51.560 --> 05:20:52.400 That's my number two. 05:20:53.820 --> 05:20:54.120 I will. 05:20:54.760 --> 05:20:57.520 My number two, The Crown, Royal Destroyer. 05:20:57.760 --> 05:20:59.440 Ooh, that's getting some play. 05:20:59.700 --> 05:21:00.180 Yeah. 05:21:00.440 --> 05:21:02.200 I played with it for a little while. 05:21:02.210 --> 05:21:06.180 I was like, man, take my money, and I love this. 05:21:06.720 --> 05:21:14.380 And, you know, I mentioned earlier my friend Chop, a dear friend of mine that I've deployed to, like, so many war zones with. 05:21:15.720 --> 05:21:44.480 He just gave me this big thumb drive full of music. It was stuff like The Crown and old school. I'm like, oh, this is kind of cool. I just completely forgot about it. In the last two years with Cobra Speed Venom, I rolled a short. I'm like, man, The Crown is legit. This is some good stuff. I didn't know where to put this, but man, I love it. Put it at number two. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. 05:21:45.740 --> 05:22:15.020 I don't think it didn't go any higher than number two. No. No. That's ridiculous. I wonder what Will's number one is. I don't know. What could it possibly be? Well, you really ventured on that one. Remember we need, what was the last top five we did and it was all, Will wasn't even on it and it was all fucking. Walk-up music. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But that's something completely different than what is number one. No, no, no, no. Way to keep us in suspense. 05:22:19.660 --> 05:22:45.420 So, Jay? Imagine Dragons is his number one. Yeah, my number two, as mentioned, you guys always influence me by watching your albums of the month and stuff. I always go check them out, especially if I don't know what they are. And Matt always finds something that drills a hole through my head every single year. Interesting. Brain drill. Don't think he put this on his list, and so he's probably going to be surprised that it had such an effect on me. 05:22:45.980 --> 05:23:15.640 This was described somewhere, and I can't find the quote, as basically, Neurosis Meets Mayhem, or you could do that backwards, Mayhem Meets Neurosis, a French band called Demande à la Poisson, an album called Quietude Hostile, right in my fucking wheelhouse, dude. Just pulls in from so many different areas, heavier than, you know, so heavy you better limber up. But it's a fucking great record, and again, 05:23:15.740 --> 05:23:44.920 Matt finds some X Factor bands that I don't always know about, and that was one of them. It's been bouncing in and out of my list, and it still is. It's fucking great, dude. It's hard to say how hard it will hold on, but it's only been in my life for a month or something like that, and so it's kind of been an obsessive piece right now. That boded well for it charting high, but it's fucking great. It will be represented at year-end no matter what. I also really like that record. 05:23:44.920 --> 05:24:14.860 And it was one that flirted with my top 25. So yeah, Matt always discovers some really great black metal records. Yeah. That one's a keeper. For sure. I like to dig. At least it's real. Yeah. Yeah. It's can confirm. They're just me playing. My number two, thankfully, finally got somebody to talk. 05:24:14.940 --> 05:24:44.900 about it. And anybody that's not in this room needs to go to school because my number two is Necrosapiens based. Beast? Whatever. But at least somebody's got a clue. And not Christ to love you all. But you know, I'm just kidding. He gave me 20 bucks put on my list, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Somebody's tail went between their legs. Nah, man. That fucking 05:24:45.060 --> 05:25:14.900 album just it just crushes it's just not on band camp which drives me i know i was so pissed about that but yeah it's so frontiers who are they from uh i think it's century media god damn is it yeah it's kill joys on fridays i swear such a good album it's just yeah i mean it this is this is death metal yeah it's good wow so wow 05:25:14.960 --> 05:25:44.020 That'll up until your next pick. Go on. Right. Oh, yeah. That's true. You're right. Number one. Let's go, Marcus. It's going to be Georgia's top pick, too. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Well, here's some shocker picks. Shit. We're on to number one. What is it? This is it. This is what it's all about. We need a pause, and we're just doing it. We're doing it. Just do it. We're doing it. Numero uno. This has been. 05:25:44.920 --> 05:26:14.900 It's funny because I listened to this record. I hadn't listened to it in a while. I listened to a shit ton. Of course, I'm doing my list. I'm like, well, I got to listen to the number one again to make sure. And I played maybe half a song. I'm like, well, I don't even know why I need to fucking listen anymore. I already know this is my number one. And it is, it's been mentioned before. It is Yotun Axis. Oh, Yotun. To me, this album is a perfect flight of progressive 05:26:14.960 --> 05:26:44.840 of sci-fi death metal. Every song is gorgeously crafted and star-charged with hooks, emotion, a deep sense of cosmic wonderment in it. And John Aldera turns in a brilliant, fucking extraordinary performance on both clean and growled vocals. If your home planet suddenly explodes and you somehow survive that catastrophe, 05:26:46.040 --> 05:27:14.680 This is the soundtrack you'd want to throw on as you float alone through the debris in your escape pod and gaze upon the vast, fearsome universe. I love this record. It's like, it might be my favorite record in the last 10 years. I am not stopping this fucking record. I think it is. It is good. Perfect. So, Marcus, which variant did you get on the vinyl? Did you get the red one? I did. I got the most rare. 05:27:16.042 --> 05:27:44.900 I got the blue Uranus one. I had the most rare one because again, like this is one of my favorite records that I've listened to in the last like five, 10 years. I cannot, I can't find any fault with this record. And it just moves me. It, it's, it's got technical proficiency in it. It, it, it's got great riffs and the singing is just fucking phenomenal. I can't believe it's their 05:27:45.680 --> 05:27:52.040 I mean this these these players have been around a while yes you know not like oh let's just make an album 05:27:52.640 --> 05:28:14.900 exactly so I mean that makes sense but still it's the first record for Jotun yeah and I know they're already working on another record and I I have to believe that it's going to be as good as this one or better I saw him when he was with Baron Earth at Prague Power and he can he can do it live also oh my god 05:28:17.342 --> 05:28:42.900 This is like, to me, this is metal. This is like, I would listen, if I could pick one record right now, it would be this one to listen to, because I can't stop. This week on This Is Metal. We have one surprise pick so far. Matt. Well, I'll take the Wilson ball back with my top pick. It's a band called Panopticon. 05:28:45.442 --> 05:28:47.120 And into the light. 05:28:48.270 --> 05:28:50.360 The record company is buying Rune. 05:28:50.840 --> 05:28:52.200 Apparently it's their 10th album. 05:28:52.640 --> 05:28:55.220 They're a black metal band from the U.S. 05:28:56.620 --> 05:28:57.560 What region? 05:28:59.000 --> 05:29:01.280 Upper, upper, upper Midwest sort of place there. 05:29:01.690 --> 05:29:01.820 Okay. 05:29:02.760 --> 05:29:05.440 When we had Daniel Lake on talking about the U.S. BM. 05:29:07.880 --> 05:29:11.860 Our top five was our top five U.S. black metal bands. 05:29:12.720 --> 05:29:42.700 And we got in the conversation about his favorite Panopticon album. And he said this new one. I was like, all right, yeah, I could understand that. But I would have to hear it myself. You know, I didn't think he was like completely way off base. But I mean, it really is a phenomenal album, you know, to me. I think it's much more epic. And there's just so much more depth to some of his other releases that it just, you know, and again, things like what we've been through in the last year, play into how I'm going to be. 05:29:42.740 --> 05:30:11.460 I feel about certain records, certain bands, certain sounds. And so I do feel like that plays into this one. And that is why it is my number one. I mean, the lyrics are garbage, but other than that. I feel like I'm being paraphrased there, but fine. Garbage. I think the words are, you've been misquoted. Thank you, John. I never said that. I category denied it. Falsehood. 05:30:12.740 --> 05:30:41.700 My Lawyer, so please prefer any more questions or comments to him. I mean, I think Panopticon is going to have a good showing because, I mean, it was pretty high on my list and I know it's been on other people's lists, so. Cool, Matt. I mean, I knew it was going to be your number one. Yeah. It wasn't on your list, was it, Will? No, I mentioned it was on my, I bought it, I tried like hell, I like it, but it's, it's, it's, it's all my honorable mentions. 05:30:42.740 --> 05:31:11.400 Not my number one. Big surprise. I know. Very big. Yeah. Big is your vagine. Ah, vagine. All right, John. When I told you guys I was taking Wilson home with me, I wasn't kidding. Oh, boy. I really took him. And you're never getting him back. Let's get the Gurgits out. Guys, trust me. 05:31:12.720 --> 05:31:41.840 after this are going to be like, yeah, we've never heard of that band before. I've waited 21 years for a new album from this band, and I still haven't gotten it because it's not the same band, but it's about as close as I'm possibly ever going to get. Maybe George is the only one who's ever heard of this because I asked him if he could get this album, and the answer was no. That's fine because I didn't think he could. Oh, gotcha. My number one is Tara Odium. The album is Nae Plus Ultra. 05:31:41.900 --> 05:32:11.760 No one's heard of it but me. That's fine. It is the follow-up to Spiral Architects album from 21 years ago. It's been a long wait. It's not them, but it's close enough. It's got members of Spiral Architect, Manitou, Scariette, and Testament in there. Testament, it would be Steve DiGiorgio is in the band. DiGiorgio. And he is just unbelievably fucking good on this album. It's not as technical, Spiral Architect. 05:32:11.900 --> 05:32:41.780 But it is very progressive. It has technical moments. And I'm very happy to get this. It just came out a couple weeks ago. Oh, man. Wow, John. I heard it. Yeah, Marcus, I know you weren't big on the Spyro Architect. You might actually like this one a lot more. Because it's less of the kind of jazzy fusion technical prog stuff. It's more, I'm guessing no one on here has heard of Manitou either. Yeah, no, actually I have. I have. I have. 05:32:41.920 --> 05:33:11.540 Yeah, and that's kind of a cult prog metal album from the 90s. It's a cross between that and Spiral Architect. Well, I mean, I'm definitely going to give it a listen because you're number one, John. So yeah, I haven't heard of it. But yeah, I wasn't a big fan of Spiral Architect. It was just a little too chaotic for me, I guess. Yeah. So this is way more focused than that. So you might dig that. I'm going to fucking spin it. I was super happy when this came out. Spin it right round. I didn't surprise. Holy shit. 05:33:11.920 --> 05:33:41.880 a volleyball moment. Yeah, so I'm taking Wilson. I'm fucking popping that ball and putting it in my closet. That shit stays with me. Although I have to say, I told George, I said, there's just no way anyone's going to have as few selected albums as myself. And I'm looking at my list. I'm thinking, I don't know, man, I might be at the, I might have the most matches of anybody. We have a lot of different picks on our list. It's kind of funny how that turns out. So. All right. Well, let's move on to 05:33:41.900 --> 05:34:10.240 Somebody that is not going to have a volleyball. Well, weirdly enough, I feel like I thought I would be, I'd have a team on this one. And I am, I spike me that volleyball and I'll let it hit the dirt. Matt had it. And I had it at four. So it's got five. Yeah. So it's going to score high. But Matt had it too, right? It's good. It's going to take number one because you guys, I haven't even said what my pick is though. Oh yeah. 05:34:11.900 --> 05:34:41.580 Cannibal Corpse, violence, unimagined. Come on. For me. What? Number one? I know, I know. Am I that predictable? I thought for sure it would be Tarotium. Come on. Gosh, guys. You know me so well. Because there isn't a number higher than one. Yes. My.5 is. Yeah. Geez. Never saw that. 05:34:41.900 --> 05:35:11.860 What do I say about Kahneman Gors? They are just the epitome of consistency. The epitome of just quality. The epitome of hits me right in the feels. And then crushes them and bloodies them and bloodies them. Yeah, yeah. I mean, just... And then puts them on an album. And I will be the first one to admit that this is not by far their best album. But... 05:35:11.880 --> 05:35:14.760 It's better than anything else I heard. I mean, it's just 05:35:15.298 --> 05:35:18.200 they're that good. To me. To me. That's my thing. Anyway. 05:35:19.260 --> 05:35:22.100 Jay. I mean, it is a great album. 05:35:22.340 --> 05:35:23.960 I mean, it fucking rips. 05:35:25.440 --> 05:35:28.260 That's weird, Will, because I've read a lot of reviews that say 05:35:28.860 --> 05:35:30.140 that people like this album 05:35:30.360 --> 05:35:32.120 more than a lot of the last few ones. 05:35:32.840 --> 05:35:34.200 I like this more. Red Before Black 05:35:34.460 --> 05:35:36.280 Well, I think if you remember, I think I had 05:35:36.400 --> 05:35:37.880 Red Before Black at number five. 05:35:41.058 --> 05:35:41.860 Just because 05:35:43.860 --> 05:36:11.840 Right Before Black was not high on my list. But it may also have been that there was other strong contenders of other stuff that year. But for this year, for me, I'm just... I don't know. Roo 10. Yeah, there's nothing that even... Like my number two and three and four and all that stuff is nothing close. This is my number one. That's it. I don't think that could be understated at all. He is... There's something about him in the studio 05:36:11.860 --> 05:36:41.840 and there's something about him playing. He adds a lot to the mix no matter what it is. Yeah, he really does. I mean, I don't mind Cannibal Corpse, but I acknowledge the fact that he definitely made a difference on this album. I think he is either doing a guitar lesson series or he's writing a biography or something. There was something I saw about him recently. It was one of those two things. Who, Rutan? Yeah. He did a couple YouTube playthroughs of the songs that he wrote. No, there's something more than that. He's putting something together that he's going to 05:36:42.478 --> 05:37:10.780 I'll look it up. If you're a fan of Cannibal Corpse, this album is a phenomenal release for them. I don't think this isn't a band that really changes that much. It's like degrees of good. The ACDC of death metal. Exactly. They're pretty consistent. I think this is on a little bit higher level than a couple of the last releases, which I find more fine too. Just, yeah. 05:37:11.180 --> 05:37:39.860 I will say I do wish Alex Webster would do some more stuff outside of Cannibal Corpse because I feel like as great as he is, he's even better than most people think he is. He's funny. He has Conquering Dystopia? Yeah, but they haven't done something else too. They haven't done something so long. I saw them actually. I saw it when they played in DC. They were amazing. Yeah. Sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. Well, you just reminded me. 05:37:41.702 --> 05:37:42.620 Graham Bonnet's band. 05:37:43.740 --> 05:37:46.600 Yeah, he's becoming the Hannes Grispen of guitar players. 05:37:46.800 --> 05:37:47.480 He's playing with everybody. 05:37:47.880 --> 05:37:48.560 Everybody, yeah. 05:37:48.770 --> 05:37:50.400 Trying to put that paycheck together somehow. 05:37:50.820 --> 05:37:51.320 Well, yeah. 05:37:51.560 --> 05:37:54.700 I'm guessing, I don't know, he was an archenemy for a while, too. 05:37:56.502 --> 05:37:58.300 Well, and maybe still is, maybe. 05:37:58.470 --> 05:37:58.840 I don't know. 05:37:59.000 --> 05:37:59.340 I don't know. 05:38:00.220 --> 05:38:01.420 Maybe Graham's a bigger name. 05:38:01.740 --> 05:38:02.580 Jay, your number one. 05:38:03.700 --> 05:38:06.460 My number one has been mentioned by me a couple times throughout the year. 05:38:07.900 --> 05:38:10.500 I'm not going to beat it to death, but I will read my description of it, 05:38:10.540 --> 05:38:40.180 which is a strangely thoughtful and sad death metal about World War I. Mentioned Mule, Kanan and Fiber. I really like this fucking record. And I can feel, if you haven't listened to it, give it a spin. It's supposed to be, I'm sure it's about the meaninglessness of war and all that kind of thing. I mean, I can't understand the words, but it just goes to a lot of emotional places for a rather otherwise fairly simple death metal album. It's great. I fucking love it. 05:38:40.560 --> 05:39:10.520 And it has stayed. I've spun it every month since it's been out a few times. And I like the cover, too, everything about it. It's a full presentation. It's good stuff. What's the band, Jay? Mention Mule. M-E-N-S-C-A. No, that's the album. Are you sure? Yeah. Cannon Fiber. Cannon Fodder. Oh, I wrote it backwards. Yeah, I wrote it backwards on my list. And it's Cannon Fiber, so it's 05:39:10.560 --> 05:39:38.780 K-N-O-N-E-N-F-I-E-B-E-R. Cannon Fodder. Yeah. Yeah. How are the lyrics, Jay? He doesn't know. Can't read German. So they are locked away from me, John, as if in a secret vault. So they might be the worst or the best lyrics I've ever heard in my life. Yeah. Yeah, they could be like really, really on PC, but we don't know. No, I don't think so. I've at least done enough research to realize that. Yeah. 05:39:40.560 --> 05:39:41.420 Yeah. 05:39:44.320 --> 05:40:14.280 Georgie. All right. So as I said, I didn't really write any notes, but I did write a note for this one because I was like, I want to be like Markisan. I want to write. All right. I want to I want to I want to make some pretty words for my number one. So these are my super special pretty words for my number one. Spoken in a Midwestern accent. So back in 05:40:14.300 --> 05:40:44.280 Sorry, lose the accent. Yeah, lose it, lose it, Josh. So back in January, I could not have imagined what my number one would be. Your number one album is determined slowly over time by following the ancient podcast ritual of weeding through many albums. We are surrounded and immersed in all things metal and bound by the ceremony of our fellowship and community and risk condemnation 05:40:44.980 --> 05:41:13.940 for choosing poorly. As such, it would be inhumane for me to make you wait any longer. I don't want Will to fly into a murderous rampage. So, violence unimagined cannibal corpse. In case you didn't notice, I worked in most of the song titles in that. Oh my god, I'd take my pants off for this. Oh my gosh, Will has pants on already? I know. Didn't see that one coming, did you? I did not. 05:41:14.300 --> 05:41:44.200 I died. Oh, gosh. Everybody was like, no, no, no. Sorry, Matt. But, you know. But, no. Cannibal Corpse. Wow. Well, then. That's the number one album, then. Nicely done, Cannibal Corpse. I mean, I got torn because I don't. How do you not have it on your list, Marcus? I like Cannibal Corpse. I just feel like I've already heard Cannibal Corpse before. Of course you have. And it's for Rins. You know. Breathing. 05:41:45.622 --> 05:42:14.280 It is really good. I have to say, again, it's on my honor roll matches, you know, pretty high, but yeah, so I wouldn't, I wouldn't put it as on a year, uh, album of the year. Well, for me, you know, I've been on a pretty death metal kick the last year or so. And so I listened to this quite a bit and I was like, can this be my number one? I mean, really, you know, uh, but as 05:42:14.300 --> 05:42:19.720 like this just it fucking rips did you number one did you number one yourself number one 05:42:20.500 --> 05:42:25.400 kind of i kind of did i was like and i kept waiting for something to knock it out i'm like 05:42:25.580 --> 05:42:29.580 something's gonna knock it out something and it just never did and you know i know you were 05:42:29.700 --> 05:42:34.400 thinking panopticon um no i actually thought you were gonna pick this george to be honest with you 05:42:34.620 --> 05:42:38.620 all right fair enough i really did because you've been talking about death metal all year yeah exactly 05:42:39.200 --> 05:42:44.280 and panopticon was on my list for quite a long time and it sort of worked its way down 05:42:44.300 --> 05:43:14.220 for not exactly the... Jay's not here. Not exactly for Jay's reasons, but just... I was just like... It just didn't click with me as much as other Panopticon stuff did. And I was just more of a death metal mood and apparently a much thrashier, doomier mood this year so far. But that doesn't mean it won't work its way in later. So... I'm definitely less death metal this year. 05:43:14.280 --> 05:43:42.980 than last year or the year before. I feel like we're oversaturated with death metal. So you've got to really bring something unique and different. Cannibal Corpse fucking rips, I gotta say. That's an interesting attitude because that's been my attitude for years is that I'm like, death metal, yeah, whatever. We've got death metal, blah, blah, who cares? And I don't know, it just, death metal in general just kind of clicked with me the last couple years. 05:43:44.080 --> 05:44:13.760 And I was like, I don't care if it's unoriginal, it fucking crushes. But the thing with Cannibal Corpse is you can't say it's unoriginal because those fucking guys were around. I don't mean Cannibal Corpse specifically, I mean Death Metal in general. But I guess, weirdly, to pick up kind of on what Marcasson said is like, I feel like Cannibal Corpse is still original. You think about all the other stuff around it, and it doesn't sound like Cannibal Corpse. Cannibal Corpse just does it, in my opinion, 05:44:14.080 --> 05:44:44.060 do it better than anyone else. They just do. Yeah. Even with their stupid lyrics about killing people, you know. Yeah. Why is Jay not here? I mean, listen, I totally expected this and it's a great album, you know. I guess. I thought I was going to get like leg humped like, you know, in a chemist number one desolation sort of way, but. I'm way too sober right now. Too sober. Because it took me a while. Like, oh, I should take 05:44:44.100 --> 05:45:14.040 my pants off. He thought about it. He thought about it. Well, that's a good thing because normally if you were drunk, you'd be like, oh, what happened to my pants? Why am I standing around naked in front of John and George? I'm really curious to see if Cannibal Corpse will be your number one at the end of the year, too. I am, too. Hey, I am because there's a lot. I mean, you got Carcass, Chemist. I mean, you got all kinds of stuff coming. Yep. Yep. And then Creator is coming out with something. 05:45:15.282 --> 05:45:43.940 There's going to be some fights for the top 10. Exynos, Creator, Carcass. There's some big names coming up. Man, fucking Camel Corp is such an interesting one because I definitely flirted with that being in my top 25. It's just there's not much difference from the other albums. That doesn't mean it takes away from the power of the album because it fucking rips for sure. But I guess I personally just look for something a little bit different. 05:45:44.080 --> 05:46:13.780 Well, you know, Gojira made something different, so you put that on your list. No. I mean, it's got to be good different. Only one person put that on their list, and that was you. It was me. It was me. It's on my honorable mentions. Yeah. Are we doing honorables real quick, or what? Are we doing EPs, or no? I mean, it's getting awfully late. It is? Here. I mean, I know it's almost lunchtime, but... You mean 2.30 for me. Yeah. 05:46:14.960 --> 05:46:15.680 2.30? 05:46:15.730 --> 05:46:15.820 2.30? 05:46:15.820 --> 05:46:16.080 2.30? 05:46:16.110 --> 05:46:16.500 Oh, damn. 05:46:17.582 --> 05:46:23.540 Unlike you, John, I was a bad friend, and I just fed sugar a whole hour late, and she... 05:46:24.220 --> 05:46:24.580 Pissed? 05:46:25.202 --> 05:46:28.960 No, she was pissed, but then she was purring while she was eating, and she was so pleased 05:46:29.140 --> 05:46:30.220 about food coming in. 05:46:30.220 --> 05:46:32.760 She got a little extra, but does your cat ever purr when she eats? 05:46:33.270 --> 05:46:33.660 All the time. 05:46:33.660 --> 05:46:34.880 She fucking likes food, dude. 05:46:35.160 --> 05:46:35.660 All the time. 05:46:36.840 --> 05:46:36.900 Yeah. 05:46:37.520 --> 05:46:38.060 She came in... 05:46:38.090 --> 05:46:41.160 I was getting bothered earlier, and she wanted me to pay attention to her, and I didn't. 05:46:41.230 --> 05:46:42.620 She got pissed and left and went to bed. 05:46:42.700 --> 05:47:12.660 You know, she actually wasn't pissed. She was sad. She was giving me like these like, oh, it's heartbreaking, but it's all been fixed. I'm really interested to see what John does with the tallies. Cause I, I, I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe you can. Yeah. I'll get my spreadsheet to pretty quick, John. I don't know if we're going to be able to do a top 20, to be honest with you, but that's okay. Cause it's the mid year. Yeah. We'll see what we got. Yeah. But we probably have 10 good solid albums that showed up on a 05:47:13.920 --> 05:47:14.440 We'll see. 05:47:14.900 --> 05:47:15.400 We'll see. 05:47:15.580 --> 05:47:15.820 Who knows? 05:47:16.080 --> 05:47:17.020 I could be wrong about that, 05:47:17.040 --> 05:47:18.880 but I think Cannibal Corpse will take it. 05:47:19.200 --> 05:47:19.900 Wode will be up there. 05:47:20.540 --> 05:47:20.620 Yep. 05:47:21.460 --> 05:47:21.700 And, 05:47:21.840 --> 05:47:22.000 uh, 05:47:22.798 --> 05:47:24.120 Vaconis will do all right. 05:47:24.340 --> 05:47:24.540 Yeah. 05:47:25.798 --> 05:47:26.840 So what else we got here? 05:47:26.880 --> 05:47:27.620 Just let me see. 05:47:28.880 --> 05:47:29.080 Uh, 05:47:29.240 --> 05:47:29.360 yeah, 05:47:29.460 --> 05:47:31.480 Vaconis was a few crown. 05:47:31.820 --> 05:47:33.060 The crown probably would make a show. 05:47:33.220 --> 05:47:33.500 Yeah. 05:47:33.900 --> 05:47:34.040 Yeah. 05:47:35.820 --> 05:47:36.040 Uh, 05:47:36.560 --> 05:47:37.360 and there's a bunch of, 05:47:37.460 --> 05:47:38.020 actually, 05:47:38.320 --> 05:47:38.660 yeah, 05:47:39.200 --> 05:47:39.620 pretty well. 05:47:40.458 --> 05:47:40.860 Ghastly. 05:47:41.060 --> 05:47:41.220 Yes. 05:47:41.800 --> 05:47:41.880 Yeah. 05:47:42.300 --> 05:47:42.400 Definitely. 05:47:42.540 --> 05:48:10.160 So it's going to be some stuff. We're naming them all right now. It'll be a pretty well rep. It'll represent all of us. I think fairly well. We'll all have some skin in that game. Anopticon will do all right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Tiffany will probably be up there pretty high. All right. So we're going to wrap it up now. Thanks for listening. If you made it this far, if you made it this far, you have no life, but we are glad that you don't. 05:48:12.540 --> 05:48:28.740 Every single album we mentioned. Yeah. Also, if you made it this far, you won $1,000. Nicely done. Nobody. Yeah, exactly. We're splitting it. All right. Until next time. See ya. See ya. Love you, boys. 05:48:42.540 --> 05:48:56.080 Now I'm a man who I need. The ice has burned up the world that drives me to my doing. 05:49:13.040 --> 05:49:16.540 Super excited for the top 25 list. I was looking for a nice, 05:49:16.800 --> 05:49:20.460 relaxing place to have a couple drinks, listen to it, but unfortunately the only 05:49:20.700 --> 05:49:26.540 place open long enough would be a Waffle House. I don't think spending 19 hours in a Waffle House is good for my 05:49:26.660 --> 05:49:28.180 mental health nor my cholesterol.